Sunday, May 24, 2015
"Hair" by Hair Cast from the Broadway Musical (click here)
She asks me why
I'm just a hairy guy
I'm hairy noon and night
Hair that's a fright
I'm hairy high and low
Don't ask me why
Don't know
It's not for lack of bread
Like the Grateful Dead
Darling
Gimme head with hair
Long beautiful hair
Shining, gleaming,
Streaming, flaxen, waxen
Give me down to there hair
Shoulder length or longer
Here baby, there mama
Everywhere daddy daddy
Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair
Let it fly in the breeze
And get caught in the trees
Give a home to the fleas in my hair
A home for fleas
A hive for bees
A nest for birds
There ain't no words
For the beauty, the splendor, the wonder
Of my...
Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair
I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy
Snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty
Oily, greasy, fleecy
Shining, gleaming, streaming
Flaxen, waxen
Knotted, polka-dotted
Twisted, beaded, braided
Powdered, flowered, and confettied
Bangled, tangled, spangled, and spaghettied!
Oh say can you see
My eyes if you can
Then my hair's too short
Down to here
Down to there
Down to where
It stops by itself
They'll be ga ga at the go go
When they see me in my toga
My toga made of blond
Brilliantined
Biblical hair
My hair like Jesus wore it
Hallelujah I adore it
Hallelujah Mary loved her son
Why don't my mother love me?
Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair
She asks me why
I'm just a hairy guy
I'm hairy noon and night
Hair that's a fright
I'm hairy high and low
Don't ask me why
Don't know
It's not for lack of bread
Like the Grateful Dead
Darling
Gimme head with hair
Long beautiful hair
Shining, gleaming,
Streaming, flaxen, waxen
Give me down to there hair
Shoulder length or longer
Here baby, there mama
Everywhere daddy daddy
Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair
Let it fly in the breeze
And get caught in the trees
Give a home to the fleas in my hair
A home for fleas
A hive for bees
A nest for birds
There ain't no words
For the beauty, the splendor, the wonder
Of my...
Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair
I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy
Snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty
Oily, greasy, fleecy
Shining, gleaming, streaming
Flaxen, waxen
Knotted, polka-dotted
Twisted, beaded, braided
Powdered, flowered, and confettied
Bangled, tangled, spangled, and spaghettied!
Oh say can you see
My eyes if you can
Then my hair's too short
Down to here
Down to there
Down to where
It stops by itself
They'll be ga ga at the go go
When they see me in my toga
My toga made of blond
Brilliantined
Biblical hair
My hair like Jesus wore it
Hallelujah I adore it
Hallelujah Mary loved her son
Why don't my mother love me?
Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair
Defense Secretary Ash Carter is too much a gentleman when describing the Iraqi army.
To begin, the Iraqi army abandoned their post, not just once, but twice. Both times was a major abandonment of the land both Americans and other Iraqis fought and died to defend and protect.
I don't doubt this is the lack of will to fight because the Iraqi army is demoralized by the brutal violence in the Daesh regime, but, the second time proved something more. The Daesh regime benefits from taking over land that has been infiltrated by the Iraqi army.
This is the second time Daesh has benefited from the retreat of the Iraqi army. The abandonment of their fight is not only a retreat, but, allows Daesh an opportunity to better arm themselves and become reinvigorated with munitions and equipment.
There is no doubt the Iraqi army was overwhelmed the first time when Daesh first crossed the Iraqi border, but, to have that happen again is a profound curiosity. The first time there were many people taken prisoner and consequently executed in brutal methods. But, the second time the Iraqi army did exactly the same thing as before. They left tanks, humvees and munitions behind and in doing so caused the reinvigoration of Daesh. The soldiers are not only leaving their post, they are allowing enhanced danger to the civilians they leave behind.
Enough. The region is unstable and has been since the USA invasion. The warring never ended and it still hasn't. The regional powers are going to have to assess their own sovereign interests and move to take land away from Daesh. To expect an Iraqi army to do the job is ridiculous. There is no reason to continue to expect the USA to have a role in this disaster in international policy since March of 2003. There was rarely a day that went by without sectarian violence of one kind or another. This is not the USA's fight.
The cute and catchy theme of "You broke it, you bought it." is hideous and ridiculous. The USA has poured billions after billions if not trillions into this country with the same result. It's over in Iraq. The United Nation has to assess the shifting borders as well.
May 24, 2015
By Ken Dilanian
The Islamic State (click here) group’s takeover of Ramadi is stark evidence that Iraqi forces lack the “will to fight,” Defense Secretary Ash Carter said, in the harshest assessment yet from a high-ranking Obama administration official of the U.S. effort to bolster Iraqi forces to retake their territory from extremist militants.
Iraqi soldiers “vastly outnumbered” their opposition in the capital of Anbar province but quickly withdrew from the city in Iraq’s Sunni heartland, Carter said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” The interview aired on Sunday.
