Trend for Oceanic Nino Index 1951-2024

The 2023-2024 season ended with the May-June-July measuring period. The last two measuring periods of the season came in at .4 and .2, which were not anomalous.

The sum of the season's anomalies was 15.4, not to be confused with size of the actual El Nino.

The El Nino lasted twelve months, ending in March-April-May 2024, overlapping with the 2022-2023 season by two periods and measuring a total anomaly of 16.1, or 1.34 on average. The El Nino was still considered strong (1.5-1.9) however because there were at least three consecutive such anomalous measuring periods measuring between 1.5 and 1.9. There were six such consecutive periods this time, and only one was 2.0 (in the very strong category).

The new season has begun with a .1 reading, also not anomalous.

The overall long term trend for the eastern tropical Pacific sea surface temperature anomaly still lands just slightly below 0 since 1951.

The trend of ever-higher warm anomaly seasons looks broken, but the trend of ameliorating cold anomaly seasons looks intact.

When you have to write articles like this with eight weeks to go lol

 How Kamala Harris Can Prove She’s Not a Flip-flopping Phony

Ed Kilgore, New York Magazine

Kamala Harris’s effort to depict herself as a candidate of safe but forward-looking change (as opposed to the decidedly unsafe and reactionary change represented by Donald Trump) has unsurprisingly spurred a host of GOP attacks on a cherry-picked assortment of unpopular or at least questionable-sounding policy positions from her past, ranging from support for a single-payer health-care system and sympathy for undocumented immigrants to opposition to fracking and to aggressive policing tactics.

 

Is Chris Cillizza, formerly of CNN, WaPo, Meet the Depressed, and PMSNBC cherry-picking?

 

I mean, most of these lists are incomplete because Harris' has left a LONG trail demonstrating her extreme leftism in speeches, interviews, tweets, policy statements from 2019, et cetera, and it's a daunting task to list them all. Any list of them will show an editor's bias about what's important in the editor's opinion.

But the idea from James Carville endorsed by Kilgore that Harris can just say she learned in the White House that spending $800 billion over ten years in the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act to reverse climate change was good enough when in 2019 she said it would take $1 trillion PER YEAR for ten years is just laughable.

 

LAUGHABLE.

That's hardly going to fly with the climate change left, let alone anyone else.

 

Ed Kilgore's just pretending that isn't the case. He's an enabler of Harris' silence in the face of the flip-flops.

 

 

 

 

After all the brouhaha about Kamala Harris' race, there's NOTHING in this Wikipedia entry about her being black in 2004-2011

Full time jobs as a percent of population fell in August 2024 to 49.98, to 49.67 for the first eight months of the year, which is worse than both 2023 and 2022

 Bad news.

Full time as a percent of population:

Jan-Aug 8-month average

2024  49.67

2023  50.26

2022  50.12

2021  48.30

Full year average

2023  50.21

2022  50.09

2021  48.63

Joe Biden says Inflation Reduction Act was really a Climate Change Act, says it was misnamed

 

What do the AWFLs read first thing in the morning?

 Axios, where a "deep read" takes 1 minute lol.

 

 

CBS News lies about heat deaths, now AP Obama blatantly lies about what JD Vance said

It's almost like you can't trust the news 😏 .

 

 

CBS News just lies through its teeth about heat deaths

 Extreme heat is the No. 1 cause of weather-related deaths in the U.S., a risk that grows as temperatures rise.

From the story here. 

This isn't even debatable in the slightest degree:

Cold-related deaths outnumber heat deaths in all countries

What’s consistent in these studies is that cold-related deaths vastly outnumber those from heat.

In the Global Burden of Disease study, cold-related deaths were around four times higher than heat-related ones.

The study that estimates that 7.7% of deaths were attributed to temperature found that 7.3% were from cold temperatures; 0.4% were from heat.

In the “5 million death” study, 9.4% of deaths were related to sub-optimal temperatures. 8.5% were cold-related, and 0.9% were heat-related. This skew was true across all regions.

