Monday, June 17, 2019
There Is No Evidence Weather Is Increasingly Threatening to Human Lives
There Is No Evidence Weather Is Increasingly Threatening to Human Lives:
How many of those taken in by alarmism realize that deaths from extreme weather have dropped somewhere around 99.9 percent since the 1920s? Heat and cold can still be killer, but thanks to increasingly reliable and affordable heating and cooling systems, and others luxuries of the age, the vast majority of Americans will never have to fear the climate in any genuine way.
Since 1980, death caused by all natural disasters and heat and cold is somewhere under 0.5 percent.
Since 1980, death caused by all natural disasters and heat and cold is somewhere under 0.5 percent.
TaxProf Blog--The U.S. student loan system is broken.
The U.S. student loan system is broken.
How broken?
The numbers tell the story.
Borrowers currently owe more than $1.5 trillion in student loans, an average of $34,000 per person.
Over two million of them have defaulted on their loans in just the past six years, and the number grows by 1,400 a day.
After years of projecting big profits from student lending, the federal government now acknowledges that taxpayers stand to lose $31.5 billion on the program over the next decade, and the losses are growing rapidly.
Meanwhile, four in 10 recent college graduates are in jobs that don’t require a degree..."
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The children are our future?-----Student journalist: Shoplifting at Gibson's Bakery was part of Oberlin College's "Culture of Theft"
Student journalist: Shoplifting at Gibson's Bakery was part of Oberlin College's "Culture of Theft"
“[W]e uncovered a sad truth: That the majority of shoplifting in Oberlin is carried out by students…. [because] students just felt like it” — Puts in context testimony that the college wanted a special procedure for student shoplifters and feared backing the bakery would “trigger” a negative student reaction.
“[W]e uncovered a sad truth: That the majority of shoplifting in Oberlin is carried out by students…. [because] students just felt like it” — Puts in context testimony that the college wanted a special procedure for student shoplifters and feared backing the bakery would “trigger” a negative student reaction.
We have covered Oberlin College at least since 2013, when we wrote extensively about The Great Oberlin College Racism Hoax of 2013.
Classes were cancelled in favor of campus-wide forums to address white supremacy and systemic racism after racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic flyers were posted around campus.
The campus almost melted down when a student spotted someone walking at night in a Ku Klux Klan robe.
It turned out not to be the Klan, but likely a student walking at night wrapped in a blanket for warmth.
The campus almost melted down when a student spotted someone walking at night in a Ku Klux Klan robe.
It turned out not to be the Klan, but likely a student walking at night wrapped in a blanket for warmth.
Even the flyers turned out not to be what they seemed – it turned out they were placed around campus by a white liberal student who sought to start a conversation on campus...
...There was something we covered during the trial, but which just jumped out at me as I was preparing a long Twitter thread excerpting our trial coverage:
Lest we forget. And the idiot did it on an open mike!----FLASHBACK: Obama to Russian President: ‘After My Election, I’ll Have More Flexibility’
FLASHBACK: Obama to Russian President: ‘After My Election, I’ll Have More Flexibility’
"(CNSNews.com) - President Obama was running for re-election in March 2012, when a live microphone picked up his whispered conversation with then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev...
“I understand," Medvedev said. "I will transmit this information to Vladimir."..."
"(CNSNews.com) - President Obama was running for re-election in March 2012, when a live microphone picked up his whispered conversation with then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev...
“Yeah, I understand,” said Medvedev, who was about to replaced by Putin as Russian president. “I understand your message about space. Space for you--"
“This is my last election," Obama said. "After my election I have more flexibility.”“I understand," Medvedev said. "I will transmit this information to Vladimir."..."
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23 House Republicans Suspect DOJ Cover-up in Progress? – Request “Prompt” Declassification from President Trump… | The Last Refuge
Twenty-three House republicans request declassification of documents directly from President Trump as soon as possible. Despite the executive office directive to AG Bill Barr, the republican group seemingly do not trust the DOJ and FBI institutional interests.
It’s a smart move to keep the pressure on.
Glenn K. Beaton: Aspen’s warnin’ warminites are chillin’ | AspenTimes.com
" Remember those predictions that polar bears and snow would soon be extinct?
Well, here in Aspen and throughout the Colorado mountains, snowpack this spring is nearly 500% of normal.
That’s not a typo.
It’s almost five times normal.
...But here’s what it does mean.
It means that rhetoric predicting the end of the world is indeed a hoax.
