Pretty Cloudy This Morning

 Therefore, we start the day on the warm side, at 79 F but rain chances are almost non-trivial today, tomorrow, and the day after. And the forecast has the temperatures moderating quite a lot for those few days. One can hope. One can dream. And with extreme weather becoming the norm, you can't ever be sure of what you are going to get. Flooding rains in Death Valley! Would that Lake Mead would fill up. There's another monkeypox case in Lubbock. I haven't been keeping track of stats because for me this is a very low risk disease, shunning people as I do. And I knew Republicans hate intelligent and independent women and nonwhites, but apparently they hate diabetics as well. Let's see, they hate the poor, they hate smart women, they hate people of color, they hate gays, they hate the sick, they hate knowledge, they hate science, they hate reason-- is there anything left? Oh, they hate seniors if those seniors happen to be getting social security benefits and Medicare. They seem to hate everyone who isn't rich and white and protestant and healthy. I think they hate veterans, too. 

Oops! I forgot truth. They hate that too. 

Moderating Temperatures

 Getting tolerable, at least for a few days. Nice. 

I've still got the sunflowers. 

Polio Making A Comeback?

 Cases are starting to appear again, all over the country, and you can thank the anti-vaccination nut jobs and various religious half-wits who oppose vaccination. Where is Emperor Nero when we need him? Can smallpox be far behind? 

76 F this morning. Not so bad in the early morning so I'm up before sunrise. Early to bed and early to rise, etc. 

I'm quite happy with my photography, at least. I photograph what I like. Note the absence of people. 

Rain Here And There

 But wildfires rage in Texas and there has been no real dent in the epic drought. More moderate temps in my neck of the woods. Alex Jones is crashing and burning. About time. Good news from Kansas, of all places. Estimates of 70,000 to 80,000 Russian troops killed in Ukraine thus far. And Monkeypox cases still increase exponentially. Zoonotic diseases are going to keep on coming. We live in interesting times. I'd like to see Dominion win its multi-billion dollar suit against FOX "news". I'd like to see Dominion win ALL of its lawsuits. Most of those stupid "Trump won" flags have vanished around town. In one neighborhood in particular I used to see a lot of those things, but all are gone. What that means, if anything, I don't know. 

I'm kind of happy to see that the UFO thing is still with us. I remember the epic sightings of the early fifties with great nostalgia. Self-replicating Von Neumann probes moving through the galaxy at sub-light speeds would answer most of the objections to alien visitors. It would only have taken one advanced technical civilization anywhere in the galaxy in the past half-billion years to litter the entire galaxy, every planetary system in the galaxy, with high tech beer cans, so to speak, given the enormous power of exponential growth. Hardly anyone gets exponential growth. 

82 F Is The Morning "Low"

 Over 100 F yesterday with minimal cloud cover but as the sun sets clouds build, a sort of heavy overcast, which kills radiation cooling, trapping heat, so that we start the day hot and go on from there. That's been a pattern the last few days and it's nothing if not diabolical. And it's very calm. No breeze to speak of. That does not help. 

Within a very few years, deaths due to heat will outnumber deaths due to gun violence in this country, if that hasn't happened already. In fact more people are now dead due to excessive heat than any other weather related phenomena. Flooding? Nah. Heat alone is killing more people each year. It's a trend, you see. If you don't see, you are truly effing blind. 

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