So in Chicago, the Mayor is implementing “curfews” for bars and restaurants. No alcohol sales after 9 PM, no food after 10 for any business deemed “Non-Essential”. 

Why is it that before 9 PM, booze is safe? Or even going to a bar BEFORE 9 PM, but it is bad AFTER? 

Really, I gotta ask what the hell are they thinking? What logic makes this a good idea? 

Or is it Social Conditioning? Or simply a power grab? 

 Seems that Donnie did an interview with CBS’s “60 minutes”. 

And he turned the tables on them, as he released an “unedited” copy. 

CBS is PISSED. Not able to edit and slant the questions and Donnie’s answers. 

Anyone who is interviewed by any current “news” agency should record it for their own protection. 

 The FBI has given a press conference telling us that they are ever vigilant and that they had “some information” about Iran and (possibly) Russia maybe sending some sort of “intimidating” emails to people….

Somehow, someone may have accessed voter information . No one said how, or who,  or what voter databases had been accesses…and what information they had that wasn’t already publicly available data. 

But they told us to be assured that the FBI is ON THE JOB. 

(no statement on the fact that they had knowledge that the entire “Russian Interference” meme was bullshit, and they knew it, nor that they had knowledge of Hunter Biden’s activities via the emails (and photos) on the Hard Drive that has recently surfaced via Giuliani and the Post…and that they sat on it for nearly a year)

(Start at 8:30)…for some reason it won’t embed

13 days. 

“Beat the rush, panic early.”

If I were you, I’d go shopping. While there may not be the selection in the stores you might like, I’d go purchase some food and water, especially if one lives on a “Blue” city (or, for that matter, any city). 

Plan for some “civil unrest”. After all, we are likely to not have “election DAY” but rather “Election WEEK”. as mail in ballots that arrive after election day are counted as much as 5 days after. It may be that we have no clear president for as much as a week. 

I fully expect the Left to become violent….followed possibly by folks on the Right deciding they ahve had enough and taking action to quell it. 

Food, water, fuel. (Ammo is pretty much nonexistent unless one is lucky, or is willing to pay 5 times for it). Buy it and store it…it might be that the wise move is to stay home for a week or more. 

Don’t forget the pet food either!

If you don’t already have it, try to get a 2 (or more) week supply of your maintenance medicine….just to be sure you have some if you can’t get it. 

 So the evening “News” is telling us that “Hospitals are overwhelmed” ((again), even though they weren’t overwhelmed last time) by the new “Surge” in Coronavirus cases. 

Maybe this time they are telling us the truth. Last time, there were very few hospitals that were “overwhelmed”.

Much like the little boy that cried WOLF!, the media has lied time and time again, and I find it hard to give any credence to the warnings of doom this time.

The statistics are structured to frighten without giving a real, honest assessment. They tell us the total overall number of cases (since March, in most cases) and tell us the number of new cases without telling us how many of those new cases are symptomatic, how many are hospitalized….And they trumpet the number of deaths…but they make it difficult to find out any usable information….They don’t tell us what percentage of tests show a positive, for instance….

When people or organizations use statistics to frighten, rather than inform, I become suspicious. 

 So didn’t Paul Manafort get convicted of failing to register as a “Foreign Agent”? 

Why aren’t they going after Hunter Biden for the same thing? 

Just asking….for a friend

 The forecast for the winds was less than on-target..

Highest wind was 38 knots…more or less 44 miles per hour.

Most wind gusts were much less.

Power only flickered once, and that was for less than 30 seconds as the automatics isolated the short. 

All prepped up (not really) and nowhere to go….

ETA: If they can’t predict the weather 12 hours in advance, what makes them think they can predict Climate 50 years into the future? 

 So I had to have some warranty work done on the Truck.

The Dodge dealer gave me a brand new Jeep Renegade to drive. 

What a shitbox.

The transmission never stops shifting, the dash looks like it was laid out by a 4th grader, and the controls feel cheap.

The acceleration is mediocre at best, the engine sounds like a sewing machine eating gravel while tripping on meth, and the handling is almost as good as my Kubota tractor.  The Fiat 124 was a better car 50 years ago.

I cannot believe, as competitive as the small car market is that Jeep sells these things. For $22k, one can buy a LOT of small car from Toyota, Hyundai, Nissan, Kia, even Ford and Chevy and Subaru. None of them are luxury cars, but at least they are decently engineered. 

On the bright side, the outward vision from the Renegade was decent…and the turn signals worked. 

 50 MPH wind gusts forecast. 

I expect to lose power….for how long I dunno. 

Getting the laundry done early, and planning on losing both power and internet for a while. 

If need be, I can fire up the generator, but as it isn’t cold enough to need heat, I might not bother, 

No flying today though.