February 3, 2011

• Gorbachev Comments on Reagan
• Groundhog doesn’t See Shadow Promising a Quicker Spring.
• Dirty bomb Top Terror Weapon Now Possible
• Time to Kill Redevelopment Agencies
• Mubarack or Muslin Brotherhood Is The Question
• China Takesover Cuba’s Soviet Eavesdropping Facility
• Chinese Spy Arrested
• Heart Attack Super Bowl Sunday
• Kucinich Settles Olive Pit Nuisance Suit

Sunday would have been Ronald Reagan’s 100^th birthday. Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, famour for wearing his cowboy hat backwards while visiting the Regean Ranch a few miles north of Santa Barbara —  remembers Ronald Reagan as a great president and partner in ending the Cold War - even though the two initially labeled each other with distinctly unflattering terms.

“After our first talk, he called me a diehard Bolshevik, and I called him a dinosaur,” Gorbachev confided to Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy in an exclusive interview. “So that was our first meeting. But then we became good partners, good partners in the best sense of that word.”

Ruddy traveled to Moscow to interview Gorbachev in preparation for Newsmax’s special presentations in its February magazine and on its website this week marking Reagan’s 100th birthday Feb. 6.

Chicago is expecting something like 20 inches of snow. In fact, today Rahm Emanuel said he’s glad he doesn’t really live there.- Leno

Punxsutawney Phil was raised from his burrow and did not sdee his shadow prmising a quick Spring to the relief of beleaguered Easterners who have trudged through heaps on snow and a blankewt of ice amid sub freezinf emperatures since Christmas.

Fear of skyrocketing Gasoline and fuel oil prices has Americans paying attention to th e unraveling in Egypt and the Middle East. So far few are focusing on the fact that White House’s ban on using American oil is the leading driver of escalating gasoline and diesel prices at the pump.

Al-Qaida has the time, materials and talent to assemble radioactive “dirty” bombs, according to documents obtained by the London Telegraph newspaper.The cables, released on the WikiLeaks website, reveal that NATO security chiefs briefed leaders in January 2009 that al-Qaida had an active unit assembling “dirty radioactive improvised explosive devices (IEDs)” using rogue nuclear scientists.

 

The makeshift nuclear bombs, which could be used against soldiers fighting in Afghanistan, would contaminate the surrounding area for years to come, denying use of the area the Telegraph reported.

The security officials also told leaders that al-Qaida papers found in 2007 convinced security officials that “greater advances” had been made in bio-terrorism than was previously feared.

In 2008, American officials were warned that terrorists had “the technical competence to manufacture an explosive device beyond a mere dirty bomb.” So far no such device has been used or found.

A dirty bomb is a speculative radiological weapon that combines radioactive material with conventional explosives. The purpose of the weapon is to contaminate the area around the explosion with radioactive material, hence the attribute “dirty”.

Though a radiological dispersal device (RDD) would be designed to disperse radioactive material over a large area, a bomb that uses conventional explosives would likely have more immediate lethal effect than the radioactive material. At levels created from most probable sources, not enough radiation would be present to cause severe illness or death. A test explosion and subsequent calculations done by the United States Department of Energy found that assuming nothing is done to clean up the affected area and everyone stays in the affected area for one year, the radiation exposure would be “fairly high”, but not fatal. Recent analysis of the nuclear fallout from the Chernobyl disaster confirms this, showing that the effect on many people in the surrounding area, although not those in close proximity, was almost negligible.

There is little military value to such a gadget which would tend to use low level radioactive components.But, detonated in an urban area woulkd likely cause confusion and panic to to wide sporead ignorance in general populations. An particularly absurd example was the fear of being medically scanned by what was originally called an NMR scanner (Nuclaear Magnetic Resonance) scanner that was renamed an MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imager) because of just such ignorance - they are the same devices.

Yesterday, February 2, 2011 would have been Farah Fawcett’s 64^th birthday. She died after a long battle with cancer in 2009.

Time to Chase Community Redevelopment Agencies Out of Town

By Charles Crumpley Editor of the Los Angeles Business Journal

Los Angeles city officials are wailing that civilization as we know it may be imperiled if Gov. Jerry Brown has his way and kills community redevelopment agencies.

