Thursday, May 4, 2017
Capitalistic Comfort?
Capitalistic Comfort?
If you don't want to resent the day you were born
try to remember to bring a large shoe horn
with you on an United, American, or any such flight
because it will otherwise be far from a delight.
Even riding on the hard back of a camel would be superior
to the discomfort you'll feel on your back and posterior,
Moreover, if a slight touch of obesity is your preexisting condition,
you'll wish our entire Capitalist system were assigned to Perdition ,
and, while watching the clock in defeat
as you try to adjust to a much too small seat,
you find that half a buttock is much worse than none
and that your trip has become a curse very far from fun.
Yet even if you don't exactly thrive
you usually will still get out alive.
So try to imagine---if you dare--
what these same folk will do to Health Care !
HzL
5/4/17
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Tuesday, May 2, 2017
California Squashes its young
California squashes its young
You don't have to be Sigmund Freud
or even Carl Jung
to know that life is most fully enjoyed
when you are young.
But not when you're tired all day
as a waitress on the hoof
or from any other tiresome way
of covering a head with a roof.
When today's Millenials scream-
it isn't for ice cream--
Instead they mourn-- the passing
American Dream.
HzL'
5/3/17
EYE ON THE NEWS
California Squashes Its Young
The Golden State’s suffocating economic policies are driving out a new generation.
Joel KotkinWendell Cox
April 30, 2017 CaliforniaEconomy, finance, and budgets
In this era of anti-Trump resistance, many progressives see California as a model of enlightenment. The Golden State’s post-2010 recovery has won plaudits in the progressive press from the New York Times’s Paul Krugman, among others. Yet if one looks at the effects of the state’s policies on key Democratic constituencies— millennials, minorities, and the poor—the picture is dismal. A recent United Way study found that close to one-third of state residents can barely pay their bills, largely due to housing costs. When adjusted for these costs, California leads all states—even historically poor Mississippi—in the percentage of its people living in poverty.
California is home to 77 of the country’s 297 most “economically challenged” cities, based on poverty and unemployment levels. The population of these cities totals more than 12 million. In his new book on the nation’s urban crisis, author Richard Florida ranks three California metropolitan areas—Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego— among the five most unequal in the nation. California, with housing prices 230 percent above the national average, is home to many of the nation’s most unaffordable urban areas, including not only the predictably expensive large metros but also smaller cities such as Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo. Unsurprisingly, the state’s middle class is disappearing the fastest of any state.
California’s young population is particularly challenged. As we spell out in our new report from Chapman University and the California Association of Realtors, California has the third-lowest percentage of people aged 25 to 34 who own their own homes—only New York and Hawaii’s are lower. In San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego, the 25-to-34 homeownership rates range from 19.6 percent to 22.6 percent—40 percent or more below the national average.
No big surprise, then, that California’s millennials are more likely to stay at home with Mom and Dad into their thirties. Approximately 47 percent of Americans aged 18 to 34 lived with parents or other relatives in 2015, according to the American Community Survey—but in California, the figure is 54 percent. California’s younger generation, particularly in the cities, seems increasingly destined to live as renters.
The biggest losers from California’s housing crisis are, ironically, the very people whom progressives claim to care about most: the poor and minorities, who also constitute most millennials. Hispanics, now approaching a majority of the state’s population, account for 43 percent of the 25-to-34 cohort. Rates of homeownership for African-American and Hispanic Californians have dropped at four times the rate of Asians and non-Hispanic whites in the last 10 years, while minority homeownership in the Golden State now lags most of the country, notably Texas and the southeast.
Much of this can be traced to California’s long-standing bias against suburban development. Reducing greenhouse-gas emissions remains an obsession. But unless the rest of the country (or the world) adopts California’s strict emissions rules, the state’s regulations are likely to have little or no impact on climate change. Recently passed legislation will make things worse by imposing even more stringent regulations on greenhouse gases, mandating a 40 percent cut from 1990 levels by 2030. This represents the ratcheting up of a regulatory regime that will slow California’s already-torpid rate of issuing building permits, which is well below the national average.
California’s housing policies pose a profound long-term threat to the state’s social stability and economic viability. The state has seen a net loss of about 1.7 million domestic migrants since 2000. After slowing during the Great Recession and its aftermath, out-migration is again growing, even in the booming Bay Area. Some 29,000 more people left the Bay Area than arrived in 2016. The San Francisco metropolitan area saw net migration plunge from plus-15,000 in 2013 to minus-12,000 three years later.
