Blind spot is reference to warmists not able to see clearly what is going on. The only sites talking about global warming are the liberal news outlets and websites that are "global warming" websites. But "fair and balanced" websites, media outlets are reporting snow falls and record colder temperatures. One almost gets the feeling it is taking and will take a grass roots effort to convince folks the science is not settled. It's the satellite data that's important, not the "surface thermometers" that have been re-calibrated, moved to new locations.
Speaking of snow: all highways in southern Minnesota are closed (Feb 2, 2016, 2:59 p.m.) due to heavy snow from SuperStorm Kayla.
Winter Storm Kayla is hammering the Plains, and the impacts have become very serious for hundreds of thousands.
More than 100 miles of Interstate 80 were closed Tuesday in Nebraska due to the nearly impossible driving conditions, the state Department of Transportation reported. The closure spanned from an area west of Kearney at Exit 369 all the way to Exit 257, near Beaver Crossing. There was no timetable for when that freeway would reopen.
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The Homicide Page
Updates
February 22, 2016: The Chicago Tribune is reporting that Chicago homicides running at twice the rate this year as last.
Four homicides over the weekend and two more Monday morning pushed Chicago's homicide count so far this year to double the same period last year.
The city has recorded at least 95 homicides since the first of the year, compared to 47 last year, according to data kept by the Tribune. [Wow!]
The city has also more than doubled the amount of people shot - about 420 this year compared to 193 last year. [Wow!]
Thirty-two people were shot in Chicago over the weekend, the youngest among them a 3-year-old boy shot in the leg in the Englewood neighborhood.Let's see what Hey!Jackass has to say.
- total shot: 441
- shot and killed: 96
Original Post
The nation's third largest city recorded 51 homicides in January, the highest toll for the month since 2000.
Gang conflicts and retaliatory violence drove the "unacceptable" increase in homicides, the police department said in a statement. But the rise in violence also notably comes as the Chicago Police Department faces increased scrutiny following the court-ordered release of a police video showing a white police officer fatally shooting a black teenager 16 times, and as the department implements changes in how it monitors street stops by officers.
Chicago routinely records more homicides annually than any other American city, but the grim January violence toll marks a shocking spike in violence in a city that recorded 29 murders for the month of January last year and 20 murders for the month in 2014. In addition to the jump in killings, police department said that it recorded 241 shooting incidents for the month, more than double the 119 incidents recorded last January.
The rise in violence comes after the Chicago Police Department reported 468 murders in 2015, a 12.5% increase from the year before. There were also 2,900 shootings, 13% more than the year prior, according to police department records.
In recent weeks, the police department pushed back against the notion that the rise in homicides could be due to cops becoming less aggressive due to the negative attention the department has received in the aftermath of the release of the police video showing the shooting of Laquan McDonald. The city saw several weeks of largely peaceful protests after the release of the video. The U.S. Justice Department has launched a civil rights investigation of the city.Current Chicago homicide data.
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Separate But More Equal
Now we're going back to ... segregation .. on campuses? University of Connecticut may try it.
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