The experts blame Global warming – and Trump, of course

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Scientists warn one of the world's continents is breaking apart at double speed

Scientists have warned that Africa is breaking apart faster than previously thought.

A 35-mile-long fissure in Ethiopia’s desert emerged in 2005 but has since been widening at a rate of half an inch per year.

Researchers previously believed the split would take tens of millions of years, but Ken Macdonald, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara,told DailyMail.com that it would likely happen within one to five million years.

The separation would also create a new ocean and continent on Earth. 

'What might happen is that the waters of the Indian Ocean would come in and flood what is now the East African Rift Valley,' Macdonald said. 

Macdonald added that the new ocean could become as deep as the Atlantic if waters continue to flow into the area.

The crack stretches through Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania and half of Ethiopia, which the professor said would become a new continent called the 'Nubian continent.'

While the two parts are drifting at an extremely slow pace, Macdonald said that it is impressive given the massive size of Africa.

And with any luck, and a thousand law suits later, it will

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A male athlete is making headlines for the second straight January after breaking more women's college track records.

Camden Schreiner, who goes by "Sadie," set facility records at Brockport’s Rust Buster, a track and field event in New York where multiple universities compete, such as Roberts Wesleyan University and Schreiner's Rochester Institute of Technology.

The junior sprinter set records by winning the women's 200-meter dash in 24.50 seconds and the women's 400-meter dash in 55.91 seconds. The times were also program records, according to RIT.

"He is currently ranked #1 in DIII women’s 200 & 400 meter dashes," said Ashley Keleher, former track star at Colby-Sawyer College.

The Division III times were also announced by RIT, which later named Schreiner female athlete of the week while boasting the achievements.

"Please stop this nonsense," Keleher added.

Keleher, a woman who broke at least four track records herself in 2021-2022, later posted video of Schreiner's performance and said she "can’t wait" for stories like this to stop.

On Schreiner's social media page, he wrote, "starting the season off right where I left off," followed by hearts and a transgender flag.

"The times will only get faster from here," he added.

Schreiner also made headlines in January 2024 after breaking school records for the women's 200-meter and 300-meter sprints.

At the same meet, Schreiner also placed first in the 4x400-meter relay and earned a Liberty League Women's Track & Field Performer of the Week award, according to KATV.

… Schreiner has been celebrated for crushing female athletes and was rewarded with professional photo shoots by the Washington Post and full support from RIT and its head track coach, David Warth.

You can't fix stupid, but you can lock it up

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Hartford felon who showed off loaded pistol while streaming on Facebook Live pleads guilty, feds say

(There’s no point to this posting, except that it amuses me to do so)

HARTFORD —  A Hartford man who officials say showed off a loaded pistol magazine while streaming on Facebook Live pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon Tuesday.

Jason Barber, 40, could face up to 15 years in prison in the case, acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut Marc Silverman said in a news release Wednesday.

Silverman said law enforcement received information on March 2, 2022 that Barber was seated in a car and streaming, showing off a loaded pistol magazine.

Police located the vehicle parked on Barbour Street and followed Barber into a package store, Silverman said. Police approached him and found he had a Kahr Arms P45 handgun containing a magazine with five rounds of .45 caliber ammunition in his coat pocket, Silverman said.

Silverman said Barber's criminal history includes state felony convictions for firearm, robbery, drug and escape offenses, and it is a violation of federal law for a person who has been convicted of a felony offense to possess a firearm.

Once, leaving the court house after arraignment calendar, I complained to a colleague, “our clients are so f***ing dumb!”. “If they weren’t”, he pointed out, “we’d be out of business”.

Spot-on.

Moron Language (UPDATED)

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and she’s not a fat pig, or a sugar junkie, or a twinkie twitcher, she’s a person with CCD: calorie counting disorder

The non-transgender — at least I think so — governor of New York has solved her state’s drug problem, eliminating every single drug addict with just a stroke of her pen; genius!

Hochul administration pitches woke alternative way to refer to drug abusers instead of “addicts”

No more addicts, no more “habitual drug users” (so last year), they’ve been replaced with new, improved versions, “persons with a substance abuse disorder”. They’ll still be useless thieves sucking on the public teat, but in the world of the left, if something sounds nicer, it is nicer, no?

UPDATE: The flip side

Trump Directive Mandates Use of 'Illegal Aliens,' Not 'Undocumented Migrants'

What’s in a word? Plenty, in this case. “Illegal” reminds readers that these people are breaking the law, and that’s why all responsible leftist media outlets stopped using it. And “alien” — the term used in our immigration statutes — is a person who is not a naturalized citizen of the country where they are living, so it’s perfectly accurate to use the word when discussing our new friends from south of the border. Accurate, and there’s the rub: in the new world order there will be no borders, no countries, so there can be no aliens; we’re all just brothers and sisters under one loving god; imagine that.

