Not Even Dollars Can Save Venezuelans From Inflation’s Wrath

Monday, August 5, 2019

The government’s policy has shown signs of working, albeit at the cost of further strangling an economy that’s been atrophying for years. The annual inflation rate tumbled to 34,900% from 224,900% at the end of last year, according to Bloomberg’s Cafe Con Leche Index. But still, it hasn’t slowed inflation as much as the rate of the bolivar’s declines.

Source: Not Even Dollars Can Save Venezuelans From Inflation’s Wrath

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Here’s a lesson for all of us on what happens when the Gooferment prints money to pay its bills!

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LGBT-friendly Twinbrook Baptist Church closing and donating $1 million – The Washington Post

Sunday, August 4, 2019

Across denominations, congregations are shrinking as Americans increasingly separate from organized religion. Fourteen percent of Americans identified as unaffiliated in 2000, while 25 percent labeled themselves that way in 2016, according to a report from the Public Religion Research Institute.

Source: LGBT-friendly Twinbrook Baptist Church closing and donating $1 million – The Washington Post

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Of course, Gooferment Skrules teaching “worship” of Mother Earth and Father State is no factor int eh decline of “religion” in the USA.

Argh!

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Reality Is Not Optional

Saturday, August 3, 2019

(Don Boudreaux) Tweet In my most-recent column for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review I imagine a wholly unrealistic – as in, politically wholly unrealistic – response to one of Elizabeth Warren’s foolish statements . A slice: “Consider health care.

Source: Reality Is Not Optional

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“Therefore, relieving us Americans of having to pay directly for our medical care will oblige government to ration care. That’s an inevitable result of causing the demand for many kinds of health care to exceed the supply. There’s no avoiding the need to prevent people from consuming all the medical care they seek to consume when they don’t pay for it directly.

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Seems obvious!  Call it “death panels”, “rationing”, or whatever euphemism you can come up with but it’s going to happen.

Look at Canada, UK, the VA, Indian Healthcare, it’s all about “rationing”.

And, even Medicare / Medicaid is “limited” by the limited number of doctors who  will accept it.

Politicians and bureaucrats can no deny the Laws of Economic than they can the Laws Of Physics.

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: USA “birthright citizenship” is just dumb

Saturday, August 3, 2019

https://www.thedailysheeple.com/birthright-citizenship-has-got-to-go/

‘Birthright Citizenship Has Got To Go!’
By The Daily Sheeple | Sean Walton | Published on August 1, 2019 

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In a column for The Hill, Ann Coulter, a conservative commentator criticized certain aspects of U.S. immigration policy which have contributed to its current mess.

She first started out by criticizing the U.S.’s “birthright citizenship” policy. She explained what this process entails:

“Any child born when his mother was physically present within the geographical borders of the U.S. automatically gets a U.S. birth certificate and a Social Security card.”

Birthright citizenship is one of the most controversial facets of American immigration. Congressman Steve King introduced legislation in the past that would have repealed birthright citizenship, but it ultimately went nowhere.

“Birthright citizenship” includes babies born to mother’s who are in the US illegally. This has lead to the term “anchor baby” to describe a child born to illegal immigrants since the child’s birthplace allows the whole family to tag along. This has led to an “anchor baby” industry where hotels cater to pregnant women from other countries. Some even going so far as to provide medical staff to monitor them so that they can have their babies in the US and gain entry for the rest of the family. This has been particularly popular with Russian, Eastern European and Chinese women.

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Coulter finished off her criticism of U.S immigration policy by stating that “instead of taking the top draft picks, we aggressively recruit the desperately poor, the culturally deprived, the sick and the needy. All because American elites seem to believe that it’s unfair — even snooty — to try to bring in the best immigrants we can.”

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I’m not a Coulter fan, but I don’t think she’s as bad as “everyone” makes out.

On this particular issue, I think she’s correct. 

Stopped clock twice a day!

It’s the welfare state that draws the free loaders.  And, you only have two choices: change welfare, or stop immigration.

Seems simple to me.

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Elon Musk’s Las Vegas Tunnel Kind Of Sucks?

Friday, August 2, 2019

Airport people movers, close relatives to whatever the hell The Boring Company is building in Las Vegas, have been driverless for decades. Just last month, for example, I had a lovely, quick journey on Denver International Airport’s driverless people mover, which opened in 1995.

Source: Elon Musk’s Las Vegas Tunnel Kind Of Sucks?

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Seems like this is all a pipe dream.  Maybe the legalization of weed in Nevada has something to do with it?

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Joe Biden at Democrat Debate: Eliminate Coal, Fracking, Fossil Fuels | Breitbart

Thursday, August 1, 2019

DETROIT, Michigan — Former vice president Joe Biden declared at the second Democrat debate in Detroit on Wednesday evening that he would fight climate change by eliminating coal, fossil fuels, and fracking.

Source: Joe Biden at Democrat Debate: Eliminate Coal, Fracking, Fossil Fuels | Breitbart

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While that might be something all D’s agree on, they are ALL out of their minds.  It can’t be done.  Even rolling out a huge nuclear program, like France and Germany, there are not enough kilowatts to do it.  Ignoring that not all kilowatts are equal.  (That is a solar power kilowatt is intermittent and would need to be stored to be useful. Whereas a fossil fuel kilowatt is on demand.)

Argh!

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What Dish swooping in to save T-Mobile-Sprint means for you – CNET

Thursday, August 1, 2019

Why do the state AGs not like this deal? There are several reasons why they don’t like the deal. Some of them relate specifically to Dish, but their biggest beef is that they don’t like the government propping up a competitor to replace Sprint as the fourth major wireless operator.

Source: What Dish swooping in to save T-Mobile-Sprint means for you – CNET

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Now the politicians and bureaucrats are again picking winners and losers.  That’s the function of a free market and its invisible hand!

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Apple Card – How It Works – Apple

Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Buy things in stores, on websites, and in apps. Or make a payment on your Apple Card. Or pay back a friend in Messages. Or send it straight to your bank account and watch it add up. The money on your Apple Cash card can be spent using your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac.

Source: Apple Card – How It Works – Apple

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If there’s no number on the physical card, how do you type it in if you buy something on website?

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Wednesday, July 31, 2019

https://nypost.com/2019/07/30/paperclipping-and-other-lousy-new-dating-trends-haunting-your-dms/

Also named for a type of clothing: Pocketing. It’s when your significant other has built a wall between you and their family. It’s a huge red flag— it means they don’t see a future with you, so they’re not going to bother introducing you to the important people in their life.

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Who knew that there was a taxonomy of these ways to dump communication.

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What many diabetics don’t know: you can buy inexpensive, over-the-counter insulin in U.S. | Sharyl Attkisson

Monday, July 29, 2019

Medscape notes Walmart sells its own brand of over the counter insulin, ReliOn (made by Novo Nordisk) for approximately $25 for a 10 mL vial.

Source: What many diabetics don’t know: you can buy inexpensive, over-the-counter insulin in U.S. | Sharyl Attkisson

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Who knew?

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