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Antarctica 90 Million Years Ago

(CNN)When dinosaurs roamed the Earth 90 million years ago, the planet was much warmer, including Antarctica at the South Pole. But in a surprising twist, researchers have discovered evidence that Antarctica also supported a swampy rainforest at the time, according to a new study. CT scans of the sediment core revealed pristine samples of forest soil, pollen, spores and even root systems so well preserved that they could identify cell structures. The soil included examples of pollen from the first flowering plants found this close to the South Pole.

So the dinosaurs were evidently driving around in cars and trucks, as we've been told that's what causes Global Warming.

 

Wheels Of Justice

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The U.S. government said Thursday that it is deporting a 94-year-old German ex-Nazi who has been in the United States for decades after information was found in a sunken ship, implicating him as a concentration camp guard. An immigration judge ordered Friedrich Karl Berger's deportation on Feb. 28 after a two-day trial in Memphis, authorities said.

The Washington Post reported that the Justice Department traced Berger's Nazi service to an index card that was found in a sunken ship years after it was mistakenly bombed by the British Royal Air Force in May 1945. The card apparently documented Berger's work at the Neuengamme concentration camp system.

Berger acknowledged that he never requested a transfer from the concentration camp guard service and that he still gets a pension from Germany. He has been living in the U.S. since 1959.

If he gets a pension from Germany, there's certainly no reason to allow him to keep living here. Let him die there.

 

 

The Hammer Drops On Pantsuit

A federal judge has handed Hillary Clinton and her Deep State allies still burrowed in the Department of State and the Department of Justice a significant smackdown. On Monday, March 2, U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth granted a Judicial Watch request to have Hillary Clinton sit for a deposition regarding her e-mail/national security scandal and the Benghazi attack while she was President Obama’s secretary of state. The court also ordered the deposition of Clinton’s former chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, and two other State Department officials who were involved in handling her illegal, private e-mail operation.

People have been tired of Pantsuit's endless declarations that she couldn't remember or didn't recall in response to perfectly legitimate questions regarding her conduct.

 

Go Buy Public Transit!

One hundred years ago, the United States had a public transportation system that was the envy of the world. Today, outside a few major urban centers, it is barely on life support. Even in New York City, subway ridership is well below its 1946 peak. Annual per capita transit trips in the U.S. plummeted from 115.8 in 1950 to 36.1 in 1970, where they have roughly remained since, even as population has grown.

The maps illustrate the vast swaths of urban areas untouched by full service bus routes. For those who do live near one, it’s quite likely that the bus wouldn’t get them where they need to go, unless their destination is downtown.

From top left corner: Columbus, Ohio, does not have a single route that meets the full service standard. In Charlotte, North Carolina, the the newly extended Lynx LRT helps a little. Denver, Colorado is adding light rail and commuter rail, but many still struggle to get to the rail station without a car. So do people in Portland, Oregon, despite its large light rail network and forward-thinking transit culture. Washington, D.C.’s Metro is one of the most well-used U.S. rapid transit systems, but connecting bus service is limited. It’s Toronto, Canada, that shows what properly high level of transit service looks like in North America.

Out here, there's a bus that runs by about once an hour, and you only need to hike a couple of blocks or so to get to the stop. It takes you to the shopping mall located at the interface of two suburban burgs. It's probably fine if you want to buy clothes or eat at their upstairs dining plaza. The return trip ends at another commercial wasteland. Why would I pay to ride a bus when I can get to these places by riding a bike or driving a car if I felt the desire to visit? And I haven't been to the mall in years; I prepare my own meals, and I don't tend to buy a lot of stuff. What I feel I need, I get from the local little grocery store - though I occasionally buy clothing online. Malls, I believe, are mostly for women and children.

So much for the streetcar.

 

Black Death

(CNN)The sweeping scourge of the Black Death in 14th century England was so great it forced city-dwelling victims out to countryside hospitals, based on the tragic findings in a mass grave in Lincolnshire, England.

