CONTINUED FROM YESTERDAY....
The rifle qualification was near the end of basic training. At some point in time
they asked me if I wanted to go to Leadership Training School. I said no and they
sent me anyway. Another two weeks of hell on earth. But I survived it.
When I was first drafted the recruiters asked me what field of study I would like
and what country I would like to go to. I replied saying I would like to study
accounting and go to the Philippines. They sent me to Ft. Gorden, Georgia to train
as a Military Policeman and later loaded me along with a lot of other soldiers on
troop ship headed for the Republic of South Korea. They should have told me what
they were going to do with my military life and not even asked.
Back to Ft. Polk and the Leadership Training School. After I graduated from there
I....
TO BE CONTINUED....
HEALTH
I don't know if I told you before, but I have arthritis of the spine. The X-ray was
taken when I pulled some muscles in my back that I did tell you about.
It must be gene related because Mother took two 800 mg of Tylenol
every 6 hours for a very long time and then quit all at once, asking me for the
same two tabs maybe once a week.
I'm in continues pain in my back right now and am wearing a back brace and will
take one Motrin later this morning. This don't get rid of the pain entirely, but it
makes it much more tolerable.
If this persists I'll probably call Dr. Kwok's office for an appointment.
The nurse will take my vitals and asked what they always ask: "Have you fallen
since you've been here last?" And I'll lie and say, "no I haven't."
I slipped on the carpeted steps and butt bumped about three steps to the bottom.
I also fell and is explained in the WEATHER section of this story.
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"The world is enjoying the soap opera, that is called the American Presidential
Election."
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US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
BBC News
BBC Poll of Polls
Today Nov 8 Clinton 48% Trump 44%
Yesterday Nov 7 Clinton 45% Trump 44 %
Last updated November 8
Election day November 8
Today is the day.
Trump takes 32-25 lead in New Hampshire after midnight voting
USA TODAY , WTLV 5:10 AM. EST November 08, 2016
"As the world waits with bated breath for the results of Tuesday's contentious
presidential election, its eyes turned briefly to three sleepy hamlets in rural
New Hampshire, as their residents — fewer than 100 total — became the first in
the nation to cast their ballots.
In Dixville Notch, Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump 4-2. Libertarian Gary
Johnson received one vote, and the 2012 Republican candidate, Mitt Romney
received a surprise write-in ballot. In the slightly larger burg of Hart's Location,
Clinton won with 17 votes to Trump's 14. Johnson got three votes, while
write-ins Bernie Sanders and John Kasich each got one. And in Millsfield,
Trump won decisively, 16-4, with one write-in for Bernie Sanders.
So, in the three New Hampshire towns with midnight voting, Trump came out
ahead 32-25.
According to New Hampshire law, communities with under 100 voters can
open their polls at midnight and close them as soon as all registered voters
have cast their ballots.
The best known of these three towns, Dixville Notch, has been voting at
midnight every election since 1960. Neil Tillotson, the former owner of the
Balsams Grant Resort Hotel, which closed in 2011, started midnight voting
in Dixville in 1960 to stir up publicity for the resort. Almost all of the Dixville
voters are employees of the resort .
This could be Dixville's last year in the election spotlight, however. Les Otten,
a New England businessman, bought the Balsams and plans to redevelop it
into a massive ski resort. That could bring the population in Dixville over 100
people, thereby ending its midnight voting tradition.
Hart's Location was the first town to begin the tradition of early voting in 1948.
According to the town's website, it started when the town was "inhabited mostly
by Maine Central Railroad workers and their families" and early voting
became the most convenient way for them to vote. But midnight voting was
abandoned in 1964, "when residents became tired of all the media ruckus
and voted to end it."
Hart's Location revived the practice in 1996. The town website blames
the 32-year lull in midnight voting as the reason Dixville Notch gets all the
attention, even though Dixville began the practice more than a decade later
than Hart's Location.
Millsfield, located just over 12 miles down the road from Dixville Notch, is
the newest town to get in on the act. Millsfield began midnight voting as
early as 1952 (no one seems certain exactly when) and stopped the practice
in the 1960s (again, no one seems certain exactly when). The town was invited
to take the tradition back up last year by New Hampshire's secretary of State,
in honor of the 100th anniversary of the New Hampshire primary.
“It’s important for us to revisit history that has been forgotten by most people,”
Wayne Urso, the Millsfield election official who is spearheading the midnight
vote told Medill News Service.
