History for January 23

History for January 23 - On-This-Day.com:
John Hancock 1737 Served as president of the First and Second Continental Congresses (1775-1777). He was the first signer of the United States' Declaration of Independence., Edouard Manet 1832, Dan Duryea 1907


Ernie Kovacs 1919, Chita Rivera 1933, Rutger Hauer 1944


1789 - Georgetown College was established as the first Catholic college in the U.S. The school is in Washington, DC.


1845 - The U.S. Congress decided all national elections would be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.


1937 - In Moscow, seventeen people went on trial during Josef Stalin's "Great Purge."


1943 - The British captured Tripoli from the Germans.


1960 - The U.S. Navy bathyscaphe Trieste descended to a record depth of 35,820 feet (10,750 meters) in the Pacific Ocean.


1964 - Ratification of the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was completed. This amendment eliminated the poll tax in federal elections.


1968 - North Korea seized the U.S. Navy ship Pueblo, charging it had intruded into the nation's territorial waters on a spying mission. The crew was released 11 months later.


1975 - "Barney Miller" made his debut on ABC-TV.

ACLJ Obtains Documents on Eve of President Obama Leaving Office Showing Collusion with the Clinton Foundation on Attempted Closure of GITMO | American Center for Law and Justice

ACLJ Obtains Documents on Eve of President Obama Leaving Office Showing Collusion with the Clinton Foundation on Attempted Closure of GITMO | American Center for Law and Justice:

"Last night, less than 24 hours before President Obama left office, we obtained critical documents exposing collusion between President Obama’s State Department, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s senior staff, and the Clinton Foundation on the closure of the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (GITMO).

As we explained before:
Our friends at Judicial Watch uncovered key emails that showed requests for special treatment. Our FOIA requests take the next step:  What happened next?

Here’s a summary of what we know."

REPORT: James O’Keefe and Project Veritas Are GOING AFTER THE MEDIA NEXT

REPORT: James O’Keefe and Project Veritas Are GOING AFTER THE MEDIA NEXT – American Lookout: 
"Most recently, James O’Keefe and Project Veritas exposed the left’s plans for criminal activity at an event before the inauguration. 
For their next effort, they’re going after the liberal media.
The Washington Examiner reported:
James O’Keefe: We’re going after the media next
Members of the media have another thing coming if they thought criticism would ease up now that campaign season is over, undercover activist James O’Keefe confirmed Thursday.
“We’re just getting started, I’m telling you,” O’Keefe promised at the DeploraBall held at the National Press Club Thursday evening.
“Everyone’s saying, who are you going after next?” O’Keefe continued. 
“I’m going to tell you. 
I’ll make it public. 
I’m going after the media next.”
“We have your name. 
We have your number. 
We are embedded in your institutions. 
We are inside the newsrooms, and that is going to be our next target.”

U.S. Traitor Just Received The Worst News Of Their Life, Taxpayers Rejoice!

U.S. Traitor Just Received The Worst News Of Their Life, Taxpayers Rejoice! – Conservative 101: " Barack Hussein Obama’s final acts as President decided to pardon convicted anti-American traitor Bradley Manning (now “Chelsea” Manning) after he only served seven years in federal prison of his thirty five year sentence.
Army Private Manning photocopied crucial classified documents and was caught sharing them with Wikileaks.
As a result of his actions, the lives of thousands of Americans and our allies were put at risk. However, Obama felt sorry that life was so difficult for Bradley in prison because she was transitioning to Chelsea, so he set him free.
Manning thought he was in the clear, but he just got some very bad news.
According to reports, this life-changing present from Obama to the traitor came with an enormous catch.
While Manning was in federal prison, American taxpayers were, insanely, going to have to foot the bill for the medical procedure for Manning to change from a man into a woman.
Now that Manning will be a private citizen once again when he is released in May, the government will no longer be obligated to pay for Manning’s expensive surgery, so his entire plan of becoming a woman will be ruined.
Manning will lose his freebie and he’ll have to pay for his surgery all by himself.
Bradley/Chelsea will be left in a strange middle state between a man and a woman, and Trump’s government will now be spared the embarrassment of having to pay for Manning’s bizarre operation.
Are you happy that your taxpayer money won’t be wasted on this nonsense?"

