Tuesday, October 20, 2009

The American People 'in majority' want a Health Care Bill with a public option, NOW !!!


President Obama's holding the line at an even division in public views on health care reform, boosted by support for two key elements -- a personal mandate and a public option -- and aided by continued weakness in the opposition party.(ABC News Photo Illustration)

POLL: Obama Holds Steady on Health Reform (click title to entry - thank you)
ABC News-Washington Post Poll: 57 Percent Support Public Option
ANALYSIS By GARY LANGER

Oct. 19, 2009
...Americans divide about evenly on the reform plan and Obama's handling of health care alike – neither better nor worse for him since summer. But 57 percent support one of the plan's most contentious elements, a government-sponsored insurance option, and that soars to 76 percent if it's limited to those who can't get affordable private insurance....

PDF of Survey (click here)

There is a series of upper tropospheric vortices crossing the North American continent. Don't expect a break in the weather pattern soon.


The first nor'easter of the season hit the Shore hard. In Sea Isle City, students including sisters Julia, Jessica, and Josie Manno had to be rescued by EMTs and police when their bus got stuck in water.

Storms in Pennsylvania, N.Y., and N.J. (click here)
By Edward Colimore and Jacqueline L. Urgo
Inquirer Staff Writers
Back-to-back nor'easters - the first two of the season - brought heavy rains, winds, and flooding to the Shore while soaking Philadelphia and dropping snow across higher elevations in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York.
The first storm left yesterday as the second bore down this weekend with more precipitation. It is expected to head out to sea late tomorrow night.
Some sun should return by Monday and temperatures will rise into the high 50s, forecasters said....



Mike Dirks/NYT Regional Media Group
People walk along a closed part of the Blue Ridge Parkway on Sunday after the area received its first snow of the season. Most areas above 3,500 feet received at least one inch of snow. Forecasters predict an unusually cold, wet winter for the mountains and Piedmont.


I wish the weather services, especially in the South, would get out of the 'old jargon' of using El Nino for EVERY WINTER that passes. This is Climate Change as facilitated by Human Induced Global Warming. There are some television stations and internet sites that use the 'idea' of Climate issues when they state the weather to the public. I saw a station in Chicago using very innovative language and methods to illustrate the dynamics of the weather patterns. I was impressed.

But, El Nino 'over the course' of recorded meterology doesn't happen all the time and that is the 'key' to debunking denial of Human Induced Global Warming. Human Induced Global Warming has 'stimulated' every 'climate and weather manifestation' Earth has to redistribute heat.

The 'mechanism' that is delivering the upper tropospheric vortices across the North American continent 'originate' as a phenomena known as 'The Arctic Oscillation.' How often does anyone hear that? Never. Yet, it is a fact. Why doesn't the public hear it, because, that would actually confirm 'The Arctic' was involved. It is easy to remain focused on 'Pacific Storms' as a source of 'heat' from the sun rather than 'politically' addressing the manifestation of not only The Arctic Oscillaion, but, the North Atlantic Oscillation AND in frequent reliability within the last two months that I noted, the South Atlantic Oscillation off Brazil.

In Earth's history, all these 'upper tropospheric vortices' manifested from time to time. They are a 'geophysical phenomena' that directs heat from the troposphere to the ice formations and 'thus' keeps the Climate within the range where life occurs on Earth. They are fascinating mechanisms.

BUT.

Those mechanisms have never before in recorded meterological history ever manifested AT THE SAME TIME and FOR PROLONGED periods of time. The reason they are manifesting all the time is because it takes that many 'heat driven' mechanisms to 'handle' the heat humans are throwing into the troposphere. The heat doesn't come from outer space. The heat is 'infrared' heat that 'converts' solar sunlight into infrared rays. It is the 'heat trapping' gases that makes Earth livable and when there is too much it makes Earth volitile and dangerous for human life.

Not only that, but, when all the tipping points are reached, Earth won't be habitable for humans and the majority of fauna that exists today. We are engaged in the Sixth Extinction with thousands of species being lost on a regular basis.


