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All the illegals voted for a Hispanic name?

Winter is my favorite season. Along with Spring, Summer and Fall.

“February 18: “Five hundred Jews married to Christians are seized throughout Germany and deported to the Theresienstadt,”

The destruction of Dresden allows Victor Klemperer, a relative of the conductor, a WWl hero married to a Christian, who had survived WWll living in Dresden to escape from this edict. “I WILL BEAR WITNESS, a diary of the Nazi Years, 1942-1945.”

Technical article. My take is that voice communications will suffer most from the FCC confiscation of the internet.

The media told us that 2014 was the hottest year on record.

Both corn and soybean crops were records in 2014 for the US.

If you are so inclined, take a look at the flood gates and pumps at the lake end of the outflow canals. If Bush would have installed those a year or two earlier, most of the Katrina flooding would not have occurred.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_Outfall_Canals

I remember those signs. They completely tore up vast stretches of Interstate Highway and redid the roadbed. Normal procedure at other times seems to be to harvest and recycle the asphalt for much shorter sections of road at a time.

More: http://kidnappingmurderandmayhem.blogspot.com/2013/03/american-paratrooper-hanged-by-great.html

Found a deceased whale on a Shemya beach in April in the mid 70s. Odor was not much of a problem. Foxes & ravens were doing a good job on the cleanup.

Accepting that 2014 was the hottest year ever and granting that global warming is an unmitigated disaster, how does one explain:
“As expected, the USDA Crop Production Report released on Jan. 12 indicates that both the total U.S. corn production and soybean production for 2014 were at record levels. The final 2014 national average yields per acre for both corn and soybeans were also at record levels.”

http://cornandsoybeandigest.com/blog/usda-report-recap-january-2015

Keystone bypass?

He’s a Democrat. Doesn’t that mean he’s telling the truth?

Impressive! Both music and pictures. Would be nice to have a translation.

Particularly liked the picture of Stalin & Khrushchev.

Last time I had my teeth cleaned, I saw a new machine sitting on a storage cabinet kind of in the hall way. I thought I knew what it was, but asked anyway. They said it made crowns, it was a 3D printer. https://hbr.org/2014/10/my-dentist-3d-printed-my-crown/

“Greenpeace said Kumi Niadoo, its international executive director, would travel to Lima this week to apologize personally and represent the group in discussions with Peruvian authorities.”

Don’t let any of the Greenpeacers in the country. They have already demonstrated how responsible they are.

Gotham Bowl 1962 - http://www.huskers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=132

Stonehenge by bicycle in 1965. Forty miles from Cricklade on Sunday afternoon. Well worth the effort, no fence, was able to roam around the rocks. Scenic hilly surrounding area with no visible residents. Learned later that it had been a WWll bombing training range.

The Nov. 2013 Illinois tornadoes came with a fast moving very windy front which extended practically the full length of the state. A significant portion of the sky was clear during the passage of the front.

Pigford Part II is right. Just as there were no black farmers discriminated against there were no Indians discriminated against.

As far as I know there is no indication that Kilgore has expressed remorse for depriving the innocent mother of who knows how many years of her life.

OBDII is a typical government solution to a non-existent problem. With the computer power available in the cars, it is likely that the automobile makers would have instituted real diagnostic systems that are useful.

Health Care Reform the Comic Book: https://www.google.com/search?q=health+care+reform+the+comic+book&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=sb

http://video.mit.edu/watch/mit-economist-gruber-clarifies-health-care-law-in-a-comic-book-11139/

The American health care system was not without its problems, but obamacare solves none of them and brings on a host of new ones. The good news is that from now on anyone who gets ineffective and/or crappy medical care will rightly blame obama and obamacare.

If Nixon had been president, there would have been no wall. Khrushchev regarded Kennedy as a wimp.

Aha! Some of the missing details. Was a little curious about the orchid’s pollinia interaction with the bee, so I looked it up ( http://books.google.com/books?id=FCXd7VEsdPcC&pg=PA860&lpg=PA860&dq=early+spider+orchid+pollinia&source=bl&ots=BaVhDqKT3O&sig=w3KPsAFm74-sQP-vVakduAslR4w&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nOZeVK7hOJX_yQSwwIGoAw&ved=0CEIQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=early%20spider%20orchid%20pollinia&f=false )

Another example of pertinent facts left out by mass media agenda based “science”.

