How to Make a Sextant From Random Junk
5th January 2017
If, of course, that’s what you want to do.
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5th January 2017
If, of course, that’s what you want to do.
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5th January 2017
Do tell.
DHS Inspector General John Roth blasted TSA officials in unusually harsh language for demanding the IG inconsistently redact information about the TSA’s security practices in part because agency officials refused to maintain airport security cameras because they believe that isn’t TSA’s responsibility.
Look for … the Union label….
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5th January 2017
The U.S. Navy’s biofuels program has “failed to demonstrate any operational or strategic advantages over petroleum and have actually increased costs” for the military, according to a new report by defense experts.
My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.
In 2011, President Barack Obama ordered the Navy to diversify its energy sources by using biofuels. The Obama administration based the decision on former Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis’ call to “unleash” the Corps from “the tether of fuel.” Mattis is now President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense.
I doubt that Mattis was calling for more cronyist ‘green’ initiatives.
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5th January 2017
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5th January 2017
Tucker Carlson brings the heat.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson stumped a California college professor, who claimed that “98 percent” of the world’s scientists believe in global warming, when he asked the academic how he reached his number.
California State University, Sacramento, professor Joseph Palermo went on Carlson’s show to defend a Huffington Post op-ed where he argued that Trump’s administration shouldn’t be allowed to use Twitter since they believed “the science of global warming is bogus.”
Palermo said some of his remarks were taken out of context, but Carlson pressed him on the claim he made during the interview Wednesday night — that 98 percent of scientists believe in the science behind extreme climate change scenarios.
Remember the Three Laws of SJW: Social justice warriors always lie, social justice warriors always double down, and social justice warriors always project.
Palermo is likely referring to the oft-touted “97 percent” consensus that human-emitted greenhouse gases can cause global warming, taken from a 2013 study by Australian researcher John Cook.
Cook’s study has been thoroughly debunked by experts who found the actual “consensus” is scarcely 0.3 percent.
A survey of 4,000 meteorologists and other climate experts who are members of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) found about one-third of them don’t agree with the so-called global warming “consensus” that humans are the cause of the most recent observed warming.
Science: It’s not just for the Crust any more.
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5th January 2017
That’s why Greeks and Italians rule the world! Oh, wait….
That’s why there are so many Greek and Italian Nobel Prize winners! Oh, wait….
That’s why the Greek and Italian economies are on top! Oh, wait….
(What would we do without ‘scientists’?)
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5th January 2017
Read it. And watch the video.
I guess it’s a love crime, then. Who knew?
Featuring yet another fat ugly black woman. Where do they find them?
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5th January 2017
Hint: It involved hockey sticks.
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5th January 2017
Moral: Don’t live in a city run by Democrats. Duh.
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5th January 2017
Harvard’s George J. Borjas brings the settled science.
For decades Borjas has been shocking the system in his own way, arguing—carefully, with the support of intricate statistical analysis—that immigration comes with tradeoffs, particularly reduced wages for the native workers who compete with immigrants.
To most academics, that’s heresy. To many others it might sound like common sense—and at last we can experience Borjas’s ideas in a widely accessible form. After focusing for years on academic research, Borjas is bringing his findings directly to the public through a new book called We Wanted Workers, a rejuvenated blog (gborjas.org), and the occasional op-ed in mainstream publications such as Politico.
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5th January 2017
I predict that this will end badly.
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5th January 2017
Regional grocery chain Publix Supermarkets officially decided to conceal an issue of The National Enquirer that heavily features President-elect Donald Trump’s face, according to a Tuesday report from the Palm Beach Post.
One think you have to say for Donald Trump, he’s wringing all of the hidden crap out of the body politic.
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5th January 2017
Sometimes the old ways are best.
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5th January 2017
“The fact is ObamaCare was a lie from the beginning,” he said in the typo-ridden tweets, calling Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer the “head clown” of Democrats he accuses of blaming other people for the healthcare mess they created. Republicans are setting an aggressive agenda to repeal and replace parts of the health care law as the new Congress gets started.
