187k are affected in the service area of DTE energy on the east side of the state right now, and 37k are affected in the Consumers Energy service area.
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Ann Coulter says Republicans shouldn't waste their time defending their incumbents or primarying them, just vote for the Democrat
Spending energy, time, volunteers [on primaries] is a zero-sum game when it comes to campaigns. We can not waste our time defending incumbents. As bad as Republicans are, there are a lot of bad Republicans, but there are no good Democrats. So do not primary an incumbent. Do not waste the time and money.
Here.
Ann Coulter goes off the rails, blames the Tea Party for Obamacare
She forgets that Obamacare was passed in March 2010, months before the "Tea Party" swept the US House in an historic win with the help of Freedom Works & Co.
. . . the Tea Party candidates lost us a lot of races and Senate seats. We would not have Obamacare if it weren't for a lot of the Tea Party candidates running against incumbent candidates.
Here.
Hello. Republicans won the US House in 2010, and the US Senate in 2014, the year Obamacare went live.
Methinks Ann is jealous that Republicans actually won that 2010 election because of indignation over mortgage bailouts instead of over something else. The Tea Party's origin was in 2009 after all, not 2010.
Recall that Rush Limbaugh blamed the faceless conservative "base", too, when McCain lost. But Ann names names, calling out Trump himself over and over (he has deserved it), Mitch McConnell (perennially), and now the Tea Party. Yeah, the Tea Party got co-opted for sure, but she's rewriting history here because she's pissed so many Trump aligned candidates have won their primaries, believing (hoping?) they will lose in November, you know, like they "lost" in 2010.
Well I sure hope so.
Ann spent years saying Obamacare was the number one issue before coming to prioritize immigration, maintaining as she did that illegal aliens were the number one beneficiaries of Obamacare. Now she blames everyone else for saying so, too.
Her irrational outbursts and ad hominem arguments are her own best case for repeal of the 19th Amendment.
Make up your mind, woman.
Tuesday, August 30, 2022
Monday, August 29, 2022
Breaking: Ozzy Osbourne moving back to safer, stabbing-epidemic-plagued England
Ozzy Osbourne moving back to England, doesn't want to 'die in crazy America'...
Meanwhile in England:
Last summer saw London’s worst period on record for violence, with knife-related attacks consisting of a large proportion of the horrific acts carried out in the capital. According to Metropolitan Police figures, there were 134 murders last year, 85 of which involved a knife (around 63 percent). ...
ONS data shows that in the first three months of the year, assaults involving an injury or an intent to harm actually increased to 120 percent of what they were at the same time last year (965 to 806). Attempted murders went down marginally from 13 to 11.
But threats to kill also increased from 175 to 226 when comparing the two periods. In the first half of 2022, 1,223 people in London were caught with a blade, compared to 1,415 in January to June last year – a reduction of just 14 percent. ...
One deterrent that has often been cited is 'stop and search,' . . . But it is an area that has “always been really difficult”, Mr Hedges said, toeing a fine line between law enforcement and racial profiling.
Hm, you don't say.
LOL, fear-mongering spending lunatic at The Daily Beast gets nothing right about Nigeria, which has Africa's largest economy and a COVID-19 death record 55 TIMES better than the world's, and: "A few trillion in U.S. government spending isn't a lot of money"
Gee, and Nigeria is only 14% jabbed . . . after all this time.
The U.S. is COVAX’s biggest donor, but not its most generous. Both Germany and Japan have donated a greater share of their gross domestic product. And another big injection of American money looks unlikely as Republicans pull tight the purse strings.
That means fewer vaccines for poorer countries as the pandemic grinds toward its fourth year and vaccination rates in the poorest countries remain stubbornly low—14 percent in Nigeria, for example, compared to the global rate of 63 percent. Starving COVAX “will only enhance global inequities,” Gostin said. ... A few trillion in U.S. government spending, spread out over years, arguably isn’t a lot of money . . ..
More.
Saturday, August 27, 2022
Seeing this headline html first thing Saturday morning is disorienting
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/u-s-stock-futures-slip-as-investors-await-fed-chairman-powells-jackson-hole-address-11661508928
Investors await Powell's address?
That was published 24 hours ago, before the Powell speech, and the contents were updated last evening just before 5:00 PM.
But the pain surely ain't in the Fed.
The only pain described in the story is in households, businesses, families, not in the Fed.
Those Fed guys are rich, and get paid very handsomely.
