Detroit's LED Streetlights Are Going Dark After a Few Years - Slashdot

Detroit's LED Streetlights Are Going Dark After a Few Years - Slashdot
"Detroit's Public Lighting Authority has filed a federal lawsuit Monday against the manufacturer of nearly a third of the city's 65,000 streetlights, after it found that upward of 20,000 LED lights are "prematurely dimming and burning out" and putting the city's revitalization progress "in jeopardy." 
The city estimates a fix would cost millions. Detroit News reports:
...the lighting authority that it had experienced "a higher number of reports of failures" in models dimming city streets, primarily in west side neighborhoods and a number of Detroit's major thoroughfares. 

...in recent weeks, Leotek officials have gone silent, according to the lighting authority. A representative for Leotek did not respond Monday to requests for comment. The lighting project has been held up by Mayor Mike Duggan and others as an early success in the city's effort to restore basic services. Before the three-year, $185 million overhaul, about 40% of Detroit's 88,000 streetlights didn't work. The LED lights provided by Leotek were anticipated to last for at least a decade."Read all.

Ah, the good old days.

Wrong, Rep. Omar: Socialism, Not America, Caused Venezuela’s Suffering | The Heritage Foundation

Wrong, Rep. Omar: Socialism, Not America, Caused Venezuela’s Suffering | The Heritage Foundation:

Rep. Ilhan Omar blames the US for Venezuela’s penury. Go figure. She of all people should know how Marxism can trash a country.
Her birth country, Somalia, was run by the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party, created by the strongman Siad Barre under Soviet guidance in the 1970s, until it devolved into chaos in the late 1980s.
Barre fled in 1991 and left behind a failed state. By 1992, that instability had forced Omar and her family to flee to this country. They secured asylum in 1995.

How much more racist will CNN be?

How much more racist will CNN be?:
"Just when you thought CNNcouldn't get any lower, it plummets to rock bottom, asking:

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History for May 9

History for May 9 - On-This-Day.com
John Brown 1800, Henry J. Kaiser 1882, Glenda Jackson 1936 - Actress


James L. Brooks 1940 - Director, Billy Joel 1949 - Musician, Prince Fielder 1984 - Baseball player


1429 - Joan of Arc defeated the besieging English at Orleans.


1754 - The first newspaper cartoon in America showed a divided snake "Join or die" in "The Pennsylvania Gazette."

Report Omission Shows Mueller Was A Political Or Professional Hack

Report Omission Shows Mueller Was A Political Or Professional Hack:

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s March “Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election” contains a glaring omission: Not once in the 448-page tome does Mueller mention an investigation into whether Russia interfered with the U.S. presidential election by feeding dossier author Christopher Steele misinformation.
But Mueller also did not charge Steele with lying to the FBI, or refer a criminal case against Steele to federal prosecutors, as he did when the special counsel uncovered evidence of criminal misconduct unrelated to the 2016 election. Given Mueller’s conclusion that no one connected to the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to interfere with the election, one of those two scenarios must be true—either Russia fed Steele disinformation or Steele lied to the FBI about his Russian sources.

To a conservative, if Person A and Person B each have $1000, that is fairness.----Fans of Best of the Web Today

Fans of Best of the Web Today--Michael Smith

"To a conservative, if Person A and Person B each have $1000, that is fairness.

To a progressive, if Person A has $1000 and does nothing with it (or spends it) and at the end of the year only has the $1000 (or less) and Person B takes a risk and invests the $1000 and at the end of a year has $1200, somehow Person B is being unfair to Person A and must be punished.

That is, of course, an oversimplification, but it is a pretty good description."

Judicial Watch Seeks Information on Qatari Government’s Funding of Texas A&M, a Public University - Judicial Watch

Judicial Watch Seeks Information on Qatari Government’s Funding of Texas A&M, a Public University - Judicial Watch
"(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a petition to intervene on behalf of its client Zachor Legal Institute under the Texas Public Information Act, seeking information about potential influence by the Qatar government’s funding of certain Texas A&M University programs...
...Zachor Legal Institute is a U.S.-based advocacy group dedicated to combatting the spread of anti-Semitism.
...Qatar controversially has aligned itself with Islamic terrorists and extremists which has placed it at odds with the United States, Israel and other U.S. allies in the Middle East..."
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Feminists, Conservatives Join Forces to Oppose 'Equality Act' | RealClearPolitics

Feminists, Conservatives Join Forces to Oppose 'Equality Act' | RealClearPolitics:

The Equality Act just passed the House Judiciary Committee last week, and it threatens to erase protections for women — protections that benefit women and society as a whole. Legislative and policy “reforms” proposed in this dangerous bill will lead to blatant violations of our safety, privacy, and dignity. Under this bill, men and boys will take away women’s small business grants and hard-won spots on sports teams; they will be allowed to live in women’s domestic violence shelters and use our locker rooms. And united as women, we are just not going to stand for it.
If you doubt the seriousness (and absurdity) of this situation, read what has already happened in Washington state, as just one example.

