[Star Telegram] A Texas man charged with murder in a December 2020 road rage incident was recently gunned down in a convenience store while out on bond, according to police.
Davion Potts, 22, entered Primos Food Store in northwest Houston on Sunday, Dec. 12 — and an unknown man walked in behind him, pulled out a gun and shot him several times, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said in a Facebook post.
"The motive is unknown," Gonzalez said in the post. "But, he definitely needed killing"
Potts was arrested Dec. 8, 2020, about a year before his death, in connection with a fatal road rage shooting. He bonded out in late March of this year, Harris County court records show.
Potts killed the driver of a pickup truck, Travis Rowden, over a minor car accident, authorities told news outlets.
Whether mouse or trigger, anything worth clicking is worth clicking twice. Best to be sure!
I like the implication in the story that vengeance was served. Very satisfying in a mythic way, but if I were betting, my chips are on someone otherwise upset with Davion's business dealings.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Grandma Francill White, 53, and her daughter Kimberly Cherry, 28, have been identified as two of five alleged looters who made off with more than $1 million in designer booty from upscale San Francisco stores
White has posted pictures of herself on Facebook wearing a Covid mask from Louis Vuitton — one of the targeted stores in Union Square
She also posted a shot of herself sitting astride a Harley Davidson, flashing a large wad of banknotes
White’s life of crime dates back 30 years with her first conviction – for stealing from a woman named Jane Snethen – in 1989
Despite charges – and 14 previous convictions ranging from shoplifting to attempted murder – all five looters are now back on the street on bond
Police have now stationed a mobile command center in the area. Clusters of cops can be seen patrolling every corner of Union Square 24 hours a day
The spate of lootings has been blamed on ‘woke’ San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin and a 2014 California law that made theft under $950 a misdemeanor
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Most of the punishments that were doled out to such thieves were proscribed by the "cruel and unusual punishment" ban in the Constitution. While mutilation is indeed cruel, it did make a person readily identifiable to all as a thief.
Maybe in the future there will be a biometric way to accomplish the same result? Naaaah. The ACLU would sue for sure.
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Maybe in the future there will be a biometric way to accomplish the same result?
Be very careful what you wish for, MM. ACLU might actually agree to implants if it showed who criticized someone or didn't follow government mandates.
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People love sci-fi tales of having to painfully excise an implant. Most would never survive a properly directed HERF blast, let alone a few seconds of a gamma knife.
The biometric approach I'm thinking of is facial recognition and doors that can't be casually breached. I'm frankly surprised nobody is currently selling a system that drops everything in jewelry store show cases into a vault below the floor if an alarm is triggered.
Yes, I know that facial recognition is "harming the rights of chador wearers." Tough. Those people can afford bonded "buying agents." Problem. Solution.
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[Breitbart] The 14-year-old son of an employee of Philadelphia’s BOLD Pizza shot a suspect in the face Thursday as the suspect was allegedly strangling the employee.
The incident occurred “just before 10 p.m.,” after the alleged robber entered the store and fought with the employee over the cash register, FOX 29 reported.
As the altercation escalated the suspect allegedly began to strangle the employee, at which point the employee’s 14-year-old grabbed a handgun from under the counter and shot the suspect in the face.
The suspect fled the scene but police followed the blood trail and apprehended him. He was hospitalized in critical condition.
Chief Inspector Scott Small said, “It was clearly a sign of a robbery because the cash register was open. There was money on the floor and there was also some broken glass inside the store and there was also a large amount of blood.”
Police believe the wounded suspect to be one of three men who robbed a CVS Pharmacy just prior to the alleged attempted robbery of BOLD Pizza, WPVI noted. A happier turnout than the face shooting video we saw the other day.
[ClarionNews] The Supreme Court on Monday voted 6-3 to deny relief for New York healthcare workers who were denied religious exemptions from the mandates to submit to COVID-19 experimental jabs.
Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett joined the court’s left yet again. In October, the pair joined the left to deny emergency relief to Maine healthcare workers seeking the same exemption in a 6-3 decision along the same lines. The request was presented to Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
In both cases, Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the dissenting opinion with Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas joining him in defending freedom.
In this decision, nobody in the court’s majority bothered to provide justification for their vote with it only stating that the “application for injunctive relief presented to JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR and by her referred to the Court is denied.”
