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“Would I fight for my country”?
Only under very narrow circumstances. i.e. an invasion.
The US now only fights in limited far away wars designed not to win and with vague if any end games. Or proxy wars. They do it almost continuously. Who needs that? If you haven’t noticed the time between the last plane out of Afghanistan and the beginnings of our serious meddling in Ukraine was August 16 2021 to roughly Jan 2022. 6 months.
As to the draft I was one of the last people drafted. I can assure anyone that no one really cares about your service. Sometimes someone will thank me for my service but by and large your service means nothing. VA benefits. Some schooling money. My home state sent me a Vietnam bonus of $50.
Took you two years to reply to this post but whatever.
As to Biden, FBI agents, informers, and debunkers I’d like to see their SAT scores before I comment.
As to 2000 mules I didn’t see the movie but I kind of get the gist of it. I’ll leave you with a quote by an old Boston politician named Dapper O’Neill about elections in Boston. “They won’t count my votes on election night, they’ll weigh’m.” Great line but everyone knew it to be true. Massachusetts is a one party state and that’s how it works. You don’t have to worry about accountability.
So I lean to the 200o mules side because I’ve known it all my life.
When you don’t care you’re not embarrassed. I know a little about academic research going way back. It’s about money and grants. Can I cheat a little to get another grant? Sure. Everybody does it. They knew about this forever. No ethics. It took an outside sleuth to catch them and expect a lot more to come.
Every President going forward will do the political calculus for the same thing. Price manipulation or whatever you want to call it but it’s a first step to nationalizing a commodity. What’s to stop them? If they want gas lines no problem.
Fascinating. Shades of The Cultural Revolution in China.
There is a lot of self-hatred in play when the woke mind virus works best.
Is it possible that Dr Gay did not know she was plagiarising? That she did not even understand the meaning of the word? If not, then she doesn’t care nor does Harvard’s Board. They are all complicit. In a normal world, she would walk away in shame. These are not normal times.
An old MD friend who has an Infectious Disease specialty told me this story. Had a long term hard drug user patient who he treated many times over the years often with hospitalization. The latest about 3 months, much of it ICU. (In his 40’s). He recovered and before release he had a long talk with the patient about having a new lease on life. He was clean. He regained his health. In a week he was dead of an over dose. I asked him if he had any idea of the cost of his treatments over the years. Figured it was well over a million.
I could get into Fentanyl babies here too but lets just say its worse. As to Oregon, they will get what they deserve.
Good guess. I agree. But is does not explain the place at the other end of Mass Ave that is not as badly infected and even more international.
A few years ago I asked a family member who is an Ivy League professor what has happened to make all of these schools so anti American? He said that the schools used to be run by the faculty but no more. Once affirmative action hit the schools the faculty ceded control to the administrators. From there it fed upon itself.
Once you allow yourself to be labeled a racist, sexist, hater, Nazi, or KKK you lose it all. It may be that easy.
Know some people in Swampscott. Beautiful old New England town. Affluent. Well educated but not stupid.
It’s just that over time they have imagined grievances that have turned them into kind of – bodily orifaces.
What’s the minimum size of the law firms and of the companies? And average per hour fee?
12 years ago I had an ERISA problem with a pension. I found an error in the calc for expected payout vrs lump sum and I could not get the administrator to acknowledge the error. I decided to find a labor lawyer at a big firm in Boston. You probably would know the firm. When I met with her I just wanted a quick review of the calculation and a letter to be sent verifying the error. When we talked about the fee, she cooly said $700/hr. I’m thinking if I can do this it cannot take but an hour – 2 tops for someone who does this all the time. Easy peasy.
I got the result I wanted. And she handed me a bill for $7000. I figure at worst she made $3500/hour.
New Hampshire ranks in the top 10 in the Business Tax Climate Index. You would think Biden would come as often as possible to crow about Bidenomics as the reason.
Right next door is Massachusetts which ranks in the bottom 5 of the same index. It’s a good compare and contrast for Dean Phillips. Meanwhile, the new Mass governor, Maura Healy, is proposing a 2% real estate tax on sales over a million to help pay for new housing for illegals which she championed before becoming governor and now is complaining to Biden to stop them from coming.
The short ride up to New Hampshire from Boston is a no brainer for residents who have had enough. But they bring their idiocy along with their money. And Maura Healy is from New Hampshire. Go figure.
I don’t think it’s many House Republicans. It’s 20 or less that have varied motivations. One of which has an unusual motive. He’s wants a job with CNN.
This is the nature of our system. Those that elected the 20 should not complain. This is what you get. If there is any blame I give you RNC ChairwomanRona McDaniel. She ran a crappy squared campaign. And they have doubled down on her. Absent her, you have a Republican House leader.
I’d be reluctant to vote for him. The question I have is, “what’s in it for me if I vote for him?”
I’ve looked at his platform and I can say not much.
I’d like to point out that Krugman is an academic and probably has more than one sinecure. That being said, inflation is over if you don’t eat, heat your home or need any kind of transportation. But it’s sky high for Taylor Swift concerts and pro golfers.
But Krugman may be right. I bought some flea powder for my dog last week and it has not gone up a penny.
