@Raggedy Ann

wrote a lyric a few years back with the line...sun as it rises burns the fog off, and there's the mountain wearing her season's cloth.

It is a coat of many colors today as fall comes into it's own.

I like to cook, clean, and busy around while I listen to interviews and news. I sometimes use my mp3 player and listen while on the tractor or working outside. The real news just started their mp3 downloads. Democracy Now has had them...and really any youtube is able to be converted...
https://online-audio-converter.com/

When I quit listening to NPR it left a hole in my news cycle which the mp3 player has helped to fill. Lots of folks use their phone, but I'm a cell-less Luddite.

Thanks for reading and listening. Have a good one!

You have planned out my day brilliantly. While I am cooking for the week, I will listen to/watch those many videos that inform and further educate me about my world. Many thanks, as always, for your efforts.

We had fog this morning. I never know what might bring it in to this desert valley, but I’m grateful for the moisture.

Have a beautiful Sunday, folks!

@magiamma

from a walk. Picking up limbs and lopping small stuff. A pretty day for it.

Came across a couple of things that made me think of you.

First a summary of the UN climate report
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sVwlYsxNx3GYEYXikkCF5x22WRQ6OUbME5SW...
and the NRDC's take on the report
https://www.nrdc.org/experts/roland-hwang/ipcc-report-isnt-death-knell-i...

and finally a 3 min piece on the boreal forest
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3OU--05AdQ]

Enjoy the day!

yes, thank you, indeed it would be nice...

It would be nice if we would change more than the hour of the day

Like capitalism, as it stands now, would be a good place to start. Seriously. Resource extraction. Seems like that's the order of the day. Needs to stop now.

I told people that - I was an aging hippy and I was angry - for Halloween.

Angry, mourning, sad, and yet, embracing the beauty that is here, waiting quietly to be embraced. Another beautiful day in paradise today. Worried that we many have another el niño coming, though.

Thanks for the climate links. Have a very good one...

@divineorder

I've got a plumbing project tomorrow. The ebikes sound great.

Beautiful part of the world around four corners. Lots of uranium mines as well as fracking around the 1st nations people there.

I enjoyed your Afghan piece up today too. Have a good one!

Really looking forward to watching jdores interview with Jill Stein. Voted for her twice for Prez and though she is not perfect, she is hands down one of the most courageous women in the world imo.

Living one day at a time, and are having a wonderful fall with fabulous colors here in Santa Fe, NM.

The drought monitor shows the Navajo Nation in extreme drought that extends on down to almost our area. Their lands cross borders of four states. Fracking interests are really screwing up the area around Chaco but Wildearth Guardians, New Energy Economy and others are fighting along side the local first peoples.

Interesting voting news:

The majority Navajo population in this Utah county has lived for decades with a primarily white, Mormon government.

This election could change that — but only if Native Americans are actually able to cast their vote.https://t.co/sP0V2yiJUO

— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) November 3, 2018

jb and I have been riding our pedal assist ebikes a great deal, not using our car much at all. We got paniers that will hold lots of groceries etc. As a consequence we are moving slow enough to focus on all the colorful trees.

Okay, I have to quit avoiding and go do some plumbing repairs. We have saved so much money over the years by diy. Have to thank both our fathers for modeling that.

@jakkalbessie

I look forward to seeing results Wednesday...wave, trickle, or stalemate. The talking heads have predicted all three scenarios. I'm waiting to see. No greens running in AL. Nick Branna is making progress with his People's party. Tim Canova has a shot.

Next week we'll have data to work with anyway. Thanks for reading. Enjoy those ebikes today!

And the extra hour this morning to have time to read all the thought provoking articles you posted! Never thought about the waste of energy from Daylight Savings. We have a friend whose father wrote a letter to Congress every year opposing Daylight Savings time but mainly on religious grounds.

