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RENO, Nev. — Adam Gunn pitched seven strong innings and Jake Rickenbach hit a two-run home run as Utah Valley University topped the University of Nevada, 6-1, on Sunday afternoon at Peccole Park.
Gunn gave up just one unearned run while striking out five without allowing a walk to earn his first win in a Wolverine uniform. Preston Olson pitched a perfect eighth and ninth to earn his first save.
"We had a lot better energy today and Adam really set the tempo with the way he was throwing," head coach Eric Madsen said. "We got back to the basics offensively and defensively made some good plays. We still need to find a way to get the big hits but today was a lot better than it was yesterday."
Gunn was perfect in his first three innings — including striking out the side in the first — before Rickenbach's two-out, two-run home run to left gave the Wolverines (2-5) their first lead of the series in the top of the fourth.
Nevada (5-2) got a pair of hits in the bottom of the fourth, on a bunt single and an infield single, but Gunn escaped the jam by getting Carlos Escobar Jr. to ground out and Austin Byler to fly out to end the inning.
The score remained 2-0 until the seventh when UVU's Alex Exon singled with the bases full to score Willie Pratt and give Utah Valley a 3-0 lead.
The Wolfpack would get their lone run in the bottom of the seventh on Kewby Meyer's RBI single. However, Gunn was able to wiggle out of any more trouble when, with runners on the corners and one out, the UVU starter got consecutive pop-outs to end the frame and his solid seven-inning performance.
Utah Valley took advantage of nine walks by Nevada pitchers, including three in the ninth that helped add the final trio of insurance runs. Goose Kallunki had an RBI single in the ninth with Cole Butcher bringing home a run when he walked with the bases loaded. Jordy Hart reached on a fielder's choice that scored Kallunki for the final run.
Rickenbach, Sean Moysh, Kai Hatch and Exon each had two hits for Utah Valley while Brett Jones had two of the four hits for the Wolfpack.
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Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Paul D'Anieri has appointed Kathryn Uhrich as Dean of UCR's College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences. She is currently Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She will start Jan. 1.
"Kathryn Uhrich has excelled as an academic administrator, interdisciplinary researcher and inspiring educator. Her multidisciplinary research has spurred new technologies as well as creative collaborations with agricultural and plant researchers," said Provost D'Anieri. "We are very much looking forward to her arrival at UCR."
D'Anieri expressed his appreciation for the dedication of interim dean Cynthia Larive, professor of chemistry and for the effort of the search committee, led by Michael Pazzani, UCR's vice chancellor for research.
Uhrich, a distinguished polymer chemist, served from 2009 through 2013 as Dean of Mathematical and Physical Sciences in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers. Serving more than 300 faculty in six departments, she developed programs to increase research and teaching collaborations between departments and colleges in the university. Working with the department chairs, she led the modification of the university's promotion process to recognize contributions of academic leadership. Under her leadership, support for research funding and assistance with applications for extramural funding increased along with university investments in new approaches to teaching science.
"UCR's commitment to excellence in interdisciplinary research, inclusion, education, and international engagement strongly aligns with my experience and expertise," said Uhrich. "The excellence within the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences is well-known by scholars, and it is an honor to join the faculty and leadership team of UC Riverside. I am excited to work with staff and faculty to further academic excellence, as well as with students and alumni who have benefited from UCR's commitment to excellence."
Both as dean and leading member of the Rutgers faculty, Uhrich worked with the university leadership and state legislators to initiate the construction and design of a new chemistry/science building to expand both the research and teaching capacity of the faculty. Previously, as graduate program director in the chemistry and chemical biology department, Uhrich worked to diversify the graduate program to include more women and people of color. Working with alumni, she raised funding to create new fellowships to support graduate students.
Uhrich's research links chemistry with the life sciences and engineering disciplines to create new materials and design new devices in which polymers can be used to increase health and extend life. Widely recognized as a leading innovator in polymer research, Uhrich's research focuses on designing bioactive, biodegradable polymers for use in drug delivery, food safety and personal care. She has been issued more than 70 U.S. and international patents, and her work has spawned several start-up companies, including Polymerix Corporation, which created biodegradable delivery systems for nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and coatings for surgical implants.
