They ALWAYS knew it was fraud!-----Study: Surface Temps Lower at 410 Weather Stations With ‘Minimal Artificial Impact’

Study: Surface Temps Lower at 410 Weather Stations With ‘Minimal Artificial Impact’:
"Surface temperatures recorded over three decades at 410 ideally situated weather stations are markedly lower than temperatures recorded at stations located near multiple heatsinks, according to a new study presented Thursday at the 2015 fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.
The study examined the 30-year temperature records collected from a subset of 410 weather stations belonging to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) of 1,218 stations.
...“The majority of weather stations used by NOAA to detect climate change temperature signal have been compromised by encroachment of artificial surfaces like concrete, asphalt, and heat sources like air conditioner exhausts.
This study demonstrates conclusively that this issue affects temperature trend and that NOAA’s methods are not correcting for this problem, resulting in an inflated temperature trend,” said lead author Anthony Watts, who blogs at Watts Up With That?
...The worst (Class 5) have their “temperature sensor located next to/above an artificial heating source, such as a building, roof top, parking lot, or concrete surface.”
“The poorest sites tend to be warmer,” explained co-author John Nielsen-Gammon, professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University."

Latest Pathetic Publicity Stunt Of Michael Moore's "We Are All Muslims" ....Backfires!

History for December 20

History for December 20 - On-This-Day.com
Samuel Mudd 1833 - Physician that set John Wilkes Booth's leg after the assissination of President Lincoln, Harvey Firestone 1868 - Founder Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Max Lerner 1902 


George Roy Hill 1922 - Director, John Hillerman 1932 - Actor ("Magnum, p.i."), Jenny Agutter 1952 - Actress ("The Snow Goose," "Logan's Run") 


1606 - The "Susan Constant," "Godspeed" and "Discovery" set sail from London. Their landing at Jamestown, VA, was the start of the first permanent English settlement in America. 


1820 - The state of Missouri enacted legislation to tax bachelors between the ages of 21-50 for being unmarried. The tax was $1 a year. 


1892 - Alexander T. Brown and George Stillman patented the pneumatic tire. 


1946 - The Frank Capra film "It's A Wonderful Life" had a preview showing for charity at New York City's Globe Theatre, a day before its "official" world premiere. James Stewart and Donna Reed star in the film. 


1946 - In Indochina (Vietnam), full-scale guerrilla warfare between Vietnam partisans and French troops began. 


1989 - General Noriega, Panama's former dictator, was overthrown by a United States invasion force invited by the new civilian government. The project was known as Operation Just Cause. 


1990 - The world's first website and server go live at CERN. The first website was http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html. 


1995 - An American Airlines Boeing 757 en route to Cali, Colombia, crashed into a mountain, killing all but four of the 163 people aboard. 

WATCH: Kentucky School Cuts Bible Passages from ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ — So Parents Decide to Take Glenn Beck’s Advice | Video | TheBlaze.com

WATCH: Kentucky School Cuts Bible Passages from ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ — So Parents Decide to Take Glenn Beck’s Advice | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"When one Kentucky elementary school cut Linus Van Pelt’s famous monologue from “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” in which he shares the meaning of the holiday season by reading Luke 2:8-14, the administration probably wasn’t expecting the kind of response they received during Thursday’s Christmas production."

Want To Know How Ridiculous The Omnibus Bill Is? It Has A Meaningless Porn Filter Clause Four Times

