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Vegas Gunman Was Prescribed Drugs That Can Lead To Violent Behavior

Interesting.

Vegas Gunman Was Prescribed Drugs That Can Lead To Violent Behavior

"...According to records from the Nevada Prescription Monitoring Program obtained by the paper on Tuesday, Paddock was prescribed 50 10-milligram diazepam tablets on June 21 by Henderson, Nevada physician Dr. Steven Winkler. Diazepam – better known by its brand name, Valium – is a sedative and muscle relaxer in the class of drugs known as benzodiazepines, which studies have shown can cause aggressive behavior in some patients. Chronic use has also been linked to psychotic episodes.

Paddock purchased the drug without insurance at a Walgreens store in Reno on the same day it was prescribed. He was supposed to take one pill a day. "If somebody has an underlying aggression problem and you sedate them with that drug, they can become aggressive,” said Dr. Mel Pohl, chief medical officer of the Las Vegas Recovery Center. “It can disinhibit an underlying emotional state. … It is much like what happens when you give alcohol to some people … they become aggressive instead of going to sleep.”

The effects of the drug are amplified by alcohol, Pohl said. ...."

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-04/vegas-gunman-was-prescribed-drugs-can-lead-violent-behavior

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Did IRS Overstep In $5 Million Campaign To Pressure Americans On Obamacare?

Did IRS Overstep In $5 Million Campaign To Pressure Americans On Obamacare?

Source: ZeroHedge

"The IRS would never push legal boundaries in order to pursue the ideological agenda of a political party in Washington D.C., right?  Well, aside from that time that Lois Lerner used her position inside the IRS to target Tea Party Organizations in order to help Obama get re-elected in 2012, of course.

While we all may wish that were the case, new documents obtained by  Judicial Watch  (JW) today via a FOIA request seem to indicate that the IRS may have overstepped it's bounds when it sent out letters to taxpayers threatening them with monetary penalties if they failed to sign up for Obamacare.  As JW notes,  the IRS spent a staggering $5 million to develop a program specifically designed to intimidate voters into signing up for the controversial healthcare legislation.

Judicial Watch today announced it received two production of documents, 77 pages and 108 pages, from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) revealing the Obama IRS coordinated with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Obama White House Behavioral Sciences  “Team” in a $5 million program to pressure Americans to sign up for Obamacare.  The documents also contain inter-agency agreements between the IRS and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) devised to circumvent potential legal prohibitions on unauthorized disclosure or inspection of taxpayer information collected by the IRS.

 In September 2016, IRS Director of Individual Taxation Janet McCubbin writes to several of her colleagues:

 Attached are drafts of the letters that IRS will send to selected taxpayers who paid a penalty for failure to have coverage  or who claimed an exemption form the coverage requirement for tax year 2015 …  As you know, we are planning to send several different versions of the letter to see which types of messages work best.

Of course, by suggesting that several letters were drafted to see which "messages work best," McCubbin seems to give away her hand that her goal was not simply to inform taxpayers, but rather to coerce them into pursuing her desired outcome.

But that's not the only foul here as JW also asserts that the IRS  "may have overstepped its authority by  threatening people  with penalty fees." ..."

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-03/did-irs-overstep-5-million-campaign-pressure-americans-obamacare

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CBS fires vice president who said Vegas victims didn't deserve sympathy because country music fans '

CBS fires vice president who said Vegas victims didn't deserve sympathy because country music fans 'often are Republican'

Hayley Geftman-Gold, the network's now-former vice president and senior counsel, took to Facebook after a gunman opened fire at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas, killing at least 58 people and sending more than 500 others to hospitals.

“If they wouldn’t do anything when children were murdered I have no hope that Repugs [sic] will ever do the right thing,” Geftman-Gold wrote in a now-deleted message that was first reported and captured by The Daily Caller.

Geftman-Gold continued: “I’m actually not even sympathetic bc [sic] country music fans often are Republican gun toters [sic].”

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/10/02/top-cbs-lawyer-no-sympathy-for-vegas-vics-probably-republicans.html

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The NFL would find it easier to tell politicians to mind their own business if they weren't taking c

The NFL would find it easier to tell politicians to mind their own business if they weren’t taking cash from them

"......There’s no separation of sport and state

But one factor complicates this separation of sport and state where the NFL is concerned. Cash. Namely, your cash.

Since 2000, 36 professional sports stadiums have been constructed or revamped under financing provided by federal tax-exempt municipal bonds, costing taxpayers over $3.2 billion. Watchdog.org puts the figure at $7 billion. The Indianapolis Colts got $619 million of taxpayer’s money. The Pittsburgh Steelers got $171.6 million. The The New England Patriots got $72 million. They were short changed.

When the Raiders (whose lowest paid player earns a base salary of $465,000) move to Las Vegas, they will leave Oakland’s taxpayers (who have an average per capita income of $33,505) with $83 million of debt on two-decade-old renovations to the Alameda County Coliseum that they are abandoning. The US Bank Stadium, home of our own Vikings, was part paid for by $348 million of state (taxpayers) money and $150 million to be raised by a hospitality tax in Minneapolis. Over the 30-year life of the deal, the city of Minneapolis must pay a total of $678 million, including interest, operations, and construction costs.

What economic benefits? ......"

https://www.americanexperiment.org/2017/09/the-nfl-would-find-it-easier-to-tell-politicians-to-mind-their-own-business-if-they-werent-taking-cash-from-them/

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Supreme Court Grants Cert In Historic Employee Freedom Case

Entire post explains it well so please read if you have time. Text highlighting mine.

Justice Scalia was to have ruled on this had he lived. 

SUPREME COURT GRANTS CERT IN HISTORIC EMPLOYEE FREEDOM CASE

"While rich leftists are often assumed to be the main supporters of the Democratic Party, it is public sector unions that provide the lion’s share of the Democrats’ funding. They take money involuntarily from their members, a large majority of whom have never even voted on whether to be represented by a union, and many of whom disapprove of the union’s agenda, and recycle that money into left-wing causes, Democratic Party candidates, and inflated salaries for countless union officials. The entire system is the number one form of corruption in American public life.

If, as expected, Justice Gorsuch casts the decisive fifth vote in favor of Mark Janus, that cycle of corruption will come to a screeching halt. All public employees in the U.S. will, in effect, be treated as though they were in a right to work state. Those who don’t want to be represented by the union, or support it, won’t have to. The effect on the public sector unions, and the Democratic Party, will be devastating, as we have seen in Wisconsin. When teachers and other public employees aren’t required by law to support Democratic Party unions, they desert them in droves....."

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/09/supreme-court-grants-cert-in-historic-employee-freedom-case.php

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