As far as studies in the fall: the only ones that matter are those that lead individuals to decide that Trump's policies--GOP policies similar to Reagan's--are providing better lives.
Oh, thanks to increases in the GDP over the past few months, our GDP to national debt ratio has gotten a tick better. (I'll find the reference if you want.)
Oh, did you read? =Mother Jones='s David Corn is facing some pretty stiff sexual charges of his own.
Poverty pimps: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/ … 788630001/ See the paragraph beginning 'In the famous Goldberg v. Kelly case'. Who benefitted from the extra welfare costs? The lawers and social workers who turned poverty ino an industry.
Legal immigrants are less likely to commit crimes. But those who broke the law to be here have already shown a willingness to break the law. And at least some of them belong to Mexican or international gangs--a definite marker for likely further crimes. You need to separate legal and illegal immigration, especially since only one of the categories is at issue.
Here's an instapundit item with two links: https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/trumps- … ing-an-ex/ . The first link is to a reasoned argument; the second is to a study with numbers.
Conservatives predicted the benefits of Reagan's tax cuts and other policy changes. Liberals predicted disaster. The only disaster was on the side of the poverty pimps. We had a recovery that lasted into the Clinton years, with scarce labor forcing wages so high that minimum wage ceased, for a time, to be an issue.
Conseratives predicted the negative consequences of the social changes beginning in the '60s. Those predictions have largely been airbrushed from history, even as they came true. Even the liberal icon Daniel Patrick Moynihan concluded that liberal policies had been a disaster for working class black families--but once he broke with liberal orthodoxy, he lost the respect of the liberal establishment.
Why are the cities with the worst crime the ones that have been longest in the hands of liberals? Why does Democrat-ruled California have the worst gap of all the states between rich and poor? And why is that gap widening?
So, let's check predictions around mid-October, shall we? A few weeks before the elections?
I'm trying to progress on my side projects, but they keep growing side arms. I just got the parts to do one pf those. I'll try to knock it off tomorrow. I almost know how to do one of the big ones, but I'm waiting on delivery of some multiconductor cable to see if it can allow me to wire everything without an infeasable spider-rat's nest-web. I've got the front panel built. I also realized that if I can put heat sinks on the main output transistors, I can ease the upper voltage limit. (The current bootstrap transistors are already MASSIVELY heat-sinked.)
Oh, and I have to verify that the component values in the circuit are right. The present side-project is meant to help with that. (Have to see how to mount it. I used big switches (20 amp DC interrupting) and they are stiff.)
I've got parts for the main project's meter panel. That's going to require some careful mechanical work. I need to pull myself back into a day schedule so I don't wake the neighbors with the drill and the Dremel. (I'm starting to develop the mechanical skill I should have learned in my early teens. Pity it's probably too late to learn to weld-and I have no place suitable for doing it.)
As to illegal immigrants being good guys and not bad, they are represented as sex offenders out of proportion to their numbers. And rhey include MS-13 members.
Others disagree. I'll chase down an analysis from a different source, who believes that the changes in business climate are only beginning to be felt.
Amywsy, we'll see what happens in a year. I remind you, though, that conservatives have a much better track record on predictions.
Oh, and on money spent on refugees, you're neglecting perverse incentives, which law, economics, and the insurance business term 'moral hazard'.
Roll back the specter of punitive regulation and watch what happens. My prediction: breaking 3.3% in both 018 and 019.
And the GOP isn't anti-immigration. They are anti-ILLEGAL immigration, and want immigrants prepared to be productive Americans, rather than people who will come here 'for a better life' but try to recreate the ilth-full societies they've left.
It looks like the Democrats like government power more than they hate Trump: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/liber … le/2646052 Of course, given the rumors of FBI abuses soon to be revealed, and the FBI's failure to keep records of anti-Trump communication in their ranks, this might be expected.
Look for disclosures as this year's campaigns ramp up.
Please tell me you don't want it in pink!
Seriously, there is a market in pink firearms and accessories. I'm guessing the only reason there's no market for lace is that it would get caught when the weapon is drawn. 
Remember, the majority ownership of many large companies lies in the hands of shareholders. Some of that may be sovereign wealth funds, which may be subject to foreign investment laws. But much is owned by small shareholders, mostly in the form of retirement savings.
http://victorygirlsblog.com/idiot-ca-le … ate-video/ Read the whole thing for the cappers at the end.
