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God Apparently Hates Meteorologists

by Elon James White|  October 9, 20154:39 pm| 67 Comments

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Westboro Baptist Church is obviously running out of things to protest. Their latest attack is on meteorologists. Yes, you read that right. They planned to protest the National Weather Center headquarters in Norman, Oklahoma, because:

“Note to weather reporting rebels, nothing happens in this earth without the direct command of God,” the group said in a statement. The church also released a statement on Twitter saying that it would demonstrate against the agency on Thursday, “to remind them that ONLY by God’s mercy and power do you gather intelligence on His weather.”

Just, wow. Team Blackness also discussed Ben Carson’s run-in with an armed robber at a Popeye’s “organization,” Piers Morgan’s latest douchery, and more drama around the new speaker of the house.

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  1. 1.

    Shakezula

    October 9, 2015 at 4:56 pm

    Coffers must be getting empty. Time to take to the streets and hope someone does something they can spin into a lawsuit. “They laughed at us! intentional infliction of emotional distress!!”

    I, of course, am hoping for a random and ironic lightning strike.

  2. 2.

    Patricia Kayden

    October 9, 2015 at 4:59 pm

    Yawn. I’m sure Westboro Baptist Church members even bore themselves. What a strange way to live your entire life.

  3. 3.

    father pussbucket (fka gnomedad)

    October 9, 2015 at 5:04 pm

    Is this real life?

  4. 4.

    rikyrah

    October 9, 2015 at 5:04 pm

    Judge rejects House, Senate redistricting maps, recommends challengers’ plan

    BY MARY ELLEN KLAS
    Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau

    Circuit Court Judge Terry Lewis on Friday rejected the Florida Legislature’s third attempt at redrawing its congressional districts and recommended a map proposed by the challengers — including a redrawn configuration of two Miami-Dade County districts — to the Florida Supreme Court for its final review.

    Lewis adopted the bulk of the map approved by lawmakers in the northern and central portions of the state but specifically rejected the proposed boundaries for District 26 in Miami-Dade, now held by Republican Congressman Carlos Curbelo.

    The challengers, a coalition of League of Women Voters and Common Cause of Florida and a group of Democrat-leaning individuals, agreed with the Legislature’s configuration of 20 of the 27 districts proposed in a staff-drawn base map but asked the court to adopt their changes to the remaining districts. Lewis agreed.

    “The Legislature has thus not met its burden of justifying the proposed versions of Districts 20 through 27,” he wrote in a 19-page ruling. He said that a map drawn by the challengers “best complies with the directions” set out by the Florida Supreme Court in July and “I therefore recommend its adoption.”

    Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article38398038.html#storylink=cpy

  5. 5.

    Not That Guy

    October 9, 2015 at 5:05 pm

    What is their actual demand? That the meteorologists owe God a fee for the data?

  6. 6.

    rikyrah

    October 9, 2015 at 5:05 pm

    well, the usual places where they would protest…..they haven’t been doing it, because people have tired of them, and are pushing back against them.

  7. 7.

    Amir Khalid

    October 9, 2015 at 5:09 pm

    So people have learned how to marginalise Westboro Baptist Church and its attention-seeking protests. Good.

    Is it ever news that Piers Morgan is being a douche? When I first laid eyes on him, he was among the judges in Susan Boyle’s BGT audition clip. He still managed to make me think, “What a smarmy git.”

  8. 8.

    Yatsuno

    October 9, 2015 at 5:09 pm

    @Shakezula: Has to be. I haven’t even heard of them protesting the ten who died in the Oregon shooting yet. No money to get there I guess.

  9. 9.

    Calouste

    October 9, 2015 at 5:12 pm

    @Yatsuno: They usually don’t show up until the funeral, give them a couple of days.

  10. 10.

    chopper

    October 9, 2015 at 5:13 pm

    @father pussbucket (fka gnomedad):

    it is just fantasy.

  11. 11.

    Amir Khalid

    October 9, 2015 at 5:14 pm

    @Not That Guy:
    If I understand it right, WBC says meteorologists are committing the sin of pride by daring to predict the weather. Doesn’t make a lick of sense to me, either.

  12. 12.

    shell

    October 9, 2015 at 5:15 pm

    Speaking of Ben Carson. On friday nights here in October, TCM is showing a roster of horror movies. Last week the theme was haunted houses (The Haunting, House on Haunted Hill….)
    Tonight it looks like the theme is doctors gone nuts. Dr. Carson might fit right in.

  13. 13.

    Baud

    October 9, 2015 at 5:16 pm

    God hates fogs.

  14. 14.

    shell

    October 9, 2015 at 5:17 pm

    WBC says meteorologists are committing the sin of pride by daring to predict the weather.

    I guess theyd prefer that people get blindsided by hurricanes and tornados. Gods will and all.
    What twisted fucks.

  15. 15.

    Matt McIrvin

    October 9, 2015 at 5:18 pm

    @chopper: Caught in a landslide.

  16. 16.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 9, 2015 at 5:19 pm

    @Baud: Frogs? Are people getting after the French again?

  17. 17.

