May 16, 2017

I Married Me Kit website

Jack Kemp

Rush Limbaugh just mentioned this site. The company is in San Francisco. Personally, I haven't married me - I'm just good friends. 8-)

https://imarriedme.com/

You Are Reason To Celebrate

A roadmap to positivity, our I Married Me kit has all you need to create your own ceremony, including a self-wedding ring, vows and daily affirmation cards.

A self-wedding is a symbolic ceremony–about reconnecting and staying connected with you. Wear the ring to remind you every day to LOVE YOURSELF.

Did you know that micro-moments of positivity add up, creating an upward spiral? Positive mental states can also be enhanced by affirmations and even reshape us over time. A daily practice can help you focus on the good and give you resources when life is tough.

You can be single or in a relationship. You can already be married. Have a ceremony for yourself, with a besty, for your entire wedding party or for a special occasion. Life is short, do stuff that matters.

A NOTE FROM TIM:

I wouldn't want to marry myself; if it didn't work out I couldn't afford the alimony.

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Impeachment Turnabout for Maxine Waters

Dana Mathewson

She can pitch, but she can't catch very well. This is fun. . .

http://www.dailywire.com/news/16433/auntie-maxine-waters-gets-heaping-helping-joseph-curl?utm_source=dwemail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=051517-news&utm_campaign=position5


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James Woods (actor) understands what Mother's Day is all about

Dana Mathewson

Destroys Planned Parenthood president with single tweet. Yeah!

http://www.dailywire.com/news/16432/james-woods-destroys-planned-parenthood-single-joseph-curl?utm_source=dwemail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=051517-news&utm_campaign=position1

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May 15, 2017

Pvt. Manning to Remain in Army after Treason Conviction

Dana Mathewson

This is what Mr. Obama left us with by letting "her" out of the slammer early! And you and I are paying "her" wages.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/05/15/chelsea-manning-to-remain-in-army-receive-health-care-benefits-after-prison-release.html


Chelsea Manning to remain in Army, receive health care benefits after prison release.

Chelsea Manning will remain on active duty following her release from military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas on May 17, the U.S. Army said Sunday.

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Dem Congresswoman May get Life in Prison for Fraud

Dana Mathewson

The article eventually gets around to identifying her as a (gasp!) Democrat. What a surprise.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ex-congresswoman-may-spend-rest-life-prison-fraud-072639333.html

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Yes there was a Global Cooling Scare

Timothy Birdnow

Global Warmists dismiss those of us who remember the "Global Cooling" panic of the 1970's as silly. They claim there was just one artiice - a Newsweek story, and that was it.  They are dead wrong.

