When the legal system kills-----When high water kills: Drownings on Great Lakes soar in 2019 - mlive.com

When high water kills: Drownings on Great Lakes soar in 2019 - mlive.com
"...She noted that in 1990, lifeguards were removed from Michigan State Park beaches.
...South Haven City Council agreed to consider citizen concern and reinstate lifeguards at the city's seven beaches.
City officials have also expressed concern about liability if someone drowns at a beach where there is a lifeguard. 
In 2013, the city of South Haven agreed to a $400,000 settlement with the family of an Illinois man who drowned on a beach there in 2009.
Instead of lifeguards, communities have chosen to use green, yellow and red warning flags to advise visitors about lake conditions..."

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Lunch video-----Straight Up #8 - The Hard Truth

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Google's overreach into your kid's school privacy - WND

Google's overreach into your kid's school privacy - WND:

In last week’s column, I showed exhaustive evidence how Big Tech is doing more meddling in elections than Russia. This week I’ll show how they are coming after your kids. It’s a warning about Big Tech’s dangerous tentacles in local schools. And Google is leading the way and well on its way to become America’s goliath schoolmaster.
This past week I was catching up on a past copy of one of my favorite publications: WND’s Whistleblower. In the June 2019 issue, Michelle Malkin wrote another super insightful piece titled, “4 steps to protect your kids from Google predators.”
Malkin explained why the Google warning:

Climate Change: No, It’s Not a 97 Percent Consensus | [site:name] | National Review

Climate Change: No, It’s Not a 97 Percent Consensus | [site:name] | National Review
"...Sierra Club president Aaron Mair, after an uncomfortable pause of his own, appealed to authority: “Ninety-seven percent of scientists concur and agree that there is global warming and anthropogenic impact,” he stated multiple times.
...The myth of an almost-unanimous climate-change consensus is pervasive. 
...In 2004, University of California-San Diego professor Naomi Oreskes reported that, of 928 scientific abstracts from papers published by refereed scientific journals between 1993 and 2003, “75% . . . either explicitly or implicitly accept[ed] the consensus view; 25% dealt with methods or paleoclimate, taking no position on current anthropogenic climate change. 
Remarkably, none of the papers disagreed with the consensus position.” 
Also remarkably, the papers chosen excluded several written by prominent scientists skeptical of that consensus. 
Furthermore, the claims made in abstracts — short summaries of academic papers — often differ from those made in the papers themselves. 
...The “97 percent” statistic first appeared prominently in a 2009 study by University of Illinois master’s student Kendall Zimmerman and her adviser, Peter Doran. 
Based on a two-question online survey..."
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Gun free zone!

He saw the future...and warned us!----We Were Warned: Freedom to Chains - Paul Harvey - Short Film (2017) [HD]

#1 This day 1980-----Olivia Newton-John - Magic

Ken Blackwell: The Truth About Gun Control and Racism

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Ken Blackwell: The Truth About Gun Control and Racism

As seen on cnsnews.com  https://bit.ly/2KuqWpW
“America’s founders understood that the right to own firearms—the right to use effectual force to defend oneself, one’s family, one’s neighborhood, one’s nation—was the difference between a mere subject and a free, independent, equal citizen. 
...For black communities, however, the threat has rarely come from invading Redcoats or marauding Indians. 
Few Americans remember today that the first task of the Ku Klux Klan was to disarm the black population in the South. Even fewer know that citizen militias repelled white mobs attacking black neighborhoods in many Northern cities in the days before the Civil War. 
On at least two occasions, those militias were composed entirely of black gun owners. 
Few Americans realize that during the freedom struggles of the 1960s, civil rights workers of all races were protected by organized black militias in at least three Southern states.
Despite this heritage of responsible and effective use of firearms, equal citizenship has frequently been denied to black Americans through the use of gun control laws. 
Such laws were used to keep firearms out of the hands of African Americans—to deny their very equality as human beings—from the earliest colonial days through the end of Jim Crow in 1965. 
Many would argue that even today, blacks continue to suffer disproportionate harm from gun control laws, as major cities deny legal firearms to the residents of high-crime urban neighborhoods..."
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Here Are 4 Dubious Claims In Bruce Ohr’s FBI Notes | The Daily Caller

Here Are 4 Dubious Claims In Bruce Ohr’s FBI Notes | The Daily Caller:

The notes, known as 302s, show that Ohr told the FBI of four alleged links between Russia and the Trump campaign that have either been debunked or were not supported by the special counsel’s report of the Russia probe.

