#MEwx Cooler, some rain and installment #2 of my "guide to election year terms and phrases"

Good morning Augusta

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This morning it’s mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain this morning, then a chance for rain this afternoon. Highs will be in the lower 50s. Winds will be light and variable, becoming south around 10 mph this afternoon.

Tonight we’ll have mostly cloudy skies with rain showers likely during evening hours, then partly cloudy with a chance of rain showers after midnight. Lows in the lower 30s. South winds

around 10 mph, becoming northwest after midnight.

The readings from my weather instruments are:

Our outdoor temperature is 31.8°F, the humidity is 64%, the dew point is 21.0°F and our wind chill is 31.8°F.

The wind direction is North Northwest between 1.8 MPH and 2.5 MPH.

The Relative pressure is 30.07, the Absolute pressure is 29.86 and sfalling with a weather graphic indicating sun.

Visibility is 10.0 Miles with cloudy, wet skies.

The UV rating is 0 out of 16, The moon is 99.0% illuminated, the moon phase is waning Gibbous, Sunrise is 6:59 A.M., Sunset is 6:39 P.M., Moonrise is 8:00 P.M., Moonset is 7:52 A.M and we’ll have 11 hours 40 minutes of daylight today.  

We didn’t receive any rain or snow here over the past 24 hours.

This is the second installment of my “Guide to Election year terms and phrases”

“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.

“War on Terror” U.S. Policy against Global terrorists.

“The War” The battles to keep a Career Politician from losing the upcoming election.

“Career Politician” Someone who has better sense than to try to look for a job 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 the party leadership dictates.

“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.

“Floundering ship of state” A term that politicians use to blame the victims of bad national economic policy for not voting  the way they were told to vote in the last election. This is usually done from the safety of high paying, secure jobs with lifetime pensions and lifetime medical benefits paid for by the victims.

“Special interests” The 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 keep stalling off until you can take credit for it.

 “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.

 

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

“Dangerous & illegal prescription drug practices” Where the poor, elderly and disabled violate Federal law by buying their prescription drugs from Canada where they’re actually affordable.

“Sound Federal Vaccination Policy” Where 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 this Flu season.

“Tax Reform” A policy where a slight tax increase costs the average person $200 and a substantial tax cut saves $0.30.