History for October 6

History for October 6 - On-This-Day.com:
George Westinghouse 1846 - Founder of Westinghouse Electric Company and invented railway braking systems, Reginald Fessenden 1866, Helen Wills Moody 1905 


Carole Lombard 1908, Thor Heyerdahl 1914, Hafez Assad (Syria) 1930 


Britt Ekland 1942, Millie Small 1946, Elisabeth Shue 1963 


1880 - The National League kicked the Cincinnati Reds out for selling beer. 


1954 - E.L. Lyon became the first male nurse for the U.S. Army. 


1961 - U.S. president John F. Kennedy advised American families to build or buy bomb shelters to protect them in the event of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union. 


1962 - Robert Goulet began the role of Sir Lancelot in "Camelot". 


1973 - Egypt and Syria attacked Israel in an attempt to win back territory that had been lost in the third Arab-Israel war. Support for Israel led to a devastating oil embargo against many nations including the U.S. and Great Britain on October 17, 1973. The war lasted 2 weeks. 


1979 - Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit the White House. 


1991 - Elizabeth Taylor married Larry Fortensky. The ceremony was held at Michael Jackson's estate near Los Angeles, CA. It was Taylor's 8th marriage and Fortensky's 3rd.

Criticism of Islam Could Soon be a Crime in America

Criticism of Islam Could Soon be a Crime in America:

"A phobia is an irrational fear. It is not irrational to give warning of an ideology resolutely committed to eradication of free belief, expression, speech, and even thought. It is suicidal for a free society willingly to collaborate with those, like the Muslim Brotherhood and the OIC, which are determined to destroy Western civilization from within—and have told us so, repeatedly, consistently, and publicly. Further, collaboration in such an anti-freedom campaign represents abrogation of the professional oath of office of every federal official who has sworn to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” Silencing those who would warn of impending catastrophe only ensures victory to the enemy and loss of our most rare and precious inheritance: the American love of liberty."

College Professor Slams Gun-Free Zones in Wake of Oregon Community College Shooting | TheBlaze.com

College Professor Slams Gun-Free Zones in Wake of Oregon Community College Shooting | TheBlaze.com:

"A Cornell School of Law professor said there is a “single common thing” among mass shootings, and it’s not religion or racism — it’s gun-free zones.

In an editorial for USA Today Sunday, clinical law professor William A. Jacobson slammed gun-free zones for achieving the opposite of their intended purpose. He cited Umpqua Community College, the site of a deadly rampage by a 26-year-old who fatally shot nine people before turning the gun on himself."

Importing Terrorists

Arnold Ahlert: Importing Terrorists — The Patriot Post:
"Apparently, the Obama administration’s determination to promote amnesty, maintain open borders and sanctuary cities, release thousands of criminal immigrants onto American streets, and enhance the Islamic State’s recruiting ability by letting them run wild in the Middle East were insufficient efforts to undermine national security.
In a move best described as unconscionable, the administration granted asylum in the U.S. to 1,519 previously inadmissible foreigners involved in terrorism — because their crimes were ostensibly committed “while under duress.”
Even worse, the administration had to “tweak” the law to do so. 
In February 2014, an “Exercise of Authority” enacted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the State Department amended the parts of the Immigration and Nationality Act that had taken a zero-tolerance approach towards asylum seekers involved in any material support for terrorism.
DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson and Secretary of State John Kerry provided exemptions for “an alien who provided limited material support” to terrorist entities..."

