I grew up in upstate NY and could go on for hours about it (and I have). Now my go to comment about NY is that it’s a great place to be from. I admire and pity my friends and family who have stayed and somehow survived.
I’ve lived in upstate NY my whole life. Without even watching the video I already know the answer. First off, most of the northern part of the state is the Adirondack Park, which is the largest park in the lower 48. Even if it wasn’t designated as a park it wouldn’t be developed that much since it’s mostly mountains anyway. The rest of the State is made up of lots of areas of gently rolling foot hills and mountains divided by the Mohawk and Hudson river valleys. Historically a lot of it was used as farm land, but most farming is done elsewhere in the country these days so it remains largely undeveloped.
One of those days that I should go back to bed and cover my head with the covers.
SC is hearing arguments on the CO ballot ban. I heard one question from Sotomayor. I just shake my head to the level of incompetence.
Biden is upping the limits on particulates. Another disaster for the US.
The Border – what can I say
Israel – what can I say
Ukraine – what can I say
Republicans – what can I say
Well, I guess I will have my coffee now.
Biden, on Oct. 5, said he’d talked to “Mitterand” recently. Mitterand died in 1996. Then yesterday he said he had talked to Helmut Kohl at the 2021 G7 meeting. Kohl died in 2017, and Angela Merkel really could not be mistaken for him. This is typical of people in dementia. They can’t remember recent events but can recall names from years long gone. Biden’s mental condition is such that, if it were in our families, we’d be exercising powers of attorney to manage his affairs for him, since he’s no long fully capable.
Da dude wid dementia be presiding in absentia…
(But that’s OK, since “Biden” is in control, anyways…)
Michigan, where I’m from, seems similar, with roughly half of the population in the metro Detroit area, and hardly anyone living in the northern half of the state despite all the waterways and other natural resources. Why? Winter is brutal up there.
I also lived in Rochester for 11 years. I’m surprised he didn’t mention the St Lawrence Seaway, which together with railroads made the Erie Canal obsolete. He also didn’t mention the ridiculously high taxes in NY state, which make upstate uncompetitive with much of the country (and now are ruining NYC as well).
I know little of New York (state or city, except if you can make it there, you’ll make it anywhere), but I agree with the narrator’s comparison to Illinois and Chicago. It seems like the dominance of its large city is a major problem for Illinois. Unlike New York state, the vast majority of Illinois is not scenic and has minimal recreational value. Also, the progression of industrial farming over the past 50 years, or so, has not helped the many farming communities throughout much of the state.
Chicago, Cook County and a few, surrounding counties that incorporate key, Chicago suburbs make up about 80% of the state’s population and the other 20% is spread out across a huge land mass. The “Chicagoland” populace can always easily outvote the rest of the state, and, as is well known, the Chicago political machine is prone to corruption, graft and mismanagement. So, not only does Chicagoland get its way at the ballot box, much of what Chicago enacts politically is not only disastrous for the rest of the state, it’s also disastrous for the city itself.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/debt-by-state
Illinois has the third-highest debt in the U.S., with total liabilities equaling $248.67. With total assets of $53.05 billion, Illinois has $187.7 billion in unfunded liability. This creates a debt ratio of 468.7%, the LARGEST (emphasis mine) in the U.S. To pay that off, every person in Illinois’s 12.7 million population would need to pay $14,780. Like New Jersey, the biggest problem in Illinois contributing to the debt is billions of dollars for retired government workers’ pensions and health insurance benefits.
When I was young much of Chicago seemed on the wane, but other parts of the state were pleasant. A lot of the small towns were well taken care of and residents seemed happy. Under the second Mayor Daley, and a conscious switch from “rustbelt” to tech, Chicago began to thrive in the ’90s and ’00s. I was amazed at the turnaround and how so much of the city changed. During that period much of the rest of the state was starting to struggle; towns like Rockford, Peoria, Decatur also lost significant “rustbelt” industries and failed to redevelop in the new, tech and service based economy. In the past 20 years that trend has continued.
So many of the mid and small sized cities and towns in Illinois are run down and depressing. I recently revisited Champaign-Urbana, where I spent 4 years attending the U of I. I was stunned at how ugly the town is. Streets are potholed, buildings are rundown… Even the neighborhoods were Professors traditionally lived were shoddy.
Aside from the very wealthy enclaves around Chicago I can’t think of a single, Illinois city or town I have seen in the last decade or so that does not appear depressed; economically and aesthetically.
It is hard to imagine a way out. My friends who are retired teachers, firemen, policemen, government employees… vow to fight any attempts at lowering their generous pensions. Hard to blame them. It was promised to them and they held up their end of the deal and put in their time. All the state can do to try to make up that debt shortfall is raise taxes, so most of those same friends move out of state once their kids are grown. This means Illinois ends up transferring pension payments to Tennessee, Florida and other states, where the money is spent and taxes on that money are levied.
Illinois is in a downward economic spiral. It has been for years and it is hard to imagine a way out. To the contrary, it has been worsening.
I tried to comment yesterday on recent mondegreens I have seen in the captions might have been spam trapped.
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Kate @11:13am,
100%. It is astounding how incapable President Biden is in his current condition. He can barely form coherent sentences. Joseph Biden was a compete mediocrity when he had all of his limited wits about him, but now? He is completely unfit to hold office. The fact that those around him, the Cabinet, his Administration, Congress, the Vice President… that no one is addressing this substantively shows that it is all politics; all the way down.
Lake effect snow, and just snow in general is one reason. The high taxes to pay for NYC’s services and Albany’s bureaucracies is probably another. I don’t think the Iroquois really had much to do with it.
I don’t think NYC’s dynamism pulls the state’s residents southward into the city.
It’s not like the state’s borders prevent outsiders from moving in and funnel upstaters southward to NYC. Rather, the politics and policies that NYC favors aren’t the best for upstate. If taxes were lower and if the state and the country hadn’t been abandoning industry and agriculture for finance and the “knowledge economy,” upstate might be doing better.
Why isn’t there a major city up there on the St. Lawrence? Montreal developed better port facilities earlier, so there was little point in a US port isolated in the north country. The St. Lawrence is really Canada’s river. It’s the heart of the country and a lot more important to them than to us.
