Monthly Archives: November 2018

Sea Level Rise Threats in the US, California, and Florida

Sea Level Rise Threats to Coastal Property In the US, California, and Florida by Value We summarize the sea level rise threats to coastal property including the number of properties at risk, the property value at risk, the property tax … Continue reading

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Nov. 21. In CA 21, Republican Lead Cut in Half to Only 447 Votes

Nov. 21. In CA 21, Republican Lead Cut in Half to Only 447 Votes CA 21 R David Valadao:    54,713 or 50.21%, up 2,401 from yesterday.  But his percentage fell to 50.21% from 50.47% yesterday. D TJ Cox:   … Continue reading

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Nov. 20, Orange County Blue Tide Keeps Rising

Nov. 20. Yawn, vote counting has slowed to 5% a day, as yesterday. The Democrats have gained 38 seats nationally.  The lead of Democrats over Republicans in House votes set a record at 8.8 million.  Amazing.  Clinton beat Trump by … Continue reading

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Nov. 19, Orange County, The Blue Tide Keeps Rising

Nov. 19, Orange County, The Blue tide keeps rising. First, we celebrate the Democratic wave in State Governments.  Six states currently with a split government will be fully Democratic in 2019.  Alaska will go full Republican, though.  But on top … Continue reading

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Political Thoughts

Political Thoughts:  Saudi Oil, Trump Businesses, Wisconsin and Michigan, and 2020 Electoral Votes Saudi Dunes:  The Oil Will Flow I refer to a motto in the SF book Dune, where the mined spice is used to allow interstellar navigators to … Continue reading

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Nov. 18, Dem Gil Cisneros Declared the Winner in CA 39 by AP

Nov. 18, Dem Gil Cisneros Declared the Winner in CA 39 by the Associated Press No new votecounting tonight, just the fourth Bluing of a Republican House seat into a Democratic one.  Yes, Gil did win the lottery, and became … Continue reading

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California Fire Air Pollution Maps and Photos

By accident, I was on Main Beach in Laguna Beach at Sunset on Nov. 10, and had taken an excessive number of red sunset photos resulting from smoke pollution from the Woolsey (Malibu) fire.  This album on my Flickr account … Continue reading

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Nov. 17, The Orange County Blue Tide Keeps Rising

Nov. 17, Welcome to Our Blue County. The Blue tide keeps rising. Yea Bruins, UCLA beat USC, saving the new UCLA coach suffering from a 2-8 season.  Stanford-Cal was postponed two weeks, due to the smoke from the Camp fire. … Continue reading

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Trump and Cereal Boxes

Trump and Cereal Boxes Let’s try to make some speculations of Trump’s beliefs on the magic of cereal purchases. First of all, since the Donald became a TV star, I am sure that he did not have one of his … Continue reading

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Nov. 16, Welcome to Our Blue County. The Blue Tide Keeps Rising

Nov. 16, Welcome to Our Blue County. The Blue tide keeps rising. The Associated Press has declared Democrat Katie Porter in CA 45 the winner. The short is that all four Orange County races are led by Democrats, and their … Continue reading

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