Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Republicans suggest more corruption to health care as a solution to bi-partisanship

...Representative Paul Ryan, the chairman of the House of Representatives Budget Committee, said he would "absolutely" be willing to negotiate with Democrats, who have hammered his plan to scale back government-run health plans for the poor and the elderly.

With Ryan's plan headed for likely defeat in the Democratic-controlled Senate, that chamber's top Republican said it was time for "an adult conversation" on ways to keep healthcare costs under control.

"Let's just stipulate that nobody is trying to throw Grandma off the cliff," Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said on "Fox News Sunday."

Health reform is a top sticking point as the two sides try to hash out a budget deal that would give lawmakers political cover to back an increase in the country's borrowing authority.

And as the 2012 election season gets underway, it is shaping up to be a top campaign issue as well.

Ryan's proposal to partially privatize the Medicare health plan for the elderly has already imperiled the presidential hopes of one Republican, Newt Gingrich, who faced a fierce conservative backlash last week after he described it as "right-wing social engineering."

Polls show that Ryan's proposed changes are unpopular with voters, and McConnell said he is not urging his fellow Republicans to support it when it comes up for a vote in the Senate this week.

"We have other budgets that Republicans are pushing," McConnell said. "We're not going to be able to coalesce behind just one."...

Monday, May 30, 2011

Afghan's Heroin Economy is speading HIV / AIDS. It is a public health issue no different than any other nation in the world.

Why are we still in Afghanistan, to fight their drug lords and wars?  I don't think so.

Iran has no problem with sentencing their drug traffikers to to death.  They, however, don't seem to bother with their most dangerous component, the 'high level' drug lords that promote the problem.  Iran is afraid of their own people when they are serving an illegal economy.

Global use of heroin has to stop and stop spreading HIV!!!!

Three hundred drug traffickers (click here) are on death row in Iran, the judiciary said, reflecting Tehran's hard line on narcotics which has added to international concerns over its extensive use of capital punishment, Reuters reported.

"For 300 drug-related convicts, including those who were in possession of at least 30 grams of heroin, execution verdicts have been issued," Sharq daily quoted Tehran prosecutor-general Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi as saying on Monday.

Although the list was long it did not contain any big-time traffickers or ringleaders, he said. All the convicts face death by hanging.

Amnesty International says Iran is second only to China for the number of executions, with at least 252 people put to death last year.

As well as drug trafficking, murder, adultery, rape, armed robbery and apostasy are all punishable by death under Sharia law practised since the 1979 Islamic revolution....

Drug addition spurs demand, shortages of heroin from Afghanistan causes increased costs and in turn twarts the USA efforts to stop the heroin growers to change their crop choice.  It is a vicious cycle no one will stop until it is a global effort.  This initiative has to be an intricate part of "World AIDS Day" (click here) as well as awareness and testing days.  Addition is not a life, it is a surrender.

Afghanistan | 30.05.2011

Growing Afghan intravenous heroin use spurs HIV epidemic (click title to entry - thank you)

Afghanistan's poppy fields are the source of more than 90 percent of the world's opium. The global trade is worth an estimated $65 billion annually, and is a tricky component of the war against the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

But now the human toll of addiction is becoming visible in the form of an HIV epidemic in war-torn Afghanistan. At only a few dollars per gram on the country's streets, opiates like heroin, provide cheap relief from poverty and distress for a growing number of Afghans.

Between 2005 and 2009, the number of opiate drug users in Afghanistan grew by 53 percent to 230,000, according to UN figures. Of those, some 6 percent are injecting heroin.
Naqi Bullah, a 24-year-old Afghan, has found himself living amid the trash and discarded needles after having become a heroin addict....

Bring the troops home !

Sunday, May 29, 2011

The "W"rong "W"ar at the "W"rong time left 4772 USA military dead with countless civilians.

This is not the failure of American policy.  Where a culture of jihad exists there will always be turbulence and death.

It is time for the USA troops to come home.

We will never forget.

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, May 29 (click title to entry - thank you)

29 May 2011 19:38

Source: reuters // Reuters


May 29 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1940 GMT on Sunday.

* Denotes new or updated item.


* BAGHDAD - A political analyst and university lecturer was seriously wounded by a bomb attached to his car in a western district of Baghdad, according to an interior ministry source.

* BAGHDAD - A police lieutenant was wounded when a bomb attached to a car went off in a southeastern part of the capital, according to a security source.

* MASHAHIDAH - Armed men killed an off-duty policeman in Mashahidah, 20 km (12 miles), north of Baghdad , an interior ministry source said.

BAGHDAD - Two bombs that exploded in quick succession near a liquor shop killed one civil defence worker and wounded six other people, including four Iraqi soldiers in Abu Ghraib on the western outskirts of Baghdad, police said. The second bomb went off after army and civil defence personnel had gathered in response to the first blast.

MOSUL - A sticky bomb attached to a car carrying army Major General Khalid al-Ubaidi, a previous nominee for the position of defence minister, wounded the officer and his security guard in the north of Mosul city, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, a local security official said.

Ubaidi had been one of the names initially proposed by the Sunni-backed Iraqiya party in Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's coalition government for the post of defence minister, but his name was later withdrawn.
(Compiled by Baghdad newsroom)

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Remarkable patriots are everywhere this weekend, but, none so wonderful as Max Cleland.

He was returned to us from Vietnam during Operation Homecoming.  He has never stopped his service to the USA as a Geogia Senator and now with the Kennedy Presidential Libary in an effort by Patrick Kennedy to tackle brain science to improve the quality of life of returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan.

