Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Learn about this national disgrace-----THIS DAY IN HISTORY: A media controversy ignites over the case of Tawana Brawley. It took until 2…
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NOVEMBER 28, 2017
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: A media controversy ignites over the case of Tawana Brawley.
It took until 2013 for this CNN headline, however: Tawana Brawley starts paying man she falsely accused of rape in 1987.
And since 2011, NBC and Comcast have kept Al Sharpton on the payroll, likely as both self-protection and as payback for supporting their merger.--Posted by Ed Driscoll at 8:16 pm
NOVEMBER 28, 2017
It took until 2013 for this CNN headline, however: Tawana Brawley starts paying man she falsely accused of rape in 1987.
And since 2011, NBC and Comcast have kept Al Sharpton on the payroll, likely as both self-protection and as payback for supporting their merger.--Posted by Ed Driscoll at 8:16 pm
We've finally found something politicians and reporters have considered important enough to keep secret for decades
We've finally found something politicians and reporters have considered important enough to keep secret for decades:
"The swamp is extremely deep. It consists of politicians from both parties, bureaucrats, a bevy of reporters who will report what they are told, lobbyists, and others. They have amassed a great deal of power, and they will not let an outsider take that away.
Reporters should be digging deep into this slush fund, but they seem to have as much interest in that as they do in who killed Seth Rich and why. "
Reporters should be digging deep into this slush fund, but they seem to have as much interest in that as they do in who killed Seth Rich and why. "
Democrat 'gerrymandered' IL 4th District-Louis Gutierrez
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"My how the mighty are falling! Anyone else in IL has their brain reeling with possibilities for the so obviously 'gerrymandered' IL 4th District!
Amnesty advocate and 'impeach Trump' Gutierrez is "retiring".
Look at this mess for a congressional district, drawn specifically for a candidate, I mean hand picked Democrat win!
You can't even color in the lines with this mess #ThisIsHowDEMsWinIL"
"My how the mighty are falling! Anyone else in IL has their brain reeling with possibilities for the so obviously 'gerrymandered' IL 4th District!
Amnesty advocate and 'impeach Trump' Gutierrez is "retiring".
Look at this mess for a congressional district, drawn specifically for a candidate, I mean hand picked Democrat win!
You can't even color in the lines with this mess #ThisIsHowDEMsWinIL"
History for November 29
History for November 29 - On-This-Day.com
Louisa May Alcott 1832, Busby Berkeley 1895, C.S. Lewis 1898
Chuck Mangione 1940 - Composer, musician, Suzy Chaffee 1946 - Skier, Garry Shandling 1949 - Comedian, actor
1530 - Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, former adviser to England's King Henry VIII, died.
1890 - Navy defeated Army by a score of 24-0 in the first Army-Navy football game. The game was played at West Point, NY.
1929 - The first airplane flight over the South Pole was made by U.S. Navy Lt. Comdr. Richard E. Byrd.
1947 - The U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution that called for the division of Palestine between Arabs and Jews.
1961 - The Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft was launched by the U.S. with Enos the chimp on board. The craft orbited the earth twice before landing off Puerto Rico.
1975 - Bill Gates adopted the name Microsoft for the company he and Paul Allen had formed to write the BASIC computer language for the Altair.
1981 - Actress Natalie Wood drowned in a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island, CA, at the age 43.
1990 - The U.N. Security Council voted to authorize military action if Iraq did not withdraw its troops from Kuwait and release all foreign hostages by January 15, 1991.
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Ladies, Remember Men Are Dangerous. Now Share A Bathroom With Them And Don't Carry A Gun. | Daily Wire
Ladies, Remember Men Are Dangerous. Now Share A Bathroom With Them And Don't Carry A Gun. | Daily Wire:
"It's just that I have trouble putting this into practice. God forgive me. The problem is that the Left's arguments are often so convoluted, absurd, and self-defeating that I couldn't take them seriously if I tried. And I have tried. But when I follow one of their philosophical threads to its logical conclusion, I discover that the thread has no conclusion. It suddenly splits in another direction, and another, and another, and when I step back all I see is a tangled web of contradictions. What choice do I have but to be dismissive? All that one can do with nonsense, in the end, is dismiss it."
