ELECTION INFORMATION: Minnesota related; and National information. My position on 2024 election, here. The specifics of this post apply to Minnesota, but you may find this useful wherever you live. Executive summary: I will vote for all incumbents on the judicial portion of the Nov. 5 ballot. If you wish, more below. On my election […]
ELECTION INFORMATION: Minnesota related; and National information. My position on 2024 election, here. A month from today, Tuesday, Nov. 5, is Election Day. There is no need for more commentary from me. If you follow this blog, you know where I stand and why. I am on the ‘on call’ list for alternate election judge […]
Wednesday, I made a brief post, essentially a map of the Middle East for your reference. October 7 is the one year anniversary of the attacks into Israel from Gaza. Also, Wednesday, the DOJ brief on the events surrounding January 6, 2021, was released to the public. Heather Cox Richardson gives a very cogent summary, […]
In the Vice-Presidential debate last night, the first question related to the Iranian missiles into Israel, the latest chapter in the latest ongoing crisis in what is usually referred to as the Middle East. Of course, Ukraine is also very much a part of the political conversation as well, This is not an analysis or […]
ELECTION INFORMATION: Minnesota related; and National information. My position on 2024 election, here. Today, Tuesday, October 1, is the Vice-Presidential debate. It is also the 100th birthday of Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States. I am a Tim Walz and Jimmy Carter supporter. I’ve also lived in Minnesota for 60 years, […]
Three times in the last couple of weeks, I’ve seen very unique appearing automobile in my city of 83,000. Twice it has quite obviously been the same car; the third was the same vehicle, but this one an advertisement for some company. Since each of these encounters have come while I was driving, I couldn’t […]
This morning, Tuesday, Sep 24, was a perfectly clear weather day. At 7 a.m. CDT, I was heading east on a local street, and was greeted by a spectacular, albeit blinding sunrise straight ahead. The Autumn Equinox was almost exactly two days earlier, so what I experienced made sense. Nature is, as nature is. Humanity’s […]
46 days. The National portal for all the states: Vote.org Today is the first day for Minnesotans to vote in the 2024 election. The website is here, If you are a Minnesotan, I would recommend that you download and print a copy of your ballot. The contents vary, of course, dependent on where you live, […]
I’ve printed out my sample ballot for Nov 5 2024. At the beginning are listed nine candidates for President/Vice-President of the United States. I don’t think this is especially unusual. In addition to the usual Democrat and Republican are the usual others as Libertarian, Green, Socialist and others, including “write in”. Rarely does some maverick […]
September 5 I footnoted the following suggestion in another post: Yesterday, came a link to a 1978 commencement speech at Harvard by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn . I printed out the 16 pages, read them, went to the “Reflections on Solzhenitsyn’s Harvard Address” from October 26, 2020, and also looked up Solzhenitsyn’s wiki-bio. This is not light […]