A cold-blooded killer who murdered a cop execution-style outside a Queens nightclub will be a free man by the end of November.
— Read on nypost.com/2023/11/04/metro/nypd-cop-killer-freed-after-execution-style-murder/
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Sorry. No parole EVER for murder!
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A Texas farmer’s fight for justice could have major implications for property rights
By Jon Miltimore — October 26, 2023 09:44 AM
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In the 1930s, Richie DeVillier’s grandfather purchased a farm in Winnie, a little town in eastern Texas named after a railroad contractor who prospered.
For nearly a century, the DeVillier family raised cattle and grew crops on the 900-acre property without incident — until the Texas Department of Transportation started a highway project that had serious implications for DeVillier’s land.
In the early 2000s, the state renovated Interstate 10, elevating and broadening the highway and erecting concrete barriers. The construction trapped the DeVillier property, turning his farm into a lake whenever the region experienced heavy rains, as it did in 2017 during Hurricane Harvey.
“The water started to rise on August 28,” DeVillier recalled . “Our home was completely flooded by August 29.”
When DeVillier says his “home,” he’s not talking about just his house. Video footage shows his entire farm submerged, with cows standing chest-deep in water; fields where the family once grew rice and olives can be seen totally flooded.
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In November, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit punted on the matter, arguing that federal courts have no jurisdiction in takings cases against states. (A “taking” isn’t necessarily seizing the property; an action that substantially alters a property is legally defined as a taking in tort law.)
The court didn’t rule against DeVillier. It simply said that Congress never passed a law allowing Americans to sue states for taking their property, so the Fifth Amendment’s property protections do not apply to DeVillier or anyone else.
The court’s reasoning is strange. Not only does the Constitution explicitly state that no person shall be “deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law … [or] without just compensation,” but the high court weighed in on this issue as recently as 2019.
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“If there is one basic principle in property law, it’s the Pottery Barn Rule: You break it, you buy it,” said Robert McNamara, an attorney for the Institute for Justice who is representing the family. “The Fifth Circuit’s decision in this case amounts to ‘you pay if you feel like it.’”
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That the government, which was created to secure these rights, has become the single greatest transgressor of human rights is a sad irony, one that was not lost on the 19th-century economist Frederic Bastiat, who described it as a “perversion.”
Few know this better than Richie DeVillier, whom the state of Texas is trying to stiff after destroying his farm.
Fortunately, the Supreme Court has a chance to make amends. If it does, it will not just be a win for DeVillier. It will be a win for justice.
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I like that summation — the Pottery Barn Rule. In this case, the Gooferment “robbed this family blind”!
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One month after experimental pig heart transplant, doctors say they see no signs of rejection or infection (4 minute read)
The patient who received a pig heart in an experimental heart transplant last month appears to have excellent heart function with no signs of infection or rejection. The pig heart had been genetically modified to make it more compatible with humans. Doctors have withdrawn all drugs that were initially supporting the heart, so it is performing well on its own. The patient was the second ever to undergo the treatment – the first patient died from a complex array of factors two months following their transplant.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12670473/Hamza-Ibrahim-brain-cancer-loses-eye-sight.html
Heartbreaking three words Hamza Ibrahim, 8, told his mum after learning he will soon go blind because of a medical blunder
By Max Aitchison For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 08:17 EDT, 25 October 2023 | Updated: 08:18 EDT, 25 October 2023
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An eight-year-old boy told his mother there is ‘no point living’ after doctors delivered the devastating news he would never see again.
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So how did Gooferment-run socialized medical care work out for this young boy?
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Laughter Is Good Medicine
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola
October 23, 2023
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Story at-a-glance
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I resolve to watch laughing babies at least once a day.
https://rumble.com/vc2be0-laughing-lockdown-baby.html
Laugh!
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Here’s something I used for years to keep family informed while minimizing the effort required. Here’s how I explained CARINGBRIDGE to our families.
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Let me explain. I use CARING BRIDGE to keep my and wife’s family informed about her condition.
She hates to tell them: feeling she’s always got more bad news to relate, a litany of ailments that is just a never ending kvetch, and it makes her focus on the fact that she’s not going to get better. Ever. The docs are not optimistic about this long term. Everyone refuses to give us a five year estimate.
So, it is our unspoken secret that: I let them know, they pretend not to know, and she can tell them “happy stories” about how she’s feeling better. :-) She knows I do it, but pretends I don’t. Women are SO complicated.
I think you might find what I write “cavalier and sometimes upsetting”. Especially since I write it for a select audience that know how “crotchety” I can be. (When I’m old, I’m going to make some nursing home aide’s life miserable.)
To a certain extent, I agree with Frau Reinke. The Universe does supply what you focus on. So it is important for her to stay optimistic and positive. I can be the pragmatic realistic fat old white guy injineer!
As her PiA (I call it “patient advocate”; she calls it PIA.), I keep all the notes, do the RXes, and generally fuss over her like a mother hen. (I have a lot invested in training her.) Hope you find it helpful, amusing, and distracting from your own more serious load. We’re at the end of the story; your girl is at the beginning.
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This was a handy “ruse” to prevent the repetition to every one who is concerned. For those interested, they control their subscription to the news. It can come in email or text. Or you can visit the website and read it when your up to it.
Now I know you may or may not on the same path as her. Eventually you’ll get it all sorted out. Medicine is much better than it was for her in the 1980’s.
I have tried to convince others to do CARINGBRIDGE for their loved one, but no one seems to be interested.
You might want someone to do this for you to prevent the “repetition” from getting you down.
You may want to read what I did to get a feel for how to do it. When my time comes, as it does for all of us, I’ll do my own site. Laugh! I am sure that there will be at least one reader — me.
FWIW YMMV
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Argh!
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Nolte: Taylor Swift Humiliates Hollywood Again — Trounces Leo’s ‘Flower Moon’
John Nolte — 21 Oct 2023
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Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour was produced by … Taylor Swift and her team. It was also distributed by … Taylor Swift and her team. Swift Inc. froze Hollywood out and went straight to the theater chains. The result has been a box office triumph. In its first weekend, The Eras Tour grossed $93 million domestic and $124 million worldwide. After only three days, Swift already had the highest-grossing concert film in history. Moreover, she enjoyed the second biggest October opening weekend ever. Only Joker (2019) topped her, and…
Hollywood had nothing to do with any of it.
Hollywood did not make one penny off of it.
And…
This so terrifies Hollywood that Hollywood’s palace guards at the far-left Hollywood Reporter spent 1,500 words last week spinning Swift’s box office triumph into a mistake. And what was the mistake? She didn’t distribute The Eras Tour through the same studios that advertise at the far-left Hollywood Reporter.
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And it couldn’t happen to a worse group of people. They deserve to be punished financially. And content creators don’t need them.
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https://nypost.com/2023/10/30/business/mcdonalds-revenue-soars-as-it-hikes-menu-prices-18-big-macs/
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Existing franchisees who plan to maintain their current footprint or who buy a franchise from another operator, as well as those who rebuild existing locations or transfer their franchise to a family member, will not be affected by the price hike.
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Isn’t that a taxable event?
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The teen was arrested nearby for the execution-style slaying and charged with second-degree murder as a juvenile — meaning that he faced up to 15 years behind bars, rather than the maximum of 25 years to life for an adult defendant.
NY mom slams plea deal for son’s teen killer
Sorry but a person accused of “murder” should never be tried as a “juvenile”!
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