[ADAPT] Famed for its stunning landscape, Snowdonia in Wales, UK is one destination you can’t miss if you’re looking for a jam-packed adventure, in Europe. The National Park, known for the second highest mountain in the UK, Snowdon, is the perfect destination for anyone looking for an adrenaline-fuelled getaway.
But its popularity could also soon become its downfall. It’s facing a huge erosion problem with many of its footpaths in desperate need of repair. Speaking with ITV News, Rhys Thomas from the National Trust said:
Eroded paths are threatening Snowdonia’s fragile nature. If we don’t act now, it could be lost forever. More and more people are coming to enjoy the beautiful scenery in Snowdonia and walk our paths. On Snowdon, Wales’ highest mountain, we’ve seen the number of walkers double since 2007.
The National Trust oversees conservation efforts in Snowdonia and all of it 58,000 acres of mountain and farmland.
More than four million people visit Snowdonia every year and hundreds of thousands of pounds are spent to keep landscapes like Snowdonia and the Brecon Beacons accessible to the public.
But due to its ever growing popularity, the scale of footpath damage has escalated and extra support is now needed to protect these areas.
#2
"Sit home," intone those that would own ya,
"And tend to your potted begonia,
Or check with Rhys Thomas
And tiptoe -- please promise! --
If venturing out to Snowdonia."
#3
Meh. Bit OCD lately. You'll mod me if I need it, right?
At Brighton, red, white, and blue bunting;
Cars rocked, and I thought I heard grunting,
As millions of British
Were not veddy skittish
While watching the submarine funding.
[LI] A group of academics has published an article in the socialist publication Jacobin in which they advocate for a "federal job guarantee." This proposal entails a guaranteed minimal income of $23,000 per year and "rising to a mean of $32,500" to people who do not have jobs. This money would come, of course, from tax payers who do have jobs, most of whom can ill-afford the tax burden this "spread the wealth" scheme entails.
This idea has been batted around by socialists (and communists) for decades and is again rearing its ugly head.
Jacobin magazine--named for the blood-thirsty, failed French revolutionaries who slaughtered over 40,000 people in less than a year--is a publication devoted to socialist thought and celebrated by progressive outlets such as Vox.
Is it any wonder that this socialist publication would publish an article that articulates the idea of resurrecting some incarnation of FDR’s failed "Works Progress Administration" (WPA), a program that likely prolonged the Great Depression?
According to the authors of "Why We Need a Federal Job Guarantee," a "federal job guarantee" would give "everyone a job"and is "the best way to democratize the economy and give workers leverage in the workplace."
If you give them money for not working, they're not workers, are they?
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No. We need less entitlements that incentivize freeloading and sloth
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No.
Even if you don't have skills, there is always a job. Those that say they can't find one are either not trying, don't want the ones that they find, or a goddamn lair.
[Daily Caller] Stephen Miller argued that a judge cannot singlehandedly strike down the president’s executive order on immigration because we "have equal branches of government in this country."
After a three-judge panel with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit unanimously ruled to reject the Justice Department’s request to lift a Seattle judge’s restraining order on President Trump’s immigration order this week, his senior policy adviser said that the judicial branch is "not supreme."
"The point I want to make to you, George, and the point I want to make to your listeners, is that we have equal branches of government in this country," Miller told George Stephanopoulos during an interview on "This Week" Sunday. "The judiciary is not supreme. A district judge in Seattle cannot force the President of the United States to change their laws and our constitution because of their own personal views."
"The president has the power under the INA, Section 212 F8 USC 82 F (ph) to suspend the entry of aliens when it’s in the national interest," Miller continued. "He has that same power under an Article 2 power to conduct to the foreign affairs of our country. And we will do whatever we need to do, consistent with the law, to keep this country safe."
Reince Priebus is the White House Chief of Staff. No one is closer to President Trump. Mike Cernovich is an author and filmmaker far removed from the Administration. Why has the media written more hit pieces about me than about Reince? The media isn’t barking at Reince. Why?