My gratitude to him and all those that serves and served the USA.  Thank you.

Kennedy challenges experts to launch ‘new era of brain science’  (click title to entry - thank you)


07:54 AM EDT on Wednesday, May 25, 2011
...Other conference headliners included Max Cleland, disabled Vietnam veteran and former Georgia senator; Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli, the Army’s vice chief of staff; and former Missouri Rep. Richard Gephardt, chairman of the Council for American Medical Innovation. Cleland, who lost an arm and both legs in battle, spoke Monday....

Former Senator Cleland's book is above called "Heart of a Patriot."  (click here)   He has authored other books as well.   "Heart of a Patriot" can be purchased on Amazon for as little as $11.70.

I don't believe the "Gordian Knot" of Pakistan is insolvable. It is profound corruption enforced by violence.

The U.S. should speed its withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan but must remain engaged in Pakistan.

I believe Secretary of State Clinton was brave in entering Pakistan after the operation to remove Osama bin Laden.  I am confident, given the current climate between the USA and Pakistan, the Pakistani government was extremely concerned for her safety.  But, Fearless Hillary wasn't going to be intimidated into staying out of the country.  She is committed in every sense to resolution of tensions between the USA and Pakistan.  I am confident she sees this as an opportunity to focus on the corruption within Pakistan and help resolve it.

..."Our counterparts (click here) in the government were very forthcoming in saying that somebody somewhere was providing some kind of support, and they are carrying out an investigation," she said....

I don't see the USA operations in Pakistan to extract bin Laden and weaken al Qaeda as a blatant disregard of Pakistani sovereignty at all, actually.  It was obvious Pakistan either didn't have the will to rid the world of bin Laden and al Qaeda or simply couldn't.  Either way the 'precision' EXERCISE was carried out without engaging Pakistan troops or police officers and with complete secrecy to insure the safety of USA military experts. 

...Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (click here) visited Islamabad on Friday in a bid to ease the mistrust deepened by the secret May 2 raid that killed the al-Qaida chief.

Pakistani leaders see the raid as a blatant violation of their country's sovereignty, and Washington's decision to not inform Islamabad in advance as an example of a glaring lack of trust....

It is time for Pakistan to rid themselves of the corruption that allows such violence within their country, especially considering the assassination of Former Prime Minister Bhutto.  She was very interested in the tribal areas and the security of the people there.  She knew it was a haven for the 'untouchables' within the country.  The comfortable existence of bin Laden within the military complex of Pakistan is simply a reality no major power in the world should accept as 'normal' or an intelligence oversight.  This is an extremely dangerous posture for Pakistan in a Middle East under change at every turn and now Iran is sending troops to Syria to enforce the current government infrastructure.  Pakistan is too vulnerable to internal conflict to allow this covert extremist network to operate within their borders.  They should be commending the USA forces that assisted them in removing one of the most wanted international criminals on the planet.

The work of the USA State Department must go on uninterrupted, but, then so should the intelligence agencies to insure Pakistan is secure enough to conduct a vital investigation the protection of this heinous crimnial and his associaites throughout the country.

Public employees attacked again. Florida's Scott vetoes essential monies to provide added space for training essential personnel.

...Included in the governor's cuts was $750,000 (click title to entry - thank you) for an expansion of Santa Fe's Kirkpatrick Center.
The center holds classes for law enforcement and corrections officers, emergency medical technicians and paramedics. College officials say it is so cramped students must be turned away....

This is the contorted logic of the Republican Party these days.  Scott figures if Florida expands the training facility to accommodate more students for police and emergency workers, the public works of any city or state agency will hire them.  If the employees can't be hired, the public doesn't have to pay them and they can find other ways of fill a community needs or NOT.

Currently, the Florida State Police have ongoing hiring processes.  The attack on public employees by Governor Scott should be met with recall elections. 

The inability to be trained for a profession and enter the work force is a direct assault on the USA economic recovery.  Basically Governor Scott is undermining Florida's recovery by not empowering new public employees from taking their place to protect tourists in an essential role.  Businesses throughout Florida, with an area of 58,560 Square Miles, will have to rely more and more on private emergency and police services if they were counting on public employees to fill that need.  With the assault on the public training facilities it is doubtful even private employees will be sufficient in numbers to hire.  If the idea is to have private education academies, they probably already exist and if they don’t that is more delay in providing essential services.  This is crazy.  A Governor should never just stop increasing the education potential of so many for the jobs of police and emergency workers. 

Friday, May 27, 2011

How happy are Americans with President Obama and the majority Democrats of 2008? Very happy.

When they looked at the Ryan Plan that literally demolished Medicare as it is today and realized the alternative to funding the wealthy and war; they ran in droves the other way.

Today, in Paul Krugman's Op-Ed an interesting statisitic is revealed.

...Tuesday’s special election in New York’s 26th Congressional District.  (click title to entry - thank you) It’s a very conservative district, so much so that last year the Republican candidate took 76 percent of the vote....

New York 26 not only abandoned the Republican Ideology but did it in a wave that is unmatched in Republican politics.  Even if the Republican candidate received the Tea Party 9%, which is never going to happen, she still would have lost constituents.  How many constituents?  Nearly a full quater of all voters in that district.  That is not a loss, that is a stampede.

To begin New York 26 is not exactly ONLY a Republcian stronghold, so the voters there are conservative and like conservative values, but, they ARE NOT rhetorical Republicans SET IN STONE no matter the subject.

They remind me of an electorate opened minded enough to BE AFRAID.  Michael Moore frequently has stated in his political perspective, "Be afraid, be very afraid." and that is exactly want happened in NY 26.

