SIGNS OF THE TIMES:
My daughter's dog, Monkey, has personality.
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As we leave for Orlando to complete the Jewish Holidays with our daughter, Abby, and her family I , again, wish all a happy healthy New Year.
This memo is being posted for Sunday, Sept. 19 mailing.
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If you still are or were a NFL devotee you might find this of interest. For a sport that is physical, full of brutes, many engaged in criminal behaviour the league is run by wimps:
ANOTHER REASON WHY PEOPLE ARE DISLIKING THE NFL⬇︎*
This is a short yet interesting perspective about the NFL’s attendance problem and why fans turned away.
Interesting... No ambiguity here!
NFL History...history not often reported or leaked to the ticket holders.
I hope this helps you; it opened my eyes, to understand just when the public’s respect for the NFL organization started to crumble...
* In 2012 the NFL had an issue with Tim Tebow kneeling for each game to pray, they also had an issue with Tebow wearing John 3:16 as part of his eye-black to avoid glare, and made him take it off.
* In 2013 the NFL fined Brandon Marshall for wearing green cleats to raise awareness for people with mental health disorders.
* In 2014 Robert Griffin III (RG3) entered a post-game press conference wearing a shirt that said "Know Jesus Know Peace" but was forced to turn it inside out by an NFL uniform inspector before speaking at the podium.
* In 2015 DeAngelo Williams was fined for wearing "Find the Cure" eye black for breast cancer awareness.
* In 2015 William Gay was fined for wearing purple cleats to raise awareness for domestic violence. (Not that the NFL has a domestic violence problem...).
*In 2016 the NFL prevented the Dallas Cowboys from wearing a decal on their helmet in honor of 5 Dallas Police officers killed in the line of duty.
* 2016 the NFL threatened to fine players who wanted to wear cleats to commemorate the 15th anniversary of 9/11.
So tell me again how the NFL supports free speech and expression, all of a sudden... It seems quite clear based on these facts that the NFL has taken a position against any action by NFL players demonstrating RESPECT for any issue: For God, social causes such as mental health, cancer, domestic violence, for cops killed arbitrarily for being cops, and for the Memory of 9/11...
BUT they will allow demonstrations of DISRESPECT for our National Flag, our National Anthem, for America, and for the American People, if it will help mollify a particular Group and its supporters. That is who and what the NFL now has shown itself to be.
*AND NOW, I UNDERSTAND, THEY WILL BE PLAYING THE
'BLACK NATIONAL ANTHEM’
BEFORE EVERY GAME and allow BLM in the helmets.
IT WILL SERVE TO FURTHER DIVIDE OUR CITIZENS
It will cause their attendance to decline even more.
Pass this post along to all your friends and family, if you believe it worthy of sharing.
Honor our military; too many of whom have come home with the American Flag draped over their coffin.
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So what's a little hidden tax increase to pay for boondoggle spending in order to get Democrats elected and to keep their voters dependent on government.?
Ways and Means Shock: ‘Hold Off on the Pay-fors Until We Are at the Altar’
Democrats Admit Hiding Details of Their Plan To Raise Taxes by $3,000,000,000,000
By IRA STOLL, Special to the Sun
Explaining a newly leaked House Ways and Means Committee plan to raise taxes by $3,000,000,000,000, a Wall Street Journal news article reports, “Rep. Richard Neal (D., Mass.), the committee chairman, has said that detailing tax-increase plans too soon can give too much time for opposition to build.”
Mr. Neal had explained his reticence to the New York Times in an interview by comparing his behavior to a man trying to seduce a woman into marriage, postponing full disclosure until the wedding guests are seated, and the bride has been walked down the aisle. “I’m likely to hold off on the pay-fors until we are at the altar,” Mr. Neal said.
Legislators with more respect for the deliberative process than Mr. Neal has may want to dash for the chapel exit before it’s too late. What does it tell you about the Democratic leadership’s view of the American public that they need to keep their plans secret until the last minute, for fear that the public might figure out what they are doing? Imagine how it would feel to be engaged to Chairman Neal, without knowing precisely what bad news he’s planning to dump on you once the wedding ceremony is under way.
