Oklahoma City has a half a million people. This is a high energy system with tornado outbreaks.

May 31, 2013
2140z
UNISYS Enhanced Infrared Southern Plains Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop) 

This system has a high water vapor content. There is a lot of energy within it.

Two hours ago the current system began to form.

The current satellite is below, kindly note the forming intense system south of Texas - Mexico Border.

May 31, 2013
2340z
UNISYS Enhanced Infrared Southern Plains Satellite 

Below is a water vapor satellite from four hours ago. There is little density in the area of Oklahoma and Texas, however, the larger vortex system has peripheral flow that became saturated with heat and sun rays which are about 15 degrees from direct.

It would be good if there were hurricanes, but, currently there is no evidence of any.

May 31, 2013
1230z
UNISYS Water Vapor US Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop)


The point is when "Tornado Watch" is in effect, people need to move to a ready status to take shelter UNDERGROUND. It is never prudent to believe any tornado will be a minor tornado. It is far too hot within the troposphere to expect anything less than the worst. A reaction of alarm to move to shelter is prudent. It is necessary.

May 31, 2013
2330z
UNISYS Water Vapor US Satellite

No one alive can out guess these storms. There is no reason to understand anything except a dire emergency when the word tornado is spoken.

It is the HEAT.


This system has been dropping vortices for 90 minutes now.

May 31, 2013
The Weather Channel Temperature Map

The angle of the sun changes as Earth turns and it diffuses through the atmosphere differently. It is a combination of the surface heat building up through the day time hours and the concentration setting sun light rays that define an eruption such as this. But, the real culprit is the water vapor which absorbs the heat and retains it. This particular storm is exhibiting rain wrapped tornadoes and again it has a water vapor source off the Equator.

May 31, 2013
2330z
UNISYS Water Vapor north and west hemisphere satellite (click here)

There is a large tropospheric vortex off shore eastern seaborder USA. That system is carrying water vapor off the Equator into it's central circulation. The circulation north of that offshore vortex center is also connected to the current system effecting the US Southern Plains. It is all that connectedness that is supplying the higher water vapor content fueling the storms.

There are similar temperatures in Southern California and Arizona, however, the water vapor is primarily absent.

It is my opinion, the National Guard from surrounding states need to be 'at the ready.' This is wicked. My best wishes to all.

The Fatal Moore Tornado. A Tornado Watch means prepare for taking shelter. A Tornado Warning means now is the time to take shelter.

On May 20, 2013, (click here) a supercell thunderstorm in central Oklahoma spawned a destructive tornado that passed just south of Oklahoma City. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aquasatellite acquired this natural-color image of the storm system at 2:40 p.m. Central Daylight Time (19:40 Universal Time), just minutes before the devastating twister began.

The red line on the image depicts the tornado’s track. It touched down west of Newcastle at 2:56 p.m. and moved northeast toward Moore, where it caused dozens of deaths, hundreds of injuries, and widespread destruction to property and public buildings. The tornado had dissipated by 3:36 p.m., after traveling approximately 17 to 20 miles (27 to 32 kilometers)....

There is no special clue a tornado is about to strike. The USA decided a long time ago it was best to invest in a warning system to keep people alive. No citizen has the capacity to outwit the warning system the USA developed. It is not possible to know more than the warning system. There is no reason for human death due to tornadoes in the USA. They are a fact of life. People should be prepared to act in their best interest when the warning system sounds.

Some tornado facts to keep in mind: (click here)

• Tornadoes usually accompany thunderstorms, but not always.
• Sometimes the air is calm before a tornado hits, while in other cases it is preceded by strong, gusty winds.
• A tornado may follow sunshine or be shrouded in heavy rain and large, dark, low-lying clouds.
• The sound of a tornado has been compared to a freight train or a jet engine, but you may or may not hear such a noise before a tornado strikes.

The good news is that Mars has a history of having water. The bad news is human can't survive the journey.