The top 100 employees each made $274k or more in 2020. They are all named, here.
That puts them in the top 2% of all wage earners in the US.
They're the elites.
They experience no pain.
The Federal Reserve System had 23,517 employees in 2021, with a total system operating expense of $5.7353 billion, or about $244k per employee.
They live in a bubble.
Everybody's just phonin' it in and getting the hell out of Dodge for the weekend.
Especially Drudge.
Friday, August 26, 2022
The Fed is all talk and no action fighting inflation
The effective federal funds rate stands at 2.33% and $8.85 trillion remains on the balance sheet while Powell makes speeches.
Borrowing is still very cheap for the big boys and the Fed's finger on the scale makes it impossible to know the true value of its mortgage backed securities and US Treasuries.
Meanwhile inflation rages at 8.5% in July.
The market "rout" is merely another yawn as Americans get punished at the grocery store and the gas station.
Current GDP of $24.883 trillion, reported 8/25, implies a fairly valued market level of around 1,600 not 4,057. The S&P 500 remains 153% above that.
They remain rich, and you remain . . . the reason why.
Over 7,000 Americans died liberating Guadalcanal, which just denied a US Coast Guard cutter a port of call
The Chicoms are trying to take over.
Unintentional poisoning deaths, i.e. drug overdose deaths, are up a whopping 568% since 1998 to over 800,000 but Democrats hope you'll vote for them so they can ban guns which accidentally kill fewer people than industrial meat mixers
Democrats are the party of drugs and sex, aka overdose and abortion.
Joe Biden was going to mask for 10-days after Jill's rebound infection on Wednesday, but the mask was nowhere in evidence at Joe's Thursday campaign event in Maryland
The on-going COVID-19 emergency which Joe ignores is also the excuse for the $10k student loan bailout even though the Biden administration is arguing that because the COVID-19 emergency is over Trump's Title 42 policy at the border must come to an end.
Got it?
Good.
Thursday, August 25, 2022
Italy has another opportunity to vote for someone who wants to end the immigration emergency: Giorgia Meloni of The Brothers of Italy Party
Giorgia Meloni, leading the race to become Italy's next prime minister, was accused on Monday of shameful electioneering by her rivals after posting a video of a Ukrainian woman being raped by a migrant in an Italian city. ...
Meloni, whose Brothers of Italy party heads the polls ahead of a Sept. 25 national election, tweeted the video, which had been posted on a newspaper website with the image blurred but the woman's cries clearly audible.
"One cannot remain silent in the face of this atrocious episode of sexual violence against a Ukrainian woman carried out in daytime in Piacenza by an asylum seeker," Meloni wrote."A hug to this woman. I will do everything I can to restore security to our cities."
Reuters.
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Biden is breaking the law by canceling student loans, and everybody knows it
A COVID-19 emergency excuse is even less persuasive today than it was when Pelosi last year said Biden doesn't have the authority to cancel the loans.
This will be stopped by the courts, same as Biden's illegal vaccine mandate for the private sector was stopped.
Still waiting, however, for the courts to reverse the illegal deprivation of the former president of access to his own papers.
So don't hold your breath.
This out of control and senile old man Joe Biden should be impeached and removed from office.
US Department of Education, Office of the General Counsel, January 12, 2021, here:
All federal student loan programs administered by the Department are funded through annual Congressional appropriations drawn from the Treasury. These appropriations are conditioned on the Department’s faithful execution of the laws authorizing that loans be made available to eligible borrowers and then repaid or collected. See 20 U.S.C. §§ 1077a, 1078, 1078-3, 1078-6, 1078-7, 1080, 1080a, 1082, 1083, 1085, 1087e, 1087-1, 1087gg, 1091b, 1092b, 1092c, 1095a, 1098e. Although Congress could enact legislation authorizing the Department to provide blanket or mass cancellation, compromise, discharge, or forgiveness of student loan principal balances, and/or to materially modify repayment amounts or terms, it has not done so. See 20 U.S.C. §§ 1077-10 – 1077-12, 1087e(f), 1087e(h), 1087ee, 1091b, 1098d. Rather, Congress has explicitly authorized cancellation, compromise, discharge, or forgiveness, and/or material modifications to repayment amounts or terms only in very limited circumstances. See, e.g., 20 U.S.C. §§ 1087e(f), 1087e(h), 1094(b)(3), 1098aa, et seq. ...
