Isaac’s projected path has shifted to the south, meaning that it will probably shift to the west so by the time it gets to Florida the core might miss the land entirely. (Maybe it just doesn’t want to mingle with the Republicans in Tampa.)
Rush Limbaugh on Tropical Storm Isaac:
So we got a hurricane coming. The National Hurricane Center, which is a government agency, is very hopeful that the hurricane gets near Tampa. The National Hurricane Center is Obama. It’s the National Weather Service, part of the commerce department. It’s Obama. The media, it’s all about the hurricane hitting next week, and they’re not talking about Biden, they’re talking about this Hurricane Isaac thing.
So if President Obama is so powerful that he can get a hurricane to hit Tampa, why can’t he lower the price of gas, reduce the unemployment rate to 3%, or get the last olive out of that narrow jar with his fingers? Huh?
Any time a man starts an article with “What do women want,” you know you’re in for good laugh — as in hollow and sardonic. For example, check out this by Kevin D. Williamson at National Review.
What do women want? The conventional biological wisdom is that men select mates for fertility, while women select for status — thus the commonness of younger women’s pairing with well-established older men but the rarity of the converse. The Demi Moore–Ashton Kutcher model is an exception — the only 40-year-old woman Jack Nicholson has ever seen naked is Kathy Bates in that horrific hot-tub scene. Age is cruel to women, and subordination is cruel to men. Ellen Kullman is a very pretty woman, but at 56 years of age she probably would not turn a lot of heads in a college bar, and the fact that she is the chairman and CEO of Dupont isn’t going to change that.
[…]
Have a gander at that Romney family picture: five sons, zero daughters. Romney has 18 grandchildren, and they exceed a 2:1 ratio of grandsons to granddaughters (13:5). When they go to church at their summer-vacation home, the Romney clan makes up a third of the congregation. He is basically a tribal chieftain.
Professor Obama? Two daughters. May as well give the guy a cardigan. And fallopian tubes.
Wow, I can smell the Viagra-enhanced testosterone from here.
It doesn’t take Psychology 101 to figure out that this dude has real issues with feelings of gender inferiority when he cranks out a defensive — and offensive — primal scream like this. I don’t know him from Adam, but given the topic of the last week and the larger topic of women having control of their uterus, you have to wonder why it is that conservatives are so threatened by other peoples’ self-confidence and sense of autonomy. Why does Mr. Williamson get all bonered up about Mitt Romney siring five sons who turn out male grandsons and diss President Obama for having daughters? (By the way, all of Mitt’s boys are straight? C’mon. The simple law of averages predicts that at least one of them has Latter Days in his Netflix queue.) Simply put, what is so threatening about women to him and to a lot of men in the Republican party?
He will have to answer that on his own, but I’m pretty sure it explains why the GOP isn’t doing so well with women voters.
Mitt Romney and the Republicans thought that if they campaigned on the weak economy and the high unemployment rate, they would win the election. And the odds favor them on that score; it’s been a long time since a president got re-elected when the rate was over 7%.
They also thought that by putting Paul Ryan, the hunky guru of the Republican budget, on the ticket they could make the case for their vision of lower taxes for the rich — who deserve it because they do so much for the rest of us — and force the middle class to really get to work and earn all those entitlements: no free lunch for you people.
But it was not to be. All the liberal media wants to talk about are the slutty women and their lies about rape or the queers and their ideas of marriage equality so they can do icky things and get a tax deduction for their sweaty perversions. They’re the ones who are making the GOP talk about turning a one-celled organism into a person; they’re the ones who are making them write the party platform that makes a condom an assault weapon; they’re the ones who are turning all of the attention away from how terrible things are in swing states like Florida, and even they are conspiring against them by doing better.
The Republicans have no one to blame but themselves (by which they mean Barack Obama). In 2010 they ran on a platform of jobs-jobs-jobs, and a lot of people voted for them because they thought, “Hey, they got us into this mess; maybe now they’re serious about getting us out of it.” But when they won, we found out that what they really wanted was to repeal healthcare, ban abortions, marginalize the gays, deport the immigrants (only the brown ones), and restrict voting to those who only deserved it. And who can blame them? What’s more fun: listening to economists drone on about interest rates and sequestration, or going after civil rights of people? Hey, come on, that’s a trick question. Talking about the economy is the stuff of C-SPAN at 2 a.m. Civil rights brings back images of demonstrations in the street, cops using fire hoses, and speeches on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
This is America, the sex-obsessed land of Jersey Shore and the Kardashians; where you can turn even the most boring topic — healthcare reform — into something for TMZ if you can get to the sex angle: contraception for single women Georgetown law school students, and gay marriage brings forth visions of cute guys prancing around in their Speedos.
