SharpieGate

Meteorologists call out Trump after altered Alabama hurricane map
President Trump is getting heat from meteorologists over his assertion that Alabama was at risk of being hit by Hurricane Dorian.
Trump displayed a map at the White House that included a half circle, possibly made with a black Sharpie marker, that showed the hurricane possibly moving into Alabama. This followed Trump's assertion over the weekend that Alabama was in the path of the hurricane, which the National Weather Service said was not the case.

Anybody else starting to find Trump's hurricane cone reminiscent of Captain Queeg's strawberries? - Richard Tofel

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Hey guys call me crazy but I'm pretty sure that President Email Lady wouldn't be arguing with a map. - Jeff Tiedrich

Trump attacks meteorologists, who's next, sportscasters? - Tea Pain

"Just because you slept with someone named Stormy, it does not make you a weatherman."- Joy Behar

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Right now Donald Trump is watching cable news, seeing his terrible poll numbers, crossing them out with a Sharpie, and writing his own imaginary poll numbers on his TV screen. - Palmer Report

Can we Sharpie through the rest of the calendar days between now and Election Day 2020? - Crutnacker tweet

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Hey Guys and Gals,

Short edition today.

I'm taking a birthday week off. Friends and family are rolling in starting tomorrow. Party on Sunday and birthday is on Tuesday. I will return the following day on the dreaded anniversary of 9-11.

Thank you for stopping by! I love you all!

#70

Where's the fire extinguisher?!?

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Whomever dresses Ivanka doesn't seem to like her very much 

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Clermont-Ferrand Cathedral is a Gothic cathedral, and French national monument, located in the town of Clermont-Ferrand. It began construction in the 13th century, built entirely of black lava stone. And, no Trump did not sharpie this in.

Peace.

Trump says 'I don't know' how map was altered to show Alabama in Hurricane Dorian's path

Trump says 'I don't know' how map was altered to show Alabama in Hurricane Dorian's path
During a briefing on Hurricane Dorian in the Oval Office Wednesday, President Trump showed reporters an enlarged map displaying what he said was the initial forecasted path of the storm.
The map, which was displayed on a posterboard, appeared to have been altered with a marker, extending the storm’s path to include Alabama.

They should have called this hurricane "Donald" instead of "Dorian" because it's slow, it has no direction, and it destroys everything it touches. - Alex Cole

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Trump administration raids military construction projects for border wall
• Trump defends shift of FEMA funds, citing Dorian's change in path
• Russia grants visa to Sen. Mike Lee after rebuffing other senators
• Trump's EU envoy hopes new leaders will ‘make impasses go away’
• Trump backs Boris Johnson amid setbacks: He 'knows how to win'
• Mattis Says If He Had Written Anonymous NYT Op-Ed He Would Have Signed It: I Don't Believe 'In Cowardice'

Imagine not believing in climate change but believing that Mexico was going to pay for the wall. - OhNoSheTwint

Brexit Laxer
The sight of hardline Brexit backer Jacob Rees-Mogg stretching out across the front bench of Britain's parliament during a particularly heated debate has become an instant meme, causing anger among government opponents.

Republican Shenanigans

• Trump Quotes Lou Dobbs Going Off on FBI Over Comey: The Nation Is ‘Disgusted With the FBI’
• Judge tells White House to reinstate reporter’s pass
• Pence's office now says it wasn't Trump's idea to stay at his hotel in Ireland
• Trump knocks London mayor and defends golfing as hurricane nears
• Tucker Carlson: Democrats Hypocritical on Gun Violence Because They Support Physician Assisted Suicide
• Infowars’ Sandy Hook appeal goes down in flames as judge orders Alex Jones to ‘pay all costs’
• Argument between West Virginia pastors' wives ends with gunfire in in church parking lot
• Ivanka Trump's Big Fashion Statement Foiled by Mother Nature

Pence Defends Decision To Wear Ivanka Trump Heels - Andy Borowitz

Trump Pisses Off Secret Service Again
Trump resorts aren't easier to defend, Secret Service vets grumble.
The Trump administration used a variation of the now-familiar argument after Vice President Mike Pence stayed at Trump’s property in Doonbeg, Ireland.

According to the Republican Party, gun violence is caused by mental illness, video games, rap lyrics, unarmed teachers, Ilhan Omar, the war against Christmas, gay marriage, teenage activists, the separation of church and state, unicorn farts, and literally anything else but guns. - Middle Age Riot tweet

Melania Is As Bad A Liar As Trump
The official bio of Melania Trump now suggests that she did not complete a college degree in Slovenia, as she previously claimed on her own website.
The future first lady's bio on President-elect Donald Trump's government website says that she "paused her studies to advance her modeling career in Milan and Paris." It does not say whether she resumed or completed the degree.

