DANIA GOODE-JONES DAVIS FOR GODDESS

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And in other news...
The High Exhalted Goddess of All Dania Goode-Jones-Davis will now speak to her faithful subjects.

Ok, I'm a little cranky and caffeine-high...but I'm once again in a little snit.
Our mayoral race is beginning to start up, as are other local elections. This is usually about the time when my close friends start loading their tranquilizer dart guns and start stalking me. I can't blame them...if I weren't so @*?^#* frustrated with politics and politicians I would probably want to have me sedated during EVERY campaign - local and national.
I suppose my frustration lies not just with the politicians, but with us as the people responsible for putting these people in their positions of power and authority. IF we're lucky and it's a clean campaign without nasty, useless mud-slinging, a candidate spends his time telling us what he "will" do if elected and what good he's accomplished up to this point in time.
That's great. That's fine. And that's also nothing but rhetoric, promises and then information a 10 year old could Google.
I want to know if we're about to put someone in who has a clue. And I don't give a flying rat's ass if a presidential candidate who has never held a national office before doesn't know who the King of Syria's step-brother's cousin's prom date was. I have a few other questions I think might be a better prerequisite for our next slew of presidential candidates. They want to run our country, I think they should know a few things about it. AND have some common sense.
By the way...it's PASS/FAIL guys.



1. How much is our federal budget?
About $2 trillion.

2. What percentage of our federal budget is for non-military/discretionary spending?
Only 20% (I'm sure our troops are enjoying their $500.00 hammers and $2000.00 toilet
seats...not so sure about the Hummers that keep getting riddled with bullets, though.)

3. Roughly, what's the population of the United States? Around 290 million.
What's the population of the world? Just over 6 billion.
(Which makes us just 5% of the total package people.)
Wonder whatever happened to "Walk softly and carry a big stick"


4. How many people died in the terrorist attacks on 9/11? Of course there is no moral
comparison, but roughly how many Americans die each year in auto accidents? From heart
disease each year?
Approximately 3000 Americans died in the 9/11 attacks.
40,000 Americans die each year from auto accidents.
700,000 Americans die each year from heart disease.
(I'm a seat belt freak...please wear yours. And the frosted vanilla mini wheats are really
tasty... there, my good deed for the year.)

and finally...

5. Given the not too distant past of our electoral college fiasco, certainly candidates must
be familiar with the electoral process. In theory, what is the smallest number of
ACTUAL VOTES a candidate could receive and still be elected President of the United
States of America?

11 votes. Yep. You read that right. 11 votes. The Electoral College is set up in such a way that, quite literally, 11 regular Jane and Joe Smith voters could elect the President of the United States.
If California, Texas, New York, Florida and the other 7 states with the largest
electoral votes each had a turnout of only 1 voter in each state who voted for
Candidate X, and the other 39 states had every registered voter show up and vote
for Candidate Y (tens of millions of votes), Candidate X would still win because
he would have won the most electoral votes.*

Scary isn't it?




Until next time.

"What I cannot create, I do not understand." - Richard Feynman

*credit where credit is due~
thank you to Dr. Paulos, professor of mathematics and journalism
(Check out his book "Innumeracy")