Hurah? Hurricane

From: Southern Voice:

"...the French Quarter, home to many of the gay bars in New Orleans

...levee breaks along Lake Pontchartrain flooded the city that traditionally would be gearing up to host thousands of mostly gay men celebrating Labor Day Weekend.

...the French Quarter has been "attacked" and "looting is out of control."

...In light of recent events, the city's 34th annual Southern Decadence festival was cancelled Aug. 31

...The celebration, which began as a Labor Day party among friends 34 years ago, was expected to draw more than 100,000 participants from Aug. 30 to Sept. 5.

..."I regret to inform you that due to Hurricane Katrina, Southern Decadence in New Orleans has been officially cancelled," Chisholm wrote in an e-mail Wednesday. Chisholm noted that festival goers that were charged for weekend passes will receive refunds.

...Chisholm owns Oz, New Orleans' largest gay dance bar, which is located on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter. He stated in the e- mail that the bar suffered damage

...In addition to the thousands expected for Southern Decadence, more than 600 people had pre-registered for Convergence 2005, an event during Southern Decadence for plus-sized gay men and their admirers.

...While gay Internet sites have been inundated with postings exhibiting concern for the city, one anti-gay organization seized upon the calamity to promote its agenda. Philadelphia-based Repent America issued a statement calling Hurricane Katrina an "Act of God" that destroyed a "wicked city" just days before Southern Decadence.

The group blames the city's previous three mayors, and every citizen in New Orleans, for tolerating and welcoming such "wickedness" as Southern Decadence and Mardi Gras.

...Officials of the Montrose Counseling Center announced Wednesday that a special group counseling session has been set up for Sept. 6 for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender refugees from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

...At the Montrose Clinic and the Assistance Fund, officials said they would make every effort to provide medical and medication assistance to those living with HIV/AIDS who have been displaced by the hurricane. Clinic officials said it is crucial for continuity of care to be maintained.

...Gay Houston resident John Szewczyk has also organized a Sept. 2 meeting to coordinate a relief effort for gay refugees from the destruction of Hurricane Katrina, particularly those from New Orleans.

"I'm just sort of putting out feelers to see what kind of committees we can set up," Szewczyk said. "We need to do what we can to help our sister community. They have all provided many of us with great times at Southern Decadence, Mardi Gras and for vacations."

From Repent America

"Just days before "Southern Decadence", an annual homosexual celebration attracting tens of thousands of people to the French Quarters section of New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina destroys the city.

"Southern Decadence" has a history of filling the French Quarters section of the city with drunken homosexuals engaging in sex acts in the public streets and bars. Last year, a local pastor sent video footage of sex acts being performed in front of police to the mayor, city council, and the media. City officials simply ignored the footage and continued to welcome and praise the weeklong celebration as being an "exciting event". However, Hurricane Katrina has put an end to the annual celebration of sin".

On the official "Southern Decadence" website, it states that the annual event brought in "125,000 revelers" to New Orleans last year, increasing by thousands each year, and up from "over 50,000 revelers" in 1997. This year's 34th annual "Southern Decadence" was set for Wednesday, August 31, 2005 through Monday, September 5, 2005, but due to massive flooding and the damage left by the hurricane, Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco has ordered everyone to evacuate the city.

From: Katrin a Fells New Orleans Gay Party

"(New Orleans, Louisiana) The South's biggest annual gay party has fallen victim to hurricane Katrina. Organizers for Southern Decadence announced Tuesday night that the Labor Day Weekend event has been cancelled. ...Southern Decadence attracts thousands of people to New Orleans every Labor Day weekend. Last year more than 110, 000 attended the event. This would have been the festival's 33rd year."

From: Mich News

" 'Southern Decadence' was set for New Orleans soon. It was to be a yearly hoopla celebrating practicing homosexuality as a legitimate, giddy lifestyle. Thousands upon thousands were going to crawl all over New Orleans "to celebrate their sexuality," according to Methodist lay preacher Gary Hopkins. ...In other words, Sodom and Gomorrah were to be reenacted in broad daylight - and into the night haunts as well. It would be one high ol* time of it in the southern scape. Police would be forced to look the other way or fill the jails to overflowing. Decent citizens would cover their eyes to play hide-and- seek against the all-inclusive wickedness. Little children would be taken on hopefully safe excursions in order to escape the blatant evil parading their avenues. Businesses would money-shoot off the charts from homosexuals* open wallets in festive abandon. Then came along Katrina. Now New Orleans is under water, bathing in sewage and devastation rather than providing downtown fountains for homosexual capers aplenty."

