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New Flash! Mondelez (Cadbury & Oreo) bidding to buy Hershey

I should have bought stock in Hershey - I do eat enough of their products...

From the Wall Street Journal:

Snack Giant Mondelez Makes $23 Billion Takeover Bid for Hershey Any deal for the chocolate company would be contingent on approval from the Hershey Trust

Mondelez International Inc. has made a roughly $23 billion bid for chocolate giant Hershey Co. in what would be a blockbuster deal uniting two of the world’s best-known candy makers.

Mondelez, which makes Oreo cookies and Cadbury chocolate bars, recently sent a letter to Hershey proposing the tie-up at $107 a share, according to people familiar with the matter. The bid is 50% cash and 50% stock, they said.

Hershey shares surged 15% to $111.87 on The Wall Street Journal’s report.

The maker of eponymous Kisses and chocolate bars had a $21 billion market value Thursday ahead of the report. Mondelez had a $69 billion market value.

Any sort of deal would be contingent on the approval of the Hershey Trust, which holds 8.4% of the famous company’s common stock and 81% of its voting power. The Trust has been opposed to selling the company in the past, though Mondelez is prepared to go to lengths to win it over.

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Then there’s the trust, which was established by the 122-year-old company’s founder, Milton Hershey, and runs a school in Hershey for underprivileged children. The trust’s mandate extends beyond simply maximizing shareholder value. 

Mr. Hershey was considered as much a philanthropist as an entrepreneur. His Mennonite background led the son of German immigrants to a belief that businesses and their leaders are morally obligated to share their wealth with society. So as he built the chocolate company, he raised a town as well, erecting a bank, a department store, churches, golf courses, a zoo and a trolley system—public accouterments that were all completed by the early 1900s. Then he and his wife, Catherine, founded a school for orphan boys, now called the Milton Hershey School. The prime beneficiary of the Hershey School Trust is the Milton Hershey School, which was set up in 1909 to serve disadvantaged students

I've been to Hershey, PA. - a great place.

Feast of St.'s Peter and Paul; a poem by St. Pope John Paul II

A brief essay on the papacy - I am excerpting JP's poem.

Peter, You Are the Floor; Give Thanks

During the Second Vatican Council, Karol Wojtyla wrote a short poem about St. Peter, whose feast we celebrate today.

Our feet meet the earth in this place;
there are so many walls, so many colonnades,
yet we are not lost.  If we find
meaning and oneness,
it is the floor that guides us.  It joins the spaces
of this great edifice, and joins
the spaces within us,
who walk aware of our weakness and defeat.
Peter, you are the floor, that others
may walk over you (not knowing
where they go).  You guide their steps
so that spaces can be one in their eyes,
and from them thought is born.
You want to serve their feet that pass
as rock serves the hooves of sheep.
The rock is a gigantic temple floor,
the cross a pasture.

SciAm: The possibility of life on one of Saturn's moons!?

Interesting article. Scientific America puts out one free article (at least) every day if you are on their email list. The full article  - first three paragraphs are excerpted below - is 13 paragraphs.

Excitement Builds for the Possibility of Life on Enceladus. Scientists tackle the question of how to search for life on Saturn’s sixth-largest moon

Saturn’s frozen moon Enceladus is a tantalizing world—many scientists are increasingly convinced it may be the best place in our solar system to search for life. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, currently orbiting Saturn, has made intriguing observations of icy jets spewing from a suspected underground liquid ocean on the mysterious world that might be hospitable to alien life.

Cassini’s tour is due to wind down in 2017, and scientists badly want to send a dedicated mission to Enceladus to look for signs of life. In fact, some have already started seriously thinking about exactly how they might do this—including planetary scientist Carolyn Porco, who is the imaging team leader for Cassini. Earlier this month, she gathered a group of researchers including oceanographers, organic chemists and astrobiologists at the University of California, Berkeley, to strategize how to search for extraterrestrials on Enceladus—which, according to Porco, “is a total bitch of a problem to solve.”

Although Enceladus is small in size and shrouded in a thick shell of ice, it appears to be a habitable world: It has a source of energy from friction created by its orbit around Saturn, organic compounds that are building blocks for life and a liquid water ocean underneath all that ice. But just because Enceladus may be hospitable to life does not mean life exists there; it will take much more work to definitively prove it. At the Berkeley meeting, scientists laid out the data Cassini has collected for Enceladus—they discussed analyses of its geysers, measurements of its ice shell, ideas on what its ocean chemistry might be like, and more. Yet even with all the newest data and models scientists have, they are not even close to detecting organisms on Enceladus—hence the need for a space mission.

