What Will This Winter Be Like?
Farmers’ Almanac Releases Forecast — And It Isn't Pretty.
They’ve been making predictions since 1818. One has to wonder about their track record.
This forecast ain’t lookin’ good, folks.
Lots ‘n lots of cold. And snow. Lotsa snow.
Winter will also be long — very long.
"According to our long-range outlook, spring will be slow to start with winter lingering across the Midwest, Great Lakes, Northeast, and New England. Occasional wet snow and unseasonably chilly conditions will hang on for a ride that you may not be able to get off until April!" the Almanac says.
Bookmark this and see how close it is next February.
More @ https://www.dailywire.com/news/51081/what-will-winter-be-farmers-almanac-releases-joseph-curl
Army’s new JLTVs
Replaces the heavier Humvee. Supposedly faster and still provides protection to those riding in it.
This caught my eye:
“The JLTV is a good vehicle; it’s a step up from a Humvee,” Storer said. “There’s good ground clearance, and with the snorkel kit, you can ford deeper water. It handles well in a variety of terrain. All the BII (basic issue items) are stored securely outside the vehicle, so you don’t have to worry about those. And the rear-view camera makes it easier to back up, to park, or just for security, you can see what’s behind you.”
One of the features exciting Soldiers who have driven the JLTV is a hydraulics system that not only minimizes jarring bumps in all terrains but allows Soldiers to adjust the suspension to park on a hill and level the vehicle.
“We parked on the side of a hill, probably a 30 percent grade, then put the assist on,” Storer said. “It got us level to where I could open the door and step out and not have to worry about rolling over.”
Apparently those who’ve driven it think it’s pretty good.
And here’s the prototypes of the new Infantry “assault buggy:”
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Proroguing Parliament: What does it mean?
I don’t know about the rest of you, but the British – and Canadian – parliamentary system is a bit foggy to me. Back bench. A bunch of different poltical parties. How they select their Prime Minister.
And then Boris simply tells them they can’t come to work for a while.
Is that like our Speaker and Majority Leader telling Congress to take a six-week vacation?
Could the queen refuse to prorogue Parliament?
Technically, yes, constitutionally no. Under Britain's parliamentary democracy, the queen acts on the advice of her prime minister. That means that decisions over when Parliament sits are decided by the government, and merely rubber-stamped by Buckingham Palace.
So, she does what Boris tells her?
What a shame. Liz probably knows more about how things run in her realm than Boris or any other snot-nosed politician. After all, she been around for 90+ years.
From destruction to rejuvenation: When forest fires are a good thing
Fires can be catastrophic in rainforests such as the Amazon, but they don't necessarily spell disaster everywhere — sometimes they help replenish ecosystems. There is even life that needs heat and fire to survive.
I’ve seen it firsthand myself. Compare a patch of land with old growth to one that has been cleansed by fire. Yellowstone is a great example.
It may not work the same in the Amazon. And one has to wonder about the recovery for the millions of acres of fire in the Arctic.
Animals and plants often have a natural capacity for resistance in such fire-dependent ecosystems. The nature of the fires varies, however. In grasslands, savannahs, some forests and wetlands, only a moderately intense ground fire sweeps through, ensuring that the open landscape structure is maintained. Rare but very intense fires are characteristic of bush landscapes or forests. They consume old and diseased trees, create new habitats and ensure an ecological rejuvenation of the tree population.
More @ https://www.dw.com/en/from-destruction-to-rejuvenation-when-forest-fires-are-a-good-thing/a-50187858
Amazon fires are not exactly burning 'Earth's lungs,' experts say @ https://www.foxnews.com/science/amazon-fires-are-not-burning-earths-lungs
Mattis lays it on the line about resigning
First off, this piece is clearly written by a Never Trumper who tries every way possible to make the president look bad. He pushes and pushes but Mattis shows what a class act he is.
“The duty of silence. If you leave an administration, you owe some silence. When you leave an administration over clear policy differences, you need to give the people who are still there as much opportunity as possible to defend the country. They still have the responsibility of protecting this great big experiment of ours. I know the malevolence some people feel for this country, and we have to give the people who are protecting us some time to carry out their duties without me adding my criticism to the cacophony that is right now so poisonous.”
But Goldburg keeps trying and gets this response:
“I didn’t cook up a convenient tradition here,” he said. “You don’t endanger the country by attacking the elected commander in chief. I may not like a commander in chief one fricking bit, but our system puts the commander in chief there, and to further weaken him when we’re up against real threats—I mean, we could be at war on the Korean peninsula, every time they start launching something.”
