Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Ban...

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Democratic and Republican leaders in the New Jersey Legislature plan to introduce legislation banning the kind of non-disclosure agreements crafted to cover up sexual harassment and misconduct by executives at The Weinstein Company and Fox News, NJ Advance Media has learned.

In the past two weeks, reports in The New York Times  detailed how Hollywood film executive reached at least eight such settlement pacts with women to buy their silence.

Those reports came on the heels of similar scandals at Fox News Channel, which in April fired host Bill O'Reilly over sexual harassment charges after having reached settlements with five women at the company totaling $13 million.

Fox News chairman Roger Ailes resigned under pressure amid allegations of sexual harassment, including Fox anchors  Megyn Kelly, Andrea Tantaros and Gretchen Carlson, who received a $20 million settlement.

Can the same politicians of NJ, where many of Big Pharma companies exist, can they do something about lower Medications' price?  ...........and leave "well enough alone" it is still allegations.   Just a thought.

Real...


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"Let's get real. Let's get the homeless the help they need," Cuomo said in an interview on NY1. "Shelters, mental health, job training et cetera. Second, the New York City Transit Authority is owned by the city and policed by the NYPD. The NYPD used to this. They need to do it again."

"Homelessness is not a crime and homeless people who are not violating subway rules cannot be ejected from the system," NYPD Deputy

The latest disagreement is part of a larger debate over which agency should pay for emergency safety repairs to the subway system. Gov. Cuomo has said the city and the state should split the bill.

The Gov. blame the subway system huge problems, passengers late by 40 minutes each direction, derailments, inconveniences wants to get real and talk about the homeless...

Do something for God's sake. Enough of the fake talk. The subway system is used by 2 million passengers a day.

Monday, October 23, 2017

Nothing...

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Kate...

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Trial is set to begin this week for a Mexican man who set off a national immigration debate after he fatally shot 32-year-old Kate Steinle on a popular San Francisco pier.
The man acknowledges shooting Steinle in the back while she was walking with her father on the downtown pier July 1, 2015.
He claimed that the shooting was accidental as he was handling a handgun he found wrapped in a T-shirt under a bench on the pier when it accidentally fired. The handgun belonged to a Bureau of Land Management ranger who reported that it was stolen from his parked car in San Francisco a week before Steinle was shot.
Zarate had been deported five times and was homeless in San Francisco when he shot Steinle. He had recently completed a prison sentence for illegal re-entry when he was transferred to the San Francisco County jail to face a 20-year-old marijuana charge.
Need someone to do something about the wild west  illegals.

Thad...

The cartoonist's homepage, clarionledger.com/opinion

Minus all wheat and grains, and many health issues disappear.

Sunday, October 22, 2017

Soar...

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Morgan Stanley has a new report out for investors that outlines how Amazon's potential push into pharmacy would benefit consumers. 
The authors speculate that Amazon could open "virtual retail pharmacies," leveraging its Prime Now network for millions of U.S. consumers to buy drugs online..
It would not be a huge challenge for Amazon to become a pharmacy and get added to existing pharmacy benefits managers' networks.  
Secondly, the company could establish relationships with manufacturers of inexpensive generic drugs.
And finally, and most critically, Amazon would build partnerships with makers of branded drugs.
If the company is successful, Morgan Stanley expects that the rebates and other discounts that are currently retained by companies including the pharmacy benefits managers could "pass back to consumers.

Amazon would finally kill the little businesses and then the prices will soar.  It's all about the money.  Just a thought.

Jealousy...

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The New York Times reported that O'Reilly paid $32 million to a Fox News colleague who threatened to sue him for alleged sexual misconduct.

Lis Wiehl's complaints "included allegations of repeated harassment, a non-consensual sexual relationship and the sending of gay pornography and other sexually explicit material to her.

Weeks later, Fox News renewed O'Reilly's contract, reportedly worth $25 million a year. Fox says it knew about the existence of the settlement, but not the price tag.

O'Reilly was fired after another Times story that revealed previously secret settlement payments to other O'Reilly accusers.

Twitter and Facebook lit up about the jaw-dropping payment. "Nobody pays $32m for false allegations - nobody," Gretchen Carlson tweeted.

We haven't got enough settlement out of the Fox.   Just a thought.

Saturday, October 21, 2017

High Five...*



The Supreme Court's rule in favor of Hobby Lobby applies only to companies considered “closely held.”  Five or fewer people own more than half the corporation. Many of which are already exempt due to size.   Who won and who Lost? Confused.

The Religion, is the biggest loser of all and so is women. Christianity, in this light, is reduced to Abortion ...pill.... IUD.... Pros and Cons and nothing else.

Did Hobby Lobby sue the Bush administration not to pay taxes for the War in Iraq that killed thousands of our soldiers, death and misery for Iraq.
Where is the religion? Where is the Belief??????????????????

"For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty ..... something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and ......., I was in prison and you came to visit me.’              That I believe.

Let us make peace than war. Just a Thought.

Friday, October 20, 2017

Price...

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President Donald Trump took two swings at drug makers over the high cost of medicines, bringing attention back to an administration priority that he has largely ignored for the past few months.

Trump reiterated his desire to get the cost of prescription drugs "way down," claiming that "the world is taking advantage of us."
Before a Cabinet meeting earlier, Trump accused drug companies of "getting away with murder," repeating an attack line he first used shortly before taking office.
He still remember...

Domestic...


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Deputies from the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office found a vast arsenal inside a locked closet in a home in Dunedin, including three explosive devices, 10 rifles, eight handguns, two shotguns, ammunition, a makeshift firearm sound suppressor.. the sheriff's office said in a press release.

The deputies also found aerial photographs of a water treatment plant, an elementary school and a middle school -- all Hillsborough County.

A handwritten note, "The daughters come, and I am ready. I have fed on my hatred for centuries. My fury at those who imprisoned me shall be vast and without mercy... then the WORLD WILL BURN BURN," according to the sheriff's office.  Officials arrested 24-year-old Randall Drake,  

Drake has no criminal history or history of mental health issues. Investigators went to the home -- where Drake lives with his mother and father -- to execute a search warrant in connection with a child pornography investigation.