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A panel of scientists and policy experts moved their Doomsday Clock 30 seconds closer to midnight on Thursday, citing President Trump’s rhetoric on nuclear weapons, environmental deterioration due to climate change and a lack of trust in political institutions.
Let’s put aside the discrediting fiction of climate change for a moment (if we can) and focus on something with relevance.
There is so much snow in arctic Sweden that the reindeer are finding themselves on the roadways where they are being run down by speeding motorists.
“Twice as many reindeer have been killed on the roads in northern Sweden this month compared to the same period last year. And one of the main factors is climate change, according to the Swedish Sami Association. …
In a recent MoveOn.org email Chris Liquori from Portsmouth, New Hampshire is promoting a petition to cut the number of Democrat Superdelegates by 60 percent.
Vote to enact the Democratic National Committee Unity Reform Commission’s recommendations on reducing superdelegates by 60% in time for the 2020 primary cycle at the next DNC meeting.
Chris goes on to note that Superdelegates are contrary to the nature of democratic elections and the sooner we move to eliminate the undeserved influence of superdelegates, the stronger the Democratic Party will be. He wants to win back voter trust in time for 2020. Maybe because he’s a Bernie Sanders delegate?
David Harsanyi writing in The Federalist wades into the latest on the #Releasethememo kerfuffle. The “memo” is rumored to outline FBI abuses some would have made public. Democrats (why is it always Democrats?) are scrambling to block the memo or discredit its contents, among them Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Adam Schiff; who are suggesting that the Russians are the ones pushing for the release of the memo, which Mike Rogers covered in some detail here.
Harsanyi confirms that,
As it turns out, reports today say that Twitter’s internal analysis found that it was mostly Americans, not creepy Slavic mind-control robots, who were behind the hashtags. Which is important but not the point he’s looking to make.
The Office of Inspector General has announced that the missing FBI texts trashing Trump have been found. “The OIG has been investigating this matter and, this week, succeeded in using forensic tools to recover text messages from FBI devices, including text messages between Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page that were sent or received between December 14, 2016 and … Read more
#Davos disrupted as global elite gather amid snowiest ever meeting. Even the town’s helicopter pad was closed because of the snowstorm. https://t.co/ohZegAyqft via @welt #WEF18 pic.twitter.com/ltNWrzG9qv — Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) January 23, 2018 Zero Hedge commentary and more “humor” here.
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New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu posted pictures on Facebook in celebration of school choice week. And while most of the comments I saw were favorable, the government-school-only crowd came out to give him grief.
Twenty-Two days ago I announced a Grok ‘Resolution’ of sorts. Our effort to overtake the Keene Sentinel in Alexa’s US Rankings. Everyone needs goals, right?
I’m happy to report that we’ve made some progress. The Berlin Daily Sun, which was between the Keene Sentinel and us is no longer in our way (at least for now). We’ve squeaked past them into the number 8 slot on our list improving from 73,950 in the US to 61,765.
Seven cities in California are suing energy companies claiming that their contribution to global warming puts their municipalities at grave risk. That the energy industry giants misrepresented the dangers and in exchange for this malfeasance these cities should be rewarded with a little court-ordered public policy victory and some jackpot justice.
Somone at Exxon-Mobile decided to turn the tables. They are asking why the catastrophic claims made by these same municipalities in their lawsuit do no match the language used to woo bond investors?
While we were all focused on the #SchumerShutdown Mark Steyn reminded us about a twenty year anniversary. The vast right-wing conspiracy. What the meaning of “is” is. Bill Clinton cheating on his cuckquean co-president Hillary (again) this time with a White House intern named Monica Lewinsky.
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There will be a public hearing tomorrow, 01/24/2018 at 02:00 PM in Legislative Office Building (LOB) Room 301 on HB 1616 that would require legislative approval before regional planning commissions could accept federal money. If you cannot testify in person, please write to the Municipal and County Government Committeeand ask them to support this bill. HOUSE BILL … Read more
Where are the Barrycades? Shouldn’t we have Barrycades?
Vermont just legalized recreational marijuana. Gov. Phil Scott, a Republican, said he signed the bill into law with “mixed emotions” during a private signing, the Associated Press reports. It takes effect July 1. It allows adults to possess up to 1 ounce of marijuana and have two mature and four immature plants. So, no big … Read more
My sleep is restless. The bed of used pussyhats provides no comfort. In protest, we took part of this make-shift “mattress” and made an effigy of Trump. Pink yarn and hair elastics. We burned the awful thing. The smoke got trapped in the bunker and made me cry. Trump made me cry.
Democrats abhor New Hampshire’s low-spending, low-taxes culture. They’d like nothing more than to replace the Granite State of Mind with a California State of Mind. One that Skip noted yesterday includes a plot to pilfer half the savings California businesses would otherwise realize from the FederalReformeform. Well, they’re not done yet (nor will they ever because for liberals there is no such thing as enough).
Any business in California that cooperates with federal immigration officials will face prosecution, according to state Attorney General Xavier Becerra.
Make sure to add that to your list of First Year accomplishments Mr. Trump. You helped California discover the tenth amendment.
NOAA and NASA have made it their annual New Years resolution to announce that the previous year was one of the hottest on record. In the case of 2017, it too was one of the hottest (EVAH!) and accomplished this (magically) by having significantly fewer “Hot” days than most of the years that preceded it. It … Read more
The collapse of civilization as we know it has begun. Even from inside the bunker you can feel the edges of the fabric of reality begin to fray. I stare longingly at my HOPE poster, barely visible in the dimming light. Someone needs to clear off the snow-covered solar panels, but no one dares to … Read more
Joseph Asch, writing at Dartblog, exposes the fraud of the diversity and inclusion movement in his analysis of a letter by former Dartmouth Provost (and current English Professor at same) Carolyn Dever.
A report released by the Department of Homeland Security notes that 73% of persons convicted of terrorism or on terrorism-related charges were foreign-born and entered the country “legally.”
This DHS/DOJ report, issued this month, is disturbing enough and reveals that a significant number of terrorists entered the country through immigration programs that use family ties and extended-family chain migration as a basis for entry.