25 years to life is the usual sentence for someone that murders for the first time.

According to the judge, there is ten years more added to his sentence due to the "character" of the death. The death was particularly heinous and committed by someone in the profession of law enforcement.

Some day in this country we will RETURN to the place where police officers will be able to safely patrol with a six bullet revolver or no gun at all. But, in order to achieve that goal, we all have to work at ridding the USA of the gun lobby and a gun industry that doesn't know it's a place in any society, including the USA.

  

Pass city ordinances that demand regular inspections when temperatures vary widely in short periods of time and/or with chronic winds and/or flooding.

 While on the topic of Belgium, there was a building collapse in Antwerp, Belgium a couple of days ago.

I am no engineer or architect, but, it seems to me there were wide swings in temperature just before the school building under construction collapsed killing five and hospitalizing 9. 

The building collapse in Miami was not of a building under construction. I don't know how old that building was, but, it was built on land that is bordered on two sides by water.

Cities need to assess their buildings to understand their age, their composition and resiliency to weather and varying temperatures in a short period of time.

Some cities that experience severe weather on a regular basis this may not seem as much a threat. But, cities here chronic high winds and widely swinging temperatures in a matter of a couple days need to be aware of the problems that can arise.

In the past few years there have been some alarming problems due to weather, including exploding sidewalks when summer temperatures reach into the 100 to 120 degrees Fahrenheit range.

Cities should consider ordinances that require regular inspect of buildings both under construction and those already built when temperatures and wind pose a challege to stability.

June 24, 2021

Surfside, Florida - At least one person (click here) is dead and as many as 99 people unaccounted for following the collapse of a residential building in Surfside, a town near Miami.

The incident happened at about 1:30 a.m. Thursday.

According to officials, 102 people are accounted for, but 99 are still unaccounted for. 35 victims were pulled from the structure and two were pulled from the rubble, including a boy. 11 patients are being treated for their injuries.

Fire rescue officials said they have to be careful when searching because the part of the building that is still standing is also shifting.

"We're still waiting and unfortunately the hope is still there, but it is weaning," Miami-Dade Commissioner Sally Heyman said to CNN. "The rest of the search and rescue efforts has been done by man power on the outside, search on the barrier quarters, also with drones and with dogs. It has shifted now or started to shift to recovery."...

The USA needs to bring all those in Afghanistan that worked for the USA military to asylum.

NATO allies are already bringing Afghans to their countries for asylum who have assisted the NATO's military with their missions. There is no excuse for the USA. Those Afghans need to be on transport planes to come to the USA for asylum. They have intelligence about the USA and will be tortured and killed when the troops leave for home. it is vital to bring Afghans who have assisted the USA military to our country to settle along with their families.

Anyone complaining about immigration and/or asylum should be fully ashamed of themselves.

10 June 2021
By Alan Hope

The Belgian government (click here) could offer asylum to up to 30 translators who worked for Belgian troops in Afghanistan, defence minister Ludivine Dedonder (PS) has suggested.

The offer would include the Afghans’ families, and potentially remove them from the risk of suffering reprisals at the hands of a resurgent Taliban.

Dedonder was speaking at a press conference to mark the 19th anniversary of the Belgian presence in Afghanistan.

Translators – more accurately translators and fixers, as they do much more than translate from local languages into languages the troops will understand, most commonly English – are of supreme importance to foreign forces in a country like Afghanistan, where everything from the culture to the languages to the society to the landscape is utterly foreign.

Now, however, after US President Joe Biden announced a US troop withdrawal from the country, the Taliban is making a move. According to De Volkskrant in the Netherlands, the Taliban has claimed 150 victims in one day, mainly among army and police.

American troops are due to leave by the symbolic date of 11 September, exactly 20 years after the attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania that trigged the invasion....

Afghanistan

Bring these people at the very least to Guam. They assisted the USA military during a very long war and they need protection. We have lost interpreters in Afghanistan and other people who assisted our soldiers through violence. They will face tragedy if they are left behind.

There is going to be a lot of change in Afghanistan after the USA is gone. There are local militias currently acting to establish their own protections. That is the way Afghanistan operated before the war and it will operate that way after the USA leaves.