From: Hurricane Katrina forces cancellation of Southern Decadence festival

"With floodwaters now rising around New Orleans's gay French Quarter and devastation throughout the region in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, it is becoming apparent that anyone trying to attend this weekend's Southern Decadence gay festival is unlikely to be able to get into the city.

...it's clear that the Big Easy is in no condition to host the estimated 125,000 revelers that had planned to attend this weekend's festival.

...Southern Decadence began in 1972 as a going-away party. It has since grown into a massive end-of-summer celebration of gay music and culture."

From; Katrina's devastation includes gay tourism

"If Mother Nature is unmoved by human suffering, she certainly doesn't care about timing...deadly hurricane scoring a near direct hit on New Orleans just before Labor Day weekend's huge gay and lesbian Southern Decadence party

...Tom Nibbio, North American sales manager for the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association, recommended that tourists changing plans should call the central reservations line for local accommodations."

Looking for a Mayor ready to host misplaced tourists and provide a proper substitute for a sodomite major event. Any volunteers?

From: Delightful 'Decadence'

Friday, August 19, 2005

"FOR A LABOR DAY WEEKEND LOADED with glam, gangsters and girth, New Orleans' French Quarter is the place to be. The 34th annual Southern Decadence festival, which evolved over the years from a party for a few friends to a six-day street party attended by more than 100,000 people, runs this year from Aug. 31 to Sept. 5.

...SOUTHERN DECANDENCE earned its reputation by being one of the most unapologetically racy exhibitions of gay life, where outlandish costumes and outdoor sex were the norm.

..."A lot of people are looking forward to the different crowds, and the parade and all of the parties," Nance says. "It's all a celebration of the end of summer - one last hurrah."

CNN reports:

DESPERATION AND DANGER
60,000 trying to flee New Orleans
· Huge crowd spotted at New Orleans convention center
· Gunfire, looting, small fires disrupt Superdome evacuation
· Citizens holed up in high-rises throng to buses
· Ambulance workers victimized by looters
· Major buildings "pancaking" in Mississippi

Louisiana
· Deaths: The mayor said the hurricane probably killed thousands of people in New Orleans -- an estimate that, if accurate, would make the storm the nation's deadliest natural disaster since at least the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Relief crews put aside the counting of bodies to concentrate on rescuing the living, many trapped on rooftops and in attics.
· An estimated 80 percent of New Orleans is under water, up to 20 feet deep in places. Water is still rising as engineers struggle to plug two breached levees along Lake Pontchartrain with giant sandbags.

At least 713,000 customers estimated without power.

From: Wikipedia

"Hurricane Katrina was a powerful tropical cyclone which caused extensive and severe damage in the southeastern United States and will likely become the worst natural disaster to hit the United States

...The hurricane has struck just days before Southern Decadence, a festival which is the second-largest money-maker for New Orleans businesses after Mardi Gras."

From: Delightful 'Decadence'

Friday, August 19, 2005

"SOUTHERN DECANDENCE earned its reputation by being one of the most unapologetically racy exhibitions of gay life, where outlandish costumes and outdoor sex were the norm.

..."A lot of people are looking forward to the different crowds, and the parade and all of the parties," Nance says. "It's all a celebration of the end of summer - one last hurrah."

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From: Delightful 'Decadence'

Friday, August 19, 2005

"SOUTHERN DECANDENCE earned its reputation by being one of the most unapologetically racy exhibitions of gay life, where outlandish costumes and outdoor sex were the norm.

..."A lot of people are looking forward to the different crowds, and the parade and all of the parties," Nance says. "It's all a celebration of the end of summer - one last hurrah."

The Hydrometeorological Prediction Center's last public advisory on Katrina was at 11 p.m. EDT Wed Aug 31 2005 and the Canadian Hurricane Centre's last public advisory on Katrina was at 8 a.m. EDT Wed Aug 31 2005.

On 31 August, the Mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin told reporters that the hurricane probably killed thousands of people in the city. the city's 34th annual Southern Decadence festival was cancelled Aug. 31

The celebration, which began as a Labor Day party among friends 34 years ago, was expected to draw some 125,000 participants from Aug. 30 to Sept. 5.

Seems the big media in America, controlled by secularists, doesn't pay attentiion to the incredible proximity of this hurricane to the big sodomite event. When such a disaster hits a city hours before it is to entrtain a major sodomite event, any rational observer cannot disregard it. When one does ignore it, he is not a rational obsercer, either because lack of reason or because excess of bias.

