Number 12. This is beginning to sound like Cosby.

October 28, 2016

Meanwhile, (click here) another woman has come forward to accuse Donald Trump of sexual assault. Ninni Laaksonen, a former Miss Finland in the Miss Universe beauty pageant that Trump once owned, says Trump grabbed her buttocks during a photoshoot in 2006. Laaksonen is the 12th woman to accuse Trump of unwanted sexual contact since the release of a 2005 "Access Hollywood" tape in which Trump boasted of sexually assaulting women.

Why is he always posed with beauty queens? He takes away from the moment. I don't understand why Trump even has his picture taken with all these women. I think that is strange.

There is a time line beginning in 1979 so far:

...Vendela Kirsebom in 1993: (click here) When Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter took Trump to the 1993 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner as a “novelty guest” for the sake of shock and humor, he admittedly made a mistake in seating him next to Swedish Model Kirsebom. “After 45 minutes she came over to my table, almost in tears, and pleaded with me to move her,” Carter recalled for a piece in the magazine’s November 2016 issue. “It seems that Trump had spent his entire time with her assaying the ‘tits’ and legs of the other female guests and asking how they measured up to those of other women, including his wife.”...

...Jane Doe in 1994: On Dec. 16, Trump and financier Jeffrey Epstein—who has previously been convicted for underage sex crimes—are set to appear in a New York district court for a civil lawsuit by a woman alleging the two men raped her at Epstein’s Manhattan home when she was 13 years old. Responding to requests for comment from the Guardian, a Trump lawyer called the case “a sham lawsuit.”...

There are consequences for discussing sexual assault by Trump with APPROPRIATE others, like a supervisor.

...Nausheen Nurani in 2010: Nurani, a server at a restaurant in a hotel of Trump’s in Chicago, alleged in a complaint that she had been subjected to “frequent sexual harassment in her employment” at the restaurant and was fired after reporting the incidents to her supervisor. The case was settled in March with undisclosed terms, USA Today reported....

The Pipeline bosses have begun using live munitions to stop the demonstrators. So far two people have been shot and a couple of horses.

The bison of North Dakota are protected species along with the black footed ferret. The bison cannot be hunted and it's habitat are protected. That means the pipeline can't be built there. The habitat obviously extends to the very place the Native Americans had taken a stand against the pipeline.

WWF (click here) leads innovative work with public agencies, tribal nations, ranchers and other partners to create a sustainable future for the Northern Great Plains. Our two main goals are to sustain and enhance biodiversity across the Northern Great Plains and to restore two flagship species—bison and black-footed ferrets—where possible within the region. Achieving these goals requires a multi-pronged approach that recognizes unique challenges and opportunities from the local level all the way up to US federal policy and global initiatives. WWF is a leading voice for grasslands, and advocates for the incredible wildlife and communities of the Northern Great Plains.

Interestingly enough, the Bison/Buffalo herd noted in a film of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe protests is a RESTORED herd. The Bison was wiped out and had to be returned to the land. This is definitely a protected herd that has been restored to it's rightful habitat. 

Many of the iconic animals (click here) in Theodore Roosevelt National Park are mammals. Animals such as the American bison and the black-tailed prairie dog are relatively easy to spot. Others such as big horn sheep or elk are more difficult to find, due to their behaviors and/or preferred hours of activity. 

Many of the large mammals living in the park today were not present at the time of the park's establishment in the 1940s. Bison, elk and bighorn sheep had all been extirpated from this region. Deer and pronghorn were rare. Various reintroduction programs proved successful in returning native wildlife to the ecosystem. Not only do they represent the experiences of Theodore Roosevelt, but they provide visitors with their own experience of a wild prairie....

The habitat is extensive and cannot be disturbed. The herd was originally restored at "Theodore Roosevelt National Park" and have grown as is necessary to maintain a viable herd.

"...its toughness (click here) and hardy endurance fitted it to contend with purely natural forces...to resist cold and wintery blasts or the heat of the thirsty summer, to wander away to new pastures, to plunge over the broken ground, and to plow its way through snow drifts or quagmires." Theodore Roosevelt

As a matter of fact there were Yellowstone Buffalo moved to two areas of Montana as well as the ones below from Canada, to return them to their former habitat. The Native American reservations are vital to the return of the American Buffalo to it's former habitat. 

