Mitt wants to knock out Barack — but he may have to get past Isaac first.
A tropical depression in the Atlantic Ocean strengthened into Tropical Storm Isaac Tuesday and was threatening to swamp Florida in time for Mitt Romney’s big moment at the Republican National Convention in Tampa next week.
Isaac formed east of the Lesser Antilles and was moving west, churning up winds of 40 miles-per-hour late Tuesday afternoon some 500 miles east of the island of Guadeloupe.
The National Hurricane Center predicted Isaac blowing over Haiti at hurricane strength Saturday, hitting Cuba the next day and possibly making landfall in Florida. The RNC starts Monday.
An expert said an Isaac appearance at the RNC is a longshot, but not an impossibility.
“It would take a ‘perfect storm’ sort of conditions to all fall in place ... but that is one of the possibilities the models have been suggesting could happen,” blogged Dr. Jeff Masters, a meteorologist who co-founded The Weather Underground.
You know the truly weird thing is that this also happened during the 2008 convention.
In 2008 the first day of the RNC in St. Paul, Minn., was shortened out of concern for the millions of Gulf Coast residents forced to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Gustav.
Sorry I still can't accept this as evidence of a supreme being, but I will admit that it is an interesting coinky-dink!
Now we can rest assured that Palin won't show up in Florida. No WAY could that road kill wig of hers stand up to 40 mile hour winds!
Update: Todd Akin weighs in on the possibility of a hurricane during the GOP convention.
Not for nothing, but WHO plans a National convention in Florida during hurricane season?
ReplyDeleteUh... dumbasses maybe?
DeleteStupid republicans, I'm thinking.
DeleteRedundant 4:03. You betcha.
DeleteProbably Palin Pee Ponders.
DeleteProper professional planning probably prevents piss poor performance.
Precisely, Priebus, "Punk"
"Pussy?
"Perhaps."
Since them illiterates at the Pee Pond love them sum alliteration...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,171099,00.html
ReplyDeleteAs much as I despise posting a link to a FOX NEWS report, I think this needs to be revisited. After Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast and NOLA many religious leaders blamed the "sinning residents". I wonder what they will IF Isaac hits Tampa?
Wish I could stay and chat...time to go shopping to replenish my hurricane kit. If the path is true...I could be evacuating Monday. YIKES!
It's not nice to fool Mother Nature nor to fuck with the Quitter Twitter!
Delete"I'm not going to be ignored!"
Go Isaaac Go! We may be saved from the pontifications of Newt, Sanctimonious and even Sarah...will she dare to set up her book hawking tables in the rain? What would a good wind do to her wig do ya think?
ReplyDeleteWe can't get that lucky, so don't get your hopes up..
ReplyDeleteBased on what the GOP is trying to do in their war on women, if a storm negatively impacts the GOP convention, this will be all the proof I need that there is a God, and she is a woman.
ReplyDeleteGod IS a woman and she is one angry being at the moment!
DeleteIf it does hit the convention, I want to hear Pat Robertson's take on it
ReplyDeleteYeah, well... crickets.
DeleteHow ironic that the hurricane is named after one of the greatest scientists to have ever lived. (Isaac Newton).
ReplyDeleteThe Christofascist, fundamentalist 'Baggers won't like that, nope, not one bit!
Maybe someone will get an apple (well, an orange, rhyme that!) to the head.
DeleteIsaac Hayes: damn right, brother.
DeleteThe repukes will blame it on President Obama. They will say he is the anti-christ. I say "IF" there is a god he sure is giving the repukes signs that they are assholes.
ReplyDeleteI know, they refuse to acknowledge their own fealty to 666 the Insane Anglo Warlord and the fact they're even now seeking the ascendency of the second incarnation (which is foretold in Revelation, the passage even referenced in this very blog last week)!
DeleteRush is rushing to be the first!
Deletewww.politicususa.com/rush-limbaugh-claims-hurricane-obama-conspiracy-cancel-gop-convention.html
This is not the first time a hurricane has affected a Repub convention.
ReplyDeleteIn the bible Isaac is the son of Sarah, also means 'He will laugh'
ReplyDeleteHeh, heh,
UK Lady
According to the Book of Genesis, Abraham was 100 years old when Isaac was born, and Sarah was beyond childbearing years. *snort*
DeleteMichael, you stole my comment! lol
DeleteThe only thing I can add is that Sarah looks like she's aged 100 years since'08.
Hahahahaha! And they have alternative plans...unless you've ever been through a hurricane you know how ridiculous "we have other plans ready" insert evil laugh!
ReplyDeleteThe Tampa mayor is a Democrat. Let's try to be more humane about this than the GOP.
ReplyDeleteToo bad the hurricane isn't named Sarah... guess no earthquake either,
ReplyDeleteCue crazy conspiracy theories about the administration controlling he weather using HAARP in 3, 2, 1...
