Every day there is so much death and destruction in our news: be it war, suicide bombers, high school kids with automatic weapons, new diseases we know little about, airline crashes, careless safety management, nature. There are many who will say such things as, "It is god's will; we must not question his wisdom. He works in mysterious ways; God's will be done." What!? My question then is simple, or rather it is a demand: If all of this is god's will, let's fire his butt and get a new one! This one is having too much fun playing sadistic games. Criminy, if this is his will, then he is as psychopathic as any serial killer, or thrill murderer I ever interviewed, studied or read about.
I'm serious. If all of this is some god's will, then goddamn him to his own eternal hellbecause he's a stone-cold killer without motive or cause. Give me a god who is better than man. Not one like man, who murders and destroys out of anger, wrath, vengeance, jealousy ( "Thou shall have no other gods before me" ), deterrence...etc. Those are human traits! If I want to worship a human, I want it to look and act like Jane Fonda or Debra Winger or Elisabeth Shue or more directly to the point, any one of about a dozen young, beautiful Chinese ladies in my "Media & Foreign Policy" classes (now that's wishful thinking and self-delusion on a par with God-believers). But I can rant on till the albatross flies backwards and it will have no consequence, the mayhem and suffering will not abate one whit.
An investigation team was busy working while environmental protection staff, health and epidemic prevention workers, and over 1,000 soldiers, armed police and militia, continued their rescue work.
Kaixian County has received over 10,000 quilts sent by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and over 300 tons of food, medicine and other donations from neighboring areas.
On Sunday morning, some 600 officials with 125 vehicles had been organized by the local government to help local residents return home as the blowout had already been contained. Villagers living near the gas well are expected to go home Monday.
The accident took place at 10:00 p.m. on Dec. 23 at a natural gas field in Kaixian county, operated by China National Petroleum Corporation, when a well burst and released a high concentration of natural gas and sulfurated hydrogen.
In five villages near the gas well, the bodies of poisoned animals, including 2,275 rabbits, 866 pigs, 241 ducks, 476 chickens and 38 dogs were found and buried.
