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There are elephants in the room all over,
Sep 4, 2019 1:29PM PDT

but in Alabama the Tuscaloosa.
Groucho.
More or less.

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IMO, from now on, US citizens should ignore
Sep 5, 2019 1:04AM PDT

Presidental tweets in crises. The bigger the crisis the more 'ignoring'.
Let the government bureau heads do the talking, and hope for professional action.
The only problem is that after they have deliberated and decided on an informed course of action, they may be forestalled from acting by yet another EO or whatever. What if he doubles down and diverts some aid to Alabama just to keep his pride? In this case I see him letting it go, but next time? How much damage could he do?

Not my system, anyway. Nor yours. We both have allegiances to other governments.

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CNN thought Trump meant Mississippi.
Sep 5, 2019 7:43PM PDT
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RE:They can't help stumbling over themselves even worse!!
Sep 6, 2019 3:21AM PDT

“Thanks, Stephanie. Yes, we made a mistake (which we fixed in less than 30 seconds). And now we are admitting it,”

THAT's THE RUB.

DJT admit?....

RE:CNN thought Trump meant Mississippi

NO, they put the wrong name for the state of Alabama on a graphic.

Did anyone from CNN SAY Mississippi (on purpose, without correcting themselves?)

As YOU said...they "moved states".....no mention of what they thought DJT meant.

Stephanie Grisham mocked CNN over a botched graphic

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which mistake is easier?
Sep 6, 2019 1:43PM PDT

to say Mississippi, or to t-y-p-e i-t o-u-t?

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RE:Which mistake is easier?
Sep 6, 2019 4:32PM PDT

To have Mexico pay for the wall or take the money from the military?

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Off topic
Sep 6, 2019 4:39PM PDT

Not talking about walls. Talking about hurricane. Did you forget that between your opening post and this last one?

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Sorry .....I thought we were talking about
Sep 6, 2019 5:08PM PDT

mistakes/misstatements.

RE: Which mistake is easier?

Before YOU answer

Count ....1 Mississippi....2 Mississippi....3 Mississippi....

See what I did there?  Devil

RE: Talking about hurricane.

Well, the person YOU referred to Stephanie Grisham wanted to complain about mocked CNN over a botched graphic SAYING Mississippi wasn't proven by providing a link to a "botched graphic"

Even the headline from FOX NEWS mentions "botched graphic"

HER typed words and YOU used them to supposedly prove YOUR point, in YOUR graphic.

Graphics at 11, don't wait for the audio.....

Provide a link WITH audio....

I appears both you AND DJT don't like being corrected.

Sharpie graphics? Do YOU have a sharpie?

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In the 2010 Census one of my fellow
Sep 6, 2019 5:40PM PDT

crew leaders was a woman whose father developed the Sharpie© at the Sanford Co. He had signed the usual patent waiver, but she said his perks and bonuses did quite well afterward.

Did some fact checking on Wikipedia- good for this sort of thing- and the page hasn't been updated. Go for it, guys!

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Not so funny.
Sep 6, 2019 5:51PM PDT

Look at what parts of the military are up for cuts. Sad
A patriotic poem for y'all that like such things.

https://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/tommy.html

Last stanza, free of charge.
"You talk o' better food for us, an' schools, an' fires, an' all: We'll wait for extry rations if you treat us rational. Don't mess about the cook-room slops, but prove it to our face The Widow's Uniform is not the soldier-man's disgrace. For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!" But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot; An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please;

An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool -- you bet that Tommy sees!"

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Do YOU know?
Sep 7, 2019 4:45AM PDT

"Look at what parts of the military are up for cuts."

I've looked and reports are that there are NO parts being cut. There is ALREADY a portion of the PENTAGON funding (not all goes to the 'military' per se....as in soldiers, sailors, pensions, healthcare, etc) that is specifically cut out for military building. Mostly used for REbuilding in war zone countries (which we should NEVER have started doing in the first place since places like Germany were rebuilt by their own people via LOANS from the USA instead of using OUR money and OUR troops to do it). It's THAT part that has the $3B coming out of it.

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Here's one.
Sep 7, 2019 8:07AM PDT
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-pentagon-europe/pentagon-chief-suggests-european-allies-replace-funds-diverted-to-border-wall-idUSKCN1VQ2WT

"The Pentagon said on Wednesday it would pull funding from 127 Defense Department projects abroad and at home, including schools and daycare centers for military families, as it diverts $3.6 billion to pay for President Donald Trump’s wall along the U.S. border."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-wall/u-s-supreme-court-lets-trump-use-disputed-funds-for-border-wall-idUSKCN1UL2S7

"The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday handed President Donald Trump a victory by letting his administration redirect $2.5 billion in money approved by Congress for the Pentagon to help build his promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border even though lawmakers refused to provide funding."
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Abroad.....
Sep 7, 2019 10:51AM PDT

and 'military families' don't necessarily mean OURS....

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RE: Abroad
Sep 7, 2019 12:05PM PDT

AND Families of American Military that are serving their country ABROAD don't deserve a good facility to get their education?


even schools for children at military bases and facilities in the U.S. and abroad.

One such school, Fort Campbell Middle School, previously garnered attention in February or being under the gun of the budget reappropriation.

"It's better for the middle school kids in Kentucky to have a secure border," South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham told CBS' Face the Nation in February when the Department of Defense revealed a list of projects that could be postponed or canceled to obtain the billions requested by Trump. "We'll get them the school they need, but right now we've got a national emergency on our hands. Opioid addiction is going through the roof in this country ... because we can't control the flood of drugs into this country and all of it's coming across the border."

