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Thursday, January 28. 2021

Thursday morning links


 Snowy Owl in Central Park


 Long-term study reveals harm in regular cannabis use


A biography of John C Calhoun 


A book: The Autocratic Middle Class: How State Dependency Reduces the Demand for Democracy


 A tribute to those who risked their lives to save Jews


 Say What You Please, Even If You Don’t Back it with Reasons


 What They Really Mean by ‘Equity’


 Sen. Tom Carper Introduces Washington DC Admission Act to Make Nation’s Capital its 51st State


 Biden To Sign Another EO On Hotcoldwetdry, And Fight Like No Other President Has


 John Kerry says out-of-work oil/gas workers should be grateful to Joe Biden for giving them ‘better choices’ like building solar panels


 “It Doesn’t Make Any Sense – They Took It!” – MUST SEE: Black Keystone Pipeline Worker GOES OFF After Biden Fires Him and 10,000 Co-Workers 


 Court Packing, Here We Come: Biden Launches Commission On “Supreme Court Reform”


 Biden administration replaces top immigration court official


 China Needs A Hundred Bombers To Punch Through An American Flattop’s Defenses

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Solar panels? Where are they made, won't they ultimately be made in China or won't the upstream supply chain start there?
Will it be the same ole BS, such that American assembled is passed off as American made?
"The majority of photovoltaic solar panels sold in the United States aren’t actually made in the US. In the past few months, however, several Asian solar companies, most notably those in China, have begun moving operations and manufacturing solar panels in America." quote from Solar Reviews
#1 Exasperated on 2021-01-28 08:53 (Reply)
“Learn to code” and “build solar panels” is the twenty first century versions of “let them eat cake.”
#1.1 mudbug on 2021-01-28 10:10 (Reply)
..."As members of an intellectual community, our end is to engage critically with the things of the world so as to understand and appreciate them. Given that this is our end, we will, over time and by pursuing that end, fall into habits of giving reasons and listening to criticism, for we see that these habits serve our ends. Indeed, we see that failing to give reasons or to listen to criticism will prevent us from attaining our ends. The rule that requires us to give reasons is, then, like a rule requiring us to savor our food."

But we do not share a common end - it is not 'given'. And. rather than provide 'reasons' or indulge criticism, the application of institutional power to enforce silence and uphold the tyranny of conformance, is the proof of that.

And using the word 'equity' is a way of implying a pending remedy, description to follow for payment.
#2 Aggie on 2021-01-28 09:07 (Reply)
> John Kerry says out-of-work oil/gas workers should be grateful to Joe Biden for giving them ‘better choices’ like building solar panels

Welders sufficiently skilled and certified for pipeline work are "lucky" to that there may be some panel install jobs around? He might as well snark about learning to code.
#3 OldCurmudgeon on 2021-01-28 09:46 (Reply)
They don't understand how ANYTHING works outside of DC. Skilled welders? Machinists? Hell, even programmers - they see it as easy to 'learn to code and make big bucks' - when the talent, mindset and focus needed to BE a good programmer is rare indeed.

And we're seeing that to be a politician all you need is the ability to get elected, and attract money. Management talent is apparently a liability, as far as they're concerned.
#3.1 Jlawson on 2021-01-28 11:46 (Reply)
Re: DC statehood (and impeachment 2.0, for that matter)

Is Rand Paul the only guy in DC who reads the Constitution?
#4 mudbug on 2021-01-28 10:14 (Reply)
Josh Hawley from Missouri does too.
#4.1 JC on 2021-01-28 11:37 (Reply)
I was admittedly a little hyperbolic here. I think most of the Republicans read and can comprehend the Constitution. Paul just seemed to be the senator who most prominently referenced it.
#4.1.1 mudbug on 2021-01-28 12:27 (Reply)
I understand how it was said, I just wanted to express my support for my state senator who people are trying to railroad out of a job. He simply expressed what was a legal move and they can't stand it. His wealthy donors have already covered their asses and said they won't back him any more. He stands up for the Constitution and his people.
#4.1.1.1 JC on 2021-01-28 14:07 (Reply)
The real shame is that there appear to not have been any Jews who dared to save the Goyim from their Messiahs - Lenin and Stalin!!!
#5 Mark Matis on 2021-01-28 10:23 (Reply)
"China Needs A Hundred Bombers..."

No! The only need one anti-ship missile and they have hundreds of them. While the carrier group is still very powerful and a huge threat to any enemy on the ocean or the land it has become a sitting duck to high tech weapons.
#6 OneGuy on 2021-01-28 10:59 (Reply)
Drone Swarms Are Getting Too Fast For Humans To Fight, U.S. General Warns

Someday this will be the threat to carriers. That is, if cruise missiles aren't already a big enough threat.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2021/01/27/drone-swarms-are-getting-too-fast-for-humans-too-fight-us-general-warns/?sh=15b8ec4b372c
#6.1 feeblemind on 2021-01-28 13:40 (Reply)
Who's to say the US would do anything to help Taiwan?
#6.2 grant1863 on 2021-01-29 00:16 (Reply)
Got my covid shot last night at the local fairgrounds. Big crowds, a hundred or more staff including national guard. It was amazingly efficient and everyone was helpful and pleasant. They even gave me an appointment for the second shot.
#7 Anon on 2021-01-28 11:04 (Reply)
What state? Thanks
#7.1 Exasperated on 2021-01-28 11:46 (Reply)
Oregon.

Ok Spam prevention thinks a one word answer is spam.
#7.2 Anon on 2021-01-28 17:01 (Reply)
Here in Abu Dhabi, the only vaccine available is the Sinopharm old-style version. They pushed it out to government employees as Phase III trials but there is now zero transparency on the efficacy or the side effects. The Chinese run the testing labs too, at least the big one by the airport. Pfizer and Moderna are not available although they claim residents of the Emirate of Dubai (different sheik) will eventually be able to get Pfizer.

If you aren't vaccinated, they make you pay for your own weekly nose swab for about $100 a month.

I'll wait until the US FDA approved vaccines are available. I suspect there's the same incidence of side effects but twice the efficacy. Plus, I don't trust the Chinese nor our UAE health department. I don't think there is much reason for the world-wide panic so I'm not personally motivated but if it saves me $100 a month, I'll consider one I trust.
#7.3 Whitehall on 2021-01-30 03:45 (Reply)
The "equity" flimflam has been bothering me for a while now. They dropped equality years ago, but they still want people to believe it's a progressive goal. I've encountered quite a few middle class white women who still buy it. You know, they believe BLM is in favor of equality. I can only tell them to go read their web page. It's all right there.
#8 itsatax on 2021-01-28 12:41 (Reply)
What They Really Mean by ‘Equity’

Link didn't work for me. This link works:
What They Really Mean by ‘Equity
#9 Gringo on 2021-01-28 18:32 (Reply)

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