Wednesday, September 21, 2005

God punishes the red states


...or how else do you explain the series of once-in-a-century storms that are ravaging staunch right-wing areas?

Here's a thought. There's a little-known bible passage that says something to the effect of "Thou shalt not use my name in vain". And what do the reactionaries do all the time? Bingo.

Of course God's pissed. Reactionaries have been going on and on and on for a very long time about how she agrees with them on everything. Be it the flat tax, gay rights, clear-cutting Yellowstone, invading Iraq, handing the White House to Duhbya courtesy of hanging chads - God's good with that, so say Pat Robertson and other frocked freaks. Well, take it from this little shark - God's tired of your presumption. She's had it with you. Yes, She.

If you want to know just who God is angry at, take a look at the trajectories of Katrina and Rita. Rita's heading for Tom DeLay's district right now. Katrina made landfall in, and wiped out, the only state to be governed by a former RNC chair: Haley Barbour's Mississippi.

But it's not too late for repentance, it appears. God will not be fully pleased with reactionaries again until you embrace the glaringly obvious truth: you've worshipped a Texas idol for five years. Before that, you made a piece of drug-addicted, wife-swapping closet-homo human garbage into a radio ratings queen. Your only salvation from destruction here and torment in the afterlife is, literally, getting a clue. repenting, and meaning it when you do.

Don't wait. God's already pissed.