The remains of 48 people, including 21 children, were found at a previously unknown Black Death mass grave site at Thornton Abbey, according to a new study. About 11 miles from Thornton, Meux Abbey monks suffered from the Black Death and 80% of them died. In less than two years, the Black Death claimed nearly half the lives of people in England between 1348 and 1349. Mass graves in England's large Medieval cities have shown how overwhelmed they were.

 

An analysis of the teeth recovered from 16 of the remains revealed Yerisinia pestis DNA, the pathogen for the Black Death. It's the same strain from the outbreak that affected London, based on DNA recovered from mass graves there.

 

One of the worst pandemics in human history, the Black Death, along with a string of plague outbreaks that occurred during the 14th to 19th centuries, was spread by human fleas and body lice, a new study suggests. Outbreaks still occur today, with an outbreak in Madagascar last year infecting more than 1,800 people.

 

It's not spread by rats, as long imagined.

 

 

Milton Friedman Genius

Cooperation over a pencil.

 

In Search Of - History

In an extraordinary act to unearth the past, city officials in Tulsa, Oklahoma, have ordered a search for mass graves. The excavation will come nearly 99 years after a 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre left more than 300 black people dead in an area known as Black Wall Street.

Black businessman O.W. Gurley purchased 40 acres of land in Oklahoma and in 1906 developed the vibrant district that was considered one of the most affluent black areas in the U.S. On May 31 and June 1, 1921, an angry white mob attacked, murdering blacks, destroying businesses and burning homes to the ground.

The limited excavation in Oaklawn Cemetery, which will begin in April, is the first step in the pursuit of justice for the people who were killed—and their descendants who lost everything in the fires of the massacre, says writer DeNeen Brown, who has been covering the unfolding story. Some say the city of Tulsa is culpable in the massacre because it deputized white citizens, armed them and then stood aside as black people were shot in cold blood, Brown says. Their houses were leveled by turpentine bombs dropped from airplanes, making Tulsa the first U.S. city ever bombed by air.

Amazing, given that most people don't think of Tulsa as a former hot-bed of racism, let alone a bombing site. Airplanes had only been around for about 20 years back then, but creative people had apparently already weaponized them.

 

Rich Man, Poor Ethics

Or, perhaps I should say, no ethics.

Michael Bloomberg wants to be president of the United States yet faces little to no scrutiny. Black and brown men of New York City have been interrogated more than he has. Other candidates appear on debate stages to be questioned by the American people. Not Bloomberg. Thanks to his wealth, he can afford to sidestep this process entirely by spending millions on TV ads. Is that fair? Surely anyone who wants to be president of United States needs to be vetted.

From a speech he gave in Aspen just about five years ago:

“Put those cops where the crime is, which means in minority neighborhoods … [the] unintended consequences is people say, ‘Oh, my God, you are arresting kids for marijuana that are all minorities.’ Yes, that’s true. Why? Because we put all the cops in the minority neighborhoods. Yes, that’s true. Why do we do it? Because that’s where all the crime is.” He goes on to say: “Ninety-five per cent of your murders – murderers and murder victims – fit one MO. You can just take the description, Xerox it and pass it out to all the cops.”

“And the way you get the guns out of the kids’ hands is to throw them up against the wall and frisk them. [Inaudible] and then they start, they say, [inaudible] ‘Oh, I don’t want to get caught.’ So they don’t bring the gun. They still have a gun, but they leave it at home.”

And Leftists call Trump a bigot. "Stop and frisk" was Bloomie's baby.

 

Say Goodbye To Jussie

Former "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett has been indicted in Chicago by special prosecutor Dan Webb on Tuesday for allegedly staging the hate crime attack in 2019, where he accused two men in "Make America Great Again" hats of assaulting him and putting a noose around his neck. He is facing six charges for filing a false police report and is scheduled to be arraigned in court on February 24.

"If I had a gay, lying, c-list actor son, he'd look like Jussie Smollett."

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