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The United Kingdom is temporarily suspending flights from six countries as a new Covid variant with more than 30 mutations spreads in South Africa.

In her Saban Forum speech today, Hillary Clinton announced that if Iran breaks Obama's deal that the USA must keep the Nuclear Option on the table. Justice Breyer interjects, "correcting" her to say that the "Military Option" must remain on the table. The news media runs only the Breyer version, scrubbing Hillary's "Nuclear Option" quote...editing her speech to say "Military Option" instead of what she actually uttered.

The United States flew two B-52 bombers over the weekend near man-made islands constructed by China in the South China Sea, a U.S. official told The Hill, in a clear challenge to China's territorial claims to the area. The bombers made one pass within 12 nautical miles of the islands...

The U.S. Navy said it launched a second -- and final -- missile in a planned exercise Monday afternoon from a submarine off the Southern California coast. The second test launch of the Trident II (D5) missile from a ballistic submarine in the Pacific Ocean took place Monday afternoon, the Navy said. The blast-off took place to far less fanfare than Saturday night's launch, which provoked residents from San Francisco to Mexico to take to social media, posting photos of an eerie-looking bluish-green plume smeared above the Pacific...

US Navy say "light in the West Coast sky" was a Trident II (D5) missile test at sea from the submarine "Kentucky" www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xLmB81v-BI

In 2014 the Democrats have 20 Senate seats up for the November vote. 17 of those seats are either vacant (retired incumbent) or held by Freshmen Senators. 7 of those seats are in states that either went for Romney in 2012 or else recalled sitting Democrats from their state legislature in 2013. Faced with the above, potential GOP Senate candidates for those 20 seats would appreciate something new...campaign material that doesn't regurgitate traditional Beltway Elite talking points about taxes, abortion, gay rights, etc. However, to create material that does not involve the rehashed political ideas of the 2012 Romney Campaign...

CLIMATE RESEARCH Clim Res Vol. 23: 89–110, 2003 Published January 31 1. INTRODUCTION Are the Little Ice Age and Medieval Warm Period widespread climatic anomalies? Lamb (1965) wrote, ‘[M]ultifarious evidence of a meteorological nature from historical records, as well as archaeological, botanical and glaciological evidence in various parts of the world from the Arctic to New Zealand . . . has been found to suggest a warmer epoch lasting several centuries between about A.D. 900 or 1000 and about 1200 or 1300. . . . Both the ”Little Optimum” in the early Middle Ages and the cold epochs [i.e. ”Little...

Falsification Of The Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects Abstract The atmospheric greenhouse effect, an idea the authors trace back to the traditional works of Fourier 1824, Tyndall 1861 and Arrhenius 1896, but which is still supported in global climatology, essentially describes a fictitious mechanism by which a planetary atmosphere acts as a heat pump driven by an environment that is radiatively interacting with but radiatively equilibrated to the atmospheric system. According to the second law of thermodynamics such a planetary machine can never exist. Nevertheless, in almost all texts of global climatology and in widespread secondary literature it is taken for...

Must society borrow money today for current social programs (e.g. Social Security, Dept. Education, Medicare/Medicaid, Welfare, War on Poverty, et al) that will leave a legacy of debt for our kids to repay? Or is there another option? Of course, the obvious, idealistic answer is that the scope of government must be cut. I agree. That doesn't seem realistic anytime soon, however. *So, can we please spare this thread from a series of posts along that line? Surely there are enough threads on cutting spending, already. What about in the meantime? Elected officials are about to vote in a $3.8...

Shoppers saw lower prices at the supermarket in June, but falling costs may spell trouble for struggling Alabama farmers. According to a food price survey complied by the Alabama Farmers Federation, the price of 20 basic market items including milk, eggs and bacon, fell in June. The market basket averaged $51.60 the first week of June, down 58 cents from a month earlier. Prices of dairy products such as cottage cheese and milk dropped sharply. Falling costs can be linked to an oversupply of milk that is flooding the market, the federation said in a news release. The average cost...

WASHINGTON — Obama administration officials worked Sunday to persuade reluctant private investors to buy as much as $1 trillion in troubled mortgages and related assets from banks, with government help. ... But some executives at private equity firms and hedge funds, who were briefed on the plan Sunday afternoon, are anxious about the recent uproar over millions of dollars in bonus payments made to executives of the American International Group. Some of them have told administration officials that they would participate only if the government guaranteed that it would not set compensation limits on the firms... ...“What we’re talking about...

