Honestly, it’s times like this when I wonder why I’m proud to have been a Nebraskan.
Nebraska Democratic State Senator Ernie Chambers has decided to go straight to the top in an effort to stop natural disasters from befalling the world.
Chambers filed a lawsuit against God in Douglas County Court Friday afternoon, KPTM Fox 42 reported.
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The suit asks for a “permanent injunction ordering Defendant to cease certain harmful activities and the making of terroristic threats.”
The lawsuit identifies the plaintiff as, “the duly elected and serving State Senator from the 11th Legislative District in Omaha, Nebraska.”
Chambers also cites that the, “defendant directly and proximately has caused, inter alia, fearsome floods, egregious earthquakes, horrendous hurricanes, terrifying tornados, pestilential plagues…”
Chambers says he isn’t suing God because he has any kind of beef with the deity. He says the suit is to fight possible laws restricting the filing of frivolous lawsuits. Chambers tells KPTM FOX 42 News that his lawsuit is in response to bills brought forth by other state senators to try and stop lawsuits from being filed.
“The Constitution requires that the courthouse doors be open, so you cannot prohibit the filing of suits,” Chambers says. “Anyone can sue anyone they choose, even God.”
Chambers bases his ability to sue God, as, “that defendant, being omnipresent, is personally present in Douglas County.”
Yes, the same Ernie Chambers who wears cut-off sweatshirts and tennis shoes to legislative sessions. When I was in middle school, we took a field trip to the State Capital, and who do you think was speaking? Sen. Ernie Chambers, the filibusterer extraordinaire. Honestly, even my 6th grade self recognized a certified blowhard.
Question: Do you think Mr. Chambers realizes the irony of protesting the restriction of frivolous lawsuits by filing a frivolous lawsuit? He is proving his opponents’ point: Some lawsuits have no legitimate purpose and do nothing but waste government money and therefore should be restricted. (By the way, according to Wikipedia — for whatever that’s worth — Chambers is agnostic. Doesn’t that further prove the frivolous nature of his lawsuit? Seriously, that’s the best defense he can come up with for not restricting frivolous lawsuits?)
What can I say? He’s always been a smart one.
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When I saw the opening line of the report, I began to wonder when the Dems were going to kick him out of the party for recognizing the existence and even the presence of the Almighty.
If the Senator is going to sue anyone, he should sue Adam and Eve for eating the forbidden fruit. The Earth was not cursed until after that. If the case gets dropped on account that Adam and Eve have long since been dead, then he could go after the Serpent for beguiling Eve to begin with.
I had blocked this moron from my mind.
I think the primary restriction on frivolous lawsuits should be a hefty deposit. I’ve known too many people who wind up in court from these money grabbers, win the lawsuit, but still have thousands of dollars in legal fees. Turns out to be not much of a victory. That’s what these ambulance chasers want, someone with money just to settle out of court. This way, they get something for nothing, and the innocent defendant saves money on legal costs. If the plaintiffs or their scumbag lawyers have to pay the defendant’s costs when the plaintiffs lose — you’ll see many less frivolous lawsuits being filed.
Here is a picture of Ernie on the Senate floor in NE.
I was confused. I thought he OPPOSED frivolous lawsuits. I didn’t understand that this was to say that they should be filed.
If you were trying to do justify frivolous lawsuits, why wouldn’t you do one that is seemingly silly, but actually has a point?
Bridget - Apparently the editors of the Cornell Daily Sun were confused too. In the paper today, they published an AP blurb about the story and claimed Chambers was opposing frivolous lawsuits - which is the logical conclusion considering his ridiculous case. But that’s just the best part. He really is in favor of unrestricted frivolous lawsuits and is trying to prove his point this way.
He really is in favor of unrestricted frivolous lawsuits and is trying to prove his point this way.
Don’t you love it when the Left parodies itself?
Hey Tiek,
Doc Bulldog has an update on this story here.
Senator filed a lawsuit against God. Does he know what is written in God’s Holy Lawbook, the Bible?
Come, behold the works of JAHWEH, what desolations he hath made in the earth. He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire. (Psalms 46:8-9)
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I JAHWEH do all these things. (Isaiah 45:7)
The great day of JAHWEH is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of JAHWEH: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers. And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against JAHWEH: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung. (Zephaniah 1:14-18)
The Bible teaches that at the end of the world all the wicked will come under eternal punishment in a place called Hell, and this time may be very near. There is much Biblical evidence that points to the fall of 2011 as the end of the world.
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And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be TIME NO LONGER:
But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets. Revelation 10:5-7
I just spent 15 minutes perusing your Mom’s blog, post by post, trying to find this post. I finally resorted to a little help from Google, and then I find that your mom beat me to the update!
That’s funny Scott!