Per Capita Population in a Mental Institution Was 33 Times Higher in 1955

Fraction of the population in a mental institution in 1955 .0334 and in 2025 .0010 

 Dylan Bryan Adams, the man accused of keying six Teslas in Minneapolis over Elon Musk's DOGE involvement, served as a financial policy compliance lead at Minnesota's Department of Human Services, where he handled reviews of Medicaid fraud.

The vandalism, causing about $20,000 in damage and linked to opposition against Elon Musk's DOGE role, resulted in no criminal charges for Adams; he entered a diversion program and remained on state payroll through late 2025.

Sick Leave Days in Europe

Inflation Adjusted Wealth, Income and Employment over Time

 Wealth

Income

The unemployment rate is lower than in much of the 70s, 80s, and 90s.  

Real income growth has been somewhat limited but has occurred:  Median Household Income 

• 1970 (inflation‑adjusted): ~ $71k–$72k
  2024 (inflation‑adjusted): ~ $83.7k
• I couldn't find median household size over time but the average has gone from 3.11 in 1970 to 2.5 or 2.51 in 2024. So the income is supporting fewer people on average.

Humor -- Political

 Why California Is Broke and Texas is Not 2/11/2026

https://x.com/TonyMartinJara/status/2021587068778910112

How California and Texas governors react when a coyote attacks their dogs 

Farwestt

 

1.  Farwestt used a sword from the Napoleonic War to cut his first corn corp

As is not uncommon, I was surfing the web today instead of taking care of needed projects and came across the following about Grandma (Erna) Weihe’s great grandfather Friedrich (Far West ) Muench.  (He would have been my generation’s great great great grandfather.  A lot of hard work to settle a new land!

“Friedrich Muench cut his first corn crop with a sword his brother had carried in the Napoleonic War.  One of the leaders of the Giessen Emigration Society, Muench who arrived in St Louis in 1834, had hoped to help found a German state in the West but the group broke up, and he and a few others settled in Warren County.  He wrote later that he was so tired after a day’s work in the field that he had to support his right arm with his left hand to get the soup spoon to his mouth.  He had been a minister in Germany and was one of the so-called “Latin farmers’ who came to the frontier for idealistic reasons.  Unused to the hard work of farming, most Latin Farmers gave up, but Muench was one of the few to succeed on the frontier.”

http://www.concordia-memories.org/files/Schroeder_Concordia%20Missouri%20-%20A%20Heritage%20Preserved.pdf

University Biases

 There is so much that not sure why I am even bothering. 

1.  Yale Law congratulates Hillary for being nominated but doesn't congratulate Vance for winning.

The day after Hillary Clinton was nominated by the Democratic National Committee in 2016,  Yale Law School congratulated Clinton, class of 1973, "on her historic nomination for President of the United States." Eight years later, it is refusing to congratulate J.D. Vance on his actual election.  The school has made no statement about the vice president-elect, who graduated from Yale Law in 2013, since he and Donald Trump scored a landslide victory on Tuesday. And according to Debra Kroszner, the law school’s chief of staff, it doesn’t plan to would not congratulate Vance publicly, citing a new policy against issuing institutional statements.  In contrast, in just the past 10 days, the law school has publicly recognized three alumni, including federal judges from both parties, for their accomplishments, and promoted the work of a student group devoted to "immigrant justice."

False Myths about Violence Agaist Women and Their Economic Well-being

 

• Much of the statistics that we hear about the plight of American women if false, and some phony claims had been repeated so often they're almost beyond the reach of critical analysis.  Coming up next on the factual feminist, 5 feminist Myths that will not die.  Myth number one.  Women are half the world's population, working two-thirds of the world's working hours, receiving 10 percent of the world's income and owning less than one percent of the world's property.  Well this faux fact is routinely quoted by advocacy group by the World Bank, Oxfam, the United Nations. 
• But it's a fabrication.  More than 15 years ago,  two Sussex University experts on gender and development explained that the slogan was simply made up by somebody at the UN back in the 80's. It just seemed sorta right to that to that person. There's no evidence that it was ever accurate and it's certainly not accurate today.  Even in some of the poorest countries in Africa, women own more.  In Africa, for example, Yale economist Cheryl Das found that female land ownership rangea from 11 percent in Senegal to 54 percent in Rwanda and Burundi.
• Next Myth...Between 100,000 and 300,000 girls are sold into slavery each year in the United States. Now this sensational claim is a favorite of celebrities, journalist, advocates, politicians both conservative and liberal,  By the way, the source for the figure is a 2001 report on child sexual exploitation but that 100,000 - 300,000 figure refers to children at risk for exploitation not actual victims, and as one of the authors made clear in an email exchange that he had with the Village Voice, the actual number of children abducted and pressed into sexual slavery is “ a few hundred and still a hundred too many” but they're not gonna be helped by a thousand-fold inflation of the number.
• Next Myth... In the United States 22-35 percent of women who visit emergency rooms do so because if domestic violence. Now this claim has appeared in countless factsheets, books, articles. Its in the penguin Atlas on women.  They use this emergency room figure to justify placing the United States on par with Uganda and Haiti for intimate violence.  Well what is the source? It seems that several feminist scholars misunderstood a 1997 study by the justice department.   The correct figure is not 22% - 35% but get ready... less than one-half of one percent , *****

Neither the high 22 to 35 percent or the low 1/2% may be entirely on the up and up -- keeping in mind that women are not always honest about whether they have been abused. 

