Silver has maintained his prediction that Trump will overtake Harris, 55 percent and 45 percent respectively, to return to the White House.
https://news.yahoo.com/news/nate-silver-cheating-pollsters-putting-163354984.html
Missed Management
There are countless reasons why businesses fail. Some are nobody’s fault. When the pandemic hit, restaurants did everything they could to survive, but many folded. Then there are the management failures. K-Mart wasn’t able to compete against Walmart. For much of the 20th century, Sears was what Amazon is today.
I will always be more than merely disappointed in my former employer of many years. Senior management’s hubris resulted in a total failure to respond in time to meet the competition from Epic Systems. (No relation to Epic Games, other than they’re both software companies.)
The Federal Trade Commission needs to apply a different standard to its definition of a monopoly where Epic is concerned. A reasonable estimate is that Epic manages 75% of America’s non-military medical records. (Oracle Health, formerly Cerner, has the military systems.)
Epic’s power and influence is finally starting to get some attention…
… from conservative sources…
… as well as from the far left.
Stag Nation
It’s deer mating season and a horny male attempted to hook up with good, ol’ Denro’s car.
Don’t Be Sore, Here’s Thor!
Thinking Outside the Box Tank
I used to consider the Cato Institute as home to the craziest think tank nonsense, but that’s changed. The Heritage Foundation has proven itself to be totally lost in an extremist fantasy land of lies, dangerous assertions and dictatorial goals.
The right is sowing doubt about the election and putting so much emphasis on immigration, because they know the country’s demographics are shifting away from the Republican party. They knew it after Obama was reelected in 2012, but instead of accepting reality and changing direction as recommended by the RNC, they let Trump take over the party.
The report, called the “Growth and Opportunity Project,” lays out an extensive plan the RNC believes will lead the party to victory with an extensive outreach to women, African-American, Asian, Hispanic and gay voters.
Garage Door Theater
I was going to post this picture yesterday, but I was busy undergoing a nuclear stress test of my heart, before taking advantage of the unseasonably warm weather to get some outdoor work done.
Thanks to the new families in the area, we had the best ever Halloween turnout on Thursday. Besides my usual front porch decorations, I projected a familiar movie onto the garage door. It’s the original 1977 version, not the 1978 “Part Four: A new Hope” re-release or — ugh! — any of the “special editions.”
A little boy, probably five or six years old, exclaimed, “Obi Wan!” He ran up to the garage door, patted the image of Alec Guinness and proudly explained to the group he was with, “That’s Obi Wan!” He’ll make a fine Jedi Knight.
Regarding my stress test, the results showed a healthy heart with no indication of coronary artery disease, let alone scarring from a heart attack. Yay. I had been told that my many years of long distance running was the probable cause of my a-fib, but yesterday’s results showed there are also definite benefits to running.