Reinke Faces Life

Submitted by Mark Glennon of Wirepoints An audible gasp went out in the breakout room I was in at last month’s pension event cosponsored by The Civic Federation and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. That was when a speaker from the Chicago Fed proposed levying, across the state and in addition to current property taxes, a special property assessment they estimate would be about 1% of actual property value each year for 30 years.

Source: An “Audible Gasp” Was Heard When The Chicago Fed Unveiled Its “Solution” To The Pension Problem

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This proposed tax would only address the five state pensions. What about the other 650-plus pensions in Illinois, particularly those for overlapping jurisdictions in Chicago which are grossly underfunded? The Fed was asked that at last month’s seminar and they, without explanation, said they didn’t bother to cover that.

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“Steal” more from property owners to “solve” only a part of a problem that they have no role in creating?

Sounds like a “great” idea.

Wonder who will turn out the lights when the last property owner abandons Illinois?

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President Donald Trump may well be the most controversial president in history. Yes, much of that has to do with such a blatantly biased media that wants to make everything into a scandal ( remember when Trump got *gasp* two scoops of ice-cream?

Source: What Reactions To A Maryland Sign Tells You About Anti-Gunners

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The anti-gunners forget that next to the drug gangs, the American gun owners can be, are, would be the finest guerrilla army in world.

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American Disney workers who were laid off and forced to train their foreign replacements have ended their legal battle after years of attempting to hold the corporation accountable.

Source: Disney Workers Forced to Train Their Foreign Replacements End Legal Battle | Breitbart

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Can’t trust corporations to have their workers’ interests at heart. There’s only one person watching out for you and that’s you!  You need to be your own boss.

Success for future generations is: (1) ruthless financial discipline — no bad debt; (2) a life long interest in learning — education — a degree — they can’t take it away from you; (3) a NON-OFFSHORABLE white collar job in order to save big bux; (4) a blue collar skill for hard times — never saw a poor plumber; (5) one or more internet based businesses — your store is always open; (6) a free time hobby that generates income; and (7) a large will-maintained network of people who can “help” you.

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Thursday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh weighed in on the possibility that the FBI had an “informant” working within the Trump campaign, alerting it to potential wrongdoing, and whose identity is now being protected from a congressional subpoena by the Department of – Limbaugh | Breitbart TV

Source: Limbaugh on Trump Campaign Investigation: ‘This Is Going to Be One of the Most Embarrassing Periods in the FBI’s History’ | Breitbart

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Did the FBI plant an informant in the Trump campaign?

Sure sounds like they did.  And, where is the justification for it?

Were they “playing politics”?

If so, then the Agency has to be closed down.  Is the Praetorian Guard picking our next “Caesar”?

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“[A]ccording to the 2016 American Customer Satisfaction Index, the Federal Government ranks among the bottom of all industries in the United States in customer satisfaction;” Calling citizens customers is like calling slaves employees. “ Customer” implies that you could take your business elsewhere.

Source: Are You a Satisfied “Customer” of the Federal Government?

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You have to be kidding me. Argh!

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These days, looking for “free” software is an utter nightmare.  As most of you know from experience, most “free” software nowadays is basically non-functional trial software whose main job is to trick you and then make you buy the full version after you install a bunch of adware.Imagine my surprise at finding an amazing piece of real freeware: Unstoppable Copier.

Source: Unstoppable Copier — freeware that saved my bacon – DonationCoder.com

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In these days of cloud storage and chromebooks, is the hard disk crash a disaster of the past?

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By Dr. Mercola If you’re still holding out hope that science will eventually prove artificial sweeteners to be beneficial, or at the very least harmless, you’re likely to be disappointed. Again and again, research shows no-calorie sweeteners such as aspartame and sucralose cause the same problems as excess sugar, and then some.

Source: Don’t Eat These

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​Seems like the “artificial sweeteners” ​should be considered poison.

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Sometimes, real life is beyond parody.I was scrolling through Twitter today when my eyes alighted on a post that read: ‘Oscar-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski says the #MeToo movement that sheds light on sexual misconduct of powerful men in Hollywood is ‘mass hysteria’ and ‘total hypocrisy’.Sorry, WHAT?For a moment, I thought this had been tweeted by a satirical site like The Onion.Then I saw it had actually been put out by highly respected news wire service, the Associated Press.

Source: Piers Morgan: Roman Polanski shouldn’t dare brand #MeToo as hysteria | Daily Mail Online

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Never been a big Piers fan, he stance on guns is all wrong imho, but this time and the last few times I’ve read about him or his comments, he’s been spot on. 