Maybe I’m just a postredevelopment Pollyanna, but I think our way of life would survive just fine. In fact, we’d be better off without them.

Why? Because CRAs are one of those well-intentioned initiatives that sounded great and started off well enough decades ago and have some accomplishments they can point to, such as the Hollywood & Highland Center. But over the years, they have devolved into corrupt little political fiefdoms that muck up the works and don’t do much good.

Sure, CRAs may encourage project construction in some supposedly blighted areas, but those developments mostly are just shifted over from another area. At least, that’s what the nonpartisan state Legislative Analyst’s Office reported a few weeks ago. It went on to say: “There is no reliable evidence that redevelopment projects attract businesses to the state or increase overall economic development in California.”

Ouch. After all these years and billions of dollars? No help?

But it’s worse. CRAs do harm.

For example, CRAs have a record of buying out old but often-functioning small businesses, clearing the land and then sitting on it for a decade. Or two.

Tim Cavanaugh, writing for Reason.com, pointed out that the Community Redevelopment Agency of L.A.’s Marlton Square development in the Crenshaw District is a boondoggle that’s been lingering for years. CRA/LA’s Slauson Central Retail Center has been envisioned but unbuilt now for 20 years.

“You could not devise a better machine for creating and maintaining urban blight if you tried,” he wrote.

After the 1992 riots, Cavanaugh wrote, the CRA/LA “was given a shockingly broad mandate to seize, assemble and develop land for high-end retail, housing and restaurants. The CRA now controls nearly $1 billion worth of real estate in South L.A., and almost none of it has been developed.”

In my view, the central problem is that CRAs here and across the country are fundamentally political bodies trying to be real estate developers. Sure, private-sector developers may be criticized for making decisions solely on whether any given project is likely to produce a big payout. But they actually make decisions. Political organizations, on the other hand, dither while deciding how their pals can get rewarded or their enemies punished. Projects get trapped in all manner of politically correct mandates and goals and sometimes get hijacked by politically connected but shady types. Commissioners ride the CRA like a hobbyhorse, such as union crusader Madeline Janis, who uses CRA/LA to impose her living-wage agenda (but at least she’s forthright and honest about it).

Big developers long ago learned to game the system, getting the benefits of CRAs’ largesse. All they have to do is cozy up to the political types. And the small businesses that are in the way of CRA-engineered plans? They don’t matter, and you can’t hear their screams anyway over the noise of the bulldozers bearing down on them.

I know some city officials are saying that the state needs CRAs because that’s the way things are done now. Without them, big developments in blighted areas won’t get built.

But you know, until a few decades ago, developments were conceived and built almost entirely by real estate visionaries with bold plans, willing to risk their own money or that of any bankroller they could talk into going along. Cities guided development through planning and zoning commissions.

So don’t say it can’t be done. That’s how America got built. And it wasn’t such a bad place.

In the East and midwest organized crime swpt in an virtually took control of redevelopment agencies exploiting communities and milking billions.

Since inaugurated Obama has issued 132 regulations each with costs of more than $100 million.on American Business.

Be careful what you wish for goes a well known admonition.warns.

Egypt’s opposition, because there is no moderate group there,should it replace President Hosni Mubarak, would recognize the Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip and prepare for war against Israel and the United States, a new analysis says..

The Global Research in International Affairs Center stated that the Muslim Brotherhood has taken over most of the opposition once led by largely secular parties. In a report, center director Barry Rubin said the Brotherhood would play the leading role in any post-Mubarak regime.

“There is no organized moderate group in Egypt,” the report, titled “Egypt: What the U.S. Should Do,” said. “Even the most important past such organization, the Kifaya movement, has already been taken over by the anti- U. S., anti-Semetic Muslim Brotherhood.”

For the last week wholesale gasoline prices have been jumping by double digits a day assuring much, much higher retail gasoline prices before Easter, and putting the feeble U. S. economic recovery in further  jeopardy.

 As Obana was bending  over backwards to kiss-up to China’s President last week came news China has taken over the former Soviet electronic eavesdropping post in Cuba that during the Cold War gathered up massive amounts of communications from within the United States, a member of a congressional China commission said last week.

Larry Wortzel, a member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, said during a House hearing on China that the Lourdes facility, closed after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, is under Chinese control now.

