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And This Just in Our Little World from Southern New Mexico to Central Colorado Why you missed it if you don't live here. Hint: It's "evironmental" news We don't need no stinkin' tree hugger news Here are a week's worth of big-time serious news, collected the New Mexico Political Report, a newsletter. •   On Sunday,  wastewater from a well operated by BPX in southern Colorado leaked into the Animas Citizens Ditch and Animas River . As a precaution, the cities of Farmington and Aztec both shut down the intake pumps that draw drinking water from the river.  The  Durango Herald  and  Farmington Daily Times             That's the same river system that took the hit from the  Gold King Mine spill.  • Fortunately, no one was hurt on Wednesday at a  Noble Energy site when thousands of gallons of diesel fuel ignited in Weld County, Colorado .  Smoke was visible in Denver and residents living within a mile of the accident were evacuated. 

The Judge Who Threw a Tantrum [Texas politics, doncha know] Ousted GOP judge randomly released a group of defendants because that’s “what the voters wanted”* Vote me out?!... I'll show you! MIFFED! (Ex-)Judge Republican Glenn Devlin arbitrarily released a bunch of juvenile defendants (some dangerous) because "That's what the Democrats wanted!" after he lost his race.   Very mature of you, Judge. (Kind of Trumpian, though.) Judge cartoon credit * Story source ;   Story source 2

Whoo boy... The NRA Steps in It Big Time One day before the Thousand Oaks shooting NRA: " “Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane. Half of the articles in Annals of Internal Medicine are pushing for gun control,” the NRA  tweeted . “Most upsetting, however, the medical community seems to have consulted NO ONE but themselves.” (Like call the NRA!) Surgeons: "... Replying to @NRA You’re never the ones elbows-deep in someone’s body trying to keep them from dying of their gunshot wounds. You’re never the ones telling someone their loved one is dead. Come into my trauma bay and deal with the results of your insanity with me, or stay out of MY lane. 292 5:53 AM - Nov 9, 2018 Plus a BUNCH more.  angry docs.

Born in Russia, Dual British and American Citizenship Gives $200 Million to Harvard for Translational Medicine  ("Translating" scientific discoveries to actual drugs and treatments) Another immigrant success story p.s. He's Jewish Amidst all the anti-immigrant shouting, there is the hard truth that new immigrants are America's most successful class of entrepreneurs.  Some 25% of all successful new startups in the country were founded by immigrants. Something about picking up and moving from one's country of origin to a new life in America identifies smart people with powerful risk-taking instincts. Check it out . America's super  power is it's diversity.  * Those darn immigrants

Quantum Radar Can See the Stealthiest Those Darn Chinese Did It Again... China Shows Off First Quantum Radar Prototype Nov 5, 2018 Steve Trimble    |  Aerospace Daily & Defense Report * I see you, stealthy American plane/ship/missile. You surely know I'm worried about China taking the lead in  critical  fields**. This latest could be the most expensive (for us) yet, making our super-expensive stealth weapons quite visible. How Many Billions Has and Is the U.S. Spending on Stealth?  B-21 (new) F-35 B-2 F-22 F-117 QUITE A LOT, ACTUALLY.  $Billions and Billions and Billions (read "Trillions") Here's the way it works  (for "how does it work?" fans) The principle of quantum radar is well understood. The device creates a stream of entangled photons, which is then split into two streams. One of them is converted into a microwave frequency that is transmitted and reflected like a tradition

(Just one of..) America's Forgotten Super Powers .... And because many of us have forgotten it, we risk falling into narrow tribalism, ethnic revulsion, religious hatred and vile racism, all "not good" for national unity.  E pluribus unum , not so much. No, YOU forgot about the joys of diversity. Ok, PR/Ad/Pundit pros , here’s the plan. Use your talent and skills to “sell” the truth that one of America’s great strengths is its diversity. Or, in your mode, “ONE OF   AMERICA’S GREAT STRENGTHS IS ITS DIVERSITY!! ”   Lookout, World, here we come! Use a thousand truthful anecdotes, all supporting the message. The super hard working first generation immigrant; the super successful technical team with a technicolor staff; the history of super inventors from all races; the super hero minorities of American battles… etc, etc. Note “super,” all part of the unique super powers of America. American Institute of Mathematics Gang You can do it. Sell,

