Nothing special, just a few hours spend on the river.

I hope you folks all had a nice day, I did.

Lets head under the Washington St. Bridge.

Bright sun, a little windy, but the tide was high and it was cool enough to paddle hard without overheating. So off from the Elm St. launch and down Indian Head River onto the upper reaches of the North River. Ah! Home!

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I have to work so hard to grow, protect and cultivate my flowers. But on the river all I have to do is enjoy them.

Here’s a first. A wild turkey coming down to the waters edge to drink. See him?

Saw me.

Good-bye!

One of these days I’m going to land on this bank of the river and take off the PFD, grab the rope and swing far out into the river and get wet! Haven’t done that in forty-five years.

Do you remember this picture of the river flowing under the Washington Street Bridge under the force the falling tide?

I’ve paddled against it, great exercise, pull hard..faster!

Now this is slack tide today.

Same stretch of the river, but for 15 minutes on each side of slack water, easye peasey.

Now, a quick stop at the pub and its a perfect day.

Bye!

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Obama’s Undeclared War

Obama’s Undeclared War

Unemployment Rate Chart

Unemployment Rate Chart by YCharts

The title belies a little foreign policy post but this editorial in the Wall Street Journal caught my eye.  Remember when the administration said it had a “laser like focus” on job creation. David Axelrod said it was about, “Jobs, jobs, jobs.”

To quote some old cliches.  The proof is in the pudding.  Actions speak louder than words.

No President since Jimmy Carter has enacted programs that were so job destroying. Continue reading

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Sunday News

Survivors of Joplin tornado develop rare infection

Ick!

Armed Agencies

The Railroad Retirement Board??!!

Carbon Credits

Now that’s just wrong!

Symbols of Tyranny in America

interesting viewpoint of a immigrant to the USA

AND WE SHOULD TAKE THAT SERIOUSLY:   This Week’s Solar Flare Illuminates the Grid’s Vulnerability. “The next peak cycle of sunspot activity is predicted for 2012-2014, bringing with it a greater risk of large geomagnetic storms that can generate powerful rogue currents in transmission lines, potentially damaging or destroying the large transformers that manage power flow over high-voltage networks. . . . In the worst-case scenario, the stockpile of spare transformers would fall far short of replacement needs. Urban centers across the continent would be without power for many months or even years, until new transformers could be manufactured and delivered from Asia. The transformers are not made in the United States.” Which would be awkward, too.

Plus this: “If the solar storm of 1921, which has been termed a one-in-100-year event, were to occur today, well over 300 extra-high-voltage transformers could be damaged or destroyed, thereby interrupting power to 130 million people for a period of years.”

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Friday News

Europe hit with huge carbon credit theft, but no one in the media seems to care

excerpt:  “That’s not a small theft ($79 Million). It happened back in January. Why has there been basically no mainstream media follow-up on this? They’re taking the time to slog through Sarah Palin’s old emails today.”

 

Student Loan Debt, a personal story.

Not about how he cleverly found a way to pay off the debt, its about the mental sea change he experienced about owing a huge debt that he couldn’t repay. And the changes in what he expects from life, no credit cards, can’t own a car…etc..

The solar-powered bikini that will be music to your ears

I’ve heard of taking the sun, but this is ridiculous. A designer in America (where else?) has developed a “solar bikini” that will run your MP3 player, or recharge your camera, while you sunbathe.

Selling for around £120, the itsy bitsy black garment is covered in 40 small photovoltaic cells, sewn together with conductive thread, with a female (naturally) USB connection. Delivering five volts, it can charge an iPod in just two hours. The designer, Andrew Schneider, is now promising he will shortly produce male trunks – dubbed the iDrink – whose “greater surface area” will produce enough power to “cool a single beer”.

These powered swimsuits presage the growing development of “thin-film” solar panels, which can be printed like a page rather than constructed from costly silicon. This promises to provide a host of new ways of generating electricity, and bring costs crashing down.

Mark Little, global research director for the GE conglomerate, predicted recently that within five years thin-film could make solar power cheaper than electricity generated by fossil fuels or atoms. Meanwhile, Schneider swears that those who have worn his bikini have been surprised at how comfortable it is. It will run “anything you can power or charge through a USB connection,” he says, and you can even swim in it – although it would be wise to “make sure you are absolutely dry before you plug your iPod in”.    I love the English!

Starlite, the nuclear blast-defying plastic that could change the world

To good to be true? Or is truth stranger than fiction?

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The Best Writer on the Internet

The Ship of State

shipofstate.jpg

“Strait times come in history. Our time is such a time, millennial, full of fast currents, tossing, eddied, dangerous to pass through.” — John Fowles, “The Aristos”

The thing is under the boat. The crew suspects as much but can’t know for sure exactly where it is. They won’t know where Leviathan is until it rises, inevitable and unstoppable, from the deep directly beneath them.  Continue reading

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Don’t judge by appearences

Maggies Farm

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Dept. of Education issued warrant for SWAT to kick in a door at 6AM

Not kidding, Dept. of Education bureaucrats are now issuing warrants and dispatching SWAT teams for unpaid student loans or loan fraud.

California SWAT raid terrorizes innocent man and his children

People we have a massive problem, the militarization of the police forces in this country and misuse of same for increasingly minor crimes and with flawed rationale.

I believe that the fundamental issue is the loss of respect and observance of the rights imbued to individuals and sovereign states by the Constitution. In consequence, our property, our lives and freedom and our future are all now at risk.

 

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Wednesday News

Solar Flare Erupts, Creating Spectacular Images

Banning Circumcision

Only in San Francisco. Or maybe that’s wishful thinking. I despise anti-Semitism.

Elderly passengers on board a luxury cruise have criticised US immigration officials after they endured a seven-hour security check.

“A couple of passengers got a bit stroppy about having to go through all the rigmarole again and these petulant officials decided to take revenge,” said John Randall, 60, a retired dentist from Wigan, who bought the cruise as a retirement gift to his wife.

Scientists can capture and store antimatter

 Can a anitmatter tax be far away?

Fraud in Hollywood

Don’t let the facts ruin a good story!

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June Bird Bath

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Monday News

Gov. Deval Patrick refuses to sign immigration program

Yes, we are profiling them, we are profiling them as convicted criminals!

Grim picture of U.S. housing market

And yet, Barney Frank stills wants programs to enable the indigent to own a house.

In Britain, enough is enough. (finally)

When the “western” style toilets were replaced with Islamic “squat” toilets holes in the floor, I didn’t think there was any point at which the UK would draw a line against the enemy in their midst. Deciding to withdraw funding from those groups that advocate violence and even beheading is a little too weak and a little too late, but its a start.

Wind farms aren’t just a blight, they’re a folly

As the writer says, ” To produce the same amount of electricity as one coal-fired power station, you’d need a wind farm the size of Greater London.” And still retain all the old coal plants for those days the wind doesn’t blow.

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