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Of God, Bachmann and the Weather

by: SJGulitti

Wed Sep 07, 2011 at 20:22:18 PM CDT


If you really took Michelle Bachmann seriously you would think that all of our recent weather related problems and disasters was the voice of the Almighty. According to Ms. Bachmann: ''I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians...We've had an earthquake; we've had a hurricane. He said: 'Are you going to start listening to me here?" Bachmann made the aforementioned comments to a group of Florida seniors suggesting that the "recent natural disasters were God's way of sending a message to Washington."  "Bachmann Links God, Disasters and Politics"; http://query.nytimes.com/gst/f...

Well here's an interesting thought to ponder if you really believe, the way Bachmann does, that weather related disasters are God's way of telling us something. We here in the Northeast had a few big snowstorms early last winter but February was downright mild for a winter month. July was hot but August was almost autumnal in the end. We just got doused by Hurricane Irene but we haven't had a major hurricane make landfall here and cause any degree of damage since Hurricane Bob in 1991, twenty years ago. Yeah we had an "earthquake", I was seventeen stories up on a construction project and didn't feel a thing. Once in a long while we get a rash of springtime flooding but beyond that, the weather in the "liberal / progressive" Northeast is downright pleasant. On the other hand the southern states have been in a prolonged, almost biblical, period of drought. Tornados seem more and more frequent and damaging across the plains states and wild fires regularly ravage the west and southwest. Texas has had one of the worst summers on record with mammoth wild fires.

So If we are to believe that God often vents his displeasure through the weather, could we then reasonably conclude that he is angier with conservatives than with liberals and "progressives"?After all it is in those sections of the country that are heavily conservative that have, and continue to experience, the worst weather. Based on the fact that the weather in the Northeast and West Coast seems to be a lot better than that in the South, Southwest and on the Plains I guess we give the Almighty a lot less to be upset about and we are more likely to be in his good graces, in a relative sense that is.

sjg
9/7/11

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