March 27, 2016
By the AP

Billings Mont. - Decsendants of a bison herd (click here) captured and sent to Canada ore than 140 years ago will be relocated to a Montana American Indian reservation next month, in what tribal leaders bill as a homecoming for a species emblematic of their traditions.

The shipment of animals from Alberta's Elk Island National Park to the Blackfeet Indian Reservation follows a 2014 treaty among tribes in the United States and Canada. That agreement aims to restore bison to areas of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains where millions once roamed.

"For thousands of years the Blackfeet lived among the buffalo here. The buffalo sustained our way of life, provided our food, clothing, shelter," Blackfeet Chairman Harry Barnes said. "It became part of our spiritual being. We want to return the buffalo."... 

These herds are very well documented and are definitely connected to the Native American lands. So, the North Dakota herd is connected through cultural ties to the National Park and Native Americans making a stand to end the assault by the petroleum industry.

These herds cannot be disturbed, especially their habitat. I don't know who gave the cops to bring tanks and humvees to this land, but, they are violating the protections of the buffalo herd as well as the Native Americans that value the land for it's historical purposes.

Where did anyone get the idea it was okay to roll heavy equipment across these lands disturbing the vital habitat of these herds? They are "W"rong. The equipment and the cops need to be removed from the lands and never return.

Pence and Trump were supposed to provide tax returns by October 15th, the due date of the extension for sending them in. Did they?

September 9, 2016 
By Jeanne Shadi

Donald Trump still refuses to do it. (click here)
But his running mate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, just did what presidential nominees and vice presidential candidates have done for 40 years.

On Friday, Pence released 10 years of tax returns.
Unlike that of his new boss, Pence's tax situation is a fairly simple affair....

I think Director Comey didn't like being called corrupt as the Donald Trump campaign and House Republicans did after the previous statements about the Clinton emails. 

With this announcement the Trump campaign and House Republicans can no longer say the FBI is corrupt. 

Director Comey is making a statement regarding the Clinton emails when the country believes everything about the campaign is corrupt/rigged and charges of gunmen were found to be not guilty. I think there is a valid concern about retaliation by gunmen after the election in 11 days.

The Flint River Water Project

Another factoid:

How many people in Flint knew there is another Flint River? The other Flint River is not in Michigan. It is Alabama, Georgia and Florida. Atlanta, Georgia receives it's water from the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin. (click here) 

How many people believe the name Flint did not have a Native American origin?

Well, here it is again. And, this Flint River is having water quality issues, too. The city of Flint, Michigan has company in it's plight. What is unique about the Flint River in Michigan is that the pollution into the drinking water was completely avoided before financial ruthlessness took over. 

I think it is important for the people of Flint, Michigan to know they are not in this fight alone, regardless, of the unfortunate beginning of the pollution into their drinking water. Cities across the USA need to come together as a coalition to reverse the poor water quality in the country.

There is on going research to this project.

Thank you. 

It is just more of the same as before. The character of the emails won't change. There was no criminal aspect to the emails.

This is not from the private server. Hillary Clinton has stated before there are retroactive classification when communications are read by other cabinet level offices.

The Clinton campaign offices should file a "Freedom of Information Act" to obtain the emails.

The FBI was checking emails for Russian hacking. That probably has a priority with these emails, too.

October 28, 2016
By Sean Sullivan, John Wagner and Anne Gearan
Manchester, N.H. - Donald Trump cheered (click here) the reopening of an FBI inquiry into Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s private email system Friday, saying the renewed scrutiny offers a chance to correct “a grave miscarriage of justice.”

The FBI will investigate whether additional classified material is contained in emails sent over the private system Clinton used while she was secretary of state, FBI director James Comey informed congressional leaders Friday.

Trump spoke minutes later. Interrupted by chants of “lock her up!” Trump said, “This is bigger than Watergate.”...

Native American lands are not public lands. They are a separate nation within the USA.

