History for March 17

History for March 17 - On-This-Day.com:
Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler 1834 - Engineer, industrialist, invented the high-speed petrol engine, Nat "King" Cole (Nathaniel Adams Coles) 1919 - Singer, musician, John Sebastian 1944 - Singer, songwriter (Lovin' Spoonful)


Kurt Russell 1951 - Actor, Gary Sinise 1955 - Actor ("C.S.I: NY"), Rob Lowe 1964 - Actor


0461 - Bishop Patrick, St. Patrick, died in Saul. Ireland celebrates this day in his honor. (More about St. Patrick's Day) 


1766 - Britain repealed the Stamp Act that had caused resentment in the North American colonies. 


1942 - Douglas MacArthur became the Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in the Southwestern Pacific. 


1958 - The Vanguard 1 satellite was launched by the U.S. 


1959 - The Dalai Lama (Lhama Dhondrub, Tenzin Gyatso) fled Tibet and went to India. 


1969 - Golda Meir was sworn in as the fourth premier of Israel. 


1973 - The first American prisoners of war (POWs) were released from the "Hanoi Hilton" in Hanoi, North Vietnam. 


1989 - A series of solar flares caused a violent magnetic storm that brought power outages over large regions of Canada. 

House Hacking Suspects Could Read Congressmen's Emails | The Daily Caller

House Hacking Suspects Could Read Congressmen's Emails | The Daily Caller:

“They had access to EVERYTHING. Correspondence, emails, confidential files — if it was stored on the Member system, they had access to it,” the former House Information Resources (HIR) technology worker with first-hand knowledge of Imran’s privileges told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

Technology employees who work for members must initially get authority from HIR, a component of the House’s chief administrative officer, which maintains campus-wide technology systems."

Global Warming In One Easy Lesson | Power Line

Global Warming In One Easy Lesson | Power Line
GLOBAL WARMING IN ONE EASY LESSON

Richard Lindzen is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT. MIT’s web site suggests his scientific eminence:

Professor Lindzen is a dynamical meteorologist with interests in the broad topics of climate, planetary waves, monsoon meteorology, planetary atmospheres, and hydrodynamic instability. ..

Professor Lindzen recently wrote a letter to President Donald Trump explaining, briefly and cogently, why he and many other scientists are skeptical of the catastrophic anthropogenic global warming theory–which, despite tens of billions of dollars in government subsidies, has failed to generate significant empirical support. The letter was reproduced by the Science and Environmental Policy Project. 
It has the virtue of being easily read and understood:

For far too long, one body of men, establishment climate scientists, has been permitted to be judges and parties on what the “risks to the Earth system associated with increasing levels of carbon dioxide” really are.

Let me explain in somewhat greater detail why we call for withdrawal from the UNFCCC [United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change].

The UNFCCC was established twenty-five years ago, to find scientific support for dangers from increasing carbon dioxide. While this has led to generous and rapidly increased support for the field, the purported dangers remain hypothetical, model-based projections. By contrast, the benefits of increasing CO2 and modest warming are clearer than ever, and they are supported by dramatic satellite images of a greening Earth.

• The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) no longer claims a greater likelihood of significant as opposed to negligible future warming,

• It has long been acknowledged by the IPCC that climate change prior to the 1960’s could not have been due to anthropogenic greenhouse gases. Yet, pre-1960 instrumentally observed temperatures show many warming episodes, similar to the one since 1960, for example, from 1915 to 1950, and from 1850 to 1890. None of these could have been caused by an increase in atmospheric CO2,

• Model projections of warming during recent decades have greatly exceeded what has been observed,

• The modelling community has openly acknowledged that the ability of existing models to simulate past climates is due to numerous arbitrary tuning adjustments,

• Observations show no statistically valid trends in flooding or drought, and no meaningful acceleration whatsoever of pre-existing long term sea level rise (about 6 inches per century) worldwide,

• Current carbon dioxide levels, around 400 parts per million are still very small compared to the averages over geological history, when thousands of parts per million prevailed, and when life flourished on land and in the oceans.

Calls to limit carbon dioxide emissions are even less persuasive today than 25 years ago. Future research should focus on dispassionate, high-quality climate science, not on efforts to prop up an increasingly frayed narrative of “carbon pollution.” Until scientific research is unfettered from the constraints of the policy-driven UNFCCC, the research community will fail in its obligation to the public that pays the bills.

GREAT!-----Trump Budget Proposes Killing All Funding for PBS, NPR and National Endowment for the Arts

Trump Budget Proposes Killing All Funding for PBS, NPR and National Endowment for the Arts:
"...Trump’s budget would zero out the $445 million budget for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting...
The budget would also eliminate the budgets for both national endowments, which stood at $148 million each in 2016, as well as $230 million for the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which supports libraries and museums..."

CBO confirms: Full repeal of Obamacare is the ONLY way forward

CBO confirms: Full repeal of Obamacare is the ONLY way forward:

"It’s clear that by exacerbating the death spiral of the existing failed market before 2020, the political reality will ensure that even the minor reforms implemented to Medicaid and the exchange subsidies in 2020 will never occur. And the disaster will all be blamed on a wrongly-perceived Obamacare repeal bill instead of Obamacare itself. Full repeal is the only solvent way forward."

This is not a spoof...it is how they "think"... with your tax dollars-----Healing from Toxic Whiteness

Healing from Toxic Whiteness:

Everyday Feminism presents:

Healing from Toxic Whiteness 

~ an online training program for white people commited to racial justice ~

If there was ever a time in recent history for white people to take action to end racism, this is it.  

