REVEALED: Hillary's Chief Of Staff Did Something Unbelievable... Right Up There With Email Scandal

REVEALED: Hillary's Chief Of Staff Did Something Unbelievable... Right Up There With Email Scandal:

 "The use of personal Blackberrys by State Department officials has been a major focus of the ongoing investigation into Clinton’s communications protocol at the helm of the U.S. diplomatic corps. About a year before Mills’ lost her device — during Clinton’s first year as secretary of state — the man then heading up the department’s diplomatic security bureau issued a direct warning against the use of such devices.

He wrote in a 2009 memo that he could not “stress too strongly” the fact that “any unclassified BlackBerry is highly vulnerable in any setting to remotely and covertly monitoring conversations, retrieving emails, and exploring calendars.”

As with so many examples of questionable behavior, Hillary Clinton apparently felt the rules did not apply to her…or to her inner circle."

BREAKING: Major Biblical Discovery Rocking the Globe: Islam Livid!

BREAKING: Major Biblical Discovery Rocking the Globe: Islam Livid!:

"Archaeologists have exhumed an ancient discovery which proves Israel’s existence long before Palestine was even a thought.

Yes, Muslims – excuse me – ‘members of the religion of peace’ are totally pissed off about this!"

More Companies Recognizing That College Degrees are Unnecessary

More Companies Recognizing That College Degrees are Unnecessary | Intellectual Takeout:
Is it time to recognize that a college degree does not necessarily guarantee a good employee?
Due to the rising costs of college, some American students are beginning to wonder if a college degree is really worth it.
But many students trod the college path anyway, fearing that employers won’t glance at their resume without a B.A.
Fortunately for students in the U.K., some companies are beginning to recognize the folly of such a move.
According to The Telegraph, the Penguin book company has announced that a college degree is no longer a prerequisite for applying for one of its jobs.
This follows the announcement that U.K. recruiting giant, Ernst & Young, is removing its degree classification system from the application process. 
Their reason?
“[T]here is ‘no evidence’ success at university correlates with achievement in later life.”  
...More frequently we hear of American employers discovering that their new hires are ill-prepared for the workforce, in spite of impressive college credentials.
But if some American companies were to follow in Penguin’s footsteps and nix their degree requirements, is it possible that they might discover more intelligent, hard-working applicants for their workforce?
Is it time to recognize that a college degree does not necessarily guarantee a good employee?

Fascinating!-----When U.S. air force discovered the flaw of averages

When U.S. air force discovered the flaw of averages | Toronto Star:
When U.S. air force discovered the flaw of averages

In the early 1950s, a young lieutenant realized the fatal flaw in the cockpit design of U.S. air force jets. 

Todd Rose explains in an excerpt from his book, The End of Average.

REVEALED: You'll Never Guess Who Was 'Guarding' Hillary When She Snuck Off To Libya

REVEALED: You'll Never Guess Who Was 'Guarding' Hillary When She Snuck Off To Libya:

"The Barack Obama White House and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are infamous in conservative quarters for seeming to have a big blind spot when it comes to Islamic terrorism, but for them to allow a known terrorist to be intimately involved in “security” for an official Clinton trip to war-torn Libya is a level incompetence that borders on shocking.

According to British journalist Robert Verkaik, that’s exactly what happened when Clinton visited Libya in October 2011, after the fall of dictator Moammar Gadhafi but before the Benghazi attack."

You Ought to Have a Look: 2015 Temperatures, Climate Sensitivity, and the Warming Hiatus

You Ought to Have a Look: 2015 Temperatures, Climate Sensitivity, and the Warming Hiatus | Cato @ Liberty:
"What’s lost in a lot of the discussion about human-caused climate change is not that the sum of human activities is leading to some warming of the earth’s temperature, but that the observed rate of warming (both at the earth’s surface and throughout the lower atmosphere) is considerably less than has been anticipated by the collection of climate models upon whose projections climate alarm (i.e., justification for strict restrictions on the use of fossil fuels) is built.

We highlight in this issue of You Ought to Have a Look a couple of articles that address this issue that we think are worth checking out.

First is this post from Steve McIntyre over at Climate Audit that we managed to dig out from among all the “record temperatures of 2015” stories. In his analysis, McIntyre places the 2015 global temperature anomaly not in real world context, but in the context of the world of climate models.

Climate model-world is important because it is in that realm where climate change catastrophes play out, and that influences the actions of real-world people to try to keep them contained in model-world.

So how did the observed 2015 temperatures compare to model world expectations? 
Not so well.

In a series of tweets over the holidays, we pointed out that the El Niño-fueled, record-busting, high temperatures of 2015 barely reached to the temperatures of an average year expected by the climate models.

All of the individual models have trends well above observations…   There are now over 440 months of data and these discrepancies will not vanish with a few months of El Nino.

Be sure to check out the whole article here. 
We’re pretty sure you won’t read about any of this in the mainstream media.

