[Washington Examiner] President Trump honored the victims of the October shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue as he marked the start of Hanukkah and denounced the hatred that Jews still face.
"Jews today continue to face many different forms of violence, hatred, and bigotry around the globe," Trump said in a Hanukkah message Sunday. "We remember all those from the Tree of Life-Or L’Simcha Congregation whose lives were tragically taken in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this past October."
"As one nation, we pledge our continued love and support for the victims, their families, and the community, and we pray that the victims’ families find some measure of peace and comfort during this holiday season," the president continued.
[NYPOST] A Texas mother drowned her 5-year-old son and decapitated him before stuffing his body in a trash can at their Houston home on Friday, police said.
Lihui Liu, 43, was incarcerated Book 'im, Mahmoud! Friday after the boy’s father discovered the 5-year-old’s headless body in a trash can in the garage of their home, the Houston Chronicle reported. Officers initially responded to a 911 call of a stabbing at the home around 7 p.m. Friday.
Police arrived at the scene to find the boy’s body in the garage partially covered with a plastic bag.
The boy’s father later told cops he came home from work and Liu told him she sent their son away. After he started looking for the boy, his wife allegedly admitted the child was in the trash can, the Houston Chronicle reported.
He found the body covered in a black bag inside the trash can along with the head. Police recovered a blood-soaked knife in the bathroom and blood splatter in the tub.
Liu was taken into custody, where she later admitted to drowning her son, but gave no further details of the decapitation.
The couple also has a 13-year-old daughter, but it’s unclear if she was in the house at the time of the slaying.
Liu was charged with murder and is expected to be back in court on Monday.
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[Daily Caller] A whistleblower says the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) rushed a landmark study claiming the planet was warming much faster than expected in order to influence international climate negotiations.
Dr. John Bates, the former principal scientist at the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., told the Daily Mail NOAA’s 2015 study was meant "to discredit the notion of a global warming hiatus and rush to time the publication of the paper to influence national and international deliberations on climate policy."
Bates said NOAA scientists made a "blatant attempt to intensify the impact" of global warming to eliminate the "pause" in temperature rise since 1998. The Daily Mail claims Bates showed it "irrefutable" evidence NOAA’s study relied on "unverified" data.
Bates’ objections to the paper were ignored by his superiors, who let scientists make "decisions and scientific choices that maximised warming and minimised documentation" in advance of a major United Nations climate summit in Paris, France.
His statement to The Daily Mail comes amid an investigation into the NOAA study by House Republicans on the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Texas Rep. Lamar Smith, the committee’s chairman, subpoenaed NOAA in late 2015 for records related to the so-called "Karl study" that adjusted global sea surface temperature upwards, eliminating the "pause" in global warming since 1998.
Smith was heavily ridiculed for subpoenaing NOAA scientists, and the agency refused to hand over any internal deliberations of the "Karl study." The study’s lead author, Tom Karl, has since left NOAA.
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"In a testament to his scientific integrity and contributions to climate science, Dr. John Holdren, President Obama’s Science Adviser, appointed Tom [Karl]as Chair of the SGCR, which oversees USGCRP, in 2010. During Tom’s six years as Chair, USGCRP released the Third National Climate Assessment and its current 10-year Strategic Plan, which reflected a greater focus on decision support, sustained scientific assessment, and engagement, supported by USGCRP’s longstanding strength in fundamental global change research."
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Plenty of evidence to indicate that we are in fact getting ready to enter a new Maunder Minimum...at least as bad and maybe much worse. The winter of 2018-2019 will tell the tale.
Lack of sunspots and magnetic anomalies point to what amounts to a new ice age.
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^^^This. The lovely thing about science is that even if no one checks the data, eventually reality makes itself painfully obvious.
It is nice when someone takes it upon himself to rush the process, though. And it’s become clear that the field of climate science is well-seeded with honest researchers, despite the best efforts of propagandists controlling the high places.
