[TAMPABAY] As the Caribbean prepared for Tropical Storm Dorian and its potential to reach hurricane-strength, a news report by Axios based on anonymous sources claimed that President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... has repeatedly asked federal officials to explore using nuclear bombs to stop hurricanes.
For his part Trump disputed the story, calling it "ridiculous."
For our part, we can’t fact-check whether or not Trump considered such a strategy since the claim is based on anonymous sources. But we can explain the science behind why nuclear bombs can’t slow down storms.
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cloud seeding the eye of a cat 3 or higher hurricane would weaken the hurricane's peak winds by 10-30% according to many numerical model simulations, depending on various assumptions regarding size, general movement, etc.
however, the decline in the overall energy of the hurricane would be much less, more like 2% to 10%, again based on the numerical model and the size of the hurricane, etc.
I don't think any numerical simulations have been done regarding the nuclear bomb issue. There are many problems doing the simulation, including the strength of the bomb, whether the explosion is above the surface, at the surface or underwater, etc. It's something of a nightmare to try to tackle this issue.
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"We can't verify if he ever said it, but here's why he's wrong"
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Me, I'm expecting to hear that the transit of TS Dorian past Little St James (Epstien's island) totally obliterated everything there and getting any evidence is impossible.
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I'm sure they can come up with any mathematical model to justify what they want. The Warmongers do that regularly. The ruling class have no problems with those models (even though subsequent checking of predictions show a significant failure in any corollary).
[NYPOST] A Washington, DC, mom says her political-consultant husband left her for Rep. Ilhan Omar ...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She is apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side... , according to a bombshell divorce filing obtained by The Post.
Dr. Beth Mynett says her cheating spouse, Tim Mynett, told her in April that he was having an affair with the Somali-born US representative ‐ and that he even made a "shocking declaration of love" for the Minnesota congresswoman before he ditched his wife, alleges the filing, submitted in DC Superior Court on Tuesday.
The physician, 55, and her 38-year-old husband ‐ who has worked for left-wing Democrats such as Omar and her Minnesota predecessor, Keith Ellison ‐ have a 13-year-old son together.
"The parties physically separated on or about April 7, 2019, when Defendant told Plaintiff that he was romantically involved with and in love with another woman, Ilhan Omar," the court papers say.
"Defendant met Rep. Omar while working for her,’’ the document states. "Although devastated by the betrayal and deceit that preceded his abrupt declaration, Plaintiff told Defendant that she loved him, and was willing to fight for the marriage.
"Defendant, however, told her that was not an option for him’’ and moved out the next day, the papers say.
"It is clear to Plaintiff that her marriage to Defendant is over and that there is no hope of reconciliation,’’ according to the filing.
The Mynetts lived together for six years before marrying in 2012, the filing said.
Omar ‐ a member of "the Squad," a group of far left-leaning female freshman House members including Rep. Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez Dem represntative from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details... (D-NY) and two others ‐ recently separated from her husband, according to reports.
The 37-year-old congresswoman and mom of three paid Tim Mynett and his E. Street Group approximately $230,000 through her campaign since 2018 for fundraising consulting, digital communications, internet advertising and travel expenses.Related:Ilhan Omar: 2019-08-23 One dead, two maimed from bomb in West Bank
Ilhan Omar: 2019-08-22 Tlaib And Omar Try To Sneak Into Israel Stacked On Top Of Each Other Inside A Trenchcoat
Ilhan Omar: 2019-08-19 Multiple Attacks Caught On Video During Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... Demonstration In Portland
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I think it is more a case of jizzya.
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It would have been funny if this came out while she was visiting some mosque in Paleostain. Sigh .. the things that could have been, but never were ...
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Didn't Rantburg feature a picture of the two lovebirds having lunch last week?
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I knew we did. It was like this but there were no insets, just the part on the left with the guy looking all spaced out. Maybe that's what she does to guys.
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Lovebirds
"Love had nothing to do with it, dearie"
- Mae West
Follow the, uh, Benjamins. In this case the dude is the ho.
Just when you thought the world was safer. Strap yourself in. Ma Barker is making sounds like she is in the wings waiting to be called for her coronation for a third time. Should this happen, it would another round of international crime and corruption on steroids. Has Freddy Krueger returned?
[AmericanThinker] 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.
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).
A couple of weekends ago she was at de Rothschild’s estate on Martha’s Vineyard -- go socialism! -- to celebrate Bill’s birthday, which included "quite an A-list cast of characters, including many Democratic party stalwarts."
Recently she and Chelsea announced they were publishing a book in October about "gutsy women," no doubt the tale of some courageous women in Arkansas who stood up to privilege and power even before the #MeToo movement. At least that’s my guess.
