The New Axis of Evil — China, Russia, Iran, North Korea — is slowly emerging as a powerful alliance as a result of growing cooperation sparked by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The United States and the world need to wake up to and focus on this reality.
Couple of despotic evil jerkoffs hamming it up for the camera in their matching blue suits, red ties, and white shirts. Real bromance at work here. [Somebody get some powder on that forehead of Vlad’s. Please.]
This Saturday at exactly 7:30 PM I was confronted with a moral dilemma as the University of Georgia Bulldawgs lined up to play the University of Texas Longhorns in Darrell K Royal Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas in their first confrontation in the Southeast Conference.
I was skewered on the horns of a dilemma.
Tariffs — a tax or customs duty imposed by a country at its border on goods imported from another country — are wildly misunderstood and have come into the lexicon since their use by the Trump admin and during this presidential election campaign.
They are not wildly understood, sort of like calculus, differential equations, and how doorbells work. Let us reason together, dear reader.
Tariffs have been traditionally used (and taught in business schools) in the following situations:
1. Tariffs are used to protect strategic industries — industries with national security implications — such as high tech, steel, or aviation.
2. Tariffs are used to protect fledgling, startup businesses during their period of incubation and infancy, again, often technology related.
3. Tariffs are used to punish bad actors such as China for its theft of technology, its use of slave/prison/child labor to manufacture goods, and to offset low environmental standards.
Pretty straightforward stuff, no? But, there’s more. Continue reading
I lost power during Helene the Hurricane — lots of wind and rain in Savannah, lots of trees down and windblown tree debris. No power meant no Internet. Adding insult to injury, I had no phone though I could slip into another part of Savannah and get some 5-bar G+. I am now repowered and re-connected.
As I write this post, I am listening to Kris Kristofferson. Rest in peace, Ranger.
China is, of course, a rotten bunch of Communists (you cannot overstate what cruel fuckers these guys are). They grow cotton — 90% of China’s cotton — in Xijiang province:
Chinese workers picking ripe cotton by hand. Lots of hands and mouths to feed in China.
1. China is the largest producer of cotton (2023 numbers) in the world (24%, 27.34 million pounds) followed by: Continue reading
The Steamboat Institute, a think tank in lovely Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and my alma mater, The Virginia Military Institute (a jewel of a school in the spectacular Shenandoah Valley of Virginia) teamed up to debate:
If you highlight and click on the first sentence of the question, you can see a video of the debate between John Bolton and Vivek Ramaswamy.
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