000
WTNT34 KNHC 290841
TCPAT4
BULLETIN
TROPICAL STORM MELISSA ADVISORY NUMBER   4
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL   AL142007
500 AM AST SAT SEP 29 2007

…THIRTEENTH NAMED STORM OF THE SEASON FORMS IN THE FAR EASTERN
ATLANTIC…

AT 500 AM AST…0900Z…THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM MELISSA WAS
LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 14.1 NORTH…LONGITUDE 27.4 WEST OR ABOUT 260
MILES…420 KM…WEST-SOUTHWEST OF THE CAPE VERDE ISLANDS.

MELISSA IS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST NEAR 3 MPH…6 KM/HR.  A GRADUAL
TURN TOWARD THE WEST-NORTHWEST WITH AN INCREASE IN FORWARD SPEED IS
EXPECTED DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS…WHICH WILL TAKE THE DEPRESSION
FARTHER AWAY FROM THE CAPE VERDE ISLANDS.

MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 40 MPH…65 KM/HR…WITH HIGHER
GUSTS.  SLIGHT STRENGTHENING IS FORECAST DURING THE NEXT 24
HOURS.

TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 70 MILES…110 KM
FROM THE CENTER.

ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 1005 MB…29.68 INCHES.

REPEATING THE 500 AM AST POSITION…14.1 N…27.4 W.  MOVEMENT
TOWARD…WEST NEAR 3 MPH.  MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…40 MPH.
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…1005 MB.

THE NEXT ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER AT
1100 AM AST.

$$
FORECASTER KNABB

Is this woman crazy?  Or just hell bent on destroying this country?

She’s proposing that every child born in the United States should get a $5,000 “baby bond” from the government to help pay for future costs of college or buying a home.

Clinton: $5,000 for Every U.S. Baby
Breitbart.com

Approximately 4 million babies are born each year in the United States.

That 4 million x $5,000.  You do the math.

WHERE THE HECK DOES SHE PLAN TO GET THE MONEY!?!?!?!?!

Out of YOUR pocket, and MY pocket.

Tell you what Hill.  You go back to the village and bake cookies.  I’ll give my kids $5,000.

I don’t need, or want, you to raise my child.

Got this via email.

A seagull in Scotland has developed the habit of stealing chips from a neighborhood shop. The seagull waits until the shopkeeper isn’t looking, and then walks into the store and grabs a snack-size bag of cheese Doritos. Once outside, the bag gets ripped open and shared by other birds. The seagull’s shoplifting started early this month when he first swooped into the store in Aberdeen , Scotland , and helped himself to a bag of chips. Since then, he’s become a regular. He always takes the same type of chips. Customers have begun paying for the seagull’s stolen bags of chips because they think it’s so funny.

Tax reform’s ‘happy warrior’ Berthoud dies at 47
The Washington Times

National Taxpayers Union President John Berthoud, praised as “the happy warrior of fiscal conservatism,” died yesterday. He was 47. 

Back in the early 1990s, when I still lived in DC, I worked with John on some projects.  I remember celebrating his Ph.D.  We haven’t kept in touch over the years, but I’ve followed his career through his work with the National Taxpayer’s Union.

He will be missed.

H/T Leslie Carbone

“If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.”

Edward Vincent Sullivan

September 28, 1900 – October 13, 1974

is give us a break.

I lived through the 70s.  And I never want to repeat them.

McGovern Set to Endorse Clinton
McGovern Says He ‘Never Forgot’ Clinton’s Work on His 1972 White House Bid
ABC News

ABC News has learned that former South Dakota Sen. George McGovern, the 1972 Democratic presidential nominee, is planning to endorse the presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., in Iowa City, Iowa, Saturday, Oct. 6.

Rob Reiner endorses Hillary Clinton
Variety

Hillary Clinton is picking up the key endorsement of director Rob Reiner, giving her campaign a further boost in the race for key Hollywood politicos as she solidifies a commanding lead in many polls.

McGovern and Meathead.  Do we really need to say more?

I’m just sayin’ is all…

Ann Coulter:  Tase Him Bro!
Townhall.com

Democrats should run Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for president. He’s more coherent than Dennis Kucinich, he dresses like their base, he’s more macho than John Edwards, and he’s willing to show up at a forum where he might get one hostile question — unlike the current Democratic candidates for president who won’t debate on Fox News Channel. He’s not married to an impeached president, and the name “Mahmoud Ahmadinejad” is surely no more frightening than “B. Hussein Obama.”

And by the way, I’ll take a denunciation if college presidents would show up at my speeches and drone on for 10 minutes about “free speech” before I begin.

Read more.

