…and everyone with half a brain is upset about it. Which is as it should be. Righteous indignation is perfectly appropriate in this situation. This should not be happening in a free country, supposedly governed by our Constitution. Free speech, and honest inquiry should not be infringed.

But let me ask you this, if you or I, or any concerned bystander, witnessing a passel of cops, deputies, troopers, or ICE assholes, committing an obvious case of racist fueled abuse, had the guts to ask them what the hell was going on, what do you think would happen to us?

I’ll tell you what would happen, we would be taken down roughly, handcuffed, thrown in a squad car, and be dragged off to jail. Once there, the “authorities” would piss around about letting you have your phone call, and treat you as a goddamn criminal. Just for having the balls to speak.

Us peons have never enjoyed the courtesies our Senators judges, and wealthy folks enjoy. What we have here is a case of trickle up asshole-ery. The assholes, are no longer respecting the folks who used to live the shielded life, against the kinds of thing we have suffered with on a daily basis. Officer Friendly isn’t so friendly anymore. Officer Friendly was a damn lie from the get go.

I was taught about Officer Friendly in grade school. If you ever had a problem, tell Officer Friendly, he is there to help you. Wonderful book illustrations showing Officer Friendly helping the child. I believed in Officer Friendly.

Then when I actually encountered Officer Friendly, expecting Officer Friendly, he actually turned out to be a real asshole. And damn near every one I’ve met since. I say this a LOT, “you will see a lot of Barney’s before you meet any Andy’s. If you’re half as old as me, you might get that.

What has been happening to our elected officials isn’t new. Not by a long shot. What’s new is, the line of privileged entitlement has been crossed. This is a new level of evil. Brought about by our own Felonious Orange.

I too, am outraged at what’s happening. But there’s a tad of schadenfreude mixed in with my concern. On one hand, it’s actually kind of nice seeing the shoe on the other foot. On the other hand, I do fear where this is heading.

When the revolution needs me, call.

I hate to keep harping on the weather, but this 3 day storm event we had here was rather epic. I’ve never seen anything like it. As I use the NOAA site daily, sometimes multiple times daily, I find them an invaluable service. So I saw a little tidbit they had posted:

Over the past week, the Mid-South has been impacted by an unprecedented stretch of severe weather and historic rainfall. This prolonged event has led to multiple devastating tornadoes, damaging winds, destructive hail, and widespread, ongoing flooding across much of the region.

We are just beginning to analyze the scale and scope of the impacts. The nature of this event makes it difficult to put into context immediately. In the coming weeks, we’ll be working closely with our emergency management partners to survey the impacts and help frame what this means for our communities and how it fits into historical perspective.

So… I’m not the only one a little shell shocked from this event. There’s a pun in there if you want it.

To think, a National Weather Service, that does so much good for every community in this country, is one of the government agencies being sledgehammered by our idiots in charge. I suppose if there’s weather they don’t like, they can just make sure no one knows its coming, and then it never happened when it did? It’s tough trying to think like an idiot.

https://www.weather.gov/meg/PreliminaryStatementonRecentSevereWeatherandFloodingImpacts

This is just the tornado warnings. There were numerous severe thunderstorm warnings claiming large hail and high winds, as well as numerous flood warnings. My weather alert radio was going off like crazy for three days. That first night I got maybe three hours of sleep. The storms just kept coming, one after the other. Over and over. It was a rough three days.

You see Jackson Tn. there? Now look at the “G” in Dyersburg, then go about halfway to that vertical squiggly line to the right, which is the Tn. River. That halfway point between the “G”, and the river, is pretty much where I live. We had three tornado warned storms come right over our heads.

We fared well enough. But I do not want to see that again for a good while. Fortunately, the vast majority of those tornado warnings were radar indicated, and not necessarily “on the ground tearing shit up,” tornadoes.

I didn’t catch the total rainfall we got here, but from what I gathered on a TVA site, we got nearly 11 inches in a small town just W of us.

High and dry, and apple pie now. We all good.