All these hurricanes

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All these hurricanes

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following Charlie, Frances, and the current Ivan we now have another tropical storm, Jeanne, upgraded into a hurricane. it seems like they've been one after another.

Does the Southeast Atlantic region usually have so many hurricanes?

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Yep, its only this year that they starting caring since I just moved down here.
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it's all your fault dave.

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Generally you have bad hurricane years and good hurricane years. In the good years, they're not really a problem. In the bad years, they just keep pounding away.

Plus, maybe global warming makes it worse. Or El Nino!

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Well, it looks like the earth is finally starting to fight back. It probably can't destroy the powerplants that are causing most of the problems directly, but it can sure try to make a difference by slowly whittling away at the number of people using them.

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That's one way of looking at it. I still think it's dave's fault.

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unless *I* am a powerplant. You never know.
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Well, if Dave attracts disasters, we ought to send him where he'll do the most good. Texas, initially, and then later Iraq, North Korea, Iran, Syria, France, Sudan, California, etc. Imagine a world without Texas...
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George wrote:Well, if Dave attracts disasters, we ought to send him where he'll do the most good. Texas, initially, and then later Iraq, North Korea, Iran, Syria, France, Sudan, California, etc. Imagine a world without Texas...
Hey, what'd California do to get on that list?! We're not voting for Bush.
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quantus wrote:Hey, what'd California do to get on that list?! We're not voting for Bush.
I know. That's why I put you last on the list. We need your zillion electoral votes to have a shot against Bush. Radical liberalism is just as bad as Bush, he's just the more immediate problem. I keep hoping The Big One will drop California into the sea, but apparently that's scientifically unlikely.
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George wrote:Radical liberalism is just as bad as Bush, he's just the more immediate problem.
Ummm, you do realize that southern California is very conservative and they balance out northern California very well.

I think you're really just homophobic. What doesn't make sense though is the fact that you have more of a grudge against California than Massachussets. Or maybe you're really a repressed homosexual pretending to be a homophobe. Is there something you want to tell Peijen before your trip?

What about the Radical Conservatives of the south who still think the Civil War isn't over?! They're doing more harm than anyone with their 3 electoral votes here, and another 5 there, and another 7 over there, and another...

I wonder if the hurricanes will force enough of the elderly out of Florida to swing the election.
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I had the titular role in the movie "Hurricanes". I did!

It was the part when Timothy Bottoms was teaching Mia Farrow how to drive the car and get away from the hurricane, and I pulled up to them at the stop light as said, "Man. I'm so tired of all these hurricanes."
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huh?
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I'm sure Bob remembers.
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quantus wrote:I wonder if the hurricanes will force enough of the elderly out of Florida to swing the election.
Old people vote democrate because under Bush's plan their house would be burn down.

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Ummm, you do realize that southern California is very conservative and they balance out northern California very well.
That's like saying standing in between two nuclear explosions balances out. Gun laws, gubanotrial recalls, illegal immigration, water usage, vehicle emmisions, Ebonics. California does everything by extremes (right or left), generally without letting reality get it the way.
I think you're really just homophobic. What doesn't make sense though is the fact that you have more of a grudge against California than Massachussets. Or maybe you're really a repressed homosexual pretending to be a homophobe. Is there something you want to tell Peijen before your trip?
Dave's constant innuendo should tell you that none of us are repressed about our homosexuality.

I do dislike Massachusettes, mostly for its gun laws. Allowing gays to marry doesn't bother me; they could do that already, more or less. However, I don't believe that straight married couples deserve any special legal priviliges, so I would rather the judge had revoked those priviliges entirely rather than granting them to a new group.
What about the Radical Conservatives of the south who still think the Civil War isn't over?! They're doing more harm than anyone with their 3 electoral votes here, and another 5 there, and another 7 over there, and another...
Actually, the killers are the Rocky Mountain states with low populations. They default to a full three electoral votes, and most of their residents are rural (i.e., Republican). The southern states get votes in proportion to their population. Not that depopulating the South would be a bad thing...

I think the real solution is that the Midwest should just nuke everyone else. Get rid of the South's rednecks, Texas's cowboy-wannabes, the Northeast's ivory tower liberals, California's lunatics (of both parties), and the Southwest's illegal immigrants. I can't really think of any good reason to wipe out the Rocky mountain states, so they can be left intact.
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Alan wrote:I had the titular role in the movie "Hurricanes". I did!

It was the part when Timothy Bottoms was teaching Mia Farrow how to drive the car and get away from the hurricane, and I pulled up to them at the stop light as said, "Man. I'm so tired of all these hurricanes."
It does sound vaguely familiar, even before the "I'm sure Bob remembers" part. But I barely remember. Some kind of SNL skit or something, but for a different movie?

Google says it could be Star Wars. Seems like that fat Horatio Sanz guy should be playing Hans Solo. Am I close?

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You get rid of all the crazies, you won't have anyone left.

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bob wrote:
Alan wrote:I had the titular role in the movie "Hurricanes". I did!

It was the part when Timothy Bottoms was teaching Mia Farrow how to drive the car and get away from the hurricane, and I pulled up to them at the stop light as said, "Man. I'm so tired of all these hurricanes."
It does sound vaguely familiar, even before the "I'm sure Bob remembers" part. But I barely remember. Some kind of SNL skit or something, but for a different movie?

Google says it could be Star Wars. Seems like that fat Horatio Sanz guy should be playing Hans Solo. Am I close?
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regarding Ivan:

<i>"Downgraded to a tropical storm, it [Ivan] left a trail of death and destruction as far north as Pennsylvania today"</i>

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/17/natio ... OR.html?hp

What the fuck are tropical storms doing in Pennsylvania? Pittsburgh doesn't export is shitty weather elsewhere; I don't know how the South gets away with this bullshit.

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