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F*cking cowards. Knew this kind of thing would happen with these two. Each one is terrified of being called an evil god-worshipping dogma-following Catholic rayciss fascist etc by his or her lefty law school colleagues
[USA Today] A powerful storm walloped California with heavy rain and snow on Tuesday, as several inches of rain fell in the Los Angeles area and up to 8 feet of snow was expected in the Sierra Nevada.
The storm wreaked travel havoc across the state due to the rain and snow. It also raised the threat of mudslides in areas scarred by wildfires, prompting evacuation orders in southern California.
Nearly 7 inches of rain fell before dawn in one area of Santa Barbara County, northwest of Los Angeles, the National Weather Service said. The ongoing heavy rain will continue to create areas of flash flooding, with urban areas, roads and small streams the most vulnerable, the Weather Service said.
Further north, in the central Sierra Nevada, a whopping 2 to 4 feet of snow was forecast to pile up with local amounts to 6 to 8 feet over the highest elevations by Tuesday night, AccuWeather said.
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I was a Seven Springs season pass guy myself. I literally dropped off my skis and boots for resale at Willi's before I left town. They mailed me a check.
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Nothing beat night skiing when it was snowing so hard you couldn't see or hear and just had to inch down the hill. Oh, and The Foggy Goggle at the bottom.
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We once were in Snowshoe, West Virginia when the conditions were just right for fog with about 5’ visibility. It was warm enough that the snow was pretty slow, a good thing under the circumstances, and absolutely magical as people and landscape appeared and disappeared from view in the hushed silence. But that isn’t the kind of thing one deliberately seeks for a ski trip.
In the Rockies 8’ of base is not unusual, as I recall, though it generally doesn’t arrive overnight.
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I never skied WV, but I used to drive by the Cacapon resort and wish that I did.
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related note is that these storms replenish reservoirs.
e.g., Lake Oroville has risen about 50 feet since mid October, about 30 feet in the two days after the late October storm and about 10 feet since the storm this week started
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Until CA stops wasting its water on the Snail Darter, God can't send enough.
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And yet again, all the plans and money set aside in bonds authorized in the past few years, for drought relief that was promised for catchment basins and other containment structures, has produced not one additional foot of above ground storage. So all the water in SoCal and much of it in NorCal will flow in huge torrents of the LA River concrete channel from the rain, and in the spring melt of the snowpack. And the fools and clueless who haven't left yet bemoan more population growth, crime and endless scarcity of public utilities like water and power. Socialism returning the Golden State to 3rd world conditions as wealth is redistributed, stolen and wasted on a failed political philosophy. YJCMTSU!
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 'If this floating ice shelf breaks apart, the Thwaites Glacier will accelerate and its contribution to sea level rise will increase by as much as 25%,' the researchers shared during the presentation. I wonder why the bad guys aren't packing that baby with nukes to bring about the projected coastal flooding disaster?
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Oh ow! Climate change is not the only culprit here, but a study in August found that Thwaites Glacier is also melting because of the heat from Earth itself.
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Did they account for the counter effect of Artic ice buildup? The excuses these assholes continue to bombard us with for global cooling / warming / climate change is almost admirable in their level of persistence.
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And with that Ice
Italians can make
Gelato is a frozen dessert of Italian origin. Artisanal gelato in Italy generally contains 6-10% butterfat, which is lower than other styles of frozen dessert
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The headline says a 25 inch rise while te text says a 25 percent rise in the effect of the glacier on sea levels. That effect has been infinitesimal so far, so that a 25 percent rise of it will still be infinitesimal.
Is this artical a joke?)
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Stupid is the real "dark matter." It's everywhere, you can't actually see it, but you can't fail to see its effects on everything else in the universe.
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#14, the moment a tsunami wipes out either blue coast, or an iranian nuke wipes out a blue city, the dems will immediately demand that they get spotted more votes than there were deaths.
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#12 have we reached peak stupidity yet?
Intelligence has its limits, but stupidity doesn't have. - AlbertEinstein
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As I recall, water ice takes up more volume than the same H2O when liquid.
yep. Water expands when it freezes. This is how rocks are cracked apart during the winter months and how prehistoric peoples made smaller rocks out of big rocks. They would pour water in holes drilled into a big rock in the winter, let it freeze, then build a fire over it to melt it, top it off, rinse and repeat. Got the bolder to split to the size they wanted.
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Another religion for people who don't believe in God. There are always going to be more of them as they are ill-served by the education system and the media they also worship.
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The ice they are talking about in the article is not floating. It is glacial ice from land that is at sea still attached to the land but resting on the sea floor. It is like a person standing in 6" of water in a bath tub. If they sit down in the tub the water will rise.
