November, 2024 - One Less Dog In The Hunt

November 16, 2024November 9, 2024

Just Stop, Please

Please. Please stop. Lose the language. Refrain from displaying your ignorance by understanding before you speak. Free speech is a right, but reckless use of speech is a personal hazard.

Let’s face it, we are all guilty of speaking without knowledge. The tongue is a loose canon. It often engages before the brain has time to give it direction. I’m guilty, even here, where I have time to think out and measure my thoughts.

But this one has been going on for years. Media pundits, politicians, and the average American perpetuate the lie over and over and over.

The United States is not a Democracy. Yet that term is used to describe us by even those who govern us, people who should know better. I know, I’ve ranted about this before, but it is an issue that needs to be addressed, just as often as the lie is perpetuated. It is the only way to clean it from our country conversation, and discourse.

November 9, 2024November 9, 2024

How Different Are We?

Let’s find out, by starting with one of the biggest of the HOT TOPICS – Immigration

A January 2024 Pew Research poll indicated that 76% of Americans believe that immigration has become a crisis in the United States.

In another Pew Research poll on Voter Issues, done in September of 2024, 61% of voters said that immigration was one of their top issues in deciding where to put their vote.

July 2024 Gallup Survey 55% of Americans want to limit immigration. In the same poll, 2/3 of Americans believe immigration is a good thing, while 27% said it is a bad thing.

These aren’t simply right or left ideas. Yes, Republicans and Democrats poll differently within those polls, but in all cases we are talking about over 50% of the country.

November 6, 2024November 6, 2024

Mourning in America

As of 8:35pm on 11/06/2024, the current popular vote totals in one of the most contentious Presidential elections in history are 72,560,841 votes for the Republican candidate at 50,9% of the total, and 67,871,826 votes for the Democratic candidate at 47.6% of the total. In the 2020 election, the Republican candidate received 74,223,369 votes with 46.9% of the total, while the winning Democratic candidate received 81,282,916 votes with 51.3% of the total. The 2020 winning candidate triumphed with 306 Electoral votes over the losing candidate’s 232 Electoral votes, despite only winning 477 counties against the Republican’s win of 2,497 counties, and while winning only 1 of the 19 bellwether counties. Achieving beyond all expectations, the Democratic candidate received 11,793,400 more votes that the record high of Barack Obama of 69,489,516 votes in 2008.

Today we mourn for the 15,073,618 voters who have passed in the past four years since the 2020 election. Or perhaps, they were already dead and just failed to haunt us during the 2024 election.

November 4, 2024November 9, 2024

Are you ready?

No, really. Are you ready? This isn’t just any election. It may be the most critical in our history, certainly in my lifetime. I know, you’ve heard that before, possibly every four (4) years, but this time… It’s true.

Why? Depending upon the outcome, we may have nearly 1/2 of our society on the watch list. Yeah, even this post, could be a red flag. A simple matter of freedom of speech, of questioning, of criticizing, could get you on a list November 6, 2024. It depends on the party taking power. We are that divided as a nation. It isn’t enough to win an election, we have to bury our opponents. Doxing, bullying, destroying has become the norm. And our government is getting crazy about those who don’t comply. The intimidation and weaponization of our judicial system, can’t be ignored. They are on the hunt, and they won’t stop if they win on 11/5/2024.

November 2, 2024November 9, 2024

84% – LFG

In 2021, eight out of ten Americans, or 80% believed we needed to protect our voting system with identification. In 2024, that number is up to 84%, and yet the leaders that be, and those who hope to manipulate our voting system, continue to make the argument that it is an unfair expectation. Here’s a Ballotpedia article comparing the idea of voter identification to the Poll Taxes of the Jim Crow era. This article and this way of thinking tries to insinuate that voter ID is in some way a white, Anglo conspiracy to disenfranchise or keep other ethnicity, underprivileged, and simple minded individuals from having a right to vote. Bullshit! You need an ID to buy alcohol or tobacco; to cash a check, to check into a hotel, to buy a gun, to drive, to hunt or fish, to fly, to get into Disneyland … the list goes on. Nobody is making an argument that these required id usages are disenfranchising individuals from doing any of those things. In fact, here are twenty-two and twenty-four different things you need identification in order to do in this country, and here you will find seven things for which the US Federal Government requires identification.