{"id":6541,"date":"2004-08-19T12:33:05","date_gmt":"2004-08-19T19:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/08\/19\/motivation-3.html"},"modified":"2004-08-19T12:33:05","modified_gmt":"2004-08-19T19:33:05","slug":"motivation_3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/19\/motivation_3.html","title":{"rendered":"Motivation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeb Bush is seems to know why meteorologists were unable to track Charley’s course<\/a> before it came on-shore.<\/p>\n

The president’s brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, surveyed the devastation by helicopter. Visiting relief workers in Punta Gorda, he defended scientists and local officials from criticism that they had miscalculated the path of the hurricane, which had been expected to hit the more heavily populated Tampa Bay region almost 100 miles to the north.
\n“God doesn’t follow the linear projections of computer models,” Bush said outside the emergency management center, whose roof caved in during the hurricane. “This is God’s way of telling us that he’s almighty and we’re mortal.”<\/p>\n

Um … right. Death and devastation are God getting back at us for thinking we can try to figure out the weather. Got it. “Vengeance is mine,” sayeth the Lord, “especially against those mighty sinners at the Weather Channel.”<\/p>\n

While I don’t claim to know why an all-good, all-powerful, all-knowing God allows such misery in the world, I think I could probably come up with a better answer than that it’s to remind us uppity humans Who’s the Boss.<\/p>\n

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

Jeb Bush is seems to know why meteorologists were unable to track Charley’s course before it came on-shore. The president’s brother, Florida Gov. 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