The five week moving average continues coming down (that's a good thing). Weekly numbers often need to be corrected later because of delays in the states' reporting data. If there was a holiday that week you can count on it.
Mittens has been making much noise about Obama's foreign policy blunders. You know, like apologizing for America, except that never happened. Now we need to apologize to one of our allies for "some guy" (as described by the Mayor of London) who dug a huge PR hole, but he did find $2 million in campaign contributions down at Barclay's Bank.
The conservative British papers are running headlines like "Mitt the Twit", and that is the mildest comment they're making about him. What happens when Willard confronts China as he's promised to do? They aren't so easy going about being insulted the way our closest ally is. They don't have an "Anglo-Saxon heritage" in common with us, as if we did with Britain.
The massive thunderstorms that we've been having are so powerful that they're blasting holes through the ozone layer. Water vapor is being lifted in excess of 60,000 feet (something not thought possible), and the interaction with the pollution laced moisture is destroying ozone at a rate 100 times faster than it can be replenished. Researchers don't know yet how widespread the phenomena has become.
On Sunday, Israel dropped massive bombs near Damascus, ones which the New York Times, quoting residents,...
