The only people for me are the mad ones.
The ones who are mad to love, mad to talk, mad to be saved;
the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing,
but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
Jack Kerouac
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It's amazing how people are inconsistent on trade. Up to a third of our oil is imported, but nobody talks about lost domestic energy jobs.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 8, 2016
Nobody gripes about CA's surplus in vegetables and nuts. I do recall when Tombstone Pizza was acquired by Kraft a kerfuffle over WI cheese.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 8, 2016
I can't really tell you the difference between California and Wisconsin cheese. I am partial to Dutch gouda, a childhood memory from France.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 8, 2016
When my Dad was stationed in France, we couldn't get on-base housing.We rented in a small French town.My Mom would buy waxed Gouda balls.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 8, 2016
My favorite French memory was going to the local boulangerie and buying freshly baked baguettes. The smell, crunchy crust, spongy interior!— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 8, 2016
Hershey imports cocoa beans for its chocolates. About 70% of the global crop is from Africa; other growers include Asia and south of the US.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 8, 2016
Vehicles contain parts and/or resources produced across the globe.Some assembly work is done by robotics.So what exactly is the trade point?— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 8, 2016
There are jobs in raw materials, parts or components, final products. Are we an autarky? No. I buy goods; I'm not buying local jobs.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 8, 2016
We should not be insanely trying to bring back boring, low-skill, low-paying work from other countries. We need to get govt out of the way.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 8, 2016
Let me give a personal story to make the point. My first married sister's father-in-law owns an east Texas ranch, including cattle.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 8, 2016
I remember visiting them after I had moved to Houston. My sister prepared a roast from "Blue Eyes". Grass-fed beef is different to prepare.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 8, 2016
Years later, I'm on a low-carb kick and was interested in buying grass-fed beef, which has a more favorable Omega 3/Omega 6 ratio.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 8, 2016
I know I asked my brother-in-law about buying beef from the ranch; in the interim, I had found a distributor out of Bethesda, MD: a hassle.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 8, 2016
Whether my query or his own assessment of growing demand for grass-fed meat, my brother-in-law started putting together a website.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 8, 2016
My sister worked on a recipe section,writing about how to prepare grass-fed meat, & my niece, a graphic artist, also worked on presentation.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 8, 2016
Abruptly my brother-in-law changed business models & focused on reselling premium steaks.He didn't discuss it but implied USDA regs at fault— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 8, 2016
In a number of states, you may be able to market products like raw milk but not sell them across state lines (PA to MD).Other rules for meat— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 8, 2016
States often have an exemption for personally owned animals, meat not for resale. So you may be able to buy an animal and have it processed.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 8, 2016
The difficulty is that it can be next to impossible to get USDA inspections if you're a small-scale rancher. This should be privatized.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 8, 2016
The USDA monopoly is anti-consumer. Third-party inspections, like independent auditors of financial statements, could attest to the same.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 8, 2016
Will Meyn Kelly stay with FNC once her contract expires after the election?I think she probably wants a big raise, but she's got a great job— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 8, 2016
Kelly has one of the highest rated shows on cable, but I'm not sure viewers would follow her to a new network. Maybe a national news anchor.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 8, 2016
It depends on Megyn Kelly's own priorities. Does she want to establish herself beyond the Fox brand? But she has a prominent platform on FNC— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 8, 2016
Donald Trump seems to want to make the upcoming NY primary a referendum on 9/11 and the shared experience of New Yorkers. Rather disturbing— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 8, 2016
Trevor Noah has uncovered another gross Trump clip,from his second marriage, where Trump starts speculating about the breasts of 1YO Tiffany— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 8, 2016
The original question was like the Paul Davis song: "She's got your eyes, she's got my nose." Chin, hair, cheeks https://t.co/E59qTc8hgp— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 8, 2016
The latest Emerson poll in NY is not good for Cruz; in fact, he does worse against Clinton than Sanders. He needs to tie into NY corruption.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 8, 2016
I'm sure that Trump has a lot of enemies in his home state. A lot of investors lost money on Trump bonds. Small businesses got the shaft.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 8, 2016
I attract some interesting followers. I lost one recently on campus reform after I got tired of "Trump in 2016" chalking, "All Lives Matter"— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 8, 2016
I was a professor for 5 years, and I've experienced progressive repression, lack of due process and political correctness first-hand.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 8, 2016
I believe in free expression, and that includes delusional supporters of Trump, Clinton and Sanders.They won't turn me into a fascist zombie— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 8, 2016
I empathize with the plight of urban minorities dependent on a morally corrupt, dysfunctional State, high incarceration, failed education.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 8, 2016
Everyone must have heard by now that a white-robed Franciscan friar wearing a rosary at IU got mistaken for a Klansman with a whip. Idiots.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 8, 2016
Faulty Science Behind the War on DrugsAs a Catholic, I found a followup satirical account hilarious, that finds IU more concerned with praying friars: https://t.co/W0WXG1zei5— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 8, 2016
Note that I am not advocating drug use; I'm arguing for decriminalization.
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Donna Summer, "Bad Girls". Her second straight #1 and her third.
FIRE: Free Speech on Campus
Comedy, College, and the Fight to Save Free Speech: Can We Tak...
"For the overwhelming majority of my career what I've been fighting is administration overreach," says Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which advocates for individual liberty in academia. "During that entire time the single constituency on campus that seemed to have the most common sense and seemed to understand free speech and due process the best was always the students. And somewhere, two or three years ago, it just kind of changed."
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