Want To Know How Ridiculous The Omnibus Bill Is? It Has A Meaningless Porn Filter Clause Four Times | Techdirt:
"Following Congress passing the Omnibus spending bill, it of course did not take long for President Obama to sign the bill, meaning that the fake cybersecurity bill/actual surveillance bill, is now law. Particularly ridiculous is that in his little speech about it, Obama talked about how he "wasn't wild about everything in it" but that he was happy that it was a bill "without ideological provisions." Except, you know, for the many ones that did get in there.
But, what do you expect with a 2000+ page bill that Congress was only given a couple of days to look at before voting on. 
...But it's the other wacky provision that caught my attention.
Apparently this provision is in the omnibus no less than four times in different places:
"None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer network unless such network blocks the viewing, downloading, and exchanging of pornography."
Apparently, this little clause has become so standard, you can find it in earlier funding bills as well. It's the 2013 funding bill the the 2012 funding bill and many more, I assume.
And, as Carter notes, this language is "completely meaningless," but it's still in there four times. 
Just because.
So Congress can't seem to get much of anything done, but it does pass an omnibus bill that includes a weird meaningless porn filter requirement four times... and a damaging surveillance bill.
And you wonder why people dislike and distrust Congress."

And we wonder why college grads are duffuses?-----Instructor complains that Rutgers has ditched his course on Beyoncé

Instructor complains that Rutgers has ditched his course on Beyoncé - The College Fix
An adjunct at Rutgers University says that the school has “effectively canceled” his course on black feminism taught through the pop singer Beyoncé.
School officials say the course was merely moved over to the American studies program, but instructor Kevin Allred says he had to ask that program to pick it up — after the women’s studies department did not put it on the spring semester schedule.
Allred has taught “Politicizing Beyoncé” eleven times now. 
According to him, the course discusses “the thin line Beyoncé walks as a sex kitten-cum-girl power role model.”
...Allred has made a … splash here at The College Fix before for claiming that “there are no good white people, only ‘less bad’ white people.”

U.S. not so ‘stupid’ as to ‘welcome terrorists to kill us’

U.S. not so ‘stupid’ as to ‘welcome terrorists to kill us’:

“We took an oath. We’re supposed to protect this country, the Constitution. We’re supposed to provide for the common defense. We’ve got to take a stand here. It’s worth taking a stand to save American lives,” said Gohmert, a former judge and a current member of the House Judiciary Committee.

Of greatest concern to Gohmert is what he sees as Congress continuing to fund the refugee program without meaningful changes or taking a pause to re-evaluate how best to keep Islamic radicals away from America’s shores."

Where Speech Is Least Free In America

Where Speech Is Least Free In America - Forbes:
A good argument can be made nowhere in America is free speech less safe than on private college and university campuses.

...But the First Amendment does not apply to private colleges and universities because they don’t involve governmental action.
Oddly, while all colleges that accept federal student aid money must abide by a vast host of regulations, the Supreme Court ruled in Rendell-Baker v. Kohn that acceptance of such money does not bring them under the umbrella of the First Amendment.
...Not only is there scant legal protection for free speech on private campuses, it is under vigorous attack from zealous students (and sometimes administrators) who regard it as their right and duty to assail anyone whose speech “offends” them.
Saying or doing almost anything these days can conceivably land a student in trouble because someone has whined that it’s a “microaggression” or “harassment” or merely “insensitive.”
With that in mind, consider a recent case at Colorado College.
If Franz Kafka or George Orwell had toyed with a similar plot, they’d probably have rejected it as too far-fetched. 
Here is what happened.
Back in November, a student, Thaddeus Pryor, wrote the following reply to a comment (#blackwomenmatter) on the social media site Yik Yak: 
“They matter, they’re just not hot.” 
A student, offended that someone was not taking things seriously, complained to college officials. After ascertaining that the comment had been written by Pryor, the Dean of Students summoned him to a meeting.
Pryor said that he was just joking.
What he did not realize is that there are now many things that must not be joked about on college campuses.
...For having joked in a way that offended the wrong people,
Pryor was told that he was suspended from Colorado College until June, 2017.
Moreover, he is banned from setting foot on campus during that time.
And in the final “pound of flesh” retribution, the school intends to prohibit him from taking any college credits elsewhere..."

