I am going to take a look at Community Development Corporations and the important role they can play in reclaiming America and returning a nation to cutting edge productivity. There is no better city that has benefitted from extensive planning including these non-profit corporations than Providence, Rhode Island.

I plan to continue the review of journalism. I just want it to be right. I would like to see the USA preserve it's heritage in the newsprint of the country while protecting it's freedom of speech and so that end I want to direct time and correctness to what may have to be a legal stand to protect our press now and in the future.

Greenhouse gas emissions rising (1990 is the target goal for Kyoto)

With Bush words speaks louder than action. In his latest 'dodge' of responsiblity for deadly climate change Bush attempts to dismantle Kyoto by over reaching it and proposing a new 'scheme' that will lay blame on the 'Group of 8 plus 7' while the USA maintains it's escalating emission posture.

Per square mile, the USA is a glut of greenhouse gases compared to any other nation on Earth. Russia has the largest land mass, China and India the largest populations, yet, the USA continues to miss the mark in accepting responsiblity of it's lavish lifestyles that kill people globally from Human Induced Global Warming leading to Climate Change.

Bush Seeks New International Framework on Climate Change (click here)
Washington – The United States will work with other countries to establish a new international framework to address global climate change once the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.
Under an initiative unveiled May 31 by President Bush, 10 to 15 countries that consumer the most energy and emit the largest quantities of greenhouse gases would discuss a post-Kyoto arrangement at international meetings convened initially by the United States.
By 2009, at the end of the first phase, the countries would set a long-term global goal for reducing emissions that contribute to global climate change and establish related national mid-term energy security and environmental goals and strategies based on the nations’ individual characteristics.
Bush said a strong and transparent system for measuring countries’ performance must be an essential element of the new plan.
Under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, industrialized countries committed to make specific cuts in emissions of gases such as carbon dioxide that contribute to global warming. The cuts are made primarily through a “cap-and-trade” mechanism in which nations set industry caps on emissions and then allow emitters to buy or sell emissions credits to meet targets.
The United States has not ratified the Kyoto Protocol, which it believes can constrain economic growth and will achieve little because it does not include countries in the developing world such as China and India that emit large quantities of greenhouse gases....

Razing the World - 12 hour loop click here

June 1, 2007
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UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of the north and west hemisphere

Tropical Storm Barry weakens into tropical depression (click here)
Matt Sedensky
The Associated Press
Posted June 2, 2007, 3:13 PM EDT
MIAMI -- Tropical Storm Barry weakened into a tropical depression as it moved through Tampa Bay on Saturday and residents gave thanks for the mild storm and the rains it brought to the drought-parched state.Dry conditions in Florida have left Lake Okeechobee at its lowest recorded level and allowed an isolated brush fire on the Georgia-Florida border to burn for weeks. The storm was expected to drop 3 to 6 inches of rain on parts of the state Saturday. Isolated areas could get up to 10 inches of rain.
A meteorologist with the National Weather Service said the rain would not be enough to alleviate the drought conditions. But fire officials were hoping the rain would have an effect on the flames."We're hoping several of these fires will not be a problem anymore," said the Florida Division of Forestry's Mike Newell. "It's too early to tell right now. Everybody's basically waiting for the rain to stop to go out and see what's going on."In some areas along Florida's west coast, boat owners anchored down crafts or pulled them out of the water and one resident said he moved lawn furniture inside, but the storm had little effect. By the afternoon, fisherman and recreational boaters had taken to the Homosassa River."This is a blessing," said Bob Buning, an employee at MacRae's Bait Shop in Homosassa. "We needed this rain really bad."...


June 2,2007
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UNISYS water vapor satellite of north and west hemisphere. "Barry" was literally a tropospheric wave of moisture from the equator as noted here. It 'broke over' when it reached the beach.



June 2, 2007
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UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite

No matter whether one is watching HD or regular TV the image is still the same.






This is an actual satellite photo of the Human Induced Global Warming system currently trapped under a blanket of carbon dioxide.









June 2, 2007




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Infrared Satellite from UNISYS









The question literally facing the USA is whether or not it's leadership cares about them or other populous globally which are affected by the environmentally destabilizing carbon dioxide the USA produces.











June 2, 2007
Editorial





Hot Enough in Here? (click here)





Michael Griffin, administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, is renowned for speaking bluntly so it was no surprise when he stuck his foot in his mouth during a recent interview. The disturbing element is that he may have inadvertently revealed one reason the space agency has been cutting back on satellite missions to study global warming.





