There is a difference between coke and petcoke. Petcoke is derived from oil wells.

There are three ingredients for the production of steel; iron ore, limestone and coke.

This the rock where coke is extracted. It is called Coking Coal. Coal is not involved with making steel.

Quality coking coal, (click here) also known as metallurgical coal, maximizes productivity in steel production.

Coke is produced by heating coking coals in a coke oven in a reducing atmosphere. As the temperature of the coal increases, it becomes plastic, fusing together before resolidifying into coke particles. This is known as the caking process. The quality of the resultant coke is determined by the qualities of the coking coals used, as well as the coke plant operating conditions.

Coke quality is largely influenced by coal rank, composition, mineral content and the ability to soften when heated, become plastic, and resolidify into a coherent mass. Bituminous class coals of high, medium, and low volatile rank that possess these properties are called “coking” coals.

High quality coking coals are in great demand by steel producers, who need these coals to make high quality coke to maximize the productivity of their blast furnace operations.

At one time "Glacier National Park" looked like this.

As the Crown of the Continent, Glacier is the headwaters for streams that flow to the Pacific Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and to Hudson's Bay. What happens here affects waters in a huge section of North America.

These are all mountain divides that direct water across the continent into watersheds. Triple Divide Peak is where three of those divides begin, The Laurentain Divide and the North and South Great Divide. Triple Divide Peak is in Glacier National Park.







Date: November 10, 2016 
Contact: Lauren Alley, 406-888-5838

In response (click here) to the recent detection of invasive mussel populations in central Montana, Glacier National Park is issuing an interim boating closure within all park waters, in accordance with the park’s Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) Action Plan. The closure includes both motorized and hand propelled watercraft. This closure does not impact boating on the Middle Fork of the Flathead River, which is outside the park boundary, or the North Fork of the Flathead River which is partially outside the park boundary.

The 2014 plan calls for this immediate closure when invasive mussels are detected within a waterway in the State of Montana, as was announced on November 9 by Montana Fish Wildlife, and Parks....

This is the Triple Divide Peak at Glacier National Park today.

Not very much ice and snow to contribute to the watersheds. Such lack of snow and ice contributes to drought.

It is called smelting and there is a video presentation of the basic concept. (click here)

What? No Sierra Club at the signing? No Nature Conservancy? No Natural Resources Defense Council (NDRC)?

March 2, 2017

...Outdoor recreation (click here) is about both our heritage and our economy. Between hunting, fishing, motorized recreation, camping and more, the industry generates thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic activity,” said Zinke. “Over the past eight years however, hunting, and recreation enthusiasts have seen trails closed and dramatic decreases in access to public lands across the board. It worries me to think about hunting and fishing becoming activities for the land-owning elite. This package of secretarial orders will expand access for outdoor enthusiasts and also make sure the community's voice is heard." 

The two secretarial orders include:

Secretarial Order No. 3346 overturns the recent ban of lead ammunition and fish tackle used on Fish and Wildlife Service lands, waters, and facilities. The order highlights the need for additional review and consultation with local stakeholders.

Secretarial Order No. 3347 advances conservation stewardship, improves game and habitat management, and increases outdoor recreation opportunities by directing bureaus and agencies to immediately identify areas where recreation and fishing can be expanded. The order also requests input from the Wildlife and Hunting Heritage Conservation Council and Sport Fishing and Boating Partnership Council to provide recommendations on enhancing and expanding access on public lands and improving habitat for fish and wildlife. 

Secretary Zinke was joined by representatives from the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation, National Shooting Sports Foundation, Boone and Crockett Club, Wild Sheep Foundation, Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, National Rifle Association, Safari Club International, National Wild Turkey Federation, Archery Trade Association, Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, American Recreation Council, Pheasants Forever, Ducks Unlimited, Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife, Mule Deer Foundation, National Wildlife Federation, Wildlife Management Institute, American Sportfishing Association, and National Marine Manufacturers Association....

