10,000 Migrants to be Housed in Berlin's Luxury Hotels While Local Homeless Go Without Shelter

10,000 Migrants to be Housed in Berlin's Luxury Hotels While Local Homeless Go Without Shelter:
The Berlin Senate has announced an audacious, and some would say totally inappropriate plan to house 10,000 migrants in mid level to luxury hotels in the city with a total price tag of at least 600 million euros.
The senate has requested a contract with Grand City Hotels to lease out 22 hotels to house migrants in the city.
According to German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine the senate entered negotiations with London-based Hampton Holding, the owners of the popular Holiday Inn and Wyndam hotels in Berlin.
The costs break down at 50 euros a night, 1500 euros a month and 18,000 euros a year.
The costs to rent an apartment in Berlin, even in the centre of the city average far lower prices. 
The company who own various hotels in the city like Hotel Berlin Mitte, the Berlin City East and City West, have been incredibly attracted to the idea as the government guarantees an occupancy rate of 95 per cent, something the hotels may only see seasonally rather than all year round when the capacity averages 60-65 per cent at best..."

UNITED NATIONS TELLS USA TO PAY SLAVE REPARATIONS, CANCEL VOTER ID LAWS, MORE

OverpassesForAmerica – UNITED NATIONS TELLS USA TO PAY SLAVE REPARATIONS, CANCEL VOTER ID LAWS, MORE #o4a #news:
(CNSNews.com) – A trio of U.N. human rights experts ended a fact-finding visit to the United States Friday with a sharp critique of the conditions faced by African-Americans today, and decried the fact that “there has been no real commitment to recognition and reparations” for slavery.
Members of the so-called “U.N. working group of experts on people of African descent” drew a connection between controversial incidents of police shootings of African-Americans to lynching of past years.
“Contemporary police killings and the trauma it creates are reminiscent of the racial terror lynching of the past,” they said a lengthy statement, parts of which were read out at a press briefing in Washington, D.C.
“Impunity for state violence has resulted in the current human rights crisis and must be addressed as a matter of urgency.”
In another present/past equation, the experts compared slavery to the incarceration of large numbers of blacks for drugs offenses.
“The devastating impact of the ‘war on drugs’ has led to mass incarceration and is compared to enslavement, due to exploitation and dehumanization of African Americans,” they declared.
The three – French law professor Mireille Fanon Mendes-France, Filipino human rights lawyer Ricardo Sunga and South African legal scholar Sabelo Gumedze – called for a greater emphasis in school curricula on the history of colonization and the transatlantic slave trade.
They also recommended that “monuments, memorials and markers” highlighting the slavery issue be erected, and for federal and state legislation “recognizing the experience of enslavement” to be passed.
Specifically, they called on Congress to pass “The Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act.” 
The legislation, introduced a year ago by Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), provides for the establishment of a commission to study the issue and recommend “appropriate remedies.”
...“The colonial history, the legacy of enslavement, racial subordination and segregation, racial terrorism, and racial inequality in the U.S. remains a serious challenge as there has been no real commitment to reparations and to truth and reconciliation for people of African descent,” it said.
...“The dangerous ideology of white supremacy inhibits social cohesion amongst the U.S. population.”
...But they were highly critical of voter-ID laws, charging that “increased identification requirements in several states served to discriminate [against] minorities such as African-Americans contrary to the spirit of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.”...

Ted Cruz Tries to Re-Create Iowa Success in New Hampshire | TheBlaze.com

Ted Cruz Tries to Re-Create Iowa Success in New Hampshire | TheBlaze.com:

"Cruz cast himself as a long-shot conservative candidate in the state, much like former President Ronald Reagan was when he won the New Hampshire primary.

“Thirty-six years ago, the state of New Hampshire faced a similar election,” Cruz said. “An election where the stakes were every bit as great as they are today. And thirty-six years ago, the Granite State saw the former governor of California coming to it with all of the media saying, ‘This guy can’t win,’ with all of the media saying, ‘This guy is too far to the right, he’s too conservative.’ And besides, the media told New Hampshire, he’s 15-20 points behind in the polls."

