Hello, Loyal Readers

I'm still here, but so many newspapers to read.

One problem is that I can't find where I keep the URL for this page.

 If I don't get back online soon, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Vote! If you don't vote will you get even worse candidates?

 I'm still here.  But I don't get to see much about the traffic here.  I just haven't figured out just what I have to reset.

 We have settled into senior housing after selling our house.  We are in a location where we can walk to almost all the places that we need to go. 

We have cast our 2020 ballots at city hall.  We were surprised that we had to wait, not long, but it sure beats standing in line on November 3.

We are also happy that we live in a state that honors vote integrity.  We can see this by the way parties keep switching around.  I would like to vote Republican, but I haven't seen any real Republicans since Arne Carlson replaced a child molester on the ballot for Governor.

See also Dave Durenburger's book When Republicans Were Progressive.

As for the title of this article: Hilary Clinton may have won the popular vote, but would she gotten the Electoral College vote if 90% or more had shone up?  The less than 70% vote was not worthy of a democracy.

If you are an American be sure to vote.  Sorry, you don't get to vote twice this year for not voting in 2016.

Masks and government

I find it amazing that so many people don't want to wear masks because they don't want "government" telling them what to do.  Can we assume that they don't want to stop for red lights or stop signs?  Government is telling them what to do to protect others from their actions, whether its stop signs, wearing seat belts, or wearing masks.

As part of Independence Day they should read the Declaration of Independence.  There are copies all over the web including at senate.gov.

One key point of the signers was "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..."

Of course, all the governed aren't going to agree to each point of the "just powers",

And your right not to wear a face mask ends where my nose begins (paraphrase of Supreme Court Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., a Republican, your right to move your fist ends where my nose begins).

Test of new format

I wonder how "exciting" this new format is.  I do know the print I type is small.  I can increase the size of what I see.

The future is not ours to see!

I am wondering if it is worth continuing this blog.  It does not get much traffic and Google is going to change the formats of blogs later this month.  I found the original format difficult to set up and as I haven't done any programing for years, I don't think I want to bother learning the new system.

Still around

I’ve been neglecting this blog for a variety of reasons.

For a long time it seems that all the readers were trolls from Russia or Italy.  Today the bulk of the readers were from the United States.

An indicator of usage seems to have stuck and wasn’t increasing at all.

I spent more of my time posting comments to articles on the New York Times, the Washington Post, and some times on the Star Tribune and Duluth News Tribune.  The Post is wide open, posts immediately, and rarely deletes a comment.  The Times reviews comments before posting them.  The Star Tribune and the Duluth News Tribune have much less space and might edit beyond all recognition.  I’ve just about given up on the Duluth News Tribune.

Maybe lots of my readers are “Trump weary” and get enough of him via TV and daily newspapers.

I’ll try to post a wider range of articles.  If you ore a relative or a friend, send me your thoughts.