Chauvin is in federal court in Minneapolis to plead guilty to three civil rights violations for murdering George Floyd and arresting a teenager in 2017
He will be sentenced to 25 years in prison, that he will serve at the same time as his current 22 year sentence for murder That first sentence would have got him out on good behaviour after only 15 years — do federal sentences have that kind of condition?
It means he will spend an extra three years in prison than previously thought
As part of the deal, he also pleaded guilty to violating the rights of a black 14-year-old who he arrested in 2017
In that case, he used a chokehold on the teenager and hit him with a flashlight
Chauvin had been called to the teenager's home by his mother who claimed he assaulted her
Chauvin said the teen lay on his bedroom floor and ignored his verbal commands
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At this point he's listening to what his lawyer says the Rubik's Cube Sentence-O-Meter Edition™ tells him makes the most sense. Any tea leaf reading past that makes Voudoun Auntie Jane blush.
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Federal TOFGB is measured in minutes per week. 85% of sentence is the average served.
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on the 2017 issues, this is being appealed
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Chauvin should put his training on trial. Unless he went beyond his training its the Police Department's fault for pushing ineffective/dangerous policies and training.
Do that and you have a chance they try to make it go away lest they be forced to open up cells and city/state treasury.
The files will be released by the National Archives at noon on Wednesday
They are among thousands that have been held back by the government since 1997, when a Congress review board completed its report
Many - including Kennedy's family - have called for them to be made public
Not all of the files will be released; the NSA is holding some back pending further review
The secrecy has fueled conspiracy theories about JFK's assassination
The President was killed in 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald while riding in his motorcade in Dallas, Texas
Oswald denied shooting JFK in his interviews with police; he was killed two days later while being transported by police by a nightclub owner who shot him
Biden had promised to make the files public by October but he delayed, claiming COVID back logs stalled the release
As I remember hearing as a kid it was originally to have been 40 years.
But I guess the wrong people were still alive or in office. Either way 57 years later and we still will not see all the files. Many having likely been long erased, rewrote, pulled and/or stolen from the National Archives. Like has happen a lot under Clinton and others.
Note: Some might remember JFK was not for US Troops being in Vietnam. LBJ was the driving force.
BTW: My dad (Sgt. Major US Army Signal Corp) was there in 1960 "acting" as a Civilian.
[DailyWire] Kathy Davies — the woman at the center of a legal battle for her right to try Ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment — received her first and second dose of Ivermectin on Monday evening at 8:45 pm EST and again Tuesday morning around 9:00 am EST after a court order forced the hospital to comply with her family’s wishes, The Daily Wire can confirm.
On Monday, The Daily Wire reported that Fauquier Health hospital in Warrenton, Virginia, was found in contempt of court after refusing to obey a previous court order ruling that Davies had the right to try Ivermectin as part of her COVID-19 treatment plan. The week prior, Fauquier Health had gone back and forth with the Davies family and Virginia’s 20th Judicial Court, arguing why they could not give the mother Ivermectin.
Playing Devils Advocate.
What's to say the Hospital Staff actually injected Ivermectin and not something else. In order to prove their actions and "FDA steered opinions" on ivermectin were justified?
But the flip side.
Having yet delayed treatment again and against court orders. If anything now bad happens to the Mother, the Hospital Mgt. is screwed and some doctors are going to lose their medical licenses.
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Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine function as ionophores, they open a cellular door and allow Zinc ions into the cell.. Zinc disrupts viral replication. Without administering Zinc at the same time, Ivermectin is ineffective.
[Politico] Russian military pressure cannot be allowed to influence who can join the European Union and NATO, warned Kaja Kallas, the prime minister of Estonia, ahead of two key meetings on the bloc’s relationship with its neighbors.
By amassing troops at the Ukrainian border, and then suggesting that NATO rescind a 2008 commitment to Ukraine and Georgia that they would one day become members of the alliance, Russian President Vladimir Putin "is trying to present himself as a solution to this problem that he has created himself. And I think we shouldn’t fall into that trap," Kallas said in a phone interview on Tuesday in which she also discussed concerns about U.S. President Joe Biden’s outreach to Putin.
"I don’t think that Russia has any right to say anything about who has the right and who doesn’t have the right to join [the] European Union or NATO," said Kallas, whose country of 1.3 million people borders Russia.
