Reinke Faces Life

[This came up in my daily google search for “reinke”. Most likely no relation. But, so what if it’s not.]

http://www.chieftain.com/news/local/former-soldiers-families-reassess-war-s-impact/article_2fd857be-2877-11e1-a0ff-0019bb2963f4.html

The Pueblo Chieftain News Local news
After Iraq Former soldiers, families reassess war’s impact
Posted: Saturday, December 17, 2011 12:00 am | Updated: 11:30 pm, Fri Dec 16, 2011.
By PETER ROPER

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Scott Reinke, father of Army Staff Sgt. Gavin Reinke, who was killed in Iraq in May 2006.

Reinke is proud of his son’s service to his country and is certain nearly all U.S. service men and women who took part in the Iraq war share that same pride. But that’s not the same thing as believing the war was worth the cost.

“I was reading a story in the paper this morning where this Iraqi was saying that Americans didn’t leave new schools and factories, that we left a nation of widows and orphans,” Reinke said and then softly cursed. “After all we put into that country. If that guy’s sentiments represents a majority of the Iraqi people, then what we’re getting out of that war isn’t worth all that we put into it.”

Reinke recounted how President George W. Bush urged American intervention in Iraq in 2003 on the basis that dictator Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. None was found.

“Granted, Hussein was an evil man. But it’s hard for me to justify our sticking our nose in that country’s business. The Middle East has always been in turmoil. Maybe if I felt that the Iraqi people were truly grateful.”

Reinke said he recently ate lunch next to an Army engineer who talked about all the friends he’d lost in Iraq.

“This soldier talked about how his guys would be building a school or working on some infrastructure project and the Iraqis hated Americans so much, they’d just attack them anyway,” Reinke said. ” I don’t think anyone who lost a child, or a husband, or a wife, or had someone severely wounded over there will tell you that it was worth it. Now I wish we’d do the same in Afghanistan.”

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It’s one thing if the girls and boys are down at the beach or the border to resist an invasion, but that hasn’t happened since 1812?

Not one drop of blood, nor a penny of treasure, is worth sticking our <plural synonym for donkey> in another country’s business.

Ron Paul is the ONLY “peace” candidate. And, he’s not an isolationist; nor, stupid about defending America. He’s just serious about it.

This may be our ONLY chance to reverse the “imperial” rule of the “chicken hawks”. You don’t see their children dying overseas. Hell, they don’t even send their kids to “publik sckrules”!

Argh!

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http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Another-lonely-Christmas-for-illegal-Irish-trapped-in-the-United-States-135602673.html

Another lonely Christmas for illegal Irish trapped in the United States
Undocumented forced to be separated from family for the holidays
By APRIL DREW, Irish Voice Reporter
Published Sunday, December 18, 2011, 7:13 AM
Updated Sunday, December 18, 2011, 7:48 AM

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Louise, 38, and her 40-year-old husband Shane are about to spend their eighth Christmas away from their family back in Co. Donegal.

“Another Christmas away is just terrible,” Louise, a bartender, shared with the Irish Voice over the weekend.

“It’s getting harder all the time. Our parents are getting old and we’re missing so many special events like another Christmas, not to mention several weddings and christenings.”

Her husband Shane agrees, but says being realistic they can’t move home at the moment because “there is no work” in Ireland.

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Well, overlooking the media bias —

— “trapped”, I don’t think so. They can return for free courtesy of the US taxpayer. “undocumented”, I’m sure they do have “documents”. Just not the right kind. Argh! —

— I agree with them.

There should be no bar to crossing a border unless you’re a criminal, (then we’d expect some proof that you’ve turned a page), or planning to go on welfare. Bought the only reasonable restriction might be posting a bond equal to the passage “home”.

I don’t understand.

Doesn’t anyone read the Statue of Liberty? Or, did we put a garbage bag over that?

Sure, no welfare for immigrants. But then we shouldn’t have “welfare” for anyone.

We want all those folks who want to work their <synonym for donkey> off. Sure enough, we’ve got enough “citizens” on the dole.

Argh!

I just don’t understand.

