Guys with tiny hands are running the world and destroying it

THEY'RE TRADING INSULTS AND MAKING WAR NOISES

 

PERHAPS IT WOULD HELP IF THEY WALKED A MILE IN EACH OTHER'S SHOES

 

 

 

 THESE GUYS ARE SERIOUS ... REALLY!!

THE BEST WAY TO END IT IS TO PUT TINY BOXING GLOVES ON THEM AND LET THEM DUKE IT OUT IN A SAND BOX 

THEN MAYBE THEY CAN BE FRIENDS

Math calculations in Paddock's note

 

 

Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock coolly calculated the geometry of mass murder, according to new details of the note he left behind on the nightstand of his hotel suite.

The slip of paper contains the handwritten calculations of his elevation and distance from the 20,000 concert-goers below — and shows he spent time mathematically maximizing his firing accuracy so he could kill as many people as possible.
“I could see on it he had written the distance, the elevation he was on, the drop of what his bullet was gonna be for the crowd,” Officer Dave Newton of the Las Vegas Police Department said on Sunday.
“So he had that written down and figured out so he would know where to shoot to hit his targets from there.”
A CBS news program featured interviews with Newton and two other police officers — the three cops who used an explosive blast to break down Paddock’s door on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Casino and Hotel last Sunday night.
“Very eerie,” Newton tells correspondent Bill Whitaker of Paddock’s hotel room.
Smoke from the blast had set off a blinking fire alarm in the room. “Yeah, the dust from the explosive breach,” said Newton, a cop with the K-9 unit.
“And then you have the flashing lights,” Newton said.
“And that looked straight, like, out of a movie, you know?”
It was Newton who describes the note on a nightstand near one of the two windows Paddock broke before aiming for the crowd 400 yards away, killing 58 people and injuring hundreds more in the deadly mass shooting.
In Vegas on Saturday, Vice President Mike Pence and wife Karen told a crowd at City Hall that America will always remember the “courage” of the victims. “We do not grieve like those who have no hope,” Pence said. “Because heroes give us hope.”
The veep’s remarks came as FBI agents carefully hauled away the piles of backpacks, purses, baby strollers and lawn chairs left behind by concert-goers as Paddock’s bullets flew.
The belongings will be catalogued and returned to families, officials said.
Also Saturday, the family of shooting victim John Phippen, 56, asked a judge to appoint an administrator to Paddock’s estate — a first step toward a lawsuit.
 Paddock set up a camera inside his hotel room during his deadly shooting rampage — and other surveillance in the hallway to alert him as cops closed in on him, officials said.
The shooter had placed a camera by the peephole in his room at the Mandalay Bay Hotel. It has also been reported he had a camera in his room to record himself.

Paddock also wired up two cameras in the hallway outside his room. Police officials said the cameras had been meant to help Paddock watch out for cops, though it is not clear how he might have been monitoring them. The video he took of himself while shooting at the concert spectators has not been discussed by police.

Trump defends Melania for wearing stilettos before flights to hurricane-ravaged areas: She 'wants to look good leaving the front entrance'

 Business Insider        MICHELLE MARK        October  6th 2017
President Donald Trump in an interview with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee defended the first lady over backlash she received for wearing stiletto heels before boarding flights to hurricane-ravaged areas.

Trump made the comments in response to a question from Huckabee on Melania Trump's high approval ratings, saying that she is a "private person" who "loved her other life."

"She doesn't need to be adored by people, but she does like to help people. And she sees how important it is. And she's taken tremendous abuse," Trump told Huckabee.

Melania Trump was criticized in August for wearing high heels before heading to Texas in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, although she changed into sneakers before landing. She made a similar move this week when visiting Puerto Rico, boarding her flight while wearing stilettos before switching to Timberland work boots.

The president told Huckabee that the first lady had dressed up "out of respect for the White House," adding that she "wants to look good leaving the front entrance."

He continued: "So she dresses up, and she puts on formal shoes, high heels, and she leaves the White House going to Texas, or going to wherever we want to go — Florida, actually twice. So walking through that front door, she did. Now, she has sneakers in the meantime with her so she can change into other clothing when we're walking through where a hurricane is just leaving, and she took tremendous abuse."

Trump added that people he has met have not appeared to mind the first lady's heels.

"But the good news is that the people understand it – I was making a speech, and women were holding up — 'we love your stilettos.' They really do love her. And she's a good person," Trump said.

Trump's interview with Huckabee, who is the father of White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, will air on Saturday for the first episode of his show "Huckabee" on the Trinity Broadcasting Network.
Witchy sez : Folks  , don't get upset  because  tRUMP   defends Malanie's shoes , he has his reason .... her shoe size  and his IQ is the same number ..........excuse me , I just couldn't help  it     HeHe

As my sight grows dimmer, I often think of Dylan Thomas's poem and I 'rage against the dying of the light'. I posted it here because it's just a damn good poem. It proves that no matter how great, or small your achievements; no matter how good or wise you may be, or what revelations come to you, the dark ( or death) is the great equalizer. It comes to us all and we do not 'go gentle into that good night'. The poem celebrates the tenacity of the human spirit.



