November 7, 2022

Hyperbole

 hy·per·bo·le /hīˈpərbəlēnoun / def: if you elect Republicans, it will be the end of democracy; if you elect Republicans, they may kill your children; if you elect Republicans, it will be the end of the world.



November 4, 2022

Deaths of Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act

Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, which overall will not reduce inflation, may reduce the cost of some drugs, but it will also reduce the number of new cures and treatments developed. 

De­moc­rats claim their In­fla­tion Re­duc­tion Act will Control prices by giving Medicare the power to “ne­go­ti­ate”, i.e. control, drug prices, through com­plex and ill-con­ceived price-set­ting scheme. 

As predicted these Democratic price controls are already causing harm by reducing the incentive to develop new drugs. 

Al­ny­lam an­nounced it is sus­pend­ing de­vel­op­ment of a treat­ment for Star­gardt dis­ease, a rare eye dis­or­der, be­cause of the com­pa­ny’s need “to eval­u­ate im­pact of the In­fla­tion Re­duc­tion Act.” Al­ny­lam’s de­ci­sion turns on a pro­vi­sion in the De­moc­rats’ bill that ex­empts from price-set­ting ne­go­ti­a­tions drugs that treat only one rare dis­ease.

On Tues­day, Eli Lilly an­nounced it is can­cel­ing work on a drug that had been un­der­go­ing stud­ies for cer­tain blood can­cers. “In light of the In­fla­tion Re­duc­tion Act,” the com­pany wrote to End­points News, “this pro­gram no longer met our thresh­old for con­tin­ued in­vest­ment.”


Many more new treatments and cures will be stymied and/or delayed. 

November 2, 2022

A Real Threat to Democracy



She has now thrown her weight behind defeating the West’s “oppressive” capitalist system. Calling for a “system-wide transformation” she claimed that the world’s current “normal” - dictated by the people in power - has caused the climate breakdown  “We are never going back to normal again because ‘normal’ was already a crisis. What we refer to as normal is an extreme system built on the exploitation of people and the planet. It is a system defined by colonialism, imperialism, oppression and genocide by the so-called global North to accumulate wealth that still shapes our current world order.”


October 31, 2022

Hmmm. And the NBA?

We should be a country of equal opportunity, not equal outcome.

Sotomayor, not so much: “I thought part of what it meant to be an American is that our institutions are reflective of who we are as a people….These are the pipelines to leadership on our society. military, business, law. If universities aren't racially diverse, then all of those institutions won't be  diverse either.”


October 24, 2022

Who is immoral?

Well the Biden administration is actively supporting and promoting gender conversion of children, other parts of the developed world have reversed course from this approach (UK, Sweden, France, Finland)


Another month of broken border

Biden’s immigration policies are a mess, 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)







Where is BLM? Oct 24, 2022





Where’s the outrage? Where’s BLM? Where’s Lebron?

Another week and more lives lost. Until the Democrats stop propagating the false narrative nothing will I 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

 

Will Biden investigate/prosecute this hate crime

A black man blindsides and shoves a white man onto the subway tracks in Brooklyn for no reason. I wonder if Biden and or Merrick Garland will investigate this hate crime. 

What kind of society and/or  culture isn’t outraged by this?

https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/nyc-subway-shove-victims-mother-120914606.html




October 21, 2022

Restoration vs Annihilation


Democrats aren’t “pro­gressives” caught up in “woke” agen­das. They are power-seek­ing lovers of big gov­ern­ment, spending and creating dependency tied to ex­trem­ist views, who have wrought infla­tion and eco­nomic chaos, adopted a di­vi­sive, left­ist agenda, and given us a laugh­ingstock of a bor­der. They created a rot that eats at Amer­i­ca’s great cities with crip­pling price in­creases, crime, lag­ging schools, deadly drug use, home­less­ness, and are destroying meritocracy, the foundation of America’s greatness.

Restore American Exceptionalism

Biden. Stop dithering. Lead. Stop Putin.

 

https://moxlosllc.blogspot.com/2022/09/biden-stop-dithering-lead-stop-putin.html

October 11, 2022

Where’re BLM/Lebron/Biden?





Where’s the outrage? Where’s BLM? Where’s Lebron?

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

 

October 10, 2022

Biden Breaking Piggy Bank

Biden is discouraging US oil production, hurting US oil producers and helping Putin.

Maybe worse, he is taking oil out of the Strategic Oil Reserve in a desperate attempt to reduce inflation and help Democrats win elections, but increasing the risk to the US economy if there's an oil disruption.



October 6, 2022

US Debt is Scary!

The level of US Government debt as a ratio to GDP has reached historically high levels (~1.2), similar to WWII levels (Source: fred.stlouisfed.org.)

However, what is really scary is the ratio of debt to GDP  (~8) if you include the projected shortfall of  income and expenses from Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid in today's dollars (Source: US Treasury Financial Report of the United States Government..

How will the US pay this debt back?




October 5, 2022

I should pick tomatoes for Pelosi?

In the late 70's my sister-in-law to be had one of her art students draw a characterization of me.  What did I do when I saw it.  With only a picture and my last name to go on he drew a cute picture of me as a tomato picker. Was I triggered?  Was I hurt?  Did I look for a safe space?  Did I think badly about his stereotype of someone with my last name? Nope.  I laughed, understanding how uninformed this young student was, and continued my studies to be a chemical engineer (and by the way I never considered trying to get a Professor fired for being too difficult) and have always happily and proudly displayed it.

Last week the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Democrat Nancy Pelosi,  commented on why the US needs more immigrants: "to pick our crops."

Maybe things really haven't changed (at least for the uninformed.)





And then...OMG.  Notice what Google search results I received when looking for a screen shot of Pelosi.  Goggle is trying to soften/deflect any negative effect on a leading Democrat.



Biden Not Producing

 US still lags crude oil production and Biden is doing little to help.




Ineffectual

US President Joe Biden told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that  the US will not aid any Israeli counterattack on Iran , US media report,...