Lift the gags in the pharmacy | Crain's Detroit Business

Lift the gags in the pharmacy | Crain's Detroit Business:
"It's time to take the gags off pharmacists and end a practice that makes it a disadvantage to have health insurance.
A push is underway in Lansing to free pharmacists to tell patients when there is a cheaper way to fill their prescriptions, and it deserves to succeed.
...The way gag rules work is this: Pharmacy benefit management companies, the middle men in the system who negotiate drug prices between insurers and pharmacies, insert a requirement into contracts that bans pharmacists from telling patients when the cash price for medicines is cheaper than the price when processed through insurance.
Often, patients will pay the full co-payment for drugs even if the cash price is lower than the co-pay. The pharmacy benefit manager typically pockets the difference, in a practice known as a "clawback."...
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Lunch video-----The WWII Cartoon Warner Bros. Doesn't Want You To See - World War Wings

The WWII Cartoon Warner Bros. Doesn't Want You To See - World War Wings
"They Can’t Make Cartoons Like This Anymore.
During the early 1940s war propaganda films were very common in American cinema, in fact they were so common that most of the animation studios began creating their own cartoons spoofing the war.

In August of 1942 Warner Bros. released a Looney Toons short titled “The Ducktators” satirizing Hitler and the Axis Powers. 

The cartoon features a barnyard full of ducks, geese and chickens living peacefully until a jet black egg hatches revealing a goose resembling Adolf Hitler. 

True to form the Hitler goose begins goose-stepping around the barnyard rallying ignorant ducks to his cause in a parody of Hitler’s rise to power..."

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Wondermark » Archive » #1395; In which Sooth is said:

Comey's version of the facts conflicts with the record - Washington Times

Comey's version of the facts conflicts with the record - Washington Times:

"Fired FBI director James Comey has provided a number of assertions about the Trump-Russia probe that conflict with the historical record.
Whether it involves who paid for the anti-Trump dossier, what Mr. Comey knew about the funding and when its author, Christopher Steele, first met with the FBI, the former director has provided his version of facts that critics say are wrong."

The Pentagon's Ray Gun Can Stall Cars - Slashdot

The Pentagon's Ray Gun Can Stall Cars - Slashdot
 Defense One:
The Defense Department's Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program, or JNLWD, is pushing ahead with a new direct energy weapon that uses high-powered microwaves to stop cars in their tracks without damaging the vehicle, its driver, or anyone else. The jammer works by targeting the car's engine control unit causing it to reboot over and over, stalling the engine. Like an invisible hand, the microwaves hold the car in place. "Anything that has electronics on it, these high-powered microwaves will affect," David Law, who leads JNLWD's technology division, said in March. "As long as the [radio] is on, it holds the vehicle stopped."
It weighs 400 pounds -- it's the size of a large copy machine -- and uses 300 kilowatts of power that's generated by a gasoline-powered turbine.
"To deploy it, the driver would pull out in front of the attacker and turn it on."

#1 Movie this week 1949-----Little Women (1949) Trailer in Color

Here Are Three Scary FBI Scandal Factors You Must Know

Here Are Three Scary FBI Scandal Factors You Must Know
"There's an old Washington maxim about being careful because 'what goes around almost always comes back around'
There are three scary but crucial factors underlying the rapidly growing FBI scandal that most people miss, even though these factors are hidden in plain sight.
Recognizing and understanding this trio goes a long way toward explaining what has happened in the scandal — and where it is likely to go next.

• First, there’s Horowitz’s revenge. Virtually everybody in the nation’s capital is waiting either in fear or in eager anticipation for the upcoming investigative report of Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz...Here’s why: The Inspectors General Act of 1978 authorizes the IGs and their investigators and auditors to obtain and examine any official document necessary to carrying out their responsibilities in fighting waste, fraud and corruption in government. Presidents appoint IGs — but those IGs report to Congress, making them an important component of congressional oversight of the executive branch. But a few months before Horowitz was sworn into the job in 2012, Eric Holder, Obama’s attorney general and previously deputy attorney general under President Bill Clinton, gutted the IG act provision that mandates their access to all necessary documents. Holder acted at the behest of then-FBI Director Robert Mueller and others at the bureau.

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#1 This day 1966-----The Mamas & The Papas - Monday Monday

ISIS "is driving mass migration from Africa to send jihadists into Europe," "Syria was bad, but wait until a region with 500 million people is destabilised' - Geller Report

ISIS "is driving mass migration from Africa to send jihadists into Europe," "Syria was bad, but wait until a region with 500 million people is destabilised' - Geller Report:
"In February, the Islamic State warned us that they would send half a million Muslim migrants into Europe — an army against the West. 

