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Showing posts with label Economics. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Thursday, April 1, 2021
"Real Capitalism Has Never Been Tried"
White House moves to reshape role of US capitalism
The White House is pushing an infrastructure bill that could reshape the discussion around capitalism as it seems to reestablish the federal government as a primary driver of how the economy should grow and function.
In addition to traditional infrastructure projects, Biden’s $2.25 trillion American Jobs Plan would make government investments in broadband, electric vehicles, climate change, elderly care, child benefits, housing and developing future technologies.
It would redefine classic infrastructure projects to include investments in workers and families paid for by tax hikes on corporations.
This would not be "capitalism."
An economic system in which the means of production are privately owned, but actual production is controlled or dictated by the government is called... fascism.
You commie fucks.
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
This is getting old...
1/2 I can't wait for this to be over:— Drang (@DWDrang) March 31, 2020
*We need to get people back to work. The longer the economy is on hold, the longer it will take to fix.
*I despise politicians that tell l Americans what they can and can't do.
It's doesn't help that my job is a critical one, and I still have to go to work. I can telework, but that means that means I simply do my regular duties with different furniture, including cats. Not a lot of sitting back and watching movies, reading, social media, binge-watching trashy shows on Netflix, day drinking...2/2 I can't wait for this to be over:— Drang (@DWDrang) March 31, 2020
*I despise Americans that dime out their neighbors for "unauthorized assembly's" and "conducting non-critical business."
*I need a haircut. I am not a hippie! Open the barber shops already!
Sunday, January 6, 2019
A Review Which Should Not Be Necessary
I hear Ted Cruz has introduced a bill to impose term limits on congresscritters.
Must be the beard.
Meanwhile, the ignorance on display daily among voters (or non-voters, if they make that choice) is bad enough, but the media should know better, and anyone in government, whether hired, appointed, or elected...!
Anyway.
So Nancy Pelosi claims that according to the Constitution, she is the equal of the President.
Meanwhile, I keep being told it's the President's fault that a Democratic senator filibustered the budget bill the House sent there, or that the house has since failed to send a clean bill to the Senate, so that body can send it to the President...
While we're at it...
Must be the beard.
Meanwhile, the ignorance on display daily among voters (or non-voters, if they make that choice) is bad enough, but the media should know better, and anyone in government, whether hired, appointed, or elected...!
Anyway.
So Nancy Pelosi claims that according to the Constitution, she is the equal of the President.
Meanwhile, I keep being told it's the President's fault that a Democratic senator filibustered the budget bill the House sent there, or that the house has since failed to send a clean bill to the Senate, so that body can send it to the President...
While we're at it...
Saturday, September 8, 2018
Readers Notes -- Geography is Destiny
In comments to my previous notes I mentioned that reader Arthur's comments provided me with a segue to my next post. Which this is.
I believe I saw Tim Marshall's book Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World (Amazon link) linked in an Instapundit post.
It should come as no surprise to anyone that has studied military tactics that geography has a controlling factor on what you do, and how you do it. It therefore follows that geography has an impact on your application of Operational Art, and of your strategy, not to mention of what used to be referred to a your "Grand Strategy", but in this less-poetically inclined age we simply refer to as "Foreign Policy"; in other words, "geo-politics" is more than just a word.
British journalist Tim Marshall attempts in this book to lay out the geographic causes behind how nations have developed, and fallen. As the sub-title says, he lays out 10 maps of significant nations or regions to be studied, one chapter each. This analysis addresses current issues in international geopolitics as well as "how we got here."
He starts with China, then moves on to Russia and the USA; he then looks at regions: Europe, the Middle East, Africa, South America, the Indian sub-continent, northeast Asia, and finally, the Arctic.
He describes, for example, how geography (including climate, topography and hydrology) impacted the development of Mexico as contrasted to the United States.
There are few earth-shattering (heh) revelations here for the student of history, especially of military history, at least, not when examining well-studied eras and campaigns. But few westerners have an appreciation of how, for example, African geography constrained the development of civilizations and societies beyond the tribal/village level, and even now prevents most nations there from taking full advantage of the potential available to them.
