Monday, December 21, 2015
History for December 21
History for December 21 - On-This-Day.com
Benjamin Disraeli 1804 - Author, statesman: "No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.", Joseph Stalin (Dzhugashvili) 1879 - Georgian Marxist revolutionary and later dictator of USSR (1928-53), Carl Wilson (The Beach Boys) 1946 - Musician (The Beach Boys)
Samuel L. Jackson 1948 - Actor ("Pulp Fiction," "A Time to Kill"), Chris Evert 1954 - Tennis player, she won her first Wimbledon title in 1974 at age 19, Kiefer Sutherland 1966 - Actor ("The Lost Boys," "Young Guns," "A Time to Kill"), son of actor Donald Sutherland
1620 - The "Mayflower", and its passengers, pilgrims from England, landed at Plymouth Rock, MA.
1898 - Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discovered the radioactive element radium.
1937 - Walt Disney debuted the first, full-length, animated feature in Hollywood, CA. The movie was "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
1945 - U.S. Gen. George S. Patton died in Heidelberg, Germany, of injuries from a car accident.
1968 - Apollo 8 was launched on a mission to orbit the moon. The craft landed safely in the Pacific Ocean on December 27.
1978 - Police in Des Plaines, IL, arrested John W. Gacy Jr. and began unearthing the remains of 33 men and boys that Gacy was later convicted of killing.
1988 - 270 people were killed when Pan Am Boeing 747 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, due to a terrorist attack.
1998 - The first vaccine for Lyme disease was approved.
Sunday, December 20, 2015
How Clinton Responds When Asked if Americans Who Want More Guns After California Attack Are ‘Wrong’ | Video | TheBlaze.com
How Clinton Responds When Asked if Americans Who Want More Guns After California Attack Are ‘Wrong’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"Hillary Clinton rejected the notion that arming more civilians would make America safer after the San Bernardino terror attack, suggesting that the opposite is in fact true.
The Democratic frontrunner made the claim when asked at Saturday’s Democratic debate if Americans are “wrong” to want to place more guns in the hands of individuals to harden soft targets.
“In the wake of the San Bernardino attack, you all emphasized gun control. But our latest poll shows that more Americans believe arming people, not stricter gun laws, is the best defense against terrorism. Are they wrong?” the moderator asked."
"Hillary Clinton rejected the notion that arming more civilians would make America safer after the San Bernardino terror attack, suggesting that the opposite is in fact true.The Democratic frontrunner made the claim when asked at Saturday’s Democratic debate if Americans are “wrong” to want to place more guns in the hands of individuals to harden soft targets.
“In the wake of the San Bernardino attack, you all emphasized gun control. But our latest poll shows that more Americans believe arming people, not stricter gun laws, is the best defense against terrorism. Are they wrong?” the moderator asked."
RED ALERT: Obama Makes His Move to CENSOR Fox News... Spread This Everywhere
RED ALERT: Obama Makes His Move to CENSOR Fox News... Spread This Everywhere:
"A Washington, D.C.-based federal court heard arguments from a former Federal Communications Commission commissioner and First Amendment advocacy groups that the Obama FCC’s new “net neutrality” rules might allow the government to censor conservative outlets like Fox News or the Drudge Report.
According to the Washington Examiner, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit began hearing oral arguments on the case Dec. 4. A variety of advocacy groups claim the new rules, which went into effect in June and treat broadband providers as “conduits, not speakers” and “as a platform for expression,” could do just the opposite."
"A Washington, D.C.-based federal court heard arguments from a former Federal Communications Commission commissioner and First Amendment advocacy groups that the Obama FCC’s new “net neutrality” rules might allow the government to censor conservative outlets like Fox News or the Drudge Report.
According to the Washington Examiner, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit began hearing oral arguments on the case Dec. 4. A variety of advocacy groups claim the new rules, which went into effect in June and treat broadband providers as “conduits, not speakers” and “as a platform for expression,” could do just the opposite."
Go ahead #BlackLivesMatter: Make my day
Blog: Go ahead #BlackLivesMatter: Make my day
Surely this incident will attract protests from “BlacklivesMatter.
A black man, 52 year old Andrew Coffee, Jr., was riding home from a convenience store in Indian River County, Florida, after purchasing cigarettes in the wee hours of the morning, when he was pulled over by Sheriff’s Deputy Chris Lester.
Coffee’s son later commented,
“It’s crazy how it happened,” said Roderick Scott, 35, the son…
“I don’t understand how it happened, from you going to the store on a scooter.
What was the point of stopping him?” (snip)
“He wants to do better for his kids and his grandkids,” Scott said. “It’s been rough, but he finds different jobs in landscaping on a daily basis.”
Cue the righteous indignation!
The excuse for pulling him over:
Lester pulled over Coffee because the scooter did not have a license tag, which is required.
Ahem.
License tags are required.
Not having one is indeed a good reason for a traffic stop. But what made it more interesting is what happened after the stop.