Why Ajit Pai's decision killing Obama's net neutrality FCC regulation is good
Why Ajit Pai's decision killing Obama's net neutrality FCC regulation is good:
"...Net neutrality’s dubious value is made obvious by the misleading way Democrats and many news outlets reported the decision.
“F.C.C. plans net neutrality repeal in a victory for telecoms,” wrote the New York Times.
Missing from the headline or lede was that the decision was a loss for Netflix, Amazon, Google, and other corporate giants that provider content.
This is the Democratic line.
By portraying deregulation as a bonbon for Big Business, and concealing the hit taken by some of the biggest businesses (see above), these partial accounts avoid debating the issue on its merits and dwindle into demagoguery, where they are comfortable.
This is an established pattern with net neutrality.
When the FCC voted in 2015 to impose net neutrality rules, the text of the relevant order wasn’t published until after the vote.
...Net neutrality regulation also effectively outlaws competing business models, which are good for customers and the economy as a whole.
Competing business models allow experimentation, and this leads to providers serving customers better by meeting their needs more precisely.
Consider the possibility of Internet “fast lanes.”
As telemedicine becomes an increasingly important part of healthcare, wouldn’t you want your surgeon to be able to buy access to an express lane in which a network was allowed to grant privilege to certain data over others?
That is, AT&T should be allowed to provide a service in which data bytes flowing between an operating room and a surgeon take precedence over bytes of 100 dudes Googling to find out whether Jennifer Lawrence is married.
...The FCC’s move last week will leave Internet business models to compete in the marketplace rather than competing in smoke-filled rooms for the favor of regulators..."
Read on!
"...Net neutrality’s dubious value is made obvious by the misleading way Democrats and many news outlets reported the decision.
“F.C.C. plans net neutrality repeal in a victory for telecoms,” wrote the New York Times.
Missing from the headline or lede was that the decision was a loss for Netflix, Amazon, Google, and other corporate giants that provider content.
This is the Democratic line.
By portraying deregulation as a bonbon for Big Business, and concealing the hit taken by some of the biggest businesses (see above), these partial accounts avoid debating the issue on its merits and dwindle into demagoguery, where they are comfortable.
This is an established pattern with net neutrality.
When the FCC voted in 2015 to impose net neutrality rules, the text of the relevant order wasn’t published until after the vote....Net neutrality regulation also effectively outlaws competing business models, which are good for customers and the economy as a whole.
Competing business models allow experimentation, and this leads to providers serving customers better by meeting their needs more precisely.
Consider the possibility of Internet “fast lanes.”
As telemedicine becomes an increasingly important part of healthcare, wouldn’t you want your surgeon to be able to buy access to an express lane in which a network was allowed to grant privilege to certain data over others?
That is, AT&T should be allowed to provide a service in which data bytes flowing between an operating room and a surgeon take precedence over bytes of 100 dudes Googling to find out whether Jennifer Lawrence is married.
...The FCC’s move last week will leave Internet business models to compete in the marketplace rather than competing in smoke-filled rooms for the favor of regulators..."
Read on!
If GPS Failed, We’d Be More Than Lost - cetusnews
If GPS Failed, We’d Be More Than Lost - cetusnews:
"North Korea and Russia pose increasingly serious geopolitical threats to the U.S. and its allies. While these rogue nations possess nuclear weapons and formidable conventional forces, they have also used unconventional methods like hacking to attack government institutions and private companies.
Add another target to the list of concerns: the Global Positioning System.
Built primarily for the U.S. military, GPS is now used by civilians across the globe.
Smartphones, personal navigation units, and air-traffic control all rely on it.
They’re part of modern life, constantly performing trivial and critical functions all over the country. Fifteen of the “18 Critical Infrastructure and Key Resource sectors” in the U.S. are GPS-reliant, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Temporary, local GPS failures have already proved chaotic.
A truck driver in New Jersey used an illegal but easily acquired GPS jammer to prevent his boss from tracking him.
As he drove past Newark Liberty International Airport, his jammer blocked air-traffic control signals. No one was injured, but someone setting out to do deliberate harm could pose a security risk in the future.
As troublesome as a minor threat is, what if GPS as a whole were attacked?
The detonation of a nuclear device high in the atmosphere—and the creation of an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, that would follow—present the most likely threat to the satellites that underpin the system.
In September 1962, a nuclear test conducted by the U.S. accidentally destroyed a British satellite and streetlights in Hawaii, demonstrating the potential devastation of an EMP.
