It makes sense Rand Paul made a trip to Michigan. Minority issues (Detroit) and the Michigan miliitia.

July 11, 2015
By Ian Thibodeau

HIGHLAND PARK, MI (click here) - A small crowd gathered on the front lawn of a home in Highland Park to hear from presidential hopeful and U.S. Senator Rand Paul Friday afternoon.
Appearing with a handful of local elected officials, including Democratic Highland Park Mayor DeAndre Windom, and business leaders, Paul delivered a short outline of his political strategy during his "Unleash the American Dream" event.
The Republican candidate said Friday that one of the problems with Washington, D.C., is that Republicans and Democrats are always fighting.
"We never get the solutions, because we don't have conversation," Paul said. "I came here, really, not to tell the mayor how to do his job, but to learn more about your city. ... The thing I think we all have to acknowledge is we face a lot of problems in our country ... so we need to figure out what works and what doesn't work."
Paul said he came to Highland Park to learn about the community's specific problems....

The Michigan Militia is the cornerstone to radical gun laws. It could be said, the Michigan Militia is the KKK of guns. They don't care about the slaughter of innocent children in their classrooms, they promote guns as the basis of a lifestyle. Gun groups such as the NRA have a real gratitude to the Michigan militia for their electorate from year to year. Oh, yeah, and don't forget the FOX viewer. The Michigan militia remains the roll model for current gun groups. "The only way to stop a bad man with a gun, is a good man with a gun." They never say, "Good people or Good women." Sexist as well as racist. There are no minority Michigan militia members last time I looked. 

April 20, 2015
By Gary Ridley

Within days of the Oklahoma City bombing (click here)  eyes across the globe turned to empty farm fields and lonely expanses of woods in Michigan in an effort to better understand the men the U.S. government claimed were responsible for the death of 168 people.

Newspaper headlines and TV news crews pounded Michigan Militia members after it was discovered that the men responsible for the April 19, 1995, bombing -- Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols -- may have attended militia meetings before they blew up the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in downtown Oklahoma City....

Below is from the Southern Poverty Law Center. Kindly donate to the Southern Poverty Law Center (click here) since the federal government has withdrawn it's funding because the right wing complained the SPLC was partisan. It's outrageous, but, it happened. The SPLC should sue the federal government over it's lost funding. Just because it is the political right wing that composes the most hate groups doesn't mean the PSLC is partisan.

September 16, 2009
By David Holthouse

A key figure of the 1990s antigovernment “Patriot” movement (click here) who largely dropped from public view in 2002 has resurfaced in Alaska, where he’s recruiting for his newly formed Alaska Militia.

Norm Olson, who founded the Michigan Militia in 1994, held an organizational meeting last Thursday at a community center in Nikiski, a small town in the Kenai Peninsula region about 170 road miles from Anchorage.

Olson’s message: “Something very evil this way comes.”

“We’re looking at catastrophe just a couple months away — economic collapse, food shortages around the world, prices in stores are gonna go skyrocketing with this inflation,” Olson told the roughly 20 attendees, according to The Redoubt Reporter, a Kenai Peninsula newspaper.
“I’m convinced that times are coming when we are going to have to repel federal aggression, tyrannical oppressive federal aggression. They’re going to want to quell any kind of uprising, because it’s bad for politics,” Olson was quoted as saying.

Presiding over the meeting alongside Olson was Michigan Militia co-founder Ray Southwell. In the 1990s Olson and Southwell together made the Michigan Militia one of the first major antigovernment Patriot groups in the country and helped transform their former home state into a hotbed of Patriot activity.

Presiding over the meeting alongside Olson was Michigan Militia co-founder Ray Southwell. In the 1990s Olson and Southwell together made the Michigan Militia one of the first major antigovernment Patriot groups in the country and helped transform their former home state into a hotbed of Patriot activity. ... 

"Morning Papers"

The Rooster

"Okeydoke"

Holy shit what a mess this is.

August 3, 2015
0030.19z
UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of north and west (click here)

To the left is current, below and right is 12 hours ago. The weather 12 hours ago had the weather persons  were predicting a chance of rain. If that was a chance of rain, I'll eat my hat. I would to buy a straw one first of course.

