Coffee cup ban: Boston Tea Party's sales fall by 250k - BBC News

Coffee cup ban: Boston Tea Party's sales fall by 250k - BBC News
"An independent coffee chain said it has seen sales fall by £250,000 since it banned single use cups last summer.
...Owner Sam Roberts said it had factored the loss in takings into its plans and that too many operators were "putting their profits before the planet".
...The chain, which has 22 branches around England and is based in Bristol, started the ban in June 2018.
Customers must bring a reusable cup, drink in or pay a deposit on a cup they can return to any branch.

• How has it affected the business?

Boston Tea Party usually sells £1m in takeaway coffees per year but it is down 25%..."
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Performance of students who use Twitter to study is 25 to 40% lower | Daily Mail Online

Performance of students who use Twitter to study is 25 to 40% lower | Daily Mail Online
Is Twitter making you less well informed? Italian scientists find the performance of students who use the site to study drops by 25 to 40%

• Researchers studied the performance of around 1,500 high school students
• Students who used Twitter to analyse a text fared worse than their peers
• Experts say the findings suggest we should all be more wary about using Twitter to debate the issues of the day

Lunch video-----Fall from an SR-71

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Scientists Alter Reality By Repeating Absurd Statements Five Times In All Caps [Satire] | Daily Wire

Scientists Alter Reality By Repeating Absurd Statements Five Times In All Caps [Satire] | Daily Wire:

“The key to changing reality through Repetitive Twitter Capitalization, or RTC, is to insure that no one damages the results by demanding proof or using such words as ‘nonsense,’ or ‘applesauce,’ or ‘utter and complete horse manure of the purest ray serene.’ If people using such words can be banned from Twitter or silenced through intimidation, then the proper reality change can take place undisturbed or, if not, who is there to say?”

Important read-How it all began!---Dr. Tim Ball On Climate: Lies Wrapped In Deception Smothered With Delusion

Dr. Tim Ball On Climate: Lies Wrapped In Deception Smothered With Delusion

"...The Washington swamp displayed all its corruption skills with lies, deceptions, misrepresentations, and deliberate creation of deceit, during the Kavanaugh hearings. 
The willingness of politicians on the left to destroy everything America stands for was frightening. 
We watched Senator Blumenthal, who lied about serving in Vietnam when he never left the United States, remind Judge Kavanaugh of a legal maxim “Falsus in Uno, Falsus in Omnibus,” false in one thing, false in everything.
The only difference between these and previous similar tactics was boldness..
One sliver of silver lining is in the level of corruption exposed to achieve a political agenda. 
Now it is easier for people to grasp the extent of corruption on the greatest deception in history, human-caused global warming (AGW). 
It is easier now to get them to understand that the left will do anything to achieve their goal. 
The significant differences between AGW and the Kavanaugh debacle were time and extent. 
The AGW deception has evolved slowly and insidiously since the late 1960s. 
It began as the objective of David Rockefeller’s Club of Rome’s (COR) to control energy and thereby political power. 
It is just as corrupting and devastating an attack on American exceptionalism but worse because it is global. The COR say they are

 “a group of world citizens, sharing a common concern for the future of humanity.“

Compare this claim with H. L. Mencken’s observation that,

“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.”

America was seen as the greatest threat to their objective, so it became a major target, but it was still only a part of the global control.
COR member Maurice Strong took the urge to rule to the UN where he put it into action. 
After spending five days with Strong at the UN, Elaine Dewar summarized his goal in her book Cloak of Green.

Strong was using the U.N. as a platform to sell a global environment crisis and the Global Governance Agenda.

He did this by creating the political monster known as Agenda 21 and creating the science to support the politics through the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). 
Like all deceptions, there are lies within lies and deceptions within deceptions. 
Even the selection of terminology and words was deliberately planned to deceive. 
For example, the Earth’s atmosphere does not work like a greenhouse. 
The analogy was only valuable because it automatically triggers the concept of heat for the public. 
The deceivers knew this type of misrepresentation worked because the same people created the term “holes-in-the-ozone.” 
They knew there were no holes, but the term implied a leak, a break in the atmosphere, with all the “Chicken Little” the sky is falling fears that engenders.

The next example was the word skeptic, which as Michael Shermer explained.

“Scientists are skeptics. It’s unfortunate that the word ‘skeptic’ has taken on other connotations in the culture involving nihilism and cynicism. Really, in its pure and original meaning, it’s just thoughtful inquiry.”

