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Saturday, November 2, 2019

How Lasers Work, Trump’s exploring sale of Washington hotel, The History of CTRL + ALT + DELETE, Bad speaking habits and weak verbs, plus a lot more for November 2, 2019




Trump’s company exploring sale of landmark Washington hotel
The president can’t win!
Leftists moan and groan about all the money he makes from the hotel. Reports say it took in $41 million in 2018 and goes against the emolument clause of the constitution. It also notes that, after leasing it from the government, Trump spend $200 million renovating the post office into a luxury hotel. All before he decided to run for president.
But, if he tries to sell it?
“If the Trump Organization puts out a ‘For Sale’ sign on the Trump International Hotel and seeks and takes bids, it will create massive conflicts of interests with the deep-pocketed individuals, foreign governments, investment funds or corporations that could afford to make such a purchase,” said Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen, a liberal-leaning consumer advocacy group.
And he’s pulled the Trump name from a lot of other properties just to try to calm critics. And that doesn’t work. I hope to hell the Trump company keeps it. Maybe take it to court to get a ruling about the constitutionality of making money off of it.

It’s okay for Hillary to get millions from a Ukrainian?
“Between 2009 and 2013, including when Mrs. Clinton was secretary of state, the Clinton Foundation received at least $8.6 million from the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, according to that foundation, which is based in Kiev, Ukraine,” the Journal reported. “It was created by Mr. Pinchuk, whose fortune stems from a pipe-making company. He served two terms as an elected member of the Ukrainian Parliament and is a proponent of closer ties between Ukraine and the European Union.”
And we all know about Joe Biden’s kid, along with Pelosi’s and Kerry’s.
Oh yeah, we now know that Biden’[s kid got paid for “legal work” in Romania.
Hunter Biden’s Legal Work in Romania Now Raises Eyebrows of Ethics Experts @ https://www.lifezette.com/2019/10/hunter-bidens-legal-work-in-romania-now-raises-eyebrows-of-ethics-experts/
Yet the very fact that someone in the Trump administration talked to Ukrainians about the possibility of building a hotel there – before Donald J Trump was elected president – is somehow grounds for impeachment.

Myth: Trump betrayed the Kurds. Reality: Kurdish leader thanks Trump for ceasefire.
The military leader of the Syrian Kurds, Gen. Mazloum Abdi, thanked President Trump on Wednesday, Oct. 23, for his tireless effort that stopped the brutal Turkish attack.
The Lame Street Media certainly won’t report this.
“It will indeed be permanent. However you would also define the word ‘permanent’ in that part of the world as somewhat questionable, we all understand that. But I do believe it will be permanent,” Trump said at a press conference on Wednesday, Oct. 23.
However, the president added that the sanctions would not be lifted if Turkey “does something we’re not happy with.”…
Fake “Rojava” Narrative and Truths about Syria @ https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/10/fake-rojava-narrative-and-truths-about-syria
A little more truth about the situation.
In the midst of the bloody war in Syria, the Kurds took advantage of the chaos and claimed control over northern Syria in 2012. They established a so-called “government” there led by the Kurdish Democratic Union Party or PYD. Its armed force is the YPG (People’s Protection Units), which is the Syrian wing of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party). The Syrian Democratic Forces in northern Syria, which much of the media hails as “America’s greatest ally in the region” is also led by the YPG.
And Assad is taking advantage of the situation to regain territory that once was his.

Croatian man parks airliner in his front yard
He’s going to turn it into a playground for kids and the 700 members of his village, Strmec Stubicki, Croatia, a far way from any major cities
The flight simulators that he installs, he said, will allow them to recreate the passenger plane’s flight and landing at Dubrovnik airport.
The middle area of the plane will be left more or less empty for dancing and other activities to be enjoyed by some 50 people, while in the tail end some seats will be left so the youngsters can take photos that look like they are actually flying off to somewhere.
Sedlar will install other attractions as well, like a swimming pool that the kids can jump into from a wing of the plane, and a small track for carts that will also go under the aircraft.
With the help of friends, he dismantled the aircraft and hauled them 205 miles to his home. No word on how much he paid for it.

