Update!*5

*Update 5, AP update 9:47 pm:

Colom Lead at New High, 2,851: Madison County

*Update 4. AP update 8:46 pm:

Rankin County, 51,331 Votes Cast, Pick-Another-Protein, +25.6 is In, Colom INCREASES lead for Day

I did the math on Rankin yesterday when its vote was 96% complete. It was the largest tranche of votes outstanding that was overwhelmingly Pro-Pick-Another-Protein. I extrapolated that P-A-P would pick up an additional 1,319 votes. Instead, P-A-P's margin DECREASED to +25.2. Put the other way, Scott Colom lost by less. That is great news. 

These are the counties that were updated today:

Thirteen counties, 9 of them where Pick-Another-Protein led, eight of those she led overwhelmingly. You would expect the race to have tightened considerably today with those counties, especially Rankin, reporting. But it didn't happen. We started the day with Colom +2,535. At this post time Colom's lead is +2,571 with 98% of the total vote counted. Pick-Another-Protein lost her major remaining path to victory this evening with Rankin County. And she lost the day, when 9 of 13 counties were in her bag. This race is going to be called sooner rather than later for Scott Colom.

7:37 pm:

*Update 3

I assume they're done for the day up there in MS. AP 7:31 pm update:

Scott Colom +2679

Still 97% vote counted.

*Update 2 AP 3:28 pm update

Colom +2,607

Percent margin and percent votes counted same.

Humphreys County, 3,430 total votes, +57.6 Colom, 99% counted, is the update.

So far today, only five small counties have been reported: 

Humphreys above; 

Yazoo, 7,549 total votes, Colom +19.3, 99% counted; 

Greene, 3,539 total, Pick-Another-Protein +50.9, 99% counted; 

Jefferson Davis, 4,638 total, Colom +31.2, 99% counted, and 

Tishomingo, 6,301 total, Pick-Another-Protein +64.2, 99% counted.

At post time, no update from Hinds County, 77,465 total, Colom +60.8, 93% counted, last updated Nov. 6. Yesterday I did the math on Hinds. Assuming that margin holds for the remaining 7% of votes there Colom would pick up an additional 4,676 votes.

*AP 1:01 pm update:

Colom +2,575

Still 97% counted; still no AP call.

That update is from tiny (4,638 total votes) Jefferson Davis County only, now 99% complete, a county that Colom is +31.2. 

12:43 pm:

MS AP 12:21 UPDATE

Colom 467,961 49.1%

Pick-Another-Protein 465,426 48.8%

Colom +2,535 (one vote less than yesterday's close)

Still 97% counted.

Still uncalled by AP.

The only update to AP's vote count today came from little Tishomingo County (99% counted) where Pick-Another-Protein led by 64.2%! That Colom's margin dropped only ONE from that seems to me good for us. By contrast, the vote from the largest county, Hinds, the home of the State capital, and one where Colom leads by 60.8% (!) is only 93% counted and has not been updated since November 6. These are the counties with vote share counted under the state average of 97%:

That is fucking bullshit. We need a fucking explanation from Mississippi.

BERNIE SANDERS, ELISSA SLOTKIN WILL NOT BACK CHUCK SCHUMER FOR SENATE MAJORITY LEADER

Schumer said on The Daily last week that he did not expect a challenger.

As we await the MS from the Pony Express from Mississippi...

...with gathering suspicion of chicanery since the most populous county in the state is Hinds County, with the most votes cast too, with +60% going to Scott Colum, and yet mysteriously with the highest percentage of uncounted ballots, that is, with other matters on our minds, we occupy ourselves with speculations on matters of less import, to wit,

What the FUCK is the matter with the Miami "Heat"?

I will spoil the ending of this post for readers awaiting an answer, as we await the mail from Mississippi, by writing, "I don't know." 

We are 4-6. We don't work. It's alarming. Other people, arguably more important than the undersigned, are alarmed. They have been with the team on their present West Coast road trip as if attending a loved one in hospice, viz:

...during the team's swing through Los Angeles, the Heat got visits from three of their pillars.

Heat president Pat Riley was at both games in Los Angeles, visiting the locker room after the loss to the Lakers and the team's shootaround before the Clippers game Wednesday. Heat legend Dwyane Wade also attended that shootaround at UCLA.

