A Letter to Congressmen on BP Mega Oil Spill in the Gulf

You've got much bigger things to worry about .
Like I said , I'm more worried about the millions who are eating fish out of the gulf .
I was just asking , to make a point . What little I can learn . He is out of I C U , but still in the
hospital . He had a number of other problems , that might have brought on the intestinal blockage .
I think he was just full of it , I won't say what "it" is . It's just , him telling my they were fishing and eating fish out of the gulf, back in November , surprised me .

In passing , you might ask others , about the dangers of the sea food out of the gulf . But stay on what you're doing . We're very worried about what you're telling us . I understand , you're putting your name on the line . I'll be Praying for you . You've got a number of other friend here , who'll be doing the same for you .
RON

BK, Excellent letter and post, I will forward it to all of my US Reps. This atrocity concerns the entire world, with the Gulf region taking the hardest hit. I'm happy to help in any way I can!

Ron, Anything that can cause an intestinal bleed has the potential to cause a bowel obstruction, if it bleeds, it scares, an intraabdominal scars can potentially become an adhesion. As a surgical Tech, most bowel obstructions that I have scrubed for, were caused by an adhesion between a small loop of intestine causing it to kink. Just like kinking a garden hose to stop the flow of water.

That said, I have no clue if the chemicals your cousin was exposed to could cause bleeding, my unprofessional guess would be that it could, but that is an almost educated guess!

I hope your cousin makes a quick and full recovery!

My analogy of oil in the fish might be ratter false . He had major surgery back on Dec. 20 on his shoulder . You know the stress of the med's put a strain on the digestive system . He's been living with a failed hernia surgery for years . The mesh had long ago let lose . There were a number of other problems .

B K Lim had posted an article , a couple of months back . The article told how the people who had worked in the gulf and on shore doing the clean up were getting very sick . I was just trying to address any problems others might have . Yes, I'm worried about my cousins husband . But I'm very worried about the thousands or millions who might still be eating fish out of the gulf .

This article , is telling us how the problem of the oil spill is only going to get worse .

BK has to be very busy and you might be around people who might be able to give more answers to this problem . You've been so kind to come back with an answer to my question .
Not for me , but maybe for thousands . Will you be so kind , to ask others what they think .
RON

Ron, I couldn't agree more and I have the utmost respect for BK and his expertise and support this cause whole hearted.

I have been saying it loud and clear, I live in New Jersey and I worry about what might be falling on us in our rain and snow. last week we had a small Nor'easter, up the coast from the Gulf. Then there are crops and animals that we eat that will also live on water, so we need to reconsider the size of this disaster to include, inland areas that get rained on from the Gulf..

I've also been worried about the effects on the Gulf Stream and I think the impact may well be self evident.

I am sickened by what is happening in the entire region of the Gulf and like you I don't want others being injured by this mess, fact is many have been injured by way of toxic poisoning and the number will most likely climb into the millions considering how far the Gulf of Mexico reaches. Then what is being harvested is being shipped to all corners of the country and the world!

Death by oil! I'd rather walk!

Ron, I forgot to add that bowel obstruction is a rare but known complication of hernia and no matter how hard we try, we will never be able to duplicate the original equipment.

The Mark of Tolerance
I had started reading about the fishing industry over a year ago . Unknowing what God had in store for me to read and learn . It was Bore Head 007 I started reading . I was looking for the answer to the shortage of fish our media had me believe we had . Their lie about us fishing the last 10% of the fish in the ocean .
Maybe I've got some far out ideas . But over thirty years ago , I was on a catfish farm for a few short hours .They were building another 20 acre pond . Unknowing to me at that time , an idea was planted in my mind .
My idea was and is to replant or reseed our oceans , now the Gulf . Mind you , I'm a non-fishermen . I know little of what I speak about . But I can't let go of my idea . Now that the fish have been poisoned , and most of the gulf will be a dead zone . May we pray , the gulf stream doesn't poison the Atlantic ocean also .
I've got to find someone who will take my idea and work on it . On the face of it , it looks easy .But it is a very complex idea . A balance of nature will have to be achieved . Not just in one little area but across the whole ocean .
With earth soon to have 7 billion people on it . We need our oceans more than ever to feed them .
Maybe our fishermen , have carefully watch over their fishing area and there are plenty of fish here . But other parts of the world they have not been so caring , and taken every fish they can . With a disregard for their tomorrows .
So my biggest idea , is to feed the world . Can you come up with a bigger idea ?
RON

