USA

[MaryN]

Good luck, America. I reckon you are going to need it.

[CharlesHarris]

Today is Tuesday, Nov. 8, the 313th day of 2016 with 53 to follow.

This is Election Day in the United States.

The moon is waxing. The morning star is Jupiter. The evening stars are Mercury, Saturn, Venus, Mars, Neptune and Uranus.

Those born on this date are under the sign of Scorpio. They include British astronomer Edmond Halley in 1656; games producer Milton Bradley in 1836; Irish author Bram Stoker ("Dracula") in 1847; author Margaret Mitchell ("Gone With the Wind") in 1900; actors June Havoc in 1912 and Esther Rolle in 1920; heart transplant pioneer Dr. Christiaan Barnard in 1922; football Hall of Fame Coach Bobby Bowden in 1929 (age 87); TV journalist Morley Safer in 1931 (age 85); science fiction writer Ben Bova in 1932 (age 84); actor Virna Lisi in 1936 (age 80); singers Patti Page in 1927, Bonnie Bramlett in 1944 (age 72), Minnie Riperton in 1947 and Bonnie Raitt in 1949 (age 67); National Rifle Association official Wayne LaPierre in 1948 (age 68); TV personality Mary Hart in 1950 (age 66); actor Alfre Woodard in 1952 (age 64); singer Rickie Lee Jones in 1954 (age 62); TV chef Gordon Ramsay in 1966 (age 50); and actors Courtney Thorne-Smith in 1967 (age 49), Parker Posey in 1968 (age 48), Tara Reid in 1975 (age 41) and Jade Pettyjohn in 2000 (age 16).

On this date in history:

In 1837, Mount Holyoke Seminary in Massachusetts became the first U.S. college founded exclusively for women.

In 1864, amid the U.S. Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was elected to his second term as president. He was assassinated five months later.

In 1889, Montana was admitted to the union as the 41st state.

In 1895, physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovered X-rays.

In 1923, Adolf Hitler leads a failed attempt to overthrow the German government in what has become known as the Beer Hall Putsch. Hitler was quickly arrested and charged with treason.

In 1933, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt set up the Civil Works Administration as an emergency Depression agency to provide jobs for the unemployed.

In 1942, as World War II raged on, more than 400,000 Allied soldiers invaded North Africa.

In 1960, John F. Kennedy won the U.S. presidential election, defeating Richard Nixon. Kennedy was the 35th president.

In 1965, the United Kingdom formally abolishes the death penalty as Royal Assent is given to the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965.

In 1973, the right ear of John Paul Getty III, who had been kidnapped four months earlier, was delivered, along with a ransom note, to a daily newspaper. The ransom was reluctantly paid, with Getty III found alive at a gas station in southern Italy.

In 1985, a judge overturned Rubin "Hurricane" Carter's conviction for a 1966 triple killing in a Patterson, N.J., bar, freeing the former boxer after 19 years in prison.

In 1988, U.S. Vice President George H.W. Bush was elected as the 41st president of the United States.

In 1994, in a stunning upset, Republican candidates swept the general election, regaining control of both chambers of the U.S. Congress. It marked the first time in 40 years the Republicans controlled both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

In 2005, French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin declared a state of emergency in a bid to quell the nation's worst rioting in decades.

In 2006, U.S. President George W. Bush introduced former CIA Director Robert Gates as secretary of defense, succeeding Donald Rumsfeld.

In 2011, remains of U.S. soldiers were mishandled and body parts were lost at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, a scathing Washington report concluded. Three senior officials at the base were disciplined following an 18-month investigation.

In 2013, Super Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful typhoons ever recorded, smashed into the Philippines, causing death and destruction on island after island. The death toll rose into the thousands, with hundreds of people injured and missing and tens of thousands displaced. On Jan. 3, 2014, government officials said at least 6,166 people had been killed and 28,626 injured.

A thought for the day: "The Department of Defense is the largest, most complex organization on the planet: 3 million people, civilian and military, with a budget, the last year I was there (2011) of over $700 billion." -- Robert M. Gates, former U.S. secretary of defense.

[CharlesHarris]

The polls in West Virginia closed at 7:30 pm. I voted and did my duty.

Now time to watch a movie and forget about it all until tomorrow...

Cheers and Beers!

[harrypalmer]

A grim day for the USA.

[Barneyboy]

Hahaha only in the USA

[Barneyboy]

Look at all the democrats crying there eyes out ,get over your selfs .

[MaryN]

It would appear that the worm has turned - big time! Would love to be a fly on the wall round the Clinton and Obama breakfast tables this morning.

[Mortblanc]

Yes it is a grim day for those that oppose freedom and individualism.

"The forgotten will be forgotten no more!"

This election saw the crossover to Conservative of areas that had been liberal for decades.

But most of all I no longer expect to die at the hands of the U.S. government, which was a certainty if Hillary had won.

[NorthernRaider]

Just popped in to say WELL DONE to the true good, honest, decent hard working American patriots for electing Trump, the fight against globalism, socialism and the establishment is growing. first Brexit, then this great news.

BTW on one media source they are saying the Clintons and Democrats have ran up MASSIVE debts on their campaign, so like all lefties they will leave a legacy of debt, failure and betrayal.

[Mortblanc]

Not to fear, their election debts will be covered by the special interest groups that funded their entire campaign.

Their $300 million fortune will not take a hit and they will probably now establish citizenship in some remote Caribbean Island that has no extradition treaties with the U.S. now that administrative protections for their criminal acts will be removed.

This was an amazing election and the maps of voting are astounding. The only thing Hillary won solidly was the vote of the inner city urban areas which are dependent on entitlements and hand outs.

All those groups that were supposed to go to Hillary by default, non-whites, women, first time voters, did not move to her in mass. Hillary had a majority in those groups, but not a big enough majority.

What it worked down too was that anyone that had a "real job", black, white, Hispanic or female, voted for Trump.

And in spite of the smear campaign against Trump, he got 68% of the Christian vote. Religion might not count, or might even be a negative for you folks, but over here you can win the presidency with the religious majority.