The RoanokeSlant

This file is a US personal journal of commentary of examples of the Roanoke Times and Liberal Media Slant...... lbhagen@aol.com

Sunday, May 12, 2024

Aurora Borealis: Stoking-Up The Sun

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The northern lights (aurora borealis) came down from the arctic to light-up Southern-US May 11, 2024!
The sun sending 8-major energy spikes to earth!
Where’s Gore, Kerry and Greta to explain how this is impacting Global Warming and Climate Change?
Where’s their plan to control the sun’s energy impacting earth?
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An Extreme G4 Solar Storm Train, Eight Storms Race to Earth | Space Weather Spotlight 10 May 2024 (youtube.com)
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The huge solar storm is keeping power grid and satellite operators on edge
The giant solar storm is having measurable effects on Earth : NPR
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says there have been measurable effects and impacts from the geomagnetic storm that has been visible as aurora across vast swathes of the Northern Hemisphere. So far though, NOAA has seen no reports of major damage.
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Watch: Rare Solar Storm Creates Vivid Northern Lights Around the World | WSJ News (youtube.com)
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Northern lights over the Shenandoah Valley at 3am this morning
(3) Peter Forister 🍁🍂🍁 on X: "Northern lights over the Shenandoah Valley at 3am this morning. 📍Waynesboro, VA. 5/11/24 https://t.co/UiY9HWI4qu" / X (twitter.com)
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Contrary to Gore, Kerry and Greta:
The Sun Is Still In-Charge
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-sun-is-still-in-charge.html
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Reminiscent of Artist Munch’s “Scream”
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2020/09/munchs-scream-relived-in-oregon.html
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Mendenhall Glacier and Sun Spots back in 1950
A technical paper by D.B. Lawrence, 1950, includes a study of Mendenhall and relates glacier history to perturbations of the sun, a subject once again receiving considerable attention.
Geographical Review, Vol 40, No 2 (Apr 1950) pp 191-226 Jstor archives
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2015/10/mendenhall-glacier-retreat-and-natural.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2016/04/natural-global-temperature-and-climate.html
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posted by Lars Hagen # 4:15 PM

Mother’s Day 2024

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A very special day to honor the Love, Commitment and Sacrifices made by our Mothers, the Mothers of our Children and all the Mothers of all time.
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Facing adversity and challenges, it’s the Mom’s whose smile and Love will light-up our day and whose voice will give us warmth and comfort as she did when we once cowered under the boom and flash of night-time thunderstorms.
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A Mothers Day Prayer:
“Dear Father, we approach your throne on behalf of the mothers whom you have entrusted with the care of your most precious little ones. We thank you for creating each mom with a unique combination of gifts and talents. We thank you for the sacrifice of self each mom gives for her children. For the late nights spent rocking a colicky infant. For the hands calloused from washing, wiping, scrubbing, mixing, backing, stirring, hugging, patting, disciplining, holding, writing, erasing, painting, and pouring.”
https://www.crosswalk.com/faith/prayer/mother-s-day-prayers-to-encourage-and-uplift.html
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Paul Anka Having My Baby
[You're] Having My Baby - YouTube
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God Bless All The Mothers – Past Present and Future
And God Bless The United States of America
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Sugarland - Mother
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpqAk_Js5Yo
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M is For the Million Things
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbnNWHxMWSc
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posted by Lars Hagen # 10:14 AM