In any case, the subject is irrelevant. It’s the timing that matters. A book tour in the middle of the primary race? Just a not-so-subtle reminder from Madam Secretary: The air in the room belongs to me, bitches.
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Men seldom make last-second passes
At shades-wearing Kim Il Sung lasses
Who'd scare Kim Jong ill
And demotivate Bill...
But the grey, unwashed femine masses?
"Run, Hillary, fast as molasses!"
It looks likes serious edema to me — the lady’s health does not appear to be improving. The cross-body bag is impacting the natural fall of the fabric, which is why the queen of England and the royal duchesses generally carry clutches or handbags when seen in public, not shoulder bags.
[Politico] To this day, many Democratic Party officials still fume about Barack Obama’s decision to create his own political group outside of the Democratic National Committee, Organizing for Action.
Now they’ve ensured it won't happen again if a Democrat wins the White House in 2020.
The Association of State Democratic Committees announced Tuesday that every leading presidential contender has vowed not to create "any organizing or messaging infrastructure that is parallel or duplicative" to the DNC or state parties. The signed pledge also binds candidates to publicly call on their supporters not to launch outside groups on their behalf.
It's an enormous change for the party, one that will likely strengthen the DNC and state parties after what many Democrats considered neglect of the party infrastructure during the Obama years. It also throws into question the future of Our Revolution, the Bernie Sanders-created grass-roots organization, which state party leaders say would appear to violate the agreement if Sanders wins the general election.
"It's a huge shift," said Jane Kleeb, chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party. The move sends two messages, she added: "You cannot create another OFA," and "the DNC is an important national infrastructure, but it's not in the states ‐ we are."
"[State parties] are never the shiny object that gets funded with all the appeals from podcasts or big donors," Kleeb added.
Organizing for Action, the political group that grew out of Obama's first presidential run, decentralized power from the DNC by building a parallel infrastructure that competed for donors. It was a move that many state party chairs loathed, and in the years since have faulted for Democrats' losses at the gubernatorial and statehouse level.
“It wasn't helpful to the political work that needs to get done in building a bench,” said Stephen Handwerk, executive director of the Louisiana Democratic Party. "We have a political tool in the state parties and the president should use them."
The pledge, signed by Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg and 16 other contenders, requires candidates to use state parties as their organizing, messaging and political arm should they become their party's nominee. Many state parties are run by full-time and unpaid chairs who are expected to recruit, train and get candidates elected. But many have few resources at their disposal, and the deal announced Tuesday is an attempt to fix that.
The agreement also mandates the eventual nominee to share all of the data he or she collects during the campaign with the DNC and state parties, which is already a requirement to get access to the party's voter file. The new agreement doesn’t require the nominee to share his or her email list, a notable concession and one that party officials hope could be revisited.
Harris was the first leading candidate to sign the pledge, drafted by the Association of State Democratic Committees, according to multiple sources. Warren had already signaled that she wanted to operate within the existing party infrastructure, donating $5,000 to each of the 50 state parties last year.
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"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
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OFA was likely a stalking horse for Jarret, Ayers and their ilk. Soros as well, probably; maybe (indirectly) the business execs in tech and media industries who are now showering Barry & Big Mike with 8-figure sweetheart deals.
Soetoro was never more than a vehicle for these people.
Seems like an Honor Killing from her first husband would be in order if he wasn't also her brother....
[NY Post] A conservative watchdog group said Tuesday that it plans to file a complaint against US Rep. Ilhan Omar with the Federal Election Commission ‐ after The Post revealed allegations that she's dating one of her paid consultants.
"This arrangement where Ilhan is paying her lover consulting fees could be illegal if he's not doing the work," said National Legal and Policy Center Chairman Peter Flaherty.
"And we'll be asking the FEC for an investigation to determine the nature and level of his work product."
Earlier Tuesday, The Post reported that Beth Mynett, a DC-based doctor, filed for separation from her husband, political consultant Tim Mynett, alleging he told her April 7 that he was having an affair with Omar.
Records show that the 37-year-old Minnesota congresswoman paid Tim Mynett and his E. Street Group approximately $230,000 through her campaign since 2018 for fundraising consulting, digital communications, internet advertising and travel expenses.
More than $70,000 of that money was transferred in 14 payments to Mynett's E. Street Group LLC between April 22 and June 11, records show.
The fact that Omar's campaign committee continued to pay Tim Mynett's firm for months after his wife said he left her for the congresswoman isn't outright illegal.
A public-affairs specialist at the FEC noted that the agency's regulations include a section that says, "Salary payments to a member of a candidate's family are not considered personal use, provided that the family member is providing bona fide services to the campaign and at a rate that does not exceed fair market value of the services provided."
The question is whether that actually occurred here, Flaherty said.
