First dates: When does the climate record say you can expect the season's first snow?

First dates: When does the climate record say you can expect the season's first snow? | NOAA Climate.gov:

Near the anniversary of Beyond the Data's most popular post, we've given the map an interactive upgrade. 

Click (on main link) to zoom in on an area of interest and drill down to see the date by which the chances for the first snow of the season at your location rise to at least 50%. 

Will this year's first snow come earlier or later than the historic "first date" of snow? 

See what the climate record has to say and keep up with your local forecast.

This map shows the historic date by which there’s a 50% chance of at least 0.1” of snow on the ground, based on each location’s snowfall history from 1981-2010, based on the latest U.S. Climate Normals from NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information. 

Double click on the map to zoom in, or use controls at upper left. Single click for specific location information. 

To improve map performance and loading times, station pop-ups appear at zoom levels of 2x or more.

HILLARY Offended By Trump's WORDS…CAUGHT ON TAPE THREATENING Women Who DARED To Come Forward About Bill Clinton Raping, Sexually Abusing Them » 100percentfedUp.com

HILLARY Offended By Trump's WORDS…CAUGHT ON TAPE THREATENING Women Who DARED To Come Forward About Bill Clinton Raping, Sexually Abusing Them » 100percentfedUp.com:

"Hillary Clinton revealed her hidden hand when she menacingly issued a clear warning of intimidation to her husband’s accusers (and those who would pursue their charges) on the nationally broadcast Today Show in early 1998 in the days after the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke."

Professor on leave after saying Black Lives Matter as racist as KKKlege Fix

Professor on leave after saying Black Lives Matter as racist as KKK - The College Fix:
"A University of Virginia professor has gone on leave after fielding uproar for saying on Twitter that Black Lives Matter is the “biggest” racist organization since the KKK, The Washington Post reports.
“The comment was written last week in response to a Facebook post about a Black Lives Matter event in Charlottesville,” the Post reports.
“University officials later issued statements denouncing the comments and distancing themselves from [Professor Douglas] Muir.
The professor has since taken leave, according to the university.”
The scholar’s Twitter account now appears to have been deleted, but a Google search footprint of it shows Muir described himself as a speaker, investor and “entrepreneur executive lecturer at UVa.”
A screenshot of Muir’s tweet reprinted by the Post stated:
“Black lives matter is the biggest rasist (sic) organisation (sic) since the clan (sic). Are you kidding me. Disgusting!!!”
University of Virginia officials have put out a statement
"A recent comment regarding the Black Lives Matter movement, posted on social media by Doug Muir, a lecturer in our School, has raised serious concerns about UVA Engineering’s commitment to diversity, inclusion and support of populations that are traditionally underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
While free speech and open discussion are fundamental principles of our nation and the University, Mr. Muir’s comment was entirely inappropriate. 
UVA Engineering does not condone actions that undermine our values, dedication to diversity and educational mission. 
Our faculty and staff are responsible for upholding our values and demonstrating them to students and the community. Mr. Muir has agreed to take leave and is preparing his own statement to the community."

