January 15, 2016

The Benghazi movie ’13 Hours’ is an apolitical mind-numbing sensory assault that’s barely coherent

Oh, and here's the article here.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/the-benghazi-movie-13-hours-is-an-apolitical-mind-numbing-sensory-assault-thats-barely-coherent/

January 15, 2016

Woot Looks like I have been Blocked from the Ted Cruz Facebook page.

Guess they didn't like my "supportive" posts, how to live in Canada, the weather there, etc.

January 15, 2016

HILLARY CLINTON PROMISES TO INVESTIGATE UFOS

January 15, 2016

HILLARY CLINTON PROMISES TO INVESTIGATE UFOS

(Looks like she has the UFOer vote locked up)

CONWAY — Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton gave UFO enthusiasts a reason to cheer at the close of her recent editorial board meeting with The Conway Daily Sun.

IMG 0264Right: Reporter Daymond Steer asks Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton for her stance on UFOs when she visited the Sun on Tuesday. (MARGARET McKENZIE PHOTO)During the meeting, the former first lady, former senator from New York and secretary of state answered serious questions about foreign policy and the economy, and at the end, she chatted with this reporter, who had asked her about UFOs the last time she visited. She recalled that 2007 exchange with a smile and seemed to have fun discussing the topic.

“Yes, I’m going to get to the bottom of it,” said Clinton with enthusiasm.

Back in 2007, Clinton had said that the No. 1 topic of freedom-of-information requests that her husband, former President Bill Clinton, received at his library was UFOs.

Last year, Bill Clinton told late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel that he wouldn’t be surprised if Earth is visited by aliens since so many planets out there may support life.
https://alien-ufo-sightings.com/2016/01/hillary-clinton-promises-to-investigate-ufos/

January 15, 2016

Mike Huckabee: Poor Americans will be better off if we treat them like we ‘train dogs’

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee argued on Thursday that the “common sense” way to improve the economy was to treat taxpayers the with same techniques used to “train dogs.”

Speaking at the Republican presidential debate on the Fox Business channel, Huckabee argued that Americans were having trouble getting ahead because “the tax system punishes them.”

“If you work really hard and you start moving up the economic ladder, you get bumped into a different tax bracket so the government thinks it deserves more of your hard work than you do,” he explained. “It’s time for something big.”

According to the former Arkansas governor, Americans would be better off with a national flat sales tax of 10 percent, which he refers to as the “Fair Tax” plan.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/mike-huckabee-poor-americans-will-be-better-off-if-we-treat-them-like-we-train-dogs/

January 15, 2016

‘Despondent’ Republicans watch in horror as voters continue to back Trump and Cruz

With two weeks to go until the first contest of the 2016 presidential race, Republicans who fear their party has been hijacked by the likes of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz found little to comfort them in the latest debate.

Both candidates, one a billionaire developer with no political experience and the other a U.S. Senator from Texas with a reputation for clashing with his Washington D.C. colleagues, stood center stage Thursday night and, for the most part, dominated the proceedings.

More mainstream hopefuls such as former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Ohio Governor John Kasich, and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio from Florida were left nipping at their heels and squabbling among themselves.

Trump, 69, and Cruz, 45, whom opinion polls have locked in a tight struggle to win the Feb. 1 Iowa caucuses, clashed at several points, befitting their leading-men status. The left little room for rivals trying to hurriedly close the gap before voting begins for real to choose the party’s nominee for November’s general election.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/despondent-republicans-watch-in-horror-as-voters-continue-to-back-trump-and-cruz/

January 14, 2016

NRA head wants to debate Obama on guns ... a week after skipping Obama town hall on guns

Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association (NRA), speaks during a news conference in Washington December 21, 2012. NRA, the powerful U.S. gun rights lobby, went on the offensive on Friday arguing that schools should have ar


A week after refusing to participate in a town hall event at which President Obama responded to both allies and opponents on gun issues, the National Rifle Association is posturing about wanting to debate Obama. “I’ll meet you, for a one-on-one, one-hour debate,“ Wayne LaPierre, the gun lobby group’s president, says over ominous music in a belligerent video. His proposal for the debate involves:


… a mutually agreed-upon moderator, on any network that will take it. No prescreened questions and no gasbag answers. Americans will judge for themselves who they trust, and believe, on this issue. You, or the NRA.