“China has taken over, as I understand it, the entire signals intercept complex that the Soviet Union had in Cuba,” Wortzel said. “So there is, without question, a military and intelligence purpose for their relationship.”

China also is supporting communist Cuba as well as Hugo Chavez’s regime in Venezuela, he said.

“China also may seek resources, such as oil, from offshore waters near Cuba. I think they would be very happy to extract resources any way they could get it,” Wortzel said of the Chinese. “But if you look at the visits of Chinese military leaders and political leaders, I always ask myself why the head of China’s strategic rocket forces, the second artillery, is visiting Cuba. I mean, we’re not going to be in another Cuban missile crisis, but there’s certainly something to a military relationship going on there, and the same goes with Venezuela.”

Wortzel said China may be seeking closer ties to Central and Latin America as part of its strategy of isolating Taiwan, which has diplomatic ties to some in the region.

On U.S.-China military exchanges, Wortzel said Beijing is limiting the range of discussions and refusing to address strategic issues such as cyber warfare and space operations.

With the Cuban facility easedropping on America some speculate its next steps could include arming the communist island in a move to a new missile crisis. China can do that as Obama’s forign policy is curled up into a fetal position.

Former Massachussetts Governor Mitt Romney is leading Barack Obama in a throretical race of the White House setting up a political battle between a Morman and a Muslim sympathizer. A Public Policy Institute poll has Romney leading Obama 46-43%.

A week before Egypt exploded a report by Foreign Policy magazine, a leading U.S. journal on international affairs, listed five countries whose regimes could be overthrown by a Tunisian-style revolt. They were identified as Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Libya and Sudan, Middle East Newsline reported. Ten days later the wheels have come off Egypt and Jordan

“A government that crushes dissent and censors the media might preside over relative prosperity and make the trains run on time, but its real stability remains in doubt as long as its citizens cannot express grievances through peaceful and open channels,” Eric Goldstein, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch, said.

Foreign Policy cited food and unemployment riots in Algeria in December and January. The magazine also cited concerns that the brother of Algerian President Abdul Aziz Bouteflika was trying to succeed the ailing 73-year-old leader.

“Although Bouteflika’s regime is unpopular and increasingly undemocratic, it’s not nearly as repressive as was Ben Ali’s, which may make it harder for the opposition to build a mass movement for its ouster,” the report said. “Additionally, there are no signs that Algeria’s influential trade unions or opposition groups are willing to support the rioters - who are mostly unemployed youths at this point. Perhaps in an effort to avoid association with Bin Ali, Bouteflika has wished success to Tunisia’s new government.”

Egypt has also been vulnerable to massive unrest, including food demonstrations as well as suicide protests. So far, at least three people have set themselves on fire in protest of the policies of the regime of President Hosni Mubarak. The opposition has already warned of a Tunisian-style revolt.

The report said street protests have also been sparked in Libya despite the removal of duties on imported food. Some of the protests have been posted on Youtube amid reports of infighting within the Gadhafi family.

Jordan and Sudan have also been struggling with rising unrest. The regime of Sudanese President Omar Bashir has been threatened with secession by the south as well as protests in Khartoum, while Jordan faced rising unrest sparked by high food prices and unemployment. Jordan’s Queen Rania received an online message that she should begin “palace-hunting in Jedda,” the new Saudi haven of Bin Ali.

“An unpredictable new parliament and double-digit unemployment have led some analysts to question his [Jordan's King Abdullah] grasp on power,” the report said.

VP Joe Biden says we should pay taxes with a smile. I tried it but, they wanted cash.

A U.S. national recruited by Chinese intelligence to spy inside the CIA was sentenced last week to four years in prison.

Glenn Shriver, 29, plead guilty to conspiracy to communicate national defense information in a case that highlighted aggressive Chinese intelligence activities targeting the U.S. government. Shriver admitted to meeting Chinese intelligence officials some 20 times and received $70,000 in cash payment.

At sentencing, Shriver told the court that his attempted spying was the result of a terrible decision, noting “somewhere along the way I got into bed with the wrong people.”

“Mr. Shriver sold out his country and repeatedly sought a position in our intelligence community so that he could provide classified information to the PRC (People’s Republic of China),” U.S. Attorney Neil MacBride said in a statement.

