Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Monday, May 30, 2022
Firearms are not the leading cause of death in children: CDC's own data over time shows that motor vehicle accidents are far and away the number one cause
Here's the CDC data for all children, all races, ages 1-17, from 1999-2020 showing drownings and firearms neck and neck for number two position but motor vehicle accidents far and away the leading cause.
Liberals are all upset about 3,000 children shot and killed in one year when America's liberals are responsible for that many abortion deaths EVERY GODDAMN DAY.
The winners are always trying to rewrite the history of this day, the bastards
Sunday, May 29, 2022
Nancy Pelosi's 82 year old husband was arrested for DUI in Napa County last night just before midnight
Drowning his sorrows, no doubt, as Nancy was away getting another honorary doctorate.
The only undergraduate college in this 10-page list requiring four units in a foreign language to graduate is Bard College
Many require no foreign language at all at the undergraduate level, and as a consequence . . .
Presently, 23 U.S. states do not require the two years of foreign language study that is required for admittance into many colleges.
Meanwhile the chowderheads at Princeton's Classics Department have dropped the Greek and Latin requirement entirely for Classics majors.
The basic idea there is to invite the barbarians in, to make Classics better, you know, as in the fall of the Roman Empire to the Visigoths in 410 AD better:
“Having people who come in who might not
have studied classics in high school and might not have had a previous
exposure to Greek and Latin, we think that having those students in the
department will make it a more vibrant intellectual community.”
Thankfully, the Visigoths at Princeton still have some standards. They require German majors to pass 2-3 courses actually taught in German.
NAACP President: Forgiving $10k in student loan debt ain't good enough, is a slap in the face to the average black who owes $53k
From the story:
Canceling $10,000 per borrower would cost around $321 billion and completely forgive the loans of about one-third of student loan borrowers.
This is all BS, of course. Millions of those borrowers can afford to pay off their loans themselves.
Student loans are another form of welfare for far too many borrowers of color, who dig themselves into a deep hole with government and education establishment encouragement and never get a degree, both of which also profit off the scheme. Meanwhile colleges continue to increase the cost of tuition knowing there is a ready source of government loan funding to pay for it.
Forgiving student loan debt without paying attention to income will inevitably be a handout to millions upon millions of high earners like Representative AOC who drives a Tesla Model 3 while reducing the average black loan balance by less than 20%.
Americans with income over $74,000 hold roughly 60% of the total public student loan debt. ... Black Americans are the only race who have student debt higher than their median annual income.
If you make over $74k you are in the top 20% of all wage earners in the United States in 2020. You can afford to pay your obligations. AOC is in the top 4% of all wage earners.
Handing $10k in loan forgiveness to American elites isn't a vote-buying scheme. It's a Democrat patronage payment.
Saturday, May 28, 2022
News flash: He doesn't mean abortion and never mentions it, almost as if killing 1 million unborn every year since the 1970s wasn't the prolegomenon to the violence now everywhere around us
We accept the death of children because we accept a politics that enables it.
Friday, May 27, 2022
Like a creepy neighbor, State Farm is there, targeting 5-year-olds, lol, but not for the time being
The Chicago Tribune reports, here:
State Farm came under fire this week after a January letter recruiting 550 agents and employees to participate in the program by donating a three-book bundle to teachers, community centers and libraries was published online by Consumers’ Research. The Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit educational group launched a campaign critical of the program, calling State Farm “a creepy neighbor” targeting 5-year-olds. ...
The GenderCool Project is an educational organization helping to “replace misinformed opinions with positive, powerful experiences” through the stories of transgender and nonbinary kids, said Jennifer Grosshandler, co-founder and executive director of the four-year-old Chicago-based nonprofit. Grosshandler, who said the organization began working with State Farm about a year ago on the voluntary program, was more conciliatory toward the insurance company. “We were disappointed to learn about the decision,” said Grosshandler. “The truth is that StateFarm has done really good and important work with the LGBTQ community."
