[rjnwmill]

Mick, you think the polls are accurate?

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[rjnwmill]

The dean doesn’t comment on whether Stanford’s and Harvard’s white guilt impacted admissions decisions favorably for her?

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I must strenuously object to your comment:

”People who are opposed to defunding the police have no problem with Elon Musk manipulating Tesla shares since 2018.”

I take offense to both of these situations. I support the police…and I’ve never held Tesla shares.

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To what extent are police on the street analogous to Israelis in Palestine/Israel?  A minority, operating in “hostile” territory with violent individuals sprinkled through the community. There are repeated confrontational incidents in NY City. Threats of violence if trial outcomes don’t conform to the narratives of the lawless elements; see Minneapolis.

Israel has mandatory service in the military. Everyone is required to confront/understand the risks and the  risk mitigation alternatives. When young people return to civilian life after service they have a deeper understanding and certainly not a narrow and uniform set of principles and opinions. Political debate around Arab relations is robust.

why don’t we consider requiring service in law enforcement upon high school graduation?  Why not upgrade the frame of reference of our voters to be. I wonder how exposure to this all too regular abusive behavior, who knows, perhaps on both sides, might improve our policy selection over time?

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Central banks are selling off the dollar at the same time that Biden is raising energy costs impacting all manner of operating costs domestically. Increasing costs will pass through to the consumer. And Biden is raising corporate taxes in the US driving supply chains off shore. Those goods become more expensive as the dollar declines.

Seems to me these policy initiatives will impact inflationary expectations?  Best assign this to Kamala!  She’ll be all over this like white on rice…sometime.

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[rjnwmill]

“And prosecutors are distancing themselves from the findings of the only doctor who performed an autopsy on George Floyd (Hennepin County CME Dr. Andrew Baker) that found he died of cardiac arrest, not asphyxia.  The prosecutors are calling six doctors, including a forensic pathologist (Dr. Baker’s job) — but not Dr. Baker.”

Good luck with that. A couple of starting question for each of the six esteemed medical pradtioners, “did you contract to perform your work before or after the County CME?”

What was your charter?

Did Ellison’s office have concerns about the conclusions of the CME?

Are the CME’s conclusions consistent with the prosecutor’s theory behind the charging decisions in this case?

How much paid work have you done with the state in the past?

Have they used you at trial as an expert witness?

Are you paid as an expert?

And I agree with you, I don’t think history will look favorably on Biden or Obama.  And only one of them can run for cover behind his ethnicity.

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[rjnwmill]

Talk about a fat pitch…that’s going over 500 feet…but not in Atlanta!

You have a straw man about the Muslim, the car, the dead policeman and the knife?

Omar says thank Allah he didn’t have an AR-15 else the casualty count would have been higher. That work for you and the gun control narrative?  The religion of peace narrative?

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[rjnwmill]

As best as I can tell, the law of gravity still applies?

Lower/globally competitive  corporate tax rates generated capital inflows for investment in capacity which increased labor productivity, middle class wages, employment and strategic security benefits in supply chains.

So this administration reverses the policies that drove favorable outcomes. What goes up must come down. They substitute policies that increase government’s share of GDP. Higher taxes and expanding deficits driving “investments” in the economy. That too is a rerun; Solyndra, Fisker, cash for clunkers. Political “investment” generally produces lower returns. This is magnified as the Chinese and the Indians focus on the exploitation of our flawed policy.  Capital flows and productive capacity, like water, are reversible as they seek the highest return.  Asymmetric disarmament will, as always, prove problematic.

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Seems a bit like “Solyndra” quality bets with public funds?  I have a hard time rationalizing “investments” in unskilled individuals, particularly those who will be consumers of public services for the next five to ten years of their lives.

What’s the payoff; who benefits; how?

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To your point Legend, yesterday’s event provided the context for Vindman’s indignation about a president who doesn’t do what he’s told…it begs the question, who’s really running the show.

With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, the Lt. Col’s senate testimony exposed Obama as a president lacking breadth. Apparently he was a political officer focused on social engineering with little interest in anything else. The bureaucratic pukes must be very pleased with Biden’s performance yesterday.

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“Rolling coal”, and Biden’s crib sheets make it look like he’s texting while he’s drifting between lanes.

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John, you’re out of touch here. Our southern border is closed. The DHS Secretary says so and I believe him. He’s in the most transparent administration in our history!  (I don’t need no media coverage of facilities and staff interviews to believe these honest Abe’s)

https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/544201-dhs-secretary-the-message-is-quite-clear-do-not-come?amp

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“The Washington Post screwed up by using supposed direct quotes based on memory of someone instead of a summary.”

Publishing an editorial as factual reporting?  Your reading of intent in a “summary”?  So much for your career on the faculty at a school of journalism.

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“he did some things that were helpful and also went out of his way to not alienate his anti-mask, anti-vax base. That’s not leadership. It’s negligence. Leading from behind, as you all used to say about Obama…”

which are you, a fraudster, a carnival barker or a corporate media type?  Give it up. This is over.

He made a bet on therapeutics and preventatives. He accepted the personal risks to execute a strategic imperative that had never previously been done. He engaged with medical experts and management types continually. Served in the real clinical trial at Walter Reed, at 74, and survived.

It’s safer now. You can come out of your basement.

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Right you are. And the people spinning the narrative are frauds, carnival barkers and incompetents. And there is a years worth of media clips to confirm the assessment.

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