I have been trying to send this letter all morning but gmail keeps blocking it. It looked as if it wanted me to set up a group of some sort so I tried but it would not accept any of the email addresses. This technology is really great. It is obscure, illogical and has no feedback that is meaningful. A redeeming thing about Kafka is the system hates you so there is at least an enemy. This system could not care less.
A "right" is a basic truth. There can be no material shortages of a "right." --Tess Roark
Good morning.
Mom is off to Florida.
Happy Pi Day.
This wonderful segment is from a NYT report in 1978: "The International Business Machines Corporation said yesterday that it had been notified by the Federal Trade Commission that the commission had terminated its investigation of whether the company had monopolized the office typewriter industry. A spokesman for IBM said that letter sent by the commission stated that its two‐year investigation had been closed and 'that it now appears that no further action is warranted by the commission at this time.'"
A typewriter monopoly!
Only 22 states require high school students to take a class in economics to graduate, less than 50 percent of high school students have any exposure to economics, and only three percent of colleges require an economics class.
From a speech in the House of Commons by Codbon, 1846: How can protection, think you, add to the wealth of a country? Can you, by legislation, add one farthing to the wealth of a country? You may, by legislation, in one evening destroy the fruits and accumulations of a century of labour; but I defy you to show me how, by the legislation of this House, you can add one farthing to the wealth of this country. That springs from the industry and intelligence of the people of the country. You cannot guide that intelligence; you cannot do better than leave industry to its own instincts. If you attempt by legislation to give any direction to trade and industry, it is a thousand to one that you are doing wrong; and if you happen to be right, it is a work of supererogation; for the parties for whom you legislate would go right without you, and better than with you. (This is clearly a guy who would have underestimated the typewriter problem.)
The basic lesson of the post war period is the failure of central planning economies to succeed. Failure is in the very nature of central planning. And China's devotion to it is our greatest advantage over them. And our eagerness to control our own economy must come from a poor understanding--or belief--of history or simple, grasping political ambition.
Former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke announced he is running for president. So, in the sound and fury of the Democrat primary, three white men have emerged as the leaders.
New testimony from former FBI attorney Lisa Page, which was released by Republican Congressman John Ratcliffe, shows the Department of Justice killed the prosecution of Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton before the FBI officially had a chance to refer her for charges. That runs contrary to statements made by former Attorney General Loretta Lynch and contradicts sworn testimony given by fired FBI Director James Comey about the case. So, now what? Do these guys get the same treatment as Cohen and Manafort? Will we bring these guys to justice? Is this fraud--in the halls of government--less important than faked SAT scores?
Investment in renewables in the EU fell 50 percent between 2011 and 2017, to $57 billion (€46 billion). --Bloomberg New Energy Finance Now, what could that mean? And what could this mean: EU 28 household electricity prices are now more than double those in the G20, while industrial electricity prices are now nearly 50% higher.
Albert Einstein was born today in 1879.
S&H.
Love, Dad
The success of identity politics has yet to be proven to me. But it is certainly becoming a routine part of life, so much so that people are beginning to ignore the offense. We are daily marked out and separated from each other; it has become so routine that many of us no longer object. We save our rage for obnoxious wealthy actresses who bribe school officials and change their children's grades; we raid their homes with SWAT teams, guns drawn, while serious offenses are met with a shrug.
Universities admit to discriminating against Asian-Americans despite their superior grades, test scores and application credentials. (Incidentally, I heard a black commentator I have regard for argue that the current discrimination case between Harvard and the Asian students was a ruse, a stalking horse for white anti-black sentiments. So deep is this racial craziness, he could not see beyond his own small anger.) Unlike the actress and her child's manufactured sham, this is POLICY, a point of pride within the perpetrators.
Rep. Hank Johnson compared Jewish settlers on the West Bank to "termites."
Senators Dianne Feinstein, Kamala Harris, and Mazie Hirono have attacked judicial nominees on grounds that they are Catholic. Feinstein complained that one appeals court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, was a dubious choice because "the dogma lives loudly within you." Hirono claimed that judicial nominee Brian Buescher was suspect because he was a member of the Knights of Columbus, which held "extreme positions." Harris complained that the public-service Catholic organization was an "all-male society comprised primarily of Catholic men."
The House could not bring itself to censor anti-Semitism, preferring to oppose everything offensive--and thus nothing--instead.
These are not "slips of the tongue," these are positions. These people see this bigotry as admirable.
One element essential to a productive, civil and free society is the assumption of certain bonding characteristics among its citizens--qualities that all recognize as held in common. Those qualities are being purposefully eroded by ambitious, malicious groups who want to substitute the high-minded ideals that formed the fabric of this country with simple, shallow--and malleable--resentment. And while resentment might be enduring, it is nothing to build on.
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