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-Land of the Free
12 States Vote to Destroy the Republic, 2592 (short video)
The Still Report found at this link.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In every state where the state signs into law that their electoral college votes will go to thewinner of the popular vote finance a federal class action lawsuit protesting the negation of the individual votes of the citizenry. Start now, don’t wait until after election day, 2020.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/05/2019 0:26 Comments || Top||

#2  12 States voted to secede from the Constitution. It was 11 last time.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/05/2019 6:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Constitution says the States shall pick their Electors who will gather and elect the President. It says nothing on HOW they must pick those Electors.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/05/2019 9:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Nullify their votes if they don't play by the rules?
Posted by: gorb || 03/05/2019 10:17 Comments || Top||

#5  This compact is an act of war against the rest of the nation. This WILL cause a civil war if it continues and once that starts, it'll be a war to the knife, ie the last starving wretch who stumbles out of their great urban wastelands gets a mercy shot from 400 yards away.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 03/05/2019 11:16 Comments || Top||

#6  They want mob rule. They may be unpleasantly surprised at what that looks like...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/05/2019 11:38 Comments || Top||

#7  10-1 that these states (like Colorado) that see their EC votes go to Trump in 2020 if he wins the national popular vote when the popular vote of the state goes to the demoncrat these laws will be thrown out the door ASAP.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/05/2019 12:27 Comments || Top||

#8  If this happens 20-30 cities will rule the USA. It will literally end the idea of united sovereign states and create vassal territories rules by a central soviet oligarchy. I could never in my wildest dreams forsee how rapidly this has advanced. I now think it more likely than not there will be bloodshed in my lifetime.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/05/2019 15:19 Comments || Top||

#9  If this happens 20-30 cities will rule the USA.

Already happened in Illinois. Springfield is the capital, but the power rests in Cook County. Been that way for many years.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2019 15:23 Comments || Top||

#10  ...that be Crook County?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/05/2019 15:35 Comments || Top||

#11  If this happens 20-30 cities will rule the USA. Seattle controls the State of Washington.
Posted by: 746 || 03/05/2019 17:47 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
‘Medicare for All': The Impossible Dream
[NYT] The Brits and Canadians I know certainly love their single-payer health care systems. If one of their politicians suggested they should switch to the American health care model, they’d throw him out the window.

So single-payer health care, or in our case "Medicare for all," is worth taking seriously. I’ve just never understood how we get from here to there, how we transition from our current system to the one Bernie Sanders has proposed and Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and others have endorsed.

Despite differences between individual proposals, the broad outlines of Medicare for all are easy to grasp. We’d take the money we’re spending on private health insurance and private health care, and we’d shift it over to the federal government through higher taxes in some form.

Then, since health care would be a public monopoly, the government could set prices and force health care providers to accept current Medicare payment rates. Medicare reimburses hospitals at 87 percent of costs while private insurance reimburses at 145 percent of costs. Charles Blahous, a former Social Security and Medicare public trustee, estimates that under the Sanders plan, the government could pay about 40 percent less than what private insurers now pay for treatments.

If this version of Medicare for all worked as planned, everybody would be insured, health care usage would rise sharply because it would be free, without even a co-payment, and America would spend less over all on health care.

It sounds good. But the trick is in the transition.

First, patients would have to transition. Right now, roughly 181 million Americans receive health insurance through employers. About 70 percent of these people say they are happy with their coverage. Proponents of Medicare for all are saying: We’re going to take away the insurance you have and are happy with, and we’re going to replace it with a new system you haven’t experienced yet because, trust us, we’re the federal government!
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2019 09:21 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It would be foolish to do anything other than let the FREE-MARKET handle health care, IMO. We are NOT doing that right now.
Posted by: ranture || 03/05/2019 9:42 Comments || Top||

#2  >The Brits and Canadians I know certainly love their single-payer health care systems.

Go online and do some journalistic research and you'll find plenty of people fed up with the shite NHS.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/05/2019 9:50 Comments || Top||

#3  >Then, since health care would be a public monopoly, the government could set prices and force health care providers to accept current Medicare payment rates.

BWHAHA. facepalm.

