Random News: November 8, 2022

DISCLAIMER: Zak's Random News is very random and doesn't cover many things, and not everything may be accurate, because I'm just some guy. Go find a real news source.

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Good morning. It’s November 8, 2022, and it’s a Tuesday… and it’s election day. Man, I hope you people vote. I really do.

• Let’s
• Fucking
• Go
• No one knows how today’s election will go, and chances are high that we won’t know at the end of the day either.
• Some races will be blowouts, and we’re expecting those.
• But like everything else in this crazy time and place, most places are polarized politically, and have just about equal numbers of Democrat and Republican, conservative and liberal people.
• Therefore, it might be awhile… a day, several days, weeks… before we know what has transpired as a whole. Worst case scenario has it coming down to runoff elections that don’t happen until December, or court cases over some perceived voting discrepancy and so on.
• We’ve seen it all before. Let’s do our best to be patient and let the process work itself through.
• It’s my opinion that this particular election actually transcends any label you’ve previously adopted for your personal political outlook.
• A vote for a Republican says that you specifically want abortion rights being removed from women nationwide. A vote for a Democrat means that you support all women and their right to choose their own reproductive life plans.
• A vote for a Republican means that you’re okay with Social Security being gutted and the oldest and most vulnerable people in our society having no safety net or ability to support themselves with the money they’ve paid into the program. A vote for a Democrat means you believe in the support of a society as a whole, young to old, rich to poor.
• Finally, a vote for a Republican will not magically lower consumer prices or make your taxes less, but it will potentially result with leaders who don’t think we need free and fair elections ever again.
• I hope you do the right thing. You CAN vote with your conscience. You CAN vote in ways that would surprise your parents, family, neighbors, and coworkers. You don’t have to tell them shit.
• And now, The Weather: “Human Emotion” by Small Forward
• Speaking of the weather, it is absolutely pouring here at a level I haven’t seen in a good long while. We always need it in the drought-ridden lands of Southern California.
• Today in history… Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration (1519). Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state (1889). The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time (1892). While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray (1895). In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government (1923). Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected as the 32nd President of the United States, defeating incumbent president Herbert Hoover (1932). Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than four million unemployed (1933). United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an F-80 Shooting Star, shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history (1950). John F. Kennedy is elected as the 35th President of the United States, defeating incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon (1960). American pay television network Home Box Office (HBO) launches (1972). Donald Trump is elected the 45th President of the United States, defeating Hillary Clinton (2016).
• November 8 is the birthday of Roman emperor Nerva (30), astronomer Edmond Halley (1656), businessman Milton Bradley (1836), novelist Bram Stroker (1847), psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach (1884), novelist Margaret Mitchell (1900), actress Esther Rolle (1920), computer scientist Thea D. Hodge (1922), singer Patti Page (1927), journalist Morley Safer (1931), singer Minnie Ripperton (1947), singer Rickie Lee Jones (1954), singer Leif Garrett (1961), actress Courtney Thorne-Smith (1967), businessman Tom Anderson (1970), actress Gretchen Mol (1972), actress Tara Reid (1975), and singer SZA (1990).

Okay then. Please vote. Feel free to let me know if you run into voting obstacles and I’ll be glad to help any way I can. Best of luck to us all.