For example:
- Al Gore, who earned a science degree from — oh wait, Gore’s degree is in government. He received C’s and D’s in the few science classes he took. And he avoided math classes altogether.Anyway, Gore predicted in 2008 that the polar ice cap would be gone within five years. Eleven years later, it’s approximately where it was when Gore made his prediction.
- Prince Charles said in 2009 that we have only “100 months” left to “avoid that living hell of the nightmare that for so many of us now looms on the horizon.” Four months later he doubled down in prophesizing that we had only 96 months left till the end days. At least he got the arithmetic right, if not the science or writing. But by my own arithmetic, two years ago was the expiration of the Prince’s 100 months till that looming living hell of a nightmare came over the horizon.
- One of the Prince’s court jesters at the time, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, duly warned everyone back in 2009 that they had only 50 days to avert “catastrophe.”
Maybe Gore, the Prince and the Prime Minister are right that the end is nigh, if not past, but it hasn’t persuaded them to give up their mega-mansions and palaces.
Sacrifice is for little people..."
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History for June 17
History for June 17 - On-This-Day.com
John Wesley 1703 - Cleric, Christian theologian, James Weldon Johnson 1871 - Author, politician, diplomat, critic, John Hersey (John Richard Hersey) 1914 - Writer, journalist
Newt Gingrich (Newton Leroy "Newt" Gingrich) 1943 - Politician, historian, author, Barry Manilow 1946 - Musician, Venus Williams 1980 - Tennis player
1856 - The Republican Party opened its first national convention in Philadelphia.
1944 - The republic of Iceland was established.
Sunday, June 16, 2019
Obama White House Deleted Online Speeches About The Immigration Crisis Hours Before Trump Entered Office: Report | The Daily Caller
Obama White House Deleted Online Speeches About The Immigration Crisis Hours Before Trump Entered Office: Report | The Daily Caller:
The Obama administration deleted hundreds of speeches and statements on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) website just hours before President Donald Trump officially entered office, according to research released Tuesday.
A collection of 190 transcripts of speeches on ICE’s website was deleted on Jan. 18 and late in the evening on Jan. 19, 2017, according to research conducted by the Sunlight Foundation, a nonpartisan organization that advocates for government transparency. Statements made by high-ranking ICE officials regarding controversial immigration topics such as sanctuary cities, E-Verify, treatment of detainees, and other issues were included in the reported deletions.
A collection of 190 transcripts of speeches on ICE’s website was deleted on Jan. 18 and late in the evening on Jan. 19, 2017, according to research conducted by the Sunlight Foundation, a nonpartisan organization that advocates for government transparency. Statements made by high-ranking ICE officials regarding controversial immigration topics such as sanctuary cities, E-Verify, treatment of detainees, and other issues were included in the reported deletions.
Don Surber: Highlights of the news
Don Surber: Highlights of the news:"Happy Father's Day.
If you are not a father, take comfort in not being Alyssa Milano.
If you are Alyssa Milano, take comfort in the fact that Donald John Trump is still your president.
- ITEM 1: Ivan Pentchoukov reported, "The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service has begun to remind immigrants that if they receive any welfare benefits prior to becoming a citizen, their sponsors will be responsible for paying back the government...We pass laws but the government never enforces them. Instead the government demands that a baker make a cake for a gay "wedding," even though the Constitution and the courts say he does not have to do that. President Donald John Trump then enforces the real law, and we hear how he is a threat to democratic institutions. I think they mean Democrat institutions.
- ITEM 2: President Trump tweeted, "All in for Senator Steve Daines as he proposes an Amendment for a strong BAN on burning our American Flag. A no brainer!"..."
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SJW LOGIC VS. COMMON SENSE (SJW=Social Justice Warrior)
Instapundit Blog Archive SJW LOGIC VS. COMMON SENSE
"No wonder Oberlin got socked with a huge punitive damages award for libeling a local bakery as racist after detaining students who wound up pleading guilty to shoplifting.
Here’s Oberlin’s litigation position, from its court filings: “Gibson bakery’s archaic chase-and-detain policy regarding suspected shoplifters was the catalyst for the protests. The guilt or innocence of the students is irrelevant to both the root cause of the protests and this litigation.”
Get that?
Whether the students accused of shoplifting had actually been shoplifting or not was irrelevant to whether it was fair to accuse the store of racism etc for detaining the students as shoplifters. The fault lay with the bakery owners for daring to actually stop and prosecute shoplifters!
"No wonder Oberlin got socked with a huge punitive damages award for libeling a local bakery as racist after detaining students who wound up pleading guilty to shoplifting.
