I will miss his steadfast benevolence to the Climate Crisis.

I thank Governor Inslee for taking up the mantle of the climate crisis to make an earnest effort to take the office of President of the United States of America.

Governor Inslee is a natural for the office and the focus of the climate crisis. He knows first hand the problems of high amounts of greenhouse gas in the troposphere.

As a Governor he applied himself to every aspect of governing Washington State. In 2016 when Mississippi allowed business owners and government employees to refuse service to gay, lesbian and transgender individuals, he banned state-funded travel to Mississippi. 

Today, Washington State is facing still another crisis with blueberry farmers. The USA Labor Department under Trump has once again attacked immigration labor. The USA Labor Department required employers of Guest Workers to pay twice the salary they were receiving at the time the order was signed. Washington State's blueberry farmers are in their own crisis and I know he feels a great weight of looking for solutions.

Governor Inslee is very special. He has a good deal of wisdom in his governance and is committed to solving the problems people of Washington State face. I simply just don't know a better person to lead this country in regard to the climate crisis when it comes to understanding government and it's potential to solve this current and impending disaster.

He is absolutely correct, we were the first generation to come to understand this aspect of Earth's benevolence when in balance and we are the last generation to be able to do something about it. Those words are brilliant and I thank him for it.

I wish the people of Washington State well and the best outcomes for their climate crisis problems. It is hard to accept the northern Pacific is actually becoming a hostile environment for shellfish. Washington State is in the best hands with Governor Jay Inslee.

I look forward to him maintaining an interest in the national dialogue regarding the Climate Crisis and thank him once again.

If there was any chance Maduro was leaving Venezuela it ended since the nuclear explosion. No wonder the Russians won't leave.

Trump loves Russia so much, Moscow is waiting.

When is Trump going to talk to the country about the nuclear explosion in Russia and the fallout that is circulating the north right now? I am sure Alaska is worried. They won't be able to tell if the radiation on the Geiger Counters is from Fukashima or Russia.

Trump is asking, pretty please, for Russia to leave Argentina. Russia says, "No."

There are no secret talks, Maduro knows exactly what is transpiring. If there is secrecy it is because Trump doesn't want to appear to fail.

20 August 2019

Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro with national assembly chief Diosdado Cabello, who has reportedly been speaking to Trump advisers

Nicolás Maduro (click here) has confirmed top Venezuelan officials have been talking to members of Donald Trump’s White House, after reports his second-in-command had been negotiating his downfall with the United States.

“I confirm that for months there have been contacts between senior officials from Donald Trump’s government and from the Bolivarian government over which I preside – with my express and direct permission,” Venezuela’s authoritarian leader said in a televised address on Tuesday night.

“Various contacts through various channels,” Maduro added.

Maduro’s remarks came after two reports in the US media claimed Diosdado Cabello, one of Venezuela’s most powerful and feared men, had been engaged in “secret communications” with Trump officials....

...Christopher Sabatini, a senior fellow for Latin America at the Chatham House thinktank, said: “I think what the US is trying to do is some sort of psy ops thing, trying to rattle people within Maduro’s administration.”

But on Tuesday Maduro confirmed contact with the US, which he painted as proof that he had been seeking ways “for president Donald Trump to truly listen to Venezuela and the truth of the 21st century Bolivarian revolution”.

Earlier in the day Trump told reporters: “We’re talking to various representatives of Venezuela. I don’t want to say who, but we are talking at a very high level.”...


Diosdado Cabello has been around for a long time. None of these people materialized out of nowhere. The crisis in Venezuela is due to the fall in oil prices.

6 January 2013

Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez’s allies (click here) staged a show of unity on Saturday, re-electing the ruling party’s Diosdado Cabello as parliamentary speaker, while their president battles cancer in Cuba.

The closing of ranks by the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) came as it emerged as all but certain that illness will keep Chavez from being sworn in to a new six-year term on Thursday as scheduled.

“The president will continue being president beyond January 10, nobody should have any doubt about that,” said Cabello after his election, accusing the opposition of fomenting a “coup d’etat.”

Vice President Nicolas Maduro called the swearing-in a “formality” and said he too would stay on in office without taking any oath until there was an opportunity to do so.

Cabello’s re-election was intended in part to answer persistent rumours of a power struggle within the regime during Chavez’s more than three-week absence, the longest stretch in his 14-year presidency.

“We will never defraud the people and we will get on our knees to defend the proposal made by comandante Chavez, I swear it,” Cabello said as he took his oath of office....

May 6, 2019

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (click here) pressed Sunday for Russia to get out of Venezuela, while his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, called on Washington to “abandon its irresponsible plans” in the crisis-wracked country.

