Prayers for Hawaii
My friend Jaime Tourin, who lives on Maui, took this photo on Thursday evening.
The phenomenal sunset is brought to you by Hurricane Lane.
This weekend won't be so pretty. Prayers cherished.
Photo by Jaime Tourin. Used with permission.
I don't understand why, but the climatologists predict that the hurricanes/typhoons will be slower moving because of global warming, which means they will dump more water on the areas they hit, and so it seems to be.
ReplyDeleteThe previous typhoon to hit Japan followed a historically unprecedented path, turning back and going over the area it had just hit. The current one seems to be following a more conventional (but not quite typical) path.
Alan
And the past three days or so have been smokier again, hereabouts.
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Floods on the island of Hawaii, fires whipped by gale-force winds on Maui, and
ReplyDeleteFox News Turns on Trump. [Click] Behind a paywall, but the particularly notable thing is that during the past two days (!) three Faux Gnus anchors (Neil Cavuto, Shep Smith, and Bret Baier in case that means anything) have ripped Trump (and his associates) for lying about hush money payments and the infamous Trump Tower meeting with the Russians. Reminds me of the link I posted yesterday, it does:
How This Will End [Click] “Sooner or later, tyrants are always abandoned by their followers.”
—Alan
Trump’s Bad Week: One-By-One The President’s Men Turn Against Him [Click] Trump biographer Michael D’Antonio says the president may be surprised that he can’t exert more control from the West Wing over his former friends and employees.
ReplyDelete“He’s less powerful in these relationships now than he was before he became president. That must just amaze him,” said D’Antonio, author of “Never Enough, Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success.” ”He’s sitting behind the Resolute Desk and he can push a button and get a Coke but he can’t control Michael Cohen.”
Alan
Climate change weakens the world's circulatory winds, leading to slower hurricanes (and tornadoes).
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Everything you posted, Alan, is good news...except that pesky smoke, and those obstreperous hurricanes...!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the feedback, listener--here's another bit.
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Swamp Chronicles: Allen Weisselberg, the Man Who Knows Donald Trump’s Financial Secrets, Has Agreed to Become a Coöperating Witness [Click] "There are now multiple investigations of the Trump Organization being conducted by the special counsel Robert Mueller, the New York Attorney General, The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, the Manhattan District Attorney, the Southern District of New York, and—quite likely—other jurisdictions. President Trump is unable to stop most of these investigations."
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/trump-managed-botch-photo-op-ohio-kids-coloring-american-flag-wrong/
ReplyDeleteIn the preznit's flag: top stripe red. Two white stripes. Followed by one blue stripe.
Oh the irony of it all. Our "president" doesn't know the words to the anthem or any other patriotic song and doesn't know what color our flag is. If it wasn't so absolutely horrifying I would be laughing.
DeleteToo true, Susan. We tried to laugh at the absurdity, but just stood there with blank stares.
DeleteRIP Senator John McCain
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Here’s a new book (cover) you might like, listener:
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The sidebar shows Dear Leader’s corresponding tome.
—Alan
P.S.: Hurricane Lane leaves Hawaii
I think you must have something *very* wrong with your brain to live here, be older than 12, and be able to make a "mistake" like that. I think there's some *serious* brain deterioration going on here.
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DeleteOn Sunday we head to Maine to bring The Painting to Daughter. Then we celebrate the life of sister-in-law Elizabeth who died in April. Hardest will be that two family members who will be present are in various stages of cancer treatment. One is not expected to live out the year. The other is recovering from surgery. I am bringing hats to those with no hair. But what can I bring for the loved one who has lost TWO partners to cancer and is about to lose the daughter of the second partner to same? So harsh.
ReplyDeleteThat is too hard, listener. It puts me in mind of the Book of Job.
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LANE
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I wonder where Catreona and Bill are these days. Has anyone heard from them? I hope all is well.
ReplyDeleteSignificant DNC Superdelegates rules change...!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.cnn.com/2018/08/25/politics/democrats-superdelegates-voting-changes/index.html
It sounds like a reasonable compromise to me.
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Don't know about Bill, but Cat's been on facebook, a bit.
ReplyDeleteDidn't Bill say a little while back that he was going to a convention?
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As I was taking my evening constitutional, I realized that there were three bright planets visible; what I figured was Venus, another, and Mars. I looked it up, then went outside to double-check, and found there were FOUR plants visible simultaneously: from west to east, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Mars. Saturn I had mistaken for a star (it was the least bright of the four). Venus sets about 9PM.
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