Saturday, May 11, 2024

AOC, Obama And Hamas Have Captured Biden

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Based on the atrocities of the Oct 7th Hamas attack, The Jewish people and state have a total moral and legally valid counter-attack to wipe-out the Hamas animals responsible including those now holding Israeli hostages underground in Rafah-Gaza.
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Apparently Biden has decided, for political purposes, to throw the Israelis under the Muslim Bus by demanding they end military operations and withdraw, leaving Hamas again in charge of Gaza.
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Biden has even gone so far as to generate a ‘position paper’ that claims that Israel has committed war crimes and therefore the US can no longer morally support the Israelis. Really?
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It is difficult to describe the Biden government without using uncivil terms!
It is even more difficult to observe the massive media and political machines that support him, may well get Trump jailed and may well get Biden reelected again.
Hopefully the Israeli’s will move forward and destroy Hamas with as limited collateral damage and deaths as the Hamas forces will allow.
Clearly the fate of the innocents are in Hamas' hands!
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The Beginning Of The End Of Hamas’ Oct 7th
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-beginning-of-end-of-hamas-oct-7th.html
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Biden donors rage over his pledge to pause weapon shipments to Israel: 'Bad, bad, bad decision'
Biden donors rage over his pledge to pause weapon shipments to Israel: 'Bad, bad, bad decision' | Fox News
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Some Israelis believe, in addition to a number of American politicians, that Biden is pandering to the far-left and progressive base of the Democratic Party ahead of the November election with his decision to pull the plug on weapons delivery to Israel.
Thousands of Hamas terrorists and its infamous leader, Yahya Sinwar, are holed up in Rafah — a city of over 1 million Palestinians — and the jihadi organization is using hostages, some of whom may be Americans, as human shields to deter an Israeli incursion.
Saban’s memo to Biden accused the president of abandoning the goals that the U.S. has expressed in its recent support for Israel, namely the defeat of Hamas.
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Biden admin says it’s ‘reasonable to assess’ Israel used American weapons in ways ‘inconsistent’ with international law
Biden admin says it’s ‘reasonable to assess’ Israel used American weapons in Gaza in ways ‘inconsistent’ with international law | CNN Politics
The Biden administration said Friday that it is “reasonable to assess” that US weapons have been used by Israeli forces in Gaza in ways that are “inconsistent” with international humanitarian law but stopped short of officially saying Israel violated the law.
The report which was drafted by the State Department said that investigations into potential violations are ongoing but noted that the US does “not have complete information to verify” whether the US weapons “were specifically used” in alleged violations of international humanitarian law.
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The Beginning Of The End Of Hamas’ Oct 7th
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-beginning-of-end-of-hamas-oct-7th.html
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posted by Lars Hagen # 4:02 PM

Pinocchio Biden: A Lie Per Minute

posted by Lars Hagen # 3:20 PM

Friday, May 10, 2024

Bidenomics OnGoing

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Bidenomics Decimates Families
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2024/04/bidenomics-decimates-families.html
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Bidenomics Hurting Families
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2024/04/bidenomics-hurting-families.html
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Back To Cutting And Splitting Wood Soon
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2024/04/back-to-cutting-and-splitting-wood-soon.html
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posted by Lars Hagen # 7:51 AM

Thursday, May 09, 2024

TeaParty Continues Republican Degradation

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Today’s Congressional TeaParty membership continues to degrade the Republican Party and its initiatives.
Again they moved to remove the Republican leader of the House, this time, fortunately, they failed.
Sadly some of our 5th District Virginia Republicans have played and are playing a significant role in this misguided endeavor.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2024/04/gop-conflict-in-va-5th.html
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Mike Johnson saved: House kills effort from Marjorie Taylor Greene to oust speaker (aol.com)
WASHINGTON – The House soundly killed an effort to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., from his leadership post in another defeat to the lower chamber’s most conservative lawmakers.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., forced the House to vote on a “motion to vacate,” a procedural tool that if passed, would have forcibly removed Johnson from the speakership.
But the vast majority of House Republicans and Democrats joined together on Wednesday to dismiss Greene’s push through what's known as a motion to table by a vote of 359-43, drowning out the conservative renegades who wanted to remove Johnson.
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Kevin McCarthy: Matt Gaetz broke Republican majority
McCarthy echoes Rep Byron Donalds' comments, telling 'MediaBuzz' on Sunday that Rep Matt Gaetz made the House like 'The Lord of the Flies'
Kevin McCarthy: Rep. Matt Gaetz broke the Republican majority | Fox News
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No Common Ground Only Scorched Earth
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/12/some-republicans-practice-political.html
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Good & Goode Making Us Proud?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2023/01/good-goode-making-us-proud.html
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posted by Lars Hagen # 10:43 AM

Wednesday, May 08, 2024

Stormy Bares It All

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Interesting, but Not nearly as interesting as the JFK – Marilyn Monroe story!
Can’t hold a candle to the Bill and Monica story!