If I may?

Outside the federal House election, and not speaking to the State of New York House and Senate, NY 26 has not damaged the Democratic Candidates running for federal office.  The Huffington Post did a very good analysis and I have posted in below, Gillibrand and Schumer faired very well.

New York 26 Special Election: What To Watch For  (click here)

According to the Huffington Post both Gillibrand and Schumer saw over 50% of the vote.

As to why Republicans will never ABSORB the Tea Party Vote is because they aren't Republicans.  They are a singular party entrenched in regressive analysis of the country and they will NEVER, and I do mean never re-enter the Republican Party.  They don't believe in Republican methods and the attack on Ryan and House Speaker Boner is an important example of that.  The Tea Party is trying to 'get it right,' but, lack the ability to move outside their own ideologies to achieve good goverance and good policies  for the USA.  They will never step aside to a Republican; they are to invested both in philosophy and finances to ever make that jump.  If the Republicans are waiting for The Tea Party to apologize and come home it will never happen.

I have said it before and I will say it again, the Tea Party is an autonomous party and simply finds it convenient to use Republican monies after they win their primaries.  There are actually three parties in the federal House of Representatives, the Republicans, the Tea Party Republicans and the DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY.  Allowing the RNC to actually claim the Tea Party as their own has caused nothing but battles for power within the House between the two autonomous entities and a lot of lousy governance with defeats of completely bizarre concepts in the way of House Legislation. 

President Obama has been magnificent through all this in an economy that is finely balanced and continues to recover.  President Obama has reached out a hand to every Republican in the House and Senate as they represent Americans seeking solutions and he has been remarkably transparent in his methods of doing so.  All any patritoic American has to ask themselves is "Are we better off today than we were in 2008?" and the answer will be yes with a President that never ignores his responsibility or the demands of the American people and was dealt a really lousy hand coming into his presidency.  I admire President Obama and he has acted more than admirably through one of the most difficult times in this country.

A patriotic American's worst option in politics is to engage in the rhetorical rant of the Republican Party Primary.

They have nothing factual to say.  I do mean nothing.  It is more of the same ole, same ole denial to propagate populous lies to factiliate a victory in the 2012 in states across the USA.  The campaign for President by the GOP is nothing more than 'more of the same' to try to repeat the worst ideas any American every voted for in 2010.

On Medicare, the Ryan Plan is a dreamscape for the private insurance industry, more military, more taz breaks for the wealthy and more burden on the people of our country that are unable to sustain their lives without a compassionate and empower country.

Since taking office President Obama has extended the Medicare plan by twelve years.  END OF DISCUSSION.  One President, one act of Congress, and one signature after a year of vigorous debate has extended the solvency of the Medicare Plan of the USA for twelve long years.  If he can repeat that again after his re-election of 2012 he will have saved Medicare for an entire generation of Americans.  Everything else is simply horse play by the greedy to reverse the progress President Obama and the majority legislature of Democrats have made in one full year of debate.

Since taking office in January of 2009, President Obama has kept his promises to the American people on many venues, including removing troops from Iraq, re-engaging Afghanistan to effectively remove the 'figure head' of al Qaeda.  He has brought a dialogue of openness and freedom to the Middle East.  We are witnessing for the first time in history the fact ordinary people in Middle East countries are finding their 'voice' stronger than weapons while rejecting 'jihad' as an answer to misery.  None of that is bad.  Paradigm shifts are never easy to understand as to what the final outcome will be and it requires someone who can navigate the 'straits' of that transition to insure the outcomes are beneficial and 'peaceworthy.'  President Obama has proven himself to be that vital person to the outcome of peaceful processes in international venues.  We cannot do it without him and I have never felt more strongly about that statement in my life.  The Republican idea of paradigm change in the Middle East is more war and more killing.  That is not a solution.  It never was.

President Obama promised to move the USA forward on energy needs of the Americna people.  Within the American Recovery and REINVESTMENT Act he empowered the Alternative Energy Industry to make a lasting footprint on the energy needs of Americans.  That industry now has a voice at the table, a vital voice that keeps growing and proving to be worthy of that voice.  President Obama has taken the Climate Crisis seriouslly and sees a path to reducing carbon dioxide contributions by the USA by empowering the EPA.  The EPA has never before been so empowered to make rulings on these sciences that will bring about CO2 reductions Earth needs.  There is not one, not one Republican willing to permit the EPA to back up the science, instead, they want to role back that authority and allow windfall profits at the cost of LIVING AMERICANS in the path of record breaking storms and heat.  We need more from the EPA and the Interior Department to stem the GROWTH of fossil fuels, not less.  They have to empower the Alternative Energy Industry as it GROWS into an Americna Dream when it comes to energy use.

The Interior Department of the USA has to be empowered to continue to protect the Wildlands of the USA.  It has done a remarkable job of protecting our nation's forests while setting aside vital links for wildlife and birds that pass through the USA in internatinoal migrations.  The Interior Department has taken on the challenge of returning endangered and threatened species in recoverable initiatives and that has to continue.

On the wellness front, the First Lady has been pounding the pavement to bring enlightment to good nutrition and return activity to the lives our nation's children.  At a time in our history when childhood obesity and diabetes has never been so prevalent and 20% of our young people are suffering from hypertension they are allowoing themselves to be entertained by 'screens' rather than 'streams' and they need to return to healthful activity in the outdoors where they can engage nature.  Our First Lady has also found service to military familes as a vital capacity to our nation's national defense.  We are longing for and finding military commitments that provide for the heroes of Seal Team Six.  Their families and that commitment means a great deal to our cournty adn our First Lady along with our Second Lady makes it a priority to know where their lives can be unburdened from dedicated service to the USA.

