{"id":28204,"date":"2019-08-20T09:56:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T14:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=28204"},"modified":"2019-08-21T18:18:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T23:18:09","slug":"harrys-diary-8-20-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=28204","title":{"rendered":"Harry&#8217;s Diary 8-20-2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greenland is sliding into the sea, the economy is poised to tank next year or the year after Donald Trump&#8217;s reelection <em>should that occur<\/em>, Brazil&#8217;s forests are under assault as one of the new Internet Era&#8217;s collection of pseudo-fascist, plutocrat-hugging, mini-Trumps is setting armies of murderers out to kill the locals in order to burn down the Amazon for more methane spreading cattle ranches for Big Macs and yet I&#8217;m feeling pretty happy this rainy morning.<\/p>\n<p>Claudia just baked our old favorite blueberry buckle, in our new stove, in our new almost finished kitchen and I used our spiffy new microwave to reheat my coffee. The old fridge is out of our dining room! I saw another compelling episode of Mindhunter (season two) last night and it involved Charles Manson who I was recently reading about. My campaign fundraising letter is about to be sent out to at least 2,000 of my 12,000 potential constituents. I&#8217;ve thought of a cool way to speed up an initial burst of lawnsigns by the end of the week. I got back to my book writing yesterday after a week of putting up new church storm windows. The writing went very well &#8211; although &#8211; its becoming obvious my early hope of having a book ready for shipment a month before the election was and is wildly optimistic. <\/p>\n<p>Sometimes in face of even dire threats to your grandchildren&#8217;s future you have to be positive. In fact, I hope my Grandsons can help me preserve the Duluth Schools and reelect me to the Board after my glorious two-year hiatus from the sometimes wretched politics of the School District. What else can I say? I&#8217;m an optimist despite all evidence to the contrary.<\/p>\n<p>Its almost 10 AM and I&#8217;m eager to begin writing again. This post is to assure my regulars that I&#8217;m still focused on the Duluth School District and also to assure them that I remain busy with life as well as the great issues of the day. <em>I have never accused myself of being myopic!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After I race through today&#8217;s French studies I will post <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=28209\">a couple of stories from the New York Times<\/a> that caught my attention. One is about Germany&#8217;s role in the world economy and the other is about Jeff Bezos&#8217;s shoddy treatment of words&#8230;&#8230;Not the Washington Post (thank heavens) but the unfolding booksales his company built its foundation on. So, Vive la France! Vive la litterature! Vive l&#8217;economie du la monde! Vive l&#8217;idiot! (That&#8217;s a reference to my book on Public Education. I&#8217;m hoping its sales will finance my school board campaign)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48440775031_f972195e1c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A fifteen dollar donation will get you one of these babies. 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