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    The Full Moon on October 31, 2020 is a monthly Blue Moon, while noting October's first Full Moon, and this year's Harvest Moon, was on October 1, 2020.

    The term has traditionally, in the Maine Farmer's Almanac, referred to an "extra" full moon, where a year which usually has 12 full moons has 13 instead ... Owing to the rarity of a blue moon, the term "blue moon" is used colloquially to mean a rare event, as in the phrase "once in a blue moon".


    Blue Moon

    by Al Bowlly and Ray Noble's Orchestra (1936)
    written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in 1934.

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    Casting his vote ...

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    Elon Musk’s SpaceX will ‘make its
    own laws on Mars’


    ‘No Earth-based government has authority or sovereignty
    over Martian activities,’ SpaceX claims


    Anthony Cuthbertson


    SpaceX will not recognise international law on Mars, according to the Terms of Service of its Starlink internet project.

    Elon Musk’s space company will instead reportedly adhere to a set of “self-governing principles" that will be defined at the time of Martian settlement.

    Musk revealed plans to create a self-sustaining city on Mars
    last week, though no timeframe is yet to be put in place for its development.

    Any future colony created by SpaceX would likely use constellations of Starlink satellites orbiting the planet to provide internet connection to people and machines on the surface.

    More than 800 of the internet satellites have already been launched into orbit around Earth, with tens of thousands more planned in the coming years.

    A Starlink app launched in certain regions this week, following a successful beta test of the network’s capabilities in parts of the US and Canada.

    Users noted that the terms of service within the app state that Starlink services provided to Earth or Moon will be governed in accordance with the laws of the State of California.

    Beyond our planet and its satellite, however, the laws and regulations by which it will abide are less clear.

    “For services provided on Mars, or in transit to Mars via Starship or other colonisation spacecraft, the parties recognise Mars as a free planet and that no Earth-based government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities,” the governing law section states.

    “Accordingly, disputes will be settled through self-governing principles, established in good faith, at the time of Martian settlement.”

    Space systems engineer Erwan Beauvois said SpaceX’s position was reminiscent of a declaration put forward by the Earthlight Foundation, a non-profit organisation committed to preparing for the expansion of humanity beyond Earth.

    The Declaration of the Rights and Responsibilities of Humanity in the Universe states that space should be “considered free, by all, for all and to all.”

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    AMERICA

    HOW WILL YOU VOTE?
    A Randy Rainbow Song Parody


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    Another funny one ... this guy is hilarious and he hasn't run out of creative ideas yet ...
    “El revolucionario: te meteré la bota en el culo"

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    An exceptional one ...

    The Pete and Sebastian Show
    Episode 432

    "Ants in the kitchen"


    Oct 31, 2020

    1:21:27 minutes


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    Just 24 hours ...


    No matter how you dice it till ...


    The Great Unknown

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    Not to mention the waiting ...


    “Thanks so much for coming to vote in person!
    Please, step right up.”
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    And speaking tomorrow never knows ...

    The Trouble with Election
    Projections


    Projecting a winner isn’t the same as counting votes—
    and that’s true more than ever in 2020.


    By Jill Lepore


    "The 2020 Presidential election is likely to smash records. Turnout may well be higher than in any election in the past century. More young people are voting, more people of color are voting, and more people are voting early and by mail. The tallying, too, stands a chance of setting records: in how long it takes for the ballots to be counted, in how widely the results diverge from preëlection predictions, and—if the vote is close—in how fiercely the results are contested in the courts, in the states, in Congress, and in the streets.

    All this uncertainty has been driving people to horse-race the polls. Liberals, it seems, pay more attention to polls than conservatives do, and some research suggests that, in 2016, preëlection polls helped deliver the White House to Donald Trump. Four years ago this month, much of the press published not only national polls (which Hillary Clinton led with forty-six per cent of the vote) but also forecasts of the probability of victory (“Hillary Clinton has an 85% chance to win,” the Times announced on Election Day). This may have led some people, confusing the two, to conclude that Clinton was projected to win eighty-five per cent of the vote. Quite possibly, a number of them, given the seeming inevitability, decided not to vote.

    This year, responsible news outlets have been more cautious, but they’re also trying to undo an expectation that their own industry has set: that the winner will be known on Election Night. Newspaper publishers and TV producers have taken pains to explain to their audiences that getting the results might take longer, much longer, this time, and reporters have been warned not to head off for vacation on November 4th. The most prudent outlets, including the Washington Post, have agreed not to make any predictions—an about-face, since, as Ira Chinoy, of the University of Maryland, has detailed, the press has been predicting the results of Presidential elections for nearly two centuries.

    Election predictions are mathematical projections that use polls, early returns, and past election results. Americans across the country voted on the same day for the first time in 1848. That was also the first election reported by the newly formed Associated Press, a “wire service,” made possible by the telegraph, which, as a Wisconsin newspaper put it, promised to relieve the public of “that long suspense which formerly followed elections.” A Massachusetts newspaper urged readers to cut out and keep the returns, because they’d come in handy in 1852, for those who wanted to make their own projections. In 1860, the New York Tribune sold a “Political Text Book,” containing all the returns back to 1824, and many papers printed “score sheets,” something like baseball scorebooks, which readers could use to figure out who was winning.

    In cities, Election Night was like New Year’s Eve: crowds gathered outside newspaper offices, where you could learn the results the fastest. In 1896, the Tribune announced the winner, William McKinley, by flashing red lights from its building. (Green would have signalled a victory for William Jennings Bryan.) In St. Paul, you only needed to open your window, because the Dispatch had arranged for a steamship whistle to blow a “Succession of Sharp, Short Toots If Returns Favor McKinley. A Long, Dismal Wail If Returns Favor Bryan.” In 1916, William Randolph Hearst’s New York American broadcast the results by wireless, boasting, “Thus, through the clouds, was hurled the news of the night.” At 11 P.M., the paper called the election for Charles Evans Hughes; by morning, it had become clear that Woodrow Wilson had won. That same year, the Boston Globe, which pioneered the method of relying on “key precincts” to forecast a national result, offered an accurate projection.