October 26, 2016
By Lynda V. Mapes

For the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, (click here) the battle over the Dakota Access Pipeline recalls a bitter history the tribe does not want repeated.
“We want to protect our land, and we want to protect our water,” said Dave Archambault II, tribal chairman. “Our concerns and interests don’t matter and this is how we have been treated for over 150 years.”
Once roaming the Great Plains, living in teepees and hunting buffalo, the great Sioux leaders such as Sitting Bull, Red Cloud and Crazy Horse are household names for many. Their bloodiest moments are, too: Wounded Knee. Custer’s Last Stand.
But the history of the Sioux people and the United States is also one all too familiar: of broken promises, and a relentless taking away of lands for white settlement, gold mining and development. Those lands were promised to be reserved for the Indians’ sole use forever, in peace treaties that were supposed to be the highest law of the land....

There is also United Nations support for the return of lands to the Native Americans of the USA. Breaking promises within treaties is a civil rights violation.

May 4, 2012
By Chris McGreal

A United Nations investigator (click here) probing discrimination against Native Americans has called on the US government to return some of the land stolen from Indian tribes as a step toward combatting continuing and systemic racial discrimination.
James Anaya, the UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, said no member of the US Congress would meet him as he investigated the part played by the government in the considerable difficulties faced by Indian tribes.

Anaya said that in nearly two weeks of visiting Indian reservations, indigenous communities in Alaska and Hawaii, and Native Americans now living in cities, he encountered people who suffered a history of dispossession of their lands and resources, the breakdown of their societies and "numerous instances of outright brutality, all grounded on racial discrimination".

"It's a racial discrimination that they feel is both systemic and also specific instances of ongoing discrimination that is felt at the individual level," he said.
Anaya said racism extended from the broad relationship between federal or state governments and tribes down to local issues such as education....

If this is happening in Houston, what is going on in the rest of Texas?

I think Houston needs a new District Attorney. This is terrible. A witness was treated as a prisoner rather than given protection in a safe house since she was vital to the prosecution of a rapist. 

The current District Attorney Devon Anderson should have resigned. There are many problems in Houston including prison guards that rape inmates. This is a case for the federal Justice Department.

October 27, 2016

Defense lawyer Rusty Hardin, one of Houston's most renowned litigators who said he was outraged at political ads put out by Democrat Kim Ogg, (click here) said the entire criminal justice system — not DA Devon Anderson (click here) — failed a mentally ill rape victim who was jailed for almost a month last year while waiting to testify.

Hardin is representing Nicholas Socias, the trial prosecutor at the center of the controversy.

"What happened to the victim is incredibly horrible," Hardin told reporters on Thursday. "But Nick was confronted with the problem, absolutely convinced that if this man was not tried in this particular case, that he not only would continue to rape again, but his rapes were getting more and more violent."

At issue is the plight of a mentally unstable rape victim who made headlines this summer after filing a federal lawsuit because she was jailed over the Christmas holiday after breaking down on the stand while testifying against a serial rapist.

The woman, known as Jenny, was first taken to the mental health ward at St. Joseph's Hospital and then was transferred to the Harris County jail to be held as a material witness. She was accidentally misclassified as a suspect, instead of a witness, and put in general population, where, she said, she was beaten by another inmate and assaulted by a jail guard. She has filed a federal lawsuit over the handling of her case.

Anderson was roundly criticized for her office's action but has maintained that the rapist would not have been convicted if the woman had not testified.

The criticism has carried through to campaign mailers and television commercials from Ogg, Anderson's rival in the general election for district attorney, and Ogg's supporters. One commercial features Jenny's mother, in shadows, detailing her daughter's ordeal and urging voters to support Ogg....

This is insane money. Congratulations to those that can achieve it.

The only other foundation I can think of that follows the same model as The Clinton Foundation is the "Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation." The Gates Foundation does not conduct fund raising, but, has accepted sizable donations to benefit it's good work. 

The Gates Foundation also works with governments to achieve their goals of making the world a better place to live. The Gates Foundation was organized because Bill Gates could. To his conscience, the monies he was accumulating as a successful businessman needed to have a benevolent identity, hence the foundation.

The Clinton Foundation had it's origins very differently. It was formed at the end of President Bill Clinton's second term and needed donations. The Clinton Foundation was formed to continue the good work of the Clinton Administration. No one can deny President Bill Clinton was a popular figure throughout the world. He was able to move countries like North Korea forward. He didn't use war as a leverage point, but, peace and the pride of conducting governance to benefit the people.

