Microbe Eating Spilled Oil in Gulf of Mexico Proves Rush Limbaugh was Right All Along

This is what Rush said 2 months ago when Liberals were screaming that the Gulf of Mexico Oil spill was the biggest disaster ever.



Liberals are upset that they can’t find anymore oil in the Gulf. But, contrary to what they may believe, God has a knack of fixing the planet in ways we humans cannot comprehend.

Think about that sometime!

The UK Telegraph reports that a newly discovered species of microbe is breaking down oil from the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico much faster than scientists thought possible. The leaking well was plugged on July 15 and two weeks later government scientists said that half of the oil had gone.

The new microbe was found to be breaking down oil about twice as fast as expected.

Researchers discovered the new oil-eating microbe while studying the underwater dispersion of millions of gallons which escaped after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in April.

It thrives in cold water in the deep sea where temperatures are around 5C (41F) and scientists said it may have adapted over time, through a process of natural selection, due to periodic leaks and natural seeps of oil in the Gulf.

When the bacteria were found to have acted on oil they consumed half of it in 1.2 to 6.1 days, giving an average of about three days. By comparison at the site of the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska in 1989 the average "half life" was seven days.

Around 95 per cent of the bacteria in the oil plume were the new type, while outside only five per cent were.

The microbe was discovered by a team led by Terry Hazen, of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California. The study was reported in the journal Science.

Hazen said:"What we know about the degradation rates fits with what we are seeing in the last three weeks. We've gone out to the sites, and we don't find any oil, but we do find the bacteria."

The researchers said it provided the first ever data on microbial activity from a deep water oil plume. It suggested "a great potential" for bacteria to help dispose of oil in the deep sea.

Environmentalists have raised fears about the giant oil spill and the effects of underwater oil on sea life. Last week a mist of tiny oil droplets 22 miles (35km) long was reported.

But the researchers said the influx of oil had profoundly altered the "microbial community." They collected more than 200 samples from 17 deep water sites between May 25 and June 2. The new microbe was found to be the dominant one and, although closely related to existing petroleum degrading ones, was a new species.

The team also found that the new microbe acts without significantly depleting oxygen in the water.

There have been concerns that oil-eating activity by microbes would consume large amounts of oxygen in the water and create "dead zones" which would destroy ecosystems and fisheries.

But the study found that, while oxygen saturation outside the oil plume was 67 per cent, within the plume it was still 59 per cent. A previous study published last week suggested no decrease in oxygen.
Hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil a year seep into the Gulf every year through the sea floor.

It was suggested that oil was dispersing quickly because Gulf light crude is more biodegradable than other oil types and dispersant may have spaded up the process.

There has been much debate about what has happened to the cloud of oil, a mile wide and 650ft high, that was drifting at 4,000ft under water.

Or lets just say it’s a miracle from God and give thanks for the wonders he performs. And he might also protect us from that pesky carbon thing Liberals are so worried about.




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Hate Crimes Equals Thought Persecution: A Review

Lets review.

When was the last time a White person was a victim of a hate Crime?

I thought in America we’re all supposed to have equal justice under the law? But, that doesn’t seem to be the case anymore.

Only certain groups of people are set aside as potential Hate Crime victims: Blacks, Gays, Latinos and the latest inclusion Liberals are all too eager to highlight-Muslims, the chic religion of The Left.

But, I still can’t figure why we needed hate crime laws in the first place when there are other laws on the books to cover every incident associated with the hate crime.

Here in New York City, some poor cabbie got stabbed by a perpetrator for allegedly being a Muslim.

But, why isn’t attempted murder or assault with a deadly weapon sufficient to cover the incident? Who really cares what the alleged assailant had on his mind at the time of the crime?

Liberal Progressives are the ones who care about hate crimes because they are the inventors of it. Each violation makes a political statement and an assertion that certain victims of crimes deserve special consideration. It’s a case of affirmative action for the penal code. If you commit a crime against these people, then you must be automatically assumed without proof before a court of law that you must be a bigot, a homophobe or ijn the case of the cabbie--an Islamophobe.

Shouldn’t Daisy Kahn also be prosecuted for accusing opponents of the GZ Mosque of being Islamophobes? I think that kind of rhetoric could have contributed to pushing this nut case who stabbed the cabbie over the edge.

Will the D.A. file charges for that?

Or is it a case of selective justice and inequality under the law?



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Stick a Fork in GZ Moaque: Most Powerful Politician in New York Sheldon Silver is Against It

Ballgame Over!

Turn Out the Lights!

That’s all she wrote!

The Fat Lady has just sung!

As a lifetime New Yorker, believe me when I tell you that nothing happens in New York State without Sheldon Silver’s blessing!

Contrary to what outsiders in the world may think, the most powerful man in New York politics, hands down, is an Orthodox Jew from the tough streets of the Lower East Side.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg painfully learned this lesson a few years ago when he fought tooth and nail to build a football stadium for the New York Jets on the Westside of Manhattan.

Bloomberg tried every maneuver he could think of and mounted the biggest public relations campaign this city has ever seen.

And it was all for nothing because Silver gave the stadium his thumbs down and squashed Bloomberg like a cockroach.

Silver has served in the state assembly for over 30 years. He’s been Assembly Speaker since 1994 and he knows where all the bodies are buried in New York.

So although this controversy may go on for quite a while longer, it’s all over but the shouting.

The New York Post reports that a powerful state politician joined with Gov. David Paterson on Tuesday in suggesting that Islamic leaders should move a proposed Islamic center and mosque farther from ground zero, saying the organizers should be more sensitive to opponents.

The Cordoba Initiative has the right to build the center at a building two blocks from Ground Zero but should be open to compromise, said New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who represents the lower Manhattan district.

“In the spirit of living with others, they should be cognizant of the feelings of others and try to find a location that doesn’t engender the deep feelings the currently exist about this site,” Silver said.

Critics say the building is too close to where Islamic extremists destroyed the World Trade Center on 2001 and killed nearly 2,800 people. Supporters say religious freedom should be protected.

“I think the sponsors should take into very serious consideration the kind of turmoil that’s been created and look to compromise,” Silver said.

Paterson, who has expressed dismay over the heated arguments on the issue, was meeting Tuesday with New York Roman Catholic Archbishop Timothy Dolan to try to suggest an alternative.

Meanwhile, the developer was expected to attend an annual dinner Tuesday night hosted by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has spoken in support of the project.
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