I could go on and on with the changes that have occurred under the Obama Administration and his eager willingness to serve the best interests of the American people.  He has passed essential legislation during only two years of his Presidency that was never enjoyed by this nation of any Republican President.  The current lack of motivation found with controlling speculation is 'excused' by the powers that be in victiminizing the Middle Class all the more and stating their retirement funds and mutual funds are vitally linked to high fuel costs.  That has to change.  No one wants to see mutual funds deteriorate, but, when the Middle Class and Poor are asked to pay for their retirement in ways that are incideously going to cost the American economy progess and jobs that is no longer a vital role for the energy sector.  The energy sector based in fossil fuels has become draconian and not beneficial as a method of providing a retirement benefit for Americans.  We need this paradyme change and we need it now, not the next time a Repbulican Senator, House or Governor obstructs more vital legislation to make the lives of Americans better while fulfilling dreams of generations.

Thank you.

Thursday, May 26, 2011

The GOP was once "The Gallant Old Party."

That is hardly true today.

The GOP is simply bizarre and always has been.

Lincoln from the time he was young was a great man.  No one could deny that, but, the year he was elected there were four candidates running for office, each from a different party.

When President Lincoln won the White House he did so with 40% of the vote.  The other 60% was divided between the three other parties.

Think about it.

Lincoln was elected with 40% of the vote and the Republican Base, even today, never reaches greater than 35% in any poll, while the Democratic Party is always a solid 46%-47% of the electorate. 

Odd. 

If there weren't four parties running for the office of President that year, we may not have had a President Lincoln.  After he won office he was brought to Washington, DC under a false name to insure his safety.

The longing for abolishment of slavery dates back to the beginning of the USA as thirteen colonies.

George Washington so much found distain in slavery that he once attempted to sell all his land but the one where his home was built to emanciate his slaves.  He was not able to carry out the emanciation of his slaves because enough sufficient renters and buyers for his land were unavailable.

Abraham Lincoln was the 'manifest destiny' of the words and desires of President George Washington, whom is attributed to say:

Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, attributed, John Bernard's Retrospections of America

Here is some trivia that isn't trivial.

The first elected Republican to office was Abraham Lincoln.

President Obama was sworn into office on the Lincoln Bible.

There were three children born in the White House.  Not one was a Republican.

The first child born in the White House was James Madison Randolph, son of Martha Jefferson Randolph, daughter of Thomas Jefferson.

Esther Cleveland, second child of President Stephen Grover Cleveland and Frances Cornelia Folsom, was the second child of a president born in the White House. She was born on September 9, 1893, during Clevelands second stint in the White House.

Patrick Bouvier Kennedy was the last child of a United States President to be born during his father's time in office. He was born on August 7, 1963 and only lived two days. Patrick was the youngest child of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy and brother to Caroline Kennedy and John F. Kennedy Jr. He was born five and a half weeks prematurely by emergency caesarean section at the Otis Air Force Base Hospital in Bourne, Massachusetts. A funeral Mass was held on August 10, 1963 and his body was finally laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. (JFK and Jacqueline Kennedy also had a stillborn daughter, Arabella, born in 1956, when JFK was still a senator.)

Sarah Palin's Fire in the Belly...



...is every Right Wing Extremists Fire in the Belly. It is another Anti-Abortion gab at women.

My Fire in the Belly is...





...over 200 death and at least that many missing !  When are the politics of the USA going to 'GET REAL?'

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Sarah Palin probably isn't running for office, but, only for President.

 


If I thought she was sincere for one minute I would have expected her to consider running as an Independent, but, if that is the case she won't finance herself. Additionally, if she sincerely has an interest in actually serving in the Presidency, she should reflect on her interview with Charles Gibson of ABC News.(click title to entry - thank yoiu)   This is the interview she failed so poorly in when she stated Russia could be seen from Alaska, that her record on energy was a leg up for the USA and her 'mavericky' tendencies is what 'the mood' of America is looking for.  


If Sarah hasn't improved her credentials over 2008, which she hasn't, she has even left government all together and pre-maturely besides; then she could never be serious about a campaign.  This reeks of Rove more than anything else, whom is stumped about how to bring the Chrisitan Conservatives and money on board.  Can 'The Party" actually do without her?

Sarah Palin launching multi-city tour amid 2012 buzz  (click here)

CNN
1:31 p.m. CDT, May 26, 2011

...CNN has learned that Palin has quietly laid the groundwork for a nationwide tour, beginning this weekend in the nation's capital, that will once again thrust her into the national spotlight as she decides whether to seek the GOP nomination....

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No one is more happy for the Democrats and their new House member than me, but, I also believe House Minority Leader is correct in being prudent about the topic of Medicare.

The Democrats have a challenge to prove to the American people they have the best idea for reducing the American National Debt.  That includes the knowledge that increases in the cost of living adjustment to SSI has not increased from the third quarter of 2008.  That is due to the economy, but, also indicates there are changes in the economy that can be factored into the budget regarding federal spending where COLA applies.

This is also an opportunity to 'fine tune' any spending that is disadvantageous to Medicare payments such as drug costs.  But, more importantly, rather than discussing how the 'spending side' of the National Debt has to be addressed, first the TAX RATIO of income to citizens and businesses has to be adjusted to pay down that debt.  Under the previous administration there were huge tax breaks for the wealthy that has created no new jobs, nor stimulated the economy to generate jobs, that is a disadvantage to the nation and it should be viewed as a 'gift' rather than an income at a time when the nation is still at war and paying billions to support troops.

