Daily Archives: December 20, 2016
A Snow Day for Jingle . . .
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Last night only went down to the low 40’s but I waited until this morning to put us back on shore water just in case.
Looks like it’ll stay above freezing for the next week or so, especially nice since I’ll be working nights on a gate Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Much better than in 2013 when we working on a frac gate down here in Whitsett and of course sitting outside under our canopy. The problem was that it was 26° and sleeting, with icicles hanging down from the canopy flaps. Don’t miss that at all.
Landon apparently got a chance to make his own milkshake at the new Willy Burger in Katy. Here he is getting prepped with his gloves.
This 4 year old Landon photo recently showed up on Facebook and I’m not sure I’ve seen this one before, but he sure is cute.
Why do Amazon ads keep showing me things I already bought? As I move from website to website, including this one, I see ads for products I’ve search for, both online and on Amazon. But if they know all this why do they show me ads for things I’ve already bought and received, in some cases, weeks ago. And why don’t show me things similar to what I’ve already purchased, not exactly the same thing?
And they even do it for Kindle books. A month or so ago Saxon Andrew, one of my favorite science fiction authors, and a friend of Nick’s, came out with his latest book and I bought it the same day.
Then yesterday, I got an email telling me that Saxon has a new book out, the same one I bought a month ago. My email address is the one linked to my Amazon account so why don’t they know I already have the book?
It looks like all the votes, absentee, provisional, etc., have finally been counted, and Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by about 2.8 million ballots. So right up until yesterday’s Electoral College vote, and beyond actually, people were complaining that because Hillary won the popular vote, she should have also won the Presidency.
But as it turns out, pretty much all of Hillary excess votes came from California, where she won by over 4.3 million votes. In fact if you take California out of the mix, Trump would have won the popular vote by over 1.4 million votes.
So you would have had just one state that controlled the election, exactly what the Electoral College was supposed to prevent.
So what happened in California? Well, Republican turnout was way down this year. In fact Trump got 11% less votes than McCain got in 2008. And why was Republican turnout so low, you ask?
Well, there were no one for Republicans to vote for. It was a given that Trump had absolutely no chance of winning the state. But unlike many states where there was not a chance of Trump winning, in California there were few, if any Republicans running down ballot to draw the voters to the polls.
There were no Republicans even running for the U.S. Senate and almost none running for the open House seats. And few running for any state legislative seats either.
In fact, looking at the numbers it’s amazing that Trump got as many votes as he did. For a little more info about this, check out this Investor’s Business Daily article.
Anything else possibly involved in Hillary’s large vote turnout? Well, maybe, possibly, probably. Take your pick.
California is one of 12 states that gives driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. And California also has a newly enacted ‘Motor Voter Law’. When you first obtain or renew your driver’s license, you have to actually opt-out of being registered to vote.
Now the state says that they have safeguards in place to prevent the illegals who get licenses from being registered. But a large number of illegals holding AB-60 driver’s licenses, named for the Bill that made this legal, have shown reporters both the license and voter registration cards in their names, so you decide.
Here’s an interesting document put out by the Immigrant Legal (Illegal?) Resource Center talking about the AB-60 licenses. AB-10 FAQ.
It gives all sorts of helpful hints about what to do if you’ve lied or given a false name or Social Security number to the state before and how to get around that now. And it also warns you not to try and fly using this ID as the TSA may ‘discriminate’ against you. An interesting read.
So, is influx of ‘new’ voters why California’s the only state where Hillary’s margin of victory was larger than Obama’s in 2012?
Something to think about.
Thought for the Day:
You cannot treat uncivilized people in a civilized manner or you will be annihilated.
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