Take a look at this, courtesy of Helen Dyer

1845 – The whole of Sir John Franklin’s expedition to find the NW Passage died and their ships were crushed by the ice near Baffin Island
1909-1910 – Amundsen sailed an ice free NW Passage
1922 – The Arctic is warming and fishermen are catching species that have never been seen there before. Yawn
1970 – Kenneth Field "The world is cooling and global temperatures could drop by up to 11C that would freeze the North Atlantic for 4- months of the year within 20-years …”
News articles*:
1970 – Colder Winters Held Dawn of New Ice Age – Scientists See Ice Age In the Future<http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/157892192.html?dids=157892192:157892192&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=JAN+11%2C+1970&author=Washington+Post+Staff+WriterBy+David+R.+Boldt&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=Colder+Winters+Held+Dawn+of+New+Ice+Age&pqatl=google> (The Washington Post, January 11, 1970)
1970 – Is Mankind Manufacturing a New Ice Age for Itself?<http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/659824322.html?dids=659824322:659824322&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Jan+15%2C+1970&author=IRVING+S+BENGELSDORF&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Is+Mankind+Manufacturing+a+New+Ice+Age+for+Itself%3F&pqatl=google> (L.A. Times, January 15, 1970)
1970 – New Ice Age May Descend On Man<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QIQiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4akFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1453,2230019> (Sumter Daily Item, January 26, 1970)
1970 – Pollution Prospect A Chilling One<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jjgiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9KsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1371,2354081> (Owosso Argus-Press, January 26, 1970)
1970 – Pollution’s 2-way ‘Freeze’ On Society<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dZNBAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lqkMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6140,1353948> (Middlesboro Daily News, January 28, 1970)
1970 – Cold Facts About Pollution<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=j2gfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5dQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1789,2556510> (The Southeast Missourian, January 29, 1970)
1970 – Pollution Could Cause Ice Age, Agency Reports<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qvcNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_3sDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5498,3270345> (St. Petersburg Times, March 4, 1970)
1970 – Pollution Called Ice Age Threat<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=h_0NAAAAIBAJ&sjid=I3wDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3656,4469550> (St. Petersburg Times, June 26, 1970)
1970 – Dirt Will .Bring New Ice Age<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oKspAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AOUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3323,8047767> (The Sydney Morning Herald, October 19, 1970)
1971 – Ice Age Refugee Dies Underground<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=u64tAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iKAFAAAAIBAJ&pg=939,4211115> (The Montreal Gazette, Febuary 17, 1971)
1971 – U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming<http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/144703752.html?dids=144703752:144703752&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&fmac=&date=Jul+9,+1971&author=By+Victor+CohnWashington+Post+Staff+Writer&desc=U.S.+Scientist+Sees+New+Ice+Age+Coming> (The Washington Post, July 9, 1971)
1971 – Ice Age Around the Corner<http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/597301342.html?dids=597301342:597301342&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&type=historic&date=Jul+10%2C+1971&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=Ice+Age+Around+the+Corner&pqatl=google> (Chicago Tribune, July 10, 1971)
1971 – New Ice Age Coming – It’s Already Getting Colder<http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/685244192.html?dids=685244192:685244192&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Oct+24%2C+1971&author=GEORGE+GETZE&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=New+Ice+Age+Coming---It%27s+Already+Getting+Colder&pqatl=google> (L.A. Times, October 24, 1971)
1971 – Another Ice Age? Pollution Blocking Sunlight<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0_cgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lnMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=806,54617> (The Day, November 1, 1971)
1971 – Air Pollution Could Bring An Ice Age<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zoFBAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WakMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3457,2979744> (Harlan Daily Enterprise, November 4, 1971)
1972 – Air pollution may cause ice age<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xSIRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5YoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3070,3629889> (Free-Lance Star, February 3, 1972)
1972 – Scientist Says New ice Age Coming (The Ledger, February 13, 1972)
1972 – Scientist predicts new ice age<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MnMQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=R4sDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2204,1181394> (Free-Lance Star, September 11, 1972)
1972 – British expert on Climate Change says Says New Ice Age Creeping Over Northern Hemisphere<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ASRHAAAAIBAJ&sjid=u_MMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1081,1308250> (Lewiston Evening Journal, September 11, 1972)
1972 – Climate Seen Cooling For Return Of Ice Age<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DclQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WNAMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1765,1073786> (Portsmouth Times, ‎September 11, 1972‎)
1972 – New Ice Age Slipping Over North<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1oxLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EyQNAAAAIBAJ&pg=7074,2222741> (Press-Courier, September 11, 1972)
1972 – Ice Age Begins A New Assault In North<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=g-YPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1pADAAAAIBAJ&pg=5612,2539402> (The Age, September 12, 1972)
1972 – Weather To Get Colder<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GYs0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=fqEFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3996,3163543> (Montreal Gazette, ‎September 12, 1972‎)
1972 – British climate expert predicts new Ice Age<http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/csmonitor_historic/access/264940572.html?dids=264940572:264940572&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&date=Sep+23%2C+1972&author=&pub=Christian+Science+Monitor&desc=British+climate+expert+predicts+new+Ice+Age&pqatl=google> (The Christian Science Monitor, September 23, 1972)
1972 – Scientist Sees Chilling Signs of New Ice Age<http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/684637452.html?dids=684637452:684637452&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Sep+24%2C+1972&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Scientist+Sees+Chilling+Signs+of+New+Ice+Age&pqatl=google> (L.A. Times, September 24, 1972)
1972 – Science: Another Ice Age?<http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,910467,00.html> (Time Magazine, November 13, 1972)
1973 – The Ice Age Cometh<http://www.unz.org/Pub/SaturdayRev-1973mar24-00029> (The Saturday Review, March 24, 1973)
1973 – Weather-watchers think another ice age may be on the way<http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/csmonitor_historic/access/265591482.html?dids=265591482:265591482&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Dec+11%2C+1973&author=By+David+F.+Salisbury+Staff+correspondent+of+The+Christian+Science+Monitor&pub=Christian+Science+Monitor&desc=Weather-watchers+think+another+ice+age+may+be+on+the+way--sometime&pqatl=google> (The Christian Science Monitor, December 11, 1973)[image001.jpg]<http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/thebigfreeze.jpg>
1974 – New evidence indicates ice age here<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SGYRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OeADAAAAIBAJ&pg=6529,7703615&dq=allintitle:+ice+age&hl=en> (Eugene Register-Guard, May 29, 1974)
1974 – Another Ice Age?<http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944914,00.html> (Time Magazine, June 24, 1974)
1974 – 2 Scientists Think ‘Little’ Ice Age Near<http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/964208132.html?dids=964208132:964208132&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Aug+11%2C+1974&author=&pub=The+Hartford+Courant&desc=2+Scientists+Think+%27Little%27+Ice+Age+Near&pqatl=google> (The Hartford Courant, August 11, 1974)
1974 – Ice Age, worse food crisis seen<http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/611645872.html?dids=611645872:611645872&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Oct+30%2C+1974&author=Ronald+Yates&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=Ice+Age%2C+worse+food+crisis+seen&pqatl=google> (The Chicago Tribune, October 30, 1974)
1974 – Believes Pollution Could Bring On Ice Age<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KkMKAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Q0oDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3031,5319949> (Ludington Daily News, December 4, 1974)
1974 – Pollution Could Spur Ice Age, Nasa Says<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gPsqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OdoFAAAAIBAJ&pg=886,546896> (Beaver Country Times, ‎December 4, 1974‎)
1974 – Air Pollution May Trigger Ice Age, Scientists Feel<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZaQrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uPwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5191,1022557> (The Telegraph, ‎December 5, 1974‎)
1974 – More Air Pollution Could Trigger Ice Age Disaster<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kfhDAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NLAMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2502,4753810> (Daily Sentinel – ‎December 5, 1974‎)
1974 – Scientists Fear Smog Could Cause Ice Age<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KWwjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BikEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1719,4372546> (Milwaukee Journal, December 5, 1974)
1975 – Climate Changes Called Ominous<http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9505E0D9143AE034BC4152DFB766838E669EDE> (The New York Times, January 19, 1975)
1975 – Climate Change: Chilling Possibilities<http://www.sciencenews.org/view/access/id/37739/file/SN1975_Climate_change_chilling_possibilities.pdf> (Science News, March 1, 1975)
1975 – B-r-r-r-r: New Ice Age on way soon?<http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/611341812.html?dids=611341812:611341812&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Mar+02%2C+1975&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=B-r-r-r-r%3A+New+Ice+Age+on+way+soon%3F&pqatl=google> (The Chicago Tribune, March 2, 1975)
1975 – Cooling Trends Arouse Fear That New Ice Age Coming<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=R7ITAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mNkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6865,188682> (Eugene Register-Guard, ‎March 2, 1975‎)
1975 – Is Another Ice Age Due? Arctic Ice Expands In Last Decade<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QAFJAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5oIMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1282,407671> (Youngstown Vindicator – ‎March 2, 1975‎)
1975 – Is Earth Headed For Another Ice Age?<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Fw5XAAAAIBAJ&sjid=H0MNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4054,763443> (Reading Eagle, March 2, 1975)
1975 – New Ice Age Dawning? Significant Shift In Climate Seen<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UxQsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ncgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1023,74977> (Times Daily, ‎March 2, 1975‎)
1975 – There’s Troublesome Weather Ahead<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_nchAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZogFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2882,74458> (Tri City Herald, ‎March 2, 1975‎)
1975 – Is Earth Doomed To Live Through Another Ice Age?<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XOI_AAAAIBAJ&sjid=MVgMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3973,252553> (The Robesonian, ‎March 3, 1975‎)
1975 – The Ice Age cometh: the system that controls our climate<http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/611566792.html?dids=611566792:611566792&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Apr+13%2C+1975&author=Joel+Shurkin&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=The+Ice+Age+cometh%3A+the+system+that+controls+our+climate&pqatl=google> (The Chicago Tribune, April 13, 1975)
1975 – The Cooling World<http://denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm> (Newsweek, April 28, 1975)
1975 – Scientists Ask Why World Climate Is Changing; Major Cooling May Be Ahead<http://www.wmconnolley.org.uk/sci/iceage/ny-times-1975-05-21.pdf> (PDF) (The New York Times, May 21, 1975)
1975 – In the Grip of a New Ice Age? (International Wildlife, July-August, 1975)
1975 – Oil Spill Could Cause New Ice Age<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ttsjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GSkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7083,335688> (Milwaukee Journal, December 11, 1975)
1976 – The Cooling: Has the Next Ice Age Already Begun? [Book]<http://www.amazon.com/Cooling-Has-Next-Already-Begun/dp/013172312X> (Lowell Ponte, 1976)
1977 – Blizzard – What Happens if it Doesn’t Stop? [Book]<http://www.amazon.com/Blizzard-What-Happens-If-Doesnt-Stop/dp/B000HZJOTG> (George Stone, 1977)
1977 – The Weather Conspiracy: The Coming of the New Ice Age [Book]<http://books.google.com/books?id=eThRAAAAMAAJ> (The Impact Team, 1977)
1976 – Worrisome CIA Report; Even U.S. Farms May be Hit by Cooling Trend (U.S. News & World Report, May 31, 1976)
1977 – The Big Freeze<http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,918620,00.html> (Time Magazine, January 31, 1977)
1977 – We Will Freeze in the Dark<http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30610F6345F137B93C0A8178FD85F438785F9> (Capital Cities Communications Documentary, Host: Nancy Dickerson, April 12, 1977)
1978 – The New Ice Age [Book]<http://openlibrary.org/b/OL4717080M/new-ice-age> (Henry Gilfond, 1978)
1978 – Little Ice Age: Severe winters and cool summers ahead<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=s3FkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4n0NAAAAIBAJ&pg=1060,4124296> (Calgary Herald, January 10, 1978)
1978 – Winters Will Get Colder, ‘we’re Entering Little Ice Age’<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LwEQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bI8DAAAAIBAJ&pg=3877,465994> (Ellensburg Daily Record, January 10, 1978)
1978 – Geologist Says Winters Getting Colder<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mylCAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xaoMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6147,666578> (Middlesboro Daily News, January 16, 1978)
1978 – It’s Going To Get Colder<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JOtYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mowDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3555,2907200> (Boca Raton News, ‎January 17, 1978‎)
1978 – Believe new ice age is coming<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dEgLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WlIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2957,5904697> (The Bryan Times, March 31, 1978)
1978 – The Coming Ice Age<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0894213/> (In Search Of TV Show, Season 2, Episode 23, Host: Leonard Nimoy, May 1978)
1978 – An Ice Age Is Coming Weather Expert Fears<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=588VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-REEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3017,3553525> (Milwaukee Sentinel, November 17, 1978)
1979 – A Choice of Catastrophes – The Disasters That Threaten Our World [Book]<http://openlibrary.org/books/OL4410494M/A_choice_of_catastrophes> (Isaac Asimov, 1979)
1979 – Get Ready to Freeze<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TP1jAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LvkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6686,3866860> (Spokane Daily Chronicle, October 12, 1979)
1979 – New ice age almost upon us?<http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/csmonitor_historic/access/187037982.html?dids=187037982:187037982&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Nov+14%2C+1979&author=By+Robert+C.+Cowen&pub=Christian+Science+Monitor&desc=New+ice+age+almost+upon+us%3F&pqatl=google> (The Christian Science Monitor, November 14, 1979)
* A couple of the news stories are duplicates in different papers with slightly different titles, this is intentional to show that these types of stories were not isolated to a certain regional paper.
And from the National Center for Atmospheric Research:
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Source: http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Magazines/Bulletin/Bull165/16505796265.pdf
2009 – CLIMATEGATE EMAILS!!
2013 – Who can forget Prophessor Turney of Sydney and the Oz ‘Ship of Fools’ icebound after predicting no ice (makes one proud to be Australian, dun’it?) http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/12/30/the-antarctic-research-fiasco-would-you-could-you-in-a-boat/

2013 – In 2000, scientists at perhaps the world’s centre of global warming alarmism issued this prediction:

According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, within a few years winter snowfall will become "a very rare and exciting event”.

”Children just aren’t going to know what snow is<http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/i_dont_think_the_warmists_models_are_working/>,” he said.

It’s now 2013 - which surely must now qualify as "within a few years”.

Russia:<http://rt.com/news/winter-snow-russia-weather-275/>

On Friday, Moscow was on a verge of traffic collapse as more than 10 inches of snow fell on the city<http://rt.com/news/winter-snow-russia-weather-275/>,which is more than half of January’s average… In the Altai Republic in Western Siberia, 12 Russian settlements were isolated because of the snowstorm…

In the end of 2012, Russia saw extreme winter not witnessed since 1938. The coldest-ever December in Russia led to the evacuation of hundreds of people in Siberia, where temperatures fell below -50 degrees Celsius; Moscow also saw its coldest night ever for the season.

Britain:<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/20/snow-britain-big-freeze>

Snow is expected to blanket the UK for the next week, with no end to the freezing conditions in sight.

Europe:<http://www.dw.de/snow-and-security-crew-strike-delay-european-flights/a-16532585>

Snowfalls across western Europe have disrupted travel plans, with cancellations and closures at some major airports.

I really don’t think global warming is working out as the experts predicted.
2013 – Never let reality deceive you with .... well, reality
NOAA: 2185 cold records broken or tied in past week – 1913 Low Min Records Broken & 272 tied in 7 days<http://www.climatedepot.com/2015/02/28/noaa-2185-cold-records-broken-or-tied-in-past-week-1913-low-min-records-broken-272-tied-in-7-days/>


2015 NASA puts out an ‘Arthur & Martha’ prediction Cooling or Warming - it's your fault<http://iceagenow.info/complete-turn-around-now-nasa-says-burning-fossil-fuels-cools-planet/>


Alistair Pope,










Subject: 120 Years Of Climate Scares And Progressive Scams...