Chris Stevens' Death & Benghazi -- Obama Administration Misled Public

Chris Stevens' Death & Benghazi -- Obama Administration Misled Public | National Review
"...Although Secretary Rice took most of the heat as the designated face of the administration, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in charge of the compound at Benghazi and was Chris’s boss. 
So it is significant that Rice’s repeated appearances reinforced the following statement made by Clinton at 10:08 p.m. EST, while the attack was still going on:
“Some have sought to justify the vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet.”
Under questioning by Congress, Secretary Clinton tried to emphasize the ambiguous words in this statement, but she never explained why she did not call a halt to Secretary Rice’s forceful and repeated reinforcement of her original explanation of what had occurred when she knew that it was simply false.
During nearly two years following the attack, Secretary Clinton testified under oath to both houses of Congress without revealing that she was sitting on piles of e-mails that were relevant to Benghazi, because she had conducted all her e-mail correspondence on a private server, not on the usual State Department server as required by every spy service in the federal government.
After her private server was discovered almost by accident by a hacker, and long legal battles forced production of the e-mails, it was learned that within the same hour Secretary Clinton released her public statement blaming the “inflammatory material posted on the Internet,” she reported to her family that “two officers were killed today in Benghazi by an al-Qaeda–like group.”
During frustrating research to discover the truth, most of us noticed early on that Rice’s account was directly contradicted by that of Libyan president Mohamed Yousef El-Magariaf, who said that he had “no doubt” the attack was pre-planned by individuals from outside Libya.
As it turned out, this was evident when Secretary Clinton told him, “Ansar al-Sharia is claiming responsibility.”
So once again, Secretary Clinton blamed a terrorist group, not protesters. 
I did not go through these details to choose sides in the political debate, which rages on as I write these lines.
I only point out that no one seems interested in digging for the facts to learn the truth about what happened to Ambassador Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods, and Glen Doherty, who died tragically and needlessly that day. 
Instead, they either want to obscure the truth to protect a political position or learn enough to bring down an opponent.
Neither is true to the American spirit of pursuing truth for its own sake.
— Lydie M. Denier, former fiancée of the late ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, is the author of A Voice for Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, from which this article is excerpted.

Lunch video-----Hillary Clinton: Rape Enabler

Noon-toon

Fact-Check: Yes, Bill Clinton Was Disbarred and Fined After Impeachment - Breitbart

Fact-Check: Yes, Bill Clinton Was Disbarred and Fined After Impeachment - Breitbart:

"During the second presidential debate, Republican nominee Donald Trump said that Bill Clinton was impeached, disbarred, and fined as a result of the Lewinsky scandal.
Fact-Check: TRUE"

Pension rip-off!-----Ex-cop reaps $90G in disability pension, full-time U.S. Army job

Ex-cop reaps $90G in disability pension, full-time U.S. Army job - NY Daily News:
"A retired police detective earning a whopping $90,000-a-year in tax free NYPD disability payments is working full-time as a security boss for the U.S. Army, the Daily News has learned.
Anthony Hernandez, 43, of Staten Island, retired as a detective from the NYPD in January 2014 and began receiving $7,443.62 a month in coveted disability payments from the city, records show.
Within a few months, the former general manager of the NYPD’s football team then began working as a security official at the sprawling Brooklyn military base in Fort Hamilton, making about $50,000 a year, records show.
“He didn’t waste any time leaving the NYPD and starting to work here,” a source told The News. “He supposedly has a back problem, but he’s bending down and picking up weapons, jumping in and out of his vehicle.”
...Hernandez, who did not respond to repeated requests for comment, was appointed a cop in September 2000, which puts him at a hair over 16 years since he joined the NYPD — four years from the cut-off..."

Alleged 'racially charged' messages on U. Denver 'free speech wall' provoke student snowflakery

Alleged 'racially charged' messages on U. Denver 'free speech wall' provoke student snowflakery - The College Fix:
"You would think something called a “free speech wall” would be for just that — free speech.
But since contemporary college students’ notion of “free” leaves a lot to be desired, even semi-moderately provoking lingo can result in bouts of self-righteous apoplexy.

At the University of Denver, someone — presumably some white students — crossed out the “White” in a “White people do something” message on the wall, and also painted over the “black” in “Black Lives Matter” leaving the rather innocuous “People Do Something / Lives Matter.”
In addition, Denver’s 7NEWS reports the lyrics of a song by the early-80s punk band Minor Threat criticizing white guilt also were scrawled.
To virtually no one’s surprise these days, some students felt threatened.
...In a letter to the DU community Thursday, the university said it hopes those messages can spur a productive conversation about a complex issue.
“We understand how some may be threatened by the notion that they inherited privileges from prior generations. 
And yet, that reflection and admission is exactly what we must do if we seek to build a better future for all,” the DU letter read.
Ah, so, while the university is rather accommodating to the notion of free speech here, white students nevertheless must admit that they have privileges before everyone can move forward!
Oh — members of the university faculty painted over the “offensive” messages..."