The USA has tried and tried to engage the people in a way that would bring about a stable democracy. That has worked to a certain extent, but, it is up to the people of that country now. If after twenty years there is no success in Afghanistan it is time to let the people sort everything out and live according to their means and abilities.

The USA was never successful in ending the corruption in Afghanistan and that is the peril the country still faces. With the USA gone, the commerce this country brought will end and perhaps Afghanistan will have to make hard choices that brings them to value democracy and a centralized government.

I am quite sure any rights women and girls have achieved could be lost, but, here again it will be according to how these talented ladies are valued. If the local militias appreciate their knowledge and innate abilities to achieve learning and add to the country's brain trust, then they have a chance at being part of government and the sciences that can advance Afghanistan.

Geologically, it is a difficult country for one military to protect. The mountains and mountain passes are extreme and dangerous. For that reason, the country brakes down into local authorities that have the ability to be the military and police for areas of the country. 

China and Russia may try to bring about an economy based in mining, but, without the USA to stabilize the country in a real way, the attempts to grow an economy will fail.

So, to that end, these people that have helped the USA all these years, they must be given at the very least refugee status to prepare them for life out of Afghanistan. There are many countries that were involved in that country and perhaps they can offer to give refugee families a homeland once again. But, right now, they need evacuation.

June 23, 2021
By Julia Watson and Ben Fox

San Diego - In the chaotic, final hours of the Vietnam War,(click here) the U.S. evacuated thousands of South Vietnamese who supported the American mission and were at risk under the communist government.

With U.S. and NATO forces facing a Sept. 11 deadline to leave Afghanistan, many are recalling that desperate, hasty exodus as they urge the Biden administration to evacuate thousands of Afghans who worked as interpreters or otherwise helped U.S. military operations there in the past two decades.

Despite unusual bipartisan support in Congress, the administration hasn’t agreed to such a move, declining to publicly support something that could undermine security in the country as it unwinds a war that started after the 9/11 attacks.

“We have a moral obligation to protect our brave allies who put their lives on the line for us, and we’ve been working for months to engage the administration and make sure there’s a plan, with few concrete results,” Republican Rep. Peter Meijer of Michigan said during a House hearing last week....

SARS-CoV-2

The understanding I have about the current status of the virus is the vaccines are working. Today, those hospitalized are not vaccineated. The vaccines are even effective against the variants. Other Western countries are finding the same conclusions. 

The USA must lead in vaccinating other countries to end the death tolls and protect the people that can be protected. It is interesting how other countries are complaining about not having vaccine or enough of it to protect the people and here in the USA where vaccines are more or less abundant there are people that refuse the vaccines and die because of it.

There must be an investigation into the CULTURE that was propagated last year and continues to be propagated by the Republican Party. There are people that are dead because they believed the propaganda to protect an economy rather than their lives. Like the poisoned water in Flint, the glib attitude faciliated by the Republican Party must come to an end. This is an outrage and the people of this country have a right to understand what occurred. I suppose this death toll can be called, "The Second Big Lie." 

An investigation must be conducted and conclusions reached.

Oh, as far as the idea that China's lab was the original place of the virus. No one will ever know for sure. If the WHO can't get to the truth, I sincerely believe nothing else will.

The Republicans are still trying to blame "The Chinese Virus" as if it were germ warfare. That is nonsense. Even if this was biological warfare, the CULTURE and presidential incompetence that came out of the Republican Party is responsible for such horrid outcomes in the USA.

Let's get this straight. A United States of America President should know how to protect the people from biological warfare. President George Walker Bush knew exactly what to do and harnessed the country's capacity to produce treatments for the virus he was fighting.

There is no excuse for what occurred in the USA. 

The Democrats, especially minority candidates, need to take more of the state legislative seats.

June 22, 2021

By Marie Albiges

Harrisburg - The Pennsylvania House (click here) passed an election overhaul bill Tuesday that creates stricter voter ID requirements and early voting in 2025, despite opposition from most Democrats and a promised veto from Gov. Tom Wolf.

The state Senate is poised to take up the measure in the coming days, but Republican lawmakers in the chamber are charting a separate path that would advance the priorities of county election officials while putting stricter voter ID requirements on a future ballot.

