"It is indeed brutal to kill one or two hundred million Americans. But that is the only path that will secure a Chinese century, a century in which the Communist Party leads the world." — General Chi Haotian, China's defense minister and vice chairman of the Party's Central Military Commission, reportedly secret speech advocating the extermination of Americans.
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Bill Mazeroski has died.
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Apparently, the animosity toward Melania is moral!
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Archaeologists have discovered Paleolithic glyphs in a German cave that could potentially push back the history of written communication by over 30,000 years, per a rock-solid study in the journal Proceedings Of The National Academy of Sciences.
According to the researchers, the symbols were engraved on artifacts that dated back some 40,000 years to the Stone Age, when early humans arrived in Europe from Africa and encountered the Neanderthals.
Despite their age, these ancient etchings boasted a complexity comparable to the early stages of the world’s oldest writing system, cuneiform, which originated around 5,000 years ago, the New Scientist reported.
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How Will We React When We All Know the Truth?
We have many news countdowns: the days Mrs. Guthrie has been missing, the days the Russians have been killing Ukrainians, and how long it's been since the U.S. won a gold medal in hockey. A new, highly symbolic one should be: how many days an open conduit of raw sewage has been draining into the river that runs through the national capital.
A serious issue has gradually become clear to Americans: with a $38 trillion national debt, the country faces enormous expenses, and the large taxes needed to cover these costs are either poorly managed or stolen. In other words, there is a conflict of interest between the country's needs and the personal desires and competence of the people's representatives.
A smaller view sometimes helps. New York City's budget is $127 billion. For perspective, this is similar to the annual expenditures of a mid-sized nation, with all the expenses a country requires, like Greece or Thailand, devoted to governing one city.
In little more than a decade, New York's budget has nearly doubled, growing faster than inflation and faster than the city’s economic growth.
The city's population remained below its 2020 baseline as of 2024.
New York’s general spending in 2023 was more than 30 percent higher per capita than Los Angeles, and more than double that of Houston.
In Los Angeles, the Homelessness Services Authority reported that in 2023, homelessness was up 9 percent countywide and 10 percent in the city. And a 2024 AP account noted that homelessness has surged 70 percent countywide since 2015, and 80 percent in the city.
All this amid a public frustration because, despite billions spent, an audit reviewed $2.4 billion in city homelessness funding and found that officials could not reliably track where it went or what it achieved. Read that again.
How hard is it to have safer streets, functioning schools, predictable sanitation, and adequate housing for the middle class in the world's richest nation? Apparently, very.
How Will We React When We All Know the Truth?
We have many news countdowns: the days Mrs. Guthrie has been missing, the days the Russians have been killing Ukrainians, and how long it's been since the U.S. won a gold medal in hockey. A new, highly symbolic one should be: how many days an open conduit of raw sewage has been draining into the river that runs through the national capital.
A serious issue has gradually become clear to Americans: with a $38 trillion national debt, the country faces enormous expenses, and the large taxes needed to cover these costs are either poorly managed or stolen. In other words, there is a conflict of interest between the country's needs and the personal desires and competence of the people's representatives.
A smaller view sometimes helps. New York City's budget is $127 billion. For perspective, this is similar to the annual expenditures of a mid-sized nation, with all the expenses a country requires, like Greece or Thailand, devoted to governing one city.
In little more than a decade, New York's budget has nearly doubled, growing faster than inflation and faster than the city’s economic growth.
The city's population remained below its 2020 baseline as of 2024.
New York’s general spending in 2023 was more than 30 percent higher per capita than Los Angeles, and more than double that of Houston.
In Los Angeles, the Homelessness Services Authority reported that in 2023, homelessness was up 9 percent countywide and 10 percent in the city. And a 2024 AP account noted that homelessness has surged 70 percent countywide since 2015, and 80 percent in the city.
All this amid a public frustration because, despite billions spent, an audit reviewed $2.4 billion in city homelessness funding and found that officials could not reliably track where it went or what it achieved. Read that again.
How hard is it to have safer streets, functioning schools, predictable sanitation, and adequate housing for the middle class in the world's richest nation? Apparently, very.
Solutions will not appear until the ostensible leaders put aside stupidity and avarice, and substitute some concern for the general good. But you can't teach stupidity and, ancient Greeks aside, teaching virtue to politicians has yet to be demonstrated.
The hard-working, good-natured American has shouldered a lot: intervention in strange, inexplicable wars, supporting non-productive but demanding fellow citizens and immigrants, hard-earned taxes stolen and/or redirected, third-world education for his kids, ridicule of his values, and his history.
One can only wonder what will happen when this governing model sheds her potemkin disguise, and the horrors of this dishonesty and neglect become fully understood.
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