Question 25
Governments thrive on the concept of 'legality' and 'precedent' which they use to trump ethics and threats to the commonweal. This is behind the current debate over taxing the really, really rich. Somehow the politicians and their journalist allies believe, or would have us believe, that laws applying to the really really rich--however evil--do not apply to us. But they do and will.
One thing this political culture is devoted to is making the outlier the norm.
60% of the FDA's 3 billion dollar budget is paid for by the Pharmas. I have no idea if this is meaningful but where else does the regulated pay the regulator? There are many other names for a relationship like this and they are not flattering.
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra testified to a Senate committee about “birthing people.”
60% of the FDA's 3 billion dollar budget is paid for by the Pharmas. I have no idea if this is meaningful but where else does the regulated pay the regulator? There are many other names for a relationship like this and they are not flattering.
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra testified to a Senate committee about “birthing people.”
The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine revised “lactation-related language” for mothers by identifying them as “human milk-feeding individuals.”
I'm unsure women will welcome this gobbledegook. The problem here is that language is valuable only if it is descriptive and accurate.
Who benefits from undermining those qualities?
I'm unsure women will welcome this gobbledegook. The problem here is that language is valuable only if it is descriptive and accurate.
Who benefits from undermining those qualities?
We are going to look like fools to our grandchildren.
A joint Chinese and Russian naval exercise, in which a flotilla of 10 warships completed a near circle around Japan's main island, has been touted by the two countries as a means of ensuring stability in a volatile region. Nuclear powers being provocative.
These people will do and say just anything.
In L.A. County, only 54% of the Black population and 62% of the “Latinx” population have received at least one dose of the vaccine. A lot of questions should arise here. One of them is not, 'were they Trump voters?'
Lurking in the background of all the Covid confusion is a significant question: should we again allow computer generalizations based upon human observations and assumptions to wreck our economies and our lives?
If every once in a while you wonder at the bizarre positions of journalism, here's a hint. In the massive spending and tax legislation currently before Congress is a trio of tax subsidies, collectively dubbed the Local Journalism Sustainability Act. Sponsored by more than 70 senators and representatives from both parties, they are intended to give a financial boost to local newspapers and other media outlets.
One of the tax breaks is a credit of up to $5,000 for businesses that advertise in a local paper. A second would let individuals who pay for a newspaper subscription lop as much as $250 from their tax bill. The third and most lucrative would give publishers a hefty tax break for each journalist on their payroll. The credit, worth $25,000 in the first year and $15,000 annually thereafter, would be refundable, meaning that a publisher who owed less in taxes than the credit was worth would receive the difference from the Internal Revenue Service in the form of a refund check.
As Deputy Attorney General in the 1970s, Judge Silberman was asked by Congress to testify on the late FBI director J. Edgar Hoover’s secret and confidential files and so was obliged to read them. In a 2005 op-ed, he called examining those files the “single worst experience of my long governmental service.” He vowed to take the secrets he read about politicians to his grave, and so they have never leaked to this day.
I am not following the Hollywood shooting closely but is the implication that live ammo is always available to be in a prop gun? How is that possible?
A good line: What is unhealthy, however, is to conclude that someone who disagrees with your preferred means of helping the poor is someone who really doesn’t share the goal of helping the poor.
A comprehensive 2009 study from the Department of Labor (“An Analysis of Reasons for the Disparity in Wages Between Men and Women”) came to the following conclusion:
"This study leads to the unambiguous conclusion that the differences in the compensation of men and women are the result of a multitude of factors and that the raw wage gap should not be used as the basis to justify corrective action. Indeed, there may be nothing to correct. The differences in raw wages may be almost entirely the result of the individual choices being made by both male and female workers."
So why are we still hearing about the gender wage gap?
The governor of New York has ordered new graduates from medical and nursing schools be permitted to practice without the required post-graduate training, such as medical internships.to compensate for the virus-inspired shortage of medical staff.
They are delaying the release of the JFK assassination material because of Covid. They apparently didn't have enough time.
A good line: What is unhealthy, however, is to conclude that someone who disagrees with your preferred means of helping the poor is someone who really doesn’t share the goal of helping the poor.
