Three Toms
Look who showed up on Monday!!
They even came to the very spot where we fed them last year. Unfortunately, they found no cracked corn awaiting them.
I got some seed out there within a half hour and they returned
very quickly! Then we set out cracked corn again and,
best of all, they will consume all the ticks they find!
In re counting mail in ballots in California--It has been my understanding that the ballots that don't arrive at the last minute have their signatures and dates checked, are then removed from the envelopes and fed through the tallying machines. But they cannot be legally counted until the polls close, so once that happens the "sum" button is pushed and the previously scanned mail ballots are totaled and ready to report. The same is true of the ballots that have been scanned at the polling places (now "vote centers") and transmitted to the county clerks' computers. So the results that are first reported are a mixture of mail-in ballots and those that have been scanned on "election day." This year more people than ever evidently mailed their ballots, many on the last two days, and those are backed up, as well as the provisional ballots.
ReplyDeleteThere was one problem with the "vote center" system which became clear during early voting but was not fixed by election day: at each voting center (as I understand it) there was only one person with an iPad that had *.pdf files listing all the voters in the county, arranged by first letter of last name, one file for all the A's, another for all the B's, etc.--with no search function! It took a long time for the one person with the one iPad to scroll through the lists and identify a voter--far longer than it took to turn out a set of votes at the voting machines--so the lines became very long. I read that something similar happened in Texas. But just as a matter of tradition, a lot of folks wanted to mark their ballots at a polling place. We moved to this precinct about 25 years ago, and it had already been 100% vote by mail for some length of time unknown to me, so voting by mail is completely familiar to me, and as easy as can be.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
ReplyDeleteH. L. Mencken
Warren is ending her campaign
ReplyDeletehttps://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/elizabeth-warren-ends-presidential-run-n1150436
No word yet of an endorsement.
Regardless of formal endorsement, most of her prospective voters going forward will end up voting for Bernie.
DeleteIt's now a two-person race. Gabbard doesn't count.
I fervently hope you're right about the transference, Bill!
DeleteI can only imagine that Bernie is feeling like the lit of candidates have dissed him. All the more sweet that you maxed out your contribution today, Cat. It will mean something to him and his staffers.
Delete* lit = lot
DeleteI just maxed out to Bernie's campaign. That is, I contributed the balance of my legally allowed amount, $2,800.00, in a lump sum. Please consider doing the same. Remember, credit cards can be paid off over months or years. Bernie's time is *now*!
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ReplyDeleteHere's a photo of Bernie [click] I found on Instagram.
ReplyDeleteLiz was pretty darned fast to jump on stage with Hillary, so I don't hold out hope for her to do the right thing.
ReplyDeleteMyself, I fully expect Warren to endorse Biden.
DeleteIn the afternoon I saw a tweet quoting her as saying that with two old white men running, she felt sorry for the little girls who will have to wait four more years for a female president. Holy shit! Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, my reply got lost due to technical problems on my end. I said I'd lived fifty-six years and I could live another four, thank you very much, till seeing a president who sits down to pee like I do. Maybe I'm overly sensitive, but that remark of hers *REALLY* put me off!
That remark strengthens my opinion that she will endorse nobody. Despite what we have seen from Klobuchar, Buttigieg, and Bloomberg, endorsements are not the norm.
Delete'All the data we need': Seti computing project paused after 20 years [Click] “Seti@home enlisted people’s computers to aid search for extraterrestrial intelligence.” Now they need to do the data reduction and publish.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I should have been more conscientious about reading my BOINC message. It announced that SETI@home wouldn't be sending any new work after March 1. Tasks they had sent previously are still running, however. And I'm also signed up for the climate prediction project. I had done protein folding before. So there's no worry about keeping my computer busy.
DeleteSuper Tuesday results surprised pundits. Do more shocks await us? [Click] Nobody knows what will happen.
ReplyDeleteSo maybe the pundits should keep their tea leaf and bird entrail reading to themselves.
DeleteJoe Biden is surging but his campaign has one weak spot: Joe Biden himself [Click] “… gaffes have killed his earlier runs and could still kill this one too.”
ReplyDeleteTrump’s Playbook Is Terribly Ill-Suited to a Pandemic [Click] “The president cannot rely on his usual strategies of lying and bullying to fight the spread of the coronavirus.”
ReplyDeleteTrump’s Playbook Is Terribly Ill-Suited to a Pandemic [Click] “The president cannot rely on his usual strategies of lying and bullying to fight the spread of the coronavirus.”
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Trump’s Coronavirus Plan Was Never Going to Work [Click]
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From politicalwire.com:
President Trump was asked at a Fox News town hall meeting if he’ll address entitlement spending to deal with the country’s burgeoning debt.
His response: “Oh, we’ll be cutting.”
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