The RoanokeSlant
This file is a US personal journal of commentary of examples of the Roanoke Times and Liberal Media Slant...... lbhagen@aol.comTuesday, December 31, 2019
Happy New Year 2020
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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2020!
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As a positive, bright and uplifting
approach to
Starting the New Year:
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Click to Enjoy the Beautiful
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Music, Video And Message by Sissel
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Auld Lang Syne
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(Sound On-Up and Full Screen)
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The title of the Scottish tune
translates to "times gone by"
and is about remembering friends
from the past
and not letting them be forgotten.
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Despite its strong association with
New Year's Eve,
"Auld Lang Syne," written by Robert
Burns in the 1700s,
was never intended to be a holiday song.
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2019 Most Admired Man Disaster
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What IF
they held a competition for the Most Admired Man and Trump tied Obama?
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What a
disaster for the Democrats, the PravdaMedia and the anti-Trumpers!
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How can a
President that just got Pseudo-Impeached by Pelosi, the swamp mistress, tie
Obama and his legacy and his massive PR circus?
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This has to be true – you can’t make
this ‘stuff’ up!
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Trump and
Obama are tied for 2019's most admired man in the U.S.
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Outstanding Senatorial Woman Of 2020
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Kelly
Loeffler New Georgia US Republican
Senator
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“What
people will learn about me is that I'm a proud patriot, a devoted wife, & a
devout Christian. A life-long Republican who is unapologetically pro-2nd
Amendment, pro-military, pro-wall, & pro-Trump. I am strongly pro-life
& make no apologies for my conservative values. #gapol”
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What a
contrast to the Democrat-PravdaMedia hyping and embracing AOC and her so called
“squad”!
Who Has Promoted AOC Over All Others And Why?
- Who Has Promoted AOC Over All Others And Why?
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The
contrast with Left-wing Pathetic ‘1984 DoubleSpeak’
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American Greatness Poll
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Roanoke
Times, 12-28-2019, Pg 7: Editorial: What was the greatest decade?
(Couched in condescending terms of Trump’s MAGA)
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The results
of the poll looks like a scatter plot.
Perhaps a
better question would be:
What were
the events in American History that personified America’s Greatness?
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Hopefully
the answers would highlight:
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The
American Revolution: 1775–1783
The
American Constitutional Convention May to September 1787
The British
Invasion: 1812 to 1815
The War
Between The States 1861 to 1865
WW I: 1914
to 1918
The Great
Depression 1929 to 1941
WW II: 1939
to 1945
The Cold
War: 1945 to 1990
The Civil
Rights Act of 1964
The Moon
Landing 1962 to 1969
The
Development of
Transportation Systems
Communications
Systems
Computational
Systems
Educational
Systems
Medical
Care
Agriculture
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Perhaps our
American History classes could use Tom Brokaw’s book:
The
Greatest Generation as a primary reference.
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Perhaps
Trump’s MAGA is not just a reflection upon the past but a call and challenge
for Greatness going forward!
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When considering
America’s Greatness, perhaps
folks in the Roanoke area might reflect on their
own Bill Overstreet and his visit to Paris:
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Monday, December 30, 2019
Anti-Semitic And Anti-Christian Attacks
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The Trump View of Christians and Jewish Brotherhood
Anti-Semitism
has raised its ugly head again throughout the US:
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In NY
the violence is horrific over this holiday season.
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NYC so
called mayor de Blasio blames his sanctuary city’s anti-Semitic attacks on Washington (meaning
Trump).
Clearly
Trump has been the most pro-Jewish and pro-Israel President in our history and
a major contrast to Obama’s pro-Muslim anti-Jewish actions and rhetoric.
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After
string of anti-Semitic attacks, de Blasio laments hatred 'emanating from Washington'
(may have
to copy-paste link into browser to view fox article)
“New York
City Mayor Bill
de Blasio blames an "atmosphere of hate" for the recent increase
in anti-Semitic attacks in his city and the surrounding areas,
but in a Fox News interview, he passed at least some of the blame to the
nation's capital.
… and at
least eight incidents took place in Brooklyn
earlier this month.
