Wednesday, November 6, 2019

The South’s Over-Representation in the Army

The difference between an enemy and adversary is an adversary plays by established and mutually agreed upon rules.--anon

Another meal out, this one a Tessarro.

In the postseason, there were 252 pitches called strikes outside the zone and 195 called balls that were in the strike zone. That’s 447 missed calls out of 5,459 called balls and strikes, a missed-call rate of 8.2 percent. That’s better than the regular-season miss rate of 9.1 percent, but those are still hundreds of errant calls influencing game outcomes.

On a recent episode of bi'l waraqa wa'l qalam ("With Paper and Pen"), an Egyptian news program that airs on TenTV, its host, Nasha't al-Deyhi, said:
"Leaked information confirms that Turkey is a terrorist state; it supports terrorists — including with weapons. It supports terrorists with weapons. This time, however, not in Syria ... Today's leak confirms without doubt that Erdogan, his state, his government, and his party are transferring weapons from Turkey to — this is a shock, to where you may ask — to Nigeria; and to whom? — to the Boko Haram organization."
(From Don)

A history professor from Rutgers on the real root of our problems:  “the invention of agriculture.” Agriculture, she writes, led to longer work weeks, poor health, “environmental degradation,” and “income inequality. Hunter-gatherer life isn’t sounding so bad.” Think about that mindset for a minute.

Congresswoman Maxine Waters said: "Impeachment is about whatever the Congress says it is. There is no law."

Interviews with opioid dealers in Philadelphia yielded these surprising results.  Most of the dealers didn’t know the ultimate origins of the products they sold, or were not informing on local wholesalers who might know. One dealer was more forthcoming and said he bought in bulk online from business to business websites based in China, which perhaps is where many of the dealers source their products.


                    The South’s Over-Representation in the Army

A study of an interesting phenomenon.

Free trade has gradually shifted the burden of military service onto the American South. While trade shocks generally lead to local increases in US Army enlistment, there are two different regional dynamics that concentrate this effect in the South. First, trade-related job losses are disproportionately concentrated in this region, where manufacturing jobs gradually migrated during the second half of the twentieth century. Second, the South’s “military tradition,” a relatively youthful population, and weak labor unions, combine to translate trade shocks into larger spikes in Army enlistment than the rest of the country. This paper uses county-level data from 1996–2010 to demonstrate the importance of meso-level, regional factors for understanding the location of trade shocks, as well as how communities adjust to such economic dislocations. We find that trade-related job losses account for roughly 7% of the South’s over-representation in the Army during our period of study.

This is from a study somewhere and I think is very shallow. You tend to measure what you are able to.

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