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I am in a f***in igloo right now, having drinks and eating hummus

like... what is life?

Right now we are on the way to the Watergate Hotel in Washington DC

I was on Facebook and there was a picture of this igloo

and it said you could drink and eat inside an igloo so...

Yeah... That's what's up

Alright so here we are in our igloo, we just got our first drink(s) I got the

Washington DC woman and V got some bourbon concoction

So in the suite as you can see there are 1 2 3 4 5... 5 regular seats and then this couch you

can fit about 3 people, so about 8 people total

It comes with 5 of your own Watergate Hotel bottled waters

Small serving plates, linens, silverware, candles, decor, plenty of covers, pillows and then there's also a heater in the corner and

the best thing. Your own JBL bluetooth speaker so you can play music in it

throughout the night. So typically they're like a hundred to two hundred

fifty dollars to rent out but on Mondays they are free. No rental fee but you have

to spend fifty bucks per person so you know a couple you have to minimum spend $100.

Alright that's a wrap y'all. Igloo Watergate Hotel

Amazing ???????

Amazing experience, igloo, heated, music...

Drinks are a.......Littttttllleee strong

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Less Touristy Christmas Ideas in Washington DC - Duration: 4:42.

If you're coming to DC around the holidays I'm going to tell you about some of the lesser-known things you can do and see.

Hello! Welcome to Trip Hacks DC, my name is Rob.

I'm a tour guide here in the nation's capital.

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afterwards, to see the tours that I offer. Last year

I made a video about things to see and do around the holidays. All of those recommendations

still stand and you should go check out that video if you haven't seen it already.

It included things like the National Christmas Tree, ZooLights and Union Station. However

there are even more things that you can see and do in DC around the holidays and I'm going to tell you about some of

my favorites, and if you just can't get enough and want even more

holidays in DC content, I just posted episode 4 of the Trip Hacks DC Podcast. My guest Rebecca and I go

in-depth and tell you

everything you need to know about coming here during the holidays. If you want to check that out search for Trip Hacks DC in your

favorite podcast app or check out the video description where I will leave links to all of this.

And lastly, if you live in or have been to DC around this time of year and done any of these things

leave a comment on this video and let everyone know what you thought about it. Otherwise, let's get started...

First up is Georgetown Glow which is a massive public light

exhibition each year. It highlights different artists who create art out of glowing lights.

The lights are all over the Georgetown neighborhood

but they tend to be a little bit more off the beaten path than the M Street corridor that most tourists check out.

So it's a great opportunity to explore a historic neighborhood.

If you're a photographer

bring your best camera because the lights here are really rare and unique photo opportunities.

And if you're not a photographer just come and take it all in because it's a really cool thing to see.

Georgetown Glow typically runs for about one month starting at the beginning of December.

I will leave a link to the official Georgetown Glow website down in the video description

so you can double-check the dates for the year that you're coming. The next thing on

my to-do list is the Wharf. the Wharf only opened in 2017

so it's very new as far as Washington DC goes, and at least for now they go all out for the Christmas spirit.

Being a boat dock and all, it's fitting that they host the annual holiday boat parade where you can watch boats

decked out in holiday lights going up and down the Washington Channel, and stick around for a rare winter fireworks display

afterwards. The boat parade is usually in early December and the Wharf also has other festive events like Christmas caroling throughout the month.

I'll leave a link to the Wharf website in the video description so that you can check out all of this year's festivities.

Another place you can go around the holidays is CityCenterDC. I talked about City Center in my Instagram video.

It's an area downtown with a lot of high-end restaurants and high-end shopping

and the reason why it was on my Instagram video is because they go all out to decorate, not just around the holidays but year-round.

When you go in December, you'll see Christmas trees, window displays, and other holiday art.

