Dem Donors Plead Guilty to $33 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme

Dem Donors Plead Guilty to $33 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme:
"Five individuals who have donated to Democratic politicians pleaded guilty to a scheme that drained Medicare out of $33 million dollars.
Two physicians and three owners of hospice and home care companies based out of Detroit, Mich., were charged on June 18, 2015 as part of the largest Medicare fraud case in history for submitting fraudulent claims for home health care and hospice services that were either not provided or deemed medically unnecessary.
The elaborate operation revolved around Muhammad Tariq, Shahid Tahir, and Manawar Javed—the owners of the home health care and hospice companies—paying kickbacks and bribes to physicians for referrals to their companies that included A Plus Hospice and Palliative Care, At Home Hospice, and At Home Network Inc.
Wasseem Alam, a physician who was the top referrer to the companies, admitted he was responsible for millions in Medicare reimbursements and said he received kickbacks, along with other inducements, in exchange for those referrals.
...All five individuals have combined to give tens of thousands of dollars to Democratic politicians.
The sweep resulted in charges against 243 individuals including 46 doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals for $712 million in false billings—the largest Medicare fraud bust in history.
Requests for comment were not returned."

Safe Drinking Water or Subsidize Ads for Resorts

Safe Drinking Water or Subsidize Ads for Resorts [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"Bridge magazine recently did a story about how the Flint water crisis is having a negative impact on the state government's $33 million Pure Michigan campaign.
The article stated: “It is too early to tell how much impact the Flint water crisis will have on the state’s image. 
Certainly with our brand being Pure Michigan, it is more of an image problem,” said Doug Rothwell, president and CEO of Business Leaders for Michigan, the state’s business roundtable.
“We worked so hard to have Detroit not be a negative issue,” Rothwell said.
“Now, Flint puts a damper on it.”
ForTheRecord says:
Big Government is now so involved in every aspect of life that its priorities can be confused. Government should be making sure the water is safe to drink.
Government should not be spending $33 million in taxpayers dollars to provide an annual marketing campaign for the state's travel and leisure industry.
Regretting that a failure to deliver safe drinking water compromised a corporate welfare program is a good example of priorities getting mixed up when government is everywhere."

Lunch video-----Hillary Clinton: A Career Criminal

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Judge BOLDLY Sticks It To Black Lives Matter Like No One Before: 'Black Lives DON'T Matter To...'

Judge BOLDLY Sticks It To Black Lives Matter Like No One Before: 'Black Lives DON'T Matter To...':
"It was a stunning observation coming from a judge in New York City — the kind of sobering, common sense conclusion that has drawn a lot of attention because of who said it — a veteran jurist in Manhattan."

Wimp Obama, biased media-----Pathetic: White House silences translation audio when French president mentions “Islamist terrorism”

Pathetic: White House silences translation audio when French president mentions “Islamist terrorism” « Hot Air:
"I owe the MRC an apology for doubting them. I read this piece assuming all the way through that they had misconstrued what must be a perfectly innocent glitch by the White House in translating Hollande. Nope. Watch the official WH video below (starting at 3:20) and follow along with the official WH translation and you’ll see how hard it is to come up with an explanation different from theirs. The audio on the clip perfectly tracks the transcript — except when it cuts out for exactly two sentences and then resumes:
"But we’re also well aware that the roots of terrorism, Islamist terrorism, is in Syria and in Iraq. We therefore have to act both in Syria and in Iraq, and this is what we’re doing within the framework of the coalition."
...You know what the worst part is? 
Hollande didn’t say “Islamic terrorism,” which is the supposedly objectionable term.
He said “Islamist terrorism.”
“Islamist” was, I thought, a term that came into use precisely because it gave the speaker an efficient way to distinguish between “moderate Muslims” and the more jihad-minded.
“Islamic” describes all things Muslim;
“Islamist” describes a supremacist view in which Islam is the highest authority of the state. 
Many critics of Islam would dispute that there’s a meaningful distinction between those two, but Obama and Hollande certainly wouldn’t.
ISIS may not be Islamic to Obama but it’s certainly Islamist. Point being, Hollande chose his words carefully here according to the White House transcript so as not to conflate the average Muslim with the jihadis he’s discussing — and the White House still censored him.
That’s the point we’re at.
Update: Needless to say: “If a Republican president was silencing translations because of politics, it’d be a front-page story.”

