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Thursday, August 29, 2019

Hilary is lurking, “Molly” an effective PTSD treatment? Short SpaceX Starhopper test flight, If You Drain the Swamp, Where Do the Swamp Critters Go?All the news that’s fit to slant, and much more for August 28, 2019


“Molly” an effective PTSD treatment?
The main ingredient is MDMA, also known as Ectasy.
After taking a dose of pure MDMA, Tipton lay in a quiet room with two specially trained psychotherapists. They sat next to her as she recalled some of her deepest traumas, such as discovering her mother’s body after Tipton’s mother killed two people and then herself in a murder-suicide.
“In the embrace of MDMA,” Tipton said, she could revisit that moment without the usual terror and panic. “I was able to find such empathy for myself.”
One has to be very careful with stuff like this. It’s not what you buy on the street but a medication prepared under strict controls. The same with how it’s used.
So. Will it work? Longterm?
Only time and extensive studies will tell.
More @ https://freedomoutpost.com/party-drug-is-wowing-researchers-as-powerful-ptsd-treatment/


If You Drain the Swamp, Where Do the Swamp Critters Go?
What a great question!
Draining the swamp is a catchphrase that’s just about everywhere, every day.
But nobody else has ever asked this question.
Thanks to HumorTimes, here it is.
According to this author, they’re only going to change faces. And yes, he’s about as leftist as they come, attacking all sorts of presidential appointees.
But, it’s a great question and I would love to see someone seriously answer it.


Boooooring
I hav 201 sites that I routinely visit using Feedly. They range from The Atlantic to National Review and Breitbart. Oh yeah, add Pocket that comes with Firefox.
You’d think there’d be a lot of interesting stuff to find.
Wrong!
90%+ is all the same stuff. Day in and day out.
What you see me post on forums and in my blog are rare gems that take hours on end to find.
I tell myself I should stop and get back to work on the novels gathering dust in my Windows Explorer files. But, writer’s block is still there and going through all of this is better than staring at TV news that all about the very same things I’m seeing online.
So?
What to do?
Guess I’ll just hang in there until the creative light burns again.
I just hope you enjoy what I do end up finding.


All the news that’s fit to slant
A book about journalism written by a former New York Times editor.
A guy by the name of Matthew Continetti reads and it tears it to shreds. Here’s his opening:
Indeed, Merchants of Truth exemplifies the very problems it describes. Abramson needs an editor, too. Her narrative is repetitive, contains factual errors, and loses momentum near the end. She acknowledges the Times’s liberal bias but is much more circumspect when it comes to her own. She says the Times “generally eschewed celebrity news,” which is laughable to anyone who has had to endure its endless profiles of Frank Ocean, Lena Dunham, and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter.
My question is; how did such a clearly unprofessional person get a job as an editor for a major news outlet?
And he continues:
were clotted with mistakes. Lots of them. The truth promised in Merchants of Truth was often not true. While trying to corroborate certain claims, I noticed that it also contained…plagiarized passages.


Mountain lions force closure of California nature preserve
Rancho San Antonio — located between Mountain View and Cupertino — consists of 24 miles of trails and draws 700,000 visitors each year. Along with its trail system, the preserve is also home to Deer Hollow Farm — a working farm with a cow, pigs, goats and chickens.
It’s an open area of over 4,000 acres in Santa Clara County between Santa Cruz and San Francisco. No word on how long it’ll stay closed.
But in the meantime, officials advise that if you happen to spot a mountain lion, keep your children and pets close, back away slowly and try and look big — face the animal, stand tall, make noise and wave your arms.


The Real Purpose of the 1619 Project
I’ve seen this mentioned many, many times and have only briefly checked it out. To put in a nutshell, it’s all about the first African slaves arriving in American and the leftist charge this this country was built on the backs of slaves.
According this author, it’s not a case of trying to clarify history as much as a canard to let the Left force reparations upon the rest of us.

A slap at the NYT’s 1619 Project
It’s clear to anyone with common sense that the 1619 Project is nothing more than an effort to politically define the history of the United States in a very negative manner.
Therefore, it’s refreshing to read something that shows the obvious and pointed areas in the diatribe.
First thing is the headline. Slavery in the United States did not start in 1619. The Spanish had African slaves in the early to mid 1500s.
The main story of American history is that, since its inception, the United States has always made efforts to reduce and eliminate slavery. And yes, forms of slavery existed here until the early 2000s.