This is not an area of the city where I personally tend to spend a lot of time. Now if you do have money to

spend this is definitely an area where you can spend a lot of money

but even if you have no money, just walking around and taking in the atmosphere can be pretty fun too. Another event

that's like Georgetown Glow is called Light Yards

located in the Yards Park near Nationals ballpark. The first year they brought in giant bunnies and

illuminated them and the second year they had glowing orbs set to music.

This isn't something that I would necessarily

go out of my way to see

but it's the kind of thing that you could come to the neighborhood and then make a whole evening out of it.

See the Light Yards then eat dinner at one of the local restaurants and have dessert at Ice Cream Jubilee, a

very popular local ice cream spot. And the last thing on my to-do list isn't

necessarily a holiday thing to do so much as it is a winter thing to do.

We have ice skating rinks all over the city, including two in places that I previously mentioned:

Georgetown and the Wharf. There's also a very popular rink right on the National Mall.

The reason I'm including this is because if you go skating in December

they'll often have Christmas music playing to get you in the mood. Whereas when you go in January or February

it's the more generic pop music. Plus people wear Santa hats and ugly sweaters and is generally just a festive time. And that's it!

Thank you for watching this video.

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that'll send you over to www.triphacksdc.com where you can see the tours that I offer. Enjoy your trip!

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Muellers probe has produced a rogues gallery of liars The Washington Post - Duration: 4:40.

Muellers probe has produced a rogues gallery of liars The Washington Post

Analysis Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events

As special counsel Robert S. Mueller III moves toward the summation of his investigation — and whatever his eventual report produces — there is no escaping the sleaze factor that existed around President Trump before and during his campaign for the White House in 2016.

It was there in the presence of Paul Manafort, who arrived at the campaign in the spring of 2016 and lasted until embarrassing and continued disclosures about his past work with pro Russian officials in Ukraine forced him to step aside, and whose recent plea agreement was tossed out this past week because prosecutors say he has continued to lie to them.

It was there in the presence of Michael Cohen, Trumps longtime personal lawyer and fixer, who did the deals and arranged the payoffs that were designed to suppress damaging allegations about Trump and other women during the final months of the campaign and whose new guilty plea about lying to Congress has put renewed focus on the presidents words and actions.

It was there in the presence of Roger Stone, a practitioner of the dark arts of politics and a one time business partner with Manafort, who acted over the years as a political adviser and confidant to Trump and whose apparent knowledge of leaks of emails damaging to Hillary Clintons campaign has put him in the crosshairs of the Mueller team.

It was there in the presence of Rick Gates, Manaforts business partner, who continued in the Trump campaign after Manafort had departed and who had participated with Manafort in a series of fraudulent money laundering schemes and other escapades that came to light thanks to Muellers team of prosecutors.

It was there in the presence of Jerome Corsi, an inveterate, right wing conspiracy theorist, whose statements to prosecutors about the leaks of Democratic and Clinton campaign emails via WikiLeaks produced a draft plea agreement for lying that he ultimately refused to sign, leaving him still dangling for future legal action.

It was even there in the presence of George Papadopoulos, the low level foreign policy adviser to the campaign currently serving a two week prison sentence for lying to federal prosecutors, who sought to leverage his access within the campaign to aggrandize himself in the eyes of foreign diplomats and others.

[Trump emerges as central figure in Mueller investigation]

No one yet knows where all this will ultimately lead or when it will end, in terms of the legal jeopardy for these and others who have been caught up in the Muellers web. But the tawdriness factor alone with this rogues gallery of characters is enough to put the lie to Trumps claim of hiring only the best to advise him in business or government.

Collectively, you cant make it up. Which is why there is again so much focus on the president as central to the investigation. Trump has suffered through other bad moments since Mueller was appointed to investigate the role Russia played in the 2016 election and the degree to which there was cooperation, collusion, conspiracy, advance knowledge or any other kind of involvement by anyone associated with the Trump campaign. By any measure, the past week ranks as one of the worst for the president.

