Bob Morris points out that Florida counties which voted for Bush in 2000 seem to have been “visited with calamities”:http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/9/21/213652/820 in the past few weeks. I think He is trying to send a message. (Hat tip: “Erin Kelly”:http://www.soc.umn.edu/~elkelly/.)
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Ryan Gabbard 09.23.04 at 1:58 am
I’m afraid that thing is pretty bogus: http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/hurricane.asp
Kieran Healy 09.23.04 at 2:03 am
Well of course it’s bogus, fer crying out loud! There isn’t even a God who sends hurricanes in the first place! I just liked the idea that Dubya’s many invocations of God might have a literal kind of blowback.
s_bethy 09.23.04 at 2:14 am
Here’s an oldie on a similar topic.
Alex 09.23.04 at 2:18 am
dsquared, is that you pushing the Kerry IEM market off a cliff? 12 to 1 odds against Kerry yielding >52% !!!! I sense the influence of program trading.
ogged 09.23.04 at 3:14 am
You might enjoy this post by James Wolcott.
The day I stopped fucking with god: sitting in a parked car, the rain coming down in buckets, so that I couldn’t see out at all–I looked at the sky and said, “Ok, I’m impressed” and no sooner were the words out of my mouth when it started raining twice as hard.
lex 09.23.04 at 7:08 am
How cute.
People of all manner of political persuasions have been killed or have lost their homes, and a few moronic pseudo-intellectuals on this site try to make lame political jokes.
This brings you to the same level as that idiot in Manhattan who responded on his website to the 9/11 attacks that these were “not fair!!! These people voted against Bush!!!”
bad Jim 09.23.04 at 7:55 am
“Ivan” used to be shorthand for the Russians. For those of us old enough to remember those days, there is a special flavor to a headline like “Ivan menaces Florida.”
It appears that Ivan has reconstituted itself as a tropical storm and may take a run at Houston.
abb1 09.23.04 at 8:08 am
Seriously now: can’t this increase in intensity and the number of hurricanes be interpreted as a result of the global warming? And can’t this be used against the Bushies who deny that the phenomenon even exists?
If I were Kerry’s campaign manager, I’d already be running global warming/hurricane ads in Florida.
Mrs Tilton 09.23.04 at 9:05 am
This brings you to the same level as that idiot in Manhattan who responded on his website to the 9/11 attacks that these were “not fair!!! These people voted against Bush!!!
Well, Lex, at least it doesn’t bring them to the same level as those idiot preachers who responded to the 9/11 attacks by claiming that the ACLU, abortionists, feminists, gays, and People For the American Way were to blame.
Or (as long as we are talking about hurricanes) the same level as one of those idiot preachers, who claimed his prayers had diverted Hurricane Gloria safely past his home state. (As it happens, the storm killed people on the northeastern seaboard instead. But that’s okay; they probably wouldn’t have voted for Bush anyway.)
dsquared 09.23.04 at 12:31 pm
Alex; it isn’t me but it’s pretty insane, isn’t it? My poll-based trading rule would be losing money hand over fist! (which is good in a way, because it means that we might get a clean test of IEM versus polls)
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