My Comments on the Election Fallout

 The Missing Votes:

There is No Good to Come of This:

Obituary: Quincy Jones

 Obituary:  Probably the big story of  today, besides it being the last day before the U.S. general election, was the death of famed music producer Quincy Jones, who passed away at the age of 91.  He was a major figure in American popular music.

Snip:

Born March 14, 1933, to Sarah and Quincy Delight Jones, he and his younger brother, Lloyd, grew up in gang-riddled Great Depression Chicago. His mother suffered from mental illness and was institutionalized when he was 5, and his father moved the family to Bremerton, Washington.

When he was 11, Jones broke into the Armory recreation center in Bremerton to steal food. Inside, he found an upright piano. As he would later say in interviews, this was the moment that led him from a childhood of petty crime to a life of music.

His chance encounter with the piano led Jones to try a medley of instruments before settling on the trumpet. By age 14, he was playing the club circuit with 16-year-old friend Ray Charles, freewheeling from jazz to big band to bebop. After high school, Jones toured the world with jazz greats Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie.

He worked with many of the major figures in Americab popular music. He also had been married for quit a few years to Peggy Lipton before they split in 1990. She died five years ago. Quincy Jones died yesterday. ______________________________

Some Sunday Reads

 This is an example of why so few rapes are ever reported.  What a deal to have to resort to what this girl did.

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How did the antiabortion movement become a cause without any real candidate to rally around?

Since their perspective is a losing one, more and more fringe, their movement will eventually die out.

Women aren't returning to the kitchen being nothing but childbearers.  That era is dead and gone, thank God.

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Some Saturday Things

 I certainly hope the country roundly sends Donald Trump packing:

Unfortunately,  Trump's "movement" is going to last for years to come, and the movement to fascism isn't going away.

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Trump continues to go lower every single day.  This time he had a whole new meaning of the phrase, "Trump is going down." Embarrassing to say the least.

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If this is true, Democrats are looking at a decisive EC win.

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Breeders' Cup 2024 Results

All the videos were taken from the official Breeders' Cup World Championships YouTube page, which no doubt got permission from NBC/Universal.  

Three-year-old Sierra Leone came back from a string of Grade 1 losses to win this year's Classic.  Fierceness was second, while Forever Young came in third.

It and the rest of the card were held at California's Del Mar track.

Earlier:

Distaff:   Thorpedo Anna came closer to Horse of the Years honors with her victory in today's Distaff.

Juvenile:  Citizen Bull

Turf Sprint:  It was notable for one horse, Believing, being scratched after she flipped in the starting gate.  She and her rider were okay.

Starlust won the race.

Breeders' Cup Turf:  Sadly, and it was unavoidable, Jayarebe had suffered a fatal heart attack  after finishing the race.  He was seventh.  

Winner was Rebel's Romance

Juvenile Fillies Turf: Lake Victoria

Juvenile Turf:   Henri Matisse

Filly and Mare Sprint:  Soul of an Angel

Juvenile Turf Sprint:  Magnum Force

Juvenile Fillies:  Immersive

Filly and Mare Turf:  Moira

Sprint:  Straight No Chaser

Mile:  More  Than Looks

Dirt Mile:  Full Serrano

A Few Reads

 Crybaby "Christian" male supremacists are all butthurt over the prospect their wives might actually vote differently from them.

This is why a few of them are talking about taking away women's right  to vote. Too bad, so sad, dimwits.

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What in the hell? Seriously.

What is happening pic.twitter.com/YPM8eMuIaL

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 2, 2024

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Some Thursday Whatever

 No surprise when there are people, including legislators, who truly believe women are nothing but things for men to screw and objects good for incubating:

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A lawsuit filed by a would-be garbage collector which is nothing but garbage.

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Some Wednesday Notes

 The one thing writers need to do is to quit calling these crackpots "conservatives."  They are no such thing, and that is certainly true when it comes to the issue of abortion.

These people are stuck in a time warp that has long since passed. Women will never again go back into the home and be financially dependent on men while having child after child.   They just want.  The birthrates and marriage rates will continue to go into the ditch.

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Donald Trump has always been demented, and he is getting worse.  It is, however, folly to diagnose somebody who is already screwed up as having "cognitive decline," whatever the fuck that means.

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Garbage in, garbage out:

Trump takes questions from reporters from a garbage truck

“250 million people are not garbage,” he said, hopping into the passenger side pic.twitter.com/1oxKBBQf7d

— Kit Maher (@KitMaherCNN) October 30, 2024

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Trump continues to bleed support.  This time former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has endorsed VP Harris for president.

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The irony of Trump riding in a garbage truck with his name on it is stunning to behold:

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