fellow teacher's thought's on Katrina: "well what'd thepeople in NOLA

[WMliberal]

expect? Their biggest thing is that pagan holiday. I mean, they're practically thumbing their nose at god."
:eyes:

I told her there had been hurricanes hitting that area for thousands of years before there were people there. But she felt that this just HAD to be divine retribution.

Same kind of person who nodded her head when Pat Robertson said 9/11 was because of tolerance in our society.

[onager]

1. I'm surprised this twit didn't play the French Card.

New Orleans is suspiciously FRENCH, after all.

This kind of stuff just annoys the hell out of me. And as you note, their minds are set. In cement.

Reminds me of the old joke about the tourist in Israel. Every day at the Wailing Wall, he sees the same old man fervently praying, swaying back and forth and the whole bit.

One day the tourist says: "Excuse me. But I see you here every day, praying for hours."

"Yes," the old man replies. "And I've been doing this for 30 years now."

"Thirty years! Do you mind if I ask what you're praying for?"

"Not at all," the old man replies. "I'm praying for world peace."

"Well...do you think your prayers are doing any good?"

"No, not really. I might as well be talking to a wall."

[NMMNG]

2. What a moran

What's her explanation for the hurricanes that wreak havoc on Florida several times a year? How about the tornados that ransack Kansas, which is moving ever into the dark ages, on a regular basis?

People like her make me want to bang my head against the wall in frustration over their utter stupidity. :banghead:

[Brewman_Jax]

3. Hurricanes are a fact of life

to attribute them to some sort of "divine" retribution is beyond me. :shrug:

[Anarcho-Socialist]

4. I ate a snickers bar yesterday and guess what?

There was a thunderstorm later on in my area. How can there not be a link? :shrug:

[Gelliebeans]

7. LOL. that one made me

:spray:

[Bill McBlueState]

5. pagan holiday!

Oh, she must mean the day before all the Christians begin ritual preparations for the death of their lord.

Damn pagans, going around stealing Christian holidays.

:spray:

[YankeyMCC]

6. Thousands of years indeed!

Surely you exagerate, the Earth is only 6 or 7 Thousand years old.

:sarcasm:

[Emperor_Norton_II]

8. And yet, the Quarter will probably be the only thing left of the city

...suggests that his nibs doesn't have that much against NOLA as a party town.

[opiate69]

9. I haven't hit another person in anger in over 20 years...

but I swear, the first fucking knuckle-dragger who says something like this when I'm within earshot is going to wind up asking "god" why he suddenly has a few teeth missing.

[enki23]

10. pagan holiday. no shit.

fucking upstart christians and their idolatry. zeus has surely smote them.

(yeah, i know. but "smitten" just has an entirely different feel)

[toddaa]

11. Lent's a Pagan Holiday?

Silly me, I always give up sobriety for Lent.

[kdmorris]

12. So I guess Christians' biggest holidays

aren't pagan? :eyes: Seems like most of them should do a little research on history. ALL of their holidays are based on pagan holidays. That's the only way Constantine and the priests that followed him could convince the "locals" to give up their own religion and come under their control.

Seeing this kind of "divine retribution" crap makes me want to stick a fork in someone's eye.

So, what did we in Florida get "punished" for last year? Being stupid enough to let Bush steal Florida in 2000? Oh, wait... many Christians LOVE Bush.

[geniph]

13. Mardi Gras is a PAGAN holiday?

That is almost as freaking ignorant as the people that think Halloween (otherwise known as All Hallows Eve) is a pagan holiday.

You just can't make shit like this up. Just goes to show you beauty may fade, but stupid lasts a lifetime.

[Kolesar]

14. French is a pagan language, isn't it?

Catholic is pretty close to pagan in some peoples' minds, I gather /sarcasm