Very nice blue sky with white clouds and a cool (not cold) breeze out of the north this afternoon. Miyoko noticed a flock (twenty or thirty?) of egrets in the river botom; a little later many of them had migrated to trees growing from sandbars and the others had spread out on the water. Later they all disappeared.
I saw a news report about Mr. Biden visiting Pueblo, Colorado, to tout the big funding award to the wind electric generator factory there-- if I remember correctly, they said it is already the biggest such factory in the world. That is a logical location, at the western edge of the high plains, allegedly the most reliably windy area in the world, and with good road and rail transportation. They said although the generators could be manufactured for less in China, the cost of shipping makes the Chinese generators more expensive than the American ones. That all makes sense, but I was struck by how CLEAN things in Pueblo looked. I went there while on vacation about fifty years ago, to see the steel mill (complete with coke ovens); the town was completely gray and stunk of coal tar--a terrible place to live, albeit with a goodly number of jobs. Wikipedia tells me that the blast furnaces (and thus the coke ovens) were closed about forty years ago.
So when are they going to put something in Gary, Inciana? That was the country's biggest center of blast furnaces before everything shut down. Where Minnesota iron ore and Pennsylvania coal converged. Now it is one of the country's prime centers of depopulation and poverty
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Overcast this morning, and warmer. High temperatures in the 60'sF predicted for the next ten days.
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Pence’s son reportedly convinced him to stand up to Trump over January 6 [Click]
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Obeying the law would be too hurtful to his friend? With friends like Trump, who needs enemies?
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Breaking news: Trump gag order reinstated by New York appeals court [Click]
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Long read:
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Can Elon Musk stop X going to the wall after tirade at advertisers? [Click] “Ad revenue used to service debt unlikely to return soon, meaning deal with lenders or cash injection may be needed.” OK by me if it croaks.
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"star"---> "stark"
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HA! He can't find and keep lawyers who will do every stupid bit of his bidding.
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Very nice blue sky with white clouds and a cool (not cold) breeze out of the north this afternoon. Miyoko noticed a flock (twenty or thirty?) of egrets in the river botom; a little later many of them had migrated to trees growing from sandbars and the others had spread out on the water. Later they all disappeared.
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Good! May they fail soon.
DeleteI saw a news report about Mr. Biden visiting Pueblo, Colorado, to tout the big funding award to the wind electric generator factory there-- if I remember correctly, they said it is already the biggest such factory in the world. That is a logical location, at the western edge of the high plains, allegedly the most reliably windy area in the world, and with good road and rail transportation. They said although the generators could be manufactured for less in China, the cost of shipping makes the Chinese generators more expensive than the American ones. That all makes sense, but I was struck by how CLEAN things in Pueblo looked. I went there while on vacation about fifty years ago, to see the steel mill (complete with coke ovens); the town was completely gray and stunk of coal tar--a terrible place to live, albeit with a goodly number of jobs. Wikipedia tells me that the blast furnaces (and thus the coke ovens) were closed about forty years ago.
ReplyDeleteSo when are they going to put something in Gary, Inciana? That was the country's biggest center of blast furnaces before everything shut down. Where Minnesota iron ore and Pennsylvania coal converged. Now it is one of the country's prime centers of depopulation and poverty
DeleteI don’t know much at all about Gary, but here are a couple of descriptions:
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[video] Ron DeSanits Gets absolutely schooled in Debate [on Fox News] by Gavin Newsom [Click] I just watched a bit of it, but was impressed by how well Newsom did. It looked to me like he mopped the floor with DeSantis(figuratively speaking).
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