Toxic Loans Around the World Weigh on Global Growth

Toxic Loans Around the World Weigh on Global Growth - The New York Times
Beneath the surface of the global financial system lurks a multitrillion-dollar problem that could sap the strength of large economies for years to come.
The problem is the giant, stagnant pool of loans that companies and people around the world are struggling to pay back.
Bad debts have been a drag on economic activity ever since the financial crisis of 2008, but in recent months, the threat posed by an overhang of bad loans appears to be rising. 
China is the biggest source of worry.
Some analysts estimate that China’s troubled credit could exceed $5 trillion, a staggering number that is equivalent to half the size of the country’s annual economic output.
Official figures show that Chinese banks pulled back on their lending in December.
If such trends persist, China’s economy, the second-largest in the world behind the United States’, may then slow even more than it has, further harming the many countries that have for years relied on China for their growth.
But it’s not just China.
Wherever governments and central banks unleashed aggressive stimulus policies in recent years, a toxic debt hangover has followed.
In the United States, it took many months for mortgage defaults to fall after the most recent housing bust — and energy companies are struggling to pay off the cheap money that they borrowed to pile into the shale boom.
In Europe, analysts say bad loans total more than $1 trillion.
Many large European banks are still burdened with defaulted loans, complicating policy makers’ efforts to revive the Continent’s economy.
Italy, for instance, announced a plan last week to clean out bad loans from its plodding banking industry.
Elsewhere, bad loans are on the rise at Brazil’s biggest banks, as the country grapples with the effects of an enormous credit binge..."

Teacher keeps job despite ‘unsatisfactory’ rating 6 years in a row

Teacher keeps job despite ‘unsatisfactory’ rating 6 years in a row | New York Post
Six strikes and she’s not out.
The city Department of Education has failed to fire a teacher rated “unsatisfactory” for six consecutive years.
Ann Legra, 44, a first-grade teacher at PS 173 in Washington Heights, racked up “six years of failing her students,” the city ­argued in a 16-day termination hearing.
Hearing officer Eugene Ginsberg upheld charges of Legra’s “inability to supervise students,” excessive lateness and absence and poor lesson planning in the 2012-2013 school year.
But Ginsberg dismissed evidence that Legra was a lousy instructor, saying she didn’t get enough coaching.
He imposed only a 45-day suspension without pay.
Legra keeps her $84,500-a-year salary, but is now assigned to a pool of 1,400 teachers who serve as substitutes.
Gov. Cuomo last month called the teacher-evaluation system “baloney” after the latest results revealed that fewer than 1 percent of the state’s teachers were rated ineffective.
Legra’s case shows the problem runs much deeper.
Even years-long poor performers can escape the ax.
“Six U-ratings is an outrage.
It’s a black eye on the system,” said Michael Mazzariello, a former chief prosecutor for the DOE.
He faulted administrators and current lawyers..."

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Dinesh D’Souza Faces Off With Bill Ayers in Debate — and Stings Him With One Devastating Response | Video | TheBlaze.com

Dinesh D’Souza Faces Off With Bill Ayers in Debate — and Stings Him With One Devastating Response | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"D’Souza fired back with a response that prompted the crowd to erupt in applause.

“The inequity of our criminal justice system is on full display right on this podium right here,” he said. “So I gave $20,000 of my own money over the campaign finance limit. I got 8 months in overnight confinement. You bombed the Pentagon and tried to bomb all kinds of other things — how much time did you do in the slammer?”

‘Uncomfortable’ prof kicks student in police uniform out of class

‘Uncomfortable’ prof kicks student in police uniform out of class | EAGnews.org
ALBANY, Ga. – An instructor at Darton State College recently ejected a uniformed police officer from the classroom becausmade the instructor “uncomfortable,” though school officials are now apologizing.
Darton College officials acknowledged in a statement that a uniformed police officer attending class in his spare time was told to leave the classroom after the teacher became “uncomfortable,” WALB reports.
“School officials confirmed the police officer was escorted out of the classroom, but did not elaborate,” according Fox 32 Chicago..."
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Mayor’s Response to Children Being Sexually Harassed by Migrants: “Don’t Provoke Them”

Mayor’s Response to Children Being Sexually Harassed by Migrants: “Don’t Provoke Them” » Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!:
A Mayor in the German town of Bad Schlema prompted fury when he responded to a grandfather’s concern about young girls being sexually harassed by migrants by responding; “don’t provoke them”.

