What if you right wingers got it all wrong? (ZOT!!! You’re crispy in your own private Idaho.)

[Fruit of the Spirit]

www.sojo.net

Budgets are moral documents: A campaign for compassionate priorities
by Jim Wallis 10-06-2005
While the nation is still stunned by the pictures we saw of thousands of people wandering homeless and hungry, wading through waste-deep water, or camping in stadiums turned into shelters, leading politicians in Washington are oblivious to everything but their ideological blinders.

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via email:

Let me tell you a few things about the wonderful group of evacuees we received here in Utah.  The first plane arrived with 152 passengers.  Of the 152; 10 were children.  3 of these children had been abandoned by their parents.  As these passengers attempted to board the plane, the National Guard removed from their person; 43 handguns (it is Illegal to own a Handgun in New Orleans), 20 knives, one man had 100,000 dollars in cash, 20 pounds of Marijuana, 10 pounds of Crack, 15 pounds of Methanphetamines, 10 pounds of various other controlled substances including Heroin. 
Upon their arrival here in SLC, two people immediately deplaned and lit up a joint.  During the course of medical evaluations, it was discovered that parents were using their kids to carry loads of looted jewelry (price tag still on), and other items.  One third of the people who got off the plane were angry that they didn't get to go to Houston or San Antonio.   Over the course of the next 36 hours we received an additional 430 evacuees.  Most of these, like their predecessors had to be relieved of illegal items.  Additionally, most of them, were the owners of exceptionally prolific criminal records, just like those in the first flight. 
By the second night in the shelter, there was one attempted rape of a relief worker, sales of drugs on going and a gang had begun to rebuild.  When the people arrived at the shelter, they were given the opportunity to dig through piles of donated clothes
from local church groups.  Many complained that they were second hand clothes. The state set up a reception center with relocation assistance, medicaid and workforce services among many assistance groups.  This past Saturday, workforce services held a job fair.  85 of the 582 evacuees attended.  44 were hired on the spot.  24 were asked back for a second
interview.  Guess the others had no desire to work. 
Yesterday we began relocating evacuees to be with family or friends who had agreed to take them in as well as three to the county jail.  Now in the health arena; 4 with Aids, 15% of those 582 had some form of STD, one case of TB, 2 Heroin withdrawals, 15 mental health admissions, one brain tumor and
15 nursing home patients.
Like everyone in this nation, I watched as the news media blasted FEMA and President Bush for the "poor response".
While everyone on TV saw nothing but people being let down by government, I saw people letting down people.  Who would have ever thought that we would reach a point in time that US citizens would lie around in piles of trash complaining that no one had come to pick them up out of it.  What ever happened to people pulling together to make their circumstance better? Why couldn't they get up and move on their own or at least just clean up the area where they had to wait for evacuation?  Why did they feel the need to take a crap in the aisle of the superdome? 
FEMA did not fail them.  FEMA is not a response agency.  State and local government is responsible for the first 72 hours.  But more important, we all have a responsibility to help ourselves and neighbors. Poverty is not an excuse to behave like animals.  Difficult situations are not an excuse to loot your neighbor 24 hours before the storm even hits.
I have always said New Orleans was a toilet; now everyone has proof that not only was it a toilet, but a toilet long overdue for a flush.

And I have more...

[Lijahsbubbe]

When I read FR I see a lot of people wallowing in vengeance. I see a lot of people glorifying and advocating for war. I see people consumed with bloodlust and calls for executions. I see a lot of people who seem to think Jesus was concerned only about sex. I see people who don't follow his teachings. I see people who are almost totally in opposition to the main teachings of Jesus<<

"I see Shapka and Bubbe and Thinkin' Gal and Darksheare and Slingsie and....>

[Slings and Arrows]

"Slingsie?!!!"

ROTFLOL!

[Lijahsbubbe]

You weren't called Slingsie as a kid? ;)

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Ha-ha!

I think I found a nickname for you.

*razz*

[Lijahsbubbe]

Aren't you a little too young to be familiar with the word 'razz'?

Or is it so old that it's new again?

[MHGinTN]

Wouldn't it be sooo nice to be sooo naive again?... Leave the child troll alone to stew in the lieberal soup.

[Slings and Arrows]

Feh. Could be worse.

[Spirited]

Good one. We know nothing about the balance of the person of God. And less about the fear of the Lord.

In spite of the fact that we remember that "His ways are not our ways" we still try to recreate HIm in our image and it is entirely a deception to do that.

When it comes to our enemies we bow to His requirements as to how to treat them, when we deal with His enemies it is entirely a different matter. Going to be a revelation to most church goers when the "judgin' time" comes.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

*Bookmarking for possible infiltration at a later date*

PWIC

[JLO]

"Thanks, but I was wondering if I made it. I never know for sure!!!"

The way I figure it, A.Hun, you are in before the zot - if the word zot hasn't been added to the title yet. If that's not correct, maybe someone else will say.

[Mr. Silverback]

I knew Campolo was trouble when I read an essay where he talked about asking himself "What would Jesus do?" during a draft board interview in the Korean War. He was convinced that Jesus would never fly a jet over a Communist positions and bomb the crud out of them.

So...
Men who hate God and will not listen to reason under any circumstances...
Desperate to enslave millions and impose godless darkness on them...
Who will only be stopped by force...

...and Campolo thinks that Jesus would judge a follower as an evil man if he did anything to protect the South Koreans in the one way available to protect them, if his response to "the least of these" with several Chinese divisons bearing down on them was, "Suck it up, I'm not lifting a finger."

By Campolo's logic (and Idaho's, presumably) Jesus wouldn't have gone ashore with a rifle at Omaha Beach, either. Additionally, Paul's discourse on the role of earthly governments in Romans 13 would have to be a full on load of bilge, and Martin Luther was scum because he said that the reason the prince has the sword is to protect his people.

Lefties are too busy trying to find anti-conservative content in the Bible to actually read the thing.

[Mr. Silverback]

By the way...could you explain calling Campolo a pantheist? I'm not familiar with that development.