Thursday, May 26, 2022
Russia to hit full capacity for natural gas storage this summer with virtually no market left in Europe and no pipelines to Asia, forcing it to shut down wells
So says George Soros, and this guy, here:
Leon Izbicki, an associate at Energy Aspects, agrees that Russia’s gas storage is close to being full.
“Russia went into last winter with record high stocks of around 72.6 billion cubic meters and aims for an even higher underground storage target for winter 2022 of 72.7 billion cubic meters,” Izbicki added via email. “While we do not have visibility on Russian underground storage, it seems plausible that Russia could reach this target this summer already.”
He added that that Russia lacks flexibility in its gas storage and does not have the means to divert gas from Europe to, for example, Asia due to a lack of pipeline infrastructure.
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Things you do when Democrats get elected president 2.0
Time to update this.
Things You Do When Democrats Get Elected President
John Kennedy: Build a bomb shelter.
Lyndon Johnson: Keep an eye on your shoes.
Jimmy Carter: Change your religion.
Bill Clinton: Buy a pistol.
Barack Obama: Upgrade to Life Member in the NRA.
Joe Biden: Renovate the bomb shelter.
The sex abusers among the new priestly class: Michigan State University dethroned in University of California sex abuse settlement
The number one way to get chicks in the old days used to be to become a rock star.
Those who couldn't sing or play became professors, who have ready access to fresh hordes of impressionable young women each and every year. Just think of the settlements awaiting thousands upon thousands of women across the decades compared with this list of a relative handful of campus doctors involving hundreds upon hundreds.
AP Obama reports here:
The University of California system announced Tuesday it will pay nearly $375 million to more than 300 women who said they were sexually abused by a UCLA gynecologist, bringing a record amount in total payouts by a public university in a wave of sexual misconduct scandals by campus doctors. ...
The university has agreed to pay nearly $700 million to Heap’s patients, dwarfing a $500 million settlement by Michigan State University in 2018 that was considered the largest by a public university. The University of Southern California, a private institution, has agreed to pay more than $1 billion to settle thousands of cases against the school’s longtime gynecologist. ...
The university previously reached settlements with other patients of Heaps for $316 million. The most recent settlement with 312 women resolves the vast majority of claims against Heaps, the university said. ...
Sex abuse by doctors on college campuses has led to massive settlements at Ohio State University, Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University. ...
Michigan State paid $500 million to 300 women and girls who said they were assaulted by Larry Nassar, who was a campus sports doctor and a doctor for USA Gymnastics. Nassar, who also sexually abused Olympic gold medal gymnasts, is serving prison sentences likely to keep him behind bars for the rest of his life.
The University of Michigan reached a $490 million settlement with more than 1,000 people who said they were sexually assaulted by the late Dr. Robert Anderson, during his nearly four-decade career as a sports doctor at the school.
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard gives the microphone on Ukraine to the weak sisters and has-beens Henry Kissinger and Eric Cantor
Dr Kissinger said the war must not be allowed to drag on for much longer, and came close to calling on the West to bully Ukraine into accepting negotiations on terms that fall very far short of its current war aims. “Negotiations need to begin in the next two months before it creates upheavals and tensions that will not be easily overcome. Ideally, the dividing line should be a return to the status quo ante. Pursuing the war beyond that point would not be about the freedom of Ukraine, but a new war against Russia itself,” he said. ... Mr Cantor said the US was in danger of overplaying its hand. “We have got to have multilateral support. We are already being accused of weaponising the world’s reserve currency. Even allies and friends are starting to ask, if you are using it in this way, we too could one day be subject to these sanctions,” he said.
More.
A return to the status quo ante would mean pretending Russia's war crimes against Ukrainian civilians never happened. Kissinger only vainly imagines that that clock can be turned back now. Putin must go, and Russia must pay. Anything less means the West stands for nothing important.
As for Eric Cantor, the clock ticks on but only money continues to matter to him. He was never serious about repealing Obamacare and stopping illegal immigration or amnesty for illegals while he was in office. He was wisely toppled while at the height of his powers in the US House by his fellow Republicans in a primary (VA-7), for crying out loud.
