Sunday, August 31st, 2008

Dear God,

The other night, the Rev. James Dobson's ministry asked all believers to pray for a storm on Thursday night so that the Obama acceptance speech outdoors in Denver would have to be cancelled.

I see that You have answered Rev. Dobson's prayers -- except the storm You have sent to earth is not over Denver, but on its way to New Orleans! In fact, You have scheduled it to hit Louisiana at exactly the moment that George W. Bush is to deliver his speech at the Republican National Convention.

Now, heavenly Father, we all know You have a great sense of humor and impeccable timing. To send a hurricane on the third anniversary of the Katrina disaster AND right at the beginning of the Republican Convention was, at first blush, a stroke of divine irony. I don't blame You, I know You're angry that the Republicans tried to blame YOU for Katrina by calling it an "Act of God" -- when the truth was that the hurricane itself caused few casualties in New Orleans. Over a thousand people died because of the mistakes and neglect caused by humans, not You.

Some of us tried to help after Katrina hit, while Bush ate cake with McCain and twiddled his thumbs. I closed my office in New York and sent my entire staff down to New Orleans to help. I asked people on my website to contribute to the relief effort I organized -- and I ended up sending over two million dollars in donations, food, water, and supplies (collected from thousands of fans) to New Orleans while Bush's FEMA ice trucks were still driving around Maine three weeks later.

But this past Thursday night, the Washington Post reported that the Republicans had begun making plans to possibly postpone the convention. The AP had reported that there were no shelters set up in New Orleans for this storm, and that the levee repairs have not been adequate. In other words, as the great Ronald Reagan would say, "There you go again!"

So the last thing John McCain and the Republicans needed was to have a split-screen on TVs across America: one side with Bush and McCain partying in St. Paul, and on the other side of the screen, live footage of their Republican administration screwing up once again while New Orleans drowns.

So, yes, You have scared the Jesus, Mary and Joseph out of them, and more than a few million of your followers tip their hats to You.

But now it appears that You haven't been having just a little fun with Bush & Co. It appears that Hurricane Gustav is truly heading to New Orleans and the Gulf coast. We hear You, O Lord, loud and clear, just as we did when Rev. Falwell said You made 9/11 happen because of all those gays and abortions. We beseech You, O Merciful One, not to punish us again as Pat Robertson said You did by giving us Katrina because of America's "wholesale slaughter of unborn children." His sentiments were echoed by other Republicans in 2005.

So this is my plea to you: Don't do this to Louisiana again. The Republicans got your message. They are scrambling and doing the best they can to get planes, trains and buses to New Orleans so that everyone can get out. They haven't sent the entire Louisiana National Guard to Iraq this time -- they are already patrolling the city streets. And, in a nod to I don't know what, Bush's head of FEMA has named a man to help manage the federal government's response. His name is W. Michael Moore. I kid you not, heavenly Father. They have sent a man with both my name AND W's to help save the Gulf Coast.

So please God, let the storm die out at sea. It's done enough damage already. If you do this one favor for me, I promise not to invoke your name again. I'll leave that to the followers of Rev. Dobson and to those gathering this week in St. Paul.

Your faithful servant and former seminarian,

Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
MichaelMoore.com

P.S. To all of God's fellow children who are reading this, the city New Orleans has not yet recovered from Katrina. Please click here for a list of things you can do to help our brothers and sisters on the Gulf Coast. And, if you do live along the Gulf Coast, please take all necessary safety precautions immediately.

Go Michael;

One thing that I am sure of is the importance of a sense of humor. This is very on the button, when I first saw the reference to the prayer for a strom to hit the democratic convention I intuited that something like this could well happen. The creator has a wonderful sense of the ironic as well as the iconic, such is the nature of the holy-gramm in this wholly graphic uni verse (one song)

Ultimately (IMHO) the choice facing Amerika at this time is tweedle dumb and teedle dumber and we are called to move beyond politics in these times. The same could be said for our choices here too.

Dont wait, move now through the "I" of the needle and embody the full "I AM" presence of our sovereign integrity.

It appears the same energetix of revelation are happening here in Godzone too. Looks like the Helen may have been caught with her pants down; Winstone was the King (or is that Queen) maker and so he is the one to bring the full house of deception into the open as well. Wonderful how the unconscious works in support of the evolving collective is it not.

As an American, I certainly appreciate the fact that Michael Moore spoke his mind (and continues to do so over and over again). But I have to say that nothing can ruin a great evening of spiritual insight than to "accidentally" turn to CNN and get sucked in to the little game of "look-what-they-did" politicians love to play.

The truth is, come next month, we get to choose who we want to run this country and it is ultimately becoming pick-the-lesser-of-two-evils. But isn't some so-called "evil' necessary? Without distruction how would we appreciate all the beauty in life?

People (American citizens) want to complain about raising taxes- well yes, this is "the land of opportunity" but we never said it is a free opportunity. Here we love hard, we fight hard, we play hard, we make wild passionate love, and we expect protection from our government when we are in need (does $700 billion bail-out ring a bell?). Well where does all that $$$ come from? uh...taxes! we pay for our great opportunities and when we need it, it's there for us. Love it or leave it.

OK sorry I went off on a tangit...election time is a very turbullant time for me...lol.