Don't read too much into the results from these towns. They lean conservative
and tend to vote Republican, and obviously represent an extremely small
sample. Dixville voted for the Republican in every election since 1960 —
including Barry Goldwater who lost in a landslide to Lyndon Johnson — until
going for Obama in 2008, and splitting the vote between Romney and Obama
in 2012.
Since reviving midnight voting, Hart's Location voted for Dole in 1996, Bush
in 2000 and 2004, and, like Dixville, broke with tradition to vote for Obama
in 2008 and 2012.
Dixville had a better track record in the GOP primary and predicted every
Republican nominee since 1968 (counting ties in 1980 and 2012), but that streak
came to a crashing halt when John Kasich edged out the future nominee, Donald
Trump 3-2."
MY OPINION
I believe that if the election is close for either candidate in the Electoral College,
the losing candidate will contest the vote in the state (s) that are close.
thehill.com
International monitors at US polling spots draw criticism from voter fraud groups.
By Alexander Bolton - 10/20/
"United Nations-affiliated election monitors from Europe and central Asia will be
at polling places around the U.S. looking for voter suppression activities by
conservative groups, a concern raised by civil rights groups during a meeting
this week. The intervention has drawn criticism from a prominent conservative-
leaning group combating election fraud.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a United
Nations partner on democratization and human rights projects, will deploy 44
observers from its human rights office around the country on Election Day to
monitor an array of activities, including potential disputes at polling places.
It's part of a broader observation mission that will send out an
additional 80 to 90 members of parliament from nearly 30 countries.
Liberal-leaning civil rights groups met with representatives from the OSCE
this week to raise their fears about what they say are systematic efforts to
suppress minority voters likely to vote for President Obama.
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the NAACP and
the ACLU, among other groups, warned this month in a letter to Daan Everts,
a senior official with OSCE, of “a coordinated political effort to disenfranchise
millions of Americans — particularly traditionally disenfranchised groups like
minorities.”
The request for foreign monitoring of election sites drew a strong rebuke
from Catherine Engelbrecht, founder and president of True the Vote, a
conservative-leaning group seeking to crack down on election fraud.
“These activist groups sought assistance not from American sources, but from
the United Nations,” she said in a statement to The Hill. “The United Nations
has no jurisdiction over American elections.”
Neil Simon, director of communications for the OSCE’s parliamentary
assembly, agreed the U.N. does not have jurisdiction over U.S. elections but
noted all OSCE member counties, which include the United States, have
committed since 1990 to hold free and democratic elections and to allow one
another to observe their elections.
The observers, from countries such as Germany, France, Serbia, Belarus,
Ukraine and Kazakhstan, will observe voting at polling places and other
political activity.
“They [will] observe the overall election process, not just the ballot casting,”
said Giovanna Maiola, spokeswoman for OSCE. “They are focusing on a
number of areas on the state level, including the legal system, election
administration, the campaign, the campaign financing [and] new voting
technologies used in the different states.”
In a follow-up e-mail, Maiola noted that it is a limited election-observation
mission. She said “the OSCE has regularly been invited to observe elections
in the United States, in line with OSCE commitments.”
Access of international observers during voting is explicitly allowed in some
states such as Missouri, South Dakota, North Dakota and New Mexico.
“State law does not generally provide for international observers,” Maiola
said. “However, through our contacts at state and county level in certain
states, we managed to secure invitations at local level and we have taken
up the offer to observe. Where this is not possible, we will respect the state
regulation on this matter and will not observe in precincts on Election Day.”
International observers will follow up on the concerns raised by civil rights
groups.
“We attended their meeting, we took note of the issued they raised and we
asked our observers in the field to follow up on them,” said Maiola....
The OSCE has 56 participating states from Europe, Central Asia and North
America, including the United States and Canada. It has assessed elections in
the United States since 2002.
Voting is expected to be more contentious this November than in past years
because of a running battle over election law pitting conservative groups and
Republican state officials against the Obama administration and liberal allies.
The Obama campaign scored a victory this week when the Supreme Court
declined to hear an appeal filed by Republican officials in Ohio seeking to
limit the state’s early voting program.
Last month in Wisconsin, the state Supreme Court declined to immediately
review lower-court rulings invalidating a voter-identification law signed by
Republican Gov. Scott Walker.
In Florida, judges stopped attempts to restrict voter-registration drives but
allowed measures to reduce days of early voting and to remove non-citizens
from voting rolls to stand.
