Joe and Kamala has given me a reason not to be home tonight.

Have a great evening.

Vote Democrat in Georgia otherwise McConnell could starve the country.

National Security First

The pandemic tops that list, but, also Russia has been exerting authority at the USA borders. NORAD has been under attack by an increasing number of Russian jets and there is a matter of at least two nuclear capacity jets in Venezuela. I believe there has been encounters with them by our jets over the Gulf of Mexico.

The Southern border wall needs assessment for its appropriate placement. Conservation groups have been ostracized from carrying out protections of protected species both animal and plant. Even if the border wall is deemed needed there could have been efforts to move these species so there were still viable specimens.

The Northern Triad of Central America is a bit of a disaster and their funding needs to be returned. 

There has been assassination of USA military in Afghanistan. 

Palestine has been completely ostracized from any solution in the Middle East. They have to be reengaged. Arab leaders opened diplomatic relations with Israel and some are saying the words Two State Solution which hasn’t been spoken for four years.

China’s promotion of communism is taking center stage with Hong Kong and Taiwan. The people are rejecting it.

Russia has a new hypersonic engine for a design of their jets and space vehicles. There has been a launch to the ISS with this these vehicles. The travel time is 3 hours. I also believe this Russia engine was seen in a video out of Southern California at some kind of event where people thought it was a UFO. That is, by the way Russia’s goal, to intrude into the sovereign USA with bombs to start a conventional war with weapons that are rarely considered conventional. Putin is dead serious about this war and he is taking measured steps to carry it out regardless of Trump’s pandering relationship. With the Russians testing all limits it could be easily stated the USA and Russia are already at war without a retaliation by the USA.   

Joe Biden must address immediately the children detained at the Southern Border. We are not the people to abuse children, any further continuance of this torture can be a huge problem for the USA. Suggestion to move immediately taking them from detainee sites to Foster Care while searching for their parents. Their health has to be assessed, there may be severe mental health issues that need treatment, too. 

All this must be perused to conclusion while the legislature passes bills for signature. Legislation includes Obamacare with measures to secure SSI, Medicare,and Expanded Medicaid, Immigration Reform including Dreamers, Tax Reform, and strengthening of the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Climate Crisis, Marine Mammal Protection Act and the Endangered Species Act.

Forget about drilling ANWAR because the climate has changed drastically in the past four years and a complete reassessment of the region needs to occur with collaboration of peers in Canada. 

The ice that has mitigated Earth’s climate is nearly gone. The Climate Crisis is upon us and besides the IPCC, the USA needs a Climate Crisis Czar. The absolute best candidate is Chris Field from Stanford. He has been spot on with all the tipping points including the fires in California. 

I am sure there are many issues including racial equality and acceptance that is part of the Executive Branch concerns, but, national security on its many fronts must be prioritized by January 21, 2021.

Joe and Kamala deserve a great inauguration before they are met incredible stress demanded by the USA after this Trump nightmare. They will need help from previous Executive Branch administrations to return it to full function. Perhaps if retirees won’t come back, then offer consultantships to restore the Executive Branch.

It is a nightmare and requires former department leaders to return function as quickly as possible. It is beyond my understanding as to how the Republicans in the Senate allowed this deterioration and loss of national security.

It needs to be made certain to USA citizens how very dangerous it has been with Republicans absent to there responsibility to the USA constitution and its people. This level of neglect of our national security must never occur again.

Royalty lost.

If one is familiar with hierarchy the “title” of king or queen is often contested. So with the defeat of Trump be prepared for his response which will mimic that of a stolen title. He will complain and seek out Bill Barr to defend his title. When that fails, on January 20, 2021 he will go into banishment only to plot his return all the while putting “Twitter” on fire.

Donald John Trump will bemoan his wrongful dethroning. He has a far larger following now than ever before and it probably will only grow, both domestically and internationally. Regardless, his popularity must never return him to the White House. He should write books. They will be the best comedic books on the planet.

Congratulations!

I knew they could do it. Joe and Kamala made a great team. They are exactly the people needed to return the luster to the USA and bring the weight of full equality.

