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Thursday, November 13, 2025
Health Care in the USA
The Republicans are on their high horse about healthcare as a politic al strategy AGAIN. The Affordable Care Act and Patient Bill of Rights passed because of majorities of Democrats in both houses of the legislature.
Now that seven Senate Democrats and an independent Senator decided there was too much suffering of the people, the subsidies in the way of a tax credit once a year is going to end. Americans will no longer be able to afford their insurance and will be forced to make decisions no one should have to make.
Worse than the subsidies the law allows for no health insurance as a choice however there is a tax penalty to be paid when that choice is made. This part of the bill will not end just because the tax deductions (subsidies) end. It is this aspect of the law that the Republicans are expecting to work against the people making difficult decisions. The Republicans can even make life worse by increasing this penalty.
Welcome to Trump’s economic hell for Americans. The Republicans are stonewalling the discussions they promised now.
It is about control of the media.
Local parental control of these subjects at Board of Education meetings is where this belongs. Teaching subjects at universities and colleges is not a free for all. The standards are set by governing bodies interested in high standards to ensure their students are equipped for contributing to the real world. There are no subversive courses.
The entire focus on the evils of communism seems like a course that Trump should take, but, in higher education it is all part of the curriculum of politics; different types of governance around the world, etc. History teaches plenty about communism, imperialism, colonialism, and autocrats. A special curriculum in junior and high schools seems odd when history already covers the World Wars.
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Space Junk Crisis
November 11, 2025
by Aaron Leong
...Having successfully completed a six-month rotation (click here) aboard the Tiangong space station, the trio were fully prepared for undocking when China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) mission control detected small space debris had struck the crew's spacecraft. While the astronauts themselves were reported to be in "good condition" and safely housed within their orbital module, teams on the ground were already busy carrying out tests and drills at the landing site in Inner Mongolia.
Having a total of six people onboard Tiangong also could mean logistics and supplies could be strained, especially if the unmanned Shenzhou-22 rescue/return mission is postponed indefinitely. The Chinese space agency has likewise confirmed that the Tiangong station is in "normal" condition and is perfectly capable of safely supporting both sets of astronauts....
by Aaron Leong
...Having successfully completed a six-month rotation (click here) aboard the Tiangong space station, the trio were fully prepared for undocking when China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) mission control detected small space debris had struck the crew's spacecraft. While the astronauts themselves were reported to be in "good condition" and safely housed within their orbital module, teams on the ground were already busy carrying out tests and drills at the landing site in Inner Mongolia.
Having a total of six people onboard Tiangong also could mean logistics and supplies could be strained, especially if the unmanned Shenzhou-22 rescue/return mission is postponed indefinitely. The Chinese space agency has likewise confirmed that the Tiangong station is in "normal" condition and is perfectly capable of safely supporting both sets of astronauts....
Nothing like propagating one's own business.
By Elizabeth Rayne
...It’s a bird, (click here) it’s a plane, it’s... probably a hunk of trash metal from yet another de-orbited Starlink satellite burning up in the atmosphere.
Starlink constellations are only adding to the swarm of space junk in low-Earth orbit. While the SpaceX answer to affordable worldwide internet may not be the worst threat to our part of the cosmos—especially compared to other, larger satellites—one to two of their 8,000 satellites are already falling back to terra firma every single day. And there could soon be as many as five daily de-orbits, once Starlink and other companies such as Amazon and Kuiper collectively get 30,000 satellites hovering above us. That doesn’t even count the Chinese systems, which are predicted to add another 20,000....
"Wind power in the United States has been subsidised for 33 years - isn't that enough?" NO!
By Justin Rowlatt
..."Wind power (click here) in the United States has been subsidised for 33 years - isn't that enough?" US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said when I asked him to explain the administration's policy when we met in September. "You've got to be able to walk on your own after 25 to 30 years of subsidies."
John Podesta, a senior adviser on climate to both Obama and Biden, sees it differently. "The United States is taking a wrecking ball to clean energy," he argues.
“They're trying to take us back not to the 20th Century, but the 19th."...
by Simon Black, Ian Parry, Nate Vernon-Lin
Fossil-fuel subsidies ((click here) surged to a record $7 trillion last year as governments supported consumers and businesses during the global spike in energy prices caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the economic recovery from the pandemic.
As the world struggles to restrict global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and parts of Asia, Europe and the United States swelter in extreme heat, subsidies for oil, coal and natural gas are costing the equivalent of 7.1 percent of global gross domestic product. That’s more than governments spend annually on education (4.3 percent of global income) and about two thirds of what they spend on healthcare (10.9 percent).
Our findings come as the World Meteorological Organization says July was the hottest month on record, underscoring the urgent need to curb human-induced climate change.
As the Chart of the Week shows, fossil-fuel subsidies rose by $2 trillion over the past two years as explicit subsidies (undercharging for supply costs) more than doubled to $1.3 trillion. That’s according to our new paper, which provides updated estimates across 170 countries of explicit and implicit subsidies (undercharging for environmental costs and forgone consumption taxes). Download detailed data for different countries and fuels here....
Fossil-fuel subsidies ((click here) surged to a record $7 trillion last year as governments supported consumers and businesses during the global spike in energy prices caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the economic recovery from the pandemic.
As the world struggles to restrict global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and parts of Asia, Europe and the United States swelter in extreme heat, subsidies for oil, coal and natural gas are costing the equivalent of 7.1 percent of global gross domestic product. That’s more than governments spend annually on education (4.3 percent of global income) and about two thirds of what they spend on healthcare (10.9 percent).
Our findings come as the World Meteorological Organization says July was the hottest month on record, underscoring the urgent need to curb human-induced climate change.
