REPLACEMENT OR TRANSFORMATION THEORY

REPLACEMENT OR TRANSFORMATION THEORY

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              Michigan needs new people? Recent anemic growth numbers of 0.6% from Jul 23 to Jul 24 highlight Michigan’s slowing and losing ground again, relative to our fellow 50 states. The solution, according to one of our foremost demographic experts is new people. Not just new Michiganders like the old Michiganders, but new kinds of people.               Kurt Metzger, eminent demographer as well as Mayor of Huntington Woods, is quoted in Global Detroit blog: “For counties with populations, 90 percent…

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THE 19 COMMANDMENTS OF BUDGET

THE 19 COMMANDMENTS OF BUDGET

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              Forget Voodoo, take a look at Budget & Appropriations. That’s Hoodoo Economics to put Merlin, Gandalf, and David Copperfield to shame. An arcane alchemy understood only by high priests and Adepts of the 14th Level? Nah. You just need a guide and here it is: The 19 Commandments of Budget.               FIRST AND BASIC COMMANDMENT: Everybody has an agenda. So do you. That’s why we’re all here, remember?               SECOND: The perfect is the enemy of the good. Anyone…

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COURTING DISASTER

COURTING DISASTER

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              Another day, another court order shutting down the President. This time, a Federal Judge in San Francisco halted  Trump’s executive order directing agencies to shut down offices and lay off thousands.. Before that, it was a judge in Maryland, halting Trump’s DEI Executive orders on Federal Departments. And before that, a Judge in Rhode Island, and one in Massachusetts, and Seattle, and another one in California, and the DC Federal district bench. Welcome to the Judicial Resistance, or Judges’ Insurrection….

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ANSWER TIME

ANSWER TIME

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                           So NOW they tell us. Four months after the end of the Biden Administrations, various “journalists” like Jake Tapper are coming out with books, bravely exposing what we’ve all seen and known for years: President Joe Biden was basically gaga while in office.               This week’s announcement of Biden’s stage 4 prostate cancer diagnosis puts a very sad exclamation point on the whole affair.               FIRST: President Biden deserves our sympathy, prayers, and good wishes. We wish him health…

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IMPEACHY-KEEN

IMPEACHY-KEEN

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              A few weeks ago, at the end of April, Michigan Congressman Shri Thanedar introduced articles to impeach President Trump.               Again.               Now we know that the Democrats in the House voted to impeach Trump in the first term not once, but twice. These attempts failed in the Senate. So maybe Rep. Thanedar figures third time’s the charm? Quoted in the Detroit News: “I want my constituents to know that I am not shy. I am not sitting on…

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WHITE GUY CODE TALK

WHITE GUY CODE TALK

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Did I Just Miss the Signal?              “Got the code book?” So Minnesota Governor and 2024 Vice-Presidential Candidate Tim Walz said he was picked for the ticket because he could “code talk to white guys.” “I could code talk to white guys watching football, fixing their truck, doing that, that I could put them at ease,” Walz said at the event Monday.” (The Hill, Walz on why he was picked as Harris running mate: ‘I could code talk to white guys’) Code Talk?…

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ABBIES AND NORMIES

ABBIES AND NORMIES

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The Real American Divide.               The real conflict in America today isn’t between conservatives and “liberals” (which everywhere else in the world are called Social Democrats.) It’s not between Hawks and Doves, and It’s increasingly less about Democrats and Republicans. The traditional parties have realigned, and the gap is now between two groups I’m calling Normies and Abbies.               “Normies?” very simple: normal people. Oooh!! Scary! “Who defines “normal,” you say? Good question, because the definition of normal changes and…

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CORRUPTION: LEAKY PIPES AND YOUR WATER

CORRUPTION: LEAKY PIPES AND YOUR WATER

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Corruption and It’s Costs.               So how is corruption like a leaky pipe? Answer: stuff goes in one end but it doesn’t all come out the other. We use the word “corruption” to mean a lot of different things, but commonly to mean dishonesty in organizations—particularly government. “Corruption” generally means people stealing stuff or taking bribes to do their jobs. So, here’s the pipe:               An organization, say, the Boy Scouts or your local town, has a job to do:…

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NEW MATH, OLD TRICKS

NEW MATH, OLD TRICKS

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              You know what an equation is? It’s a “mathematical statement.” Math is a language, like French or Spanish, that lets you express things that are hard to say other ways. Think “C’est la vie, ma Cherie, pour toujours l’amour,” which can be expressed in non-French but doesn’t sound as good.               The equation is about two things that equal each other. It looks like this: A = B               –Example: 2 + 2 = 4.  The 2 + 2…

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