Trump Reportedly Planning to Eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts

Trump Reportedly Planning to Eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts:

"Art is an important part of culture, but the federal government’s role in supporting it has been questionable, at best, in recent decades.

With that in mind, President Donald Trump planned to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, two federal programs that each received an astonishing $148 million in funding in 2016 alone, according to The Hill."

Minnesota officials questioned about why they withheld information about active TB case

Minnesota officials questioned about why they withheld information about active TB case « Refugee Resettlement Watch:
Here we go again!  \Another case of Tuberculosis (ACTIVE TB) has turned up in Minnesota where officials are being questioned about why they waited so long to notify those who might have been exposed to the communicable disease.

From Michael Leahy, Breitbart’s expert on diseases in the immigrant/refugee population:

Minnesota Health Officials Conceal Case of Active TB in High School for Six Weeks

A student or staff member at St. Louis Park High School in suburban Minneapolis, Minnesota, was diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB) in late November, but Hennepin County Department of Health officials and St. Louis Park Public Schools officials concealed that information from the public until the second week of January, six weeks later.

Why did school superintendent Metz wait so long to release this vital information to students’ families? Learn more about Metz here: http://www.startribune.com/rob-metz-to-step-into-superintendent-s-role-in-st-louis-park-on-july-1/208358891/

“Some parents received letters in the mail Thursday saying their teenagers may have been exposed to an infectious disease,” WCCO reported.

“In late November, the school district was notified by the Hennepin County Department of Health that an individual at the high school had been diagnosed with active (TB),” St. Louis Park Public Schools Superintendent Rob Metz wrote in a letter sent to parents of students dated January 11.

The letter was sent in three languages: English, Spanish, and Somali.

Read it all.  
Some fishy timing on all of this! 
Metz has moved on to bigger and better things!..."

Police: Arrested activist Scott Ryan Charney featured in Project Veritas inauguration video

Police: Arrested activist Scott Ryan Charney featured in Project Veritas inauguration video - Washington Times:

"DisruptJ20 protesters dismissed as a joke an undercover Project Veritas video showing activists supposedly planning to shut down Thursday night’s DeploraBall by setting off smoke bombs or the sprinkler system — but D.C. police weren’t buying it.

The 34-year-old man arrested Thursday night for conspiracy to commit assault at the event was among the activists featured in the undercover video released this week, according to court documents made public on Friday.

Scott Ryan Charney was one of the three men caught on camera discussing plans to set off fire alarms and spray Butyric acid — an ingredient commonly used in stink bombs — at the National Press Club, where the party for Donald Trump supporters was held Thursday night. In the Project Veritas video, Mr. Charney is identified as Scott Green, the documents state.

Project Veritas this week publicly released an undercover video taken Dec. 18 that shows three men associated with the D.C. Antifascist Coalition and DisruptJ20 group discussing plans to disrupt the DeploraBall..."

Lunch video-----The Truth About 'Black Lives Matter'

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Israel’s president invites Pres. Trump to visit Jerusalem, congratulates him on his inauguration – TheBlaze

Israel’s president invites Pres. Trump to visit Jerusalem, congratulates him on his inauguration – TheBlaze:

"Israeli President Reuven Rivlin has invited President Donald Trump to visit him in Jerusalem in a new letter congratulating Trump on his inauguration on Friday.

Writing in a letter to Trump on Saturday, Rivlin wished Trump and his administration much success.

“On behalf of the people and State of Israel, I am honored to extend to you congratulations on your inauguration as the 45th President of the United States of America,” Rivlin wrote."

Trump! How did this happen?

Trump! How did this happen? | Coffee House: 
"It happened because you banned super-size sodas. 

• And smoking in parks. 
• And offensive ideas on campus. 
• Because you branded people who oppose gay marriage ‘homophobic’, and people unsure about immigration ‘racist’.
• Because you treated owning a gun and never having eaten quinoa as signifiers of fascism. 
• Because you thought correcting people’s attitudes was more important than finding them jobs. Because you turned ‘white man’ from a description into an insult. 
• Because you used slurs like ‘denier’ and ‘dangerous’ against anyone who doesn’t share your eco-pieties.
• Because you treated dissent as hate speech and criticism of Obama as extremism. 
• Because you talked more about gender-neutral toilets than about home repossessions. 
• Because you beatified Caitlyn Jenner. Because you policed people’s language, rubbished their parenting skills, took the piss out of their beliefs.
• Because you cried when someone mocked the Koran but laughed when they mocked the Bible. Because you said criticising Islam is Islamophobia. 
• Because you kept telling people, ‘You can’t think that, you can’t say that, you can’t do that.’
• Because you turned politics from something done by and for people to something done to them, for their own good. 
• Because you treated people like trash. 