....After tearing through the numerous methodological deficiencies and misapplied statistics contained in the paper, Neal is left shaking his head at the peer-review process that gave rise to the publication of this paper in the first place, and offered this warning:

Those familiar with the scientific literature will realize that completely wrong papers are published regularly, even in peer-reviewed journals, and even when (as for this paper) many of the flaws ought to have been obvious to the reviewers.  So perhaps there’s nothing too notable about the publication of this paper.  On the other hand, one may wonder whether the stringency of the review process was affected by how congenial the paper’s conclusions were to the editor and reviewers.  One may also wonder whether a paper reaching the opposite conclusion would have been touted as a great achievement by Stanford University. Certainly this paper should be seen as a reminder that the reverence for “peer-reviewed scientific studies” sometimes seen in popular expositions is unfounded.

Well said.

Venezuela is on the brink of a complete economic collapse

Venezuela is on the brink of a complete economic collapse - The Washington Post:

Leon Drolet shared Antony Davies's post.

15 hrs · 

Why wait for November's election? Those who want to "Feel the Bern" can move to Venezuela right now and feel the full burn of socialism.

Antony Davies

15 hrs · 

When early astronomers had the Earth rather than the Sun at the center of the solar system, scientists had to keep tweaking their theories to get them to comport with what they observed.

Try as they might to insist that the Earth was the center of the solar system, reality refused to cooperate. When astronomers finally admitted that the Sun was the center, all the convoluted tweaking disappeared, and the motions of the planets finally made plain sense.

So too are socialists constantly tweaking their economic models in an attempt to explain why reality never delivers the nirvana they promise.

Reality is finally having the last word.

"The only question now is whether Venezuela's government or economy will completely collapse first.
The key word there is "completely." 
Both are well into their death throes. 
Indeed, Venezuela's ruling party just lost congressional elections that gave the opposition a veto-proof majority, and it's hard to see that getting any better for them any time soon — or ever. 
Incumbents, after all, don't tend to do too well when, according to the International Monetary Fund, their economy shrinks 10 percent one year, an additional 6 percent the next, and inflation explodes to 720 percent. 
It's no wonder, then, that markets expect Venezuela to default on its debt in the very near future. 
The country is basically bankrupt.
That's not an easy thing to do when you have the largest oil reserves in the world, but Venezuela has managed it. 
How? 
Well, a combination of bad luck and worse policies. 
The first step was when Hugo Chávez's socialist government started spending more money on the poor, with everything from two-cent gasoline to free housing. 
Now, there's nothing wrong with that — in fact, it's a good idea in general — but only as long as you actually, well, have the money to spend. 
And by 2005 or so, Venezuela didn't."

Lunch video-----40th Anniversary of Ultralights Celebrated at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2015

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Hold On To Your Hats...Obama Just Sounded Off On The 'White Oscars': 'It Makes Everybody...'

Hold On To Your Hats...Obama Just Sounded Off On The 'White Oscars': 'It Makes Everybody...':

"With headline-hungry liberals claiming outrage over an all-white lineup in major Oscar nominations for the second year in a row, it’s no surprise that the complainer in chief in the White House couldn’t stay out of it for long. He is, after all, an expert on movie-making and artful cinematic performance, apparently."

See this movie!!-----13 Hours: a thoughtful war movie directed by Michael Bay... really?

13 Hours: a thoughtful war movie directed by Michael Bay... really? | Film | The Guardian:

“I’ve had just about enough of this 2012 Alamo bullshit,” says one of the besieged CIA security contractors in Michael Bay’s 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi.
And I know how he feels, considering how often it reminds me of every other movie of its kind, from Black Hawk Down through Lone Survivor, American Sniper, and such John Wayne flag-wavers as Sands Of Iwo Jima and – ah, there it is – The Alamo.
....As a lefty, I’m honour-bound to despise this movie, but I just can’t.
It deserves its place among the movies I opened with, and at the top of Michael Bay’s catalogue.

New CBO study shows that ‘the rich’ don’t just pay their ‘fair share,’ they pay almost everybody’s share

New CBO study shows that ‘the rich’ don’t just pay their ‘fair share,’ they pay almost everybody’s share - AEI | Carpe Diem Blog » AEIdeas:
"...major implication of the CBO report – almost the entire burden: 
a) of all transfer payments made to American households and
b) of all non-financed government spending, falls on just one group of Americans – the top one-fifth of US households by income. "

Scientists Want NOAA To Stop Hiding Global Warming Data

Scientists Want NOAA To Stop Hiding Global Warming Data | The Daily Caller
Hundreds of scientists sent a letter to lawmakers Thursday warning National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists may have violated federal laws when they published a 2015 study purporting to eliminate the 15-year “hiatus” in global warming from the temperature record.

“We, the undersigned, scientists, engineers, economists and others, who have looked carefully into the effects of carbon dioxide released by human activities, wish to record our support for the efforts of the Committee on Science, Space and Technology to ensure that federal agencies complied with federal guidelines that implemented the Data Quality Act,” some 300 scientists, engineers and other experts wrote to Chairman of the House Science Committee, Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith.

“In our opinion… NOAA has failed to observe the OMB [Office of Management and Budget] (and its own) guidelines, established in relation to the Data Quality Act.”

The Data Quality Act requires federal agencies like NOAA to “ensure and maximize the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information, including statistical information.”