The exchange occurred during a raucous municipal council meeting last week which ended with residents demanding the Mayor step down over his comments.

With public opinion on the 1.1 million migrants Germany has taken in over the last year souring after the mass molestation of women in Cologne, a grandfather stood up at the council meeting to ask Mayor Jens Müller, of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union party, whether measures would be taken to stop the harassment.

“I have a question regarding the school… about Physical education in the school gym”, the man stated . “My Granddaughter, she’s under ten — and it’s also happened in a nearby town, that’s right — the girls have been harassed by the refugee ‘children’, the ‘asylum seekers’.”

“They get harassed from the windows [of the shelter] and things like that. How will this be in the summer? When the School girls wear less clothing?” he asked.

“That’s easy; just don’t provoke them and don’t walk in these areas”, the Mayor responded.

The rest of the attendees immediately began booing, but the Mayor subsequently doubled down on his idiocy, suggesting that Germans were equally to blame when he commented, “Do you think this [sexual harassment] doesn’t exist among Germans”...

Seriously? Brian Williams Proclaims to Be the ‘Purveyor of Truth and Justice’

Seriously? Brian Williams Proclaims to Be the ‘Purveyor of Truth and Justice’
A totally clueless Brian Williams on Monday night warned MSNBC viewers to not fall for false information as Iowa caucus results rolled in.
The man who became known for spinning vast numbers of falsehoods while anchor at NBC News ominously began, “There's going to be some data floating around, especially the internet tonight.”
He continued, “The first wave of that data is notoriously suspect. So, don't believe everything you see and hear tonight.”
With no self-awareness, Williams proclaimed, “We hopefully will be the purveyors of truth and justice here.”
Speaking of truth, on June 18, Williams apologized, “I'm sorry. I said things that weren't true. I let down my NBC colleagues and our viewers, and I'm determined to earn back their trust.”
Williams famously told several varying stories about taking fire in a Chinook helicopter.
  He described it as “Black Hawk Down meets Saving Private Ryan.”
On another occasion, during Hurricane Katrina, he asserted, “I have seen thousands of dead people.”
Obviously, Williams is not the right person to be a “purveyor of truth and justice.”

Israelis Overwhelmingly Rank Obama ‘Worst President for Israel in The Last 30 Years’

Israelis Overwhelmingly Rank Obama ‘Worst President for Israel in The Last 30 Years’:

"TEL AVIV –  A new poll shows that Jewish Israelis rank Barack Obama as the “worst” U.S. president for Israel in the last 30 years, the Jewish Journal reported."

Goldman Sachs Says It May Be Forced to Fundamentally Question How Capitalism Is Working

Goldman Sachs Says It May Be Forced to Fundamentally Question How Capitalism Is Working - Bloomberg Business:
"...In other words, profit margins should naturally mean-revert and oscillate.
The existence of fat margins should encourage new competitors and pricing cycles that cause those margins to erode; conversely, at the bottom of the cycle, low margins should lead to weaker players exiting the business and giving stronger companies more breathing space.
If that cycle doesn't continue, something strange is taking place.
Needless to say, it's not every day you see a major investment bank say it might have to start asking broader questions about capitalism itself. "

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History for February 4

History for February 4 - On-This-Day.com:
Charles Lindbergh 1902, Rosa Parks 1913, George A. Romero 1940 


David Brenner 1945, Alice Cooper 1948 - Singer, musician, Gabrielle Anwar 1970 


1783 - Britain declared a formal cessation of hostilities with its former colonies, the United States of America. 


1789 - Electors unanimously chose George Washington to be the first president of the United States. 


