Tuesday date-9/11/18
• Morning AB, All. As always, thank you AB for doing this thread so reliably and keeping the peace with gentle thread policing. Thank you Bray for weekly written wisdom, Thank all yon contributors for excellent commentary to flesh it all out.
• Below are the words from my daily political diary. It is quite long so scroll on by if not interested. But do stay around and add your commentary and point of view to the thread.
There’s not much else going on the news this week save the monster Florence about to hit us.
And trust that with me living in Delaware, it’s not like I am up on safe and secure ground.
President Trump was interviewed regarding this hurricane and the first thing the fake news ask him is if the Carolinas will suffer as badly as Puerto Rico.
Trump explained that Puerto Rico was an island and as such all supplies had to be brought in by boat.
Can’t they give that man credit for anything?
As Rush Limbaugh said today, watch these fake news guys. They are going to make Florence his Katrina.
Remember how they blamed Dubya Bush for everything?
And how much Dubya defended himself?
NOT!
Keep calm and hang on.
His name is Professor Bird and he teaches at the College of Southern Nevada.
On August 28, early in the morning he shot himself in the arm in protest of President Donald J. Trump.
Heh.
Better he should have shot himself in his head. I mean how dumb is this?
HE NEVER SAID THAT!!!
The claim originated from an edited video clip used by California Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris. Harris’ clip showed Kavanaugh stating, “Filling out the form would make [Priests for Life] complicit in the provision of the abortion-inducing drugs that they were — as a religious matter, objected to.”
Kavanaugh’s full statement, however, was, “They said filling out the form would make them complicit in the provision of the abortion-inducing drugs that they were, as a religious matter, objecting to.”
This woman was almost our President.
Thursday Date-9/13/18
It’s a hurricane weekend coming up. The Carolinas now have landfall from Florence. Fox has reporters all over the place, all of them getting wet with debris flying all around.
Some interesting things about hurricanes, something I know a little about for living on the Chesapeake Bay and now in Delaware.
First, that “category” thing is very misleading. The category, beginning as a 1 and up to a 5…..indicates the miles the wind is blowing.
But a hurricane brings in, and causes more damage, with other elements besides wind. Rain, and subsequent flooding, does the most damage and kills the most people. Also, the storm surge sweeps water in from the sea and too causes much damage.
At a cat1, Florence was bringing in winds at 90mph. Do you know how awful winds blowing at 90mph can be? I once drove over the Chesapeake Bay-Bridge tunnel and there was warning that the wind was gusting at 45 mph, consider whether to drive over or not.
I was driving the Jeep Liberty, a big sturdy car, but it was swaying awful with 45 mph winds.
So there’s over 3 feet of rain expected from Florence, and a huge, huge storm surge.
As of this writing it just made landfall. Prayers to everyone in its path.
Now let’s discuss this Puerto Rico lie and the traitorous Republicans who denied it all.
First, some book store or another that no one ever heard of reported that there were, get this, 3,000 deaths during the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico over a year ago.
THERE WAS NOT!
And President Trump is rightfully asserting the same thing.
I paid attention to all of those hurricanes, the one that hit Houston and those that tore through Puerto Rico.
Like Trump says, when he left after his post-hurricane visit, death toll was around 18 to 26.
Where the hell they getting 3,000? And, come on, exactly 3,0000? What are the odds?
So Marco Rubio comes out in public and he says he verifies the 3,000 total. Then, get this, that awful Speaker of the House who will soon be gone, comes out in public and asks what difference does it make how many people perished.
Hey, ya lousy Republicans with air between the legs, you think they might just be making up some big death toll to make Trump look bad?
He handled three big hurricanes at the beginning of his presidency and he did a good job.
And three of his colleagues come out and deny it.
The Republican party thinks everyone should be like Dubya Bush, who never defended himself…..ever….and who will forever be blamed for Hurricane Katrina.
Those Republicans who betray have got to go.
And, of course, the media never verified a thing.
So poor Paul Manafort is pleading. His biggest crime was working for President Trump. Below the list of his crimes:
1)Going on Offense- Ukraine Action Plan for Europe and U.S. June 25, 2012 (pg 39)
2) Launch of Public Affairs Plan February 20, 2010 (pg 44)
3) U.S. Government Activity February 4, 2013 (pg 52)
4) Hapsburg Update February 21, 2013 (pg 56)
5) U.S. Consultants- Quarterly Report April 22, 2013 (pg 59)
6) Hapsburg Activities Update and URGENT ACTION REQUEST February 24, 2013 (pg 63)
7)Protnov- U.S. Visit February 26, 2013 (pg 65)
8)U.S. Consultants Activity - Weekly Update April 21, 2013 (pg 67)
9)AG Trip Report June 9, 2013 (pg 70)
10) Hapsburg and US July 10, 2013 (pg 76)
It’s been going on since I can remember, this categorizing of hurricanes by a Saffir-Simpson scale. This scale is based on wind speed only but as we all know by now, hurricanes do more damage with rain and storm surges than the wind.
Which is not to say wind speeds of over a hundred aren’t something to mind, but rain and storm surge has to be made part of the categorization.
First, set a standard for estimated rainfall from an incoming storm. Don’t know how to do this but they sure were able estimate rainfall amounts from Florence.
Second, estimate a storm surge. Again, don’t know how to do it but they told us over and over again Florience would surge at 12 feet.
Finally, add the Saffir-Simpson wind speed estimate.
Now all three damage and danger categories delivered by a hurricane will have an estimate. If there’s a low wind speed, but huge rainfall amounts expected, this would make a SSS category one possibly a category three by adding in the rainfall and storm surge estimates.
Well hey, not to dwell on this for I am not a weather expert.
But there’s got to be a better system.
On an editorial note…..
….how about that John Kerry?
Goes overseas and betrays his country, not that this is the first time. A horrible, horrible man, telling our enemies the Iranians to wait out our lawfully elected president, Donald Trump.
Then he gets on TV and acts like an asshole because TRUMP CAUGHT HIM!!!! But he mocks Trump as if doing the job YOU were elected to do was somehow a bad thing.
Can’t stand the man but I know when he dies there will be a funeral lasting a week, Trump and family will for sure not be invited, he will be sung about and praised as if a King.
This country is all messed up.
wind velocity is measured in miles per hour, not miles
On August 28, early in the morning he shot himself in the arm in protest of President Donald J. Trump.
Heh.
Better he should have shot himself in his head. I mean how dumb is this?
Right to keep and bear arms, yer doin' it wrong. ;-)
(I mean, shooting yourself in the arm is hardly a way to preserve the arm...and then the risk of 'harm to self or others' is likely to result in him losing his arms, too. ...which means by shooting himself in the arm, he shot himself in the foot.)
Thanks for continuing to post, always entertaining even to those of us who mostly lurk on this thread.
Re news media reporting.
They love to show the 145 mph winds
Then immediately below they show the actual on ground speeds..... no where near the core speed.
Live in Fla so very accustomed to this form of click bait reporting.....