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>>162190
The left is getting more insane by the minute.
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>>162203
It reminds me of Tom Cruise all apeshit and jumping up and down on Oprah's couch. When I saw that, I had to think, "Was he crazy this whole time? Was he this fucked in Risky Business, was he this nuts in Top Gun? Did we just not know? Or is this something brand new?" I'm wondering the same things about the leftists.
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>>162208
I blame scientology

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Pete Klismet: "No doubt" Mark Redwine killed son

However, an indictment states that investigators found Dylan Redwine's blood in his father's living room. A cadaver dog alerted in the same room and in Mark Redwine's truck, according to the indictment.

Cory Redwine saw "disgusting" photos of dad in lewd situations

The indictment also said that Dylan Redwine and his older brother, Cory Redwine, had seen compromising photos of their father and that Dylan planned to confront him about them.

Family members said they believe this may have been what set off Mark Redwine's temper.

"I have seen the photos," said Cory Redwine. "It shows him wearing women's clothes and makeup and a diaper and then eating his feces from the diaper. It was disgusting. We couldn't believe it."

If that provoked Mark Redwine into a rage, Klismet said, more details may come out in court, but he said he is certain Mark will not plead guilty.

I believe they've got a strong case," said Klismet. "There is no question in my mind that this case will go to trial. Mark will not plead guilty because he's a narcissist. He believes he can lie his way out of everything."

Klismet said that Mark Redwine's version of what happened—that Dylan was somehow kidnapped—has a mathematical likelihood of close to zero.

Cory Redwine discussed the case further Monday afternoon with Denver7, and said he was happy his brother was finally getting justice.

“It’s exciting to know that justice is coming for my little brother,” said Cory Redwine, who called the arrest “bittersweet.”

“I’m obviously excited. I believe they have the right man, but it’s still sad that we even have to go through this,” he added.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/crime/fbi-profiler-helped-in-arrest-of-dylan-redwine-father?page=2
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From the beginning, Cory says he suspected his father was involved in Dylan’s disappearance.

“We didn’t know what the outcome would be, but we’ve always known that Mark was in some way, shape or form involved in this,” he told Denver7.

He said the photos were “disturbing”, but that they were likely just the beginning of the confrontation between his brother and his father, who Cory says had a violent temper.

“I think Dylan had a lot more than just pictures that he wanted to get across to Mark,” said Cory, who said he believes his father may be mentally ill. “He’s just a sick person, but he’s fully aware of his actions, and he’s fine with being that person. If that’s how he wants to live his life, then well, we can see where that gets you. He’s where he belongs.”
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Have the photos have been found and authenticated?
My bet is that Cory Redwine is convinced his Dad killed his brother and manufactured this story to:
1. Turn the public [potential jurors] against and embarrass his dad
2. Establish a reason to file charges.

Did Cory Redwine mention this to law enforcement following his brother's disappearance/murder?

If not, it's pretty hard to believe.
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>It shows him wearing women's clothes and makeup and a diaper and then eating his feces from the diaper.

He must lurk here.

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Suffering a slipped or herniated disc is no joke. It can be excruciatingly painful and, in severe cases, it requires spine surgery and months of recovery. But for one chiropractor in Malaysia, fixing a slipped disc is as easy as knocking it back into position with a hammer.

Md Rosdi Hasan has a very unconventional way of dealing with slipped discs and back pain in general. Instead of relying on MRIs or X-rays to diagnose his patients’ back problems, he just uses his fingers to check if all the bones and vertebrae are in the right place, and draws a diagram of all the discs directly on the back of his patients, with a black marker. Once he learns everything he needs to know, Hasan grabs a hammer and a piece of wood and starts knocking the discs back into place.

Watching Rosdi Hasan taking a hammer to his patients’ spine like it’s no big deal is painful to watch, especially knowing that it could leave them paralyzed, but he claims no one has ever had any problems after his treatment. In fact, he is so proud of his method that he regularly posts videos of his “spinal tap” routine on his Facebook page. Some of them have tens of thousands of views, and despite the obvious joke comments, some people actually believe he can fix their spine problems.

