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Tuesday’s Good Business Report Open Comments

A couple weeks ago there was some surprising news out of New York. Planned Parenthood announced it would stop doing late-term abortions (those after 20 weeks) and also planned to close four clinics in the state. The problem in New York wasn’t the legality of their business, it was the profitability. PP’s president wrote in an opinion piece that because of inflation they were in trouble unless the state started directing more public money their way.

and,

Today, the NY Times published a follow-up in the business section which makes the case that the business of abortion is not going well almost anywhere you look around the country. The story recounts the experience of a clinic in Washington DC which tried to expand in the Los Angeles area. It didn’t go well.

plus,

There’s some real irony here. Pro-life groups have spent decades campaigning against abortion and especially against late-term abortion. But it seems many clinics (like the ones in New York mentioned above)  are now feeling pressure to stop performing these late abortions, not because of a change in the law but because of Bidenflation. I guess that’s what they call a silver lining.

The final factor the article considers is that opposition to abortion has gone up, not down since the Dobbs decision. That’s true even in very blue states.

 

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47 responses to “Tuesday’s Good Business Report Open Comments”

  1. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Good Morning.

    Tucker and friends explore the new Cybertruck.

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    A cool 68 degrees here on the farm with a high in the low 90’s BUT wait! There’s more; the dew point is also at 68% so we’re enjoying some fallish weather for a short while. Not to worry, by the end of the week the oppressive humidity will be back just to keep it al real. Today I’m catching up on all the mowing so the weather will be a pleasant change.
    Mornin’ Gang

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Biden’s missed opportunity. 😀

    Oh and there is some pretty naughty words in there so you’ve been warned.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      He may still do this thing in mid Jan25, as one of his last acts as the pretend POTUS.

  4. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    It was 86F on 610 at 0615 this morning.

  5. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Mornin! I had no idea the Cybertruck could actually tow.

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      Yeah. From my place as far as Matagorda without an extension chord!

  6. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Heat Index of 112+ predicted for today.

  7. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is from Reuters, the left wing news agency, interviewing the leader of the biggest PAC supporting Kamala Harris.

    Almost every MSM poll is a push poll or at least highly contaminated with leftist confirmation bias.

    CHICAGO (Reuters) -The founder of the main outside spending group backing Kamala Harris’ presidential bid says their own opinion polling is less “rosy” than public polls suggest and warned that Democrats face much closer races in key states.

    Chauncey McLean, president of Future Forward, a super political action committee, or super PAC, that has raised hundreds of millions of dollars to back Harris in the Nov. 5 election, spoke on Monday during an event hosted by the University of Chicago Institute of Politics.

    “Our numbers are much less rosy than what you’re seeing in the public,” said McLean, who rarely talks publicly.

  8. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I love a country that is TRULY open carry

  9. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The West is failing to take the Iran threat seriously out of “sheer arrogance”, a woman who infiltrated the Tehran regime has warned.

    Catherine Perez-Shakdam, a Jewish mother of two who grew up in Paris, concealed her true identity and spent almost a decade posing as an Iran sympathiser, gaining unprecedented access to the heart of the Middle Eastern state and its ruling class.

    Her operation culminated in several visits to Tehran at the invitation of the ayatollahs and a rare private audience with Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei.

    and,

    During one of her trips to Iran, Ms Perez-Shakdam was told about a plot by the regime to “map out” key individuals and organisations in the Jewish diaspora to mark them out for assassinations and attacks. This intelligence was later confirmed by the then security minister Tom Tugendhat.

    The “number one” aim of the regime was to “force Jews to leave, to go to Israel, because it’s easier to hit them there in one place”. And secondly to “create a narrative against Jews that their very existence is a danger to your [country’s] national security, therefore you should kick them out”, she said.

