Wednesday, November 08, 2017

NOVEMBER



My Mom painted this when I was a child.  I remember watching her.  
I was amazed at what she could create with so few brush strokes.

15 comments:

  1. Here is a list of posts made by Dean blogger Liane Allen tonight!
    🎉🔥NON-Republicans had a banner night!!!! Whoo hoo!!! ⚡️🎊


    Ralph Northam won VA Governor!

    Justin Fairfax, new Lt. Gov. in VA is the second African American *ever* to hold statewide office in that state.

    Delaware County, PA - democratic sweep! This county has been under republican control since Civil War!

    Warren County, OH had 0 elected democrats, now they have 5!

    Marvin Pendarvis is now State Rep from North Charleston, SC in 81% - 19% rout!

    Dimple Ajmera also wins Charlotte, NC City Council!

    Vi Lyles is now the Mayor of Charlotte, NC!

    Charlotte, NC elected Braxton Winston to City Council!

    Mitch Colvin is now Mayor of Fayetteville, NC!

    14 Seats in VA House - 2 to go ...

    George Latimer has won Westchester County Executive (NY) - was a target of Breitbart

    Ravi Bhalla is now Mayor of Hoboken. New Jersey's first Sikh mayor

    Andy Vargas has is now State Rep from Haverhill, MA!

    Sara Cambensy flips Michigan House seat to D!

    Gavin Buckley has won the Mayor's race in Annapolis, MD

    Andrea Jenkins, Minneapolis City Council - first transwoman

    Official: Medicare Expansion has WON in Maine!

    All 3 NH Young Democrats candidates took at-large seats in Nashua, NH

    Deborah Gonzalez and Johnathan Wallace each flipped GA house seats!

    Bill Deblasio is now NYC Mayor despite a massive attempt to paint him as anti-cop over the entire campaign.

    St. Petersberg FL now has a democratic mayor!

    Democrats take control of WA Senate!

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    1. Phil Murphy took a New Jersey governor's office that had been in Republican Chris Christie's hands for eight years.

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    2. Thanks for the list, listener; politicalwire.com[Click], which is basically a news and opinion aggregator, has SO many good stories about yesterday’s elections; also a very good Bernie cartoon, albeit from a year or more ago.

      —Alan

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  2. Yup, our Mataliandy did us proud tonight. Love Dean bloggers!

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    1. Sure do! And thanks for adding her original blog name! I should have thought of that. Funny, I knew her as Liane almost from the start because she was here in Vermont.

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  3. Manchester, NH has a Democratic mayor. The state's largest city. Here on Georgia's coast we only had municipal elections and the incumbents got returned. The local elites act as if the city of Brunswick didn't even exist. That will have to be changed. What seems to have happened in Georgia is that segregation has morphed into "professionalism" so the will of the people can be ignored.

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    1. I remember Jimmy Carter's book (Turning Point) describing the political shenanigans in Georgia when he began to become active in politics--frank ballot box stuffing among many other things he had to battle against.

      Alan

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  4. I'd like to invite you all to visit Hannah Blog whose continuity has not been broken. It has no ads and doesn't allow comments because the bots overwhelmed the program. At one point, during the engagement in Iraq, the site also had to contend with denials of service coming from a military base in Alabama. Elder son still supervises though the blog is now hosted by Google. Https://smith-family.com

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    1. Hannah, I couldn't get that link to work. So I poked around and found this one:

      https://hannah.smith-family.com

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  5. From today's Quartz Daily Brief: "Donald Trump visits Xi Jinping. As an ascendant China seeks superpower status, America’s allies in Asia are watching nervously whether Trump, unlike his predecessor Barack Obama, will accommodate Xi’s ambitions (paywall)." Question: How many properties does Trump own in China? That might give us a clue. (And certainly Trump's actions have benefited China far more than Russia.

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  6. I just looked over last night's thread; A Democratic Socialist just flipped a Trump district in Virginia? Wow. I want to know more!

    Alan

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    1. Here[Click] is some more information about Virginia results (from last night, so there is more to be known).
      —Alan

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    2. I had heard thte Virginia had elected a transgender representative, but when I read about whom she had run against and how he behaved on the campaign trail, that was really frosting on the cake. I just keep thinking about it.

      Alan

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