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The family
of the suspect in the brutal attack at a rabbi’s home during a
Hanukkah celebration on Saturday night said in a statement that he has
suffered from a long history of mental illness and has no known history of
anti-Semitism.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/suspect-in-hanukkah-attack-outside-new-york-city-has-history-of-mental-illness-family-says
(may have to copy-paste link into browser to view fox article)
(may have to copy-paste link into browser to view fox article)
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Feds charge
Hanukkah stabbing suspect with hate crimes
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/12/30/feds-charge-hanukkah-stabbing-suspect-with-hate-crimes/23889945/
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/12/30/feds-charge-hanukkah-stabbing-suspect-with-hate-crimes/23889945/
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Hanukkah
machete rampage victim may not regain consciousness,
https://abcnews.go.com/US/hanukkah-machete-rampage-victim-regain-consciousness-family/story?id=68017549&cid=clicksource_4380645_null_headlines_hed
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The Trump View of Christians and Jewish Brotherhood
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Christians
also continue to suffer from the ongoing war against Christianity:
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The Growing
Anti-Semitic Virus In America
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PravdaMedia Defiles Trump’s Respect And Support For Judaism
PravdaMedia Defiles Trump’s Respect And Support For Judaism
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DC Council
Member Blames AGW Snowfall On Jewish Bankers
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Obama Gives
Jews Pork For Hanukkah
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Texas Churches No Longer ‘Gun-Free Killing Fields’
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Police: 2
parishioners shot, killed Texas
church gunman
“WHITE
SETTLEMENT, Texas (AP) — Congregants shot and killed a man who opened fire in a
church near Fort Worth, Texas, on Sunday, killing the attacker, police said.”
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Texas Republican credits church security
team, change in state law after shooting
(may have
to copy-paste link into browser to view fox article)
“The deadly
shooting inside a Texas church on Sunday prompted Republicans there to
credit the changes in state law that permitted concealed
firearms inside places of worship after it was revealed that the
gunman was fatally shot six seconds after opening fire.”
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Gun-Free
Zones An Invitation To Psychopaths
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Guns For
Schools?
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Realities
Of The Parkland School Massacre
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Democrats
Continue Assault On 2nd Amendment
Saturday, December 28, 2019
Fairfax Schools Enabling More Street Radicals?
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Washington Post By Dec. 26, 2019
"One of the nation’s biggest school systems will let students take time off to protest. The conservative backlash has begun."
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(may have to copy-paste link into browser to view fox article)
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Washington Post By Dec. 26, 2019
"One of the nation’s biggest school systems will let students take time off to protest. The conservative backlash has begun."
“Starting
Jan. 27, Fairfax County Public Schools in Northern
Virginia will permit students in seventh through 12th grades one
excused absence each school year for loosely defined “civic engagement
activities,” school system spokeswoman Lucy Caldwell said. Such activities
might include marches, sit-ins or trips to Richmond to lobby legislators, said Fairfax
School Board member Ryan McElveen, who introduced the policy.”
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I have been
informed by a member of the Fairfax School Board that:
“in the actual language of the regulation --- A parent or guardian submits the request for participation in a civic activity, the activity is for part of a school day and the school system is notified of the parent or guardian’s intent.”
Very interesting ‘clarification’!
This clearly is not the content, tenor nor message contained in the Washington Post article that highlights marches, sit-ins and remote group lobbying including a very dynamic photo of student protesters in DC (parents nowhere in sight)!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/one-of-the-nations-biggest-school-systems-will-let-students-take-time-off-to-protest-the-conservative-backlash-has-begun/2019/12/26/7c2ebaf8-27e3-11ea-9c21-2c2a4d2c2166_story.html
I recommended that the School Board request a ‘do over’ by the Washington Post specifically quoting ‘the regulations’.
Did the Washington Post ‘spike this ball’ – or – is the Fairfax School Board having ‘activism remorse'?
“in the actual language of the regulation --- A parent or guardian submits the request for participation in a civic activity, the activity is for part of a school day and the school system is notified of the parent or guardian’s intent.”
Very interesting ‘clarification’!
This clearly is not the content, tenor nor message contained in the Washington Post article that highlights marches, sit-ins and remote group lobbying including a very dynamic photo of student protesters in DC (parents nowhere in sight)!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/one-of-the-nations-biggest-school-systems-will-let-students-take-time-off-to-protest-the-conservative-backlash-has-begun/2019/12/26/7c2ebaf8-27e3-11ea-9c21-2c2a4d2c2166_story.html
I recommended that the School Board request a ‘do over’ by the Washington Post specifically quoting ‘the regulations’.