One of Hasan’s videos went viral in Malaysian media back in March, and left actual doctors horrified. “Slipped discs CANNOT be treated by knocking,” Dr. Mahyuddin, an orthopedic surgeon, wrote on his Facebook page. “You can’t ‘see’ a slipped disc without an MRI or X-Ray.”
Mahyuddin also warns people willing to go under Rosdi Hasan’s hammer that his marker drawings of spinal discs on patients’ back are completely inaccurate and that a single wrong tap could leave them paralyzed.

http://www.odditycentral.com/news/malaysian-chiropractor-fixes-slipped-spinal-discs-by-knocking-them-with-a-hammer.html
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Fun fact. Western chiropractors are not much better.
Your insurance pays for it because its the cheapest way to placate you while your back heals anyway.
Its all based on stalling for time.
Amazing business model with low overhead.
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>>156670

Chiros essentially have an associates degree and call themselves doctors.

They can't read MRIs, can't prescribe medicine, and cant prescribe Xrays or MRIs.

The whole practice is based on subluxation, which has literally zero evidence for doing what they claim.

It used to be considered quackery by insurance companies, but like you said, too many people whining about not getting their placebos changed it.
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It worked in a Batman movie. Why would they lie to us?

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Last week, Dan Coats, the former senator from Indiana and current head of the U.S. intelligence community, was interviewed by NBC’s Lester Holt in front of a live audience at the Aspen Security Forum, a gathering where diplomats, journalists and top U.S. officials mingle with business executives in between livestreamed panel discussions on world affairs.

http://allways-news.info/news/how-can-you-work-for-a-president-that-undermines-your-work?uid=533
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>>162765
>Last week
>Always-news.info

Get this shit outta here, sage
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So supplying weapons to terrorists is a service that is no longer needed under Trump? Tough shit. Looks the diplomats and spies will have to get a real job like the rest of us.

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>>162679
OP, maybe green text something. I don't want to give bbc their admoney.
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>>162679
>The US says it will not call for a UN Security Council meeting over North Korea's missile tests because it would produce "nothing of consequence".

>Such a meeting would send a message to North Korea that the international community was unwilling to challenge it, US Ambassador Nikki Haley said.

>Pyongyang said its tests proved that the entire US was within range.
The US has responded by testing an anti-missile system and flying bombers over the Korean peninsula.

>On Monday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he had spoken to US President Donald Trump and they agreed on the need for further action on North Korea given its most recent missile test on Friday.
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>he two did not discuss any use of military action.

>'China must decide' Ms Haley said in a statement
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>US President Donald Trump has again criticised China for not doing enough to stop Pyongyang's weapons programme while making "hundreds of billions of dollars" in trade with the US.

>Mr Trump wrote on Twitter that he was "very disappointed" with China, adding that he would not allow it to "do nothing" about the isolated state.

>Victor Gao, a former diplomat and Chinese government adviser, said Mr Trump's comments were unhelpful, adding that the US was acting like a "spoiled child".

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection will begin constructing the first segment of President Trump’s border wall in November through a national wildlife refuge, using money it’s already received from Congress.

That’s what a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service official recently told a nonprofit group that raises money to support two national wildlife refuges in South Texas, according to the group’s vice president.
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>>162464
Good
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Tnx God
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I want a 100ft wall with landmines around it.

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Officials seized Trump protesters’ cell phones, cracked their passwords, and are now attempting to use the contents to convict them of conspiracy to riot at the presidential inauguration.

>Prosecutors have indicted over 200 people on felony riot charges for protests in Washington, D.C. on January 20 that broke windows and damaged vehicles. Some defendants face up to 75 years in prison, despite little evidence against them. But a new court filing reveals that investigators have been able to crack into at least eight defendants’ locked cell phones.

