Saturday the 15th Reads

What a hell of a way to throw away your career.

He deserves to get sacked.
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Cartoon of the Day:


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How the idiotic QAnon come about?
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Obituary:  Very sad news for the Trump family as Donald's youngest brother, Robert, has died at the age of 71 from complications from a fall.

It sucks losing a sibling.  Robert ran what is left of the Trump empire.






Robert, the youngest of the five Trump siblings, was previously hospitalized for ten days at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York in June.

He was admitted to the neurosciences intensive care unit where he was treated for a 'serious condition', the Daily Beast reported.

Around the same time, Robert had filed a lawsuit against his niece Mary Trump, seeking to block her from publishing a tell-all book on the president.

Mary is the daughter of the brothers' eldest sibling, Fred Trump Jr, who struggled with alcoholism and died in 1981 at the age of 43.

Robert filed for an injunction claiming the explosive book, 'Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man', violated the terms of a confidentiality agreement she signed nearly two decades ago.
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Another obituary: Former GOP Illinois governor Jim Thompson, 84, has died. He served as governor for four terms.


As Illinois’ longest-serving governor, “Big Jim” Thompson was a larger-than-life figure in state history, his 6-foot-6 frame dominating the political landscape for 14 years as he guided the state through recession, became a builder and left a legacy that includes restoring Navy Pier, keeping the White Sox with a new stadium and opening a controversial downtown office building that bears his name.

James Robert Thompson, who rode his success as a federal prosecutor to the Illinois statehouse and was governor from 1977 to 1991, died Friday night after suffering from heart problems. He was 84.

“It was very sudden,” said wife Jayne Thompson, her voice breaking. “I was told that his heart simply stopped.”

Thompson was a Republican moderate from Chicago, his interest in the city helping him to be able to work with the Democrats, though he had prosecuted many of them, including former Gov. Otto Kerner over a scandal involving horse racetrack stock.
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