Tuesday's weather

It is another really wonderful morning here in Augusta Maine. We are again expecting temps to reach 60 and not much more. It will be mostly sunny and, in general a very normal, seasonal day.  

This morning's readings are:

a relative humidity of 84% with a Dew Point of 43.7ºF.

The temperature is 48.2ºF, with almost no wind chill at this time.

What little wind we have so far is between 1.3 mph and 2.7 mph out of the North. Winds might get up to 10 mph today.  

Our Barometric pressure is 29.69 and rising.

There was no rainfall yesterday with none in today's forecast.  

Since October is the month of fright (Halloween) we need to keep the level of anxiety and terror at a sleepless level. Of course, I refer to the upcoming elections. To help you deal with elected officials and their "wanna-be" opponents, you may wish to keep this handy guide to political terms and philosophy in a place where you can have easy access to it.

 

 "Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession in the world. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first".

 

Republican Party" Excess in moderation.

"Democratic Party" Moderation in Excess.

"Career Politician" Someone who has better sense than to try to find a real job out in the private sector's rotten economy that he or she helped create.

"Loose Cannon" An honest politician or one who thinks for him/herself instead of doing what their party leadership dictates.

"Special interests" your opponent's political supporters.

"Constituency" Your political supporters.

"Unethical campaign funding" Your opponent's big money contributors.

"Trusted Advisors" Your big money contributors.

"Good legislation" Any legislation that you sponsored.

"Legislation that needs work" Good legislation that someone else sponsored that you're going to stall until you can take the credit for passing.

"Tax Reform" A policy where a slight tax increase costs the average person $200 and a "substantial tax cut" saves that same taxpayer $0.30.