Trump's presidency has shaken white people's understanding of racism to its core. It's revealed what many people of color have known and been naming for generations – that the US has deeply normalized white supremacy and is built on a foundation of systemic oppression.

As a white person dedicated to social justice, you knew how racist Trump's campaign was – but perhaps you didn't know how capable so many white people, perhaps including your own family and friends, were of electing him.

You may be finding yourself coming to terms with just how prevalent and harmful white supremacy is – and how your white privilege has kept you ignorant and in denial of this reality in the first place.  

So with Trump's policies starting to roll out, you know you want to be fighting alongside people of color. But you also know that you may feel frozen in place by the feelings of shock, confusion, denial, and guilt that many white people have been dealing with since the election.

It's understandable for white people to have those feelings as they begin to notice we don't live in a post-racial society as we've been taught and how pervasive systemic racism actually is. 

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This starts with not running away from the racism that exists both within yourself and your communities. Instead, it means acknowledging it – and that is a painful process. 

With our unique Compassionate Activism approach, you can learn how to hold that pain of racism in a way that's healing and comes from a place of love and justice. 

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"Healing from Toxic Whiteness provides white anti-racists with crucial missing tools for the most challenging aspect of our work - navigating our own emotional reactions when confronted with the realities of white supremacy. These tools help us to work through our knee-jerk tendency to reject ourselves or other white people when we encounter how racism operates through us. With these tools, we can take on one of our most crucial responsibilities - to engage in productive dialogue with those who knowingly or unknowingly defend white supremacy. This program has helped me to become a more effective change agent by becoming more accepting of what is, within me and around me - so that I can be present to it, honor it, and transform it with courageous compassion." - Lenore

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Leon Drolet - Climate alarmists have their religion - no one is allowed to question...

Leon Drolet - Climate alarmists have their religion...:
"Climate alarmists have their religion - no one is allowed to question the "truth" - but they needed the federal government to be the church and carry out the inquisition against heretics. 

Then this guy happened."

Why are climate-change models so flawed? Because climate science is so incomplete - The Boston Globe

The EPA’s new administrator got it right: We don’t yet know “with precision” what drives climate change.

BOSTONGLOBE.COM

Lunch video-----These are the differences between the Green Berets and US Navy SEALs

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Trump Signs Order To Reduce The Size Of the Federal Bureaucracy [Video]

Trump Signs Order To Reduce The Size Of the Federal Bureaucracy [Video]:

"President Donald Trump on Monday began a far-reaching reorganization of the federal government.

Trump signed the Comprehensive Plan For Reorganizing The Executive Branch, which he called a “major step towards making the federal government efficient, effective and accountable.”"

American democrats favorite religion-----Islamists Still Perpetuating Slavery Today « Clarion Project

Islamists Still Perpetuating Slavery Today « Clarion Project
"...Islam came to exist at a time when slavery was widespread and various empires and states in Islamic history practiced slavery. 
Based on this history and theology, the Islamic State terrorist group reintroduced slavery into the modern world, selling captured women and girls in slave markets for less than the price of a packet of cigarettes.

But ISIS is not the only group of extremists to justify slavery.

Apologists for Islamism, like Georgetown professor of Islamic studies Dr. Jonathan Brown provide cover for slavery. In a speech on slavery in Islamic thought, Brown said, “It’s not immoral for one human to own another human.”

He added, “the Prophet of God [Mohammed] had slaves … There’s no denying that. Was he—are you more morally mature than the Prophet of God? No you’re not.” 

...Mauritania was the last country in the world to abolish slavery, which it did only in 1981. 

Slavery, however, still exists in Mauritania, were an estimated 10 to 20 percent of the population still live in slavery. 

In 2007 the government passed a law saying that slave owners would be prosecuted.

But in 2014, the Global Slavery Index estimated there are 140,000 slaves still in Mauritania, out of a population of 3.8 million. 

Those who continue to keep slaves in Mauritania do so with reference to traditionalist Islamic rulings on the topic which permit and regulate the practice of slavery within an Islamic context..."

Despite protestations to the contrary and legislation on the books opposing slavery, the practice is alive and well in many Arab countries today, justified with reference to traditionalist understandings of Islam.

Not all butterflies are free-----$135k To Study Insects Called ‘Great Lakes Restoration’ [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

$135k To Study Insects Called ‘Great Lakes Restoration’ [Michigan Capitol Confidential]: "Michigan State University was given a $135,668 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency in 2010 via the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.
The money was to be used to study the Mitchell’s Satyr butterfly and the Hine’s Emerald dragonfly in the Great Lakes region.
A document from a White House budget office suggested possible reductions in Great Lakes Restoration Initiative spending.
In an editorial, the Detroit Free Press called reductions to the initiative “irresponsible.”"

Oops: One Of Greatest Mass Extinctions Was Due To An Ice Age And Not Global Warming | The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF)

Oops: One Of Greatest Mass Extinctions Was Due To An Ice Age And Not Global Warming | The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF):
"The Earth has known several mass extinctions over the course of its history. 

One of the most important happened at the Permian-Triassic boundary 250 million years ago. 

Over 95% of marine species disappeared and, up until now, scientists have linked this extinction to a significant rise in Earth temperatures.

But researchers have now discovered that this extinction took place during a short ice age which preceded the global climate warming. 

It’s the first time that the various stages of a mass extinction have been accurately understood and that scientists have been able to assess the major role played by volcanic explosions in these climate processes..."

Read on!