INSPIRATIONAL: Alwayd nive to hesr a memory fo a prominent figure being kind

Thursday, January 4, 2024

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“In 1980, I was accompanying my boss on a VIP flight from Brussels to Washington on one of the Air Force’s plushed-out large jets—the ones with ‘United States of America’ emblazoned along the fuselage. My wife and I, along with two small sons, were at a round table with four captain’s chairs across from an Army straphanger and his wife at a similar table. He saw that my wife was exhausted from having handled most of our move while I had concentrated on my boss and that my boss was buzzing me every few minutes with questions about our reception in Washington. An hour or so into the flight, the general motioned for my boys to come to his table. For the next five hours, he and his wife entertained my sons so that my wife could get some rest and I could take care of my boss. Those two life-savers were Colin and Alma Powell.”

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A reflections on a good man.

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RANT: Americans are not bcked by our Gooferment

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

https://nypost.com/2023/12/28/news/judi-weinstein-haggai-new-york-native-held-hostage-in-gaza-has-been-killed/

 NY native held hostage in Gaza has been killed — Hamas terrorists still holding body

By Social Links for Melissa Koenig
Published Dec. 28, 2023
Updated Dec. 22, 2023, 6:18 p.m. ET

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Where is the Gooferment protecting US citizens?

I remember a story about some Bulgarians digging a Soviet attache.  The KGB killed them and their families.  Then, Russians were immune to Bulgarian violence.

The US Congress has the power of “Marque and Reprisal”.  Just designate some one, post a reward, and give them US sovereign immunity from prosecution.  

Like the old cowboy western show, “Wanted: Dead or Alive”.

Time to protect “our” people.  

Make Hamas start check passports.

Argh!

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GOVERNACIDE: Massachusetts has Canada like waiting lists

Tuesday, January 2, 2024

https://jeffjacoby.com/27413/the-12th-day-of-the-12th-month

Waiting for health care in Canada
Jeff Jacoby

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Thanks to tax preferences dating back two generations, patients have come to expect most medical treatment and procedures — even routine prescriptions — to be covered by health insurance. Consequently, insurers wield far more economic clout than patients do. Providers — doctors, hospitals, urgent care facilities — are forced to accommodate the demands of insurance companies, since it is they who pay the tab. When patients think someone else is paying most of their health care costs, they feel little pressure to learn what those costs actually are — and providers feel little pressure to compete on price or value. Add to all that the plethora of coverage mandates imposed by state and federal governments, and it is no wonder that health care pressures have grown intolerable. Many medical practices won’t take new patients. Result: people can’t get the care they want, or can’t get it from the providers they prefer, or can’t get it without having to hunker down for a long wait.

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Wonder how many people die while waiting or because of the wait?

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Scofflaw finds a way to skate by

Monday, January 1, 2024

https://nypost.com/2023/12/23/metro/ues-man-avoids-parking-tickets-and-tows-by-removing-license-plates/

Ghost car: Post catches serial scofflaw in the act of removing license plates to avoid tickets , tows
By Georgia Worrell, Matthew Sedacca, and Rich Calder
Published Dec. 23, 2023, 7:45 a.m. ET

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A rogue driver on the Upper East Side has found a loophole to get around parking tickets — removing his license plates. 

The Post witnessed a man in a blue Honda Odyssey park on East 85th Street between York and First Avenues, before yanking the Connecticut license plate off the back of the car and stashing it in a plastic bag.

The man then strutted into a nearby apartment building at 424 E. 85th Street, where he works as a super. 

Neighborhood residents say the slippery scofflaw had been pulling the same trick for months, to avoid being slapped with parking tickets and being towed. 

They said they called the cops multiple times on the serial parking abuser but officials said police are not able to tow vehicles that have no plates — so-called “ghost cars” — unless the city Sanitation Department first marks them for removal. 

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Here’s a novel idea: team a Policeman, Sanitation official, and a few tow trucks.  Sanitation tags the car, the Police ticket it, and the tow truck takes it away.  Ez Pee Zee. 

I like street justice by the Fire Department when someone blocks a hydrane; let the fire folks practice breaking car windows and hooking up a leaky hose for a few hours.  Good practice and I bet you only need the NY Post to photo it.  Problem solved.

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