Reinke Faces Life

Tiny houses look marvellous, but have a dark side that does not appear on the marketing blurb.

Source: BBC – Capital – The ‘dirty secrets’ of tiny houses

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Seems like a way to make affordable housing available.

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But Pierre, a 60-year-old mother of six children in Miami, isn’t likely to end up getting all that money. Instead, it’ll be more in the range of $500,000, because punitive damages are capped in federal court, her lawyer said.”The jury was not aware of the cap,” said Pierre’s Miami-based lawyer, Marc Brumer. “They thought that they punished Hilton hotel with $21 million [in damages].”She’d get up to $300,000 in punitive damages — that’s the limit in federal court — in addition to $500,000 awarded for emotional distress and $35,000 in back wages, Brumer said. From all that, Pierre could get about $500,000 after legal fees are factored in, Brumer estimated.

Source: Hotel dishwasher awarded $21 million after boss made her work on Sundays – Sun Sentinel

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That jury sure attracted my attention.

Guess Hilton has some ‘splaining to do!

Argh!

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It’s a bad week for men. The APA has condemned traditional masculinity as ‘harmful’ and stated that traits like competitiveness, achievement, ‘adventure and risk are bad. What a load of PC-crazed bilge.

Source: PIERS MORGAN: I’m sick of this war on masculinity. Gillette have just cut their own throat | Daily Mail Online

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Once again I am forced to agree with Piers Morgan.  What’s happening to him or to me?  Laugh!

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One of the world’s biggest e-sports competitions has been thrown into chaos after more than a dozen professional gamers were caught cheating in a bid to win the top prize of $2 million.The

Source: Professional gamers caught cheating in a bid to win $2M prize

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Anyone remember the 21 Quiz show scandal?

Argh!

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The SCMP quoted Chinese state media reports that 17 officials from Jinhu County have been “put under investigation, sacked, or expelled from the Communist Party over the scandal.” At the national level, a new Vaccine Management Law is under consideration that would allow citizens to sue pharmaceutical companies if death or serious illness results from faulty vaccines.

Source: China: Angry Parents Surround Official, Yell ‘Beat Him!’ over Vaccines

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Pretty bad when Chinese citizens can do what American consumers can’t!

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The Food and Drug Administration is supposed to inspect all factories, foreign and domestic, that produce drugs for the U.S. market. But a KHN review of thousands of FDA documents — inspection reco…

Source: How Tainted Drugs Reach Market And Make Patients SickerKaiser Health News

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A great argument to make the FDA an ADVISORY body.  Could we do any worse?

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DC Comics is set to release a new book featuring an out-of-touch, bungling Jesus Christ in the lead.

Source: DC Comics Set to Release Superhero Comic Book Starring a Bungling Jesus Christ

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Wonder if they would do that if it was Mohammed?

I think it’s disgraceful to mock someone’s religion!

This is a “hate crime” if something like “hate crime” did exist.

Argh!

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A suit alleges that California is retaining hundreds of thousands of innocent people’s DNA analyses in a system known as CODIS. The state of California is putting innocent people’s DNA in a national database for law enforcement. Specifically, two groups allege California collects DNA from people arrested but never convicted of crimes.

Source: State Puts Innocent People’s DNA In A National Database

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This is inexcusable.  But how can it be stopped, prevented, and purged?

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A rare 1943 copper Lincoln cent — found by a Massachusetts teenager in his change after he paid for lunch at a school cafeteria — is expected to fetch up to $1.7 million when […]

Source: Rare Penny Found in Boy’s Lunch Money Could Fetch Up to $1.7 Million in Auction – Geek.com

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And folks wonder why I look at my change and dollar bills?

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A new IQ quiz from Playbuzz claims it can identify geniuses. The challenge features ten tricky questions across a variety of topics, including maths, and a score of nine out of ten shows a high IQ.

Source: Do YOU have genius-level IQ? | Daily Mail Online

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I only got 7 so now I know I’m not a “genius”.  So everyone can stop comparing me to Sheldon in the Big Bang Theory!