The push and shove set the stage for a Pompeo meeting with Lavrov in Finland this week, and belied the conciliatory tone taken by U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday after what he said was “a very good conversation” with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The top level contacts follow the failure of a U.S.-backed uprising on Tuesday aimed at ousting Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, that Pompeo has blamed on Russia....

Greece is not aiding Syria. End of discussion. Observations can be made to be sure the oil does not reach a Syrian port.

Trump and Pompeo have no right to any further assurances. Greece stated it is not allowing transit to Syria and that is all that is needed.

Greece is a member of the European Union and is an ally to the USA. Their invention on behalf of the Iranian oil tanker, formerly known as Grace 1, is appreciated. If the Brits are satisfied with the agreement and the ship was to sail to Greece then the proper passage is underway and there is no need for further suspicion. The USA has a port in Italy and any necessary observations can be made to ensure the sanctions are respected.

August 21, 2019

Athens - Greece will not provide assistance (click here) in delivering oil to Syria to an Iranian tanker now sailing eastward through the Mediterranean, Deputy Foreign Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis said on Wednesday.

“We have sent a clear message that we would not want to facilitate the trafficking of this oil to Syria in any instance,” Varvitsiotis told Greece’s ANT1 television.

The Adrian Darya 1, which was released after being detained in Gibraltar, is carrying 2 million barrels of crude. It is now sailing east with trackers giving its stated destination as the Greek port of Kalamata, with an expected arrival date of Aug. 26....       

"The Log Cabin Republicans" find security, regardless of Trump's politics, in the Robert's Court decision. Their equality from here going forward with the Republicans will rely on the court.

United States v. Windsor (2013) (click here)

The Supreme Court ruled that the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional. In a 5 to 4 vote, the court ruled that DOMA violated the rights of gays and lesbians. The court also ruled that the law interferes with the states' rights to define marriage. It was the first case ever on the issue of gay marriage for the Supreme Court. Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. voted against striking it down as did Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas. However, conservative-leaning Justice Anthony M. Kennedy voted with his liberal colleagues to overturn DOMA.

Kennedy is no longer there.

Examining the LGBT Record of Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch (click here)

President Trump nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch to be an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia.  In keeping with the president’s campaign promise, Judge Gorsuch is a conservative justice in the tradition of Justice Scalia.   As such, he is likely to reach decisions that negatively impact many parts of the LGBT community when considering issues of race, immigration, and reproductive health.

September 15, 2019

Watching the confirmation hearing of Judge Brett Kavanaugh last week, (click here) I had a flashback to two defining moments of my life. Both underscore the profound anxiety gripping many advocates of LGBT rights at the prospect of this nominee replacing Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court. 

In the coming months, the high court may accept a case from one of several appeals courts that will determine whether or not LGBT people have any rights under existing federal anti-discrimination law. Meanwhile, some of the few protections we enjoy under  the Constitution, for privacy and marriage equality, rest on rulings that Kennedy authored but that Kavanaugh has implicitly criticized — such his 2016 warning, in a tribute to the late Justice Antonin Scalia, against making up "new constitutional rights that are not in the text of the Constitution."...

Wikipedia:

Below (click here) is a list of the names of the LGBT persons who have served on the highest court of a state or territory in the United States.

The first state with a LGBT justice was Oregon, where Rives Kistler was named to the bench in 2003.^[1] The first U.S. territory with a LGBT justice was Guam, where Benjamin Cruz was appointed in 1997.^[2] There are currently eleven LGBT state supreme court justices, serving in ten states....

The Prime Minister speaks well of the relationship between the US and Denmark. Most Americans would agree.

The simple idea of cleaving off Greenland from Denmark would be like losing family. The culture is different and the history is different. It wouldn't work for any of the nations of people involved.

Capitalism at it's very worst - Trump's detained child policy feeds the adoption industry.

Trump keeps racking up those human rights violations. Being impeached is the least of his worries. Does he plan to ever leave the country again outside the protections of being president?

October 9, 2018
By the AP

As the deportees were led off the plane (click here) onto the steamy San Salvador tarmac, an anguished Araceli Ramos Bonilla burst into tears, her face contorted with pain: "They want to steal my daughter!"

It had been 10 weeks since Ramos had last held her 2-year-old, Alexa. Ten weeks since she was arrested crossing the border into Texas and U.S. immigration authorities seized her daughter and told her she would never see the girl again.

What followed — one foster family's initially successful attempt to win full custody of Alexa — reveals what could happen to some of the infants, children and teens taken from their families at the border under a Trump administration policy earlier this year. The "zero-tolerance" crackdown ended in June, but hundreds of children remain in detention, shelters or foster care and U.S. officials say more than 200 are not eligible for reunification or release....

