X Can’t Happen Because…?
So, I have been dealing with Tornado warnings and watches, Severe thunderstorm warnings, Flash flood warnings, Coastal Flood advisory, High wind advisory, High surf advisory, Rip tide advisory – in other words: Tuesday. There have been minor interruptions of the utilities, but I have been avoiding anything with a direct wired connection because of my low level of trust in the ability of any of the utilities to actually install a decent ground.
In Nevada they are playing the GOP version of the caucus game which will probably be won by Trump. Now, everyone but Trump and Republican primary voters have decided that it isn’t possible for Trump to win the Republican nomination for President, even though he is obviously well on his way to doing just that. So when I hear or read people claiming that Bernie Sanders can’t beat Trump in the election, I realize that I was correct to back him.
There will be over 20 million Hispanics eligible to vote in the Presidential election, and they won’t be voting for a Democrat, they will be voting against Donald Trump and his stupid wall. Bernie is bringing out new, young voters, and GOTV is the winning strategy in any election.
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🙁 tornadoes 🙁
It was in northern Santa Rosa and Okaloosa counties, the Navy at Whiting spotted it. Between Whiting and Eglin it is mostly trees up there.
we’ve had 2 right here in town in less than a week.
That really sucks. I seen a few trees in the neighborhood after hurricanes that were obviously twisted, rather than just blown over, but have never tracked one near by.
Matt Taibbi thinks Donald Trump will be our next president.
The money quote:
It turns out we let our electoral process devolve into something so fake and dysfunctional that any half-bright con man with the stones to try it could walk right through the front door and tear it to shreds on the first go.
And Trump is no half-bright con man, either. He’s way better than average.
I’ve previously talked about how both Trump and Sanders appeal to people who see that the system is rigged and are looking for a candidate outside that system. But Trump adds a huge dollop of P.T. Barnum flim-flam to the equation.
This is going to be the electoral season from hell, I have a sad suspicion…
oops, make that slightly more than a week – the first one was on a Monday night and the second one was on a Tuesday night 8 days later. i had remembered them backwards.
we fortunately have not had any deaths, and they’ve been small, so no national headlines . . .
http://wkrg.com/2016/02/24/fl-governor-visits-century-nine-days-after-ef-3-tornado-ravages-town/
http://wkrg.com/2016/02/23/tornado-tears-through-pensacola-apartment-complex/
century got hit hardest the first night, but Pensacola had damage that same night too that was probably a small tornado.
on the bright side, maybe this means trump won’t get elected president. 😈
The bulwark against a Trump win is the Hispanic vote and a decent GOTV effort in the minority communities. I’m going to be interested in the break down on the Florida primary.
They were both north of I-10, Hipparchia, which is normal. Century is almost in Alabama, and is considered the northwest corner with Key West the Southeast corner. The one that hit the apartments probably started as a waterspout over the Bay and came ashore.
I don’t want tornadoes or Trump tearing up things.
Right now Trump is running well ahead of Rubio in the Florida primary polls. Which, if it actually happens, will likely be Rubio’s last stand. It’ll be a Cruz vs Trump primary from then on out — i.e., Dumb and Dumber. It’s as if the GOP primary process has devolved to producing the most unlikable unelectable candidate as its product… not that any of the candidates running this time were particularly likable or electable.
Rubio’s problem in Florida is that he is the wrong kind of Cuban, i.e. his parents emigrated from Cuba while Batista was in control, while the Miami Republican Cubans were backers of Batista who were run out by Castro. People did the math after Rubio got elected to the Senate. John Ellis would have polled better than Rubio among the Calle Ocho Republicans.
Cruz should win big in Texas, but that’s about it. The white supremacists have already started with their robocalls about voting for the white guy instead of the Cubans.
They were both north of I-10,
nope, damage south of the interstate both times, which is out of the ordinary, to say the least.
The reporting said Century, which is on the northern Florida-Alabama line, and The Moorings apartments on Old Spanish Trail Road which is also north of I-10 on Google maps. There were straight line winds in some of the cells gusting to near hurricane force, but the reporting I read from WKRG, etc. didn’t mention anything south of I-10. I’m not saying there wasn’t, but I didn’t see it mentioned.