Oh happy day – warblers herald Spring!
Heard in the back yard this morning: Black-throated Green Warbler! I could hardly believe my ears on this dreary, rainy morning. To confirm the song, I went online and played the song. Shortly after that the colorful warbler was fluttering around the back screen door and landed on the railing! I think he was responding to the song he heard in the house. What a thrill. It must be Spring! Hear its distinctive song here, one of the easiest warblers to identify. Here is a great site for bird identification.
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String of Pearls
FROM SPACEWEATHER.COM
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What you see in this video is sunlight glinting off a line of ten geosynchronous satellites stretched over Rigikulm, Switzerland, on March 5th. One by one, the illuminated satellites flare and then subside as they enter the shadow of our planet.
“The ‘string of pearls’ phenomenon is best seen during early-spring nights when the declination of the sun is equal to that of the geosychronous orbit, e.g. -7o as measured from Switzerland,” says photographer Roland Stalder. “This short video sequence (130 images at 25 fps) is part of an all-night timelapse with 1630 images, where over 50 geosynchronous satellite flares can be found.
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Rachel Maddow & Michael Moore discuss another fine mess Reagan got us into.
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
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Maybe it’s time for our own Day of Rage!
Here in the United Corporations of America where most of us are becoming impoverished and trapped and the poor are completely ignored and hardly ever mentioned by our president, we could take a page from Egypt’s book and revolt. Bob Herbert has written a very important column. “…what we get in this democracy of ours are astounding and increasingly obscene tax breaks and other windfall benefits for the wealthiest, while the bought-and-paid-for politicians hack away at essential public services and the social safety net, saying we can’t afford them.” Amen, Mr. Herbert, amen. Here is the link.
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Egyptians are not like us
I was reminded of a very important way in which we are different from Egyptians when listening to interviews with Egyptians on the street. When asked questions such as “How does the ouster of Mubarak make you feel?” the answers very often refer to Egyptians as a whole, like this: “We feel,” or “We Egyptians,” hardly ever “I” or “me.” This is because in their culture, the individual is always subordinate to the family or the group, a world apart from the deeply ingrained individualism in America.
A notable example of this is the doctor who drove 200 miles to tend to the injured during the protests, he said something to the effect that he would stay until his work was done and if he died, well, it was only one life!
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