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it ain't over yet

Today is the 3rd day of the 48th week, the 24th day of the 11th month, the 329th day of 2020 [with only 30 shopping days left until Christmas], and: 
  • Brownielocks Day – date chosen because that was when the domain name was purchased
  • Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day – I would if I had one.  When I was younger, I could cross all my toes, but I do not know if that was an unique talent or just one that was seldom brought up in conversation, although a doctor commented on it once when testing my reflexes for I did it when commanded to “wiggle your toes”.  Nowadays, those digits are less flexible.
  • DB Cooper Day – 49 years later, his fate is still unknown.  $200K is equivalent to $1,285,866.67 today  
  • Evolution Day – Charles Darwin first published On the Origin of Species in 1859
  • Feast Day of the Vietnamese Martyrs
  • National Sardines Day
  • National Use Even if Seal is Broken Day
ON THIS DAY IN …

1105 Rabbi Nathan ben Yehiel of Rome completes Talmudic dictionary

1434 River Thames in London freezes over

1639 Frist observation of transit of Venus by Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree - helped establish size of the Solar System

1642 Dutch explorer Abel Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania)

1715 London's Thames River freezes over

1759 Destructive eruption of Vesuvius

1835 Texas Rangers, mounted police force authorized by Texas Provisional Government

1874 American inventor Joseph Glidden patents barbed wire

1896 First US absentee voting law enacted by Vermont

1926 Sri Aurobindo retires to lead life of seclusion, hands responsibility for followers to Mirra Alfassa (founding of Sri Aurobindo ashram)

1932 In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.

1938 Clifford Odets' "Rocket to the Moon" premieres in NYC

1947 John Steinbeck's novel "Pearl" published

1947 The US House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities finds "Hollywood 10" in contempt because of their refusal to reveal whether they were communists

1950 "Guys & Dolls" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 1200 performances

1954 Air Force One, 1st US Presidential airplane, christened

1956 "Pajama Game" closes at St James Theater NYC after 1063 performances

1958 Mali becomes an autonomous state within French Community

1966 1st TV station in Congo, Kinshasa (Zaire)

1966 The Beatles began recording sessions for their album "Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"

1966 The cult classic "One Million Years B.C.", starring Raquel Welch, is released first in West Germany

1969 Apollo 12 returns to Earth

1972 USSR performs underground nuclear test

1974 Gerald Ford and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT-2 treaty to reduce each side's number of nuclear weapons

1977 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll

1981 the first air-launched cruise missile tested

1982 Orioles Cal Ripken is named AL Rookie of Year

1983 "The Colour of Magic" by Terry Pratchett published by Colin Smythe in the UK, 1st book in the Discworld series

1991 US 75th manned space mission "STS 44" Atlantis 10 launched

1993 End of world, according to Ukrainian sect White Brotherhood

2012 Gangnam Style becomes the most viewed Youtube video surpassing 808 million views

2020 NASA Voyager is 21 hrs 02 mins 59 secs of light-travel time from Earth

It would appear that the US election for President is finally over as, after 20 days, Trump finally instructed his loyal supporter in charge of the GSA to permit the winner to start making formal transition plans,  He did so without conceding, still claiming victory and still throwing doubt on the integrity of the election process.  Apparently his efforts, enabled and abetted by GOP senators, now are concentrated on salting the earth to make it as difficult as possible for his successor to govern effectively.  Much has been written about the damage done to the US democracy by this behavior, on top of the past four years of ignoring all norms of civility and even points of law, so I won’t belabor the obvious. 

At least 71 million [or about 19% of the total population and 30% of the eligible voters]  people are very unhappy and their angst fanned to a fever pitch by such propaganda sites as NewsMax and One America News [Fox News having committed the crime of actually reporting some facts] that woke elites are coming to alter the very fabric of their lives.   For them the pandemic is still a hoax, the election was rigged, and DJT the only person who cares about the common man and understands “the American Way.”

 

 I thought I would be relieved when the election was over, but instead I am deeply anxious about our ability to heal the divide.  What kind of country will my granddaughters grow up in?   
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