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September 9, 2019 Night
Good evening! Partly clear and 60 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌃 Calm wind. The dew point is 53 degrees.
After dinner – a quick dinner of ravioli and cheese 🍝 I went for my evening walk 🚶 then down to the library to download some movies. 🎥 I then came home, put my wash away, had a glass of cold apple juice 🍏 and retired to bed fairly early. I also ironed m clothes and got ready for a busy day at work tomorrow. 👕👖👔
I am so happy I found my Bluetooth adapter 🎧 as I really like being able to watch movies at home with the headphones on so I’m not bothering my neighbors but I’m also not tethered my laptop or my device. I can ride the exercise bike 🚲 or lay in bed watching a movie.
Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 52 degrees at 5am. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 14th. Maximum dew point of 53 at 9pm. Light north wind. In 2018, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 51 degrees. The record low of 34 occurred back in 1978.
Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous Moon 🌔 with 91% illuminated. The moon will set at 2:47 am. The Harvest Moon 🌕 is on Friday night with a chance of t-storms then chance of showers. The sun will rise at 6:28 am with the first light at 6:00 am, which is one minute and 4 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 11 hours and 13 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 49 seconds over last night.
Tomorrow will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 75 degrees at 3pm. Typical for tomorrow. Maximum dew point of 60 at 6pm. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 9 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 60 degrees. The record high of 96 was set in 1931.
In four weeks on October 7 the sun will be setting at 6:27 pm,🌄 which is 49 minutes and 28 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2018 on that day, we had cloudy, mist and temperatures between 72 and 52 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 63 and 43 degrees. The record high of 89 degrees was set back in 1963.
Looking ahead, Autumn 🍂 is in 2 weeks, Columbus Day 🛥️ is in 5 weeks, Average High is 55 🍂 is in 7 weeks, Veterans Day 🇺🇸 is in 9 weeks, Cyber Monday 🛍️ is in 12 weeks, First Sunday of Advent ✝️ is in 12 weeks, Earliest Sunset of the Year ⌛️ is in 3 months and Festivus 🍖 is in 15 weeks.
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No person is Illegal
No Person is Illegal.
That’s what the signs often say, protesting the president’s official actions and unofficial remarks and tweets about immigration. But did you ever take time to think about the meaning of the word illegal?
Here is how the Merriam Webster Dictionary defines illegal:
not according to or authorized by law
I think too often we view law on its face as as a legitimate authority, when in many cases its just a justification for the coercion by the government against private citizens and businesses. Law doesn’t have any force on its own – it only exists as a justification for legal action.
While undoubtedly law is good in the sense it limits the power of government and provides predictability and certainty for citizens and businesses – law is not moral or right.
To be illegal is not to be a bad person or entity but it does subjects an individual or business to the risk of prosecution or court judgement against the entity for violating a set out policy by law makers.