So I believe that this book will have some useful information to anyone, and might serve as a primer for students with an interest in why nations make the decisions they do, but it is far from an in-depth study.
I will note, on the other hand, that at a certain level it is typical of books that address current events in that in only 3 years, some (much?) of the commentary is already obsolete. For example, he mentions that Obama's Iran deal has dissolved fears of an Iranian nuclear attack.
On the gripping hand, I did see some examples where the author's reasoning was a bit, well, facile. As an American, I am used to the subtle sneers and jibes of Europeans who shrug off anything we do in a sort of "Well, you know, Americans. AmIright?" way. But Marshal spends a lot of time explaining why Mexico did not grow into the socio-economic powerhouse that the USA did, implying that the United States sort of fell into the jackpot, easily and undeservedly, while poor Mexico got stuck with the North American booby prize.
But the only reason Mexico did not inherit an empire that covered all of North America is that the Spanish Empire's interest in the New World was primarily as a source for the gold that would allow Spain to conquer and maintain a European empire: All that gold was pissed away in the Netherlands, the English Channel, and Italy.
Consider an alternate universe, where Spain saw the Great Plains as an opportunity for colonization for more than just extractive reasons. Where Spanish trappers paid Native Americans for furs, instead of complaining impotently while gringos took them directly, trapping the mountains almost bare of beaver in the process. Where instead of inviting American settlement in Texas as a buffer between Mexico and Comancheria, Spain found loyal subjects who would take on that challenge. But Spain didn't find any subjects who were interested in settling on the frontier, they were interested either in milking the New World for all they could get, or in converting the natives -- and it is questionable just how serious they were about saving native souls.
Whereas Americans were not just interested in settling on the frontier, they were downright insistent that they had a right to and would do so even when their own government said they didn't and couldn't. And, oh by the way, it wasn't all that easy. Europeans, amiright?
In other words, while geography shapes strategy and policy, so does culture. Geography also has an impact on culture, but culture has an impact beyond just "a people who arise in such-and-such terrain will be characterized thus-and-so."
Having spotted these issues in the chapter on the United States, I couldn't help wonder if I was missing similar issues in the other chapters.
Mind you, I'm not saying it ruined the book for me; far from it. The analyses of how geography has and will continue to impact national-level policy and strategy were, IMHO, spot on.
So this book is recommended, just be prepared for an occasional jolt as you think "Did he really write that?" or "THAT statement didn't age well!"
Here is the Amazon blurb:
I believe I saw Tim Marshall's book Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World (Amazon link) linked in an Instapundit post.
It should come as no surprise to anyone that has studied military tactics that geography has a controlling factor on what you do, and how you do it. It therefore follows that geography has an impact on your application of Operational Art, and of your strategy, not to mention of what used to be referred to a your "Grand Strategy", but in this less-poetically inclined age we simply refer to as "Foreign Policy"; in other words, "geo-politics" is more than just a word.
British journalist Tim Marshall attempts in this book to lay out the geographic causes behind how nations have developed, and fallen. As the sub-title says, he lays out 10 maps of significant nations or regions to be studied, one chapter each. This analysis addresses current issues in international geopolitics as well as "how we got here."
He starts with China, then moves on to Russia and the USA; he then looks at regions: Europe, the Middle East, Africa, South America, the Indian sub-continent, northeast Asia, and finally, the Arctic.
He describes, for example, how geography (including climate, topography and hydrology) impacted the development of Mexico as contrasted to the United States.
There are few earth-shattering (heh) revelations here for the student of history, especially of military history, at least, not when examining well-studied eras and campaigns. But few westerners have an appreciation of how, for example, African geography constrained the development of civilizations and societies beyond the tribal/village level, and even now prevents most nations there from taking full advantage of the potential available to them.
So I believe that this book will have some useful information to anyone, and might serve as a primer for students with an interest in why nations make the decisions they do, but it is far from an in-depth study.
I will note, on the other hand, that at a certain level it is typical of books that address current events in that in only 3 years, some (much?) of the commentary is already obsolete. For example, he mentions that Obama's Iran deal has dissolved fears of an Iranian nuclear attack.
