It's to tell us why all the other moons are ours except Europa.
Well, there goes my Fall vacation plan. Dammit.
Hey AntiDerp, I saw |this article| on DK and it's interesting but a five-parter (TL,DR). Can you give the Cliff Notes version, i.e., where the French equivalent of guns-and-Jeebus country is, and where the saner people are?
Oh gracious. I'm going to have to read Kos' take on all this.
But here's a quick sketch, at least what I've learned in the few years I've been here: Unlike the US, I don't think you have the Bible-humpers anywhere anymore. I think all of those wars of religion and the Revolution effectively secularized the country pretty thoroughly. Even this country's wingers, the Front National, don't spend much time on God and Jesus and doing what their interpretation of the Bible says (they are still plenty bigoted, though, against gays and minorities). Where the righties do well is in formerly-industrialized areas that have since gone bust. And their anti-immigrant crap also works well on areas that are nearest to borders where the brown folks might come through (there is some overlap with the industry population there).
Believe it or not, the French really do like their guns. I'm remembering an article I read a few years ago that per capita, the French are 5th in firearm ownership. But not as a protection thing, they are avid hunters. There is historical reason for this, having again to do with the Revolution and the rights of the poor to procure their own food being in conflict with the monarchy owning private hunting reserves. You are likely to see the gun folks anywhere that isn't a city, with the exception of Marseilles, where there are more gun deaths due to drug smuggling and gangs (but even still, the numbers are way lower than a typical American city).
Now to answer where the FN vs. socialist supporters live is a bit more difficult to answer for me. The last election cycle, the FN did quite well in the first round of voting (which tends to be the protest vote for a lot of residents) in the Northeast and South, the Republicans (center-right party) doing well in Paris and Lyon areas and much of the northeast, and the Socialists doing well in the Southwest and most western region of the country. BUT, in the final round, the FN took no regions, the Socialists tended to do well in the west and the Republicans in the north. So what does all this mean? Heck if I know, but my sense is that the most right-leaning folks are in the South, along the Mediterranean and in the Northeast. I can tell you that in my area, the Southwest, people have always tended to be more left-leaning.
This upcoming presidential election is going to be interesting. The Socialists are definitely on the out, as people are very unhappy with the economy right now, and also concerned about security and terrorism. My sense is that the Republicans are going to do well, and the FN will probably do better than they historically have but hopefully not so well as to have too many meaningful victories.
Also, too, tomorrow's last quarter moon will be the highest of the year in the northern hemisphere, because it'll be in the same place in the sky the sun was in…June
I won't be back out to the desert until Saturday, though we're under pretty severe water restrictions here in far Eastern California. As for the dog, I'm among a small minority here without at least one of 'em. I like dogs, just don't have room for one in the cab of my truck on my frequent road trips.
My sycamore trees will begin shedding in earnest any minute now, though they never really stop. You can fit about eleven of them in a trash bag, so I compost most of them instead. My lawn guys take care of the rest.
…EXTENDED PERIOD OF CRITICAL FIRE-WEATHER CONDITIONS ANTICIPATED
ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LATE THIS WEEK THROUGH EARLY
NEXT WEEK…
A HIGH-AMPLITUDE MIDLEVEL TROUGH…AND EMBEDDED CLOSED CYCLONE…ARE
FORECAST TO SLOWLY MOVE EWD…AND PERHAPS STALL…OVER PORTIONS OF
THE WRN/CNTRL CONUS FROM LATE THIS WEEK INTO EARLY/MIDDLE NEXT WEEK.
It's so dry out here everyone is letting their lawns die, and trees that aren't native are starting to die, too. I have a huge maple in my front yard, it's dead now, I have been stalling on spending the money to have them tear it out. I should take a photo of the lake, it's so low.
And now our local small town city hall is talking about a building moratorium because they don't want more strain on the shrinking water resources. And we're too far away from the coast (11 miles) to make DeSal realistic. I guess we'll all have to stop washing our hair.
