Island of 50,000 People in the Bahamas Is 70% Under Water. Dorian storm impact "may be the greatest ever experienced by any populated area in the Atlantic basin," https://t.co/jbpppkbVUh @mjbristow @ezrafieser via @business
— Mike Dorning (@MikeDorning) September 3, 2019
On the one hand, yeah, I’m sorry to be so repetitive. On the other hand… Stay safe, y’all…
Before and after pics of Grand Bahama. Pics from @Google & @iceyefi. #dorian pic.twitter.com/wYzosLS428
— Christina Ginn (@NBChristinaGinn) September 3, 2019
This footage from a pilot surveying the damage on Abaco is heartbreaking… @opmthebahamas officials able to see for first time. I am hoping to land there this afternoon with sandwiches and fruit, and @WCKitchen will try to establish relief kitchen immediately. #ChefsForBahamas pic.twitter.com/cQ3zbpZUG0
— José Andrés (@chefjoseandres) September 3, 2019
Small good thing: Chella Phillips and her 97 ‘Voiceless Dog’ refugees came through battered but (relatively) safe, per the Washington Post:
… Dorian lingered in the Bahamas for much of the weekend. Phillips told news outlet WFTS on Monday that she lost power and water came into her home at one point, but that all inhabitants — human and canine — were doing okay.
She posted another update to Facebook a few hours later, noting she and her brother had passed “a stressful night” trying to combat serious flooding. All her TVs were “fried” from the lightning, Phillips wrote, which meant “no more cartoons for the sick dogs.”
Her brother slept just an hour, and Phillips went without sleep, she wrote. She stayed awake all night to dry the house and care for the “terrified” animals.Phillips’s online fundraiser for her refuge, which she launched in August and was unrelated to Hurricane Dorian, had raised roughly $63,000 as of Tuesday morning, far surpassing her original goal of $20,000…
And it’s not over, by a long shot…
Busy times in the #Atlantic Ocean right now: Tropical Storm #Fernand in the western Gulf of Mexico, Tropical Depression Eight in the eastern tropical Atlantic, Hurricane #Dorian off the Southeast coast, and there are still two other areas we're monitoring: https://t.co/oIHbH6pDGF pic.twitter.com/4IylxeRGw0
— The Weather Channel (@weatherchannel) September 4, 2019
Um, who invited Fernand to this party? National Hurricane Center has it going toward Mexico, but way too close to Texas for my comfort. pic.twitter.com/XpM62lRtZK
— Jeremy Wallace (@JeremySWallace) September 3, 2019
Trump invited him to Alabama.
— Houseboat Laura ¯\_(?)_/¯ (@EllisLauraLee) September 3, 2019
Cermet
A Cat 5 Hurricane sat on them for over two days – the level of destruction from such a storm for a essentially sea level island is simply beyond anything anyone has seen in close to hundred years. These people will need our help. Even evacuation to the US should be allowed until rebuilding can be done in a serious manner. Being an island this will really make it both difficult and expensive but unlike poor Puerto Rico, is at least far closer to the US.
Baud
Happy about the dogs.
OzarkHillbilly
Blech.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ? ??
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
JPL
@Cermet: The president will reach out as soon as he finishes ranting about his enemies.
p.a.
Is Bahamas still a Commonwealth nation? (Is there still a Commonwealth?) Given Brit ‘government’ current buffoonery, how much aid can be expected from that direction?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@JPL:
and playing a round of golf.
OzarkHillbilly
You’ve seen a curveball. Ever see a curve hit? If you think that’s something, you should see what Paul DeJong can do on a pool table.
WereBear
The scale of the destruction is horrifying. I’ve never seen anything like it.
One of the ways I’m keeping my sanity, is reminding myself this is the “new normal” and my down feelings are thus perfectly logical.
We are in touch with the local Democratic committee and we donate as we can: which isn’t much lately. Mr WereBear is just now able to get out of bed reliably because that virus they didn’t name took him down so hard last winter.