Uhrich has authored more than 140 peer-reviewed papers. She has also collaborated extensively with colleagues in this country and overseas, and worked in close partnership with companies such as Chanel, DuPont, Exxon Mobil, Johnson & Johnson, and Merck.
Uhrich earned a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Cornell University, and her BS in Chemistry, with honors, from the University of North Dakota.
In her work at Rutgers, she has been a champion of enhanced STEM education for women and people of color. As dean, Uhrich worked with departments and the University to ensure inclusive practices for faculty – from faculty hiring, to faculty promotion and recognition. As a board member of the Rutgers' Office for the Promotion of Women, Science, Engineering and Mathematics, Uhrich worked to foster supportive environments for students, faculty and staff from diverse backgrounds. As a researcher, Uhrich's interest in mentoring the next generation of scientists is reflected by the composition and size of her research team: she's supervised 60 Ph.D. students from four departments and more than 80 undergraduate students.
Uhrich's professional experience includes stints as a visiting professor at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the University of New South Wales, Australia. Her research lab has hosted dozens of visiting scientists from across the globe including Australia, Brazil, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Netherlands, Nigeria, Puerto Rico, Scotland, and Turkey. Through various roles, Uhrich champions institutional support for international research at Rutgers. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and also worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories and at Eastman Kodak.
In addition to her status as a fellow of the American Chemical Society, she is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Bioactive and Compatible Polymers and a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Members of the search committee were:
- Michael Pazzani, Vice Chancellor, Research and Economic Development (Chair)
- Ward Beyermann, Associate Professor, Physics
- Anupama Dahanukar, Assistant Professor, Entomology
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- Sue Wessler, Distinguished Professor, Botany and Plant Sciences
- Preston Williams, President of the Graduate Student Association
- Jose Wudka, Professor, Physics and Astronomy
- Francisco Zaera, Distinguished Professor, Chemistry
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His Holiness frequently states that his life is guided by three major commitments: the promotion of basic human values or secular ethics in the interest of human happiness, the fostering of interreligious harmony, and securing the welfare of the Tibetan people, focusing on the survival of their identity, culture, and religion. As a superior scholar trained in the classical texts of the Nalanda tradition of Indian Buddhism, he is able to distill the central tenets of Buddhist philosophy in clear and inspiring language, his gift for pedagogy imbued with his infectious joy. Connecting scientists with Buddhist scholars, he helps unite contemplative and modern modes of investigation, bringing ancient tools and insights to bear on the acute problems facing the contemporary world. His efforts to foster dialogue among leaders of the world's faiths envision a future where people of different beliefs can share the planet in harmony. Wisdom Publications is proud to be the premier publisher of the Dalai Lama's more serious and in-depth works.
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Just as when weaving
One reaches the end
With fine threads woven throughout,
So is the life of humans.
-- Buddha
It is crucial to be mindful of death -- to contemplate that you will not remain long in this life. If you are not aware of death, you will fail to take advantage of this special human life that you have already attained. It is meaningful since, based on it, important effects can be accomplished.
Analysis of death is not for the sake of becoming fearful but to appreciate this precious lifetime during which you can perform many important practices. Rather than being frightened, you need to reflect that when death comes, you will lose this good opportunity for practice. In this way contemplation of death will bring more energy to your practice.
You need to accept that death comes in the normal course of life. As Buddha said:
A place to stay untouched by death
Does not exist.
It does not exist in space, it does not exist in the ocean,
Nor if you stay in the middle of a mountain.
If you accept that death is part of life, then when it actually does come, you may face it more easily.
When people know deep inside that death will come but deliberately avoid thinking about it, that does not fit the situation and is counterproductive. The same is true when old age is not accepted as part of life but taken to be unwanted and deliberately avoided in thought. This leads to being mentally unprepared; then when old age inevitably occurs, it is very difficult.