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To minimise liver damage people should limit their alcohol intake – the NHS recommend no more than 14 units per week and maintain a healthy weight.

Source: Shocking video reveals how alcohol wrecks your liver | Daily Mail Online

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This will scare any drinker.

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But the crazier and more irrational it is, the more the state thrives on it — because the more coercion, propaganda, and state-sponsored groupthink it will take to engineer people’s agreement.Incidentally, this is why the state loves “equality” — a concept so compendiously broad that its definition can be endlessly expanded. The state grows ever more powerful and intrusive in pursuit of equality’s ceaseless demands.Equality can never be attained, for the very moment after we achieve it, when someone first voluntarily transacts with someone else, resources will have been shifted around and “equality” will already have been disturbed.That’s why the state loves it.And that’s why the state loves LGGBDTTTIQQAAPP. The more letters, the more bizarre to bourgeois sensibilities, the better. That means that in order to impose it, the state will get to flex — and bulk up — its muscles.

Source: Maybe I shouldn’t smash critics, but I can’t help it

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The Gooferment, and its monopolies, is the problem.  “They” are not here to help.  Just attempting to control and manipulate “We, The Sheeple” to maintain their power positions that feather their nests at everyone else’s expense.

Argh!

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The department she inherited is a good example of that. K-12 schools are controlled and funded locally, but taxpayers are forced to ship education money to Washington, D.C., where bureaucrats there grab some, and then ship the rest back – with strings attached.

Source: Hating Betsy DeVos

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Why do we have a Federal Gooferment “Department of Education”?

It needs to be shut down!

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Connecticut just became the tenth blue state to pledge to cast its electoral votes for whichever presidential candidate wins the popular vote nationally.

Why?

Because according to the measure’s proponents, the electoral college — along with everything else that’s more than 10 minutes old — is backward and stupid.

Source: The civilization wreckers’ next target

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Why we shouldn’t subvert the Dead Old White Guys’ “Electoral College”!

Take a look at the post Dead Old White Guys’ First Ten and see how they screwed up the country. Some are confused and confusing (i.e., the 14th) — subject to misinterpretation; at least one was stupidly wrong (i.e., the 18th) — lead to organized crime that even the 21st couldn’t fix; and the biggest disaster (i.e., the 17th) — direct election of Senators — that deprived the States from preventing the Federal Gooferment from unfunded mandates and “buying” States cooperation with “Other People’s Money”.

Now we complain about “too much money in politics”, just repeal the 17th! Put the State Legislators back on the hot seat. Argh!

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Surgeons at a London hospital which President Trump compared to a “war zone” admitted he was right about knife crime in the British capital, but argued that guns were “no solution” to the problem, and that gunshot wounds were more difficult to repair than knife wounds.The doctors appeared not to understand that President Trump was not advocating for criminals using knives to be given guns instead, but for law-abiding citizens to be allowed to own arms for self-defence.

Source: Gun-Free Britain: Four Shootings in 48 Hours in Sadiq Khan’s London

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But, doesn’t England have strict “gun control” laws?  How could this happen?

Sadly, people have to die to convince politicians and bureaucrats that evil people don’t follow “laws”.

Only things, like “the LAW of gravity” should be called “laws”; what politicians and bureaucrats pronounce should be called “diktats”.

Argh!

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Starving Venezuela funds socialist propaganda for English-speakers.

Source: Stossel: Socialist Propaganda – Reason.com

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Does anyone believe that Venezuelans are NOT starving under yet another version of socialism?

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The Curse of Oak Island found nothing in Season 5. This is unsurprising because there is no real evidence for the existence of an Oak Island treasure. Afte

Source: How Much Longer Can “The Curse of Oak Island” Realistically Go On?

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I’m rooting for it to rewrite history!

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Bully a plant, a live experiment with two IKEA plants and with thousands of children, to help to raise awareness around Anti-Bullying Day on 4th May in the Middle East.The live experiment involved IKEA taking two of its very own plants and installing them at the school, where one plant was fed compliments and words of encouragement, while the other was verbally bullied with hateful words. The students were encouraged to record their own voices to share their love with the first plant and give words of criticism to the second, either first hand or via social media interaction.

Source: IKEA Asks People To Bully This Plant For 30 Days To See What Happens, And Results Are Eyeopening | Bored Panda

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Now that is STUNNING!

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“Tourist infrastructure and mining can help bring Greenlanders closer to their goal of becoming a self-sufficient country. Rare-earth elements could turn it into a diplomatic flash point. China’s influence is strong and will probably grow, as Greenland badly needs foreign investment.”