Without the Little Guys,  The Big Guys Will Crash More Super Scary News You Probably Don’t Know About Let it be noted we humans are “the BIG guys.” The little guys we need to survive are: Insects   (tap here )(and here )- for pollination and a lot of other eco-services; tiny plants - for  ground cover and the land food chain; plankton for the ocean food chain… And tiniest and maybe most basic: good MICROBES* for digesting our food, fighting off bad microbes plus helping us develop properly.   In the “develop properly” category, how about the avoidance of obesity, diabetes, IBS, asthma and general allergies? (plus probably even more.) Check this .  The BIG news is about the stunning decline in the tinniest guys,  MICROBES ** You need us, and we need you! “Preserving microbial diversity” in Science Magazine reads like the first chapter in an apocalypse novel. Microbes that have co-evolved with humans since long before we even became people are vital

Big Pharma's Perspective in a Nut$hell Hemophilia, a truly rotten disease to have...   ... But wowee-zowee; Money Honey! Etc. Hemlibra, a new and effective medication for the bleeding disease, is celebrated in the Big Pharma newsletters not for making life possible for the affected, but for the profits... the MARKET . fda ,  new products ,  regulatory All revved up and ready to roll, Roche is handed the keys to a multibillion-dollar hemophilia market by  john carroll  —  on  October 5, 2018 05:49 AM EDT COST TO THE PATIENT?   Over $450,000 a year . Insurance still iffy.  Medicare and Medicaid?  Fuggidaboudit for now. art credit

OK, I'll read a few pages...     Whoa! Fifty pages just flew by. I gotcha, Scooter. I started reading it because my good friend Mary Ann Ende's sister wrote it. Frankly, I am not (was not) interested in "long riding." I'm not even a horse person.  But it was only common decency that I should read a few pages so I could tell Mary Ann I had started Bernice's book. So I started. I forgot where I was, what I was doing, what I was supposed to be doing, and just read voraciously. Fifty pages in I looked up and wondered how I got from that snowbound cabin back to my living room. Now THAT's how books should work! So even before I pick the book back up and get lost for another couple hours, I wanted to stop and pay tribute to a stunningly effective first fifty pages of a darn good book. Here's how to buy the book directly from Bernice (as opposed to through Amazon.) Authors do a bunch better that way, and I feel empathy for authors for some r

ANOTHER KIND OF A I. (I've done this numerous time over the looong course of this blogging hobby.  Gone All In with something. I'm All In on worrying about the troll/bot cyber war, All In on getting worried about China passing us all over the place, All In on piping water from the wet east to the dry west of this country, AI on global warming, AI on evolution explaining everything, AI on AI... on and on. At least once it's been embarrassingly wrong, but hey...)  Now I'm going All In on SENOLYTICS. (Meaning I'll do several more posts whooping up any new findings.) UpDate  (article in Science Magazine - the cancer angle) Update 2 I like"It's conceivable" statements. “It is conceivable that the rapidly emerging repertoire of senolytic agents might  transform medicine as we know it.” ... says  James L. Kirkland MD, PhD  of Mayo Clinic (guy on lower left.*) Things are just getting rolling big time on finding and testing senolytic drugs

For Sure When You Shop Walmart,  Harbor Freight.. .      ...and many, MANY more retail stores.              And stuff on AMAZON... Whoo Boy! I'm the 80%-er. Piker. I'm the 92%-er. Approximately 80% of Walmart’s suppliers are still located in China, we’ll let the facts speak for themselves . Approximately 92% of all products sold at Harbor Freight are made in China. * China Makes 50% Of All Your Stuff: Popular Science The price rises will sneak up on you. "Where is all our money going?" will be a frequently asked question among us of the non-rich tribe. (The Richie Rich Tribe won't notice.) The long term impact on the overall American economy is uncertain; certainly the "experts" are. To quote President Trump: "We'll see. We'll see." Speaking of politics, Politico has this :   Trump’s trade wars start biting GOP ahead of midterms Who knows?  Not me, for sure. *Estimate made after exte