Boston Coldest High Since 1881, Late Barge Arrival

Monday will see coldest Marathon in many years - The Boston Globe:

"On April 15, 1881, the temperature in Boston only reached 40 degrees. Until today, that marked the coldest April 15 in the record books."

Here in MN, the new record for latest barge past Hastings was set on the 11th of April, the OLD record just having been set in April of 2013.

How cold will this spring be? Right now we have winter storm watches out for Rochester for Wednesday evening, but the weather folks assure us that the warmer weather will come in "next week" as they have been for nearly a month now.

While any sort of weather can fit under the rubric of "Climate Change", so far the media is rather shy on telling us that we seem to have our 2nd record breaking late spring only 5 years since the last. You can rest assured that if it was record breaking WARMTH, we would be hearing a lot about it was we do each  January as te IPCC declares a new "wamest year in history" -- meaning "warmist since 1982, if  you factor in the WHOILE planet with just the right sorts of measuremennts included, excluded, "adjusted", it is "warmer" to some .00X factor that is at least a decimal position beyond the accuracy of the measurement.

I covered some of the detail on how our "Climate Marketers" manage to keep telling us that every year is "the warmest ever" as we deal with record cold both here and in Europe -- basically, the assure us that it was really warm in some patch of ocean somewhere that a satellite looked at. Trust them.



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Endurance, A Year In Space

https://www.amazon.com/Endurance-Year-Space-Lifetime-Discovery-ebook/dp/B01EE0FCEK

The subject book by Scott Kelly, twin brother of Mark Kelly, who is the husband of Gabby Giffords the US Congresswoman injured in a shooting while Scott was in space on a previous mission to the "year in space" that the book is mostly based on.

The book is a fine book for space nerds like me, likely a bit on the dryish side for "normal humans" -- it IS NOT in any way competition for "Endurance" about the Shackelton voage -- a far more gripping tale. It you are picking an "Endurance", pick that one! Kelly kept a copy of the Shackelton book with him on the ISS.

The short item from the book that I will likely remember longest is the answer given to the 20 person astronaut review board when they asked former Navy SEAL Bill Shepherd what he could do better than any person in the room. "Kill people with my knife" was his very true, however somewhat unexpected answer.

The longer memorable part for me is a part that leads me to believe that Russians are on the way to winning the next round in global dominance -- unless the Chinese do. I've always admired a lot of things about Russians -- it was COMMUNISM that I've always hated.

The flight out from Star City to Baikonur where the launches take place is a drunken party -- they know the guys going up are going to be unable to party for quite awhile, so they make up for it on earth. As they go out to the launch pad, the bus with the astronauts stops about a mile from the pad and all the astrnauts / cosmonauts get out and pee on the rear tire -- because Yuri Gagarin did that before his first launch, and since he was successful, it must be good luck!

In the US, there are no people allowed within 3 miles of the pad when the rocket is fueled, however in Russia, 100's of people are milling around -- including some smoking. One blew up in the sixties killing 100's, and they never changed the policy -- people like to watch the launches close up, there is risk involved, what is the problem?

My point here is that Russians seem to still be connected with tradition and even superstition -- the good sense that there is likely to be MUCH more about our universe than we understand, as well as some concept that life is short no matter what you do -- enjoying a space launch up close MIGHT be your last act on earth, however no matter what you do, you will be dead WAY more than you will be alive! Somewhere down that path -- realizing that risk is always inherent with life and certainly with reward, and that taking risks is often WORTH IT, is what makes countries move forward vs degenerating into tribes fighting over diminishing scraps of physical nothing without even a clue that they have killed the spirit in which lies all hope!

As is typical for me in a book like this, I enjoyed the detailed aspects of Kelly's life as an F15 pilot, test pilot and shuttle pilot very much -- however those were a small part of the book. Lots of detail about life aboard the ISS, especially co2 levels which seems to be a pet peeve of Kelley.

If you are a flight / space nerd, you will like it.

Comey : How The Swamp Works

James Comey Confesses | Power Line:



Here in BOistan, a president with a D next to their name is of course LEGITIMATE, the rare (and if the Deep State has anything to say about it, EXTREMELY rare) case of an R holding the office is by definition ILLEGITIMATE! Thus, a quote from his book "Swamp Thing Speaks":

It is entirely possible that, because I was making decisions in an environment where Hillary Clinton was sure to be the next president, my concern about making her an illegitimate president by concealing the restarted investigation bore greater weight than it would have if the election were closer or if Donald Trump were ahead in all polls. But I don’t know.

Of course. Did it ever occurr to the FBI to break into any offices of the Clinton Crime Family? Of course not! They are above the law -- in terms of the Deep State, they are "our people".

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Special Forces Holds J Edgar Hoover Building

The FBI Escalates Its War on the Trump Administration | Power Line:

As I heard the news that Attorney Client Privlege was dead in BOistan, I wondered what sort of headline it would take to start to turn back the clock to when residents of this tribal backwater had any sort of "rights" that didn't involve shedding blood. Military takeover of the FBI building and getting to the bottom of the current political weaponization of the FBI by the Deep State would be a small start, however.

