Monday-Saturday, Nov. 2-7, 2020
What a truly amazing week in American history and what a new era of positive feelings was created worldwide in a short, exciting span!
It started off normally enough . . .
Our old team in Guadalajara,
Spain got things going with a
cool Day of the Dead posting
Saturday was scheduled to finally be
the start of the PAC-12 football season
Our beloved Washington Huskies were scheduled to open the season on the road against the California Golden Bears.
Then Covid-19 hit the California squad and the game was cancelled and declared a "no contest." That means that it will not count as either a win or a loss on either team's record.
A day after this was announced, the Utah-Arizona game was similarly cancelled and called a "no contest" when the Coronavirus hit the Utah Utes team.
Italy has reactivated their
nationwide Covid-19 lockdown
The Italian youth level American football seasons were cancelled as part of the government's plans.
The Varese Skorpions U-17 season thus ended with our club sporting a 2-0 record and in first place in their four team league.
This has to be our attitude
going forward in the pandemic
And then, on Tuesday, America held a national . . .
To elect a President for the
next four years among other offices
and issues
Democrat vs. Republican
During the last decade, America has become an increasingly divided country.
For many of us, the last four years under President Trump, have been a nightmare as we witnessed the normalization of rudeness, the decline of civility and the widespread acceptance of lying as a way of governmental life.
The push to get the vote out this year was something to behold in this battle for the soul of the nation. Approximately 159.8 million Americans voted, the most in USA history.
Usually in these elections always held on Tuesdays, the vote is counted to the point that the media can project who the winner will be in our goofy, outdated Electoral College system by Wednesday morning.
Not this year.
Due to the volume of the vote,
it was early Saturday morning
and we still did not know the winner
Thanks to the Electoral College system, Joe Biden, leading by over FOUR MILLION votes could still not be declared the winner as four key states (Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania) were still up for grabs.
This led to four days and nights of
deliberate, transparent vote counting
Four days and nights of watching
CNN Electoral College map coverage
Finally, at about 8:20 a.m. Pacific
time in California CNN announced
the winner
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will
be our leaders for the next four years
As gratifying as this result was for many of us in the USA, I was equally happy to receive all sorts of well wishes from friends in Europe.
While I think that this is a good day for the world, we must still remember that over SEVENTY MILLION Americans voted for President Trump.
The job of reuniting our nation will not be an easy one.
The longest journey starts with but a single step . . .
Reading Is FUNdamental!
Not a novel but a fascinating
look at the 1920s Mafia in Sicily
