Friday News: “What About the Planet?”; Right-Wing Hurricane “Truthers”; Ana Navarro Rips Trump as Racist – in Two Languages

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, October 7. Also, check out Republican political strategist and political commentator Ana Navarro rip Donald Trump as a racist – in two different languages, no less. LOL

• Paul Krugman: What About the Planet? (“If Donald Trump wins, the paranoid style in climate politics — the belief that global warming is a hoax perpetrated by a vast international conspiracy of scientists — will become official doctrine, and catastrophe will become all but inevitable. So why does the media seem so determined to ignore this issue? Why, in particular, does it almost seem as if there’s a rule against bringing it up in debates?”)
• Trump personally lobbied Congress to give real estate developers bigger tax breaks (Right, so Trump didn’t just follow the tax law, he worked hard to bend that law to his own advantage. Crony capitalism at its worst.)
• Hurricane Matthew, now a Category 3 storm, approaches Florida; emergencies declared in three states
• Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos awarded Nobel Peace Prize for efforts to bring peace to his nation
• Why bother having a vice-presidential debate at all? (“Tuesday’s debate provided nothing of substance for voters.”)
• Remembering a journalist who was killed for standing up to Putin (Remember, THIS is the person – Russian thug/dictator Vladimir Putin – that Trump thinks so highly of. Shuddderrrr…)
• Republicans are paying the price for their addiction to their own media (We’re all paying the price.)
• How much damage could a President Trump do? We can only begin to imagine. (“Handed the immense powers of the executive office, Mr. Trump would be unchecked and unbalanced.” This country would be toast.)
• Donald Trump’s Poll Numbers Are Even Worse Than They Look
• Trump in training: Mike Pence doesn’t like black people (“The vice presidential debate ‘winner’ would ‘set aside talk of institutional racism’ and enable police brutality” I mean, compared to Trump everyone looks sane and moderate, but Pence is an extremist by almost any standard.)
• Florida Governor Refuses to Extend Next Week’s Voter Registration Deadline Despite Catastrophic Hurricane (Yep, that’s Florida’s horrible, right-wing governor for ya…)
• Matt Drudge Peddles Irresponsible Conspiracy Theory Downplaying Deadly Hurricane Matthew
• Media Should Not Forget About Climate Change In Coverage Of Hurricane Matthew
• Watch This GOP Commentator Brutally Take Down Trump (“CNN’s Ana Navarro didn’t hold back.”)
• The Bizarre Political Logic That Leads Conservative Pundits to Downplay a Hurricane (” If climate change is real, to address it would probably require government intervention in industry. And conservatives are opposed to that. Therefore, climate change must not be real! The scientists are all lying.” Sick.)
• Trump blows off debate tune-up (“In this public town-hall rehearsal, Trump shows he’s put in as little ‘prep’ as the first time.”)
• Group of nearly 80 evangelical leaders publish letter condemning Trump (“We cannot ignore this bigotry.” Trump is basically the antithesis of everything Jesus taught.)
• Paul Ryan plans to use a Trump presidency to ram through his extreme agenda (“He’s already talking about how he’ll pull it off.”)
• Clinton preps final-stage blitz against Trump (“The Democrat has as much cash ready for the final stretch as any candidate ever. And she’s sending it to Battleground America.”)
• Giuliani’s daughter is for Clinton
• Trump says his insulting remarks toward women were for ‘entertainment’
• If Clinton Wins, Senate’s Balance of Power Could Hang on Virginia (Yep, 2017 in Virginia could be verrrry interesting.)
• Tim Kaine Criticizes Gary Johnson Over Syria Remarks (“Tim Kaine forcefully criticized Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party’s presidential nominee, on Thursday after Mr. Johnson equated the targeting of noncombatants by the Syrian government with the accidental bombing of civilians by United States-backed forces. Mr. Kaine, who has a 26-year-old son in the Marines, said Mr. Johnson’s view was ‘incredibly disrespectful to the troops.'” Johnson is awful.)
• Five Virginia first ladies tout Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine at Black History Museum
• Trump is lightning rod in debate in Northern Virginia race (“GOP Rep. Barbara Comstock never mentioned Donald Trump in the first debate of her reelection bid, but Democrat LuAnn Bennett did so on multiple issues, drawing chuckles from the crowd.” That would be “chuckles” from the overwhelmingly Republican, male, Chamber of Commerce crowd. Comstock’s too cowardly to appear before any audience that might be the slightest bit unfriendly.)
• Comstock, Bennett square off in first debate for House seat
• Former GOP congressman Whitehurst disavows Trump (“G. William Whitehurst, a former nine-term Republican congressman from Hampton Roads, joined 30 other former GOP lawmakers Thursday in a joint letter opposing presidential candidate Donald Trump.”)
• Norfolk councilwoman says KKK’s racism lives on in justice system
• Virginian-Pilot editorial: Kneeling for a reason (“AS PROTESTS GO, taking a knee during the national anthem preceding a football game — or a basketball or baseball or soccer game — is a pretty mild one. No lives are at risk. No violence impends.”)
• Editorial: A deliberate speed solution (“After spending $290 million on road that was never started and will never be built because nobody bothered to seek the necessary Army Corps of Engineers permits, Virginia now has a green light from the Corps for a much shorter U.S. 460 replacement.”)
• Editorial: How and when to restore civil rights? Habeeb offers a good approach (Del. Marcus Simon’s proposal is simpler and better.)
• ‘One of the most important Supreme Court Justices ever’: Justices, academics dedicate Scalia Law School (#ASSLAW forever! LOL)
• General Assembly Republicans call meeting on ‘election readiness,’ fraud allegations
• Editorial: The dead shall rise in Harrisonburg – and vote? (I’m including this editorial by the Republican Times-Disgrace just to demonstrate, yet again, how awful their editorial board is.)
• Gray with showers likely, but conditions improve by Sunday