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Hurricane Isaac has inconvenienced a lot of people.

Many thousands of Gulf Coast residents have boarded up windows and sought shelter inland. And many others are now facing the prospect of cleaning up and rebuilding flooded homes and businesses.

But the inconvenienced people we鈥檝e been hearing about most are the pundits and politicians who gathered in Tampa this week for the Republican National Convention.

If you鈥檙e been paying much attention to the fairy tales of the far right in the past few years, it should come as no surprise that not everyone thinks it was merely a coincidence that the swirling mass of rain and wind known as Isaac appeared on the radar screen just in time to disrupt the GOP鈥檚 nominating party and the news coverage of it.

Rush Limbaugh says Obama may have had something to do with it.

The fabulists at Joseph Farah鈥檚 extreme-right (WND) think it was the wrath of God.

And a clutch of Web-based antigovernment paranoiacs are sure that 鈥渃hemtrails鈥� and 鈥渃hembombs鈥� affected the storm鈥檚 path.

Let鈥檚 start with Limbaugh. On Monday, the conservative radio host told his audience that the government鈥檚 weather scientists had colluded to mess with the GOP鈥檚 carefully choreographed show.

After assuring listeners that he was not alleging a conspiracy, Limbaugh , 鈥淭he hurricane center is the regime; the hurricane center is the Commerce Department. It鈥檚 the government. It鈥檚 Obama.鈥�

Not that Obama is controlling the storm per se 鈥� that鈥檚 a theory best left to the chemtrails crowd. But Limbaugh is sure that something funky is going on. The storm 鈥渨as being reported [on Sunday] in a way that resulted in the Republicans canceling their convention [Monday] when it's nowhere near there.聽And that there were model runs Saturday night that showed Tampa was not gonna be hit at all, massive shift of models that was not reflected by the hurricane center for 12 hours.鈥�

While most reasonable observers understand that storm track predictions are imperfect and that hurricanes can, and frequently do, change course, Limbaugh apparently believes the administration intentionally withheld potentially life-saving information for the purpose of fouling up the Tampa convention. Then, he pivoted and whined that the weather service had shifted its prediction and, rightly, predicted landfall in New Orleans.

鈥淎gain, I'm alleging no conspiracy,鈥� Limbaugh said. 鈥淚 don't want anybody thinking I'm going somewhere with this. I'm just telling you what happened.鈥�

鈥淸T]hey're gonna turn this into Katrina and they're gonna scare the hell out of New Orleans and they're gonna revive, 鈥楤ush doesn't care about people鈥� and revive all of it. They're gonna politicize everything 鈥榗ause they do it. And now they had the model runs allowing them to do it.鈥�

OK then.

Shifting our view to the mad propheteers at WorldNetDaily, we find that William Koenig, a 鈥淏ible prophecy expert,鈥� believes the source of the storm is divine retribution. According to Koenig, Obama鈥檚 Middle East policy and GOP 鈥減latform committee decisions to support further division of the land of Israel to pave the way for the creation of a Palestinian state鈥� have angered God, who sent the hurricane as punishment.

鈥淲hat does this have to do with Bible prophecy?鈥� WND asked in an article published Sunday. 鈥淚t goes back to Genesis and God鈥檚 pledge to bless those who bless the children of Israel and curse those who curse them. It鈥檚 a prophecy that many Christians and Jews believe is behind the fall of all the world鈥檚 empires of the past. That is a prophecy that has seen every empire of the world come and go 鈥� yet Israel remains.鈥�

WND and Limbaugh haven鈥檛 cornered the market on Isaac-related unhingedness. In another corner of the Internet, a coterie of conspiracists who peddle vague theories about malevolent plans to geoengineer the planet are saying that 鈥渃hemtrails鈥� and 鈥渃hembombs鈥� were deployed to change the storm鈥檚 course.

For those not familiar, the posits that the government uses contrails (the puffy strands of exhaust that trail behind jets) as a cover for releasing dangerous substances into the atmosphere.

According to a widely republished article that originated on a website called Chemtrails Planet, Isaac鈥檚 path was affected by 鈥渉uge aerosols over the storm in conjunction with aerosols that had been deployed in advance of the arrival of the storm.鈥� Chemtrails Planet goes on to suggest the perpetrator was Evergreen International Aviation, a private company .

Chemtrails Planet doesn鈥檛 bother to explain why the government would want to affect a hurricane鈥檚 course 鈥� but influential conspiracy theorist had one idea.

鈥淲e would be weird to not say it could be government-created as some type of disaster for the election,鈥� Jones said in a video uploaded to YouTube Tuesday. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 not outside the realm of possibility.鈥�

Yes, that would totally weird. To not say it.