Clinton Staff: Americans Illiterate | The Federalist Papers

Clinton Staff: Americans Illiterate | The Federalist Papers:

"Clinton’s belief that half of Trump supporters are a “basket of deplorables” isn’t the most offensive thing she and her team could come up with apparently.

The Clinton team just reached a new low, as revealed by a recently leaked email."

Hillary has been covering up for a MONSTER!-----Flight logs show Bill Clinton flew on sex offender's jet much more than previously known

Flight logs show Bill Clinton flew on sex offender's jet much more than previously known | Fox News
"Former President Bill Clinton was a much more frequent flyer on a registered sex offender’s infamous jet than previously reported, with flight logs showing the former president taking at least 26 trips aboard the “Lolita Express” -- even apparently ditching his Secret Service detail for at least five of the flights, according to records obtained by FoxNews.com.
Clinton’s presence aboard Jeffrey Epstein’s Boeing 727 on 11 occasions has been reported, but flight logs show the number is more than double that, and trips between 2001 and 2003 included extended junkets around the world with Epstein and fellow passengers identified on manifests by their initials or first names, including “Tatiana.”
The tricked-out jet earned its Nabakov-inspired nickname because it was reportedly outfitted with a bed where passengers had group sex with young girls.
“Bill Clinton … associated with a man like Jeffrey Epstein, who everyone in New York, certainly within his inner circles, knew was a pedophile,” said Conchita Sarnoff, of the Washington, D.C. based non-profit Alliance to Rescue Victims of Trafficking, and author of a book on the Epstein case called "TrafficKing."
“Why would a former president associate with a man like that?”
Epstein, who counts among his pals royal figures, heads of state, celebrities and fellow billionaires, spent 13 months in prison and home detention for solicitation and procurement of minors for prostitution. 
He allegedly had a team of traffickers who procured girls as young as 12 to service his friends on “Orgy Island,” an estate on Epstein's 72-acre island, called Little St. James, in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
...The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida prepared charging documents that accused Epstein of child sex abuse, witness tampering and money laundering, but Epstein took a plea deal before an indictment could be handed up.
On Sept. 24, 2007, in a deal shrouded in secrecy that left alleged victims shocked at its leniency, Epstein agreed to a 30-month sentence, including 18 months of jail time and 12 months of house arrest and the agreement to pay dozens of young girls under a federal statute providing for compensation to victims of child sexual abuse.
In exchange, the U.S. Attorney’s Office promised not to pursue any federal charges against Epstein or his co-conspirators..."
Read on!
This is sick.
And he may be back in the White House in months!

Exclusive Video–Broaddrick, Willey, Jones to Bill Clinton’s Defenders: ‘These Are Crimes,’ 'Terrified' of 'Enabler' Hillary

Exclusive Video–Broaddrick, Willey, Jones to Bill Clinton’s Defenders: ‘These Are Crimes,’ 'Terrified' of 'Enabler' Hillary - Breitbart:
WASHINGTON, D.C — In an exclusive video interview at the presidential suite of the historic Watergate Hotel, the victims of Bill Clinton’s alleged sexual assault  — Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey, and Paula Jones — got together for the first time in person to express their personal fear of Hillary Clinton and to warn voters that Clinton does not stand for women’s issues.

The three women, who say their lives were forever changed by their experiences with the Clintons, used words like “terrified” and “frightened” to describe their feelings about the prospects of a Hillary Clinton presidency.

Watch the video here:

When asked about the counter-argument that their allegations toward Bill Clinton only dig up past “infidelities,” all three women attacked establishment media figures for using this language.

“We were not willing participants,” Broaddrick said. 

“These were crimes.” 

In a separate interview, Broaddrick shared her own story of brutal sexual assault which she says Bill Clinton perpetrated against her.

Willey called out NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell and CNN’s Jake Tapper by name, challenging them: 

“These are not infidelities. A rape is not an infidelity. These are crimes. Any other people would be in jail…

“This is no longer about infidelities, indiscretions, girlfriends, sex, interns — none of those. This is about a serial rapist, a predator, and his wife who has enabled his behavior all of these years.”...

Read it all!