Many people are physically old but pretend they are young. Sometimes when I meet with longtime friends, such as certain senators in countries like the United States, I greet them with, "My old friend," meaning that we have known one another for a long period, not necessarily physically old. But when I say this, some of them emphatically correct me, "We are not old! We are longtime friends." Actually, they are old -- with hairy ears, a sign of old age -- but they are uncomfortable with being old. That is foolish.
I usually think of the maximum duration of a human life as one hundred years, which, compared to the life of the planet, is very short. This brief existence should be used in such a way that it does not create pain for others. It should be committed not to destructive work but to more constructive activities -- at least to not harming others, or creating trouble for them. In this way our brief span as a tourist on this planet will be meaningful. If a tourist visits a certain place for a short period and creates more trouble, that is silly. But if as a tourist you make others happy during this short period, that is wise; when you yourself move on to your next place, you feel happy. If you create problems, even though you yourself do not encounter any difficulty during your stay, you will wonder what the use of your visit was.
Of life's one hundred years, the early portion is spent as a child and the final portion is spent in old age, often just like an animal feeding and sleeping. In between, there might be sixty or seventy years to be used meaningfully. As Buddha said:
Half of the life is taken up with sleep. Ten years are spent in childhood. Twenty years are lost in old age. Out of the remaining twenty years, sorrow, complaining, pain, and agitation eliminate much time, and hundreds of physical illnesses destroy much more.
To make life meaningful, acceptance of old age and death as parts of our life is crucial. Feeling that death is almost impossible just creates more greediness and more trouble -- sometimes even deliberate harm to others. When we take a good look at how supposedly great personages -- emperors, monarchs, and so forth -- built huge dwelling places and walls, we see that deep inside their minds was an idea that they would stay in this life forever. This self-deception results in more pain and more trouble for many people.
Even for those who do not believe in future lifetimes, contemplation of reality is productive, helpful, scientific. Because persons, minds, and all other caused phenomena change moment by moment, this opens up the possibility for positive development. If situations did not change, they would forever retain the nature of suffering. Once you know things are always changing, even if you are passing through a very difficult period, you can find comfort in knowing that the situation will not remain that way forever. So, there is no need for frustration.
Good fortune also is not permanent; consequently, there is no use for too much attachment when things are going well. An outlook of permanence ruins us: Even if you accept that there are future lives, the present becomes your preoccupation, and the future takes on little import. This ruins a good opportunity when your life is endowed with the leisure and facilities to engage in productive practices. An outlook of impermanence helps.
Being aware of impermanence calls for discipline -- taming the mind -- but this does not mean punishment, or control from the outside. Discipline does not mean prohibition; rather, it means that when there is a contradiction between long-term and short-term interests, you sacrifice the short-term for the sake of long-term benefit. This is self-discipline, which stems from ascertaining the cause and effect of karma. For example, for the sake of my stomach's returning to normal after my recent illness, I am avoiding sour foods and cold drink that otherwise appear to be tasty and attractive. This type of discipline means protection. In a similar way, reflection on death calls for self-discipline and self-protection, not punishment.
Human beings have all the potential to create good things, but its full utilization requires freedom, liberty. Totalitarianism stifles this growth. In a complementary way, individualism means that you do not expect something from the outside or that you are waiting for orders; rather, you yourself create the initiative. Therefore, Buddha frequently called for "individual liberation," meaning self-liberation, not through an organization. Each individual must create her or his own positive future. Freedom and individualism require self-discipline. If these are exploited for the sake of afflictive emotions, there are negative consequences. Freedom and self-discipline must work together.
Broadening Your Perspective
From a Buddhist perspective, the highest of all aims is to achieve Buddhahood in order to be capable of helping a vast number of sentient beings; however, a medium level of achievement can liberate you from the painful round of birth, aging, sickness, and death; a lower, but still valuable level of achievement is the improvement of your future lives. From the gradual improvement of your lives liberation can be attained, and based on this, eventually Buddhahood can be attained. First, your perspective extends to include future lives; then by thoroughly understanding your own plight, your perspective deepens to include all of the round of suffering from one life to another, called cyclic existence or samsara. Finally this understanding can be extended to others, through the compassionate wish that all sentient beings be freed from suffering and the causes of suffering. This compassion drives you to aspire to Buddhahood.
