02/28/2019--ICE arrests 3 released in western Michigan after detainers ignored | ICE

ICE arrests 3 released in western Michigan after detainers ignored | ICE
"GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Deportation officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) have arrested three criminal aliens in western Michigan over the last several weeks after they were released from Kent County Sheriff’s custody with an active immigration detainer in place.

"The release of criminal aliens back on west Michigan streets continues to pose a serious threat to our communities,” said Rebecca Adducci, ERO field office director for Detroit, which covers the two-state region of Michigan and Ohio. “ICE remains committed to arresting and removing criminal aliens in the interest of public safety and national security, despite local decisions to not honor detainers and jeopardize the safety of its citizens.”

Case examples:

• Kent County: Unlawfully present Honduran national arrested locally for assault with intent to murder; after subject repeatedly stabbed another man in the head with a broken beer bottle in an apparent fight. On Feb 26, subject was convicted of assault with a dangerous weapon (felonious assault).  Released, despite ICE’s issuance of a detainer.
• Kent County: A previously-deported Mexican national arrested locally for DUI. Released, despite ICE’s issuance of a detainer.
• Kent County:  A previously-deported Mexican national arrested locally for operating while intoxicated.  He had been convicted previously for battery, battery 2nd, fraud-false info to law enforcement, felony-reentry after deportation. He is currently in U.S. Marshals custody pending additional felony charges. Released despite ICE’s issuance of a detainer.

ICE Detroit Operations:

In Fiscal Year 2018, the Detroit field office made more than 3,600 arrests in the two-state region – approximately 75 percent of those individuals either had a prior criminal conviction or came into ICE custody pursuant to their criminal arrest on pending charges. These statistics make clear that the agency only conducts targeted enforcement focused first on criminals and public safety threats. Claims of any type of random or indiscriminate enforcement are false.

About detainers:

Detainers serve as a legally authorized request, upon which a law enforcement agency may rely, to continue to maintain custody of an alien for up to 48 hours so that ICE may assume custody for removal purposes. Pursuant to ICE policy, all ICE detainers are submitted with an accompanying administrative arrest warrant or warrant of removal depending upon the circumstances of the individual case. ICE places immigration detainers when the agency possesses probable cause to believe an alien is deportable from the United States.

Congress has established no process, requirement, or expectation directing ICE to seek a judicial warrant from already overburdened federal courts before taking custody of an alien on civil immigration violations. This idea is simply a figment created by those who wish to undermine immigration enforcement and excuse the ill-conceived practices of sanctuary jurisdictions that put politics before public safety.

When law enforcement agencies fail to honor immigration detainers and release a criminal alien onto the streets, they have declined an ICE detainer. This negatively impacts public safety and ICE’s efficiency in the apprehension of criminal aliens. Federal immigration laws authorize DHS to issue detainers and provide ICE broad authority to detain removable aliens.

Sanctuary Policies Put Public Safety at Risk:

• These dangerous policies leave ICE with no choice but to increase enforcement in neighborhoods and workplaces to locate and arrest these persons while they are at-large—
• increasing the likelihood that other individuals previously not targeted for arrest will be taken into ICE custody.
• It is safer for everyone if we take custody of an alien in the controlled environment of another law enforcement agency as opposed to visiting an alien’s residence, place of work, or other public area.  Arresting a criminal in the safety, security, and privacy of a jail is always the best option.
• When law enforcement agencies don’t honor ICE detainers, these individuals, who often have significant criminal histories, are released onto the street, presenting a potential public safety threat. When ICE Fugitive Operations officers have to go out into the community to proactively locate these criminal aliens, regardless of the precautions they take, it needlessly puts our personnel and potentially innocent bystanders in harm’s way.
• Moreover, tracking down our priority fugitives is highly resource intensive. It’s not uncommon for our criminal alien targets to utilize multiple aliases and provide authorities with false addresses. Many do not have a stable place of employment.

Solar Slaves: China Dominates Market For Solar Panels Using Forced Uighur Labour

Solar Slaves: China Dominates Market For Solar Panels Using Forced Uighur Labour

"The smugness exhibited by the owners of solar panels is in its own special class.

Pious and self-righteous, these characters are quick to pontificate about their holier than thou credentials.

