Happy Eve of Epiphany Birthday, Renee!! (And c'mon Georgia!!)
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One thing about Georgia is that it seems clear that we can rely upon the Secretary of State.
ReplyDeleteDoes seem so, eh>
ReplyDeleteThank you for the birthday wishes! And, yes, Georgia, please do the thing.
ReplyDeleteTrump Won’t Be Allowed Into Scotland
ReplyDeleteJanuary 5, 2021 at 11:05 am EST By Taegan Goddard
Nicola Sturgeon, the first minister of Scotland, said President Trump will not be allowed to visit the country to play golf during Joe Biden’s inauguration, as reports indicated he was planning, the Independent reports.
Given the global pandemic, Sturgeon stressed it is currently illegal to travel in or out of the country without a valid reason: “Coming to play golf is not what I would consider to be an essential purpose.”
YAY!
DeleteAlthough out of spite I should prefer that he be turned back at the arrivals gate.
DeleteVideo of First Minister’s statement here [Click] Sturgeon said she wasn't clear on the president's travel plans but hoped his immediate travel plan would be to 'exit the White House'
DeleteLeave it to a Scot. Very good. I'd forgotten the UK had an entry ban. It would have been a lot better to wait and deny him entry at the arrival gate, but we can't have everything. I wonder what Plan B is. *snigger*
DeleteBeing quite a bit Scottish, my laugh is a gaffaw!
DeleteWaPo: Pro-Trump forums erupt with violent threats ahead of Wednesday’s rally against the 2020 election [Click] Posters respond to Trump’s prediction of “wild" day with discussion of potential bloodshed and advice on sneaking guns into D.C.
ReplyDelete*gulp*
DeleteNYT: Georgia may count ballots faster this time around. Here’s why. [Click] There are fewer races on the ballot, and counting of early and absentee ballots began more than a week ago. It’s even possible — but certainly not guaranteed — that we’ll know who won on Tuesday night, or very early Wednesday.
ReplyDeleteAtlanta Journal Constitution 3PM, Georgia time:
ReplyDeleteElection 2020 LIVE UPDATES: Few lines, lower turnout so far at the polls
It still seems strange to me that a coronavirus status report has been regularly posted in the weather report/forecast for some time now; but here it is:
ReplyDeleteCoronavirus
As of Tue 01/05Fresno County
Confirmed cases: 69871
Deceased: 711
VT cases: 8038-7873=165~!
ReplyDelete2426 active cases
149 deaths(+5) 😢
Recovered 5463(68%)
Hospital: 38(+2) ICU:8(+4)
Tests 269,010 (+1477)
Positivity rate holding at 2.8%
DeleteDeath rate up to 1.9%
Cases have been increasing in the whole region, including Quebec to our north.
Vermont has the highest vaccine rate in New England and is only behind West Virginia in the whole northeast portion of the country.
But I think I'm still about a month away from getting a vaccine. We hope Wil can get his at the beginning of the 65 year olds group, due to being a heart patient. They're going to do 75s and older soon, and we're after that. Vermont is not vaccinating essential workers before elderly people, because folks 65 and older are the ones more likely to die of Covid.
Wil and I are watching CNN for election returns. How about you?
ReplyDeleteStacy Abrams was on Colbert last night if you're looking to pass a little waiting time.
Per the Chicago Tribune web site: With 21% of the vote counted, Democrats have a 5-point lead. But this time early and absentee votes were counted in advance, so not clear what this means.
DeleteNailbiter as predicted. With 51% counted, Warnock leads by 0.4 points and Ossoff trails by the same margin.
Delete74% of votes counted and at least partial results from every county: Warnock trails by 1.8 point and Ossoff by 2.6.
Delete86% of the vote in and Warnock has retaken the lead, Ossoff essentially tied.
Delete92%: Warnock leads by 0.4 point, Ossoff trails by same margin.
Delete96% counted: Warnock leads by 0.8%, Ossoff trails by less than 0.1%.
DeleteWith 99% counted, Warnock leads by 35,000 votes (0.8%); Ossoff trails by less than 2,000. This late in the count, Warnock's lead should hold up. Perdue-Ossoff will come down to the last vote.
Delete12:59am...
DeleteBoth CNN and NPR still say Georgia is 97% counted.
Where are you seeing 99%?
On the Chicago Tribune web site. I presume this means AP.
DeleteOHIO; COVID cases735,003 and 9,247 deaths
ReplyDelete1.26%
Deletehttps://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/pennsylvania-republicans-jim-brewster-state-senate-210000041.html
ReplyDelete"Sara Boboltz
Sara Boboltz·Reporter, HuffPost
Tue, January 5, 2021, 4:00 PM EST
Republicans who control the Pennsylvania Senate have refused to seat a Democrat elected in November because of a lawsuit brought by his rival, plunging the chamber into chaos Tuesday afternoon.
The Democrat, Jim Brewster, had defeated his GOP opponent Nicole Ziccarelli in his bid to represent Allegheny County, an area that includes Pittsburgh. Although the race was a close one, state officials certified Brewster’s win last year."
Apparently Republicans now believe that THEY get to pick our politicians.
The people need to rise up.
DeleteIt's started already? There was talk on CNN last night or this morning (time doesn't have a whole lot of meaning for me anymore) that thanks to Trump's lies, pretty soon any Dem. who wins in a traditionally Rep.district etc. will be challenged as having won fraudulently. But they were talking, like, next cycle. Those bastards don't waste any time, do they?
