Judge over rules witch burning, says more evidence needed
The witch was accused of using magic to lighten objects and allow them to levitate or be teleported to their destination and further to have profited by these arts of the devil to build a magnificent...
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You aren't supposed to know, because if you did you might panic.
Five years ago you might have been worried about Peak Energy, Climate Change and the Collapse of Global Civilization but just said TL:DRBy now you know there is nothing you can do about it anyway so...
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Climate Change Trend Line Analysis
Most of us here, by now, recognize that Climate Change is increasing at a rate of increase which is increasing at an increasing rate. That means if it is getting graphed as a straight line instead of a...
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Is Joaquin rotating into the east coast from the north?
I'm no meteorologist, just making an observation.The rains presently attributed to a Nor' Easter that drenched south Carolina have a leg extended out to Joaquin from where the rain has been coming that...
View ArticleHow the War on Poverty became the War on the Poor
For seventy years Republicans have been telling Americans to go soak their heads in Republican propaganda.It comes straight from think tanks like ALEC to Republican Governors and state legislatures. It...
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Government requires infrastructure to function
I want to talk to you about smart cities by giving you a link you can listen to while I write about what's really dumb.The problem with ISIS and Syria is that when during droughts infrastructure fails...
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There is a melt event beginning to happen in Greenland
The New York Times is reporting that Greenland is Melting AwayYou may wonder where all the water is going.Scientists know that the melting of Greenland is accelerating. As the temperature rises, large...
View Article26 States have an Election tomorrow
Short Diary No Poll cause we are headed out to go vote early.Tuesday November 3, 2015 in Maine there is a local election in Portland (Cumberland County) raising the minimum wage. In addition Statewide...
View ArticleMinimum Wage voted down in Portland ME due to low off year election turnout
In the midcoast clean elections and bond issues for low income senior housing and transportation won, but in Portland (Cumberland County) raising the minimum wage lost. It lost decisively unless you...
View ArticleBlack Fire Marshall stopped by white cop knows his rights backs the cop off
I came across this on You tube, thought it might be worth passing around.The traffic stop was for tinted windows and a front headlight outThe Fire Marshall produced documentation as requested but...
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Study of huge Siberian craters shows Giant Pool of Methane below them
Further study shows there may be some reason for concernApparently in the arctic, all along the outward continental shelves and in Siberia Methane is beginning to outgas explosively with enough force...
View ArticleTwelve Partner Nations Agree to Collectively Transition to a Low Emissions...
Most of the CO2 is in the oceans and out of reach. Methane Hydrates aren’t being considered yet. Meanwhile the portion of the atmosphere covering North America which is sustained above 1850 ppb is now...
View ArticleRepublican's face Obama SCOTUS Pick
They could obstruct Obama’s pick and hope the Republican loss of control of the SCOTUS is a temporary setback.They could take a chance Bernie wins and makes an Elizabeth Warren type pick that will...
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Alliance or Horde
The Powers that Be are looking for a better way to organizeThe Problem with elections is that they involve established organizations that want to do things exactly the same way they did last time.They...
View ArticleThe Clinton Wing of the Democratic Party needs to update its drivers.
Many people find updating their drivers forces them to pay attention to service functions they would rather just ignore. Its like changing the oil in your car; procrastination can cost you.In a...
View ArticleRepublican perception of their party moving away from being on board to...
Being forced to choose between staying onboard through the primaries and then walking the plank in the general election rather than go down with the ship when Trump’s popularity among the yahoos fails...
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Fox News has Trump down 10 points to Hillary
Fox News is going on the list of media Trump no longer pays attention to.Phenomenologically there is general consensus that the Trump campaign has crashed and burned. Its not just the media. If you...
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Lawn Surfing
Lawn SurfingMy wife has a new drug. After a three year ordeal of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy she has some hope that this pill might be different from all the other stuff. Its relatively new and...
View ArticleSpecial Session of Maine Legislature Gov. Paul LePage is unfit to serve.
"You've" been in uniform? You shoot at the enemy," he said at a statehouse press conference Friday, according to the Portland Press-Herald. "You try to identify the enemy and the enemy right now, the...
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The Russians are friends of ours
My movie pitch begins with what did it really mean to be “A friend of ours” In NYC in 1980.As you will recall Jimmy Carter was putting solar cells on the White House roof and Exxon was deciding that a...
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Happy Thanksgiving everybody, let's be grateful we can stop worrying about...
Donald Trump remains extremely scary, but not as Scary as This.Even before the election results, back around Halloween we were a little scared to see this spike.Its nothing new really, CO2 was reported...
View ArticleResistance is not futile.
I am much encouraged by displays of alternative energy. So far we have three states in which the costs for the filing fees to contest the results appear to have identified funding. We will need to...
View ArticleA Family of Deer in the Headlights
Did you and your wife and child take a chance, go wrong somewhere, and find yourself in a situation where you have no idea what to do, which way to go, forward or back.Are you seeing yourself as a deer...
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You couldn't pitch this to Hollywood as an action movie
The Plot.A few days before the electoral college meets to choose who will be the President Elect of the United States of America, and shortly after Brexit and the UK leaving the European Union, a group...
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Today is the Day
Today is the day the 538 members of the Electoral College meet in 51 locations to choose a President Elect for the United States of America (and perhaps what the Russians and Exxon Mobile, might call...
