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Isn’t he almost deaf now?
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No, he got cochlear implants. He destroyed his hearing with oxycontin; he’s fabulously wealthy, though, and he could afford to buy new ears.
I did not read his blogrant, by the way. The page said it was material meant only for members of “Rush 24/7.” I suppose it’s free to join, and I could lie about my identity. However, I will never, ever join Rush Limbaugh’s club.
The past three days in Chicago have seen heat indices around 114 degrees in the middle of the day, and overnight lows in the 80s. Try putting up with that without A/C, you drug-addled fatass.
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North Dakota set the record among records that July: 121°. In the sunshine, where you worked, it might have been 150° or hotter. In this country only Death Valley has ever bested that kind of heat.
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I won’t bother looking up the figures because we all know it was hotter in the Sahara. This is so tyical of you “blame America first-ers.” But it’s never too hot for you types who try in vain to snow-job the true patriotic people of this country, people who take personal responsibility as they die in apartments with the windows painted shut. 
I’d like to see Limbaugh try and survive without AC. We have it here at home, and even then, the upstairs is unbearable. I have to move my room around and basically sit in the dark, it’s so fucking hot.
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug]
Imagine farming in North Dakota. 16 hours a day or better of backbreaking work with no electricity for fans or fridges, only a pump for water, and hardly a tree for shade. North Dakota set the record among records that July: 121°. In the sunshine, where you worked, it might have been 150° or hotter. In this country only Death Valley has ever bested that kind of heat.
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Um, we’ve been experiencing this heat for weeks now. The only real complaints have been the lack of rain. Living in a part of the country that will have temps of -50 degrees in a few months, we tend to just accept it and deal with it. It’s been a running joke up here about how the heat wouldn’t be The End of the World[sup]TM[/sup] until it got to New York and Boston. Much the same way we laugh our asses off over the East Coast complaining of “bitter cold” when it get below +20 in the winter.
Have you been to North Dakota in the summer or winter? I’d be willing to bet no. At least based on the fact you bring up the ND farmer in whatever circle-jerk you’re going for with Rush. I’ve been roundly shouted down for questioning global warming when the wind chill was -60, but I forgot to include Rush, so I realize I need to re-read the rules on the board. Apparently global warming is somehow responsible for 190 degree swings in 6 months.
As far as what Rush said? I work for a living. I don’t have the opportunity to listen to an afternoon talk show, so I’ll have to go by what is linked here.
For those that love to laugh at religious people, I find it laughable that the ideology of global warming trumps common sense that the climate for billions of years goes through cycles. Another Ice Age because of petroleum pollution? What caused the previous cold eras?
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I’d like to see Limbaugh try and survive without AC. We have it here at home, and even then, the upstairs is unbearable. I have to move my room around and basically sit in the dark, it’s so fucking hot.
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Are you that fucking delicate? Thinking back to those ND farmers of yore, and the Sioux for centuries back, I wonder how bad we really have it.
No mosquito control, no elecricity let alone fans. Not even available ice chunks to cool a room. Somehow people survived. I’m sure Rush would be just fine without A/C. Just like you would be. Hey! You and Rush are equals! 
You have to move your room around and sit in the dark?!? Your parents should be shot for subjecting you to such horrid living conditions. :rolleyes:
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Um, we’ve been experiencing this heat for weeks now. The only real complaints have been the lack of rain. Living in a part of the country that will have temps of -50 degrees in a few months, we tend to just accept it and deal with it. It’s been a running joke up here about how the heat wouldn’t be The End of the World[sup]TM[/sup] until it got to New York and Boston. Much the same way we laugh our asses off over the East Coast complaining of “bitter cold” when it get below +20 in the winter.
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One could come to the mistaken conclusion that YOU are a satirist. :rolleyes:
The irony of your post is fucking sublime. Clearly those pansy east-coast libruls complaining about the heat isn’t just a joke to you. And yet you seem to be unaware of the fact that it is consistently about 90 degrees and 50% humidity here during the summer. You’re in East Grand Forks, right? I grew up in Fargo, but I’ve been living in Connecticut for the past few years. Trust me, we hardy midwesterners don’t have a monopoly on soul-crushingly hot weather. Who were you suggesting lacked perspective? Christ, you’re like a living Pace commercial (“This stuff’s made in New York City!”).
The thing you’re really missing, though (or possibly ignoring) is that in those days, the heat did fucking kill people! And maybe if you pulled your head out of your ass, you’d comprehend that it’s still doing that quite handily. You subject people to extremes they’re not prepared for and they start dying. Do you mean to suggest that the people who bit it in the 120 degree heat index because they were pampered? That if they hadn’t grown soft in the temperate paradise of New England and the mid-Atlantic they’d have been a tough cossack like you?
