Let’s go Brandon!
Under the latest iteration of the House Build Back Better Act, the average top tax rate on personal income would reach 57.4 percent, giving the U.S. the highest rate in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
https://taxfoundation.org/democrats-top-income-tax-rate/
Let’s go Brandon!
What the F. Break the law, illegally enter our country and get $450,000 per family member.
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(incarceration, teen mothers, fatherless households, income, wealth, etc.) between blacks and whites.
Racism exists, it’s bad, and we should continue to work to reduce it. Excess police force is 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) and do not address the key root causes (it’s not excessive police force or systemic racism.)
PS - I wonder why they wait until late on Fridays to release this data?
August 20, 2021 - FBI concludes The events of January 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol were not "the result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election result, no evidence that President Trump or people directly around him were involved in organizing the violence
Two movements
One was the BLM protests. Other was the Trump Protest. Which one looks more like an insurrection?
Over 70 million people voted for Trump. Tens of thousands of supporters went to Washington to support him on January 6. Thousands march to the capital. Hundreds broke into the capital. Tens had evil intent. This was wrong. It is condemned by all. It wasn’t a significant threat to our Democracy. It wasn’t an armed insurrection. The protesters did not kill anybody.
There were over 1000 BLM riots in hundreds of cities, with repeated riots in multiple cities, causing billions of dollars of damage resulting in over 50 deaths
Batya Ungar-Sargon Seems to claim that many Trump voters (and Fox Viewers) are uneducated and support a racist when compared to Biden voters.
It seems Batya Ungar-Sargon has a somewhat parochial view when it comes to understanding some Republicans. I am in the western suburbs of Chicago and have traveled the world extensively and had a wide range of experiences in science related businesses. By far, the majority of my friends and contacts are highly educated, especially in STEM fields, and experienced in business. And by far, these friends and contacts voted for Trump, both times. I don’t believe they or I am racist. I also know that, for the most part, we don’t think Trump was much of a person, lacking gravitas, being intellectually lazy, insecure and not well spoken.
However, once again by far, there is a strong preference for Republican policies over Democrat policies.
And to make sure that you understand why this is you need to understand what is important to us.
First is that markets, open competitive transparent markets, are significantly better at allocating resources than the government is. This would also include schools and school vouchers.
Second is that we believe that as a country we should provide a safety net for the unlucky recognizing that there are others who will take advantage of it. Essentially this means that our entitlement systems should require and encourage work.
We feel that CRT is a false narrative that falsely claims that the primary cause of disparities between whites and blacks is systemic racism and fails to take in account the importance of agency and environment. We feel that CRT is doing significant damage to blacks and our country.
Perhaps Batya Ungar-Sargon should get out more and meet more Republicans.
The “Hidden” Cost of Renewables and the Need for Nuclear
While on an incremental basis the cost of solar and wind have reached levels that are low enough to compete with natural gas and nuclear, the real cost is still much higher because the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow in the evenings when people come home turn on their lights and air conditioners. This means that sun and wind require additional duplicative gas generating capacity or expensive battery storage.
If you really care about carbon dioxide and its effect on global warming and you care about economic consequences you should support nuclear.
Levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) is the cost of electricity
including all capital and operating costs over the lifetime of a generating plant.
Nuclear and combined cycle natural gas electrical generation stations operate with a 90% capacity factor, which essentially means they operate 90% of the time. Wind and solar electrical generation operate with a 40% and 30% capacity factor, respectively, as the sun doesn’t always shine and the wind isn’t always blowing (or sometimes it is blowing too hard.) This means that as long as there is excess capacity to generate electricity, we can add incremental wind and solar at the relatively low incremental LCOE. However, once there is no excess capacity and as electricity demand increases and additional capacity is required, you will have to also install non-renewable generating capacity as a secondary generating source/back-up or install additional capacity and electrical storage to go along with solar and wind generation. When this cost of additional capacity or storage required for wind and solar, the “hidden cost”, is included you see that wind and solar are significantly more expensive than either gas or small modular reactor (SMR, a newly developed nuclear generating technology that greatly reduces capital costs.)
What this means is that while we can add and utilize some level
of renewable energy, we cannot add new capacity that is solely wind and solar
without significantly increasing the LCOE.
Further, if one wants to use only renewables and get to zero carbon emissions
you have to add the very expensive storage option.
The conclusion seems obvious to me. It’s not solar and wind. It’s nuclear.
Another important note. If/as we move to more more electric cars we will need new electrical generating capacity that around 50% of current capacity. That means we either go with nuclear, with gas and not help CO2 problems, or we all pay a lot more
I am starting to collect snippets of news that chronicle some of the crazy results of critical race theory(CRT.) For those that do not know, CRT the false narrative that blames all of disparities between blacks and whites on the systemic racism of whites today. This is wrong, incorrect and is hurting blacks in America by not focusing on the real problems and taking away agency.
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice criticised proponents of Critical Race Theory Wednesday, declaring that “this is a conversation that has gone in the wrong direction.”
Appearing on The View, Rice, now the Director of the Hoover Institution, addressed CRT following the Biden administration’s apparent desire to punish parents who stand up against it being taught to their children in schools.
“If I could take a moment to talk about the whole issue of Critical Race Theory and what is, and is not being taught, I come out of an academic institution, and this is something that academics debate. What is the role of race and so forth?” Rice said.
She continued, “let me be very clear; I grew up in segregated, Birmingham, Alabama. I couldn’t go to a movie theater, or to a restaurant with my parents. I went to segregated schools till we moved to Denver. My parents never thought I was going to grow up in a world without prejudice, but they also told me, ‘That’s somebody else’s problem, not yours. You’re going to overcome it, and you are going to be anything you want to be.’ And that’s the message that I think we ought to be sending to kids.”