I don't know how any House Member can look themselves in the mirror, yet alone their constituencies, and ask Senior Citizens on fixed incomes to pay more for their health care while the wealthiest citizens in the country have more than they need to plan for their futures, so long as Wall Street doesn't take another tumble and then where will they be when that all goes south again.  I sincerely believe to protect Medicare and the future of investment for those that don't need Medicare we need very competent people in the new consumer bureau. 

I don't see why Medicare is viewed as unsustainable.  We are not going to be at war forever, unless one is a Republican, and the solvency of all the entitlement programs can be extended once the military costs are reduced as we bring troops home and close down massive spending.  Some of that spending was questionably entered into by engaging in an unnecessary war with little to no benefits to the USA of any kind.  Even the Halliburton oil fields are not bringing relief to the American Consumer. 

War is not suppose to be forever, but, Medicare is.  Somebody's priorities are very, very misguided.

Democrat Wins Special Election for NY House Seat  (click here for video discussion and angry town hall with Tea Party House Representative regarding Medicare)
...Erie County Clerk Kathy Hochul defeated Republican state Assemblywoman Jane Corwin, capturing 47 percent of the vote to 43 percent for Corwin, to win the seat in the 26th Congressional District. A wealthy tea party candidate, Jack Davis, took 9 percent....


Pelosi Downplays Potential Impact Of Medicare On 2012 (click title to entry - thank you)

Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 12:43PM

By Philip Bunnell

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) urged Democrats today not to read too much into the impact House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) Medicare plan may have had on the special election held in New York’s 26th district.

“This is an issue that emerged in this district,” Pelosi told reporters during her weekly briefing. But, she said, “every race is a different one.”...

The law states, for decades, employers are not suppose to hire illegal immigrants. But, they have and it is time for that practice to end.

Arizona immigration bill woes: Carmen Trejo, 34, of Phoenix, cries after learning the outcome of the Arizona state senate vote on a new immigration bill Monday, April 19, 2010, in Phoenix. Arizona lawmakers approved a sweeping immigration bill Monday intended to ramp up law enforcement efforts even as critics complained it could lead to racial profiling and other abuse. The state Senate voted 17-11, with two not voting, nearly along party lines. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

 
There have been issues of Racial Profiling in Arizona.  But, what is more fascinating is the fact that illegal immigration has become a real profit for some American law enforcement officers that tried to HIDE behind EXTREMIST positions.  There is an entire American culture surrounding illegal immigration that does not lend itself well to laws.  And where is all this corruption?  Oh, Arizona.  Where too many laws are frowned upon as GOVERNMENT INTRUSION.  I see.

Tea Party Sheriff’s Officers Busted For Drugs, Human Trafficking  (click here)

May 25, 2011 10:41 am

ARIZONA - The group mostly moved heroin, according to investigators, and officials suspect each of the arrested sheriff’s employees played a crucial role in moving the drugs and hiding the illicit profits. Authorities say the ring moved about $56,000 worth of heroin a week through the Valley.

“The fight against drugs, illegal immigration and human trafficking is important not only to me but the citizens of Arizona,” Sheriff Joe Arpaio said. “That a deputy sheriff would provide information and associate with these drug and human traffickers is despicable.”

Stopping the employement of illegal immigrants will begin to end the problem, but, where free lancing drug activities propagate its support, the problem will never end if the root causes aren't dealt with, including corruption and crime in the USA and lack of quality of life in Mexico.

Supreme Court sustains Ariz. employer sanctions law  (click title to entry - thank you)

...By a 5-3 vote, the court rejected arguments from a coalition of business and civil rights groups, including the Chamber of Commerce and ACLU, that the Arizona law conflicts with overriding federal immigration policy and could lead to race discrimination....

A sad note about Joplin.

I was reviewing the aerial pictures at The New York Times (click title to entry - thank you) and it appears as though the 'debris field' is very wide.  I know there are people searching for 'the missing.'  The tragic reality is that they could be anywhere or nowhere.  In one case, there was a car found of someone missing, that doesn't mean they are in that vicinity, but, it is definately prudent to start looking there.  I state this in hopes 'the searching' can be expedited rather than stunted by narrower points of view in hopes of finding 'the living.'

I remind much of the area is not 'hooked up' necessarily to media or communication to facilitate 'reporting' of any finding in the debris field.

Bosnia war crimes suspect held (click title to entry for video - thank you)

Serbian President Boris Tadic announces, in Belgrade, the arrest of war crimes suspect Radko Mladic.

...Gen Mladic, 69, was found in a village in northern Serbia where had been living under an assumed name.

He faces charges over the massacre of at least 7,500 Bosnian Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995.

He was the most prominent Bosnian war crimes suspect at large since the arrest of Radovan Karadzic in 2008....

NATO is delighted the new government is doing so well.  On a timeline of history the governments in that region are in their infant stages and able to carry out intelligence to capture notorious criminals.  Well done by all.

Analysis  (on same epage as article above - thank you)


It is hard to overstate the importance of this arrest here in Serbia. Many people feel the destiny of their country was held hostage by Ratko Mladic. Their hopes of joining the EU were ruled out by Brussels while Mladic was at large....

Did Obama handle Libya’s no-fly zone the right way?


A:  82.08% - Yes

B.  17.92% - No

An unscientific poll from "US News and World Report." (click title to entry - thank you)

Is it time for the Libyan Rebels to call it a victory and seek power sharing agreements with Eastern Libya?

