Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Don’t Call Climate Skeptics ‘Deniers,’ Call Us ‘Correct’ | The American Spectator
Don’t Call Climate Skeptics ‘Deniers,’ Call Us ‘Correct’ | The American Spectator:
"The two microbiologists have missed the point entirely. They talk of “virtually unanimous consensus” that Earth is facing a period of anthropogenic climate change. Yet the largest sample of academic papers on climate ever studied — an impressive 11,944 papers over the 21 years 1991–2011 — showed only 0.3 percent “consensus” explicitly supporting the proposition recent global warming was mostly manmade. The question whether the small warming that is to be expected will prove dangerous was not even asked; the “consensus” on that question is even smaller.
Even if there were a “virtually unanimous consensus,” science is not advanced by consensus but by informed dissent. The instances the microbiologists themselves cite make it quite clear that where there is a “consensus,” it is nearly always wrong, at least at the margins."
"The two microbiologists have missed the point entirely. They talk of “virtually unanimous consensus” that Earth is facing a period of anthropogenic climate change. Yet the largest sample of academic papers on climate ever studied — an impressive 11,944 papers over the 21 years 1991–2011 — showed only 0.3 percent “consensus” explicitly supporting the proposition recent global warming was mostly manmade. The question whether the small warming that is to be expected will prove dangerous was not even asked; the “consensus” on that question is even smaller.Even if there were a “virtually unanimous consensus,” science is not advanced by consensus but by informed dissent. The instances the microbiologists themselves cite make it quite clear that where there is a “consensus,” it is nearly always wrong, at least at the margins."
New Rule: Residents In Some States May Need Passports For Domestic Flights In 2018
New Rule: Residents In Some States May Need Passports For Domestic Flights In 2018
UPDATE:At this moment all states that are non-compliant with The Real ID Act had an extension that expired on October 10, 2017.
---All these states with an extension have been given a grace period until January 22, 2018.
All non-compliant states are currently under review for possible extension (with the added exception of Virginia, whose extension is now valid until OCT 10, 2018).
At this point no can say what states are at risk until the review of state's extensions has been completed. Here's the official list of states that are at risk.
******
You may have thought you don't need a passport because you don't travel outside the United States.
But for residents of some states, this may change, pending the above info, for any commercial flight, whether international or domestic.
To get past TSA security checkpoints, another form of identification may be required: passport, permanent resident card/green card or a military ID.
The Real ID Act of 2005 insists that state-issued IDs meet the minimum security standards now set by the federal government.
The following states do not yet:
UPDATE:At this moment all states that are non-compliant with The Real ID Act had an extension that expired on October 10, 2017.
All non-compliant states are currently under review for possible extension (with the added exception of Virginia, whose extension is now valid until OCT 10, 2018).
At this point no can say what states are at risk until the review of state's extensions has been completed. Here's the official list of states that are at risk.
******
You may have thought you don't need a passport because you don't travel outside the United States.
But for residents of some states, this may change, pending the above info, for any commercial flight, whether international or domestic.
To get past TSA security checkpoints, another form of identification may be required: passport, permanent resident card/green card or a military ID.
The Real ID Act of 2005 insists that state-issued IDs meet the minimum security standards now set by the federal government.
The following states do not yet:
- Kentucky
- Maine
- Missouri
- Montana
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- South Carolina
- Washington
Read on!
Arnold Ahlert: All the News That's Fit to Suppress — The Patriot Post
Arnold Ahlert: All the News That's Fit to Suppress — The Patriot Post
Sharyl Attkisson says, "Every day ... stories are killed because powerful people know how to get them killed."
“I can tell you that every day, in newsrooms around the country, stories are killed because powerful people know how to get them killed.” —investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson
By all accounts, Harvey Weinstein is a contemptible human being.
But his two-decade spree of sexual predation that included allegations of rape, possible criminal assault and a recording of him admitting he groped model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez has revealed something far more disturbing: America is besieged by a thoroughly corrupt Democrat/MSM Propaganda Machine.
One whose most egregious failing is not the avalanche of slanted opinions they present as news, but the truth they bury when it doesn’t accrue to interests.
...Attkisson cites “liberal bias” as the reason those stories were killed.
Yet there is also a “powerful people” element that cannot be ignored.
The president of CBS News is David Rhodes.
His brother, Ben, was Obama’s National Security Advisor.
Ben was a key figure in the effort to scrub original references to terror in the Benghazi talking points a lying Susan Rice regurgitated on Sunday news shows.
The same Ben Rhodes who bragged about his ability to create an echo chamber among “handpicked Beltway insiders” to help the Obama administration get its message across.
CBS insisted David was not involved in any editorial discussions about his brother.
And actress Meryl Streep contended she knew nothing about Harvey Weinstein’s abuse.
Both are equally credible..."
Read it all!
Sharyl Attkisson says, "Every day ... stories are killed because powerful people know how to get them killed."
“I can tell you that every day, in newsrooms around the country, stories are killed because powerful people know how to get them killed.” —investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson
By all accounts, Harvey Weinstein is a contemptible human being.
