You know, a couple of days after the health care bill had been signed into law Obama ran around all over the country saying, "Hey, you know, I'm looking around. The earth hadn't opened up. There's no Armageddon out there. The birds are still chirping." I think the earth has opened up. God may have replied. This volcano in Iceland has grounded more airplanes -- airspace has more affected -- than even after 9/11 because of this plume, because of this ash cloud over Northern and Western Europe. At the Paris airport they're telling people to head to the train station to catch trains out of France, and when people get to the train station they're telling people, "There aren't any seats until at least April 22nd," basically a week from now. It's got everybody in a shutdown. Earth has opened up. I don't know whether it's a rebirth or Armageddon. Hopefully it's a rebirth, God speaking.
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So wait,
With other words, in your opinion other countries get punished for things happening within the USA?
Well, while this version of "godly justice" would definitely be consistent with the bible (there are lots of cases in the bible of innocents getting punished for things other people do) you would ask if you really think that a god who uses such a version of "justice" would be worth getting worshipped
So God decides to punish teh eebil liberul elites in Washington by having a volcano affect the travel industry and economy on an entirely different continent?
Better yet, he sends tornadoes to destroy towns and homes in Mississippi, in the midst of his beloved Bible Belt....
God has really poor aim, them. Why not open the earth in DC, perhaps swallowing the White House? Why do it in some other, unrelated country, making it look like a coincidence? Is he just passive-aggressive?
So the health care bill in the US, that's similar to something the Republitards tried to push through many years ago, caused a VOLCANO in ICELAND to erupt, which then blew ash all over North-western EUROPE which had nothing to do with anything at all? That is basically what he's saying right? Medical care causes volcano eruptions? I must be missing something here, but what? No, no, no. This doesn't just make no sense, it actually makes negative sense if such a thing is possible. Isn't this Rush Limbaugh guy fairly well known? Why has he not been euthanised and turned into glue or something else useful by now instead of the waste of resources that he currently is?
Sure, God did open up the Earth and grounded every airplane in Europe. But then he changed his mind and turned the clouds of ash to clouds of steam instead.
Btw, the eruption started in the end of 2009.
It seems God is less pissed now than when Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 AD.
We have notice nothing, apart from the closed airports, and we're about as close to Iceland as New York is to Dallas.
Edit. Sorry, we have noticed something: there's a shortage of HTC Desire phones as they haven't been able to transport them here.
Or, just as something to think about, its a fucking volcano erupting. from what I understand, the Earth doesn't give a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut what we're doing. It's going to do what it does, whenever it wants to do it.
"OH NOES! GODDIDIT!!"
God delays planes in Europe because the USA passes a health care bill? Did he cause the Chinese earthquake because of Obama, too? Is he ignoring, say the illegal government and redshirt riots in Thailand and so forth because he doesn't care what happens in countries that don't contain Rush Limbaugh?
@Swede
It seems God is less pissed now than when Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 AD.
Wow, I'm shocked to see this was spewed by good ol' Rush. I was thinking "typical fundie" as I was reading but, to my utter surprise and amazement, this 100% grade-A bullshit was concocted by the Big Man himself. Bravo, Rush, bravo for the best laugh I've read yet today.
So...America gets Health Care (I seem to recall some Jewish Hippie being fond of healing for free, now that I think about it, BTW) and God makes a volcano in Iceland go boom.
Good to see his aim is improving.
Rush, most of your listening audience has likely never heard of Iceland and couldn't find Europe, western or otherwise, on a map of Europe.
Stop pandering to the ignorant.
Because it's not like volcanoes aren't a natural part of our planet's geological activity or anything that erupt all the time.
Also why is God punishing the wrong continent?
Why is god sending tornadoes to the Bible belt for that matter?
YOU'RE SENDING MIXED SIGNALS, GOD.
I've always thought that God had a bad aim and a poor sense of judgment. For instance, His Catholic Church has spent centuries being nasty to humanity and abusive to His children and so He punishes it by making it wealthier and wealthier as the years roll by. That's very poor judgment.
I never acknowledge His existence , or the existence of any other deities for that matter, and He makes earthquakes to try and punish me. But He always misses me and seems consistently to hit places in Asia instead. That's a very poor aim.
I knew Rush Limbaugh had fried his brains a long time ago. This simply confirms it.
"You know, a couple of days after the health care bill had been signed into law Obama ran around all over the country saying, "Hey, you know, I'm looking around. The earth hadn't opened up. There's no Armageddon out there. The birds are still chirping." I think the earth has opened up. God may have replied. This volcano in Iceland has grounded more airplanes"
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We in the UK have had the National Health Service since the late 1940s. We're still here.
