Sunny and clear

Here in beautiful Augusta Maine, it is 27º early this morning.

Today's highs are expected to be in the 50's and mostly sunny with light and variable winds, with the same going into this evening. Tonight's lows will be in the 30's.

The readings outside right now are:

a relative humidity of 92% with a Dew Point of 27.3ºF.

The temperature is 29.5ºF, 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 rising.

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

Visibility is presently (some haze that is burning off) 6.0 miles and almost completely cloudless.

As the electioneering shifts into high gear for next Tuesday - the following definitions are extremely important for voters as well as political analysts to know.

The press is exempt from knowing any of this. They wouldn't know what to do with it anyway.

CYNIC, n.  A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are,

not as they ought to be.  Hence the custom among the Scythians of

plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.

CRITIC, n.  A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody

tries to please him.

BORE, n.  A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

ALLIANCE, n.  In international politics, the union of two thieves who

have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they

cannot separately plunder a third.

APPEAL, v.t.  In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Mark Twain

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Mark Twain

The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools. 

Larry Niven (When Lary wrote that, I wonder if he was thinking of people like Rush Limbaugh)