USDA Scientists

Unionizing is good. I am surprised they weren't unionized. Government employees are usually always unionized for this very reason.

They need to file a lawsuit against Donald Trump and Sonny Perdue. The jobs being erased are vital to the American people. We all know that, but, we are dealing with idiots in the Trump Administration trying to reduce the federal government footprint to zero by next year. It was a campaign promise.

It has been my experience judges listen and they absolutely love to listen to scientists. Scientists have great minds and naturally gravitate to details. Judges love the fact critical thinkers can bring precise information in a way that allows clear minded decision making.

As a perspective, after Trump was elected, there appeared articles and ads for American scientists in journals and on job boards. Europe saw this coming. There are now American scientists in practice and in education in Europe because of this exodus.

It isn't right, but, it is the reality. The Trump administration has to be stopped. First, a court injunction to end the destruction of the USA's scientific basis that contributes to the well being of Americans must be filed. The USDA has never needed it's scientists more. The Climate Crisis is upon us and the scientists within the USDA must continue to do their work.

I believe in being prepared. In two weeks there may be an injunction that stops Trump and Perdue, but, for the sake of argument, let's say there isn't. The USDA scientists need to ask themselves what becomes of my work, my records, my research, my outreach and the very building that houses my lab and office.

It is my belief Trump hates intensely and he especially hates scientists because they outsmart him. It doesn't matter if USDA scientists want to explain the impact of their work so the president and agricultural secretary can appreciate it because those two men don't care to appreciate it.

If the buildings that house the current laboratories and offices are abandoned by their employees because of a very HOSTILE work environment, I am fairly confident any records will be destroyed, furniture sold along with laboratory equipment and ultimately the buildings sold as real estate. There is one other possibility and that is a crony of Trump's actually wants to buy everything inside the buildings where laboratories current stand and start a private research firm.

That is not the worry of the unionized scientists. They need to protect their work in every way possible relating to the judge such records cannot be destroyed because they are priceless. The American people paid for that research and it would be a crime if all those records were destroyed. The USDA Scientists have the best interest of the people in mind and they have to fight with all they have to end this hideous priority by greedy men.

In going before a judge, the scientists and their lawyer have to be ready to leave their buildings and labs without resistance. The resistance they need to exert is through the courts. I am quite confident in the right hands Purdue's ideology will melt away because it is unconstitutional. The USDA is a branch of a Cabinet Level part of the government. Trump and Perdue cannot simply eliminate pieces of a cabinet level of government.

The USDA IS LEGISLATED AND IT IS THE LEGISLATURE THAT CAN DISSOLVE IT, NOT SOME IDIOT IN THE SECRETARY'S OFFICE.

Founded in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed into law an act of Congress establishing the United States Department of Agriculture. Two and one-half years later, in what would be his final annual message to the Congress; Lincoln called USDA "The People's Department."

Trump and Perdue are attempting to dissolve the USDA as the American people know it. THAT IS ILLEGAL.

The USDA scientists need to get in front of a judge to end the THREATS and MEANINGLESS plans of Sonny Perdue and Donald J. Trump.

THEY CAN'T DO THIS.

Additionally, if the doors are locked and the locks all changed in two weeks, the USDA scientists are ENTITLED to their REGULAR salary. Just because a door to a laboratory is locked, doesn't mean their employment changes. Benefits. Retirement and pensions and all the entities that brought brilliant scientists to work for the USDA have to be honored.

But, to BE CIVIL. Judges love it when people are civil. Protect records and work and prepare to leave as described. The lawyers have to stop this mess and because it is Trump it is a mess.

Scientists don't worry about constitutionality on a regular basis. They worry about the scientific process and peer review. I wish them well. I think they will do fine. Unfortunately, this should have started months ago and that is why the emergency injunction is needed.

Good luck. It is the people that will suffer if this is allowed to transpire. That is the real crime.