August 2,2015
1230.18z
UNYSIS Water Vapor Satellite of north and west hemisphere (the 12 hour loop is above)

What occurred was a consolidation of water vapor along a path of dense CO2 with the assistance of the hurricane in the Pacific. I know, I know. How can a hurricane in the Pacific have an effect on the closing day of the Traverse City Film Festival. A cold front also brought instability.

I am sure everyone knows what a hurricane is, a huge cyclone of water vapor that consolidates into an easy identifiable circulations system. They usually start in the ocean, but, not always. Since 2006, there have been NEAR SHORE storms that started because of hot land near a shoreline. There was a devastating Catergoy1 that manifested over the North Carolina shoreline and reeked havoc with board walks and roads and such. That was only one, there have been others.

Below is the category two hurricane called Guillermo. I think that is Spanish. Here it is. It is Spanish for William (click here).

August 2, 2015
By Meteorologist Malika Dudley

The first aircraft (click here) from the US 53rd reconnaissance squadron flew through Guillermo to collect data on Hurricane Guillermo this morning. The system has begun to look more ragged and the current intensity has been dropped down a notch to a Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds around 90 mph. The system has also slowed some and is moving west-northwest at 10 mph. Otherwise, the track and general forecast guidance remains unchanged.

Okay, so as to the water vapor trail that lead to some rather severe storms in along that path and Hurricane-2 Guillermo. 

In the past hurricanes were primarily ocean originated and became powerful over the ocean and remained powerful until land fall. The hurricanes today are different. 

Who knew there have been three storms in the Atlantic this year? Only three and very puny as hurricanes go.

1	Tropical Storm ANA	08-11 MAY	40		-
2	Tropical Storm BILL	16-20 JUN	50	997	-
3	Tropical Storm CLAUDETTE	13-14 JUL	45

This is the Pacific season that occurred before Guillermo.

1	Hurricane-4 ANDRES	28 MAY-04 JUN	120		4
2	Hurricane-4 BLANCA	31 MAY-09 JUN	125		4
3	Hurricane-1 CARLOS	10-17 JUN	80		1
4	Tropical Storm ELA	08-10 JUL	35		-
5	Tropical Storm HALOLA	09-13 JUL	50		-
6	Tropical Storm IUNE	09-13 JUL	35		-
7	Hurricane-4 DOLORES	11-19 JUL	115		4
8	Tropical Storm ENRIQUE	12-18 JUL	45		-
9	Tropical Storm FELICIA	23-25 JUL	35		-
10	Tropical Depression EIGHT_	27-30 JUL	30

The very first storm this season was Ana in the Atlantic. It was extremely weak and only achieved the designation of Tropical Storm and not Hurricane, but, ANA is the most important storm of the season occurring near North America.  

Below is the Typhoon Season in the West Pacific. It started in January and grew in intensity until it reached a Super Typhoon status at the end of March. March 30th to be exact.

16   9.40  143.70 03/30/18Z  125     - SUPER TYPHOON-4

1	Typhoon-1 MEKKHALA	13-18 JAN	70		1
2	Typhoon-3 HIGOS	07-11 FEB	105		3
3	Tropical Storm BAVI	11-18 MAR	50		-
4	Super Typhoon-5 MAYSAK	27 MAR-05 APR	140		5
5	Tropical Storm HAISHEN	03-06 APR	45		-
6	Super Typhoon-5 NOUL	03-12 MAY	140		5
7	Super Typhoon-5 DOLPHIN	07-19 MAY	140		5
8	Tropical Storm KUJIRA	20-24 JUN	45		-
9	Typhoon-4 CHAN_HOM	30 JUN-12 JUL	120		4
10	Typhoon-1 LINFA	02-09 JUL	65		1
11	Super Typhoon-4 NANGKA	03-18 JUL	135		4
12	Typhoon-2 HALOLA	13-26 JUL	90		2
13	Tropical Storm TWELVE	23-25 JUL	40		-
14	Typhoon-3 SOUDELOR	30 JUL-02 AUG	105		3	Active
15	Tropical Depression FOURTE	02-02 AUG	30		-	Active

In 2015, which has been the case since 2006, Earth has been having a difficult time in spinning up hurricanes. If one remembers in 2005, the most strong and dangerous storms existed on Earth. There were record numbers that year as well. But, it was also the last year the water vapor would be on the surface of Earth. It was after 2005 hurricane season the water vapor of Earth's surface would begin to migrate into higher altitudes. 

