GoodRx – Different pharmacies tend to charge different prices for the same drug but as consumers, we don’t have that much information about medicine prices. Sometimes, companies even offer discounts on medicines which many of us are unaware of but thanks to GoodRx, we can track of all the above mentioned things. Read more: GoodRx: Find Lowest Price Medicine Across Different Pharmacies
# – # – # – # – #
Leave a Comment » | 
Technology | 
Permalink
Posted by reinkefj
Freedom is not simply the right of intellectuals to circulate their merchandise. It is, above all, the right of ordinary people to find elbow room for themselves and a refuge from the rampaging presumptions of their “betters.”
— Thomas Sowell “Knowledge and Decisions” 1980
# – # – # – # – #
Leave a Comment » | Quotes | Tagged: Quotes | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj
[This came up in my daily google search for “reinke”. Most likely no relation. But, so what if it’s not.]
The Pueblo Chieftain News Local news
After Iraq Former soldiers, families reassess war’s impact
Posted: Saturday, December 17, 2011 12:00 am | Updated: 11:30 pm, Fri Dec 16, 2011.
By PETER ROPER
*** begin quote ***
Scott Reinke, father of Army Staff Sgt. Gavin Reinke, who was killed in Iraq in May 2006.
Reinke is proud of his son’s service to his country and is certain nearly all U.S. service men and women who took part in the Iraq war share that same pride. But that’s not the same thing as believing the war was worth the cost.
“I was reading a story in the paper this morning where this Iraqi was saying that Americans didn’t leave new schools and factories, that we left a nation of widows and orphans,” Reinke said and then softly cursed. “After all we put into that country. If that guy’s sentiments represents a majority of the Iraqi people, then what we’re getting out of that war isn’t worth all that we put into it.”
Reinke recounted how President George W. Bush urged American intervention in Iraq in 2003 on the basis that dictator Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. None was found.
“Granted, Hussein was an evil man. But it’s hard for me to justify our sticking our nose in that country’s business. The Middle East has always been in turmoil. Maybe if I felt that the Iraqi people were truly grateful.”
Reinke said he recently ate lunch next to an Army engineer who talked about all the friends he’d lost in Iraq.
“This soldier talked about how his guys would be building a school or working on some infrastructure project and the Iraqis hated Americans so much, they’d just attack them anyway,” Reinke said. ” I don’t think anyone who lost a child, or a husband, or a wife, or had someone severely wounded over there will tell you that it was worth it. Now I wish we’d do the same in Afghanistan.”
*** end quote ***
It’s one thing if the girls and boys are down at the beach or the border to resist an invasion, but that hasn’t happened since 1812?
Not one drop of blood, nor a penny of treasure, is worth sticking our <plural synonym for donkey> in another country’s business.
Ron Paul is the ONLY “peace” candidate. And, he’s not an isolationist; nor, stupid about defending America. He’s just serious about it.
This may be our ONLY chance to reverse the “imperial” rule of the “chicken hawks”. You don’t see their children dying overseas. Hell, they don’t even send their kids to “publik sckrules”!
Argh!
# – # – # – # – #
Leave a Comment » | Ranting | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj
Buddhist Packing Bond Pistol Shows American Embrace of Guns
By Ken Wells – Dec 9, 2011 5:37 PM ET
*** begin quote ***
Bates, 64, says she believes guns can be potent equalizers that well-trained civilians can handle. “A gun is like a fire extinguisher,” she says. “It isn’t there because you want to have a fire or expect to have a fire. It’s there because you may find yourself in that situation where it can save your life and give the professionals time to get there.”
This is why more Jews should join the conceal-carry bandwagon, says Dovid Bendory, an Orthodox rabbi in Livingston, New Jersey, who heads the 4,500-member Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership. Post-9/11, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ranks the domestic terror threat against synagogues equal to that of railroads and utilities.
“I ask Jews all the time, ‘Are you prepared for an active shooter in a synagogue?’” Bendory says. “‘What would you do?’ The common answer is ‘I’d dial 911.’ So I ask, ‘And what would you do until the police got there? Hide?’ They don’t have a good answer for that. I believe we are woefully unprepared for such an attack.”
