Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Legal extortion?-----Neil Armstrong’s Death, and a Stormy, Secret $6 Million Settlement - The New York Times
Neil Armstrong’s Death, and a Stormy, Secret $6 Million Settlement - The New York Times
"When Neil Armstrong died in a Cincinnati hospital two weeks after undergoing heart surgery in 2012, his family released a touching tribute addressing the astronaut’s millions of admirers around the globe.
...But in private, the family’s reaction to his death at 82 was far stormier.
His two sons contended that incompetent post-surgical care at Mercy Health — Fairfield Hospital had cost Mr. Armstrong his life, and even one expert retained by the hospital would find serious problems with his treatment.
The hospital defended the care, but paid the family $6 million to settle the matter privately and avoid devastating publicity, documents show.
The hospital insisted on keeping the complaints and the settlement secret.
...In a scorching July 2014 email to the hospital’s lawyers, Wendy R. Armstrong, a lawyer and the wife of Mr. Armstrong’s son Mark, noted that Mark and his brother, Rick, would soon be traveling to Florida to speak at a ceremony marking the 45th anniversary of the first moon landing.
“This event at Kennedy Space Center will receive national news coverage,” Wendy Armstrong wrote. “Rick and Mark have been solicited by several book writers and filmmakers for ‘information about Neil that no one already knows.’”
The lawyer suggested that unless the parties reached a quick settlement, the hospital would be publicly criticized for giving lethally flawed care to one of America’s most famous and revered public figures..."
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"When Neil Armstrong died in a Cincinnati hospital two weeks after undergoing heart surgery in 2012, his family released a touching tribute addressing the astronaut’s millions of admirers around the globe.
...But in private, the family’s reaction to his death at 82 was far stormier.
The hospital defended the care, but paid the family $6 million to settle the matter privately and avoid devastating publicity, documents show.
The hospital insisted on keeping the complaints and the settlement secret.
...In a scorching July 2014 email to the hospital’s lawyers, Wendy R. Armstrong, a lawyer and the wife of Mr. Armstrong’s son Mark, noted that Mark and his brother, Rick, would soon be traveling to Florida to speak at a ceremony marking the 45th anniversary of the first moon landing.
“This event at Kennedy Space Center will receive national news coverage,” Wendy Armstrong wrote. “Rick and Mark have been solicited by several book writers and filmmakers for ‘information about Neil that no one already knows.’”
The lawyer suggested that unless the parties reached a quick settlement, the hospital would be publicly criticized for giving lethally flawed care to one of America’s most famous and revered public figures..."
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Too much "sad" or "angry" gonna git you in trouble with the FB police!-----Upcoming Facebook Changes | The Admin Zone
Upcoming Facebook Changes | The Admin Zone:"...Negative ratings reflect poorly on the admin team.
Negative ratings are the angry face, the sad face, member reported content, and the number of people who block you.
These things also reflect poor ratings on groups and suppress reach.
Facebook wants the user experience to be positive.
Sad or angry face reactions tells Facebook that the user is having a bad experience, therefore diminishing your organic reach..."
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There’s A Full-Fledged Fight Over The Wall Going On In The Supreme Court | The Daily Caller
There’s A Full-Fledged Fight Over The Wall Going On In The Supreme Court | The Daily Caller:
The Trump administration asked the high court to rule on its stay application by July 26 because of budget issues. The $2.5 billion in Pentagon funds at issue in this case will not be available for assignment after the fiscal years ends Sept. 30 and the Defense Department needs several months to finalize contracts for each barrier project, according to government lawyers.
The Trump administration asked the high court to rule on its stay application by July 26 because of budget issues. The $2.5 billion in Pentagon funds at issue in this case will not be available for assignment after the fiscal years ends Sept. 30 and the Defense Department needs several months to finalize contracts for each barrier project, according to government lawyers.
Air-conditioner maker Lennox cuts forecast, citing ‘significantly cooler temperatures’ | Watts Up With That?