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That or extreme incompetence is the only explanation for their results. Either of them should result in a firing and a complete remediation of their data.
The Earth's climate is changing. Just as it has since we first developed an atmosphere and as it will until the sun fries us to a cinder in 4.5 billion years. Both the sun and the orbit wobbles of the planet will see to changes. But you can't blame humans for them and then try to tax his ass into stone age socialism for them. So we get what we see here.
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#2 We are currently headed into a weak but otherwise routine "11 year" sunspot minimum. During the Maunder minimum the sunspot cycle collapsed for 100+ years.
I don't believe in CAGW. Dr Svenmark's "sunspot" theory makes much more sense. I'm hoping for no more than a Dalton minimum (Napoleon marching on Moscow cold) not a Maunder Minimum (Skating on the Thames/London frostfair cold)
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NOAA has twice been caught changing the raw temp data sets. Sorry but when you start doing that, you are not doing science. Put your bill on and start going "Quack, quack, quack"
Manipulate #'s all you want. But to do science you have to start with the raw and explain the how and why for each step of manipulation. You don't just change the raw and then start from there. It's funny when you actually explain that to people and make them cudgle their brain or google how science experiments really work. Then you see the flickers of doubt before the dogma wall comes crashing back down and they resort to reciting dogma again.
[IMAGES.DAWN] Renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says he will cooperate fully with an "impartial investigation" into allegations of sexual misconduct that have been leveled against him.
In a Facebook post Saturday, Tyson denied an accusation that he groped a woman and he denied that he made sexual advances toward a production assistant when he invited her to share wine and cheese at his home. He apologized for making the production assistant feel uncomfortable.
"In any claim, evidence matters. Evidence always matters. But what happens when it’s just one person’s word against another’s, and the stories don’t agree? That’s when people tend to pass judgment on who is more credible than whom. And that’s when an impartial investigation can best serve the truth ‐ and would have my full cooperation to do so," he wrote.
He gave explanations for both accounts separately and concluded saying:
"Accusations can damage a reputation and a marriage. Sometimes irreversibly. I see myself as loving husband and as a public servant ‐ a scientist and educator who serves at the will of the public. I am grateful for the support I’ve received from those who continue to respect and value me and my work."
Patheos.com recently published accounts from two women who say that Tyson behaved in a sexually inappropriate manner toward them. Tyson was host of "Cosmos: Possible Worlds" on Fox in 2014 and a new edition of the series was to air on National Geographic next year.
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[NYPOST] A fire that caused a mysterious burning hole in Arkansas in September was intentionally set, authorities say, and not the result of a meteorite, methane ‐ or work of the devil.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported Sunday that Baxter County authorities used soil samples to identify various flammable chemicals typically found in paint thinners where a 12-foot-tall (3.6 meter) fire spurted from a hole in the ground and burned for around 40 minutes. Authorities say it may have been a prank.
Initial speculation ranged from serious, such as a possible leaking natural gas line, to far-fetched. Officials in Midway, about 120 miles (200 kilometers) north of Little Rock, easily dismissed suggestions that the fire was caused by Satan or a meteorite. No faulty utility or fuel lines were found in the area.
The Arkansas National Guard analyzed three soil samples and found two solvents: toluene and xylene. Wesley Stites, chemistry and biochemistry department chair at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, said both solvents can be found in household items, including paint thinners.
"That seems like the most plausible thing to me, that somebody dumped a quart of paint thinner down there and caught it on fire," Stites said.
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Obviously the work of alien life forms from another dimension, a typical Arkansas type cover-up.
[FoxNews] A U.K.-based restaurant chain is offering an incentive to parents who don’t use their cell phones during dinner ‐ a free meal for their children.
Frankie & Benny’s decided to launch the "no-phone zone" promotion after the family-friendly restaurant conducted a survey of 1,500 people to see how the use of cell phones affected dinnertime.