I am sure everyone remembers the "Safari Club International." They have a famed member, Walter J. Palmer, a dentist from Minnesota, who paid $50,000 for a lion's carcass resulting from his bullets. He was awarded the best hunt of all a precious black maned lion named Cecil.

I think we know who we are dealing with now. I doubt Teddy Roosevelt would approve.

January 14, 2016

By Raynard Loki

...Beyond these specific achievements, (click here) a silver lining to emerge from Cecil’s tragic killing has been the dramatic increase in the global awareness of the obscenity of trophy hunting. “Dr. Walter Palmer has done something worthwhile after all,” wrote Capt. Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and former star of Animal Planet's “Whale Wars,” in a Facebook post. “His special combination of vanity, smugness, greed, arrogance and stupidity has taken something which happens all the time, usually out of sight and out of mind, and has elevated it to international recognition.”

But while the slaughter of African wildlife has been elevated to the global stage as never before, there is a larger story behind Cecil’s death that has largely been overlooked by the media. That story is the role played by Safari Club International (SCI), a stealthy and powerful pro-hunting group that masquerades as an organization dedicated to “promoting wildlife conservation,” according to its mission statement....

He has all the right friends for the Republican Party.

Montana state Senator Ryan Zinke (click here) addresses a pro-gun activist rally at the state Capitol in Salt Lake City, in 2013.

March 2, 2017
By Jon Sharman

...Mr Zinke's portfolio (click here) will include overseeing the US' national parks and natural resources like gas, oil and timber, as well as managing land and services for Native American tribes.

He praised his new boss as a “great president and a commander in chief I will fight with.”...

...The 55-year-old former Montana congressman resigned as a delegate to the Republican National Convention last year to protest the GOP's position in favour of land transfers to state or private groups. 

Still, his stance on public lands has come into question in recent weeks after he voted in favour of a House rule that would allow federal land transfers to be considered cost-free and budget-neutral, making it easier for drilling and development....

LAND TRANSFERS of federal land. The people own this land and in the past leases were issued to private interests which was a return to the USA Treasury. NOW, the Republicans are going to hand over public land to private industry. "...cost free and budget-neutral..." There is no public land that is cost free and budget neutral. Land is a PREIMIUM and because it is not producing oil or gas or some other mess drawn out of the ground does not mean IT IS WORTHLESS.

The USA Congress is treasoning the USA. They are transferring public land to people that will exploit it and use it for it's own purposes. That is treason in any method of destroying the country I know of. Land is required for sovereign purposes and local economies are dependent on the use of land for recreation. This is outrageous!

There has to be land to be a sovereign. Where does this greed and exploitation stop? This is a precedent and it needs to end!

February 2, 2017
By Abigail Abrams

A Republican lawmaker (click here) has reversed a plan to sell off millions of acres of federally owned land after outcry from conservative and sports groups.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah announced Wednesday evening in a post on Instagram that he would withdraw a bill that ordered the Secretary of the Interior to sell 3.3 million acres in 10 Western states.

“I'm a proud gun owner, hunter and love our public lands,” Chaffetz wrote next to a picture of him wearing camouflage and holding a dog. “The bill would have disposed of small parcels of lands Pres. Clinton identified as serving no public purpose but groups I support and care about fear it sends the wrong message.”

The legislation was based on a 1997 report conducted during the Clinton administration, which aimed to identify land the government could use to offset efforts to revive the Florida Everglades.

Chaffetz introduced the bill Jan. 24, and said at the time the land had “no purpose for taxpayers.” However, conservation and hunting groups did not agree. The Wilderness Society condemned the bill and urged its supporters to call lawmakers to urge them to vote against the bill. Backcountry Hunters and Anglers also asked its members to complain about the legislation, according to The Hill.

