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I have a vague memory of some significant climatic event in Roman areas around 180 ad. Significant climate upheaval gets the barbarians moving. That area faced significant “barbarian” pressure for 2 or 3 centuries before the old Roman empire ceased to be significant. For further history, check out Visigoths, Ostrogoths, and Vandals.

Common Core ping

He also could have trumped Cummings by allowing him to speak and let people actually hear how he speaks.

Politics is so much fun.;-)

Are flags known by the company they keep?

I converted my 4 story row house to all CFL’s 20 years ago. My bills then were around $28, and immediately dropped to $18. That was over $100 a year savings in 1995. So I figure I have saved at least $3,000, plus the bulbs that don’t wear out for 5 to 8 years.

Who was telling this when about whom and where?

Just how communist are these far leftists. What groups were their antecedents?

My grandmother came from the Kaliningrad area when it was East Prussia (German). My grandfather was in the Prussian navy and didn’t like the political direction Bismark was going, so they came to the US.

This seems are serious case of medical malpractice and abuse by the hospital and government, not by the parents. A lot of very good comments with this article.

Actually, you can determine relative age of stone carving if it is exposed to the elements. Differential weathering, growth of lickens, etc. Also, check out Gloria Farley’s book: “In Plain Sight”. It examines in great detail many rock drawings and writing in the US which could be several thousand years old and written in European and North African scripts. Especially, Celtic runes, Iberian and Libyan scripts. Also celebrating various old gods and godesses like Epona, Tanit, Anubis. Quite amazing and fascinating.

The daughter was apparently not a total failure. She was accepted to at least 4 colleges, including a $20,000 scholarship. I suspect there are layers and layers of complexity here. Being the daughter of a police chief may not be a bed of roses.

Actually, reports I have seen say that the entire G-7 is considering holding their meeting NOT in Sochi. In addition the Paraolympics which are due to start this Friday in Sochi have also said they may cancel their plans there. Man, all those $millions spent building up Sochi, and no one will want to stay there and spend money on hotels, restaurants, etc. The horror. How subject to business owner pressure is Putin? I hear the Russian economy is weaker than it was a few years ago. Anyone know more?

That’s true. However, I am not against approriate tough love. When my younger son turned 18, stopped going to school and had no job, I told him his older brother who had just gotten back from Middle East military service told me his friends were paying their parents $200 a month room and board. I said I would like him to start paying me $200 a month, and he said, in that case I’ll move out. He did, lived with 5 friends in a $350 a month house. I encouraged a friend I had helped to give him a job but not take any bullxxxx from him. It worked out well, he married a college graduate, has 2 children, and a good job he created for himself. He was dyslexic and did not do well in school. I used to have him help me with carpentry and other house maintenance projects. He is now supervising a crew of 10 on rehabing large condos.

No, no Kennedies, Clintons are where it’s at.;-)

I saw the movie. It focused on the activities of JSOC. Does anyone know when JSOC was established, and with a mission in the Middle East? There are as many anti-war activists now as there were during the Bush years.

Ah, the 20/20 vision of hindsight.

Surely a retired police chief can afford to send his daughter to some college. State colleges don’t cost that much. Unless he thinks women should be kept barefoot and pregnant.

DC demo ping

Can they sue the lawyer?

It will be a lot of work to just produce a few passenger pigeons. Apparently they needed a flock of at least 1,000 just to generate the sexual excitement and hormones need to make breeding take place. They would probably do well in the south where they were common, and be a good game source of food. They had their niche, and anything that has occupied it since can probably accommodate a few PPs.

I read 3 of Velikovsky’s books 30 years ago. I didn’t believe his Venus/Jupiter theory, but the masses of tumbled bones in Canada and flash frozen Mammoths in Siberia made me believe that something serious happened. Then you posted that book by Firestone, et al, and it all made sense. Please post again for others.

I guess more voters hate unemployment than hate gays.

Glory Drenched in Blood? Is this Catastrophism or GGG??

On the subject of the military, I was listening to the Senate hearing on sexual abuse in the military. Then I ran across this article. Rape reports are up perhaps because military is finally paying attention.
http://www.aol.com/article/2014/02/26/army-removes-588-troops-from-sensitive-jobs/20839330/?ncid=webmail14

Ukraine/Putin ping.

The family I mentioned paid their dues. The husband had his jaw broken and was wired up for 6 weeks, the house broken into 3 times. The wife exposed to certain unpleasantness as well. A decade later the husband was also mugged once, held up at gunpoint twice, and in protecting someone else being attacked on the street had his nose broken. Early “gentrification” is not for the faint of heart or naive.

Know people who bought into a very rough neighborhood in the late ‘60s for around $20,000. They knew it would be rough, but the improvement was moving in that direction. Several break-ins, muggings, etc. later, houses in that block now sell for $1 million.

I remember winter 1956-57 in Iowa City. Eight am temperatures for a week ranged from minus 24 to minus 27f, with mid day temps around 21f below 0. I also spent a summer there with daytime temps from 105 to 107, with nights at 93f, with no AC. UGG!! Has it been that bad in recent years?

Children going to an inner city public school told me that some early elementary grade students engage in sexually explicit activity with each other. Hiding in the coatroom when the teacher takes the class out to recess is one way.

The 1930s Dust Bowl was part climate dry cycle and part man made farming stupidity. Changing farming practices has made this kind of thing much more rare.

Apparently even some Republicans who voted for it are now against it seeing how upset some major businesses are.

And note someone will get a 134 million Euro contract.

I think they are referring to guns vs autos in the US.

Has anyone heard about 3 corporations that have announced they will not move to Arizona because of this bill?

Yeah, the poor Greeks and Romans, history outran them, as it will outrun us, no matter what we do.

Can’t wait to see the rest of the cartoons.

Got to cut those taxes somewhere, so says Grover Norquist and his Muslim wife.

I was well aware that the “hockey stick” refers to the idea of anthropogentic global warming causing a recent uptic in temperatures which showed up on the graphs as a hockey stick shape. I didn’t think I needed to define it for all the knowledgeable people here. On the other hand there have been some interesting possible anthropogenic effects. For a number of years the particulate air pollution in Europe was drifting down over Africa and was ultimately deemed to be the cause of the major “Sahel” droughts. After Europe cleaned up their chimney stacks, the problem seems to have abated. There was also an interesting effect noted when air traffic was stopped for 3 days after 9/11. A change was noted in evaporation rates in pans used by agricultural scientists. I forget what the implications were, but the affect of missing air traffice pollution was noticed with some surprise.

Agree people need to remember Stalin’s reign of terror. Today politically there are people urging Socialism, bragging about their Communist parents, and recommending seizing privately owned public utilities.

Even if the “hockey stick” is wrong, it doesn’t mean climate is not changing. Having paid attention to climate and weather for 60 years, there definitely seem to be clear changes causing serious problems in some areas.

Is Harry Reid a Mormon?

A few more years there won’t be any left.

Now that Republicans have most of the Dixiecrats, who is left for the Democrats to go after?

State taxes ping.

RINO ping.

Watch the profanity. ;-)

Well, if the person is close enough to grab me, or has a gun then I could shoot to kill. My husband took me out to a range and was impressed with my concentration and quick development of good aim. The guy I encountered before I got a gun had a knife.

I sure hope that if they have any kind of case the Madoff’s victims can recover some loses from JP Morgan.

This does not surprise me. I have been noticing for several decades that often when Europe has a bitter winter, our next winter is bitter. Somebody with more spare time than I have could check out this impression.