Anything that requires precise timing would be affected because GPS satellites serve as global timekeepers.
The loss of clock synchronization across the world would cause the internet to stall and financial transactions to cease.
Our ability to monitor and forecast the weather would be hobbled, too.
Even if America’s adversaries are not capable of pulling off such a feat, Mother Nature certainly is. In 1859, a ferocious solar storm known as the Carrington Event shot charged particles from the sun toward Earth.
If it were to happen again today, experts believe that satellites all over the world could be destroyed. NASA warns that they can’t be protected.
The U.S. would be wise to stockpile communications satellites to replace the ones the sun obliterates.
A better option is to build a land-based navigation system..."
Read on!
"North Korea and Russia pose increasingly serious geopolitical threats to the U.S. and its allies. While these rogue nations possess nuclear weapons and formidable conventional forces, they have also used unconventional methods like hacking to attack government institutions and private companies.
Add another target to the list of concerns: the Global Positioning System.
Built primarily for the U.S. military, GPS is now used by civilians across the globe.
Smartphones, personal navigation units, and air-traffic control all rely on it.
They’re part of modern life, constantly performing trivial and critical functions all over the country. Fifteen of the “18 Critical Infrastructure and Key Resource sectors” in the U.S. are GPS-reliant, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Temporary, local GPS failures have already proved chaotic.
A truck driver in New Jersey used an illegal but easily acquired GPS jammer to prevent his boss from tracking him.
As he drove past Newark Liberty International Airport, his jammer blocked air-traffic control signals. No one was injured, but someone setting out to do deliberate harm could pose a security risk in the future.
As troublesome as a minor threat is, what if GPS as a whole were attacked?
The detonation of a nuclear device high in the atmosphere—and the creation of an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, that would follow—present the most likely threat to the satellites that underpin the system.
In September 1962, a nuclear test conducted by the U.S. accidentally destroyed a British satellite and streetlights in Hawaii, demonstrating the potential devastation of an EMP.Anything that requires precise timing would be affected because GPS satellites serve as global timekeepers.
The loss of clock synchronization across the world would cause the internet to stall and financial transactions to cease.
Our ability to monitor and forecast the weather would be hobbled, too.
Even if America’s adversaries are not capable of pulling off such a feat, Mother Nature certainly is. In 1859, a ferocious solar storm known as the Carrington Event shot charged particles from the sun toward Earth.
If it were to happen again today, experts believe that satellites all over the world could be destroyed. NASA warns that they can’t be protected.
The U.S. would be wise to stockpile communications satellites to replace the ones the sun obliterates.
A better option is to build a land-based navigation system..."
Read on!
Net Neutrality Protesters Target FCC Chairman's Home And Children | Daily Wire
Net Neutrality Protesters Target FCC Chairman's Home And Children | Daily Wire:
"On Monday, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai told Fox & Friends that net neutrality protesters have targeted his home and his children.
One neighbor of Pai’s tweeted that signs protesters brandished named Pai’s children; others accused him of "murdering Democracy in cold blood," still others asked how his children could look him in the eye."
"On Monday, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai told Fox & Friends that net neutrality protesters have targeted his home and his children.
One neighbor of Pai’s tweeted that signs protesters brandished named Pai’s children; others accused him of "murdering Democracy in cold blood," still others asked how his children could look him in the eye."
Climate Change Advocates Attack Capitalism | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD
Climate Change Advocates Attack Capitalism | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD:
"Environmentalism: Every once in a while, environmentalists will let slip that the goal of fighting climate change can't be won unless capitalism is first defeated.
The fact that there's no evidence to support the claim doesn't seem to matter.
The latest to make this case is Arizona State University fellow Benjamin Fong in an Op-Ed published recently by the New York Times, headlined "The Climate Crisis? It's Capitalism, Stupid."
"It should be stated plainly: It's capitalism that is at fault," he writes.
Or, what he later calls "the rampant stupidity of capitalism."
The answer, he says, is a "democratic socialist society."
Fong isn't the only one making this claim. Naomi Klein's 2014 book titled "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate" argues that the planet is doomed unless the world abandons "free market" ideology.
Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of climate change policy wasn't just to cut CO2 emissions, but "to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution..."
Read on!