Mark
On your second comment . Never say never . Yesterday , I was looking at a link off gizmag.com
It was about a 3-D printer .
As the advancements in stem cells move forward . They'll be able to print you a new body part . You need a new hip or knee , they'll just print you one . You being a Med Tech . That should give you something to think about . It might be 30 or 40 years down the road . What a thrill it will be . To hear a surgeon asking someone to hand them a hand built out of stem cells .
Maybe , it will be one of the kids who lost a leg from the earthquakein Haiti , who is the surgeon .
You've told little , but if you stand hours on end , in an O R . I hope the idea of this coming about , put a smile on your face .
RON

B K
You'll learn . Ron gets off subject very easy . I haven't forgot what the subject of the article was about . I do respect this is your article . Looking forward to anything you post .
RON

Ron, You do have some great ideas and some are huge, when it comes to fish and their habitat I don't know enough about it to add, but I will gladly continue to pray. Feeding the world certianly is a worthly goal and I would love to see it happen and with the right people involved it can happen. The Gulf dead zone is probably growing on a daily basis, so praying might be the best idea.

When I said never, I didn't mean we can't create replacement parts for the human body, the problem is implanting the replacement, restoring blood supply, nerve conduction and in the case of bones and joints there are tendons and ligaments that are incredibly hard to reattach, because they are literally like a bundle of thread running parallel, making them hard to secure. In order to restore function, all of these accessories must work in concert with their counter parts, for example, when you flex a finger, a muscle contracts in your forearm to pull on the flexor tendon, at the same time the muscle that controls extensor tendon has to relax, same goes for blood supply, if blood supply is restored the veins must also work to complete the cycle of blood in and out. In the end, no matter how good we make replacement parts and get them to function, the physiology involved that we are still learning gives us the biggest hurdles to cross, so in my mind we still won't be able to copy God's creation.

I heard about the idea of using a 3d printer a few years ago using basic cloning technology and a scientist, I can't remember the University, was able to prove the concept by printing cloned cells onto a collagen matrix, using a modified 2d printer, that continued to grow and replicate itself and through the magic of technology we now grow skin in labs to be used for grafting, mostly for burn victims. The frontier of cloning and genetic modification will work miracles sometime in the future, but as you stated it will take many years.

You've told little , but if you stand hours on end , in an O R . I hope the idea of this coming about , put a smile on your face .

Anything that can help people live normally or improve their quality of their life, will always put a smile on my face. If the surgery has a chance of being successful, the time spent standing at a table becomes inconsequential, I've scrubbed surgeries that have taken more then 12 hours to complete and it is surprising how fast that time goes and if it works, it's worth every second.

Ron, I left my post in the OR quite a while back, but I still keep up on the technology as it expands and grows. While I am not in the feild anymore, I know I can still scrub with the best and it's a part of my life that I will carry to my grave. I wrote an article, "Insanity Can It Be Inflected?", that explains the way things have played out for me.

BK, Like Ron and like everyone else I can't Thank You enough for showing us what BP don't want us to see and you have my fullest support in the future as you have in the past and the letter has been emailed.

Mark
I work nights and have very little time to answer your last comment .
I lost a finger to an industral accident May 22, 1967 . The next day , I got my Draft Notice .
It was in Gods plain . I learn how complex even a finger is and how it works 50 plus years ago .
This is one time , for sure I don't want to get up from the key board . I'll try and get back to you about 5:00 AM
RON

Until then, I hope you get enough rest and have a good night at work. Be Safe!