A comprehensive 2009 study from the Department of Labor (“An Analysis of Reasons for the Disparity in Wages Between Men and Women”) came to the following conclusion:
"This study leads to the unambiguous conclusion that the differences in the compensation of men and women are the result of a multitude of factors and that the raw wage gap should not be used as the basis to justify corrective action. Indeed, there may be nothing to correct. The differences in raw wages may be almost entirely the result of the individual choices being made by both male and female workers."
So why are we still hearing about the gender wage gap?
The governor of New York has ordered new graduates from medical and nursing schools be permitted to practice without the required post-graduate training, such as medical internships.to compensate for the virus-inspired shortage of medical staff.
They are delaying the release of the JFK assassination material because of Covid. They apparently didn't have enough time.
An analysis of more than 114,000 tweets about Harry and Megan has revealed a coordinated campaign of targeted harassment of Meghan on Twitter — and that 83 accounts are responsible for approximately 70% of the negative and often hateful content.
The federal government sent around $190 billion in aid to public schools across the nation during the COVID-19 pandemic. A survey by ProPublica found, when examining some of the "provisional annual reports…by state education agencies" for about $3 billion worth of the aid from March to September of 2020, that "just over half of the $3 billion in aid was categorized as 'other,' providing no insight into how the funds were allocated."
The federal government sent around $190 billion in aid to public schools across the nation during the COVID-19 pandemic. A survey by ProPublica found, when examining some of the "provisional annual reports…by state education agencies" for about $3 billion worth of the aid from March to September of 2020, that "just over half of the $3 billion in aid was categorized as 'other,' providing no insight into how the funds were allocated."
So no one can tell where the money went. But we can trust them, right?
A joint Chinese and Russian naval exercise, in which a flotilla of 10 warships completed a near circle around Japan's main island, has been touted by the two countries as a means of ensuring stability in a volatile region. Nuclear powers being provocative.
These people will do and say just anything.
In L.A. County, only 54% of the Black population and 62% of the “Latinx” population have received at least one dose of the vaccine. A lot of questions should arise here. One of them is not, 'were they Trump voters?'
Lurking in the background of all the Covid confusion is a significant question: should we again allow computer generalizations based upon human observations and assumptions to wreck our economies and our lives?
One of the tax breaks is a credit of up to $5,000 for businesses that advertise in a local paper. A second would let individuals who pay for a newspaper subscription lop as much as $250 from their tax bill. The third and most lucrative would give publishers a hefty tax break for each journalist on their payroll. The credit, worth $25,000 in the first year and $15,000 annually thereafter, would be refundable, meaning that a publisher who owed less in taxes than the credit was worth would receive the difference from the Internal Revenue Service in the form of a refund check.
So he protected the totally fraudulent 'dignity of the office' and did not reveal the actual nature of those people who rule us.
We probably need protected.
Uh oh. A new book has a serious charge and it probably deserves some thought, at least because its author, Mollie Hemmingway, has been an editor of The Federalist and is a serious woman. The book is "Rigged." The story is that the 2020 election wasn’t stolen — it was likely bought by one of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful men pouring his money through legal loopholes. The Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) and The Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) passed a staggering $419.5 million of Zuckerberg’s money into local government elections offices, and it came with strings attached. Every CTCL and CEIR grant spelled out in great detail the conditions under which the grant money was to be used. Those are non-partisan election positions flooded with partisan money and ideologues. For example, Philadelphia got $10 MILLION and they set up alternative voting centers.
Uh oh. A new book has a serious charge and it probably deserves some thought, at least because its author, Mollie Hemmingway, has been an editor of The Federalist and is a serious woman. The book is "Rigged." The story is that the 2020 election wasn’t stolen — it was likely bought by one of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful men pouring his money through legal loopholes. The Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) and The Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) passed a staggering $419.5 million of Zuckerberg’s money into local government elections offices, and it came with strings attached. Every CTCL and CEIR grant spelled out in great detail the conditions under which the grant money was to be used. Those are non-partisan election positions flooded with partisan money and ideologues. For example, Philadelphia got $10 MILLION and they set up alternative voting centers.
Reviews have been weird. Those opposed to the book's thesis (so far) attack the author's isolated quotes about Trump, years in the past (she opposed his nomination, then supported his presidency). They also raise a defense that always activate my warning signals: the behavior was legal.
Like a loophole. Politicizing the neutral administration of the electoral system is legal.
So they create the great enemy of democracy: despair.
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