Posts from — August 2017

Position: 31.2N 72.3W [10PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: North [360°] near 8 mph [13 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 75 mph [120 kph].
Wind Gusts: 90 mph [145 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 105 miles [165 km].
Hurricane Wind Radius: 25 miles [ 35 km].
Minimum central pressure: 986 mb ↓.

Currently about 445 miles [ 720 km] West of Bermuda.

At 10PM CDT Gert became the second hurricane of the season.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

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I hope the people who voted for Teump enjoy having all of the vermin in this country come and strut around like they own it.

Charlie Pierce is really bummed out because like most people with more than two working brain cells, he knew things like Charlotteville were going to happen when Trump was elected.

Digby points out that Trump doesn’t really have any reticence when it comes to complaining about people and organizations that annoy him, but he won’t say anything negative about Nazis and other white supremacists. These are people that would have no problem with including the Kushner family in their ‘final solution’, but he has them as advisors in the White House.

I was trying to identify one of the flags at the demonstration and came across the Political Flags of Extremism site, three pages of flags of whackoes from all over the world. Handy resource in the era of Drumpf, the SCROTUS.

Position: 28.8N 71.9W [10PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: North-Northwest [345°] near 9 mph [15 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 45 mph [ 75 kph].
Wind Gusts: 60 mph [ 95 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 90 miles [150 km].
Minimum central pressure: 1009 mb ↓.

Currently about 485 miles [ 785 km] West-Southwest of Bermuda.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

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Position: 25.3N 70.3W [10PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: North-Northwest [330°] near 13 mph [20 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 35 mph [ 55 kph].
Wind Gusts: 50 mph [ 80 kph].
Minimum central pressure: 1011 mb.

Currently about 260 miles [ 415 km] Northeast of the Southeastern Bahamas.

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Drumpf calls up the governor of Guam to tell him that the threat of being nuked by North Korea could BOOST TOURISM?!. Drumpf also says that he is behind Guam ‘1000%’, although he really meant ‘8000 miles’.

Last night a group of Alt Right/Neo-Nazis dressed in chinos and polo shirts marched on the University of Virginia campus at Charlottesville after dark carrying tiki torches and chanted “Jew will not replaces us” and “Blood and Soil”. In the original German, Blood and Soil [Blut und Boden] was the motto of the Nazi Ministry of Food and Agriculture. It comes from the title of a book advocating eugenics and living in the rural areas. If that is what the marchers were actually advocating they need to do a lot more marching and lift some weights after they switch to jeans, chambray work shirts, and seed or tractor company baseball hats. [They looked like the guys who man booths at trade shows.]

At today’s main event things turned tragic: Charlottesville: One killed amid violence over US far-right rally. A human being was murdered and dozens injured by an individual using a motor vehicle. The act was recorded and there is no chance of it being anything other than an intentional terrorist attack on the people opposing the alt-Right/neo-Nazi/KKK rally.

Via Charlie Pierce, Drumpf on Putin at his press conference:

“I want to thank him because we’re trying to cut down our payroll, and as far as I’m concerned I’m very thankful that he let go of a large number of people because now we have a smaller payroll. There’s no real reason for them to go back. I greatly appreciate the fact that we’ve been able to cut our payroll of the United States. We’re going to save a lot of money.”

Via Media Matters, Fox News anchor says the the media is showing a double standard by expecting more of Trump than from Kim Jong-Un 😈

I wonder – if I was a North Korean general responsible for the demonstration of force by firing four missiles to land off Guam, I would scheduled it a week or so later to give the ship with the four explosive charges that would indicate success time to reach the area off Guam. Four missiles would be fired from North Korea, and then there would be four explosions in the sea off Guam. The record of North Korean success is not great, and Kim will definitely get upset if the missiles fail.

Wait, you’re saying, won’t intel know that the launch and the explosions are unrelated? “Fake News!” just like the White House…

Position: 19.7N 99.2W [10AM CDT 1500 UTC].
Movement: West [260°] near 20 mph [31 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 30 mph [ 45 kph].
Wind Gusts: 45 mph [ 70 kph].
Minimum central pressure: 1000 mb ↑.

Currently about 20 miles [ 35 km] North-Northwest of Mexico City.

After midnight the storm came ashore near Lechuguillas in the state of Veracruz as a hurricane.

At 10am CDT Franklin was declared a remnant. All watches and warnings were cancelled in the final NHC advisory on the storm.