To the right is a diagram of the altitudes of atmosphere of Earth. The precious troposphere is where we live and where hurricanes live. It varies in altitude with shallower altitudes at the poles. At least it used to be shallower there. But, the troposphere is traditionally thought of as 4 miles to 12 miles from Earth's surface. 

As Earth's surface heated with dense cover of greenhouse gases the water vapor no longer remained on Earth's surface at 0.0 latitude (sea level). It migrated upward. Now, with migration of water vapor to higher altitudes where was all the water vapor to spin up a hurricane? Hurricanes simply don't happen because they decide this is a good day for a hurricane. They happen because CONDITIONS are right for them to occur. 

So, the legitimate question is where is the water vapor to start hurricanes when the water vapor is at higher altitudes and the heat is at 0.0 altitude?  

Since 2006 the hurricanes are developing their own water vapor. The season begins with a near shore storm of which Ana was. It started near shore off North Carolina. It doesn't matter if Ana has a high velocity storm or incredibly powerful, what is important is that Ana took SEA SPRAY and spun up a cyclone / tropical storm. 

How is that important that Ana developed because of sea spray off the coast of NC?

I've witnessed it in person at the shoreline of Wrightsville Beach, NC and the Atlantic Ocean. Incredibly dense clouds with every breaking wave building and building and building into turbulent storms. 

I had lived in that area for years and what I witnessed one day as a visitor to see my friends after I moved away; was nothing I had witnessed before. 

There were always marginal changes in humidity with the low and high tides, but, never anything like this. Once the wave broke over on to the shore, it released water vapor permanently into the troposphere. With each breaking wave the WATER VAPOR was soaked up by the dry air as if the thirst of a desert. 

As the water vapor accumulated along a very long shoreline maintained in the boundaries of NC, clouds formed and filled with water vapor and they turned dark with particulates and water. The clouds were rising off of the shoreline and not visiting on wind or any type of air circulation. The turbulence that occurred was due to rising clouds from the shoreline which began to accumulate and started it's own circulation center. Ultimately, the circulation center with perfect conditions developed into a near shore tropical storm.

The tropical storm would DELIVER water vapor permanently into the troposphere and as the first storm waned the water vapor was in the troposphere to light the next fire of turbulence. The second storm would deliver more water vapor into the troposphere and pretty soon there was enough water vapor in the troposphere to spin up storms that now reached category status of 4 and 5. The heat was there the entire time, it was simply waiting for the perfect physics of heat and water vapor of tropical storms and hurricanes to drive the heat into the oceans.

Now, as to Hurricane-2 Guillermo and severe storms in northwest lower peninsula Michigan.

August 2, 2015
1730.18z
UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of the north and west hemisphere. (12 hour loop above)

Exactly in this satellite image Hurricane-2 Guillermo was filling with water vapor from the equatorial Inter Tropical Convergence Zone, or ITCZ. The hurricane was so full of water vapor it spilled over into the troposphere in the form of water vapor.

Two hours later. 

August 2, 2015
1930.18z
UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of north and west hemisphere (12 hour loop at top of entry)

The water vapor trail is now moving from the ITCZ northward to southwest USA.

What is also evident, with growing water vapor in the troposphere, the Great Lakes are starting to spin up their own turbulence. The waves of the Great Lakes are able to contribute now to the water vapor in the troposphere as it increases over time from Hurricane-2 Guillermo. Now, realize the troposphere at the surface (sea level/lake level)is very dry. It only becomes saturated enough as Guillermo churns in the Pacific.

Two hours later.

August 2, 2015
2130.19z
UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of the north and west hemisphere (12 hour loop at top of entry)

The vapor trail provided by Guillermo is now connecting along the ITCZ and a water vapor trail which has been building along with the Great Lakes water vapor. The west coast of North America is beginning to see more water vapor and the turbulence along this entire path. The path from Guillermo to the ITCZ to the west coast of USA to the Great Lakes and onto the east coast water vapor trail is building and what is it building? "A chance of rain?" No. It is building a great deal of air turbulence because an entire hemisphere is filling with water vapor. That water vapor is moving faster and faster on heat concentrations that result in a huge air front accompanied by cold air from the north over Canada. 

