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Listen To Obama Discuss The Impact Of Hurricane Irene

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Will Obama blame the weather on Bush or... the weather. Find out momentarily. Audio only: the presidential vacation will not be televized.

 

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Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:50 | 1604354 RacerX
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That should be his new campaign slogan:

"Hope for the Best, but prepare for the Worst"

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:01 | 1604516 Whoa Dammit
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I keep hoping that someone will yell "SQUIRREL" at one of his pressers.

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:32 | 1604638 Herman Strandsc...
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Did someone say Squirrel?

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:38 | 1604657 Rodent Freikorps
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You rang?

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:10 | 1604541 MillionDollarBonus_
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The worst that can happen is that the hurricane blows over with minimal damage. The amount of monetary stimulus we have following this event is directly proportional to the damage it does. Hence this is nothing to be worried about, it's actually a fantastic opportunity. The issue of hope is actually quite profound economically. The 'hope' theme is a genious narative developed by the Obama administration, which has the express purpose of stimulating consumption by the population, even when their irrational brains are telling them to save. It is imperative that people act under the wise guidance of the experts in these difficult times rather than succum to their defficient thinking processes, which have proven to be consistently incorrect during previous recessions.

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 14:11 | 1604950 Zymurguy
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can someone kick this a-hole off of here?

MDB are you metally ill?  You sound like a psycopath void of compassion and appreciation for life.  I mean where the fuck are you coming from???  Is there some communist solar system you beamed in from... because you are the most galactically stupid and uncaring person on this board.

Do you understand anything about economics?  Tell me, when a publicly owned building gets destroyed from a storm, where does the money come from to pay for this "stimulus" you mention to rebuild it?

But don't let yourself get too hung up on the potential loss of life inherent with such catastrophies.  Don't let that worry your little Marxist mind as you scheme on this socialistic fantasy land you seem to be dreaming of.

I'm serious, man.  You should schedule a mental health evaluation.

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 19:07 | 1606056 Isotope
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<Insert Trollface.jpg>

Problem?

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 13:51 | 1604865 Sudden Debt
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It's actually:

Hope for the worst, and you'd best prepare.

 

Thanks to Irene, Retaile sales will be up this month as everybody buys survival packs.

And when NJ is hit New Orleans style, rebuilding and relocation of the natives can start.

ALL JOB CREATORS!

 

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:30 | 1604356 lolmao500
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It's Bush fault. It's Whitey's fault. It's Allah's fault. It's Global Warming's fault.

Whatever. Irene is dying, unfortunately.

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 13:41 | 1604841 SRV - ES339
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Nice avatar... that is a white hood right?

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:30 | 1604358 SheepDog-One
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Irene is already blowing out, 50 mph winds WOW lets create a national emergency! What a bunch of BS.

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:34 | 1604377 Waffen
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Earthquakes, Hurricanes, Droughts OH MY!!!

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:36 | 1604396 JohnG
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Weekly schedule:

Locusts

Frogs falling from sky

Sea turns red

Another meh FOMC meeting

The farce continues as usual all along

 

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:54 | 1604474 TruthInSunshine
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Irene = The Big NothingBurger; a Bwaney Fwank Queef into the D.C. wind.

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 13:30 | 1604806 Maxter
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The only question we should ask ourself is: Will the emergency be lifted after the storm or will we stay in a permanent emergency state like in Florida.

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:39 | 1604364 John McCloy
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   I am sure he is excited about the prospect of adding new temporary jobs for rebuilding however. Might even be able to get an downtick in unemployment if more jobs are created temporarily than lost.

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:32 | 1604367 UTICA CLUB XX PURE
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How to fix the economy:

Tie a parachute to his back and put him Kitty Hawk NC right now!!!!!

 

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:33 | 1604370 JohnG
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CNBC - dude out surfing!  Kewl!

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:33 | 1604371 Ratscam
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We instruct you to go to your nearest FEMA concentration camp.

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:33 | 1604373 alien-IQ
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Watch Obama?...Must we?

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 14:15 | 1604967 Zymurguy
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I refuse to waste my time watching or listening to anything our President has to say.  After you've heard one speech of his you've heard them all.  Let me show you...