Wednesday morning, August 27, between 11 am and 1:30 pm EST or 9 am and 11:30 am mountain time, I'll be chairing a New America Foundation/Middle East Task Force event in Denver at the Colorado History Museum. The keynotes are Senator JOHN KERRY (D-MA), Obama National Security Adviser GREG CRAIG, Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School Dean ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER, former Congressman and Obama Adviser MEL LEVINE, former German Foreign Minister JOSCHKA FISCHER, and Aspen Institute President (and former CNN Chairman and CEO and TIME Managing Editor) Walter Isaacson. Our panel will be former Israeli negotiator and New America Foundation Senior Fellow...

“All the illegal border crossings are down. It looks like the border patrol is doing their job. There’s really no need for a wall like that,” said Mark Abeyta from east El Paso. The El Paso sector has reported that they have apprehended 25,500 illegal border crossers during the first nine months of this fiscal year. This is the lowest since 2000, and it was made possible because of more barriers, increased agents and the zero-tolerance policies. Currently the Department of Homeland Security has completed around 300 miles of pedestrian and vehicle fencing and they expect to have a total...

A single-digit month. Looking at the coalition fatalities for the first half of July, 2008 shows something remarkable...something not yet noted by any mainstream news agencies or blogs. At first glance, the stats show that 6 good Americans gave their lives for our country so far this month in Iraq. But that number of 6 doesn't tell the tale. Looking more closely at the numbers, two of our lost soldiers were due to non-hostile work accidents (e.g. one was electrocuted). But that doesn't mean that we've lost 4 good men to combat this month...you see...two of those lost to combat...

Et Tu, Intel? Chip Giant Won’t Embrace Microsoft’s Windows Vista By Steve Lohr Intel, the giant chip maker and longtime partner of Microsoft, has decided against upgrading the computers of its own 80,000 employees to Microsoft’s Vista operating system, a person with direct knowledge of the company’s plans said. The person, who has been briefed on the situation but requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of Intel’s relationship with Microsoft, said the company made its decision after a lengthy analysis by its internal technology staff of the costs and potential benefits of moving to Windows Vista, which has drawn fire...

Gov. Bob Riley is scheduled to sign a law Tuesday that provides tax incentives to help small businesses afford health insurance for employees. The incentive is part of the governor's Plan 2010 agenda that was passed by the Alabama Legislature during the special session in May. Under the legislation, owners of small businesses with fewer than 25 employees will be able to deduct 150 percent of the amount they pay for health insurance premiums from their state income taxes. Employees of these small businesses who earn less than $50,000 a year will also be able to deduct 150 percent of...

"I don't (believe) American's are willing to conserve" isn't the problem -- the real problem is that Americans (and others) can even admit, nor comprehend, what their true energy use is -- for example, Al Gore, Sheryl Crow, all of Hollywood..."

Dems’ beauty skin deep Ugly cuts straight to bone By Kyle WhitmireIt has been said that politics is show business for ugly people, but more often the case is that politics is pretty people doing ugly things. ... While Edwards met with the moneyed interests upstairs, I sat in the lobby and watched the johns cycle in and out — among them Alabama Democratic Party flunkies such as Lowell Barron, Julian McPhillips and Stan Pate (with Nick Bailey shuttling him in and out). Prostitution is legal in Hoover, just so long as there’s no sex involved. With an unpopular president,...

The Marginalized Mainstream By Shawn Macomber Published 6/14/2006 12:12:16 AM LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Somewhere between donning tongue-in-cheek tinfoil hats to symbolically deride those who label them conspiracy theorists and insisting they were "a fairly representative cross-section of the Democratic Party," the gathered at a well-attended Yearly Kos panel on Reforming the Electoral Process cheered wildly at the suggestion that, well, whitey don't know what he done got coming to him. "By the year 2020 we will be a majority minority state which means we will have more people of Latino, African American and Native American heritage than of Anglo...

There was No Rush Hour Traffic Today in West Palm Beach, I heard the same for Fort Laud and Miami. Thanks Illegals!!! Could you all take off tommorow, or just go back to Mexico? It'd make my daily communte so much easier! How was traffic in the other cities around the US today? Much better, right? #2 Yesterday, 07:48 PM Chad072 Location: Humble, Tx Houston traffic looked a little lighter today. jbemedicalanalyst Traffic seemed lighter in Orlando #4 Yesterday, 08:43 PM TexasF355F1 Location: Houston Full Name: Jason Quote: Originally Posted by Chad072 Houston traffic looked a little lighter today. Seemed...