Thursday, January 30, 2025

Questions

Questions

Netflix has a bio of Andy Warhol, very creepy but with a couple of interesting observations. Warhol seemed to be in a constant state of remaking, refashioning himself and what he saw. And his Greek Orthodox art background might explain his preoccupation with two-dimensional paintings.

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Doug Burgum will be head of the Department of Interior and is Trump's proposed head of the newly created National Energy Council — a body that will oversee regulatory processes across government agencies where he'd have considerable power to push fossil fuel extraction.

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Re Drones on the East Coast: Was anyone reassured by Mayorkis' reassurances? Is there any reason why Trump's simple and benign explanation was not issued earlier? Is alarming the electorate an objective?

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The Thompson murder wasn't followed by a clamor for gun control. Rare.

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17 states in the U.S. require physician participation in euthanasia, and 18 allow it.
Is it a good idea to have physicians involved? Should they participate in executions?

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The COP29 climate change meeting debated giving 2.4.trillion dollars to undeveloped nations over 6 years as a sort of mea culpa tax because the developed countries had an accelerated growth out of poverty over the last 200 years fueled by petroleum and the poor nations, strangled by corruption and tyranny and locked in charcoal power, did not.

Would the U.S. with its 36 trillion dollar debt qualify for assistance?

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The European tax rate is 34%. It is 17% in Africa.

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There are 3.5 million Muslims in Europe. If 10% are radicalized, they would outnumber the entire European military.

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When did illegal immigrants become "workers?"
What does their occupation have to do with their illegal entrance to the country?

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On Thursday, Karoline Leavitt’s failed congressional campaign amended every FEC filing it had ever made to reveal that she failed to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars in excessive contributions that she never paid back, in violation of the law.







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