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The Bowdoin Orient
September 23, 2021
Ladies & Gentlemen:
Re: Let's Hear Your Story (LHYS)
My name is Tony Lombardo. I have been afflicted with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) for over forty-one years and wheelchair bound for twenty-one years. To say the least, it certainly has not been an easy road.
Along the way, I have met numerous individuals who taught me the true meaning of the word COURAGE. As a means of "paying it forward," I established Let's Hear Your Story (LHYS). Our mantra is “How We Conquer Life's Obstacles.” We collect and post personal survival stories on the LHYS site as the written word, videos, or by other available mediums. Anonymous stories are welcome.
Please visit our Facebook prototype site at:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/439109260104105.
LHYS exhibits “social value” by focusing upon how we learn survival skills from each other.
I am developing LHYS into an online showcase which focuses upon the Inner Strength contained within the Human Spirit. We will post a vast selection of exceptional work created by exceptional individuals.
We welcome individuals who are interested in exhibiting their work on the LHYS site.
Please feel free to contact me at
[email protected]. Your input is greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
Tony Lombardo
A Gift from the Political God
John Burl Smith
Enduring the last six months of the COVID-19 pandemic, living through lockdowns, openings and locking downs again, with “social distancing,” carry out dining, as movies, gyms, sports arenas, clubs and strip joints closed, for many Republicans defying CDC guideline became a battle of wills, as well as a campaign tactic for Donald Trump. But just as I was about to go stir craze the political gods came up with the perfect diversion to put the party life and oh oh oh, back into the “ole US of A. Last Wednesday Republicans in the US House of Representatives tried to stop the measure that would establish a commission to investigate the Capitol insurrection back on 1/6. Kevin McCarty, leader of this sideshow, following the circus of ousting Liz Cheney in the dark, brought his slap stick charade into public view with a “noose-conference.” After trying to hang things up with Republican votes, in a few words, he lynched the commission idea as “unnecessary.”
But then, like a bolt of lightning out of the clear blue sky, it seemed the political gods got into the act, and convinced Mitch McConnell that killing the commission would not only please and protect Donald Trump, but would keep the Democrats from gaining any advantage investigating Trump’s role and responsibility for the January 6 insurrection. Donning a Marcel Marceau out fit and while doing an “old soft shoe,” Mitch went one better than Kevin, threatening to deploy the “nuclear option” the dreaded “filibuster.” This is when I knew the political gods must have a sense of humor, at the thought of the cast of characters in the Senate pulling off such a rhetorical gambit, with the world hanging on their every word.
Only the political gods could have tricked Moscow Mitch into threatening to rain down utter devastation on Democrats, while hiding the truth of Trump treason and their complicity in aiding his crime. These Lokis had to desire to interject some levity into their boring lives, by tricking the Republican leader McConnell into exposing his colleagues, as they wreak havoc on American’s sense of justice with an extended debate that will give Americans and the world a real party to lift the boredom.
Think about it, what could be more hilarious than Republicans parading to the well, one after the other, simulating what only a few Americans witnessed in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.” The kinds of performance the American voters have witnessed for the last two week, as Republicans tried to recast the January 6th insurrection, will not allow them to avoid the hook on stage left or right. Having to stay center stage the entire time will top anything performance recognized during last Award season.
The Republicans show in the Senate will be like watching reruns of the “Beverly Hill Bill.” Imagine Mitch McConnell, as “Mr. Drysdale,” explaining to “Miss Hathaway” played Joni Ernst, how to seduce “Jethro,” Chuck Schumer into going “skinny dipping in the cement pond, while chaperoned by “Granny,” Marsha Blackburn so he could make out with “Elly May” Susan Collins on the back porch. That madcap episode is followed by Sen. John Thune, who flips the script, bringing on the “Duke of Hazzard.” He stars as “Boss Hogg,” doubling with Ted Cruz, a man with a con for any occasion, is out to sell “Bo and Luke,” Mitt Romney and Ben Sasse the only bootleg copy of a sleazy p***o tape of “Daisy May” Liz Cheney, he swears “Sheriff Rosco” Roy Blunt filmed on a stake out, “Enos” Rick Scott is going to show all the boys on Friday, which “Cooter,” Tom Cotton is the promoter, if they don’t buy it. I’m not going to give away the cliffhanger and spoil the fun of watching high speed chases, explosive leaps, and the quick getaway in the General Lee, but with this crew you know Daisy May’s virtue was never in question. A line up where all comedians front as straight men, Republicans’ routine is something no comedy lover would ever miss, and as debaters they will put Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Whoopi Goldberg or D. L. Hughley to shame!!!