You can see these results in the chart below.

Globally, cold deaths are 9 times higher than heat-related ones. In no region is this ratio less than 3, and in many, it’s over 10 times higher. Cold is more deadly than heat, even in the hottest parts of the world.

More. 

Twenty years of data:

German party Alternative für Deutschland wins in Thuringia, comes in close second in Saxony, still frozen out of governance by CDU member who heads German intelligence

 For the first time ever, the right-populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) won a state election. In Thuringia, the party gained 32.8 per cent of the votes – nearly 10 points ahead of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which came in second with 23.6 per cent. In Saxony, the AfD won 30.6 per cent and came just 1.3 per cent behind the leading CDU. ...

Meanwhile, the three parties of the ruling coalition government lagged far behind. Combined, their vote share amounted to less than 15 per cent in Saxony and just over 10 per cent in Thuringia. ... The AfD’s gains are not a one-off slip-up, but a continuation of its successes. The party was already the second-strongest force in both federal states in the last state elections in 2019. On a national level, the AfD came second in the EU elections this June. ...

The attempt to combat the AfD by merely dismissing it as beyond the pale clearly isn’t working. Even those who don’t like the AfD, but are principled democrats, can see the problem with freezing out a party that just won a democratic election. ... The polls are crystal clear about which topics matter most to voters – rising crime rates, unregulated migration, a sinking standard of living and the growing influence of radical Islam. These are all real, rational concerns.

More.

Real Clear Politics' No-Toss-Ups map flips Georgia and Nevada to Harris, Pennsylvania back to Trump with Harris winning the Electoral College 273-265

 

A US citizen held hostage in Gaza was executed by Hamas while Joe Biden was working tirelessly to free him for more than two weeks at the beach

 

Deportations are 24/7 all of a sudden under Biden without a new law having been passed, which means he could have simply done this at any point in his presidency but chose to let in millions instead

All these people cut in line ahead of legal immigrants who have to wait years for green cards.

One law for them, another for these, brought to you by Democrats.

 

From Hillary's paid speeches to the banksters post-2012: You need both a public and a private position

 Here.

 

 

Up-coming under Kamala Harris: You won't be able to afford to eat AT HOME

 

The middle class couldn't afford restaurants under Obama-Biden, eleven years later they can't afford even fast food under Biden-Harris

 You got what you voted for, good and hard.

 

The working class does not exist in the economic structure of a single nation

 

Revolution is exalted into a constitutional process in periodic, mass elections

 

Too late dumbass

Why Dems Shouldn't Demean Trump Voters

Nicholas Kristof, New York Times

 

This is why The Babylon Bee earns the big bucks

 

Samuel Johnson: "The whole fabrick and scheme of the English language is Gothick or Teutonic; it is a dialect of that tongue, which prevails over all the northern countries of Europe"

Kamala Harris wasn't at the dignified transfer of the remains of the Afghanistan Abbey Gate victims because she already knew what time it was: Space Story time

 

Democrats: Only we get to use Arlington National Cemetery for a political prop

 

Kamala Harris enrages parents of soldiers who perished in Afghanistan pull-out because she lied about Trump: The parents invited Trump to Arlington National Cemetery

 

Harris-Walz campaign uses anti-democratic tactics against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in the name of saving democracy

 In Philadelphia on Aug. 6, an enormous crowd of supporters exulted in the announcement of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate for the White House. But at the same time, another much quieter drama unfolded: A reporter for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the second-largest news organization in the most important battleground state, was being denied access to the venue. ...

The Harris-Walz campaign continues to take measures to exclude Post-Gazette reporters and photographers from its events due to an ongoing, and very unusual, labor action at the newspaper. The journalists’ strike is unusual because it has gone on so long — nearly two years, making it the longest ongoing strike in America — but also because it has only ever attracted the support of a small minority of the bargaining unit. ... the more anti-democratic tactics we tolerate in the name of saving democracy, the less democracy there will be left to save.

