Color me skeptical: Firewood prices said to be soaring

$67-$83 a face-cord for seasoned mixed hardwoods doesn't sound that high to me, but $158 for hickory would. The former were common many years ago already.

I come up with $612 for the 1776 cord through 2020, a quibble.

 

At Firewood by Jerry in New River, Arizona, a cord of seasoned firewood — roughly 700 pieces or so — goes for US$200 today. That’s up 33 per cent from a year ago. At Zia Firewood in Albuquerque, the price is up 11 per cent since the summer to US$250. And at Standing Rock Farms in Stone Ridge, a bucolic, little town in the Hudson Valley that’s become popular with the Manhattan set, the best hardwoods now fetch US$475 a cord, up 19 per cent from last year. ...

Over the course of American history, there have been any number of booms in the firewood business. One of the earliest episodes came during the British siege of Boston at the outset of the Revolutionary War. That winter, the price of a cord — a centuries-old benchmark measuring 128 cubic feet — soared to US$20, the historian David McCullough documented in his book “1776.” That’s the equivalent of some $635 in today’s dollars ... just about every major spike in energy prices in the past half century has triggered a rush into wood-burning among some segments of the population. These fevers invariably fade as soon as the energy crisis does.

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Australian doctoral candidate: "If you want to know about something, the best way to do it is to look at it"

The final word in epistemology, ladies and gentlemen.

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Weekend crew at KGRR can't even predict the wind speed

Official forecast right now for tonight:

A chance of rain showers before 9pm, then a chance of rain and snow showers between 9pm and 10pm, then a chance of flurries after 10pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 26. Blustery, with a northwest wind 14 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 38 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

 

Current conditions:

 

Wind Speed NW 31 G 47 mph 

Blew the lid right off the Weber.

Facts vs. hysteria: Pandemic year 1 vs. pandemic year 2 to date

If you date the start of the pandemic from the first announced US death on Feb 29, 2020, the first year of the pandemic looks like this:

1402 deaths per day, 78208 cases per day.

 

(There were already 70 cases by 2/29/20, but they have been included in the total anyway.) 

For the 265 days since Feb 28, 2021, the second year of the pandemic to date looks like this:

969 deaths per day, 71838 cases per day.

Deaths are down a whopping 31%, cases a much more modest 8%.

 

The Hill is showcasing the 2021 death toll to date exceeding the 2020 death toll, which is true, and is politically convenient to Joe Biden's opponents, but this completely misses how things are moving in the right direction.

 

Joe Biden famously promised to shut down the virus and not the country. He has not done the former and may in fact do the latter, for which he ought to be held responsible by booting his sorry ass.

 

But that's an entirely different matter.

 

Meanwhile the terrible outcomes predicted by experts from the still dominant India variant, for whatever reasons, are not panning out. At least not yet.

 

 

 

LOL Shaun King: Join BLM, get a free n-word pass

 

Meanwhile in 79% fully vaccinated Spain: Spread of COVID-19 "has raised concerns", lol

European nations are seeing Covid cases explode, with nations bringing in tough new measures and warnings of widespread lockdowns:

While Spain’s vaccination rates are positive – with 79 per cent of the population having both jabs – the Covid rates are rising.

The country has reported 88.6 cases per 100,000 over 14 days, a jump of 67 per cent, according to El Pais.

This is much lower than other badly hit European destinations such as Germany and Belgium, but the spike has raised concerns about the efforts to slow the spread.  

Spain achieved the 79% fully vaccinated threshold on Oct 10. Even that level did not eradicate cases, and now they are rising again.

 

 

 

 

 

The vaccine peddlers like Anthony Fauci insisted multiple times that the 50% level would prevent a surge in cases. Europe is 57% fully vaccinated, yet look at that headline.

Boosters will be the next panacea. And Eric Topol now insists we must have 90-95% vaccinated.

"The science has changed" is simply sanctification of moving the goalposts.

Meanwhile Africa, hardly 7% fully jabbed, is making monkeys of the wizards of smart. 

But no one asks, Why?

Welcome to The Planet of the Apes.

 

The powers that be insist the boosters will stop transmission when the first two jabs have not

Axios:

But boosters dramatically increase protection against infection, which can help reduce the spread of the virus.

Gibraltar, 100% vaccinated with Pfizer since the spring, did not escape the summer outbreak.

And with 35% already given the booster from early October, they are having an even bigger outbreak now.

Three jabs, but the virus still spreads.

The insanity is remarkable.

 

 

 

Pandemic of the jabbed in Gibraltar: Clearest evidence yet that vaccination does not stop the spread, including now with boosters

100% of Gibraltar's ~40k residents were fully vaccinated by May 1, but infections took off again starting around Jul 1, as in many places invaded by the India variant.

The current, larger outbreak than in July coincides almost exactly with the commencement of its booster shot program after Oct 10. Over 14k booster doses have been administered so far.

95% of Gibraltar's 98 deaths to date had occurred already by mid-March, lending support to the idea that vaccination prevents bad outcomes, if not infection and spread.