Fans of Sherlock Holmes will recognize the dog that didn’t bark allusion, which comes from The Adventures of Silver Blaze, a story involving the murder of a horse trainer and the disappearance of race horse. Police initially suspect a stranger stole the horse, which Holmes considered curious as a guard dog was never heard barking during the horse’s disappearance.
Gregory (Scotland Yard detective): "Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?"
Holmes: "To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time."
Gregory: "The dog did nothing in the night-time."
Holmes: "That was the curious incident."
As Holmes explains: "I had grasped the significance of the silence of the dog, for one true inference invariably suggests others.... Obviously the midnight visitor was someone whom the dog knew well."
There are leaks coming from the White House, and one cannot find any shortage of hit pieces on General Flynn, Steve Bannon, Steven Miller, and Kellyanne Conway.
CNN, WaPo, and the New York Times has gone after me several times, and I have nothing to do with the current Administration.
Where are the fake news media hit pieces on Reince Priebus? Why isn’t the media dog barking?
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Leaks have to come from somewhere.
If I were the rest of them, I would be checking who talks to whom. After all, he already knows the reporters, and they already know him.
Just sayin'...
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[NYPost] When former President Barack Obama said he was "heartened" by anti-Trump protests, he was sending a message of approval to his troops. Troops? Yes, Obama has an army of agitators -- numbering more than 30,000 -- who will fight his Republican successor at every turn of his historic presidency. And Obama will command them from a bunker less than two miles from the White House.
In what’s shaping up to be a highly unusual post-presidency, Obama isn’t just staying behind in Washington. He’s working behind the scenes to set up what will effectively be a shadow government to not only protect his threatened legacy, but to sabotage the incoming administration and its popular "America First" agenda. 'Working behind the scenes' is he? If true, it's the first 'work' the indolent bugger has ever undertaken. Not to worry, this kind of work lends itself to being done from the 11th tee...
He’s doing it through a network of leftist nonprofits led by Organizing for Action. Normally you’d expect an organization set up to support a politician and his agenda to close up shop after that candidate leaves office, but not Obama’s OFA. Rather, it’s gearing up for battle, with a growing war chest and more than 250 offices across the country. Trusting President Trump shuts these bastards down hard and soon.
#5
He went to the White House with the intention of doing damage to America and he succeeded quite well.
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Keep it up and cancel any forbearance that Trump might have. I'm fairly sure that there's plenty of charges that could be brought against O, from complicity in Fast and Furious to complicity in sending violent agitators against Trump's campaign. To say nothing of Benghazi.
#2
Unlike Christianity, there can be no reform. The Bible is a compendium of materials from various authors. That makes it open to 'interpretation'. The Koran is the direct creation of Big Mo. Its what he says, period.
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A box, and rocks; pilgrims still jostle.
Who'll excavate Allah's apostle?
The whole Muslim nation
Digs calcification
As sacred, and worships its fossil.
Read carefully and you'll see that the one who was schooled here was Secretary General Antonio Guterres and not Donald Trump. A hat-tip to the Instapundit.
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And he's trolling, and I'm laughing, and he's leading, and I'm smiling, and he's planning and I'm relaxing, and He's making me happy.
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“They have smart career folks at State & NSC who could educate them about Fayyad before a statement goes out. Ask them,” tweeted Daniel Shapiro, President Obama’s former ambassador in Israel.
Smarmy little loser
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“They have smart career folks at State & NSC ... Ask them,”
#4
Its only just the beginning. America First. We're not here to make you happy. The record shows the only thing that would make you happy is for us to roll over and die. We're not going to do that.
