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Hurricane Could Make a Mess of Republican Convention
Hugh Pickens writes "ABC News reports that Hurricane Isaac, currently a tropical storm brewing southeast of Puerto Rico, is on track to hit Florida the same day that Mitt Romney and 50,000 Republican delegates, journalists, protestors and guests descend on Tampa for the Republican National Convention but whether it will skim the east coast near Miami or crash head-on into Tampa, is still up in the air. The worst possible scenario is that Hurricane Isaac stays on the western track, skating over the Caribbean Sea south of Haiti, crossing the primarily flat landscape of western Cuba into the Gulf of Mexico then curving east and hitting Tampa dead-on. 'Tampa is just as vulnerable as New Orleans was in the sense that the water will funnel into the bay area and from the storm surge which will flood completely the whole entire city of Tampa,' says meteorologist Max Golembo. 'It would be a disaster in the Tampa area.' If a hurricane or tropical storm is bearing down on Tampa, the priority of law enforcement is to evacuate residents, leaving GOP officials to make the decision of when to evacuate delegates says Hillsborough County Emergency Management spokeswoman Holly Wade. 'We have to look at a lot of factors, like timing and landfall,' says Wade. 'We provide the weather information, then we take that to the host committee, which decides if the event goes on or if the event gets altered.' A Category 2 hurricane could disrupt convention activities because the Tampa Bay Times Forum, site of the festivities, is within a mandatory evacuation zone for storms of that magnitude."
Absolutely nothing of value was lost.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
just like the right wingers said there was
This is just an excuse to forgo the brokered convention Paul's delegates will force... They have broke every rule in every state to stop the Paul revolution, and now it looks like they have paid off Isaac to make an appearance to silence Paul's voice.
This kids is what we call Karma...
And if some people's/group's twisted logic is applied this must surely mean that God hates Republicans.
Me? I feel bad for everyone in Florida and hope the convention errr I mean hurricane passes quickly.
Mother Nature seems pissed at the Republicans. Might wanta rethink that anti global warming stance. Apparently all the droughts and tornadoes wasn't making the point obviously enough so she decided to take aim at the deniers and try to take out as many as possible in one shot. If I was Exxon and Monsanto I'd be updating your life insurance policies.
People only get killed in cases of "legitimate" hurricanes!
Cold air, meet hot air.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
I wonder what Pat Robinson would blame this one on? God punishing the Republicans for nominating a Mormon?
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It gives the left a chance to show how noble, tolerant, and mature they can be.
It just has "a wide stance".
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
With a little luck, the hurricane will transport all the Republicans to the land of Goz, where they can become the wicked wizards and legitimately rape all poor Dorothy's that happen to come along, and then deny her an abortion. Then they will all go to the convenience store to buy guns in order to fight over who gets to keep the baby, good old fashioned wild-west style, 'cause a man has to defend his rights and stuff. The one who remains alive will then declare himself God, finally proving that god does indeed exist and that evolution is all a bunch of crap.
Evacuating the GOP convention with a hurricane is just God's way of voting. I'd pay attention and not try to "misplace" God's ballot if I were them.
There is no one true dictionary any more than there is one true god.
How can you claim that there is only one true dictionary when humanity has not spoken a single language since the tower of Babel?!
Actually, the problem is the Republican don't accept the Hurricane as valid ID for God to Vote, Of course God doesn't care, she's voting anyway.