The minions of Clarence Thomas. Amazing. Hair and make-up politically correct.

How many met Ginny at Trump's office? Was it actually Clarence Thomas that was president?

Just sayin'.

July 16, 2022
By Lauren Frias

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas (click here) has faced growing ethical concerns from critics due to his wife Ginni Thomas's political activism and participation in partisan politics — especially her support for former President Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election.

In January, Thomas held the lone dissenting opinion in the Supreme Court's order rejecting a bid from former President Donald Trump to withhold presidential records from the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack on January 6, 2021.

A number of people who at one point ran in Clarence Thomas's circle went on to help prop up the former president — some of whom have been evoked during the January 6 House panel's public hearings.

Conservative news host Laura Ingraham and former Trump lawyer John Eastman are among those who formerly clerked for the Supreme Court justice and now share ties with Trump....

Lightning is a growing issue. It isn't necessarily predictive in it's behavior now.

This is from the Tampa Bay areas on July 6, 2022. Florida has also been finding water spouts more frequently than before. But, as for this lightning strike, it is mostly defying what we know about lightning. The idea the rubber in the tires is grounding the lightning might be violated as a trend of the air conditions found during storms.

This lightning not only struck the pick-up truck ahead of the photographer, it lingers long enough to strike both trucks. The people were not injured because the lightning was grounded into the tires. While that behavior by the lightning is normal, the strike itself was wide, easily discerned in the film and sustained longer than a normal single strike of lightning.

The filming has pixels and the actual nature of the lightning may not have fully been recorded. It is a video and not a captured voltage either. It would be interesting to know if there were any signs of the strike on the bodies of the trucks. That would indicate a more physical capacity that could prove to be a changing character of lightning.

I find this video very unusual. The lightning wasn't completely grounded by the first truck. It sustained passing into the ground long enough for the MOVING truck with the photographer to be struck as well.

Some of the characteristics I think may be the culprit is higher levels of static electricity in the air. I don't know if I enjoy the same enthusiasm as Penn State, but, they are sincerely concerned about the characteristics of lightning.

Nitrogen, oxygen and water vapor molecules (click here) are broken apart by lightning and associated weaker electrical discharges, generating the reactive gases NO, O3, HO2, and the atmosphere's cleanser, OH.

 

The reason for the California wildfires is not much different than the low levels of Lake Mead.

The drought has been more than two decades long. Where has everyone been? The US legislature only understands emergencies and petroleum industry subsidies. It seems to me those subsidies are poorly spent.

July 22, 2022
By Judson Jones

New satellite images (click here) released by NASA Wednesday reveal the dramatic loss of water at Lake Mead due to the ongoing mega-drought.

“The largest reservoir in the United States supplies water to millions of people across seven states, tribal lands, and northern Mexico,” NASA wrote about the image. “It now also provides a stark illustration of climate change and a long-term drought that may be the worst in the US West in 12 centuries.”

When you compare these two natural-color images — one acquired on July 6, 2000, and the other on July 3, 2022 — you can see the lake full and, in the most recent imagery, you can see the mineralized lakeshore which used to be underwater.

Move the slider to the left to reveal the minimal water remaining in Lake Mead. Move it back to the right to see where the level once stood....

The multi-decade drought has dried the land where it touches. In that is a sad reality, in that fire spreads quickly and with voracity. There are some people seeking to pump the Mississippi to provide water to the west. That is not realistic. The Pacific Ocean and desalination is vital to the RETURN of moisture to the California air mass. There is no other answer. The wetter the air, the wetter the ground.

I find it foolish to end irrigation and/or lawn watering. The air has to be moist and it isn't going to happen without the ground being wet. Dry land evaporates water in the air. There goes the rain.

Irrigation is a must and every method of protecting land moisture need to be carried out. That means no building into wetlands and pouring concrete. Laying down any kind of anti-nature cover is absolutely stupid.

July 25, 2022
By Jacobs Rodgers

Hot and tinder-dry weather on Monday (click here) is expected to further test firefighters battling the explosive Oak Fire west of Yosemite National Park, which barreled out of control over the weekend into California’s largest fire of the year, forcing thousands of people to flee from their homes.

Fire crews issued several fresh evacuations on Sunday as the blaze metastasized in several directions — overtaking the communities of Jerseydale, Darrah and Lushmeadows while threatening the small enclaves of Bootjack and Mariposa Pines. But with nothing in the way of rain or cooler temperatures in the forecast, fire crews braced for more erratic fire behavior, while warning that the number of destroyed structures was likely to increase in the days ahead from an initial count of 10....

Desalination is not a threat to nature. The salt can be processed to add to the American diet. Everyone is familiar with "Sea Salt." I understand there is a built in pool that is best served by salt water to minimize the use of chlorine.

Marine biologists need to be asked to check the salinity of the oceans as all the ice fields, regardless of form of ice fields, melt into the ocean. The volume of fresh water melting into the ocean may have an effect on salinity. If there is a change in salinity in waters, even at the locality of the melting is not normal, salty formulations that match sea water will have to be returned to Earth's ocean. DO NOT dump salt into fresh water, there is very little fresh water on Earth.

United States Forest Service (USFS) Wildland Fire Assessment System (WFAS) (click here) The majority of the USA is currently assessed for at least moderate fire dangers. That is not good. 

