The Attack of the Six Week Fetuses

I was wondering last night who would be the first wingnut lunatic to blame the residents of the Gulf Shores for the devastation that hurricane Katrina brought, and how they would spin their lunacy. These things keep my awake at night, you know.

And today my question was answered!

Two days after 9/11, Jerry Falwell took to the airwaves to proclaim
that God had allowed the United States to be attacked because "the
pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the
lesbians" had tried to transform America into a secular society. Just
this weekend, wingnuts from the Westboro Baptist Church turned out at
the funerals of two fallen soldiers to say that God is punishing the
United States in Iraq for its tolerance of homosexuality back home.

So when Hurricane Katrina hit land yesterday, we knew it was only a matter
of time before we'd be hearing from the lunatic fringe again. And now, here
it is. In an e-mail message we just received, a group calling itself
Columbia Christians for Life alerts us to the fact that a satellite image
of Hurricane Katrina as it hit the Gulf Coast Monday looks just like a
six-week-old fetus.

Here's an excerpt from their email message:

"The image of the hurricane ... with its eye already ashore at 12:32 p.m. Monday, August 29, looks like a fetus (unborn human baby) facing to the left (west) in the womb, in the early weeks of gestation (approx. 6 weeks)," the e-mail message says. "Even the orange color of the image is reminiscent of a commonly used pro-life picture of early prenatal development."



...or perhaps reminiscent of a radar image of heavy rainfall associated with a dBZ value between 45 and 50.

Check out Pandagon's nice list of suggestions for aspiring wingnuts of things to blame innocent people for.