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Back in the ancient times of Q4 2012 (ahead of the election) the White House kept telling us that the economy is booming.

The Fed has kept overnight interest rates near zero since late 2008 and it has tripled its balance sheet to about $3 trillion through its purchases of securities, which are aimed at pushing longer-term borrowing costs lower.  However, the recovery from the 2007-2009 recession has been stubbornly tepid.  A report on Wednesday showed the economy unexpectedly contracted in the fourth quarter

Fed keeps stimulus in place as economy paused | Reuters

Shootings like Aurora and Sandy Hook happen very quickly. The idea that Obama storm troopers flying in on helicopters could do anything to stop them is absurd. Obama is using the shootings as an excuse to ramp up martial law, and to hear the sheeple bleat thank yew as he does it.

The best way to stop shootings is to keep them from being planned in the first place. Shooters almost always target gun-free zones, so eliminate gun-free zones. Schools need security -just like banks and other business do. Lefties apparently think that our children deserve less security than used car parts at the junk yard.

The interest on the US debt in 2011 was $454,393,280,417.03. If interest rates doubled, that amount would double to almost a trillion dollars.

“It’s really important to remember our history,” Obama continued. “Unless you were one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else, somebody brought you,” he said.

Obama: Unless you were a Native American, you came from someplace else | WashingtonExaminer.com

“Native Americans” arrived in the US during the last ice age. Sea level was 100 metres lower and they walked across the Bering Strait from Siberia. Tina Fey watched them do this from her house.

An exhaustive study of DNA taken from dozens of Native American groups that span from Canada to the tip of South America is helping to settle a question that has long divided scientists: When people arrived in the Americas more than 15,000 years ago, the Harvard-led research shows, they came in successive waves, not all at once.

The analysis published Wednesday reveals that while one population of “First Americans” crossed a land bridge from Siberia during the last Ice Age, giving rise to most Native Americans, there were at least two subsequent migrations. These people mixed with the founding group later, leaving traces of their genes in the DNA of present-day populations in Alaska, Greenland, and Canada.

Native Americans migrated to the New World in three waves, Harvard-led DNA analysis shows – Boston.com

h/t to Dave G

Marathon death: coroner warns of danger of legal stimulants

A coroner warned today of the dangers of a legal stimulant as it emerged that a runner who collapsed and died during the London marathon had taken the drug in a bid to boost her performance.

Claire Squires, 30, suffered a cardiac arrest and collapsed in Birdcage Walk near Buckingham Palace, a few hundred metres from the finish line.

An inquest into her death heard that she had purchased a popular powder supplement called Jack3d which contained DMAA (dimethylamine), a drug that has similar properties to amphetamines and is said to boost energy, concentration and metabolism.

Marathon death: coroner warns of danger of legal stimulants – Telegraph

One of the slimiest commercials I have seen was Five Hour Energy pretending that they were endorsed by 4,000 doctors – after distributing a survey where the doctors responded to a question about low calorie vs. high calorie supplements.

A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.

Proverbs 19:5

Two years ago I was driving my kids to school, and the street was cordoned off one block away from Lesher Middle School. Three police had shot a man point blank in the chest seven times with .45 caliber pistols, for the crime of using a flashlight to see who was banging on his door at midnight.

Fort Collins police shot and killed a man Dec. 8 after he pointed a flashlight at officers trying to arrest him for multiple felony warrants, according to an official report of the incident that says the officers’ actions were justified.

Raymond “Fred” Ault was shot outside an apartment in the 600 block of West Alpert Street about 11 p.m. after he made what police called a “threatening movement” toward officers.

Fort Collins Police Officers Cleared For Killing Man With Flashlight

The DA of course cleared the police, because seven shots are needed to stop a light beam.

Obama thinks he controls the planet, but decisions made in the US have essentially no impact on global CO2 levels. This should be obvious to anyone with an IQ higher than a turnip.

Global map of planned coal fired capacity tells a story « Tallbloke’s Talkshop

There are 824 GHCN HCN stations which have been continuously active since at least 1920.

Forty percent of those stations set their all-time record maximum temperature during the 1930s. Twenty-one percent set their all-time record maximum temperature in the year 1936 alone.

By contrast, only one percent of those stations set their all-time record maximum temperature in the current decade. Eighty-nine percent of those stations set their all-time record with CO2 below 350 ppm.

NOAA says that 2012 was the hottest year ever in the United States. Only three stations (0.3%) set their all time record maximum during NOAA’s hottest year ever, compared to one hundred seventy two stations (21%) in 1936.

The table above shows stations which set all-time record maximums in 2012.

There were eight times as many all-time record maximums set in 1901 as there were during the hottest year ever 2012.