We are three weeks from Labor Day. I know I said it the other day but seriously where has the summer gone?
It was a pretty lazy weekend for me, so if I missed anything news-wise, feel free to drop it below the line.
Sir.
This is not comforting:
Don’t just look at covid-19 fatality rates. Look at people who survive — but don’t entirely recover.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dont-just-look-at-covid-19-fatality-rates-look-at-people-who-survive–but-dont-entirely-recover/2020/08/14/3b3de170-de6a-11ea-8051-d5f887d73381_story.html?hpid=hp_save-opinions-float-right-4-0_opinion-card-b-right%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans
#WrongTrump was trending on Twitter…
Robert Trump: brother of president Donald Trump dies aged 71
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/16/robert-trump-brother-of-president-donald-trump-dies-aged-71
Normal things to Tweet when you brother and ‘best friend’ just died:
Stonks!
Stock futures open higher as S&P 500 tries to build on last week’s gains and reach all-time high
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/16/stock-market-futures-open-to-close-news.html
Sprots!
Baseball is honoring the Negro Leagues. It needs to explain why they existed.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/08/16/baseball-is-honoring-negro-leagues-it-needs-explain-why-they-existed/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-low_blackistone-840a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans
Neat!
These good boys:
Have a good Monday!
I remember when my mother died one of my brothers called to tell me the news. I rushed him off the phone because I was in the middle of writing an angry letter to the editor of The New York Times about an article that had appeared in the Style section. It was about men wearing necklaces/gold chains. They seemed to think this was OK. It most certainly is not.
A day or two later I called back and asked about the circumstances and the funeral arrangements.
THIS IS SARCASM. But I’m sure Bob would have appreciated his own brother and a sitting President finding time to endorse one “news” network over an only slightly less unhinged “news” network before his body was even cold.
just to miss the point entirely…
dude i work with wears enough gold to put B.A to shame (course…its all fake…hell…i swear one of his chains is a fucking nickel plated bike lock)
anyhoo…i fully expect to have to untangle him from the lathe one of these days
That seems potentially dangerous!
it is…but the powers that be let him get away with it
so…i just hope im not working in that part of the shop when someone needs to mop him up
My parents make nuts and bolts for a living and I think they’ve only had 1 guy lose a finger in 45 years. I almost killed a guy driving the bucket tractor, but he was quick and got out of the way before I hit the house.
I’d like to hear the full story!
Me too!
That’s a great story, lol. Thanks
ooh…yeah…that covid thing is fun..a whiles back i remember the news here running a piece that said in a funny old turn of events people with mild symptoms seem to recover much slower than the more serious cases..
months of no taste and tiredness…fun fun fun…
course..the more serious cases seem to come out of it with permanent lung/brain/cardiovascular damage and just as a fun little kicker ptsd
hellova flu this
Thank you for the dog videos, you made Monday morning less obnoxious.
The one stealing the container cracked me up a lot.
One of my sister’s dogs ate most of my father’s birthday cake off the counter one year. After we had dinner my mother went to the kitchen to get the cake and found what was left of it. Another time I saw him pull a whole foil catering pan of fried chicken off the table and tuck into it. He was a very bad dog, but funny.
A dog we were fostering was literally starving when we got her and showed no expressions of shame or doubt about stealing food. Needless to say, you could not trust her for a second within 20 feet of food. Everything had to be locked up, even after she started putting weight on. Total sweetheart otherwise and fortunately didn’t have any other signs of emotional trauma from her life before.
Trump is just mad that his brother dying didn’t accomplish the most important thing: give him a poll bump.
Robert Trump’s first wife Blaine was pretty fabulous. Is, I should say, she’s still alive. She was much more socially acceptable than Ivana, which must have driven her and Donald crazy. Their divorce in 2007 was very public and very not amicable. Because Bob is a Trump he worked in the Trump family business (who else would hire a Trump?) and in March of this year he married his long-time secretary, Ann Marie Pallan. Good timing on her part, but who knows how long she had been sleeping with him. She might have been sucked into the Blaine divorce as a correspondent. It was very messy but I don’t have the fortitude to look it up and revisit it.
I hope both women got a lot of money they certainly earned it!
I think Blaine did. I vaguely remember (this was only 13 years ago and was in all the papers, but it feels like it’s something you’d have read in a medieval literature class) that Bob was like his older brother Don. Publicly boasting about vast wealth and success. Dodgy tax returns. Pleading poverty in divorce court.
Because Bob was working for the Trump organization the whole criminal enterprise was put under scrutiny. It’s probably one of the few times that financial info about it has been disclosed. I wonder if, in the wake of his death, some enterprising reporter will revisit this. Probably not and few would care. It and the final terms of the divorce might be under seal now.
Don famously has declared bankruptcy six times, and somehow lost money owning, not gambling at, casinos, and that takes a special skill. Yet his acolytes consider him some kind of shrewd business success story.
Poll craziness — Yesterday’s CNN poll had Biden up by only 4. Today’s Washington Post poll had him up by 12.
Of course, these are national polls and what really matters thanks to the Electoral College is the implications of trick or treating being surpressed in some random suburb in Cleveland and turnout in a retirement community in West Palm Beach. So who really knows.
UPSP update:
USPS crisis: Democrats urge FBI to open criminal inquiry into postmaster general
And why did that take so long?
ooooo i know that one
it took so long coz they sent the letter urging the fbi to open a criminal enquiry by usps
Nicely done. We deserve that.