...Fayyad's political agenda holds that neither violence nor peaceful negotiations have brought the Paleostinians any closer to an independent state. The alternative to both, violent negotiations, doesn't seem to be working too well, either...
has a PhD in economics from the University of Texas at Austin and came to the PA from the IMF, according to Wikipedia. He had an interesting West Bank First approach, arguing that if the PA put in place a functioning, transparent infrastructure, statehood would inevitably follow. He did his technocratic best, and was much praised by donors for it; naturally President Abbas fired him for something or other. He was replaced by a linguistics professor.
He is probably the only Palestinian suitable for the job, though he would be as poor a fit at the UN as he was in the PA, but given the PA's current push to achieve statehood by UN imposition rather than negotiation with Israel, it is of course impossible. Had Hillary Clinton won, he'd have been a shoe-in.
This one, though, is on Mr. Guterres, who assumed office January 1 and has yet to get administration in order. “You don’t send a nomination for Security Council approval before making sure all involved are on board, especially when it’s so full of obvious sensitivities,” said a veteran United Nations official.
[DCClothesline] Inga Andrews lived in Dusseldorf, Germany during the Second World War and spent time hiding in air raid shelters and helping to clean up rubble from destroyed buildings.
If anyone is in a position to have an opinion on the left’s hysterical comparison of Donald Trump and Hitler, it’s Inga. Here’s what she told the Independent Review Journal;
"What is going on in this country is giving me chills. Trump is not like Hitler. Just because a leader wants order doesn’t mean they’re like a dictator.
What reminds me more of Hitler than anything else isn’t Trump, it’s the destruction of freedom of speech on the college campuses -- the agendas fueled by the professors.
That’s how Hitler started, he pulled in the youth to miseducate them, to brainwash them, it’s happening today."
America needs to grow up. The young people who are rioting and destroying property, who have no respect for elders and freedom of speech, I was so proud to become a citizen of this country.
Professors shouldn’t be telling their students to go after freedom of speech. They should be telling them that this is the greatest country in the world.
The demonstrators can’t tell you why they’re demonstrating. I’m not a Republican. I’m not a Democrat. I just want the country to be at peace.
I see what is happening here reflecting some of the things we saw in Germany, and it’s terrifying. It’s sad. But it’s not because of Trump. It’s because of poor education.
Trump is not like Hitler. The theory that he is is propaganda. Yes, I lived through some of Nazi Germany, but all you have to do is read some books about that period to see how wrong that theory is."
She went further, slamming the self-entitlement of today’s millennials compared to what her generation had to endure.
"It saddens me that we are teaching garbage in the schools and in the college. We don’t teach history anymore. History repeats itself over and over.
The kids out there today haven’t ever lived through a war like I did. I remember sitting in a rock pile, cleaning rocks, to rebuild Germany. I remember eating maple leaves and grass to survive."
Andrews survived the war before making it to the United States after her mother married an American, but not before undergoing extreme vetting at a number of different U.S. military camps.
"So we had a vetting process like what we are going through now because you have to have this to make the country safe," said Andrews.
Although she encountered difficulties learning English, Andrews said she would always try to speak English rather than German when in public, "Because we believed we needed to honor the country that opened its doors for us. It was rude to do otherwise."
Andrews concluded by warning that "we will repeat history" if Americans sacrifice the ability to think freely and unquestionably swallow media propaganda about Trump. Years ago at Ramstein, I had an older local national fellow tell me, 'you know, if it were not for you Americans, we'd all be speaking Russian today.' I said nothing, but shook his hand and smiled. The older Germans like Frau Andrews get it.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NYPost] When former President Barack Obama said he was "heartened" by anti-Trump protests, he was sending a message of approval to his troops. Troops? Yes, Obama has an army of agitators -- numbering more than 30,000 -- who will fight his Republican successor at every turn of his historic presidency. And Obama will command them from a bunker less than two miles from the White House.
[DCClothesline] Inga Andrews lived in Dusseldorf, Germany during the Second World War and spent time hiding in air raid shelters and helping to clean up rubble from destroyed buildings.
