Disappear...

 

A Michigan state representative is facing calls for his resignation after audio recordings surfaced of him asking an aide to plant a story about him having sex with a gay prostitute.

In a mushrooming scandal, legislative leaders seized the computers of tea party politicians Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat, as Courser refusing to step down  acknowledged their affair and claimed the two state representatives are the victims of a blackmail plot led by the GOP establishment.

Courser, 43, is married and a father of four. Gamrat, a 42-year-old mother of three; says she married her high school sweetheat. She  also fired chief of staff.

The two legislators, who both cite their Christian faith as an inspiration behind conservative policy platforms, had worked closely together and even shared office space and aides. The pair were said to disappear from the office together for hours on Thursday afternoons. 

Tea party Member, Conservative, Cited their Christian Faith, having an affair and tried to cover it up by deceiving others with fake stories. They fired people who just happened to be working for the State but under their supervision. 

This is Embarrassing.  Just a thought.

Brief...!

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A White House staffer is facing assault charges after shooting at a Capitol Police officer using the cop's own gun after a lover's quarrel, police said.

The White House has placed Barvetta Singletary, a special assistant to the president and the House legislative affairs liaison, on "unpaid leave and revoked her access to the complex "

Singletary texted the Capitol Police officer around 2:30 a.m. Friday inviting him to her Upper Marlboro residence for sex.

After he arrived at her home, they “engaged in a brief sexual encounter” at which point Singletary started questioning him about another woman he was dating.

After he refused to give her his cellphone passwords, she allegedly pointed the Glock handgun at him and fired one round in his direction.  The officer, who was not hit, then gathered his belongings, fled the home and called police.

What happened to smoking a cigarette to confirm satisfaction and end of encounter?  
Just a thought.

The Fox

Don leads off the list of perpetrators with Charles Krauthammer, who he said “hates me so bad he can’t even see straight.”  “a sad case and totally overrated and a real jerk.”
 Trump goes on to express his deep disappointment in Fox News, saying that they probably have an agenda.

He adds, “Certainly I don’t have a lot of respect for Megyn Kelly, she’s a lightweight,” describing how she came out with a script and a goal of looking tough. He said, “When you meet her you realize she’s not very tough and she’s not very sharp. She’s zippo.”  He is the first to challenge Fox, criticize them that much. Mutual Respect.

 Just a thought.

Rejected......

Donald Trump was disinvited from a gathering of influential conservatives and drew fire from GOP rivals, after he made an indelicate remark about Fox News host Megyn Kelly.

Erick Erickson, an influential conservative blogger who organized the annual RedState Gathering, formally rescinded Mr. Trump’s invitation to appear on Saturday night at an event sponsored by the RedState website. 

The annual RedState Gathering has grown to a much bigger event that brings conservative bloggers and activists together to question top Republicans. This year’s event was even more significant because it came right after the first GOP primary debate.

This latest Trump controversy stems from an interview the celebrity real estate mogul gave to CNN. In it, Mr. Trump lashed out at Ms. Kelly, who asked him about his history of making incendiary remarks about women. He told the rival cable-news network, “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her…wherever.”

Comment:
This is not about Kelly... this is about America's Next President. Eric disinvited the star of the debate. I consider that an attempt to silence his voice.
Re-invite the Don and let him do his things. You may get unexpected talks and ideas from him or others...... rather than nothing.

Just a thought

Big-Mouth...

It was the most dramatic opening to a presidential debate in recent memory and Donald Trump stole the show before he'd even said a word.

Perched comfortably at the top of the polls and lapping his closest rivals by double digits, Trump was expected to do well at the first GOP presidential debate of the 2016 season. The onus was on his competitors to seize the spotlight, but none of them managed to change the dynamics in a race that Trump has dominated for more than a month.

Trump has defied the normal patterns of politics and Thursday night was no exception. But it was harder to tell how his answers would wear on voters over time.

Though it was Trump's first political debate, and perhaps one of his first experiences with time constraints and a buzzer, Trump navigated the debate stage with ease, even when faced with unexpectedly sharp questions like the first from Fox News moderator Megyn Kelly.

"One of the things people love about you is you speak your mind and you don't use a politician's filter," Kelly said to Trump in the opening minutes. "However, in particular, when it comes to women. You've called women you don't like fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals."

Trump's no-holds-barred performance and comments about women could represent a missed opportunity to broaden his appeal. But the biggest risk the unpredictable real estate magnate took was when he refused to rule out a third party presidential run that could spell defeat for the Republican Party.

He shined big time with all including women. He didn't fit what Fox News wants him to fit. He talked about few issues and no body else did.

I started liking the guy.   Just a thought. 

Business Lead..

American Airlines said it would join Delta and United Airlines in banning the transport of animals known in Africa as the "big five", coined by hunters because they are the hardest to kill on foot. 
Lufthansa Cargo decided in early June to no longer accept any trophies from Africa, while Emirates SkyCargo banned such shipments in May.

There has been an international outcry against trophy hunting among animal lovers since it emerged that American dentist Walter Palmer killed a rare black-maned lion that was a familiar sight at Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park.

Delta Air Lines Inc, the only American airline to fly directly between the United States and Johannesburg, will also review policies on accepting other hunting trophies with government agencies and other organizations that support legal shipments, it said.

