tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64279402024-03-19T08:19:18.231-04:00No Oil for PacifistsAristotle-to-Ricardo-to-Hayek turn the double play way better than Plato-to-Rousseau-to-Rawls@nooil4pacifistshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16688417615117569825noreply@blogger.comBlogger4686125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427940.post-59644532134742249172022-10-01T18:52:00.000-04:002022-10-01T18:52:15.065-04:00<blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> Does Taming Inflation Necessarily Bring Unemployment?</b></span></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Reader Robin forwarded short piece in Axios Macro entitled <a href="https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-macro-19f3cd2c-3e4e-43bc-a832-8889b008038f.html" target="_blank">“Powell Pain - “This is gonna hurt.”</a> It analyzed and attempted to predict the effects of Jerome Powell, head of the Federal Reserve Board, <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/09/21/fed-raises-rates-075-percentage-points-signals-more-to-come" target="_blank">continuing to raise interest rates, lately by 3/4 of a percent</a> (75 basis points)—and signaling more prime rate hikes to come. She asks three questions:</p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Should the Fed acted faster?</li><li>Is it acting in a meaningful way; and</li><li>Will raising interest rates equally share the burden among different U.S. classes/interest groups?</li></ol><div>Question 1 is both easy and hard to answer. Yes, of course, the Fed should have acted earlier: President Trump already increased the money supply somewhat with his <a href="https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/covid-19-relief-options/paycheck-protection-program" target="_blank">Paycheck Protection Plan</a>—though, by keeping jobs (for consumers with demand for goods and services), that was the least inflationary government program possible. The real trouble came with President Biden’s multiple Corona-19 stimulus package. 🎵Money for Nothin’ and Your Chicks for Free🎵. Followed by the “Inflation Reduction Act,” which—instead of adhering to its title—doled out 4B</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;">Once we got in this mess, a recession is the only way out. Reagan understood. He was the first President to grant the Fed political independence, and damn the political consequences. </span></div><p></p><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;"><span style="background-color: white;">this</span><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.thebalancemoney.com/unemployment-rate-by-year-3305506">https://www.thebalancemoney.com/unemployment-rate-by-year-3305506</a></div><div><br /></div><div>And this:</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/yellen-says-fed-can-tame-inflation-without-crushing-labor-market">https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/yellen-says-fed-can-tame-inflation-without-crushing-labor-market</a><br /></div><div><br /></div></div><div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;">Remember Carter’s inflation was around 14 percent. Unemployment was nearly 9 percent. Reagan understood <b>inflation primarily was a tax on the poor.</b> So he told the Fed taming inflation was more important than reducing unemployment. </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;">Result: the recession of 1981-82. Result, what we all thought until the current Administration, was a permanent end to inflation. And, <i>Mirabile dictu</i>, </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;"><ol style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><li>banned additional oil leases on federal land, canceled Keystone XL, and almost instantly turned us from net energy exporter to an importer, thus exposing us to the inflationary shocks of world oil prices. BIDEN DID THIS DELIBERATELY.</li><li>Biden mandated higher CAFE standards, and outright moves to electric cars—when Europe now is proving wind is worthless (viable, DC not AC like the grid, so you have to waste power on alternators or flywheels); and it would take solar panels (I calculated a decade ago) the size of Wyoming even to make a dent in our needs (and solar, like wind both is variable and DC, not AC). BIDEN DID THIS DELIBERATELY.</li><li>The shut down was a long time ago: inflation dropped in the last year of the Trump Administration.</li><li>Bush’s saving of some, not all, Banks is close to the line, but was not inflationary—it prevented the inflation a bank run would have caused. Trump’s PPP loans were designed only to keep small businesses employing people—and by all accounts that worked. Again, the data show it wasn’t inflationary. Both programs were narrowly focused.</li><li>The Inflation Reduction Act is nothing but pork spending to please constituents: unions, eggheads (“Biden forgave $10,000 in student loans. In unrelated news, colleges raised tuition by $10,000), and ridiculous non-petroleum energy subsidies. BIDEN DID THIS DELIBERATELY.</li><li>If two Republican Administrations, and one Democratic Administration can get through 20 years with out inflation, the next, inflationary Administration IS DOING SOMETHING DELIBERATELY WRONG.</li></ol></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;">Milton Friedman famously said: “ <em style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(17, 29, 34); color: #111d22; font-family: "Gotham A", "Gotham B"; font-size: 16px;">Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.” </em><a href="https://www.heritage.org/budget-and-spending/heritage-explains/the-real-story-behind-inflation">https://www.heritage.org/budget-and-spending/heritage-explains/the-real-story-behind-inflation</a>. We all thought government learned its lesson that printing money to buy votes was disastrous. Biden proved us wrong. </div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></div>@nooil4pacifistshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16688417615117569825noreply@blogger.com0Key West, Florida 33040, USA24.5554183 -81.7841722-3.754815536178846 -116.9404222 52.865652136178845 -46.6279222tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427940.post-32001977883480383272022-09-24T00:00:00.026-04:002022-09-25T09:16:22.487-04:00<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <b>Federal Power to Regulate Abortion</b></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b></b></span><p></p><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;">Two weeks ago, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-Dumkoff) introduced <a href="https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/3065785d-86b8-4d36-986a-72aa1c8f100c/protecting-pain-capable-unborn-children-from-late-term-abortions-act-.pdf" target="_blank">legislation</a> celebrated by leftists and the media—but I repeat myself—that would establish a nationwide right to abortion up to 15 weeks into pregnancy. Graham won plaudits—<a href="https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/abortion-ban-bill-lindsey-graham-unites-dems-divides-gop-rcna47646" target="_blank">from Democrats</a>. Yet, the bill <a href="https://www.tallahassee.com/story/opinion/2022/09/18/rubio-takes-unnecessary-risk-siding-graham-abortion-bill-bill-cotterell/10388753002/" target="_blank">has no chance of passing</a>. Still, were it to become law, would it be Constitutional? </p><p style="text-align: left;">I don’t analyze the issue as a “right-to-lifer” or a Christian. Rather, I consider only Constitutional Originalism, the reason I opposed the <i>Roe</i> and <i>Casey</i> decisions—neither were supported by the Constitution. That document is a relatively immutable division of labor between nearly unlimited state sovereigns, and <a href="http://nooilforpacifists.blogspot.com/2004/03/gay-marriage-debate-real-issue.html" target="_blank">the powers those states delegated to the central government</a>:</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;">The Constitution enumerates specific powers and duties lawfully exercised by Washington—and allocates the rest elsewhere: “any powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution . . . are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” <a href="https://constitution.findlaw.com/amendment10.html" target="_blank">Amendment 10</a>. </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;">The <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf" target="_blank"><i>Dobbs</i> decision</a>, of course, followed exactly that approach. It overturned <i>Roe</i> and <i>Casey</i>, finding no abortion right in the U.S. Constitution. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p>The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of <i>Roe</i> and <i>Casey</i> now chiefly rely—the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. That provision has been held to guarantee some rights that are not mentioned in the Constitution, but any such right must be “deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition” and “implicit in the concept of ordered liberty.” <i>Washington v. Glucksberg</i>, 521 U. S. 702, 721 (1997) (internal quotation marks omitted).