According to the survey, nearly 20 percent of children said they felt their parents preferred to be on their phones during meals than to talk. About 23 percent of parents admitted they checked their cell phones during meals ‐ often while their child was talking. Around 10 percent of children even said they went as far as to try and hide their parents’ phones to get more attention.
As a way to combat the trend of parents preferring screen time over family time, the New York-style Italian restaurant offered free meals for kids when parents give up their devices."Children spell love T-I-M-E and by putting away screens parents are sending the message that their children are important to them and that can only be good for family time," parenting expert Susan Atkins said a press release from the restaurant, Today reported. "Parents are role models in everything that they do and in everything that they say, so by managing their own screen time parents are teaching their kids by example about when and where technology use is appropriate."
During the promotion, which started November 27, Frankie & Benny’s will provide a special box for parents to store their devices in during the meal.
Though the promotion is optional, the restaurant does "actively encourage" parents to participate.
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It's getting bad. Yesterday I had a long conversation with a friend through his cell phone. He had it set as a speakerphone, and told me his cat was listening to our entire conversation and watching the phone's screen (with my pic on it) very intensely.
ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - The chief of Britain’s foreign intelligence service warned the Kremlin on Monday not to underestimate the West after a brazen nerve agent attack on a retired double agent in England stoked fears about Russian covert activity abroad.
In his second major speech since being named in 2014 to head the Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6, Alex Younger said Russia has a stance of "perpetual confrontation" with the West.
After the attack on Sergei Skripal, a former Russian military intelligence officer who betrayed dozens of agents to MI6, Britain’s allies in Europe and the United States took its side and ordered the biggest expulsion of Russian diplomats since the height of the Cold War.
Britain identified the nerve agent deployed in the English town of Salisbury as Novichok, a highly potent group of nerve agents developed by the Soviet military in the 1970s and 1980s.
[BBC] A woman killed on a train may have been leaning out of a window when she suffered a blow to the head, police said.
She died after sustaining serious head injuries on a Bristol Temple Meads-bound service, between Bath and Keynsham.
Police said the woman's death, at about 22:10 GMT on Saturday, was not being treated as suspicious.
The Rail Accident Investigation Branch has been informed.
A British Transport Police statement said: "We were called at around 10.10pm following a report a woman had received serious head injuries while travelling on a train between Bath and Keynsham."
It continued: "Initial inquiries suggest the woman may have been leaning out of a window when she suffered a blow to the head.
"Officers are currently working to confirm her identity and inform her next of kin."
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Reminds me of a very puzzling case history dealing with forensic pathology. Police found a stalled car at the side of the road with a headless corpse in the driver's seat. Few scrapes on the right side of the vehicle. Best explanation for what happen was the driver lost control, went onto the right shoulder. No seat belt. Car scraped a bridge abutment on the right. Driver was thrown to the right side of the front seat. Head hung out the window until the abutment forcibly removed it. Car continued on its way under the bridge & came to rest quite a distance away. Body lurched back to this original position. The bridge abutment was found to have a large amount of blood , etc. splashed on it.
[Breitbart] Brazilian lawmakers are gearing up to push gun reforms that will recognize citizens’ right to own guns for self-defense.
The goal of peeling back gun control took center stage when it became evident that Jair Bolsonaro would win Brazil’s presidential election. Bolsonaro, a former Army Captain who ran as a law and order candidate, is now president-elect.
On October 19, Bloomberg quoted Bolsonaro defending his support of private firearm ownership, saying, "Why have I always defended the ownership of firearms? It’s so that you, upstanding citizens, with a few requirements, can have a weapon inside your house or your farm. If some guy breaks down the door to your house, knocks down the gate of your farm, you have the right to react."
In anticipation of Bolsonaro’s win, a bill was crafted to ease taxes on firearms and lower the legal purchase age from 25 to 21. Moreover, the bill would, as a matter of law, recognize Brazilians’ "right to own and bear firearms for legitimate self-defense and the protection of personal property."