Of course, plastering one’s roof with solar panels is all about saving the planet; and has nothing to do with bleeding their neighbours dry – the ones without panels who are forced to pay exorbitant electricity prices to prop up the insanely generous Feed-in-Tariffs paid to those with their roofs plastered in panels.

...Now, it turns out, that all those shiny, ‘planet-saving’ solar panels have a much darker and menacing origin.

The reason that China is able to dominate the market for solar panels isn’t about superior manufacturing techniques or Confucian ideals. 

No, it’s about very cheap wages. 

So cheap in fact, apparently no money changes hands between the ‘employer’ and ‘employee’, at all.

We’ll hand over to JoNova for a few troubling facts that just might just rattle the solar panel owner’s unique brand of smug"

...Indeed. Awkward news came out last month that “Nearly every solar power panel sold in the European Union has its origins in China’s oppressed Xinjiang region.”

Fears over China’s Muslim forced labor loom over EU solar power-Politico

Panels include components produced in the Chinese region of Xinjiang, where there are concerns about forced labour camps for Muslim minorities, including Uighurs.

The solar industry and Brussels lawmakers argue Europe’s renewable energy push should not come at a human cost amid long-standing international concern over reports China has detained 1 million people with Muslim backgrounds in camps in Xinjiang and is putting them to work.

Solar power uses slaves from every side....Read all.

U.S. Troops Face Eating, Drinking Restrictions During Ramadan

U.S. Troops Face Eating, Drinking Restrictions During Ramadan | The Weekly Standard
A top commander in southwest Asia reminded U.S military personnel stationed in Muslim countries in the Middle East of the restrictions placed on them during Ramadan. 
According to a report by the U.S. Air Forces Central Command Public Affairs, Brig. Gen. John Quintas, 380th Air Expeditionary Wing commander in Southwest Asia, said that the U.S. is "committed to the concepts of tolerance, freedom and diversity."
But he added that soldiers should "become more informed and appreciative of the traditions and history of the people in this region of the world...
[R]emember we are guests here and that the host nation is our shoulder-to-shoulder, brothers and sisters in arms, risking their lives for our common cause to defeat terrorism."
During the 30-day religious celebration of Ramadan, even non-Muslims are expected to obey local laws regarding eating, drinking, and using tobacco in public. 
Violators can be fined up to $685 or receive two months in jail. 
...For military personnel outside of U.S.-controlled areas, the only exceptions for the rules are for those "performing strenuous labor." 
Such personnel are "authorized to drink and consume as much food as they need to maintain proper hydration and energy."
It is unclear what constitutes "strenuous labor" or whether additional exceptions might be made during a heatwave affecting some areas of the region that has taken hundreds of lives. ...

Red Cross responds on union contract issues

Letter: Red Cross responds on union contract issues | MLive.com
Health benefits remain the biggest obstacle to reaching a contract agreement with workers in the Great Lakes Region.
The Red Cross offered its union members a health benefits package that is the same as those provided to nonunion employees in the Region, but union leaders continue to demand health benefits that are greater than those of any Red Cross employee in Michigan -- or across the country.
It’s important to know that since these unions went on strike March 30, the Red Cross has reached settlements with two unions in other parts of the country.
Notably, one of these two agreements was with the OPEIU in Oakland, Calif. - the same union that is striking here.
Overall, the Red Cross has reached agreements on 20 other union contracts since July 2011 -- and three with other Teamsters unions.

Worthy discussion!-----CLIMATE ALARMS OF 11/13/2020 | Thongchai Thailand

CLIMATE ALARMS OF 11/13/2020 | Thongchai Thailand

CLIMATE ALARMS OF 11/13/2020

ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE ALARMS OF 13 Nov 2020

SCITECHDAILY: LINK: https://scitechdaily.com/the-arctic-a-delicate-icy-ecosystem-video/ :  

• CLAIM:  The Arctic: A Delicate Icy Ecosystem. EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY (ESA) OCTOBER 7, 2020, The Arctic is one of the most rapidly changing regions in the world. Diminishing sea ice, thawing permafrost and melting glaciers are all direct effects of rising global temperatures – driven by human-made emissions. Learn more about how satellites flying 800 km above our heads can help us monitor and understand the changes occurring in this remote region. 