The topic has emerged as a partisan sticking point in Harrisburg. Currently, only first-time voters and those casting ballots at a new polling precinct are required to show ID. Roughly three-quarters of respondents to a recent Franklin & Marshall College poll of Pennsylvania voters said they favor requiring all voters to show photo ID....

A rather interesting poll that finds far less confidence in state government post pandemic. There is more to a state government than just the Governor. I strongly suggest the Democrats take a close look at the moarning the American people are doing and who they believe is most responsible for it.

The poll finds that President Biden is doing a great job for the people. I believe he is liked and respected by the people of the country. He takes his responsibilities seriously, doesn't worry about the impression he makes on the press or those who would have him be deemed incompetent and gets it done. He is doing work the people have wanted for a long time, which only proves there are reasons people were unhappy with the government and it would seem not just the fedreal government.

The pandemic hurt the USA deeply. The death rate, the loss of jobs and income. They will remember who stood at their side and fought the losy virus and who didn't. There are a lot of people dead and they shouldn't be.

...Despite the lessening concerns about COVID (click here) and the increased vaccination rates, Pennsylvania’s voters remain pessimistic. Only two in five (35%) state voters believes the state is “headed in the right direction,” which is significantly lower than the recent, pre-pandemic high of 57 percent reported in October 2019 and essentially unchanged since the March F&M Poll. There is also no notable improvement in voters’ assessments of their personal finances.

These negative assessments about the direction of the state and personal finances likely translate to lower job approval ratings for Governor Wolf. In July 2020, more than half (52%) of the state’s registered voters rated the governor as doing an “excellent” or “good” job; today, his positive job approval rating is at 39 percent. President Biden’s approval ratings have fared better than Governor Wolf’s in Pennsylvania. About two in five (44%) voters in Pennsylvania believe President Biden is doing an “excellent” or “good” job as president and his approval rating for managing the coronavirus outbreak is higher (49%) than his overall job approval rating. Both of these numbers are consistent with his March approval ratings....

Is the American Philosophical Society protected from losing it's importance. It is history itself.

There are no plans to display the Declaration anytime soon. Dare I say it should never be on display so much as a copy.

American Philosophical Society (click here)

June 23, 2021
By Stephen Salisbury

American Philosophical Society's head of conservation Anne Downey (left) and Patrick Spero, director of the library, open their copy of the original Declaration of Independence ordered up by President John Quincy Adams in 1820, but not completed until 1823.

The archive of the American Philosophical Society, (click here) consisting of an ever-expanding universe of 13 million manuscripts and 350,000 bound volumes and periodicals, with images and audiotapes proliferating on a daily basis, has reached the point where it is its own universe.

So it should be no surprise that APS, founded in 1743, has discovered that it possesses an exceedingly rare engraved copy of the Declaration of Independence ordered up by John Quincy Adams two centuries ago, and given to the society in 1842 by Daniel Webster. The society has just announced the discovery.

The unearthed document now ascends to APS’s pantheon of Declarations consisting of rare drafts and early printed copies from newspapers, broadsides, and pamphlets held....

West Humbolt Park is getting new jobs.

West Humbolt Park, Chicago (click here)  It looks as though Amazon has made a wise decision in building a facility in West Humblodt Park, Chicago. The area has many young people and a comparible low income to Chicago. Perhaps these jobs will be good paying jobs with good benefits that will enhance the community. I congratulate Amazon for taking impoverishment in it's decisions. The company still needs to organize to protect the people that work very hard to make the company a success.

The West Humboldt Park neighborhood, (click here) canopied between Garfield and Humboldt Parks, is a place for new beginnings amidst authentic architecture located just minutes west of downtown. The neighborhood is home to a diverse population of long-time neighbors including African American and Latino residents, particularly a vibrant Puerto Rican community.

June 22, 2021

By Lauren Zumbach and Ryan Ori

Amazon (click here) is planning to build a facility in Chicago’s West Humboldt Park neighborhood that could employ hundreds of people.

Construction has not yet started on the 140,000-square-foot delivery station, which is expected to open in late 2022, Amazon said Tuesday. A delivery station is a package’s last stop before it is delivered to a customer....