    Wag

    October 9, 2015 at 5:19 pm

    The Westboro idiots made me smile in their idiocy with that one.

  18. 18.

    Baud

    October 9, 2015 at 5:20 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Again? Had we stopped?

  19. 19.

    trollhattan

    October 9, 2015 at 5:23 pm

    So many cults, so few comets.

  20. 20.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 9, 2015 at 5:23 pm

    @Baud: I had. It was getting in the way of the time I spend mocking the Belgians.

  21. 21.

    Baud

    October 9, 2015 at 5:26 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Didn’t we have you down as my ambassador to France and/or Chief Justice?

  22. 22.

    CONGRATULATIONS!

    October 9, 2015 at 5:26 pm

    Coffers must be getting empty.

    @Shakezula: Think you nailed it here. It’s been a long time since they managed to bait anyone into giving them lawsuit material.

    However, this could also mean my lifelong theory about these people is right, and that every one of them is suffering from end-stage syphilis.

  23. 23.

    benw

    October 9, 2015 at 5:27 pm

    Local meteorologists predict chance of WBC to go from 0% to 100% in the coming week, news at 11!

  24. 24.

    Not That Guy

    October 9, 2015 at 5:28 pm

    @Baud:

    Fucking genius.

  25. 25.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 9, 2015 at 5:28 pm

    It is possible that the WBC folks are just reiterating Dylan’s point that “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”

  26. 26.

    scav

    October 9, 2015 at 5:29 pm

    WBC says meteorologists are committing the sin of pride by daring to predict the weather.

    Wonder when they’ll get along to protesting those predicting who will and will not be damned by God, because that’s really His bailiwick, even above the early morning fog clearing by mid-afternoon with showers of frogs business.

  27. 27.

    Mike J

    October 9, 2015 at 5:30 pm

    @shell: Not just doctors. Hand replacements.

  28. 28.

    Baud

    October 9, 2015 at 5:31 pm

    Predicting the weather is a sin.

    Predicting who God hates is a wingnut’s sacred duty.

  29. 29.

    jl

    October 9, 2015 at 5:34 pm

    I smell a deal in the air.

    If they lay off their hateful, and by Biblical lights their spiritually very prideful and sinful, BS about gays should not have equal rights in entering civil (not religious) contracts, then I will put up with the weather person saying “Remember this is all the hand of God” at the end of their broadcast.

    Let me know of these rage and hate filled wackos go for it.

  30. 30.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 9, 2015 at 5:52 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    And just how are the WBC loons not committing the sin of pride by daring to know exactly what God thinks about pretty much any- and everything? Oh, well, you did say it made no sense.

  31. 31.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 9, 2015 at 5:53 pm

    @Baud:

    You ad lib like that, you’ll win every debate!

  32. 32.

    MomSense

    October 9, 2015 at 5:54 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    …maybe that’s what hell is: the entire rest of eternity stuck in fuckin’ Bruges.

  33. 33.

    Ruckus

    October 9, 2015 at 5:55 pm

    @Amir Khalid:
    Don’t they predict things like the end of the earth and you’ll go to hell for whatever? What makes them special snowflakes, the level of bullshit they can shovel in every sentence?

  34. 34.

    MomSense

    October 9, 2015 at 5:56 pm

    @Baud:

    Many years ago we had a counter protest when those idiots came to town. My son had a “god hates nags” sign with an arrow pointing to yours truly.

    It was one of my happiest moments in parenting.

  35. 35.

    fuckwit

    October 9, 2015 at 6:03 pm

    Their reality has lapped our satire.

  36. 36.

    benw

    October 9, 2015 at 6:09 pm

    @Baud: comment of the day.

    @MomSense: you’re lucky they didn’t sue you for emotional distress after that sick burn! :)

  37. 37.

    Roger Moore

    October 9, 2015 at 6:10 pm

    WBC says meteorologists are committing the sin of pride by daring to predict the weather.

    But WBC isn’t committing the sin of pride by claiming to be the only people in the world who know exactly what God was talking about in the Bible.

  38. 38.

    MomSense

    October 9, 2015 at 6:15 pm

    @benw:

    Nags are made not born!

    Oh I’ve gotten all the complaining but I try to respond with humor.

    They once tried the “friend x’s mom doesn’t make him ______(insert chore)”. I told him that friend x’s mom doesn’t love him as much as I love you! After the shock wore off we had a good laugh about it.

  39. 39.

    jl

    October 9, 2015 at 6:23 pm

    @benw: I can no longer troll Baud.

    Elect Baud to run everything. Baud is great, Baud is good!

  40. 40.

    jl

    October 9, 2015 at 6:36 pm

    HRC and Sanders campaigns raising more money than GOPers.
    The numbers exclude super PACs

    I also saw a story that Wall St had decided it does not trust HRC anymore and is not contributing, which is one reason her super PAC is not raking in the dough as much as expected. That is a hopeful sign for direction HRC might go on economic and financial policy.

    Bernie Sanders is raising more money than every Republican candidate
    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/bernie-sanders-is-raising-more-money-than-every-republican-candidate-155430566.html#

    Edit: and looks like Jeb? is saying stupid and offensive things again today, in an ineffective attempt to pander to wingers who will always hate his guts. So, there is some good news today.