I am not sure it is only water that can achieve that either. I realize there is evidence of EROSION, but, is it only water that has accomplished that erosion. Other gases can be liquid and flow at different temperatures. What does chemical analysis of ancient soils and rocks show. Does Curiosity have the capacity to carry out in depth analysis on Mars?
By Jonathan AmosScience correspondent, BBC News
The valleys, channels and deltas (click here) viewed from orbit have long been thought to be the work of water erosion, but it is Nasa's latest rover, Curiosity, that has provided the "ground truth".
Researchers report its observations of rounded pebbles on the floor of the Red planet's 150km-wide Gale Crater.
Their smooth appearance is identical to gravels found in rivers on Earth.
Rock fragments that bounce along the bottom of a stream of water will have their edges knocked off, and when these pebbles finally come to rest they will often align in a characteristic overlapping fashion.
Curiosity has pictured these features in a number of rock outcrops at the base of Gale Crater....
Deep space travel involves high levels of unshielded radiation. For as long as I can remember Goddard scientists have lectured the same message; radiation. Any lecture I have been to have stated the same thing, humans can make contraptions that can travel to the end of our solar system and probably traverse the universe, but, the solar winds and unshielded radiation will be too daunting to facilitate human space travel.
Russia's perspective is to make travel time shorter and faster to reduce EXPOSURE. That is an interesting idea, but, the reality is somewhat odd. The travel distance might be shorted and the exposure reduced, however, once the destination is reached there is the return travel AND the exposure allowed by Mars itself.
I suppose if humans are to live beyond infinity and realizing Sol will eventually nova there is reason to seek a new home far beyond our solar system, but, that requires a lot more research than any nation is conducting now. What was the name of that deep space probe? 

Voyager. It's still out there (click here)
The twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft (click here) continue exploring where nothing from Earth has flown before. In the 34th year after their 1977 launches, they each are much farther away from Earth and the Sun than Pluto. Voyager 1 and 2 are now in the "Heliosheath" - the outermost layer of the heliosphere where the solar wind is slowed by the pressure of interstellar gas. Both spacecraft are still sending scientific information about their surroundings through the Deep Space Network (DSN)....
Voyager has been one of the most prolific projects the USA has ever launched. It literally is the gift that keeps on giving beyond any anticipated life assigned to it.
Voyager is so loved by space fanatics there was a Star Trek feature film made about it. Space is a void. It doesn't stop the radio transmissions, so until the Voyagers collide with something and are destroyed I suppose they will continue to influence the way humans think about space. 
It isn't like the human venture into deep space is a completely hideous idea, but, it certainly is extreme. Perhaps the greatest gift Goddard has ever given to me was a more sincere and deeper appreciation of Earth and the gift we all have been given.
May 30, 2013

NASA’s Curiosity program (click here) has confirmed that interplanetary manned missions at speeds attainable today is not possible due to lethal space radiation. However, Russians are preparing to speed up space travel 20-fold to get to Mars and beyond.

Once again it has been confirmed, this time empirically, that space radiation would seriously endanger cosmonauts’ lives on their trip to Mars.

The Curiosity rover mission has been collecting valuable data not only after arrival to the Mars surface. Through the eight-and-a-half month cruise to Mars the probe’s sensors were collecting information about space, including radiation levels....

All I say this point is that Star Trek Transporter Rooms were well researched to include in the TV shows and movies. Transporters are about the only way humans can actually achieve deep space travel. That is fantasy and fantasy can be a place where ideas begin, however, I love a green Earth to pass on to my children.

That loyalty is not just about feeling good about the future of my children either, it is based in what will become of Earth?

One of the reasons Earth is so hot is due to it's gaseous imbalance. Some of it is pretty scary to me. There is diffusion of gas concentrations between the layers of atmosphere as the heat changes the component of our air. The question is if the Greenhouse Gas content comes down will the diffusion of any gases to upper atmospheres return to the lower atmosphere. I think that is debatable. There is significant reasons for gases to diffuse into the upper atmospheres, but, there is no real reason in physics for them to return to lower atmospheres. The Troposphere is where most gases of Earth are produced, so the diffusion upward makes sense, there is less concentration there, but, for any gases to come back to the lower atmospheres is not a given to any reason of physics.

