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Every so often, we dispense with the guests and just let the hosts riff on whatever comes to their minds. That’s what we did for this week’s show, as Peter, Rob, and James jam about Joe Biden entering the race, the politics of impeachment, the new found popularity of socialism, including Medicare For All and cancelling student loans (in certain sectors of the culture), and finally, Rob’s (somewhat sad) impending departure from Venice, CA.
Music from this week’s show: California by Lenny Kravitz
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When I select the posts I published it only goes back a few months. Where can I access the posts I published from years back?
It’s a known issue and Max is working on it:
http://ricochet.com/members/max/activity/1371712/
(“Restore pagination to member post archives”)
If I were to move to Minnesota, it would be so I can write “James Lileks” in the snow.
“According to the latest Medscape Physician Compensation Report, 7% of doctors are not accepting new-patient visits from Medicare beneficiaries. Another 4% will stop treating some or all of their current Medicare patients, and will no longer take on new ones. A surprising 16% of providers surveyed said that they are still deciding about taking on and treating new Medicare and Medicaid patients.” — infinx.com, July 3, 2018
Is that how they traditionally count votes in Minnesota?
The date on this Podcast is April 26. Even so, the text of the advertisement for Pro Flowers begins: “Valentine’s Day is just days away.” Copy editor, please call your office
There should be something on the page-embedded players, too. In order to allow for proper level ranges. Although this site, most of the time anyway, does okay there. Some places have streaming and podcast audio with the level so low, even cranking it up all the way on your end, isn’t enough. Plus then anything else that comes alone – email notification, etc – can be deafening.
There are no bloated, inefficient, leftist “government grocery stores” to deal with, that will try to stop any kind of voucher system, etc.
Good catch, will fix.
I’m always available . . .
True. There are differences to be accounted for. However, even the existence of food banks like Golden Harvest has hardly put a dent in grocery store sales. The real competition will come from private schools. The question is, what will be the tipping point where the teachers unions say, “You know, we’d better start teaching more and preaching less”?
Peter got a little too enthused trying to make Joe Biden into the savior of the Great American Center. It turns out Robinson’s dark side/alter ego is just Hubert Humphrey, which means even his dark side is a nice guy–is anybody surprise by that?
But I’m afraid it’s too late to unleash a new Happy Warrior. Humphrey would be considered a Nazi by the modern left. And even a legendary opinion poll-surfer like Biden will not be able to flip fast enough to bake the cake the Democratic Party’s donors and activists will demand.
This is the only possible solution. Government monopoly union-represented teachers will never improve. There’s no need for them to improve. The worse they do, the more money they get.
Total privatization is ultimately the only hope.
Calling public education socialist is actually an insult to socialism.
No socialist would set up a system in which the more experience you have, the easier your assignment; while the toughest schools get a new crop of rookies every year. But that’s what union seniority rules require.
Public education violates the First Amendment, in any case.
In the early 20th century, when the Supreme Court crossed out the first five words of the First Amendment, so that it could use it against state and local governments, public education was grandfathered in.
It’s been an interesting couple years without health insurance. When you pay cash you get to learn the cost of things. Take the Dentist. A checkup is 100 bucks, a tooth extraction $125, but a root canal is nearly a $1000. The other week I went to an urgent care (aka Statcare) and talked to the LPN (which resolved my problem). That bit was $200, but for paying in cash they gave me a 60% discount.
I find I pay less than $500 a year for routine care. Without the incentive of not being able to get coverage for a pre-existing condition, I’ll wait til something comes up to get my Obama-care.
Listening to Rob Long talk about the sorting of his belongings and the decisions he needs to make regarding keeping them or disposing of them I thought of a Ricochet fundraiser:
All members of Ricochet can bid on Rob’s cast offs.
It’s not fair to include data and a citation in a discussion. :)
That’s not something they can just decide. They’ve gone through years of “teacher’s school” that didn’t teach THEM how to do a decent job, so they really couldn’t even if they wanted to.
That’s another “first cause” type of problem, at least that’s how I think of it.
The social purpose of marriage is not for any two (or more?) people (or barnyard animals?) of whatever mix-and-match “genders,” to be “Happy.”
Similarly, the social purpose of education is not for teachers, administrators, etc, to feel like they had a rewarding career and then a comfortable retirement.
But over time, that’s what it has become.
It’s a terrible movie in many ways, but one line from Nick Nolte in the movie “Teachers” hit the nail on the head: “They’re (students) not here for us (teachers). We’re here for them!”
That is a good point. Teacher schools have become cesspools of romantic and anti-empirical approaches to teaching. Much like millennials, much of the blame for how they turned belongs to the institution that betrayed them.
You know it’s really ALL software, right? “Volume control” on the keyboard is just sending signals to the software.
But the point remains, the embedded podcast player(s) should have a volume control too. If only so a boost can be applied if the recorded volume is lower than it really should be. Without that option, you could turn your computer’s volume up all the way, and still might not have enough.
Yes, I know. The point was that not all keyboards have that.
We’ll look into restoring the volume slider.
This story made me laugh when it got to the electric car bit.
It’s always nice to see leftists hoisted by their own petard, as it were. Something like the expression you’d expect to see on Mazie Hirono’s stupid face after pointing out that if she and AOC et al were to be successful at eliminating air travel, Hawaii is doomed.
Looking good so far. I was seeing “undefined” next to them for a while, but that’s cleared now.
There are still some font problems, I would say in particular for the numbers of comments etc. Those are hard to read, especially for 2s and 3s and 5s and 8s which look too similar.
The Robinhood promos are usually wrong too. They say “smartgirl” instead of “ricochet.”
The Pro Flowers ad module has been fixed. We’ll fix the Robinhood one too. Thanks for the heads up.
And I found surveys that went up to 38% not accepting new patients. The point is Medicare and Medicaid must cut costs if they are to avoid the looming financial cliff. As reimbursements shrink and are further delayed, more and more private practices will close until all that’s left are mega-health care centers. They’ll be like WalMart, but with the low prices . . .
And Chinese doctors?