Guns and alcohol

Guns and alcohol - The Washington Post:
"After various highly publicized shootings, those of us who are skeptical about gun controls are often asked:
So what are we suggesting should be done about the shootings?
If we’re not suggesting gun controls (as opposed to proposals such as letting teachers or professors be armed, increasing concealed carry rights outside schools, providing school guards or trying to figure out, maintain and extend the remarkable fall in violent crime since the early 1990s) — the argument goes, we’re not taking gun tragedies seriously.
...Every day, about 30 people are killed in the U.S. in gun homicides or gun accidents (not counting gun suicides or self-inflicted accidental shootings).
And every day, likely about 30 people are killed in homicides where the killer was under the influence of alcohol, plus alcohol-related drunk driving accidents and alcohol-related accidents where the driver wasn’t drunk but the alcohol was likely a factor (again not including those who died in accidents caused by their own alcohol consumption).
If you added in gun suicides on one side and those people whose alcohol consumption killed themselves on the other, the deaths would tilt much more on the side of alcohol use, but I generally like to segregate deaths of the user from deaths of others.
So what are we going to do about it? 
When are we going to ban alcohol? 
When are we going to institute more common-sense alcohol-control measures?
Well, we tried, and the conventional wisdom is that the cure was worse than the disease — which is why we went back to a system where alcohol is pretty freely available, despite the harm it causes (of which the deaths are only part).
We now prohibit various kinds of reckless behavior while using alcohol.
But we try to minimize the burden on responsible alcohol users by generally allowing alcohol purchase and possession, subject to fairly light regulations.
...Now the likely pathologies of gun prohibition — or even of many regulations that fall short of prohibition — would probably differ in some ways from the likely pathologies of alcohol prohibition. I’ve talked of some of those likely pathologies elsewhere, but this post is not about that.
Likewise, the social benefits of responsible gun use are different from the social benefits of responsible alcohol use, and the fraction of drinkers who abuse alcohol is likely higher than the fraction of gun owners who abuse guns.
But those are questions for another post.
My point here is simply that the right answer to “so what are we going to do about it?,” even when the “it” is horrible, is sometimes “not that much,” at least beyond forbidding intentional or reckless misbehavior.
We should certainly consider proposals that aim to ameliorate the problem, and weigh their costs and benefits. 
But we should not presume that there’s somehow a moral imperative to Do Something. 
In fact, there’s a moral imperative not to do something that’s likely to make matters worse."

Jason Chaffetz Announces His Run for House Speaker | TheBlaze.com

Jason Chaffetz Announces His Run for House Speaker | TheBlaze.com:

"WASHINGTON (AP) — GOP Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah says he’s running for House speaker in a longshot challenge to Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California.

Chaffetz — chairman of the high-profile House Oversight and Government Reform Committee — says voters and the public want Republicans to fight. He says the current House leaders don’t deserve an automatic promotion."

Water Use ‘Rats’ Inform Government on Homeowners Who Sprinkle Their Lawns Too Much in LA

Water Use ‘Rats’ Inform Government on Homeowners Who Sprinkle Their Lawns Too Much in LA | Somewhat Reasonable:
"A new form of informant is emerging in politically correct California — the “water rat.”
The water rat is a person who dials “311” to report that a neighbor is wasting water in Los Angeles, or who files a complaint on the other residents of their street at savewater.ca.gov, the government’s informant tip site.
The informants are creating a wave of anxiety in Hollywood, according to a report in The Hollywood Reporter.
“I called the DPW (Department of Public Works) and told them there was a hose draining a huge amount of water from someone’s driveway,” the trade paper reported, of comments made by a tipster. “The water waste stopped the next day.
I still check every day.
It’s been more than a month, and I do feel it was due to me.”
During the month of May 2015, alone, 29,000 Californians informed on their neighbors about suspected water use violations in the drought-stricken state.
Use of too much water is considered, today, in LA, an obscene form of demonstration of wealth, and is not socially acceptable for movie stars, movie producers, or executives in related industries."

I disagree. But interesting, none the less.-----Prohibition Kills

Prohibition Kills - Reason.com
Remember the guy who bought 80-proof vodka that turned out to be 190-proof Everclear and died from alcohol poisoning?
Probably not, because that sort of thing almost never happens in a legal drug market, where merchants or manufacturers who made such a substitution, whether deliberately or accidentally, would face potentially ruinous economic and legal consequences.
In a black market, by contrast, customers frequently get something different from what they thought they were buying: something weaker, something stronger, or some other substance entirely.
As The Washington Post notes in a recent story about fentanyl-laced heroin, the results can be fatal.
This phenomenon is so familiar by now that calling it an unanticipated consequence of prohibition suggests that people writing drug policy know nothing of its history. 
It may not even be accurate to call uncertainty about the contents of black-market drugs an unintended consequence of prohibition, since it serves prohibitionists' avowed goal of discouraging drug consumption.
After all, the more dangerously unpredictable drugs are, the less likely people are to use them.
That calculation, of course, sacrifices the interests, and sometimes the lives, of undeterred drug users for the sake of protecting more risk-averse people from their own bad decisions.
But that is what prohibition is all about.
For anyone who doubts that making drugs more dangerous is an entirely predictable, if not intentional, result of prohibition, here are a few recent examples to consider, starting with the one highlighted by the Post.

