Tuesday it Rains, and other Observations

Knee pain persists but is minimal. We got to the gym yesterday for a weightlifting session. 

We are in the midst of nor'easter here in New Jersey. Lots of rain. We still haven't given the yard the last autumn mowing, damnit. 

Hmmm, we're getting some traffic from the Netherlands. Have we finally gotten some traction in the families' ancestral homeland? [Your nephew discovered you're Krauts-Ed]. Whatever.  Amazon reports no Netherlands sales. So bizarre. Why don't you guys leave a comment here or look us up on FB or Gab?

We wrote yesterday that we're thinking of showing the Australian/Japanese strike* from USS Long Beach's CiC. We've always liked events being conveyed through radio back and forth. This method also allows us to differentiate between strikes. It's also an out from doing a lot of fancy F-111 technical details. USS George Washington and her battlegroup will be joining in. 

As we suspected, Governor Murphy plans to impose vaccine mandates after the election. Project Veritas has the hidden camera footage. James O'Keefe promises more. This blog endorses Jack. Both Maryland and Massachusetts have Republican governors, and New Jersey had Chris Christie just four short years ago. Jack's a good candidate but his ideas aren't great for New Jersey and we think circumstances are a draw.  A Jack victory is not impossible. But this blog remains skeptical. 

We began re-watching Dune last night. Denis Villeneuve's Dune is a visual extravaganza that invokes a lot of science fiction mythology. We can't quite place it, but we know we've seen some of these visuals before in sci-fi art, book covers and magazines. Villeneuve's camera moves slowly across the desert, Caladan... This gives the film a sweeping, epic feel without being pretentious. In fact the visual style is grand but shows rather simple scenes, a spaceship or a bit of brutalist architecture, another important part of the film's visual feel. The background is enormous, threatening to swallow the humans on screen. 

That's a lot of critical gobbledygook for we like what we saw. 

We mentioned before this debate between Libertarian radio guy Scott Horton and Neocon carb guzzler William Kristol. We found Irving Kristol's son as insufferable as ever. He actually said the US didn't do as much as we could have in the 'Arab Spring'. Kristol has the hots for Assad. There's a reason why he, Wolfowitz, etc etc get more and more sinister in the World War 1990 series. But we were surprised to see Horton was a bore as well. His points came down to 'US foreign policy bad' and blamed us for millions of deaths. Horton was better than Kristol, but that's no mean feat. That said we enjoyed his total (and appropriate) contempt for the Neocon. 

*Targets are the SS-11 base at Svobodny and their nearby bomber base an Unkranka.