The “Laurentian elite” is a phrase I’ve seen quite a bit recently. Canada was built up and controlled by businessmen in the Ontario-Quebec corridor. When the “Laurentians” embraced the Liberal Party it became the country’s dominant political party, much to the resentment of some westerners. The Maritimes, beneficiaries of subsidies from Laurentian Canada, don’t have many objections.
Back in 2014, I built an outdoor stove out of stone, fire brick, concrete and steel. Having very little experience, I talked to the guy at the local Acme Brick company quiet a bit. He sold me the fire mortar and fire bricks. He told me to bring him pictures when it was done. I said ok. I took pictures and would forget to go by the place and then I wouldn’t have the pics in my truck. Months passed to years. I would forget about my promise. Today, almost 10 years later I went by the place with pictures. I noticed as I was walking up the door that this was literally their last day in that location. I went in and found out the guy had retired and died around 2017.
Don’t delay what you need to take care of!
Just a few short years ago I spent some time in Upstate NY (I grew up in NYC).
I was literally shocked at the poverty I saw there and literally how devoid of people it is. I intentionally drove on back roads just to see what it was like away from the big cities; it was empty of people and once bustling little towns are impoverished.
Upstate NY’ers have zero in common with those living in NYC and the counties very near NYC (Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland), but these counties control the entire NY State legislature by virtue of their population.
In effect, Upstate NY’ers have little to no say in how their state is run.
This is also true in several other states (Wa, Or, Pa, Ill, etc.)
The only way to correct this situation would be for NY Upstater’s to form a new state (e.g., Northern NY).
There have been some rumblings that Eastern Wa and Eastern Oregon are looking at either joining Idaho or forming a new state (the Inland Empire), but so far nothing of significance. Idaho would be more than happy to see these additions to their state.
I don’t know if this has been linked before but here is a disturbing article from Tablet in today’s “PowerLine picks”
its funny how certain stations like newsmax, repeatedly miscaption obvious works like mayorkas and desantis, some foreign terms I understand
Not sure why he allocates Rockland County, NY to Upstate. The suburban tract development in Bergen County, NJ extends seamlessly into Rockland County (reaching Westchester does require crossing a bridge).
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In areal extent, New York is a below average state, not large.
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As for Upstate, the ratio of the population in core city / suburban zones to that in exurban / small town / rural zones is lower than is typical nationwide (.52 v. 1.33). There is still a mix of 2d, 3d, and 4th tier cities. It’s not rural to the degree the Dakotas or Mississippi or West Virginia are. The North Country is an extension of northern New England, wherein metropolitan development is limited to 4th tier cities (Burlington, Nashua, Manchester, Portland).
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Not many people work in agriculture, but it’s still significant. Dairy farming is the leading subsector. You have wineries, fruit growing, vegetables.
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Upstate is an example of an area which had seminal advantages which generated a self-sustaining process of in-migration and service development. There are still reasons to move there, work there, and live there. There are also reasons to do that elsewhere, so inmigration about balances outmigration. Economically, the place might be better off if government policy did not cater to Downstate preferences, but perhaps not. Only about 8% of Indiana’s population intersects with greater Chicago, so the preferences of more provincial areas will prevail there. Not the most economically dynamic of states.
Who Are the Military Personnel Working Against Trump?
In 2020, we knew who the retired military personnel and the out-of-office national security civilians supporting Biden were, but we did not know who was on the inside.
In 2024, that is the challenge when it comes to understanding just how political the military has become and whether they have been activated for duty against Trump.
A while ago, Neo had a post on patient portals. I have two appointments coming up and both sent me to the portals to complete information. Both were easy to navigate.
One provider is a radiology provider and I visited them last month. When I filled in the information, most of the information was already filled in so modification was easy.
The second provider is part of a university system and this is the first time I had to fill in forms online. It looks like most of the information will be retained for the next visit and will also be available to the entire university system. The consent form was very interesting since I had to consent to being observed by medical students, telemedicine (OU has hospitals, clinics, offices all over the state), medicines not approved by the FDA (Covid shots? as well as the teaching hospital & research system issue), photos, video and audio recordings (teaching aspect again). I also had to agree to messages left on phones, etc. I remember that when HIPPA first come out, doctor’s offices would not leave any messages since they were concerned about the wrong person hearing it.
Even after I filled in the forms, the places are still suggesting that I arrive 15 minutes ahead of the appointment to complete forms.
I was literally shocked at the poverty I saw there and literally how devoid of people it is.
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Last I checked, per capita personal income Upstate is about 5% below the national mean. The North Country is low density (most of it is parkland), as is the corridor which runs from Cooperstown to Kingston (some of which is parkland as well).
The only way to correct this situation would be for NY Upstater’s to form a new state (e.g., Northern NY).
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Not the only way. Reconstituting several states as confederations and then concluding interstate compacts to set up corporations to provide common government for components of one state conjoined to components of another might be desirable. New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Virginia might each be reconstituted into two components. DC might be retroceded to Maryland and then Maryland and New Jersey be re-constituted into three components each. Then you’d negotiate interstate compacts between Maryland and Virginia, between Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, and between New York and New Jersey.
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For purposes of congressional representation, you’d have six states each with two senators and between one and twenty-six congressional districts. You’d have special conferences of legislators elected from each component (proceeding by weighted voting) to draw congressional districts.
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For purposes of provincial government, you’d have greater New York, greater Philadelphia, greater Washington, rVirginia, rPennsylvania, Upstate New York, and a federation of autonomous components consisting of greater Baltimore and the residue of Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey. West Virginia could contract for certain services from one of the surrounding states.
Kagan: “The question that you have to confront is why a single state should decide who gets to be President of the United States.”
Some seem to think the ruling will end up 9-0 in favor of rejecting the challenge. Perhaps Sotomayor may rule for allowing it though.
}}} Biden’s mental condition is such that, if it were in our families, we’d be exercising powers of attorney to manage his affairs for him, since he’s no long fully capable
It is blatantly obvious that someone should be raising a clear and readily argued challenge to Biden’s mental competency. I suspect the only reason it hasn’t been done is the prospect of a Harris administration. :-/
I think it would be an effective “Late September surprise” if the Dems actually are stupid enough to put him forth as a nominee. Make an open challenge, and it’s late enough that Harris would wind up with no power, per se, and it would throw any ballot including Biden into disarray.