As President Obama vows (click title to entry - thank you)  'We will not relent until the shadow of tyranny is lifted', Gaddafi's Prime Minister offers Nato a ceasefire, amnesty for rebels, reconciliation, constitutional government – and an exit strategy.

...The Independent has obtained a copy of a letter from the country's Prime Minister, Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, being sent to a number of foreign governments. It proposes an immediate ceasefire to be monitored by the United Nations and the African Union, unconditional talks with the opposition, amnesty for both sides in the conflict, and the drafting of a new constitution....

Currently, in Egypt, former President Mubarak is charged with deaths to unarmed protesters.  If the people of Libya want to iron out their differences in a power sharing agreement the court systems could begin the process of examining the history of Colonel Gaddafi and any abuses against the people of that country.  It may be the best of removing Gaddafi without risking more innocent lives.  The Colonel has lost a son and if he is the same man he was decades ago when he lost other family to USA air strikes then he is more than willing to resolve the war.

I believe the proposal should be evaluated for its merits and I am confident the Gadaffi government is expecting a reply with conditions as an accestance of their proposal.  The United Nation's Security Council should determine whether it is more prudent to leave Gadaffi to the people of Libya or demand his arrest to the International Courts.  There are issues regarding international assaults that cannot be ignored by any proposal by the current government, but, in the same instance there are innocent people in western Libya that have fought and sacrificed for liberty from their oppressive circumstances.  I do not believe the rebels should be punished for the international crimes of Gaddafi.

This is the UNISYS Water Vapor satellite of the USA currently. The 'stangnant' air system is still there but diminished. (click title to entry fpr 12 hour loop - thank you)

UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of USA
May 26, 2011
1230:13z

Below is the UNISYS North and West Hemispheric Water Vapor satellite.  There is a huge air mass pushing in from the Pacific.  But, the eastward movment of the air mass is completely blunted by the stalled dynamics in the Atlantic.  That Atlantic air mass is essentially in the same location as two days ago. 

The air coming from the Paicific is warmer air so that will not meet up as much turbulence as there has been, but, the solar energy is still going to heat things up.  On loop of the hemispheric satellite the frigid air is mostly sequestered to the north over Canada.  (click here for 12 hour loop)  There is a vortex forming south of Alaska that will result in cold air distribution to lower latitudes, but, that is not an immediate concern.  Three is also an intense high pressure over the Gulf of Mexico, when it starts to dissipate there will be 'added' moisture from the South American Tropical Rainforests to the dry interior of the continent.  It isn't hurricane season yet, but, there is a spontaneous tropical wave that appeared briefly south of Mexico in the Pacific.


UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of north and west hemisphere
May 26, 2011
1230:13z

This is somewhat a similar scenario to Japan's nuclear disaster, but, this time with an F5 tornado.

The back up generator to St. John's Hospital was removed from it's location when the tornado struck the hospital and patients died from that cause alone.

In many instances, events such as these cause government and private institutions a pause to ask the question 'Are we safe enough to withstand...?".

That is a good question and should be asked especially with 'aging infrastructure.'  This was no one's fault.  It was a tragedy of every dimension, but, it was no one's fault in planning for every possible utility failure.  When the back up generator was installed I am quite confident it was more than sufficient to supply the hospital SHOULD THE ELECTRICITY FAIL FROM A TORNADO.  No one ever thought for one minute this hospital was going to be asked to withstand a tornado over a half mile wide with winds over 200 mph.  That dynamic was never planned for and I am not sure it can be.  These building were never asked to withstand a Climate Crisis.

...St. John's Regional Medical Center's backup generator was sucked out of the building by the twister's 200 mph winds, leaving the hospital without power while workers scrambled to evacuate 183 patients to neighboring hospital facilities, which they did within 90 minutes.

Though St. John's emergency preparedness plan was able to protect the vast majority of patients and hospital workers, their critical loss of power raises questions for other medical facilities in Tornado Alley....

One way to avoid these disasters is to recognize there are limits to the degree Earth can produce damaging events and call in scientists to construction plans to explain the degree at which materials (tensil strength and design) are stressed during these events.  Engineers plans  for what government demands of them to plan for, including housing units.  If engineers and designers were required to examine the dynamics of Earth Produced Damage at the extremes they would comply and write important plans for such disasters.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

This is the current UNISYS Water Vapor satellite of the USA. (click title to entry for 12 hour loop - thank you)


May 25, 2011
23:30:15z
UNISYS Water Vapor satellite of USA

Let's hope all that 'odd phenomena' in an image by satellite is nothing more than thunderstorms.  It might be a wicked night.  I dearly hope not.

May 25, 2011

Weak tornadoes touch down near Kansas City, Mo.  (click here)

2 twisters lifted soon after touching down, setting off warning sirens; No immediate reports of injuries, damages

...Meteorologist Julie Adolphson says there were no immediate reports of injuries or significant damage resulting from the tornadoes reported in suburban Overland Park, Kan., and near Harrisonville, Mo., south of Kansas City.


Adolphson says the tornadoes at issue are short-lived and are considered at the weakest end of the rating scale. Such tornadoes don't pack winds greater than 75 mph, in many cases amounting to a swirling dust devil....

After such severe storms in the past few days, the troposphere over the country may have cooled enough to give us a break in the action.

From Central America to the USA through Mexico's Drug Wars.


US Begins Giving Illegal Immigrants Free Flights Home  (click here)

August 23rd, 2009

MEXICO CITY - The U.S. government has begun flying illegal migrants caught in the Arizona desert back to Mexico under a voluntary repatriation program.