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If the current trend of cutting taxes without decreasing entitlement programs continues, the budget deficit will likely reach or exceed $2 trillion within the next ten years. It will bloat from 3.8 percent of GDP in 2018 to an excess of 7 percent of GDP in a decade. By 2018, the budget deficit will reach 10.5 percent of GDP. Within 20 years, the national debt with be 148 percent of GDP. Americans will become hostage to massive spending and out-of-control debt. With Democrats viewing increased spending and more government expansion as a magic carpet ride, the debt explosion may already be in sight. Their siren song of “Medicare for all” is attracting a great deal of favorable attention.

Source: The American Dream is Being Held Hostage – Gold Telegraph

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This is not going to bode well for the future of the USA.

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The thing is, points out Narula’s lawsuit, the phone number listed on the Grubhub app is not actually the restaurant’s phone number. We checked the Grubhub landing pages for several Philadelphia restaurants and, sure enough, a different number is listed than the one registered to the restaurant. When you call the number on the Grubhub landing page, the call is rerouted to the restaurant’s own phone number, and you have your conversation with the restaurant directly. Grubhub has no involvement.

Source: Grubhub Class-Action Suit Filed by Philly Indian Restaurant Chain Tiffin

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That seems like an unfair business practice.

No using grubhub for me.

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Steve Shepherd, pictured, was heading to his car in West Palm Beach when the suspect hit him on the head with a bottle. Police say the suspect been seeking a victim for hours.

Source: You picked on the wrong guy! Mugger attacked Florida man, 68, who was kickboxing world champ | Daily Mail Online

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That is an UNDERSTATED headline.

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The 29-year old congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who just took office says tax rates for the nation’s wealthiest should increase to as much 70 percent to fund a new initiative to combat climate change — even if that means she’s labeled a “radical.” “If that’s what radical means, call me a radical,” she said in an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” that will air in full on Sunday. “That

Source: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Proposes Massive Tax Hike on the Wealthy

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This woman is as dangerous as the lemming that leads all the others off the proverbial cliff

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Nicolas Maduro Venezuela is home to the world’s biggest crude reserves, but the country exported only 1.245 million barrels a day last year, the lowest since 1990. This is what happens when a dictator runs a sector of the economy in socialist style and launches an immediate money grab.

Source: This is What Socialism Looks Like: Venezuela Oil Exports Slump to a 28-Year Low

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Stunning!

That meme (i.e., socialism) can defeat physical reality!

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They are transforming the Internet into the greatest tool of surveillance that humanity has ever seen, and if we stay on the road that we are currently on it is only a matter of time until our society becomes a hellish dystopian nightmare.

Source: The Elite Are Creating An Authoritarian ‘Beast System’, And Those That Dissent Could Lose EVERYTHING

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Ultimately, we are heading down the exact same path that China has gone.  Their “social credit score” system is being hailed as the next great thing all over the world, and those that hate freedom of speech can’t wait to fully implement such a system in the western world.

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Something to be concerned about!

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Under similar legislation proposed earlier in the year, the MVC may charge an additional fee, not to exceed $50 per driver’s license, to offset administrative costs associated with the production and distribution of the new driver’s license. This additional fee would expire 36 months after the effective date of the bill.

Source: 2 Big Changes To NJ Driver’s Licenses Expected | Patch

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And what if I don’t want a real id or pay more to the State Gooferment?

Argh!

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Yet that is the case for a prop bet currently underway between American poker pro Rich Alati and his friend, Australian pro Rory Young. The bet the pair have goes like this: if Alati can stay in a pitch-black Las Vegas bathroom, alone, for 30 days straight he’ll get $100,000 from Young.

Source: Poker pro Rich Alati locked in dark bathroom on $100,000 bet

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I think they both should see a shrink.  In the daylight.

No victim; no crime.

But maybe children can learn something from this … … “if all your friends jump off a roof … … ”

Argh!

