I usually don’t bother with the lefty blogs like TP. Even when they run head-slappers like the claim that “Obama fan” is a racial slur (at least when Trump uses it). But this time they’ve made it personal. The article is bad enough; some of the comments attached to it border on the unspeakable.

I have many co-workers in Birmingham. Thank God, as far as I’ve heard, they’re all unhurt, but that office is all but closed today as many of them are picking up the pieces of their lives.

FU, TP. From the bottom of my heart, FU.

http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2011/04/sick-think-progress-exploits-tornado.html

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jDsNCaqOeoOALM8YxmGKwkcfKN1Q?docId=CNG.884a11613242c5f5776f856c69831f72.aa1

Craig Fugate, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), also dismissed Thursday climate change as a factor in the deadly tornadoes: “Actually what we’re seeing is springtime,” he said.

The southern states ravaged by tornadoes have large black populations. In the spirit of the odd left-wing habit of calling everything involving even a single black person racist, this makes Think Progress nothing but a bunch of ignorant knuckle-dragging racist rednecks. So Think Progress, when’s the next Klan meeting?

There’s not much of a comment I can leave. If I shared my true thoughts on TP, I would be banned from posting forever.

known to be a danger in the springtime. Now I am supposed to believe that it is global warming.

200-300 years ago when the land was not affected by as many fossil fuels, did they have no tornados?

I heard earlier this week a local radio DJ also attributing the tornados to “climate change”. he said that calling it a global warming was a terrible mistake. He made fun of people who do not believe in global warming, before trashing Haley Barbour. This is the same DJ that I heard on another occasion referring to a caller as a guy who beats his wife, because the caller was defending Rush Limbaugh.

[...since it's the Democrats who like to make jokes about hurricanes endangering people. - ML]

What’s really depressing is all the commenters afterward jumping on like hyenas on a carcass.

. . .is all that is left after what passed for their personal philosophy has been washed away by Reality. We really haven’t yet begun to touch upon just what the epic failure of Barrack Obama actually means to the sort of people here described. It is as though their Christ figure returned, set up the Day of Judgment, yet it all fell to pieces before their eyes.

But hate will always remain, so long as they bitterly cling (heh) to the remnants of what they thought was true.

of the new tone and era of civility that “the one” has brought us.

he should come on down off his perch and see what’s going on in Tuscaloosa, Pleasant Grove, Concord, Hackleburg, and other areas in Alabama that have been decimated by the tornado less than 48 hours ago. My husband and other family members have been in Tuscaloosa working all day. He said church members are everywhere. The response teams, utility teams, neighbors, churches, students and strangers are doing an amazing job. The devastation is unbelievable, but neighbors are helping people pick themselves up. Donation centers have sprung up at many small businesses and in the homes of regular folks. About 15 guys from local churches took their grills to Tuscaloosa yesterday, bought all the meat Sam’s had, and cooked it for the relief workers and victims. The volunteers are organized, and the local officials have been calm, informative and responsive. In Tuscaloosa alone, they estimate that 45 were killed, almost 1,000 were injured, and around 400 are still missing (although some may have been found and not reported as such and some may have been reported as missing more than once), The building that housed the EMT’s was destroyed, as were most of their sanitation vehicles which severely hampered the rescue operations. But help has come from all over the state as well as surrounding states. Most of the areas hit were poor or middle class. Entire neighborhoods are just gone. That means the local grocery or restaurant that’s been around for years, and there’s nobody left to rebuild. My husband’s childhood home was leveled to the ground – nothing left but the red brick floor in what was their den and the concrete slab. Most of the houses in that neighborhood are beyond restoration. An entire line of businesses was wiped out. Apartment complexes gone. One friend lost both parents. A 7 month old lost her mother. A mother & father in Dallas couldn’t reach their daughter (a student at UofA) and took the first flight here to find out she was one of 2 students killed. People haven’t had time to take a breath and grieve because there’s work to be done. Brad Johnson should have to live the nightmare of parents who couldn’t get in touch with their kids on campus because power was out, no internet service and cell towers were so overloaded that calls were dropped or routed to strangers. Some were lucky enough to get text messages through, but not all. Several friends picked up debris in their yards that had blown in from almost 80 miles away. I know I’m rambling a bit, but the pictures and videos just cannot convey the absolute horror of what has happened. We knew our son was okay through a text, but the relief first at hearing his voice yesterday when he finally got an actual call through and then at touching his face when he got home from campus early this morning is still overwhelming. I weep for those who are grieving. Much like the good people in Nashville after the flood, we are taking care of our own with help from our friends and neighbors. There has been little crime and people are obeying the curfew imposed for safety reasons. We will prevail. If you haven’t yet seen a video of the tornado, here’s a link.

http://youtu.be/5ohIVzIZLuQ

I live in Oklahoma and I can tell you that tornados have zero to do with global warming and everything to do with Spring-time around here. We just tune into the weather and keep our plan of action in the back of our minds.