Corruption. Plain and simple. In order for President Clinton to introduce measures to revive the Florida Everglades there to be an OFFSET. An offset is corruption. An offset is a bribe. WHY WAS AN OFFSET EVER NEEDED to bring on board corrupt western state congressmen? The withhold their vote in order to have bribes of land. That is corruption.

There will be no bargaining for land and the USA will retain it's sovereign authority over federal lands!

May 5, 2016
By C.R.

...The collapse in the price of steel (click here) is mainly the result of falling demand and, until recently, rising production in China, says Edwin Basson of the World Steel Association, an industry group. Between 2000 and 2014, global production doubled from around 800m tonnes to around 1.6 billion tonnes a year, mainly driven by rising output in China. Until 2014, Chinese demand rose at approximately the same rate as its steel mills could produce, meaning that the impact on the rest of the world was limited. But as its construction boom came to an end, demand sagged, prompting the country’s state-owned steelmakers to sell their growing surpluses on foreign markets. Exports of steel from China increased from 45m tonnes in 2014 to 97m tonnes last year—marking a bigger rise than Germany’s entire output of the past year: 43m tonnes. This has triggered demands from rival firms for protection, from what they see as dumping....

It's Sunday Night 

"Steel" by Charlotte Martin (click here for official website - thank you)

The lost and insincere
They think I need to hear
What's in their empty eyes, eyes, eyes
We're few and far between
We've hardly been serene
But stand up to their lies, lies, lies

We are steel
We don't feel
Anything at all

He took me in his arms
But then he squeezed too hard
He wouldn't let me breathe, breathe, breathe
It's been too many years
I've hurt too many times
To give up everything, thing, thing

I am steel
I don't feel
Anything at all

The way I've been confused
The way that I've been used
And spit out on your dime
And still you lead me on
And still you tear me down
And say it's in my mind

Well I've seen hell and back
I've hidden in the dark
With no one there at all, all, all
I've scraped us back to life
I've laced up both my boots
So try and twist the knife, knife, knife

I am steel
I don't feel
We are steelWe don't feel

Anything at all, anything at all
Anything at all, anything at all
Anything at all, anything at all
Anything at all

The VX liquid put North Korea over the top of a rouge state.

March 4, 2017

Malaysia (click here) has expelled North Korea's ambassador after he criticised its investigation into the killing of the North Korean leader's half-brother.

Kang Chol must leave within 48 hours, Malaysia's foreign ministry says.

It demanded an apology after the envoy said North Korea could not trust Malaysia's handling of the probe, but says it did not receive one.

Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of Kim Jong-un, died three weeks ago at a Kuala Lumpur airport.

Malaysia has not directly blamed North Korea for the attack, in which two women smeared the nerve agent VX on Mr Kim's face. But there is widespread suspicion Pyongyang was responsible...

North Korea has been a failed state for some time now. It recovered from the 1990 famine years, but, it still leaned on China for a source of income in the way of coal sales. China has decided to end coal sales from North Korea which returns the country to a dangerous state of disrepair. 

Strategically, North Korea is a problem for China. With a return to food scarcities there is a strong possibilities North Koreas will seek refugee status in China. China may worry about the increased population, but, also the fact South Korea and the USA can push past the DMZ to make the Korean Peninsula a single country. It would be "Korea," with no north or south. 

The ending of trade with North Korea by China and ordering the North Korea ambassador out of Malaysia could prove to increase tensions inside an already rouge ruler. But, the idea North Korea transported VX Liquid to ill Nam, is more than any one country should shoulder.

There have been releases of chemical weapons in places like Japan where a subway was exposed to Sarin gas. To realize how dangerous Kim Jong Un has become to countries with good relations with him is too serious to ignore. North Korea is now very dangerous and not simply a rouge country. North Korea is a very big worry for the global community.

I am trying to understand exactly how "Look up your skirt" law is going to work.

