December 2, 2022
November 30, 2022
Broken Border
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)
Why don’t these black lives matter?
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.)
November 27, 2022
Biden helps dictator. Ukraine-not so much
Biden still limits aid to Ukraine and now happy to help a dictator.
The U.S. Treasury on Saturday granted Chevron a license for a limited expansion of energy operations in Venezuela https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/26/world/americas/venezuela-chevron-oil-us.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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.
November 26, 2022
Disparity not equal to racism
Roland G. Fryer (Harvard) one of the most prominent economists has a great article discussing disparities versus racism.
Some excerpts below:
“Taken together, an honest review of the evidence suggests that current racial inequities are more a result of differences in skill than differences in treatment of those with the same skill.”
“Disparity doesn’t necessarily imply racism.”
“A black kid who believes he will face daunting societal obstacles is likely to underinvest in trying to climb society’s rungs. Every black student in the country needs to know that his return on investment in education is, if anything, higher than for white students.”
November 17, 2022
What would really help? (Not 2 deg climate target)
For everyone focused on fixing the existential threat of climate change note the importance of the current 2 degree target relative to other ideas. 
November 16, 2022
University free speech?
A great talk from Jonathan Haidt regarding why Universities have changed from free speech and truth to social justice. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oiu8_kNw3tqe3WYdcuBDaSwQRK6x8k4t/view?usp=drivesdk
This was one talk from the Academic Freedom Conference recently hosted at the Stanford Business School addressing the growing concern, that truth and free speech, is being replaced by social justice at our major Universities.
“ Academic freedom, open inquiry, and freedom of speech are under threat as they have not been for decades. Visibly, academics are “canceled,” fired, or subject to lengthy disciplinary proceedings in response to academic writing or public engagement. Less visibly, funding agencies, university bureaucracies, hiring procedures, promotion committees, professional organizations, and journals censor some kinds of research or demand adherence to political causes. Many parts of universities have become politicized or have turned into ideological monocultures, excluding people, ideas, or kinds of work that challenge their orthodoxy. Younger researchers are afraid to speak and write and don’t investigate promising ideas that they fear will endanger their careers.
The two-day Academic Freedom Conference, arranged by the organizing committee, aims to identify ways to restore academic freedom, open inquiry, and freedom of speech and expression on campus and in the larger culture and restore the open debate required for new knowledge to flourish. The conference will focus on the organizational structures leading to censorship and stifling debate and how to repair them.”
For anyone interested in learning more about what may be happening to free speech as relates to universities, all of the talks are available at: https://cli.stanford.edu/events/conference-symposium/academic-freedom-conference
November 11, 2022
November 8, 2022
Why My Vote Doesn't Count
It's funny (not really) how Democrat's concern over fair voting really works. Below is the politically gerrymandered voting district that I get to vote in.
November 7, 2022
Hyperbole
hy·per·bo·le /hīˈpÉ™rbÉ™lÄ“/ noun / 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
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
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
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