War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Misty, wet fog this early Tuesday on California’s north coast as the fall weather pattern fits more like summer — this attitude will rob us of the lunar phenomenon due tonight. A ‘blood moon‘ and its environs: Sometimes, when the moon dips into Earth’s shadow during an eclipse, the natural satellite takes on a coppery-red…
Another bright morning here on California’s north coast, and a Monday at that, and the summer-like weather continues as we’re forecast for ‘warm’ temperatures and gentle ocean breezes. All masquerading as weather. And climate, though, the latter is shifting. An observation: Just about every week recently there’s an environmental study/report/research released indicating some bad indicator…
Another slide into some kind of whirlwind war zone once again, the odds are slowly being upped for more American flesh being put on the line in Iraq. Not yet ‘boots on the ground,’ but how’s the feel of ‘boots in the air.’ Via Mcclatchy this evening: The United States sent attack helicopters into combat…
Bright and shiny this early Sunday on California’s north coast, and from appearances already, another beautiful, warm one for us — might top 80-degrees maybe. Wind the major influence for here-near the shoreline, makes a crucial difference, as those cool, ocean breezes via the NWS, ‘…becoming calm in the morning.’ Afterwards, the thermometer starts trailing…
Maybe an ominous turn of events in the anti-ISIS campaign in Iraq — the crazy horde might secure Abu Ghraib, just outside Baghdad, and could place their captured US 155 mm howitzers within range of Baghdad International Airport. A major-bad to close the airport. From Mcclatchy: “These have a range of about (20 miles) and…
Clear, bright sunshine this early Saturday on California’s north coast — a few-days spread of some warm weather, maybe in the mid-80s this weekend, though, ocean breezes keep our temperatures mellow near the shoreline. Yet lose the breeze, lose that swagger and cool — which happened yesterday, winds were near none-existent, with the afternoon unusually…
The Global AgeWatch Index, a study on the influence of old folks, reported the worse country in the whole world to grow old in is Afghanistan — a horrible tribute to a lost, terrified country, nearly forgotten. Next Tuesday, by the way, the 13th glorious anniversary of “Operation Enduring Freedom”, and operations indeed have endured.…
Another decent-size earthquake in the vicinity just a little while ago — a 4.2 on the Richter, about 126 miles from me, northwest in the Pacific Ocean, due west of the Oregon/California border. I hadn’t felt a thing — just spied it on one of my paranoidal-periodical checks at the USGS site for all worldwide, but especially…
Clear, clean and a bit chilly this early Friday on California’s north coast — and really bright, too. We’re forecast for warmth, but here near-directly on the shoreline, those ocean breezes keep the high degrees on the down low. If the winds go calm, though, it’s T-shirt weather. Amongst other shit sure to come via…
Part-n-parcel on the road to the Great American Dream (via the Washington Post): But then there are deeper factors at work. The economy has gotten bigger, but much of that growth hasn’t reached the middle class. Indeed, the top 1 percent grabbed 95 percent of all the gains during the recovery’s first three years. And…
