Reinke Faces Life

A site to promote the safer far-hand Dutch Reach habit to get out of your car. It prevents dooring ‘accidents’ / crashes that injure & kill bicyclists. You too are safer because you naturally turn & see on-coming traffic before and as you exit.

Source: Dutch Reach Project – A site to promote the Dutch far-hand habit to avoid dooring cyclists, or drivers or passengers from stepping into on-coming traffic.

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Seems like an easy enough change to make in our every day behavior?

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How a writing tool became the new default way to pass notes in class

Source: The Hottest Chat App for Teens Is Google Docs – The Atlantic

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A USC spokesman said Wednesday that students who applied for admission in the current cycle — which is underway for fall admits — and are tied to the scheme will be denied admission. That includes about half a dozen applicants.The school will also conduct a case-by-case review for current students and graduates who may have taken part in the scheme.

Source: Will children at center of college admissions scandal pay a price along with their parents? – Los Angeles Times

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“Children”?

While one or more individuals maybe be “innocent bystanders” in their parents’ actions, others were involved.  I don’t think that “innocent bystanders” should be penalized until them demonstrate that they can’t or won’t meet the standards. Those involved deserve anything they get.  Graduates are probably “untouchable”.

What a mess.

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A friend shared a story he heard recently, over eggs and toast at a local eatery. A citizen needed an MRI. He asked the price, and the regional hospital quoted him $1,500. He looked concerned, mentioned that was expensive, and the provider offered that the cash price was $500. Curiously, that $500 is exactly what his insurance plan would have him pay. For a lot of people, this looks like a wash.

Source: Commentary: Ask your health care provider for the cash price | Nvdaily | nvdaily.com

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A peek behind the curtain?

I’ve often thought that there’s a “big club” that I ain’t in to fleece the medical consumer.  Gooferment, Big Medicine, and Big Insurance are the conspiring club members.

Argh!

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Reverse mortgages are creeping into the conversation for retirement income options.

Source: How America’s Most Hated Home Loan Is Staging A Comeback

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Hmmm, “most hated”?

I’d reserve that for the sub-prime “no doc” mortgage that caused everyone much more pain!

No?

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SCIENTISTS have built the world’s first time machine — sort of. Working with electrons in the bizarre realm of quantum mechanics, they first created the equivalent of a break for a game of pool. Th…

Source: Scientists have built world’s first ‘time machine’ in experiment which defies the laws of physics

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I’m sure pool players all over the world are waiting for a chance to do a shot over.

Imagine being able to press a “do over” button?

If one could imagine it, how far back would you have to go?

Could one start completely over?

And, if such was possible, what give you any confidence that you could avoid your past “mistakes”?

And what if your current outcome was the “best” of all your possible choices, could you recover back?

A troubling thought experiment fraught with problems.

Like in my youth, I once left the Engineering Building, turned left on Broadway, and walked to the subway at 242nd street with my friends to have a beer at the Pinewood. So instead of studying, I had a hangover.  To avoid that “mistake”, I decide now in retrospect to turn right to go to the 231st subway station and, when crossing the street, I’m killed by bus.

See what I mean, if we consider “time travel”, we don’t get to see what’s down the road when we take any particular fork in the road.

Hmmm!

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If you or a family member is injured or dies from vaccines, you must sue the federal government and go up against their attorneys in this special vaccine court.Many cases are litigated for years before a settlement is reached, as can be seen from the report below. One flu shot victim litigated for 7 years before reaching a settlement, and one Gardasil HPV vaccine victim litigated for over 5 years before reaching a settlement, for example.Another Gardasil HPV vaccine victim who suffered cardiac arrest and death, took over 3 years to settle.

Source: Vaccines Continue To Injure and Kill People – LewRockwell

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I’m not an anti-vaxxers!

But, I don’t this the public is being served by the Gooferment interference in the marketplace.

The lack of transparency gives rise to all sorts of conspiracy theories.

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Amazon today possesses a near-total monopoly over Internet book sales, and if American society continues to allow it to ban serious works of scholarship on political or ideological grounds, our future intellectual freedom has already been lost.

Source: American Pravda: Amazon Book Censorship, by Ron Unz – The Unz Review

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I thought that the cure for “bad speech” was “more speech”.  This digital version of book burning is a bad idea.  I’m an Amazon fan but may have to rethink that loyalty if this continues.

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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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