Turns out the the orchid’s pollinia is rather innocuous in that the pollen grains pretty much stick together and the group sort of sticks to the pollinator. Milkweed pollinia are a little more vicious in being in the form of a set of saddle bags which can become irretrievably attached to the pollinator’s leg or tongue and which the pollinator must pull out of the flower with considerable effort. In the ideal world, the pollinator delivers one or both of the saddle bags of pollen to another flower and leaves it there. Often enough though, the pollinator (bee, fly, misc. other insect) collects a number of these things and becomes entrapped. My thought was that if possibly the the orchid was endowed similarly, the population of males that attempted to mate with the flowers would become disabled and be unable to propagate, thus the early emerging males would be the only ones providing the next generation. This is probably not the case here.

This is gibberish on a number of levels. It does not describe the behavior of social bees at any time during evolution or since creation. Bees visiting flowers do so to gather nectar and or pollen mostly for feeding to juveniles. Males social bees are not equipped to do that.

The article probably refers to the specialized solitary male bees which may pollinate certain species of orchids because they mistake part of the orchid flower as a female solitary bee of the same bee species. If the time of male bee sexual activity does not coincide with the blooming period of the orchid there may be a problem. However, none of that information seems to appear in the article.

East central Illinois: Haven’t talked to the farmer in church for a few weeks, he’s been too busy harvesting, but early on there were a significant number of reports of 300 bu/acre. He was looking at an average of above 270. Just heard from our farmer in southeast Nebraska - reported a dry land yield of 173 bu/acre. Up to about 10-15 years ago dry land farmers there and in Kansas used to raise milo instead of corn since it was more drought tolerant. Someone let Monsanto loose and the current corn hybrids will produce and milo has pretty much disappeared.

2012 was the worst drought year in the corn belt, but 2013 was also quite dry after the end of June. However, there was a record corn yield in 2012. This year, 2014, was nearly ideal for growing and the dept of ag prediction of a record yield looks low.

Although their threat to humans is different, skunk’s also enjoy earthworms.

When not to fly:

These folks were in a hurry to get to Florida and tried to beat out a really impressive roll cloud associated with an arriving front. We were headed into Champaign for church from the west & I would have stopped along the freeway and taken its picture if I would have remembered my camera. Maybe he didn’t know that the wind from the downdraft is not visible and arrives before the cloud.

“Buerkett, an instrument-rated pilot with 20 years’ experience, was piloting his single-engine Piper PA 46 Mirage. Upon takeoff from its home base at Rantoul Airport, about 125 miles southwest of Chicago, the plane ran into wind shear.

An eyewitness said the tail flipped up and the aircraft began to plummet nose-first, then struck a power line. Upon hitting the ground, the plane burst into flames, leaving wreckage strewn about the crash site.

Local officials said high winds and rain had suddenly moved into the area. Friends described Buerkett as a cautious and meticulous pilot who would not knowingly fly in severe weather. An eyewitness said Buerkett was attempting to depart before the weather system arrived but rain had just started at about the time of takeoff.”
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Judging from the results of the scores of other “czars” we don’t need another czar for anything.

From: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-thomas-eric-duncan-vigil-20141008-story.html

“Karsiah Duncan, who also goes by Eric, had invited his father to Texas this summer to attend his high school graduation. The visa didn’t come through until August, relatives said. He had not seen his father since he was 3 years old, when he and his mother immigrated to the U.S. The elder Duncan stayed behind in Africa.”

I read an earlier report that he came on a “Fiance Visa”. ( http://www.uscis.gov/family/family-us-citizens/fiancee-visa/fiancee-visas ) Those take a few months to process. In any case, it appears that the Visa request process was initiated well before he was exposed. The critical item of interest seems to be: When did he buy the tickets?” Most people will buy those far enough ahead of time to get a lower price.

http://www.increa.com/homeheat/

This fellow’s prices are somewhat outdated, but with the price of corn (~ $3 per bushel) less than half of what it was last year, corn for heating looks like a good option again.

Brings back memories of the Moscow Olympic and Soviet Union pipeline sanctions. We have over the years traveled on Interstate 74 past Peoria, Illinois. About that time, the structural iron for what appeared to be the largest single floor building I have ever seen was put up. Nothing more happened and no one seemed to know what it was. Later we found out that it was owned by Caterpillar and was to be the factory to provide the machinery to build the Soviet gas pipeline. The sanctions put an end to that and:

“The practical effect of the pipeline sanctions in this country was to bar the Caterpillar Tractor Company, Dresser Industries and other major American companies from selling equipment for the construction of the pipeline.