Rugby: Ireland v. South Africa, 3rd match

With the series tied one win apiece. Here was the Irish win.

 

CNN interview with pro-Brexit Daniel Hannan

An interview? Starts off OK, and then Christiane Amanpour does her best to do all the talking along the lines of Chris Mathews. And of course all the Brexiters are racists. ... She really despises these people. How dare they reject the EU!! Hannan, who is quite a bright guy, finally gets in his spiel around the 8 minute mark.

 

WSJ: "Making chemo more tolerable"

Of interest to, well anyone who may get cancer. I can say I was very lucky with my chemo; very little negative consequences (leaving out hair falling out). I felt a little tired at times and I think I was nauseous and threw up once while in Sloan getting the high dose stuff. Not a big event.

Rugby: Referee discusses his (wrong) call that put Australia over Scotland & into the World Cup final

Wow. a very difficult call, that couldn't be referred to the TMO (television match official). Good that Joubert, who is an excellent referee, has faced the music.

 

PBS: The Panama Canal's big ($5 bil.) expansion

I'm posting this because I visited the Canal way back in 1979 - on my way from where I was living and working in Jamaica, to visit my brother in the Peace Corps in Guatemala.

It's an amazing structure and now has been improved to allow for the big container ships and the natural gas carriers to get through. Interesting that natural gas from fracking is being shipped to Asia, where it will benefit Third World and developing countries. Of course the Canal will also benefit Panama's economy.  A great book to read about the building of the Canal by the wonderful historian David McCullough is The Path Between the Seas.

 

By 5-3 Supreme Court vote, women lose

It's incredible - abortionists don't have to have admitting privileges in a local hospital and abortion clinics don't have to meet regular stand-alone medical clinic standards. "Because of the decision today, beauty parlors, veterinarian clinics and public pools will be held to higher sanitary and health standards than abortion clinics."

From the Associated Press:

 

Pope Francis Press Conference - one Pope, forgiveness, other interesting stuff.

On plane back to Rome.

Rugby: New Zealand v. Wales, 3rd match

Video starts with Wales ahead 6-3. Then the roof caves in. New Zealand sweeps the three game series.

Our Solar Panels

Got an amusing picture/graphic from Solar City re: our panels. That's not my house in the drawing....

Bobcats in area & a bobcat attack near Albany

A recent photo of a bobcat sighting, provided by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. Photo Credit: NYSDEC

Here's the deal with the attack - and the bobcat had rabies.

A bobcat was shot dead after attacking a husband and wife in upstate New Scotland, leaving them both with deep cuts, according to multiple reports.

The Albany County Health Department said Friday the bobcat had rabies.

The couple went to a neighboring residence to borrow furniture for a garage sale when they were attacked by the bobcat, police said.The owner of the home was then able to pin the bobcat down with a chair before shooting and killing it.

And here is a recent local sighting -

Police Warn Residents After Bobcat Spotted In Yorktown

Residents are urged to not leave small children or pets unattended, to not leave garbage outside, to not feed wildlife and to not feed pets outside.

Wednesday's Croton Arboretum walk/hike

UPDATE: Nice hike today on Storm King.

It actually was a bit closer to a short hike than a walk. Jeanne Marie, Mike, Karen, Brigid and moi.

A very nice jaunt (total 1.64 miles) with some cool scenery and right next to the Hudson National golf course, which allows some traffic onto it's grounds to get to the Arboretum.

Further up and on the edge of the golf course - Brigid knows the property ...

Mike and Jeanne Marie decide to go "over the line" and take some closer looks

Great views from the course, and if you have spectacular vision and look really, really carefully you'll see the Bear Mountain tower in the picture below. In the second picture, I zoomed in as best I could and you can see it.

It's on the far left of the picture above -

two more to round things out -

Today we are off to Storm King for our long postponed hike.

California taxpayers moving out of the state

Which of course is bad news for their economy - and how will they pay for all their social programs?

During the 12 months ending June 30, the number of people leaving California for another state exceeded by 61,100 the number who moved here from elsewhere in the U.S., according to state Finance Department statistics. The so-called "net outward migration" was the largest since 2011, when 63,300 more people fled California than entered.

