Rip covered the whole tax thing pretty extensively yesterday, and Black Rod chimed in as well.
I’ve been offline for a couple of days, so let’s catch up, shall we?
Trump avoided paying taxes for years, largely because his business empire reported losing more money than it made, report says
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-taxes/2020/09/27/8a58c618-010f-11eb-a2db-417cddf4816a_story.html
1 MILLION DEAD: From the first wave in February in China through New York City’s April catastrophe and on to India’s current surge, the coronavirus has unleashed a worldwide suffering with no evident exit.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/coronavirus-deaths-1-million/?itid=hp-top-table-main
Not First Lady?
Donald Trump wanted daughter Ivanka to be running mate in 2016, book says
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/28/donald-trump-ivanka-running-mate-2016-book-rick-gates
Wait for it…
Also, they didn’t even taser him, let alone pump him full of bullets. I wonder what the difference is? Can’t quite put my finger on it…
Not the feel good story they frame it as!
Pizza delivery man, 89, gets $12,000 tip – what’s wrong with this story?https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/28/pizza-delivery-man-89-derlin-newey-12000-tip-tiktok
Stonks!
Dow rallies more than 400 points to start the week, banks and tech lead
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/27/stock-market-futures-open-to-close-news.html
Sprots!
Joe Montana, wife block attempted kidnapping of grandchild
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29987205/joe-montana-wife-block-attempted-kidnapping-grandchild
A handy guide. Or, as the doctor at my urgent care told me: “if you had Covid you would know”. He gave me test (negative) just to ease my anxiety.
Coronavirus symptoms: how to tell if you have a common cold, flu or Covid
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/28/coronavirus-symptoms-how-to-tell-if-you-have-a-common-cold-flu-or-covid
OMG
Stay safe and healthy; have a great Tuesday!
…just because I think it came through late & might have been overlooked I’m re-posting another link @emmerdoesNOTrepresentme provided yesterday
https://www.channel4.com/news/revealed-trump-campaign-strategy-to-deter-millions-of-black-americans-from-voting-in-2016
…I know we more or less knew this stuff happened but somehow that doesn’t make it any less infuriating to read about…or appalling that it was successful in its despicable effort to distort the electoral map just enough to fuck everyone over
That dog is obviously the reincarnation of Vincent van Gogh and by painting himself to look like “Starry Night” he’s trying to tell us that. Isn’t that obvious to everybody? Just me?
I feel for the painted dog lady. We usually adopt older puppy mill rescues, so the boys (Bruce and Bill Chiweenie, who will be two years old in December) have been a bit of a shock. Things they have eaten in the 15 months they have been here:
Before:
After:
Oh I sympathize. We’ve lost pairs of glasses too, both to our current hound and his predecessor, both of which we raised from puppies. The previous one had this addiction to leather and no shoe was safe. I had a barn coat that I used to hang by the door that had a leather label on the back of the interior. While we were at work she pulled it down, ripped the label out, and ate it all leaving no trace. One of them, I can’t remember which, got at this watch I had. It had a metal wristband held together by pins, I’m not describing this well but they’re incredibly common, you know what I mean. Half the band was consumed, pins and all. I called my vet in a panic.
“Well, is the dog eating and drinking normally?”
“Yes..”
“Have you noticed any blood in the stool?”
“No…”
“Bring the dog in if you want but I’d advise you to save yourself the trip. If something seems funny or you see blood by all means come in.”
“Dogs eat metal?”
“All the time. They like to chew on their metal crates for example.”
When Fanny was a wee pup she was obsessed with my slippers, I caught her sneaking them out of the bedroom numerous times. I’d firmly tell her no, that they were mine. She figured out that there were two, and in her pointy little head determined we could each have one because one day she carried a slipper to me and laid it at my feet, then proceeded back to the bedroom. I was very excited, I thought I had a dog performing the classic “bringing me my slippers” task. Instead she carried the second slipper into the den and laid down to chew on it. One for you, one for me. She must have thought it was very unfair when I took it from her.
One of the best dog stories I ever heard came from a friend of mine. She had plated a big batch of brownies, covered them with Saran Wrap and pushed them back on a kitchen counter. She popped into her garage for five minutes tops.
Well, she didn’t push them back far enough. This is a very common story but what made it genius was the dog nosed her way under the Saran Wrap, ate the brownies, but left one, and then (presumably with her snout) patted the Saran Wrap back in place.
She could hardly believe it but she was alone with the dog and when she finally found her there was chocolate smeared all over her face.
OMG, that is the best.
That’s a lot of destruction from two little cuties!
Yikes. We’ve been super fortunate with our last two dogs. The one before our current one chewed a little bit when she was a puppy, but get got her to stop fairly early. The one we have now has never engaged in destructive chewing, which is curious considering that she can snap 1″ tree branches with a single chomp. The things that are hers to chew, she chews with gusto. The things that aren’t hers to chew, she leaves alone.
…I think for some dogs chewing things like shoes just doesn’t cut it?
…when I was a kid my grandparents had a staffordshire bull terrier…she used to chew rocks for fun, which sounds a bit terrifying…but was actually a sweetheart
…although as a small child her exuberant greeting was somewhat like being hit by a four-legged cannonball which celebrated knocking you flat by standing on your chest & enthusiastically slobbering all over your face
…at least until I learned to brace myself against the side of the car so she bounced off, anyway
Yeah, that’s like our dog. She pulls logs from the wood pile and literally eats them. Doesn’t just chew on them–eats them.
She’s what we call the “four-legged wrecking ball”. When she’s happy or excited, her main method of expressing herself is crashing into things. You. The furniture. The fence. Whatever. We’ve trained her to the point where she’s pretty good about not crashing into us anymore, but she continues to fail to understand that other people are not fair game.
The thing is, you’d never guess it by looking at her.
You don’t have to be crazy to work for Trump, but it helps … no, fuck it, you have to be crazy.
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/28/917697120/brad-parscale-senior-advisor-to-trump-campaign-is-hospitalized-after-call-to-pol
Best people.
I was also struck by Parscale’s noticeably bullet-free capture.
The Joe Montana case reminded me that the kidnapping of Cal Ripken’s mom was never solved.
Sounds like there is 100 large on the table for anyone who cracks the case…
Brad Parscale is definitely Florida Man.
Looking ahead…
Prepare Now For Your Pandemic Winter. Your Future Self Will Thank You
That’s great, thanks for sharing. I’ve already got ideas on making the house more equipped for a long winter… It’s going to be very cozy.
I’m gonna have a heart-to-heart with my liver (don’t think about that literally), because it’s going to have to take one for the team this hibernal solstice….
weeeee! looks like we are going to half arse our way through wave two as well
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54331925
the gubment here really doesnt want to mandate masks…it is now advised (wich means wont be enforced) but shops are allowed to refuse people not wearing masks entry if they choose….yeah thats going to go well
i do still like this little quote from our pm tho
At the time Mr Rutte described the Netherlands as a “grown-up country” where people were glad to be “treated as adults”.
(it translates roughly to elections are coming up and wilders will throw an absolute shitfit about gubment overreach and probably steal a fuckton of votes from us if we try to mandate masks or lockdown hard)
We all know this stuff but it is short enough that even your Trump loving friends and relatives could get through it.
https://buzzflash.com/articles/thom-hartmann-for-buzzflash-is-every-single-part-of-the-trump-presidency-a-con
lol…i only just caught that on the news over here
thats a hilariously low blow…i love it
(tho..its actually breaking my head a little that something as little as being transparent about your taxes seems like a low blow against trump….topsy fucking turvy world nowadays…)