First day of November

Here in beautiful Augusta Maine, it was in the high 20's early this morning.

Today's highs are expected to be in the 50's and mostly sunny and light and variable winds, with the same going into this evening. Tonight's lows will be in the 20's again.

The readings outside right now are:

a relative humidity of 91% with a Dew Point of 31.0ºF.

The temperature is 33.0ºF, with no wind chill to speak of.

The wind velocity is presently 0.0 mph, and when it puffs, it is from the North.

Our Barometric pressure is 30.30 and holding steady.

There was no rain, snow or any other form of precipitation yesterday or during the overnight hours.   

Visibility is 10.0 miles and almost completely cloudless.

 

Okay folks, now that Haloween is over with, its time for the real world frightening stuff, the elections aren't very far off.

So, add the offerings below to your election year voter's dictionary.

"if you want a taste of madness, you gotta stand in line, and the place you get some of it is down at heart attack and vine"

Lyrics to "heartattack and vine"

From the Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)

DELEGATION, n.  In American politics, an article of merchandise that

comes in sets.

DEGRADATION, n.  One of the stages of moral and social progress from

private station to political preferment.

And from other sources:

"Floundering ship of state" A term that minority party politicians use to blame the voting public for the bad national economic policy because they didn't vote the way they told them to vote in the last election. This is usually done from the safety of high paying, secure jobs with lifetime pensions and gold seal medical benefits.

"Health Care Reform"  Making sure that the poor, elderly and disabled have their medical needs paid for by someone other than your big money political supporters.

"Dangerous & illegal prescription drug practices"

When the poor, elderly and disabled violate Federal law by buying their prescription drugs from Canada where they're affordable.

"Sound Federal Vaccination Policy"

When the Federal Government violates Federal law and buys Flu Vaccine from Canada and England because they screwed up on their estimate of how much they were going to need to buy this Flu season.

"Business Reform" Your big business supporters are allowed to send their manufacturing jobs offshore and get a tax break while doing it.

"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.

"That policy has run it's course" The last pole shows it's approval rating is below 51% now.

"Sound Fiscal Policy" Any policy that gets someone else to pay for more of your programs than before.