1824 - J.W. Goodrich introduced rubber galoshes to the public. 


1904 - The Russo-Japanese War began after Japan laid siege to Port Arthur. 


1932 - The first Winter Olympics were held in the United States at Lake Placid, NY. 


1957 - Smith-Corona Manufacturing Inc., of New York, began selling portable electric typewriters. The first machine weighed 19 pounds. 


1974 - Patricia (Patty) Hearst was kidnapped in Berkeley, CA, by the Symbionese Liberation Army. 


2004 - The social networking website Facebook.com was launched. 

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

http://www.libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2016/02/february-3-2016-puppet-branches-by.html

Puppet Branches

By Tammy Derouin

Life has many ups and downs.  Each roadblock or difficulty we face becomes a personal challenge.  How we handle the challenge is what shapes us as individuals.  Lessons learned prepare us for the next obstacle we will face.  Some challenges are more difficult than others.  At times it may feel like no matter what you do, the pain and misery will never end. Eventually, you accept, deal with the situation and move on to the next challenge.  Refusing to see a problem causes additional suffering as you will be forced to repeat the challenge possibly more than once.

No one gets through life without collecting both emotional and physical bruises and scars.  The types of problems we face are the same, yet uniquely different.  We struggle financially, through family situations and changes, employment concerns, personal relationships, the loss of family members and friends.  How we face and react to the challenges of life determines our character, strength and our stability as individuals.

What I struggle with is how much we, as a nation, took our safety and security for granted. We were an exceptional nation because we not only had our freedom but we had a government that actively protected our freedom as well as our borders. National security was once a high priority.  In our new reality, our government is more concerned about getting our potential enemy inside our borders, providing them with financial assistance and distributing them throughout our country. 

We once had a system of checks and balances.  We had an Executive Branch, a Legislative Branch and a Judicial Branch.  Each would check the constitutionality of the actions taking place within the other branches.  Sadly, that is no longer the case.  We have allowed the Executive Branch to become unchallengeable. In the end, that will make the others obsolete or puppet branches of government... 

YO QUIERO EDUCACIÓN APOCALIPSIS! Disparo: Not From The Onion: University Of Kentucky Offers Course on taco literacy…

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Disparo: Not From The Onion: University Of Kentucky Offers Course On Taco Literacy. 

Chupito: New Mandatory Diversity Training For Students At Mizzou Focuses On Taco Costumes.

The revolution will not be televised — but it just might be catered.

(Both headlines via Maggie’s Farm.)

Long-term marijuana use tied to worse verbal memory in middle age

Long-term marijuana use tied to worse verbal memory in middle age | Reuters
As marijuana becomes more accessible to young and old alike in the U.S., researchers warn that long-term use of the drug may cause lasting harm to at least one type of brain function.
A new study based on following thousands of young adults into middle age finds that long-term marijuana use is linked to poorer performance on verbal memory tests, but other areas of brain function do not appear to be affected.
...Auer and colleagues analyzed data from a 25-year U.S. study of young adults, which included repeated measures of marijuana exposure over time and a standardized test of verbal memory, processing speed and executive function in year 25.
Almost 3,500 participants completed the standardized tests.
At the beginning of the study period in the 1980s, participants were 18 to 30 years old and more than 80 percent reported past marijuana use.
Just 12 percent continued to use marijuana into middle age, according to the results in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Researchers found that as past years of marijuana use increased, verbal memory scores decreased. 
In practical terms, the results meant that for every additional five years of exposure, 50 percent of marijuana users would remember one less word from a list of 15 tested words.

Hilarious Cartoon DESTROYS Liberal Voter ID Arguments | The Federalist Papers

Hilarious Cartoon DESTROYS Liberal Voter ID Arguments | The Federalist Papers:

"Call me a loon, but I think the belief that minorities lack the capability to go and obtain an ID like everybody else is in itself quite racist.

Also rather racist is this belief that minorities are too afraid to get their pictures taken.