Schools were using that ongoing TV saga as their sex-ed class.
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Stormy Daniels a steamy 'wag the dog' distraction from Joe Biden's failures - Washington Times
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Stormy Daniels offered up steamy, raunchy, overly detailed and salacious testimony during the New York trial of Donald Trump, and while it did little to dent the fact the former president simply paid legal fees — and according to law, that’s not the same as hush money — fact is, the ex-porn star provided a valuable service to Democrats: She turned attention from Joe Biden’s many, many failures.
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Yet Judge Merchan allowed the testimony to go forth.
And then after allowing the testimony to go forth — over objection after objection from Trump’s defense attorneys — Merchan then had the gall to tell the media, post-Daniels, that he thought the defense attorneys would object more. Hmm. That — even as the defense attorneys say they tried to scuttle much of what they knew Daniels was to say on the stand, in the lead-up to her testimony, but that the judge himself refused their requests.
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DA Bragg hoped Stormy Daniels would save Trump case, but something else happened | Fox News
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Daniels claims to have had a tryst with Trump 18 years ago, which he denies.
On the stand, Daniels told the jury a salacious tale of meeting Trump privately for dinner and having sex with him only once.

(only once -- no wonder she's so vindictive!)
She lost her quixotic defamation lawsuit against Trump and was ordered by the courts to pay him more than half a million dollars in legal fees — a sum she still indignantly refuses to pay.
None of what she had to say on the stand Tuesday has anything to do with the charges against Trump — charges that don’t even constitute crimes under the law.
We are three weeks into this absurd trial, and there is still no evidence that Trump committed any crimes.
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posted by Lars Hagen # 10:09 PM

The Tom Brady Burnt Roast

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This is what is presented on TV as entertainment? Really? This is garbage!
Machine generated laughter at crude and unfunny non-comedians with filthy mouths.
Comedy is hard to do and requires a lot of intellect, effort and talent; unfortunately this show had none of that!
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Tom Brady roast was shocking, crude and filthy
Tom Brady roast was filthy — and just what the athlete needed (nypost.com)
There were white jokes, black jokes, gay jokes, Jewish jokes. Jabs about CTE, eating disorders and Brady’s former Patriots teammate Aaron Hernandez killing people (including himself). Everyone and everything was on the menu — including Brady’s failed marriage to Gisele Bündchen, his rumored hair transplant, pal Rob Gronkowski’s IQ and ex-coach Bill Belichick’s unemployment.
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The only take-away: Why did Tom agree to sit through this?
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posted by Lars Hagen # 10:09 PM

The Beginning Of The End Of Hamas’ Oct 7th

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Support Israel’s rightful reaction to what was their Dec 7th and Sept 11!
The US did Not leave the leaders, of these attacks upon the US people, in place and in charge!
Why is Biden supporting and shielding Hamas?
Are AOC and the Congressional and Minneapolis Muslims really that powerful?
If so, we have Big problems going forward!
Israelis fear Biden’s 'intolerable' cease-fire demand means victory for Hamas | Fox News
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WSJ: Why Israel Must Take Rafah
It’s the last sanctuary for Hamas’s military battalions in Gaza.
Why Israel Must Take Rafah - WSJ
The battle for Rafah has begun in Gaza, and it’s an essential part of Israel’s war of self-defense against Hamas. The terrorist group’s leaders have dragged out negotiations for a cease-fire for months, with no intention of freeing hostages while President Biden shielded their stronghold from attack. Now the masterminds of Oct. 7 are learning that Mr. Biden can’t protect them.
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“No amount of pressure, no decision by any international forum, will stop Israel from defending itself,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday. “If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone. But we know we are not alone, because countless decent people around the world support our cause.”
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Desperately Trying To Save Hamas
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2024/04/desperately-trying-to-save-hamas.html
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WSJ: Hamas Rejects Biden’s Hostage Deal—Again
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2024/04/wsj-hamas-rejects-bidens-hostage.html
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posted by Lars Hagen # 11:02 AM