It's characteristic of Ambrose Evans-Pritchard to showcase Cantor's hand-wringing. He's done a lot of that in his own writing over the years. He ends this one worried about a European oil shock later this year.
Things like that happen when the false promise of libertarian cooperation with despots for energy comes a cropper. Europe has only itself to blame.
Monday, May 23, 2022
CDC sounds Monkeypox alarm in gay community, but why?
They never say the "p" word.
Gay men spread diseases like crazy because they are promiscuous to a degree heterosexuals are not, otherwise this alarm wouldn't be sounded for "gay and bisexual men". It would be for everybody.
CNBC totally leaves out the epicenter of the Monkeypox outbreak at the Gran Canaria Pride Festival in its story about gay men transmitting the disease
All CNBC says is:
The most recent surge in cases appears to have been spread among men who have sex with other men.
News about the Monkeypox outbreak linked to this Pride Festival has to be suppressed in the same way that the Provincetown, MA, COVID-19 outbreak from July 4, 2021 had to be suppressed because it was also in gay men. 85% of the victims were fully vaccinated men who were there to party.
The Canaria Pride festival, held in the town of Maspalomas between May 5 and 15, has become a hotspot for the monkeypox outbreak, reports El País.
The massive party was attended by over 80,000 people, including three Italian men who later tested positive for the virus.
A health source told the newspaper: "Among the 30 or so diagnosed in Madrid, there are several who attended the event, although it is not yet possible to know if one of them is patient zero of this outbreak or if they all got infected there."
Bill Maher observes that the parents have become the groomers
If you attend a small dinner party of typically very liberal, upper-income Angelinos, it is not uncommon to hear parents who each have a trans kid having a conversation about that. What are the odds of that happening in Youngstown, Ohio?
-- Bill Maher, here
Where a child finds his own parents his perverters, he cannot be so properly born, as damned into the world.
-- Robert South (1634 - 1716)
President Biden finally removes the ambiguity and commits the USA to the defense of Taiwan in the face of increasing Chicom military threats against the island
When asked at a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida whether the U.S. would be prepared to defend Taiwan if attacked, Biden replied: “Yes.”
“That’s the commitment we made,” Biden said. “We agree with the ‘one China’ policy. We signed on to it. All the attendant agreements [were] made from there. But the idea that that can be taken by force, just taken by force. It’s just not it’s just not appropriate.”
More.
A fuller account here adds this from the president:
“We support the ‘one China policy,’ we support all that we’ve done in the past. But that does not mean, that does not mean that China has the ability, has the – excuse me, the jurisdiction – to go in and use force to take over Taiwan.”
Sunday, May 22, 2022
Australians lose their minds, news stories can't make up theirs about meaning of election
CNN: It was a stop global warming election.
The UK Express: It was a republican election to throw off the monarchy and give Australia's 2% indigenous population representation in parliament.
AP Obama: There was no clear majority as votes for "fringe parties and independents ... increases the likelihood of a hung parliament and a minority government." Counting may take another two weeks.
The Sydney Morning Herald: Labor is 4 seats short of a majority with 14 seats still to call, only 71% counted.
Saturday, May 21, 2022
Friday, May 20, 2022
That would be 113th Mr. Drudge, sir, you ignoramus
World's oldest man to throw 113rd birthday party!
And look what that links to:
https://www.the-sun.com/news/5384415/elon-musk-gulfstream-g650er-private-jet-flight-attendant/
Friday night at The Drugged Report.
US COVID-19 deaths cross the 1 million mark in the New York Times data Thursday, May 19, 2022
2020 (306 days): 1131
2021: 1310
2022 (thru 5/19): 1264
First 19 days in May: 421
Apr 2022: 426
Mar 2022: 980
Feb 2022: 2247
Jan 2022: 1987
Deaths per year in this data to date:
2020: 346,050
2021: 478,286
2022 thru 5/19: 175,675
Thursday, May 19, 2022
Bloomberg economic model forecasts 25% tariffs between democratic and autocratic countries would roll back globalization to 1990s levels and leave the world 3.5% poorer
Arguably that would be a good thing for American workers, but Bloomberg doesn't care about that.
