Don't let them get to you.. I'm the typo king and they constantly remind me of it.. the normal response to the critics is FK em if they can't take a joke… keep on keeping on.. to much at stake
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Every minute every day
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Make it worth the price we pay
NASA, SpaceX and a test dummy are ready for Dragon 2’s first trip to space station
NASA gave the all-clear today for the first test flight of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship to the International Space Station in a week, setting the stage for crewed missions later this year.
There won’t be any crew aboard this first Crew Dragon, also known as the Dragon 2, but there will be an instrument-laden, spacesuit-wearing mannequin sitting in one of the seats, to provide data about the environment that astronauts will experience.
“Should I say ‘dummy,’ is that the right word?” Hans Koenigsmann, SpaceX’s vice president of mission assurance, asked during a briefing for reporters at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
“ATD, ATD,” said Kathy Lueders, program manager for NASA’s commercial crew program. “We prefer to not call them dummies.” (For the record, ATD stands for Anthropomorphic Test Device or Anthropomorphic Test Dummy.)
There’ll also be a load of cargo to be sent up to the station from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, at 2:48 a.m. ET March 2 (11:48 p.m. PT March 1). Lueders said the total mass would be “pretty close” to what the Dragon 2 will carry when astronauts climb aboard.
https://www.geekwire.com/2019/nasa-spacex-test-dummy-set-dragon-2s-first-trip-space-station/
With corruption like this, it’s no wonder so many pension funds are insolvent
Last week, the head of a New York state pension fund found herself a new job.
Vicki Fuller, the former head of New York’s $209 billion fund, now earns $275,000 per year working part time for a natural gas group called The Williams Companies– good work if you can get it.
It’s noteworthy that when Ms. Fuller ran her state pension fund, she invested $110 million of taxpayer money to buy bonds issued by none other than The Williams Companies.
Bear in mind that Moody’s, the credit rating agency, downgraded Williams’ financial outlook to “negative” because of the company’s high leverage and risk.
The fund that Ms. Fuller managed also voted in favor of huge, multi-million dollar pay packages for senior executives of The Williams Companies even though the stock price was dropping.
https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/with-corruption-like-this-its-no-wonder-so-many-pension-funds-are-insolvent-24204/
It's no wonder no one wants to invest in Canada's resources
OTTAWA, ON (February 22, 2019): While the modern Canadian economy is largely diversified, the natural resource sector still plays an incredibly important role when it comes to creating economic opportunity and prosperity. So, why can’t Canada seem to get resource development right?
In the latest MLI commentary, long-time Globe and Mail columnist Jeffrey Simpson addresses the “Uncertainty and Confusion in Canada’s Natural Resource Development.” It is a powerful indictment.
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“If you believe that fossil fuels will be in demand here and abroad for a very long time,” writes Simpson, “then [Canada’s struggles to get pipelines built and LNG projects off the ground are] bad news for employment, government revenues, economic growth and the Canadian dollar.”
Simpson makes the case that the review process for projects too often bogs down. First Nations with legitimate impact claims are often not clearly understood by all parties; the proper representatives for First Nations communities are often unclear; Canada’s courts seem to muddy the waters even more, unable to provide consistent answers regarding precedent in these cases; government often adds hoops to jump through or new layers of review for projects.
“Time is money, and the more time that is spent consulting and negotiating, the greater the chance that the company will walk away or, looking at precedents, decide not to invest.”
To help bring more clarity to the consultation and negotiation process, Simpson argues that governments should avoid using loose language and trying to please all parties completely. Some examples may be found in the federal government’s approach to “free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC),” and its frequent references to the concept of social licence. Thus far, there is no clear definition of what FPIC means to the government, nor is there any commonly understood definition – legally or otherwise – of social licence. But these empty commitments are seized on by those who oppose any and all oil and gas development.
https://canadafreepress.com/article/its-no-wonder-no-one-wants-to-invest-in-canadas-resources
Make America great again. It is very presidential.
The Riddle of Climate Change
The Riddle: What climate does climate change change?
The Answer: The political climate of course.
Let me explain. Pollution and climate change are two separate issues. Environmental pollution is a man-made problem that humans can and should remedy. Taking responsibility for our behavior is a necessary part of civilized life and eliminating environmental horrors like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is something we all need to support. So far so good.
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Climate change, on the other hand, is a natural phenomenon that is an intrinsic part of the earth’s environmental history. For the past millions of years the natural climate on Earth has fluctuated between warm periods and ice ages in approximately 100,000 year cycles. 80-90,000 years of ice age are followed by 10-20,000 years of a warm period.
Climate change was originally called global warming but environmental politicians had to change its name because the earth was embarrassing them by cooling. A rose by any other name is still a rose and so is climate change. The cooling and warming patterns of climate change are a natural, enduring, and ongoing phenomenon.
It is absurd to insist that man is responsible for changing the earth’s climate so why does the narrative persist? Let’s find out by identifying who the the climate activists are and by determining who benefits from the narrative of man-made climate change.
https://canadafreepress.com/article/the-riddle-of-climate-change
There would be much Rejoicing/Crying
Leftist group “Just Communities” is in the legal crosshairs
Parents sue to fight Anti-White, Anti-Male, Anti-Christian, Communist Indoctrination in California
Parents in Santa Barbara, California, are suing a leftist hate group called Just Communities and the local school board there to end the group’s taxpayer-funded so-called implicit bias training that has a powerful anti-white, anti-male, and anti-Christian slant.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Los Angeles, was brought by Fair Education Santa Barbara, a nonprofit formed by parents of children enrolled in the Santa Barbara Unified School District (SBUSD).
