The oil nears Florida: What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister?

[DFW]

What have they done to the earth?
What have they done to our fair sister?
Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her
Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn
And tied her with fences and dragged her down

I posted these lyrics from over 40 years ago on another "doomsday" thread recently.

From the news now coming in, I'm wondering if my pessimism was too optimistic?

:-(

'Die Geister die ich rief, die werde ich nicht mehr los.' (Goethe's Zauberlehrling))

"The spirits that I have summoned, I cannot rid myself of them"

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear DFW...

How really appropriate your sad lyrics are...and prophetic as well.

I also appreciate Goethe's quote.

It is a fearful and sad situation that we face in the Gulf.

:cry:

[mrcheerful]

2. Ahhhh yes the song that got Jim Morrison in a whole bunch of trouble and the

wing nuts still claim its about Jim being a mother raper, The End. Funny how very little is said today about rap music, unless a wing nut tries to claim rap makes kids join gangs, yet Jim Morrison was fined and arrested on stage for saying the "F" word, as well as supposedly exposing himself on stage in Florida.

I suggest for another example from 40 years ago you check out Grand Funk RailRoads "Loniness", another great song about mother earth and mans effects on her.

Edited to add a youtube link for the song................http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyMqx41JJ5s

[DFW]

8. Actually, that wasn't from "The End."

It was from "When The Music's Over," from "Strange Days."

And for the Gulf of Mexico, the music does indeed seem to be over.

A billion years of evolution stopped in its tracks by one chain of greed and incompetence.

[BeFree]

3. heh

my pessimism was too optimistic, is exactly how I am feeling.

It has been said it takes 40 days to make or break a habit. I think my optimistic habit may be broke.

[frustrated_lefty]

4. What? LA, MS and AL weren't bad enough?

Just think how people are going to lose it when this mess works its way up the east coast.

[Odin2005]

5. I just posted that on my FB status.

[earth mom]

6. OMFG! This is un fucking believable!

:cry:

[carlyhippy]

7. Very very sad, that we are witnessing the end of our oceans

2012 is coming true, but it wont be an asteriod or meteor that will destroy our earth, humans will, and they are doing a fine job of killing our home right now. very very sad.