After 1998 the evidence did not fit the AGW theory anymore so by 2004 they changed it from the global warming theory to the climate change theory. 
...The most effective deception was the claim that 97% of scientists agree. 
It is as false as the whole claim and was also deliberately created..."
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Supreme Court Strikes Compromise To Dodge Abortion Dispute | The Daily Caller

Supreme Court Strikes Compromise To Dodge Abortion Dispute | The Daily Caller
"The Supreme Court reached an apparent compromise in an abortion dispute from Indiana Monday, keeping the issue off its docket as abortion roils the 2020 presidential race.
...In a separate opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas said the states have a compelling interest in ensuring abortion does not become a tool of eugenics.
The Supreme Court reinstated an Indiana law Monday requiring abortion clinics to cremate or bury fetal remains.
In an apparent compromise, however, the justices declined to review a second provision of the Indiana law that banned abortions on the basis of sex, race, or disability. 
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said both provisions — which Vice President Mike Pence signed into law during his tenure as governor — were unlawful..."
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#1 This day 1968-----Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson (Audio)

Fear Your Toaster | The Russell Kirk Center

Fear Your Toaster | The Russell Kirk Center
Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-Connected World

by Bruce Schneier--Reviewed by Michael J. Ard

What happens when everything is a computer, connected to everything else? 
How then can we keep the internet, the greatest benefit of the global communications revolution, from spying on us, or even from harming us? 
...In his brisk and urgent book, Schneier points out that in the “Internet of Things” (IoT)—the growing trend to connect everything to a computer network—vulnerabilities are increasing and becoming more serious. 
IoT now approaches 20 billion devices. 
Everything is a computer, including our cars, our dishwashers, our toasters. 
...As Schneier memorably puts it, a technology that can give you anything you want, can take away everything you have.
Schneier sees two aspects to the problem. 

• The first is that our personal data is out our control and subject to surveillance or misuse by corporations, the government, or criminals.
• The second problem is perhaps more worrisome: all our devices are too easy to compromise. For example, if everything is a computer or connected to one, then everything can be hacked. And if everything can be hacked, then everything can, in theory, be turned into a weapon against us. Each computer can be repurposed into something potentially harmful, which we now see with “botnets”—computers taken over by hackers to penetrate or crash networks..."

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Undeniable!

Kamala Harris Accuses Barr Of Misleading The Public Minutes After Mueller Says He Didn’t | The Daily Caller

Kamala Harris Accuses Barr Of Misleading The Public Minutes After Mueller Says He Didn’t | The Daily Caller:

Democratic California Sen. Kamala Harris accused Attorney General William Barr of “misleading” the public minutes after Robert Mueller said he didn’t.

Can They Get Anything Right? Looks Like That ‘Trump Wanted The USS McCain Obscured’ Story Is Fake News

Can They Get Anything Right? Looks Like That ‘Trump Wanted The USS McCain Obscured’ Story Is Fake News
"...The list of liberal media screw-ups when covering this White House is endless. 

You would think that there would be a learning curve or something. 

Nope. 

They still can’t accurately report on the Trump White House. 

All I can say is ‘watch out for that rake.’ 

It all started with President Trump’s first visit to Japan, where a simple photo op between the president and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe feeding koi fish wasn’t reported properly. 

Fish feeding was the source of fake news, folks. 

That’s how bad this has become. 

Then, the media also forgot that Barack Obama didn’t take any questions on his first visit to China; there initially was hyperventilation from these sour patch kids that Trump did the same. 

Remember how Trump removed the bust of MLK, Jr. from the Oval Office, except that he didn’t.
Do we even need to go down the numerous foul-ups over the Russian collusion myth? 

So, what happened now during Trump’s most recent trip to Japan? 

Oh, well, he wanted the U.S.S. McCain to be obscured or something (via WaPo):
'The White House asked Navy officials to obscure the USS John S. McCain while President Trump was visiting Japan, Pentagon and White House officials said Wednesday night...'

Donald J. Trump

✔@realDonaldTrump

I was not informed about anything having to do with the Navy Ship USS John S. McCain during my recent visit to Japan. Nevertheless, @FLOTUS and I loved being with our great Military Men and Women - what a spectacular job they do!

Oh, so we have the anonymous sources thing going on again. Gone are the Watergate days, where an anonymous source was actually giving solid information, or at least something that turned into a major political scandal..."

AM Fruitcake

History for May 31

History for May 31 - On-This-Day.com
Walt Whitman 1819 - Poet, essayist, journalist, humanist, Norman Vincent Peale 1898, Edward Bennett Williams 1920 


Clint Eastwood 1930 - Actor ("Pale Rider"), Joe Namath 1943 - Football player, Tom Berenger 1950 - Actor ("The Big Chill," "Platoon") 


1870 - E.J. DeSemdt patented asphalt.


1977 - The trans-Alaska oil pipeline was finished after 3 years of construction.

Hans von Spakovsky: Dems support cover-up by opposing Trump disclosure order on campaign surveillance | Fox News

Hans von Spakovsky: Dems support cover-up by opposing Trump disclosure order on campaign surveillance | Fox News:

Cover-up? Does Schiff understand the meaning of the term?
Schiff’s cover-up charge makes no sense. The Trump memo calls for uncovering more information – not covering anything up. A presidential order to declassify and make public all information connected to a particular investigation is the exact opposite of a cover-up.
And it’s ironic that some of the same Democrats demanding the release of the full unredacted Mueller report – including legally protected information presented to grand juries and classified national security information – are now attacking the president for wanting to release more information about the origins of the Mueller problem.
If anyone can be accused of a cover-up it is Schiff and other critics of the president’s memo that calls for more public disclosure. Opposing the president’s call to uncover more information is by definition a cover-up.

