Reinke Faces Life

News Alert
from The Wall Street Journal

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The Food and Drug Administration said it was removing the approval of Roche’s drug Avastin as a breast-cancer treatment.

The agency said that there was no proof that Avastin was effective against breast cancer and that the drug carried a risk of bleeding and heart failure.

Avastin remains approved as a treatment for certain types of colon, lung, kidney and brain cancer.

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The FDA should be reduced to an “advisory” role.

If a court wants an opinion, then the FDA should be a finder of scientific fact. It could “vend” opinions to courts and any citizen when asked.

Sort of like a Consumers’ Reports!

For them to make the process so expensive and time-consuming is just plain dumb.

Then, after all that, they make mistakes too.

We’d be better off without them.

And, lest anyone forget, remember that they are the poster child — along with the SEC — for “regulatory capture” (i.e., those regulated rule the regulators and politicians).

Argh!

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FROM DOCUTICKER EMAIL, A BRIT RESEARCH GROUP

“The U.S. Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics lay the groundwork for a new quantitative measure of poverty to replace the current, inadequate official measure – an improvement that will only be possible with proper funding. (Current official measures are described by the Census Bureau and the Department of Health and Human Services.)”

The Research Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2010

Posted to the DocuBase on 7 November, 2011 at

http://web.docuticker.com/go/docubase/65475

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

From the media tip sheet:

The Census Bureau, with assistance from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and in consultation with other appropriate agencies and outside experts, introduces a new measure of poverty to complement the official measure, which has been in use since the 1960s. The official measure will continue to be produced every year and be used to assess eligibility for government programs and determine funding distribution… »

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Anyone else suspect politics in this mess.

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http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/11/14/millionaires-jon-bon-jovi-bruce-springsteen-rake-in-farm-subsidies/

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“For example, Jon Bon Jovi paid property taxes of only $100 last year on his extensive real estate holdings in New Jersey that he uses to raise bees. At the same time, Bruce Springsteen received farm subsidies because he leases his property to an organic farmer,” the report explains.

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Time to end ALL subsidies!

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http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Lucky-Leprechaun-may-be-fired-from-Lucky-Charms-cereal-133319873.html

Lucky Leprechaun may be fired from Lucky Charms cereal
Famous icon sends wrong message on child obesity say critics
By FRANK O’BRIEN, IrishCentral.com Staff Writer
Published Sunday, November 6, 2011, 8:03 AMUpdated Sunday, November 6, 2011, 8:03 AM

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New federal guidelines are in the works and General Mills, owners of Lucky Charms and other breakfast giants may be forced to drop commercials that attract kids to their products.

It is a $10 billion a year market and the stakes are very high.

“The guidelines would be one of the most important ways for the food industry to improve children’s health,” said Mary Story, a University of Minnesota public health professor and expert on child and adolescent nutrition told the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

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The fact, that Gooferment Skrules have turned children into mind numbed robots with heads full of mush, doesn’t come up in conversation.

Parents are being replaced by Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats!

They can’t educate their children and can’t control what they eat.

Argh!

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http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/health-care-executive’s-medicare-fraud-scheme-included-lobbying-washington

‘Health-Care Executive’s Medicare Fraud Scheme Included Lobbying Washington’
Posted by Michael F. Cannon

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Miami health-care executive Larry Duran orchestrated one of the largest Medicare frauds in U.S. history, submitting more than $205 million in phony claims and landing a record-breaking 50-year prison sentence for his crimes.

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The basic scheme, records show, worked like this: Duran and Valera paid up to $400,000 a month in kickbacks to assisted living centers, halfway homes and others to procure a steady stream of patients for their clinics, which claimed to be providing group mental health treatment. Doctors frequently faked records or signed off on charts without seeing any patients.

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The basic theorem is this: market actors have greater incentives to prevent fraud, because it’s their own money on the line. Politicians are spending other people’s money, so their incentive to prevent fraud is far less. Therefore, fraud will always be higher in government programs than in similar market endeavors.

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I remember back to my first encounter with “health, health insurance, and health costs”, a least the first one that I remember, was my appendix operation.

I got great care and my Mom, rest her soul, got the bill. I remember it was just a little less than $500!

A huge amount in those days.

She took some from savings, some from family, and some from her “stash”. (Depression era people ALWAYS had money stuffed somewhere in case the banks closed again.)

That bill was on the refrigerator and everyone looked at it for errors.

(Visitors tried to remember if I got the stuff that was on the bill.)

She paid the bill and assembled all the bills (i.e., hospital, doctor, drugs) and sent it to Blue Cross Blue Shield Insurance.

A couple of months later, she received a check and an explanation. On the refrigerator again.

It was about 80% of what she paid.

There was a lot of conversation and some correspondence about the whole matter.

Eventually, she got another check for a little more.

Fraud?

Not likely with that level of scrutiny!