Contrary to some reports, the people leaving California are not predominantly poor and uneducated. IRS data show that California’s outmigration between 2013 and 2014 was concentrated among middle-aged people with higher average incomes than households that stayed in California or moved there. This trend contrasts dramatically with Texas, arguably the state’s strongest economic competitor.
Here again, new policies will only make things worse. The Bay Area’s 2040 regional plan calls for concentrating 75 percent of new housing development on barely 5 percent of the region’s developed land mass. One alternative plan assumes that 78 percent of new housing in the Bay Area would be multi-family and 22 percent single-family (detached and attached). The regional Air Quality Agency has drawn up intrusive plans, seeking to levy tolls on all freeways, ban gas stoves, and urge less meat consumption.
Young people overwhelmingly prefer single-family houses, which represent 80 percent of home purchases nationwide for people under 35. If millennials continue their current rate of savings, notes one study, they would need 28 years to qualify for a median-priced house in San Francisco—but only five years in Charlotte and just three in Atlanta. This may be one reason, notes a recent ULI report, why 74 percent of Bay Area millennials are considering moving out in the next five years.
Regional planners and commercial chambers should indeed look to California as a model—of exactly what not to do. The state’s large metro areas are no longer hot growth spots for millennials, who are flocking to suburbs and exurbs elsewhere. Since 2010, the biggest gains in millennial residents have been in low-density, comparatively affordable cities such as Orlando, Austin, and Nashville. Ultimately, the battle for California’s future—and much of Blue America’s—will turn on how these regions meet the challenge of providing housing and opportunities to a new generation of workers and young families. A California that works only for the wealthy and well-established is not sustainable.
America’s “youth culture” was invented, more or less, in California in the 1960s, from the surfing spots of L.A. and Orange County to the countercultural hotbeds of the Bay Area. But today, California is turning on its young, with policies that ensure that most millennials will never fully “launch,” leaving many destined either to move elsewhere or become wards of an ever-expanding welfare state. The Golden State can still create an environment for growth and family formation—but only if it reclaims its historical role as the nation’s beacon of opportunity and youthful enthusiasm.
Joel Kotkin is the presidential fellow in urban futures at Chapman University and executive director of the Center for Opportunity Urbanism. His new book is The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us. Wendell Cox is the principal of Demographia, a public-policy consultancy, and a senior fellow at the Center for Opportunity Urbanism, based in Houston.
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Wednesday, April 19, 2017
The Bard's Birthday is Sunday
The Bard's birthday is this Sunday
Sunday is William Shakespeare's Birthday,
or so says WQXR most sincerely ,
and they will play music inspired by him all day anyway
naming its composers everywhere whoever they may be.
Some say Shake's plays were at least partly written by another man
for example, Sir Francis Bacon,
for how could God give such much genius to just one in His plan
and, furthermore, the Bard himself must have been a Ham
or at least , as anyone can from his writings tell,
he knew that Breed, and probably much too well.
William Shakespeare quotes about acting - Wikiquote
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William Shakespeare quotes about acting ... William Shakespeare, in his many plays, produced a large number of quotes on the subject of acting.
So in summary:
There's no need to "get Thee to a Nunnery"*
this Sunday.
Just wear some attire that's summery
and lap it up on your lap top---
while sitting comfortably on your bum--mery?
HzL, 4/19/17
"Get thee to a nunnery" is a play on words. Although a nunnery is a place for pure women who give themselves body and soles to God, a nunnery also means a whore house. Nunnery has a double meaning. Essentially, Hamlet is telling Ophelia that she is both pure and impure.Mar 4,
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
The NUCLEAR Playground
The Nuclear Playground
"I will demolish you with my Franken Missile"
"Not if we strike you first"
Because we think you need straightening out a bissl*
"OK, then let worst come to worst"
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*This Yiddish phrase for "a bit" is meant to stand for Korean
though its origin is obviously much more European.
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"Your MOAB** (Mother Of All Bombs) is puny
and it's you, not me, who is the loony"
Meanwhile China shows patience by the oodles
since North Korea is not aiming at THEM,
and in South Korea they are still eating noodles
though it's hardly a dish that's creme de la creme.