 

Obama:  "Blah, blah, blah, Bush's fault, blah, blah, blah, metaphor, blah, blah, blah, hyperbolic threat, blah, blah, blah platitude. Thank you America and good night."

 

Lather, rinse, repeat.

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:33 | 1604374 lolmao500
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Ron Paul: People Who Bought into Govt's False Promises Could Riot When Their Entitlements Run Out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtLuegaF9xU

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:15 | 1604571 KrugmansChauffeur
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Could riot?

 

The Titanic is made of iron sir.  She can sink and she will.

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:35 | 1604384 Gert_B_Frobe
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Where's Geraldo?

 

 

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:35 | 1604389 anynonmous
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 And He got up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, "Hush, be still." And the wind died down and it became perfectly calm.

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:36 | 1604401 ffart
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Anyone think Obama gets off on creating national strife? Perfectly explains the results of all his behavior especially his frequent teleprompter apperances.

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 14:19 | 1604983 Zymurguy
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Most definitely sitting in his cigarette smoke filled bunker at Martha's Vineyard watching multiple video feeds of the pending disaster in his panties gulping down spoonfulls of peanut butter in unimaginable glee!

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:42 | 1604402 WoodMizer
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Order up!

"Okay, I got: one superfluous, parental reassurance for Mr. O, one HFT bailout for the Baldheaded Strangler, and one Mc. Nothingburger for the american people.

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:37 | 1604403 Esso
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Blah, blah, blah - Hurricane!

Blah, blah, blah - Libya!

Blah, blah, blah - Me! Me! Me!

Damn, you could put that to music and do a wicked tango.

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:49 | 1604687 Rodent Freikorps
Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:37 | 1604405 thedrickster
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Quiet down slaves, the emperor speaks.

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:37 | 1604406 JW n FL
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<-------- You Hope Wall Street is Blown Away by Hurricane Irene (as well the HFT in New Jersey, I forget which exit)

<-------- You Hope Bernake Starts QE3 Early due to storm damage.

 

 

SURF'S! UP!! BITCHEZ!!!

 

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:40 | 1604421 mayhem_korner
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Turning out to be an uneventful day, no?

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:01 | 1604503 Dapper Dan
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Other news that has been eclipsed by Irene.

Radioactive cesium from Fukushima was 168 times more than A-bomb

TOKYO, Aug. 26, Kyodo

The amount of radioactive cesium-137 released from the crippled nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant was 168 times more than that from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in the closing days of World War II in 1945, the Japanese government's nuclear safety agency said Friday.

 

A total of 15,000 terabecquerels of radioactive cesium-137 is estimated to have been released into the external environment due to the nuclear crisis, raising concerns over continuing impact as the element's half-life is known to be about 30 years.

 

One terabecquerel equals 1 trillion becquerels

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:43 | 1604666 Herman Strandsc...
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Why didn't they just say 'fifteen thousand trillion units of dangerous radioactivity' so that folk understand it a bit better?

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 13:46 | 1604849 Cpl Hicks
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I say one unit of dangerous stupidity behind the POTUS teleprompters...

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:41 | 1604427 DiveGerl
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I voted for the bailout before I voted against it. What a Moroon.

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:41 | 1604432 Silverhog
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Irene, if your looking for your daddy, he's on Martha Vineyard.

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:55 | 1604435 Monedas
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'Twas a strong wind that blew through the UN building in Nigeria ? WTF is the UN in Nigeria for ? They have oil money and loving, oil rich Muslim friends ? Why does Japan and many others have to fund UN bullshit projects ? Monedas 2011 Passion for whale meat eater's rights.......stunning indifference to manmade global warming and disgust for the UN ! Me happy !  http://trololololololololololo.com/

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:44 | 1604449 walküre
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Listen To Obama Discuss The Impact Of Hurricane Irene

 

About the last thing it would do today OR EVER.

As if he knew anything about either hurricanes or their impact.

He's just one of Bernanke's TOOLS. Bernanke said himself he has many TOOLS in his toolbox. Obama surely being one of those.

