Stormy Weather: Hurricane Dorian dodged Puerto Rico and is now aiming to make landfall in Florida as a Category 3. The Federal Emergency management Agency is moving teams from Puerto Rico to Florida and the governor has declared a state of emergency.

  On its current course Dorian would hit the middle of the Florida panhandle Sunday night.

  Backing up a bit, when it looked like Dorian was about to devastate Puerto Rico, this is what the current president of the United States said on Twitter:

“Puerto Rico is one of the most corrupt places on earth. Their political system is broken and their politicians are either Incompetent or Corrupt. Congress approved Billions of Dollars last time, more than anyplace else has ever gotten, and it is sent to Crooked Pols. No good! And by the way, I’m the best thing that’s ever happened to Puerto Rico!”

The Dwindling Crowd: New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand dropped out of the Democratic race for the presidential nomination after failing to qualify for the third debate.

  Also failing to qualify is the self-funded rich guy Tom Steyer, who has been campaigning to impeach President Trump. 

  To qualify for the debate, candidates had to hit at least two percent in four polls and have 130,000 individual donors.

  The qualifiers are:

      Former Vice President Joe Biden 

      Sen. Cory Booker, New Jersey

     Mayor Pete Buttigieg, South Bend, Ind.

     Julián Castro, former housing secretary

     Sen. Kamala Harris of California

     Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota

     Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, Texas

     Sen. Bernie Sanders, Vermont

     Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts 

     Andrew Yang,tech entrepreneur

Hard Brexit: Britain’s new Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday convinced the queen to suspend Parliament, shortening the time the lawmakers have to consider arrangements for exiting the European Union. 

  The practice is known as “proroguing,” and is common under a new Prime Minister. But Johnson is suspected of using the suspension to ram through a Brexit with no agreed relationship with the European Union, threatening economic chaos.

  Thousands of anti-Brexit protesters, some carrying signs that read “Stop the Coup,” gathered Wednesday night in Parliament Square. 

  Parliament will work for two weeks in September and is then prorogued for five weeks, returning only two weeks before the deadline to leave the European Union.

The Obit Page:Speed queen Jessi Combs, who was known as “the fastest woman on wheels,” died Tuesday in Oregon while attempting to break records in a jet-powered car. She was 36.

 Combs had hosted several television shows, including “All Girls Garage” and had appeared in the series “MythBusters.”

 In 2013, she broke a 48-year-old record when she hit 393 miles per hour in her North American Eagle Supersonic Speed Challenger. She set another record in 2016 when she drove nearly 478 mph, her fastest speed, in the same desert where she died.

  Combs said in an Instagram post nearly a year ago, “Looking forward to the next attempt of ludicrous speed.” 

Liar, Liar:The Washington Post has caught President Trump in more than 10,000 lies, fabrications, and exaggerations, but his new press secretary Stephanie Grisham says Trump never lies.

  In an interview with The Washington Post, Grisham said, “No,” I don’t think they’re lies . . . I think the president communicates in a way that some people, especially the media, aren’t necessarily comfortable with. A lot of times they take him so literally. I know people will roll their eyes if I say he was just kidding or was speaking in hypotheticals, but sometimes he is.”

 Trump is not speaking in hypotheticals when he says his southern border wall is getting built. It’s not. Existing barriers are being replaced.

 He’s not kidding when he says his approval rating among Republicans is 94 percent. It isn’t. It’s about 84 percent … still great for him, but he’s lying when he says it’s 94 percent. 

  Still, Grisham said, “What I’ve learned about him is that he loves this country and he’s not going to lie to this country.”

 Except when his lips are moving.

 In the war between the press and the President, the press took a hit when MSNBChost  Lawrence O’Donnell was forced last night to retract a story he reported that Russian oligarchs had co-signed a loan application Trump submitted to Deutsche Bank. O’Donnell had reported the story based on a single source, and that’s a big sin in journalism. 

 Trump tweeted in response, “There has never been a time in the history of our Country that the Media was so Fraudulent, Fake, or Corrupt! When the ‘Age of Trump’ is looked back on many years from now, I only hope that a big part of my legacy will be the exposing of massive dishonesty in the Fake News!”

  And that he’s the best thing that ever happened to Puerto Rico.

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