I don’t know if this has been linked before but here is a disturbing article from Tablet in today’s “PowerLine picks”
Apropos of nothing but the fact that I was forcibly struck by it as part of the image of the mourners, was the fact that by my rough count 14 out of 20, most appearing relatively youngish, were wearing eyeglasses.
Seemed odd enough to cause me to count to double check my startled impression.
Family, I guess.
As far as Washington sinecure collectors being unconcerned with Jews being shot up while trapped in traffic jams, it is a reasonable inference that based on our border non enforcement policy, they feel the same way with regard to potential American victims
100%. It is astounding how incapable President Biden is in his current condition.
There were ads on X with Obama standing next to Biden and endorsing him. It made Biden look even worse by comparison, I can’t imagine it was helpful.
Kagan: “The question that you have to confront is why a single state should decide who gets to be President of the United States.”
Nonapod:
Good quote. Especially from Kagan.
I’m inclined to see the Supremes coming down hard on this case, for substantive reasons I’m sure, but deep down this is a threat to the Supremes’ power.
It’s one thing for the Supremes to decide on insurrection or who becomes POTUS. But not some pipsqueaks in Colorado.
as obiwan said once upon a time ‘from a certain point of view’ this is exactly what they want, they don’t want a strong and capable leader, they want a supplicant to the EU to Xi, to Putin in the matters of significance, to the Ayatollah,
“Nobody lives in upstate New York…”
Somebody should tell Nikki Haley that we’ve found her natural constituency!
Another political changer:
Confessions of a Corrupt Liberal
I voted “Blue no Matter Who” because I thought I was saving the World. I was wrong.
Alliances other than proximity would make much more sense for many cities and counties. In modern life where communication is instantaneous and travel is nearly so, it is ridiculous Americans live less than optimally because of a geographic allegiance with a huge, urban center hundreds of miles away.
It’s not news to regular participants here, however, this phone video footage of a thief going into the Oakland Apple store and systematically yanking *every* Apple phone from its cord on the display tables, stuffing each phone into a pocket, while no one in the store does a thing, then brazenly walking past a parked police car…
“Basketball Ireland fully supports our players in their decision,” the national governing body for basketball in Ireland said in a statement.
Looks to me like he stole 60 or more iPhones. At $400-$1000 apiece, that’s quite a score. Well beyond the $950 misdemeanor limit for shoplifting in California.
Everybody already knew that trials in DC are exercises in politics, not law. But now we have more painful evidence.
“The climate scientist Michael Mann on Thursday won his defamation lawsuit against Rand Simberg, a former adjunct scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and Mark Steyn, a contributor to National Review.”
“The six-member jury announced its unanimous verdict after a four-week trial in District of Columbia Superior Court and one full day of deliberation. They found both Mr. Simberg and Mr. Steyn guilty of defaming Dr. Mann with multiple false statements and awarded the scientist $1 in compensatory damages from each writer.”
What is the world coming to?
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Well, various subsets of the Irish have been in the business of providing evidence that Princess Margaret in her cups had their number.
Alliances other than proximity would make much more sense for many cities and counties.
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No clue in re what you’re thinking.
As someone said: Lake Effect. I’ve seen 3′ in 7 hours blowing into 6-8 feet drifts.
HIPPA is a joke. It’s effective to keep you from finding out about your mother’s condition, but everybody and his brother with even an ancillary relationship to the Healthcare Industrial Complex has access to your complete records.
Art Deco has a knack for making the rest of us look things up. Cheers to that (not sarcasm). So I did.
Princess Margaret became embroiled in the Irish issue in 1979 when she allegedly said to the Mayor of Chicago, Jane M. Byrne, that ”the Irish are pigs. ‘
“America first, by a l—o—o—ng mile.”
Early last Sunday morning three of our service members were killed and more than forty wounded in a drone strike on something called Tower 22, which is apparently a U.S. military base in Jordan, up by Jordan’s border with Syria. [snip]
The Middle East is infested with these bandit gangs of crazy Muslims. Why is it any of our business? We don’t need their oil, or at any rate we didn’t when Donald Trump was President and we were self-sufficient. Let these savages slaughter each other. Why should we care?
Apparently we do care. We care a lot. According to this map I am looking at from the Washington Post, we have 3,000 service people in Jordan. We also have 2,000 in Syria, 6,000 in Iraq, 3,000 in Saudi Arabia, thirteen thousand each in Kuwait and Qatar, 7,000 in Bahrain, 5,000 in the U.A.E., and 600 in Oman. Oh, and 2,500 in Turkey.
That’s a total 55,000—almost a week’s worth of illegals crossing our Southern border at the December rate.
Is our nation so settled, stable, harmonious, and secure we can send tens of thousands of our military abroad to get mixed up in the tribal squabbles of barbarians? Do we have so few problems here at home we can help shoulder the problems afflicting Jordan, Syria, and Kuwait? Is there so little here to engage our attention we need to know who the hell are Kata’ib Hezbollah? My answers are no, no, and no.
Close and seal the borders. Establish a strict-but-fair immigration regime for foreigners wishing to settle here. Bring home our troops from Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Pull out of NATO and the UN.
Let foreign nations go to hell any way they choose while making sure our own territory is stoutly, formidably defended. Drill for oil and gas, then drill some more.
Art Deco has a knack for making the rest of us look things up.
Not me.
I consider it AD’s onus to provide cites, not for us to google and verify what are often just his opinions or mistakes.
Notice that he never provides cites.
Corflour @7:06pm,
That is very depressing.
huxley on February 8, 2024 at 6:46 pm
Reference the Apple store cell phone thief: well, in spite of his modest attempt at hiding his face, he left his finger prints on that glass door if the police even want to bother taking them.
I wonder if the store display models have some way to track them, or that they might fail to work after some time or distance from the store unless they are “activated” somehow? I guess the thief knows, even if I don’t.
R2L:
Good points. I asked Chat about deactivation and possible hacking.
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While theoretically possible, hacking into a remotely deactivated iPhone, especially one that’s been disabled by Apple due to theft, is extremely challenging. These devices are equipped with advanced security features, including hardware-software integration that significantly limits unauthorized access. Apple’s Activation Lock, part of the Find My service, effectively ties the device to an Apple ID, making it difficult to bypass without the original user’s credentials.
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(I’m sure I could google it myself, but for this sort of thing Chat cuts to the chase faster.)
