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Nobel Laureate on the Morality of Markets

The V.P. Debate -- NY Times

Three of the images in the second row at the URL I linked show a 'Pennsylvania Application for Mail-in-Ballot'. It appears to be a 3-page form with the 3rd page showing addresses where to send the application.  

One image in the 5th row and one image in the 6th row show 3 pages of an 'Official Republican Party Mail-in Ballot Application.' The first two pages look identical and like the 1st page of the above 3-pager. Clicking on either, I see the back of the form. Clicking on the one in the 6th row, I see another, different form along with a picture of Trump. It is a 2020 State Absentee Ballot Request Form with "North Carolina" near Trump's picture.  (It's not the same picture shown by LeftyCrypto.)

What is a "Trump mail-in ballot application"? The first several images here show no party affiliation on the application and include no picture of Trump. Apparently the Republican National Committee has engaged in some trickery -- see the ones with pghcitypaper.com -- like the makers of the videos MSK posted.

13 minutes ago, Ellen Stuttle said:

I'm not liking the number of drugs Trump is reportedly being given.

Have his doctors heard of conflicting effects?

Ellen

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-04/trump-doctors-add-steroid-that-s-used-in-more-severe-patients

Dependent Rational Animals #3

7 hours ago, Mark said:

It’s worrying that Trump is in hospital – too easy to be a victim of the Deep State in a hospital.  There’s no question James Forrestal was assassinated at Bethesda Naval Hospital and it’s likely Joe McCarthy was as well.

I don’t trust this “cocktail” of new drugs Trump was given.  I’m not reading Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc, Azithromycin.   He needs to bring in Dr. Meryl Nass or other doctor who has had great success with this combination.

This CNN article quotes a White House physician saying that President Trump will take the drug remdesivir. It follows with a large section saying that President Trump will take a "Regeneron antibody cocktail." This Bloomberg article is about the Regeneron antibody cocktail. 

Reporting by CNN and lack of detail about what all is in the cocktail makes plenty of uncertainty.

Update 1: I just saw on the tv, ABC news, he is taking remdesivir.  Gilead Sciences, Inc. developed remdesivir.

Update 2: I just saw on the tv, ABC news again, he is taking both remdesivir and the Regeneron antibody cocktail.

Dependent Rational Animals #2
 

I watched the debate last night. What a raucous. The local suburban paper’s headline was Wildfire in Cleveland!

In the debate President Trump said Biden called some criminal drug dealers “Superpredators.” I read somewhere that was mistaken because it was Hillary Clinton. Trump did say Biden’s treatment of black people was awful, but he could have hit Biden even harder for Biden’s role in making drug laws.

Reason Magazine’s November 2020 issue has two articles ‘The Case Against Trump’ and ‘The Case Against Biden.’ https://reason.com/magazine/

Digital subscribers can read them online. I get the print edition. The Case Against Biden has a lot about Biden and his role in legislation, especially crime legislation, and especially about drugs.

According to the article: Biden wrote the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, which prescribed new mandatory minimums and created the notorious weight-based sentencing distinction that treated crack cocaine as it were 100 times worse than cocaine powder. Two years later, Biden co-sponsored another bill for harsher minimum sentences. Because crack offenders were overwhelmingly black and powder offenders were more likely white or Hispanic, the result was much harsher penalties for black offenders. By the early 1990’s, pressure was building for reform of crack penalties. In 2002 Biden conceded: “We may not have gotten that right.” During Biden’s run for the 2020 Democratic nomination Cory Booker harshly criticized Biden’s role in making the drug laws that destroyed black communities like Booker’s.

The article says Trump did some tweets last year about Biden’s part in the bad treatment of African Americans. A Trump campaign video released in May, 2020 and a June blogpost slammed Biden as the chief architect of mass incarceration and the War on Drugs which targeted black Americans.

Dependent Rational Animals #1
 

2 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

Anticapitalist Sponsored By Twitter CEO Accuses Amy Coney Barrett Of ‘Colonialism’ For Adopting From Haiti

That link is blocked. Here is a different one:

https://meaww.com/ibram-x-kendi-amy-barrett-white-colonizers-adopted-haiti-children-blacks-civilized-use-as-props

The Ayn Rand Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit think tank. As such, it is prohibited from conducting political campaign activities to intervene in elections to public office. A 501(c)(3) organization conducting voter education that (a) favor one candidate over another, (b) oppose a candidate in some manner, or (c) favor a candidate or group of candidates, constitute prohibited participation or intervention. Link.