The Iraqis left behind large numbers of U.S.-supplied vehicles, including several tanks.
“What apparently happened is the Iraqi forces just showed no will to fight,” Carter said. “They were not outnumbered; in fact, they vastly outnumbered the opposing force. That says to me, and I think to most of us, that we have an issue with the will of the Iraqis to fight ISIL and defend themselves.”
Iraqi lawmaker Hakim al-Zamili, the head of the parliamentary defense and security committee, called Carter’s comments “unrealistic and baseless,” in an interview with The Associated Press....
I don't doubt this is the lack of will to fight because the Iraqi army is demoralized by the brutal violence in the Daesh regime, but, the second time proved something more. The Daesh regime benefits from taking over land that has been infiltrated by the Iraqi army.
This is the second time Daesh has benefited from the retreat of the Iraqi army. The abandonment of their fight is not only a retreat, but, allows Daesh an opportunity to better arm themselves and become reinvigorated with munitions and equipment.
There is no doubt the Iraqi army was overwhelmed the first time when Daesh first crossed the Iraqi border, but, to have that happen again is a profound curiosity. The first time there were many people taken prisoner and consequently executed in brutal methods. But, the second time the Iraqi army did exactly the same thing as before. They left tanks, humvees and munitions behind and in doing so caused the reinvigoration of Daesh. The soldiers are not only leaving their post, they are allowing enhanced danger to the civilians they leave behind.
Enough. The region is unstable and has been since the USA invasion. The warring never ended and it still hasn't. The regional powers are going to have to assess their own sovereign interests and move to take land away from Daesh. To expect an Iraqi army to do the job is ridiculous. There is no reason to continue to expect the USA to have a role in this disaster in international policy since March of 2003. There was rarely a day that went by without sectarian violence of one kind or another. This is not the USA's fight.
The cute and catchy theme of "You broke it, you bought it." is hideous and ridiculous. The USA has poured billions after billions if not trillions into this country with the same result. It's over in Iraq. The United Nation has to assess the shifting borders as well.
May 24, 2015By Ken Dilanian
The Islamic State (click here) group’s takeover of Ramadi is stark evidence that Iraqi forces lack the “will to fight,” Defense Secretary Ash Carter said, in the harshest assessment yet from a high-ranking Obama administration official of the U.S. effort to bolster Iraqi forces to retake their territory from extremist militants.
Iraqi soldiers “vastly outnumbered” their opposition in the capital of Anbar province but quickly withdrew from the city in Iraq’s Sunni heartland, Carter said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” The interview aired on Sunday.
The Iraqis left behind large numbers of U.S.-supplied vehicles, including several tanks.
“What apparently happened is the Iraqi forces just showed no will to fight,” Carter said. “They were not outnumbered; in fact, they vastly outnumbered the opposing force. That says to me, and I think to most of us, that we have an issue with the will of the Iraqis to fight ISIL and defend themselves.”
Iraqi lawmaker Hakim al-Zamili, the head of the parliamentary defense and security committee, called Carter’s comments “unrealistic and baseless,” in an interview with The Associated Press....
Saturday, May 23, 2015
May 18, 2015. Massive Hail Storm in Texas.
The next day another team of storm chasers caught still yet another odd storm/tornado on video. At one point the hail is at least 6 inches deep and increasing.
A man also walks across a pavement wearing a hard hat.
Tuesday, May 19, 2015, 12:07 - We started (click here for video which includes advocacy for a "Tornado Safety Plan" ) our day off in Abilene, TX and after some breakfast, we began our trek southwest along the I-20 toward Midland, TX. This was our "target" to start the day to get us into position for storms to fire. After waiting at a gas station in Midland for a couple of hours, storms began to develop near the NM-TX border. We started vectoring southwest toward Pecos, TX where the storm was....
The weather Channel has remarkable submissions from the people who lost their entire town to a tornado. At one point a teacher walks down the hall of a collapsed roof and some destroyed walls and her reaction is profound. There should be no elected officials even entertaining the words, "These folks are tough and they are good as recovering from these storms." The videos clearly show people unable to cope with their reality.
There is very severe weather across the country. The flooding along the 'blue dots' is disasterous.
Kindly read the explanation (click here) and examine the color code to understand where the severe flooding is occurring. Red dots on this map is the intuitive opposite of most ideas about the color red. In this instance the blue (probably to indicate water) is where the heaviest rains and flooding is occurring.
The information found on this map is 'REAL TIME' data.
Click on the state of this government page at link above and it will show the distribution of danger in that particular state.
These are record floods. No one, but, no one should be overlooking the fact people have to be evacuated. This is going to require the National Guard to attempt any rescue for those that have not be evacuated.
Police, sheriffs, deputy sherrifs and prison guards should be required to carry a pulse oximeter into any procedure where restraints are applied.
When a pulse oximeter reads below 95% a person's oxygen saturation is compromised. At no point in time should the oxygen saturation level fall below 90%. If the oxygen saturation level falls to 85% the oxygen saturation level is completely compromised and all activity compromising the person restrained should stop.
