Congratulations to Country Raiderettes for earning the 2018 Regular Season Champion in Lefty Blog Friends League.
It’s raining, it’s pouring, the old broad is snoring! Y-a-w-n! I just woke up, fed the kids and now it is time to eat some breakfast myself as I work on tomorrow’s OT. I won’t be posting it until mid afternoon between physio and teaching. Tomorrow is bound to be noisy as the landscapers will be here with their damn leaf blowers, the garbage collection is tomorrow, and the city recycling pick up is tomorrow. My unit is right by the garbage and recycling shed so it gets loud. Even the kids dive under the bed because of all the noise. Perhaps we’ll hear from TomCat sometime today.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:46 (average 8:06). To do it, click here. How did you do? This one is for Lona!
TC’s took me 5:39 (12:14 average ). To do it, click here. How did you do! We have done this one before and it is not as hard as the average time might seem to indicate.
Fantasy Football
Week 14 Match up Results
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Huffington Post — What will President Donald Trump do when it’s time to leave office?
Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin said she doesn’t believe Trump can pardon himself, and if he tried he could face prosecution after leaving office in connection with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
Rather than take a chance, he could make a last-minute move to protect himself if he is replaced by a Democrat after the next election.
“I would predict here on MSNBC that when Trump leaves office he will resign the presidency 10 minutes before Mike Pence leaves office, allowing Pence to pardon him if there is not a Republican president to follow him,” Rubin said on “AM Joy” on Sunday.
Please click through to view a 10 minute video of AM Joy with Jonathan Capeheart as he and his panel explore this question. (unfortunately I could not imbed) If impeachment is the Democrat strategy, this is one more reason why Pence must be impeached at the same time.
Vox — Americans are more civically engaged than they have been in more than 100 years.
The two years between President Donald Trump’s win in 2016 and the 2018 midterms ushered in a new era of Political Engagement in America, not seen since the early 1900s and the 1960s civil rights and anti-war movements.
That culminated in November’s midterm elections. While House Democrats picked up 40 seats in a wave election (they didn’t fare nearly as well in the Senate), an important number to focus on is the sheer number of people who voted in 2018, compared to past midterms.
50.1 percent of the voting-eligible population in the US turned out to cast their ballots in this year’s midterms, according to the United States Elections Project, a database about the United States electoral system run by University of Florida Political science professor Michael McDonald. In raw numbers, that means 118,044,470 votes were cast. …
Voter turnout numbers are the easiest way to measure just how politically engaged Americans were in 2018. But all of the work that went into the final result is political engagement — political organizing, phone banking, canvassing, protesting, contacting elected officials, or donating money to a campaign.
Americans also participated in these activities in high numbers in 2018, according to an April survey by Pew Research Center.
Pew found that 67 percent of the people surveyed said they engaged with politics in at least one of these ways since 2013. And 46 percent reported political engagement in some form during the past year.
Click through for the rest of this interesting article. 2018 had the highest turnout rate in 100 years! What will the Congress look like if the turnout in 2020 is at 70% or higher? And how do we raise participation rates? One way of which I have heard is making voting day a national holiday. Our very own Freya was heavily involved in Georgia for the 2018 mid terms. She posted the following petition:
Stand with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Make Election Day a National Holiday! which you can also see at Care2.
I am Canadian so I cannot vote in the US but I try to do my part here at PP. In Canada, there are early voting opportunities and each voter must be accorded 4 consecutive hours to vote by their employer. As a manager, I sent my staff home 4 hours prior to the polls closing.
YouTube — This is Part 1 of an ABC (Australian Broadcast Company) programme examining the Trump Russia relationship published in . Some of this is ‘old hat’ while other parts may be new information. Sarah Ferguson, the interviewer, talks with various people involved with Trump. Tomorrow Part 2.
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