Mark
When I knew I didn't have time to answer your comment . I should have waited .
Many years ago . A doctor friend told me they would be able to take cartilage out of your body , grow more in a lab and repair joints , like the knee , or hip . This was before we had even heard of stem cells .
I like my little window into the future . If you haven't found gizmag . com , check it out . They post 5 or 6 times a week . About 8 or 10 articles each time . It's about a little of everything . A couple of days ago . There was an article about 3-D printers . This is not the first time I had read about 3-D printers .
I've seen a number of things gizmag .com have posted and with my imagination , expanded their ideas to my own . You being in the health care field . You will find a number of things , they are working on . I'll bet you'll be saying WOW . I wish I had tried working on that . I thought of that 10 years ago . But good I'm glad someone is working on it .
Go check it out . Sorry , I haven't learn how to post links yet . You'll have to Google it .
gizmag . com
You said something about the last snow storm . Think about being able to heat the bridges and not have them covered with ice . How many times have you been in the OR helping repair a body , hurt from a crash on a icy bridge ? That idea came , as a " what if idea " . Reading an article where M I T was doing something with kinetic energy . I came up with a " What If Question " . First thinking about street lights . Then the idea of heating the bridges came to me . Several thousand times bigger than the idea M I T was working on .

Going back to what I was first asking you about . Here's a big What If Question . In the future , could they come up with a test strip or patch , to determine if a person ingested any oil ?
Air-born , direct , or indirect contact . Such as through food . Test strips to be used on sight , to test the food . I'm thinking about all the salmonella cases or problems over the last few years .
If the test were much simpler . There would have been much less recalls .
But thinking about that you said . The crops and other food sources that have and will be rained and snowed on . No one will test them , unless the test is made simple .
I'm not a big TV person , but my wife is . All the C S I programs now on . They have to be running 6 to 8 hours a day . Just seeing her watch them , has given me this idea . I like the idea of a patch . Put it on and if it changes colors . Then you would know if they needed treating for the oil in their body .

Maybe I've jumped all over the place , in what I've said . But I'm wanting to learn more about the dangers of this oil spill and the oil let loose in the gulf and in the air .

Are you enjoying Global Warming again today ? If I remember your area of the country was going to get another snow storm . Put your Al Gore , T-shirt on and stay warm . I'm just playing , I hope I'm not stepping on your toes , saying anything about Global Warming .
RON

Ron, I will check out gizmag it sounds like a good source of information, thanks for the tip. I too have many, what if questions, seems like every time I get an answer, it begs more questions.

Heated bridges and roads are a great idea and would most likely save many lives and even more people from permanent injuries and I hope somebody starts doing it soon. I kind of had the same idea on a much smaller scale, we live in an apartment built on a slab and the floor gets really cold in the winter, so I thought of using something like either hot water or electric baseboard, but instead of around the outer perimeter baseboard of the house, put it in the floor and heat the entire floor, once the concrete gets warm it would keep the entire first floor evenly warm, which would probably be more efficent too. It seems like this should be commonsense, but commonsense is not nearly enough common!

I grew up in a small family owned Rigging, Construction and demolition business, which is why I made reference to the finger, because the tendons all come from the forearm and are rigged like a crane boom with a jib, or sails and mast rigging on a large sailing vessel. The tendons, like a cable even runs through what is refereed to as pulleys, that are basically a short peice of connective tissue that looks like tendon, no rollers or bearings:)

It would be nice if there was a way for the consumer to test their food and water, at the time of consumption! The thing nobody ever points or reminds us, that things such as Salmonella or E Coli is not always a mass out break that makes the news with recalls, so we need to EXPECT all of our meat and produce to be contaminated and wash and cook our food appropriately.

Unfortunately integerity in ones work seems like it has fell to an all time low, like you I'm sure, I remember a time when you went to your local butcher or grocery store and knew that you were getting what you paid for. This is the reason I buy most of our beef & pork at a generations old, small family owned and operated butcher, that still slaughters and cleans their Cattle and Hogs, but they still have a reputation that they hold themselves to, I just hope these values were passed on to their children. When I go there to buy meat I know it was cleaned carefully and cured properly, nothing is mass produced and every butcher in there will tell you, there is no reason for E Coli tainted meat to ever be a problem, if it is cleaned correctly.

