Politics
Why we should prepare
Why we should prepare
6/13/21 by off grid Gary
Talking about storms natural disasters and pandemics
Officials begin inspections of nearby buildings after Florida condo collapse leaves at least 9 dead and more than 100 missing – CNN
Here is my theory of what happened.
Roughly 90% of the residents got the COVID vaccine. Then for some unexplained reason, a resident starting playing Martha and the Vandella's Dancing in the Streets on once each hour. It started with a few dozen residents dancing and putting their feet down on the down beat but soon nearly everyone in the building was joining in. The harmonics were too much for the building which went critical and failed. One person dancing might not destroy a building but hundreds slamming their feet down at the same time just might. But the Main Stream Media won't report on the dance party or the vaccination status of residents. #COVIDVACCINEVICTIMS #conspiracy
Today’s Almanac
Today’s Almanac
Night before dawn is 4 hours and 42 minutes,
Dawn starts at 4:42 am and runs for 34 minutes,
Sunrise is at 5:16 am which is 6 hours and 43 minutes before noon,
High noon, the transit of the sun, is at 12:56 pm,
From twelve noon to the sunset at 8:35 pm is 8 hours and 35 minutes,
Dusk lasts for 25 minutes concluding at 9:10 pm,
Leaving 2 hours and 49 minutes until midnight.
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Ranked-choice voting (RCV) – Ballotpedia
A ranked-choice voting system (RCV) is an electoral system in which voters rank candidates by preference on their ballots. If a candidate wins a majority of first-preference votes, he or she is declared the winner. If no candidate wins a majority of first-preference votes, the candidate with the fewest first-preference votes is eliminated. First-preference votes cast for the failed candidate are eliminated, lifting the second-preference choices indicated on those ballots. A new tally is conducted to determine whether any candidate has won a majority of the adjusted votes. The process is repeated until a candidate wins an outright majority.
How GOP State Legislatures Are Remaking the Country – The Atlantic
Though this year’s proliferation of bills restricting ballot access in red states has commanded national attention, it represents just one stream in a torrent of conservative legislation poised to remake the country. GOP-controlled states—including Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, Texas, Arizona, Iowa, and Montana—have advanced their most conservative agenda in years, and one that reflects Donald Trump’s present stamp on the Republican Party.
Tom McCall – Wikipedia
In 1970 McCall was faced with a potential riot in Portland. In May of that year a week-long student protest at Portland State University over the Kent State shootings had ended with charges of excessive police violence. The American Legion had scheduled a convention in Portland later that summer; local antiwar groups were organizing a series of demonstrations at the same time under the name of the "People's Army Jamboree" and expected to draw up to 50,000 protesters.
After attempts to convince the People's Army Jamboree to either not carry out their plans or to move the date, McCall decided to hold a rock festival at Milo McIver State Park near Estacada, Oregon called "Vortex I: A Biodegradable Festival of Life," in imitation of the famous Woodstock Festival held the previous year.
"I think I just committed political suicide," McCall is reported to have remarked immediately after approving the event. Vortex was the first and so far only state-sponsored rock festival in U.S. history.
The festival, nicknamed "The Governor's Pot Party" by Oregonians, was a success, attracting between 50,000 and 100,000 people. Gold, The Portland Zoo, Osceola, Fox, and Chrome Cyrcus were among the bands that played. The media announced that Santana, Jefferson Airplane, and the Grateful Dead were on the way, but none of them appeared. The feared violent clash between the antiwar groups and the conservative American Legion was avoided, and the city of Portland passed the summer relatively uneventfully. McCall was re-elected in November, with 56% of the vote.