For practical questions, standard procedure is to acquire evidence before you form a strong opinion, match your confidence to the quality and quantity of your evidence, and remain open to criticism. For political questions, we routinely override these procedural safeguards.--Caplan
Grape juice left in its natural state and without cooling of any kind will begin to ferment by the actions of naturally occurring yeasts. This is probably how the first wine was created; it was a surprise. Then, rather quickly, the wine would spoil and turn to vinegar with the intervention of other yeasts and bacteria. Another surprise. A process in a world thought static. The basic process is still used today in the sense that ambient yeasts found on grapes and winery surfaces are favored by some winemakers.
California is toying with a state-run single payer system and had a blue ribbon committee evaluate the idea. The committee heard more than 30 hours of testimony before releasing a report authored by an independent healthcare consultant and professors from the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of California, San Diego. That report essentially concluded that implementing single-payer would be impossible in the short term. Among the reasons? It'd cost about $400 billion. That's more than double California's entire annual budget. Even if Democrats retake the White House in 2020 and grant California a waiver, the state would still have to come up with $200 billion to fund the single-payer system. Senate leaders have floated a 15 percent payroll tax. Or an additional 2.3 percent sales tax. On the other side of the equation, they could cut costs by cutting wages.
Raising taxes will discourage employers, decreasing pay will discourage employees. What's a busybody to do?
The push “for health systems to ditch fee-for-service payment in favor of value-based models were downright urgent at this year’s Healthcare Financial Management Association conference in Las Vegas.” For instance, David Hammer, “a principal in Healthcare Performance Management Consultants’ revenue cycle and managed-care practice in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.,” told attendees, “We can’t afford not to make the change.” The article says that while this issue has been debated for several years, “this year, conversations seemed to indicate a breaking point” mainly because skyrocketing healthcare costs are unsustainable.
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There is no sugarcoating today’s reality. Public-sector unions are conveyor belts that move a portion of government employees’ salaries — some of the amount paid in union dues — into political campaigns, almost always Democrats’, to elect the people with whom the unions “negotiate” for taxpayers’ money. Progressives who are theatrically distraught about there being “too much money in politics” are now theatrically distraught that the court has ended coercing contributions that have flowed to progressive candidates.--Will on the recent court decision
Grape juice left in its natural state and without cooling of any kind will begin to ferment by the actions of naturally occurring yeasts. This is probably how the first wine was created; it was a surprise. Then, rather quickly, the wine would spoil and turn to vinegar with the intervention of other yeasts and bacteria. Another surprise. A process in a world thought static. The basic process is still used today in the sense that ambient yeasts found on grapes and winery surfaces are favored by some winemakers.
California is toying with a state-run single payer system and had a blue ribbon committee evaluate the idea. The committee heard more than 30 hours of testimony before releasing a report authored by an independent healthcare consultant and professors from the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of California, San Diego. That report essentially concluded that implementing single-payer would be impossible in the short term. Among the reasons? It'd cost about $400 billion. That's more than double California's entire annual budget. Even if Democrats retake the White House in 2020 and grant California a waiver, the state would still have to come up with $200 billion to fund the single-payer system. Senate leaders have floated a 15 percent payroll tax. Or an additional 2.3 percent sales tax. On the other side of the equation, they could cut costs by cutting wages.
Raising taxes will discourage employers, decreasing pay will discourage employees. What's a busybody to do?
The push “for health systems to ditch fee-for-service payment in favor of value-based models were downright urgent at this year’s Healthcare Financial Management Association conference in Las Vegas.” For instance, David Hammer, “a principal in Healthcare Performance Management Consultants’ revenue cycle and managed-care practice in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.,” told attendees, “We can’t afford not to make the change.” The article says that while this issue has been debated for several years, “this year, conversations seemed to indicate a breaking point” mainly because skyrocketing healthcare costs are unsustainable.
Kafkaesque means “having a disorienting, confusing, nightmarish quality; feeling surreal and threatening,” as, for instance, a form letter from the IRS. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was a German-speaking Jew born in Prague, Bohemia (now the capital of the Czech Republic). Kafka received a rigorous secular education: he wrote in both German and Czech and spoke German with a Czech accent but never thought himself fluent in Czech. He began publishing his artistic prose in 1908.
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Beyond, moreover, its material benefits, it is clear that for Adam Smith laissez faire had ethical or moral value in that it left to the individual unimpaired “liberty” to which he had a natural right. It is quite probable, therefore, that Adam Smith would have rejected an extensive program of state regulation of economic enterprise even if he had believed that the wealth of nations could thereby be augmented." This is a funny line by Viner that questions the State's efforts, even when successful.
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Who are...Watson and Crick?
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Some interesting stats on income transfer payments: The bottom quintile, which earned only 2.2% of all earned income, had virtually the same share of spendable income as the second quintile, lower-middle-income Americans. This equality is despite the fact that lower-middle-income workers earned more than three times the share of income and worked 21/2 times as much, measured by comparing each group’s number of full-time workers relative to its working-age population. Middle-income workers earned almost six times the share of income and worked almost four times as much compared with the bottom quintile, but they enjoyed only about 20% more spendable income.
That is a very negative lesson to teach a guy who wants to work.
The Pirates have a reliever named Crick. Too bad Watson is gone.
If the Koreans come to an agreement and the North backs off their nuclear threats, who is more reasonable a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Obama or Trump?
So the new royal baby is Louis Arthur. Arthur for the Celtic history, I guess. And Louis? It seems to be related to Mountbatten, killed by the lunatic IRA. And, of course, there is the Calypso nonsense song "Louis, Louis," by, appropriately, The Kingsmen.
I took this test. I scored with The Pope and Lady Gaga: https://quiz.thisisnewpower.com/
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Could you make it as a 21st Century 'new power' leader?
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There is one moral failing that is devastating to the future of our nation. That failing, which has wide acceptance by the American people, is the idea that Congress has the authority to forcibly use one American to serve the purposes of another American. --Williams
Since 2008, oil companies have paid over 2.2 trillion dollars in taxes (2004 dollars), three times more than their profits for the same period. (If you end a sentence like this, "period.", spell check flags it as a repeating word.)
Hhhhmmmmm.. According to the WSJ, banks and credit-card companies are discussing how they could track gun purchases in their payment systems.
So, sometime invasion of privacy is a really good thing, right?
"In the 1970s, the (U.S.) government ran four random control experiments across six states to try the negative income tax, a similar policy proposal (to the basic income) that was popular at the time. In each test, the work disincentive effect was disastrous. For every $1,000 in added benefits to a family, there was an average reduction in $660 of wages from work."--Texiera
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Adrienne Mayor has written a number of books investigating the mist of myth, creativity and history. The First Fossil Hunters (2000), was...
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A recent survey in the United Kingdom found that 55% of Muslims harbored anti-Semitic attitudes, compared with 12% of the overall population. Asked whether they agreed that Jewish people "are responsible for most of the world's wars," 6% of Britons said yes, while 26% of British Muslims agreed.
About 80 percent of the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh's 200 priests will be assigned to different churches starting in October, part of the six-county diocese's biggest reorganization in nearly three decades.
Bishop David Zubik announced the diocesan-wide clergy reassignments Saturday as he unveiled the next phase of a plan to merge 188 individual parishes into 57 final multi-church groupings.
John Comly is the first known writer to issue a ban on the split infinitive, saying in 1803 that: “An adverb should not be placed between a verb of the infinitive mood and the preposition ‘to’ which governs it.” At the time this practice was not common, even though such splits had arisen in English almost as soon as “to” started appearing with infinitives. They crop up, for example, in “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” in the 14th century.
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