"...However, a Leadville resident who went into labor while on the road to Vail was able to give birth at the St. Anthony Copper Mountain clinic last month ...While the clinic was considered a “ski clinic,” it is equipped to function as an urgent care, or an emergency care facility in certain cases. ...The clinic had just closed when Jaci and Tracy arrived at the ambulance bay.
Tracy pleaded for help from the remaining staff, telling them that Jaci’s contractions were speeding up and the baby was on the way.
The clinic’s nurses, physicians and staff sprung into action, preparing the young mother for birth. Their help came not a minute too soon.
...Within minutes, a new life entered the world in the form of a baby girl named Mackenzie.
She was born at a healthy 5 pound, 7 ounces and without the need for oxygen after birth, a rarity for Leadville babies.
...Luckily for the Vincents, the clinic at Copper was there exactly when they needed it.
To recognize little Mackenzie’s amazing birth story and to pay tribute to the folks who helped make it happen, the baby got a very fitting middle name.
It will be interesting to see how the Democratic Party’s presidential hopefuls react to Omar’s comments, which has increasing currency in the activist wing of their party. On this issue, there is a big rift opening between young and old. That does not bode well for the establishment or Jews.
LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Omar is sorry, deal or no deal, and much, much more. “What does this even mean, that El Paso is safe IN SPITE OF walls? There are walls all over the place in the U.S., like in banks, hospitals, state houses…? Beto’s house has walls. When Beto was a congressman, there were all kinds of walls to get into the building where his office was in Washington D.C., is he kidding?”---Posted by Stephen Green"
History for February 14 - On-This-Day.com Christopher Sholes 1819, George Ferris 1859, Jack Benny (Benjamin Kubelsky) 1894 - Comedian Jimmy Hoffa 1913, Woody (Wayne) Hayes 1913, Michael Bloomberg 1942 - New York City Mayor 1929 - The "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" took place in Chicago, IL. Seven gangsters who were rivals of Al Capone were killed. 1989 - The first satellite of the Global Positioning System was placed into orbit around Earth.
Another One Bites the Dust: Wisconsin Wind Farm Decommissioned After Just 20 Years - American Experiment:
The short usable lifespan of a wind turbine is one of the most important, but least-talked about subjects in energy policy.
In contrast to wind, coal, natural gas, and nuclear plants can run for a very long time. Coal and natural gas plants can easily run for 50 years, and nuclear plants can be updated and retrofitted to run for 60 years. This has profound implications for the cost of electricity on a per megawatt hour basis that seemingly no one is talking about.
Australia to reopen island detention camp after refugee bill: "CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government said Wednesday it would reopen a mothballed island detention camp in anticipation of a new wave of asylum seekers arriving by boat after Parliament passed legislation that would give sick asylum seekers easier access to mainland hospitals.
The Christmas Island immigration detention camp, south of Jakarta, Indonesia, was a favorite target of people smugglers who brought asylum seekers from Asia, Africa and the Middle East in rickety boats from Indonesian ports before the trade virtually stopped in recent years.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said a security committee of his cabinet agreed to reopen the camp on the advice of senior security officials..." Read all.
LGBT Activists Teaching Judges To Yank Kids From Parents Who Won’t Transgender Them
"Documents obtained from Rhode Island Family Court must concern any person who questions whether it's a good idea to chemically and surgically mutilate children. On Thursday, the Health and Human Services committee of the South Dakota House killed a bill that would have protected the right of parents to refuse to consent to medical or psychological treatment for a child suffering from gender dysphoria if the treatment “would induce, confirm, or promote the child’s belief that the child’s sex or gender identity is different from the child’s sex presented at birth.”
Proposed House Bill 1205 also provided that “no public authority or official of this state may take any adverse action against a parent for exercising this right.”
That such a simple affirmation of parental rights could not clear a committee in this solidly red state should terrify parents..." Read all!!!
Wind production fell 79 percent over three coldest days
"...During this period of extreme cold, the regional electric grid relied on power generated by coal, natural gas and nuclear plants to provide up to 97 percent of the electricity used, with little coming from solar arrays or wind turbines..." Read on.
North Rhine-Westphalia once had 114 prison imams, but now has only 25. The drop occurred after German authorities carried out security checks on prison imams and discovered that 97 imams were Turkish civil servants whose salaries were paid for by the Turkish government. Turkey refused to allow the imams to be interviewed by German officials.
In an article entitled, "German Becomes a Foreign Language in Many Prisons," the Berliner Morgenpost reported on the growing number of conflicts between German prison officers and foreign inmates because of communication barriers
German authorities are also reporting an increase in inmate attacks on prison staff. In North Rhine-Westphalia, for example, since 2016, the number of assaults on prison staff have more than doubled.
The proportion of foreign-born inmates in German prisons is now at a record high,according to a new survey of the justice ministries in Germany's 16 federal states. In Berlin and Hamburg, for example, more than 50% of inmates are now from abroad, according to the report, which also revealed a spike in the number of Islamists in the German prison system..." Read all.
The Truth About Border Walls' Effectiveness:
Insisting that walls are “ineffective” over and over again doesn’t make it true. The facts on the ground—both in the U.S. and around the world—not only don’t support that opinion, they decisively refute it.
Walls along four Customs and Border Protection sectors—El Paso; San Diego, California; and Tucson and Yuma, Arizona—have reduced illegal immigration “by at least 90 percent,” according to the Republican National Committee’s Borderfacts.com page.