Carbon (click here) is involved in the structure, biochemistry and nutrition of all living cells. Over the history of the planet, carbon has been naturally exchanged between the atmosphere, the ocean and terrestrial reserves. The burning of fossil fuels over the last 200 years has altered this carbon cycling, raising carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere and perturbing the climate system. Could climate change, in turn, affect the ocean’s ability to store most of the Earth’s carbon? Recent research suggests that the biological uptake of carbon over large parts of the oceans is sensitive to the winds and transfer of dust....

The oceans are so hot, polluted and dense with carbon dioxide all that has to diffuse out before the atmospheric CO2 will show any movement back to normal. We just reached 400 ppm in the Troposphere. We need to stop producing greenhouse gases. Seriously.

The gaseous content of Earth I am most concerned about is WATER. H2O. If the Troposphere loses it's water content to the upper atmospheres there will be serious threats to life greater than already exists.

Video: The Post’s Juliet Eilperin talks with Kris Holderied, director of the the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Kasitsna Bay Laboratory, about the pH levels of Kachemak Bay in Alaska.

Ocean acidification is due to higher levels of CO2 (carbon dioxide) in the water. All this was predicted. This isn't a matter of discovery and "Oh, my gosh, we have real problems." This was all foretold by scientists decades ago. It was avoidable. Those in political spheres refusing to accept that reality don't care about human survival. I would think that would be obvious.

Ocean acidification emerges as a new climate threat (click here)

By Juliet Eilperin, Published: September 30, 2012

HOMER, Alaska — Kris Holderied, who directs the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Kasitsna Bay Laboratory, says the ocean’s increasing acidity is “the reason fishermen stop me in the grocery store.”

“They say, ‘You’re with the NOAA lab, what are you doing on ocean acidification?’ ” Holderied said. “This is a coastal town that depends on this ocean, and this bay.”...

Where is Earth's water going? Up! 

These concepts are complicated. This phenomena is not related to the sun (Sol). The ability to MEASURE the atmospheric changes are possible because of sun activity. The change that is being measured is due to greenhouse gas emissions.

One of the primary reasons, without getting into too much detail, the polar regions lend themselves to study of Earth is because it's atmosphere is shallower. The change in atmospheric layers change in less distance from Earth's surface at the polar regions. The reason for that is because of the profound cold and the effect of that cold on the gases of the atmosphere. There are other reasons, but, why get into it? It is just easier for scientists to access accurate information in these regions of Earth. We should all be grateful these scientists can find a way to do what they do.

acquired July 15, 2010

After the Sun sets on a summer evening (click here) and the sky fades to black, you may be lucky enough to see thin, wavy clouds illuminating the night, such as these seen over Billund, Denmark, on July 15, 2010. Noctilucent or polar mesospheric clouds, form at very high altitudes—between 80 and 85 kilometers (50–53 miles)—which positions them to reflect light long after the Sun has dropped below the horizon. These “night-shining” clouds are rare—rare enough that Matthew DeLand, who has been studying them for 11 years, has only seen them once in person. But the chances of seeing these elusive clouds are increasing.

DeLand, an atmospheric scientist with Science Systems and Applications Inc. and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, has found that polar mesospheric clouds are forming more frequently and becoming brighter. He has been observing the clouds in data from Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet instruments that have been flown on satellites since 1978. The graph above shows how the brightness of the clouds has changed in the Northern Hemisphere. For reasons no one fully understands, the brightness wiggles up and down in step with solar activity, with fewer clouds forming when the Sun is most active. The biggest variability is in the far north. Underlying the changes caused by the Sun, however, is a trend toward brighter clouds. The upward trend in brightness, says DeLand, reveals subtle changes in the atmosphere that may be linked to greenhouse gases....

While the Mesopheric clouds are beautiful when they are lit by the sun. While their measure is a huge achievement by Earth scientists. The fact this is happening is not a good thing. The increased migration of water to upper layers of Earth's atmosphere is a great worry. Sincerely. I would never pretend to state this was not a concern for humanity on Earth. I have dedicated too much time of my life to make light of anything that might be frivilous. None of this is frivilous. I don't lie and I love my sons and grandchildren deeply.

