State of the Universe 2020

Swami Beyondananda explains what’s going on and how to fix it. Excerpt:

Meanwhile, in the impeachment case, Republican Senators called it acquits before seeing any evidence they didn’t want to see. Talk about notseeism! Well, as the old saying goes, if it quacks like a duck and steps like a goose, there is something fowl afoot.

Click here: https://laughlearnlinks.home.blog/state-of-the-universe-2020/. This was written between impeachment and coronavirus.

Also see the Swami’s website, https://wakeuplaughing.com/beyondanews.php.

Capybaras!

I just think they’re cuuute! And apparently, as gregarious herbivores, they get along well with many other animals.

So here’s a link to more pics: https://www.boredpanda.com/capybara-unusual-animal-friendship/.

Where did the money go?

I think the graph below pretty much speaks for itself:

The United States had plenty of money half a century ago. In the 1950s and 1960s, we paid down the huge World War II debt at a time when we maintained a much larger military than today and fought wars in Korea and Vietnam. We built the Interstate Highway System and much of the other physical infrastructure we use today. We funded vigorous research and development, including the fabulously expensive Apollo program. We supported higher education well enough that middle-class students could graduate from elite universities without crippling debt….
Corporate representatives complain about high corporate income tax rates, but this is the most lucrative lie of the last century. Corporate tax rates don’t mean much because most corporations don’t pay them.