You have to be concerned with deeper aspects of life that affect future lives before understanding the full nature of suffering and cyclic existence. This understanding of suffering, in turn, is required for the full development of compassion. Similarly, we Tibetans are seeking to achieve a measure of self-rule in Tibet in order to be of service to the beings in our homeland, but we are also striving to establish ourselves in a refugee situation in India. The accomplishment of the former, greater purpose depends upon our accomplishing the latter, temporary aim.
Disadvantages of Not Being Mindful of Death
It is beneficial to be aware that you will die. Why? If you are not aware of death, you will not be mindful of your practice, but will just spend your life meaninglessly, not examining what sorts of attitudes and actions perpetuate suffering and which ones bring about happiness.
If you are not mindful that you might die soon, you will fall under the sway of a false sense of permanence "I'll die later on, later on." Then, when the time comes, even if you try to accomplish something worthwhile, you will not have the energy. Many Tibetans enter a monastery at a young age and study texts about spiritual practice, but when the time comes to really practice, the capacity to do so is somehow lacking. This is because they do not have a true understanding of impermanence.
If, having thought about how to practice, you make a decision that you absolutely have to do so in retreat for several months or even for many years, you have been motivated by your knowledge of impermanence. But if that urgency is not maintained by contemplating the ravages of impermanence again and again, your practice will peter out. This is why some people stay in retreat for years but experience no imprint on their lives afterward. Contemplating impermanence not only motivates your practice, but also fuels it.
If you have a strong sense of the certainty of death and of the uncertainty of its arrival, you will be motivated from within. It will be as if a friend is cautioning, "Be careful, be earnest, another day is passing."
You might even leave home for the monastic life. If you did, you would be given a new name and new clothing. You would also have fewer busy activities; you would have to change your attitude, directing your attention to deeper purposes. If, however, you continued busying yourself with the superficial affairs of the moment -- delicious food, good clothing, better shelter, pleasant conversation, many friends and acquaintances, and even making an enemy if someone does something you do not like and then quarreling and fighting -- you would be no better off than you were before you entered the monastery, and perhaps even worse. Remember, it is not sufficient to withdraw from these superficial activities out of embarrassment or fear of what your friends who are also on the path might think; the change must come from within. This is true for monks and nuns as well as lay people who take up
Perhaps you are beset by a sense of permanence, by thinking that you will not die soon and that while you are still alive, you need especially good food, clothing, and conversation. Out of desire for the wondrous effects of the present, even if they are of little meaning in the long run, you are ready to employ all sorts of shameless exaggerations and devices to get what you want -- making loans at high interest, looking down on your friends, starting court proceedings -- all for the sake of more than adequate provisions.
Since you have given your life over to such activities, money becomes more attractive than study, and even if you attempt practice, you do not pay much attention to it. If a page falls out of a book, you might hesitate to retrieve it, but if some money falls to the ground, there is no question. If you encounter those who have really devoted their lives to deeper pursuits, you might think well of that devotion, but that would be all; whereas if you see someone dressed in finery, displaying his or her wealth, you would wish for it, lust after it, hope for it -- with more and more attachment. Ultimately, you will do anything to get it.
Once you are intent on the fineries of this life, your afflictive emotions increase, which in turn necessarily bring about more bad deeds. These counter-productive emotions only lead to trouble, making yourself and those around you uncomfortable. Even if you briefly learn how to practice the stages of the path to enlightenment, you acquire more and more material things and get involved with more and more people to the point where you are, so to speak, practicing the superficialities of this life, meditatively cultivating desire for friends and hatred for enemies and trying to figure out ways to fulfill these afflictive emotions. At that point, even if you hear about real, beneficial practice, you are apt to feel, "Yes, that is so, but..." One "but" after another. Indeed, you have become accustomed to afflictive emotions throughout your beginningless cyclic existence, but now you have added on the very practice of superficiality. This makes the situation even worse, turning you away from what will really help.