The basis of the two foundations could not be more different. The Gates Foundation was begun by a very wealthy couple and the Clinton Foundation was begun by demand of a global community that valued the Clinton Presidency.

It is easy to have billions to one's name and build a foundation to do good work, it is something very different to need to raise funding to conduct work that no one else will do. 

Katrina caused 1833 deaths and destroyed $108 billion in damage. Who in their right mind would take on rebuilding New Orleans and Louisiana? The only person in the world that could ever conceive of a solution to bring life back to New Orleans is a former President. The same is true of the Tsunami and Haiti. Bill Clinton had the ability to assess a crisis in the world and know what needed to be done. What he needed after his presidency was a Foundation that could fund it. 

President Bill Clinton has been a treasure. One the world valued. Every American should be proud of their former President to realize how he went on to continue to be the one person that could find hope for people through his foundation help.

For the work the Clinton Foundation did there is no wonder it has run into skeptical handling of monies in the billions on a regular basis. But, if the Clinton Global Initiative didn't exist the world would be hurting more today, if that can be imagined.

I take it Donald Trump doesn't like annual audits.

September 29, 2016

Donald Trump’s charitable foundation (click here) — which has been sustained for years by donors outside the Trump family — has never obtained the certification that New York requires before charities can solicit money from the public, according to the state attorney general’s office.

Under the laws in New York, where the Donald J. Trump Foundation is based, any charity that solicits more than $25,000 a year from the public must obtain a special kind of registration beforehand. Charities as large as Trump’s must also submit to a rigorous annual audit that asks — among other things — whether the charity spent any money for the personal benefit of its officers.

If New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) finds that Trump’s foundation raised money in violation of the law, he could order the charity to stop raising money immediately. With a court’s permission, Schneiderman could also force Trump to return money that his foundation has already raised.

The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment Thursday....

It appears Donald Trump not only hates audits, but, ignores every rule on the books.

...Tax filings show that in each of the past 10 years for which there are records, the Trump Foundation raised more than $25,000 from outsiders. Tax records alone do not reveal whether the donations amounted to solicitations under New York law, but in several cases there is strong evidence that they did.
For instance, the foundation has received more than $2.3 million from companies that owed money to Trump or one of his businesses — but that were instructed to pay the foundation instead, according to people familiar with those transactions....

There was no corruption in Bill Clinton's speaking engagements.

There is nothing illegal to any of these actions. Chelsea Clinton was right to have it reviewed for ethical standards, but, there is nothing wrong with one person rather than two or three or an entire department advocating for speeches by President Clinton. 

He makes speeches to supplement his income. There is nothing wrong with advocating for his talents. The FBI has already examined the activities of then Secretary Clinton in relation to the Clinton Foundation and found no wrong doing.

I think it is great Chelsea is so involved with the Foundation. She is sincerely a leader at the organization. 

October 27, 2016
By Matthew Rozsa

WikiLeaks has released a 2011 memo (click here) by top Bill Clinton aide Douglas Band which revealed him using his firm, Teneo, to pressure many of the corporations that donated to the Clinton Foundation’s charity to also privately enrich the former president.
In a memo written for the law firm Simpson Thatcher, Band bragged about how Teneo managed to raise “well over $150 million, much of it from people who did not know President Clinton when he was in office.”
Band co-founded Teneo in 2011 with Declan Kelley, who Hillary Clinton appointed as U.S. Economic Envoy to Northern Ireland when she was secretary of state.
Band also wrote that he “sought to leverage my activities, including my partner role at Teneo, to support and to raise funds for the foundation.”
Simpson Thatcher, which specializes in ethical nonprofit management and regulation, was retained by Chelsea Clinton to conduct a “governance review” after she grew concerned about Teneo’s role in the Clinton Foundation’s activities.
The memo described how Band, after co-founding Teneo, blurred the lines between his private for-profit firm and the non-profit Clinton Global Initiative, which had been created by the Clinton Foundation to encourage political and business leaders to meet each year and discuss world problems....

