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100 Days until the Big Show - Most recent polls
President - Trump vs. Biden
Poll Average - Biden +9.1 (RealClearPolitics)
MI - Biden +12 (CNN)
PA - Biden +11 (Fox)
FL - Biden +5 (CNN)
WI - Biden +8 (Gravis)
Biden - Alive vs. Deep Fake
Poll Average - Deep Fake +2.3
President - Trump vs. Biden
Poll Average - Biden +9.1 (RealClearPolitics)
MI - Biden +12 (CNN)
PA - Biden +11 (Fox)
FL - Biden +5 (CNN)
WI - Biden +8 (Gravis)
Biden - Alive vs. Deep Fake
Poll Average - Deep Fake +2.3
99 Days until the Big Show - Some coronavirus stats
Death per 1M people
Belgium: 847, UK: 674, Spain: 608
ITA: 581, SWE: 564, FRA: 463
USA: 454
NJ: 1789, NY: 1681, CT: 1239
AZ: 454, GA: 330, FL: 276, TX: 179
How often CNN will show this: never
Source: http://worldometers.info/coronavirus
Death per 1M people
Belgium: 847, UK: 674, Spain: 608
ITA: 581, SWE: 564, FRA: 463
USA: 454
NJ: 1789, NY: 1681, CT: 1239
AZ: 454, GA: 330, FL: 276, TX: 179
How often CNN will show this: never
Source: http://worldometers.info/coronavirus
98 Days until the Big Show - Presidential Slogans
Trump:
Promises Made, Promises Kept
Buy America, Hire American
Keep America Great
Jobs not Mobs
Biden:
Our best days still lie ahead
Restore the soul of America
Build Back Better
No Malarkey!
Kamala Harris:
I got a new face!
Trump:
Promises Made, Promises Kept
Buy America, Hire American
Keep America Great
Jobs not Mobs
Biden:
Our best days still lie ahead
Restore the soul of America
Build Back Better
No Malarkey!
Kamala Harris:
I got a new face!
97 Days until the Big Show - Foreign Policy
"Trump Pulls Nearly 12K Troops from Germany"
At 2014 NATO Wales Summit, ALL allies commit to spend 2% of GDP on defense
Current German spending: 1.36% (in 2016: 1.19%)
Underspent by Germany: $23.15 billion per year !
Source: NATO
"Trump Pulls Nearly 12K Troops from Germany"
At 2014 NATO Wales Summit, ALL allies commit to spend 2% of GDP on defense
Current German spending: 1.36% (in 2016: 1.19%)
Underspent by Germany: $23.15 billion per year !
Source: NATO
96 Days until the Big Show
The choice we face....
Trump: Tweeter-in-Chief
Biden: Deepfake-in-Chief
The choice we face....
Trump: Tweeter-in-Chief
Biden: Deepfake-in-Chief
95 Days until the Big Show - USA is the Greatest Country on Earth
US Constitution & Bill of Rights, Emancipation Proclamation, Russian Famine Relief, Lend-Lease, Marshall Plan, NATO Article 5, Berlin Airlift, 1st Man on the Moon, Helsinki Accords, Fall of Communism, & much more!
US Constitution & Bill of Rights, Emancipation Proclamation, Russian Famine Relief, Lend-Lease, Marshall Plan, NATO Article 5, Berlin Airlift, 1st Man on the Moon, Helsinki Accords, Fall of Communism, & much more!
94 Days until the Big Show - Sextilis the 1st
Augustus (AKA Octavian) renamed this month for himself with an eye toward July (originally Quintilis) being renamed for Julius Caesar.
Both Augustus & Julius were great emperors, but questionable characters. History, dear history...
Augustus (AKA Octavian) renamed this month for himself with an eye toward July (originally Quintilis) being renamed for Julius Caesar.
Both Augustus & Julius were great emperors, but questionable characters. History, dear history...
93 Days until the Big Show - Potsdam Conference
75 yrs ago today, the Potsdam Conf ended. Featuring the only meeting btw Truman & Stalin, & both Churchill & Attlee, the main agreement was on the postwar fate of Germany- demilitarization, occupation & territorial adjustment.
75 yrs ago today, the Potsdam Conf ended. Featuring the only meeting btw Truman & Stalin, & both Churchill & Attlee, the main agreement was on the postwar fate of Germany- demilitarization, occupation & territorial adjustment.
92 Days until the Big Show
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles...the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust & sweat & blood; who strives valiantly...who comes short again & again”
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles...the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust & sweat & blood; who strives valiantly...who comes short again & again”
91 Days until the Big Show - US Coronavirus Fatalities
Age 65 & older: 79.6% of all fatalities
Age 55 & older: 92% of all fatalities
COVID median fatality age: 78
US life expectancy: 78.6
Sources: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6928e1.htm and https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/life-expectancy.htm
Age 65 & older: 79.6% of all fatalities
Age 55 & older: 92% of all fatalities
COVID median fatality age: 78
US life expectancy: 78.6
Sources: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6928e1.htm and https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/life-expectancy.htm
90 Days until the Big Show
Famagusta. Aphrodisias. Cottonelia. Truth or Consequences. Stuttgart. Nome. Ørland. Thebes. Best city names ever.
