Friday Polling and Russian Collusion

Will colludes twice in a week:  'Right now America is in the midst of a durable goods shortage and the term ‘supply chain crisis’ saturates the news. After a long lag due to the Wuhan Virus, demand is up once more. But America lacks the dock facilities to unload and store imports. As a result, more than a hundred merchant container ships lay at anchor awaiting their turn to offload their cargos at Los Angeles and Long Beach, the largest ports on the West Coast. Compounding the crisis is a nationwide shortage of truckers brought about by onerous Covid regulations and high unemployment payments discouraging work. This observer can personally attest to the shortages. Here in northern New Jersey, there is an acute shortage of new cars and the wait for new furniture extends into 2022.'What's Russian for click on through?

Our handler wrote us (in secret code, mind you), 'Will, write article undermining American faith in supply chain. Will pay many rubbles.' To which we responded (also in code), 'Da, Comrade. Is honor to serve party.' Note to Nightingale Russia (you pussies) this is just an example of our dry, witty, and over-the-top farcical sense of humor. You see, there are no codes or rubbles. 

Whoa: 'Gov. Phil Murphy leads Republican challenger Jack Ciattarelli by 6 percentage points heading into the final stretch of the race for New Jersey governor, according to a new poll. The Emerson College/PIX 11 survey released Thursday found the Democratic incumbent ahead of Ciatarelli 50% to 44% as he seeks a second term in the Nov. 2 election, while 7% of voters remain undecided. It’s the second straight poll that shows a single-digit margin in the race after a string of surveys early on showed Murphy leading by double digits in the Democratic-leaning Garden State.' 

So says NJ.com. This is about where we thought the race would be. Jack has run a tough and relentlessly on point campaign about taxes and spending. We saw him speak at a school rally earlier this year. Jack gave a short, sharp, perfect speech. It lasted like, a minute and a half. As noted previously, one see's tons of Jack gear, but hardly any Murphy gear. Don't get too excited. We still think Murphy wins. Hmmm...Here's another poll, 52-48. Holy Bon Jovi.

On another note the Wuhan Virus from Wuhan China transmission rate is now .87. Any number over 1 means the Wu-flu is spreading. So another wave is ending. I've walked into places without a mask that you wouldn't believe. It is our belief that Murphy is going to institute mask and vax mandates so...

*Breaking, Must Credit Stroock's Books*
Begin: William Stroock formally endorses Jack Ciattarelli for governor...
Stroock: Murphy's a tosser. Will impose mandates...

Further Stroock: A Jew never votes Irish when there's an Italian on hand...Developing....

Will's Good Idea for the Week of 10/17/21

The knee nags. We grumble. A little better every morning. A little less sore at night. We didn't blow out our knee on the treadmill or lifting. We did it walking, which somehow triggered gout. We smite thee! From hell's heart we stab at thee!

It's sportsball day. Mrs. Stroock's Eagles played Thursday. You know, the Giants haven't played a big game in a goddamn decade. This year they're 1-4 to start. Pathetic. Looks like we picked the right time to bail on the NFL. We'll catch some of the game tonight as Mrs. Stroock will be watching. 

We haven't been closely following the governor's race here in New Jersey. We expect Murphy to win decently though not overwhelmingly. Say...51-43 or something like that? Murphy has wisely eschewed mask and vax mandates though he insists those options 'remain on the table'. We had an epiphany yesterday. Murphy will institute mandates after the election. Won't he? 

As far as Virginia goes, we admit Terry McAuliffe is a bad candidate in bad circumstances. That's two out of three of Will's election keys.* Maybe McAuliffe's ideas suck too. We can't opine about Youngkin's campaign. Most polls show a dead heat. We'll believe it when we see it. Prediction, Youngkin will be ahead right up till the time Richmond reports. The Democrats will just happen to have enough votes to tip things to Hillary's bagman. Like always. 

Will's good idea for the week of 10/17/21. Sometime next year this blog will hit 5,000 posts. By then we'll have kept this blog going for 7 years. That's a hell of a lot longer than most people. We're a writer, that's what we do.

Once we hit 5,000 posts we may shutdown the blog. We began this blog in 2015 so we'd have something to do in the afternoon after class. We blog in the morning. We had hopped to blog about being a college prof. Well we blew that up, didn't we? Over the years this blog's readership has become...more selective**. We have no idea how to gain a bigger audience. Anyone dropping suggestions in comments gets banned. We've already tried/thought of that. 

This blog is mostly just an exercise, a way to juice the brain in the morning. Sure we enjoy it. We enjoy vanilla ice cream with chocolate sprinkles too, but have it very rarely. 

Heh, we actually have something else set up and ready to go. But we're not sure we'll do it. If you people want it, you'll have to pay money for it. We'll see. 

*Circumstances, ideas, candidates.

**Reference.