September 20, 2018
OK, I admit that was a serious matter. I heard somebody on a national talk radio program say something about how "area residents were being allowed back into their homes." I think he was exaggerating! After all, it says there that the observatory did not communicate with the public. Kind of hard to order a total evacuation of the area without communicating with the public.A New Mexico solar observatory reopened Monday after an 11-day FBI investigation of a janitor who was suspected of using the facility’s internet to download child pornography, federal court documents revealed Wednesday.
The National Solar Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico, abruptly closed Sept. 6 over an undisclosed security issue. The lack of explanation fueled conspiracy theories, given the facility’s close proximity to Roswell – the location of a supposed UFO sighting in 1947.
An FBI officer said she was "investigating the activities of an individual who was utilizing the wireless internet service of the National Solar Observatory … to download and distribute child pornography.â€
Officials on Monday said the observatory did not communicate with the public during the investigation because they didn’t want the suspect to be tipped off.
"[O]ur desire to provide additional information had to be balanced against the risk that, if spread at the time, the news would alert the suspect and impede the law enforcement investigation. That was a risk we could not take,†officials said.
Investigators determined the observatory’s janitor had used his laptop to connect to the facility’s wireless internet system, an FBI affidavit said. Federal authorities obtained a warrant to the search the suspect’s residence, Reuters reported, citing FBI records.
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The drive to sink Kavanaugh is liberal totalitarianism
From the article:If Senate Democrats and their media allies manage to destroy Brett Kavanaugh, they will bring America one step closer to a new, liberal style of totalitarianism.
I don't use the TÂ-word lightly. I've spent years pushing back against those who fling it about in free societies like ours. But totalitarianism doesn't require cartoonish, 1984-style secret police and Big Brother. The classical definition is a society where everything - ethical norms and moral principles and truth itself - is subjugated to political ends.
By that measure, the Democratic campaign to block Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court, based on a hazy, uncorroborated, decades-old assault allegation, tends toward the totalitarian. Certainly, it has many of the elements of abusive politics that Americans normally associate with foreign lands untouched by the light of liberty and reason:
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/09/kavanaugh_ellison_and_the_presumption
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"The woman who accused Minnesota Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison of domestic abuse said on Monday that Democrats don't believe her story and threatened to isolate her over the allegations.
Karen Monahan, a former girlfriend, came forward last month alleging that Ellison sent her threatening text messages and once screamed obscenities at her as he dragged her off a bed by her feet[.] ...
Monahan slammed the Democratic Party for its response to her allegations when compared to its treatment of Christine Blasey Ford. Ford has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of attempting to force himself onto her during at a high school party nearly four decades ago, prompting prominent Democrats to get behind Ford's allegations.
"No, they don't," Monahan tweeted in response to a question whether the party believes women's stories. "I've been smeared, threatened, isolated from my own party. I provided medical records from 2017, stating on two different Dr. Visits, I told them about the abuse and who did it. My therapist released records stating I have been dealing and healing from the abuse." ..."
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"Ellison gets a break where Kavanaugh is guilty until proven innocent largely because Kavanaugh is an originalist who would interpret the Constitution as written according to the intentions of those who wrote it in the context of the times in which it was written. His accuser's famous 2012 therapy occurred just as it appeared that Mitt Romney might win and likely appoint Kavanaugh himself. That didn't happen, and Christine Blasey Ford went back into hibernation" as Peter Strzok might put it, an "insurance policy."
Ellison, by contrast, is the poster child of the radical progressive left. His sins may be forgiven because he is right on their issues, such as his support for cop-killers. As Professor Alan Dershowitz notes, Ellison is a virulent anti-Semite who freely associates with the race-baiting Al Sharpton and unhinged Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan:"
Read it all at American Thinker.
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September 19, 2018
Future Wealth: The Biggest Infrastructure Boom in History
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This story isn't as silly as it may first appear to be...
https://nypost.com/2018/09/18/some-churches-will-now-offer-gluten-free-communion-bread/
Some churches will now offer gluten-free Communion bread
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]https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffbrown/2018/09/19/future-wealth-why-amazon-will-launch-its-own-cryptocurrency-n2520178
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Dennis Prager nails it again...
Money quote:
Nearly every woman over puberty has experienced a man trying to grope her (the groping of a pre-pubescent is sexual molestation of a child and an act of evil). My mother was groped by a physician. She told my father about it. My father told the physician that if he were to do it again, he would break his hands. And it remained a family folk tale. If you had told my mother she was a "survivor," she would have wondered what you were talking about. The term was reserved for people who survived Nazi concentration camps, Japanese prisoner of war camps and cancer survivors, not women groped by a man.
