Milton is big trouble.

I thought there would be tornadoes. There were one hundred tornado warnings and watches today. I didn't know there would be this many, though.

Look. Milton is crossing Florida but is refueling as it hits the Atlantic. There will be tornadoes and life threatening weather the entire time. 

Pray the lousy storm doesn’t stall, then the flooding will be far worse. A stalled storm is far worse than one that moves quickly. The rain deposits increase exponentially with stalled storms and with that more deaths, injuries and damage requiring a lot resources. 

The vital "60 Minutes" Presidential Interview.

It is my opinion and only my opinion that Trump refused to sit through an interview with our minority Vice President. He chronically complains about her ethnicity. There is no reason to think his obstinance in sharing the same air space with our magnificent Vice President is based in disdain of minority citizens.

I find the support of Former US Rep. Liz Cheney invaluable to the outcome to the 2024 Vote. It is one thing for a Republican to state, "I am not voting for Trump." It is quite another thing for a Republican to state, "I am supporting Kamala Harris for President with my vote." Republicans are welcome to vote for whoever they want in the down ballot, but, if not voting for Trump for president, please, cast the vote for Kamala. The country's democracy is counting on it.

It should be no surprise Kamala Harris has a gun and practices with it. Ask law enforcement people, be it police or lawyers or prosecutors or judges if they take their protection seriously enough to conceal carry. Practicing at a shooting range is vital to safe handling of any gun, but, particularly handguns. I speak from experience. Please don't purchase a gun and stick it in a safe place and never look at it again until the day or night it is needed. Everyone that owns a gun should be practicing regularly with it. Regularly is a matter of building competency and does not require dedicated time weekly or monthly to achieve competency with firearms. Own the gun and own the operations of the gun, your life may depend on it.

Thank you for a very interesting interview, Bill Whitaker.

I have a problem with the idea that Trump is seeding disinformation as a campaign strategy (click here). That idea of normalizing disinformation as a strategy to win an election completely puts the country in danger. This is a campaign for President of the United States of America. If a voter is simply thinking, "Oh, that disinformation is just a campaign strategy," what are they expecting of a president? Competency? Truth telling? Or a comedy routine that masks the seriousness that should be met with the responsibilities of the Oval Office.

I find Trump's misinformation dialogues troubling and frightening. President. He is not President material. NOT AT ALL! 

So, when a reputable news agency or journalist normalizes the disinformation as a campaign strategy that eliminates fact checking as a vital component to decision making.

The American democracy is based in truth telling. There are oaths citizens take when making witness in trials that demand them to tell the truth and nothing but the truth. The candidates for office at any level, but, especially the presidency of the USA, should be testifying every day to their policies. It chills me to think Trump could simply give a press conference as he did during the COVID pandemic and normalize injections of bleach, etc. People died because of such irresponsible statements. Young people died because he made them believe COVID was a hoax. DIED. PEOPLE DIED because of Trump's disinformation. What the heck is a journalist thinking when they normalize misinformation? They certainly aren't journalists. 

If racist Trump came on "60 Minutes" as he should have to talk to the American people, he would have had to be truthful. Is there any wonder why the Republican Ringmaster of the party's circus was absent?

Thank you Kamala and Tim. You have no idea how wonderful it is to hear both of you speak about the country and the hopes of it's future.

The Virginia Governor is lying about the electorate?

Never in my wildest imagination did I think Youngkin would stoop to such lows. Youngkin is pandering to Trump's idea of politics. Hate speech.

Well.

I guess we know where to look for election interference.

By Gregory S. Schneider and Laura Vozzella
October 9, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT

Richmond — Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) (click here) has been warning that illegal immigration poses a threat to democracy as he campaigns this fall for former president Donald Trump, boasting about purging 6,303 noncitizens from the state’s voter rolls during his first 2½ years in office.

“Noncitizens will be prosecuted if they vote,” Youngkin cautioned last month during a telephone rally with Trump in which the former president spoke of an “invasion” by criminal immigrants and claimed his opponents will “cheat” to defeat him.

But a review of state court records and interviews with elections officials found no evidence that any noncitizens have tried to vote during his term in Virginia, which does not allow residents who are not citizens to vote in any elections. As few as three people have been prosecuted for illegal voting of any kind in Virginia between Jan. 1, 2022, and July of this year, the records showed. None of those cases involved a question of citizenship....

American Library Association (click here)

There is no legal definition of "hate speech" under U.S. law, just as there is no legal definition for evil ideas, rudeness, unpatriotic speech, or any other kind of speech that people might condemn. Generally, however, hate speech is any form of expression through which speakers intend to vilify, humiliate, or incite hatred against a group or a class of persons on the basis of race, religion, skin color sexual identity, gender identity, ethnicity, disability, or national origin....

Reference:

Author: Kenneth D. Ward

Free Speech and the Development of Liberal Virtues: (click here) An Examination of the Controversies Involving Flag-Burning and Hate Speech

Milton

There is a chance Milton will reorganize once it hits the Atlantic. If it regains significant strength against the air mass from the north Milton could go on to soak the UK.

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There is also another storm in the Atlantic Ocean. It would be a wild ride if the two storms unite.