Trump Signs Bill Protecting Disability Payments for Veterans Who Declare Bankruptcy
The Honoring American Veterans in Extreme Need, or HAVEN, Act extends the same protection for veterans disability payments that's afforded Social Security disability payments: By law, debtors are now not allowed to count these benefits as disposable income subject to seizure during a bankruptcy.
Something I didn’t know. I thought retirement and disability payments are untouchable. Anyone have more information about that?


California governor blames Texas for California’s policies that caused the homeless crisis.
You have got to be kidding? No sane person could possibly make such an ignorant claim.
California’s authoritarian governor, Gavin Newsom, blamed the state of Texas for California’s homeless crisis. Rather than put the blame directly on the policies California has instituted that stifle free enterprise and punish heavily those who produce, Newsom said it’s the fault of Texas.
Newsom said many homeless people on the streets of San Francisco are from Texas in an attempt to shift the blame from himself and the polices of socialists (who get rich peddling socialism to the masses as everyone else becomes impoverished.)
No wonder I can never go home to the Flacky State.


The Best Way to Enslave the People is to Disarm Them!
It’s been done in country after country and the result has always been the same. Despotic rulers rise and force the yoke of government upon the people.
And some people simply never learn.
George Mason, the Father of the Bill of Rights, warned: “To disarm the people…was the best & most effectual way to enslave them.”
He was right more than 2 centuries ago and is still right today.
How important were firearms in throwing off tyranny, simply look to the lessons that our first president George Washington had taught:
“Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the people’s liberty teeth.”
This is why Americans are armed. Lesson learned.


The Bern burns the unions
And he claims to be with union workers.
Eliminate union health benefits?
What?
Has the man lost his sanity? More than before?


How to prevent back pain
Another “quick and easy” remedy for something a lot of us suffer with.
Forget so-called ‘good’ posture, generally keeping active is much more important, advises a chiropractor
And here comes the part that makes a whole lot of sense;
Even if you struggle to fit in regular exercise, there are adjustments you can make to everyday life to take care of your back. Taking the stairs instead of a lift, for example, or getting off your bus a few stops early and walking the rest of the way to work. If you’re stuck in the office all day, taking a “micro-break” every half an hour is vital. This could be just standing up and spending; an easy stretch for the office is the upper trapezius neck stretch, which targets the muscles that commonly become tense after sitting for a long time.
And I’m probably the worst violator of the suggestion to take frequent mini-breaks during my sessions at the computer. (Gonna do one right now.)


Massive pumice “raft” headed towards Australia
150 square kilometers of floating rock from a big volcanic eruption near Tonga.
Scientists say it could replenish the Great Barrier Reef.
Some of the stones are as large as basketballs, and have formed a giant sheet stretching about 58 square miles — nearly the size of Washington, D.C.
So, how does it “replenish?”
Scott Bryan, an associate professor at Queensland University of Technology, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation the raft is floating towards Australia, and will hit the coast in about seven to 12 months. He says by that time, the raft will be "covered in a whole range of organisms of algae and barnacles and corals and crabs and snails and worms."
"Each piece of pumice is a rafting vehicle. It's a home and a vehicle for marine organisms to attach and hitch a ride across the deep ocean to get to Australia," Bryan told The Guardian.


India disenfranchising Muslims in Assam State
The article skirts around it but that’s the nitty-gritty of what’s going on.
India, the land of Mahatma Gandhi, the patron saint of pluralism, peace, and tolerance, is on the cusp of achieving a dubious distinction: At the end of this month, it is poised to launch the biggest disenfranchisement drive in human history by stripping up to 4 million predominantly Muslim residents in Assam, an eastern province bordering Bangladesh, of their citizenship. And as if this weren't bad enough, Prime Minister Narendra Modi plans to go national with this crackdown.
And here is where it gets very definitive:
The Modi government is trying to pass a bill that would hand automatic citizenship to all Hindu, Buddhist, Parsee, and Christian migrants from neighboring countries — everyone that is, except for Muslims. The Muslims, the only ones left if the bills go through, will have to appear before foreign tribunals for a final determination.
Now, here’s a personal thought:
China has basicaly isolated its Muslim population and several other countries have done the same. Myramar is a good example.
And the leftist media is doing its best to label these countries as evil and inhuman. IMHO all they are doing is protecting themselves from a political movement set to take over those countries with its own form of extremely restrictive governance.
Rohingya refugees rally on two-year anniversary of exodus from Myanmar @ https://theweek.com/speedreads/860927/rohingya-refugees-rally-twoyear-anniversary-exodus-from-myanmar
 
