Happy Thanksgiving and a Major Development

Friends, your favorite Peasant wants to wish you

and your families a very Happy Thanksgiving,

and to give you a heads up about a development

concerning PWAP. 

As you, my fantastic readers know, I don't own a 

computer. I work from public access computers

at my local library. Well, my library here in

New Berlin has announced that due to the COVID-

19 making somewhat of a comeback here in 

Southeastern Wisconsin the library board decided to 

cut again the time allotted on their computers from

two hours (they cut the hours a few months ago from 

the pre-pandemic four hours) to one. Just one hour 

online per day. What with publishing this blog and 

other things I do online this puts your pinched Peasant

in a bind, so the upshot of it is that we'll still get together,

but it will be touch and go for a while. Some weeks I'll

be able to post, some I won't. 

Now I have done a little shopping for a second-hand 

computer in decent shape (saving money, you know)

but I haven't yet found the right one. I shall, of 

course, redouble my efforts, but for now this is the 

situation we are facing. I urge you to stay positive and 

be of good cheer, for I stress that we shall still get 

together; I shall do all I can to make this so.

In the meantime, enjoy Thanksgiving and while you 

are enjoying your holiday meal with your loved ones

give thanks for all that you have been blessed with in 

life, including being Americans, living in the prosperity,

comfort, and security, and enjoying all the blessings 

that come with being citizens of this magnificent country.

And don't let any politicians tell you that our best days

as a country are now behind us, that we have to accept a 

"new reality"! We have gotten through worse things than 

this Coronovirus pandemic, and we'll prevail once again!

And these pols can stick their "new reality" where the sun

doesn't shine!

God bless you all, and God bless America!

MEM

Veterans Day Thoughts and Reflections

While the presidential election results are still tied up in 

knots, let us not forget to reflect on the sacrifice, the

valor, the heroism of our veterans throughout our country's

history. From the Revolutionary War through the wars in

Afghanistan and Iraq, our Americans in uniform fought to

establish our country, to keep it free and sovereign, and 

to stand for righteousness and fair play in the world.

Our United States of America has made an incredible, 

indelible, and tremendous difference on this earth and

has been a beacon of the light of hope and freedom 

for oppressed people the world over. Let us contemplate

these gifts which came at a frightening cost, paid 

by the blood and toil of our brave Americans who have

served in the Army, the Navy, the Marines, the Air Force,

the Coast Guard and the Merchant Marines this Veterans 

Day tomorrow, every Veterans Day and every day.

As your grateful Peasant likes to say: if you enjoy your

freedom, thank a vet! 

MEM

Confusion Wins the 2020 Presidential Election

Your faithful Peasant stayed up until one in the morning

listening to the Election results, and things looked pretty 

good for President Trump as he was closing in on ex-
Vice President Joe Biden. The president had a 10,000

vote lead in the Badger State when I went to bed, and 

also had the lead in Michigan, North Carolina, Georgia,

and was neck-and-neck in Arizona after being declared

the winner in Florida. When I arose the next morning it

was a completely different landscape.

The lead President Trump had in my home state vanished

with the counting of the mail-in votes along with the 

early votes, and Biden is as of this posting is Wisconsin's

likely winner. North Carolina and Georgia had yet to 

announce their results, ditto Michigan but with Michigan

seeing a Dem vote surge with the addition of the votes from

Wayne County (where Detroit is located). Arizona had

declared Biden the winner but that may not last for the 

reasons given just up ahead. And Pennsylvania is 

a picture of bedlam with both parties already turning their 

lawyers loose in the Keystone State to check on the tallying

and Team Trump is looking to launch a lawsuit that will

be heard by the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, the Trump 

forces are calling into question the results in Arizona

where that state's results were taken down and the 

declaration of a winner now held in abeyance. 

Mail-in voting has always been a controversial idea, as it

has been criticized by some, chiefly Republicans, as 

being an invitation to ballot shenanigans. My state will

also be looked at closely by the Trumpians concerning

this, as it along with other states which allowed mail-in

voting this election are being viewed with a wary eye.

So we are not going to have an officially declared winner

of the presidential election for some days or weeks.

I can't say that I didn't expect this, although I had begun 

to believe that President Trump would win by a landslide

what with the voters flocking to his law and order 

statements in response to the riots and accompanying 

carnage in several cities across the country over some

incidents of possible police abuses of crime suspects.

People prefer safety and protection, and rely on the 

police and their elected leaders i.e. their mayors to

guarantee their safety and not side with the dangerous 

elements running wild in their communities, and Trump

understands this. In 1968 the Democrats' chances of

electing Sen. Hubert Humphrey president were seriously 

damaged by the anti-war riot which erupted nearby the 

site of the Dem's convention, and most Americans 

were appalled and frightened by what they saw on their 

televisions, many so much so that they elected Richard 

Nixon, and I thought that we'd see history repeat itself.

This could still happen, as Team Trump are fighting as 

best they can to win the election even if they have to fight 

in court. President Trump could still win. Let us hope and 

pray, my fabulous, indefatigable readers, that this ultimately

will happen. 

MEM