I have been on the phone throughout the day with my family down in south Louisiana. They're all getting ready to be hit by a Category 5 hurricane. My brother-in-law has been activated by the Guard and is in the field now. Given the trajectory of Hurricane Gustav, the people in the Baton Rouge and New Orleans area will get the worst part of the storm -- worse, even, than Katrina (the eastern side of any hurricane is always the worst). Ivor van Heerden of the LSU Hurricane Center said today:
"The bottom line is that what Katrina and Rita didn't destroy in 2005, this storm has the potential to do."
Former Democratic Party chairman Don Fowler gloating that the fact that south Louisiana will be slammed by a Katrina-strength monster hurricane on the day that George W. Bush speaks at the GOP convention "just demonstrates that God's on
our side." What kind of cretin makes that sort of remark, given what Louisiana and Mississippi suffered the last time a hurricane like this hit the nation? (Besides Michael Moore, that is, who said the hurricane is "proof that there is a God in heaven.")
UPDATE: In an earlier version of this post, I had the video up, but reconsidered. I don't have a good feeling about a world in which a stranger can record a conversation on an airplane and put it on the Internet. If you want to see it, you can see it. But look for it yourself. Sorry I put it up earlier.
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You are taking what Moore said out of context. He says he really hopes the storm dies out over the sea. His post was SATIRICAL. He doesn't want anything to actually happen to anybody. Read the actual post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-moore/an-open-letter-to-god-fro_b_122800.html
This is in reference to Patricio's post. If you are a true christian, you recognize that God gave us free will. Free will being the ability to choose right or wrong. I do not condone abortion or gay marriage, but I have no problem letting individuals choose whether or not to commit such an act. It is not for me to restrict someone's free will or judge their actions. Only God can do that. These people have to face God. I think sometimes Repubs think they are the will of God. No one is. Plus, if Repubs are such great christians, they would not have let Katrina be what it was and still is today. It is un-christianlike to let adults and esp. children, starve, dehydrate, be raped and murdered... That Patricio, is something the "Lord does not condone.
Nothing new under the sun:
How stupid can conservatives be? Just ask the preacher who prayed for rain on the DNC. So I didn't hear any of these offended conservatives pointing their lame finger at that Christian nitwit. Now, when two Democrats joke about the coincidence of the weather/hurricane and the Republican convention, they flare up like the fake hypocrites they are. So they're making a joke, so what, I'm sure they realize that the hurricane is no laughing matter for the southern residents, but the joke is about the coincidence, not the people. And when Katrina hit, they were there to point out the ineptitude of the Bush administration and to push for better levy protection in New Orleans. Where was Bush? Where the hell where you? I was helping the residents, while you were looking for excuses for that joke of president you call Bush, and that joke of a (once noble) party that you let a bunch of greedy neocons destroy.
I've just been through Gustav, we caught the eastern side of the eyewall. I was on the fence about who to vote for - not anymore. In fact I plan on campaigning for McCain.
As for Fowler, well if Hanna makes it to North Carolina, I'm sure it's because God has found favor with his crass remarks. And Moore, well, here's looking forward to the day he drops dead of a coronary from hauling that excess blubber around with him (and no, I don't mean his wife, although I guess it's as apt a description of her as any).
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