US suspends all scheduled flights to Cuba except those to Havana
That should earn him lots and lots of votes from the American Cuban community. He’s clearly working to overturn Obama’s rapprochement with the dictatorship.
American, Delta and JetBlue airlines will be affected by the deadline to halt operations to destinations such as Santiago de Cuba, the country's second-largest city, as well as Camaguey and the sprawling mega-resort of Varadero.
The charter flights on which many Cuban-Americans travel to Cuba from Miami are not affected by the change.
Thousands will still visit the island in cruise ships.

Antarctic Halley station to reopen and modernization of Rothera to continue
Sure doesn’t look like any of the previous stations there that I’ve seen pictures of. I bet the red structure is where heat and power are generated.
Science and support teams from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) are gearing up for the start of the Antarctic summer field season. The first Twin Otter aircraft have arrived at Rothera Research Station, preparations are being made to reopen Halley Research Station, and the next construction phases of a major program to modernize Rothera and the islands stations are set to begin.
Teams of researchers from BAS, UK and US universities will be deployed across the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) for an ambitious series of deep-field research projects focused on past climate, future sea-level rise and the birth of the solar system.

The five: ways to slow the onset of Alzheimer’s
Something I think we all fear as we get older. Do we just forget a bit or is it the onset of this disease? These 5 things are worth considering.
Drugs - Last week, a US biotechnology company claimed to have produced the first drug with the ability to slow down the development of Alzheimer’s. (But it’ll take 2 years for the FDA to consider it)
Diet - A Mediterranean diet has been suggested to reduce cognitive decline.
Special interaction - Alzheimer’s disease may develop more quickly in people living solitary lives with limited interaction with others. Regular social engagement can spark new brain connections, which stimulate activity.
Mental exercise - People who engaged with puzzles, board games, learning a language or playing an instrument showed reduced severity of symptoms.
Physical exercise -
I’m good with the interaction and mental exercise but could use a lot of work on diet and exercise.

Starting Your Day on the Internet Is Damaging Your Brain
Am I ever in deep trouble!
I arise between 1:30 to 2:30 am and, after making coffee, sit down at the terminal. I basically stay there until 5:30 am when I go back to bed for a short nap. And I’m at the keyboard from 8am to 8pm.
Is this frying my brain?
Of course, our “expert” author has all sorts of things to tell us.
Why junk food for the brain is toxic. As Mark Manson so brilliantly said, cell phones are the new cigarettes, And a significant amount of what’s on the internet is nothing more than junk food for the brain.
Why healthy food for the brain is so powerful. Meditation? Writing in a journal?
Don’t use your devices in the morning.
Set aside 20 minutes to meditate.
Read books, not the internet. (Why can’t I read books ON the internet or a Kindle?)
Do 1 hour of deep work.
There! Another secret to a healthy life brought to you by Pocket.

The History of CTRL + ALT + DELETE
I know it’s there but don’t think I’ve ever used it. If it comes down to it, I always go to the start menu and restart there.
In 2013, Bill Gates admitted ctrl+alt+del was a mistake and blamed IBM. Here’s the story of how the key combination became famous in the first place.
And here’s the culprit:
(David) Bradley worked on everything from writing input/output programs to troubleshooting wire-wrap boards. Five months into the project, he created ctrl+alt+del. The task was just another item to tick off his to-do list. “It was five minutes, 10 minutes of activity, and then I moved on to the next of the 100 things that needed to get done,” he says. Bradley chose the keys by location—with the del key across the keyboard from the other two, it seemed unlikely that all three would be accidentally pressed at the same time. Bradley never intended to make the shortcut available to customers, nor did he expect it to enter the pop lexicon. It was meant for him and his fellow coders, for whom every second counted.

