Saturday, March 30, 2024
"MAKE THE ACA, or OBAMACARE, AS IT IS KNOWN, MUCH BETTER, STRONGER, AND FAR LESS EXPENSIVE."
Written by:
- DSA (Democratic Socialists of America)
- DJT (Donald J. Trump)
Answer below.
Sunday, March 31, 2024
Happy birthday law professor David.
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"Indigenous leaders of New Zealand, Tahiti and the Cook Islands signed a historic treaty that recognizes whales as legal persons in a move conservationists believe will apply pressure to national governments to offer greater protections for the large mammals." https://
The Alabama State Legislature quickly responded by giving whale embryos the right to vote.
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Ordinary conversations about taxes usually center on federal income taxes, one schedule across the board. Wide variety is found at the state level, however, where a variety of taxes may be imposed, income, property, sales, excise. Here is a ranking of states by the aggregate tax rate on its citizens.
Alaska at the top (or bottom according to your perspective) is no surprise. There's not much there to tax and oil revenue supports many public programs. Delaware, in second place, is home to myriad corporations taking advantage of its business-friendly legal system. While the highly-placed western states are relatively empty and aggressively individualistic, the rest seem to fall into place with the anomalous exception of Mississippi in 39th place. It has the lowest median income of all 50 states, yet imposes a relatively high tax burden, leaving their woeful citizenry even worse off.
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Russ & Daughters, 179 East Houston Street, has been around for 110 years and has been recognized as a preeminent supplier of life-sustaining elements, such as lox, whitefish and herring, for much of that time. Ten years ago, it opened a cafe around the corner and down the block at 127 Orchard Street, once the Ho Chi Minh Trail of Jewish bargain hunting, open on Sunday when more genteel venues were closed.
While I have shopped at the retail location for more than half a century, I ate at the cafe for the first time today. The menu is rife with the foods I grew up with, the caviar a notable exception, some gussied up and given punning names, such as Yum Kippered, a plate of kippered salmon, cream cheese, bagel or bialy, tomato, onion, and capers ($22), my young bride's choice. I had Lower Sunny Side, two fried eggs, two big slices of Gaspe nova and two thick potato latkes ($23).
The menu includes beer, wine and liquor, and significantly five different egg creams or, more accurately, an original recipe egg cream ($6) and four somewhat attenuated variants. With some reluctance, I skipped them and ordered a cold brewed iced coffee, delicious in its own right ($6).
When we walked in around 2:30 PM, the joint was jumping, but emptied as the 3:30 PM closing time approached. Weekdays, closing is at 2:30 PM. Historical footnote -- In 1968, I dated a daughter of a Daughter. It didn't last or else today I would be sitting atop an empire of lox, whitefish and pickled herring.
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The streets were quite empty compared to Russ & Daughters, possibly because it was Easter Sunday. One other Lower East Side institution was busy, though, Economy Candy, 108 Rivington Street, established in 1937. It claims to be the oldest candy shop in the Holy Land and I have never seen an establishment with more wrapped candy of every sort.
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Monday, April 1, 2024
Madison Square Garden beckoned, the last Ranger game of the regular season for me. I will be conducting a Novena for playoff tickets. Sam Fuchs, Navy veteran, was my companion this evening. We met first at bb.q Chicken, 25 West 32nd Street, a first rate chicken joint. I hadn't noticed until today that they have many, many California locations and others scattered throughout the land, so you can have sticky fingers right alongside me. https://bbqchicken.com/
We ate heartily to prepare for an evening on the ice. I had Jamaican Rice Bowl, fried chicken chunks, jerk sauce and scrambled eggs over rice ($9.95), good tasting and obviously filling. In fact, we should have stuck with the chicken. It didn’t disappoint; the Broadway Blueshirts did, however.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
I lured Michael Ratner over to the West Side by promoting the Twin Tuesday Special at Pastrami Queen, 138 West 72nd Street. That’s two sandwiches on dinner rolls, pastrami and corned beef with an order of French fries, pickles and coleslaw for $19.95. Your Dr. Brown’s is à la carte.
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Overall, I can't challenge the New York Times current list of 100 best local restaurants, although a few of my favorites are missing.
https://www.nytimes.com/If they ask you to pay, try this approach.
The value of the list is its catholicity, covering a broad array of cuisines, neighborhoods, price levels, and formality, and is good reading for that point alone. I'll try to get to more of them and report accordingly.
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Last week, I unnecessarily informed you that Finland is the happiest country in the world. Today, I will waste your time with the happiest cities in the good old USA.
Fremont, California repeats, just as Finland did. This medium-size city is in the ambit of Silicon Valley. It has the lowest divorce rate among the 180 or so largest cities in the country and leads in “emotional and physical well-being” according to its emotionally and physically fit residents.
On the flip side, another survey comes up with the worst cities based on census data.
Half of the top (bottom) ten are in the Rust Belt and New Jersey takes two places.
Thursday, April 4, 2024
According to Forbes Magazine, “[t]here are now more billionaires than ever: 2,781 in all, 141 more than last year and 26 more than the record set in 2021. They’re richer than ever, worth $14.2 trillion in aggregate, up by $2 trillion from 2023.”
How’s by you?
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I went for a post post-op visit today at the Hospital for Special Surgery. The very insightful Dr. Beatty found me fit as a fiddle, an out-of-tune fiddle that is.
Friday, April 5, 2024
“A preliminary 4.7 magnitude earthquake rattled buildings across parts of the Northeast Friday morning, according to data from the US Geological Survey, with reports of temblors being felt from Philadelphia to New York City.”
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