Did the Washington Post ‘spike this ball’ – or – is the Fairfax School Board having ‘activism remorse'?
Something about being on the ‘bleeding
edge' of activism?
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The
left-wing, Liberal, Progressives who indoctrinate our students with their
socialist ideology are celebrating their success by now turning their
student-minions loose onto the streets to do their bidding.
“Civic Engagement
Activities” certainly sounds like the antiFa radicals we now see on our college
campus’ forcefully suppressing freedom of speech and assembly of all those who
oppose their dogma.
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Instead of free-ranging
street-students, our schools should be focused on free and open student debate
and sponsorship of the major competing issue-representatives in open and fair
debate.
We need to develop critical thinkers
Not pseudo-anarchists!
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Something about Lincon-Douglass
Debates of 1858.
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The current
antiFa Resist Gangs appear very similar to Mao’s Red Guards.
“The Chinese Cultural
Revolution was driven by the Red Guards, a mass movement encouraged
and directed by Mao Zedong.
They became Mao’s power base as he reinstalled himself as leader of both
party and nation, while purging the party of his critics and competitors.
Comprised mostly of fanatical students, the Red Guards (Hongweibing) began to
take shape in June 1966, following the national publication of a student
protest in Beijing
University. Within weeks
they had mobilized into a political militia, their numbers exceeding 10
million. Motivated by Mao’s slogans “It is right to rebel” and “Bombard the
headquarters”, the Red Guards attacked anyone and anything they considered a
threat to Mao or his socialist vision. Nobody was safe: not bureaucrats or
administrators, not party chiefs, not provincial politicians, not even
president Liu Shaoqi.
For a year these militant students
created what Mao himself called a “great chaos under heaven””
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Portland Under Resist Red Guards Siege
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Teaching
The Teachers The Communist Manifesto At Radford
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New York
Times Celebrates Karl Marx
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Krauthammer: American kids taught 'abnormal, anti-American' lessons
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/07/03/krauthammer-american-kids-taught-abnormal-anti-american-lessons.html (may have to copy-paste link into browser to view fox article)
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Botetourt Wind Farm Serious Issues
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Wind farm
will destroy forest in Botetourt
County
“So what’s the lesser of two evils: 25,
550’-high wind turbines and associated destruction within a Forest Conservation
District, or 22, 680’-high turbines?”
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These
turbine-towers will be twice as tall as the Wells
Fargo Tower
in downtown Roanoke.
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Mr Van
Velzer clearly has done his homework on the adverse impacts to the local land
and landscapes by the proposed Botetourt Wind Farm.
However,
what’s not clear is what the 24-7 backup energy source is when the wind isn’t
blowing in this intermittent system?
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Today it’s
coal and nuclear (neither are easily varied to suit the wind) – tomorrow it might be the Fracking-Gas from
the MVP pipelines, if, the pipeline-sitters and the Obama-judges finish their
pathetic delays and hesitations that are causing significant environmental
problems and landowner distress.
Something
about hundreds of miles of open ditches, exposed dirt and erosion. So much for real concerns about the
environment!
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Utility
level energy is massive, expensive and has a big foot-print; the current alternatives
aren’t compatible with modern society.
We could start shutting things down that have a large
carbon-foot-print. Some would vote to
start with the Roanoke Times.
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Dylan And
Northam Singing ‘Blowing In The Wind’
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Do they really
shut-down the turbine-farms when they kill their quota of eagles?
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Roanoke Times Embracing The MVP PipeSitters
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Roanoke
Times, 12-26-2019, Pg 1, 4: No Holiday for protesters
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There’s
hardly a day that the Roanoke Times doesn’t have a big featured positive story embracing
and supporting the MVP PipeSitters!
One might
wonder how that would work out IF a hand-full of AGW activists were to chain
themselves to the RT’s doors, trucks and facilities in protest of the major
negative carbon footprint the RT represents including the paper-tree decimation
(remember it’s the trees that convert CO2 to oxygen), the major water and
energy consumption in the production of paper and print, and the entire nasty
vehicle distribution system.
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The reality
is that the pipeline-sitters and the Obama-judges are causing significant
environmental problems and landowner distress.
Something
about hundreds of miles of open ditches, exposed dirt and erosion. So much for real concerns about the
environment!
