The efficacy of prayer

See, prayer really does work. Pat Robertson prayed that someone on the Supreme Court would die and his prayer was answered. Wow! I'm impressed. I do hope, however, that his prayers (which he doubtless has) about Chavez being assassinated will not be answered. That's the funny thing about prayers, you never know. Of course with Robertson you always know, once a sleazeball always a sleazeball.

Oh, yes, the levees. It has been known for many years that the levees in New Orleans were insufficient to protect the city from anything more than a category 3 hurricane. For years and years their requests for funds to fix the problem have fallen on deaf Congressional and Presidential ears. There is no doubt about this. Just as there is no doubt that Bush and Co. slashed budget requests in the last four years, partly, at least, to fund their absurd and illegal "war" in Iraq. But what the hell, it was only one of the greatest cities on earth (Hastert, the ex wresting coach, thinks we should just bulldoze the ruins and forget about it). And why not, it was inhabited mostly by poor black people who don't vote Republican. The rich people who escaped unscathed will be able to settle in the ritzy new communities that will spring up around Trent Lott's new house (you know, the one Bush says he will sit on the porch with Lott). No doubt they will discuss the tragedy of Strom Thurmond's career over mint juleps served to them by "darkies." That is, if they are not in jail by then for war crimes and other criminal actions.

Bush is now trying to compare his "war" in Iraq with WWII. His resolve with that of FDR. If this is not the most deceitful, absurd, pathetic, false, improper, ridiculous, far-fetched, stupid attempt to fool all of the people all of the time, I don't know what is. Bush is a fool. A stupid know-nothing fool who has led the nation into the most terrible foreign policy blunder in the history of the United States. He and his band of murderous thugs are closer to destroying our democracy than anyone else in our history. And now he has displayed his total incompetence for all the world to see. New Orleans, victim of an unprecedented natural disaster, is also the victim of an even greater social and political disaster. George W. Bush is guilty of criminal incompetence as well as guilty of unforgivable war crimes. Will his father and corporate masters get him of the hook once more? Stay tuned.

"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God."
Matthew