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Well, the aurora was a bust. Heading to sleep.
ReplyDeleteFor the record, I only slept about 5 hours last night. Sigh.
But still had an average of 6.4hrs/night for the week.
My parents told me they saw an aurora once, in the village where we lived when I was born. It's four degrees south of Jericho, and there were no outdoor lights back then.
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It's absolutely stunningly beautiful and impressive. I've seen it half dozen times, but the most amazing was November 8th in 1988 or 1989...when the entire sky was coated in it. It looked like someone had poured a can of paint over the dome of the sky and it was dripping down everywhere! I could easily see why ancient peoples thought the world was coming to an end.
DeleteIsrael says it has resumed combat operations against Hamas
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Generations of bad blood. Sigh indeed.
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Sandra Day O’Connor has passed away. [Click]
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{listener}
DeleteShe did so much good in her life.
Republican George Santos expelled from Congress in bipartisan vote [Click] Sixth one ever; I wonder what the other five did.
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Should have read farther before posting:
Delete"The first three fought for the Confederacy in the civil war. The other two were expelled after being convicted of crimes."
---Alan
Interesting that some of the people who Santos stole money from include a fellow Republican Representative and that Rep's family members.
DeleteSo, once in a blue moon the House can do something right, huh? Good to know.
DeleteThis morning we can see a bit of the Sierra Nevada crest, and there is snow on it!
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Lovely! 🏔
DeleteBy late morning it was covered with cumulus clouds.
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We just saw that big flock of egrets we saw yesterday returning to the river bottom from wherever they spent the night. Of course it might be another flock, but it is the same size, about twenty to thirty.
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Can't read their license plates from this far away. . . .
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Thanks for looking! Very cool that they may be sticking around.
DeleteI have seen them congregating in flocks here and there over the years (in the winter??), but can't say whether or not we have seen so many in the river bottom below our house. At first we thought they might be white pelicans, but it's the wrong time of year and they didn't seem big enough. When first we saw them they were congregated in a big white raft, which is typical of white pelicans, but field glasses showed what they were, from their beaks. On the way out to the rural hospital where I used to work there was a place where ibis congregated on their way by---I didn't know there were ibis in California. Their feathers were beautiful---very dark, and iridescent.
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What a beautiful picture you painted for us. Thanks, Alan.
DeleteUK in Deep Trouble - Nottingham Declares BANKRUPTCY, 30% of Councils at Risk as Housing Crisis Grows [Click] On top of large cumulative increases in food and energy prices, not to mention exodus and downsizing of many companies. Brexit is a continuously growing disaster, and neither the Conservative nor the Liberal parties are speaking out against it.
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I forgot to mention that UK mortgage rates are generally variable rather than fixed.
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And I have just made my hotel reservations for a Glasgow Worldcon in August. Those prices are fixed, but hard to tell how it will affect other costs.
DeleteSame subject, its relationship to criminal cases [Click] Presidential immunity claims are rubbish. [video, I think it will work fine as audio only]
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Image: “Trump Reaches Out To Women Voters" [Click]
ReplyDeleteMy sentiments exactly! (And I've felt that way from the very first time I ever heard his voice. Ewwww!)
DeleteI thought surely the image would show him reaching for a different part of the anatomy.
Delete‘We owe it to them’: Families of Israelis killed in war find new hope through sperm extraction
ReplyDeleteAn interesting concept.
How about the Gazans? They're the victims of genecide. Why doesn't anyone owe it to them to keep their genetic lines going? Hell, why doesn't anyone owe it to them to keep Gaza from being systematically bombed off the face of the earth?
DeleteI can't locate it at the moment, but I saw a story about two young brothers (looked like 8 or 10 years old) who had specialized surgeries in the US, went back home to Gaza, and were killed in an Israeli airstrike (I don't remember the details--I couldn't bear to read much more than the headline).
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It's absolutely insane. The Israeli's have killed more than 10X as many people as Hamas did. The entire Vermont delegation to Congress is calling for a ceasefire, and are saying no more financial aid to Israel unless they act humanely. Apparently, though, Israel isn't listening. Not really. I mean, sending word through the internet that certain areas need to evacuate to certain other areas only works if those people have internet ... which of course they don't because Israel blew it to smithereens.
DeleteYes, Hamas has to be stopped. But the way to do that would have been to take the wind out of their sails. Instead, Netanyahu has been fanning the wind for years.
[Video that should work all right as audio alone, except that the attorney’s enunciation is a little unclear to my (defective) ears] Manhattan DA is rady to throw Trump behind Bars, Trial Nears [Click] Alvin Bragg tears apart every reason Trump’s attorneys propose to dismiss the Stormy Daniels/business records falsification case. Looks like it could go before the election, either just before or just after DC January 6th prosecution.
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DT simply must not get elected.
DeleteHe already should have been behind bars years ago.
Gee, that girl is hard to listen to. She doesn't speak distinctly and she rambles on and on. Besides that, her voice itself has some quality, I donno, maybe the pitch or timbre, but it bothered me, gave me a headache, actually. Disappointing, because the subject of the videocast was interesting.
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