The nation needs to get it's mind around this. It's not a simple issue. Bigotry lives.

...The cause of Thursday's demonstrations dates to August 2006, when a black Jena High School student asked the principal whether blacks could sit under a shade tree that was a frequent gathering place for whites. He was told yes. But nooses appeared in the tree the next day. Three white students were suspended but not criminally prosecuted. LaSalle Parish District Attorney Reed Walters said this week he could find no state law covering the act.
The incident was followed by fights between blacks and whites, and in December a white student, Justin Barker, was knocked unconscious on school grounds. According to court testimony, his face was swollen and bloodied, but he was able to attend a school function that night.
Six black teens were arrested. Five were originally charged with attempted second-degree murder , charges that have since been reduced for four of them. The sixth was booked as a juvenile on sealed charges.
Martin Luther King III, son of the slain civil rights leader, said punishment of some sort may be in order for the six defendants, but "the justice system isn't applied the same to all crimes and all people."...

...and now the Right Wing is trying to Swift Boat the nation again...to continue to justify an illegal war.

The media rather cower in the corner and support profit margins as they exist rather than take a stand and stop the killing of people in Iraq.

The media will ridicule MoveOn.Org into oblivion and consider it a job well done.

So much for freedom of speech. What was it exactly the General thinks he is defending in Iraq anyway? Certainly not the rights guaranteed under the USA Constitution to a country rid of corruption and an Executive Branch free of High Crimes and Misdemeanors. Articles like this in The Washington Post only support corruption and attacks on American rights as would be leveled by the likes of Lindsey Graham.

Just because there are big guns in Iraq doesn't interpret into national security, but, it looks that way to the average American that hasn't the time to seek the truth and educate themselves to 'vote well' but only to 'vote popularly.' Most American households are too busy with three jobs minimally and morgage payments to multiple lending institutions to even begin to understand what is best for the USA. Now that is what I call a strategy to undo a Democracy into Servitude.

Dan Rather happens to be right. The USA was 'Swiftboated' by the Right Wing.

Dan Rather as a younger anchor for CBS. The issue at hand is the oppression of the truth and to that end there is a lot to be said still today regarding the reports about Bush's extremely poor performance in the National Guard. Everyone knows when he was 'placed' there with the influence of his father it was to save him from being killed in Vietnam without the 'appearance' of a Draft Dodger.

In addition to this lawsuit by Mr. Rather there is also a book by Kathy Roth-Douquet and Frank Schaeffer which outlines the lies by Bush of his dishonet service to the USA (click here). I believe it is she that made an appearance around the talk shows when the book first came out in hardcover stating there were issues with Bush's service and although 'the letter' which appeared on "60 Minutes" had issues it nearly didn't matter. The fact of the matter is and I hope this comes out in the Rather lawsuit is the Republican Right Wing was at work over this issue and managed to undermine the credibility of the story. It isn't CBS that was the problem either and it makes them look as though they aren't a credible news agency, it is the power of the Right Wing and it's media to contort facts and focus to mislead the electorate into their 'hierarchy' of priorities.

The Antarctica Ice Chime

It hasn't improved in Antarctica. 6 PM and 12 AM is missing from loop. (click for 24 hour loop)

September 19, 2007
1200 PM
Antarctica (click here for current 24 hour loop)

...and the high altitude vortices are transmitted in to surface winds as noted between these two satellites. That means the heat transfer sublimes the top ice and migrates down to do the same at lower latitudes and by the time it reaches sea level the air is hot and the Peninsula reflects much higher temperatures.


September 21, 2007
1200 AM
Antarctica




September 18, 2997
0600 gmt
Antarctica Jet Stream

The heat transfer vortexes are frequent. Their reach is to the top of the Blue Ice over Vostok. The patterns of Antarctica's air mass provide quick relief to any abatement of the vortexes due to it's inertia as noted below. Noted a five degree increase (from - 60C to -65C) during the time difference of these two satellite images. Inertia.