“Some people can be very sensitive to having their photo taken especially when it is taken by an official, for an official purpose,” Devon Chaffee, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire, complained to Fox News."

WW2 Survivor's Account Draws Chilling Similarities between Nazism and Liberalism...

WW2 Survivor's Account Draws Chilling Similarities between Nazism and Liberalism... » Louder With Crowder:
Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it. 
Why? 
Because for the majority of human history, human beings have lived in bondage, in poverty, under despotic leaders, with little to no freedom. 
But there’s a reason human beings have time and again voted for their own oppression: freedom is hard. 
It is not easy to be the governor of your own life. 
It involves struggle, toil, hard work, and it isn’t easy. 
Contrast personal freedom with the promise of collective “safety” and “security,” ambiguous terms sold by political charlatans in order to secure their power.

World War II survivor and Austrian Kitty Werthmann is a lesson in history. 
Her tale of Adolf Hitler’s rise to power is one we should all watch. 
It’s chilling, it’s terrifying, but worst of all, it sounds familiar. 
Watch:

Highlights:
Hitler gave everyone a free radio.
He was a great orator.
And then he nationalized the radio.
Citizens were warned if they listened to anything other than Nazi radio, they would be put to death.
The only voice they had was the government radio station and the government controlled newspaper.
Hitler gave Austrian equal rights for everyone.
Also, everybody getting a guaranteed income from the government.
The equal rights amendment was designed in two components, equality, economics and social. Economics was designed to equalize the countries wealth because everyone was entitled to equal income.
To achieve that, they had to raise taxes to 70%.
People got fuel stamps, heating fuel.
The government equalized the countries wealth by taxing us. 

Called socialism.
On the socialism, everyone has to be on the work force. 

Moms stayed home, raised their families. 

But in socialism, if you didn’t work, you were called a parasite. 

Moms had to go to work and leave the kids to where? 

A daycare center. 

The longer you left your child with the schools and daycare, the better the government liked it. 

These caretakers were from the government, trained in psychology, to mold the children.
Education was then nationalized. 

We had a good education system before Hitler.
Seriously, this account is chilling. 

The longer you’ll listen to this full account (about 30 minutes) the more your skin will crawl.
But did you notice how Hitler did it? 

Incrementally. 

Not over night, not in a day, not in a week.

Slowly, over time, one area of life and then another. 

Do it the Nazi way, it’s the better way. 

You can’t trust the media, you have to listen to the national media. 

You cannot trust private institutions, you have to trust the government institutions. 

And you moms who want to stay at home with your children to raise them right? 

No, get out of the home, work, and do the right thing by putting your children through our state school...."

You Won't Believe What's Happened Since Friday...

You Won't Believe What's Happened Since Friday...:

Since Friday a string of attacks and other outrages has taken place around the world. The following list isn’t even everything that has taken place since Friday, but it’s a snapshot of the daily crimes wrought by Islamist extremism.

• At least 86 people were killed in Nigeria by Boko Haram. A survivor hidden in a tree told reporters he heard the screams of children burning to death.
• At least 71 people were killed in Syria in a bombing by the Islamic State at a Shiite shrine south of Damascus.
• The Islamic State kidnapped 30 children from school in Mosul and is thought to have forcibly drafted them into its army.
• News broke that a Jewish volunteer at a refugee center was spat on and insulted when she identified herself as Jewish.
• A Stockholm, Sweden man was sentenced to life imprisonment for stabbing his wife 66 times and cutting off her nose and lip in an alleged honor killing.
• News broke that the European Commission has denied any link between the Cologne, Germany attacks and the recent influx of migrants.
• Religious scholars in Afghanistan have issued a fatwa against peace negotiations.
• A Somali migrant in the UK has been sentenced to nine years in prison for joining al-Shabaab.

More and more outrages like the ones listed here are perpetrated every day in the name of Islamist extremism.

