OK, this almost makes me believe in a loving, but sarcastic God.

[gridlore]

James Dobson's Focus on the Family employs Stuart Shepard to make short, "clever" religious-right videos for the evangelical powerhouse. Shepard creates these videos regularly, and most of them are entirely forgettable. In mid-August, however, Focus unveiled a new video, asking politically-conservative Christians to pray for rain on Aug. 28, in order to disrupt Barack Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention. Shepard called for "abundant rain, torrential rain ... flood-advisory rain." He adds, "I'm talking about umbrella-ain't-gonna-help-you rain ... swamp-the-intersections rain."

The weather in Denver was beautiful for Obama's speech.. not a cloud in the sky.

But... The Republican National Convention opens tomorrow in St, Paul. Which will be about the time an expected Category 5 hurricane will be blasting New Orleans. Y'all might remember that a hurricane hitting the Big Easy caused no end of problems three years ago.

Heck of a job there, Stuart.

While I'm hoping that everyone gets out safely, and that the damage is minimal, I can't help feeling some glee over the fact that this is derailing the RNC's plans for the convention. They simply can't have a big party while an American city is getting toasted, they can't be seen to be cheering and happy while the storm causes a spike in gas prices, and Gustav is going to push them off the top of the news cycle, especially if levees fail along the Mississippi. They have been pushed completely off message. Already Bush and Cheney have had to cancel along with the already staggering number of Congressional Republicans who had decided not to attend their own national event.

If Gustav is as bad as being predicted, the GOP won't have a message. It will be washed away with the storm surge.

Comments

[soobunny.livejournal.com]

I'm right there with you... Though they supposedly want to turn into a telethon which seems even scarier than the normal RNC.

[caraig.livejournal.com]

I've tried to avoid any form of schadenfreude throughout this election cycle. Really, I have. Especially in this case when there are a bunch of innocent people in the path of a major storm that is of sufficient power that we're pretty sure it will be able to do serious damage to coastal waterways. McCain said it best, actually, when he said 'We have to act as Americans and not as Republicans.'

On the other hand, those idiots who prayed for rain.... I really hope someone yells at them and makes them listen. Curses are anathema in Christianity. You DO NOT pray for ill to befall your neighbor. That goes against everything Christ taught. Which these guys did, all oh-so-piously and oh-so-hypocritically. If they had any iota of belief that what they were doing could come to pass, then this should be one hell of a wake-up call. (As if the sprinkler leak that flooded out the Fox news box at the DNC wasn't enough.) If any of these people had an ounce of integrity, they'd repent and recant, and go to the area that is about to get hit and do something proactive to prepare for the possible refugees.

Personally, I'm more inclined to believe it's coincidence. (I just like to think that karma works, sometimes.) But it gets my britches in a bunch when I hear people praying for harm to come to others, and claiming that a 'loving god' just doesn't love you and everything you believe in. Gnar.

On a side-note and out of curiosity, have any pagans out there calculated if Gustav happens to be three times more powerful than a storm that would be needed to flood out the DNC...?

[eleri.livejournal.com]

Your choice of music pleases me, because I've had that stuck in my head for a week now. Did when Katrina came though, too.

Sometimes the jokes just write themselves

[capplor.livejournal.com]

Gee, we were discussing this very subject over breakfast.