The Wenatchee World reports that Howard Lowell snapped some pictures of  “hole punch clouds.”  There’s even an explanation of the phenomenon:

…the theory is that descending air or airplanes traveling through the clouds disrupt the cloud cover. They occur in clouds that are composed of both ice crystals and super-cooled water droplets — water that is below freezing temperature but still in liquid form. Only slight disruptions in the clouds can create a void that gives the striking appearance of a hole in the clouds.

Remember that movie about the coming of the ice age in New York City, “The Day After Tomorrow?”  There was something similar going on in that movie: down-bursts of super cold air.  Are we closer to that happening than we think?

We have initiated a small tradition here in Mazatlan; for dessert it’s fun to order banana pie or banana cream pie. You might say, “Aren’t they the same?” I would suggest there’s a difference. Here banana pie is more like a cake with layers of cream and bananas and banana cream pie is a cream pie with bananas mixed into the cream. Both are wonderful. So far with mixed opinions, I deem Pedro Y Lola’s the best. It was room temperature and was the layered kind. The Bistro here at Pueblo Bonito was good, but in my opinion, too cold. Then Los Zerapes had bananas Flambe. Pan seared bananas and the syrup over vanilla ice cream. Bananas are wonderful here in Maz and as plentiful as shrimp.

Tuesday night we went up to Centro and had dinner at Olas Altas. It was steak night! Olas Altas is across the street from The Shrimp Busket. The dining room was high-ceilinged with light orange walls and very nice photo art on the walls. All the woodwork is dark and every window is shuttered and can be opened for air flow. The restaurant is right on the Malecon which runs for miles along the ocean. The area must have been a haunt of Jack Kerouac.

The video that follows shows the inside of the restaurant and notice the wall painting in the bar. Finally, we made our way back to Plazula Machado to get an open-air taxi that seats six, an arriga, and the book fair was concluding with live music. Notice how the ficus trees have been trimmed in front of the restaurant Las Brasas.

Each and every week there seems to be more and more stories and reports involving these mysterious beings, and they certainly have become a hot topic and a subject of growing interest of research by investigators.

And George Ure has a piece about shadow people in Notes from the WuJo.

Back in my stockbroker days, I used to keep a picture of a beautiful topless babe in my drawer. Every once in awhile when things in our cubicles was going slow, I’d pull out the picture, hold her up high and yell, “Attitude adjustment!”

Now that I’m older, this is the new “attitude adjustment.”

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Now, the Obami have turned their attention to another friend and ally. Four months ago Israel and the U.S. agreed to a settlement freeze that explicitly exempted Jerusalem. Then when Israel announced a 1,600 unit apartment complex in Jerusalem, the Obami came unglued. My Way news says

…the U.S. is pressing Israel to scrap a contentious east Jerusalem building project whose approval has touched off the most serious diplomatic feud with Washington in years

Nowhere in the story from MY Way is any mention of the agreement of four months ago.

Noah Pollak observes “…the kind of rhetoric and outrage we are witnessing on Israel has never been employed by the administration against Syria, Iran, Hamas, North Korea, or any of America’s actual enemies.”

As hard as Obami tried to make us believe they loved America and that he didn’t favor Muslims over Christians and Jews, they sure find ways to piss off our allies and friends and side with our enemies.

Those are Ficus trees growing on the street.