  41. 41.

    A guy

    October 9, 2015 at 6:46 pm

    Doesn’t everyone hate the weatherman. They are never correct. Especially those at the ipcc

  42. 42.

    Gravenstone

    October 9, 2015 at 7:01 pm

    @rikyrah: It’s basically in their own backyard as well. Only a few hour drive from Topeka, after all. All the more reason to suspect they’re trolling for that sweet sweet lawsuit cash.

  43. 43.

    Quaker in a Basement

    October 9, 2015 at 7:10 pm

    “nothing happens in this earth without the direct command of God”

    Except for gay marriage. That’s the one thing that God doesn’t directly command. Well, that and abortion. God doesn’t directly command gay marriage or abortion, but everything else happens by his direct command. Gay marriage and abortion and the end of prayer in schools. God didn’t directly command that either. Or vegetarianism.

    You know what? On second thought, just forget it.

  44. 44.

    redshirt

    October 9, 2015 at 7:15 pm

    @Baud:

    God hates fogs.

    Winner!

  45. 45.

    A guy

    October 9, 2015 at 7:17 pm

    Abortion happens at the command of the mom who decides to kill

  46. 46.

    jl

    October 9, 2015 at 7:21 pm

    not very accruate

  47. 47.

    Gin & Tonic

    October 9, 2015 at 7:23 pm

    I’m gonna write Cole an e-mail. This troll is really lame – we need a better one. I know quality standards have been declining all over, but really, now.

  48. 48.

    trollhattan

    October 9, 2015 at 7:30 pm

    @A guy:
    Does not understand the difference between climate and weather.

    It is good that we are sitting, otherwise over we would fall.

  49. 49.

    ruemara

    October 9, 2015 at 7:31 pm

    @Baud: Win.

    I just had a table read with my lead actors. I’m the weakest link. I like it that way. I spent all morning with the DP fine tuning the locations and working out logistics. I think I may just pinch myself.

  50. 50.

    Patrick

    October 9, 2015 at 7:43 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    No kidding. It sounds like he might be against abortion. Then the solution for him is pretty easy; Don’t have an abortion! Why is bugging the rest of us?

  51. 51.

    MomSense

    October 9, 2015 at 7:47 pm

    @ruemara:

    This sounds much better. Go ruemara! We are all rooting for you.

  52. 52.

    Suzanne

    October 9, 2015 at 7:48 pm

    @Baud: For that alone, I want to vote for the Baud/Elizabelle ticket.

  53. 53.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 9, 2015 at 7:49 pm

    @Baud: I just put myself in line for the Belgium gig, didn’t I?

  54. 54.

    sukabi

    October 9, 2015 at 7:52 pm

    @Patrick: I’m beginning to believe that a large percentage of the anti-choicers have some serious issues with their parents…they may have been on the receiving end of some “I shouldn’t have had kids” ranting at some point in their development. Probably from their mother’s, as it seems most of them, including the females really HATE women.

  55. 55.

    Mike E

    October 9, 2015 at 7:57 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Frauds. Frogs. Frauds. Frogs.

    Totally on the same page here.

  56. 56.

    Roger Moore

    October 9, 2015 at 7:58 pm

    @Baud:

    God hates fogs.

    So San Francisco really is a God forsaken place.

  57. 57.

    raven

    October 9, 2015 at 8:04 pm

    Still the best one I’ve seen was in Savannah. We happened across a Westboro counter demo and joined in. A dude had a sign that read “God Hates Your Outfit”!

  58. 58.

    Mike J

    October 9, 2015 at 8:06 pm

    William Gibson @GreatDismal
    People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don’t yet have a fully adult concept of scary.

  59. 59.

    gelfling545

    October 9, 2015 at 8:17 pm

    IIRC there are a couple of passages in their holy book where Jesus is quoted as saying things about using the signs in nature to determine natural events, then going on to speak of signs of coming supernatural events. Red sky at night, etc. I don’t know where they get this anti-weather nonsense from.

  60. 60.

    Bobby Thomson

    October 9, 2015 at 8:19 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: does that mean Fred Phelps is Obama’s dad?

  61. 61.

    Bobby Thomson

    October 9, 2015 at 8:24 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: I vote for a Dadaist troll.

  62. 62.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 9, 2015 at 8:27 pm

    @Suzanne:

    If you say that out loud, it sounds like the “Bawdy Lizabelle ticket.” Which, of course, works ever so well.

  63. 63.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 9, 2015 at 8:28 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Liège is a nice little town. Quiet. Not much happening there. But nice.

  64. 64.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 9, 2015 at 8:59 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: I once had the flu in Antwerp.

  65. 65.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 9, 2015 at 9:04 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Yeah? I learned to do the only bar trick I ever mastered at a tavern in Brussels.

  66. 66.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 9, 2015 at 9:15 pm

    What’s the trick?

  67. 67.

    MobiusKlein

    October 9, 2015 at 11:27 pm

    @A guy: weather is what happens this week.
    Climate is what happens this decade. Or century.

    You don’t have to believe the ipcc to know the difference

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