From  Worldometer  (new  COVID-19 deaths yesterday):     DAY     USA    WORLD      Brazil      India      South Africa June     9     1093     4732         1185        246       82 July    22      1205     7128         1293      1120     572 Aug    12      1504     6556        1242        835     130 Sept     9      1208      6222       1136       1168       82 Oct     21      1225      6849         571        703       85 Nov    25       2304    12025        620        518      118 Dec     30       3880    14748       1224       299      465 Jan      14       4142      15512        1151        189      712 Feb      3       4005    14265       1209       107      398 Mar      2       1989     9490        1726       110      194 April     6        906    11787         4211       631       37 May     4        853     13667        3025      3786     59   June    1        287    10637         2346      3205      95  July    7         251      8440        1595        81

                     From  Worldometer  (new  COVID-19 deaths yesterday):     DAY     USA    WORLD      Brazil      India      South Africa June     9     1093     4732         1185        246       82 July    22      1205     7128         1293      1120     572 Aug    12      1504     6556        1242        835     130 Sept     9      1208      6222       1136       1168       82 Oct     21      1225      6849         571        703       85 Nov    25       2304    12025        620        518      118 Dec     30       3880    14748       1224       299      465 Jan      14       4142      15512        1151        189      712 Feb      3       4005    14265       1209       107      398 Mar      2       1989     9490        1726       110      194 April     6        906    11787         4211       631       37 May     4        853     13667        3025      3786     59   June    1        287    10637         2346      3205      95  July    7         251      8440        1595        81

  That is my view from where I sit writing my blog this morning.  I will shortly be at the Ala Wai Golf Course, and a perfect day is predicted.  The weather, that is.  Hawaii has this year been spared of serious hurricanes.  There are two ocean disturbances in the East Pacific, but neither one should threaten us. Today, people in Florida, specifically just north of Fort Meyers, will suffer the worst day of their lives, for Hurricane Ian, at 155 MPH, will any moment now as I write this make landfall over those islands facing Port Charlotte.  Much of them won't be the same in a short while because of the storm surge, of perhaps up to 20 feet.  Ian became a hurricane only Monday, and could well still attain Category 5 strength, which begins at 157 MPH.  Gusts are up to 190 MPH.  Here is something I learned from my time involved with wind power.  The energy of wind increases by the cube of the velocity.  Thus, image standing in winds of 45 MPH.  You can be blown over.  Now, compare the

Before I begin nostalgia Tuesday, first, updates for the now postponed House Special January 6 Committee next hearing originally scheduled for noon tomorrow ( Wednesday ): As I reported yesterday,  there will be something related to the TV exposure and just released book of Denver Riggleman,  The Breach:  The Untold Story of the Investigation into January 6th . The feature personality, however, will be  Roger Stone  ( here with the Proud Boys ) and a documentary where he is shown to predict political violence before the 3November2020 presidential election. When will this hearing be held?  Not sure, but Hurricane Ian was responsible. Will this be the final hearing?  Certainly not, for yet to come should be Ginnie Thomas, and what about those  24 Secret Service cellphones  confiscated by the Department of Homeland Security?  Then there has to be a preliminary final summary in late October to appropriately influence the 8November2022 mid-term elections. Which leads me to  Hurricane Ian ,

On 60 Minutes last night  Bill Whitaker interviewed Denver Riggleman , who was a technical adviser for the House Select Committee investigating the 6January2021 attack on the Capitol.  He was in charge of making sense of digital clues, and using more than 2,000 text messages provided to the committee by President Donald Trump's Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, he deciphered a roadmap to an attempted coup.  Said Riggleman: The "a-ha" moment for him came when his team discovered the   White House switchboard connected a call to a Capitol rioter's phone on January 6, 2021 . Riggleman is not your ordinary staff member, for he served one term representing Virginia in the U.S. House, and is a Republican, or maybe today was.  He was a member of the House Freedom Caucus.  He lost his bid for re-election in 2020, even though he was endorsed by Trump.   Previously he served in the U.S. Air Force for 15 years, and was an intelligence officer.   While he has been called a Big Foot sc