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BREAKING: Iran Naval Cmdr. Admits Truth About Captured Sailors... Obama Scrambles

BREAKING: Iran Naval Cmdr. Admits Truth About Captured Sailors... Obama Scrambles:

"The Obama administration, with Secretary of State John Kerry at the helm, has greatly downplayed Iran’s capture of 10 U.S. sailors. However, unwelcome facts, quotes and speculations continue to surface, revealing that there may be much more to this incident than the general public has been made aware of."

With Zika, Time to Bring Back DDT

With Zika, Time to Bring Back DDT | Economics21:
The Zika virus is spreading by mosquitos northward through Latin America, possibly correlated with birth defects such as microcephaly in infants.
 Stories and photos of their abnormally small skulls are making headlines.
The World Health Organization reports that four million people could be infected by the end of 2016.
On Monday, the WHO is meeting to decide how to address the crisis.
The international body should recommend that the ban on DDT should be reversed, in order to kill the mosquitoes that carry Zika and malaria, a protistan parasite that has no cure.
Zika is in the news, but it is dwarfed by malaria. 
About 300 million to 600 million people suffer each year from malaria, and it kills about 1 million annually, 90 percent in sub-Saharan Africa.  
We have the means to reduce Zika and malaria—and we are not using it.
Under the Global Malaria Eradication Program, which started in 1955, DDT was used to kill the mosquitoes that carried the parasite, and malaria was practically eliminated.
Some countries such as Sri Lanka, which started using DDT in the late 1940s, saw profound improvements. Reported cases fell from nearly 3 million a year to just 17 cases in 1963.
In Venezuela, cases fell from over 8 million in 1943 to 800 in 1958.
India saw a dramatic drop from 75 million cases a year to 75,000 in 1961.
This changed with the publication of Rachel Carson’s 1962 book, Silent Spring, which claimed that DDT was hazardous.
After lengthy hearings between August 1971 and March 1972, Judge Edmund Sweeney, the EPA hearing examiner, decided that there was insufficient evidence to ban DDT and that its benefits outweighed any adverse effects.
Yet, two months afterwards, then-EPA Administrator William D. Ruckelshaus overruled him and banned DDT effective December 31, 1972.
...Even though nothing is as cheap and effective as DDT, it is not a cure-all for malaria. 
But a study by the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences concluded that spraying huts in Africa with DDT reduces the number of mosquitoes by 97 percent compared with huts sprayed with an alternative pesticide.  
Those mosquitoes that do enter the huts are less likely to bite.
By forbidding DDT and relying on more expensive, less effective methods of prevention, we are causing immense hardship.
Small environmental losses are inferior to saving thousands of human lives and potentially increasing economic growth in developing nations.
We do not yet have data on the economic effects of the Zika virus, but we know that countries with a high incidence of malaria can suffer a 1.3 percent annual loss of economic growth.
According to a Harvard/WHO study, sub-Saharan Africa’s GDP could be $100 billion greater if malaria had been eliminated 35 years ago.
Rachel Carson died in 1964, but the legacy of Silent Spring and its recommended ban on DDT live with us today.   
Millions are suffering from malaria and countless others are contracting the Zika virus as a result of the DDT ban. 
They were never given the choice of living with DDT or dying without it.
The World Health Organization should recognize that DDT has benefits, and encourage its use in combating today’s diseases.