  10. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Jeffrey Carter with Not “Elite” But the “Connected Class”

    No, people will do anything to attend an Ivy because of the network. All of a sudden, you have the moniker and stamp of approval. However, it doesn’t mean you will be anointed and receive all the blessings of the network. There are other hoops to jump through to do that. In addition, if you run afoul of the norms and standards of the network, your reputation is trashed.

    and,

    Trump joined The Connected Class. He rejected it. He saw it for what it was. It not that they aren’t “nice people”. They are nice people. Cultured. They look good. But, at the end of the day, the rules they make aren’t for them and they don’t have to live by them.

    plus,

    There are people who The Connected Class misread. Peter Thiel comes to mind. An Ohio boy who escaped the boredom and mundaneness of the Midwest for Stanford. “Gosh, he could have gone to Ohio State.” Paypal, the first investor in Facebook. A tech mogul! Plus, he was gay! Oh, the sheer joy. What a fine-looking man.

    When he came out for Trump, it was over.

  11. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Once a Western nation’s major institutions do things like this…

    The Church of England has apparently joined the pronoun movement. Of course, none of this should come as a surprise to anyone, but it is still a shame. According to a report in the Telegraph, the Church has decided to stop using the word “church” in order to be more modern. I don’t know what word they will use. Lodge? Club? Association? The Loyal Order of Water Buffalos? 

    By all indications, the church is keeping its official moniker as “The Church of England.” That is understandable; a lot of letterhead would need to be thrown out and logos redesigned. From a cost-benefit standpoint, it makes sense. But going forward, churches will be referred to as “communities.” 

    They will inevitably get things like this…

    The rate of increase is staggering, too. Reported rapes are up 63% in just five years.

    In the city of Bournemouth, where anti-immigration protestors were rounded up by authorities two days ago, rapes increased from 98 in 2010 to 342 last year — three and a half times as many as before.

    Meanwhile, His Majesty’s Labour government responded by preparing to empty the jails of 5,000 criminals, some of them violent, to make room for the people protesting against Britain’s immigration-fueled crime wave.

  12. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    It was supposed to be a secret – maybe – or the Harris/Walz campaign leaked it on purpose.

    But Harris and her team have still made communication with Arab American leaders a priority.

    During a campaign trip to Michigan earlier this month, Harris met with Abdullah Hammoud, the 34-year-old mayor of Dearborn, a Detroit suburb that has the largest number of Arab Americans of any city in the United States. The meeting was disclosed by a person who was not authorized to discuss it publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

    The person familiar with the meeting did not provide specific details but said the focus was on Harris’ potential policy, if elected, on the Israel-Hamas conflict. Hammoud declined to comment.

    plus this,

    Layla Elabed, the co-chair of the Uncommitted National Movement, a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel group, met with Harris in Michigan shortly before the vice president went on stage for a rally and described the meeting this way:

    You know, when I mentioned that our community members are losing tens of hundreds of their family members, she said, “It’s horrific.” And when I said, “Will you meet with us to talk about an arms embargo?” she said, “Yes, we’ll meet with you.”

  13. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.”

    – F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Fitzgerald wasn’t talking about the entrepreneur, the successful small businessman, the wealthy athlete or entertainer or the nouveau riche. He describes mostly the generational old money very rich. And today it would include the “Connected Class” characterized in Jeffrey Carter’s Substack article linked at 9:57 AM.

  14. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Finally settling down briefly before hitting the treadmill. I ate an avocado with my meat last night at dinner, and my blood sugar spiked almost 40 points from yesterday’s numbers.

    Crap. I guess until I drop some pounds I’m going to have to be strict carnivore. I think when I lose some weight I’ll be able to have an occasional avocado or vegetable. It’s amazing how desperate my body is to be diabetic. The genetics are strong, strong, strong for this on Mom’s side of the family. I wonder if all that sugar I ate for so many years made this problem worse. For quite a while, when the kids were young, ice cream was its own food group in our house. And I used to bake. A lot. And since I was raised on rice and pasta, and when adult I swallowed the lie about the food pyramid, all of our meals were mostly carbohydrate based. If I only knew then what I know now…. /sigh

    I’m finding recipes for cottage cheese chips, which look interesting. easy to make and season. I have some ranch dip seasoning so I may try some later. I do love my crunchy foods. I have a large block of cheese in the fridge, and I’ve FD pieces of cheese as a snack before, which I really enjoyed. Cheese may be low carb, but it does have carbs, so I’ll need to watch the quantity in which I indulge. I do love FD cheese as a snack, though, so I may have to make some and put most of it upstairs so it’s not easy for me to access.