Cornell’s Decorating Rules: You Can Put Up Anything You Want As Long As It’s a Snowflake

Cornell’s Decorating Rules: You Can Put Up Anything You Want As Long As It’s a Snowflake - FIRE
Cornell University’s Department of Environmental Health & Safety recently issued fire safety guidance for holiday decorations with sensible prohibitions against hazards such as “combustible decorations” and burning candles. 
...restrictions on free expression can pop up in the strangest places. 
Sure enough, the final section of the guidance veers off from physical safety into rules apparently designed to ensure some kind of ephemeral, emotional safety.

...Cornell’s commitment to diversity and the University Assembly guidelines:

GUIDELINES FOR INCLUSIVE SEASONAL DISPLAYS

Winter Holiday Displays/Decorations that are Consistent with Cornell’s Commitment to Diversity and the University Assembly Guidelines:  

• Snowflakes  
• Trees (in accordance with Fire Safety Guidelines) decorated with snowflakes and other non-religious symbols

Winter Holiday Displays/Decorations that are Consistent with University Assembly Guidelines But Should be Basis of Dialogue Within Unit or Living Area  

• Trees decorated with bows, garland and lights (in accordance with Fire Safety Guidelines)  
• Wreaths with bows (in accordance with Fire Safety Guidelines)  
• Combination of snowflakes, (in accordance with Fire Safety Guidelines), Santa Claus figure, and dreidel  
• Holly

Winter Holiday Displays/Decorations that are NOT Consistent with Either University Assembly Guidelines or the University’s Commitment to Diversity and Inclusiveness

• Nativity scene  
• Menorah  
• Angels  
• Mistletoe  
• Stars at the top of trees  
• Crosses  
• Star of David

Cornell is a private and land-grant university, but it professes a “deep commitment to academic freedom and a belief that such freedom is essential to creativity and innovation.”...

Lunch video-----The Untold Story of Muslim Opinions & Demographics

By the Numbers is an honest and open discussion about Muslim opinions and demographics. Narrated by Raheel Raza, president of Muslims Facing Tomorrow, this short film is about the acceptance that radical Islam is a bigger problem than most politically correct governments and individuals are ready to admit.
Is ISIS, the Islamic State, trying to penetrate the U.S. with the refugee influx? 
Are Muslims radicalized on U.S. soil? 
Are organizations such as CAIR, who purport to represent American Muslims accepting and liberal or radicalized with links to terror organizations?

Noon-toon

TRUMP WAS RIGHT: Look What Britain Just Discovered Inside Muslim "Refugee" Camps

TRUMP WAS RIGHT: Look What Britain Just Discovered Inside Muslim "Refugee" Camps:

"A new report shows that British authorities, including Prime Minister David Cameron, knew that they were taking in tens of thousands of Syrians from refugee camps controlled by the Islamic State group, according to the U.K. Express.

According to the report from the Barnabas Fund, a group that aids persecuted Christians around the world, Prime Minister Cameron knew as early as September, when he visited the camps for displaced Syrians in Lebanon, that the Islamic State group was in control of them."

The war against citizens-----Government accused of cover-up as data suggests million EU migrants unaccounted for in Britain

Government accused of cover-up as data suggests million EU migrants unaccounted for in Britain - Telegraph:
"HMRC fails to release data which could show true number of EU migrants coming to Britain because it would be 'unhelpful' to renegotiation.
David Cameron has been accused of a "migration cover-up" after it emerged that more than a million migrants who have come to the UK in recent years are unaccounted for.
Ministers have failed to release data which experts believe could show the true number of EU migrants coming to the UK, claiming that it would be “unhelpful” to Mr Cameron’s current renegotiation with Brussels ahead of the in-out referendum.
There were accusations that the figures are being suppressed amid fears that releasing the data could lead to Britain leaving the EU.
Experts warned that it could mean the number of migrants coming to Britain from the EU is actually hundreds of thousands higher than previously thought..."