Minneapolis: Somali Gangs Are Claiming Territory & Killing To Defend It
I looked into the story of their coming to the area and was surprised to learn they started arriving in the 1980s.
In early 2016, the Minnesota Demographers Office gave an estimate that there are between 40,200 and 52,400 Somalis in Minnesota with the majority of the population being from the Darod and Hawiye clans. Darod's sub-clans are Majeerteen, Ogaden, Dhulbahante, Marehan, Leelkase, Warsangeli, Awrtable, Jidwaaq, and Hawiye's sub-clans are Duduble, Abgaal, Xawaadle, Habar Gidir, etc. That includes people born in Somalia and of Somalia descent.
Some experts estimate there are 80,000 Somalis just in Minnesota.
And this story states:
It’s obviously no surprise how a person who hates America, is a terrorist sympathizer, and refers to the 9/11 attacks as “some people did some things,” is the representative of the Somali Clan Gang area. It’s alleged that Omar is part of a clan in Puntland in which her alleged REAL father is a top member of the Al-Shabab affiliate group. We haven’t confirmed this information because Homeland Security and ICE citing “ongoing investigations” rapport when asked.
Information I’ve found indicates that the politically active Somalis are Democrats.
What the hell do we do with them. Many were born here and are native US citizens so we can’t just send them back to Somalia.
And they’re not just in The Twin Cities.
The heaviest concentrations of Somalis in the US are found in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and Saint Paul), followed by Washington, DC; Columbus, Ohio; New York City; Buffalo, New York; Kansas City; San Diego; San Francisco; Seattle metro areas.
Arizona has seen notable Somali migration in recent years, mostly to Phoenix (especially the suburb of Glendale) and Tucson. Other states with significant Somali communities include Ohio, California, Georgia, Washington, Texas, Massachusetts, Maryland, Virginia, Illinois, Colorado and Florida.
And then comes this story:
Refugees poured into my state. Here’s how it changed me.
The author is referring to Lewiston, Maine, a city that experienced a big influx of Somalis.
Lewiston today has one of the highest per capita Muslim populations in the United States, most of it Somali along with rising numbers of refugees and asylum-seekers from other African nations including Congo, Djibouti, Sudan, and Chad. What’s happening here is isbeddel, the Somali word for transformation.
Getting right down to it, this author is trying to paint the transformation of Lewiston as something good – not just for the town but the state.


Don’t be messing around with In-n-Out Burger
Go to 3:31 to see it start
I’vee never heard of this service before.

Lawmakers warned the Pentagon about US special operations forces vacancies
The chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees sent a letter to Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Tuesday expressing concern about staffing vacancies in the office overseeing special operations.
Does that mean there are a lot of vacant offices in the Five Sided Puzzle Palace? Could it be something that’s on purpose? More Draining the Swamp?
The article spends a lot of time bemoaning the resignations of civilians in the Special Operations field. I’m just wondering if they shouldn’t also be bemoaning the senior officers left to run the programs without them.

The Air Force is picking up some brand new light attack aircraft

The AT-6 Wolverine, top, and A-29 Super Tucano,bottom
And both aircraft pack a wallop. The A-29 comes equipped with two internal .50-cal machine guns with space for additional underwing armaments like 20mm gun pods or MK-81 and Mk 82 bombs, according to Embraer; by comparison, Textron boasts, the Wolverine is "the first fixed-wing aircraft to employ 2.75" laser-guided rockets successfully" and uses an adaptable system to carry all manner of ordnance.
It doesn’t say in this article, but I think both aircraft are already operational in other air forces.

