The Political Page, T+34 -- February 23, 2017

Separate but equal? Okay if #BlackLivesMatter.

More good news: Bernie Sanders cult taking over Democratic party.

Jobs: in 2009, President Obama promised a million new manufacturing jobs. BLS is reporting that from 2009 to the end of his term, the number of new manufacturing jobs? A net loss of 303,000. 

Impeachment: likely DNC chairman-select says there is now "enough" to impeach President Trump. This is all about dollars and donations.

Worth repeating, from an April 22, 2016, post:

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Earth Day, 1970: Predictions

Four predictions:

• the civilized world would end in three decades -- Nobel laureate George Wald.
• England would be hit by food shortage; civilization would collapse -- Paul Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb
• gas masks would be required in cities, due to pollution -- Life Magazine
• the world's supply of oil would run out -- Kenneth Watt, an ecologist

I'm serious: was there any prediction in 1970 that panned out?

We need to jail global warming skeptics -- Bill Nye, the science guy.

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Global Warming

Snow? Kennedy klan to ski Squaw Valley, California, on July 4, 2017? The resort plans to be open on July 4, 2017:

The Tahoe-area resort has seen some 565 inches of accumulative snowfall this season. That's over 47 feet.

"In 2017 alone, since January 1, we've had 460 inches," said Sam Kieckhefer, a spokesperson for Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows. "Our season average is 450 inches. We received more snow since the start of 2017 than our average season."

Kieckhefer added: "We are 91 days into our season, and we're expecting to operate on July 4 and so that means we're not even halfway done with the season."

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Yes, there's a story behind all this. Maybe for a later date.