Oregon, My Oregon

Campus Reform, University of Oregon to offer 'election week therapy' featuring dogs, goats, and even ducks

The University of Oregon will offer several “election week therapy” events featuring a range of animals.  The University of Oregon’s University Health Services is hosting the event on Tuesday, which is Election Day.  According to three event pages, the university’s heath services department will bring therapy goats, dogs, and even “Quacktavious the Therapy Duck.”

”To promote well-being and lessen anxiety during election week, University Health Services is bringing therapy dogs from F.E.T.C.H. to campus,” the event page states.

Several schools including the University of Michigan and Virginia Tech University are hosting similar election day therapy events, which will feature therapy dogs, free yoga, and art. During the general election in 2020, several universities hosted similar events and even canceled class. At Syracuse University, officials organized a “Rock Balancing for Mindfulness” event on Election Day to help students de-stress.

Hey, rock balancing sounds kind of fun. Too bad we don't have any rocks around here. 

Flotsam and Jetsam - It's Trump/Vance!

I've had trouble diving back into the morning posts since we got back from Costa Rica very early Monday morning. The posts, which have evolved and expanded from a small set back in the Obamacare debate era to a ginormous, all consuming political post. This looks like a good opportunity to prune it back some.

I stayed up late last night/this morning to watch election results, up until Fox finally called Georgia and Pennsylvania for Trump, giving him 267 electoral votes, and near mathematical certainty of winning enough to take the presidency. He's even leading the popular vote. Currently, RCP gives him 280 electoral college votes, with Arizona, Nevada, Michigan still outstanding and all currently leaning Trump. In Maryland, tax cheat Angela Alsobrooks, not unexpectedly, beat former governor Larry Hogan for Senate. However, with WV going for Justice, and Ohio dumping Sherrod Brown and Montana canning Tester, the Senate is safe in Republican hands, with 52 Senators, and a few left to be decided. The House is still up for grabs, but it's currently looking good for Republicans, with +3 seats and counting. 

Stacy McCain, Election Results 2024: Trump Wins Pennsylvania, Will Be 47th U.S. President. Althouse notices even Just now: The NYT observes that Trump has won. Stephen Kruiser at PJM, TRUMP WINS. AMERICA WINS. Ace, in with the Flaming Skull in the pudding cup, in all red italic caps, FOX NEWS NOW CALLS WISCONSIN FOR TRUMP, FOX DECLARES TRUMP THE 47th PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES! CNN, CBS Finally Call PA. Duane Patterson at Hat Hair, Honestly, It Really Wasn't That Close. I could go on and on, but I won't.

This appears to be a fairly strong mandate for Trump, and a thorough rejection of the woke, progressive policies advocated by the Harris/Walz crowd. It remains to be seen how they will deal with the rebuke.

On going questions? Will the riots in D.C., NYC, Seattle and Portland beat our expectation? SO NOW THAT TRUMP HAS WON THE POPULAR VOTE, I ASSUME THAT CALIFORNIA, NEW YORK, ILLINOIS, ET AL., WILL GIVE HIM THEIR ELECTORAL VOTES, Under the National Popular Vote Compact that they signed up for. Right? Will boxes of ballots continue to fall out of the back of trucks  with California plates in Michigan, Georgia and Pennsylvania in an attempt to reflip those states? Will Attorney General Merrick Garland, not so Special Counsel Jack Smith and Judge Shitcan conspire to jail Trump before he can take office and fire Smith?

And just for fun:

🚨Breaking Now🚨: President Joe “Dank Brandon” Biden addresses President Trump defeating Kamala Harris in the 2024 election: https://t.co/LiSgqyzTYA pic.twitter.com/OP00Fz2xzp

— Prison Mitch (@MidnightMitch) November 6, 2024

The Wednesday Wetness

USGS on YouTube, Susquehanna River Story — What does the science say about water quality?

Tuesday Tanlines

Irish Star, What Donald Trump really looks like - without his spray tan and famous hair

According this X post, if Trump decided to go all natural, he would look like a completely different person. Donald Trump is known for his orange spray tans, but the former president is also thought to wears a hairpiece, which is common for senior citizens.

Without the two enhancements, the former president looks like a different person. The X user Anonymous posted a photo of what Donald would look like without the spray tan and hairpiece. It's safe to say the comments went wild. "So that's what he'll look like in prison," one user wrote. "I can't decide which is worse," wrote another. This isn't the first time the internet has commented on the former president's hair.

Your point?