Only competition and fighting rent-seeking can lower prices.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/05/2019 9:52 Comments || Top||

#4  >If this version of Medicare for all worked as planned, everybody would be insured

No they would not be insured... They'd have their poor health choices subsidised (as it would make ZERO difference to their premium).

Should I go on?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/05/2019 9:54 Comments || Top||

#5  1) If anyone ever hits your car while you are driving, say you have chest pains and want an ambulance. You will get a full cardiac workup on insurance company dime. In many cases it will be the "uninsured motorist fund" so you will be drawing from something you most likely paid into.

2)The old drunk who fell and hit his head, or the woman who was in a fight with her spouse will be seen ahead of you in ER even if you are bleeding out in the waiting area.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/05/2019 10:49 Comments || Top||

#6  Do they even do their own math?

force health care providers to accept current Medicare payment rates. Medicare reimburses hospitals at 87 percent of costs

You gonna hold a gun to the head of doctors and nurses and FORCE them to stay in jobs that don't pay enough to cover costs? Who the f**K do these people think they are, FORCING people? Want a mass exodus of doctors and nurses? This is how you do it.

The saddest part is the author doesn't even see himself in the jackboots he just put on.
Posted by: Vespasian Unairt7733 || 03/05/2019 13:58 Comments || Top||

#7  But they're the good guys so coercion is OK....
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/05/2019 16:20 Comments || Top||

#8  Yea price fixing and government monopolies! Never fails!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/05/2019 16:27 Comments || Top||

#9  *takes deep breath* Lemme explain: Medicare Geezer goes to my doctor and receives $100 in services, and my doc gets $50 payment. I go to my doc for the exact $100 in services and am charged $150 to make up the difference. Fine, but Geezer is old and does multiple doctor visits, paying only 50% of the costs for many, many visits.

Multiply that by millions of Geezers and you have our current system.

Medicare for All means we go broke literally tomorrow, rather than 20 years from now.
Posted by: regular joe || 03/05/2019 16:27 Comments || Top||

#10  Socialists Criticized as 'Math Deniers'.

-Babylon Bee
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/05/2019 17:48 Comments || Top||

#11  I retired very early when I discovered I had been committing a felony for every slight typographical error I made on a chart, even if it mattered not a whit to the patient or to his care, even if what I did was quite clear to a reasonable reviewer or the chart or of the care given. Felony fraud IIRC.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 03/05/2019 20:06 Comments || Top||


How Animal Farm is Playing Out in the Democrat Party
h/t Instapundit
Tennis great Martina Navratilova until recently had long been coronated as a social justice trailblazer. She was one of the first marquee celebrity athletes to come out as gay, and then to advocate lesbian issues in and out of sports. But suddenly the icon seems out of step with her progressive legend status.

Navratilova had the temerity to suggest that one’s sex is biologically determined. In other words, transgenderism, even with the imprimatur of the social and biological sciences, cannot trump our innate genetic codes.

A frustrated Navratilova was editorializing mostly in the context of men "transitioning" to women, while in many cases still enjoying innate muscular and size advantages over females in same-sex sporting events. As a result, she is being demonized unfairly as an intersectional traitor ("transphobic") and thus increasingly disinvited from a number of events by what is known as the LGBTQ community.

...Barack Obama, once the progressive "god" who was acclaimed to have the power to cool the planet and halt the rising of the seas, had the recent audacity to suggest, quite understandably, that young black teens need not ostentatiously show their wealth with gaudy chains, or highlight their sexuality with a cadre of "twerking" girls. Worse, the now multi-million-dollar-mansion-residing Obama sort of suggested that young inner-city African-Americans who do such gauche things might be insecure about either their income or their sexuality.

Now even the divine Obama is having his ankles bitten on social media as a counterrevolutionary, despite his prior denunciations of white bitter clingers, "the 1 percent," and greedy capitalists who delusionally believed they had built their own businesses.

...Liberals at warp speed became progressives who have now become radicals who are becoming before our eyes socialists‐as ending capitalism, the internal combustion engine, and so-called white privilege become, for now, the new revolutionary agendas. The old party elite might be able to pay lip service to the first two tenets, in talking loudly of more redistribution and passing cap-and-trade, but the third canon of race unfortunately is not apparently, like gender, a social construct, but innate, unchanging and genetic‐and historically an igniter of tribal strife every time it is elevated to being essential rather than incidental to identity.

...Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, the Clintons and other senior Democratic grandees forged late-life careers on loudly talking about this and that "community", and dropping "race and gender" into almost every sentence. But as in every historical leftwing stampede into extremism, and eventual nihilism, yesterday’s radical is today’s reactionary. Certainly, they never quite realized they themselves would eventually lose their exemption and be rendered white-privileged incorrect. Compared to Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton may not be deemed a deplorable, but compared to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez she may be an elderly white and privileged irredeemable.

...For progressives, that revolutionary purity now is defined by race is an ironic return to the values of the Old South, which sought to calibrate privilege by skin color. The reprehensible Confederate idea of the whitest has now morphed into the least white being the most authentically grieved and thus deserving of the greatest reparatory privileges‐the constant, of course, remains that superficial appearance based on race trumps all individual characteristics.

...Or put another way, when no one is revolutionary enough, the revolutionary auditors end up ridiculous in their zeal for power and celebrity‐sort of like Orwell’s radical pigs finally prancing about on two legs and feasting on silver, sort of like Jussie Smollett leveraging the ultimate state of victimhood for a better deal on "Empire."
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/05/2019 01:25 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Science & Technology
All-new Morgan Plus Six takes top spot from departed Plus 8
[autoblog] Not long after Morgan played the final performance of its BMW-sourced V8 engines, we caught spy shots of the new six-cylinder model. That roadster is at the Geneva Motor Show, and it's called the Plus Six. Although less powerful than the Plus 8, the Plus Six is a touch lighter and faster. It also introduces a number of firsts to the brand, including being the first Morgan with a turbocharged engine. For the record, it's taken the company 110 years to hit that milestone.

A new hand-formed, bonded aluminum body sits atop the traditional, English-grown ash wood frame. Called CX and employing join techniques similar to those used by Lotus, Morgan plans it for a lineup of performance-focused models. The CX incorporates better crash structures throughout, and integrated suspension mounts. The body weighs less than 220 pounds, the whole car comes in at 2,365 pounds. The redesign results in a 100-percent increase in torsional rigidity compared to the Plus 8.

With the naturally aspirated BMW N62 4.4-liter V8 retired, the Bavarian B58 takes its place ‐ the same 3.0-liter, turbocharged inline-six as in the Toyota Supra. The Morgan makes the same 335 horsepower as the Supra, but four more pound-feet of torque, at 369. The V8 got 367 horsepower, but only came with a manual. Shifting the Plus SIx with its ZF eight-speed automatic, the new roadster dashes to 60 miles per hour in 4.2 seconds, at least 0.3 seconds quicker than the Plus 8.

Occupants get a better show of it, too. Length has shrunk by 4.7 inches compared to the Plus 8, but the wheelbase is 0.8 inches longer. Belying those numbers, Morgan managed to carve out 7.8 additional inches of legroom and more luggage space.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2019 08:04 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


The tiny tweaks that age-proof your BRAIN
[MAIL] Every man can, if he so desires, become the sculptor of his own brain ‐ so said neuroscience pioneer Santiago Ramón y Cajal, more than 100 years ago.

And it’s never too late to start sculpting yours. I’m proof of that ‐ I didn’t go to university until I was 42. Six years later, I emerged with a degree in psychology, a PhD and a passion for brain health.

As a cognitive neuroscientist, I have been involved in and exposed to incredible brain research. I’ve learned that adopting a brain-healthy lifestyle is like investing in brain capital; by making smart choices you can build reserves that you can cash in at some point in the future when faced with a challenge such as ageing, injury or disease.

Let’s take Alzheimer’s disease. Currently there is no cure. The Alzheimer’s brain is shrivelled, characterised by cell death and tissue loss. Nobody knows for sure what causes this, but abnormal protein clusters and twisted strands called plaques and tangles are prime suspects.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2019 01:53 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Unfortunately some people are born without a truely functional one to start with.
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 || 03/05/2019 2:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Alun 'tweaks' a pint in the graphic.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2019 2:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Tau is a response from the Brain's own immune system.

Tau is normally cleared by good sleep flushing it out into the Cerebrospinal fluid.

Plaques in the blood stream, or what causes them maybe to blame for both the tau AND the hardening which stops the CSP fluid moving during sleep.