Driven by such lust, you will find no comfort. You are not making others happy -- and certainly not yourself. As you become more self-centered -- "my this, my that," "my body, my wealth" -- anyone who interferes immediately becomes an object of anger. Although you make much out of "my friends" and "my relatives," they cannot help you at birth or at death; you come here alone, and you have to leave alone. If on the day of your death a friend could accompany you, attachment would be worthwhile, but it cannot be so. When you are reborn in a totally unfamiliar situation, if your friend from the last lifetime could be of some help, that too would be something to consider, but it is not to be had. Yet, in between birth and death, for several decades it is "my friend," "my sister," "my brother." This misplaced emphasis does not help at all, except to create more bewilderment, lust, and hatred.
When friends are overemphasized, enemies also come to be overemphasized. When you are born, you do not know anyone and no one knows you. Even though all of us equally want happiness and do not want suffering, you like the faces of some people and think, "These are my friends," and dislike the faces of others and think, "These are my enemies." You affix identities and nicknames to them and end up practicing the generation of desire for the former and the generation of hatred for the latter. What value is there in this? None. The problem is that so much energy is being expended on concern for a level no deeper than the superficial affairs of this life. The profound loses out to the trivial.
If you have not practiced and on your dying day you are surrounded by sobbing friends and others involved in your affairs, instead of having someone who reminds you of virtuous practice, this will only bring trouble, and you will have brought it on yourself. Where does the fault lie? In not being mindful of impermanence.
Advantages of Being Mindful of Impermanence
However, if you do not wait until the end for the knowledge that you will die to sink in, and you realistically assess your situation now, you will not be overwhelmed by superficial, temporary purposes. You will not neglect what matters in the long run. It is better to decide from the very beginning that you will die and investigate what is worthwhile. If you keep in mind how quickly this life disappears, you will value your time and do what is valuable. With a strong sense of the imminence of death, you will feel the need to engage in spiritual practice, improving your mind, and will not waste your time in various distractions ranging from eating and drinking to endless talk about war, romance, and gossip.
All beings want happiness and do not want suffering. We use many levels of techniques for removing unwanted suffering in its superficial and deep forms, but it is mostly humans who engage in techniques in the earlier part of their lives to avoid suffering later on. Both those who do and do not practice religion seek over the course of their lives to lessen some sufferings and to remove others, sometimes even taking on pain as a means to overcome greater suffering and gain a measure of happiness.
Everyone tries to remove superficial pain, but there is another class of techniques concerned with removing suffering on a deeper level -- aiming at a minimum to diminish suffering in future lives and, beyond that, even to remove all forms of suffering for oneself as well as for all beings. Spiritual practice is of this deeper type.
These techniques involve an adjustment of attitude; thus, spiritual practice basically means to adjust your thought well. In Sanskrit it is called dharma, which means "that which holds." This means that by adjusting counterproductive attitudes, you are freed from a level of suffering and thus held back from that particular suffering. Spiritual practice protects, or holds back, yourself and others from misery.
From first understanding your own situation in cyclic existence and seeking to hold yourself back from suffering, you extend your realization to other beings and develop compassion, which means to dedicate yourself to holding others back from suffering. It makes practical sense for you, just one being, to opt for taking care of many, but also, by concentrating on the welfare of others, you yourself will be happier. Compassion diminishes fright about your own pain and increases inner strength. It gives you a sense of empowerment, of being able to accomplish your tasks. It lends encouragement.
Let me give you a small example. Recently, when I was in Bodh Gaya, I fell ill from a chronic intestinal infection. On the way to the hospital, the pain in my abdomen was severe, and I was sweating a great deal. The car was passing through the area of Vulture Peak (Buddha taught here) where the villagers are extremely poor. In general, Bihar State is poor, but that particular area is even more so. I did not even see children going to or coming from school. Just poverty. And sickness. I have a very clear memory of a small boy with polio, who had rusty metal braces on his legs and metal crutches up to his armpits. It was obvious that he had no one to look after him. I was very moved. A little later on, there was an old man at a tea stop, wearing only a dirty piece of cloth, fallen to the ground, left to lie there with no one to take care of him.
