Relief At Last

Less than 3% of the water on earth is fresh. I know that because that is what the underside of the cap from the Snapple that I just opened has told me.The top side says,"Made from the best stuff on earth", which I am in no position to argue about.I think its very laudable that even our soft drinks want to educate us in the United States.What I am even more proud of is that Election 2015 for Kentucky is over and written in the record books. What is most notable is how badly the pollsters missed the results. Survey USA and the TV stations predicted the Democrat Conway to win by five percentage points when in reality the Republican Bevin actually won by about 80,000 votes or by nearly ten percentage points. They were equally bad in last years Senatorial elections when McConnell smeared Alison Grimes. You'd think in our age of computerization and probability that professional pollsters wouldn't be so inept. Only two Democrats won and one of them was Andy "Obama" Brashear , the Governor's son who becomes Attorney General. He only won by around 2200 votes statewide over the Chubby Pedicure-loving Westerfield. In his victory speech Andy got carried away and gave the impression that he had a landslide victory, when in reality he had one half of a percentage margin over his opponent. I would have preferred neither of these buffoons had won, but such is the downside of Democracy. Bevin is addressing the forms for county clerks that are used in county clerk issued marriage applications. He is taking the clerks' names off the form whereby they apparently won't be giving their blessings for same sex marriage. He had promised before the election to release his tax returns like all other candidates, but told reporters he wasn't after he actually won. He seems quite comfortable in going back on his promise. We now have the Donald going on Saturday Night Live tonight with everyone he has criticized protesting his appearance. That is just about everyone in the USA at the moment. Ben Carson is in hotwater for his West Point not so appointment and Chris Christie is not going to be on the main podium at the next debate. Can we just hire someone as a manager for this country instead of having this bunch of ill mannered people insulting one another?Maybe we could have some of the Waltons from Arkansas to take charge. They have conducted warfare on small town business for the past 50 years and have virtually wiped out most main street business in the USA. They could probably wipe out China in the next fifty years if we would give them the power. I just know that we as a country are very tired of politicians and empty promises.Its the 7th of November and the past couple of weeks have been beautiful Indian Summer weather, nearly 80 degrees several days. I don't know if it's alright to use Indian in that context so I'll say Native American Summer to keep from offending anyone. We were in Charleston SC the first of October and on the way down we were watching Hurricane Joaquin headed from the Bahamas toward the mainland. We jokingly said that if Jim Cantore showed up we would be leaving the same day. We arose the next morning and Cantore was broadcasting live from the Battery. Without preamble we packed our belongings and headed back to Kentucky. Jim Cantore made the remark that he was praying for Charleston and Columbia. There was a lot of misery and flooding in all of the region , with over 20 inches of rain in that long weekend , most of which wasn't related to Joaquin. I hope things return to normal in South Carolina because it is a beautiful and historic region.Halloween and the elections are over and we are headed for Thanksgiving in a couple of weeks . The stores have already decorated for Christmas and I've heard Christmas songs. It is too early for that. I noticed they had put up the tree yesterday in Rockefeller Center. Maybe the Donald could be the Star atop the tree, shining in his radiance. There certainly won't be a manger scene, since that is outlawed .I don't know about Lamar's condition as they aren't talking about that anymore , but maybe Snapple could put news like that or about the elections under the bottle caps.At least we could have something to drink as we are informed. Snapple did tell us that twelve cows is a "Flink"