No wonder the economy line isn’t selling.
Here’s another one for the whacky parade:
Texas Judge Tom Head is worried about what might happen if President Obama wins reelection in November. There could be riots, unrest or a “civil war, maybe,” he told a local television station this week.
Because of that, the Lubbock County judge has decided the only way to prepare is to increase taxes to help beef up local law enforcement.
“I’m thinking worst case scenario now,” Head said during an appearance on FOX 34 in Lubbock. “Civil unrest, civil disobedience, civil war, maybe. And we’re not talking just a few riots here and demonstrations, we’re talking Lexington, Concord, take up arms and get rid of the guy.”
The judge spun the elaborate conspiracy theory while calling for a 1.7 cent hike per $100 on property taxes in Lubbock County, a measure being considered by the commission there. He said he feared Obama would hand over sovereignty of the United States to the United Nations and the unrest would naturally follow.
The whackiness isn’t just that he’d advocate civil rebellion against the president; it’s that he’d raise taxes to pay for his insurgency.
The campaign season brings out the whackjobs.
A Republican candidate for Hillsborough County [New Hampshire] Sheriff said Wednesday that he believes elective abortions are unlawful and he wouldn’t reject the use of deadly force to stop them.
Frank Szabo said that as sheriff, he would arrest any doctor performing elective or late-term abortions in his jurisdiction.
“There is a difference between legal and lawful,” Szabo said.
Szabo explained the difference by referring to the issue of slavery, which he said used to be legal but was never lawful under the Constitution. He said that even though elective abortions are legal in New Hampshire, with some restrictions, he doesn’t consider them lawful.
But Szabo may have inflamed the issue further when asked if he would use deadly force to prevent an abortion.
“I would respond specifically by saying that if someone is under threat, a full-grown human being, if they’re under threat, what should the sheriff do? Everything in their power to prevent them from being harmed,” he said.
There’s something a little more than strange going on when a law enforcement officer threatens to stop a legal act with deadly force.
Isaac is projected to cross Haiti, then the Keys, and keep a more westerly track, avoiding South Florida.
Iran courts Asia as buyers of its oil.
The FBI is looking into the campaign shenanigans in Miami-Dade.
The shooter at the FRC has been indicted.
West Nile virus outbreak hits at least 1,100 people.
Home sales are moving in a positive direction.
CBO warns of another recession if Congress fails to act.
Curiosity went for a little drive.
Tropical Update: TD Ten could threaten the Eastern Seaboard.
The Tigers beat the Blue Jays again.
Rush Limbaugh on Tropical Storm Isaac:
So we got a hurricane coming. The National Hurricane Center, which is a government agency, is very hopeful that the hurricane gets near Tampa. The National Hurricane Center is Obama. It’s the National Weather Service, part of the commerce department. It’s Obama. The media, it’s all about the hurricane hitting next week, and they’re not talking about Biden, they’re talking about this Hurricane Isaac thing.
So if President Obama is so powerful that he can get a hurricane to hit Tampa, why can’t he lower the price of gas, reduce the unemployment rate to 3%, or get the last olive out of that narrow jar with his fingers? Huh?
Any time a man starts an article with “What do women want,” you know you’re in for good laugh — as in hollow and sardonic. For example, check out this by Kevin D. Williamson at National Review.
What do women want? The conventional biological wisdom is that men select mates for fertility, while women select for status — thus the commonness of younger women’s pairing with well-established older men but the rarity of the converse. The Demi Moore–Ashton Kutcher model is an exception — the only 40-year-old woman Jack Nicholson has ever seen naked is Kathy Bates in that horrific hot-tub scene. Age is cruel to women, and subordination is cruel to men. Ellen Kullman is a very pretty woman, but at 56 years of age she probably would not turn a lot of heads in a college bar, and the fact that she is the chairman and CEO of Dupont isn’t going to change that.