The details that have escaped so far make it easy to understand why Chairman Neal was so eager to keep them hidden from the public. The most dismaying aspect is the brazenness with which it violates President Biden’s repeated promise not to raise taxes on anyone earning less than $400,000 a year.
As recently as September 3, Mr. Biden said, “Here’s the thing you need to know: We’re going to deliver these investments without raising taxes one cent on anyone making less than $400,000 a year.” He’s been making that claim over and over again: A June 28 op-ed: “Critically, we are going to get all of this done without raising taxes one single cent on Americans who earn less than $400,000 a year.”
The details of the Neal plan, if implemented, would make a liar out of Mr. Biden on a level reminiscent of President George H.W. Bush’s betrayal of his “read my lips” tax pledge.
The Neal document “suggests increasing the tax rate for tobacco products and imposing a tax on other products that use nicotine, such as e-cigarettes,” the New York Times reports. Will cigarette buyers be asked at the cash register whether their income is above or below $400,000 a year? Or do the “one single cent” and “anyone” pledges have secret exceptions for smokers?
Likewise, the Wall Street Journal reports that in the plan Mr. Neal was so understandably reluctant to release, “The top rate would increase to 39.6% from 37%, with that top bracket starting at $400,000 for individuals and $450,000 for married couples.” So the “anyone making less than $400,000 a year” category has an exception for people married to someone earning $400,000 a year: for those spouses, the tax increase kicks in once they earn a mere $50,000.
The plan Neal wanted to keep hidden as long as possible also reportedly includes an increase in the corporate income tax rate, to 26.5% from 21%. Who pays the corporate income tax? Shareholders, including shareholders earning less than $400,000 a year. The Urban Institute and Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center — a center-left research group, not the Club for Growth or Americans for Tax Reform — notes that corporate tax increases also affect workers: “their wages and other compensation, fall.”
So would Mr. Biden veto this tax increase on the grounds that it breaks his promise? The press quotes a White House spokesman, Andrew Bates, claiming that, as the Times paraphrased it, “the draft outline adhered to Mr. Biden’s pledge to avoid raising taxes on Americans who make less than $400,000.”
The president who insisted that the American retreat from Afghanistan was an “extraordinary success” now is going to try to claim that a tax increase on Americans making less than $400,000 is not that. No wonder Chairman Neal has been trying to keep the plan a secret for as long as possible.
With ObamaCare, Speaker Pelosi said “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” The voters fired Mrs. Pelosi as Speaker and didn’t reinstall her for another eight years. George H.W. Bush was also punished at the polls for breaking his tax pledge.
Keeping a tax or health care plan secret from the voters may work long enough to get it passed into law. That only postpones the reckoning. When politicians reach deeper into people’s paychecks, the voters eventually do have a way of finding out and making their displeasure known.
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I have not read this book, probably will not waste my time and certainly do not know whether it is valid. You are welcome to do so and come to your own conclusions. I edited out the pictures.
Report: Book Reveals Biden Family Corruption, ‘We’ve Got People All Around the World Who Want to Invest in Joe Biden’
A new book released Monday indicates Biden family corruption schemes sought to enrich son Hunter and brother Jim Biden while Joe Biden was the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Author of The Bidens: Inside the First Family’s Fifty-Year Rise to Power, Ben Schreckinger, was told by one of Jim’s former business partners, “Jim’s job is to ensure the lifestyle is good for the family.” The method of doing so reportedly entailed Hunter and Jim acquiring a hedge fund, Paradigm Global Advisors, which was founded and run by cocaine addict James Park.
“Jim and Hunter offered to buy the firm out for $21 million,” an offer inspired by Joe Biden’s plan to run for the Democrat “presidential nomination, and his son’s work for a Washington lobbying firm would be a problem.” Hunter was at that time employed at a lobbying firm that would present a conflict of interest for Joe Biden’s campaign.
“Hunter would have his new job, CEO of Paradigm, with a starting salary of $1.2 million,” Schreckinger wrote in the New York Post. “His experience in the financial sector amounted to a few years on the payroll of a credit-card issuer.”