</p><p>The right to abortion does not fall within this category. Until the latter part of the 20th century, such a right was entirely unknown in American law. Indeed, when the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted, three quarters of the States made abortion a crime at all stages of pregnancy. The abortion right is also critically different from any other right that this Court has held to fall within the Fourteenth Amendment’s protection of “liberty.” <i>Roe’s</i> defenders characterize the abortion right as similar to the rights recognized in past decisions involving matters such as intimate sexual relations, contraception, and marriage, but abortion is fundamentally different, as both <i>Roe</i> and <i>Casey</i> acknowledged, because it destroys what those decisions called “fetal life” and what the law now before us describes as an “un-born human being.” . . .</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;">It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives. “The permissibility of abortion, and the limitations, upon it, are to be resolved like most important questions in our democracy: by citizens trying to persuade one another and then voting.” <i>Casey</i>, 505 U. S., at 979 (Scalia, J., concurring in judgment in part and dissenting in part). That is what the Constitution and the rule of law demand. </p></blockquote><p><i><a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf" target="_blank">Dobbs, Slip Op.</a></i> at 5, 6.</p><p>So if abortion <i>qua</i> abortion is not within Federal powers, upon what authority could Congress pin this Graham bill? The sole answer must lay in Art. I, Sec. 8, which sets forth Congress’s powers. And in that Section, only two clauses could be relevant: the <a href="https://constitution.findlaw.com/article1/annotation28.html" target="_blank">Commerce Clause</a> (Clause 3) and the <a href="https://constitution.findlaw.com/article1/annotation44.html" target="_blank">Necessary and Proper Clause</a> (clause 18). </p><p>The Commerce Clause originally had been read expansively—most famously in <i><a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/317/111" target="_blank">Wickard v. Fillburn</a></i>, 317 U.S. 111 (1942), upholding Federal regulation of wheat planted and consumed solely on the farm, never crossing intestate lines. Yet the current court views the same provision more narrowly. In upholding the Affordable Care Act, for example, five Justices (separately) found the law violated <i>both</i> the Commerce and Necessary and Proper Clauses. <i><a href="https://cite.case.law/us/567/519/?full_case=true&format=html" target="_blank">Nat’l Fed. of Ins. Bus. v. Sebelius</a></i>, 567, U.S. 519, 558-61, 649-55 (2012) (Roberts, C.J. Majority Opinion; Kennedy Dissent). One suspects something <i>Wickard</i> this way goes. </p><p>Early interpretations of “Necessary & Proper” read it as providing essentially stand-alone legislative authority, <i>see <a href="https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/17/316.html" target="_blank">McCulloch v. Maryland</a></i>, 17 U.S. 316, 421 (1819) (“If the end be legitimate and within the scope of the Constitution, all the means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted [to] that end, and which are not prohibited, may constitutionally be employed to carry it into effect.”). More recent jurisprudence, however, tries to tie the legislative action to an explicit Congressional power, with “Necessary and Proper” often the backstop to enforceability. The U.S. Criminal Code, for example, could not apply except on Federal lands—except that Supreme Court upheld it as “Necessary and Proper” to other explicit powers. <i><a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/560/126/" target="_blank">United States v. Comstock</a></i>, 560 U.S. 126 (2010) (“[Since McCulloch, we have] <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">made clear that, in determining whether the Necessary and Proper Clause grants Congress the legislative authority to enact a particular federal statute, <i>we look to see whether the statute constitutes a means that is rationally related to the implementation of a constitutionally enumerated power</i>.”) (emphasis added).</span></span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Most relevant here, the “Necessary and Proper” clause cannot override the Federalism inherent in the Constitution:</span></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Congress exercises its conferred powers subject to the limitations contained in the Constitution. Thus, for example, under the Commerce Clause Congress may regulate publishers engaged in interstate commerce, but Congress is constrained in the exercise of that power by the First Amendment. The Tenth Amendment likewise restrains the power of Congress, but this limit is not derived from the text of the Tenth Amendment itself, which, as we have discussed, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">is essentially a tautology. Instead, <i>the Tenth Amendment confirms that the power of the Federal Government is subject to limits that may, in a given instance, reserve power to the States. The Tenth Amendment thus directs us to determine, as in this case, whether an incident of state sovereignty is protected by a limitation on an Article I power.</i></span></p></blockquote><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;"><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none;"><a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/505/144/" target="_blank">New York v. United States</a></i><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-size: medium;">, 505 U.S. 144, 156-57 (1992) (emphasis added).</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none;">In overturning <i>Roe</i> and <i>Casey</i>, <i>Dobbs</i> clarified beyond cavil the lack of Federal authority over abortion; “</span>The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. <i>Roe</i> and <i>Casey</i> arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives.” <i>Dobbs, Slip Op</i>. at 79. That paraphrase of the 10th Amendment was no accident—state legislators are the sole “elected representatives” with law-making jurisdiction.</p><p>In sum, only those who believe in a “Gumby Constitution” plausibly can claim this bill, even were it to pass, could survive judicial review.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Beyond that, I wonder if liberals actually read Senator Graham’s bill. Because it’s possible, though not certain, as they say in SF movies, “It’s a trap!” Section 3 of the bill would codify a 15 week federal abortion right, with exceptions for rape, incest, or the life of the mother. But the slightly longer Section 2 makes legislative findings seemingly lifted from right-to-life literature:</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;">“(1) Medical and other authorities now know more about human prenatal development than ever before, including that—</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;">(A) an unborn child first moves about in the womb and first reacts to touch at approxi- mately 8 weeks gestation;</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;">(B) the eyes begin to form at 5 weeks ges- tation and finish forming by 10 weeks gestation;</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;">(C) eye movements can be detected by ultrasound at 12 weeks gestation;</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;">(D) by 8 to 9 weeks gestation, an unborn child has detectable brain waves;</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;">(E) at 9 weeks gestation—</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;">(i) an unborn child’s diaphragm is developing, and he or she may even hiccup; and</p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;">(ii) an unborn child is beginning to move about freely in the womb;</p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;">(F) by 9 to 11 weeks gestation, teeth as well as external genitalia begin to form; </p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;">(G) by 10 weeks gestation—</p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;">(i) all of an unborn child’s organ rudiments are formed and in place </p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;">ii) the digestive system and kidneys start to function; and</p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;">(iii) an unborn child will show a preference for either right-handedness or left handedness; and [sic]</p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p>(H) at 12 weeks gestation—</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p>(i) an unborn child can open and close his or her fingers, starts to make sucking motions, and senses stimulation from the world outside the womb; and</p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p>(ii) fingernails and fingerprints begin to form.