>Now prosecutors want to use the internet history, communications, and pictures they extracted from the phones as evidence against the defendants in court.

>Evidence against the defendants has been scant from the moment of their arrest. As demonstrators, journalists, and observers marched through the city, D.C. police officers channelled hundreds of people into a narrow, blockaded corner, where they carried out mass arrests of everyone in the area. Some of those people, including a journalist and two allegedly peaceful protesters, are now suing for wrongful arrest.

>Police also seized more than 100 cell phones from “defendants and other un-indicted arrestees,” prosecutors disclosed in a March filing. “All of the Rioter Cell Phones were locked, which requires more time-sensitive efforts to try to obtain the data,” prosecutors noted in the filing.

>But a July 21 court document shows that investigators were successful in opening the locked phones. The July 21 filing moved to enter evidence from eight seized phones, six of which were “encrypted” and two of which were not encrypted. A Department of Justice representative confirmed that “encrypted” meant additional privacy settings beyond a lock screen.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/feds-crack-trump-protesters-phones-to-charge-them-with-felony-rioting
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>For the six encrypted phones, investigators were able to compile “a short data report which identifies the phone number associated with the cell phone and limited other information about the phone itself,” the filing says. But investigators appear to have bypassed the lock on the two remaining phones to access the entirety of their contents.

>Prosecutors moved to use a wealth of information from the phones as evidence, including the phones’ “call detail records,” “SMS or MMS messages,” “contact logs/email logs,” “chats or other messaging applications,” “website search history and website history,” and “images or videos,” so long as the data related to January 20, the protest, or other people suspected to have been involved in the protest.

>The owners of the two unencrypted phones were likely using a password, Fred Jennings, a cybercrime and privacy attorney said. But the security measures weren’t enough.

>“The two phones where they had a laundry list of data they were able to get, I think it’s a fair assumption that those phones may have had a lock screen enabled, but were not using any sort of full-disk encryptions,” Jennings told The Daily Beast.

>If investigators were able to crack the phones’ passwords within their department or through a contract, they would not necessarily have to file any additional court documents, Jennings said.

>Police appear to have begun searching at least one phone within a day of its seizure, CityLab reported in January. At 4:15 pm, the day after the arrests, one defendant received a Google alert that their Gmail account had been accessed while the phone was in police possession, that person’s lawyer told CityLab. Jennings said next-day phone access by law enforcement was “unusual to see,” but not entirely out of the pale.
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>“For best practices for digital discovery, there usually is a delay between time of seizure and searching or attempting to decrypt phones. More as a practical matter,” Jennings said. “To do intake of forensic digital discovery correctly, you need some specialized equipment and some specialized training and knowledge. It usually takes some time to get those individuals on hand. It’s possible it’s a higher priority here, this inauguration being a pretty high-profile event.”

>The exact contents of the two unencrypted phones—or whether prosecutors will attempt to introduce evidence from other cracked phones—is unclear. In March, prosecutors said they had collected hundreds of hours of video from seized phones, which would show evidence of defendants’ participation in the riot.

>But Mark Goldstone, a lawyer representing six of the accused said the footage is less than damning.

>"Here's your client at the beginning of the march, wearing black clothes and goggles, your client could have left but did not, and here is your client at the end, in the police kettle," Goldstone said in a March conference call with 15 other defense attorneys, Esquire reported.

>One of the more than 200 defendants has pleaded guilty to riot charges after being named extensively in a superseding indictment. But the case against most defendants is less clear; in the superseding indictment, prosecutors accuse hundreds defendants of conspiracy to riot, based on “overt acts” as banal as chanting anti-capitalist slogans or wearing dark clothing.

>If prosecutors were ready to stake their case on the color of a defendant’s jacket, the personal information on demonstrators’ phones could be a treasure trove for a case otherwise absent, at least so far, of other evidence.
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Is it true that, if convicted, they'd be sentenced according to a law that Obama signed, like that one image that made the rounds a while back stated?

