August 30, 2022 News and Notes

• Aaron Rodgers, are you going to shut the fuck up anytime soon, or are you angling to be Donald Trump's new favorite quarterback should he re-ascend?
• Donald Trump has now demanded he be reinstalled as the President or an immediate snap election be called because a major believed "obstructor" to the Hunter Biden case has been escorted out of the FBI.  As absurd as it sounds, there could be an end-around, if enough defectors in Congress turned the Congress red basically immediately and decided to revoke consent...
  
• Aaron Judge has hit his 50th home run of the season with over five weeks to go in the season.
• That said, the Yankee freefall continues:  With 33 to play, the Yankees lead over Tampa Bay is only seven, and Toronto eight.
• Every weekday at about midnight, Keith Olbermann debuts a new iHeart Countdown episode.  It now appears that the MAGAts are targeting it in at least one respect:  The second segment begins with a cause close to Olbermann's heart:  Dog rescue/adoption, in a portion of the show called "Every Dog Has It's Day".  A near-euthanization dog is featured in the hopes an owner (or at least the funds to rescue it out of it's plight) is found.
• One of the dogs he has featured in the first four weeks of the podcast was, in fact, adopted.  Two days later, it was returned with two shattered legs.  GEE, YOU THINK THERE WAS SOMETHING GOING ON HERE???   
• The latest wave of LIV defections DOES include 2022 Open Champion Cameron Smith and the other five people the ticket-examiners identified as defections for Boston:  Harold Varner III, Cameron Trinagle, Joaquinn Neimann, Marc Leishman, and Anirban Lahiri.
• An unsealed indictment indicates the concept of gang "follow-home" robberies is becoming quite prevalent.  It is the concept where either a person is celebrity-known or identified as rich (including, prosecutors in the indictment note, on social media) and is followed home and robbed.
• NFL player Calvin Ridley, Mariah Carey, and Brad Guzan of the Atlanta United soccer team are so named.  All have homes in the Atlanta area.
• It is becoming increasingly evident that any "law and order" situation in this country will either be militia-driven or require the military.    
• One of the last decent Russian leaders, Mikhail Gorbachev, passed away today at 91.
• Google has banned Donald Trump's Truth Social from it's search engines.  It now appears, in addition to everything else, Truth Social is, in fact, going into full league with 4chan.
• Well, THIS would be huge if it's true...  A New York Times best-selling author, Craig Unger, has apparently spoken with a former KGB spy, Yuri Shvets.  Shvets claims that a Palm Beach County Sheriff, one of four Americans ever actually granted asylum in the country, purchased tapes from Jeffrey Epstein for "kompromat" (compromising) circumstances.  This would now also make Epstein a Russian agent as well.