Kudos...

 ...to Stacey Abrams, Wendy Davis, Julian Castro and Beto O’Rourke for, initially alone, defending democracy and the majority rule. I can’t imagine how many newly registered voters they are responsible for through inspiration in elections spanning the last decade. 

The USA needs defenders. Congratulations to them as the end result is grand.

The Biden Campaign is prepared for the obstruction by Trump.

The campaign and the DNC still need funding as people can afford it.

I want to bring something to people’s attention. The courts are being used as toys by the Trump campaign. I think, of the conservative judges, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito see any interaction with campaign issues as an opportunity to assert their political preferences. I don’t see that with Chief Justice Roberts. He sees the implementation of legal actions within politics for what it is and sends these problems back to the lower courts or dismisses them with having no standing. I have a feeling Coney-Barrett aligns closer to that then not. However, it is just too soon to evaluate her and Gorsuch. 

Kavanaugh is a wild card that plays to the president for his own reasons. There is nothing scholarly about wild cards within the rule of law, With Kavanaugh and his opinions that he pulls out of his posterior there is no scholarly interpretation so much as appearing to be more socially acceptable to the extremist right wing. He chronically attempts to set precedent to attempt a right wing takeover of the country. Kavanaugh is the real definition of an activist judge. It is unprecedented corruption of the Supreme Court. I sincerely believe Kavanaugh is profoundly unable to be even an adequate judge.

But, that said, I believe John Roberts wants to see less use of the courts to settle or institute political priorities. Rather than the Supreme Court deciding constitutional correctness most cases these days are about loopholes. Cases reaching the Supreme Court that are best decided by the lower courts or best to simply dismiss are good decisions based in the understanding the Supreme Court is being abused by those that try to solicit politics rather than the Rule of Law. Those cases aren’t great patriotic moments to right the wrong based in constitutional authority. Rather, they are attempts by financial clout to customize the US Construction wrongfully.

Good news for Flint, Michigan

There is a video making the rounds showing ballot stuffing. According to the video it took place in Flint, Michigan.

WRONG!

It was Russian ballot stuffing. It is true, elections in Russia are blatantly corrupt. The Russian people are managed by the country’s leaders that stay in power through ruthless means. 

The USA does not use ballot boxes in elections except for high school president. 

Is saying Flint conducted ballot stuffing racist? Yes, compliments of Donald Trump’s BFF, Vladimir Putin.

The last votes aren’t even counted and Graham is threatening Joe Biden.

Graham is making overtures that a majority of Republicans can and will block Biden’s nominees for the US Cabinet. Lindsay and McConnell need to get over themselves. 

The next administration will have a cabinet that will heal this country, end COVID-19, bring the country back together and return the USA economy. Anyone getting in the way of that is self-righteous and lacks moral authority, The only reason McConnell and Graham are still n office is because the are fast talkers that pervert language and lie. They have cronies with plenty of money to buy both Graham and McConnell. 

The Democrats need to win both Senate seats in Georgia and return the USA back to its moral content and benevolent authority.

The country will not stand for bad behavior of wayward Senators. The tail is not going to be waging the dog. This is the problem with having Senate Republican majorities in power. They only care about their own interests and not the country as they are supposed to. Typical whining about power and it’s misuse.

I hope everyone caught that change in character immediately upon learning they won their elections. Sweet as apple pie before the election and as corrupt as they be after they secured the seat. They need babysitters to blog exclusively about them 

Trump supporters are not angry.

They are misinformed, lied to, aggressive but not angry. We have seen this type of behavior of Republicans before this election when they stormed a meeting. Their ATTITUDE is the problem.

To make excuses for bad behavior is only to allow it to continue. The Republicans seeking to assault ballot counters are rude and frustrated with leadership because it doesn't serve their interests. They are criminal in their behavior. They are encouraged to be criminals.

"Stand down and stand by." 

This is it. The Deep State is up to their worst and they are going to take the country away from poor Donnie.

