New Orleans Mayor Says God Mad at U.S.:
Mayor Ray Nagin suggested Monday that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and other storms were a sign that "God is mad at America" and at black communities, too, for tearing themselves apart with violence and political infighting.
Right, I’m only gonna go over this one more time, so all of you pinheads out there that want to blame some supreme being for all your misfortunes need to pay the fuck attention, okay? Two really bad hurricanes are not the result of American foreign policy, the disintegration of American family life, urban violence, or the direct result of any specific human action at all. Starting a dumb ass war in Iraq or somebody beating his wife or somebody shooting his neighbor over some crack didn’t blow up the storm of the century. While it seems at this point fairly likely that human greenhouse gas emitting activities are at least augmenting a natural warming trend, or may be the direct cause of this trend, God being pissed at your trivial peccadilloes and murderous impulses just doesn’t factor in, okay?
The problem with you dick heads blaming this stuff on God is that you think if you tell people to quit being bastards to each other, God will stop washing your below sea level city out into the Gulf. So, when the next hurricane season rolls around and you get drenched again, you can say that people didn’t heed your words – and then use that as an excuse to continue being a bastard. Then, we can all sit around and argue about how best to appease God, instead of actually trying to solve the real problems causing all of the rotten crap I mentioned above.
If you really wanted to solve problems, you’d spend less time propping up a deity as an excuse for natural disasters, and more time identifying and eliminating root causes. Of course, doing that’s a lot harder and more expensive, and requires more than a pretty speech, doesn’t it?
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