In an interview with National Public Radio, Mr. Griffin acknowledged that global warming is happening but then, remarkably, suggested that it might not be a problem — or at least one that had to be fixed. “I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with. To assume that it is a problem is to assume that the state of Earth’s climate today is the optimal climate,” he said, adding that he wasn’t sure there was any “need to take steps to make sure that it doesn’t change.”





Those comments were a jarring denial of the overwhelming scientific consensus that climate change is serious and requires mitigation. It even lagged behind the thinking of President Bush who — under strong domestic and international pressure — has now called for a long-term global goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions.





In response to the mini-furor over his comments, Mr. Griffin stressed that NASA simply collects and analyzes data; it does not make policy on issues like climate change. But the scary thing was the lens his comment provided into his innermost thoughts. The Bush administration has been justly criticized for cutting the agency’s earth sciences budget and downgrading NASA’s once-prominent goal “to understand and protect our home planet.” Tight budgets are one key reason for the cuts in earth sciences, as is the administration’s long refusal to grapple with global warming. But now it seems that Mr. Griffin’s own belief that climate change may be no big deal accounts in part for his agency’s ill-conceived retreat from environmental studies.

The photograph makes an interesting 'temporal' observation. I strongly suggest everyone remember this reality.

May 27, 2007

Alliance, Nebraska

Photographer states :: Building and Billowing. This was neat to watch... it took less than a half hour to build and move out of range..

UNISYS 12 hour loop (click here)

June 1, 2007

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Water Vapor Satellite of North and West Earth Hemisphere

The Carribean Sea is heating up. Today is the first day of hurricane season. What a mess.

My apologies to those that have come to expect a specific content of this blog...

... I am taking a working vacation at Cape Cod this summer and the past week has been one of upheaval and settling in. I anticipate a regular Saturday and better week following, but, a return to content in a week from next without much interruption. Yeah, right.

At any rate there is a lot happening, mostly amusing, I think.

The New York Times believes Bush is prevailing in calling Russia the worst country on the face of the Earth. The fact of the matter remains that Russia is still more correct than any nation of The West. They were correct about Iraq and voted to stop Bush's illegal invasion at the UN Security Council and they are correct in this instance when the Russian President Putin states the USA is escalating a dangerous arms build up between nations, including the USA and Russia.

Russia has recently authorized something like $193 billion (US) for retooling their military. That to me is serious muscle flexing. The USA under Bush has insulted every nation on Earth and assaulted several with threats of 'Overwhelming Force' while illegally invading at least one. The Russians are correct and you'll hear nothing else from me. When countries dedicate monies to arming themselves there is less and less available for domestic programs. When there is less and less for domestic programs there is absolutely no reason for The West to be pointing fingers at preceived 'quality of life' issues.

Besides, the obvious "Who's afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf" routine by Bush in his rhetoric; muscle flexing and ranting about Russia takes away focus at the G-8 from Bush's environmental atrocities. Russia has never been more correct and let's face it, Russia is Russia. I do believe this is the second time in a century I am grateful for that fact. It was only a couple of years ago that Sergey wrote an Op-Ed in The New York Times touting all the progress The West and Russia was making.

What happened?

Just that simple. What happened to the relationship between the USA and Russia? Answer that and you'll understand more and more why Bush and Cheney need to be impeached. The curious question is why the American media hasn't come to the defense of the USA Constitution by demanding the impeachment of this administration. Couldn't be oppression, now could it? So much for the Russians.

Administration Rebukes Putin on His Policies (click here)
top Russia expert at the State Department described the Kremlin as bullying its neighbors while silencing opponents and suppressing individual rights at home
By THOM SHANKER
Published: June 1, 2007
WASHINGTON, May 31 — A top Russia expert at the State Department issued an unusually sharp public criticism on Thursday of Moscow’s behavior under President Vladimir V. Putin, describing the Kremlin as bullying its neighbors while silencing political opponents and suppressing individual rights at home.
The comments, approved by the White House, are the latest volley of criticism between Washington and Moscow in recent days. Although the White House said this week that President Bush would play host to Mr. Putin on July 1 at the Bush family compound in Maine, the speech is likely to add tension at a time when the broader dialogue between Washington and Moscow is already taking the most caustic tones since the collapse of communism.
“We do no one any favors, least of all the Russian people and even their government, by abstaining from speaking out when necessary,” the Russia expert, David Kramer, the deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, said in a speech Thursday night before the Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs.
The speech came a day after Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov of Russia accused the United States of fomenting a dangerous new arms race and implicitly threatened to block any effort by the United States and Europe to win broader diplomatic recognition for Kosovo. On Thursday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, a scholar of Russian affairs, used a speech in Potsdam, Germany, to describe the American-Russian relationship as one of “cooperation and competition, of friendship and friction.”...

