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How is Congress going to fund this recovery? This is real time data. February 26, 2018 By John Bacon, Thomas Novelty and Susan Miller A new storm system (click here) forecast to form in the central U.S. threatened to bring additional weather misery to areas struggling to recover from a relentless series of weekend thunderstorms and tornadoes. The new weather system will begin a three-day romp through the lower Mississippi and Tennessee Valleys sometime Tuesday, weather.com meteorologist Chris Dolce said. The map to the lower left are the major rivers of the USA. This does not show all the tributaries leading into the rivers. The real concern beyond the flooding is; if there is this much saturated land low long will it take for the rivers to recede? "After a few dry days, rain will return to some of the waterlogged cities in those regions, exacerbating the flooding situation," Dolce said. More than 250 river gauges reported levels above flood stage from the Great Lakes to Texas, Dolce said. The greatest issues in coming days will be in Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia on Wednesday into early Thursday....
Ivanka Trump-Kushner is a government employee; there are no inappropriate questions if the material is not classified. The accusation by other women about her father is a legitimate question. What does she know and when did she know it? I would like to know if any of the women involved in the accusations and quite possibly non-disclosure agreements, went to Ivanka with their complaints and/or evidence? 28 February 2018 By Ashley Coleman
Ivanka Trump (click here) was questioned about the sexual misconduct allegations against her father while in PyeongChang, South Korea for the Olympics The first daughter said she thought it was 'a pretty inappropriate question' 'I believe my father, I know my father. So I think I have that right as a daughter to believe my father,' she said More than a dozen women have spoken out to accuse the president of inappropriate touching and kissing More recently, reports have suggested that the president had at least two affairs during his marriage to first lady Melania Trump has denied all of the allegations against him ...
As a government employee, Ivanka is held to the same standard as everyone else. The sexual assaults that Donald Trump already bragged about could be viewed as legitimate acts against women and illegal. Trump’s accusers, (click here) clockwise from top left: Summer Zervos, Kristin Anderson, Jessica Leeds, Rachel Crooks, Mindy McGillivray, Karena Virginia, Jessica Drake, Cathy Heller, Jill Harth, Temple Taggart McDowell, Cassandra Searles, Natasha Stoynoff Ivanka needs to consult with her attorney and then come forward with any information. This is the same priviledge Trump believes he has because of his positions within power and his ill gotten wealth. Trump is not supposed to be above the law.
February 26. 2018 By David G. Savage The Supreme Court (click here) handed President Trump a significant defeat Monday, turning down the administration's plea for a quick ruling on the president's power to end special protections for so-called Dreamers. The court's decision not to immediately hear the administration's appeal could keep in place a legal shield for nearly 700,000 young immigrants for the rest of this year, and perhaps longer.... The USA is still organized under the same US Constitution as when the Dreamers were provided immunity from prosecution due to issues with immigration. It was the duty of the Trump's Executive Branch to further the well being of these important Americans. The Executive Branch is responsible for the people of this country and that is all the people, including children that grew up in the USA and educated here. For the promise we keep with the Dreamers, the USA is receiving back well educated people capable of work and expanding the stability of the country. If the Supreme Court believed it could settle the pleading once and for all; it would have without delay.
I don't believe I have stated this yet, but, my sincerest sympathies to all the family and friends of those lost or recovering from injuries. This type of death of young people is unnecessary in the USA. I have tried for over a decade to wake up the legislatures to act to protect people, unfortunately, the NRA is not as worried as I have been and legislators at all levels pander to the NRA and it's ready cash.
Any police officer does not have to enter a situation where they will be killed. They are nearly required to call for back-up if the situation demands it. The Resource Officer is not guilty of a crime; he did the only thing he could do and took up position near the gunman and waited for back-up. Everyone is allowed to live to see another day. The problem here is the same as it was in Columbine, the ready availability of assault weapons by average citizens. February 22, 2018 By Chuck Johnston, Jamiel Lynch and Dakin Andone
Officials (click here) also reported Thursday that surveillance footage from the school shooting was not shown live, as responding officers initially thought. According to Coral Springs Police Chief Tony Pustizzi, the footage had been rewound, and police were watching it on a 20-minute delay, leading them to believe the gunman, Nikolas Cruz, was still in the building when he was long gone. "The delay never put us in a situation where any kids' lives were in danger, any teachers lives were in danger," Pustizzi said at a news conference Thursday afternoon. When officers arrived on the scene of the shooting, he said, they wanted to gain access to the security footage to learn what happened and where the perpetrator could be. But last Wednesday the footage was rewound, Pustizzi told reporters. At some point, there was a miscommunication and officers believed they were watching real-time footage. "The issue was more of a communications failure on who was reviewing the tape, letting our guys know that it was a 20-minute delay in what they were reviewing," Pustizzi said....
The delayed recording was a problem, in that misinformation was relayed, but, the students would have been on lock down by then and none in the hallways to be mistaken for the gunman. ...At 3:02 p.m., when the Broward County timeline says Cruz briefly stopped at a nearby McDonald's, an officer says the suspect dropped a bag near a stairwell. Another officer asks if the footage is a recording. "Yes, sir. It's about a 20-minute delay," the first officer says. "They're following him on video on the camera. They had him exiting the building, running south." At 3:41 p.m., Cruz was identified and taken into custody. That was 39 long minutes where Cruz was among the public after his killing rampage. There was at least one mimic that manifested. That is one of the dangers affiliated with mass killings like this. The attack spawns others to act. And the mimic is not necessarily identical to the mass murder, it could simply be a trigger to carry out killing attacks. Every law enforcement in the country should move to heightened alert status due to the mimic potential after such a mass murder. The public, as well, should be aware of the phenomena that can occur when these mass murders occur. "See something, say something." The police have stated, any suspicious behavior reported is the right thing to do. February 22, 2018 By Alex Horton
An alert security officer (click here) at a Southern California high school helped thwart a potential attack Friday, two days after the deadly Valentine’s Day shooting in Florida that left 17 people dead, authorities said. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said they raced to prevent a copycat attack last Friday,...
The waxing gibbous 10.2 days old 78.5% "Widespread Distribution (click here) of OH/H2O the lunar surface inferred from spectral data" Hydrogen is deposited everywhere, not just the moon, by solar winds. Sol burns hydrogen. Does that mean Mars has H2O, too? If that is the case, then every sun burning hydrogen has a solar system with similar characteristics as Sol. Mining the moon is not realistic. Just because a few hundred pounds of moon rocks came back with astronauts, doesn't mean a few million pounds is a good idea. The moon is a satellite in balance with Earth's gravity. Go mine somewhere in another solar system. Occupying and mining Earth's moon is similar to the climate crisis; it involves more than the USA's Wall Street interests. ...“We find that it doesn’t matter (click here) what time of day or which latitude we look at, the signal indicating water always seems to be present,” said Joshua Bandfield, a senior research scientist with the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and lead author of the new study published in Nature Geoscience. “The presence of water doesn’t appear to depend on the composition of the surface, and the water sticks around.”...
The map to the lower left are the major rivers of the USA. This does not show all the tributaries leading into the rivers. The real concern beyond the flooding is; if there is this much saturated land low long will it take for the rivers to recede?
