Day: January 6, 2021

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Upcoming Holidays – January 6, 21

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  • Next Wednesday is Make Your Dream Come True Day 🏡 – Jan 13
  • Two Wednesdays until Inauguration Day ✅ – Jan 20
  • One month – Save the Pine Bush Turns 43 🦋 – Sat Feb 6
  • Five Wednesdays until Clean Your Computer Day 🧹 – Feb 10
  • Six Wednesdays until 5:30 PM Sunset 🌇 – Feb 17
  • Ten Wednesdays until St. Patrick’s Day 🍀 – Mar 17
  • 13 Wednesdays until 7:30 PM Sunset 🌇 – Apr 7
  • 17 Wednesdays until Cinco de Mayo 🤠 – May 5
  • 20 Wednesdays until Flower Moon 🌕 – May 26
  • 27 Wednesdays until National Nude Day 👱 – Jul 14
  • 34 Wednesdays until September 🍎 – Sep 1
  • Eight months – Labor Day 👨‍🏭 – Monday Sep 6
  • 37 Wednesdays until Corn Moon 🌕 – Sep 22
  • 37 Wednesdays until Autumn 🍂 – Sep 22
  • Ten months – Daylight Savings Time Ends 🛥️ – Saturday Nov 6
  • 44 Wednesdays until Day After Election Day 🛀 – Nov 10
  • 44 Wednesdays until Average High is 50 🍂 – Nov 10
  • 47 Wednesdays until December 🎄 – Dec 1
  • 11 months – Saint Nicholas Day 🎅 – Monday Dec 6
  • 49 Wednesdays until Bill of Rights Day 📜 – Dec 15
  • 50 Wednesdays until Days are Getting Longer ☀️ – Dec 22

Broken Channel

Hawaii was the ‘Florida’ of 1960 election

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Hawaii was the ‘Florida’ of 1960 election

In 1960, the Electoral College consisted of 537 members, of which Hawaii had three. The majority to win was 269 votes.

The initial results of the Nov. 8 election that year showed Vice President Richard Nixon 141 votes ahead of Sen. John Kennedy in Hawaii, and so the new state's three electoral votes were officially cast with Nixon.

The Hawaii vote, however, was so close that a recount was inevitable. Both parties made charges of voter fraud, although a court investigation later showed no evidence of tampering. Electors nationwide were scheduled to cast their ballots on ec. 19 that year, but the Hawaii recount was still under way when the date approached. Hawaii's Republican electors cast votes that day for Nixon, and one minute later, emocratic electors cast their three votes for Kennedy.

Trump Pressures Pence to Reject Electoral Votes – The New York Times

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Trump Pressures Pence to Reject Electoral Votes – The New York Times

The job has occasionally been unpleasant for vice presidents. In 1961, the state of Hawaii sent two slates of electors and the vice president, Richard M. Nixon, who had just lost the election to John . Kennedy, moved to count the emocratic electors, which expanded his own margin of defeat. orty years later, Al Gore was in a similar spot, burdened with overruling objections from his fellow emocrats and declaring the victory of George W. Bush — and his own defeat — after a drawn-out lorida recount that was ended by the Supreme Court. And in 2017, Mr. Biden, then the vice president, had to reject a emocratic challenge to Mr. Trump’s victory.

No, Pence can’t overturn the election results

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Fact check: No, Pence can’t overturn the election results

Pence, in his role as president of the Senate, is scheduled to preside over Congress' certification of the results Wednesday, as detailed by the 12th Amendment. But he can't intervene in the process.

The law governing the certification process, the Electoral Count Act of 1887, specifically limits the power of the president of the Senate precisely because a president of the Senate had intervened in the count previously. In 1857, after James Buchanan's win, the Senate president overruled an objection against Wisconsin electors who had been delayed in their certification process by a snowstorm in 1856.

Asshole of the year

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Reading that Tweet about the president blaming Mike Pence for certifying the election results, as required by law, probably wins Donald Trump the award of asshole of the year. Whatever you think of the Vice President, he has the job of firing his own self, as that’s what law and custom requires.

Snowy start to the winter

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According to the National Weather Service in Albany…

The Albany International Airport has had 32.0″ of snow this season (beginning July 1st 2020 technically). We are 13.0″ above normal to date. The seasonal normal is 60.3″ (based on 1981-2010 normal period).

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