Former Heat captain Udonis Haslem was at the shootaround last Monday, in shorts and on the court with the team. 

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/50425453/miami-heat-giannis-antetokounmpo-erik-spoelstra

Then there were these comments, followed closely by corrections, from Doc Rivers:

"I liked Giannis a lot. I liked him more as a dude. He's interesting. He's not easy. He's not easy because he plays at this crazy downhill pace. He's really a difficult guy. ... He has this great passing ability, but he doesn't necessarily have this super IQ at the same time. It's really a strange thing, and he really has one way: downhill, force, force. Every play, he wants to force it."

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/50399276/doc-rivers-giannis-antetokounmpo-bucks-exit-coaching-star

The corrections:

"I was saying he was one of the most interesting guys," Rivers said. "He makes unbelievable passes, but then at times, because of his force he plays at, it gets in the way of his feel. It was more of a compliment. I hate this and feel bad about it. I apologize for the distraction. I'm not trying to be one."

Rivers also said during the podcast that Antetokounmpo was "not easy" to coach. The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame coach told Andscape that those comments were actually meant as a compliment to his greatness, not as a slight. Rivers also added that he made a lot of positive comments on the podcast about Antetokounmpo, including that he enjoyed coaching the former Bucks star, that were overlooked.

"The point I was trying to make is whenever you have a great player, you have to fit the team around that great player," Rivers told Andscape. "That is the point I was trying to make. It's not always easy. It's a compliment. I've been successful and unsuccessful at it. But your job is to create the best team you can possibly create around that great player and his talents."

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/50436679/doc-rivers-apologized-antetokounmpo-clarifies-critiques

And as corrections go, I think that is a pretty damn good one. Giannis does know only one way: force, drive, draw defenders, pass out or go straight to the rim. That has been known about Giannis for many moons. It does get in the way of his feel for the game, at least one can see how it would. I can see how coaching Giannis would not be easy.

Most importantly, it is the coach's job--maybe not to fit the team behind the great player--but to fit both together, to require of the great player adaptation of his style of play to the team--which is not easy if the great player does not have the basketball IQ to do it on his own--to require of the other players adaptation to the Black Hole acquisition, I can see how it would not be easy, but it should not be 4-6 hard and it is the responsibility of the coach, Erik Spoelstra, to make it work. And it is not working.

The End

GOOD MORNING! COCKLE DOODLE DOO!

Queens (4-7) led by THIRTY-THREE and withstood a Sensitive (5-6) 4Q rally to win 124-112

Sensitive City is off to a puzzlingly poor start; the "Heat" don't work; Mamdani City does not look like defending champs; Yellow is not back; the "Wizards" are still Lizards; the "Raptors" are not enrapturing; there are three teams in the Eastern Conference playing .700 ball; there are seven in the West. The East is not a Beast, it's the Least again.

I was sitting here thinking...

"Trump doesn't have any power now." 

Oh sure, he's still president and could blow up the world. But to him, "real power is fear". So let me rephrase my thought statement and ask a rhetorical question of all of you:

"Are you afraid of Donald Trump now?"

I'm not, the rest of the world is not, I bet most of the country is not afraid of him now. The guy just got bobbitted*.  I get the impression most of the country isn't listening to him or paying attention to him. We bobbitted him. No hard feelings, just he's a teapot without a spout now. We look at it and gawk.

We effectively impeached him. Really, didn't we? Josh Hawley is praying for the Lord to come save the GOP. Ron Desantis likened the midterms to an "extinction event" for Republicans, like the dinosaurs. T-Rex was a beast to inspire fear! Hoo doggie. Are you afraid of dinosaur bones? You can go see Trump-Rex bones in a museum. That's all he is. Maybe they'll stuff him.

*On June 23, 1993, in Manassas, Virginia, John Wayne Bobitt's then-wife, Lorena Gallo, severed his penis with a kitchen knife while he was asleep. She later threw it from her car window while driving away.

"Trump after meeting with Qatari PM says he believes war with Iran is militarily ‘effectively over’" AP

Trump, over the course of the conflict, has repeatedly said he is on the cusp of ordering U.S. forces to escalate attacks if Iran’s leaders don’t quickly agree to U.S. terms to end the war, only to chicken out.