On the gripping hand, I did see some examples where the author's reasoning was a bit, well, facile. As an American, I am used to the subtle sneers and jibes of Europeans who shrug off anything we do in a sort of "Well, you know, Americans. AmIright?" way. But Marshal spends a lot of time explaining why Mexico did not grow into the socio-economic powerhouse that the USA did, implying that the United States sort of fell into the jackpot, easily and undeservedly, while poor Mexico got stuck with the North American booby prize.
But the only reason Mexico did not inherit an empire that covered all of North America is that the Spanish Empire's interest in the New World was primarily as a source for the gold that would allow Spain to conquer and maintain a European empire: All that gold was pissed away in the Netherlands, the English Channel, and Italy.
Consider an alternate universe, where Spain saw the Great Plains as an opportunity for colonization for more than just extractive reasons. Where Spanish trappers paid Native Americans for furs, instead of complaining impotently while gringos took them directly, trapping the mountains almost bare of beaver in the process. Where instead of inviting American settlement in Texas as a buffer between Mexico and Comancheria, Spain found loyal subjects who would take on that challenge. But Spain didn't find any subjects who were interested in settling on the frontier, they were interested either in milking the New World for all they could get, or in converting the natives -- and it is questionable just how serious they were about saving native souls.
Whereas Americans were not just interested in settling on the frontier, they were downright insistent that they had a right to and would do so even when their own government said they didn't and couldn't. And, oh by the way, it wasn't all that easy. Europeans, amiright?
In other words, while geography shapes strategy and policy, so does culture. Geography also has an impact on culture, but culture has an impact beyond just "a people who arise in such-and-such terrain will be characterized thus-and-so."
Having spotted these issues in the chapter on the United States, I couldn't help wonder if I was missing similar issues in the other chapters.
Mind you, I'm not saying it ruined the book for me; far from it. The analyses of how geography has and will continue to impact national-level policy and strategy were, IMHO, spot on.
So this book is recommended, just be prepared for an occasional jolt as you think "Did he really write that?" or "THAT statement didn't age well!"
Here is the Amazon blurb:
Maps have a mysterious hold over us. Whether ancient, crumbling parchments or generated by Google, maps tell us things we want to know, not only about our current location or where we are going but about the world in general. And yet, when it comes to geo-politics, much of what we are told is generated by analysts and other experts who have neglected to refer to a map of the place in question.
All leaders of nations are constrained by geography. In “one of the best books about geopolitics” (The Evening Standard), now updated to include 2016 geopolitical developments, journalist Tim Marshall examines Russia, China, the US, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Japan, Korea, and Greenland and the Arctic—their weather, seas, mountains, rivers, deserts, and borders—to provide a context often missing from our political reportage: how the physical characteristics of these countries affect their strengths and vulnerabilities and the decisions made by their leaders.
Offering “a fresh way of looking at maps” (The New York Times Book Review), Marshall explains the complex geo-political strategies that shape the globe. Why is Putin so obsessed with Crimea? Why was the US destined to become a global superpower? Why does China’s power base continue to expand? Why is Tibet destined to lose its autonomy? Why will Europe never be united? The answers are geographical. “In an ever more complex, chaotic, and interlinked world, Prisoners of Geography is a concise and useful primer on geopolitics” (Newsweek) and a critical guide to one of the major determining factors in world affairs.
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
WA: Court Rules For NRA in Legal Challenge to Ballot Title
As seen in The Clue Meter: WA: NRA Files Legal Challenge Against Misleading Ballot Title for Gun Control Initiative, a legal challenge was filed against a gun-grabbing ballot initiative here in Washington on the grounds that the title was illegally misleading.
This just in:
From NRA-ILA:
This just in:
From NRA-ILA:
Also, a couple more releases, after the jump... |
Thursday, May 17, 2018
WA: NRA Files Legal Challenge Against Misleading Ballot Title for Gun Control Initiative
This just in:
NRA-ILA | Washington: NRA Files Legal Challenge Against Misleading Ballot Title for Gun Control Initiative
Eternal vigilance, etc.
