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Wednesday, August 31, 2005
_____ is to Blame for Hurricane KatrinaI've been reading all sorts of Katrina related blogging recently. With almost all terrible events that involve people, fertile minds tend to go crazy... and this has been no exception. It's not just concentrated on one side of the political spectrum or the other either... both sides have put forth a heaping dose of lunacy. For instance, Abortion is to Blame for Hurricane Katrina.
Abortion causing hurricanes? That's crazy. It's really all the Palestinian's fault:
A couple of weeks ago I also sneezed while filling up my gas tank, right around when Katrina started brewing. Oh shit... is it my fault?! Alright, maybe that's a little out there. Maybe you'd rather blame President Bush for Katrina. After all, he didn't enact Kyoto, and hell, everything is his fault anyway... at least that's what Robert F. Kennedy Jr says:
Just out of curiosity Rob... what sort of gas mileage does your SUV get? Oh wait, someone so concerned with global warming would obviously take the bus everywhere. And you wouldn't have a gas guzzling private jet would you? Someone concerned with global warming would only take commercial airlines which are much more eco-friendly per passenger... right? Perhaps it's not as diabolical as all that. Hurricanes couldn't work on seasonal patterns could they? How narcissistic could we as a species be to think we're the root cause of everything? This whole global warming thing is really just a smoke screen anyway, because we all know that white supremacists are to blame:
That idea is of course foolish because Katrina has been used by the government to kill black people... so it obviously isn't punishing white folks:
On a more common sense note, Wizbang offers some more practical advice for those who would cast stones:
Tomorrow is a blogger declared hurricane relief day. There are plenty of places where you can go to donate money and supplies (Instapundit, All Things Jen(nifer), American Red Cross, FEMA) Do something constructive with your money please. Donate to a good relief cause, not some fringe political group who would take advantage of this tragedy. Also, be sure to mark any donations with Katrina. Often times donations go into a general pool unless you specifically earmark them for a particular purpose.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/randall-robinson/new-orleans_b_6643.html
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