NO DOG WASTE IN THIS GARBAGE CAN, THANK YOU!
You know, probably if you looked inside (you can't, playground closed) you'd find there wasn't any...
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Unidentified Painting
Lightly attempted cleaning, merely to see the picture, to little or no success:
The Picture: 
Now it reminds me a bit of "The Gleaning" by Millet - the haystacks as why. The Signature - visible once I cleaned -
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Now - I can't make heads or tails of it.
The painting, Oil on Panel, mid to late 1800's guessing, found? Dunno, where I find stuff. 12" X 6". Know who it's by? Have the provenance? Let me know...
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Bernie Sanders Drops out of Campaign
That's it, that's all. The US is done. We need a wall.
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Meanwhile, in today's news...
You know, I feel increasingly that I'm writing for a Fortean website like "Strange Universe" or "Unsolved Mysteries". I'm pretty sure that if/when we survive this our descendants will be looking back and saying "What the fuck happened there...?".
In turns out that Trump has a "small" interest in a hydroxychloroquine manufacturer:
- https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-reportedly-has-financial-interest-in-hydroxychloroquine-manufacturer
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2020/04/07/trump-has-small-distant-link-to-sanofi-french-drugmaker-of-hydroxychloroquine/#50053e067260
And, even within the US Medical supplies are going astray: https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-04-07/hospitals-washington-seize-coronavirus-supplies
And Israel with their Health Minister decrying the Covid-19 as a gay plague: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/israel-health-minister-who-claims-coronavirus-is-divine-punishment-for-homosexuality-tests-positive-for-covid-19/ar-BB12goRL?ocid=st
Republicans denying absentee voting, forcing people in Wisconsin to traipse down to voting stations: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/07/one-most-brazen-acts-voter-suppression-modern-times-us-supreme-court-blocks-absentee
Tales of Pastors who encouraged their flocks to gather and be healed in the name of Jesus dying will soon be so commonplace they will stop reporting: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52157824
No good deed goes unpunished: https://www.propublica.org/article/a-nurse-bought-protective-supplies-for-her-colleagues-using-gofundme-the-hospital-suspended-her?utm_source=digg
Liberties, once seized, are seldom restored: https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-alt-right_n_5e7d028bc5b6cb08a92a5c48?ri18n=true
Trump cans pandemic spending watchdog: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/07/coronavirus-relief-trump-removes-inspector-general-overseeing-2-trillion-package.html
This, no doubt so he can appoint a favored Son-in-Law or daughter to run the show. It's easier to keep your wallet close.
Louisiana Police use siren from "The Purge" to signal quarantine: https://www.indiewire.com/2020/04/louisiana-police-purge-siren-coronavirus-curfew-1202223466/
I don't know who he is, but he's doing the right thing. Maybe he heard about the impending purge: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/7/21212766/jack-dorsey-coronavirus-covid-19-donate-relief-fund-square-twitter
Reading the round-up makes you realize just how difficult it is to separate fiction and fake news from real news. If it's too good to be true, it probably is.
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