Later, at the hospital, my thoughts kept circling on what I had seen, reflecting on how sad it was that here I had people to take care of me but those poor people had no one. That is where my thoughts went, rather than to my own suffering. Though sweat was pouring out of my body, my concern was elsewhere.
In this way, though my body underwent a lot of pain (a hole had opened in my intestinal wall) that prevented sleep, my mind did not suffer any fear or discomfort. It would only have made the situation worse if I had concentrated on my own problems. This is an example from my small experience of how an attitude of compassion helps even oneself, suppressing some degree of physical pain and keeping away mental distress, despite the fact that others might not be directly helped.
Compassion strengthens your outlook, and with that courage you are more relaxed. When your perspective includes the suffering of limitless beings, your own suffering looks comparatively small.
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Yesterday the president held forth on the 'state of the union'. It is impossible for us the review the entire tedious and quite longish speech (admittedly, no-one can hold a candle to recent Venezuelan presidents regarding the length of political speeches; which is in a way a comment on quantity and quality). So we are only going to pick out a few morsels that caught our eye and either respond to questions the CiC asked or comment on a few statements, or where necessary, translate them. Readers looking for a cheap cure for insomnia can read the entire thing here. Lettuce begin:
"Over the last few years, both parties have worked together to reduce the deficit by more than $2.5 trillion – mostly through spending cuts, but also by raising tax rates on the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans. As a result, we are more than halfway towards the goal of $4 trillion in deficit reduction that economists say we need to stabilize our finances."
Which economists say so? Opinions between economists on this topic vary rather widely (from Krugman to Kotlikoff). We also think the president is a bit confused about the cause-effect chain here. The main reason for the slightly lower deficit was the most recent bubble blown by the Fed. It printed more than $1 trillion last year, remember? A secondary reason was the 'sequester', the only flaw of which was that is was way too small. Right after the above statement he asked:
"Now we need to finish the job. And the question is, how?"
The lot of you could resign for starters …
"That's why Democrats, Republicans, business leaders, and economists have already said that these cuts, known here in Washington as "the sequester," are a really bad idea."
Au contraire, it was the best idea ever. The above (and the paragraph preceding it, in which he listed all his favorite programs that must under no circumstances suffer spending cuts) can be translated as : "we urgently need to find a way to be able to continue to spend like drunken sailors."
"Already, the Affordable Care Act is helping to slow the growth of health care costs."
Stand-up comedians can use this quote without alterations. Comedians had it very easy with Bush, but his successor is making an effort too.
"To hit the rest of our deficit reduction target, we should do what leaders in both parties have already suggested, and save hundreds of billions of dollars by getting rid of tax loopholes and deductions for the well-off and well-connected. After all, why would we choose to make deeper cuts to education and Medicare just to protect special interest tax breaks? How is that fair? How does that promote growth?"
You'd be surprised. As Mises once said, 'loopholes are what allows capitalism to breathe' (see our previous article on loopholes for more on this). It follows logically that closing them will suffocate it, unless tax rates are reduced considerably (we would propose the levels of taxation and spending of 1904 as a good starting point. Government represented less than 4% of the economy at the time and hence was a mere footnote in most peoples' lives. Which is as it should be).
"Every day, we should ask ourselves three questions as a nation: How do we attract more jobs to our shores? How do we equip our people with the skills needed to do those jobs? And how do we make sure that hard work leads to a decent living?"
Answers: 1.: cut taxes and regulations to a fraction of what they are today. 2. & 3.: Get the hell out of the way.
A Plea for Numberless Boondoggles and Subsidy Schemes
Instead he wants to do this:
"So tonight, I'm announcing the launch of three more of these manufacturing hubs, where businesses will partner with the Departments of Defense and Energy to turn regions left behind by globalization into global centers of high-tech jobs. And I ask this Congress to help create a network of fifteen of these hubs and guarantee that the next revolution in manufacturing is Made in America."
