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Anheuser-Busch is no stranger to being on the wrong side of social issues.
Remember Carson King? On a fluke, he raised over $1M for a children’s hospital in 2019. Busch was offering to match the fundraising and even place Carson’s picture on Busch Light cans.
Everything was good until a reporter found some racist tweets by Carson from 2011. Busch pulled the plug on the deal, with a good deal of backlash for doing so.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/22/us/carson-king-busch-beer-venmo-trnd/index.html
RE: Blinken as Secretary of State. Scary thing, he might be the most qualified of the bunch. Is there a current cabinet secretary who is qualified?
This is an interesting case.
Oregon’s adoption laws require that adoption agencies and foster care providers do not discriminate against prospective adoptive or foster parents based on their religion, race, gender, or sexual orientation. In theory, no one can be excluded or rejected from the adoption process solely based on their religious beliefs.
The case was filed in US District Court in Eastern Oregon, Pendleton Division, which includes Harney county. If you recall, a district judge in Harney county ruled to place a hold on Oregon’s new anti 2A gun laws. Like California, thinking is pretty conservative the further east you get from I5.
Seems clear to me the defendants will argue this is not about religion but is really about what is best for the child. Problem is, in this case what is best for the child is determined solely by the by the Dept of Human Services. Pretty easy to see how this decision is made.
DHS rules dictates minimum standards for foster parents. She appears to meet all of the requirements save one- rejecting her faith.
Not sure how this one turns out, but it is another power grab by the nanny state to groom future progressives.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/world/energy-insecurity-climate-change-geopolitics-resources
A good read energy security, policy and who the winners might be as we stumble towards carbon net zero in 2050.
[quote quote=7059]I think you’re spot on. However Stanford’s “path of least resistance”, may instead be a rocky road? https://justthenews.com/nation/free-speech/stanford-law-required-courses-under-scrutiny-amid-fallout-letting-students-shut[/quote]
From the article -“The false narrative running through the whole curriculum is obvious: that we are a systematically racist, gender-biased, environmentally poisonous society and culture, whose legal system perpetuates injustice that Stanford Law grads must address on their way toward ushering in a socialist utopia,” von Spakovsky wrote.
Stanford Law didn’t respond to queries seeking its response to criticism about its decision to let disruptive students off the hook and politically loaded mandatory first-year classes.”
So Stanford Law has determined the best course of action is to say nothing? At the very least it needs to defend its decision to disregard Stanford’s Code of Conduct.
From GR – “The resources of the Democratic Party in keeping Trump front and center are apparently limitless.”
Dems hate Trump, but they can’t survive without him. During the last election, every left leaning candidate in WA and OR was running against Donald Trump. I doubt it was much different across the country.
Nope, the dems need Trump. Who have they got? Bernie, Biden and Liz? Mayor Pete? Headboard Harris? Newsome? Without Trump, anyone running has to run on their record. In 2019, you had a choice of Trump or another. 80 Million voters, faced with a Hobson’s choice of Trump or the other guy, decided not to vote for Trump.
It could happen again…
[quote quote=7023]We are so fuc*& d. I am glad I will be dead when these imbeciles ( and their parents) fully take over. it kills me that the values which made our country exceptional are now passé.[/quote]
It hard to swallow how far we have fallen in the last 50 years. From 1870 to 1970, the US led the world with new ideas, patents and machines. Over the last 50 years, the US has lost its fastball. IMO, we held a lead in digital technology for about 15 years and managed to fritter it away.
We’ve gone from being inventors to influencers.
We’re on a trajectory similar to Rome and the Han Dynasty. They became bloated and expensive to maintain. Citizens lost their sense of unity. Elites became more interested in their own wealth and reputation than supporting the empire. Like failed empires of the past, we are suffering from a run of ineffectual leaders, and the next election will likely not reverse that trend.
In 1962, Kennedy rallied Americans around the challenge of going to the moon. “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard. Because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we’re willing to accept. One we are unwilling to postpone.”
Looking back, we lost our sense of purpose after landing on the moon. It seems like anyone under 40 goes into a full scale meltdown if they can’t access social media for 30 minutes.
I ache thinking about what lies ahead for my granddaughters.