RESPONSE (1) That the Arctic is rapidly changing means only that you have found a region that is rapidly changing and not that it is a feature of rising global mean temperature that can and must be managed and controlled with human interference. (2) The Arctic sea ice goes through a violent seasonal cycle in which more than 90% of the winter sea ice is gone by September and it is true that September minimum sea ice is declining from year to year at a rate of about 1% per year. The assumption that this decline is caused by global warming is not supported by the data as shown in related posts:  LINK:  https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/09/25/list-of-arctic-sea-ice-posts/  .  

RESPONSE (2): Thawing permafrost and melting glaciers. Permafrost thaw is projected and not observed. Some localized thaw events in Siberia are localized events and if these have climate implications they must be understood as internal climate variability because of their geographical and temporal limitations. Global warming may play a partial role in glacial melt there in terms of meltwater ponds that form on top of the ice sheet during June, July, and August but this role of the atmosphere in the total melt rate of 200 to 350 gigatons per year is insignificant as the melt is mostly a result of geothermal heat flux from geological activity under the ice sheet as described in a related post: LINK:  https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/11/07/climate-change-threatens-polar-ice/  

BBC: LINK: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54902068  13 NOV 2020

• CLAIM:  Climate change: Hurricanes get stronger on land as world warms...Read all.

Michigan resisting challenge to ban on straight-party voting | State-region | petoskeynews.com

Michigan resisting challenge to ban on straight-party voting | State-region | petoskeynews.com
DETROIT (AP) — The results of the 2016 election are being replayed in federal court as the state of Michigan defends a Republican-backed law that would abolish straight-party voting, an easy ballot option that's especially popular in urban areas that go Democratic.
The law was suspended last year by a judge who said an end to straight-party ballots could cause long lines and place a disproportionate burden on black voters. 
Now, after months of analysis by experts, that same judge must decide whether the lawsuit should go to trial or be dismissed in favor of the state.
Straight-party voting is the act of making a single mark on a ballot to pick candidates of one party, from president to county commissioner. It's been in practice for more than 100 years in Michigan and is widely held in urban areas; Detroit's rate was 80 percent in 2016.
...Only a handful of states allow straight-party voting. 
Barton said it's implausible that more than 40 states that don't offer it have violated the U.S. Constitution "without anyone noticing...."
Read on!

Niall Ferguson: America's Global Retreat

Niall Ferguson: America's Global Retreat - WSJ:
"The scale of the strategic U.S. failure is best seen in the statistics for total fatalities in the region the Bush administration called the "Greater Middle East"—essentially the swath of mainly Muslim countries stretching from Morocco to Pakistan.
In 2013, according to the International Institute of Strategic Studies, more than 75,000 people died as a result of armed conflict in this region or as a result of terrorism originating there, the highest number since the IISS Armed Conflict database began in 1998.
Back then, the Greater Middle East accounted for 38% of conflict-related deaths in the world; last year it was 78%.
Mr. Obama's supporters like nothing better than to portray him as the peacemaker to George W. Bush's warmonger.
But it is now almost certain that more people have died violent deaths in the Greater Middle East during this presidency than during the last one."

Border Crime Taking A Toll On Residents In Southwest New Mexico, Arizona

Border Crime Taking A Toll On Residents In Southwest New Mexico, Arizona | KRWG
"Residents of New Mexico's Bootheel and parts of southern Arizona say human smuggling and drug trafficking is taking its toll on the region.
The Deming Headlight reports that residents are scheduled Thursday to express their concerns to federal officials during a meeting at the Animas Community Center in Animas, New Mexico.
Judy Keeler, a longtime resident of the rural border region, says her home was recently burglarized and it's not an unusual episode for other residents.
Residents have said state Highway 80 has become a favorite for Mexican cartel drug runners who manage to navigate out of the Peloncillo Mountains along the Arizona-New Mexico border.
They want an even more increased presence from the U.S. Border Patrol.

Metro Detroit ranks No. 1 for average monthly health insurance cost

Metro Detroit ranks No. 1 for average monthly health insurance cost

"...Metro Detroiters, on average, are paying more for health insurance each month than 24 other top metros, according to a new report by doxo, a bill pay service, that looked at the 2018 costs of the country's nine most commonly paid bills.

Monthly health insurance bills in the metro Detroit region averaged at $214. 

That's $78 more per month, or 57% higher, than the average for top 25 metros, according to the report..."

...While it's not metro Detroit's highest above-average bill, drivers in the region are paying more for car insurance than most. Detroit ranks No. 3 on the list with an average monthly cost of $297. Miami ranked first with an average cost of $337, followed by Washington, D.C. at $302..."