And people don’t like being treated like trash. 
Trump happened because of you...."
Read on!

VIDEO: Ashley Judd gets "Anti-Trump Women's March - Conservative Outfitters

VIDEO: Ashley Judd gets "Anti-Trump Women's March - Conservative Outfitters:
VIDEO: ASHLEY JUDD GETS NASTY DURING ANTI-TRUMP WOMEN'S MARCH IN WASHINGTON, D.C.

WASHINGTON - Celebrity Ashley Judd "goes low" setting the tone for the Women's March on Washington, D.C. Saturday. The 48-year-old actress recited a poem by 19-year-old Nina Donovan from Tennessee. The poem titled "I Am a Nasty Woman" includes lines like: 

"I am a nasty woman, Not as nasty as a man who looks like he bathes in Cheetos dust, I am not as nasty as a swastika painted on a pride flag, I am not as nasty as racism, fraud, conflict of interests, homophobia, sexual assault, transphobia, white supremacy, misogyny, ignorance, white privilege. I'm a nasty woman. A loud, vulgar, proud woman. I'm not nasty like the combination of Trump and Pence served up to me in my voting booth, I'm nasty like the battles my grandmothers fought to get me into that voting booth."

WATCH THE VIDEO:

They ain't wearin' pussie-hats for no reason.

ACLJ Obtains Documents on Eve of President Obama Leaving Office Showing Collusion with the Clinton Foundation on Attempted Closure of GITMO

ACLJ Obtains Documents on Eve of President Obama Leaving Office Showing Collusion with the Clinton Foundation on Attempted Closure of GITMO | American Center for Law and Justice:
"Last night, less than 24 hours before President Obama left office, we obtained critical documents exposing collusion between President Obama’s State Department, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s senior staff, and the Clinton Foundation on the closure of the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (GITMO).

As we explained before:

Our friends at Judicial Watch uncovered key emails that showed requests for special treatment. Our FOIA requests take the next step:  What happened next?

Here’s a summary of what we know.  In one set of emails, Doug Band, a senior Clinton Foundation official, forwarded a request for “a favor” for someone who apparently had joined former-President Bill Clinton and United Nations Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon on an infamous trip to Haiti in 2009.  That person’s name was redacted.

“Important to take care of [redacted],” says Band.

Then Secretary Clinton’s top aide at the State Department, Huma Abedin, responds: “Personnel has been sending him options.” 

We filed a FOIA request demanding to know who this person was, and what, if any, job he was offered.  When the State Department refused to comply, we filed a lawsuit.

Just hours ago (at the 11th hour on the night before the next President is inaugurated) the State Department turned over the documents. 
These documents show that Brock Johnson was the “favor”.  
Just over two weeks after the initial email from a senior Clinton Foundation official was sent to then-Secretary of State Clinton’s top aids – Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills – Brock Johnson began a job – classified as “critical sensitive” at the State Department.

His job: “Special Assistant to the Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure.”  The job description states that he was to help the Special Envoy “in furtherance of President Obama’s order to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.”

Who is Brock Johnson: reportedly a former Obama Campaign operative, who while he was Special Assistant to the Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure “helped shepherd deals with less conventional allies such as Palau.” 
Brock Johnson later tipped off Cheryl Mills about a “Significant FOIA” request in 2012 that requested information about “the number of email accounts of, or associated with, Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, and the extent to which those email accounts are identifiable as those of or associated with Secretary Clinton.” 
The Inspector General found that the State Department then falsely stated that there were “no records responsive to your request,” when in fact numerous officials knew about Secretary Clinton’s private email address. 
To be clear, Johnson tipped off Cheryl Mills about the FOIA request that would have first publicly uncovered Secretary Clinton’s email scandal; instead the State Department covered it up for months longer. 
And Johnson obtained his job as a “favor” to the Clinton Foundation..."
More!

