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Friday, January 14. 2022

Friday morning links


Your Skin Doesn’t Need Skin Care. It can do everything it needs to do by itself.


 Uncovering Sparta - Mythological home of Helen, war-making polis of Leonidas and now a modest municipality: the city is a palimpsest


 Get rid of all competition?  Be careful what you wish for


 The Perils of Noncitizen Voting. New York City’s new law could become a fiasco.


 Global Economy Heading For "Mother Of All" Supply Chain Shocks As China Locks Down Ports


 Progressives warn Biden to "forgive" student loans... or else


 If The Republican Party Refuses To Learn From The Trump Era, Winning In 2022 Will Mean Nothing


 Gallup: Teachers, judges among those to hit new lows with image ratings


 Run, Hillary, run! Two Democrats say it’s time for Clinton 2024


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Considering that he ran for Mayor of NYC as a stalwart opponent of granting the vote to non-citizens, Adams has done an about-face with astonishing, unexplained alacrity. There has to be some kind of major f*ckery going on here, and I'm amazed that voters have not said a word - at least according to the Corporate Media.

Voters just haven't figured out how to mobilize and hold their leaders accountable yet. Even Gavin Newsome has oozed his way past the recall efforts in a largely displeased state where it only gets worse for taxpayers. Now they're lined up for getting their taxes doubled as retribution for daring to recall.

As for the Establishment Republicans, they've been quietly satisfied, breathing sighs of relief in their fireside chair to see Trump stripped of his social media megaphone and his lawsuits ignored by the judges. They're imagining he's gone away, and Trumpism with it. Back to business as usual - mining Trump's donor lists for funds and spewing pablum about 'just wait and see when we win'. They don't even have the imagination to come up with a vision - just revenge porn. They're squandering their opportunities in advance. There are even phony candidates lining up for the primaries pretending to have Trump values, while trying to hide a history of progressivism in their closet.

Voters have to be smarter and do better if they want change. It's not going to come from the supply side.
#1 Aggie on 2022-01-14 09:45 (Reply)
Very well said. There's a NeverTrump site that I used to visit regularly but only occasionally now just to see if they've stopped foaming at the mouth yet that insists the GOP needs to return to its roots without addressing the question of just how it was that a clown and a charlatan and a crook and a liar such as they believe Trump to be was able to take over the GOP in the first place. I would suggest that it's because enough people have twigged to the idea that, for all their talk, the GOP has failed miserably at getting anything done to roll back Democratic advances in promoting socialism. They're "65%-ers" who pat themselves on the back for managing to hold Democrats to only getting 65% of what they ask for. That's not good enough. Giving away our country a little bit at a time is no substitute for taking it back.
#1.1 Jerryskids on 2022-01-14 10:24 (Reply)
Yes, very well said. Thanks!
#1.2 snopercod on 2022-01-14 18:10 (Reply)
There is a contest going on right now. It is to see if it is Russia or China that invades their neighbor first. My money is on Russia but China may use the chaos of Russia's invasion to invade Tiawan. I think we might be weeks away from finding out which way it goes...
#2 Anon on 2022-01-14 10:03 (Reply)
Why would Putin want to invade Ukraine. He has nothing to gain by conquering a dirt-poor corrupt state. I only see a conflict happening if Ukraine - egged on by US and EU - invades the Donbass region.
#2.1 Freddo on 2022-01-14 15:14 (Reply)
If I don't have to prove I'm a citizen to vote in NY elections, why should I have to prove I'm a resident? Isn't my voice as important as anyone else's?
#3 Texan99 on 2022-01-14 10:06 (Reply)
I didn’t read every word of the skin care article, but I can assure you that if you live in a dry environment and work with wood, you’re going to need some lotion. Living in the high desert of Colorado, a dry environment, especially during the winter, my skin requires some extra help. Otherwise it’s dry and itchy. Not everywhere on my body; for me it is my hands and feet. My grandpa lived to 100, and his skin became very brittle. Just scrapping it on the wall, could cause bleeding.
#4 B. Hammer on 2022-01-14 10:09 (Reply)
Not necessarily disagreeing but when you get old that is what happens to your skin regardless of what you put on it. If you want your skin to look better when you get older never expose it to the sun and then when you do get old eat and get fat which will make your skin look good.
#4.1 JustMe on 2022-01-14 11:12 (Reply)
Working on the second part.
#4.1.1 Earle on 2022-01-14 15:57 (Reply)
We live in a very dry environment (as in we funnel the clothes dryer hose into the house for some much needed humidity in the winter) and - despite trying to live "naturally" as the article espouses - I have dry, flaky skin all winter.
Youngest daughter, who has a rather nasty form of either psoriasis or exema, suffers much more. Right now, she's on medication which ameliorates the condition but does not erase it. Still remember when, some ten or so years ago, she accompanied me on a vacation to southern Mexico. Her skin was raw and sore when we left home but - by the time we returned - was almost entirely healed. Her comment was that - when she deplaned in Oaxaca airport to warm, humid air - she could just feel her skin enjoying.
#4.1.2 Frances on 2022-01-14 22:55 (Reply)
This is only good for people with skin that is fairly normal. When I was a kid, my skin would get so dry and chapped in winter I could split the skin on my fingers just by making a tight fist. As a gymnast, my hands were always bleeding, at least in winter.