AM Fruitcake

History for October 10

History for October 10 - On-This-Day.com:
Helen Hayes 1900, James Clavell 1924, David Lee Roth 1954 - Singer (Van Halen)


Tanya Tucker 1958, Brett Favre 1969 - Football player, Ralph Dale Earnhardt Jr. 1974 - Race car driver


1845 - The United States Naval Academy opened in Annapolis, MD.


1865 - The billiard ball was patented by John Wesley Hyatt.


1911 - China's Manchu dynasty was overthrown by revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen.


1913 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggered the explosion of the Gamboa Dike that ended the construction of the Panama Canal.


1933 - Dreft, the first synthetic detergent, went on sale.


1938 - Nazi Germany completed its annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.


1959 - Pan American World Airways announced the beginning of the first global airline service.


1965 - The Red Baron made his first appearance in the "Peanuts" comic strip.

Is The FBI Now An Arm Of The Democratic Party? | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD

Is The FBI Now An Arm Of The Democratic Party? | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD:

"The FBI once was known as incorruptible, a legendary enforcer of American law that fought traitors, spies, organized crime and government corruption with equal fervor and fearlessness. Recent revelations about the FBI's moves during its investigation of Hillary Clinton's rogue email server suggest that that FBI no longer exists.

Of particular relevance are the so-called side agreements signed by the FBI with high-level Clinton aides Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson as part of the investigation. It's important to note that both of these aides were in the thick of things in Hillaryland, and surely knew much about Clinton's likely illegal use of a private server and her exposure of U.S. secrets."

National Data | Immigrant Displacement Of American Workers At Second-Highest Level In Obama Era (Last Month Was Highest)

National Data | Immigrant Displacement Of American Workers At Second-Highest Level In Obama Era (Last Month Was Highest) | VDARE - premier news outlet for patriotic immigration reform:

Friday’s release of jobs data for September showed unemployment up and weak job growth—but more significantly, in a development apparently only tracked by VDARE.com, immigrant displacement of American workers is now at its second-highest level for the Obama years. (August was the highest). Additionally, there’s continued evidence that an unreported immigration surge is underway, right in time for the election season. 

Rarely has the relationship between the immigration and employment issues been as clear. Over the past 12 months (September 2015 to September 2016) seasonally unadjusted BLS data show:

• The immigrant population of working age grew by 1.471 million, or 3.6%; the corresponding native-born American population grew by 1.3 million, up a mere 0.6%.
• Immigrant employment rose by 1.218 million, a 4.9% gain, while native-born American workers gained 1.780 million positions, a gain of only 1.4%.
• The number of unemployed native-born Americans rose by 37,000, a gain of 0.6%, while the number of unemployed immigrants shrank by 5,000 – a 0.4% decline.
• The immigrant unemployment rate fell from 4.6% to 4.4%; the native-born jobless rate remained at 4.9%.

Employers added 156,000 jobs in September 2016, a troubling decline from the 178,000 average for 2016 year to date. The “other” employment survey, of households rather than employers, shows a more robust job performance for the month.

In September:

• Total Household Survey employment rose by 354,000, up by 0.23%
• Native-born American employment rose by 311,000 up by 0.25%
• Foreign-born employment rose by 43,000, up by 0.16%

Native-born American workers have lost ground to their foreign-born competitors throughout the Obama years, but the trend has accelerated significantly over the past few months. The displacement of native-born Americans by immigrants hit an Obama-era high in August. September 2016 ranks second worst among the 93 months of Obama’s tenure in the displacement of American workers by immigrants. This is brought out in our New VDARE.com American Worker Displacement Index (NVDAWDI) graphic:
Read on!