Famagusta. Aphrodisias. Cottonelia. Truth or Consequences. Stuttgart. Nome. Ørland. Thebes. Best city names ever.
89 Days until the Big Show
People who hate their own country are a miserable breed.
People who hate their own country are a miserable breed.
88 Days until the Big Show
Requiescat in pace LtGen Brent Scowcroft - a true patriot & statesman.
“An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.”
Here’s to following your example & successfully carrying thru ideas to better the world.
Requiescat in pace LtGen Brent Scowcroft - a true patriot & statesman.
“An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.”
Here’s to following your example & successfully carrying thru ideas to better the world.
87 Days until the Big Show - 08082020
We are men of action. Lies do not become us.
We are men of action. Lies do not become us.
86 Days until the Big Show
August 9th, 75 years ago - 2nd atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, leading to end of WW2
August 9th, today - Revolution begins in Belarus, a country devastated and transformed by WW2
To peace and freedom
August 9th, 75 years ago - 2nd atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, leading to end of WW2
August 9th, today - Revolution begins in Belarus, a country devastated and transformed by WW2
To peace and freedom
85 Days until the Big Show - 8-10-20
Epic day: gallows put up in Beirut, Greek & Turkish ships armed standoff in the East Med, protests & crackdowns continue in Belarus for the 2nd night, & President Trump handling a shooting at the White House like a boss. Bring it on 2020!
Epic day: gallows put up in Beirut, Greek & Turkish ships armed standoff in the East Med, protests & crackdowns continue in Belarus for the 2nd night, & President Trump handling a shooting at the White House like a boss. Bring it on 2020!
84 Days until the Big Show - Kamala Day!
So now, it’s officially:
Trump/Pence vs. Biden/Harris
Fun fact: Kamala’s father is Donald J. Harris. It was meant to be....
So now, it’s officially:
Trump/Pence vs. Biden/Harris
Fun fact: Kamala’s father is Donald J. Harris. It was meant to be....
83 Days until the Big Show
“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
Sir Winston L. S. Churchill
November 10, 1942
“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
Sir Winston L. S. Churchill
November 10, 1942
82 Days until the Big Show
1979: Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty
1994: Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty
2020: Israel-UAE Peace Treaty
Congrats President Trump & all who worked hard on this historic agreement! Looking at the trend above, can’t wait for the next Israel peace treaty in 2057!
1979: Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty
1994: Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty
2020: Israel-UAE Peace Treaty
Congrats President Trump & all who worked hard on this historic agreement! Looking at the trend above, can’t wait for the next Israel peace treaty in 2057!
81 Days until the Big Show
“That is no country for old men. The young in one another's arms, birds in the trees– those dying generations– at their song, the salmon‐falls, the mackerel‐crowded seas, fish, flesh or fowl, commend all summer long
Whatever is begotten, born & dies.”
“That is no country for old men. The young in one another's arms, birds in the trees– those dying generations– at their song, the salmon‐falls, the mackerel‐crowded seas, fish, flesh or fowl, commend all summer long
Whatever is begotten, born & dies.”
80 Days until the Big Show
“But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make of hammered gold & gold enamelling to keep a drowsy Emperor awake; or set upon a golden bough to sing to lords & ladies of Byzantium
Of what is past, or passing, or to come.”
“But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make of hammered gold & gold enamelling to keep a drowsy Emperor awake; or set upon a golden bough to sing to lords & ladies of Byzantium
Of what is past, or passing, or to come.”
79 Days until the Big Show
100 years ago today, the Polish Army under Józef Piłsudski routed the Soviets in the Battle of Warsaw, leading to victory in the Polish-Soviet War. Poland gained the Kresy territory that it kept until WW2, much of which is now part of #Belarus.
100 years ago today, the Polish Army under Józef Piłsudski routed the Soviets in the Battle of Warsaw, leading to victory in the Polish-Soviet War. Poland gained the Kresy territory that it kept until WW2, much of which is now part of #Belarus.
78 Days until the Big Show
Day 1 of the Democratic National Convention
As I listen to turncoat John Kasich, I’m reminded of Edmund Burke’s words:
“Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”
To our American history, and to our American future.
Day 1 of the Democratic National Convention
As I listen to turncoat John Kasich, I’m reminded of Edmund Burke’s words:
“Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”
To our American history, and to our American future.
77 Days until the Big Show
It's high time to properly anglicize the verb "to tweet".
Let's make it: tweet, twit, have twitten
Just be careful on the pronunciation of the second one....
It's high time to properly anglicize the verb "to tweet".
Let's make it: tweet, twit, have twitten
Just be careful on the pronunciation of the second one....