“Attempts to gain access to sensitive information are a serious threat to our national security. We are doing everything in our power to find and punish those who seek to betray our country.”

Shriver, who studied in Shanghai, in October 2004 worked with three Chinese intelligence officers.

Shriver admitted in court that he knew that his ultimate objective was to obtain a position with a federal department or agency that would afford him access to classified national defense information, which he would then transmit to the PRC officers in return for cash payments.

Shriver was caught after he made false statements during processing for a post at the CIA, including during a series of screening interviews when he lied about his illicit relationship with the PRC intelligence officers.

The sentencing came on the last day of the U.S. visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao.

Shriver is not the first spy for the Chinese to target the CIA. U.S. intelligence sources have said at least three CIA officers were reported to Director George J. Tenet in 1999 as having spied for China, but were never caught. One of the agents was paid $60,000 by Beijing.

CIA translator Larry Wu Tai Chin was arrested in 1985 and charged with being a longtime Chinese spy. He committed suicide in his jail cell before he could be sentenced.

It is unclear what damage Shriver did.

Massive unemployment compounded by inflation leading to higher food costs are providing the platform to be exploited by jiihadist and others to foment unrest in Tunisia and Egypt. Public opinion polls show a large majority of Egyptians favoring a strict government under severe Islamic law.

This Sunday’s Super Bowl could prove to be a real heartbreaker for some fans of the losing team. A new study suggests that the emotional stress fans feel after a loss may trigger fatal heart attacks, especially in people who already have heart disease.

In 1980, when the Pittsburgh Steelers staged a fourth-quarter comeback to beat the underdog L.A. Rams, heart-related deaths shot up 15% among men and 27% among women in the subsequent two weeks, compared with the same period in 1981 through 1983.

There was also a significant increase in deaths among people ages 65 and older, the study found.

The 1984 Super Bowl was a different story. The L.A. Raiders handily beat the Washington Redskins, and unlike four years earlier, the cardiacdeath rate didn’t increase after the game. In fact, the death rate for women and older people dropped slightly.

Meg Whitman spent $178.5 million on her losing campaign for governor — $144.2 million of it her own money, according to 2010 campaign finance reports filed Monday.

The Whitman campaign’s overall spending broke down to $43.25 for each vote she received in November’s general election. From her own pocket, it was $34.93 per vote. Her bid was motally damaged by celebrity lawyer Gloria Alred’s allegation she employed an illegal alien a parttime housekeeper and then financial abused her which turned out to be spurious but too late for Whitman.

Whitman, a Republican, broke national records for personal spending, although the “per-vote” spending king is still NewYork Billionnaire Mayor Mike Bloomberg. He spent $185 per vote out of his own pocket to win election to a third term in 2009.

In “The Emotional Brain,” Joseph LeDoux, a professor of neuroscience at New York University, explains the “fear system” in laboratory animals and humans. The almond-shaped clump of tissue called the amygdala can be a real troublemaker. Whenever you sense potential danger (26 voice-mails on your cell phone a loud noise late at night it comes to life and triggers an “oh, crap!” primal reaction, pumping adrenaline and other (not so great) hormones into your bloodstream.

A fraction of a second later, the higher, more educated, evolved, sophisticated region of the brain gets the signal and takes on the case, digging for the truth, sometimes accusing the amygdala of being an over-reactive alarmist.

Unfortunately we experience the fear more vividly than we do the rational response, and make decisions based on the immature brat of an amygdala.

The trick is teaching the amygdala to chill out while you get the real story from the upper regions of the brain, where you’ll get a more thoughtful, considerate analysis.

In other words, try not to act like a monkey.

 He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire - Winston Churchill.

The Carpenteria, California  City Council, a beach town 15 miles down the coast from Santa Barbara has banned smoking in all public spaces including sidewalks.

 An August 2010 survey of 2,000 Santa Barbara residents overwhelmingly supported such a ban there as well plus new taxes of $4 a pack on cigarettes and $3 per cigar for stop smoking programs.

The campaign for a Tobacco Free California has lauded the council for its efforts.

 The east cental African Country of Malawi is poised to ban passing gas by its 15 million citizens. The law also outlaws interfering with burials, and dealing with fortune tellers.