If so, I'll have a nice chuckle before I go to bed.

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Girl was rapped twice in a day by two guys on the same day, the UK news described the two suspects as Asian. One described as 6 feet tall thick set asian who wears a track suit. The other one was described as Adian with a tight cropped beard.

One of the so called Asian man was caught and his name is Khurram Rahi. That name does not sound anywhere close to Asian. The U.K. Media is corrupted and heavily manipulated right now. This starts to happen in the US as well. One of the popular social media news outlet called AJ+ is heavily funded by Qatar. The outlet has been twisting current events and turns it to a shit show by filming women and children.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jul/27/girl-raped-two-men-flagged-down-help-birmingham

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jul/30/man-charged-after-girl-raped-twice-in-one-night-in-birmingham
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Believe it or not, not all asians have slit eyes and buck teeth. Indians are technically Asian.
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Middle East is technically located in Asia. If you ate biased to think Asia in terms of Chinese people press is not to blame.
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>>162547
Technically they are asians, but the press not calling it "Middle Eastern" is pretty slimy. Much how mexican american/illegal mexican/spanish american crime stats are lumped in with the caucasian crime stats in America very much effects the crime statistics white Americans and then we have it waved in our faces and can't do anything about it.

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It's the newest beauty trend: charcoal face masks. But doctors and skin experts are telling beauty junkies, and those looking for a quick fix for their acne problems, to steer clear, warning that these products could cause permanent damage to your skin.

All over social media, you'll see videos of people peeling black masks off their faces to get rid of black heads, and essentially screaming like a banshee. And while these videos are pretty hilarious to watch, one Central Arkansas doctor warns that anything good for your skin shouldn't hurt that bad.

"None of the things we do here are that painful. Even our strongest peels are not painful," said Dr. Anne Trussell of Sei Bella Med Spa.

Dr. Trussell said it's not just the pain that's the problem.

"Permanently enlarged pores. You can get scarring. People of darker ethnicities; black patients, Asians, Hispanics, they can actually get permanent hypo pigmentation," she said.

18-year-old Sierra Dunn of Austin bought a charcoal peel-off mask after seeing videos on social media touting the results.

"I have black heads on my nose for sure. I just wanted to try something to get rid of those, because nothing really seems to work," Dunn said.

Dunn paid less than $10 for the product including shipping on Amazon through a third party seller, whose site also includes everything from belly button rings, to wall decor, to pill box cases. When it arrived, she couldn't read the label, which was written in Chinese.

"I didn't really think anything of it because it says charcoal so it should be what it is," she said.

Dr. Trussell said unlike drug store or clinical brands, products purchased online, particularly from another country, don't face regulations like American brands.

"You just really don't know what you're getting.
http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/ark-doctors-warn-of-charcoal-face-mask-dangers/460479733
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It's not just that it may not work, or it may not be as strong or what's in there is not what it says is in there, you could do yourself some damage," Dr. Trussell said.

Damage is what Sierra Dunn said she got after using a peel.

"I peeled it off and my face was beet red. I just thought it was something that was supposed to happen. Cause it was a peel and it was taking all of your skin off,” Dunn said. “A few days later, my face was still red and there were welts all over. I had to go to the doctor and they gave me steroid cream to put on it and said I got a chemical burn."

Little Rock hair dresser, Kristin Caraway had a similar experience with a charcoal peel she bought online.

"The first time I ever used it, it was awful. I put it on like they said; clean face, dry face. I left it on for the amount of time, took my bubble bath. In fact, I was facetiming my mom in the bath when I had it on, trying to show her how I was using this new cool product I heard so much about,” she said. “When the time came to peel the product off, I put my phone on the side of the bathtub, and I started to pull. It wasn't coming off. I was literally just like pulling my skin out."

She decided to bite the bullet and peel.

"I just decided to treat it like a wax strip and just rip. No. It hurt even worse. After it was all said and done, I just decided to put water on my face, get a hot rag, put it on there, let it soak, and eventually was able to just like wipe it away slowly," Caraway said.