DeleteWell, it's been fun watching returns in Georgia with the Democratic candidates seeming to do best. But now they're starting to count today's votes, which are expected to favour the Trumpians, so now it gets hard to watch. Every vote counts.
ReplyDeleteFor WV~~
ReplyDeletethe current number of active cases in the state is now 27,362, up from 24,433 active cases during the Governor’s previous COVID-19 briefing last Wednesday.
West Virginia has recorded 828 new positive cases over the past 24 hours.
The number of active hospitalizations is now 799 patients, up slightly from 797 last Wednesday, with 205 of those patients currently in the ICU.
The cumulative percent of positive cases is now 5.07%; the highest such percentage since the beginning of the pandemic.
Any word yet when you'll get your vaccine shot, puddle?
DeleteWith 63% counted...
ReplyDeleteCANDIDATE...............PERCENT...VOTES
Jon Ossoff (Dem)........50.0%.....1,327,340
David Perdue (GOP)......50.0%.....1,324,972
CANDIDATE...............PERCENT...VOTES
Raphael Warnock (Dem)...50.3%.....1,339,644
Kelly Loeffler (GOP)....49.7%.....1,323,487
listener, I heard the turnout was low today. Is that true?
ReplyDeleteLow to Middle. They expect 72% of the vote will be early voting and 28% from today.
DeleteSo far what's counted has been 80% early vote. I'm thinking we're not going to pull it off.
NPR has the numbers ahead of CNN.
ReplyDeleteWhen they get to 66% counted, Purdue goes ahead by .6%.
Loeffler goes ahead at about 69% counted. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised, considering how hard Trump and his henchmen have been trying to suppress the Republican vote.
DeleteWith about 78% counted, Warnock behind by about 1%, Ossoff by closer to 2%. Still a squeaker. The Atlanta area is said to be slow to report, as a rule.
ReplyDeleteMaps from Georgia Secretary of State here, updated every five minutes. [Click] 59% of precincts reporting, Perdue ahead 1.3%, Loeffler 0.8%.
ReplyDeleteLAST UPDATED: January 5 at 11:25 p.m.
DeletePrecincts reporting: 2444/2656 = 92%
Usually “precincts reporting” doesn’t mean they have completed counting…
Perdue 50.2%
Ossoff 49.8%
Warnock 50.2%
Loeffler 49.8%
There should be very few ticket splitters.
DeleteAtlanta is where most of the Dem vote will come from. . . . Or so I heard.
ReplyDeleteSame here.
DeleteSeems to me it's a lose/lose situation. If either or both of the Dems win, the radical Trump cultists will claim the election was rigged, so they didn't really win, so they shouldn't be seated...because they didn't win.
ReplyDeleteYou know, I heard a man-on-the-street interview this morning in which the guy being spoken to said very vehemently that Biden will not be inaugurated. What do you do with that kind of - what would you call it? - blind, misinformed faith? I've heard estimates of 30% of Americans believe Biden's election was fraudulent. That is a breathtaking number. How can any one man have that kind of reach?
Just as a random comparison, roughly 2% of Americans are Mormon; and that is an organized, established religion with a couple centuries of history. Trump and Co. have been spreading the specific lie of the election having been stolen from him since November Third! It's like a particularly malignant cancer tearing its way through the body politic.
DeleteI think you talk to them gently, just like the proverbial mule. Congresscritters being stressed out and all, give them a recess (at least ten days not counting Sundays) to rest up, and install all Biden's appointees during the recess. For starters.
DeleteOh, and don't forget to give Manchin and Murkowski some bacon to take home.
DeleteWashington Post:
ReplyDeleteWith 110K ballots left to count,
Perdue ahead of Ossoff by 456 votes,
50.0% to 50.0%
With 100K ballots left to count,
Warnock ahead of Loeffler by 32,613 votes,
50.4% to 49.6%
Cheese us. . .
Now that second is a nice margin.
DeleteWhat happens if there is no clear winner in a runoff?
DeleteWell, there would be a recount. If the result should be a tie, there are various ways of settling it (local option), for example the flip of a coin or cutting a deck of cards.
DeleteAnd let’s not forget the Arctic Narional Wildlife oil and gas drilling rights auction [Click] The bids will be opened at 10AM Alaska time tomorrow (Wednesday). There are indications that none of the oil majors is particularly enthused about purchasing stranded assets that are entangled in lawsuits.
ReplyDeleteNorth Korea: Kim Jong-un says economic plan a near-total failure at rare political meeting [Click] Ruler begins second Workers’ party congress by admitting strategy fell short in ‘almost all areas’
ReplyDeleteY'know, Stacy Abrams ought to Chair the DNC.
ReplyDeleteWe need someone who ISN'T going to spend the next two years singing Kumbaya with the Republicans.
ReplyDeleteAccording to NPR:
ReplyDeleteWarnock is ahead by 35,806
Ossoff is behind by 1,100
Ossoff now behind by only 919 votes.
DeleteThere are about 220,000 votes left to count,
ReplyDeleteincluding 16,000 absentee votes from overseas that need to arrive by Friday.
Hope is alive.
With the margin currently 1100 votes, it seems very likely that the overseas votes will be decisive. So we won't know until Friday.
DeleteWell, Renee! You did pretty darn well blowing out your candles today!
ReplyDeleteI hope Cat gets the same sort of luck with hers. 😉