Sunday, May 31, 2020

Hillary in 1996 wanted to bring the superpredators to heel

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Thursday, May 28, 2020

Nine days after hitting the 90,000 threshold, Johns Hopkins shows over 100,000 COVID-19 deaths in the US

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The addition of 10,000 deaths in nine days instead of seven, six and five previously shows how the stay-at-home policy in the US has slow...

LOL, Michigan's rapacious utility Consumers Energy delays roll-out of new Summer Peak Rate program due to COVID-19

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  Due to COVID-19, Peak Pricing has Been Delayed Until 2021: Given the economic challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, we a...
Monday, May 25, 2020

Trump will lose because he is alienating millions of people like this guy with incessant calls to reopen before it is safe

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"Lehner, who now considers himself an independent, says he is frightened by the president's lack of leadership and maturity amid...
Sunday, May 24, 2020

Trump took a big hit in April, now again in May, in Rasmussen's Trump Approval Index, net negative in double digits

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Polls by both PEW of nearly 11,000 adults at the beginning of May and AP-NORC of 1,000+ in mid May both indicate 48% to 54% consensus tha...
Thursday, May 21, 2020

Trump's greatest US economy ever suddenly has 25 million people on insured unemployment compensation

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Somebody must have been asleep at the switch for something that bad to happen so quickly. Who was that?
Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Projecting US deaths from COVID-19 to Nov 19, 2020 using optimistic assumptions

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Daily US deaths from COVID-19 fell from 27,279 on 4/20 to 20,951 on 5/19, or 23.2% under circumstances of stay-at-home orders in many US s...
Monday, May 18, 2020

USA hits 90,312 deaths from COVID-19 in John Hopkins University data, cases climb to 1,500,753

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Here's the recent timeline of fatalities: 50k 4/24/20 60k 4/29 70k 5/5 80k 5/11 90k 5/18 We've gone from adding 10k...
Sunday, May 17, 2020

Meanwhile the secular bear market in stocks since August 2000 rolls on in April 2020

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Return in the last 19.6 years lags the previous period of equal length by 75%, and lags long term return before that by 52%. 

April 2020 Climate Update for KGRR, Grand Rapids, Michigan

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April 2020 Climate Update for KGRR Max temp 75, Mean 79 Min temp 24, Mean 22 Av temp 44.2, Mean 46.5 Precip 4.0...

Grand total foreign holdings of US Treasury securities in May, 2000-2019

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Demand slowed from 2013 as stocks once again got a bid (permanent adoption of Bush tax cuts by Obama and Boehner removed uncertainty), bu...
Friday, May 15, 2020

The only thing Trump has accomplished at "warp speed" is ruining the US economy because he ignored a deadly virus until it was too late

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Trump, the supposed savior of US manufacturing, has presided over the utter collapse of manufacturing capacity uti...
Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Beyond parody: Delusional Rush Limbaugh says red states are paying for all this emergency spending

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Here : "The red states are gonna create capital and money to transfer to pay these people their stupid welfare costs (and whatev...
Tuesday, May 12, 2020

We live in a culture of death, which makes it an anti-culture, where a meaningless conservatism has sat still for millions upon millions of abortion deaths, and will sit still now for deaths from COVID-19

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Monday, May 11, 2020

USA hits 80,239 COVID-19 deaths, 1,345,307 cases, according to Johns Hopkins data, mortality rate rises to 5.96%

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Mr. 15-cases-going-to-zero:
Sunday, May 10, 2020

Two months ago, on the morning of March 10, Michigan still had zero cases of SARS-CoV-2

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Today, May 10, Michigan has 46,756 cases and 4,526 deaths. The case fatality rate of 9.68% is the highest in the nation. In my coun...

Case positivity rates for SARS-CoV-2 in countries with 1+million tests and in US states with the most tests

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Ranked by most tests performed: USA 15.1% Germany 6.2% Italy 8.7% Spain 10.6% UK 12.5% France 12.8% WHO says epidemic con...
Saturday, May 9, 2020

It's the libertarian crazies among us who are clueless and spoiled, not the cooks, servers and dishwashers

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"In other words, if they’re farming or working in a mine, they’re doing so by choice. This should be remembered the next time some sp...
Friday, May 8, 2020

How does 200,000 COVID-19 deaths by the 4th of July sound to you?

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Trump did not keep us safe. Trump will never understand how he could have stopped this outcome even after failing repeatedly from Feb 1...
Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Michigan falls to fourth for COVID-19 deaths, replaced in third by Massachusetts

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This is the Reuters data. NY Times is now behind a registration/pay wall. The case mortality rate for the US has climbed to 5.96%...