Title IV’s plain text and statutory scheme, and controlling interpretative canons, compel us to conclude Congress appropriated funds for student loans with the expectation that such loans would be repaid except in very specific circumstances.
Libertarian America is as deluded today by cannabis as Italy was by astrology during the Renaissance
Taking cannabis regularly in your mid-20s can cause permanent damage to the brain and its legalization in some states has wrongly suggested to many that it is safe, the head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has told DailyMail.com.
Dr Nora Volkow, who has led the agency for almost two decades, warned that cannabis use among young adults was a 'concern' and called for more 'urgent' research into the 'potential health risks' for the age group.
Her agency — which is part of the National Institutes of Health — revealed Monday that a record number of 19 to 30-year-olds were using cannabis in 2021, with one in ten admitting to using it every day. Around 30 percent used the drug at least once a month, with four-in-ten having used the drug at least once last year. ...
Health agencies in the U.S. have been warning for years there is a 'real risk' that cannabis can harm a person's mental development and their social life — including triggering problems with relationships, education and careers.
But their concerns have largely been swept under the carpet as many states push forward with legalizing the drug for recreational use.
In November another six states — Arkansas, Maryland, Nebraska, North and South Dakota and Oklahoma — are set to decide whether to also liberalize the drug's use.
More.
Tuesday, August 23, 2022
The FBI illegally deprived Trump access to his papers, and the hullabaloo about classified materials is total crap: Merrick Garland is a renegade who should be impeached
The
Presidential Records Act became effective in 1981, at the start of
Ronald Reagan’s
presidency. It established a unique statutory scheme, balancing
the needs of the government, former presidents and history. The law
declares presidential records to be public property and provides that
“the Archivist of the United States shall assume responsibility for the
custody, control, and preservation of, and access to, the Presidential
records.”
The
PRA lays out detailed requirements for how the archivist is to
administer the records, handle privilege claims, make the records
public, and impose restrictions on access. Notably, it doesn’t address
the process by which a former president’s records are physically to be
turned over to the archivist, or set any deadline, leaving this matter
to be negotiated between the archivist and the former president. The PRA explicitly guarantees a former president continuing access to
his papers. Those papers must ultimately be made public, but in the
meantime ... the PRA
establishes restrictions on access to a former president’s records,
including a five-year restriction on access applicable to everyone
(including the sitting president, absent a showing of need), which can
be extended until the records have been properly reviewed and processed.
Before leaving office, a president can restrict access to certain
materials for up to 12 years. ...
In
making a former president’s records available to him, the PRA doesn’t
distinguish between materials that are and aren’t classified. That was a
deliberate choice by Congress, as the existence of highly classified
materials at the White House was a given long before 1978, and the
statute specifically contemplates that classified materials will be
present—making this a basis on which a president can impose a 12-year
moratorium on public access.
Monday, August 22, 2022
Every time you silence someone you make yourself a prisoner of your own action, because you deny yourself the right to hear something
-- Christopher Hitchens, in
. . . from David Irving’s edition of the Goebbels Diaries . . . I learned more about the Third Reich than I had from studying Hugh Trevor Roper and A. J. B. Taylor combined when I was at Oxford.
Sunday, August 21, 2022
John Locke did not believe in a chosen people, American let alone Jewish
In the races of mankind and families of the world, there remains not to one above another the least pretence to have the right of inheritance.
-- John Locke
Friday, August 19, 2022
The Fed's quantitative tightening is a complete farce, same as under Trump: In the last two months it reduced its balance sheet by $83 billion when in the two months from Feb-Apr 2020 it increased it by $2.5 trillion
These people should be in jail for their crimes against capitalism.
Thursday, August 18, 2022
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
LOL Liz Cheney, trounced in her Wyoming primary, is "thinking about" running for president
When we had thought about it long enough . . . we declared war on the Union.
Monday, August 15, 2022
Jimmy Carter may very well be as upset as the next guy from Tehran that Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie [Ibn Rushd] has survived the knife attack
Jimmy Carter doesn't have to work too hard to be unlikable, but he does it anyway.
Rushdie for his part, like Rush Limbaugh, is a serial monogamist who can't seem to find a wife he likes, or who likes him.
Or maybe the wives just couldn't stand living under the cloud of the Ayatollah's 1989 fatwa, after which Rushdie divorced three times.
Carter threw gasoline on the fatwa fire with this piece in the paper of record not even three weeks after the fatwa was issued.
