US Democrat Presidential candidate, Joe Biden (left) with his son Hunter
September 20, 2020
October 14, 2020
Last night
Oh.
Facebook And Twitter Limit Sharing ‘New York Post’ Story About Joe Biden (NPR)
Via Nathan Brand
Yesterday: Residential
UPDATE:
This afternoon
Republican Senator Ted Cruz on Twitter blocking the New York Post article.
Good luck, Jack.
Last night.
Ebenezer Terrace, South Circular Road, Dublin 8.
Harry Warren writes:
Christmas comes earlier every year! A bit of movie magic at the filming of a Christmas commercial for Woodies [DIY chain]…
A heron enjoying the views from the Summer House at St Stephen’s Green, Dublin yesterday morning.
(Thanks Colum Cronin)
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised a Brexit deal by October 15
So Johnson decided to set
A deadline that hasn’t been met
But that was just talk
No one thinks he’ll walk
Away from the table just yet
John Moynes
MORE to follow.
A ‘Visit Berlin’ ad, with the message: ‘A finger wag for all those without a mask.’
Gülpen.
Der mittelfinger und frau maskerschmitt arshlocken!
We know how this ends.
Berlin gives middle finger to anti-maskers in tourism agency ad (The Guardian)
From top: A haul of illegal drugs sniffed out by Bailey (above) and seized by custom officers
‘sup?
Yesterday, with the assistance of detector dog Bailey, Revenue officers at Athlone Mail Centre seized 1.5kgs of various types of illegal drugs with an estimated value of €38,000.
Herbal cannabis, ketamine, heroin, methamphetamine, MDMA and crack were discovered by Bailey in parcels from the UK, Spain and the USA which were declared as items such as ‘T-shirt’, ‘Sports Phone Case’ and ‘Bicycle Gloves’ and were destined for addresses in Dublin, Galway, Sligo, Kilkenny, Louth, Meath, Wicklow and Kildare.
Bad Good dog.
Pics: Revenue
Social assistance rates in 2021
This morning/afternoon,
Independent think-tank Social Justice Ireland published its critique of Budget 2021.
In short:
Welcome:
Adoption of a counter-cyclical fiscal stance.
Financing for the Community Health Networks
Acknowledgement by Government that tax and welfare are a single system..
Providing the finance to implement the McMahon Report and end Direct Provision.Regret:
Failure to increase core social welfare rates.
Failure to make tax credits refundable to address the working poor issue.
No progress towards just taxation
Dr Seán Healy, Director, Social Justice Ireland, writes::
“Budget 2021 has left Ireland’s poorest people behind as Government decided not to increase core social welfare rates.
Despite allocating more resources than any previous Budget in the history of the State, the distribution of those resources was such that the gap between the poor and the better off will widen in 2021 and inequality will increase. This is a totally unacceptable outcome.
“In calculating how people’s incomes will change in 2021 it is important to realise that people with jobs are likely to see increases in their take-home pay in the coming year. Public servants will see an increase of 2% while the pay of other sectors is also expected to increase. In contrast to that, people on core social welfare payments depend on the Budget alone to increase their incomes”
One shot containing three very famous, very different celestial objects captured last month over Turkey. To wit:
On the upper left is the bright blue Pleiades, perhaps the most famous cluster of stars on the night sky. The Pleiades (M45) is about 450 light years away and easily found a few degrees from Orion. On the upper right is the expansive Andromeda Galaxy, perhaps the most famous galaxy — external to our own — on the night sky. Andromeda (M31) is one of few objects visible to the unaided eye where you can see light that is millions of years old. In the middle is bright red Mars, perhaps the most famous planet on the night sky. [On Tuesday] Mars [was] at opposition, meaning that [was] is opposite the Sun, with the result that it [was] visible all night long. In the foreground is an ancient tomb in the Phygrian Valley in Turkey. The tomb, featuring two stone lions, is an impressive remnant of a powerful civilization that lived thousands of years ago. Mars, currently [just past] its brightest, can be easily found toward the east just after sunset.
(Image: Cem Özkeser)