GOPers empower their tormentors------Agency that promotes campus-rape witch hunts gets budget increase from GOP Congress

Agency that promotes campus-rape witch hunts gets budget increase from GOP Congress - The College Fix:
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is deeply unpopular among backers of due process in campus rape proceedings, First Amendment advocates and promoters of race-neutral discipline in schools – but not in Congress.
The Education Department component gets $107 million in the 2016 omnibus bill (page 977) set to go before the full House tomorrow.
That’s up from $100 million in last year’s omnibus bill – an increase of 7 percent.
Retired attorney Paul Mirengoff at Powerline explains why this is so troubling, especially coming from Republican lawmakers:
"This outfit [OCR] does all it can to impose the left’s agenda at the K-12 and college levels.
...By increasing OCR’s budget, Congress rewards its misconduct.
The budget should be slashed, not increased."
He says

• OCR puts K-12 schools in “legal jeopardy if they discipline black students more often in percentage terms” than whites, by applying a “disparate impact” standard with no basis in law 
• contradicts Supreme Court precedent on the threshold at which bullying becomes “a federal case” 
• forces colleges to lower their burden of proof in rape cases, “strongly discourages” cross-examination of accusers, and turns “dirty jokes” and even truthful claims about sexual history into sexual harassment for federal purposes

Mirengoff concludes: “Why is a Republican Congress about to reward OCR for abridging constitutional rights[?]”...

Another new weapon-"Culturally Inappropriate"----- Students at Lena Dunham’s college offended by lack of fried chicken

Students at Lena Dunham’s college offended by lack of fried chicken | New York Post:
"Students at an ultra-liberal Ohio college are in an uproar over the fried chicken, sushi and Vietnamese sandwiches served in the school cafeterias, complaining the dishes are “insensitive” and “culturally inappropriate.”
Gastronomically correct students at Oberlin College — alma mater of Lena Dunham — are filling the school newspaper with complaints and demanding meetings with campus dining officials and even the college president.
General Tso’s chicken was made with steamed chicken instead of fried — which is not authentically Chinese, and simply “weird,” one student bellyached in the Oberlin Review.
Others were up in arms over banh mi Vietnamese sandwiches served with coleslaw instead of pickled vegetables, and on ciabatta bread, rather than the traditional French baguette.
“It was ridiculous,” gripes Diep Nguyen, a freshman who is a Vietnam native.
Worse, the sushi rice was undercooked in a way that was, according to one student, “disrespectful” of her culture. 
Tomoyo Joshi, a junior from Japan, was highly offended by this flagrant violation of her rice. 
“If people not from that heritage take food, modify it and serve it as ‘authentic,’ it is appropriative,” she said.
Oberlin’s black student union joined in the fray this month by staging a protest outside Afrikan Heritage House, an on-campus dorm.
The cafeteria there wasn’t serving enough vegan and vegetarian options and had failed to make fried chicken a permanent feature on the Sunday night menu, the school newspaper reported.
Those students started a petition that also recommends the reduction of cream used in dishes, because “black American food doesn’t have much cream in it,” according to the Review.
The Nevada-based Universal Society of Hinduism joined the food fight last week after students discovered that the traditional Indian dish, tandoori, contained beef.
“Consuming beef was considered sacrilegious among Hindus,” blasted society president Rajan Zed, the Chronical-Telegram reported.
Campus dietitian Michele Gross told the Review this week the first meeting between college officials and dyspeptic students went well, and changes are being implemented to address all concerns."

GOP Senator Warns: Omnibus Bill Makes Part of Obama Stimulus Permanent, Including Tax Credits for Non-Taxpayers | TheBlaze.com

GOP Senator Warns: Omnibus Bill Makes Part of Obama Stimulus Permanent, Including Tax Credits for Non-Taxpayers | TheBlaze.com:

"Child tax credits for people who don’t pay taxes, including illegal immigrants, will be made permanent under the $1.1 trillion spending bill to be voted on this week, said Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.).