But we did get our Moscow Mitch buttons from Kentucky to help out that effort :)
Baud
Well, it’s good timing for today’s climate change marathon town hall on CNN. Everyone is dropping climate change plans.
JPL
@WereBear: CNN had terrific coverage yesterday with reporters in the Grand Bahamas. One person has been covering hurricanes for decades including Katrina, and he said he had never seen anything like it. The comment that struck me was when the storm moves out, things start getting better , but in Freeport they are just getting worse.
Jose Andres and his team arrived in Great Abaco yesterday and is starting to distribute some food.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud:
Even Baud!2020!?
WereBear
Glad to hear it.
Have we had any successful relief efforts under the present administration?
OzarkHillbilly
@WereBear: Mar a Lago.
satby
@JPL: Chef Andres is fantastic, because he’s often on the ground before other NGOs can even respond.
I just filled out the form to volunteer with his organization, they do take non-chefs. And I have previous disaster response experience, so we’ll see.
Just like after the earthquake in Haiti, the need for support will be there for years.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Yes. Step 1 involves finding the six infinity stones.
satby
And good morning everyone, especially our morning sunshine @rikyrah:!
NotMax
@Baud
They’re always in the last place you look.
So look there first.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@satby: Still the dark of night here.
satby
@?BillinGlendaleCA: true! All times local.
tybee
i’m stuck in statesboro waiting on dorian to get a move on and get past savannah so i can drag my tired carcass back to the island.
My Side of Town
Lots of goods piling up in Bars and Pool Halls in Lakeland, but nobody knows yet how to get it to the Bahamas. There is a Facebook campaign to get the party boats to line up and respond by getting their ships there to provide temporary relief, especially since they make big money ferrying tourists to the islands. Seems a lot of folks are sharing this idea. I think it’s a great idea. Room. board, kitchens, showers. etc.
debbie
@JPL:
And bitching that they kept him from nuking the hurricane. //
OzarkHillbilly
@WereBear:
Doing your part.
Po po po MMM…. he’s got his wittew feewings huwrt.
My Side of Town
It never ceases to amaze me at the generosity and goodness of the American people. If only our government would take heed.
debbie
@OzarkHillbilly:
I know, right? NPR just reported there are six recall efforts in Colorado, all by the GOP. They’re ticked off the policies they love are being changed. Sore losing pussies, all of them.
NotMax
Early TCM notice.
Friday, beginning at 7 a.m. Eastern is a compilation of cartoons by Winsor McKay, a pioneer of both movie animation and of newspaper cartooning. At 114 minutes, it’s a lot to take in one dose of material meant to be seen in smaller bites, so those with any interest in the art of animation might want to fire up the DVR so as to watch it at leisure over several days instead.
satby
@My Side of Town: @My Side of Town: it is a great idea. And in spite of how depressing these times can be, I believe most people are good or want to be good.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@satby: Just took a peek outside and see an old friend in the sky, Orion.
My Side of Town
Almost every bar in Lakeland will give you free beer if you bring a few non perishable items in. But since the Bahamas are not a FEMA thing, I guess we’ll have to go around them. After all, if this were Mar-A-Lootgo, we would be throwing paper towels all over the place.
satby
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I miss seeing the stars well now that I’m back in a small city with the light pollution.
I found out Monday that seeing the Milky Way is on my good friend’s bucket list. Now I know that one of your pictures of it will make a perfect gift. Because I’m not parting with mine ?
OzarkHillbilly
@tybee: I woke up this morning, I had them Statesboro Blues,.
My Side of Town
Last night at pool league we were all talking about this, the latino teams, the black teams and the white teams, all together about what we could do to help, and since we all missed Dorian, we were in a grateful mood. Or Dorian missed us. We were sweating that turn north, I can tell you.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: it hurts his feelings because it’s too close to the bone. Truth always hurts. And this time I hope it sinks the treasonous fucker.
Immanentize
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Orion?, meh, it only gets three stars….
debbie
Here’s an early morning laugh.
WereBear
@My Side of Town: Excellent! Because they don’t even have much in the way of rubble.
