The Urban Elf

The monkey prince once again reaches for the opiate if the people to evade his own callousness and ineptitude. This time he blows soma up the ass of the American people by declaring today a national day of prayer. He puts forth that we must pray for the victims and survivors of hurricane Katrina as if it hadn’t already occurred to us. I’m quite sure that those who do pray have been. So once again the amoral disingenuous simpleton has delivered too little too late by trying to paint himself as the spiritual leader of a nation to cover his failures as the political, civil and military leader of that same nation.

But regardless of whether Junior thinks he’s making us do it or not, these people do need our prayers. Please bow your heads.

Oh (insert name of deity or deities here), we ask that you bring strength to the survivors of Hurricane Katrina. Please help them to rebuild homes lost because the government felt the levies were sufficient and Homeland Security needed the upgrade money more. Please help them to survive the rescue effort hindered and delayed for lack of National Guard personnel present on this soil because the president has sent so many of them to die in a war halfway around the world. Please help them to forgive the government for having no plans or resources for coping with a major natural disaster because it has been cutting the taxes of the rich while squandering the taxes paid by the rest of America on waging a war based on lies and terrifying Americans into submission with lies about terrorist boogiemen. Please give them the patience and charity not to kill every last Christianist extremist putting out press releases blaming them and their sinful ways for this horrific disaster that has taken the lives of so, so, many including children, the elderly, the infirm and the poor, people whom the Christians’ own holy book says were very dear to Jesus. And please, give them strength when a month or so down the road the President of the United States callously uses their suffering and personal tragedy as a cheap prop to justify waging war on a county that had nothing to do with it. And please help them to forgive the Republicans in Congress when they create a sham committee and cover it all up.

Amen.


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