On December 1, the New York Times reported that Brazilians are now flocking for firearms training in preparation for broader access to firearms for self-defense.
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Saturday he expects to agree to a two-week extension of funding ahead of a Dec. 7 deadline to fully fund the U.S. government because of former President George H.W. Bush’s death.
The prospects of a partial government shutdown have been looming in recent days after Trump last week renewed his demand for significant U.S. taxpayer funding of his proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall.
Trump said on Saturday congressional leaders have sought the short-term extension and he said he would "absolutely consider it and probably give it."
Bush died on Friday. His funeral is set for Wednesday in Washington, leaving almost no time to reach a deal ahead of the deadline, congressional aides said Saturday before Trump’s remarks.
This week, Trump told Politico he would "totally be willing" to shut down the federal government unless Congress authorized $5 billion to fund his long-promised wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.
[WND] A Dutch doctor carrying out a lethal injection on an elderly woman ordered her family to restrain her when she resisted, creating what even euthanasia advocates called a "horrible picture."
The case has been documented by a regional review board in the Netherlands, reported the National Catholic Register, which noted the church "has always considered euthanasia, like suicide, a ’gravely evil choice,’ while allowing that grave fear of hardship, suffering or torture can lessen the responsibility of persons who take their own life."
The church’s catechism bluntly states, "All those who knowingly and willingly perform or assist in carrying out the act of terminating the patient’s life have committed murder."
The case in Amsterdam, the report said, is one of several similar instances of resistance, including "a sex-abuse victim in her 20s, a 41-year-old alcoholic, a woman with ringing in her ears and now an Alzheimer’s patient."
The woman in Amsterdam, whose name was not released, was in her 70s.
[DAWN] La Belle France's most violent urban riot in more than a decade engulfed some of central Gay Paree on Saturday as "yellow jacket" activists torched cars, smashed windows, looted stores and tagged the Arc de Triomphe with multi-coloured graffiti.
Protesters angry about rising taxes and the high cost of living clashed with French riot police, who closed off some of the city's most popular tourist areas and fired tear gas and water cannon as they tried to quell the mayhem in the streets. At least 113 people were maimed.
French President Emmanuel Macron denounced the violence from the G-20 summit in Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... , saying those who attacked police and vandalised the Arc de Triomphe will be "held responsible for their acts." He said he will hold an emergency government meeting Sunday on the protests.
"(Violence) has nothing to do with the peaceful expression of a legitimate anger" and "no cause justifies" attacks on police or pillaging stores and burning buildings, Macron said in Buenos Aires. He refused to answer any questions from journalists about the situation in Gay Paree.
It was the third straight weekend of festivities in Gay Paree involving activists dressed in the fluorescent yellow vests of a new protest movement and the worst urban violence since at least 2005.
The scene contrasted sharply with other protests in La Belle France, where demonstrations and road blockades elsewhere were largely peaceful Saturday.
The violence is Macron's biggest challenge so far as president, and even coloured his international image as he had to defend his plans for fuel tax rises the initial impetus for the protest movement to other leaders at the G-20 summit.
The violence seen during the 'yellow vest' protests on Saturday was not limited to Gay Paree, with stand-offs and festivities between police and protesters taking place across La Belle France, particularly in the south west.
A total of 136,000 anti-government protesters took part in the 'yellow vest' protests' in La Belle France on Saturday, including the 8,000 who wreaked havoc and destruction in the French capital.
According to the police in Marseille, the various demonstrators were made up of 300 yellow vests, 100 bikers and about 350 protesters called to action by the hard left CGT union to demand a change in government policy.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] In the latest scandal to hit Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, nearly 776 pornographic photos ‐ including some purportedly of the women currently suing him on sexual and rape allegations ‐ were found on his laptops.
Ramadan, the grandson of the founder of the Moslem Brüderbund, is currently under conditional release from prison in La Belle France.