• Fentanyl-Spiked Heroin

• Levamisole-Laced Cocaine

• Lethal LSD Lookalikes...Read on

Grade School Boys Suspended for Staring at a Girl

Grade School Boys Suspended for Staring at a Girl - The Gateway Pundit

Two grade school boys were suspended recently for playing a staring game. They were staring at a girl. She was also staring back at the boys.

Reason reported:

Kids can get in trouble for smooching. They can get in trouble for touching. They can get in trouble for chewing, playing with toys, and making sugary snacks. They can get in trouble for waving their hands the wrong way (don’t even get me started on pencil-twirlers). And yes, they can even get in trouble for staring.

According to WLWT.com, the principal at St. Gabriel Consolidated School—a private institution—suspended a pair of 12-year-old boys for a day for playing a staring game with a female student:

Tolbert believes her son and another student at St. Gabriel were unfairly punished.

Tolbert said the boys got into a staring match with a female student last school year.

“He was playing a game with her. He said she was laughing. They were engaged. When she finally giggled and said stop. He stopped,” Tolbert said.

The female student was cited in court papers as saying she also stared at the boys.

Hours After Oregon College Shooting, Hillary Clinton Gave an Interview — Watch Her Response | Video | TheBlaze.com

Hours After Oregon College Shooting, Hillary Clinton Gave an Interview — Watch Her Response | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Hours after the deadly shooting at a community college in Oregon, Hillary Clinton said she felt an “absolute urgency” to push for gun control.

The Democratic frontrunner’s remarks came in an interview with Janet Wu, a journalist with Boston ABC affiliate WCVB-TV.

“I have to tell you, Janet, I am just sick of this,” Clinton said. “I’m sick about it, and I feel an absolute urgency for this country to start being sensible about keeping guns away from people who should not have them.”

Immigration Will Outpace American Population Growth 7 To 1 Through 2065

Immigration Will Outpace American Population Growth 7 To 1 Through 2065
The following chart and background have been provided to Breitbart News exclusively from the Senate Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, which is chaired by 

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)

80%

. The chart shows that for every 1 net American born to today’s population—births minus deaths—the federal government will add 7 more people to the country through future immigration.

The Senate Subcommittee told Breitbart News:

October 3rd marked the 50th anniversary of the Immigration and Nationality Act. According to Pew Research, in the five decades since the Act’s adoption, 59 million immigrants have entered the United States. Pew further estimates that, including the descendants of those new arrivals, immigration policy added 72 million people to the population of the United States. In 1970, fewer than 1 in 21 Americans were foreign-born; today, nearly 1 in 7 are foreign-born. The United States has taken in four times more worldwide immigrants than any other nation on Earth. Over the next five decades, Pew projects that new immigration, including the descendants of those new immigrants, will add 103 million to the current U.S. population. The net addition of 103 million new persons is exclusively the result of new immigration of persons not currently in the U.S. The 103 million figure does not include any immigrants currently in the U.S. or their future children. (As a side note: Pew data shows that new foreign-born arrivals will not lower today’s median U.S. age of 38; Pew estimates the median age of the foreign-born in 2065 will approach 53.)

Pew also found that, by more than a 3-1 margin, Americans wished to see immigration rates reduced – not raised. Unless such reductions are enacted, the foreign-born share of the U.S. population will soon eclipse the highest levels ever recorded in U.S. history and will keep climbing to new all-time records every decade of the 21st century. Pew projects that by 2065, more than 1 in 3 U.S. residents will either be foreign-born or have foreign-born parents, assuming no law is passed to reduce immigration rates. By contrast, in the 20th century, after the foreign-born population share peak reached in 1910, immigration was reduced for the next six consecutive decades.

Lower-income workers, including millions of prior immigrants, are among those most severely impacted by the vast inflow of new workers competing for the same jobs at lower wages. Across the economy, average hourly wages are lower today than in 1973, while the share of people not working is at nearly a four-decade high. Yet the Senate’s Gang of Eight bill would have tripled green card issuances over the next decade (issuing more new green cards than the entire population of Texas) and the industry-backed I-squared bill would triple admission of new H-1B foreign workers provided to technology corporations as low-wage substitutes for their existing workers..."