There is no reason to create excuses for the very bad behavior of Trump Republicans. They are not angry, they are criminal in their behavior.

Could it be they don’t care about the American democracy anymore than Trump or Giuliani?

When the analysis of this election is complete, the priority of national security will be a focus.

The Democrats did not misread their understanding that the Senate would switch and the US House would gain Democratic members. Traditionally, when a president is elected, which many believed Joe Biden, as I do, will take the presidency, the down-ballot follows.

This presidential election is not normal. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris knew they were running for the soul of this country. That focus was a part of their speeches every day. It was an easy fit for Joe Biden because it is where he lives and has lived all his political career.

I believe when the Democrats look at the final results they will see people that love their country. They love their democracy. Republicans endorsed Joe Biden. Many did. But, they never turned away from their party on the down-ballot.

It is a remarkable election and I strongly believe if there are two people in this county that can heal the nation and bring us together it is Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. 

There is a lot to do and I back the idea that to return the economy the virus must be vanquished. The financial markets have been a roller coaster quite frankly. They have not recovered to their high this year. Traditionally, if the markets are experiencing this type of volatility the incumbent is not returned to office. Markets like predictability and they act on it. There was a lot of money lost in the markets this year through their own fault. There is far too much gambling within the markets with exotic instruments. COVID-19 had no sympathy for them.

Americans need to remember the financial markets are not where their jobs are. Small businesses are the place Americans find their jobs. Small businesses for the most part do not have IPOs and are not leveraged on the stock exchanges. The USA can easily recover without the financial markets being happy and the focus of national concern. Their exotic instruments should be put on hold and that might be enforced in China (click here). Joe Biden's top priority is to make the SARS-CoV-2 grip on the USA end.

To return to the election, I love the FACT so many young people are involved in this election and they are seeing their faces among the candidates. That is vital for a lot of issues the Democrats will face this year (Excluding the economy for a moment.), including health care, climate, SSI, and Medicare.

In my opinion, the reason the states are becoming a bit unpredictable is because of the Citizen United decision. I might add the candidates that won this year did so without big money from the petroleum industry and the NRA. Why? Because they are failing industries as they should be. As the young generations are taking their place in the power structure of the government these ancient industries will wane.

Citizens United has caused both parties to invest heavily in advertising. The enormous number of ads get voters attention and as they are repeated over and over it reinforces their belief systems and compels them to the polls. The ads don't necessarily change anyone's mind, so much as reinforces voters reasons to vote in opposition of "the other candidate." Citizen United is causing these small margins of votes for a win.

In the final analysis, this election was about the security of the democracy called the United States of America. Rightfully so. The Democrats need to reset their priorities and the leadership should not take for granted a win by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris is permission for an agenda the country may be uncertain about. On the other hand, the Republicans need to examine their really incredible lack of loyalty to the USA Constitution. Trump should have been removed from office and if he was just maybe more than 220,000 Americans might still be alive.

October 30, 2020
By Matt Phillips and Eshe Nelson

Stocks fell on Friday, (click here) dropping for the fourth time in the past five days in a retreat that has added up to Wall Street’s worst week since March, as rising pandemic cases, new shutdowns and a sell-off in large technology stocks all dragged the major benchmarks lower.

The S&P 500 fell 1.2 percent Friday, bringing its loss for the week to 5.6 percent. That’s its biggest weekly drop since the week through March 20, when stocks plunged 15 percent before they began to rebound after the Federal Reserve and lawmakers in Washington stepped in to bolster the economy. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 6.5 percent for the week, also its worst decline since March.

The latest sell-off has come as a second wave of cases forced more lockdowns in Europe, threatening the economic recovery and spooking investors around the world. In the United States, a record number of cases is prompting city and county governments to start imposing curfews and limits on gatherings....

November 4, 2020

US stock markets (click here) have recorded their biggest post-election leap in decades despite continuing uncertainty over which candidate will win the race.

Shares rallied as investors bet the closer-than-expected results reduced the chance of big changes for business.

Tech and health firms, now seen as less likely to face new regulation, led the gains.

