Reinke Faces Life

This is how a convicted felon allegedly scammed the city out of $220,000.City investigators last week crowed about their take-down of Renauld Gregg, a Staten Island felon accused of swindling the

Source: How an ex-con, and the son of a judge, scammed the city out of $220G

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Gooferment “charity”?

Argh!

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In that way, the factory management kept health problems under wraps. They certified in a report to Kiev, which the factory’s chief engineer Maria Nogina signed, that the factory staff had no illnesses in connection with radioactivity. Nor, they wrote, had any workers suffered from any occupational health problems in the previous four years. Union records flatly contradict this statement; from 1987 to 1989, union representatives grew anxious about the ‘worrisome’ increase of illness at the factory. In regional farms, doctors reported a peculiar ‘guttural swelling’ among shepherds. Thirty years later, the women sorters and Nogina fingered their throats and described to me problems with thyroid disease, adult-onset diabetes and cancer. They mentioned other symptoms that sounded strange – aching joints and ‘legs that don’t go’, migraines, fainting spells and painfully twinging nerves. They attributed these unspecific health problems to Chernobyl. I was at a loss with what to do with these associations. Maybe, as critics would charge in the debates over Chernobyl health effects, the wool workers attributed normal symptoms of ageing to radiation. On the other hand, the sorters knew more about radiation than the average person. They grasped that some radioactive isotopes, such as ruthenium-106, settle in bone marrow, whereas others, like caesium-137, target muscle tissues, and radioactive iodine-131 gathers in the thyroid. They visualised the isotopes in their bones, joints and crumbling teeth.These women with no more than high-school education described to me how radioactive wastewater draining from the plant’s giant washing machines poured into a pond, and from there it was recycled into the municipal water-treatment facility to either return to the factory or float down the soft, brown currents of the Desna River. I corroborated this account of contaminated wastewater in the records. No manager I talked to remembered that detail.

Source: Chernobyl: The secrets they tried to bury – how the Soviet machine covered up a catastrophe

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Yeah, the Gooferment is your “friend”!

When I read this I thought of Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Christie Wittman’s appeared twice in New York City after the September 11 attacks to inform New Yorkers that the toxins released by the attacks posed no threat to their health! (#26  “Video: Health Effects of 9/11 Dust”. Google Video. Archived from the original on May 19, 2011.)

Yeah, right.

Special circle of Hell for politicians and bureaucrats.

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Omar, 37, told a reporter that while she finds Trump objectionable, Obama escaped consequences of his own ‘bad policies’ because of his ‘pretty face.’ She claimed she was misquoted.

Source: Ilhan Omar claims reporter misquoted her about Obama — then releases audio showing he was right | Daily Mail Online

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Ilhan Omar SLAMS the reporter who quoted her saying Obama got ‘away with murder’ on drone strikes because he had a ‘pretty face’ – and then bizarrely releases audio that proves the journalist RIGHT

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Drone strikes are “murder”!

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Source: Holocaust survivor to meet California teens amid outrage over Nazi salute photos | Reuters

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Hope these young men get an education.

I hope all the “democratic socialists” wake up before they find themselves on a train to a camp.

Argh, learn some history!

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It’s time to let the free market dictate dairy production.

Source: Thanks to Decades of Government Meddling, U.S. Dairy Is Going Through a Crisis – Reason.com

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Reading this makes me think of Milton Friedman and desert sand.

Argh!

The Gooferment just needs to “declare victory and walk away”.

“i’m from the Gooferment and I’m here to help you.”

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Pakistani aggression against India served as yet another signal to the U.S. that the time has come to leave Afghanistan.

Source: Caroline Glick: Time to walk away from Afghanistan | Breitbart

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Time for a long overdue declaration of “victory” and just walk away.

Have to ignore the “sunken costs and just return it to its rightful owners — the local population.

Then, MYOB!

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(Getty Images/Mark Wilson) (CNSNews.com) – The Department of Health and Human Services says it has granted a second 90-day extension to a contract it has with the University of California at San

Source: HHS Extends Contract to Make ‘Humanized Mice’ With Aborted Baby Parts for Another 90 Days

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Anyone else disgusted by this report?