"The main factors are housing costs in many parts of the state, including coastal regions of California such as the Bay Area," said Dan Hamilton, director of economics with the Economic Forecasting Center at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks.

"California has seen negative outward migration to other states for 22 of the last 25 years."

A recent poll revealed that an unsettling sense of yearning has descended on people in the Bay Area: About one-third of those surveyed by the Bay Area Council say they would like to exit the nine-county region sometime soon.

"They are tired of the expense of living here. They are tired of the state of California and the endless taxes here," said Scott McElfresh, a certified moving consultant. "People are getting soaked every time they turn around."

 

Bernie Sanders on UK withdrawal from the European Union (EU)

Smart about his comments on their decision (smarter then Obama and Clinton were) and he accurately explains economic problems - he just has all the utterly wrong answers!

 

British Prime Minister David Cameron resigns

Good for him - doing the right thing. His Party (the Conservatives) will continue to rule, but with a new PM - maybe this guy - Boris Johnson.

Local black bear sightings becoming common

The latest in North Salem.

Less than two weeks ago, one in Ossining, another swimming off Peekskill.

With the warmer temperatures, who can blame a bear for wanting to take a lakeside break?

That's exactly what happened Thursday night in North Salem.

A black bear was spotted at Lake Hawthorne at around 8 p.m.

 

The United Kingdom, leaving the European union (EU).

UPDATE: As the BBC keeps track ... http://www.bbc.com/news/politics/eu_referendum/results

The BBC a few minutes ago (its just after midnight) declared that the "leave" people were going to win out over the "remain" folks. Current vote is about 52-48 with about 70% of the vote in.

When I spoke to my go-to guy in England for this sort of thing - our Best Man Mick Paine - he said the vote was going to be very close and he hadn't voted as he was of two minds about it.  Politically Mick  - well relative to Bernie Sanders, Sanders would be a screaming right winger.

Here in Farandaville we had followed the discussions and debate in the UK a little bit, but neither of us had any particular opinion. I did think it would be kind of cool for the UK to shake things up by leaving - and now that they have it probably means the end of the European Union.

Will reading your smartphone in bed make you blind?

Well, I read stuff on my phone kindle app in bed all the time. But i use both eyes.

Here's an article from the Guardian (UK). 

Smartphone users temporarily blinded after looking at screen in bed Medical journal reports that two women experience ‘transient smartphone blindness’ after constantly checking phones in the dark

In Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine, doctors detailed the cases of the two women, ages 22 and 40, who experienced “transient smartphone blindness” for months.

The women complained of recurring episodes of temporary vision loss for up to 15 minutes. They were subjected to variety of medical exams, MRI scans and heart tests. Yet doctors couldn’t find anything wrong with them to explain the problem.

But minutes after walking into an eye specialist’s office, the mystery was solved.

“I simply asked them, ’What exactly were you doing when this happened?’” recalled Dr. Gordon Plant of Moorfield’s Eye Hospital in London.

He explained that both women typically looked at their smartphones with only one eye while resting on their side in bed in the dark — their other eye was covered by the pillow.

“So you have one eye adapted to the light because it’s looking at the phone and the other eye is adapted to the dark,” he said.

When they put their phone down, they couldn’t see with the phone eye. That’s because “it’s taking many minutes to catch up to the other eye that’s adapted to the dark,” Plant said.

He said the temporary blindness was ultimately harmless, and easily avoidable, if people stuck to looking at their smartphones with both eyes.

One of the women was relieved the short-term blindness didn’t signal a more serious problem like an imminent stroke. He said the second woman was more skeptical and kept a rigorous monthslong diary tracking her fleeting vision loss before she finally believed him. But she couldn’t stop checking her phone for messages from bed, he said.

Dr. Rahul Khurana, a spokesman for the American Academy of Ophthalmology, called it a fascinating hypothesis but said two cases weren’t enough to prove that one-eyed smartphone use in the dark caused the problem. He also doubted whether many smartphone users would experience the phenomenon.

Khurana, who acknowledged that he’s an avid cellphone user, said that he and his wife tried to recreate the scenario on a recent evening, but had difficulty checking their phones with only one eye. “It was very odd,” he said.

CNN: Led Zeppelin beats the rap on "Stairway to Heaven"

California jury finds no plagiarism. Decide for yourself if that was fair.

