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:...