Houston right now is a mess. OK. East Texas is a mess. No, I’m not talking about politics- but the situation as a result of Hurricane/Tropical Storm/Rain Storm Harvey. A name surely to be retired from the potential National Weather Service nomenclature.
And, I heard a great story. One that reminds me that almost every community has a hometown hero.
Continue reading Yes. A Tea Party Member
It’s a truism that reforming the corporate tax rates should encourage businesses to invest in ways to improve their bottom line. That normally means finding a way to enhance productivity. But, that also means the lower rates are part of a program to remove special interests.
Continue reading Real Tax Reform- that grows America and it’s businesses!
Way back in 1970, Dr. Milton Friedman postulated an heretical (at least for then) idea in the New York Times Magazine. (The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits, 13 September 1970. There is no link, because it predates the internet.) The fact that it took hold over corporate thinking was, to me, amazing.
Continue reading A turning point?
A tale I love telling. For several reasons. A potential method for treating cancer. And, the development was effected by chemical engineers.
Continue reading Cancer Breakthrough?
Lyophilization.
Fancy term, right? It means freeze drying. It’s a process I used decades ago for my medical and pharmaceutical product development projects. It preserves the biological quality of the specimens.
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More finagling with Obamacare. TheDonald keeps screwing with the insurance companies so that PPACA will die. And, since he is clearly the smartest person in the world (do you think he drinks Dos Equis?)- NOT, he is positive that the world will believe that he didn’t kill it, but it died a natural death. (Hmm. Must be like the Nazis and KKK- that had a torch march on Friday night, threatened the Jews of Charlottesville (without guns while they marched, with guns by the only synagogue in Charlottesvile), and employed vehicular manslaughter (with 19 others maimed and hurt)- were the ones endangered and justified in their actions.)
Continue reading Fake Savings!
I should tell you that I don’t routinely read the obits. Oh, sure, I have friends who grab my paper to reach the Metro Section and flip to the end. where the obits reside. I always tell them I’ll let them know if they are wirtten up there- there’s no need to study those pages.
Continue reading Woman of STEM
Shh. It’s a secret. It the birthday of my eldest. Of course, we use the time a baby breathes its first, but Shoshana took way more than a day from the time her mother’s water broke to enter into the world.
Continue reading 22 August, XXXX
Continue reading Rosh Chodesh Elul 2017
For those Americans who have come upon hard times, the choice to end their problems is almost always bankruptcy. Individuals who earn about the median for their area and can’t repay their debts can file Chapter 7. Assuming there is no lying or subterfuge in the application, one’s debts can be adjudicated and the taxpayer gets a clean slate. (Clean in that they owe no money- but they no longer have access to credit cards [for a few years, at least] and their credit history will reflect the bankruptcy.) Of course, one’s assets (over a certain value) are used to satisfy [that’s a legal term, you can bet the credits are NOT satisfied not receiving all that they owe) the creditors’ demands.