Right, not three but 15 government boondoggles are needed to get all those manufacturing jobs back! Has anyone notified the president of the fact that manufacturing employment has fallen by nearly three quarters while output almost tripled? It's called progress.
"But for the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Yes, it's true that no single event makes a trend. But the fact is, the 12 hottest years on record have all come in the last 15. Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and floods – all are now more frequent and intense. We can choose to believe that Superstorm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires some states have ever seen were all just a freak coincidence. Or we can choose to believe in the overwhelming judgment of science – and act before it's too late."
Good grief, the warming non-threat again. There has been no 'warming' in more than 17 years. Neither are heatwaves, floods or storms more frequent or intense than they used to be – the exact opposite is actually the case. And even if they were more intense, it would be nothing we could do anything about. As to the 'overwhelming judgment of science' – even most of the AGW supporters among scientists admit that the weather has absolutely nothing to do with the renamed 'climate change'. Even the freaking IPCC admits it! If anyone really thinks it is important for us to freeze our behinds off, just send Al Gore in a continuous loop around the planet – wherever he goes, snowstorms and blizzards follow.
The above was naturally followed by assertions that subsidizing 'green energy creates jobs'. Balderdash. It is simply malinvestment of scarce resources (that's why subsidies are needed to 'make it work'). In fact, it isn't even working with subsidies. The empirical record on specifically the Obama administration's 'green stimulus' efforts is an utterly appalling account of waste. Europe is just trying to bail on its various green energy schemes, mainly because they are such a costly economic failure (a collection of links to articles discussing this can be found here). Even the US energy department – i.e., the US government itself – has published data that show what a huge waste these schemes are:
Energy subsidies – the 'dollars per megawatt hour' are the decisive figure.
However, these subsidy schemes are a great way of shifting tax payer funds into the pockets of various cronies.
Next he mentioned "infrastructure investment", always a safe topic for a tax-and-spender, so it is held. This is why we have frequently discussed here why it shouldn't be regarded as such. There is no way for bureaucrats to judge opportunity costs. They have no yardstick by which to determine which projects are economically sensible. The erection and running of infrastructure should be fully privatized.
"Part of our rebuilding effort must also involve our housing sector. Today, our housing market is finally healing from the collapse of 2007. Home prices are rising at the fastest pace in six years, home purchases are up nearly 50 percent, and construction is expanding again.
But even with mortgage rates near a 50-year low, too many families with solid credit who want to buy a home are being rejected."
(emphasis added)
Translation: we gotta blow a new housing bubble somehow! We're already half-way there apparently. And we need more, not less, housing socialism. It hasn't occurred to the president that the first sentence highlighted above is the main cause of what he bemoans in the second highlighted sentence.
"These initiatives in manufacturing, energy, infrastructure, and housing will help entrepreneurs and small business owners expand and create new jobs."
Comedians can use this one 'as is' too. What these initiatives will do is move tax payer funds to politically well connected firms, while impoverishing everyone else.
Next he announced another governmental malinvestment effort, this time in human capital, by further directing education from the top down. The crowning sentence was however this one:
"Through tax credits, grants, and better loans, we have made college more affordable for millions of students and families over the last few years."
We actually spilled some of what we were drinking when coming across this one (comedians … you know the drill by now). It seems hardly necessary to comment on this, let us just present a chart instead:
Total consumer loans (more than 95% of this are student loans) owned by the federal government. With not a hint of irony, it was decided to abbreviate this data series as 'TOTALGOV' – click to enlarge.
"But taxpayers cannot continue to subsidize the soaring cost of higher education. Colleges must do their part to keep costs down, and it's our job to make sure they do."
They will be coerced? What other way is there 'to make sure' they obey? Frankly, a far more promising approach would be to abolish the Fed and return to honest money. That is however not on the presidential agenda as far as we could tell.
Economic Laws Be Damned …
"Tonight, let's declare that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty, and raise the federal minimum wage to $9.00 an hour."