Facebook shares rose more than 8%, while several major health insurance firms saw double-digit jumps.

The Dow closed up more than 1.3%, while the wider S&P 500 climbed 2.2%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq gained nearly 3.9%....

They don't like the volatility. Until the virus is under control and then eradicated, the financial markets SHOULD REMAIN IN BEAR TERRITORY. They won't like it, but, they will survive.

I knew something went well when...

 ...my 85 year old mother yelled, "Woo-Who." 

When I asked her why she was so excited she said, "Michigan came home to us. I knew mailing ballots would be the way to go because Putin can't get his hands on them."

So, there it is. A vote for Trump is a vote for Putin. 

DEMOCRACY ROCKS!

I told you so.. The more SARS-CoV-2 are exposed to human beings the more dangerous it becomes through mutations.

This virus MUST BE ELIMINATED from Earth. Put scientists back in China. Now!

Deaths are not the only worst-case scenario. This virus is disabling people. This virus will create an enormous burden on governments if it continues it's current path. 

Viruses are RNA and have a very dangerous capacity to mutate within the DNA of the host. This virus is large and ruptures cell membranes causing an immune reaction by the body which in turn causes microscopic blood clots and severe inflammation. The clots cause microscopic damage to capillaries regardless of organ and/or organ systems. Depending on comorbidities that microscopic damage will be exacerbated.

If the damage is the brain and the clots have accumulated to a larger clot the damage will cause irretrievable losses of brain function, quite possibly impacting the function of other body systems. Most every body system has nerve innovation.

This virus is far, far too dangerous to simply think it will be something people have to live with. It is very, very possible to remove this virus from Earth. There are finite living people. Every person must be safe from the virus. Vaccines may or may not be effective. No one knows exactly at this point. Because viruses are RNA, that is why I find "Moderna" a very promising company with many scientist geniuses that may hold the key to an effective vaccine. Once a vaccine is realized, it is possible for a company like "Moderna" to address the mutations as well.

Not to diminish the efforts by other companies. If the vaccine is a "general use" (as most are) vaccine that attacks the structure of coronavirus the mutations may as well be addressed and there is no worry. However, mutation just might be able to beat the vaccine and has to be addressed further.

Be aware this ability to mutate is not exclusive to SARS-CoV-2. This is a characteristic of viruses. This must be addressed and the virus eliminated. Today, we may be looking at another virus out of China, it needs to be known and evidently, the USA is the only country with the capacity in cost and personnel that is capable of a large forensic program in China to find new viruses.

The world is not that big and this is a very viable activity among countries to contain these viruses.

November 1, 2020

A study (click here) involving more than 5,000 COVID-19 patients in Houston finds that the virus that causes the disease is accumulating genetic mutations, one of which may have made it more contagious. According to the paper published in the peer-reviewed journal mBIO, that mutation, called D614G, is located in the spike protein that pries open our cells for viral entry. It’s the largest peer-reviewed study of SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences in one metropolitan region of the U.S. to date.

The paper shows “the virus is mutating due to a combination of neutral drift — which just means random genetic changes that don’t help or hurt the virus — and pressure from our immune systems,” said Ilya Finkelstein, associate professor of molecular biosciences at The University of Texas at Austin and co-author of the study. The study was carried out by scientists at Houston Methodist Hospital, UT Austin and elsewhere.

During the initial wave of the pandemic, 71% of the novel coronaviruses identified in patients in Houston had this mutation. When the second wave of the outbreak hit Houston during the summer, this variant had leaped to 99.9% prevalence. This mirrors a trend observed around the world. A study published in July based on more than 28,000 genome sequences found that variants carrying the D614G mutation became the globally dominant form of SARS-CoV-2 in about a month. SARS-CoV-2 is the coronavirus that causes COVID-19....

Trump's criminality needs to be exposed regardless of who takes the presidency.

Counties throughout the USA have missing mail-in ballots that did not vote in person. Those numbers have to be accounted for because of the criminal element in the Trump Administration.

