Monday, June 13, 2022

LOL, phony green Barack Obama is a prepper, installs 2,500 gallon propane tank for 6,900 square foot Martha's Vineyard estate, five times the typical size

 Martha's Vineyard Times reports here:

The select board approved a request for a 2,500-gallon commercial propane tank for 79 Turkeyland Cove Road in Katama — owned by former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. “We’ve never had a private propane tank come to us,” said select board member Arthur Smadbeck, with select board member Michael Donaroma noting a private-residence propane tank is typically a fraction of the quantity being requested. 
500 gallon tanks "provide adequate fuel needs for whole-home or business heating for structures up to 4,500 square feet."

 


Sunday, June 12, 2022

LOL, the blog of the St. Louis Fed gaslights you on gasoline prices by jumping through hoops to make the current outrageous prices disappear

 While nominal gas prices have increased rapidly over the past few months, real gas prices were still lower than they were for most of the 2006-2014 period.

More in "Gaslighting gas prices", April 21, 2022.

They don't pay those economists the big bucks for nothing:

[W]e compute by dividing the nominal price by the consumer price index (CPI) and multiplying by 127.5, the value of the CPI in January 1990.

Talk about gaslighting.

Look, US Regular All Formulations (GASREGW), which is what the blog post used, peaked around the 4th of July in 2008 around $4.11/gallon. 

Here's what a popular inflation calculator says about that:

We estimate it would take $5.54 on June 12, 2022 to have equal purchasing power with $4.11 on July 4, 2008.     

Just using a simple CPI calculator here puts $4.11 in 2008 at $4.94  . . .  already IN 2020.

We are mostly certainly paying the highest prices ever for gasoline.

Be happy, right? At least we're not Hong Kong.

 


 


Friday, June 10, 2022

Matthew Dowd still works hard every day to prove that he's the dumbest man alive

 

https://www.econlib.org/archives/2015/01/are_german_scho.html


Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul Pelosi, has a court date August 3rd, when charges, if any, will be filed and he will be arraigned

 AP Obama reports here:

Pelosi agreed to a court date of Aug. 3, 2022 in Napa County Superior Court, according to the Napa County district attorney news release. If charges are filed, he will be arraigned then. 



Thursday, June 9, 2022

Angela Merkel doesn't blame herself for making Germany dependent on Russian energy, blames the Chancellery plumbers instead

 





CDC watchers are abuzz trying to explain away data showing coronavirus cases are higher among the boosted than the merely double-jabbed

 Remember when there weren't supposed to be ANY cases among the vaccinated?

Rachel Madcow, 3/29/21:

now we know that the vaccines work well enough that the virus stops with every vaccinated person.

These people still haven't owned up to that fact, nor to their responsibility for the continuing spread of the disease.



LOL, for Chesa Boudin life will continue as before, prosecuting no one

 


Chesa Boudin, son of Kathy Boudin, infamous for premature explosion of Weather Underground bomb in 1970, suffers premature end of political career

 


Social Security: As usual, the people want a pony, daddy


81% support taxing income beyond $147k to shore up the projected Social Security trust fund shortfall, Republicans by 79% and Democrats by 88%.

81% also support cutting benefits for those same earners whose Social Security taxes would soar.

Meanwhile, 64% support increasing the minimum monthly benefit from $951 to $1,341.

More.


 

Equity used to mean everybody had a reasonable expectation of receiving what they put into the system, but that stopped being true for high income earners in the 1990s.

Last year, a person making $200k taxed at the current 6.2% rate for 30 years would have to live 10 years beyond full retirement age of 67 to recoup all his contributions at a 2021 maximum benefit level of $3,113 per month, or to age 77.

Life expectancy in the US fell to 76.6 years in 2021. 

LOL, you mean like Obama?

 


Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Inflation under Joe Biden means it's back to PB&J for lunch, according to this e-mail ad from my grocery store

C'mon, who advertises peanut butter?

 



It's June and Tennessee still can't get its act together and report any breakthrough cases, hospitalizations, and deaths for 2022

 Breakthrough hospitalizations and deaths in December 2021 were running close to 20% and cases just over 30%.

Omicron in 2022 is a bitch, eh?

 



US COVID-19: The Big Picture, through May 31, 2022

Vaccines have done nothing to stop the spread and little to reduce deaths in any significant way.

Over the last eleven years 2010-2020, heart disease in the United States has killed 1729 people per day on average.

Cancer comes in a close second at 1620 per day.

COVID-19 remains the third leading cause of death, averaging 1221 deaths per day to date, 822 days after the first death on February 29, 2020. 

The best explanation of the data so far remains that the virus has evolved to spread more easily at the expense of lethality, otherwise the explosion in cases in 2022 would have resulted in far many more deaths than we have at present. Deaths per day in the third year of the pandemic remain relatively constant when measured over time.

And who is most victimized?

California, America's largest state by population, continues to show that COVID-19 infects people 65 and over the least, but kills them the most by far. Since May 2021, deaths among people 65 and over in California have changed little, constituting 74% of deaths then and 71% a year later.

This is despite the fact that people 65 and older became the most vaccinated segment of the US population in 2021.

CDC reports that today 95% of them nationally have received at least one dose, 91.2% are fully vaccinated, 69.7% are boosted once, and 29.7% are boosted twice. In California to date nearly 85% of people 65+ have been fully vaccinated with nearly 76% of those boosted.

There needs to be a massive shift in the messaging of the medical establishment away from thinking the vaccines are a panacea for anybody, toward preventing senior deaths by reducing their comorbidities and quickly treating them with drugs like Paxlovid when they become infected with coronavirus: 

In reducing mortality, Arbel said the treatment showed a very high benefit in patients 65 and older - an 81% risk reduction. There were no observed benefits in younger adults, who are at less risk of dying from COVID.

 



Monday, June 6, 2022

Dave Weigel suspended from WaPo for having a sense of humor

 WASH POST suspends reporter over 'sexist retweet'...

 


Methinks NeverTrump Separatist Kevin Williamson doth protest too much

 Donald Trump is an idolator and a heretic, a blasphemer and a perpetrator of sacrilege, and much more.   

And much, much more.

 


Our modern separatists pronounce all those heretical, or carnal, from whom they have withdrawn.

If CNBC gave a flying fig about "how readers feel", it wouldn't have disabled comments years ago

 

 
Here’s what four of them had to say.
 
Four, lol.

Sunday, June 5, 2022

Definitional breakdown: It's not just the New England Journal of Medicine, which thinks 18 and 19 year olds are children (for political reasons)

 Now The New York Post thinks 62 year olds are "elderly".

Before it was just Obama and Democrats who infamously and routinely seemed not to know the size, proportion, and meaning of things (when life starts was above his pay grade, 57 states, hundreds of millions getting Obamacare, 200 million dead from COVID-19, et cetera).

Now everyone is getting into the act.

Life expectancy in the US is about 77 years old. You are elderly when you are near that or exceed it.


 

 

 

Federal law prohibits FFLs from engaging in handgun commerce with anyone under 21 and longgun commerce with anyone under 18. Meanwhile 18 year olds can vote, be tried as adults, sign contracts, and get drafted to have their asses shot off in wars, and fry in the electric chair for shooting up schools. Let's have some of that, shall we?

And just in case you were wondering, a woman is still an adult human female, at least until it becomes Wokepedia.


 

The car America needs right now is the Honda Fit, withdrawn from the market in 2020 due to falling demand for small cars

 The $17k subcompact gets about 36mpg, and more, on the highway compared with the HR-V which gets only 30mpg and costs $5k more.

Hey, who wants a Fit during a Plague, right?