Why Good Books Are Better When You Talk About Them | Intellectual Takeout

Why Good Books Are Better When You Talk About Them | Intellectual Takeout
"What do you do when you finish reading with children, say, at bedtime?
Perhaps what many parents do — just close the book, kiss your child goodnight, ruffle their hair, and turn out the light. 
...But as valuable as these read-aloud together times are, we think they very often contain a missed opportunity.
...If you just close the book, you and your children (or students, if you’re a teacher) will have missed a chance to share your thoughts and questions about the challenges the characters have faced, the choices they’ve made, the good and bad consequences of those choices, the virtues and vices displayed — and, most important, how all of that might apply to your own character and lives.
...Consider what you might want to talk about if you stopped to think about and discuss this episode with children....
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“The Bride Has Nothing On” | Intellectual Takeout

“The Bride Has Nothing On” | Intellectual Takeout
"...The arrival of fashion week reminded me of an article published earlier this year in The Atlantic. Cleverly entitled Aisle Be Seeing You: The Rise of the Totally Transparent Bridal Gown, the article told of a new trend in bridal fashion which throws traditional wedding and social mores to the wind:
“[T]he most revealing pieces in the latest bridal lines—revealing, in every sense of the word—were Vera Wang's mermaid-cut sheaths, staunchly traditional in their ribbons and lace, but innovative in their most striking features:
...simply a natural outgrowth of the shift toward a “sexified” and more permissive society...
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Noon-toon

Biden Faces Renewed Scrutiny Over Son’s Relationship To Ukrainian Gas Company | The Daily Caller

Biden Faces Renewed Scrutiny Over Son’s Relationship To Ukrainian Gas Company | The Daily Caller:

A Ukrainian gas company gave a seat on its board to the son of former Vice President Joe Biden in an attempt to secure relationships with Democrats while it was under multiple investigations, according to a recent New York Times report.

Yes, it's the Bee. But it could be true...right?-----Update: We Now Have Only 12 Seconds Left Until Climate Change Destroys The Planet | The Babylon Bee

Update: We Now Have Only 12 Seconds Left Until Climate Change Destroys The Planet | The Babylon Bee
"WORLD—A new update issued by watchdog groups on climate change indicated this afternoon that we only have 12 seconds left until climate change destroys the planet.

We previously thought we had just 12 years, then 10 years, but the latest update indicates that we have well under a minute.
"The earth will be totally destroyed in the next, oh, 12 seconds," said Beto O'Rourke at a rally. 
"If you don't give the government a bunch of money and power, it will happen. 
Trust me."
"So hand over the cash, guys," he said. 
"Like, now. I'm super serious."
This tragic development means that humanity won't have time to correct climate change, and our writers probably won't even have time to finish thi..."

The Patriot Factor--Deafening Silence of the Jewish Kind

The Patriot Factor
"Seventy-four years ago on May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered and World War II in Europe was finally over. 
All told between 70 to 85 million people lay dead, six million of them Jews. 
Around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population was systematically murdered between 1941 to 1945...

And only with the end of the war did the number of Jews killed and the atrocities committed upon their person really begin to sink in...and yet even those numbers and the horrors inflicted did not stop the cancer that is anti-Semitism from spreading into our country. 
In fact, many Jewish Americans fail to see let alone accept the new reality that today's Jew-hatred coming from islamists and white supremacists has been both coupled and amplified by the Jew-hatred emanating from some newly elected and long standing Democrat members of Congress. 
And it's these folks who continue to make sure that what they perceive as “rightfully deserved” hatred of Jews is back as item number one on their silent “to do” anti-Semitic agenda..."
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#1 This day 1960-----Elvis Presley - Stuck On You (Audio)

Don't Wash Your Meat

Don't Wash Your Meat
"Like many of you, I enjoy my meat and I prefer it to be as clean as possible before the cooking and eating (I also prefer tender young monkey meat, but that's a different story).
Tree-huggers Others would rather we all go vegan and end all meat production and consumption in order to "save the Earth" (from what and for whom?).
Still others are germophobes who are terrified of our germ-filled world and tremble at the very idea of living in anything but a sterile environment.
Now comes the Center for Disease Control with advice that's sure to please the "others" as well as prepare humanity for a diet of tofu, maggots, locusts and even Soylent Green after the glorious world of Next Tuesday has come to pass.
CDC: Don’t wash your raw chicken!

The people (or committee) who wrote this advice obviously does not eat meat, has a fanatical fear of bacteria and viruses and is attempting to create a panic in order to clear the way for a U.N.-approved ultra-low calorie proletarian diet to suit an expanding human population on a planet that must be protected at all costs (from what and for whom?) at the expense of denying our descendants the benefits and pleasure of consuming animals just as our ancestors did..."
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Hypocrisy.