</p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p>(2) The Supreme Court of the United States has acknowledged that, by at least 12 weeks gestation, an unborn child has taken on ‘‘the human form’’ in all relevant aspects. <i><a href="http://nooilforpacifists.blogspot.com/2007/04/carhart-crazy.html" target="_blank">Gonzales v. Carhart</a></i>, 550 U.S. 124, 160 (2007) [Partial Birth Abortion case; see analysis <a href="http://nooilforpacifists.blogspot.com/2007/04/carhart-crazy.html" target="_blank">here</a>].</p><p>(3) Pain receptors (also known as ‘‘nociceptors’’) begin forming at 7 weeks gestational age. Nerves linking these pain receptors to the brain’s thalamus and subcortical plate form between 12 and 20 weeks gestational age. At no later than 16 weeks gestational age, the first contact occurs between the subcortical plate and these forming fibers.</p><p>4) In considering the use of anesthesia for invasive medical procedures performed on the fetus, doctors have concluded, based on the evidence, that from as early as 12 weeks gestational age, and certainly by 15 weeks gestational age, the fetus is extremely sensitive to painful stimuli, making it necessary to apply adequate analgesia and anesthesia to prevent fetal suffering.</p><p>(5) Substantial evidence indicates that neural elements, such as the thalamus and subcortical plate, which develop at specific times during the early development of an unborn child, serve as pain-processing structures, and are different from the neural elements used for pain processing by adults. Recent evidence, particularly since 2016, demonstrates that structures responsible for pain show signs of sufficient maturation beginning at 15 week of gestation.</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p>(6) In an unborn child, application of painful stimuli is associated with significant increases in stress hormones known as the stress response.</p><p>(7) Subjection to painful stimuli is associated with long-term harmful neurodevelopment effects, such as altered pain sensitivity and, possibly, emotional, behavioral, and learning disabilities later in life.</p><p>(8) For the purposes of surgery on unborn children, fetal anesthesia is routinely administered and is associated with a decrease in stress hormones compared to their level when painful stimuli are applied without such anesthesia.</p><p>(9) The assertion by some medical experts that an unborn child is incapable of experiencing pain until a point in pregnancy later than 24 weeks gestational age predominately rests on the assumption that the ability to experience pain depends on the cerebral cortex and requires nerve connections between the thalamus and the cortex. However, recent medical research and analysis, especially since 2007, provide strong evidence for the conclusion that a functioning cortex is not necessary to experience pain.</p><p>(10) Substantial evidence indicates that children born missing the bulk of the cerebral cortex, such as those with hydranencephaly, nevertheless experience pain.</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p>(11) In adult humans and in animals, stimulation or ablation of the cerebral cortex does not alter pain perception, while stimulation or ablation of the thalamus does.</p><p>(12) The assertion of some medical experts that an unborn child remains in a coma-like sleep state that precludes an unborn child from experiencing pain is inconsistent with the documented reaction of unborn children to painful stimuli and with the experience of fetal surgeons who have found it necessary to sedate an unborn child with anesthesia and provide analgesia to prevent an unborn child from engaging in vigorous movement in reaction to invasive surgery.</p><p>13) Consequently, there is substantial medical evidence that an unborn child is capable of experiencing pain at least by 15 weeks gestational age, if not earlier.</p><p>(14) Abortion carries significant physical and psychological risks to the pregnant woman, and these physical and psychological risks increase with gestational age.</p><p>(15) The majority of abortion procedures performed after 15 weeks gestation are dismemberment abortion procedures which involve the use of surgical instruments to crush and tear an unborn child apart before removing the pieces of the dead child from the womb.</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p>(16) Medical complications from dismemberment abortions include pelvic infection, incomplete abortions (retained tissue), blood clots, heavy bleeding or hemorrhage, laceration, tear, or other injury to the cervix, puncture, laceration, tear, or other injury to the uterus, injury to the bowel or bladder, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and other emotional or psychological problems. Further, in abortions performed after 15 weeks gestation, there is a higher risk of requiring a hysterectomy, other reparative surgery, or a blood transfusion.</p><p>(17) In subparagraphs (J) and (K) of section 2 of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 (Public Law 108–105; 117 Stat. 1201), Congress found and declared that late-term abortion, such as a dismemberment abortion, ‘‘confuses the medical, legal, and ethical duties of physicians to preserve and promote life, as the physician acts directly against the physical life of a child’’ and ‘‘undermines the public’s perception of the appropriate role of a physician’’.”</p></blockquote><p>Do pro-abortion people actually want such findings in Federal law? Especially in a law that has no chance of surviving? Even if the 15 week abortion ban is struck by a court, would the Section 2 findings be “severable” and remain in the U.S. Code? I do not believe so—but wonder why pro-abortion groups would take that risk. </p>@nooil4pacifistshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16688417615117569825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427940.post-35093381719458652322022-09-21T00:00:00.001-04:002022-09-21T00:00:00.239-04:00<h2 style="text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", "Open Sans fallback", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 25.5px; font-weight: 700;">The Costliest Cities For Expats</span></h2><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", "Open Sans fallback", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;">Per <a href="https://www.statista.com/chart/9950/the-10-costliest-cities-for-working-abroad/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Statistica</a>:</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", "Open Sans fallback", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;">According to </span><a href="https://www.mercer.com/our-thinking/career/cost-of-living.html" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0077d5; font-family: "Open Sans", "Open Sans fallback", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Mercer's Cost of Living Index</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", "Open Sans fallback", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;">, Hong Kong is the least affordable city on the planet for foreign employees. Mercer ranked more than 200 cities from across the globe based on the prices of more than 200 items from categories such as housing, transportation, food and entertainment. </span></p></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9wXf28id11uJFRSWmr_8NpInFbgWII9rv4e48p5iJBPk_vQiejS0TOCn_kb79MqP6DT7sdRv9ymLYBGArHRBKzysc4jI4xN08NnLUV6o-3GPVaoSDkyWEb_0tBCk9fv_WK_XtXUU-zkK3GVLVktu4zLJNehUAFgti9cLTYDgzBEsP6QiqzG0/s1200/Costliest%20Cities%20for%20Expats%202022.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9wXf28id11uJFRSWmr_8NpInFbgWII9rv4e48p5iJBPk_vQiejS0TOCn_kb79MqP6DT7sdRv9ymLYBGArHRBKzysc4jI4xN08NnLUV6o-3GPVaoSDkyWEb_0tBCk9fv_WK_XtXUU-zkK3GVLVktu4zLJNehUAFgti9cLTYDgzBEsP6QiqzG0/s320/Costliest%20Cities%20for%20Expats%202022.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p> Hong Kong <i>was </i>the most exciting place to live before the turnover to the ChiComs (and for a few years after). Even with all the Hong Kong Dollars in the world, I would not live there now.</p>@nooil4pacifistshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16688417615117569825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427940.post-68484470804503964132022-09-19T19:25:00.001-04:002022-09-19T19:26:56.931-04:00<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> Greetings from Malaysian Time</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">No, I'm not actually IN Malaysia. Which is unfortunate, because Malaysian food is about the best in the world. Only Indonesian Rijsttafel is better. The last good Malaysian food restaurant in Washington closed years ago (it had a fabulous roof deck where I once helped moot a Supreme Court argument scheduled the next day--I played Scalia). </p><p style="text-align: left;">Instead, I'm participating in the meeting from home, via Zoom, with a 12 hour time difference. Work all night, sleep all day. I just woke, and am eating breakfast. Which is unfortunate, because today (is/was) my birthday. But at least I'm contributing in an international meeting far more collegial than the ones I worked on for 40 years.