Nearly a half million homeless Haitians face Isaac in 24 hours, but you’d never know it as the media and Republicans fret about the storm’s threat to the party’s national convention next week.
Indeed, Haiti could be the land obstacle that slows down Isaac enough to spare Tampa the worst. Will any thanks be offered, or help, or even a mention?
The biggest concern is Haiti. The capital city of Port-au-Prince, where some 400,000 earthquake refugees still live in tents and sit dead-center in Isaac’s path. Beginning Friday, Haiti and the Dominican Republic could both see a foot or more of rain. Far less has historically triggered deadly flooding and mud slides. — Miami Herald
If you enjoyed this article, please consider sharing it!
53 Responses to More Hurt in Haiti Could Spare GOP
Now on The Trail
All I can say is, Haiti, not again? I hope to God that it misses them.
Me too, Jace, but just about certain they’ll get 80+ winds and sideways rain in a direct hit. Hurricane Center not offering much hope for doubt.
Craig,
As a Haitian, I can say that by and large, the typical American attitude for Haiti is either “who gives a crap?” “where the hell is Haiti?”, “can’t they just do the voodoo thing to scare the storm away?
The only reason the right cares about Haiti is because it’s fertile ground for the religious right to find some christian souls to convert and hollywood sees it as fertile turf for celebrity adoptions.
There is disaster fatigue in this country and the fact that a historically “cursed” country is about to get another slap from God won’t do much to stir the american public to help…after all we haven’t even come close to funding all the promised funds from the earthquake a couple years ago…
I lived on the Gulf Coast during Katrina and Rita, I know there will be casualties from this storm. Stay as safe as you can.
Haiti is such a sad case; money pledged from the last catastrophe is still unpaid.
Craig and Bear,
How the Hell do they take refuge from a storm if the damage from the earthquake isn’t even repaired?
GoogleUser, welcome. Yep, I hear ya. As a lifelong student of Hurricane Center’s masonic toungues, can say they sound really nervous about this one, especially what Haiti is about to get. Beyond that, this storm could do just about anything, or nothing.
Btw, for those following my recent geeking, the lab is closed. None of these tools for cross-posting options with Twitter and Facebook work well enough to keep.
But we can keep the new feature allowing Tweeters, Facebookers and others the option to join us and comment using their existing accounts.
This is just what the Republicans stand for. Ignore everyone else as we smash our way to whatever goals we have set for ourselves whether they be poor, middle class, different skin toned, different sexual orientation, or foreign.
Bear -- Isn’t that just the truth? Whenever I hear anything to do with Haiti, I think of their rebellion which was inspired by our own yet were looked down at because it was led by slaves. I also think Jean-Claude Duvalier’s escape by means of the American military.
Screw the Haitians , our own free market tug boat captains await the Federal Government to open the Mississippi .
If I was Obama, I’d go to Vicksburg , and make me a very big speech.
Thanks, Jace, but you don’t need to apologize to me. We’re just playing chess with words instead of pieces, is how I look at it, and for no stakes. Slainte.
Drought takes heavy toll on Mississippi, causing huge traffic jams
http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2018972081_riverdrought23.html
Jack -
The Gulf of Mexico didn’t keep you cool this summer , did it ?
Haiti …….
There is typhoon moving on Taiwan , it’s going to hit it with very little forward speed. 2000 mm of rain may fall .
That’s over 80 inches of rain in the mountains.
” According to Hong Kong Observatory, Tembin has intensified to a “severe typhoon” and is forecast to move slowly west or west-northwest over the next 24 hours.”
…. love the chess analogy (but apparently, some take ‘chess’ pretty seriously — myself included):
Just a Game…
It’s just a chess game after all why get so caught up in it…
“Why?…I’ll tell you why. It’s not just a game. It’s war. Just because the battle takes place on the mental plane doesn’t mean it isn’t violent. When I look across the board at the other pieces I see all that’s wrong and evil in the world and all that’s wrong and evil inside of myself. I see all the things that I must struggle and fight against both in myself and in the world at large. I see all the things I hate most about the world and all the things I hate most about myself. I must win. I must prevail. When I lose a chess game I have failed not only myself but all chances I have of improving myself and everything that needs improving in the world.”
Well…how bout a game of checkers instead. http://gameknot.com/room-fm.pl?home=2&th=1117
Ha! You guys are great.
What a sincere group you’ve gathered here, Craig.
…. says so much about you. Thanks
… still think this place is the best ‘therapy’ I’ve ever experienced.
“Get ready little lady, hell is coming to breakfast ”
Lone Wati in the Outlaw Josey Wales
Jamie, I haven’t been around enough to know you’d been reporting on 9/11. I’d been wondering how he’s doing.
