What you see above is a simple map, but it explains what the models say in a fairly general agreement. This is Saturday midday and you can see no rain here or in Baltimore. There is general agreement that for the Preakness Stakes Weather that the system lifts up and out to the northeast and for the run for the Black-Eyed Susans, the Pimlico Racetrack weather will be dry. There is some notion, especially with this 00Z Thursday run of the NAM that the system may be slower…which would mean the rain hangs around here a bit deeper into Friday morning and the rain stick around in the Delmarva into the pre-dawn Saturday hours at the Pimlico racetrack. Nevertheless, the previous forecast still holds for both here and there. It will be up to the Pimlico People to get the track dry for the Preakness and they probably will. We get a pretty good amount of rain here on Thursday. They get it there on Friday for Black-Eyed Susan Day. They are dry on Saturday for the Preakness with midday temps in the upper 50’s or low 60’s. We are dry on Saturday and late Saturday night or early Sunday morning, a weakening front may bring us some rain and a few t’showers late Saturday night followed by a decent Sunday. Snow White still says bet the ranch on the big brown horse.
On This Date In History: On this date in 1923, novelist and “muckraker” Upton Sinclair went to jail in Los Angeles, Cailifornia. The charge against him? He was charged by the LAPD of expressing ideas that were “calculated to cause hatred ann contempt” for the Federal government. Sounds pretty bad. What ideas did he express? Why the dastardly skalawag Sinclair spoke to a group of striking transportation workers and read the Bill of Rights!!!
That’s right….well…sorta….see, he never made it through all ten amendments. He didn’t even make it through the first one. He read part of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America which guarantees freedom of speech, of religion, of the press and when he got to the part about the right “of the people peaceably to assemble,” that’s when the men in blue swept in and hustled him off to the pokey. Not only was he in jail for 22 hours, it was 22 hours without being allowed to speak to anyone. The police chief wanted to hold him even longer. But, there was an insider.
An underling to the chief called Sinclair’s wife, who called a lawyer who subsequently gained Sinclair’s release. As for the police chief, he got fired. Oh…not for violating Sinclair’s Constitutional rights or anything….at least officially. Nope…the chief got fired after he was found at night in a parked car with a woman and bottle of whiskey!!! Now that is criminal mischief if I’ve ever heard it before. He’s lucky they didn’t lock him up and throw the keys away.
Just another example of how the police in this country have gone beyond their duties or beyond the law…in this case violating a basis for our Republic and the country didn’t fall apart. The issue got dealt with and so did those involved and the world didn’t stop spinning, nor was Presidnet Warren G. Harding called a liar or blamed. It happens. We are still trying to build a more perfect union but we have yet to have perfect people in every level of government.