Air-conditioner maker Lennox cuts forecast, citing ‘significantly cooler temperatures’ | Watts Up With That?"Key Points
- Lennox International lowers its 2019 guidance, partially based on colder temperatures.
- “Significantly cooler temperatures and higher precipitation across the United States adversely impacted the HVAC market in the second quarter,” says Chairman and CEO Todd Bluedorn....
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German Failure on the Road to a Renewable Future - SPIEGEL ONLINE
German Failure on the Road to a Renewable Future - SPIEGEL ONLINE
"In 2011, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced the country was turning away from nuclear energy in favor of a renewable future.
Since then, however, progress has been limited.
Berlin has wasted billions of euros and resistance is mounting.
...Germany's Federal Court of Auditors is even more forthright about the failures.
The shift to renewables, the federal auditors say, has cost at least 160 billion euros in the last five years.
Meanwhile, the expenditures "are in extreme disproportion to the results,"
Federal Court of Auditors President Kay Scheller said last fall, although his assessment went largely unheard in the political arena. Scheller is even concerned that voters could soon lose all faith in the government because of this massive failure..."
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"In 2011, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced the country was turning away from nuclear energy in favor of a renewable future.Since then, however, progress has been limited.
Berlin has wasted billions of euros and resistance is mounting.
...Germany's Federal Court of Auditors is even more forthright about the failures.
The shift to renewables, the federal auditors say, has cost at least 160 billion euros in the last five years.
Meanwhile, the expenditures "are in extreme disproportion to the results,"
Federal Court of Auditors President Kay Scheller said last fall, although his assessment went largely unheard in the political arena. Scheller is even concerned that voters could soon lose all faith in the government because of this massive failure..."
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Deregulation explodes under Trump, 13 regulations killed for every new one, $33B saved
Deregulation explodes under Trump, 13 regulations killed for every new one, $33B saved:
It was an odd, geeky campaign promise for a populist presidential candidate to make. But when Donald Trump in 2016 pledged to kill two Obama-era regulations for every new one, crowds went wild.
Those cheers stuck with him when he moved into the White House, and he put his promise into an executive order. And now as he opens his reelection campaign, Russ Vought, acting budget office director, has delivered the results sure to win even more rally cheers.
“We’ve hit 13 to 1,” he told a Heritage Foundation conference on federalism. And cutting so many regulations, he added, has saved taxpayers $33 billion.
Those cheers stuck with him when he moved into the White House, and he put his promise into an executive order. And now as he opens his reelection campaign, Russ Vought, acting budget office director, has delivered the results sure to win even more rally cheers.
“We’ve hit 13 to 1,” he told a Heritage Foundation conference on federalism. And cutting so many regulations, he added, has saved taxpayers $33 billion.
Forget reading and math — Carranza wants focus on racial privilege, activism
Carranza wants focus on racial privilege, activism"City kids are struggling with basic math and English — but a new (NYC) Department of Education curricular initiative focuses instead on racial privilege and activism, The Post has learned.
Pushed by Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza, the “Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education” program will require schools to “identify and interrupt policies and practices that center historically advantaged social/cultural groups and lead to predictable outcomes of success or failure for historically marginalized students.”
...The DOE directive further states that classroom activities should “foster critical consciousness about historical and contemporary forms of bias oppression” and that schools should now “promote student agency to end societal inequities.”...
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Always a "Must Read"--Kurt Schlichter--The Democrats’ 2020 Campaign Theme Is 'You Americans Are Terrible'
The Democrats’ 2020 Campaign Theme Is 'You Americans Are Terrible'"The Democrats’ 2020 theme is that you are terrible and the party’s slogan will be “Americans suck, vote for us.”
The precise candidate who will employ it is not important because they all embrace the notion that punishing the essential moral failure of you and me and every other Normal American is the key goal of the Donkey Party.
...What are your crimes?
Heck, what aren’t your crimes?
- You’re greedy because you don’t want to pay taxes so foreign freeloaders can get better free medical care than our vets.
