All eyes are on Florida today as Ian makes landfall as a Category 4-bordering-on-5 Hurricane. I know we get a lot of comments on the blog from people in the affected areas of the country… So If you’re reading the blog down there… our thoughts and Prayers are with you!! Stay Safe!!!

*****

Russian State Media is reporting that residents of occupied Ukrainian territories voted overwhelmingly to be annexed by Russia… but failed to mention that the people had been marched to the ballot box at gunpoint.

- Well that's one way to "Get Out the Vote".

- That's the difference between Russia and the US. In Russia they threaten to kill people if they don't vote the "right way". In the US... we let Dead people vote!

*****

Over fifteen-hundred Virginia residents were left without power due to a rat “that infiltrated a piece of equipment" causing the power grid to go down.

- Okay… I looked it up. There are currently 2 MILLION rats living in New York City. Meanwhile, 1.4 MILLION households in NYC have cars. That’s almost 2 rats per car. Now imagine that everyone buys an electric car. Now one of those cars leaves Poughkeepsie at 5am goin 60 mph with a rat in the trunk. Another car leaves the train station in Scranton at 7:30 with no rats… but a wheel of cheese… This reminds me of a math question in high school. I couldn’t answer it then… I can’t answer it now. RATS!!

*****

Newly released footage shows dozens of people entering a Wawa convenience store in Philadelphia, ransacking the aisles, stealing everything in sight and even twerking on the counter… a brazen attack that led to exactly ZERO ARRESTS.

- What’s happened to Philadelphia?? We used to think of it as the home of the Liberty Bell and it’s famous Crack. Now it it seems like a lot of people who live there are ON Crack.

*****

A semi filled with adult "Pleasure" toys overturned on a highway in Oklahoma earlier this week, spilling the goodies onto the roadway bringing traffic to a standstill.

- But thanks to clean up crews, motorists were buzzing along in no time.

*****

When asked which of the five senses are the most important to them, 77% of Americans picked “Sight” as #1.

- Boy I didn’t see that one coming.

- With the bizarre way things are in this country these days… I would have picked “Common Sense” as the most important!!!

*****

An Australian man said he almost had a heart attack when he reached for some TP and his hand almost landed on a giant spider that was sitting on the toilet paper roll.

- It could have been worse... I mean "The Itsy Bits Spider... Went Up the Water Spout..."

*****

Have a great day and I’ll see you back here Thursday!

-Dick