RIP: Don Rickles

Queens-born wiseguy comedian Don Rickles died today. The Donald of comedy, who became famous for insulting everyone was 90. The comic died at his home in Los Angeles of kidney failure.
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Don Rickles, legendary insult comic, dies at 90 http://bit.ly/2oIVf2s

Don Rickles, king of insult comedy, dies at 90 https://apnews.com/1055331fd4d2411180d5dd5468194739

RIP: Don Rickles says Donald Trump Tried to Sell Him a Condo https://youtu.be/yXSdWvqNqwk

BBC News - Legendary US comedian Don Rickles dies at 90 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39520006

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Corruption

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Happy belated birthday to Boss Tweed. April 3, 1823 – April 12, 1878. On the morning of April 12, 1878, William Tweed, known to the world as Boss Tweed, was dying. As the clock in the Essex Market tolled noon, the man who had once ruled New York, abandoned by friends and associates, lying in a prison bed, breathed his last.Tweed, disgraced, held up to contempt and ridicule before the very people who had held him in high esteem was gone.

Slow Down DOJ

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The US Department of Justice has ordered a review of federal agreements with law enforcement agencies that reflect President Trump’s emphasis on law and order and the fears are that it could lead to a retreat on consent decrees with troubled police departments nationwide.

A consent decree is an agreement or settlement that resolves a dispute between two parties without admission of guilt in a criminal case or liability in a civil case.

Walk Around

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Did you know that every year on the first Wednesday in April is National Walking Day?

This day is set aside by the American Heart Association to encourage us all to get out on their own two feet and walk for their health.

Health benefits of brisk walking include reduced body fat, lower blood pressure and it facilitates lower mortality rates from cardiovascular disease. Just make sure you pick up the pace.

Also, if you take a walk, but make sure you put it back.

Close For Comfort?

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Judge Gorsuch is one step closer to The US Supreme Court. high court. Senators took one step closer to end the judicial filibuster.

GOP leaders vow that Mr. Gorsuch will be confirmed "one way or another," therefore we're witnessing a process in the US Senate that is not noble. It is politics at its most raw, the kind that equally confounds and repulses those with weak stomachs or little experience with governance.

NYC HAWK WATCH

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The great majority of hawks are more useful to human beings than they are harmful to us.

However, there is still widespread prejudice against hawks. Occasionally they destroy poultry and smaller birds, but they eat small mammals, reptiles, and insects.

Hawks have many foraging techniques, but the most typical in their pursuit of prey is raking, or swiftly following the animal’s efforts to escape.

Once the hawk has secured the prey with its powerful talons, the bird dismembers it with its sharply pointed, strong beak.

SUPREME COURTING

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13 months after US Justice Antonin Scalia died suddenly, the supreme courting has ended and the judging intensifies.

President Obama initially chose Judge Merrick Garland to fill his seat, but a Republican-led Senate insisted that the next president should get to pick Scalia's replacement.

President Trump has nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch and the Senate now has to approve Gorsuch for the vacancy.

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