"We are here on Earth to help others. What the others are here for, I've NO idea."--W.H. Auden
The House voted to impeach President Trump, making him the third president since America’s founding to face a Senate trial. He is accused of trying to enlist the help of a foreign power, Russia, to influence the American election, what Clinton did with the Steele Dossier. In the last three years it has been an open investigation with each iteration trying to fill in the blanks.
This impeachment is historic. All norms have changed. Impeachment is gong to be like raising the deficit ceiling, a routine event. Coarseness, mendacity, and triviality are being made the government coin. And the essence of the democracy will be news management.
Shiff actually said that impeachment should be done to prevent future crimes he anticipates Trump will commit, sort of a preemptive strike.
The BLS released data yesterday showing that there were nearly 12 job-related male deaths for every female fatality in 2018. Based on that huge gender disparity in occupational fatalities, the next “Equal Occupational Fatality Day” will occur on August 15, 2028 – that’s how long women can continue working into the future before they experience the same loss of life that men experienced from work-related deaths last year.--Perry
Global Warming vs. Welfare State
Our world can no longer face itself. Anything that reminds us of reality in any way makes us avert our eyes and start to whistle. The current high-minded impeachment, created by men who make Trump look like a philosophy professor, is but the latest.
One of the many problems that seem to be too bright for our eyes is the obvious crisis inherent in the two major tenets of the dogma of the Left, global warming and the welfare state. Energy and production are the causes of CO2 production. Regardless of how the solutions are packaged, the essence of decreasing CO2 production is the decrease in energy production and use. That means energy use--and growth--must stop. And then the GDPs of countries must decline; that is the definition of "recession." A long recession is the definition of "depression." Global warming is to be fought by arbitrarily causing a worldwide depression. How that decline occurs, how this decline will be "managed" by the various states and cultures, may be of academic interest--it certainly will be of practical interest to those people whose lives will necessarily contract-- but no one talks of the welfare state and its relationship with decline: The welfare state depends upon economic growth. Without growth, transferism becomes confiscatory.
So we must fight global warming by decreasing energy use with its concomitant decline in production, GDP and living standards. But growth is the lifeblood of the welfare state. So, in this horrible contracting economic world, where will the funding for the welfare state come from?
The House voted to impeach President Trump, making him the third president since America’s founding to face a Senate trial. He is accused of trying to enlist the help of a foreign power, Russia, to influence the American election, what Clinton did with the Steele Dossier. In the last three years it has been an open investigation with each iteration trying to fill in the blanks.
This impeachment is historic. All norms have changed. Impeachment is gong to be like raising the deficit ceiling, a routine event. Coarseness, mendacity, and triviality are being made the government coin. And the essence of the democracy will be news management.
Shiff actually said that impeachment should be done to prevent future crimes he anticipates Trump will commit, sort of a preemptive strike.
The BLS released data yesterday showing that there were nearly 12 job-related male deaths for every female fatality in 2018. Based on that huge gender disparity in occupational fatalities, the next “Equal Occupational Fatality Day” will occur on August 15, 2028 – that’s how long women can continue working into the future before they experience the same loss of life that men experienced from work-related deaths last year.--Perry
Darts: Fallon Sherrock became the first woman to win a match at the PDC World Championship by coming back from behind to stun Ted Evetts 3-2 in London.The 25-year-old from Milton Keynes - only the fifth woman to play in the event - was cheered throughout a superb contest at Alexandra Palace.
On this day the Apollo lunar-landing program ended on December 19, 1972, when the last three astronauts to travel to the moon splash down safely in the Pacific Ocean. Apollo 17 had lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, 10 days before. Global Warming vs. Welfare State
Our world can no longer face itself. Anything that reminds us of reality in any way makes us avert our eyes and start to whistle. The current high-minded impeachment, created by men who make Trump look like a philosophy professor, is but the latest.
One of the many problems that seem to be too bright for our eyes is the obvious crisis inherent in the two major tenets of the dogma of the Left, global warming and the welfare state. Energy and production are the causes of CO2 production. Regardless of how the solutions are packaged, the essence of decreasing CO2 production is the decrease in energy production and use. That means energy use--and growth--must stop. And then the GDPs of countries must decline; that is the definition of "recession." A long recession is the definition of "depression." Global warming is to be fought by arbitrarily causing a worldwide depression. How that decline occurs, how this decline will be "managed" by the various states and cultures, may be of academic interest--it certainly will be of practical interest to those people whose lives will necessarily contract-- but no one talks of the welfare state and its relationship with decline: The welfare state depends upon economic growth. Without growth, transferism becomes confiscatory.
So we must fight global warming by decreasing energy use with its concomitant decline in production, GDP and living standards. But growth is the lifeblood of the welfare state. So, in this horrible contracting economic world, where will the funding for the welfare state come from?
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