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It is
indeed pathetic that a program that went through years of due process is now
kidnapped and held hostage by the Obama-Resist movement at the expense of the
public and the environment.
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The US is the world
leader in reduction of our CO2 emissions primarily due to Fracking-Gas – how
does this totally misdirected pipesitting and litigation effort help the environment or our people?
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In Denial
Of World Energy And AGW Reality
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Friday, December 27, 2019
First Item For Senate Impeach Trial 'Quid Pro Joe'
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The
Democrats are insisting on ‘more’ evidence in the Senate Trial that they
refused to view in the House Impeach Fiasco.
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The First
Item: The Reason For ‘The Phone Call’
It’s the ‘evidence’
Pelosi-Schiff refused to address
It’s the ‘evidence’
the PravdaMedia refuses to cover or expose to the public
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Video To
Play in Senate Trial and on National TV
(turn sound way-UP
(turn sound way-UP
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This public
confession isn’t just a ‘quid pro quo’ – it is criminal extortion!
The
hypocrisy and dishonesty of the Democrats and their PravdaMedia is pathetic!
Let ‘The
Trial’ begin!
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Conan Retrieves Pelosi's Articles of
Impeachment
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Hunter
Biden is subject of criminal probes
(may have to copy-paste link into
browser to view fox article)
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Court
Filing: Hunter Biden earned $156M from Ukraine corruption
https://www.oann.com/court-filing-hunter-biden-earned-156m-from-ukraine-corruption/
https://www.oann.com/court-filing-hunter-biden-earned-156m-from-ukraine-corruption/
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Joe Biden
the Obstructionist and Congressional Contemptor
Biden says
he won't comply with Senate subpoena in Trump's impeachment trial
(may have
to copy-paste link into browser to view fox article)
“Former
Vice President Joe
Biden said Friday that he would not comply with a subpoena to testify
in the Senate impeachment
trial against President
Trump, should one be issued to him.”
-Roanoke Businessman Does Good
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John
Garland left Roanoke's
council to get back to business, and business is good
“Former Roanoke
City Councilman John Garland is back in his element as a
developer.
In more
than two years on council, Garland,
accustomed to the efficiency of making his own decisions as owner of his own
companies, chafed at the constraints of local government, and the politics, too.”
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An inspiring
story about the Entrepreneurial Spirit and its conflict with the constraints
and headwinds of the small business environment right here in River City.
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Is it a
sign of change that this story could be included in the Roanoke Times after
their warm embrace of the Obama antiBusiness Rant at Fire House #1?
At any rate
– nice inspirational story of what makes America Great.
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Roanoke Canonizing Wrong Old Fire House
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/05/roanoke-canonizing-wrong-old-fire-house.html
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Roanoke Canonizing Wrong Old Fire House
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/05/roanoke-canonizing-wrong-old-fire-house.html
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Forbes: How
To Keep Your Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
“Entrepreneurial
spirit is a mindset. It’s an attitude and approach to thinking that actively
seeks out change, rather than waiting to adapt to change. It’s a mindset that
embraces critical questioning, innovation, service and continuous improvement.
“It’s about seeing the big picture and thinking like an owner,” “
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Lexington ‘A River Runs Through It’
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Lexington embarks on a new design for Jordan's
Point Park after dam removed
“Maury River
is about 5 feet
lower than it has been in more than a century.
A swath of
land upstream from the dam has emerged from the water, and access ramps
residents used for decades are now 4 feet too high.”
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Lexington had an idyllic lake behind an old low-head dam in the Maury River.
A lake
utilized by many local folks including the cadets at VMI.
Now they
have a shallow rapidly running river 5-foot below the banks that bordered their
lake.
All this
advertised as progress and improved public safety. Really?
Good luck
swimming, wading and tubing in the shallow swift water river currents after one
negotiates down the 5-foot embankment.
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Not clear
what the impacts will be in the River ecosystem from the change in water
levels, velocity and cavitation, especially from high-water runoffs.
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All change
is Not progress no matter the flowery sales pitch provided.
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Dam
Removal, There’s Unintended Adverse Consequences, Really?
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Wednesday, December 25, 2019
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
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Sissel -
Silent Night
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AULD LANG
SYNE by Sissel - Happy New Year
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Rejoice:
‘Merry Christmas’ Has Returned
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In Reflection and Appreciation:
In Reflection and Appreciation:
A special
greeting and shout-out to Michelle and her college friend Townes-Whitley.
