This has been quite the year for "weather".
We are lucky. All we are getting is wind. Other parts of the state are got hammered with ice and deep snow. The last report I saw estimated 80,000 customers in Michigan are without electricity. Other states have been hit worse.
Spring
After a very warm first half of March, the second half of March is predicted to be "normal".
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| March daily high-low temperatures. Values on the left are actual and values on the right are predicted. |
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| The first week of April is predicted to be close to normal and the last 20 days to be five-to-ten degrees F below average. |
Homeschooling with Grandpa
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| 11mm diameter "spit-wad" low and right-of-center. |
We started with tissue-paper softened with tap-water and will progress to 2" long bits of MIG wire in foam sabots repurposed from hearing-protection. The high school band will definitely put her in the brass section due to her enhanced lung capacity.
Wednesday's lesson will be the extraction of phytoalkaloids and insect-derived compounds using low-pH solvents.
Exit strategy
A very old bit of advice is to not enter a war in Asia before you have a robust exit strategy.
I hope our leaders in D.C. have given that some consideration.
In fairness to them, even though Afghanistan was a Goat Festival, especially the withdrawal; nobody has flown any airplanes into US landmarks since September 11, 2001. So maybe that counts as some kind of victory.
The leftists are claiming that Iran will eventually get nukes, so what is the point of our military action? Frankly, I would consider delaying their getting that capability by fifty years to be much more desirable than them having enough material to cobble together a Fat Boy in November of 2026.
When you killed off the "evil old cleric " that prevented the building of a nuclear weapon by religious Fatwa you've garenteed they will build plenty.
ReplyDeleteNations have taken note that we use diplomacy to find out where the leaders are and bomb them.
Nations notice that North Korea having nukes doesn't get attacked.
Wonder how much Pakistan is charging for nukes. Plenty of Nations might be in the market.
Michael the anonymous
Praying we can get out of this tar baby war before we put those Marines we sent over in play.
Yeah....Michael has some good points there.
ReplyDelete"Fat boy", ha!
ReplyDeleteFirst two nuke designs (to Japan's misfortune) were "Fat Man" and "Little Boy"
Fat Man, an implosion plutonium device was tested at Trinity.
Little Boy was not tested...as they knew it would work! It's a 'gun device' using Uranium 235. That's what the mullahs were shooting (ha!) for, with the enrichment.
Putting together a functioning Little Boy once you have the internals is relatively easy. Putting together one you can easily deliver, another story.
However big and heavy, if you have the appropriate ballistic missile (which they were seriously working at), it's easy enough to threaten or deliver jihad to the Little and Big Satan.
So any setbacks to this hornet's nest I'm good with. I'd very much like to see the existing refined stocks recovered and taken out of the country.
Alan E.