Proof. The Republicans are NOT the government of the people.

Greg Abbot, the current governor of Texas, is calling a special session of the state legislature to pass oppressive voting laws. He did that the minute it was known the US Senate was going to defeat the voting rights bill.

The Republicans are playing a dangerous game with voting rights as if the people voting are the problem and not them. To the Republicans, including Moscow Mitch, this is politics. There is no such thing as governing with the Republicans.

June 22, 2021
By Mike DeBonis

Senate Republicans (click here) banded together Tuesday to block a sweeping Democratic bill that would revamp the architecture of American democracy, dealing a grave blow to efforts to federally override dozens of GOP-passed state voting laws.

The test vote, which would have cleared the way to start debate on voting legislation, failed 50-50 on straight party lines — 10 votes short of the supermajority needed to advance legislation in the Senate.

It came after Democrat after Democrat delivered warnings about the dire state of American democracy, blaming former president Donald Trump for undermining its foundations by challenging the 2020 election results, which, in turn, prompted his supporters in numerous state legislatures to pass new laws rolling back ballot access.

“Are we going to let reactionary state legislatures drag us back into the muck of voter suppression? Are we going to let the most dishonest president in history continue to poison our democracy from the inside?” Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said before the vote. “Or will we stand up to defend what generations of Americans have organized, marched, fought and died for — the sacred, sacred right to vote?”...

Abbot signed into law a bill that changes the history of racism in the state of Texas. The Republicans are introducing confusion to USA history. That is exactly what they want. What kind of power is this? What gives anyone the idea that history is supposed to reflect a political ideology? I tell you who does these things. An incompetent dictator does things like this. There is no benevolence left to the Republicans, only a desire to rewrite history and destroy the USA Constitution.

There is every reason to impeach Greg Abbot, but, that won't happen because the majority of the Texas legislature passed the bill in the first place. There would not be enough votes to impeach.

June 22, 2021

By Isabella Zou

Gov. Greg Abbott (click here) signed into law a bill last week that restricts how current events and America’s history of racism can be taught in Texas schools. It’s been commonly referred to as the “critical race theory” bill, though the term “critical race theory” never appears in it.

But in signing the bill, Abbott said “more must be done” to “abolish critical race theory in Texas,” and announced that he would ask the Legislature to address the issue during a special session this summer....

Don't believe that this ruling means the perpetrators cited as defendants are correct in their actions.

These decisions by the judiciary are about the office and the USA Constitution. The actions by officers were not incorrect. They acted according to the orders they received from the highest members of the chain of command. The idea this was an illegal act is incorrect on it's face.

The issue that CONTINUES TO GO UNADDRESSED is the corruption and abuse of power by Trump and his minions in the Republican Party, legislature, and the administration. The people elected a crook to the Oval Office. What transpired after receiving the oath of office was an enormous amount of corruption that even sought to undermine the USA's national security by providing highly classified material to Russia.

The only reason Trump maintained his office is that the Republican Party, especially in the US Senate is corrupt to the core, with perhaps the exception of Senators Mitt Romney and Cornyn. Senator Cornyn is still conducting investigations by his committee assignments and acting in the best interest of the people of Texas. I disagree with most of his world views, but, I believe him to be honest and loyal to the USA Constitution.

While I understand the need for democratic organizations and governments to take action to bring about justice, the fact of the matter is this is not a Rule of Law issue so much as it is an issue of deep-seated corruption and abuse of power.

Rep. Liz Cheney prefers to see it as a lack of real competency/education. That is primarily true of the Republican House members and voters that treat politics as popular and are FANS of WWF and all that mess that propels Republicans to vote for figures such as Trump and his "You're Fired" POWER.

However, this particular issue is not about the Rule of Law. Should a legitimate reason be needed to 'send in the police,' that must be kept intact. It isn't the Rule of Law on trial in Lafayette Square. The police acted as they were ordered and it was a much-practiced drill. The problem is the UNDERLYING corruption of the government that ordered the attack on demonstrators while clearing the streets for Trump's photo-op.