I had a beautiful Hemlock next to the house that blew all of its leaves one year and never recovered. I paid the tree folk very good monies to take it down (broke my heart), but the wood dried very well and burned nicely.
The thing about Maple trees – their root spread equals at least their canopy spread. If they do get blown over, a huge amount of lawn will come up with them. I have four massive old silver maples in my front yard that are great for shade and kindling branches. If they ever go over though… *shudder*.
One of my friend's neighbors in Linden NJ went nuts and blacktopped his entire postage-stamp sized yard. It was, as you can imagine, a mistake.
This drought has to end sometime. Right? Until then, I guess Xeriscape's the answer along with fog harvesting and perhaps Arrakis-style Stillsuits. A development moratorium can't hurt either.
Who knows? maybe 18th Century powdered wigs will come back into fashion. And baldness.
I honestly worry about that tree falling over – I move my car to the far side of my driveway. I should just spend the money and do it, but I'm trying to watch my pennies for the moment.
And of course when you say lawn, you must actually just mean "lawn."
Well, "ground", "earth" or "ex-lawn" would be a ready substitute.
You could cheap out and have the Tree Folk just limb the thing (if it works out to be cheaper). It would present a lot less of a sail area for those Santa Anas.
I'm thinking of giving up on the back lawn and planting rice.
I visited my cousin in Denver last month and he has the most beautiful, understand landscaping (he has an eye for these things). My property has had mostly just a dirt-scape since before I even bought it, and the drier things get here the more my ideas shift on what to eventually do with it.
Yeah, rice sounds great, since you'll be underwater in a few decades anyway. You could collect all your neighbors' urine to use for fertilizer.
"Hey, Joe? Th' crop's beginnin' t' look right peaked. Kin yew come on over n' pee in the yard agin? I'd 'preciate it!"
Arizona folk seem to have some great ideas. You can do a lot with river run stone, succulents, hardy shrubs and palm trees. Some container gardens and raised beds in back, for Culinary reasons, and you're all set.
I'm pulling for more sea level rise, so I can grow shrimp in my flooded rice paddy in back. Farm living is the life for me.
Long ago an unknown ecoterrist would bike-ride around Tucson with a daypack containing herbicide and a hand- trigger pump, desecrating mostly business and apartment complex lawns.
WHEEEEEE
Finally.
| 1021 EDT in D.C. The exact moment of the Equinox. |
Sure, that's just what they want you to think: http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/46631… (it's from last year, but still RELEVANT!!)
How can you be so sure that the world didn't end on that date? Huh?
And I feel fine!
Also too: | Everything you know about astronomical ocean tides is Wrong! |
Aw, UKIP, the adorable wing of the Tea Party with a posh Brit accent.
The row comes after fellow Brexiteer Michael Gove declared that “people in this country have had enough of experts” …
What have the Romans ever done for us?
Rhymes with *ouke*IP?
Explain how a ram's bladder can be used to prevent earthquakes.
astronomical ocean tides? This might kill my plans for my underwater celestial observatory!
I'm firing my Editor.
Paul Nightingale
Douglas, this isn't a controversial point. Its in Newton's Principia.
*snort*
Speaking of "Astronomical Oceans", | NASA's holding a presser on Monday on Europa. | "Surprising evidence of activity"?
Aliens! It's Aliens, isn't it!?
It's to tell us why all the other moons are ours except Europa.
Well, there goes my Fall vacation plan. Dammit.
Hey AntiDerp, I saw |this article| on DK and it's interesting but a five-parter (TL,DR). Can you give the Cliff Notes version, i.e., where the French equivalent of guns-and-Jeebus country is, and where the saner people are?
Oh gracious. I'm going to have to read Kos' take on all this.