The entire hemisphere is lighting up with heat driven turbulence all because a hurricane in the east Pacific became saturated enough to distribute the water vapor all over the hemisphere and along the CURVATURE of Earth. As the water vapor from the ITCZ rose and moved north, the curvature of Earth assisted in the RAPID distribution.

And where exactly is the Traverse City Film Festival? Just below 45 degrees north latitude. The cold air from Canada met with the water vapor saturated air and BANG there was turbulence no one saw coming. 

The devastation resulted in thunder that would clap one right after another. It culminated in massively strong winds that didn't effect a solid but aged brick building called "The Old Town Playhouse." The brick building didn't even creak. Outside magnificent huge trees toppled as if ripped up from roots with a twist. The base of the trees were rotated when they fell. There were sheered off their base but never were uprooted. The roots were still in the ground. One residential street had trees toppled from both sides of the street to block any escape. Power lines were down and citizens in the theaters and out in the community received a code red alert phone call for everyone to remain in their homes and not travel due to the unpredictable nature of the roads. 

The damage in some areas was extensive and as the storm moved off, it displayed huge mammatus clouds as if to say, "It ain't over yet." The clouds passed and it was all over for Traverse City, except, the clean up and repair of electrical service.

That is how a Pacific hurricane caused high turbulence thousands of miles where it continues to spin and travel closer and closer to Hawaii.

"Good Night" for tonight. Tomorrow evening will be a better time. 

Oh, I almost forgot. The West Pacific season? It helped build the water vapor in the exact same way in the Pacific and allowed the hurricane headed right toward Hawaii to become saturated.

Until tomorrow.

Thank you.

Hi. The electricity as just turned on after a cold front moved through. I'll see if I can get it for you on satellite.

But, I have to return a phone call first. So, it will be a few minutes.

Thanks.

Is there a difference between prostituion by choice and sex traffiking?

Amnesty International believes there is a difference from sex trafficking and a woman's right to prostitution by choice. Internationally prostitution is a method women use to earn a living and even providing an income that supports her family. Many countries don't seek to stop prostitution as a profession. I am sure that will be a reality any candidate for office will have to face. Do the laws and policies of the USA inhibit prostitution while providing a vital path to women who can be self-supporting when provided with training in a new economy?

July 31, 2015
Elizabeth Nolan Brown

Sex workers around the world (click here) aren't taking lightly to a celebrity campaign against decriminalizing prostitution. Hundreds of sex workers, academics, social workers, and human-rights organizations have signed a letter in support of Amnesty International's position that "consensual sexual conduct between adults ... is entitled to protection from state interference."

Amnesty's position has earned the ire of dozens of activist groups, feminist icons like Gloria Steinhem and Eve Ensler, and Hollywood stars including Meryl Streep, Anne Hathway, Carey Mulligan, Lena Dunham, and Phoebe Cates. On July 22, they released a letter calling Amnesty's Draft Policy on Sex Work "deeply disturbing" and equating the decriminalizaiton of prostitution with "gender apartheid." 

In response, the International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (ICRSE) drafted its own letter to Amnesty. "We are aware that Amnesty International will be pressured to back down from this position, but we urge you to show courage and tenacity and to adopt this policy," it states. "Sex workers worldwide are organizing and advocating, often in very precarious and dangerous contexts, for the decriminalization of sex work. Having Amnesty International take this position would make a significant contribution to promoting sex workers’ human rights and protecting them from discrimination and violence."...

The USA is a prime location for sex trafficking. Men pay well here for sex. When will women across the world be valued to the point where their countries can value women as a wage earner and not a sex commodity.

July 31, 2015

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — After just an hour of deliberation, (click here) the verdict is in for a White Bear Lake man accused of sex trafficking crimes.
A Ramsey County jury found Michael Mark Jordan, 43, guilty on two counts of engaging in prostitution with a minor Friday afternoon. Each conviction carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
According to the Ramsey County Attorney’s office, Jordan purchased sex from a 17-year-old girl on a number of occasions between December 2012 and July 2013. In April of this year, Jordan was arrested and charged with another man — 54-year-old Steven Robert Kjelstad. Kjelstad pled guilty in June and will be sentenced on August 28....