Georgia HB 9
Crimes and Offenses; use of device to film under or through person's clothing under certain circumstances; prohibit



Current Status: Senate Read and Referred (click here)

Official Summary: A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 3 of Chapter 11 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to wiretapping, eavesdropping, surveillance, and related offenses, so as to prohibit the use of a device to film under or through a person's clothing under certain circumstances; to provide for definitions; to provide for exceptions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

It is the for other purposes that really has me stumped. This passed the Georgia House by 62%.

And why is it not also "Look up your pant leg" law? I mean "the law" already can make a person strip search 'in certain circumstances" so why does anyone need this?

This is religious bigotry. WHAT????? Yes, it is true. See everyone wants to be able to look under a burka. That is all this is about and it is driven by ethnic hatred, bigotry and fear.

And there is also this mess for private college campuses.

Georgia HB 37 (click here)

Education: Private post secondary institutions in Georgia shall not adopt sanctuary policies; provide

Current Status: Senate Read and Referred 

Official Summary: A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 3 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definitions, so as to provide definitions; to provide that private postsecondary institutions in this state shall not adopt sanctuary policies; to provide for penalties for violations; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Here again there is a special status for some people that others are discriminated against. This passed the Georgia House by 52%. "Hot topic."

There are words taking on very upsetting status over others. They are trigger happy political words, like sanctuary that have the purpose to place fear and hatred in the minds of Americans. There is no need for this law. Private institutions in the USA have status that is different from the public realm. This law is unconstitutional. Private schools can act in the best interests of their students and if they want their school to be a sanctuary to an ethnic group it has the right to do so. I see the most aggrieved institutions are going to be affiliated with the Catholic Church.

More gerrymandering in Georgia. It passed the Georgia House by 75%. This is not a minor change in the state's districts (click here). 

Georgia HB 515 (click here)

State House districts; revise boundaries of a certain district

Current Status: House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute

Official Summary: A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide for the composition and number of state house districts, approved August 24, 2011 (Ga. L. 2011, Ex. Sess., p. 3), as amended, particularly by an Act approved February 23, 2012 (Ga. L. 2012, p. 21), and by an Act approved May 12, 2015 (Ga. L. 2015, p. 1413), so as to revise the boundaries of a certain state house district; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

There is going to be a Georgia Senate bill that will once again try to minimize "Blue Laws" on Sunday to facilitate the sale of alcohol. Sunday is a Christian recognition of worship and is just plain religious bigotry.

There is also a Georgia Senate bill for 'upskirting.' The officials carrying out the "Look up your skirt" law should, as a public service, make referrals to plastic surgeons for treatment of cellulite. I mean, that is not a Brazilian butt, honey.

The Georgia Senate passed SB 45 with 69 percent approval. True. 69%. You can't make this stuff up.

Georgia SB 45 (click here)

Invasion of privacy; to film under or through a person's clothing; prohibit the use of a device

Current Status: House Second Readers

Official Summary: A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 3 of Article 3 of Chapter 11 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to invasions of privacy, so as to prohibit the use of a device to film under or through a person's clothing under certain circumstances; to provide for definitions; to provide for penalties; to provide for exceptions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

There is that other purposes thing. See, that is a lazy legislature. With a law that will completely insult the sensibilities of the American people, the law should be very specific and not just FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

And Georgia SB 233 simply puts the frosting on the cake, or buttocks which ever one prefers. There wasn't that many enthusiastic about this bill, only 10% voted for it. Interesting. 

SB 233 (click here)

State Government; preservation of religious freedom; provide

Current Status: Senate Read and Referred

Official Summary: A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to state government, so as to provide for the preservation of religious freedom; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Then there are those trigger happy gun folks in Georgia. They want guns on campuses without a need for conceal carry. Odd, no sanctuary, but, plenty of guns.

SR 105 (click here)

United States Constitution: religious organizations receive public aid; prevent discrimination CA

Current Status: Senate Read Second Time

Official Summary: A RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to the Constitution, in a manner consistent with the United States Constitution, so as to prevent discrimination in the public funding of social services by allowing religious or faith based organizations to receive public aid, directly or indirectly, for the provision of such services; to provide for the submission of this amendment for ratification or rejection; and for other purposes.

