Posted on 08/21/2011 7:21:05 AM PDT by Tina Grazier
The video you are about to watch was filmed by a driver who stopped along the freeway with many others just outside Al-Ahsa City, in Saudi Arabia. Throughout the last few years there have been many theories put forth as to what caused this phenomenon. Along with those theories, various names have been used to describe it, like "Sand Geyser," "Sand Fountain," "Sand Volcano," and "Sand Injectites." The quality of the video is not the best because it was filmed with a cell phone, and the person who filmed it has not ever identified himself. However, the video is good enough to show that something very powerful was taking place in the desert that day.
The video was taken in 2006, but to this day there is very limited information about what exactly happened to create such a spectacular eruption. Try as I have, I could not find any information about the phenomenon that would bring me any closer to understanding what happened that day. So after 5 years it seems that whatever took place is still a mystery.
What I did learn about the phenomenon was that there was no seismic activity recorded at the time, and witnesses reported that no water or oil mixed in the sand. There was also no evidence of a natural gas leak, as many of the people standing around were smoking and no fires erupted. Adding to the mystery is that there have been no reports of another such event happening anywhere in the world since.
At the time, it was reported that the Saudi government sent out scientists and geological experts from the state-run Aramco Oil Company to investigate the phenomenon. However, after 5 years they have yet to release their findings to the public.
This actually falls in line with the way the royal family handles situations about events which they themselves are confused about. The House of Saud keeps a very tight rein on their subjects, and they do so by taking advantage of their religious beliefs.
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If the inlet were a big cave, it would probably be the outlet, too.
Sand boils are stated to be associated with seismic activity, which is allegedly absent in this case.
In the article referencing the 3/5 compromise he said and you yourself repeat, in your reply to me, his lie that we were a country that at one time considered blacks less than human. You have no evidence for this slander. Why do you insist in saying it?
Quite simple really: this is Mother Earth being flatulent and signaling where the enema goes.
Probably some Jihadi school practicing creating explosives.
In before our own crazies come in saying this is caused by Comet Elenin or HAARP.
A significant percentage of people in the early days of our country, including many of our founders, were OK with black slavery. How does it not follow that they considered blacks as less than human?
Most people in the Bible were ok with slavery. That doesn’t mean they thought of the people they were taking as slaves as less than human.
You need to start practicing reading comprehension and also try reading the whole article before going off on something about someone you have no clue about.
To state the he claimed what you said is wrong.
You deny that many white Americans looked at blacks as being less than human?
I will defend the fact that America is not a racists country, but I am not ignorant of the facts about our past. Many, many Southerners did not consider blacks as anything other than animals.
I met some Southerners when I was young who thought that Adam and Eves son Cain slept with a monkey and that is where the blacks came from. They were decent church going folk, who had no problem with the way they thought. That is a fact. If they did not think blacks were sub human then why would they claim that?
We are not talking about the way the Bible or the people in the Biblical times looked at slavery, but the way many Americans looked at blacks in the first 50 to 100 years or so of our country.
And the way OV stated and what he meant when he wrote a column that he is being attacked by 1raider1 over.
..and a significant number also opposed it; in an era when it was as common as going to church. It is a myth that most of our founders were slave-owners. You could count on two hands how many actually owned slaves and still have fingers left. At that, our founders were disproportionally abolitionists in relation to the culture of the world at the time
I would suggest reading the diaries of the first Constitutional convention. (those by Elliot, Farrand and Washington are easily obtainable). At times, there was almost a mocking ridicule of the slave owners and the 3/5ths clause was put in there to reduce the power of the slave owning states. They basically said, (paraphrased) ‘if you free your slaves, you get full representation, if you don’t free your slaves, you don’t get to represent them as free men if you don’t treat them as free men.’
It isn’t to say we were perfect, but let’s not fall into the left’s game that our founders were a bunch of racist slave owners.
I am out the door to church.
I will pray for this to get resolved and that OV’s character be defended against libelous accusations.
I submit slavery and Jim Crow laws as prima facie evidence that it was true of a very large number of people.
Slavery is slavery is slavery. Whether in Old Testament or American times.
I didn’t mean to imply that OV did. I was responding to the other comment on this thread.
You have a link to that so we can read it or are you just stalking someone ya don’t like ?
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