That whole buying Greenland thing feels like a lifetime ago. - Roland Scahill

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Email
Subject: Not about politics

Hi Lisa,

Love your political site but I am very angry about that dive boat fire off the California coast and had to write to somebody about it.

I've never been on that boat. BUT I did work as a deckhand on several yachts in Cali when I was young and fit. Whomever was on watch that night failed "bigly." That fire to spread so quickly as the captain and crew said, there had to be an accelerant. I am not saying there was but I'd bet that the watchman was either asleep or not performing his duty. That is a small boat and by design of the boat a fire in the galley would have been noticed in minutes either by the watchman or the smoke detectors would go off in seconds and start the sprinkler system with alarms sounding. There should be fire extinguishers throughout the boat. Were there?

The captain and crew abandoned the boat and let those people burn. They have to live with that.

Something is very wrong and I hope the investigation will answer questions.

Thanks for letting me blow off steam.


Lars in Laguna


Thank you for writing Lars. You are always welcome to rant to me.  I am also upset. I wondered about the night watchman too, unless he was the one crew member who perished in the fire because he was below deck checking on things.

What bothers me is that the sleeping quarters held 30 people in triple bunk beds in a tiny area with only one exit and no portholes. Is that even legal, Lars? The aroma must not have been pleasant with so many people crammed in.

Regardless, hopefully the investigation will yield some answers for the families of those poor souls.

Take care.


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Rock The Voter News

• A rap legend ripped Kamala’s marriage to a white man. Then she won him over.
• AOC Mocks Dan Crenshaw For Wanting To Lend Guns To His ‘Likely’ Violent Criminal Friends
• Former Obama aide acquitted in lobbying case

lotta people are mad about walmart deciding to stop selling some ammo and banning open carry in their stores which means walmart is gonna see a huge decline in sales of white sheets. - mith tweet

Ay Yi Yi Yi
Marianne Williamson, the New Age author and Democratic presidential candidate, posted, and then quickly deleted, a tweet suggesting that it was “not a wacky idea” to collectively visualize Hurricane Dorian turning away from land.
“The Bahamas, Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas ... may all be in our prayers now,” Williamson wrote Wednesday morning. “Millions of us seeing Dorian turn away from land is not a wacky idea; it is creative use of the power of the mind. Two minutes of prayer, visualization, meditation for those in the way of the storm.”

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Business/Tech News

• Bank of America freezing accounts of customers suspected of not being US citizens
• Google's YouTube hit with $170M fine over children's privacy
• Nebraska Farmers Union president calls for government action on climate change
• Alan Greenspan says negative rates will spread to US 

Walmart Bans Mitch McConnell From Stores - Andy Borowitz

Imprison Mark Zuckerberg?
Mark Zuckerberg has "repeatedly lied to the American people about privacy," Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) said in a recent interview with the Willamette Week, a Portland alternative weekly newspaper. "I think he ought to be held personally accountable, which is everything from financial fines to—and let me underline this—the possibility of a prison term."
Zuckerberg, Wyden said, has "hurt a lot of people."

Dear Donnie,Boy, that was some Twitterstorm you provided us with this weekend!  A regular Category 5!!  But you’re not looking good.  Don’t forget, you’re not supposed to snort anything white after Labor Day! - Bette Midler

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Odd News

• Florida police: Cocaine washing ashore due to Hurricane Dorian
• Amateur astronomers use photo of Iranian rocket site tweeted by Trump
• T. Rex had an air conditioner in its head, study suggests
• 978 students perform floss dance for Guinness World Record
• Florida man parks Smart car in kitchen so it won’t blow away

Time To Deflate Photo

Quick, Robin, to the bat tree!

Peace.

Mike Pence defends decision to stay at Trump Doonbeg property in Ireland

Mike Pence defends decision to stay at Trump Doonbeg property in Ireland
Pence's chief of staff, Marc Short, says that the decision to stay at Trump International Golf Links in Doonbeg was made at the president's "suggestion" and that Pence and his entourage won't be staying for free.

