I'm not that into politics and could not care less about what is happening but I suppose I need to make a casual mention.
GREAT NIGHT FOR THE DEMOCRATS (not that I care)
Oh - did I say that outloud? Sorry
OK - first the obvious - Chris Christie lost - not a big surprise but he lost more bigly then people thought he would. Exit polls were all about giving the finger to Christie as 50% of the voters were voting AGAINST Christie. You could have run a sock against him and the sock would have won.
Then of course there is Ralph Northam who won the Virginia governorship.
The transgender community had a big victory as Danica Roem, the first openly transgender candidate beat GOP tea party homophobic dude that sponsored the anti-transgender bathroom bill for the House of Delegates in Virginia and beat him bigly. She becomes the first openly transgender individual EVER to elected to a state legislature. Also an openly transgender candidate was elected to the city council in Minneapolis, and in Palm Springs. And an openly transgender candidate elected to the school board in Erie, Pa.
Chris Hurst, who's wife was killed on live TV a few years ago as she was reporting the news won. He quite his job at the television station last year to run in his wife's honor and was not suppose to win. He Did
Redistricting was a winner for the Dems. As those two Governors are a key to stopping the GOP and their gerrymandering and put a huge dent into the GOP plans to solidify their ground.
Gerrymandering wins elections - look at Wisconsin.
The losers were of course Trump who within minutes of losing threw all the losers under the bus and claiming it was not his fault (even though his voice was on robo calls all day yesterday) and he says because they are gone the GOP will now win even bigger and better then before (sounds like Hitler claiming victory in WWII).
Steve Bannon was a big loser and looks like a fool after bragging about the huge victory's coming.
The problem now for the GOP candidates is that Trump has been proven toxic, do they bow down to the woman groper or do they distance themselves and feel his wrath.
Anyway - a good night.
OH - another big winner last night were 70 immigrants as the Trump Organization just won visas to hire 70 foreign workers at Mar-a-Lago. Not enough Americans to work for low pay.
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Then their is the Bucks who traded Greg Monroe (final year of his max contract) for Eric Bledsoe who has been a bubble boy All-Star for the last 3 years. ALMOST an All-Star.
He will be a solid Point Guard to go with Point Forward Gannis Antetokounmpo who scored 40 last night and leads the league in scoring. This hurts Brogden, last years Rookie of the Year and the first 2nd round pick to ever be Rookie of the Year in the NBA.
The Bucks also get a first AND second round pick next year and this pretty much guarantee's a playoff birth this year.
Last night LeBron James said Gannis Antetokounmpo could be the best player ever to play in the NBA. A once in a lifetime player Gannis (23 years old) is a one man highlight film, If you watch sports news, every night he plays there is a highlight where the announcers go WOW!!! Amazing.
https://youtu.be/6kqJyuHgLMY
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Snapchat lost 17% of it's value yesterday . . . . . yea - me neither.
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Phoenix will have it's first 100% driverless car in operation that will cover 600 square miles. You can catch a ride and not have to talk to a human.
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Seems like Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross overstated his worth on his job application. He claimed to be worth $3.7 BILLION but in reality he is only worth $700 million. More lies? You might say $700 million is good enough but that is far far far less then $3.7 BILLION!
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OH OH - seems Trump was going make a surprise visit to the Korean DMZ (seriously, is that a smart move? ) but God said NO! and moved in fog 5 minutes before they landed.
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Sadly my name change will have to be put on hold and I'm glad I did not tell Patrick the City Admin to change my name plate.
Once I heard that P,Diddy was changing his name to Brother Love I felt - FINALLY - I can have my name back and I will official change Rod Melotte to P. Diddy! HOWEVER - seems he was just blowing smoke down his lungs and did not change it.
I will not have to change my rapper name to . . . Que Tip. Or maybe Kay Why Jelly!
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What's daddy cookin tonight!!
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Another shot of Columbus from near the top of the hill.
I LOVE the new sidewalks and bike lanes on The Landing Strip. Some people will complain because the liked the old worn out look but old and worn out was more then just words. New infrastructure was needed to replace the old worn out infrastructure.
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Anybody with chickens in Columbus - you better register them. You can only have 4 you know. Just sayin'
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Expect to see snow Sunday. Not really any accumulation but certainly white stuff. The high Friday MIGHT not make it to 30 but ramping way up to 36 on Saturday. Mid 40s next week. Sunny the rest of this week but c c c cold.
Steve Carlton - I was going to mention him last week and forgot. I was looking at Strat-o-matic cards and his name popped up. Good lord he was outstanding. 1972 - 30 COMPLETE GAMES.
He won 27 games in 1972 and his team the Phillies only won 57 games total. Good Grief!
Anyway - Have a day.