Biden lied about American citizens left in Afghanistan saying only 100 remained after the pullout when over 800 have been rescued in the interim
Republican efforts in Congress are responsible for the new information coming to light.
It is unclear how many American citizens still remain in Afghanistan.
Nor is anything said about the fate of tens of thousands of Afghan friends of the US who never made it out despite American promises to bring them here.
600 legal permanent residents of the US have also been rescued.
Columbus Man who said he raped 10-year old on May 12 who eventually had abortion in Indiana on June 30 is allegedly in relationship with her mother who is pregnant by him
10-Year-Old Rape Victim's Mom Is in Domestic Relationship With Child's Alleged Illegal Alien Rapist
He is thought to be an illegal alien from Guatemala and the mother an illegal alien from Mexico.
The Party of Violence desperately wants Election 2022 to be about abortion
Right off the bat this story lies, as usual from The New York Times, by omission:
In Michigan, Democrats took aim at the Republican nominee for governor almost immediately after the primary with a television ad highlighting her opposition to abortion, without exceptions for rape or incest. ...
Some abortion ads use the specific words and positions of Republican candidates against them. ... Some use Republicans’ unyielding stances on abortion to cast them more broadly as extremists.
The ad in Michigan actually says without exceptions for life of the mother, too, which is by itself a drive-by editing lie by "Put Michigan First".
A lie by insertion. Dixon never answered a life of the mother question that way, with "no exceptions".
You see how that works?
The New York Times sort of tells the truth about Dixon's position, which is no exceptions for rape and incest, but lies about the ad, which lies about Dixon's position by making her say something about the life of the mother which she didn't say.
Then later the former paper of record edges close to telling the truth about what's going on in the ad without actually telling you the truth about what's going on in the ad.
The chutzpah.
Democrats lie to you coming and going, and so does the New York Times, but I repeat myself.
Republicans, however, seem hopelessly, perennially, unequipped to counter this disinformation war.
They're like deer in the headlights.
And when the Democrats spot them, they floor it.
Saturday, August 13, 2022
The CDC is no longer saying, as it did in June, that mRNA from the vaccines lasts in the body only "a few days", and that the spike proteins last only "a few weeks"
Here's the screenshot from the "Understanding mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines" page as of June 16th:
As of July 15th, the facts have changed!
There's no "few days" language anymore, and no "few weeks" language either. Instead at the bottom of the page there's a link off-site to this page, which talks about how long the mRNA and the spike protein last in monkeys and mice, but not in YOU.
After all this time the CDC has no human data?
I'd be upset if I were you. They've been claiming for more than a year that the mRNA and the spike proteins are gone from the human body within days and weeks. They're not claiming that anymore.
The CDC is sweeping this under the rug hoping you won't notice, announcing, as it is, the new guidance.
Why do excess deaths in the US consistently outnumber pandemic deaths?
In 2020 the difference was a whopping 118,000.
In 2021, when vaccination got into high gear, the difference was way down, but still high at about 36,000. That's at least equivalent to a whole year of influenza deaths.
Many skeptics are convinced the vaccines have something to do with this, and the CDC's deletion of "facts" from the fact box above isn't going to help convince them otherwise.
Good news for Baltimore, maybe
Woke social justice prosecutor Marilyn Mosby roundly defeated July 19th, leaves abject destruction in her wake:
In her first year in office, homicides surged 62 percent, jumping from 211 to 348. Murders have remained above 300 for each of her seven years in office—now surpassing 2,500 victims, of which at least 92 percent have been black. The sustained increase in murders is directly connected with Mosby’s pro-criminal policies.
Last year was the deadliest in Baltimore’s history, with a per capita homicide rate of more than 58 per 100,000 residents. And 2022 has been even worse, with the homicide rate increasing faster than anywhere other than New Orleans and with 215 murders already on the books. ...
Not one Democrat, elected or appointed, ever criticized or opposed Mosby’s policies, no matter how many black bodies piled up.
More.
AP Obama: Judge Roy Moore awarded $8.2 million for defamation from Democrats' Senate Majority PAC in 2017
A federal jury awarded Republican Roy Moore $8.2 million in damages Friday after finding a Democratic-aligned super PAC defamed him in a TV ad recounting sexual misconduct accusations during his failed 2017 U.S. Senate bid in Alabama. Jurors found the Senate Majority PAC made false and defamatory statements against Moore in one ad that attempted to highlight the accusations against Moore.
More.
Friday, August 12, 2022
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