September 29, 2022
September 27, 2022
Permitting Bill less than it sounds
Wind and solar are still more expensive because they require back-up generating/storage capacity for when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow and they require dramatic increases in the national electricity transmission infrastructure.
Today states decide how and when to permit electricity transmission lines and can consider how new transmission lines affect their power supply and their electricity costs when they decide whether to permit them or not. Manchin’s “Permitting Fix” would transfer this authority to the government (FERC).
The bill allows FERC to force the costs of transmitting electricity with broad discretion to socialize costs based on “reasonably anticipated benefits,” however it defines them, such as reducing CO2 emissions. This means that FERC can decide which states have to bear the costs which can result in states with nuclear and fossil fuel (cheap) power to subsidize states that are developing expensive power sources (wind and solar.)
What could go wrong?
September 26, 2022
Biden blows off constitution
14th Amendment - Equal protection of the laws
Pro-abortion escort said “crude … inappropriate and disgusting things” to the Houcks’ son, such as “your dad’s a fag” and other vulgar slurs. Houck kept telling the escort to stop harassing his son, they say, but the escort refused to stop and when the foul-mouthed vulgarian got too close to his son, Houck protected him by shoving the escort away. The escort fell down, but, according to Houck’s family, the only injury he suffered required “a Band-Aid on his finger.” The incident occurred Oct. 21, 2021. The assault claim against Houck is so weak that not only did Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, a Soros-backed rogue prosecutor, refuse to file any misdemeanor charges against Houck, but, the family says, a civil lawsuit filed by the escort was thrown out of court.
Now, almost a year later, In an early morning raid Friday in Kintnersville, Pennsylvania, about two dozen FBI agents with weapons drawn pounded on the door of Mark Houck’s home, where he lives with his wife and seven children. Justice Department charges him with two felonies for an injury that required a Band-Aid. His conviction could result, according to the Justice Department, in a maximum penalty of “11 years in prison, three years of supervised release and fines of up to $350,000.”
Contrast this prosecution with the fact that vandals physically have attacked and damaged roughly 70 pro-life pregnancy centers, which also are protected under the FACE Act’s definition of a facility that “provides reproductive health services.” So why hasn’t the Justice Department filed a single FACE Act indictment against anyone for those crimes?
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September 23, 2022
Biden's Broken Border Aug 22
Biden’s immigration policies are a mess AND put many innocents at risk and allow Mexican cartels to get rich.
I support immigration. A lot of immigration. But legal immigration, with a mix of merit based (engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, doctors, mathematicians, etc.) and opportunity-based (people who want to work hard, adopt American values, and get ahead).
(Note-The numbers are the apprehensions. We do not know how many people get through without being apprehended)
September 21, 2022
Biden- Stop Dithering. Lead. Stop Putin
While the US has provided more military assistance to Ukraine than any other country, Biden continues to dither by worrying more about provoking Putin and ignoring the 10's of thousands of deaths, the rubbling of Ukraine and the consequences of letting Russia invade and stay in Ukraine.
From the beginning of Russia's threats to continue their 2014 invasion of Ukraine Biden has dithered. He actually stopped providing Javelins to prevent provoking Russia until the weeks before the actual invasion. He took military option off the table. He encouraged Zelensky to leave Ukraine. Rather ineffective sanctions were imposed. It was only after the heroically brave fighting and sacrifice of the Ukraine army and people and the discovery of the inept capabilities of the Russian army that Biden began increasing military aid. But he has done it in a slow incremental way and still continues to limit the capabilities and range of weapons assistance.
Biden needs to LEAD the world to stop Putin.
September 20, 2022
This is wrong
I’m sorry BUT this teacher is inappropriately dressed.
Regardless of the sex, or the self identified gender of this teacher, you have to question their mental well-being to want to go to school dressed like that
September 19, 2022
Biden puts Drama over Engineering
The student loan program, as currently written, is looking to be one of the most costly, inefficient and unwise government programs of the 21st century.”
Calculation and estimates that typical graduates in Mechanical Engineering will on average get a 0% subsidy but graduates in Music will get a 96% subsidy, in Drama a 99% subsidy and Masseuses a 100% subsidy on average.
So it WAS Clinton/Democrats/FBI colluding with Russia
“We now know that the so-called dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele was a Clinton campaign production. It is one of the great dirty tricks in modern political history: The 2016 Democratic presidential campaign colluded with the incumbent Democratic administration’s law enforcement and intelligence apparatus to portray their partisan opposition, Donald Trump, as a Kremlin mole, then made the smear stick to the point of forcing Trump to govern for over two years under the cloud of a special-counsel investigation.”
“Totally ignored by FBI throughout: (a) most of the FISC-authorized surveillance; (b) the Mueller investigation, which somehow failed to detect — or at least to report — that Danchenko misled the bureau; and (c) Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s investigations of the FBI’s misconduct in the Trump investigation — in the reports of which there is no indication that Horowitz was told Danchenko was on the bureau payroll and available to be interviewed.”
September 15, 2022
September 14, 2022
Biden/Real Income? Nope
Admittedly some distortion due to pandemic but given Biden's continued use of arbitrary baselines when making comparisons I couldn't help but show the raw data. With inflation raging and economy slowing we are seeing a decline in real incomes, both total and disposable.
Why don’t these black life’s matter?
Another week and more lives lost. Until the Democrats stop propagating the false narrative nothing will change.