September 20, 2007
1800 gmt
Antarctica Jet Stream


September 20, 2007
1921
The South Pole Satellite

There are frequent heat transfer vortices landing on Antarctica on a regular basis and the sun is only at the Equator. It's nearly the first day of Spring in Antarctica. The vortices are no longer at high latitudes.




The majority of Antarctica is well above average temperatures:

The warmest reporting station :

Palmer Station

Elevation :: 26 ft / 8 meters

Temperature :: 34 F / 1 C

Humidity :: 67 %

Dew Point :: 27 F / -3 C

Wind :: 25 mph / 40 km/h from the NE

Wind Gust :: -

Pressure :: 29.52 in / 1000 hPa (Falling)

Visibility :: 3.0 miles / 4.8 kilometers


THE AVERAGE MEDIAN TEMPERATURE ACROSS THE CURRENT 55 REPORTING STATIONS IS - 16.5 C.

The coldest temperature of reporting stations ::

Vostok, Antarctica

Elevation :: 11220 ft / 3429 m

Temperature :: - 84 F / -64 C

Conditions :: Mist

Humidity :: 43%

Dew Point :: -90 F / -68 C

Wind :: 4 mph / 6 km/h from the East

Wind Gust :: -

Pressure :: in / hPa (Falling)

Visibility :: 2.0 miles / 4.0 kilometers


Amundsen – Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica

Elevation :: 9285 ft / 2830 m

Temperature :: -57 F / -49 C

Conditions :: Snow Grains

Wind :: 9 mph / 15 km/h from the NE

Wind Gust :: -

Pressure :: in / hPa (Falling)

Visibility :: 4.0 miles / 6.0 kilometers

UV :: 0 out of 16

Clouds :: Overcast 4035 ft / 1230 m

(Above the ground)

continued...

The weather in Antarctica, Ross Base (Crystal Ice Chime) is temperate:

September 21, 2007
1320
Scott Base, New Zealand, Antarctica

September 22, 2007 is the autumnal equinox (click on - choose time zone)

The evilest of all evil men would see the health of children compromised

President Bush during a news conference at the White House briefing room today.

..."Instead of posturing by sending him a bill they know he will reject, Mr. Bush said, the Democrats should embrace fiscal and social responsibility and pass a bill that provides for reasonable increases in spending on health insurance for uninsured children without veering toward the “federalization of health care.”...

Greed is at the basis of any and all Bush Tax Cuts to the point of endangering the wellness of our youngest citizens.

When is the nation going to impeach Bush and Cheney? They are grossly incompetent and in that incompetence lies danger to human life.

Not a named storm yet? Click here for 12 hour loop.

September 20, 2007

0915z

Enhanced Infrared Satellite GOES East

When the sun comes up the storm will probably have enough velocity to be named. There are currently two active named storms in the Pacific of which one has hurricane strength vorticity.

This article reflects the fact weather patterns due to Human Induced Global Warming have become so intricate to predict, the control for preventing adverse realities for USA populations is falling to local measures.

Station's storm spotting gets specific (click here)
No more entire county warnings for storms, flash floods, tornadoes
By Aldrich M. Tan of The Northwestern
A new warning system will help people better know if they are in the path of a severe storm.

Jeff Last, warning coordination meteorologist, said the National Weather Services station in Green Bay traditionally issues severe weather warnings for entire counties. Starting Thursday, the new system will focus more precisely on the area that faces the biggest threat from a storm.

It is not unusual for a severe storm to only hit certain parts of the county when a warning is issued for the entire county, Last said. If a storm is brewing very close to Oshkosh, the new warnings will indicate that the warning is for central Winnebago County....

At every turn Bush's war is being pushed out of Iraq if only for the Dead Republican Wood in the Senate and House

Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA), right, and Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) hold a news conference to reintroduce their amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill.

The faces of those backing the Iraq War are doing so for political purposes in attempting to keep the chance they will win a Republican victory in 2008 and/or keep their Senate seats. Among those that back the continued occupation of Iraq are the likes of Lindsay Graham (click here).


Lindsay Graham has been in the Senate forever and caters to a constituency mired in flag waving (click here) at the enormous cost of national security to the USA and deaths to the Iraqi people.


