376 law enforcement officers

Robb Elementary School had grades 2nd thru 4th.

Total number of students before the slaughter was 538 students.

There were at least one official for every 2 students. They could have escorted every child in that school to safety and they couldn’t bring themselves to walk down a hall.

Group think was of survival of the officers. The AR-15 had them paralyzed. No one wanted to die and the group decided, based on past school shootings, that everyone in the classroom was dead. Why risk one’s life if everyone is dead anyway?

I supposed they had him cornered and contained. He couldn’t continue to kill. What else do you want from nearly 400 law enforcement officials?

Putin going to Iran

Is he going to support Iran’s aspirations to nuclear weapons or deter it? Given that Iran has enough uranium to begin weapons testing, I doubt Putin is going to deter it.

I sincerely believe no other country wants a nuclear Middle East. Iran provides weapons to other Shia, namely the Houthis. A nuclear Middle East simply is not a good idea.

Hezbollah does not need nukes in Lebanon or Venezuela.

Putin has become a ridiculously dangerous person. Hitler never had nukes when he committed genocide. The global community needs to be serious about the recklessness that is Russia.

Russia’s nuclear program is unsophisticated and reckless. The deaths of Russian scientists is telling.

Bill Barr’s Election Rule

For as much as I believe Bill Barr ran a corrupt office at least at the DOJ, especially in regard to the Muller investigation, I was impressed with his limit setting with Trump regarding January 6th and “The Big Lie.”

Hind sight is frequently more clear than foresight. In that, I have to wonder what Barr knew about January 6th coup attempt and when he knew it. If he had any inclination about the coup, was the extra condition added to the department’s memo regarding election season investigation, for the purpose of giving Trump a completely clear runway? 

Knowing today, the FBI stated the 2020 election was not effected by foreign powers, by ensuring Trump had a clear runway, there was no reason to question the election. Hence, no valid reason to delay the peaceful transfer of power.

I think Barr knew how to handle Trump and while ethics is in question, maybe more than ethics, he managed to keep his job. In realizing his role in trying to stop Trump from the coup with the reality of his election loss, Barr’s character is revealed or redeemed.

That said.

When it comes to the Merrick DOJ, I think a reassessment of that memo, which out of respect includes Barr’s special condition, needs to eliminate that special condition. The Merrick DOJ needs to get on with prosecution so Barr doesn’t have to live through another Trump administration.

This was a real assault on the country. The country needs the DOJ to do its job to protect it. Sooner the better.

Most polls of Americans believe Trump should be charged. 60 percent of Americans. Trump was an organizer to give the White Supremacists/Nationalists a clear runway to violence and the coup.

The Secret Service is living up to its’ name

I don’t appreciate the secretive Secret Service losing records. Oops. They need to give testimony about this phenomena.

In addition to the testimony the devices before and after the loss needs be interrogated. I do believe the FBI is the best agency to carry out that device interrogations.

I also believe an ethics review is in order for the agents. It is more than appropriate and in those ethics review is to understand their loyalty to the US Constitution.

Oh, yeah, during the Trump administration were there any whistleblower agents? And, if there were, where were those reports filed?

The Secret Service “Oops” opens the agency up to all kinds of questions.

Is the FCC leftovers from Trump the problem? The answer is yes.

July 18, 2022
By Cristiano Lima

Jessica Rosenworcel (click here) returned as a Commissioner to the Federal Communications Commission on August 11, 2017 after being nominated by the President and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate....

Democratic lawmakers’ (click here) inability to secure a majority at the Federal Communications Commission has stymied plans for the agency to restore Obama-era net neutrality rules.

Amid the impasse, lawmakers are renewing efforts to take the issue into their own hands with a sweeping new bill, according to a copy obtained by The Technology 202.

Led by Sens. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the Net Neutrality and Broadband Justice Act would reclassify broadband as a telecommunications service and open companies like AT&T and Verizon up to stricter oversight by the FCC....

Rosenworcel has been trying to deal with spectrum since 2014, it is time to move on with net neutrality.

Net Neutrality as it was written BACK IN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION!!

More than any other invention of our time, (click here) the Internet has unlocked possibilities we could just barely imagine a generation ago. And here's a big reason we've seen such incredible growth and innovation: Most Internet providers have treated Internet traffic equally. That's a principle known as "net neutrality" — and it says that an entrepreneur's fledgling company should have the same chance to succeed as established corporations, and that access to a high school student's blog shouldn't be unfairly slowed down to make way for advertisers with more money....