- You’re stupid because you think there’s just two genders and that you don’t consider a “bi-curious femme-friendly questioning two-spirit” an option.
- You’re a monster for wondering why boys in drag are competing (and setting “records”) in girls’ sports and for not accepting that men have periods too.
- You’re terrible for interfering in things you know nothing about by rejecting any new endless wars – how dare you question the experts who have laid down such a solid track record of success over the last three decades!
- You’re a superstitious knuckle-dragger for believing in God and a heretic for denying that last week’s thunderstorm was not a direct result of Trump’s failure to enter into the Paris Accords 2.0 and finally ban drinking straws.
- You’re a brute for liking guns and big cars and being able to do a push-up.
- You’re everything bad, including things that aren’t even things. Just take a word and stick an -ist or a -phobe on it and that’s what you are.
...No matter what, it’s you’re fault and it’s your responsibility to give up more of your money and more of your freedom to undo whatever is the elite’s designated crisis du jour.
It’s so tiresome.
The Democrat debates weren’t debates; they were creepy clusters of consensus about why normal people are the problem..."
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12 Girls Suffer Genital Mutilation In UK Everyday - Gov't Turning Blind Eye
12 Girls Suffer Genital Mutilation In UK Everyday - Gov't Turning Blind Eye:"A new case of female genital mutilation (FGM) is recorded in the UK every two hours, new official figures reveal — and in a situation that mirrors the decades-long Muslim grooming gangs cover up, UK government and officials are turning a blind eye to the barbaric practice because they are terrified of being seen as politically incorrect and offending Muslim communities.
...Shockingly, there has not been a successful prosecution against FGM in the UK since it was outlawed in 1985.
According to figures released last week by the NHS, 6,196 women and girls visited doctors across the country for FGM treatment between April 2017 and May 2018.
Of these, 4,495 were newly recorded cases of FGM..."
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Report: Comey Was Secretly Trying To Build Case Against Trump, IG Investigation Found | Daily Wire
Report: Comey Was Secretly Trying To Build Case Against Trump, IG Investigation Found | Daily Wire:
"Sources tell RealClearInvestigations that Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz will soon file a report with evidence indicating that Comey was misleading the president," Sperry reports. "Even as he repeatedly assured Trump that he was not a target, the former director was secretly trying to build a conspiracy case against the president, while at times acting as an investigative agent."
Bella Thorne is pansexual: What does it mean? GLADD explains
Bella Thorne is pansexual: What does it mean? GLADD explains
"Here is a guide to understanding LGBT terms.--Sara Snyder, USA TODAY
What does it mean to be pansexual?
Bella Thorne revealed she identifies as pansexual in an interview with "Good Morning America" that aired Monday.
However, the concept remains unfamiliar for many.
Thorne, who came out as bisexual on Twitter in 2016, said she's recently realized her sexuality doesn't fit that label.
"I'm actually pansexual, and I didn't know that," Thorne said in the interview.
"Somebody explained to me really thoroughly what that is."
Thorne described her sexuality as favoring someone's personality more than their body.
"You like beings," she said. "You like what you like. Doesn't have to be a girl or a guy or a he or she or they or this or that. It's literally you like personality. You just like a being."..."
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"Here is a guide to understanding LGBT terms.--Sara Snyder, USA TODAY
What does it mean to be pansexual?
Bella Thorne revealed she identifies as pansexual in an interview with "Good Morning America" that aired Monday.
However, the concept remains unfamiliar for many.Thorne, who came out as bisexual on Twitter in 2016, said she's recently realized her sexuality doesn't fit that label.
"I'm actually pansexual, and I didn't know that," Thorne said in the interview.
"Somebody explained to me really thoroughly what that is."
Thorne described her sexuality as favoring someone's personality more than their body.
"You like beings," she said. "You like what you like. Doesn't have to be a girl or a guy or a he or she or they or this or that. It's literally you like personality. You just like a being."..."