This is a darn shame. There needs to be a rescue effort to preserve newsprint. Period. I find it offensive that a long standing USA newspaper, one of esteem is considering a sale to an Australian. If I were the Bancrofts I would probably insist on a huge 'payoff' for the stock, so much so that is would put NewsCorp direly in 'the red ink' and then turn around and open a new publication devoid of fiscal problems and 'baggage.' That's what I would do in such a hostile business environment as created by the Bush White House and their 'liquidity' brokers. Then I'd sit back and watch my new newspaper grow in popularity and sales while NewsCorp sinks into 'bottom line red ink.'

Dow Jones Says It Will Consider Options for Sale (click here)

By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN and RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
The family that controls Dow Jones & Company, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, announced yesterday that it would consider selling the company, ending more than a century of family ownership.
The announcement came after the family, the Bancrofts, said that it was willing to meet with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, just weeks after the family rejected a $5 billion takeover offer from Mr. Murdoch.
Mr. Murdoch requested a personal meeting with the Bancrofts weeks ago, saying that he wanted his family and theirs to become acquainted. Until yesterday, there had been no reply to that overture.
In early trading today, shares of the company were up 14 percent, to nearly $61 a share, indicating that investors are predicting a higher offer than the initial $60-a-share bid. The stock, which traded above $70 in 2000, was trading around $36 in late April, which was after Mr. Murdoch made his bid, but before it became public on May 1. After news of the offer, the share price rose to $58.47. It closed yesterday at $53.31.
The decision represents a remarkable about-face for both the company and Mr. Murdoch’s bid. A successful deal would mean a huge victory for Mr. Murdoch, the Australian media mogul, and new ownership for The Wall Street Journal, the second-largest newspaper in the country by circulation and one of the great names in American journalism....

In regard to the 'priviledged' of the USA, Libby is willing to do some community service. His supporters say, "Don't cry for me Scooter Libby..."

Yes, indeed, 'hard time' for the man that outed a CIA agent while defaming her and her spouse providing 'the pathway' to an illegal war in Iraq. Somehow, Community Service and an ankle braclet just doesn't fit the crime.

Supporters plead for Libby (click here)
Many letters ask that he not be jailed, his lawyers say.
By Matt Apuzzo
Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Former White House and State Department officials and military commanders are supporting former vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby as he asks a federal judge to spare him prison time in the CIA leak case.
Prosecutors want Libby to serve up to three years in prison for lying about his conversations with reporters regarding CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson, whose 2003 outing touched off a leak investigation.
A prison term would be unfair, Libby's lawyers said yesterday. Citing numerous letters from former colleagues and friends, they said Libby deserved only probation.

Michael Moore makes 'the big time.' I am sincerely happy for him. Mike has found a subject near and dear to the nation if not the world and is now basking in a spotlight that has momentum and clout.

Oprah?

Oprah and Michael Moore. You go, boy ! But, seriously, Michael. This level of respect has been a long time coming and you deserve every measure of it. Congratulations.

Start the Revolution with Him (click here)

Best-selling author, groundbreaking filmmaker, and America's favorite provocateur Michael Moore likes books that bite, fight, shake up your world, and challenge your mind.

In the early seventies, I joined a book-of-the-month club, and one of the selections I read was The Greening of America, by Charles A. Reich. That book and another called Future Shock, by Alvin Toffler, presented an incredible vision for what our country could be. I believe things have gotten worse since then, but I'm not a cynic. I hope people get that through my work. Even though I'm highly critical of certain aspects of American culture, I believe things are going to get better.

I want Americans to realize that we are the owners of this country, and that one person can make a difference. I don't have a college education. I didn't know a thing about making a movie when I started Roger and Me. I made a lot of mistakes. But these two books and others on this list said to me—and I hope they say this to other people—"You know what? You actually can make a difference. Don't believe the lie you've been told, that you can't fight city hall or that you're not worth something. You're worth more than anything."

