Is it time to 'kneel, baby, kneel' our way out of the oil spill disaster?

[Robbien]

Cerabino: Is it time to 'kneel, baby, kneel' our way out of the oil spill disaster?

From: God

To: Florida Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp

Subject: Day of prayer to stop the oil spill

So now it's my job?

I appreciate the shout-out in your proclamation to make this Sunday a Day of Prayer in Florida "to stop the flow of oil in the Gulf."

Not that I'm flattered. After all, I'm apparently only the Day 69 solution, long after the one that involved trying to stop the leak by plugging the hole with shredded tires and golf balls.

. . .

But seriously, Jeff. Respect my mysterious ways.

Going from "drill, baby, drill" to "kneel, baby, kneel" may be your idea of a plan, but what makes you think that I would consider stopping the leak now just because you asked?

What sort of God would turn her back on the defenseless creatures of the Gulf for months while waiting for the magic words of supplication from a former personal-injury lawyer-turned-professional political-office-seeker best known for his frequent free travel on somebody else's dime?

. . .

Jeff, I had to read your proclamation a couple of times to savor it all, particularly that part about how I'm supposed to "guide and direct our civil leaders and provide them with wisdom and Divinely inspired solutions to the many complex problems associated with this disaster; and that He (meaning me) would prevent future recurrences of this oil spill."

You prevent future oil spills.

Here's a tip: While you're gathering to mumble words in my direction, BP is going forward with an offshore rig in Alaska that would be twice as deep as the ruptured one in the Gulf.

Use you're me-given noggins, for Crist's sake.

If you need inspiration, consider what scientists are doing in Boca Raton to combat an infestation of Mediterranean fruit flies, which threaten fruits and vegetables.

They're not having a big group prayer session to wish the medflies away. They're importing sterile male medflies to mate with the existing females, who only mate once in a lifetime.

That's a clever, scientific solution to a worldly problem. I love it when you people use the brains I gave you to do something like that. I get to watch like a proud parent.

But when I see you revert to asking me to step in - whether it's to catch the winning touchdown, to give you the moral cover to kill another man, or to plug a man-made hole in the bottom of the sea - it just makes me wish I had created faster learners.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/cerabino-is-it-time-to-kneel-baby-kneel-767011.html

Amen to that.

[JuniperLea]

1. I'll see your Amen and raise you a hell yeah!

:applause:

[Hawkowl]

2. I thought there was a picture of Palin on her knees.. nt

[Dr.Phool]

4. What was that idol she was kissing?

[Dr.Phool]

3. If there was a god,

Sales of lighting rods would be through the roof in Tallahassee.

Talk about some politicians in need of a good smitin'.

[K8-EEE]

5. amen!!! Sick of this insane notion that God is going to bail us out of everything

Equally crazy to call it an "act of God." Leave God out of it.

[K8-EEE]

6. K&R nt