Thursday, October 3, 2019
Average miles traveled on US roads in 2019 through July looks flat compared with 2018
To put the complicated calculation in a nutshell, travel per person 16 years old and over averaged about 12,497 miles for the first seven months of 2019. The full year average for 2018 was 12,483.
So despite there being more cars on the road and population growing and a so-called economic boom, road travel has plateaued.
For another look at it, see Jill Mislinski here, whose population-adjusted road travel chart also shows that the flatlining began with 2017 and that 2005 was the peak year.
You are free to move about the country, but you are not, at least not like you were in a car.
Average age of US vehicle on the road climbs from 11.7 years in 2018 to 11.8 years in 2019
The number of registered light vehicles in operation in the U.S. hit a record of more than 278 million this year, an increase of more than 5.9 million, or 2.2 percent.
IHS Markit began tracking the age of vehicles in 2002, when the average age was 9.6 years.
More.
Lying Democrat sack of Schiff practised with the whistle before he blew it
The only thing missing is a payment to the whistleblower to make it full-blown astroturfing, but in this case the payment will doubtlessly come ex post facto.
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Rush Limbaugh on Michael Bloomberg on China: "Nobody is this stupid to think communism is the equivalent of democratic or representative republican freedom"
Rush, winning this year's tin ear of politics award today of all days with Trump making communism acceptable and not threatening:
Now, all of this is designed to make communism acceptable. It’s all
designed to make communism not be threatening. It’s all designed to
advance the idea of really smart people controlling government — who are
really autocrats — under the illusion that they have constituents that
they have to listen to and keep happy and pleased. I think Bloomberg
sounds a lot like Biden. Remember Biden said a couple of times, “Come
on, man! China’s not a threat to the U.S.! Come on, man! China’s no
threat!”
Did Ryan James Girdusky of One America News actually READ the latest Monmouth poll, on which he's 0-4?
Trump approve/disapprove is 41/53
Congress approve/disapprove is 21/68
Impeach Trump yes/no is 44/52
Biden pressured Ukraine to lay off Hunter yes/no is 42/37
https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/documents/monmouthpoll_us_100119.pdf/
Support for impeachment of Trump highest ever in Monmouth poll at 44%, up from 35% in August
At this time, 44% of Americans feel that Trump should be impeached and compelled to leave the presidency, while 52% disagree with this course of action. These numbers mark a shift from Monmouth’s prior poll in August (35% supported impeachment and 59% did not), but it is not the first time these results have been found in the two years Monmouth has been asking this question. This includes similar findings in March 2019 (42% for impeachment and 54% against) and July 2017 (41% for impeachment and 53% against). Current support for removing Trump from office comes from 77% of Democrats (up from 69% in August but similar to 75% in March), 41% of independents (up from 30% in August but similar to 40% in March), and 9% of Republicans (up from 2% in August but similar to 8% in March).
Read it all here.
This bad Greer take is like George W. Bush saying you're either with us or against us in his war on terror
Tariffs are especially called for against communists qua communists, but Trump would be just fine with free trade with the Chicoms as long as it were truly free. Trump has no there there.
Monday, September 30, 2019
Your next president, Elizabeth Warren, will give a blanket amnesty to every illegal alien in the country, and make them union members!
We need a pathway to citizenship for the people who are here and here to stay. They are our neighbors; they are our brothers and sisters. They are here. We need a path — not just for DREAMers — but also a path for grandmas, and for little kids, and for people who came here to work on farms, and for students who overstayed their visas. We need a path that is fair and achievable. Bring people out of the shadows. It is good for all workers, and we need to get them into our unions.
More here.
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Sunday, September 29, 2019
The Intel community secretly changed the whistleblower rules to allow hearsay just days before the current Ukraine filing
Intel Community Secretly Gutted Requirement Of First-Hand Whistleblower Knowledge
Federal records show that the intelligence
community secretly revised the formal whistleblower complaint form in
August 2019 to eliminate the requirement of direct, first-hand knowledge
of wrongdoing.
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