KEY WEST LOU / BIDEN LOOKED GREAT AFTER DEBATE AND NEXT DAY

Watched on TV yesterday Biden meeting with supporters following the debate and again yesterday at 2 rallies. When Biden met with supporters following the debate, he looked terrific. Perfect. Spoke clearly and distinctly. Walked properly. He was a different man. One to two hours later. What happened?

Did he clutch for the debate.? I doubt it. Then, what?

Watched Biden again yesterday. Two rallies. Looked fantastic? Acted well! Beyond normal.

Again, what happened during the debate? Maybe he should have taken his cold medication before the debate and not after.

The Sahara Desert dust storm is late in arriving in the U.S. Supposedly was to arrive in South Florida wednesday night. We are still waiting. A recent article assured it is still coming.

Coffee is a wonderful thing. I am not a fan. Rarely imbibe. Prefer tea. Most others however love coffee. Cannot live without it. Especially that first cup in the morning.

The Colonists prior to the Boston Tea Party were tea drinkers. Following “the party” they ceased so being and became coffee drinkers.

Comes the Civil War, coffee was in poor supply. Northern soldiers were going without. A crisis.

Union General Benjamin Butler considered coffee a source of energy and morale. As vital as gun powder. He believed: “If your men get their coffee early in the morning, you can hold your position.”

Brazil had been the main supplier of coffee to the U.S. However, the Union blockade of the South prevented most coffee imports from reaching the North.

Stephen Allen Benson was President of the relatively young Republic of Liberia. Liberia had 500,000 coffee trees planted. He wanted to supply the North with coffee.

Benson was Black. He was born in Maryland. Moved with his family when he was 6 to Liberia.

He wanted to do his thing for the Union. He did. Union soldiers thereafter received an adequate coffee supply.

Benson was only charging the Union $.40 a pound for his coffee beans. The Confederate Army was paying $8 a pound from wherever they could get it.

The North gained a powerful edge over the South when it came to coffee. The coffee Union soldiers were drinking  was of “superior” quality, full of “strength, flavor and aroma.”

It became law thursday. Highway A1A from Key West to Georgia is now “Jimmy Buffett Memorial Highway.”

A well deserved recognition!

Another U.S. Supreme Court screw up. The Court on friday limited a federal obstruction law that has been used to charge hundreds of January 6 Capitol riot defendants. Trump is included in those so charged.

The decision was 6-3. The charge has been used where an individual was obstructing an official proceeding. The Court said there must be  proof that a defendant tried to tamper with or destroy documents.

How many documents were tampered with or destroyed that day? Even more, the ultimate thrust of the attack was to prevent the vote that was to be taken that day. A vote to approve state delivered documents.

The decision will result in many pleas and convictions being set aside. It also means those charged and not tried will have the charge automatically withdrawn.

The Republican Supreme Court majority continues  to decide cases awkwardly and to derive a political outcome. They have to go. Removed from the Court. Or, their power has to be diminished in some fashion. Otherwise properly arrived at decisions will slowly fade away.

A golf “it never happened before” occurrence. Frank Bensel Jr. made back to back holes-in-one during the 2020 U.S. Open yesterday. Rare. A first!

The Square Grouper is one one of the finest restaurants in the lower Keys. Located on Cudjoe Key. Its owners opened another on Islamorada. Another success.

A third is on its way. In downtown Key West. Soon to open.

Enjoy your day!

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