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Colonel Bateman at Charlie Pierce’s place has identified a signal that things have gone critical with North Korea. He says, and I believe him, that if General Mattis resigns as Secretary of Defense in the near future and/or General McMaster resigns as National Security Advisor, it is probable that Drumpf wants an overt act against North Korea.

If Drumpf orders a strike against North Korea that is not a response to an actual attack, the truce that has held since 1953 will be over and thousands, if not millions of people will soon die. It is up to Pence and the Cabinet to invoke the 25^th Amendment to prevent World War III, but Congress needs to act to repeal the blank check “Authorization for the Use of Military Force” that they gave to the Shrubbery. Declaring war is a specific function of the Congress, and the possibility of a President like Drumpf is the reason.

Position: 20.2N 96.1W [10PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: West [270°] near 13 mph [20 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 85 mph [140 kph].
Wind Gusts: 100 mph [160 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 150 miles [240 km].
Hurricane Wind Radius: 35 miles [ 55 km].
Minimum central pressure: 985 mb ↑.

Currently about 70 miles [ 110 km] North of Veracruz, Mexico.

The first hurricane this season. At 10pm CDT tropical storm force winds have reached the coast and the storm should make landfall in the next few hours.

A Hurricane Warning is in effect for the coast of Mexico from Puerto de Veracruz to Cabo Rojo.

A Hurricane Watch is in effect for the coast of Mexico from Cabo Rojo to Rio Panuco.

A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for the coast of Mexico from east of Puerto de Veracruz to to Puerto Dos Bocas and from north of Tuxpan to Barra del Tordo.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

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Drumpf is doing his best to restart the Korean War. The 25^th Amendment is there for a reason.

In response to his own panel’s call for a declaration of an emergency, Trump pledges action, stepped-up enforcement to combat opioid abuse, because people can’t get drugs in prison, so there will be no addiction.

Sorry, Senator Hatch, but you can’t eliminate the Beavis and Butthead mentality of some people who can’t resist letting the rest of the world know their problem. A quick primer on what Senator Hatch was referring to in his comment, which is the equivalent of saying they were ‘shooting blanks’.

A brief explanation of why the new grand jury is in DC. Mueller really didn’t have a choice under Federal procedure.

Position: 20.3N 91.3W [10PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: West-Northwest [285°] near 10 mph [17 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 50 mph [ 85 kph].
Wind Gusts: 65 mph [105 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 185 miles [295 km].
Minimum central pressure: 996 mb ↓.

Currently about 325 miles [ 525 km] East-Northeast of Veracruz, Mexico.

It is back over water in the Bay of Campeche at 7pm CDT.

A Hurricane Warning is in effect for the coast of Mexico from Puerto de Veracruz to Tuxpan.

A Hurricane Watch is in effect for the coast of Mexico from Tuxpan to Rio Panuco.

A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for the coast of Mexico from east of Puerto de Veracruz to Celestun and from north of Tuxpan to Rio Panuco.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

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Position: 19.1N 87.3W [10PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: Northwest [310°] near 14 mph [24 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 60 mph [ 95 kph].
Wind Gusts: 75 mph [120 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 140 miles [220 km].
Minimum central pressure: 995 mb.

Currently about 75 miles [ 125 km] East-Northeast of Chetumal, Mexico.

The storm should be coming ashore on the Yucatan Peninsula in the next few hours.

A Hurricane Watch is in effect for the coast of Mexico from Puerto de Veracruz to Rio Panuco.

A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for Belize City northward to the border of Mexico and the coast of Mexico from Chetumal to Sabancuy.

A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for the coast of Mexico from Sabancuy to Puerto de Veracruz.

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Position: 16.4N 83.0W [10PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: West-Northwest [295°] near 13 mph [20 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 40 mph [ 65 kph].
Wind Gusts: 55 mph [ 90 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 105 miles [165 km].
Minimum central pressure: 1006 mb ↓.

Currently about 100 miles [ 155 km] North of Cabo Gracias a Dios on the Nicaragua/ Honduras border.

A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for the coast of Mexico from Chetumal to Campeche.

A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for Belize City northward to the border of Mexico and the coast of Mexico from Campeche to Sabancuy.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

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From CNN: “Martin Shkreli, who gained national notoriety two years ago for jacking up the price of an AIDS drug, was convicted of securities fraud Friday for mismanaging two investment funds.”

He won’t believe it until he hears that door go ‘clang!’