Clear skies this Tuesday morning on California’s north coast as we sprint toward a rendezvous with an apparent natural-formed insanity.

Sweet Harry Reid last night: “We hope with good fortune and the support of all you (senators) — recognizing how hard this is for everybody — that perhaps tomorrow will be a bright day.”
Yeah, right, ‘hard’ for ‘everybody‘ — you gotta be shitting me.

Bright is the color of the blind.

(Illustration found here).

Today is more zero-dark thirty then luminous.
Especially in the sketch-zone of the NSA — the newest pile of surveillance dung via the Washington Post:

The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans, according to senior intelligence officials and top-secret documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
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During a single day last year, the NSA’s Special Source Operations branch collected 444,743 e-mail address books from Yahoo, 105,068 from Hotmail, 82,857 from Facebook, 33,697 from Gmail and 22,881 from unspecified other providers, according to an internal NSA PowerPoint presentation.
Those figures, described as a typical daily intake in the document, correspond to a rate of more than 250?million a year.

And that ain’t nothin’. Glenn Greenwald remarked yesterday: “There are a lot more stories,” he said on Monday in Rio de Janeiro, where he lives. “The archives are so complex and so deep and so shocking, that I think the most shocking and significant stories are the ones we are still working on, and have yet to publish.”
No doubt — and that has nothing with Gwen Stefani.

Meanwhile, far east (or way, way west) of DC, this could be a most-bright spot this morning:

Typhoon Wipha, which is currently a storm with 110 mph winds located several hundred miles south of Kyoto, Japan, appears poised to sideswipe, or possibly even make a direct hit on Japan in the coming days.
The storm is expected to bring strong winds, heavy rain, and high waves to the Japanese coast from Tokyo northward, including the ailing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, where cleanup efforts have already hit serious roadblocks.
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Ryan Maue, a meteorologist at WeatherBell Analytics, a private forecasting firm, told Climate Central that the storm poses a “huge flood potential” for the Fukushima area.
“Deep convection on the westward flank of the storm . . . plus the topography of Japan means heavy rain for the coastline regardless of the Typhoon’s track,” he said in an email message.
“Wipha is extra-large size-wise,” Maue said, predicting it will grow and strengthen as it makes its closest pass to Japan, aided by strong jet stream winds in the upper atmosphere.

Well, that should be horribly interesting.

And, too, some dangerous shit at LAX:

Detectives late Monday were investigating how four dry ice bombs — two of which exploded — were placed in restricted areas at Los Angeles International Airport.
A dry ice bomb exploded Monday about 8:30 p.m. in a section accessible only to employees near the gate of the Tom Bradley International Terminal, law enforcement authorities said.
Two similar devices were found in the area. All three were bottles with dry ice inside, according to LAX police.

The first one exploded Sunday night. LAPD says “…no nexus to terrorism right now.” Or a connection to terrorists, whatever.

And Sarah Palin yesterday, invoking the merits of being a US Constitutional scholar:

Apparently the president thinks he can furlough reality when talking about the debt limit.
To suggest that raising the debt limit doesn’t incur more debt is laughably absurd.
The very reason why you raise the debt limit is so that you can incur more debt.
Otherwise what’s the point?

You betcha, Sarah.

And here we go for a bright-spotted Tuesday — good luck with that!