What is striking at this point, although not a surprise given past histories and the people involved, is the mountain of lying that has taken place. If Cohens admission that he lied to Congress is corroborated by additional evidence from materials seized from his office or testimony, the president has long been lying about his business ventures in Russia, especially when he was a candidate in 2016 and went soft on Russian President Vladi­mir Putin. And as Cohens plea makes clear, others have been lying in Trumps behalf.

As he left the White House on Thursday for the Group of 20 meeting in Argentina, the president said Cohen is now lying about having lied to Congress. He also said that, even if he did what Cohen said, what does it matter? He was a businessman while he was a candidate.

[Trump calls with Stone draw scrutiny from special prosecutor]

Rudolph W. Giuliani, one of the presidents personal legal advisers, has said repeatedly that Cohen has lied for years. Why did Trump keep as his personal lawyer someone whose word was so untrustworthy for so many years? Because, Trump said, a long time ago he did me a favor. Apparently, for Trump, a past transaction overrode questions of honesty and integrity in the selection of a personal attorney. Is that believable?

Whether Cohens latest confession contradicts the presidents written answers to Mueller is, of course, of great interest and importance. Mueller and his team know the answer by now. Giuliani has said that nothing Cohen is now saying contradicts what Trump said in his filing to the special counsel. Which then begs the question of why Trump is accusing Cohen of lying now, unless Trumps answer to the special counsel about any efforts to make a deal with the Russians was so vague, so anodyne, so full of caveats that it could protect him against all contingencies no matter how much Cohens testimony has changed.

The web of lies thrown up by the characters who were most prominent in the Mueller investigation this past week is difficult to overstate, although perhaps easy to dismiss as typical, given their histories. In any criminal case like this, targets of the prosecutors and some of the eventual witnesses for the prosecution are rarely saints. They come with their own baggage, which must be weighed by jurors.

That was the case when Gates testified against Manafort and was confronted during cross examination by Manaforts lawyers with his own history of lying and fraud. Yet in the end, Manafort was convicted on most counts in that case, leading him to cut a deal with prosecutors ahead of a second trial, a deal now on the rocks because of more lies.

The flurry of activity over the past week has highlighted the various pieces that Mueller and his team are working and the degree that they could involve Trump directly. The connection is Trump and Russia. The presidents statement to the New York Post that a pardon for Manafort is not off the table adds to the other element for the investigators to assess.

There will be more surprises ahead from the special counsels office, which must worry those now feeling the glare from the Mueller team. There also will be more evidence of lying — which is to be expected given the unsavory band of actors who are at the center of it all.

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Five myths about climate change The Washington Post - Duration: 2:45.

Five myths about climate change The Washington Post

Perspective Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events

The Fourth National Climate Assessment — the work of 13 federal agencies and more than 350 scientists, including me — is clear: The Earth is warming faster than at any time in human history, and were the ones causing it. Climate change is already affecting people, and the more carbon we produce, the more dangerous the effects over the coming century. Nevertheless, many people continue to believe and propagate some misleading myths. Here are the five I hear most frequently.

When the second volume of the National Climate Assessment was released on Nov. 23, Rick Santorum, a Republican former senator from Pennsylvania, took to CNN to proclaim that climate scientists are driven by the money that they receive. Former House majority leader Tom DeLay R Tex. appeared on the network the next day declaring the report to be made by scientists that get paid to further the politics of global warming.

I was one of the reports authors. How much did I earn for the hundreds of hours I spent on it? Nothing. Nearly every day, climate scientists are accused of venality. Our other purported sins include fabricating data, selling out to big green — which supposedly tethers our grant money to doom and gloom findings — and fanning the flames of hysteria to further our nefarious agenda.