“A tax credit to a person who doesn’t pay taxes is a check from the government,” Sessions, the chairman of the Judiciary subcommittee on immigration and national interest. “It’s not a tax deduction, it’s a direct payment. It scores as a welfare benefit by the Congressional Budget Office. So this means more illegal aliens will continue to get the tax credits. It should be stopped.”

THE answer to THE question that keeps you up at night!-----A hairdresser explains why Donald Trump’s hair looks like that

A hairdresser explains why Donald Trump’s hair looks like that - Quartz:
"Donald Trump makes a lot of polarizing statements.
Yet for a lot of American voters, the matter of the Republican presidential candidate’s hair remains the biggest subject of debate.
As a licensed cosmetologist and active hairdresser, I’m here to take a stab at what is actually going on with Trump’s crispy crown. 
I’ve thought about this a lot..."

History for December 19

History for December 19 - On-This-Day.com
Leonid Brezhnev (Russia) 1906, Edith Piaf 1915, David Susskind 1920 


Cicely Tyson 1933, Al Kaline 1934, Robert Urich 1946 


1732 - Benjamin Franklin began publishing "Poor Richard's Almanac." 


1843 - Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" was first published in England. 


1871 - Corrugated paper was patented by Albert L. Jones. 


1903 - The Williamsburg Bridge opened in New York City. It opened as the largest suspension bridge on Earth and remained the largest until 1924. It was also the first major suspension bridge to use steel towers to support the main cable. 


1973 - Johnny Carson started a fake toilet-paper scare on the "Tonight Show." 


1989 - U.S. troops invaded Panama to overthrow the regime of General Noriega. 


1996 - The school board of Oakland, CA, voted to recognize Black English, also known as "ebonics." The board later reversed its stance. 


1998 - U.S. President Bill Clinton was impeached on two charges of perjury and obstruction of justice by the U.S. House of Representatives. 

Read TV Host’s Uncensored Rant Against Obama for Making ‘Tone Deaf’ Terrorism Remark — and the New York Times for Scrubbing It | TheBlaze.com

Read TV Host’s Uncensored Rant Against Obama for Making ‘Tone Deaf’ Terrorism Remark — and the New York Times for Scrubbing It | TheBlaze.com:

"After the New York Times reported — then deleted — comments made by President Barack Obama about being unable to “fully appreciate the anxiety after the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino” due to a lack of cable television watching, Fox News host Greta Van Susteren penned a furious Facebook post questioning the president and the Times’ journalistic integrity.

“Does President Obama give a damn? really?” Van Susteren asked in the post. What is his problem???!!!! "

ALERT: Obama Tells Governors to Issue Executive Orders Implementing His TERRIFYING Agenda

ALERT: Obama Tells Governors to Issue Executive Orders Implementing His TERRIFYING Agenda:

"These executive orders could include funding researching into the causes of gun violence, increasing the use of gun-tracing technology and forcing gun manufacturers to prove that they’re selling firearms in a responsible manner.

It appears that President Obama wants to implement his grand vision of gun control by bypassing the traditional constitutional process, which requires going through either Congress or state legislatures, and instead relying on the power of executive fiat, much like he did when he chose to modify the decades-old Fair Housing Act."

She Just Admitted Something Stunning... It May Be Best Argument for the 2nd Amendment Ever

She Just Admitted Something Stunning... It May Be Best Argument for the 2nd Amendment Ever:

"Twenty-four years ago, an angry and withdrawn Texas resident named George Hennard crashed his pickup truck through the front door of Luby’s Cafeteria in Killeen and went on a shooting spree that left 23 dead and 27 wounded.

One year later, shooting survivor Dr. Suzanna Gratia-Hupp, who saw both her parents die that day, made a bombshell statement at a U.S. Senate committee hearing that seems more relevant than ever now, given the left’s recent push to impose more gun control laws on us.

“The Second Amendment is not about duck hunting, and I know I’m not going to make very many friends saying this, but it’s about our right, all of our right to be able to protect ourselves from all of you guys (politicians) up there,” she said."