To those wishing Hurricane Issac would blow Tampa away

[DonCoquixote]

Look, I am in Tampa, a Democratic voting city. A city that is not so thrilled about the fact that the Mayor is seeking to attract all those GOP asshats into our town, in hopes of making Tampa a convention star. We are annoyed that they shove all these "road improvements" in our face, when we ask why the hell these things were only ok when they were meant to keep out of town GOP happy? No, we do not like the fact that we will be stuck in traffic while a bunch of bad tipping, bad driving assholes come into the town.

So for all of you hoping Hurricane Isaac hits us,please, there are some collateral damage folks here. I can truly understand the image of several GOP asshats being washed out to sea, bloated and rotting like the Katrina victims they made fun of. I would love the idea that they would get flooded into Ybor City or Channelside, then ask "why is it so flooded" then they can ask Rick Scott where the funds were to improve the sewer (but I cut that so we could get a tax break).

However, I can assure you, the people that would suffer would be us, not them. I can easily see them use a disaster as an excuse to call in Blackwater goons, and I have no doubt they would use it to take over the state, making any democrat a proestor or felon, keeping them in jail well after elections.

[LisaL]

1. Regardless of what someone wishes, the storm is going to go where it wants to go.

[_Liann_]

27. Actually, the storm goes where Goddess sends it.

Actually, the storm goes where Goddess sends it. Goddess hates Red States.

[DonCoquixote]

30. Tampa was a blue state in 2008

Something that everybody wants to forget, including some blue staters.

[a la izquierda]

31. Um, no.

That's not how it works.
I'm pretty sure sentient higher beings-if there are any- don't hate. Their minions hate, and project that hate. I'd hope your goddess was a little more fair than condemning innocent people because of where they live.

[_Liann_]

54. Goddess Hates Red States

There is religious freedom for delusional people to worship phoney big-penis-in-the-sky gods, but Goddess gets pissed when the self-deluders attack her favorites. There are no innocent people. You are protecting the weak, or you are not, and those attacking and their enablers are burning in hell, literally, turn on your news fer-chrissakes.

Justice is not hate. Learn the difference.

[a la izquierda]

57. Excuse me.

I study justice for a living. I study Latin America. Don't pretend to lecture me about justice, okay?
You'll make a lot of friends around here by attacking-broadbased- red states. There are lots of Democrats, Liberals, leftists, Socialists, etc., who live in red states.

Give me a small break.

Oh, and by the way, I'm sorry you worship such a hateful deity. I don't have to have some entity tell me how to live my life.

[Renew Deal]

49. No, it's going to go where God wants it to go.

At least that's what God told Pat Robertson

[TruthAnalyzed]

2. I don't think it proper

to wish any kind of destruction, grief, or pain, on anybody, no matter how much you disagree with them politically.

People are people, let's treat them as such.

[Katashi_itto]

6. Nonsense more hand wringing. Elimination of the GOP is like taking out Al-Queda in business suits.

What part of "they want you dead or in concentration camps don't you get"?

What part of they would see "millions of children starve" don't you get?

What part of they would see "millions of women die in back alley abortions" don't you get?

What part of "They want a facist govt grinding you under it's heel" dont you get?

No I don't want Tampa to get flattened. However if it hit, and the GOP were there...

Well I would have popcorn.

[DonCoquixote]

8. I GET all of it

however, embracing collateral damage is a very GOP attitude.

[Katashi_itto]

10. No, THE GOP ENGINEERS PURPOSEFULLY COLLATERAL DAMAGE

That's their WHOLE strategy. Defund, cut taxes, obstruct, then when finally govt cant operate, they step back and say "Oh look Govt Doesnt work"

[cyclezealot]

3. No one wishes that. I don't think. ?

Its just no one would mind any GOP member being inconvenienced. It it hurts people in the process, no thanks.

[Ezlivin]

4. Tampa is my hometown

I no longer live there, but my parents do, in a house they bought in 1953. It sits beside I-275 and you can watch the traffic on the interstate from the front porch. I graduated high school there and have a bunch of friends living in and around the area. Plus a bunch of family.

So I don't want any destruction to rain down upon Tampa.

There are a lot of very good people in Tampa: Progressive, forward-looking people.

Save the doom wishes for truly bad people.

[Curtland1015]

5. I'm pretty sure people saying that mean it tongue in cheek.

I doubt (I COULD be wrong) that anyone here REALLY wants the entire city of Tampa destroyed in a natural disaster.