A new report by French newspaper "Le Journal du Dimanche" has surfaced saying that police, following a thorough examination and analysis of Ramadan's electronic data, collected 776 pornographic and sexual photos.
Last Tuesday, a confidential report disclosed by a French-speaking Swiss private radio confirmed sexual abuse allegations against Ramadan during his time as a former teacher in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... An investigation, commissioned by the government of Geneva to look into abuse in schools, focused mainly on the college des Coudriers and the college of Saussure where Ramadan taught French between 1984 and 2004.
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some purportedly of women,
but mostly from the Houston Livestock Show.
[Chicago Tribune] One woman came to Chicago by bus from Indianapolis in mid-2017, pregnant but with medical complications that would have made labor and delivery potentially dangerous. Another woman traveled here from Wisconsin in March because she didn’t have the financial means or will to have a baby.
Although they were strangers, 28-year-old Timna Axel hosted them in her Uptown neighborhood apartment for a few nights before and after their abortions at local clinics. Axel is a volunteer with Midwest Access Coalition, a Chicago nonprofit that helps defray the costs associated with traveling to terminate a pregnancy, including lodging, food and transportation.
"It seems like a lot of these (nearby) states have increased the barriers to abortion and other health care for women in recent years," she said. "It doesn’t seem right there should be this island of health care access in Chicago."
More women are crossing state lines to have abortions in Illinois, according to the latest statistics from the Illinois Department of Public Health, which were released earlier this week.
Last year, 5,528 women traveled to Illinois from other states to terminate pregnancies, almost a thousand more than the 4,543 women who came from out of state in 2016. The total number of abortions statewide during the same period increased slightly, from 38,382 in 2016 to 39,329 in 2017, according to annual state reports. Of those, about 1,000 abortions each year were provided to women whose home states were marked "unknown."
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So, they were able to get what they wanted. That's the point. It's a state issue not a federal one. Roe vs Wade was an assumption of power never defined by the Constitution outside of the 10th Amendment. The Judiciary simply gave themselves the power, as they have done in so many other ways.
[GunsAmericaDigest] Of all the weapons that have made an impact over the last five years, at least among civilians, the Ruger Precision Rifle has arguably done the most. That is a bold statement, but you would be hard pressed to find a rifle that has carried more water. If nothing else, look at the competitors it has spawned: Ruger led the charge into affordable chassis, now followed by Remington, Tikka, Savage, and a dozen others. The Ruger Precision Rifle, or RPR, you could say has taken the precision market by Sturm.
It wasn’t that long ago that what we would term precision rifles had an entry price of around $4,000, and it went up steeply the second you asked for leather seats. If you wanted to compete playing long range, you needed either a trust fund or a sponsorship from Uncle Sugar, which might include a steep price tag if you weren’t in the AMU. Ruger took a look at the problem and decided to flip the tables.
You can almost see the conversation happening, and I would argue this is right after the entire design team for previous projects was purged.
[War News Updates] Amid some speculation about whether Defense Secretary James Mattis will become the latest Trump administration official to exit what seems to be an ever-revolving door, the former four-star Marine Corps general is showing no public signs that he will step down anytime soon.
Asked at the Reagan National Defense Forum on Saturday if he had any plans to leave office, the secretary instead spoke about his love for U.S. troops and revealed once again a deep-seated duty to serve the country.
"When the President of the United States asks you to do something in America, you just do it. To quote Nike, 'Just Do It,'" Mattis told an audience at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.
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] A Texas mother drowned her 5-year-old son and decapitated him before stuffing his body in a trash can at their Houston home on Friday, police said.
[Daily Caller] A whistleblower says the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) rushed a landmark study claiming the planet was warming much faster than expected in order to influence international climate negotiations.
[WND] A Dutch doctor carrying out a lethal injection on an elderly woman ordered her family to restrain her when she resisted, creating what even euthanasia advocates called a "horrible picture."
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