Here is the dashcam video:
As Will Greenlee and Lamaur Stancil of TCPalm describe it:
A dashboard camera video released by the Sheriff’s Office showed Lester directing Coffee to place his hands on the hood of his patrol car.
“Don’t reach for anything,” Lester said.
After Coffee walked to the front of the patrol car, he swung his fist and struck Lester in the face, the video shows.
As Lester fell, Coffee pulled a gun from his waistband and began firing at the deputy, who fired back, sheriff’s officials said.
....Some background on the man pulled over:
Andrew Coffee Jr., 52, of the 4200 block of 26th Avenue in Vero Beach, was released last year from prison after serving two decades for attempted murder, according to the state Department of Corrections.
In the time he was incarcerated, Coffee’s four children had 21 grandchildren.
Lots of his descendants populating America.
And he is well known to the Sheriff’s Department:
Coffee Jr. has been arrested about 20 times, almost always by the Sheriff’s Office, according to Florida Department of Law Enforcement records. His first arrest was in October 1981 when he was 18, and his most recent was on Dec. 3 on drug-related charges.
Coffee Jr.’s other arrests were on charges including disorderly conduct, aggravated assault, battery, disorderly intoxication, sexual assault, cocaine possession and aggravated battery.
Fortunately, both men survived their gunshot wounds.
So go ahead, BLM: Make my day."
Surely this incident will attract protests from “BlacklivesMatter.
A black man, 52 year old Andrew Coffee, Jr., was riding home from a convenience store in Indian River County, Florida, after purchasing cigarettes in the wee hours of the morning, when he was pulled over by Sheriff’s Deputy Chris Lester.
Coffee’s son later commented,
“It’s crazy how it happened,” said Roderick Scott, 35, the son…
“I don’t understand how it happened, from you going to the store on a scooter.
What was the point of stopping him?” (snip)
“He wants to do better for his kids and his grandkids,” Scott said. “It’s been rough, but he finds different jobs in landscaping on a daily basis.”
Cue the righteous indignation!
The excuse for pulling him over:
Lester pulled over Coffee because the scooter did not have a license tag, which is required.
Ahem.
License tags are required.
Not having one is indeed a good reason for a traffic stop. But what made it more interesting is what happened after the stop.
Here is the dashcam video:
As Will Greenlee and Lamaur Stancil of TCPalm describe it:
A dashboard camera video released by the Sheriff’s Office showed Lester directing Coffee to place his hands on the hood of his patrol car.
“Don’t reach for anything,” Lester said.
After Coffee walked to the front of the patrol car, he swung his fist and struck Lester in the face, the video shows.
As Lester fell, Coffee pulled a gun from his waistband and began firing at the deputy, who fired back, sheriff’s officials said.
....Some background on the man pulled over:
Andrew Coffee Jr., 52, of the 4200 block of 26th Avenue in Vero Beach, was released last year from prison after serving two decades for attempted murder, according to the state Department of Corrections.
In the time he was incarcerated, Coffee’s four children had 21 grandchildren.
Lots of his descendants populating America.
And he is well known to the Sheriff’s Department:
Coffee Jr. has been arrested about 20 times, almost always by the Sheriff’s Office, according to Florida Department of Law Enforcement records. His first arrest was in October 1981 when he was 18, and his most recent was on Dec. 3 on drug-related charges.
Coffee Jr.’s other arrests were on charges including disorderly conduct, aggravated assault, battery, disorderly intoxication, sexual assault, cocaine possession and aggravated battery.
Fortunately, both men survived their gunshot wounds.
So go ahead, BLM: Make my day."
The American Papers that Praised Hitler
The American Papers that Praised Hitler - The Daily Beast:
"They fell hard for the job-creating Führer with eyes that were like ‘blue larkspur.’
Why did so many journalists spend years dismissing the evidence of his atrocities?
“The train arrived punctually,” a Christian Science Monitor report from Germany informed its readers, not long after Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1933.
“Traffic was well regulated” in the new Germany, and policemen in “smart blue uniforms” kept order, the correspondent noted.
“I have so far found quietness, order, and civility”; there was “not the slightest sign of anything unusual afoot.”
As for all those “harrowing stories” of Jews being mistreated—they seemed to apply “only to a small proportion”; most were “not in any way molested.”
Overall, the Monitor’s dispatch declared, the Hitler regime was providing “a dark land a clear light of hope.”
Why did many mainstream American newspapers portray the Hitler regime positively, especially in its early months?
How could they publish warm human-interest stories about a brutal dictator?
Why did they excuse or rationalize Nazi anti-Semitism?
These are questions that should haunt the conscience of U.S. journalism to this day..."
"They fell hard for the job-creating Führer with eyes that were like ‘blue larkspur.’
Why did so many journalists spend years dismissing the evidence of his atrocities?