76 Days until the Big Show
As if 2020 didn’t feature enough.... https://www.thereporter.com/2020/08/19/fires-north-of-vacaville-cause-evacuations-en-masse/
As if 2020 didn’t feature enough.... https://www.thereporter.com/2020/08/19/fires-north-of-vacaville-cause-evacuations-en-masse/
75 Days until the Big Show
Biden wraps up the DNC as the Democratic candidate for President. But best analyst of 2020 race explains the Democrats’ deal:
“They’re gonna be beat. They’re gonna be beat bad, and they did it to themselves.”
Biden wraps up the DNC as the Democratic candidate for President. But best analyst of 2020 race explains the Democrats’ deal:
“They’re gonna be beat. They’re gonna be beat bad, and they did it to themselves.”
74 Days until the Big Show
“Come live with me and be my love,
and we will all the pleasures prove....
The Shepherds’ Swains shall dance and sing for thy delight each May-morning: if these delights thy mind may move, then live with me, and be my love.”
- Christopher Marlowe
“Come live with me and be my love,
and we will all the pleasures prove....
The Shepherds’ Swains shall dance and sing for thy delight each May-morning: if these delights thy mind may move, then live with me, and be my love.”
- Christopher Marlowe
73 Days until the Big Show
Exactly 535 years ago today, the Lancastrians won the Battle of Bosworth Field, the last significant conflict of the War of the Roses. Henry Tudor became King Henry VII upon the accidental death of Yorkist King Richard III by Edmund Blackadder....
Exactly 535 years ago today, the Lancastrians won the Battle of Bosworth Field, the last significant conflict of the War of the Roses. Henry Tudor became King Henry VII upon the accidental death of Yorkist King Richard III by Edmund Blackadder....
72 Days until the Big Show
People killed by Communism: 94,000,000
(Black Book of Communism, Laffont)
Some idiot here today made more of the same old tired arguments why #communism isn't so bad.
Read this article about the evils of both Hitler & Stalin: https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2011/01/27/hitler-vs-stalin-who-was-worse/
People killed by Communism: 94,000,000
(Black Book of Communism, Laffont)
Some idiot here today made more of the same old tired arguments why #communism isn't so bad.
Read this article about the evils of both Hitler & Stalin: https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2011/01/27/hitler-vs-stalin-who-was-worse/
71 Days until the Big Show
First Night of the Republican National Convention
On a night of many great speeches, Maximo Alvarez' had the greatest emotional impact. What a true patriot and a real American. God bless him and his family.
First Night of the Republican National Convention
On a night of many great speeches, Maximo Alvarez' had the greatest emotional impact. What a true patriot and a real American. God bless him and his family.
70 Days until the Big Show
2nd Night of the #RNC
More great speeches, esp. Melania's. But Rand nailed it:
"I support Trump because he believes as I do that a strong America cannot fight endless wars. We must not continue to leave our blood & treasure in Middle East quagmires."
2nd Night of the #RNC
More great speeches, esp. Melania's. But Rand nailed it:
"I support Trump because he believes as I do that a strong America cannot fight endless wars. We must not continue to leave our blood & treasure in Middle East quagmires."
69 Days until the Big Show
100 years ago today, the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution was certified and came into force, granting women the right to vote. https://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/19th-amendment
100 years ago today, the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution was certified and came into force, granting women the right to vote. https://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/19th-amendment
68 Days until the Big Show
TRUMP TRUMPS HATE
The #RNCConvention2020 is over, and the Trump-haters are angry and scared, because they know what's coming!
Great convention, great energy all the way to victory!
TRUMP TRUMPS HATE
The #RNCConvention2020 is over, and the Trump-haters are angry and scared, because they know what's coming!
Great convention, great energy all the way to victory!
67 Days until the Big Show
"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs & blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance...too....
If you can meet with Triumph & Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same...."
"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs & blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance...too....
If you can meet with Triumph & Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same...."
66 Days until the Big Show
“Kalinka, kalinka, kalinka moya!
V sadu yagoda malinka, malinka moya!
Akh, pod sosnoyu, pod zelenoyu,
Spat' polozhite vy menya!”
“Kalinka, kalinka, kalinka moya!
V sadu yagoda malinka, malinka moya!
Akh, pod sosnoyu, pod zelenoyu,
Spat' polozhite vy menya!”
64 Days until the Big Show
Tomorrow is September 1st, the 81st anniversary of the start of WW2. Let's pray there will never be a WW3.
For free Gdansk, free Poland, free Europe & the free world!
Power to the POTUS to preserve freedom & democracy for the USA & the world forever!
Tomorrow is September 1st, the 81st anniversary of the start of WW2. Let's pray there will never be a WW3.
For free Gdansk, free Poland, free Europe & the free world!
Power to the POTUS to preserve freedom & democracy for the USA & the world forever!
63 Days until the Big Show