Do not go gentle into that good night

Dylan Thomas, 1914 - 1953 :

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
             

No more abortion protests outside clinics ...Canada protects women's rights

               

A Canadian province is tabling legislation that would make it illegal to protest or form a gathering to demonstrate outside abortion clinics.

Ontario's attorney general announced on Thursday that the government will introduce the Safe Access to Abortion Services Act. If passed, the legislation would create "safe access zones" around abortion clinics as well as the homes of staff. Anti-abortion activists would not be allowed to protest within at least 50m (164ft) of a clinic or staff residence. These protests intimidate and try to mock and shame women who go for the clinics services.
British Columbia, Quebec, and Newfoundland and Labrador have already enacted safe access zone laws. It is expected the rest of Canada will follow suit.

"Our government is standing up for every woman's right to choose, and protecting the safety of abortion service providers," said Ontario's Attorney General Yasir Naqvi in a news release.
"The proposed safe access zones would mean that patients, visitors and staff are able to enter and depart from clinics and facilities that provide abortion services in a manner that protects their safety, security, health and privacy."
The "safe access zones" could be extended from 50m to 150m by application; the law would also allow hospitals and pharmacies that provide abortion services to apply for a safe zone. In addition to the zone around clinic staff's residence, the law would protect clinic staff from "harassment" everywhere they go in Ontario.
Those convicted of violating the law would face a C$5,000 ($4,000, £3,000) fine and/or six months in prison for a first offence, or a fine of between C$1,000 and C$10,000 and up to one year in jail for second and subsequent offences.
Mr Naqvi told media he was moved to act when a woman was spat on outside an Ottawa clinic where protesters frequently gather, carrying graphic signs and chanting slogans.
Pro-choice advocates have been pushing for the law for some time, but anti-abortion activists say it takes away their right to free speech.
"I find it ignorant for the attorney general of Ontario to suggest that abortion is a right," anti-abortion supporter Anna Nienhuis told the Ottawa Citizen.
If she would examine her own frequently touted statement, she might see that she is denying women the right to makes their own choices. And that's pretty ignorant.


Post scriptum: Canada has also legalized the abortion pill.

Made in America Tragedy....

It seems Mass killings are a 'made in America tragedy' in these times. It is almost reasonable to wonder whether you’re risking your life by being anywhere but at home.

A gunman with a clutch of high-powered rifles on the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas hotel proved Sunday night that you can assume no safety in numbers, not even among 22,000 fans of country music, a genre that romanticizes American gun culture. Some 59 people died and 527 more were injured in a long-distance rain of hellish gunfire in the nation’s worst mass shooting in modern times.

 Not to say other countries are safe . Twenty-two died in May when the mostly young female fans of Ariana Grande, of Boca Raton, were met with a suicide bomber’s blast upon leaving a Manchester arena at the concert’s end.
Nor are schools sure havens as Virginia Tech discovered in 2007 when a student killed 32 people and wounded 17. Not a high school, as Columbine, Colo., showed in 1999, when two disaffected students killed 12 schoolmates and a teacher. Not even a grade school, as we sadly learned from Sandy Hook Elementary, in Newton, Conn., where a 20-year-old gunman killed 20 children between the ages of 6 and 7, and six adult staff members in 2012.
Nor are movie theaters, as we know from Aurora, Colo., where a gunman dressed in tactical clothing killed 12 and injured 70 at a 2012 midnight premiere showing of “The Dark Knight Rises.”
Nor are nightclubs, as we saw last year at Pulse, the gay club in Orlando where a 29-year-old Florida man methodically killed 49 people and wounded 58 more.
Nor are sports events safe. The two bombs exploding at the 2013’s Boston Marathon proved that . Three people died and 16 lost limbs among hundreds of wounded.
        
It’s frightening. It’s enough to make a person never leave the house. That’s possible, certainly. You can curl up with Netflix rather than go out to the movies. Shop on Amazon and avoid the mall. Take courses online, not in the lecture hall.
But this would be the wrong response. To retreat would give evil a victory. Stephen Paddock and other mass killers are products of American society. We produced them, therefore, we should find them, root them out and prevent them from acting out their horrific fantasies. And we should make it impossible for them to get their hands on automatic weapons.
Before this era of mass shootings, American life was filled with plenty of other perils. Hundreds of people died in theater fires (492 at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston in 1942; 602 at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago in 1903). Boiler explosions, Steamship fires, cities burning down, all pretty common disasters. Mass disasters like these are largely things of the past. Why? Because people took steps to prevent them with better building standards, stricter fire codes, safer technologies.


Today, it’s different. No one is taking positive action.  No one taking steps to change the status quo. The gun lobby’s hold on Congress — and the Trump White House — is so firm that the mere suggestion of sensible gun safety measures seems dead on arrival. The public seems to be giving up; last year, a mere 36 percent supported banning assault weapons, according to Gallup.        
To the contrary, Congress is currently considering widening the use of silencers – exactly the wrong thing if you want to know from where a mass shooter is firing. And, predictably, we’re hearing from those who say the best answer is to encourage more people to carry firearms and shoot back — (although any fans’ handguns would have been useless against the long-distance barrage in Las Vegas.) People are told to pray, as if mass shootings were a natural disaster and not preventable.


Americans should not have to live in fear of pursuing the everyday pleasures and necessities of life. We cannot allow people with serious mental imbalances be allowed to build arsenals of weapons and ammunition which are designed for the military; designed to eliminate scores of enemies in a single round. Why not elect people to office who will take assault weapons — weapons of war that have no utility for hunting and no legitimate rationale for self-defense — out of circulation and out of our nightmares.
Our kids should feel safe on the streets and in school, not like potential victims.



'How's Meghan?': Prince Harry and Barack Obama rekindle 'bromance' at Invictus Games ..... Obama Speaks at Luncheon

Prince Harry and Barack Obama at Invictus Games 

Joe Biden, former VP and his wife Jill also attended the game

Prince Harry and Barack Obama have rekindled their friendship in a surprise appearance on the basketball court. The Prince and former US president are firm friends, appearing in public together several times over the years. On Friday, they shocked fans at the Invictus Games as they emerged into the wheelchair basketball arena together.  
In a testament to their friendship, the Prince was allegedly overheard speaking about his girlfriend Ms Markle to Mr Obama, who finally attended Invictus events after being disappointed to miss out in Orlando last year.
“Obama just asked about her filming [Suits] and how it was going, and then Harry asked about Michelle and how she was doing. Then Harry said, send my love to Michelle.”

Former U.S. President Barack Obama greets competitors from Team France. 

Mr Obama caused something of a stir at the wheelchair basketball court when he started chanting "USA, USA" as they made their way to watch the US vs France game.
A spokesman for Mr Obama said the former president wished to lend his support to American competitors “to once again express his gratitude for their service and his admiration for their courage and resilience.”
It was a hero's return for Mr Obama to the Invictus Games, after he helped raise its profile in an extraordinary video series last year.
Then, he and his wife Michelle issued a video message challenging Prince Harry's British competitors to "bring it" at the Florida Games.
In May this year, the Prince and Mr Obama met at the Prince's home, Kensington Palace, while the former president was visiting the UK, discussing - among other things - mental health and the Manchester bombing which had happened days before.
They also spent time together in 2016, when Mr and Mrs Obama joined the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry for dinner during an official visit.
This year, he dropped into the Toronto Games in a casual appearance at the wheelchair basketball.

The Prince will attend several more sporting events before delivering an address at the closing ceremony on Saturday night.
Among those who met the Prince and Mr Obama were three small children who approached the pair shyly for a photograph. Otis Harding-Withers, six, was lifted onto Prince Harry's lap after saying hello, while Jakob Israel, eight, and his seven-year-old sister Grace posed in front of Mr Obama.
Jakob and Grace are the children of Jason Israel, who has served three tours in Afghanistan with the Canadian forces and competed in the track events after suffering an injury. Their emotional mother Amanda Israel, said she had used the moment to thank Prince Harry for setting up the Games.
Heather Harding, mother of Otis, said her son has simply walked over towards the Prince just as he and Mr Obama settled into their front row bleacher seats.
"Harry asked me if it was ok and put him on his lap," she said. "He was as lovely as I thought he would be."

 

Mr Obama and Prince Harry enjoy the Invictus Games together

Luncheon sponsored byThink-Tank Canada 2020.

TORONTO — Former U.S. President Barack Obama said Friday that closing borders won't create future jobs because what's changing industries like manufacturing are automation and artificial intelligence.

Obama told a Toronto luncheon on Friday that the transition from an agricultural to an industrial economy happened over the course of 150 years, but that the technological revolution is happening in 20 years. He said it's hard for governments to catch up to the pace of disruption.

Obama said over the next 25 years, advanced economies will have to confront the fact that there is not going to be enough high-paying full-time work as we traditionally conceive it.

"You'll still see auto companies doing pretty well and you'll see us manufacturing the goods that we use in the United States or Canada, but you'll walk through those factories and they'll be empty because they'll be run by robots and AI".

"The biggest challenge that we face in terms of maintaining good manufacturing jobs in our countries come from automation, and that is going to accelerate."

Friday's event, which cost $1,000 per plate, was organized by Ottawa-based think-tank Canada 2020.

Obama did not mention President Donald Trump by name but said if the strategy is to close off borders, then governments are missing the point. Trump nixed the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and has called the North American Free Trade Agreement the worst trade deal in history and has threatened to withdraw from it.

Obama said that policies can make it easier or harder for people to adapt to change.

 He said unions are important but must recognize the original union model was built in the industrial era and needs to be refreshed in the information age. Things like a higher minimum wage can help cushion the impact of the disruption.

He said all advanced economies will have to adapt and find ways in which everybody has a productive, fulfilling life that can support a family. He said young people will need the skills to compete in an economy driven by massive technological change.

"The policies we have now can build a runway so that over the next 20 years people are not so angry, so fearful and so stressed that we end up resorting to policies that are not going to be good for anybody".
Canada has the greatest respect for Mr Obama and for his deep thinking, logic and wisdom on world matters.