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The Charges Against Judge Kavanaugh Should Be Ignored
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In polite language at American Spectator, an Orthodox Rabbi artfully says it all about the Democrats.
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...but I also am congregational rav (Orthodox rabbi) of an Orthodox synagogue, Young Israel of Orange County, now in our eleventh year and in my twenty-seventh year as a rav. This is perhaps the busiest season of the year for a congregational rabbi. We teach more intensely. We prepare sermons that entail our deepest focus on the unique messages we will
sermons that entail our deepest focus on the unique messages we will deliver to our largest congregational assemblages of the year. more...
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September 18, 2018
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Conservative HQ destroys the smear of Judge Kavanaugh:
"Prof. Blasey Ford is a registered Democrat who has donated to Leftwing causes and Democratic candidates, she attended the anti-Trump March for Science, and previously signed an open letter challenging Trump's border policy. According to OpenSecrets, she has made more than 60 donations to liberal causes, with almost four dozen to the pro-abortion group, Emily's List, alone. Ford also donated to the DNC, Hillary Clinton (more than 10 times), Bernie Sanders, and the progressive organizing group ActBlue.
According to reporting by news.grabien.com, Prof. Blasey Ford has self-confessed problems with depression and alcohol, and, by her own admission, has a hazy recollection of the incident she alleges.
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Well now he's done it! Donald Trump has gone and declassified those redacted documents.
According to Fox News:
"White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said Trump had ordered the documents released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Justice Department "[a]t the request of a number of committees of Congress, and for reasons of transparency."
The documents to be declassified also include all FBI reports on interviews with Justice Department official Bruce Ohr and all FBI reports of interviews prepared in connection with all other applications to surveil Carter Page.
Trump also ordered the Justice Department to release text messages from a number of the key players in the Russia investigation "without redaction" -- including Ohr, Strzok, Lisa Page, former FBI Director James Comey and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe."
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Many have been puzzled by Trump's unwillingness to declassify these, despite the demands of Congress. But it need not be confusing; Trump has a keenly defined sense of timing, and he needed to wait on this to maximize the effects of this. And he had to wait so as to avoid accusations of obstruction of justice. He clearly waited to allow the wheels of justice aka the Mueller probe to wind down.
Why now? It would have been more effective to wait, but the Democrats forced his hand with their attack on Brett Kavanaugh. Trump needed to retake control of the media news cycle. He just did with this.
And whatever happened to the public's right to know? Seems the media always used to demand that, until it is their own oxen being gored.
Now we'll see how much attention this gets.
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Rick Moran, the American Thinker house RINO, is throwing water on the confidence of our side with predictions of doom culled from a Bloomberg article. According to Moran we should be very afraid!
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September 17, 2018
I (Dana) have been going after Mann and his hockey stick as a bunch of horse hockey ever since I became aware of it, because, among other things, it totally ignores the Medieval Warm period, when temperatures were warmer than they are now and a colony of Vikings, led by Eric Thorvaldson (a.k.a. Eric The Red, named for the color of his hair and beard, not his politics), settled and farmed southern Greenland -- something impossible to do these days. The fact that Mann discounts the Medieval Warm period makes him a totally dishonest man in my eyes and unworthy to be called a scientist.The Science and Environmental Policy Project produces a weekly newsletter on climate-related subjects, The Week That Was. I highly recommend subscribing to TWTW as the easiest way to keep abreast of climate news.
This week’s edition begins, not for the first time, with a famous quotation from Richard Feynman, one of the greatest of 20th Century scientists:
It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.
The catastrophic anthropogenic global warming theory is falsified by observation, and therefore is wrong. Ken Haapala, SEPP’s President, explains. There is far more at the link, but I will try to excerpt enough to make the point comprehensible:
Ross McKitrick, Department of Economics and Finance, University of Guelph, and John Christy, Earth System Science Center, University of Alabama in Huntsville, have undertaken to identify a core hypothesis common to the climate models used by the IPCC and to test the hypothesis against the longest data set available that describes what is actually occurring.
Haapala reminds us that it was McKitrick who demonstrated that Michael Mann’s hockey stick was a hoax, because any random numbers fed into Mann’s formulas would produce–voila!–a hockey stick.
