IVANKA TRUMP AND DONALD JR. TRIED TO 'BUMP' TIFFANY OUT OF HER INHERITANCE

Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. were embroiled in a battle to take away inheritance money from their sister, Tiffany Trump, according to a new archive of the conversations Donald Trump had on-air with The Howard Stern Show.

Donald Trump told Howard Stern that Ivanka and Donald Jr. weren’t happy when they discovered they’d have another sibling, and agreed when Stern asked whether the two were working together to “bump off a child.”

“Do your older children get nervous every time you have another child?” Stern asked, referring to the children's inheritance. Every time Donald Trump has another child, the others are at risk of receiving less money. Exactly how much the Trumps will be inheriting is up for debate.


http://www.newsweek.com/ivanka-trump-and-don-jr-tried-bump-tiffany-out-her-inheritance-according-newly-670841

GOP May Attempt Health and Tax Reform at Same Time

Politico: “The supposedly hard deadline at the end of the month to repeal Obamacare might not be so hard after all.”

“Here’s how it could be done: While the Senate parliamentarian has ruled that the repeal push under fiscal 2017 must die after Sept. 30, Republicans could provide reconciliation instructions for both health care and tax reform in the fiscal 2018 budget resolution that Congress must pass to again unlock the fast-track procedural powers. That might entail some procedural hurdles, but one GOP aide said Monday that because the Finance Committee has jurisdiction over about 95 percent of health care policy, ‘it’s not like we couldn’t slip it in anyway.'”

Said Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT): “We’ve got to do both. They’re complicated by necessity. So I don’t think that takes away the complications. But I think we’re supposed to be able to handle complications.”


https://politicalwire.com/2017/09/25/gop-may-attempt-health-care-tax-reform-time/

Trump just kicked Puerto Rico while they're down.

My one and only comment on "taking the knee".

I choose to stand for the National Anthem because I desperately want ONE thing in the country that transcends politics, but it goes without saying that I respect everyone's decision to do what they will. And to those who may say it's a distraction, my response is that a sitting president, has a powerful, and in this case malevolent, megaphone and we need to fight him at every turn or he will twist this country into something we don't recognize.

Please God make it stop.

Trump's at it again. Now hes attacking the NFL Commissioner

Black athletes have visited Republicans presidents for decades

So maybe Donald Trump, or someone in his orbit should sit and think about why people are suddenly avoiding the White House like a hospital plague ward.

Republican Governor of Michigan troubled by Graham-Cassidy.

Mackinac Island – Republican Gov. Rick Snyder said Saturday he is still reviewing a new U.S. Senate plan to overhaul the federal health care system but is concerned by outside analyses suggesting it could be bad for Michigan.

“There’s been a lot of third-party studies that say it will be anywhere from very bad to somewhat bad for Michigan,” Snyder told The Detroit News Saturday at the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference. “I want to do my own research.”

Snyder said he is likely to release his own analysis Monday.

“It’s going to be factual and based on what it’s going to do to Michigan, good or bad,” he said. “I don’t want to speculate until I see the numbers.”

The Senate legislation is supported by GOP President Donald Trump and could be put up for a vote next week. But the latest attempt to repeal and replace the controversial Obama-era health care law appears to be on life support as majority Republicans struggle to secure the 50 votes needed for passage.


http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2017/09/23/snyder-senate-health-bill-bad-michigan/105931050/

Florida governor under fire over nursing home voicemails left during hurricane

Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) is facing criticism after his office revealed that four voicemails sent from a nursing home where eleven residents died in the aftermath Hurricane Irma were deleted.

CBS Miami reported on Saturday that Scott's office said the four voicemails, which were all received during a 36-hour period before the first resident died, were handed off to the appropriate agency and then deleted.

Eleven people died at The Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills, a nursing home that lost power and air conditioning during Hurricane Irma. Authorities said the deaths were heat-related.

“The voicemails were not retained because the information from each voicemail was collected by the governor’s staff and given to the proper agency for handling," the governor's office told CBS in a statement.

A vice president at The Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills told CBS that she requested "immediate assistance" for the residents at the nursing home.


http://thehill.com/homenews/news/352041-florida-governor-under-fire-over-missing-nursing-home-voicemails-after

South Korea says natural North Korea earthquake detected

South Korea's weather agency said a magnitude 3.2 earthquake was detected in North Korea on Saturday close to where the country recently conducted a nuclear test, but it assessed the quake as natural.

The quake was detected in an area around Kilju, in northeastern North Korea, just 3.7 miles northwest of where the North conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on Sept. 3, according to an official from Seoul's Korea Meteorological Administration.

The area isn't where natural earthquakes normally occur. A South Korean expert said the quake could have been caused by geological stress created from the recent nuclear explosion. Other possible causes include landslides or the collapsing of test structures such as tunnels, said Hong Tae-kyung, a professor at the department of Earth System Sciences at Yonsei University.

"It could be a natural earthquake that really was man-made as the nuclear test would have transferred a lot of stress," he said. "The quake is small enough to suspect that it could have been caused by a tunnel collapse, and satellite data shows there have been many landslides in the area since the nuclear test."


http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-north-korea-quake-20170923-story.html