WereBear
@OzarkHillbilly:
Because nothing hurts like the truth.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@satby: You shouldn’t have to go vary far out of town to be able to see the Milky Way, I was checking out the Chicago area and going a bit south out of town it should be visible. My photos make excellent gifts. Here’s a link to the Dark Sky Map, it’s my bible.
NotMax
National anthem of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Immanentize: You need to look below the belt.
Immanentize
@satby:
I read yesterday that the Senate has not marked up even one appropriation bill in any committee. For the fiscal year that starts October 1. The Senate just does no work at all except to rubber stamp thoroughly unfit judges. Why do we even have a Senate?
schrodingers_cat
Its chilly this morning. Has Florida been spared? RWNJs are dismissing climate change and calling it “weather”
OzarkHillbilly
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I’ll bet his shoulder is still inflamed.
Immanentize
@?BillinGlendaleCA: ?
TS (the original)
@debbie: I needed a laugh – thanks
OzarkHillbilly
@Immanentize:
To stop the president.
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA….. gasp…… wheeze……
Kay
This bland blaming of “everyone” means no one is ever held specifically accountable:
There were some heroes though! Just not Mattis. Some of the career people in the military and HHS questioned the Theranos scam Mattis was selling because they knew the science was fake, thereby (eventually) halting its use and literally saving lives. They should get a spot on cable and a book deal.
NotMax
@debbie
“We in America consider it a great honor that you chose to name your capital city after a town in New Jersey, even though you pronounce it funny.”
rikyrah
@WereBear:
Where do you get the buttons?
Dorothy A. Winsor
Speaking of disasters, this article helped me some in seeing what Brexit is all about. It’s anti Brexit and I can’t judge the details, but at least it was clear.
rikyrah
@debbie:
WATB, the entire lot of them.??
Gin & Tonic
@OzarkHillbilly: Slightly different.
Gin & Tonic
@Kay:
What’s this “we” jazz, Kemo sabe?
rikyrah
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
The Brexit folks were nothing but lying muthaphuckas ? ?.
You saw that by the speed with which they left after the scam vote
rikyrah
@Kay:
Stop with the WE
Just like stop with CONGRESS
.
IS NOT WE OR CONGRESS
just REPUBLICANS ???
schrodingers_cat
@Kay: Ahh the great warrior monk is not so great after all.
Baud
@Kay:
Not true. Dems will be held accountable for Republican behavior.
satby
@?BillinGlendaleCA: your photos do make excellent gifts! So far though the only giftee is me. I love them.
But planning Christmas already, so at least I know what to give her.
satby
@Dorothy A. Winsor: link isn’t working for me, source?
Kay
@Gin & Tonic:
One of the Theranos defendants is going to trial. If it isn’t settled, maybe Mattis will finally have to explain his role in it. Emails he wrote are central to the case.
They never deployed the fake technology in the military, because there were two brave military physicians who stopped Mattis and also an HHS inspector in San Francisco who made a lot of noise, but they did “deploy” it in Arizona – tested it on ordinary people who had no idea it was a scam. They rolled it out in Arizona because of that state’s incredibly lax regulations.
How can he be selling his book and not get asked about this? He didn’t resign from the board until 2017.
OzarkHillbilly
@Gin & Tonic: Gotta love Taj Mahal.
Baud
@Kay:
No one really cares about emails, Kay. I mean, what a snooze fest it would be to obsess over emails.
germy
schrodingers_cat
@Kay: I never understood the hype surrounding him, give me someone who stands up to T like Sally Yates. Not someone who stands by for photo-ops while T signs an EO banning all Muslims even the ones with valid visas from entering the United States. And the whole Theranos episode shows that he brought into this hype himself. One who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool, as my sixth grade English teacher used to say.
germy
Immanentize
@Gin & Tonic:
YIKES!! You sent me to a Bernie advert!
Kay
@Baud:
Wouldn’t you know that as a military commander? I mean this is like “leadership 101”. Vaguely blaming “everyone” means no one is held accountable. Individuals did things! Who are they and what did they do?