"Environmentalism: Every once in a while, environmentalists will let slip that the goal of fighting climate change can't be won unless capitalism is first defeated.
The fact that there's no evidence to support the claim doesn't seem to matter.
"It should be stated plainly: It's capitalism that is at fault," he writes.
Or, what he later calls "the rampant stupidity of capitalism."
The answer, he says, is a "democratic socialist society."
Fong isn't the only one making this claim. Naomi Klein's 2014 book titled "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate" argues that the planet is doomed unless the world abandons "free market" ideology.
Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of climate change policy wasn't just to cut CO2 emissions, but "to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution..."
Read on!
Cokie Roberts: Oh, We All Knew To Avoid Getting in An Elevator With Rep. Conyers - Christine Rousselle
"Speaking on ABC's "This Week," Cokie Roberts made a startling admission: "every female in the press corps knew" to avoid being in an elevator with Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), and has apparently known about this "for years."
Conyers has been accused of multiple instances of sexual harassment and has stepped down from the House Judiciary Committee.
Despite the allegations against him, major players in the Democratic Party have defended Conyers and will not say that he should resign.
Pelosi even referred to the embattled congressman as an "icon."
Read on!
10 Most Brutal Tyrants In History Compared By Number Of Victims
10 Most Brutal Tyrants In History Compared By Number Of Victims:" the Nazi’s Lebensborn program was an SS initiative which intended to propagate a twisted notion for a “master race.”
Bogus eugenics fueled a secret program dedicated to the task."
Sounds like Flint MI scam-----Puerto Rico Doesn’t Want Reform - WSJ
Puerto Rico Doesn’t Want Reform - WSJ:"It has been 10 weeks since Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico.
The devastation was fierce.
Yet it cannot explain why almost half the generating capacity of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (Prepa) is still down.
Credit for that goes to Congress, which in June 2016 passed the Puerto Rico Oversight Management and Economic Stability Act, a k a Promesa.
It opened the door to debt defaults that violate the Puerto Rican constitution and U.S. law.
As is always the case when the rule of law takes a back seat to politics, it has fueled chaos.
Prepa blames its disastrous post-hurricane decisions on a shortage of cash.
Yet in the immediate aftermath of the storm, a group of Prepa bondholders offered the company fresh debtor-in-possession financing that included a swap of $1 billion in existing debt for $850 million in new bonds and $1 billion in new cash.
Puerto Rico rejected the offer...
...Now Mr. Rosselló is asking for $94 billion in aid from Washington for reconstruction costs.
But he’s refused to implement furloughs and pension cuts mandated by the Promesa board. "
Read on!
UVA offers scholarship to 'highly motivated gay male students' - The College Fix
UVA offers scholarship to 'highly motivated gay male students' - The College Fix:"Scholarship apparently excludes straight applicants, women
An LGBTQ alumni organization at the University of Virginia’s offers scholarships exclusively for gay male students, with the financial aid program apparently excluding both women and heterosexuals.
The Serpentine Society, which bills itself as “an inclusive alumni/ae organization dedicated to reaching out to and advocating for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) UVA alumni/ae, faculty, and students,” offers the Peter L. Page Scholarship for “highly motivated gay male students.”...
Read on!
What could possibly go wrong?----Tweaking prices for 7 foods could save 60,000 lives in the US every year
Tweaking prices for 7 foods could save 60,000 lives in the US every year:
"Food is the number one cause of poor health in America."
It's no secret there are strong correlations between how much foods cost and how much we consume them, with things like soda taxes being proposed across the world as a powerful tool for fighting obesity.
But what if you were to broaden the scope of that kind of thinking, reducing what it costs to buy a whole range of healthy foods, while simultaneously hiking prices on unhealthy alternatives?
According to new projections, the economic ripples of taxing unhealthy foods while subsidizing healthy options would end up saving thousands of American lives every year – even if the price adjustments were only small..."
"Food is the number one cause of poor health in America."
It's no secret there are strong correlations between how much foods cost and how much we consume them, with things like soda taxes being proposed across the world as a powerful tool for fighting obesity.But what if you were to broaden the scope of that kind of thinking, reducing what it costs to buy a whole range of healthy foods, while simultaneously hiking prices on unhealthy alternatives?
According to new projections, the economic ripples of taxing unhealthy foods while subsidizing healthy options would end up saving thousands of American lives every year – even if the price adjustments were only small..."
