MEDIA HYPE? STUDENTS RATE GAZA WAR LEAST OF CONCERNS...
The passing scene is hilarious, until it careens through the front yard and crashes into my living room.
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Grandparents rate students worse than their children
Monday, May 6, 2024
Biden stopped an ammo shipment to Israel last week to pressure Israel against invading Rafah, repeating his illegality from March 2016 when he withheld a Congressional appropriation from Ukraine
Axios reported yesterday here, just as Hamas was launching new rocket attacks on Israel.
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Thursday, January 11, 2024
So that's why we can't afford it
Wealthiest 10% own 93% of stock market...
The market capitalization of the S&P 500 on Dec 29, 2023 was about $42 trillion, each point of the index worth about $8.80535 billion.
8.80535 billion x 4,769.83 SPX 12/29/23 = 42,000 billion.
One share of VFIAX on 12/29 cost $439.99.
Price on 3/9/2009 was $62.66.
Saturday, July 15, 2023
Monday, July 3, 2023
Rival Republicans (and a Democrat gay mayor too busy babysitting to do his Biden job) LOL, polling 2.4% and too low to count
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was criticized Sunday by two rival Republican presidential candidates and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for a video taking aim at former President Trump's previous support for the LGBTQ community. ... former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie ... former Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas), who joined the Republican presidential primary race last month . . ..
Friday, June 30, 2023
Thursday, June 22, 2023
Public school education in the United States continues its decades-long freefall, accelerated by pandemic closures and a system obsessed with sexual grooming
The decline in math scores last year was the biggest in the past 50 years, according to newly released federal data. ...
The lowest-performing students scored at levels last recorded in the 1970s, when the assessment began. ...
Test results from earlier this year showed that U.S. history scores among middle schoolers are also falling — dropping to the lowest levels ever recorded since the assessment began in 1994.
More.
Monday, November 7, 2022
Crime has soared in Democrat strongholds under Biden, but the FBI is working hard to hide the data and protect their boy
The BBC reports:
There are questions about the reliability of the FBI's crime report as it excluded data from some of the biggest US cities, including New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
It's important to point out that last year, the FBI switched to a new data collection system. According to one analysis, nearly 40% of law enforcement agencies have failed to report their 2021 crime figures - so we may only have a partial picture of the most recent crime rates.
Friday, August 26, 2022
Thursday, August 18, 2022
Friday, July 22, 2022
The idea that Trump is going to get personnel right in a second term, and on a massive scale, is just preposterous
Axios reports, in laborious detail, here.
The grifters are lining up from sea to shining sea, including Demented Jim, and Trump retreads Stephen Miller, Mark Meadows, and Michael Rigas who didn't get it right the first time.
Who the hell wants to go to work for just four years for a lame duck?
These people think we are fools.
Monday, April 25, 2022
Fake Native American says Kevin McCarthy is a liar, and a traitor
Warren: "Kevin McCarthy is a liar and a traitor"
C'mon, man, nobody believes Kevin McCarthy is that competent.
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
As of February 15 Omicron dominates every US state
https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-variant-tracker-where-different-strains-are-spreading-ffd71934-1596-43e6-923d-32c4698e2f8b.html
Saturday, February 12, 2022
Maybe the shoplifting would decrease if we started chopping off their hands
Shoplifting reaches crisis proportions
- "It's out of control — it is just out of control," Lisa LaBruno, SVP
of operations and innovation at the Retail Industry Leaders
Association, tells Axios. ...
- “They come in every day, sometimes twice a day, with laundry bags and just load up on stuff,” the Post quoted a store employee saying. ...
- District attorneys in cities like Chicago and New York are considering harsher measures against shoplifters. ...
- Teams of "boosters" will throng a store with laundry bags, grabbing what they can and assaulting workers who confront them — sometimes fatally.
Thursday, February 10, 2022
The variant tracker at Axios now shows Delta prevalence of 50% or more in only thirteen states, Omicron in sixteen
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Now that AXIOS finally got its shit together and updated its map for Omicron prevalence, let's check in on variants in Michigan
Delta still dominates in Michigan, as it does in about 12 other states, mostly in the high plains and upper mid-west.
Omicron now dominates in about 14 states, mostly in the south and west.
No other variants register in Michigan on the maps at Axios, nor anywhere else, Jimmy.
Omicron is displacing Delta in America. That's the story.
India Variant, aka Delta |
Omicron Variant, from South Africa |
Sunday, January 2, 2022
Axios finally updated its Variant Tracker: So far "Delta" still dominates in the US, with Omicron most prevalent in Louisiana at just shy of 27%
Check it out here.