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Insane leader's plan for hurricane season: Pray!!!

Insane leader's plan for hurricane season: Pray!!!

From your link:
FEMA's chief, R. David Paulison, said in an interview Friday he views the reports as blueprints for the agency's future and he puts them into two groups: "What can we accomplish now, in this hurricane season, and what are some of the long-term issues?''
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Local and state authorities had little, if any, input on shaping the federal recommendations,
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Repairing the levees by the hurricane season's start has been a paramount concern for Louisiana officials, said Walter Isaacson, vice chairman of the state's recovery authority.
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The Feds are gonna pray and the state is building levees.
 
"Let's, first of all, pray there's no hurricanes,'' Bush said. "That would be, like, step one.''
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I appreciate the "like" at the end there.

Should we pray to any god in particular or do they all work just as well? As a Christian shouldn't he emphasize that only prayers to God (capital G) do any good?
 
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I'm willing to cut the Prez some slack on the "pray" comment because that, to me, is just a throwaway line any Prez might use, IMHO. I mena, he knows it's Pat Robertsons job to pray away or redirect hurricanes...

My concern is not step one--but if he has a step two. The quote didn't note if he said anything more than that.
 
Hutch said:
I'm willing to cut the Prez some slack on the "pray" comment because that, to me, is just a throwaway line any Prez might use, IMHO. I mena, he knows it's Pat Robertsons job to pray away or redirect hurricanes...

My concern is not step one--but if he has a step two. The quote didn't note if he said anything more than that.
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Normally, I would too but you have to remember that Bush most likely means it literally. Not all presidents do.
 
And I thought Pat Robertson's influence over the administration was supposed to have been curtailed (publicly at least). Then we have Bush coming right out with the Robertson plan for hurricane preparedness. No doubt these prayers will be backed up with ritual sacrafices of "special" rights for gays -- just to show Sky Daddy we're serious about hurricane avoidance.
 
Dear Satan,

I'm sending this prayer your way.

Please don't send any hurricanes this year. We have an incompetent president and there's no money left to handle any domestic emergencies.

If it's not too much to ask, can you send some evil imps to invade the nether regions of the oil company execs (as well as ex-execs) and maybe a few at the drug company CEO's as well, if you have extras.

Your faithful, religeous minion in Florida,
Charlie
 
Liturgy for a Hurricane
A responsive reading adapted from an evil secular source for holy purposes.

Leader: A tropical cyclone, or hurricane, begins as a thunderstorm.

People: A hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean often forms as a storm off the west coast of Africa.

All: O Lord, stop it here.

Leader: It moves west toward the southern United States, picking up energy along the way.

People: As it crosses the ocean near the equator,the thunderstorm travels across warm, humid air.

All: O Lord, stop it here.

Leader: Water vapor condenses in thestorm clouds and heat is released in the process.

People: This heat provides much of the energy forthe developing storm. The heat causes the air to rise, leaving a place for additional warm, moist air to fill.

All: O Lord, stop it here.

Leader: As the cycle of evaporation, condensation, heat release, and rising air continues, a circular pattern of wind develops around the center of the storm. This center becomes the eye of the hurricane. Wind is all around the developing storm.

People: We listen for the still small voice in the wind.

All: O Lord, stop it here.

Leader: When surface winds come together from different directions in the area where the storm is developing, they push up more warm, moist air. This push strengthens the storm winds, giving the storm more energy.

People: As the storm continues to build, high altitude winds push the rising air away from the top, resulting in a continuous flow of air through the storm. Since a hurricane is a low-pressure storm, it is affected by high pressure air in the area.

All: O Lord, stop it here.

Leader: As the storm continues to grow and rise, it reaches altitudes where the air pressure is higher. This higher pressure air helps to remove heat from the rising air. It can be pulled toward the center of the storm, where the air pressure is lowest. When the high pressure air moves into the center, it fuels the storm's growth and increases wind speeds.

All: O Lord, stop it here.

Leader: The hurricane is then directed by God's will to whatever city or country displeases Him most.

People: O Lord, let it be those people waaaay over there.

Leader: Amen
People: Amen!


Credit & thanks to our government at:
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache...ve+heat+from+equator&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1
 
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Charlie Monoxide said:
Dear Satan,

I'm sending this prayer your way.

Please don't send any hurricanes this year. We have an incompetent president and there's no money left to handle any domestic emergencies.

If it's not too much to ask, can you send some evil imps to invade the nether regions of the oil company execs (as well as ex-execs) and maybe a few at the drug company CEO's as well, if you have extras.

Your faithful, religeous minion in Florida,
Charlie
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:)


I guess you didn't hear about Jeb's plan B (or plan N) for Florida. I believe it involves the detonation of a nuclear bomb approximately half way around the world from Florida. The radioactive dust is expected by leading Bush administration scientists to suppress the maximum severity of all Hurricanes originating within the Gulf Stream.
 
On the plus side, praying doesn´t cost tax money...
 
Kerberos said:
It does if it's public employees who does the praying.
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But those public employees then cannot do anything else that costs money (and probably has a worse return-on-investment than prayer).
 
Chaos said:
But those public employees then cannot do anything else that costs money (and probably has a worse return-on-investment than prayer).
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Well some public employees have on occasion been known to do something constructive with their time. On the other hand those probably aren't the same public employees who are prone to plead with thunderstorms.
 
Step 2: /shrug

Step 3: profit.


(loosly adapted from the underpant gnomes.)
 
FEMA was ready for Hurricane Katrina. The Brownie video makes it quite clear he was more on top of the situation than any of us thought. The magnitude of the disaster is just more than a bureaucracy can handle and any and every snafu post-disaster was used as signs of incompetence.

Hubris ftw.
 
corplinx said:
FEMA was ready for Hurricane Katrina. The Brownie video makes it quite clear he was more on top of the situation than any of us thought. The magnitude of the disaster is just more than a bureaucracy can handle and any and every snafu post-disaster was used as signs of incompetence.

Hubris ftw.
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I think it's more of a case of him realising that the bureacracy he ran would not be able to cope, and that the Bush administration would not respond appropriately. The collective ignorance of what the current hurricanes are capable of is something else. The inhabitants of Key West (IIRC), did not evacuate Wilma, for example. Fortunately, it glanced past, and the flooding was minor. A direct hit (of the high waters caused by a hurricane), would have killed just about all of them. They were suffering hurricane fatigue. After evacuating, just in case, for previous hurricanes, they did not evacuate for Wilma.
 
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