War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Sharp, peek-a-boo sunshine this Thursday morning here on California’s north coast, with some thick-shadowed clouds lurking about — we’re forecast for more rain today, mostly in the AM, but this being a narrow shoreline zone, weather can become ordinary-irregular real quick, though, we’re predicted to get maybe a tenth-to-quarter-of-an-inch. The only early rainfall count I…
In a surprised space this afternoon, the north coast of California is recipient of some soft and gentle rain — the first of the season, but like all moisture nowadays, it sounds good and is wet awhile. Dark and overcast, the sprinkles sporadic but left a fresh wetness different from fog — a scent of…
Overcast with a bit of ground fog this early Wednesday on California’s north coast — onward we go! Earlier this month, the US Department of Agriculture reported nearly 50 million Americans live in households with ‘food insecurity,’ or sometimes there’s just not enough to go around. Via Mother Jones and the bottom line: All of…
Less than a week ago President Obama screeched the ISIS mission in Iraq “will not involve American combat troops fighting on foreign soil.” Today, the president’s top military dog, Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a Senate armed services committee, US troops could actually be involved in combat — mission…
Sunshine this early Tuesday is filtered by what weather folks call ‘haze,’ but it’s just low clouds blocking a bright morning here on California’s north coast. Just a little bit ago skies were clear. We be robbed of a rare, thunderous sunrise — shoreline shifts sometimes suck. And more fire in the air — in…
An example of how way-insane the terrorism game — all CIA “lies” the most-fabled al Qaeda has lost its terror-touch (via Reuters): “Whatever slip-ups or errors (regional branches)…may have committed are limited in number in the midst of mountains of good deeds and successes,” said Hossam Abdul Raouf, an Egyptian veteran of the militant group.…
A wall of gray this early Monday on California’s north coast — thick fog again, and really wet. My back patio appears as if there’d been a soft, but really-nice-enough rain last night. Just thick-ass fog. No rain, however, coming soon for any of these parts. Way-down south, in the heated-bowels of Los Angeles, everybody…
Deep, thick-damp fog this early Sunday on California’s north coast — all-gray without not much sound, either. Looking back on this past week, lost in the news shuffle, which included ‘official‘ declaration of another endless war, and sunshine full of rare, double-dosed magnetically-charged solar particles, was wail of a nasty climate-change alarm bell — clanking…
Bright and a bit windy this Saturday afternoon here on California’s north coast — another day in the life. Elizabeth Warren is one of the better ones in DC — she’s got an Op/Ed on the US Senate’s upcoming Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act, and the details, but the opening paragraph is a…
Warm and comfortable this afternoon on California’s north coast, but way-warm just about everywhere else out here. The LA area is excepting a heat wave this weekend, temperatures in triple digits — this on the heels of exceedingly warm. From the LA Times: The first eight months of 2014 were the warmest on average in…