Same risk as our electric infrastructure-----Nuclear power plants in ‘culture of denial’ over hacking risk

Nuclear power plants in ‘culture of denial’ over hacking risk - FT.com:
"Nuclear power plants around the world are harbouring a “culture of denial” about the risks of cyber hacking, with many failing to protect themselves against digital attacks, a review of the industry has warned.
A focus on safety and high physical security means that many nuclear facilities are blind to the risks of cyber attacks, according to the report by think-tank Chatham House, citing 50 incidents globally of which only a handful have been made public.
The findings are drawn from 18 months of research and 30 interviews with senior nuclear officials at plants and in government in Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the UK, Ukraine and the US.
“Cyber security is still new to many in the nuclear industry,” said Caroline Baylon, the report’s author.
“They are really good at safety and, after 9/11, they’ve got really good at physical security.
But they have barely grappled with cyber.”
The report cites officials who describe the industry as being “far behind” other industrial sectors when it comes to insulating themselves against digital attacks.
Ms Baylon said there was a “culture of denial” at many nuclear plants, with a standard response from engineers and officials being that because their systems were not connected to the internet, it would be very hard to compromise them.
“Many people said it was simply not possible to cause a major incident like a release of ionising radiation with a cyber attack . . . but that’s not necessarily true.”
...The report points to a 2008 incident at the Hatch plant in Georgia to illustrate how vulnerable plants could be to deliberate digital disruption: though not an attack, when a contractor issued a routine patch to a business network system, it triggered a shutdown.
Most facilities still do not take cyber security seriously enough in spite of such instances, Ms Baylon said.
...“It would be extremely difficult to cause a meltdown at a plant or compromise one but it would be possible for a state actor to do, certainly,” said Ms Baylon
“The point is that risk is probability times consequence.
And even though the probability might be low, the consequence of a cyber incident at a nuclear plant is extremely high.”"

US mass shootings prompt surge in weapons sales

US mass shootings prompt surge in weapons sales - FT.com:
"Business has been brisk for Larry Hyatt, owner of Hyatt Guns in North Carolina, since the Oregon community college shooting last week that left 10 people dead, including the 26-year-old suspect.
Mr Hyatt saw an even bigger surge in customers after the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut that left 26 people dead, including 20 children, before the gunman killed himself.
After that incident, President Barack Obama made his first major push for stricter gun laws. 
In the wake of the Oregon shooting, Mr Obama on Friday again urged Americans to challenge the powerful gun lobby, saying he could not do it alone.
However, the calls for tighter gun laws lead to an increase in weapons sales.
“Once the public hears the president on the news say we need more gun controls, it tends to drive sales,” said Mr Hyatt, who owns one of the largest gun retailers in the US.
“People think, if I don’t get a gun now, it might be difficult to get one in the future. 
The store is crowded.”
...Gun sales this year could surpass the record set in 2013, when gun purchases surged after the December 2012 Sandy Hook murders..."

IRS: Take Away Muslim Group’s Tax-Exempt Status | Official Ben Carson for President 2016

IRS: Take Away Muslim Group’s Tax-Exempt Status | Official Ben Carson for President 2016:

"The Council on Islamic-American Relations (CAIR), a U.S. Muslim group, recently demanded that I withdraw as candidate for the 2016 presidential race. By doing so, the organization has brazenly violated IRS rules prohibiting tax-exempt nonprofits like CAIR to intervene in a political campaign on behalf of—or in opposition to—a candidate. (Click video link to witness the violation.)"

Study: Homophobic attitudes 'associated with psychosis and other forms of mental illness'

Study: Homophobic attitudes 'associated with psychosis and other forms of mental illness' - The College Fix:
"A paper by a cadre of Italian researchers claims that anti-gay, or “homophobic,” attitudes are signs of a possible mental disorder.
That’s right — for, as one of the study’s authors noted, “… for the first time we demonstrated that the real disease to be cured is homophobia, associated with potentially severe psychopathologies.”
But Cornell University’s William M. Briggs scoffs:

“Potentially severe psychopathologies?
Sounds like the sort of thing that requires treatment, perhaps even against the will of the patients.”
Is this study worthy of its bombast?
Not according to Briggs:
...Consider, for example, some of the questions on the 25-item “Homophobia Scale,” scored 1 to 5, from “Strongly agree” to “Strongly disagree”:
–Homosexuality is acceptable to me.
–Marriage between homosexual individuals is acceptable.
–Homosexuality is immoral.
–Organizations which promote gay rights are necessary.
–Homosexual behavior should not be against the law.
...Read the full article."