Mexico’s Foreign Relations Department says the twice-daily Tucson-to-Mexico City flights began Friday. It said Sunday that the annual summer program will run through Sept. 28.

The U.S. federal government launched the program in summer 2004 after years of record-setting migrant deaths along the state’s border with Mexico.
Authorities say the goal is to save lives and discourage repeat crossings by transporting migrants closer to their homes in Mexico, instead of simply deporting them across the border.



Now, the government of Mexico seeks to control its southern border.  In making it more difficult to cross into Mexico the traffic to the USA is reduced.

New immigration law takes effect in Mexico  (click title to entry - thank you)

2011-05-25 11:06
MEXICO CITY, May 24 -- A new immigration law took effect in Mexico on Tuesday aimed at better protection of undocumented migrants passing through Mexican territory on their way to the United States.
The new law will permit undocumented migrants to obtain a special visa when entering Mexico from either Guatemala or Belize and tries to enact reforms in the country's immigration ministry, which has been implicated as complicit in criminal acts such as kidnapping migrants.

"Today, Mexico is doing its part to improve the immigration system in North America," President Felipe Calderon said during a ceremony in which he signed the law.

"This, without doubt, is advanced legislation, bold legislation, immigration legislation with few precedents in the world," he said.

Migrants have been attacked and kidnapped in increasing numbers in Mexico. The National Human Rights Commission has reported that 11,333 migrants were abducted by criminal groups, including Los Zetas, during a six-month survey period in 2010.

A good amount of the media coverage about the people impacted by the tornado featured pets.

A lot came to mind in regard to the people and their pets as I watched the media episodes of the area. 

l.  Were people survivors because of their pets?  In the case of Ms. Pugh it would seem as though having her cats with her as a protector to their lives added to her need to find safe haven within their home.

2.  There were also pets, and I believe that is true of this cat, that appeared 'shell-shocked,' for lack of a better term.  They appeared traumatized in the arms of their owners.

Animals, especially domesticated animals, play a very important role in the lives of people.  As time goes by we learn more and more about that relationship.  In this case, I am fairly confident Ms. Pugh finds relief from the reality of the tragedy surrounding her life knowing she was a hero to her three companions.

Fri May 20, 10:21 am ET

Adorable lady finds missing cat during interview outside tornado-ruined home (click title to entry - thank you)

By Liz Goodwin

...Pugh cheerfully told local station WIAT that she rushed to the hallway with her three cats when the mile-wide tornado hit. The roof fell on top of her, but miraculously she and two of her cats were all in one piece. "I tried to get to my hands and knees but I couldn't. I heard the young men calling 'Ms. Judy, Ms. Judy, are you in there?'" she recalls....

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

"Something wicked this way comes." Two dead during a 'rush hour' tornado in Oklahoma City.

That turbulence formed in less than an hour.  (click here for 12 hour loop)    Exactly in front of that high pressure.  There is no way anyone expected that.

It manifested because of the vortex system DIRECTLY to its north.  That vortex system is directly connected to an arctic air mass.  As soon as the warmth and moisture met it was all over.  It was instantaneou.  The troposphere is hot and any opportunity for turbulence will occur. 

The 'logic' place to estimate that tornado was northwest of where it actually occured.  The other place would have been where water vapor was dense over Iowa or Missouri.  It didn't take much warm water to turn it into a violent cloud, did it? 

That stable air mass is still in the same location in the Atlantic.  The Pacific isn't much improved, but, only slightly. 

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Two people were killed and three children were critically injured (click title to entry - thank you) Tuesday when a series of tornadoes rolled through Oklahoma City and its suburbs during the rush hour, authorities said....

My NOAA radio has been sounding off all day today.  These storms are incredibly strong and unpredictable no matter how hard everyone tries.

Has the Obama transparency finally started a productive dialogue for Middle East Peace?



It is the first time I have witnessed any statement in regard to 1967 borders by Israel.  If this was the basis for all previous talks between Israel and Palestine then a major hurdle has been met.  The promise of a successful agreement between Palestine and Israel may very well lie in the transparency of all understanding.  I thought the speech by the Prime Minister was a real victory for President Obama and his peace initiative in the Middle East.  There are obviously concessions to be met.

U.S. Jewish groups united in support of Netanyahu's speech to Congress  (click title to entry - thank you)

In speech before a joint meeting of Congress, Netanyahu stresses strong U.S.-Israel ties and their joint interests of protecting democracy and peace.

By Natasha Mozgovaya

Published 23:31 24.05.11
Latest update 23:31 24.05.11

Jewish American groups were overwhelmingly united in their praise for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech before the joint meeting of Congress on Tuesday, stressing their support for his clear call for Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish State and commitment to peace....

Odd, I thought the President was on vacation.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge met US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle today, carrying out their first royal duty as a married couple.


I find it disturbing the Royal couple is assigned the subject of fashion when they have gone out of their way in many instances to be conscience of worldly events.  I am confident Prince William has more on his mind when speaking with President Obama than what his wife is wearing.  I am quite confident the ladies had much to discuss including military families.  I mean this is just disrespect beyond belief for people at the center of decisions regarding quality of life for so many.  I find it more than interesting that President Obama touches down in Great Britain and NATO gets serious about Libya. 

