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175 DAYS UNTIL THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME

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BREAKING DEVELOPMENT: New emails obtained by Congress show Christopher Steele was secretly funneling information to the FBI in 2017 through DOJ official Bruce Ohr, even after the FBI claimed he was terminated for leaking to the media in November 2016.

Democrats colluded with Russia.

And still lost. Sad!

So true !

The legal system should show equal respect for persons by respecting their rights equally, not by interfering with the outcomes of people’s choices: http://www.libertarianism.org/media/around-web/equality-respect-how-im-equal-hugh-jackman

“Property rights, rightfully enforced, rightfully conceived, make it harder for the government to do things.”

Why property rights matter: http://www.libertarianism.org/media/free-thoughts/why-property-rights-matter

How much of a role did media coverage play in Donald Trump winning the Republican primary? Is Trump’s brand of conservative populism and identity politics here to stay? Would a Trump loss in November be an opportunity for libertarians to reshape the philosophy of the American right?

Ben Domenech shares his personal theory that explains Donald Trump’s rise to prominence on the political stage: https://www.libertarianism.org/media/free-thoughts/explaining-rise-donald-trump

Rugby!

The new Foxconn facility will provide 15,000 new jobs on the US soil!

Did you know Mexico deported 82,000 illegal immigrants last year?

It is known.

To the intelligence community,

boi

believing the media should be listed as a mental illness

Trump hails Illinois steel mill as an economic success story

President Donald Trump on Thursday trumpeted the renewed success of an Illinois steel mill, pushing back against criticism that his escalating trade disputes are hurting American workers and farmers.

This President actually cares about the middle class and the working class.

His strategy is working. 2018 is going to be a clean sweep for MAGA candidates.

Drain the swamp. Vote out Dimocrats and RINOs.

And, it’s called Marxism, even though Engles and Marx worked together.

Right from the beginning, Marxism was all about taking stuff from others.

How did Fox News go from Bush administration bootlickers to the most impartial?

That’s what happens when you give neoconservatives like Bill O’Reilly the boot and install libertarian-friendly conservatives like Tucker Carlson.

And, it helps that the left has gotten more and more insane. Remember when the whole country fought communism? How did a major political party all but endorse socialism and communism just one generation after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the USSR?

Russian Collusion and Obama

While Georgia was invaded, Obama did nothing.

While people were dying in Ukraine under Russian invasion, Obama was in Hawaii on vacation.

When he got back, he did nothing.

He watched Russia invade Crimea and still, did nothing.

What is her end game? Is this to shape her legacy? Is this to affect public opinion to not land in prison somehow? Why is she so incapable of trying to hog the spotlight?

If you are currently being exposed for how thoroughly corrupt and deceitful your buddies and you were for decades, why wouldn’t you gather up as much money as you could and apply for political asylum in as many other countries as possible?

Is she demented? Is she this arrogant? Is she really this stupid?

It’s hard to pin it on just one motivating factor. But, everyone is waking up to what a complete fraud Hillary Clinton really was.

This latest tweet is her 2018 equivalent of “hot sauce pandering.”

What’s remarkable is just how far America has fallen that substantial chunks of the population saw this… beast as a viable alternative to a successful businessman who didn’t have a robotic laugh and a phony, focus-group-tested sense of humor.

Why exactly is San Francisco banning straws?

The savior complex of liberals is probably their second most irritating quality after their low intelligence. Even if all of the US stopped polluting with plastic, we’d still not even manage to reach 1/10th of China’s contribution.

If China banned straws first, I could understand the freedom-limiting legislation.

This not only solves nothing, it passes on the cost to consumers, especially the lower income morons who tend to consume fast food from places like McDonald’s or Taco Bell.

This is one of the few people who has been worth supporting for the last 10+ years. Julian Assange angered Bush-era plutocratic neoconservatives with his undeniable evidence of heinous, unethical crimes committed in the War in Iraq. He exposed the warrantless wiretapping that undermines our 4th Amendment.

He also angered Vladimir Putin by exposing his government’s secrets.

He very clearly upset Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Anyone who is against all 4 of those entities is about as impartial as you can get these days. This is why Julian Assange continues to be the hero the world needs.

Pipe, North Shore, Hawaii Photo: Gabe LHeureux

Tag Tales

Could this be the ultimate beachcomber find?

Bob Christian and his wife Jeanne were on their regular morning walk near Pigeon Point when an object in a tide pool caught their attention: a pair of small, weather-beaten cylinders, lashed together with wire.  

And so they wondered: Could someone be missing this? Could it be important? They were right on both counts. As it turns out, they’d found the high-tech version of a message in a bottle.

Only in this case, the bottle was a computerized transmitter, and the message was from a great white shark.

Like Swallowing a Computer Chip. And then Throwing it Up.

Turns out the tag had been missing since 2012, when it was “fed” to a 14-foot great white shark off Tomales Point, in Marin County. “It looked like it had been through a war,” says Sal Jorgensen, research scientist for the Aquarium’s white shark program. Jeanne Christian initially thought “it might be a bomb.”

Normally, such tags are wrapped in something yummy—like  blubber. The shark ingests the whole thing then, well, throws it up. “Sharks are like owls,” says Sal. “They regurgitate bones and other indigestible stuff.”  Once the shark spits out the tag, it sends its location to a satellite.

Once recovered, the tag conveys all sorts of useful information. “We can measure stomach temperature five times per second, which tells us when the shark is eating. And this kind of tag has an accelerometer, like a pedometer, so you see how much energy the shark is expending.”

Unfortunately, this particular weather-beaten tag appears to be “dead” and has yet to convey useful information. But Sal was still glad to get it, and rewarded the couple with a special behind-the-scenes tour for their efforts.

Please Phone Home

When it comes to shark tags, Sal has seen it all. Some tags never phone home. Others end up as “land sharks,” and are found in shopping carts, baby strollers, or exceeding the speed limit on Interstate 5 in the trunk of someone’s car. Sal has even had to knock on doors in landlocked neighborhoods in pursuit of a tag gone rogue. Some tags, applied externally and tracked via satellite, will continue transmitting even if picked up by an unsuspecting ocean enthusiast.

However, most of the tags do exactly what they’re supposed to: provide crucial information about the secret lives of sharks.

What Shark Tags Tell Us

What have Aquarium researchers learned? For one, “white sharks are a lot like snakes,” says Sal. “They don’t eat often. And when they do, it lasts a long time. Seals and sea lions are consumed and become stored energy, in the form of oil in their enlarged livers, and are used to power transoceanic migrations to the mid-ocean “White Shark Café”, and Hawaii.

“We’ve discovered that sharks also cruise at a very relaxed pace—they rarely have bursts of energy. They swim in a climb-and-glide pattern, like a bird. It’s more efficient.”

All these discoveries are helping us learn more about the mysterious lives of sharks—so we can help save them.

And by the way—if you ever notice you’re being pursued by shark scientists after a trip to the beach, you may have inadvertently picked up a shark tag. Don’t worry. Our researchers are friendly.

“Everyone is amenable once we explain things,” says Sal. “Plus, there’s a reward!”

Learn about our white shark research

Learn how we’re using floating robots with our Stanford collaborators to help track sharks

Watch the “Great White Highway” on the Discovery Channel