Something Bush said last night....

[defiant1]

in his speech,

"Americans have never left our destiny to the whims of nature, and we will not start now."

As a devout believer in his kreator, is that really the phrase to use? Does he believe that nature and gawd are two seperate entities? Or does he believe that gawd controls nature, and if that was the case, shouldn't he have said the whims of gawd?

Just something that struck me as odd.

Your thoughts are welcome...

:smoke:

[geniph]

1. He doesn't believe shit

His speechwriters wrote that because one of them thought it'd sound good in flyover country, and Chimpy read it off the TelePrompter like a good li'l puppet.

I doubt if two neurons fired in his empty head the whole time. I really doubt he thought about what he was reading at all, or has any idea what he actually said.

Would love to see guerrilla activists substitute gibberish in the TelePrompter sometime...

[BiggJawn]

2. Oh, he had brain activity alright...

"gotta hava drink! Need some BLOW! Gotta hava DRINK! Need some BLOW! Only 15 more minutes and I can have some BLOW Karl said I could have some BLOW when I finish!"

[geniph]

4. you forgot

"geez, I really gotta pee. Where's Condimelda when I need her?"

[Jokerman]

3. Standard Operational Bullshit

When a natural disaster kills people it's the "whim of nature", when medical science saves lives it's a "miracle cure".

Gawd nevers does anything bad.

[onager]

5. Remember Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas?

When tornadoes devastated the state in 1997, this Fundie fucking asshat refused to sign a relief bill until the legislature removed the words "act of God."

No, I'm not making that up. With hundreds of people left hurt and homeless, Gov. Fuckabee decided he just couldn't have a tornado blamed on his personal Sky-Pixie:

“It seemed unreasonable,” Governor Huckabee said, “that the one time government acknowledged God’s existence would be in response to something that killed twenty-five people. The brokenness of the world has had cataclysmic effects, which includes the weather getting bad. But a natural disaster does not mean that God says, ‘Today I think I’ll kill some twins in Arkadelphia and rip their bodies apart.’ ”

The legislature pointed out that "act of God" has been standard insurance language for "natural disaster" going back hundreds of years.

The legislators finally caved and changed the wording to "natural causes."

You can google, or here's a short version:

http://www.bookclubs.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780812973617&view=excerpt

[salvorhardin]

6. Good one

Nice to know that keeping things in perspective comes naturally to Republicans. :-)

[progressoid]

7. Ha - wouldn't it be ironic if his desire to protect

his beloved god would help to secularize more legislation by not mentioning the diety in future bills too!

[FM Arouet666]

8. Thanks for the info, but I am laughing my ass off

after reading "his personal Sky-Pixie." I will undoubtedly use this term when talking to fundies.

Sadly, just another example of the transformation of the U.S. into a theocracy. In Jesusland gawd made the universe and mankind via intelligent design, but cannot be blamed for the workings of nature. Someone please get me some thorazine so I can make sense of this.....