...Of the 300 letter signers, 150 had doctorates in a related field. 

Signers also included: 25 climate or atmospheric scientists, 23 geologists, 18 meteorologists, 51 engineers, 74 physicists, 20 chemists and 12 economists. Additionally, one signer was a Nobel Prize winning physicist and two were astronauts..."

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ALERT: Arrests Made In Connection To Russian Plane Crash...Sinister Details Revealed

ALERT: Arrests Made In Connection To Russian Plane Crash...Sinister Details Revealed:

"An investigation into the downing of a Russian airliner that crashed in the Sinai last October — killing all 224 on board — has reportedly resulted in the arrest of four individuals on suspicion of planting a bomb onboard the passenger jet. And one of the suspects is said to be an Egypt Air mechanic whose cousin just so happens to be a fighter for the Islamic State."

FEDS HAND OUT BILLIONS FOR RESEARCH THAT MAY BE BASED ON PLAGIARISM, FAKE DATA

Instapundit » Blog Archive » FEDS HAND OUT BILLIONS FOR RESEARCH THAT MAY BE BASED ON PLAGIARISM, FAKE DATA: Now, isn’t that reas…:
FEDS HAND OUT BILLIONS FOR RESEARCH THAT MAY BE BASED ON PLAGIARISM, FAKE DATA: 
"Now, isn’t that reassuring! 
Allison Lerner is the inspector general at the National Science Foundation. 
She and her small team of investigators and auditors have been warning for a long time that hundreds of funding proposals submitted to NSF contain plagiarized passages and/or made-up data. 
The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group’s Ethan Barton was told by a senior NSF official that it’s impossible to know if grant recipients actually spend the funds as promised. 
Maybe it’s time somebody in Congress or at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue listened to Lerner?"

AM Fruitcake

History for January 31

History for January 31 - On-This-Day.com:
Jackie Robinson 1919, Norman Mailer 1929, Ernie Banks 1931 


Suzanne Pleshette 1937, Jessica Walter 1944, Minnie Driver 1971 


1865 - In America, General Robert E. Lee was named general-in-chief of the Confederate armies. 


1893 - The trademark "Coca-Cola" was first registered in the United States Patent Office. 


1940 - The first Social Security check was issued by the U.S. Government. 


1945 - Private Eddie Slovik became the only U.S. soldier since the U.S. Civil War to be executed for desertion. 


1946 - A new constitution in Yugoslavia created six constituent republics (Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia) subordinated to a central authority, on the model of the USSR. 


1950 - U.S. President Truman announced that he had ordered development of the hydrogen bomb. 


1958 - Explorer I was put into orbit around the earth. It was the first U.S. earth satellite. 


1971 - Astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr., Edgar D. Mitchell and Stuart A. Roosa blasted off aboard Apollo 14 on a mission to the moon. 

Rep. Darrell Issa: FBI Director Wants ‘to Indict Both Huma and Hillary’ Over Email Scandal | TheBlaze.com

Rep. Darrell Issa: FBI Director Wants ‘to Indict Both Huma and Hillary’ Over Email Scandal | TheBlaze.com:

"The FBI is itching to indict Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and her longtime aid Huma Abedin on charges of conducting classified and sensitive work on unsecured venues, according to former House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.)."

New York Public Urination Laws And Racism

New York Public Urination Laws And Racism | The Daily Caller
New York City’s city council is set to dilute a host of criminal laws including laws against public urination and excessive noise because council members believe too many members of minorities are getting arrested.
The New York Police Department already relaxed its enforcement of many quality-of-life laws after years of enforcing exactly such laws led to record lows of crime in the once-much-grittier city, reports The New York Times,
This relaxation strategy wasn’t enough for city lawmakers.
“We know that the system has been really rigged against communities of color in particular,” council member Melissa Mark-Viverito, a Democrat, told the Times.
“So the question has always been, what can we do in this job to minimize unnecessary interaction with the criminal justice system, so that these young people can really fulfill their potential?”
On Monday, Mark-Viverito and other council members will introduce a set of bills called the Criminal Justice Reform Act.
The laws are designed to make several quality-of-life laws much more toothless.
Misdemeanor crimes to be nearly-but-not-quite decriminalized include public urination, excessive noise, drinking in public, marijuana possession and miscellaneous public park-related infractions..."

San Francisco park debuts open-air urinal

San Francisco park debuts open-air urinal | Fox News
SAN FRANCISCO –  "San Francisco's iconic Dolores Park is now home to the city's first open-air urinal, the latest move to combat the destructive scourge of public urination in the City by the Bay.
The concrete circular urinal is out in the open, though plants and a screen offer some privacy.
It's a welcome addition for the park that had just three toilets, which led many to relieve themselves in bushes and on buildings.
"Honestly, we were ready to go pee anywhere," San Francisco resident Aaron Cutler told news station KNTV. "So any facility is better than none."
The park now features 27 toilets, including the outdoor urinal, thanks to more than $20 million in renovations.
They were the park's first upgrades in 60 years. San Francisco Recreation and Park Department spokeswoman Sarah Madland said she wasn't aware of any other cities with a public urinal..."