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When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

I did not have telepathic declassification on my 2022 bingo card.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Not all heroes wear capes.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Consistently wrong since 2002

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Infrastructure week. at last.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

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  1. 1.

    JPL

    You can do that if you want but you might be arrested. You do have a large following so maybe we can bail you out. Doubt it though.

  3. 3.

    Arclite

    Does solar make sense where you live? Maybe you can get partially off the grid.

  4. 4.

    Kathi

    Yeah, I’m watching that too and I’m a little closer to it than you are. All I got out of the last one was flash/boom & wind. Hoping for a little rain this time…

  5. 5.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Hope you and yours (pets, parents, siblings, friends) stay safe and only mildly inconvenienced.

  7. 7.

    JPL

    I posted this down below.. If you really want to feel inferior, Monday’s NYTimes crossword was constructed by a gal who is 98. Good times.

  10. 10.

    Soonergrunt

    @John Cole, top:
    “I seriously want to kick James Inhofe and other wingnut climate change denialists in the dick.”
    Have at him, dude.

  12. 12.

    Jewish Steel

    Criminy. Solidly mid to upper 90s for the foreseeable future here in Central IL. Not a drop of rain coming either.

    It’s gettin dust-bowly round these parts.

    @El Cid: I think this is the guy you’re looking for?

  13. 13.

    Linda Featheringill

    That storm system is over me or has passed over me. We had thunder for about an hour. Wind for about 2 minutes. And actual rain for about 30 seconds. And now it is trotting off eastward.

    There might be real activity further east, of course.

  14. 14.

    kindness

    All storms point to John.

    John we knew you are special, we just didn’t realize how…

  15. 15.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    It was 109 here today, with a heat index of 116. I have never been more grateful than I was today that I switched from the whole house heat/air thing to window units and space heaters. It would have cost me a fortune to cool the whole house (50% of which is not used) whereas last month even as hot as it was our electric bill was still only $100.00. (As opposed to $400.00 when we were using the whole house thing).

    While you are in the house it just feels comfortable, but not particularly cool. It is not until you walk outside and hit that wall of heat that you realize how cool the house actually is. In fact after being outside in 109 the house feels freezing when you get back inside.

  16. 16.

    Anne Laurie

    Lost three tomato plants the other day to high winds. Even staked, the wind just ripped them apart. Wonder how many I will lose tonight.

    I’ve heard a theory, about hurricane wind/rain conditions, that it helps to tent the staked plants with old sheets or tarps or even plastic, tied down well, so the individual leaves don’t take as much stress. Only time I tried this personally, I covered the towered-and-spiraled gro-bags along one side of my driveway ‘garden’ but not the similarly staked planters on the other side. My experiment failed, alas, because the projected wind-rain bursts skipped our part of town…

  17. 17.

    Linda Featheringill

    @Baud: #8

    Don’t worry, John. It’ll all be a desert soon enough.

    Gee, thanks. I feel a whole lot better now.

  21. 21.

    The Moar You Know

    Arclite
    10 mins ago
    Does solar make sense where you live? Maybe you can get partially off the grid.

    @Arclite: high winds turn solar panels into heavy glass and steel kites that will blow right through the side of a house. If they dont come loose, theyll get destroyed by everything else that has. Here in SoCal, where we tend to not get that kind of weather, it’s not so much of an issue, but having your solar array not get wrecked by heavy weather is a problem that we are still trying to find a solution for.

  22. 22.

    Linda Featheringill

    @Litlebritdifrnt: #18

    It was 109 here today, with a heat index of 116.

    Bless your heart, dear. That kind of heat isn’t really compatible with human life.

  23. 23.

    JPL

    @Litlebritdifrnt: If I didn’t kick the ex in that area, I probably wouldn’t kick anyone. I always wondered about this spitting thingy that men find sound offensive, though.

  24. 24.

    Rock

    I think that’s the same storm that blew through the Chicago area today. We had 95+ MPH wind and trees 3ft diameter snap in two. Power lines are down everywhere and I imagine will be out for days. With another week of highs stretching in the upper 90s coming.

  25. 25.

    Davis X. Machina

    @John Cole: And wunderground.com it has a choice of language interfaces that includes Latin, so you know the frigor quo ros apparet (the temperature at which dew appears).

    How cool is that?

  26. 26.

    magurakurin

    @John Cole:

    agreed, that’s a good one. If you are a weather junkie here is another awesome site to watch when the tropics start to heat up and the tropical cyclone season gets going. Great photos and charts.

    CIMSS Tropical Cyclones

  27. 27.

    Linda Featheringill

    I understand your anger towards Inhofe. I do wonder about Oklahoma, though. Those folks suffered last year and are suffering again this year, plus the whole western half may be undergoing desertification. And yet they keep voting for Inhofe.

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    barath

    @Linda Featheringill:

    Bless your heart, dear. That kind of heat isn’t really compatible with human life.

    Well we are well past Hansen’s estimate of 350 ppm of CO2 as the limit that is “similar to the one on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted”. We’re at 397 ppm and climbing steadily, with no end in sight. For a while now I’ve been thinking that in a few years we’re going to reach a turning point on the climate and energy mess we’ve gotten ourselves into (more here). It’s sad to see all this going on and little being done to stop it…

  31. 31.