Russia will be high on the agenda of two high-level meetings this week. On Wednesday, it’s the sixth Eastern Partnership summit, in which the EU will meet with a number of its neighbors including Ukraine. Also taking part are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Moldova (Belarus suspended its participation last June in the wake of sanctions imposed by the bloc following a disputed election).
A day later, EU leaders will meet for a European Council at which relations with Moscow, and the EU’s reaction to the military build-up on the border with Ukraine, will be discussed.
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[RIA Novosti] State Duma deputies in the second and third readings supported a bill on the organization of public power in the regions. Among other things, the document prohibits the leaders of the subjects of the Federation from being called "presidents" and allows them to be elected for more than two consecutive terms.
The authors of the initiative were Senator Andrei Klishas and Deputy Pavel Krasheninnikov . The first reading took place on November 9, and the day before it was re-examined by members of the Duma Committee on State Construction and Legislation.
As the press service of the committee explained to RIA Novosti, the return of the project is due to technical, not conceptual changes. So, in the second reading, support was received for a proposal according to which the supreme executive body of a subject can be called not only "government," but also in another way, based on historical and national traditions. According to Krasheninnikov, more than 200 amendments were received.
The speaker of the chamber, Viacheslav Volodin, noted that the initiative is part of the systematic work on updating the legislation, which is necessary after the adoption of amendments to the Constitution.
The document defines the principles of the activities of the authorities in the constituent entities of the Federation. At the same time, it is allowed to transfer part of the powers from the federal to a lower level, if this does not contradict the Basic Law. In addition, it is stipulated that regional laws and regulations cannot contradict the provisions of the Federal Law or the Constitution.
The deputies also supported the amendment of the legislation regarding the right to be elected to the post of the highest official. Now the head of the region cannot nominate his candidacy for the third time in a row, they want to abandon this restriction.
The number of terms in office of governors will be determined by the local legislature. Also, the law will enable local parliaments to work remotely.
At the same time, the authors of the draft propose to provide for a clause according to which the term of office of the head of the region and parliament will be five years. Now it cannot exceed five years.
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In addition, the current ban on the use of the word "president" in the title of the position of the head of a constituent entity of the Federation remains. The State Council of Tatarstan opposed this, where the head is named in this way, but the objections and proposals of the republican deputies were rejected.
In addition, the initiative suggests that the president can release the governor from his duties due to a loss of trust, or if members of the local legislature express no confidence in him. In general, according to the bill, the head of state can terminate the powers of the heads of regions for any reason.
Finally, the document obliges to create at the regional level control and accounting bodies that will check budgets and extra-budgetary funds.
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[NewsFrontInfo] Another Ukrainian serviceman was blown up by his own mine. Indiscriminate mining often causes non-combat losses in the ranks of the Armed Forces.
During a briefing, Alexander Mazeikin, an officer of the press service of the People's Militia of the LPR, spoke about the new case. informs Luhansk Information Center.
"According to our sources, another incident occurred in the area of responsibility of the 57th brigade at the positions of the 42nd battalion near the settlement of Krymskoye.
As a result of the lack of minefields, Lieutenant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Yuri Savello was wounded," said a representative of the defense ministry.
Mazeykin also drew attention to the fact that the Ukrainian security forces are using anti-personnel mines. Thus, Kiev violates the Ottawa Treaty.
In addition, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine refuses to take responsibility and are trying to expose the incident to the fault of the People's Militia of the LPR. She allegedly carried out "remote mining".
At the same time, the militants are afraid of new such cases. The head of the engineering service of the 57th brigade was instructed to carefully check the area around the Krymskoye one and find out the location of the ammunition, which was installed without drawing up the necessary accounting documentation.
Lugansk intercepts Ukrainian drone Rewritten from the source
[NewsFrontInfo] According to a news article which appeared on News Front website, Lugansk soldiers intercepted a drone near the settlement of Lozovoye.
The drone was under the command of soldiers of the Ukrainian 30th Brigade. The Lugansk spokesman said the drone, a quadrocopter, was to be used for spotting tube artillery over Lozovoye.
A Lugansk electronic intelligence unit disabled the drone, forcing it down.
Nearly 90,000 Hong Kongers have applied for resettlement in #Britain under a new visa scheme offering a pathway to citizenship, London says as it issues a report condemning #China’s crackdown on dissent in the former colony.https://t.co/7lOpz3Ho2V
[DW] The EU has targeted individuals working with Russia's Wagner Group, a private military contractor, which the bloc said is involved in "serious human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... abuses" in the Middle East, Africa and Ukraine.