Trump reportedly suggested officials try dropping a nuclear bomb into the eye of a hurricane
Good Lord! Doesn’t the media have anything better to do than report trivial stuff like this?
I can see the situation now. The president is told by his staff that Tropical Storm Dorian may turn into a hurricane to threaten Puerto Rico.
His response:
“Isn’t there any way to stop those things? Perhaps drop a nuke on them to break them up before they form?”
Not a directive.
Not even a suggestion.
Just a simple question.
Several people who heard Trump's suggestions, and others who read about it in a National Security Council memo, told Axios on Sunday that Trump wanted officials to start exploring his hypothesis. During one meeting at the White House, Trump's idea stunned his briefer, who was "knocked back on his heels," an attendee told Axios. "You could hear a gnat fart in that meeting. People were astonished. After the meeting ended, we thought, 'What the f—k? What do we do with this?'"
C’mon. Gimme a break.
Trump Fires Back Against 'Ridiculous' Report That He Wanted To Use Nuclear Weapons To Stop Hurricanes @ https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-fires-back-ridiculous-report-wanted-use-nuclear-weapons-stop-hurricanes/
It’s not a new idea!!!!!
A history of plans to nuke hurricanes (and other stuff too) @ https://www.wired.com/story/nuking-hurricanes-polar-ice-caps-climate-change/


Young Americans No Longer Prioritize Patriotism and Religion
Results of the brain-washing of the Leftist education cadre. Create a “me too” and “feel good” generation of young people who no longer care about anything but themselves.
The poll focused on the values of patriotism, religion (described in the poll as a belief in God), having children, hard work, community involvement and tolerance for others.
The poll then focuses on three distinct age demographics. It categorizes Generation Z/Millennials as 18-38 year-olds, Generation X as 39-54 year-olds and Boomers/Silent as 55-91 year-olds.
The results?
61 percent of those surveyed still found patriotism to be “very important.”
50 percent of all those who were polled found religion to be very important.
43 percent of those polled described having children as important.
New group launches to warn young people about socialism @ https://truepundit.com/new-group-launches-to-warn-young-people-about-socialism/


70 percent angry at political establishment
Only 70%? I thought it would be 90%+. With lots to do, they go on a six week vacation. That’s being responsible and responsive to the needs of their constituents?
Seventy percent of Americans said they feel angry because the political system seems to only be working for insiders with money and power, according to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released Sunday. 
The poll found 43 percent of Americans said the statement described them “very well” and 27 percent said it described them “somewhat.”
It is statistically equivalent to the number of Americans who felt the same way four years ago, ahead of President Trump’s 2016 election, based on the poll. However, the feeling shifted from Republicans to Democrats.
So, it’s another poll that’s probably based on a small sample that claims to be accurate due to “polling science.”


Cherokees wants to send a delegate to the US House of Representatives
The newly elected chief, Chuck Hoskin Jr., says it’s asserting a right promised in 1835 Treaty of New Echota. The same treaty that forced the Cherokee to take The Trail of Tears during which 4,000 died of disease, starvation and exhaustion.
So, what the big deal?
Kimberly Teehee, the tribe’s vice president of government relations, would join the current six non-voting members. Those representatives can't vote on the House floor, but they can vote in committees that they are on, introduce legislation and engage in debate.
Seems the major opposition would come from other Indian tribes claiming it would change their relationship with the federal government.


Speeding Most Common Factor Behind Car Crashes
Aggressive driving.
Speeding, hard acceleration, hard cornering, and hard braking.
“Some of the results are no surprise, but prior to this we had a whole industry based on intuition,” notes co-author Allaa (Ella) Hilal, an adjunct professor of electrical and computer engineering at the university. “Now it is formulated – we know aggressive driving has an impact.
A personal note. It seems to me that drugs and being distracted play a huge role in this.