The United States Postal Service has been trustworthy until this year. It has never been as corrupted by this administration and the Board of Governors. The integrity of the delivery of mail-in ballots is strongly in question. The numbers of unregistered mail-in ballots need to be realized.

Those ballots are physically somewhere within the states. Literally, the post offices need to be swept for undelivered ballots. What is also a reality is the fact ballots are probably buried in landfills.

The earliest dispatch of mailed ballots begins in North Carolina at 60 days (click here). Those dates mean the ballots have the potential to be in landfills and or incinerated. There are 23 states that incinerate garbage (click here). 

There have been crimes committed during this election by Trump. It should never be allowed without resolve.

There needs to be injunctions of landfill sites until the ballots are recovered. It probably also means being alert for the discovery of illegal dumping of the mail. Citizens will discover these efforts to defraud a democracy's election. They will be walkers, joggers, hikers and off-roaders that run across illegal dumping. Citizens will need to be aware of a hotline number to call should illegal dumping be discovered.

As a democracy, we cannot tolerate criminality by those running for office in any form it takes. I could not be more serious. Either we are a democracy that respects every vote or we aren't.

Evidence needs to be documented including interviews of those handling the mail. and charges filed.

Bill Barr has no respect for the American voter. He refuses to be accountable.

There are definitely crimes being committed to effect the outcome of the 2020 election.

November 3, 2020
By Jacob Bogage and Christopher Ingraham

The U.S. Postal Service (click here) turned down a federal judge’s order late Tuesday afternoon to sweep mail processing facilities serving 15 states, saying instead it would stick to its own inspection schedule. The court order came after the agency disclosed that more than 300,000 ballots nationwide could not be traced.

U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of the District of Columbia on Tuesday had given the mail agency until 3:30 p.m. to conduct the “all clear” checks to ensure that any found ballots could be delivered before polls closed. His order affected 12 postal districts spanning 15 states.

But in a filing sent to the court just before 5 p.m., Justice Department attorneys representing the Postal Service said the agency would not abide by the order, to better accommodate inspectors’ schedules....

De Joy owes me $7.99 plus tax and postage!

A beautiful Hallmark greeting card intended to raise spirits and put a smile on a person important to me STILL hasn't made it to its destination.

It is all because of a maniacal idiot in the White House. He ruined what was supposed to be a special smile to a very dear person.

He has no regard for the American people and only sees this country as an object of power.

DONALD JOHN TRUMP IS A JERK!

The Vienna shooting could be anti-semitic.

The shooters' location was moving toward a synagogue. Oskar Deutsch is not a popular man. It would be remiss of me to dismiss the idea of an assassination attempt on him.

7 February 2019

By Raphael Ahren

Oskar Deutsch, (click here) left, with Austrian President Alexander van der Bellen, meeting Jews in Jerusalem, February 2019.

It is up to the Israeli government to decide how to deal with the Austrian far-right Freedom Party, the head of the country’s Jewish community said this week, indicating his support for Jerusalem’s boycott of the FPOe. He stressed that many of the party’s members still harbor deeply anti-Semitic sentiments, and that the leadership is not doing enough to act against them.

Asked if the FPOe is truly anti-Semitic or merely far-right, Oskar Deutsch replied: “There have been 50 anti-Semitic incidents and neo-Nazi incidents [involving party members] in about 14 months. There were so many anti-Semitic incidents, that this question is entirely superfluous. It’s totally obvious.”...

The other thing is that a university in Afghanistan was shot up today, too. The only way the two incidents could be linked is if the attackers were Daesh. Daesh can be decentralized. If the two are related they were carried out for the purpose of terrorism with a greater impact. Otherwise, they are separate attacks by coincidence about the same day. In all honesty, I don't believe they are related. 

The Austrian government has one of the attackers in Vienna. They will know upon autopsy who he could be affiliated with.

November 2, 2020

By Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Fatima Faizi

Kabul - Three gunmen laid siege to Afghanistan’s largest university (click here) on Monday, taking hostages, killing at least 19 people and wounding more than a dozen, officials said. It was the second deadly assault with mass casualties on an education center in the capital in just over a week.