And as for your dismissal of global warming based on the bitter-ass cold, you’re missing the point. “Hurrrrr, it still gets cold in the wint-ar.” Global warming isn’t going to let us grow oranges in Alaska, dipshit. You fuck with one part of a chaotic climate system, it affects other other parts, perhaps making it not so warm in some places.
You can stuff your “common sense” copout right up your ass, fuckwit.
If it helps, I’m a New Yorker without AC. By choice, and I really havn’t missed not having it. Turned off the light and I’m doing just fine.
[QUOTE=duffer]
Are you that fucking delicate? Thinking back to those ND farmers of yore, and the Sioux for centuries back, I wonder how bad we really have it.
No mosquito control, no elecricity let alone fans. Not even available ice chunks to cool a room. Somehow people survived. I’m sure Rush would be just fine without A/C. Just like you would be. Hey! You and Rush are equals!
You have to move your room around and sit in the dark?!? Your parents should be shot for subjecting you to such horrid living conditions. :rolleyes:
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Oh blow it out your ass. Okay, maybe I exaggerate. The point is, the house is extremely fucking hot, and this is the kind of heat that fucking KILLS.
And no, those people did not survive just fine. Many of them died or got very sick from the heat.
I’d like to see Rush call my grandmother a “namby-pamby weakling” or whatever. She just had heart surgery, she’s frail and tired, and recently my aunt went out and got her a small window unit for her downstairs. (We put her bed in the dining room after her operation so she wouldn’t have to climb the steps.) I went to visit her the other day and I could see how bad she was suffering from this weather. Just TRY and tell my grandma, “she’d survive”. Asshole.
[sub]I don’t mean to sound so whiney, I just absolutely LOATHE the heat. I’d be extremely happy to live in Siberia, I swear.[/sub]
[QUOTE=Guinastasia]
[sub]I don’t mean to sound so whiney, I just absolutely LOATHE the heat. I’d be extremely happy to live in Siberia, I swear.[/sub]
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Sorry to bring you bad tidings, Guin, but that might not be such a good idea.
Hey, I think Rush is an asshole, but about the military service thing: As far as I know, he was deemed unfit for service after his physical examination. According to Wikipedia, he was diagnosed with the cyst and bad knees. Therefore, he was rejected from the military. It’s not like he actively dodged the draft, if this is to be believed.
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Hey, I think Rush is an asshole, but about the military service thing: As far as I know, he was deemed unfit for service after his physical examination. According to Wikipedia, he was diagnosed with the cyst and bad knees. Therefore, he was rejected from the military. It’s not like he actively dodged the draft, if this is to be believed.
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I’m sure you’re right.
I think you’re probably also being far more generous to him than he would be to a Democrat in similar circumstances.
The biggest problem with Rush is not just that he’s an idiot and an asshole, but that he’s a hypocrite.
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I’m sure you’re right.
I think you’re probably also being far more generous to him than he would be to a Democrat in similar circumstances.
The biggest problem with Rush is not just that he’s an idiot and an asshole, but that he’s a hypocrite.
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Well then, fuck him. I remember what Bush managed to do with Kerry: portray a distinguished war veteran as a coward. It made me sick. Fuck the hypocrites.
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One could come to the mistaken conclusion that YOU are a satirist. :rolleyes:
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One could, I guess. Coming from you, that may actually be a badge of honor.
Wait. Let me take a moment to point out you’re either the dumbest douchenozzle around, or the most blatant liar to weasle your way into a membership here.
You grew up in Fargo? And you think I’m in East Grand Forks?
You stupid fuck. East Grand Forks is in MINNESOTA. Did you miss the references over the years that I live in North Dakota? Unlike you, fucktard? What. Moorhead is in Cass county now? You’re full of shit, I’m calling you out. Busted.
I could. But I can still have enough “common sense” to know what state I’m talking about while dealing with fuckwits like you. You really fucked up on this one shithead.
[QUOTE=Guinastasia]
Oh blow it out your ass. Okay, maybe I exaggerate. The point is, the house is extremely fucking hot, and this is the kind of heat that fucking KILLS.
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Then go the fuck outside, asshole. Can you fucking comprehend that before A/C people somehow lived through these heat waves? Some died, of course, but some also died right here in Minnesota, (Even in North Dakota where I actually live) from the extreme cold. It’s sad, but it isn’t a tragedy. Why is it when the heat hits Chicago or New York it’s an emergency, but when it’s hitting the Upper Plains nobody notices?
I’m willing to click any links of stories of the glut of corpses up here.