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BTW, begun drawing Social Security yet?
As noted, I won’t be drawing Social Security for
fiveseven more years. I did mention that, not only do I have to wait two more years longer than the generation before, but I also paid in at higher rates. What I neglected to mention was that, actuarially speaking, our live expectancy is considerably — considerably — shorter than that of our forbears. And here’s proof. In just a few years, the average American life expectancy has dropped by nearly three years. So in sum:- My generation and I have to wait two years longer to get Social Security.
- We are paying in at a higher rate, and
- We will get it for three years less than the generation before us.
Well, when the secretary of Health and Human services calls out states that allow sales of “assault weapons” and and never mention the load 37.5 million diabetics have on health care and life expectancy, its not hard to see where the problem is.
No one wins an election campaigning for healthier food choices.
When your plan is eliminating the use of fossil fuel, everything is fair game. propane grills are next.
[quote quote=7010]Try this Stanford’s War Against Its Own Students | The Free Press (thefp.com)[/quote]
Beat me to it Mick.
Just being a Stanford dad, this saddens me. Crazy thing is, if Stanford students were employees, Stanford could never exercise this kind of disciplinary nonsense.
I don’t believe Liz Warren is a stupid person, but she deserves an Oscar for convincingly playing the part.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elizabeth-warren-fdic-insurance-cap-lift-silicon-valley-bank/
The gist of latest batch of gibberish is because banks are under-regulated, we need to raise the FDIC limit. Huh? Rather than take steps to tighten controls and banking rules, she proposes a fix that will cost taxpayers even more?
Nice work Liz. So much for looking out for the little guy! Protecting millionaires is now a priority.
Cut and pasted from the NY Times OP Ed. I voted for Kent only to help Republicans gain control of the House. Perez, a moderate, is a better choice and I believe she will do a good job. Kent is an election denier, and another Trump endorsed candidate that failed to win. (Kent still has not conceded the election.)
My fear is Trump will not win the nomination and run as independent, assuring a Dem victory.
Here is the op ed.
<p class=”css-at9mc1 evys1bk0″>”When I reached Marie Gluesenkamp Perez on Monday morning, the Democratic representative-elect from Washington State was sitting on the steps of the U.S. Capitol.</p><p class=”css-at9mc1 evys1bk0″>Her race against Joe Kent, a stolen-election conspiracy theorist endorsed by Donald Trump, had been called on Saturday, giving her enough time to get to Capitol Hill for new-member orientation. Because of the Republican lean of her district, Washington’s Third, her victory was widely considered the biggest upset of any House contest; FiveThirtyEight’s final forecast had given her a mere 2 percent chance of winning. “A lot of people sacrificed to get me here,” she told me, speaking with particular gratitude of all the mothers who called in babysitting favors to knock on doors for her.</p>
<p class=”css-at9mc1 evys1bk0″>I’d gone to Gluesenkamp Perez’s district in September because I saw it as a microcosm of the midterms. Kent, a Fox News regular who put a member of the Proud Boys on his payroll, had ousted Jaime Herrera Beutler, one of the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump after the Jan. 6 insurrection, in the primary. Gluesenkamp Perez hoped that there would be enough moderate Republicans worried about the future of American democracy, and aghast at the end of Roe v. Wade, to offset Kent’s partisan advantage. The outcome, I thought, would tell us whether Republicans would pay any price for their extremism.</p>
<p class=”css-at9mc1 evys1bk0″>It is a profound relief to see that they have. Having spent a fair amount of time thinking about this bellwether race, I see four main takeaways from it.</p><p class=”css-at9mc1 evys1bk0″>1. Democrats need to recruit more working-class and rural candidates.</p>
<p class=”css-at9mc1 evys1bk0″>Gluesenkamp Perez is a young mother who owns an auto repair shop with her husband. They live in rural Skamania County, in a hillside house they built themselves when they couldn’t get a mortgage to buy one. On the trail she spoke frequently of bringing her young son to work because they couldn’t find child care. She shares both the cultural signifiers and economic struggles of many of the voters she needed to win over.</p>