So, I agree that Gooferment program equals fraud.

Argh!

Clearly, there has to be a fundamental restructuring of these programs so that the beneficiary pays something. Even a tiny per centage will prevent fraud.

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http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/not-single-christian-church-left-afghanistan-says-state-department

Not a Single Christian Church Left in Afghanistan, Says State Department
By Edwin Mora
October 10, 2011

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(CNSNews.com) — There is not a single, public Christian church left in Afghanistan, according to the U.S. State Department.

This reflects the state of religious freedom in that country ten years after the United States first invaded it and overthrew its Islamist Taliban regime.

In the intervening decade, U.S. taxpayers have spent $440 billion to support Afghanistan’s new government and more than 1,700 U.S. military personnel have died serving in that country.

The last public Christian church in Afghanistan was razed in March 2010, according to the State Department’s latest International Religious Freedom Report. The report, which was released last month and covers the period of July 1, 2010 through December 31, 2010, also states that “there were no Christian schools in the country.”

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Can someone remind me what our objectives are in the AfPak region?

Was religious freedom on the list?

BYOB

Bring the girls and boys home now!

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http://bigpeace.com/elcid/2011/10/07/pakistani-doctor-who-helped-us-find-bin-laden-to-be-tried-for-high-treason/

Pakistani Doctor Who Helped US Find Bin Laden To Be Tried For High Treason
Posted by El Cid Oct 7th 2011 at 7:40 am in Espionage, Intelligence, Terrorism
From the UK’s Daily Mail:

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Dr. Shakeel Afridi

A Pakistani doctor accused of running a vaccination programme for the CIA to help track down Osama Bin Laden should be put on trial for high treason, a government commission in Pakistan has said.

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https://reinkefaceslife.com/2009/11/07/goverotrageous-the-usa-always-betrays-its-friends/

Why would any foreign national help us and be left behind?

It just seems so obvious!

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http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/09/27/7-arrested-for-alleged-sat-cheating-ring-at-great-neck-north-high-school/

7 Arrested For Alleged SAT Cheating Ring At Great Neck North High School
Educator: Pressure On Kids Massive; Attorney: District, Not Courts, Should Rule
September 27, 2011 11:58 PM

Related Tags: Carol D’Auria, Great Neck North High School, Jennifer McLogan, Long Island, Mona Rivera, Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice, Peter Haskell, Samuel Eshaghoff, SAT, SAT scam

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MINEOLA, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) – Seven former and current students of a prestigious Long Island high school were arrested Tuesday in an alleged SAT cheating ring.

Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice announced that six Great Neck North High School students had paid 19-year-old Samuel Eshaghoff thousands of dollars to take the SAT for them.

Eshaghoff, who graduated from the high school in 2010 and is currently enrolled at Emory University in Atlanta, was paid between $1,500 and $2,500 per student. He has been arrested and charged with scheme to defraud, falsifying business records and criminal impersonation.

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Hmmm, … I don’t understand.

Why is this any of the Gooferment’s business?

Who was defrauded? A corporation; that’s not a person.

Isn’t this SAT’s problem for poor identification and authentication problem?

Why is it the taxpayers’ problem?

I just don’t understand.

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http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=348077

YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK
EPA to property owner: ‘Your land is our land’
$40 million in fines pending over plan to build new home
Posted: September 23, 2011 9:50 pm Eastern
By Bob Unruh

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“The reality of the Sacketts’ situation is that they have been unambiguously commanded by their government not to complete their home-building project, to take expensive measures to undo the improvements that they have made to their land, and to maintain their land essentially as a public park until the property is ‘restored’ to the satisfaction of the EPA. They have been threatened with frightening penalties if they do not immediately obey; but they have been refused the prompt hearing they should have received as a matter of right in any court,” Pacific Legal argued.

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Absolutely outrageous.

The Gooferment is out of control.

Secession is the only way out of this mess.

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/93908.html

Parents Aren’t Safe
Posted by Karen De Coster on August 30, 2011 05:12 AM

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Here’s another way for the government-media safety parade propaganda machine to sell folks on the dangers of biological parents and the “safety” of our government parents: thanks to parental negligence, kids bring “unsafe” lunches to school that are ripe for bacteria. As usual, researchers study something – anything – that is insignificant and turn the non-issue into a major safety issue to be chatted about endlessly by the gullible media halfwits. And this news leads to a media storm and suggestions for treating your kid’s lunch like an organ being shipped off for transplant.

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I just shake my head. It’s a miracle that the human race can survive without “our betters in Gooferment” telling us how to feed children.

Maybe if “We, The Sheeple” didn’t mandate sending them to prison, then they could be safely fed at home while they are being home schooled. And, parents, who choose to send their children to school elsewhere than home, would take care of the issue of safe food.

Maybe there should be no food in school? Didn’t the media just tell us that the kids are too fat?

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