Huxley:
To be precise, the Apple store is in Emeryville, a small city at the eastern foot of the Bay Bridge nestled between Oakland and Berkeley.
Cites (references) please, says the dude who likes to “talk” to an algorithm.
“Feed me Seymour!”
There were some interesting points in the video about Upstate, especially the consideration given to the role of the St. Lawrence, but overall I didn’t like it all that much. Too much repetition, the narrator burned a fair amount of the run time repeating himself, and I thought he revisited the same topics too many times. Also, I didn’t like how he kept talking about “New York City” when he really meant downstate. (Hint: NYC != Long Island.)
I derived a small speck of amusement from the drone shot at 9:24; at that moment, the drone was stationed directly (or close enough to make no difference) above the notorious Central Warehouse, the ugliest building in the Hudson Valley. (BTW, apparently there is perhaps some real movement in the last few weeks toward demolition at last. But when precisely? Who knows?)
The other major weak point of the video was the short shrift given to the shrinkage of the major cities on the central I-90 backbone: Albany, Utica, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo. The narrator puts up rather eye-popping population figures from a century or so ago, then spends all of one-half sentence to point out that later, these cities shrank dramatically… and that was that. For a video supposedly about “why ‘nobody’ lives in Upstate New York,” that’s a rather serious lacuna. [‘Lacuna’ sounds like it should be a Chilean highland ruminant or something.]
Well, thanks to videos like this one, at least Upstate gets some attention somehow, I guess.
Another aside: southern Michigan was settled to a considerable extent by people who had originally settled in central New York. I wouldn’t have expected even an expert to take the time to mention this in a video of only twelve minutes and change as it would have been rather peripheral to the larger issues, but it does explain a little bit of the population shifts in the nineteenth century.
P. S.: it was surprising to me that Ogdensburg and Massena are so much larger than A-Bay or Clayton. But then I’ve been only to the latter two so far.
In other news, as if there wasn’t enough for one day already: https://ace.mu.nu/archives/408257.php
(I omitted internal blockquotes and bolded Ace’s commentary; it’s pretty clear what’s going on.)
Report: Mitch McConnell Lied to GOP Senators About Ukraine Aid Being Tied to Biden’s Performance In Closing the Border
The report claims further that GOP senators are sick enough of this repulsive foreign agent that his “leadership” is “in jeopardy”.
Bradley Devlin:
To ensure real border security, “I pushed for making the Ukraine funding contingent on actual border metrics,” like threshold and performance measures over a number of months, [Senator Ron] Johnson told TAC. “We definitely had a majority of our conference support that.”
“The only way you can get border security with a lawless administration is you have to tie it to something they want,” which was aid for Ukraine, Senator Rick Scott of Florida told TAC in a phone interview. “So a lot of us, and Ron Johnson was probably the most vocal on this, said we’ve got to have metrics and the numbers need to come down to the Trump numbers, or you don’t get the Ukraine aid over a period of time.”
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The reason the bill failed to secure the border, however, is because McConnell, after deputizing Lankford, prevented the senator from Oklahoma from attaching Ukraine aid to any real, concrete metric of bringing down the number of migrants entering the United States.
“Without telling anybody, apparently, McConnell, on his own, told Lankford that’s not even on the table,” Johnson said. Later, “we had that confirmed by Sinema, who said that James never asked for that.” For Johnson, it was “a breach of [McConnell’s] leadership position” by blowing off the consensus view of the conference.
McConnell is now pushing a standalone bill for Ukraine funding — and abandoning any pretense of wanting to protect America’s border at all.
Pivoting from one failed supplemental to likely another makes it “obvious that Mitch’s top priority is to provide aid to Ukraine–to secure Ukraine’s border before ours,” Johnson claimed. As for the Senate, Johnson says “this is not the world’s greatest deliberative body. We hardly deliberate at all.”
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“I have no idea why we’re doing it except for this: Senate leadership is obsessed,” Vance told Bannon. It’s “a borderline fetish with getting Ukraine money and they’re willing to give away all of our leverage to get it. Everybody needs to say this is a no-go. Vote no on this package. It is the single most important thing to kill in the U.S. Senate since I’ve been here. The worst piece of legislation, I think, in the U.S. Senate since I’ve been here and we’ve got to absolutely get it out of here.”
I don’t see any quotes by Senators calling for McConnell to be deposed. The closest they come is to imply it:
“I am hoping my colleagues are really taking a close hard look and asking themselves, ‘How did we get in a position where we’re being blamed for a problem that was 100% caused by Biden and his Democrat allies in Congress?'” Johnson said. “McConnell led us into that.”
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“There needs to be a change in how we manage and govern the conference,” Scott said. “Everybody I talk to basically agrees. I don’t know people who don’t agree with me that we have to govern the conference a different way.”
@ Jordan > “America first, by a l—o—o—ng mile.”
Thanks, Derb is always a bit off the wall but interesting.
The other segments of Derbyshire’s podcast are also newsworthy ponderings:
01:14 Null-T annulment. (Or de-de-designation.)
10:24 Them vs. U.S. (It’s their world, we just live in it.)
19:11 Trans child kidnap. (The Governor approves.)
23:34 Our troops in W. Asia. (Why?) (the segment Jordan quoted)
26:58 The United Nations racket. (Get us out!)
33:29 China (1): Struggling with demography. (Nothing works.)
37:15 China (2): Capital punishment. (A lot.)
39:13 The Navy’s recruiting problem. (Standards lowered again.)
“There has been a lot of tasteless jokes—I’ve made one or two myself—about the Federal Aviation Administration lowering standards for pilots and Air Traffic Controllers. Don’t be surprised, say the jokesters, if the plane you’re sitting in unexpectedly meets another one, in the air or on the runway.”
Israel will allow the exile of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar from the Gaza Strip in exchange for the release of all remaining 136 hostages, NBC reported on Thursday, citing six Israeli officials and senior advisers.”
However, the Hamas fighters, already irate that their other bosses are directing the carnage from very cushy safe places, may insist that he leave his bank account with them: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/384908
The Defense Minister says that out of millions of dollars transferred to Hamas, the Hamas leader takes one million. ‘Out of tens of millions – he puts what he needs into his pocket.’
h/t Barry Meislin — don’t ya love it when a thread comes together in synergy?