How this will all come out is anyone's guess
but the odds are that there could be an awful mess
when children play with nuclear fission
without suitable parental supervision.
HzL
4/18/17
**MOAB. is an acronym for Massive Ordnance Air Blast
--not really for Mother of All Bombs.
Amid U.S. Tensions, North Korea Shows Off ‘Frankenmissile’
Pyongyang displayed what appeared to be a new intercontinental ballistic missile at a military parade held amid tensions over the possibility of a military confrontation between the U.S. and North Korea. 108
South Koreans Keep Their Cool
A Death Bed Request?
A Death Bed Request?
If you want someone to die happy and contented
then whisper something in his or her ear---
no matter how sappy or demented---
that they would really like to hear.
Perhaps that their genius has been recognized
for all to see?
And that they are no longer rejected or despised
but will be granted Nobel riches and an honorary PhD?
But if it's me ...or I?... you'd like to cheer
this is mostly what I'd like to hear
--whether in prose, poetry or song--
that the learned physicians have got it wrong
and I 'll still live to enjoy yet another year.
HzL
4/18/17
'I knew that would bring him comfort,' Man, 75, 'dies peacefully' after his family lies and tells him Trump has been impeached
Michael Garland Elliot, 75, died peacefully in his Oregon home earlier this month when his ex-wife lied to him that President Trump was impeached from office.
Sunday, April 16, 2017
Dina Powell, Rising Star
McCarthy's 'Spicey' Hippity-Hops Back to SNL As Pence Visits S. Korea, North's Missile Launch Fails Arrests, Injuries as Protesters Clash at Pro-Trump Rally Marchers Across US Demand Trump's Tax Returns White House Polls Public on Which Departments to Cut Another Name Rising as Bannon's Falls: Gary Cohn Trump to Keep White House Visitor Logs Secret Cops: Manhunt Suspect Who Sent Manifesto to Trump Found CIA Chief Has Vicious Words for WikiLeaks and Assange NC Lawmaker: Lincoln Was 'Same Sort of Tyrant' as Hitler Trump Signs Law to Let States Defund Planned Parenthood Obama Memos on Student Loans Revoked by Betsy DeVos
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She's a rising star on Trump's national security team
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(NEWSER) – The photo from inside Donald Trump's makeshift situation room at Mar-a-Lago affirmed what White House insiders have recognized for some time—that Dina Powell has quietly established herself as a White House power, the AP reports. Though sandwiched between other administration officials, the deputy national security adviser stands out as the only woman among 13 staffers in the room on the night the president ordered the missile attack in Syria. And in a White House that is split between outsider ideologues and more traditional operators, Powell is viewed as a steady force in the growing influence of the latter.
A newer addition to the team, Powell's West Wing experience, conservative background, and policy chops have won over Trump's daughter and son-in-law. Now, Powell is at the table as the president turns more of his attention to international affairs, attempting to craft a foreign policy out of a self-described "flexible" approach to the world. She is a rare Bush veteran in a White House that has largely shunned its Republican predecessor's legacy. She came via Goldman Sachs—decidedly not a rarity for the new president—originally to work on economic development at the behest of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. She was soon moved to the National Security Council. Learn more about Powell and her growing influence here.
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DINA'S OATH
I'll pledge allegiance to the United States
Flag and the country for which it stands ....to the max...
from those "amber wavers of grain"
to Goldman Sachs.
And let our "purple mountains majesty"
confirm that this is no travesty
for my allegiance always will be plain,
and from hard work I'll never shirk..
Let's hope that Peace and Justice for all may reign--
at least for those far enough up in income brackets---
despite Islamic terrorists, nuclear missiles or
even clever Wall Street rackets.
HzL
Easter Sunday, April 16, 2017
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Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Itzhak Perlman's Seder Celebration and Matzos, a Reform View?
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Mar 25, 2013 - A Musical Feast for Passover with Itzhak Perlman ... in Ladino, the zany Moishe Oyshertreatment of “Chad Gadya,” and “Go Down, Moses” ...
Today is the first day of Passover which coincides this year almost exactly with Easter.This is no accident since they are exactly the same holiday, or at least once were since almost all the first Christians and and Jesus himself were Jewish.The differences that have arisen since then are too numerous and harrowing to recount in detail but one of the major discrepancies is due to the different calendars lunar versus solar.
