Congratulations, America

Dear America: Now That That's Over...

An open letter to America.

Dear America,

Now that that's over, now that Donald J. Trump was (soundly, roundly and decidedly) defeated in this presidential election, it's important, very important, that we all, all of us, come back to sanity and logic and kindness and intelligence and discernment and rationality and all things good and true and compassionate and back away from anything and everything he stood for.

All the racism and sexism and misogyny and bullying and emotion and every negative, ugly thing he represented.

All of it.

Let's all come back, away from the ledge of negativity and even ugliness he too often presented.

Let's all come back to civility and cooperation and working together and being Americans. Again, together.

And let's demand our government office holders do the same. No more "party first", people and "nation be damned."

It's not us vs. them.

Let's do this.

Let's work together for the benefit of all of us. For the benefit of America.  Heck, for humankind and all the world.

Let's be and stay the United States of America. No matter our political party or leanings, let's be Americans first and go from there, from our problems, together, to solutions.

Sincerely and very truly yours,

All of us.

(Note:  This was written on the afternoon of October 20, 2016, the night after the third and final presidential campaign debate).


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To the tune of Billy Joel's "Movin' Out."



May the best people win.

And may the rest of us all work together.

Roar

Vote tomorrow, people.  Vote.



And roar.

Go. Now. Or soon as possible

On 2012: At least, thank goodness, we dodged this bullet

That was WAY too close for comfort, even with them getting trounced.

Rock-solid Romney

No wonder people want to vote for Mitt Romney.

He's on both sides of every issue.

NPR asks a great question on our voting

The question NPR asked yesterday is one I've put forward before and it's a good and timely one. That is "Should Elections Be Held On Weekends?" I think the answer is partly tradition and partly so we keep the voter rolls down but really, voting in the middle of the week makes no sense at all. If we want voters voting and we want turnout at the polls--and I suggest most of America does, in fact--then why don't we vote on Saturdays when more people are off work? This would likely help both getting volunteers to man the booths as well as making it easier to get to them to do this civic duty. Oh, yeah, it's time this changed.

Ep. 238: February 17, 2012 - Overtime

Links: http://www.npr.org/2012/01/18/145397003/why-vote-on-tuesday-why-not-the-weekend; http://www.whytuesday.org/

Quote of the day--on reason to vote tomorrow

“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.”

--Plato

Barack Obama here in Kansas City

I just shot this, this evening at the Barack Obama rally here in Kansas City. It was a great turnout. We know there were 100,000 people who gathered in St. Louis this morning for him. We hope to find out tomorrow that as many or nearly that many were there tonight. There was great energy in it all. It was a fairly brief speech but that was okay. We only just wanted to be there, all of us, and hear him speak.

This lady was very nice, and very nice to let me take her picture. She said she was, as the sign says, a "Latina Mama for Obama", literally. She also wanted to be sure I knew that the t-shirt she was wearing had been her husband's. He had very recently died, she said, so she wanted to be sure to wear it for him and his memory. I got the strong sense she felt he was there, with her, because of it and their time together, I'm sure.

On to November!