Voting Beginning Now
Nebraska begins early vote-in-person voting on April 15 and you will need to bring your photo ID! Douglas County voters can find the election office at https://www.votedouglascounty.com/contact_us.aspx
Bring your family, friends, and neighbors to the election office to vote early. Voting early frustrates the political marketers seeking to sway your vote over nonsensical scare tactics. Voting early also makes it more difficult for fraudsters to steal your vote.
After voting at the election office, go to Chippy’s, across the street, and get some British-inspired food (https://www.chippysomaha.com/). Try out their fish and chips (https://www.chippysomaha.com/fishandchips) or all sorts of British items, including wonderful English candies. You can put your order in ahead of time online. Why? Because I am tempting you with food to vote early!
But, voting makes me want to drink and now, there are some really classy conservative beers you can buy (https://www.1812ale.com/collections/gold-medal-beer)! MAGA and Trump beers! Great for a gathering of friends.
But drinking leads to a need for a bathroom break, and there is no place like home. Yes, public bathrooms can be bad but most are fairly well maintained. However, Omaha can do better if people would merely raise their voices. There are three common problems I regularly encounter with public restrooms no matter how classy, new, and upscale a place may be.
First, door latches on the toilet stalls often lack proper attention. Either they do not function well or flat out do not work at all. One time, the sharp edge of a lock managed to catch my shirt and tear it. Oh, I will remember that place! But not out of fondness.
Second, where is the coat hook? During the summer, few would ever notice, but in the winter, the lack of a hook is a headache. This is particularly true if you are wearing a long coat. So, absent a coat hook, you drape your coat over the door or side wall, only to discover the door has dust or dirt on it as well, messing up your coat. Arrgh! Why!?!?! A cheap hook is of great service, but so many businesses just presume no one cares.
Third, the always-neglected air vents are an eyesore and contribute to allergy problems as well as result in stale odors in the restroom. I suspect 99 percent of the restrooms have a very dirty vent. I walk into a great place with fancy restrooms. Everything is in working order, but I look up and the vent looks like it has grown a whig of dust. These clogged vents are why the restroom stinks of dirty old men, urine, and yesterday’s farts. The air cannot flow due to the restraints on the air vent which leaves the restroom with odors. Managers! Fix this!
In part, I understand why this happens. No man wants to drag a manager into the restrooms to point these problems out as it seems too gay, as well as a waste of time on trivial matters. However, these problems are not trivial to me. Hey, we all “give a shit” to the public restroom, but we should make a point of having such an experience be a pleasant one. Thankfully, you do not have to show a photo ID to care. Just say something, just as you did in voting.
Early voting only plays into the hands of the enemy. All early voting data is available to the other side to be used to determine how much they need to cheat in order to win. From the Lancaster County Election Commissioner:
Attached are the list of the early vote ballots that will be mailed out tomorrow (Saturday, April 13th); summary of the data fields for each column; list of early vote ballots that were picked up in person at the election office today; and list of ballots that were returned yesterday (Thursday, April 10th).