Humor: Following

Humor: Following — The Patriot Post:

History for October 5

History for October 5 - On-This-Day.com
Chester A. Arthur (U.S.) 1830, Robert H. Goddard 1882 - Known as the "Father of the Space Age", 
Ray Kroc 1902 - Businessman (McDonalds), Larry Fine 1902,  


Karen Allen 1951, Michael Andretti 1962, Kate Winslet 1975 


1813 - Chief Tecumseh of the Shawnee Indians was killed at the Battle of Thames when American forced defeated the British and the allied Indian warriors. 


1919 - Enzo Ferrari debuted in his first race. He later founded the Auto Avio Construzioni Ferrari, an independent manufacturing company. 


1921 - The World Series was broadcast on the radio for the first time. The game was between the New York Giants and the New York Yankees. 


1937 - U.S. President Roosevelt called for a "quarantine" of aggressor nations. 


1947 - U.S. President Harry S Truman held the first televised presidential address from the White House. The subject was the current international food crisis. 


1969 - "Monty Python's Flying Circus" debuted on BBC television. 


1970 - Anwar Sadat took office as President of Egypt replacing Gamal Abdel Nassar. Sadat was assassinated in 1981. 


1993 - China set off an underground nuclear explosion. 


1998 - The U.S. paid $60 million for Russia's research time on the international space station to keep the cash-strapped Russian space agency afloat. 


2006 - Walmart rolled out its $4 generic drug program to the entire state of Florida after a successful test in the Tampa area. 

SHOCK: Forbes Makes Stunning Claim Against The Clintons...It Can't Get Worse Than This -

SHOCK: Forbes Makes Stunning Claim Against The Clintons...It Can't Get Worse Than This -:

"While Hillary Clinton has repeatedly touted her level of transparency in public affairs — a claim many consider laughable for its transparent absurdity — there is one specific and significant question about the former first lady and President Bill Clinton that has somehow slipped notice until now. Journalist Dan Alexander at Forbes — in a hard-hitting piece entitled “The Mystery of Hillary’s Missing Millions” — digs deeply to see if he can find out the answer to this: Where, exactly, has all the Clintons’ money gone?"

RECYCLING IS STILL GARBAGE

Instapundit
"RECYCLING IS STILL GARBAGE: I was curious to see the reaction to my piece in today’s New York Times on the follies of recycling. 
It’s a sequel to a 1996 article that set a record for hate mail at the New York Times Magazine, and I wondered if green-minded readers would be any more receptive this time. 
A few of the commenters have offered counter-arguments and raised other issues, like the supposed blight of plastic garbage in our oceans — a myth that was masterfully debunked in Katherine Mangu-Ward’s recent article, “Plastic Bags Are Good For You.” 
But the typical reaction is nicely summarized by Carl V. Phillips, who posted a reflection on his fellow commenters:

It is quite remarkable how at least 80% of the comments so far consist of someone saying, in effect, “but I just know it is right” (without responding to Tierney’s cogent analysis), picking fights with straw man points, or pontificating about grand ideas that do not change the simple economics of the real world. I have not seen any substantive bit of analysis that finds fault with Tierney’s core points, and yet there are numerous conclusions that he is wrong. I would guess that that recycling enthusiasts fancy themselves to be more open-minded and scientifically literate than average. Apparently such “open mindedness” is reserved for criticisms of other special interests, and they dig in their heals when it is their own rites that are being questioned.

I realize that true believers don’t need rational reasons for their religion, but it would be nice to see a little soul-searching in regard to some stats in the article: To offset the greenhouse impact of one passenger’s round-trip flight between New York and London, you’d have to recycle roughly 40,000 plastic bottles, assuming you fly coach. 
If you sit in the front of the plane, it’s more like 100,000 bottles — and you have to make sure not to rinse any of them with hot water, because that little extra energy could more than cancel out any greenhouse benefit of your labors.
I presume Al Gore and his fellow preachers are too busy to deal with all those bottles, so will they stay home? 
Or at least start flying coach?"