The school, which is located on the Fort Campbell Army base along the Tennessee-Kentucky border, will cost an estimated $62 million to build. However, the entire budget for construction has been rerouted to the border wall.

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and somehow I forgot to reference the ongoing
Sep 7, 2019 3:54PM PDT

crisis in military housing that I linked from the Reuters investigation earlier.
Kipling covered that sort of thing also.
That could use some money.

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With all the flooding and rebuilding,
Sep 7, 2019 1:12PM PDT

there will be a shortage of sand.
Get some now, to stick your head in.

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"don't necessarily"
Sep 7, 2019 3:56PM PDT

True. In fact the bureaucrat mentioned that. Why? Its a good smokescreen for the real damage being done to real servicemen
Another ostrich.

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Amazing how
Sep 8, 2019 4:39AM PDT

the left is actually 'concerned' about our servicemen and women now when they had no problem ignoring them and decimating their existence for years.....

Where is your concern today, since you're so Christianlike, for the hundreds of thousands of homeless right now that includes CHILDREN living on the streets?

Gimme a break from your crap concerns........

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Proof that Trump was right
Sep 6, 2019 2:56PM PDT

Lots of news from the Carolinas, Florida, Bahamas. Nothing from Alabama.

The only logical conclusion: Dorian wiped it off the map. No one left to report on.

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RE:Dorian wiped it off the map
Sep 6, 2019 5:34PM PDT

Not likely DJT would let THAT happen....Alabama?...... a "Trump State"? (Donald Trump won the election in Alabama with 62.1% of the vote)...HE wanted to mention them in passing on HIS concern for potential victims of the hurricane....THEY weren't "in the cone"....So he made an Executive Decision and put them "in the cone"

Alabama....So many A's.....NOT 1 S, NOT 1 I......

Mississippi.....So many S's....So many I's....NOT 1 A

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Bill, I need a favor.
Sep 6, 2019 5:54PM PDT

Something on the local news tonight about 'Trump makes New Mexico a target state.'
You got a spare bedroom I can use until January 2021?

Oh, wait. 'Donald Jr is coming, too.'

Never mind. Mostly harmless.

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"The Odd Couple".
Sep 6, 2019 5:59PM PDT

Comes to mind. Devil
dafydd.

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(NT) Good one.
Sep 6, 2019 7:56PM PDT
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RE:You got a spare bedroom
Sep 6, 2019 6:07PM PDT
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Oh, no!!!
Sep 6, 2019 8:33PM PDT

There go the Green Gables!!!
Hadn't seen the Atlantic Canada phrase before. You guys have three. Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic.
And of course the Detroit River. To the north of Canada. Go figure.

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Scary stuff.
Sep 6, 2019 11:18PM PDT

Passed this along to my friends to the North.

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Not to denigrate the peril, but shouldn't they
Sep 7, 2019 3:49PM PDT

be somewhat prepared for it? North Atlantic is infamous even without tropical depressions poaching on them. Don't they have hunker down plans in place anyway?

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RE:North Atlantic is infamous and prepared for storms
Sep 7, 2019 5:53PM PDT
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NOAA vindicates Trump. It was THEIR fault.
Sep 8, 2019 5:53AM PDT
https://weather.com/news/news/2019-09-07-noaa-supports-trump-alabama-hurricane-dorian

"Alabama was never in the five-day cone of uncertainty for Hurricane Dorian, according to Linda Lam, a weather.com meteorologist. In its Sunday statement, NOAA cited NHC forecasts that showed there was a small chance that tropical storm force winds could reach into Alabama, but the forecast never indicated Alabama would be "hit hard," as President Trump asserted.

The NOAA statement also said: "The Birmingham National Weather Service’s Sunday morning tweet spoke in absolute terms that were inconsistent with probabilities from the best forecast products available at the time."

Lam said forecasters were just trying to provide people with the most accurate information.

"It can be tricky using absolutes with weather forecasting," Lam said. "But it is also important to be clear about what people need to be prepared for or worried about versus not needing to worry about it. In this case, it seems NWS was trying to be clear that it was not a concern for people (in Alabama) to stress about."

And the real clincher? One forecaster in the Birmingham office says that the staff wasn't even aware of Trump's tweet. They were simply responding to concerns from people in their coverage area."
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Response
Sep 8, 2019 7:29AM PDT

So DJT holds up a map of the possible track...makes a claim that is not obvious ......ON THE MAP(the basis of HIS claim/concern for the residents of Alabama)....NO concern for the residents of Florida or Georgia.....Why was it necessary to mention Alabama? It wasn't included in the projected path.

The Birmingham National Weather Service’s Sunday morning tweet spoke in absolute terms that were inconsistent with probabilities

THEY can't speak in "absolute terms" And DJT can "speculate"?

If HE didn't "speculate"...they wouldn't have brought up HIS comment/speculation.

It doesn't seem fair. HE is the author of his own misfortune.

I think someone/DJT TOLD NOAA to send the so called vindication tweet....

DJT needed a bit of help....Yet another Executive Order?

PSAnd the real clincher? One forecaster in the Birmingham office says that the staff wasn't even aware of Trump's tweet. They were simply responding to concerns from people in their coverage area."

Since THEY weren't aware of HIS tweet why does HE seem to be taking it so personally?

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