I can't but think the loss of former Secretary Clinton in the US State Department caused increases in prostitution internationally resulting in this policy from Amnesty International.

Sometimes it takes a woman to garner respect for all women. Just that simple.

These are gun statistics from 2013. Gun control works.

Kaiser study reflecting te above statistics.  (click here)

Florida has some of the most liberal gun laws in the country due to ALEC. (click here) Liberal gun laws kill.

What good are economic driven laws if one can't live through them. Cronies are more important to Bush's economy. Bush frequently invokes god in his dialogues. He doesn't recognize the separation of church and state. He recognizes deaths that are sympathetic such as those in South Carolina without demanding reform to end such violence in the USA. God never stated dying before one's time was the ideal society.

Hooked on high profits, Wall Street is pleading for another Bush run to the Executive Branch.

Thirty cents a share from earnings of over $40 billion and the stockholders don't view this as a reasonable return on investment. That is nonsense. Chevron is doing just fine on an oil glut economy, but, the CEOs are screaming for more.

August 1, 2015
By Tom DeChristopher  

Chevron posted net income of 30 cents a share (click here) on revenue of $40.36 billion, compared with analyst estimates of per-sharing earnings of $1.16 on $30.91 billion in revenue. 
The company maintained its quarterly dividend at $1.07 per share in the second quarter, returning $2 billion to shareholders. Chevron hasn't raised its dividend since Q2 2014 and kept investors guessing as to whether it would do so later this year. 
Asked on the company's conference call whether Chevron would raise the dividend by the fourth quarter, Chief Financial Officer Patricia Yarrington said, "We don't want to get out over our skis. We want to do it in a manner and at a time that we can do it in perpetuity.... We'll do it at a time that the financials allow us to get there." 
Chevron said maintaining a strong dividend was its No. 1 priority and the company was committed to covering the dividend from free cash flow in 2017, and not just at the previously stated oil price of $70.... 

These are the folks that want to re-elect another Bush. The folks that know no end to the growth of the 1% and the 0.1%. This only takes money out of the hands of the American people and extends the timeline in the ability to develop wealth. 

And what was that about election law violations so Bush could raise more money for his super-pacs? 

In question after a prepared speech Bush hatred of Obamacare.

Bush had nothing constructive to say. He advocated an economy that would result in four percent growth by re-perfusion of the old Bush economy. The old Bush economy never solved any minority problems before, why would revisiting it perform differently.

..."I don't think you can credibly (click here) say that everyone has a right to rise and then say you're for phasing out Medicare or repealing Obamacare," Clinton said. "People can't rise if they can't afford health care. They can't rise if the minimum wage is too low to live on. They can't rise if their governor makes it hard for them to get a college education and you cannot seriously talk about the right to rise and support laws that deny the right to vote."

Clinton also lamented the deaths of Trayvon Martin and Sandra Bland and ticked off statistics on African-Americans receiving disproportionately longer sentences than whites. Blacks are also three times more likely to be denied a mortgage loan than people who are white, she said.

"Race still plays a significant role in determining who gets ahead in America and who gets left behind," Clinton said. "And yes, while that's partly a legacy of discrimination that stretches back to the start of our nation, it is also because of discrimination that is still ongoing."...

As a matter of fact, the old Bush economy caused a profound loss of African American wealth in the USA.

But, to the questions of Bush after a prepared speech revealed sincere hatred of Obamacare. Bush stated, "Obamacare is using young people as a way to pay for healthcare insurance for older citizens like himself." That is an amazing statement. Bush assumes young Americans do not need health care. 

My children were covered under my health care insurance until they finished their college careers and had jobs of their own. One of the vital aspects of Obamacare is that is allows parents to claim their young people on their health care insurance until they are no longer a dependent due to college aspirations.

Many 20 somethings with a family can be eligible for Medicare. But, the need for health care by this American generation is more important than any other generation.

 July 14, 2015

...Many will get Medicaid coverage at virtually no cost. (click here) Others will qualify for private insurance at a fraction of the full premiums. And health plans offered under the law will limit individuals' out-of-pocket expenses to about $6,250 per year or less — a bulwark against gigantic, unexpected medical bills.