Mattis, for example, took pay from Theranos and then worked very hard to sell their bullshit and have it tested on soldiers “in theatre” according to the emails Mattis wrote. That’s what he did. Luckily, there are a set of laws that were in place that bar scammers and crooks from doing product testing on members of the military, and those are strong laws. They’re there because we’ve done that before- we’ve tested product on those people with disastrous results.
I hope the one Theranos crook insists on a trial and doesn’t plead. Force them to go to trial. They have to call Mattis as a witness. Public trials. Remember those?
germy
Will this be featured on all the evening network news broadcasts? I remember CBS, NBC and ABC running with breathless stories over multiple nights on Omar’s comments. For some reason, I think this Labor Dept. guy will fall down the memory hole…
Gin & Tonic
@germy: And three passports?
Gin & Tonic
@Immanentize: Oh, man. It went straight to Taj the first time. I blame YouTube.
Baud
@Gin & Tonic:
I get Taj.
JPL
@Kay: I was streaming Morning Joe until he came on to tout his book. Life’s to short to listen to his bullshit.
WereBear
@rikyrah: Moscow Mitch store! At Kentucky Democrats:
https://store.kydemocrats.org/
Enjoy and good morning, comrade :)
Baud
@Kay:
It’s like how, in 1939, we all stopped working together and decided instead to go to war.
NotMax
@germy
“Never seen this one before. RusEx?”
Gin & Tonic
@Baud: The YouTube algorithms must know of Imm’s fondness for Wilmer.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@satby: Quora, Sept 4. Barry McGuinness’s answers. Let’s see if it works this time.
NotMax
@Gin & Tonic
The first rule of
FightClubYouTube algorithms….;)
Baud
@Gin & Tonic:
Maybe there are Wilmerite Gremlins at YouTube.
Or it could be the Russians.
Immanentize
@Gin & Tonic:
More like the algos know I am down and they are trying to finish me off!
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: As do I.
SiubhanDuinne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
When I was a little girl, my father would make me giggle by teaching me to identify “O’Brien and his little dog Syracuse.”
:-)
Baud
I didn’t realize it was so recent.
NotMax
@Immanentize
Immp’s tube removed (or about to be)?
OzarkHillbilly
@germy:
………………………………….
So the story isn’t that he got fired for being an anti Semite, but for making fun of anti Semites.
No doubt he is plenty loathsome, just not anti Semitic too.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@SiubhanDuinne: Now I’m starting to get the urge to head out to a dark place to get some shots of the Orion nebula.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Maybe that’s the real reason he got fired.
NotMax
@Baud
Can vividly recall the first time seeing them IRL and thinking how comical they looked. Still do.
topclimber
@WereBear: Grim Reaper is the nickname he gave himself. Moscow Mitch came from someone else and caught on way faster. True, he has earned both monikers, but the one he did not invent stings more because he lost the message control war.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Exactly.
OzarkHillbilly
@topclimber:
Credit where credit is due: Nancy SMASH!
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
She used it but I don’t think she invented it.
burnspbesq
For Amir, in case he missed it.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/sep/04/indonesia-malaysia-fans-world-cup-2022-qualifier
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: I looked it up, you are correct, but I still think she played a heavy hand in popularizing it.
WereBear
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Oooo. One of the darkest places is only an hour away.
Food for thought. Especially for aurora watching, for when I have the energy to stay up late.
satby
@Immanentize: Hang in there! How’s the Immp?
WereBear
@topclimber: A guy who calls himself the Grim Reaper?
We are dealing with a deep bunch of personality disorders, even for a Republican.
Uncle Cosmo
@Immanentize: FFS stop bitching – every time I fire up this site I get a Quisli Gabbard ad in the sidebar. If this shit keeps up I may be forced to arrange an ad blocker if I want to keep my last meal down.
Kay
@JPL:
Trump has gotten worse- he gets worse every week- but I don’t know that it’s due to any of these people not being there.
Bad hires always get worse. That’s sort of their defining characteristic. If they got better they wouldn’t be bad hires. Two weeks into this I knew he wasn’t going to get better. He can only stay the same or get worse.
