Democratic Suicide
No, I'm not a concern troll. And, no, I'm not a Clinton hater. And, no, this is not another one of those annoying, obnoxious candidate diaries whch we've seen way, way, way too much of on here. But...
View ArticlePro-Hillary rant from an Obamaniac
Full disclosure: I am a strong Obama supporter, and I believe a Hillary Clinton nomination for the Democratic Party would not be in its best interest. BUT I really feel like Hillary is getting a raw...
View ArticleRoss Perot for VP!
Okay, now that the diary title got your attention (yes, it's complete snark ...though I did vote for Ross once back in my too-dumb-to-know-better days), time for the real point regarding the VP...
View ArticlePoll Position
Two front pagers talking about the polls yesterday, including Markos himself. Both were correct in their analyses. But I believe two critical aspects weren't addressed. And let me just say, I'm not...
View ArticlePotential Threat of Hurricane Gustav (UPDATED)
Folks, this is not a typical DailyKos diary. This is politics free. No, I'm not trying to stir up memories of Katrina and Brownie and yet another fine example of Republican mismanagement due to...
View ArticleHurricane Gustav Threat [UPDATEx4 3:30PM EDT]
Full disclosure: This is not a political diary and, as such, may not fit within the scope of Daily Kos. But, I feel compelled to share my supposed-"expertise" here with my fellow Kossacks.So, I come...
View ArticleHurricane Gustav Update [UPDATEx4 3:20PM EDT]
Okay, dKos friends, here we go again. Thanks to all of you for rec'ing up yesterday's diary. I'm not about to pimp my diaries, but I do want those in harm's way, or with loved ones in harm's way to...
View ArticleHurricane Gustav Update [UPDATEx2 3:00PM EDT]
Good morning, friends. As I've done the last three days, I'm posting an update for you on Hurricane Gustav. Unfortunately, I'm out of town with family, busy working on a house project, and on dial-up...
View ArticleHurricane Gustav Update [UPDATEx2 5:00PM EDT]
Good morning everyone. As I've done all week, it's time to take a look at Gustav. This situation is becoming increasingly threatening. Before getting to the discussion, let me thank the commenters...
View ArticleHurricane Gustav + TS Hanna Update
Updating both storms this morning, as Hanna is becoming somewhat of a larger threat (nothing dramatic ...yet ...just some worrying signs). Im posting a little later than usual this morning, so let's...
View ArticleTropical Storms Hanna and Ike [UPDATED 2:00PM EDT]
Every time I post one of these, I apologize for cluttering up dKos with weather stuff. I appreciate the support y'all have shown in this regard. Personally, I view the immediate concern of these...
View ArticleTropical Storms Hanna & Ike [UPDATED 2:15PM EDT]
The series of tropical cyclone updates continue. I'm looking forward to ending this. No, not because I'm lazy. :-) But because this is ridiculous. The U.S. has already had two tropical storm...
View ArticleTropical Storm Hanna & Hurricane Ike [UPDATED 2:55PM EDT]
Overall, the last 18 hours, since yesterday's entry in this diary series, the news has not been good with these tropical systems. Hanna has recovered some. She has lost all convection this morning,...
View ArticleTropical Storm Hanna & Hurricane Ike [UPDATED 2:30PM EDT]
A new day has dawned and there a whole new set of data to digest on Hanna and Ike. Hanna is pretty much set, so I'll begin focusing more on Ike. But there are definitely still some issues to deal...
View ArticleHurricane Ike Update [UPDATED 3:30PM EDT]
Moving on from Hanna, as my focus is on forecasting. To be clear, Hanna remains a major issue for the Eastern U.S. and Southeastern Canada, with respect to heavy surf, beach flooding, heavy rain, and...
View ArticleHurricane Ike Update [UPDATED 4:50PM EDT]
< political rant> Before we get to Ike, here's my Sarah Palin diary (doesn't everyone have one?): Can we stop the obsession? 90% of Americans don't vote based on the VP. Maybe a few do, and...