Rosenworcel has been involved in the FCC for a long time, what is the problem already!

June 28, 2022
By Riley Haight

Washington - At a conference (click here) hosted by the American Library Association on Friday, FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel reaffirmed her support for net neutrality rules.

According to a press release, Rosenworcel stated she wants to make a “return to common carrier regulation of internet service providers which aims to prevent ISPs from slowing down or blocking web traffic.”

Rosenworcel “fully backs” net neutrality rules passed under the Obama administration that were repealed during the Trump administration. “I opposed the last administration’s effort to roll it back, and I want it to once again become the law of the land,” she stated at the ALA....

President Biden needs to get this straightened out and make progress. This is ridiculous! The public is tired of Trumpism getting in the way. The public is tired of waiting!

LIVE FROM GSMA MOBILITY LIVE, ATLANTA: (click here)  Having singled out spectrum as one of the FCC’s biggest challenges at this event two years ago, FCC commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel continues to believe the issue is critical and hinted at plans to launch a high-band spectrum incentive auction.

She hailed the organisation’s incentive auction in the 600MHz band, which involves asking broadcasters to return spectrum they may not be using so the FCC can sell it to operators for use in mobile broadband.


“We sweeten the pot by offering existing broadcasters a cut from the proceeds of the sale,” she said, describing the process as a “really elegant, academic concept” that the FCC is proud of.

The process is ongoing and is expected to finish by early 2017....

OBSTRUCT, OBSTRUCT, OBSTRUCT!

Obstructed Government (click here) Because of the Trump White House the Republicans have the federal government deadlocked and don't care about the people.

REPUBLICANS ARE THE PROBLEM STILL. This is an election year issue!

Ms. Sohn is highly qualified as well as a lawyer. It is time to put responsible people on the FCC that will make Net Neurtrality a reality. This is another topic that has to come before the voters in November this year. Net Neutrality is long overdue and it is the radical GOP that is holding it up. Enough of this mess. Put it out there to the voters. This is VITAL to small business and children! 

June 2, 2022
By Margaret Harding McGill and Sara Fischer

Congress hasn't budged (click here) on President Biden's pick for a key tie-breaking FCC seat as the clock ticks down on the chance for a vote.

Why it matters: Without confirmation of Biden's nominee, Gigi Sohn, the communications regulator will remain deadlocked — hobbling efforts to enact the administration's agenda of expanding broadband access and promoting digital equity.

State of play: If Sohn, a lawyer and co-founder of the tech and telecom advocacy group Public Knowledge, doesn't win a vote before summer recess, Democrats could lose their chance to fill the seat should Republicans take control of Congress in November....

These are huge problems. The people can't get their business done and it because Republicans are obstructing the smooth running of the federal government. 

So, in addition to Republicans making women second class citizens there is the FACT that Republicans cannot commit to government that runs smoothly. The FCC and Net Neutrality are hanging in the balance in the November elections. It is time to put the Republicans in full view of the hate of people and small business. Evidently, we get in the way of Russian oligarchs and tax breaks for Wall Street.

Look. Russia sabotaged the 2016 elections, the USA cannot afford an FCC that doesn't work for the people and their elections.

Enough of McConnell dictating our lives with radical Supreme Court justices and stacking the deck within the USA agencies. It is time to make this TACTIC against the people an awareness topic in the November elections. The USA is a  mess and it is because of the Republicans.

It would be good if the New York Times continued it's "Live" updates regarding the Climate Crisis.

July 18, 2022

A country largely without air-conditioning (click here) was struggling to cope in the heat. Rail service was limited for fear the tracks would buckle, and flights at Britain’s largest air base were halted.

The italics simply indicates a different country from the previous paragraph. Each reporting has authors.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain said on Monday that he had visited areas affected by wildfires in the western region of Extremadura. “Climate change kills,” Mr. Sánchez said. “All these waves of wildfires have behind them heat waves caused by the climatic emergency that the planet is experiencing.”

