Katrina was a "Payback from God", says Mayor; calls for 'chocolate city'

[Bluebear]

:crazy:

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 16 -- Mayor C. Ray Nagin suggested Monday that hurricanes Katrina and Rita and other storms were a sign that "God is mad at America" -- and at black communities, too, for tearing themselves apart with violence and political infighting.

"Surely God is mad at America. He sent us hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it's destroyed and put stress on this country," Nagin said as he and other city leaders marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

"Surely he doesn't approve of us being in Iraq under false pretenses. But surely he is upset at black America also. We're not taking care of ourselves."

Nagin, who is African American, also promised that New Orleans will be a "chocolate" city again. Many of the city's black neighborhoods were heavily damaged by Katrina.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/16/AR2006011600925.html

[yodermon]

1. .

:popcorn:

[Surya Gayatri]

2. Wow, he's sounding alarmingly

like the insane Rev. Robertson--God's punishment? What's he been drinking? SG

[quiet.american]

3. Sigh....

.... And here I was thinking Bush cutting off funding for the levees, sitting on dire flood predictions for New Orleans, and appointing "Margaritaville" Brownie had something to do with the horror in the Big Easy.... silly me. :eyes:

[Crunchy Frog]

4. Maybe God is mad at America

for spewing so much CO2 into the atmosphere. Maybe he's punishing us by sending us all these hurricanes for putting out all those greenhouse gases and raising the Earth's temperature. That idea makes a little more sense to me.

[sabra]

5. Nagin apologies, explains

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2047122

[FyurFly]

6. Nagin is a jackass N/T

[hatrack]

7. STOP INVOKING GOD!! Just STOP IT!!!

It's a seasonal redistribution of heat from the equator to the temperate zones. STOP INJECTING DEITIES INTO THE PROCESS.

[FyurFly]

9. I agree

It's not god that's angry, it's mother nature for poisoning the planet!

[donheld]

8. 'chocolate city' I thought that was Hershey PA