Kids Born in 2016 Hold $42,000 in Public Debt

Kids Born in 2016 Hold $42,000 in Public Debt:
"Out of control spending drives national debt to unsustainable levels and the government knows it.
The recently published 2017 fiscal year House Congressional Budget Resolution even features a chart titled “Spending is the Problem.”
But Congress needs to practice what it preaches.
The very same document proposes spending $57 billion more on discretionary programs than what Congress proposed to spend on this budget category last year.
...By the end of the decade, our national debt held by the public is expected to reach $23.6 trillion, or 85.6 percentage of GDP (gross domestic product).
This is expensive for Americans today, but crippling for the next generation.
When new parents worry for the future they rarely consider how the national debt will impact their families. Unfortunately, if left unchecked, our growing debt will pose a serious threat to American families’ financial well-being..."
The 2015 “Wastebook,” put together by Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., found 100 examples of government waste that cost taxpayers $100 billion. 

On top of that, the government spent a staggering $125 billion on improper payments in 2015. 

That means that the government paid $125 billion dollars to people who were not supposed to get paid, or for goods and services the government did not receive.

'Forced sex with dog': 98 Central African Rep. girls report shocking abuse by UN peacekeepers

'Forced sex with dog': 98 Central African Rep. girls report shocking abuse by UN peacekeepers — RT News:
"An advocacy group has released horrifying details of how at least 98 Central African Republic (CAR) girls were allegedly sexually abused by international peacekeepers.
The report was released by AIDS-Free World, an international advocacy organization, on Wednesday. The group said that MINUSCA, the UN’s peacekeeping mission in CAR, met with local leaders and victims “who reported that troops from France and Gabon have sexually abused several girls in their province.”
The group cited three CAR girls who said that they, along with a fourth girl, were raped by UN peacekeepers.
The girls said they “were tied up and undressed inside a camp by a military commander from the Sangaris force (the French military intervention in CAR) and forced to have sex with a dog,” the group wrote..."

Judicial Watch Sues for Obama FBI Interview Records - Judicial Watch

Judicial Watch Sues for Obama FBI Interview Records - Judicial Watch:

"(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeking FBI interview records of then-President-elect Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel, and Valerie Jarrett.  Obama and his aides were interviewed as part of the initial investigation of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, who was sentenced to fourteen years in federal prison for attempting to sell Obama’s vacated Senate seat (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No 1:16-cv-00576)).

Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit after the FBI denied June 1, 2011, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking:"

101 Gadgets That Changed The World - Top 101 Gadgets of All Time

101 Gadgets That Changed The World - Top 101 Gadgets of All Time:
"The alarm clock.
The personal computer.
The smartphone.
The radio.
You know the greatest gadgets of all time (and you've probably owned most of them), but which has changed the world more than any other?"

AM Fruitcake

History for April 2

History for April 2 - On-This-Day.com
Emile Zola 1840 - Novelist, Walter Chrysler 1875 - Auto manufacturer (Chrysler Corporation), Buddy Ebsen 1908 - Actor ("The Beverly Hillbillies," "Barnaby Jones")


Sir Alec Guinness (Alec Guinness de Cuffe) 1914 - Actor ("Bridge Over River Kwai," "A Passage to India," "Star Wars"), Jack Webb (John Randolf) 1920 - Director, actor, Marvin Gaye, Jr. 1939 - Singer ("I Heard It Through The Grapevine")


1889 - Charles Hall patented aluminum.


1935 - Sir Watson-Watt was granted a patent for RADAR.


1958 - The National Advisory Council on Aeronautics was renamed NASA.


1963 - Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King began the first non-violent campaign in Birmingham, AL.


1972 - Burt Reynolds appeared nude in "Cosmopolitan" magazine.


1982 - Argentina invaded the British-owned Falkland Islands. The following June Britain took the islands back.


1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein threatened to incinerate half of Israel with chemical weapons if Israel joined a conspiracy against Iraq.


