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Post by mhbruin on Nov 4, 2023 8:24:39 GMT -8
Church Bulletin Bloopers: Bertha Belch, a missionary from Africa, will be speaking tonight at Calvary Methodist. Come hear Bertha Belch all the way from Africa. Maybe They Need to Provide Barf Bags. I Would Need One If I Stay At One of His Properties.There is availability among the 462 rooms in his Waikiki hotel in Hawaii too, which costs $414 tonight. Prospective guests can also make bookings until April 2025. Newsweek has contacted Trump Hotels to comment on this story via a website email form. Trump's former flagship hotel, the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., ran into financial problems and in 2022 its lease was sold to the CGI Merchant Group for a reported $375 million. The hotel had suffered major losses thanks to a mixture of the COVID-19 pandemic and a decline in prestige since Trump left the White House. Meanwhile, his golf courses also appear to be struggling to attract customers, with discounts for tee times being offered online at Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami. Donald Trump's Hotels Are Not Getting Bookings
Donald Trump's Golf Courses Struggling for Customers as Discounts OfferedFinancial filings made available in 2020 showed that Doral made a profit of $4.3 million on $75 million of revenue in 2017. Revenue fell to less than $45 million in 2020. |
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Post by mhbruin on Nov 4, 2023 8:26:56 GMT -8
No Casino for You. Next!
Radio entrepreneur Cathy Hughes may have upended her push to build a casino in Richmond by letting her opinions fly on the radio.
Just days before Richmonders head to the polls to vote a second time on a proposed casino partly owned by Urban One, the media company Hughes founded, casino opponents published a series of audio clips revealing racially inflammatory remarks made by Hughes and other Black casino proponents on local radio programs geared toward Black audiences.
The clips include numerous examples of Hughes implying that opposition to the casino is driven by racism. At one point, she says, “Do not forget that they do not see you as a human being.”
“Even though you may have a house like theirs, a car like theirs, your children may go to the same schools — they see you as a n*****, alright?” Hughes said. “Wake up!”
In a different recording, local radio personality and occasional political candidate Preston Brown took aim at Richmond activist Paul Goldman, a Jewish lawyer and former aide to Gov. Doug Wilder who has been fighting to block the casino.
“He’s a white Jew with a background of Judas,” Brown said, referring to the biblical figure who betrayed Jesus.
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Post by mhbruin on Nov 4, 2023 8:33:04 GMT -8
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Post by mhbruin on Nov 4, 2023 8:34:36 GMT -8
Trying to Buy the Election?
The state of Virginia is sending out tax rebate checks to qualified residents, just days before the state’s 2023 General Assembly elections.
On Sept. 13, Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed the state budget into law. Included in that budget was a one-time tax rebate for individual and married Virginia residents who filed their 2022 income tax returns and have a tax liability. Qualified residents receive $200 if they filed individually, and up to $400 if they filed jointly.
On Oct. 25, more than a month and a half after the bill was signed into law, residents started receiving their rebate checks. And every day this week, the checks have been continuing to arrive to homes across the Commonwealth. Youngkin said at an event last week in Arlington that the rebate checks are being processed in the order in which residents filed their taxes.
The checks, according to Virginia residents who have received them in the mail, are being sent with a note that specifically credits Youngkin for the money, telling the taxpayer they are "receiving this rebate because Governor Glenn Youngkin recently signed a bill passed by the 2023 Virginia General Assembly."
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Post by mhbruin on Nov 4, 2023 8:36:12 GMT -8
The Wacko Went to Waco
Taking the Trump Davidians Seriously
And: What does "Come Retribution" really mean?
Nota bene: If he wins next year, he’s going to pardon them [the J6 convicted insurrectionists] all. He keeps telling us so. Over and over again.
But he keeps telling us other things as well. Perhaps attention ought to be paid, because his campaign gets no points for subtlety. This is, after all, not the first time he has performed the J6 prisoner anthem and praised the imprisoned Insurrectionists.
This wasn’t a gaffe — it has become a foundational theme in his bid to reclaim power.
When he launched his campaign, notes Jonathan Karl in his new book, Trump chose Waco, Texas for his first rally. The symbolism shouldn’t be overlooked.
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With John Wilkes Booth as its agent, the Confederate Secret Service devised a plan of retribution—to seize President Lincoln, hold him hostage, and bring the war-weary North to capitulation. The code word for this stratagem was “Come Retribution.”
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Post by mhbruin on Nov 4, 2023 8:39:13 GMT -8
Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Non-Muslims
Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.) introduced legislation on Thursday to ban Palestinians from the United States in an echo of former President Donald Trump’s infamous “Muslim ban.”
The bill would pause visas for Palestinians and go a step further by revoking any visas issued since Oct. 1.
Zinke claimed the policy would protect Americans from the threat of Palestinian terrorists abusing the immigration system in the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel last month and Israel’s invasion of Gaza.
“I don’t trust the Biden Administration any more than I do the Palestinian Authority to screen who is allowed to come into the United States,” Zinke said in a release. “This is the most anti-Hamas immigration legislation I have seen and it’s well deserved.”
