Tornadoes

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I’m watching a monster tornado eat Oklahoma on television. The front of volatile weather could move through Kansas and into Missouri tonight. Keep your heads up out there.

This has got to be one of the worst tornado seasons on record. They’re still finding bodies in Joplin.

Update: Eric Cantor is saying the House won’t approve disaster relief for Joplin unless other programs are cut. Unbelievable.

Somebody tell all those good Republican voters in Missouri that they’re on their own after a tornado disaster because it is more important to give tax cuts to millionaires. The Midwest could get a tad bluer.

8 thoughts on “Tornadoes”

  1. Looking for news of this, I’ve run into more than one comment blaming the tornadoes on Obama. Seriously. God’s wrath, y’know. Or at least a sneakly political move. I can’t believe how insane a portion of the population is.

  2. Meanwhile, per Bill McKibben, we are being told climate change isn’t happening.

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  4. I gotta wonder about Eric Cantor…Some times you have to have the discretion to keep your mouth shut and your thoughts to yourself. Whether it was bull headed stupidity or an attempt to exploit a tragedy, Cantor clearly didn’t have enough sense to think of anybody or anything beyond his own agenda. What a scumbag!

  5. Cantor has yet again proved what a stupid ASSHOLE he is!

    Oh, but you can bet if this were HIS district, he’d have set the land-speed record to have his hand out for federal relief money.

  6. I get the uneasy feeling that the entities pulling the strings think that the current situation may be their best shot, and it is time to spring the trap. They have their propaganda mechanism in place and it has a limited “shelf life”, people will begin to see through it. One overlapping phenomenon is that there is a good supply people, who truly believe the nonsense (putting it politely) that they are spreading, and many now hold public office. So they spew the party talking points and articles of faith as if they were logically compelling instead of patently absurd and sociopathically regressive. At this point, I don’t think they can help themselves, they’re too far into the game and have too much invested. It would take something catastrophic to force them to rethink the ideology that forms a basic construct of their world. Unfortunately, the catastrophes will fall on “little people” such as ourselves, our families and neighbors. That will be of little consequence to them unless it adds up to a “Piazzone Lorretto”. (sp?)

    As for the tornadoes, I haven’t seen any of my neighbors since the “Rapture” (no need to worry, we’re rural.) But, I would bet that ALL of them would interpret the recent severe weather as indicative of God’s wrath. That’s the world they live in. The fact that recent events have been corroborative evidence of climate change would never occur to them without a major psychological reorientation. It’s simply not possible.

    I haven’t read much about Harold Camping. I saw a picture of him in passing yesterday with a story in which he had discovered an error he had made. I didn’t read it. He’s an older man, who has almost certainly lived in a fundamentalist culture all his life. As misguided as his interpretation of the world may seem to us, to him it is spiritually rich inseparable from who he is. The god he believes in infuses his world and his desire to engage that god by solving the mystery of the endtimes, must be overwhelming. Of course, there is sufficient ego involved to be misleading. (Let me know if he turns out to be just another ‘Christian” flimflam man. I don’t plan to pursue it.)

    The theme emerging here is that there is a mass psychology afoot that is virulent and nearly impervious to the intrusion of reality. Now, where is that rabbit? I need to ask him what time it is.

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