</p><p style="text-align: left;">In other news, on Saturday, a paper I co-wrote was presented at a Conference here in Washington. It's a good paper, though in draft only at this point. But it received more acclaim than I expected. Top-flight economists and engineers sought buttonholed me looking for topic suggestions for papers for next year's conference. Heady stuff for me--though I've published articles, and have an SSRN, I've never sought the limelight. </p><p style="text-align: left;">I have a few ideas. I can't wait to get started. </p><h1 class="firstHeading mw-first-heading" id="firstHeading" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 1.8em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; overflow: visible; padding: 0px;"><br /></h1>@nooil4pacifistshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16688417615117569825noreply@blogger.com0Malaysia4.210484 101.975766-38.245865387310914 31.663266000000007 46.666833387310916 172.28826599999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427940.post-14661809179524712922022-09-13T09:39:00.001-04:002022-09-20T02:40:39.148-04:00<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">This And That</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">It probably was unreasonable to expect grief to disappear in a day. It's twenty one and two days later, and--last night--I heard one of my murdered friend's voices, and another one laugh. Both died on AA Flight 77 that slammed into the Pentagon.</p></blockquote></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHFpJdDrtT5gHkJK8s6NXK8FgB8RBzkAk2DdzAf2t263kz_m6aofinc6S8wV5iCkmY_LB1D0BKkZPQWCGC92f3t1jpxaFZBJT9n2udb-ufL2JIGAgDgwGwpRQVSOZzMAxaMT59dHwjxCh5Mo0xdBc9Oj-fEsXYaBJg0JlTLzjFUgnMNlh01T8/s739/Fire%20at%20the%20pentagon.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="739" data-original-width="518" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHFpJdDrtT5gHkJK8s6NXK8FgB8RBzkAk2DdzAf2t263kz_m6aofinc6S8wV5iCkmY_LB1D0BKkZPQWCGC92f3t1jpxaFZBJT9n2udb-ufL2JIGAgDgwGwpRQVSOZzMAxaMT59dHwjxCh5Mo0xdBc9Oj-fEsXYaBJg0JlTLzjFUgnMNlh01T8/s320/Fire%20at%20the%20pentagon.jpg" width="224" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC_zD1Ump-A5nwtZ0c1VFl7uSao_hKxw3-P_1TyZXiRoCRACx7GKC7IzSOzxUajfgmsO5g7BNUlwrr8YHbAMYdUSLCtdVq4L0hejTN4UJV1g0yVEMgAYcbjw9opOWdKCRk0tAkndylHgMpCU47kcJtLBUBvRFhu68q1veDh8Hvwav39enAfis/s739/Fireman%20and%20Flag.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="739" data-original-width="544" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC_zD1Ump-A5nwtZ0c1VFl7uSao_hKxw3-P_1TyZXiRoCRACx7GKC7IzSOzxUajfgmsO5g7BNUlwrr8YHbAMYdUSLCtdVq4L0hejTN4UJV1g0yVEMgAYcbjw9opOWdKCRk0tAkndylHgMpCU47kcJtLBUBvRFhu68q1veDh8Hvwav39enAfis/s320/Fireman%20and%20Flag.jpg" width="236" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;">Few remember now, but then Defense Secretary Rumsfeld ordered his people back to work the at unhit rings of the Puzzle Palace, the next day. The Secretary attempted to show neither X-acto blades, nor jet-fuel could slow our vital national defense. But several DoD workers I knew told me the fires still were burning the next day, and smoke lasted over a week. </p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;">It's not as if Rumsfeld could have found alternative housing: the Pentagon is the largest office building in the D.C. Metroplex (even subtracting one fifth of the building). The Powers That Be had no choice. So do did the employees. </div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;">I'm usually no fan of plaintiffs lawyers (and sovereign plus qualified immunity would apply here), but has anyone long-term toxicity studies? I'm certain some employees employ long-term shrinks. </p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span></span></p></blockquote><p><span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div>@nooil4pacifistshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16688417615117569825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427940.post-85343735667314502442022-09-11T00:00:00.071-04:002022-09-11T09:27:57.539-04:00Twenty One<p>It has been twenty one years since three friends of mine were murdered by
mid-Eastern Islamic terrorists.</p><p><br /> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW-pixq6lX81xjtG1HegRQ6Z21okjcGfKgFN4PgbP23RcL4bk7rkFn0_zFnM4nUm-THLK9WIRkw2gcVzW8ufXisji2nOwUPc_bXDWVaIKMbG01mt7YLpCarzhpkCcYGsYRRALqi4dM1L8SENBcDA_hlepYZwwR5Wc2H8sieesLLUKrbFij7b8/s517/C3ED4D07-3E68-4221-B086-0FE6B8E69691.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="517" data-original-width="390" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW-pixq6lX81xjtG1HegRQ6Z21okjcGfKgFN4PgbP23RcL4bk7rkFn0_zFnM4nUm-THLK9WIRkw2gcVzW8ufXisji2nOwUPc_bXDWVaIKMbG01mt7YLpCarzhpkCcYGsYRRALqi4dM1L8SENBcDA_hlepYZwwR5Wc2H8sieesLLUKrbFij7b8/s320/C3ED4D07-3E68-4221-B086-0FE6B8E69691.jpeg" width="241" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibNSsE74nmKUKiOTzmlcFfSXaCN9_TY0fuiXD40LmbOFuJNytqjT6XrKQQukSBk0UZWBCMZhpjvAHHfyHknQ-C3i1OMB-1jmsyuvqurFwgjj-RUuOTSV_2YcA0mS8tn7_JtwKeAzFpryIrfY6wW5cDo3jBYKbYe2jGgqYUDclRRAJztSMH38w/s336/0A8F6A87-6176-4DE7-B713-F53184803F04.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="318" data-original-width="336" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibNSsE74nmKUKiOTzmlcFfSXaCN9_TY0fuiXD40LmbOFuJNytqjT6XrKQQukSBk0UZWBCMZhpjvAHHfyHknQ-C3i1OMB-1jmsyuvqurFwgjj-RUuOTSV_2YcA0mS8tn7_JtwKeAzFpryIrfY6wW5cDo3jBYKbYe2jGgqYUDclRRAJztSMH38w/s320/0A8F6A87-6176-4DE7-B713-F53184803F04.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-jsbs-ozIZZNgwRgspjzXuzrDE_9GchGTNAjXVFsBYk_cTYqNhWzOhtXIYQw9cXznDzy-sdKQplU_fpzuJEMumlmKz5Zpvois1MNYBOVVozFtlDbreENVyjRkB_GuQn_W57Gd2efljq-c6cIDkdy0pDQFFQR2dQ2lMTbodavW54DFOepVPO8/s2560/7BDC1E3F-23B1-45A1-B521-B9896E08AD2E.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1777" data-original-width="2560" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-jsbs-ozIZZNgwRgspjzXuzrDE_9GchGTNAjXVFsBYk_cTYqNhWzOhtXIYQw9cXznDzy-sdKQplU_fpzuJEMumlmKz5Zpvois1MNYBOVVozFtlDbreENVyjRkB_GuQn_W57Gd2efljq-c6cIDkdy0pDQFFQR2dQ2lMTbodavW54DFOepVPO8/s320/7BDC1E3F-23B1-45A1-B521-B9896E08AD2E.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlDJjZCfFEZq7RKnWlVEkI0eWlaLTNF43W7SjmUCtiMeo5n8NAXohy-ASV8xL88i9oV9AfTNo16b1wOUWWHfVcLvU3G6066vm-_KUMJa1VdPvcbrmHzV1sdZBTcHeBU84g3NWrCygJqq9WcT4M6FUYdyWrEYc0qx5_nKYE1KmUpW_mwmjC4gg/s862/D76612EF-B9D1-43AC-A692-5E14258BEAA6.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="575" data-original-width="862" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlDJjZCfFEZq7RKnWlVEkI0eWlaLTNF43W7SjmUCtiMeo5n8NAXohy-ASV8xL88i9oV9AfTNo16b1wOUWWHfVcLvU3G6066vm-_KUMJa1VdPvcbrmHzV1sdZBTcHeBU84g3NWrCygJqq9WcT4M6FUYdyWrEYc0qx5_nKYE1KmUpW_mwmjC4gg/s320/D76612EF-B9D1-43AC-A692-5E14258BEAA6.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>That afternoon, I assumed such an occurrence
would—from then on—occur every six months. Thank God it did not.<p></p><p>
</p><p>I’ve written before about my friends and will link to
<a href="http://nooilforpacifists.blogspot.com/2021/09/20-years.html">last year’s post</a> and
<a href="https://nooilforpacifists.blogspot.com/2007/09/six-years.html" rel="nofollow">another from a few years before</a>. I'm out of words to commemorate that loss.</p><p> </p><p>Yet somehow I missed the
contemporaneous words of singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter. 🎵Grand
Central Station🎵, written shortly after 9/11, will speak for me. The song is
here: <a href="https://music.amazon.com/albums/B00138H4VQ?do=play&trackAsin=B00138BAD4&ref=dm_sh_jLbnRxVKObTltcRQJjDSij1Gl" rel="nofollow">"Grand Central Station (Album Version)" by Mary Chapin Carpenter on Amazon
Music</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">The first and last two stanzas are:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">Got my work clothes on for love, sweat and dirt<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">All this holy dust upon my face an’ shirt<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">Headin’ uptown now, just as the shifts are changin’<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">To Grand Central Station . . . <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">And now Hercules is starin’ down at me<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">Next to him’s Minerva and Mercury<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">Well, I nod to them and start my crawl<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">Flyers covern’ every wall, faces of the missing are all I see<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">Tomorrow, I’ll be back there, workn’ on the pile</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">Going in, comin’ out, single file<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">Before my job is done there’s one more trip I’m makin’<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">To Grand Central Station, Grand Central Station<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Here’s to another 21 years without flyers on the wall—or terror fliers in the air.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p>