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“Sometimes you have to walk, and this was just one of those times,” President Trump said as he cut short his Vietnam summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.Good for the prez, and just what

Source: In Hanoi, Trump won by walking away

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I agree.  It should ALWAYS be “win-win or no deal”.  That’s the essence of wisdom.  Unlike previous Presidents who have caved, DJT45 showed his expertise.

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The new owner is unhappy, the old owners are mourning and the town is defending itself on how the drama came to be.

Source: eBay dog: German family couldn’t pay bills, so city sold their pug on eBay – The Washington Post

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The “Taxman” song coming true?

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New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft was allegedly caught soliciting prostitutes at a Florida massage parlor through the use of hidden cameras, the Jupiter Police Department said.

Source: The police used HIDDEN cameras to ‘catch Robert Kraft paying twice for sex’ at Florida massage spa | Daily Mail Online

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Anyone else think that prostitution should be legal between consenting adults?

Argh!

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Researchers found consuming 7.5 ounces of blueberries a day for a month improved blood vessel function and lowered blood pressure in healthy people.

Source: Eating blueberries could reduce heart disease risk by 20 percent

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Eat your blueberries; I do!

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The dominant source of energy for the foreseeable future for both the United States and the world will be fossil fuels, chiefly in the form of oil, natural gas, and coal. Throughout the world, many groups will push hard for massive subsidies to wind and solar energy. Yet, that attempt, no matter how bold, will fail to shift the overall balance of energy production toward green sources. The fatal drawback of wind and solar is their lack of storability. Solar works when the sun shines. Wind works when breezes blow. Both often provide energy when it is not needed and fail to provide it when required. Any legal diktat that puts these renewable sources first will only produce a prolonged economic dislocation. Pie-in-the-sky proposals like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal, which stipulates 100 percent of energy needs be supplied by “clean, renewable, and zero emissions” sources, should be dead on arrival.

Source: EconomicPolicyJournal.com: The Facts You Need To Know That Will Allow You to Destroy Green New Deal Thinking

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The “democratic socialists”, who are backing this looney tune idea, should be laughed out of the public arena for their stupidity.  Any that are left should explain the economic misery of Venezuela and the genocides of Communist / Socialist countries.

Yeah, “capitalism” may be the worst economic system for allocating scarce resources but it’s better than all the other ones.

Now if we could just get the Gooferment, politicians, bureaucrats, “celebrities”, and media talking heads out of the way, then imagine the “miracles” we’d see.

“People Who Say It Can’t Be Done … … should not interrupt those who are doing it.” — attributed to George Bernard Shaw

Maybe, just maybe, “We, The Sheeple” should embrace more Capitalism — not Crony Capitalism — solve our problems.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her Green New Deal aim to eliminate air travel and replace it with high-speed rail systems. (Photo Credit: Scott Eisen/Getty Images) Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) wants to eliminate air travel and fossil fuel-powered vehicles as part of her “Green New Deal.” Notably, she does not make those demands publicly.

Source: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Will Eliminate Air Travel With Green New Deal

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How can she be taken seriously?

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Puppyland’s owners told KIRO 7 they don’t benefit when customers finance pets. They work with a third party company that collects interest or leasing fees. The owners also said they strongly encourage customers to make more than the minimum payment so they pay less interest and fees.

Source: Family says pet lease left them with $7,200 bill, no puppy | KIRO-TV

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Seems like the animal equivalent of a payday, car title, or rent-a-center loan?

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Loop will deliver staples like shampoo, deodorant and ice cream to your door and pick up the empty container up when you’re done, like a modern milkman.

Source: A Closed-Loop Delivery Service Will Soon Pick Up Old Packaging To Reuse | Care2 Healthy Living

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Sounds like a good idea to me.  I’d try it.

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“We are lucky that we have a few friends that could be helpful to us.”

