Taking
Notes: The US
should pay close attention to the way Europe wrestles with their
immigration problems, because our
own are just getting started. Well, in the sense that we mostly
created the problem it should be called “our refugee problem”,
but it is taking place over there. Refugee camps are being planned
for Italy and Greece (!). Germany, which has made to most accepting
statements is threatening to cut funding to those EU states that do
not accept their quota of refugees. At the same time, though, the
European
Court of Justice ruled that Germany can deny basic welfare
payments to migrants - even if they've previously worked
in the country.
Another
Record: US
household incomes are back to 1989 levels and 46.7 million Americans
now live in poverty. They will not benefit from Bush's tax cuts, but
will suffer from his planned cuts in the social safety nets.
At
Least It Doesn't Cause Lung Cancer:
Exxon's in-house scientists informed senior management that burning
fossil fuels was the root cause of global warming – back in
September, 1982.
Privateers:
The Senate's version of the highway bill includes a quite little
provision that requires the Treasury Department to privatize the
collection of back taxes.
Tax collection is the
signature government activity, so of course the Rs want to privatize
it.
Poked:
Australia has
decided that parents who do not vaccinate their children may not
receive any government childcare benefits.
Success:
The US has so far spent $150 million training Syrian rebels to carry
on the fight against ISIS in Syria. The original plan was to train
5,400 a year. So far, of the 60 graduates of the program, only 4 or
5 survive and are still fighting in Syria. Only another 100 to 120
prospective fighters are still in training. D'ya think the program
was outsourced to one of our glorious mercenary companies.
Revised
Version: A
Christian commentator claims that Bernie Sanders' anit-poverty plan
is un-Christian because “the God of the Bible is not a socialist.”
Well, maybe the god of the Old Testament wasn't, but that Jesus
fellow in the New Testament was certainly a pinko.
Education:
A 14-year old 9th
grade student in
Irving, TX, assembled a digital clock from IC chip components as a
science project and took it to school. His science teacher was
impressed. His English teacher thought it was a bomb. Four Irving
cops arrived, arrested the student for terroristic activity and
hauled him off to jail. Once it was determined that he had not built
a bomb he was released and, because he was a Muslim he was suspended
from school for three days. Learning that young Ahmed Mohamed had a
few days off, President Obama
called and invited him to the White House.
Compassion:
Mike-the-Christian
Huckabee says that the people we see on the nightly news streaming
out of bombed-out Syrian cities and Syrian villages run by ISIS are
not fleeing tyranny, they are “just looking for cable TV.”
Higher
Education:
Obama is getting beaten up for saying that college students should be
made to listen to points of view that are new to them, that may not
conform to their parents prejudices. That the point of an education
is... well, to become educated.
Inflation
Watch:
The BLS
reports August's CPI decreased 0.1% m/m, bringing the y/y increase
(inflation) to 0.2%. So the Fed better act pretty quickly to kill
inflation before it gets away from us.
Porn
O'Graph: What
goes up...
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