Rush Limbaugh takes on weather

[underpants]

They’re playing games with us on this heat wave, again. Even Drudge. Drudge getting sucked in here. Going to be 116 in Washington. No, it’s not. It’s gonna be like 100, maybe 99. A heat index, manufactured by the government to tell you what it feels like when you add the humidity in there.

116. When’s the last time the heat index was reported as an actual temperature? It hasn’t been, but it looks like they’re trying to get away with doing that now. 116. Drudge is just linking to other people reporting. He’s not saying it, I don’t want to misunderstand, but he’s linking to stories which say 116 degrees in Washington. No!

It’s going to top out as 102, 103. It does this every year. We have this every year. There’s a heat dome over half the country, midwest is moving east. And it happens every summer. Every summer.

If we want to cool things off, please, Al Gore, schedule a global warming conference, wherever, in Washington! Go there. You want that 103, 116 to get normal? It will, within an hour of Gore announcing that he’s going! Another ten degrees off when he shows up. Plus hail, and rain, and maybe some high winds to really cool people off! That’s all that has to happen.

http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/07/21/274859/limbaugh-the-killer-116-heat-index-is-manufactured-by-the-government/

[napoleon_in_rags]

1. Farewell happy Fields

Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail horrours, hail
Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell
Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings
A mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time.
The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.

Sorry, that line just springs to mind whenever I hear this stuff. Its hot. The weather is weird. People see it. Changing minds won't change that, the weather isn't subject to an election.

edit: That poetry is from Milton's Paradise Lost, from the character Lucifer.

[classof56]

2. Well, to quote the title of Al Franken's book:

Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot. True today as it ever was. Or maybe thrice as true.

Tired Old Cynic

[mindwalker_i]

3. I've come to the conclusion that Rush isn't an idiot

He knows his market segment really well and they ARE idiots. He knoes what they want to hear and caters to it. I bet he doesn't believe a damn thing he says, but that's really beside the point since all he needs is for idiots who want to believe to hear it.