In November, Mosab Hassan Yousef called on Israel to set a time limit for Hamas to release the remaining 136 Israeli hostages, and to kill his father and other Hamas leaders if they don’t.
“Hamas must have a timeframe—a month or two or six months—to return the hostages, and if they don’t return the hostages within the time frame, Israel must execute top Hamas leaders in prison, especially the mass murderers,” said Yousef in a video message posted online.
“When I say execute top Hamas leaders, I mean no exceptions. That includes my own father, the co-founder of the Hamas movement. In this war, there are no exceptions,” added Yousef. “I made a mistake, 10 or 15 years ago, when I saved his life many times…he was supposed to die for his actions. I saved his life. Things did not change, things got worse,” he added.
He warned that Hamas is intentionally dragging out negotiations to extend the ceasefire with Israel.
“Hamas is going nowhere, and if we continue to negotiate with them, they will continue stretching these negotiations, taking us into a rabbit hole that will never end. And this is their goal: to get away with their crimes. We cannot allow this to happen,” he stressed.
IOW, instead of promising to release hundreds of Hamas terrorists for each Israeli hostage sent home, Israel should be threatening to kill hundreds for each hostage NOT released.
Nobody would believe they would do it, but Hamas and Iran et al. would not balk at such a threat themselves.
If I were a blood-feud-minded pagan, I would already be executing terrorists for each dead hostage at 100-to-1, so it’s a good thing I’m not.
@ Marisa > “Confessions of a Corrupt Liberal”
I’ve read some of Sasha Stone’s posts before, but that one was a real corker.
Heartily recommend; RTWT and at least sample the comments.
Her posts are almost impossible to summarize or excerpt without losing all the flavor.
RE Mann v Steyn: as a warning to others not to question the official climate change narrative, the jury also charged Steyn one million dollars in punitive damages.
The other major weak point of the video was the short shrift given to the shrinkage of the major cities on the central I-90 backbone: Albany, Utica, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo.
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The core cities have lost population in all five. In Buffalo and Utica, the whole dense settlement has lost some. Not so w/regard to the others.
Notice that he never provides cites.
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The Census Bureau, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics provide descriptive statistics with a keystroke. Navigating the BLS site i more challenging than is the other two.
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I grew up in upstate NY and could go on for hours about it (and I have). Now my go to comment about NY is that it’s a great place to be from. I admire and pity my friends and family who have stayed and somehow survived.
I’ve lived in upstate NY my whole life. Without even watching the video I already know the answer. First off, most of the northern part of the state is the Adirondack Park, which is the largest park in the lower 48. Even if it wasn’t designated as a park it wouldn’t be developed that much since it’s mostly mountains anyway. The rest of the State is made up of lots of areas of gently rolling foot hills and mountains divided by the Mohawk and Hudson river valleys. Historically a lot of it was used as farm land, but most farming is done elsewhere in the country these days so it remains largely undeveloped.
One of those days that I should go back to bed and cover my head with the covers.
SC is hearing arguments on the CO ballot ban. I heard one question from Sotomayor. I just shake my head to the level of incompetence.
Biden is upping the limits on particulates. Another disaster for the US.
The Border – what can I say
Israel – what can I say
Ukraine – what can I say
Republicans – what can I say
Well, I guess I will have my coffee now.
Biden, on Oct. 5, said he’d talked to “Mitterand” recently. Mitterand died in 1996. Then yesterday he said he had talked to Helmut Kohl at the 2021 G7 meeting. Kohl died in 2017, and Angela Merkel really could not be mistaken for him. This is typical of people in dementia. They can’t remember recent events but can recall names from years long gone. Biden’s mental condition is such that, if it were in our families, we’d be exercising powers of attorney to manage his affairs for him, since he’s no long fully capable.
Da dude wid dementia be presiding in absentia…
(But that’s OK, since “Biden” is in control, anyways…)
Michigan, where I’m from, seems similar, with roughly half of the population in the metro Detroit area, and hardly anyone living in the northern half of the state despite all the waterways and other natural resources. Why? Winter is brutal up there.
I also lived in Rochester for 11 years. I’m surprised he didn’t mention the St Lawrence Seaway, which together with railroads made the Erie Canal obsolete. He also didn’t mention the ridiculously high taxes in NY state, which make upstate uncompetitive with much of the country (and now are ruining NYC as well).
https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1755619449778930081
I know little of New York (state or city, except if you can make it there, you’ll make it anywhere), but I agree with the narrator’s comparison to Illinois and Chicago. It seems like the dominance of its large city is a major problem for Illinois. Unlike New York state, the vast majority of Illinois is not scenic and has minimal recreational value. Also, the progression of industrial farming over the past 50 years, or so, has not helped the many farming communities throughout much of the state.
Chicago, Cook County and a few, surrounding counties that incorporate key, Chicago suburbs make up about 80% of the state’s population and the other 20% is spread out across a huge land mass. The “Chicagoland” populace can always easily outvote the rest of the state, and, as is well known, the Chicago political machine is prone to corruption, graft and mismanagement. So, not only does Chicagoland get its way at the ballot box, much of what Chicago enacts politically is not only disastrous for the rest of the state, it’s also disastrous for the city itself.
When I was young much of Chicago seemed on the wane, but other parts of the state were pleasant. A lot of the small towns were well taken care of and residents seemed happy. Under the second Mayor Daley, and a conscious switch from “rustbelt” to tech, Chicago began to thrive in the ’90s and ’00s. I was amazed at the turnaround and how so much of the city changed. During that period much of the rest of the state was starting to struggle; towns like Rockford, Peoria, Decatur also lost significant “rustbelt” industries and failed to redevelop in the new, tech and service based economy. In the past 20 years that trend has continued.
So many of the mid and small sized cities and towns in Illinois are run down and depressing. I recently revisited Champaign-Urbana, where I spent 4 years attending the U of I. I was stunned at how ugly the town is. Streets are potholed, buildings are rundown… Even the neighborhoods were Professors traditionally lived were shoddy.
Aside from the very wealthy enclaves around Chicago I can’t think of a single, Illinois city or town I have seen in the last decade or so that does not appear depressed; economically and aesthetically.
It is hard to imagine a way out. My friends who are retired teachers, firemen, policemen, government employees… vow to fight any attempts at lowering their generous pensions. Hard to blame them. It was promised to them and they held up their end of the deal and put in their time. All the state can do to try to make up that debt shortfall is raise taxes, so most of those same friends move out of state once their kids are grown. This means Illinois ends up transferring pension payments to Tennessee, Florida and other states, where the money is spent and taxes on that money are levied.
