I think there’s some bears out there that might disagree with you; although not about the dying part.
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Pfft. Bears. What do they know, the scavenging ursines.
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Evidently I missed the memo
I’ve been waiting for the MM to drop all day just to post this.
Since I don’t want to wait any longer, and lamenting it won’t reach the larger audience it deserves, I’ll share it with you: The coolest video you’ll see for a long while.
If this ASL translator doesn’t bring a smile to your face and unbridle any joy left in your heart, there’s nothing left for you to ever experience in life again, especially that which is undeniably good and pure.
So without further ado, here’s Stevie Wonder’s complete performance at the Grand Opening Ceremony at the Obama Presidential Center. Enjoy!
P.S. Sounds better through headphones.
P.S.S. I really don’t understand how he can see through those dirty sunglasses.
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Great thanks for sharing the video!!!
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Not quite. Vance got a BA from Ohio State using the GI Bill. He followed that by going to Yale law. However Vance was known as J.D. Hamel at Ohio State. Yale is also where he met Vivek Ramaswamy. (How did Ohio manage to get both of these guys? 
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And the color of Trump : - )
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Tucker’s career trajectory is towards shrill provincialism. I especially liked his take on “Russian” shopping cars that work on escalators, Such carts have been standard in northern Europe for a decade and a half. JD Vance, of course, brings the provincialism too, but he’s just a front for tech billionaires. The same people that have hollowed out the US economy for all the marbles, while allowing a formerly stunning innovation economy that promoted education, literacy, numeracy to one that doesn’t. A lot of this has to do with creating information bubbles that confuse rational responses. We have a climate emergency, overt corruption, and as Krugman points out today a failure to recognize the power disparity in demand and supply shocks. I agree with Krugman that a rational geopolitics would have the West, led by the US and Europe, balancing with the rising power of China and the East. Instead, we have this Western Hemisphere – Eastern Hemisphere allocation.
That’s a great question. Grover is president of the American Society of Competitiveness, which apparently hasn’t had any meetings since 2022. The US is still competitive, ranking 10th globally.
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Grover, who is now pushing 70, is the product of the Reagan era, when America turned its back on the New Deal and public production of goods and services, often the most efficient way to do so, were vilified. While the national debt quadrupled under Reagan, Grover began to push his popular line the national debt is exclusively a “spending problem.” By 1994, he was penning the “Contract with America” with Newt Gingrich. The messages justifying starving programs unpopular with the billionaire class like daycare or education, which most people love, have never stopped. Today those policies have come home to roost. While US income tax is highly progressive, there is no equivalent broad VAT as in most advanced economies. The oligarch Jeff Bezos, for example, has retained his base salary from Amazon of $81,400 a year since 1998. As a result, the US does not have a spending problem so much as a taxation problem. Denmark, which has a less-progressive income tax, still manages to collect enough taxes. Denmark’s government debt-to-GDP ratio is slightly below 28%, while for the US it is about 125%. To get some idea of how crazy that is, a Maastricht convergence criteria for countries seeking to join the euro (Eurozone) is government debt-to-GDP ratio no greater than 60%. Belgium, an original euro member, was let in with a ratio of 110%, which it had piled up after decades of trying to keep dying industries alive. It surrendered the ability to devalue its currency unilaterally. After years of struggle, Belgium managed to lower its debt-to-GDP ratio to around 100% but has since bounced back to 108%. Belgium is a case study in how difficult debt reduction can be, especially if the culture is obsessed with real estate.
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