Eating Cats

The apparent cat-eating frenzy in Ohio (of apparently zero cats) is obviously racist, directed as it is against Haitian immigrants, but it's also misogynist, as it suggests that Childless Cat Ladies are too weak to protect their furbabies. They need big, strong, and hopefully-silent men to flex their muscles in defense. This faux issue is like catnip to MAGA and the GOP, who want to ride to the rescue of the cats after all the battering they've received lately. 

 It's absurd. Who can't see through it? Taylor Swift sees right through it. Vote Democratic.

A Well-Deserved Rest

I was on Folsom Blvd. westbound, waiting for the traffic light to turn green at Power Inn Blvd. during the afternoon rush hour, when the left-turn arrow turned green. Vehicles in the far left-turn lane started turning, but not in the near lane. What was wrong? Apparently the driver had fallen asleep. 

It's been a long day, O Driver! Sleep well. I suspect your rest won't last long.

The Fuckin' New York Times Again

Every day that goes by serves as a reminder about how unfit the New York Times is as a newspaper. On July 11th they issued a denunciation of Trump, but only after denouncing Biden immediately following his June debate performance (the spineless ones realized very, very late that they needed to balance their denunciations in order not to look too biased). 

"The board questioned Trump's morals, character, principles, honesty and fidelity to the law and found him lacking in each category...." 

Despite all these supposedly disqualifying points they still strongly support Trump for the presidency. 

"The case against Mr. Trump is extensive, and this board urges Americans to perform a simple act of civic duty in an election year: Listen to what Mr. Trump is saying, pay attention to what he did as president and allow yourself to truly inhabit what he has promised to do if returned to office." 

What does that statement even mean? Why do we need to "truly inhabit" anything? The New York Times says we should perform every civic duty EXCEPT the ONLY civic duty that will make any difference at all - vote for Kamala Harris! 

Spineless cowards. Abject MAGA slaves. The New York Times makes me ill.

I’m a Grand Uncle!

Atreya was born Saturday afternoon to Aaron and Tiffany in Albuquerque. The little girl was born at 5 lbs., 14 oz.

Connecting the Dots

Connecting the dots between QAnon, the Tenet Media influencers, Michael Flynn, Jill Stein, and Vladimir Putin.

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Monsoon Rain is Falling in the Sahara

The Atlantic hurricane season this year has so far been rather anemic. The article at the link blames warm waters in the North Atlantic for the situation. The warm waters have shifted the annual monsoon season in Africa farther north. They are receiving rain throughout the Sahara Desert, which happens only rarely. So, the proto-hurricanes that spin off westward from the African coast are passing offshore too far north, and not encountering the warm waters that would get them going.

In normal years the subtropical high pressure area, a heat dome, sits relentlessly over the Sahara. The sands are so reflective, the air so dry and the ground is so hot that heat is actually lost to space over the Sahara under normal conditions. That leads to hot days and cool nights with huge temperature swings especially near the equinoxes. This September’s equinox period will be very abnormal with cooler days, warmer nights and intrusions of tropical air from the African monsoon.

The Sahara wasn’t always a desert. From the beginning of the interglacial period up to 6000 years ago, there were lakes in the Sahara. Megalake Chad and the other Saharan lakes were so large that they kept the climate moist even after the orbital parameters that brought maximum insolation to the Arctic in late spring and early summer ending the last glacial period became less favorable. However, 6000 years ago the solar heating patterns caused by earth’s orbital variations brought more ocean warming to the southern hemisphere and less to the northern hemisphere and the north Atlantic cooled. The cooling of the north Atlantic waters brought on the drying of the Sahara and the desert conditions that have predominated the region for the past 5000 years.

But this summer something is different. The waters of the north Atlantic are relatively hot while the waters of the south Atlantic are relatively cool. And the waters of the Indian ocean on the east coast of Africa are very warm. And the Mediterranean sea is hot. 

The high heat content of the north Atlantic and the Mediterranean sea has affected the atmospheric circulation patterns bringing exceptional heat to far northern Europe and allowing the heat dome over western north Africa to break down, bringing monsoon moisture north into the Sahara desert.

This Tenet/RT Scandal Has Legs

I don’t think the U.S. influencers were duped. They were knowing participants. People don’t hand out money just ‘cause.

@lisaremillard

Dept of Justice says Russians were using US based influencers to unknowingly spread misinformation agead of the 2024 election. The Attorney General released internal documents that describe how the information was supposed to get out.

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