Adrastos at First Draft suggests in his post, Tell Me About The Rabbits, George, that they should make a new movie version of Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, only have women in the main roles of George and Lennie. Adrastos thinks that Christine O’Donnell, the newly nominated Republican candidate for the Senate in Delaware has been auditioning for the role of Lennie for years.

Ms O’Donnell has stated her belief that “scientists” have created mice with the brains of humans.

You really have to wonder where a rumor like that would start, but then I remembered an old animated movie of a children’s book, The Secret of NIMH, that is based on that assumption. It then occurred to me while thinking about Of Mice and Men, that the more recent animated series, Pinky and the Brain, contains both the altered mice and a similarity of the main charaters, i.e. Pinky Brain is superficially the character George, while Pinky has characteristics of Lennie.

When dealing with people who believe in conspiracy theories, one shouldn’t neglect cartoons. They are designed to appeal to children…

Position: 26.0N 49.2W [10 PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: West-Northwest [300°] near 18 mph [30 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 70 mph [115 kph].
Wind Gusts: 80 mph [130 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 115 miles [185 km].
Minimum central pressure: 991 mb ↓.

Currently about 1535 miles [2470 km] West-Southwest of the Azores.

Cooling water and higher wind shear will weaken Julia over the next few days.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

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Position: 24.6N 62.0W [10 PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: Northwest [315°] near 13 mph [20 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 110 mph [175 kph].
Wind Gusts: 130 mph [210 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 345 miles [555 km].
Hurricane Wind Radius: 105 miles [170 km].
Minimum central pressure: 947 mb.

Currently about 560 miles [900 km] South-Southeast of Bermuda.

A Hurricane Warning is in effect for Bermuda

Igor is on track to “visit” Bermuda Sunday night. It is strengthening again.

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Position: 18.6N 97.4W [10 PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: West-Southwest [250°] near 7 mph [11 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 35 mph [ 55 kph].
Wind Gusts: 45 mph [ 70 kph].
Minimum central pressure: 1000 mb ↑.

Currently about 55 miles [90 km] East-Southeast of Puebla, Mexico.

Karl made landfall at 11:30 AM CDT [1630 UTC] as a category 3 hurricane with 115 mph [185 kph] sustained winds and a pressure of 976mb about 10 miles [15 km] North of Veracruz. It has a relatively small wind field, but it is dumping rain, and there will be 6-9 feet of surge topped by waves battering the coast.

Mexico has canceled its coastal Warnings and Watches. Karl has reached the coastal mountains and is losing strength. It is expected to become a remnant low in the next 6 to 12 hours.

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Just Relaxing

Nice day.

[Editor: KT enjoys some quiet time in the driveway as the other cats have wandered off to nap somewhere else.

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