[RedState] When congressional committees meet this week to begin formally drafting Democrats' ambitious social policy plan, they will be undertaking the most significant expansion of the nation's safety net since the war on poverty in the 1960s, devising legislation that would touch virtually every American's life, from conception to aged infirmity. Somebody didn't follow the style manual!
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The relevant concept is that they can have you put to death at any point on the timeline, "from conception to aged infirmity".
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[MMercola] August 28, 2021, Fox32 Chicago reported1 that a Cook County judge had stripped a mother of her parental rights because she refused to get the COVID jab.
The mother, Rebecca Firlit, had a shared custody agreement with her former husband. August 10, they'd appeared in court via Zoom for a child support hearing, at which time, Judge James Shapiro asked about their vaccination status.
Firlit said she had not gotten the shot because her doctor had advised against it, as she's had bad reactions to vaccines in the past. "It poses a risk," she told Shapiro.2 The father said he had gotten the shot. The judge then took the surprising step of stripping Firlit of her parenting time with her 11-year-old son until she got the jab.
Firlit's attorney, Annette Fernholz, said the judge overstepped his authority and acted outside his jurisdiction. She told WFLD:3
"The father did not even bring this issue before the court. So it's the judge on his own and making this decision that you can't see your child until you're vaccinated."
JUDGE REVERSES DECISION AFTER PUBLIC BACKLASH
As horrifying as that story is, there is good news. August 30, 2021, Judge Shapiro did a sudden about-face and reversed his decision to keep Firlit from seeing her son.4 According to Fernholz, Shapiro's decision to reverse his ruling was prompted by the national backlash that took place after Fox32 News broke the story, days earlier. The Illinois divorce bar reportedly also got involved.
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An issue we should all be able to unite around. No matter what one thinks of the vaccine, receiving it has to be each individual's free, unfettered, unconditional choice.
The tradeoff Xi and Chinese leadership continue to make is simple: they believe that policy problems such as economics or the environment are manageable and present no existential threat. Loosening government control presents a situation, they believe of rapidly becoming unmanageable and presenting a major existential threat. If we understand the tradeoff within the framework of risk trading, Xi and Chinese leadership believe the loosening government control presents a much riskier situation. Put another way, they are comparing common daily risks that will create problems to the the less common high relative loss risks. For instance, a plane takes off in bad weather knowing it will bounce a little is a common low risk event. The existential risk is the event of a plane crash because the pilot falls asleep that requires strict controls and constant vigilance.
The implication for all this thinking is actually pretty clear: expect events to continually get worse and the Xi regime continues to tighten controls, state involvement, and aggressive foreign policy. Too many believe that Xi and many Chinese leaders understand the necessity of private enterprise, there is more concern about relaxing controls believing the economy to be more a system of general input and output tables whereby growth can be engineered. This leaves growth and economics up to a managerial and statistician crowd within government bureaucracies. Put another way, Xi believes he can engineer growth but needs to manages political purity.
There is no going back to the halcyon days of Chinese openness and private enterprise. This is the new normal.
Moreover no dictator has ever had the data and clear picture of the economy like Xi does. The communists of old weren't able to micromanage the economy because they did everything with paper and pencil. With big data, it's a whole new ballgame.
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But then, the FAX machines got away from the Soviet leadership and it was all over but the shouting. Who says something similar could not happen again?
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[Fortis Analysis] Most of the attention post-Ida has thus focused on quantifying damage to the region’s energy industry, especially as Ida made landfall directly on top of Port Fourchon, the gateway hub for servicing the offshore drilling industry in the Gulf of Mexico. With the port now in absolute disarray, the offshore rigs are at a production standstill for up to several weeks, leaving refiners with reduced inventory to process into fuels and chemicals. Understandably, this makes policy-makers, refiners, and consumers extremely nervous about a spike in prices for a whole range of petrochemical products ranging from gasoline to polypropylene to resins.
Overlooked in much of the mainstream analysis of Ida’s impact, however, is the critical role southern Louisiana plays in the United States’ agriculture industry. The various terminals (Image 3) in the lower Mississippi River (the 250-mile stretch of river from Baton Rouge to the Gulf of Mexico) are responsible for some 59% of US corn exports and 60% of US soybean exports, as of 2020.
