TODAY IS GIRL'S DAY

But first, a look at the week to come:

Donald Trump leads Nikki Haley in the Republican primary, 244 to 24. 1215 clinches the vote.

Actually, we are in the midst of the DC Republican primary, from Friday through Sunday for 19 delegates. If Haley is ever to beat Trump, it will be in DC.
Donald Trump will crush Nikki Haley in all the 16 Republican primaries on Super Tuesday.
The only question about the Republican primary is when Haley will give up.

Will this happen after Super Tuesday?
She represents the never-Trumpers, and this could be more than 10% of the Republican Party and Independents, those who will make the difference between Trump and Biden.
Wouldn't it be nice for Republicans if they kissed and made up, with Haley campaigning WITH Trump into the future?
If she hangs in there, that will only hurt Trump, for, after all, he is a lout, cheat and a huge threat to American Freedom and Democracy. If he gets re-elected on November 5, that will the last election in the USA for all that we have represented to the World. Trump will rig all future elections, and find a way to make ours a monarchy, insuring that one of his family becomes the next POTUS. He's already done this to the Republican Party.

With November 5 eight months away, Joe Biden will kick-off his re-election effort with his first campaign speech, which also happens to be his fourth State of the Union on Thursday. Last year, 27 million watched. Sure to be more this next time. I mean, old, but honest and good old Joe Biden....versus old, but serial liar and soon to be convicted felon Donald Trump

Oh, the House of Representatives will take another crack this week to see if it can really shut down our federal government. Perhaps they will instead try to redeem itself by delaying this embarrassment while passing war funds to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
By the way, speaking of Girls' Day, Caitlin Clark today scored 35 points, got 6 rebounds, had 3 steals and dished out 9 assists, as Iowa beat #2 Ohio State. She also broke the all time scoring record held by Pistol Pete Maravich. I was there to watch him for all four years at LSU and saw him break that record.

Here is what I know about Japan's Girls' Day.

There has never been a Girl's Day in Japan. Hinamatsuri means doll festival, began in the Heian Period (794-1195) on March 3, and became official in 1687.
While there are boy dolls in the country, girl dolls are more prominent, and some took this to be Girl's Day, so families wished young girls health and prosperity. March 3 was never a national holiday, and this year just happens to fall on Sunday.
There was once Boys' Day, on May 5, when paper carp flags were flown, going all the way back to the 12th century. But the Japan Diet in 1948 changed that to become Children's Day for both boys and girls, and is now a national holiday. Called Tango no Sekku, historically, on this day, women were asked to purify the house by fixing the roof, and during the Kamakura period (1185-1333) the samurai class switched the focus to boys. Carp streamers came later, in the Edo period (1603-1867).

Actually, there is an International Day of the Girl Child, but this is celebrated on November 14, declared in 2012 by the United Nations. It's too new, and no country treats this day as a national holiday. The day is used here and there to promote women's rights. In 2016 President Barack Obama issued a proclamation supporting an end to gender disparity. Can you imagine Donald Trump doing this?

HONOLULU TO SEATTLE

The story of the day is Hurricane Milton, now a Category 4 at 145 MPH, with a track that has moved further south and the eye projected to make landfall just south of Sarasota. Good news for Tampa, which is 73 miles north. Milton will crash into Florida as a Category 4, and is huge, so a lot of problems can still be expected in Tampa Bay with storm surge. If the eye had crossed into the state just north of Tampa, the damage would have been catastrophic. Milton is a fast-moving storm, currently at 17 MPH, so as bad as the rainfall will be over Florida, again, a blessing. The eye will make landfall around 10PM EDT today, and will move into the Atlantic Ocean north of Palm Bay Thursday morning. My first trip to Seattle was in June of 1962 just after I graduated from Stanford University. Caught a bus. Was called the Century 21 Exposition . Also the Seattle World's Fair. 10 million joined me on a six-month run. My first. These a...

OSAKA EXPO: Day One

Well, the day finally came for us to go to the Osaka Expo. We were told ahead of time that the long walks would be fearful, giant lines will need to be tolerated just to get into the Expo, with those ocean breezes, it would really be cold, and so forth. Maybe it was pure luck, but we avoided all the above warnings We had a grand day, and are looking forward to Sunday, our second day at the Expo. So come along for an enjoyable ride. Our hotel is adjacent to the Tennoji Station, a very large one with several lines. We upgraded our Suica card and caught the Misosuji red line towards Umeda. Transferred to the Chuo green line at the Hommachi Station. This Osaka Metro train took us to the Yumeshima Station at the Expo site. It was a very large mob leaving the train and heading to the entrance. Took only a few minutes to get to the entrance. This mob was multiplied by at least a factor of ten of those already waiting to enter. However...

THE BULLET TRAIN

Japan had the first bullet train more than 60 years ago. It was 10October1964, when the opening ceremony was held in Tokyo in anticipation of Japan's first-ever Olympic Games, which began that day. The Shinkansen, meaning new mainline , with a separate track, arrived when normal train traffic had reached the limit for carrying passengers and freight. A train trip between Osaka and Tokyo dropped from 6 hours and 40 minutes to 4 hours, shortened to 3 hours and 10 minutes by 1964, and is now 2 hours and 30 minutes. From the Shin-Osaka Station to the Shin-Yokohama Station only takes a little more than 2 hours. In 1964 the track was 320 miles long. Today, it's up to 1484 miles. The original itinerary incorporating Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka now carries 159 million passengers/year. In this 6 decade period, more than 10 billion passengers have been safely handled. CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT NOT ONE PASSENGER HAS YET BEEN KILLED IN A DERA...

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