Operation Nightwatch thanks you, madcapschemes.com thanks you for your donation to the Seattle organization for losing in the first Political Contest of this election season. Here’s the message received today:
“That was me, picking Nikki Nikki PaTang (from Monty Python’s The Holy Grail).
“I will make that donation, ol’ bean, and send you the receipt copy.
“I STILL think my guess was best. Best for Amurica. not for the contest.”
Previously, I wrote this:
The winner of this contest will be announced on August 23, and then we will start the next political contest.
None of that is true, in keeping with the 2024 presidential election. I did not announce the winner on August 23. And I may or may not have a next political contest on this site.
But I am announcing the winners now, and they are a sorry bunch of political prognosticators. Here are the entries and their scores:
My predictions:
Can anyone beat my score of one? Here are the other entries:
2. Trump, Kristi Noem, Biden, Harris = 1 right
3. Trump, Elise Stefanik, Biden, Harris = 1 right
4. Nikki Haley, Francis Suarez, Biden, Harris = 0 right
Will the loser of entry 4 with zero right step forward? According to the rules of this contest, you will donate $100 to a charity of my choice. So please sent $100 to Operation Nightwatch.
Back to posting quotes from books I have read. These came from “James” by Percival Everett. Probably nothing striking here, and these thoughts have been expressed many times elsewhere. But they struck me as relevant to our times as we approach the 2024 presidential election.
“James” is Everett retelling the story of “Huckleberry Finn” from Jim, a slave in Mark Twain’s book. Jim, who talks in his “slave language,” starts the conversation below with Huck:
“But dey was stealin’ from dem folks. Tellin’ lies lak dey was. He weren’t neber no pirate.”
“Yes, but them people liked it, Jim. Did you see their faces? They had to know them was lies, but they wanted to believe. What do you make of that?”
“Folks be funny lak dat. Dey takes the lies dey want and throws away the truths dat scares’em.”
And further in the book, Everett has Jim but it bluntly:
“Belief has nothing to do with truth”