Very tough, Mr. LaPierre.
But the evidence suggests Americans have already judged for themselves. The NRA has its adherents, and NRA adherents can be the kind of dedicated single-issue voters who give politicians something to fear. But the majority of Americans have made up their minds: They support stricter gun laws, particularly for background checks. The NRA may be able to obstruct progress, and I’m sure its membership thrills to the dick-swinging of LaPierre’s video, but it’s defending unpopular positions.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/14/1469854/-NRA-head-wants-to-debate-Obama-on-guns-a-week-after-skipping-Obama-town-hall-on-guns

January 14, 2016

Bizarre & Disturbing. Subtropical Storm Alex Forms in Atlantic, Hurricane Pali in Pacific in Jan

Hurricane Pali is heading where no hurricane has gone before, within 5 degrees of the equator in the north central Pacific. Forecasters have been stunned by Pali. Tropical storms generally don’t form near the equator because they can’t develop enough spin there but a phenomenal atmospheric wave moved eastward along the equator all the way from the Indian ocean to the eastern Pacific over the last month. That massive wave of thunderstorms on both sides of the equator built a strong surge of westerly winds on the equator as it moved east.

When those west winds reached the central Pacific where the Northeasterly trade reach deep into the tropics, the thunderstorms developed spin and tropical storm Pali formed “impossibly” close to the equator. Pali is the earliest tropical storm ever in the central and east north Pacific. Only one other hurricane has ever formed in January in that region. Moreover, Pali has been closer to the equator than any storm in the region. The super El Nino and the very warm equatorial water temperatures played a role, but Pali’s behavior is still hard to explain.

To make the weather even weirder, a subtropical storm, Alex, just formed in the Atlantic...in January. Water temperatures would normally be too low to support development of a tropical storm except for the very cold temperatures aloft. Very cold temperatures persist into the stratosphere above Alex. It’s weird, really weird, how the lower atmosphere (troposphere) is so thick above Alex and how the lower stratosphere is so cold.

One of the weird effects of increasing greenhouse gases is the cooling of the lower stratosphere. MIT professor Kerry Emanuel found that the cooling of the transition layer between the troposphere and stratosphere has had a larger impact on increasing the intensity of Atlantic hurricanes than warming sea surface temperatures. Perhaps that has something to do with the bizarre formation of subtropical storm Alex in January.
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/13/1469634/-Bizarre-Disturbing-Subtropical-Storm-Alex-Forms-in-Atlantic-Hurricane-Pali-in-Pacific-in-January

January 13, 2016

This Map Shows All Drive-In Theaters Still Operating in America

If your desire to revel in childhood nostalgia is strong enough to overcome a few major inconveniences, this is the map for you!

Popping up across America as the country embraced the car in the wake of the post-war boom, drive-in movie theaters became a staple of ‘50s and '60s culture. They brought together communities, gave families access to cheap entertainment, helped bring Hollywood productions to the masses, and gave teenagers a place to neck with their special someone in their sin wagons. The movement peaked in the late '50s, when there were over 4,600 different drive-in locations, and suffered a precipitous decline starting in the 1980s.

Today, there are just 336 left in America, all of which are cataloged in the very busy map below, via braid.io, using data from drive-ins.com.

http://jordan-zakarin.tumblr.com/post/136892366081/this-map-shows-all-drive-in-theaters-still

January 12, 2016

Oregon judge plans to bill Ammon Bundy up to $70,000 a day for security costs to county

An Oregon judge says he will bill Ammon Bundy up to $70,000 a day to reimburse Harney County for security costs related to the ongoing occupation of a wildlife refuge.

Local schools reopened Monday for the first time since Bundy and other militants seized a visitors center Jan. 2 at the Malheur National Wildlife Preserve and demanded the transfer of federally owned land to the county, reported KTVZ-TV.

Bundy and other militants used a backhoe owned by the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife to remove fences separating federal land from property owned by a local rancher.

Bundy said the militants had rifled through files at the occupied building looking for evidence of wrongdoing, but he insisted they had not accessed computers — although public radio reporters witnessed them doing that.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/oregon-judge-plans-to-bill-ammon-bundy-up-to-70000-a-day-for-security-costs-to-county/