    Right now I’m fighting my body’s current set point. I’m having a dickens of a time breaking this limit, but past experience has told me that once my body accepts a lower weight, I’ll lose some weight and it’ll set another set point and I’ll have to wait that one out, too. Knowing that will keep me from getting too frustrated.

    I’ve been watching carnivore videos, and one of them said that women should be eating the equivalent of a stick of butter a day. It may be that I’m not eating enough fat, and my fat:protein ratio is too lean. I may fast today and then work on changing my macros tomorrow. Maybe that’ll get me past this stubborn weight limit.

  15. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I used to carry 2-3 rosaries in my purse for handing out, but one day I gave away 5 so I started to carry 5 or 6. My purse stash all got taken last night. I felt the need to make two rosaries this morning to try to keep my house stash from getting too depleted. So, two five decade rosaries and a single one decade rosary. The single decade rosaries are good for kids or for pockets. They allow me to use up beads when I don’t have enough for a full rosary, too.

  16. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Oh, and the OC topic breaks my heart. /NOT

  17. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Today’s C&C roundup:

    Good morning, C&C, it’s Tuesday! Your roundup of today’s essential news includes: Democrat National Convention update with nothing much to report except media malfeasance; 2024 party platform includes a major oversight — the nominee herself; freak weather sinks superyacht in the weirdest weather story yet; conservative counterculture win as gayest Star Wars show blasted into one-season history; and famous American motorcycle company is forced to grapple with customer preferences.

  18. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Re the DNC clown show:

    The real race starts in three days, as soon as the Convention ends. Politico pointed out that Kamala still must bridge the Israel-Palestine divide (protestors outside the Democratic border wall called her “Killer Kamala”). She must face reporters, currently relegated to a tent outside the Convention hall, who are still waiting to ask her some questions. And her recently unveiled economic plan landed flatter than a French crepe.

    I wonder if/when/how she’ll respond to any reporters in real time, without focus grouping responses to questions and having a staff formulate the wording for such a response.

    Buck & Clay, et al, mentioned this yesterday – the rush and chaos to get the Cackler “nominated” also overflowed into the convention documents/platform:

    A few other cracks appeared in the Democrats’ color revolution. For instance, the AP ran a story yesterday headlined, “Democrats approve a platform that mentions Biden’s ‘second term’ despite his making way for Harris.” Last night, Democrat delegates unanimously approved the 2024 party platform. The problem was, nobody edited it since early July, before they yeeted Joe. So the official 2024 Democrat Party Platform describes Joe Biden, not Kamala Harris, as the nominee.

    Walz isn’t mentioned at all, while Biden’s name is all over the place.I wonder if anyone would challenge her status as nominee in court? Inquiring minds, etc., etc.

    Does this seem like merely a minor oversight, a forgotten formality? Or is it more serious evidence of a lack of attention to detail, Democrats moving too fast, and a leadership vacuum? What else might they be forgetting?

    But it’s not like following rules was ever a stumbling block for the left.

  19. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    From C&C:

    This could be the wildest weird weather story yet. Yesterday, AP ran a mysterious, submersive story headlined, “Search continues for British tech magnate and 5 others after luxury superyacht sinks off Sicily.”

    The Bayesian was a $30 million, 184-foot superyacht owned by Mike Lynch, often described as “the British Bill Gates.”…. The Bayesian spared no expense, offering guests comfort and performance, opulent staterooms, sophisticated social spaces, and cutting-edge technology, all powered by robust engines for long-distance cruising.

    Yesterday, according to survivors and passengers on a nearby yacht, just after 4am local time, with the Bayesian quietly moored off Palermo, Sicily, it suddenly and unexpectedly sank. They don’t know why.

