If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction.--Bonhoeffer
Florida today. Ned is coming in tonight.
It seems as if Google blocks the email if I send it as a link, but won't if I don't link it or if I put a benign subject in.
The law has always had an ambiguous view of women, both excluding and exalting them. Kara Dansky, media director of the Women’s Liberation Front, says The Equality Act would eliminate “women and girls as a coherent legal category worthy of civil-rights protection.” It would do so by redefining the category of “women” to include “women and those who say they are women”—which means women and people who aren’t women at all.
I wonder if Mueller is colluding with the Russians.
Smollett's lawyer is considering suing the City of Chicago. He and the lawyer continue to insist he has been a victim. These guys just look you in the eye and lie.
I heard a guy say yesterday that the FBI tried to put one of their informants on the Trump election team for the expressed purpose of linking up with the Russians so as to make the "collusion" accusations valid. If that is true, this country is in a lot of trouble from its own operatives.
Stormy report: Attorney Michael Avenatti, who seized the spotlight last year as a lawyer for Stormy Daniels, was arrested and charged with bank fraud and attempting to extort more than $20 million from Nike. Sleazier than a porn star.
From a paper on lower gas prices and winter mortality: "To put the estimated elasticity of all-cause mortality with respect to the price of heating of 0.03 in context, the price of natural gas relative to electricity fell by 42% between 2005 to 2010. Our findings imply that this price decline caused a 1.6% decrease in the winter mortality rate for households using natural gas for heating. Given that 58% of American households use natural gas for heating, the drop in natural gas prices lowered the US winter mortality rate by 0.9%, or, equivalently, the annual mortality rate by 0.4%. This represents more than 11,000 deaths per year."
According to The Economist “Few business people have done as much to change the world as George Mitchell,” the father of fracking who pioneered the economic extraction of shale gas. One writer wanted to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize for changing the world and saving tens of thousands of lives from lower energy costs saying, "The Father of Fracking has saved infinitely more lives that past Nobel Peace laureates like Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama and Al Gore."
As the lawsuit against Harvard makes clear, the universities aren’t about to climb down voluntarily from what they have become. They’re determined to be purveyors of a never-defined model of social justice, no matter how much inevitable cynicism it breeds among parents, professors and increasingly students. (wsj)
A British Airways flight destined for Düsseldorf in Germany has landed in Edinburgh by mistake, after the flight paperwork was submitted incorrectly.
Henderson gives this example of government intrusion: "Consider this scenario: Say a million of us have gardens; instead of spending our money to maintain our gardens, we are forced to give that money to the government so that it can decide how the money should be spent on our gardens. Ridiculous, right? We know that most of our gardens would be less well maintained and that the tax cost to many of us would be higher than the cost of simply maintaining our own gardens. But somehow, many of us think differently when it comes to health care or education or any of the hundreds of other things that government does."
The Coercive Acts were enacted on this day in 1774.
Trouble in France
“The Gilets Jaunes” took to the streets November 17, 2018, and they have not gone home since. Their basic complaint is the insane amount of taxes they pay. These guys aren’t upper class; they are the people who have until now supported the policies that are inevitable when you have the government providing so many services and involved so deeply in so much of the economy. They are essentially working people complaining about policies they originally supported, policies they thought would benefit them.
All of these policies make the lives of lower and middle-class people harder, unemployment is high (24.5 percent for young French people) and economic growth has been anemic for decades. These are some numbers from the WSJ:
This is a nightmare, waking.
Florida today. Ned is coming in tonight.
It seems as if Google blocks the email if I send it as a link, but won't if I don't link it or if I put a benign subject in.
The law has always had an ambiguous view of women, both excluding and exalting them. Kara Dansky, media director of the Women’s Liberation Front, says The Equality Act would eliminate “women and girls as a coherent legal category worthy of civil-rights protection.” It would do so by redefining the category of “women” to include “women and those who say they are women”—which means women and people who aren’t women at all.
I wonder if Mueller is colluding with the Russians.