120 years of climate scares – no kidding, people are stupid! And gullible…
By Thomas Lifson
Scientists seeking funding and journalists seeking an audience agree: panic sells.
"Global cooling is going to kills us all!” "No, wait: global warming is going to kill us all!”
All that’s missing is a back-and-forth of "You shut up!” "No, you shut up!” That is reserved for those who doubt the need for panic.
That’s the gist of an amazing chronology of the last 120 years of scare-mongering on climate, assembled by butnowyouknow.net<http://butnowyouknow.net/those-who-fail-to-learn-from-history/climate-change-timeline/> and reprinted by the estimable James Watt in Wattsupwiththat<http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/07/29/a-brief-history-of-climate-panic-and-crisis-both-warming-and-cooling/>, who updates it to the present. It is truly mind-boggling:
· 1895 - Geologists Think the World May Be Frozen Up Again – New York Times, February 1895<http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F02E1D8163CE433A25757C2A9649C94649ED7CF>
· 1902 - "Disappearing Glaciers…deteriorating slowly, with a persistency that means their final annihilation…scientific fact…surely disappearing.” – Los Angeles Times
· 1912 - Prof. Schmidt Warns Us of an Encroaching Ice Age – New York Times, October 1912<http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A04EED7113AE633A25754C0A9669D946396D6CF>
· 1923 - "Scientist says Arctic ice will wipe out Canada” – Professor Gregory of Yale University, American representative to the Pan-Pacific Science Congress, – Chicago Tribune
· 1923 - "The discoveries of changes in the sun’s heat and the southward advance of glaciers in recent years have given rise to conjectures of the possible advent of a new ice age” – Washington Post
· 1924 - MacMillan Reports Signs of New Ice Age – New York Times, Sept 18, 1924<http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0C14FB3C5B12738DDDA10A94D1405B848EF1D3&scp=1&sq=%93MacMillan+Reports+Signs%22&st=p>
· 1929 - "Most geologists think the world is growing warmer, and that it will continue to get warmer” – Los Angeles Times, in Is another ice age coming?
· 1932 - "If these things be true, it is evident, therefore that we must be just teetering on an ice age” – The Atlantic magazine, This Cold, Cold World
· 1933 - America in Longest Warm Spell Since 1776; Temperature Line Records a 25-Year Rise – New York Times, March 27th, 1933<http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00617FF3D5E1A7A93C5AB1788D85F478385F9&scp=1&sq=%22America+in+Longest+Warm+Spell+Since+1776%22&st=p>
· 1933 – "…wide-spread and persistent tendency toward warmer weather…Is our climate changing?” – Federal Weather Bureau "Monthly Weather Review.”
· 1938 - Global warming, caused by man heating the planet with carbon dioxide, "is likely to prove beneficial to mankind in several ways, besides the provision of heat and power.”– Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
· 1938 - "Experts puzzle over 20 year mercury rise…Chicago is in the front rank of thousands of cities thuout the world which have been affected by a mysterious trend toward warmer climate in the last two decades” – Chicago Tribune
· 1939 - "Gaffers who claim that winters were harder when they were boys are quite right… weather men have no doubt that the world at least for the time being is growing warmer” – Washington Post
· 1952 - "…we have learned that the world has been getting warmer in the last half century” – New York Times, August 10th, 1962<http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20E1EF6345A107B93C2A81783D85F468585F9&scp=1&sq=%22has+been+getting+warmer+in+the+last+half+century%22&st=p>
· 1954 - "…winters are getting milder, summers drier. Glaciers are receding, deserts growing” – U.S. News and World Report
· 1954 - Climate – the Heat May Be Off – Fortune Magazine
· 1959 - "Arctic Findings in Particular Support Theory of Rising Global Temperatures” – New York Times
· 1969 - "…the Arctic pack ice is thinning and that the ocean at the North Pole may become an open sea within a decade or two” – New York Times, February 20th, 1969<http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40A11FC3959147493C2AB1789D85F4D8685F9&scp=1&sq=%22Arctic+pack+ice+is+thinning+and+that+the+ocean+at+the%22&st=p>
· 1969 – "If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000? — Paul Ehrlich (while he now predicts doom from global warming, this quote only gets honorable mention, as he was talking about his crazy fear of overpopulation)
· 1970 - "…get a good grip on your long johns, cold weather haters – the worst may be yet to come…there’s no relief in sight” – Washington Post
· 1974 - Global cooling for the past forty years – Time Magazine
· 1974 - "Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age” –Washington Post
· 1974 - "As for the present cooling trend a number of leading climatologists have concluded that it is very bad news indeed” – Fortune magazine, who won a Science Writing Award from the American Institute of Physics for its analysis of the danger
· 1974 - "…the facts of the present climate change are such that the most optimistic experts would assign near certainty to major crop failure…mass deaths by starvation, and probably anarchy and violence” – New York Times
Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age
· 1975 - Scientists Ponder Why World’s Climate is Changing; A Major Cooling Widely Considered to Be Inevitable – New York Times, May 21st, 1975<http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50B1FFD395D137B93C3AB178ED85F418785F9&scp=1&sq=%22Scientists+Ponder+Why+World%92s+Climate+is+Changing%22&st=p>
· 1975 - "The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind” Nigel Calder, editor, New Scientist magazine, in an article in International Wildlife Magazine
· 1976 - "Even U.S. farms may be hit by cooling trend” – U.S. News and World Report
· 1981 - Global Warming – "of an almost unprecedented magnitude” – New York Times
· 1988 - I would like to draw three main conclusions. Number one, the earth is warmer in 1988 than at any time in the history of instrumental measurements. Number two, the global warming is now large enough that we can ascribe with a high degree of confidence a cause and effect relationship to the greenhouse effect. And number three, our computer climate simulations indicate that thegreenhouse effect is already large enough to begin to effect the probability of extreme events such as summer heat waves. – Jim Hansen, June 1988 testimony<http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Environment/documents/2008/06/23/ClimateChangeHearing1988.pdf> before Congress, see His later quote<http://butnowyouknow.net/those-who-fail-to-learn-from-history/climate-change-timeline/#hype> andHis superior’s objection<http://butnowyouknow.net/those-who-fail-to-learn-from-history/climate-change-timeline/#horror> for context
· 1989 -"On the one hand, as scientists we are ethically bound to the scientific method, in effect promising to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but – which means that we must include all doubts, the caveats, the ifs, ands and buts. On the other hand, we are not just scientists but human beings as well. And like most people we’d like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climate change. To do that we need to get some broad based support, to capture the public’s imagination. That, of course, means getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have. This "double ethical bind” we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest. I hope that means being both.” – Stephen Schneider, lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,Discover magazine, October 1989
· 1990 - "We’ve got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing – in terms of economic policy and environmental policy” – Senator Timothy Wirth
· 1993 - "Global climate change may alter temperature and rainfall patterns, many scientists fear, with uncertain consequences for agriculture.” – U.S. News and World Report
· 1998 - No matter if the science [of global warming] is all phony . . . climate change [provides] the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world.” —Christine Stewart, Canadian Minister of the Environment, Calgary Herald, 1998
· 2001 - "Scientists no longer doubt that global warming is happening, and almost nobody questions the fact that humans are at least partly responsible.” – Time Magazine, Monday, Apr. 09, 2001<http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,999630,00.html>
· 2003 - Emphasis on extreme scenarios may have been appropriate at one time, when the public and decision-makers were relatively unaware of the global warming issue, and energy sources such as "synfuels,” shale oil and tar sands were receiving strong consideration” – Jim Hansen, NASA Global Warming activist, Can we defuse The Global Warming Time Bomb?<http://naturalscience.com/ns/articles/01-16/ns_jeh6.html>, 2003
· 2006 - "I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.” — Al Gore, Grist magazine, May 2006<http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2006/05/09/roberts/index.html>
· 2006 – "It is not a debate over whether the earth has been warming over the past century. The earth is always warming or cooling, at least a few tenths of a degree…” —Richard S. Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan professor of meteorology at MIT
· 2006 – "What we have fundamentally forgotten is simple primary school science. Climate always changes. It is always…warming or cooling, it’s never stable. And if it were stable, it would actually be interesting scientifically because it would be the first time for four and a half billion years.” —Philip Stott, emeritus professor of bio-geography at the University of London
· 2006 - "Since 1895, the media has alternated between global cooling and warming scares during four separate and sometimes overlapping time periods. From 1895 until the 1930’s the media peddled a coming ice age. From the late 1920’s until the 1960’s they warned of global warming. From the 1950’s until the 1970’s they warned us again of a coming ice age. This makes modern global warming the fourth estate’s fourth attempt to promote opposing climate change fears during the last 100 years.” –Senator James Inhofe<http://epw.senate.gov/speechitem.cfm?party=rep&id=263759>, Monday, September 25, 2006
· 2007- "I gave a talk recently (on fallacies of global warming) and three members of the Canadian government, the environmental cabinet, came up afterwards and said, ‘We agree with you, but it’s not worth our jobs to say anything.’ So what’s being created is a huge industry with billions of dollars of government money and people’s jobs dependent on it.” – Dr. Tim Ball, Coast-to-Coast, Feb 6, 2007
· 2008 – "Hansen was never muzzled even though he violated NASA’s official agency position on climate forecasting (i.e., we did not know enough to forecast climate change or mankind’s effect on it). Hansen thus embarrassed NASA by coming out with his claims of global warming in 1988 in his testimony before Congress” – Dr. John S. Theon, retired Chief of the Climate Processes Research Program atNASA, see above for Hansen quotes
Section updated by Anthony:
· 2009 – Climate change: melting ice will trigger wave of natural disasters. Scientists at a London conference next week will warn of earthquakes, avalanches and volcanic eruptions as the atmosphere heats up and geology is altered. Even Britain could face being struck by tsunamis – "Not only are the oceans and atmosphere conspiring against us, bringing baking temperatures, more powerful storms and floods, but the crust beneath our feet seems likely to join in too,” – Professor Bill McGuire, director of the Benfield Hazard Research Centre, at University College London, – The Guardian, Sep 2009<http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/sep/06/global-warming-natural-disasters-conference>.
· 2010 – What Global Warming Looks Like. It was more than 5°C (about 10°F) warmer than climatology in the eastern European region including Moscow. There was an area in eastern Asia that was similarly unusually hot. The eastern part of the United States was unusually warm, although not to the degree of the hot spots in Eurasia. James Hansen – NASA GISS, August 11, 2010<http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2010july/>.
· 2011 – Where Did Global Warming Go? "In Washington, ‘climate change’ has become a lightning rod, it’s a four-letter word,” said Andrew J. Hoffman, director of the University of Michigan’s Erb Institute for Sustainable Development. – New York Times, Oct 15, 2011.<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/sunday-review/whatever-happened-to-global-warming.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0>
· 2012 – Global warming close to becoming irreversible-scientists. "This is the critical decade. If we don’t get the curves turned around this decade we will cross those lines,” said Will Steffen, executive director of the Australian National University’s climate change institute, speaking at a conference in London. Reuters, Mar 26, 2012<http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/26/us-climate-thresholds-idUSBRE82P0UJ20120326>
· 2013 – Global-warming ‘proof’ is evaporating. The 2013 hurricane season just ended as one of the five quietest years since 1960. But don’t expect anyone who pointed to last year’s hurricanes as "proof” of the need to act against global warming to apologize; the warmists don’t work that way. New York Post, Dec 5, 2013<http://nypost.com/2013/12/05/global-warming-proof-is-evaporating/>
· 2014 – Climate change: It’s even worse than we thought. Five years ago, the last report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change painted a gloomy picture of our planet’s future. As climate scientists gather evidence for the next report, due in 2014, Michael Le Page gives seven reasons why things are looking even grimmer. –New Scientist<http://www.newscientist.com/special/worse-climate> (undated in 2014)

