Predicting Katrina + Laying Blame...

A few things about Katrina I feel compelled to comment on:

If you read this October, 2004 article in National Geographic, you'll see that there were people who saw it coming: "The Federal Emergency Management Agency lists a hurricane strike on New Orleans as one of the most dire threats to the nation, up there with a large earthquake in California or a terrorist attack on New York City." I guess seeing it coming and being prepared for it are two different issues...

If you wonder WHY Katrina happened, you don't need to look far (what follows are my thoughts on and some information derived from a Washington post article by Alan Cooperman, titled "Where most see a weather system, some see divine retribution" Page A27, September 04, 2005. The shitty writing is mine [Mr. Cooperman's article is well written and worth the time to sign in on the Post's web site]):

Some dude named Steve Lefemine notes that Katrina is due to abortion being allowed in the United States (in fact he "sees" a fetus in the satellite photos of Katrina). But of course, he could be wrong, because...

A Kuwaiti newspaper quotes someone worth quoting (I guess...) as stating Katrina is a terrorist working for Allah. But of course, he could be wrong, because...

A journalist in Israel points out that it is time for God to stop protecting the U.S. just as the U.S. left Israel vulnerable. But of course, he could be wrong, because...

A fine fellow citizen points out that it CANNOT be a coincidence that Katrina hit the day 125,000 gays and lesbians were going to be in the French Quarter.

Might as well add my own! I think it was the God of hangovers who punished Bourbon St. for what its "hurricanes" did to me several years ago. The God of hangovers does NOT like sweet drinks with high EtOH content and hell hath no fury like a pissed off HangOver God.

So who did it? The Old testament God? Allah? Jesus? Predictable weather patterns which guaranteed that a Katrina would happen at some point to this poorly located and designed city?

If you are going to use anything as an explanatory construct, please DO make falsifable predictions and account for the extant data better than any other theory. Please predict where the next horrific event will happen and why will it occur. Can your predictions be specific enough that they allow us to know it is YOUR God and YOUR reason that something happens? Explain and predict things better than, in this case, meteorologists, urban planners, geologists, etc?

It just kills me that these horrific events took the lives of innocent people and now people want to ascribe this is the planned, purposeful actions of a supreme being. If your God goes out of his or her way to kill toddlers, say, just because a man happens to want to kiss another man, you can keep said God.