 

Anniversary today. #37

Here's Brigid on yesterday evening's walk at the Croton Arboretum, looking heavenward and giving thanks that she married me. Mystical. Or maybe looking at a bird ...

Sebastian Maniscalco: Bow and arrow v. the burglar

His buddy and "home invasion".

Jack Daniels brand turns 150

Although I am not a whiskey drinker, some pretty interesting history.

Trump's speech this morning, responding to Mrs. Clinton's speech yesterday

Takes five to ten minutes to read. One thing about Trump, he doesn't mince any words - nor does Clinton. He wallops Wall Street and big corporations, which is probably why she's getting all their political donations.

Full transcript: Donald Trump NYC speech on stakes of the election

Hillary Clinton wants to be President. But she doesn't have the temperament, or, as Bernie Sanders' said, the judgement, to be president.

She believes she is entitled to the office.

Her campaign slogan is “I’m with her.”

You know what my response to that is? I’m with you: the American people.

She thinks it’s all about her.

I know it’s all about you – I know it’s all about making America Great Again for All Americans.

 

Pope Francis reiterates opposition to the death penalty

Good.

Pope Francis: ‘Death Penalty Is Unacceptable’

Pope Francis has reaffirmed that the death penalty is unjustifiable today.

In a video-message transmitted tonight to the participants of the VI World Congress Against the Death Penalty in Oslo, Norway, underway through June 23, the Pontiff stressed, “Nowadays, the death penalty is unacceptable, however grave the crime of the convicted person.”

The Congress opens today and was organized by the French NGO Ensemble Contre la Peine de Mort and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, which includes about 140 organizations from around the world.

“It is an offense to the inviolability of life and to the dignity of the human person,”the Pope continued, pointing out, “It likewise contradicts God’s plan for individuals and society, and his merciful justice. Nor is it consonant with any just purpose of punishment.”

Noting this sentence does not render justice to victims, but instead fosters vengeance, Francis reminded those watching, “The commandment ‘Thou shalt not kill’ has absolute value and applies both to the innocent and to the guilty.”

The Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, the Pope told them, is a proper occasion for the world to better respect the life and dignity of each person.

“It must not be forgotten that the inviolable and God-given right to life also belongs to the criminal,” he said.

The Pope also encouraged all to work not only for the abolition of the death penalty, but also for the improvement of prison conditions, so that they fully respect the human dignity of those incarcerated.

“‘Rendering justice,’” he highlighted, “does not mean seeking punishment for its own sake, but ensuring that the basic purpose of all punishment is the rehabilitation of the offender. The question must be dealt with within the larger framework of a system of penal justice open to the possibility of the guilty party’s reinsertion in society.”

Before concluding, assuring the participants of his prayers, Pope Francis said, “There is no fitting punishment without hope! Punishment for its own sake, without room for hope, is a form of torture, not of punishment.”

“I trust that this Congress can give new impulse to the effort to abolish capital punishment.”

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On ZENIT’s Webpage:

For full text: http://zenit.org/articles/popes-video-message-for-world-congress-against-death-penalty-in-oslo

Senator Susan Collins bipartisan gun control legislative initiative

Seems likely to pass ...

 

Yesterday was World Refugee Day - unfortunately little noticed.

And not noticed by me, either. The numbers are staggering and getting worse.

Refugee camp in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

A United Nations report released Monday showed global displacement numbers at their highest ever recorded, jumping from 59.5 million for 2014 to 65.3 million in 2015. Over 21 million of the displaced are refugees.

“Half of the 60 million people displaced globally today are children,” Catholic Relief Services stated on Monday. The average refugee spends 17 years in a refugee camp, according to the UN, which means that tens of millions of children could grow up homeless and without proper education, creating a “lost generation,” CRS noted.

Rugby: South Africa v. Ireland, second match

Here's the first match which was great.

So now it comes down to the third match to see who wins the series.

CNN: The Orlando shooter's gun and what (I think) should be illegal

The gun is a semi-automatic rifle and completely legal. But a 30 round magazine? That can be for only one purpose and it's not hunting or home defense. Magazines should be limited to eight or nine rounds.

 

Rugby: Wales vs. New Zealand 2nd of three matches

The first match - a win by New Zealand - is here

Father's Day weekend solo trek up Beacon N. & S. mountains

Saturday, kind of on the spur of the moment - and a beautiful day to go.