This is why people voted for Donald Trump. He says what they’re thinking.
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5th January 2017
Well, that would pretty much put the nail in the coffin for New York City.
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5th January 2017
The funeral procession for former Chiayi County Council Speaker Tung Hsiang, who died at the age of 76, featured 50 scantily-clad women pole dancing atop 50 jeeps, as well as traditional bands, reports Taiwan News.
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Interestingly, funeral strippers and pole dancers are not exactly rare in Chinese culture, particularly in rural areas.
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5th January 2017
Well, since we don’t have any concentration camps now that FDR is gone, perhaps we could send her to Iran instead; presumably, for a lesbian Marxist, the experience would be much the same. Unfortunately, since it would be Muslims, her progressive head couldn’t process it and would probably explode.
Either way, problem solved.
Isn’t it remarkable that most of the people whining loudly about how scared they are of Being Oppressed Under Donald Trump are people who Donald Trump would never even notice, much less be moved to do anything about? The guilty flee where no man pursueth.
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5th January 2017
Alberto Mingardi riffs on a Kevin Williamson article.
In the 19th century, people of a liberal bent tended to support a wider franchise because they maintained that if everybody had a say in decision-making, the quality of decisions would go up. It was easy for kings and aristocrats to send a country to war: they had limited skin in the game, as they tended to observe the battlefield from distance. Let those who are going to die for the king’s honour and pride decide; they might prove more aware of the costs of their rulers’ decisions.
But a big part of the argument for democracy was in fact an argument for a better informed political discussion. Those who believed in expanding the franchise also believed in popular education and a wider diffusion of political gazette. Democracy and mass literacy should lead us towards saner policies: to become better able to engage the government as intellectually prepared citizens.
Here we are. Does better education really make politics saner?
I would argue: Yes, if it really is education. But what we have today isn’t education, but indoctrination, less obtrusive and therefore more insidious than what occurred in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, and other totalitarian states.
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5th January 2017
Economist Alex Tabarrok takes a look.
Chuck Norris Versus Communism is a great documentary about art, the power of heroes and the end of communism in Romania. After the communist regime was established in 1948, travel was restricted, the media were censored and the secret police watched everyone. Romania was cut off from the rest of the world. In the mid-1980s, however, smuggled VHS tapes of American movies began to circulate. Underground groups would gather together to watch samizdat movies like Rocky and Lone Wolf McQuade.
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The action was exciting but perhaps even more revealing were the ordinary scenes of supermarkets stocked with food, at a time when Romania was racked with severe rationing. City lights, beautiful cars, and the ordinary freedoms of worship and belief casually portrayed all impressed on the Romanian viewers the starkness of their own situation.
I am reminded of the scene from Moscow on the Hudson where a Russian defector, played by Robin Williams, goes into a grocery store and asks where is the line for bread? The clerk says, ‘There is no line for bread. Bread is on aisle 4.’ Williams hyperventilates and passes out at the sight of forty feet of shelves with nothing but bread on them — and no line.
Makes you wonder how all the people who prefer socialism to a free market can be so stupid.
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5th January 2017
The Internet – or the portions of it that I frequent – has lately become somewhat exercised (and among my friends rather entertained) by the news that Simon and Schuster has a quarter-million book deal with one Milo Yiannopoulos, leading to much frothing at the mouth in certain circles, as noted at the Passive Voice
Of course, Passive Guy kindly links to the original Guardian article which – surprise! – wasn’t written by our favorite village person of alternative intellect or whatever the current approved terminology is. No, the Grauniad’s latest effort is by a gentleman who is apparently in charge of the Chicago Review of Books, and who wishes it known to all and sundry (can you say virtue signaling? I knew you could) that his eminent publication will not be reviewing any S&S books.