From reading I'd recommend you look at, Intermittent fasting, Metformin, Keto Diet, statins or niacin, vitamin K2, Butyrate, CoQ10.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/05/2019 6:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Any neurological anti inflammatory?
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/05/2019 6:39 Comments || Top||

#5  too little, too late
Posted by: Blinky Black7606 || 03/05/2019 8:47 Comments || Top||

#6  too little, too late
Posted by Blinky Black7606


Yes, tipping point reached here about 20 years ago.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2019 8:49 Comments || Top||

#7  Thank you, Bright Pebbles. You had more useful information with less superfluous verbiage.
Posted by: Cesare || 03/05/2019 9:17 Comments || Top||

#8  Going out on a whim here....

The Tau may be in response to HPV in the brain so getting acyclovir into the CSF may help.

Acyclovir Levels in Serum and Cerebrospinal Fluid after Oral Administration of Valacyclovir

This says take Valacyclovir to do this. I also wonder if the Gardasil type immunisations will have an "unexpected" dividend in 50 years.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/05/2019 9:45 Comments || Top||

#9  BP ~ Will you be attending, speaking ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2019 10:06 Comments || Top||

#10  The Tau may be in response to HPV in the brain so getting acyclovir into the CSF may help.

Might HPV vaccinations help, either before or after infection?
Posted by: gorb || 03/05/2019 10:15 Comments || Top||

#11  Gardasil is a HPV vaccine.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/05/2019 10:33 Comments || Top||

#12  Hmm. Kind of embarrassing and confirming at the same time. :-)
Posted by: gorb || 03/05/2019 19:36 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
President Trump's trip to Hanoi and a possible NATO for the Pacific (video)
The Still Report.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2019 09:26 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There was a NATO like construct 50 + years ago for Asia. Anyone else remember SEATO? Didn't include Hanoi since its genesis was the Vietnam war.
Posted by: AlanC || 03/05/2019 11:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Can't have smaller gummint with more treaties. And paper is for wiping your a$$...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/05/2019 11:33 Comments || Top||

#3  How about America quit feeding the bear to the tune of $550 billion/year first.
Posted by: Bugs Darling of the Wee Folk1353 || 03/05/2019 17:13 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
We Are Dancing on a Powder Keg
h/t Instapundit
[PJMedia] Social media has been full of the Democrats talking about the Stormy Daniels affair with the joy and sniggers of three-year-olds who just discovered there’s a word for what you do on the potty.

This is predictable and not at all upsetting, because if these people had any political sophistication and understanding of history, they wouldn’t support a party that is more fully behind the full-on communism that has killed a hundred million human beings in the 20th century and bids fair to at least an attempt to continue its work in the twenty-first. Also, most of them have the understanding of history of Occasional Cortex and think that politics is a sort of game. All they’re really doing is signaling their membership in the "tribe."

All well and good, but there is an aspect of this that worries me: they actually expect l’affaire Stormy to change our minds about Trump. And from their polls ‐ snork, giggle, remember 2016? ‐ they’re absolutely convinced they’re winning.

This worries me because it tells me just how far from reality their mental processes have gone, particularly their image of us.

...the problem is that the Left believes a lot of things about us that spectacularly aren’t so. They believe we’re all religiously conservative. They believe we all live in small southern towns and dropped out without a high school diploma. They believe we are all violently anti-gay, believe men should command women, are all white supremacists, etc., etc., etc.

It’s always hilarious when one of them comes to my blog to accuse me of being a southern redneck who is afraid of people who aren’t like me.
This is funny since there are nobody else like Sarah - how many Portuguese born women who became major American SF authors you know?
This illusion of the Left is necessitated by the fact they have elevated Marxist credo to a messianic religion. They believe it as one believes revealed truth, with no doubt and no thought. (If they thought, they wouldn’t believe it.) And in believing it, they think that, of course, anyone who opposes them must be evil. The only way not to think we’re evil is to think we’re otherwise impaired ‐ you know, in Mr. Obama’s charming words, "clinging to their guns and religion and afraid of people who aren’t like them."
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/05/2019 01:11 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Can you say "sniggers"?
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/05/2019 22:18 Comments || Top||



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