Posted at 12:30 pm by John Tierney 

Hillary Campaign CAUGHT Breaking Election Law...Using Disturbing Image Of Trump To Register Voters -

Hillary Campaign CAUGHT Breaking Election Law...Using Disturbing Image Of Trump To Register Voters -:

"An undercover video has caught a Clinton campaign worker appearing to commit a felony and using a Donald Trump photo as part of the alleged crime.

Hidden camera footage captured by Project Veritas shows a campaign “fellow,” identified as Henry Engelstein, attracting Spanish-speaking Nevadans in Las Vegas with a meme of Donald Trump that reads, "

Yes. They lie. Endlessly-----The Hole in Tapper’s Ozone Tale

The Hole in Tapper’s Ozone Tale - WSJ:
"The recent Republican presidential debate is largely forgotten, but before the next one we thought at least one question is worth correcting:
Moderator Jake Tapper’s effort to conscript Ronald Reagan into the ranks of climate-change activists.
Reagan “faced a similar situation to the one that we’re facing now,” the CNN anchor said to Senator Marco Rubio, referring to concerns in the 1980s about a hole that formed each year in the atmosphere’s ozone layer.
Mr. Tapper invoked former Secretary of State George Shultz, who “says Ronald Reagan urged skeptics in industry to come up with a plan.
He said, do it as an insurance policy in case the scientists are right.
The scientists were right.”
The point of Mr. Tapper’s tale:
Why not “approach climate change the Reagan way?”
Messrs. Tapper and Shultz are reminiscing about the Montreal Protocol, a 1987 international treaty that phased out chlorofluorocarbons, then common refrigerants in freezers, air conditioners and other appliances.
The worry was that the stuff eroded the ozone layer.
Montreal is celebrated as the paragon of cooperative climate action, largely because the dire predictions—skin-cancer epidemics, for instance—didn’t materialize.
Scientists say the ozone hole has stopped growing, though it still isn’t clear that the treaty is the reason.
In any case, Montreal is no blueprint for climate change, for several reasons.

• One is scale: Changing the refrigerant in home appliances is hardly the same as phasing out fossil fuels, a foundation for global economic growth, especially in developing countries. 

Even the Montreal Protocol allowed developing countries more time to weed out chemicals; imagine how long India would need to dump coal.

• Then there are the alternatives. 

In the 1980s the DuPont company rolled out chemicals that could replace chlorofluorocarbons at a decent price.
There isn’t a similar elixir for fossil fuels.
Renewable energy sources—wind, solar, biomass—generate 13% of U.S. electricity, says the Energy Information Administration, and half of that comes from hydropower.
Solar energy cranks out less than 1%, even with enormous government subsidies.
...Mr. Tapper is not the first to spin what happened in Montreal, and no question we’ll hear the narrative again. 
But Republicans should be prepared to explain how this misapplies history."

Sweden is shifting to a 6-hour work day

Sweden is shifting to a 6-hour work day - ScienceAlert:
"..."The Svartedalens experiment is inspiring others around Sweden: at Gothenburg’s Sahlgrenska University hospital, orthopaedic surgery has moved to a 6-hour day, as have doctors and nurses in two hospital departments in Umeå to the north," The Guardian reports.
While impressions of staff being happier and full of energy aren’t exactly scientific basis for declaring 6-hour work days as 'better' than the 8.7-hour work day endured by the average American, we do have evidence that what we’re doing right now isn’t working.
A study published in The Lancet last month analysed data from 25 studies that monitored health of over 600,000 people from the US, Europe, and Australia for up to 8.5 years found that people who worked 55 hours a week had a 33 percent greater risk of having a stroke than people who worked a 35 - 40 hour week, and a 13 percent increased risk of developing coronary heart disease, while a separate study found that working 49-hour weeks was associated with lower mental health, particularly in women.
And as we reported earlier this month, we probably shouldn’t even be forced to clock on at 9am anyway, with expert Paul Kelley from Oxford University’s Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute saying that society is in the midst of a sleep-deprivation crisis, because our 9-5 working hours are at odds with our internal body clocks.
"Staff should start at 10am… Staff are usually sleep-deprived," Kelley said.
"Everybody is suffering and they don’t have to. 
We cannot change out 24-hour rhythms."
Hear that?
Everybody is suffering and we don't have to.
I guess until the rest of the world catches up with Sweden - which btw is also making moves to become the world's first fossil fuel-free nation - we'll all just have to move there... "