All this information collected and studied by these scientists IS undisputable PROOF of a dangerously warming trend of Earth effected by human activity and consumerism. Amazing humans can do this to a planet, but, there are a lot of us and growing in number everyday; what we are doing to Earth's gaseous layers matters. Greenhouse gas emissions has to stop. There is dearly no other answer.

My, my, my they want to run again.

Ann go back to the Olympics. Doesn't your horse dance in the winter or something?

May 30, 2013

Romney (click here) was viewed as an integral part of the 2012 campaign, helping to soften her husband's edges and delivering a key speech on his behalf at the Republican National Convention last summer in Tampa. Those efforts, however, did not sway women voters, who overwhelmingly chose Obama over Romney. The 20-point gender gap was the largest measured by Gallup since 1952.

Romney blamed the gender gap on the way her husband was portrayed as a "ruthless businessman" and on the "negative nature of the campaign."

"Mitt and I did everything we could," she said....

Looking ahead to the 2016 presidential race, Romney said she and her husband are "very, very partial" to his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, and hope the Wisconsin congressman makes his own White House bid.

S. Amendment 711 - legal guns - continued

 ``Rimfire Rifles--Autoloaders
       ``AMT Lightning 25/22 Rifle
       ``AMT Lightning Small-Game Hunting Rifle II(below) Some of these are actually a bit of surprise, however, the AMT rifles are a collector item because they aren't made anymore. 


I have an AMT Lightening, (click here) it was discontinued years ago because ruger sued amt to stop making it. Well it was pretty much an exact copy of the MKII, but I love it.
I would like information on accurizing it. I hear about fire lapping and such...not sure how to do that. It's the stainless 6" model. It's very fussy on the type of ammo used. If I shoot cheap hollow points bang, clear a jam, bang, clear a jam. but if I shoot Rem target...perfect.
Any hints about polishing things or parts I can change to increase accuracy and reliablility are greaty appreciated.
       ``AMT Magnum Hunter Auto Rifle
       ``Anschutz 525 Deluxe Auto
       ``Armscor Model 20P Auto Rifle
       ``Browning Auto .22 Rifles
       ``Browning Auto-22 Rifle
       ``Browning Auto-22 Grade VI
       ``Browning BAR .22 Auto Rifle
       ``Browning SA-22 Semi-Auto 22 Rifle(below - for sale online for $475.00 click here)


``Henry U.S. Survival .22
       ``Henry U.S. Survival Rifle AR-7
       ``Krico Model 260 Auto Rifle
       ``Lakefield Arms Model 64B Auto Rifle
       ``Marlin Model 60 Self Loading Rifles
       ``Marlin Model 60C
       ``Marlin Model 60SB
       ``Marlin Model 60S-CF
       ``Marlin Model 60SN
       ``Marlin Model 60ss Self-Loading Rifle
       ``Marlin Model 70 Auto-loading Rifles
       ``Marlin Model 70 HC Auto
       ``Marlin Model 70P Papoose(below, sold online at Cowan's Auctions for $230.00)



       ``Marlin Model 70PSS
       ``Marlin Model 795
       ``Marlin Model 795SS
       ``Marlin Model 922 Magnum Self-Loading Rifle
       ``Marlin Model 990l Self-Loading Rifle
       ``Marlin Model 995 Self-Loading Rifle
       ``Mossberg 702 Plinkster(below - sold online at icollector.com for $105.00. That is correct One hundred and five dollars US. Not one thousand, not ten thousand. One hundred five dollars US.)


