Scammers...

Scammers are flooding the United States with Chinese-language robocalls, causing major headaches from coast to coast.

Your phone rings, you pick up, a prerecorded voice message meets your ears. The recording, which often sounds like a young woman, usually delivers a message about lowering credit-card rates or buying into cheap health insurance.

The Chinese scammer s claim to be counselate rep.

The important thing to remember is that sales robocalls are illegal in the United States. So, don’t expect the person on the other end of the line to follow through on whatever deal they claim to offer. 

If you get a call or message like this, hang up or delete it, and then tell the FTC. If you have business with the real Chinese Consulate and you’re worried, contact the real Chinese Consulate by looking up your local office’s number. But, whatever you do, don’t give out your information – or your money – to anyone who contacts you out of the blue.

Me...

Freshman Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar has wasted no time making a name for herself. One group will not benefit from the brouhaha  from use of familiar anti-Semitic themes, are the Palestinians themselves. Being anti-Israel is different from being pro-Palestinian.

There’s no end to the urgent tasks she could champion. Palestinians are enduring a crisis in relations with the U.S. and desperately need effective political support in Washington. A disastrous set of developments needs to be reversed, but no one in Congress is effectively addressing them.Washington mission of the Palestine Liberation Organization was closed last year.
Failure to bring humanitarian and reconstruction aid to that, polluted and impoverished almost 1.5 million people, most of them also refugees.

Instead of championing the urgent Palestinian interest in any of those imperatives, Omar’s rhetoric has provoked a pointless debate over the motivations and national loyalty of Americans who support Israel.
She is for herself and only herself .  Just a thought.

Break...

Senator Elizabeth Warren wants to break up the big three: Amazon, Facebook and Google. The Massachusetts Democrat and presidential contender wants to create a regulatory regime that would treat tech companies with more than $25 billion in revenue differently from small tech companies.

 

She is, by nature, a wonk in that she can articulate complicated policy proposals better than most. And breaking up Big Tech is an idea that will require deep dives into the nature of platforms, the meaning of antitrust law, and all sorts of other things. 

Passing a bill to break up Amazon, Facebook and Google in the Senate requires someone who has the ability to get into the weeds and write legislation that makes sense — and can then argue for that bill in ways her colleagues will understand. As a senator, Elizabeth Warren could do that.  

How about break the healthcare cost down? Just a thought.

Insurgency...

Egypt's Interior Ministry says security forces have killed seven members of a militant group with suspected links to the now-outlawed Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo shootouts.

The ministry says three militants were killed on a highway known as Ring Road in Cairo's district of Giza while the remaining four were killed in a firefight when police raided their hideout in the Egyptian capital's suburb of Sixth of October.

The ministry says weapons and ammunition were found among the militants' possession. A police officer was wounded.

Egypt, which has been under a state of emergency since April 2017, has been battling Islamic militants for years.

The insurgency gained strength after the 2013 overthrow of elected but divisive Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

Militants mainly target security forces and minority.

Woman's...

Complicated...

Surprise...

A steady stream of men wandered in and out of the Bridge Day Spa, a massage parlor in a strip mall anchored by a Publix Supermarket and a Sherwin-Williams Paint Store. Police say the men engaged in illicit sexual activity with Chinese masseuses inside the spa, with two or three women reportedly exchanging sexual acts with up to 10 men a day. 

That complex and painstaking – and, to some, controversial – teamwork was at the center of a four-county, seven-month sex trafficking investigation of massage parlors that included hidden cameras, billionaire johns, semen-stained napkins and a $20 million suspected network that stretched from China to New York to Florida. 

More than 10 people connected to the spas have been charged with offenses ranging from racketeering and money laundering to profiting from prostitution.  

Surprise..!!!!

Waist...

 As we get older, the excess weight could increase the risk of developing diseases, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, dementia and even cancer.

In women, a single increase in skirt size between mid-20s and mid-50s could make them three times more likely to have breast cancer after menopause, according to WebMD.

The body mass index (BMI) uses height and weight to measure body fat. However, for older adults, BMI in some cases can understate body fat.

This leads us to properly considering waist size. 

If the waist size appears more than 35 inches for a woman or 40 inches for a man, a person can be considered obese, according to Rush University Medical Center.   

Even those who are already in their 80s can still develop lean muscle mass and keep body fat down through exercise and healthy diet. 

Partially...

An investigation has been launched after three "small improvised explosives," were discovered after being sent to major transport hubs in London.

The packages were discovered at various locations near three of London's major transport hubs -- Heathrow Airport, City Airport and London Waterloo rail station. Flights to and from the airports were not affected by the incident, and Waterloo rail services are continuing as normal.

One of the devices near Heathrow Airport, "initiate[d]" after staff at the building opened the package. "This resulted in part of the package burning," police said, though nobody was injured in the incident.

*This is the new era. Just a thought.

Apple...

Researchers followed more than 500,000 participants between the ages of 40–69 and found the incidence of heart attack was associated with body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio and waist-to-height ratios.

The greater the waist-to-hip ratio (calculated as waist circumference divided by hip circumference), the higher the heart attack risk in women. For men, a waist circumference over 40 inches poses the greatest risk, compared to 35 inches for women.

Fat in the abdominal cavity is associated with increased risk of high blood sugar, inflammation, elevated triglycerides and lower levels of HDL “good” cholesterol, making it more dangerous than fat stored elsewhere in the body.

Thus, “in two people with the same BMI, the person who has more of an apple shape and stores fat in their abdomen is at higher risk of heart disease than the one who stores their fat elsewhere,” says Michos.