Both sides expect wrangling over voter identification and eligibility to extend
to polling places and are recruiting armies of volunteers for Election-Day
showdowns.
True the Vote, a group with Tea Party origins, has an ambitious plan to deploy
hundreds of thousands of volunteers at polling stations to monitor election fraud.
“We may surpass a million volunteers or fall short, it will be hard to know,”
said Engelbrecht. “But we’re very excited about the level of enthusiasm, the
number of volunteers, and the fact that we had a positive impact in bringing
awareness to this important issue, of election integrity."
Democratic allies will counter with their own forces. The AFL-CIO will
dispatch 300 lawyers to monitor poll workers and third-party groups
challenging voter registration.
The Advancement Project, a self-described multi-racial civil rights
organization, will send more than 3,000 poll watchers to battleground states.
The Election Protection coalition, which includes Democratic allies such as
the Sierra Club, Service Employees International Union and People for the
American Way, plans to recruit 8,000 to 10,000 volunteers to cover 80 cities
and counties.
“We hope that all groups that are putting people at a polling place, that they
should follow the law and they should be there to make sure that responsible
Americans who wish to participate in our democracy are able to free of
intimidation,” said Eric Marshall, co-leader of Election Protection.
Civil rights groups have complained about what they say are subtle efforts of
intimidation. They point to a billboard campaign in swing states such as Ohio
warning voter fraud is a felony punishable by up to three and a half years in
prison and a $10,000 fine.
Engelbrecht of True the Vote says intimidation is not her group’s motive.
“We are not in the business of picking winners or losers, but instead, to ensure
that the process is iron-clad,” she said. “Properly trained a capable poll
watchers or workers should offer no indication of their partisan or ideological
leanings to voters at the polls.”"
This story was updated Oct. 21 at 4:26 p.m.
PAST US PRESIDENTS
Some things you might not know of past US Presidents.
Credit Bendon, Ashland, Ohio 44085
bendonpub.com
The 41st President was George Herbert Walker Bush. George H. W. Bush was
Ambassador to the United Nations and Director of the CIA (Central Intelligence
Agency). He was President during the Persian Gulf War.
The 42nd President William Jefferson Clinton. He became the third youngest
President at age 46. During his administration, the U. S. experienced more
peace and economic well-being that at any time in its history.
The 43rd President was George Walker Bush. He is the son of George H. W.
Bush, the 41st President. He was President during some of our nation's most
difficult times - the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, the wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq, and Hurricane Katrina, which flooded the city of New
Orleans.
The 44th President Barack Hussein Obama II. Barack Obama is the first African-
American President. His father was from Kenya, his mother was from Kansas,
and his step-father was from Indonesia - giving Obama a diverse, uniquely
American heritage. Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for efforts to
strengthen international diplomacy.
Who will be our next past President after President Obama? Will it be Hillary
Clinton or Donald Trump?
WEATHER
Weather for Smithville, Ohio
Today RAIN 64° 44°
Wed SCATTERED_SHOWERS 49° 34°
Thu SUNNY 57° 40°
Fri Cloudy 51° 31°
The Weather Channel - Weather Underground - AccuWeather
I went to the Walmart in Massillon, Ohio yesterday to get more rose colored tint
on my two pair of new glasses. I brought my old pair with the correct tint so
they could compare it to what I wanted done to my two new pair.
I was thinking they could do it the same day, but I was wrong, they couldn't.
I left all three pair of glasses and I now can see better at typing this story than
I have in years.
I spent all that money, about $300, for the two pair of glasses and tint (tint cost
$10 plus tax for each pair) and come to find out I don't need eyeglasses after all.
When I got back to the house I loaded the gasoline can into the cart, hooked up
the water hose and other things I needed and went back to the fire pit.
I checked the water hose for water and then placed old unneeded papers
into the fire pit. I then doused it all with gasoline. I lighted an old used paper
towel and threw on the fire pit. Woosh!! I fell down and to my right my elbow
hitting my forehead, but I escaped the flames of the sudden fire.
The fire burned only about 20% of the unwanted plants because some limbs of
the pine tree are sticking out over the fire pit edges and wetness of the
sunflowers inside their trunks are keeping the fire from making a complete burn.
It's not suppose to rain until after 4:00 PM today, so I should have time to cut up
the pine branches and sunflower trunks and repeat what I did yesterday.
Except for me falling, of course.
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