I will say I was somewhat encouraged, disheartened, uninterested, and offended when I noted the front page items. I was told that issue was dead, but what's one more deception and lie coming from the political process and its agenda-pu$hing mouthpiece media?
I thought the police shootings were more -- and will check my clipped pile of Globe articles I'm readying for post -- but the encouragement didn't last long, and the city ain't broken if you are Israel, a war profiteer, a well-connected corporation or intere$t, or the publicly-paid servant of theirs.
"The deal buoyed Wall Street investors. Guggenheim Partners, a financial services firm, concluded that as a result overall Pentagon spending will remain relatively the same for the next several years before it begins to grow once again, at about 2.5 percent per year."
All of a $udden there is biparti$an$hip everywhere -- almost.
So WHAT WARS for ISRAEL are on the DRAWING BOARD?
As for the new mayor of Boston I could hardly care less about his inauguration or anything else over there today, although I am kind of wondering why this is buried at the bottom of page B3 in the B section:
"Midwest, South brace for historic cold" by Carson Walker | Associated Press, January 05, 2014
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The deep freeze expected in the Midwest and the South will be one to remember, with potential record-low temperatures heightening fears of frostbite and hypothermia. The frigid air will begin Sunday and extend into early next week, funneled as far south as the Gulf Coast.
My problem is I never forget.
It hasn’t been this cold for decades — 20 years in Washington, D.C., 18 years in Milwaukee, 15 in Missouri — even in the Midwest, where bundling up is second nature. Weather Bell meteorologist Ryan Maue said, ‘‘If you’re under 40, you’ve not seen this stuff before.’’
I guess that puts the pffffft to the fart-misters and their $creaming about never-ending rises in temperatures!
Blame it on a ‘‘polar vortex,’’ as one meteorologist calls it, a counterclockwise-rotating pool of cold, dense air.
Well, something is certainly spinning backwards on certain interests (now the rescue vessel is trapped in ice?).
‘‘It’s just a large area of very cold air that comes down, forms over the North Pole or polar regions . . . usually stays in Canada, but this time it’s going to come all the way into the eastern United States,’’ said meteorologist Phillip Schumacher in Sioux Falls, S.D.
The predictions are startling: 25 below zero in Fargo, N.D., minus 31 in International Falls, Minn., and 15 below in Indianapolis and Chicago. At those levels, exposed skin can get frostbitten in minutes and hypothermia can quickly set in as wind chills may reach 50, 60, or even 70 below zero.
Even wind chills of 25 below zero can do serious damage, according to meteorologist Scott Truett in St. Louis.
‘‘Those are dangerous levels of wind chill,’’ he said of the expected wind chill in Missouri at daybreak Monday. ‘‘A person not properly dressed could die easily in those conditions.’’
Already, parts of New England dropped into the negatives early Saturday, with East Brighton, Vt., seeing 30 below zero just after midnight and Allagash, Maine, hitting minus 36.
Now I feel lucky it was only -14 here.
Snow will reduce the sun’s heating effect, so nighttime lows will plummet because of the strong northwest winds.
More snow is expected in parts of the central Midwest and South starting Saturday night — up to a foot in eastern Missouri and southern Michigan, 6 to 8 inches in central Illinois, 8 or more inches in western Kentucky and up to 6 inches in parts of middle Tennessee.
Sunday’s NFL playoff game in Green Bay, Wis., could be among the coldest ever played — a frigid minus 2 degrees when the Packers and San Francisco 49ers kick off at Lambeau Field. Medical experts suggest fans wear at least three layers and drink warm fluids.
They have heated benches they can go and sit on.
Minnesota has called off school Monday for the entire state — the first such closing in 17 years — as well as the Wisconsin cities of Milwaukee and Madison.
I just heard a huge cheer go up from somewhere.
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Not a word about global warming or climate change. I suppose the Globe has run out of gas or the agenda has been fro$en at the moment.
And what they cut from the print version that did not appear on the web:
"Before the polar plunge, Earth was as close as it gets to the sun each year on Saturday. The planet orbits the sun in an oval and on average is 93 million miles away. But every January, Earth is at perihelion, and on Saturday, it was only 91.4 million miles from the sun. But that proximity doesn't affect the planet's temperatures.
Obviously!
Gee, I wonder why the web Globe wouldn't want you to know that.
Maue noted it's relatively uncommon to have such frigid air blanket so much of the U.S., maybe once a decade or every couple of decades. Yet Truett said there are no clear trends in weather patterns to indicate what kind of temperatures are in store for the rest of the winter.
So far, this winter is proving to be a cold one.
"Right now for the winter, we will have had two significant shots of major Arctic air and we're only through the first week of January," Maue said."
You don't have to tell that to anyone up here:
"Cold causes burst pipes, fires in Mass." by Dan Adams | Globe Correspondent, January 04, 2014
The bitter cold prompted deep concerns about the homeless and their vulnerability outdoors to hypothermia and frostbite….
And there is more of them than ever: Homeless For the Holidays
Relief from arctic conditions is imminent, with rain and highs of 40 and 50 degrees projected for Sunday and Monday.
Still waiting as of this morning and the forecast out here says sleet and freezing rain so WTF?
But colder conditions will return quickly, with the National Weather Service forecasting a temperature plunge back into the teens on Tuesday.
“It’s going to be a roller coaster,” said meteorologist Bill Simpson. “The melting [Sunday and Monday] won’t cause any river flooding, but if the drains aren’t cleared by Tuesday’s commute, we could have issues with freezing puddles on the roadway.”
MBTA service was disrupted Saturday morning when cold-sensitve equipment failed.
But let's go late night and neglect maintenance with a "found(?)" $20 million.
Maybe the homeless could u$e that instead.
The flight schedule at Logan International Airport was returning to normal Saturday after delays caused by the snowstorm, a Massport spokesman said.
Expanding ice in frozen water pipes caused extensive damage to homes, hospitals, and businesses across the state….
Officials also cited the weather for a spike in house fires….
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I'm bitter about more than the cold.
What prompted me to title this post thinner was the shocking, two-page world report (glad to see they corrected the misspelling in my printed paper that said Inida, no lie, no joke, readers; you don't think I notice such things after the insult?) with only four features (and five briefs) and the thinness (it's usually a lot thicker than eight pages) of two other sections of my paper (that also included editorials and opinions) after I put aside the sports and the rest.
In a way the Globe has done me a favor with this pathetic piece of printed $hit. It should allow me to catch up on other things right quick. Some of the linked items might appear in a later post; then again, they might not. Sorry.
