Reply #3: Which is what this whole "prayer act" was intended to obscure....

[DeSwiss]

...and it seems to have worked for the most part. Because it stopped people talking (at least for the past few days) about the piss-poor development planning. This isn't the first time Atlanta's run short of water. I remember back in the mid-80s the same problem happening and they wanted to hijack water from the Tennessee River back then too. But in much of the South, developers are the tail that wags the dog. And to keep the illusion afloat of a lower cost of living (its only lower in the short-run), infrastructure and development planning is the sacrificial lamb that's the first to go.

So they've had quite a while to address this, but the southern Repuke pols have been sleeping with the ReligiousWingNuts who don't give a fig about such matters. They just want to make sure that the "right persons" are sleeping together in the "right beds." Most are buffoons anyway. Pretty much the same thing played out on a national level with Bush. They got stem cell research vetoed and everyone else got disaster after disaster. War, floods, falling bridges and wild fires out-of-control. All of which were fumbled and bungled by the feds. State Repukes are no better at running government.

So Hotlanta got a few sprinkles, but they'll soon be right back where they started. Only now they can put it all on God's shoulders. They can say that its just "God moving in one of his mysterious ways" again. "We've prayed. We've done all we can do." Which is about the truth. Government operated by wishes and prayers to Yahweh the Storm God.

- Asshats. The whole lot of them....