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History for July 24
History for July 24 - On-This-Day.com
Simon Bolivar 1783, Alexander Dumas 1802, Amelia Earhart 1898
Ruth Buzzi 1936, Lynda Carter 1951, Jennifer Lopez 1970 - Singer, actress
1847 - Mormon leader Brigham Young and his followers arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake in present-day Utah.
1969 - The Apollo 11 astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
Mueller Makes Last-Minute Request Ahead Of Testimony, And Republicans Aren’t Happy About It | The Daily Caller
Mueller Makes Last-Minute Request Ahead Of Testimony, And Republicans Aren’t Happy About It | The Daily Caller:
“You don’t get to change the rules right before kickoff, especially after a 22 month, $30 million investigation,” Jordan said on Twitter.
If Zebley is sworn in as a witness, House rules will not allow him to confer with Mueller during the hearing, The Times noted.
Democrats were reportedly in negotiations to have Zebley and another Mueller deputy, James Quarles, testify privately, but the Justice Department intervened and instructed both not to appear.
If Zebley is sworn in as a witness, House rules will not allow him to confer with Mueller during the hearing, The Times noted.
Democrats were reportedly in negotiations to have Zebley and another Mueller deputy, James Quarles, testify privately, but the Justice Department intervened and instructed both not to appear.
Leftists are ignoring settled science when it comes to the homeless
Leftists are ignoring settled science when it comes to the homeless:
It is no coincidence that the streets of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle are full of homeless people, shooting up drugs and discarding their needles on the sidewalks, defecating and urinating wherever they happen to be standing, sitting, or squatting, and accosting passers-by demanding money. The left-wing politicians and their voters tolerate and subsidize this behavior, so they attract people who want to live this way in growing numbers.
As the old saying puts it, there’s an easy way and a hard way to solve this problem. And a problem it is, because of the settled science of epidemics.
It is no coincidence that the streets of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle are full of homeless people, shooting up drugs and discarding their needles on the sidewalks, defecating and urinating wherever they happen to be standing, sitting, or squatting, and accosting passers-by demanding money. The left-wing politicians and their voters tolerate and subsidize this behavior, so they attract people who want to live this way in growing numbers.As the old saying puts it, there’s an easy way and a hard way to solve this problem. And a problem it is, because of the settled science of epidemics.
Here are 18 ridiculous bias complaints filed on college campuses | The College Fix
Here are 18 ridiculous bias complaints filed on college campuses | The College Fix
"Since the beginning of 2019, The College Fix has investigated reports made to university bias response teams operating on campuses across the country.
A 22-year old female University of Utah student reported her business professor to campus administrators for, among other things, assigning too many historical texts written by influential male economists of the past.
"Since the beginning of 2019, The College Fix has investigated reports made to university bias response teams operating on campuses across the country.
So far, The Fix has obtained nearly 300 incident reports at 11 schools through public records act requests.
The requests sought all reports filed during the fall 2018 semester at each campus...
3. Female student upset at being made to read economics book by men (Utah)
“I understand the importance of studying the work of those before us and the importance of context,” wrote the student in a complaint to the university’s bias reporting system, where she labeled the professor’s transgressions “derogatory,” “degrading,” and “intimidating,” thereby causing a “hostile learning environment..."
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Top Scientist Resigns: 'Global Warming is a $Trillions Scam — It has Corrupted Many Scientists' | Humans Are Free
Top Scientist Resigns: 'Global Warming is a $Trillions Scam — It has Corrupted Many Scientists' | Humans Are Free
"The following is a letter to the American Physical Society released to the public by Professor Emiritus of physics Harold 'Hal' Lewis of the University of California at Santa Barbara.
"...When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the money flood (a threat against which Dwight Eisenhower warned a half-century ago).
...How different it is now.
The giants no longer walk the earth, and the money flood has become the raison d’être of much physics research, the vital sustenance of much more, and it provides the support for untold numbers of professional jobs.
