Monday, September 4, 2017
It's politically smart for Trump to dump DACA in Congress' lap, but we didn't vote for that
Congress looks dumb all by itself, with or without any help from Trump.
Just cancel the DACA executive order and be done with it. If that's not enough incentive for Congress to act, I don't know what is. DACA is nothing more than the open borders clothing gladly worn by the Congress, given to it by Obama after he raped it.
Congress needs to be humiliated bigly. Make it stand there nekkid.
Why Trump should think Republicans can come up with a fix to DACA in six months when they can't fix Obamacare in seven years is beyond me
It sucks trying to make a bunch of losers winners.
Sunday, September 3, 2017
Saturday, September 2, 2017
BAMN (By Any Means Necessary) is a violent Marxist group with teachers as members, active in Michigan and tied to antifa, the NEA and NAMBLA!
And our property tax dollars pay their salaries!
From the story here:
One of BAMN’s most prominent organizers is Yvette Felarca, a Berkeley middle school teacher and pro-violence militant. Felarca currently faces charges of inciting a riot for her role in the Sacramento violence. ...
BAMN is active within both the National Education Association — the nation’s largest teacher’s union — as well as with local and regional teacher’s unions in Michigan and California. Last year, 17 different BAMN members ran for elected positions on the Detroit Federation of Teachers, according to a newsletter sent out by the DFT. BAMN also ran five candidates for different national leadership positions with the NEA in 2017.
John McCain's enjoying himself one last time in Italy
Story here.
He most enjoys himself, it seems, whilst pretending he's the leader of the free world, no matter what country he's in.
Grand Rapids, Michigan, climate update for August 2017
The back of summer was broken last month, and August showed it:
Max Temp: Actual 88, Mean 92
Min Temp: Actual 47, Mean 47
Av Temp: Actual 68.7, Mean 70.2
Precip: Actual 1.72, Mean 3.04
CDD: Actual 140, Mean 188.
The average of the last twelve ONI values is -0.266, the lingering effects of the five month long Weak La Nina, indicating a very slightly cool ocean in the tropical Pacific over the last year.
I used 22% fewer kWh this August than last, but stayed comfortably cool nonetheless.
Every passing day on which Trump fails to rescind DACA only validates its original executive overreach
Rescind the illegal executive order already, not because its content is wrong, which it is, but because the order is an offense to the constitution.
Friday, September 1, 2017
Thursday, August 31, 2017
A materialist imagines that for the first time in history we are free
Wow, while I wasn't looking utopia suddenly arrived. Reminds me of nothing so much as Millerism.
It never occurs to this guy that "the end of the working class" can mean only one thing. The middle class replaces the old working class and becomes the new working class. And that won't be good for your bank account.
Here:
We can hope for something better because, for the first time in history, we are free to choose something better. The low productivity of traditional agriculture meant that mass oppression was unavoidable; the social surplus was so meager that the fruits of civilization were available only to a tiny elite, and the specter of Malthusian catastrophe was never far from view. Once the possibilities of a productivity revolution through energy-intensive mass production were glimpsed, the creation of urban proletariats in one country after another was likewise driven by historical necessity. The economic incentives for industrializing were obvious and powerful, but the political incentives were truly decisive. When military might hinged on industrial success, geopolitical competition ensured that mass mobilizations of working classes would ensue.
Helen Raleigh sounds the alarm: Antifa is Mao's Red Guard
If you read nothing this year, you must read this:
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Meanwhile, we get "broken window fallacy" nonsense from The New York Times about Hurricane Harvey
Destroy the previous products of GDP which produced GDP of their own, and presto! More GDP!
Might as well just print the stuff on steroids and spend it.
About 21% of taxpayer money and borrowings is already misallocated to expenditure by the federal government. Some of that is absolutely necessary, but even that is not spent well.
Hurricanes aren't called disasters for nothing.
Here:
Ellen Zentner, chief United States economist at Morgan Stanley, said that although Hurricane Harvey’s impact on national gross domestic product in the third quarter might be fairly neutral, “the lagged effects of rebuilding homes and replacing motor vehicles can lost longer,” providing a lift to gross domestic product in the fourth quarter and beyond.
On the other hand, an extended rise in gasoline prices could have a more immediate effect. Each 10-cent rise in the price of gasoline is equivalent to a $10 billion tax on consumers, Ms. Zentner said, so “should higher prices be sustained, it would rob other categories of spending as dollars are diverted to filling tanks.” ...
The economic impact of the storm will not be clear with any degree of accuracy for a while. But given Houston’s commercial importance — and its perch along a well-trod hurricane zone — economists and others have long taken it for granted that an epic storm would hit the region eventually, so have a head start on the numbers.
Monday, August 28, 2017
There were lots and lots of articles today about a tax reform bill . . .
. . . as if the Obamacare repeal debacle had never even happened.
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