When the payoff is worth the wait
I have no sympathy for these kids.— Ben Wexler (@mrbenwexler) September 4, 2017
Their parents broke the law.
They don't have jobs.
They cost taxpayers money.
Deport Eric & Don Jr.
Sep 5, 2017
Today's Tweet
When the payoff is worth the wait
Sep 4, 2017
Today's Tweet
I'm not that big a fool
Timeless response to "not all white people are racist". When the entire system is rotten, seeking solace in a few good apples is no solution pic.twitter.com/V8tG5SCTK0— Huda🌼 (@hudaelmi_) September 3, 2017
Fun Fact
WaPo, Margaret Sullivan:
Right-wing extremists committed 74 percent of the 372 politically motivated murders recorded in the United States between 2007 and 2016. Left-wing extremists committed less than 2 percent.
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But it’s safe to say that most news consumers, if they know anything about antifa, know what the president has told them, and what they’ve gleaned from the club-wielding protesters shown endlessly on TV: that it’s roughly the left-wing equivalent of neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
That’s not only untrue, but it has the effect of tarring everyone who protests Trump, as well as those who peacefully march for climate-change awareness or rally against hate-mongering speakers such as Milo Yiannopoulos, the onetime Breitbart provocateur.
The best thing journalists can do is to relentlessly explain the beliefs, scope and scale of antifa, and to resist conflating it with liberal groups. And most important, to challenge politically motivated efforts to create a false equivalency between antifa and the rising tide of white supremacy. There is no comparison.
Sep 3, 2017
Your Bomb Physics Lesson
I have only a low-end bonehead's understanding of this shit. Here's what I think is a fairly reasonable primer:
Today's Tweet
What would you least like to see from a Seismologist, specializing in monitoring underground nuke testing?
oh fuck— Steven J. Gibbons (@stevenjgibbons) September 3, 2017
Small Men, Big Problems
A coupla things about North Korea.
First, it's been less than a full generation since North Korea came relatively close to being wiped out by famine.
Nobody knows for sure what the numbers are - estimates range from 250,000 to 4 million dead N Koreans. That's anywhere from 2% to 18% of the total population. By comparison, what do you suppose happens to this country if somewhere between 3 million and 52 million Americans died over a 5 year period?
Now, some good old fashioned Keynesian Stimulus can do wonders to help you recover from just about anything, so a massive investment in a nationalized push towards (eg) nuclear weapons would definitely boost the economy, but that assumes you have a shitload of credit or the ability to monetize your national debt, neither of which was available to North Korea in the 90s.
One of the big reasons for that famine was the loss of patronage. The Soviet Union cratered and cut their support. China stepped in, but they had their own problems with drought and shortages and lack of hard currency, so they had to bail too.
Anyway, N Korea gets practically nothing done without the help of a Patron State.
Second (to shorten the story), Putin makes out like a bandit if he stirs the shit in SE Asia.
And while he risks creating the monster - a deliverable H-bomb means never having to say, "Yessir, whatever you want, boss" - Uncle Vlad gets a net benefit just by pimping the chaos and looking for the opportunities.
First, it's been less than a full generation since North Korea came relatively close to being wiped out by famine.
Nobody knows for sure what the numbers are - estimates range from 250,000 to 4 million dead N Koreans. That's anywhere from 2% to 18% of the total population. By comparison, what do you suppose happens to this country if somewhere between 3 million and 52 million Americans died over a 5 year period?
Now, some good old fashioned Keynesian Stimulus can do wonders to help you recover from just about anything, so a massive investment in a nationalized push towards (eg) nuclear weapons would definitely boost the economy, but that assumes you have a shitload of credit or the ability to monetize your national debt, neither of which was available to North Korea in the 90s.
One of the big reasons for that famine was the loss of patronage. The Soviet Union cratered and cut their support. China stepped in, but they had their own problems with drought and shortages and lack of hard currency, so they had to bail too.
Anyway, N Korea gets practically nothing done without the help of a Patron State.
Second (to shorten the story), Putin makes out like a bandit if he stirs the shit in SE Asia.
And while he risks creating the monster - a deliverable H-bomb means never having to say, "Yessir, whatever you want, boss" - Uncle Vlad gets a net benefit just by pimping the chaos and looking for the opportunities.
Sep 1, 2017
Today's Podcast
No, not The Professional Left. We'll get to that one a little later.
This one is You Are Not So Smart - Episode 108: Pandora's Lab:
20,000 dead Americans every year - because of Opioids.
This one is You Are Not So Smart - Episode 108: Pandora's Lab:
20,000 dead Americans every year - because of Opioids.
And the idiocy of smart people.
So also too - be cautious about being cautious.
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