Chicago Teachers Demand $50-Billion Contract

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Chicago teachers' $50B demands include pay hikes, abortions, migrant accommodation
Chicago teachers' $50B demands incl. pay hikes, abortions, migrant accommodation | Fox News
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The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is negotiating a new contract with the public schools system and is understood to be calling for an extra $50 billion to pay for wage hikes as well as other demands such as fully paid abortions for its members, new migrant services and facilities and a host of LGBT-related requirements and training in schools.
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To put the figure into context, the total base tax receipts for the state of Illinois last year were $50.7 billion.
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The incredible demands are being made despite its members delivering underwhelming results for its students, with only 21 percent of the city’s eighth graders being proficient readers, according to the last Nation’s Report Card,
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The average salary of a teacher in Chicago Public Schools is $93,182, according to research by the Illinois Policy Institute, a conservative nonprofit think tank. Therefore, the average teacher’s pay will increase by half to $144,620 in the 2027-2028 school year, it says.
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AFT President Half-Million-Dollar Teacher
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/07/aft-president-half-million-dollar.html
AFT President Randi Weingarten who kept unionized teachers out of the classroom for a year and half and now is embracing CRT (Critical Race Theory); makes over half-million dollars per year!
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Teachers Unions Fail Our Children And Country
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/03/teachers-unions-fail-our-children-and.html
Of all the sad adverse consequences of the China Virus, the teacher’s union’s refusal to open our schools and embrace our children is one of the saddest followed by their blatant extortion of the taxpayers.
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Kamala Harris Pandering To Teachers Unions
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2019/04/kamala-harris-pandering-to-teachers.html
activists from two of the biggest teacher unions — the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) — have made up as much as one fifth of the delegates to recent Democratic conventions.”
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posted by Lars Hagen # 11:01 AM

Those LaidBack Norwegians – Really?

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Fortune article quotes a major Norwegian fund manager’s opinion that today’s Norwegians are Not as competitive or ‘hard working’ as today’s Americans.
Clearly he was Not referring to my parents who arrived by themselves as teenagers in 1930, just in time for the great depression, and on their own became successful through hard honest work and ‘true grit’.
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It’s not clear how well today's US workers compare to those of the WW2 greatest generation. Perhaps we can thank our social welfare systems for a dependency on ‘the government’ and Not on personal perseverance.
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Perhaps today’s Norwegian’s are more ‘laid back’ because they have a very socialist government that is highly benevolent with the Billions of dollars of their natural gas and oil resources that is generously shared with their people.
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Conversely they ‘claw-back’ considerable funds with well over 50+% taxes that help them ‘cap’ their wealthy-class many of whom are moving to more tax-friendly countries.
Wealthy Norwegians flee to Switzerland to evade high wealth taxes, with their bankers following | Fortune Europe
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All this is in stark contrast to the Norwegian immigrants of the 1850’s to 1930’s coming in the ‘cargo-hold of sailing freighter-ships’ to work as basic hands-on-labor in agriculture and business on each coast and on the prairies in the heartland. Their work-ethic was well known and eventually rewarded.
Nordic Heritage Museum Seattle WA Ballard
National Nordic Museum - Wikipedia
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‘Americans just work harder’ than Europeans, says CEO of Norway’s $1.6 trillion oil fund, because they have a higher ‘general level of ambition’
Americans ‘just work harder’ than Europeans, says wealth chief (yahoo.com)
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Europeans are “less hard-working” than Americans, the head of the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund has said.
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Nicolai Tangen, who manages Norway’s $1.6 trillion (£1.3 trillion) wealth fund, said people in Europe are less ambitious and more risk-averse than their US peers.
In comments first reported by the Financial Times, Mr Tangen said: “We are not very ambitious.
“I should be careful about talking about work-life balance but the Americans just work harder.
“There’s a mindset issue in terms of acceptance of mistakes and risks. You go bust in America, you get another chance. In Europe, you’re dead.”
Norway’s wealth fund, which invests surplus revenues from oil and gas, owns around 1.5pc of all globally listed shares and has stakes in more than 9,200 firms.
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Mr Tangen’s comments come amid growing concern in the UK and Europe about the struggle to keep up with America’s booming stock markets.
The London Stock Exchange has already fallen victim to this trend as a string of high-profile firms have ditched the Square Mile in favour of New York.
The malaise gripping European equities has been underlined by the shift in Norway’s investment priorities.
Half of its wealth is now invested in US stocks, up from a third in 2013.
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posted by Lars Hagen # 11:01 AM