Illinois is in a downward economic spiral. It has been for years and it is hard to imagine a way out. To the contrary, it has been worsening.
“Gradually. Then suddenly.”
Maybe Biden can talk to dead people.
Mike and Gadi chat up the news, Israel Update, “The UN Relief and Works Agency Is The Problem — Not The Solution”: https://rumble.com/v4c0f4b-the-un-relief-and-works-agency-is-the-problem-not-the-solution.html
I tried to comment yesterday on recent mondegreens I have seen in the captions might have been spam trapped.
Net an Yahoo
Rhonda Santis
My Orcas
Kate @11:13am,
100%. It is astounding how incapable President Biden is in his current condition. He can barely form coherent sentences. Joseph Biden was a compete mediocrity when he had all of his limited wits about him, but now? He is completely unfit to hold office. The fact that those around him, the Cabinet, his Administration, Congress, the Vice President… that no one is addressing this substantively shows that it is all politics; all the way down.
Sure
https://m.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-785834
Lake effect snow, and just snow in general is one reason. The high taxes to pay for NYC’s services and Albany’s bureaucracies is probably another. I don’t think the Iroquois really had much to do with it.
I don’t think NYC’s dynamism pulls the state’s residents southward into the city.
It’s not like the state’s borders prevent outsiders from moving in and funnel upstaters southward to NYC. Rather, the politics and policies that NYC favors aren’t the best for upstate. If taxes were lower and if the state and the country hadn’t been abandoning industry and agriculture for finance and the “knowledge economy,” upstate might be doing better.
Why isn’t there a major city up there on the St. Lawrence? Montreal developed better port facilities earlier, so there was little point in a US port isolated in the north country. The St. Lawrence is really Canada’s river. It’s the heart of the country and a lot more important to them than to us.
The “Laurentian elite” is a phrase I’ve seen quite a bit recently. Canada was built up and controlled by businessmen in the Ontario-Quebec corridor. When the “Laurentians” embraced the Liberal Party it became the country’s dominant political party, much to the resentment of some westerners. The Maritimes, beneficiaries of subsidies from Laurentian Canada, don’t have many objections.
I’m sure Chicago would be happy to host him…
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Related…
“‘He takes care of himself first’; How Iranian cash gets to Sinwar’s pocket”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/384908
+ Bonus:
This is an interesting development:
“‘Son of Hamas’ joins Israeli public diplomacy campaign;
“Mosab Hassan Yousef, also known as “The Green Prince,” is the son of a Hamas co-founder.”—
https://www.jns.org/son-of-hamas-joins-israeli-public-diplomacy-campaign/
Back in 2014, I built an outdoor stove out of stone, fire brick, concrete and steel. Having very little experience, I talked to the guy at the local Acme Brick company quiet a bit. He sold me the fire mortar and fire bricks. He told me to bring him pictures when it was done. I said ok. I took pictures and would forget to go by the place and then I wouldn’t have the pics in my truck. Months passed to years. I would forget about my promise. Today, almost 10 years later I went by the place with pictures. I noticed as I was walking up the door that this was literally their last day in that location. I went in and found out the guy had retired and died around 2017.
Don’t delay what you need to take care of!
Just a few short years ago I spent some time in Upstate NY (I grew up in NYC).
I was literally shocked at the poverty I saw there and literally how devoid of people it is. I intentionally drove on back roads just to see what it was like away from the big cities; it was empty of people and once bustling little towns are impoverished.
Upstate NY’ers have zero in common with those living in NYC and the counties very near NYC (Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland), but these counties control the entire NY State legislature by virtue of their population.
In effect, Upstate NY’ers have little to no say in how their state is run.
This is also true in several other states (Wa, Or, Pa, Ill, etc.)
The only way to correct this situation would be for NY Upstater’s to form a new state (e.g., Northern NY).
There have been some rumblings that Eastern Wa and Eastern Oregon are looking at either joining Idaho or forming a new state (the Inland Empire), but so far nothing of significance. Idaho would be more than happy to see these additions to their state.
I don’t know if this has been linked before but here is a disturbing article from Tablet in today’s “PowerLine picks”
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/fraudulent-case-against-violent-settlers
its funny how certain stations like newsmax, repeatedly miscaption obvious works like mayorkas and desantis, some foreign terms I understand
Not sure why he allocates Rockland County, NY to Upstate. The suburban tract development in Bergen County, NJ extends seamlessly into Rockland County (reaching Westchester does require crossing a bridge).
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In areal extent, New York is a below average state, not large.
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As for Upstate, the ratio of the population in core city / suburban zones to that in exurban / small town / rural zones is lower than is typical nationwide (.52 v. 1.33). There is still a mix of 2d, 3d, and 4th tier cities. It’s not rural to the degree the Dakotas or Mississippi or West Virginia are. The North Country is an extension of northern New England, wherein metropolitan development is limited to 4th tier cities (Burlington, Nashua, Manchester, Portland).
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Not many people work in agriculture, but it’s still significant. Dairy farming is the leading subsector. You have wineries, fruit growing, vegetables.
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Upstate is an example of an area which had seminal advantages which generated a self-sustaining process of in-migration and service development. There are still reasons to move there, work there, and live there. There are also reasons to do that elsewhere, so inmigration about balances outmigration. Economically, the place might be better off if government policy did not cater to Downstate preferences, but perhaps not. Only about 8% of Indiana’s population intersects with greater Chicago, so the preferences of more provincial areas will prevail there. Not the most economically dynamic of states.
Who Are the Military Personnel Working Against Trump?
https://redstate.com/mccabe/2024/02/08/tales-of-the-mccabe-who-are-the-military-national-security-personnel-working-against-trump-n2169793
A while ago, Neo had a post on patient portals. I have two appointments coming up and both sent me to the portals to complete information. Both were easy to navigate.
One provider is a radiology provider and I visited them last month. When I filled in the information, most of the information was already filled in so modification was easy.
