Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. -Eugene Ionesco, playwright
I feel lousy.
Mom was upstairs reenacting her visit to the dentist with realistic cries and shouts over the phone to Leah. Chris and I on the first floor almost called 911.
Cole got a seven year, 245 million dollar offer from the Yankees.
On this day 1992, outgoing U.S. President George H.W. Bush sent the contingent of Marines to Mogadishu as part of a mission dubbed Operation Restore Hope. Backed by the U.S. troops, international aid workers were soon able to restore food distribution and other humanitarian aid operations.
We knew well if we gave these people the help they needed, they would respond favorably. Well, they didn't and we suffered for it. But none the less, we continue to try to save people from themselves.
The Secure Act
The Secure Act has passed through the House with only three "No" votes. That is to say that the greatest tax confiscation in American history just passed without significant objection. Who says we have gridlock?
McConnell says the law will not be voted on this year in the Senate because of the judges' confirmations.
Walking...chewing gum.....
If you ask around I'll bet most do not even know what the Secure Act is. But it will be brutal on conscientious savers and their families. Retirement plans must be liquidated within ten years after the holder's death and this will trigger gigantic taxes--as well as decreased private investment and income. (One of the proposed beneficiaries of taking money from the decedent's beneficiaries will be pension plans that are behind their targets. One hopes no quid pro quo is involved.) This ignorance is not just a simple matter of citizen disinterest; no one in the modern world can keep up to date through their own efforts alone. In America, we have learned to expect help from a free Press. But The Secure Act has been passed without Press comment, too. It is understandable. After all, the Press is hard at work investigating possible quid pro quo on Trump's part as he inquired into possible quid pro quo on the part of Vice President Biden and his son's Ukrainian gas bonanza.
After all, it is clear that the government, and the Press, can do only one evil thing at a time. If you are looking for a scandal, this one is unsurpassed.
I feel lousy.
Mom was upstairs reenacting her visit to the dentist with realistic cries and shouts over the phone to Leah. Chris and I on the first floor almost called 911.
Cole got a seven year, 245 million dollar offer from the Yankees.
What the First Amendment says is that the government shall make no law abridging liberty of speech. It’s not about being unable to get an audience of half a million readers for your side of the argument because you don’t own a big-city newspaper. You can say to yourself or your hubby, “Oh, that’s a lot of nonsense. The Tribune is wrong again, and if it goes on saying that I’m going to stop buying the bloody newspaper." It’s an argument in a free market society….Having a media problem, in other words, is not the same thing as being disenfranchised or censored, not unless the government is involved. There’s no ideal speech community of easy access to serve as the utopia relative to the actual, messy market for Google or newspapers or whatever.--McCloskey, writing chiefly to members of the LGBT community.
We gave 10 billion dollars in subsidies to Tesla last year. Half went to California--about 7000 dollars a car.
We gave 10 billion dollars in subsidies to Tesla last year. Half went to California--about 7000 dollars a car.
A recent study of opioid-related deaths in Massachusetts underlines this crucial point, finding that prescription analgesics were detected without heroin or fentanyl in less than 17 percent of the cases. Furthermore, decedents had prescriptions for the opioids that showed up in toxicology tests just 1.3 percent of the time. Alexander Walley, an associate professor of medicine at Boston University, and five other researchers looked at nearly 3,000 opioid-related deaths with complete toxicology reports from 2013 through 2015. “In Massachusetts, prescribed opioids do not appear to be the major proximal cause of opioid-related overdose deaths,” Walley et al. write in the journal Public Health Reports. “Prescription opioids were detected in postmortem toxicology reports of fewer than half of the decedents; when opioids were prescribed at the time of death, they were commonly not detected in postmortem toxicology reports….The major proximal contributors to opioid-related overdose deaths in Massachusetts during the study period were illicitly made fentanyl and heroin.” The study confirms that the link between opioid prescriptions and opioid-related deaths is far less straightforward than it is usually portrayed. One of the imponderables in addiction is the technical and social world that contains it. There is a lot of logistics involved; where does that fit in?
Research suggests “chronic marijuana smoking may be linked to the development of testicular germ cell tumor (TGCT), specifically of the nonseminoma histologic subtype.” The research “revealed that exposure to a minimum of 1 joint per day for 1 year – also known as ‘ever use’ – was not significantly associated with TGCT,” while “more than 10 years of marijuana use, which was not reported in joint-years, was.”
... the government needs to be – “government” meaning people who are in the government – people need to be much less arrogant about how well they understand the world. And you need to realize that it’d be so great if law – meaning every judge, every lawmaker, every voter – it’s really great if you realize that you’re capable of error.--Saul Levmore
Research suggests “chronic marijuana smoking may be linked to the development of testicular germ cell tumor (TGCT), specifically of the nonseminoma histologic subtype.” The research “revealed that exposure to a minimum of 1 joint per day for 1 year – also known as ‘ever use’ – was not significantly associated with TGCT,” while “more than 10 years of marijuana use, which was not reported in joint-years, was.”
... the government needs to be – “government” meaning people who are in the government – people need to be much less arrogant about how well they understand the world. And you need to realize that it’d be so great if law – meaning every judge, every lawmaker, every voter – it’s really great if you realize that you’re capable of error.--Saul Levmore
Even Milton Friedman, a strong advocate of economic freedom, stated, “You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.” Caplan’s response to Friedman’s objection is one of the strongest parts of book. He admits that immigrants would be disproportionately low-income but points out that a large part of the federal government’s budget is for defense and it doesn’t cost more to defend a larger population in the United States than it costs to defend a smaller one. Taxing immigrants, therefore, lightens the fiscal burden for those of us who are already here.
On this day 1992, outgoing U.S. President George H.W. Bush sent the contingent of Marines to Mogadishu as part of a mission dubbed Operation Restore Hope. Backed by the U.S. troops, international aid workers were soon able to restore food distribution and other humanitarian aid operations.
We knew well if we gave these people the help they needed, they would respond favorably. Well, they didn't and we suffered for it. But none the less, we continue to try to save people from themselves.
The Secure Act
The Secure Act has passed through the House with only three "No" votes. That is to say that the greatest tax confiscation in American history just passed without significant objection. Who says we have gridlock?
McConnell says the law will not be voted on this year in the Senate because of the judges' confirmations.
Walking...chewing gum.....
If you ask around I'll bet most do not even know what the Secure Act is. But it will be brutal on conscientious savers and their families. Retirement plans must be liquidated within ten years after the holder's death and this will trigger gigantic taxes--as well as decreased private investment and income. (One of the proposed beneficiaries of taking money from the decedent's beneficiaries will be pension plans that are behind their targets. One hopes no quid pro quo is involved.) This ignorance is not just a simple matter of citizen disinterest; no one in the modern world can keep up to date through their own efforts alone. In America, we have learned to expect help from a free Press. But The Secure Act has been passed without Press comment, too. It is understandable. After all, the Press is hard at work investigating possible quid pro quo on Trump's part as he inquired into possible quid pro quo on the part of Vice President Biden and his son's Ukrainian gas bonanza.
After all, it is clear that the government, and the Press, can do only one evil thing at a time. If you are looking for a scandal, this one is unsurpassed.
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