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The group’s lawyer, Eric Early, calls the curriculum used in the district “radical, discriminatory, and illegal.” In a letter to the district’s counsel last September he wrote that “[t]eachers, parents and students have confidentially expressed their concerns that … [the] discriminatory curriculum has led to increased racial animosity toward Caucasian teachers and students.”
Just Communities (its full name is Just Communities Central Coast) has a contract with the Santa Barbara Unified School District to indoctrinate young people into believing that America today is a manifestly immoral, cruel country in which white people routinely oppress non-whites, men oppress women, Christians oppress non-Christians, heterosexuals oppress gays, and the wealthy oppress the poor.
In Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Marxist theorist Paulo Freire urged that schools be used to inculcate radical values in students to transform them into agents of social change. Freire argued that the so-called dominant pedagogy “silences” poor and minority children and that there is no such thing as a neutral educational system. Teachers today are also smitten with the ahistorical, anti-American screeds of Howard Zinn, a Communist Party USA member whose writings they treat as gospel.
https://canadafreepress.com/article/parents-sue-to-fight-anti-white-anti-male-anti-christian-communist-indoctri
Interesting timing
Win in Washington State: Judge Strikes Down Unconstitutional ‘Cyberstalking’ Law Chilling Free Speech
Great news out of Washington state: a federal judge has ruled that the First Amendment protects speech on the Internet, even from anonymous speakers, and even if it’s embarrassing.
EFF has been fighting this statute for a long time. It’s a prime example of how sloppy approaches to combatting “cyberstalking” can go terribly wrong. As we explained in an amicus brief filed in this case by EFF and the ACLU of Washington, the law could potentially block the routine criticism of politicians and other public figures that is an integral part of our democracy.
Online harassment requires careful and sophisticated solutions, but this law instead banned using all “electronic communications” intended to “embarrass” someone that are made anonymously or repeatedly or include an obscenity. It’s easy to think of a host of perfectly reasonable criticisms that could be criminalized by this vague and overbroad law: one politician publishing various lists of questionable decisions made by an election challenger; a series of newspaper editorials arguing that a city official should be scorned because of misconduct; or an activist posting multiple videos of a lawmaker doing something unsavory.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02/win-washington-state-judge-strikes-down-unconstitutional-cyberstalking-law
Germany is reportedly looking to finally sell off what remains of its abortive RQ-4E Euro Hawk drone program to Canada, which could use the unmanned aircraft to patrol its claims in the steadily more contested Arctic region. Unfortunately, the pilotless surveillance plane lacks essential components, including its navigation and flight control systems, which render it unflyable in its present form, raising questions about what value it would actually have for the Canadians.
The Associated Press was the first to report the possible deal, which is still very much in its infancy. Canadian authorities subsequently confirmed that had reached out to the Germans for information about the Euro Hawk, a variant of Northrop Grumman’s Global Hawk drone, but said they were still far from making a final decision about what system to buy to meet the needs of the country’s Arctic drone surveillance program, according to CBC.
Senator Kamala Harris Supports Reparations for Slavery – But Her Jamaican Ancestors Were Plantation Slave Owners?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/02/senator-kamala-harris-supports-reparations-for-slavery-her-jamaican-ancestors-were-plantation-slave-owners/
Probably why their selling it and the main reason why Canada whats it
Army inflicts losses upon terrorists in Hama countryside
Hama, SANA – The army on Sunday responded to terrorist groups’ breaches of the de-escalation zone agreement as they attempted to sneak from the surroundings of Latamina and Hasraya towns into military points in northern Hama.
SANA reporter in Hama said that the army units dealt with the terrorists’ infiltration attempts from the outskirts of Latamina and Hasraya towns towards military points in Hama northern countryside, using the appropriate weapons.
A number of the terrorists were killed and their dens were destroyed.
https://sana.sy/en/?p=159526
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Sackler Embraced Plan to Conceal OxyContin’s Strength From Doctors, Sealed Testimony Shows
This story is a collaboration between ProPublica and STAT.
In May 1997, the year after Purdue Pharma launched OxyContin, its head of sales and marketing sought input on a key decision from Dr. Richard Sackler, a member of the billionaire family that founded and controls the company. Michael Friedman told Sackler that he didn’t want to correct the false impression among doctors that OxyContin was weaker than morphine, because the myth was boosting prescriptions — and sales.
“It would be extremely dangerous at this early stage in the life of the product,” Friedman wrote to Sackler, “to make physicians think the drug is stronger or equal to morphine….We are well aware of the view held by many physicians that oxycodone [the active ingredient in OxyContin] is weaker than morphine. I do not plan to do anything about that.”
“I agree with you,” Sackler responded. “Is there a general agreement, or are there some holdouts?”
Ten years later, Purdue pleaded guilty in federal court to understating the risk of addiction to OxyContin, including failing to alert doctors that it was a stronger painkiller than morphine, and agreed to pay $600 million in fines and penalties. But Sackler’s support of the decision to conceal OxyContin’s strength from doctors — in email exchanges both with Friedman and another company executive — was not made public.
https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/71226/sackler-embraced-plan-to-conceal-oxycontins-strength-from-doctors-sealed-testimony.html
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Paul Manafort Indicted and in Solitary Confinement While Hillary and Creepy Podesta Brothers Run Free – Manafort Worked for Podestas!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/02/paul-manafort-indicted-and-in-solitary-confinement-while-hillary-and-creepy-podesta-brothers-run-free-manafort-worked-for-podestas/