Several areas of France have experienced record-breaking temperatures, approaching or surpassing 100 degrees Fahrenheit in towns including Brest, Saint-Brieuc and Nantes, according to the national weather forecaster. But conditions were expected to quickly shift in the coming hours, with strong winds pushing temperatures down by nearly half in some places along France’s southwestern coast.

The Eastern seaboard seems to becoming more tropical with frequent if not daily rains. The entire Eastern seaboard, including the southeast.

We know for a fact schools of fish in the oceans are shifting north. The problem is they aren't necessarily meeting up with their usual diets. That reality could cause fisheries to collapse, but, marine scientists have had their finger on the pulse of that reality for some time now.

But, as to people, other than their diets and where it is going to come from; with shifting temperatures of the ocean the reality of daily storms in the subtropics that was once Florida, is now farther north than before. In that lies the reality that native vegetation growth could easily be encouraged to allow for more removal of CO2. 

Temperate rainforests are a strong potential if states pay attention to their rainfalls and the vegetation growth that is being recorded by botanists. If temperate rainforests are developing in these regions, it should be encouraged and protected.

July 18, 2022
By David Epstein

We’re just about halfway through meteorological summer (click here) — those warmest months of the year — and it’s going to be toasty this week.

If you looked at a chart of average temperature in Greater Boston, you would see that the warmest air typically occurs around July 21, and it’s no surprise that this week is going to be the hottest week of the summer so far.

With a frontal system approaching Monday, clouds will be plentiful yet rain will not. As the moisture moves toward the coastline, it will lose its potency, and the best chance of afternoon and evening showers and storms will be well west of Route 495 and north into New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine....

Yes, the northern reaches of the Climate Crisis could be about temperate rainforests. Not tropical, but, subtropical. Actually, I would expect it. I once made that observation to Former Governor Bev Purdue.

This is another woman with no rights or respect.

Massachusetts law states the statute of limitations on sexual assault is 15 years, why hasn't this case been approached yet?

• Rape: 15 years time limit.
• Assault with intent to commit rape: 15 years time limit.
• Conspiracy to commit or accessory of rape/assault with intent to commit rape: 15 years time limit.
• Armed robbery or Conspiracy to commit crime/accessory to crime: 10-year time limit.

Ms. James needs her job back to protect her pension and add to it. What I don't understand is why Russell was never apprehended for sexual assault?

July 17, 2022
By Ivy Scott

Malden - A decade ago, Brenda James lost her job (click here) at the Boston Police Department after nearly 20 years as an officer. Despite myriad legal setbacks, she never abandoned her fight to be reinstated and finally tell her side of the story in full.

Two weeks ago came the moment James, 59, had been awaiting for years, as she stood before a panel at the state’s Division of Administrative Law Appeals in Malden and gave her version of the night Captain Paul Russell allegedly stormed up behind her in his office and tried to wrestle her gun out of its holster.

His behavior “did not follow protocol,” James testified. “As a Black woman, I felt extremely nervous and uncomfortable in that situation.”

After that altercation in June 2012, James was never permitted to return to work. In a department where Black officers are disciplined at a disproportionate rate, James worries her ouster is another example of a culture that reflexively defends high-ranking, white male officials. Her prolonged legal fight, she said in an interview, is evidence of the department’s determination to “keep sweeping things under the rug so they never get properly addressed.”...

"Good Night, Moon"

The waning gibbous

19.6 days old

75.5 lit

July 17, 2022

By Ari Shapiro, Kat Lonsdorf, and Patrick Jarenwattanannon

This week, we got a new view of space. And it was epic. (click here)

Cosmic cliffs of glowing gas, spinning galaxies, dying stars. The James Webb telescope caught those images of ancient history — billions of light years away — showing what the universe looked like when it was just forming after the Big Bang.

Some 20,000 people worked on the project for almost two decades, including engineer Bill Ochs, who has been the project manager since 2011. He joined All Things Considered to share the journey to this monumental snapshot in time....

I am sincerely proud of the American space program, especially when it opens up the knowledge of astrophysicists (click here).

The James Webb telescope has began an entire new branch of science. This is the way a healthy society acts. It makes investments into the understanding of our world and it's place in all that is "out there." Every tax paying American contributed to this project by NASA. We, as a country, have the most advanced technology ever to understand the universe we are a part of and it is all good.

I congratulate NASA on this accomplishment and all allies that participated. The result is wonderful. We need to hear more and more.