Graham's argument for voting against the Webb Amendment was because it would be ill advised based on the history of powers of the Commander and Chief. The reality of an illegal war didn't matter to Graham. The fact war fatigue replaces any good judgement in soldiers on the battlefield didn't matter to Graham. The fact that decency alone in maintaining family relationships dictates a change in the length of deployment didn't matter to Graham. THE ONLY aspect of the vote regarding this amendment which mattered to Lindsay Graham is the 'Southern Republican Flag Waving' politics of honoring the tradition of extending the war powers of the Commander and Chief.


Mr. Graham's statement reads:


...“The Webb amendment intended to take care of the troops. I don’t question anyone’s intent, but if you really want to take care of the troops let them win.

“The Webb amendment was one of the more ill-advised approaches to fighting the War on Terror. It was a historic constitutional infringement on the power of the Commander in Chief allowing Congress to micromanage troop rotations and deployments. The amendment would have hurt the brave young men and women fighting the War on Terror and set a terrible precedent for fighting future conflicts....


MICROMANAGE.


The Congress, according to Lindsay, attempted to micromanage the war. Amazing. Is Congress taking control of the battlefield out of the hands of the commanders? No. What the Webb-Hagel Amendment states is that soldiers have to be given sufficient time off the battlefield to recuperate from it's demands. The Webb-Hagle Amendment was to insure the soliders on the battlefield were in a sound state of readiness to serve with intact health and family relationships. The likes of Lindsay Graham would see any soldier deployed for any length of time simply because a Commander and Chief demanded it of OUR military.


The people whom voted against the Webb-Hagle Amendment are Anti-American, don't care about our soldiers, care only about winning a hopeless war and seek only to play politics with the lives of our troops and the lives of the people of Iraq. Lindsay and those like him need to be replaced in their Senate and House seats to allow a legislature that benefits this country's security rather than defeats it. The current war in Iraq is served by a vast minority of people both in military deployments and those that support it in the electorate of the USA. The politics of killing while compromising the security of this country has to stop and it has to stop by ridding the legislature of people voting based upon 'historical' principles rather than sound reasoning.


The fact of the matter is, without Bush's private contractors in Iraq, the USA military's burden will increase enormously, the deployments will be more lengthy and deployments will become toxic to the well being of our military and national security.

Caught between the two systems is the Midwest (click for 12 hour loop)

September 19, 2007
2030z
UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of USA (click here for 12 hour loop)

There is a vortex over Hudson Bay driving the central continent system.

September 17, 2007

2031z

UNISYS Enhanced Infrared Satellite (click above, thank you)

The Northwest and Canada is in for some nasty stuff, too.

September 19, 2007
2030z
UNISYS Enhanced Infrared GOES West (click here for 12 hour loop)

September 19, 2007

2030z

UNISYS Enhanced Infrared Satellite (click here 2 hour loop)

Louisiana eyes storm now hitting Florida

September 17, 2007
2030z
UNISYS Water Vapor Hemispheric Satellite of the North and West hemisphere (click for 12 hour loop)

If one cares to follow the 'line' between the Pacific storm and the current storm in the Gulf there is a straight line between that extends to the Arctic Circle. It is along that line there will be the greatest force affecting these storms and there 'predictable' vorticity.


September 19, 2007
1930z
UNISYS Infrared Satellite GOES West (click here)

It's been my experience whenever there is a 'counter' turbulence in the Pacific, the Atlantic manifests a significant storm in greater dynamics than the Pacific storm; nearly in exact alignment with each other. One can nearly draw a straight edge between them.




September 19, 2007


1930z


UNISYS Infrared Satellite GOES East (12 hour loop click here)










September 19, 2007
1817 gmt
Tropical Atlantic Satellite.

There is still plenty of heat spilling off Africa and it is also connected to the "Ingrid" system. Being a weather forecaster and attempting to protect the public is getting to be an impossible job. Take a deep breath and do all you can, maintain a 'stress-free' environment to prevent errors. You are all in my thoughts. Good Luck !


