Going missing and catching up
I keep going missing and then coming back.
*Shakes her head*
I love elections. That’s something that everyone who knows me knows. I love ALMOST EVERYTHING having to do with elections. You know what I do NOT love about elections? I don’t love the 18 hour days for more than 6 weeks. This year I REALLY don’t love the death threats from Trumpty Dumbty supporters.
In a jurisdiction that is HEAVY on the Trumpty Dumbty supporters, and that would honestly support ANY Republican, even Satan himself, the claims I hear people spouting around me cause me to shake my head and question their sanity. I’ve asked a fair few if they noticed that all of the phone lines in the polling place are on the OPPOSITE side of the building and there weren’t any cords plugged into the tabulator other than the electric plug… ‘Well, yes” they say… and yet they STILL believe some company in Frankfurt Germany and Barcelona Spain somehow magically got into our tabulator and changed their votes.
I’ve spent YEARS getting this jurisdiction to 90% plus voter turnout in every election… earning people’s trust… doing things to encourage people to show up and make their voice heard… and Because the kumquat rectal sphincter claims “democrats cheated” and I’m a Democrat … our election results are allegedly invalid according to his supporters. Damn well insane.
I got absolutely swamped with three elections this year (was supposed to be 4) BUT Covid 19 eliminated one of them and some idiot exposed me to Covid 19 at two others… so I’ve spent a bunch of time in quarantine. Quarantine wouldn’t be so bad but I have SIX grandkids here so it lasts for WEEKS because I need to be sure the kids don’t GET the damn illness OR give it to me.
I’m tired.
I’m cranky.
I need a damn vacation.
12/02/2020 @ 8:05 pm
I’d imagine you do.
There was an article in the Washington Post today from a guy who up until recently headed the Cybersecurity and Infrastucture Security Agency. He’s been involved in efforts to make sure elections are fair during the Trump administration. He says that aside from I think one county in Louisiana, everywhere in the United States that uses electronic voting generates a paper copy of every vote. That recount in Georgia? Paper. All paper. Every vote. You can’t electronically change the tabulator because if you somehow managed to do that the electronic and paper records wouldn’t match.
In further news, Attorney General Barr, basically a pro-Trump fanatic who would have taken Executive Privilege to mean Trump’s allowed to be King, came out and said there is no evidence of extensive voter fraud in the 2020 election. This was an incredibly secure election, probably the most secure in our history. Contrary to anyone’s fears on either side of the political spectrum, and both sides had them, this was a clean election.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/christopher-krebs-trump-election-wasnt-hacked/2020/12/01/88da94a0-340f-11eb-8d38-6aea1adb3839_story.html
12/02/2020 @ 9:44 pm
I am hoping that PRESIDENT BIDEN will do the right thing and re-hire ALL of the honest men and women that Trump has fired during his tenure, beginning with Christopher Krebs, who deserves the Medal of Freedom if anyone ever did.
I am also hoping that Biden will use executive orders to undo Donald Trump’s executive orders. I would love to watch the Trump appointees on the Supreme Court trying to rule that Biden’s executive orders undoing Trump’s executive orders are unconstitutional.
I would also like to figure out how to make links pop up the same way they do on Facebook.
i am fighting a one-man war against the evil that is Facebook,. If we each Shanghai (is that still a permissible phrase?) ONE former OS person and get them on board, well, that’s a start.
I don’t want millions of users. I would be happy with one thousand….if they were the right one thousand.
12/03/2020 @ 8:40 am
Mrs R: Could you do me a big favor? Please try to make sure that you featured images are 640 W x 480 H or in approximately those proportions. It makes a difference on the home page. I am a sucker for uniformity of design. Don’t bother to fix this one if you’re not of a mind to but it will help the overall look of the home page.
12/03/2020 @ 9:26 am
I can TRY Alan. Of course we all know that I can be extremely trying at times so I may or may not get it “right” the majority of the time.
12/03/2020 @ 8:53 am
I am not and have never been a Facebook member. In terms of numbers, this place would be great with fifty active members. (If you get a thousand, I don’t know how many would be active.) In terms of uniformity, I don’t think that’s going to accomplish anything other than to stop driving you nuts.
12/03/2020 @ 9:30 am
Me not driving Alan nuts is a good thing though… keeps drama to a minimum and keeps the old redhead (me) from causing him to pull his hair out.
12/03/2020 @ 10:30 pm
1. Thank you very much for editing your featured image. You gotta admit it looks better that way.
2. Leave my hair out of it. I just cut off my ponytail. It was an accidental ponytail which resulted from not wanting to risk a fatal disease just to get a haircut. I ended up cutting it myself with some help from Satya.
I cannot imagine what possessed me to wear a ponytail for decades at a time. It is so uncomfortable. The things a boy will do for the sake of fashion.