The wife John McCain callously left behind-from 2008

The wife John McCain callously left behind | Daily Mail Online
2008
"...McCain will present himself as a selfless, principled war hero whose campaign represents not so much a battle for the presidency of the United States, but a crusade to rescue the nation’s tarnished reputation.
McCain likes to illustrate his moral fibre by referring to his five years as a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam.
And to demonstrate his commitment to family values, the 71-year-old former US Navy pilot pays warm tribute to his beautiful blonde wife, Cindy, with whom he has four children.
But there is another Mrs McCain who casts a ghostly shadow over the Senator’s presidential campaign.
She is seldom seen and rarely written about, despite being mother to McCain’s three eldest children.
And yet, had events turned out differently, it would be she, rather than Cindy, who would be vying to be First Lady.
She is McCain’s first wife, Carol, who was a famous beauty and a successful swimwear model when they married in 1965.
She was the woman McCain dreamed of during his long incarceration and torture in Vietnam’s infamous ‘Hanoi Hilton’ prison and the woman who faithfully stayed at home looking after the children and waiting anxiously for news.
But when McCain returned to America in 1973 to a fanfare of publicity and a handshake from Richard Nixon, he discovered his wife had been disfigured in a terrible car crash three years earlier. 
Her car had skidded on icy roads into a telegraph pole on Christmas Eve, 1969.
Her pelvis and one arm were shattered by the impact and she suffered massive internal injuries.
When Carol was discharged from hospital after six months of life-saving surgery, the prognosis was bleak.
In order to save her legs, surgeons had been forced to cut away huge sections of shattered bone, taking with it her tall, willowy figure. 
She was confined to a wheelchair and was forced to use a catheter..."
Sad story.
Read on.

HILLARY Offended By Trump's WORDS…CAUGHT ON TAPE THREATENING Women Who DARED To Come Forward About Bill Clinton Raping, Sexually Abusing Them » 100percentfedUp.com

HILLARY Offended By Trump's WORDS…CAUGHT ON TAPE THREATENING Women Who DARED To Come Forward About Bill Clinton Raping, Sexually Abusing Them » 100percentfedUp.com:

"Hillary Clinton revealed her hidden hand when she menacingly issued a clear warning of intimidation to her husband’s accusers (and those who would pursue their charges) on the nationally broadcast Today Show in early 1998 in the days after the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke."

Hillary Clinton — Women-Smearing | National Review

Hillary Clinton — Women-Smearing | National Review:

"According to the Times, in 1992 Hillary Clinton helped make the decision to hire Jack Palladino, “a private investigator known for tactics such as making surreptitious recordings and deploying attractive women to extract information.” Palladino described his task as casting aspersions on Flowers’s “character and veracity until she is destroyed beyond all recognition.”

Notably, neither the Post nor the Times delves into Juanita Broaddrick’s 1978 rape accusation against the then-Arkansas gubernatorial candidate, so they don’t mention that just two weeks after the alleged assault, Hillary and Broaddrick met at a Clinton campaign event where, according to Broaddrick, Hillary intimidated her into silence. "

The evil of capitalism, in one chart

The evil of capitalism, in one chart - AEI | Pethokoukis Blog » AEIdeas
"A great chart tweeted by technology analyst Benedict Evans of Andreessen Horowitz:

To which Evans adds: “That 5bn people have a phone & 2.5bn already have a smartphone is a huge achievement of, mostly, free markets and permissionless innovation. … 
It’s been clear for a decade that access to communications transforms prospects for the poorest. 
A phone *does* put food in your belly.”

And if that chart doesn’t do it for you, maybe this one will:

Thanks trade and investment. Thanks capitalism.

Learn more:

• 700 million humans have moved out of deep poverty in the 21st century. Thank capitalism
• If you think trade deals have ruined the American economy, reconsider
• 2 disturbing charts on world trade and economic openness

The List of Clinton Associates Who’ve Died Mysteriously. « CBS Las Vegas

The List of Clinton Associates Who’ve Died Mysteriously. Check It Out | KXNT 840 AM « CBS Las Vegas:This list has been around for awhile, but worth a re-post. I’m not the conspiracy type, but this is just TOO coincidental. – Heidi Harris

THE CLINTON DEAD POOL

1- James McDougal – Clintons convicted Whitewater partner died of an apparent heart attack, while in solitary confinement. He was a key witness in Ken Starr’s investigation.

2 – Mary Mahoney – A former White House intern was murdered July 1997 at a Starbucks Coffee Shop in Georgetown .. The murder …happened just after she was to go public w:th her story of sexual harassment in the White House.