[…]
Have a gander at that Romney family picture: five sons, zero daughters. Romney has 18 grandchildren, and they exceed a 2:1 ratio of grandsons to granddaughters (13:5). When they go to church at their summer-vacation home, the Romney clan makes up a third of the congregation. He is basically a tribal chieftain.
Professor Obama? Two daughters. May as well give the guy a cardigan. And fallopian tubes.
Wow, I can smell the Viagra-enhanced testosterone from here.
It doesn’t take Psychology 101 to figure out that this dude has real issues with feelings of gender inferiority when he cranks out a defensive — and offensive — primal scream like this. I don’t know him from Adam, but given the topic of the last week and the larger topic of women having control of their uterus, you have to wonder why it is that conservatives are so threatened by other peoples’ self-confidence and sense of autonomy. Why does Mr. Williamson get all bonered up about Mitt Romney siring five sons who turn out male grandsons and diss President Obama for having daughters? (By the way, all of Mitt’s boys are straight? C’mon. The simple law of averages predicts that at least one of them has Latter Days in his Netflix queue.) Simply put, what is so threatening about women to him and to a lot of men in the Republican party?
He will have to answer that on his own, but I’m pretty sure it explains why the GOP isn’t doing so well with women voters.
Mitt Romney and the Republicans thought that if they campaigned on the weak economy and the high unemployment rate, they would win the election. And the odds favor them on that score; it’s been a long time since a president got re-elected when the rate was over 7%.
They also thought that by putting Paul Ryan, the hunky guru of the Republican budget, on the ticket they could make the case for their vision of lower taxes for the rich — who deserve it because they do so much for the rest of us — and force the middle class to really get to work and earn all those entitlements: no free lunch for you people.
But it was not to be. All the liberal media wants to talk about are the slutty women and their lies about rape or the queers and their ideas of marriage equality so they can do icky things and get a tax deduction for their sweaty perversions. They’re the ones who are making the GOP talk about turning a one-celled organism into a person; they’re the ones who are making them write the party platform that makes a condom an assault weapon; they’re the ones who are turning all of the attention away from how terrible things are in swing states like Florida, and even they are conspiring against them by doing better.
The Republicans have no one to blame but themselves (by which they mean Barack Obama). In 2010 they ran on a platform of jobs-jobs-jobs, and a lot of people voted for them because they thought, “Hey, they got us into this mess; maybe now they’re serious about getting us out of it.” But when they won, we found out that what they really wanted was to repeal healthcare, ban abortions, marginalize the gays, deport the immigrants (only the brown ones), and restrict voting to those who only deserved it. And who can blame them? What’s more fun: listening to economists drone on about interest rates and sequestration, or going after civil rights of people? Hey, come on, that’s a trick question. Talking about the economy is the stuff of C-SPAN at 2 a.m. Civil rights brings back images of demonstrations in the street, cops using fire hoses, and speeches on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
This is America, the sex-obsessed land of Jersey Shore and the Kardashians; where you can turn even the most boring topic — healthcare reform — into something for TMZ if you can get to the sex angle: contraception for single women Georgetown law school students, and gay marriage brings forth visions of cute guys prancing around in their Speedos.
No wonder the economy line isn’t selling.
Here’s another one for the whacky parade:
Texas Judge Tom Head is worried about what might happen if President Obama wins reelection in November. There could be riots, unrest or a “civil war, maybe,” he told a local television station this week.
Because of that, the Lubbock County judge has decided the only way to prepare is to increase taxes to help beef up local law enforcement.
“I’m thinking worst case scenario now,” Head said during an appearance on FOX 34 in Lubbock. “Civil unrest, civil disobedience, civil war, maybe. And we’re not talking just a few riots here and demonstrations, we’re talking Lexington, Concord, take up arms and get rid of the guy.”
The judge spun the elaborate conspiracy theory while calling for a 1.7 cent hike per $100 on property taxes in Lubbock County, a measure being considered by the commission there. He said he feared Obama would hand over sovereignty of the United States to the United Nations and the unrest would naturally follow.
The whackiness isn’t just that he’d advocate civil rebellion against the president; it’s that he’d raise taxes to pay for his insurgency.
