It is a very sad time for the UK. It has been quite a day.

September 13, 2022
By Tara John, Jack Guy, David Wilkinson and Arnaud Siad

People watch the hearse carrying the coffin of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, following her death, in London on September 13.

Queen Elizabeth II's coffin (click here) has arrived at Buckingham Palace, after being transported from west London's RAF Northholt airbase by car.

The Queen's family received the coffin on its arrival at the palace, where it will rest in the Bow Room overnight.

The coffin was transported from Edinburgh earlier on Tuesday on a C-17 Globemaster transport plane, Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike Wigston told Sky News Tuesday in an on-camera interview....

The family has been very dedicated to the Late Queen. I believe Princess Anne has been present to the movement of the Late Queen Elizabeth II since her death.

On Monday evening, (click here) King Charles III, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward came together to conduct the Vigil of the Princes as their mother's coffin laid in state at St. Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh, Scotland.

I really feel badly for the UK. They really loved their Queen.

It is a great ad and Charlie Crist is not misrepresenting anything.

September 9, 2022
By Brea Jones of FactCheck.org

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (click here) wants to eliminate state permit requirements for carrying concealed firearms, and he supports banning abortion, with limited exceptions, after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

But political ads from former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist’s campaign misleadingly claim that DeSantis opposes “any background checks” on gun buyers and “wants to ban abortion” in all cases....

When Ron DeSantis states he wants to eliminate state permit requirements that is an elimination of background checks.

Here are the current requirements which are bare bones requirements:

To be eligible for a Florida concealed weapon or firearm license: (click here)

You must be 21 years of age or older.

You must be able to demonstrate competency with a firearm.

Unless you are serving overseas in the United States Armed Forces, you must currently reside in the United States and be a U.S. citizen or deemed a lawful permanent resident alien by Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service. If you are serving overseas in the U.S. Armed Forces, submit a copy of your deployment documentation with your application. Those who are Resident Aliens must provide a valid Permanent Resident Alien card.

There are NO SAFEGUARDS NOW!

There are absolutely no requirements by the State of Florida for ANY background checks. The requirements for current background checks are due to federal requirements. 

Gun buyers are required to submit to a background check (click here) through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).

A prospective buyer fills out ATF Form 4473 and the federally licensed firearms dealers relays this information to the NICS. NICS staff perform a background check to verify the prospective buyer does not have a criminal record and is not otherwise ineligible to purchase a firearm.

The NICS has conducted more than 300 million checks since launching in 1998, leading to over 3 million denials.

I believe President Biden has updated requirements for a gun purchase. so this may be outdated. 

States can have their own requirements that are much tighter than the federal laws, the example is Connecticut (click here). There is also every reason for background checks to be more stringent, the example is Dylann Roof (click here) who found a loophole that allowed him to obtain a gun purchase before his background check was completed. 

...Mr. Roof exploited the three-day waiting time that has allowed thousands of prohibited buyers to legally purchase firearms over the past decade — and some of those weapons were ultimately used in crimes, according to court records and government documents....

As far as abortion goes, the government needs to get out of the way completely. Abortions are a private decision between a doctor and the woman. The Republicans are touting 15 weeks as the end of legal abortions. The majority probably fall in that category, but, not all and certainly if a woman's life is in danger no matter when the pregnancy was conceived she should be able to get a procedure to save her life.

The current ability to allow a fetus to survive an abortion is 23 weeks or later. There are an occasional infant that will survive in a neo-natal critical care unit, but, that is very rare.

Results: (click here) Termination of pregnancy accounted for 33% of deliveries at 20–23 weeks; these were excluded from further analysis. Spontaneous delivery occurred at a frequency of 2.5/1000 deliveries; 30% died before the onset of labour, 27% died during labour, and 35% showed signs of life at birth. Of the latter, 8% were not registered as statutory live births. Of the live born infants, the largest group (39%) had a heart beat but no other signs of life. There was no trend for infants of lower gestation to show fewer signs of life. Duration of survival varied widely (median 60 minutes at 20–22 weeks), and this did not increase with gestation until 23 weeks (median six hours), probably because of selective treatment. Survival curves are presented for each gestation group. At 23 weeks, 4.5% survived to 1 year of age; all were > 500 g birth weight. Below 23 weeks gestation, none survived, and 94% had died within 4 hours of age.