3 – Vince Foster – Former White House counselor, and colleague of Hillary Clinton at Little Rock’s Rose Law firm. Died of a gunshot wound to the head, ruled a suicide.

4 – Ron Brown – Secretary of Commerce and former DNC Chairman. Reported to have died by impact in a plane crash. A pathologist close to the investigation reported that there was a hole in the top of Brown’s skull resembling a gunshot wound. At the time of his death Brown was being investigated, and spoke publicly of his willingness to cut a deal with prosecutors. The rest of the people on the plane also died. A few days later the Air Traffic controller commited suicide.

5 – C. Victor Raiser, II – Raiser, a major player in the Clinton fund raising organization died in a private plane crash in July 1992.

6 – Paul Tulley – Democratic National Committee Political Director found dead in a hotel room in Little Rock , September 1992. Described by Clinton as a “dear friend and trusted advisor”.

7 – Ed Willey – Clinton fundraiser, found dead November 1993 deep in the woods in VA of a gunshot wound to the head. Ruled a suicide. Ed Willey died on the same day his wife Kathleen Willey claimed Bill Clinton groped her in the oval office in the White House. Ed Willey was involved in several Clinton fund raising events.

8 – Jerry Parks – Head of Clinton’s gubernatorial security team in Little Rock .. Gunned down in his car at a deserted intersection outside Little Rock Park’s son said his father was building a dossier on Clinton He allegedly threatened to reveal this information. After he died the files were mysteriously removed from his house.

9 – James Bunch – Died from a gunshot suicide. It was reported that he had a “Black Book” of people which contained names of influential people who visited prostitutes in Texas and Arkansas

10 – James Wilson – Was found dead in May 1993 from an apparent hanging suicide. He was reported to have ties to Whitewater..

11 – Kathy Ferguson – Ex-wife of Arkansas Trooper Danny Ferguson, was found dead in May 1994, in her living room with a gunshot to her head. It was ruled a suicide even though there were several packed suitcases, as if she were going somewhere. Danny Ferguson was a co-defendant along with Bill Clinton in the Paula Jones lawsuit Kathy Ferguson was a possible corroborating witness for Paula Jones.

12 – Bill Shelton – Arkansas State Trooper and fiancee of Kathy Ferguson. Critical of the suicide ruling of his fiancee, he was found dead in June, 1994 of a gunshot wound also ruled a suicide at the grave site of his fiancee.

13 – Gandy Baugh – Attorney for Clinton’s friend Dan Lassater, died by jumping out a window of a tall building January, 1994. His client was a convicted drug distributor.

14 – Florence Martin – Accountant & sub-contractor for the CIA, was related to the Barry Seal, Mena, Arkansas, airport drug smuggling case. He died of three gunshot wounds.

15 – Suzanne Coleman – Reportedly had an affair with Clinton when he was Arkansas Attorney General. Died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, ruled a suicide. Was pregnant at the time of her death....

46 – Todd McKeehan

And the most recent, Seth Rich, the DC staffer murdered and “robbed” (of nothing) on July 10. Wikileaks found Assange claims he had info on the DNC email scandal.

Not Included in this list are the 4 men killed in Benghazi.

Not the kind of person I want in charge of my country.

Lunch video-----Never Before Seen Video: Obama Whines About White Privilege

Noon-toon-----How they "think"

Massive Voter Fraud Sweep Under Way By Texas AG - Lawrence Meyers

Massive Voter Fraud Sweep Under Way By Texas AG - Lawrence Meyers:

"At this hour, a sizable number of agents from the office of the Texas Attorney General is on the ground in Tarrant County, going door-to-door investigating allegations of vote harvesting. Residents report seeing agents in several Fort Worth neighborhoods. One source close to the investigation calls the allegations “serious and substantial…it is believed to be the largest case of voter fraud the AG’s office has ever investigated and involves multiple election cycles”."

Iran: We Can Mobilize Nine Million Fighters Against U.S.