From the National Hurricane Center

000
WTNT33 KNHC 272352
TCPAT3
BULLETIN
HURRICANE LORENZO INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY NUMBER  10A
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL   AL132007
700 PM CDT THU SEP 27 2007

…LORENZO BECOMES A HURRICANE AS IT NEARS THE COAST OF MEXICO…

A HURRICANE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE GULF COAST OF MEXICO
FROM PALMA SOLA TO CABO ROJO. A HURRICANE WARNING MEANS THAT
HURRICANE CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED WITHIN THE WARNING AREA WITHIN
THE NEXT 24 HOURS. PREPARATIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY SHOULD
BE RUSHED TO COMPLETION.

A TROPICAL STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM SOUTH OF PALMA SOLA
TO VERACRUZ. A TROPICAL STORM WARNING MEANS THAT TROPICAL STORM
CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED WITHIN THE WARNING AREA WITHIN THE NEXT 24
HOURS.

A TROPICAL STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT ALONG THE GULF COAST OF
MEXICO FROM NORTH OF CABO ROJO TO LA CRUZ.  A TROPICAL STORM WATCH
MEANS THAT TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE WITHIN THE WATCH
AREA.

FOR STORM INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO YOUR AREA…INCLUDING POSSIBLE
INLAND WATCHES AND WARNINGS…PLEASE MONITOR PRODUCTS ISSUED
BY YOUR LOCAL WEATHER OFFICE.

AT 700 PM CDT…0000Z…THE CENTER OF HURRICANE LORENZO WAS
LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 20.4 NORTH…LONGITUDE 96.2 WEST OR ABOUT 75
MILES…125 KM…EAST-SOUTHEAST OF TUXPAN MEXICO.

LORENZO IS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST NEAR 6 MPH…9 KM/HR…AND THIS
GENERAL MOTION TOWARD THE COAST OF MEXICO IS EXPECTED UNTIL THE
CENTER CROSSES THE COAST OF MEXICO IN THE NEXT 6 TO 12 HOURS.

MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 75 MPH…120 KM/HR…WITH HIGHER
GUSTS. LORENZO IS A CATEGORY ONE HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON
SCALE. SOME ADDITIONAL STRENGTHENING IS LIKELY PRIOR TO LANDFALL.

HURRICANE FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 20 MILES…30 KM…FROM
THE CENTER…AND TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 70
MILES…110 KM FROM THE CENTER.

ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 993 MB…29.32 INCHES.

STORM SURGE FLOODING OF OF 2 TO 4 FEET ABOVE NORMAL TIDE
LEVELS…ALONG WITH LARGE AND DANGEROUS BATTERING WAVES…CAN BE
EXPECTED NEAR AND TO THE NORTH OF WHERE THE CENTER CROSSES THE
COAST.

LORENZO IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE TOTAL RAINFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF 5 TO
10 INCHES OVER THE MEXICAN STATE OF VERACRUZ…WITH POSSIBLE
ISOLATED MAXIMUM AMOUNTS OF 15 INCHES.

REPEATING THE 700 PM CDT POSITION…20.4 N…96.2 W.  MOVEMENT
TOWARD…WEST NEAR 6 MPH.  MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…75 MPH.
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…993 MB.

THE NEXT ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL
HURRICANE CENTER AT 1000 PM CDT.

$$
FORECASTER FRANKLIN

Yeah, that’s what he said.  See the video for yourself:  Stopping Inner-City Violence.

Why is anyone still taking this man seriously?

Alabama City Reopening Fallout Shelters
Associated Press

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — In an age of al-Qaida, sleeper cells and the threat of nuclear terrorism, Huntsville is dusting off its Cold War manual to create the nation’s most ambitious fallout-shelter plan, featuring an abandoned mine big enough for 20,000 people to take cover underground.

Read more.

Laura’s Snub for AhMADman
Iran Jerk gets cold shoulder & then blows hot air at U.N.
New York Post

September 26, 2007 — First Lady Laura Bush coolly brushed past the face of evil yesterday, giving Iran’s notoriously chauvinistic president the silent treatment en route to her husband’s speech at the United Nations.

Read more.

The Wreck of the Old 97

There’s a new Mark Warner ad out this week.  Riley has the details.

Funny thing about the ad, it was up on the RPV site, then it wasn’t.  We suspect that it’s because the ad uses a clip of Billy Bob Thorton dropping the f-bomb.

To be fair, it’s probably vitually impossible to find a clip of Billy Bob Thornton not using the f-bomb, but that’s another story.

Still, that word is why we haven’t posted it here.  But Riley (and others) have it up.

It asks the question the leftocra(ick)s don’t want to answer:  Why Did Mark Warner Not Run?

Ben and Lowell developed a case of the vapors (get yer own link) trying to deflect attention from the real question of the ad.  Either they were offended by the f-word (which would have to mean they are perpetually offended if they read their own sites), or they’re offended by the message.

We agree.

“Mark Warner for Senate” is pretty offensive.

Get your sticker here.