ReplyDeleteI thought HAARP was a republican technique. Maybe they are using it for sympathy. Poor us, our convention got shit upon hahahaha distracting from what assholes we are.
DeleteI am crediting God with this and I am not backing down. Rushbo says that Obama is doing it on purpose to sabotage the convention. Interesting that Rush should attribute this God power to the President. I love it!
ReplyDeleteOne of my areas of interest is the impact of weather on military operations: witness for instance the origin of the term kamikaze ("Divine Wind"); note the curious weather around the Invasion of Normandy and how much of the action it dictated, if ambivalently. Consider how the sandstorms which arose prevented the operation ("Eagle Claw") to free the Tehran hostages... which very likely could have been a bloody disaster in the event (and know the mullahs conversely thought it evidence of their favor).
ReplyDeleteOh, and make no mistake... this is war.
I was hoping for a funnel cloud that would pick up and drop a house on a certain RNC stalker. My bad.
ReplyDeleteThere's still hope.
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DeleteYou cursed brat! Look what you've done. I'm melting, melting. Oh what a world, what a world.
Bless your heart, Sarah, I bet it sucks to be you. Hey, nice house you got there, by the way.
That would be like a punch in the throat!
DeleteFinger's crossed that the second graphic is right. The mechanism is Sarah, she'll run after Issac, huff and puff and blow him out to sea!
Rush Limbaugh Claims Hurricane is an Obama Conspiracy to Cancel GOP Convention
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politicususa.com/rush-limbaugh-claims-hurricane-obama-conspiracy-cancel-gop-convention.html
Personally I think it is Mother Gaia. You know, you can't fool Mother Nature.
DeleteNow THAT is funny! (re: Akin update)
ReplyDeleteI can't root for a hurricane -- anywhere. I live in "Tornado Alley" and have lived through a lot of frightening weather I'd just as soon forget.
ReplyDeleteAs much as I think the RNC is a bucketful of tools, I still wouldn't wish a hurricane on them.
True...I have been through my share in NW Florida. Ivan being the last huge one (lost my home). So while it is fun to poke fun, I don't wish this on anyone. PERIOD. As much as I LOVE to read and comment here, I may have to take a break as I can't read too many comments about "I hope it hits the GOP Convention". :) I say this as nice as I can...I hope it does NOT. We have been through enough here thank you. If you haven't been through a hurricane, you have no idea. Once my hurricane kit is re-stocked, my home secured, & I am hunkered down with my pups and ready for it...then maybe I can get my sense of humor back. Right now it's "protect life & property" mode.
DeleteI don't live in hurricane country or in tornado alley and I don't think that anyone really hopes for a bad hurricane in Tampa or anywhere else. I cannot help but wonder, though, whether the convention-eers would be kept in their convention center with next to no food and water, and with inadequate bathroom facilities for several days in the event of a devastating storm. The GOP, in the guise of President George W. Bush, allowed it to happen in New Orleans not so many years ago. Remember? The rest of us watched on television in shock that this could happen n the US in the twenty-first century.
DeleteDear RNC, Republicans, and other unnamed co-conspirators, including the Lamestream Media and Libruls that ought o be punched in the throat:
ReplyDeleteThis is the last warning that you will get from the Tundra Turd before she makes good on all her threats and starts flingin' poo at 75 mph with increasing velocity by the minute at all you shitheads (Mittens, Rinse & Repeat Prius, Lyin' Ayn Ryan Paul and his second cousin Rand (crazy as my daddy) Paul, reality actor Don Frumpy Hair Trump, various other non-pragmatic RINOs) who are getting to make speeches on the RNC Reality Show next week while Sarah had been punked instead.
When the shit starts hittin' the fan early next week, don't say you weren't warned about former halfterm gov/former vp candidate/former reality show celebrity/current shit-stirring teabagger leader Sarah Whore-shoe wearing Palin's anger and lust for vengence. Also, too, you better hope it rains like a mother-fucker down there in Tampon Bay because all of that wind will be fanning the flames spewed by Screech and her hard workin' executive-experienced Wasilla Wildfire Arson team. Read the fuckin papers ye of little faith that these firebugs ain't done this drill a few times. Tiny Todd, Creepies 1&2 and Wallow (any of em, all of em) are bringing the gas cans and Pissed-offPretween Piper-Diaper is bringing the matches. Instead of USA! USA! chants, the Palin/Heath klanners will be leading cheers with the PeePond Retards (satire, no attacking anbody's adopted chillens) in tow to the tune of Torch Tampon Bay! Torch Tampon Bay!!!