Black lives matter - I support the words but cannot support the organization because it propagates the false narrative that systemic racism is the primary cause of the disparities(murders, incarceration, teen mothers, fatherless households, income, wealth, etc.) between blacks and whites.
Racism exists (though not widespread), it’s bad, and we should continue to work to reduce it. Excess police force exists (though rare), it's bad and we should continue to work to reduce it.
BLM organization’s positions and policies do not address the problems (murders, fatherless households, teen pregnancy, lack of agency) and do not address the key root causes (it’s not excessive police force or systemic racism.)
https://moxlosllc.blogspot.com/2021/10/wheres-biden-lebron-blm-102521.html
September 9, 2022
Critical Race Theory?
These are some of the people teaching/administering critical race theory on our major campuses.
Uju Anya Carnegie Melon Associate Professor of Second Language Acquisition and Critical Race Theory
Jonathan Perkins UCLA Director Race and Equity
WTF?
I
llinois SAFE-T Act ends cash bail and includes 12 non-detainable offenses, second-degree murder, aggravated battery, and arson without bail, as well as drug-induced homicide, kidnapping, burglary, robbery, intimidation, aggravated DUI, aggravated fleeing and eluding, drug offenses and threatening a public official.
After Jan. 1, individuals charged with the above crimes will be free to roam the streets without bail.
September 8, 2022
Who is threat to Democracy
Tweet below from one who preaches systemic racism is the primary cause of disparities. Liked by 16000 before Twitter removed. Who are these people.
September 7, 2022
College Free Speech
Admittedly it was a while back that I attended the schools but my two alma mater‘s rank first and third in free speech. Interestingly, my woke niece’s school, Wesleyan who thinks I’m a racist ranks 127th.
COVID - How did we do? Not so good.
COVID - How did we do? Not so good.
There are many factors that might be considered when evaluating how we handled COVID including, but not limited to, mortality, loss of learning and economic disruption.
We have recently learned that the closing of in person schooling has had a horrible effect on children in the US with this effect worse for children with lower socioeconomic support.
We saw the devastating effects of "two weeks to stop the spread" that lasted months on small businesses and jobs.
With respect to mortality, I decided to look at performance of the US and the EU with respect to Sweden. Why Sweden? It is a developed country that minimized the disruption to business and education. Schools were open. Masks weren't mandated. Businesses were not closed.
What we see is that as of January 21, 2022 the US was close but still had 18.1% more deaths than Sweden which was close but slightly higher, 5.8%, than the EU.
What is interesting is to see how things have been since January 21, 2022. If we look at the relative change in performance of the US and EU with respect to Sweden we see that during this period the US was 63.6% worse than Sweden and the EU was 33.5% worse. Note this is not an effect of the time after the date because we are looking at the change in cumulative deaths relative to Sweden.
My conclusion is that the US slightly under performed before January 21, 2022 and significantly underperformed after that period.
What is particularly sad and disappointing is that the Administrative state of the FDA and CDC, the main stream media and social media all worked together supported by Democrats that relished in the disruption to business, education and society, to prevent any discussion of an alternative approach that may have been much closer to Sweden's than the one followed by the US. Most obvious and significant was The Great Barrington Declaration in October 2020, a document now signed by almost 16,000 medical and public health scientists and 47,000 medical practitioners whose key point was: "As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection." See https://gbdeclaration.org.
This effort was opposed by the FDA and CDC and squashed by the main stream media, social media and Democrat leaders.
September 5, 2022
I’m a threat to Democracy?
What I believe
- Use open competitive transparent markets to allocate limited resources to meet unlimited demands, minimizing politicial influence and crony capitalism
- Use market forces to allow families to control their education, not politicians and teacher unions
- Recognize the responsibility/accountability of the individual and stop the systemic racism false narrative
- Guarantee equal opportunity not outcome
- A social welfare system that incents working designed for unlucky people recognizing lazy people exist
- Fix the greatly distorted market for health care, do not put it into the hand of politicians
- Simpler taxes, minimal regulations and mandates on individuals and businesses
- Supreme Court that will interpret the laws as written, not invent laws that are not written
- Congress writing specific laws and not delegating legislation to the administrative state
- Right to freedom of speech and religious beliefs without harassment, cancellation
- Work to minimize excess police force but recognize need to respect law enforcement
- Right to own a semi-automatic gun with 30 rounds to defend myself, others and property
- Control our own borders, increase immigration with mix of targeting and open
- Fund research to reduce the costs of alternative energy and impose minimal economics costs (taxes) on CO2 today proportional to the future risk, do not Impose extreme economic costs (regulation) on CO2 today in extreme excess of future risk
- Honor our founding and our history while learning from our past, stop rewriting history to distort the uniqueness and exceptionalism of our country
- Foster capitalism and Democracy worldwide
- Fair free trade
September 4, 2022
Actually- Biden increasing insulin cost.
Consumers will have less choice and pay more as a result of the Inflation “Reduction” Act.
http://caseymulligan.blogspot.com/2022/06/how-incumbents-capture-price-controls.html?m=1
September 2, 2022
I'm a racist?
Just a picture of me and all of the other "racists" that understand that racism exists (though not widespread), it’s bad, and we should continue to work to reduce it BUT it is not the primary cause of the disparities (murders, incarceration, teen mothers, fatherless households, income, wealth, etc.) between blacks and whites.