Barack Obama Secretly Hosts Son of a Terrorist at the White House Days Before his Presidency Ends

Barack Obama Secretly Hosts Son of a Terrorist at the White House Days Before his Presidency Ends:

"It looks like Barack Obama was busy doing more than just releasing traitors and terrorists, sending $500 million of taxpayer money to the UN Climate Fund, taking over more state land, and pushing through more regulations to try to tie Trump’s hands and secure his own tyrannical, anti-America legacy as president. He was also busy hosting the son of a top Muslim Brotherhood official in the White House."

Message to the Department of Defense from Secretary of Defense James Mattis

Message to the Department of Defense from Secretary of Defense James Mattis & U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE & News Release View: "
"It’s good to be back and I’m grateful to serve alongside you as Secretary of Defense.
Together with the Intelligence Community we are the sentinels and guardians of our nation.
We need only look to you, the uniformed and civilian members of the Department and your families, to see the fundamental unity of our country.
You represent an America committed to the common good; an America that is never complacent about defending its freedoms; and an America that remains a steady beacon of hope for all mankind.
Every action we take will be designed to ensure our military is ready to fight today and in the future. Recognizing that no nation is secure without friends, we will work with the State Department to strengthen our alliances. 
Further, we are devoted to gaining full value from every taxpayer dollar spent on defense, thereby earning the trust of Congress and the American people.
I am confident you will do your part. I pledge to you I’ll do my best as your Secretary.
MATTIS SENDS"

AM Fruitcake

History for January 22

History for January 22 - On-This-Day.com
Sir Francis Bacon 1561, André Ampère 1775, Lord (George) Byron 1788



David (D.W.) Griffith 1875, Ann Sothern 1909, Linda Blair 1959


1666 - Shah Jahan, a descendant of Genghis Khan and Timur, died at the age of 74. He was the Mongul emperor of India that built the Taj Mahal as a mausoleum for his wife Mumtaz-i-Mahal.


1771 - The Falkland Islands were ceded to Britain by Spain.


1874 - A patent was issued to Samuel W. Francis for the spork.


1879 - British troops were massacred by the Zulus at Isandhlwana.


1901 - Queen Victoria of England died after reigning for nearly 64 years. Edward VII, her son, succeeded her.


1917 - U.S. President Wilson pleaded for an end to war in Europe, calling for "peace without victory." America entered the war the following April.

1950 - Alger Hiss, a former adviser to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, was convicted of perjury for denying contacts with a Soviet agent. He was sentenced to five years in prison.


1997 - The U.S. Senate confirmed Madeleine Albright as the first female secretary of state.

Obama’s Final Day In Office And His SICK Final Act Perfectly Describes The Last 8 Years | John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Obama’s Final Day In Office And His SICK Final Act Perfectly Describes The Last 8 Years | John Hawkins' Right Wing News:

"His total number of commutations is 1,715. It is far more than any other president in US history. It exceeds the combined total from the previous 13 presidents. He even beat the father of progressives, Woodrow Wilson, who had 1,366 commutations.

Obama did his level best to clear out Gitmo, leaving only a couple of dozen terrorists still there. He’s seems to have a genuine fondness for Islamic terrorists and others who love to kill. He commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning, a stone cold traitor, who had served only a tiny sliver of his/her 35 year sentence for treason.

Ugly Left at the Inaugural: Satanists, Pussy, and Red Fists

Ugly Left at the Inaugural: Satanists, Pussy, and Red Fists

Millions of Americans watching President Donald Trump’s inauguration on television missed one of the more important parts of the day -- the faces of the ugly Left.

Sure, you might have seen a few of them on television at 12th and L Street, throwing rocks at police officers and sending two of them to the hospital. But they were everywhere else in force, and TV cameras did show many of them.

Democrats in Congress hoping to slow down Trump’s agenda should be thankful television cameras didn’t capture what my camera did below. There’s nothing that could frighten Middle America much more than the sights, sounds, and even smells of the anti-Trump Left that prowled Washington, D.C., today.

Vulgarity was on full display in the anti-Trump crowd. I left the country for Obama’s inauguration in 2009, but I’m pretty sure there weren’t people walking around with McCain pins and “Fuck Obama” t-shirts. All those lessons about civility down the drain, it seems.

