September 4, 2019: Vice President Jesus Stays at an Inconvenient Hotel

 

9/4/19: Vice President Jesus earned a few frequent flier miles this week, at taxpayer expense. 

When President Golfing Fool decided to cancel a trip to Poland and focus on Hurricane Dorian – and his putting – he sent Mike Pence instead. On the way back, Pence made a stop in Ireland to speak to President Michael D. Higgins.

 

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He would need to down his complimentary breakfast – maybe waffles – quickly and jump on Air Force Two and wing away.

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Tuesday morning, a dapper looking VP (you have to admit, the man looks good in a suit and tie) rose early, in a chipper mood. He had to hustle, because his meeting was 181 miles away from the hotel where he stayed. He would need to down his complimentary breakfast – maybe waffles – quickly and jump on Air Force Two and wing away. To Dublin, then – where for some odd reason, Pence had decided not to stay. By 5:00 p.m. all meetings and discussions were ended. VP Jesus hopped aboard Air Force Two and flew back from whence he came. 

It was Night Two, for the VP – his wife – his sister –  and his mother – at that “conveniently located” property on the other side of Ireland. Namely: Trump International Golf Links & Hotel in Doonbeg.

Conveniently located on the western shore of Ireland.

 

VP Jesus’s family has roots on his mother’s side in Doonbeg and we should not begrudge Clan Pence a visit to their ancestral home. Still, did they really need to fly back and forth on the public dime? 

That answer, in Gaelic, would be: “Chan eil.” 

“No.”

Doonbeg: Not really close to Dublin.

 

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“How much worse did climate change make it?” 

AS HURRICANE DORIAN slowly churns north, the catastrophic damage inflicted on the Bahamas is revealed. Scientists point out once (again) what has been obvious for some time. 

“Was it caused by climate change?” Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University, asks rhetorically in a Twitter post. Could the fearsome power of the storm have anything to do with climate change? 

“When it comes to hurricanes, that’s the wrong question,” from now on. “The right one is, ‘How much worse did climate change make it?’” 

Florida was lucky this time; but, yes, Mr. Trump there are hurricanes that are measured as Cat 5’s. (See: September 1, 2019.)

 

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LAST BUT NOT LEAST, several large retail chains, including Kroger, decide to tell shoppers not to bring their guns into stores. 

This means that shoppers armed with AR-15’s will no longer be able to defend themselves from rogue cans of baked beans.