Gov. Hair blames God for BP rig explosion

That noted kook Pat Robertson claimed that Hurricane Katrina and the earthquake in Haiti were God's revenge for the sins committed by us mortals. Now our own Gov. Hair, speaking at a Chamber of Commerce function in Washington said this about the current environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico caused by British Petroleum's oil rig explosion:

“From time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented.”

What? The fool is trying to convince us that a mechanical failure that killed 11 people and threatens the Gulf coast fishing industry is an "act of God"? Who does he think he's kidding? Not only that, he went on to praise BP for its otherwise excellent safety record, failing to notice, I guess, the 2005 explosion at the BP refinery in Texas City that killed 15 workers and injured 170 more.

Hair's Democratic challenger Bill White had a far more informed response to the situation. I agree with what Charles Kuffner wrote on his blog Off the Kuff: "Wouldn’t it be nice to have a Governor who can understand stuff like this and make sense of it?"