A young black man will not have health consequences to cause a reading, as in COPD, that is related to chronic health issues opposed to asphyxiation. There is absolutely no reason for anyone to be threatened with death by police when in their custody. Should a reading of less than 95% should be provided with relief to allow them to breath better and immediately transported to an emergency room for further evaluation and intervention.
In the case of Eric Garner the man needed a patent airway that was not crushed. That means a whole has to be performed to his neck below the crushed airway to insure air exchange. EMTs should be instructed in the procedure of providing a temporary tracheotomy to provide air exchange as the person is transported to the emergency room.
Not all the problems in Baltimore relate to the Freddie Gray murder.
There are nearly fifty percent less arrests in Baltimore because of crowds recording the actions of police. The Baltimore police asked for it. They have not had the confidence of the community that are under Big Brother surveillance. There is a lot more wrong with the policing relationship other than the death of Freddie Gray.
If the community is showing up at arrests, there is probably surveillance of the police band radio. These people are terrified of their police. There is no clear communication or advocacy for the people with the police. The communication between the police and community has to improve.
If there are fifty percent less arrests in Baltimore, maybe there should be. There are still arrests, but, less of them. The arrests that are happening might be the ones the community recognizes as necessary and important. There needs to be a Citizen-Police Board where complaints are brought to end the tensions with the community.
The Freddie Gray murder was the spark that lit the flame. Not every action by police or the community is linked to the death of Freddie Gray. Those dynamics are now facing the court. He died in the custody of police in a heinous manner. That is a fact. How many other infractions exist in the community not caught on camera yet. The death of Freddie Gray was not a freak incident. There are others that have died in police vans. There is a lot wrong in Baltimore and until there are clear understandings and not an 'US and Them' relationship there will be problems.
If the community is showing up at arrests, there is probably surveillance of the police band radio. These people are terrified of their police. There is no clear communication or advocacy for the people with the police. The communication between the police and community has to improve.
If there are fifty percent less arrests in Baltimore, maybe there should be. There are still arrests, but, less of them. The arrests that are happening might be the ones the community recognizes as necessary and important. There needs to be a Citizen-Police Board where complaints are brought to end the tensions with the community.
The Freddie Gray murder was the spark that lit the flame. Not every action by police or the community is linked to the death of Freddie Gray. Those dynamics are now facing the court. He died in the custody of police in a heinous manner. That is a fact. How many other infractions exist in the community not caught on camera yet. The death of Freddie Gray was not a freak incident. There are others that have died in police vans. There is a lot wrong in Baltimore and until there are clear understandings and not an 'US and Them' relationship there will be problems.
Senator Paul with the help of Seantor Heinrich has successfully defeated...
...procedural votes on both The American Freedom Act required a 60 vote majority and failed. The NSA provisions of the Patriot Act was defeated with less than a simple majority. Senator McConnell attempted short term extensions in several renditions of the with no success.
The current idea is to bring the US Senate back to session on May 31 at 5PM for a vote on an extension of the Patriot Act before it expires midnight of June 1, 2015.
Highway extension to be passed this morning. The highway extension has been postponed until May 31st. The Senate was adjourned until May 31st at 5PM EDT.
Congratulations to Senator Paul and Senator Heinrich. Senator Paul was more than willing to forgo four of his six amendments to pass the Patriot Act, but, it was not allowed. The US Senate has successfully blocked the House NSA surveillance bill and the two month extension.
Majority leader McConnell is somewhat alarmed by the fact there is a high threat level overseas and the Patriot Act was not returned from it's sunset date.
The Senate is acting on a House bill for the renewal of the Patriot Act and it is not going over well in the US Senate.
Senator Mikulski is appalled the US Senate has been adjourned without renewal of the Patriot Act or at the very least voted for The American Freedom Act. She stated the thousands of people at the NSA were carrying out an important job to protect the USA's defense. She stated these people have been harassed in their private lives, including bullying of their children because of the work they did.
No one is dissolving FISA or Executive Order 12333. I suggest the people at the NSA and it's director review the importance of FISA and expect to fall back on it as the Patriot Act expires.
Senator Dick Durbin has objected to another extension of the Highway Bill and wants a six year program. He is consenting to a 60 extension but there is a six year program that is needed. He expects the full bill to be passed when the US Senate returns. The extension was approved for 90 days on a verbal consent.
Most of the Senators have left the chamber.
Senator Mark Rounds has moved to Executive Session and nominations be submitted. All nominations passed.
The US Senate finally adjourned until 4PM May 26th. The further votes on the Patriot Act will not occur until May 31st to convene at 4PM.
The current idea is to bring the US Senate back to session on May 31 at 5PM for a vote on an extension of the Patriot Act before it expires midnight of June 1, 2015.
