I would say ‘let’s get this show on the road’, but since that’s not quite possible with Covid-19 being what it is, at least we now know who’s the Democratic team. Kamala Harris will hold her own when put up against Mr. Pence, I think. And, I like her.
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Mental Illness and the Left
ABSTRACT
It has been claimed that left-wingers or liberals (US sense) tend to more often suffer from mental illness than right-wingers or conservatives. This potential link was investigated using the General Social Survey cumulative cross-sectional dataset (1972-2018). A search of the available variables resulted in 5 items measuring one’s own mental illness (e.g., ”Do you have any emotional or mental disability?”). All of these items were weakly associated with left-wing political ideology as measured by self-report, with especially high rates seen for the “extremely liberal” group. These results mostly held up in regressions that adjusted for age, sex, and race. For the variable with the most data (n = 11,338), the difference in the mental illness measure between “extremely liberal” and “extremely conservative” was 0.39 d. Temporal analysis showed that the relationship between mental illness, happiness, and political ideology has existed in the GSS data since the 1970s and still existed in the 2010s. Within-study meta-analysis of all the results found that extreme liberals had a 150% increased rate of mental illness compared to moderates. The finding of increased mental illness among left-wingers is congruent with numerous findings based on related constructs, such as positive relationships between conservatism, religiousness and health in general.
Saturday Morning Irony
Played 18 holes of golf with my brother Saturday morning at Sleepy Hole Golf Course. Played terribly, but one thing I saw had my laughing behind my mask.
While awaiting my brother’s arrival, I was hanging around the bag drop and practice green, a gentleman walked by wearing his mask (as most were. YAY!) It was the logo on the mask that caught my attention.
Disturbing numbers
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/10/health/us-coronavirus-monday/index.html
Over 97,00 new cases among children. Opening the schools appears to be a use of children as guinea pigs. 97,000 children. Let that sink in for just a second.
Continue reading “Disturbing numbers”USMCA analyzed as just NAFTA with tariffs.
Auto companies are just paying the 2.5% tariff instead of increased North American sourcing. Trump just tacked on 10% aluminum tariffs with Canada, which retaliated. Not much of a deal after all.
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7-year-old boy in Georgia died ‘from COVID-19’? Media leaving out key details
Since first hearing this story last night, I’ve been waiting for the other shoe to drop. Media in general have become so unreliable, so duplicitous, that it is now standard procedure to wait for the headline in one news cycle to be disproved in the next.
Biden speaks from his (black) heart
As conservatives have pointed out to deaf ears for so long, the Democratic party views Blacks as a monolith the have in their pockets forever. They see no difference between inner city multi-generation welfare families and my former neighbors, married school teachers living in the suburbs. They’re all just Black votes to be taken for granted, and for so long that worked, but maybe no longer.
Now I know where I’ve seen him before
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
One of my favorite movies, but it was the stage play that made me a Libertarian.
Biden is the perfect blend of invisibility and unaccountability seen only in long time politicians, which, of course, is all that Biden has ever been.
Any explosive experts here?
Authorities are blaming the huge explosion in Beirut on improperly stored ammonium nitrate fertilizer set off by an careless welder. Continue reading “Any explosive experts here?”
Sometimes they DO listen
Back in June, The Hill ran a story about the Iowa governor preparing to sign an Executive Order restoring rights to convicted felons. I posted it here to ensure that I was accurate in saying that is not true, as Virginia still requires individual application for rights restoration. A nice exchange of thoughts and information followed.
Today, The Hill ran a story saying the EO had been signed, but was again reported as the “last state” to do so. I recalled the earlier discussion here and decided to email the editors @ The Hill. Here is what I sent:
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