Democrats spill beans on 2020 election strategy - WND

Democrats spill beans on 2020 election strategy - WND:

A Democratic congressman has let slip that his party’s 2020 campaign strategy centers on impeachment, acknowledging that if Trump is not removed, the president likely will win re-election.
Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, “admitted why the Democrats REALLY want Trump impeached and it has zero to do with looking out for this country or the American people,” said Twitter news aggregator Twitchy “No no. It has to do with the reality that Democrats know they cannot beat Trump fair and square in 2020.”

Scientists Skeptical of Anthropogenic Global Warming

Scientists Skeptical of Anthropogenic Global Warming

Glendeco Zap

George Ellis (Cosmologist) writing for "Scientific American" profiled the Stephen Hawking co-author cosmologist Ellis quoting him stating that:

“People need to be aware that there is a range of models that could explain the observations... 

For instance, I can construct you a spherically symmetrical universe with Earth at its center, and you cannot disprove it based on observations... 

You can only exclude it on philosophical grounds... 

What I want to bring into the open is the fact that we are using philosophical criteria in choosing our models. 

A lot of cosmology tries to hide that.”

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History for May 8

History for May 8 - On-This-Day.com
Miguel Hidalgo 1753, Oscar Hammerstein 1847, Harry S. Truman (U.S.) 1884 - 33rd president of the United States


Bishop Fulton Sheen 1895, Don Rickles 1926 - Comedian, Ricky Nelson (Eric Hilliard Nelson) 1940 - Musician


1945 - U.S. President Harry Truman announced that World War II had ended in Europe.


1958 - U.S. President Eisenhower ordered the National Guard out of Little Rock as Ernest Green became the first black to graduate from an Arkansas public school.

Trump Selects Mark Morgan For ICE Director | The Daily Caller

Trump Selects Mark Morgan For ICE Director | The Daily Caller:

President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he will nominate Mark Morgan, an Obama-era Border Patrol chief, to be the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Morgan is a former FBI agent who served as the Border Patrol chief for the final months of the Obama administration, but he was removed when Trump took office. Morgan went on to be a vocal supporter of Trump’s border wall and his national emergency declaration.

Caitlin Johnstone: "Blithering Idiots Express Fear That Putin Will Rig 2020 Election For Trump"

Caitlin Johnstone: "Blithering Idiots Express Fear That Putin Will Rig 2020 Election For Trump"

"“Putin” is the number one USA trend on Twitter as of this writing, which is always a reliable sign that something very stupid is happening in American media. 
“Putin” is once again the hysterical shrieking buzzword of the day because Donald Trump openly boasted at a press conference of having had an hour-long phone call with the Russian president, in which he claims the two leaders discussed nuclear de-escalation, Venezuela, North Korea, and the discredited “collusion” narrative. When asked whether he’d told Putin not to meddle in the 2020 US elections, Trump replied, “We didn’t discuss that.”...

Donald J. Trump

✔@realDonaldTrump

Had a long and very good conversation with President Putin of Russia. As I have always said, long before the Witch Hunt started, getting along with Russia, China, and everyone is a good thing, not a bad thing....

So of course everyone is now in garment-rending apocalyptic DEFCON 1 catastrophe mode.

“It bears repeating: We have been given no indication that Trump or his re-election campaign will hesitate to take advantage of Russian help again in 2020, in whatever form it might take,” warned the Wall Street Journal’s Dustin Volz. 

“President Trump today continues to belittle Russian election interference in the 2016 presidential election, as well as continued election interference,” CNN’s Jake Tapper solemnly warned today..."

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Asians Bullied by Thugs for Wearing MAGA Hats Were Korean Defectors

Asians Bullied by Thugs for Wearing MAGA Hats Were Korean Defectors
"On Wednesday, PJ Media told you about a group of Asians who were harassed in the street because they were wearing MAGA hats.
An individual who goes by "Bigalow Black" on Twitter proudly posted a short video clip on April 30 showing several street thugs harassing a group of what looked like Asian tourists.
"Not Around Here Pimp...Ain’t None Of That Make America Great Again Sh*t," wrote Black, who hails from Washington D.C., and Miami, according to his Twitter profile.
The video shows a group of black men surrounding the Asians, grabbing the MAGA hats off their heads, and throwing one of them in the air before stomping on it.
After PJ Media posted the story, Bigalow Black removed the tweet. But others on Twitter made copies.

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The original tweet, which highlighted the ugly attack on defenseless tourists, was retweeted 3.8 thousand times and liked 7.9 thousand times. 
Disgracefully, thousands of shameless and un-self-aware Twitter users in Bigalow Black's timeline cheered on the attack.
It gets worse. 
PJ Media has since learned more about the individuals who were attacked.
"The Asians wearing MAGA hats were not just tourists.."
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