Anybody else going CRAZY right now?

[dreamshark]

I'm that person who always has a Plan B, but so far I have been mostly unable to even think about what will happen and what I should do if Trump wins. I haven't got any further than realizing that I should accelerate my mostly inadequate efforts to start getting rid of some of the vast amount of extra Stuff in my life that makes it impossible to ever go anyplace else. Because even if there were somewhere to flee to, I really can't do that without setting the house on fire or something. 

Thank goodness when I made up my pandemic playlist I also put together a large playlist of soothing songs call "All Shall Be Well Again." I just remembered that it was there, and started it up. Helps a little. Although "Don't Worry, Be Happy," is quite a stretch at the moment.

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[maruad]

I did not know that about Minnesotans or was this part of the Finean Raids? I knew they happened but didn't know they were this far west.

[dreamshark]

No, it was part of the amazing saga of Lord Gordon Gordon, a Gilded Age con man. He is best known for successfully swindling Jay Gould, the railroad baron (which was eventually his downfall). But along the way he made a stop in Minnesota, where he bamboozled some of our most prominent citizens - an array of wealthy and powerful men known to Minnesotans today as street names. Eventually he skipped to Canada, pursued by the indefatigable Pinkertons hired by a furious Jay Gould. But it was a posse of prominent Minnesotans, backed up by an angry Minnesota militia, that marched across the border determined to perform a citizen's extradition. The Minnesotans ended up in jail in Canada on charges of attempted kidnapping. The Minnesota militia started off to rescue them. I don't think the Minnesota invasion actually made it to the border, but it took an intervention by the US President and Canadian PM to stop it. It's quite a story.

http://www.citypages.com/news/lord-gordon-gordon-the-nobody-who-swindled-the-world/480861891