Nobody wants this junk. Everyone wants the Big Boom. The THRILL.
       ``Norinco Model 22 ATD Rifle
       ``Remington 552BDL Speedmaster Rifle
       ``Remington Model 522 Viper Autoloading Rifle
       ``Remington Model 597 Blaze Camo
       ``Remington Model 597 Pink Camo
       ``Remington Model 597 Synthetic Scope Combo
       ``Ruger 10/22 Autoloading Carbine (w/o folding stock)
       ``Ruger 10/22 Compact
       ``Ruger 10/22 Sporter
       ``Ruger 10/22 Target
       ``Survival Arms AR-7 Explorer Rifle (below - nice people buy these guns - he bought this for his Dad. They pass them onto each other.)

       ``Texas Remington Revolving Carbine
       ``Thompson/Center R-55 All-Weather
       ``Thompson/Center R-55 Benchmark
       ``Thompson/Center R-55 Classic
       ``Thompson/Center R-55 Rifles
       ``Thompson/Center R-55 Sporter
       ``Voere Model 2115 Auto Rifle

Thank you for your interest, until later.

The State Department can't have political contact. Where does the RNC think they are going with this?

Secretary Clinton wasn't even at the DNC convention. This is a waste of money by the RNC.

May 30, 2013
Katie Pavlich

The Republican National Committee (click here) has submitted a Freedom of Information Request for emails between the State Department and President Obama's re-election campaign in an effort to get the truth about talking points developed to explain the 9/11 Benghazi terror attack. The FOIA requests copies of all emails and documents that include the words "Libya" and/or "Benghazi" between State Department employees and Obama's campaign staff between September 11 and November 7, 2012. This time period covers the 9/11 attack and the appearance of UN Ambassador Susan Rice on five Sunday shows when she blamed a YouTube video....

The US Post Office doesn't have it rough enough, right? Aren't there limited hubs now?

Why aren't there sniffer dogs in the USPS hubs to find these letters and help pin down where they are coming from?


Posted at 01:20 PM ET, 05/17/2012

...But the closing (click here) of 232 processing centers will be phased in over three years instead of the faster pace postal officials announced last fall.

“After input from our customers, we’ve modified our approach,” Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said at a news conference. “But the sobering reality is that the First Class mail [volume] will not return.”...

I don't think a post office mark is enough. Maybe the collection is too general, but, it is a thought.

Any chance a small residual would be on the machines? Mail trucks?

It is picked up in small amounts at government offices, I would think it would be possible to do the same thing at the hubs.

It can't be that random that it would send detective in circles.

I don't even know if it could be done with dogs. They'd have to be trained with castor beans.

Here we go at 4:00 PM again. Do you believe this? They are becoming clock work.

That is a substantial shelf cloud. People need to be taking shelter now. The upper level rotation is where the water vapor is, not on the ground.

Waiting until the rotation starts if foolish. Completely foolish. Then there is something like 15 minutes to take shelter. This is nonsense. God forbid people should lose a moment of production from their work environment to be cautious.

Do Oklahomans every learn? Do they think for a living or do they like laughing death in the face?

Is this the most dysfunctional culture ever witnessed? The USA spends millions, if not billions on warnings and then add the monies to recover the lives of these people and they can't even act prudently in their own interest? What the heck is that mess?

Hell, I don't know, maybe life insurance pays better than their life time of earnings from work.

I am suppose to care about this and people can't even protect their own lives when this level of threat exists. Whatever happened to 'Better go home, take the rest of the day off. Go take care of your children." What happened to that? It is better the people of Oklahoma City stay on the job and laugh death in the face because God is on their side? Is that it? It is a game of 'Dare Devil?' Adult version?

Tornado Watch 252 (click here) remains valid until 10 pm CDT this evening for the following areas in Oklahoma This Watch includes 29 counties in central Oklahoma Canadian Cleveland Grady Kingfisher Lincoln Logan mcclain Oklahoma Payne Pottawatomie in east central Oklahoma Pontotoc Seminole in northern Oklahoma Noble in Southeast Oklahoma Atoka Bryan coal Hughes Johnston Marshall in southern Oklahoma Carter Garvin Jefferson love Murray Stephens in southwest Oklahoma Caddo Comanche cotton Tillman this includes the cities of: Ada, Anadarko, Ardmore, Atoka. Chandler, Chickasha, Coalgate, Duncan, Durant, El Reno. Frederick, Guthrie, Holdenville, Kingfisher, Lawton. Madill, Marietta, Moore, Mustang, Norman, Oklahoma City. Pauls Valley, Perry, Purcell, Seminole, Shawnee. Stillwater, Sulphur, Tishomingo, Walters, Waurika and Yukon.

