He’s lucky. He could have been detained for months and then dumped in gulag, a war zone or a country where you are likely to be killed or sold into slavery.
Do not come to the USA if you have any choice in the matter. It is not a safe place to come unless you are lily-white, wealthy, and speak English.
And it’s been like this since his first time in office. These people just do not learn.
That office’s warning coordination meteorologist left on April 30, after taking the early retirement package the Trump administration used to reduce the number of federal employees, according to a person with knowledge of his departure.
Some of the openings may predate the current Trump administration. But at both offices, the vacancy rate is roughly double what it was when Mr. Trump returned to the White House in January, according to Mr. Fahy.
Expect a lot more of this all over the country. NOAA and NWS have been gutted by this administration. Studies have been cancelled, staffing is still being cut, satellite data historically gathered by the DoD and provided to NOAA has been cut off making it harder to forecast hurricanes, this admin has even dramatically cut weather balloon launches making it harder to forecast the weather.
The warnings that went out in advance of this particular disaster, the flood warning the day before and the flood emergency alert that night, were possible because of the few weather balloon launches, including a single balloon launched in Texas that showed how saturated the atmosphere was.
Anyone attacking the weather services in the aftermath of this disaster needs to have their ass kicked. This disaster could have been at least partially averted if Trump hadn’t gutted NOAA and the National Weather Service. It would have also been a lot better if the idiots in Texas had a method to alert people of flash floods besides posting alerts on Facebook and Twitter hours after the fact. This was not a failing on the part of the weather service. This was a political failing due to federal budget cuts, staff firings, and incompetent emergency management practices in the affected counties.
And mark my words, Trump and the GOP’s climate change denialism, and their determination to destroy or hide all evidence of climate change is going to cost a lot of lives in the coming years.
Yep. Readers might think you’re joking, but that’s pretty much right there in the article.
In an interview, Rob Kelly, the Kerr County judge and its most senior elected official, said the county did not have a warning system because such systems are expensive, and local residents are resistant to new spending.
“Taxpayers won’t pay for it,” Mr. Kelly said. Asked if people might reconsider in light of the catastrophe, he said, “I don’t know.”
The Venn diagram of the two groups is likely to be a circle.
It is honestly all of the immigration judges. Those judges work directly for the Executive branch and have been instructed by the Trump admin to quickly dismiss every case when requested.
In the memo, the Justice Department instructs immigration judges, who report to the executive branch and are not part of the independent judiciary, to allow Department of Homeland Security lawyers to make motions to dismiss orally and then move quickly to grant those dismissals, rather than allow immigrants the 10-day response time that had been typical.
Article updated to 24 known dead. Not sure if any of them are the girls missing from the camp. I cannot imagine how those parents must feel right now and they are being told things like this:
He added that if parents haven’t been personally contacted by the camp, they can assume their daughters have been accounted for.
So, yeah, no news is good news. If we haven’t called you, your child is probably not dead. They must feel so reassured.
According to the National Weather Service website, the flash flood watch, which included Kerr County, was issued at 1:18 p.m. Thursday. Nearly 12 hours later, a “life threatening” flash flood warning was issued at 1:14 a.m., according to the website.
When asked about the suddenness of the flash flooding overnight, Kelly said “we do not have a warning system” and that “we didn’t know this flood was coming,” even as local reporters pointed to the warnings and pushed him for answers about why more precautions weren’t taken.
“Rest assured, no one knew this kind of flood was coming,” he said. “We have floods all the time. This is the most dangerous river valley in the United States.”
They didn’t know there was a flood was coming even after the NWS issued a flood warning? Worse still, he claims it’s the most dangerous river valley in the nation, but they don’t have any way to warn people when a flash flood is coming? Wait, it’s Texas, yeah that tracks.
It is a high school next to an elementary school with a playground for preschoolers. The video shows the men walking up to the containers and apparently urinating, but you cannot specifically see that that is what they are doing. The staff at the school however did see that they were urinating.
And if you’re lucky they’ll deport you to your home country. If you’re not lucky, they may drop you in a gulag or a war zone.
Oligarchs run both governments, so yeah, their interests align.
Bush knew that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 and invaded anyway because he wanted to finish what daddy started. How many innocents suffered and died because of that decision? He authorized kidnapping people off the street in foreign nations and throwing them in black sites to be tortured without any evidence that they were actually enemies or criminals. He’s responsible for enough death and suffering that Trump actually still has some catching up to do, though I concede he is well on his way.
Also, the GOP in the Bush ere was not the rubber stamp it is now. They still pretended to care about what was right and wrong. That is no longer the case.
Stop white-washing Bush and acting like he was a well-meaning, doddering, buffoon. He wasn’t.
Hard disagree. Bush was as corrupt and evil, he just wasn’t as competent and lacked the full support of the GOP which was somewhat more sane in those day.
I have learned to be sneaky, but unless she’s asleep or bribed with treats, they’re mostly like this where she looks vaguely annoyed or disappointed with me.
My phone when I turn on the camera to take her picture or video.
They’ve released a name now. Wess Roley, 20 years old. Some news sites are reporting that it was the anniversary of the burning of an Aryan Nations camp in 2001. May not be any connection though since it happened years before this guy was born.
It won’t matter to him. If his property gets hit then he’ll just declare that specific spot a disaster area and have what’s left of FEMA give him millions of dollars to rebuild and upgrade the whole place. It’d be like the ultimate insurance scam.
Not as long as people keep voting for republicans and moderate democrats.
It’s Hebrew, right?
Almost certainly. Probably something about the Rapture. Based on this part of the article, he’s an end timer.
Asked if he believed God would forgive his sins, Sheafe said, “Absolutely he will forgive my sins. He is a forgiving God and loving God.”
Whitney challenged that logic: “How do you justify that? I mean, if you’re killing somebody or multiple people — attempted, how does that work?”
“It’s a commandment to rid Israel of evil,” Sheafe replied.
Gotta get all the Jews to Israel before the second coming and the Rapture can happen. So, yeah, crazy motherfucker.
Anyone with that much wealth should be charged with and found guilty of murder.
New York Penal Law Section 125.25
Murder in the second degree
- Under circumstances evincing a depraved indifference to human life, he recklessly engages in conduct which creates a grave risk of death to another person, and thereby causes the death of another person; or
Hoarding wealth to the extent that the 1% does show a depraved disregard to the value of human life such that millions of people are needlessly suffering and dying from poverty.
True enough, I guess.