Good to Know the NWS Has This One Figured out…
Props to Eric Berger at Space City Weather.
Archive for August, 2017
I Quit / You’re Fired / No, I Quit / Yeah, After I Fired You
Okay, to be honest, I am not comfortable with the military running my government, even if the keys to our survival are in the hands of a raving lunatic with an itchy self-gratification finger.
However, at least General John Kelly did one good thing.
It made me giggle when I heard that Kelly revoked Sebastian Gorka’s security clearance while he was on vacation. It’s pretty funny that Gorka thought it was safe to take a vacation while sitting in a snake pit.
The conservative web site The Federalist reported on Friday that Gorka resigned with a scathing letter accusing “forces” in the White House of working against Trump’s agenda. However, a White House official told Yahoo News that Gorka did not leave of his own accord.
“Sebastian Gorka did not resign, but I can confirm he no longer works at the White House,” the official said.
According to the Washington Examiner’s Sarah Westwood, Gorka said it was “disappointing” that the White House said he was fired, because “I resigned.”
A source with knowledge of the situation said Gorka did indeed resign—but only after being informed on Friday by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly that his security clearance had been revoked, which would have made it impossible for him to continue in his White House job.
Good rule of thumb: if they take away your keys to the building, it’s too late to resign.
About the generals: I remember Al Haig. Those guys scare me.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
God, Forgive Us
This is going to break your damn heart. A mess of people who are undocumented workers in the coastal bend are refusing to go to shelters or get on the bus to higher ground because they fear it is an ICE ruse. Oh dear God. People are going to die. And Trump pardons Joe Arpaio.
They are keeping open the in-land checkpoints at Sarita and Falfurrias. What kind of monsters have we become?
Because Houston Isn’t Freaked Out Enough Already
This happened yesterday morning in Houston …
WARNING! Turn off the sound because there’s some really bad language. Once you watch it, you’ll understand why.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLM-EvVKhkc
Yeah, it really happened.
Hurricanes make people crazy.
Harvey Twice?
The National Hurricane Center is calling for Hurricane Harvey to come ashore later today, hang out for a couple of days, then crawl up the coast. By Tuesday, the current forecast has it coming back inland around Houston. The stall is based on the high pressure area that sits to the northwest, keeping it from coming on inland and dissipating. Various forecasts have rain possibilities for the Houston metro area up to 30″.
And a fun time will be had by all. Y’all keep dry. We’ll keep updating as long as we have access to the Intertubes.
Keeping Score
According to the folks over at Twitter on a thread started by Chris Cillizza, Trump has attacked 21% of the Republican Senators by name.
Here’s the list —
- Mitch McConnell (Kentucky)
- Bob Corker (Tennessee)
- Lindsey Graham (South Carolina)
- John McCain (Arizona)
- Ben Sasse (Nebrska)
- Ted Cruz (Texas)
- Rand Paul (Kentucky)
- Marco Rubio (Florida)
- Dean Heller (Nevada)
- Jeff Flake (Arizona)
- Lisa Murkowski (Alaska)
Some folks say that means he has attacked far more Republican senators by name than Democratic senators.
I’m sure this list isn’t finished. But don’t worry, sooner or later, he’ll get to you. There is no limit to hs total disgust of the human race.