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Posted on 09/05/2004 10:03:34 PM PDT by RightOnTheLeftCoast
I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa, I find myself longing for it to become big and strong--Mother Nature's fist of fury, Gaia's stern rebuke. Considering the havoc mankind has wreaked upon nature with deforesting, stripmining, and the destruction of animal habitat, it only seems fair that nature get some of its own back and teach us that there are forces greater than our own. Sure, a hearty volcano can be enjoyable. Burning rivers of lava: so picturesque. But a volcano is stationary, like Dennis Hastert after a big lunch. It doesn't offer the same dramatic suspense. Hurricanes are in unpredictable flux. They move, change direction, strengthen, weaken, lose an eyewall, repair an eyewall; they seem to have volition and opera-diva personalities.
So there's something disappointing when a hurricane doesn't make landfall, or peters out into a puny Category One. Reporters and weather announcers may profess relief and gratitude that residents were spared the full unleashing of the vortex, but their coverage belies this. They love having reporters shouting into microphones on rain-lashed beaches as the stray yacht gets flung around like a bath toy. The helicopter shots of rows of mobile rooms smashed as if stomped on by a giant boot are money shots to the news networks.
Hurricane Frances also has a heraldic quality. Camille Paglia observed on Salon in February, 2003 that the explosion of the Columbia shuttle on the eve of the war on Iraq was a "stunning omen," one that would make a Roman general think twice. A catastrophe strewing death, fire, and human remains across Bush's home state of Texas was inauspicious to our undertaking; and so it has proven to be. Frances is the second hurricane to afflict Florida, home of brother Jeb, in rapid succession.
The gods are not pleased.
Leftists have along history of in-humanitarianism. Their arrogance results in the delusion that they are superior to other people. This has enabled them to kill the unborn and to kill hundreds of millions of people in their socialist "utopias" (Soviet Union, Red China, Cuba, Cambodia, Viet Nam, etc.) Workers of the World Unite to die! They pretend to love humanity when in truth they hate it.
James Wolcott - shut your piehole.
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Behold the inherent genocidal hatred and all-around nihilism of the Leftists. This is why they champion terrorists and other godless criminals in their assault on civilized society.
He's just having his little liberal temper-tantrum with lotsa kicking to the left.
wow, this Giai is angry at both Jeb Bush and Mandela.
Whatta maroon! Reminds me of the folks in the Tom Clancy novel, "Rainbow Six". Eco freaks!
Need to open a can of 'cane whoop-a_s on this dum-a_s.
You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains.
Presented to us is the mind of a blood and soil cultist. He should have been born in Germany 100 years ago where he would have found like-minded fellow travellers in Hitler's socialist party of brutish Teutonic nature worshippers.
Paraphrasing the author: "I'm very glad when hurricanes happen and people get hurt, property destroyed. I was raised by Mommie Dearest, she taught me well."
The liberals most fervent prayer, "Gott strafe die Vereinigen Staten!"
"Leftists have a long history..."
I actually knew this guy back in the '70s when he wrote tv reviews for the Village Voice. He was about as far from a leftie as I can remember. Then twenty years later he began writing for Vanity Fair and he's became a whacked-out Bush hater. This must have something to do with being invited to chic parties in Soho & the upper West Side.
I used to read him in the Voice years ago. He became more and more politically in line with the Leftist Voice mentality. Maybe he figured being a true-believer was better for his career.
I agree with you. It's a pity because he's a good writer - especially on pop culture and literature. But he was always a careerist: with the results we see now.
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