But here's a quick sketch, at least what I've learned in the few years I've been here: Unlike the US, I don't think you have the Bible-humpers anywhere anymore. I think all of those wars of religion and the Revolution effectively secularized the country pretty thoroughly. Even this country's wingers, the Front National, don't spend much time on God and Jesus and doing what their interpretation of the Bible says (they are still plenty bigoted, though, against gays and minorities). Where the righties do well is in formerly-industrialized areas that have since gone bust. And their anti-immigrant crap also works well on areas that are nearest to borders where the brown folks might come through (there is some overlap with the industry population there).
Believe it or not, the French really do like their guns. I'm remembering an article I read a few years ago that per capita, the French are 5th in firearm ownership. But not as a protection thing, they are avid hunters. There is historical reason for this, having again to do with the Revolution and the rights of the poor to procure their own food being in conflict with the monarchy owning private hunting reserves. You are likely to see the gun folks anywhere that isn't a city, with the exception of Marseilles, where there are more gun deaths due to drug smuggling and gangs (but even still, the numbers are way lower than a typical American city).
Now to answer where the FN vs. socialist supporters live is a bit more difficult to answer for me. The last election cycle, the FN did quite well in the first round of voting (which tends to be the protest vote for a lot of residents) in the Northeast and South, the Republicans (center-right party) doing well in Paris and Lyon areas and much of the northeast, and the Socialists doing well in the Southwest and most western region of the country. BUT, in the final round, the FN took no regions, the Socialists tended to do well in the west and the Republicans in the north. So what does all this mean? Heck if I know, but my sense is that the most right-leaning folks are in the South, along the Mediterranean and in the Northeast. I can tell you that in my area, the Southwest, people have always tended to be more left-leaning.
This upcoming presidential election is going to be interesting. The Socialists are definitely on the out, as people are very unhappy with the economy right now, and also concerned about security and terrorism. My sense is that the Republicans are going to do well, and the FN will probably do better than they historically have but hopefully not so well as to have too many meaningful victories.
Thank you! Now why couldn't DK make it that short and sweet. I saw: An explainer on French politics – cool! Then I saw: Five parts. Five?! Merd.
The timing of the refugee crisis in Europe seems like it couldn't be worse, what with the resurgence of the Euro version of alt right.
Blerg. I answered your post with a long one, but it has fallen into Moderation territory. But you can fix that, with your special blue powers.
Although maybe long wasn't what you were looking for? France defies the easy classification of the US, at least for me.
Un-Moderaticized, For Your Convenience.
(I saw an ad for an anti-NRA group that went: I use my guns for hunting, not for Treason. You don't represent me. Exactly. )
Tucson temps will dip into the 80's for the weekend.
Brrrr!
Judging from the post pic, I had assumed Karen was the poster. Well, if you're a Gemini like me, you can expect the unexpected!
Also, too, tomorrow's last quarter moon will be the highest of the year in the northern hemisphere, because it'll be in the same place in the sky the sun was in…June
Be sure to wash your car frequently this fall, if you can.
<img src="http://i2.wp.com/media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/ezgif-3871505259-1.gif?zoom=1.5&resize=628%2C349">
I have no water, no dog…
If you want to live in a desert compound while polishing up your manifesto, you have to give up something.
Yeah, but at least you can remember your name, 'cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain.
I won't be back out to the desert until Saturday, though we're under pretty severe water restrictions here in far Eastern California. As for the dog, I'm among a small minority here without at least one of 'em. I like dogs, just don't have room for one in the cab of my truck on my frequent road trips.
Shorter headline: ☉♎
My sycamore trees will begin shedding in earnest any minute now, though they never really stop. You can fit about eleven of them in a trash bag, so I compost most of them instead. My lawn guys take care of the rest.
The rains start? You mean there's a time when it doesn't rain?
Pro landscaping tip: Podocarpus trees never lose their leaves.
Somehow reminds me of dragging a spoon through a bowl of corn flakes.
We look forward to Burning… our leaves.