Association Occurrences: My goodness gracious, Queens (3-7) are crowning Sensitive City (5-5) 69-53 HT

You Go, Trumpie!🤣🤣🤣

 

Trump Veers Back Into Claims of Rigged Election

President Trump, who initially said he would accept the midterm results, renewed his unsubstantiated claims that voting was manipulated.

For years, President Trump has claimed without evidence that any election he lost or even feared losing was rigged. So it was a surprise to many when, on election night after his party was routed in the midterms last week, he said he was “absolutely willing” to accept the results.

That lasted less than a week.

“Does anybody really believe that this ‘Election’ was honest,” Mr. Trump wrote on Monday on social media, renewing his efforts to sow doubt about the outcome in the face of staggering Democratic wins. “How could the Polls be so wrong???

nytimes

Politico-Religious Occurrences

GOP Sen. Josh Hawley calls for fasting, prayer after ‘shocking’ midterm results

🤣

“Christian need to gather and seek the Lord,” Sen. Hawley wrote on social media in a post Monday.

You missed Her. She came Tuesday night.

MS is counting on fingers and toes today. As of 3:37 pm, Scott Colum's lead has shrunk by 38 votes to 2,536

Still 97% counted, same as Friday.

Bernie Sanders, Meet the Press Sunday

Bernie Meet the Press

KRISTEN WELKER:

As you know, Democrats are also calling for investigations into the Trump administration. Do you believe that spending two years investigating President Trump and his top officials could jeopardize the mandate to lower prices, to make life more affordable?

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS:

Yes, I do. ...Do we want to hold the Trump administration accountable for their corruption, for their illegal, unconstitutional actions? Absolutely. But...We’ve got to stand up for working-class families, make a real difference in their lives.

KRISTEN WELKER:

Well, let me ask you, because of course, President Trump said, this week, that he would like to work with Democrats. He also just appointed Stephen Miller to be his new chief of staff. You have been critical of Stephen Miller, in the past. Do you think you can work with Stephen Miller? Is he the right person for the job?

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS:

Well, Donald Trump is the president. And I’ve said this before, Kristen. Trump is many things. I personally believe he is mentally unbalanced, erratic, but he’s not stupid, and he is a good politician. And I think, when Trump looks out in the world and he sees millions of people working for starvation wages, he might not be unsympathetic to raising the minimum wage to a living wage. He would love, I think, to take credit for doing what every other major country does, guaranteeing healthcare to all people. So I’m not worried about Miller. Do I think we can work with Trump? Maybe. I’m, by no means, guaranteeing it. But it is certainly worth the effort.

A friend texted me Tuesday night asking "If you were Senate Majority Leader what would your priorities be?" and listed some, including investigations and impeachment. I answered much as Bernie Sanders did there. "Substance over theater" and "keep an eye on the clock." We Blues have two years to show the American people that winning elections is not our goal: passing legislation that eases life's burdens on the American people is. There is a report on Hegseth's impeachment in Axios today. It would the House in a New York minute. But even in the new Senate in January getting two-thirds, 66 votes will be difficult. That was Axios description of the task in the Senate. Getting 66 votes? We have now, will probably have soon, 55 votes. I don't think we can get 66. And is it worth the time? Is it worth the image to the American people of the Democrats' first major move to impeach Hegseth? Different Senators will answer differently but they--and House Democrats who move forward with this--have to answer for the likelihood, for if it is unlikely then the American people will see it as performative theater at their expense.

On the other hand. Chuck Schumer was on The Daily one day last week. He was measured, sober and statesmanlike until he was asked, "What about impeaching Trump?" His voice rising in anger, Schumer answered with my favorite sound in recorded interviews: bleep. "Bleeping corrupt", "Bleeping corruption"--two of them! I had just pulled into my parking space and laughed out loud in the car. 

Now, impeaching Trump...Are you serious? Schumer was. Are we going for the hat trick in impeachments? I don't know. The point is, Democrats 1) cannot completely ignore their oversight responsibilities and decline the ultimate oversight 2) in a clear case 3) with strong chance of success. All three of those things. But we cannot spend two years on this as Bernie Sanders said, and we've got to make a real difference in working peoples' lives whatever we do. If we can do both, mazel tov.

