Sixteen people were shot over a seven hour time period Saturday night to Sunday morning in gun-controlled New York City.
One of the shooting victims died and three others are in critical condition.
Dems' Plans Sabotage Workers | RealClearPolitics: "Would you rather show up at work on time or stretch out on the sofa and watch TV? Stupid question. Most people punch a clock out of necessity. But progressive Democrats want to make work optional, and to guarantee a slew of benefits to everyone, whether they get off the couch or not. It's a slap in the face to America's workforce. Some 70 Democrats in the House of Representatives -- more than one-third of the party's representatives -- endorsed a plan on Thursday to outlaw private health insurance and force all Americans into a government-run system. Let's be clear. This plan is not about helping the needy. The plan would rip away medical coverage from half of all Americans, including the 157 million who get their insurance the old-fashioned way -- earning it through a job. The plan, dubbed "Medicare for All," would prohibit employers -- even giant companies that self-insure -- from covering workers, retirees or their families. Union workers with gold-plated health benefits would have to give them up and settle for the same coverage as people who refuse to work at all. Why work?... Read all!
The chart was quickly debunked by people pointing out the numbers are based on modeling of unknown validity and the data was at odds with every other source.
“This chart is based on modeling of unknown validity and is completely at odds with government data, which shows real wages rising. Bad week for scare statistics,” said Scott Winship who works on the joint economic committee for Republican Senator Mike Lee.
Millennial Socialism: Stupid, Evil, or Both? - Kurt Schlichter "Congratulations, oh most insufferable of generations – against all odds and confounding the experts, you have still somehow managed to make yourselves even more annoying. Apparently, the hep new jive among your tiresome cohort is “Democratic Socialism,” resurrecting a poisonous nineteenth-century political death cult and putting a kicky new spin on it to make it palatable for the suckers. ...Hey, what’s the difference? National socialism, democratic socialism? It’s really just a question of who runs the camps because regardless of the particular brand of socialism, there are always camps. Always. That these millennial Marxoids lack personal experience with socialism does not stop them from embracing it. After all, socialism’s biggest fans are always the people who aren’t trapped inside it. Remember the progs who always fly down to Havana and/or Caracas to party with the local caudillo? They always fly home again. ...No one loves socialism quite like a moron who has never experienced it firsthand. No one hates it like someone who has seen it up close. ...The socialist cheerleaders don’t want to be normal. Normality requires work. They want to be part of an elite that will run things from their progressive urban coastal enclaves, and in socialism there's always a lot of running things going on. But they always assume that once the revolution comes, they will be the ones running things, clothed in government authority and making all the economic decisions that individuals and their companies make today. None of them imagine they will be the ones stuck with the dirty jobs – they dream of being commissars, not garbagemen. SJWism is perfect training for the aspiring cog in the totalitarian oppression machine – policing campuses for forbidden thought teaches them the skills they can put into action policing society for forbidden thought. ...Socialism’s perfect record of failure, misery, and slaughter is kind of a problem for them, so they pivot and distract, playing an ideological shell game by claiming that what they really want isn’t socialism. ...The democratic socialists keep promising Denmark and Norway, and but they always deliver Cuba and Venezuela."
MacCoin comes to NZ: McDonald's launches its own global currency - NZ Herald "McDonald's has launched its own limited edition global currency called the MacCoin. From Thursday, more than 6.2 million MacCoins will be distributed globally, including 50,000 coins in New Zealand. The MacCoin has been launched to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Big Mac. The idea of MacCoins is that customers can share, collect and redeem them for a free Big Mac at McDonald's restaurants in more than 50 countries, meaning travellers won't need to change currency in order to buy a Big Mac..."
McDonald's launched its own global currency. Photo / Supplied
"We are proud to be able to offer Kiwis 50,000 of these MacCoins from 2 August," director of marketing, McDonald's NZ Jo Mitchell said.
"We will be transporting MacCoins from the top of the North Island to the bottom of the South over the next two weeks encouraging New Zealanders to get in on the action.
"Global connectivity of the Big Mac inspired the creation of the MacCoin. The MacCoin transcends currencies to commemorate our global iconic burger while giving customers all over the world a chance to enjoy a Big Mac on us."
"We will be transporting MacCoins from the top of the North Island to the bottom of the South over the next two weeks encouraging New Zealanders to get in on the action."
The arrival of McDonald's faux currency is topical because it comes at a time when bitcoin, and the idea of alternative currencies, remains a major talking point in New Zealand.
The limited distribution of coins, the worldwide release and the use of a portmanteau ending in "coin" all lean heavily on the hype propping up cryptocurrencies in pop culture.
MacCoins will feature five unique designs, each representing a decade of the Big Mac. Photo / Supplied
The MacCoin has no cash value and is only redeemable for one free Big Mac during 2018, similar to a coupon.
The deal was inspired by the Big Mac Index, an annual report that uses Big Mac prices at countries around the world to see whether currencies are properly valued.
According to the company, McDonald's security guards will be handing out MacCoins between Whangarei and Invercargill starting Thursday.
"The Bernie Sanders/Democrat's Myth That Socialism Works In Scandinavian Countries... Debunked! In Fact, It's Collapsing
Next Time a Lefty Cites the Gloriousness of the Swedish Socialist Model, Send Them This: https://youtu.be/1B58Nf7SzZY
The most interesting part is about healthcare.
Norberg implores the U.S. not to go to single payer because all of the single payer countries are “parasiting” off of the United States, using their innovation and technology because in a single payer system there is none of that.
What's also not touched in this argument is how Europe's massive welfare state is imploding after they let millions of Muslim and African refugees flood into their countries who have 5 times more kids as native Europeans.
Their resources are being drained and many of these new arrivals are not working.
American prosperity of Trump era marks real turning point in history | TheHill: The latest GDP figure is a great number that aids our recovery from the awful 16 years under Bush and Obama. It will also reduce deficits in the long term if such robust economic growth continues. But the challenge is far from over. We have a lot of work to do to fan the flames of prosperity and to hold at bay the prosperity killers. But one step forward is still one step forward, and it is a heck of a lot better than one step backward.
Puerto Rico reaches deal to restructure $3B of power debt:
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s government reached a deal Monday night with a bondholder group to restructure more than a third of the debt owed by its troubled power company as the utility moves toward privatization. ...Officials said bondholders that hold more than $3 billion in debt from Puerto Rico’s Electric Power Authority would exchange it for two new bonds.
One would be exchanged at 67.5 cents on the dollar, while the other would be exchanged at 10 cents on the dollar and would be linked to Puerto Rico’s economic recovery.
...The deal marks the first time Puerto Rico will not pay a revenue bond in full, and it could have consequences beyond the U.S. territory, including higher interest rates on those types of bonds, he said.
...Some 200 customers remain in the dark more than 10 months after the hit as Puerto Rico struggles to emerge from an 11-year recession.
16 People Shot over Seven Hours in Gun-Controlled NYC:
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