I've believed this for a long time. When I speak at schools, I say to the kids, "Keep in mind that you live in a country where the heads of GM or GE have the same number of votes that you do: one. And there are more of us than there are of them." If we operate with that idea, the people—we, the people—will have the kind of country we want.

I am always complaining about the lack of focus of the scientific community regarding the 'enhanced' dangers in Human Induced Global Warming and the KNOWN properties of water, humidity and the capacity of water to retain and distribute heat. Right? If you read thsi blog regularly I am always mentioning the relationship between carbon dioxide and water molecules, the 'hydrology' of Human Induced Global Warming. Well, guess what? Someone caught on.

The thing about this is, that people/public will be confused, because on one hand here is a study that predicts large amounts of rainfall, but, they are experiencing in many cases 'drought.' The issue is not that one 'reality' is different and contradictory from the other so much as a complete picture of the ravages of this new Earth phenomena.

Human Induced Global Warming has never been a part of Earth's past. I have stated repeatedly 'that fact' as well. While many attempt to extract an understanding of these dynamics from Earth's past when it's core was hotter and volcanoes caused extremes in CO2 content, the 'realities' of this phenomena as we are experiencing it now, was never predicted by scientists because it was never predictable. We need to stop and reverse this deadly trend of Earth. Humans caused the phenomena, humans have it within their grasp to reverse it.

Besides the esteemed National Geographic article below there is this link which demonstrates the widespread concern of this issue.

http://www.inform.kz/showarticle.php?lang=eng&id=152151

Global Warming Models Underpredict Increase in Rainfall, Study Says (click here)
Anne Minard

for National Geographic News
May 31, 2007
The world will be getting hotter, according to many climate models. But it might also be getting unexpectedly wetter.
That's the finding of a new study by Frank Wentz and colleagues at the research company Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) in Santa Rosa, California.

Wentz's team analyzed satellite data from the past 20 years to show that as global temperatures have risen, precipitation has kept pace.
The results fly in the face of many of the world's most sophisticated climate models, which predict that worldwide rainfall will increase at a much slower rate than temperatures.
(See a map of predicted effects of global warming.)
The findings also cast doubt on the ability of climate models to accurately predict precipitation on regional scales.
The study appears in tomorrow's issue of the journal Science.
Missing the Mark
The researchers compared satellite climate data going back to 1987—when such records were first kept—to data from current computer climate models.
The work marks one of the first tests of the models' accuracy predicting rainfall, the team says.
Computers have done a decent job predicting temperature over the years, but have not done as well predicting moisture.
In general, the authors say, computers tend to underestimate amounts of rain and snowfall....

U.S. military deaths in Iraq (click here)

As of Thursday, at least 3,473 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
The latest deaths reported by the military:
* One soldier died Tuesday after a roadside bomb attack northwest of Baghdad.
* Two soldiers were killed Wednesday in a roadside bombing in Baghdad.
The latest identifications reported by the military:
* Army Pfc. Robert A. Liggett, 23, Urbana, Ill., died Tuesday in Rustamiyah in a non-combat related incident.
* Two soldiers died Tuesday in Ilbu Falris of wounds from an explosive. Killed were Army Staff Sgt. Joseph M. Weiglein, 31, Audubon, N.J., and Army Sgt. Richard V. Correa, 25, Honolulu.
-- The Associated Press

If Turkey starts attacks in northen Iraq, it won't end until Turkey has eliminated the Kurds enough to secure their oil reserves. This is not to be considered a viable solution to current tensions. It escalates the war in Iraq and places all in harm's way in a different way. This most probably will destablize any progress in negotitations with Iran as well. Turkey needs to work with the established Kurdish authorities in Iraq to bring about an understanding.

Turkey Attack in Iraq May Impact Economy (click here)
Friday June 1, 2007 7:16 PM
AP Photo ANK111, ANK114
By SELCAN HACAOGLU
Associated Press Writer
HABUR BORDER CROSSING, Turkey (AP) - Turkey's government is pondering an attack on Kurdish separatists based in northern Iraq, raising fears among people along the frontier that military action will scuttle cross-border trade and wreck the region's rejuvenated economy.
The economic fallout could be huge: The value of goods passing through this border crossing each year is more than $10 billion.
``This border is my only hope,'' said truck driver Suleyman Gidim, who was ferrying gasoline to U.S. troops in Iraq and has a family of seven to feed.
The Turkish military has been massing troops along the porous border, where separatist rebels cross from safe havens in Iraq to stage attacks in predominantly Kurdish southeastern Turkey.
Residents on the Turkish side of the border fear the economic boom set off in the region after the invasion of Iraq by U.S.-led forces four years ago could evaporate if the Turkish army attacks the rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which is known by its Kurdish initials, PKK.