For three decades, a defining feature of the world economy has been its ability to churn out ever more goods at ever lower prices. The entry of more than a billion workers from China and the former Soviet bloc into the global labor market, coupled with falling trade barriers and hyper-efficient logistics, produced an age of abundance for many.But the last four years have brought an escalating series of disruptions. Tariffs multiplied during the US-China trade war. The pandemic brought lockdowns. And now, sanctions and export controls are upending the supply of commodities and goods.All of this risks leaving advanced economies facing a problem they thought they’d vanquished long ago: that of scarcity. Emerging nations could see more acute threats to energy and food security, like the ones already causing turmoil in countries from Sri Lanka to Peru. And everyone will have to grapple with higher prices.
More.
The story never mentions how those newly introduced extra billion plus workers reduced economic outcomes for the already established middle classes around the world, especially in America where the full time job of the 1990s became a thing of the past.
If I'm repeating myself, I don't care.
Husband: "Chicken wings $34"; Wife LOL: "How many do you get?"
The answer: about 15.
Menu says: "Market price".
But many food costs measured in the PPI have been accelerating faster than the CPI rate. In April, average wholesale food prices in the index jumped 18% from a year earlier, according to government data released May 12. It was the largest 12-month increase in nearly five decades. Eggs surged 220%, butter jumped 51%, fats and oils were up 41%, and flour 40%, the National Restaurant Association said.
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
How low could the S&P 500 possibly fall from the Monday, Jan 3, 2022 closing high of 4,796.56?
Some are calling this a dot-com-like bubble "burst".
Jeremy Grantham thinks a 40% decline is in the offing.
That burst happened gradually, actually, from August 2000 to February 2003, more like an old balloon slowly deflating in the corner of the room under a table months after the party had ended.
On an average basis, the S&P 500 fell from 2471.50 in August 2000 to 1314.31 in February 2003, in March 2022 dollars. That 1157.19 point drop amounted to a drop of 46.82%.
Before climbing to the spectacular heights we know today, the S&P 500 had another appointment with more bad news, unfortunately, in March 2009, achieving an even lower level than February 2003.
In March 2022 dollars, the S&P 500 bottomed in March 2009, again on an average basis, at 1023.36. That was 1448.14 points from 2471.50 in August 2000, a drop of 58.59%.
That was quite a long process, a very
bad, no good, rotten almost a decade for stocks. Real per annum return August
2000 through March 2009 averaged -8.14%.
Many children watched their parents lose everything, including the house.
Those February 2003 and March 2009 type of events must be recognized as within the realm of real possibility even today.
4796.56 minus 46.82% would put the S&P 500 at 2551.
Minus 58.59% . . . 1986.
Not saying it will happen. Not saying it's even probable. Just possible, because it has happened before.
Smart investors are ready for the possible.
The index is down 18.19% from the all-time-high tonight.
This headline was not approved by the global warming police
The incompetents at The Ministry of Truth have been notified.
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
The next war's cannon fodder: Students at Wyoming commencement boo Senator Lummis for saying there are only two sexes
They will be blown to smithereens in the next war by America's future conqueror, or publicly tortured to death by the victors in a gruesome spectacle of mockery.
During the commencement address on Sunday, Lummis said constitutional rights were under attack in the U.S. and “even fundamental scientific truths such as the existence of two sexes, male and female, are subject to challenge these days.”
More.
The ruin of a state is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners, and contempt of religion, which is entirely our case at present.
-- Jonathan Swift
Housing predator Blackstone says housing affordability is comparable to the 2007 housing bubble, but it isn't
Here:
Blackstone’s Joe Zidle calls homes almost as unaffordable as the 2007 peak. Yet, he believes a crash is unlikely due to a major difference: Most owners aren’t using their homes like an ATM.
That's a total smokescreen. Look! Over there! A deer!
Peak unaffordability was actually in 2014, when Blackstone was buying up all the inventory individual homebuyers couldn't afford.
Housing was actually more affordable during the 2007 housing bubble than it is today. The read then was 20.5 but in January 2022 it's more like 17.3, much worse. People who are paying these high prices are nuts. If it all blows up again you can bet firms like Blackstone will be waiting in the wings to acquire bargains you have to sell at a loss.