September 19, 2007
2006 gmt
Carribean Sea Satellite

"Ingrid" may turn out to have some activity yet. This system is well supported all the way to the equator, crossing the Central American area of the continent. The system supporting this new vortex and Ingrid is extremely large and unpredictable. The manifestation of the vortex over Florida alone proves the high turbulence at work today.

These babies happen fast. Look out ! Consider evacuations ! In my opinion, there is high probablity of tornadoes.

System may cross Florida into the Gulf (click here)
by NOLA.com
Wednesday September 19, 2007, 1:29 PM

According to the National Hurricane Center, a large area of disturbed weather over the western Atlantic northern Bahamas and the east coast of Florida is associated with a tropical wave interacting with an upper-level low.
NOAA/NHC graphicThis National Hurricane Center map shows a system of low pressure that is expected to move across Florida and into the Gulf of Mexico. Meterologists say that the system has the potential to become a tropical storm.
There are no signs of organization at this time. However, surface pressures are gradually falling and environmental conditions appear favorable for a subtropical or a tropical cyclone to form over the next day or two as the disturbance moves westward over Florida and intothe Gulf of Mexico.
Regardless of development, this system will likely bring showers, squalls and locally heavy rains over portions of Florida during the next day or two....

Bush's Poor Job Approval Rating has rubbed off on the performance of Congress

Bush's Rating between September 14 - 16, 2007 according to CBS is:

Approval :: 29%

Disapproval :: 64%

Undecided :: 7%

Bush 'relost' his base he had gained only a week ago. I guess the report from Iraq is the motivating force away from the Republican agenda.


Congress rating between September 14 - 16, 2007 according to CBS is:

Approval :: 27%

Disapproval :: 65%

Undecided :: 8%

That is a 2% improvement for Congress during the very same period for Bush's loss.


Iraqi PM: Shooting Was "In Cold Blood" (click here)
Al-Maliki Disputes Blackwater USA's Version Of Shooting That Left 11 Dead
(CBS/AP) Iraq's prime minister on Wednesday disputed Blackwater USA's version of a weekend shooting that left at least 11 people dead and declared he would not tolerate "the killing of our citizens in cold blood."
Land travel by U.S. diplomats and other civilian officials outside the fortified Green Zone remained suspended for a second day after Iraqi authorities ordered Blackwater to stop working as an investigation continues into the Sunday incident.
The Moyock, North Carolina-based firm is the main provider of bodyguards and armed escorts for American government civilian employees in Iraq.
U.S. Embassy spokeswoman Mirembe Nantongo said the contractors involved in the shooting are still in Iraq, but she refused to comment on the specifics of the case pending an investigation. Americans and Iraqis have offered widely differing accounts of the Sunday incident, with Blackwater insisting that its guards returned fire against armed insurgents who were threatening American diplomats.
The New York Times reported late Tuesday that a preliminary review by Iraq's Ministry of Interior found that Blackwater security guards fired at a car when it did not heed a policeman's call to stop, killing a couple and their infant....

This is the old OJ below. Not much has changed I would say. (click on)

For hire … a private US security guard in Iraq.Photo: AP
Does the Bush/Cheney Administration know how to run a war or what? I wonder what's to come of the Iraq Embassy when all the USA troops leave? Should be interesting to see. I take it this is an issue INSIDE 'The Green Zone.' Immunity? Private contractors have immunity? How many people have been killed by these mercenaries? The Iraqi government should demand their removal of all private contractors and put their own people to work !

Embassy grounds US diplomats after shoot-out (click here)
The decision to ban US government officials' movement outside Baghdad's fortified green zone came as the Iraqi Government vowed to challenge the immunity of private security contractors from prosecution under Iraqi law and review the operations of all such companies in Iraq.
...The decision effectively halted Blackwater's operations because a main task of the company is to escort diplomats, including the US ambassador, Ryan Crocker....