Does Mark ever consider this when he writes his articles?

So how can ARI people bash Trump? Do you really believe ARI's tax status would be threatened in today's political environment by bashing Trump? On the other hand, do you really believe ARI's tax status would not be threatened if it bashed Biden in today's political environment? ARI's tax status also bears upon the tax-deductibility of donations made by contributors to ARI.

When Ayn Rand supported Nixon at Ford Hall Forum, she was not doing so as a principal of a 501(c)(3) organization. 

People who work for ARI -- but when not acting in that capacity -- are not so limited by 501(c)(3) rules. That is a gray area and I have no expertise about it.

A penny for your thoughts.

A socialist’s view of the self-employed

1 hour ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

Kat and I are making plans on moving within a year or so, maybe next spring

I have not lived there, but if we were looking non-locally, Bloomington, IN would rank very high. 

3 hours ago, Jules Troy said:

I’d love a Renta cop to try that on me.  It would be worth the jail time..

Hi Jules,

There is more to the story than the video and MSK’s rendering of it.

Governor urges against rush to judgment over woman’s arrest

1. The woman was arrested on a criminal trespassing charge and not for refusing to wear a mask, per the Logan Police Dept. Rent-a-cop?

2. The rules for attending the football practice were well-publicized. Was she a parent or other close relative?

3. She said she had asthma. How do we know that is true? How do we know she didn’t have the mindset ‘Rules are for other people to obey, not me’?

4. Would you judge differently if she were wearing a BLM, Che Guevara, or Karl Marx shirt?

5. The setting, a public school, is problematic. However, what if the event were a music concert on private property and the organizers made the rule that attendees must wear a mask?

6. “This is about compliance and submission.” To whom? Big Brother and the Police State? Somebody else?

Considering the source, I cautiously read this. Why Ruth Bader Ginsburg Refused to Step Down

The gist is that RBG's daughter Jane Ginsburg said: “I think that Mother, like many others, expected that Hillary Clinton would win the nomination and the presidency, and she wanted the first female president to name her successor.”

3 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

be glad you don't live in Ohio.

I'm glad to be in Ohio.

2018 homicide rates per 100,000:  IL 6.8; OH 4.9

2020 Covid cases per million: IL 22,378; OH 12,651

2020 Covid deaths per million: IL 692; OH 405

2016 election: IL Clinton; OH Trump

Teen: "Math isn't real"

Coronavirus - how much infected? #2

On 9/22/2020 at 10:11 AM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

[more bs]

On 9/22/2020 at 10:12 AM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

[more bs]

On 9/22/2020 at 11:48 AM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

[Blah, blah, blah and more bs]

P.S. Have you seen Ellen be a copycat? I bet you haven't.  

18 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

I don't give Merlin much of a chance to create a story that makes sense. [Blah, blah, blah.]

Duh! It seems MSK has failed to grasp that incongruity is the basis of much humor.

23 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

[To me] Try this.

Write a small story like I just did without doing a lame-ass copycat thing.

Betcha can't.

Michael

MSK is walking with ThatGuy. Walking towards them is a black guy, average height, wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt and BLM cap. Feeling trumpian but not brave, MSK says in a low voice, "Here comes a useful idiot Marxist."  ThatGuy says, "Absolutely!" MSK didn't believe the guy coming could hear him. Surprise, it's Mike Tyson. MSK and ThatGuy spend the next few days in a hospital.  

The Logic of Bell Curve Leftism #3

On 9/19/2020 at 11:01 AM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

More trivialities as the bodies pile up.

LOL...

Now a gotcha over Scrabble? 

btw - What is the gotcha? That a dictionary for Scrabble exists?

[Lots of blah, blah, blah, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, with no intellectual substance.]

  What a big flop!! You were fooled by a margay. I’m still here, bs-er.

On 9/19/2020 at 11:10 AM, Ellen Stuttle said:

Right on! (Now watch Merlin try to copycat with a flop of a parody.)

Ellen

Ellen is wrong again.   

...

ThatGuy: "It's like talking to Sheldon Cooper..."

Oh, it’s that fawning, Goofy-like guy from the peanut gallery.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/09/california-forest-fires-taxes-homelessness-same-old-fall-problems/#slide-1

Anderson Cooper with Mike Lindell

Anderson Cooper with Joe Biden

What a contrast! Biden says, "If the president had done his job, had done his job from the beginning, all the people would still be alive." Cooper neither interrupts nor objects to Biden's absurdity. He doesn't call Biden a snake oil salesman.