Hillary 3.0 2020?

Just when I thought it was safe to go back into the 2020 presidential campaign . . .

. . . the legend continues.

Hillary Clinton, who went into the 2008 presidential campaign against Barack Obama thinking that she was owed the Democratic nomination, she being a former First Lady and all, and got the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination through a rigged process only to find out that enough voters in the Rust Belt disliked her enough to swing the 2016 election to Trump, hasn't ruled out running again in 2020!  She might actually do it!

"Clinton is telling people that she's not closing the doors to the idea of running in 2020,” CNN's Jeff Zeleny said recently on the CNN (for Clinton  News Network) program "Inside Politics." "I'm told by three people that as recently as this week, she was telling people that, given all this news from the indictments, particularly the Roger Stone indictment, she talked to several people, saying 'Look, I’m not closing the doors to this.'"

No!  No more!  I'm closing the door on it!  And so should everyone else!  This woman should not be allowed anywhere near a debate lectern.

I'm so disgusted.  My candidate from 2016 isn't running this time - and would probably be laughed out of the race again if he did - and those egomaniacs Hillary and Bernie most likely will run again.  None of the other candidates have inspired me enough to get enthused about 2020 - least of all showboater Kamala Harris or Hamlet-on-the-Rio Grande Beto O'Rourke.   Looks like we get four more years of Trump.  I am so out of this presidential campaign season.

Really out.

What Could Be Worse Than Two March Nor'easters?

How about three March nor'easters?

Once upon a time you got one big snowstorm to end the winter in March, and then . . . spring.  Spring, at last, glorious spring.  But this winter doesn't want to give up.  A third major (you never want to hear that word in any forecast!) coastal storm could affect the Northeast.  This comes on top of a snowstorm that spewed two feet of snow on my area like Linda Blair in The Exorcist spewing out pea soup.  It brought down trees and power lines all over Essex County, New Jersey, which was the epicenter of the heaviest of the heaviest snowfall.  The snow was of the wet variety, not the dry powdery stuff.  It did indeed bring down trees and power lines, leaving numerous New Jerseyans (and not just Essex County residents) in the dark.  Although my house was not blacked out, my property was not spared - I have an evergreen tree that's a whole lot shorter than it used to be, its top shorn off and deposited upside down in a snowbank next to a red maple tree as tall as the evergreen treetop.   

If there's anything positive to be said about this third storm (and believe me, I'm stretching it here!), it's that it may not be as bad as the last two.  

Although the March 11 Global Forecast System (GFS) 0z map for Tuesday morning, March 13 (above) looks ominous, this storm is likely to spare northern New Jersey of the heaviest snow, putting down two or three inches where I live and more east of New York City - and up to nearly a foot in Boston.  The snowfall map from the GFS March 11 0z run below shows the projected 24-hour  snowfall total as of 8 PM Eastern Time March 13.

Sadly, this offers little consolation to those who have been without electricity since this past Wednesday (March 7) and absolutely no consolation at all to those who have been without electricity since the first storm hit on March 2.  A lot of us are just ready to give up in disgust at the sight of even one more millimeter of snow.