Scientist ruthlessly debunks NOAA climate claim

Scientist ruthlessly debunks NOAA climate claim:
In face of intense criticism from alarmist scientists, Dr. John Christy went to great lengths in a Tuesday congressional hearing to detail why satellite-derived temperatures are much more reliable indicators of warming than surface thermometers.
“That’s where the real mass of the climate system exists in terms of the atmosphere,” Christy, a climate scientist at the University of Alabama and Alabama’s state climatologist, said in a Wednesday hearing before the House science committee.
“When a theory contradicts the facts” you need to change the theory, Christy said.
“The real world is not going along with rapid warming. The models need to go back to the drawing board.”
“One of my many climate interests is the way surface temperatures are measured and how surface temperatures, especially over land, are affected by their surroundings,” Christy wrote in his prepared testimony.
The study found most of NOAA’s 1,218 thermometers were sited near artificial surfaces and heat sources like concrete, asphalt, and air conditioner exhausts that were causing more warming to show in the U.S. temperature record than was present at weather stations that were well-sited.
...“I closely examined individual stations in different regions and have come to the conclusion that the magnitude of the relatively small signal we seek in human-induced climate change is easily convoluted by the growth of infrastructure around the thermometer stations and the variety of changes these stations undergo through time, as well as the variability of the natural ups and downs of climate,” Christy noted in his testimony.
...But that’s why Christy argues satellite-derived temperatures are a better way to look at how greenhouse gases are impacting the Earth’s climate.
“The bulk atmospheric temperature is where the signal is the largest,” Christy said in the hearing, referring to the greenhouse gas effect. “We have measurements for that — it doesn’t match up with the models.”
Satellite-derived temperatures have come under fire recently by scientists more alarmist about global warming than Christy, but the Alabama climatologist addressed those criticisms.
“Because this result challenges the current theory of greenhouse warming in relatively straightforward fashion, there have been several well-funded attacks on those of us who build and use such datasets and on the datasets themselves,” Christy said.
Climate models for the bulk atmosphere (where satellites measure temperature) show 2.5 times as much warming as has been observed by satellites and weather balloons.
“It is a bold strategy in my view to actively promote the output of theoretical climate models while attacking the multiple lines of evidence from observations,” Christy wrote.
“Note that none of the observational datasets are perfect and continued scrutiny is healthy, but when multiple, independent groups generate the datasets and then when the results for two completely independent systems (balloons and satellites) agree closely with each other and disagree with the model output, one is left scratching one’s head at the decision to launch an offensive against the data.”

Government Now FORCING Health Insurance To Cover Transgender Surgeries...

Government Now FORCING Health Insurance To Cover Transgender Surgeries... » Louder With Crowder:
Have you been wanting a new nose?
Face lift?
Liposuction?
Just waltz into the courts and threaten to kill yourself if you don’t get it.
Apparently all that you need to qualify is mental instability.
And if at first you don’t succeed, just sue until you get the answer you want.
It worked for this transgender woman.
A U.S. government panel has ruled that a privately run Medicare plan must cover sex reassignment surgery for a Texas transgender woman, a decision her attorney said was the first of its kind.
Nano the cat-woman must be excited that it’s only a matter of time before she can get her species reassignment surgery for free too.
Until May 2014, Medicare excluded all sex reassignment surgery.
Since that ban was lifted, coverage decisions for surgery and other transgender health services under Medicare have been made on a case-by-case basis.
It must be tough deciphering who really needs to get new genitals.
Maybe the courts have a cross dressing face-off to decide who’s tranny enough.
According to Young, many transgender patients have been unable to get coverage for sex reassignment surgery because insurers or contractors hired by Medicare to make such determinations have decided the procedure is cosmetic, or not medically necessary, among other reasons.
But it is cosmetic.
The whole transgender “struggle” is centered on not looking the way you want to.
There’s no reason why switching your girl parts into boy parts is medically necessary.
Having a fake penis is never going to be critical to someone’s health.
And unless the Christmas special includes a magical change in your DNA, it’ll never physically make a woman into a man.
Leftists have decided reality is optional, which is nothing new.
But the issue here is that repercussions of leftist ideology include government mandated social approval (Read: In NYC, Using Biological Pronouns Is Illegal). “Advancements” like this court case only serve to spur on a movement that subjects everyone to an unfounded idea. If you don’t adhere to the new, very specific set of social do’s and dont’s, you’re just not open-minded enough. You must be silenced.
Think I’m crazy?
Just watch the video below.
No, it’s not a joke.

Louis DeBroux: This Is YUGE!

Louis DeBroux: This Is YUGE! — The Patriot Post:
Last night’s losers:

Donald Trump — with 76% of Iowans voting for someone other than Trump after months of nonstop media coverage, his aura of invincibility has been damaged, and if he doesn’t get a decisive win in New Hampshire, that will only get worse. Trump’s popularity stems, in large part, from his image as a take-no-prisoners winner. Without the consistently conservative (or even moderate) background of Cruz and Rubio, and now without a decisive win when it was expected, Trump risks becoming just another blustery blowhard, the GOP’s version of Howard “The Scream” Dean.

