I just hope Ramaswamy gains some traction. To the extent the leftist masses are forced to have an opinion on him, they will consider him a loon. Yet he'll be able to rationally discuss his opinions. At least, so far, he appears to be able to. This extends to such monstrous opinions as respect for Trump, and not being supportive of US involvement in Ukraine.

Democrats have become the party that protects democracy by locking up their opponents. Trending hashtag movements like #MeToo and Black Lives Matter have come and gone while the only consistent movement to endure has been the rise of a political police state. Protecting democracy by locking up their opponents? Not a bad line...

That’s brilliant. Stealing.

It makes sense that they have to do it. Mainland China has to move to making higher value, higher quality products if they want to continue to improve their economy. They have grow their economy previously by making existing things cheaper. But now, other countries are being able to make things even cheaper than mainland China, and with an equivalent quality. South Korea is a great example of a country that successfully did this.

We will be just like the sharks!! https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/306583#Genes-likely-responsible-for-all-vertebrate-teeth,-including-humans

Intersting article. I do not know much about Gov. Youngkin. But it does reinforce what I have also thought, Non primary national elections are won/lost by the middle. And right now, those voters are not really liking either major candidate from each party

Its President Bidens fault! LOL But seriously, what a mess. I did not know (and still don't fully understand) how the canal works. I thought it was only dependent on the ocean levels to adjust the locks. Maybe some companies will start to look at the long way around as an alternative to sitting and waiting. Would add costs, but sitting and waiting adds costs also.

Imagine if they could do that with a real baseball. A lot of 0-0 games!!

@Jolly said in Minus 32: Just another thought...With the adoption of internet-based learning platforms for college classes, tuition should have actually gone down. Face it, canned lectures in history or British writers, etc...especially at the 100 and 200 levels should be dirt cheap to deliver and grade. DIRT CHEAP. But they ain't. Here’s Luke’s breakdown for the fall semester - Tuition -$4900 Dorm (4 bed-4 bath apartment on campus) - $5100 Meal plan (80 meals) - $1300 Internet - $180 Technology Fee - $120 Lab Fees - $150 Comprehensive Fee - $3175 Tuition at NVCC (the big local community college) is roughly $2800 per semester and another $300 in various fees. Most of the basic credits are the same curriculum as at the universities. Same books, in a few cases even the same adjunct professors. The big issues, though, are the room and board ($40K per year for a 4 bedroom apartment seems way too high) and that comprehensive fee that there isn’t a lot of information about what it covers…

It does kind of read like a high school essay. And no, it doesn't make it wrong. But it contains a lot more opinions than data.

Now, rolling this back to January 6... People like Jon - and there are a lot of them, mostly on the coasts - have absolutely salivated over January 6. It reaffirms to their inner self that A) they were right about the Trump cretins, and B) I'm a better person than those people. They enjoyed the Gestapo-like tactics of the DOJ, from SWAT raids on peaceful homes to harsher sentences on rioters than even the prosecutors asked for (that's the judge in Trump's current D.C. trial, BTW). These folks have never stopped to consider a few things: These "Trumpians" (spit) are American citizens just like they are, with the same rights and privileges as any other American citizen. They aren't demons from the pits of Hell. The vast, vast majority of people at Trump's rally went back to their hotel rooms or drove back to their homes after the rally. The rally was not illegal. Neither was the fact that Trump espoused his opinion that he though he had been rooked out of an election. The riot at the capitol was wrong. Nobody argues that it wasn't. But I have seen treatment and sentencing of people involved, that makes one scratch his head when those arrests and sentences are juxtaposed against other, similar crimes. If Justice is not blind, there is no Justice. Some seem quite happy with that. We must punish these people severely! Why? Because Trump. If the January 6 Commission actually wanted to accomplish something besides political theater, they would have had more than two minority members on their commission. And those minority members would not have been Democrat lapdogs. It was Breathless Bullshit, packaged with the help of professional media people. I'm just surprised they didn't open up each session by playing The Internationale Tucker's interview has brought some different points forward, points that should have been examined by the January 6 committee while listening and evaluation testimony. But since some of this didn't fit the message, they didn't want the country to hear it. The rubes need to know what we script for them, not the truth.

https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1690719087125753856?s=20

@Axtremus said in Illinois Veto: Hope and faith and love for the Earth? And whale killing...

Interesting, but... In the graph of the US, the fall in homicide doesn't appear to be related, or even coincident with eh rise in BMI. I find it difficult to believe that increasing BMIs are responsible for the drop in crime. If you recall, Malcolm Gladwell made a similar case for abortion.

Heh.

@George-K said in Asking the important question: [image: 1691839359315-img_1776.jpg] And followup: If "yes," what do you listen to? Fuck yes I do. Motörhead. EDIT 30 minutes is good enough for most of Aftershock. Link to video

By the way, rumor has it there will be indictments for the whole gaggle of batshit crazy lawyers he had, too.