“One of the worries that I have about the way that we’re talking about race is that it either seems so big that somehow white people now have to feel guilty for everything that happened in the past,” Rice further emphasised.
“I don’t think that’s very productive,” she then declared, adding “Or black people have to feel disempowered by race. I would like black kids to be completely empowered, to know that they are beautiful in their blackness, but in order to do that, I don’t have to make white kids feel bad for being white. So somehow, this is a conversation that has gone in the wrong direction.”
You can't make this stuff up. From a geosciences prof who chairs her department at Williams College (quoted in the NY Times):“This idea of intellectual debate and rigor as the pinnacle of intellectualism comes from a world in which white men dominated.”
Joe Biden and the Democrats continue to propagate the false narrative that all of the disparities between blacks and whites is due to systemic racism. They ignore the home environment, culture, the entitlement system that discourage people from working. They take away agency from blacks.
Taliban prohibit girls from attending secondary school
How is that over the horizon stuff going?
Pentagon acknowledges Aug. 29 drone strike in Afghanistan was a tragic mistake that killed 10 civilians.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/17/us/politics/pentagon-drone-strike-afghanistan.html
Systemic Racism? The current entitlement system discourages the poor from trying to get ahead.
Biden's new CTC does nothing to fix entitlements.
we estimate that this change in policy would lead 1.5 million workers (constituting 2.6% of all working parents) to exit the labor force.
https://marginalrevolution.com/
While everyone loves "free" money, money doesn't grow on trees and ultimately we will all have to pay for what we spend. Encouraging everyone to try to get ahead is good for them and the economy. Discouraging some to get ahead make them more susceptible to becoming addicted to the hand of the government and helps tear the country apart.
The above charts show the overall marginal Federal tax rate of a family of 4 (2 children over 6) and the individual components that make up the overall rate. Marginal tax rate mean the amount of taxes you pay on the last dollar of earnings. This overall marginal Federal tax rate includes both taxes and losses of subsidies and affects how families might increase their income by working a little longer, a little harder, or through improving their skills,As shown, the loss of SNAP, Section 8, EITC and ACA subsidies are particularly painful, reducing the incentive to work longer or harder or to improve skills.
Covid was spreading "virulently" in Wuhan as early as summer 2019 – far sooner than previously thought, according to an intelligence analysis of spending on PCR testing equipment.
April 2012 six workers in Mojiang mine fell ill from a mystery illness while removing bat feces. Three of the six subsequently died.
From first becoming too sick to work in the mine, patient 2 survived 57 days until he died. Patient 3 survived 120 days after stopping work. Patient 4 survived 117 days and then was discharged as cured. Each had been exposed in the mine for 14 days prior to the onset of severe symptoms and they were treated for infections with symptoms (on admission) of: a) dry cough, b) sputum, c) high fevers, especially shortly before death,
d) difficulty breathing, and e) myalgia (sore limbs). Four had low blood oxygen diagnosed as ARDS (Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome) and immune damage considered indicative of viral infection. Tendency for thrombosis was noted in patients 2 and 4. Symptom severity and mortality were age-related (though from a sample of 6 this must be considered anecdotal). Potential common and rare causes of their symptoms were tested for and eliminated. Treatment included ventilation (patients 2-4), steroids (all patients), antivirals (all except patient 5), and blood thinners (patients 2 and 4).
Remote meetings were held with Zhong Nanshan at Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangdong. Zhong is the Chinese hero of the SARS epidemic, a virologist, and arguably the most famous scientist in China. Samples from the miners were later sent to the Wuhan Lab and to Zhong Nanshan. The source of infection was concluded to be a horseshoe bat with unknown coronavirus, not SARS virus. Samples were taken from patients for “scientific research” and blood samples (at least) were sent to the Wuhan Lab testing positive for serum IgM suggesting the existence of virus infection. June 27th, 2012, the doctors performed an unexplained thymectomy on patient 4. The thymus is an immune organ that can potentially be removed without greatly harming the patient and it could have contained large quantities of virus.
Science magazine wrote up part of the incident in 2014 as A New Killer Virus in China?
MIDDLE – Virus named BtCoV/4991 (and covertly renamed RaTG13)
Virol Sin. 2016 Feb; 31(1): 31–40.Coexistence of multiple coronaviruses in several bat colonies in an abandoned mineshaft
BtCoV/4991, a partial sequence of coronavirus and RaTG13, a full sequence of a coronavirus, are from the same bat fecal sample from Mojiang mine in 2013.
Wuahn lab has great interest in SARS-like bat coronaviruses, searched the Mojiang mine for bat viruses on four separate occasions between August 2012 and July 2013, even though the mine is a 1,000 Km from Wuhan, collecting trips began while some of the miners were still hospitalized.
Partial sequence by Wuhan lab first described in 2016, BtCoV/4991 was a 370 nucleotide virus fragment collected from the Mojiang mine in 2013 by the Wuhan Lab.
In 2017 and 2018 Wuhan lab working with BtCoV/4991 with full sequencing. Full sequence has one segment 100% identical to BtCoV/4991
In February 2020, Wuhan Lab published full sequence of BtCoV/1991 but gave it a new name, RaTG13, without mentioning BtCov/1991 when they had cited BtCoV/4991 twice in earlier publications and once in a genome sequence database . Further there was no mention of miners or deaths RaTG13
RaTG13 coronavirus is the closest corona virus to SARS Cov2.
US President Joe Biden told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the US will not aid any Israeli counterattack on Iran , US media report,...