It is a real problem for DSS agencies across the USA. The DSS across the USA have very poor records of family reunification, the majority are less than 1 to 2 percent. There have been false reasons to arrest parents to harvest children. I know it for a fact. They not only issue false arrests for such things as human trafficking if the parents actually beat the charges the detectives involved up the ante to obtain the children by drumming up new charges. TRUTH. The "human trafficking" charges are also touted by politicians when it occurs to increase their political clout.

Trump is feeding the adoption industry. There are no cutbacks in a foster care program that promises to provide adoptions, is there? There are YouTube videos where parents won't visit with their children without a witness and/or the other parent in the same room so they can make a video to counter any claims by DSS to continue to remove the children. It is happening. Religious bigotry plays into it in "The South." They are harvesting children.

The Working Poor don't have a chance. They are dependent on the court ordered attorney system. The attorneys are successful with criminal charges the child custody attorneys are rarely successful. 

One other thing. The already traumatized parents are told if they fight for their children to the very last, they will be declared incompetent and will never have child custody of any children they may have in the future, therefore, it is better to sign off your parental rights. And they do.

I could not help but comment on this. As a biologist it was obvious to me.

When I first saw this image it reminded me of condensing chromosomes.

The image below and right was borrowed from a journal article at this link. (click here) 











August 19. 2019
By Jeff Parsons

The expanding red giant (click here) as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope (ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Wade)

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured another memorable image to add to its vast collection.

The space-based observatory has spotted a ‘Jellyfish’ like star out in deep space, lurking within the Orion constellation.

Officially known as NGC 2022, the star is a ‘red giant’ and has expanded to a size far larger than our own sun.

The core glows a bright yellow-orange while the layers of gas emanating from it are picked up in hues of pink and purple by Hubble....

I believe him.

A relative at a recent family gathering has it right. He is a gun owner and participates in competitions. He measures his performance at these competitions against his best measured against other competitors. He says his measure to the effectiveness of guns in the USA by real issues and the potential of the gun industry to cause harm. He doesn't hunt, he shoots for accuracy. He owns the spectrum of guns and maintains tight security of them to protect his family. He makes his own ammunition.

He stated, "They will never pass a background check on gun purchases because of their politics. That just causes gun owners to buy more guns and ammunition to maintain a sufficient arsenal when the crimes against humanity make it to their front doors."

Dana Milbank is putting words together that don't make sense, "The USA must take Greenland by force." 

I don't think so.

In an attempt to keep the petroleum industry happy and content, Trump canceled a trip to an ally, Denmark. Trump is an idiot and a bully. It isn't going to work. Trump is attempting to end any USA assistance to our allies in order to get an island to satisfy the petroleum industry. Trump is crazy. Just that simple. He is an idiot and revises history to suit his purpose. Before too long it will be the G6 and the USA will be expelled.

If one follows the trend by the Trump administration they are eliminating the federal government. By the time Trump finishes, he will be a dictator. He refuses to accept the will of the American people as does McConnell. They OBTAIN power through politics. They are fools and the American people are being compromised.

Donald Trump is a revisionist.

Russia didn't outsmart anyone but Donald J. Trump. There are Russian jets with nuclear capacity in Venezuela. In order to avoid a war of any kind, Trump sells out to the communists.

Trump has abandoned democracy in Venezuela.

Trump is allowing expansionism in the Pacific by China.

This is about as stupid as it gets. A wealthy Israeli businessman purchased spy planes for Saudi Arabia. No sooner than the Saudis have all this intelligence capacity (which they have no clue as to how to operate and use the data) the Houthis launch a surprise attack. In response to the attack by the Houthis, the USA sends a multi-million dollar drone into Yemen to spy on the Houthis. Well, the USA drone was shot down over Yemen and now the Houthis have sophisticated drone technology and no longer need Iran. Yep, Trump is a brilliant strategist.

August 19, 2019

A drone attack (click here) by the Yemeni Houthis caused fire at an oil and gas field in Saudi Arabia, the Kingdom’s Energy Minister said as quoted by the Saudi Press Agency.

Khalid al-Falih also said the damage caused by the explosive-laden drones was limited to a processing unit of the natural gas processing plant at the Shaybah field.

The Yemeni rebel group had earlier said it was using 10 drones to attack the Shaybah field in what they said was the “biggest attack in the depths” of Saudi Arabia yet, as per a Reuters report on the event. The Shaybah field lies about 600 miles from the Houthi-controlled parts of Yemen.

The Saudi Press Agency quoted Al-Falih as referring to the event as a “terroristic attack” and noting it had resulted in no casualties and had had no effect on Saudi oil and gas production or exports.

The minister also said, as quoted by the SPA, that “these attacks not only target Saudi Arabia, but also the global energy security of supply and through that the global economy, demonstrating once again the imperative for the global community to confront all terrorist entities that carry out such acts of sabotage, including the Houthi militias in Yemen.”...