Shameful...*

Warner Chilcott has agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges.  The company paid kickbacks to physicians to entice them to prescribe its drugs, manipulated insurance companies to pay, and made unsubstantiated claims about its drugs. It will pay a criminal fine of $125  million.

Several individuals, including a physician and former district managers, have also pleaded guilty or been charged in connection with the investigation. Former Warner Chilcott President W. Carl Reichel was also arrested on one count of conspiring to pay kickbacks to physicians.

The lawsuit alleged the company paid doctors speaking fees to induce them to prescribe the drugs, and promoted uses for drugs that weren’t approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which caused government health programs to pay for prescriptions that shouldn’t have been paid.

Add to it the failed attempt Tax Inversion between Pfizer and Allergan and you may see the Scope.
Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump promised to change the monopoly?   

Just a thought.

Lose...*

You may be confused about why we are bombing Iraq and Syria.

We support the Iraqi government in the fight against ISIS.

We don't like ISIS, but ISIS has been supported by Saudi Arabia, whom we do like, and Saudi Arabia is now supporting us in bombing ISIS.

We don't like President Assad in Syria. We support the fight against him, but not ISIS, which is also fighting against him.

Then comes Iran and Russia, which don't like ISIS but like Assad against Saudi. Then comes Turkey.

We don't like Iran, but Iran supports the Iraqi government against ISIS.

We compete and work together with Russia but we don't want them to take credit.

So some of our friends support our enemies and some of our enemies are our friends, and some of our enemies are fighting against our other enemies whom we want to lose, but we don't want our enemies who are fighting our enemies to win.

If the people we want to defeat are defeated, they will be replaced by people we like even less.

And all this started by us invading Iraq to drive out terrorists who weren't there until we went to drive them out. [Audrey Bailey on 08 September 2015. Posted in News & Comment]

So to win, we lose and if we lose...... Just a thought.

I Know...

Tax...

Render...

Charity...*

Privilege...

Try...

U.S. allies France and UK joined Trump in an attack on Syria, defying Russia, China and Iran, which support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Let us not force our well on this poor country. Four Hundred thousands person killed so far. What are we waiting for?

Let us try peace. It works.

Hullabaloo...

Lost in the hyper-politicized hullabaloo surrounding the Nunes Memorandum and the Steele Dossier was the striking statement by Secretary of Defense James Mattis that the U.S. has “no evidence” that the Syrian government used the banned nerve agent Sarin against its own people.

Mattis offered no temporal qualifications, which means that both the 2017 event in Khan Sheikhoun and the 2013 tragedy in Ghouta are unsolved cases in the eyes of the Defense Department and Defense Intelligence Agency.

Mattis went on to acknowledge that “aid groups and others” had provided evidence and reports but stopped short of naming President Assad as the culprit.
[News Week 2/8/2018 by Ian Wilkie.]

Insight...*

So what makes lunatic bosses act the way they do? Brian Stern, president of management consulting firm Shaker Consulting Group, contends that tyrannical behaviour often stems from bosses not knowing what they're doing.

A false assumption is thinking that bosses actually know how to manage people. Mention the word "boss" and we immediately think that the person has some special abilities or training. There are rules and training programs for almost every conceivable job, from sanitation engineer to nuclear physicist, but no set curriculum teaches you how to be a boss.

An obvious way to compensate for a lack of skills is to be tough and unyielding. You stand a better chance of being left alone and unquestioned this way. Yet training alone won't turn a crazy boss into a sane manager. 

Tyrannical bosses come in one of two packages. "The first is the hard-nosed, tough, demanding perfectionist," says Stern. "They can be difficult to work with, but they will listen to reason because they're all about doing the best job they can. They also know that talented people make things happen. But they can drive you nuts trying to achieve goals."

The second type, however, is even more difficult to work with, says Stern. "They are unyielding control freaks and have a total disregard for the facts. They demand that things be done their way."

You may have one mixing and matching the two.... Dealing with humans is not their strong suits.