Abu Dhabi

 the site of the

UKRAINE - 

RUSSIA

cease-fire / eventual Peace Treaty 

talks

11/10/2026

November 2026 blog Statistics

 November 2006

thus far 175 K

Nov. 1 (Sunday):        # visits & views

11/1                                7,371

11/2                                5,412

Election Day                  4,514

11/4                                4,836

11/5                               10,726    

11/6                               18,156    

11/7                               32,104    [ 2nd most visits views ]

11/8                                29,834

11/9                                38, 643 [most visits / views ]

11/10                              27,512

Veterans Day

11/12

11/13

11/14

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11/18

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11/20

11/21

11/22 - Sunday

Thanksgiving

Monday 23rd - Sunday 29th Busiest travel days for 2026

11/24

11/25

11/26

11/27

11/28

11/29

11/30

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Nov. 1 - 30 total thus far       175,766

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Previous month (Oct. 1 - 31)

339,285 visits/views

Who is Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives (Nov. 2026)?

 Margaret Grun Kibben, who led

a prayer for 435 House Members

at Noon -- Nov. 10, 2026

Happy 71st birthday

 Today is the

71st birthday for

Roland Emmerich

a German film director,

producer, writer with

a flair for special-effects

driven action :

The Day After Tomorrow

Independence Day

Godzilla (1998)

White House Down (2012)

The director was born

Nov. 10, 1955 in Stuttgart,

Germany (then-West

Deutschland )

Notre Dame Press (at Hesburgh Library concourse) -- over 2 days only: Discard / damaged / Dirty Book Sale - Festival -- cards only (no cash nor checks)

 Nov. 10 - 11, 2026

10 a.m. - 6 p.m. both

days (until sold out)

visitsouthbend.com/events/

notre-dame-press-book-festival-

and dirty book sale-4/

Venezuela's resources : secret accounting report cites $12 billion receipts totalled up for U.S. / Trump-Vance-Hegseth winning the "war"

 "US received $12 billion from

Venezuelan Oil Reserves,

secret report details"

NY TIMES 2026/11/10/world/

americas/us-venezuela-oil-trump.html

reporter

Tyler Pager

&

Anatoly Kurmanaev

Will newly elected political Majority / Minority leader be TIME Person_of_the_YEAR (Dec. 31 issue)? Hakeem Jeffries?

update : 2 p.m. D.C. time

in GOP Conference

Jim Jordan received 106 votes

to Steve Scalise's 73 votes

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other GOP-MAGA who received votes

or voted for themselves are not reporters . . .

when the new CONGRESS is sworn in

Jan. 4, 2027 (Monday in two-year term) 

he will be regarded as "MINORITY LEADER"

replacing the Majority status of

Mike Johnson (3-year-Speaker

of the House)

27% at Kalshi

[ oddsmaker APP / A.I. ]

guess that DONALD J. TRUMP

will receive the honor of

yet another TIME_Magazine

cover;

other possibilities include

the ARTEMIS crew

Reid Wiseman (NASA)

Victor J. Glover, Jr. (NASA)

Christina Hammock Koch (NASA)

Jeremy Hansen (Canadian Space 

Agency)

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some unlikely new officeholders

like Abdul El-Sayed, James Talarico,

other new governors, winners of

very, very close races

J.D. Ford (Indiana 5th District 

Congressman)

who overturned a GOP primary winner;

others who are part of blue waves across

many but not all states