Highway extension to be passed this morning. The highway extension has been postponed until May 31st. The Senate was adjourned until May 31st at 5PM EDT.
Congratulations to Senator Paul and Senator Heinrich. Senator Paul was more than willing to forgo four of his six amendments to pass the Patriot Act, but, it was not allowed. The US Senate has successfully blocked the House NSA surveillance bill and the two month extension.
Majority leader McConnell is somewhat alarmed by the fact there is a high threat level overseas and the Patriot Act was not returned from it's sunset date.
The Senate is acting on a House bill for the renewal of the Patriot Act and it is not going over well in the US Senate.
Senator Mikulski is appalled the US Senate has been adjourned without renewal of the Patriot Act or at the very least voted for The American Freedom Act. She stated the thousands of people at the NSA were carrying out an important job to protect the USA's defense. She stated these people have been harassed in their private lives, including bullying of their children because of the work they did.
No one is dissolving FISA or Executive Order 12333. I suggest the people at the NSA and it's director review the importance of FISA and expect to fall back on it as the Patriot Act expires.
Senator Dick Durbin has objected to another extension of the Highway Bill and wants a six year program. He is consenting to a 60 extension but there is a six year program that is needed. He expects the full bill to be passed when the US Senate returns. The extension was approved for 90 days on a verbal consent.
Most of the Senators have left the chamber.
Senator Mark Rounds has moved to Executive Session and nominations be submitted. All nominations passed.
The US Senate finally adjourned until 4PM May 26th. The further votes on the Patriot Act will not occur until May 31st to convene at 4PM.
Friday, May 22, 2015
The region of the Middle East has to stabilize itself.
Ahmed Ali
is a visiting senior fellow and director of the Iraq Security and
Humanitarian Monitor at the Education for Peace in Iraq Center in
Washington.
May 21, 2015
by Ahmed Ali
May 21, 2015
by Ahmed Ali
WASHINGTON — THE fall of the Iraqi city of Ramadi on Sunday, (click here) and of the Syrian
city of Palmyra on Wednesday, is a big gain for the Islamic State, but
not an utter disaster, as many observers fear.
Rather
than inducing panic in Western capitals, it should lead to a realistic
assessment of the Islamic State’s strengths and weaknesses. One setback
in a long war must not trigger hasty strategic shifts that lead to
foreign countries’ becoming mired in Iraq once more.
Palmyra
has economic and cultural significance, as it sits among gas fields and
is home to renowned ruins. But Ramadi, in western Iraq, is of far
greater military and strategic consequence.
The
attack on Ramadi was a sign of desperation, not strength. It took 16
months of continual clashes with tenacious Iraqi security forces and
loyal Sunni tribes before the Islamic State, also known as ISIS,
could take Ramadi. Before it fell, the Islamic State already controlled
half of the city. Its battlefield rivals were exhausted, and it wanted
to give its adherents a psychological boost. Ramadi was a ripe target....
The dolphins that are dying and giving birth to genetically damaged young have been studied for over 40 years. The BP disaster has decimated the integrity of this population.
The Sarasota Dolphin Research Program (SDRP), (click here) a partnership led by the
Chicago Zoological Society and based at Mote Marine Laboratory in
Sarasota, Florida, conducts the world’s longest-running study of a
dolphin population. The program’s primary goal is to contribute to a
better understanding of the structure and dynamics of populations of
small cetaceans, as well as the natural and anthropogenic factors that
impact them. The SDRP uses an interdisciplinary and collaborative
approach in conducting studies of bottlenose dolphins within Sarasota
Bay, Tampa Bay, Charlotte Harbor, and the Gulf of Mexico coastal
waters. For more information about the SDRP, please visit:
www.sarasotadolphin.org.
This was stated in the 2000 election.
George W. Bush (click here) "will also ensure that the federal government, which is
the country’s largest polluter, complies with all environmental laws."
Lies.
To refuse the USA was responsible of 25% of global greenhouse gas emissions, it was easier to blame China. So much for accountability.
LEADING on the Climate Crisis means setting the example other countries need to follow. At the time Bush was pointing fingers at China, it was building wind farms in number and acres greater than the USA had.
When President Obama went to China he didn't point a finger and demand for China to modernize their country and end their polluting. He showed China's leadership the willingness to work together with them to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Now, both the USA and China have a common mission and it is a good mission to end the danger of the Climate Crisis. It takes grown up with a moral center to act in a responsible way to bring about change. President Obama is that moral president.
If Germany can do it, the USA can do it. Reduction in greenhouse gas emission by Germany also lowers it's dependency on natural gas. Alternative energy helps Germany with it's long term national security.
FRANKFURT, May 22 (Reuters) - German carbon dioxide (CO2)(click here) equivalent emissions regulated under the European emissions trading scheme (ETS) in 2014 fell by 4.1 percent to 461.2 million tonnes, according to official national data released on Friday.