AS in many other aspects of the culural struggle in America, my sympathy is with the fundies. When I read the following, I heartily subscribe to what's said there:

From: WorldNetDaily

"As writer John d'Addario explained in "Southern Decadence 2005: A How-To Guide" posted on FrenchQuarter.com (the site probably sunk too under the water): Michael Marcavage: "...From 'Girls Gone Wild' to 'Southern Decadence,' New Orleans was a city that opened its doors wide open to the public celebration of sin. May it never be the same.

...Let us pray for those ravaged by this disaster. However, we must not forget that the citizens of New Orleans tolerated and welcomed the wickedness in their city for so long," Marcavage said. "May this act of God cause us all to think about what we tolerate in our city limits, and bring us trembling before the throne of Almighty God."

Wednesday, Aug. 24:
- Tropical Depression 12 strengthens into Tropical Storm Katrina over the Central Bahamas; a hurricane warning is issued for the southeastern Florida coast.

Thursday, Aug. 25:
- Hurricane Katrina strikes Florida between Hallandale Beach and North Miami Beach as a Category 1 hurricane with 80 mph winds.

Friday, Aug. 26:
- Katrina weakens over land to a tropical storm before moving out over the Gulf of Mexico. It grows to a Category 2 hurricane with 100 mph winds, veering north and west toward Mississippi and Louisiana.
- 10,000 National Guard troops are dispatched across the Gulf Coast.

Saturday, Aug. 27:
- Eleven people dead in Florida from hurricane-related causes.
- Katrina becomes a Category 3 storm, with 115 mph winds; a hurricane warning is issued for Louisiana's southeastern coast, including New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain, and for the northern Gulf coast.
- New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin declares a state of emergency and urges residents in low-lying areas to evacuate.
- Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour declares a state of emergency. A mandatory evacuation is ordered for Hancock County.
- Coastal Gulf residents jam freeways and gas stations as they rush to evacuate.

Sunday, Aug. 28:
- Katrina grows into a Category 5 storm with 160 mph winds and heads for the northern Gulf coast.
- Nagin orders a mandatory evacuation for New Orleans. But 10 shelters are also set up, including the Superdome, for those unable to leave.
- Evacuation orders are posted all along the Mississippi coast.
- Alabama Gov. Bob Riley declares a state of emergency.

Monday, Aug. 29:
- Katrina, a Category 4 hurricane with 145 mph winds, makes landfall near Buras, La., at 6:10 a.m. CDT (7:10 a.m. EDT).
- President Bush makes emergency disaster declarations for Louisiana and Mississippi, freeing up federal funds.
- Katrina rips two holes in the Superdome's roof. Some 10,000 storm refugees are inside.
- At least eight Gulf Coast refineries shut down or reduce operations.
- Airports close in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Biloxi, Mobile and Pensacola. Hundreds of flights are canceled or diverted.

Tuesday, Aug. 30:
- The hurricane death toll in Mississippi rises to more than 100.
- Two levees break in New Orleans and water pours in, covering 80 percent of the city and rising to 20 feet deep in some areas. Many people climb onto roofs to escape.

Southern Decadence Grand Marshal [SDGM] XXXII, Donnie "Jager" Jay chose his successors, SDGMs XXXIII Lisa Beaumann & Regina Adams, Sunday, July 17, 2005 at the Official Southern Decadence Coronation hosted at Oz New Orleans. The new grand marshals will lead the 34th Official Southern Decadence celebration with chosen theme, colors and song. Revelers now scramble to get their costumes ready for the 2005 extravaganza.

Be sure and join New Orleans Labor Day Weekend saluting SDGMs XXXIII Lisa Beaumann & Regina Adams, the Year 2005 Southern Decadence Grand Marshals!

Stay in the Heart of the MADNESS!

TUES., AUG. 30, 8am,

From: Delightful 'Decadence'

Friday, August 19, 2005

"SOUTHERN DECANDENCE earned its reputation by being one of the most unapologetically racy exhibitions of gay life, where outlandish costumes and outdoor sex were the norm.

..."A lot of people are looking forward to the different crowds, and the parade and all of the parties," Nance says. "It's all a celebration of the end of summer - one last hurrah."

Tuesday, Aug. 30, 8am,

Tuesday, Aug. 30:

Two levees break in New Orleans and water pours in, covering 80 percent of the city and rising to 20 feet deep in some areas."

