Getting real about Human Induced Global Warming. For 1911 history click title to entry - thank you.

It was a time of discovery and greatness. The human spirit was invulnerable.

The First World War would start three years later with the death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (click here).

January 1 - Belgian Mining law introduces 9 -hour work day
January 5 - Portuguese expel Jesuits
January 10 - 1st photo in U.S. taken from an airplane, San Diego
January 18 - 1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania)
February 6 - 1st old-age home opened in Prescott, Arizona
March 7 - U.S. sent 20,000 troops to Mexican border
March 18 - North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law
April 30 - Portugal approves woman suffrage
May 15 - Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil with the Sherman Antitrust Act
May 23 - New York Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by President Taft
June 1 - 1st U.S. group insurance policy written, Passaic, New Jersey
June 20 - NAACP incorporates in New York
July 4 - 105 degrees F (41 degrees C) at Vernon, Vermont (state record)

The Climate was healthy. When it was hot, it was hot and when it was cold, it was very cold. I remember when I lived in Pennsylvania as a kid, the farmers would always say, I hope the freeze goes deep this winter, there won't be so many pests come this spring. By deep they meant at least three feet of frozen ground. It takes lots and lots of cold to freeze ground that deep.

July 4 - 106 degrees F (41 degrees C) at Nashua, New Hampshire (state record)
September 19 - Red Tuesday-20,000 protest for universal rights
September 20 - Yankees set team record 12 errors in a double header
October 6 - Beatrix van Rijk becomes 1st licensed Dutch woman pilot
October 20 - Roald Amundsen sets out on race to South Pole (Antarctica Admundsen Base is named for him.)
October 24 - Robert Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole
November 4 - France and Germany signs treaty about Morocco and Congo
November 18 - Britain's 1st seaplane flies
December 31 - Marie Curie receives her 2nd Nobel Prize


Niagra Falls 1911


Niagra Falls 1911. Amazing. Completely unafraid and engaging nature without a second thought.


Niagra Falls 1911. Sledding. Fun. Bring the neighbors.


Niagra Falls 1911, people were 'unafraid,' not brave, huge difference.


Niagra Falls today in the dead of Winter. Freezing just doesn't happen anymore.


Niagra Falls 1911

You want to talk politics? The Elections of 2010. What does the GOP have to offer, more of the same?

The Histrionic Sarah Palin is all over the place, filling her personal coffers while wavering on party loyality and seeking to 'influence' the vote into some kind of Conservative ideology.

We don't need to vote for ideology, we need to vote to support a President intent on solving the problems of the USA. Basically, Palin has become a 'free lancing lobbyist' for anyone that wants to pay for her attraction by the Right Wing.

　

Solving problems is nothing the Republicans know how to do. They create problems. For eight years we watched them at their worse and the only reason for keeping Bush/Cheney in office was because 'The Swift Boaters' played 'head games' with the American electorate.

The Republicans did not solve one problem this country had.

　

They ran up the deficit with the excuse 'We are at War' as their permission to FUND an economy. For a nation at war with escalating deficits with $87 Billlion in cold hard cash flown to Iraq on a C-10, they exploited the coffers chronically funding "Six Flags Over Lincoln." Yet when it came to providing programs for the poor there just wasn't any room in the budget.

　

The Republicans state, "There were seven years of economic growth." Sure there was and then all of a sudden everything imploded.

　

Sorry, folks, but when an economy doesn't sustain itself wasn't an economy in the first place.

They are the party of 'smoke and mirrors,' they are untrustworthy and if they are elected to office in 2010, it will be a return to recidivism by citizens that still believe they can recover an economy destroyed by the same party. It is ludicrous to realize people that practice policies that exploit and believe deficits can actually recover the USA. I suppose the 'Wealth Fare of 2008' was good for the country.

　
The Democrats 'balance' their legislation when it comes to funding it, something that is completely foreign to Republicans. They never live up to their promises. They simply manipulate facts during elections to create their own realities afterward while Americans squirm in their chairs and watch their expectations 'trashed' by Republican ideology and 'counter-intuition.'

Openness is returned to Dover, there is no reason to question the Press's presence there now.

There are at least three separate news photographers involved in this picture display by "The Guardian." I guess they wanted to be there, huh?

I also believe it is a good experience for the leaders of our nation to experience the return of the dead to our country. It keeps it real.

I get the feeling as through President Obama didn't want to leave Sgt. Griffin. He made an impression on his President, in his selfless act as an American man prepared to die for his country. I think it is important President Obama respect that and I think it is important that the nation witnessed this moment.

