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Temperatures in International Falls, Minnesota Break Nearly Century-Old Record Low
by NATE CHURCH
Christopher Furlong/Getty Images, File
International Falls, Minnesota, has broken a nearly century-old record for their coldest December 27, at -36 degrees Fahrenheit.
That temperature — not including the wind chill factor — is the lowest since 1924’s -32F on the same date. However, it remains a far cry from the state’s coldest on record: On Groundhog Day (February 2) in 1996, Tower, Minnesota, recorded a bone-chilling -60F morning. Even International Falls has seen colder on other days, with a -55F personal “best” in 1909.
This winter has been brutal across the board. According to Weather.com, a southward dip in the jet stream is largely responsible for pushing arctic temperatures into both midwestern and northeastern portions of the United States. Already, dozens of locations have reported record freezing temperatures.
If you plan to ring in 2018 with Ryan Seacrest and Mariah Carey — yes, again — in Times Square, be prepared to face one of the coldest New Year’s Eves that the city has ever seen. New York City Emergency Management officials are encouraging citizens to remain indoors via an extreme cold weather alert. A code blue has also been in stated for the city’s homeless population.
This winter, it seems that Jack Frost is going a bit further than merely nipping at your nose.
Rasmussen Poll shows Trump at 46% APPROVE this morning, with 53% DISAPPROVE... What about Obama at same exact date first year in presidency?? 46% APPROVE, 53% DISAPPROVE!
Trump Economic Policies Are Likely To Succeed…And Take America With Them
By Dick Morris
Donald Trump, the Congress, and the entire Republican Party has cashed it’s winnings from the 2010,’12, ’14, and 2016 elections and bet them all on Red — that their supply side doctrine will change America’s economy and turn it loose for transformative growth.
The odds are quite good that it will work. Economic doctrines, if well thought out, generally do what they are supposed to.
The meteoric rise of the American Century, after the massive stimulus of the 40s and the post war years worked as planned.
When it began to fade, the JFK-LBJ tax cuts kept it going. The 70s were a disaster, but, after Washington stopped confusing inflation with growth, the economy got back on track.
Usually, it’s only when policy makers step on the gas and the breaks simultaneously that everything starts to sputter, as when Obama combined massive new stimulus with new regulatory impediments to growth.
But that’s not what Trump has in mind. He is cutting through Washington anti-growth rules like a Wisconsin lumberjack. The breadth of his tax cut and how it all points in the same direction — growth — is astonishing. Few compromises, no contradictions, just good pro-growth policies. God bless Donald Trump.
His policies are so clear and compelling, he leaves the left no place to stand. They cannot go into an election protesting against an opposition program that is manifestly working. They tried that in 1984 and it backfired massively.
Having charted the clearest ideological course on his core tax program, Trump can afford to shine a little kindness and light on the immigration DACA children (in return for a wall). Let’s use a booming economy that lifts all boats to create more Latino Republicans (or even blacks?) by softening some of Trump’s edges.
He can do it because now, suddenly, the ideological heavy lifting has been done.
God bless Donald Trump!
From his crazy quilt of feuds, grudges, rhetoric, and iconoclastic tactics, an incomprehensible tactical doctrine emerged, apparently comprehensible only to swamp creatures. But it sure as hell worked.
God bless Donald Trump.
DOJ Criticizes Alleged ‘Systemic’ Sexual Misconduct Given ‘Free Pass’ During Obama Admin
by NATE CHURCH
SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images
Trump Justice Department Spokesman Ian Prior said that they were “very disappointed with the issues that occurred in the Obama administration” over reports of sexual misconduct at the DOJ.
In May, Inspector General Michael Horowitz alerted the DOJ via memo to potential “systemic issues” with the way that sexual harassment, groping, and other misconduct was handled. Many of these issues took place during Obama’s tenure in the White House, although some have continued into Trump’s presidency — with the latest complaints as recent as August 2017.
Examples include Office of Immigration Litigation attorney Victor Lawrence, who allegedly “groped the breasts and buttocks of two female trial attorneys” at a happy hour, without suspension or any loss of pay. While his supervisory roles were restricted and his title changed, the Obama administration was concerned that his loss would “deprive the government.”
Several other attorneys even received awards following complaints against them. One female attorney characterized the response to their behavior as a “free pass.”
In a statement, Prior said:
The Department does not discuss specific employee disciplinary actions or comment on personnel actions or matters that may impact personal privacy. That said, the Department was very disappointed with the issues that occurred in the Obama administration and strives for a workplace free of harassment and other misconduct for all of our 115,000 employees.
That is why the Civil Division has implemented additional safeguards and systems to ensure that all misconduct allegations are handled appropriately going forward.
He has further confirmed that a “working group” will investigate the issues and make recommendations soon.
Trump: 'Disappointed' China Allowing Oil Into North Korea
(Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
President Donald Trump says he is "very disappointed that China is allowing oil to go into North Korea" and that such moves would prevent "a friendly solution" to the crisis over Pyongyang's nuclear program.
"Caught RED HANDED - very disappointed that China is allowing oil to go into North Korea. There will never be a friendly solution to the North Korea problem if this continues to happen!" Trump wrote in a post on Twitter Thursday morning.
Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrumpCaught RED HANDED - very disappointed that China is allowing oil to go into North Korea. There will never be a friendly solution to the North Korea problem if this continues to happen!