It is imprudent and negligent to treat the public as if they are a 'management' issue and not people that have a right to know what is going on with their own 'home,' Earth. This is NOT 'simply' El Nino at work on Earth in the year 2009!!!!!



Get over it !

..."It's going to be very stormy," said John Cessarich, chief meteorologist at WYFF 4.
Even though the National Weather Service is predicting highs in the 70s for much of the rest of the week, the long-term forecast from December through March promises to be harsher.
"El Nino in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean is expected to be a dominant climate factor that will influence the December through February winter weather in the United States," according to the Weather Service 2009 winter outlook....




October 19, 2009
2130z
UNISYS North and West Hemisphere Water Vapor Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop)

In the loop noted above there is a 'dissipating' of the middle vortex as it moves over the continent. That is simply it adjusting to higher temperatures in its traverse. The dynamics don't really change, the direction of 'the air mass' remains the same and the velocity doesn't change and it is still bringing Arctic Air from the North Pole and Arctic Ocean across North America. What changes is the 'heat exchange' between the 'air mass' and the 'land mass.'

Hard to keep a good man down. President Karzai loves his people and worries about their future and legitimate elections.


I like him. He came forward to lead Afghanistan after the USA's retaliation from September 11, 2001. He didn't have to return to that country, but, he did.

He has dedicated himself to helping the people of Afghanistan through a time when other leaders would have quite. You can't tell me the corruption that overran Afghanistan AFTER the USA turned its efforts toward Iraq, didn't break his heart.

I do not believe for one minute that President Karzai accepts or encourages the corruption. It occurred because the Taliban began to overrun the country and Pakistan was already dominated by them under Musharraf. He didn't have a dedicated military with enough men to fight back or even hold their own and the Taliban instituted the economy of corruption to control the people. It wasn't just 'religion' that was going to hold them in servitude, it was creating an economy they were all dependant upon. People had no choice and in the case of President Karzai it was everything he could do to maintain 'order' and keep the country operating within the definitions of its new Constitution.

Today, Pakistan has new leadership and the USA a far better President and the NATO allies a new hope while dedicating more troops to the Afghan effort. It is turning around, ever so carefully it is turning around.

The victory of Abdullah Abdullah in the elections earlier this year to force a run off vote, is a victory for President Karzai as well. He maintained the Constitution's 'integrity' during very difficult times. Without his dedication to his country and people we would be looking at a very different scenario in Afghanistan.

I look forward to the run off election between two of the most dedicated men I have ever witnessed in a country so very neglected for so long. Both men are eminently qualified and will serve their people well. I wish them both luck and to President Karzai, be proud of the Constitution you protected and the ability of the people of Afghanistan to 'choose' leadership rather than have it impossed.

Afghanistan Electoral Complaints Commission (click here)

The Afgan ECC carried out research to substantiate their findings. It was important they conducted a good investigation to uphold the Afghan Constitution.

From the "Guardian":

...Still with us? These are the categories used by the EEC (here's the official explanation) for their sample search:
• A1 Polling stations in which 600 or more valid votes were cast. 545 stations, 55 sampled• B1 Polling stations with more than 100 votes in which one candidate received 95 percent or more of the total votes cast. 1270 stations, 124 sampled

C1 Polling stations in which 600 or more valid votes were cast AND in which one candidate received 95% or more of the total votes cast. 741 stations, 82 sampled
A2 Polling stations in which 600 or more total votes were cast, except those already covered in A1. 299 stations, 30 sampled
B2 Polling stations in which one candidate received 95 percent or more of the total valid votes cast, except those already covered in B1. 401 stations, 40 sampled
C2 Polling stations in which 600 or more total votes were cast AND in which one candidate received 95% or more of the valid votes. 121 stations, 14 sampled
You can go through the full results, and their locations on the google spreadsheet below. Can you visualise the data?


Spreadsheet Data (click here)

The Afghan ECC did a great job. Congratulations !

Example of their work, 'on the spreadsheet' is Polling Station ECC Number 80101301, Category A1 states, "50% uniform markings, 100 or more ballots marked with felt marker; missing materials."

Can't argue with that, it is corruption of the Election Method in that district. Time for a change in the 'infrastructure' in that polling district.