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Re: Politics, Religion, etc.
By: otto105 Date: September 12, 2015, 7:33 pm
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Re: Politics, Religion, etc.
By: Jes Beard Date: September 12, 2015, 8:08 pm
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Re: Politics, Religion, etc.
By: Jes Beard Date: September 12, 2015, 8:29 pm
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Re: Politics, Religion, etc.
By: davep Date: September 12, 2015, 9:16 pm
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Price of 87 octane gasoline was $2.039 in Bloomington, on 9/11.
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I am on my way to Florida. Staying the night in Columbia, TN.
Gas on the corner is 1.99
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Re: Politics, Religion, etc.
By: Jes Beard Date: September 13, 2015, 11:00 am
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Washington's latest hunger charade
USDA plays games with definitions to create fraudulent scare.
'Food insecure' is the new hungry.
James Bovard 10:38 a.m. EDT September 9, 2015
The Agriculture Department announced this morning that 48
million Americans live in "food insecure" households. Soon
you’ll hear we’re suffering an epidemic of hunger. While the
federal government is already feeding more than 100 million
Americans, we’ll be told that it just isn’t enough.
But it isn’t true. “Food insecurity” is a statistic designed to
mislead. USDA defines food insecurity as being “uncertain of
having, or unable to acquire, enough food to meet the needs of
all their members because they had insufficient money or other
resources for food.” USDA noted: “For most food-insecure
households, the inadequacies were in the form of reduced quality
and variety rather than insufficient quantity.”
The definition of “food insecure” includes anyone who frets
about not being able to purchase food at any point. If someone
states that they feared running out of food for a single day
(but didn’t run out), that is an indicator of being “food
insecure” for the entire year — regardless of whether they ever
missed a single meal. If someone wants organic kale but can
afford only conventional kale, that is another “food insecure”
indicator.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
have criticized USDA for how these statistics are contorted from
a measure of household "security" into a misleading estimate
that millions of individuals go hungry. After the 2009 USDA food
security report was released, President Obama announced that
“hunger rose significantly last year. ... My administration is
committed to reversing the trend of rising hunger." The latest
report will likely be heavily exploited by Democratic
presidential candidates and others who see a chance to burnish
their benevolent image. (Sen. Bernie Sanders has claimed that
“hunger is at an all-time high.”)
Private nonprofit organizations exploit USDA statistics to
create a crisis atmosphere. Feeding America proclaimed September
as Hunger Action Month, encouraging people to “take selfies
while balancing orange spoons on their noses and sharing the
photos, tagging their friends and challenging them to
participate and raise awareness.” The North Carolina governor’s
executive mansion was lit up with orange last week to promote
Hunger Action Month.
USDA food security reports, by creating the illusion of a
national hunger epidemic, have helped propel a vast increase in
federal food aid in recent years. But that has been a dietary
disaster across the land. A Journal of the Academy of Nutrition
and Dietetics study concluded that “food insecure” adults are
far more likely to be obese than “food secure” adults —
indicating that a shortage of food is not the real health
problem. According to the Journal of the American Medical
Association, “seven times as many (low-income) children are
obese as are underweight.” President Obama proclaimed September
as National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month.
Most federal food aid is poorly targeted to boost nutrition.
Forty percent of food-stamp recipients are obese. And food-stamp
recipients are far more likely to be obese than low-income
Americans not on food stamps. A 2014 Stanford University study
concluded that prohibiting the use of food stamps for sugary
drinks would prevent 141,000 kids from becoming fat and save a
quarter million adults from Type 2 diabetes, but the Obama
administration fiercely resists any constraints on how food
stamps are spent. When food stamps are distributed on weekends,
recipients purchase up to 7% more beer during the month (even
though beer is not covered by the stamps), according to a recent
National Bureau of Economic Research report.
The insecurity = hunger switcheroo is also fueling campaigns to
compel schools to give free breakfasts to all kids after school
starts each day. An American Journal of Public Health study
warned that such programs “may contribute to excess calorie
intake;” the survey found that more than half of all kids
participating in such programs eat twice in the morning. USDA’s
nationwide 2012 School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study found
that the average elementary school breakfast provided almost all
of children’s daily recommended calories from solid fats and
added sugars. Donuts continue to be a popular item on school
breakfast menus.
Some Americans are going hungry but USDA has never attempted to
create an accurate gauge to measure actual hunger. Instead,
citizens are supposed to be satisfied with federal reports that
are little more than a subsidy for political grandstanding.
Unfortunately, bogus numbers rarely spawn good policies.
James Bovard is the author of Public Policy Hooligan and a
member of USA TODAY's Board of Contributors.
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Re: Politics, Religion, etc.
By: packrat Date: September 13, 2015, 9:58 pm
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Mark's Market Blog
9-13-15: Will she or won't she?
by Mark Lawrence
The market is in a flag formation (blue lines below) and clearly
it will break out early next week. Up or down? That's always the
question. China is not resolved. The Fed has not made public
their decision on raising rates. Liquidity continues to be an
issue. And bonds, which always go in the opposite direction of
stocks are going in the same direction - both are going down
together. No one wants to own either stocks or bonds, no one has
any cash they want in any market, no one knows how bad things
are or will get in China, no one knows what Yellen will do on
the 17th. You have to figure the high probability is the flag
formation breaks downwards. Personally I'm looking for a drop to
about 1820 or so, then a bounce to maybe 1860 or perhaps 1980.