Gibraltar is using Pfizer.

 

$2.2 trillion Build Back Butter bill Democrats insisted would cost nothing CBO estimates would cost $367 billion over ten years

 

 

 

 

 

 

So-called Democrat moderates in the House voted for it anyway, 220-213, undermining Republican claims their votes could be peeled away once the infrastructure bill had been passed separately.

Between the $250 billion cost of the infrastructure bill and the $367 billion cost of the Build Back Better bill, the optimistic CBO estimated combined ten year costs will dig a $617 billion hole in addition to the $6.8 TRILLION in fiscal year deficits for 2020 and 2021 spent since the onset of the pandemic to alleviate it.

The pandemic spending orgy, which was bipartisan, makes this all seem like a kerfuffle about relatively little.

Already pared back from $3.5 trillion or more in spending, the BBB faces an uncertain future in the Senate. The wild spending dreams of progressives may have been dashed, but anyone who pretends any of this makes any sense is crazy.

The country is currently holding at $28.9 TRILLION in debt, and is set to explode higher pending the raising of the debt ceiling. 

From the story: 

The final outcome wasn't much in doubt after centrist Democrats' deficit concerns largely melted away.

The vote came hours after the Congressional Budget Office issued its official cost estimate of the sweeping legislation, which moderate Democrats eagerly awaited to ease their concerns over the fiscal impact. The Biden administration and Democratic backers of the bill have insisted it would pay for itself and not add to federal deficits.

The nonpartisan CBO, the official scorekeeper, offered a cost estimate with a little wiggle room. It said the measure would increase deficits by $367 billion over 10 years — but that doesn't count additional revenue that could come from increased IRS tax enforcement.

How much new revenue that effort would yield has been hotly debated. The White House has said increased enforcement, aided by an additional $80 billion in IRS funding, would produce $480 billion in new revenue over a decade. The CBO took a more cautious view, saying the effort might produce $207 billion.

LOL Gibraltar, population ~40k, where EVERYONE is fully jabbed and they have already given over 14k boosters on top of that, is having a wee bit of a problem with an outbreak

 

Former California lecturer in "criminal justice" who specialized in "deviant behavior" accused of setting the Cascade, Everitt, Ranch, and Conard Fires in July and August

Can't make it up.

I guess those wildfires weren't exactly wild.

This guy is the exception to the rule that those who can, do, and those who can't, teach.

 

 

Future president Kyle Rittenhouse "not guilty" on all five counts

For every death from C19 in Africa, which is hardly 7% fully jabbed, there are 11.5 C19 deaths everywhere else, which is 41% fully jabbed

 

The contrast would look even worse if China actually told the truth about what's going on there.

BREAKING: MILLIONS MAY HAVE PERMANENTLY LOST THEIR SENSE

LOL Africa, not even 7% fully jabbed, is experiencing daily new cases per million returning to baseline

 More condolences to Eric Topol, who thinks this can't possibly happen without vaccinating 90-95% of the population.

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I was under the impression, Herr Zeller, that it was "my body, my choice" in Austria, at least in the Austria that I know

... starting Feb. 1, the country will also make vaccinations mandatory.

That's some crisis you got there if you can wait until February.

 

These CDC assholes are still out of control: Smallpox vials found in undisclosed lab in Pennsylvania

Philadelphia — Federal health authorities on Wednesday confirmed the discovery of some frozen vials labeled "Smallpox" in a freezer at a facility in Pennsylvania that conducts vaccine research. ...

The CDC would not confirm where in Pennsylvania the vials were found. ...

There are two sites designated by the World Health Organization where stocks of variola virus are stored and used for research: the CDC facility in Atlanta and a center in Russia. ...

In July 2014, officials said a government scientist cleaning out an old storage room at a Bethesda, Maryland, research center found six decades-old glass vials containing freeze-dried smallpox samples packed away and forgotten in a cardboard box. Officials called it the first discovery of unaccounted-for smallpox in the country.

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Indonesia is barely 31% fully vaxxed, yet daily new cases per million has returned to baseline anyway

 

My condolences to your theory, Eric Topol.

Tell your employer to go pound sand: OSHA has ceased implementation of the vaccine mandate and it's right there on its coronavirus page

 

So, as if things aren't bad enough for the mRNA vaccines, now we learn Pfizer lied about the number of deaths in the trials

All cause mortality was much HIGHER in the vaccine group than in the placebo group (24%) according to this November 8, 2021 "Summary Basis for Regulatory Action" than Pfizer reported on July 28, 2021 in its "Six Month Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID" (During the blinded, controlled period, 15 BNT162b2 and 14 placebo recipients died, which already suggested no benefit from vaccination):

From Dose 1 through the March 13, 2021 data cutoff date, there were a total of 38 deaths, 21 in the COMIRNATY group and 17 in the placebo group. None of the deaths were considered related to vaccination.

 

The conclusion is you are 24% more likely to die from all causes if you get the jab than if you don't.