Archive of entries posted on September 2021

Weekend Assignment

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Per Seanmahair:

I wonder if anyone at IMAO could educate me on the Hurricane Ida “super hurricane”? While I realize it was awful I have a couple of nagging questions.

1. Didn’t Ida hit land in Louisiana?

2. When this hurricane hit land it lost strength and was downgraded to a Tropical Depression.

3. So this tropical depression traveled at least halfway across the US and hit the coast of New York? How?

4. What were those in charge and the people of New York so busy doing they just didn’t notice the storm, the flood waters, and the bad, awful, nasty weather in general?

5. Where were Bloomberg/Cuomo/AOC/Hitlery/Sharpton and all of the other people who are usually so interested in everybody else’s life and decisions?

I realize that you may not know the answers to these questions but I’m hoping someone out there does because it just seems bizarre to me that NO ONE is asking these kinds of questions. Perhaps if they had asked before the crisis 50 people would not have died?

Ida was anticipated in the south as a ferocious hurricane that is typical of this time of year. It downgraded to a tropical storm before making its way towards the Northeast and was not expected to bring as much rain or tornadoes.

The hurricane took the Northeast by surprise on Wednesday, unleashing a month’s worth of rain in one night.

The first warnings about Ida came at around 7pm on Wednesday and by 10pm, NYPD officers were recovering dead bodies from basement homes. 

At a press conference on Thursday, he said officials were caught off guard by the amount of rain that fell. He had predicted between three and six inches to fall in the entire day, he said, but that much fell in just one hour in some parts of the city. 

— Daily Mail UK

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Friday Night Open Thread: Futilitarianism

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After reading about those hero kids in an earlier post tonight, why would anyone even want to debate the value of being a moral person?

Immoral people — even though they get all the great lines in plays — cannot look back on anything they’ve done with pride and satisfaction: they may revel in their pleasures, but take no pleasure in their revels. That’s not always the case, but it sounds nice.

On their deathbeds, they seem to wallow in their crapulence as much as those who never heard of The Simpsons. And that burns the rest of us up. Is there no price to pay in this world for immorality?

No, not really. Not necessarily, and certainly not proportionately. We (the moral folks) try to comfort ourselves with thoughts of a comeuppance in an afterlife, but that is cold comfort. Suffice it to say that cold comfort does not always suffice.

So I hope you can bear the whips and scorns of outrageous fortune, because that is the only kind you are going to get. The moral person sometimes does manage to shuffle off this mor[t]al coil with head held high, though, which sounds complicated but isn’t. And that’s reason enough to want to be a moral person. Oh, and I’ll bet the founder of your religion said it’s worth an awful lot, too, so you can bet He’s looking out for those hero kids and others like them.

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Do you have something you’d like to share? A link? A joke? Some words of wisdom? A topic to discuss? It’s our nightly Open Thread, and you have the floor.

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Link of the Day: Well, Not Technically a Link

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Thanks to Slapout for this, which must be making the rounds, because I’ve seen it too. If you haven’t seen it (or if you have), we’d welcome your diagnosis:

I am sorry that I have not been very responsive to your emails lately. I have been somewhat under the weather. My doctors have diagnosed me as having an acute case of Post Islamic Stress Trauma with Apologetic White House Fatigue, PIST-AWF (Pronounced pissed-off).

PIST-AWF is a newly defined disease that has become widespread and highly contagious. Doctors at the CDC released a statement disclosing PIST-AWF as a new disease.

It has already infected over half of the United States, and is anticipated to continue to spread. The disease itself affects the cells of a person’s entire body, then goes dormant. The disease ravages the body, and leaves serious side effects, including: embarrassment for your country, depression, anxiety as to when it will come to an end, and wondering how much more damage Biden can do and how long it will take to repair the damage once a new person takes over the presidency.

Symptoms include:

* Severe pain of the scalp from pulling your own hair while viewing your president pander to Taliban terrorists.

* Uncontrollable heartburn at 8:00 p.m. during the CNN coverage lies.

* Stomach cramps from swallowing the fact we elected Biden/Harris.

* Vomiting from viewing terrorists murdering innocent people routinely on the nightly news.

* Bleeding from the eyes. This is not Ebola. It is your eyes reacting to accidentally flipping to a channel that shows Al Sharpton as a so-called legitimate news show host.

Since the disease consumes the entire body, every infected person is then identified as the disease itself.

If you have these symptoms and consider yourself PIST-AWF, please notify your local election board and place your name on the list for a cure. It is expected, and sincerely hoped, that the cure will be available in 2022.

Other indications:

* The heartbreak of Psoros-ISIS

* Hypersensitivity to flatulance from the direction of your TV

* Getting bitten by Major

* Mesopotamiatheoryosis

* Loss of mobility, coordination, and about 60 Blackhawk helicopters

* Explosive deniarrhia

* General malaise and impotence (Pentagon staff only)

* Cold, clammy hands

* From behind you, when on stage with Biden

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Hero Kids

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Title and images submitted by Gumbeaux:

“Colbie was born at 23 weeks, weighing only 1lb 2 oz. She spent 153 days in the NICU, had eye surgery and six brain surgeries. The doctors told us we wouldn’t know what to expect, yet here she is!”…with her doll to match.

Actually, the WBC recognized Bridger as an honorary champion. Still a great honor for a great kid.

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