NRA-ILA | Washington: NRA Files Legal Challenge Against Misleading Ballot Title for Gun Control Initiative
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Yesterday, NRA filed a legal challenge in the Thurston County Superior Court objecting to the misleading and inadequate ballot title for Initiative 1639, which seeks to further restrict the Second Amendment rights of Washington's law-abiding citizens. The Thurston County Superior Court will review all legal challenges before the ballot title and summary can be finalized for the initiative.
Initiative 1639, filed by Michael Bloomberg’s front group, the Alliance for Gun Responsibility, is an egregious attack on Second Amendment freedoms and comes just months after failing to enact their gun ban agenda in Olympia. Proponents of this 22-page initiative will have until July 6th to get 259,622 valid signatures to place the initiative on the November ballot.
Please spread the word to your family, friends, and fellow gun owners about this latest attack on self-defense rights in the Evergreen State! Help protect Second Amendment rights in Washington and decline to sign this initiative petition.
The proposed initiative, if passed, would do the following:
- Require a 10 Day Waiting Period for Commonly Owned Rifles. All semi-automatic rifle purchases and transfers would be subjected to a waiting period of 10 business days.
- Establish a Government Registry of Firearms. Current law states the Washington Department of Licensing (DOL) “may” keep copies of pistol purchase applications. The proposed initiative would instead require the DOL to keep copies of these purchase applications, and would expand this government registry to include semi-automatic rifle purchases.
- Require Completion of a Training Course to Purchase Rifles. This initiative would also require all purchasers of semi-automatic rifles to show they have completed a firearm safety training course within the last five years in order to proceed with the sale.
- Impose up to a $25 Purchase Fee (GUN TAX) for Semi-Automatic Rifles. The Washington Department of Licensing would be allowed to charge up to a $25 fee for each semi-automatic rifle purchase.
- Require Gun Owners to Lock Up their Firearms or Face Criminal Charges. Individuals would be required to lock up their firearms or potentially face a criminal charge of “Community Endangerment Due to Unsafe Storage of a Firearm” if the firearm is accessed by a prohibited person or minor. This intrusive proposal invades people’s homes and forces them to render their firearms useless in a self-defense situation by locking them up.
- Restricts Adults Aged 18-20 from Acquiring Modern Rifles. Adults aged 18-20 would be prohibited from purchasing semi-automatic rifles and would not be allowed to receive them through a transfer or loan. The proposed initiative would deny a segment of law-abiding adults from access to the most modern and effective firearms for self-defense, thus depriving them of their constitutional rights.
Again, please spread the word for your family, friends and fellow gun owners about the latest attack on Second Amendment rights in Washington. Your NRA-ILA will continue to keep you updated on the status of the initiative, so please stay tuned to your email inbox and www.nraila.org.
- Require “Warnings” for Firearm Purchases. All firearm purchases would come with a notification about the “inherent risks” of firearm ownership as an attempt to further stigmatize firearms.
Friday, January 26, 2018
Saturday, July 8, 2017
"Down mit Kapitalism!"
Ooh, great selfie, bro...
And here we thought the Occupy Wall Street cry bullies were pathetic...
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| Self-absorbed fascists in Hamburg |
Friday, July 7, 2017
Challenge Accepted!
Seattle: Boy, the WTO Riots were the worst, weren't they?— Drang (@DWDrang) July 7, 2017
Hamburg: Hold mein bier and watch this...
Saturday, June 10, 2017
Clearly...
"Socialist Worker Peasant's Paradise" ≠ "Paradise".
This is why American tourists don’t want to travel to Cuba - MarketWatch
So, let me get this straight, you want my money, in exchange for not letting me do what I like to do on vacation? And you can't (or won't) let me stay in touch with the folks back home?
I talked the other day with a co-worker about a recent (Trans-Panama Canal) cruise she went on, and she's already excited about the Cuba cruise she is planning to sign on for: "Just waiting for a bargain rate." A cruise may be the way to do that, since you are not reliant on the "tourism infrastructure", although it sounds like the Cubans are very insistent about the excursions allowed. (I.e., you have to go on their excursions. But then, it's a Socialist Worker Peasant's paradise, what other excursions are there...?)