The whole article is nothing more but attempt after attempt to make the president look bad. Read it, if you care, @ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/10/james-mattis-trump/596665/
Mattis suggests he might not like Trump 'one fricking bit' but says he's holding fire on him — for now @ https://www.businessinsider.com/mattis-says-hes-holding-fire-on-criticizing-trump-for-now-2019-8
Top Ways Ever to Beat the Heat During the Hottest Summer
Take a trip to the southern part of South America, its winter there.
At irregular intervals, stick your head in the refrigerator.
Sign up for underwater spelunking lessons.
Sleep as close to the beach as possible, but check the tides first.
Ice cubes in your underwear. Scoff if you will, but it works.
For as long as it takes, subsist entirely on ice cream.
Hang out in the shady parts of town.
Meditation. Think cool thoughts.
Collect all your sweat and put it in a bowl. Won’t make you cooler, but will keep your mind off how hot it is.
Eat frozen foods while still frozen.
Sit in a sauna for ten minutes every hour. Then the mere balmy will seem refreshingly cool in comparison.
Book a room in a hotel with a pool. Crank the air down to glacial.
Drink plenty of water, frozen into cubes, completely surrounded by gin and tonic.
Two words: Champagne popsicles.
This comes from https://www.humortimes.com/78657/beat-the-heat/ and I love it!
Retirees Could Receive Tricare Refund Check
It’s a little complicated but based on the “catastropic cap” that goes with the plan. It’ll be worth checking this out if you’re retired military.
Military retirees who paid annual Tricare Prime enrollment fees in 2018 or 2019 could soon see a refund check in the mail, thanks to a new change to how the system calculates their annual out-of-pocket maximum payment.
The annual maximum out-of-pocket payment, or "catastrophic cap," for any retiree family with a service member who joined the military before Jan. 1, 2018, is set at $3,000. For those who joined after Jan. 1, 2018, the annual retiree cap is about $3,600. Those users pay about $600 per year for plan enrollment, while future retirees will pay close to $1,000.
All the rest @ https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/08/29/retirees-could-receive-tricare-refund-check.html
New Citizenship Policy to Affect Roughly 25 Military Children Per Year
This makes absolutely no sense to me. We send them overseas and allow their spouses to join them. Why should their children not be US citizens when both or one parent are?
And then I read it.
It actually makes a whole lot of sense. Here goes:
Under the policy, which goes into effect Oct. 29, 2019, children born abroad to U.S. citizens who meet the following conditions "are not considered to be residing in the U.S. for acquisition of citizenship" and must file an application for citizenship:
Children of parents who have never lived in the United States or established residency
Children of couples including a U.S. citizen and a non-citizen
Children of non-citizens serving in the armed forces
Non-citizen children adopted by U.S. citizens
How would you find a soldier or government employee overseas who never lived in the USA?
Jihad Rep. Ilhan Omar Facing 40 Years in Prison & Deportation
This unofficial indictment is incredible. Fact after fact.
No Congressional ethics hearing?
No DOJ indictments?
What the hell is going on here?
According to Steinberg there is credible evidence that Ilhan Omar and her family changed their name to illegally enter the United States back in 1995.
And since that time Ilhan Omar as an adult continued to defy US law. According to Steinberg Rep. Omar committed at least eight instances of perjury going back to 2009. The charges could carry up to 40 years of prison time or deportation.
Obviously, Ilhan Omar has no regard for US law and yet here she is representing Minnesota in the US Congress and a sitting member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
David Steinberg reported on Ilhan’s criminal activity.
And then, the article goes on to list an amazing roster of serious crimes.
Interesting tidbit…
Now, after her newest divorce proceedings, she is allegedly shacked up with a businessman who brings even further scrutiny to her dealings.
Why?
With endless links and backups to include a link to Minnesota Dems taking steps to remove her from Congress.
Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder. Where is he?
140 days.
Page after page of Tweets and links. Not a word of where he is. Apparently some form of isolation with little contact to the outside world.
All the while, awaiting extradition to the US.
Read all of it @ https://sonsoflibertymedia.com/day-140-all-is-quiet-since-the-arrest-of-julian-assange-except-for-his-supporters/
BABYLON BEE
Chick-Fil-A Installs Confessionals So You Can Repent From Eating At Popeyes @ https://babylonbee.com/news/chick-fil-a-installs-confession-booths-so-you-can-admit-to-eating-at-popeyes
Facts, Logic Banned From Next Democratic Debate For Being Tools Of The Alt-Right @ https://babylonbee.com/news/facts-logic-banned-from-next-democratic-debate-for-being-tools-of-the-alt-right
Nation's Progressives Check News To See What They're Boycotting Today @ https://babylonbee.com/news/nations-progressives-check-news-to-see-what-theyre-boycotting-today
Nation's Chick-Fil-A Employees Begin Marching Around Popeyes Restaurants Blowing Trumpets @ https://babylonbee.com/news/chick-fil-a-employees-begin-marching-around-popeyes-restaurant-blowing-trumpets
Border Wall
A great video on how they make and install the barriers
Toronto grapples with Invasion of urbanite raccoons
When humans move in and take over the territories of wild animals, they simply adapt to life around humans.
