Comments on: Vengeance is Mine, Sayeth the Lord

By: dsquared

dsquared — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:31:18 +0000

Alex; it isn’t me but it’s pretty insane, isn’t it? My poll-based trading rule would be losing money hand over fist! (which is good in a way, because it means that we might get a clean test of IEM versus polls)

By: Mrs Tilton

Mrs Tilton — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:05:22 +0000

This brings you to the same level as that idiot in Manhattan who responded on his website to the 9/11 attacks that these were “not fair These people voted against Bush Well, Lex, at least it doesn’t bring them to the same level as those idiot preachers who responded to the 9/11 attacks by claiming that the ACLU, abortionists, feminists, gays, and People For the American Way were to blame. Or (as long as we are talking about hurricanes) the same level as one of those idiot preachers, who claimed his prayers had diverted Hurricane Gloria safely past his home state. (As it happens, the storm killed people on the northeastern seaboard instead. But that’s okay; they probably wouldn’t have voted for Bush anyway.)

By: abb1

abb1 — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:08:13 +0000

Seriously now: can’t this increase in intensity and the number of hurricanes be interpreted as a result of the global warming? And can’t this be used against the Bushies who deny that the phenomenon even exists? If I were Kerry’s campaign manager, I’d already be running global warming/hurricane ads in Florida.

By: bad Jim

bad Jim — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 07:55:59 +0000

“Ivan” used to be shorthand for the Russians. For those of us old enough to remember those days, there is a special flavor to a headline like “Ivan menaces Florida.” It appears that Ivan has reconstituted itself as a tropical storm and may take a run at Houston.

By: lex

lex — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 07:08:40 +0000

How cute. People of all manner of political persuasions have been killed or have lost their homes, and a few moronic pseudo-intellectuals on this site try to make lame political jokes. This brings you to the same level as that idiot in Manhattan who responded on his website to the 9/11 attacks that these were “not fair These people voted against Bush”

By: ogged

ogged — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 03:14:46 +0000

You might enjoy this post by James Wolcott. The day I stopped fucking with god: sitting in a parked car, the rain coming down in buckets, so that I couldn’t see out at all—I looked at the sky and said, “Ok, I’m impressed” and no sooner were the words out of my mouth when it started raining twice as hard.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 02:18:59 +0000

dsquared, is that you pushing the Kerry IEM market off a cliff? 12 to 1 odds against Kerry yielding >52% ! I sense the influence of program trading.

By: s_bethy

s_bethy — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 02:14:03 +0000

Here’s an oldie on a similar topic.

By: Kieran Healy

Kieran Healy — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 02:03:25 +0000

Well of course it’s bogus, fer crying out loud! There isn’t even a God who sends hurricanes in the first place! I just liked the idea that Dubya’s many invocations of God might have a literal kind of blowback.

By: Ryan Gabbard

Ryan Gabbard — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 01:58:57 +0000

I’m afraid that thing is pretty bogus: http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/hurricane.asp