"...ballot"

It's 5:21 am Eastern Standard Time. Set your clocks back,...remember fall back spring ahead. I just heard what I though was semi-auto gun fire on the street. Not unusual in the Emerald City even in the best of times. Then I hear it again. It was fireworks.

Perhaps a few days early.

This to either celebrate or mourn. No matter what happens this joint will be jumping. So a bit of extra precaution. If you haven't early voted or mailed in a ballot go out, and Vote. Then get the bleep home, and stay there.

I hear there are now international observers at polling stations around our republic. We used to do this in developing nations. This to help them towards some variety of democracy. We are now listed as a troubled democracy. Not yet a failed one. That failure or restoration will be decided on November 3rd. Which will be followed shortly by the 5th.

"Remember Remember the 5th of November,..."