    A wild thunderstorm hit Palermo around the same time, so the going theory is a freak waterspout appeared out of nowhere and swamped the massive ship. Just like that. A yacht moored nearby was unaffected, and helped with rescuing the 15 survivors taking an unanticipated night swim in the Mediterranean Sea.

    Six people, including Lynch, 59, and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, didn’t make it. They’ve only recovered one body so far.

    Marco Tilotta, a specialist diver from Palermo’s fire and rescue service, told Italian newspaper Il Messaggero that the superyacht was “practically intact” on the seabed, 48 meters below the surface. “It is resting on its starboard side. It has no gashes, no signs of impact,” he reported.

    Mr. C. couldn’t find any comparable historical event. Was this an arkancide of weird proportions?

    Fueling online conspiracy theories, Lynn’s cruise was meant to celebrate winning his criminal fraud trial. In June, a San Fransisco jury found Lynch not guilty of inflating his company’s value when he sold it to HP back in 2011. But in even more news of the weird, Lynn’s co-defendant, Autonomy’s former vice-president, also died mysteriously, two days earlier on Saturday morning. A still-unidentified driver ran him over while he was minding his own business jogging in England.

    I don’t know what the odds are, but it is queer. Ironically, the Bayesian Theory, after which the yacht was presumably named, is a famous statistical device for calculating the probability of very improbable events. Despite the yacht’s advanced technology and safety features, it apparently fell victim to an extremely improbable weather event, and even more implausibly wasn’t even damaged. Weird.

  20. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And in another case schadenfreude, Disney is terminating season 2 of the awful-sounding “Acolyte,” which has been touted as the gayest Star Wars spinoff of all time. It included a weird coven of space lesbian witches conceiving children without men.

    Every feminist’s wet dream.

    Star Wars fans hated it. They rebelled worse than the ones who blew up the Death Star. 

    /snip

    Maybe Leslye’s show was too gay. Or maybe audiences don’t want atypical sexual ethics launched down their throats like photon torpedoes into the Death Star’s ventilation port.

    Mr. C. just cracks me up.

  21. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And the testosterone image invoking company, Harley-Davidson, has had to backtrack on its DIE programs. I never would’ve put HD and LGBTQ+ in the same sentence, but there you are. I have mental images of Hell’s Angels putting the confused tribe members on their motorcycles and running them off a cliff somewhere.

    One person created change. Influencer and conservative filmmaker Robby Starbuck went to war with Harley Davidson at the beginning of July. “It’s time to expose Harley Davidson,” Starbuck’s July 23rd post said. He listed twenty examples of how the company has “gone totally woke.” Such as Harley-Davidson’s ‘bootcamp’ for LGBTQ entrepreneurs, its donations to the United Way, and its public promise to increase employee diversity.

    Just this year, Starbuck also successfully challenged Tractor Supply and John Deere, causing them both to publicly repent and ditch DEI. It’s a story of how just one persistent person can push back the battle lines in the culture war. I’m not saying Starbuck is like homemaker Phyllis Schlafly, who single-handedly derailed the awful 1972 Equal Rights Amendment, but it’s encouragingly similar.

  22. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Matt Gaetz’ mic drop.

  23. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Trump has no problem entering the lion’s den, but the Cackler? Not so much.

    Former President Trump said Monday night that Vice President Kamala Harris’ team told his campaign that she would not participate in a Fox News presidential debate on September 4.

    The proposed debate would have been held in Pennsylvania and moderated by Fox News anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum.

    “I am not surprised by this development because I feel that she knows it is very difficult, at best, for her to defend her record setting Flip-Flopping on absolutely everything she once believed in, including her statements that THERE WILL BE NO FRACKING IN PENNSYLVANIA and her HORRIBLE Performance on the Border,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

  24. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    This guy gets it regarding the sleazeball, Biden.

  25. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    We have made it to 101 today. First time this year. That can stop anytime now.

