Tonight at Sunset – July 15, 2021

Going to be sultry summer evening tonight πŸŒ‡

Heading home now on the local bus, 🚍 and then after dinner I’ll take a book πŸ“™ down to the park 🏞.

At sunset, look for partly clear skies πŸŒ„ and temperatures around 80 degrees. The dew point will be 71 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 8 mph.

We will have a Waxing Crescent πŸŒ’ Moon with 33% illuminated. At 5 PM, the moon was in the south-southeast (164°) at an altitude of 49° from the horizon, some 231,086 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. πŸš€ At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by January 7th. Buckle up for safety! πŸ’Ί The moon will set in the west (271°) at 11:58 pm. The Buck 🦌 Moon is on Saturday, July 24. Buck yeah, that’s my summer vacation. Party all night. Just like the horney bucks.

I was looking at the Bethlehem Residents News Facebook page, a so-called pro-police page put out by the Bethlehem GOP and had to think their theme song must be Phil Och’s I Like Hitler

I was looking at the Bethlehem Residents News Facebook page, a so-called pro-police page put out by the Bethlehem GOP and had to think their theme song must be Phil Och’s I Like Hitler. I can’t share the video on YouTube because the censors have banned it but I can post the lyrics below.

“There’s supposedly a wave of conservatism sweeping the country (sounds familar) and as the groups move farther and farther to the right, they find fewer and fewer songs that can be sung by people or groups as a whole…and when they finally arrive, I’d like to…I wrote this song for them, so they can sing when they get together.” — Phil Ochs

I like Hitler, Jolly Jolly Hitler
I like Hitler and Mussolini too

I like Franco in Spain 
And I'll have to maintain
That Batista was
Really quite all right

Trujillo was my man
Henry Ford/Hendrik Verwoerd would understand
What this country 
really needs is apartheid

Loyally we Birch along
Birch along, Birch along
Loyaly we Birch along
Back to the good old days

God save the king

I think it’s pure fascist trash to be celebrating government workers and the government. Maybe there is a role for some government employees in providing limited public safety and order, but we shouldn’t be celebrating fascism or fearing the public over the government worker.

Ford Looking at Charging EVs by Flat Towing Them | The Drive

Ford Looking at Charging EVs by Flat Towing Them | The Drive

t's no secret that there's still a lack of charging stations for EVs in the United States. Charging infrastructure is seen as a vital hurdle to overcome in the quest for more widespread adoption of what many consider the future of personal transportation. Ford recognizes that and has at least one other idea (besides more public chargers) on how to solve the issue.

In a recently published patent, the Dearborn automaker described a system by which an EV can be towed and charged by a vehicle such as an RV or semi-truck. This would be especially handy in sparse rural areas where people might commute in or travel to with charging stations few and far between.