1992 - Mob boss John Gotti was convicted in New York of murder and racketeering. He was later sentenced to life in prison.

Cecile Richards: We Need to ‘Really Humanize’ Abortion | TheBlaze.com

Cecile Richards: We Need to ‘Really Humanize’ Abortion | TheBlaze.com:

"In an interview with actress Laverne Cox for Interview Magazine, Planned Parenthood President and CEO Cecile Richards called for increased efforts to “humanize” abortion as she said ABC’s “Scandal” did.

In an episode of “Scandal” titled, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” which aired last fall, the show’s main character Olivia Pope had an abortion as the Christmas hymn “Silent Night” played in the background."

Do Radicalized Islamic Communities Exist in the US?

Do Radicalized Islamic Communities Exist in the US?:
Jamaat ul-Fuqra, a Pakistani militant group that has rebranded itself as Muslims of the Americas, says it has 22 "Islamic villages" in the U.S.

The entrance to Islamberg in New York state
"GOP presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz's call for patrolling of Muslim communities with signs of extremism is being bashed as pandering to anti-Muslim voters, with critics saying there aren't even Islamist communities in the U.S. to begin with.
They are wrong. 
They exist — and newly-published documents show that they've boasted of enforcing Islamic sharia law, even going so far as to whip children.
Jamaat ul-Fuqra, a Pakistani militant group that has rebranded itself as Muslims of the Americas, says it has 22 "Islamic villages" in the U.S. 
Its "Islamberg" headquarters in New York is the most well-known.
The Clarion Project identified one village in Texas in 2014 and the group mentioned others, including one in Alaska during a frivolous lawsuit it filed against a prominent critic.
...That sounds innocent enough until you look at the picture above. 
The caption reads, "American Muslims have established their own villages where Islamic Law has been enforced. 
Here a wrongdoer is voluntarily accepting punishment." 
The unclear picture shows a man sitting on a chair, with his back facing a group of Muslims in prayer as a man stands over him. 
The image is identical to what a former Fuqra member described to the Clarion Project as the procedure for brutal whippings..."
Read on and be afraid.
Very afraid!

Harvard?-----Leftist Harvard Students 'Triggered' by... American Flag?

Leftist Harvard Students 'Triggered' by... American Flag? » Louder With Crowder:
"Remember when Harvard was where our best and brightest went to get their best and brightest education?
In fact it had a sterling reputation of higher learning.
Only the best of the best were allowed admittance.
Ok, so that was a long time ago (see Harvard Tries Hiding ‘Debate’ Video: ‘Kill Yourself over White Privilege’ and TRIGGERED: Harvard Caves, Removes ‘Master’ From Job Titles…).
Now, they claim the American Flag is a political statement. 
Not the Confederate flag.
Just regular Old Glory…"

Former Congressman Allen West Predicts ‘Obama Will Carry Out This Particularly Treasonous Action’ Before Leaving Office | TheBlaze.com

Former Congressman Allen West Predicts ‘Obama Will Carry Out This Particularly Treasonous Action’ Before Leaving Office | TheBlaze.com:

"West, a former congressman who represented Florida’s 22nd Congressional District, wrote a post on his website Thursday titled “Before He Leaves Office, I Predict Obama Will Carry Out This Particularly Treasonous Action…”"

How can this happen? Here?!!-----Lemoore Breach, Crash Into FA-18E Jet Launches 'Many Investigations' Military.com

Lemoore Breach, Crash Into FA-18E Jet Launches 'Many Investigations' | Military.com:
"The commander of Lemoore Naval Air Station said Thursday "many investigations" will follow a fatal overnight incident in which two people managed to breach security Wednesday night and crash into an FA-18E warplane.
Both occupants of the Jeep, a male driver and a female passenger in the Cherokee died.
The commander, Capt. Monte Ashliman, said neither person who died had any military affiliation and that there is no reason to believe that the naval air station was the target of a terrorist attack.
...Lemoore has a heavily fortified main gate with steel barriers that must be lowered before vehicles can pass into the facility.
The gate is guarded by military police armed with assault rifles.
Officials indicated that the Jeep did not enter through the gate, but deflected questions about how it reached the jet, which Ashliman was near a runway at the north end of the station, about 7 miles away from the gate..."

