As Hurricane Bill prepares to side swipe the northeast, President Obama is trying to enjoy his first full day of vacation on Martha’s Vineyard.  16-foot waves will pound the island, and I imagine if the storm were to have turned westward, the President might have delayed the start of his vacation.  Could this have been a terrorist plot from some neo-militia intent to harm, or at least irritate, Obama?

The Southern Poverty Law Center has issued a report about the return of “virulently antigovernment ‘Patriot’ movement, made up of paramilitary militias, tax defiers, and so-called ‘sovereign citizens’” that gained so much attention in the 1990s.  Following a surprising prolific and violent decade of growth, the militia movement was largely dismantled by systematic prosecution and a conservative president.  But now they’re back, and what if they’ve learned something from the Chinese?

The Chinese, famously, declared war on rain during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing by firing munitions into the sky filled with silver iodine.  A group, a literal Weather Underground, imports this weather modification technique and with the weapons cache that had been buried since January 20, 2001, creates atmospheric conditions in the eastern US necessary to turn a tropical hurricane northward.  Maybe the tropical disturbance that became Hurricane Bill itself was kick started by a group operating across sub-Saharan Africa, perfectly coordinating the presidential vacay schedule, tropical wind speeds, and ordinance firings.