“The sleep of Reason breeds monsters”

[Ion Saliu]

Bad Weather, the Lost Bone for the TV Hunting Dogs

It is disgusting — not because Irene (a beautiful-name hurricane) slowed down dramatically. That was a good thing — I applauded it by deciding to watch online movies tonight, August 27, 2011. What disgusts me is that herd of impotent doomsday-TV-ratings-snaring-suicidal PSYCHOPATHS.

They, the TV rating-psychopaths, invested BIG-MONEY into this doomsday Irene hurricane that was supposed to wash out New York City along with a U.S. eastern coast area populated by over 100 million benign Yankees. (Good thing them Yankees supplied themselves with so much beer that I almost couldn’t find any can … kidding … I found enough beer a few hours ago, but it was very difficult to find a parking spot at the store)!

I’ll probably write a whole more tomorrow, during another peak of that orgasm-heated Irene! I am disgusted write (!) now. I’ve had enough of all those psychopathic stuntmen TV reporters who could barely hold position for 2 minutes … while “reporting” from the “eye of the storm”.

I remember Dan Rather did a similar stunt about 2 decades ago, reporting live from another hurricane. I wished back then that the hurricane did severe damage to Dan Rather. He was so famous back then that a terrible experience of his impotence-fighting storm reporting would teach a good lesson to all doomsday TV-reporting psychopaths.

But there was a good lesson learnt from the Dan Rather storm-dementia syndrome. Everybody at that time, the 1990’s, had an obsession with another weather phenomenon. They called it EL NINO (The Child, a euphemism for Christ, the Child of Christmas). The TV addicted executives invested huge money (for that era, when a billion dollars was worth more than the current million dollars) in the El Nino reporting.

At that time, everything that happened weather-wise was blamed on El Nino. It rained torrentially in any region of the U.S.? It was “because of El Nino” … There was, simultaneously, a severe drought in any region of the U.S.? It was “because of El Nino” … It did snow heavily (and beautifully!) in my area, at that time. I loved it. It was “because of El Nino” … At the same time, there was no snow in places that were supposed to host some winter sporting events. It was “because of El Nino” …

People like me “stuck” their tongues out. In the end, the rating-addicted TV executives gave up the El Nino most disgusting sh*t … There is no more El Nino syndrome on TV now — nowhere in the world …

Again, I love the reality of current affairs of Hot Irene. She got old and she PMed all of the sudden. What bothers me is the distress of the weather-doomsday impotents! They hate what Irene has done to them! She quit on them!

I never feared what Madam Irene would do to me (I mean, to this area). First off, I saw the clouds in early afternoon. The clouds were moving, albeit slowly, from north-west to south-east; that is, in opposition to the direction of Irene.

Second, they forecast a grade-3 Irene when landing the North Carolina peninsulas and capes this Saturday morning. The landing was only a grade-1 storm! Makes sense: Irene traveled over cold waters (no abundant vapors to fuel the devastation energy). Also, cold air is denser, therefore it opposes stronger energy.

Third, landfall means, UNFORTUNATELY, serious devastation and danger for people living within 20-30 miles from the shoreline. I would never live in such areas. But if you live over there, you’d better evacuate. I know, I know. Families have lived in such areas for hundreds of years, in extreme cases. There are around 10 hurricane predictions a year. A family has lived in a hurricane-prone North Carolina area for 10 years. Just 1 prediction came to fruition. “Probability: 1 in 100 that a hurricane would destroy my livelihood.” No wonder so many veterans in hurricane-prone areas decide to “ride the storm”.

Crazy as it might sound, some of those veterans even throw hurricane parties! I don’t feel like I would attend such a party — ever!

Look, I only have problems with the TV sneaky-peaky ranky-raky suckers.

1) Don’t take advantage of a bad weather situation and turn it into a big TV show, mouth-watering hoping in sky-high TV ratings. That is the first, second, and third most important reason why people virtually completely-lost trust in TV weather warnings. Be it tornadoes, be it hurricanes — virtually all TV watchers think “It is an exciting TV show to watch … more so than any of those severely insane reality shows!” “It couldn’t be real bad! It’s only a show!”

2) If a bad weather event goes south (improves, that is), don’t get p*ed off, impotent and rating-hungry TV high-sky guys! Don’t force the issue and “create” situations to “prove” that “you was right” about the severity of that inconsequential event. Just rejoice with the rest of the populace (the lowly paid but sane Homo sapiens)!

3) Let the weather people, most of ‘em school dropouts, or the last-in-the-class-herd, get a science diploma. There are a fantastically great amount of things they must learn. Mathematics, for instance. Then, statistical observation. Listen, good-on-TV-looking idiots, if a storm travels cold waters, IT IS A NATURAL LAW THAT THE STORM LOSES STRENGTH. If a storm landfalls, IT IS ALWAYS A NATURE’S LAW THAT THE TREES, NATURAL OBSTACLES, BUILDINGS, ETC. WOULD SUBSTANTIALLY WEAKEN A STORM. THE DENSITY OF A STORM IS ALSO OF THE ESSENCE: HOW MUCH WATER PER CUBIC INCH OR CUBIC FOOT OR CUBIC METER, AND HOW MUCH SMOKE AND DUST PER CUBIC INCH OR CUBIC FOOT OR CUBIC METER … etc.

You weather guys, remind me of my childhood in rural Romania. Even in the 1960’s, the Orthodox Church (during Communism!) appealed to the Gypsies to fight drought!

Even before the rain, the White Christians of my native village would pay the barely-dressed Gypsies to pray the non-Gypsy God for fertile rain! The frantic social rituals were called Ruga (The Pray). Ruga was always orchestrated by the local church, the local priest being the conductor. The frenzies were very-special-guest attended by the regional religious leader (Mitropolit) sometimes. The bigoted white Christians believed that God was more sympathetic to the more suffering Gypsies, who were kind of illegitimate children of His semen! The Gypsies would jump-dance in the heavy life-giving rain and chant in dozens-strong choirs:

“We thank you for peeing upon us, God! Heavenly Father, we implore you to keep peeing upon us!”

The Protestant Yankees pray for high ratings — that’s the main difference …

Waiting for my movie to download … it’s stuck at 9% …

Ion Saliu,
Singing in the Rain
Truth, Beliefs, Religion, Science, Philosophy

[Ion Saliu]

Irene turned out to be just a tropical storm. Nothing significant happened around my place. I did NOT hear one single thunder. We had a worse storm 2 or 3 nights before Irene. That storm had plenty of thunders and lightning.

I do use harsh words when I deal with bad-weather-mania fueled by TV. The TV suckers care way too much about ratings compared to public service. I want to contribute to the cure of the El Niño – Dan Rather syndrome.

I did watch online about 4 hours of a movie. It was the last 2 episodes of Carlos. The terrorist also known as The Jackal spent time in Eastern Europe during Communism: East Germany, Hungary, Romania.

When I was a student in Bucharest in the 1970’s, there were thousands of guest students from the Third World: Latino-Americans, Arabs, Africans, Asians. I did not realize at that time how serious the subversive network was. It was only one Arab student who accused me of being an American informant (like for CIA). He thought I attempted to get closer to the foreign students to find out who belonged to terrorist organizations.

The Arab told me bluntly that he was expelled from West Germany as a … terrorist! He was at home in Communist Romania, under the protection of the feared Securitate … The Arab threatened he would kill me! The Arab students in Bucharest attacked and seriously damaged the embassies of Egypt and Israel in 1979. It was in response to the Camp David Agreement.

What a combination: watching Carlos during a “hurricane”!