A doctor cycling along the Pacific Coast Highway in California was mowed down by a driver who then got out of his vehicle and stabbed the cyclist to death while screaming ‘white privilege’ slurs.
Dr. Michael Mammone, 58, of Laguna Beach, was on his bike in Dana Point when he was struck by the driver of a white Lexus.
The driver allegedly sped through a red light at an intersection before running over Mammone on Wednesday afternoon, KABC reported.
He then jumped out of his vehicle and stabbed the victim multiple times in the back before bystanders tackled him to stop the attack.
W.C. Varones
Someday the mountain might get him but the law never will
2.03.2023
Maybe teaching racial division and hatred wasn't such a good idea after all
9.01.2022
7.20.2022
Seems legit
WSJ:
Calpers’ stock portfolio returned minus 13.1%, while bonds returned minus 14.5%, the pension fund said. Those losses delivered a double blow for retirement funds and other savers who have long relied on those two assets to move in opposite directions.It's a CalPERS miracle!
Private equity and real estate returned 21.3% and 24.1%, respectively.
4.23.2022
Quotations from Chairman Varones
Inflation is progressive utopians encountering resource constraints for the first time.
4.08.2022
Taxable brokerage vs. traditional 401(k) account
The common wisdom says pre-tax 401(k)s and IRAs beat taxable accounts hands-down. But it's not so clear to me. If you put buy-and-hold stocks or index funds in a taxable brokerage account, it's actually remarkably tax-efficient because of the ability to defer capital gains, and the preferable tax rates on dividends and capital gains.
Here's a spreadsheet where you can play with the assumptions (you'll have to make a copy for yourself to edit): link.
Yes, traditional beats taxable in simplified base case, but this ignores:
- tax loss harvesting
- HIFO withdrawals
- foreign tax credits
- higher potential future tax rates
1.10.2022
10.30.2021
CDC reached completely unsupported conclusion to downplay natural immunity, support mandates
The CDC announced a study showing that "vaccination offers higher protection than previous COVID-19 infection."
The study shows no such thing. In fact, the data considered in the study aren't sufficient to even attempt to make such a conclusion.
The media gleefully and unquestioningly repeated the CDC's nonsense.
In case I get banned from Twitter for questioning "The Science," here are the tweets:
For example, the vaccinated people skew much older than the recovered in this study. If, as seems obvious, older people tend to go to the hospital more with non-Covid respiratory illnesses than young people do, that would explain this data. Yet the CDC insists this says something about Covid natural immunity instead.
Or if some people went to the hospital due to side effects from the vaccine. "See," the CDC claims, "that improves the ratio and proves vaccines are better than natural immunity!"
Others have pointed out that the 90-179 day post-vaccination window seems cherry-picked to maximize favorable outcomes for the vaccine, as the Israeli and other studies have shown vaccine efficacy drops off significantly after that period. And others have pointed out the tiny sample size of recovered people who were hospitalized and tested positive (i.e. it's both extremely rare for natural immunity to fail, and it's bad science to try to draw conclusions!). And Thomas Massie points out that they are counting “long Covid” as re-infections which might very well explain most of the cases in the study!
This is obviously a politically ordered result to support Biden's vaccine mandate push. The fact that they couldn't come up with a supportable conclusion is telling.
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Body Count goes to Vegas! Ernest Scherer III was a Vegas loser who fancied himself a professional poker player. Doesn't that photo tell ...
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UPDATE: Edited to remove the guy's name. I hope nobody harasses him or his employer. He was good-natured and his sign was innocuous a...
Maybe teaching racial division and hatred wasn't such a good idea after all
Doctor cycling in California run down, stabbed by driver screaming about ‘white privilege’ : A doctor cycling along the Pacific Coast Highwa...