RANT: The “opined addiction” suit is about a Gooferment cash grab; not about the victims

Thursday, June 8, 2017

FROM BEHIND THE WSJ PAYWALL

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Barry Rose of Nebraska said: “Painkillers are a necessary evil, and the doctors who prescribe them are well aware of their addictive nature. The doctor is responsible to warn their patient, to make sure the opioid isn’t abused and to carefully monitor their patient. If the states were really interested in opioid abuse, they would go back to the doctors and pharmacies that dispensed them, but they aren’t. The pharmaceutical companies are a better target, deep pockets for the cash-starved states to plunder. It’s always about the money. When I see the states paying out that money to victims, then I will think differently.”

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The Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.

Here’s a classic example. Sue the Big Drug Companies rather than legalize ALL drugs.

The first tactic puts more money the Gooferment coffers to spend while the second removes it while it “solves” the problem.

Close the excess prisons, courts, and probation and release the excess people to the free market. Transfer the money spent on “punishment” to “rehab”. 

Which way would you like it to go?

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PEACE: DJT45 maybe a peace maker

Wednesday, June 7, 2017

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphbenko/2017/05/28/trumps-commitment-to-peace-is-serious-and-fulfills-major-campaign-promises/#22948e82137e

MAY 28, 2017 @ 11:00 AM
The Little Black Book of Billionaire Secrets
Trump’s Commitment To Peace Is Serious And Fulfills Major Campaign Promises
Ralph Benko, CONTRIBUTOR
Here you will find a political Secret Decoder Ring.

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President Trump returns from his foray into Saudi Arabia, Israel, the Vatican, then with EU leaders. He demonstrated a unique foreign policy vision, one unpopular with many elites but welcome to voters.

He brings home an under-sung foreign policy triumph.

America is giving up a world hegemony it never sought. The world will be a safer, better, place for that.

There are two deliverables that the voters want, above all, from their president. One is prosperity. The other is security a/k/a peace. All else — except dignity, call it national honor, important but intangible — is either sideshow or amenity.

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This will be a very great side effect of the “hold your nose” election. 

I can’t think of any greater side effect of that election would be that we get some “world peace”.

But, then what will the beauty queen candidates wish for?

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VETERANS: Does anyone remember the Sixth of June?

Tuesday, June 6, 2017

http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/reagan-d-day.htm

Ronald Reagan - On the 40th Anniversary of D-Day

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The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this beachhead or on the next. It was the deep knowledge — and pray God we have not lost it — that there is a profound, moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest. You were here to liberate, not to conquer, and so you and those others did not doubt your cause. And you were right not to doubt.

You all knew that some things are worth dying for. One’s country is worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. All of you loved liberty. All of you were willing to fight tyranny, and you knew the people of your countries were behind you.

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Sigh, like so many of the battles / “victories” of WW2, the first casualty of war maybe truth, but the second is surely the veterans.

As a pro-peace little L libertarian, I want to ensure that all these fine youngsters — girls and boys; never old politicians and bureaucrats — are not “wasted” in “chicken hawk” psuedo-wars where the objectives are unknown, the interests are confused, and the rationale is either based on “spin” aka lies or abject falsehoods.

We can trace the causes of WW2 directly to FDR and back to Wilson. Americans meddling in European affairs ended a long tradition of “Minding Our Own Business”. Wilson signed for the Federal Reserve that ensure the Gooferment would never lack for “money”. The American empire was set in motion by Teddy Roosevelt who encouraged an imperialistic Japan. And, all manner of “big Gooferment” was traceable to Lincoln and the War of Northern Aggression.

So here we sit on our “D-Day”, wondering how do we get out of this mess?

Will we have the courage of the “boys of Point Du Hoc” and confront the villains in the “District of Corruption” and say “no more”!

Let’s bring all the girls, boys, women, and men home now! We have so many politicians and bureaucrats to send in their place if it’s really needed!

That’s the way to honor the dead and maimed of Normandy!

Dona Nobis Pacem

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VOCABULARY: “Clean Shares” in Mutual Funds

Monday, June 5, 2017

 

WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Clean Shares
By Brian Hershberg
May 30, 2017 5:30 am ET

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With the fiduciary rule set to take effect June 9, WSJ Wealth Adviser’s Daisy Maxey took a look at a new type of mutual-fund share that stands to gain traction.

These “clean shares” charge only the fee to manage and operate a mutual fund, and don’t include payments to distributors, such as the broker-dealers and retirement-plan platforms that sell the funds. Stripped from clean shares are fees to compensate brokers for providing advice and 12b-1 fees, which pay for marketing, printing and prospectuses and other shareholder services.

As it is today, investors who buy class A shares of a mutual fund through a broker, for example, typically pay a sales charge that may range from 2.25% to 5.75%, according to Morningstar Inc. It’s easy for investors to overlook that payment to the broker because it’s bundled in with cost of the fund’s management, and the fund company passes it onto the distributor.

