Rod Dreher

Rod Dreher

Eerily prophetic BP oil spill painting

posted by Rod Dreher | 6:18am Monday May 3, 2010

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New Orleans artist Michelle Levine posted this image to her Facebook page, saying it was one of a series of paintings she started last spring.



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Kit Stolz

posted May 3, 2010 at 1:57 pm


That is interesting. For those of us who aren’t Facebookers, can you tell us anything more, or link us appropriately?



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Paul

posted May 3, 2010 at 2:12 pm


But the BP sun is so green and healthy, lol!



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Alicia

posted May 3, 2010 at 3:04 pm


That is prescient, unfortunately. Did you hear the CEO of BP on the Today Show this morning saying “This was not our accident.” Meaning, I take it, that the company that BP apparently subcontracted to (in order to save money?) was responsible for the accident. Perhaps the CEO should find a better spokesman for his company, because that was a jaw-dropping statement.



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Alicia

posted May 3, 2010 at 4:15 pm

Cecelia

posted May 3, 2010 at 5:46 pm


Well Rush Limbaugh has sounded in on this issue – environmentalists sabotaged the rig.
Because you know – it would be a piece of cake for some tree hugger to get to a well head that is 1500 feet beneath the ocean floor and cause it to blow out.
I picked my grand niece up from school today – amazing – the line of SUV’s picking up kids. Virtually every car.



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Dawn

posted May 4, 2010 at 1:19 am


All I can say is where is the proof? Where is the proof that this painting as well as a series of painting were painted before the fact?



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John Wright

posted May 7, 2010 at 9:49 am


Piggy Oil Companies:
I do not think oil companies clean up the oil because they care about the environment. I think they just want the oil back! If our economy gets any worse, we are just going to look at an oil spill as an opportunity for cheaper gas. We will all drive down with our tanks and clean it up ourselves. However, to add insult to injury, the oil companies only have to spend up to 75 million for the clean up. Which I am sure they will just make it back by charging us more at the pump. Leaving them with zero accountability. Let me guess, the American Tax Payer has to pay anything that goes over 75 million? THAT’S CALLED A BAIL OUT! Apparently, the oil companies are also too big to fail. I think there should be a law that says that oil companies have to give American’s free gas that is equivalent to whatever they spilt. Now that sounds more fair to me! However, they instead make a 10 BILLION DOLLAR profit. When gas went up in the 90s, President Clinton responded “It looks like someone is playing politics.” Who knows, maybe that was the day that a law being passed that stipulated they had to pay more than 75 million. Maybe they rose the gas rates to remind the President that they have the power to create and economic crisis, with one stroke of a pen. HOW DARE THESE OIL PIGGIES HOLD OUR PRESIDENTS AND THE AMERICAN ECONOMY HOSTAGE WITH THREATS OF ECONOMIC SABOTAGE!
Piggy Banks:
But there is a bigger spill on the horizon my friend. This spill is going to effect every coast line in America. It is called the GREAT FORECLOSURE SPILL! It will also keep bubbling and bubbling and bubbling foreclosures. It is still going to happen, even though the American Tax Payer funded TARP with a potential 581 BILLION DOLLARS as BAIL OUT money to the piggy banks. I mean if the government is in the lending business, why not have just loaned it to the American homeowner directly? I mean these piggy banks caused the whole mortgage crisis in the first place. TARP gave one bank $45 BILLION DOLLARS! Now that bank is potentially “playing politics” with the modification process. While dealing with the piggy banks, President Obama and Bush had the same look of fear on their face as President Clinton did with the oil companies.
HOW DARE THESE PIGGY BANKS HOLD OUR PRESIDENTS AND THE AMERICAN ECONOMY HOSTAGE WITH THREATS OF ECONOMIC SABOTAGE!
I dedicate to both the Piggy Oil Companies and Piggy Banks the following song by George Harrision and John Lennon. Appropriately titled “Piggies” I invite you to listen to it on youtube as you read the words
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTmeHM-Hojg&feature=related
Have you seen the little piggies
Crawling in the dirt
And for all the little piggies
Life is getting worse
Always having dirt to play around in.
Have you seen the bigger piggies
In their starched white shirts
You will find the bigger piggies
Stirring up the dirt
Always have clean shirts to play around in.
In their ties with all their backing
They don’t care what goes on around
In their eyes there’s something lacking
What they need’s a damn good whacking.
Everywhere there’s lots of piggies
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon.
I AM FIGHTING BACK!
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Artist Michelle Levine

posted June 6, 2010 at 7:02 pm


Hi Rod,
Thanks for expressing interest in my painting- I have one small correction. The series “Establishing Presence (with Flags)” was started last spring- the BP Gulf Coast Contamination was painted late May 1st until I completed it at 3 am on May 2nd.
It was a vision that struck all at once about what was about to happen, but this was about 10 days after the rig exploded.



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Rev. Daniel W. Blair

posted June 26, 2010 at 4:16 pm


As we enter one of the most aggressive hurricane seasons on record, I cannot even imagine what a hurricane would do with oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Dealing with oil on the beach is one thing, but what if we had to deal with it in our streets, in our businesses, in our homes? What if we had to rescue humans covered in oil? What if this is no longer isolated to just the Gulf Coast but found its way up the great rivers to our inner cities? Now imagine if you will, the dispersants mixed with oil which could possibly cause untold diseases and catastrophic health hazards of a biblical proportion. It staggers the imagination, or is it prophetic? What if we are dealing with the wrath of God? See visit my blog at http://www.danielsblog.org Author of the book Final Warning



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posted July 7, 2010 at 3:11 am


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Prophetic Ministry

posted April 14, 2011 at 2:45 am


It’s been said that God does nothing in the affairs of men except they pray. Prayer is the catalyst for worldwide transformation. Prayer incites the angels, restrains darkness, and releases nations into their destiny.



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