...and on the Peace Activist front...

National Women’s Group Fights War With the Color Pink (click here)
BY Tamara Bartlett
Daily Cal Staff Writer
Tuesday, May 29, 2007

For most, the color pink may be associated with spring flowers or newborn baby girls.
But for members of the women’s peace organization Code Pink, the color pink stands as a symbol for ending the war in Iraq.
“(We’re) reclaiming pink as a powerful women’s peace color,” said Zanne Joi, a Code Pink organizer and activist in the San Francisco Bay Area chapter.
Code Pink, a grassroots women’s peace organization, was started five years ago after the U.S. government issued the Homeland Security Advisory System, which color-coded threat levels within the U.S.
A group of women created their own color code by developing Code Pink as “a call to women all over the world to step forward, take over and to work for peace,” Joi said.
Among the group’s activities, Code Pink’s San Francisco Bay Area chapter is involved in Pelosi Watch, an event held on the weekends in which participants camp out in front of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Ca) San Francisco residence in an effort to urge Pelosi to take a strong stance against the war....

...until tomorrow...

If you thought drought was bad before Human Induced Global Warming, then you ain't seen nothin' yet.

This is a Cyanobacteria (Blue-Green Algae) Bloom in the Baltic Sea. Below is the reference that speaks to the issues Florida NOW faces from drought due to Human Induced Global Warming. There is no reason for any other country to carry more responsiblity for this plight other than the USA. Russia is a member of Kyoto. China has already stated it is taking steps to 'prevent' their economy from causing additional problems to the tropospheric biotic nature of Earth. It is the USA that stands on the sidelines and does nothing.

Burgess, Carla. 2001. A Wave of Momentum for Toxic Algae Study, Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 109, No. 4 (Apr., 2001), pp. A160-A161. (click here for link)

...Florida's situation illustrates the need for more and better information on the human health effects of cyanobacteria. Florida surface waters are significantly contaminated by toxin-producing cyanobacteria. Of 167 samples taken from Florida waters in a 1999 study, 88 samples representing 75 individual bodies of water contained significant levels of toxic cyanobacterial species, says John Burns, Jr., an environmental scientist for the St. Johns River Water Management District in Palatka, Florida. Seventy-eight percent of samples with measurable levels of microcystins and cylindrospermopsin were lethal when injected into mice, and 80% of the microcystin-laden samples showed potential tumor-producing properties....

At issue is the fact the USA stopped advancing the need for Phycologists and there are currently about six in the USA that still can identify these species to delineate whether they are toxic and how toxic they actually are. The priorities of the USA has moved away from taking care of it's people so much as exploiting them for wealth. The infrastructure of the USA needs to be rebuilt including it's brain trust, especially in the face of Human Induced Global Warming.

Lake Okeechobee reaches record low

Deep cracks cover the bottom of what should be five-feet deep Lake Okeechobe near Okeechobee, Fla. in this May 1, 2007 file photo. State water and wildlife managers are taking advantage of unprecedented drought conditions by removing life-choking muck along Lake Okeechobee's shoreline. The 500,000 cubic yards of rotted, dead plant life and sediment will be trucked from the southwest portion of the lake starting Thursday, May 23, 2007, to pastures for disposal. Its removal over several months will return the lake's bottom along its shoreline in that area to a more natural sandy base and create clearer water and better habitat for plants and wildlife.




Lake Okeechobee reached a record low Wednesday, and experts said little relief is in sight for Florida's drought.
It's confirmed: Florida's deepening drought has dehydrated Lake Okeechobee to a record low.
The lake officially stood at 8.97 feet above sea level early Wednesday, matching its lowest level since record-keeping began in 1931. Then, it didn't rain again, and the sun evaporated water from the lake again.
''We know we're sitting at a new record low,'' Randy Smith, a spokesman for the South Florida Water Management District, said Wednesday evening, ``but how much of a record low, we won't know until the morning.''
The most severe water restrictions in South Florida history already are in effect and are expected to continue well into the summer rainy season.
Those lawn-crunching, plant-shriveling measures reduced water use by 25 to 30 percent, Smith said, but nature provided precious little assistance.
An average of just seven inches of rain has fallen across the region during the last five months, according to district gauges, well below normal.
''There's nothing coming back in,'' Smith said. ``There's just no recharge whatsoever.''
Lake Okeechobee serves as the primary backup water supply for millions of South Floridians. But when the lake drops below a certain level, its waters cannot be used to replenish the regional supply....