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Another Righteous Man

Jack Kemp

(See here for the parent piece to this.)

There was also this courageous guy, mentioned in the book "Exodus 1947."


"Later in the book, Ms. Gruber also mentions John Stanley Grauel, a Protestant minister who was a crew member and supposedly a "neutral observer," who sailed on the ship from Baltimore, through the Atlantic storms to Europe and a British Royal Marine boarding (where they killed three people) to arrive with them in Haifa. He later gave testimony to a commission and to Ms. Gruber."

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Rev. Grauel was an American Protestant minister who fought antisemitism and was a fervent Christian Zionist. He was actually sworn in as a member of the Haganah, the Jewish underground army (they swore him in on a New Testament out of respect for his faith). He briefly left the "Exodus" ship and was a Haganah courier in France, his Christian cleric's robes averting all suspicion. Years later, after first being buried in New Jersey, his body was transfered to a cemetery for Righteous Gentiles just outside the walls of the Old C:ity of Jerusalem. I have a hard to find copy of his autobiography

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ABC’s Matthew Dowd Tweets On Muslim Persecution By ‘Christian Extremists’

Jack Kemp

http://theresurgent.com/fake-news-abcs-matthew-dowd-tweets-on-muslim-persecution-by-christian-extremists/

FAKE NEWS: ABC’s Matthew Dowd Tweets On Muslim Persecution By ‘Christian Extremists’
By Steve Berman | May 12, 2017, 05:00pm

Just to review: Dowd claimed that the growing persecution of Christians around the globe < persecution of Muslims in America and around the globe. And to support this claim, he offered no evidence.
Obviously, a tweet of such monumental insensitivity and stupidity by someone who should know better garnered quite a bit of attention online.


Jay Caruso of RedState challenged the poor fact-challenged Dowd.

Roving bands of "Christian extremists” patrol the streets hunting Muslims and murdering them in cold blood, eh? They shout "Praise Jesus!” as they behead women and children in mosques, right?

END OF QUOTE

See the entire article (which is difficult to copy because of the inbedded Tweet by Matthew Dowd, listed multiple times, and the replies to its outrageous statement). Dowd is a "True Believer," in the sense that Eric Hoffer wrote about in his classic book.

The link, once again, is http://theresurgent.com/fake-news-abcs-matthew-dowd-tweets-on-muslim-persecution-by-christian-extremists/

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Brandon Bostian, Amtrak engineer, charged in fatal 2015 derailment in Philly

Jack Kemp

This guy lived (or lives) diagonally across the street from me. I didn't see any press hanging around his door today as I did two years ago.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/13/brandon-bostian-amtrak-engineer-charged-over-fatal/

The Amtrak engineer at the controls during the 2015 derailment in Philadelphia that left eight passengers dead and hundreds injured was criminally charged Friday with multiple counts including causing or risking a catastrophe.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced charges against engineer Brandon Bostian this week exactly two years to the day after Amtrak 188 derailed in Philly en route to New York City from Washington, D.C., killing eight people onboard and injuring over 200 others.
Mr. Bostian, 33, faces one count of involuntary manslaughter for each fatality as well as causing or risking a catastrophe, a second-degree felony that carries a maximum punishment of 10 years behind bars, prosecutors said Friday.

"I commend our outstanding team in the Office of the Attorney General who worked diligently and thoughtfully around the clock to enable us to be in this position to pursue justice on behalf of the victims of this deadly crash,” Mr. Shapiro said in a statement.

Federal investigators have determined the May 2015 derailment occurred after its engineer became distracted, lost situational awareness and accelerated the train to 106 mph on a curve that has a 50 mph speed limit.

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Gun Rights vs. Healthcare "Rights"

Jack Kemp

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/05/pansy_americas_new_bill_of_rights.html

May 15, 2017
Pansy America's New Bill of 'Rights'
By Justin O. Smith

...My good friend, retired U.S. Army Colonel Kurt Schlicter, editor for Townhall, tweeted back: "Guns are in the Bill of Rights, but they aren't one [according to Democrats]. The right to have one pay for your healthcare is not [in the Bill of Rights], but it's a right?"... - quote from the article

Jack's comment, posted at Amer. Thinker:

So, using liberal logic, then the government should give me money to buy guns, since gun ownership is a right, according to the Second Amendment. Or, at the very least, let me write off gun purchases (say, the first 10 guns) from my federal taxes.

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May 14, 2017

Tillerson Sells U.S. Policy Down the Glacier with Arctic Council Agenda 21 Document

Timothy Birdnow

Oily Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, the man who put the pink into the Boy Scouts, has signed on to not one but two agreements as a member of the Arctic Council that codify the nonsense of Climate Change alarmism.

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/05/12/tillerson-signs-docs-with-climate-change-statement-insisting-u-s-still-reviewing-policy/

Among other liberal, AGenda 21 items the Fairbanks Declaration ducument states:

"Noting with concern that the Arctic is warming at more than twice the rate of the global average, resulting in widespread social, environmental, and economic impacts in the Arctic and worldwide, and the pressing and increasing need for mitigation and adaptation actions and to strengthen resilience,

Noting the entry into force of the Paris Agreement on climate change and its implementation, and reiterating the need for global action to reduce both long-lived greenhouse gases and short-lived climate pollutants."

This while the U.S. is still mulling over leaving the Paris Accord.

I warned everyone Tillerson was a bad egg.

Donald Trump promised to pull us out of these types of anti-American internationalist agreements. Yet his chosen Secretaty of State is digging us in deeper.

When Ronald Reagan was presented with the Law of the Sea Treaty (since signed by Barack Obama) he rejected it. When the diplomatic corpse complained they had been negotiating it for a decade he answered "if this election was about anything it was about a fresh start." And so Reagan vetoed it.

Trump needs to do this same sort of thing.

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The James Comey Passion Play

Timothy Birdnow

A quick thought on Comey's firing and the Democrat's reaction; when Republicans called the bluff of the Clinton machine and their attacks on special prosecutor Ken Starr the Donkeys were flummoxed. I remember James Carville called Starr a pervert, an abuser of power, a man on a quest. But when it was suggested he be fired for abusing his position Carville was taken aback "now why would we want to do that?"

See, they had placed all their hopes on demonizing Starr and didn't want to have to start all over with another guy. The primary impeachment defense for Bill Clinton was that a.it was just about sex b.the economy was good and c.Ken Starr was waging a personal vendetta. The first two were solely intended to frighten Republicans in Congress while the third was intended to sour public opinion. They needed that third leg to be victorious. They had put so much time and effort into turning Starr into a monster in the public perception that they could not afford for him to go.