I’m also willing to click on links where spoiled ass granddaughters bitch from a keyboard about thier grandmothers.
Maybe you should think about moving her up here. Weeks of upper 90’s and dew points of mid-70’s. Humidity is the most assinine fallacy in the talk about what is uncomfortable.
100% humidity. Sounds bad? 100% humidity is fog. It’s the dew point that is deadly. Get a fucking grip. In this backwater, rube state we seem to be able to either get AC to those in need, or make plentiful places for those that don’t have it.
North Dakota has been hit pretty hard by the heat. Yet, those in need of relief have a bounty of options to find comfort. And they utilize them. With no concern of any energy sources being overtaxed.
Either we have the resources to handle the demand, or the demand is less than what it might be in other parts of the country. I can’t say. But the fact remains we’re able to offer services to those in need.
Say what you will of North Dakota, and I have plenty of complaints myself, but we seem to have our shit together enough to take care of those at risk of dying from the heat. Hence, the miniscule numbers of dead in the past 6 weeks. And come December/January, you’ll see the same catastrophe of deaths due to cold weather. :rolleyes:
Somehow people here enjoy the good weather days, and rely on experience to deal with the bad weather days. There will always be people that die because it’s too hot or too cold. Funny how it seems to happen in the same cities to an extent that we see it on the news.
When the news crews talk about, in a panicky voice, the heat or cold, where is it? Chicago, New York, Boston. Maybe I should rail against the news organizations, but those in the East Coast markets fueling the coverage don’t give a shit about us lesser folk in the “rural states”. Hence, we laugh at East Coasters.
Up here we know the snow can be heavy on the EC. We know the air can be so thick it’s hard to breath in the summer. We just tend to resent that it isn’t a news item if it’s happening to us and not them.
Maybe we really don’t rate in your world. But your grandmother would be treated well here. We’d do well in keeping her from succumbing to the heat.
If nothing else, we’d find someone that would spend time caring for her. Not someone neglecting her to post to a message board with your inane shit.
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Clearly those pansy east-coast libruls complaining about the heat isn’t just a joke to you.
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I had a long follow up post to this, then realized you mentioned the “libruls”. I never mentioned anyting about political affiliations. At that point I recognized where you were coming from. (Valley City?).
I never said the heat wave was something to disregard. I was stating the simple fact that a heat wave or blizzard is only worthy of mention on the national news if it makes its way to the east coast.
Did you honestly become concerened with the heat and lack of rain 5 weeks ago? No. I searched your posts. You couldn’t have cared a whit so long as it didn’t affect you. Now that it might affect you, you’re posting about it.
Show your compassion over the past few weeks, or shut the fuck up. Why are you more important squating Connecticut than anyone in North Dakota? And if you grew up in Fargo, what went wrong?
[QUOTE=duffer]
For those that love to laugh at religious people, I find it laughable that the ideology of global warming trumps common sense that the climate for billions of years goes through cycles. Another Ice Age because of petroleum pollution? What caused the previous cold eras?
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That’s not the point. It’s clear to anyone with half a brain, the earth is getting warmer. Glaciers are shrinking, seas are rising, climate is changing all over the world. Doesn’t matter a slim fuck WHY it’s happening, nobody knows for sure. My point is…the current administration refuses to admit that this is EVEN HAPPENING!!!
Did you catch 60 Minutes last weekend? According to Jim Hansen, the top geology scientist at NASA, The White House is actively censoring scientific studies on Global Warming. Why? What the fuck are they afraid of? Are they expecting GOD to fix everything? Are they afraid of losing campaign contributions from atmosphere-polluting corporations who will…oh wait…never mind, that’s exactly it.
These people need to check out the Precambrian Extinction, 650 million years ago, when 95% of the Earth’s species suddenly died in a very short period of time. It’s still a topic of heated debate, but the leading theory is…ta-ta-dum…Global Warming! Basically, the ocean heated up to a point where methane pockets under the seafloor exploded, heating up the oceans even more, which set off more methane…and so on. That’s a preview of what we might be in for, over the next hundred years.
(Yeah yeah, the earth didn’t have fluorocarbons back then. Frankly, I believe the PCE was set off by all those billions of trilobites farting in the oceans. HA! Damn tribs, they had it comin’. Welcome to my paperweight, sucka.)
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That’s not the point. It’s clear to anyone with half a brain, the earth is getting warmer. Glaciers are shrinking, seas are rising, climate is changing all over the world. Doesn’t matter a slim fuck WHY it’s happening, nobody knows for sure. My point is…the current administration refuses to admit that this is EVEN HAPPENING!!!