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Presumably all the Grauniad’s readers know who constitutes “the literary world” – namely their august selves. There are some nonconformist souls who happen to think that the definition is a bit broader and includes all authors, all publishers, and even (GASP!) readers. Leaving this question of terminology aside, take note of the description of Mr Yiannopoulous as “America’s most infamous internet troll”. Five words. Damn near as many lies. He’s British, he’s not a troll, internet or otherwise, he’s not infamous despite having a certain amount of notoriety, and he’s certainly not the most infamous anything I can think of right now.
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5th January 2017
NYT restaurant critic Pete Wells wrote a scathing zero-star review of one branch of LocoL in California and has received a backlash as a result – some people have even canceled their subscriptions to the paper.
Part of the reason people have responded so strongly is that LocoL is a restaurant with honourable intentions – the idea behind the mini-chain is to offer good quality, healthy food at affordable prices to some of the poorest, most neglected neighbourhoods of the US.
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Fans of the restaurant jumped to LocoL’s defence, arguing the critic had been unnecessarily harsh.
“Lovely takedown piece on a small company genuinely trying to make underserved communities better through food, innovation and employment,” commented one person on Facebook.
There is the ‘progressive’ mind in a nutshell (emphasis on the ‘nut’): If a restaurant is founded on Politically Correct principles, then it doesn’t matter whether the food is any good.
On the other hand, any tendency for someone at the New York Times to engage in Actual Journalism is good news. (As is anything that tends to get people to cancel their subscriptions, I say, but that’s just me.)
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5th January 2017
Good fences makes good neighbors. I’m sure I heard that somewhere.
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5th January 2017
San Antonio, notes Texas Public Radio, is “the largest city in the country without a rail system to move” its residents. As a result, the article implies, people are “stuck behind the wheel,” and the article’s headline asks, “Should San Antonio Reconsider Rail?”
Betteridge’s Law of Headlines, of course, suggests that “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.” But more important, the article is guilty of the Politician’s Fallacy, which is: “1. We have to do something [in this case, about congestion]. 2. This [rail] is something. 3. We have to do this [build rail].”
Before jumping to any conclusions, San Antonians should ask how well rail is moving people in other cities. The first point to note is that, when TPR says that San Antonio is the largest city not to have rail, there are only six larger cities to consider. We don’t think of San Antonio is being the nation’s seventh-largest city, but it is true because Texas cities have strong annexations powers, so tend to be much larger than cities elsewhere. Houston, Dallas, and Austin are also among the nation’s eleven largest cities.
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5th January 2017
If a white guy gets tortured by black guys and nobody reports on it, did it really happen?
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4th January 2017
If a lawsuit filed in state court in Jersey City, N.J. is successful, some teachers’ unions in the Garden State may no longer be able to bill taxpayers for that work. That’s because the state constitution prohibits government from giving taxpayer funds to private entities without a public purpose.
The new lawsuit is the latest example of a practice that is firmly ensconced among federal employees’ unions and is now being challenged with some success at the state and local government level. Some estimates put the cost of official time to the federal government at as much as $1 billion.
Under “release time,” teachers don’t teach, they instead perform unknown advocacy duties on a daily basis without having to dip into members’ dues.
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4th January 2017
You simply can’t make this up. The mood was grim on Wednesday’s Hardball as MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, Mother Jones editor David Corn, and New York Times columnist Frank Bruni wallowed in how President-elect Donald Trump created a landscape where the news media is so distrusted that people might soon not trust movie times in newspapers.
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4th January 2017
From the abstract:
This article speaks to a post-human feminist museology. It argues that considerations of a feminist museology would benefit from engaging with post-human feminist dialogues currently unfolding within academia. Dynamic political landscapes and global circumstances challenge dualist paradigms. Theorizations of museums are not exempt from these challenges. Critiques of androcentricity indicate that feminist theorizations have never fully centred on “the human”, but always already contextualized how we affect the world, and how the world affects us. Discussions in this article follow Barad’s agential-realist theorization of the material-discursive practices that shape our understandings in and of the world, and Haraway’s notion of diffraction that engages the material and re-tools recordings of object histories as entangled human and non-human processes that can be taken apart and reassembled, making different possibilities possible. The article demonstrates that museological alternatives that emerge from conversations about entanglements not only aim to move beyond the paradigms they have been circling within for so long, but towards a re-thinking of museology and cultural heritage museums. Thus, considerations of a feminist post-human museology re-imagine museums as entangled becomings that make different possibilities possible.