“The train arrived punctually,” a Christian Science Monitor report from Germany informed its readers, not long after Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1933.“Traffic was well regulated” in the new Germany, and policemen in “smart blue uniforms” kept order, the correspondent noted.
“I have so far found quietness, order, and civility”; there was “not the slightest sign of anything unusual afoot.”
As for all those “harrowing stories” of Jews being mistreated—they seemed to apply “only to a small proportion”; most were “not in any way molested.”
Overall, the Monitor’s dispatch declared, the Hitler regime was providing “a dark land a clear light of hope.”
Why did many mainstream American newspapers portray the Hitler regime positively, especially in its early months?
How could they publish warm human-interest stories about a brutal dictator?
Why did they excuse or rationalize Nazi anti-Semitism?
These are questions that should haunt the conscience of U.S. journalism to this day..."
Obama Vetoes Congressional Anti-Climate Change Measures | TheBlaze.com
Obama Vetoes Congressional Anti-Climate Change Measures | TheBlaze.com:"HONOLULU (TheBlaze/AP) — President Barack Obama has vetoed two measures that would have blocked steps that his administration is taking to address climate change.
One would have nullified carbon pollution standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency. The second would have voided a set of national standards designed to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas pollution from existing power plants.
In a letter notifying Congress of his decision, Obama says climate change is a “profound threat” that must be addressed."
Fall Of The American Empire: "They Intend To Collapse the Financial System"
Fall Of The American Empire: "They Intend To Collapse the Financial System"
“…for two weeks the mob had been rioting uncontrolled in the streets…The economy of the greatest empire that the world had ever seen was coming apart like an unraveling sweater…the cost of maintaining…gigantic armed forces…was bleeding the nation white and in addition there were the heavy subsidies that had to be paid to the…nations dependent…for support. The impoverished government had neither the funds nor the power to stop the riots.”
Readers, are we close to such a point?
It happened, for the excerpt above was taken from the book, Those About to Die, by Daniel P. Mannix, written in 1958, and the nation was the Roman Empire.
There are many similarities between the decline and fall of Rome and the decline of the United States of America, standing upon the threshold of its fall.
It happened, for the excerpt above was taken from the book, Those About to Die, by Daniel P. Mannix, written in 1958, and the nation was the Roman Empire.
There are many similarities between the decline and fall of Rome and the decline of the United States of America, standing upon the threshold of its fall.
As you well know, the economy is stretched to its breaking point, and the American Empire has over-extended itself, much in the manner of the now-defunct Roman Empire.
As with Rome, the United States has experienced a severe influx of illegal aliens, encouraging “immigration” by individuals who (most of them) come to the U.S. not to contribute, but to consume, or even worse: to “conquer,” as a fifth-column.
The conquest (especially for illegal aliens crossing the border illegally from Central and South America) is actually seen as such: a “retaking” of Aztlan, alleged land in the U.S. these aliens claim historically as their own, the whole “process” called La Reconquista, or “the re-conquest.”
The conquest (especially for illegal aliens crossing the border illegally from Central and South America) is actually seen as such: a “retaking” of Aztlan, alleged land in the U.S. these aliens claim historically as their own, the whole “process” called La Reconquista, or “the re-conquest.”
The Roman Empire had done this, in a manner:
“Throughout its history, [the Roman Empire] had taken in outsiders: a constant stream of individuals looking to make their fortune…supplemented by large-scale migrations.”
(The Fall of the Roman Empire, by Peter Heather, p. 159)
“Multiculturalism” as is very evident in Europe (the latest being Norway, paying non-Norwegian individuals up to $9,800 to pack up and leave) is currently tearing the countries of Europe apart.
France, Germany, Sweden, and Britain, among others.
Individuals that do not speak the native language maintain their cultures of origin without assimilating, and they end up on the public dole.
France, Germany, Sweden, and Britain, among others.
Individuals that do not speak the native language maintain their cultures of origin without assimilating, and they end up on the public dole.
Here in the U.S. this is a direct extension of Cloward-Piven, to be able to reduce the populace to one that is completely dependent upon the government for all support.
Ancient Rome had the daily bread dole and heavy subsidies for Roman workers who could not compete with the cheaper goods from foreign labor and imports..."
Read on and prepare!!
Ancient Rome had the daily bread dole and heavy subsidies for Roman workers who could not compete with the cheaper goods from foreign labor and imports..."
Read on and prepare!!
The Anti-Science, Anti-Nuclear Left
Global Warming & Nuclear Power: Made for Each Other | National Review Online
Atomic energy is indispensable in reducing greenhouse gases, but climate-change activists don’t want to hear it.
Among the favorite claims of climate-change activists is that anyone who dares to disagree with their worldview is a “denier,” and that those who reject their orthodoxy about the workings of the Earth’s atmosphere are “anti-science.”
But when it comes to the technologies that can actually reduce the volume of carbon dioxide we put into the atmosphere, it’s obvious that the climate-change jihadis are the ones who are anti-science.