*** end quote ***
“Victim disarmament is the view that it is somehow better to see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose, than see her with a gun in her hand.” — T.D. Melrose
Sorry, but I think that guns should be “loaned” by the bailiff when the woman picks up her “order of protection”.
Americans should NEVER be victims. They have rights and the Second Amendment recognizes their right to protect their rights.
# – # – # – # – #
Leave a Comment » | GUNS | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj
# # # # #
Leave a Comment » | FUN | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj
Forty One years ago today …
… on December 19, 1970, …
… in Saint Henry’s Church in Bayonne at about 11:30 in the morning, our lives changed.
“I, John, take thee Evlynn, to my wedded Wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part, according to God’s holy law; and thereto I plight thee my troth.”
(I stuck the “troth” part in. My maternal Grandmother was an English Protestant. Father Chuamark deigned not to notice.)
(Explanation of “plight” and “troth”: “Plight” here used means to pledge. “Troth” means a promise of truthfulness, and is derived from the same word as “truth”. “Plight thee my troth” – The groom pledges his truthfulness, faithfulness and loyalty to his promise. “Give thee my troth” -The bride likewise gives her word. Also note “betrothed” is “be” – “trothed” from the word “troth”, meaning promised or contracted to marry.)
(Grandma explained that to me when was very young and I asked why my Mom and Dad weren’t together. I knew then that this ‘marriage stuff was serious business.)
“I, Evlynn, take thee John to my wedded Husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love, cherish, and to obey, till death us do part, according to God’s holy law.”
(I’m surprised that whole Congregation didn’t have a collective gasp! Our Girl said: “obey”. I teased her about that later.)
It was a great party.
Great honeymoon.
But, she’d finally given in and married me. And, my life was forever hers.
# – # – # – # – #
Humorous story: At the back of the church, Ev’s father asked her what was wrong with me. She didn’t know but said that I was the color of my shirt. When her hand was passed to me, she asked. I said “scared <synonym for excrement> less”. She said: “Don’t worry. I’ll take care of us.” And she did that.
# – # – # – # – #
Leave a Comment » | MEMORIES | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj
http://www.youthspecialties.com/articles/you-matter-to-your-spouse/
You Matter To Your Spouse
“And for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be united firmly (joined inseparably) to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together let not man put asunder (separate).” Matthew 19:5-6, Amplified
*** begin quote ***
Just as you chose your spouse, you were also chosen. Out of the millions of other people in the world, two souls were linked together in holy matrimony because you couldn’t bear to be without each other for the rest of your lives. Your vulnerability in the marriage bed, your giving of yourself to passion and pleasure, and your desire matter to your beloved, too. Such things can only and should only be shared in the intimate bonds of marriage, and for that you have chosen one another. You share not only this mystery, but also your joys and sorrows, hearts and dreams, and vulnerabilities and transparencies. He or she is there for you when you need a shoulder to cry on and to laugh with you over nothing at all. You share a history, a love story, and a life that you travel together. Know that your companion is yours forever and that you matter deeply, profoundly, and intricately to your spouse.
*** end quote ***
Somehow this doesn’t help as the one who was left behind.
“Double Star” is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, my favorite author, and there’s a line in there that goes something like “death is the only acceptable excuse for missing an appointment”.
So today, when Frau Reinke misses our forty first anniversary, she has an “acceptable excuse”.
But it doesn’t help much!
# # # # #
Leave a Comment » | MEMORIES | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj
“He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and interest; from the only companion with whom he has shared much good and evil; and with whom he could set his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the future. The continuity of being is lacerated; the settled course of sentiment and action is stopped; and life stands suspended and motionless.” — Samuel Johnson (1709-84), English author
Happy Anniversary, my love.