[a la izquierda]

58. Look upthread.

There's someone who basically says red states should be destroyed.

[malaise]

7. No one wishes that to happen

but we wouldn't mind ReTHUG uncertainty or the chaos and confusion at the thought that this ispossible.

One of my nephews lives in Tampa.

[SoCalDem]

9. I hope it misses Tampa.. I DO wish for lots of rain though

so the goofballs will all stay hunkered down in their rooms watching FoxNews, and will not be roaming around looking down their noses at everyone.

[cyclezealot]

33. No harm to tampa. But,

Would it be a hoot if a freak windstorm took down the power lines feeding into the Gobber arena..With no other damage to the city proper and no one was hurt.. Let them shoot at one another with their pistols in the dark. Why not , after all, Global warming is a good thing. ?

[pipi_k]

40. A hoot indeed

which was exactly what I thought when I found out where and when the hurricane was headed.

Destruction of the Tampa/Clearwater area would not be cool. I have a friend who lives in Clearwater.

But I'd laugh my ass off to see one little cloud hanging over the RNC proceedings, making life supremely uncomfortable (miserable, actually) for a certain group.

[Logical]

11. I think you took it as a serious statement. I doubt it was. n-t

[morningglory]

12. Why does God hate the GOP? Didn't they get hit by a hurricane during a recent GOP convention? nt

[Sancho]

13. I live here...so I hope we don't blow away...but

...it would be fine if there was aa little flooding and power outage during prime time!

[DonCoquixote]

19. Like I said

There is a bad part of me that would love to see GOP bodies floating in the bay, especially norquist, limbaugh, and ryan Of course, knowing my luck, it would be John Stewart and Rachel Maddow that did not survive, but more importantly, I know Rick Scott would abuse the emergency to make things even worse.

[Gothmog]

14. The models do not look good right this second

The current computer models are not looking good




We will know more by Friday or so. After living through Ike a couple of years ago, I hate to see anyone suffer a hurricane. I hope that all of Tampa DUers the best of luck and that the models are wrong.

[LynneSin]

45. NHC has it following a very similiar path to Andrew

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

15. Id rather they have their convention now

rather then delay it and go after the Dems.

[Wednesdays]

16. Here's what I'm hoping for

The GOP out-of-staters run around like a bunch of Chicken Littles, and the locals laugh their asses off at them. Because it's nothing more than a routine summer thundershower.

[DonCoquixote]

20. True that

And the groups like Hooters that were counting on GOP bux could go fish.

[gollygee]

17. I have family there

Democrats! I hope they don't get blown away by a hurricane.

[tableturner]

18. Hurricanes never end up......

.......where models this far in advance predict they will go. Tampa is safe. I live in Tampa, and I have seen this over and over again.

[RobertEarl]

21. Yeah, but

If i lived there i'd be packing my bags.

The republicans are full of hot air. They may just attract something in nature that is like them. Too, Republicans are known for leaving a trail of destruction everywhere they land.

[Sancho]

22. Let's lock 'em in the Forum for a week without toilet paper!

I can see it now:

"Good job, Ricky!"

[DonCoquixote]

23. Nah, that would ruin the forum

Now if a Hurricane happened, these turds would probably have private copters fly in caviar, champagne and cigars..either that or hire Blackwater commandos to raid the nearby IKEA for food.

[FarCenter]

24. May the Lord smite the Republicans with might wind, that they eat lutfisk and meatballs for a week.

[DonCoquixote]

25. would lutefisk

count as torture under the Geneva convention?

[FarCenter]

28. Possibly. Surströmming certainly would.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surstr%C3%B6mming

[Sancho]

35. haha...10,000 delegates living for a week on Swedish meatballs from IKEA!

but our IKEA here has solar panels on the roof for power, so the GOP is probably banned from going in there.

[DonCoquixote]

38. Of course

You cannot get more socialist than Swedish IKEA. Could be worse, they could wind up having to float around in Ybor, begging for food from the folks in the taller buildings on 7th ave, which, unknown to them, are the part of "GaYbor" ,the LGBT district. For those outside Tampa, some of the older hotel/older department stores got converted into the LGBT district. One of them, CZAR, covers a whole city block. It is exactly the sort of place where the average homophobic politicians gets caught making foot signals in the bathroom.

Nah, knowing my luck, the folks in the local Scientology church will be there to help. Again, for those outside of Tampa, the Scientologists bought an entire THREE STORY MALL out as their church complex. It is an old cigar factory with a courtyard area, meant to function like a castle, complete with gates and towers. They will be well prepped for a Hurricane,perhaps in more ways than one.