These attempts at bringing about justice through the backdoor continue because Trump was not impeached and the right-wing extremism seen in characters such as Josh Hawley continues to be touted as correct and best. I find the insight of Rep. Liz Cheney regarding the personal safety of Congress members and their families paramount to overcoming the continued attempts to overthrow the USA Constitution.

The threats of members of Congress are somewhat expected as realized by attacks on the homes of Speaker Pelosi and then-Majority Leader Moscow Mitch. But, if there are constituents and/or other Congressional members that are actively threatening members of Congress in either house, there need to be investigations by the FBI and arrests to those seeking to harm their representatives and their families. This is a major problem and the investigative agencies, even at the local level, need to investigate and act to prosecute. This return of the strength of the USA Constitution is not over.

June 21, 2021

By Spencer H. Hsu

A U.S. judge on Monday dismissed most claims (click here) filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of D.C., Black Lives Matter and others in lawsuits that accused the Trump administration of authorizing an unprovoked attack on demonstrators in Lafayette Square last year.

The plaintiffs asserted the government used unnecessary force to enable a photo op of President Donald Trump holding a Bible outside of the historical St. John’s Church. But U.S. District Judge Dabney L. Friedrich of Washington called allegations that federal officials conspired to make way for the photo too speculative.

The judge’s decision came in a 51-page opinion after the Justice Department requested she toss four overlapping lawsuits naming dozens of federal individual and agency defendants, as well as D.C. and Arlington police, in the June 2020 incident....

Anyone that has watched ignorance take over our elections know she is right.

The USA Constitution is not about consumerism, but, today's GOP seeks to support populism and Wall Street pandering. We don't have a country if this ignorance by the electorate continues.

Rep. Liz Cheney is a hero among the few to be found in the GOP. I am sure her father has plenty of ideas to nurture the GOP back to health.

Rep. Liz Cheney deserves the respect the people of the USA can afford her because she does see the USA Constitution as under attack. She needs to correct the path of the two party system.

June 21, 2021
By Jennifer Rubin

Representative Liz Cheney, R-Wyo awaits...in the Roosevelt Room for bill signing.

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) (click here) has refused to allow her party the luxury of uncontested lying. A party that still wallows in the “big lie” of a stolen election, offers outlandish and Putin-like conspiracy theories (e.g., blaming the police and not the mob for the results of the Jan. 6 insurrection) and conducts a campaign of slander against the nation’s most esteemed immunologist should not be able to rely on the right-wing echo chamber to blot out inconvenient facts.

But while intentional misrepresentation is now rampant and widely accepted in the GOP, there is also a problem of abject ignorance, as Cheney told the New York Times’s Mark Leibovich in an interview:

“We’ve got people we’ve entrusted with the perpetuation of the Republic who don’t know what the rule of law is,” she said. “We probably need to do Constitution boot camps for newly sworn-in members of Congress. Clearly.”

She said her main pursuit now involved teaching basic civics to voters who had been misinformed by Mr. Trump and other Republicans who should know better. “I’m not naïve about the education that has to go on here,” Ms. Cheney said. “This is dangerous. It’s not complicated. I think Trump has a plan.”

Representatives such as Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) serve as a reminder that a working knowledge of the Constitution (let alone emotional stability) is not a requirement for members of Congress. It is tempting to say that members of Congress in the MAGA cult must be lying because no one could possibly be so uninformed, but both are likely at play. If Cheney is right about the ignorance of her colleagues (they seem daily to prove her point) and the Republican base, we should think seriously about the remedy....

She is absolutely correct in that January 6, 2021, is an existential threat to the USA Consitution. The astounding truth of the current Republican Party is that they are serving under duress. They are serving with a threat to their lives and families. That has to be addressed.

June 7, 2021

By Carolina Kelly

Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney (click here) accused former President Donald Trump of having committed the worst violation of a president's oath of office by inciting the January 6 Capitol insurrection -- and taking a jab at House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy over his subsequent visit to Trump at Mar-a-Lago.

"I was stunned. I could not imagine any justification for doing that," Cheney said of McCarthy's visit to Trump during an episode of David Axelrod's "The Axe Files" podcast, which was taped Saturday afternoon as part of a University of Chicago alumni weekend event. "And I asked him why he had done it, and he said, well, he had just been in the neighborhood, essentially."