Americentric much, Rush? Just like the Tsunami in the Far East was due to homosexuality in Europe, eh? Your 'God' must be a fucking awful shot when it comes to his wrath.
Or he doesn't fucking exist. And shit happens anyway.
But then, the 'opinions' of a hypocritical prescription drug addict aren't worth shit.
Yeah 'cause this is the first time in the history of the earth that a volcano has EVER erupted. The world is not coming to an end because a few travelers have been inconvenienced.
I strongly suggest you research Vesuvius. Not only did it wipe out 2 cities, it altered weather patterns for decades to come. Mt. St. Helen altered weather patterns for several years after eruption and that was just a baby volcano. Some volcanic eruptions have wiped out entire civilizations.
PS Perhaps god should try the burning bush thing again eh? He's just not getting his message across with the clarity he used to.
But one volcano affecting Europe is not the same as the end of the world, unless you're an extreme Eurocentrist. Furthermore, one volcano erupting and causing bad flight conditions is nothing unusual; the only unusual thing about it is which volcano erupted. Furthermore, we KNEW that this mountain was a volcano ALREADY. So it's not like a volcanic eruption happened out of NOWHERE. There's ALSO the fact that volcanoes can be FAR more dangerous than this when they erupt. This didn't hurt anybody, it was just really fucking inconvenient for everybody.
Oh wait, Rush Limbaugh, right.
@Sisyphus
That being said, a bird could have shit on his window a week after the fact, and it would have been an undeniable sign from God.
Ok, and one week and the problem is over. And anyway, why in Iceland, where they have free healthcare for millenia?. Please, United States is not the centre of the Universe.
Because Europe should be punished for U.S. healthcare....
yeah, that makes a lot of sense
Mr. Limbaugh your a fucktard.
Wait what Rush? Not being able to fly in Europe = the end of the world? God smites another country for our Healthcare plan? (Nevermind that's contrary to the central message of Christ's sacrifice.)
I mean, I could see how it would be the end of "your" world if you couldn't fly to Haiti with your Viagra for some underage sex, but Iceland's pretty far from both Haiti and the US.
Edited to add: I suppose the erruption of Mt. Saint Helens was God's response to Regan's election?
You know, a couple of days after the health care bill had been signed into law Obama ran around all over the country saying, "Hey, you know, I'm looking around. The earth hadn't opened up. There's no Armageddon out there. The birds are still chirping." But all the rednecks in the Bible Belt ran around wringing their hands and whining about the end of America as we know it. They said "what would Jesus do? Darn right. He'd have told the families of those dead people, "no health insurance? Tough shit. You should have thought of that before he died. What? You want me to bring him back to life for free ? Waddaya, some bleeding heart socialist?"
But now I think God may have replied. He sent tornadoes throughout the Bible Belt, killing at least 12 people and completely destroying at least one fundamentalist Baptist church. But fundies always find a way to rationalize things. When the volcano in Iceland grounded air travel for a few days, right wing buffoons like Rush Limbaugh claimed that God, in His typical "randomly punish somebody else" fashion, stranded the British, French and Scandinavians to punish the US for passing health care legislation. But meanwhile in Mississippi, one guy, whose church was destroyed said "I was praying," he said. "It's just like he put his arms around me, and that table and sheltered me from that storm." Yeah, but didn't you notice He destroyed your church and most of the rest of your town, nitwit?
Seems to me Rush is being a lot like that Ayatollah in the previous quote.
Muslim cleric: "Ladies wearing clothing that doesn't cover them up completely is causing EARTHQUAKES!!"
Blithering idiots, all of them. And there are people who actually believe this retarded garbage?
Rush is actually claiming that the volcano is God's response to passing the health care bill? Does he even listen to himself? Once again God's aim is terrible, because instead of making a volcano erupt in the United States, he hits a different country. But at least he hit planet Earth. These people probably think God made that comet hit Jupiter a few years back for something a few humans on earth did.
> Earth has opened up. I don't know whether it's a rebirth or Armageddon.
It's Iceland. The whole country is made of volcanic rock and is full of volcanoes. Because it's in middle of the mid-Atlantic tectonic boundary. DUH.
I'm in Finland and my Nordic languages are a bit rusty, but I think Icelanders call this situation "Bísnés æs usuàl, nøþíng tø wørí æbaut!"