The number was published by Germany's carbon registry DEHSt and underscored the general trend of lower pollution in the EU last year. The bloc's ETS emissions fell 4.5 percent, helped by the rise of renewable energy and mild weather, which lowers energy demand. "In Germany, 2014 was the warmest year on record since measuring started in 1881," the DEHSt report said....
All the other 195 countries needs to take example and apply alternative energy to increase their national security.
Lies.
To refuse the USA was responsible of 25% of global greenhouse gas emissions, it was easier to blame China. So much for accountability.
LEADING on the Climate Crisis means setting the example other countries need to follow. At the time Bush was pointing fingers at China, it was building wind farms in number and acres greater than the USA had.
When President Obama went to China he didn't point a finger and demand for China to modernize their country and end their polluting. He showed China's leadership the willingness to work together with them to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Now, both the USA and China have a common mission and it is a good mission to end the danger of the Climate Crisis. It takes grown up with a moral center to act in a responsible way to bring about change. President Obama is that moral president.
If Germany can do it, the USA can do it. Reduction in greenhouse gas emission by Germany also lowers it's dependency on natural gas. Alternative energy helps Germany with it's long term national security.
FRANKFURT, May 22 (Reuters) - German carbon dioxide (CO2)(click here) equivalent emissions regulated under the European emissions trading scheme (ETS) in 2014 fell by 4.1 percent to 461.2 million tonnes, according to official national data released on Friday.
The number was published by Germany's carbon registry DEHSt and underscored the general trend of lower pollution in the EU last year. The bloc's ETS emissions fell 4.5 percent, helped by the rise of renewable energy and mild weather, which lowers energy demand. "In Germany, 2014 was the warmest year on record since measuring started in 1881," the DEHSt report said....
All the other 195 countries needs to take example and apply alternative energy to increase their national security.
The American media is sad about antiquities and history being destroyed by the former Ba'athists now called Daesh.
And on August 23, 2004, the USA military started to bomb this Mosque. The bombers were first jets and then came the tanks.
Moqtada al Sadr was fighting for his life and the life of his Mosque. He is a cleric in Iraq where his father, grandfather and an uncle was killed in their own home by Saddam. Bush was no better than Saddam. It wasn't until the Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani entered his authority to his people did the attack stop. And it stopped dead in it's tracks. So don't tell me the USA has all these high moral values because it serves the purpose of seeking sympathy for Iraq. Ain't no way, the USA comes away from the Iraq war as saintly to any crimes against humanity.
The American people don't want the deaths of these people on their hands, yet alone more people of the Middle East. The Republican presidential hopefuls are not going to bring the USA to the brink of war again.
By Mike Dorning
BAGHDAD — U.S. warplanes (click here) pounded away at followers of radical cleric Moqtada Sadr in Najaf and tanks advanced closer to the shrine where the rebels have gathered, as Iraq's interim government warned Sunday night that a raid on the mosque is imminent.
Late Sunday, leaders of Sadr's al-Mahdi Army told The Associated Press that U.S. attacks had damaged the outer walls of the mosque. A U.S. military spokesman denied American forces hit the walls, AP reported.
Moqtada al Sadr was fighting for his life and the life of his Mosque. He is a cleric in Iraq where his father, grandfather and an uncle was killed in their own home by Saddam. Bush was no better than Saddam. It wasn't until the Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani entered his authority to his people did the attack stop. And it stopped dead in it's tracks. So don't tell me the USA has all these high moral values because it serves the purpose of seeking sympathy for Iraq. Ain't no way, the USA comes away from the Iraq war as saintly to any crimes against humanity.
The American people don't want the deaths of these people on their hands, yet alone more people of the Middle East. The Republican presidential hopefuls are not going to bring the USA to the brink of war again.
By Mike DorningBAGHDAD — U.S. warplanes (click here) pounded away at followers of radical cleric Moqtada Sadr in Najaf and tanks advanced closer to the shrine where the rebels have gathered, as Iraq's interim government warned Sunday night that a raid on the mosque is imminent.
Late Sunday, leaders of Sadr's al-Mahdi Army told The Associated Press that U.S. attacks had damaged the outer walls of the mosque. A U.S. military spokesman denied American forces hit the walls, AP reported.
The lies of "W" and Cheney are stated by two people that had worked for the administration. Where is former CIA director Tenet. I know what he was thinking. He has to have the guts to say it.
The USA is NOT at war in Iraq or Syria. The USA is in assistance of the Arab Coalition.
There is no USA combat troops in Iraq or Syria and there won't be.
Questions?
Republicans are confused between their politics and lies. War fits their politics, the lack of it leaves them with absent accusations that has no basis. In other words, the Republican politics require the USA to be at war, otherwise, President Obama is responsible for the lack of it. They have to blame someone. "W" blamed Saddam of great crimes of WMD and nuclear proliferation. It was all a lie and the fact there is no war in the Middle East where the USA has no combat mission today, is driving them crazy.