View ArticleAn Animation about discovering whether Antimatter falls up
I hope the Trump administration doesn’t cut all our funding for Science.Over at CERN Europe has been working for the last couple of decades to study some interesting questions about antimatter.Maybe we...
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Food for Thought
Operation Cyclone was the code name for the United StatesCentral Intelligence Agency (CIA) program to arm and finance the Jihadi warriors, mujahideen, in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989, prior to and...
View ArticleThe President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.
Schumer is already mentioning this.“The Twenty-fifth amendment to the Constitution of the United StatesSection 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the...
View ArticleHow to Defend against Rape, Loot, and Plunder by the Thieves Guild
Trump and his basket of deplorables cabinet are engaged in a denial of services attack not just on government but on the information we have paid government to collect and provide us so we can run our...
View ArticleFountainhead as a Denial of Service Counter Attack
Republican/right wingers who refuse to give women medical treatment they disapprove of on ideological grounds claim its an act of conscience.When it comes to appeals to higher moral ground and...
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March 15 the Ides of March
I’m just thinking about what to stock up on to go with the popcorn. How far down the succession list will they have to go after Sessions before they get tired of the Billionaires Bailing.Will Gorsuch...
View ArticleIf you have friends have a party
Pick an issue. make it your issue. Take ten friends and go to your county Democratic committee meetings regularly for a few months until they let you vote on things. Listen to people. Network by...
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Sea level rise in meters per degree of warming as Chief EPA Environmental...
Multi Millenial? Here we have a graph (E) showing 2.3 m/°C, and that at 2°C, which we are fast approaching we could have from 5 to 10 meters of sea level rise before 2026, mostly coming from the...
View ArticleHow many Jobs does Trumps budget cut?
The Washington Post has a number of articles up covering this.On Thursday, the Trump administration released a preliminary 2018 budget proposal, which details many of the changes the president wants to...
View ArticleIPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) and 2018 US elections
The IPCC has determined the need for a special “peer reviewed” report. The selection of authors has just occurred on March 12, 2017. IPCC acceptance/adoption/approval is scheduled for fall 2018 which...
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The Arctic Sea Ice Reduction since 1978 is 4 x10^6 km2 half of which is since...
Its true that not all the sea ice is gone yet, but much of what remains is thin enough that the light passing through it is allowing algae blooms. In many places it is cracked and subject to being...
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The Gulf Stream is warming up.
I don’t think its good to be able to see the rate of the breakup increase increasing at an increasing rateBeaufort sea ice loss 2014-2016This view to the south shows the SCAR inlet - the remaining...
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The times they are a changing
I find graphs whose rate of increase increases at an increasing rate until they form right angles make good framing squares.In particular the IPCC and the UN projections if graphed would show their...
View ArticleHung Parliament
Hard Brexit — Soft Brexit — Pound tumbles — maybe no Brexit after all.Theresa May lost her 24 point majority when her gamble to strengthen her hand in Brexit negotiations backfired. The loss is being...
View ArticleA Growing Rift
In a new international rift, Larsen C, an Ice Shelf the size of Delaware, is about to leave Antarctica.Larsen C ice is the leading edge of one of the world's largest glacier systems. A single large...
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"I am gonna ask you questions. And every time you don't give me answers, I'm...
This updates “A Growing Rift” last addressed a month ago with Larson C at 11 miles to separation. That is now down to 5 km with the rift growing at 10 m a day and accelerating because the shear and...
View ArticleMassive Antarctic Volcano Eruption
“We know that rapid climate change at this time was primed by changes in solar insolation and the Northern Hemisphere ice sheets," explained McConnell. "Glacial and interglacial cycles are driven by...
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Tell me a story
Tell me everything you know about people sharing a surname with Anton Vaino. Tell me about his grandfather’ success in shutting down the Estonian independence movement while serving as chief of the...
View ArticleGolden wins in Maine 2nd District by about 3000 votes
Golden has beaten Poliquin by 3000 votes in ranked choice voting.
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Global Climate Change Denial is Costing Coastal Cities Quadrillions in...
It's ironic that shorefront property to include, golf courses, airports, railheads and subways, seaports, military bases, government buildings, homes, hotels, and most urban infrastructure once...
View ArticleArctic News Warns Humans are now Functionally Extinct
Koalas, The Burmese Star Tortoise, South China Tigers, White Rhinos, Humans and over the last 100 years 500 other species have become functionally extinct because of Humans..When will we dieIt took me...
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Foreign affairs: A US drone shot down. Iran claims over its territory. Trump...
Russian Missle used by Iran to shoot down a drone.
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Arctic News Goes there "Beyond Climate Tipping points"
Mount Everest no longer has snow and ice to cover the bodies of hundreds of dead climbersxxYouTube VideoThe Polar Ice Caps with Ice Shelves the size of New England States are detatching.The damage has...
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Make America Great Again. Get Rid of Trump. Then take out the Republicans in...
In Maine, we are losing our lobsters and cold water fish, our pine forests and minds. Yes, LePage is gone but we still have Susan Collins and CMP. This Spring was pretty wet. It seems like we are in...
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The melting polar ice caps aren't going to be your grandchildren's concern,...
Paraphrasing the End Game. July 8, 2019. Fires are raging over Alaska. Carbon monoxide levels hit 43,443 ppb. Carbon dioxide levels are as high as 561 ppm over Alaska. A forecast for July 10, predicts...
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