Here is her answer:

Because I use my head to research and find out what candidates really are, not what the media wants me to think.
Because Donald Trump has more women in executive and managerial positions than any comparable company, which tells me he is not a misogynist.
Because he pays these women the same or more than their male counterparts, which tells me he looks for capacity and skills in people, not color, gender or race.
Because he fought the West Palm Beach City Council to be able to open his newly purchased club, so he could include blacks and Jews as members, who had been banned until then. This tells me he is not a racist.
Because he has raised wonderful children who have turned out to be outstanding, hard working and compassionate adults. He must be doing something right.
Because his economic plans makes sense, are conservative in nature, and I vote based on what is best for my family, my friends and my country.
Because everybody, the left and the right are afraid of him, the media is trying to destroy his image, and even foreign governments are voicing their opinions, so he must be doing something right. Clean house maybe?
Because I want a Supreme Court that will uphold the Constitution, not behave as minions of the administration. I have had enough with judges who are more like political activists than law enforcers.
Because I fear for my family’s safety if the current trend of not confronting blatant terrorism continues – which is a threat to our way of life.
Because I am fed up with the rampant corruption of this administration. Accountability in government is paramount, and as this administration has demonstrated, it is a foreign concept to them.
Because I am fed up with the political correctness gone wild, and because Trump is not afraid to say what everybody thinks but does not dare to say. A thug is a thug, regardless of color, and that’s it.
Because it is about time someone puts America’s interests ahead of other countries.
Because I know he recognizes and embraces America’s exceptionalism, and will not tour the World apologizing for who we are. That tells me he is a patriot.
Because, unlike HRC, he has actually held a job, worked hard and achieved success.
And last, but not least, because I am more offended by what Hillary does than by what Trump says.