Ditto Comey. The only way to rehabilitate Hillary and marginalize Trump is to claim a conspiracy. The Russians hacked the election, they claim. Hillary won the popular vote, they claim (and it is a claim; in many parts of the country vote counting ceases when one candidate is the clear winner of the state. Also, we do not know how many illegal aliens voted, or how many other shady votes were cast.) And the third leg of the dunces stool is James Comey knifed Hillary in the back.

See, they needed Comey there to blame. They railed against him when he was seemingly secure, yet now are enraged that Trump fired him because they needed him as a whipping boy. He was a symbol of the "corruption" of the Trump Administration, a man who abused his positiion to destroy Hillary's campaign. Getting rid of this guy screws up their whole game plan - especially since Comey appears to have been compromised in some fashion.At any

I wonder if Obama wasn't behind all of this all along. He has no love for the Clintons and no reason to want them and their Dixie Mafia to replace him and the Chicago mobsters that surrounded him. What better way to handle things than to knife Hillary in the back just enough to allow Trump to win but to leave Trump bloodied and impotent. A close, heartbreaking defeat was more likely to break Hillary than a comfortable one, and Obama had the deep state to thwart a President Trump at every turn. Trump could perhaps be impeached or removed based ont he 25th amendment, and if not he would perhaps accomplish nothing, held in check by guys like Comey. AFter the holding action an Obama associate could perhaps regain power.

But if Hillary had won she would have purged Obama's people and crowned herself Queen. How would that have profited Obama?

I suspect Comey was recruited into the Deep State during his tenure as Obama's FBI director. How? Don't know, but given the people involved it probably has blackmail as an integral part. I think Comey's job was to either finish Hillary or bloody her up so badly she would be forced to crawl to The One. I actually see no downside to this for Obama.

Comey's firing throws a monkey wrench in the works. Even if I am totally wrong in my theory that Obama was involved, I still am not wrong about the Ken Starr/Comey comparison. The Dems and the Media are furious because they needed Comey there as the villain in their passion play.

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US Soldier Named ‘Righteous among the Nations’

Jack Kemp

I was  inspired me to buy a hard copy Jewish Press and look up a story seen there about Mary Elmes, an Irish citizen and Righteous Among the Nations honored in Jerusalem. I found her story about saving Jewish lives in WWII France (she previously saved refugee lives in the Spanish Civil War). But Mary Elmes' story is also on the internet at http://www.irishcentral.com/news/cork-woman-mary-elmes-honored-for-role-in-saving-jewish-children-from-nazis-in-wwii-208053091-237590601

And also found this other story at the Jewish Press website about another Righteous Among the Nations, U.S. Army Sgt. Roddie Edward. His son later became a pastor...


http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/us-soldier-named-righteous-among-the-nations/2015/12/02/

US Soldier Named ‘Righteous among the Nations’

Master Sgt. Robbie Edwards, as a POW, told a Nazi officer if he wants to exterminate Jewish soldiers, he has to murder him and fellow non-Jews.
 
A U.S. Army soldier who fought in against the Nazis is now the first American soldier to be recognized by Yad VaShem as "Righteous among the Nations” for rescuing Jewish soldiers.
Four other Americans, all of them civilians, have been recognized with the same honor.

The late Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds fought in the 422nd Infantry Regiment and was captured in the Battle of the Bulge. He was sent to the Stalag POW camp in Germany.

The Wehrmacht had an anti-Jewish policy, singling out Jewish POWs from the rest of the POW population, and many Jewish POWs were sent to extermination camps or murdered.

In January 1945, the Germans announced that all Jewish POWs in Stalag IXA were to report the following morning. Edmonds, who was the highest ranking solider in the American section of the camp ordered all his men, to fallout the following morning – Jews and non-Jews alike.

When the German camp commander, Major Siegmann, saw that all the camp’s inmates were standing in front of their barracks, he turned to Edmonds and exclaimed: "They cannot all be Jews!”
Edmonds replied, "We are all Jews.” After Siegmann took out his pistol and threatened Edmonds, the soldier declared:
According to the Geneva Convention, we only have to give our name, rank and serial number. If you shoot me, you will have to shoot all of us, and after the war you will be tried for war crimes.
The Commandant turned around and left the scene.

NCO Paul Stern, who stood near Edmonds during the exchange and among who was Netanyahu of those saved by his action, recounted the story to Yad VaShem

Stern, who was taken prisoner on December 17, 1944, added, "Although seventy years have passed, I can still hear the words he said to the German Camp Commander.”

Another Jewish soldier who was witness to the incident is Lester Tanner, who had trained in Fort Jackson where Master Sergeant Edmonds was stationed. Tanner recalled:
He did not throw his rank around. You knew he knew his stuff and he got across to you without being arrogant or inconsiderate. I admired him for his command… We were in combat on the front lines for only a short period, but it was clear that Roddie Edmonds was a man of great courage who led his men with the same capacity we had come to know him in the States
I would estimate that there were more than one thousand Americans standing in wide formation in front of the barracks with Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds standing in front with several senior non-coms beside him, of which I was one… Edmonds, at the risk of his immediate death, defied the Germans with the unexpected consequences that the Jewish prisoners were saved.

Edmonds died in 1985.

Yad VaShem chairman Avner Shalev said, "Edmonds seemed like an ordinary American soldier, but he had an extraordinary sense of responsibility and dedication to his fellow human beings….The choices and actions of Master Sergeant Edmonds set an example for his fellow American soldiers as they stood united against the barbaric evil of the Nazis.”

Edmonds’ son, Pastor Chris Edmonds, is currently in Israel participating in a seminar sponsored by the International School for Holocaust Studies for Christian leaders.

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The Ammo Grrrll hits another one out of the park

Dana Mathewson forwards this:

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/05/thoughts-from-the-ammo-line-167.php


I knew a child many years ago, abandoned by her mother at a young age, who kept reliving that feeling of abandonment by constantly upping the ante in demands until she was told "No” and she could have a meltdown.

One day we went on a lovely outing to a local park and rode on the paddleboats on the lake; she asked to go to an amusement park, which we did. She asked for so many treats she got sick. She asked to ride on many rides until she came to one for which she did not make the height requirement. She went nuts. "Why didn’t you say ‘No’ sooner, you ask?” I truly wanted to see exactly what it would take to make her happy. The answer: it couldn’t be done. She was damaged. It became quite clear that she didn’t ENJOY being happy.
[...]
There are many conservatives who either have someone in their extended family or know someone who is gay. So, when gay couples wanted to have some kind of commitment ceremony, many conservatives attended such events. (In one case, my very redneck neighbor in Minnesota hosted a ceremony in his backyard for a lesbian friend. The stupid, made-up epithet "homophobic,” like its cousin, "racist,” is flung like poo by monkeys, but is generally a lazy, convenient lie or wild exaggeration.)
[...]
You would think that the gays and the progressives would still be popping champagne, but again, you would be wrong. The poor losers turned out to be even more vicious winners. They outed supporters of traditional marriage and hacked into databases and punished anyone who had dared to believe what Candidate Obama said he believed.

Since there is not a single argument for gay marriage – it’s about "equality”; it’s about simple fairness; it’s just about "who you love” — that cannot also be applied to two men and a woman or three women and a Siamese Cat, the precedent has been set and the erosion of the institution will continue apace. As Rush would say, "Don’t doubt me.”

And now comes the ludicrous obsession with the Trans-gendered. The "rights” of this minuscule population of gender-confused or fad-driven humans to use any bathroom du jour they choose are suddenly of paramount importance! And damn the bigots who object to their little girls being forced to share a bathroom with a man in a dress who likes to ogle little girls.
[...]
So I return to my opening theme: It’s never enough; the Left will never cease adding categories of Entitled Victims, whose "rights” will supercede those of working people, normal people, religious people of any color, but for sure white people, especially white men.

Maybe, just maybe, once in a great while, there is a cost to forcing every degenerate or cockamamie policy down our throats.

Target president Brian Cornell, watching his cash flow in the opposite direction like the Bama football motto "Roll, Tide,” has nowlet it be knownthat when the Insane Corporate Decision was made, he was in the now infamous Target bathroom, or something. Maybe he said he was out of town, whatever. In any event, he is trying to weasel out of responsibility for a corporate decision right up there with New Coke or running Hillary again.

READ THE FULL VERSION AT POWERLINE
 

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Trayvon Martin - Aeronaut

Dana mathewson

WTF? You know academia's broken beyond repair when you see something like this!
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/05/14/trayvon-martin-receives-posthumous-aeronautical-science-degree.html

Trayvon Martin receives posthumous aeronautical science degree.
A South Florida university awarded an honorary degree to Trayvon Martin, Saturday.

