A1 OBSTACLE FOR CLIMATE SCIENCE: SKEPTICAL, STUBBORN STUDENTS
"'Scientists are wrong all the time,' she said with a shrug ..."
DATELINE: Cadillac Mountain, Maine
January 27, 2086
Here in the last remaining spot of the East Coast not yet underwater, survivors gathered in the January heat (113° F.) and began boarding the last departure ship.
Almost everyone was on board. Four or five families stood defiantly behind the blinking blue fiber-optic lights which led to the ship's main entry gate.
The master sergeant paused, wiping his sweaty brow, then continued yelling out the alphabetized family names:
"Bannon-Kushner?"
The entire clan gave the man their middle-finger salute.
"Pruitt-Trump?"
The whole family made nose-thumbing gestures and walked away.
"Sutter-Beatty?"
A young girl, perhaps 14-years-old, stepped forward. It had started to rain. The sergeant was getting ready to close the doors, and began pleading with the young woman to please gather up her family and get on the departure ship with everybody else.
"Scientists are wrong all the time," she said with a shrug ...
As the sarge closed the massive door, it began to rain much harder.
"'Scientists are wrong all the time,' she said with a shrug ..."
DATELINE: Cadillac Mountain, Maine
January 27, 2086
Here in the last remaining spot of the East Coast not yet underwater, survivors gathered in the January heat (113° F.) and began boarding the last departure ship.
Almost everyone was on board. Four or five families stood defiantly behind the blinking blue fiber-optic lights which led to the ship's main entry gate.
The master sergeant paused, wiping his sweaty brow, then continued yelling out the alphabetized family names:
"Bannon-Kushner?"
The entire clan gave the man their middle-finger salute.
"Pruitt-Trump?"
The whole family made nose-thumbing gestures and walked away.
"Sutter-Beatty?"
A young girl, perhaps 14-years-old, stepped forward. It had started to rain. The sergeant was getting ready to close the doors, and began pleading with the young woman to please gather up her family and get on the departure ship with everybody else.
"Scientists are wrong all the time," she said with a shrug ...
As the sarge closed the massive door, it began to rain much harder.
TIME MACHINE
June 5, 1895
122 years ago
Page 1 THE POPULISTS PROTEST
"Populists are indignant because, they say the Altgeld Democrats are about to 'steal their thunder' at to-morrow's silver convention. H. E. Taubeneck, Chairman of the National Executive Committee of the People's Party, arrived in Springfield to-day, held several secret conferences with colleagues, and admitted with some reluctance that he was here for the purpose of protesting against the Democrats adopting principles which have long been acknowledged to be the foundation of Populism. As soon as he arrived he telegraphed for W. L. Maxwell, Chairman of the State Committee, to come to Springfield at once on important business. Arrangements are now being made by the Populists to hold a caucus here at an early date and issue an address to the people of Illinois, in which the Altgeld Democrats be branded as thieves of Populists principles."
And thus, with all the intraparty bickering, setting the stage for next year's presidential election, won by the Republican nominee, McKinley.
Page 1 LISTENED FOR OBNOXIOUS MUSIC
The things that made Page 1 back in the old days ...
Page 16 PROOF OF HYPNOTIC POWER
"For several days I attempted to locate the house without success."
The things that made Page 16 back in the old days ...
Page 4 SHERIFF TO INVESTIGATE
Oh, this is a good one!
"Sheriff Tamsen will hold an investigation at 10 o'clock this morning in Ludlow Street Jail in order to find out how Joseph Killoran and Charles Allen succeeded in almost destroying evidence of their identity by having their whiskers and mustaches shaved off."
"When the prisoners went up to Ludlow Street Jail they were as fine looking men as you could see. They had good clothes, watch chains, and all that sort of thing. When they came down here yesterday they looked like a lot of roughs."
" ... just think of the feelings of the detectives. To have their men trapped after a long chase, and then to have their triumph snatched from them by an infernal barber. I suppose it must have almost made them cry; I know it would me, if I had been in their places."
I see a really great defense attorney at work here somewhere.
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