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http://espn.go.com/new-york/nfl/story/_/id/7357978/high-school-athletes-suspended-tebowing

Updated: December 16, 2011, 7:42 AM ET
High schoolers banned for Tebowing
By Christopher Hunt
Special to ESPNNewYork.com

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Jordan Fulcoly, Wayne Drexel and brothers Tyler and Connor Carroll of Riverhead High School were all handed a one-day suspension Wednesday, after three days of taking a knee with their foreheads resting on their fists, the same way Tebow does in the end zone and on the sidelines. The news was first reported by Yahoo! Prep Rally earlier Thursday.

Riverhead superintendent Nancy Carney said that two of the students’ suspensions were later rescinded, citing that administrators found that those students were not given the same warnings that the other two were.

Tebow has made headlines for the move, a display of his devotion to his Christian faith. The students were not suspended for bringing religion into the school, but instead for clogging the hallway.

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Bet this winds up in court!

Why is the Gooferment running schools?

In order to brainwash future voters.

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http://dumpdc.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/flash-editorials-december-10-2011/

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Business: The US Air Force quietly announced that they have excluded American aircraft builder Hawker Beechcraft in Wichita, Kansas from competition for a $1 billion contract to build a light attack aircraft. The company said that they had already invested $100 million to comply with what the Air Force wanted in a plane. They also said that 1,400 highly paid technical employees in 20 states will lose their jobs. But here is the outrage. It looks like the $1 Billion contract will go to Embraer…A BRAZILIAN COMPANY. Want even more outrage? Embraer sold 40 light fighters to Iran in 1989, and Iran used the planes as their primary close support aircraft. The Obama Administration is flipping you the bird, America. Learn how to say, “Want fries with that?”

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Why do we ned a billion dollar “light” attack aircraft?

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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/woman-denied-food-stamps-kills-self-shoots-children-181629410.html

Woman denied food stamps kills self, shoots children
By Jim Forsyth | Reuters
2011-DEC-06

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SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – A woman in the border city of Laredo, Texas who was angry because she had been denied food stamps killed herself and shot and critically wounded her two children late on Monday, authorities said on Tuesday.

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Remember this. I waited until the details came out.

This is all the Gooferment’s fault.

Either of two tracks:

(1) The Gooferment shouldn’t be doing “charity”. Churches and Associations are better suited and more efficient.

(2) The Gooferment dumped all the mentally ill on the streets without support. Families, Churches and Associations are better suited and more efficient.

Get a sense of what the sock answer is: “Gooferment bad; individuals are kings.”

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http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Whistling-donkey-traffic-violations-leaves-Irish-courts-in-fits-of-laughter-134896463.html

Whistling donkey traffic violations leaves Irish courts in fits of laughter

Judge left speechless by shaggy dog story

By DARA KELLY, IrishCentral Staff Writer

Published Friday, December 2, 2011, 8:05 AM

Updated Friday, December 2, 2011, 8:05 AM

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An outbreak of irresistible silliness left a presiding judge, the local police officers, attorneys and even the defendant himself in tears of laughter at the Dingle District Court in County Kerry at the weekend.

According to The Kerryman the unexpected outbreak of hilarity began as they listened to a completely unlikely series of events that led to three road traffic charges being brought against a man.

Dingle street entertainer Deaglan O’Muiris had originally been stopped by Irish police officer Frank Scanlon, who described to the country court the scene when he pulled the busker over for driving with four bald tires.

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Mann added that after being stopped by police officer Scanlon, O’Muiris had immediately paid $470.00 for four new tires for the van.

Police officer Scanlon acknowledged that the tires had been satisfactorily replaced and informed the judge the donkey has also been retired for the winter season.

The defendant was then given until May of 2012 to pay $400.00 to the court poor box to avoid a conviction for the bald tire offenses.

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Argh!

So why does the poor Mundane have to pay another 400$?

If he had caused an accident due to bald tires, then he’d have had to make restitution.

BUT, under the “no victim = no crime”, why was this fellow accosted and robbed by a “highwayman”?

The donkey was the smartest in the room!!!