  26. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Heh

  27. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Heh.
    Last year on this day the high was 108°F.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      When I was there in late June/early July in 2022, it was 105 every damned day.

  28. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Oh, how exciting.
    Just got the bill for my homeowners insurance.
    It only increased by 130% in one year.

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      I was going to ask if that was even legal, but I’m thinking of appraisals. I’m going to send you our agent’s info. He saved us $3,000 in our commercial account the first year. He provides excellent service.

  29. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m fasting today, and I got my hair cut. I only exercised for 20 minutes walking, didn’t want to get too low sugar. Afterwards, I weighed myself for fun.

    Down 3 pounds.

    I’ll betcha $10 that two of those three pounds was hair. The stylist made sure that I wanted to cut it all off, then grabbed it at the back, took her scissors, and just hacked it off. She held it up for me to see in the mirror. Looked like she was holding a coupla squirrels in her hand. As she kept cutting, a colleague kept sweeping.

    This shower felt so different without all of that hair.

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      Back to the Fro!!

  30. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m going to make some of these to see if I like them. I saw another recipe that was similar, with the title “Keto Crack”.
    https://ketogenicwoman.com/keto-brown-butter-bites/

  31. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Well, we made it to 103 briefly an hour ago despite all the trees we have and lots of shade. Need to thank the squirrels for all the trees they planted for us over the years.:)

  32. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Andy Beshear was supposed to be this nice guy who was a semi-popular Democratic governor of Kentucky. He was on the short list for Kamala’s VP choice.

    Democratic Governor of Kentucky, Andy Beshear, made a contentious statement on Tuesday, suggesting that Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance might reconsider his abortion stance if a member of his own family were raped and became pregnant.

    During an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Beshear critiqued Vance’s characterization of pregnancies resulting from rape as merely “inconvenient.”

  33. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    What a fine day here, high about 92 but with 58% humidity it was real nice. After spending 7 1/2 hours on the zero turn mower I hit the shower and my wife and I sat on the front porch for a spell and had a couple of beers. Then we went to Our Place for burgers, I had the Big Bopper and my wife had the bacon double cheese burger. Good eating and since the burgers are huge we had leftovers for Dawg. 😉

  34. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I just watched a coupla videos on my Byrna non-firearm. The second video compared it to another similar weapon. The other one was designed to look like a revolver, and loading it was, IMHO, more of a pain than the Byrna. The projectiles, however, actually penetrated the test dummy. Not deeply, but the recipient of the shot would be bleeding and probably run away.

    The Byrna has a kinetic shot which penetrated slightly, if at all, though a point blank to the head (like if I shot someone who was carjacking me) would cause some potentially serious damage. The Byrna has OC/Teargas cartridges, though, and both shooters who were testing the device made it very clear that it was bad juju. Just sniffing around the impact area on the target after the wind had carried most of the powder away was not pleasant. The second guy almost threw up, it smelled so bad.

    So tomorrow I’ll use the practice rounds and then I’ll probably take it in my car.

    PS: My Byrna came with two magazines, so I can load both types of shot and swap ’em out quickly if I want.

  35. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Oh my.
    i just turned on the TV.
    This guy is speaking before the DNC.
    I think it’s Kamala’s husband.

    Whipped.

    Badly.

  36. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Oh my.
    Obama’s THING is now speaking.

  37. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Needless to say, Barry Soetero is the creepiest sonofabitch I ever saw.

  38. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    You gotta give him credit.
    Barry Soetero is the singularly most vacuous speech giver in the history of this country.

  39. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    It must be worse than I can imagine.

  40. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    DNC. I can’t even imagine going there.

  41. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’ll never forget.
    A millions years ago Bill Clinton gave a speech at the DNC on the final night ( He was not the nominee).
    He wouldn’t shut up. Droned on for hours it seemed. Spoke for hours without saying a damn thing.
    Barack is truly Bill Clinton…with more melanin.

  42. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I remember. You called me up in the summer of 1988 and said this guy, Clinton, was going to be the next president of the United States and you were right. I said: “Who the hell is Bill Clinton ?”

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