This is from an actual, real, ‘I didn’t write this’, e-mail I received today:

Lyndon Larouche has now confirmed an extraordinary warning from Prophet Linda Newkirk. In an interview with Alex Jones on Monday Larouche stated that Obama was receiving orders from England to push the US into an economic collapse. Larouche also stated in the interview, that if the debt limit deal was passed, according to the provisions contained within that agreement, America would be under a state of Martial Law.
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Linda has an impressive track record for exposing the plans of the New World Order. On September 11, 2001 Linda received a prophecy identifying the Illuminati as the culprits behind the destruction of the Twin Towers while the world was about to be fed the Bin Laden fairy tales.

Just days after the 08 election, while the world was ‘head over heels’ in love with Obama, Linda revealed that he was put into power by Illuminati ‘ringleader’ Evelyn David de Rothschild, to put the ‘final nails in the coffin’ of the USA.

I think that Ms Newkirk’s prophetic abilities would carry a bit more weight if she actually knew Sir Evelyn de Rothschild’s real middle name. Hint: it isn’t David.

As Sir Evelyn is an acquaintance of Bill Clinton, I think it highly unlikely that he would be an Obama supporter. He has been Queen Elizabeth’s financial advisor forever, and that is the primary reason for his knighthood. The most objectionable thing he seems to have done, other than being born a Rothschild, was serving on the board for the development of Milton Keynes [you need to read Good Omens if you aren’t British to get the joke].

While Mad Kane wrote a Limerick Ode To A Failed Presidency, and Paul Krugman says that his “reservoir of trust is now completely drained”, The Onion reports the unvarnished truth: Obama: Debt Ceiling Deal Required Tough Concessions By Both Democrats And Democrats Alike.

The area weather map is covered in pink indicating an Excessive Heat Warning.

Currently: 92.8°F [33.8°C] + 76% humidity = 120°F [48.9°C] heat index

I probably won’t mow the front yard, and won’t see any cats until after sundown. There is absolutely nothing that even suggests a breeze.

PZ Myers is moving, and his new place is active at: http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/

The owners of the old place were bought out, and the new owners are apparently hinting that PZ should tone it down, which wasn’t going to happen.

Position: 17.1N 71.0W [10PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: West [280°] near 5 mph [ 7 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 50 mph [ 85 kph].
Wind Gusts: 65 mph [100 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 115 miles [185 km].
Minimum central pressure: 1004 mb.

Currently about 135 miles [215 km] Southeast of Port au Prince, Haiti.

A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for Haiti, the western half of the Dominican Republic, the Southeastern and Central Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, and Guantanamo and Holguin provinces in eastern Cuba.

A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for Northwestern Bahamas.

Emily is creeping to the West now but is dumping heavy rain on the southern coast of Hispaniola.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

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