Tuesday, September 29, 2020

 

Last night I went to bed at 10:30, took a while to fall asleep, got up once at 4:15, took a while to fall back asleep, finally waking/getting up at 6:30.

I left the apt at 8am and walked to the mall. First I printed a medical document for Teresa at Auros. I went to Habia Una Vez and Jose arrived a few minutes later. We both had their breakfast of scrambled eggs, croissant with a slice of cheese, small coffee, and large orange juice for 10 mil ($3).

We went upstairs to the food court and set up for chess. I had the white pieces first and played The English Opening but I didn’t play well and I resigned on the 33^rd move. For lunch I had chicken and pasta with a mango juice from Montovido (sp?).

I had the black pieces in the 2^nd game and I played the Dutch Defense but again didn’t play well and I resigned on the 43^rd move.

He left and I went down to Todo Fresa for a café con leche. From there I went into Exito where I picked up a few things and took a taxi back to the apt.

 

As you may recall, Ocasio-Cortez was lambasted last year for spending around $300 (including tip) on a haircut and lowlights — FOR HER BIRTHDAY. And, as anyone who has gotten their hair done in a major metropolitan area can attest, that's the rates.

Anyway, now that information from Donald Trump’s tax returns has come to light (a whopping “$70,000 in hairstyling for television” among his deductions), Ocasio-Cortez is pointing out the hypocrisy in the overwhelmingly right-wing response to her 2019 salon visit.

“Last year Republicans blasted a firehose of hatred + vitriol my way because I treated myself to a $250 cut & lowlights on my birthday,” the congresswoman tweeted on Sunday evening. “Where’s the criticism of their idol spending $70k on hairstyling? Oh, it’s nowhere because they’re spineless, misogynistic hypocrites? Got it.”

 

The bombshell report that President Donald Trump paid $750 in federal income tax in both 2016 and 2017, the first years of his presidency, set social media ablaze. 

The president refused to comment on the New York Times story, calling it “fake news” and adding that he pays “a lot.” 

However, the Biden campaign has seized on the report by selling stickers that read “I paid more in taxes than Donald Trump.” 

 

An old Donald Trump tweet criticizing Americans who "don't pay income tax" resurfaced late on Sunday after The New York Times published a report that revealed he did not pay federal income taxes in about half of the 18 years the newspaper looked at.

"HALF of Americans don't pay income tax despite crippling govt debt," Trump wrote on Twitter in February 2012, four years before he was elected president. His tweet's caption mirrors the headline of a Daily Mail article published one day before, which appears as a link in the social media post. The U.K.-based newspaper's report relies on a graphic originally created by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C.

The graphic suggested that 49.5 percent of the U.S. population was not represented on federal tax returns in 2009. Analysis of IRS data by the Tax Foundation, an independent nonprofit that focuses on tax policy, showed a record number of people had no income tax liability in 2009, during the Great Recession.

 

Andrew Weissman, a prosecutor who served as one of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's top lieutenants during the investigation into 2016 Russian election interference, on Monday connected revelations about President Trump's tax information to Moscow.

The tax information, obtained by The New York Times, has sparked speculation that Trump may owe hundreds of millions of dollars to an unknown funding source that kept his businesses alive over the years. Weissman suggested that Trump's son, Eric Trump, may have provided the geographic location of the money, if not the exact source, all the way back in 2014, before the elder Trump had announced his 2016 presidential campaign. "We have all the funding we need out of Russia," Eric Trump said in 2014.

 

Australian biotech company Ena Respiratory announced its new nasal spray on Monday, saying that a “gold-standard” randomized trial on ferrets has shown that the INNA-051 substance lowered the level of the virus by 96%. A trial on humans is set to begin in less than four months, pending toxicity studies and regulatory approval.

 

At 8pm I turned on the Presidential Debate on CNN. Was that embarrassing. Trump didn’t just continuely interrupt and argue with Biden but also with Chris Wallace, the moderator. And he often mixed up his facts and told outright lies. That ended at 9:30 and then I listened to the commentary for another 90 minutes.

 

The US has 7,138,040 ð 7,164,954 ð 7,217,798 coronavirus cases with 204,500+ ð 204,700+ ð 205,800+ deaths.

Per Medellin Guru, as of this afternoon Colombia has a total of 813,056 ð 818,203 ð 824,042 cases with 25,828 deaths.  Medellin has 65,209 ð 65,394 ð 66,128 cases, an increase of 736 from September 28^th to 29^th. Envigado has a total of 3,853 cases, an increase of 45 from September 28^th to 29^th.

 

Joke of the day

Jack wakes up with a huge hangover after attending his company's Christmas Party. Jack is not normally a drinker, but the drinks didn't taste like alcohol at all. He had vague memories of being very loud and screaming at his wife. This did NOT promise to be a good morning for Jack. 

Jack had to force himself to open his eyes, and the first thing he sees is a couple of aspirins next to a glass of water on the side table. And, next to them, a single red rose! Jack sits up and sees his clothing in front of him, all clean and pressed. He looks around the room and sees that it is in perfect order, spotlessly clean.  

He takes the aspirins and cringes when he sees a huge black eye staring back at him in the bathroom mirror.

Then he notices a note hanging on the corner of the mirror written in red with little hearts on it and a kiss mark from his wife in lipstick: "Honey, breakfast is on the stove, I left early to get groceries to make your favorite dinner tonight. I love you darling! Love, Jillian" 

He stumbles into the kitchen and sure enough, there is a hot breakfast, steaming hot coffee, and the morning newspaper all waiting for him. His son is also at the table, eating. Jack asks, "Son... what happened last night?" 

"Well," said the son, thoughtfully, "you came home after 3 in the morning, drunk and out of your mind. You fell over the coffee table and broke it, and then you puked in the hallway, and got that black eye when you ran into the door." 

Confused, he asked his son, "So, why is everything in such perfect order and so clean? I have a rose, and breakfast is on the table waiting for me?" 

His son replies, "I don't know. The only other thing I remember is mom dragging you to the bedroom, and when she tried to take your pants off, you screamed, 'Leave me alone, I'm married!'"