WereBear
QFFT. Were this situation framed as a toxic boss and a spineless HR department, I think a lot more people could figure out this particular toxic-orange puzzle.
Kay
We’re three years into Trump and the low quality hires lying daily to the public. It doesn’t take that long to check out their lies- what would be the harm in verifying what they say before spreading the lie? It seems clear to me that the lying is a campaign strategy and it’s increasing as the election gets closer. If you’re actively misinforming people with your reporting don’t you have some obligation to grapple with that and perhaps change your approach?
This approach doesn’t work. Can they try something (anything) else?
Kay
@WereBear:
It’s that horrible sinking feeling- “oh, no. End this as quickly and politely as possible” :)
You know in 2 weeks. Mediocre can improve. Bad cannot and will not.
Spanky
@WereBear: Because the Senate is where legislation goes to die.
Also Caesars, but that comes later.
WereBear
If we have Congress as the rowdy voice of the people and the Senate where cool heads are supposed to take it to a higher level. Competence in the Executive is acting like a drop of water in a hot pan.
I keep thinking of that sailing maxim, “Disasters happen because a whole lot of bad things decide to occur at the same time.”
Spanky
@Kay:
I don’t know why you’re still going on about the media “failure”, Kay. They are doing the job they intended to do.
A better question might be how to stop or neutralize the misinformation.
Raven
@Gin & Tonic: Mo Roots was really my intro to reggae along with The Harder They Come.
Now, I don’t. HAVE to do anything so what’s it gonna be???
hueyplong
@Kay: And not one of us thinks Trump will stay the same.
So new weekly floor it is.
Uncle Cosmo
@SiubhanDuinne: Cf. Tom Weller’s Science Made Stupid: How to Discomprehend the World Around Us, page 12 of the pdf (page 10 in the deadtree edition).
Read the whole thing – it’s a hoot. I think the copyright page is straight. (I think.) I’m damn sure nothing else is, down to the note on typeface & the ads in the back.
Kay (not the front-pager)
@OzarkHillbilly: Surprisingly, Morning Joke Scarborough was the first to use Moscow Mitch publicly.
#MoscowMitch is a favorite twitter tag of mine.
Uncle Cosmo
In Trumpworld, ‘Tis the Seizin’ – every day, all day. Continual smash&grab of the US Treasury for the benefit of Cheeto Benito immediately & the Global Oligarchy Plutocrats down the line.
Gin & Tonic
@Raven:
You tell me. I’m still in this gig for about a year and a half, I think.
O. Felix Culpa
Here’s a shocker: Top Interior official who pushed to expand drilling in Alaska to join oil company there
rikyrah
@Immanentize:
Every Democratic Senatorial Candidate should run on this, as they point out what Moscow Mitch and his cohorts are blocking.
rikyrah
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
have been thinking about them as gifts.
rikyrah
@Immanentize:
Sending positive thoughts to Little Imma :)
mrmoshpotato
Silly creature features. Can’t go wrong with naming a movie about a big ass spider Big Ass Spider!
bemused
@debbie:
Ha, ha, those bell sleeves. She’s got lift-off.
Her clothing style is ridiculous, imo.
catclub
@Uncle Cosmo: I thought this was something grabbed from DOD for illegal wall building:
J R in WV
@bemused:
And all the work she has had done on her face and forehead makes her look so vacant…
bemused
@J R in WV:
She evidently wasn’t going for animation when she had work done.
chris
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Thanks for the Brexit article. Good to see all the bullshit in one big pile.
TenguPhule
@Kay:
Abandoned in favor of public lynching for presumed guilt upon accusation if you’re a Democrat and lengthy appeals followed by a slap on the wrist if you’re a Republican.
TenguPhule
@Spanky:
Tumbrels. Lots and lots of tumbrels.
Miss Bianca
@debbie: Yes, but they’re still a PITA to those of us on the ground in “2nd Amendment Sanctuary” country.
Miss Bianca
@mrmoshpotato: I loved that movie!