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Class conflict won Trump election victory

Jack Kemp forwards this:


http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/05/class_conflict_was_at_the_heart_of_the_trump_victory.html

May 14, 2017
Class conflict was at the heart of the Trump victory
By Thomas Lifson
Hillary Clinton’s blindness to issues of class conflict handed victory to her hated opponent. She and her partisans never saw it coming.
Conservatives generally shy away from using the category of "class” in our political analyses. After all, it is a Marxist analytical tool, and it contradicts the noble ideals of equality in citizenship status that undergird the Republic. If sociology professors obsess about it, that is enough to taint the concept in many conservative eyes. But the old categories of political analysis have been turned on their heads. The Democrats represent the elites, and rely on the votes of dependent classes, perpetually agitated by grievance-mongering and convinced that only the benevolence of government can sustain their lives.
Historically, the Democrats were the party that made a big deal out of class, and the old mindset has blinded them to their peril. They pushed themselves as champions of the working class against what FDR (who inherited a fortune) called the "malefactors of wealth.” But that was the better part of a century ago, and meanwhile the Information Revolution began replacing the Industrial Revolution as the driver of social and economic stratification.
The old political framework started crumbling when Richard Nixon discovered that hard hats were attacking hirsute anti-war demonstrators. The Vietnam War was dividing the country as harshly as it now appears to fracturing. The support of blue-collar Democrats gave Republican Nixon two presidential election victories, the second one a historic sweep. Nixon’s "silent majority” was succeeded by the "Reagan Democrats,” another term signifying working class support after one term of Jimmy Carter. The support of "Reagan Democrats” – working class, union members, offended by the arrogance the left and weakened by Jimmy Carter’s "malaise” economy -- was critical. As with Nixon, Reagan’s re-election was overwhelming.
So, when Donald Trump cultivated the white working class voters driven to further desperation by decades of de-industrialization and the scourge of opioids, he was building on a very successful model. But, given the demographic shift in the nation’s population through immigration, he needed some help from Hillary Clinton. Shee graciously provided it, in the form of her "basket of deplorables” remark (and in countless other ways).
Writing in the New York Post, Kyle Smith provides excellent insight into the way that white working class resentment came to power Donald Trump’s victory, in his review of the book White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America, by law professor Joan C. Wiliams. Her argument is clear and incisive, so I urge a read of the entire thing, Here is an excerpt.

If your answer to the question "Who am I?” is "I’m a professor,” then your identity doesn’t change whether you’re in London, Miami or San Francisco. Elites have a tendency to leave home for college, then flit from one global capital to another. Not so the WWC, which Williams defines as white middle-class people (thos.e in the $41,000 to $132,000 income range) who don’t have a college education. They’re strongly attached to their hometowns, to the people they feel comfortable with, to what they perceive to be the shared values of their communities.
Tradition and stability matter. "The dream is to live in your own class milieu, where you feel comfortable — just with more money,” Williams notes.
Donald Trump epitomizes this idea, having made his fortune "in garish casinos that sold a working-class brand of luxury.” Gold-covered everything is exactly how you’d decorate if you were from Appalachia and struck it rich with no intervening period of finishing school at Stanford or Yale.
To the rootless global elites, though, tradition is subordinated to transgression. What society considers edgy, elites deem worthy of their praise. It isn’t acceptable merely to accept gay life, for example — it must be celebrated. Recalling moving to San Francisco and observing a fully naked man walking down the street, Williams recalls feeling proud of herself for being tolerant of such norm-shattering. Among the elites, she says, "It’s a point of pride not to be one of those petty bourgeois who’s shocked by sexual transgression.”
This attitude not only stuns the WWC but strikes them as a kind of attack on everything they hold dear. To them, bicoastal urban America is a joke to which they don’t get the punchline. They feel excluded, marginalized, left out. Worse than any of this, they feel condescended to, and it infuriates them, Williams writes.
Hillary Clinton did a marvelous job of confirming their suspicions when she said — in New York City, at an LGBT event — that "You could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.”
Being called names such as these is exactly what gets the white working class fired up. She might as well have told everyone from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin, "Don’t vote for me.” Outside of Chicagoland, they didn’t.

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My Search for Truth: Finding Apostasy in today's iteration of the Catholic Church

Martha Mathewson

In a discussion this week with a recently-ordained Catholic priest, I was shown a tiny window into possible reasons why, as an adult, I have been averse to committing to membership in any faith community (though I was raised in church by a father who was a life-long pastor and a mother who was the ideal pastor's wife), much less converting to the Catholic denomination. He helped me to identify and codify what heretofore had been only a vague gut instinct which made me unable and unwilling to commit to church membership; the fact that, by and large, the "faith community" no longer stands as a pillar to hold scripture and to inspire the preaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ to a very dark and chaotic world. The "pillar" has morphed into some caricature of itself, a creature out of a horror movie, which has assumed the characteristics of the evil that surrounds it, but which can LOOK real pretty when it wants to. The "faith community" has succumbed to incredibly powerful Satanic influences which have made it believe that they cannot exist in this world unless they look like, act like and live like the world.

In my current study of The Book of Revelation, I note that each of the seven churches to whom the Apostle John addressed very specific letters at the direct behest of the Living Lord, has been identified as representative of a certain specific age in church history, with the seventh Church of Laodicea likened to the current "Apostate church age of the Last Days (A.D. 1900-present)". The definition of APOSTATE: Having renounced or abandoned all beliefs or principles. The seventh church was defined by Jesus Christ as spiritually wretched, miserable, poor (in spiritual wealth), blind (to the truth), naked (sins exposed for all to see), and DEFUNCT. The church considered itself to be financially solid, even to the point of wealthy. They were self-sufficient, and saw no need to evangelize; come if you want, or don't -- it doesn't matter. They have lost their passion, turned in on themselves, are self-satisfied, self-serving, going through the motions (rites and rituals) of worship but are not worshipful, singing praise songs but not in the attitude of praise. In other words -- they are spiritually dead.

Taking this one step further, the church today is so worried that they will run counter to the general popular mores and anti-biblical lifestyles, that they bend over backwards to modify their faith principles to the point of unrecognizability when compared to God's laws, in order to keep "butts in the pews." They allow false doctrines to prevail, even teaching it as truth; (to quote Rev. Barry Brinson from his book We Win) "they have a liberal view of Scripture and tolerate any and all interpretations, saying that it's okay for you to believe whatever you want as long as you base it on an interpretation of Scripture that satisfies your own understanding. They believe that there is no right interpretation, [because] no one really knows the truth."

My priest friend gave several examples:

* Notice how the church hierarchy bends its own rules; let's say with regard to condoning homosexuality -- it is unlikely than anyone who has lived for the last 40 years has missed the horrible debacle of priests who molested children and were protected and hidden by the church. Not only that, but the church used funds which had been collected from tithing Catholics to pay for the silence of the victims.

* Notice how the church has diminished the sacrament (meaning a HOLY God-sanctioned act) of marriage and have figured out a work-around to conveniently condone divorce by granting "annulments" (traditionally meant for unconsummated unions) to married couples who have obviously had enough sex together to have created babies. I know about this first-hand as my first husband was a non-practicing Catholic and felt it necessary to have that piece of paper in his file that said our five year marriage was invalidated -- annulled. And these days, it's so easy -- One can point and click to a special page on the Archdiocese website offering instructions for having one's marriage annulled.

* Notice how even modern architecture has been allowed to express a loosening of scriptural guidelines; i.e. when the sacred altar is no longer an altar -- it has become a table -- or when the Host (which to Catholics is supposed to represent the actual Presence of God) is moved away from the sanctuary and kept in a side room.
* Notice how altar servers saunter down the aisle with a complete lack of understanding that they are serving at the altar of a terrible and mighty God, who in Old Testament times actually struck down anyone who treated the sacred place with anything less than the utmost respect for the rules.

* Notice how casually the confessional is treated by a typical parishioner: For example: "Since my last confession three months ago, I have missed mass a few times." "Exactly how many times?" "Three." "Do you know that you have committed a mortal sin THREE TIMES? Do you know what a mortal sin actually is?" (In I John 5:16-17, we see that there is such a thing as deadly or mortal sin. A deadly sin is one that leads to eternal damnation if not repented and forgiven, as God cannot abide sin. No more realized than when He turned His face away from His Beloved Son on the cross, because His Son bore the sins of the world!) "You have utterly disobeyed not one, but TWO of the 10 Commandments by CHOOSING to do something other than worshiping the Lord God AND keeping the Sabbath holy."

* Notice how the Creed, which was originally a composite of absolute scriptural truth using scripture-inspired language complete with specific pronouns, has been made nearly unrecognizable in its loose "interpretations". For instance, some go so far as to say that "Christ came to earth, becoming "human" (not "Man" as the original text states)

These changes have been made so very gradually, and apparently with the blessing of the very highest authorities within the Catholic Church.

In my association with the Catholic church as a paid musician, I observe so much casualness in the "worship" practices, and that does not attract me to Catholicism. Catholics have more little rites and rituals that can be done by rote than most other churches combined. As a general rule, there is little real passion for the Lord on display. People come to church because it's the right thing to do, or because it's a place to meet their friends and catch up, or to even make themselves feel good about helping others. The Church at Sardis was severely warned about this very thing in the third chapter of Revelation. The judgment for this behavior when left unchecked was to have their names removed from the Book of Life -- a terrible and fearful thing indeed! But once again, there is precious little leadership within the Catholic church today that will teach such truths for fear of driving people from the pews. They would rather "tickle the ears" of the congregation, saying what everyone wants to hear -- the easy stuff. And there is a pervasive attitude of looking the other way (i.e.: when societal behaviors such as same sex unions, trans-gender operations performed on children, and abortions become household words and the NORM) -- we say to ourselves that, like everything that is hard to bear, it, too, surely shall pass and then we can relax again.