China Lake Naval Station wants more land
They also asked for $5 billion to repair damage from the massive earthquakes last July. Now they want 50 square miles on the eastern portion of its south range.
Environmentalists aren’t happy as they say it will disturb the delicate balance of the Desert Tortoise habitat.
Navy documents describe a range of tests that could take place at the new site that could occur on the battlegrounds of the future.
In scenarios laid out in the documents, the Navy says it plans to test new weapons that at one point seemed like flourishes of imagination in science fiction novels.
For instance, the documents say the Navy could test the effectiveness of directed-energy weapons – sometimes referred to as lasers – against airplanes, manned or otherwise.
Another potential test could involve the use of electromagnetic waves to detect and counter improvised explosive devices.
Ground troop exercises are also expected to take place.


Hilary is lurking.
Hillary Clinton, the Ma Barker of American politics, is still out hustling, still staying one step ahead of the law as she tries to weasel her way into the presidential sweepstakes. She says she isn’t running in 2020, but, as we know too well, truth is a fungible commodity to a Clinton.
Oh do I love that opening!
Of course she is. There’s no way she could ever just turn away from what she sees as her right – the presidency of the United States.
The signs don’t look good. She just announced a fundraiser for the DNC at her Washington D.C. mansion with tickets as high as $50,000 (scraps for the homeless in the dumpster out back).
The rest of the piece goes on to lay out just whas Shrillary is up to.


Democrats Brace for War over Supreme Court
If you think the Kavanaugh hearings were an evil circus, just wait for the chance of another Trump nominee in the event of another vacancy.
The Left is already manning the barricades. The resulting hearing will make the Brett Kavanaugh fiasco, a dark moment in U.S. history, look like a charming affair. In the event that President Donald Trump nominates Amy Coney Barrett, as many conservatives hope, this hearing will be a preview of the Apocalypse.
Will they do anything to keep her from the bench? After all, she’s young and could be on the bench for decades to come.
Dianne Feinstein has already previewed a primary argument to be wielded against Barrett if she is nominated with Feinstein's "dogma lives loudly within you" comments in 2017.  Democrats will argue that, as a believing Catholic, Barrett is somehow not qualified to be on the Supreme Court, that real believing Christians, vice the Nancy Pelosi variety, are biased and can't interpret the Constitution. 
The hearing should make entertaining television. One has to hope it will come BEFORE the election so Dimocrap antics will be fresh in the minds of the voters.


Short SpaceX Starhopper test flight
Another stop forward


Obama Launches Move To ‘Redefine’ Vote, Establish Districts That Are ‘Fair Maps’
The redistricting scheme cooked up by Obama and Eric Holder, most people agree, is designed to completely disenfranchise all conservative voters so that every district in America is controlled by the left.
It’s impossible for him to stop trying to destroy our representative republic.
We know damn well they won’t be “fair.” Not by a long shot.
Incidentally, the Supreme Court recently dealt a blow to their scheme. So, they have simply repackaged it and moved forward.
The Court ruled 5-4 on Thursday that federal courts must stay out of partisan gerrymandering cases involving state-drawn congressional maps. The decision was a major setback for groups such as the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC), an organization backed by former president Obama and founded by former attorney general Holder.
The only way to stop this attack is to shed light on it. Let every freedom-loving American know what this group is trying to do.


News of The Harridans (The Squad)
Just a rundown of the latest.
Latina Republican Congressional Candidate Torches Ocasio-Cortez: I Love America, Unlike AOC @ http://conservativefighters.com/news/latina-republican-congressional-candidate-torches-ocasio-cortez-i-love-america-unlike-aoc/
Ilhan Omar Accused Of Having Affair With Married Man, Funneled Campaign Money To Him, Report Says @ http://conservativefighters.com/news/ilhan-omar-accused-of-having-affair-with-married-man-funneled-campaign-money-to-him-report-says/
Why not? If Muslim men can have haresms, why not Muslim women having one of boy toys?
Rashida Tlaib: The President ‘Is Scared of Us’ @ http://conservativefighters.com/news/rashida-tlaib-the-president-is-scared-of-us/
I can see him quaking in his loafers now