...Leftist elite authoritarians, responsible for the ongoing catastrophe, scoffed at our warnings. Instead, they defamed and libeled my colleagues and me, while fictionalizing what was/is essentially the invasion of Europe.
Clear-thinking Americans saw what was happening in Europe, saw that the Democrats wanted that same horror for us, and took action — President Trump. 
...Pay heed, 2020 is just around the corner, and the Democrats have declared war. 
What better way to achieve their goals than by importing an army?

ISIS ‘is driving migration from Africa to send jihadists into Europe’: Senior UN figure warns – ‘If destabilising Syria was bad, wait until a region with 500 million people is destabilised’

• Fleeing ISIS leaders are ‘joining forces with fanatics in Africa’s Sahel region’
• Head of UN World Food Programme said extremists could drive a migration wave
• David Beasley warned jihadists could then ‘infiltrate’ Europe ‘and cause chaos’
• Sahel spans 3,360 miles across Africa from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea

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Donald Trump to pull feds out of K-12 education - Washington Times

Donald Trump to pull feds out of K-12 education - Washington Times:

"President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday to start pulling the federal government out of K-12 education, following through on a campaign promise to return school control to state and local officials.
The order, dubbed the “Education Federalism Executive Order,” will launch a 300-day review of Obama-era regulations and guidance for school districts and directs Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to modify or repeal measures she deems an overreach by the federal government."

Disappeared-----James Levine wiped off Sirius-XM…

Instapundit » Blog Archive » OCEANIA HAS NEVER BEEN AT WAR WITH THE NEW YORK METROPOLITAN OPERA: James Levine wiped off Sirius-XM…:
OCEANIA HAS NEVER BEEN AT WAR WITH THE NEW YORK METROPOLITAN OPERA: James Levine wiped off Sirius-XM’s Met Opera Radio channel. 

This means the 40 years of broadcasts while Levine was music director has been silenced.

The Levine operas have been replaced with full-length broadcast recordings from the 1930s, 1940s, and especially 1950s with often dubious technical quality despite great singers.

Now everyone knows that Levine and the Met are only speaking through lawyers these day, but this vindictive editing of institutional history is reminiscent of Stalin at his worst, when Trotsky and other undesirables were whited out of party pictures.

The Met fired Levine last month, the L.A. Times reported, “after finding ‘credible evidence that Mr. Levine had engaged in sexually abusive and harassing conduct.’”

By that standard, a whole lot of Hollywood’s back catalog of both movies and TV shows will soon be tossed down the Memory Hole, no matter how big the resulting bonfire’s carbon footprint will be.

(Via Terry Teachout.)"

AM Fruitcake

History for April 30

History for April 30 - On-This-Day.com:
Cornelius Vanderbilt 1898, George R. Stibitz 1904, Robert Shaw 1916


John (Johnny) Horton 1925, Jill Clayburgh 1944 - Actress, Kirsten Dunst 1982 - Actress ("Spider-Man")


1789 - George Washington took office as first elected U.S. president.


1803 - The U.S. purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million.


1900 - Casey Jones was killed while trying to save the runaway train "Cannonball Express."


1938 - Happy Rabbit appeared in the cartoon "Porky's Hare Hunt." This rabbit would later evolve into Bugs Bunny.


1943 - The British submarine HMS Seraph dropped 'the man who never was,' a dead man the British planted with false invasion plans, into the Mediterranean off the coast of Spain.


1945 - Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide. They had been married for one day. One week later Germany surrendered unconditionally.


1952 - Mr. Potato Head became the first toy to be advertised on network television.


1993 - CERN put the World Wide Web software in the public domain.


1998 - United and Delta airlines announced their alliance that would give them control of 1/3 of all U.S. passenger seats.

‘Cry closet’ helps college students cope with stress of finals

‘Cry closet’ helps college students cope with stress of finals:

"If you’re a college student stressed out over the class deadlines and final exams, the University of Utah has a plan to help you eliminate your anxiety: Just lock yourself in this dark closet for 10 minutes, cuddle a stuffed animal and cry it all out."

