Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Monday, August 19, 2019
Trend for precipitation in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has been much wetter since the 1960s
Mean annual precipitation up to 1960 had been 31.76 inches, but since then is 37.33 inches.
Marianne Williamson follower thinks her politics is inconsistent with her own stated religious beliefs
Though most of the local study group expressed support for Williamson and her ideas, political scientists are skeptical that she has much of a chance at the presidency and at least one student of the course has reservations.
“I do not agree with her politics,” said Jeff Stephens, 54, of Kingston in Ross County. “I hope people don’t come to our group or ‘A Course in Miracles’ hoping to find that agenda because it’s not political.”
Stephens feels that some of Williamson’s views don’t fit with the teachings of the course. For instance, her plan to pay restitution to the descendants of slaves is about going back to the past and correcting an error that happened decades ago, whereas the course teaches forgiveness and not living in the past, said Stephens, who has been studying the course for a few years.
“I don’t think she’s making a good representative (of the course) as I understand it,” he said. “She’s not telling people about the course, she’s talking politics.”
Sunday, August 18, 2019
Saturday, August 17, 2019
Self-hating, America-hating liberal Peter Fonda finally gets his death wish: of lung cancer at 79
Peter Fonda has wanted to die at least since 1969, when a loose-triggered good ole boy decided he had to kill the witness too, and blow Fonda's character Wyatt away with a shotgun off his motorcycle in the final scene of Easy Rider. Wyatt's partner Billy had the wrong hair cut, you see, and the bad Yankee manners of the wrong hand gesture to go with it, while Wyatt had the wrong flag painted on the gas tank of his chopper and helmet. The Yankee fu was answered with the rebel yells of a twelve gauge.
Fonda repeated the performance in 1974's little-remarked Open Season as the character Ken, when the father played by William Holden hunts Ken down and kills him. Ken is a sick-in-the-head Vietnam vet who otherwise appears to lead a normal life but abducts and abuses, then releases and hunts and kills humans two weeks every year for sport with his buddies. As young men before the war they had raped Holden's daughter. She had had a child as a result, raised by the Holden character, and ended up in a mental institution. The Yankee fu was answered with the rebel yell of a vigilante's hunting rifle.
What Fonda couldn't bring himself to do with a gun in real life, he did to himself with drugs. For one reviewer of his 1998 Don't Tell Dad: A Memoir, too much of it "is a catalog of dope smoked". All along the real fu was to himself.
Friday, August 16, 2019
If it's a number and it comes out of Rush Limbaugh's mouth, it's probably wrong
Today Rush Limbaugh corrected a caller about the Summer of Love, saying it was in 1968, not 1969.
Actually it was in 1967.
Rush also said the Beatles had already broken up by the summer of 1969, the summer of Woodstock, the 50th anniversary of which is happening right this very minute.
The break-up of the Beatles actually occurred Dec 31, 1970, when the band members John, George and Ringo first publicly confirmed it. The last photo of all of them together with Paul as a band was taken August 22, 1969, just after Woodstock had ended.
I know these things because I'm younger than Rush Limbaugh. The Beatles were YUGE to my segment of the Baby Boom generation, but not to his to the same degree.
But Rush gets lots of numbers wrong, about far more consequential things than these, as my readers know.
The only ones he doesn't get wrong are the ones that go in his pocket.
The only ones he doesn't get wrong are the ones that go in his pocket.
That's why we bought Alaska, dummy, firing from Greenland puts you down wind from the fallout
These damn Yankees haven't learned anything since McClellan.
Thursday, August 15, 2019
The left-wing Dayton, Ohio shooter should have just skipped the alcohol and anti-depressants, which cancel each other out, and stayed with the cocaine
Hey wait a minute, aren't drugs illegal in this country?
Notice how five of the seven 30-year bond yield dives are a feature of the recent period since the 2000 bubble
And notice how all the episodes of great stress are post-1986 tax reform.
