First day post-tax season random ponderings
My sleep schedule is still off-cycle. I've spent so many weeks going to bed right around 8 p.m. and waking up at 4 p.m. that it is going to take a day or two to adjust. The level of fatigue I've been dealing with had me so tired that I just could not stay awake for more than one or two hours after arriving at home.
I still have a few days left to work next week before my mandated 8 week break but they don't present the challenge that seeing clients every hour on the hour for a full day does.
Right now I'm going back and forth between making plans for today and realizing that I just don't have the energy to carry them out.
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Apparently the Cheeto-in-Chief struggles with geography and the four points of the compass as well as the truth.
There's just one problem with 45's claim that we are sending an armada to North Korea. The aircraft carrier Carl Vinson and her battlegroup were going south at the time, not north toward North Korea.
To be fair, 45 did make mention of submarines and their movements are almost never disclosed. But subs are not an armada on their own and isn't disclosing the movement of submarines a contradiction in regard to 45's earlier statement that he doesn't tell our nation's enemies what he is doing?
* * *
This just in...Fox News and Bill O'Reilly have parted company. The so-called "vacation" he went on recently, slated to end on 4/24/2017 will be a permanent one; at least from Fox News.
Undoubtedly he will get enough money to set him for life, if he wasn't already wealthy enough to never work again. The question in my mind is what will he do next? If there were a Trump News Network then he'd have a job in an instant.
Since there is no such network, yet, what will the conservative commentator do next? A lot depends on how he and Fox News resolve his current contract. Earlier this month the Wall Street Journal reported that network had renewed O'Reilly's contract although the terms of the contract were not disclosed. Will Fox pay O'Reilly through the full length of the contract which would prevent him from appearing on any other television show?
Stay tuned.
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The Super Bowl champion New England Patriots visited the Cheeto-in-Chief at the White House today. Tom Brady was not there, citing personal family reasons. As a result, 45 did not mention his name when giving shout-outs to other players.
Trump called the name of Danny Amendola, wide receiver for the Pats to step forward but he wasn't there. However Amendola tweeted out a thank you message to 45. Then he deleted it after a fierce backlash resulted from his tweet.
Some think the visit should have been postponed since former Patriots star and convicted murderer Aaron Hernandez hanged himself in his prison cell early this morning. As he hasn't been with the team since they released him nearly four years ago, I can't agree with that sentiment.
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Speaking of the Cheeto-in-Chief, someone also needs to make him understand that just because the election is over, the need to release his tax returns did not disappear. Every president for quite some time now has annually released their most current return, with their prior returns already a matter of record.
If you visit the Tax History Project's archive, you'll see that every president since Carter released their tax returns during their term in office, with the exception of the year they left office.
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Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah has announced he will not seek reelection to Congress in 2018. He is the Chair of the House Oversight Committee and was the man behind all of the investigations into Hillary Clinton.
One of the reasons he is citing is that he's tired of sleeping on a cot in his Washington, D.C. office. According to TMZ.com he is not alone in this regard. Sleeping in his office, showering in the House gym and eating in one of the many food choices in the House doesn't sound all that bad when earning $174,000 plus per year.
Go home, Congressman. You can continue your pursuit of pillorying Secretary Clinton as a private citizen.
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According to an article that was linked to by Fox News, a retired Air Force captain is blaming the Obama Administration's Rules of Engagement (ROE) for the deaths of 36 U.S. military personnel, one Afghan interpreter and one U.S. military working dog.
Her claims appear to corroborate a claim by a former Navy JAG officer who was also an assistant U.S. attorney, who published a book about the incident in 2015.
This isn't the first time and won't be the last that the ROE in a combat situation have resulted in tragedy.
I still have a few days left to work next week before my mandated 8 week break but they don't present the challenge that seeing clients every hour on the hour for a full day does.
Right now I'm going back and forth between making plans for today and realizing that I just don't have the energy to carry them out.
* * *
Apparently the Cheeto-in-Chief struggles with geography and the four points of the compass as well as the truth.
There's just one problem with 45's claim that we are sending an armada to North Korea. The aircraft carrier Carl Vinson and her battlegroup were going south at the time, not north toward North Korea.
To be fair, 45 did make mention of submarines and their movements are almost never disclosed. But subs are not an armada on their own and isn't disclosing the movement of submarines a contradiction in regard to 45's earlier statement that he doesn't tell our nation's enemies what he is doing?
* * *
This just in...Fox News and Bill O'Reilly have parted company. The so-called "vacation" he went on recently, slated to end on 4/24/2017 will be a permanent one; at least from Fox News.
Undoubtedly he will get enough money to set him for life, if he wasn't already wealthy enough to never work again. The question in my mind is what will he do next? If there were a Trump News Network then he'd have a job in an instant.
Since there is no such network, yet, what will the conservative commentator do next? A lot depends on how he and Fox News resolve his current contract. Earlier this month the Wall Street Journal reported that network had renewed O'Reilly's contract although the terms of the contract were not disclosed. Will Fox pay O'Reilly through the full length of the contract which would prevent him from appearing on any other television show?
Stay tuned.
* * *
The Super Bowl champion New England Patriots visited the Cheeto-in-Chief at the White House today. Tom Brady was not there, citing personal family reasons. As a result, 45 did not mention his name when giving shout-outs to other players.
Trump called the name of Danny Amendola, wide receiver for the Pats to step forward but he wasn't there. However Amendola tweeted out a thank you message to 45. Then he deleted it after a fierce backlash resulted from his tweet.
Some think the visit should have been postponed since former Patriots star and convicted murderer Aaron Hernandez hanged himself in his prison cell early this morning. As he hasn't been with the team since they released him nearly four years ago, I can't agree with that sentiment.
* * *
Speaking of the Cheeto-in-Chief, someone also needs to make him understand that just because the election is over, the need to release his tax returns did not disappear. Every president for quite some time now has annually released their most current return, with their prior returns already a matter of record.
If you visit the Tax History Project's archive, you'll see that every president since Carter released their tax returns during their term in office, with the exception of the year they left office.
* * *
Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah has announced he will not seek reelection to Congress in 2018. He is the Chair of the House Oversight Committee and was the man behind all of the investigations into Hillary Clinton.
One of the reasons he is citing is that he's tired of sleeping on a cot in his Washington, D.C. office. According to TMZ.com he is not alone in this regard. Sleeping in his office, showering in the House gym and eating in one of the many food choices in the House doesn't sound all that bad when earning $174,000 plus per year.
Go home, Congressman. You can continue your pursuit of pillorying Secretary Clinton as a private citizen.
* * *
According to an article that was linked to by Fox News, a retired Air Force captain is blaming the Obama Administration's Rules of Engagement (ROE) for the deaths of 36 U.S. military personnel, one Afghan interpreter and one U.S. military working dog.
Her claims appear to corroborate a claim by a former Navy JAG officer who was also an assistant U.S. attorney, who published a book about the incident in 2015.
This isn't the first time and won't be the last that the ROE in a combat situation have resulted in tragedy.
posted by me at 8:08 PM
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