This summary of the Seder celebration is thankfully a minute or two shorter than an an hour. It always ran on too long in my childhood until my father shortened it when he sensed people getting too hungry sleepy or bored.
A to the historical accuracy of this tale (or mainsah in Yiddish) I believe it is more soap opera than reality, but it ought to have been true, at least emotionally.Anyway it has been argued about ever since.
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MATZOS, A Reform View?
Matzos,are also known as the . "the bread of affliction"
because unleavened and supposedly baked by Jews fleeing Egypt in haste,
But the lack of yeast for some may ruin the feast.
Anyway all this could well be fiction
and perhaps they are simply the result of ancestral bad taste?
Furthermore, though your chance of liking them may be dicey,
if purchased this week they could still be much too pricey
while still making the Seder meal somewhat bleak and stiff--
So why not buy them next week more cheaply, what's the diff?
HzL
4/12/17
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Monday, April 10, 2017
Seniority
Courts & Law
What does the junior Supreme Court justice do? Kagan tells Gorsuch it starts in the kitchen
By Robert Barnes April 9 at 6:29 PM
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SENIORITY
'The Supreme Court is a place that runs on seniority'
according to the the Justices --and they should know ,
but take it from me--though I'm hardly an authority--
in the outside world -- this is rarely so.
Young women, of course, know this all too well
and panic at the sight of a wrinkle or hair turning gray
often spending fortunes on whatever others may sell
to postpone their senescence for another day
While politicians, too, at least as clever ,
will do almost anything to hang on to power
but even they can not rule forever
and eventually too must have their final hour.
Ah, that the rest of us could just grow old
without our being either bought or sold !
HzL, 3/10/17
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No one could have known it at the time, but at the end of last summer, Justice Elena Kagan gave Neil M. Gorsuch a face-to-face tutorial on what it means to be the Supreme Court’s newest justice.
It starts in the kitchen.
“I’ve been on the cafeteria committee for six years. (Justice) Steve Breyer was on the cafeteria committee for 13 years,” Kagan said at a Colorado event where she was being interviewed by Gorsuch and Timothy M. Tymkovich, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit.
[Trump picks Colorado appeals court judge for Supreme Court]
Gorsuch and Tymkovich both were on President Trump’s list of potential Supreme Court nominees at the time, and it just so happened that they asked what it was like to be the most junior justice.
Kagan is a storyteller, and knows this is a topic that audiences usually eat up, so she played it for all it was worth.
The junior justice has three unique responsibilities, she said. But in recounting them, she always starts with the fact that the newest justice is assigned to cafeteria duty and keeps it until the next justice is confirmed.
[Gorsuch’s impact might be felt immediately]
“I think this is a way to kind of humble people,” she said during the “fireside chat” at the elegant Broadmoor resort in Colorado Springs. “You think you’re kind of hot stuff. You’re an important person. You’ve just been confirmed to the United States Supreme Court.
“And now you are going to monthly cafeteria committee meetings where literally the agenda is what happened to the good recipe for the chocolate chip cookies.”
The justices eat lunch together on the days when they hear oral arguments, Kagan explained.
“Somebody will say, ‘Who’s our representative to the cafeteria committee again?’ Like they don’t know, right? And then they’ll say, ‘This soup is very salty.’ And I’m like supposed to go fix it myself?”
You might guess it was not the first time Kagan has told the story. But, as she says, she’s worried about the cookies and the soup since 2010--her biggest contribution has been to install a frozen yogurt machine--so who would begrudge her?
Monday, March 20, 2017
An Apercu
David Rockefeller has died at 101
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An Apercu*
Mr Rockefeller had 3 billions more than I,
at least
and still he went on to die
like any other mortal beast.
Reaching past one hundred once sounded very old to me
but that's no longer the case,
since it is only eleven and one half years from now you see--
and as you probably can even tell from my face,
so if they are going to produce immortality
they'd better get on the stick---
for though so far I've escaped serious illness or beheading--
I can almost feel my telomeres** shredding--
so please Science do something---quick, quick, quick.
HzL
3/20/17
* apercu:
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noun
a comment or brief reference that makes an illuminating or entertaining point.
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In French, aperçu is the past participle of the verb apercevoir ("to perceive" or "to comprehend"), which in turn comes from Latin percipere ("to perceive").