<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>@nooil4pacifistshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16688417615117569825noreply@blogger.com0Antarctica-82.862751899999992 135-90 99.84375 -54.552518063821147 170.15625tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427940.post-63812479953149004042021-09-11T03:00:00.172-04:002021-09-12T10:19:57.708-04:0020 YearsIt seems impossible it's been two decades since the last major terrorist attack on the U.S. murdered nearly 3,000. I've <a href="http://nooilforpacifists.blogspot.com/2005/09/four-years-later.html" rel="nofollow">written about</a> my three <a href="http://www.legacy.com/Sept11/Story.aspx?PersonID=91812" rel="nofollow">friends</a> <a href="http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/people/1427.html" rel="nofollow">murdered by</a> <a href="http://www.legacy.com/Sept11/Story.aspx?PersonID=91572" rel="nofollow">those terrorists</a>. And about <a href="https://nooilforpacifists.blogspot.com/2007/09/six-years.html" rel="nofollow">an American Hero who died</a> while living in a house less than a half-mile from the house where I lived going to High-School. Needless to say, I never was a hero.<p>
</p>Around 1:00pm on 9/11, I remember walking back from my law firm, once we’d got confirmation that a partner with whom I was close was killed. For years, I had dated that partner's best friend, so "double dates" were the norm. At her anguished request I joined my ex-g/f at her house to share the grief.<p>
</p>Traffic was jammed--literally stopped around Dupont Circle--yet no one blew their horn. An eerie and graceful silence. I remember thinking to myself over and over: "Well, this is the new normal--we'll suffer one of these attacks every six months." Yet, that too didn't happen.<p>
</p>I'd like to think the two events were connected. Every adult who lived through September 11, 2001, grew up a bit, <a href="http://nooilforpacifists.blogspot.com/2010/01/thought-experiment.html" rel="nofollow">including our intel community</a>. I know I matured that day. And as I slept on the couch at my ex-girlfriend’s apartment, I rededicated myself to this country and to American Exceptionalism. I still believe that's part of the shield protecting us for 20 years.<p>
</p>Below are some images from 9/11 and the next few days you may not have seen before. According to <i>The Military Times</i>, the picture of President George W. Bush was taken on September 12, 2001, as he shook the hands of first responders at the Pentagon. The flag hanging from the Pentagon--while rescue and recovery efforts still were underway--was sent by nearby Ft. Myers, and is the largest authorized flag for the military. <div><br /></div><div>The clock is from the Pentagon, stopped at the moment of impact. Ironically, the Pentagon was in the process of a segment-by-segment renovation. The segment struck by AA flight 77 was the first (and sole) section renovated; the death tole within the Pentagon was relatively low because fewer than normal had moved back into their new offices.</div><div><br /><div>The last two images show some of the antennas festooned around the top of the World Trade Center. The penultimate shot shows virtually every TV and Radio broadcaster transmitted from there. The final picture shows microwave feed horns as part of a longer transmission path, broken (of course) when the towers melted and turned to rubble. When the towers collapsed, radio and TV stations switched to their back-up transmitters/antennas, most on the Empire State Building. But those were not nearly as well positioned: over-the-air service in New Jersey and Connecticut suffered for several years. <br /><p></p>
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@nooil4pacifistshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16688417615117569825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427940.post-50253964845743717502019-09-11T00:00:00.000-04:002019-09-11T00:00:03.911-04:00Eighteen Long Years<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I haven’t posted here in ages. So long, that I’ve forgotten how to use basic HTML, never mind newer versions. Still, on this day, it’s worth taking time to remember what happened at around 8:30am that beautiful Tuesday—not a cloud in the sky. Until black clouds appeared in New York, Washington, and a Pennsylvania wilderness.<br />
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Stop and think about what <i>you </i>thought that day. I assumed this was the new normal, and something like this would happen—especially in Washington—every six months. The world, I thought, was a war zone.<br />
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Eighteen years later, I’m glad that’s not true. It’s largely thanks to U.S., French and British ability rapidly to project force quickly. But has much been settled? No—nor will it, for <a href="https://nooilforpacifists.blogspot.com/2004/02/make-love-not-war-revised-and-expanded.html">most people ask the wrong questions</a>.<br />
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On September 11, remember those you knew that gave their lives (including <a href="http://nooilforpacifists.blogspot.com/search?q=six+years">three friends</a>—four, perhaps: the widower of my late friends committed suicide not long ago), and some of the heroes who saved as many lives as possible. Such as <a href="https://nooilforpacifists.blogspot.com/2007/09/six-years.html">Rick Riscorla</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10pt;"><i>Everywhere we turn these days, it seems, the truth dies, intelligence and education are considered a weakness, facts are ridiculed, rage and anger rule the day.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10pt;"><i>Whether it’s at a White House press conference or in the fast lane on the freeway, patience, respect, courtesy and kindness are, for many people, relics of a bygone era.<span id="goog_1139263536"></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10pt;">Sir, I agree almost completely. Let's take your example of the </span><i style="font-family: times; font-size: 10pt;">fast lane on the freeway.</i><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10pt;">In the fast lane, we find two kinds of
drivers. First, the maniac in front of
you who refuses to pull over and let you pass. The only thing worse than him, of course is the enraged hooligan behind that cannot pass you. Who is right and who is wrong? Both are equally wrong, some might say. </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.3333px;">What can be done? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10pt;">It turns out, a lot. Japan has one of the most courteous road systems in the world. This came about because of the social pressure for everyone to follow the same rules, and to be polite to each other. Public safety campaign</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Keep right to pass is safer way to drive, as well as equitable use of the resources on the road. Slower people should not keep faster people from their appointed rounds, and road ragers need to chill out. Part of the problem? We do not follow the </span></span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.3333px;">basic rule of the road, which is, to </span><i style="font-family: times; font-size: 13.3333px;">keep right except to pass. </i><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.3333px;">This is enshrined in the California motor vehicle operation code. </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10pt;">However, people no longer pay attention, no longer follow the rules. The police do not enforce it, generally, for reasons only they can state. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10pt;">Why not educate everyone? Campaign to Make the Central Coast the "Friendliest Drivers in the State" or "Friendliest Highways in the State" in concert with the other media and the authorities. You donate editorial space to it. As your commentary on the community. </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.3333px;">The police could start giving our warnings, and you could run polls to measure driver contentment. Think about what an impact you could make doing that. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10pt;">Joetopia, with the local authorities could</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10pt;"> devise a program to educate the public and create good karma. Yes. It can be done. Japan has done it. So can we. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10pt;">This respect for other drivers and the
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10pt;">Once we come together as a community on our shared roads, then, and only then perhaps, we can tackle some heavier issues as a team. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10pt;">You have the power to change the world to a more polite and kind place to live, simply by educating people about the rules. Let us begin.</span></div>
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Each time, horrified sore losers on the losing side lambast the electoral college in a barrage of sour grape rationalization. It's almost comical in its predictability. Remember the furor in 2000?<br />