FCC approves Internet subsidies for the "poor"

FCC approves Internet subsidies for the poor | TheHill:
"Millions of poor Americans will be eligible for federal subsidies to help pay the cost of Internet service after new regulations were approved in a whirlwind Federal Communications Commission (FCC) meeting on Thursday.
The FCC voted to expand its 30-year-old Lifeline program, which has offered the monthly $9.25 subsidy for voice-only phone service.
The three Democratic commissioners approved the proposal over opposition from the two Republicans, who have concerns about the program's budget.
...One of the priorities was removing the burden on companies to determine whether a person is eligible for a subsidy. 
Some said that structure encouraged abuse and put companies in the uncomfortable position of holding sensitive customer information, opening them up to extra security and liability.
"The fox is no longer guarding the henhouse," Wheeler said.
Lifeline currently has about 13 million subscribers, only a fraction of the 40 million who are eligible. The vote Thursday imposed a budget of $2.25 billion per year.
The funds come from fees imposed by the phone companies. 
The FCC expects the overhaul to increase participation, and it has projected that about 7 million more people could enroll before hitting the budget ceiling..." 

Lunch video-----President Zeman of the Czech Republic speaks on Islam and mass immigration

"This is a very important speech by a national leader. 
We need to listen and spread our support of one of the very few leaders willing to speak the truth."

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Communism Part II: The Scourge Spreads | Glenn Beck

Communism Part II: The Scourge Spreads | Glenn Beck:

"Communism’s first leader — Vladimir Lenin — fell ill and died in 1924, setting the stage for Josef Stalin. Just as it had been under the first few years of communist policies, the Soviet Union fell into another great famine in the early ’30s. Stalin brutally kept food from starving people, ordering his soldiers to shoot and kill peasants that came near it. Adding to the five million who had succumbed to the famine of 1921, another six million people died."

Black Lives Matter Leader Who Spoke to UN Against Police Violence Vows: "Riots Everywhere if Trump Wins"

Black Lives Matter Leader Who Spoke to UN Against Police Violence Vows: "Riots Everywhere if Trump Wins" - The Gateway Pundit:
From his Instagram account:

"If I’m telling you the truth .. yes I am very nervous .Next week we go to the U.N. To slap these Ferguson pigs with war crime charges and torture charges. Shoutout to Justin Hansford for having so much trust in me . Shoutout to Autumn for thugging it out all day with me. Peace to the Brown family for being the strongest people alive at the moment. God Bless their conquest for justice . Next week we testify in front of the U.N. Via Geneva .May the universe bless our efforts .Watch these young black men and women organize . Anything is possible!!!"

Today Tef Poe promised mass violence if Donald Trump is elected president.

Via Infowars:

Dear white people….

Dear white people if Trump wins young niggas such as myself are fully hell bent on inciting riots everywhere we go. Just so you know.

— War Machine III (@TefPoe) March 16, 2016

Tef Poe insists the Black Lives Matter rioters have been too nice.

War Machine III ‎@TefPoe

Trump wins aint no more rules fammo. We've been too nice as is.

2:16 PM - 16 Mar 2016

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Head in the sand "experts"?-----Suspicious devices found on power lines in Tyngsborough

Suspicious devices found on power lines in Tyngsborough | Boston Herald:
"TYNGSBOROUGH — The FBI is investigating the discovery of suspicious devices found hanging from power lines in Massachusetts.
Harold Shaw, special agent in charge of the Boston FBI division, says the devices were found Wednesday when the Tyngsborough Fire Department responded to a brush fire.
Shaw says crews noticed the items and alerted National Grid.
The power company then alerted law enforcement.
Shaw says multiple incendiary devices "similar in structure to pipe bombs" were found. Tyngsborough police say the devices were found on the power lines.
The FBI says the devices were determined to be "non-explosive" early Thursday morning and have been rendered safe.
Shaw says at this point there is no evidence tying the devices to terrorism and law enforcement agencies and utility companies across the country have been notified."