I have asked several individuals what drew them to Catholicism. The answers range from, "I like the fact that I can go to mass at any Catholic church anywhere and know that I will fit right into the rites and rituals -- that is comforting", to "I have no idea. My parents were Catholic but never went to church". My priest friend offered up a most erudite response as he traced his faith journey from being born into an evangelical faith community, through Anglicanism to Orthodoxy (all of which were rejected after years of study of Scripture and much prayer), and finally having been led to the Catholic church. But he does not find this current iteration of the Catholic church to be attractive in the least. God has given him a vision and a mission to be a beacon -- a guiding light -- to lead Catholics BACK HOME, away from compromise with worldly, sinful behaviors, away from a liberal and casual approach to the difference between right and wrong, and back to SCRIPTURE, back to worship in spirit and truth, back to the knowledge that God, the Creator of everything, knows all and sees all. Nothing, whatsoever is hidden from God. And there are consequences for every choice that we make. And more severe consequences for those leaders of churches who know the Scripture and choose to ignore it.

Scripture states unequivocally that we must NOT grieve the Holy Spirit. Indeed, how the Lord must be weeping.

But all is not lost! There are a remnant of true believers to be found, yes, even in the Catholic Church! There are those who seek to know real truth, to follow the Lord where He leads, to teach their children the difference between right and wrong both by their words AND by their deeds, and to not compromise their spiritual lives by dabbling in worldly behaviors. They will become that Pillar in the Church upon which Scripture is recognized, honored, taught and followed. These believers who prevail in the midst of the apostasy of this world and within this current iteration of the Catholic Church, will be rewarded by their Lord for their steadfastness and will finally dwell with the Son of God in glory forever.

This then is what I hunger after; to worship with this kind of believer, to inspire each other to persevere and to show the world what the true Gospel of Jesus Christ is supposed to look and act like.

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Land, energy and mineral lockdowns

Paul Driessen

President Trump’s decision to have recent land withdrawals under the Antiquities Act reviewed, to determine whether some should be reversed or reduced in size, was an important step in bringing more rational thinking to our nation’s public land policies.

Well over 410 million acres are effectively off limits to mineral exploration and development. That’s 66% of the nation’s public lands – an area equal to Arizona, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming combined. Because of processes unleashed by plate tectonics and other geologic forces, these lands almost certainly contain numerous world-class deposits of the metals and other resources that are essential for modern technologies and civilization. Keeping them under lockdown impairs our national security and the economic wellbeing of our western states and Alaska.

My article this week explores these issues in depth

Land, energy and mineral lockdowns

Too many oil, gas, coal, rare earth and other vital resources are still off limits

Paul Driessen

President Trump has directed Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke to review recent land withdrawals under the 1906 Antiquities Act, to determine whether some should be reversed or reduced in size.

The review is long overdue. The act was intended to protect areas of historic, prehistoric or scientific value, with areas designated as monuments to be the smallest size compatible with the proper care and management of objects or sites to be protected. The first designation, the 1,347-acre Devils Tower National Monument (NM) respected that intent, as have most designations since then.

However, some were enormous withdrawals; several were made with poor public outreach or inadequate consultation with people who would be most directly and severely affected; 26 of the 27 monuments to be reviewed are over 100,000 acres in size; and the final one involves deficient consultation.

Arguably the two greatest Antiquities Act abuses affected Utah. The 1,880,461-acre Grand Staircase Escalante NM was designated by President Clinton in large part to make billion-dollar coal deposits off limits. Even Utah Governor Michael Levitt did not learn of it until it was a done deal (Chapter Twelve). President Obama designated the 1,351,849-acre Bear Ears monument three weeks before leaving office, many Utahans say to make still more energy resources off limits to exploration and development.

Grand Staircase alone is equal to Delaware and Rhode Island combined. It and Great Bears together are larger than Connecticut. They are far larger than any of the national parks in Utah. And they are in addition to Utah’s five other national monuments, five national parks, four national recreation and conservation areas, thousands of miles of national trails, six national forests, 31 national wilderness areas, and millions of acres in other restrictive land use categories.

Some of these areas truly are unique, beautiful, spectacular. I’ve visited and hiked in many of them in Utah, other western states and Alaska. Our national parks in particular should be protected. But we have gone overboard, and far too many areas have been put in lockdown specifically to block energy and mineral development. Forest Service officials and Sierra Club officers have said so right to my face.

Eastern and Midwestern residents cannot imagine the extent or impact of Federal Government ownership, management and control of lands in the eleven westernmost states and Alaska. While federal agencies own just 0.3% of Connecticut and Iowa, and 0.6% of New York, they own, manage and control 63% of all land in Utah; 61% in Alaska and Idaho; 80% in Nevada; 29% to 53% in the other western states.

That means virtually every revenue-producing, recreational and other activity is regulated, restricted, prohibited or under attack in courts and other venues. No timber cutting in national forests, fostering massive wildfires. No vehicles, wheelchairs, energy or mineral exploration in wilderness and many other areas. Even grazing and watershed management are under assault throughout the West.

All of these restrictive designations should be reviewed by Congress and Executive Branch agencies.

As of 1994, when consulting geologist Courtland Lee and I prepared a detailed analysis, over 410 million acres were effectively off limits to mineral exploration and development. That’s 66% of the nation’s public lands – an area equal to Arizona, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming combined. The situation is far worse today – posing a critical public policy problem.

Because of processes unleashed by plate tectonics and other geologic forces, these mountain, desert and other lands contain some of the most highly mineralized rock formations in North America. They almost certainly contain numerous world-class deposits of oil, gas, gold, silver, platinum, molybdenum and rare-earth metals – essential for modern civilization. They wait for us to find them, using modern prospecting technologies that can be carried in airplanes and backpacks, leaving barely a trace – but letting us know what is there, so that we can make informed land management decisions.

Environmentalists claim that even a single mine or oil well in these areas would destroy their wilderness character and ecological value. That is absurd, considering that many of these areas are the size of Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont or even West Virginia. Moreover, unlike wind turbine and solar panel installations across thousands or tens of thousands of acres in perpetuity, modern mines and drill pads are comparatively small – and are restored back to natural conditions when the operations have concluded.

Equally important, wind and solar generate minuscule amounts of electricity, unreliably, at unpredictable times – and require far more land and workers per unit of output – than coal or natural gas. In fact, Coal generated an incredible 7,745 megawatt-hours of electricity per worker; natural gas 3,812 MWH per worker; wind a measly 836 MWH for every employee; and solar an abysmal 98 MWH per worker. That’s part of the reason why oil, gas and coal still provide 80% of America’s and the world’s energy.

America’s national security situation was affected when we depended on often unfriendly foreign sources for oil – before hydraulic fracturing unleashed record production from state and private lands.

Now we are dependent on different, still often unfriendly foreign suppliers for rare earth metals and other raw materials that are essential for smart phones and smart bombs, stealth fighters, digital cameras, computer hard drives, wind turbine magnets, photovoltaic solar panels, hybrid and electric car batteries, compact fluorescent light bulbs, catalytic converters, and countless other modern and future technologies.

China produces 97% of the world’s rare-earth oxides, largely controls world markets, and increasingly uses rare earths in-house, to manufacture products for sale overseas. That means most jobs stay in China, even though the rare earths are mined, processed and turned into finished products under environmental and worker health and safety standards that would get operations shut down instantly in the USA.

However, China’s estimated reserves are only one-third of known global reserves, and much less than that of potential economically producible rare earth resources – many of which could be in the United States. In fact, one of the largest known rare earth deposits is near California’s Mojave Desert. It had been in production, but legal actions, excessive regulations and low foreign prices forced a long suspension of operations, and Molycorp filed for bankruptcy in 2015, citing a heavy debt load and other problems.

That deposit underscores the enormous potential for finding billion-dollar deposits of numerous vital minerals right here in the USA – if we are permitted to look for them.

President Trump’s decisions to review Antiquities Act land closures, ease restrictions on onshore and offshore oil and gas drilling, and end stalemates over the Dakota and Keystone Pipelines are excellent steps in implementing his vision for American job creation and economic revitalization.

The President and Congress could also explore ways to get more oil flowing to the Trans Alaska Pipeline, which needs certain minimal amounts in the pipe for the oil to move during frigid weather. Recent discoveries along the North Slope have helped, and perhaps Prudhoe Bay’s declining oil production can be spurred some more by fracking. Ultimately, though, more Alaskan areas must be opened for drilling, and that will require White House, federal agency and congressional action.

Congress should also take a leadership role, by launching discussions about how much western state land really needs to remain under federal control, and how many of our best energy and mineral prospects really need to be kept off limits. Those land use policies severely affect job creation and economic opportunities for states, communities, families and our nation as a whole, for little environmental benefit.

Modern industrialized civilizations cannot long exist without the vital resources that come out of holes in the ground. Even wind turbines, solar panels, electric cars and internet services require a plethora of metals and other minerals – plus fossil fuel energy to extract those resources and convert them into usable products. It’s time to have a civil conversation about all of this.

Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.Cfact.org) and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green power - Black death. He has degrees in geology, ecology and environmental law.

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May 13, 2017

Real Danger of a North Korean EMP Attack and the Dangers of Using Mainstream Media as a Source

Timothy Birdnow

Rick Moran discusses the potential (or non-potential, as he seems to believe) of a North Korean EMP attack on the U.S. While Rick does admit to a danger he downplays it as best he can.