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Drill baby, drill!---------Oil and gas exploration on rise in metro Detroit

Oil and gas exploration on rise in metro Detroit | Crain's Detroit Business:
"Lease deals for landowners' mineral rights and permits to drill new oil wells are both on the rise in metro Detroit.
But as new pumps begin to dot the landscape in communities like Shelby Township and Scio Township, the out-state portion of Michigan's oil and gas exploration industry is largely lackluster.
The shift is best documented by trends with state permits.
Oil and gas exploration company executives and state regulatory officials say permit requests to drill new wells have been moving over the past two years toward Southeast Michigan.
The Detroit area has yielded modest oil deposits at relatively shallow depths, making them cheap to drill and easier to spot with new seismic imaging technology.
Exploration companies have obtained 20 permits for wells in the five-county region of Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Washtenaw and Livingston so far in 2014, out of 86 total drilling permits statewide, according to data from the state Office of Oil, Gas and Minerals, a division of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality.
The same five-county region accounted for 29 total permits in all of 2013, out of 205 permits issued statewide.
...West Bay obtained a permit earlier this month for Scio Township, despite opposition from nearby residents and a letter in May from three state legislators asking DEQ to reject it. It also gained another permit in June for a site in western Shelby Township, not long after a lease deal in nearby Rochester Hills drew a lawsuit against Jordan and the city by a nonprofit citizens group in May. ."

Rep. Jim Jordan Goes After Hillary: ‘Where’d the False Narrative Start? It Started With You’ | Mediaite

Rep. Jim Jordan Goes After Hillary: ‘Where’d the False Narrative Start? It Started With You’ | Mediaite: 



 Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan took issue with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton‘s comment that protests had erupted in both Cairo, Egypt and Benghazi, Libya, citing evidence from the House Select Committee’s investigation stating that no protest of any kind had occurred in Benghazi. He then went on to quote from various State Department spokespersons who, in the weeks following the Sept. 11, 2012 attack, claimed that the incident in Benghazi was linked to the Cairo-based protest, which was a reaction to an offensive online video.

“Where’d the false narrative start? It started with you, Madame Secretary,” said Jordan, adding that a statement released by Clinton the night of the attack suggests as much. “At 10:08, with no evidence. At 10:08, before the attack is over. At 10:08, when Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty are still on the roof of the annex fighting for their lives, the official statement of the State Department blames a video. Why?”

Clinton proceeded to emphasize her official statement’s use of the phrase “some have sought,” which described the efforts of a small group to use the video as a means of inciting anti-American sentiments in Egypt, Libya and elsewhere in the region. “I used those words deliberately. Not to ascribe a motive to every attacker, but as a warning to those across the region that there was no justification for further attacks.”


However, Jordan just couldn’t let the discrepancy go, citing additional emails and calls made to the Libyan president, the Egyptian prime minister and her own family. In all three messages, Clinton said that the State Department knew that “the attack in Libya had nothing to do with the film. It was a planned attack — not a protest.”

When Clinton again reference her statement’s language, Jordan erupted.

“Calling it an attack is like saying the sky is blue. Of course it was an attack! We want to know the truth. The statement you sent out was a statement on Benghazi, and you say ‘vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material on the Internet.’ If that’s not pointing at its motive being the video, I don’t know what is. And that’s certainly how the American people saw it.”"

World overpopulated?-----Half the World's Population Lives in Just 1% of the Land [Map] - Metrocosm

Half the World's Population Lives in Just 1% of the Land [Map] - Metrocosm:

The yellow region in the map includes every cell with a population of 8,000 or more people. Since each of them has an area of about 9 square miles, the population density of each yellow cell is at least 900 people per square mile, roughly the same population density as the state of Massachusetts.

Conversely, the black region is made up of those cells with populations of less than 8,000 people. In other terms, the population density throughout the black area is less than 900 people per square mile.