Santa Fe New Mexican, USA Oct 30, 2016 B-3

The Gary John­son pres­i­den­tial cam­paign seems to be the Lib­er­tar­ian Party’s best chance at win­ning the White House to date. That pos­si­bil­ity seems to have lots of peo­ple scared out of their minds. So let’s take a look at some ways that a Lib­er­tar­ian ad­min­is­tra­tion would con­duct busi­ness.
First, we need to un­der­stand that lib­er­tar­i­an­ism is all about the nonag­gres­sion prin­ci­ple: No one has the right to ini­ti­ate force or fraud against
any­one else, nor to threaten or del­e­gate that ini­ti­a­tion. No ex­cep­tions will be granted “un­der color of law.” Also un­der­stand that we’re not look­ing to be Mitt Rom­ney/Ge­orge W. Bush Repub­li­cans with an “L” af­ter our names. If we had wanted that, we would sim­ply cut to the chase and sign up as Democrats. With that in mind, here are some ex­am­ples of the poli­cies that our prospec­tive Lib­er­tar­ian ad­min­is­tra­tion will un­der­take:
First, a Lib­er­tar­ian ad­min­is­tra­tion would not seek to ex­pand the size, in­tru­sive­ness or ex­pense of gov­ern­ment by one iota, on any is­sue. We’re not look­ing to grow the fed­eral gov­ern­ment — not by 2 per­cent, much less the 10 per­cent or 20 per­cent that a Hil­lary Clin­ton or Don­ald Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion would at­tempt. At worst, we will freeze it where it’s at when we take the reins. The 2017 bud­get that we re­ceive on Jan. 21 would be the bud­get for 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.
No, we’re not look­ing to ex­pand the wel­fare state one bit. Nor are we look­ing to cre­ate more reg­u­la­tions upon busi­ness or your per­sonal life. Those reg­u­la­tions sti­fle cre­ativ­ity, growth and eco­nomic progress.
Se­cond, the White House will be­come a par­don fac­tory. All of the peo­ple in prison solely for fed­er­ally man­dated vic­tim­less crimes — saw­ing off a shot­gun bar­rel, hav­ing more than a cer­tain amount of mar­i­juana, drain­ing a pud­dle on their own prop­erty — will be par­doned, be­cause they didn’t re­ally do any­thing wrong.
Third, we’re go­ing to stop putting peo­ple in prison in the first place for those vic­tim­less crimes — af­ter Pres­i­dent Barack Obama de­cided that he can pick and choose which parts of “Oba­macare” he can en­force, we can choose not to en­force the vic­tim­less crime laws, as well — and we’re go­ing to call for the re­peal of those laws.
Fourth, we’re go­ing to dras­ti­cally re­duce taxes, if we
can’t wipe them out com­pletely. This idea that we’re go­ing to set­tle for a 25 to 0 per­cent na­tional sales tax is non­sense. If we’re go­ing to com­pro­mise on a tax rate, it will be more like 5 per­cent, and dis­re­gard that “rev­enue neu­tral­ity” hog­wash — that’s just pun­dit­s­peak for “We don’t re­ally have to cut spend­ing.”
Fifth, we’re look­ing to fun­da­men­tally trans­form the wel­fare state from what it is now — a mas­sive top-down, bu­reau­cratic sys­tem for le­gal­ized vote-buy­ing — into some­thing that ac­tu­ally helps the peo­ple it’s sup­posed to help. We’ll turn the var­i­ous agen­cies into 501(c)3 char­i­ties, and for­bid them from tak­ing tax money or lob­by­ing gov­ern­men­tal bod­ies in their
char­ters. Then the peo­ple who sup­port them will know that their do­na­tions will go a lot fur­ther.
Nor do we sup­port cor­po­rate wel­fare. No more bailouts, no more tax-funded foot­ball sta­di­ums, movie sub­si­dies or con­tracts for white-ele­phant projects. The “Al­bu­querque Rapid Tran­sit” inanity is a prime ex­am­ple of this.
Sixth, on for­eign pol­icy: For decades, Lib­er­tar­i­ans have been de­famed as “iso­la­tion­ists.” True iso­la­tion­ism was Ja­pan be­tween 1635 and 1853, or China be­tween 1757 and 1839. We sim­ply don’t want Amer­ica to be mi­cro­manag­ing the af­fairs of the rest of the world.
Seventh, we will not sup­port forced as­so­ci­a­tion un­der
the rubric of “nondis­crim­i­na­tion” or “pub­lic ac­com­mo­da­tion.” The slo­gan “no means no” used against rape apol­o­gists works just as well here. No Jew should have to bake a cake for a Nazi wed­ding. This con­cept should be ap­plied con­sis­tently across the pop­u­la­tion.
To sum­ma­rize, We the Lib­er­tar­i­ans, sim­ply want to live our own lives, and let ev­ery­one else live theirs.
Mike Bless­ing moved to Al­bu­querque in 1994 and has been ac­tive in the Lib­er­tar­ian move­ment since 1996.

Picked this up yesterday to replace my Grand Cherokee.