What is there to understand about Republicans? They lie for the purpose of their crony politics. They have no moral gravity to their politics. They entered into a war that was completely illegal and immoral. Now, their presidential politics want to do it again.
"What I didn't find in Africa." (click here)
July 3, 2003
By Joseph C. Wilson 4th
There is no USA combat troops in Iraq or Syria and there won't be.
Questions?
Republicans are confused between their politics and lies. War fits their politics, the lack of it leaves them with absent accusations that has no basis. In other words, the Republican politics require the USA to be at war, otherwise, President Obama is responsible for the lack of it. They have to blame someone. "W" blamed Saddam of great crimes of WMD and nuclear proliferation. It was all a lie and the fact there is no war in the Middle East where the USA has no combat mission today, is driving them crazy.
What is there to understand about Republicans? They lie for the purpose of their crony politics. They have no moral gravity to their politics. They entered into a war that was completely illegal and immoral. Now, their presidential politics want to do it again.
"What I didn't find in Africa." (click here)
July 3, 2003
By Joseph C. Wilson 4th
WASHINGTON— Did the Bush administration (click here) manipulate intelligence
about Saddam Hussein's weapons programs to justify an invasion of Iraq?
Based on my experience with the administration in
the months leading up to the war, I have little choice but to conclude
that some of the intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons program
was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat....
Former CIA Deputy Director Morrell CONFIRMS the truth as stated by former Ambassador Joe Wilson, 4th.
Joe Wilson stated "W" lied and Morrell stated Cheney and "W" lied. What does it take for American citizens to realize they were lied to and our soldiers died along with tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis. Why would a people in the Middle East trust the USA again? Why would they hate us? The American people can't control the politics of their country to stop heinous use of their military? Really?
It has been twelve years since the illegal invasion of the American military into Iraq and Republicans are still demanding the country return to war. When that stop? Never? Every time a Republican raises their lying heads to run for president the USA is suppose to jump on the band wagon and elect another war president?
It has been twelve years since the illegal invasion of the American military into Iraq and Republicans are still demanding the country return to war. When that stop? Never? Every time a Republican raises their lying heads to run for president the USA is suppose to jump on the band wagon and elect another war president?
Bring them home.
May 21, 2015
Col. John Reynolds (click here) just finished leading the first U.S. conventional force to deploy to Iraq since 2011. And after helping train the Iraqi army for months, he came away impressed at the growth of the increasingly "battle-hardened" force.
The 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division returned to Fort Riley in March after deploying to Camp Buehring, Kuwait. From there, it trained alongside Kuwaiti partners before receiving the task to travel to Iraq to provide security at key points in Baghdad and train Iraqi Army recruits to battle the Islamic State terror group.
"They were excited that we were back," Reynolds told a media roundtable on Thursday at the Pentagon. "You could see relief from the tactical and operational commanders. I was impressed with the leadership there, because they were fighting. You could tell they were fighting hard in the north. They were battle-hardened."...
...U.S. soldiers offered a professionalism and set of values, Reynolds said.
The USA is not needed in the region anymore. Russia has also shut down the access to Afghanistan thorough Russia by the USA military.
As an example Reynolds told the story of a recruit who approached him and confessed he hated Americans. Reynolds had a quick reply: "I don't care, as long as you hate Daesh more." Reynolds said he personally participated in a PT training session with the recruits, the American-hater included....
..."Every single soldier was able to get off the camp at Camp Buerhing, and go into downtown Kuwait," Reynolds said. "I've been deployed 13 times, and this was the first time I was able to go downtown into a mall."
Col. John Reynolds (click here) just finished leading the first U.S. conventional force to deploy to Iraq since 2011. And after helping train the Iraqi army for months, he came away impressed at the growth of the increasingly "battle-hardened" force.
The 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division returned to Fort Riley in March after deploying to Camp Buehring, Kuwait. From there, it trained alongside Kuwaiti partners before receiving the task to travel to Iraq to provide security at key points in Baghdad and train Iraqi Army recruits to battle the Islamic State terror group.
"They were excited that we were back," Reynolds told a media roundtable on Thursday at the Pentagon. "You could see relief from the tactical and operational commanders. I was impressed with the leadership there, because they were fighting. You could tell they were fighting hard in the north. They were battle-hardened."...
...U.S. soldiers offered a professionalism and set of values, Reynolds said.
The USA is not needed in the region anymore. Russia has also shut down the access to Afghanistan thorough Russia by the USA military.
As an example Reynolds told the story of a recruit who approached him and confessed he hated Americans. Reynolds had a quick reply: "I don't care, as long as you hate Daesh more." Reynolds said he personally participated in a PT training session with the recruits, the American-hater included....
..."Every single soldier was able to get off the camp at Camp Buerhing, and go into downtown Kuwait," Reynolds said. "I've been deployed 13 times, and this was the first time I was able to go downtown into a mall."
This is what children learn from drug wars.