Barack Obama meets coffins of fallen soldiers (9 pictures) (click here)

Obama and the official party step on the back of an air force C-17 military transport planePhotograph: Jim Young/Reuters


Obama is the last of the official party to walk off of the military transport planePhotograph: Susan Walsh/AP


Obama salutes with other dignitaries including the attorney general Eric HolderPhotograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

This is the picture Liz Cheney wants to oppress and states it is a 'Photo Op.' Typical of Republicans and how they think. The fallen soldier was NOT an object to his commanders, he was named and respected.



Obama salutes as a team carries the remains of Sgt Griffin.
Photograph: Susan Walsh/AP

Oh, what is that? It is Pakistan's plutonium production reactor at Khushab.

In asking Pakistan, India and North Korea to 'stand down' from their illegal status as a nuclear nation, one must promote other 'opportunities' for the production of power. Hence, Secretary Clinton was in Pakistan to introduce the USA effort to bring 'clean alternative energy' to Pakistan which will create jobs and better opportunity for their National Security. If one is NOT a nuclear nation, there will be less chance it will ever be a threat to others.

What is going on? Another training mission down? San Clemente is a training facility.

WARNING: To Right Wing Extremists. This is NOT an advertisement for military spending. This is a Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense and President trying to reverse the trend in the aggressive nature of the USA under Bush/Cheney to 'bring about' PEACEFUL stability in most areas of the world where we are engaged, especially where we are putting troops in harms way.
CAUTION: Do not make more of this than it is. The USA under the Obama Administration is seeking to make the military efficient and less costly, not bolstering the Military Industrial Complex at every turn. So don't even go there! The country isn't interested.

NO MORE 'THE TAIL' WAGGING 'THE DOG.' Absolutely not!

What is the issue? The real issue. Training missions don't go wrong at opposite ends of the world without some explanation. There must be a lot of pressure somewhere they are reacting to, otherwise, this wouldn't occur.

Now, Marines are usually the first military unit 'in' to a battle area. So, like what is this all about?

This isn't the first time an AH-1W Super Cobra went down during a training incident. It occurred in 2008 as well. So, is this coincidence or is there some profound problem with the way training episodes are conducted? No scapegoating, real facts please, lives are being lost.

Probe Continues into Military Helicopter Crash; Pilots Identified
Contributor: Elex Michaelson
Email: elex.michaelson@sandiego6.com
Contributor: Antonio Castelan
Last Update: 5/08 6:23 am
...Capt. Jessica Conkling, 27, of Centre, Pa., and 1st Lt. Aaron Cox, 26, of Pulaski, Ark., (click here) were killed when the AH-1W Super Cobra they were flying went down for unknown reasons near Interstate 8 in the Boulder Oaks area of Cleveland National Forest late Tuesday night.
The aviators, who were assigned to Miramar-based Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 166, were on a training mission when the aircraft plunged to the ground in the hilly locale southeast of Pine Valley about 11:55 p.m., sparking a small brush fire.
The possible presence of live ordnance at the crash site -- the aircraft reportedly had been carrying rockets -- kept firefighters from getting close to the smoldering burn zone. ...


AH-1W Super Cobra

Military aircraft in collision off coast (click title to entry - thank you)
9 are missing near San Clemente Island
By Steve Schmidt
Union-Tribune Staff Writer
2:00 a.m. October 30, 2009
A Coast Guard transport plane and a Camp Pendleton helicopter collided last night about 15 miles east of San Clemente Island, federal aviation and military officials said.
Seven people were believed to be aboard a Coast Guard C-130, and two were in the AH-1 Cobra attack helicopter, authorities said.
Coast Guard and Navy officials launched a search and had begun to spot debris late last night, the Coast Guard said.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said the crash was reported at 7:10 p.m.
Authorities said the cause was not immediately known.
The Cobra helicopter belonged to the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, which is based at Miramar Marine Corps Air Station, said Marine spokesman Maj. Jay Delarosa.
The helicopter was stationed at Camp Pendleton, Delarosa said. He didn't know when or from where the Cobra left for its training mission.
The crash site is roughly 50 miles west of San Diego, said Petty Officer Henry Dunphy, a Coast Guard spokesman. San Clemente Island is owned by the Navy and used by the Marines for various exercises, including training for deployment....

One doesn't usually think of a C-130 Hercules as a plane able to take care of itself. It is used for transport.