With Republicans determined not to allow Democrats a chance to expose their complicity in the January 6th insurrection, they are prepared to argue until hell freezes over, before they allow Democrats to lay any responsibility for the January 6th mayhem and murder at their feet. So the American people will be treated to the rebirth of Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy, the Five Marx brothers and gaggles of one liners from the likes of Sid Caesar, Jack Benny and Red Skelton, which will last until late into the fall.
Democrats would not dare interrupt or stop all the free entertainment, jumping off TV news minute by minute. Democrats will not be able to call for a closure vote, because they will be rolling around on the floor of the Senate, cracking up at Republican antics, trying to convince voters they are seriously fighting to protect democracy. I would have included some outstanding black comedians like Dick Gregory, Redd Foxx, Richard Pryor, Moms Mabley, Mantan Moreland, Pigmeat Markham and Nipsey Russell, I could go on for days, but the Senate is a white boy’s bill, except for one “in black face” joker who always blows the punch line.
I am stocking up on popcorn, peanuts, and beer, because the Senate filibuster is going to be more giggles than a barrel of monkeys. Never mind the seriousness of the situation, Republicans have worked tremendously hard trying to turn the insurrection on January 6th into a joke, so the American people may as well sit back and enjoy the greatest clown show to ever hit the Senate! More than anything, American voters will have an opportunity to see what they will get, if they re-elect this line up of insurrectionist Republicans gag men in 2022 and 20224. America’s government will never be any better than the people voters elect. The Republicans filibuster will show exactly the kind of government Republicans will give this nation!!!!!
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Why does your organization steadfastly refuse to report the contrary scientific findings regarding alleged human-induced climate change?
On Aug. 9, 2019 -- Prof. Shaviv insisted that CO2 plays only a minor role in climate change.
On Aug. 11, 2019, Prof. Wu reported that her investigative team could find no evidence of human influence on the Earth's climate.
In Oct. 2019 -- Over 700 climate experts wrote to the UN stating that "NO CLIMATE EMERGENCY EXISTS" and asserting that the climate models are unfit for policy-making purposes.
The Foolish Idea of "Settled" Science
The Main Stream Media trumpets (almost endlessly) that the science regarding climate change is "settled" as evidenced by 97% of climatologists who have reached a "consensus" about anthropogenic (human-induced) global warming. What the press does not stress is that this like-mindedness among these experts is based almost entirely upon computer simulations (GCMs or climate models) and not on any significant experimental data or evidence. Even more distressing is that many (most?) climate advocates see the current scientific findings as fixed and they reject out of hand any actual contrary research results. Like it or not science is simply never settled.
Any historian of science will quickly belie the unsound position regarding "settled" science. A few solid examples should suffice to dismiss this misbegotten belief. During the late 19th century the entire scientific community accepted as fact the necessary existence of a "luminiferous ether" through which photons from the Sun traveled to reach the Earth. Then in 1887 Michelson & Morley of Case Western Reserve conducted a single experiment that showed that no such "ether" existed. Thus, all the prior evidence and belief was discarded. [Note: Interestingly, it was M&M's research that set Einstein on his search concerning relativity.] The bottom line is that the 97% "consensus" concerning the "settled" science regarding the existence of a luminiferous ether was wrong.
Next, at the turn of the 20th century, virtually every cosmologist and astronomer agreed that the stars and galaxies that made up our universe were fixed in position. Then in 1930, Edwin Hubble by studying the "redshift" of the light reaching Earth from these heavenly bodies showed that our universe was expanding and that it was doing so at an accelerating rate. Once again, all of the "settled" science was placed in the trash bin of history.
Another excellent example is "continental drift". During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, virtually every scientific expert insisted that the position of the Earth's continents was fixed. This scientific conclusion was based upon the observation that although granite existed on the continents, the seafloor was composed of denser basalt, and the "settled" science during the first half of the twentieth century was that there were two types of crust, named"sial" (continental type crust) and "sima" (oceanic type crust). Furthermore, it was "accepted" by all researchers that a static shell was present under the continents. Then in 1947, a team of scientists using an array of instruments confirmed the existence of a rise in the central Atlantic Ocean and found that the floor of the seabed beneath the layer of sediments consisted of basalt, not the granite which is the main constituent of continents. They also found that the oceanic crust was much thinner than continental crust. All these new findings put the "settled" science into question.