The three assailants were killed after Afghan security forces and American troops moved to root them out, ending the siege after six hours, the Interior Ministry said.

At least one senior Afghan official blamed the Taliban, but the insurgent group denied responsibility and said the Islamic State had carried out the assault, which shattered the sanctity of the campus on a warm fall day.

The SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors online messaging of extremist groups, said later that an Afghanistan branch of the Islamic State had claimed responsibility in a statement that referred only to two attackers and described the targets as “graduate judges and investigators belonging to the apostate Afghan government.”...

Honor the National Guard and maintain the domestic peace on election day.

Any candidate declaring victory in tomorrow's election is invalid without a concession speech by their opponent.

Just that simple.

There won't be concession speeches tomorrow in many races, including down-ballot races because all the votes cast in this election year will not be counted immediately. It takes time to conduct an accurate ballot count.

Don't bring your gun!

Respect the National Guard.

November 2, 2020
By Davis Winkle

The National Guard (click here) is gearing up to activate across the country to support the Nov. 3 general election in several capacities. The missions range from assisting with cyber defense, working the polls, and standing-by in case of post-election civil unrest.

There was a new round of newly-disclosed Guard activations Monday, including 1,000 troops in Massachusetts, 300 in Arizona, 300 in Alabama, and an undisclosed number in Florida, Oregon and Illinois.

The Massachusetts and Oregon troops will be on standby in case of civil unrest, and the Arizona forces will be on stand-by for rapid deployment anywhere in the western portion of the nation if requested by any governor. National Guard officials in Illinois would not elaborate on the roles their newly activated troops would play.

At least 3,671 Guard troops have been committed to the effort. The size of the authorized deployments ranges from 1,000 in Texas and Massachusetts to a single soldier in Wyoming. Some states are yet to determine how many troops will be activated, and many states have merely alerted selected units in anticipation of possible post-election unrest.

All of the troops currently activated are on state orders and are under the control of their respective governors....

It didn't have to happen this way.

There were innumerable conservationist groups more than willing to salvage protected species. Trump treated protected species as garbage.

31 October 2020

By Samuel Gilbert

...Four days (click here) before the US election, this is how the new border wall has affected four distinct wilderness areas....

...Construction is occurring mostly on public, often protected lands, because the Department of Homeland Security has sweeping powers to waive environmental protection laws, like the Endangered Species Act, which would otherwise bar construction.

Protected lands “belong to the government because they are so unique and fragile. Because of that same fact, they are being demolished,” said Laiken Jordahl, borderlands campaigner for the Center for Biological Diversity, noting the relative ease of border wall construction on public lands compared with the lengthy process of taking private property....

The Rio Grande Valley has been a beautiful legacy for the USA. The Ocelots are rare and endangered (click here). There simply is no reason for the destruction of precious habitat and species. It is unfortunate there was no planning so much as making the border a political icon and a profit for companies that are not normally involved with these lands.

Known as the lower Rio Grande Valley, (click here) the lower four counties of Texas contain a documented 1,200 plants, 300 butterflies, and approximately 700 vertebrates, of which at least 520 are birds. It is to protect this important biodiversity that the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge was established.

"The Strange Case of Fisher Sand and Gravel and the Border Wall" (click here)

Open Letter To Post Master DeJoy.

 I mailed a greeting card to a friend in Raleigh, North Carolina. I mailed it from North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. I mailed it on October 14, 2020.

WHERE in the hell DID IT DISAPPEAR TO?!?!

"Good Night, Moon"

The full

16.1 day old moon

98 percent lit

It was a magnificent moon last night.

November 1, 2020
By Jamie Carter

Did you see (click here) the “Halloween Hunter’s Blue Moon” last night?

It was the first full Moon seen in all U.S. time zones on Halloween since 1944 and the last to do so until 2039.

Here are some fabulous images of this rare event—and details of the “Beaver Moon or Frosty Moon Eclipse” coming in 29 days:...