Sunday, August 11, 2019
Climate update for Grand Rapids, Michigan, July 2019
Climate update for Grand Rapids, Michigan, July 2019
Max temp 92 Mean Max 94
Min temp 54 Mean Min 49
Av temp 75.4 Mean Av 72.3
Precip 3.92 Mean 3.13
Precip ytd 26.85 Mean ytd 19.78 (36% wetter than normal)
[Snow Jan-Jun 2019 63.7 Mean Jan-Jun 43.5 (46% more than normal)]
[HDD Jan-Jun 2019 were utterly normal, not even 0.7% higher than the mean]
CDD 332 Mean 241
CDD ytd 449 Mean ytd 425 (5.6% warmer than normal)
The surfeit of moisture first from snow and then from rain in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 2019 year-to-date is characteristic of much of the continental United States, more than 80% of which isn't even abnormally dry at the height of summer at the end of the first week of August 2019. Drought is isolated to pockets making up less than 5% of the Lower 48, particularly near Seattle.
Saturday, August 10, 2019
Joe Biden in 1976: Diversity is not our strength, that's a bunch of poppycock, differences drive us apart
Speaking at an annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in Boise in February 1976, Biden said: ”I told you [in a previous speech] about my view that the uniqueness of America didn’t lie in the fact that we’re a great melting pot. We hear that all the time, about it being black and white, rich and poor, Christian and Jew — therefore we’re strong. I told you then, I thought that was a bunch of poppycock.
“The fact we are black and white doesn’t bring us together as a nation. The fact that we’re Christian and Jew doesn’t send us running into one another's embrace to herald our differences. The fact is that people fear differences. The fact that the reason this nation is able to be the most heterogeneous nation in the history of mankind is not because it’s a melting pot. It’s because unlike any other nation in the world, we are uniquely a product of our political institutions.
“If France tomorrow, for example, were to turn in a monarchy, I told you, I did not believe that France would substantively change. Because in France there’s an ethnicity that binds them together, a cultural tie. You don’t have that in America,” he added.
"Just look around this country to see how different we are. Unless we get the American people from Delaware to Idaho, Massachusetts to California, believing that the political system can produce results for them, this country is going to spin apart like a gyroscope out of kilter,” said Biden.
“You were saying, ‘No, it can’t happen here, this is America, we’re unique, we are something different.’ Well, the Lord ain’t made a new brand of man in a long time. It can happen here, we can split apart, and we’re moving in the direction of doing just that.
“Without [the public’s] confidence, without their participation in the system, this nation will not see a tricentennial, this nation will not see the year 2000 in a way in which we now think it is composed." ...
“We hear time and again that we are uniquely a melting pot. Because we’re black, white, rich and poor, therefore we’re strong,” said Biden. “The fact that we are black and white, rich and poor drives us apart in America,” he said.
Friday, August 9, 2019
Not in labor force averaged a RECORD 95.86 million in the first half of 2019
Rush Limbaugh's favorite group to mock every month under Obama as "all eating but not working".
Now you never hear about them.
The biggest fraud and grifter ever to hit the big time, right behind Trump.
Thursday, August 8, 2019
Future President Tulsi Gabbard plays ukulele in honor of Lord Krishna
Here.
Sounds like any Christian charismatic worship service I've ever heard, just a different god.
She's very beautiful.
Update:
It's the internet, folks.
Here you go:
Hank Paulson, who championed the crackpot TARP as Treasury Secretary under Bush 43, is a Christian Scientist
From the story:
But the reality of the existential crisis remained elusive to church
officials. In 2005, Nathan Talbot and J Thomas Black, longtime church
leaders who had promoted recklessly irresponsible policies encouraging
the medical neglect of children, endorsed ambitious plans for raising
the dead. Black argued that Eddy wanted to keep alive the possibility of
defeating mortality, saying, “What would set us apart as a denomination
more than raising the dead?” What indeed? Black himself has had ample
opportunity to demonstrate it: he died in December 2011, and hasn’t been
seen since. ...