Really — you can’t make this shit up.
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4th January 2017
Graphic footage captured on Facebook Live showed a white man being tortured in Chicago by African-American assailants as they laughed and expressed their disgust for white people and President-elect Donald Trump.
Some black lives don’t matter.
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4th January 2017
You know the answer. Gimme a G! Gimme an O! Gimme a V!….
Any business decision as significant as the relocation of a major production facility is the result of many factors. Still, one factor stood out when the Carrier executives met with Mike Pence, then the governor of Indiana, in March of last year. After the meeting, Pence told an Indianapolis TV station that Carrier CEO Robert McDonough said decision to relocate had nothing to do with the business climate in Indiana, but that they were frustrated with the “rising red tape” in Washington D.C.
Around the same time, Jim Schellinger, president of the Indiana Economic Development Corporation, wrote a letter to Sen. Joseph Donnelly, D-Indiana, claiming that “extensive federal regulations were the leading factor of the decision to relocate 2,100 manufacturing jobs” to Mexico, according to The Washington Post.
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4th January 2017
Councilmember Kshama Sawant posted an open letter to her “fellow activists” on the City of Seattle’s taxpayer-funded website, urging participation in anti-Trump “Occupy Inauguration” protests organized by the Socialist Alternative Seattle. More than 3,500 people have already committed to joining the protests, according to the event’s Facebook page.
How many Victim Bingo boxes can she check? Try your luck.
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4th January 2017
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) officials issued “new, confusing and burdensome” data security requirements that are “inconsistent with established federal healthcare law,” according to the non-profit government watchdog Cause of Action Institute.
The group’s comments came in a statement Wednesday after it filed an Amicus Curiae brief on behalf of 10 doctors in a federal court case. The FTC’s regulatory overreach has harmed medical patients’ welfare and put a cancer-detection laboratory out of business, the doctors claimed in their brief.
Your tax dollars at work. Aren’t you proud?
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4th January 2017
Or else what? Chuck Schumer’s leverage to obstruct the next nominee to the Supreme Court was almost as incoherent as his demand for a “mainstream” nominee. Appearing on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show last night, Schumer followed that demand up with an acknowledgment that Democrats wouldn’t consider any nominee mainstream if he or she had full Republican support. That leaves us with … what, exactly? Knee-jerk obstructionism.
Democrats are so divorced from reality that when they lose they act as if they’ve won.
That’s what brain diseases like socialism get you. (This is your brain on socialism:
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4th January 2017
Sarah Hoyt vents.
For four generations now, most people were taught Marxist/progressive shibboleths as though they were the revealed truth of the universe. Even teachers who don’t realize that’s what they’re teaching tend to drip through concepts like class struggle and the idea history comes with an arrow pointing at a progressive future, and even the idea of the Government as a benevolent entity that solves all things and fixes all things, from society to science. Of course most of all the educational-industrial complex sells the idea that it’s wonderful, indispensable, and you should definitely give it way more of your money.
The problem is that when people go out into the world, they keep being forced into situations where this isn’t true, and where their nose is rubbed into the fact that what they were taught is nonsense. Some (most perhaps) avoid thinking about it or acculturating by becoming bitter and cynical and deciding the world is irredeemable because it doesn’t match their head-picture. And some fight back with memes.
Memes are perfect for this, because, like proverbs, they have the feeling of revealed truth and therefore stop the discomfort of having to face, you know, real reality which doesn’t match received culture.
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4th January 2017
The E.P.A. is one of the reasons that Richard Nixon will burn in Hell for all eternity.
