1. It is the first Monday of November. We are back onto Standard Time and it gets dark already too early. There remain only eight Mondays in the craziness of 2025.
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| Beck and Chris Glen Burnie, MD November 2, 2025 |
2. Take one baby boy and add a grandmother who doesn't get to see him that often and you have instant magic. We had an extremely enjoyable morning and early afternoon with Beck. Chris was definitely in her element and thoroughly enjoyed being with him For his part, Beck seemed to enjoy being doted upon by Chris.
Ravens (3-5) Drowned the Dolphins (2-7), 28-6
Cowboys (3-4-1) host Cardinals (2-5) tonight
Steelers (5-3) stampeded Colts (7-2), 27-20
Commanders (3-6) were beat-up by Seahawks (6-2), 14-38
Chiefs (5-4) run out of town by Bills (6-2), 21-28
Grandma and Beck in the Play Area
Glen Burnie, MD
November 2, 2025
4. The partial government shutdown continues. I am amazed at the ignorance of the republicans who try to spin the shutdown for anything other than what it is: republicans do not want to negotiate with democrats to reopen the government for the good of the American people. Furthermore, the issue is that republicans do not want to provide healthcare for millions of Americans and the insistence that democrats want to provide healthcare for undocumented immigrants is patently false--but they keep spewing it. BTW, how can there be any meaningful negotiation or even a compromise as long as the Speaker of the House keeps the chamber out of session until the shutdown is over? Any compromise spending plan would require House approval before it is implemented but the House won't be able to approve it since they are out of session. Insanity reigns.
5. Today in History. One World Trade Center officially opens in Manhattan on November 3, 2014. The new tower, along with the rest of the World Trade Center complex, replaced the Twin Towers and surrounding complex, which were destroyed by terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
As the city and the nation reeled from the attacks, which set into motion the series of U.S-led military operations dubbed the War on Terror, it was decided that the Twin Towers should be replaced by new office buildings, parks, a museum, and a memorial to those who died. In 2002, after cleanup and recovery efforts had concluded, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation announced a competition to find the chief architect of the new structure. Daniel Libeskind, a Polish-American architect then in charge of a studio in Berlin, won and became the site’s master planner. In reality, however, a number of people and entities, including then-Governor George Pataki, leaseholder Larry Silverstein, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, wrestled over what would happen to the space commonly referred to as “Ground Zero.”
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CNN Poll Americans are broadly dissatisfied with the state of the country and the economy - CNN
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Most Americans doubt Trump’s commitment to free speech and fair justice, poll finds - The Washington Post
-- Bob Doan, Odenton, MD
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