Reinke Faces Life

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”?

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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.

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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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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!

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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.

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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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