Ramblings & Smiles

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10/1/2020

Here's to October, Welcome Back old friend.

Massachusetts rejected nearly 18,000 primary ballots amid surge of mail-in voting
Just under 18,000 ballots cast in the Massachusetts primary were rejected, as a flood of residents voted by mail for the first time, according to figures released by the Secretary of State at the request of the Boston Globe.

Bankrupt Gun Maker Remington Outdoor to Be Broken Up and Sold
Remington Outdoor, The bankrupt gun maker is to be sold in pieces to seven buyers. The biggest sale will go to Minnesota-based Vista Outdoor, which said it will pay $81.4 million for Remington’s brand and trademarks along with parts of its ammo and accessories business including an Arkansas ammunition factory. More

How Do Children Fight Off the Coronavirus?
Why the coronavirus affects children much less severely than adults has become an enduring mystery of the pandemic. The vast majority of children do not get sick; when they do, they usually recover.

Moderna COVID-19 vaccine appears safe, shows signs of working in older adults: study

US & China: Emerging Technologies And The Race To Control The Future

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9/30/2020

What a Train Wreck
The first 2020 debate was a political horror show as Trump tried to bully Biden and the former vice president told him to 'shut up'

AP FACT CHECK:
False claims flood Trump-Biden debate

Performance venues allowed to reopen to 50% capacity in lower-risk Mass. communities

Some communities in Texas are being told not to drink their water due to it potentially being tainted with a "brain-eating microbe".

Gun sales in major swing states up nearly 80% this year: Will it have any bearing on election outcome Fox News reports

New York Suffers Most New COVID-19 Cases Since June As US Outbreak Accelerates: Live Updates

Massachusetts highway exits will be totally renumbered in October

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9/29/2020

The Long Awaited Reveal, How Much Did He Pay? Part 2

NYT Bombshell Essentially Boils Down to This: Trump Paid Millions in Taxes, Owes No Debt to Russia

Hacks at Fake News NY Times Focus on Trump’s Tax Returns AGAIN Rather than the Biden Family’s Cash for Russian Hookers and Moscow Millions

Trump appears to have lost a lot of $ in some of his business deals

The only illegal thing that appears is the IRS leak

Biden Dodged $500K In Taxes By Exploiting Loophole
Since the left is now in histrionics over President Trump's perfectly legal use of the US tax code to avoid paying taxes for 10 out of the last 15 years, perhaps they'll give as much attention to Joe Biden - who used another perfectly legal tax 'loophole' to avoid approximately $500,000 in payroll taxes on $15 million in income.

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9/28/2020

The Long Awaited Reveal, How Much Did He Pay?
The NY Times obtained Donald Trump’s tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due. Trump didn't pay income tax for 10 of 15 years before 2016 election according to The New York Times.

Jake Blake Was In The Process Of Kidnapping A Woman’s Children At Knifepoint When Officers Shot Him In Kenosha…Via CNN:
So if I got this right from CNN, Kamala Harris, The Hollywood Elite, Sport celebrities, and the liberal news media have all honored this guy as a victim of police violence, when in fact he was in the process of kidnapping a child and the police were only trying to save the child's life. Funny how there was no previous mention of this in the beginning and now CNN is releasing the story. Now lets think back to all those good people who visited poor old Jake at the hospital?

Understanding The “Loon” in Lunatics
In The Midst Of A Pandemic, Blanketed In Wildfire Smoke, The City Of Berkeley Is Focused On Banning Candy Bars.

No Surprises, The Liberals Realize that they must Destroy Her
Democrats Can't Quite Decide on a Line of Attack Against Judge Barrett

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9/26/2020

New Bill Would Ban Biological Males From Women’s Sports

“Antifa Is A Real Thing”: FBI Director Wray Rebuts Democratic Claims That Antifa Is a “Myth”

10 Examples of Defensive Gun Use Show 2nd Amendment's True Purpose:

California Plans to Ban Sales of New Gas-Powered Cars in 15 Years

Progressives Defeat Brooklyn Project That Promised 20,000 Jobs

Walmart Scraps One-Way Aisles That U.S. Shoppers Mostly Ignored

Vitamin D can help reduce coronavirus risk by 54%: Boston University doctor

Are Mushrooms the Future of Wellness?

New England has 2 of the most ‘amazingly scenic’ hikes in the country, according to USA Today

Fridays Adventure Road

9/25/2020

Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves.
Don Miguel Ruiz

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9/24/2020

Senate Report Details Hunter Biden’s Extensive Foreign Business Dealings
A new Senate report released Wednesday concludes that former Vice President Joe Biden allowed Hunter Biden and other members of his family to enrich themselves through links with foreign companies and governments while he was in office.

The Probe Also Finds John Kerry Falsely Claimed He Had No Knowledge of Hunter Biden’s Role in Burisma

Massachusetts residents visiting Maine no longer need to quarantine, Gov. Janet Mills says

Restaurants in Massachusetts can seat 10 people per table, use bar seating starting Sept. 28

Covid Grows Less Deadly as Doctors Gain Practice, Drugs Improve

Vermont grocery store worker fired after apprehending purse snatcher

Yelp data shows 60% of business closures due to the coronavirus pandemic are
now permanent

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9/23/2020

Florida Governor DeSantis proposes law cracking down on looters, 'violent' protesters
DeSantis said any protesters who break the law will have 'a ton of bricks raining down on you'
Via Fox News:

JK Rowling's Books
Burned Or Banned Around The World Over Her Personal Views Of Gender

Ranked choice voting in Maine a go for presidential election

Trump to name Supreme Court nominee by Saturday

Emmys 2020 ratings: Awards viewership sinks to all-time low

Remote Learning Is A Disaster And Terrible For Children…Via NY Post:

Maine blueberry industry reels from drought, frost, virus

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9/22/2020

Warning: Graphic content
The writing’s on the wall — er, road.
Fed-up New Yorkers painted a massive stretch of Brooklyn blacktop with the yellow message “F–k Cuomo and de Blasio” over the weekend in the vein of Hizzoner’s “Black Lives Matter” art, only for the city to quickly scrub the statement. Via NY Post:

Justice Dept. brands NYC, Portland, Ore., and Seattle, Wash. an ‘anarchist jurisdiction,’ targets federal funds Via NY Post:

New York City Could Use a Champion. Who Will Step Up?
New York seems to be missing the kind of civic leadership that helped the city recover from previous financial and psychic crises. Via NY Times:

GOP House Report Shows Extent of Chinese Communist Party’s Coverup in Early Days of COVID-19

In Stunning Reversal, CDC Says It Published New Guidance On Risks Of 'Airborne'
OVID-19 "In Error"

Black Lives Matter co-founder teams up with pro-Chinese Communist Party group...

BLM quietly scrubs anti-American, Marxist language from its website

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9/21/2020

As I continue to make those daily deliveries, driving along the main roads and back roads of New England, I can tell you that the Fall Colors are starting to change in the north.. The season for leaf peeping is here.
If you want to know how it’s looking on the Back Roads or High Hills for your next road trip, you can get updated foliage reports from the web sites of different states below.

  Maine  New Hampshire  Vermont  Massachusetts  Connecticut

With many fall harvest and apple festivals underway all over New England, Make some time to explore the best of what our region has to offer this fall.  The apple-picking season in the northeast also coincides with the fall foliage season in many areas. Plan to get out there and start your day by enjoying a scenic drive to the apple orchards.

Here is a list of apple orchards through out New England by each state.

  Connecticut   Maine    Massachusetts    New Hampshire   Rhode Island   Vermont