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Brilliantly clear (but very cold) sky over SouthEast US after rains earlier in the day. Very good viewing, for a few minutes outside in the cold air.

Dave L. Underwood Read this for an incredibly simplified version of what has been going on in the incestuous Washington DC world of "FBI investigations" and democrat press releases parroted by their Washington insiders and leakers. Start: From 2001 to 2005 there was an ongoing investigation into the Clinton Foundation. A Grand Jury had been empaneled. Unknown governments (and unknown private citizens) from around the world had donated billions of dollars to the Clinton Family “Charity.” Yet, from 2001 to 2003 none of those “Donations” to the Clinton Foundation were declared. Hmmm, now you would think that an honest investigator...

Confirmed by Drudge Report, US Earthquake Chart 4.4 is unlikely to cause much physical damage. Who will be first to wonder about the next New Madrid 8+ quake?

Only 24% of precincts reporting so far (8:30 pm, EST), and the honest (er, republican) precincts will be least likely to have vote and absentee ballots fraud (er, over-counts and recounts and illegal counts), but the Republican is ahead 64% to 36%. Less important, the other race for Public Service Commission, the republican is also ahead by the same margin. Makes sense, there will be almost no ticket splitting in this runoff.

FM stations in south GA are still running Stacey Abrams paid radio ads (on black-rap stations - recruiting people who could claim they had "any problems voting" .... No "concession " eh?

Candidate Party Votes Percentage Brian Kemp GOP 630,441 63% Stacey Abrams Dem 369,931 37% Ted Metz Lib 6,855 1% Total 1,007,227 23% Reporting 618 of 2,634 Precincts

From a writer at WattsUpWithThat: National Data Buoy Center shows Florence passing over Johnny Mercer Pier, station JMPN7. The surface anemometer height for that station is 15 meters above sea level. Winds speeds recorded show the eyewall and eye passing directly the station. Maximum sustained winds on the leading edge of the storm were 52 knots at 5.36 AM, followed by the eye with (its typically) low winds at 7am, followed by the trailing eyewall winds of 56 knots at 8am. https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=jmpn7 Several NDBC stations in the region, both on the shore and offshore, confirm that Florence never produced sustained...

USGS reported 11 earthqaukes (the largest a magnitude 5.6) off the Oregon coastline today, right at the Oregon-CA border on the Juan de Fuca rise associated with the subduction zone of the Pacific plates and North American plates. This area, the Juan de Fuca fault subduction zone, has been quiet since 1700 - when a magnitude 9.0 quake occurred dropping land as much as 2 meters (9 feet) over the entire 800 mile Vancouver-Washington-Oregon coastline. That quake in 1700 caused documented 10 meter (30 foot) high tsunami's recorded in Japan that crushed many villages and towns. Many previous large earthquakes...

President Trump was walking out of the White House and heading toward his limo, when a possible assassin steps forward and aims a gun. A secret service agent, new on the job, shouts, “Mickey Mouse!” This startles the would be assassin, and he is captured. Later, the secret service agent’s supervisor takes him aside and asks, “What in the hell made you shout Mickey Mouse?” Blushing, the agent replies, “I got nervous. I meant to shout, “Donald, duck!”

Few details (was a warhead carried, test of missile only, test of missile and dummy warhead/re-entry mechanism, etc. Second-hand reports only.

First tried on Sunday and Monday were automatically aborted at T-10 seconds, we shall see if this one goes. Launch Window starts at 7:37 pm, lasts one hour. No recovery, the payload fuel weight is too much.

A oil or chemical fire, perhaps in a rail car under the I85 bridge in downtown Atlanta between I75 ,400, and I85 caused a section of I85 to collapse 1 hour ago. Traffic is expected to stopped for weeks until the elevated highway section is replaced.

When Obama interfered in Britain's Brexit election (against the will of its people), the liberals applauded. When Obama interfered in Israel's election (against the will of its people and FOR the radical Muslims), the liberals applauded (and demanded more oppression of the Israeli Jews!) When Obama interfered in Egypt's election (against the will of its people and FOR radical Muslims), the liberals applauded - until the Muslim generals took their country back. When Obama interfered in Iraq's election (against the will of its freed people and FOR radical Muslims inside ISIS and Iran) by removing American troops and military strength...

No celebration? No jumpy iconic letters going all a gaga or a gogo?

Well, Team Hillary has decided what "they" - and just WHO "they" are and WHO chose who "they" are is never asked - are going to do about Hillary's near-continual collapses and failures to finish events even during a sleepy, near comatose campaign schedule. The phrase is "Power Through" .... And you will see her slavishly devoted national press corpse suddenly use "Power Through" in dozens of excerpts and headlines the next few hours. All expressed in actual terms of relief and enthusiasm by a breathless propaganda national press corpse. It is a common, now routine Clintonian pattern. An event...

Ryan is the GOP (elite) Speaker if the House. if he loses, the GOP loses a national spokesman and - to the DC elites - a BIG influence. (Unfortunately, most of that national influence has been used to promote a Nancy Pelosi lite series of enabling legistlation and poloticial dramas that only advance Oboma's agendas. Democrat agendas. So, in an open primary, democreats can vote. Do they vote to keep a compliant speaker whom Oboma and McConnell can manipulate, or do they vote to kick out a republican speaker so the republican party looses stature and image?

Many hundreds of Amazon Kindle Fire users are reporting their Kindle registration data and all account information stored on their Kiindle electronic readers have been wiped clean - the kindle has been returned back to zero-zero or original empty. No name, no account, no stored books, no stored videos or audio or music, not even a single piece of anything loaded on the device. On the Amazon feedback site, there is no solution. No one has reported losing power or physical harm (dropped the kindle, dipped it in water or a tub, lost power completely, nor did anything but "turned...

January 10 · Just think, Mary Lincoln was taken to task for purchasing china for the White House during the Civil War. And Mamie Eisenhower had to shell out the salary for her personal secretary from her husband's salary. Total Personal Staff members for other first ladies paid by taxpayers ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mamie Eisenhower:--- One-- paid for personally out of President's salary. Total number of Personal Staff Members paid by Tax Payers. Jackie Kennedy: -------One Lady Bird Johnson-----One Pat Nixon ---------------One Betty Ford---------------One Rosaline Carter: --------One Barbara Bush: -----------One Hilary Clinton: --------....... Seven Laura Bush: ------------One Michele Obama: ---------...................... Twenty-two How...

Clearly, the "professional" Washington establishment class is suffering through their sequential losses of Jeb! and the also-running and future losses of Kasich, Pataki, Graham, Fiorino, Christie, etc. Those efforts to dilute the field by loading 17 players on a weak bench have failed. Are still failing to win the hearts of the voters on both sides. Now, the DC class are climbing in Rubio's lifeboat and hanging onto the side of Kasich's over-inflated rubber raft, but we don't know if either lifeboat will capsize under the weight of too many consultants, or be empowered by the strength of extra oars...

Meanwhile, 12 News Now reports Clinton was in West Beaumont to attend a fundraiser organized by Pakistani businessman Tahir Javed. The news station reports the campaign collected about $500,000, “making it one of the top five private fundraisers Clinton has had in this country.” “Many of the Pakistanis at the event were pleased with Clinton’s vocal support of the Muslim religion,” 12 News Now reports. “Talking about Muslims and favoring Muslims, so I really appreciate her whatever effort she is making against Islamaphobia, so I really think she needs to be the next President of the United States,” Aisha Zahid...