Renee, Thanks, I have your version of ‘Somewhere over the Rainbow’ on my MP3 player. (ha.. I put it under the ‘Fairy Tale’ category — my favorite place to live)
… and Jamie, I remember how hot you think Hugh Jackman is, so your favorite doesn’t surprise me.
Speaking of Jack, I ain’t commenting again, until he does. Peace out.
Oh, and thank you for all the kind words, Chloe. I don’t take compliments well, but they are appreciated.
I sealed the water harvester tonight for sand and insects. It was completely full. I cleaned the sand trap, it did it’s job.
This thing works even if I never touch it again.
It is so cool.
… another quote from that Chess site: “Dogs are awesome when you speak dog, even if it means getting bit.”
I’m going to do the same, Champ.
I’m not commenting again until he does either.
He called us back, then left.
Jack, our future lies in your hands.
Peace out.
And it’s rather pretty :
I’m sorry my dead email has stopped all the old tripods.
I have a double row of dead pixels, and I can’t watch U-Tube or Porn or the Guardian videos anymore, ……. but the Ole’ IMac plows on .
6 years next month.
Computers wear out much like cars. Either they blow-up, or they just nickel and dime you forever.
I’ll get me a tripod for these pictures.
The upper tanks with the overflow pipe, and diverter . 6-2012
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/51/img1728kd.jpg/
The tap into the Cactus Theater . 7-2012
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/228/img1734nb.jpg/
The lower tanks , looking East. 6- 2012
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/856/img1735ko.jpg/
EX Champ,
I read other blogs but refuse to comment on them because they are so often pissy in the extreme.
Trailmix is the only place I have found that operates like a community.
Neighbors can disagree, but they still have to be neighbors. I forgot that.
PS I don’t know shit about Chess.
Well, the instant delete button works swell. I just wiped-up 2 fish heads .
Let’s go to the JTWC , and the government stooges working on Guam tonight -
She’s down to 2 knots forward speed , with gusts to 125 knots .
As you can see by the graphic , her full force will sweep Taiwan for hours.
http://www.usno.navy.mil/NOOC/nmfc-ph/RSS/jtwc/warnings/wp1512.gif
These will be the largest rain fall rates ever seen by modern man. They measure this stuff, 3 years ago they caught 10 feet, last month they caught 5 feet.
And another typhoon is right behind this one.
Taiwan is part of the American Supply Chain, Haiti ain’t.
2 storms , in 2 oceans, moving to make 100′s of thousands homeless.
If anyone suffers on Haiti , ……..
I hope one of our Shelter Box tents is blown in the front door in Tampa next Tuesday
I want it to be ripped from a Haiti group because it just was worn out. And sucked up into vortex to be spit down on Chris Mathews little pumpkin head, in Tampa.
Give the Republicans a real lesson in climate change.
The Arctic had a storm 2 weeks ago , it rained 9 inches in 6 days at the Red Dog mine, in northwest Alaska, half their yearly total . Thousands more square miles of permafost got 4 to 6 inches of rain water at nearly 40f degrees .
Isaac reorganizing as it blows through the Lesser Antilles
By Dr. Jeff Masters
Published: 8:34 PM GMT on August 22, 2012
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2198#commenttop
Along with Isaac , the Republicans , and no water in the Mississippi next week , ………. This happens :
Arctic Death Spiral: How It Favors Extreme, Prolonged Weather Events ‘Such As Drought, Flooding, Cold Spells And Heat Waves’
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012
What Federal Government will be doing while the Party in Tampa meets -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/army-corps-of-engineers-says-low-mississippi-river-levels-to-continue-into-october/2012/08/21/259be66e-ebcf-11e1-866f-60a00f604425_story.html
If I was Obama, I’d ask Clinton to go to Vicksburg , stand right next to that river gauge , and deliver a speech on just why we need the Federal Government.
Put the press corp down on the beach , shooting up the bluff with the river gauge behind Bill.
Nillary and O may both be “corrupt” but they do have different ways of doing things and vastly different understandings and knowledge. I like her way of stating facts much more that O’s. H even adopted w’s way of speaking in groups of 15 to 30 syllables and then >bump<.
She would have gone to work more quickly and never let that whole summer go by waiting for the repug to say something.
I enjoy his ability to stay cool and breezy, but it hasn't served him well in a situation where the hounds of hell have been after him. He has been incredibly naive. His greeting of several foreign leaders were unnecessary statements of his disdain of his enemies here.