"It doesn't have to be cancer or a heart attack or even a bad car accident," said Karen Pollitz, a health policy expert at the Kaiser Family Foundation whose own son needed $15,000 worth of surgery after he broke his wrist while skateboarding at age 20. "Once you show up in the ER (emergency room), it starts to cost you some money."

The plans also will cover at no charge preventive care such as HIV tests, screening for depression or alcoholism, flu shots, hepatitis vaccine, contraception and pregnancy care. And insurers will no longer be able to exclude or charge extra for people who already have health problems....

Twenty somethings are only beginning careers after college, without health care insurance they could lose a valuable early foothold to the promise of the middle class. Bankruptcy is the one reason that validates the need for all Americans to have healthcare insurance. This generation is no different. They have an advantage other generations never had, the right to pay reasonable costs for health insurance and health care.

There are still disadvantages to this generation of Americans in the cost of higher education and necessary loans. But, having health care is still an advantage to this generation of Americans. The US Congress needs to carry out a law for these Americans that address the unreasonable costs of college and the lasting damage to the American economy over daunting debt.

Congress has no right to state educational funding is an option and not a necessity to entrance to the middle class. The American people have witnessed the impoverishment of the country's former middle class. The American people have witnessed the loss of a good paying job to the high school graduate. Today, good jobs start at a Master's degree if one is lucky. There is much need for change in the USA that bring good paying jobs, period. 

The answer of reinfusing the Republican jobs paradigm is wayward at best. That paradigm has failed the American people time and again. It also provided rising costs of higher education and the demise of the public school system. There are many reasons to continue the education systems and economy that developed in local governments since 2008. The burgeoning trade agreements is a direct assault on the American middle class and local economies will remain intact and strong regardless of the foreign assault in these trade agreements.

You'll never hear "Repeal of trade agreements" by any Bush. But, the idea a four percent growth of the American economy can occur in a new world going forward is outrageous. Bush is seeing four percent growth with a return of the petroleum industry and expanding any opportunity for Wall Street wealth trough attacks on small business in local economies.

During his years as Florida's governor he trashed Affirmative Action and instilled his own brand of discrimination in a program entitled "One Florida." It delivered more enrollments to public universities and more tuition funding, but, it ends there except for small minority businesses. That would mean Florida graduates were stranded at the end of their education unless they had enough solvency to start a new small business.


December 13, 2009 
By Shannon Colavecchio
 
...The increasing diversity of Florida's 11 public universities (click here) has been fueled mostly by Hispanic enrollment — from 13.8 percent to 18 percent of total enrollment statewide — which reflects in part the changing demographics of the Sunshine State. 

Black enrollment offers a mixed picture: a statewide dip, from 14 percent to 13.6 percent, with increases at some universities and decreases at others. For example, the University of South Florida in Tampa went from 9.2 percent to 11.5 percent black enrollment while Florida International University in Miami dropped from 14.6 percent to 12.4 percent.... 

And the Florida Chamber of Commerce sounded a warning about falling opportunity in venture capital in Florida. So where all all those graduates going to begin a career that will result in upward movement in a middle class?

April 29, 2013
 
...Venture capital is often required (click here) for companies launching new technologies or starting unique business models. Recent data published by Pricewaterhouse Coopers Money Tree indicates that venture capital funds declined to approximately $11 million in the first quarter of 2013, a 35% decrease when compared to the first quarter of 2012. At the national level, venture capital declined only 6%. While recent data indicate a lack of venture capital funding for start-ups and expanding firms, it is important to note that particular industries did experience increases in venture capital funding. At the national level, the software, networking and equipment, and computer and peripherals industries all experienced an increase in venture capital funding of at least 30%....

So, while One Florida appears to have helped minorities into college, their aftermath on graduation is still reflecting those issues of the entire country. This American generation remains removed from the economic growth of the country because of educational debt. The educational debt continues to haunt young Americans and truncates their ability to enter the middle class in a meaningful way that would continue their upward movement into accumulating wealth.

Corruption with a capital J.

