On very special occasions, When celebrating felt right, This place we’d go to, With ambience and wine, On a Saturday night. Caricatures hung on the wall Eavesdropping on our most intimate moments. “I love you.”
It was essential to go there To mark the passage of time Between the dates we used to signify The bond we shared and to dine. Always served Angus A-1 prime To patrons of each and every persuasion. I loved you.
But now that place is all gone. Where did our love go? Where is the ambience and McCafferty’s piano?
While you eat you’re serenaded By some local musician Playing bad renditions of the popular songs. You sing along.
And so it ended. Our passion somehow Just faded away. And likewise too, That place we held diving Became a dance club today. The memories come charging in. Sweet dreams and all the romancing related Are gone now.
. . . in a rare, overdue, outdoor public performance on the glorious grounds of Elk Run Vineyards. Join us on Saturday, September 12 from 2:00 til 5:00PM.
(from https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/goodyear-distances-itself-viral-image-drew-trump-s-ire-n1237300)". . . "Fostering an inclusive, respectful workplace is important to establish teamwork and build culture, which is another reason we ask associated not to engage in political campaigning of any kind in the workplace — for any candidate, party or political organization," the statement said.And the statement emphasized that "Goodyear has always wholeheartedly supported both equality and law enforcement and will continue to do so. These are not mutually exclusive.". . . "
(Evidently ONE resident of the White House does not agree.)
". . . he has turned the Republican National Convention into a fantasyland version of his presidency. In this carefully curated world, staged by federal officials in Washington and Jerusalem, Trump has defeated the coronavirus, saved the economy, built a border wall, established peace in the Middle East, recalled U.S. forces from theaters of war, and even become a champion of immigrants at a time when he is sharply curtailing their access. . . The distance between reality and Trump's presentation is both a glaring weakness for the president and a gap. . ."
". . . Trump Jr. said Monday night that as the coronavirus "began to spread, the president acted quickly and ensured ventilators got to hospitals that needed them most." He claimed that his father "delivered PP and E to our brave front-line workers" and that "he rallied the mighty American private sector to tackle this new challenge."
Doctors, public health experts and a prominent Republican governor on the front lines of the pandemic have sharply criticized how the Trump White House lagged in responding to the coronavirus, including delays in the distribution of ventilators and personal protective equipment, and public opinion surveys don't support a rosy assessment of Trump's leadership during this period. . . In April, most Americans agreed that Trump was too slow in his initial response to the threat, according to the Pew Research Center.
. . . "The president quickly took action and shut down travel from China. Joe Biden and his Democrat allies called my father a racist and xenophobe for doing it," Trump Jr. claimed.
Biden hasn't directly called the president's travel restriction — which shut down some travel into the U.S. from China in earlier days of the pandemic — xenophobic and racist, but he did denounce Trump's coronavirus response as "xenophobic". . . "The way he deals with people based on the color of their skin, their national origin, where they're from, is absolutely sickening," Biden said in July when asked about the president's repeated use of the racist term for the virus. "We've had racists, and they've existed. They've tried to get elected president. He's the first one that has."
. . . Republicans repeatedly criticized Democrats for including a tax break that would affect high-earning taxpayers in states like California and New York in COVID-19 relief bills Monday night.
. . . the SALT cap repeal isn't taking money from the poor and giving it to the wealthy. It's lowering how much blue state taxpayers pay on their own incomes. . . It's a decidedly partisan issue: The people hit by the SALT tax cap are typically from blue states like New York and California, both of which pay far more money into U.S. tax coffers than they receive in federal funding, making up for other states that get more federal funding than their taxpayers put in. And the cap was written into Trump's tax overhaul to help pay for other tax cuts that benefited wealthy people and corporations.
. . . Scott said Monday night that in 1994, when he was a senator from Delaware, "Biden led the charge on a crime bill that put millions of Black Americans behind bars.". . .
The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, or the 1994 crime bill, as it became known, earmarked billions of dollars in funding for states to build prisons and to train and hire additional police, expanded the federal death penalty and instituted a federal "three-strikes" life sentence mandate. . . a 2019 report titled "Racial Disparity in U.S. Imprisonment Across States and Over Time," published in the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, found that while the law increased overall mass incarceration, a in imprisonment rates between Black people and white people.
Patty McCloskey, who along with her husband was caught on video brandishing firearms at Black Lives Matter protesters outside their St. Louis home in June, accused Biden and "radical" Democrats of wanting "to abolish the suburbs altogether by ending single-family home zoning."
"This forced rezoning would bring crime, lawlessness and low-quality apartments into now-thriving suburban neighborhoods," said McCloskey, who, with her husband, Mark, was charged with felony unlawful use of a weapon in the incident. . . Those claims are all false. . . Her statement echoes a key campaign claim by Trump, who has pointed to Biden's support for an Obama-era rule to combat racial discrimination in housing as the basis of the allegation.
. . . Trump suggests Democrats want to get rid of the Postal Service. (That's false.)
During a conversation with front-line workers that was played during the convention, the president falsely suggested that Democrats are the party of "getting rid of our postal workers.". . . Democrats have spent months pushing for more funding for the U.S. Postal Service. Over the weekend, the Democratic-controlled House advanced a bipartisan bill that would put $25 billion in emergency funding toward the struggling Postal Service. Trump has opposed such funding, in part because, he has said, he doesn't want more voting by mail, but he has said he's open to a compromise.