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Of course it’s getting warmer. There was an ice age years ago. Before that the Earth was warmer. If you can find someone with half a brain that can explain how we’re getting warmer during a cycle of a 5 billion year old planet, go for it.
This is a situation that will never be proven in our lifetime. Nor in our grandkid’s lifetimes. I will stand by my proclamation that in all these years, Earth isn’t too concerned with what we do.
Based on the Dust Bowl, we need to look to oil products. That’s that’s the evil.
Does anyone really give a fuck what Rush Limbaugh has to say anymore?
People used to build houses differently before ac became readily available. Houses had much higher ceilings with large windows and hallways and/or breezeways through the middle. Ceiling fans and waterfans were also in use. People built homes with large attics, some w/ attic fans, they made use of shade trees and aligned doorways to accomodate the prevailing winds. The front and back would have large porches to keep the sun out of the window, more shade. There are may other ways to keep cool and/or warm without relying on the ac/heat unit. But today’s homes aren’t built that way anymore.
And fuck that sombitch anyway…I roof houses, pour concrete, build fence etc… in TEXAS no less. It was over a hundred degrees AGAIN today. That fat bastard can kiss my sweaty ass.
I finished the job I’m on or I’d be back out there again in the morning. Hell, We didn’t even have AC until after I got out of high school. You ever hauled 100 pound square bales of hay in the summer? Man, it don’t get no worse that that. Fuck him.
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Wait. Let me take a moment to point out you’re either the dumbest douchenozzle around, or the most blatant liar to weasle your way into a membership here.
You grew up in Fargo? And you think I’m in East Grand Forks?
You stupid fuck. East Grand Forks is in MINNESOTA. Did you miss the references over the years that I live in North Dakota? Unlike you, fucktard? What. Moorhead is in Cass county now? You’re full of shit, I’m calling you out. Busted.
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Pathetic dodge, asshole. I mistake where YOU, specifically, are from and that somehow serves as proof that I’m lying about being from North Dakota? No shit East Grand Forks is in Minnesota. I misplaced YOUR location, not the location of the fucking city. Perhaps if I’d said East Grand Forks was in North Dakota, or Grand Forks was in Minnesota, you’d have a leg to stand on.
At the risk of a hijack, I’ll take your bait, you piece of shit. You’ve really managed to piss me off. I’m not from Fargo, huh? I guess since you’ve divulged some pretty personal stories on the board I can tell you some stuff about my background:
My mom is from Grand Forks, my dad is from Grafton.
I was born in St. Luke’s before it merged with Fargo Clinic to become MeritCare back in '86. I worked in medical records there in high school around the time Dakota-Heartland was gutted when most of their talent moved over to Innovis.
I was a Spartan (navy and gold). Our rivals were the Bruins (brown and gold). Which was Fargo North, and which was South? I ask only for the sake of trivia; I have every confidence you’re from where you say you are. I ran against Red River (black and red) and Central (goddamned maroon-jerseyed Knights with their annoying-as-fuck cowbells) in Cross Country.
You mention Valley City? Hi-liners (or was it spelled “high-liners?” Whatever the case, they were light blue and white). Also, Devil’s Lake actually changed their mascot about five years ago because some dumb fucks pressured the school board because they thought that god wasn’t letting them win any state titles because their team was “the satans.”
On the subject of local school colors, look here. It was probably just supposed to be a reference to Fargo, but they went through the trouble of getting Moorhead High’s colors right in a small photo they had on the screen for about a second.
Crystal Sugar has a number of plants in the area. If you paid as much attention to my posts as you think your bullshit is worth, you’d know that I’m quite familiar with the ag industry in the area, too. Find that in your search? Or were you more concerned with taking me to task for my lack of “compassion” over the heat wave?
I know that the barn off I-29 that UND and NDSU used to insult each other collapsed a few years back (was it a thunderstorm or from snow? I forget).
Also, here are a couple of quotes for you to contextualize. Again, I ask for the sake of trivia:
“Fargo: where the beaches come in bags.”
“Fargo’s Turn.” Hint: it’s a headline from the Grand Forks Herald.
Still doubt me, you anally-conceived jackass?
Y’know, I’m honestly conflicted sometimes by the fact that I can relate to you being from the Red River Valley, as well as having a similar medical history, if you catch my drift. But whatever the case, you’re a profound asshole with a keenness for misrepresenting and deflecting all over the fucking place just like the subject of this pit thread.
And having said that, I apologize for bringing up that COMPLETELY unrelated topic of political affiliation. I sure stretched plausibility to the limit when I read left vs. right into your scoffing at New York and Boston and dismissal of global warming! Jesus, how did I ever come up with THAT?