For reasons that will soon become clear my former pride at being an APS Fellow all these years has been turned into shame, and I am forced, with no pleasure at all, to offer you my resignation from the Society.
It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave.
It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.
Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford’s book organizes the facts very well.)..."
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"The following is a letter to the American Physical Society released to the public by Professor Emiritus of physics Harold 'Hal' Lewis of the University of California at Santa Barbara.
"...When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the money flood (a threat against which Dwight Eisenhower warned a half-century ago)....How different it is now.
The giants no longer walk the earth, and the money flood has become the raison d’être of much physics research, the vital sustenance of much more, and it provides the support for untold numbers of professional jobs.
For reasons that will soon become clear my former pride at being an APS Fellow all these years has been turned into shame, and I am forced, with no pleasure at all, to offer you my resignation from the Society.
It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave.
It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.
Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford’s book organizes the facts very well.)..."
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WATCH: Trump Supporter Stripped Of ‘Miss World America’ Crown Reacts To ‘Racism’ Smears | Daily Wire
WATCH: Trump Supporter Stripped Of ‘Miss World America’ Crown Reacts To ‘Racism’ Smears | Daily Wire:
As reported by The Daily Wire on Friday, conservative activist and prominent Trump supporter Kathy Zhu was stripped of her Miss Michigan crown from the Miss World America Organization over past “insensitive” social media posts and her refusal to try on a hijab at a college event in 2018.
As reported by The Daily Wire on Friday, conservative activist and prominent Trump supporter Kathy Zhu was stripped of her Miss Michigan crown from the Miss World America Organization over past “insensitive” social media posts and her refusal to try on a hijab at a college event in 2018.
Miss Michigan stripped of title over 'offensive' social media posts
Miss Michigan stripped of title over 'offensive' social media posts
DETROIT, Mich. – A beauty queen was stripped of her title for what she claims is discrimination against her conservative political views.
Kathy Zhu, also a University of Michigan student, was dismissed as a Miss World America pageant participant a day after she was crowned when the organization claimed the content of her social media was "offensive, insensitive and inappropriate."
Zhu is a well-known conservative political commentator and online figure, amassing approximately 80,000 followers in her Instagram and Twitter accounts combined.
She is a supporter of President Donald Trump.
...Zhu still defends the two now-deleted tweets that are being put into question.
The first is an incident that dates back to 2018, in which Zhu went up to a Muslim Student Association booth celebrating World Hijab Day and declined to wear a hijab when prompted. She then tweeted:
"There is a 'try a hijab on' booth at my college campus.
So you're telling me that it's now just a fashion accessory and not a religious thing? Or are you just trying to get women used to being oppressed under Islam?"
"I said that it was (getting women used to) being oppressed because there are so many women in Middle Eastern countries that are being punished and stoned for refusing to wear a hijab," Zhu said. "Nobody is talking about that in the West because all they see is everyone being at peace, but that is the beauty of America."...
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Kathy Zhu, also a University of Michigan student, was dismissed as a Miss World America pageant participant a day after she was crowned when the organization claimed the content of her social media was "offensive, insensitive and inappropriate."
Zhu is a well-known conservative political commentator and online figure, amassing approximately 80,000 followers in her Instagram and Twitter accounts combined.
She is a supporter of President Donald Trump.
...Zhu still defends the two now-deleted tweets that are being put into question.
The first is an incident that dates back to 2018, in which Zhu went up to a Muslim Student Association booth celebrating World Hijab Day and declined to wear a hijab when prompted. She then tweeted:
"There is a 'try a hijab on' booth at my college campus.
So you're telling me that it's now just a fashion accessory and not a religious thing? Or are you just trying to get women used to being oppressed under Islam?"
"I said that it was (getting women used to) being oppressed because there are so many women in Middle Eastern countries that are being punished and stoned for refusing to wear a hijab," Zhu said. "Nobody is talking about that in the West because all they see is everyone being at peace, but that is the beauty of America."...
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