The GOP Establishment — they’re throwing everything they have at Cruz, and he is gaining momentum. Is there anything right now that can do more to raise a candidate’s stock among the base than to be hated by the party’s leadership and establishment?...

Hillary Clinton — she narrowly beat out socialist Bernie Sanders, although that came after six precincts were tied and decided by a coin toss, all of which went to Hillary. Sanders is likely to win New Hampshire, putting the Crown Princess of Progressivism in a very uncomfortable position. But she will still likely win the Democrat nomination because it’s hard to see how the DNC allows a kook like Sanders, who is not even officially a Democrat, to take Hillary’s rightful place as the standard-bearer of their party.

REVEALED: The Sinister Cost Of Obama's Presidency Just Came Out, And It's Not Pretty

REVEALED: The Sinister Cost Of Obama's Presidency Just Came Out, And It's Not Pretty:

"The record GOP turnout in Monday’s caucuses in Iowa is a clear sign of the enthusiasm with which Republicans are approaching the 2016 presidential election. GOP voters have an unmistakable sense of the need to keep another Democrat far away from the Oval Office — an urgency underscored by a new study just released on the threat to the American dream under Barack Obama’s leadership.

While Obama has repeatedly touted his economic record during his tenure as president, a survey measuring countries on their level of economic liberty shows that America’s score has once again tumbled."

Whoa… Doctor Links ADHD Diagnoses to Poor Parenting

Whoa… Doctor Links ADHD Diagnoses to Poor Parenting | Intellectual Takeout:
Startling comments which go against conventional parenting tips.

Dr. Leonard Sax has been making waves lately with his latest book, The Collapse of Parenting. 

The book’s basic premise is that American parents have failed to realize that they are their child’s authority, not their friend. 

In an interview with NPR over the weekend, Dr. Sax again made some startling comments that go against conventional wisdom in today’s parenting, particularly in the realm of hyperactivity and anxiety disorders such as ADHD.

Although Dr. Sax believes that there are legitimate cases of ADHD, he also believes there are a number of false diagnoses. 

These diagnoses stem from:

1. Lack of respect for parents and over-reliance on friends.
2. Overindulgent parents who fail to establish appropriate limitations.

Dr. Sax explains further:

“So many kids today care so much more about the opinions of other kids than they do about their parents'. And that's really harmful because the regard of your peers, if you're an 8-year-old or 14-year-old, that can change overnight. So if you're concerned first and foremost about what your peers think, you're gonna be anxious. And we've seen a 400 percent explosion in anxiety among American kids in the United States over the last 30 years. An American kid in the United States is now 14 times more likely to be on medication for ADD compared to a kid in the United Kingdom.

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Here's a typical story: This boy tells his parents that he's having trouble concentrating and focusing and they take him to a board-certified child psychiatrist. And the child psychiatrist says, ‘Ah, sounds like maybe ADHD, let's try Adderall or Vyvanse and see if it helps.’ And oh my gosh, what a difference — medication helps enormously. The child, the teacher, the parent and even the prescribing physician saying, ‘Hey this medication was prescribed for ADD, it's clearly been helpful, therefore this kid must have ADD.’ But he doesn't.

The parents bring him to me for a second opinion and I ask some questions like, ‘What do you do in the evening?’ and the parents have no idea, he's in his bedroom with the door closed so his parents don't know what's going on and they think he's asleep but he's not. He's staying up 'til 1 or 2 in the morning playing video games night after night. He's sleep-deprived. And if you're sleep-deprived you're not gonna be able to pay attention and all the standard questionnaires, Conners Scales, etc. cannot distinguish whether you're not paying attention because you're sleep-deprived or because you truly have ADD.”

Based on Dr. Sax’s comments and observations, is it possible that we could reduce the prevalence of ADHD if more parents returned to good ol’ fashioned, common-sense parenting?"

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