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Tweet I first saw Clare Malone at 538 suggest it , then somewhere else – Kasich is in the race to be Vice President. It makes sense of course that any second-tier candidate would have this as the backup possibility. Kasich has mostly stayed out of the mud (he did attack Trump some last fall), and his staying in the race is tremendously helpful for Trump.
Alas, Wikipedia is for readers.Spider Robinson, in a speech/essay titled "Seduction of the Ignorant" a while back, pointed out a problem:—-excerpt follows——John D.
See the article here: West’s Wars, Domestic Storms: Fascists, Terrorists, & "Multiculturalism"
Tweet Usually the NH winter is a time when the bets are laid for the summer minimum. Friend Weasel was not too excited last year although things were, as they were pretty, but not astoundingly (see 2011) low. This year already astounding things are happening, or perhaps better put not happening, in the Arctic winter. Not that there is no ice, but there is a lot less ice than expected. Enough less that 2016 looks like a lock for the lowest global sea ice evah. John Nielsen Gammon has been sending around a frame comparing how in 1922 the farthest north that a expedition could get was 81 o 29′, open ice this year. Andy Dessler tweeted it  OTOH, the resolution of Cryosphere Today is a bit low, so let’s take a look at the higher resolution images at the University of Bremen from the AMSR2 (2016) and the original AMSR (2003) for February right now and then. But wait, there is even more, at Neven’s Arctic Sea Ice Blog and Gerg has a GIF of the sea ice in August from the Danish Meteorological Institute’s sea ice maps between 1920 and 1939. Today’s February looks pretty much icewise like August then
Links Finding the Islamic State a Safe House February 16, 2016 Â ( Ulson Gunnar – NEO ) – Every villain needs a safe house and the Islamic State (IS) is no exception. Luckily for IS, it has two, possibly three waiting for it, all of them courtesy of NATO and in particular the United States. The war in Syria has been going particularly poor for IS.
The images from Aleppo, Idlib and Syria’s border with Turkey can be described in one word: despair. The Guardian’s article, " Tens of thousands of Syrian refugees remain stranded at Turkish border ," claims: Tens of thousands of Syrians fleeing a Russian-backed government advance on Aleppo have remained stranded near the Turkish border over the weekend, with no sign that the authorities in Ankara will respond to mounting international pressure to allow in more refugees uprooted by the escalating war.
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