Okay, so god punished the gays with Katrina but managed to completely miss the gayest part of town, punished Haitians for making a deal with the devil but punished the wrong generation, and now punished the US by making a volcano erupt in Europe. Can we declare him legally blind already and have him retire on disability?
If He really want to punish the USA for providing for those without, He could have easily enough. The Aleuthians are an island arc, and the Cascades are on top of a subduction zone. He could have a volcano in either of those places erupt, and send ash torard the West Coast or across the Pacific Northwest. Closing down SeaTac, SFO, and LAX would bring the nation to its knees (pun intended), but that's not what happened. Maybe He doesn't give a shit.
Sweety, your domestic management of internal polity issues are irrelevant to the world, let alone to the earth, non-sentient that it is and all.
Someone push a pin in that inflated ego.
So you are saying that your God is punishing Iceland for Americans passing a helthcare bill?
Your god sounds like a real DICK, and you must be one as well, seeing you worship that dick.
So, um... why didn't something happen to the US?
Or do we have to wait as long as Europe did after so many of its nations put national health care in place?
...Oh wait, it's Rush Limbaugh. He's just talking out of his lying, drug-addled ass.
You know what really bothers me about these people? The fact that they never take two fucking seconds to Google "socialized medicine" and see that Europe, Canada and Autralia have had it for years, and the earth has yet to explode.
...Though, I'm sure it's because the US is "just so special."
So Rush, then why was it a volcano in Iceland that closed the air travel in EUROPE? If God wanted revenge on Obama, why not just make a volcano shoot out of the ground in Kansas and make the ash just be covering the United States or something?
"PS Perhaps god should try the burning bush thing again eh? He's just not getting his message across with the clarity he used to. "
He keeps trying, but every time he manifests a fucking great waterbomber drops a couple of tons of fire retardent chemicals on him.
Like I said, God has shares in Eurostar.
Actually, the disruption wasn't all that bad; a bit of bother for those inconvenienced, but the general life and economy of Western Europe carried on pretty much as normal. If God had a message, I'd say it was "Maybe you don't need aeroplanes as much as you think you do."
No. The reason the planes were grounded was down to overzealous aviation authority lunatics who are only safe when everything around them is fucking bubble-wrapped (like Rush).
There's even evidence to suggest that they were not only overreacting to something minor, but something that wasn't even there. Again, kind of like Rush, except with him it's God.
Wait, so your "loving god" decides to punish Iceland (a country Far Far Away) for the decision to give everyone an equal chance for healthcare.
Remind me again why we aren't torturing small children so as to better pilot genetically engineered giant cyborgs to fight him?
A mainstream conservative leader stating that he hopes Armageddon happens, and that liberalism is the cause.
This should be more terrifying.
So because our government has finally done something beneficial for its people in this health care bill, god has chosen to punish people far, far away who already have fully functioning socialized health care? huh. Who'd have thought god possible of having such bad aim?
God is so displeased with the US that he's punishing people in Europe?
If that's your God, Rush, your God is a dick with lousy aim.
Yes, the inconvenience of planes being grounded in MOST of Europe is certainly the result of God's anger at the US for passing a healthcare reform bill.
But hey, now that we passed that healthcare bill, God will be able to afford those glasses he needs to hit the right continent.
God is mad at USA over healthcare so He makes a volcano in Iceland blow up? THe USA has plenty of volcanos. I bet God is really mad at Iceland. Hey wait a minute, doesn't Iceland have sociallized medicine? Wow, God really does hate it when somebody goes around healing the sick.
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'Hopefully it's a rebirth, God speaking.'
Rush Windbag now thinks he has a direct line to God (or worse than that, thinks HE is God!).
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! DIAF Rush Windbag.
Damn it! Stop making fun of me and my loyal servant, Rush Limbaugh, you arrogant little whelps! I'll punish all of you! You're all sinners, and I'll send an earthquake or volcano or possibly even a meteorite or something to punish you all!
... And don't think that I'll let a little thing like lost glasses stop me, either! It hasn't before and it sure as hell won't now!
Funny. The Yellowstone caldera is overdue by a few millenia. If God had wanted to send a clearer message than "I'm so angry about that healthcare bill I'm gonna inconvenience Europe for a week or so", there was a bomb primed and ready to go off right in the country that angered him.
H'e starting to sound more and more like an incoherent, blind God with devastating anger issues. Just like in the Old Testament.
Why are you complaining, Rushiepoos? Now that there's Socialised Healthcare in the US, like here in the UK, you can now get all those lovely prescription drugs, subsidised.
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