Contribution of what sort, for what purpose?
The press uses 'Koch brothers' the way 1984's government used 'Emmanuel Goldstein'. They never mention George Soros, whose fortune produces interest equal to all the Koch wealth, and who pours the money into anything that will help undermine the modern nation-state. And while the Koch's run productive industries, Soros has built his fortune on currency trading, taking advantage of instabilities in the fortunes of nations
Even if Apple doesn't spend the money, it will be in the US financial system, and thus available to the investment markets, whether equity, paper, or business loans. Failing to undersand that 'saving' is more than burying money under a stone in the garden was one of the big mistakes that Keynes made.
I'll agree with you on getting rid of the business tax. But try and convince Chuck Schumer or Nancy Pelosi to go along with it.
Nobody is arguing against basic safety regulations. But regulation goes far beyond basic safety, and sometimes becomes un-safety (when, for instance, the feds say I can have a defogger, but not a true defroster, for my windshield--move the DoD to International Falls, Minn.). And sometimes it is captured by special interests, as with the EPA and the WOTUS rule that would have let them regulate puddles in your yard. Look up the Sackett case. It reached SCOTUS and one of the most liberal justces said, "I can't believe this is happening in the US." He said that to the EPA's lawyer.
The government lost, 9-0.
Or take the so-called renewable fuel standard, that puts 1/3 of America's corn crop into our gas tanks, lowering mileage to no improvement in air quality. (Oxygenates were introduced into the gasoline supply to fool engine controls into running a bit richer, but cars from the past five or ten years aren't affected and don't need it.) This drives up food prices for everyone, which hurts the poor most of all, and especially hurts the people of Mexico, who get most of their from the US. When the ethanol mandate was extended and expanded, Mexico complained--and I think they had a good point.
Alexis de Toqueville noted that in his day the US didn't need pyblic assistance because private 'charity' took care of things. But the government has helped to drive most of those organizations out of that businesd. Not self-dependence. Not community aid. Government dependence.
Apple just paid 38 Billion dollars in taxes in anticipation of bringing 350 Billion back from overseas, where it was parked to protect it from a double-taxation regime inflicted by no other industrial country. That's over a Third of a Trillion dollars that will go to work in the US economy. It will raise living standards. It will result in taxes paid. And, unlike government stimulus, it will keep cycling over and over--or until some future Democrat administration decides again to kill the goose in order to get at the golden eggs faster ... or to strangle the goose with regulations, just on principle that government should be free and capitalism should be in chains--instead of in harness.
There are one or two very talented writers that cut people down in reviews and never read the review replies. Don't let them get to you. You can block a member from your work if it gets too bad.
Well, yes, there are tens or hundreds of federal and state kakistocrats issuing regulations by tha acre, neither understanding nor caring to understand the people who must bear the yoke of the regulation. This includes the Washington DOT geniuses who never get cold, wet snow and who do not understand that we need deFROSTING (max HEAT) and not just defogging (dry air) on our windshields.
I'd like those dimwits moved to International Falls, Minnesota so they can learn. Though I suspect they really belong in Frostbite Falls.
It's a mystery whether you're real enough to be a guest. Maybe you're just an AI.
Fishing in the Catacombs:
Thought one: Using Tazar's PoV doesn't have to mean seeing through his eyes and hearing all his thoughts. It can mean looking over his shoulder. Your first version comes close to that already.
Thought two: If Alda explains here (absently?) to Tazar why the only flesh they eat is fish, it will show Tazar that she knows more than she allows herself to know.
For the connoisseur of calamities: A car driven into the second story of an office building: https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/285946/
Y'know, I totally forgot.
Janet's Aussie accent is VERY real. (Ask her about mercaptans.)
Amy, Janet, it was a terrific weekend. I don't know who got the chocolate, but don't eat it all at once. Even if it's begging you.
Thanks also to to M.
Norm, Elishiva, everyone wished you were there. K****, you've been designated the Mystery Guest.
Most improbable romance. No dream-worlds. Max 3300 word.
For more frequent, lighter contests: caption contests. Prize of 50 review points.
It doesn't look like that hotel has a pool.
I'll know by Tuesday.
