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Forecasters are keeping a wary eye on Tropical Storm Isaac, which developed in the Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday and poses a threat to Florida during next week's Republican National Convention in Tampa.
National Hurricane Center computer models Tuesday predicted the storm would grow into a hurricane over the next few days. Some models had the storm striking Florida or passing close after moving across Cuba as early as Sunday.
The storm late Tuesday afternoon was about 500 miles east of Guadeloupe, the Hurricane Center reported. It packed sustained winds of 40 mph and was moving west at 17 mph.
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Tropical Storm Isaac moves westward in the Atlantic Ocean less than one week until the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla.
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A tropical storm warning was in effect for Martinique, Dominica, Guadeloupe and surrounding islands. A tropical storm watch was issued for the British and U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
Forecasters caution that long-range storm track predictions can be off by hundreds of miles. A hurricane hunter plane flew into the system Tuesday and found a small area of tropical-storm force winds associated with thunderstorms just outside the center of circulation, The Weather Channel reported.
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Thousands of Republicans will gather in Tampa next week to nominate Mitt Romney for president and Paul Ryan for vice president. GOP and Tampa officials say they have contingency plans in case a storm blows through.
This article include reporting by The Associated Press.
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Maybe Mitt will be able to find shelter - he already had more tax shelters than brain cells.
Hey GOP get Rick Perry,he can "pray for rain"! Last time he prayed for rain the result was" sunny and dry"!!
The GOP loves fetuses of poor people,funny though how they hate the poor baby once it is born.Your on your own kid,now get a job! i don't care if your a toddler,get too work!
MSNBC's ignored news:
*** Obama's 3 years
CBS, MSNBC, ABC, and CNN is conveniently forgetting Obama's first three years, (with Pelosi/Ried controlling congress the first two years.)
$5.2 Trillion in NEW debt, America's financial downgrade, longest period of above 8% unemployment, food stamps 110% increase, poverty levels record increase, gas prices increased from $1.82/gal to over $3/gal, driving a wedge between Hispanics and whites, increasing Americans on the public dole to 47%, driving black unemployment to 14.8%, half of all college graduates unable to find employment.
All in three years.
What does your rant prove captdon1?
It takes quite a while to clean up after a republican administration.........
dude you recrumblicans have a short memory,idiot bush/cheney/haliburton corporation wreaked havoc on wacky iraq's leader but i guess it blurs your memory that when iran/iraq had a war old saddam hussein got money from our country,the point being is when/where do we recoup our investment in all this b.s.?you cant be that blind to all that your gop bozos have done to this economy,all you zombies do is blow smoke up our kazoo's,do you ever,ever tell the truth or are you afraid of something the rest of us don't know about?such as the rominator is a draft dodging wussy?cause we know that.
DUDE -- You have a very large list of things that happened due to GEORGE BUSH causing a DEPRESSION!
You can't fix a depression in 6 months...
Especially with half the perpetrators obstructing saving the country.
Please watch :
Inspirational speech on stimulus spending by Paul Ryan, 2002
Hypocrisy personified!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlwAToAj7cE
Captdon -- just a bit of cherry pickin' there....
Why was the country's financial status downgraded: because the Republicans in Congress were demogoguing and obstructing the debt ceiling issue, and S&P SAID JUST THAT as justification. So there.
Why were gas prices so low when Obama came in? Because the economy CRASHED under the previous administration and took gas prices down with it - a pretty heavy price to pay so you can keep putting cheap fuel in your gas guzzler, I'd say.
The people driving a wedge between others and dividing America are the right wingers in media and elsewhere, and those like you encourage this further.
Finally, did you know that under this president the DOW JONES has gone from 8,000 to 13,300? You didn't? Well, too bad, pal because you weren't smart enough to cash in.
I tell ya, right wingers never disappoint us with their ignorance.
Hey Luke, it ain't gonna be in Miami. It's going to be in Tampa.
I hope the storm does not affect the convention. I love Comedy Central!
I think the massive quantity of meaningless hot air coming from the convention will create a high pressure system that will deflect the storm.
Is this residual bad karma from republican prayers that Obama's outdoor acceptance speech be rained out ?
BTW---Is Akin attending the republican convention ? Don't worry.....he will be there....in spirit.
A hurricane and a bunch of politicians. No place can stand that much wind!
While they are busy discussing how to kill important government saftely programs such as FEMA, thousands of our citizens may once again be in dire need of its services.
Missouri, please don't forget how FEMA reached out to help Joplin last year after the terrible tornado.