Unfortunately the cattle and pigs they buy are raised using Hormones and Antibiotics and I personally think that leads to some risk to our health, who knows?

Last year New Jersey broke all of it's previous snowfall records, with a total of (if memory serves) 72.6 inches, which don't really fit with global warming too well, but 2 or 3 years ago, the North West Passage around the Arctic Ocean opened to the point that countries with access to the Arctic Ocean started competing for shipping rights. So with that much ice melt something is getting warmer, I don't think human activity is the real culprit and I'm not sure science has a clue either, sometimes Mother Nature guards her secrets carefully.

Just like BP and the Gulf Oil Spill, I don't think we are hearing the truth from either side on global warming and I think that's because science don't has a one size fits all answer, so they feed us BS and hope we accept it!

I'm more concerned about the possible effects the spill is having on the Gulf Stream up into the North Atlantic, that helps keep the North East portion of the North American Continent as well as Europe and other countries climate temperate. If that shuts down or even slows down, it will have a profound effect on our weather and this year the Northern Jet Stream is dipping into the deep south. So my questions are simple. How much of an impact is the Gulf oil spill having on the Gulf Stream? & Do we have any way of knowing what the impact might be? Unlike global warming, we have no historical model to learn from, at least we know the earth has gone through previous cycles of warming and ice ages and other then unproven theories, we still really don't know why.

Take good care and stay warm!

Not much time . The question about warming a slab . Do you watch "This Old House "on P B S ?
A number of time they have put pipe in the floor of slabs . I'm thinking more along the lines of electric strips . Kind of like what you wrap a water line . This could be retrofitted to old bridges . Without desturbing the structural interrogatory .
Just a quick thought . To keep an apartment or house , with a slab warmer . Design a 6" heat strip that could be put along the inside walls , under the carpet .

There isn't enough time in the day . I had a couple of other comments ,but need to get ready early.
We might get a dusting of snow , by sun-up . I don't want even that .
RON

I second that question Que & raise another--will anyone be 'allowed' to monitor and 'who' will be doing this and will we get 'honest' access to that info?

I sure hope and pray that is NOt the case! Keep checking in every so often BK so we all know that you are well please!!!

Maybe we should pitch in to get BK some Kevlar.

Kevlar is a good idea---unless they get him from consumption! I haven't seen Bk here recently--has anyone communicated with him recently? We should make sure that any communication with BK is known (not what the communication is specifically, but rather that communication has ocurred so we know he is still among us).

I will PRAY for your Safety every night BK!!!! Please do what you have to to remain safe and I will pray for your family as well. Many are doing the same as your message spreads.

I'll keep the prayers up BK and I truely wish with every inkling in me for your safety.

You and Your Family in my prayers too.

BE SAFE, the world is a better place because of you!!!

I hope you guys got a chuckle out of that one .
I feel B K is telling us very little about the danger he is or feels he is in . Each of us have said things , that go against what the media and a number of government agency's have worked very hard to make the public to believe .
Thinking back fifty plus years . From childhood we've been brain washed . Now I've found a number of people who are willing to stick out their neck and allow me to learn the truth . We've all worried about B K . But long before the subject came up . I've worried about each of you .
I returned to work the first of the week . To find out a co-workers wife had died .
Most of us , have chose jobs that are dangerous . I would hate to lose any of you to an accident or natural causes . But to have anyone hurt , for telling the truth . Makes me angry just thinking about it .
Please , B K be very carefull . We care very much about you .
RON

We need to find a way for BK to get real international media, so his warnings, threats and attempts alreadymade against Bk's family and BK. If this goes public enough, the so called spotlight will provide some protection, just by telling the truth and identifying those who mean BK harm!

Big business don't want everyone to see all the blood on their blood stained hands, if BK finds real media, the would be killers would be identified before they start shooting.

As I said before, THE WORLD IS A BETTER PLACE OF BK!!!!!!!