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Saturday, August 24, 2019

Election 2020: It’s the Crowds, Stupid! President Trump Trolls Rep Tlaib, The US is set to drown the world in oil, Where is FBI Director Wray? Government telling you how to heat/cool your home, and even more for August 24, 2019


Election 2020: It’s the Crowds, Stupid!
Blue state New Hampshire and she barely gets 700 to turn out for her.
DeBlasio had 15 and Biden managed to get 30, probably including his staff.
Remember Clinton’s slogan? “It’s the economy, stupid!”
httImage credit: YouTube shareable video, screen shot
Meanwhile, someone else had 11,000 enthusiastic followers inside and countless more outside watching on big screens.
Despite CNN’s constant contention that “President Trump is on the ropes,” remember that “it’s the crowd, stupid.”
Fact-Checking Trump: Liberal Outlets Spread Lie About New Hampshire @ https://conservativedailypost.com/fact-checking-trump-liberal-outlets-spread-fake-lie-about-new-hampshire/

Illegal Workers Flee Georgia Food Plants After Mississippi ICE Raids
Sometimes the threats of raids are as effective as the actual ones.
Illegal workers fled a number of Georgia food processing plants this past week after highly-publicized raids by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency at five Mississippi plants.
I sure see a lot of familiar names on that map. The Koch brothers? Big-time GOP donors. Hiring illegals? That can’t be true. Can it?
As Breitbart News reported, only 11 employers and no businesses have been federally prosecuted for hiring illegal aliens in the last year despite there being nearly eight million illegal alien workers holding American jobs at companies in the U.S.

FTC chief sees obstacle to splitting up Facebook
Social network's effort to merge WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram may help keep the company together too, FTC chief tells the Financial Times.
I previously posted the article where the FTC is considering an effort to break up Facebook, Twitter, Google, and others. It seemed an impossibility to me then and this appears to confirm that.
Facebook's plan to merge WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram could hamper any attempt to break up the social media giant, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission believes. Joseph Simmons told the Financial Times that all options are on the table as it conducts an antitrust investigation of the company, but combing the three major brands could complicate things.
"If they're maintaining separate business structures and infrastructure, it's much easier to have a divestiture in that circumstance than in where they're completely enmeshed and all the eggs are scrambled," he told the Financial Times.
This also added the following:
The US Department of Justice is also looking at antitrust concerns regarding tech companies such as Facebook, Apple, Google and Amazon.
State attorneys general will reportedly kick off antitrust investigation into tech giants @ https://www.cnet.com/news/state-attorneys-general-will-reportedly-kick-off-antitrust-investigation-into-tech-giants/

President Trump Meme on Greenland
He promises not to do that and the Left goes gaga.
Here’s what’s already there:

President Trump Trolls Tlaib 
Rep. Tlaib wrote a letter to Israeli officials desperately wanting to visit her grandmother. Permission was quickly granted, whereupon Tlaib obnoxiously turned the approval down, a complete setup. The only real winner here is Tlaib’s grandmother. She doesn’t have to see her now!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 16, 2019
And here comes the response:
"The Resistance," predictably, lost it. "Trump Drags Rashida Tlaib's Grandma Into His Latest Twitter Attack," a Huff Post headline read. "The president decided to comment on Tlaib's decision Friday afternoon in the kind, empathetic manner for which he's famous with a really jerky comment that referenced her grandmother," the piece said.
"The occupant of the White House's total lack of humanity is on full display," political activist and comedy writer Nick Jack Pappas replied to Trump's tweet.

Babylon Bee
San Francisco Changes Term 'Convicted Felons' To More Politically Correct 'Elected Officials' @ https://babylonbee.com/news/san-francisco-changes-term-convicted-felons-to-more-politically-correct-elected-officials
Why not? “Convicted felon” is no longer PC. It’s now “Justice involved person”

Horrified Trump Learns What Happened To Last Guy Who Called Himself King Of The Jews @ https://babylonbee.com/news/horrified-trump-learns-what-happened-to-last-guy-who-called-himself-king-of-the-jews
Tlaib And Omar Try To Sneak Into Israel Stacked On Top Of Each Other Inside A Trenchcoat @ https://babylonbee.com/news/tlaib-and-omar-try-to-sneak-into-israel-sitting-on-each-others-shoulders-and-wearing-a-trenchcoat
Under Mounting Pressure From Snopes, Babylon Bee Writers Forced To Admit They Are Not Real Journalists @ https://babylonbee.com/news/under-mounting-pressure-from-snopes-babylon-bee-writers-forced-to-admit-they-are-not-real-journalists
Did any sane person ever think they were?