# # # # #
Leave a Comment » | Quotes | Tagged: Quotes | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj
Another lonely Christmas for illegal Irish trapped in the United States
Undocumented forced to be separated from family for the holidays
By APRIL DREW, Irish Voice Reporter
Published Sunday, December 18, 2011, 7:13 AM
Updated Sunday, December 18, 2011, 7:48 AM
*** begin quote ***
Louise, 38, and her 40-year-old husband Shane are about to spend their eighth Christmas away from their family back in Co. Donegal.
“Another Christmas away is just terrible,” Louise, a bartender, shared with the Irish Voice over the weekend.
“It’s getting harder all the time. Our parents are getting old and we’re missing so many special events like another Christmas, not to mention several weddings and christenings.”
Her husband Shane agrees, but says being realistic they can’t move home at the moment because “there is no work” in Ireland.
*** end quote ***
Well, overlooking the media bias —
— “trapped”, I don’t think so. They can return for free courtesy of the US taxpayer. “undocumented”, I’m sure they do have “documents”. Just not the right kind. Argh! —
— I agree with them.
There should be no bar to crossing a border unless you’re a criminal, (then we’d expect some proof that you’ve turned a page), or planning to go on welfare. Bought the only reasonable restriction might be posting a bond equal to the passage “home”.
I don’t understand.
Doesn’t anyone read the Statue of Liberty? Or, did we put a garbage bag over that?
Sure, no welfare for immigrants. But then we shouldn’t have “welfare” for anyone.
We want all those folks who want to work their <synonym for donkey> off. Sure enough, we’ve got enough “citizens” on the dole.
Argh!
I just don’t understand.
# – # – # – # – #
Leave a Comment » | Ranting | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj
http://zocalopublicsquare.org/thepublicsquare/2011/11/30/how-doctors-die/read/nexus/
How Doctors Die
It’s Not Like the Rest of Us, But It Should Be
by Ken Murray
*** begin quote ***
Years ago, Charlie, a highly respected orthopedist and a mentor of mine, found a lump in his stomach. He had a surgeon explore the area, and the diagnosis was pancreatic cancer. This surgeon was one of the best in the country. He had even invented a new procedure for this exact cancer that could triple a patient’s five-year-survival odds—from 5 percent to 15 percent—albeit with a poor quality of life. Charlie was uninterested. He went home the next day, closed his practice, and never set foot in a hospital again. He focused on spending time with family and feeling as good as possible. Several months later, he died at home. He got no chemotherapy, radiation, or surgical treatment. Medicare didn’t spend much on him.
It’s not a frequent topic of discussion, but doctors die, too. And they don’t die like the rest of us. What’s unusual about them is not how much treatment they get compared to most Americans, but how little. For all the time they spend fending off the deaths of others, they tend to be fairly serene when faced with death themselves. They know exactly what is going to happen, they know the choices, and they generally have access to any sort of medical care they could want. But they go gently.
*** end quote ***
I hope, that when we finally find out “the right answers” at the Final Judgement, my decisions about my wife’s end of life care will be the “correct” ones. The handwriting was on the wall when her kidney’s shut down. I asked her if she understood that meant? Her last words were “when will this all be over?” My tearful reply was “Soon, hon, real soon.” It was.
No pain. Peace.
Not for those left behind.
But the race had been run. And Death won.
As it always does.
My paperworks been updated because when my time comes as it does to all of us, I’m hoping for the “Good Death”.
Luckily, in my case, there’ll be no spouse left behind.
“And I’ve lost her … . I’m so sad that I don’t have … . But I’m so grateful that she was with me … . And I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?” — Chuck Noland ala Tom Hanks in Cast Away (2000) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162222/quotes
# – # – # – # – # 2011-Dec-12 @ 13:22
Leave a Comment » | INSPIRATIONAL | Tagged: INSPIRATIONAL | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj
-
-
FJohn Reinke
Consultant at Technology Legacies LLC
Advisor, Computer Governance Committee at Manhattan College
Editor / Publisher at Jasper Jottings
Greater New York City Area
JJ Positraction JJ Endnotes Downsize DC
Philosophy of Liberty
I have NOT received any gagged governmental information requests
You must be logged in to post a comment.