A Tornado Watch is not enough? You actually have to see the debris before it becomes an emergency?

That is bullshit. My orientation is that when there is a tornado watch I take cover and wait for an all clear before standing down from an emergency warning. That has been my orientation from the time I was a child. This is screwed up values if I ever witnessed any.

At this point all the Executive Branch has to do is right regulations and wait for lawsuits. There is no reason to do anything else.

The Press have acted like sheep over a cliff and have been completely void of ethical standards in regard to the leak made by the Associated Press.

I think it more than decent the DOJ wants to meet with journalists to determine how to facilitate their practice. If they can't do themselves this favor then they don't deserve it.

They can have their temper tantrums else where. They can go to Congress and stamp their feet all they want and find a way to pass Shield Law legislation. They don't have respect for themselves; why should anyone else?

Sunday, September 11, 2011

There are many varied interpretations (click here) of the journalistic phrase "off the record". To some it means the comments can be used as long as there is no attribution. To some it means that anything said can only be used as indirect background information, without attribution or direct quotation. And still to others it means anything said during an interview is unable to be used in any form whatsoever....


The Congress and the Press seem to be suffering from the same problem. They want to exploit every opportunity for ratings and wealth. At least they'll have something in common to begin their support for The Shield Law.

May 29, 2013
By Dylan Byers
The Associated Press (click here) says it will not attend this week's off-the-record meeting with Attorney General Eric Holder unless the Justice Department decides to change its mind and conduct the meeting on the record....

This only goes to prove the lousy attitude the Associated Press has about the integrity of the Obama Administration. If the profession does not want input to the outcome of their practice then they don't have to, maybe it is too much for them to handle. Poor dears.

The DOJ has done nothing wrong except uphold the national security interests of the USA and its allies. I don't care if they cannot own up to their own wrongdoings and move forward. If they are stuck in their own sympathy for each other, it is their loss. 

Time to move on and the DOJ simply needs to write effective regulation to protect the country and wait for lawsuits. Simple and given the bull-oney going on it will provide a solidly valid platform that sincerely will be worth the cost. They had their chance. This is ridiculous.

Given the very hostile attitudes of the Press and the House and the Republicans there is no sense in providing more fodder.

It is completely obvious the obstinate attitudes by the AP and other members of the Press are power seeking authority. They want the opportunity to carry on with the public to leverage some kind of idea of what they believe should be First Amendment anarchy. 

No.

The Rich get Richer and the National Debt gets larger.

There is absolutely no reason why effective tax reform should not proceed, especially after this report. It is very obvious where the Middle Class finds their tax relief and where they don't.

May 20, 2013

Michael Cohen

...The report, (click here) which was released Wednesday, examined exclusions from taxable income, such as tax breaks for employer-sponsored health insurance, net pension contributions and earnings, capital gains on assets transferred at death, and a portion of Social Security and Railroad Retirement benefits. Other top tax expenditures included itemized deduction such as certain taxes paid to state and local governments, mortgage interest payments, and charitable contributions. The other three tax expenditures were preferential tax rates on capital gains and dividends; as well as two refundable tax credits: the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit.

The report found that in calendar year 2013, more than half of the combined benefits of those tax expenditures will accrue to households with income in the highest quintile (or one-fifth) of the population, with an estimated 17 percent going to households in the top 1 percent of the population. In contrast, 13 percent of those tax expenditures will accrue to households in the middle quintile, and only 8 percent will accrue to households in the lowest quintile....

The graph is found in the CBO reporting of their findings. (click here) There is only one thing the Rich and the Poor of the USA share; their after tax income percentages.

This is another attack fashioned by FOX News and the Symbiotes in the USA House.

The Testimony before the House Committee is taken out of context and the House members know it. But, since when does that stop the House, Murdoch or the Press?