I had heard that Cuba was a popular destination for Canadians and Europeans who wanted fun in the sun sans Yankees. Now I'm wondering if that was exaggerated.
This is why American tourists don’t want to travel to Cuba - MarketWatch
Indeed, the initial excitement about the formerly closed off country gave way to moral dilemmas over food shortages and other problems caused by tourism, as well as disappointment over limited working internet, lower hotel standards, and lack of running water there. The Allianz study found lack of travel infrastructure was a major cause of anxiety about traveling to Cuba for 13% of Americans.(Emphasis added.)
The slide in demand has led a number of airlines to reduce or completely eliminate flights to the country...
Sumers suggested confusion over the approved reasons to go to Cuba is keeping the average American visitor away still. As of May 2017, visitors to the country have to select one of 12 categories for their visit, which include religious activities, humanitarian projects, “support for the Cuban people,” and journalistic activities. “You can’t go to Cuba to sit on the beach and have fun and that’s what Americans like to do on vacation,” he said. “Cuba is a bit of an outlier still — it is not easy to visit and for a lot of people it’s still a pain. You have to really want to go there.”
...
Cuba has a long way to go before it’s suitable for many high-maintenance American tourists. “This will come with certain expectations: Americans expect that cell phones will work, credit cards will work, and that access to internet won’t be limited,” ...
So, let me get this straight, you want my money, in exchange for not letting me do what I like to do on vacation? And you can't (or won't) let me stay in touch with the folks back home?
I talked the other day with a co-worker about a recent (Trans-Panama Canal) cruise she went on, and she's already excited about the Cuba cruise she is planning to sign on for: "Just waiting for a bargain rate." A cruise may be the way to do that, since you are not reliant on the "tourism infrastructure", although it sounds like the Cubans are very insistent about the excursions allowed. (I.e., you have to go on their excursions. But then, it's a Socialist Worker Peasant's paradise, what other excursions are there...?)
I had heard that Cuba was a popular destination for Canadians and Europeans who wanted fun in the sun sans Yankees. Now I'm wondering if that was exaggerated.
Thursday, March 2, 2017
$igh
Got the renewal notice for the Drangmobile's tabs.
- $30.00 License fee funds road construction and maintenance projects
- $25.00 Vehicle weight fee funds highway improvements, transit, and other transportation needs
- $3.00 Filing fee funds go to the county in which the fee is paid
- $5.00 Service fee retained by subagent, or funds ferry replacement if renewed at County Auditor/DOL
- $0.25 License service fee supports the computer system used to provide licensing services
- $0.50 The DOL service fee supports the computer system and reimbursement of county licensing activities
- $143.00 Regional Transit Authority tax.
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
WA Governor proves he learned nothing
One might think that one of the few democratic governors left these days might have learned from the 2016 election that now is not the time to double down on Democratic party big-money causes.
Nope.
Courtesy of Shift WA we learn that Governor Inslee has decided that Olympia is coming up a little short. $8.7 Billion short.
But that's OK, he has a plan...
That graphic neatly summarizes what Shift WA calls Governor Inlee's Lumps of Coal for WA:
(edited to add) RELATED: Washington has what’s the nation’s most regressive state and local tax structure.
Nope.
Courtesy of Shift WA we learn that Governor Inslee has decided that Olympia is coming up a little short. $8.7 Billion short.
But that's OK, he has a plan...
That graphic neatly summarizes what Shift WA calls Governor Inlee's Lumps of Coal for WA:
- A lump of Inslee coal in your stocking: A “bold” budget to fund bigger gov’t. A 21% increase...
- Lump #2 of Inslee coal in your stocking: A new state income tax Proposals for an income tax always play so well here...
- Lump #3 of Inslee coal in your stocking: A BIG gas/carbon tax We voted down a carbon tax last November. This one was even designed to partially offset our high sales tax. So what does Jay want to do? Of course!
- Inslee’s Lump of Coal #4: Let’s sock it to small businesses This one is a "Gross Receipts tax", not a tax on profit, so it will literally tax some businesses out of business...
- Jay’s lump of coal #5: Tax the foreigners (from Canada)! People from out of state are exempt from the state's high sales tax. He wants to end that.which costs businesses business.