He noted that six of the expenditures in Omar's filings are simply labeled "travel expenses" worth $12,673.43 ‐ and that in Beth Mynett's legal papers, she questioned whether her husband's purported work travel was all for legitimate purposes.
"On reflection Defendant's more recent travel and long work hours now appear to be more related to his affair with Rep. Omar than with his actual work commitments, averaging 12 days per month away from home over the past year," her filing reads.
Flaherty said that at the very least, the FEC should ding Omar for not being more specific when reporting Mynett's firm's travel.
"The law states that travel expenses have to be itemized, but Ilhan's campaign is just reporting large amounts for ‘travel,'" Flaherty said. "Our question is whether this was necessary travel or whether she was just bringing her boyfriend along for the company."
A statement from the E Street Group on Tuesday touted the more than $2.3 million that it said it has raised for Omar's re-election campaign in 2019 so far.
"As FEC reports show – we provide grass tops and grassroots fundraising, political and communications support for Democratic candidates, including events, digital fundraising, ad acquisition, SMS mobilization, research, video and other content collateral creation," the statement said.
"E Street Group does not comment on the personal life of either our staff or clients."
A request for comment to Omar's spokesman wasn't returned.
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What does the good Book say about a woman who pays for fornication?
That she shtups to conquer the infidel?
[NEWSWEEK] Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren ...Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts, who traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless... may have apologized for taking a DNA test to prove she has Native American ancestry, but President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... could use his "Pocahontas" label for Warren to damage her as he did to defeat Crooked Hillary Clinton ...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away... in the 2016 election, according to at least one Republican consultant.
Warren can say she never used her ethnicity‐her DNA test found she is between 1/64th and 1/1,024th Native American and backfired‐to land a job. But Trump could use it against her to question her honesty.
"If you give Trump a tool to equalize the playing field, which is what this does, he will do exactly what he did to Hillary Clinton," Republican consultant Dan Hazelwood told Politico Magazine in a piece published online Tuesday.
Hazelwood, who owns Targeted Creative Communications, said Warren has "never given the answer to the core of the Trump charge, which is: She cheated. She cheated for personal gain. She hasn't answered that part of the attack."
The consultant said "we're all kidding ourselves" to think Trump would not be able to find people including Native Americans who would admit they still think Warren's DNA test was inappropriate "and she never actually properly accounted for her misdeeds." Hazelwood cautioned Democrats to "not pretend that you can't find those people, because a presidential campaign can."
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Yes, to point out how much of a crook she is.
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Newspeak: "Warren can say she never used her ethnicity‐her DNA test found she is between 1/64th and 1/1,024th Native American and backfired‐to land a job."
No, she can't say that - unless she's f---ing lying through her teeth.
She claimed Cherokee ancestry to land a tenure-track job at Harvard, which claimed her as a "person of color" on the Law School faculty.
She claimed Cherokee ancestry years before, right out of law school, on her affidavit to the Bar Association.
She's a scam artist and needs to step down from politics, resign her post at Harvard and suffer the same kind of public shaming and ostracism that have destroyed the careers of people who've committed far less egregious offenses.
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All these people facing jail time because they allegedly bribed their kids' way into college but Fauxcahontas commits fraud to get a cushy job at Harvard and gets away with it. How about a DoJ investigation into Elizabeth Warren? Oh, right. Wait until she's nominated.
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"We have to nominate her to find out what crimes she's committed."
- Apologies to N. Pelosi
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Presidential contender Beto O’Rourke; ...Kennedyeque businessman, musician, skateboard artiste, and politician who represented Texas' 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. Beto is a Latino nickname for people whose names end in "erto," like "Roberto" or "Alberto." He is seeking the Dem nomination for President in 2020 because he has nice hair and lots of teeth. He was born into a local political family in El Paso, Texas and is a graduate of a prep school and Columbia University, which is not in Texas. In 2005, he was elected to the El Paso City Council. He was elected to Congress in 2012 after defeating eight-term incumbent Silvestre Reyes in the Democratic primary. He declined to seek re-election in 2018, instead running for the Senate against Republican Ted Cruz, running a campaign that drew national attention because of his skateboarding skills. A few months after he lost, he announced his campaign for President... said he believes the decision to have a third-trimester child sacrifice abortion should be up to women, and not men or the government.
The 46-year-old Texas Democrat was speaking at the College of Charleston as part of the school’s "Bully Pulpit" series, and was asked a question by a man in the audience about third-trimester child sacrifice abortions.
"My question is this: I was born Sept. 8th, 1989, and I want to know if you think on Sept. 7th, 1989, my life had no value," the man inquired, referencing a previous response the former congressman had given in Ohio on the matter.
