That’s why you don’t see airplane pilots (unless they’re gliders) buzzing around tall topographic features like mountains. The downdraft could suck them under. Here’s the thing, folks, lenticular clouds may look like they’re standing still, but they ain’t. These clouds are constantly forming in the updraft and dissipating in the downdraft and sometimes contain winds of 50 knots or more.
For a more in-depth grading of each candidate’s performance, one that involves substance, style, offense and defense click here on Time.com. Political analyst, Mark Halperin, assigned each candidate an overall letter grade: Mccain got a B-, while Obama snagged an A-. “Two more performances like that and he (Obama) will be very tough to beat on Election Day,” Halperin said.
Spin is like religion—a mater of personal preference, so why not be proactive? In other words, don’t let the spin choose you, go out there and find one you like. Happy to say, you’re allowed to bounce off as many conflicting conclusions as you want on the way to settling down. Senator McCain does it all the time.
As a ‘know-nothing’, I’d call it a lenticular cloud capping a thunderhead, but there are many names for lens shaped or Lenticular clouds: Cap or pileus clouds, banner clouds, orographic clouds and ’spaceships’ all describe the round, stationary, atmospheric formations of condensed water vapor or ice crystals that hang out above or near mountains.
A red-faced Klansman of monumental girth and meanness lived on my street. As fathers went, he was the scariest by far. Late, one Friday evening, I saw him waddle out to the family Pontiac wearing what looked to be a long, white mu mu. He was in a hurry but stopped long enough to model his tall, white pointy hat with eye-slits for us. Granvile Ramsey was this dude’s name and did he ever look dumb driving away with half that mu mu hanging out the car door.
Moving on. The praying mantis is one of those insects that gives women a bad name: That’s because the female is known to bite the head off her mate, but only during copulation. This doesn’t deter the male in any way, so they say; in fact, it speeds up his ejaculation process. And how do we know that the sperm gets a healthy boost just as the male is decapitated? Because male researchers find this sexual cannibalism so fascinating that they have devoted many hours to watching it happen
An earmark is a line-item inserted into any bill that anonymously funnels cash to a specific project or recipient behind the public’s back. In other words, any member of our esteemed Congress can direct a large wad of the taxpayer’s cash to his or her town where it can be spent on a pet project, without the Member of Congress having to identify him/herself or the project.
How are these women rehabilitated, one might inquire? Answer: They’re imprisoned in communal cells with no bathrooms or running water and given almost no food or drink. Some are beaten, some are raped, some both. The HIV positive women are denied drug treatment. And all this horror gets done in the name of anti-human trafficking. For more information, there is a video to watch if you follow the link.
Which reminds me… back to the word for which he stands—maverick: During his hopping about from Alabama to Texas, Samuel Maverick left a herd of unbranded cows roaming the countryside. It was this wandering herd that gave rise to the term maverick.