I Voted Today

I voted today. 

Though the official voting day is next Tuesday, November 5, almost all states allow early voting either in person or by mail. In my area in California, the voting place opened on October 26. But all votes will be counted after close of business on November 5. 

Ballot information were available in several languages. See the photo below. There are a few languages from India. 

After I voted, they gave a sticker that said “I Voted”. It is also in a few languages including Hindi. 

 Will wait for November 5 to know the results.

Getting Crazier

McDonald’s is a place for part time work for almost all high school students in the USA. Most of the Americans have special affection towards McDonald’s. Those who worked earlier at McDonald’s are now old enough to vote. You know what Donald Trump did? He put the McDonald’s apron and worked in a McDonald’s store for 30 minutes to get publicity. 

In order to attract black male voters, the Kamala Harris campaign has launched a new digital ad on social media urging young men—specifically young black men—to get out and vote in November. If they don’t vote they will not get a date with girls. Girls will refuse to date those guys. ‘Pop the Balloon or Find Love,’ features young men and women who pop balloons when someone they see no longer interests them.

Forgivable Loan

A forgivable loan is essentially a “grant” with conditions rather than a loan. I personally would call it a non-repayable loan. 

Kamala Harris has proposed a $20,000 forgivable business loan to black entrepreneurs. Then I start to think. 

Suppose a black guy starts to sell lemonade on the street corner for 50 cents a cup and is he entitled to this forgivable loan? 

How black is black to give this forgivable loan? 100% black, 50% black, or 2% black because one has 2% black in his DNA? 

The total population of blacks in USA is 15%. The balance of 85% are Whites, Hispanic, Asian, and others. Where is she getting this money to pay forgivable loans to blacks? From the 85% non-black people?

At least, she could have offered this to all poor people who wants to start a business,

Assuming Kamala Harris wins this election, can she really give such forgivable loans to blacks? There will be hundreds of law suits that would end up in the Supreme Court. Remember, of the 9 Supreme Court judges, 6 of them are conservatives. In other words, Trump supporters. 

I think Kamala is offering these incentives to buy the black votes fully knowing that this cannot be implemented.

60 Minutes, a CBS Show

I do not belong to any party. I am like a commentator. I write what I see. 

I have been writing that all the networks (except Fox News), CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS and famous news papers like New York Times do not like Trump. Therefore, they start to support Kamala Harris. It is OK if they support Kamala but they go out of they way to fabricate their reporting. It is their job to report the news as it happens but they openly favoring Kamala, not because they like Kamala, but because they hate Trump. 

In previous debates, all the moderators were siding with Kamala and bullying Trump. And here is the latest and they were caught red handed. 60 Minutes, a program produced by CBS Network, published an interview with Kamala Harris. They sent a few video clips of their promotion on Sunday. But when they broadcast the interview to the public on Monday, an answer to a question by Kamala was replaced. 

The question was: It seems like Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening to USA. 

Kamala struggled to answer the question on Sunday's promotional video.   It was a completely different answer to the same question on Monday broadcast.  They changed the answer she gave to a different question as an answer to this question.

Shame on you CBS.

Obama said in a speech today in Pittsburg, in support of Kamala Harris, Americans are hurting and they want change.  Did he forget who is in charge now?  It is Biden and Kamala.

Vice Presidential Debate

Yesterday, October 1, debate was between Democratic VP Candidate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Republican VP Candidate Ohio Senator JD Vance. 

After a long time I saw a decent and civil debate. Both candidates shook hands at the start. At the conclusion, both candidates’ wives came on the stage to be with their husbands and shook hands. (Vance’s wife Usha is of Indian origin.) Even during the debate, both candidates agreed with each other on some points. 

Here is my personal report card. 

JD Vance A 

Tim Walz B minus 

Mr. Vance was strong on immigration and economy. Mr. Walz was strong on abortion. 

Mr. Vance goofed when asked if he was in Mike Pense’s place will he refuse to certify the 2020 election results. He had problem answering that question and finally gave a slick answer that he will obey the President. 

Mr. Walz finally said he lied when he said he was in Hong Kong when the Tiananmen Square protest was taking place. 

This debate reminded me of Kennedy-Nixon debate. Vance (like Kennedy) was at ease and Walz (like Nixon) was nervous. During the debate Vance was looking at Walz when Walz was speaking. But when Vance was speaking Walz was taking notes seriously. 

As with every other network (except Fox News), the moderators were siding with Democrat Walz and the 3 ganged up on Vance. The moderators fact checked Vance several times and when he tried to reply, they cut off his mike. 

Vance again and again pointed out what Trump failed to do during his debate with Kamala. Kamala was telling she will do this and do that on the very first day in the office. During yesterday’s debate, Vance mentioned several times “you are in power for the past 3.5 years and why you did not do these. If you want to you can do them today and not wait for you to win”. 

The moderators deliberately did not ask Walz why as Governor of Minnesota, he ordered tampons be placed in the boys’ bathroom. (Republicans making fun of him by calling him Tampon Tim.)

Happy 100th Birthday

39th President of the United States (1977 to 1981) celebrates his 100th birthday day today, October 1. Happy Birthday Mr. President. He and his family are celebrating today in his hometown. 

He is a Democrat. Mr. Carter was born in Plains, Georgia, and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy. He served as a Commander in the U.S. Navy Submarines. Mr. Carter was interested in politics and opposed racial segregation. He supported civil rights movement. He served as Governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975. 

Mr. Carter was not known well outside of Georgia but won the Democratic Party nomination in 1976 and became President of U.S. defeating Gerald Ford of the Republican Party. As a President he was not effective and considered as a weak President. In 1980, Ronald Reagan defeated Mr. Carter in a landslide. 

But today is his 100th Birthday and I will talk only about his good qualities. 

After leaving office he established Carter Center to promote human rights. For the work this center did, Mr. Carter received the Nobel Peace Prize. Mr. Carter established a nonprofit housing organization, Habitat for Humanity. He travelled to many countries as election observer.

Mr. Carter and his family are very simple easy-going people. When he was Governor of Georgia and President of the United States, Mr. Carter’s mother Lillian Carter worked as a Peace Corps volunteer Nurse in India. No one knew about her in India until the American Embassy called the Indian Government to arrange secret service (police) protection for her.

Once again, Happy 100th Birthday Mr. President. May you live many more years.