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From our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit:
The goniffs not only stole the incoming payrolls, they stole stole the pay that had already been distributed to employees. They stole money that was set aside for tax payments.
The payroll company was a subsidiary of ValueWise Corp., which also vanished like a thief in the night.
From Cato: Podcast with Julian Sanchez:
The White House’s potential plan to use consumer tech to monitor those deemed mentally ill for potential violence already has some bipartisan support. The problem is that it won’t work. Julian Sanchez comments.
From CBS News:
Pasadena, California — At the ripe old age of 97, Maurine Kornfeld is at the peak of her career. Around the pool, the woman known as “Mighty Mo” is a legend to everyone but herself.
“I don’t want to say we worship her. But we kind of are her biggest fans,” said coach Chad Durieux.
Among senior master swimmers, she has earned 14 world championship gold medals, has set 28 world records and was recently inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame. All in a career that began at age 65.
From CBS News:
Fort Myers, Florida — A lot of police officers go above and beyond — playing basketball with kids, mowing grass for seniors — we see examples on the news all the time. But few officers have gone further out of their way than Sergeant Jeff Turney of the Glendale, Arizona police department.
It started with a call to dispatch: “I have a 94-year-old father. He’s loaded up a trailer and thinks he can drive his vehicle and the trailer to Florida. And I’d like to have somebody talk to him, if they could.”
Police responded to the home of Howard Benson.
“I walked in the door and saw him sitting there and I said, ‘We’re not going to talk any sense into this guy,'” Sergeant Turney said.
It turns out there was no stopping him.
From Brij Khindaria at The Moderate Voice:
John Bolton’s firing has sent a huge sigh of relief through key European capitals, especially those that want to prevent war with Iran because he was seen as a war-obsessed Svengali mesmerizing President Donald Trump.
An early sign of international relief was the 2.2% drop in oil prices indicating optimism that the pressure on Iran might abate a little.
French President Emmanuel Macron and other European leaders are determined to stop Iran from acquiring a usable nuclear weapon, but they do not support regime change in Tehran as does Bolton. They also do not want to become part of Trump’s and Treasury Secretary Mnuchin’s obsession with bringing Iran’s leaders to the negotiating table by tormenting its people through economic pain and deprivation.
With Bolton gone, Macron and others are hoping that Trump’s wiser angels will prevail.
From The Onion:
HOUSTON—Startling the 10 candidates who qualified to participate in the event, Marianne Williamson materialized on the debate stage in a puff of purple smoke Thursday, proclaiming the Democratic National Committee’s polling requirements were no match for the power of positive thinking.
From driftglass:
Congressman Inert Carbon Rodney Davis Promises Return To Normalcy, If…
My congressman, Rodney Davis, pledges that if Democrats would just stop all of their fussin’ and fumin’ about “impeachment” and Donald Trump being a “pathological liar” and a “fascist” and a “thugs leading a gang of Republican vandals, cowards and looters” and a “Russian stooge”, then Republicans will happily go back to being the thoughtful…
Each time President Trump tells us what he saw and did on the day of the attacks, his actions in the aftermath become even more courageous.
This year offered a new milestone in the saga of 9/11. Someone born on that day can now register to vote. It has been 18 years.
At a Pentagon ceremony, President Trump was modest about his own heroic actions on the day of the attack.
Soon after, I went down to Ground Zero with men who worked for me to try to help in any little way that we could. We were not alone. So many others were scattered around trying to do the same. They were all trying to help.
This seemed to contradict the version presented on that day, as Mr. Trump was interviewed in the hours after the second tower of the World Trade Center fell. He made no mention then of having been at the scene. After a reference to one of his own properties, he relayed to television anchors information he said he was getting by telephone from an employee who was a few blocks away from the collapsed buildings.
And then when they built the World Trade Center it became known as the second tallest. And now it’s the tallest.
And I just spoke to my people, and they said it’s the most unbelievable sight. It’s probably seven or eight blocks away from the World Trade Center, and yet Wall Street is littered with two feet of stone and brick and mortar and steel.
Donald Trump Calls Into WWOR/UPN 9 News on 9/11
Richard Alles was a Fire Department battalion chief who later became deputy chief with the New York City Fire Department. He was at the scene within 20 minutes after the attack, supervising rescue efforts. He was asked about how Mr. Trump and his crew had helped at that dangerous time.
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