Okay, God, A Little to the North and Down About 200 Feet.
Lightning struck the state Capitol early Thursday morning, knocking out power in some places. State troopers were posted outside to make sure employees could get in after some key-card readers stopped working.
I’d be willing to bet my best pair of pink boots that God was aiming for Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick but that little sucker slithered away before the bolt hit the ground.
Just to be safe, I wouldn’t stand anywhere near Patrick without a lightning rod on my head.
Start a rumor that god is Obama’s enforcer and wingnuts better STFU and wriggle back into their burrows for the next decade or two.
1Whoever is in charge of that lightning has bad aim… like the one who tried to flood New Orleans to punish the gays and ended up killing a bunch of poor people, most of whom were probably not gay. (Was a bit premature with the great San Francisco earthquake too.)
2Damn, this brings back a heck of a giggle. There is a fire and brimstone Baptist church in my area that got struck by lightening right smack in the midpoint of the roof one day — and it wasn’t even raining. That came later. The preacher had an acute case of chronic embarrassment as a result.
3As one of God’s “chosen people,” an appointment I declined soon after arriving at the boyhood age of reason, people similar to Dan Patrick and the other thumpers amaze me.
Number whatever on their hit parade of Top Ten is: “Thou shalt not kill.” Amazingly, the most “devout” of the pack can harmonize that with war, the death penalty and their ultimate Sky Puppy, sender of lightning, pestilence and Apocalypse.
Let’s call it a draw, Mom. You and Dad didn’t want me to read comics; too much fantasy. That’s fair. Jane and I promise to protect any children we have from the Torah and the Bible.
If only our US Congress and state legislatures would arrive at a similar sane compromise. Compromise is the wrong word, when separation of church and state is fundamental to the US Constitution. How do we convince the true “believers” that they are free to worship snakes, bite snakes and sell snake oil? But, (there’s always a but) they must respect our right not to buy the product.
4The lightning bolt didn’t want to hit Patrick. Neither would I.
5Ain’t all Texans sniffed barbequed pig. Why should a lightning bolt be redundant?
6Yikes.
7When my husband told me about this earlier, I said sounds like a direct message from God.
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