Trump Goes to Chicago and Says What He’s Not Supposed to Say
WARNING! This is a Rush Limbaugh piece for you butthurt Dims and Leftists who cannot tolerate the truth.
The president attends a to a gigantic conference of law enforcement officials, police chiefs, sheriffs and so forth from all over the country. They’ve been doing this for 126 years. The meeting is in Chicago.
Now, here are the no nos he speaking about. The very things the media and Leftists hate.
What are you not supposed to mention? You’re not supposed to go to Chicago, and you’re not supposed to talk about all the murders, 530 murders last year. You’re not supposed to do it. You’re not supposed to mention it. You’re not supposed to talk about the inept Chicago Police Department. You’re not supposed to talk about Chicago as a sanctuary city where they treat criminals in Chicago better than they treat law-abiding citizens.
And he’s getting a standing ovation for it.
“You know what? We can fix this problem in a day. We can fix this problem in a day, and it wouldn’t be that hard. You know how we do it? We let the cops do their jobs.” And the place erupted. It erupted.
Eddie Johnson, the police chief, is squirming.
Rahm Emanuel’s squirming.
Barrack Obama isn’t as he’s too full of himself to worry about what anybody says about him. Or his city.

Babylon Bee
Motorcyclist Who Identifies As Bicyclist Sets Cycling World Record @ https://babylonbee.com/news/motorcycle-that-identifies-as-bicycle-sets-world-cycling-record
Multiple Sources Accuse Donald Duck Of Walking Onto Movie Sets Without Any Pants @ https://babylonbee.com/news/multiple-sources-accuse-donald-duck-of-walking-onto-movie-sets-without-any-pants
One has to wonder how many of those sources were anonymous

Mitt Romney Reveals He's Been Running The Wendy's Twitter Account All Along @ https://babylonbee.com/news/mitt-romney-reveals-hes-been-running-the-wendys-twitter-account-all-along
Asylum Orderlies Return Hillary Clinton To Padded Cell Disguised As Oval Office @ https://babylonbee.com/news/asylum-orderlies-return-hillary-clinton-to-padded-cell-disguised-as-oval-office
How Lasers Work, According to the World's Top Expert
Whether you’re losing your mind at a Pink Floyd tribute show or playing with your cat, there’s hardly a situation that wouldn’t be made better with a few lasers. “Optical masers” were first described by physicist Charles Townes in the late ’50s and since then they’ve come to define modern life. They’re used to scan groceries at the checkout, read DVDs, guide missiles, perform surgery, and even to produce nuclear fusion.
We see them everywhere and take them for granted. The video in this article sort of explains how they work.
Focus light between mirrors to produce a nice strong beam of a single color.
Easy. Right.

George Papadopoulos to run for Katie Hill's seat
Go for it!
He served 12 days in the can for “lying about his contacts,” an easy way for the
Feds to get a conviction. If he plays it right, he could take the seat with a rousing win as people fed up with government corruption fight back by voting for him.

It's about trust: 77% of Fox News fans are conservative
I don’t think these figures will surprise anyone.
Among those who trust Fox News the most, 77% described themselves as conservative, 19% were moderates and 6% liberal. Among those who trust CNN the most, 20% are conservative, 43% moderate and 35% liberal. And oh yes, among those who trust M
By the way, among those who trust PBS the most, 9% are conservative, 38% moderate and 50% liberal. Among C-SPAN fans, 26% are conservative, 53% moderate and 23% liberal.
Lets peek at the “Big Three” broadcast networks as well. Among those who trust CBS the most, 14% are conservative, 61% moderate and 15% liberals. Among NBC fans, 4% are conservative, 50% moderate and 30% liberal. And among ABC’s folks, 19% are conservative, 54% moderate and 24% liberal. The survey of 1,000 registered U.S. voters was conducted Oct. 23-26.

Six Verbs That Make You Sound Weak (No Matter Your Job Title)
How many of us use these without thinking?
1. Think - I think…
2. Need - I need…
3. Want -
4. Guess - tentativeness
5. Hope - as if the person is prone to not do as requested
6. Suppose - not really engaged

Your Speech Is Packed With Misunderstood, Unconscious Messages
I won’t name him, but we all know of a major figure who couldn’t speak one sentence without an um or an uh. Oh yeah, and lots of Is.
Saying “um” is the speaker’s way of signaling that processing is ongoing, the verbal equivalent of a computer’s spinning circle. People sometimes have more disfluencies while speaking in public, ironically, because they are trying hard not to misspeak.
So says the author.


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