Climate change happens

Air temperature 69 F, wind south about 7 mph, partly cloudy. Dew point 66 F, so we're getting back into uncomfortable air. And yes, this is nothing compared to the weather crap folks to the south and west of us are getting. That doesn't mean we have to like it.

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There's really no point in commenting on that. As the saying goes, it's a waste of time and annoys the pig.

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A significant number of people in this country, including people in power, would want border guards to be authorized to shoot. That's the same "push back" policy some southern European nations are following in the Mediterranean, leading to disasters at sea . . .

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People need to remember that the Grenzpolizei shot anyone who approached the border from the inside . . .

Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.

Airborne predators

On the lighter side, we've had a couple of the giant dragonflies patrolling our lawn, the kind we think ought to carry transponders so air traffic control can track them. They are welcome to anything they can catch except the bees.