There is a lot of money floating around, but, the Clinton Global Initiative requires a great deal of money to conduct it's good works. It is just what it is. There is no corruption within the organization or the idea President Bill Clinton was involved with something shady. Rightfully, Chelsea Clinton didn't want the hint of impropriety and she took actions to define the ethics of the foundation. A hint of impropriety is not illegal either.

...It wasn’t until late 2011, when news leaked that the hedge fund MF Global had paid Teneo a monthly fee of $125,000 before MF global went bankrupt, that Chelsea Clinton got involved. She was particularly concerned that a member of Bill Clinton’s office staff had been instructed by Band to call British lawmakers on the former president’s behalf for Teneo clients like Dow Chemical. Chelsea Clinton insisted that her father didn’t know about the calls and that they would “horrify” him....

I find the lack of knowledge by Clinton aides of a private server reassuring.

October 27, 2016

Two aides in charge of running (click here) Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign were taken aback as news broke in March 2015 of Clinton's use of private email for her work as U.S. secretary of state, according to stolen emails published on Thursday by WikiLeaks.

The late-night exchange between Robby Mook, Clinton's campaign manager, and John Podesta, the campaign chairman, happened within hours of the New York Times breaking the news that Clinton exclusively used a private email account in a way that may have broken records rules.

"Did you have any idea of the depth of this story?" Podesta wrote to Mook at 10:27 p.m. on the night the Times story appeared online, according to an exchange published by WikiLeaks.

A few hours later, at 1:32 a.m., Mook wrote back: "Nope. We brought up the existence of emails in research this summer but were told that everything was taken care of."...

The Clintons were obsessing over a private email server. There have been extensive criticism of Hillary's plans to hide any controversy on her way to the White House. This proves to me there was no obsessing. Heck, they never thought anything of it. Hillary or Bill didn't say to their most trusted aides, "We have secured any and all controversy in a private server and there is no need to worry about it."

The fact that Hillary and Bill Clinton did not have a clue about the controversy a private server would make. They never planned to hide anything. 

Like I said, the Obama Administration is the first to have an electronic White House. The rules were written and there was no reason to suspect any wrong doing. They are not guilty of anything.

"We are the ones with the guns?" More intimidation!

October 28, 2016

By Sahil Kapur

Election analysts expect Donald Trump (click here) to lose the presidential race in less than two weeks, but the Republican candidate's strongest supporters believe just the opposite will happen.

They are taking solace in Trump's fiery attacks on "rigged" polls and buy into his theories about a wide-ranging conspiracy between Democrats and the media to fix the November 8 results....

They usually want to secede, too.

October 26, 2016
By Detroit News Staff

A state board overseeing Flint (click here) as it transitions from state emergency management has reversed course and lifted the city’s ability to sue without first getting approval from the panel.
The Receivership Transition Advisory Board on Wednesday amended a resolution passed in March, just days after Flint served notice it might file a lawsuit against Michigan over its lead-contaminated water supply.
Flint Mayor Karen Weaver welcomed the decision. “At this time we are still trying to work with the state to right this wrong, and have no plans to sue,” she said in a statement. “If state leaders honor their commitment to do what is best for the citizens and the city of Flint, we will see evidence of that commitment in the city and will have no reason to take legal action.”
State Department of Treasury spokeswoman Danelle Gittus said the change clarifies the earlier order, and it was never the board’s intent to block Flint from suing “but rather to provide oversight of settlements related to litigation and labor disputes.”
The decision came a day after Democrats in Michigan’s congressional delegation called on the U.S. Department of Justice to review the panel’s action in March. The five Democrats, including U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee of Flint Township, argued the move was illegal and raised issues of constitutional due process, equal protection and environmental justice, noting that Flint has a majority-black population....

It was the Bill Clinton Administration that coined the expression "Life Long Learning."

If Donald Trump has his way Russia will surpass the USA in any achievement. It looks like "W" has laid the framework for the failure of the USA educational system, Trump just needs to finish it.

