Grabber...

Buckling under public pressure, Gov. Cuomo on Tuesday dropped his much-contested plan to require car owners to pay $25 for a new license plate if their current one is more than 10 years old.

The governor pitched the requirement when his administration launched an online poll that let residents vote on the state’s next plate design, but has since backtracked on the idea. Cuomo said some older plates are undetectable by automatic tolling technology, which could cost the state bundles of

 Many New Yorkers and lawmakers bemoaned the plan and called it a cash-grab by the Cuomo Administration.

It's Fake

 the Times ran a “news analysis” piece adapted from a forthcoming book, “The Education of Brett Kavanaugh.”

It included a seemingly new allegation  that a Kavanaugh classmate at Yale, nonprofit CEO Max Stier, “saw Kavanaugh with his pants down at a drunken dorm party, where ........”

On Sunday, the New York Times walked back and significantly revised the latest incendiary allegation.

The Times updated the Kavanaugh story  acknowledging that the alleged victim of the incident had declined to be interviewed and several friends had said she did not recall the alleged misconduct.

The unusual correction of the bombshell story seemed to mean little to the field of 2020 Democratic presidential as they all giving an angry opinion...... 

They fell for it.

Precautionary...

The maker of the popular heartburn medication Zantac said  it has stopped distributing the drug worldwide pending investigations. 

The Sandoz division of the Swiss pharmaceutical corporation Novartis said it made a "precautionary distribution stop" of Zantac and all medicines containing ranitidine, the generic treatment for stomach acid and ulcers. 

The decision follows an announcement from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that the drug contained a "probable" carcinogenic chemical in a type of nitrosamine called N-nitrosodimethylamine, or NDMA.

 For now, U.S. health officials said patients can continue taking Zantac and similar heartburn medications, but prescription patients can consult their doctors if they want to switch to other treatments

 The recalled drugs, which were manufactured in China, had higher levels of the NDMA chemical than U.S. health officials deemed acceptable. 

Afloat...

Will take away your gun.
Will take away your private Health Insurance.
Will take additional taxes to give you less services.
Will take away your National Security by starting wars everywhere in the Middle East.
The poor will stay poor, and the middle Class will join them by the time we tax everyone.

Les...

Solid Zero...

 

Trump took one more shot at Mayor Bill de Blasio, poking fun at the “really big political news” that the mayor ended his no-chance presidential campaign Friday morning.

“(He) was polling at a solid ZERO but had tremendous room for growth,” Trump tweeted.

De Blasio, who failed to qualify for the third Democratic debate last week in Houston, joined the race in May. A September poll of New York showed zero percent support in his home state, and he has lagged in nationally polling as well.

“NYC is devastated, he’s coming back.”  

JP...

Two former JPMorgan metals traders described as "among the defendant's co-conspirators" already pleaded guilty in October and August to illegal spoofing.

Nowak and Smith were placed on leave earlier in September pending the FBI investigation.

• Gregg Smith: 


• Michael Nowak: 


• Christopher Jordan

Smith, Nowak, Jordan, and their co-conspirators allegedly engaged in a complex scheme to trade precious metals in a way that negatively affected the natural balance of supply-and-demand," William F. Sweeney Jr., an FBI assistant director, said in a statement.

They were accused of placing orders they intended to cancel just before execution. These "deceptive orders" were made to "create liquidity and drive prices toward orders they wanted to execute on the opposite side of the market," the Justice Department said.

D.B. Cooper...

THE mystery of the man whose audacious crime shocked the world and gave us modern day airport security checks, may finally have been revealed.

Secret FBI files uncovered this week reveal the identity of the daredevil skyjacker who has been mythologised in film, TV and song. For 45 years he was on the FBI’s Most Wanted list, until, in 2016, the agency closed the case in frustration.

But the newly-uncovered FBI documents reveal investigators believed the audacious criminal who leapt from the jet was former US Army pilot Robert Rackstraw – and that he was also an undercover CIA operative.

Robert Rackstraw died in July, aged 75 – and one of the world’s greatest crime mysteries may finally have been solved. Express.co.uk

Fired...

Criticize...