Conclusions: This information on surviving labour, signs of life at birth, duration of survival, and birth weight at 20–23 weeks gestation should help decision making in the management of pre-viable delivery.

The viability of the fetus to maintain life can only be determined by a neonatologist. Viability is rare in fetus less than 500 grams of body weight.

This is from Kaiser.

Reasons individuals seek abortions later in pregnancy include medical concerns such as fetal anomalies or maternal life endangerment, as well as barriers to care that cause delays in obtaining an abortion.

Abortions occurring at or after 21 weeks gestational age are rare. (click here) They are often difficult to obtain, as they are typically costly, time-intensive and only performed by a small subset of abortion providers. Yet these abortions receive a disproportionate amount of attention in the news, policy and the law, and discussions on this topic are often fraught with misinformation; for example, intense public discussions have been sparked after several policymakers have theorized about abortions occurring “moments before birth” or even “after birth.” In reality, these scenarios do not occur, nor are they legal, in the U.S. Discussion of this topic is further obscured due to the terms sometimes used to describe abortions later in pregnancy– including “late-term,” “post-viability,” “partial birth,” “dismemberment” and “born-alive” abortions—despite many medical professionals criticizing and opposing their use. This fact sheet explains why individuals may seek abortions later in pregnancy, how often these procedures occur, how the concepts of viability and fetal pain play into this topic, and the various laws which regulate access to abortions later in pregnancy....

No one will say this besides me, but, politicians that invade a woman's right to privacy and control of her own body are moralizing to attract votes and not protections for babies. It is a rare occurrence in the USA that any late term abortions are conducted and when they are it is to save the life of the woman. 

When a politician states he or she opposes abortion after 15 weeks is saying women that seek abortion after that are wrong and immoral. That is the furthest from the truth. Women have a right to privacy and the advise of their doctors uninterrupted by government.

In my opinion, the Republican Party is hoping the 15 week bill will make everyone unhappy with them to now become happy with them to vote them into office. I don't think so. The Republican Party did not expect the uproar of women across the USA to the wrongful nullification of Roe v. Wade. Believe it or not, it is legal and correct to have case law in the USA. The Robert's Court doesn't  believe in case law. It is a convenient belief that allows them to play politics with existing case law. By overturning every case law the Evangelical funding sources don't like and returning it to the states as State's Rights is ridiculous and gross malpractice.

States Rights is an allowance in the USA Constitution when states are best left to decide if the Colorado River Compact is a good idea or not. The States Rights issue is about PARTICULAR decisions that are unique to that state. In the case of abortion, a woman is a woman. Every woman that once fell under the case law of Roe v. Wade was allowed to decide about their own bodies and the future of a pregnancy and to do so with the guidance of her doctor(s). There was absolutely nothing wrong with case law of Roe v. Wade. Nothing. It was a protection for all women and there were no States Rights that applied as far as I am concerned. The Robert's Court began to allow this provision or that provision because they premeditated the end of Roe v. Wade. Just that simple. There is no magic in what the Robert's Court has been up to all these years since Bush placed right wing conservatives on the court that came as a favor to the Federalist Society and it's treasury and members bank accounts.

Pregnancy is an intimate issue between the persons involved. There is no place for government in that decision. Just imagine the impact of anti-abortion laws and the havoc is reeks on adult lives. I do not in any way approve of a child giving birth to a child. It is harmful.

So, when Charlie Christ states he believes in the right for a woman to choose, he is simply putting back the protections of women and their doctors. He is getting out of the way of privacy and allowing good and informed decisions to exist. He is also not dictating any religion will have sway over the USA Constitution.

The fifteen week ban is not necessary and is pure politics without any regard to a woman's ability to make her own decisions and a physicians right to protect the life of his patient, a woman.

Blue lightning. I have a theory.

This storm was yesterday, September 13, 2022. Early morning. It was an enormous system. There is a blip in the data transfer, but, the specific PART of the system is seen plainly.

The water vapor in the lower left corner is over the Pacific with it concentrating at the equator. That concentrated water vapor is very warm as seen by pink and green on the radar. It traveled northeast from the equator and covered the east coast of North America.

The vortex north of Chicago is part of the cold air system coming from Canada. There is a clear division of water vapor STRUCTURES discerned from this satellite. Noted just north of the division of water vapor is a trough that mixes the two systems. It is approximately over West Virginia but that is not an exact location but an assessment. 