Under the Jeb Bush administration there was a measure issued to determine how to utilize surface ground water and shallow water sources because it was reported by Florida scientists that the human water supply for Florida would be extremely insuffienct by the year 2010. There was one glitch however in the Jeb Bush plan and that was the contamination by Blue Green Algae of most of Florida's shallow water supply. The components of Blue Green Algae are known to be some of the most toxic to humans of any algae species. The 'BUSHES' need to get off their tuffs and stop the carbon dioxide emissions from the USA, otherwise, the international community should consider sanctions against the USA to force compliance ! If Jeb Bush ignored the threat to the people of Florida he 'ruled' over for many years, it can be easily concluded there will be extreme measures of manipulation by the Bush/Cheney White House to evade any responsibly or action. The Supreme Court ruled in this nation. Bush and Cheney are ignoring that decision. Every international environmental meeting since that ruling has never reflected the Supreme Court's decision. The Oval Office is out of control and evidently out of the reach of the American electorate. The international community has to act against the USA.

A chick is seen at the tip of the beak of parent white stork in a nest at Toyooka, western Japan. An endangered white stork egg laid in the wild has hatched naturally in western Japan for the first time in more than 40 years, a local stork museum announced Sunday. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) (May 20, 2007)

A two-toed sloth sits on a tree at the London Zoo. Sloths' natural habitats are tropical rainforests of South America.

An elephant enjoys a ball game with a zoo keeper at the Munich Zoo, Germany.

A worker from Rome's Biopark zoo holds a Testudo Kleinmanni hatchling, an endangered species also known as an Egyptian tortoise, Italy. Photo / Reuters

Four white lions born in French zoo

Read my lips, "No shared environmental standards !"

This was Georgie at his cabinet meeting this morning, pointing a finger at every other nation on Earth for causing Human Induced Global Warming. Interesting to watch him have a hissy fit, isn't it? After all, he is "The Decider" and he has decided everyone in the world besides himself needs to 'shape up' or 'else.'

The most ludicrous cronyism came from NASA itself today. Who do these people think they are?

NASA Chief Questions Urgency of Global Warming (click here)

...To assume that it is a problem is to assume that the state of Earth's climate today is the optimal climate, the best climate that we could have or ever have had and that we need to take steps to make sure that it doesn't change....

The people 'answering to' Bush and the Bush administration are soulless and highly immoral ! End of Discussion ! Their words mean nothing ! Impeach Bush and Cheney and fire that jerk at NASA! This is the United States of America. The Benevolent Leader of the Free World. The USA is in dire need of leadership and soon.

Warming as dangerous as war, U.N. chief says (click here)
Upheaval from droughts, floods 'likely to become a major driver of war'
UNITED NATIONS - Human-induced global warming poses as much danger to the world as war, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday as he urged the United States to take the lead in the fight against global warming.
In his first address on the subject at the U.N. General Assembly hall, Ban said he would emphasize the climate crisis with the leaders at a June meeting in Germany of the Group of Eight industrialized nations — Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Britain, the United States and Russia.
“The majority of the United Nations work still focuses on preventing and ending conflict,” Ban told an international U.N. school conference on global warming. “But the danger posed by war to all of humanity and to our planet is at least matched by the climate crisis and global warming.”

The statement from Michael Griffin is nothing but personal views that lack moral character. There is absolutely no scientific basis for the 'attitude' or 'ideas' he holds as loftier than life. End this already. Impeach Bush and Cheney.

We love you, Rosie.

Kelli O'Donnell and Rosie O'Donnell host a group of gay parents and their children on a cruise ship in the HBO special 'All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise.'

Rosie's Broadway Kids (click here)

Her detractors are morally corrupt people. One is Donald Trump whom has some profound personal, deep seated problems. Does 'The Don' have a child's program? No. He has a Miss Universe Program. Hello?