The position as a hedge fund manager reportedly enabled the Biden family to “tap the global demand for business partnerships with the relatives of a powerful American official,” Joe Biden.
In order to capitalize on the hedge fund with cash to make profitable acquisitions, Jim reportedly told one of his partners, Anthony Lotito, that he should not worry over raising money.
“Don’t worry about investors,” Jim reportedly told Lotito. “We’ve got people all around the world who want to invest in Joe Biden.”
“We’ve got investors lined up in a line of 747s filled with cash ready to invest in this company,” Jim reportedly added.
The report also suggested that while Joe Biden was “preparing to announce his second White House bid,” Jim and Hunter were purportedly seeking to hire a team member who had more financial experience to offset their lack of financial knowledge.
Jim and Hunter soon hired Chuck Provini, who revealed “Jim and Hunter recruited him in part for political reasons. They wanted a non-Biden face atop the troubled firm.”
In Jim and Hunter’s offer to Provini, the two said Provini’s acceptance of the role would play a key part in keeping Joe Biden out of the headlines. “Joe Biden needs to distance himself from this,” Jim and Hunter told Provini, “Would you consider the job?”
In order to convince Provini to take the job, Jim and Hunter apparently attempted to sweeten the pot, telling Provini they will help him find investments from highly sought-after union pension funds.
“I was told because of his relationships with the unions that they felt as though it would be favorably looked upon to invest in the fund,” Provini explained. “They knew nothing about the hedge-fund business.”
Despite Jim and Hunter’s attempts, the hedge fund was unable to acquire profitable companies or raise capital to do so. Notwithstanding the failings, the report also notes, “Hunter and Jim did seek to enlist the family’s political allies as investors in Paradigm. Under their ownership, the firm became entangled in legal disputes and financial scandals before quietly winding down.”
The hedge fund’s inability to show a track record of success reportedly did not stop “unsophisticated” investors from dropping by the fund’s headquarters to drop off small investment checks for the firm to deposit.
Book author Ben Schreckinger recounts what Provini said about the incident:
He recalled one week where a succession of firefighters paraded into the office over the course of a few days and asked to speak with him. They would offer explanations like, “We’re friends of Joe, and we want to invest in the fund.”
The executive learned that there was a firefighters’ convention in town, and Jim had been working the room. “Jim told people they could invest in our hedge fund and that would help Joe,” the executive recalled.
Because of legal restrictions on who can invest in hedge funds, and because Paradigm, like most similar firms, insisted that clients fork over minimum investments in the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, there was nothing he could do with the checks.
The hedge fund was still unsuccessful, despite the appearances Joe Biden helped create to encourage investments, for example, by sending firefighters who wanted to invest, literally into the firm. Ultimately, “Paradigm’s executives searched in vain to find an overseas bank or other foreign buyer to take the business off their hands, including in the banking haven of Switzerland.”
In the end, no entity would buy the fund from the Biden family, ending the hedge fund’s hopes of success.
Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter @WendellHusebø
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NATALIE THINKS THAT THEY ARE NOT EXISTING IMMIGRANTS, BUT JUST A WAY FOR THE DEMS TO STUFF THE BALLOT BOX.
Let this one sink in…………………….
Last year 449,163 Californians received a jury duty summons which they
declined, using the "I am not a citizen. Therefore I cannot sit on a jury" provision.
The source for jury duty summons candidates is the VOTER REGISTRATION list
Think about that for a minute.
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From HOOVER DAILY, edited:
| Sept. 11 And The Future Of American History | ||
| by Niall Ferguson via Bloomberg Twenty years after the horrific attacks on New York and Washington, it’s clear that the biggest changes of our time were not ideological or geopolitical, but technological. They were also the hardest to foresee. +++
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I have not verified but believe this to be true: China now occupies the former Bagram Air Force Base, Biden abandoned. The Chinese/Taliban relationship is gathering momentum. This will not inure to America's benefit.
It helps to cement China's strategic position vis a vis the Middle East. Biden's dumb decisions carry significant weight and consequences.
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