For proof of that, consider the energy plan put forward on Monday by Bernie Sanders...
The gist of Sanders’s plan, which is modestly titled “Combating Climate Change to Save the Planet,” is to create a “completely nuclear-free clean energy system for electricity, heating, and transportation.”
It also declares that Sanders wants “a moratorium on nuclear power plant license renewals in the United States.”
Ah yes, nuclear-free.
How very 1970s.
So what does “the science” say about nuclear energy?
In January of this year, the International Energy Agency declared that “nuclear power is a critical element in limiting greenhouse gas emissions.”
It went on to say that global nuclear generation capacity must more than double by 2050 (to about 750 gigawatts) if the countries of the world are to have any hope of limiting temperature increases to the 2-degree scenario that is widely agreed upon as the acceptable limit.
The scientists at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have made it clear that nuclear energy is essential.
“...continued opposition to nuclear power threatens humanity’s ability to avoid dangerous climate change.”
They continued: “There is no credible path to climate stabilization that does not include a substantial role for nuclear power.”
...“If I came out in favor of nuclear,” he said (McKibben), “it would split this movement in half.”
So there you have it. McKibben, like many other environmentalists, knows in his heart that there isn’t much chance of reducing carbon output without nuclear.
But he does not want to be caught saying so in public.
The punch line here is obvious.
Climate-change activists, and politicians like Sanders, prefer the convenient fib about renewables to the hard reality that nuclear energy is essential to limiting greenhouse-gas emissions.
Four years ago, McKibben made it clear that he prefers political power over truth.
Seems to me that that’s the very essence of being anti-science.
Atomic energy is indispensable in reducing greenhouse gases, but climate-change activists don’t want to hear it.
Among the favorite claims of climate-change activists is that anyone who dares to disagree with their worldview is a “denier,” and that those who reject their orthodoxy about the workings of the Earth’s atmosphere are “anti-science.”
But when it comes to the technologies that can actually reduce the volume of carbon dioxide we put into the atmosphere, it’s obvious that the climate-change jihadis are the ones who are anti-science.
For proof of that, consider the energy plan put forward on Monday by Bernie Sanders...
The gist of Sanders’s plan, which is modestly titled “Combating Climate Change to Save the Planet,” is to create a “completely nuclear-free clean energy system for electricity, heating, and transportation.”
It also declares that Sanders wants “a moratorium on nuclear power plant license renewals in the United States.”
How very 1970s.
So what does “the science” say about nuclear energy?
In January of this year, the International Energy Agency declared that “nuclear power is a critical element in limiting greenhouse gas emissions.”
It went on to say that global nuclear generation capacity must more than double by 2050 (to about 750 gigawatts) if the countries of the world are to have any hope of limiting temperature increases to the 2-degree scenario that is widely agreed upon as the acceptable limit.
The scientists at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have made it clear that nuclear energy is essential.
“...continued opposition to nuclear power threatens humanity’s ability to avoid dangerous climate change.”
They continued: “There is no credible path to climate stabilization that does not include a substantial role for nuclear power.”
...“If I came out in favor of nuclear,” he said (McKibben), “it would split this movement in half.”
So there you have it. McKibben, like many other environmentalists, knows in his heart that there isn’t much chance of reducing carbon output without nuclear.
But he does not want to be caught saying so in public.
The punch line here is obvious.
Climate-change activists, and politicians like Sanders, prefer the convenient fib about renewables to the hard reality that nuclear energy is essential to limiting greenhouse-gas emissions.
Four years ago, McKibben made it clear that he prefers political power over truth.
Seems to me that that’s the very essence of being anti-science.
SPREAD THIS: Top U.S. General Defies Obama, Issues Chilling Warning to America
SPREAD THIS: Top U.S. General Defies Obama, Issues Chilling Warning to America:
"Gen. John Campbell, commander of all U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, said that the Islamic State group affiliate in the country has been growing rapidly and has expressed a desire to strike against U.S. interests in the near future.
“They don’t have the capability right now to attack Europe, or attack the homeland, the United States, but that’s what they want to do, they’ve said that’s what they want to do,” Campbell said in an interview with The Associated Press."
"Gen. John Campbell, commander of all U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, said that the Islamic State group affiliate in the country has been growing rapidly and has expressed a desire to strike against U.S. interests in the near future.“They don’t have the capability right now to attack Europe, or attack the homeland, the United States, but that’s what they want to do, they’ve said that’s what they want to do,” Campbell said in an interview with The Associated Press."
Obama and Friends' Incredible Malfeasance on Iran
Obama and Friends' Incredible Malfeasance on Iran | PJ Media
"It's official: on October 10, Iran tested an Emad ballistic missile that can carry a nuclear warhead.
A panel of experts commissioned by the UN Security Councilreported that the launch violated Security Council Resolution 1929, which says "Iran shall not undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons..."
Iran is also known to have tested yet another nuclear-capable missile on November 21.
