September 23, 2004

Vengeance is Mine, Sayeth the Lord

Posted by Kieran

Bob Morris points out that Florida counties which voted for Bush in 2000 seem to have been visited with calamities in the past few weeks. I think He is trying to send a message. (Hat tip: Erin Kelly.)

Posted on September 23, 2004 12:59 AM UTC
Comments

I’m afraid that thing is pretty bogus: http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/hurricane.asp

Posted by Ryan Gabbard · September 23, 2004 01:58 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.

Posted by Kieran Healy · September 23, 2004 02:03 AM

Here’s an oldie on a similar topic.

Posted by s_bethy · September 23, 2004 02:14 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.

Posted by Alex · September 23, 2004 02:18 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.

Posted by ogged · September 23, 2004 03:14 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!!!”

Posted by lex · September 23, 2004 07:08 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.

Posted by bad Jim · September 23, 2004 07:55 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.

Posted by abb1 · September 23, 2004 08:08 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.)

Posted by Mrs Tilton · September 23, 2004 09:05 AM

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)

Posted by dsquared · September 23, 2004 12:31 PM
Followups

→ It Turns Out There Is A God....
Excerpt: ...and He's pissed at Bush voters. Don't forget to check out the poll. Link via Crooked Timber....Read more at Appalachia Alumni Association
→ It Turns Out There Is A God....
Excerpt: ...and He's pissed at Bush voters. Don't forget to check out the poll. Link via Crooked Timber....Read more at Appalachia Alumni Association

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