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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/cheers-fda-approved-hangover-pill-promises-edge-holiday-partying-article-1.986338

Cheers! FDA-approved hangover pill promises to take edge off holiday partying
Over-the-counter cocktail beats hair of the dog
BY Nicole Lyn Pesce NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Saturday, December 3 2011, 2:56 PM

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A new FDA-approved hangover cure has hit the market just in time for holiday party season.

“So many people see hangovers as a shameful or embarrassing thing. I think of them as just a fact of life,” said Brenna Haysom, the creator of Blowfish through the West Village-based Rally Labs LLC.

The over-the-counter drug cocktail combines 1,000 milligrams of aspirin, 120 milligrams of caffeine and a stomach-soothing agent into two effervescent tablets taken the morning after a night of heavy drinking.

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As anyone who reads this blog, I’d like to replace the FDA with “Consumers’ Reports” type private organizations.

We need to have a gradual way of escaping the regulatory tyranny of an agency that has been captured by those it regulates (i.e., an incestuous relationship between the “regulators”, those “regulated”, and the politicians).

Perhaps a good first step is making FDA approval optional?

If it’s not FDA “approved”, then your right to sue or collect damages is limited in some fashion.

It’d be a start?

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Dear Mr. John:

Thank you for contacting me about taxes. I appreciate hearing from you on this important issue.

On August 2, the “Budget Control Act of 2011” (P.L. 112-25) was signed into law. This law allows the debt limit to be increased by up to $2.1 trillion. In conjunction with this increase, deficits must be decreased by at least $2.1 trillion over 10 years. This law generates $0.9 trillion in initial deficit reduction over 10 years through spending cuts rather than tax increases. At least $1.2 trillion in additional deficit reduction will be identified by the newly-established Congressional Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction. This bipartisan committee is charged with presenting a deficit reduction plan by late November, which must receive an up or down vote in both chambers of Congress by the end of the year. If the committee fails to produce a plan, or if the committee’s plan fails to attract the support of a majority of the House and Senate, additional spending cuts of $1.2 trillion over 10 years will automatically occur.

Please be assured that I will be closely monitoring the recommendations of the Joint Committee and I will keep your concerns in mind as this issue receives further consideration by the Senate. Thank you again for contacting me.

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Argh!

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FROM FACEBOOK

“Appears that there is a 2nd grader telling the kids that there is no Santa.”

Sorry, but parents should NEVER lie to their children. Ever! They have to be able to KNOW that Mom, but especially Dad, will tell me “the truth” as best as they know it. Imagine what goes on in their little brains when it dawn on them, that the two people their whole life depends on, will look them right in the eye, smile, and lie like a used car salesman. Bad! If they can’t depend on getting the truth from Mom and Dad, who then? (Uncle Ferd!) And, then folks wonder why children turn into teenagers that don’t listen, or respect their parents. Now, you don’t have to tell them everything you know (e.g., sex, income tax rates, how a motor works, how much work stinks, worries). But you don’t have to correct their assumptions, erroneous memes, and | or incorrect paradigms. Just do NOT lie!   

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http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/movers-sheriffs-deputies-refuse-evict-103-year-old/nFp4Q/

Posted: 5:23 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011
Movers, deputies refuse to evict 103-year-old woman
Movers and sheriff’s deputies refused to evict 103-year-old from her home Tuesday.
By Ryan Young

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ATLANTA, Ga. —

A 103-year-old woman and her 83-year-old daughter were just moments from being evicted from their home Tuesday, when sheriff’s deputies and the moving company hired by the bank decided not to go through with the action.

Channel 2’s Ryan Young was there when the family started thanking God for the miracle. At just three weeks shy of her 104th birthday, Vinia Hall has shared her home on Penelope Road in Northwest Atlanta with her daughter for 53 years.

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Good for them.

Some common sense!

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203802204577066101466652394.html?mod=djemalertNEWS

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Rep. Barney Frank said Monday that he will retire from Congress at the end of next year, reversing a decision from earlier in the year to seek re-election for a 17th term. Mr. Frank, 71 years old, is the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee. He will announce his retirement at a 1 p.m. ET press conference in Newton, Mass., his office said in a statement.

