Thursday, January 3, 2019

Delivery Shopping

We have tickets to "Hamilton" tonight.

Apple announced a rare cut to its sales forecast.

China successfully landed a probe on the far side of the moon.

The righteous never sleep.
Lara Kollab, a former supervised first-year resident at the Cleveland Clinic, made headlines this week after a series of anti-Semitic tweets emerged on the website Canary Mission, which claims to document “individuals and organizations that promote hatred of the U.S., Israel and Jews on North American college campuses.”
In dozens of tweets collected by Canary Mission and dating between 2011 and 2013, Kollab joked about the Holocaust, called Jewish people “dogs” and compared Israel to Nazi Germany.
In one tweet from January 2012, according to Canary Mission, Kollab suggested that she would prescribe Jewish people incorrect medications. 
In this culture, Lenny Bruce would be on Death's Row. Soon we will all talk as if we were in the Court of St, James.

Here is an interesting report: A data analysis of about 16,000 locations operated by 29 of the biggest producers in Texas and North Dakota reveals that many are yielding less than their owners projected. There has always been the suspicion of diminishing returns from fracking sites.


Jus solis, literally  "right of the soil," is the concept that grants citizenship to a newborn on the basis of where he was born, not on the basis of the parents' citizenship, which is jus sanguinis, or "right of blood." Jus solis is common in the Americas but rare elsewhere; it does not exist in Europe.

Apparently many women from China are coming to Canada to have their babies. 20% of deliveries in Richmond B.C. are to Chinese travelers. These women make the trip to have their kids as Canadians but often because their pregnancies are complex so the costs to the Canadian system are high.
 
International shopping for health care and citizenship.

It is interesting that cultures in the Americas tax the wealthy because they do not think their children should inherit the wealth of their parents while they, at the same time, encourage  foreigners to have children in their countries so they can inherit the production of others.

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