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4th January 2017
Practice makes perfect.
With thanks to Debby Witt — no, I have no idea where she finds this crap.
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4th January 2017
For some reason, a widespread belief exists that the president of a college or a university (or even a 2-year junior college) deserves to live a life of luxury. No fewer than 30 higher education presidents are earning over a million dollars a year, compensation that rightly should outrage families indebting themselves to pay tuition.
Many black people, perhaps out of a sense of racial disadvantage and corruption from living in a largely Democrat world, feel entitled to all of the money they can squeeze out of the system. This is especially prevalent in politics — note the number of black Congress members who have been indicted in the last ten or twenty years — but extends to other Crustian occupations, such as journalism and academia.
Meet Dr. DeRionne Pollard, president of Montgomery College, the biggest junior college in the state of Maryland.
She is, of course, a lesbian, as is almost requisite in this degenerate modern age.
For some reason, the African-American culture seems to teem with fat ugly black women in positions of authority. (See Congress, NAACP, etc.) Perhaps that is an ancestral relic of similar power structures in West Africa.
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4th January 2017
The OFloinn shows you the way.
My favorite:
The Talking Heads of the MSM will continue to explain to the public the inexplicable loss of the election by the Space Princess. They will continue to natter on about Russian interference (without specifying what that interference actually consisted of) and about Angry Misogynistic White Men (without discovering any large upwelling either of males or whites among the tallied votes). No one will mention triple digit increases in the price of health insurance under the “Affordable” Care Act or the proposal of a No-Fly Zone over Syria, where the Russians constituted the primary fliers — and hence of the palpable risk of a shooting war with Russia. A few folks in Otto’s Bar and Grille, where the Talking Heads are explaining things, will put down their beers and say, “Ain’t you the folks who were so wrong about who was going to win? So why should we listen to you now?” The Talking Heads have no good answer, and so they talk louder. Everyone stops listening to them.
Runner-up:
The New Witch Hunts will continue as people purge themselves on anti-social media by confessing the sins of other people, often creating these sins de novo from rumors and snippets of quotes. A few will long for the days when confession was under the seal of secrecy. The New Donatists will declare more sins to be lifelong unforgivables and will denounce those who forgive as being haters and ‘phobes.
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4th January 2017
Steve Sailer looks behind the curtain.
A paradox of the current nationalist rebellion is how worldwide it is. Three years ago, I pointed out in Takimag in a column entitled “Nationalism Is a Blast”:
In 2014, the global winds are blowing in favor of conservative nationalism.
One reason it’s happening over much of the planet is because the various establishment elites have become so homogenous [sic] in their ideology, unconsciously egging each other on into more extremism. For example, after the normally cautious Angela Merkel made her historic refugee blunder in 2015, Hillary Clinton repeatedly endorsed Merkel’s foolhardiness, even as the German leader herself came to regret her imprudence.
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3rd January 2017
If there’s anybody more arrogant than a Democrat who just won, it’s a Democrat who just lost.
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3rd January 2017
Ex-police superintendent Garry McCarthy, speaking on “The Cats Roundtable” radio show Sunday, alleged that BLM contributes to a “state of lawlessness,” reports the New York Daily News.
“The simplest way to describe it is that we have created an environment where we have emboldened criminals and we are hamstringing the police,” he declared on the radio show.
McCarthy insisted that Black Lives Matter encourages people to not listen to police officers’ commands.
My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.
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3rd January 2017
But nobody cares about Christians any more.
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3rd January 2017
Joe Bob Briggs checks the facts.
Using fact-checking as a weapon is like using your own Breathalyzer results to say somebody else is drunk.
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3rd January 2017
The Antiplanner’s friend, Benita Dodd, reviews the Atlanta streetcar on the second anniversary of its inaugural run. It was supposed to cost $72 million to build. It cost $97 million. It was supposed to cost $1.7 million a year to operate. It actually costs $5.3 million.
