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Shutdown strains hundreds of Native tribes

Associated Press (ap.org); Xochitl, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

FLAGSTAFF, Arizona - Fallout from the federal government shutdown is hurting Native Americans as dwindling funds hamper access to health care and other services. The pain is especially deep in tribal communities with high rates of poverty and unemployment, where one person often supports an extended family.

The effects were being felt far and wide. In New Mexico, a lone police officer patrolled a Native American reservation larger in size than Houston on a shift that normally has three people, responding to multiple car wrecks during a snow storm, emergency calls, and requests for welfare checks.... Native American tribes rely heavily on funding guaranteed by treaties with the U.S., acts of Congress and other agreements for public safety, social services, education... More

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US government shuts down. Blame Trump

Associated Pres (ap.org); Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The Trump administration is failing us. It is threatening to shut down the government... Oops, too late. It is now shut down, and some national parks are closed.

Geysers yes, Ellis Island no: Some US parks open, some not

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyoming - Visitors could still ride snowmobiles and ski into Yellowstone National Park Saturday to marvel at the geysers and buffalo herds, despite the federal government shutdown.

(Jan. 21, 2018) But across the country in New York, the nation's most famous monuments to immigration -- the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island -- were closed. The Interior Department had vowed to keep open as many parks, monuments, and public lands as possible during the shutdown, which began at midnight Friday on the East Coast.

 

By mid-day Saturday, the pattern was spotty, and some visitors were frustrated. "My initial reaction is, they really kind of screwed up our day. We had a great day planned," said Dan O'Meara, a California firefighter who wanted to visit the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.
 

Visit them before it's too late!

"But the next thing is, you know -- it's troubling that the people we voted in are not doing the job that they're supposed to be doing. So it's very frustrating," he said. In Yellowstone, cross-country skier Carol Weaver was unhappy with lawmakers, even though the trails were open for her and a group of friends making a two-day visit.

 

Weaver, from Bozeman, Montana, worried about what would happen if the impasse is lengthy. "This is our public land, and we should be able to use it any time we want," she said. "Congress better get its act together. They've been so irresponsible the last year, as well as the White House." More

Will the U.S. government shut down? (video)

Melania Trump (Late Show w/ Colbert); Associated Press (ap.org); Editors, Wisdom Quarterly

Government shutdown deadline nears; Senate sets one last vote (AP.org)

 

You gonna rat me out to Mueller, Bannon?

Fearless Leader Trump would never allow a government shutdown. If he did, what would he do with his time, go to Mar-a-Lago (Mara's resort in batsh-t crazy Florida) and host parties? No. The nation must move on, its leadership pods continue, and democracy and fairness win the day. Maybe Nancy Pelosi will save us! After all, where are Trump's co-conspirators, the Democrats, in all this? They're in the room, now just a weak "opposition party," just as the Republicans (the right wing of our one-party system) once were.

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Questioning "reality" when NASA lies (video)

OddTV (via J2 mention); Feed Your Mind; Captain Obvious; Wisdom Quarterly

Give us science, give us evidence we can see with our own eyes rather than CGI and hoaxes

Remember the Space Shuttle "disaster"

If this is true, NASA has a lot of explaining to do. No manned missions into space, just rocket with a jet plane piggy backing which we are assured is just a "glider," which would be silent but one can hear the jet engines on reentry. We are not regularly going into space on a shuttle, nor have we been in space by conventional means in decades. NASA continues to hoax.

(Captain Obvious) This video debunks globe spinning earth. Read: amazon.com
The actual shape of the earth, disputing gravity and math models as explanation, NASA

Astronaut describes space travel (listen)

"It only takes eight and a half minutes to get up into space."

Chatting with NASA astronaut Jose Hernandez

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NASA: Pee, Discovery’s last mission

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NASA Investigates Shuttle Sabotage

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Endeavour's STS-127 mission was supposed to lift off June 13, but a leak of hydrogen gas from a pipe attached to the shuttle's fuel tank grouded the vehicle. NASA tried to launch a second time on Wednesday, but again the leak appeared, even after workers replaced the leaky seal between the pipe and shuttle. More>>

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Impact of Space Junk

What is the impact of space debris on the Earth's atmosphere?
OPINION Physics Today (May 21, 2009)

Space.com: There is growing appreciation that outer space has become a trash bin, with the Earth encircled by dead or dying spacecraft, along with menacing bits of orbital clutter — some of which burns up in the planet's atmosphere.

PHOTO: depiction of tracked space debris, not to scale (ESA/AP)

But there is another line of research that needs exploring: The overall impact of human-made orbital debris, solid and liquid propellant discharges, and other space age substance abuse that winds up in a high-speed dive through Earth's atmosphere.

There's a convenient toss-away line that is in vogue: that such space refuse simply "burns up" — a kind of out of sight, out of mind declaration.

What chemistry is involved given the high heating during reentry of space leftovers made of tungsten, beryllium, aluminum, and lots of composite materials? The impact of these materials on Earth's atmosphere — top to bottom — would seem worthy of investigation. Source