Monday, September 1, 2008

Rainy Day Woemen

Now, let me get this straight. The Republican Convention has been held up by a hurricane less than a week after its own prima donnas of prayer, led by Stuart Shepard of Focus on the Family, urged the deity to send "torrential rain" to douse the acceptance speech of Barack Obama at Invesco Field...and nobody else is laughing? Well, all I can think is that it's too early.

After all, it's not everyone who can gloat over a natural disaster by proclaiming that it's been sent to an area in punishment for a gay pride parade the week before. (Never mind that thousands of innocent bystanders also had to suffer--neither God nor President W. seems to have the hang of making "surgical strikes"quite yet.)

So, I'll withhold my own ironic laughter until my fellow citizens, no matter what their sexual preferences, are hopefully spared any devastation this time and let the G.O.Pevangelicals, who have His ear, speak for the Absolute Being.

And I'll let John Hagee, James Dobson et al do the play by play on what the divinity is up to here. (I doubt they'll mark it up to political affiliation since even a Being with an infinite sense of humor would have trouble throwing in with the Democrats.)

An honest response could be that if He/She (the Godhead) is behind this at all, it might be to alert people that with all the misery and pain they find around them they oughtn't be praying to bring harm, even of a "prankish" kind, to anyone. But,then, I guess we all know better than to seek an "honest response" from the priests or the politicos.

So, I'll just sit up here on my perch and hope for the best for now. Nearly two-thirds of the population of Orleans parish didn't go back after the last devastation, and so there are fewer people in harm's way and fewer to evacuate. The Washington Establishment is already in place this time and looking dour and chastened and "Brownie" is back running with the horses, so it's hoped that our brothers and sisters to the South are the better for all that.

But just in case, let's all say a prayer.

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