Watch the media fiasco over this on all the cable networks. It will be just like old times distracting the nation away from the elections, the issues, the Iraq war and causing issues over racism. O.J. Simpson's arrests and trials aren't about racism, it's about narcissism and self-righteousness that leads him to believe no matter what he does he's above the law.

This is the last time this issue will appear on this blog due to a protect against the media coverage and shame on everyone else. I don't see any other minority getting the attention he does over alleged crimes committed. I can see it now, the OJ Trial only interrupted when necessary for commericals promoting the Republican candidate for president. I just can't wait, can you? Everyone pay attention now to the politics of the day, there will be a quiz in November of 2008 !

Click here for 24 hour loop. Missing is 3 PM and 6 PM.

I'm going to revisit this tomorrow. Have a good day.

Antarctica
September 19, 2007
12:00 PM

Highest Temperature today is
Base Jubany
Temperature :: 40 °F / 4 °C
Humidity :: 65%
Pressure :: 29.78 in / 1008 hPa
Conditions :: Light Rain
Winds :: NW at 32 mph / 52 km/h /
Time :: 3:00 PM GMT

Lowest temperature today still ain't all that low:

Vostok
Temperature :: -60 °F / -51 °C
Humidity :: 37%
Pressure :: in / hPa
Conditions :: Blowing Snow
Winds :: SSE at 14 mph / 22 km/h /
Time :: 6:00 PM VOST

Amundsen-Scott
Temperature :: -63 °F / -53 °C
Pressure :: in / hPa
Conditions :: Snow
Winds :: NNE at 14 mph / 22 km/h /
Time :: 12:00 AM NZST

Clean Air
Temperature :: -63 °F / -53 °C
Humidity :: N/A%
Pressure :: 28.89 in / 978 hPa
Conditions :: Ice Crystals
Winds :: NNE at 14 mph / 22 km/h / 6.2 m/s
Time :: 11:50 PM NZST

Nico
Temperature :: -67 °F / -55 °C
Pressure :: in / hPa
Winds :: West at 7 mph / 11 km/h /
Time :: 2:00 PM GMT

There is some very nasty weather developing offshore the southeast USA. (click here)

An emergency shelter at a school on the outskirts of Shanghai today. (NY Times article below)


September 19, 2007
1507 gmt
West Pacific Global Satellite



September 19, 2007
1530z
UNISYS Enhanced Infrared Satellite of north and west hemisphere (click here12 hour loop)


There are massive heat transfers today. Even with a damaging typhoon hitting China there is little relief for the troposphere. The satellite picture above of the West Pacific shows extremely hot conditions in the one place there is still water vapor over tropical forests. The heat is still concentrated more north than south of the equator, however, Antarctica is taking a hit with temperatures on the Peninsula reaching 40F today. Asia hasn't seen the last of it's typhoons either.


Typhoon Spares Worried Shanghai (click here)

By HOWARD W. FRENCH
Published: September 20, 2007
SHANGHAI, Sept. 19 — A powerful typhoon lashed at China’s east coast today, forcing gigantic evacuations in Shanghai and other coastal cities and causing widespread damage to the south of the city.

As recently as late Tuesday, the storm, bearing the Thai-derived name Wipha, had been forecast to make a rare direct hit on Shanghai, China’s largest city, prompting the evacuation of 300,000 residents of low-lying neighborhoods and vulnerable areas, along with a battery of other emergency measures....



September 18, 2007
Key West, Florida
Photographer states :: Feeling the effects of the approach of 93L with this little squall in Key West. Wish I would have used the film camera, as the digital didn't catch the detail of the lower clouds. Three distinct layers of clouds,all moving at different speeds. Plenty of wind and some light sprinkles, then all was calm again within an hour.

September 19, 2007

1430z

UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite north and west hemisphere

Heads up, everyone. Consider this a shot across the bow. This is the stuff the scientists are warning everyone about. THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF A VERY DANGEROUS TROPOSPHERE. These storms are 'pre-loaded' in a super hot troposphere with instant development with little warning. This is it. This is the dangerous stuff. The dark clouds above are intense humidified air mass and as time goes by there will be more and more intensity and longevity to these events.