Nov 4 (Thursday) vs Wisconsin-River Falls (EXH.)
Nov 9 (Tuesday) vs Omaha
Nov 15 (Monday) vs South Dakota State
Nov 18 (Thursday) @ Drake
Nov 21 (Sunday) vs Southern
Gulf Coast Showcase
Nov 26 (Friday) vs Charlotte
Nov 27 (Saturday) vs Penn State/St. John's
Nov 28 (Sunday) vs South Dakota State/UMass/UCLA/Kent State
Big 12/SEC Challenge
Dec 2 (Thursday) @ LSU
Dec 5 (Sunday) vs Longwood
Dec 8 (Wednesday) vs Iowa
Dec 12 (Sunday) vs UNI
Dec 19 (Sunday) vs Prairie View A&M
On August 15, 2021 the nation of Afghanistan fell to Taliban forces unopposed, nearly twenty years after being deposed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Modern Afghanistan's problems can be traced back to the 1973 coup d'état that saw Mohammed Daoud Khan overthrow his cousin King Mohammed Zahir Shah and the Kingdom of Afghanistan. In five short years Khan himself would be overthrown and killed during the communist Saur Revolution. The following year communist Afghanistan, along with the Soviet Union, would find themselves embroiled in a nine-ear long war against rural, Islamist insurgents that saw the Soviets withdraw by 1989 and the communist Afghan government collapse in 1992. After a civil war throughout the 1990's the Taliban established themselves as the new government before being overthrown by U.S. forces in 2001.
I voted for the first time in 2016 despite being eligible since 2008 and to say I quickly became disillusioned with the whole thing is an understatement. A majority of Americans want a third party yet they refuse to vote for them. In 2016, 2018, and 2020 I voted for third parties whenever possible even though I didn't always agree with their platforms.
I submit a short list of proposals to fundamentally change the American government. Some are related to voting and some are not (and none are set in stone as written here nor will it be limited to these items).
1. The replacement of the President with an unelected, hereditary monarch, titled as Emperor/Empress of the United States.
2. Puerto Rico becoming a state (with the Virgin Islands merged into it) and Washington D.C. being retroceded to Maryland.
3. Restore the Hawaiian monarchy as a sub-national monarchy.
4. Expansion of the House of Representatives to 695 members using the Cube Root Rule with states gaining seats by the current apportionment method.
5. Parties running for the House must meet a national threshold of .14%=(1/695)*100 to gain at least one seat. Parties meeting the threshold will be apportioned as (vote%/100)*# of seats for state = # of seats for party.
6. Each state becoming one multi-member electoral district (California=82 members, Texas=60 members, etc.)
Completed:
“It’s difficult to write about anything cheerful, because there’s all too little cheerfulness here. On the other hand, God doesn’t abandon us. The sun shines, the birds sing, and this morning we heard the bells sounding matins.”