(edited to add) RELATED: Washington has what’s the nation’s most regressive state and local tax structure.
Sunday, November 27, 2016
Well... darn!
I have mentioned the local beer store, 99 Bottles, a couple of times.
The Clue Meter: Breakfast of Champs
The Clue Meter: Kudos!
Plus, a lot of the beer I've mentioned was purchased there. They introduced me to the concept of buying a growler and taking it home.
I started wondering if they could last when you started being able to buy craft and micro brews at the local Safeway.
Then we voted to get the state out of the booze business (sort of: that thumb is still on the scale, covertly), and booze super store opened on town, and the writing was on the wall.
So the latest "Weekly Brews" email newsletter announced that they are closing the doors forever on December 10th, and they are selling everything.
Damn it.
The Clue Meter: Breakfast of Champs
The Clue Meter: Kudos!
Plus, a lot of the beer I've mentioned was purchased there. They introduced me to the concept of buying a growler and taking it home.
I started wondering if they could last when you started being able to buy craft and micro brews at the local Safeway.
Then we voted to get the state out of the booze business (sort of: that thumb is still on the scale, covertly), and booze super store opened on town, and the writing was on the wall.
So the latest "Weekly Brews" email newsletter announced that they are closing the doors forever on December 10th, and they are selling everything.
Damn it.
Monday, April 4, 2016
Monday, March 14, 2016
Good news from home!
Lake Huron's Chinook salmon fishery unlikely to recover due to ongoing food shortage
So the collapse of an invasive species leading to the decline of a transplanted non-native sports fish isn't exactly a lose-lose.
Lake Huron's Chinook
salmon fishery will likely never return to its glory days because the
lake can no longer support the predatory fish's main food source, the
herring-like alewife, according to a new University of Michigan-led
computer-modeling study.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Lake Huron's Chinook
salmon fishery will likely never return to its glory days because the
lake can no longer support the predatory fish's main food source, the
herring-like alewife, according to a new University of Michigan-led
computer-modeling study.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Lake Huron's Chinook
salmon fishery will likely never return to its glory days because the
lake can no longer support the predatory fish's main food source, the
herring-like alewife, according to a new University of Michigan-led
computer-modeling study.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Lake Huron's Chinook
salmon fishery will likely never return to its glory days because the
lake can no longer support the predatory fish's main food source, the
herring-like alewife, according to a new University of Michigan-led
computer-modeling study.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Lake Huron's Chinook
salmon fishery will likely never return to its glory days because the
lake can no longer support the predatory fish's main food source, the
herring-like alewife, according to a new University of Michigan-led
computer-modeling study.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Lake Huron's Chinook
salmon fishery will likely never return to its glory days because the
lake can no longer support the predatory fish's main food source, the
herring-like alewife, according to a new University of Michigan-led
computer-modeling study.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Lake Huron's Chinook
salmon fishery will likely never return to its glory days because the
lake can no longer support the predatory fish's main food source, the
herring-like alewife, according to a new University of Michigan-led
computer-modeling study.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Lake Huron's Chinook
salmon fishery will likely never return to its glory days because the
lake can no longer support the predatory fish's main food source, the
herring-like alewife, according to a new University of Michigan-led
computer-modeling study.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Lake Huron's Chinook
salmon fishery will likely never return to its glory days because the
lake can no longer support the predatory fish's main food source, the
herring-like alewife, according to a new University of Michigan-led
computer-modeling study.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Lake Huron's Chinook salmon fishery will likely never return to its glory days because the lake can no longer support the predatory fish's main food source, the herring-like alewife, according to a new University of Michigan-led computer-modeling study.