I'm not predicting that, I'm just watching for it.
S&P 500 March 21 2014 to September 11 2015
Fed week. They raise rates this week, or hold off until
December. If they raise rates it will almost certainly be by
1/4%, which is pretty minuscule, but somehow everyone is all
caught up in the hysteria / mythology.
Goldman Sachs now says oil is likely heading to $20, something
you've been reading about here for three weeks. The gods of
finance expect oil to be at $45 a year from now, rebounding from
the drop to $20. They base the rebound on the elimination of
most US oil producers.
New reports indicate that over 50 intelligence reports about
fighting ISIL have been altered by senior intelligence officials
to fit with Obama's insistence that the US is winning. Former
CIA deputy director Michael Morrell said, "One of the central
tenants, one of the key aspects of the policy-making process in
the United States is that analysts get to say what they think
without any interference, without anybody changing it, so this
is a very, very serious charge. If there is truth that somebody
has been meddling with their analysis, I think somebody needs to
lose their job over it."
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has ruled out the use of quantitative
easing as a policy to help stimulate growth in the world's
second- largest economy. He said during a speech at the World
Economic Forum, "The stable fundamentals have not changed. We
are fully capable to address it if there are signs that the
economy slips beyond a reasonable range. China won't see a hard
landing in the economy." When I read this my immediate first
thought was to remember LBJ's famous quote, "I don't care if
it's true, I just want to hear him deny it!"
Minnesota's US attorney, Andrew Luger, said Wednesday that
groups "like the Islamic State" have since exclusively targeted
the Twin Cities Somali community - 30,000 muslim Somalis brought
in to the US as refugees and settled in Minnesota, I have no
idea why. Now some are being arrested and charged with
recruiting for terrorism. Luger said, "To be clear: We have a
terror- recruiting problem in Minnesota. And this case
demonstrates how difficult it is to put an end to recruiting
here. Parents and loved ones should know that there is not one
master recruiter organizing in the Somali community locally.
What this case shows is that the person radicalizing your son,
your brother, your friend, may not be a stranger. It may be
their best friend right here in town." Minneapolis City Council
member Abdi Warsame, who was born in Somalia, said, "What my
community, the Somali-American community, needs today is no less
than a 'Marshall Plan' tailor-made to the community's employment
challenges." Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges "Minneapolis' Somali
community is a tremendous asset to our city. We must all support
this community and their ability to contribute to our
prosperity, or we will not be the city we need to be." Al Qaeda
leader Ayman al-Zawahri called on young Muslim men in the United
States and other Western countries to carry out attacks, "I call
on all Muslims who can harm the countries of the crusader
coalition not to hesitate. We must now focus on moving the war
to the heart of the homes and cities of the crusader West and
specifically America." How can the Somali community be a
tremendous asset yet also need a Marshall plan and support?
Personally, I think anyone in the US who wants to support ISIL
or Al Qaeda should be flown to the middle east immediately,
stripped of their US passport and residence rights, and turned
loose. Why on earth would we want to collect ISIL supporters
here in the US? How can this end well? Here's some must-see TV:
Ann Corcoran on Refugee Resettlement.
221B Baker Street - the home of Sherlock Holmes - is now worth
well north of £1 million. In fact about half the houses in a 5
mile radius of Sherlock's home are worth over £1 million. It's
actually harder for us normal folks to buy a place in London
than it is in Manhattan. Sherlock lived about half way between
Kensington Palace and the Regent's park, about a mile from
Buckingham palace.
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Re: Politics, Religion, etc.
By: otto105 Date: September 14, 2015, 11:28 am
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SEPTEMBER 1, 2015
[font=times new roman]Cutting Losses, Kochs to Sell Scott
Walker[/font]
BY ANDY BOROWITZ
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WICHITA (The Borowitz Report)—Saying that “things just didn’t
work out,” the billionaire Koch brothers have decided to put
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker up for sale.
The Kochs, who earlier had purchased Gov. Walker with great
fanfare, announced their plan to sell the politician in a terse
statement from Koch Industries headquarters in Wichita.
“Scott Walker is a fine individual, and we wish him well,” the
Kochs’ statement read. “We are confident that he will be a good
fit for some other billionaire industrialists.”
Republican insiders, however, called the Kochs’ plan to sell
Walker highly optimistic, and noted that the market for the
Wisconsin Governor was, at this point, virtually nonexistent.
The Kochs, who reportedly had been frustrated by Walker’s poor
performance in the polls, finally decided to sell the
Wisconsinite after last weekend’s odd pronouncement, in which he
seemed to support a border wall with Canada.
According to a Koch associate, “Ignorance has always been a part
of Scott’s appeal, but that Canada thing was just too much.”
After their plan to sell him was announced, the Kochs
immediately pulled Walker off the campaign trail for fear that
he might say something that would further reduce his dwindling
market value.
In Iowa, an aide to Walker said that the Governor was “still
processing” the news that he had been put up for sale. “It takes
a while for Scott to understand things,” the aide said.
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