At some point, I realized that I wasn’t going to get to 10,000 signatures. I had a good plan. I didn’t have a team — paid canvassers, unpaid volunteers. How much time could I realistically spare with a full-time job, and a disabled wife? Where could I legally petition without […]
Strauss for US Senate in ’22 for Missouri
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The FEC provides free software for filing your campaign election reports. It is called fecfile. It runs only on Microsoft Windows, and everytime I use it, it requires an automatic update. I have a computer running Microsoft Windows, which if you know me at all, is an inconvenience, but I […]
I have written at length in many posts in this blog about my run as a non-partisan candidate. I started my campaign in February ’21 before most all candidates currently running. Now, I face validation of my political philosophy and my choices. I also face competition and a decision. In […]
Today is Sunday, June 19, 2022. It is the Juneteenth holiday, although the designated Federal holiday will be tomorrow on Monday, June 20. Federal holidays are almost always on Mondays to give people an extra day for a long weekend. There are a bunch of events today celebrating the day, […]
One hot day at the St. Louis Arch, Gateway to the West, I am playing my guitar and petitioning. I will be doing this until August 1. Yes, I will answer your questions about my platform. What I feel about the issues. What I want to get done with policy […]
As I have driven to the Gateway Arch these many months, today I drove this morning into the city. The St. Louis downtown streets are all ripped up, so it’s not surprising that the street near Kiener plaza was closed due to the on-going construction. Whole blocks of prime downtown […]
One year ago, I wrote in this blog, “I am trying very hard not to “sell you tickets to the ghost train”. This train is real.” Yes, this train is real, but the quote is apt. The song I sing at the Gateway Arch “Freedom Train” recounts American History from […]
Hi, From your New York Times Github database, for the State of Missouri, the data for May 12, 2022 confuses me. [“2022-05-11”,1449743,20555], [“2022-05-12”,1450282,20554], [“2022-05-13”,1453876,20586] I see that 20,554 Missourians are reported dead on the 12th, while 20,555 are reported dead on the 11th. The difference of one dead does not […]
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was published in 1906. Here is what babies and children were fed, There were many such dangers, in which the odds were all against them. Their children were not as well as they had been at home; but how could they know that there was […]
The technology of censorship starts with an automated and/or manual scanning of speech segments. This can be a textual scanning or spoken speech. Then, the text and/or spoken words are then disambiguated, parsed into some level of meaning. At the simplest level, meaning can be an automated lookup of keywords […]
Gamblers are always trying to beat the house. Sometimes they succeed. Almost always their strategies are based on being unpredictable, and in games like poker, bluffing. You can have a lousy hand, but if you bluff you can win big. The house always plays predictably. That is the winning strategy. […]
After I recorded “Four Dead in Ohio”, a friend informed me that Neil Young was homophobic. I have always held Neil Young in high regard, a rock stars that sent a real message — anti-war, rock for a better world, etc., etc., etc. I didn’t believe that this could be […]