Cannon Mountain Ski Weather

 It snowed all day today (Friday). It was snowing by 6:30 this morning and just let up a few minutes ago (4:30 PM)  We got 3 inches on my deck, which is within walking distance of Peabody slopes.  It's nice fluffy powder, skiing ought to really good tomorrow (Saturday). No wind.  Temp about 28F up here, 24F down in the valley. 

Whither Corona virus?

 The Biden administration is finding that public opinion is firming up about their handling of the omicron variant of the Corona virus.  The public is beginning to think that Biden isn’t handling it well.  The folks that are benefiting from Corona virus, big pharma, most governors, the president, Tony Fauci, the MSM, and probably more, have seized upon the emergence of omicron as an excuse to keep the pandemic going.  So they talk it up as the second coming of the Black Death. 

   There are stories going around, that while omicron is very infectious, it isn’t really a very serious disease.  It hasn’t killed more than a handful of people so far.  The symptoms are so mild that a lot of people don’t notice that they have anything.  Only when someone runs a lab test on them, and gets the test to give a positive result do they chalk up another Covid case. 

   The MSM is not carrying this story yet, it is against the narrative, but they have not denied it either.  If true and I have no way of checking out the story, then we could call the Corona virus pandemic over and get the country going again.  I think the public is beginning the think this way, and it makes them think the Biden administrative doesn’t know what it is doing.  If the omicron strain is reasonably mild, the Administrative could declare victory over Corona virus and claim credit for the victory.  Who Runs the Biden Administration (WRBA) may catch on shortly.  Or they may not, or omicron is not as mild as some stories say.  

  Time will tell.  The mid term elections are coming.  

Looking back on last year's Capitol riot.

 The Democrats are celebrating 6 January, the day of the Capitol riot last year.  They love it.  It is a chance to trash Donald Trump, can’t miss out on that. 

   Couple of things I remember from this time last year.  Two Capitol security chiefs resigned the next day.  Obviously they, or their bosses, didn’t think they had done a good job securing the Capitol building. TV doesn’t talk much about that any more.  And then there is that video showing Capitol police holding a door open and waving the demonstrators inside.  The TV hasn’t shown that video for a long time, but they aired it a couple of times last year. 

It ought to take a solid majority to pass a law.

 A law that does not command a majority of the country, and the Congress, is probably a bad law and we should not pass it.  The Senate requirement for a 60 vote majority to pass most laws is a good idea.  It will prevent a lot of bad laws from getting passed. 

   For instance, most voters in all states like the idea of voter ID, with a picture ID.  Voter ID laws make it harder for out of state shills bussed in just for the election to effect the out come.  The Democrats are trying to override state laws requiring a picture ID with a federal law outlawing voter ID and they want to eliminate the filibuster in the Senate to allow them to pass this controversial and bad law with just 50 senators and the vice president’s vote.  Bad idea in my book. 

Remember the blizzard of '78

The TV is showing a spot of trouble down in Virginia today.  Snowed on I95 and traffic got stuck.  One trucker was saying he was stuck for 5 hours, someone else claimed to be stuck for 14 hours.  But, eventually traffic started to move, and the cars and their passengers made it out.

   The newsies don’t seem to remember the blizzard of ’78 up here in Boston.  It started to snow, and kept on snowing for three days.  Rte 128 has a few modest grades, and they got too slippery for the trucks to get up.  Traffic stopped moving and the snow kept falling.  It got so bad that everybody abandoned their cars on 128 and walked out in the snow storm.  That left 10 miles of 128, solid with abandoned cars with snow up to the roofs.  Only the radio antennas showed.  Best the public works people could do was start at both ends with tow trucks, and tow the cars out, one by one.  It took ‘em a week to get 128 back to being a road. 

We need a better battery.

   Title of a letter to the editor of the Wall St Journal Friday.  People have been saying this ever since Alexander Volta demonstrated the first battery back in 1799 (Ben Franklin’s time) Volta’s battery had electrodes of copper and zinc and used salt water as the electrolyte.  It wasn’t very powerful and I don’t remember ever reading about things being powered by Volta’s battery.  It was a piece of laboratory apparatus used to demonstrate “current electricity” as opposed to static electricity which involved rubbing dry things together, creating hundreds of volts and virtually no current flow.  Volta’s battery would make a frog’s leg twitch, but I never heard of it doing any else. 

   Since Volta’s time, invertors have created the lead acid battery (used to start cars), the carbon zinc dry cell (used in flashlights) the alkaline battery (a better flashlight battery), the nickel cadmium battery, the silver zinc battery (only ever used in the F106 fighter plane due to outrageous cost) and finally today’s lithium batteries used in battery cars.  And there was an Edison battery whose chemistry escapes me now.  The letter’s author, an MIT professor who ought to know better, called for yet better batteries. 

   We have been hearing this complaint about batteries for better than 200 years.  

Advanced Technology at work

 It has been snowing lightly all day.  Put down about an inch, enough to make driving tricky.  Clever little weather routine down on my task bar of my Windows 10 machine says  "Cloudy". Well it is cloudy, but the snow is of greater interest to drivers and skiers. Didn't say squat about the snow.