The chickens . . . are coming home . . . to roost!
Jobless claims through 8/10/19 pop above year ago levels in both seasonally-adjusted and not-seasonally-adjusted
That's now the third time in recent months (May, June, August), a concerning sign given that full time employment usually peaks in 3Q. It's not encouraging to see such weakness at the strongest time of the year.
Obama's minions in Philly, where in 2008 he talked about bringing a gun to a knife fight, laugh at cops being shot
Obama Goes One on One, Battling ‘Just a Speechmaker’ Label:
He
has also been showing a more pugnacious side, commenting at a
Philadelphia fund-raiser Friday that he was prepared for a fight with
Republicans, saying, “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a
gun.” That line, from “The Untouchables,” led the campaign of his
Republican opponent, Senator John McCain of Arizona, to cry foul and to suggest that hopes for an elevated dialogue were in danger.
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Jeffrey Snider: The whole global economy is in trouble, and it isn't because of a few billion in US tariffs on Chinese goods
Rather it is because hundreds of billions of dollars worth of liquidity keep disappearing since the Great Financial Crisis.
Treasury bonds are the most expensive they have been in over sixty years
All "asset" classes are near-record expensive: bonds, stocks, gold, housing, college education, health insurance policies . . ..
Cliff Asness, here:
So, the bottom line is, as measured by real bond yield, U.S. Treasury bonds are really frickin’ expensive. Measured by the slope of the yield curve they are really frickin’ expensive. But, measured by the average of these two simple variables, they are 60+ year just about record-low frickin’ expensive. This result is not caused by, but is certainly exacerbated by, the (perhaps) surprisingly uncorrelated nature of slope and real bond yield, thus making both so low and at the same time considerably more surprising.
Now that's what I call bi-partisanship: China attacks the Senate Majority Leader and the Speaker of the House
Notably missing from the attack is President Trump. None dare call him Quisling.
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Rush Limbaugh tries to sandbag his audience, claims guy FILMING himself calling Cuomo Fredo really believed his name was Fredo because Rush calls Cuomo that
If that's true, then Rush's audience is dumber than a million Fredos, which makes Rush pretty stupid for not thinking of that.
Obviously the guy didn't believe that Fredo was Cuomo's real name, otherwise filming the set up would have been completely beside the point. The point was to get the reaction on film.
Rush didn't invent the Fredo meme for Chris Cuomo. It's been out there at least since 2010 in New Yawk City, thanks to Curtis Sliwa.
The Fredos of the world unite
If Chris Cuomo were a Michael and not a Fredo, he would have punched that guy right in the kisser just like Buzz Aldrin punched that guy who called him a coward, a liar and a thief. But he didn't. He backed down, just like the guy hurling the insult backed down. This is snowflake America.
Monday, August 12, 2019
Rumor has it Kevin Williamson took a dumbasstical to write his new book
THE SMALLEST MINORITY: SHITWEASEL THINKING IN THE AGE OF MOB POLITICS
To Kevin Williamson and National Review conservatism is materialism, and you damn families and your schools in Kentucky and Oklahoma are the problem
It's Kevin Williamson with the mulish refusal to consider and deal with the world as we actually find it. You can spend decades trying to beat the nesting instinct out of mothers but all you'll have to show for it in the end is a different set of mothers to replace them, and a different country. Conservatives would prefer to stick with the one we've got. Libertarians should move . . . out.
Job Security Is Not Coming Back:
Job Security Is Not Coming Back:
[I]t is better that we are not governed by poets. Our policymakers must deal with the world as it is, and our schools and families should prepare children for the world as it is, not as we might wish it were. Imagination and creativity are ... a mulish refusal to consider and deal with the world as we actually find it.
Sunday, August 11, 2019
Joe Biden admits federal government is way too big when he says we'll need at least an F-15 to protect ourselves from it
Either that or he's threatening us.
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.
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