The Flint River Water Project is ongoing.

I am hoping to return to Flint this spring to make short videos to illustrate the my understanding of the Flint River.

March 1, 2017

The Coca-Cola Company, (click here) Nestlé Waters North America, the PepsiCo Foundation, and the Walmart Foundation have announced that they have partnered to fund an integrated recycling education and awareness initiative for the 10,000 school students affected by the Flint water crisis, led by national non-profit Keep America Beautiful and its local Flint, MI, affiliate Keep Genesee County Beautiful.

In January 2016, the four companies announced they would provide up to 6.5 million bottles of safe and clean drinking water to Flint school students. From the outset of the program, they have been providing for the storage and delivery of the bottled water, as well as the transporting of the empty water bottles for recycling....

I think the Russian businesses were just an enticement to cooperation and it worked. Trump rolled over.

March 3, 2017
By Phillip Bump

In the most abstract sense, (click here) there is nothing noteworthy about a government official meeting with an ambassador from a foreign country. When such an interaction becomes important is when that official is an ally of a presidential campaign that’s got a complex set of possibly inappropriate relationships with other representatives of that ambassador’s country — and when that official while under oath says he did not have communications with representatives of that country.

What we’re going to endeavor to do here is to parse out that complex set of relationships, using the information we have at hand....

Donald Trump has been playing ball with Russia for awhile now. The "Slate" article spelling out the cross Atlantic communication line is at least the known beginning of this. Trump enterprises was involved with communications with Russia when it was illegal according to sanctions drafted in regard to the broken treaty regarding Ukraine.

People don't realize how serious the broken treaty is. The USA and Germany, as a diplomatic country within Europe, could have gone to war with Russia. By invoking sanctions Putin was emboldened to do more mischief and used Russian businesses for the "carrot and stick" to the Republican Elephant. It is those business relationships that Tillerson and Trump are still holding onto as an important part of USA relations with Russia.

Trump was stating NATO wasn't important.

As of today Sweden is experiencing increased pressure with the USA causing confusion over Russia. Sweden has returned to conscription to their country. They have used that before, but, was feeling very safe and strongly allied until Trump took office. All this is not playing well in Europe.

Governor Baker is correct, the states need to step up funding for Planned Parenthood and women's health.

March 3, 2017

By Priyanka Dayal McCluskey

Governor Charlie Baker (click here) is pledging to boost state funding for Planned Parenthood clinics in Massachusetts if his fellow Republicans in Washington push ahead with a plan to slash the flow of federal dollars to the organization.

Massachusetts’ five Planned Parenthood clinics stand to lose a total of about $2 million a year, from a budget of $21.5 million, if the federal cuts take place. That money does not go directly from the government to Planned Parenthood; it is paid through Medicaid, the joint federal-state program that provides health coverage for low-income Americans....

...The Republican proposal would effectively block Medicaid patients from receiving women’s health services such as cancer screenings, testing for sexually transmitted diseases, and contraception from Planned Parenthood....     

Sympathies to family and friends. His impact to the movie industry will be felt. He was remarkably talented.

March 2, 2017
By Radar Staff

...But Jon Otten, (click here) who is married to Paxton’s sister, Ann, told Radar that the tragedy came as a total shock to family members.

“We didn’t even know he was going to go into surgery,” Otten told Radar. “It’s very tragic and sudden.”

Otten said Paxton was close with family members, which only makes the loss that much more heartbreaking.

“I’m sure his wife knew, but no one in the extended family knew,” Otten claimed.

Just weeks before his death, Paxton revealed that he had suffered valve damage from a case of rheumatic fever as a child. But Otten says it’s not yet clear what caused the stroke.

“We don’t know his condition and how easy it was to fix,” Otten said. “He was healthy from what we knew.”....

