COLUMBUS, Ohio: Los Angeles will have two nearly identical Democrats running for Mayor in November. The outsider, Spencer Pratt, was in second place behind Mayor Bass from election day until a week later. They kept the voting open until enough additional ballots arrived to knock out Pratt. Then they quit counting.
In Sacramento, they tried the same strategy but finally gave up when Tom Steyer could not buy enough extra votes to move ahead of Steve Hilton in the race for Governor.
Keep in mind there is no evidence the above “speculations” are true. But the California voting system is so messed up that this scenario seems logical. Democrats already have 85% of registered voters and they seem determined to drive out the other 15%. They are jealous of Putin who gets 98% of the vote.
You may disagree, but Democrats in a few races across the country have gone over the edge into socialism, bordering on communism. Platner in Maine and candidates in New Jersey, New York and Michigan are prime examples.
The New York Knicks won the NBA championship, repeatedly coming from behind to defeat San Antonio. In one game they were down by 29. You won’t see that in any of the games for the World Cup.
New York is celebrating after going 55 years without a Knicks’ championship. Being New York, the “celebration” included burning busses and cars, fights, and dozens of arrests.
Maybe next we can all get behind the Cleveland Browns; in 60 years they have never been to the Super Bowl. We’ll take a chance on any unruly celebrations.
You’ve probably heard about a fly called the New World Screwworm. Despite a billion-dollar effort to keep it from crossing the Rio Grande, Screwworms have grabbed onto healthy calves and other animals in Texas and New Mexico. There’s no safety concern about beef and other meat. But unless the infestation is discovered on an animal and treated, it will die.
To keep the Screwworm out, the border wall should have been covered with screen wire. Of course, the screen wall would need to reach a couple of hundred feet high to stop the flies. The real effort has been to breed millions and millions of sterile male flies to overwhelm the number of “normal” Screwworm males. The problem is that some of the female flies have gotten smart and avoid “sexual advances” by the sterile males. (With that, I have far exceeded my knowledge of entomology.)
Today is Flag Day. It commemorates June 14, 1777, when the Continental Congress officially adopted the design of the first American flag, as sewed by Betsy Ross. By chance, today is also the 80th birthday for President Trump.
President Trump just announced a deal with Iran. Will the Strait of Hormuz really be opened? Will Iran give up all access to nuclear weapon material? And did he get this deal without giving them a boatload of money?
Historic quotes by Will Rogers:
“Elections are really a good deal like marriages; there’s no accounting for anyone’s taste. Every time you see a bridegroom, we wonder why she picked him, and it’s the same with public officials.” WA #126, May 10, 1925
“If I was running for office, I would rather have two friends in the counting room than a Republican slush fund behind me. More candidates have been defeated after 6 o’clock in the evening than were ever defeated during election day.” WA #100, Nov. 9, 1924