One whose most egregious failing is not the avalanche of slanted opinions they present as news, but the truth they bury when it doesn’t accrue to interests.
...Attkisson cites “liberal bias” as the reason those stories were killed.
Yet there is also a “powerful people” element that cannot be ignored.
The president of CBS News is David Rhodes.
His brother, Ben, was Obama’s National Security Advisor.
Ben was a key figure in the effort to scrub original references to terror in the Benghazi talking points a lying Susan Rice regurgitated on Sunday news shows.
The same Ben Rhodes who bragged about his ability to create an echo chamber among “handpicked Beltway insiders” to help the Obama administration get its message across.
CBS insisted David was not involved in any editorial discussions about his brother.
And actress Meryl Streep contended she knew nothing about Harvey Weinstein’s abuse.
Both are equally credible..."
Read it all!
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: America, Your Campuses Are Madhouses. Why Are We Paying For This? …
Instapundit » Blog Archive » HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: America, Your Campuses Are Madhouses. Why Are We Paying For This? …: "HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:
America, Your Campuses Are Madhouses. Why Are We Paying For This?
"Expect more and more people to be asking this question.
When the people who run institutions care more about their standing within their narrow peer group than about the future of those institutions, things tend to go bad.- Glenn Reynolds"
Apple's Vice President Apologizes For 'Diversity' Comments | Daily Wire
Apple's Vice President Apologizes For 'Diversity' Comments | Daily Wire:
"An Apple executive has apologized for comments she made regarding “diversity” during a leftist conference last week in Bogota, Colombia.
Denise Young Smith, Apple’s VP of Inclusion and Diversity, suggested “diversity” can exist among people who look alike as part of a panel discussion on fighting "racial injustice" during 2017's "One Young World Summit":"
"An Apple executive has apologized for comments she made regarding “diversity” during a leftist conference last week in Bogota, Colombia.
Denise Young Smith, Apple’s VP of Inclusion and Diversity, suggested “diversity” can exist among people who look alike as part of a panel discussion on fighting "racial injustice" during 2017's "One Young World Summit":"
Individual Arrested For Graffiti Swastika At University Of Maryland Is Black
Individual Arrested For Graffiti Swastika At University Of Maryland Is Black
"A while back, someone spray-painted a swastika on a trash cart at the University of Maryland.
As with so many other similar situations lately, students got extremely upset and the school did its best to respond.
There's been an intense desire among some on the Left to prove that racists are coming out of the woodwork -- but without any evidence, they need to manufacture the hate themselves.
"A while back, someone spray-painted a swastika on a trash cart at the University of Maryland. As with so many other similar situations lately, students got extremely upset and the school did its best to respond.
Also, as with so many other similar situations lately, it appears we have yet another faked hate crime.
You wouldn’t know it by reading news from the University of Maryland or its student newspaper, but the suspect charged in connection with a spray-painted swastika on campus is … African-American....So maybe that’s why currently only one news outlet notes swastika suspect Alford is black:Court records show the man accused of spray-painting a swastika inside a residence hall at the University of Maryland in September is African American.Students were surprised to learn someone who is a member of a race which has been historically oppressed is accused of the hate-related incident.“I guess it proves that you don’t have to be a certain race to hate people, but I mean, it’s just you would think that someone, especially from a race that has been subjected to hate before, you would think why would you want to reciprocate that to somebody else,” said student Abby Gorun.
This has been quite the phenomenon since the election of Donald Trump.
There's been an intense desire among some on the Left to prove that racists are coming out of the woodwork -- but without any evidence, they need to manufacture the hate themselves.
Now many people assume each new incident is a fraud, for good reason.
Remarkably few ever turn out to be actual hate crimes..."
History for October 17
History for October 17 - On-This-Day.com:
Charles Kraft 1880 - Founder of Kraft, Arthur Miller 1915, Jimmy Breslin 1930 - Newspaper columnist
Evel Knievel (Robert Craig) 1938, George Wendt 1948 - Actor ("Cheers"), Margot Kidder 1948 - Actress ("Superman")
1777 - American troops defeated British forces in Saratoga, NY. It was the turning point in the American Revolutionary War.
1888 - The first issue of "National Geographic Magazine" was released at newsstands.
1931 - Al Capone was convicted on income tax evasion and was sentenced to 11 years in prison. He was released in 1939.
1945 - Colonel Juan Peron became the dictator of Argentina after staging a coup in Buenos Aires.
1973 - The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) began an oil-embargo against several countries including the U.S. and Great Britain. The incident stemmed from Western support of Israel when Egypt and Syria attacked the nation on October 6, 1973. The embargo lasted until March of 1974.
1978 - U.S. President Carter signed a bill that restored full U.S. citizenship rights to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
1979 - Mother Teresa of India was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1989 - An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter Scale hit the San Francisco Bay area in California. The quake caused about 67 deaths, 3,000 injuries, and damages up to $7 billion.
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)