Aloha FaceBook and Blog friends and newcomers:

I am now 85 and counting. I have several hobbies, computers, drones, writing and politics. I use to have many more when I was a bit younger, such as treasure hunting in the ghost towns of Nevada and in the ocean waters of Hawaii. My treasure hunting days are over as are some other activities but my keen interest in politics remains and at this time is one of my highlights.

A few weeks ago I began handicapping the race to the white house and picked Joe Biden as President with Diane Feinstein as VP. I am changing the VP pick and am liable to change it many times and now predict that Joe will pick Elisabeth Warren as his VP. Obama and Hillary have an adverse relationship since 2008 and just because he named her as his secretary of state just was so she was out of the country most of the time. Doing what? Joe has been loyal, gaffe prone, okay, but trusted to carry on the Obama doctrine. Warren would satisfy the left wing of the democrats and the woman voters.

The Republican nominee is much more difficult, I predict John Kasick of Ohio and Marco Rubio as his VP. No party has ever won without Ohio or Florida and Kasick and Rubio have those two states covered. When I predicted two weeks ago that Joe Biden would be the nominee, staunch democrats ridiculed me and more or less called me crazy. Now more and more talking heads think that Obama is going to drop Hillary like a hot potato and saying that Joe is just waiting for the nod from the boss. After all, he said that this was the last wish of his son Beau who died tragically a short time ago.

Trump is leading the pack, but like in horse racing this might not hold up, the front runner often tires in the stretch and finishes near the end.

This is it for today, nice people, Johan, aka Rotterdam Ketelbinkie

(Ketelbinkie, google that)

My son Johan and I some years ago,