That's one development on the Iran front -- continuing to develop potential nuke-carrying missiles in blatant breach of U.N. resolutions.
And the other development is that the board of directors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has voted to close the books on ten years of Iran's illegal nuclear-weapons work, thereby helping open the path -- as the Obama administration and its allies devoutly hope -- to the lifting of sanctions on Iran in January.
The IAEA's board of directors gave Iran a clean bill of health even though, earlier this month, the agency's own investigators released a report that in no way confirmed that Iran hadn't already been working on nuclear weapons or had stopped working on them.
...Why are Obama and his allies so gung-ho to get the deal moving, and the sanctions lifted, at any conceivable price?
One answer lies in Obama's overall policy on Iran, which, from the beginning, can be termed sinister -- from his refusal to help the domestic protest that erupted after Iran's fraudulent June 2009 elections; to his heavy pressure on Israel not to attack Iran despite a steady stream of threats to annihilate Israel from Iran's leaders; to his staunch refusal to enact sanctions until forced to do so by Congress; to his July 14, 2015, nuke deal that is full of holes and includes ludicrous terms of enforcement; to his current blithe acceptance of Iran's ongoing human rights abuses, openly expressed hatred and aggression toward America, and nuclear-related testing.
And for the other answer, you have to follow the money..."
"It's official: on October 10, Iran tested an Emad ballistic missile that can carry a nuclear warhead.
A panel of experts commissioned by the UN Security Councilreported that the launch violated Security Council Resolution 1929, which says "Iran shall not undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons..."Iran is also known to have tested yet another nuclear-capable missile on November 21.
That's one development on the Iran front -- continuing to develop potential nuke-carrying missiles in blatant breach of U.N. resolutions.
And the other development is that the board of directors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has voted to close the books on ten years of Iran's illegal nuclear-weapons work, thereby helping open the path -- as the Obama administration and its allies devoutly hope -- to the lifting of sanctions on Iran in January.
The IAEA's board of directors gave Iran a clean bill of health even though, earlier this month, the agency's own investigators released a report that in no way confirmed that Iran hadn't already been working on nuclear weapons or had stopped working on them.
...Why are Obama and his allies so gung-ho to get the deal moving, and the sanctions lifted, at any conceivable price?
One answer lies in Obama's overall policy on Iran, which, from the beginning, can be termed sinister -- from his refusal to help the domestic protest that erupted after Iran's fraudulent June 2009 elections; to his heavy pressure on Israel not to attack Iran despite a steady stream of threats to annihilate Israel from Iran's leaders; to his staunch refusal to enact sanctions until forced to do so by Congress; to his July 14, 2015, nuke deal that is full of holes and includes ludicrous terms of enforcement; to his current blithe acceptance of Iran's ongoing human rights abuses, openly expressed hatred and aggression toward America, and nuclear-related testing.
And for the other answer, you have to follow the money..."
Must read of the day!-----The perilous business of predicting the future
Climate Change Predictions:
The perilous business of predicting the future.
Last week, powerful men from all over the world finished negotiating a new climate deal — the “Paris Agreement.”
France’s foreign minister, the host of the “COP21” climate conference, called the plan an “historic turning point” in the battle against global warming.
Our representative, John Kerry, called it “a victory for the planet.”
The deal sets various goals for 2023, and for 2050 through 2100.
It is absurd to think that the world’s foreign ministers can intelligently discuss what the world’s climate, industry, transportation, or energy markets will look like in 2023 — much less 2050 or 2100.
Consider that 2023 is eight years from now.
Eight years ago, did anyone at COP21 know Uber was coming?
Did any of those foreign ministers know how popular drones would become?
That new supersonic passenger planes would be in development?
That four different private companies would be launching space flights?
...Did they know about the fracking boom?
Of course not.
Michael Crichton — the brilliant novelist and thinker — posed this question in a speech at Caltech in 2003, re climate predictions for 2100.
What environmental problems would men in 1900 have predicted for 2000?
Where to get enough horses, and what to do with all the manure.
“Horse pollution was bad in 1900,” said Crichton.
How much worse would someone in 1900 expect it to “be a century later, with so many more people riding horses?
“But of course, within a few years, nobody rode horses except for sport.
And in 2000, France was getting 80 percent of its power from an energy source that was unknown in 1900.
Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, and Japan were getting more than 30 percent from this source, unknown in 1900.
Remember, people in 1900 didn’t know what an atom was.
They didn’t know its structure.
They also didn’t know what a radio was, or an airport, or a movie, or a television, or a computer, or a cell phone, or a jet, an antibiotic, a rocket, a satellite, an MRI, ICU, IUD, IBM, IRA, ERA, EEG, EPA, IRS, DOD, PCP, HTML, Internet, interferon, instant replay, remote sensing, remote control, speed dialing, gene therapy, gene splicing, genes, spot welding, heat-seeking, bipolar, Prozac, leotards, lap dancing, e-mail, tape recorders, CDs, airbags, plastic explosive, plastic, robots, cars, liposuction, transduction, superconduction, dish antennas, step aerobics, smoothies, twelve-step, ultrasound, nylon, rayon, Teflon, fiber optics, carpal tunnel, laser surgery, laparoscopy, corneal transplant, kidney transplant, AIDS.
