The agnostics are probably arguing about whether or not there really is a flood, and if it’s possible to know one way or the other… 
It wasn’t us this time! Everybody knows hurricanes are caused by butterflies in China flapping their wings… and there are hardly any Jews in China – blame the Chinese for egging all those butterflies into flapping!
As a bonus, please note that there is a gorwing Muslim population in China. More muslims -> More butterflies flapping -> worse hurricanes… coincidence? I don’t think so! :rolleyes:
Dani
(disclaimer for the Black-Humor impaired: This is Black Humor. Deal with it)
The Baptists are rejoicing that so many people were baptised at once. The Catholic priests are setting up homes for young boys. The Mormons are distributing food from their pantries.
There was this guy named Moses, and they walked out of N.O.
In all seriousness, in my experience up here in Saint Paul, there is more of a sense of a jewish “Community”. My son goes to the JCC (Jewish Community Center) for daycare, and there are old jewish ladies in my neighborhood that know who I am because he goes there. I suspect that the same is true in NO, and because of that they knew who was without transport and who needed help.
So I could believe that rumor.
I don’t see this one making sense or having any staying power even as a rumor.
The WTC thing could convince a small number of people because the stakes were so high and the outcome so unexpected: Stay at home, all’s cool, but go to work like 90% of your fellow building tenants, you’re facing a completely unexpected calamity that puts you at sudden and significant threat of death. If anyone had had insider knowledge of this human-caused deathtrap, it’d have been extremely valuable.
Katrina:
(1) Was not human caused (even most fringe types would agree);
(2) Because not the result of any demonstrable secret plotting, provides little opportunity to plausibly theorize that some “insider” was privy to an preferentially used information about the plot (unlike the 9/11 story, where we know for sure there were at least 19 secret plotters, so the additional hypothesis that the Mossad or whatever got wind of that plot is within the realm of spy novel implausibility). As far as we know, everyone had equal access to NOAA and the Weather Channel, and made their own call.
(3) Most importantly, I think, was not a catastrophe in which “secret advance notice” was some sort of life-and-death advantage. Everyone knew things could get ugly in a direct hit.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~egbg/counterscript.html
The government told everyone to evacuate. They had 36 hours to do so. And almost everyone who wanted to did. Not too many photos came out of the last Hebrew-laden helicopters departing a desperate N.O. while Gentiles clutched at the landing struts. So, I don’t get it. Even if some Jewish guy got his theoretical secret tip-off, it didn’t give him much meaningful advantage (except maybe getting a nicer room by arriving at the Memphis Motel 6 earlier?) over the Aryans ‘left behind,’ because not many were. The small number of people who didn’t evacuate when repeatedly told to do were the sick and decrepit and utterly poor (and, let’s face it, the stupid and venal), who probably had and have far worse immediate problems than a (remarkably pointless) Zionist conspiracy.
Er, for the hyperlink to make a little (no, a lot) more sense, substitute:
This is ironic to me. The one person I actually know who’s been holing up in NO is Jewish. He’s a musician and instrument dealer who’s apparently a bit of a survivalist – he’d stocked food, water and such and claimed to be packing heat to guard his shop…
Pfft. Nice straw man y’got there. Everyone knows that hurricanes are caused by butterflies in BRAZIL. Which, as everyone knows, has a thriving Jewish population.
Of course it wasn’t. Everyone knows Dick Cheney isn’t human!
The first thing I thought of when I read the OP was the twelve plagues of Egypt. (It was twelve, right? I can never remember if it was twelve plagues and seven dwarves, or seven plagues and twelve dwarves. I can never keep my plagues and dwarves straight.) I’m wondering if this rumor got started as one of those “Katrina was God’s Righteous Judgement on the Wicked” stories going around, with “The Jews got out early” tacked on as proof that God tipped a wink about the coming catastrophe to his chosen people.
The other thing I’m thinking is that, of all the religious groups out there, the Jews are probably the least likely to stay put and expect God to keep them safe. From previous experience, I expect they’d know better by now.
I’m pretty sure it was ten plagues.
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What great timing! I know exactly who I’d like to hit with two plagues right about now.
As well as escaped Nazi war criminals.
The plot thickens.
You try staying in the path of an oncoming hurricane when your Jewish mother has your phone number.
Dear Friends,
Like all of you, I have watched on television the devastation Hurricane Katrina has caused in New Orleans and the communities along the Gulf Coast. Although the full scope of its impact is only now being assessed, in addition to significant loss of life, literally everyone in the region has been somehow affected.
United Jewish Communities, our umbrella organization, has been active in working closely with the Jewish Federation in New Orleans, which has set up temporary headquarters at the Houston Federation. Miraculously, they are already offering immediate relief services to those along the Gulf Coast, as well as planning for the long-term rehabilitation of these communities.
There are almost 10,000 full-time Jewish residents in New Orleans, not to mention a large population of Jewish students attending colleges in the area. Approximate! ly half of the full time residents evacuated their homes in advance of the storm, but not everyone was able to leave. The vast majority of the homes of members of the Jewish community have been destroyed. As of today, 300 residents of the Jewish Home for the Aging need emergency evacuation. At least one synagogue in New Orleans, Shaar Hadash, is under water, and another is heavily damaged. The JCC and communal services building has been destroyed. The need for cash assistance, temporary housing, access to health care and personal counseling are enormous. Beyond New Orleans, the Jewish communities in Mobile, Biloxi and throughout the region also have similar needs.
As a Jewish community that has experienced our own share of natural disasters, we are all well aware of the importance of assistance from the broader American Jewish community. Today, I have in consultation with other senior lay leaders, instructed our President to disburse $100,000 from ! monies approved for allocation by the JFC Board. These funds were part of the contingency reserve, set aside for unexpected needs such as this disaster. The funds have been sent to the United Jewish Communities to be utilized in the most effective way possible as they begin to address the highest-priority needs.
We have also opened up a special relief fund so that members of the Los Angeles Jewish community can assist our fellow Jewish communities in the Gulf Coast. I am happy to report that we have already received some generous unsolicited donations.
To make an online donation please click here and specify “UJF-Hurricane Relief Fund” in the pull-down menu on the New Pledge and Payment screen. In addition, donations can also be made by calling 323-761-8200 or sending a check to The Jewish Federation, 6505 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90048, made payable to “The Jewish Federation” with the words “Hurricane Relief Fund” in the memo line. All contributions will be solely used for this purpose.
We hope you will share this information with your family friends and colleagues. I know that our Jewish community will respond to this disaster with compassion and generosity.
Thank you.
Harriet Hochman
Chair of the Board
The Jewish Federation
:rolleyes: The escaped Nazis are in Argentina, you…you… olive loaf!
Not just Argentina, though.
OK, I declare this the funniest post in a thread chock full of funny posts.
Sua
That’s all well and good, but what about the dwarves?