...Michelle donned a pale green, embroidered dress by Barbara Tfank, (click here) paired with a cropped pink jacket, while Kate wore a geometric-cut beige dress by Reiss that showed off a glowing tan from the royal couple's 10-day honeymoon in the Seychelles....
NATO Bombs Tripoli in Heaviest Strikes Yet  (click title to entry - thank you)

...The strikes, within a 30-minute period around 1 a.m., caused thunderous explosions and fireballs that leapt high into the night sky, causing people in neighborhoods a mile or more away to cry out in alarm.
Just as one strike ended, the sound of jet engines from low-flying aircraft in the stormy skies above the capital signaled the imminence of another. Huge plumes of black smoke rose and converged over the darkened cityscape.
“We thought it was the day of judgment,” one enraged Libyan said.
The intensity of the attacks, and their focus on the area of the Bab al-Aziziya command compound in central Tripoli, appeared to reflect a NATO decision to step up the tempo of the air war over the Libyan capital, perhaps with a view to breaking the stalemate that has threatened to settle over the three-month-old Libyan conflict....

Monday, May 23, 2011

It is a danger time for the USA with 116 dead accounted for in Joplin.



I don't believe it is appropriate for me to lauch into song about anything else right now.  Not that everything that comes to mind isn't important, but, the troposphere is a disaster and it isn't getting any better.

Below is a UNISYS Water Vapor Map of the North and West Hemisphere.  (click title for 12 hour loop - thank you)

There is a dynamic that cannot be ignored just south of the Azore Islands in the East Atlantic.  When viewing the 12 hour loop, this tropospheric depression is stable.  There is similar phenomena in triplicate in the Pacific, East of the Hawaiian Islands, over the Hawaiian Islands and Northwest of them.  That leaves a limited space for the turbulent air to occur.  I am concerned this weather pattern will sustain for a time.  The outbreaks are rapid and spontaneous over land.  I am concerned.

 
UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of North and West Hemisphere
May 23, 2011
23:30:15z
 
WASHINGTON — More severe weather is on the way for the southern and central United States, forecasters said on Monday, just days after the worst single tornado in modern US history killed 116 people in Missouri.
A new tornado watch was issued Monday for Oklahoma and parts of southern Kansas due to an "evolving tornado threat," said Russell Schneider, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Storm Prediction Center.
The central United States was warned to brace for more big storms on Tuesday.
"We are currently forecasting a major severe weather outbreak for Tuesday over the central United States with strong tornadoes likely over Oklahoma, Kansas, extreme northern Texas, southwest Missouri," Schneider said.
The warning was extended to the area around Joplin, Missouri, which was hit hard in the weekend tornado, and would also include cities like Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Wichita, Topeka and Kansas City....

The tropospheric dynamics of the Joplin storms reached 18,000 feet in height.

Eighteen thousand feet is about three and a half miles up.

Some meterologists are stating they haven't seen anything like this, there are torndoes and weather 'preceding' the arrival of the front.

Some time ago I mentioned how there appeared to be a development of 'dual' fronts. 

I believe the reason for this can be understood in the 'limitations' of the troposphere and the velocity it can withstand.  We know now there is a limit to the strength of hurricanes.  At one time it was believed that hurricanes under Human Induced Warming systems could grow to a Cat Six.  We know now that is not the case.  What occurs instead is a higher number of 'incidence' as the 'calories' of heat accumulate.

In the case of tornadoes, we are witnessing 'multiples' of 'incidence' with every storm.  They used to be called 'tornado outbreaks' and were few and far between.  However, it is a growing 'norm.'  Where tornadoes actually 'seem to appear' previous to the arrival of a front, in other words, 'a double front' there are 'dynamics' CROWDED into a narrowing 'area.'

We know the gaseous layers of Earth have their 'limit' to the 'velocity' it can generate.  But.  What if the 'accumulated energy' EXCEEDS what is 'normal' to 'the maximum' AND the 'area' where it is occurring from high in the troposphere is increasing the 'energy concentration?'  Where then, will that 'accumulation' of 'vector energy' go?

The vector energy will be 'pushed' to where there is 'least resistence' to its 'presence.'  Where would that be?  Behind the storm system?  No.  There is already a 'full' dynamic that is resulting in a storm.  It will be 'pushed' to the front where pressures are higher, but, where there is 'less pressure' than is 'accumulated' in the upper troposphere attemtpting to 'reach the ground.'  There is also the issue of 'negative' and 'postive' ground charge that enters the picture.  The ground under a high pressure system will also be postiive while the upper tropospheric air mass is negative.  So, the 'natural' place for the 'amassed' air to 'vent' is a direction 'in front' of the weather system and not behind it. 

Dual Systems are burgeoning as 'the norm' as the troposphere resulting in 'upper extreme limits' become overwhelmed with 'calories' of heat. 

Have a better day.

There isn't much left of Joplin, is there?

Sunday, May 22, 2011

It is Harry Potter weekend, so the blog is taking a break.

I didn't see them in the cinema becuase I thought they were uninteresting, but, they are kind of fun especially when one doesn't have to wait for the next one to come out.

At any rate, President Obama did quite well with his speech regarding Israel.  It was sad he had to reiterate everything a second time, however, I found clarity in him being willing to restate his position.  He pledged transparency at the beginning of his Presidency, he has lived up to it.  In the case of Israel and Palestine; it is about time we were all let in on it.  I think it is a wonderful idea and high time to get on with it.

So, this week I want to concentrate on the DEVOLUTION of unions in the USA.  It is quite interesting.  It has a direct relationship with poverty and huge profit margins.  I hope you'll find it interesting, too.  I have some correspondence to finish this evening and Harry Potter is keeping me company.  I've grown to like the guy. 

Until tomorrow...