"Of course I don’t think that. And of course I’m glad that you’re here. But you referenced my answer in Ohio, and it remains the same. This is a decision that neither you, nor I, nor the United States government should be making," O’Rourke said. "That’s a decision for the woman to make."
When O’Rourke was in Cleveland, kept in touch with the world by Obamaphone, ...was ruled by a Democrat machine from 1942 through 1971. After the river caught fire during the administration of Carl Stokes they tried a Republican, then went back to being Democrats when the party hacked up Dennis Kucinich ... , Ohio, in March he was asked specifically if he supported third-trimester child sacrifice abortions where there was fetal viability and the child could be removed by cesarean section.
"So, the question is about child sacrifice abortion and reproductive rights. And my answer to you is that that should be a decision that the woman makes about her body. I trust her," O’Rourke told the crowd to applause.
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Beta gets all worked up over kids being separated from their so-called parents when they're caught sneaking across the border. He's absolutely outraged about that! Shocked, I tell you! But he doesn't give a rat's ass about a fetus. These Democrats are so phony it hurts.
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This was always the end game for most of the pro-choice zealots.
The question is how many liberals truly believed in only First Term abortion back in the day and how many were lying because they knew full-term abortion was politically unacceptable.
[Washington Examiner] Joe Biden's wife Jill says that her husband's third bid for the presidency has had a surprising side benefit: It has renewed her faith in God.
The former Second Lady, 68, opened up on Tuesday about her struggles with religion after she and the former vice president, 76, lost their son Beau to cancer in 2015 at the age of 46. She was speaking at a fundraiser in Atlanta hosted by a local breast cancer physician, reflecting on a prayer service she recently attended.
"For the first time in a long time, I felt like there was a path to recovering my faith. For all the things I expected to find on this campaign, a pathway back to my faith was not one of them," the former second lady said, adding how "grateful" she was for the opportunity to meet everyday Americans, regardless of whether they supported her husband.
"People like you show up to events like this because you know that this matters," she said. "You keep believing with all your hearts that all of our voices matter. And we deserve the same values in our leaders."
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Latest polls show Biden regaininf double-digit lead over 2020 Dems AND crushing Trump.
I know a lot can happen in a year but that's not what toast looks to me.
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I doubt few tell the pollsters anything remotely like the truth. I don't, and take every opportunity to screw with them.
I live in a 97% Dem town, and I play with them. I put up a "Warren/Harris for President bumper sticker one week, a "Harris/Abrams for President" another week, and an "Abrams/Harris for President" a week later. They look real. They are real. They just aren't from the Dem party. Rinse and repeat.
One female asked me why I switched Harris/Abrams for Abrams/Harris (some people pay attention apparently) and I said I couldn't decide who should be on top. She laughed.
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One poll means little, but the average of many polls from serious pollsters usually proves to be quite accurate.
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That's wicked, Whiskey mike. ☺ Also the most intelligent thing to do. If everyone did that, imagine the look of horror at the actual results of elections on those beach tanned faces. Worse than 2016.
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One poll means little, but the average of many polls from serious pollsters usually proves to be quite accurate.
Didn't happen last election when pretty much every poll said Trump would get his ass kicked.
To be fair, I understand the principle of what you are saying, but it relies on actual serious pollsters and not people trying to tip the playing field for their candidate. It may be different in Euro-land, but over here the pollsters tend to be quite partisan.
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but it relies on actual serious pollsters and not people trying to tip the playing field
Back when we still had a landline, I used to amuse myself during election season by explaining to the many, many pollsters who called (here in southwest Ohio we are considered a critical voting region), exactly how the questions they asked should have been worded to get an accurate answer from me... or at least supply one option that was true.
Polls rely on those questioned replying truthfully, and I think people no longer feel obliged to do so, especially when the questions reveal what answers the poll writers desire.
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SteveS, even in the US elections the numbers were quite accurate. They did get the popular vote right and most states.
I remember Hillary dropping in Michigan like a rock in the last days in the polls and I though hey this might be getting closer than I thought.
Remember how close things were in Michigan and Wisconsin. Polls can't come that close but they weren't off the mark.
Several pollsters have Biden around 30%. This isn't out of the blue. You bet both parties watch polls very closely. Bias doesn't work for long because if you are wrong you're out o business.
That said a lot can and will change in the next 12 months. I do think so that Biden has a solid base that won't erode easily.
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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.
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
[NYPOST] A Washington, DC, mom says her political-consultant husband left her for Rep. 
Dem represntative from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details...
[Politico] To this day, many Democratic Party officials still fume about Barack Obama’s decision to create his own political group outside of the Democratic National Committee, Organizing for Action.
"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
...Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts, who traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless...
...Kennedyeque businessman, musician, skateboard artiste, and politician who represented Texas' 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. 