You can help matters some by taking a high-quality collagen. I put it into my coffee in the morning, and I don't even notice it there, just goes in as a fine powder and disappears. no taste, no residue, no sign. But collagen does a lot of things good - skin, nails, hair, joint cartilage. As you get older, your connective tissue and skin tone start to go, and this helps repair the damage.
#4.2 Aggie on 2022-01-14 19:39 (Reply)
NYC is teeming with foreigners who have trapped themselves in documentation limbo.

They have been 'voting' for years. Not directly necessarily, but by participating the city's roiling social antagonisms, committing crimes, driving the raucous debates and living in various ethnic ghettos apart from the greater society.

You cannot explain De Blasio's queer political style without acknowledging the shrill, foreign underclass he has to submit to, whether they vote or not.
#5 steveaz on 2022-01-14 10:58 (Reply)
7% inflation! Well, that's the official rate. If we used the same criteria to calculate inflation that we used in 1980 it would be 15% inflation. Why does that matter? Well, you can ignore reality but you cannot ignore the effects of ignoring reality. The FED is in a bind. They need to seriously raise interest rates to combat an actual 15% inflation rate. But a large increase in interest rates will cause an almost immediate crash in the economy AND numerous other negative domino effects for years to come. But not getting inflation under control makes the threat of a crashed economy and the many other negative effects look like a Sunday school picnic by comparison. They can dither and they can keep pumping printing press money into the economy to prop it up but all of this makes the inevitable crash far worse. Or they can act and because they dithered so much already and printed so much money already the crash will likely be much worse than the 1929 crash anyway. What to do? I'm betting my inflated dollar that they will dither and keep printing money to keep kicking that can down the road.
#6 JustMe on 2022-01-14 11:01 (Reply)
The problem is that the low interest rates since 2008 were the "temporary" fix to the 2008 crash. We never recovered from that crash. The fed lowered the interest rates into negative numbers and began to buy back federal debt with fake money. We are, essentially, still in the 2008 crash. It didn't get fixed it got painted over with a gazillion dollars of phony money. This "problem" cannot be fixed and even if it could be fixed somehow our elected and appointed leaders are too incompetent to fix it. It will be an economic disaster of epic proportions.
#6.1 OneGuy on 2022-01-14 13:07 (Reply)
Interesting article on skin. As others hinted at, it would be nice if it considered the local climate as well. Forced air heating dries the air, and I've found a little lotion on fingers and hands is useful.

Funny enough, I think the article abandons its own premise re: the dire warnings to use sun screen.

My experience (with neither overly fair nor dark skin) is that if you get outside consistently during spring daylight, you tan at the appropriate rate so that you don't get burned during high summer.

Dramatic increases in sun exposure (a winter visit to the beach, or Jul 4th picnic after working exclusively inside for weeks) require sunscreen, but otherwise, let your skin do its thing. And get the Vitamin D! It fends off the 'vid.
#7 DrTorch (Link) on 2022-01-14 11:29 (Reply)
100% agree with the skin care article. I grew up in a family that did things "natural" so I never used commercial products. Over the years I've started to feel that if I had used products, my skin would be worse off. This is the first time I've seen that theory in print though.

& if I'm eating well, my skin is happy.

I agree with DrTorch about sun lotion too, best only in extreme situations, because your skin needs some sun.
#8 LP on 2022-01-14 17:03 (Reply)
Now we are finding out that CRT is in all our school systems across the country and has been for a few years now. Why? Why the secrecy about it. Who did this? How did it stay secret so long? were all teachers in on this conspiracy to corrupt our children and create a dangerous climate for kids? Why is the government and MSM fighting to keep CRT? Were they in on the conspiracy and cover up too? We need a congressional investigation into this. We need to eliminate the Dept of Education and return the schools to the cities and localities. Let the parents decide not the governments.
#9 Anon on 2022-01-14 19:54 (Reply)

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