I still remember the May 3rd tornado that hit a metropolitan area around here when I was younger. It was an F5 and obliterated everything. It was by the grace of God and our excellent meterologists that more people were not killed.

I am praying for those in the South right now. It saddens me that so many people lost their lives.

and let me say something…..Most people here in Alabama care for their GOD given land and resources more than anyone could imagine. They do believe that what God gave us should be taken care of and toiled.
Just because our legislators were smart enough not to let the government shove some controlling “green” legislation down our throats, we’re “mother earth haters”??? Puh-leeze.

These people are always looking for someone to hate because they are HATEFUL. Nothing else to say.

I am praying for those affected.

Both of my parents grew up in AL, so I have LOTS of relatives there, including a 1st cousin from Pleasant Grove who lost her house and both cars. (no one got hurt as their familiy survived in their finished basement–everything above the basement is gone)

From my limited human perspective–I wish I could wave a magic wand and make this to not ever have occured. But God has a plan and he sees a bigger picture… and God uses tragedy like this to accomplish many things that we can’t understand this side of heaven.

Ironically, “Think Progress” probably denies the existance of God due to being philosophical materialists–that all there is ONLY what we can see and touch. Yet they are probably too dumb to see the incredible inconsistancy between believing that on the one hand–and yet assigning mother earth the ability have some kind of conscious thoughts such that Gaia could read the minds of southerners and then punish them for being politicaly incorrect. Believe in Jesus and your might as well believe in the Easter Bunny… but yet Gaia suddenly has God-like powers and intelligence and thoughtful actions! Inconsistancy? Nahhhh. Of course not!

Here is my mesage to Think Progress… guess what, AL will bounce back using insurance mony funded largely by liberals from liberal states… paying mostly AL-based & Southeastern-based companies for the goods and labor… which will help employment and keep that money paying dividends in the South. Again, I prefer that this not have happened, given the suffering and loss of life.

But that is a silver lining! In the near future, AL might be all the economically stronger for it.

This might not be quite the punishment you were hoping for!

As I drove to church this morning, listening to the 24/7 radio coverage of the recovery efforts, it occurred to me that Alabama has heard nothing from Hollywood, and as far as I know, Anderson hasn’t been on the ground anywhere near us. Just when I think I’ve heard the worst, somebody tells us about the many children taken to our local children’s hospital – we don’t know who their parents are or if they’re still alive. There are parents who still can’t find their kids. Another story from the mother of a 23 year old student who was killed along with his 2 roommates, also students. The rejoicing to hear that workers had found survivors in the rubble, only to cry again when reports came in that it wasn’t the case. Are our residents, many of whom, indeed probably the vast majority of whom are poor and, less valuable than the people of Haiti or Japan? I heard someone say that Alabama just isn’t “cool” like New Orleans. Sean & Brad, can’t you hear us? The death toll has now risen to over 300. Fellow church members this morning shared their stories of helping grateful strangers, lost loved ones, teaching moments with their children, and I realized why we don’t need Hollywood or Anderson. Walt Maddox, the Mayor of Tuscaloosa, said it best in an interview with John Roberts of Fox News, yesterday. He said that the people of Alabama will get through this because of our faith and that Tuscaloosa would be a shining city of how to survive, that we are one people, with one God. That a tornado may take our homes and some lives, but it can’t take our souls. We have faith, and it is that faith that will get us through. Churches throughout are donating their contributions to the effort. Some congregations met this morning and worshiped as they stood on the ground where their buildings once stood.

Once the emotions settle down, I will try to write a better diary of the events and my thoughts, but some here at redstate have asked for updates.

For anyone who wants to help, here is a website providing many avenues of doing so.

http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2011/04/alabama_tornadoes_how_you_can.html#incart_hbx