    In the race to be the first to call an election, CBS found a Polish mathematical savant, Salo Finkelstein, who could make predictions faster than any adding machine. He made his radio début in 1932, in the contest between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover. In 1952, CBS television news engaged the services of a “giant electronic brain,” the UNIVAC computer. That Election Night saw an unexpected outcome: Dwight D. Eisenhower beat Adlai Stevenson in a landslide. On the air, UNIVAC didn’t make that prediction until near midnight. “To me the most impressive thing about tonight is again the demonstration that the people of this country are sovereign, that they are unpredictable,” Edward R. Murrow said. But UNIVAC had made the right call early on; CBS had just been too shocked to broadcast it.

    In truth, mathematical modelling based on key precincts in swing states, or what used to be called “the doubtful states,” had made projections so reliable that, in 1955, Isaac Asimov published a short story about a future in which a very fast computer, the Multivac, selects a representative American to decide the election for the whole country. No one else votes. That dystopia has not come to pass. In 2000, however, the Bush v. Gore debacle made clear that projecting a winner is not the same as counting ballots. “We don’t just have egg on our face,” NBC’s Tom Brokaw said the day after the election. “We have an omelette.” Early in the evening, NBC, followed by virtually every other network, had called Florida for Gore and then, later that night, called it for Bush, when all along it had been too close to call.

    The networks’ projections in 2000 relied, in part, on exit polling, which was often flawed and has become an anachronism: it doesn’t work when so many people vote early, or by mail. The A.P., in the aftermath of the 2016 election, launched a painstakingly scrupulous program called VoteCast, which combines real-time national surveys with data and modelling derived from past elections. The problem is that there has never been an election like this one.

    On November 3rd, if there’s a landslide for Joe Biden, that could be clear as early as eleven o’clock on the East Coast. But, if the vote is close, a “red mirage” could show Trump winning, a lead that might be swept away by a “blue shift.” Democrats are three times as likely as Republicans to vote by mail. Ten states don’t even begin counting mail-in ballots until Election Day, and eighteen others accept them afterward, as long as they’re properly postmarked. Counting the actual votes might take weeks, Republicans may try to stop it, and Trump could declare an illegitimate victory. Twitter and Facebook have pledged to add warning labels to any such claim, which is a little like sticking a warning label on a land mine, just before burying it. Meanwhile, there are two things to do: vote, and wait." ♦

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    As the pond turns ...
    From both sides


    Spitting Image - US Election Special
    (Part 1) | Full Episode


    In series 1, episode 5 of Spitting Image Donald Trump investigates election voter fraud and Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson race to Mars.

    23:49 minutes



    Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE_70gXb5mk



    Spitting Image - US Election Special
    (Part 2)



    In series 1, episode 6 of Spitting Image Donald Trump gives a step by step guide on how to vote in the US election and Joe Biden picks up a shift at the diner.

    22:42 minutes


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    Funny, but on a serious note ... I've seen tons of evidence that the entire world is aware of the conservative human being... Except Americans...
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    Quote Originally posted by giovonni View Post
    As the pond turns ...
    From both sides


    Spitting Image - US Election Special
    (Part 1) | Full Episode




    23:49 minutes



    Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE_70gXb5mk



    Spitting Image - US Election Special
    (Part 2)





    22:42 minutes


    Watched that last night. Moohhaahhaaa. Love Biden flipping pancakes and all the slang terms for different kinds of pancakes. My God.

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    Mississippi voters replace
    Confederate-themed flag with
    new design featuring magnolia
    flower


    By David Aaro



    "Mississippi on Tuesday voted to replace its state flag, which had been the last one in the U.S. to include an image of the Confederate-themed battle flag.

    The new state flag will feature the magnolia flower and the phrase “In God We Trust." The flag was selected by a state commission in September to be put on the November ballot.

    "This will be the new state flag of Mississippi. Voters overwhelmingly approved it. This is a great day for the state as we move forward from a divisive emblem that now rests in the past," tweeted resident Sam Hall.

    The magnolia is in the center of the flag with 20 stars encircling it (representing Mississippi as the 20th state) with a dark blue background and red bars on each side.

    “What I wanted to do was show every Mississippian that there’s a compromise out there, and we are the magnolia state,” Rocky Vaughan, the graphic designer who created the flag’s overall design, said. “If it’s appealing to the eyes, it will be accepted.”

    First adopted in 1894, the previous flag featured blue and white stripes and a Confederate emblem in the corner. The banner was retired months ago as part of the national protests against racial injustice.

    A majority of voters chose to keep the flag in a 2001 election, but several cities and counties and all of Mississippi’s public universities had stopped flying it because of the Confederate symbol.

    “That old flag to me represented a lot of rebelism, you know, the good old boys,” said Taderell Lamont Roberts, 48, of Picayune. “It never bothered me. ... But is time for a different flag so our new generation can see that all that is in the past, and they don’t have to deal with that. We were brought up to just live with it. But I’m glad that now it’s time for a change.”

    The magnolia was chosen by a state commission out of nearly 3,000 entries for the new flag’s design, including the “Great River Flag,” which featured a shield, reports said.

    A law retiring the old flag specified the new design couldn't include the Confederate battle flag and must have the phrase, “In God We Trust.”

    Requiring the religious phrase helped persuade some conservative legislators to let go of the old flag."

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