Late this afternoon, I was out back and saw the moon rising over the palo verde just east of the driveway. I thought it was a very pretty sight on a very cool day here in Wickenburg. Click on the image to enlarge.
November 2011
Solar Plasma Flow
This video compresses about an hour of solar activity around a sunspot to a little over ten seconds.
Via APOD:
The Sun’s surface keeps changing. The above movie shows how the Sun’s surface oozes during a single hour. The Sun’s photosphere has thousands of bumps called granules and usually a few dark depressions called sunspots.
Football Non-Blog
Meantime, enjoy Damsel’s photo of a cholla by the RV drive-thru. Click image to enlarge.
Reid Says No to Passing Jobs Bills
[Unemployment has been at or above 9 percent nationwide, yet when presented with seventeen genuine job creating bills, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D – NV) says “No” to the House of Representatives.
House Republicans have passed job-creating bills that are being stalled by Harry Reid and the Democrat-controlled Senate, who refuse to even bring the bills to the Senate floor for a proper vote. Senate Democrats refuse outright to work with their Republican counterparts to get jobs created.
Here is a list of the seventeen measures which would all have a positive effect on reducing unemployment and is being stalled by Reid and the Democrats:
- H.R. 872—Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act
- H.R. 910—Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011
- H.J. Res. 37—Disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission with respect to regulating the Internet and broadband industry practices
- H.R. 1230—Restarting American Offshore Leasing Now Act
- H.R. 1229—Putting the Gulf of Mexico Back to Work Act
- H.R. 1231—Reversing President Obama’s Offshore Moratorium Act
- H.R. 2021—The Jobs and Energy Permitting Act of 2011
- H.R. 2018—Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act of 2011
- H.R. 1315—Consumer Financial Protection & Soundness Improvement Act
- H.R. 1938— North American-Made Energy Security Act
- H.R. 2587—Protecting Jobs From Government Interference Act
- H.R. 2401—Transparency In Regulatory Analysis Of Impacts On The Nation
- H.R. 2681—Cement Sector Regulatory Relief Act
- H.R. 2250—EPA Regulatory Relief Act
- H.R. 2273—Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act
- H.R. 2433—Veterans Opportunity to Work Act
- H.R. 674—To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the imposition of 3 percent withholding on certain payments made to vendors by government entities
The preceding list of measures provided by Congressman Trent Franks (R – AZ).
Pink Blush Oleander Flowers
Seen just outside of the Wickenburg Community Hospital Clinic today. Our second spring is still producing nice flowers in early November. Click on the image to enlarge.
Greenpeace Exposed
The Consumers Alliance for Global Prosperity has a new video out exposing Greenpeace and how Greenpeace’s environmentalism actually hurts the developing world. I had to laugh at the sinister sounding Halloween-ish narration.
Via Planet Gore.
OREO
This nice Boston Terrier showed up unexpectedly at our back screen door this morning just after I finished taking our dogs for a walk. She was wearing a harness but there were no tags or other identifying information. She was friendly and just wanted to meet and greet our dogs.
Image – “Oreo” courtesy Damsel. Click image to enlarge.
Eventually, we could hear someone up on the hill behind us calling out, “OREO!” It was her owner – I called back and told him that we had the dog. I walked her up the wash where the owner met us and took custody of her.