Hillary already knew how to deal with enemies and how to calm
over-wrought masculine power players. Her tempo of work would have been more steady…..There are hundreds of ways that Hillary would have acted without upsetting her enemies. while still working to the same basic ends as O. Also, the fact that she is white and he is black cannot be counted out -- racists don't want to be shown they like or admire an african-american TOO easily.
All the arguing doesn't change the fact that a supreme court consisting of 2 scalia's, 2 thomases, and the rest is more than just calamitous. Add to that a good congress for mitty and the constitution will be re-written in the supreme court.
Also, re the pale: The pale as I understand it is a sharpened stick or log which is implanted in the earth, sharp end up as used in a row to keep out/in "something."
I know they used this in Ireland before and after Cromwell's time, and the same sentiment was used in Russia with jews.
Russian troops occasionally crossed the pale looking for lucky young jewish boys to help them enlist (and who knows whatelse for the girls. I don't know who used this first and it might even be biblical, I do know that somewhere Vlad had a different use for the pale.
I just saw how long that post is. Sorry!
Tropical Storm ISAAC -- Models starting to move west, may not be a direct hit.
5-Day Forecast Cone for Storm Center 5:00 AM AST Aug 23
Hurricane Spaghetti Models 5:00 AM AST Aug 23
Tropical Depression TEN -- Not a Problem.
5-Day Forecast Cone for Storm Center 5:00 AM AST Aug 23
Hurricane Spaghetti Models 5:00 AM AST Aug 23
Some RNC News
Tampa Bay area hotels rooms can still be found for RNC week
By Drew Harwell, Tampa Bay Times, August 23, 2012
Organizers say 5,000-person march set for Republican National Convention’s first day
By Richard Danielson, Tampa Bay Times, August 23, 2012
Jails in Hillsborough and Pinellas counties prepare for influx of RNC-related inmates
By Jessica Vander Velde, Tampa Bay Times, August 23, 2012
bethyboo -- Not too long a post; a very good one.
Love Obama’s new Bill Clinton ad. (I miss Bill.)
Just wondering what folks think of Mitt’s idea that FEMA be privatized? I’m assuming some of the National Guard has been deployed abroad, instead of being at home where they should be. Aren’t many functions of FEMA contracted out to the lowest-bidding, private company, anyway? How in the heck does it get really privatized?
Well, at least the GOoPers will already be at the convention center if Isaac hits Tampa, so they will actually be pre-evacuated.
What did Joe Biden say to get sent to Tampa on Monday & Tuesday?
I’m sure Mitt is more concerned if any of his offshore banks are in Isaac’s path, than he is about any Haitians.
The GOP spin will be: Isaac hits the convention & it’s punishment for societal evils -- or -- Isaac falls apart & it’s proof they are the chosen ones.
One thing is for sure, Isaac will help TV viewership of the convention. Hey, Anderson Cooper gets a two-fer; politics & weather.
You know who really benefits from Isaac?
Aikin & Ryan.
Dwindling middle class falls to 51%
CBob… really cool pictures of your water harvester.
Bethy… I LOVE your long posts… and I agree with you on hrc. I was amazed at O’s naivete in the beginning… I give him credit for starting to wise up.
Hell is coming to breakfast and the GOP thinks it’s a party put on by the rotary club…
Scare story of the day: Defeat of a Superbug
Nemo
Jackman being “hot” isn’t the reason I like him. It’s the way he and his family live their lives to use that insane amount of talent (on pins and needles until Les Miserables) to make the world a better place.
As for Haiti? Where is Bill Clinton and his buddy, GWB? GWB even wiped his hands on Bill in Haiti (was that a sign?). Not up to finishing the job? Seeing the billions of dollars used wisely, not fed to corrupt officals. Another joke on humans who do not deserve any more shame and loss of dignity.
RR…thanks for posting music from the Big IZ on the last post. When I was on the Big I, they played his music and the locals called him The Big Was as he died in 1997.
After watching Faux news last night, Hubby and I believe the Koch Brothers are going to have Romney killed. It will be President Ryan. And I was so looking forward to the O’Biden and O’Ryan debates.
Interesting doings at RCP in the wake of yesterday’s CBS/NYT/Quinnipiac poll. Even without Florida (RCP rates it as a tie but moves it to Romney under its no toss up scheme) RCP shows a 68 vote EC win for Obama if the race were held today. Oddly enough, under the no toss up scheme only Florida has flipped since May, and it has flipped back and forth 4 times since May. The Senate map shows a net gain to 51 for the repugns, and the house is a lost cause. If this holds, Harry better bone up on his filibuster rules and I wonder what brand of veto pen Obama will choose?
NEW THREAD
new thread