The presidential popularity is slipping. He now only owns ten of fourteen headlines in the online version of Asheville’s local daily. The Mountain Xpress is tweeting on POTUS‘ every move. He ate mahi and spent $284.35 on a meal for six – creating jobs and boosting the economy, yes. “The president is a very generous man,” remarked one supporter.

Nothing hit the newspapers about the loud stream of air traffic in the wee hours this morning except this. I think SOP is to ignore, deny, admit, and dismiss as practice anything that might scare somebody.

There were a lot of police sirens, too. Whatever it was couldn’t have been as important as trying to guess where the president would dine.

I passed a big hazmat vehicle on the road. It wasn’t in a hurry. Maybe it was just being shown off before the president.