Iran: We Can Mobilize Nine Million Fighters Against U.S.:
"TEL AVIV – The founder of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned that if America tries anything against the Islamic Republic, the regime is capable of deploying nine million troops to fight U.S. forces in a matter of days.
In a speech delivered last month in Tehran and translated this week by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Mohsen Rafighdoost, who was minister of the IRGC during the 1980s and the Iran-Iraq War, added that IRGC ground forces are “five times better” than the U.S. Army.
“Despite all the enemy media and cultural propaganda against us, if America wants to try its luck against us, [it should know that] we are completely capable of mobilizing nine million fighters” against it in under 10 days, Rafigdoost said.
“The IRGC’s ground forces are perhaps five times better than the American army,” he said.
Rafighdoost also declared that Iran’s missiles are capable of reaching Israel and expressed his wish that Israel would launch its own missile at the Islamic Republic so that it could respond by “flattening Tel Aviv.”
“We have warehouses full [of missiles] in Tehran, Zanjan [in northwest Iran] and Oshnavieh [in Western Azerbaijan Province in northwest Iran] that can strike Tel Aviv.
If only a single [Israeli] shell would strike anywhere in this country, so that we can flatten Tel Aviv.”
Rafighdoost also claimed that the leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khomeini established Hezbollah in Lebanon to promote Islamization in other countries..."

How Roman Central Planners Destroyed Their Economy

How Roman Central Planners Destroyed Their Economy | Foundation for Economic Education:
"In 449 B.C., the Roman government passed the Law of the Twelve Tables, regulating much of commercial, social, and family life.
Some of these laws were reasonable and consistent with an economy of contract and commerce; others prescribed gruesome punishments and assigned cruel powers and privileges given to some.
Other regulations fixed a maximum rate of interest on loans of approximately 8 percent.
The Roman government also had the habit of periodically forgiving all interest owed in the society; that is, it legally freed private debtors from having to pay back interest due to private creditors.
In 45 B.C., Julius Caesar discovered that almost one-third of the Roman citizenry was receiving their grain supply for free from the State.
The Roman government also set price controls on wheat. 
In the fourth century, B.C., the Roman government would buy grain during periods of shortages and sell it at a price fixed far below the market price.
In 58 B.C., this was improved upon; the government gave grain away to the citizens of Rome at a zero price, that is, for free.
The result was inevitable: farmers left the land and flocked to Rome; this, of course, only made the problem worse, since with fewer farmers on the land in the territories surrounding Rome, less grain than before was being grown and brought to the market.
Also, masters were freeing their slaves and placing the financial burden for feeding them on the Roman government at that zero price.
To deal with the financial cost of these supplies of wheat, the Roman government resorted to debasement of the currency, that is, inflation. 
Pricing-fixing of grain, shortages of supply, rising budgetary problems for the Roman government, monetary debasement and resulting worsening price inflation were a continual occurrence through long periods of Roman history."
...Finally, as, again, Ludwig von Mises concluded, the Roman Empire began to weaken and decay because it lacked the ideas and ideology that are necessary to build upon and safeguard a free and prosperous society: a philosophy of individual rights and free markets.
As Mises ended his own reflections on the civilizations of the ancient world:
“The marvelous civilization of antiquity perished because it did not adjust its moral code and its legal system to the requirements of the market economy. 
A social order is doomed if the actions which its normal functioning requires are rejected by the standards of morality, are declared illegal by the laws of the country, and are prosecuted as criminal by the courts and the police. 
The Roman Empire crumbled to dust because it lacked the spirit of [classical] liberalism and free enterprise. 
The policy of interventionism and its political corollary, the Fuhrer principle, decomposed the mighty empire as they will by necessity always disintegrate and destroy any social entity.”

