What's New Robert L. Park 9 Sep 2011

WHAT'S NEW   Robert L Park   Friday, 2 Sep 11   Washington, DC

1. BACK TO WORK: SORRY, I'VE BEEN UNDERGOING REPAIRS.
Here's a little of what happened while I was away.

2. FIRST AMENDMENT:  TEXAS GOVERNOR CONVENES A CHRISTIAN REVIVAL.
Rick Perry led a prayer meeting of 30,000 evangelical Christians in a 
Houston football stadium last month, calling on Jesus to guide us out of 
our national travail.  It was billed as non-political.  I suppose that's 
possible; under the First Amendment God is not excluded from politics, but 
if Perry wants to be President he's got to be able to negotiate at every 
level.  The big question then is, how did God respond?  It didn't take long 
to get an answer.  The crowd had scarcely left the stadium when God set 
Texas on fire.  It’s still burning.  In fact, when God sent Tropical Storm 
Lee ashore he had it it dump record rains on the other Gulf states, while 
leaving Texas parched.  This is not a good sign.

3. EARTHQUACKS: IT'S TIME TO STOP BEHAVING LIKE ANIMALS.
At the urging of a 5.8-magnitude earthquake centered in Northern Virginia, 
thousands of books in the University of Maryland Library sought a lower 
energy configuration, moving from the bookshelves to the floor.   
Meanwhile, according to the Washington Post, ABC, and NBC, high-strung 
inmates at the National Zoo like orangutans began to screech and scramble 
to higher perches "minutes before" seismographs sensed anything.  Like 
maybe they had some special sense that humans don't?  Or so the media 
reported. Were reporters already at the zoo waiting for a quake?  Zoos are 
always in turmoil.  Inmates chase each other, fornicate and have food 
fights, except the laid-back types like pandas that just sit on their ass 
through it all munching bamboo.