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I have to wonder if all the folks who (rightfully, IMO) slammed Jeb Bush<\/a> for attributing Hurricane Charley’s unpredicted course into Florida as “God\u2019s way of telling us that he\u2019s almighty and we\u2019re mortal” will voice similar outrage over James Wolcott admitting that he “root[s] for hurricanes<\/a>” …<\/p>\n

When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa, I find myself longing for it to become big and strong–Mother Nature’s fist of fury, Gaia’s stern rebuke. Considering the havoc mankind has wreaked upon nature with deforesting, stripmining, and the destruction of animal habitat, it only seems fair that nature get some of its own back and teach us that there are forces greater than our own.<\/p>\n

In addition to apparently enjoying, or finding a pleasant fittingness in, the destruction and death that such a storm causes, Mr Wolcott reinforces that it’s all part of some great plan:<\/p>\n

Hurricane Frances also has a heraldic quality. Camille Paglia observed on Salon in February, 2003 that the explosion of the Columbia shuttle on the eve of the war on Iraq was a “stunning omen,” one that would make a Roman general think twice. A catastrophe strewing death, fire, and human remains across Bush’s home state of Texas was inauspicious to our undertaking; and so it has proven to be. Frances is the second hurricane to afflict Florida, home of brother Jeb, in rapid succession.
\nThe gods are not pleased.<\/p>\n

And, just to hammer the point home, if this were Jeb, or Pat Robertson, or Jerry Falwell, or someone else identified as a Christian (particularly the right-wing sort) writing about how they rooted for monsoons when sweeping down on the godless Hindus and Moslems in India and Bangledesh, or attributing a major earthquake in Iran as a bad omen sent from the Almighty for the mullahs, they’d be very justifiably demonized.<\/p>\n

I’m just waiting for everyone to do the same for this jerk.<\/p>\n

Unless, of course, he doesn’t really <\/em>believe all of that Mother Nature and Gaia and omens and gods stuff. In which case it’s all okay, right?<\/p>\n

(via Andrea<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have to wonder if all the folks who (rightfully, IMO) slammed Jeb Bush for attributing Hurricane Charley’s unpredicted course into Florida as “God\u2019s way of telling us that he\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13292,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/28\/bsg_a_disquiet_follows_my.html","url_meta":{"origin":6419,"position":0},"title":"BSG: “A Disquiet Follows My Soul”","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 28-Jan-09 12:57pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Finally watched last week's Battlestar Galactica off the DVR. 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