Yesterday, Trump did what only Trump can do, and that is to lie on national television to prove that he hadn’t made an untrue statement.  This time, he was trying to justify blurting out that Hurricane Dorian was forecast to hit Alabama, which it wasn’t.  He was so obsessed with the press calling him out for the  mistake that he actually took a print of the National Hurricane Center’s forecast map from last Thursday and actually altered it with a Sharpie.  Yes, that’s right, he altered it with a Sharpie:

I’m sure the only ones fooled by this ham handed alteration of the NHC forecast map were Trumpists, but the National Weather Service corrected Trump with their own tweet saying that Alabama would not be affected.  After Trump showed the altered map, Twitterverse lit up, and #sharpiegate became trending, showing a number of solutions to Trump’s other problems.  Here are a few:

While the trending is pretty entertaining, Trump’s tampering with National Weather Service forecasting is dangerous.  All of us from Texas understand the life and death threats of hurricanes.  Accurate forecasting of hurricane tracks is essential for people to make their own decisions about life and property.  Trump has no business muddying the water by serving around like this just to prove himself right after saying something really stupid.

Those of you who’ve been around here for a while know of my fondness for the Fayetee County Record.  I have friends in Fayetter County – that’s between here and Austin – who keep me informed on their local crooks.

Well, he didn’t shoot his own foot, but he did konk himself out with his own crowbar.

And for your viewing pleasure, here’s the video.  There’s several times he awakes, does something and then passes out again.

For those you who are following the case of Alex Jones and the Sandy Hook parents, Alex’s new hot shot lawyer from California ain’t prancing so hot shot today.

Texas Republican Congressvarmint Bill Flores is retiring.

I’m not as excited as you might suspect.  It’s a Hard R district.  Trump won by 18 points so we’ll be replacing one fool with another.  This district includes the Waco area.

Flores is so deep into oil and gas that he slides across the room when he farts.  (Okay, okay, I already regret telling that joke because it is so gross, but I heard it out the oil patch years ago and just couldn’t help myself this morning.)

And while the chances of a Democrat winning this seat are slim to none, it’s kinda fun to see Republicans run for the hills when they see a storm coming.

… that all the gay stylists and all the seamstresses in China deeply hate you.

Thanks to Deb T for the heads up.

80 years ago today Great Britain declared war on Germany for invading Poland.  At the same time, Winston Churchill was appointed Lord of the Admiralty to fight the Germans.  He was later elected Prime Minister.  Ironically, today, 80 years to the day, Nicholas Soames, Churchill’s grandson, was notified he was being ejected from the Conservative Party, along with 20 other conservatives, for daring to vote against Boris Johnson Trump who is trying to crash the UK out of the EU without an exit plan.

Republicans in Congress can take a lesson here.  Soames, who’s been in Parliament for 37 years, is not allowed to stand for re-election as a conservative.  He disregarded this threat from Johnson and put his country before his own career.  If only our own spineless Congress would do the same here.  I’m not holding my breath.