• Fall has been very nice to me this year. Riding almost daily, Erin enjoying the nice weather, and the prospect of heading east to celebrate Thanksgiving in the forecast.
• My Grand Cherokee crapped out, so I worked a deal with Lithia about a pickup truck. Taking possession today. Will post a pic later.
• I’m sorta glad I’m going back to a pickup. I missed sitting high up and viewing things in front of my over the tops of the cars.
• Still delivering Harleys for SFH-D. Did 3 trips this month and I’m enjoying the chance to explore the state on the dealership’s dime. I’ve met some great people while doing this and this month I got to meet two that stand out, Jimmy from Roswell and Andy from Taos Ski Valley. Jimmy owns the H-D dealership in Roswell and he bought me lunch after I was loaded up. We had a great time and had a lot in common.  Andy is the police chief in Taos Ski Valley, which actually is a town that sprung up around the ski area.
• Still on track to be a new rider coach for the store, but still waiting for the MSF to release the new program. Murrae, the head of the program in our store is looking to retire and hopes to push his duties off to a younger person. (not me)
• Murrae is an interesting guy. He’s been a motorcycle racer for many years and even at his age he was finishing in the top 5 consistently nationwide. He’s been racing electric bikes for the past several years. The electrics are scary fast and don’t have transmissions. They’re direct drive from the motor and can create high G’s in acceleration. He’s retiring to travel more.
• I recently found out I can ship my bike across the ocean on the same plane I’m on if I fly Air Canada. It means I have to bring it to Quebec to do so, but I’m thinking about it. Cost $1500. Cost of a rental for a month in Europe, $3500-$4500, depending of destination. I told Murrae about this and he said he’d be interested in such a trip considering how reasonable the cost is.  Yes, we’re thinking of doing a month or two in Europe via Harley in the next year or two.
• I’m even thinking of letting the HOG group know about this trip soon and seeing if there’s others that may be interested in joining us and make it a group tour of sorts. Spend a week touring the UK, then jumping on a ferry to the Netherlands and head to Germany and work our way south to Italy and Rome through the Alps.
• There’s a young couple doing this on YouTube that gave me the info about shipping the bike and had some great suggestions on the routing. They’re doing their ride on an Ural with a sidecar, not a bike I’d enjoy riding on a long trip.
• Oh well, later everyone.  Have a great weekend!

IT WILL KNOCK YOUR SOCKS OFF
I especially liked number 5!

Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge. The purpose of thecontest was to find the most caring child.
The winner was:
1. A four-year-old child, whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman, who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman’s’ yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his mother asked him what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy just said, ‘Nothing, I just helped him cry.’

2. Teacher Debbie Moon’s first graders were discussing a picture of a family.  One little boy in the picture had a different hair color than the other members. One of her students suggested that he was adopted.

A little girl said, ‘I know all about adoption, I was adopted..’
‘What does it mean to be adopted?’, asked another child.

‘It means’, said the girl, ‘that you grew in your mommy’s heart instead of her tummy!’

3. On my way home one day, I stopped to watch a Little League base ball game that was being played in a park near my home. As I sat down behind the bench on the first-base line, I asked one of the boys what the score was ‘We’re behind 14 to nothing,’ he answered with a smile.  ‘Really,’ I said. ‘I have to say you don’t look very discouraged.’
‘Discouraged?’, the boy asked with a puzzled look on his face… ‘Why should we be discouraged? We haven’t been up to bat yet.’

4. Whenever I’m disappointed with my spotin life, I stop and think about little Jamie Scott.  Jamie was trying out for a part in the school play. His mother told me that he’d set his heart on being in it, though she feared he would not be chosen.  On the day the parts were awarded, I went with her to collect him after school. Jamie rushed up to her, eyes shining with pride and excitement.. ‘Guess what, Mom,’ he shouted, and then said those words that will remain a lesson to me….’I’ve been chosen to clap and cheer.’

5. An eye witness account from New York City , on a cold day in December,  some years ago: A little boy, about 10-years-old, was standing before a shoe store on the roadway, barefooted, peering through the window, and shivering with cold.  A lady approached the young boy and said, ‘My, but you’re in such deep thought staring in that window!’  ‘I was asking God to give me a pair of shoes,’ was the boy’s reply.  The lady took him by the hand, went into the store, and asked the clerk to get half a dozen pairs of socks for the boy. She then asked if he could give her a basin of water and a towel. He quickly brought them to her.  She took the little fellow to the back part of the store and, removing her gloves, knelt down, washed his little feet, and dried them with the towel.  By this time, the clerk had returned with the socks.. Placing a pair upon the boy’s feet, she purchased him a pair of shoes.  She tied up the remaining pairs of socks and gave them to him.. She patted him on the head and said, ‘No doubt, you will be more comfortable now..’  As she turned to go, the astonished kid caught her by the hand, and looking up into her face, with tears in his eyes, asked her:    ‘Are you God’s wife?’