Those in glass houses.

March 3, 2017
By Tony Cook

Vice President Mike Pence (click here) routinely used a private email account to conduct public business as governor of Indiana, at times discussing sensitive matters and homeland security issues.

Emails released to IndyStar in response to a public records request show Pence communicated via his personal AOL account with top advisers on topics ranging from security gates at the governor’s residence to the state’s response to terror attacks across the globe. In one email, Pence’s top state homeland security adviser relayed an update from the FBI regarding the arrests of several men on federal terror-related charges.

Cyber-security experts say the emails raise concerns about whether such sensitive information was adequately protected from hackers, given that personal accounts like Pence's are typically less secure than government email accounts. In fact, Pence's personal account was hacked last summer.

Furthermore, advocates for open government expressed concerns about transparency because personal emails aren't immediately captured on state servers that are searched in response to public records requests....

...When public officials fail to retain their private-account emails pertaining to public business, "they're running the risk of violating the law,” Britt said. “A good steward of those messages and best practice is going to dictate they preserve those."

All of the emails provided to IndyStar, part of the USA TODAY Network, were ones captured on state servers.

The emails were obtained after a series of public records requests that the Pence administration did not fulfill for nearly four months before Pence left office.

The administration of Pence’s successor, Gov. Eric Holcomb, released 29 pages of emails late this past week. But it withheld others, saying they are deliberative or advisory, confidential under rules adopted by the Indiana Supreme Court or the work product of an attorney.

Holcomb’s office declined to disclose how many emails were withheld....

..."Clinton did it. The Bush White House was doing it. It’s nothing new. But it’s a bad idea," he said, noting that Pence's account was vulnerable to a low-level hacker.  "If they can get in there, ex-KGB agents can get in there. It’s a bad idea because of the hacking thing and the potential destruction of records."

Lanosga of the Indiana Coalition for Open Government said it's a problem that seems to cross party lines.

"Officials are eager to point the finger at a lack of transparency when it happens on the other side," he said, "but they dodge those issues when it comes to their own side."

This is the level of intolerance in USA society today, "...a man sitting there in a zipped-up red jacket, his hands in his pockets, just sitting there..."

He was just sitting there. Does anyone have an idea of how cold air conditioned offices and classrooms can get?

He was just sitting there and there is an ongoing investigation. OF WHAT!

Rajan Juniku was in an appropriate place outside on a campus where he worked. He was just sitting there ready for some fool to actually think a man in a jacket sitting outside is a terrorist or some kind of sex pervert. Amazing. 

He was just sitting there. I suppose Donaldson and his "Pole-lease" don't have a darn thing to do but investigate NOTHING that happened while a man was sitting outside in a red jacket where he works for a living. Amazing.

This is where we are in the USA. "...He was just sitting there...." Amazing.

It is racism. PLAIN AS THE NOSE ON Mr. Juniku's face. It is spelled R-A-C-I-S-M. Yes, racism. There is no doubt. This is racism and profiling. "See something, say something," even if "...He is just sitting there...."

We have too many "Pole-lease" in the United States of America. TOO MANY "POLE-LEASE!"

March 2, 2017
By Cammie Bellamy

Wilmington -- The University of North Carolina Wilmington (click here) on Thursday released audio of calls to campus police that resulted in a lecturer being searched and claiming he was racially profiled.

UNCW chemistry lecturer Rajan Juniku was searched by campus police Tuesday after a university employee reported a suspicious person on campus. Juniku, whose wife Alicia Juniku said was sick with the flu, was sitting outside Cameron Hall in a jacket at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday. In the redacted and voice-modulated call released by UNCW, a caller told a police dispatcher he was concerned by the man's behavior.