<img src="https://d.gr-assets.com/hostedimages/1460166476ra/18708010.gif"/>
Meanwhile…
VALID 231200Z – 291200Z
…EXTENDED PERIOD OF CRITICAL FIRE-WEATHER CONDITIONS ANTICIPATED
ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LATE THIS WEEK THROUGH EARLY
NEXT WEEK…
A HIGH-AMPLITUDE MIDLEVEL TROUGH…AND EMBEDDED CLOSED CYCLONE…ARE
FORECAST TO SLOWLY MOVE EWD…AND PERHAPS STALL…OVER PORTIONS OF
THE WRN/CNTRL CONUS FROM LATE THIS WEEK INTO EARLY/MIDDLE NEXT WEEK.
| The first significant Santa Ana offshore wind event is expected this weekend with locally gusty offshore winds and hot/dry conditions. |
Oh man – all that fire activity you're had this year and the Santa Anas are just starting? *swoon* thump.
I know you will, but I still have to say take care out there.
It's so dry out here everyone is letting their lawns die, and trees that aren't native are starting to die, too. I have a huge maple in my front yard, it's dead now, I have been stalling on spending the money to have them tear it out. I should take a photo of the lake, it's so low.
And now our local small town city hall is talking about a building moratorium because they don't want more strain on the shrinking water resources. And we're too far away from the coast (11 miles) to make DeSal realistic. I guess we'll all have to stop washing our hair.
I had a beautiful Hemlock next to the house that blew all of its leaves one year and never recovered. I paid the tree folk very good monies to take it down (broke my heart), but the wood dried very well and burned nicely.
The thing about Maple trees – their root spread equals at least their canopy spread. If they do get blown over, a huge amount of lawn will come up with them. I have four massive old silver maples in my front yard that are great for shade and kindling branches. If they ever go over though… *shudder*.
One of my friend's neighbors in Linden NJ went nuts and blacktopped his entire postage-stamp sized yard. It was, as you can imagine, a mistake.
This drought has to end sometime. Right? Until then, I guess Xeriscape's the answer along with fog harvesting and perhaps Arrakis-style Stillsuits. A development moratorium can't hurt either.
Who knows? maybe 18th Century powdered wigs will come back into fashion. And baldness.
I honestly worry about that tree falling over – I move my car to the far side of my driveway. I should just spend the money and do it, but I'm trying to watch my pennies for the moment.
And of course when you say lawn, you must actually just mean "lawn."
Well, "ground", "earth" or "ex-lawn" would be a ready substitute.
You could cheap out and have the Tree Folk just limb the thing (if it works out to be cheaper). It would present a lot less of a sail area for those Santa Anas.
I'm thinking of giving up on the back lawn and planting rice.
I visited my cousin in Denver last month and he has the most beautiful, understand landscaping (he has an eye for these things). My property has had mostly just a dirt-scape since before I even bought it, and the drier things get here the more my ideas shift on what to eventually do with it.
Yeah, rice sounds great, since you'll be underwater in a few decades anyway. You could collect all your neighbors' urine to use for fertilizer.
"Hey, Joe? Th' crop's beginnin' t' look right peaked. Kin yew come on over n' pee in the yard agin? I'd 'preciate it!"
Arizona folk seem to have some great ideas. You can do a lot with river run stone, succulents, hardy shrubs and palm trees. Some container gardens and raised beds in back, for Culinary reasons, and you're all set.
I'm pulling for more sea level rise, so I can grow shrimp in my flooded rice paddy in back. Farm living is the life for me.
"understated" not "understand" *eyeroll.*
*stupid spellcheck*
Long ago an unknown ecoterrist would bike-ride around Tucson with a daypack containing herbicide and a hand- trigger pump, desecrating mostly business and apartment complex lawns.
"We train young men to drop fire on people but their bosses won't let them write FUCK on other people's lawns with Roundup because… it's OBSCENE!"
Sounds like my hero [Edward Abbey.]
Yeah, I hear he helped radicalize some youths back in the day.