Always love reading about what happens when groups like the teachers organize and make gains for the benefit of education. The teachers in Texas are fired up as well. Texans for Public Education has researched all candidates running for the Texas legislature, both Republican and Democrat and has indicated which are truly dedicated to public education and public schools. The biggest target is the Lt. Governor Dan Patrick who promises to support teachers and public schools but is a big supporter of the voucher system and charter schools. Hopefully he will be voted out because his policies have underfunded the schools and put more of the burden on local school districts and cut state funding for the schools.

Have a great rest of the day!

@Wink

is to leave it one way or the other. Your vote is in.

As a morning person, it is weird having it dark at 7:30 AM, so I prefer standard time...but either or is better than back and forth from my view.

All the best...

I, for one, want that extry hour of daylight in summer.
For what little summer we get, that extry hour extends it somewhat.

@Pluto's Republic

...as we unravel time and our biosphere.

Walk in your own time at your own pace. Always good to "see" you.

I especially enjoyed the Daylight Savings Time report. Damn. I have hated that perverted construct for my entire life. In the background, of course. By the time I was in my twenties, I gave it up for good.

So, depending on where I lived, I mentally translated the artificially-imposed government distortion of time to tidal time (which is set to "objective reality" on my personal devices). It's an effort to constantly translate natural time into alien time, but I think it sharpens my overall game. It also lets me live in the virtual future for most of the year. Or is it the past? Heh! It's good to meet a fellow renegade.

For my part, I balk because I know it is "wrong" to impose a distortion on the natural rhythms of life. It's psychologically disturbing. Perhaps it helps with pushing more effective propaganda. Also, I resist because I'm a bit of a bad sport. I won't play games that I can't win, which I think sends the wrong message to my world. That probably explains my attitude toward voting in a US Federal election. I'm convinced that my participation further degrades our civilization — such as it is.

[Early edit for clarity]

@eyo

I thought you might have been caught in fires or urban decay, and was about to pm you when I saw you around - a comment about hospitals.

It reminded me of my old neighbors who told us when we first moved here in the backwoods of Alabama..."They got a good hospital down in Centre, but they ain't got no doctors."

The doctors are all in Rome GA (which is closer to me than Centre). People go to find healthcare in Atlanta, Birmingham, and Chattanooga (all 1-2 hours away) for serious ailments. I'm lucky to have cruised through without dealing with many doctors (so far anyway). Best of luck with your care. Wishing you well. Nice to "see" you.

Thanks for The Weekly Watch. Happy Sunday.
https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_7,_Permanent_Daylight_Saving_Time_Measure_(2018)
Too sick of donors setting boring priorities and taking up space on my ballot to dilute the real serious issues, I voted NO. French head slicing devices for pols that keep wasting public time with trivia, YES but there was no box in sight with that option. I guess it's still in the barn with the pitchforks and torches, waiting... tick tock, tick tock. heh

The UniParty ballot information is there in a 50mb PDF, in case anyone wants to see the Alex Clinton Padilla Gish Gallop guide. "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit". Whee!

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@QMS

Socialism...an idea whose time has come. That's the time change we need!

Consider socialism in a kind, clear light. It's not so scary when the philosophy is divorced from the red bear or the yellow dragon or central / south american boogie men. It makes humane sense.

@WheninRome

because of the debt accrued during the Vietnam war...and we simply didn't have the gold to cover the money we printed.

There is very much a petrodollar when other countries want to purchase oil. They must buy it in USD. That system is beginning to crumble. Newsworthy IMO.

Understanding the rigged game of the fed is needed to understand today's dollar....
What is the Federal Reserve system? How did it come into existence? Is it part of the federal government? How does it create money? Why is the public kept in the dark about these important matters? feature-length documentary film.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IJeemTQ7Vk&pbjreload=10]

or if you prefer text...
https://www.corbettreport.com/federalreserve/

For the love of Flying Spaghetti monster, there is no such thing as a petrodollar.

We went off the Gold Standard in the 30's because of the Depression, and it wasn't necessary anyway. After WW2, the dollar was pegged to gold to give the rest of the world a chance to rebuild. In 71, Nixon decided to scrap as it wasn't necessary in the first place and never was. We are a monetarily sovereign currency issuing superpower. Finis.