Thursday, April 27, 2017

31. 4/27/17

A1

NEW HEALTH BILL HAS THE SUPPORT OF CONSERVATIVES

"By 2026, the number of uninsured people would be 24 million higher than under the current law."


A1

MOGUL IN ISRAEL HELPED FINANCE KUSHNERS' RISE

"[The] Kushner Companies would spend about $190 million ... on dozens of apartment buildings in tony Lower Manhattan neighborhoods including the East Village, the West Village and SoHo."

"[I]t turns out the money came from a member of Israel's Steinmetz family, which built a fortune as one of the world's leading diamond traders."

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"In 2014, the Guinean government alleged that Mr. Steinmet'z company had obtained the rights through corrupt practices, paying more than $8 million in cash through a representative to Mamadie Touré, then the wife of the dictator Lansana Conté."


Just sayin' ...


A8


"'The only so-called communication between Pyongyang and Washington is the threat of military force in the form of B-1 bombers, nuclear aircraft carriers, missiles and nuclear tests ... This dangerous situation threatens everyone in the region."


A9


"Our military remains stuck in a barbarian and medieval culture ... [T]he investigators preyed upon gay soldiers' vulnerability like a cat playing with a mouse."


A17



I guess we'd all smile if we wrote ourselves a check for a few hundred million.


A20


"Dr. Deméré speculated that the humans might have been trying to get marrow out of the mastodon bones to eat, while using fragments of the bones to fashion tools."

Jean Auel -- who really did her research -- beautifully writes a description of a group of Neanderthal hunters who do exactly what is described above in one of her Earth's Children books.

A24


"[David] Byrne and Mr. Demme worked together frequently, notably on 'Stop Making Sense,' a 1984 concert film about Talking Heads that many critics (and filmgoers) found mesmerizing."



A26


"[T]he skimpy one-page tax proposal his administration released on Wednesday is, by any historical standard, a laughable stunt by a gang of plutocrats looking to enrich themselves at the expense of the country's future."




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