    Davis X. Machina

    @barath: How you can be simultaneously obsessed with the 75-year actuarial status of Social Security and not give a rat’s ass about the climate 20 years from now defeats me.

  32. 32.

    gogol's wife

    @M. Bouffant:

    Note to self: Always read the whole thread before answering a question. I will never learn that lesson. I just love Rosa Klebb.

  33. 33.

    KyCole

    Thunderstorms here in Louisville, but they’re on their way out now. I’m so thrilled that the forecast for next week will only be in the upper 90’s. Climate change deniers can kiss my ass.

  34. 34.

    barath

    @Davis X. Machina:

    Because they’re not actually concerned about Social Security either, I’m guessing… That concern is just a means to an end (lower taxes, privatization, cutting the safety net).

  35. 35.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    @barath:

    Because 50% of the population does not believe it exists, DESPITE the temperatures of 109. The first snow come winter and they will be all “how’s that global warming working out for ya Ha Ha Ha!” And then they will laugh. Today Atlanta topped its all time highest temperature ever. It beat the one set YESTERDAY. I despair that I coexist on this planet with morons.

  38. 38.

    barath

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    Well we won’t be the first civilization to damage our ecosystem severely enough to seriously harm ourselves, and maybe won’t be the last. The biggest problem is that industrial civilization today is global, and the damage being done is global as well.

  40. 40.

    David Fud

    Good ol’ Jim Inhofe is sharing our normal Oklahoma weather with you – having effectively expanded tornado alley from only Oklahoma to the entire plains and mid-west.

    Just thank him properly for me when you see that asshole.

  42. 42.

    Spaghetti Lee

    Storms knocked out a bunch of power here in suburban Chicago today-I’ve heard as many as 700,000 people and no full restoration until the end of the week. Hoping for the low end on both counts, obviously. My house is still out, to my knowledge: the family and I are staying with some friends and then spending the night at a hotel. I know it’s a first-world problem or whatever, but I can’t stand power outages. Hoping for the best for you.

    We haven’t been sizzling quite as bad as the plains states or the South, but all of June was basically a drought, and now a giant derecho knocking out most of the metro area-ridiculous. It’s supposed to stay above 95 for the foreseeable future. Normally I don’t like attributing a few weeks or months worth of weather patterns to global climate change-I’m pretty sure a year or two ago Chicago had one of its cooler summers in a while-but damn. Maybe El Nino has something to do with it?

  43. 43.

    General Stuck

    Thunderstorms are our savior, and they rarely get extreme. We just have to worry about burning to a crisp. And I miss the extreme weather from back east and south, being a tad fatalistic and stoopid in that way.

  44. 44.

    maven

    John; just pinch back the tomato plants to remove the damaged parts. If the roots are still in the ground they aren’t a lost cause. They will simply bush out from the lower branches and you will actually extend your season. Surprising how thick they will be in a couple weeks.

    Your October hurricane tomato crop. Perfect for freezing or canning when it isn’t so hot.

  51. 51.

    Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony

    I’ll hold the climate denialists down, so you won’t miss.

  52. 52.

    geg6

    If you get what we’re getting right now, no worries, Cole. If not, I’ll be thinking of you and the people of the truly lovely state of WestbygoddamVirginia. As will the Kenyan Usurper, who, despite the burning hatred of most of its residents, wants to help them and is doing what he can.

  53. 53.

    Chris T.

    It’s not Climate Change that’s changing your climate, it’s just a change in climate! That’s the Republican position and they’ll keep repeating it!

  55. 55.

    Heliopause

    I seriously want to kick James Inhofe and other wingnut climate change denialists in the dick.

    Here in the great state of Washington in the beautiful pacific northwest we are generally blue voters, it’s still possible to get an abortion, and we may have marriage equality in a few months. Temps in the upper 60s and very pleasant, though on the downside it’s perfect slug weather. We are forecast to start a warm and dry trend in a few days, highs in the mid to upper 70s. I’d tell you when I plan to turn on the air conditioning except, shoot, I don’t own air conditioning, not necessary around here.

    You red staters pissed off Allah, tried to warn you.

  57. 57.

    mainmati

    here in silver spring md, we have day 3 with no power lots of downed trees traffic is a mess so only communication is with cell phone. Living the good life of constant sweat.

  58. 58.

    YellowJournalism

    @JPL: It might detract from donations to Obama, but I bet we could scrounge up enough for bail. Would be worth it.

  61. 61.

    donnah

    I’m in SW Ohio and we got walloped on Friday. Our neighbor across the street lost half a big oak tree. Fortunately it fell in front of his house, not on it.

    The temperature that day dropped from 99 degrees to 66 in less than half an hour. Today it was back up into the nineties when another windy storm front blew in. I kept my eye on the rest of that tree across the street. We’re expecting temps in the nineties for the whole upcoming week, so I expect we’ll get these freak pop-up thunderstorms.

    Scary.

  64. 64.

    Tonal Crow

    @El Cid:

    This will make you feel better: Atlas Shrugged Part II, In Theaters October 2012!

    I wonder whether moviegoers will Go Galt (sm) on that as much as they did on the first installment? I sure am.

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