Saturday, October 10, 2015
Average age of a car on the road climbs from 11.4 years in 2014 to 11.5 years in 2015
IHS Inc. reported here at the end of July:
SOUTHFIELD, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The combined average age of all light vehicles on the road in the U.S. has climbed slightly to 11.5 years, based on a snapshot of vehicles in operation (VIO) taken Jan. 1 of this year, according to IHS Automotive, a global provider of critical information and insight to the automotive industry and part of IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS).
I know. Mine average 13 years old.
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Friday, October 9, 2015
Thursday, October 8, 2015
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Biased polling: Libertarian leaning polls have Trump averaging 20%, the others 25%
IBD 17
WSJ 21
BLOOMBERG 21
Average 20
USAT 23
PEW 25
FOX 26
QUINNIPIAC 25
CNN 24
Average 25
The girly men at National Review still feel like Trump attacked them
Lowry and Ponnuru, here, who think Megyn Kelly, Carly Fiorina and Rosie O'Donnell make a "whole pattern":
'Trump’s discarded wives and his habit of making gross sexual insults of women also make it easier for liberals to campaign against Republicans’ supposed “war on women.” Perhaps one or two of Trump’s comments were not as disgusting as they have generally been taken to be: Maybe he didn’t mean to suggest that Fox anchor Megyn Kelly asked him tough questions because she was menstruating. But look at the whole pattern — his repeated attacks on her as a “bimbo,” his slam of Carly Fiorina’s face, his description of other women as pigs — and it’s clear that these bits of ugliness are not gaffes so much as a way of life.'
What a couple a pussies. No one who goes off on three men automatically becomes a man-hater. Men do it all the time, and so do women. But "discarded wives" gives it all away. They were no more discarded than any other gold digger is discarded. Women always take the side of the women.
Besides, the Megan Kelly and Carly Fiorina examples are weak. In the one case Trump artlessly hunted for the ages old idiom "seeing red" and came up short (and isn't everything he says equally artless?), and in the other the source for the story is as suspect as suspect can be but people who are purportedly conservative are still prepared to buy it? Predisposed to buy it is more like it. Carly Fiorina's success with this fake story among Republicans tells you all you need to know about the Republican Party, and Carly Fiorina.
Rosie O'Donnell, on the other hand, has a big fat target on her back for a reason, and deserves everything she gets.
Saturday, October 3, 2015
As usual the UK Daily Mail screws it up, shows old Hurricane Sandy loop from 2012 hitting New York, calls it Joaquin
You've got the wrong loop, fellas. Joaquin is headed out to sea, as your own graphic shows.
Video here, where they also report:
"Hurricane Joaquin, however, has become less of a threat to the United States as forecasts show the storm curving into the Atlantic and weakening in the upcoming days."
Imagine that! Joaquin "has become less of a threat" even though they show video of it slamming into Staten Island! The damn thing's headed toward Bermuda you morons!
You can always count on The UK Daily Mail to cover a story, you just can't count on it to get it right.
I hereby nominate it for A Grauniad.
Friday, October 2, 2015
Grand Rapids, Michigan, September 2015 average temperature anomaly: +4.4 degrees F
September 2015 was 4.4 degrees ABOVE normal on average in Grand Rapids, Michigan, dropping the cumulative anomaly for the year to -18.2 degrees F from -22.6 degrees F through August.
It was a beautiful, warm, dry and very sunny September. Rainful was 2.02 inches below normal at 2.26 inches.
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Sean Hannity the hypocrite: Shocked Rand Paul criticizes Ted Cruz while the three of them have ripped fellow Republicans for years
Well, I say "fellow Republican" advisedly. What they are is libertarians, and put three libertarians in a room, or 300, all you'll get is dissension.
Sean Hannity isn't a Republican, by his own admission, but likes to play in its sandbox. Rand Paul is self-consciously "purple", imagining that right and left can be united as libertarians as opposed to remaining separated as conservatives and liberals. And Ted Cruz' behavior in the Senate makes him a RINO, at least from the RINOS' perspective.
Audio here.
The libertarian wing of the Republican Party would rather spend its time eating one other than uniting to fight Democrats.
They can't agree on anything, can't function as members of a party, and will never be able to run a country, except into the ground.
