With hurricanes, earth quakes, & sparkin' historically hot weather at some points this summer, climate change deniers might be well served to remember this oldy but goody!
Let's get SPARKy for Friday night. :D The guy whose soul GWB was able to look into has lost his shirt - literally - AGAIN! In the animal kingdom, SQUIRREL! Take a guess on which part of the country has the highest divorce rate; they must have skipped that part of the Bible. Finally, in a return to the animal kingdom, as if TX schools didn't have ENOUGH issues...
On with The Rachel Maddow Show!
"Hurricane Irene" - Check out the pics of Irene from space - holy $hit! It'll make land in NC tomorrow. 65 million Americans are in the path of this mother. The casinos in Atlantic City closed?! Won't someone think of the gamblers??!! Seriously, I bet some of the had to be literally dragged out. A whole mess of New Yorkers are going to be truly immobile because the transit system is going to begin to shut down at noon tomorrow. Ed Rappaport works at the National Hurricane Center; he won't be getting much down time this weekend! The eye of Irene is going to pass right through very heavily populated areas. NYC is looking at up to 24 hours of some pretty damn high winds. Yikes! Flooding is going to be a problem, too. A storm surge is going to occur during high tides - lovely. Bill Karins gets to 'splain storm surges to us non - hurricane folk in Flyover Country. Wind pushes water toward the shore line. Surges during Katrina were 27 feet?! And, why are all the bad - a$$ hurricanes always named for chics??!! There are a whole lot of bridge & dam inspections going on along the east coast - nuclear power plants, too.
"Good Night Irene!" - Governor Bev Perdue is joining Rachel on the phone to chat up what Irene will do to North Carolina. FEMA has been there for a couple days already, and all tourists have been asked to leave. NC gets tornados, too? Huh! I thought my little part of the world was the only one so "blessed."
"NNNNNnnnnOOOOOOoo!" - George Pataki has decided to not join the 2012 GOBP clown car.
"Rate Rate Don't Tell Me" - Ben Bernake took Congress to the woodshed for their debt ceiling shenanigans & what it did to the economy. But, he didn't promise any new stimulus.
"Lockyup" - LOCK UP is awesome?! Well, awesomely bad, sure. They are going to FL after all! The state prisons chief has resigned.
"Your Plutocracy at Work" - Look at that TX mold; everything IS bigger there. But, you can't sue the builder because the builder probably contributed to Governor Secession. There is some extra - special radioactivity there, too, but you can't do anything about that, either, because they contribute to Governor Secession! There are no campaign contribution limits in TX. It looks like Elizabeth Warren just might run for Senate against Senator Nude Cosmo; he's got nearly $10 million in his campaign coffers - most from the financial industry.
"Day of Destruction Decade of War" - I lurve Rachel & Richard, but I don't know if my psyche can handle watching this documentary. Blood pressure might take a hit, too.