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... on Monday imposed sanctions on the Russian-based private military contractor known as the Wagner Group, which is accused of carrying out "hybrid warfare" on behalf of the Kremlin.
"They represent a threat and create instability in a number of countries around the world,'' EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told news hounds Monday after a meeting of EU foreign ministers.
The foreign ministers decided to "target the Wagner group itself, and eight individuals and three entities connected to it," according to a statement. The sanctions include asset bans and travel freezes intended to limit the group's operations.
The statement added that those who have been targeted "are involved in serious human rights abuses, including torture and extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and killings, or in destabilizing activities in some of the countries they operate in."
The countries where Wagner is said to operate include Libya, Mali, Syria, Ukraine and the Central African Republic.
WHAT IS THE WAGNER GROUP?
The Wagner Group is a private military contractor that has been involved in flashpoints around the world. It has a controversial reputation primarily due to the conduct of its personnel, but also because of who leads and finances the organization.
EU politicians have said the group should be considered as a "proxy organization" for the Russian state. The EU said the group is "spreading its malign influence ... notably in the Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... " of Africa, which includes Mali. Germany and La Belle France have objected to the presence of Wagner Group fighters in Mali.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said the group has a "legitimate" purpose in Mali, as it was invited by the transitional government. Moscow has said the group does not represent the Russian government.
Since 2014, rights groups and media reports have linked the Wagner Group to separatist insurrection in eastern Ukraine. It has been in the crosshairs of the US and the EU for a number of years.
Dmitry Utkin, who is believed to be the paramilitary group's commander, was Monday's list of eight sanctioned individuals.
Utkin is a former military intelligence officer and is accused of ordering the torture and murder of a Syrian deserter, which was filmed and made global headlines.
Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin is understood to be the financier of the Wagner Group and is said to be a close associate of President Putin.
In 2018, the US imposed sanctions on Prigozhin. as he was indicted in the US probe into Russian interference in the 2016 elections. The EU followed up with its own punitive measures targeting the Russian national.
EU MULLS SANCTIONS IN RESPONSE TO UKRAINE
The move on Wagner Group comes as the EU foreign ministers warned of an unprecedented economic response, should Russia carry out an invasion of Ukraine, amid tensions over a Russian troop build-up near the border with Ukraine.
"The ministers — all of them — have been very clear today that any aggression against Ukraine will come with political consequences and with a high economic cost for Russia," Borrell told news hounds on Monday, following talks.
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Huh. Usually the cause of these collisions is unattended bridges on both ships. The sea is big and sitting on the bridge with nothing to do but watch the autopilot for days on end gets old. There's an Xbox in your cabin calling your name.
[American Thinker] Speaking in Wilmington, Delaware on Saturday, President Joe Biden blamed the recent deadly tornado outbreak in Kentucky on "climate change." Biden stated, "The fact is we all know everything is more intense when the climate is warming and obviously it has some impact here."
Biden’s statement is laughably inept and easily disproved. All one has to do is look past the opinions, pronouncements, and hand waving and concentrate on what science and data actually say about the issues.
First, the top five deadliest tornadoes in America all occurred between 1840 and 1936. The Great Natchez Tornado on May 7, 1840, killed 317 people, and was the second-deadliest tornado in U.S. history. The deadliest was the March 18, 1925 Tri-State Tornado, which was also the longest-tracked tornado in U.S. history. The massive F5 tornado traveled 219 mi (352 km) across Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.
Second, the last half of the 65-year U.S. tornado record had 40 percent fewer strong-to-violent tornadoes (EF3 rated or greater) than the first half. To claim that climate change is causing severe tornadoes is speculation, and directly opposite data publicly available from the National Weather Service (NWS).
Dr. Roy Spencer, a climatologist at the University of Alabama, Huntsville points out, "To claim that global warming is causing more tornadoes is worse than speculative; it is directly opposite to the clear observational evidence."
A graph of 50 years of tornado data from the NWS Storm Prediction Center (NWSPC) clearly illustrates the downward trend in violent U.S. tornadoes rated EF3 or greater since 1970.
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Dr. Roy Spencer, a climatologist at the University of Alabama, Huntsville points out, "To claim that global warming is causing more tornadoes is worse than speculative; it is directly opposite to the clear observational evidence."
1st bigger question: Did Climate Change cause Biden?
