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Steve Bensen, The Carpetbagger Report, November 14, 2007
Following up an item from last week, Georgia is in the midst of an awful drought, and state officials are running out of ideas to deal with the area’s water shortage. Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue (R) responded by organizing a multi-denominational prayer service, in which state officials and clergy would collectively ask The Man Upstairs to turn on the water works.
Bowing his head outside the Georgia Capitol on Tuesday, Gov. Sonny Perdue cut a newly repentant figure as he publicly prayed for rain to end the region’s historic drought.
“Oh father, we acknowledge our wastefulness,” Perdue said. “But we’re doing better. And I thought it was time to acknowledge that to the creator, the provider of water and land, and to tell him that we will do better.”
Yes, in the 21st century, we have a state’s chief executive bargaining with God for rain. (The governor didn’t say, “If you give us rain, we’ll be good,” but he came close.) Perdue implicitly conceded that the state has been negligent in its conservation efforts - his administration saw this coming, but decided not to pursue more stringent conservation measures - but apparently wants God to give Georgia another chance.
Perdue said after the event that Georgians have not done “all we could do in conservation” and that the drought was an attempt by God to “get our attention.”
Then we break into the rain dance
isn’t superstition wonderful?
Oh ye of little faith! We had a drought here in the Holy State of California and a raindance was organized - an American Indian rain dance. Yes.
Then it rained.
Coincidence?
You don’t know for sure do you.
Rained in Georgia last night…..
No it didn’t rain in Georgia
God p****d on Gov. Sonny Perdue and Perude calls it rain.
GH, it DID rain in GA! By now that may be the next day or somethin’ but it did rain. There would have been more rain had the American Indians been involved, and had all athiests been unceremoniously escorted to the LA border.