After all, Sarah loves the smell of fresh-roasted poo in the morning, so anyone with Tampa on your itinerary, you best beware and call your travel agent and the fire dept or start doing your best politickin' on the RNC to convince the big whiggers to squeeze in a speaking part for Ms Palin. Or else, bring your marshmallows and two-inch weenies (two-toned if you got one).
Tropical Storm Ike is going to look like a Sunday Shower whenever Granny Grifter busts up at the Tampon Bay convention. She'll show all you freedom hatin', limp, no cojones, no Paul Revere history-knowin,non-patriots what a mother-fuckin prime time speech sounds like. You betcha it ain't gonna be pragmatic for them fund-withdrawin' big wigs who told the Quitter Queen Twitter to sit down and shut up. I pity them fools. Any of em. All of em.
Popcorn and beer for dinner next week! Go Sarah!
Dump Mitt.
Draft Sarah.
Or else.
2012-2014 1/2
Wow, As I read your screed, I found myself bracing for the gusts! Good One! Ex Cat
DeleteIt's a rotten shame you posted that anonymously. You should take proper credit for it. ;-)
DeleteMore Than 40 Republican Candidates Oppose Abortion In Cases Of Rape, Incest
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/22/todd-akin-abortion-rape-incest_n_1819201.html
There are more than 40 members of Congress, including the Republican vice-presidential nominee, who believe that if a woman is raped, she should be FORCED, literally FORCED to have that child and be responsable for it. What the woman herself wants, her previous life plans, her physical or emotional desires, are to be completely, COMPLETELY ignored. Even if she's 14 and raped by her father. Even if she was the victim of a violent sexual assault. That's the policy, plain as day.
Does anyone else have the overwhelming urge to vomit.
PS: Oh, they're also the same people who vehemently oppose any kind of government help in raising the unwanted child.
i might add that those folks also would give no consideration to a woman whose birth control failed because she was neither raped or a victim of incest.
Deleteduring all of the poignant discussion of rape victims - we forget that all women deserve the right to choose what happens to them and their reproductive organs. ALL WOMEN. period.
once you start parsing it out to only if something horrible occurs - then all women lose.
As an incest victim, had I ever gotten pregnant I would have had an abortion. There is no way in hell I would have had my father's child!
DeleteThese GD Republicans that think they can control my body to have the child makes me want to punch the hell out of everyone of them. They have no fucking clue about anything!
Do not vote for Romney and Ryan and vote out every other Republican across the nation - U.S. Congress, State Legislators and Mayors and Assembly people in cities across the US.
I also detest the overload on religion we are seeing. No wonder so many no longer have or want a religious affiliation! It's being cramed down our throats. Heaven and hell is right here on earth and the Republicans are making our lives HELL!!
Where the fuck did these people come from???
ReplyDeleteChristian Group Defends Todd Akin, Accuses Republicans Of ‘Political Gang Rape’
American Vision, a Christian nonprofit formed to "restore America to its biblical foundation," is accusing Republicans of committing "political gang rape" against Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.).
American Vision, in an article posted on its website and authored by the group's research director, Joel McDurmon, says Republican calls for Akin to step aside are basically like forcing someone to have sex against their will, repeatedly, with numerous perpetrators—politically-speaking, of course:
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/08/christian-group-accuses-gop-political-gang-rape-against-todd-akin
once again freedom of speech is confused with "when i say what is on my mind you need to agree with me".
Deletecommon misconception.
Husband:
Delete"You must listen to me while I'm fucking you. These are MY constitutional rights to free speech and freedom of religion, and my right to pursue happiness as the head of this household. I'm the man here, not you!)
Wifey poo:
"But what about my right to privacy, freedom of choice, freedom of speech?"
Husband (being firm with the little lady because she has all kinds of stupid ideas going through her head since she's been watching TV, reading books again, and talking to other women who don't know their place):
"Shut up and do as I say. You are to free to have babies when I tell you to and to otherwise serve as a repository for my semen, which contains sperm that don't work as effectively when you're all the time running your damn blabber mouth. Now quit your griping and fix my fuckin' dinner now. All you ever do us bitch while I'm the one who has to go to work every day to support this family. Now you'll do as you're told!"
Warning. This article may make you physically sick. Not just for the utter ignorance that is woven throughout, but the whining and victimized tone is disgusting.
ReplyDeleteLegitimate political gang rape
http://americanvision.org/6278/legitimate-political-gang-rape/
this definitely cracks me up but in many ways I want the dumb shits to have their convention. let nothing be in their way and STILL it would be a farce. I was looking forward to some entertainment!
ReplyDeleteI was also hoping to see what kind of spectacle the quitter would make, but you know she will use this as some kind of internal justification as to why she shouldn't show up and demand attention.
Pure unadulterated karmic payback at it's finest....gotta love it!!!
