Thoughts of Dan

( and you’re helping to spread it! ) If you are talking about the popular vote as something real, you are helping to spread fake news. I'm not a Trump supporter. I'm not trying to justify the electoral college. I don’t dispute that if if you add up all the votes cast for all 18 candidates on the ballots in the combined 50 states, Hillary Clinton’s total is higher than any other candidates. I'm asking you to look at the reality of how our elections work. Whether you like it or not, the electoral college is how the winner of the election was determined and that's the ONLY race the candidates were trying to win. What do California and Wisconsin have in common?  Neither one was considered a "battleground" state, and as such both states were ignored by one campaign.   Could Trump have campaigned more in California (which is the most expensive state for media buys) and done better?  Certainly.  Could he have hypothetically cranked up the negative Hillar...

My wife was working on her windows based PC when suddenly it started making what she described as a weird beeping.  She shut it down and tried to restart, but the beeping was constant at boot, so she powered it off and left it for me. Having recently tinkered with this PC (added an SSD and upgrade the RAM) I was familiar with the insides.  I immediately reseated the RAM, reset the CMOS.  Power on, same constant beeping. I looked up the post codes and the closest was 4-4-4, which is cache error, but this seems much faster than any post code I had heard before.  So I turned it on, and let it keep booting -- and it actually did boot!  Kept beeping though. To make a long story short, I finally figured out there was a key stuck down on the keyboard.

The original text: A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State , the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. My reading: There are two sets of citizens discussed in the Second Amendment. One group is the set of ALL citizens, named " the People. " The other set is those who bear arms in the service of the government.  This includes armed police officers, National Guardsmen, Sheriffs, FBI agents etc.  They are named " the militia ."  It seems crystal clear to me that the militia and the people are two different groups. When the Constitution is written there are no public police forces -- policing is usually a soldiers job.   2A states that that in order for a State to be secure in it's free dom, the militia cannot be out of control -- they must be regulated.  The only check (regulation) on the  militia  is to make sure that the People have the ability to confront the militia . ...