More.

Democrat former chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee says Harris cocooning herself is an affront to democracy

 

If the polling errors favoring Democrats in 2020 and 2016 persist, then Trump is probably still in the lead.

Further, the focus of the fall campaign will increasingly move from “joy” to policy — and Trump leads on most issues because of a Biden-Harris record of which most voters disapprove.

The cocooning of Harris is an affront to the transparent principles of democracy. It invites a return of the Bush-era chicken mascots.

Most importantly, it feels dangerously close to a reprise of the failed 1988 Mike Dukakis presidential campaign that never came out of its left-leaning bunker.

More.

Kamala Harris proud to be the last person in the room for the Afghanistan debacle

 

The overall pce inflation rate at 2.5% year over year in July 2024 is 100% worse than the 1.25% average rate 2015-2020

 

Real Clear Politics' No Toss Ups map tips PA to Harris for the win over Trump 270-268

 

Core pce inflation year over year in July was higher than in either June or May, and the current rate is still 70% higher than the average for 2015-2020

 2.62% vs. 2.57% and 2.58%.

But you said inflation was coming down!

The metric averaged 1.54% yoy for the six years 2015-2020.

Biden-Harris administration forges ahead with electric vehicle mandate through EPA final rule, Harris-Walz campaign disavows it to get elected

 

Stephen L. Miller's dad was a big fan of Rush Limbaugh, the radio icon who straight up said he was in the conservative talk radio business to make money

Nothing personal, just neo-Con Inc. business:

 

Kamala Harris: There is no question I'm in favor of banning fracking

 Here.

 

Tim Walz' sign misspoke in 2004, claimed he was a veteran of Afghanistan war

 

Rural America is revved up to vote against Democrats for some reason, what could it be?

Jonathan Turley: Zuckerberg fought for years to conceal his cooperation with government censorship until the Republican House Judiciary Committee forced his hand

 Zuckerberg is just another, you guessed it . . .

Zuckerberg's sudden regret only came after his company fought for years to conceal the evidence of its work with the government to censor opposing views. Zuckerberg was finally compelled to release the documents by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and the House Judiciary Committee. 

Now forced to admit what many of us have long alleged, Zuckerman is really, really sorry. 

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Your reminder that each of the US credit downgrades occurred seven months after each of Nancy Pelosi's disastrous House Speakerships during which she spent in excess of revenues by 251%, the worst deficit spending on record

Pelosi was Speaker of the House Jan 3, 2019-Jan 3, 2023 and Jan 4, 2007-Jan 3, 2011.

 

Harris-Walz is now the dynamic duo of stolen valor

 

The personal exemption from the income tax should be $127,000 today

 The personal exemption in 1913 was $4,000 when the average Joe made about $800 a year.

Adjusted for inflation, that's $127,000 in July 2024.

No one paid any tax except rich people, and on up to $20,000 of income the rich paid 1% on the $16,000 difference in 1913.

Kamala Harris meanwhile wants to tax your ass into oblivion, so spare me the comparisons between her so-called budget proposals and Trump's.

Do you have gains only on paper in stocks?

She'll tax them.

That's what unrealized gains are. 

The argument that this will apply only to the rich is a joke.

The income tax was to apply only to the rich, too.

Now look where we are: Paying through the teeth and $35 trillion in debt.

And she wants MORE.

 

 

Le Monde: Macron has spent the summer in denial of his defeat, the lumpen left has spent it failing to build a coalition to govern

 The president's justification for this decision is that the other political groups consulted would have quickly overthrown the new government. ... In the absence of any other obvious possibility, it would have been in the interest of democracy for the president to allow the experiment to unfold instead of trying to assert control at all costs in the hope of preserving his policy for as long as possible, even after it has been outvoted. ...

[Macron] has never acted like the clear loser of this election, nor has he clearly accepted the principle of cohabitation.

More.

Can you spot the year when your home became just another commodity?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxpayer_Relief_Act_of_1997