(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . GNR for Tuesday October 10 [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-10-10 I like to make sauerkraut/kimchee. This is my latest batch, which has just started to ferment. By the time it is done it will be uniformly red because the pigment will leach out of the red cabbage and stain everything else. I used three heads of cabbage (two white, one red) a large bag of carrots, onions, peppers, and herbs from my garden. Making sauerkraut is a traditional way to preserve vegetables for the winter. I make it year round because I can get vegetables at Kroger any time, but it used to be a fall task. My mother told me that the house would reek when her mother made a big batch. Personally I think it is better to have those stinky sulfur compounds break down in the fermentation jar than in my digestive system. Fall came on in a rush last week. Through Thursday the temperature was still in the 80s, by Saturday it was in the 60s. September was the hottest month ever compared to the average, but it looks like the rest of October will be below average (at least here in WV). I don’t like winter but I appreciate the frosts that kill off most of the population of weeds, ticks, mosquitoes, and other pests that have exploded over the summer. Political Good News I find snowbored’s diaries inspirational. What they are doing isn’t sexy and doesn’t generate headlines. It is just the hard work of talking to voters about issues and candidates. Things Kids Say at their Doors: A Virginia Canvass Report This year (2023), we have rarely encountered Climate Change single issue voters, nor has it made our Top 3 lists except during those weeks that saw an excessive heatwave. We’ve knocked on 4,450,469 doors this year (so far) and talked to 314,224 voters. The Economy remains the overarching issue before this election, but the subject of Reproductive Healthcare is what is driving a critical subset of voters to the polls. Climate Change voters can’t try to impose their views upon others without better arguments that appeal to those who don’t share their views. But they can strengthen the Democratic coalition and ensure their personal priorities get more emphasis in our policy priority list. Trump Thought About Trying To Become House Speaker In January -- And Was Humiliated I had forgotten about this, or perhaps just missed it in during the chaos. The Republicans in the House had a chance to pick the orange buffoon as Speaker nine months ago and gave him a hard pass. They may give him lip service as the leader of the party but know that he is an idiot who would screw them up even more than they are now. Rudy Giuliani's Florida Property Slapped With IRS Tax Lien Amid Financial Woes Giuliani owes about $550,000 in income taxes to the IRS, according to a filing signed in late August. That’s in addition to a variety of legal bills that are reportedly mounting as the former New York City mayor faces criminal election interference charges in Georgia and other legal woes. Rudy is broke. His lawyers just quit and are suing him for the rest of his assets. He is facing prison for the rest of his life. If he flips he just might be able to get out in time to die a free man. Desantis Loses Lawsuit for Hiding COVID Data Two years ago, the State of Florida was sued after the Florida Department of Health refused to continue to post data on COVID to their public dashboard under orders from Governor Desantis. They just lost the case, will now begin to publish the data again to the public, and have to pay out $152,500 in legal fees to opposing attorneys. Kos says that RFK Jr. is more of a threat to the Republicans than Biden. The other members of the Kennedy clan are trying to make sure that is the case. The decision of our brother Bobby to run as a third party candidate against Joe Biden is dangerous to our country. Bobby might share the same name as our father, but he does not share the same values, vision or judgement. Today's announcement is deeply saddening for us. We denounce his candidacy and believe it to be perilous for our country. Then there is this. International Chaos Agents in Decline I struggle to describe good news on the international front during the news onslaught about the horrible fighting occurring in Israel and the Gaza Strip. This seems like a major breakdown of the international order (at least when viewed through first world goggles). But many of the most disruptive troublemakers are losing influence. The war in Yemen has killed a hundred times as many people as the Hamas-Israel conflict but it has (mostly) ended. When he became Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman decided to squash the Wahhabi fundamentalists who had been dictating Saudi policy for hundreds of years. As a result Saudi Arabia has normalized relations with Iran (which led to the ceasefire) and has been in talks with Israel (which probably led to the Hamas attack). MBS is not a nice person but if he scares the rest of his family into stopping the funding of fundamentalists I will be pleased. Russia’s war has almost destroyed their military, which has been the biggest threat to Europe over my entire lifetime. Ukraine has demonstrated that a determined population armed with cheap drones and castoff weapons can defeat one of the most powerful armies in history (the Vietnamese and Taliban might argue that had already been demonstrated). China’s international influence has been declining rapidly. Deng Xiaoping and his successors ended Mao’s foreign policy of exporting revolution and focused on mutually beneficial economic ties. Xi has gone back to being a dick and it isn’t going well. His Belts and Roads Initiative is failing. Iran is continuing to stir up trouble across the Middle East (including supporting Hamas’ latest attack). But it is facing an internal rebellion of women and young people who are tires of living under a group of aging kleptocrats. The Nobel Peace Prize just awarded to Narges Mohammadi will encourage the resistance. Here are the conflicts that have killed hundreds of thousands of people over the last few years: The Ethiopian Tigran War has mostly ended. The Syrian Civil War has mostly ended. The Burmese Civil War is still going on. So globally the toll of war has decreased over the last year. 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