As much as the Press wants to get their hooks into the Obama Administration, in particular the DOJ, this isn't going to do it. I watched this testimony. I saw this part of Holder's testimony about this subject. Rosen's name was never mentioned. This is a 'gotcha' thing that isn't going to work.

Let's get something straight about these so called hearings by the House. Many of these, including this one with AG Holder, are routine meetings. They aren't really hearings. This is the method used by the Executive Branch and the Legislative Branch to talk to each other. This was not an investigation hearing. Some of the House Committee members actually used their time productively. There is no need for more hearings. The Committee Members are welcome to submit questions to the DOJ for answers. If the DOJ is uncooperative or inattentive, the House Committee is welcome to an explanation to that fact, but, this mess that is going on is politics. This has nothing to do with any investigation of the DOJ.

If the House actually wants FACTS to back up their HUBRIS they actually need to do their own fact finding and put together timelines, authorities involved in that time line and bring forth EDUCATED and PREPARED questions to an investigative hearing. Basically, the House has to do their homework. Right now the House uses their meetings with the Executive Branch as photo ops for political commercials. When this happens, why should the DOJ take any of them seriously? The DOJ isn't suppose to do the homework that belongs to the House. Just that simple. If the House does not have clear directions to their questions there is no sense to taking them seriously. How is AG Holder suppose to prepare for a meeting or a hearing if there is no basis to it to begin with?

The House is a prime example of ineffective and incompetent government that runs on steam and political hubris instead of governing. Governing is a real word and at least the Executive Branch takes that word seriously. I suggest the Press do their own work as well to know when these House members are indulging in malpractice, it might even make fools out of the propagandists at FOX that counted on bluffing their way through illegal activity.

May 30, 2013
By Gary J. Remal

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee (click here) are questioning U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s honesty in denying he played a role in targeting journalists as part of a Justice Department probe of classified leaks in light of reports that Holder himself approved a grab for Fox News reporter James Rosen’s emails.

Holder told Congress at a May 15 hearing he had removed himself from decisions to collect Associated Press phone records, but The Washington Post reported that he had signed off on the search warrant for Rosen’s emails.

Judiciary Chairman U.S. Rep. Bob Goodlatte of Virginia and U.S. Rep. James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, both Republicans, wrote to Holder yesterday saying news reports 
“appear to be at odds with your sworn testimony.”...

Can we please stop the fall better than this?

May 30, 2013
By Nigel Morris and Charlie Cooper

More than half a million Britons (click here) have resorted to using food banks to stave off hunger and destitution, the Government has been warned.

Major charities signalled their alarm over a dramatic rise in the nation's "hidden hungry" – families who are forced to ask for help to feed themselves – because of wage cuts, the squeeze on benefits and the continuing economic downturn. The numbers have trebled in the past year alone and are likely to continue rising rapidly despite Britain's status as one of the world's wealthiest nations, according to a joint report by Oxfam and Church Action on Poverty....


Oxfam in Great Britain. A half million of the population in the UK is about 9 percent of the country.

When a Wall Street darling CAUSES economic downturns, employee lay offs and lines at food kitchens, the pay needs to reflect that. Why? Because if the Wall Street Darling continues that trend in the face of economic down trend, they won't have a market for long.

Blankfein is not only over paid, he is scandalously overpaid.

By Elizabeth Dexheimer - May 29, 2013 7:12 PM ET

Bloomberg Markets Magazine

Bankers (click here) at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) had a tumultuous 2012. The firm cut 900 jobs, promoted the fewest executives to the exalted post of partner in more than a decade and slashed the portion of revenue set aside for compensation to 38 percent from 42 percent a year earlier.

For the man at the very top of Goldman Sachs’s pay pyramid, Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein, 2012 was his finest year since the boom times of 2007. Blankfein, 58, was awarded $26 million for his work last year, lifting him to No. 1 in the Bloomberg Markets ranking of the best-paid CEOs at North America’s 20 largest financial companies by customer deposits.