Traverse Film Festival is a permanent fixture on the American Reality. Go, Michael, Go !!

Michael Moore Down With Love PremiereTribeca Film Festival, 5/6/2003Photo: RJ Capak, Wireimage.com

Dear Friends of the Traverse City Film Festival,

I have some very good news for you. Yesterday at 10 a.m., I signed thepapers that make the Traverse City Film Festival the new owner of thehistoric State Theatre in downtown Traverse City! That's right -- the filmfestival not only now has a permanent home, we are going to re-open theState Theatre as a year-round, state-of-the-art film theater showing thebest of American independent, classic, and foreign cinema.

This resurrection of the State has been made possible through the generosityof Rotary Charities of Traverse City -- until Tuesday, the owner of thebuilding. They have "sold" it to us for a performance-based mortgage whichstates that the $600,000 "cost" of the theater is forgiven if we keep itopen a certain number of days for at least five years. If we do, themortgage is torn up and the theater is ours for free.

In order to bring the State back to life, it will take the activeinvolvement of our area's very large group of movie lovers -- namely, you!Those of you who live in the Traverse City area know about the long historyof a variety of groups trying to re-open the State. Each group attempted amajor fundraising campaign to restore the theater. Sadly, their goals werenot met, and the darkened theater changed hands a number of times.

In taking ownership of the theater (after a negotiation process that took 20months), we have decided not to conduct such a major fundraising campaign.We decided that we just needed to open the theater once and for all. At lastyear's founders party, I announced that I would personally be responsiblefor the $150,000 worth of projection and sound equipment needed to make theState a world-class theater. I then asked for one "angel" in the communityto step forward and match me. Within 10 minutes, Buzz Wilson, one of thefestival's chief film sponsors, said he would pay for the improvements to building up to code -- and a big new popcorn popper. Between what Buzz and I\u003cbr /\>will do, the State can open this year.the roof, a new handicap restroom, various other repairs to bring thebuilding up to code -- and a big new popcorn popper. Between what Buzz and Iwill do, the State can open this year.

But for the State to stay open -- and to serve as the anchor of our belovedfilm festival -- it will require the active participation of our friendsgroup and anyone else who would love to see the State's lights stay on forgood.

In the coming weeks, we will announce the grand re-opening date and what wewill need to sustain this wonderful, old movie palace. It will be staffed byvolunteers and it will be supported by the small donations from what we hopewill be the thousands of the State Theater's new "members." And if there isanother angel or two who can help us repair the marquee or put airconditioning in the lobby, then please let us know who you are!

We'll have much more to share with you next month as we get closer to thefestival. For now, I and my fellow festival board members -- John RobertWilliams, Doug Stanton, Terry George and Larry Charles -- and our festivalmanager, Deb Lake, wanted to let you hear the good news before it hits themedia in a few hours. All of you, through your hard work and financialsupport, have made the festival what it has become -- and you have broughtus to this day where we now have a permanent home for all of those who lovethis art form we call the movies.

Thank you again for being part of something special.

Yours,

Michael Moore

President, Traverse City Film Festival

PS. If you're free at 9:30 this morning (Wednesday), come on down to the State for the big announcement.

New York Times Review - I wish Al would reclaim his stolen presidency. Please.

Hail Piles Up 4 Inches Deep in Denver

Upto 4 inches in of hail in Denver, Colorado. Regardless of all the 'happy-slappy' commercial television media, life ain't all that for most Americans.

May 28, 2007

Round Rock, Texas

Photographer states :: More flash flooding - The Memorial Day holiday brought sustained heavy rains to Central Texas, bringing more flooding and flash flooding to the area. At least six Texans lost their lives over this period of sustained rainfall, most if not all from attempting to cross flooded roadways. These photos show water cresting the low water bridge at Old Settlers Park in Round Rock. The Round Rock Police were notified before these photos were taken and the gates to this crossing were then locked, preventing any problems as the water continued to rise. Remember, when faced with water over the roadway, "turn around, don't drown."