July 31, 2015
By Michelle Conlin and Grant Smith 

The first report (click here) of Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush’s Super PAC, made public Friday, reveals for the first time, election lawyers say, just how much the group, Right to Rise, functioned as a kind of shadow campaign for Bush.f
The group shelled out $5.4 million from January through June for all the workaday line items, from travel to catering to political consulting, that have traditionally been paid for by candidates' campaign committees....

From January through June Bush refused to declare himself a candidate for the presidential elections of 2016. Running for office is not an entitlement when fund raising proves to violate election laws. ,

...The Super PAC's filing also reveals the gilded roster of Bush's top donors, a formidable collection of some of the world's most powerful and influential billionaires and GOP grandees, such as Coral Gables resident and private equity king Miguel Fernandez, who, with $3 million, was Bush's top donor.... 

It is amazing to realize how such violation of election laws are simply disregarded as a necessity to a run for President of the United States of America. There should be no tolerance of such violations. If donors were facing real prison time they would think twice before carrying out their strategies. Today the donors get a slap on the wrist, if that.

Such millionaire donors can afford any punishment that might arise as a result of their unlawful actions. Fines, if carried out at all, are not a strong enough deterrent. When donors break the law there should be a prohibition to any further federal funding for their businesses as well. Corruption should never receive any type of federal funding.

 San Franciscans William Oberndorf and Helen Schwab each gave about $1.5 million and 20 other people gave at least $1 million apiece....

Both Israel and Palestinian authorities need to maintain peace.

This is what happens when there is violence toward Palestinians. Yesterday Prime Minister Netanyahu stated the death of an 18 month old Palestinian child was caused by militant settlers. He stated he would do everything possible to find those that acted in violence. It was a relief to hear Israel taking the loss of life in Palestine seriously and was acting to bring justice.

This Palestinian youth is guilty of acting against Israel while the search is continuing. Both Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Abbas need to continue to impress the importance of peace and an emphasis on non-violent justice. This death was unnecessary and the people of Palestine have to believe justice will be brought for the loss of life caused by radical settlers. 

The rule of law has to be respected. Conflicts that grow out of such an incidence have to be avoided. 

Sorry to hear there have been additional deaths, but, they could have been avoided. They should have been avoided. Retaliatory violence has a long history of driving greater conflict between Israel and Palestine and should never be encouraged or tolerated.

August 1, 2015

A Palestinian youth died (click here) on Saturday at a West Bank hospital following a clash with Israeli troops near Ramallah, Palestinian hospital officials said.
The confrontation was one of three in a matter of hours in which Palestinians died from Israeli-Palestinian violence on one of the most tense days in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip in recent months.
Israeli soldiers fired at the Palestinian after he threw a fire-bomb at them, the military said.
Earlier on Friday, an 18-month-old Palestinian boy was killed in a house fire in the West Bank village of Duma near Nablus that was set by suspected Jewish assailants. His parents and a sibling are in critical condition in Israeli hospitals, officials said....

The toddler's family is not doing well at this point. The reason the tensions escalate that lead to more deaths is because Palestinians are afraid of dying at the hand of these Israeli extremists. It is difficult to stand by without acting after such heinous attacks are carried out against Palestinians. The Palestinian Authority has a vital role in enforcing peace as a method to justice. 

August 1, 2015
 The family of a Palestinian (click here) infant burned to death in a West Bank arson attack continued to cling to life Saturday afternoon as tensions sparked by the murder continued in the West Bank.8-

18 month-old Ali Saad Daobasa was killed Friday morning in an arson attack that has been attributed to extremist Jews and was labeled as "Jewish terror" by Israeli officials. During the incident, his father Sa'ad, mother Reham, and 4-year-old brother Ahmed all suffered serious to critical burn wounds.

According to the Israeli hospitals administering care to the Palestinian family, all three are still facing life threatening wounds. The mother, Reham, is suffering from third-degree burns on 90 percent of her body and is on life support at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer's intensive care unit.... 

An agreement between Palestine and Israel would result in an understanding there are fixed borders that cannot be dissolved by violence and radical ideas on either side of an border. Israel and Palestine should be placing peace talks and a final resolution high on their list to dissolve hate and intolerance. I believe lack of a vital agreement fuels this type of violence.

There is no one that is going to tolerate this level of violence against Palestinians. I am sure those words are meaningless as Palestinians grow more fearful with each such violent episode.