Danish climate body wrongly reported Greenland heat record - The Local

Danish climate body wrongly reported Greenland heat record - The Local:
"Denmark's national climate body has admitted it wrongly reported record warm temperatures on the centre of the Greenland ice sheet last week, in what it called "good news from a climate perspective".
The Danish Meteorological Institute, which has a key role in monitoring Greenland's climate, last week reported a shocking August temperature of between 2.7C and 4.7C at the Summit weather station, which is located 3,202m above sea level at the the centre of the Greenland ice sheet, generating a spate of global headlines.
But on Wednesday it posted a tweet saying that a closer look had shown that monitoring equipment had been giving erroneous results.
"Was there record-level warmth on the inland ice on Friday?" it said.
"No! A quality check has confirmed out suspicion that the measurement was too high."...
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QM Fruitcake

History for August 14

History for August 14 - On-This-Day.com
Russell Baker 1925 - Newspaper columnist, Steve Martin 1945 - Actor comedian, Danielle Steel 1947 - Author


Gary Larson 1950 - Creator of "The Far Side", Earvin "Magic" Johnson 1959 - Basketball player,  Tim Tebow 1987 - Football player


1919 - About 1 million tons of ice and rock broke off of a glacier near Mont Blanc, France. Nine people were killed in the incident.


1935 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law. The act created unemployment insurance and pension plans for the elderly.

Bruce Ohr gave FBI false information on Trump, Judicial Watch says - Washington Times

Bruce Ohr gave FBI false information on Trump, Judicial Watch says - Washington Times:

Hillary Clinton operatives fed the FBI false information on President Trump and his aides in the months following his election, according to an analysis of an FBI agent’s interview with a key conduit.
The agent’s interview notes (known as 302s) of Bruce Ohr, then an associate deputy attorney general in the Department of Justice, were obtained by the conservative investigative group Judicial Watch.
“These new Bruce Ohr FBI 302s show an unprecedented and irregular effort by the FBI, DOJ, and State Department to dig up dirt on President Trump using the conflicted Bruce Ohr, his wife, and the Clinton/DNC spies at Fusion GPS,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

The way we were-----The Coasters - Along Came Jones (b&w)

Boob-tube-----MAN ON THE LEDGE. 1955 TV Episode. Cameron Mitchell & Alan Hale from G...

Google Biased Toward CNN and Left Media in Mass Shooting Coverage

Google Biased Toward CNN and Left Media in Mass Shooting Coverage
"The days following two tragic mass shootings in Dayton, OH and El Paso, TX were extremely active for newsrooms nationwide. 

But readers who used Google to learn about the shootings may have seen an overwhelming majority of news from left-leaning media sources — CNN, the New York Times and the Washington Post in particular — rather than a mix of news sources from the left, center, and right, according to a new audit by AllSides.

The audit was reviewed by a multipartisan team of individuals from the left and right. AllSides uses a multi-partisan, balanced, patented system for measuring bias.

AllSides assessed 522 news articles that were featured as one of the top three results in Google’s “Top Stories” section for 10 shooting-related queries over three days.

The audit found:

• 70% of results were from outlets that have an AllSides Media Bias Rating of Lean Left or Left.
• 18% of stories were from outlets that have a Center media bias.
• 4% of stories were from Lean Right or Right biased outlets.
• 8% of results came from outlets not rated by AllSides.

In addition, nearly half (46%) of results came from just three news websites. 

CNN (25%), the New York Times (14%) and the Washington Post (7%) appeared in the first three results of the “Top Stories” box most often..."

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"Following yet another Shootapalooza shitshow, expect more of the same while No Accountability" | Chicago Murder, Crime & Mayhem | HeyJackass!

Chicago Crime 2019 | Chicago Murder, Crime & Mayhem | HeyJackass!

The Weekend’s Stupidity

"Following yet another Shootapalooza shitshow, expect more of the same while No Accountability Monday yields nothing of value other than petulance about tweets and stats.

Final Stupidity Tally: 5 killed, 46 wounded

• 2018 weekend tally: 1 killed, 37 wounded
• 2017 weekend tally: 11 killed, 34 wounded
• 2016 weekend tally: 12 killed, 44 wounded
• 2015 weekend tally: 6 killed, 34 wounded
• 2014 weekend tally: 6 killed, 31 wounded

Friday 8/9...
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FBI: More People Killed by Hammers, Clubs than with Rifles of Any Kind

FBI: More People Killed by Hammers, Clubs than with Rifles of Any Kind:

The most recent FBI crime stats show that more people were killed in 2017 with hammers and clubs than were killed with rifles of any kind.
Breitbart News reported the most recent numbers–those for 2017–on September 26, 2018. Those figures showed that 467 people were killed with “blunt objects (hammers, clubs, etc.),” while 403 were killed with rifles.

ABC: Solar panels in Australia only lasting 3 to 9 years ABC

China scientists warn of global cooling trick up nature’s sleeve | South China Morning Post

China scientists warn of global cooling trick up nature’s sleeve | South China Morning Post

• Research sheds light on 500-year Chinese weather cycle and suggests a cool change could be on the way
• Findings leave no room for complacency or inaction

A team of Chinese researchers says a period of global cooling could be on the way, but the consequences will be serious. 
A new study has found winters in northern China have been warming since 4,000BC – regardless of human activity – but the mainland scientists behind the research warn there is no room for complacency or inaction on climate change, with the prospect of a sudden global cooling also posing a danger..."
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Lunch video-----Cruise Through the Epstein Swamp - Puzzle Pieces #1

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