None of this would have meant anything to a person in the year 1900.
They wouldn’t know what you are talking about.
Now: you tell me you can predict the world of 2100.
Tell me it’s even worth thinking about..."
Read it all!!
The perilous business of predicting the future.
Last week, powerful men from all over the world finished negotiating a new climate deal — the “Paris Agreement.”
France’s foreign minister, the host of the “COP21” climate conference, called the plan an “historic turning point” in the battle against global warming.
Our representative, John Kerry, called it “a victory for the planet.”
The deal sets various goals for 2023, and for 2050 through 2100.
It is absurd to think that the world’s foreign ministers can intelligently discuss what the world’s climate, industry, transportation, or energy markets will look like in 2023 — much less 2050 or 2100.
Consider that 2023 is eight years from now.
Eight years ago, did anyone at COP21 know Uber was coming?
Did any of those foreign ministers know how popular drones would become?
That new supersonic passenger planes would be in development?
That four different private companies would be launching space flights?
...Did they know about the fracking boom?
Of course not.
Michael Crichton — the brilliant novelist and thinker — posed this question in a speech at Caltech in 2003, re climate predictions for 2100.
What environmental problems would men in 1900 have predicted for 2000?
Where to get enough horses, and what to do with all the manure.
“Horse pollution was bad in 1900,” said Crichton.
How much worse would someone in 1900 expect it to “be a century later, with so many more people riding horses?
“But of course, within a few years, nobody rode horses except for sport.
And in 2000, France was getting 80 percent of its power from an energy source that was unknown in 1900.
Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, and Japan were getting more than 30 percent from this source, unknown in 1900.
Remember, people in 1900 didn’t know what an atom was.
They didn’t know its structure.
They also didn’t know what a radio was, or an airport, or a movie, or a television, or a computer, or a cell phone, or a jet, an antibiotic, a rocket, a satellite, an MRI, ICU, IUD, IBM, IRA, ERA, EEG, EPA, IRS, DOD, PCP, HTML, Internet, interferon, instant replay, remote sensing, remote control, speed dialing, gene therapy, gene splicing, genes, spot welding, heat-seeking, bipolar, Prozac, leotards, lap dancing, e-mail, tape recorders, CDs, airbags, plastic explosive, plastic, robots, cars, liposuction, transduction, superconduction, dish antennas, step aerobics, smoothies, twelve-step, ultrasound, nylon, rayon, Teflon, fiber optics, carpal tunnel, laser surgery, laparoscopy, corneal transplant, kidney transplant, AIDS.
None of this would have meant anything to a person in the year 1900.
They wouldn’t know what you are talking about.
Now: you tell me you can predict the world of 2100.
Tell me it’s even worth thinking about..."
Read it all!!
Yes America, Fences Do Work
Yes America, Fences Do Work | Dispatches From The Conservative Underground:
"If anyone doubts that Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are correct when they call for a wall to make America more secure, they only need to take a look at Israel to see a prime example of how well it will work.
From 2000 to 2005 hundreds of Palestinian terrorists coming from the West Bank have conducted suicide bombings and other terror attacks against Israeli civilians.
Israel has responded by erecting a large security fence to protect innocent Israeli civilians.
This massive construction project will run along the Green line between Israel and the West Bank. Israel has previously built a fence around the Gaza strip, which has effectively stopped all suicide bombings from that area.
Although no fence or wall will be 100% effective, this fence has made it considerably more difficult to launch attacks against our civilians.
Before the fence was built all a terrorist had to do was simply walk over the green line into Israeli territory.
At that time, seventy-five percent of attacks on Israeli civilians came across that border..."
"If anyone doubts that Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are correct when they call for a wall to make America more secure, they only need to take a look at Israel to see a prime example of how well it will work.
From 2000 to 2005 hundreds of Palestinian terrorists coming from the West Bank have conducted suicide bombings and other terror attacks against Israeli civilians.Israel has responded by erecting a large security fence to protect innocent Israeli civilians.
This massive construction project will run along the Green line between Israel and the West Bank. Israel has previously built a fence around the Gaza strip, which has effectively stopped all suicide bombings from that area.
Although no fence or wall will be 100% effective, this fence has made it considerably more difficult to launch attacks against our civilians.
Before the fence was built all a terrorist had to do was simply walk over the green line into Israeli territory.
At that time, seventy-five percent of attacks on Israeli civilians came across that border..."
