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22 minutes ago, ICEMAN! said:

Hey Skinny Dave - same webcam

 

I was all over the island of St Maarten last April with the kids. Went right past Maho beach. Glad we went before it got hit. 

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5 hours ago, ActionfigureJoe said:

will the republicans play their little games like they did with hurricane Sandy? or will they raise the debt limit and borrow and extra trillion? 

better question is will they totally overload the bill with pork totally unrelated to the rebuilding totaling more that the actual rebuilding money like your gods did ? you know the reason it was rejected by many 

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1 hour ago, ActionfigureJoe said:

winds are on the scale of a tornado. except they just keep coming and coming. 

It's absolutely mind-blowing to sustain winds like that for long periods of time

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Rush Limbaugh’s dangerous suggestion that Hurricane Irma is fake news

Rush Limbaugh didn't say the magic words, but on Tuesday he basically accused the media of creating fake news about Hurricane Irma, which is threatening Florida after hitting Barbuda and Antigua. The storm's 185-mile-per-hour winds tied the record high for any Atlantic hurricane making landfall.

[Category 5 Hurricane Irma slams Lesser Antilles, and is targeting Florida

“These storms, once they actually hit, are never as strong as they're reported,” Limbaugh claimed on his syndicated radio show. He added that “the graphics have been created to make it look like the ocean's having an exorcism, just getting rid of the devil here in the form of this hurricane, this bright red stuff.”

Why would the media exaggerate the threat of a hurricane? Here's Limbaugh's theory:

There is symbiotic relationship between retailers and local media, and it’s related to money. It revolves around money. You have major, major industries and businesses which prosper during times of crisis and panic, such as a hurricane, which could destroy or greatly damage people’s homes, and it could interrupt the flow of water and electricity. So what happens?

Well, the TV stations begin reporting this and the panic begins to increase. And then people end up going to various stores to stock up on water and whatever they might need for home repairs and batteries and all this that they’re advised to get, and a vicious circle is created. You have these various retail outlets who spend a lot of advertising dollars with the local media.

The local media, in turn, reports in such a way as to create the panic way far out, which sends people into these stores to fill up with water and to fill up with batteries, and it becomes a never-ending repeated cycle. And the two coexist. So the media benefits with the panic with increased eyeballs, and the retailers benefit from the panic with increased sales, and the TV companies benefit because they’re getting advertising dollars from the businesses that are seeing all this attention from customers.

To state the obvious, these are potentially dangerous comments from Limbaugh, who is based in Palm Beach, Fla. He is encouraging listeners who might be in Irma's path not to take seriously the official guidance disseminated through the media.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/09/06/rush-limbaughs-dangerous-suggestion-that-hurricane-irma-is-fake-news/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_irmalimbaugh-145pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.5f9fe3e45cbf

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