One of the greatest inventions of the 20th Century
Not the actual peeler itself but the handle. Designed for people with arthritis. The device was supposedly invented in 1928 in France.
The different types of handles considered is amazing.
And they continue to come up with more.
This is a story about the guy who came up with the latest style, the inventive and marketing process.

The US is set to drown the world in oil
A staggering 61% of the world’s new oil and gas production over the next decade is set to come from one country alone: the United States.
And globalists, along with eco-freaks, are whining that it will continue to destroy the world’s weather. More man-made Globull Warming alarms.
Output is set to be so vast that if US states were treated as countries, Texas is forecast to be the biggest producer of new oil and gas in its own right, with production nearly four times that of Canada.
Seven out of the top 10 biggest oil and gas producers would be US states, with only Canada, Brazil and Russia making it onto the list. Pennsylvania is set to be the third largest producer of new oil and gas, producing more than double that of Russia.
And here it comes!
The recent National Climate Assessment starkly laid out the risks the US faces from climate change. These include more extreme temperatures, rainfall, high tides, coastal flooding and forest fires, as well as worsening air quality, all threatening the health and wellbeing of the American people. These risks are highest for those that are already vulnerable, including low-income communities, some communities of color, children, and the elderly. The financial costs are staggering too, under a high emissions scenario where the world fails to mitigate climate change costs to the US economy could exceed $500 billion a year by 2090.
Got it?

Trump: 'I am the chosen one' to take on China
The media just loves to take the president’s comments out of context.
I wonder if he says this stuff on purpose, just to troll them.
Here’s the full context of the comment:
Trump told reporters his life would be easier if he had not mounted a trade war with China. But he defended his actions and said he believed a trade deal between the world’s largest economies was still possible.
“I am the chosen one ... so I am taking on China. I’m taking on China on trade. And you know what? We’re winning,” Trump said, claiming a title often used to refer to religious figures such Jesus and Mohammed.
Those are the author’s words, not the president’s.
And, from what I saw in the video, he said it with a touch of irony, something the Left will never understand.

Astronauts prepare to go into space in commercial capsule
After years of hitching a ride on Russian rockets, Americans are getting close to going there on American-made rockets and capsules. The Starliner was scheduled for this month but has been delayed to at least the end of the year.
SpaceX is also compete with its reusable Falcon rockets and Dragon supply capsules.
The Starship is due to take passengers to the International Space Station in 2020.
Ferguson, a former NASA astronaut and retired U.S. Navy captain, who helped design the way the crew interacts with the automated Boeing CST-100 Starliner, will lead its maiden voyage.
NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Mike Fincke will be part of the crew. It will be Mann’s first trip into space and she’s a fomer Navy combat pilot. Fincke has been into space 3 times.
And if SpaceX got there first?
“I would be very happy for them. Who brings it home is unimportant, but the fact that it gets home is most important. And I would be very proud of Doug (Hurley, a NASA astronaut training to fly aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon space craft), although he’s going to lose.”
A personal comment here. The media really isn’t doing a very good job of covering the ISS or efforts to return American equipment to space. We are not just learning what life in zero gravity is like, but many experiments will have amazing uses here on earth. This is not money being thrown away on foolish efforts. It is a vital investment in the future of Mankind.

Pig to human heart transplants 'possible within three years'
Not swine organs but human organs grown in swine. And this would be just the start of many other efforts to grow human organs for transplant.
“If the result of xenotransplantation is satisfactory with porcine kidneys to humans, then it is likely that hearts would be used with good effects in humans within a few years,” the 87-year-old said. “If it works with a kidney, it will work with a heart. That will transform the issue.”
The anatomy and physiology of a pig’s heart is similar to that of a human’s, so they are used as models for developing new treatments. Hopes for a successful heart attack treatment were raised in May after a genetic therapy showed promise in pigs.
An international team of researchers, including UK scientists, found that delivering a small piece of genetic material called microRNA-199 into a heart damaged by an attack caused cells to regenerate.

