CSPAN is live streaming the Convention – CLICK HERE

Hoping for the best for Louisiana and Mississippi Treepers; Y’all stay safe and check in when you can.  It definitely looks like New Orleans might be the area of landfall.

Fox Hurricane Site has good graphics, tracking and Radar (CLICK HERE)  CNN pictures of events (Click Here)   CNN Live Blog Updates (Click Here)

6pm Update – NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL   AL092012  600 PM CDT TUE AUG 28 2012  …CENTER OF ISAAC NEARING THE COAST OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA… STORM SURGE FLOODING ALREADY OCCURRING…

Diana Whipple of New Orleans watches waves crash on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain as Hurricane Isaac approaches Tuesday

AT 600 PM CDT…2300 UTC…THE CENTER OF HURRICANE ISAAC WAS LOCATED
BY NOAA DOPPLER RADARS NEAR LATITUDE 28.9 NORTH…LONGITUDE 89.2
WEST. ISAAC IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHWEST NEAR 8 MPH…13 KM/H. A
NORTHWESTWARD MOTION AT A SLIGHTLY SLOWER SPEED IS EXPECTED OVER
THE NEXT DAY OR TWO.

ON THE FORECAST TRACK…THE CENTER OF HURRICANE ISAAC SHOULD REACH THE COASTLINE OF SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS…AND CONTINUE MOVING FARTHER INLAND OVER SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA DURING THE NEXT DAY OR SO.

MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 80 MPH…130 KM/H…WITH HIGHER
GUSTS. ISAAC IS A CATEGORY ONE HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON
HURRICANE WIND SCALE. SOME SLIGHT STRENGTHENING IS POSSIBLE
BEFORE ISAAC MAKES LANDFALL. GRADUAL WEAKENING IS EXPECTED AFTER
LANDFALL OCCURS. (more…)

This latest SEAL ad is scheduled to appear during today’s Republican National Convention.

Story below the fold….  (more…)

(Via Colin Flaherty) After looking at hundreds of cases of black mob violence in more than 70 cities all over the country in the last three years, I have found that racial violence is far more widespread than I had ever imagined.

As is the denial of it.

But you do have to know how to find it.

So let’s look at one case [of unreported black mob violence]: How the press ignored it; how the police denied it; and how we figured out what really happened on Aug. 5 when 800 people were fighting, firing guns, destroying property and “confronting” Delaware State Police at 2 a.m.  […] (more…)

(CBS News) The Inspector General (IG) draft report on Fast and Furious heaps blame on the Phoenix-based staff of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) according to those familiar with the document.

A year and a half in the making, the report examines Operation Fast and Furious, which began under the Obama administration, and the smaller Operation Wide Receiver which started under the Bush administration and was prosecuted under the Obama administration. In both cases, ATF agents allowed guns to “walk” or fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. The idea was to see where the guns ended up and catch a “big fish” of a cartel.

The IG’s report is expected to be publicly released in the next few weeks. (more…)

Many modern-day political followers would proclaim that no modern-era President or politician was ever as hated as George W Bush.

Against the backdrop of visible hate they might just be right.

However, against the ideology of defining hate level by the strength of the hater, more people still would attach the “most hated” label to Karl Rove.

Each contingent might just be right; it is, quite simply and historically, too early to tell.

However, I would argue the most hated, and subsequently most influential, man is actually the person who gave rise to both Karl Rove and George W Bush, Lee Atwater.

Lee Atwater was the mentor for Karl Rove, and subsequently under his tutelage “The architect” was born. Were it not for the messaging system of Karl Rove, learned at the knee of the master Atwater, few would doubt the 2004 electoral victory of Dubya.

But what made Lee Atwater so darned good is exactly what is needed right now.    It was Atwater who helped bring Ronald Reagan to victory against Jimmy Carter.   A look at Atwater’s messaging style could seriously benefit today’s patriots. (more…)

Use this thread as an open thread just for Zimmerman Case stuff. A place to just dump, collect, or discuss general information about the Trayvon Martin VS George Zimmerman Case.

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Quick grab the Snuggies and comfy blankies for the Sniffy Occupoopers, and Occupy Wailstreet peeps.   No one showed up to their protests.  Oh noes, the horror of the disappointment  🙁

Aghast at the optic of a law enforcement response to their multi-month long threatening proclamations of violence, anarchy, plan of attack and disruption, the occupoopers are depwessed and need some skootchin snuggles, or something.