The second provider is part of a university system and this is the first time I had to fill in forms online. It looks like most of the information will be retained for the next visit and will also be available to the entire university system. The consent form was very interesting since I had to consent to being observed by medical students, telemedicine (OU has hospitals, clinics, offices all over the state), medicines not approved by the FDA (Covid shots? as well as the teaching hospital & research system issue), photos, video and audio recordings (teaching aspect again). I also had to agree to messages left on phones, etc. I remember that when HIPPA first come out, doctor’s offices would not leave any messages since they were concerned about the wrong person hearing it.
Even after I filled in the forms, the places are still suggesting that I arrive 15 minutes ahead of the appointment to complete forms.
I was literally shocked at the poverty I saw there and literally how devoid of people it is.
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Last I checked, per capita personal income Upstate is about 5% below the national mean. The North Country is low density (most of it is parkland), as is the corridor which runs from Cooperstown to Kingston (some of which is parkland as well).
The only way to correct this situation would be for NY Upstater’s to form a new state (e.g., Northern NY).
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Not the only way. Reconstituting several states as confederations and then concluding interstate compacts to set up corporations to provide common government for components of one state conjoined to components of another might be desirable. New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Virginia might each be reconstituted into two components. DC might be retroceded to Maryland and then Maryland and New Jersey be re-constituted into three components each. Then you’d negotiate interstate compacts between Maryland and Virginia, between Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, and between New York and New Jersey.
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For purposes of congressional representation, you’d have six states each with two senators and between one and twenty-six congressional districts. You’d have special conferences of legislators elected from each component (proceeding by weighted voting) to draw congressional districts.
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For purposes of provincial government, you’d have greater New York, greater Philadelphia, greater Washington, rVirginia, rPennsylvania, Upstate New York, and a federation of autonomous components consisting of greater Baltimore and the residue of Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey. West Virginia could contract for certain services from one of the surrounding states.
https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1755607613776286090
Some seem to think the ruling will end up 9-0 in favor of rejecting the challenge. Perhaps Sotomayor may rule for allowing it though.
}}} Biden’s mental condition is such that, if it were in our families, we’d be exercising powers of attorney to manage his affairs for him, since he’s no long fully capable
It is blatantly obvious that someone should be raising a clear and readily argued challenge to Biden’s mental competency. I suspect the only reason it hasn’t been done is the prospect of a Harris administration. :-/
I think it would be an effective “Late September surprise” if the Dems actually are stupid enough to put him forth as a nominee. Make an open challenge, and it’s late enough that Harris would wind up with no power, per se, and it would throw any ballot including Biden into disarray.
Apropos of nothing but the fact that I was forcibly struck by it as part of the image of the mourners, was the fact that by my rough count 14 out of 20, most appearing relatively youngish, were wearing eyeglasses.
Seemed odd enough to cause me to count to double check my startled impression.
Family, I guess.
As far as Washington sinecure collectors being unconcerned with Jews being shot up while trapped in traffic jams, it is a reasonable inference that based on our border non enforcement policy, they feel the same way with regard to potential American victims
100%. It is astounding how incapable President Biden is in his current condition.
There were ads on X with Obama standing next to Biden and endorsing him. It made Biden look even worse by comparison, I can’t imagine it was helpful.
Kagan: “The question that you have to confront is why a single state should decide who gets to be President of the United States.”
Nonapod:
Good quote. Especially from Kagan.
I’m inclined to see the Supremes coming down hard on this case, for substantive reasons I’m sure, but deep down this is a threat to the Supremes’ power.
It’s one thing for the Supremes to decide on insurrection or who becomes POTUS. But not some pipsqueaks in Colorado.
as obiwan said once upon a time ‘from a certain point of view’ this is exactly what they want, they don’t want a strong and capable leader, they want a supplicant to the EU to Xi, to Putin in the matters of significance, to the Ayatollah,
“Nobody lives in upstate New York…”
Somebody should tell Nikki Haley that we’ve found her natural constituency!
Another political changer:
Confessions of a Corrupt Liberal
I voted “Blue no Matter Who” because I thought I was saving the World. I was wrong.
https://sashastone.substack.com/p/confessions-of-a-corrupt-liberal
JohnTyler and Art Deco,
Alliances other than proximity would make much more sense for many cities and counties. In modern life where communication is instantaneous and travel is nearly so, it is ridiculous Americans live less than optimally because of a geographic allegiance with a huge, urban center hundreds of miles away.
It’s not news to regular participants here, however, this phone video footage of a thief going into the Oakland Apple store and systematically yanking *every* Apple phone from its cord on the display tables, stuffing each phone into a pocket, while no one in the store does a thing, then brazenly walking past a parked police car…
Well, it’s breathtaking.
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1755222300964639135
What is the world coming to?
https://m.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-785904
“Basketball Ireland fully supports our players in their decision,” the national governing body for basketball in Ireland said in a statement.
Looks to me like he stole 60 or more iPhones. At $400-$1000 apiece, that’s quite a score. Well beyond the $950 misdemeanor limit for shoplifting in California.
Everybody already knew that trials in DC are exercises in politics, not law. But now we have more painful evidence.
“The climate scientist Michael Mann on Thursday won his defamation lawsuit against Rand Simberg, a former adjunct scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and Mark Steyn, a contributor to National Review.”
“The six-member jury announced its unanimous verdict after a four-week trial in District of Columbia Superior Court and one full day of deliberation. They found both Mr. Simberg and Mr. Steyn guilty of defaming Dr. Mann with multiple false statements and awarded the scientist $1 in compensatory damages from each writer.”
NY Times. 2/8/2024
http://tinyurl.com/y46vc3n4
What is the world coming to?
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Well, various subsets of the Irish have been in the business of providing evidence that Princess Margaret in her cups had their number.
Alliances other than proximity would make much more sense for many cities and counties.
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No clue in re what you’re thinking.
As someone said: Lake Effect. I’ve seen 3′ in 7 hours blowing into 6-8 feet drifts.
HIPPA is a joke. It’s effective to keep you from finding out about your mother’s condition, but everybody and his brother with even an ancillary relationship to the Healthcare Industrial Complex has access to your complete records.
Ashkenazi Jews have IQs more than one standard deviation above average. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4306218/
Incidentally asians are even more myoptic.
Art Deco has a knack for making the rest of us look things up. Cheers to that (not sarcasm). So I did.
Princess Margaret became embroiled in the Irish issue in 1979 when she allegedly said to the Mayor of Chicago, Jane M. Byrne, that ”the Irish are pigs. ‘
“America first, by a l—o—o—ng mile.”