Relatives of Cristopher Raymundo Marquez Mora during his funeral service in Chihuahua on May 17, 2015 (AFP Photo/Daniel Acosta)
May 19, 2015
"They were playing, (click here) they tied him up and they put a stick on his neck that semi-asphyxiated him," the statement said.
"When
the boy fell to the ground, they hurled rocks at him, they stuck a
knife in his back and once dead, they dragged him where they deposited
the body, in a shallow dig," it said.
"They covered the body with dirt and put plants and a dead animal on the surface" in a bid to hide him, the statement said.
The
two 15-year-old boys could be jailed if found guilty but the other
three other minors face "other types of sanctions," prosecutors said.
The
murder took place in a state that has endured some of the worst
bloodshed in Mexico's drug war, with thousands of people killed in turf
wars between cartels....
Forest fires are at record highs around the globe.
South Saskatchewan
Throughout province, 163 wildfires so far in 2015 (click here)
May 21, 2015
CBC News
Crews have been busy fighting forest fires in Saskatchewan this year, with almost double the number compared to this time last year.
As of Wednesday, there have been 163 fires in the province this year, compared to 85 by this time last year.
Most of the fires are in the Prince Albert and Buffalo Narrows area, with a smaller number in the La Ronge area.
Twelve wildfires were burning on Wednesday.
In the southern half of the province, the risk of fires is elevated, according to the environment ministry.
On the east side of the region, the risk has been deemed high while in western and central areas, it's extreme, according to the ministry's Thursday fire forecast map.
One forest fire was burning close to Creighton, Sask. A water bomber and a helicopter dropped water on the blaze late Wednesday afternoon.
Portugal
VIANA DO CASTELO, Portugal (AP) " Race organizers (click here) of the Rally of Portugal have canceled a stage on Friday because of forest fires.
Organizers canceled the 27.53-kilometer (17.1-mile) stage around the town of Ponte de Lima near the northern border with Spain "because of nearby forest fires."
That was scheduled to be the day's fourth stage.
Portugal has had a dry winter and spring, and May has seen record monthly temperatures.
In the US, there are less than ten wildfires, but, most are occuring in Florida. Alaska has two large incident fires.
May 21, 2015
By Susan Miller Degnan
Two small Miami-Dade wildfires (click here) were extinguished by firefighters Thursday, but the huge, now 30,000-acre Everglades fire battled for the past several days is still raging on.
The blaze in the Big Cypress Preserve “way out west in the Everglades’’ cast smoke over Miami-Dade and Broward on Friday as well, as forecast by Florida Forest Service senior forest ranger Gabriel Llamas Thursday evening.
Miami-Dade County spokesman Luis Espinoza of the Division of Environmental Resources Management said the air quality index was expected to be in the moderate range Friday.
“Residents – especially active children, the elderly and people with respiratory problems – should avoid prolonged outdoor exposure,” Espinoza said.
Llamas said the Big Cypress Preserve fire is on the south and north sides of I-75 in Collier County, and was about 13 percent contained as of Thursday...
While the northern hemisphere is hot and on fire, the southern hemisphere is experiencing frigid temperatures.
New Zealand
May 22, 2015
Two big weather systems (click here) will bang both ends of New Zealand this weekend and the year's coldest blast yet is expected early next week.
MetService said the sunniest skies this weekend will likely be in the middle of the country, as rain and strong winds strike the north, and a polar blast brings snow to the south.
MetService said a low pressure system from the Tasman Sea will hit Northland and the Coromandel Peninsula on Saturday, bringing rain and strong winds to places as far south as Ruapehu.
Meanwhile, snow in Otago and Southland was forecast to reach altitudes as low as 200m above sea level....
US Drought Map
May 19, 2015
The storms are not helping. As a matter of fact, the drought west of the Mississippi and central of that region is where severe storms were recently recorded.
May 21, 2015
CBC News
Crews have been busy fighting forest fires in Saskatchewan this year, with almost double the number compared to this time last year.
As of Wednesday, there have been 163 fires in the province this year, compared to 85 by this time last year.
Most of the fires are in the Prince Albert and Buffalo Narrows area, with a smaller number in the La Ronge area.
Twelve wildfires were burning on Wednesday.
In the southern half of the province, the risk of fires is elevated, according to the environment ministry.
On the east side of the region, the risk has been deemed high while in western and central areas, it's extreme, according to the ministry's Thursday fire forecast map.
One forest fire was burning close to Creighton, Sask. A water bomber and a helicopter dropped water on the blaze late Wednesday afternoon.
Portugal
VIANA DO CASTELO, Portugal (AP) " Race organizers (click here) of the Rally of Portugal have canceled a stage on Friday because of forest fires.
Organizers canceled the 27.53-kilometer (17.1-mile) stage around the town of Ponte de Lima near the northern border with Spain "because of nearby forest fires."
That was scheduled to be the day's fourth stage.
Portugal has had a dry winter and spring, and May has seen record monthly temperatures.
