HAPPY BIRTHDAY

 The failing NY Times is 175 today. Just barely hanging on (not) after covering every major story from before Theodore Rooselevelt was inaugurated, WWI, the stock market crash, the election of FDR, WWII, The Korean War, the Kennedy assassination, the Vietnam War, the 1969 Miracle Mets, Nixon Resigning, the Reagan Revolution, the 1980 Miracle On Ice Gold Medal win by the US hockey team at the 1980 Olympics, both wars with Iraq, 9/11, the Obama Election, and of course the biggest story of them all- Mexico paying for the wall. 

Speaking of which, the current administration is proposing a law prohibiting any reference to the president elected in 1960. History books will be re-written, going from the end of the Eisenhower administration to Johnson defeating Goldwater in 1964. Harvahard will rename its school of Government after Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden,    the current occupant of the White House or face deportation. Yes, they will physically remove an entire school across the border to the 51st Northern State. Or else. 

Honesty 

Today we are tipping our blogger hat to Attorney Norman A Pattis, Esq. His client   Konstantinos Diamantis, 70, a former government official in Connecticut was facing a decade in prison for multiple convictions in Federal court for bribery.  On the eve of his sentencing, (the night before his sentencing for all you robed readers) his client fled the US, ostensibly for Greece.  (And of course he did it through Miami, where else?)

This is what Mr. Pattis said to the NY Times: 

Mr. Pattis said that his client, facing the prospect of years in prison, had made the decision to live “on his own two feet in Greece,” and leave behind his children and grandchildren in the United States.

“I can’t fault him for the choice he made as an individual, while as his lawyer, I can’t condone it,” Mr. Pattis said.

Well said. We applaud the honesty. Sort of what we all feel (from what we have heard, never personally being in this situation as a lawyer) after a trial loss and sentencing approaching. 

FATHER TIME 

And finally, the greatest investor of our generation, Warren Buffet, 96, has announced he has stepped down as Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. In a letter to shareholders, he wrote "Father Time Always Wins." 

Indeed. 

A Great Fall Weekend 🍂is upon us. 

Enjoy.