Summer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Strawberry Moon<\/p>\n
Night.\u00a0 A couple of nights ago I went down the driveway to the mailbox.\u00a0 As I came back up, I looked up as I often do and saw an object scooting from SSE to NNW.\u00a0 At first I thought it was a plane.\u00a0 Without my glasses distance observing for me turns into a game of analyzing tantalizing bits of information rather than direct scrutiny.\u00a0 As it came overhead though, I could see what I thought were lights were blurs owed to my faulty peepers.\u00a0 No, it was a satellite.\u00a0 It was bright and moving fast.<\/p>\n
At heavens-above.com I tried to look it up, but the tables for satellite passes only look forward, not backward.\u00a0 I don’t know what it was, but I know it was man-made.\u00a0 Whether it was a communications satellite of the International Space Station, it’s still something up there because humans put it there.\u00a0 An amazing and still almost science fiction notion to this boy of the 1950’s.\u00a0 I remember Sputnik.\u00a0 Well.<\/p>\n
Kate’s a day away from her surgery.\u00a0 The vicodin she has to take now makes her dull, “stupid” as she puts it.\u00a0 She doesn’t like that feeling and looks forward to the time post-op when she can return to her NSAID.<\/p>\n
Obama.\u00a0 As a political leftist, I find things wrong with Obama’s record.\u00a0 He supported off-shore drilling, he’s ramped up the war in Afghanistan and he’s accepted weakened regulatory legislation and weakened health-care legislation.\u00a0\u00a0 The Gulf oil disaster and McChrystal give an air of chaos to his administration, though neither one is his fault.\u00a0 Here’s my prediction.\u00a0 A year from now Obama will look very good in all the areas in which he looks very bad right now.\u00a0 Her’s pulling troops out of Iraq as promised.\u00a0 The economy will improve.\u00a0 The public will get clear about the Obama administration’s role in the Gulf oil disaster to his credit and his firing of McChrystal will be seen as what it is, a necessary assertion of civilian authority.<\/p>\n
He’s working as a politician, not an ideologue, a necessary ambit if he\u00a0 wishes to govern, which he does.\u00a0 Bush was a right wing ideologue and no matter how charming or gritty he appeared it was clear his decision making was in thrall to the neo-con view of the world.\u00a0 Ideology puts blinkers on the best of us and Obama seems to govern without ideology, though he’s clearly a left-liberal.\u00a0 Kudo’s to him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Summer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Strawberry Moon Night.\u00a0 A couple of nights ago I went down the driveway to the mailbox.\u00a0 As I came back up, I looked up as I often do and saw an object scooting from SSE to NNW.\u00a0 At first I thought it was a plane.\u00a0 Without my glasses distance observing for me turns … Continue reading Night Time, Summer in the Exurbs<\/span>