The Trump administration has morally bankrupted the USA. Bolton wants Iran pursuing nuclear weapons and now he has what he wants. The USA has lost it's capacity to negotiate peace. Kim Jong Un will never commit to denuclearization. The Middle East is now unstable and on a glide path to nuclear capacity in the region. The region is awash with militias that would love to get their hands on any form of nuclear capacity which would threaten sovereign authorities.

The world is a much more dangerous place today and Donald Trump's campaign rhetoric is to thank for it.

The NATO alliance is critical to USA national security.

July 1, 2019

Tehran -- Iran said Monday (click here) that its enriched uranium stockpile had passed the 300-kilogram limit set by the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. Foreign Minister Javad Zarif confirmed the news, but a spokesman for his office left room for the remaining adherents to the agreement to try and salvage it, noting that the move announced on Monday was "reversible."...

Mexico: Freak storm buries Guadalajara in 2-meter deep hail (click here for news article - thank you)

Today, Guadalajara, Mexico is covered in 5 feet of ice from an enormous hail storm. 

July 1, 2019
By Kristina Pydynowski

Tropical Storm Barbara (click here) is set to become the next hurricane in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and take a track farther to the west than Alvin.
Less than 48 hours after the demise of once-Hurricane Alvin, Barbara formed over the warm waters several hundred miles to the southwest of Mexico on Sunday.

Further strengthening is expected as Barbara remains over warm water and in an area with lessening wind shear, both of which are conducive for a tropical system to intensify....

NOAA Full Disk GOES West Water Vapor Satellite (click here for a loop - thank you)
0600 UTC

It might be easier to see the upper air mixing over Mexico in Infrared. 

NOAA Goes West Infrared Satellite (click here for loop - thank you)
July 1, 2019
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This is the height of the mixing. It is definitely over Guadalajara.

Hurricane season is beginning in the East Pacific. There was a rapid change in equatorial water vapor at the end of Alvin and the spawning of Barbara. The Southern Hemisphere is also turbulent. There is a huge water vapor plume from Indonesia south to Antarctica at the same time there is air mixing over Mexico.

This is definitely a global climate event. Five feet of hail is rare. I don't recall such events in the past 20 years at the very least. 

Basically, the skies over Guadalajara opened up and upper atmosphere cold air mixed with water vapor and the rain turned to ice.

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"Okeydoke"

June 29, 2019
By Mario Briguglio

Nike pays tribute (click here) to the hardworking and irreverent b-ball legend Dennis Rodman with a special edition Air Force 1.

Dressed in a White, Black, and University Red color scheme. The shoe feature Fiery Red leopard print that reimagines the Chicago Bulls’ uniforms while the windy face on the tongue nods to the wild side of Rodman and his classic hairdos.


Check out the official photos below, and you can find this Air Force 1 available directly on Nike.com. The retail price tag is set at $100 USD.

It is classic Rodman.

"Good Night, Moon"

The waning crescent

27.7 day old moon

3.8 percent lit

The moment the world stood still to watch an American place his foot for the very first time on the moon. It is an incredible accomplishment. Americans need to reconcile themselves to the fact, reaching for the moon makes us better and keeps us sharp.

We need to get it right and end the climate crisis.

28 June 2019
By Peter Bradshaw

Sometimes gush (click here) is the only appropriate response and the amazingness never gets any less amazing. The 50-year anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon launch has now been marked by this fascinating documentary, which presents newly discovered colour footage of the build-up with the buzzcut wholesomeness of the astronauts’ goodnaturedly trustful faces in closeup, the electrifying launch, the touchdown and the return to Earth.

Somehow, it doesn’t look like something that happened 50 years ago – but rather an extraordinarily detailed futurist fantasy of what might happen in the years to come, if we could only evolve to some higher degree of verve and hope. And, to my amateur eye, the design of the Apollo rockets is incomparably superior to the Nasa spacecraft that came afterwards or to anything in any sci-fi movie or TV show ever....