Doodle 4 Google Voting Open

I love this every year. Young people are given a theme - this year it's "what I see for the future" -, and they design a Google doodle. These kids are crazy creative!

Judges have selected State and Territory finalists, and public voting is now open to choose five National Finalists. Check out the gallery of submissions and cast your vote before March 6, 2017 at 5:00 pm EST.  Click on the doodles to learn more about the artists' visions of the future and vote for your favorite.

That is easier said than done. I just looked through all of them, and I'm not sure I can actually pick a favorite. There are lots of good ones. Like I said, these kids are crazy creative!

Be sure to check all the doodles out and let me know which one(s) you like best!

Select Your Candidate

Since Election Day (and my brother's birthday, not that that has anything to do with it) is coming up Tuesday, I thought it was a good time to re-take this Select a Candidate Quiz. Not that I'm not already pretty sure of who I'm going to vote for, but it doesn't hurt to double check and make sure I'm voting for him because I agree with his stand on the issues. It is most definitely not OK to vote for someone because he is or is not black, because his name sounds more presidential, or just because your friends and neighbors say you should.

With all these commercials all the time, it's hard to really know where anyone stands sometimes. Once you take the quiz and find out how you score with the candidates, you can read more about their positions on the issues included on the quiz, along with explanations and sources. Quite handy.

Just a quick question: how do you give tax cuts to the unemployed?

Last Day to Vote

I just received this email, and I know I mentioned this young lady before, but, if you haven't voted yet, would you please consider doing so. All votes must be submitted by 10 or 11am Eastern time today. You are only allowed one voter per IP address. Kayleen is a young lady who attends church with my brother.

Kayleen Hannaway in Salem, Oregon is finalist for a $20,000 scholarship to Vanderbilt University if she wins a national teen contest through voting. (Kind of like American Idol). She has made it through five rounds and is about 20 votes behind in the last three hours of the contest.

Could I ask you to vote for Kayleen Hannaway. It’s very easy. Please go to this link and then scroll down Kayleen’s side to VOTE ME.

I would really appreciate it. It would obviously mean a lot to her.

This must be done before either 10 or 11 am Eastern TODAY, Wednesday.

Thank you. Thank you.