Hailstorm Batters Denver (click here)
Heavy Rain Also Soaks Plains States

DENVER -- A strong cold front nosed into northern Colorado early Tuesday, bringing with it much cooler temperatures, gusty north winds, rain, hail and tornado warnings.
Residents in Denver were startled by grape-sized hail on Tuesday.
Small, pea-sized hail fell so fast in places that storm drains became clogged, prompting minor street-flooding. The hail made it seem as if a fresh blanket of snow had fallen in the area.
Brazil Redd was outside when the rain and hail began to fall. She said, "It hurt. I probably got bruises. It was huge."
Motorists scurried under bridges or into garages and pedestrians scrambled for cover to avoid being pelted. Up to 4 inches of hail fell at an area amusement park.
Heavy rain also soaked the Plains states from Colorado up to Minnesota on Tuesday, causing minor flooding in some places.
The National Weather Service has issued tornado warnings for areas southeast of Denver and for parts of Nebraska.

They're back. Click here for 12 hour loop. The 'chronic' vortices that were noted at lower latitudes a week or so ago are back in 'maximum.'

May 30, 2007
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UNISYS water vapor 'north' and 'east' hemisphere satellite



May 30, 2007
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UNISYS water vapor 'north' and 'west' hemisphere satellite

The sun is traversing north and the 'air dynamics' of the troposphere is somewhat 'fixed.' The small vortices that were 'fixed' in the lower latitudes in small diameter circulation are reaching maximum with higher heat content. The 'weather' pattern is somewhat the same only worse over North America. Noted are small vortices over the Atlantic, east of the Carribean, these may manifest into hurricanes. That potential is matched with systems within the equatorial air over the Pacific. THAT combination always spelled hurricane potential in the past three years.

So much for Homeland Security ! (click here for WHO link)

The administration in DC is again scrambling to 'find a way' to handle an exposure issue with Multi-Drug Resistant TB. It's amazing.

The airlines don't have contact information on the people on the flights?

Yeah they do.

They don't have police force across the USA that can locate the folks that may have been exposed?

Yeah they do.

I suppose announcing it over the airwaves is marginally effective, but, I would think there would be a far more EFFECTIVE Homeland Security mechanism for an exposure such as this. What would prevent a jihadist from entering the USA with a highly contageous disease such as this and expose the nation to that danger?

NOTHING.

Is there? NO !

Bush wants one hundred billion dollars (US) for war but has absolutely no way of protecting the USA from a simple exposure of a seriously significant disease.

People are actually voting Republican?

WHY?

The year was 1993. I was an Registered Nurse at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. I was the 'Union Rep' to the unit I-Blue. I reported on to work and began to receive 'report' from an off going RN. We had received a female patient, age 45 years old. Nice lady. The diagnosis was new to me, but, that was never unusual at UMDNJ. We received all kinds of disease issues on this cutting edge cardiac telemetry/step-down/medical/surgical floor. We received the first two cases of that Mouse Virus in New Jersey, it was a retrovirus. The virus was so virulent it was killing people in NYC and this was a man with a high rate tachycardia due to the virus and fever. We got him through it. His daughter was on Peds and she survived it as well. He stated, there was a mouse in the apartment the day before and it must have been in the kitchen.

But, that day in 1993, the patient was a woman and the diagnosis was Multi-Drug Resistant TB. I looked at the reporting nurse and said, what? MTB he said. Multi-Drug Resistance TB. She was in a room without negative pressure and the diagnosis alone required a 'stand' by the floor's Union Rep. Evidently, the admitting physicians saw no reason to place her in an Anti-Room where there were several layers of isolation. I didn't waste time and called the Vice President of Nursing and simply stated, we had a serious TB case and there was insufficient mechanism to protect the staff. She personally got up from her desk as this was the hospital's first extremely resistant TB case, and went to Unit H-Yellow taking one of their 'micro' filtration machines. It was a large square unit that provided a filtration of viruses as well as a negative pressure. She gowned and gloved and put it in the room herself and started the filtrations. It was her responsiblity to protect the staff and it was my place to make sure it happened. That's all.
This bacteria is well known to the medical profession. It is a serious form of TB, very difficult to treat but it is somewhat treatable if the patient takes all their medications, but, in some instances the medicines are as bad as the bacteria if there are co-morbid issues. I remember assessing this woman's lungs. There were irreversible cavities in her lungs because of the bacteria. She sounded cavernous when she breathed.

Yep.

1993. This bacteria is NOT that unknown to the USA. Rare? Depends the city you live. It was not that rare in Newark after we discovered the first case. Oh, well, that is the Bush World of the Culture of Fear.

I guess Bush is trying to prove he knows more about 'health threats' to the American people than those revealed in "Sicko." Ah, but, Georgie, what do you care?