The good people and bad in our country

I have always said, when we have a disaster happens in this country our true colors come out. Some people would do anything to help. Others will use the event for not so good reasons. Some people do sicken me. Here are some of the things I have been reading.

From Mad As Hell and I'm Not Going to Take It Anymore Journal.

But one little incident marred the entire day for me. My daughter and I were taking a break and drinking some bottled water. At the picnic table next to us we overheard three skunks at the garden party. This group of one man and two women were discussing the flood that has devastated Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana. As they were explaining it, the people who have lost everything deserved it. God was settling the score with all of the evil good for nothing’s that reside there. If those Southerners had only prayed or been a little more devout they would have been spared God’s wrath. They also noted that it was mainly “darkies” who were suffering because it was God’s will to spare most of the pure Christian white men.

I should point out that those three people shared a deep Southern drawl that led me to believe they originally hailed from farther south that Albert Lea, MN. I also strongly suspect that the storm was a lot less personal than the KKK contingent wants to believe. Good, bad and indifferent; white, black, and mulatto people equally got nailed by the storm. To say otherwise just demonstrates a level of ignorance and spiritual retardation that repulses me.

And then there is this which I can't believe AT ALL..this really sickens me

Fundies: Katrina is Gods punishment on abortionist!!! by AHiddenSaint Tue Aug 30th, 2005 at 21:08:36 PDT

So when do fundies go to far?

Salon

Two days after 9/11, Jerry Falwell took to the airwaves to proclaim that God had allowed the United States to be attacked because "the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians" had tried to transform America into a secular society. Just this weekend, wingnuts from the Westboro Baptist Church turned out at the funerals of two fallen soldiers to say that God is punishing the United States in Iraq for its tolerance of homosexuality back home.

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So when Hurricane Katrina hit land yesterday, we knew it was only a matter of time before we'd be hearing from the lunatic fringe again. And now, here it is. In an email message we just received, a group calling itself Columbia Christians for Life alerts us to the fact that a satellite image of Hurricane Katrina as it hit the Gulf Coast Monday looks just like a six-week old fetus.

"The image of the hurricane . . . with its eye already ashore at 12:32 p.m. Monday, August 29, looks like a fetus (unborn human baby) facing to the left (west) in the womb, in the early weeks of gestation (approx. 6 weeks)," the email message says. "Even the orange color of the image is reminiscent of a commonly used pro-life picture of early prenatal development."

And in case you're not getting the point, the email message spells it out in black and white: "Louisiana has 10 child-murder-by-abortion centers," the groups says, and "five are in New Orleans."

 

AND THIS

Press release from the radical right

 

HURRICANE KATRINA DESTROYS NEW ORLEANS
DAYS BEFORE "SOUTHERN DECADENCE" 8/31/05

PHILADELPHIA - Just days before "Southern Decadence", an annual homosexual celebration attracting tens of thousands of people to the French Quarters section of New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina destroys the city.

"Southern Decadence" has a history of filling the French Quarters section of the city with drunken homosexuals engaging in sex acts in the public streets and bars. Last year, a local pastor sent video footage of sex acts being performed in front of police to the mayor, city council, and the media. City officials simply ignored the footage and continued to welcome and praise the weeklong celebration as being an "exciting event". However, Hurricane Katrina has put an end to the annual celebration of sin.

On the official "Southern Decadence" website (www.SouthernDecadence.com), it states that the annual event brought in "125,000 revelers" to New Orleans last year, increasing by thousands each year, and up from "over 50,000 revelers" in 1997. This year’s 34th annual "Southern Decadence" was set for Wednesday, August 31, 2005 through Monday, September 5, 2005, but due to massive flooding and the damage left by the hurricane, Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco has ordered everyone to evacuate the city.

The past three mayors of New Orleans, including Sidney Barthelomew, Marc H. Morial, and C. Ray Nagin, issued official proclamations welcoming visitors to "Southern Decadence". Additionally, New Orleans City Council made other proclamations recognizing the annual homosexual celebration.

"Although the loss of lives is deeply saddening, this act of God destroyed a wicked city," stated Repent America director Michael Marcavage. "From ‘Girls Gone Wild’ to ‘Southern Decadence’, New Orleans was a city that had its doors wide open to the public celebration of sin. May it never be the same," he continued.

New Orleans is also known for its Mardi Gras parties where thousands of drunken men revel in the streets to exchange plastic jewelry for drunken women to expose their breasts. This annual event sparked the creation of the "Girls Gone Wild" video series.

"Let us pray for and help those ravaged by this disaster. However, we must not forget that the citizens of New Orleans tolerated and welcomed the wickedness in their city for so long," Marcavage said. "May this act of God cause us all to think about what we tolerate in our city limits, and bring us trembling before the throne of Almighty God," Marcavage concluded.

"[God] sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust." (Matthew 5:45)

The people effected from the hurricane need our help. They don't need this kind of crap from the crazies in this country.  And a lot of the crazies are in our government who won't do anything. It has been days and people still aren't getting the help they need. The government wants "we the people" to donate money.  This is their answer. They want us to donate while they steel our tax dollars on their "war". The missing 9 billion dollars sure would come in handy now. I do wonder how much George and Dick have given out of their own pockets since they are asking all of us to do it.