Because before the Liberals Global Cooling, Warming, and Climate Change (aka climate cycle) Hype.
Tornadoes were a regular occurrence in the USA. As a whole, the U.S. averages around 1,200 tornadoes annually and happen year round.
Yes there are some really bad ones. Note: When looking at the following numbers, remember the US population densities were much lower in those years.
317 deaths - May 17, 1840 - The Great Natchez Tornado.
305 deaths - May 27, 1896 - St. Louis-East St. Louis tornado.
747 deaths - March 18, 1925 - The Tri-State Tornado.
332 deaths - March 21, 1932 - The Deep South tornado outbreak.
249 deaths - April 5, 1936 - Tupelo-Gainesville tornado.
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We now have doppler radar, storm watchers, early warning to take shelter, years of modern data. On the other side we have death tolls of people caught totally unawares as reported in the sensationalized (I know) newspapers of the times. Science!
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[BBC] At the bottom of a cave, perhaps; or in a basement when the power shuts off. But there's usually some faint glow coming from somewhere. Even the night sky never seems truly black, not least because there's usually a star or two twinkling in the distance.
So it's hard to imagine a time when all that existed was darkness, when you could travel in any direction for millions of years and still see absolutely nothing.
But this is the story that scientists tell us, of the "dark ages" that gripped the Universe before the first stars ignited. And very shortly, they intend to show us that time, or rather how it ended - how the cosmos ultimately became filled with light.
They'll do it using the biggest telescope ever placed beyond the Earth: The James Webb Space Telescope.
Launching in the coming days, JWST is on a mission to look deeper into the Universe - and therefore further back in time - than even the legendary Hubble Space Telescope, which it succeeds.
[ET] Researchers say that they may have discovered the molecular-level cause of Alzheimer’s disease.
Scientists at the University of California—Riverside said in recent findings that the key to understanding Alzheimer’s may have to do with "tau" proteins that likely cause neurofibrillary tangles—which are found in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. Previously, researchers suggested that amyloid plaques, which are a buildup of amyloid peptides, may be the cause.
Researchers focused on the different structures a single molecule can manufacture, known as isomers.
"An isomer is the same molecule with a different three-dimensional orientation than the original. A common example would be hands. Hands are isomers of each other, mirror images but not exact copies. Isomers can actually have a handedness," Julian said.
Both amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles are critical indicators that doctors look for when trying to diagnose Alzheimer’s.
"Roughly 20 percent of people have the plaques, but no signs of dementia," said UCR chemistry professor Ryan Julian in a statement. "This makes it seem as though the plaques themselves are not the cause."
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Yeah, NOW!
I remember being told — by an accountant, of course — that accountants have the highest average IQ of all the professions. Separately, by the criteria applied by the article, lots of people could be considered underachievers, which means there is plenty of brain power to be applied, or being applied, in unexpected places, a very good thing indeed.
But the odds are high this will turn out to be among the large proportion of scientific studies that can’t be reproduced.
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If this is true, then we're all in a lot of trouble.
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People refuse to consider: Some people are insanely brilliant at a certain thing, and hopeless at everything else. This is what gets us Bill Gates believing he's the savior of mankind when he's really a guy who made a lucky business deal. He really hasn't written any meaningful code since his 8080 BASIC compiler (how much of that did Paul Allen write?) Same thing gets us Michael Bloomberg deciding he can tell us who needs a gun. Gets us every single Hollyweird arsehole telling us how to live.
When I need a brain surgeon, I'm not picking Lin Manuel Miranda. Even though many people would look to him to remind them when to breathe.
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when they say smarter than you do they mean smarter than a Daily Mail reader?
Most 'super-smart' folk have specialized in their education and had the discipline to study and see it through. That may not mean they are smarter but it does say a lot about them, vs the common.
[FoxNews] Older adults who drink moderate amounts of alcohol may have a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease and a lower risk of mortality from all causes, compared to those who do not drink, according to a study published last month in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. Now about that moderate part...
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.
[Star Telegram] A Texas man charged with murder in a December 2020 road rage incident was recently gunned down in a convenience store while out on bond, according to police.
And with that Ice
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
[American Thinker] Speaking in Wilmington, Delaware on Saturday, President Joe Biden blamed the recent deadly tornado outbreak in Kentucky on "climate change." Biden stated, "The fact is we all know everything is more intense when the climate is warming and obviously it has some impact here." 
[ET] Researchers say that they may have discovered the molecular-level cause of Alzheimer’s disease.
