Seems like FEMA uses God as their model of competence – neither can do anything right.

Similarly, it’s hard to reconcile a loving God with the death and devastation wrought on innocents. If you’re omnipotent and planning to smite the city for hosting a gay fest, don’t you think you could focus on the folks who irked you and leave everyone else alone? Isn’t that part of being omnipotent? And if you’re a deity and your wrath is so overwhelming that you can’t distinguish between the source of your ire and the rest of your people, then maybe you need anger management counseling. (Note to God: You might look up Dr. BLT for some therapy sessions. I hear his rates are reasonable, plus he believes in you, and I would imagine you would get a little ego-boost out of that.)

Jeff, was that an olive branch or a maple leaf you extended to me? With that last statement, you almost sounded as kind as some of the Canadians I grew up with on the prairies of Saskatchewan. I just hope that this doesn’t all collapse into one big love fest. Oh, I forgot, Mal de mer is in the mix. No, forget it. There’s no danger of that happening any time soon.

Shelly, Marq, with the two of you giving me the benefit of the doubt, you are threatening both my groupthink hypothesis about people who blog at Sadly, No! and my hypothesis that you’ve all been poisoned by the cyanide of cynicism. With all of this love coming my way, I’m about to say, “Yes, there is a God!” Coming to think of it, that’s something I’ve always believed, even in moments of doubt, skepticism, and, yes, cynicism.

These people can take their hate, their shitty theology, and their sensational media whoredom and go to hell. They certainly don’t speak for me.

“[...] But give the devil his due, I bet a fiddle of gold against your soul cause I think I’m better than you”

On occasion even our esteemed doctor gets something right, that doesn’t make him right, and I would never think that.

OOPS!! Did I just compare BLT to the Devil?? I need some opinions here, is a devil comparison better or worse than a Nazi/Hitler comparison, and thus did I just violate Godwin’s law?

If so, I concede defeat… Damn you Charley Daniels for ever writing that song!

Except even the nice ones go all frothing-at-the-mouth, forehead-vein-popping raving if you dare suggest gays deserve other things more humane than death…like civil marriage for instance. After the crap we just went through in Canada over the last year, with religious/conservative figures who I had come to believe were at peace with the religious/secular divide in our society who then became hate-filled raging lunatics (or sat quietly, while their comrades raged on), I no longer give these people any benefit of doubt.

How very interesting that New Orleans, extending the welcome mat to sodomites, is now in need of prayer from the very God the perverts disdain.

By the way, I’m pretty sure New Orleans, beyond “extending the welcome mat,” also offered sodomites some coffee and cake. And showed them its vacation pictures.

I was planning on writing about that today. Here’s my favorite line:

Now New Orleans is under water, bathing in sewage and devastation rather than providing downtown fountains for homosexual capers aplenty.

Mostly, I’m just appalled by the number of rational-seeming Americans who take the floating logs of creamy crap that are Messrs. Robertson and Falwell seriously. Anything I can do to help them lose esteem in America’s eyes is something I regard as my patriotic duty (despite being a hellbound Commie pinko, I still try to throw this lumbering American hulk of insanity a bone every now and then).

But I dig democracy. Whichever people think works best is fine by me – we could even customize it for each situation. Just no black box voting!

Marcavage, on the other hand? Could use a good bitch-slapping.

…besides, you and I both know, plucking THOSE pigeons is the easiest thing in the world, eh?…*shh*…that’s just between you and me.