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Hmm, rat leaving the sinkin’ ship comes to mind.

And, leaves behind the scorched earth of Fannie and Freddie as well as Dodd-Franks.

Argh!

No mention of what his pension will be?

The gift that just keeps on “giving”.

Why do politicians get pensions?

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http://www.9wsyr.com/sports/content/su_sports/story/ESPN-reporter-explains-why-Fine-tape-wasn-t/I0Bn-4AKZU2tyosOS8_57g.cspx

ESPN reporter explains why Fine tape wasn’t released in 2002

Published: 5:14 pm

Updated: 5:17 pm

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Syracuse (CNN/WSYR-TV) – Bobby Davis, an alleged molestation victim of Bernie Fine, recorded a phone call with the coach’s wife in 2002, according to ESPN.

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SPN’s Mark Schwarz explained in an interview on CNN why the tapes were not made public back then.

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“We did not go to authorities with the tape.”

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Well shame on you and your organization.

I would hope that if I had such a tape, I’d have the courage and fortitude to bring it to the proper authorities. And I’d go with a reporter and a recording crew. (Supposedly you guys have those.) And, let the “proper authority” explain to the camera why nothing could be done. Argh! We’ve become a nation of sheep. You could have take that crew from the office of the “proper authority” over to SU and gone door to door asking for a comment. AND put their “no comments” on Sports Center every half hour.

Sports is treasured because it’s supposed to build character. You’ve demonstrated that’s a flawed view. It’s done nothing for you and your organization.

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http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/11/25/8th-oui-charge-for-east-boston-man-with-lifetime-license-suspension/

8th OUI Charge For East Boston Man With Lifetime License Suspension
November 25, 2011 3:22 PM

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EAST BOSTON (CBS) – An East Boston man with seven previous OUI arrests and a lifetime license suspension is behind bars after being charged for an eighth time with driving drunk.

State Police arrested 52-year-old Albert Diaz Wednesday night in front of Chelsea High School after a Trooper witnessed him allegedly committing several driving violations in Revere.

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The “law” can’t prevent anything.

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http://biggovernment.com/mvadum/2011/11/22/ex-dem-congressman-voter-fraud-is-commonplace-voter-id-is-the-cure/

Ex-Dem Congressman: Voter Fraud Is Commonplace, Voter ID Is The Cure

by Matthew Vadum

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Voter fraud is not a figment of your imagination, says former Congressman Artur Davis (D-Alabama).

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What’s the BIG deal about requiring identification to vote?

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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-natalie-wood-20111118,0,5141657.story

Sheriff’s Department reopens Natalie Wood case

The coroner originally ruled the actress’ 1981 death an accident, but investigators want to talk to the captain of the yacht Wood and her husband were on the weekend she died off Santa Catalina.

By Richard Winton, Sam Allen and Andrew Blankstein, Los Angeles Times

November 18, 2011

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Thirty years after Natalie Wood died off Santa Catalina Island, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department announced Thursday that it was reopening the investigation into one of Hollywood’s most enduring mysteries.

Wood, 43, was boating off the island on Thanksgiving weekend 1981 with her husband, Robert Wagner, fellow actor Christopher Walken and others when she somehow went overboard and died. Officials at the time ruled her death an accident, but there has been much speculation since over whether there was more to the story.

Sheriff Lee Baca said detectives want to talk to the captain of the boat after learning of comments he recently made about what happened on board. Baca did not provide further details, adding only that the captain “made comments worthy of exploring.”

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Hmm, “Statute of Limitations”.

Argh!

Waste of time and money.

Thirty years of forgotten memories.

Only on TV do these things get “solved”.

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Anyone watch the “parade”?

The only “parading” in the first half-hour was the accidental peek one got as this celebrity or that touted their latest NBC show.

It was de facto all advertising.

Sucked!

Four plays had dance numbers. How’s that a “parade”?

I was so disappointed. And, I dvred it thinking like some of the awards shows it would have spots worth reseeing.

Not!

Boo to NBC4 and Macy’s.