ReplyDeleteI do not wish a severe damaging storm on Tampa or anywhere. I expect the convention to gloss over issues, no specfics touting patriotism, exceptionalism and ring bells, firin' guns...stuff like that in contrast to the implied (nigger) other hatin and desroyin anti-American. A significant power outage would work if the universe must intervene:)
ReplyDeleteJust saw your update and graphic, Gryph. does anybody know how to remove a mouthful of a DQ Heath Bar Blizzard from a computer screen?
ReplyDeleteThe Flying Spaghetti Monster strikes again! All hail his Noodley Appendage!
ReplyDeleteI do not wish a hurricane on the good people of Tampa, but truly the powers at be choosing any place near the hurricane season route...come one, talk about no science. I feel better and better about Obama winning big, plus both houses...the GOP are eating each other alive with their bullshit. We all know these millionaire assholes and their offspring will never have to live in the horrible country they want, they will never be poor...or even middle class.
ReplyDeleteTheir views on abortion and the total lack of helping with the welfare of those unwanted children growing up...why doesn't the media ever ask about that?
Love the update with Akin doing the hurricane forecast. Would love to hear him give the forecast about the winds and showing footage of a tattered wig flying across a Tampa road.
ReplyDeleteGod works in mysterious ways :)
ReplyDeleteLike many of the commenters, I cannot root for a hurricane hitting anyone anywhere. But a hurricane is coming and it looks like it will hit somewhere on the Gulf Coast. I guess we will just have to wait and see what happens. I know I will be checking the weather channel more than usual over the next few days.
ReplyDeleteI don't wish a damaging hurricane on anyone either: I was stuck on Canal St. In New Orleans during Katrina and its aftermath. However.....I was imaging the GOP convention in a power outage, and wondering if saner heads might prevail without microphones and cameras.
ReplyDeleteDave
Texas
I surmise that Franklin and Palin will provide a plate full of cookies and religious paraphernalia to the stranded GOP conventioneers impacted by Isaac.
ReplyDeleteAlso too, I do hope the FEMA chief has a nice long lunch and is well rested before he makes his journey to assess what help should be made available to the stranded GOP conventioneers. Or better yet, let them sun gaze from the rooftop of the convention center as long as possible and feel the refreshing splash from the Gulf waters which already have the necessary oils to provide them with sun protection. For food, go ahead and pluck some nicely coated fish for sushi. I do hope FEMA's has some left over bootstraps from the Bush era to air drop onto the convention center roof.
Cantor should go ahead and get the ball rolling to hold up all federal disaster-aid and recovery monies since there isn't an offset in place yet. He might have to work more than 16 hours this week to achieve this patriotic duty. After that, he should be entitled to take the rest of the year off (of course with pay).
And is it wrong for me to ask that my despicable Gov'r, Queen Haley, be allowed to enjoy the blessings of Florida as long as possible? Like staying around to actually (re)build the convention center (w/o Union workers and Gov't assistance)? This time it might give some credence to her party's theme "We Built This"? And I hope someone gives her a 'tourist' map of places to see and things to do, in order to see what reality looks like. Maybe she'll get to experience God's will.
And my we all be spared from the endless news cycle loop of the only but most significant travesty of Isaac's wrath....
Since Rethugs have such strong faith in their Bronze Age Middle Eastern deity,why can't they just pray away the hurricane?
ReplyDeleteOh wait...maybe it's "Gawd's PLAN" for the storm to hit,as "everything happens for a reason",right?Make lemonade out of a lemon situation,right?Um wait again...their "scriptures" were written waaay before the Unites States ever existed,so how can Gawd even have a "plan" for the USA?And hey...doesn't their Gawd/Yahweh hate Gentiles?And aren't there a lot of Gentiles in this country?
...I cannot imagine what it must be like to base your existence around such shit.That said,while I couldn't care less about the GOP convention,I do not wish anything upon Tampa and its residents.
There does exist an entity, if you will, as HAARP. (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) with the original site being located in Gakona, Alaska. Read Nick Begich Jr.'s (son of the late Alaskan senator, Nick Begich Sr.) book "Angels Don't Play This HAARP'. I've personally spoken to Nick about weather modification/weather warfare and believe me, other countries have this technology besides the USA. It IS real. It DOES exist.
ReplyDeleteIn any case, the timing of Isaac couldn't be more telling of HAARP - either that or Isaac is an incredible coincidence in its timing. Not everything is a 'conspiracy theory' but there are times when you do have to wonder.
Being a borderline agnostic myself, I would if this sucker hits Tampon Bay and cancels the convention, then I be apt to say, 'Yes! There IS a God'.
Then again, I would not wish injury or death to Floridians. Must suck to live in hurricane alley. But again, they're very much used to hurricanes so maybe they will evacuate and wouldn't that be awesome if no one showed up at the convention in the first place. Sweet.