One of the things I wanted to do was test my MapMyHike phone app. I have the free version (naturally) and it's really great. The GPS is amazing - it is accurate to just a couple of feet. I know because I've tested it on in and out hikes/walks where I've gone in the two directions on opposite sides of a six foot trail and it differentiates.

Anyway, from the Beacon Mountain parking lot to the top of North Beacon - a considerable gain in height - like close to 800' - took me just a few seconds short of 45 minutes and was exactly 1.00 miles. The app measures distances to the hundredth of a mile. The round trip up to the South Beacon fire tower and back to the parking lot is just shy of 4 miles. 

A couple of pictures all taken with my galaxy phone - beautifully clear day - I bet you can see 60 miles looking west over the Hudson.

From North Beacon

Heading from North Beacon to South Beacon and the fire tower, here's the cairn field that is slowly taking shape as people add to it -

The South Beacon fire tower comes into view. South Beacon Mountain at 1,610' is the highest point in the Hudson Highlands.  This time I did not go up it.

Here's the view from the top of South Beacon looking west. Don't know who those people are; wanted to give the picture some scale.

And the view from there, looking northwest -

On the way back down, on the trail between the two mountains were two black rat snakes, gaining the attention of hikers as they seem to be trying to start a family. I watched for a minute or two and no kidding, every few seconds you could hear a kind of purring sound.

Almost all the way back down and here's another shot of the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge.

Will be back up at least one more time this season; probably to go all the way to Sugarloaf Mountain to the south.

 

 

 

 

Legalese deposition: What is a "photocopier"?

My son Joe sent me this off the NY Times website - been watched over 1.2 million times. The punch line is at the six minute mark.

Published on Apr 28, 2014

In this dramatization of transcripts from a legal deposition, a lawyer becomes embroiled in an absurd argument about the definition of a photocopier.

Poll results: "Would you rather have a beer with Clinton or Trump?"

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 45% of Likely U.S. Voters would prefer to have a beer with Trump over Clinton. Thirty-seven percent (37%) would rather have a beer with Clinton. Eighteen percent (18%) are undecided.

Those under 40 say they’d prefer to be with Clinton for both a beer and dinner. Older voters would rather have Trump as their guest in both cases.

Black voters heavily favor Clinton in both scenarios, while whites prefer Trump. Other minority voters are closely divided when it comes to dinner but would prefer to have a beer with Trump.

Interesting. Other minority voters (Hispanics?) prefer a beer with Trump?

Father's Day Special - Ralph Cramden "The King of the Castle"

A classic

 

Sebastian Maniscalco and Navy SEALS

Very funny. Audio is low so make sure your sound is turned up.

 

Fed Chairman Janet Yellen's 2 minute statement

Which means, the economy continues to go nowhere. And no rise in interest rates for the foreseeable future.

 

NatGeo (& Colbert): Scientists discover new frog sex position

What kind of scientist studies this stuff?  And more to the point, why would I post about it? Colbert answers both.

 

Here's Colbert's take.

A short interview with the Dalai Lama, as he's visiting the U.S.

UPDATE: Comment left on my facebook page by my friend Marty: "what did the Dalai Lama say to the NYC hot dog vendor ? " make me one with everything ""

Someone I greatly admire. You have to listen carefully as his English isn't always clear - but it's infinitely better then my Tibetan... Under ten minutes long.

If you want the interviewer's thoughts go here - https://youtu.be/-F6gUAWuWFY

NY Post Michael Goodwin on "Obama's tantrum"

Great short column. The massacre was everybody's fault - except the guy who did the shooting.

If it is true that the best defense is a good offense, President Obama should be celebrating in the end zone now. Obviously furious over criticism that his anti-terror policies are weak and that the Orlando slaughter proves it, he went on a televised tirade to let America know he’s mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.

He laid waste to a field of straw men, cable-TV pundits and the always-evil “partisan rhetoric,” by which he means anyone who disagrees with him. It was a striking display of personal anger and pent-up grievances — and a total failure of leadership during a national crisis.

It also, inadvertently, captured why Donald Trump was able to brawl his way to the GOP nomination. ...

Sebastian Maniscalco: "Anti-freeze on Bologna"

Funny, very funny.

