It finally comes home. Final post?

After years of railing against gerrymandering I finally get to vote on it! The Virginia General Assembly decided to join California (and possibly others) to counter Texas' brash goal to please Trump and keep the House. So.... what do I do? Do I make the point that gerrymandering is bad? Or do we stand up and say when a president ignores the Constitution time and time again that we must do whatever we can to stop them? Question: Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections, while ensuring Virginia's standard redistricting process resumes for all future redistricting after the 2030 census? I am votig YES.

STrump*

From this NYT article: "Rather than be turned off by Mr. Trump’s flagrant, anger-based appeals along lines of race, gender, religion, national origin and especially transgender identity, many Americans found them bracing. Rather than be offended by his brazen lies and wild conspiracy theories, many found him authentic. Rather than dismiss him as a felon found by various courts to be a fraudster, cheater, sexual abuser and defamer, many embraced his assertion that he has been the victim of persecution."

*This is what I always say in my mind, it means Stupid Trump

rename blog?

Thinking about renaming this blog "one for you, one for me" - what a cop in NY said to me once when he pulled me over for rolling a stop sign. He wrote it up as a brake light out, and all I had to do was go to a police station to get it waved. He got to write it up for whatever quota he was trying to meet.

Gerrymandering and MD and O'Malley

O'Malley is a great case study. Supported (well through his actions) gerrymandering in MD. Now leading a group to oppose it and admitting his mistakes. http://marylandreporter.com/2017/01/29/omalley-now-supports-non-partisan-commissions-to-draw-congressional-districts-he-admits-gerrymandering/

haven't posted in a long time

life gets in the way I guess

Virginia and Gerrymandering

Ahh, and now it's happening to me. I move to a swing state and now the Republicans are trying to redistrict. Good discussion from Diane Rehm.

Delaware

Seriously, what is wrong with that state? How can traffic literally come to a standstill the second you cross that state line in either direction on 95?

New rest stop is nice though...

mosque

This debate is so silly. No reason not to build. I will probably contribute to building it, in fact.

The inability to distinguish Islamist terrorism from Islam, is sad. Exvery religion has extremists, and that definitely includes Christianity.

I hate the phrase "it's a slap in the face."

By the way, 2 blocks in Manhattan is a long distance.