 Supporters of the anti-flatulance bill say it will prevent disturbance of the peace. Given its 60% HIV infection rate it would seem there are more important things than a farting ban.

 No, I do not understand any connection among them,

 Five Democrats on the Hawaii state legislature have introduced a bill that would allow anyone to obtain a copy of President Obama’s birth records for a $100 fee. It is not apparent what those records might actually include.

“If it passes, it will calm the birthers down,” said Rep. Rida Cabanilla, the bill’s primary sponsor, the Associated Press reports. “All these people are still doubting it because they don’t want the birth certificate from Obama. They want it from our state office.”

The measure would alter a state privacy law that limits the release of state birth records to those with a tangible interest in the matter, such as a close relative of the person for whom the records were requested. It would also help the state close its budget deficit.

The “birther movement,” questioning Mr. Obama’s origins, began during his presidential campaign. It has steadily persisted through Mr. Obama’s presidency, in spite of overwhelming evidence he was born in the United States — including his 1961 birth announcement, printed in two Hawaii newspapers.

Early last year, the state would receive as many as 10 to 20 requests per week for a copy of the president’s birth records, though the state’s Department of Health Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino reportedly said that the requests came largely from the same four to six people. Then-Republican Gov. Linda Lingle subsequently signed a bill to allow state officials to ignore duplicative requests for the birth records.

Since then, requests for Mr. Obama’s birth records have dropped from zero to five per week, the AP reports.

As you know, just another huge snowstorm back east. It completely shut down Washington, D.C. It’s like the tea party’s dream come true. Mother Nature did what they couldn’t. — Leno

Twenty years ago, the world had about 1.1 billion Muslims. Twenty years from now, it will have about twice as many - and they’ll represent more than a quarter of all people on earth, according to a new study released Thursday.

That’s a rise from 20% in 1990.

Pakistan will overtake Indonesia as home of the largest Muslim population, as it pushes past 256 million, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life projects.

The number of Muslins in the USA will double to 6.2 million it anticipates.

Afghanistan’s population will nearly double to 50.5 million making it the ninth largest Muslim nation.

Alaska’s Governor points out Federal regulations prohibit shallow water exploration for gas and oil costing 35,000 jobs there, and taking tens of billions of wages from them. While increasing foreign oil imports and driving up domestic energy costs for nothing more than to prove a fallacious ideological point.

Salvador Portillo-Saravia, a member of the vicious MS-13 street gang, was charged with raping an 8-year-old girl at her Fairfax County home last month. But he never should have been in Fairfax in the first place.

Federal officials deported Portillo-Saravia, of Sterling, to El Salvador in 2003, and he sneaked back in illegally. Now, officials are wondering why a much-touted federal program didn’t catch him before the rape.

Four weeks before the crime, Portillo-Saravia was in the Loudoun County, Virginia  jail for public intoxication. That’s when the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) program, called Secure Communities, should have identified him as an illegal immigrant and he should have been taken into custody.

Loudoun authorities ran Portillo-Saravia’s fingerprints through a federal database, but despite the 2003 deportation, nothing was found. He was released after 12 hours behind bars.

Portillo-Saravia, 29, is now the subject of a manhunt by local police and federal marshals.

Officials involved with Secure Communities and immigration experts said the incident points to confusion about how the program should work and to gaps in the immigration database. Many people who were deported before 2005, including Portillo-Saravia, are not in the fingerprint database, ICE officials said.

Jail officials in Virginia and Maryland who have relied on the program said they were not aware of the gap in the database.

“I was under the impression that everybody they had contact with was in the system,” Henrico County Sheriff Michael L. Wade said.

“Secure Communities is a very good program, but it’s not a magic solution and shouldn’t be sold that way,” said Jessica Vaughan, a senior policy analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington think tank that advocates tighter immigration controls. “This is why you do go after low-level offenders, because it can turn out they are a threat to public safety.”

Secure Communities was rolled out in October 2008 amid much fanfare as a way to transform immigration enforcement, ICE officials said then. Jails would fingerprint all arrestees, not just those suspected of being in the country illegally. Those prints would run through FBI and Department of Homeland Security databases, and ICE would flag immigration offenders for possible deportation.