[HockeyMom]

52. I LOVE Ybor

My daughter and I go there every year when she visits me in Naples. Oh, very nice people there who I wouldn't want to see suffer or their businesses hurt. I do appreciate the idea of Repukes from the Convention floating into Gaybor! ROFL

[Sancho]

55. and make 'em eat Cuban sandwiches too!!

[cyclezealot]

43. Didn't GW Bush let New Orleans drown.

[Skittles]

26. WHO is wishing that?

you want I should kick their ass, DonCoquixote? LEMME AT THEM!

[chalky]

29. Is someone really wishing that?

Isn't the thought of having the GOP idiots descending on your city like a plague of locusts enough of a trauma for Tampa?

[davidpdx]

32. I don't wish it would happen

In fact I think there is really less than a 50% chance it will. The path of hurricanes/typhoons change and it more likely it will graze the east side of Florida and go up the coast or graze Miami and go into the Gulf toward the west. The truth is no one can control it either way.

I think people just see an irony that these are the same people (the Republicans) that didn't give a shit about those who were hit by Katrina 7 years ago and let them rot and die until people finally started screaming for help.

It's too bad they didn't have their convention in Houston.

[Gothmog]

53. We suffered through the 1992 Convention

Houston had the 1992 convention and the poor Astros had to schedule a large number of consecutive away games to accommodate the GOP. Today we have several locations that could handle the GOP.

I am glad that the GOP is not coming here. I do not want another hurricane

[Ganja Ninja]

34. Personally I hope it rains the entire time they're here.

It will force them indoors to the bars and strip clubs. Anything that leads to them drinking more and embarrassing themselves is a good thing.

[Sancho]

36. maybe it will be too windy for the drones to fly around watching us...

[NCTraveler]

37. I live in the Tampa Bay area and welcome the RNC.

So many good people around here are hurting. This will help many of them. And if it goes really well it might attract other conventions to our area. We will gladly take their money. It also livens up the area, and gets people aware who normally don't care. This has caused quite a buzz around the area for some time now. The local news shows are starting to do a pretty good job of showing policy differences between Mitt and Obama leading up to the convention. Our local anchor persons are pretty darn good.

What I don't want to welcome is a hurricane.

[snooper2]

39. Is Tampa any better than Miami?

[panader0]

41. I certainly hope no one is hurt and no property damaged by the storm

But don't you think it's a bit strange for the 'pubs to have their convention in Florida during hurricane season?
Which big brain planned it?

[HooptieWagon]

46. Not just hurricane season, which is June thru Nov.

But late Aug/early Sept which is the peak of hurricane sesson. Fucking GOP gets what they deserve. We locals will be fine.

[NightWatcher]

42. No one hopes Tampa sees damage, a few of us hope they get rained on or parties get cancelled

now if god decides to blink the power off and on while they are giving their speeches....

[LynneSin]

44. Tampa hasn't had a direct hit in 90 years

I think this hurricane is Andrew Jr. and going to head the same path.

I suspect Tampa will get hit with a ton of wind and rain but hopefully not a direct hit.

[HooptieWagon]

47. Near miss to the west is worst case.

Strong southerly winds push the Bay water into downtown Tampa.

[nadinbrzezinski]

48. No I don't

In fact, I'd love a targeted strike on the part of Isaac (but know better).

I hope that it does turn to sea to be honest, but the irony of the party of know nothings having their convention ruined after they tried to cut off the NWS is kind of ... ironic.

[Cannikin]

50. I could see them continuing with the convention in the face of the storm

and using it to boast their resilience and determination to win. So I'm not seeing the storm as a disaster for the convention just yet.

These are the Koch republicans we're dealing with. They're too smart to not turn the situation to their advantage.

[CherokeeDem]

51. Having lived in Miami during hurricanes...

I don't want Issac to hit anyone. While we cannot control nature, and the storm will go where it's directed by the winds and currents, I don't want it to hit Miami, Tampa or anyplace in between. I am pretty positive no one on this Board wants that.

However, I think all of us hope for a bit of uneasiness for the Repubs as they head that way, but I don't want them in danger either.

Please all of you who are in the path of this storm...get your supplies or get out if it's coming toward you. May you be safe!

[Bake]

56. I do not want to see Tampa blown away!

However, a well-aimed lightning bolt or two at the Convention Center might not be too bad ...



Bake