**tel·o·mere
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plural noun: telomeres
a compound structure at the end of a chromosome.
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Sunday, February 12, 2017
This is your Pilot
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4 hours ago - Topic from New York Post: A hysterical pilot dressed in civilian clothing ... starting ranting about politics and her divorce, according to a report.
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"Attention All Women and Men:
This is your Pilot, and not CNN"
Thus, with tears and talk
began a scary rant--
making passengers want to walk
but then finding that they can't
they let her rave on to find some surcease
hoping she'd go leaving them still in one piece
which happened and so they avoided anything gory.
And that's more or less the end of this story,
except it seems that turbulence reports this year
may not merely be confined to the atmosphere.
HzL
2/12/17
Thursday, February 9, 2017
Good MEDICINE may be bad ECONOMICS
Good MEDICINE may be bad ECONOMICS
(From today's Wall Street Journal and MARKETWATCH in the articles cited below)
"Hepatitis C drugs usually cure patients in a single course of treatment. That is great news for the patients; but is a different business proposition than for drugs for chronic diseases."
Gilead has accumulated more than $45 billion in cumulative revenue since 2013 but patients are becoming fewer.
ADVICE TO DOCTORS AND DRUG COMPANIES
When you have expenses, I say discreetly,
as well as too many bills to pay
beware of curing your patients completely--
it's better if they'll return another day.
So give lots of encouraging advice
as well as comfy messages and perks
but you'd better think at least twice
before doing something that REALLY works.
Of course, psychiatrists have known this for years,
so they'll alleviate --but rarely dispel -- fears.
However,
if you can't avoid using a "breakthrough" drug that works too well,
you should at least be quite sure to make it expensive as Hell.
HzL
2/9/17
Gilead's Boom Fades and Bust Will Linger - WSJ
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1 day ago - Gilead Sciences' great success with hepatitis drug says a lot about drug pricing and risk for the future.
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Gilead’s 2017 sales guidance was far below even reduced Wall Street expectations.
Gilead Sciences Inc. achieved a scientific breakthrough when it developed a cure for hepatitis C, the viral infection that can have severe and deadly complications.
The company’s biggest problem these days appears to be that it works.
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Wednesday, February 1, 2017
23 and Thee
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23 and Thee
Expectorate, expectorate
and then perhaps you'll find a mate
or far more likely, ancestral genes
from long past scenes
when people cohabitated
more or less as rabbits did--
whether with friend or foe--
leaving behind a faulty esophagus or Morton's toe,
as well as many other defects that may be there--
Including whether or not you'll keep your hair?
But though Science has learned much about DNA
all of that is what happened yesterday
and since then the world has changed,
becoming so much more deranged.
Who 's now to say what and who's genes will last
after a future deadly radioactive blast?
HzL
2/1/17
AncestryDNA vs. 23andMe best DNA test - Business Insider
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Nov 23, 2016 - I've taken AncestryDNA and 23andMe genetics tests — here's what I tell people when they ask me which one is best. Lydia Ramsey. Nov. 23 ...
Left-Handedness, Baldness, Morton's Toe, Neanderthal DNA, and ...
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Left-Handedness, Baldness, Morton's Toe, Neanderthal DNA, and Human ... receptor gene that causes male pattern baldness comes from Neanderthals. It looks ...
Researchers identify four genetic variants that are linked to ...
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Oct 13, 2013 - SEATTLE – Oct. 13, 2013 – An international consortium co-led by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Australia has identified four genetic variants associated with an increased risk of esophageal cancer and its precursor, a condition called Barrett's ...
Left-Handedness, Baldness, Morton's Toe, Neanderthal DNA, and ...
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Left-Handedness, Baldness, Morton's Toe, Neanderthal DNA, and Human ... receptor gene that causes male pattern baldness comes from Neanderthals. It looks ...
Monday, January 2, 2017
If Every Day Were New Year's
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If every Day were New Year's
Since this year both Yesterday and Today
are New Year's Days,
I thought:
If every day were New Year's
we might dine on steak and champagne
and. forgetting life's tears
send troubles down the drain.
But it might be better to do more cerebration
before making such a calendar alteration:
That prospect could seem much colder
when you're twelve months
-and 365 years- older.
HzL,
Monday,
1/2/17
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