In a move of astonishingly meaningless tripe Homeland Security Secretary Janet “Big Sis” Nipolitano is replacing its much-mocked system of color-coded terrorism alerts with detailed advisories about specific threats..

“When we have information about a specific, credible threat, we will issue a formal alert providing as much information as we can,” Napolitano said. That information will include a summary of the threat, steps authorities are taking to guard the public and what the public can do, she said.

 ”The alerts will be specific to the threat. They may recommend certain actions or suggest looking for specific suspicious behavior. And they will have a specified end date,” Napolitano said in a speech at George Washington University.

Napolitano’s formal announcement confirmed reports that emerged Wednesday. The new system, set to take effect in late April, replaces the five-color system established after al Qaeda’s September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.

Napolitano said those warnings were “too often accompanied by little practical information.” The new system, she said, is built on the idea “that we are all in this together, and that we all have a role to play.”

The five-color system has rarely changed from its middle setting of yellow, or “elevated,” for the general public and orange, or “high,” for commercial aviation. It has not been lowered below those levels since its establishment in 2002.

The system was the butt of jokes and parodies almost from the start, and polls found that the public considered it confusing. Kate Hanni, of the airline travelers’ advocacy group FlyersRights.org, called it “useless.”

“People just ignored it,” Hanni told CNN on Wednesday. Since the color rarely changed, passengers came to believe it didn’t mean anything, she said.

 NYC pays $1 million to remove each inch of snow — more than twice what it cost ten years ago partly because it can no longer push or dump it into the rivers. Because it contains salt making it an “environmental hazard” maybe polluting them. Those rivers are infamous as semi-solid oozes.

Obama’s banal SOTU speech last Tuesday was a bromidic sermon filled with hackneyed phrases fell  flat with all but the most ideologic Americans with just, 39% initially supported his proposals. On the next two nights, support was 41% according to a Ramsussen poll.. Obama failed the litmus test proposed by Henry Kissinger in his memoir where he said,

“It is a statesman’s duty to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision. If his vision gets too far out ahead of his nation’s experience, he will lose his mandate. But if he hews too close to the conventional, he will lose control over events, ” Henry Kissinger

Fifty percent (50%) of Likely U.S. Voters now oppose the federal government spending more money in areas like education, transportation and technological innovation, up from 45% in the previous survey. Forty-one percent (41%) favor the idea, a two-point increase from before. A contrary USA Today poll found wide support for Obama’s pitch.

(49%) of voters now say cutting federal spending is better for the economy than increasing federal spending in these targeted areas. But 34% disagree and say increasing spending is better. Sixteen percent (16%) are not sure.

The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on January 23-24, 2011 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.

Two-out-of-three Democrats (66%) favor more government spending - or “investment” as the president called it in his speech - in areas like education, transportation and technology. Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Republicans and 62% of voters not affiliated with either of the parties are opposed to additional spending like this.

 But then 67% of GOP voters and 61% of unaffiliateds think cutting federal spending would do more to help the economy than increased federal spending in these areas. Most Democrats (57%) disagree and say increasing spending in these targeted areas would be more beneficial to the economy. Blacks and Hispanics tend to agree with Democrats.

Obama has imported VP Joe Bidens PR flack to replace departing Joe Gibbs. Carney is practiced at propping up the loose-lipped Biden.

Last week a South Korean coast guard vessel and four Japanese patrol ships,played a deadly game of bluff about 43 sea miles southwest off Dokdo islands, referred to as Takeshima islands midway between Japan and South Korea.  

Ubeleftwing Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) settled his spurious lawsuit against several companies affiliated with a House office building cafeteria for $150,000 for negligence over an “unfit and unwholesome” sandwich wrap he bought in April 2008 that contained an olive pit.

Kucinich says he purchased the wrap at the Longworth Office Building cafeteria nearly three years ago and after biting the pit “sustained serious and permanent dental and oral injuries requiring multiple surgical and dental procedures, and has sustained other damages as well, including significant pain, suffering and loss of enjoyment.”

Kucinich settled his lawsuit for an undisclosed amount sparing  taxpayers lawyer fee and court costs to defend against this nincompoop’s junk lawsuit. The incredibly narcissistic Kucinich calls himself “the most courageous congressman”

It is worth noting taxpayer pay for luxury medical and dental coverage that paid all of his medical and dental bills.