The ban on sales has contributed to severe problems at Caterpillar, the manufacturer of earth-moving machinery. The company is expected to lose money this year and has laid off thousands of workers, although the recession, a strike and other factors have also contributed to its problems.” ( http://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/10/world/us-allied-accord-on-soviet-pipeline-described-as-near.html )

The iron stood and rusted for many years until Caterpillar eventually took it down and used it to make engines. The Soviets built the pipeline and paid someone else for the machinery.

Farmer from church has a picture of his yield monitor @ 300 bu. Understand that is not unusual for Illinois this year.

http://www.harvestmoondrivein.com/

Sort of sounds as though the government is choking the golden goose.

The Brazilians are having an election early in October. The people we stayed with about a month ago said there are 32 political parties in Brazil and all of them have either the word Socialist or Communist in their name.

We had occasion to visit the Rio area last month and happened to notice two deep sea oil rigs parked nearby. The locals seemed to think that they were there for maintenance purposes - not permanent installations. Do you have current information as to what is happening now off the coast of Brazil?

One of the first jobs a friend of mine had after he was hired on as a permanent was to go to Omaha and determine the cause of “random” activations of the hanger’s fire suppression foaming system while an E4B was in the hanger. This made a big mess and was expensive. They discovered that contrary to protocol, the technical maintenance person was keying on the plane’s radio transmission system while the plane was in the hanger. The RFI was overwhelming the foam system electronic sensors and turning on the foam.

“I love Cruz but I don’t know if he could win.”

Just came back from Brazil. They also have an election this fall. They have 32 parties and there is not a one that does not have either of the words communist or socialist in its name. When asked why that was the case, the local said that without that in the name they cannot win elections.

He was certainly doing an exciting job when he died: http://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/cops-shooting-cameraman-bryce-dion-and-suspect-cortez-washington-killed-in-cruel-twist/story-fnh81jut-1227039853608

It appears that Cortez meanwhile eternally carries the responsibility for Dion’s death.

Just got back from a short visit to the Rio area of Brasil (that’s how they spell it) and noticed a few vehicles being refueled in the engine compartment underneath the hood in addition to the regular means. I asked our host about that & he said these were likely running on natural gas. Most are retrofits & people loose about half their trunk space for the tank, although there is a Fiat available designed for this application. It has more or less the normal trunk space.

“It is much less expensive to provide a system that can stop “rogue” or small scale launches from a smaller power.”

Existence of a defensive system, whether it works or not, may discourage “rouges” from attempting some types of mayhem.

Years ago I read a short article in Scientific American where Cholera which killed many traveling pioneers can readily be cured by what are essentially water enemas.

What is more amazing is that the words written then addressing the NAZI state apply so much to our life today, especially with the marriage and right to life issues. Especially disconcerting is the current outlawing of the Ten Commandments. Those words would not likely be published in today’s NYT. As it is, they are sort of hidden on pages 11 & 12.

Dietrich Bonhaffer was involved with this group, but by far not the only participant.

William Sheridan Allen of the State University of New York at Buffalo writes in the preface of Lowell C. Green in “Lutherans against Hitler, The Untold Story” Concordia Publishing House, 2007: “Even before the Third Reich came to its smoldering end, an extensive discussion had developed about how such an evil regime could ever have come to power and how it could have repeatedly used that power, without any real challenge, to commit its horrifying crimes. ....
Helping us to analyze this mystery is the great contribution of Lowell C. Green’s book. By examining one religious denomination, the Confessional Lutheran Church, ....”

Individuals appearing in illustrations in this volume include (not all necessarily associated with the Confessing Church): Willhelm Zoeliner, Walter Künneth, Martin Niemöller, Karl Barth, Hans Asmussen, Land Bishop august Marahrens, Land Bishop Theophil Wurm, Land Bishop Hans Meiser, Hans Preuß, Otto Procksch, Paul Althaus, Hermann Sasse, Werner Elert, Georg Kempff and Wilhelm Maurer.

The 48 conventions were broadcast to the exclusion of most anything else. Do not know if the case was the same for the 44, but that was in the days before the REA & our radio relied upon the A, B and C batteries, all with limited life.

Always wondered why they were always hard to find. Its the government here to help us.

http://www.shorelinefruit.com/cart

Check the depression era “Eleanors”

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~armontgo/outhouses.htm

Isn’t that where the gooney birds nest on the runway?