Updated 11am Monday: -- original posting -- You may have awakened to this 'news' at the Drudge Report this morning.  Drudge links to the Irish Times ,  an Ireland-based newspaper that detests President Trump. Their headline is below. I believe the  preliminary  death toll is now up to 36 --mostly from the tornadoes.  The Irish Times, and others, are -- intentionally or not -- confusing layoffs at the National Weather Service (NWS) with the parent agency the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The former is a lean agency that issues the tornado, blizzard and dust storm warnings that were needed the past few days and the latter has traditionally had lots of fat that has been or could be cut.  For example, NOAA's cartoonist(s) has been laid off.  I can assure you the layoffs of the NOAA cartoonist(s) and in-house video staff have nothing whatsoever to do with the quality of the storm warnings mentioned above! The newspaper focused on ...