View ArticleHurricane Ike Update [UPDATED 2:30PM EDT]
Hurricane Ike blasted the Turks and Caicos and southern Bahamas yesterday. It also came near enough to Haiti to compound their misery. Now, late yesterday into the overnight hours, Ike is slamming...
View ArticleHurricane Ike Update [UPDATEx2 2:45PM EDT]
I've tried to emphasize the level of uncertainty in each of these posts. And for good reason. The weather models we use to help guide our forecasts have been about as stable a Joe Lieberman. What a...
View ArticleHurricane Ike Update [UPDATED 3:30PM EDT]
The model guidance forecasters use to help shape their forecasts continues to bounce around a bit. However, it's nothing like it was a couple of days ago. There is beginning to be less run-to-run...
View ArticleHurricane Ike Update [UPDATEx3 5:30PM EDT]
Hurricane Ike is serious business now. Not that we had been taking the storm lightly before now, but it's really heating up. I'm prepping this diary early to save some time - work is really pressing...
View ArticleHurricane Ike Update [UPDATEx10 6:10PM EDT]
Well, this is the last in the diary series for a while (other than today's updates - which may or may not be important, depending on developments). Surely, there will be things to discuss regarding...
View ArticleWin, Baby, Win - You Donate, I'll Match!!!
I'm tired. I'm worn out. Maybe it's my own personal issue... those that followed my diaries during the last couple of months know that I'm a meteorologist who has posted when hurricanes have...
View ArticleThank You, Kossacks - Donation Drive Results
Good Sunday morning, Kossacks. I posted this rant on here yesterday evening. At the end, for those able to tolerate reading my rant, I promised to match the first $1000 in donations made through my...
View ArticleThank You Markos Moulitsas
I did this after the 2006 mid-terms, but it got buried by the server outage. I'm doing this now, before Tuesday's election not only so that I can place this out here free of server problems, but...
View ArticleSome light on a dark day - gay marriage
For obviously very good reason, there has been an outpouring of disgust and fury on dKos over California Prop 8 passing. It's especially frustrating given that its passage was spearheaded by lies put...
View ArticleHGW
Good God have we gone "meta" lately. I was pleased to check in the morning and see, at least at one point, zero "meta" diaries on the Rec list.In light of all the "meta" talk, and a handful of GBCW...
View ArticleTropical Storms Ana and Bill - Update 5PM EDT
Unless you're a newby to Daily Kos, you know what these updates are about. I've been less active in the political discussions of late on dKos, as I needed a break. My energy was sapped after the 2008...
View ArticleTropical Storms Ana, Bill and Claudette Updates
Late post today. My schedule is really eating into my ability to post these updates. :(Boy did this hurricane season flip the switch. From dead calm to a three-storm setup in the Atlantic. As we...
View ArticleHurricane Bill Update
My apologies for not posting more on Hurricane Bill. Time has been limited for me lately (and, unfortunately, will continue to be so). As such, since Bill looked like a minimal threat, I was...
View ArticleTropical Storm Danny - Updated 10:45AM EDT
As explained in the updates on Hurricane Bill, my time is a bit pressed this season. That's why I dropped coverage of Bill without notice as soon as it was clear he would remain offshore (and I...
View ArticleTropical Storm Danny Update
Pretty short and sweet this morning as we've got some good news on Danny. Some slightly surprising (not shockingly unexpected, but not really predicted to occur) developments over the past 24 hours...
View ArticleGlobal Climate Change "Skepticism"
I've promised this diary for months (years?). I've been lurking here for a long time now, not posting much recently (diaries or comments). So, any newbies around here may be totally unfamiliar with...
View ArticleAtlantic hurricanes & Global warming
With the 2010 hurricane season upon us, and expected to be a busy one, I wanted to take a moment to bring up the subject of hurricanes, as it relates to Global Warming. Although I am a hardline...