Dr. Trussell said Caraway's approach is best. If you feel something may be wrong, listen to your body. Only, Caraway probably should have bailed sooner.

"I had just like red patches for days on my cheeks, in my T-Zone, where I really had it on there the most. Trying to get all of the nasty yucky stuff off," Caraway said.

With that sort of reaction, what's the appeal of a peel?
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"A good peel that is tailored to your skin can help pore size, it can help dark spots, sun damage, malasma from hormones, fine lines and wrinkles. Those are all good reasons to get peels," Dr. Trussell said.

Dr. Trussell said if you think you're going to need a peel, the best thing to do is go see a licensed esthetician or a doctor and find out what products are good for your skin and which ones aren't. Definitely take whatever you've bought in to an esthetician or a dermatologist or other skin care professional. Have them look at the ingredients and tell you if there's anything in there you shouldn't put on your skin. Don't buy something off the internet that you don't know anything about or can't read the language.

THV11 reached out to the Attorney General’s office to see if anyone there is investigating what is in these peels. They told THV11 that would be more so a question for the FDA and FTC. THV11 reached out to both those federal agencies and also amazon to see if any of those parties are investigating claims but haven't heard back.
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>>162359
"Oy vey, goyim. Don't use this product, it might maybe perhaps damags your skin. Let's book you 12 session with me so i can stab you with a needle and squeeze your face until it bleeds. Remember, if it hurts it's probably bad. Don't forgret to buy some foreskin cream on your way out goy."-Mr. Gold Shekleberg, Dermatologist

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A Florida health care administrator accepted bribes in exchange for helping a nursing home owner accused of orchestrating a $1 billion Medicare and Medicaid fraud scheme keep his license, federal prosecutors said.

Bertha Blanco, 66, faces federal criminal charges in a wide-ranging investigation that federal authorities are calling the nation's biggest health fraud case, The Miami Herald reported . She was charged earlier this month.

Blanco made about $31,300 a year overseeing inspections at nursing facilities owned by 48-year-old Philip Esformes, an extremely wealthy businessman who owns dozens of Miami-Dade nursing facilities as well as homes in Miami, Los Angeles and Chicago, prosecutors said.

A criminal complaint filed against Blanco accused her of taking tens of thousands of dollars in cash in exchange for tipping Esformes off about violations so he could address them before state inspections.

Blanco's aid allowed Esformes to keep his license active and continue billing the federal government for questionable patient services, the complaint alleged.

Blanco, a 29-year veteran of the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, is the first of its employees ever to be charged with taking bribes, the newspaper reported.

Blanco's attorney Robyn Blake told the newspaper she is reviewing the case and deciding whether to go to trial or bargain a plea deal. Blanco is out of custody on a $250,000 bond.

Federal authorities say Blanco took the bribes and provided patient and inspection records to intermediaries, who delivered the information to Esformes. (cont)

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/florida-health-care-admin-charged-1b-medicare-fraud-48925669
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>>162612
Government is so effiecient, maybe they should run all of our healthcare too

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AMY GOODMAN: We turn now to Iowa, where two Catholic Workers have revealed they secretly carried out multiple acts of sabotage and arson in recent months in order to stop construction of the controversial $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline.
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>>162488
That have more balls than babies on /pol/, that's for sure.
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>>162494
Why would I sabotage a vital public good? I'm not a Commie.
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>>162488
Liberals once again showing what despicable, slimy and treacherous lowlifes they are while taking the moral high ground.