So did the softening of some Christian Science attitudes suggest that
the church was undergoing a genuine change of heart? Or were they
trying to save their jobs, their pride and the institution? At that
time, officials were grasping at relationships with ecumenical groups
and New Age alternative healers – anything to boost membership. Shirley
Paulson, for example, sister-in-law of former US treasury secretary Hank
Paulson (also a Christian Scientist, taught by Nathan Talbot),
contributed to a series of summit meetings – known as “Church Alive” –
which sought to jazz up services with ideas fresh from the 1950s:
reading from recent translations of the Bible (more recent than the King
James version, that is), singing hymns a cappella, and urging Sunday
School students to rap their narcotic weekly “Lesson Sermons”.
Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Unlike too many American women, Israeli women are invested in victory
Yikes NeverTrump Charlie Sykes!
We have nothing to fear from Julian Castro given he put his exceptionally stupid brother in charge of his campaign for president
It's also pretty stupid that The Washington Examiner can't formulate the proper English phrase "to both him and his brother", but let's just focus on the fact that Joaquin is not now and never will be the phoenix rising from this clusterconflagration.
Black mothers' lives don't matter to Black Lives Matter, national media, Democrat Party obsessed with nearly non-existent "white supremacy"
'Total cowardice': 2 Chicago mothers killed in drive-by shooting while taking a stand against gun violence:
Grant and Stoudemire were members of Mothers Against Senseless Killings
(MASK), a group that was formed in 2015 after three women were shot, one
fatally, near the same street corner in the Englewood neighborhood,
members of the group said.
"For mothers to be killed in a place where mothers go to seek safety and
sisterhood, I take that as a personal threat," said Tamar Manasseh, 41,
founder of the group. "Because when you come for one of us, you better
believe they came for all of us."
Grant and Stoudemire were out helping to patrol the neighborhood Friday
when just before 10 p.m., a blue SUV pulled up and someone inside opened
fire, killing the women and leaving two men injured, including one
whose arm was grazed by a bullet, Bown said. Police recovered multiple
shell casings from the scene, she said.
Kenyan who overstayed his 2003 visa and married an American to escape deportation now suspected in 19 smothering deaths of elderly in nursing home
B-2 tourist visa.
From the story:
Investigators are currently looking into about 750 deaths of elderly
women to find if Chemirmir could have been connected to potential
additional murders. Chemirmir has remained in custody since last year on
a $1 million bond.
Dead white Antifa terrorists Willem Van Spronsen in Tacoma and Connor Betts in Dayton both embraced AOC's inflammatory concentration camp rhetoric
Nolte: Two Terrorists Embraced Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘Concentration Camp’ Smear:
The real news is here is the establishment media’s shameless double
standard. While the media are going crazy over the El Paso terrorist’s
anti-Hispanic rhetoric and attempting to claim Trump was his
inspiration, the very same media are dutifully covering up how two
left-wing terrorists embraced Ocasio-Cortez’s inflammatory rhetoric.
Personally, I object to this kind of guilt-by-association. Watching
the news media attempt to stifle free speech by connecting someone’s
violence to another person’s speech is as un-American as it gets. But
the media’s own rules do connect Ocasio-Cortez and two members of her
Socialist Squad directly to these two terrorists.
I should add that it’s fascinating to watch the deep-in-denial media
further destroy its own credibility by covering these facts up. The
media know that we know the truth. The media know that the truth about
Ocasio-Cortez and these two terrorists is all over social and
alternative media, but still they don’t care that we know because their
partisan rage constantly overwhelms their decency and integrity.
All the media can do is rage against Trump, even with the “concentration camp” elephant in the room.
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
LOL: David French declares war on the mice in the walls of your country house
The idea that there are millions of alt-righters in America is preposterous. Red State's streiff in 2016 laughably came up with 1-3% of the population, as if that were a small number. But there is no way that the alt-right is as numerous as the LGBT population of the United States.
In the year 2000 the forerunner to
today's alt-right, Patrick J. Buchanan, received just 0.43% of the
popular vote, fewer than 500,000. And unlike David French or Richard Spencer, Pat was the likeable candidate!
David French is a Presbyterian. He has lit his hair on fire. That the recent shooters were white nationalists is kooky on its face. French is literally communicating hysteria.
Conservatism Inc. is deeply threatened by alternative ideas because it is uncertain of itself, even as alt-righter Richard Spencer is uncertain of himself. Both of them need an enemy, and both exaggerate its size.
There's more than Trump derangement syndrome afoot in the land.
