America
Faithless Electors
Most of this article comes from Stickypedia though I did a fair bit of cross checking. We have just witnessed a US Presidential election and it was all about Electoral College votes. 539 are up [more…]
Donald J. Trump
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Fifty-Eight
Monday Good morning and welcome to another week of my tales. It is very grey again here in Westminster but at least it’s not raining. I made the mistake of stepping on the grass this [more…]
19th Century
Ma, Ma, where’s my Pa?
I suspect that all Puffins are fervently hoping that the US Presidential Election will result in the return of the Donald to the White House. If this happens, it will be an unusual but not [more…]
America
Remember, Remember, the 5th of November (2024)
On that day, the American people gave a new reason to remember, remember the 5th of November. Unlike the original Gunpowder Plot, the 2024 version succeeded, and blew the establishment/ruling class/elite all to hell. There [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Fifty-Seven
Monday Good morning from a grey and not very nice morning in Westminster, where at least it is dry. Legohead was up early this morning as he is off to Birmingham to give a “pre-Budget” [more…]
America
US Presidential Election Night 2024
Historic events deserve historic images. As James said earlier in the day ‘Freedom, or Tyranny’ it is. I mentioned to DJM that I thought Trump had the votes. He admired my optimism but I should [more…]
America
Presidential Election Results Timeline
American presidential elections are decided by an Electoral College, in effect an Electoral College swung by the voters in a small number key ‘battleground’ states which may tip either way in a presidential election. In [more…]
America
Two paths lie ahead. Freedom or Tyranny
The world is now subjected to a tsunami of multimedia messages concerning the 2024 US Presidential election and the protagonists. Little substantive discourse escapes the emotional pleading soundbites in the well viewed shallow offerings of [more…]
20th Century
The Venona Project, Part Two
The Venona Project was launched by the US Army Signal Intelligence Service in February 1943. The Russians had sent thousands and thousands of coded and enciphered messages over commercial telegraph services. The US Army decided [more…]