As the Chart of the Week shows, fossil-fuel subsidies rose by $2 trillion over the past two years as explicit subsidies (undercharging for supply costs) more than doubled to $1.3 trillion. That’s according to our new paper, which provides updated estimates across 170 countries of explicit and implicit subsidies (undercharging for environmental costs and forgone consumption taxes). Download detailed data for different countries and fuels here....
Trump is a pedophile.
Many, many people have suspected this for most of the years he was in public.
Donald Trump always accuses others of the immoral and crass actions he is guilty of committing. It is a pattern.
When the Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ran for the presidency against Trump there were accusations that she and other Democrats were molesting children and eating them. Where did that sort of weird idea come from? It comes from a man trying desperately to hide the truth about himself.
It is no different than today. These letters surfaced and now he is out in the public screaming that the states need to recall the SNAP benefits they lawfully issued. There is only one reason these wild ideas exist and that is to distract from the truth. When Americans feel threatened they react and the media goes with them. Trump is the ringmaster of his own circus for a reason.
Look, Trump was molesting children openly in his sponsored beauty pageants. Everyone knows that. He justified his ogling of young teens (the same age as Epstein’s prey) as stimulating their deportment in the pageant. Excuse me, but, that is the side of a young teen best addressed by Mom, Dad, or her coach, not the owner of the pageant.
Donald Trump is a sick man in many ways, pedophilia is one of them. He hides amidst the wealthy and justifies his lifestyle as an architect or general contractor. He never built anything that didn’t fail. Structurally it stood, but, failed financially. He had entertained the imaginations of the wealthy to be the risk taker openly to get them what they want through racketeering. Being the wealthy’s go to guy is his escape from his maladies. That is the truth and these letters prove it.
The American people are suffering and he is attempting to dismantle our democracy. The Republicans have always said immigrants are here to increase Democratic votes. What does Trump do? Sends his minions to capture people engaged in employment and a way forward not afforded to them otherwise. The other day ICE rammed a woman’s car and took her into custody because she was a secretary to an immigration lawyer. She was an American citizen. THAT single act is supposed to terrify others within the legal field so they cower from Trump. THAT is a highly illegal strategy to continue his power grab when in fact he belongs in government housing with bars on the windows.
This has to stop. He is a sick man at the top of our government to do the bidding of the richest people in the world and there is no other reason. He is not a president, he is a racketeer. Donald Trump has always been a racketeer. Ask his former lawyer.
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Five times increase
Families accepting ACA health insurance subsidies are seeing their monthly cost increase by 500 percent.
What was a $500 per month insurance subscription is now $2500 per month. Congressional Democrats were saying the insurance would increase 30 percent. That is far from accurate. Families will be uninsured again.
Monday, November 10, 2025
No appreciation of our common home.
If scientists could explain in plain everyday language the dire circumstances that humans face on a warming Earth there would be no need for scientists.
Scientists have warned civilizations over and over about gambling with “the benevolent Earth.”
WHEN are their warnings going to be heeded?
Is finding exoplanets simple? Just load up a rocket and go, right? Nothing to it.
Why is Earth taken for granted?
Ignorance is bliss.
Prince William is correct.
Bill Gates is wrong.
But, who cares anyway, right? The climate crisis gets in the way of cyber coins and oil profits. Who wants that?
It’s only been 85 years since the first warnings went up. 85 years. Humans just don’t learn.
All good things must come to an end sometime.
Primary!
I imagine everyone that neglected the skyrocketing costs of healthcare insurance and voted for the shutdown deal can expect to be primaried. No doubt plans are being made to do exactly that.
Sunday, November 09, 2025
They’re politicos, not justices.
Excuse me, but, keep up what fight?
Students of law are learning to act for and defend clients according to the rule of law. There is some other “fight” in the curriculum? I would love to know what that is exactly.
Get real.
Does anyone actually believe the FBI was going to base an investigation on one document? Give me a break. The FBI was interested in protecting the people and sovereign lands of the USA. The FBI took down terrorist networks. That is real work by highly qualified people. The FOX News tag lines are fairy tales authored by the Tabloid President.
The Trump - Russia Dossier
Do I have to go back to reading the extensive report that was interrupted and dismissed by Attorney General Barr? It appears on this blog. I think I read most of Part One.
James Comey and John Brennan did NOT lie to Congress. In the extensive Trump-Russia Investigation by the FBI the Steele Dossier was never used as evidence.
The evidence regarding the Trump Camp relationships with Russian operatives and business associations was independently investigated including direct access obtained to the GRU cyber data banks.
While the government is shut down and the focus is on Congress and the needs of the American PEOPLE, Fox News and who knows who else, like Lindsay Graham, are off on a tangent with a fairy tale propagated by MAGA sympathizers. Trump is trying to find footing to racketeer his lies to make them the truth.
I have other things to do with my life, but, I refuse to allow a racketeer to turn lies into the truth. The Steele Dossier exists. It was interesting to the Clinton Campaign. The Clinton Campaign did not author it. Knowing Hillary as someone who loves this country if an agent produced a document that implicated her opponent as a Russian sympathizer (which Trump is) she wouldn’t look the other way.
The Steele Dossier while it exists had absolutely NOTHING TO DO WITH THE EXTENSIVE TWO PART FBI INVESTIGATION.
The news items circulating about the dossier are propaganda in a Russian like attempt to prosecute what Trump calls his enemies. The charges against Mr. Comey and anyone else for that matter is pure unadulterated racketeering.
Saturday, November 08, 2025
The Shadow Docket
I am not one of the more than 13 percent of Americans watching and waiting for their food supplemental funds. That doesn’t mean I don’t fee for those that do.
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