October 21, 2016
By Scott Powers

After laying out his wife’s education plans (click here) from universal prekindergarten through college student loan refinancing, former President Bill Clinton told a Florida’s teachers’ union Friday in Orlando that “if she becomes president, you will have a partner in the White House.”
Clinton’s 35-minute speech to the Florida Education Association delegate conference at the Rosen Centre lightly portrayed Donald Trump‘s vision as that of pessimism, craziness, and longings for the past, while Hillary Clinton‘s vision is forward-thinking, aimed at making public education integral to economic improvement.
The former Democratic president cited Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan‘s song “Forever Young,” and then argued, “The way you stay forever young is to have your dreams for other people always outweigh your memories of yesterday, no matter how good it was.
“This country, and the emphasis we have put on education from our beginning have kept us forever young. It will keep us always imagining a different tomorrow. We have got to stop the craziness of trying to bring each other down to the lowest common denominator,” Clinton said....

This is not America.

This generation is lucky to find a job they are looking for and when they do their student loans prevent them from purchasing a home. When this generation overcomes the hurdle of student loans to homeownership, they can't get a loan because the Republicans removed all assurances of continued employment. Amazing. What next?

October 12, 2016

Not much more could fit in Lisa Lugo's two-bedroom apartment, (click here) so she went to the bank this summer to inquire about a mortgage for a house.
Everything was working out. She had just scored her first full-time teaching job at St. Petersburg's Lakewood Elementary.
"And I kind of hit a wall," said Lugo, 22. "They said (no) basically because I can't promise I will have a job next year that pays this much."
Lugo is one of thousands of teachers in Florida hired after 2011, when Gov. Rick Scott signed a law eliminating teacher tenure. Since then, teachers not grandfathered into the old system must work under contracts that have to be renewed every year, and districts don't need a reason to let them go.
But 38 school districts statewide, including two in Tampa Bay, have found a way to give a sense of job security for teachers in good standing, and Pinellas County hopes to join their ranks this week....

Flint may be receiving recognition for it's lawsuits in violation of the Michigan constitution as well as the 5th Amendment of the USA Constitution. Incompetent.

There are too many US governors that can claim their were ignorant of the Fifth Amendment.

October 27, 2016

By Ron Fonger

...Two remaining claims (click here) -- that the defendants violated the Michigan Constitution through their actions in the water crisis and a claim for inverse condemnation -- can move forward, the 50-page decision says.

The court rejected an argument that Earley and Ambrose were "local, not state officials" while they worked as emergency managers in Flint and also rejected a state argument that the defendants waited too long to file their lawsuit.

Filed nearly one year ago, the lawsuit claims Snyder and the other defendants are responsible for replacing safe water in Flint with water that was dangerous, unsafe and inadequately treated....

Just Compensation Clause: (click here)
Clause in the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution that provides “nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation”.

Eminent Domain:
The power of a sovereign entity to take or appropriate any land within its borders for any purpose that it deems necessary or beneficial.

Public Use:
A use for property that is designed to benefit the public as a whole, rather than just a private individual or entity.

Economic Use Doctrine:
The rule that states that if a zoning law eliminates all economically viable use of a parcel of property, it is considered as if the government took the property, requiring just compensation.

Just Compensation:
Fair market value of a parcel of property that must be paid to a land owner who has had his or her property taken by the government....

I do not think it is wise to attack the family, but, others may see it differently.

Donald Trump has to own the problem. He exploited the power he had as a wealthy man. He exploited it for his own pleasure. That is the issue. Women were valued as sex objects and not the people they were within their own ambitions.

Shannon Coulter, (click here) a tech and media marketing specialist who is boycotting the Ivanka Trump Collection fashion line.

21 October 2016
By Joanna Walters

She had kept it to herself. (click here) “Buried it” and moved on. But when an audio tapeemerged 7 October of presidential candidate Donald Trump boasting in 2005 about habitually getting away with being a sexual predator, Shannon Coulter couldn’t ignore her reaction.

“It was a feeling of recoiling. It was emotional, visceral. Then I had a pounding headache for a few days. I was filled with nausea,” said the technology and media marketing specialist based in the Bay Area.

Like many women who have watched sexual harassment allegations against Trump unfold, Coulter was reminded of her own experience. “I was in an office belonging to a firm I was working for in Silicon Valley and my boss’s boss came breezing through. Suddenly he came up behind me and pressed himself right up against me and said ‘Why is it you always look so good?’ He had a colleague with him and it was so humiliating,” Coulter recalled....

It has always been my point of view that women should not be victimized because of men's behavior.