This is the only way to think about Russia.

July 24, 2022
By Brad Dress

Moldova’s prime minister (click here) on Sunday said she is “very worried” about Russia invading her country next as it makes advances in Ukraine’s east and south, near the Moldova-Ukraine border.

“It’s a hypothetical scenario for now, but if the military actions move further into the southwestern part of Ukraine and toward Odessa, then of course we are very worried,” Moldovan Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilița told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on “Fareed Zakaria GPS.”...

Turkey calls them friends. NATO does not deal with terrorists. What is the problem with Turkey? 

May 24, 2022
By Alexander Ward and Nahal Toosi

President Joe Biden (click here) has finalized his decision to keep Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on a terrorist blacklist, according to a senior Western official, further complicating international efforts to restore the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

Another person familiar with the matter said Biden conveyed his decision during an April 24 phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, adding that the decision was conveyed as absolutely final and that the window for Iranian concessions had closed....

Terror on Sunday Morning

Did it occur after weekly collection of gifts to the church? It looks like a local criminal. They seemed comfortable with the acts. Besides armed robbery they conducted it in a remarkably calm manner.

July 25, 2022 

By Elder Sanders

New York - A bishop (click here) was robbed at gunpoint in the middle of a sermon Sunday in Brooklyn, and it was caught on video, CBS New York reports.

Bishop Lamor Whitehead says five to ten minutes into the sermon, he saw the door in the back of the room kicked open and three to four men walked in with guns. He believes he was targeted, the station says. The service was being livestreamed"I said, 'Alright, alright, alright,' pretty much stating that I'm not going to do anything because I know you're coming for me. You're coming straight to me. I don't want my parishioners hurt. I've got women and children there," said Whitehead, of Leaders of Tomorrow International Ministries.

"As I got down, one went to my wife and took all her jewelry and had the gun in front of my 8-month-old baby's face. Took off my bishop's ring, my wedding band and took off my bishop's chain, and then I had chains underneath my robe and he started tapping my neck to see if anything else. So that means they knew. They watched and they knew that I have other jewelry," he explained. ...

 

Some areas of the country have less than $4.00 per gallon gas.

July 25, 2022
By Frank Witsil

Gas prices fell yet again (click here) - down 19 cents from a week ago, according to AAA — with Michigan drivers paying an average of $4.44 a gallon, an big drop from a month ago when gas was well over $5 a gallon.

"Michigan motorists have seen gas prices decrease 65 cents within the past month," Adrienne Woodland, a AAA spokeswoman, said Monday, adding that if demand remains low as supply increases, motorists "will likely see pump prices decline."

Gas is still $1.16 more than this time last year.

But one Biden senior official has predicted gas will eventually fall to about $4 a gallon nationally.

Motorists are now paying an average of $66 for a full 15-gallon tank of gasoline....

In the EU. There are no new supply because the companies don't want to pay wind fall profit taxes.

July 22, 2022

On 26 May 2022, (click here) Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, announced a temporary tax on the profits of oil and gas companies operating in the UK and on the UK Continental Shelf. This is a tax on companies that have made high profits, particularly where these result from increases in energy prices....

In the USA the burden falls to the national debt. Some Americans think that is a burden and a windfall profits tax is in order.

July 11, 2022

By Guest Commentary Ukaykiran Vissa

President Biden has called for Congress to approve a three-month federal gas tax holiday. (click here)

Although this has the potential to ease pain at the pump, responsibility for a viable solution should fall on large oil companies, especially given their record-high profits.

ExxonMobil, America’s largest oil company, reported that its net profit of $5.5 billion, more than doubled in 2022. Shell recorded its highest earnings ever, and Chevron reported its highest quarterly profit in almost a decade.

Even more infuriating is that oil and gas companies currently possess 12 million acres of leased U.S. public lands, along with 9,000 unused drilling permits, according to the Center for American Progress.

Given their record profits and vast land reserves, oil companies should technically have the ability to increase supply and subsequently lower fuel prices. So why don’t they? The simple answer is they choose not to....

The US State Department needs to arrange for asylum.

It may not have occurred to Mayanmar that asylum is available for people that are targeted for assassination.

July 25, 2022
By Zubaidah Abdul Jalil

Four democracy activists (click here) have been executed by Myanmar's military in what is believed to be the first use of capital punishment in decades.

The four - including activist Ko Jimmy and lawmaker Phyo Zeya Thaw - were accused of committing "terror acts".

They were sentenced to death in a closed-door trial that rights groups criticised as being unjust.

Family members of the deceased gathered at Insein prison on Monday desperate for information on their loved ones.

The mother of Zayar Thaw says she was not told when exactly her son would be executed, adding that she was unable to make proper traditional funeral plans as a result.

"When we met on Zoom last Friday, my son was healthy and smiling. He asked me to send his reading glasses, dictionary and some money to use in prison, so I brought those things to the prison today," Khin Win May told the BBC's Burmese Service. "That's why I didn't think they would kill him. I didn't believe it."...

"Good NIght, Moon"

The waning crescent

26.3 days old

11.3 percent lit

James Webb is worth it's weight in gold, literally and figuratively. It is sending back information about other galaxies. That is a good thing, because, I think Mars is old news and a new, young, livable galaxy is in order.