China earlier on Thursday said there had been no U.N. sanction-breaking oil sales by Chinese ships to North Korea after a South Korea newspaper said Chinese and North Korean vessels had been illicitly linking up at sea to get oil to North Korea.
Higher energy costs accompany bitter cold snap in US
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Plunging temperatures across half the country on Thursday underscored a stark reality for low-income Americans who rely on heating aid: Their dollars aren’t going to go as far this winter because of rising energy costs.
Forecasters warned people to be wary of hypothermia and frostbite from an arctic blast that’s gripping a large swath from the Midwest to the Northeast, where the temperature — without the wind chill factored in — dipped to minus 32 (minus 35 Celsius) on Thursday morning in Watertown, New York, near Lake Ontario’s eastern shore.
Even before the cold snap, the Department of Energy projected that heating costs were going to track upward this winter, and many people are keeping a wary eye on their fuel tanks to ensure they don’t run out.
Elizabeth Parker, 88, of Sanford, Maine, said she lives in fear of running out of fuel and remains vigilant in monitoring the gauge outside her trailer, just in case, especially during cold weather.
She said she is allowed to request a fuel delivery thanks to federal aid — but only when her gauge dips to one-eighth of a tank.
“I couldn’t get along without it,” said Parker, who lives with her 93-year-old husband, Robert, along with a cat, dog and four birds.
Prolonged, dangerous cold weather this week has sent advocates for the homeless scrambling to get people off the streets and to bring in extra beds for them. In western New York and Erie, Pennsylvania, residents were still cleaning up from massive snowfall. Frozen pipes and dead car batteries added to the misery across the region.
There was some good news for recipients of federal aid from the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program. President Donald Trump released nearly $3 billion, or 90 percent, of the funding in October after previously trying to eliminate the program altogether.
But projected energy cost increases will effectively reduce the purchasing power by $330 million, making it imperative that the remaining funding be released, said Mark Wolfe, of the National Energy Assistance Directors’ Association.
This winter, energy costs were projected to grow by 12 percent for natural gas, 17 percent for home heating oil, 18 percent for propane and 8 percent for electricity, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration.
But energy prices this winter may even be higher than those projections. According to Wolfe, colder weather could lead to even higher levels of consumption, and resulting prices could push the cost of winter heating up to $1,800 this winter for those using heating oil, 45 percent more than last year’s level.
“That’s a scary situation for people who’re really struggling to heat their homes,” said Barbara Crider, of Maine’s York County Community Action Agency.
The cold air is lingering with more arctic air sweeping into the region, reaching as far south as Texas and the Florida Panhandle through the weekend.
In northern New England, the region is experiencing one of the longest, most intense cold snaps on record. In the Midwest, temperatures in Minneapolis aren’t expected to top zero this weekend, and it will likely be in the teens when the ball drops during on New Year’s Eve in New York City.
Federal Agents Discover Whole Fetuses in ‘Body Broker’s’ Warehouse
Government Photo via Reuters
Photographs obtained by Reuters reveal that federal agents found four preserved human fetuses four years ago in the warehouse of a man who sold human body parts.
According to the report, federal agents found the four whole human fetuses in December 2013 during a raid of a warehouse owned by Arthur Rathburn, a former body broker who has been accused of defrauding purchasers by sending them diseased body parts.
Rathburn has reportedly pleaded not guilty to the charge and faces a trial in January.
The fetuses appeared to have been in the second trimester of their mothers’ pregnancies and were reportedly submerged in a fluid that included human brain tissue.
Reuters continues:
How Rathburn acquired the fetuses and what he intended to do with them is unclear. Rathburn’s lawyers did not respond to requests for comment, and neither the indictment nor other documents made public in his case mention the fetuses.
In its caption of the photos of the fetuses, Reuters’ editors note the wire service “has pixelated this image; editors judged the original image to be disturbingly graphic.”
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) – chairman of the House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives – was shown the photographs of the fetuses and reportedly “recoiled” when a Reuters reporter revealed them.
“This needs to be reviewed,” she said, adding that the discoveries draw further attention to the practices of those procuring human body parts.
Blackburn’s special House panel investigated the procurement of body parts of babies aborted in Planned Parenthood and other clinics throughout the country.
The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a formal investigation into Planned Parenthood over its alleged sale of the body parts of babies aborted in its clinics for a profit.
“The buying and selling of cadavers and other body parts — with the exception of organs used in transplants — is legal and virtually unregulated in America,” Reuters notes, adding:
But trading in fetal tissue violates U.S. law. In most states, including Michigan, public health authorities are not required to regularly inspect body broker facilities. As a result, it’s impossible to know whether body brokers who deal in adult donors are acquiring and profiting from fetuses.
“The actions depicted in these photos are an insult to human dignity,” said Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), who chairs the House Judiciary Committee.
Goodlatte told Reuters if individuals “violate federal laws and traffic in body parts of unborn children for monetary gain,” they should be “held accountable.”
Reuters reports it conducted its investigation, in part, by having a reporter attempt to purchase two human heads and a cervical spine from Restore Life USA, a body brokerage in Blackburn’s home state of Tennessee.
“The deals were struck after just a few emails, at a cost of $900 plus shipping,” Reuters reports.
“It is sickening” how easily Restore Life sold the parts to Reuters, Blackburn said.
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Helen and Moe Lauzier
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