Pat Robertson's new soul mate

"When you talk to God it's called prayer;
when God talks to you it's called schizophrenia."
--A line from The Outer Limits TV show

Pat Robertson is not alone in belonging in a padded cell.
Storms Payback From God, Nagin Says

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 16 -- Mayor C. Ray Nagin suggested Monday that hurricanes Katrina and Rita and other storms were a sign that "God is mad at America" -- and at black communities, too, for tearing themselves apart with violence and political infighting.

"Surely God is mad at America. He sent us hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it's destroyed and put stress on this country," Nagin said as he and other city leaders marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

"Surely he doesn't approve of us being in Iraq under false pretenses. But surely he is upset at black America also. We're not taking care of ourselves."

Nagin, who is African American, also promised that New Orleans will be a "chocolate" city again. Many of the city's black neighborhoods were heavily damaged by Katrina.

Well Ray, did it ever occur to you that perhaps God is telling you that you shouldn't build a city 16 feet below sea level on an increasingly hostile Gulf of Mexico. I guess the right doesn't have a monopoly on total nut cases.