DEMOCRATS NEED A MIRACLE

President Joe Biden finally did what he should have before the primaries. He dropped out of the race for the presidency, and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. I think Michelle Obama has a better chance against Donald Trump, but Harris deserves this chance. Biden will remain president until his term ends on 20January2025. Republicans reacted that this deficient human should now resign, leaving House Speaker Mike Johnson next in the line of succession. Just maybe this is the beginning of what the Democrats needed, a miracle, to not get blown out by Trump and other Republican candidates on November 5.

Kamala Harris will be the first Black/Asian woman to run at the top of any major ticket. She is 59 years old.

Harris was born in Oakland, California in 1964.
Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, came from India as a 19-year old graduate student in 1958, earning a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in nutrition and endocrinology in 1964.
Her father, Donald Harris, is of Afro-Jamaican ancestry who came to the U.S. from British Jamaica in 1961. He got a PhD from UC Berkeley in 1966 and is now a Professor of Economics emeritus at Stanford University.

The family has moved around the U.S., working for various universities. She has a younger sister, Maya, who now also is a lawyer and MSNBC political analyst. Parents divorced when Kamala was 7-years old.
She remained with her mother and had more of a Hindu type upbringing, but became a Baptist.

Graduated from Howard University in 1986 and the University of California's Hastings College of Law in 1989.
She became a very successful prosecutor in San Francisco, with gun control being one of her victories.
She previously was a Senator from California.

Dated Speaker of the California Assembly Willie Brown in the 1990s and also had a relationship with talk show host Montel Williams. Met attorney Doug Emhoff on a blind date. Got married in 2014. They are said to have a net worth of $5.8 million.

Has written two non-fiction books and a children's book. This is her 2019 autobiography.

As this is a Sunday, I'll give equal time to Republican Donald Trump. But I'll focus on Barron Trump, who is now 6 feet 8 inches tall. Will he be going to New York University??? In 30 minutes, here are seventeen bits of info about him. Donald Trump is 6'3". Other sons Jr. is 6'1" and Eric 6'4", while Ivanka is 5'9".

Tropical Storm Gaemi will become a typhoon tomorrow, strengthen into a Category 2 and get awfully close to Taipei on Wednesday. Projected to make landfall over Ningde, China by Friday as a typhoon.

Gaemi is the larger storm above. The smaller on is Tropical Storm Prapiroon, now over Hainan, but could still strengthen before making landfall late tomorrow near the Vietnam/China border. If you're on a cruise, Prapiroon is now up to 60 MPH.

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...

THE ENIGMATIC PHIL SPECTOR

The first presidential debate of Donald Trump and Joe Biden ended up in a near tie. Both lost. However, it was an unmitigated disaster for Biden, who just might be too old to win this re-election. For Trump, it was a reinforcement of what he does all the the time, lie. There will be significant calls for the Democratic Party to work out "something" to replace Biden as their presidential candidate. Suddenly, Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom and Michelle Obama are added to the spotlight. But what can "legally" occur at the August Democratic Convention? The situation is different on the Republican side, as Trump is the Republican Party, and no matter if he gets 4 years at his felony sentencing on July 9, or even if the Supreme Court determines he is not immune next week or later, he will be the presidential candidate. Trump is a damned boastful liar and convicted felon, but that is the only option for Republicans. His vice-presidential choice now become...

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...

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