New Orleans Mayor Exhibits Hilarity
OK, so God sent Hurricane Rita to Southeast Texas and southwestern Louisiana to kill, destroy and rub our collective noses in the soiled carpets of sinfulness.
That's according to New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, the mastermind behind leaving thousands of desperate Hurricane Katrina evacuees stranded in horrid living conditions for days at the Super Dome.
Nagin, in news reports published today, said God, riled up about divided black communities and the general state of America, stuck his Texas-sized pointer finger into the Atlantic Ocean and whipped up couple of monster storms, just to send us a message.
Nagin made his comments during a Martin Luther King Day commemoration. I'm sure MLK would be proud of that assessment, as well as the mayor's bizarre comment that New Orleans needs to be "chocolate again," referring to the fact that so many residents of that city fled Katrina and have yet to return.
Had I been treated to day after day of post-Katrina living in New Orleans, I might never come back, either.
When it comes to natural disasters, God gets as much blame in the aftermath as FEMA and the insurance companies. Human nature calls for someone, or something, to take the fall for catastrophic hardship.
I don't blame God or anything else for Hurricane Rita. She was just a dumb, ignorant storm, albeit a brawny one spawed at a time when the climate is ripe for such things. As has been reported numerous times in the past year, the ebbs and flows of meteorology have swung into a period of busy violence.
With not enough cold weather to cool off the Gulf of Mexico, the 2006 hurricane season could not only be as bad as 2005 but come a little earlier than usual.
Although I hope another storm is not in God's 2006 playbook for Southeast Texas, I nevertheless am prepared emotionally for another white-knuckle maelstrom of awe, fatigue, despair and character-challenging hassle.
I am not killed. I am stronger.
Maybe toughening us up is what God had in mind all along.
That's according to New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, the mastermind behind leaving thousands of desperate Hurricane Katrina evacuees stranded in horrid living conditions for days at the Super Dome.
Nagin, in news reports published today, said God, riled up about divided black communities and the general state of America, stuck his Texas-sized pointer finger into the Atlantic Ocean and whipped up couple of monster storms, just to send us a message.
Nagin made his comments during a Martin Luther King Day commemoration. I'm sure MLK would be proud of that assessment, as well as the mayor's bizarre comment that New Orleans needs to be "chocolate again," referring to the fact that so many residents of that city fled Katrina and have yet to return.
Had I been treated to day after day of post-Katrina living in New Orleans, I might never come back, either.
When it comes to natural disasters, God gets as much blame in the aftermath as FEMA and the insurance companies. Human nature calls for someone, or something, to take the fall for catastrophic hardship.
I don't blame God or anything else for Hurricane Rita. She was just a dumb, ignorant storm, albeit a brawny one spawed at a time when the climate is ripe for such things. As has been reported numerous times in the past year, the ebbs and flows of meteorology have swung into a period of busy violence.
With not enough cold weather to cool off the Gulf of Mexico, the 2006 hurricane season could not only be as bad as 2005 but come a little earlier than usual.
Although I hope another storm is not in God's 2006 playbook for Southeast Texas, I nevertheless am prepared emotionally for another white-knuckle maelstrom of awe, fatigue, despair and character-challenging hassle.
I am not killed. I am stronger.
Maybe toughening us up is what God had in mind all along.
posted by Brian Pearson at 10:37 AM
1 Comments:
I personally can't stand the views, comments, education level, mind set, ect. of Mayer Nagin. I think he is very much so at the top of the responsibility list for what his people went through.
If Rita hit us as a punishment or wake up call or what have you. Then what does that say about Katrina hitting New Orleans? Was the intent to wipe out the city as punishment for what it is. For what its known for? For what it stands for?
New orleans is known for its crime, poverty, alcoholism, drug abuse, ect. Was God sending a message here?
The best thing the people of New Orleans can do is get their un-educated Mayor out of office.
I found your blog while looking around on the Beaumont Enterprise.
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