Meanwhile Blackstone today remains a huge buyer of commercial and multifamily rental real estate, especially student housing:
80 percent of the firm’s real estate holdings are in sectors with shorter-length leases that will allow Blackstone to benefit from rising rents . . ..
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Median household income now buys about 17% of the median sales price of a house, a new low: Joe Biden is the Barack Obama of unaffordable housing, only worse
Housing affordability has never been so bad.
The median sales price in 1Q2022 climbed to $428,700.
Median household income in January 2022 is estimated at $74,099, which buys 17.3% of the median house sold in the United States.
Official annual figures through 2020 are indicated in this chart.
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Monday, May 16, 2022
People who don't care are already slaves
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There is a kind of sluggish resignation, as well as poorness and degeneracy of spirit, in a state of slavery.
-- Joseph Addison
Sunday, May 15, 2022
LOL, obsessive truck tire slasher Juliette Kayyem thinks there's a whole CONVOY of colluders behind the Buffalo shooter
But that lone wolf language fails us in an era when hate and radicalization now serve as a proxy for the collaborative herd, for the co-conspirators and colluders. Gendron wasn’t alone. His mission was effective because he was supported by an apparatus that provided the ideology and means for the hunt. Based on evidence from a manifesto that he reportedly posted Thursday night, Gendron did not perceive himself as being alone: He had his people; they were there for him.
More.
State terror is OK, got it? She's a Harvard man, see, a former Obama official.
LOL, The New York Times is the Hotel California of newspapers
You can sign up for it, but you can never leave.
Essentially, so far, it appears like The New York Times does not let its subscribers cancel their subscription even if they want to given that the producer’s request was “rejected by the system” on two separate occasions.
More.
Kevin Williamson: Biden has done everything wrong on inflation, all at once
For The New York Post, here:
And it is what you get when you combine the wrong monetary policy with the wrong fiscal policy, the wrong trade policy, the wrong regulatory policy, and the wrong energy policy.
Saturday, May 14, 2022
Friday, May 13, 2022
For the money, LOL
Why women file for divorce more than men...
Filing for divorce might be their only choice to secure assets . . .
LOL, back to back stories curated by Drudge say Xi Jinping did not, or did, appear at the Winter Olympic Games, take your pick
Rumours about the state of Xi's health have been swirling for years, with fresh speculation sparked by his unexplained absence from the Beijing Winter Olympics.
When Xi Jinping strode into the Bird's Nest Olympic stadium in the winter, waving and bundled in a black jacket and mask, hundreds of Chinese spectators and performers cheered in what was meant to be the start of a victorious year for their nation's president.
Thursday, May 12, 2022
American real economic growth rates in the 21st century are a catastrophe, down 44% from their 20th century levels 1929-1999
GDPCA, compound annual growth rates
1929-1999: 3.534% (almost 79% better than 1999-2021)
1999-2021: 1.979% (-44.001% from 1929-1999)
1977-1999: 3.263% (65% better than 1999-2021)
It's like someone flipped a switch and went away.
I turn on Clay and Buck out of the blue and get them normalizing gay by interviewing black Republican Rob Smith
It's become a feature of so-called conservatism now, no longer a bug.
COVID-19 in the US in April 2022
COVID-19 in the US in April 2022
Monthly deaths in April were the third lowest since the first wave of the pandemic.
Cases in April meanwhile ticked up slightly, though mass self-testing makes that an increasingly dodgy indicator. Many cases are escaping tabulation.
Deaths per day in 2022 through April (120 days) fell to about 1,400 vs. about 1,131/day in 2020 (306 days) and about 1,310/day in 2021:
Deaths per day in Jan 2022: 2,001
Deaths per day in Feb 2022: 2,247
Deaths per day in Mar 2022: 980
Deaths per day in Apr 2022: 426.
Deaths per day in May 2022 have ticked up to about 497 through the 11th.
The goal is to get this down to 100 deaths per day, to make it more like the flu.
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