Democrats release the GOP's smoking gun that wasn't

R, Calif. Darrell Issa would not release the transcripts of the IRS interviews by investigators.  Democrats that heard them knew they vindicated the President.  The repubs continued to tell the jack boot on the tea party story instead of wrapping up another make believe watergate.
Today, the democrats got the damn thing and released it themselves.
Repubs have no interest in doing the nations business, they are destructive, a drag on the nation.

Election madness in Iran and Iowa

Iran just tied the hands of Gulf War III aficionados.  By all accounts this was a fair election, 6 way, and he the guy earned 50+%, in a 6 way thats decisive.  Monitors indicate they do not see a problem with the count.
Before, we had the unhappy population with the last stolen election in Iran to bolster our position of opposing Iran.  That's gone.  Now we oppose both the government, the goals, and the people.  This is a different thing, and will work against us, now we truly do stand hostile before a nation, another Muslim nation to boot.  Unlike North Korea, these people know about the west, are educated, have family here, and will soon grow in tolerate of the sanctions making their lives difficult, before they blamed it on the pricks at the top, now it will be on us.
OK, the guy elected was vetted by the conservative and religious right, so was that really a free and open election, and had to get their votes to proceed to the real election.  As John Oliver pointed out last night, how is that different than our Republican primaries?

More trees would be good

The problem of bombing the sky full of carbon is where it finally ends up.  The 26% into land and forest, thats good.  The other two resting places are bad bad places.  In the atmosphere carbon is a descriminating filter, like a one way valve, allowing sunlight through but reflecting the resulting infrared heat waves back on to earth.  In the ocean CO2 increases acidity which retards/erodes the shell growth of crabs, lobster, shrimp, oyster, mussels, 50% of the US seafood market put at jeopardy.

Nope, ocean still not rising

 37 votes to repeal Obama Care has cost $55 million dollars, according to the per minute cost of running the congress.  Each procedure ran almost 2 yours.  Thats your money.




I'm driving on country roads in Kansas and sometimes I see fire hoses in the ditch, and they go on for miles, lots of them.  I've seen them in Oklahoma too.  Never saw this before the last year or two.  The hoses veer off into creeks, ponds, and at wells.  A giant parasitic sucking rivers of water off the surface of the earth for fracking.  Toxic chemicals and water are pumped thousands of feet down to fracture the layers of rock releasing trapped oil and/or gas.  In California it takes 80,000 to 300,000 gallons per well.  In one field in Texas they have used 15,000 acre feet of water for fracking.  In drought areas, which is much of the west, this water is draining water from farm and city.  Falling water table has reversed much of western Kansas from irrigation back to dry land farming with a fall in rural wealth and lower crop production.  Meaning less food, higher prices as this spreads.  But oil and gas companies profit, and isn't that what we all want?  

The Congress also voted to force the president to approve the XL tar sands pipe from Canada to the Gulf so Canada can use us as a delivery system.  The fossil fuel industry paid 36 million for this vote.  All those who got a check voted for the pipe.  And isn't that what we all want?

Kansas, where the poor pay their share, and mine.

Thursday Pope Brownback signed the return to feudal economy law.  Works like this:
*Make $25K, income tax cut is $50 dollars, less than a half percent.
*Make over 250K, income tax cut is almost $4,500, about 3.4%.
*Most farm income and most corporations tax is zero.
*Sales tax cut from 5.7% to 5.6%, food exemption was removed at last minute.
*Education slashed (as every year since he arrived) and college employees and teach staff have a salary cap, no further raises permitted.  (Exception, college coaching)
*School systems may not sue or lobby the state for increases or disputes using state funds, so now they all need to set up multiple bank accounts depending on income source, more expense, more chance for fraud.

Earlier this session they made a law that federal police cannot take a gun from anyone in Kansas, I'm waiting for the city cops to arrest the FBI when they take a gun from a bank robber.  The method of appointing judges was the BAR vetted and put names to a Senate committee who narrowed it to 2 or 3 then the Gov. chose one, now the whole thing is in the Popes hand, he alone picks judges, the only vetting will be litmus testing.  Then there is the privatization of driving license processing, you still go to the state run office, they put the info in the computer, but everything is done in Minnesota, laid off the department thad did it in Topeka, all of them, but the company that runs it has the system so hosed up the licensening and title offices are closed some days, once for 7 or 8 days straight, tags and titles are not getting delivered, but corporations can do it better.

It's a cruel joke on Kansas individual tax payers, the amount you pay the state is deducted off what you pay the feds, so save nothing and this actually helps pay down the fed. debt.  They are helping Obama.  And if your a business owner with residence out of state you now have to pay that state on the income from Kansas, which helps those states.
All that tax cutting, well the state had a surplus when he got here, it is already in debt and this is suppose to cut billions in tax income at the same time bring in billions extra.  HOW?  A few corporations may want to come here for zero tax, but they just gutted education and most companies frown on that, unless they run on the feudal economy model.

Vortex becomes Vortices and we get a wobble job

The picture on the left is the Arctic with the vortex that is always up there.  A cold high altitude low pressure cyclone that lives there spinning and venting the earths heat into space during the long winter darkness.  The south pole has the same thing.
This last winter starting in January warm air rising out of the ever growing ice free Arctic ocean built up a high air mass that then compressed down from weight and the shit was just awful, and it blew the vortex apart and set two vortices loose, wobbling ungainly around the north they dumped record snows in Siberia, some parts of Europe, multiple storms over North America, and set a winter cyclone off near Japan with waves of 60 feet.  From what I read this has never happened before and climate scientist say this is like finding a dead clown in the woods, its really creepy.

Best part of the story, air masses can pile up against the stratosphere and actually have a weight and compression factor.  Jeese science is fun.

again the jawbone of an ass is used to beat down rivals

"Religious freedom does not mean freedom from religion,"  Gov Perry this morning as he signs in a law OK'ing displays on school and state property of Christian holidays.