The way we were-----Yes - Roundabout

Boob-tube-----The Most Uncomfortable Celeb Interviews Ever

Best picture Oscar winners are out of touch with audiences: Box office data - Business Insider

Best picture Oscar winners are out of touch with audiences: Box office data - Business Insider: 
"It's easy to say that the Oscars are out of touch with the regular moviegoer, but when you dive into the numbers it's scary how correct that general thought is.
We looked back at the lifetime domestic gross for the last 15 best picture Oscar winners and matched those with the lifetime gross for the movies that topped those years at the box office. 
And only once did they match up (2003's "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King").
In fact, most of the best picture Oscar winners didn't crack $100 million at the box office and only two crossed the $200 million mark — and that's counting inflation!
See the last 15 years for yourself below. 
As you'll see, the numbers don't lie.
Note: All figures are domestic grosses only from Box Office Mojo and are added for inflation."
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"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" is the only movie in the last 15 years that won the best picture Oscar and was the top box office-grossing movie of that year. New Line Cinema

John Podesta: "We Must Reduce World's Population" - Your News Wire

John Podesta: "We Must Reduce World's Population" - Your News Wire

"Former Clinton campaign chair John Podesta has outlined plans to implement a controversial eugenics program in order to depopulate the planet. 
Writing for the Washington Post, Podesta claims that reducing the world’s population is not only desirable, but absolutely necessary in order to “reduce carbon emissions by 2050.”

Writing for WaPo, Podesta writes:

"When we talk about stepping up to address climate change across the world, we rarely think of it in terms of women’s rights. But if environmental activists really want to reduce emissions, raise living standards and build a more sustainable future, they cannot overlook the importance of reproductive rights and health.

Forging a coalition between the environmental movement and the women’s rights movement will not only fundamentally advance women’s rights but also do a world of good for the planet, which is bearing an environmental burden because of population growth..."
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Democratic Party Revolutionaries Destroy Norms, Advocate Violence | National Review

Democratic Party Revolutionaries Destroy Norms, Advocate Violence | National Review:

"The danger to the country this time around is that the Left has so destroyed the old protocols of the opposition party that it will be hard to resurrect them when progressives return to power.
We are entering revolutionary times. The law is no longer equally applied. The media are the ministry of truth. The Democratic party is a revolutionary force. And it is all getting scary."

What Leftists Stand For

What Leftists Stand For:
"Historically, both sides of the political spectrum in America have supported the rule of law and the Constitution.  
Additionally, other than the Democrats' longstanding racist oppression of black people, the positions held by both sides were generally differences that people of goodwill could hold.  
For example, good people can disagree on just what the tax rates should be.

Since Roe v. Wade, that has changed, and the change has accelerated rapidly in the last eight years.  
The left in America has openly embraced evil, rejected the rule of law, and denied that Americans they disagree with have constitutional rights.

That's why 2016 was a Flight 93 election: the political fight in America is no longer among people of good will, but between evil fascists and the American people.  
Most of the people who vote for the Democrats have no idea what the left actually stands for due to the actions of the media, who hide the truth.

Here are some of the evils perpetrated or supported by large numbers of leftists so you can convince those Democrat voters to switch sides:

8. They don't care that cheap illegal labor hurts black people by denying them jobs.

9. They don't care that their fake climate crisis will drive up energy costs and hurt the poor, who are disproportionately people of color.

10. They declare that giving inner-city black parents the choice of sending their kids to a school where they will get a good education is "racist."

11. They don't care that thousands of blacks are shot each year in Democratic-run cities.

12. They deny witness reports by black crime victims that show that blacks are more likely to commit crimes, though most blacks are law-abiding, and demand that blacks be incarcerated at the same rate as all other groups, ensuring that blacks continue to suffer from black-on-black crime.

13. They want to take money from people who never owned slaves and give it to people who never were slaves.

14. They refuse to accept any election result that doesn't favor them.

56. They hate the police and demand that cops be perfect or face jail time.

...This in turn tells us why we have to fight and why, even though the Republicans have failed us many times, letting the Democrats take over the House or the Senate, or both, would be a disaster of unparalleled magnitude..."
Long, sick list.
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Our government funded NPR brands everyone "xenophobes" who support secure borders----- we Hungary Has A Xenophobia Problem : Parallels : NPR

Hungary Has A Xenophobia Problem : Parallels : NPR:
"Our series "Take A Number" looks at problems around the world — and the people trying to solve them — through the lens of a single number.
Today's number: 10 — that's the percentage of Hungarians who feel "totally comfortable" having an immigrant as a friend.
...In a newly published European Union survey on immigration, only 10 percent of Hungarians said they would feel "totally comfortable" having an immigrant as a friend.
Fifty-five percent said they would feel "uncomfortable."...
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Lunch video-----Sink The Bismarck Not full but click on link in description

The full movie:  Sink the Bismarck

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Penn State Shuts Down 'Outing Club' After Deciding Going Outdoors Is 'Too Risky' For Students | Daily Wire

Penn State Shuts Down 'Outing Club' After Deciding Going Outdoors Is 'Too Risky' For Students | Daily Wire:

"Penn State University has shut down a 98-year-old "Outing Club" after school administrators deemed the group, which enjoys hiking, backpacking, and kayaking, "too risky" for its student body."