In the US, there are less than ten wildfires, but, most are occuring in Florida. Alaska has two large incident fires.
May 21, 2015
By Susan Miller Degnan
Two small Miami-Dade wildfires (click here) were extinguished by firefighters Thursday, but the huge, now 30,000-acre Everglades fire battled for the past several days is still raging on.
The blaze in the Big Cypress Preserve “way out west in the Everglades’’ cast smoke over Miami-Dade and Broward on Friday as well, as forecast by Florida Forest Service senior forest ranger Gabriel Llamas Thursday evening.
Miami-Dade County spokesman Luis Espinoza of the Division of Environmental Resources Management said the air quality index was expected to be in the moderate range Friday.
“Residents – especially active children, the elderly and people with respiratory problems – should avoid prolonged outdoor exposure,” Espinoza said.
Llamas said the Big Cypress Preserve fire is on the south and north sides of I-75 in Collier County, and was about 13 percent contained as of Thursday...
New Zealand
May 22, 2015
Two big weather systems (click here) will bang both ends of New Zealand this weekend and the year's coldest blast yet is expected early next week.
MetService said the sunniest skies this weekend will likely be in the middle of the country, as rain and strong winds strike the north, and a polar blast brings snow to the south.
MetService said a low pressure system from the Tasman Sea will hit Northland and the Coromandel Peninsula on Saturday, bringing rain and strong winds to places as far south as Ruapehu.
Meanwhile, snow in Otago and Southland was forecast to reach altitudes as low as 200m above sea level....
US Drought Map May 19, 2015
The storms are not helping. As a matter of fact, the drought west of the Mississippi and central of that region is where severe storms were recently recorded.
A person with a lisp falls under the American with Disabilities Act. Having an income doesn't disappear because one has a disability to surmount, be it short term or a lifetime.
No person with a disability should be apologizing for it. Never. That is simply the way their body works. Surmounting a disability is a challenge more people don't have. It requires effort to simply function to be in line with everyone else. Regardless of the disability they should be admired for their life and the challenge they face everyday.
No one should apologize for a matter they have no control. It's ridiculous to think any handicap is accommodated by law and social contract and therefore in gratitude for a just society. They are Americans seeking to pull their own weight. That is nothing to apologize for.
There is an article in The New Zealand Herald I found very interesting. It is about a syndrome called selective mutism, known better as SM. As first glance the child is sometimes thought to be autistic. Tests of the child by professionals show differently.
The children suffer by harassment in school as well. It makes the recovery from SM a difficult challenge. The article is by a mother and the family's journey through a difficult diagnosis.
May 23, 2015
By Kim O'Connell
...Typically, (click here) SM kids speak in certain places where they're most comfortable, such as home, but not in other locations, such as school or day care. This was the case with our son. For selectively mute kids, I read, even whispering with one other person can feel like speaking to a crowd of thousands.
Reading about SM, I felt a shock of recognition. Growing up, I, too, had suffered from a public-speaking phobia, and I rarely participated in class discussions. In high school, I would lose sleep for nights on end before giving an oral report.
Although I've mostly conquered those fears, painful, embarrassing memories rushed to the surface as I perused Web sites about the condition. And along with them came a deep sense of guilt. I learned that three-fourths of children with SM have a parent with social anxiety. If anxiety was in my son's makeup, I was convinced that I had put it there....
No person with a disability should be apologizing for it. Never. That is simply the way their body works. Surmounting a disability is a challenge more people don't have. It requires effort to simply function to be in line with everyone else. Regardless of the disability they should be admired for their life and the challenge they face everyday.
No one should apologize for a matter they have no control. It's ridiculous to think any handicap is accommodated by law and social contract and therefore in gratitude for a just society. They are Americans seeking to pull their own weight. That is nothing to apologize for.
There is an article in The New Zealand Herald I found very interesting. It is about a syndrome called selective mutism, known better as SM. As first glance the child is sometimes thought to be autistic. Tests of the child by professionals show differently.
The children suffer by harassment in school as well. It makes the recovery from SM a difficult challenge. The article is by a mother and the family's journey through a difficult diagnosis.
May 23, 2015
By Kim O'Connell
...Typically, (click here) SM kids speak in certain places where they're most comfortable, such as home, but not in other locations, such as school or day care. This was the case with our son. For selectively mute kids, I read, even whispering with one other person can feel like speaking to a crowd of thousands.
Reading about SM, I felt a shock of recognition. Growing up, I, too, had suffered from a public-speaking phobia, and I rarely participated in class discussions. In high school, I would lose sleep for nights on end before giving an oral report.
Although I've mostly conquered those fears, painful, embarrassing memories rushed to the surface as I perused Web sites about the condition. And along with them came a deep sense of guilt. I learned that three-fourths of children with SM have a parent with social anxiety. If anxiety was in my son's makeup, I was convinced that I had put it there....
Thursday, May 21, 2015
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