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1755752965028110357
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1755763208835486170
Art Deco has a knack for making the rest of us look things up.
Not me.
I consider it AD’s onus to provide cites, not for us to google and verify what are often just his opinions or mistakes.
Notice that he never provides cites.
Corflour @7:06pm,
That is very depressing.
huxley on February 8, 2024 at 6:46 pm
Reference the Apple store cell phone thief: well, in spite of his modest attempt at hiding his face, he left his finger prints on that glass door if the police even want to bother taking them.
I wonder if the store display models have some way to track them, or that they might fail to work after some time or distance from the store unless they are “activated” somehow? I guess the thief knows, even if I don’t.
R2L:
Good points. I asked Chat about deactivation and possible hacking.
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While theoretically possible, hacking into a remotely deactivated iPhone, especially one that’s been disabled by Apple due to theft, is extremely challenging. These devices are equipped with advanced security features, including hardware-software integration that significantly limits unauthorized access. Apple’s Activation Lock, part of the Find My service, effectively ties the device to an Apple ID, making it difficult to bypass without the original user’s credentials.
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(I’m sure I could google it myself, but for this sort of thing Chat cuts to the chase faster.)
Huxley:
To be precise, the Apple store is in Emeryville, a small city at the eastern foot of the Bay Bridge nestled between Oakland and Berkeley.
Cites (references) please, says the dude who likes to “talk” to an algorithm.
“Feed me Seymour!”
There were some interesting points in the video about Upstate, especially the consideration given to the role of the St. Lawrence, but overall I didn’t like it all that much. Too much repetition, the narrator burned a fair amount of the run time repeating himself, and I thought he revisited the same topics too many times. Also, I didn’t like how he kept talking about “New York City” when he really meant downstate. (Hint: NYC != Long Island.)
I derived a small speck of amusement from the drone shot at 9:24; at that moment, the drone was stationed directly (or close enough to make no difference) above the notorious Central Warehouse, the ugliest building in the Hudson Valley. (BTW, apparently there is perhaps some real movement in the last few weeks toward demolition at last. But when precisely? Who knows?)
The other major weak point of the video was the short shrift given to the shrinkage of the major cities on the central I-90 backbone: Albany, Utica, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo. The narrator puts up rather eye-popping population figures from a century or so ago, then spends all of one-half sentence to point out that later, these cities shrank dramatically… and that was that. For a video supposedly about “why ‘nobody’ lives in Upstate New York,” that’s a rather serious lacuna. [‘Lacuna’ sounds like it should be a Chilean highland ruminant or something.]
Well, thanks to videos like this one, at least Upstate gets some attention somehow, I guess.
Another aside: southern Michigan was settled to a considerable extent by people who had originally settled in central New York. I wouldn’t have expected even an expert to take the time to mention this in a video of only twelve minutes and change as it would have been rather peripheral to the larger issues, but it does explain a little bit of the population shifts in the nineteenth century.
P. S.: it was surprising to me that Ogdensburg and Massena are so much larger than A-Bay or Clayton. But then I’ve been only to the latter two so far.
In other news, as if there wasn’t enough for one day already:
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/408257.php
(I omitted internal blockquotes and bolded Ace’s commentary; it’s pretty clear what’s going on.)
@ Jordan > “America first, by a l—o—o—ng mile.”
Thanks, Derb is always a bit off the wall but interesting.
The other segments of Derbyshire’s podcast are also newsworthy ponderings:
01:14 Null-T annulment. (Or de-de-designation.)
10:24 Them vs. U.S. (It’s their world, we just live in it.)
19:11 Trans child kidnap. (The Governor approves.)
23:34 Our troops in W. Asia. (Why?) (the segment Jordan quoted)
26:58 The United Nations racket. (Get us out!)
33:29 China (1): Struggling with demography. (Nothing works.)
37:15 China (2): Capital punishment. (A lot.)
39:13 The Navy’s recruiting problem. (Standards lowered again.)
“There has been a lot of tasteless jokes—I’ve made one or two myself—about the Federal Aviation Administration lowering standards for pilots and Air Traffic Controllers. Don’t be surprised, say the jokesters, if the plane you’re sitting in unexpectedly meets another one, in the air or on the runway.”
QED h/t miguel cervantes earlier in this thread:
https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1755607613776286090
BREAKING: 2 JetBlue planes collide at Boston Logan International Airport
As someone noted about most Babylon Bee stories:
They aren’t conspiracy theories, they’re spoiler alerts.
@ Miguel cervantes > “Sure”
https://m.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-785834
Well, it could happen, in some parallel universe:
However, the Hamas fighters, already irate that their other bosses are directing the carnage from very cushy safe places, may insist that he leave his bank account with them:
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/384908
h/t Barry Meislin — don’t ya love it when a thread comes together in synergy?
Also from Barry: talk about a “changer!”
https://www.jns.org/son-of-hamas-joins-israeli-public-diplomacy-campaign/
IOW, instead of promising to release hundreds of Hamas terrorists for each Israeli hostage sent home, Israel should be threatening to kill hundreds for each hostage NOT released.
Nobody would believe they would do it, but Hamas and Iran et al. would not balk at such a threat themselves.
If I were a blood-feud-minded pagan, I would already be executing terrorists for each dead hostage at 100-to-1, so it’s a good thing I’m not.
@ Marisa > “Confessions of a Corrupt Liberal”
I’ve read some of Sasha Stone’s posts before, but that one was a real corker.
Heartily recommend; RTWT and at least sample the comments.
Here’s another of her posts that is relevant to today’s news about the SCOTUS hearings on Trump vs Colorado and the 14th Amendment.
https://sashastone.substack.com/p/riots-are-not-insurrections
Her posts are almost impossible to summarize or excerpt without losing all the flavor.
RE Mann v Steyn: as a warning to others not to question the official climate change narrative, the jury also charged Steyn one million dollars in punitive damages.
The other major weak point of the video was the short shrift given to the shrinkage of the major cities on the central I-90 backbone: Albany, Utica, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo.
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The core cities have lost population in all five. In Buffalo and Utica, the whole dense settlement has lost some. Not so w/regard to the others.
Notice that he never provides cites.
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The Census Bureau, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics provide descriptive statistics with a keystroke. Navigating the BLS site i more challenging than is the other two.