Robert F. Kennedy Jr:

"In 1998, Republican icon Pat Robertson warned that hurricanes were likely to hit communities that offended God. Perhaps it was Barbour*s memo that caused Katrina, at the last moment, to spare New Orleans and save its worst flailings for the Mississippi coast."

From "Southern Decadence" timetable:

Tuesday, Aug. 30, 8am,

"Giant new Ambush, the Official Southern Decadence Guide, hits the streets in New Orleans".

From the chronology of "Catrina:

Tuesday, Aug. 30:

"Two levees break in New Orleans and water pours in, covering 80 percent of the city and rising to 20 feet deep in some areas."

"As Katrina departed northwards its tail winds suddenly changed direction and forced the surging waters of Lake Pontchartrain southwards. The lake tipped like water in a dish and overwhelmed the hard-worked levees in two places. The biggest was a weak spot at 17th Street to the north of the city centre. Millions of gallons of water poured through and rushed into the northern suburbs and on towards the city centre.

Even the French Quarter, on slightly higher ground, was almost submerged. By Tuesday morning 80% of New Orleans was under water with only the roofs of houses showing through in depths of up to 20ft."

The map is from CNN.COM

"As the water flowed in to be hemmed in by the very levee system designed to keep it out, levels rose frighteningly quickly...Overnight, the 21st-century city of New Orleans had been reclaimed by the Louisiana swamplands from which it had been forged almost 300 years ago."

When society uses G-d's resources to "progress" to a state of "Southern Decadence", then -back to swamplands.

WorldNetDaily:

"The shocking callousness of New Orleans' gay activists towards the severe suffering of its fellow citizens cannot be adequately articulated in a news report," says James Hartline, a former homosexual, who describes the "Southern Decadence" festival as being "replete with tens of thousands of men and women engaged in public nudity, prostitution, illegal drug use and destructive public S & M sex."

"The idea that human beings are continuing to party while hundreds of thousands of fellow citizens are starving, dying and suffering from a multitude of sicknesses brings into focus the real lack of judgment that these constant advocates of special gay rights demonstrate in a time of crisis."

According to Agape Press, Hartine himself has AIDS and is now warning homosexuals about the consequences of their lifestyle."

Sick. Very sick people indeed. Any society that is ready to endure such wickedness in its midst, should take into account what happened to New-Orleans.

Washington Post:

"Probably the last thing a city inundated with water and filled with human misery needs is a parade, much less a Mardi Gras.

But just a week after Hurricane Katrina unleashed its devastation, there already are signs that New Orleans is remaining loyal to its partying ways.

.."I think now more than ever we need a reason to celebrate. It's really at our core," said Arthur Hardy, publisher of the Mardi Gras Guide.

...With thousands believed dead and authorities still unable to collect bodies floating in canals and hidden in attics, even the talk of a Mardi Gras celebration might seem disrespectful."

Sajeewa Chinthaka, Sri Lankan citizen interviewed by Reuters:

"Not a single tourist caught in the tsunami was mugged. Now with all this happening in the U.S., we can easily see where the civilized part of the world's population is."

Reed Johnson:

"For a city of only half a million people, New Orleans looms as large in our cultural imagination as L.A. or Chicago. Playwrights, novelists, poets, film directors, painters, chefs, dive- bar raconteurs and especially musicians all have drunk deeply of the city's heady brew of flamboyance and decadence, joie de vivre and fatalism, the sexy and the sinister."

Michael Marcavage, "Repent America":

"Although the loss of lives is deeply saddening, this act of God destroyed a wicked city. From 'Girls Gone Wild' to 'Southern Decadence,' New Orleans was a city that had its doors wide open to the public celebration of sin. From the devastation may a city full of righteousness emerge."

SARTRE:

" 'He acts like an animal, has an animal's habits! Eats like one, moves like one, talks like one!' Blanche DuBois didn't know how true her words were and how well they apply to a cesspool called New Orleans. The trolley that ran from Mardi Gras to Southern Decadence traveled from drunken profligacy to sadistic perversion. The quaint French Quarter is hardly the home of saints. Now that the streetcar has derailed off its tracks, the true nature of the degenerate lifestyle that tolerates, condones and favors predatory behavior has lost any residue of desire.

...This Streetcar won't stop the madness just because a few select profiteers desire to reshape in their image a proscribed future for the rest of us. Katrina is a wake up call. How many more do you need before you get the message?"