Source: Will Greenland Join The Family Of Independent Nations? | Zero Hedge

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Fascinating stuff in this story.  Will Greenland become green again?   Will Greenland become independent?   Did anyone know or care until “rare earths” were mentioned?

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How nutty is the Bernie Sanders proposal to guarantee everyone in America a job? So nutty that the economic columnist for the interventionist supporting Washington Post, Robert J. Samuelson, is attacking the idea. Samuelson writes: Sen.

Source: The Washington Post Smashes the Bernie Sanders’ Jobs For Everyone Guarantee Proposal

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It seems immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.  On it’s face.

http://tomwoods.com/d/bernie.pdf

I guess he learned economics when he honeymoon in the USSR.

Argh!

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Kaylene, who weighed 175lbs at the start of her weight loss journey, would trek on her lunch breaks and go for hour-long strolls around her neighborhood each night.

Source: Bride-to-be loses 60lbs in six months through walking | Daily Mail Online

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Here’s a wake up call for me personally.

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

Source: In The 1990s, There Was A Run On Sony Camcorders When Consumers Believed They Could?

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Laugh! I remember this.

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ALL politicians, bureaucrats, and those in Big Media “lie”. What’s so spectacular about DJT45 is casual way with “the Truth”. I remember when Rush Limbaugh suggested a TV frame saying “He’s lying”. Sigh. As such, maybe DJT45 is training us NOT to believe anything we hear. “I wouldn’t believe you, if your tongue came notarized.” … attributed to Judge Marilyn Milian, but may have an earlier history.

Source: Calling a Liar a Liar: It’s Time to Tell the Truth About Trump’s Fact-Phobia – WhoWhatWhy

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ALL politicians, bureaucrats, and those in Big Media “lie”. What’s so spectacular about DJT45 is casual way with “the Truth”. I remember when Rush Limbaugh suggested a TV frame saying “He’s lying”. Sigh. As such, maybe DJT45 is training us NOT to believe anything we hear. “I wouldn’t believe you, if your tongue came notarized.” … attributed to Judge Marilyn Milian, but may have an earlier history.

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Socialism. Don’t make excuses. Socialism. Socialism can’t calculate prices effectively. As such, as price controls are introduced and as the economy is regulated into oblivion, the economy warps. Those on the edges of society are hurt most.

Source: In Venezuela, hungry child gangs use machetes to fight for ‘quality’ garbage

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How does Bernie explain the continued failures and genocides from “socialism”?

Hope the “kids”, who have made him an icon, wake up.

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Rosie O’Donnell may have a few legal issues on her hands after it was revealed that she has repeatedly exceeded the legal limit for campaign donations to at least five  Democratic candidates.

Source: Rosie O’Donnell illegally exceeded campaign contribution limits | Daily Mail Online

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I don’t like the Gooferment making “campaign finance rules”.  Money contributions is “speech” as in “free speech” imho.  That being said, this needs to be “investigated”.  I’d say “innocent mistake” except for the “variations on her name” part.  Where were her lawyers and accountants?

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A defense attorney in a court filing says special counsel Robert Mueller has disclosed he has no evidence that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort communicated with Russian government officials.

Source: Paul Manafort’s defense attorney delivers possible blow to Robert Mueller’s probe – Washington Times

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If this is true, then what is Mueller investigating?

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Obama’s Secretary of State, John Kerry and a group of his former State Department officials, have been busy unofficial diplomats in recent weeks. While President Trump prepares to pull the plug on the infamous Iran deal, Kerry has been sneaking around the world trying to salvage the pact he presided over ahead of its May 12 renewal deadline, the Boston Globe reported Friday.

Source: John Kerry Tries To Salvage Iran Deal Behind Trump’s Back; Secretly Meets With Top Iran Official

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Isn’t a private citizen negotiating with a foreign government against some law or other?

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(From AP News) State lawmakers in Kansas and Oklahoma have approved legislation to grant legal protections to faith-based adoption agencies that cite their religious beliefs for not placing children in LGBT homes. Supporters of such measures argued that the core issue is protecting a group’s right to live out its religious faith, while critics saw them as attacks on LGBT rights.

Source: Kansas, Oklahoma Approve Religious Veto on LGBT Adoptions

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I’m sure that it is MUCH more important to get children into loving homes; than to avoid LGBT homes.

To paraphrase Oprah, “you get a child, you get a child, and you get a child.”  Obviously, the recipients have to pass muster as good people, but that’s should be assumed.

Let’s get the children OUT of the State system.  Priority One.

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