120% of normal.
So, to the Leftists in my state:
Shut the fuck up. Your water content is up and will provide for a good summer.
BZ
120% of normal.
So, to the Leftists in my state:
Shut the fuck up. Your water content is up and will provide for a good summer.
BZ
Greybeard at Pitchpull has a video up on his site in which Lt Col Allen B West speaks about his country and himself, and how things out to be:
Question for my readers:
Negotiation between organized workers and their employer or employers to determine wages, hours, rules, and working conditions.
I hope to be retiring soon. It will be incredibly interesting to see the quality of law enforcement we will get in the future. But first you even have to find people interested in making the kinds of sacrifices demanded by the job. On both fronts: good luck with that.Perhaps we should privatize all cops. You could pay per call. Those using lots of LE dollars on calls could be tossed into debtors’ prisons because, of course, they’re the ones producing the greatest amounts of problems. We could run a ticket, like a private box medic rig:-First, taking the call: $190-Processing and dispatching the call: $100-Start Fee for responding vehicle: $50-Plus mileage-Plus idling/dwell time: $5 per minute (no charge if vehicle shut off)-$250 per officer for first officer; subsequent officers @ $200 each for first hour-Each additional hour, per officer, @$300-Rounds fired from weapons, LTL weapons loads per unit, billed at replacement costs + 10%-Injuries to officers billed at medical rates + time off + potential rehabilitation + 25%-Damage to vehicles assessed at replacement/repair costs +10%And so on.All fees to be adjusted whenever necessary, so that the private provider doesn’t bear the fiscal burden of additional taxes, fees, fines, and living costs by itself only. The private company will have a bottom line and stockholders to please, as you well know.Private police should also logically be incentivized such as the private sector. More money for more citations, more money for greater number of arrests, bonuses for solving community problems, bonuses for reducing calls for service in given geographical areas.This privatization thing for cops could work out well, it appears.On the other hand, like everyone else, they could be RIF’d during tough times and, like the private sector, strike and walk out if they can get away with it.They can also leave at any time and join another department at a moment’s notice if it pays better and/or conditions are better.Good luck getting people to work in high risk/low gain places like NY, LA, Detroit, Houston, New Orleans, Chicago, etc. Private cops would, naturally, want to work for Honolulu or Capitola or New Bedford or Coronado or Beverly Hills — or not work in the field at all. Let someone else make poor pay, few benefits and be shot at, stabbed, spit upon, etc.I’m starting to like this private sector thing. Yes, high risk but, potentially high gain with bonuses, 401Ks, paid incentives, etc. Otherwise: leave the job and find another.
Looking at population projections for Texas, demographer Steve Murdock concludes: “It’s basically over for Anglos.”
Two of every three Texas children are now non-Anglo and the trend line will become even more pronounced in the future, said Murdock, former U.S. Census Bureau director and now director of the Hobby Center for the Study of Texas at Rice University.
Steve MurdockToday’s Texas population can be divided into two groups, he said. One is an old and aging Anglo and the other is young and minority. Between 2000 and 2040, the state’s public school enrollment will see a 15 percent decline in Anglo children while Hispanic children will make up a 213 percent increase, he said.
The state’s largest county – Harris – will shed Anglos throughout the coming decades. By 2040, Harris County will have about 516, 000 fewer Anglos than lived in the Houston area in 2000, while the number of Hispanics will increase by 2.5 million during the same period, Murdock said. The projection assumes a net migration rate equal to one-half of 1990-2000.
From Reuters:
Feb 24 (Reuters) – Oil production in Libya is expected to shut down completely and could be lost for a prolonged period of time, Bank of America Merrill Lynch said on Thursday.
“We expect Libyan production to be shut down completely and we might lose sweet crudes from Libya for a prolonged period of time,” Bank of America Merrill Lynch analyst Sabine Schels told Reuters.
Schels said that the world faced the prospect of real supply shock in which the loss of 1.6 million barrels per day of sweet oil could potentially trigger a steep rise in prices and force a sharp reduction in demand to balance the system.
“Some of the supply can be replaced with Saudi light crude and some from SPR, but if the disruption is prolonged, we will need demand to drop to balance the system,” Schels said.
Stand by. Impact coming.
BZ