I covered some history on the FBI doing political prosecution back in 2016, I'd love to see them caught dead to rights on the Stevens indictment followed after he had lost the election by "oh, never mind, we don't have a case".

Does that really make any difference though?  As I talked about with "Lawfare" in WI, it seems we are beyond the point of most people caring. The left is HAPPY to see the removal of ALL rights from people who don't agree with them on all points -- Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Association, Right of Due Process, Privacy, etc, etc -- all may be summarily usurped if it can be verified that you have taken actions that might be detrimental to "The Party" (TP-D). I covered what happened in WI here.  I could go on a long and boring list, I'll just include the case of CA deciding that if they want to charge you with the horrible "crime" of "collusion" with a 501c in CA, you are presumed GUILTY, not innocent, and have to prove your innocence to the satisfaction of a CA court!

Imagine the difficulty of a Republican claiming they were "innocent" in a CA court!

In order for there to be even the merest hope of a return to America from BOistan, there would need to be a MASS OUTCRY from all sides on something as egregious as breaking into the president's lawyers office! Even supposed "conservatives" either ignore this because "Trump is tawdry", or "it doesn't matter at this late point". Both of which may well be true, however both show that the level of caring over actual Constitutional rights is very low indeed in this tribal territory.

The FBI breaking into the law office of a lawyer for the president sends a CLEAR message that nobody that fails to be in completel agreement with TP has ANY Constitutional rights! The only people that have any "rights" are people that are in good standing with TP. If they are in good enough standing -- as in the Clinton Crime Family, BO, etc, then they have TOTAL rights. They are above all law.

Much like Janet Lynch and Bill Clinton getting together in 2016 where it was KNOWN that they were meeting, this action is INTENDED to show us that the Deep / Administrative State can do ANYTHING IT WANTS! It is above the law, above the president, above congress, and above the SCOTUS -- it answers to NOBODY!

I think the odds are WAY against it, and even if it came to pass, I think the Republican Party is way too much part of the corrupt DC game, but a major RED wave this fall that said  "we will stand behind drastic measures to return the Deep / Administrative State to the role of EMPLOYEES of "We The People" " might have a tiny chance to make a difference at even this late date.

One thing is very clear -- the Administrative State is absolutely confident that they are completely in charge and able to ANYTHING they desire to attack those that dare stand in their way!

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Social Media For Me, Not for Thee

Cambridge Analytica & Social Media Panic | National Review:

Since Walter Cronkite lost the Vietnam War in 1968, American mass media has known that they have immense power. In Watergate the Washington Post managed to bring down a popular president and have him resign. By the '90's however, there was some diversity in media, and 2016 showed that a saavy candidate that leveraged modern electronic media like Twitter and Facebook could defeat even an full on MSM attack.

Unsurprisingly, the empire of the left is not pleased, and it is striking back. The plan looks to be to turn the new frontier of Social Media into a left wing safe zone.

At a macro level, mass broadcast media was a boon to the Left and center-Left. It allowed a new class of people to shape public opinion as never before. But the appearance of social media represented the return of the repressed. It allowed common conservatives and populists to broadcast their own views, and in some sense legitimate them within their social circle. The efforts to criminalize conservative groups who use social media, and legally suppress citizens’ openly sharing unapproved views, are an attempt to put the new class filter back on.

Not being mainstream is the standard role of those of us to the right of center. It sounds like Facebook has contracted with the AP (Associated Press) to "fact check" things for FB! I guess it might be marginally better than getting the DNC!

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Red Pills, REALLY "Woke" Black Lady

Stossel: Red Pills: New Generation Wakes People Up
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Could some brave and intelligent blacks wake up a culture that has been hamstrung by the left? This lady makes me want to believe!

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#MeToo Madness

Jimmy Kimmel, 'The Man Show,' and the #MeToo Oscars - The Atlantic:

I remember the "Man Show" ... I admit to watching a time or two. It was a bit like a "dumpster fire for men". As a husband, father, Christian, semi-educated person with a decent career, the biggest factor about it was "How have we sunk this low?"  It slithered out of the sewer just after having sex in the Oval Office and lying about it under oath became a "private matter" that we had "Moved On" from, so any sort of "morality", especially related to sex, had become very questionable.

Fast forward to this years Oscars, and we have Jimmy Kimmel lecturing whatever one wants to call this territory on how to treat women. CNN has called him "America's Conscience". Perhaps that is apt -- if it's on CNN? There has been an Amber Alert out for "America" since sometime in 2013, perhaps when they find her, (or pieces of her in some ditch) it will be clear that she went bad around when Jimmy took over as her conscience.

Obviously the "shining city on a hill" slipped into a nasty swamp, and bubbles like Kimmel, "The Man Show" and much else are just gas bubbles rising from the rotting corpse.

Hillary informed us that Trump voters were "irredeemable". How is it that Kimmel was able to be redeemed from the "Man Show" to surface as "America's Conscience"?

My only explanation is that such things are the constant demonstrations of elite power. Jimmy is "redeemed" because he is so declared by the elites who run the media. Since at least Chappaquiddick, we have lived in a society where the elites decide what is good and what is evil, and unless you are are dull witted like the moose, you agree with them!





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