The reality is that nearly every climate scientist could make at least the same amount of money — and often much more — in a different field, including the oil industry. And the money we do receive in grants doesnt go into our pockets. A dollar 1.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation provided me with a mere dollar 37,000 a year, all of which went to paying for the proposed work, including a graduate researcher, a computer and publication fees. In summer, I do some climate focused consulting with cities and water districts to cover my salary when Im not teaching. Santorum, meanwhile, receives a substantial income from serving as a consultant to Consol Energy, a coal company; and according to OpenSecrets.org, DeLay has received nearly dollar 740,000 from the oil and gas industry.

Last fall, when the first volume of the National Climate Assessment was released, White House spokesman Raj Shah responded that the climate has changed and is always changing. President Trump himself has embraced this position, claiming that the climate will change back again. This line is a popular one with people who dismiss climate change by maintaining that weve had ice ages before, as well as warm periods, and so the warming were seeing now is just what the Earth has always done.

But we can look at the natural factors that affect the climate. First, over the past few decades, energy from the sun has been going down , not up, so if changes in the suns energy drove our temperature, we should be getting cooler, not warmer.

Others argue that were getting warmer because were recovering from the last ice age. But ice ages — and the warm periods in between — are caused by the Earths orbital cycles, and according to those cycles, the next event on our geologic calendar is another ice age, not more warming.

We can also rule out volcanoes, which do produce heat trapping gases, but less than 1 percent of the CO2 that humans produce. And big eruptions, when they happen, cool the Earth instead of warming it. In other words, the climate change were experiencing now definitely isnt natural.

We often hear that climate scientists are split 50 50 when it comes to whether global warming is occurring. Each side has their scientists, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell R Ky. told Politico in 2014. Trump echoed that rhetoric on 60 Minutes this October, telling Lesley Stahl, We have scientists that disagree with human caused global warming.

In reality, more than 97 percent of climate scientists agree that global warming is happening and that humans are causing it. At least 18 scientific societies in the United States, from the American Geophysical Union to the American Medical Association, have issued official statements on climate change. And its been more than 50 years since U.S. scientists first raised the alarm about the dangers of climate change with the president — at the time, Lyndon B. Johnson. The public confusion has been manufactured by industry interests and ideologues to muddy the waters.

We often think the most widespread myth is that the science isnt real. But according to public opinion polls by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication , the most prevalent misconception — one that the majority of us have bought into — is that climate change just doesnt matter to us. While 70 percent of American adults agree that climate change is happening, only 40 percent of those surveyed believe it will harm them personally. Sure, itll hurt polar bears, and maybe people who live on low lying islands in the South Pacific. But the world has warmed by just 1 degree Celsius, or 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit, since 1900. Whats the big deal?

Climate change is a threat multiplier that touches everything, from our health to our economy to our coasts to our infrastructure. It makes heat waves stronger, heavy precipitation events more frequent and hurricanes more intense, and it nearly doubles the area burned by wildfires . It supercharges natural disasters like Hurricane Harvey and the Camp Fire, as those suffering the effects of these events know firsthand. Climate change is no longer a distant issue in space or time: Its affecting us, today, in the places where we live.

Whenever a cold snap brings out our winter parkas, theres a politician or pundit saying, Global warming? Global cooling, more like! Trump has done so repeatedly, tweeting just before Thanksgiving, Brutal and Extended Cold Blast could shatter ALL RECORDS — Whatever happened to Global Warming? In 2015, Sen. James M. Inhofe R Okla. brought a snowball to the Senate floor in an attempt to reject the reality of climate change.

But cold weather doesnt rebut the data that shows the planet is warming over climate time scales. Think of it this way: Weather is like your mood, and climate is like your personality. Weather is what occurs in a certain place at a certain time. Climate is the long term average of weather over decades. The fact it was cold and snowy one day last week? Thats weather. Global warming or not, cold days still occur, particularly in winter. But since 2000, were seeing far more new hot temperature records than cold ones. In fact, in 2017, we saw more than 10,000 cold temperature records broken at weather stations across the United States. And more than 36,000 high temperature records were broken the same year.

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