"There's a bench there and a man sitting there in a zipped-up red jacket, his hands in his pockets, just sitting there," the caller says. "Now he’s taking a drink from a water bottle. But I just think it’s odd that it’s almost 80 degrees and he's sitting there zipped up in a jacket with his hands in his pockets, watching people walk by. And I don’t know if he’s a 10-60 subject (suspicious person) or just someone who wants to warm up."

The dispatcher asked the caller to describe the man's race: "Can you tell if he’s black, white, Hispanic?"

"Um, from here he almost looks like, Indian maybe," the caller responded.

"Like, Middle Eastern?"...

..."It's just completely erroneous and misplaced. In this case the officer reacted quickly and based on information from dispatch," he said. "The officer really acted professionally, he was courteous, he acted consistent with his training and he remained on task with the mission of public safety."...

This is the level of dignity of "Talk Radio."

March 2, 2017

By Kim Janssen

Rising nationally syndicated conservative talk-radio star (click here) who makes fun of Chicago homicide victims on his show says he is being honored by his bosses at radio giant iHeartRadio as the "Talk Personality of the Year."

Texan Michael Berry mocks Chicago homicide victims in his regular feature, "Chicago Weekend Crime Report," which includes a shooting victim bingo game in which listeners are supposed to guess where in the body victims were shot....

What dignity? Anything other than mockery of base instincts doesn't enter the picture?

This is entitled, "The perfect "angry black man."

The warmer than average seasonal temperature indicates why there are tornadoes.

Intellicast maps for March 3, 2017
11:00 AM EST

The temperatures today are very different than normal. 

The top map shows the US current temperature while the one below it shows the temperature departure from normal.

Degree Departure Scale (click here) with degrees in Fahrenheit

Dark green +30
Dark orange +15 to +20
Orange +10 to +15
Yellow +5 to +10
Light blue -5 to -10
Blue -10 to -15
Royal blue -15 to -20
Deep blue -20 to -25

Yes, + means above normal.

Below and to the right is the National Weather Service map which contains warnings for the (USA today (click here).

This is interesting. Trump holds no Wall Street darlings above the law.

Perhaps this is a signal to all of Wall Street, including the Big Banks, in that none are above the law, not even Goldman Sachs.

March 3, 2017
By Ally Marotti

Years of federal scrutiny (click here) over Caterpillar's overseas business practices and tax strategies came to a head Thursday with a raid on the heavy machine maker's Peoria headquarters.

Authorities from three agencies, including the Internal Revenue Service, arrived before 11 a.m. at the headquarters and two nearby facilities. Initially only confirming the raid, Caterpillar later in the day acknowledged it was tied to the same issue that has dogged the company for eight years: its use of a parts subsidiary based in Switzerland and tax-saving practices that sparked a Senate investigation, shareholder lawsuits and a $1 billion penalty.

The raid is the latest shock to a city still adjusting to Caterpillar's January announcement that it would relocate its headquarters from Peoria to the Chicago area.

Long a global and domestic powerhouse in the world of mining and construction equipment, Caterpillar has been under investigation by federal authorities for years....

...In 2014, a Senate investigation found the company had used its Swiss affiliate to take advantage of a corporate tax rate it negotiated and avoided paying at least $2.4 billion in U.S. taxes. Soon after, shareholders filed lawsuits against the company and its accounting firm, PwC, alleging breach of fiduciary duties. That matter is ongoing.

A technical change Caterpillar made in 1999 shifted most of the profits from replacement parts sold outside the U.S. to the Swiss subsidiary, Caterpillar SARL, or CSARL, but "did not ... otherwise change how Caterpillar's replacement parts business functioned on the ground," according to a Senate report....

The American people are tired of the SLICK Wall Street CEO. No different than Alcoa in building a smelter plant in Iceland RATHER THAN digging in and finding answers to CO2 emissions as other countries have. We are sick of it. 

It is called MORALITY, in case there was confusion about it.

It is not a church morality, it is decency and loyalty and responsible citizenship. Wall Street wants to think of itself as people, American people; THEN ACT LIKE IT!!!!!