It’s January.  There is no more miserable time of year.  Some call it the dead of winter.  If you’re in New Jersey, the weather’s always rotten, but in January, it’s even worse.  It’s cold, it’s wet, and there seems no end in sight.  February and March are no bargains either, but at least you’ve got baseball Spring training, and the prospect of better times ahead.  But not in January.  I was reminded of the first line of Shakespeare’s Richard III, “Now is the Winter of our discontent.”  And let’s face it.  There’s plenty of discontent to go around this Winter.  Where do I begin?  Let’s start with the Wuhan, which continues to spread.  Now there’s concern over a new strain from Britain.  According to the “experts,” it’s more easily communicated, but no more deadly.  Therefore, we may safely conclude that it is more contagious, or it isn’t, and that it’s no more deadly than the domestic Wuhan, or that we’re all doomed.  Anyhow, the number of positive Wuhan tests keeps going up, while the percentage of those infected who are hospitalized in serious condition keeps going down, from more than 0.6% of all cases in the Spring, to about 0.3% of all positive cases today.  Against this backdrop, Democrats continue to preach armageddon.  Although California has mandated more masking and lock downs than any other State, California has the worst Wuhan problem.  The Democrat solution?  More masks and lock downs.  Corrupt demented imbecile Joe Biden has promised us “a dark Winter.”  Maybe he blew a fuse in his basement.  The much heralded vaccines are available.  I’m ready to take it, but here in New Jersey, it’s not my turn yet.  On Monday, while my car was being serviced, I was forced to sit in a waiting room and listen to a CNN host lambast an Administration official for not having 20 million people vaccinated by now.  He explained that number of  vaccines were sent to the States.  But, the States decide who gets the vaccine and when.  In my county, we’re still in Group 1A, so only healthcare workers and long-term residents can get it.  There’s a website.  Here’s how screwed up things are.  My sister-in-law went on the site and registered for the vaccine.  She received a confirmation, and went to the prescribed location.  Inside were approximately 100 fully masked and shielded medical professionals ready to administer vaccines – to no one.  No one was there to get a vaccine, except my sister-in-law.  And when they learned she was not in Group 1A, they said she couldn’t have it.  The whole system seems to be 4F.  Moving on, another source of discontent is, of course, the elections.  Trump lost under conditions that virtually assured his reelection.  I mean, if you lose fair and square, so be it, but 2020 is the year of the Never-Neverland elections.  We’ve never had so much blatant election fraud, yet so few elected officials, not to mention media people, willing even to mention it.  The Republican House pickups were the only bright spot in our electoral discontent, but even they’re tainted.  Republicans picked up 12 seats, but 64 days after the election, NY 22 remains undecided, the Republican 182 votes ahead.  In Iowa, a Republican won by 6 votes, and her opponent appealed to Nancy Pelosi to seat her instead.  Pelosi seated the Republican “provisionally,” pending a House investigation.  Yeah, you know what’s coming.  They’re sharpening the screws even as I type.  Then Luke Letlow, elected to the House from Louisiana. He died of the Wuhan last week, before taking office.  Eric Swalwell was a lot closer to the Chinese than Letlow.  Why not him?  Back to Never-Neverland.  The presidential election was a list of Never-Nevers.  An incumbent with an approval rating at 50% had never lost.  Till 2020.  No Republican who won Ohio, Florida and Iowa had lost, except Nixon in 1960, and then only because of LBJ election fraud in Texas and Democrat election fraud in Chicago.  Sound familiar?  An incumbent never got 12 million more votes and lost reelection, e.g., Obama got 3.5 million fewer votes in 2012, and still won.  We were told that, if Trump increased his support among Blacks and Hispanics, Biden could never win.  Trump’s support from Black voters increased by 50% and he got more than 35% of the Hispanic vote, sure harbingers of a Democrat loss, yet we are asked to believe Biden got more than 81 million votes.  And 81 million votes from where?  In 2008, Il Duce Obama won 824 of the 3,007 counties in the U.S., and got 69 million votes.  In 2020, Biden won just 524 counties to 2,483 for Trump, and he supposedly got 81 million votes.  Never-Neverland.  The election was won in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia.  It seems that Trump increased his share of the Black vote in every county in the country, except Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and Detroit, where Biden supposedly got a larger percentage of the black vote than did Obama.  Believe it or not.  Not.  Then there’s Georgia.  Trump led in the counting until 89% of the vote was tallied, when Biden edged ahead.  After that point, the Georgia totals were updated 53 times, and defying all mathematical probabilities, each of the succeeding 53 batches of votes found that Biden had gotten exactly 50.05% to Trump’s 49.95%.  Some coincidence, huh?  Which leads me to the latest source of Never-Never Winter discontent, the Georgia run-off elections.  The whole system is screwy.  In November, Perdue beat Ossoff by 88,000 votes, but got only 49.73%, requiring a run-off.  The other seat also went to a run-off, and we were told Republicans had never (there’s that word again) never lost a Georgia special election.  Until January 5th.  As this is written, both Republicans appear to have lost, putting the Senate in the hands of the detestable Chuck Schumer and his merry band of Bolsheviks.  This measure of discontent makes an unlikely subject the most powerful man in the Senate.  If he keeps his word, and that’s a big if, West Virginia’s Joe Manchin becomes the deciding vote on the entire whacky Socialist agenda.  Although he won’t want to burn his Democratic Party bridges, Manchin has said he will not vote for such measures such as ending the filibuster, packing the Supreme Court, or adding new States.  Now, we’ll see if he meant it.  Manchin seems to be a reasonable and honorable man.  It remains to be seen whether the Winter of our discontent will be turned into glorious summer by this sun of Farmington, West Virginia.  Hope Springs eternal.