View ArticleSome good news on a Friday
This is off topic, having nothing to do with Democratic politics or current events. But this is a big deal in my world, and a touching, feel-good story that I've just got to share with everyone. I'm...
View ArticleHurricane Earl To Threaten East Coast *UPDATED
It's been a long while and I've mostly been in lurk mode of late. I visit the site multiple times per day, but only infrequently comment on diaries of particular interest. I'm not a big meta-person,...
View ArticleHurricane Earl Threat: Updatex2 2PM EDT
Doing this update in my downtime from work. So, I don't want to dawdle a whole heck of a lot. And please forgive any typos... they are inevitable with my sloppy hands, and in the interest of time, I...
View ArticleUpdate on Hurricane Earl Threat
The first thing I want to do is make a clarification. Based on some comments I received I may not have been overly clear yesterday. I was favoring a more westward solution, closer to the coast, than...
View ArticleHurricane Earl - Threat To NC, MA and N.S.
My title is a shade misleading, identifying only North Carolina, Massachusetts and Nova Scotia as being under threat from Hurricane Earl. Beach erosion and possible coastal flooding will impact all...
View ArticleHurricane Earl Update - Updated x2: 2PM EDT
Earl looks to be slowly continuing to turn. So, this behemoth may be finally about to make his turn and stay offshore. Still looks like a close call, though. Before getting into the latest on Earl,...
View ArticleHurricane Earl Update & Commentary
Hurricane Earl is on his last leg and the remaining part of the forecast up off of Cape Cod and into Nova Scotia is pretty much set in stone. So, this will be a more brief update today, accompanied...
View ArticleRasmussen Fail & Polling Analysis
I got into a heated dispute with a friend recently over the quality of Rasmussen's polling. I even went so far as to dig up Nate Silver's report produced some time back showing that Rasmussen has...
View ArticleTropical Cyclone Irene To Threaten U.S. - UPDATE 6:40PM
Oy vey, I've been absent a long time. I've been on something of a political hiatus. Doing my best to stay active - calling/emailing legislators on relevant issues (like the recent marriage equality...
View ArticleTropical Storm Irene Aimed At Southeast U.S.
Apologies for the late posting today. I had to make a quaint little trip down to the E.R. to tend to some nasty complications from recent ankle surgery. That'll teach me not to snap my ankle off...
View ArticleHurricane Irene Aims For East Coast
Irene's potential landfall on the U.S. mainland remains several days away. So, let me be clear, my headline is based on the best estimate from the current guidance. There are a couple of decent...
View ArticleHurricane Irene A Major East Coast Threat - UPDATED 11AM EDT
I emphasize the word "threat" in my diary title as the forecast for any landfall in the U.S. by Irene remains four to five days away (the storm will dawdle its way through the Bahamas over the next...
View ArticleMajor Hurricane Irene Still Eyeing The East Coast
Posting a bit late today as the office is absolutely crazy. I work in Stamford, CT and the big boss (who is also a very nice person... I'm lucky she's my boss) is vacationing out in the Hamptons...
View ArticleMajor Hurricane Irene Track Focusing In - UPDATE 6PM EDT
*Jump down to the main body for the updates. The intro is unchanged.With a perpetual eastward shift to the tracks on Monday and Tuesday, I never thought I'd be sitting here talking about Irene...
View ArticleIrene Now Category 2; Track Focusing In
There was a bit of a pissing contest late in yesterday's diary, someone whining that I took thousands of words to basically say I didn't have a clue. Everyone's entitled to their opinion and, being a...
View ArticleIrene Weakens; Still Bad, But Impacts Lessen - UPDATE 3:30PM EDT
*For the 3:30 Update jump down below the fold.Irene is already onshore in North Carolina, so I suppose this morning's update - since I primarily focus on the forecast, because I'm trying to raise...
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