Only an Episcopal minister or a Connecticut senator will miss them

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The roundup begins: ICE rounds up 308 child molsters, rapists and robbers on first day of the Golden Age

The coast-to-coast dragnet — a multi-agency effort led by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — picked up felons in and around Boston, Denver, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Seattle, Washington, DC, and Miami, a senior Trump administration official said.

In Boston, Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin reported that ICE officers arrested at least 8 migrants — including a Haitian gang member with 18 arrests who shouted “f**k Trump, Biden forever!” as he was hauled away.

ICE also nabbed one illegal migrant who wasn’t originally a target, but happened to be with MS-13 gang member when the feds showed up.

A White House official gave The Post details of some of the other migrants taken into ICE custody on Tuesday.

Sex offender Edward Marlon Rauda-Aldnada, 56, of El Salvador, was arrested in Silver Spring, Maryland, just north of Washington, DC.

Jose Barco-Chirino, a Venezuelan national, was taken into custody at Colorado State Prison in Canon City, Colo., where he was serving time after being convicted of attempted murder, extreme indifference and felony menacing with a real or simulated weapon.

ERO busted Miguel Andres-Mateo, 20, from Guatemala, in Cornelia, Georgia, outside Atlanta. Andres-Mateo had previously been convicted for driving under the influence and was previously ordered removed from the US in 2014 by an immigration judge. He, too, will remain in ICE custody pending removal from the country.

In Philadelphia, ICE nabbed Kodir Mazhidov, a 22-year-old Tajik national, who was detained after violating the terms of his release from the immigration agency’s custody. On Dec. 29, Philly cops arrested Mazhidov for crimes including reckless endangering another person, fleeing or attempting to elude an officer and reckless driving.

Authorities in Seattle arrested Mexican national Victorino Gaytan-Hernandez, who was convicted of sexual abuse of a minor. He was in the country illegally and will be held in ICE custody until his deportation.

In Miami, ICE arrested six illegal aliens from Guatemala who were living in Martin County, Fla., who had lengthy rap sheets including battery, child abuse, fraud, resisting arrest, DWI, trespassing and vandalism. They were detained as threats to public safety and for violating the terms of their release.

Much too long to read (or listen to), but I'm posting it just to point out that, to my relief, I'm not the only one who'd never heard of Carrie Underwood before Monday

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(Matching my own ignorance of MS. Underwood’s existence, Grok seems to have never heard of the village people, and can’t draw them — funny)

A Beginner's Guide to Carrie Underwood

….I've seen several of our readers mention that they didn't know much about her before, but they'd like to know more going forward. [That may be overstating it a bit — ED] While I'm sure she doesn't need my help selling albums, I just wanted to take some time to share some of her best music with you and prove even further that there's an extremely talented woman behind all the misleading liberal headlines.  

I assume the Nutmeg Nitwit is positioning himself to run for President, but will the rest of the country's voters prove as clueless as Connecticut's?

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Connecticut’s junior senator is again in the news, and again playing for the cameras, not anything effectual. He’s delaying a Senate vote (that he’ll lose) for, at most, two days, which he acknowledges, so rather than jamming a stick in the wheels of the Trump juggernaut, as he’s pretending, he’s merely placing baseball cards in a bicycle’s wheels:lots of noise, but accomplishing nothing.

Dem who called Trump 'existential threat to democracy' now blocking his nominees

Sen. Chris Murphy said there were 'serious concerns' from some Democrats about Trump's CIA pick John Ratcliffe

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., disrupted Senate Republicans' plans to quickly confirm President Donald Trump's national security nominees on Tuesday night when he objected to bypassing lengthy procedural votes that are routinely skipped. 

"Unfortunately, we were at the point of almost having a consent agreement to have a vote on the confirmation of John Ratcliffe to be the CIA director tomorrow. Not today, not yesterday, when it should have happened, but tomorrow," Senate Republican Conference Chairman Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said on the chamber floor. "But the senator from Connecticut has decided to object at the last minute."

"I don't really understand the objection to Mr. Ratcliffe. He was confirmed by the Senate to be the director of National intelligence. He was fully vetted through the bipartisan process in the Senate Intelligence Committee. We voted him out yesterday on a 14 to 3 vote," Cotton, also the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, continued. 

Murphy's Tuesday night objection to speeding through the routine procedural votes is the first case of Democrats using the strategy Republicans employed while in the Senate minority to gain leverage to negotiate. 

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., expressed his frustration with the objection on the floor, saying, "OK, so 14 to 3 coming out of the committee. And we've now wasted a whole day where we could have been acting on that nomination."

"And so really, I think the question before the House is, do we want a vote on these folks on Tuesday or vote on them on Friday, Saturday and Sunday? Because that's what we're going to do," he said, threatening weekend votes in the upper chamber.