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http://biggovernment.com/lrlee/2011/11/20/report-taxpayers-entire-tarp-investment-lost-in-bailout-of-united-commercial-bank/

Report: Taxpayers’ Entire TARP ‘Investment’ Lost in Bailout of United Commercial Bank

by Laura Rambeau Lee

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The Quarterly Report issued in October 2011 by the Special Inspector General of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) reveals the utter lack of oversight and mismanagement of funds in excess of $700 Billion Dollars.

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The housing and mortgage crisis was a direct result of the increasing deregulation of the mortgage industry enabled by the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 and the federal government’s ideological philosophy that everyone should and must be afforded their dream of home ownership, regardless of their credit worthiness or their ability to repay the mortgage. The federal government, through coercive threats of lawsuits for discriminatory lending practices, forced these lenders to make these risky loans.

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The programs offered by the administration have not produced any positive results for the people of this country. The SIGTARP report clearly reveals the arrogance of the Treasury Department in refusing to heed its recommendations to help struggling homeowners. It is Big Government that created this problem. It is time We the People got our bail out.

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No, “We, The Sheeple” should cut out losses.

Along the way, the State authorities should investigate fraud and prosecute.

We should return to a “simpler” time of life — along with “too big to fail” is “too big to exist” — and pass a Constitutional amendment to prevent bailouts, subsidies, and other corrupt practices.

Argh!

The sad thing was that “tarp” was supposed to buy toxic assets and was perverted silently without discussion into bailouts.

Why are we still permitting bailed out companies to pay “bonuses”?

Why are we still funding Fannie and Freddie?

Why are we still allowing this to go on?

Argh!

The Gooferment has no business “investing” in anything!!!

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/99069.html

November 21, 2011
How Do You Resist?
Posted by Michael S. Rozeff on November 21, 2011 05:16 AM

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The TSA has the guns and they have what is called “law”. How does one resist? Peacefully, that comes first. I really do not know, and I don’t know what will do good and what won’t. And I don’t know what will cause you more trouble than you want to bear. I also think that resistance is a personal matter that depends on your personal circumstances, so that there is no one way to resist.

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Hit them in the pocketbook. I refuse to take air travel. And, I irritate anyone I know who does do air travel with questions like: “how did you enjoy your proctology exam”, “how much of your time did security waste”, and “you got to the airport how much in advance”. In my blog, I try to find TSA stories to report that are funny or outrageous. I may not be able to change the world, but I am trying to give it a health shove.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2060241/Girl-10-gives-birth-baby-Mexico.html

Girl, 10, gives birth to baby in Mexico… and is now breastfeeding him
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 4:33 PM on 11th November 2011

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A Mexican girl has become a mother at the age of just 10, according to reports.

The youngster arrived at a hospital in the city of Puebla, suffering from life-threatening complications in her 31-week pregnancy, including seizures.

She gave birth by Caesarean section to a boy weighing 3.3lb at the Women’s Hospital in the city, 60 miles south-east of Mexico City.

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Is this true?

If so, terrible. If not, good.

The UK Daily Mail is usually reliable.

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A RELATIVE TIPPED ME OFF TO THIS

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=368701

Joe Paterno in line for $500,000 pension
Coach transferred full ownership of his house to his wife for $1 in July
Posted: November 16, 2011 9:08 pm Eastern

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It has also been confirmed that Sandusky collects $59,000 annual pension and withdrew $148,000 upon retirement from his job at Penn State, according to records obtained by the Associated Press.

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One would assume that this transfer would be found “fraudulent” since it was OBVIOUSLY intended to save it from a civil judgement.

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http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=368085

$100 million pension for stapling a finger?
Cop seeks sweet disability after accidental shooting
Posted: November 15, 2011

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As he was preparing to shoot, a burst of wind tore a Q-shaped target from its wooden post. Onesti picked up a staple gun and tried to reattach the target — and what happened next could end up costing state taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Onesti, 27 at the time, accidentally fired a staple into the base of his left ring finger, records show. He put a Band Aid on the wound and successfully completed the tests. But after two operations Onesti says he still can’t do his job, and is now one of a record number of public employees across the state seeking an accidental disability pension for life.

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You have to be joking!

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