Rumor has it ordinary white from the rust belt wants Wajahat's ass sent packing back to the shit-hole whence he came
New York Times op-ed writer felt he had to delete the Massacre Mitch tweet for some reason.
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Monday, August 5, 2019
England's had 243 years to catch up on Americans and their guns, but they're still hopelessly benighted
Link.
World record with a revolving pistol is 12 rounds in 2.9 seconds, including the 6 round reload. Assuming ideal conditions, the world record holder's rate of fire per minute is 248, but would probably fall off dramatically from that due to the frequency of reloading. The same man with an AR-15 might be able to print 300 rounds a minute, but probably less due to reloading 10 times.
Maybe the Terminator T-1000 could pull an AR-15 rifle trigger 1200 times in a minute, but no human being could. And the T-1000 would quickly discover the weapon melting in his hands from the heat even if he could manage to change the 40 30-round magazines fast enough.
Typical rate of fire performance of the semi-automatic Armalite rifle is 12-15 rounds per minute. No automatic versions are legal to the general public in the United States.
The BBC pulled that graphic out of their ass.
The BBC pulled that graphic out of their ass.
President Trump today mistakenly obliterated Toledo, Ohio instead of Dayton, Ohio: Still got closer than Biden, who hit Michigan
Closer counts in horse shoes, hand grenades and thermonuclear warheads.
Sunday, August 4, 2019
Saturday, August 3, 2019
Friday, August 2, 2019
Wall Street Journal admits economic conditions have shrunk as millions go into deep debt to stay in the middle class
Families Go Deep in Debt to Stay in the Middle Class :
Cars, college, houses and medical care have become steadily more costly, but incomes have been largely stagnant for two decades, despite a recent uptick.
Rush Limbaugh gets more out of touch with every passing day: "People like their health care from their employer"
Talk about delusional.
In my household we haven't had employer provided health insurance since 2008, but recently a new employer offered us some. My jaw hit the floor when I saw the price: $2,033 per month for family coverage.
Currently I pay $532 a month for family coverage, because I have a plan grandfathered in from pre-2010, which I get to keep as long as I don't make any changes to it. The new employer's plan is almost FOUR TIMES more expensive than what I'm paying now.
Compared to what I'm being offered by an employer right now my current plan looks mahvelous, right?
Well guess what it cost just eight years ago?
$227 a month.
That's right. Despite the fact I'm not hostage to Obamacare or employer provided insurance, my premiums have still risen 134% in eight years. And it would be even worse had I not raised the deductible. Needless to say, my coverage is nearly useless for office visits and routine tests; that's all 100% out of pocket, too.
But look at the scale of what's happened. The coverage I had in 2011 now costs me about two and half times as much as it did then, but this new employer plan costs NINE TIMES as much as privately purchased coverage cost me eight years ago.
That is insane.
But look at the scale of what's happened. The coverage I had in 2011 now costs me about two and half times as much as it did then, but this new employer plan costs NINE TIMES as much as privately purchased coverage cost me eight years ago.
That is insane.
OBAMACARE IS A CURSE AND A BLIGHT ON THE NATION, WHETHER YOU HAVE IT OR NOT, and Rush Limbaugh is as out of his mind as the Democrat hucksters trying to sell us Medicare for All or some other bottle of government elixir when he says people like their health care from their employer. They do not. The LA Times in May:
Health insurance deductibles soar, leaving Americans with unaffordable bills:
The 2010 healthcare law — often called Obamacare — provided landmark protections to Americans once shut out of health coverage. But as Democrats and Republicans fought over the law, Altman said, neither focused on the rapid run-up in costs for people covered through work. ... Over the same time, insurance premiums also increased, rising at more than double the rate of inflation and outpacing wage gains.
Meh: Total nonfarm payrolls increased 164,000 in July 2019
Average to date from November 2016 inclusive is 183,000 per month. Not a boom.
Clinton era average: 243,000 per month for eight straight years.
Reagan boom average: 248,000 per month for six years Nov 1982-Nov 1988.
Richard Spencer falls for silly all the time, including Andrew Yang, fangs come out even for allies with the temerity to point it out
Touchy much? Belies the inherent insecurity and missing center of Richard Spencer.
Spencer: 0
Greer: 1
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