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JAMA

Published Online: August 5, 1998

Prevalence of Partner Abuse 

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/187815

Context.— The majority of prior studies examining intimate partner abuse in the emergency department (ED) setting have been conducted in large, urban tertiary care settings and may not reflect the experiences of women seen at community hospital EDs, which treat the majority of ED patients in the United States.

Objective.— To determine the prevalence of intimate partner abuse among female patients presenting for treatment in community hospital EDs and describe their characteristics.

Design.— An anonymous survey conducted from 1995 through 1997 inquiring about physical, sexual, and emotional abuse.

Setting.— Eleven community EDs in Pennsylvania and California.

Participants.— All women aged 18 years or older who came to the ED during selected shifts.

Main Outcome Measures.— Reported acute trauma from abuse, past-year physical or sexual abuse, and lifetime physical or emotional abuse.

Results.— Surveys were completed by 3455 (74%) of 4641 women seen. The prevalence of reported abuse by an intimate partner was 2.2% (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.7%-2.7%) for acute trauma from abuse, 

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• Next Myth one in five college women will be sexually assaulted this incendiary figure is everywhere in the media today the one in five figure is based on a survey called the cap a sexual assault study but two prominent criminologists have noted fatal flaws it had a very low response rate a non representative sample of respondents and an overly broad definition of what counts is assault I mean it included
• such things as attempted forced kissing or intimate encounters while intoxicated. Now defenders of the one in five figure will apply that the finding has been replicated by other studies but the study suffer from the same sort of flaws now the best study that we have on sexual assault on campus suggest the figures for closer to One in 40 not One in Four.
• 1 in 40 is still bad but apparently not bad enough for the activist. And now for the mother of all feminist factoids, women earn 77 cents for every dollar a man earns for doing the same work now no matter how many times this wage gap claim is decisively refuted by economists including feminist economist it always comes back the bottom line 23 cents gender pay gap is simply the difference between the average earnings have all men and women working full-time it doesn't take into account differences in occupation positions education job
• tenure hours worked per week when such relevant factors are considered the wage gap narrows to the point vanishing now wage gap activists will say no, women with identical backgrounds in jobs is man they still earn less but they always fail to take into account critical variables i mean why play this game all these reckless claims are nearly impossible to correct because armies of advocates, journalists, political leaders, they depend on killer stats to promote their cause and I guess there's also an admirable human tendency to be protective of women
• and stories of female exploitation are readily believed killer stats undermined good causes and they send scarce resources in the wrong direction. My advice to women advocates, take back the truth. And if any of you have questions about anything I've said or would like to see other dubious feminist facts investigated, please leave comments below, 
• ... and remember check your fax not your privilege.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TR_YuDFIFI&list=PLytTJqkSQqtr7BqC1Jf4nv3g2yDfu7Xmd&index=45

Post? Mamdani's Appointments

 It is hard to know whether it is appropriate to post the following.  U.S. history is horrible in terms of slavery and discrimination.  So do we just need to say "now it's others' turn to discriminate."?  Corrective discrimination -- affirmative action.  

In 2016, Mamdani’s director of appointments wrote: “It’s important that white people feel defeated.”

It is a statement made in a 2016 social media post by Catherine Almonte Da Costa and supposedly she is no longer with the mayor's office.   In 2018, his housing advisor wrote: “Impoverish the *white* middle class.”

Cea Weaver, a longtime tenant activist, was tapped by the Democrat last week to serve as executive director of the Mayor's Office to Protect Tenants.  Mamdani has defended her. 

Bart -- Enforcing Fares Lowered Maintenance Costs

 BART's Next Generation Fare Gates, installed across all 50 stations by August 2025, utilize 72-inch, high-strength transparent swing barriers and, this Facebook post says, a locking mechanism to prevent jumping, pushing, and tailgating. These $90 million, anti-evasion gates have reduced reported fare evasion by over 50% in just the last year. 

Key Features and Impact:

Physical Deterrence: The gates are designed to be too high to jump and too sturdy to break through, says this KTVU article.. They are also lower to the ground to prevent crawling.

• Sensor Technology: 3D sensors help distinguish between legitimate passengers (including those with bicycles, strollers, or wheelchairs) and evaders, notes this NBC Bay Area article..
• Implementation: All stations were equipped with the new technology by August 2025, well ahead of the original end-of-2025 deadline, according to this BART article..
• Effectiveness: While initial data in 2025 suggested some, like at 16th Street/Mission, continued to struggle with evasion, overall, reports of people sneaking in have dropped significantly, says this Mission Local article. and this Facebook post.
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