From the blogpost at American Thinker:

"Hawaii has already suffered from the effects of an EMP. Back in 1962, before the atmospheric test ban treaty, the U.S. detonated a huge hydrogen bomb more than 240 miles above the Earth's surface. Despite the blast being 800 miles from Hawaii, the island's electricity was disrupted for hours.

But some experts minimize the EMP threat from North Korea. First and foremost, the North Koreans have yet to develop the technology to miniaturize a nuclear weapon so that it fits on a missile. This is vital, because the EMP is a line of sight weapon, unable to affect systems beyond the horizon. So the EMP effects of a ground-level blast would highly localized.

There is also a question of whether the North could develop weapons powerful enough to affect ground systems from space. The North's nuclear tests to date haven't even come close to the massive 1.4-megaton blast in 1962. Their most recent test from last September had a yield of only 10 kilotons – about 150 times less powerful than the 1962 blast. Since the effects of an EMP weapon dissipate rapidly, it is doubtful that a North Korean nuke detonated in space could cause widespread damage.

Also, most key systems in the U.S. have been hardened in recent decades to withstand all but the most devastating EMP pulse."

End excerpt.

This is an example of using mainstream media sources when you should dig deeper. Moran, who comes out of a mainsteam media background (his brother is Terry Moran from CNN, for example) and has ta tendency to accept certain claims at face value. At least he does so here.

Take, for instance his comment:

"But some experts minimize the EMP threat from North Korea."

In journalistic fashion he does not note who those experts are, or quote them. Yes, there are some people with degrees who have been quoted in the media and who downplay the danger, but who are they? I know for a fact that the U.S. government denied there even WAS such a thing as the EMP Effect until about twelve years ago. When I wrote about it in 2007 someone claiming to be part of the Starfish Prime test said I was full of beans. A year later the Congressional report came out; the man who wrote that to AT was undoubtedly working for the government. I have little doubt these "experts" are doing likewise.

Let's look at other claims in this blogpost.

First, the issue of blast capacity for nuclear bombs. Rick doesn't seem to realize that there is no good reason to test a big bomb in this day and age unless you are readying it for deployment. The basic physics is the same whether you detonate a Fat Man or a much larger device (provided you are still using a fission weapon) and a country trying to create a nuclear arsenal as North Korea is doing will not waste fissile material. Generally if you can build a small weapon you can build a larger weapon.

Even a fusion bomb is not that much more difficult; the U.S. exploded her first fusion bomb in 1952, just three years after Hiroshima. In fact, Edward Teller wanted to skip fission altogether and go for the H-bomb right away (he was overruled by Oppenheimer.) And this is a major step forward in power from the fission bomb. also, the Russians deveoloped their bombs sithin a few years of the U.S. despite being a Third World country (well, strictly speaking a Second World country, but you get the point.)

The key to nuclear weapons lies not in the size of such devices but in the ability to purify uranium or make plutonium.

It should also be pointed out that a small yield nuclear device is actually better at producing an EMP. The problem is it doesn't cover as much area as a big thermonuclear device. That is not as important if it is being detonated in orbit. Also, there are ways to increase the effectiveness of a fission bomb when used for an EMP attack. See here for more information on that score.

Second, Rick's claim that the Norks couldn't put a large enough nuke on a missile is incorrect.

The orignial Fat Man (the plutonium bomb) was 10,311 lbs. Now, the Taepodong-1 is capable of lifting roughly 440 lbs into orbit - a fraction of the weight of Fat Man. But that capability has been improving and it is now believed the Norks can do much more. According to an article in Space.com

" The Taepodong-1 rocket has flown once, in a modified space launch configuration that added a third stage. In August 1998, it blasted off carrying a small satellite called Kwangmyongsong-1 ("Bright Star 1"). Western observers say the launch failed, but North Korean officials claim the satellite made it to orbit and broadcast patriotic songs into space.

Analysts believe a two-stage Taepodong-1 rocket could deliver a 1-ton payload up to 1,500 miles (2,500 km) away. But additional modifications could bring more distant targets into range.

"Some analysts speculated that a reduced-payload configuration could deliver a 200 kg warhead into the U.S. center and a 100 kg warhead to Washington D.C., albeit with poor accuracy," missile defense specialist Steven Hildreth wrote in a 2009 Congressional Research Service report."

end excerpt.

So, while the Norks may not possess the capability to re-enter the atmosphere, they certainly can put a smaller device up Here is a list of American nuclear weapons with their weight; it is clear that some of these would be deliverable by a two stage Taepodong. Also, bear in mind North Korea is not pioneering this stuff but is following in our footsteps - something far easier. And they are getting help, from Iran, probably from China and perhaps Russia. Also, computer technology is infinitely superior to what we had to work with in the '40's and 50's and 60's.

In so many ways we are in peril from this. It is a far, far more effective weapon to use on the United States than simply nuking one of our cities.

And as for our "hardening", here is a report from the Heritage Foundation showing some efforts (not nearly enough) on hardening the U.S. Almost all of the efforts are focused on military and government, which does sqwat for the average citiznen, who will still see the lights go out, the food run out, the water run dry, and chaos engulf all but perhaps some military bases. Believing we are prepared is like believing you can survive on your own in wilds of Alaska; yes, some people will be o.k. but most won't. And as of 2017 we are still shockingly unprepared for an EMP attack.

But the mainstream media was not going to tell us that during the era of Obama and even now, because they cannot pin it on Trump. So the illusion continues that all is hunkey-dorey. It's not.

So Rick Moran should get his nose out of mainstream media and dig a little deeper into this type of thing. It is, sadly, a common mistake. WE are the alternative media, and it is we who need to lead on this stuff.

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The "Last Man Standing" Falls to Politcal Correctness

Timothy Birdnow

Yesterday I learned that ABC cancelled "Last Man Standing" , the Tim Allen sitcom and was going to post a few thoughts. Daniel Joh Sobieski beat me to it at American Thinker.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/05/emlast_man_standingem_falls_to_trump_derangement_syndrome.html

The show is largely a rehash of Allen's "Home Improvement" but instead of having three boys he has three girls. The show - about the COO of a sporting goods store in Colorado - has been a big hit with blue collar America (even though Allen's Mike Baxter character is clearly quite well-to-do) because of the values he espouses. Allen chose to make the show openly political in a way; he is shown to be a conservative, gun toting meat eating American and he often makes the conservative case. Frankly, Allen has always rather watered down that case and also provided liberal counterpoints to squeek past the network censors. But modern entertainment media, like the fake news outlets, will tolerate no competition and, despite being the third rated scripted show on ABC, has been cancelled.

This proves unequivocally that the major networks disdain the public and have an agenda they want to push.

And don't expect anyone else to pick up the highly rated show. The Left has taken over entertainment as surely as they have academia and the news outlets. It is part of their propoganda machine. And an insidious part it is, too, because by using things like sitcoms they can get at underlying attitudes and twist them as they please. It's not even always in the plot line or dialogue even; often in what happens in the background is more effective at changing public thinking.

Even Last Man Standing fell prey to this. In one episode the youngest daughter Eve had to reject a pass made at her by her best female friend. It was not portrayed as wrong or even disturbing, but just as a "I don't get involved with friends" sort of thing. This is the only openly conservative show outside of Fox News of any sort. Don't even get me started on the liberalism in "Modern Family" which aces out LMS in the ratings...

The Left has always understood the need to control the dissemination of information and of symboolism. They now have complete control of all major outlets, from the arts to even the sciences, which have become politicized and are now more Medieval preachers than objective seekers after truth.

The killing of Allen's show illustrates the need for conservative outlets in other areas. We need to create a conservative artistic network, something featuring sitcoms that restore the traditional views. We need cultural conservatism. The Left has always been able to portray their idiotic and childish views as hip and cool, and we need outlets to do the same.

Yesterday Rush Limbaugh pointed out on his radio program that the things that were "pioneered" by the Daily Show were what he himself pioneered in his own television program years prior. He's right. Rush was clearly the architect of the Daily Show style, which is so appealing to the youths of America. But Rush could never get real television access; despite high ratings his t.v. show would air whenever local stations saw fit - usually at 3 a.m. or other times designed to kill it. We need a network that will run a show like that in prime time.

We need conservative artists. We need conservative songwriters. We need conservative philosophers and writers. And there are plenty of such, only they usually give up because they cannot find an outlet for their talents.

If we had that we would win. America is like a river and the Progressive left has constructed a series of dams, levees, and floodwalls to channel that river in an artificial flow. It must be endlessly refreshed by the Left. Whenever there is a breach the progressive engineers scurry about to sandbag the affected area, and eventually force the river back into the artificial channel. It is not natural, though, and America's thinking will return to her traditional ways if we can breach those bulworks at strategic points. That's all we must do; breach them. Get the old time ideas out there and watch as the public turns away from the Potemkin Village that is Liberalism. But it must first be heard by the public. The Left knows that, which is why they have now killed off Allen's show. See, they were content to allow a spillway or two to take the pressure off, but they cannot allow the spillway to override their constructs.

We can win this war but we have to first fight it. For far too long there has been no chance of a fair fight because we allowed the Left to use our own decencies against us. The time has come to counter-attack.

Maybe Allen's appropriately named "Last Man Standing" will wind up being just that!

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