John Stumpf, who led Wells Fargo & Co (WFC). to a record profit of $18.9 billion, ran a distant second, at $19.3 million, Bloomberg Markets magazine will report in its July issue....

Muller is leaving evidently.

May 29, 2013|By Henry Pierson Curtis and Amy Pavuk, Staff Writers

An Islamic group (click here) Wednesday called for a federal civil-rights investigation of last week's fatal shooting of an Orlando man by an FBI agent investigating his connection to the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.

And the Tampa director of that group said not only was 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev unarmed when he was shot by the agent May 22, he was hit seven times, including once in the head....

I promised myself I would not do this. Oh, well.

She finally made sense.

Michele Bachmann, the Neocon of all Neocons. Do I detect Libertarian insight taken seriously by President Obama? Maybe, huh?

This was December 2011. Months away. Iran's caliphate was only months away.

"Bachmann for Vice President with Romney"

Michele Bachmann will face ethical issues. She is a lawyer. She is licensed and the FBI is involved.

The scandals within the White House are being touted as a victory by the RNC. Reince Priebus is touting the scandals as major victories in 2014. It isn't all that. But, this is the party that stated Romney was a winner in 2012.

The Midwest is being pelted with hail. Wheat.

May 29, 2013
2230z
UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of North and West Hemsphere (click here for 12 hour loop)

Hail Report, OH, OK, KS, MS, IA, NE, WY, TX, PA, CO, WI (click here)

Wednesday, May 29th, 2013

Storm #4

Location: NEMAHA, KS
Hail size: 4″
County population: 10374
County income: $38891
CORNING, NEMAHA, KS

The average size across the region is between 1 inch and 1.75 inches.

Severe weather threat elevates for Wichita and much of Kansas (click here)

May 29, 2013
By Stan Finger

...“Large hail, damaging winds and tornadoes – possibly strong – may accompany supercells that develop during the day,” an SPC outlook for Wednesday stated....

Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2013/05/29/2822407/severe-weather-threat-elevates.html#storylink=cpy

Brit Hume nearly dropped from his chair when Mr. Williams spoke about the involvement of an Attorney General in signing papers.

Mr. Williams was off script. It wasn't politically convenient for FOX News to actually have a logical and legitimate point of view voiced by a man once fired by NPR. It would seem as though Mr. Williams simply can't find 'sea legs' with anyone. I can relate. It is difficult to be a person of moral conviction and love of their country, isn't it?

Strange bedfellows about within this dynamic, Mr. Williams. If I may?

The Huffington Post made a more than accurate and concise observation. It stated thath Mr. James Rosen DECIDED to cross the red line.

Basically, it was one infraction of national security for anyone that close to the CIA to actually leak information for political purposes (Desperate times require desperate actions, I suppose.) that would compromise an agent, USA national security and the security of allies, but, it is an entirely different issue to realize there was a journalist cooperating with such dangerous dynamics.

No one is doubting James Rosen was not the person who found the information, it would be more than interesting if that was the case. But, with any journalist there are many decisions along the way in order to have information and opinion published.

There was the decision by the leaker to make the decision to compromise the nation, there was the decision by the journalist to write the article, there was the decision by the editor(s) to actually publish it and there was the CEO that stood by it. So, to say the problem belongs only to AG Holder is scapegoating the good man. That is all this is about AG Holder, Mr. Williams. He is being scapegoated because there are serious infractions of the law within this issue. 

I appreciate your voice. May it continue to carry the truth and the need for attention to our nation's national security and that of our allies. Your personal security, my personal security, the personal security of every person in this country may actually count on it. Thank you.

Posted: 05/29/2013 8:25 am
by Peter Scheer

The Justice Department (click here) has been getting hammered in (and by) the press over a leak investigation involving the seizure of emails from the personal gmail account of James Rosen, a reporter for Fox News. The criticism has focused on the revelation, contained in a 2010 FBI affidavit used to obtain a search warrant, that the government then viewed Rosen not merely as a witness, someone who possessed evidence about the source of a national security leak, but as an indictable law-breaker....