Trump's lead in first is actually up 35% in the last USAT/Suffolk poll
When you compare Trump's performance in the last USA Today/Suffolk poll to the previous one by USA Today/Suffolk in July, he's actually up by 6 points in first place, going from 17% to 23%, or up 35%.
Since the July poll, Bush, Huckabee, Paul, Christie, Santorum, Perry and Walker (who are both out now) have all together given up 22 points to Fiorina, Carson, Kasich, Graham, Rubio and Trump, on top of 11 additional points added to those front runners from fewer undecideds in September.
In the averages in yellow, note that Trump has improved his overall lead in first by 1.2 points, or almost 21%.
In the USA Today poll, Trump's lead in first has gone from +3 to +10, up 233%.
Freedom Caucus cracks up at lightning speed proving they've never had any credibility
- They oust Boehner on Friday but have no one to put forward
- They organize to fire Kevin McCarthy before he even wins the speakership while admitting they have no one to put forward
- They hold Planned Parenthood hearings but aren't prepared for their much better prepared foes
- Kevin McCarthy gives Boehner a B- but gets an F out of the box by handing Hillary a talking point on Benghazi
And it's only Thursday morning
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
A crack in the Trump facade
Donald Trump, quoted here:
“I’m a practical person,” Trump said. "If I see things aren’t going well, like for instance there are people right now in the Republican party who are not doing well I don’t think it’s going to change for many of them, at some point you have to get out. Right now, I’m leading every poll I get the biggest crowds by far. I had 20,000 in Dallas I had 35,000 people in Mobile, Alabama, you know so far it’s looking good…So I will go and if for some reason I think it’s not going to work, I’ll go back to my business.”
Libertarian impotence: Purple PAC suspends raising money for Rand Paul but has spent next to nothing on him all year
Amazing but true.
Reported here:
“I don’t want to raise money for a futile crusade,” [Ed Crane of Cato fame] said. “I still hope to raise money for him, but not until I see a concerted effort to get back to the roots that got him where he was for a while.” . . .
Sergio Gor, a spokesman for Mr. Paul’s campaign, said, “It is untruthful for a story to say that this super PAC stopped supporting Sen. Paul, when in fact they don’t seem to have lifted a finger in the first place.”
The group spent less than $8,000 in the first half of the year.
Purple PAC raised $1.2 million in the first half of the year, $1 million of which came from Jeff Yass, owner of the trading firm Susquehanna Partners. Mr. Crane said he had not consulted with Mr. Yass on his decision to suspend fundraising. The super PAC currently has $1.4 million on hand, which it won’t spend until Mr. Crane feels more positively about Mr. Paul’s campaign, he said.
Neocon insanity: Krauthammer blows a gasket, says Russia trying to expand hegemony in Syria
Oh yeah, like Syria is somehow Ukraine. The USSR is alive and well, but only in the fevered minds of the neoconservatives.
Here:
"This isn't about the Russians taking on ISIS; this is about the Russians taking over Syria and keeping Assad as a client in place."
Ah, no Charles. This is about a pro-Christian autocrat rescuing an autocrat who used to protect Christians before the Obama policy to disorganize the Middle Eastern community resulted in Christians getting their heads cut off and their communities destroyed.
We should be thanking the Russians, not trying to bury them.
The Tax Foundation says Trump tax plan will blow up the deficit, reducing revenues to 12% of GDP
From Alan Cole, here:
"Looking at these rates, collectively, note that Mr. Trump is frequently cutting rates in half, and sometimes cutting them by even more than that. Taken together, these rate reductions are enough—by my estimates—to reduce tax collections from about 18 percent of GDP to about 12 percent. Under rates as low as these, economic growth—moderate or otherwise—cannot restore federal revenues to current-law levels.
"Tax cuts can do a great deal of good; each of the provisions I outlined above could help a lot of people lead better lives. However, the reductions in federal revenue need to be acknowledged, and likely mitigated through substantial cuts in spending, in order to make this plan feasible."
Larry Kudlow really likes the Donald Trump 15% corporate tax plan, saying he never thought he'd see it
Here:
'Kudlow, who hosts his own syndicated radio show, has long championed a 15 percent corporate tax rate, but "I never thought I'd see a candidate do it. "It'll give us a gigantic advantage. Bring capital and businesses to the U.S., make us the most hospitable place to invest — and that's what Donald Trump has done."'
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