<p class=”css-at9mc1 evys1bk0″>“I hope that people see this as a model,” she told me on Monday. “We need to recruit different kinds of candidates. We need to be listening more closely to the districts — people want a Congress that looks like America.”</p>
<p class=”css-at9mc1 evys1bk0″>2. Voters can see the link between abortion bans and authoritarianism.</p>
<p class=”css-at9mc1 evys1bk0″>During her campaign, Gluesenkamp Perez spoke about having a miscarriage and being forced to make her way through a wall of protesters to get medical care at a Planned Parenthood clinic. While Kent called for a national abortion ban, she appealed to her district’s libertarian streak by including both gun rights and reproductive rights in her promise to “protect our freedoms.”</p>
<p class=”css-at9mc1 evys1bk0″>On Monday, she said that voters connected abortion bans to a broader narrative of right-wing radicalism. Even if voters thought abortion rights in Washington State were safe with Democrats in charge, the end of Roe showed that Republicans are willing to upend some basic assumptions undergirding American life. “It made people take Republicans, especially the extreme wing, seriously when they say they want to defund the Department of Education, the Department of Justice, the F.B.I.,” she said.</p>
<p class=”css-at9mc1 evys1bk0″>3. MAGA Republicans are stuck in a media echo chamber.</p>
<p class=”css-at9mc1 evys1bk0″>A common rap on liberals is that they’re trapped in their own ideological bubble, unable to connect with normal people who don’t share their niche concerns. This cycle, that was much truer of conservatives. The ultimate example of this was the Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters, the human incarnation of a right-wing message board, who lauded the Unabomber manifesto and put out gun fetishist campaign ads that made him look like a serial killer.</p><p class=”css-at9mc1 evys1bk0″>Kent suffered from a similar sort of insularity. He attacked sports fans, suggesting it’s not masculine for men to “watch other men compete in a silly game,” a view common in corners of the alt-right but unintelligible to normies. Gluesenkamp Perez said Kent seemed shocked when, during a debate, his line about vaccines as “experimental gene therapy” didn’t go over well, which she took as a sign that he’d spent too much time “operating in the chat rooms.”</p>
<p class=”css-at9mc1 evys1bk0″>The ultimate expression of the right-wing echo chamber was the Stop the Steal movement itself. Conservatives might have been less credulous about it if they weren’t so out of touch with the Biden-voting majority.</p>
<p class=”css-at9mc1 evys1bk0″>4. Data isn’t everything.</p>
<p class=”css-at9mc1 evys1bk0″>As FiveThirtyEight’s Nathaniel Rakich acknowledged on Twitter, the site’s model didn’t take into account Kent’s personal weaknesses, and included only one post-Labor Day poll. An overreliance on a few data points made Gluesenkamp Perez’s position look weaker than it really was. Democrats I spoke to in Washington State — as well as some Republicans — believed she had a decent shot, but national Democrats seem to have remained unconvinced. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee gave her no financial support.</p>
<p class=”css-at9mc1 evys1bk0″>Democrats obviously shouldn’t disregard poll numbers or data about the partisan breakdown of the electorate. But we underestimate the human factor in politics at our peril.</p>
<p class=”css-at9mc1 evys1bk0″>“You’ve got a Trump cult-of-personality acolyte, and everybody writes off the district,” Brian Baird, a Democrat who represented the Third District from 1999 to 2011, told me in September. “But up steps this young, feisty, bright, moderate woman, with a young child, trying to run a small business, and she says, ‘I’m not going to put up with this.’” Sometimes stories tell you what statistics can’t.</p>Will there be consequences for SVB management failing to act as a fiduciary? From SVB’s Corporate responsibility report-
With our 2021 acquisition of Boston Private, we announced our five-year, $11.2 billion Community Benefits Plan that will begin in 2022 and focus
on community philanthropy and investments in affordable housing and the financial needs of low- and middle-income residents in California and
Massachusetts. These programs are designed to expand access to small business and entrepreneurship, homeownership and innovation economy
careers to those who may not have had such access in the past.Looks like SVB might have survived a run had they not “invested” in projects that are inclusive and equity based over those projects showing a higher chance of success. Is there a lesson for other banks who value inclusivity over returns? Unlikely.
