Into The Void

Aloha kākou and Happy Aloha Friday. What a crazy week of politics and racism. Next week starts the month of November. There are some major elections happening next week that should be an indicator for the 2022 midterms. Virginia’s governor race is the one that has the nations eyes following. It was an interesting day in Virginia when democrat apparatchiks showed up with tiki torches and appearing to be dressed as white supremacist Neo-Nazis. In an apparent attempt to connect the Republican candidate to the events in 2018 in Charlottesville. That failed miserably. In Hawai’i we associate tiki torches with lūʻaus.

My broker called me this morning to let me know that the Fed’s proposal to tax unrealized capitol gain has been dropped. Although I cannot find any news reports about that statement, I do know this. An unrealized gain is when an investment increases in value and you choose not to sell it, you have an “unrealized” capital gain, because the “profit” exists only on paper. Under the Marxist democrats’ proposed tax, the IRS would take its share even if that money isn’t in hand. And that’s likely unconstitutional.

The abortionist Jim Crow Joe Biden was welcomed to the Vatican by the communist Pope. The second such meeting where the commie pope praised evil into the church. As usual, the commie pope went on to criticize the United States. Whining about borders to that keep our nation sovereign and protected. The hypocritical pope lives in a walled fortress protected by guards. And the church wonders why they can’t fill the pews and more people are leaving to find others parishes. We’re told we must sacrifice while the pope lives in luxury. Phooey.

Volcano Update: Video courtesy USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory and National Park Service. Kīlauea continues to erupt and offering some spectacular views. It has been one month since the new eruption began inside Halema’uma’u crater in Kīlauea volcano on Sept. 29. Over the past 12 months at the Kīlauea summit, there has been a water lake and two eruptions within Halema’uma’u. The previous eruption began in December 2020 and ended in May 2021.

This USGS time-lapse video made from a thermal camera shows the changes within Halema’uma’u over the past 12 months, from Oct. 28, 2020, at 4 p.m. to Oct. 28, 2021, at 4 p.m. There is about one image used every 8 hours.

Clear nights are going to offer good views of the Milky Way over the weekend. We’re not expecting any rain and chances are 20% we’re going to get any precipitation. Which also means without the cloud cover the temperatures are going to drop. We’ll see temps in the upper 50’s by early morning.

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The day started with sun and few clouds. Tradewinds are from the northeast at 8 mph, gusts 20 mph. Cloud cover is 34%. Visibility is 10 miles. We got no precipitation in the rain gauge overnight. Temperatures are in the upper 70’s. Humidity is at 74%. Barometric pressure is 29.98 inches and dewpoint is 63 degrees. UV index 7. Air quality Index is good at 26

ʻOkakopa Iwakālua Kūmāiwa, 2021

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