High School Holiday Concert Includes Song With ‘Allahu Akbar’ Lyrics — and Here’s How Some Parents Are Reacting | TheBlaze.com
High School Holiday Concert Includes Song With ‘Allahu Akbar’ Lyrics — and Here’s How Some Parents Are Reacting | TheBlaze.com:
"Some parents in a Minnesota school district are questioning a choir director’s decision to include a Ramadan-themed song during Thursday night’s holiday show — a tune with lyrics that include the phrase “Allahu Akbar.”
The saying, which means “God is great,” is a common Islamic phrase, but some families who attended the concert at Blaine High School in Blaine, Minnesota, apparently didn’t appreciate its inclusion in the show."
"Some parents in a Minnesota school district are questioning a choir director’s decision to include a Ramadan-themed song during Thursday night’s holiday show — a tune with lyrics that include the phrase “Allahu Akbar.”The saying, which means “God is great,” is a common Islamic phrase, but some families who attended the concert at Blaine High School in Blaine, Minnesota, apparently didn’t appreciate its inclusion in the show."
They ALWAYS knew it was fraud!-----Study: Surface Temps Lower at 410 Weather Stations With ‘Minimal Artificial Impact’
Study: Surface Temps Lower at 410 Weather Stations With ‘Minimal Artificial Impact’:
"Surface temperatures recorded over three decades at 410 ideally situated weather stations are markedly lower than temperatures recorded at stations located near multiple heatsinks, according to a new study presented Thursday at the 2015 fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.
The study examined the 30-year temperature records collected from a subset of 410 weather stations belonging to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) of 1,218 stations.
...“The majority of weather stations used by NOAA to detect climate change temperature signal have been compromised by encroachment of artificial surfaces like concrete, asphalt, and heat sources like air conditioner exhausts.
This study demonstrates conclusively that this issue affects temperature trend and that NOAA’s methods are not correcting for this problem, resulting in an inflated temperature trend,” said lead author Anthony Watts, who blogs at Watts Up With That?
...The worst (Class 5) have their “temperature sensor located next to/above an artificial heating source, such as a building, roof top, parking lot, or concrete surface.”
“The poorest sites tend to be warmer,” explained co-author John Nielsen-Gammon, professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University."
"Surface temperatures recorded over three decades at 410 ideally situated weather stations are markedly lower than temperatures recorded at stations located near multiple heatsinks, according to a new study presented Thursday at the 2015 fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.The study examined the 30-year temperature records collected from a subset of 410 weather stations belonging to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) of 1,218 stations.
...“The majority of weather stations used by NOAA to detect climate change temperature signal have been compromised by encroachment of artificial surfaces like concrete, asphalt, and heat sources like air conditioner exhausts.
This study demonstrates conclusively that this issue affects temperature trend and that NOAA’s methods are not correcting for this problem, resulting in an inflated temperature trend,” said lead author Anthony Watts, who blogs at Watts Up With That?
...The worst (Class 5) have their “temperature sensor located next to/above an artificial heating source, such as a building, roof top, parking lot, or concrete surface.”
“The poorest sites tend to be warmer,” explained co-author John Nielsen-Gammon, professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University."
History for December 20
History for December 20 - On-This-Day.com
Samuel Mudd 1833 - Physician that set John Wilkes Booth's leg after the assissination of President Lincoln, Harvey Firestone 1868 - Founder Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Max Lerner 1902
George Roy Hill 1922 - Director, John Hillerman 1932 - Actor ("Magnum, p.i."), Jenny Agutter 1952 - Actress ("The Snow Goose," "Logan's Run")
1606 - The "Susan Constant," "Godspeed" and "Discovery" set sail from London. Their landing at Jamestown, VA, was the start of the first permanent English settlement in America.
1820 - The state of Missouri enacted legislation to tax bachelors between the ages of 21-50 for being unmarried. The tax was $1 a year.
1892 - Alexander T. Brown and George Stillman patented the pneumatic tire.
1946 - The Frank Capra film "It's A Wonderful Life" had a preview showing for charity at New York City's Globe Theatre, a day before its "official" world premiere. James Stewart and Donna Reed star in the film.
1946 - In Indochina (Vietnam), full-scale guerrilla warfare between Vietnam partisans and French troops began.
1989 - General Noriega, Panama's former dictator, was overthrown by a United States invasion force invited by the new civilian government. The project was known as Operation Just Cause.
1990 - The world's first website and server go live at CERN. The first website was http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html.
1995 - An American Airlines Boeing 757 en route to Cali, Colombia, crashed into a mountain, killing all but four of the 163 people aboard.
Saturday, December 19, 2015
WATCH: Kentucky School Cuts Bible Passages from ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ — So Parents Decide to Take Glenn Beck’s Advice | Video | TheBlaze.com
WATCH: Kentucky School Cuts Bible Passages from ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ — So Parents Decide to Take Glenn Beck’s Advice | Video | TheBlaze.com:"When one Kentucky elementary school cut Linus Van Pelt’s famous monologue from “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” in which he shares the meaning of the holiday season by reading Luke 2:8-14, the administration probably wasn’t expecting the kind of response they received during Thursday’s Christmas production."