House Republicans ousted Cheney from her leadership position last month over her public rejection of Trump's lie that he won the election -- an ouster that McCarthy supported. Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, has repeatedly clashed with McCarthy, who has tried to align himself with Trump, and subsequently the Republican base, going into the 2022 midterms....

DeJoy is a threat to democracy and the USA Constitution.

June 21, 2021

By Charles Davis

Twenty-one state attorneys general (click here) argued in a joint statement on Monday that delaying first-class mail delivery by as many as two days would harm rural communities and could disenfranchise those who cast absentee ballots.

In March, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, unveiled a plan to raise prices and slash services at the US Postal Service, citing a need to address a revenue shortfall, The Washington Post reported.

In particular, DeJoy outlined a proposal to slow down the delivery of first-class mail. Instead of two to three days, nonlocal mail could take as many as five days to reach its destination.

The attorneys general say that reflects a "flawed philosophy that would prioritize the services it offers in competitive markets," such as package delivery, "over those that it alone provides and on which countless Americans depend." The comments come in a letter addressing the Postal Regulatory Commission, an independent agency responsible for ensuring that USPS abides by the law....

DeJoy is wasting taxpayer's money by refusing to purchase electric vehicles.

Electric vehicles are going to look different because they are not burdened with room for an internal combustion engine. There will be more room for any cargo because the electric motor does not require all the appliances attached to an internal combustion engine such as the carburetor and/or fuel injectors, huge radiators, fuel pumps, air filters, etc.

June 19, 2021

Spurned bidder (click here) for the right to make the new postal trucks claims it wasn't given due consideration—and also accuses the feds of being lukewarm on electric trucks.

In February, the U.S. Postal Service awarded a deal for up to 165,000 new mail trucks worth up to $6 billion to defense contractor Oshkosh. The search for new delivery vehicles took the USPS around seven years, and once the Internet learned what the quirky new van would look like, much merriment ensued. Not everyone was happy, though.

Workhorse, formerly known as Amp Electric Vehicles, was one of two other contractors bidding for the USPS contract (the other was Karsan). This week, Workhorse sued the postal service over the terms of the deal, especially whether or not the mail carrier ever seriously considered Workhorse's electric vehicles as suitable replacements for the Grumman "Long Life Vehicles" that are commonly seen delivering mail today.

Workhorse's lawsuit—the version that the public can see, anyway—is vague, as the company said the revealing all of the contract information would release details about its bid for the contract and the company's EVs that would be helpful to competitors. Alongside the court filing, Workhorse issued a media statement that said Workhorse representatives met with the USPS in early March to "discuss the award and further specifics of the USPS selection process," but that the details of the meeting "cannot be disclosed at this time."...
 

People are dying due to a hot climate. End the use of fossil fuels including slash and burn and peat burning in Africa.

This image is from the same article as below. It is OBVIOUS that methane is anthropogenic. The densest concentration is the northern hemisphere where the majority of the population of people live.

KNOCK IT OFF.

ALTERNATIVE ENERGIES ARE THE ONLY WAY FORWARD!

Methane leaks must be controlled and drilling ended.

The line (click here) of the graph on the left all the way to the right is going straight up. That is anthropogenic methane. The Earth is not leaking methane, humans are.

17 June 2021
By Victoria Bekiempis

The Earth is trapping nearly twice as much heat as it did in 2005, (click here) according to new research, described as an “unprecedented” increase amid the climate crisis.

Scientists from Nasa, the US space agency, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), reported in a new study that Earth’s “energy imbalance approximately doubled” from 2005 to 2019. The increase was described as “alarming”.

“Energy imbalance” refers to the difference between how much of the Sun’s “radiative energy” is absorbed by Earth’s atmosphere and surface, compared to how much “thermal infrared radiation” bounces back into space.

“A positive energy imbalance means the Earth system is gaining energy, causing the planet to heat up,” Nasa said in a statement about this study.

Scientists determined there was an energy imbalance by comparing data from satellite sensors – which track how much energy enters and exits Earth’s system – and data from ocean floats....

From the same article as above, this graph clearly shows civilization was on the road to minimizing methane use and leaks. Then after the Cheney Energy Report came out in 2005, fracking became fashionable and the amount of leaks and use returned to pre-precaution levels.