The campaign season brings out the whackjobs.
A Republican candidate for Hillsborough County [New Hampshire] Sheriff said Wednesday that he believes elective abortions are unlawful and he wouldn’t reject the use of deadly force to stop them.
Frank Szabo said that as sheriff, he would arrest any doctor performing elective or late-term abortions in his jurisdiction.
“There is a difference between legal and lawful,” Szabo said.
Szabo explained the difference by referring to the issue of slavery, which he said used to be legal but was never lawful under the Constitution. He said that even though elective abortions are legal in New Hampshire, with some restrictions, he doesn’t consider them lawful.
But Szabo may have inflamed the issue further when asked if he would use deadly force to prevent an abortion.
“I would respond specifically by saying that if someone is under threat, a full-grown human being, if they’re under threat, what should the sheriff do? Everything in their power to prevent them from being harmed,” he said.
There’s something a little more than strange going on when a law enforcement officer threatens to stop a legal act with deadly force.
Isaac is projected to cross Haiti, then the Keys, and keep a more westerly track, avoiding South Florida.
Iran courts Asia as buyers of its oil.
The FBI is looking into the campaign shenanigans in Miami-Dade.
The shooter at the FRC has been indicted.
West Nile virus outbreak hits at least 1,100 people.
Home sales are moving in a positive direction.
CBO warns of another recession if Congress fails to act.
Curiosity went for a little drive.
Tropical Update: TD Ten could threaten the Eastern Seaboard.
The Tigers beat the Blue Jays again.
If a (hurricane) is approaching, let’s think good thoughts about being outside in the sunshine with good-looking guys in swimsuits and having fun at the expense of some rich guy.
If a (hurricane) is approaching, let’s think good thoughts about being outside in the sunshine with good-looking guys in swimsuits and having fun at the expense of some rich guy.
This could be interesting.
Isaac was moving west at 18 mph with maximum winds of 40 mph. Forecasters expect the storm to reach hurricane strength by Thursday as it approaches Puerto Rico and continue west until Friday, when Isaac would be off the coast of Hispaniola. Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Haiti could see heavy rains, flooding and mud slides.
Isaac’s direction from there will be determined by the timing and strength of a high-pressure ridge to its north and a trough digging down from the southeastern U.S. that could steer it more north, Berg said. Conditions favor Isaac’s development and a stronger storm would be more likely to push north, he said. But interaction with the mountains of Haiti or Cuba also could weaken the system or even rip it apart.
If it stays on the projected path, it would head for the west coast of Florida by Wednesday. That includes Tampa, where the Republicans will be gathered for their convention. Dana Milbank wonders if it could be seen as divine retribution; after all, didn’t Pat Robertson and Michele Bachmann warn us about God smiting us with hurricanes for bad behavior ?
I’ve lived through a couple of hurricanes, so I don’t seriously wish bad things like that on anyone, but it does seem like a karmic convergence along with a low pressure system.
Update: Here’s the 5 p.m. tracking map.
It looks like Isaac is projected to cross the Keys and run up the west coast of Florida, passing within hailing distance of Tampa. The mayor of Tampa is talking about making contingency plans for the GOP convention.
Kris Kobach, the Kansas attorney general behind other states’ immigration laws and a Romney adviser, testified at a GOP platform hearing against an amendment to withdraw support for the Defense of Marriage Act and compared being gay to polygamy and drug use.
Our government routinely judges situations where you might regard people completely affecting themselves like for example the use of controlled substances, like polygamy that is voluntarily entered in to. We condemn those activities even though they are not hurting other people at least directly. So this is worded way too broadly for inclusion in the platform.
For the record, the supporters of the amendment were proposing it because “under the constitution, every American gets treated equally under the law.” Can’t have that, can we?
By the way, Mitt Romney’s great-grandfather was an enthusiastic polygamist. In fact, that’s why the family moved to Mexico and where Mitt’s father, George Romney, was born. Oh, but we can’t talk about that.
The Republicans are championing an amendment to the Constitution to make abortions illegal without exception even though they know that no law will stop a person from getting one if they truly want one.
The Republicans are opposed to any kind of ban on assault weapons even though they know that no law will stop a person from getting one if they truly want one.
Explain that to me, please.