NUMBER ONE WITH A BULLET

Conservative Actor James Woods Asks Scathing Question About Obama’s Response to Oregon Shooting | Video | TheBlaze.com

Conservative Actor James Woods Asks Scathing Question About Obama’s Response to Oregon Shooting | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Once reports emerged that the gunman in the Oregon community college massacre targeted Christians, conservative actor James Woods asked a scathing question about President Obama’s response in light of this detail."

Must read of the day!!!-----An Instance of Warmist Corruption

An Instance of Warmist Corruption | Power Line:
"We have often written about the fact that the world’s governments pour billions of dollars annually into the global warming project, the object of which is to increase the powers of government.
And yet governments, the main parties that stand to benefit from the warmists’ campaign, pretend that their money is somehow innocent, while any private entity that supports climate research is suspect.
Alarmist scientists have gone so far as to urge the Obama administration to prosecute criminally scientists who disagree with them.
The premise for this proposed RICO investigation was that “corporations in the fossil fuel industry and their supporters”–i.e., scientists who don’t buy the global warming hype–are deceiving the public for financial gain.
This despicable effort, which we wrote about here, is led by Jagadish Shukla of George Mason University and several of his colleagues.
...There’s apparently an $800,000 annual salary and an organization full of Shukla family members that has produced next to no results for the millions received. 
Even NSF on their own web page acknowledges that only one paper has been produced out of a 4.2 million dollar grant.
If someone paid me a million dollars a year, I would at least produce some bogus, government-serving science once in a while.
...Perhaps a congressional investigation of Jagadish Shukla’s million dollar a year slush fund–and that’s just what we know about so far–will begin to lift the lid on the worst scientific scandal of all time.
In the meantime, ponder the fact that Shukla wants to send the scientists who rebut his vacuous theories to jail. 
With a million dollars a year (at least) at stake, it’s no wonder."

Only India? There are 193 UN members!-----State Dept to Spend $49,083 to Create a Network to Support the LGBT Community in India

State Dept to Spend $49,083 to Create a Network to Support the LGBT Community in India:
"(CNSNews.com) - The State Department is planning to spend $49,083 in taxpayer funds for a one-time grant to establish a network to support the LGBT community in India.
The U.S. Embassy in New Delhi is soliciting proposals for the grant titled, “Creating a Network to Support the LGBT Community in India,” which will create a “national network focused on LGBT issues in India.”
The grant will pay for “leadership development programs for existing LGBT organizations with the goal of providing them the tools to establish capabilities to advance LGBT access to services available to all Indian citizens including health care and government public services.”
The grant is intended to change the public perception of LGBT Indians..."

The Truth About Gun Ownership in America Isn’t What Liberals Think

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"The truth? The number of guns in the United States has increased by 62% since 1994 but gun violence has decreased by 49% since 1993: "

Obama Pauses During News Conference, Makes ‘Last Point’ on Tension With Russia That Goes Directly After Putin | Video | TheBlaze.com

Obama Pauses During News Conference, Makes ‘Last Point’ on Tension With Russia That Goes Directly After Putin | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"President Barack Obama went after Russian President Vladimir Putin during a Friday press conference, contending the Kremlin intervened in Syria out of a position of “weakness.”

The Curious Case of Oregon Shooter Chris Harper-Mercer – A Social Media Profile Shaped, Modified and Deleted…

The Curious Case of Oregon Shooter Chris Harper-Mercer – A Social Media Profile Shaped, Modified and Deleted… | The Last Refuge:

REAL IMAGE (left)  – CNN IMAGE (right)

"...On the left is the selfie Christopher Mercer uploaded to his social media. On the right is how CNN presented the same selfie in broadcast stories about him. 
Why did CNN need to change the complexion (color) of their broadcast? 
Why is no-one showing pictures of mom, Laurel Margaret Harper.

Why change to hyphenated name? 
Real name is Christopher Sean Mercer. 
Media using Christopher Harper-Mercer and Chris Harper-Mercer..."