There is a mixing, but, no trubulence at the mixing which I find strange for a meeting of a warm and cold front. Normally, that would explain thunder and lightning. The turbulence I observed with consistent rain occurs north of Chicago (more about that in a minute), but, as to the patter of SETS OF TWO thunder and lightning.

The turbulence seen in pink north of Chicago was over Grand Traverse County.

Currently over northwest Michigan it is raining. It is not torrential, but, steady. There are occasional burst of increased rain rates, but, mostly consistent. The rain bursts are not affiliated with the lightning.

The lightening accompanying this storm is reportable. The entire sky lights up in a blue color approximately the same natural color of the sky. It is preceded by a boom of thunder. It occurs in a set of two, one loud boom accompanied immediately by a bright blue flash and followed by a second boom with the same blue flash. 

This dual flashing occurs between one minute to ten minutes apart.

At 4:25 am est the lightning has seemed to have stopped but the rain continues with slightly increased volume.

The rain is cold. The air temperature is 66 degrees Fahrenheit. The rain is colder than that.

THEORY 9/13/22

The vortex near Chicago was over Grand Traverse County (it was a big system and not concentrated over one particular city). The pattern of the blue lightening was first boom (not rolling thunder) followed by a sky full of blue lightning, then immediately the second Boom (not rolling thunder) followed by a sky full of blue lightning. The PATTERN repeated itself variably between one minute to ten minutes apart. 

I believe the water vapor was breaking down. H2O. If the very stable molecules met up with the perfect conditions to boil icy cold water within seconds, I believe the molecules broke apart. The boom was the explosion of a group of hydrogen atoms which would set off a blue lightening in the sky. The second boom was the other group of hydrogen atoms exploding followed by a flash of blue light. 

Oxygen atoms when excited will glow a purplish blue, but, blue is the predominant color.

Liquid oxygen in a beaker, (click here) showing its characteristic pale-blue color. Credit to U.S. Air Force photo

The lightening in this episode was very close to that color with the exception of it being an air mass.

I strongly believe, in contemplation of the sound patter, I am correct. I believe the mixing of the two different water vapor structures with movement near and over a body of lake water caused the destruction of H20 into two independent hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. There is absolutely nothing else that explains the color or the pattern. The PATTERN was consistent and exhibited in the same exact timing. There was no variability.

The spacing of the booms (not rolling thunder) I believe was due to the arrival of a water vapor pattern from a southeast location of the pink area of the vortex north of Chicago. I will illustrate that arrival pattern below.

This is image one. There is a puff of water vapor over Lake City, Michigan. This puff of water vapor will more north.

This is image two. The water vapor puff is concentrating and gaining and moving north-northeast. It will continue to move north-northeast.

This is image three. The first puff of water vapor is picking up more water vapor over Fife Lake and moving northeast and not just north-northeast. It is joined by a second water vapor concentration that originated over Lake City again. This is a pattern that repeats itself depending on the movement of the vortex and the heat in the region.

This is satellite image four. The two water vapor masses are moving northeast into the area of the vortex inner border over Grand Traverse County. Now, I repeat the volume of the rain falling does not change. But, I believe the addition of this additional water vapor and the temperature difference between it and the vortex creates enough instability to cause a heated reaction that quickly results in the splitting of the H2O.

One more image to go.

This is image five and it is easy to seek the water vapor that originated over Lake City, gathered mass near Fife Lake has moved into the boundary of the vortex. There is also a pink puff east of Mount Pleasant. That is a continuation of the movement of water from the surface of lakes into the atmosphere and incorporated into the vortex. 

The State of Michigan has over one thousand lakes. It only makes sense this phenomena would show up clearly in this dynamic.

There is one more image that will help complete the clarity of this phenomena.

In image six, the cloud formation that began at Lake City and grew in volume moved into the vortex northeast of Traverse City. It has the same structure as the water vapor in image five. It is well incorporated into the vortex border. It is this addition of a different temperature water vapor structure is what made the timing erratic.

I believe I am correct. I simply don't see it any other way, unless scientists elsewhere can explain the repeating EXACT pattern. 

I also believe this is a clear illustration of the impact of heat on our water supply at Earth's surface and how easy it is for conditions to rob Earth of it's water.

This phenomena is serious and needs to be addressed by a society that has the means to change it's greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible. This occurred over the USA, not any place else. If the USA wants to keep it's water, the time to act to reduce and end emissions of greenhouse gases is now.