I saw something over on that Facebooger place some time ago and it motivated me to consider what things I don’t care about. Here they are — well, just ten:
1. The opinions of actors and celebrities — I don’t care WTF you think about anything. Sorry. Most of y’all have deficient high school educations. Why would I care? Sorry. I don’t care.
I am trying not to use the word “hate” in my writings, thus I am focused on words “I do not love” from 2020.
I am very critical of the entire year of 2020 and honestly expect it to be recalled with all of us receiving a Mulligan. Go ask a golfer what a Mulligan is.
So, with only two more days in this bastard, vagabond, vermin ridden, flotsam, jetsam, detritus, vomitus, infected bed bug bite of a year, here are some works I do not love:
Tomorrow is Christmas. I hope you have a merry one, but for those who do not, I offer you a ray of hope.
We are a nation born from a pivotal battle fought on Christmas — the Battle of Trenton (25-26 December 1776).
I believe the Battle of Trenton (there were actually two) was the pivotal battle of the American Revolution.
If our attack had been repulsed, we would not exist.
We were minding our own business when a call came in: “Standby, Big Red Car, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the one and only Nancy D’Alesandro Pelosi, would like a word with you. Let me warn you, she’s drunk with victory.”
In the background, I could hear the woman who called me saying, “Your Highness, I have that annoying Big Red Car for you.”
“Hello, Madame Speaker, what an unexpected pleasure,” I said.
Every President is entitled to assemble a Cabinet made of those who he/she wants to run the country even in these polarized times.
The Senate has a role in its advise/consent Constitutional duty to ensure the Devil Herself does not get seated, but, in general, a POTUS should be able to assemble his own Gang.
The Biden Gang, thus far, is more than 75% Obama retreads — whilst you may be tempted to cluck at that, who else does the guy know? Come on, man.
One new face in the crowd is this Mayor Pete chap for Secretary of Transportation. Seems an odd choice.
Texans voted for a constitutional ban against imposing a state income tax in an election held in November 2019. The situation until then had been murky on the issue of a personal income tax relying upon something called the “Bob Bullock Amendment” which allowed the Legislature to set a personal income tax, but only if voters approved it via a statewide referendum and if the new revenue was used exclusively for school property tax cuts and education programs.
Which leads us to the question — how does Texas fund itself?
Business environments are impacted by laws, regulation, and leadership. This happens at the state level.
The business environment in, say, New York and California is different than the business environment in Texas.
COVID and the pressure upon Governors — the CEOs of their states — to steward the business environment in their states whilst simultaneously dealing with the pandemic has accentuated differences in state leadership and regulation.
These differences have triggered meaningful mobility amongst companies and investors.
We have been greeted with good news of late — two vaccines, both built on an mRNA model, meaning an engineered solution rather than a dead vaccine model — will apply shortly for an Emergency Use Authorization from the Food and Drug Agency based on the successful completion of Phase 3, large scale (44,000 persons) trials and the attendant data with both showing an efficacy rate of 95%.
To put that 95% number into perspective, know that the common flu vaccine has an efficacy rate of 40-60% — meaning it shelters 40-60% of Americans who receive the shot from the flu.
So, the 95% efficacy rate for the engineered model is quite extraordinary.
American health officials required a 50% efficacy rate, had hoped for 60-70%, and are deliriously happy at 95%.
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