Thankfully that little breeze cuts 0.7° from the heat. I was concerned a few weeks back because my fancy lime tree was just starting to yield and the avocados were still small. The limes are like double concentrate flavor. The flesh is still green but the skin is yellow. Perfect for fancy drinks.
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It's been cold here at the beach. About 62 right now. Gotta buy some more propane for the patio heater.
Almost perfect line from your beach to my hovel to the Somis station. You at 62, me at 72 and them at 80.
What Kind of Climate Does a Pomegranate Tree Need?
They are extremely heat tolerant; almost no climate is too hot for them, but they will be severely injured if they are subjected to temperatures lower than 12 F. In the U.S., pomegranates thrive in the Mediterranean-like climate found in California.
I only bring it up because we live in the Seattle area and this tree is in our yard. It was here when I bought the house in 1997. Strangers keep telling me that they can't believe it grows here. Me either, lol.
The winter ice storm a few years ago cracked it in half and may very well lead to its ultimate demise. It was a brutal injury to the very heart of its trunk. It was so cold and the ice was too heavy (a symphony of tree branch breaking could be heard up and down the street).
It put out fruit this year again though, not that it ever seems to fully ripen. It's enough to prompt pomegranate fans to ask if they can have some. Don't tend to get repeat customers for the free fruit though, lol.
Yup I walked around the Channel Islands Harbor docks on Sunday - a wonderful afternoon.
It will be interesting to see what allowing anonymous postings brings about.
good luck.
skk
Yogi ceased to be even a distraction once I saw the pattern of his dysfunction. I have been known to imbibe but I hope never to advertise to the world that I am that shitfaced.
Next Step, Exogamy?
I'm stunned that people would even suggest this approach. The end is near for freedom...
I think Steyn has the causation right. The free-speech issues are the inevitable consequence of a venerable argument about what a free society is.
Maybe I see it that way because I have Yuval Levin's wonderful book "The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine and the Birth of Right and Left" fresh in my mind. Levin chronicles the argument between the Irish-born British parliamentarian and the English-born American polemicist over the role of government and the merits of the French Revolution.
As Levin shows, Burke, the father of modern conservatism, and Paine, an early champion of progressivism, were liberals in the sense that both defended a free society. But their assumptions about human nature and society led them to very different places.
Excellent piece by Jonah Goldberg :Dukepoints: I know this guy...
It is no surprise that newspapers and their electronic equivalents hype bad news and scares — because they sell.
Al Gore made headlines when he told us in 2007 that the Arctic Ocean sea ice would be gone by 2013. Oops. The Arctic ice sheet actually grew by 29 percent in 2013, and the Antarctic ice sheet now covers more ocean surface than since measurements began. The global-warming crowd is still inventing excuses as to why none of their models failed to forecast the fact that the world has not warmed for the past 17 years. This year was supposed to be a very active year for Atlantic hurricanes, particularly destructive ones hitting the U.S. coast — which got big headlines. However, you may have noticed that there were only two small, short-lived hurricanes far out in the Atlantic that never got close to the coast. This year was also supposed to a big year for tornadoes, but again, thankfully, they were near a record low.
It is sad to see what liberal used to be considering what it has become. Sader still that honest progressivism is now equally stained by association. Not that republican flavored types haven't done the same to conservatism.
Cathy Reisenwitz: Capitalism vs. Cronyism
Last years record (since 1979) low arctic ice cover was because of wind not melt but it made for great headlines. This year the rebound put arctic cover within 1 SD of normal.
The new alarm is sea level rise. And strangely for the east coast it is man made. No we aren't raising the ocean but we are responsible for some of the subsidence.
The Delicious Irony of “Dark Money” by Cathy Reisenwitz
The left’s preferred narrative is simple, easy-to-understand and has a ring of truth. It goes like this: Regulation helps consumers but hurts business’ profitability. Individuals give money to big-government organizations to promote regulation. Corporations donate to small-government organizations like Americans for Prosperity, the American Enterprise Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute to fight regulation.
But the fact that corporations also fund big-government organizations raises questions about this narrative. If regulation hurts corporations, why are they funding think tanks which promote it?
The truth is that most regulation is written by and for incumbent businesses to erect barriers to entry and to buy advantages over their competitors. That’s why corporations fund groups like the Center for American Progress.
Cathy Reisenwitz:
T-Mobile, Toyota, and Visa don’t give to the Center for American Progress despite their calls for greater and more onerous regulation. They give because of their calls for greater and more onerous regulation. And why then do corporations give to Americans for Prosperity, the American Enterprise Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute? Sometimes it’s cheaper to fight the regulation their competitors’ lawyers wrote than to write their own.
The idea that corporations or governments act in an other way than in their own self interest is laughable.
...small-government organizations like Americans for Prosperity, the American Enterprise Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute to fight regulation.
Did you see the CCCM uproar? Those and 89 other organizations have budgets near $900m and it all goes towards climate change denial. They don't have time to do anything else.
CCCM?
The War State
Perhaps these figures do not surprise you, because if you are like most readers of this book, huge military spending for the United States has always been a fact of life since the day you were born. That’s why most don’t even give it a second thought.
But this was not the case for President Eisenhower and the people of his generation. Before World War II, the United States never had a permanent arms industry. Yes, it fought big wars….
But after major wars, the country always demobilized its forces. That is, until World War II….
The Internal Revenue Service was not a part of most people’s lives before the war.
You see, before the war only the wealthiest of Americans and corporations paid a dime of income tax. Between World War I and World War II the number of households paying income tax in any given year ranged from 1.25 to 2.5 percent. In 1939, 93 percent of the labor force paid no federal income tax at all…
As it should be...
Try:
"CCCM climate denial"
Some idiot got the crap published and the liberals are all over it.
Here's the paper:
http://www.drexel.edu/~/media/Files/now/pdfs/Institutionalizing%20Delay%20-%20Climatic%20Change.ashx
Unbelievable.
RD: Some idiot got the crap published
Oh well...
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