Yes , We've got to make his voice be heard . He has to save the world .
RON

Not to long ago ,I tried to make a point . Articles die out when they have a massive number of comments .
B K this last comment and links need to be reposted ,as a new story . Not way down in the comment line .
It's like an article posted way back in the middle of a news paper . No one reads it .
Can you give it some eye catching head lines and lead story . Then post it as a new article .
Both links held my interest . The world needs to read these .
May I ask , what did Dr. Tom Manton die from ? That might be part of the head lines .
RON

What a wonderful joy to see you here . How is the weather treating you ??? I'll guess the second hurricane has you in port .
May I ask you a question ? The media brings forth the problem of the garbage patches floating in our oceans , from time to time . There has to be some truth to it . I remember from childhood , news reports of New York City loading up barges of garbage , to be dumped into the Atlantic .
My question . How much garbage do you see where you fish ???
As my questions to B K Lim are directed to finding way to clean the oil out of the Gulf . I try not to lose sight of the garbage that has been dumped in our oceans for 100 years .
Solutions to both problems must be addressed . I look to both of you , as eyes of truth .

About what your comment was , about "new tech" . I would like to think I've got some visions of such tech . Every few days , an idea will run through my mind . From things I read . My mind will think "why don't they try this idea?? One answer . I've come up with "it's in the air ".
Sorry , I'm going to make you wonder what I'm talking about at this time . Others had purposed this idea over a year ago . In my eyes , they just wanted to go in the wrong direction .

I would like to hear your view of the garbage problem . Is it a small or large problem ??
RON

Howday Ron:) Great to see you to too (well sort of--'see' you). We do not see such things. When NYC was doing that---perhaps many moon ago???? There are lots of munitions that were dumped in the water thanks to the brilliant govt!!! Every now and then someone tows up some nerve gas (last year that happened). For the most part those are mapped. I have seen the images of the Giant garbage cyclone, but not out here, just on the computer. Geez, it wasn't all that long ago (maybe 50 yrs or so) that raw sewage was directly dumped into the water---and that was when fish was abundant and foreign trawlers fished up close!

The fleet brings the garbage from our vessels into port, where dumpsters are provided (by law those dumpsters have to be provided). I haven't known a vessel to dump garbage overboard (its not our nature to do such things). Again, we do not see the garbage disposed of in the water--at least in the northeast & my boat doesn't go below Mass. and it does go further north than the US/Canadian area (Georges Bank)---which is about 200 miles offshore. Hope that helps Ron. Great to 'see' ya:)

When I was a child , and they were worried about shipping the Nerve Gas . They were worried about the land lovers . But even in my child's mind , I was worried about all the fish in the ocean . I'm still worried about the same thing . I keep saying . Soon there will be seven billion people on this earth . We need our oceans to feed them . This is why I'm here . Trying to follow the problems . Trying to learn , from Mr. B K Lim and you . Bore Head brought my out of the dark . Showing me the truth about the fishing industry over two years ago .
In speaking of Bore Head . Have you heard from him ??? I worried about him loosing his power .
I've run out of time for the day . Work calls me .
RON

Borehead is honky dory Ron:) He was just up after the storm. He is in great spirits and just as beautiful as ever!!!

Sight unseen , you're all beautiful in my eyes . Did you get a chance to meet Mrs, D while she was there ? I was in hopes she would write about being there . Or have I missed an article she might have wrote ?
RON

Ron---ur a beauty too mister :) Yes I saw Mrs D, her sis and bro-n-law and the borehead and his special other half too. It was absolutely wonderful. Check her column for the photos. She has two different ones up right now and they are great.

Thank you for the info . I'm out of time and have to keep this short . I'll check this out .
THANKS
RON

I'm looking foward to reading it also . May I throw a wild idea at you ? Using a solar farm , to provide power . Use some of the power to compress air during the day . When use the compressed air to generate power at night . I understand it might not be where your going . But could it be part of the solution ? Look up air powered car . If you can turn wheels of a car with air , why not a generator ?
RON