CNN: The end of the gunman

 

Rugby: New Zealand v. Wales

Played in New Zealand as Wales is on a three match tour. Last time Wales defeated New Zealand - 1953

 Extended highlights - 10 minutes. If you've got two hours the whole game is here - https://youtu.be/zPVnYuRtzAg

Forward pass that wasn't. The English referee Wayne Barnes is not popular in New Zealand ever since he missed a forward pass in the 2008 World Cup that cost NZ their game against France.

SciAm: Great short article on particle physics - end of the current physics model?

Maybe. The article from Scientific America is not very long and accessible to the layperson (like me).

Is Particle Physics About to Crack Wide Open? Hints of an unexpected new particle could be confirmed within days—and if it is, the Standard Model could be going down

... This really does look like a new particle, and if it is, there is suddenly an enormous crack at the very heart of high-energy physics. 

The signal is one of the simplest you can imagine: it represents two high energy photons emerging from the decay of a subatomic particle created in a proton-proton collision. It’s very similar to the signal that led to the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012. But this particle is not the Higgs boson: it is six times more massive. Nobody had predicted anything like this. It is shocking to the physicists in the auditorium. People look around, astonished, trying to confirm that their own reactions are reflected in what they see in their colleagues’ faces. If the observations are confirmed, it will be revolutionary. This could mean nothing less than the fall of the Standard Model of particle physics (SM), which has passed every experimental test thrown at it since it was first put together over four decades ago.

The SM describes what the building blocks of the universe are and how they work, and from there, at least in principle, explains every other phenomenon in nature. Originally theorists thought that the SM would be an approximation of a more fundamental theory that would be quickly discovered. This is what has always happened in the past. Newton’s theory of gravity, for example, doesn’t apply to bodies that are extremely massive, or which are moving close to the speed of light. It is accurate enough that engineers could use it to send the New Horizons space probe toward Pluto and have it arrive in just the right place nine years later. Einstein’s theory of General Relativity, however, is more fundamental, and applies in those extreme where Newton’s theory breaks down.

Moreover, there are many reasons to believe that the SM is incomplete. In particular, the mechanism that generates the mass of the elementary particles suggests that the theory must be modified at higher energies. To discover this new physics was the number one motivation for the construction of the LHC and several other experiments before that. 

 

 

 

ER surgeon speaks about the (Orlando) situation

From FOX and below it another video about how an emergency room copes with this kind of disaster.

 

And this

Rugby: South Africa v. Ireland (amazing result!)

2nd UPDATE:  Extended highlights are now below

UPDATE: Rats! The video highlights for the game were taken down - Ireland won the match 26-20,  despite playing a man down from the 22nd minute on (a ridiculous call when you see the decision).  I've posted some postgame video comments by the Ireland flyhalf below the taken down video.

The first of three matches, as Ireland is touring South Africa. Here's the story of the game, and the video below.

 

Paddy Jackson

Washington Post: "The new norm: When tragedy hits, Americans stand divided"

Their headline is sad but true.

In the hours after midnight Sunday in an Orlando nightclub, three of the most contentious questions in American culture and politics — gay rights, gun control and terrorism — collided in a horrific way.

The confluence of all these currents in a single incident is more likely to muddy our already-sodden politics than to bring any clarity or sense of purpose.

It has always been true that the toughest issues are those that pit our values against our fears. And in this tragedy, as with so many before it, both parties are certain to seek political leverage.

ABC: How Clinton donor got on the Intelligence Advisory Board

No experience at all. He gets a top secret clearance.

His expertise - a great commodities broker and big Democrat fundraiser.

It's just incredible that he was appointed - and the cover-up. Money talks.

How Clinton Donor Got on Sensitive Intelligence Board

 

 

Mrs. Clinton: Abortion is great, gun ownership bad

In her own very recent words - you can only regulate guns ...

 

In Yellowstone Park, stay on the trails, or this could happen.

YIKES - a 23 year old falls into a Hot Spring.

The man, Colin Nathaniel Scott, of Portland, Ore., had walked about 225 yards away from established trails near Porkchop Geyser on Tuesday. His sister saw him slip and fall into Norris Geyser Basin, a thermal feature at the park in Wyoming, and reported the accident, Yellowstone officials said in a statement.

Charissa Reid, a spokeswoman for Yellowstone, said in an email that “it was determined that there were no remains to recover,” and that the search for Mr. Scott’s body was suspended late Wednesday afternoon.

Pretty awful. There have been 22 fatalities like this since they started keeping count in 1890.