Trump has spent 278 years of presidential salary on taxpayer funded golf trips. - Thorsten tweet

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Trump defends weekend of golf while Hurricane Dorian approached and Poland remembered Nazi invasion 
• Islamophobic incidents rose by 375% after Boris Johnson compared Muslim women to ‘letterboxes’
• Trump's new Mexico envoy stirs hornet's nest with Frida Kahlo jab
• Texas gunman previously failed background check
• 14-year-old boy calls police and confesses to shooting all 5 family members in Alabama home.
• ABC reporter: 'It's pure hell' in Dorian-devastated Bahamas

An AR-15 is not your God given right, it’s your God-damned entertainment. - John Fugelsang

Instead of Shooting the Messengers, Republicans Want To Defame the Messengers
Allies of President Donald Trump reportedly want to raise millions for their crusade against journalists.
According to a Tuesday Axios report, pro-Trump conservatives are trying to raise $2 million to fund their mission to gather damaging information on reporters and editors from major outlets, such as the New York Times and Washington Post.

There are no reporters allowed on the plane for this trip...with the Secretary of State. . . As he travels overseas...they said we would have to fly commercial and all the meetings are closed press. - Christina Ruffini, CBS News

Republican Shenanigans

• Pence's political team has spent nearly a quarter million dollars at Trump properties
• Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner took in as much as $135 million last year
• Donald Trump's companies destroyed or hid documents in defiance of court orders
• McConnell: I'd be ‘happy’ to bring up gun legislation that Trump supports
• Scaramucci: Trump is in a 'full-blown meltdown' and it's 'gonna get way worse'
• Meghan McCain Returns To The View Defending The Use Of AR-15
• Fox News Guest Blames Mass Shootings on Teaching Evolution: ‘We’ve Taught Our Kids They Come About by Chance’
• Conversion therapy group founder comes out as gay, apologizes
• Florida Man Goes Viral for His Absolutely Hilarious Plan to Fight Hurricanes

Why do people put their phone on speaker and still hold it to their mouth and shout like they’re talking through a soup can? - The Hoarse Whisperer

I Have More Faith In Chef Jose Andres Than FEMA
Chef José Andrés is making sure the Bahamian community has support after Hurricane Dorian. The catastrophic category 5 storm has been stagnant causing havoc in the island for days. Powerful winds and floodwaters (reaching 25 feet above sea level) have left homes battered and destroyed. Unfortunately, Hurricane Dorian has also taken five lives. Many people are helping the community, including the Spanish-American chef who went to the island in order to prepare 10,000 sandwiches for all the victims.   

Americans Envious That Tiffany Trump Never Hears From Dad. - Andy Borowitz

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I can’t wait to read Trump’s tweets as he is being forcibly removed from the White House. -Roland Scahill

Rock The Voter News

• California’s attorney general calls EPA emissions rollback ‘a monumentally stupid decision
• Biden: Trump 'Has No Intestinal Fortitude' to Address Gun Violence
• 'I Know How to Win': Elizabeth Warren Campaigns in New Hampshire
• Bernie Sanders proposes canceling $81 billion US medical debt

How many more people have to die before we reinstate the assault weapons ban & the limit on high-capacity magazines & pass universal background checks? After they passed in 1994, there was a big drop in mass shooting deaths. When the ban expired, they rose again. We must act now. - Bill Clinton

Democrats Plan To Pull Down Trump's Trousers
The House Judiciary Committee plans to hold public hearings as soon as October on Trump's alleged role in hush-money payments to two women during the 2016 election.

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Report: More Americans Putting Off Retirement Until Final Few Moments Before Death. - The Onion

Business/Tech News

• Trump wants the national parks to generate revenue; critics see creeping privatization
• Brexit worries drive value of the British pound to a 34-year low
• UK retail sales flat-line, consumers stockpile food for #Brexit, surveys show.
• Manufacturing shrinks for first time under Trump: survey
• Man pulled gun at Houston Popeyes over lack of chicken sandwiches

Watching the brexit showdown is wild. Defectors, wild speeches, emergency sessions. The series finale of the UK is really good! - Mia Mulder

Walmart To Discontinue Selling Some Bullets
Walmart will discontinue all sales of short-barrel rifle ammunition that can be used with military style weapons, discontinue sales of handgun ammunition and stop all handgun sales in Alaska, following two shootings at Walmart stores this summer.

I just ordered a Popeye’s chicken sandwich on eBay. - Conan O'Brien

I took the fork in the road with me.

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Guess When the Hurricane Season Peaks.

On September 10, My 70th Birthday!

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Odd News

• NASA and the ESA are teaming up to find ways to deflect an asteroid the size of Egypt's Great Pyramid
• Doctors say diet of fries and chips made teen "fussy eater" blind
• A vegan woman sued her neighbors for barbecuing in their backyard: 'It's deliberate'
• Florida woman wraps home in plastic to protect it as Hurricane Dorian approaches
• San Francisco woman feeds crows, receives 'gifts' in return

Time To Deflate Photo

A bird in the ear is worth two in the bush.

Peace.