Numbers

I am not a math major by any means.

But this is working looking at.

161 million people voted in U.S. election.

Ten per cent of that is 16.1 million.

One per cent of that is 1.6 million.

One tenth of one per cent is 160,000 votes.

Trump supporters claim nearly 142,000 wrong votes were cast.

That's LESS than one tenth of one per cent.

Let that sink in. One TENTH of ONE per cent. 

I am okay with that. 

A presidential memoir

So within 24 hours after its release, Barack Obama’s new book a promised land sold roughly 890,000 copies this week. It is believed to be the highest ever opening day sale of a memoir of a U.S. president in modern history.

Associated press reports that copies are flying off the shelves and the publisher Penguin Random House is doing its best to keep up. 
Interestingly by comparison, Bill Clinton’s book My Life had opening day sales of about 400,000 and George W. Bush’s book Decision Points had opening day sales of 220,000.

This is the kind of book that should be distributed in colleges and universities so that young people can learn what it means to be presidential. 

The death president

President Trump's legacy is that he will be known as the Death President. I have tried to avoid commenting on him since he was defeated in the U.S. election. It upsets me that he is trying everything he can to overturn the popular vote. It is even more baffling that the Republicans seem to be going along with it. There was a time one could be proud of being an active member of the Republican party. Now it is an embarrassment. What is wrong with those people?
With Trump refusing to concede and fighting the Biden transition team, he is deliberately putting more Americans at risk. He does nothing to help. He is a do-nothing guy. People are dying. Not just hundreds of people, but hundreds of thousands of people. More than a quarter of a million Americans have died of COVID-19 on his watch. This will be Trump's legacy. The death president. 

During the time of president Herbert Hoover, in the 1930s, any small shantytown that housed poor people became known as Hooverville. I am thinking that overcrowded cemeteries will become known as Trumpville.

Canada's national war memorial is the best

 Have to say Canada's national war memorial is one of the most dynamic I've ever seen. A lot of these memorials around the world are just hunks of fancy granite. Canadians can be proud of this amazing sculpture in downtown Ottawa, topped by the symbolic bronze figures of Peace and Freedom.

 I remember when I first saw it I was about 10 years old and I stared at it for the longest time, just admiring the faces and grimaces of the exhausted soldiers busting through the gates, moving forward in apparent victory. Maybe they were just glad to be getting back home. But this sculpture is much more. There are sailors, airmen and even highlanders. There are nurses, stretcher bearers, artillerymen on horseback pulling a battlefield caisson and a cannon; 22 figures in all. What a fabulous tribute to all the amazing Canadians - the men and women-  who fought for our Peace and Freedom. 

(Photo Credit: Alan MacLeod