Layoffs to gut East St. Louis police force

Layoffs to gut East St. Louis police force
"East St. Louis has been crippled by crime and poverty for decades. Police officials say the cuts will mean fewer officers for patrols, investigations and juvenile cases.
Fire officials said the region should be upset because the department will have fewer people at the ready to fight fires on some of the region’s major highways and bridges"

Important read-----Atmospheric Scientist Shreds Rising Sea Level Propaganda And Alarmist Hysterics

Atmospheric Scientist Shreds Rising Sea Level Propaganda And Alarmist Hysterics - Technocracy News:

TN Note: These are stinging words from retired atmospheric physicist Charles Clough. He quickly debunks the fear-mongering of rising ocean levels that supposedly will wipe out hundreds of million of coastal dwellers. In short, it is a scam. Pseudo- and wannabe-scientists are twisting existing data, fabricating new data out of thin air and then applying faulty logic to arrive at fantastical conclusions. Such is the Technocrat mindset and practice. 

In yet another instance of the media jumping on the climate alarmist bandwagon, The New York Times this past February boldly headlined “Seas Are Rising at Fastest Rate in Last 28 centuries.” The article went on to proclaim “the worsening of tidal flooding in coastal communities is largely a consequence of greenhouse gases from human activity, and the problem will grow far worse in coming decades, scientists reported Monday.”

“Worsening tidal flooding”—“grow far worse”—scary words for coastal inhabitants, but do they help the reader understand what the two reports (here and here) actually said? More importantly, do they help the reader evaluate what was reported? Or does the NYT wording continue the intellectually shallow but emotionally potent sea-level terror theme of Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth?

The two reports published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) made several claims. During pre-industrial history (prior to 1860), global sea level rose at an average rate of 0.1 to 0.3 mm/yr. From 1860 to 1900 it rose at an average rate of 0.4 mm/yr, and from 1900 to the present it has been rising at 1.4 mm/yr. The studies project for various hypothetical CO₂ emission-increase scenarios during this 21^st century a total rise in global sea level between 1 ft and 2.5 ft.

• First, observe that “tidal flooding” is not the same as the spectacular “storm-surge” that accompanies severe coastal storms like Sandy or the fictionalized surge in the 2004 apocalyptic sci-fi film The Day After Tomorrow. Such surges can easily exceed the reports’ estimated increase in tidal flooding by ten times or more. You probably wouldn’t know that from media stories like the NYT piece. Mitigation of known storm surge damage could protect coastal communities from the worst guesses of sea-level rise for the rest of this century!
• Second, forecasting sea-level rise involves even more guesswork than forecasting global warming. Actual sea-level direct measurement data exist only for a century and a half and only for a few regions of the earth. Even in the world’s best documented region, the eastern North Sea and Baltic region, tide-gage records of sea-level measurement are less than 200 years old. Estimates of sea-level changes over 28 centuries necessarily rely upon layers of interpretation of various proxies such as evidence of shoreline changes. Extensive modeling, therefore, is required as the two PNAS papers demonstrate. Each model element to some degree has to involve guesswork. Resulting estimates of sea-level rise rates vary from 1.15 mm/yr to about 3 mm/yr—a considerable variation for any long-term projections.
• Third, tide gages and proxies give relative sea-level, not absolute sea-level. They show sea-level relative to the land level. Absolute sea-level measurements from satellite only began in the early 90s—too recent to establish significant trends. To obtain absolute sea-level measurements from relative measurements or proxies, scientists have to correct for many variables—vertical changes in both land and ocean basin levels, ocean salinity changes, overland glacial decreases and increases, on-shore-off-shore prolonged winds, and gravitational interactions between the earth and lunar orbits. Would readers of media headline articles know that?
• Finally, there is the problem of learning how long the oceans take to reach equilibrium once there is a change in global temperature. Temperatures have been generally rising and sea-levels with them ever since the end of the ice age thousands of years ago. But there have been numerous up-and-down oscillations in this general trend, none of which is well understood. Are we in one or more of these oscillations now?

Given these caveats in the reasoning behind the claim that “seas are rising at the fastest rate in the last 28 centuries,” it comes as no surprise that renowned experts in the field like Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner of Sweden don’t take these reports seriously. Mörner challenges one of the PNAS papers, pointing out several of its conflicts with actual observations: nowhere do global tide gauges show valid increases in the rate of sea-level rise, and new satellite altimetry of absolute sea-level when carefully calibrated shows a mean rise of 0.5 mm/yr, not the modeled 1.4 mm/yr.