In holding Ivanka Trump responsible for her father's behavior is counter to the desire to have Donald Trump realize his abuse of women because of his wealth. Fathers and daughters have special relationships and that should be respected.

Ivanka Trump did not victimize women. She has found a career that provides quality apparel to women. There is no connection between Ivanka's business and Donald Trump's abuse of women. I don't see that hurting Ivanka is going to change Donald Trump. He will only take a firmer stance against extremists that hate men.

My point of view is not that of others and if women such as Shannon Coulter find a stronger footing in fighting victimization of women by making an example of a daughter of a wealthy man it may be valid.

Ivanka has been a strong proponent to her father's run for President of the USA. Should she be made aware of a deeper understanding of women and how they fall victim to sexual abuse at the very least; then there is a reason for a boycott. Just get it right when putting forth a boycott. Don't allow the wrong focus to manifest. This isn't punishment of Ivanka; it is however; a means to her foster awareness. 

Ivanka should be working for empowerment of women, including a clothing line that provides good fashion and good value to aspiring women. In order for Ivanka to be held in higher regard, she will ultimately have to speak to her father's behavior. 

The ITCZ water vapor is creating fog in the UK.

October 27, 2016
1415 UTC
NOAA Water Vapor GOES East Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop - thank you)

The east coast of North America has an enormous water vapor system from the ITCZ to the Arctic Circle.

October 27, 2016 
Thursday (click here)
Plenty of cloud around through Thursday morning. There could be some mist or fog patches in the far south at first, but these lifting quickly. A front brings rain to northern and western Scotland as well as the far north and west of Ireland. Western hills may experience a few spots of drizzle too. Elsewhere it will be dry with cloud breaking here and there, mostly through the Midlands and eastern England. Highs at a mild 16C in the south, 13C in northern Scotland.

Thursday Night
A murky night with mist and fog becoming fairly widespread over England and Wales as well as Ireland. There will be a few spots of drizzle over the hills, especially in the west. More eastern areas are likely to be drier. Rain in the far north of Scotland and breezier here too. Broken cloud over the rest of Scotland with a few clearer spells. Lows at 7 to 11C

When water vapor enters the UK's area, fog is frequently the outcome. Fog is a mixing of hot and cold air. (click here)

October 27, 2016
1430.18z
UNISYS water vapor GOES East Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop - thank you) 
 

I konw this image is odd looking, but, locate California at 2 o'clock and realize it is getting rain from north to south.

October 27, 2016
0800 UTC
NOAA's water vapor satellite of the east Pacific Ocean. It is considered a GOES West Satellite. (click here for 12 hour link - thank you)

The big brown spot is the standard high pressure system that deprives California of rain most of the time. There are two systems of significant water vapor entering the west coast USA.

 The systems bringing rain to California is the 20th hurricane in the east Pacific named "Seymour." It was a Cat 4 yesterday, but, do to the strong jet stream carrying enormous amounts of water vapor to northern California, Seymour is losing velocity and entering into the weather pattern for central and southern California.  

Central California will actually have a mixing of those two systems and may result in high turbulence.

October 27, 2016
0830.19z
UNISYS Water Vapor GOES West Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop - thank you)

This is just about the same moment as the NOAA satellite. There is a difference of 30 minutes. The high pressure can be noted as well as the strong jet stream (which doesn't manifest very often anymore) that turned Seymour from a water based hurricane into water vapor for southern California.

Kindly be mindful of the low lying areas and the people settled into them. They may be some of the most impoverished and migrant works as well. The agricultural sector in California rely on those migrant workers for their harvest. Those workers have children as well.

October 26, 2016
By AP

...Rainfall Totals (click here) ranging from a half-inch to 1.5 inches were expected across parts of Northern California.

"The mountains will see upward of 2 inchdes of rain," forecaster Steve Anderson said. Along the Central Coast, the weather service issued a flash flood watch for a burn area from Thursday into Friday morning... 

Every fraction of an inch of rain that makes it to the ground means California is resolving it's drought. Often water vapor will disappear over severely droughted areas, but, it doesn't simply disappear. The water vapor that evaporates and does not make it to the ground adds to the air mass and it's ability to rain. When rain reaches the ground of a severely droughted land, the air mass is already saturated enough to allow the rain to reach Earth.