Cloudy reality

Maybe Uncle Ken will return with a spellbinding tale of the eclipse, but in Chicago we had a big bag of nothing.  It was overcast with enough clouds that made it impossible to tell that anything was going on and it didn't look much darker at the maximum coverage.  You know how it gets a little darker when it's going to rain?  It was like that.  I took a quick peek and saw a crescent slice of the sun through the clouds, but that was about it, 

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The US Navy's 7th Fleet in the Pacific has not been having a good year.  So far this year one ship has run aground and three others have collided with other ships.  Don't they have guys on deck keeping watch anymore?   I'm amazed at how easily those military vessels are getting banged up and suffering so much damage.  The latest victim was a guided missile destroyer; Destroyee is more like it.

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One of the problems I've always had with Trump is the way he plays it fast and loose with the facts and how often he is caught in outright lies.  He could be factual and we'd never know it, so this recent item is worth mention.  During last weekend's fracas in Virginia with the marching Nazis and Klansmen, Katie Couric had a crew from The National Geographic covering some of it.  Some of her guys got splattered with urine, and it wasn't from the Alts-Right folks.  There were also also reports of balloons filled with feces being lobbed about, not what you would expect from peaceful counter-demonstrators.  So maybe Trump was right and some of those non-Nazi types were itching for some kind of confrontation.  Why else would you cover your face, wear eye and head protection, and carry a club?  The piss and shit must have been optional.