Not too much luck viewing the Perseids this year. Full moon and too many clouds make viewing almost non-existent. I keep thinking there might be less overcast outside of town. Has anyone seen anything that looks like a meteor shower?
Google sky map for Android is a big help as is Star Walk for ipad. Does anyone else have any software recommendations?
“Morning Joe” Scarborough went on a rant over Michele Bachmann on Friday morning. The panel, which included guest Michael Steele were discussing the debate. Finally Joe just let it all hang out and unleashed an angry monologue which was quoted in Huffingtonpost.com:
“Michele Bachmann’s first answer was, I wish the federal government had defaulted. Had defaulted! A week after Americans lost–some of them perhaps lost half of their pensions. Lost half of their 401ks. When trillions of dollars went down the drain with Americans suffering, she said that and got applause, and if anybody thinks that guys like my dad are going to be voting that way…they are out of their mind and they are too stupid not only to prognosticate, they are too stupid to run Slurpee machines in Des Moines…Michele Bachmann is a joke. She is a joke. Her answer is a joke. Her candidacy is a joke…Iowa, if you let her win, you prove your irrelevance once again.”
“Tell us how you really feel,” panelist Michael Steele joked.
Scarborough went on to explain his rage:
Bachmann, he said, was symbolic of a kind of “conspiracy” that always happens in the early stages of presidential elections, where the base of the party pushes “somebody that is never going to win.” This, he said, allows the media to “run articles on these people on the far right and point for a year about ‘look how whacked out the Republican party is.'”
