Obama mocks Washington's winter panic

OK, this may cost me my coveted, and, I might add, hard-earned spot on YAME's masthead, but what the hell. We're all about truth here, even if it pains the boss and curmudgeon-in-chief. I hope.

As the new Hope For True Democracy And The Free World And An End To Limbaugh-Inspired Stupidity so eloquently says: suck it up.

DC residents are used to derision from chillier quarters of the country over their city’s occasional paralysis in the face of winter weather. After a few inches of snow and some early morning sleet in the first half of the week resulted in a wave of Washington-area shutdowns, the city’s most famous Midwestern transplant couldn’t resist a dig or two at his new hometown’s expense....

The president joked that he would have to instill some “flinty Chicago toughness” into his neighbors. "When it comes to the weather, folks in Washington don't seem to be able to handle things.”

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It's not as if you've never seen snow before (and freezing rain, and ice-covered roads, and below-zero temperatures, and even more snow.) So come on, kids. Get a grip! Where were you when we had actual blizzards? And cold so cold that it froze the mighty Ohio River so solidly that you could walk across it? Those were winters!

This is just a passing thing. A brief dip below freezing that will soon end.


Besides, if you had been smart enough to quit those chicken-shit jobs and head south right after Christmas, like any rational snowbird, you wouldn't have to put up with that stuff. Need I remind you that it was HOT today in Fabulous Titusville (the town that time forgot) -- so hot that just being on the golf course this afternoon was a struggle (not to mention suffering through the indignities of all those double and triple bogeys and the balls that ended somewhat short of their mark in a watery grave.)


So we snowbirds don't want to hear any more whining about cold and snow and crappy roads. We're dealing with the elements down here in Florida, too. Heck, there's a chance of rain tomorrow, but you don't hear us crying about that.


As the Leader of the Free World says, deal with it!


-Paul Knue

[Your curmudgeon-in-chief, having spent a good part of his youth in Minnesota (and a good part of his adult years in Chicago) and therefore having seen a spot of snow and cold his ownself, greatly appreciates the contributions snowbirds make, despite overwhelming hardship, to this blog.]