Looking back at the US elections with Barry Casselman, The Prairie Editor

Guest:   Barry Casselman, The Prairie Editor.  

We will look at the results of the 2024 election and other stories:

Sunday's video: US-Mexico and President Trump

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Make my day and move out

Make my day and move out: Once upon a time, I heard a neighbor tell a story about their teenage son.  Apparently, the young man was a bit rebellious and kept threatening to move out.  One day, his dad said…

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— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) November 10, 2024

Once upon a time, I heard a neighbor tell a story about their teenage son.  Apparently, the young man was a bit rebellious and kept threatening to move out.  One day, his dad said “make my day and move out.”  

Later I learned that he did move out but came back when he realized that paying rent was part of moving out.

Anyway, I learned today that a lot of our fellow Americans want out. 

This is the story:

More than 50% of voters for Vice President Kamala Harris say they want to move following Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election, according to a survey commissioned by StorageUnits.com.

Storage Units surveyed 1,837 Harris voters on Nov. 6 to determine how many would like to relocate – and who actually plans to – and the top concerns of those who voted against Trump.

Of those surveyed, 44% would like to move, but probably won’t, while 5% said they will definitely move and another 5% said they probably will. Those who would like to move, but probably won’t, cited personal finances, family and community ties as reasons they will stay in place.

O.K. You got it. 

They hate Trump. They hated President Bush too and none left the country when he won reelection in 2004.  

So what’s going on?  We have too many silly and crazy people among us.  They’ve invested all of their hopes and dreams in destroying Trump and now wake up to a reality that they can’t cope with.

In a normal world, such a person would seek counseling and help.  In liberal land, they sit around and pretend that they are leaving us if the Evil Orange Man wins.

Please move out and stay away. The country will not miss you.   

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1965: Mays and Koufax battled for the NL MVP

In 1965, Sandy Koufax and Willie Mays had superb seasons.   It showed on the MVP balloting.     

Eventually, Willie Mays, who hit 52 home runs & 112 RBI,  was named National League Most Valuable Player.  

Mays received 224 and Koufax got  177.

Sandy Koufax won 26 plus a 2.04 ERA & 382 K's.  Koufax was indeed indispensable that year for the LA Dodgers who beat the Twins in the Series.

The MVP decision was correct.  The award should go to every day players, like Mays.  

Two great players but Mays was the MVP.  Koufax won the Cy Young.

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November 1976: A song about a real Great Lakes tragedy!

It wasn't The Titanic but I remember this terrible shipwreck many years ago:

"The Edmund Fitzgerald was lost with her entire crew of 29 men on Lake Superior November 10, 1975..." (GLSM)

The tragedy shocked the nation.  It also reminded us of the size of Lake Superior, one of the Great Lakes of North America.

A few days ago, there was a memorial to remember the crew.

Gordon Lightfoot wrote and recorded this great song a year later.

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"The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down

Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee

The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead

When the skies of November turn gloomy.

With a load of iron ore - 26,000 tons more

Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty

That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed

When the gales of November came early

The ship was the pride of the American side

Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin

As the big freighters go it was bigger than most

With a crew and the Captain well seasoned.

Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms

When they left fully loaded for Cleveland

And later that night when the ships bell rang

Could it be the North Wind they'd been feeling.

The wind in the wires made a tattletale sound

And a wave broke over the railing

And every man knew, as the Captain did, too,

T'was the witch of November come stealing.

The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait

When the gales of November came slashing

When afternoon came it was freezing rain

In the face of a hurricane West Wind

When supper time came the old cook came on deck

Saying fellows it's too rough to feed ya

At 7PM a main hatchway caved in

He said fellas it's been good to know ya.

The Captain wired in he had water coming in

And the good ship and crew was in peril

And later that night when his lights went out of sight

Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Does anyone know where the love of God goes

When the waves turn the minutes to hours

The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay

If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her.

They might have split up or they might have capsized

They may have broke deep and took water

And all that remains is the faces and the names

Of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings

In the ruins of her ice water mansion

Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams,

The islands and bays are for sportsmen.

And farther below Lake Ontario

Takes in what Lake Erie can send her

And the iron boats go as the mariners all know

With the gales of November remembered.

In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed

In the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral

The church bell chimed, 'til it rang 29 times

For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down

Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee

Superior, they say, never gives up her dead

When the gales of November come early.

© 1976 Moose Music, Inc."

1775: Happy # 249 to the US Marines

It started on this day in 1775:

During the American Revolution, the Continental Congress passes a resolution stating that “two Battalions of Marines be raised” for service as landing forces for the recently formed Continental Navy. The resolution, drafted by future U.S. president John Adams and adopted in Philadelphia, created the Continental Marines and is now observed as the birth date of the United States Marine Corps.

There are over 200,000 men and women serving as US Marines.  We congratulate and thank them for this service.  

This is a great story, a US Marine & US Navy Seal.

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