Lake Huron's Chinook
salmon fishery will likely never return to its glory days because the
lake can no longer support the predatory fish's main food source, the
herring-like alewife, according to a new University of Michigan-led
computer-modeling study.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Lake Huron's Chinook
salmon fishery will likely never return to its glory days because the
lake can no longer support the predatory fish's main food source, the
herring-like alewife, according to a new University of Michigan-led
computer-modeling study.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Lake Huron's Chinook
salmon fishery will likely never return to its glory days because the
lake can no longer support the predatory fish's main food source, the
herring-like alewife, according to a new University of Michigan-led
computer-modeling study.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Lake Huron's Chinook
salmon fishery will likely never return to its glory days because the
lake can no longer support the predatory fish's main food source, the
herring-like alewife, according to a new University of Michigan-led
computer-modeling study.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Lake Huron's Chinook
salmon fishery will likely never return to its glory days because the
lake can no longer support the predatory fish's main food source, the
herring-like alewife, according to a new University of Michigan-led
computer-modeling study.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Lake Huron's Chinook
salmon fishery will likely never return to its glory days because the
lake can no longer support the predatory fish's main food source, the
herring-like alewife, according to a new University of Michigan-led
computer-modeling study.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
See, you'd have to have been there back in the '60s and '70s when alewives were a plague, and you couldn't walk on a Lake Huron beach and actually be walking on sand (or rocks) for all the dead fish. Acres and acres of dead, stinky, invasive, non-native species garbage fish. Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Lake Huron's Chinook
salmon fishery will likely never return to its glory days because the
lake can no longer support the predatory fish's main food source, the
herring-like alewife, according to a new University of Michigan-led
computer-modeling study.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Lake Huron's Chinook
salmon fishery will likely never return to its glory days because the
lake can no longer support the predatory fish's main food source, the
herring-like alewife, according to a new University of Michigan-led
computer-modeling study.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Lake Huron's Chinook
salmon fishery will likely never return to its glory days because the
lake can no longer support the predatory fish's main food source, the
herring-like alewife, according to a new University of Michigan-led
computer-modeling study.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Lake Huron's Chinook
salmon fishery will likely never return to its glory days because the
lake can no longer support the predatory fish's main food source, the
herring-like alewife, according to a new University of Michigan-led
computer-modeling study.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCp
Lake Huron's Chinook
salmon fishery will likely never return to its glory days because the
lake can no longer support the predatory fish's main food source, the
herring-like alewife, according to a new University of Michigan-led
computer-modeling study.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCpv
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-lake-huron-chinook-salmon-fishery.html#jCpv
So the collapse of an invasive species leading to the decline of a transplanted non-native sports fish isn't exactly a lose-lose.
Friday, January 15, 2016
I am shocked, SHOCKED!!!
Gov. Inslee halts Bertha work after sinkhole forms near project - Puget Sound Business Journal
Looks like I underestimated Seattle's ability to add an element of low farce to municipal incompetence.
UPDATE: Wikipedia is several months behind the news: Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement tunnel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After moving less than 200 feet in the past 10 months, the Bertha tunnel boring machine will stop drilling again.I predicted at the time this was going to make Boston's Big Dig look like a marvel of efficiency. (a co-worker from Bahston shrugs and says "Hey, it was only 8 times over budget.")
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Thursday ordered tunneling work to halt temporarily after a sinkhole formed near the waterfront earlier in the week – the same day digging stopped after a barge carrying dirt tipped over and spilled into Elliott Bay.
Seattle Tunnel Partners will have to find the cause of the sinkhole and prove the contractor can prevent similar incidents in the future before resuming work, Inslee said. Bertha is scheduled to start drilling under the viaduct in March.
“STP will not be allowed to resume tunneling until their analysis and work plans meet the satisfaction of our experts,” Secretary of Transportation Lynn Peterson said in a statement. “I want to remind everyone that replacing the viaduct is critical to public safety.”
Looks like I underestimated Seattle's ability to add an element of low farce to municipal incompetence.
UPDATE: Wikipedia is several months behind the news: Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement tunnel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thursday, January 14, 2016
QOTD, 01/13/16
Via Instapundit.It’s nice to elect the right people, but that’s not the way you solve things. The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right things.Milton Friedman
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
QOTD, 11/10/15
If the federal government guaranteed auto loans and made them non-dischargeable via bankruptcy, Hyundai Accents would cost a hundred long.The context of the conversation was the cost of higher education, and, specifically, the financial burden of college loans.
Tamara K. Here
Saturday, November 7, 2015
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