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2) CONTINUE FOR SIX MORE HELLISH WEEKS



History...
Groundhogs (aka hedgehogs, whistle pigs, woodchucks, marmots) break hibernation this time of year. According to weather lore, if they see their shadows, it frightens them. They return to their holes & Winter will continue for six more weeks.
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If, however, it is cloudy, they do not see the shadow, so they remain out of their Winter abode and...WINTER ENDS!
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First reports from Eastern North Murkun locales are expected shortly.
Shubenacadie Sam is located in Nova Scotia. The critter is due to emerge at 8:00 Atlantic Standard Time.

Stay connected to this blog for for a running tally as updates become available!

Score -
WINTER'S OVER - 8
SIX MORE WEEKS OF FROZEN HELL ON EARTH - 3

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Talk radio king Rush Limbaugh stunned his 20-million member audience Monday with the announcement he’s been diagnosed with “advanced lung cancer.”

Limbaugh told listeners that the disease will keep him off the air on certain days when he’ll receive treatment. He said two medical institutions confirmed the diagnosis since he first realized something was wrong on Jan. 12 when he experienced shortness of breath.

“I thought about not telling anybody,” he said. “It is what it is. You know me, I’m the mayor of Realville. This has happened and my intention is to come here every day I can, and do this program as normally and competently and expertly as I do each and every day because that is the source of my greatest satisfaction professionally, personally.”

“I told the staff today that I have a deeply personal relationship with God that I do not proselytize about, but I do, and I have been working that relationship tremendously,” he said. "I am, at the moment, experiencing zero symptoms."

Limbaugh said he will undergo further testing and planned to “push ahead and keep everything as normal” as he could.

“I felt that I had to tell you because that’s the kind of relationship that I feel like I have with those of you in this audience,” he said. “Over the years, a lot of people have been very nice, telling me how much this program has meant to them but, whatever that is, it pales in comparison to what you all have meant to me.”

The radio veteran -- widely considered one of the most powerful voices in conservative media -- said he “can’t describe” the feeling but he’s aware his audience understood him.

“The rest of the world may not,” Limbaugh said. “But, I know that you do.”
Limbaugh called his listener base one of “the greatest sources of confidence” that he’s ever had in his life.

“I hope I will be talking about this as little as necessary in the coming days, but we’ve got a great bunch of doctors, a great team assembled, we’re at full speed ahead on this,” Limbaugh said. “It’s just now a matter of implementing what we are going to be told later this week.”

He said he “hopes” to be back on Thursday.

“If not, it’ll be as soon as I can,” Limbaugh said. “Every day I’m not here, I’ll be thinking of you and missing you.”

On his radio show, Sean Hannity discusses how he was hit by Rush Limbaugh's announcement of stage 4 lung cancer

Limbaugh’s name began trending on social media within minutes of his shocking announcement as countless users offered thoughts and prayers. “The Rush Limbaugh Show” has reached up to 27 million people per week on more than 600 stations, according to his website.

Fox News’ Sean Hannity responded on his own radio show: “I don’t think talk radio would ever be anything like it is, or I’d be here, if it wasn’t for all that Rush has done.”

Limbaugh began the “The Rush Limbaugh Show” in 1988 and has since earned a variety of awards and honors. He’s a five-time winner of the National Association of Broadcasters Marconi Award for “Excellence in Syndicated and Network Broadcasting,” a No. 1 New York Times bestselling author and a member of the Radio Hall of Fame and National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame. He also was named one of Barbara Walters’ 10 Most Fascinating People in 2008 and one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2009.

Limbaugh has been named to Forbes Magazine’s 50 Most Powerful Celebrities in the United States list, received the William F. Buckley, Jr. Award for media excellence, won the “Defender of the Constitution Award” at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2009 and was invited to stay in the Lincoln Bedroom of the White House by President George H. W. Bush.

He also was an honorary member of the House of Representatives Republican freshman class of 1995.

I was out all afternoon and came back to see another twist in the phone conversation Trump had with the new president of Ukraine.

Trump personally ordered the suspension of hundreds of millions of dollars of military aid to Ukraine. When questioned, he stated "We're supporting a country we wanna make sure that country is honest. Why would you give money to a country that you think is corrupt."

My thought is the money was already approved by congress... shouldn't those safeguards already be in place?

Not knowing (or ignoring) the law when asked if he pressured the president of Ukraine he states "I think it would probably possibly be okay if I did"




Heard in another interview he said "Thee conversation I had was largely congratulatory was largely corruption all of the corruption taking place, was largely the fact we don't want our people like vice president Biden and his son creating to thee the corruption already in the Ukraine"

(2-part news story - Trump appears in the 2nd part)


I read that correctly that Trump is insinuating the Biden's are corrupt or capable of corruption in Ukraine.

Note, if you wish to comment, please use spellcheck as there are no excuses not to be able to correctly spell Democrat.

The thawing Arctic is "like discovering a New Africa", according to Icelandic President, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson.

The thawing Arctic is the last, greatest resource prize on the planet.
Borders are being drawn to establish the claims of Far North nations to the newly accessible wealth...

Russia is establishing an early foothold over much of the region...

Interest in the Arctic (and access to its riches) intensifies as Greenland experiences an unprecedented & unexpected Sahara heat wave in Summer '19...

11 billion tons of ice melted in a SINGLE DAY last month...
Nearly 200 billion tons during July '19.
Such an accelerated rate of melting of the Greenland icecap was anticipated no earlier than 2070 - and more likely well into the 22nd Century.

Get busy, or get left....behind.

I was shocked to see a recent photo of him and will always remember his vibrance of songs in the 1960's and beyond.
Burt Bacharach, the popular music composer is gone...

Yesterday, a few people had fun trying to solve a chess puzzle.
One gentleman got it right. Kudos to Ger.... from Australia !
Another gentleman requested more of these puzzles.
So, here is the second one;

Will one of yesterday's players be the first to get it right again, or can someone else be the first to solve today's puzzle ?

Only time and your effort(s) will tell.

Here's today's chess board set-up. You play white and as the blog title suggests,
it's your move. What is your best first move and why ?



The pieces are symbolizes as follows;

K = King
Q = Queen
R = Rook
B = Bishop
N = Knight
P = Pawn

As always, from white's perspective the lower left corner is space a1
and the upper right corner space is h8.
The space to the right of a1 is b1, etc....

So for instance, if you first move is to move the white pawn in front of your king that move would be noted as; 1. P h3 - h4.

May the force be with you.

Any internet tips/tricks that anyone is willing to share that may be beneficial to a layman like me will be much appreciated.

My contribution,,, I only know of one, is:

Download any youtube video by adding a ss between the dot and the y.
Example:

https://www.ssyoutube.com/watch?v=4W-lUAG9T0o
This will open.


Just click on 'download' and the youtube video is yours. Look in your 'Downloads' folder, thats where mine is stored.

This works for most youtube videos, maybe not all.

The debate seems set to continue with no resolution in sight. Or at least that was the case until very recently. Now it seems there's a new theory in town: something a lot of us suspected all along, as it turns out. It's too early to say anything conclusive at this stage, but evidence seems to be emerging that indicates man could, after all, have first appeared from under a gooseberry bush. It is said to be highly unlikely that it will ever be possible to say whether or not a stork was involved.


The painstaking work of sifting for evidence goes on.