Now, what does this have to do with China and the immediate future of the Transpacific power struggle?
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The great puff dragon. Bluster and fear mongering but having little substance. They believe their own propaganda. A bully not challenged. A large country with many many problems. Isolated as always. Look at all the massive projects and all the massive failures. They have 17 border nations and border disputes will all 17.
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I agree, Snakes Sleager 5327, but it got lost in one of the upgrades some years ago, and we’ve kept Fred too busy ever since for him to have time to reconstitute it.
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Ditto. I found it ... educational to see what was 'too much' for the 'Burg. Still, Fred does an amazing job of keeping things running so it is something too small to care about.
[PJ] Happy Wednesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. My free time is spent adapting Swan Lake for Jean-Claude Van Damme and Charles Barkley.
We look westward for our kickoff discussion today, to my once-beloved California. I say "once-beloved" because the California that brings on bouts of fond reminiscence no longer exists. Sadly, I remain deeply skeptical that it will ever make a return.
As we get closer to the recall election in the Golden State, the eternal west coast weirdness that I miss makes it too difficult to call. I still have a lot of conservative friends who are active in California politics and they all seem to be cautiously optimistic. If you put a gun to my head right now and asked for a prediction I would say that Newsom survives. Then I’d tell you that we really could have done that without the gun.
My RedState colleague Jennifer Oliver O’Connell is in California and has an update on a lot that’s going on leading up to the event.
I wrote last week that Newsom and his team were nervous about a big Latino turnout for the recall because they are no longer a reliable Democratic voting bloc. That was so early September though. Yesterday, Axios cited a poll saying that Latinos were opposed to the recall. On the same day, however, The New York Times lamented the fact that so many Latinos are sitting this one out.
Nobody knows what’s going on.
Newsom is getting a little help from the top of the party, or what is meant to be anyway. Matt wrote yesterday that Joe Biden will go to California while everything is crumbling around him in an effort give Newsom an assist with the faithful. This will follow a trip by our rarely seen vice-president, which is generating a laugh or two:
Sounds like a left-handed cover story for the 1000's of Ballots that were already proven stolen and will never be counted.
eg.. Aug 23, 2021 — Torrance police are investigating the discovery of hundreds of recall election ballots in a vehicle where a felon was found passed out.
An this was just 1 guy, not the likely well organized process deployed by the Loony Left.
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Biden and Harris would not campaign for a loser, so I imagine the fix is already in.
Probably. Cali is too big a prize to lose. Also, a lot of people make a nice living off of the state being dysfunctional. "Vote for me and I'll set you free!"
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Fact: Most people don't pay much attention to politics until it gets into their wallets and purses. Newsom has done just that, raising taxes, closing restaurants and squandering billions. There are other problems: rising crime and the junkies, bums and whack jobs doing drugs, littering, peeing and pooping on the streets. I would not venture a prediction at this point.
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OK, I will predict that Democrats will cheat every which way they can.
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Whatever happens, it appears Governor Ken Doll and his minions are so nervous as to appear desperate. Can't watch a baseball game without seeing fooking Fauxkuhauntass or Bernie Sanders. Now we're going to see Joe Dementia and Kamala U. Sailors?
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Year's ago (longer than I want to remember) I worked in California. At one time, California was a great state before the cancer began. The cancer was corruption and the beginning of left-wing politics in California.
[Townhall] I’m sure you saw the latest bit on the coronavirus. It’s not about death rates, the levels of infection, or even more panic porn. It’s about that lying sack Anthony Fauci who appears that he might have misled Congress about the gain on function research funds the National Institutes of Health gave to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Fauci was always testy when someone brought up the grants. Well, we might know why. After trying to keep it buried for months, The Intercept sued after their FOIA request was stonewalled. Well, here’s what some 900 new pages have revealed:
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[MMercola] August 28, 2021, Fox32 Chicago reported1 that a Cook County judge had stripped a mother of her parental rights because she refused to get the COVID jab.