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However, the electoral college is enshrined in the constitution. Short of a constitutional amendment (or legislation from the bench via the Supreme Court) <i>for better or worse... we are stuck with it</i>.<br />
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1. The rules of the game are well known. Everyone plays at equal disadvantage.<br />
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2. California alone, a single state, is so powerful that it would dominate
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Perhaps the manner in which we choose our sole nationally-elected representative isn't perfect, but it's not broken either. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427940.post-26930475341622693972016-12-09T03:17:00.002-05:002016-12-09T03:17:29.973-05:00Dreamers in JapanJapan, a country that is still 98% ethically Yamato, <a href="http://bangkok.coconuts.co/2016/12/06/son-overstayer-japanese-court-deport-thai-teen-born-and-raised-japan" target="_blank">is set to deport an illegal/undocumented 16 year old Thai boy</a>, who was born and raised in Japan. <br />
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<b><span id="docs-internal-guid-a210c5ce-d3c2-49d1-0fe0-ea405f95435c" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 18.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Although Utinan</span><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 18.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> does not read or write Thai, he is able to speak the language and is young enough to adapt to life back in Thailand, the judges said.</span></b></blockquote>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 18.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes, Children bear the pain of sins of their parents the world over. They are also amazingly resilient. </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427940.post-8842919781251041602016-12-08T23:59:00.003-05:002017-02-22T19:26:44.309-05:00Fake News Cost Hillary The Election<div class="p1">
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<b>Fake news cost her the election. </b>The Main Stream Media is<a href="http://nooilforpacifists.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-nyt-is-tool-of-enemy.html" target="_blank"> completely under the control of the far left</a>, and profoundly influential. <a href="http://nooilforpacifists.blogspot.com/2016/11/violent-angry-leftists-promote-mob.html" target="_blank"> They published misleading and untrue polls and predictions, </a>right up until the end, concluding that Trump was unqualified, unelectable. <a href="http://nooilforpacifists.blogspot.com/2016/12/know-your-sources-youtube-twitter.html" target="_blank">Social Media also </a>swings left in their view <b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> WaPo's reporting on Russian influence. <a href="https://www.rt.com/usa/369598-washington-post-fake-propaganda/" target="_blank">WaPo Now Admits</a> </b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b>article</b> on ‘Russian propaganda’ & ‘fake news’ is based on sham research. Of course, not even Hillary bought that one. The MSM <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/15/us/the-2004-campaign-national-guard-memos-on-bush-are-fake-but-accurate.html" target="_blank">has a history of "fake but accurate" reporting</a>. </span></div>
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<b>Completely disconnected from reality</b>, <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/11/02/ann-coulter-final-argument-trump-humiliate-media/" target="_blank">the MSM spews story after story</a>, describing a world where Hillary is a done deal, where Trump is a racist, sexist homophobic bigoted loser<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">. These stories were backed up, b</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">uttressed by polls known to be tilted to the democratic side for generations. </span>This was not journaling, it was not reporting, it was merely far left propaganda. </div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><b>America saw through the lies, while Hillary </b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">didn't. </b><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Had the MSM provided a true picture of the country, and disclosed <a href="http://nooilforpacifists.blogspot.com/2016/06/dont-count-trump-out-fight-hasnt-even.html" target="_blank">it was Hillary that was the underdog</a>, how different a race would it have been? Hillary hardly campaigned in the midwest....</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><b>She calls on Congress to enact legislation.</b> Perhaps they should follow the example of Italy. Italy forbids the media from publishing polls weeks ahead of the election. <span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="color: #111111;">Isn't it time we joined western democracies and eliminated the fake poll pushing?</span></span></span></div>
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<b>In 2008</b>, the same drumbeat was being played by the media. <b>Vote Democratic or you are a racist.</b> At that time,<a href="https://www.datalounge.com/thread/7095148-ann-coulter-says-you-can-t-trust-the-polls-declaring-obama-ahead" target="_blank"> Ann Coulter published a study on fake polls</a>:</div>
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Post in the last month of every presidential election since 1976, I
found the polls were never wrong in a friendly way to Republicans. When
the polls were wrong, which was often, they overestimated support for
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The MSM is well aware of this endemic problem, and refuse to police themselves. This historically prejudiced fake news should be enough for<b> legislation preventing such further election manipulations. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Consistently publishing misleading polls isn't a scientifically sound practice and isn't in the public interest. <b> It's the same thing as shouting fire in a crowded theater, because as Hillary puts it "peoples lives are at stake." </b></span><br />
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<i style="background-color: white;"><a class="tr_bq" href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/21/donald-trump-no-ill-use-word-anchor-baby/" target="_blank">"I'll use the word anchor baby."</a></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>Consortium of Media Giants Oppose Free Speech</b> If FaceBook brands you "extremist" you could automatically be banned by YouTube (Google), Twitter, and Microsoft too. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span class="s1">Web giants YouTube , Facebook , Twitter and Microsoft will step up efforts to remove extremist content from their websites by creating a common database. </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">The companies will share 'hashes' - unique digital fingerprints they automatically assign to videos or photos - of extremist content they have removed from their websites to enable their peers to identify the same content on their platforms.</span></span></blockquote>
<b>The obvious problem is their definition of "extremism" is subjective. </b>They have a duty to responsibly prevent people from the equivalent of shouting "fire" in a crowded movie theater. So, they must take a first amendment balance. <br />
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However,<span style="background-color: white;"> they do not consider far left propaganda extreme, rather, they consider it "politically correct" speech, and instead, they harshly censor libertarian free thinkers. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">YouTube even censors well known Libertarian PragerU, as seen in this screenshot taken this date. </span><br />
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<a href="https://www.prageru.com/what-we-do" target="_blank">What does PragerU do?</a> <i>"<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0d384e; font-family: franklin_gothic_fsbook; font-size: 18px;">We help millions of people understand the fundamental values that shaped America...</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0d384e; font-family: franklin_gothic_fsbook; font-size: 18px;">These values are Judeo-Christian at their core and include the concepts of freedom of speech, a free press, free markets and a strong military to protect and project those values.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0d384e; font-family: franklin_gothic_fsbook; font-size: 18px;">.. </span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Yes, your sources from FaceBook to Twitter tilt strongly towards the left-0-sphere. In a well-documented controversy, <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/05/19/zucks-cucks-sign-away-free-speech/" target="_blank">Facebook's Zuckerberg held a rare meeting to address valid concerns</a> of oppressed libertarians and other censored conservatives. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Only a few days after that, Facebook was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/05/21/facebook-bans-canadian-commentator-for-saying-it-targets-conservatives/" target="_blank">"up to its old tricks of silencing conservatives and right-wingers."</a> in this case, banning a Libertarian Defending Free Speech. </span><br />