Socialism's history shows it delivers misery, murder and refugees - Washington Times
Socialism's history shows it delivers misery, murder and refugees - Washington Times:
"With the entire nation run like a giant prison, more than two million people have died since the mid-1990s from starvation. Hundreds of thousands have been executed or died in concentration camps. Overwhelmed by North Korean refugees, China, under whose own communist government led by Mao an estimated 65 million died, has erected a massive barbed wire and concrete fence along the border.
Do the millennials who were polled know these historical facts? Probably not. But if they are curious enough to find out, would fewer profess a preference for socialism?"
Do the millennials who were polled know these historical facts? Probably not. But if they are curious enough to find out, would fewer profess a preference for socialism?"
Everything You Need To Know About Why Net Neutrality Is A Terrible Idea | Daily Wire
Everything You Need To Know About Why Net Neutrality Is A Terrible Idea | Daily Wire:
"The topic of net neutrality is one of the hottest debated issues of the modern day, and for good reason.
"The topic of net neutrality is one of the hottest debated issues of the modern day, and for good reason.
We all use the internet and thus have a natural tendency to weigh in on issues regarding its regulation.
The internet, however, is a complex hierarchical structure riddled with reams of vagaries.
The internet, however, is a complex hierarchical structure riddled with reams of vagaries.
Without first understanding them, people shouldn’t attempt to propose legislation.
Unfortunately, from Congressmen to commentators to comedians, this is exactly what we’ve been seeing regarding net neutrality.
The only hot political issue where coverage is comparably poor is that of firearms.
Unfortunately, from Congressmen to commentators to comedians, this is exactly what we’ve been seeing regarding net neutrality.
The only hot political issue where coverage is comparably poor is that of firearms.
In fact, USA Today and Vox.com tweeting out explainers on the civilian AR-15 with a chainsaw and grenade launcher attached to it is the perfect analogy for how net neutrality is covered in the media.
But before getting to net neutrality, there are some key concepts about how the internet works that need explaining.
What is the Internet?
The internet is best described as a “network of networks.”
But before getting to net neutrality, there are some key concepts about how the internet works that need explaining.
What is the Internet?
The internet is best described as a “network of networks.”
It’s divided into regions that perform different functions.
Access to the internet is provided through an Internet Service Provider (ISP).
The ISP you’re probably most familiar with is the one you pay directly for your home internet (for example AT&T, Verizon, or Bell Canada).
These providers are known as Tier 3 providers.
But ISPs do a lot more than simply sell you a home internet plan.
There are also Tier 1, and Tier 2 internet service providers.
Here’s a rough sketch of the interconnected web in the United States.
diagram_1.jpg
Tier 1 ISPs are known as the backbone of the internet.
Here’s a rough sketch of the interconnected web in the United States.
diagram_1.jpg
Tier 1 ISPs are known as the backbone of the internet.
There exist about a dozen of them around the world, and they peer with one another, thus not having to pay anyone for transit (they have no providers).
Tier 1 networks can reach every other network on the internet..."
Lots to understand.
Read on!
History for November 28
History for November 28 - On-This-Day.com
William Blake 1757, Berry Gordy, Jr. 1929 - Founder of Mowtown Records, Hope Lange 1933
Gary Hart (Hartpence) 1936, Randy Newman 1943 - Singer, songwriter, Anna Nicole Smith 1967 - Model, actress
1520 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait. The strait was named after him. He was the first European to sail the Pacific from the east.
1922 - Capt. Cyril Turner of the Royal Air Force gave the first public exhibition of skywriting. He spelled out, "Hello USA. Call Vanderbilt 7200" over New York's Times Square.
1942 - In Boston, MA, 491 people died in a fire that destroyed the Coconut Grove.
1943 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin met in Tehran to map out strategy concerning World War II.
1963 - U.S. President Johnson announced that Cape Canaveral would be renamed Cape Kennedy in honor of his assassinated predecessor. The name was changed back to Cape Canaveral in 1973 by a vote of residents.
1979 - An Air New Zealand DC-10 flying to the South Pole crashed in Antarctica killing all 257 people aboard
1990 - Margaret Thatcher resigned as prime minister of Britain.
1994 - Jeffrey Dahmer, a convicted serial killer, was clubbed to death in a Wisconsin prison by a fellow inmate.
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