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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-08 08:38 AM
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Nice to see the media whores grasping for straws for Gustav.
Edited on Mon Sep-01-08 08:39 AM by onehandle
Surely looking like the storm is not in the Katrina realm, thank God.

Right now it's TORNADOES! TORNADOES! TORNADOES! Although it's mostly the theory of spin off tornadoes.

They are begging for anecdotal stories from viewers.

Bush can't win on this one. If the levees fail, "why didn't he help fix them?" If they don't, then he has no disaster to cry on camera about.

On to the convention...
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niceypoo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-08 08:42 AM
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1. Republicans expecting a dip in polls from convention...
...avoid at all costs, hide Bush, hide Cheney, give all the republicans that don't want to show up an out, avoid talking about Giggles (Palin.)
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thunder rising Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-08 08:42 AM
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2. We should be DEMANDING a convention. Let's see the GOP in action
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-08 08:53 AM
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6. They will fire up the convention now.. they look silly
down there.. levees fail ..it's their fault..

might as well go to MSP and partayyyy
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-08 08:42 AM
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3. Bingo n/t
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-08 08:46 AM
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4. they threw a gustav hurricane party and gustav did`t show up
it`s great that this storm is`t going to do as much destruction has they thought...

at least we do`t have to write about the selected ones speeches tonight.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-08 08:54 AM
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7. The sad thing is that they disrupted the lives of so many people and
some of them will NOT evacuate the next time :scared:
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-08 10:16 AM
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19. you could be right .....
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-08 10:22 AM
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20. If you are a paycheck-to-paycheck family
with bills out the wazoo, the LAST thing you need is to burn gas you cannot afford to go and stay in a motel & feed yourselves at restaurants for maybe 3 or 4 days until the gubbmint says you can go home..and if you are an hourly employee, you have lost a couple of days' pay in the process,and can only hope that your house was not looted..

so the next time, you may say ..screw it..we're staying.
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Dreamer Tatum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-08 10:35 AM
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21. Everyone's a Pro Bowl quarterback on Monday morning nt
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-08 08:52 AM
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5. oh the humanity.. Contessa Brewer showed us an overturned potted palm
her BIG story, and all that happened is that her mascara ran and she got her pretty red raincoat wet :rofl:
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radfringe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-08 09:33 AM
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14. wait for the spin....
fluffy the caribou slayer spent the night praying with supporters for God to spare the Gulf coast from disaster
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-08 11:45 AM
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23. I call for a telethon for the brave downtrodden potted palm.
"Palm-Aid"
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WolverineDG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-08 11:48 AM
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24. She also got hit by flying debris!!!!111!
Edited on Mon Sep-01-08 11:49 AM by WolverineDG
which turned out to be "palm tree bark." :rofl:

Though that was not as funny as watching that other MSNBC chick almost get blown off her feet in Mississippi.....20 lb reporter v. 75+mph winds = :spray:

dg
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BlueManDude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-08 08:59 AM
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8. Ed Henry on CNN - "Bush had no choice but to skip convention."
Are these people that stupid or are they just in the tank?
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-08 09:18 AM
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9. Contessa Brewer wins hands down
for most stupid comments ever. She's going to be very disappointed.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-08 09:20 AM
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10. The Weather people just suck, they can't predict taking a piss
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-08 09:23 AM
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12. They have been pretty darn accurate
The early forecasts all said Cat 2 at landfall in Louisiana and that's where it's landed.
If you stick to the credible people/models at NOAA or WeatherUnderground, you'll be OK.

The only time they got Gustav wrong was when they predicted it would go between Jamaica and Cuba but then it turned WSW then WNW and went across Jamaica. Everything else was spot on.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-08 09:29 AM
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13. Well, I guess I should not watch cable weather any more
because all I saw was TERRA TERRA TERRA DAMAGE DAMAGE DAMAGE DESTRUCTION DEATH FLOODING TERRA :rofl:
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-08 09:36 AM
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16. One of the GEM$NBC idiots was nearly thrown to the ground
a few minutes ago. I'd pay to see those fools learn a serious lesson. Pelting rain and 60mph winds and she's on air. They are mad for ratings and fame. :rofl:
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-08 10:42 AM
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22. It's in their interest to make these storms big and BIGGER
They are a COMMERCIAL enterprise and the more eyeballs they have glued to the channel watching the ferocious storm, and getting scared more and more , for hours and hours..well it's how they make the money and sell the ads..Every year, this is their perpetual superbowl June-Nov..

If they said.. Hey folks,,batten down the hatches we;ve got a hurricane coming, it's probably gonna be a 2 when it hits, but it;s kind of big now..people would go ho-hum get the plywood out, and then change the channel
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-08 09:22 AM
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11. Breaking news (OMG) HIGH WATER!
Edited on Mon Sep-01-08 09:25 AM by DainBramaged


Oil down to 111.06 (-4.00)
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-08 09:34 AM
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15. or BREAKING WIND
:rofl:
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-08 09:36 AM
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17. or GRASPING FOR RATINGS!!!
:rofl:
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-08 09:37 AM
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18. Ding ding we have a winner
:rofl:
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amuse bouche Donating Member (153 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-01-08 06:25 PM
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25. Thw MSM exagerates everything
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