Yes, let's pretend that economic laws don't exist and we can order nature around. Just look at France, it works splendidly there! While we're at it, let's price millions of low-skilled or unskilled workers out of the labor market, by criminalizing all attempts to offer one's labor at a price the market will bear. Why didn't we think of this before? Wait, we actually did …
"So here's an idea that Governor Romney and I actually agreed on last year: let's tie the minimum wage to the cost of living, so that it finally becomes a wage you can live on."
He and Romney actually agreed on lots of things, including the principles of Obamacare. It mainly demonstrates the futility of voting. The above idea would even kill the remote chance that the effects of the Fed's money printing might one day price unskilled laborers back into the market.
Mission Accomplished
"Tonight, we stand united in saluting the troops and civilians who sacrifice every day to protect us. Because of them, we can say with confidence that America will complete its mission in Afghanistan, and achieve our objective of defeating the core of al Qaeda."
The mission in Afghanistan was so extremely successful, that it will soon be possible to once again visit public stonings of adulterers there. Not only that, since the invasion, Afghanistan's opium production has increased from 185 tons a year to almost 6,000 tons. There can be no doubt: the enterprise was a smashing success. 'Defeating the core of Al Qaeda' should pose no great difficulties, since it was recently reduced from three completely isolated aging reactionaries to two. However, the CiC's beloved 'drone war' has created thousands of potential successors to them, and defeating those might be a slightly bigger challenge. A good start would however be to stop producing new ones.
"As we do [fight Al Qaeda, ed.], we must enlist our values in the fight. That is why my Administration has worked tirelessly to forge a durable legal and policy framework to guide our counter-terrorism operations. Throughout, we have kept Congress fully informed of our efforts."
We should really not drink anything while reading this stuff. This is almost on a par with the 'I welcome this discussion' clunker in connection with the NSA scandal. We are aware that the psychopathic class takes us all for idiots, but there should be limits.
"I will continue to engage with Congress to ensure not only that our targeting, detention, and prosecution of terrorists remains consistent with our laws and system of checks and balances, but that our efforts are even more transparent to the American people and to the world."
What exactly does 'more transparent' mean? That the constitution will be trampled more openly than is already the case? As to checks and balances, a great many of those have been done away with with the PATRIOT Act and several other pieces of legislation that followed. Not one of these abominable laws has been repealed. And there remain quite a few guys who would dearly like to know more about these checks and balances.
"America must also face the rapidly growing threat from cyber-attacks. We know hackers steal people's identities and infiltrate private e-mail. We know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets."
Err … the biggest collection of hackers 'infiltrating private email and swiping corporate secrets' is actually employed by the federal US government and goes by the shorthand 'NSA'. We're mentioning this in case he's wondering where to start swinging his eager broom. And no, we don't want him to get a 'Kill Switch'.
"We will invest in new [military, ed.] capabilities, even as we reduce waste and wartime spending."
Good luck with that one. The Pentagon is the biggest black hole for tax payer funds ever devised by man. Its accounting has a hole several trillion dollars large. Whether or not a war is underway, this remains hands-down the biggest racket ever.
Improving the Experience
"[…], tonight, I'm announcing a non-partisan commission to improve the voting experience in America."
Allow us to point out that even with an 'improved experience' there is little hope that the choices presented will be getting any better. As Butler Shaffer reminds us, voting is largely an empty ritual. He inter alia quotes Emma Goldstein, who brought it to the point by saying: "if voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."
"Of course, what I've said tonight matters little if we don't come together to protect our most precious resource – our children."
No longish political speech would be complete without dragging the children in to push some agenda. In this case, you probably guessed it, it's gun control. Of course the president is only proposing small and sensible sounding reforms (otherwise people would be, well, up in arms). But that's how these things always start. As a reminder, when they introduced the income tax a little over a century ago, the highest rate was at 7% for annual incomes amounting to $10m. in today's money.
The speech concluded with a few sappy anecdotes of people demonstrating altruism, which has however little to do with government or the State, as these individuals engaged in voluntary acts, whereas the State employs coercion.
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