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I regret that by the time I was able to return home today it was after 2pm and I ate lunch, scanned the newspapers and started on my email.

Dawg insisted on attention and by the time I could read the first few it was after 3pm

Fatigue caught up with me so I took a half hour plus nap. Now after 5pm I will have to prepare for dinner but first must spend time with Dawg.

Although most pundits feel that if there was a winner of the VP debate, it would be Pence due to his demeanor, not because he defused Koine’s charges about Trump’s statements. He ignored most of them.

My own feelings fall back on the last question where both extremely religious individuals acknowledged that their personal beliefs were the right of life. The difference was that Kaine said he would not permit his religious feelings to be imposed on the public whereas Pence felt that he had to act on his.

Meanwhile I again posted a comment to my blog "A Reply" by an individual who has no more gumption than a pansy  since he will not let me know who he /she is so that I can understand where he is coming from. His latest comment is that I am repeating a lie by calling Trump “Hitler”. I do not believe I did that but I have repeatedly said that his bombastic demography reminds me of how Hitler gained power.

Hitler’s mass public meetings where he razed all sorts of issue including returning Germany to the glory of before WW1 gained him a large following of the “unhappy”

No he never said he would kill all the Jews or invade Poland-before he was appointed prime minister. He did appeal to the bigotry of those who needed a whipping boy similar to Trump’s “rapist Mexicans”.

Once Trump took office the Nazis staged the Reichstag fire to blame the Communists and Hitler declared the equivalent of Martial law seizing complete power.

I have never said that Trump would do that but his Presidential campaign reminds me of Hitler’s rise to power.

NOTE

The operative word is “slept”. After the first 15 or 20 minutes I slept through last night’s debate but awoke in time to hear Pence say that despite the 1st[HY1]  Amendment he would abolish women’s freedom of choice because of his religious beliefs. Kaine on the other hand , a devote Catholic remarked that his personal beliefs would not impact on the law

Slept late this morning and have a doctor’s appointment so will defer listening to my DVR and will comment on debate later today,

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A REPLY

Please read my last blog, anonymous' comments and my reply. This cartoon will illustrate the issues  with this election's candidates..

Having grown up in the great depression I can rember how Hitler came into power; to make Germany "great again" in a period of economic woes. I am sure some can remember the McCarthy era late 40s-mid 50s with the witch hunts and destroying peoples lives with often trumped up accusations.

MONDAY NIGHT COUNCIL MEETING PLUS TRUMP

As I noted I shall not attend Monday’s night Council meeting which is being held on the night of the second most important Jewish religious holy day.

I have scanned the agenda and with the exception of Resolution G to increase the award of a contract with Mitchel Humphry Software from $169800.00 to $208,660.00 which is a 23% increase.

Why there are now 40 licensed users instead of the original 25 is not clarified in any documentation Once again there is a resolution authorizing payment to Remington & Vernick an additional $43735.00 for “change order 1 contract #2.” An explanation should be appreciated.

Has anyone made a study to see if an in house engineer would be more cost effective than outsourcing?

Perhaps the revelation that Trump may not have paid any income taxes from 1995 is why he will not reveal his taxes. According to Allan Sloan in Sunday's Washington Post"

By Allan Sloan October 2 at 4:22 PM

Despite what Donald Trump says, we really can learn a lot from his tax returns — even from the partial ones made public by The New York Times.
The major takeaway from the three pages of Trump’s 1995 returns that the Times made public is that Trump is right when he says the system is rigged. What he doesn’t say is that it’s rigged in his favor, and in the favor of people like him — and against regular people, those of us who earn money, pay income tax on it, and financially support the country in which we live.
To keep things relatively simple, I’m telling you what I see in Trump’s returns, based on my decades of experience parsing financial filings. I will try not to get bogged down in numbers and technicalities.
Sure, the $900 million-plus of losses reported by the New York Times — losses that could be used to offset income for a total of 18 years—are totally shocking. Legal, yes. But shocking.
But there’s something I consider even more shocking — although it involves a much smaller number.

By my read of the Trump tax return published by the New York Times, he would have been tax-free because of a $15,818,562 loss reported on Line 11 of the return under “Rental real estate, royalties, partnerships, S corporations, trusts, etc.” It looks to me that this loss reflects the outrageous, special tax break that real estate developers that people like Trump can get, but that the rest of us can’t.

To give you the brief version, people who qualify as real estate developers or managers can use depreciation deductions to offset non-real estate income. But people who don’t qualify for this special treatment can’t do that. (For full details, ask a tax expert about Section 469 of the tax code.)

Now, to the $909 million loss reported by the New York Times — which vastly exceeds any cash losses that Trump would have suffered in the collapse of his casino-hotel-airline empire, which fell apart in the early 1990s and resulted in four bankruptcies. (He had two more bankruptcies, in 2004 and 2009, from a publicly-traded company in which he was the primary shareholder.)

The Trump people are trying to counter that bad information by stating the amount of real estate taxes "he" has paid over those years. Without question this is a typical Trump misstatement. Those taxes were paid by the individual "corporation" owning the property.