Cost...

As he nears his 80th birthday, Tom Brokaw is still managing his cancer pain — while experimenting with new treatment methods.       The NBC News senior correspondent, 79, was diagnosed with incurable multiple myeloma, a rare type of cancer that causes bone pain. After his diagnosis in August 2013, he started treatment at the Mayo Clinic and announced in December 2014 that he was in remission.

An extraordinary amount of progress has been made with drugs and treatment. We haven’t gotten the cost thing worked out yet,” he said. At one point, I counted up the price and it was something like $10,000 a day, you know, that I was spending on drugs. I have the blessing of having a great program through first RCA, then GE, and now Comcast. So the checks that I write for pharmacy are very, very small. And it makes — every time I do that, it makes me aware of the people who are not in the same position that I am, and how I think about them.”

Let us make cost reduction a key to solve the healthcare crisis.  Just a thought..

Rolls...

A Chinese student who was attacked with a stun gun and kidnapped in Canada has been found unharmed, police said. 

Lu and a female friend were exiting his car in an underground parking lot in the Ontario city of Markham when four masked men grabbed him, police said. One was carrying a taser, and used it on Lu as he attempted to resist. Lu's friend was unharmed.

Surveillance footage showed men wearing bulky black jackets with their faces covered grabbing Lu and bundling him into a black minivan with stolen plates. It was later found abandoned in nearby Toronto.

CNN affiliate reported that in 2017, at least three Chinese international students were targeted by scammers who attempted to extort money from their families back in China.

CTV News, a CNN affiliate, said Lu drove expensive luxury cars, including a Lamborghini and a Rolls Royce.

Any Day Now...

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into an alleged conspiracy between candidate Donald Trump and Russia has ende, after spending almost two years and nearly $40 million.  Mueller has determined that no one in “the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.”.

One of the tactics Russia used was to hack into computer operations and obtain emails from members of the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign.  It appears that they stolen from either organization a database of DNC opposition research on then-candidate Trump. Also the way Bernie Sanders was treated by the NDC and finally the cheating of the debate questionnaire that is to Hillary's team. 

The looser in this story ending is the Media who filled the air with planned non sense knowing that they are after the ratings regardless.

Clank...

It wasn't important for anybody that Muller's report would come as it did. The Democrats never thought it would come any other way.  

But as long as the liberal Media is loosing ground with this president than the previous,  we will stay in this non sense politics for a long time. In any other job, these folks would have been fired long time ago. But this is the business of news, possible news, fake news, analysis, leaks... 

WAAA...

The Media's devastation. 

While Muller didn't speak during the 19 months investigation, CNN and others filled their airways with made up stories of what Mr. Muller is looking for, who is he looking at, what would he be doing next till "he is knocking on the White House Door". 

Nothing happened except they filled the air with Non Sense as they always do. The issue here is we have to follow the money when it comes to the Media, just follow the money.

Russ...

Post Reality...

Post-truth politics (also called post-reality politics)^[2] is a political culture in which debate is framed largely by appeals to emotion disconnected from the details of policy, and by the repeated assertion of talking points to which factual rebuttals are ignored. 

Post-truth differs from traditional contesting and falsifying of facts by relegating facts and expert opinions to be of secondary importance relative to appeal to emotion. While this has been described as a contemporary problem, some observers have described it as a long-standing part of political life that was less notable before the advent of the Internet and related social changes.

As of 2018, political commentators have identified post-truth politics as ascendant in many nations, notably the United States, India, the United Kingdom, Russia, and Brazil, among others. As with other areas of debate, this is being driven by a combination of the 24-hour news cycle, false balance in news reporting, and the increasing ubiquity of social media.

In 2016, post-truth was chosen as the Oxford Dictionaries' Word of the Year^[9] due to its prevalence in the context of that year's Brexit referendum and media coverage of the U.S. presidential election.

MAGA...

Michael Avenatti was arrested in New York City on charges of trying to extort up to $25 million from Nike by threatening to reveal claims that company employees had authorized payments to the families of top high school basketball players.

Avenatti also was charged in a second federal case in Los Angeles with embezzling a client's money and  "defrauding a bank in Mississippi," prosecutors said.

Avenatti gained widespread notoriety for representing porn star Stormy Daniel's  $130,000 hush money. He was in the News all the time.

Embraced by the Democrats, Avenatti announced that he was considering running for president as he was embraced by Democrats .

Daniels, in a statement, "Knowing what I know now about Michael, I'm saddened but not shocked regarding his arrest."

Darling...

The darling of CNN, Michael Avenatti had it all. He represented the Porn Star Stormy Daniels and since she had something with Trump [you call it the way you see it] the Media gave him all the time in the world. He is the guy that will expose the secrets that didn't exist. 

 For month he filled the stories of CNN empty slots with talk back and forth.

Yesterday he was arrested and CNN didn't discover a conspiracy behind it yet.

Ferry...

Ask what de Blasio is doing to address the city’s transportation being deteriorated by the minute, but he’s likely to focus on one initiative in particular:

the city-subsidized ferry service launched at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, which carried fewer than 10,000 trips per day in 2017.

The city’s bus system, meanwhile, carries about 2 million weekday trips but is hemorrhaging riders, and the subway system deterioration during his time.

De Blasio announced that he’s pouring more money into ferries, with another $300 million in capital spending on top of the $325 million his administration has already put into the system. The city also spends $30 million annually on ferry operations.

De Blasio’s press conference, at the just-opened Bay Ridge docks, was at least the eighth ferry-related public event he’s held since the beginning of 2017, compared to two such events for buses.

Riders pay $2.75, the same as a subway or a bus fare. The ticket is subsidized by the city at an estimated $6.60 per trip. The subsidy costs the city about $30 million a year. That could rise as the ferry service becomes more popular, according to city officials.

The mayor said "the money is in the wrong hands."