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As bad as that is, there are six American nuclear weapons that have been lost and never recovered…
The U.S. Military Is Missing Six Nuclear Weapons | The National Interest
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You might recall the study performed five years ago by two Yale professors (Jonathan S. Feinstein and Edward H. Kaplan) and MIT researcher Mohammad M. Fazel-Zarandi. In it, they claimed that the true count of undocumented aliens was likely twice that accepted by the Census Bureau and possibly almost 3x. The typically accepted count is 11.2 million (Migration Policy Institute), their study indicated that it was likely closer to 22 million and as high as 29.5 million.
Yale shocker: 29.5 million illegal immigrants, 3X higher than Census number | Washington Examiner
They received a firestorm of criticism for their results and some aimed at their methodology. I always wondered if they had a followup study. The link below is two years old and based upon the Mexican Migration Project. They backed off a little bit, to 19.6 million, still substantially more than the 11.2 million that is often claimed.
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Tax charges are around the corner for Hunter. Speaking as someone who spent a few decades in accounting/tax, and a few decades in law, I’d much, MUCH rather be facing gun charges than tax-related charges.
https://news.yahoo.com/hunter-biden-gun-charges-likely-182722534.html
Hunter has taken the Steve Martin defense; e.g., “How many times do we get ourselves into trouble by not saying ‘I forgot to pay my taxes.'” That’s his defense, no kidding. Penalties and interest on $4.4 million in income is going to be substantial, but tax evasion is a felony that carries a maximum five year prison sentence. Biden also made over $2.6 million from CEFC China Energy, Ukrainian energy company Burisma and has ties to discredited law firm Boies Schiller. And that doesn’t include selling access to his father. Very curious as to how Joe Biden can afford his massive multiple mansions on a government salary.
Hate to be in his shoes.
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Me too. I don’t think anyone should be rewarded for perfidy, even if 10 of 12 conference members decide to turn their backs on the conference. The remaining members should be able to reconstitute the conference if they so desire, and given that OSU and WSU haven’t gone elsewhere, they have two years to rebuild. They should have sole access to the conference’s assets and future cash flows. Screw the departing 10.
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Good article by Peggy Noonan on why Biden is a serial liar, who likes to make himself the focus of his BS stories.
She references how his lies have led to challenges throughout our society; e.g., how a generation of American children were lost due to the Dems’ courting of the heads of the two major educational unions.
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I think our greatest energy challenge is the mismatch between the oil we’re producing and our processing capabilities. Prior to the shale revolution (1970s and 1980s), we evolved processing capabilities that was capable of refining the dirtiest, heaviest crude available…because we thought that was the future of oil.
What the shale revolution wrought was very light, sweet crude. We therefore import dirty, heavy oil to process, and export our light sweet crude for processing abroad.
The entire American oil industry needs to retool so we can refine our own oil.
Incidentally, as America weans itself off of China and re-shores and friend-shores manufacturing, we need a second industrialization policy to account for more processing, at least doubling the size of our industrial plant. Steel, copper, bauxite, aluminum, etc….
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My best guess is that XI is removing his country from a wildly unhealthy and unwinnable situation and is no longer going to play. He will look for other partners.
I hope that’s the case. Or maybe he’s figured that China has stolen all the intellectual property that it can steal…
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Democratic mayor of New York thinks there’s an immigration crisis that could destroy New York City. As Dem policy comes home to roost…
Migrant crisis ‘will destroy’ New York City, says mayor
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Chinese balloon overflight was chiefly to spy on our nuclear missile silos, according to Peter Zeihan, a geopoliticist I’ve started to follow. He’s got some interesting takes on China. Here’s his take on the Chinese spy balloon:
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Democrat mouthpiece outlet CNN describes Biden’s meltdown in effectiveness. Surprise polling stat: Nikki Haley is the only Republican who can defeat Biden.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/cnn-poll-joe-biden-headwinds/index.html
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Feds to indict Hunter.
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I think we’re going to get crushed by USC. They beat SJSU by 28, and they’re a 29.5 point favorite over Stanford.
Over/Under is 70. SJSU ran pretty well against USC, that gives me a sliver of hope. But I’m not feeling it. Unless Daniels has an amazing day and USC is sloppy as heck, we lose by at least four TDs.
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I hate to say it, but this policy isn’t new.
I believe that some of you are aware that, fifteen years ago, my sister graduated from SUSE (Stanford University School of Education). She’s a Stanford PhD. She’s also one of the worst people I know.
Here’s her background: she reacted particularly badly to my parents’ divorce. She failed to graduate from high school, having been kicked out of my mother’s house, my father’s house and her high school. She was a thief and a druggie. She got her GED, and headed to the Army, where she got hooked on amphetamines. Once she got out, she committed workmen’s comp fraud, credit card fraud. She spent time in jail. Everyone in our family knows not to lend her money — or anything else — because you’ll never see it again. For a brief period, she was a muckraking journalist. And, she almost got me killed by one of her fellow psychopath friends.
All of this, before she applied to Stanford. She finished her undergrad at UCSC, and has a mail-order masters degree. She didn’t want to get her PhD at either San Jose State or UCSC. She applied at Stanford and scored in the 99th percentile on the reading and writing portions of the CBEST, but scored in the 48th percentile on the math section. She figured she had no chance. I told her “You’re a gay, civil servant, committed leftist. I’d be shocked if you didn’t get in.” The dept. Chair asked to meet with her, they discussed the math score, sis explained that she never took high school math, given her failure to finish HS. Excuse accepted.
Presto. She gets admitted. And now she’s a Stanford PhD.
And maybe it’s karma but…when she was in eighth grade in San Francisco, she applied to Lowell HS, the academic magnet, then and now. She was turned down, and the rejection letter noted specifically that she would have qualified for a minority set-aside, but given her alarming lack of skin pigment, she failed to qualify for the minority program. Or words to that effect.
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