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Sarah campaigned relentlessly for The Donald. She's going to be on the team, <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sarah-palin-consideration-va-secretary/story?id=43878336" target="_blank">the whisper is as VA Secretary</a>. Further, as of this writing, <a href="https://www.predictit.org/Market/2383/Who-will-be-Secretary-of-State-on-Jan-31%2c-2017" target="_blank">Predict it doesn't even have Sarah Palin listed in the running for Sec. State.</a><br />
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Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska, Vice-Presidential Candidate, outsider and libertarian would make an excellent Sec. of State. She easily passes senate confirmation. Moreover, as a former Secretary of State, the future Sarah Palin would stand a very good chance to become the first woman President. <br />
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On the negative side, this would allow her to challenge to Trump in 2020, should she choose to do so. I don't believe that would bother Donald Trump's decision process, however. <br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Copy originally read as follows: "<span id="gmail-article-text">Guevara, who once approximated Castro's charisma and influence, also embarked on guerrilla missions in Latin America, dying in battle in Bolivia in 1967." </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Later it was corrected to read "...he was captured and executed by CIA-backed Bolivian soldiers in 1967 aged 39." </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was the policy of the United States to oppose communism, banana republics and brutal dictators. The main US intelligence agencies implemented this policy. Reuters trivializes this by saying the "CIA" opposed Guevara when it was the United States of America. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The reference to "missions" places him in the company of the Catholic Church missions along El Camino Real. They also enslaved the local populaces for labor.
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Buried in the article, Reuters admits Guevara was the man in charge of the Castro Death Squads, and he also ran the economy and doled out the wealth, confiscated by Castro, to an enslaved populace. These barbaric acts of violence and slavery are trivialized as being necessary for the revolution. <br />
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There are radicals like the holocaust deniers and those that trivialize it. For example, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/11/28/holocaust-on-ice-performance-by-putin-spokesmans-wife-sparks-outrage/?utm_term=.f860774d31d7">Holocaust on Ice</a> ice dancing artists from Russia are sparking worldwide outrage, trivializing life (and death) in concentration camps. <br />
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The radicals on the left firmly have Reuters in their grip! These are the same violent leftists that promote "mob rule" as a substitute for justice. <br />
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<b>Reuters</b> is firmly in the grip of far left radicals. <br />
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<b>Update</b>: Reuters deleted the article but these screenshots document enough to show the adulation heaped upon these murderers. This is part of the propaganda war, Reuters initially puts out far left views (like this) and then substitutes a more moderate view. <br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://nooilforpacifists.blogspot.com/2016/11/nytimes-on-castro.html">New York Times</a></span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px;">Grealdo Rivera on FNC</span></strong><br />
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This recount may not result in much. But Mr. Trump, know this: We will fight, challenge, and oppose you, everywhere, all the time.</div>
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Well George Takei just made himself irrelevant for the next eight years. He announces his intention to oppose the President of the USA on everything he does. <br />
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<b>Drudge, And A Lot Of People, Are Making A Big Deal of This.</b><br />
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This recount is a wasted, desperate effort on the part of a radical left, one that suddenly found itself unexpectedly and completely void of power. Now, grasping at straws, they must do... something!<br />
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The energy being put into the recount is wasted. As soon as the recount is over, the radical leftists will turn their attention to impeachment. An endless drumbeat will sound <i>"it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when" </i>will be the tone of coverage of the New York Times. <br />
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<b><i>Nothing wrong with that. Nothing to see here... move along. </i></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427940.post-64946046427663355332016-11-26T16:11:00.001-05:002016-11-27T00:00:15.527-05:00NYTimes on Castro<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;">Fidel Castro <a href="http://www.cubaarchive.org/files/12.31.2015_Update.pdf" target="_blank">murdered more than 5000 of his political opponents</a>, and confiscated the wealth of the nation of Cuba. Then he doled it out over sixty years to an enslaved populace. That is the legacy of Castro. </span></b></div>
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The NYTimes and President-elect Trump statements on Castro's demise could not more starkly in contrast. Here is Trump: </div>
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The Times portrait of Castro as "revolutionary" like Steve Jobs, is more than 8000 words long.<br />
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It's only after slugging through more than 3200 words do you find out he murdered more than 500 of his political opponents when he took power. You can almost hear the editorial staff in the back room: "<em>Forget about those 500 murders and the confiscation of the wealth of the nation, </em><i>that's an afterthought we can bury in the article. He's a communist, after all." </i> This is why the NYTimes is nothing more than <a data-mce-href="http://nooilforpacifists.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-nyt-is-tool-of-enemy.html" href="http://nooilforpacifists.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-nyt-is-tool-of-enemy.html">the mouthpiece of the enemy</a>. The Times glorified a murderer, because he is a communist.</div>
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In contrast, President-Elect Trump properly notes that confiscating the wealth of a nation, enslaving its populace and 5000 murders, cannot justify a legacy. <br />
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<b>Who do you trust? </b><br />
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<i>More: <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/11/26/statement-president-passing-fidel-castro" target="_blank">Even Obama is to the right of the NYTimes</a>.</i><br />
<i>More: The online version <a class="story-translations-link" data-version="es-MX" href="http://www.nytimes.com/es/2016/11/26/fidel-castro-lider-de-la-revolucion-cubana-y-simbolo-de-la-izquierda-muere-a-los-90-anos/">Leer en español</a>"read in Spanish" link as well. No surprise, as the NYT is 17% owned by Mexican Billionaire Carlos Slim, one of the only men in the world more wealthy than President-elect Trump. Moreover, when Castro was exiled to Mexico in 1954, so the ties with the Times, Mexico and the radical communist left are deep. </i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427940.post-24331328584068454682016-11-14T16:55:00.007-05:002016-11-19T21:56:14.080-05:00Hamilton<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/11/19/vp-elect-mike-pence-booed-at-hamilton/" target="_blank"><br /></a>
They booed him? No! There were A<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/11/19/vp-elect-mike-pence-booed-at-hamilton/" target="_blank">s Many Yays as Boos!</a> <br />
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And then the speech:<br />
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<a href="http://www.bizpacreview.com/2016/11/19/hamilton-actor-embarrasses-mike-pence-stage-crowd-boos-new-vp-americans-respond-cancelling-tickets-414188" target="_blank">“Vice President-elect Pence, we welcome you and we truly thank you for joining us here at ‘Hamilton: An American Musical.’ We really do,” Dixon, who also asked the crowd not to boo Pence, said.</a><br />