...The angry feminists were out in force. There were more signs talking about “PUSSY” than on the Reeperbahn. Pussy this, pussy that, all held up by women no less. Aging unkempt women wore pink hats they knitted called “Pussyhats” in twisted solidarity.

It wasn’t just “pussy” these anti-Trump women were obsessed with. One twenty-something passed me by mumbling and grumbling about the Washington monument -- “it’s so phallic, so damn phallic.” No doubt a graduate of an elite university.

...Then there were the aimless niche Leftists. Save our water. Save our land. A costumed Uncle Sam pleading for Donald Trump not to rape him.

...The Left indoctrinates their children with far more zeal than conservative families. Ideology replaces theology in many instances. Naturally, children were used as props all around.

Flashback: Journalists Mocked Trump’s Announcement as a Joke

Flashback: Journalists Mocked Trump’s Announcement as a Joke:
"When Donald Trump announced his presidential campaign on June 16, 2015, the savants in the news media weren’t just skeptical — they were openly disdainful of the man who will be sworn in as America’s 45th President at noon tomorrow.

Reporters sniffed that Trump’s campaign was a “carnival show” which threatened to turn the GOP primary race into “a joke.” CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin called Trump a “fool,” NBC’s Chuck Todd blasted him as “a political streaker,” and pundit after pundit insisted the real estate mogul had no chance of winning.

“Can we stipulate for the purposes of this conversation that Donald Trump will never be President of the United States?” Mike Barnicle proclaimed on MSNBC’s Morning Joe less than 24 hours after Trump’s campaign kick-off..."

...On MSNBC, host Andrea Mitchell snootily asked the former Democratic Governor of Pennsylvania Ed Rendell: “Do you have any doubt that this is anything more than a carnival show?”

National Border Patrol Council Pres: 'Buzz We've Never Seen Before in the Border Patrol' - We Have POTUS 'We Can Trust' - Breitbart

National Border Patrol Council Pres: 'Buzz We've Never Seen Before in the Border Patrol' - We Have POTUS 'We Can Trust' - Breitbart:

"On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “O’Reilly Factor,” National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd, whose organization endorsed Trump, stated, “there’s a buzz that we’ve never seen before in the Border Patrol. "

Trump is MY President - Timeline

 Trump is MY President - Timeline:
"As my momma used to tell me, reality has a way of catching up to you"

~Barack Obama, January 10, 2017

OBAMA'S LEGACY BY THE NUMBERS

As President Obama makes preparations to exit The White House, he leaves in his wake a legacy of debt, a broken healthcare system, and a regulatory burden that has crippled American business.

Despite the obvious mess he's made as president, he continues to defend his actions. However, the numbers don't lie.

Here's Obama's legacy of failure, by the numbers (h/t RNC):

• $19.9 Trillion: The Staggering Mountain Of Debt Obama Will Leave Behind On January 20, 2017. (“Daily History Of The Debt,” U.S. Department Of Treasury, Accessed 12/23/16)
• $9.2 Trillion: The Increase In The National Debt Since Obama Took Office. (“Daily History Of The Debt,” U.S. Department Of Treasury, Accessed 12/23/16)
• $1 Trillion: Tax Increases In ObamaCare Over A Decade. (“ObamaCare: Trillion Dollar Tax Hike That Hurts Small Businesses,” U.S. House Of Representatives Committee On Ways And Means, 3/31/16)
• $870.3 Billion: Estimated Economic Cost Of All The New Federal Government Regulations Finalized Since Obama Took Office. (“Regulation Rodeo,” American Action Forum, Accessed 12/27/16)...

Read on.
Loooong list of failure.
Documented!

Ted Nugent's Commentary On Trump Protests!

See Ted Nugent's Commentary On Trump Protests!: "
Know the signs, spot the symptoms, and save a life.
Do You Know Someone Suffering From Trump Unacceptance & Resistance Disorder (TURD)?
TURD is a pattern of pathologically dissociative and psychotic behavior, first observed in the late hours of November 8th 2016, and increasing in severity with passing time.
Sufferers of TURD often exhibit pronounced cognitive dissonance, sudden bouts of childlike rage, rioting and uncontrollable crying.
People with TURD are characterized by a persistent unwillingness to accept that Donald Trump is going to Make America Great Again."