It was projected to earn $420,000 a year in fares. During its first year, it earned nothing because it was free. In the second year, the city began charging $1 a ride, and it earned under $200,000. When it was free, it carried 2,600 riders a day. After they began charging, ridership fell to less than 1,500 a day, less than half the projected number.
It normally runs on Saturday nights until 1 am. Last Saturday, “to accommodate large crowds” for New Years Eve, the city stopped running it at 4:30 pm. (Despite the absurdity of the claim that not running the streetcar will accommodate large crowds, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reprinted the city’s press release word for word.) Naturally, after all these great successes, the city wants to build 22 more miles of streetcar lines.
Whenever you see an official estimate of cost for a government works project, double it and add 50% to get the accurate amount that it will eventually cost.
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3rd January 2017
An order closing a government lab that manipulated energy data for nearly two decades didn’t represent a “loss of confidence” in federal scientists, according to the issuing official, even though a subsequent memo by another agency executive described in gruesome detail an irretrievably mismanaged and dysfunctional operation.
The stop-work order and a subsequent review was issued after a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) chemist was caught manipulating energy-related data at an agency lab from 2008 to 2014. Another chemist manipulated data at the Colorado facility from 1996 to 2008.
“Lastly, the [program office] would like to convey to the [lab] analysts that these actions are not [emphasis theirs] a reflection of a loss of confidence in them or in their abilities,” the March 2015 stop-work order said.
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3rd January 2017
Kevin Williamson does the review.
In the eight years of his presidency, we have both abandoned and re-invaded Iraq, launched new engagements in the Middle East and in Africa, and contributed mightily to the mess in Syria with President Obama’s empty talk of “red lines” and sundry ultimata, none of which was taken seriously in Damascus — or Moscow, or Tehran, or Beijing, or Washington, for that matter. The United States and Russia are at the moment engaged in an escalating tit-for-tat confrontation over Moscow’s minor-league meddling in the presidential election, which is, of course, what President Obama really cares about: Vladimir Putin can annex Crimea and test out new weapons on civilians in Syria, but release a bucket of embarrassing DNC e-mails (the veracity of which is, incidentally, not in dispute) and the Obama administration swings into action.
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Obama’s record at home is no more impressive. He punted his health-care reform bill to his team in Congress, where the fine legislative minds of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid oversaw the creation of what the president proudly called “Obamacare,” which has created absolute chaos in the health-insurance market. The artificial marketplaces it created are collapsing, insurers are abandoning the program, premiums and deductibles are skyrocketing, consumers have fewer choices rather than more numerous ones, Medicaid is swollen, and the American people, who elected Barack Obama in no small part because they thought he could apply that cool intelligence for which he was famous (at least in the pages of the New York Times) to the health-insurance mess, absolutely hate what he has done. The Affordable Care Act almost certainly will be undone in the coming months, and the people who supported Barack Obama will be happy to see it go.
An amazing record. Obama has done the impossible: Saved Jimmy Carter from being the worst U.S. President in the last 100 years.
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3rd January 2017
Read it. And watch the video.
John Christy is the Alabama State Climatologist and a climate scientist with the University of Alabama. In 1991 he received the NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement for his contribution to global temperature monitoring. In 1996 he received a special award from the American Meteorology Society.
You want climate science? We got your climate science, right here.
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2nd January 2017
Scott Adams Reveals All.
When I am not feeling good, I don’t ask my brain to fix things on its own. I manipulate my environment until my thoughts change. That’s because I see my body as the user interface to my brain. I don’t let my brain think whatever it randomly wants to think. I constrain it to productive thoughts by manipulating my environment.
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To convince yourself that my framework is valid, take an inventory of the people in your life who are unhappy. Ask some questions about what they are doing about their unhappiness. Rarely will the person say they are working on their body to fix their minds.
Now take an inventory of your more well-adjusted friends. Watch the degree to which they manipulate their bodies to manage their minds. Once you see the pattern, you will start to see it everywhere.
I just changed your life. You won’t know how much until later.
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