There's a lot more. For those of us who like to see the Warmiacs get spanked. here it is: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/09/climate-alarmism-fails-the-test-of-observation.phpIn weeding through the countless hypotheses to identify one common, major testable hypothesis, McKitrick and Christy used four criteria: measurability, specificity, independence and uniqueness.
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They found: "Air temperature in the 200-300 hPa layer of the tropical troposphere meets all four test conditions, pretty much uniquely in the climate system as far as we are aware.†The 1979 Charney report and all five IPCC reports indicate that any CO2-caused warming will be amplified by an increase in water vapor, primarily over the tropics.As you probably know, a doubling of atmospheric CO2 arguably may produce a one degree C warming, which pretty much everyone agrees would be a good thing, especially as the additional CO2 would help to green the planet. In order to get the "catastrophic†into CAGW, you have to assume something else: that this one degree warming would produce significantly more water vapor in the environment. It is this hypothetical (but unobserved) water vapor that accounts for the overwhelming majority of the warming claimed by the alarmists’ models.
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This is an excellent article, written by a school teacher, and one who is NOT part of the problem. http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/09/17/c-is-for-constitution-our-kids-dont-know-much-about-americas-founding-its-time-start-teaching-them.htmlAnother school year, another year of protests, "no platforming,†and other affronts to free expression on campus. Should we be surprised? Probably not. A majority of students now believe that "hate speech†– which is not defined under U.S. law and, thus, is subjectively conceived – does not deserve First Amendment protection.
And should we be surprised by that? Almost certainly not. There’s no reason we should expect college students to be able to make sound constitutional arguments when they don’t even know the content of the First Amendment. For more than a third of Americans can’t name a single right guaranteed under it.
You’d have to be living under a rock not to see that our social fabric is unravelling and that even basic civil discourse is becoming increasingly rare. There are a lot of explanations for why. Higher education in particular has come under fire, with childish campus behavior ranging from therapy sessions with Play-Doh, puppies, and coloring books to safe spaces to vandalism as specific bugaboos. But while college campuses have their issues, they are not the primary source of this civic unravelling.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress found in their last polling that only 18 percent of eighth graders performed at or above the "proficient†level in U.S. history. To be a good citizen in a democracy, especially in one as diverse and complex as ours, is to understand the underpinnings of what makes democracy possible. The quantity and quality of civic education in America’s public schools has declined over the past century, but really started to nosedive around the start of the 21st century.
Whether that’s due to heightened cynicism about America’s role in the world, a general increase in moral relativism, or other factors is a different issue. But now that a problem of practice has been diagnosed, specifically the lack of training in the fundamentals of governance, we can do something about it.
Let’s begin as a nation by celebrating Constitution Day. Most Americans have no idea that September 17 is a federal observance, one founded in the early-20th century to mark the day in 1787 that delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the founding document in Philadelphia. And each educational institution that receives federal funds for a fiscal year is required to hold an educational program about the U.S. Constitution for its students.
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It's true that Bill Clinton's liberal '90s apologists justified his sexual misconduct with the claim "character doesn't matter." It nonetheless does, and since Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hopes are being influenced by accusations that may speak to his character, it's only fair to examine the character of his accuser. This woman, Palo Alto University psychology professor Christine Blasey Ford, is a radical social justice warrior with some damning student reviews – including one from a person who wrote, "I am honestly scared of her."
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Now, this is funny -- of course, I don't have to live with these in my neighborhood. I always thought Suffolk County was classy. At least, the "kids" I knew from there pretty much were -- students I went to college with. Some of 'em thought their, er, fundament didn't stink, but you find those all over.
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The town appears to be about 130 miles southwest of St. Louis.
Also see https://uranusmissouri.com/
https://nypost.com/2018/09/14/uranus-residents-arent-thrilled-with-tiny-towns-newspaper-title/
Uranus residents arenâ€â„¢t thrilled with tiny townâ€â„¢s newspaper title
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Even though oil, natural gas and coal still provide over 80% of all the energy that powers the United States and world – activists, politicians and crony corporatists still want to tax that energy and the plant-fertilizing carbon dioxide it produces. Their ultimate goals are to "keep fossil fuels in the ground,†replace them with supposedly "clean, green, renewable†energy, control people’s lives and living standards – and get wealthier in the process.
As my article suggests, we need to bring more fossil fuels out of the ground – and bury these job-killing, economy-strangling "carbon tax†proposals deep in the ground, preferably with wooden stakes pounded through their hearts.
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