Experts said Arctic sea ice would melt entirely by September 2016 - they were wrong

Experts said Arctic sea ice would melt entirely by September 2016 - they were wrong: "
Dire predictions that the Arctic would be devoid of sea ice by September this year have proven to be unfounded after latest satellite images showed there is far more now than in 2012.
Scientists such as Prof Peter Wadhams, of Cambridge University, and Prof Wieslaw Maslowski, of the Naval Postgraduate School in Moderey, California, have regularly forecast the loss of ice by 2016, which has been widely reported by the BBC and other media outlets.
Prof Wadhams, a leading expert on Arctic sea ice loss, has recently published a book entitled A Farewell To Ice in which he repeats the assertion that the polar region would free of ice in the middle of this decade.
As late as this summer, he was still predicting an ice-free September.
Yet, when figures were released for the yearly minimum on September 10, they showed that there was still 1.6 million square miles of sea ice (4.14 square kilometres), which was 21 per cent more than the lowest point in 2012."

Massive Voter Fraud Sweep Under Way By Texas AG - Lawrence Meyers

Massive Voter Fraud Sweep Under Way By Texas AG - Lawrence Meyers:

"At this hour, a sizable number of agents from the office of the Texas Attorney General is on the ground in Tarrant County, going door-to-door investigating allegations of vote harvesting. Residents report seeing agents in several Fort Worth neighborhoods. One source close to the investigation calls the allegations “serious and substantial…it is believed to be the largest case of voter fraud the AG’s office has ever investigated and involves multiple election cycles”."

I double down and re-endorse Donald Trump for President of the United States! SEVERAL UPDATES – Da Tech Guy Blog

I double down and re-endorse Donald Trump for President of the United States! SEVERAL UPDATES – Da Tech Guy Blog:
"...Now I concede this is bad, not only in terms of what was said but what it implies.  
I strongly disapprove of it as I suspect many others like me do.

And that’s why I’ve chosen this moment, Catholic Blogger that I am, to double down and re-endorse Donald Trump for President of the United States!

Why would I do this?  Quite simple, I’m not going to let myself be played.  Let me explain.

To those who have endorsed Donald Trump, the idea that he is both boastful and vulgar has been a given, it has been factored into the equation concerning him.  

Furthermore his public persona has been out there for decades and he has never pretended to be anything other than what he is.  

I further suspect the voting public has already factored this into their image of Trump and it is unlikely that this revelation is going to move those who haven’t made up their minds one way or the other despite the shocked faces at CNN.

Furthermore the base reasons why many of us decided to endorse Trump have not changed:

…I know that there will be times that Donald Trump will disappointment me just as I expected Mitt Romney to disappoint men on social issues and John McCain to disappoint me on immigration and George W Bush who disappointed me on spending and the bank bailouts.

But while Trump will occasionally disappoint me (when he does I’ll call him on it) I am convinced he will neither persecute me nor strip me of my rights for holding my Conservative Catholic beliefs and acting on them.

I am very sorry to say I can not make that same statement about Hillary Clinton, and I’m even sorrier to see the day when I would say this about a presidential candidate.

Nothing on that tape changes these truths.  Clinton is going to persecute me, Trump is not.

Furthermore in terms of electability there is one thing that still favors Donald Trump,  Hillary Clinton.

Hillary Clinton is the worst candidate for any office that I have seen since Martha Coakley.  There is nothing at all likable about her.  She is disliked and distrusted by the public by huge numbers, including many of those who will eventually vote for her.

Moreover the factor that I mentioned in my Trump endorsement still remains the same

I think that the sight of women and gay men being beaten by leftists because they support the presumptive GOP nominee, having it happen in full sight of police ordered to do nothing AND SEEING THOSE OFFICERS CHOOSING TO LET THEM BE BEATEN means that they can not count on the authorities to obey their oaths of office if they think doing so might cost them their jobs.

Even worse than this is the obvious question it raises: If leftists are willing to resort to violence and boast about it before an election when it might hurt their ability to persuade the people to vote for them, how much more willing will they be to violently suppress their political foes when such behavior is rewarded with electoral victory by the people?

What will that tell a populace that has already been arming itself nonstop for the last 4-6 years?

And that not even counting the basic corruption, the wholesale theft, the selling of the office of the president of the united states and the enabling of both islamic terror and our enemies in Russia, Iran, North Korea and China that will take place and the subsequent nuclear arms race that will follow.

There is also the whole business of Trump’s words vs the Clinton’s actions, my post from August really applies well here: (new emphasis here).."