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>>162471
>AllwaysNews
Post the original and KYS: https://www.propublica.org/article/mccain-brain-cancer-draws-renewed-attention-to-possible-agent-orange

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Thank you america. Ukrainian nazis will never forget you.

http://korrespondent.net/ukraine/3873101-ssha-potratyly-na-voennyi-tsentr-pod-lvovom-22-mln
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>>162429
Small price to pay to piss off Russians.
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>>162449
Yeah, it's too bad Trump changed the GOP platform to rescind aid to Ukraine. Funny how it was the only thing he requested be changed in the entire platform and he did it right after meeting with the Russian ambassador.
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>>162449
I hope one day we'll nuke the US fat asses

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Donald Trump holds a fuse in his hands — and he could decide to light it and blow up Obamacare insurance markets as soon as Thursday.

>That’s the deadline for sending out the next monthly Affordable Care Act subsidies to health plans to defray the cost of care for individuals with low incomes. The president has toyed for months with the idea of stopping the payments to force Democrats to the negotiating table to avoid the prospect of millions of vulnerable Americans losing access to health coverage.

>Trump has repeatedly told aides and advisers that he wants to end the subsidy payments, and he has not changed his position, according to several people who have spoken with him. “Why are we making these payments?” Trump has asked.

>With Senate Republicans’ Obamacare repeal effort in shambles and GOP leaders lacking the votes to bring a bill to the floor, Trump could finally follow through in a bid to regain the upper hand.

>“My advice to the plans this morning was, ‘If you get it, cash the check quickly,’” one health care lobbyist who represents insurers said Tuesday.

>Two White House officials said a final decision on the subsidies had not been made. One person said various aides and advisers had issued conflicting opinions in recent days.

>Asked whether Trump would actually pull the plug, a different administration official said this time is “different” — and that administration officials had begun looking at how they would end the payments. “But no decision has been made,” the official said.

>Immediately halting the subsidies — estimated to be $7 billion this year — would likely tip the already shaky Obamacare markets into chaos. Insurers already are queasy about the uncertainty roiling the marketplaces as the 2018 open enrollment season approaches.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/18/trump-obamacare-markets-subsidies-cut-240684
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>House Republicans sued to block the subsidy payments in 2014, arguing that they were illegally funded by the Obama administration. They prevailed at the lower court level, but that decision is being appealed. That means the Trump administration has discretion to decide unilaterally whether the payments continue.

>The markets are already wobbly. Currently, 44 counties lack health plans willing to sell coverage next year, potentially leaving 30,000 individuals without any insurance options. Eliminating the subsidies would likely send more plans heading for the exits and drive up premiums charged by plans that stick around.

>“Either or both of those means millions of working-class families will be without access to coverage or care,” said Ceci Connolly, president and CEO of the Alliance of Community Health Plans.

>Greg Scott, who oversees Deloitte’s health plans practices, predicts an exodus.

>“You would have many health plans that would look for the nearest exit, literally, and look for ways to extricate themselves from a burning building,” Scott said.

>Trump’s insistence that Republicans could shift the blame to Democrats for market mayhem seems like wishful thinking. Polling data strongly suggest that Americans will hold Republicans accountable for future problems since the GOP has unified control of the White House and Congress. The Kaiser Family Foundation’s monthly tracking poll has consistently shown that about 6 in 10 Americans would blame Republicans for a meltdown.

>Forcing Democrats to come to the bargaining table also seems like a pipe dream at this point. They’re quietly enjoying watching Republicans twist in the wind after facing seven years of brutal Obamacare attacks and losing control of both chambers of Congress.

>“I’d be stunned if they want to sit down and work on a bipartisan solution,” said Thomas Scully, who oversaw Medicare and Medicaid under President George W. Bush.
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>Democrats insist they’re serious about working with Republicans on bipartisan fixes to the Obamacare markets. But first Republicans will need to give up on plans to repeal the 2010 law and overhaul the Medicaid system.

>“There’s absolutely political benefit to Democrats to sit on the outside and watch them fail, but that comes at a big cost to the country,” said Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut. “If health care comes off the table as a political issue in 2018, there will be plenty of other things to fight about.”

>But Murphy pulls no punches in assigning blame if the markets collapse in the coming months.

>“If the health care system dies, there’s one executioner and one executioner only — Donald Trump,” he said. “He has undertaken a campaign of sabotage that he is now threatening to step up.”

