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Ms. Thomas has taken an innocuous situation that began on my part to be about being inconsiderate and turned into a national case about race over night. Ms. Thomas accuses me of telling her to go back to wherever. Those words were never spoken. She backtracked slightly and now is changing her story. I am in the process of exploring with attorneys a defamation lawsuit against her.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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- Harris. Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris (D, CA) fills two positions in the intersectionality sweepstakes for democrats.\u00a0 The is a woman and she is a \u201cperson of color\u201d in the same way O\u2019Bama was.\u00a0 At this point, there are those like Scott Adams who believes she will be the democrat presidential nominee.\u00a0 One of the things Harris did before running for US Senate was a stint as California\u2019s Attorney General, where she made a name for herself with some pretty nasty prosecution of people who couldn\u2019t fight back (parents of truant children, firearms owners), and cutting very friendly deals with those who could (which is why the Silicon Valley oligarchs support her).\u00a0 As a woman, she played the #MeToo card early and often at the Kavanaugh hearings, taking the side of multiple women who lied about Kavanaugh\u2019s nonexistent sexual advances and assaults 30 years ago that nobody was ever able to corroborate.\u00a0 It turns out that while Attorney General, Harris cut a very friendly plea bargain with the former democrat mayor of San Diego who was chased out of office after at least 20 women accused him of sexual harassment and sexual assault. Three of them accused him of false imprisonment and battery, charges he pled guilty to in return for a light sentence.\u00a0 He could have gotten up to five years in prison but ended up with three months of house arrest and three years\u2019 probation.\u00a0 Harris\u2019 office was proud of the plea bargain, something her campaign spokesman still touts.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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- Coral. One of the manmade global warming due to CO2 emissions data points is coral bleaching, the death of coral reefs in the tropics.\u00a0 As the years have gone by, this ends up being a relatively normal, if uncommon event.\u00a0 Problem comes when bleaching has a manmade cause, and there might just be one, the use of high nitrogen fertilizers and its runoff.\u00a0 Science Alert<\/a> published results of 30 years of research into corals downstream of the Florida Everglades may tie pollution and agricultural runoff through the Everglades into the Gulf of Mexico into a decline in coral coverage south of Florida from 33% in 1984 to less than 6% in 2008.\u00a0 The article makes all the expected (and fraudulent) paeans to climate change (aka manmade global warming due to CO2 emissions) as the cause but does throw in pollution and agricultural runoff as newly discovered causes.\u00a0 General waterflow down the peninsula is from north to south down the center of the state.\u00a0 The Orlando and surrounding towns are the most heavily populated parts of the center of the state.\u00a0 They have been incrementally improving water treatment capabilities and requirements for decades so water treatment should be a decreasing problem.\u00a0 Nitrogen runoff is something else entirely, as the center of the state supports a robust agricultural sector.\u00a0 And agriculture uses fertilizers.\u00a0 These are not completely used by the plants they are applied to, persist, and in turn run off with the water as it moves south over time.\u00a0 The Everglades appears to love the additional plant food; corals on the other hand, not so much.\u00a0 Solutions are relatively easy and moderately simple.\u00a0 Costs of course are another thing entirely.\u00a0 At first glance, a simple solution would be to apply only as much fertilizer as you need, something much easier said than done because it is always easier to keep piling the stuff on when the crops aren\u2019t doing well. \u00a0A second and potentially more expensive solution would be to only apply fertilizers that decompose, break down over time in the soil, and do not persist long enough to make the trip to the ocean.\u00a0 On balance, there ought not to be additional cost moving this direction.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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- Birthrates. Ran across a couple articles on low birthrates.\u00a0 The first was in The Atlantic<\/a>, the second in the Chicago Tribune<\/a>.\u00a0 The Derek Thompson article entitled \u201cThe Future of the City is Childless\u201d describes urban renaissance cleaning up the blight of the 1970s to the clean and safe cities of the 1990s.\u00a0 As an aside, it has taken democrat mayors, city councils and one-party rule in blue cities a mere 20 years to take them back to Third World conditions, but that is food for future discussion.\u00a0 Young families in NY are not having babies anymore.\u00a0 Since 2011, the number of babies in NYC have declined by 9% in the five boroughs and 15% in Manhattan.\u00a0 At the same time, the number of NYC residents has more than doubled.\u00a0 The fastest growing demographic in the blue cities are rich, college-educated whites without children, up 22% 2000 \u2013 2017.\u00a0 The richest 25 metro areas now account for more than half of the US economy.\u00a0 Rich cities specialize in new tech economy.\u00a0 Half of US internet and web jobs are located in just five counties.\u00a0 When you concentrate on making all that money, there is not a lot of time left for kids.\u00a0 Childless affluence is a national trend concentrated in the blue cities,.\u00a0 SF has the lowest share of children of the largest 100 cities in the US.\u00a0 The future belongs to those who show up.\u00a0 If the babies are being made in rural America, it is no wonder that the democrats are trying to import a whole new underclass to vote for them, because in the long run, they are self-selecting out of the gene pool.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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– AG<\/p>\n
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