September 24, 2020 Evening

Good evening! Partly cloudy and 59 degrees in Speculator, NY. β›… There is a west breeze at 6 mph. πŸƒ. The dew point is 52 degrees.

It was a nice day but a busy one with work. πŸ’Ό The colors up in Speculator are pretty nice, πŸ‚ and it was nice working from the park and at the library. πŸ“š It was odd though that I ran into one of my neighbors up at Spectulator – he was actually working up at the library too. He apparently was up here on vacation too. With the Wi-Fi and cellphone it was as easy as working at home. πŸ“Ά That said, camping in the wilderness.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy πŸŒ₯, with a low of 51 degrees at 10pm. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 18th. Maximum dew point of 53 at 8pm. West wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening. In 2019, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 50 degrees. The record low of 29 occurred back in 1963.

Nice mild evening πŸŒƒ. I can’t believe it’s nine o’clock but it’s still warm enough to be sitting outside wearing a t-shirt πŸ‘•. Nice fire πŸ”₯ for a while and now it’s burning down as the night progresses. It gets dark this time of year and the nights are long, with nearly more night than day. The eight hour nights have come and gone into a memory.

Tonight will have a First Quarter πŸŒ“ Moon with 58% illuminated. At 7 PM, the moon was in the south (171Β°) at an altitude of 22Β° from the horizon, some 234,640 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 March 21st. Buckle up for safety! πŸ’Ί The Hunter 🏹 Moon is on Thursday, October 1. The darkest hour is at 12:50 am, followed by dawn at 6:20 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:48 am in the east (90Β°) and last for 2 minutes and 57 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 8 seconds later than yesterday. πŸŒ„ The golden hour ends at 7:26 am with sun in the east (97Β°). Tonight will have 11 hours and 58 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 57 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 74 degrees at 3pm. Six degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 12th. Maximum dew point of 56 at 10am. Calm wind becoming southwest 5 to 8 mph in the morning. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 76 degrees. The record high of 91 was set in 2017.

Should be another nice day. πŸ˜€ Back down to Spectulator in the morning for a Zoom Meetings and then probably walking down by Lake Pleasant. I can do most things from my phone πŸ“± but the Wi-Fi is helpful for certain things. And as another warm evening. I will probably get up really early to go hiking come Saturday.

In four weeks on October 22 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (255Β°) at 6:02 pm,πŸŒ„ which is 48 minutes and 6 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 59 and 43 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 57 and 38 degrees. The record high of 86 degrees was set back in 1979.

Looking ahead, Average High is 60 πŸ‚ is in 3 weeks, Thanksgiving πŸ¦ƒ is in 9 weeks, 7:15 AM Sunrise βŒ›οΈ is in 11 weeks, Christmas Eve πŸŽ… is in 3 months, New Years Eve πŸŽ† is in 14 weeks, Coldest Week of the Year 🌬 is in 16 weeks, Wolf Moon πŸŒ• is in 18 weeks, Don’t Cry over Spilled Milk Day πŸ₯› is in 20 weeks and National Drink Wine Day 🍷 is in 21 weeks.

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Donald John Trump proves to be childlike and dangerous again πŸ‘¨πŸΌβ€πŸ’Ό

Donald John Trump proves to be childlike and dangerous again πŸ‘¨πŸΌβ€πŸ’Ό

I can’t believe that the President could even hesitate to say that he wouldn’t voluntarily step down if the election doesn’t go his way. While any close election has its questions on which ballots are counted and disputes over the law, when ultimately an election is finalized, it is final and we must all accept it. That’s not saying that people shouldn’t lobby for policies they support or even campaign for the next election for their preferred candidate but we all live under the system put forward by our elected officials, like it or not.

NPR

Republican Leaders Reject Trump Hedging On Transfer Of Power In War Over Confide : NPR

No votes have been counted in the election of 2020, but a battle is already raging over the integrity of the tally and the process that will follow.

President Trump suggested he might not accept the election results if Democratic nominee Joe Biden is declared the winner.

"We're going to have to see what happens. You know that," he said on Wednesday evening in response to a question about whether he would commit to a peaceful transfer of power.

 

Trump Campaign Is Reportedly Plotting to β€œBypass” a Biden Win | Vanity Fair

Trump Campaign Is Reportedly Plotting to β€œBypass” a Biden Win | Vanity Fair

Now the Trump campaign is said to be considering another, even more outrageous approach: In a thorough and deeply disconcerting piece about the constitutional crisis that may await us between November 3 and the inauguration in January, the Atlantic’s Barton Gellman reports that the Trump campaign has been discussing “contingency plans to bypass the election results and appoint local electors in battleground states where Republicans hold the legislative majority.” Citing the president’s baseless claims of fraud, Team Trump could ask GOP-controlled state governments to choose electors, completely ignoring an unfavorable or uncertain popular vote, state and national Republican sources told Gellman.

In your guts you know he's nuts. Can you imagine the political backlash if a state even tried to do that? Or the court challenges that would raise? That power may exist but I can't imagine anybody wanting to touch that. 

Federal Agents Tapped Cellphones of Portland Protesters | Democracy Now!

Federal Agents Tapped Cellphones of Portland Protesters | Democracy Now!

The Nation magazine is reporting federal officials with the Justice Department and Homeland Security have intercepted the phone communications of protesters in Portland. The Nation reports the surveillance involved cellphone cloning, where the government steals a phone’s unique identifiers and copies them to another device in order to intercept the communications received by the original device. Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley has called for a full investigation. He wrote on Twitter, “The Trump admin has treated the people of Portland like enemy combatants. These tactics—like cell phone cloning to spy on protestors—are unacceptable in America.”