Video Venom: 33 TV Shows in Jan. Slam ‘Terrorist’ Trump, Praise Abortion "Entertainment TV is far worse than news when it comes to progressive bias and hatred for conservative people and views. A cross section of nightly programming on major networks, cable TV or popular streaming services is loaded with anti-conservative, anti-Trump propaganda. January features at least 33 separate entertainment programs that attack conservative values and/or President Donald Trump while promoting a hardcore progressive agenda.
This aggressive lefty programming calls
President Donald Trump a “racist,” and a “terrorist” who is holding America “hostage,”
ridicules Second Lady Karen Pence and her husband’s “BDSM late night kink sessions,”
insinuates that Democracy has “died” in America,
joked that the president watches Judge Jeanine Pirro’s show with his “pants off,” and trashed proponents of border enforcement.
During the scene Ilana Glazer stands in front of the doors next to some unassuming bystanders and begins yelling, “Suck it!” and “Fuck You!” as if she was possessed.
She gestures violently with both middle fingers, and yells to Trump, “Everybody’s laughing at you, fucking clown!”
Broad City’s other star Abbi Johnson gets in frame and then tosses up her own set of middle fingers, which the ladies have edited in post to be shooting lightning bolts.
Vulgarity is power.
Another really nasty one involves a character from Episode 9 of the last season of The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidthaving sex with Donald Trump in a dirty commercial airliner bathroom. Jacqueline (Jane Krakowski) has to be talked into the deed by Kimmy Schmidt (Ellie Kemper) because obviously it’s disgusting and beneath her.
Jacqueline apprehensively walks over to the Trump caricature who is shown stuffing a hamburger into his face and saying things like “My biggest accomplishment? Not getting AIDS from Roy Cohn.” After Jacqueline leaves the bathroom, the flight attendant finds Donald prone in the lavatory, having suffered a heart attack.
The very clearly LGBTQ flight attendant is delighted upon the discovery and gleefully says, “God, I love my job.”... Read all.
Middle America's distrust of the major media isn't Trump's fault JEFFERSON, OHIO — The banner headline in the Ashtabula Star Beacon the day after the President’s annual State of the Union Address was pretty straight forward. “Trump: End investigations; President calls for rejection of resistance politics in Washington.” There were other critically important stories on that front page. One piece announced a new police chief for a local village. Another noted the closing of an iconic grocery store known for selling milk, eggs, and ammunition in its heyday. There was also a photo of the local high school boys’ basketball team. The story on President Trump’s speech was an Associated Press story penned by Washington-based reporters: It took nine paragraphs before one positive nugget from the speech was mentioned in the story. ...It painted a dark and foreboding picture of the risks posed to Americans by illegal immigration. I suspect had a local reporter from Ashtabula County traveled to Washington to report the story, the viewpoint of the story, not the facts, would be different. ...Local reporters for the majority of the remaining small and medium newspapers don’t attend these types of speeches anymore..." Read all.
China's space debris cleanup may be cover story for arms against U.S. satellites, Pentagon says | The Japan Times WASHINGTON - China is developing sophisticated space capabilities such as “satellite inspection and repair” and debris cleanup — “at least some of which could also function” as weapons against U.S. satellites, according to the Defense Intelligence Agency.
The increase in what’s essentially orbiting garbage that could damage or destroy a satellite “has implications for policymakers worldwide and is encouraging the development of space debris removal technology,” the agency said Monday in an unclassified publication on threats to U.S. satellites.
But “this technology is dual-use because it could be used to damage another satellite,” it said..." Read all!
In a time when virtually everything is being politicized, now even food shopping has joined that club.
A family-owned Christian grocery store in Arkansas has ignited controversy with flyers connecting the national debate over border security to the beliefs of millions of Christians.
The message from Mac’s Cashsaver that’s more sizzling than a summertime barbecue states:
“Heaven has a wall, a gate and a strict immigration policy. Hell has open borders. Let that sink in.”
"CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government said Wednesday it would reopen a mothballed island detention camp in anticipation of a new wave of asylum seekers arriving by boat after Parliament passed legislation that would give sick asylum seekers easier access to mainland hospitals.
"CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government said Wednesday it would reopen a mothballed island detention camp in anticipation of a new wave of asylum seekers arriving by boat after Parliament passed legislation that would give sick asylum seekers easier access to mainland hospitals.
On Thursday, the Health and Human Services committee of the South Dakota House killed a bill that would have protected the right of parents to refuse to consent to medical or psychological treatment for a child suffering from gender dysphoria if the treatment “would induce, confirm, or promote the child’s belief that the child’s sex or gender identity is different from the child’s sex presented at birth.” 
Numbers Are In: Fossil Fuels Kept Furnaces Running During Polar Vortex – Michigan Capitol Confidential
The proportion of foreign-born inmates in German prisons is now at a record high, according to a new survey of the justice ministries in Germany's 16 federal states. 
The proportion of foreign-born inmates in German prisons is now at a record high, according to a new survey of the justice ministries in Germany's 16 federal states. 
JEFFERSON, OHIO — The banner headline in the Ashtabula Star Beacon the day after the President’s annual State of the Union Address was pretty straight forward. “Trump: End investigations; President calls for rejection of resistance politics in Washington.”
WASHINGTON - China is developing sophisticated space capabilities such as “satellite inspection and repair” and debris cleanup — “at least some of which could also function” as weapons against U.S. satellites, according to the Defense Intelligence Agency.
In a time when virtually everything is being politicized, now even food shopping has joined that club.