Smollett's lawyer is considering suing the City of Chicago. He and the lawyer continue to insist he has been a victim. These guys just look you in the eye and lie.
Hundreds of thousands of people are in need of food, water and shelter after Cyclone Idai battered Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi. As of Wednesday, at least 713 people had been reported killed by the storm, the flooding it caused and heavy rains before it hit. Hundreds of thousands of people!
I heard a guy say yesterday that the FBI tried to put one of their informants on the Trump election team for the expressed purpose of linking up with the Russians so as to make the "collusion" accusations valid. If that is true, this country is in a lot of trouble from its own operatives.
Stormy report: Attorney Michael Avenatti, who seized the spotlight last year as a lawyer for Stormy Daniels, was arrested and charged with bank fraud and attempting to extort more than $20 million from Nike. Sleazier than a porn star.
From a paper on lower gas prices and winter mortality: "To put the estimated elasticity of all-cause mortality with respect to the price of heating of 0.03 in context, the price of natural gas relative to electricity fell by 42% between 2005 to 2010. Our findings imply that this price decline caused a 1.6% decrease in the winter mortality rate for households using natural gas for heating. Given that 58% of American households use natural gas for heating, the drop in natural gas prices lowered the US winter mortality rate by 0.9%, or, equivalently, the annual mortality rate by 0.4%. This represents more than 11,000 deaths per year."
According to The Economist “Few business people have done as much to change the world as George Mitchell,” the father of fracking who pioneered the economic extraction of shale gas. One writer wanted to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize for changing the world and saving tens of thousands of lives from lower energy costs saying, "The Father of Fracking has saved infinitely more lives that past Nobel Peace laureates like Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama and Al Gore."
As the lawsuit against Harvard makes clear, the universities aren’t about to climb down voluntarily from what they have become. They’re determined to be purveyors of a never-defined model of social justice, no matter how much inevitable cynicism it breeds among parents, professors and increasingly students. (wsj)
A British Airways flight destined for Düsseldorf in Germany has landed in Edinburgh by mistake, after the flight paperwork was submitted incorrectly.
Henderson gives this example of government intrusion: "Consider this scenario: Say a million of us have gardens; instead of spending our money to maintain our gardens, we are forced to give that money to the government so that it can decide how the money should be spent on our gardens. Ridiculous, right? We know that most of our gardens would be less well maintained and that the tax cost to many of us would be higher than the cost of simply maintaining our own gardens. But somehow, many of us think differently when it comes to health care or education or any of the hundreds of other things that government does."
The Coercive Acts were enacted on this day in 1774.
Trouble in France
“The Gilets Jaunes” took to the streets November 17, 2018, and they have not gone home since. Their basic complaint is the insane amount of taxes they pay. These guys aren’t upper class; they are the people who have until now supported the policies that are inevitable when you have the government providing so many services and involved so deeply in so much of the economy. They are essentially working people complaining about policies they originally supported, policies they thought would benefit them.
All of these policies make the lives of lower and middle-class people harder, unemployment is high (24.5 percent for young French people) and economic growth has been anemic for decades. These are some numbers from the WSJ:
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released its annual Revenue Statistics report this week, and France topped the charts, with a tax take equal to 46.2% of GDP in 2017. That’s more than Denmark (46%), Sweden (44%) and Germany (37.5%), and far more than the OECD average (34.2%) or the U.S. (27.1%, which includes all levels of government).
France doesn’t collect that revenue in the ways you might think. Despite the stereotype of heavy European income taxes on the rich, Paris relies disproportionately on social-insurance, payroll and property taxes. Social taxes account for 37% of French revenue; the OECD average is 26%. Payroll and property taxes contribute 3% and 9%, compared to the OECD averages of 1% and 6%.
Then Europe adds a regressive consumption tax, the value-added tax. In France, VAT and other consumption taxes make up 24% of revenue, and that’s on the low side compared to an OECD average of 33%. Consumption taxes often fall hardest on the poor and middle class, who devote a greater proportion of their income to consumption.
This is a nightmare, waking.
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