White House scraps plan to seek return of unspent foreign aid
“We voted for it. You spend it.”
That’s the message from “key Congressional figures” over the administration’s decision to return almost $4 billion in unspent foreign aid.
A senior administration official, who requested anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, said the White House was persuaded not to move forward after hearing from lawmakers from both parties.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who fought the cuts, sounded an air of caution while traveling in Ottawa on a diplomatic visit that the fight over the rescissions was over.
"With respect to rescission, the president is still contemplating," he told reporters. "What I have consistently said, with respect to every penny, the State Department spends, including our foreign assistance budget, we've got to get it right and make sure we're using it in ways that are effective."
I wonder if Pmpeo’s dislike of the effort will cost him with the president.

Trump signs exec order to streamline student loan debt forgiveness for disabled vets
I don’t know if I’m okay with this. Seems to me that if one takes out a loan for an eduction, they’re obligated to repay it. Disability factor should not play a role.
"For the last decade, veterans seeking loan discharges have been required to submit an application to the Secretary of Education with proof of their disabilities obtained from the Department of Veterans Affairs," reads the Presidential Memorandum.
"The process has been overly complicated and difficult, and prevented too many of our veterans from receiving the relief for which they are eligible. This has inflicted significant hardship and serious harm on these veterans and has frustrated the intent of the Congress that their Federal student loan debt be discharged."
The executive order is designed to fix that by streamlining the process, and shifting the responsibility from eligible veterans, to the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Education.
Seems to be a bit of a PR stunt here. Veterans have dozens of service groups to turn to when seeking things from the governmen. Disables Vets. Vietnam Vets. This list goes on an on. Volunteers do nothing but find way to help vets. So, to claim it’s “too complicated” seems to be a bit of a stretch to me.

Secretary of the Navy calls for review of JAG, including Marines
The Navy has pie in its face after losing the Gallagher courts-martial.
"There is value in applying this review and its subsequent recommendations across the Department of the Navy," Cmdr. Jereal Dorsey told Task & Purpose. "The review's purpose is to confirm the uniformed legal community is structurally and organizationally sound and best supporting the good order and discipline our integrated naval force."
In his Aug. 21 memo, Spencer wrote that the Navy and Marine Corps will provide recommendations about whether any policies, authorities, and statues need to be updated and whether any "corrective actions" are necessary.
Both the Navy and the Marine Corps have 15 days to explain how they will conduct their reviews and 90 days to provide Spencer with the results, the memo says.
I could never figure out how this or some other cases came to be. The Uniformed Code of Judicial Conduct is as clear as a bell on investigations and how charges are filed. And by whom. There is a strict chain of command on each level and I can only think that some commanders have been blind-sided by their advisors.
I wonder if the review will find out who did what and why.

Where is FBI Director Wray?
Seems he’s missed a whole lot of staff meetings.
Wray’s whereabouts during key FBI meetings have been unknown by most subordinates and likewise hidden from the public but his deputies are running the show.
They say he’s trying to keep as much of the declassified FISA materials secret and deleting content from the DOJ IG report.
What’s he afraid of?
So who is running the FBI while Wray is busy burrying its suspected crimes? Or does it even matter?
The growing sentiment in the intelligence community is Wray is merely a placeholding puppet for the politicized FBI bureacrats — many whom have been fired — who helped destroy the reputation of the FBI. And broke many laws in the process.
Wray has not made any sweeping reforms to improve the Bureau, which is in worse shape than when he took the job to supposedly fix it.

DNC chairman begging for cash
He says they can’t win if they don’t match or exceed the donations the RNC and Trump campaign are raking in.
According to the Washington Examiner, DNC Chairman Tom Perez sent an email to supporters where he called the recently released record-breaking fundraising numbers from the Republican National Committee (RNC) “daunting” and called for Democratic donors to “turn up the heat” on their fundraising efforts to stop the party’s candidates across the nation from being “overwhelmed by the GOP’s money machine.”
And he added this;
He went on to say that the person who has been chosen to run for the party in the 2020 presidential election would not “stand a chance” against the president and the Republican “fundraising machine” without more money.
Is The Clown Car siphoning off money that would otherwise go into DNC coffers?

