SEVA IS A GREAT GUY. HE DID SOME MASTERING WORK FOR ME BACK IN THE 90S, BEFORE I LEARNED TO DO IT MYSELF: Former Knoxville radio host turns Grammy award winning producer.
Archive for 2020
January 26, 2020
‘NOTHING TO CATCH US:’ How California’s homelessness crisis surged.
Many blame mental illness and drug addiction for the soaring numbers, but experts say that is only part of the puzzle. The state’s severe housing shortage that has forced rents to increase at twice the rate of the national average and put the median price of a single family home at $615,000, has also contributed to the crisis.
John Maceri, CEO of the Los Angeles-based social services provider The People Concern, said social safety nets, like affordable housing and job training, are all but gone, leaving already vulnerable people to fend for themselves.
“The housing price of liberalism,” as Thomas Sowell dubbed it – and it doesn’t come cheap.
Related: From John Stossel at Reason TV: Bad Laws Worsen the Homeless Crisis. San Francisco encourages homelessness by limiting housing, offering generous welfare, and failing to enforce basic laws:
GREAT MOMENTS IN PROJECTION: Obama called Trump a ‘fascist’ in call to Hillary Clinton running mate Tim Kaine.
The running mate of Hillary Clinton, you say?
UPDATE: Link was incorrect; should now be working.
THE 21st CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: China Quarantines 40 Million, 1,300+ Infected; Expert Predicted Coronavirus ‘Pandemic’ Could Kill 65 Million; U.S. Evacuation Underway In China.
Related: “China’s years-long expansion into Africa – and the corresponding flood of Chinese workers establishing themselves there – has left the continent particularly vulnerable to the spread of a new iteration of coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China.”
More: Coronavirus outbreak: New York on high alert with over 1,200 infected worldwide.
And finally (for now): Wesleyan University student being monitored for coronavirus in Connecticut.
THE GRUBBY CORRUPTION OF OUR POWER ELITE: Roger Kimball reviews Peter Schweizer’s new book, Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite.
BAY AREA COUPLE TO BE JAILED FOR MASSIVE SOLAR POWER PONZI SCHEME WORTH $1 BILLION:
A Martinez couple who was operating a seemingly legitimate business selling solar generators pleaded guilty Friday to various charges stemming from a Ponzi scheme that netted them $1 billion in fraudulent income — affording them an extremely lavish lifestyle.
Jeff and Paulette Carpoff launched DC Solar in Benecia to provide trailer-mounted, mobile solar generators for off-grid uses — like for large outdoor events, emergency situations, and more. But, as the Associated Press reports, “the company morphed into a Ponzi scheme by telling investors they can take advantage of federal tax credits by leasing the generators back to DC Solar, which would then provide them to other companies for their use.” The couple was caught taking money from new investors to pay off original investors, taking in $2.5 billion in investment transactions over a seven-year period, beginning in 2011.
Investors included Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., which reportedly lost $340 million in the scheme.
“The Carpoffs face decades in federal prison,” Or much less, since AOC assures me that mankind has less than 12 years left.
A VERY PYTHON MEMORY: Michael Malone looks back at an interview with Douglas Adams and the recently deceased Terry Jones, where everything went wrong.
I DON’T WANT TO HEAR ANOTHER WORD ABOUT GLENN REYNOLDS’ CARBON FOOTPRINT: Prince Charles flew 16,000 miles in just 11 days using three private jets and one helicopter before proudly posing with Greta Thunberg in Davos.
CINDY MCCAIN ADMITS ‘WE ALL KNEW’ ABOUT JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
Flashback: “The steady drumbeat of sexual scandal is eroding the Left’s moral authority.” Especially when they pretended to claim that “it’s on us” to do something about it.
MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE GWOT: Three Al-Qaeda Jihadis Caught Trying to Enter U.S. with Colombian Passports.
WELL, OKAY THEN: Government health agency official: Coronavirus ‘isn’t something the American public need to worry about.’
Related: Coronavirus: US woman walks deserted Wuhan streets as city remains on lockdown.
UPDATE: This seems a bit alarmist. Harvard epidemiologist says coronavirus is “thermonuclear pandemic level bad.” At least I hope it is! So I don’t trust the information coming out of China very much — whether from official or unofficial sources — and what spooked me a bit last night was that the Chinese government, which I would expect to understate and underreact here, is calling the situation grave and quarantining multiple large cities. Of course, they could be panicking, but my assumption is that while their information may also be imperfect, it’s better than what I can get. So I’m not panicking, but I”m a bit concerned. Of course, the proper response at this point is what you should be doing anyway, which is have enough food, medicine, etc. ready to hand that you can stay away from public places for a few weeks if necessary.
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Teens who use joints, bongs, concentrates more likely to keep using pot. Teens who use pot, especially in more concentrated forms, more likely to keep using pot.
THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Rashida Tlaib retweets unverified claim Israelis killed Palestinian boy.
THIS WHOLE IMPEACHMENT THING IS REALLY GOING SWIMMINGLY: Angry Citizens Heckle Adam Schiff, ‘Move to Venezuela Comrade!’
GOOD AND HARD: Mayor Durkan’s failures, political correctness caused downtown Seattle shooting.
Political correctness and liberalism are literally killing people. This downtown Seattle shooting is an extension of all of that.
It’s about squishy prosecutors and judges who let repeat offenders walk free. It is about a city council that has designed this because anarchy will allow them to rebuild the city in a socialist image.
Today, a woman is dead and seven others are injured. A 9-year-old remains in the hospital. It is shameful but unfortunately predictable, given who we have running things around here.
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Jenny Durkan is an ineffective mayor. Look at what has happened with the issues people are most worried about — traffic, homelessness, and crime. The media is complicit with this. Just a few days ago, a column in the Seattle Times reported that crime is down. People on the streets know that crime isn’t down. They know that their homes are getting broken into and their car windows are getting smashed. Yet some in the media will say crime is down in Seattle. Yes, and how many shootings have we had since Tuesday? Police were near last night’s shooting because they were a few blocks away at a police-involved shooting in the middle of the afternoon. And so with the help of their compliant media, politicians are able to push out false stories that crime is down and everything is great.
Seattle’s last Republican mayor left office in 1969.
RADICAL CHIC, THE GERITOL YEARS: Angela Davis does Yale.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LESTER MADDOX SMILES EDITION: Concordia College MLK Day seminar for white students: ‘How to Embrace Your Inner Racist.’