Here’s Oberlin’s litigation position, from its court filings: “Gibson bakery’s archaic chase-and-detain policy regarding suspected shoplifters was the catalyst for the protests. The guilt or innocence of the students is irrelevant to both the root cause of the protests and this litigation.”
Get that?
Whether the students accused of shoplifting had actually been shoplifting or not was irrelevant to whether it was fair to accuse the store of racism etc for detaining the students as shoplifters. The fault lay with the bakery owners for daring to actually stop and prosecute shoplifters!
This is the kind of b.s. that gets you A’s at Oberlin with a certain type of SJW professor, but that normal people rightly think defies common sense.
But it can pay off in academia...---Posted by
But it can pay off in academia...---Posted by
If Climate Change Is Our World War II, Who Are The Real Villains? | The Daily Caller
If Climate Change Is Our World War II, Who Are The Real Villains? | The Daily Caller:
You often hear climate change described as a global conflict with existential consequences. As Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez once put it, “This is our World War II.” It would be interesting to know what survivors of, say, Guadalcanal or the Bataan Death March think of that comparison. But never mind. Let’s take the hyperbole seriously. If global warming is a war, who is our enemy? Who are we fighting?
First on the list would have to be double agents. These are the people who pretend to be on the side of righteousness but in fact are doing the work of dark forces. During the last world war, people like this were called quislings, after the Norwegian collaborationist leader. They were dealt with harshly. Who are our quislings today?
You often hear climate change described as a global conflict with existential consequences. As Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez once put it, “This is our World War II.” It would be interesting to know what survivors of, say, Guadalcanal or the Bataan Death March think of that comparison. But never mind. Let’s take the hyperbole seriously. If global warming is a war, who is our enemy? Who are we fighting?
First on the list would have to be double agents. These are the people who pretend to be on the side of righteousness but in fact are doing the work of dark forces. During the last world war, people like this were called quislings, after the Norwegian collaborationist leader. They were dealt with harshly. Who are our quislings today?
ALWAYS believe the EXPERTS!-----FLASHBACK: ABC's ’08 Prediction: NYC Under Water from Climate Change By June 2015
FLASHBACK: ABC's ’08 Prediction: NYC Under Water from Climate Change By June 2015
"New York City underwater?
Gas over $9 a gallon?
A carton of milk costs almost $13?
Remember when that happened on June 12, 2015?
No?
This was the wildly-inaccurate world of 2015 predicted by ABC News 11 years ago this week.
Appearing on Good Morning America in 2008, Bob Woodruff hyped Earth 2100, a special that pushed apocalyptic predictions of the then-futuristic 2015.
"New York City underwater?
Gas over $9 a gallon?
A carton of milk costs almost $13?
Remember when that happened on June 12, 2015?
No?
This was the wildly-inaccurate world of 2015 predicted by ABC News 11 years ago this week.
Appearing on Good Morning America in 2008, Bob Woodruff hyped Earth 2100, a special that pushed apocalyptic predictions of the then-futuristic 2015.
The segment included supposedly prophetic videos, such as a teenager declaring, "It's June 8th, 2015.
One carton of milk is $12.99."
(On the actual June 8, 2015, a gallon of milk cost, on average, $3.39.) Another clip featured this prediction for 2015 "Gas reached over $9 a gallon." (In reality, gas cost an average of $2.75 four years ago.)
One carton of milk is $12.99."
(On the actual June 8, 2015, a gallon of milk cost, on average, $3.39.) Another clip featured this prediction for 2015 "Gas reached over $9 a gallon." (In reality, gas cost an average of $2.75 four years ago.)
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Jim Riley - Seriously, we have Bridge cards, weekly food drives...
Jim Riley - Seriously, we have Bridge cards, weekly food drives...
"Seriously, we have Bridge cards, weekly food drives everywhere, church food-banks and each child comes with an increase in the Bridge card food allowance.
"Seriously, we have Bridge cards, weekly food drives everywhere, church food-banks and each child comes with an increase in the Bridge card food allowance.
Where is the Bridge card food money going?
Do parents have ANY responsibility to care for and feed their children?
Is it gonna be "it takes a village" from now on?
Is this going to be positive for our country?
Do we really want to teach our children that "THE STATE" will feed your kids, not their parents?"
Texas students will have to learn cursive again starting this fall | wfaa.com
AUSTIN, Texas — Most school districts in Texas don't currently teach cursive. But that's about to change.
In 2017, the State Board of Education changed the requirements for the "English Language Arts and Reading" portion of the state education standards known as Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills or TEKS. The changes that were adopted are set to be implemented during the 2019-2020 school year.
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