My Head Is Full of Books: Sunday Salon -- Two days until the election!

"Outside a dog a book is man's best friend, inside a dog it is too dark to read!" -Groucho Marx========="The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." -Jane Austen========="I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book."-JK Rowling========"I spend a lot of time reading." -Bill Gates=========“Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.” -Jacqueline Kelly=========

Sunday, November 3, 2024

Sunday Salon -- Two days until the election!

My Halloween decorations this year. Notice the little donkey who snuck into the photo?
Go Dems!

Weather: Overcast, grey, and raining.

Two more days until the election. Today all I will share are fun or good news items I've found. I have had an emotional roller-coaster of a week. I imagine you have, too. I read or listened to some piece of political reporting that lifted me up and I'd be jubilant for a few minutes. Then I'd read another report that would send me into the basement of moods. Ugh. I hated it. So today, I have decided to share only good, positive pieces of news or entertainment that will make you smile in hopes that they buoy all of us up and give us the strength to get across the finish line intact. Here we go.

Me posting my ballot in an election drop box in the library parking lot. I've checked. My ballot made it to the election office! I voted blue all the way through.

1. First up. Kamala was on Saturday Night Live last night and it was pure joy.

2. Jamie Raskin on Bill Maher about the definition of fascism (okay, not so positive but helpful.)

"The political scientists have told us the hallmark characteristics of a fascist political party; number one, they don't accept the outcome of democratic elections that don't go their way. Number two, they embrace political violence." — Jamie Raskin on Bill Maher. pic.twitter.com/0AjicmY2xX
— Blue Georgia (@BlueATLGeorgia) November 2, 2024

"The political scientists have told us the hallmark characteristics of a fascist political party; number one, they don't accept the outcome of democratic elections that don't go their way. Number two, they embrace political violence." — Jamie Raskin on Bill Maher.

3. Women over 65 are voting for Harris. I'm in that group!

4. Ann Selzer, highly respected and accurate Iowa pollster, has Harris up by 3 points. In a state Trump won twice before!!! This poll hit the news yesterday is and is rocking the political world since Iowa wasn't even considered a swing state. (BBC) Is it possible that there will be an actual landslide? Is that asking too much?

5. Simon Rosenberg on Hopium Chronicles is bullish on Harris and the Dems. I spent an hour listening to his podcast this week. You could spend a lot of time looking at his site but let me sum up what his final message is: