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to see the helicopters and troops on the move yet to the area where the storm will hit...  Its better to come in after it has hit with the supplies and equipment than it is to sit through the storm and risk damage to the supplies and equipment.  They have 3 days to get there, because everyone should know by now to pack supplies for 3 days..

is the time frame. New Orleans had about 36 hours to prepare since Katrina veered west from its initial expected path that had it aiming at Panama City. Texas has had all week to get ready. Of course, if Rita veers off too, that could create a new problem in the future with people thinking in future hurricane crises, "Oh, it will just turn aside; they're never right about these things:" and then waiting until the last minute to prepare or evacuate.

the storm has hit, when people still have services, food, water, and law enforcement is still operative?  As I understand it, the looting and violence didn't begin until a couple of days after Katrina had passed, when resources began to dwindle and water was on the rise.  Correct me if I'm wrong.

  Yes Rita has not yet hit, and yes we should not expect helicopters and national guardsmen yet, and yes Rita comes AFTER the hard lessions of Katrina in New Orleans ... but nevertheless, I think Michelle Malkin has a point to be made.

  I find it VERY interesting that Katrina hit at EXACTLY the time planned for the celebration of "Southern Decadence".  The fact that the mayor of New Orleans and the people of that city did not reject (in fact, encouraged & embraced!) that celebration as morally wrong speaks volumes.  For those of you unfamiliar with "Southern Decadence", I suggest a "Google search".

  In short, New Orleans may have been closer to Sodom & Gomorrah.  But, I fear, the rest of the USA is not too far behind New Orleans.

  Tell me:  Does TX also celebrate "Southern Decadence?"

Re:  I find it VERY interesting that Katrina hit at EXACTLY the time planned for the celebration of "Southern Decadence".

Actually it hit a week earlier. Southern Decadence was planned for Labor Day.

It hit at 2 days before the time of the planned "Southern Decadence" (see http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46076 ).  The celebration then had to be postponed a bit due to Katrina.

was an event planned for Labor Day weekend. The hurricane struck the Sunday-Monday before that weekend. That is not, by any stretch of the imagination, "exactly"-- or, in your words "EXACTLY".

Meanwhile, if you're interested in coincidences, Hurricane Charley hit Orlando last year, not during Gay Days as Pat Robertson once prophesied, but during a Promise Keepers convention.

But the implication of your original post is theologically unsound (if you are trying to imply tha God had anything to do with this or any hurricane) and rather offensive to the Christian faith. The Christian God is not some incompetent and capricious pagan godlet who murders great masses of people (children and devout Christians among them) over hundreds of square miles in a fit of pique over the localized antics of a disfavored minority. That sounds like something out of Homer, at best.  No, hurricanes are natural and random events, and if there is a moral lesson to be learned it is the lesson of our own limitedness and of the need for charity and mercy and humility in the face of mindless powers that reck nothing of us, for we are not the lords of creation after all.

promise not to send disasters such as this after the great flood?  It's both embarrassing and counter-productive to Republican thought to engage in these sorts of speculations.  I would also have to wonder about a God who thinks it more fitting to send a disaster for something as trivial as a gay pride parade, rather than something like the holocaust or the genocide in Rwanda.  It seems to me that such a God would have his priorities in the wrong place.

read "According to Scripture, doesn't God explicitly promise..."  Of course, God is God and can do what he likes, but it would be surprising for a perfect being to break his promises in such a way.

Yes hurricanes are natural events, but all must fall under at least the premissive will of God.  God could avert a disaster (if He would so chose), but at time He permits disasters to happen often for some unknown greated good.  The fact that God would allow the greatest natural disater in the USA to coincide with "Southern Decadence" needs to be adderssed.

I'd note that what God promised was no more Floods.

The LORD smelled the soothing aroma; and the LORD said to Himself, "I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man's heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done.

         "While the earth remains,

         Seedtime and harvest,

         And cold and heat,

         And (R)summer and winter,

         And (S)day and night

         Shall not cease."

Genesis 8:21-22.

what you disagree with in my interpretation.

Thanks

The predicate one. I'm not into the whole God-smiting-us-here-on-Earth-for-the-acts-of-a-few. But I'm Catholic, so thereyago.

but often there is looting after people start fleeing.  The few who stay behind can break into businesses and homes without the worry that people will be there.  That is the type of premediated looting that really bugs people.

Right on the money. I'm attached to the 1st Air Cav Brigade out of Ft Hood. We were put on standby for any relief efforts on Wednesday, but aren't scheduled to deploy anywhere till Sunday.

In the meantime, we've been gathering all our equipment and testing it, checking it, and inspecting it. And then testing it one more time. My bags are already packed and by the door.

And I know it's terrible to say it, but I'm kinda looking forward to it. Something to break up the routine, at least.