Poll: Nearly 2 Out of 3 Voters Support Reducing Legal Immigration to U.S. | Breitbart

Poll: Nearly 2 Out of 3 Voters Support Reducing Legal Immigration to U.S. | Breitbart
"Nearly two out of three American voters say they support President Trump’s plan to reduce overall legal immigration levels in the United States, whereby currently more than 1.5 million legal immigrants arrive annually.

In a new poll by Harvard-Harris polling, about 66 percent of voters — or nearly two out of three — said they support a plan by the Trump administration to almost cut legal immigration in half by ending the process known as “chain migration,” as well as the Diversity Visa Lottery, and building a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The deal would couple the wage-boosting relief for American citizens with allowing only illegal aliens enrolled in the President Obama-created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to stay in the U.S. There are nearly 800,000 DACA illegal aliens.

...Since 2005, chain migration has allowed 9.3 million foreign nationals to resettle in the U.S. for no other reason than they had extended family members already living in the country. This huge inflow outpaces two years of American births, which amount to roughly four million babies every year..."
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Ann Arbor’s $307,000 Firefighter [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

Ann Arbor’s $307,000 Firefighter [Michigan Capitol Confidential]: 

"When Gretchen Virlee-Wagner, an assistant training officer with the Ann Arbor Fire Department, retired in 2017 she collected $307,516 in total compensation for the year.
...But she used payments for unused compensation time, vacation time and sick time to boost that final year’s income.
“Ms. Wagner retired, and the salary shown includes the pay-outs for her accumulated compensation time, sick pay, and vacation pay,” City Manager Howard Lazarus said in an email. 
...According to OpenTheBooks.com, Virlee-Wagner’s salary in

2014 was $90,692. 

It jumped to $102,592 in 2015 and $110,581 in 2016.
According to the city of Ann Arbor, Virlee-Wagner retired in February 2017 with 25 years of service..."
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#1 This day 1982-----Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - I Love Rock N Roll

Parents Stand Up for Children in ‘Sex Ed Sit Out’ | Intellectual Takeout

Parents Stand Up for Children in ‘Sex Ed Sit Out’ | Intellectual Takeout:
"Parents across the country pulled their children out of public schools on Monday for the “Sex Ed Sit Out”—a grassroots awakening of frustrated parents who are sick of the sexualization of children in their taxpayer-funded schools.
The Sex Ed Sit Out was conceived by Elizabeth Johnston, who blogs at Activist Mommy, and other moms on social media who are concerned about the increasingly graphic, unscientific nature of sex education in public schools.
Parents protested in cities across the United States, as well as in England, Canada, and Australia.
In solidarity with the event, parents in Northern Virginia held a conference on Saturday on the radical changes in sex education and how schools deliberately deceive parents.
A common note struck at the conference was the anti-science approach of the Fairfax County sex ed curriculum.
Students are taught that they weren’t really born male or female—rather, a sex was assigned to them at birth by a delivery room doctor who might have gotten it wrong.
In fact, sex ed curriculum advisers recently announced that “biological sex is essentially meaningless,” and the phrase is being scrubbed from all lessons and replaced by the phrase “sex assigned at birth.”
It’s a little sexual-revolutionary agitprop to keep the youngsters off balance..."
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The Changes That Made California Become a Liberal Fiasco

The Changes That Made California Become a Liberal Fiasco: "A Basket Case

“California’s de facto status as a one-party state lies at the heart of its poverty problem,” wrote Kerry Jackson, the Pacific Research Institute’s fellow in California studies. “With a permanent majority in the state Senate and the Assembly, a prolonged dominance in the executive branch, and a weak opposition, California Democrats have long been free to indulge blue-state ideology while paying little or no political price. The state’s poverty problem is unlikely to improve while policymakers remain unwilling to unleash the engines of economic prosperity that drove California to its golden years.”"