With clean shares, investors will likely pay 60% to 70% less to buy a fund, says Paul Ellenbogen, head of global regulatory solutions at Morningstar. If they want a broker’s advice, however, they would have to pay for that separately

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Seems like a great idea.

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VOCABULARY: “Tainted Leaks”

Sunday, June 4, 2017

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/05/tainted_leaks.html

Schneier on Security
Tainted Leaks

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This report describes an extensive Russia-linked phishing and disinformation campaign. It provides evidence of how documents stolen from a prominent journalist and critic of Russia was tampered with and then “leaked” to achieve specific propaganda aims. We name this technique “tainted leaks.” The report illustrates how the twin strategies of phishing and tainted leaks are sometimes used in combination to infiltrate civil society targets, and to seed mistrust and disinformation. It also illustrates how domestic considerations, specifically concerns about regime security, can motivate espionage operations, particularly those targeting civil society.

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NOW, this is something to be concerned about.

It’s going to make “leaks” harder to determine and authenticate.

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RANT: Unconfirmed? You want confirmation, Captain?

Saturday, June 3, 2017

http://www.mediaite.com/online/nbc-news-throws-shade-on-president-trumps-terror-tweet-info-is-unconfirmed/

NBC News Throws Shade on President Trump’s Terror Tweet: ‘Info is Unconfirmed’
by Colby Hall | 7:53 pm, June 3rd, 2017

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ALL I COULD THINK OF WAS … … …

“You want confirmation, Captain? There’s your confirmation!”

— Tora! Tora! Tora!

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Argh!

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REVIEW: Spotlight (2015)

Saturday, June 3, 2017

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1895587/

Spotlight (2016)

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The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.

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It was a shocking movie. I knew about the scandal and some of how Cardinal Law escaped justice. I never anticipated the “6% of all”, “thousands of victims”, and all the deaths and disabilities. It’s a must watch for any Catholic. And, the institutional Church has a lot of explaining and atoning to do.

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NEWJERSEY: 7 NJ counties run Nursing Homes?

Friday, June 2, 2017

BEHIND THE WSJ PAYWALL 

Should Nursing Homes Be a Government Service?

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NANTUCKET, Mass.—The 11,000 year-round residents of this summer colony off Cape Cod are confronting an emotional question: whether the island is a place where they can grow old.

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Nantucket now joins cities and towns from New Jersey to Tennessee in wondering whether nursing homes are an essential municipal service like fire, sewers and schools.

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Financial pressures led New Jersey counties to sell their nursing homes to private companies, a move that saved some facilities, according to John Donnadio, executive director of the New Jersey Association of Counties. Only seven New Jersey counties still run nursing homes, down from 14 about five years ago, and “that number is going to drop more,” he said.

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Who knew?

Why?

The Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy. 

I don’t understand why it’s in 5?

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: FDR knew about the Shoah

Thursday, June 1, 2017

On June 1st, 1942, seven months after the extermination of prisoners began, the Warsaw underground newspaper, the Liberty Brigade, made the public announcement of the gassing of tens of thousands of Jews at Chelmno, a Nazi-operated death camp in Poland. The story came from a young man, Emanuel Ringelblum, who had escaped the Chelmno death camp after being forced to bury bodies as they were thrown out of the gas vans. The West now knew the horrific truth about the slaughter of Jews.

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So don’t believe any Gooferment propaganda that FDR didn’t know!

So why didn’t we bomb the railways?

And, why didn’t we catch all the Nazis?

Argh!

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RANT: Benghazi case is dismissed; HRC gets off again

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2017/05/26/hillary-clinton-benghazi-email-suits-dismissed-238880

Under the Radar
Josh Gerstein on the Courts, Transparency, & More

Suit against Hillary Clinton over Benghazi deaths and emails is dismissed
By JOSH GERSTEIN 05/26/2017 10:58 PM EDT

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A federal judge in Washington has dismissed a lawsuit alleging that Hillary Clinton’s lax security surrounding her emails led to the deaths of two of the Americans killed in the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.

In a ruling Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson tossed out the wrongful death claims as well as allegations that Clinton essentially slandered the parents of the deceased by contradicting accounts the parents gave of events related to their children’s deaths.

The suit was filed last August by Patricia Smith, the mother of State Department information officer Sean Smith, and Charles Woods, the father of CIA operative Tyrone Woods.

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In the days following the September 11, 2012 assault in Benghazi, Clinton and other administration officials linked the attack to protests in various places in the Muslim world over an anti-Islam movie trailer released on the internet. However, U.S. intelligence officials ultimately concluded that the assault using mortars and other weapons was not a spontaneous outpouring of anger but an organized attack.

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This is rapidly forgotten and brushed aside. 

“We, The Sheeple” are on to DWTS, “circuses”, and the Kardashians.

And, HRC again gets away scott free.

Argh!

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