Western Hemisphere Satellite 1.12.05
The North Polar Vortex is hard at work creating all kinds of vortex winds that are acting to cool Earth reaching all the way to the Equator. If one will notice the peripheral vortex winds that reach down in latitude from the pole is covering most of the northern continent of North America making it very cold. Where this is different is in the North Pacific.
In history January 12...
... 1773, the first public museum in America was established, in Charleston, S.C.
... 1915, the U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.
... 1932, Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to United States Senate.
... 1942, President Roosevelt created the National War Labor Board.
... 1944, born, Joe Frazier, boxer.
... 1948, the Supreme Court ruled that states could not discriminate against law-school applicants because of race.
... 1964, leftist rebels in Zanzibar began their successful revolt against the government.
... 1966, President Johnson said in his State of the Union address that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there was ended.
... 1971, the long-running comedy All in the Family premieres on CBS.
... 1986, the shuttle Columbia blasted off with a crew that included the first Hispanic-American in space, Dr. Franklin R. Chang-Diaz.
... 1991, USA Congress authorizes force against Iraq after the invasion into Kuwait.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/cron/
... 1997, Stanley Kubrik’s HAL, the computer in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, informs the crew that he was built on this day. ... 1998, Carlos Santana is the first Hispanic inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The New Zealand Herald
Families flee as bushfire rages
Families took refuge in the sea or barricaded themselves in their homes as Australia's worst bushfires in 20 years swept through South Australia's Eyre Peninsula.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10006391
WHEN IS SOMEONE going to hold Bush responsible for Iraq? What’s the matter Mr. Bush you aren’t getting the dividends out of The Asian Tsunami Aid that you were hoping for? How can this accomplish anything but more estrangement of the USA from the International Community?
Mr. Annan is not responsible for an issue that is still under investigation. I am fairly confident he, like Rumsfeld, can’t predict what the ‘SINK’ will do. The "Oil for Food Program" unlike the invasion into Iraq was successful. The matter is still under investigation. I think this is appauling and further demonstrates the 'counter-agenda' that is never expected by Bush.
US turns on Annan over aid
WASHINGTON - The Bush Administration, which earlier backed Secretary-General Kofi Annan in the United Nations oil-for-food scandal, yesterday demanded he be held accountable for mismanagement in the programme.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10006377
The weather in Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is:
Scott Base
Snow
-1.0 degrees C
Updated Thursday 13 Jan 3:59AM
The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Ice Chime) during the ‘short daylight) winter is:
-15 °F / -26 °C Clear
Humidity:
58%
Dew Point:
-26 °F / -32 °C
Wind:
Calm
Pressure:
30.35 in / 1028 hPa
Visibility:
10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV:
0 out of 12
Clouds (AGL):
Clear
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