Michigan teachers given 2-day propaganda session on Islam
And the taxpayers paid for it.
Concerned about a two-day mandatory teacher-training seminar on Islam conducted by a Muslim consultant hired by Michigan’s Novi Community Schools District, TMLC filed a Freedom of Information Act request for documents related to the workshop.
Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel of the Law Center, commented on the results of their investigation, “We found that the teachers were subjected to two days of Islamic propaganda, where Islam was glorified, Christianity disparaged, and America bashed—all funded by Novi taxpayers.”
Moreover, during the past five years the school district has presented no teacher-training seminars focusing on Christianity, Judaism or any other religion – only Islam.
And they will claim it all has to do with cultural diversification and understanding.

Government telling you how to heat/cool your home
When I lived in the barracks, the temperature was set and there was nothing we could do to change it. Now, the powers-to-be want to tell you how to heat and cool your homes. I wonder how many of these smart meters have been installed in business places.
Fox 5 NY  is reporting that Energy Star, a federal program managed jointly by the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency that provides information to consumers about energy efficiency is asking consumers to keep their temperatures set at 78 degrees Fahrenheit or higher.
According to Energy Star, keeping your central air thermostat set to 78 degrees is optimal for both cooling and energy efficiency, but this recommendation only applies to the times when you are home.
While you are away from the house during the day, you should keep the thermostat set to 85 degrees or higher.
While you sleep, Energy Star recommends keeping the temperature set at 82 degrees or higher.
We keep our home set at 79 all the time. (And I still have to put on a long-sleeve shirt or sweater because of the cold air blasting on me.)

25 0f 30 Worst Congressional Districts For Blacks Are Run By Democrats…Ilhan Omar’s Is #1 On List
I’m not going to post anything but the 5 districts represented by Republicans.
6. Ohio’s 1st Congressional District - Rep. Steve Chabot (Republican Party) – Parts of Cincinnati. He’s on Foreign Affairs, Judiciary, and Small Business
19. Illinois’s 13th Congressional District - Rep. Rodney Davis (Republican Party) – just south of Chicago. He’s ranking member of the Administration Committee
20. Illinois’s 12th Congressional District - Rep. Mike Bost (Republican Party) Very south tip of the state. He’s on appropriations-Higher Education
21. Arkansas’s 1st Congressional District - Rep. Eric A. “Rick” Crawford (Republican Party) Northeast part of the state. Ex-Army on Agriculture and Transportation and Infrastructure
27. Louisiana’s 5th Congressional District - Rep. Ralph Lee Abraham (Republican Party) Northeast part of the state. Former veterinarian w/some military service. On Agriculture, Science, Space and Technology, and Armed services
All Republicans are white and have only been in office since 2010 or later
Of course, the districts of Elijah Cummings, Tim Ryan, and Frederica Wilson are on the list.

President Trump challenges birthright citizenship
And the furor starts.
It all hinges on the 14th Amendment to the constitution.
But, it comes down to how it’s interpreted.
In a interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson in July, Michael Anton, a former Trump national security adviser, pointed out:
… "there’s a clause in the middle of the amendment that people ignore or they misinterpret -- subject to the jurisdiction thereof…
"What they are saying is, if you are born on U.S. soil subject to the jurisdiction of the United States -- meaning you’re the child of citizens or the child of legal immigrants, then you are entitled to citizenship. “If you are here illegally, if you owe allegiance to a foreign nation, if you’re the citizen of a foreign country, that clause does not apply to you.”
And it’s something that bothers me to no end. How can an illegal suddenly gain constitutional rights? If they’re not here legally or are citizens, how do our most basic rights serve them?
Speaking to reporters outside the White House on Wednesday, President Trump again threatened to end what he called the "ridiculous" policy of birthright citizenship, which awards citizenship automatically to those born in the United States.
"We're looking at that very seriously," Trump told reporters as he left the White House for Kentucky. "Birthright citizenship, where you have a baby on our land -- you walk over the border, have a baby, congratulations, the baby's now a U.S. citizen. We're looking at it very, very seriously ...It’s, frankly, ridiculous."
The question is; what can he realistically do about it?


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