Nearly 400,000 people signed a Change.org petition that was started by a Delta customer calling for the airline to stop transporting exotic hunting trophies, the organization said.

The bans will make it harder for hunters to get their trophies home to put above the mantelpiece, dealing a blow to Africa's multi-million-dollar game industry.

Bow and arrow hunting of big animals should be banned.  Just a thought.

Nuclear Deal

 

An explosion killed a top official at the Natanz uranium enrichment plant, Iranian officials said. He is the third man identified as a nuclear scientist to be killed in Iran in a mysterious explosion, a fourth survived.

In each case, someone placed a bomb under the scientist's car.
  

It is likely that the Israelis are doing it, possibly in cooperation with the Iranian mujahedin,".  Iranians doing the deeds, no matter who is the sponsor.  Some believe Iranians, who oppose the government, are doing that.

 

Roshan's killing comes amid growing tensions between Iran and the West.      U.S. officials say the international sanctions on Iran have taken a toll. 

Stuxnet, a 500-kilobyte computer worm, infected the software of at least 14 industrial sites in Iran, including a uranium-enrichment plant. This worm spreads on its own, often over a computer network.

This worm was an unprecedentedly masterful and malicious piece of code that attacked Microsoft Windows machines and networks, repeatedly replicating itself. Then Siemens Step7 software. Finally, it compromised the programmable logic controllers. The worm’s authors could thus spy on the industrial systems and even cause the fast-spinning centrifuges to tear themselves apart, unbeknownst to the human operators at the plant.

The Nuclear deal with Iran will help so much for a period of fifteen years. No need for killing, bombing, Malware, or Sanctions. All the talks against the deal is just fake façade.

Just a thought.

Without..

The rich may well be "different from you and me,"  They think everyone else is like them. The richer you are, the more likely you are to think that others are wealthy, too, according to the study published in the journal Psychological Science.

The reason for the misconception is simple,: Since people are more likely to live, work and go to school with others in similar income brackets, when we look around, we come to the (incorrect) conclusion that most other Americans are at least somewhat like us.
  

This isn't usually a deliberate impulse, but it's one that can be hard to shake.

"It is likely that people do not have much conscious insight or control over the processes by which they are making such judgments,".

Wealthier people are more likely to say the status quo of income distribution in the United States is fair, and are less likely to support redistributive policies, 

Low-income Americans and their advocates have an uphill battle getting the country's haves to see the widening gap between them and the have-nots.

The study focused on income, but he said net worth which is skewed even more toward the very rich since many of the wealthiest Americans earn a significant amount from investments rather than income could be an even more telling predictor of these attitudes.

So whatever it is, wealthy or not, please give a hand to the poor.   Just a thought

Out of control??

Health care spending will outpace the nation's overall economic growth over the next decade, the government forecast, highlighting a challenge for the next president, not to mention taxpayers, businesses and individual Americans.

Expanded insurance coverage under President Barack Obama's law, an aging population, and rising demand will be squeezing society's ability to pay.

By 2019, health care spending will be increasing at roughly 6 percent a year, compared to an average annual rise of 4 percent from 2008 through 2013.

The forecast, through 2024, does not foresee a return to pre-recession days of torrid health care inflation, as the government and private employers try to revamp the way they pay hospitals and doctors to emphasize quality over quantity.

"The main point is that the bill will continue to grow faster than the economy, 

The health care law's Medicare cuts helped keep spending in check, as did across-the-board cuts enacted later.

Many working people saw their own medical bills rise, as employers shifted costs to employees and their families.

At the same time, expensive new drugs that can cure hepatitis C are boosting spending on medications. In 2013, prescription drug spending rose by 2.5 percent. For 2014, the projected increase is 12.6 percent, according to the report.  Spending on Medicaid has jumped 6.1 percent in 2013, and projected to grow by 12 percent in 2014.

Solution: It starts with medication cost.
1- Medicaid and Medicare can negotiate with big pharma to get better pricing including Brand and Generic medication.
2- Pharmaceutical companies are free to price their medication in USA  market with no competition with Canada, England and the rest of the world. While pharmaceutical companies are free to merge, reduce their taxes by relocating, in addition to other variety of techniques some of which was penalized by the government.

Just a thought.

The Sunset...

Joyce Mitchell poured her heart out to investigators about her relationships with the convicted murderers she helped escape from an upstate New York prison, detailing her increasing sexual contact with one of them and her deepening involvement in the plot over time, according to police.

Mitchell, a married woman, details her dreams of running off into the sunset with the men, "I enjoyed the attention, the feeling both of them gave me, and the thought of a different life," 

Her relationship with Richard Matt began with seemingly innocent requests for help, but soon escalated into sexual contact, she said, including sending him nude photos.

Matt made her “feel special” and she started doing favors for him. First, she called Matt’s daughter for him and then helped him get a hold of items he couldn't get for himself.

Mitchell said she was alone with Matt in the prison tailor shop when he "grabbed me and kissed me," the statement said. The sexual request from Matt escalated from there over time and Mitchell obliged, she told investigators.

Life is tedious, dull, monotonous, repetitive, unrelieved, unvaried, unimaginative, and uneventful outside a maximum security prison.                Just a thought.