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Monday Open Thread | 262 comments (262 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Now that gustav is calming down and the Katrina replay seems to have been avoided, will the repugs get on with partying or are they gonna use the excuse to try to avoid the spotlight ?

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon Sep 1st, 2008 at 10:42:15 AM EST

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Looks like we really dodged a bullet here. Western Cuba damaged the storm quite a bit, and it never fully recovered over the warmer areas of the Gulf. By the time the eye wall started becoming more defined there, it hit the cooler area near the Louisiana shore.

Very good.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Mon Sep 1st, 2008 at 11:48:35 AM EST
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Re: Cuba Links (4.00 / 3)

I discovered this Cuban blogger with good links

"Beware of the man who does not talk, and the dog that does not bark." Cheyenne

by maracatu on Mon Sep 1st, 2008 at 12:21:57 PM EST
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Re: Monday Open Thread (none / 1)

Cuba damaged the storm? You can't be accused of an anthropocentric view :-)

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Mon Sep 1st, 2008 at 01:09:39 PM EST
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Re: Monday Open Thread (4.00 / 3)

Its a self-reproducing dynamic system, mate, and Cuba sure as shit damaged it.

Land does hella damage to a cyclonic tropic storm.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Mon Sep 1st, 2008 at 10:31:16 PM EST
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The way things look in the tropics (4.00 / 2)

I doubt the Republicans will get around to holding their convention until October! Two more storms are headed that way!

By the way, Pinar del Rio got whacked in Cuba. Here is a local online newspaper with copious photos.

"Beware of the man who does not talk, and the dog that does not bark." Cheyenne

by maracatu on Mon Sep 1st, 2008 at 12:40:22 PM EST
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Re: The way things look in the tropics (4.00 / 2)

Have no doubts about the cancellation. As Jon Stewart said to Amy Goodman in an interview, "The Republicans are going to give every effort to foster the ILLUSION that they are concerned", or something there-abouts.

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Mon Sep 1st, 2008 at 01:00:20 PM EST
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Oh, and the parties have by no means ... (none / 1)

... been canceled, only the coverage of the parties.

Party On (Yglesias)

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Mon Sep 1st, 2008 at 10:34:02 PM EST
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