Since atmospheric CO₂ emission levels do not correlate with such changes prior to the industrial age, the upward trend in temperature and sea level will continue regardless of the political campaign to impose economy-destroying carbon asceticism on the world’s population. Readers of such articles ought to heed the advice of Harvard oceanographer Roger Revelle (whom Al Gore claimed taught him fear of global warming’s planetary effects). Revelle’s last published article (co-authored with S. Fred Singer and Chauncey Starr) before his death was entitled “What to Do about Global Warming: Look before You Leap” (Cosmos 1 (1991): 28–33).

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Atmospheric physicist Charles Clough, Bel Air, MD, is retired chief of the U.S. Army Atmospheric Effects Team at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD; retired Lt. Col., U.S. Air Force Reserve Weather Officer; President of Biblical Framework Ministries; adjunct Professor at Chafer Theological Seminary, Albuquerque, NM; and a Fellow of the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation.

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It's not a lie if the media reports it?-----More Coronavirus Commands, More Confusion – Michigan Capitol Confidential

More Coronavirus Commands, More Confusion – Michigan Capitol Confidential
"...The heightened mask requirement is statewide and prohibits business owners from providing service to people not wearing a mask. 

The new mandate was based, according to Whitmer’s executive order, on the premise that “our progress in suppressing COVID-19 ... appears to have stalled.”

“Over the past two weeks, every region in Michigan has seen an uptick in new cases.”

But a review of data compiled by a University of Michigan website suggests the claim is questionable.

The site mistartmap.info tracks the epidemic in the state. 
According to it, in the two weeks before the enhanced mask order came out, new coronavirus infections were actually down in three of Michigan’s eight defined regions (Kalamazoo, Lansing and Saginaw).

New infections were flat in one other region (the Upper Peninsula), but up in the Detroit, Grand Rapids, Jackson and Traverse City regions. 
The statewide average of new infections was up slightly, from 30.1 per million residents to 31.7 per million residents, over the two weeks before July 10.
In all eight regions, reports of new infections were down on July 10 from their peaks during the two-week period of June 24 to July 10...Read all.

Kathryn Schulz’s New Yorker story on Pacific Northwest earthquake: Geologists explain the risks.

Kathryn Schulz’s New Yorker story on Pacific Northwest earthquake: Geologists explain the risks
The last earthquake of roughly magnitude 9 in the Pacific Northwest happened 75 years before the United States existed.
One day, possibly in the not-too-distant future, the Earth’s crust will again convulse in a megaquake. What will happen then will dwarf any natural disaster our country has ever experienced.
This week in the New Yorker, Kathryn Schulz, who lives in Oregon, scared the living bejeezus out of us by describing the aftermath of the coming Cascadia megathrust earthquake in gut-wrenching detail.
Think of the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami that sparked the Fukushima disaster—only the Northwest is nowhere nearly as prepared as Japan was.
A word of caution if you read the article:
If you live in Seattle, you’ll probably find yourself wanting to sleep outside tonight.
Here’s a telling excerpt:
By the time the shaking has ceased and the tsunami has receded, the region will be unrecognizable. Kenneth Murphy, who directs FEMA’s Region X, the division responsible for Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska, says, “Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast.”
Seattle’s excellent alternative weekly, the Stranger, emphasizes the main takeaways from the story: The earthquake will be really bad, the tsunami will be worse for many people, this event is now overdue, and the Northwest isn’t prepared for it.
So, how accurate is this doomsday scenario?
Did Schulz exaggerate any bits?
Should you start hoarding Tillamook cheese and Black Butte Porter?
Should we start a petition to the NFL to relocate the Seahawks to Omaha?..."

History for August 26

History for August 26 - On-This-Day.com
Lee Deforest 1873, Albert Sabin 1906, Mother Teresa (Agnesë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu) 1910


Ben Bradlee 1921 - Editor at Washington Post, Geraldine Ferraro 1935, Macaulay Culkin 1980 - Actor ("Home Alone")


55 B.C. - Britain was invaded by Roman forces under Julius Caesar.


1498 - Michelangelo was commissioned to make the "Pieta."


1847 - Liberia was proclaimed as an independent republic.


1873 - The school board of St. Louis, MO, authorized the first U.S. public kindergarten.


1920 - The 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect. The amendment prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex in the voting booth.


1934 - Adolf Hitler demanded that France turn over their Saar region to Germany.


1945 - The Japanese were given surrender instructions on the U.S. battleship Missouri at the end of World War II.


1957 - The first Edsel made by the Ford Motor Company rolled of the assembly line.