Since my friend asked me to put myself in Schumer's position, I don't know what the articles of impeachment would be on corruption, which got Schumer so bleeping angry, but if I knew and if I too got all broke out with bleeping outrage, I would swallow my emotion and assess the likelihood of success as against the substantive priorities for the American people...Always with an eye on the clock.

Passionate Theater-Goer Lauren Boebert trails in CO-4 by 3,237 votes with 97% counted

Congratulations Miami, you're now 4-6, on pace for a 33-49 season's record.

The Miami "Heat" Still Don't Work

They're 3-6, which is a .333 win percent as decimal, which is putrid. Luckily they are in Excremento, 1-8, tomight. Right? That's lucky, isn't it? Easy dub.

No. 100-104, 3:53 left to play. It's like the Aints-Sensitive City National Concussion League game today. Like Maryland vs Rutgers in scholarly tackle football a couple werk ago. Maestro Spoelstra made a change in his starting lineup, Idk if thid is the first game or not. He started Pelle in place of Andrew. Rearranging the deck chairs. There can be no true "winners" when putrid contests excrement. 

But I'm a "Heat" lifer so Go "Heat".

I was sitting here thinking before going to bed...

WHO'S GOT IT BETTER THAN US!

Blue Moon Rising

 

Blue Skies Overhead

 

Blue Wave Crashing

LOOK AT THIS SHIT! Aints 6 Brown Turds 6, 9:13 left in the game!

Four fucking field goals in professional tackle football! Fucking disgusting. Give the fans their money back.

Jawja (2) will be the new top dawg tomorrow after making the "Rebels" (10) yell 7-42

DOWN GOES NO. 1! LAKERS (11) WASH OUT MIAMUH 31-24

Ooh, ND just missed a FG with 5:49 left up 31-24 on #1 Miamuh. "Hurricanes" have plenty of time.

Georgia is just HUMILIATING Olé Miss, taking them anally in front of their friends and family. 0-35.

Before the midterm obliteration, Axios talked to some politicos who thought that Trump would be "more dangerous" if he lost big. He did and he is.

AP at least among the main stream media are blowing off the press sec offer to the UFC guy as merely "unconventional". To me, it is far beyond that. Trump specifically said the guy is "violent", one of his appealing attributes to Trump.

Miller got the Chief of Staff position by urging Trump to fight Democrats in Congress who try to investigate the admin. Today Trump ordered DOJ to investigate Dems as "EXTORTIONISTS" for the "crime" of holding impeachment hearings.

Miller too has some violence in him that appeals to Trump. He is the guy responsible for the ICE murders. He got the C-o-C job by urging Trump fight Dems, not Iranians, and focus on further immigration crackdowns, i.e. to war on Americans.

They're crazy, not unconventional. These are the Last Days of the Third Reich inside Hitler's bunker. They're gonna have an orgy over the bodies.

Republicans are so pissed at Trump over the midterms and some have been vocal over the Miller appointment.. Never overestimate Republicans but I wouldn't be surprised if the the sheer lunacy of the UFC thing on top of it all caused some, perhaps DeSantis, to wonder out loud if Trump is alright in the head.

There was talk that Hegseth and/or Rubio would resign before the change in Congress in January. They both denied it. But they would resign rather than invoke the 25A. There's no way to get 3/4 of this cabinet to invoke 25A.

HT Notre Dame du Lac (11) 17 Miamuh (1) 3

No Olé in Mississippi for "Rebels". Jawja (2) 28-0 Olé Miss (10), 2:42 2Q

"UFC’s Dana White says he will meet with Trump Monday over offer to be White House press secretary" AP

"Trump’s grip on his party is in question as Republicans reel from the midterm wipeout" AP

Trump's grip on himself is in question.

“I am pleased to announce that the Great Dana White, a *violent* Fighter and Warrior, has been offered the job of Press Secretary of the United States."

Trump suggested in his post that White should bring several UFC fighters, including Khabib Nurmagomedov, Justin Gaethje and Amanda Nunes, as assistants to defend against the “Lunatic Left.”

“Dana will be a Press Secretary like none other. Dana, please take the job!” he added.

NBC

Stephen Miller, now an offer to a "violent" man, Trump has cracked. Twenty-fifth Amendment.