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b"Something's happening here:\\xa0 as of air time, what had been a Category 3 hurricane named Ophelia killed three in Ireland -- yes, Ireland. Ophelia is the farthest east (and north) that a major Atlantic hurricane has ever been recorded.\\xa0 In California, at least 40 are dead, with nearly 200 still missing and some 5,700 structures incinerated, after more than a week of record wildfires that have ravaged Northern California's wine country and other areas. The blazes follow California's historic drought, then wettest winter ever, followed by its warmest summer ever -- all symptoms of global warming which helped fuel the conditions that thousands of firefighters are still battling across the state. Donald Trump made his first public remarks about the deadly CA fires today when pressed at a White House press conference. In related news over the weekend, an oil rig platform blew up in Lake Ponchartrain north of New Orleans, injuring seven, with one worker still missing. And the US-armed and US-trained Iraqi army faced off against the US-armed and US-trained Kurdish army in battles over oilfields in Northern Iraq. The US arms industry is, no doubt, rejoicing in the wake of Trump's increasingly chaotic and incoherent foreign policy, even as Iraq's Prime Minister just days earlier described a possible military confrontation with the Kurds as "fake news". (Sound familiar?) Then we're joined by the one and only HEATHER 'DIGBY' PARTON of Salon and Digby's Hullabaloo blog to discuss whether something is actually happening in the White House and among Congressional Republicans as Trump's Fox "News"-fueled version of both foreign and domestic policies begin to catch up with him, and as his fury is reportedly increasing with his failure to enact any substantive legislative policies almost nine months into his Presidency.\\xa0 Also over the weekend, Trump spoke at the far-right Family Research Council's so-called "Values Voter Summit" in D.C.\\xa0 It was as insane as one might expect, and the question Parton considers is why the so-called "religious right" base still buys the immoral nonsense and lies Trump's keeps selling them..."