3 April 2023

Portland - "You can run, but you can't hide."

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Social Security projections indicate that the shortfall will occur a year sooner than previously calculated.  Well, that's because the Biden administration is doing nothing about it except claming that "they stand ready".   Watch:

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Came across this article from a medical website claiming that Stand Your Ground Laws are a greater health threat than mass shootings.  The article states: "Stand-your-ground laws worsen racial disparities in gun violence" and "Stand-your-ground laws place Black Americans at increased risk of violence, death, and criminality due to firearms."  Well, maybe if one didn't commit a crime there wouldn't be the gun violence?  Why is race injected into this discussion about home invasion crime?  Sorry, doctor — you're just wrong.

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How's that Diversity paying off?  The Oregon legislature has a BIPOC coalition, and now they want to extend SNAP food assistance to illegal immigrants.  And if you are an "internationally educated" physician, you never have to take the medical licensing exam - because there's no deadline to complete it!  The Oregon Medical Board will be prohibited from imposing the deadline.  All because of the workforce "emergency".

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This is true.  AI won't steal your job.  People leveraging AI will.  The world isn't standing still.

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Comment of the day: seen on Reddit Seattle recently:

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Two Los Angeles lawmakers proposed a measure to drastically reduce punishment for serious crimes – a philosophy they called "decarceration".  Fortunately, there was enough of an outcry that this measure was shelved.  What were they thinking, though?
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