Lunch video-----WELCOME CONCERT 3 DONALD TRUMP Inauguration Day 2017

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Planned Parenthood Defunding: Cecile Richards Inadvertently Makes the Case for It | National Review

Planned Parenthood Defunding: Cecile Richards Inadvertently Makes the Case for It | National Review:

"An accurate assessment of the group’s abortion numbers reveals that one in eight women who visits a Planned Parenthood clinic obtains an abortion. To obscure that fact, Planned Parenthood consistently overstates its other, supposedly crucial services, falsely claiming to provide mammograms and exaggerating its commitment to prenatal care. In fact, the group provides less than 1 percent of the nation’s pap tests and less than 2 percent of its breast exams and cancer screenings, while at the same time providing over 30 percent of its abortions."

This is good!-----Betsy DeVos Slays Bernie Sanders: Nothing in Life is Free

Betsy DeVos Slays Bernie Sanders: Nothing in Life is Free:
"The left, especially the teachers’ unions, hate Betsy DeVos with the fire of a thousand suns. In fact, if we want to talk about the sources of man-made global warming climate change of the hot hots, let’s maybe examine the all-consuming rage of liberalism, yes? 
So because the unions loathe her with such ferocity, she’ll make a great education secretary. 
But the way she handled Bernie Sanders on free college (see Mike Rowe Schools Bernie Sanders on ‘Free College for All’and Even Chris Matthews DESTROYS Bernie Supporter on Free College)? I think I’m in love…"

“Senator I think that’s a really interesting idea and I think it’s really great to consider and think about, but I think we also have to consider the fact that there’s nothing in life that’s truly free.”

Border Patrol Alters Stats to Hide Release of Criminal Aliens, High Recidivism

Border Patrol Alters Stats to Hide Release of Criminal Aliens, High Recidivism - Judicial Watch: "The U.S. Border Patrol alters statistics involving the apprehension of criminal illegal immigrants to conceal that thousands are being released, a new federal audit reveals.
The frontline Homeland Security agency charged with preventing terrorists and weapons—including those of mass destruction—from entering the country also skews figures to drastically deflate the high recidivism rate of aliens caught entering the U.S.
The distressing details of this crucial agency’s crafty record-keeping practices are outlined in a scathing report issued this month by the investigative arm of Congress, the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
The probe focuses on a Border Patrol system developed to address a smuggling crisis along the southwest border.
It’s officially known as Consequence Delivery System (CDS) and is used to identify the most effective and efficient consequences to deter illegal cross border activity in each of the agency’s sectors.
For the system to work, the Border Patrol must report accurate information involving illegal aliens who are apprehended..."

Why NYT Hid The Numbers For The 'Hottest Year On Record'

Why NYT Hid The Numbers For The 'Hottest Year On Record':
"When you read a science report claiming that 2016 was the hottest year on record, you might expect that you will get numbers. 
And you would be wrong.
They say that mathematics is the language of science, which is a way of saying that science is quantitative.
It is moved forward by numbers and measurements, not just by qualitative observations.
“It seems hot out” is not science.
Giving a specific temperature, measured by a specific process at a specific time, compared to other systematically gathered measurements—that is science.
So when you read an article proclaiming that, for the third year in a row, last year was the hottest year on record, you might expect that right up front you will get numbers, measurements, and a statistical margin of error.
You know, science stuff. Numbers.
Quantities.
Mathematics.
And you would be wrong.
I just got done combing through a New York Times report titled, “Earth Sets a Temperature Record for the Third Straight Year.”
The number of relevant numbers in this article is: zero.
...It wasn’t just the New York Times.
Try finding the relevant numbers ready at hand in the NASA/NOAA press release.
You get numbers comparing 2016’s temperature with “the mid-20th century mean” or “the late 19th century.”
But there’s nothing comparing it to last year or the year before except qualitative descriptions.
So the government’s science bureaucracy is setting the trend, making reporters dig for the relevant numbers rather than presenting them up front.
It’s almost like they’re hiding something. 
And that is indeed what we find. 
I finally tracked down an exception to this reporting trend: the UK newspaper The Independent gives us the relevant numbers..."
Read on!