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According to the suit, in the two-and-a-half years before Kalodimos was fired, seven other employees over 40 years old were replaced with younger employees. In that period, Kalodimos wrote two letters to management detailing what she considered to be discrimination at the station, but it took no action, the lawsuit said.The conflict came to a head in November 2017 when former co-workers named Kalodimos as a witness in their own age-discrimination lawsuit. Much of the publicity surrounding that suit focused on Kalodimos, who was still an anchor.A week later, Kalodimos was fired. She was 58 at the time.

Source: Tennessee news anchor sues over age, gender discrimination | Daily Mail Online

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Age discrimination alive and well in the “liberal” media!

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Outgoing Broward County elections official Brenda Snipes will be cashing in on $130,000 in pensions after she leaves her position in January.

Source: Outgoing FL Official Brenda Snipes to Receive $130,000 in Pensions

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Doesn’t anyone else think that this pension is excessive?

Wonder how many taxpayers who will pay for this “pension” have a pension at all?

This is part of the problem —  current 18T+ national debt and the guesstimated 200T+ in unfunded liabilities that our posterity will have to deal with.

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Trump is unabashedly putting U.S. economic and strategic interests first. He is not going to damage our relationship with Riyadh and its royal family, even if the future king ordered a cold-blooded killing of a U.S.-based Saudi journalist he regarded as an enemy.

Source: Are the Saudi Princes True Friends? – Antiwar.com Original

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Well, I am not a “DJT fan boy”, but I think it’s not the job of the American President to be the world’s policeman.

I’m sure that there are many more terrible things to discover out there.

I’d like the USA to adopt Switzerland’s foreign policy and just MYOB!

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Private firefighters provided by American International Group (AIG) safeguard the mansions of 42% of Forbes’ list of the 400 richest Americans. Average Americans ended up burning to death in the California wildfires while private firefighters protected the empty mansions of the rich.

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The existence of private firefighters proves that most Americans cannot rely on the government in disasters.

Rich people and insurance companies hire private firefighters because they know the government will not protect their property and lives. In addition, the government is probably not even competent enough to do so. The majority of Americans need to learn the same lesson if they want to survive.

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Source: Americans Burned To Death While Private Firefighters Protected Mansions

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Any questions?

Argh!

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Ultimately, a return to sound money is a solution that will do less damage than fiat currencies losing their purchasing power at an accelerating pace. Think Venezuela, and how sound money would solve her problems. But that path is blocked by a sink-hole that threatens to swallow up whole governments. Trying to buy time by throwing yet more money at an economy suffering a credit crisis will only destroy the currency. The tactic worked during the Lehman crisis, but it was a close-run thing. It is unlikely to work again.

Source: EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Will China Adopt a Gold Standard to Boost Its Economy?

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The USA, and all the Western Gooferments, are screwed.

Their inability to “discipline” the “wants” from the real “needs” will be their downfall.

The USA’s current 18.8T$+ national debt (as of 2015) and the guesstimated 200T+ in unfunded liabilities that our posterity will have to deal with just tells you the WHOLE story.

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LOS ANGELES — Ray Chavez, the oldest U.S. military survivor of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor that plunged the United States into World War II, died Wednesday. He was 106.

Source: US military Pearl Harbor survivor dies at age 106

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God Bless you sailor.  And all my fellow vets.

Peace.

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It’s like when our tax dollars are used to buy up surplus cheese. Paul Shapiro wrote a great editorial. Imagine the headline “Government Buys $20 Million in Surplus Pepsi,” our hard-earned tax dollars “buying millions of unwanted cola cans, all as a favor to the flailing soda industry, which just kept producing drinks no one wanted. As outrageous as such a government handout to the soda industry would be, that’s exactly what the [USDA] is doing for the…dairy industry.”

Source: Is Cheese Really Bad for You? | NutritionFacts.org

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Argh!

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The ACLU no longer even pretends to believe in civil liberties. In the late 1960s, the ACLU was a small but powerful liberal organization devoted to a civil libertarian agenda composed primarily of devotion to freedom of speech, free exercise of religion, and the rights of accused criminals.

Source: [David E. Bernstein] American Civil Liberties Union, RIP

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It’s been going hard “left” for a long time.  So sad, it’s a great loss to our “civil society”.

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