Source: Ex-CIA and FBI director threatened by scammer, then helps put him in prison – WHNT.com

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Guess he picked on the wrong sucker.

The Gooferment can only protect the “connected”?

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A popular Staten Island bar is putting a new twist on nightlife safety — by serving cocktails with lids after women were drugged at the hot spot, the owner told The Post on Tuesday.A woman in her

Source: Staten Island bar puts lids on drinks after women say they were drugged

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Sounds like a great response.  Business, most of them, want to protect their Customers.

Despite what liberals, politicians, and bureaucrats claim.

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If the research continues to bear fruit, though, it could offer a much more realistic solution for type 1 diabetes. Pancreas transplants can help, but they frequently fail and still require drugs that suppress your immune system. There are tests for safer and more targeted islet implants, but they still tend to require organs from dead donors. This breakthrough could lead to on-demand implants and make it relatively easy to gain (or regain) healthy insulin levels.

Source: Stem cell breakthrough could help cure type 1 diabetes

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Good news but wish it was a decade sooner.  :-(

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Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D.) commented Wednesday about a controversial 40-week abortion bill and in so doing said the law allows an abortion to take place after the infant’s birth.

Source: Northam on Abortion Bill: Infant Could Be Delivered and Then ‘Physicians and the Mother’ Could Decide If It Lives

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Isn’t this murder?

When does life begin?

And when does a baby get those “inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”?

Argh!

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A man was arrested for DWI — after driving his car 17 miles in the wrong direction on a Connecticut highway, police said.

Source: Drunk driver cruises for 17 miles in wrong direction: cops

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As a fat old white guy injineer, why can’t this be prevented by parking lot like spikes at the entrance ramps?

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Jerry and Marge Selbee made millions winning various state lottery games over six years and helped others in their home town of Evart, Michigan, beat the system.

Source: Retired couple who made $26million on state lotteries to have a movie made of their lives | Daily Mail Online

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Well good for them.  I’ve always looked at the Gooferment’s lottery “offerings” and never found the odds even close to attractive.  I never heard of “Windfall” until this 60 minutes story last night.

Reminds me of the Canadian guy who realized that the Canadian casio was powering down the Keno machine and the numbers were repeating.  He took them for millions and they eventually figured it out but it was way too late.  They went to court and lost.  Laugh!

I just “love” politicians and bureaucrats who make blunders.

Like the IRS when they seized an Nevada whorehouse and ran it while seeking buy and lost a million dollars a month.  Laugh!  Can you lose money running a whorehouse?  Obviously you can.

Argh!

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FBI agents armed with rifles took the self-decsribed political dirty trickster into custody in a dramatic pre-dawn raid with their weapons drawn and a lead agent shouting ‘FBI! Open the door! We have a warrant!’

Source: Trump ally Roger Stone arrested following indictment in Robert Muller’s Russia probe | Daily Mail Online

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Seriously?

What’s this?  More political theater!

The demonstration of this was that CNN was there to film it!

Sorry, but this discredits the FBI in my mind.  A phone call to his lawyer to arrange a surrender would have be a lot cheaper, but not as much “fun”.

Argh!

It’s all a political circus.

Where were the raids over the HRC emails?

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A Texas homeowner, 20, fatally shot three men and wounded two others, all of whom are suspects in an alleged home invasion against the shooter which took place in Houston on Saturday, authorities said.

Source: Texas homeowner, 20, shoots and kills three men and injures two more during home invasion | Daily Mail Online

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If this turns out as reported, then it’s a good case for keeping an AR15 legal!

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A checklist for staying safe on the internet

Source: Security Checklist

A beginner’s guide to online security

This website is a clear guide for staying safe online. There’s no fluff or marketing, just the straight dope on how to use a password manager, create a strong device passcode, use two-factor authentication, set up a mobile carrier PIN, and much more. — MF

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Even I can learn some new methods to incorporate in my routines.

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Think you know the answer? Click through to see if you’re right!

Source: Advertisers Set Analog Watches To What Time To Attract Customers?

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Humans are such a frail species to be so easily manipulated.

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Laugh!

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