Tropical Storms do not have an eye. This was in Maryland. Those are clouds of an eye. Now the shape may not be circular, but, it is certainly an indication that the conditions of the 2021 Tropical Storm are not the same as those of the past. This is a tipping point.

I have three pictures below of the tropical storm off the Gulf Coast. 

This is a roll cloud with rather interesting clouds behind it. Then there is that enormous "stratus" cloud bank that dominates the right side of the upper picture. That is a high accumulation of water vapor in very STRUCTURED clouds. That is heat movement with three different cloud formations depending on the area where they are located over the water. The roll cloud seems to be a boundary between higher energy clouds.

This is a little better picture of what is above. I don't think I have ever, in 21 years of observation witnessed these cloud formations together.

East Passed over Okaloosa Island (click here)

The clouds below are no ordinary tropical storm clouds.

My experience with Earth and the idea of CHANGE in atmospheric heat is that there is no "one-time" occurrence. This is a prelude to what is expected in the future. It doesn't get better from here, it continues to a maximum and then there is a tipping point.

continued...

We have a different kind of storm out there!

 Twitter Account of James Spann (click here) This is being reported as a water spout off the Lousiana Coast. That is not a minor water spout. The water is brown. The winds are Tropical Storm velocity with this degree of water churning to a depth that brings the sea floor to the surface and the fact water spouts are this dynamic, dictates a different type of storm EFFECT than a simple Tropical Storm. There is that type of churning that reaches the ocean floor with Category 5 hurricanes, ie: Maria.

There has to be a way to measure the calories of heat and CONCENTRATION of that heat to spin up these tornadoes. The tornadoes are killing people, not even the flooding. 

June 20, 2021
By Tim Stelloh

...The storm (click here) caused flooding with as much as 15 inches of rain in some areas and also spawned destructive tornadoes.

Officials have linked 14 deaths to the storm in Alabama, including a crash that killed 10 people, nine of whom were children....

Aside from any significant rain, the storms are not carrying the wind they have been.

It's never good (click here) to have to do these analyses this late at night, but the tornado that hit Woodridge, IL and nearby suburbs of Chicago was likely a strong EF3 based on an impressive 18,000+ ft TDS and a 66 kt Vrot, both remarkable for a QLCS tornado!

The troposphere has reached a tipping point. The picture above (click here) shows the tornado that hit Chicago. If that picture is accurate, that is a supercell and not a tornado.

The heat is too high and the storm winds reached a geophysics maximum. The increased heat is now expressed in tornadoes. The season started earlier and now the storms are carrying tornadoes. This was not a hurricane off the Gulf or the Atlantic. 

Lightning in Chicago (click here)

The Vote in France was effected by the viruses and there was low turnout.

Democrats in 2022 are facing many problems to their best outcomes, in that Anti-American legislation and regulation in Republican lead states are stacking the odds against Democrats. But, the reality of France's low turnout is also a lesson. The Democrats need to turn out the vote more than ever in 2022.

When state legislatures and their Secretary of State make a concerted effort to prevent voting by regulatory measures it is definitely Anti-American. Why is it that Republicans will act to allow poison in water without regulation, but, when it comes to a robust voter turnout the regulations are heavy and oppressive?

20 June 2021

A voter casts her ballot at a polling station in Angers, western France, June 20, 2021.

The conservative Les Républicains party (click here) surged to a first-round lead ahead of Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally (RN) and parties of the centre and left.

President Emmanuel Macron’s ruling LREM party suffered setbacks in most regions, failing to reach the 10 percent threshold required to qualify for the runoff vote in the flashpoint Hauts-de-France region.

Le Pen’s National Rally fell short of expectations, though it still harbours hopes of winning the southern Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, which includes Marseille, in next week's runoff.

In the Paris region, conservative incumbent Valérie Pécresse is well ahead, one of six candidates poised to qualify for the second round.

The elections, which followed a gruelling year and a half of lockdowns and curfews, were marred by record-low turnout of under 34%.

The second round of voting will take place on June 27.

Happy Juneteenth and Happy Father’s Day

Until tomorrow.