Broomstick wrote:Wait, wait, wait! - didn't their God promise to never flood the world again, that it wouldn't be flood but fire the next time He got pissed?
The key, of course, being "the world" as in the entire world, global flood style. He's just not up for mass worldwide genocide until the end. It's down to a few dozen to a few thousand a disaster these days. What a nice guy.
He's flooded Eastern Australia as well. Naturally, us Australians are hanging around saying, "Well, serves us right for asking for rain but not specifying how much, nor how quickly."
The ABC wrote:
Massive floodwaters swept across parts of Australia's drought-parched southeast Friday, forcing hundreds of people to abandon their homes and businesses in the region's worst floods in almost 40 years.
Several rivers in the Gippsland region of southeastern Victoria state burst their banks late Thursday after two days of heavy rain inundated the region after months of severe drought.
Police helicopters airlifted around 100 people to safety from several flooded towns Thursday, and Victoria's Premier Steve Bracks warned residents downstream to brace for the onslaught Friday.
"There's a body of water that's coming," Bracks told the Nine television network, adding that the floods are the worst Victoria has seen in 37 years.
Television footage showed a mile-wide river of muddy floodwaters engulfing homes and leaving herds of cattle stranded in ankle-deep swamps.
Geoff Ponsford, a farmer from near Tinamba, had been wading in water up to his armpits to check on his neighbors when he realized he needed to evacuate and called police for a helicopter airlift.
"There was hardly a dry place any where. I was frozen. The lowest water was up to my knees," he told The Age newspaper.
More than 90 people were evacuated from the nearby dairy farming town of Newry, around 120 miles northeast of Melbourne, when the swollen Macalister River inundated the town.
Hundreds of displaced residents have fled to makeshift relief shelters, while the state and federal government have promised federal relief to help rebuild homes.
"I would say that the above post is off-topic, except that I'm not sure what the topic of this thread is, and I don't think anybody else is sure either."
- Darth Wong Free Durian - Last updated 27 Dec
"Why does it look like you are in China or something?" - havokeff
"Yeah, funny how that works - you giving hungry people food they vote for you. You give homeless people shelter they vote for you. You give the unemployed a job they vote for you.
Maybe if the conservative ideology put a roof overhead, food on the table, and employed the downtrodden the poor folk would be all for it, too". - Broomstick
So, if it's because of the "immorality and greed" of modern society, was he on vacation back during World War II with all the killing and torture and gassing of Jewish people for being Jewish.....oh wait, he DID most of that stuff.
There are three kinds of people who profit from death: morticians, lawyers, and priests.
You forgot "florists".
You have to realize that most Christian "moral values" behaviour is not really about "protecting" anyone; it's about their desire to send a continual stream of messages of condemnation towards people whose existence offends them. - Darth Wong alias Mike Wong
"There is nothing wrong with being ignorant. However, there is something very wrong with not choosing to exchange ignorance for knowledge when the opportunity presents itself."