Want To Know How Ridiculous The Omnibus Bill Is? It Has A Meaningless Porn Filter Clause Four Times
Want To Know How Ridiculous The Omnibus Bill Is? It Has A Meaningless Porn Filter Clause Four Times | Techdirt:
"Following Congress passing the Omnibus spending bill, it of course did not take long for President Obama to sign the bill, meaning that the fake cybersecurity bill/actual surveillance bill, is now law. Particularly ridiculous is that in his little speech about it, Obama talked about how he "wasn't wild about everything in it" but that he was happy that it was a bill "without ideological provisions." Except, you know, for the many ones that did get in there.
But, what do you expect with a 2000+ page bill that Congress was only given a couple of days to look at before voting on.
...But it's the other wacky provision that caught my attention.
Apparently this provision is in the omnibus no less than four times in different places:
"None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer network unless such network blocks the viewing, downloading, and exchanging of pornography."
Apparently, this little clause has become so standard, you can find it in earlier funding bills as well. It's the 2013 funding bill the the 2012 funding bill and many more, I assume.
And, as Carter notes, this language is "completely meaningless," but it's still in there four times.
Just because.
So Congress can't seem to get much of anything done, but it does pass an omnibus bill that includes a weird meaningless porn filter requirement four times... and a damaging surveillance bill.
And you wonder why people dislike and distrust Congress."
"Following Congress passing the Omnibus spending bill, it of course did not take long for President Obama to sign the bill, meaning that the fake cybersecurity bill/actual surveillance bill, is now law. Particularly ridiculous is that in his little speech about it, Obama talked about how he "wasn't wild about everything in it" but that he was happy that it was a bill "without ideological provisions." Except, you know, for the many ones that did get in there.
But, what do you expect with a 2000+ page bill that Congress was only given a couple of days to look at before voting on. ...But it's the other wacky provision that caught my attention.
Apparently this provision is in the omnibus no less than four times in different places:
"None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer network unless such network blocks the viewing, downloading, and exchanging of pornography."
Apparently, this little clause has become so standard, you can find it in earlier funding bills as well. It's the 2013 funding bill the the 2012 funding bill and many more, I assume.
And, as Carter notes, this language is "completely meaningless," but it's still in there four times.
Just because.
So Congress can't seem to get much of anything done, but it does pass an omnibus bill that includes a weird meaningless porn filter requirement four times... and a damaging surveillance bill.
And you wonder why people dislike and distrust Congress."
And we wonder why college grads are duffuses?-----Instructor complains that Rutgers has ditched his course on Beyoncé
Instructor complains that Rutgers has ditched his course on Beyoncé - The College Fix
An adjunct at Rutgers University says that the school has “effectively canceled” his course on black feminism taught through the pop singer Beyoncé.
School officials say the course was merely moved over to the American studies program, but instructor Kevin Allred says he had to ask that program to pick it up — after the women’s studies department did not put it on the spring semester schedule.
Allred has taught “Politicizing Beyoncé” eleven times now.
According to him, the course discusses “the thin line Beyoncé walks as a sex kitten-cum-girl power role model.”
...Allred has made a … splash here at The College Fix before for claiming that “there are no good white people, only ‘less bad’ white people.”
An adjunct at Rutgers University says that the school has “effectively canceled” his course on black feminism taught through the pop singer Beyoncé.
School officials say the course was merely moved over to the American studies program, but instructor Kevin Allred says he had to ask that program to pick it up — after the women’s studies department did not put it on the spring semester schedule.
Allred has taught “Politicizing Beyoncé” eleven times now.
According to him, the course discusses “the thin line Beyoncé walks as a sex kitten-cum-girl power role model.”...Allred has made a … splash here at The College Fix before for claiming that “there are no good white people, only ‘less bad’ white people.”
U.S. not so ‘stupid’ as to ‘welcome terrorists to kill us’
U.S. not so ‘stupid’ as to ‘welcome terrorists to kill us’:
“We took an oath. We’re supposed to protect this country, the Constitution. We’re supposed to provide for the common defense. We’ve got to take a stand here. It’s worth taking a stand to save American lives,” said Gohmert, a former judge and a current member of the House Judiciary Committee.
Of greatest concern to Gohmert is what he sees as Congress continuing to fund the refugee program without meaningful changes or taking a pause to re-evaluate how best to keep Islamic radicals away from America’s shores."
“We took an oath. We’re supposed to protect this country, the Constitution. We’re supposed to provide for the common defense. We’ve got to take a stand here. It’s worth taking a stand to save American lives,” said Gohmert, a former judge and a current member of the House Judiciary Committee.Of greatest concern to Gohmert is what he sees as Congress continuing to fund the refugee program without meaningful changes or taking a pause to re-evaluate how best to keep Islamic radicals away from America’s shores."
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