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:48 | 1604466 New American Re...
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While he's on vacation he doesn't have to rest, but I wish he'd give America at least the same courtesy to rest.   Lip flappin' lyin son of a bitch.

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:54 | 1604469 Flakmeister
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Good news from Irene...

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/article.html

Eye wall collapsed, unlikely to reform....

We are not out of the woods yet, but this is encouraging...

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:01 | 1604519 Monedas
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That's rich ! Let's focus on the storm and not on the cult of personalities ? Defend the bitch ! Monedas 2011 You liberals are soooo transparent !

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:22 | 1604600 Flakmeister
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Forget the meds this AM?

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:47 | 1604678 Monedas
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You made my day ! Don't need no MEDS ! Well, the bombing in Nigeria was uplifting.....you don't get all the credit ! Monedas 2011 My humour is the antidote for liberalism !

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:56 | 1604499 The Piker
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Boring!! F'in Boring !

A surreal day and yet F"IN BORING!

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:05 | 1604531 sbenard
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Inquiry to Emperor Obama:

Can you GOLF during a hurricane? I'm sure that if anyone could do it, YOU would try!

 

BY the way -- WHEN do we begin calling you Caesar?

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:09 | 1604547 sbenard
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The Teleprompter Tyrant is THE most catastrophic error of our generation! Freedom is not safe until he leaves office!

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:26 | 1604620 Flakmeister
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He ain't much of a Tyrant if no one listens to what he days or does what he tells them to do....

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:56 | 1604707 Monedas
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"There you go again !"....R. Reagan ! Let the little "Tyrant in a teapot" blow his own horn and not bury his teary face in your apron ! Monedas 2011 Hitler wasn't much of a Tyrant, either ? Just ignore him and he'll go away ?

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:46 | 1604672 I need more cowbell
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Not sure about the hurricane, but the earthquake was "Bush's Fault"

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:48 | 1604686 JohnG
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As long as Waffle house is open, all will be fine:

http://www.11alive.com/rss/article/197574/3/Waffle-House-Index-helps-to-...

 

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 13:10 | 1604738 Monedas
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The Waffle House is a good model for any government agency.....especially FEMA ! FEMA spends billions creating more dependents who need their diapers changed at government expense ! Waffle house will turn a profit, provide employment and treat their shivering customers to tasty food and coffee at popular prices ! Monedas 2011 Government isn't evil because there is a want of decent examples of how to conduct business ! Government is evil because it engages in organized thievery !

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:59 | 1604716 Chuck Walla
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/toby_d1/2673318806/" title="Three Some Zarria, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3141/2673318806_8e233161fe_m.jpg" width="185" height="240" alt="Three Some"></a>

You called?

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 13:43 | 1604843 Cpl Hicks
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Has the Teleprompter spoken yet?

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 14:07 | 1604937 gwar5
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Obamao doesn't know the difference between a Hurricane and flash mob. This is only a Cat 2+ hurricane at that -- he's overblowing it to make it look like the Gov is the hero. But it's the Red Cross and the Salvation Army that is already (literally) prepositioned to help others.

 

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 14:36 | 1605059 Sow-puncher
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I've got an eagle farm in New Jersey... I don't know what to do now! May god help me!

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 14:45 | 1605099 Moneyswirth
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Irene couldn't have come at a better time for Obama and the other morons in the administration.  How else are they gonna explain the disastrous NFP report next week?  

 

 

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 14:46 | 1605104 malalingua
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Do you think it's possible to use William Banzai7's picture of obama in place of the one you use? (you know the one with the big fro and the sunglasses)

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 15:01 | 1605164 I Got Worms
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I don't know, I'm pretty partial to the pic of him with that ridiculous grin on his face. Always cracks me up.

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 15:15 | 1605217 malalingua
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but this picture is way funnier, I think it's a truer depiction of our fearless leader. 

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/expd/6030684495/

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 15:41 | 1605308 ThirdCoastSurfer
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Dear Irene, please turn right. 

Beyond all the dangers, it's the lack of electricity that really bites.

What do you do when millions will be without power or possibly means of transportation for days?  

Especially after dark? 

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 21:48 | 1606410 LongBallsShortBrains
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