Subsequently, beginning in the 1950s, scientists using instruments that measure attraction (magnetometers) began recognizing odd "striping" across the ocean floor. After the maps with this "zebra pattern" of magnetic bands were published, the connection between seafloor spreading and this layout was correctly linked to the historic evidence of geomagnetic reversals. Like it or not, the seven continents had been moving. Again, the 97% "consensus" regarding the "settled" science of fixed continents had to be discarded. In science, the idea of a "settled consensus" is simply silly. Science is constantly uncovering new truths.
The Concept of "Settled" Science Regarding Anthropogenic (human-induced) climate change has recently been falsified
In 2014, a group of Chinese researchers found evidence suggesting that the current warm phase of a 500-year cycle could terminate over several decades, ushering in a 250-year cool phase. Then on July 3, 2019, Science Daily announced that new evidence suggests that high-energy particles from space known as galactic cosmic rays affect the Earth's climate by increasing cloud cover, causing an "umbrella effect." When galactic cosmic rays increased during the Earth's last geomagnetic reversal transition 780,000 years ago, the umbrella effect of low-cloud cover led to high atmospheric pressure in Siberia, causing the East Asian winter monsoon to become stronger. This is evidence that galactic cosmic rays influence changes in the Earth's climate. "The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has discussed the impact of cloud cover on climate in their evaluations, but this phenomenon has never been considered in climate predictions due to the insufficient physical understanding of it," stated lead Japanese investigator, Professor Hyodo. "This study provides an opportunity to rethink the impact of clouds on climate. When galactic cosmic rays increase, so do low clouds, and when cosmic rays decrease clouds do as well, so climate warming may be caused by an opposite-umbrella effect. The umbrella effect caused by galactic cosmic rays is important when thinking about current global warming as well as the warm period of the medieval era."
On Aug. 9, 2019, Prof. Nir Shaviv suggested that rising levels of CO2 play only a minor role in Earth's climate compared to the influence of the Sun and cosmic radiation. "Climate change has existed forever and is unlikely to go away. But CO2 emissions don't play a major role. Periodic solar activity does." He continued by asserting that "... science is not a democracy. Even if 100% of scientists believe something, one person with good evidence can still be right."
Subsequently, on Aug. 11, 2019, it was reported that a new study had found winters in northern China have been warming since 4,000 BC. The study found that winds from Arctic Siberia have been growing weaker, the conifer tree line has been retreating north, and there has been a steady rise in biodiversity in a general warming trend that continues today. It appears to have little to do with the increase in greenhouse gases which began with the industrial revolution, according to the researchers. Lead scientist Dr. Wu Jing, from the Key Laboratory of Cenozoic Geology and Environment at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said the study had found no evidence of human influence on northern China’s warming winters. “Driving forces include the sun, the atmosphere, and its interaction with the ocean,” Wu said. “We have detected no evidence of human influence."
Then the web site, Bioengineer.org, on Nov. 6, 2019, cited three papers from the Federal University of Sao Paolo, Brazil which partially affirm the studies from Japan and China. This research insists that "The composition (of marine) sediments carried by rivers from the mainland to the ocean can be used as a basis for calculating variables such as temperature, precipitation, and marine salinity. In the context of ongoing global climate change, the study of the past is fundamental to validating the accuracy of the climate models used to make predictions."
SUMMARY
The world-famous philosopher of science, Karl Popper, insisted that to be a valid scientific theory must be falsifiable. This includes the widely held conjecture of anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change. In short, a single set of scholarly findings that is not explained by the premise of man-made global warming which is attributable to the burning of fossil fuels can falsify this entire body of scientific speculation and this has now occurred. Today, six peer-reviewed scientific papers that were conducted by six separate groups of expert investigators from four different universities in three separate countries and which have all been published in eminent peer-reviewed scholarly journals have found no evidence to support the assertion regarding human-induced climate change. Instead, all six groups independently found that the warming that has happened was almost entirely attributable to galactic cosmic rays that affect the quantity of the Earth's low hanging clouds. These expert investigators call this canopy or blanket the "umbrella effect". The bottom line is that the entire climate change hysteria has now been falsified and is untrue. These six experimental results have shown that the IPCC and its computer simulation models (GCMs) are not valid.
LINKS
For those who require links here are several:
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3022136/china-scientists-warn-global-cooling-trick-natures-sleeve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyyuouPSNEA
agencia.fapesp.br/a-novel-method-for-analyzing-marine-sediments-contributes-to-paleoclimate-reconstitution/31850/
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019PA003691
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190703121407.htm
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4205841/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4215299/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIDoMPIikog
https://phys.org/news/2019-12-cooling-role-particulate-earth-stronger.html
