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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.

  • 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.

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