The Pensacola News Journal reports that Roger Hedgecock is speaking over there on some silly subject.

Apparently Roger is now a national radio personality, but I remember him as the star of one of my favorite events in San Diego – the annual re-trial of the mayor. It had everything politics and Ponzi schemes, computer simulations and ruined lives.

I don’t resent his success. I think ex-cons should be able to re-join society, but I do wonder why so many of them end up as conservative radio personalities.

That’s what the Republican Party of Florida is all about.

They have two ads running attacking Alex Sink that are totally bogus.

First off “the pension ad” – Politifact rating “Barely true”

Now let’s return to the key claim, that state pension fund staffers “lost billions. Then Sink gave them bonuses.” This ad accurately highlights Sink’s oversight role of the state’s pension fund but after that, this ad stretches the facts and misleads the viewer. The $24 billion is not gone. Sink did not personally make the risky investments or give bonuses to staffers, and the staff bonuses preceded the fund’s loss in value. We rate the RPOF ad Barely True.

That’s entirely too generous. The Chief Financial Officer is one of three people on the pension oversight board, and the other two, the majority, were Republicans during this period.

The Republicans fail to mention that they blocked Ms Sink’s attempt to reform the board by adding an investment professional and a representative of the government employees.

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October 4^th is the last day you can register in Florida and vote in this year’s election. This is Okaloosa County’s Registration Information link, which covers the process.

You could have done it on-line, but I wouldn’t chance it this close to the end, nor would I trust snail mail. Remember, Republicans are in control of the state, and they will use any excuse to stop people from voting.

If you don’t vote, you forfeit your legitimate right to complain. Not voting is the same as voting for the results, so, unless you are happy with the way things are, do what is necessary to vote against what is going on.

If you don’t like the choices offered, write in your own name, or anyone you know who is old enough to qualify for the ballot.

For the first time since Danielle popped up on August 21 until Lisa and Matthew faded yesterday, there are no tropical storms of any kind in the Atlantic Basin.

During the period there were ten tropical storms, six of them became hurricanes, and of the six, only Lisa didn’t become a major hurricane [category 3 and above].

The effects of Karl are still being dealt with in the upper Midwest, primarily Wisconsin, as flooding from Karl’s moisture dumped rain in the watersheds that far North.

It will be months before Newfoundland can repair the damage from Igor, even with the assistance of the newly arrived Canadian military units.

The nations around the Caribbean have experienced almost constant tropical rain as system after system sprang up down there, causing flooding and landslides.

Even with a late start, this has been an active season, and it continues through the end of November.