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Nothing says Merry Christmas like a $678-Million NO-BID ObamaCare contract!
'Snopes' vigorously denies there was anything inappropriate with this contract.
And 'Snopes' would never put any positive spin on an Obama negative story!
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Nothing says Merry Christmas like a $678-Million NO-BID ObamaCare contract!
'Snopes' vigorously denies there was anything inappropriate with this contract.
And 'Snopes' would never put any positive spin on an Obama negative story!
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Tuesday, December 24, 2019
White House Invitations Obama vs Trump-
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Maxine
Waters says Trump will invite Putin to the White House if the Senate doesn't
remove him
(may have to copy-paste link into
browser to view fox article)
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What’s
wrong with inviting Putin to the White House?
Obama and
Hillary loved Putin – remember the ‘Reset Button’ and the Millions Putin gave
to Hillary’s Slush Fund!
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We all
remember Obama chastising Romney, for his anti-Putin statements, during the
presidential debate; and Obama's 'I'll be more flexible after the election'!
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The real
issue with ‘who gets invited to the White House’ was Obama not just inviting
but hosting The Muslim Brotherhood at the very time they we killing Israeli
civilians and soldiers and decimating any chance of peace in the Middle East!
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Obama White
House Hosts Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood as Rocket Hits Israel
“A
delegation of officials from Egypt’s
Muslim Brotherhood met with White House officials Wednesday, according to a
White House spokesman who
stated that “we have broadened our engagement to include new and
emerging political parties and actors.””
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White House
Welcome: Trump-Putin vs. Obama-Muslim-Brotherhood
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Obama’s
Muslim Brothers In The White House
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Muslim Brotherhood an 'organized terror group', Egyptian official says
http://news.yahoo.com/video/muslim-brotherhood-organized-terror-group-185700150.html
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Muslim Brotherhood an 'organized terror group', Egyptian official says
http://news.yahoo.com/video/muslim-brotherhood-organized-terror-group-185700150.html
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Susan Rice
Says Obama’s Security Failures Are “The White Guys” Fault
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Trump Leadership Nets 100-MS-13’ers
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MS-13
crackdown -- the largest ever in New
York -- ensnares nearly 100 members, associates
(may have to copy-paste link into
browser to view fox article)
New York prosecutors have announced the arrests Friday
of nearly 100 members and associates of MS-13 in
what officials say is the largest crackdown against the gang in the
state’s history.
The
developments come following a two-year investigation involving law enforcement
from the local to the federal level in Suffolk County,
one of the gangs’ longtime hotbeds.
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Trump’s
leadership over-powered NY’s Sanctuary-Insanity
Trump’s War on MS-13
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US-PravdaMedia
and Democrats Defending MS-13 Gangs
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MS-13
Invades Henry and Bedford Counties Virginia
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What Has Happened To Our Boeing?
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Boeing CEO
Dennis Muilenburg resigns
(may have to copy-paste link into
browser to view fox article)
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Boeing has
been a key-stone of American aviation, national defense and an economic
power-house for over 100-years.
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Is the aging
Boeing Brain Trust getting rusty and sloppy?
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The 737-Max
is a total engineering embarrassment and boondoggle with no end in sight for
air-worthiness recertification.
Something
about two new planes down and hundreds dead.
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The Boeing
Starliner spacecraft failed to achieve the proper orbit to achieve rendezvous
with the international space station and was parachuted down like a 1960’s
mercury capsule.
Good news –
only a dummy onboard.
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These major
failures are not just bad for Boeing and Seattle; they are major negative
issues for America!
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CEO
Muilenburg’s replacement is Boeing Chief Financial Officer who will serve as
interim CEO – Really???
The
replacement CEO is the current Chief-Bean-Counter!
News Flash
– Boeing’s problem is Not counting beans!
On the other hand,
their problems may well be related to too few beans being planted-invested in the right
places!
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Perhaps Boeing should get its HQ from Chicago back to Seattle!
Perhaps Boeing should get its HQ from Chicago back to Seattle!
Hopefully
Boeing will soon reconstitute its technical teams of designers, modelers, developers,
testers and technical managers and get their act together!
MBGAS: Make Boeing Great Again Soon!
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