Though the legislation specifically targets Palestinians who obtained visas in the last month, the title of Zinke’s press release makes his broader sentiment clear: “Zinke Introduces Bill to Expel Palestinians from the United States.” The summary says the measure would direct the Department of Homeland Security to “identify and remove covered aliens without lawful status,” including those whose lawful status was just revoked.
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Post by mhbruin on Nov 4, 2023 8:40:53 GMT -8
You Say Potato. I Say Famine
The Irish Farmers' Association ( IFA) has called the 2023 potato harvest the worst in recent memory and is now a salvage operation. The culprit is heavy rainfall, an increasingly common phenomenon due to the disruption of global rainfall patterns due to climate change.
Sean Ryan, the chair of the IFA, reported that flooding had put the drills underwater following recent flooding. A drill is the mounds in rows of potatoes (see cover image).
A drill is a shallow furrow for seed potatoes, it will look like rows of mounded soil and it can be made using a furrower or more easily by dragging a ridging hoe in a straight line through the earth. Seed potato tubers are then placed in the drill and covered over.
Ryan stated that 60 percent of the potatoes grown in Ireland have yet to be harvested. Sizable fields of the crucial food tuber have already been lost. With the extratropical storm Ciarna and the rapidly approaching Diogenes on its tail, the outlook for the remaining crop is grim. Potatoes are grown in Europe and likely will affected by the same storm systems. The crop is also grown internationally in such countries as China and Australia.
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Post by mhbruin on Nov 4, 2023 8:41:47 GMT -8
Coal Joe Proves He Still Hates Workers
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) wants to kill a new progressive labor reform, and he’s teaming up with Republicans to try to do it.
Last week, the agency that enforces collective-bargaining law rolled out its new rule on joint employers. The regulation makes it more likely that big companies like McDonald’s will be held responsible for unfair labor practices involving their franchisees or subcontractors, or even forced to bargain with a workers’ union.
While labor groups have hailed the change as commonsense and long overdue, Manchin has panned it as government overreach and vowed to stop it from going into effect.
The West Virginia senator says he plans to join Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy (La.), ranking member of the Senate’s labor committee, on a legislative maneuver that would overturn the National Labor Relations Board’s joint employer rule and possibly make it harder to implement a similar rule in the future.
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Post by mhbruin on Nov 4, 2023 8:43:17 GMT -8
Looking for a Job? There May Be Some Openings for War Correspondants. (This Continues to Be an Insanely Dangerous Job.)
At least 12 journalists were killed in the past eight days in the Israel-Hamas war, ticking the death toll for media workers covering the conflict up to 36.
Hamas, a militant group based in Gaza, unleashed a surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7. In retaliation, Israel launched airstrikes at the territory and declared war. An estimated 10,000-plus people — 9,000 in Gaza and the West Bank and 1,400 in Israel — have been killed, along with journalists who have been covering the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the overall war.
The Committee to Protect Journalists reported that as of Friday, 31 Palestinian journalists, four Israeli journalists and one Lebanese journalist have been killed since the war broke out on Oct. 7. CPJ also reported several other journalists injured, missing or arrested, and reported censorship, threats, assaults, cyberattacks and the killing of journalists’ family members.
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Post by mhbruin on Nov 4, 2023 8:44:18 GMT -8
Bread and Water
The average Palestinian in Gaza is living on two pieces of Arabic bread made from flour the United Nations had stockpiled in the region, yet the main refrain now being heard in the street is “Water, water,” the Gaza director for the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said Friday.
Thomas White, who said he traveled “the length and breadth of Gaza in the last few weeks,” described the place as a "scene of death and destruction.” No place is safe now, he said, and people fear for their lives, their future and their ability to feed their families.
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Post by mhbruin on Nov 4, 2023 8:47:30 GMT -8
This Would Have Started 13 Years Ago and Cost Billions Less, Except for Chris ChristieThe Biden administration will award $3.8 billion to help build a long-delayed new railway tunnel between New York City and New Jersey, state officials said Friday. In total, the federal government will fund more than $11 billion of the $17.2 billion Hudson Tunnel Project costs that will repair an existing tunnel and build a new one for passenger railroad Amtrak and state commuter lines between New Jersey and Manhattan, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said. Any failure of the lines in the current tunnel, which was heavily damaged during 2012's Superstorm Sandy, would hobble commuting in the largest U.S. metropolitan area that produces 10% of the country's economic output. The White House in July had advanced $6.88 billion in funding from the Federal Transit Administration for the project. Schumer, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and New York Governor Kathy Hochul were among the officials who celebrated the start of construction in New York on the Hudson Tunnel Project. Buttigieg said Friday the Hudson Tunnel project will reduce traveler delays, support 72,000 jobs and generate $19 billion in economic activity. "This is the largest project of its kind in modern American history," Buttigieg said. N.J. governor kills Hudson River tunnel project
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Post by mhbruin on Nov 4, 2023 8:49:43 GMT -8
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