DON'T LET THE REPUBLICANS DESTROY THE EPA, MEDICARE, MEDICAID, PUBLIC SCHOOLS, THE UN.,at the same time they try to pass bills to let women die to save a fertilzed egg, outlaw effective contraception, trying to keep people from voting, de-regulating the banking industry, and on and on on and on.
RELIGIOUS HYPOCRISY, GREED. If there is a god, he can't be pleased with what he sees.
Can't wait for Pat Robertson's explanation of this one.
he will say obama and the gays are behind this.., when actually it is there supposed god..
Even God wants to end this circus act! LOL
Please God -- show your wrath to the despicable morons who will be gathering in Tampa to laugh at how they kept the country from really recovering from the disaster George Bush and they created.
Please show them You hear all their lies...
The true conservative god is AYN RAND, the Russian atheist.
If you think that the Republican ideology follows the teachings of Christ, you are completely mistaken.
They do pick some draconian Old Testament ideas that fit their bill.
To them there are only two sins: being gay and abortion.
If Jesus were alive today, they would give him the death penalty just like the religious hypocrites did in the year 33 AD.
Well, Mittens knows what this means...the wrath of God is upon him...he and the scourge known as the gop...repent Mitt...before the rains of heaven seek out your blackened soul.
I'll bet their prayers aren't answered...
And, as for HOT AIR, our own Governor Chris "I can't fit into my speech suit anymore" Christie will be the gop's defense against gale force winds...he is the biggest blowhard in the nation..
What's the big concern? It's only going to bring a little rain to an already established HUGE gust of hot air. Too bad a swarm of Locusts is not available...
The storm is moving at 19knots going west. If it was to slow down, it would have a better chance to intensify.
Instead, if it stays at this speed , we'll have a water event but manageable wind. The politicians may get their shoes wet. Or have to stay the bar longer.
Actually, I regret to say, Haiti ,Dominican Republic , and Cuba seems to be likely to get most of this storm. And we know Haiti isn't in any condition to take it.
And , there is a disturbance after it, that may be worse.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
Let it pour!!! If all the ignorant ungrateful and unpatriotic Republicans get blown away, the country will be better off. They won't be happy until they get another cowboy speaking backward English in the White House again. The President risked his potential 2nd term by giving the order to take out Ossama, got Al Qaeda #1, #2 and doubled the drone strikes over a Muslim country like Pakistan despite opposition and they're still whining. Ronald Reagan gave amnesty to illegals in 1986 and Obama created a deferral program and they're jumping on Obama. They don't read or they read into what they want to believe and they fail to see the positive things like all of us have been kept safe from attacks so far. The President is NOT Merlin the Magician. Expecting so much makes you wonder why they weren't all applying for the Ryan position. Then again, the glass is always 1/2 empty for Republicans.
Hate to wish a hurricane on anyone, but after what our FL Repubs did to our insurance rates here, I hoping for a Cat 3 right on the convention floor. After no storms for 6+ years, our Gov gave insurers a gift on our backs. Not only did my rates go up 111% on homeowners ins and 478% on flood, but insurers now can "reimburse" us for repairs instead of paying claims. Once we get a strom and people figure out what the new deal is, maybe we'll get some changes.
Legalized extortion is alive & well in FL. It's called home & car insurance. And the politicians get a cut.
how fitting, maybe they will all go fishing while in tampa. a$$holes. gov douche will declare a victory somehow.
But soooo many are now saying that al gore was right. That there is climate change. But i heard on the radio last night, about how the forces of mr grover, the gop, the rushbo, & foxnews.com are saying the change in climate due to chem trails. Hehehe. They program did point out that nasa says chem trails are a hoax. But the radio program is asking anyone who was a pilot or traffic controller to step forward and tell all about chem trails. Reminds me soooo much of the other mr grover, gop, rushbo, & foxnews.com fairly tale they call fast & furious.
But what can you say. You can tell mr grover, the gop, the rushbo, & foxnews.com are ideologues. They have difficulty with the facts and the truth. It's why they have problems with science - the branch of knowledge dealing with the body of facts and truths. They have a war on science, the truth, and the facts. So be careful of what they will tell you. They have a culture of lies.
Anyway, so they have their convention and it gets hit by a tropical storm. It will only become more and more typical. You cannot go anywhere in the country nowadays and not be affected by a heat wave, drought, wild fire or the like. Mr grover, the gop, the rushbo, & foxnews.com could just spend all their time indoors and hope that the electrical power isn't cut off.
Finally the circus come to town hope all this hot air doesn't blow the tent down.
Hot air contest between the GOP and God.