>Thursday’s payments are likely to go forward because the process is already well underway and would be difficult to unwind. But there are no guarantees.

>One person who spoke to Trump earlier this week said he was determined that — no matter what happens — his administration won’t be blamed for the failure of Obamacare. “I don’t think he realizes that he will be blamed for this,” this person said. “It could be a bad move.”

>“We are still considering our options,” a White House spokesman emailed on Monday. “Congress could resolve any uncertainty about the payments by passing legislation and reforming Obamacare’s failed funding structure.”

>The Senate repeal bill contained two years of cost-sharing subsidy payments to bridge the divide between Obamacare and the retooled insurance marketplace. Key congressional Republicans, such as House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady of Texas and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, have voiced support for continuing the payments.
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>“I think they’re going to have to be paid,” Sen. Orrin Hatch, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said Tuesday. “You can’t let people be without basic health care.”

>But when asked whether the Senate should appropriate money for the payments, the Utah Republican demurred.

>“That’s beyond my pay grade,” he said. “I’m not sure.”

>Divisions among Senate Republicans are unlikely to make it easy to reach agreement on some kind of short-term marketplace stabilization package. Trump’s threats won’t help bring about consensus. Even senators who once expressed support for such fixes are reconsidering, given the uncertain path forward.

>“I was saying we should bite the bullet a couple of months ago, when we could have been seen as being proactive and doing the responsible thing because insurance carriers needed to get some certainty to help stabilize the markets,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said Tuesday. “I don’t know if that time has passed yet or not.”

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Joey Chestnut can gobble down, in a hurry, just about any kind of food that is put in front of him, regardless of the shape or the heat it delivers.

Every one knows about the hot dogs, with Chestnut a perennial champ of the annual Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest on July 4 in Coney Island.

But tacos are no problem, either, as he showed again Saturday on day 2 of the Taco Truck Throwdown in Fresno, California, to win the World Taco Eating Championship.

Chestnut gave those on hand a show when he stuffed down 92 carne asada tacos in 8 minutes to claim victory.

“The heat was really hard so I was sweating a little bit more than I should,” said Chestnut, who pocketed $4,000 for the win and said he’ll return next summer to defend his title. “I had little deep coughs where it came out a little bit. I wasn’t burping or anything; the food wasn’t settling fast enough, but it worked out.”

And if you think that means Chestnut didn’t get to enjoy what was put in front of him?

“The food was delicious,” he said.

Chestnut already had displayed the full scope of his taco talents in May by devouring 126 in 8 minutes to set a world record at Mystic Lake Casino in Prior Lake, Minnesota. He won $2,000 that day, breaking the old record of 103.

And actually, he was proven across all taco disciplines.

According to the Major League Eating website, Chesnut has eaten 54 brain tacos in 8 minutes; 30 fish tacos in 5 minutes; and 53 soft beef tacos from Taco Bell in 10 minutes.

Chestnut said he had a goal of hitting the century mark Saturday, but he didn’t know the tacos would be seasoned. If he had, he likely would have practiced.

Such is the professionalism one needs to bring to the table as a Major League eater.

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“That’s the biggest thing in practice,” he said. “It makes it easier to find a rhythm and digest it. If you don’t know what it’s going to taste like it’s hard to practice, so practice is pointless. I kind of winged it.

“Next year I’ll have an idea what they’re going to taste like. I’ll be practicing a little bit more.”

The main competition came from world No. 2 competitive eater Matt Stonie. But midway through the contest, Chestnut’s confidence grew when he noticed Stonie “slowing down.”

Stonie could only manage 83. Slacker.

“I had a pretty good feeling,” Chestnut said. “I was looking at Matt and he was slowing down and I was like, ‘I got this.’

“I had a lot of concern. Matt Stonie is a great eater. He’s really fast for an 8-minute contest. The crowd was definitely on my side. I just had fun.”

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