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Dixon had the class to ask the audience to behave. <br />
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<a href="http://www.bizpacreview.com/2016/11/19/hamilton-actor-embarrasses-mike-pence-stage-crowd-boos-new-vp-americans-respond-cancelling-tickets-414188" target="_blank"> “We, sir, we are the diverse America </a>..."<br />
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However, the notion that Dixon speaks for "the diverse America" is a bit much. Trump supporters include significant numbers of Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, LGBT, and Muslims. They are Vocal Followers, and their numbers will grow as Trump keeps generating Win!. <br />
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So, please, take note Dixon, you can not speak for "the Diverse." Moreover, such behavior is bullying. It's time to stop the bullying. <br />
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"...<a href="http://www.bizpacreview.com/2016/11/19/hamilton-actor-embarrasses-mike-pence-stage-crowd-boos-new-vp-americans-respond-cancelling-tickets-414188" target="_blank">who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us, our planet, our children, our parents </a>"<br />
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America's justice system is the best on earth. <br />
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Of those that criticize him for being a racist, they cite his immigration policy. The Trump policy will, however, be to remove the radical criminal element, in the guise of gangs like MS-13 or those that extort illegal aliens such as smugglers. Trump believes they should not be part of our culture, and I agree. <br />
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There is another concern, that the black market economy will be destroyed. Under Trump, the black market economy will flourish, because Trump is no economic dummy... and he will not destroy the black market economy. Yes, the Trump Effect will likely shrink the labor supply, however, it will be the criminal element which will be targeted, and that's fine with me.<br />
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So, Dixon, after reviewing your claim, I am still with Trump, and you do not speak for the Diverse America. Enough propaganda.<br />
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<u><a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/11/14/was-election-vote-against-hamilton/HAT5A4m3msG6m8pPORbknL/story.html?event=event25" target="_blank">"Partly because he so frequently spoke in derogatory terms about Mexicans and Muslims,... </a></u><br />
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I am so confused about this... Trump's policies are not directed at Mexicans and Muslims. They are directed at criminals and terrorists. <br />
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<u>...<a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/11/14/was-election-vote-against-hamilton/HAT5A4m3msG6m8pPORbknL/story.html?event=event25" target="_blank">partly because his campaign won the support of white supremacists,</a></u><br />
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Did he seek the support of White Supremacists? Please, this is a no brainer... <br />
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<u>...<a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/11/14/was-election-vote-against-hamilton/HAT5A4m3msG6m8pPORbknL/story.html?event=event25" target="_blank"> the standard liberal explanation for Trump’s victory is race. The argument is that Trump was the beneficiary of a “Whitelash.”</a></u>"<br />
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If this is the basis for the argument against Trump, then it's over. There is no whitelash. Trump has a 50 year spotless record as a humanitarian, and plenty of support from people of all colors. He's above all the ignorant racists, and you should be as well. <br />
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He was elected to clean out a corrupt Washington, reduce crime, and put Americans first. <br />
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Dixon said: "<a href="http://www.bizpacreview.com/2016/11/19/hamilton-actor-embarrasses-mike-pence-stage-crowd-boos-new-vp-americans-respond-cancelling-tickets-414188" target="_blank">or defend us and uphold our inalienable rights, sir. </a>" among our inalienable rights include a right to die a peaceful death, and not a violent one at the hands of a violent culture. It's our duty as Americans to enforce the law and deport criminals, anyone who interferes is aiding and abetting criminals, which is a crime in many states. <br />
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For those that believe he is unfit, Trump were truly unfit, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_No._68#Federalist_68_outlined" target="_blank">Hamilton's Federalist Paper number 68 allows for the nation to express it's disapproval directly</a> and now. <br />
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We are a nation of laws, again. <br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427940.post-9588205546625380992016-11-14T16:55:00.003-05:002016-11-14T18:21:37.090-05:00Jonathan Pie "Quit Attacking People For Raising an Opinion"This is Jonathan Pie, who I am seeing for the first time. <br />
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Now, a sample of the comments from that video: (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLG9g7BcjKs" target="_blank">From this page</a>)<br />
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<i>For the first time in my life as a liberal, I feel like my side no
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majority and once we did, we went and did the same shit that we accused
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427940.post-24770303486569000402016-11-14T03:01:00.003-05:002020-01-26T14:46:10.259-05:00Re-Ignition of No Oil For PacifistsI sometimes wish this blog were called No Food For Liberals, rather than No Oil For Pacifists, because, really I have no beef with true pacifists. Liberals however, are poor misguided misinformed sheeple fed a constant diet of propaganda starting in grade school. Poor unfortunates, when they occasionally come out of their stupor, they are really pissed to have been misled. <br />
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The Left is, and has been for quite some time, dominated by a violent extremism grabbing power at any cost. Mob justice is as good as any to the left. The lawlessness of the left, the sanctuary cities for criminals, the unabashed fielding of the most corrupt politician in recent memory, perhaps of all time, these are scandalous, shameful desperate acts of a group that hates America and the American Way of Life.<br />
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The national media like the NYT, HuffPo, CNN are disconnected from reality. Only able to process a world where the "liberal view" is "mainstream." They protected and nurtured the mob, the sanctuary cities. Yes, this power of the press has kept the violent left in power by spreading lies such as "voter id laws are racist." (Really? Yes, many white liberals believe that people of color are too inept to get an ID card, and therefore... that's what the media wants you to believe! It's incredible. Anyways...)<br />
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What do we have to balance it? The Conservatives in this country have most of the guns. Also grow most of the food. So what is the problem? <br />
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We are fortunate to live in the golden age of the Pax Americana, which will last as long as the US Military dominates half the globe. Yet, someday, America will fall. And it will fall from within, if we are lucky, and from without if we are not. <br />
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By electing Donald Trump, we've avoided a death spiral from within for perhaps a generation. I believe that the Pax Americana will last through my lifetime. I wasn't sure about that with the police state Hillary dreamed about for America. <br />
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I am only serious. <br />
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My name is Bob Cosmos and Carl has asked me to be the caretaker, the custodian of this blog, if you will. <br />
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I will occasionally offer musings on the events of the day. My aim is to cover them as if I am a time traveler from a later generation wanting to know what the hell happened in this country, because, later generations will never get it from CNN. CNN doesn't have a fucking clue. <br />
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If you have a clue, sound off in the comments section. Let me hear from you. <br />
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God Bless America. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3