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Since this is likely to be the worst non 9/11 building collapse in US history (I think, random memory of mine says that 140 deaths in a hotel walkway collapse in KC years ago was the worst to date) ; it’s likely that answers will be tied up in litigation for a long time. We will have to see.
In any event, I’m betting the concrete rehab and retrofit industry just got a big shot in the arm.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Yeah doc, I saw reports that they were using the underground garage to try to reach people. That does pretty much rule out a foundational issue like a sinkhole if they are working directly under the former structure.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)The fed just signaled that rates will rise…
…in late 2023. How the hell do they know?
It sure looks like the fed is more and more political. No rate changes until the republicans retake the house and solidify the senate…then we’ll raise rates… just like last time.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)A one-time wealth tax added to a voluntary income tax. What a world.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Rates need to rise, and by a lot. Too much free money out there.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Go figure. What a coincidence.
I don’t want to minimize the real pain of suicide on families and especially children. So it’s an awful story.
But, wow.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Sir Mix-a-lot is smiling somewhere.
Obesity and its metabolic offshoots will be an economic catastrophe and bonanza at the same time.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)The money in all this is why it won’t go away. It used to be that extortion was illegal, now it’s just in the form of virtue signaling by spending money on worthless jobs and non-distinctive speakers.
It was W.E.B. DuBois who referred to the need for the “Talented Tenth” of the AA population to lead social change. I think that “Talented Tenth,” while likely broader than a tenth now, gets captured far too often by political interests that would move money and power around for themselves (think “Chief Diversity Officer” at a college) vs. actually becoming beacons of social change for the racial group (think “entrepreneur”).
So, instead of actually having to provide something of value to the world, you get compensated handsomely for either fomenting or for being a symbol of somebody else’s progressiveness.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Wow, Mick. Thanks for posting. I saw that her speech was panned, but I hadn’t seen the extent of left wing propaganda that was in it. Phew.
Be careful that thinning ice, sailor.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)As you can imagine, Fox News doesn’t let Kamala off the hook for much. She tweeted yesterday that everyone should have a nice “long weekend” along with a picture of herself. That was a field day for folks to reminder her that it was Memorial Day weekend, and not just a “long weekend.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-memorial-day-fallen-service-members-twitter
She’s just so…unlikeable.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Are there people who think it was Antifa?
You want the origins of the Jan 6 trespass? Here it is: a few really pissed off Americans went too far. Trump didn’t “do” it. Antifa didn’t “do” it.
A really mature approach would be to understand why they would be pissed enough to storm the Capitol, but that’s an investigation that is too sensitive for politics. Instead we will blame qanon and try to stick it to Trump.
The facts are these: the voting game was substantially altered across the country. The election turned out the way it did, completely within the rules. no investigation is likely to turn up anything different. The question is whether the rules were altered in good faith. The question is whether the game was rigged.
The pandemic, while real, deadly, and scary for a sub segment of society, was a political tool. It was the proverbial crisis that politicians wouldn’t let go to waste. The Trump model of governance, while nasty and embarrassing, was working. Peace, jobs, prosperity, and a constantly tightening money supply (people have already forgotten that trump’s market and economic successes came while the fed tightened 7 consecutive times IIRC). The Dems know this and actually were gifted a crisis big enough to remodel politics in months.
It’s a fascinating story if anybody wants to look at it for what it is.
Screw Antifa.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)The letter is interesting, but might as well been sent to the soviet people criticizing the soviet union. No substantial portion of the wealthy professional class is going to break the speech code. The costs of speaking out are just too high.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I have lived for extended amounts of time in both and can attest to the unintended message of these posts:
It’s better to be perpetually poor in california and it is better to be rich and/or upwardly mobile in Texas.
Well, it actually might be worse to be middle class in california because to be middle class you have to live like a poor Texan.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)This story is a bombshell, and nobody will care.
The primary media outlets will just spin it down, or at least away from the obvious “trump was right” theme.
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