In Toronto, which likes to hail itself the world capital of the raccoon, the black-masked creatures know when to cross busy streets (at dawn) in the approximately 3 square blocks that they each generally n
avigate (unlike the 20 square miles their rural peers can roam) and how to knock over compost bins to get around raccoon-resistant locks that the city spent $31 million (Canadian; U.S.$23.3 million) installing, as a Toronto Star investigation last summer found.
Coyotes are quite adaptable, he says. And urban environments provide a lot of their necessities: prey, or plentiful food scraps on garbage day, and sheds or industrial spaces to den. They’ve learned if they go back north, they face predators like wolves, Mr. Moro adds. “I guess the closest thing you could call a predator in an urban environment would be a vehicle.”
The death of organized labor
And here come the “experts” to tell us what it’s all about:
The main reasons for the decline, according to Brookings:
The shift from manufacturing to a services-based economy.
More people are getting college degrees, and workers with a high school degree or less have typically been more likely to have union jobs.
The rise of tech, with the attraction of more high-paying, nonunion jobs for the highest-skilled workers.
Deregulation, which made it easier for nonunion employers to compete.
The spread of right-to-work legislation, which allows for some workers to receive the benefits of unions without paying dues.
Aggressive employers who have used tactics like delaying union elections, hiring consultants to help fight unionization and publicly opposing unions.
Gee. Just had to throw in the meanie employers, didn’t it?
Wozniak: Time To Split Up Apple, Other Tech Monopolies
The Apple co-founder speaks up and he’s clear that Big Tech has gotten out of control.
But...can they be broken up under anti trust laws like AT&T was?
“I am really against monopoly powers being used in unfair antitrust manners, not opening up the world to equal competition, using your power in unfair ways, and I think that’s happened a lot in Big Tech and they can get away with a lot of bad things,” Wozniak told Bloomberg Technology last week, adding “I’m pretty much in favor of looking into splitting up companies, I mean I wish Apple on its own had split up a long time ago and spun off independent divisions.”
So, what does he want?
“I like startups,” he said, adding “Young companies with an idea, trying to make something out of it, you know much more than the big, huge tech companies.”
The internet has expanded our world but it’s also given us a huge variety of challenges when it comes to our freedoms.
Hurricane Hysteria
Oh Lord yes! Hour after hour of nothing but newspeople telling us just how dangerous the storm is and how it will completely wipe out the east coast.
It missed Puerto Rico.
It didn’t land in the Florida keys or even parts of south Florida.
It still hasn’t made landfall anywhere.
Given the left’s penchant for turning normal everyday events into something political, former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell was “rooting” for this current hurricane to hit President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago. If I watched CNN, I might have seen a panel of Trump haters discussing this delicious possibility.
Predictably stories appeared tying the hurricane to climate change, with the familiar warning, “Global warming, like Hurricane Dorian, is real. We need to deal with both while there is still time.”
It’s funny how the clock is always running out on doing something before it’s too late. Al Gore, in 2006, predicted that in ten years we would pass “a point of no return.”
I’m almost missing stuff like the Mueller coverage or whining about President Trump’s Tweets.
Trump in a landslide; here’s why
We also learn about the Pennsylvania Washington County Fair.
Many wanted to register to vote or to change their registration to Republican. Many of the registrations and changes were twenty-somethings, which is telling. Many others wanted to sign up to work for the party.
If we had Trump signs available, we could have given out a thousand or more to people who wanted to put them in their yards that day. Some 400 people joined the party as active workers. There were two booths this year selling Trump merchandise. In total, this far exceeded what we saw several months before the 2016 election. Imagine what it will be at this time next year.
The parking lot was filled with pickup trucks and the people wore work boots, jeans, teeshirts, and ball caps. The people who attend his rallies and will get their friends and families to the voting booths to vote Republican
Inside Diego Garcia
If there is a true “hardship assignment” any more, this has to be it.
Just look at the picture.
Where the heck do you go to “get away from it all?”
Okay, so it’s got prestine beaches and amazingly clear oceans. And, here’s the “downtown” area of the island:
Britain claims sovereignity and leases it to the US.
The UN has now served an eviction notice to the British. Though the ruling is not enforceable, it exerts moral pressure and has placed the future of the base in doubt.
10 things in tech you need to know today
A lot better than Dorian, Brexit, and all the rest of the boring news.
3. China may have used the iPhone hacks recently discovered by Google researchers to target Uighur Muslims in the country.
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