Thursday, January 25, 2018

Links for 1/25/18

https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/distinctly-catholic/links-12518
MGB:_The Democratic base is angry, period, because Trump is President. It made little sense not to take SCHIP and run last time. As for dealing with the Dreamers, the whole fiasco still made Trump look stupid, but that takes little effort. McConnell was still his weaselly self. Schumer needs to get sixty votes to do the Dream Act on his own and seize the ground from Mitch. The Dream program, however, needs to go. Rather, eliminate the requirement of current legal status for Student Visa, Military Service, H-1B visas and Resident Alien Cards and let people qualify as they can. It makes sense and it will never happen. The part of the GOP that liikes slave labor will never allow the change.

The concern about global warming is antropoloigcal. The planet will be fine. I wrote a piece about AI. Machines can certainly learn to ”do human” in discussion, but the melding of minds as Kurzweil suggests in a recent book is too borglike for people to go for. Davos should talk about the madness of King Donald and what to do about it.

The American government is in the pockets of oil and coal. China needs to move some of its solar cell manufacturing here and Davos should hyper-fund fusion despite long term loss of U.S. funding. This is a matter of beating the Koch brothers personally and directly. Until they are bankrupted, they will fund mischief.

On Barros, the incident in question is rather blatant, which is the problem with story. What was the age of victim? Was this a forced kiss or were they ”together?” Was there alcohol involved? This is a point where more detail is needed just to establish what happened. I will grant that Francis is a bit more pro-bishop than we need him to be but remember that Barros was not a bishop at the time. More information is needed.

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