The way we were-----Wooden Heart - Elvis Presley from G.I. Blues

Boob-tube-----What happened to DON KNOTTS?

Janet Shagam - Do other countries have pretty much ALL their major...

Janet Shagam - Do other countries have pretty much ALL their major."news" businesses sit there 24-7-365 & just constantly tear apart the elected President & the citizens that voted for him? 

"Do other countries have pretty much ALL their major "news" businesses sit there 24-7-365 & just constantly tear apart the elected President & the citizens that voted for him? 
Is it like this in other countries? 
The rotten, old MSM is a poison in our nation.
Some stories:

- MSNBC Scarborough: Pelosi Impeaching Trump Is Like Lincoln Freeing Slaves

- ABC Post-Mueller, Networks Demand Democrats Start Impeachment Proceedings

- CNN: 'Unpatriotic' Trump Could Have Been 'Fast Friends' With Pol Pot

- CNN Lemon Shames Voters Thinking of Voting for Trump Due to Good Economy

- MSNBC Scarborough Dismisses Trump Voters as 'Shrinking Electorate’ of White People

- CNN Jim Acosta's Book Is Blunt: 'The President's Insane'

- CNN Cuomo Campaigns to Oust 'Fever Rash' McConnell and 'Virus' Trump

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Most every murder-city controlled by democrat party for DECADES!-----Murder in America - Murder map: Deadliest U.S. cities - Pictures - CBS News

Murder in America - Murder map: Deadliest U.S. cities - Pictures - CBS News:
"In America's urban centers, 6,791 people were murdered in 2017, according to the Major Cities Chiefs Association Violent Crimes Survey.
That's down 252 from 2016.
Here are murder rates in 62 major urban centers across the U.S. for 2017.
The rates are calculated per 100,000 residents, based on the most recent population data..."
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4. Detroit, Michigan---

The murder rate in Detroit is 39.7 per 100,000 residents. 

In 2017, 267 people were murdered in that city.

OPINION: A Big Civility Gap Between The Left And Everyone Else, Say WalkAway Democrats | The Daily Caller

OPINION: A Big Civility Gap Between The Left And Everyone Else, Say WalkAway Democrats | The Daily Caller:

Our method is observational data, not a questionnaire. We observe that 70 percent suggest a civility gap. The other 30 percent don’t say one way or the other. So the 70 percent is a lower bound on the percentage who see a civility gap. We suspect that close to 100 percent of the erstwhile Democrats would testify that there is a civility gap.
The WalkAway movement was launched in June 2018 by Straka, when he uploaded what became the prototypical video of an individual telling his or her story about walking away. WalkAway videos are abundant at YouTube, but our study, to appear in “Society,” examines only those at the official site posted June 29 to Nov. 5, 2018.
For eight of the individuals, the video itself is their “coming out.” Most of them express apprehension about the grief they will catch. One, Justin, describes his experience in his video titled “I’m gay and I chose to #WalkAway after testing conservatives.”

Yes. 1922-----Cycles of Rapid Climate Warming | Watts Up With That?

Cycles of Rapid Climate Warming | Watts Up With That?:
"The globally averaged temperature rose 1.5F from 1880 to today. Various narratives suggest the rise since 1950 was driven by increasing concentrations of CO2.
The rising temperature before 1950 was considered natural.
Since 1990, Arctic temperatures rose 2 to 3 times faster than the global average.
So, are rapidly rising Arctic temperatures evidence of an impending climate crisis?
Astute students of climate history recall rapid Arctic warming has happened often and naturally. 
During the last Ice Age when CO2 concentrations were just half of today’s, 25 abrupt warming events happened. 
Arctic temperatures rose 9F, and sometimes as much as 14F in just 40 years.
These rapid warming episodes are now called Dansgaard–Oeschger events (D-O events) in honor of the researchers who first detected them in Greenland’s ice cores.
These D-O episodes affected global climate, changed ocean currents along California’s coast and altered the range of European forests.
What caused such abrupt warming? 
Basic physics dismisses changes in greenhouse gases or solar insolation because neither radiative effect induces such rapid warming.
The most reasonable explanation suggests episodes of ventilating heat, that had accumulated in the Arctic Ocean, rapidly warmed the air.
The notion of stored heat in a freezing Arctic Ocean seems unfathomable to many laypeople.
But it is scientifically well documented..."
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Adam Smith Reveals the Rub in the SAT’s "Adversity Score" - Foundation for Economic Education

Adam Smith Reveals the Rub in the SAT’s "Adversity Score" - Foundation for Economic Education:

• The new ECD score is based on factors such as the student's neighborhood crime levels, poverty, and schools.

"...Mark Pulliam, in an essay for Law & Liberty, calls it "redlining in reverse," referring to the now-banned practice of banks refusing to make loans based on applicants' zip codes.
Ava Woychuk-Mlinac, in an opinion piece for The Hill, argues that to take seriously the College Board's "solution" to inequality "is to further institutionalize a system that normalizes educational inequity; it is to resign ourselves to not strive for a better solution."...
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Lunch video-----James Burke Connections, Ep. 1 "The Trigger Effect"

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