Another Climate Scientist Calls B.S. On 97% Consensus Claim

Another Climate Scientist Calls B.S. On 97% Consensus Claim
Another climate scientist has told the truth about the nonsensical claim of a 97% consensus of scientists believing in the man-made climate change hypothesis:
“It was the narrative from the beginning,” [Dr. Richard ]Lindzen, a climatologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), told RealClear Radio Hour host Bill Frezza Friday.
“In 1998, [NASA’s James] Hansen made some vague remarks.
Newsweek ran a cover that says all scientists agree.
Now they never really tell you what they agree on.”
“It is propaganda,” Lindzen said.
“So all scientists agree it’s probably warmer now than it was at the end of the Little Ice Age. 
Almost all Scientists agree that if you add CO2, you will have some warming. 
Maybe very little warming.”
“But it is propaganda to translate that into it is dangerous and we must reduce CO2,” he added.
The study that announced the 97% consensus, “Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature,”  by John Cook and friends, is simply bogus.
...But, the University of Queensland is hiding the fact that Cook’s study was a qualitative study which relied on opinion and produced biased results.
...The way the 97% study was conducted was Cook and his buddies looked at peer-reviewed studies and classified them as either agreeing or disagreeing with the climate change hypothesis.
Cook doesn’t mention that the 97% figure was really 97% of the hand-picked studies they reviewed. Even worse, investigative journalists at Popular Technology reported that the 97% Study falsely classifies scientists’ papers as supporting the global warming hypothesis – according to the scientists who published the papers.

Obama Commutes Sentences of 61 Felons

Obama Commutes Sentences of 61 Felons:

"What is so appalling and ironic about Obama’s clemency program is that in addition to releasing drug dealers, he is commuting the sentences of those who committed crimes with firearms.  At the same time, Obama is calling for tougher regulations on law abiding gun owners and dealers, he is releasing violent gun criminals into our communities.  Yet, Republicans cannot hold him accountable and message this point to the media because they agree with his underlying policy. "

Harvard activists claim jurisdiction over building, tear down flyers critical of group

Harvard activists claim jurisdiction over building, tear down flyers critical of group - The College Fix

The Harvard group “Reclaim Harvard Law,” which has been occupying the Law School’s Caspersen Student Center for over a month, claims it has jurisdiction over the building which they have renamed “Belinda Hall.”
After student Bill Barlow had put up flyers at Caspersen/Belinda which denounced Reclaim as anti-free speech, group members promptly took them down.

Reclaim leader AJ Clayborne, who personally had removed some of Barlow’s flyers, said that anything that goes up in Belinda Hall “must be approved by Reclaim first”:
“Belinda Hall has been reclaimed by Reclaim HLS for the purpose of creating an anti-racist environment for all and, accordingly, has a new governing body to protect that cause in a way that the institution’s existing structure, including DOS, has not. Anything that violates anti-racist values has no place in Belinda Hall.”
Barlow’s first set of signs compared the (anti-free speech) policies of Donald Trump to those of Reclaim.
But “[a]fter learning about Harvard’s 501(c)(3) obligations, which could bar signs referencing Trump, [he] created new signs void of political content.”
Clayborne and Reclaim removed those signs, too..."

AM Fruitcake

History for April 1

History for April 1 - On-This-Day.com:
Otto Von Bismarck 1815, Lon Chaney 1883 - Actor ("The Phantom of the Opera"), William Manchester 1922 - Writer 


Gordon Jump 1932 - Actor ("WKRP in Cincinnati"), Debbie Reynolds (Mary Frances Reynolds) 1932 - Singer, Actress, mother of actress Carrie Fisher, Ali MacGraw 1938 - Actress 


1929 - Louie Marx introduced the Yo-Yo.


1933 - Nazi Germany began the persecution of Jews by boycotting Jewish businesses.



1945 - U.S. forces invaded Okinawa during World War II. It was the last campaign of World War II.


1948 - The Berlin Airlift began.


1954 - The U.S. Air Force Academy was formed in Colorado.


1979 - Iran was proclaimed to be an Islamic Republic by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini after the fall of the Shah.






1982 - The U.S. transferred the Canal Zone to Panama.


1987 - U.S. Republican-President Reagan told doctors in Philadelphia, "We've declared AIDS public health enemy No. 1."