Saturday, June 25, 2022

LOL Boris Johnson, leader of Britain's "conservatives"

"It's a very important decision. I've got to tell you, I think it's a big step backwards," he told a news conference in Kigali, where he is attending a Commonwealth meeting. "I've always believed in a woman's right to choose and I stick to that view and that is why the UK has the laws that it does."
Reuters, here.

Friday, June 24, 2022

No word on whether this tattoo still keeps you out

 Army relaxes tattoo policy, approves hand, neck ink as it faces recruiting shortfall...

 



The abortion ban in Wisconsin is 124 years older than the so-called 50-year-old constitutional right which breached that core rule-of-law principle in the first place

Supremes end protections for abortion in place for half century...

In Wisconsin, which has an 1849 abortion ban on the books, Planned Parenthood immediately halted all scheduled abortions at its clinics in Madison and Milwaukee following the high court’s ruling. ...

The liberal justices ... in their joint dissent: The majority “eliminates a 50-year-old constitutional right that safeguards women’s freedom and equal station. It breaches a core rule-of-law principle, designed to promote constancy in the law. In doing all of that, it places in jeopardy other rights, from contraception to same-sex intimacy and marriage. And finally, it undermines the Court’s legitimacy.”

 

It's pretty clear whose side Drudge is on from the way he worded the linked html: 

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-supreme-court-decision-854f60302f21c2c35129e58cf8d8a7b0




I wonder from which of the three houses he's owned since 2016 Bernie the greedy government bureaucrat issued this statement yesterday calling for punishment which will do nothing for consumers at the pump

 


LOL, one of Scotty Kilmer's worst cars ever made has Bernie stickers all over it

 Bernie isn't for sale, and neither is the PT Cruiser.

I'm sure it's just a coincidence.

 



LOL new CNN CEO, former late night COMEDY producer now in charge after Zucker exit, admits its coverage hasn't been serious up until now

 NEW CNN BOSS: 'We're heading for consequential times that demand serious journalism'...

Well, he ought to know!



Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Not the rainy day your mother had in mind: Janet Yellen whips out her tin ear for politics, suggests you use your savings to weather inflation


Emmanuel Macron's plans for tax cuts, welfare reform, and raising the retirement age thwarted by resurgent right under LePen and left under Mélenchon in France

French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday, June 19, lost his absolute majority after major election gains by a newly formed left-wing alliance and a historic breakthrough for the far right, in a stunning blow to his hopes of major reform in his second term.

The run-off election was decisive for Mr. Macron's second-term agenda following his re-election in April, with the 44-year-old needing a majority to secure promised tax cuts and welfare reform and raise the retirement age. ...

The expected number of seats for Marine Le Pen's Rassemblement National (90) amounts to a historic breakthrough. Only once under the Fifth Republic had the far right passed the threshold to form a group in the Assemblée (15 MPs), which allows for certain parliamentary resources and prerogatives.

More here at LeMonde.

Monday, June 20, 2022

This story blames climate change for homeless deaths, never once mentions the families who abandon them and the role played by drug abuse in their homelessness

 Sweltering streets: Hundreds of homeless die in extreme heat

 
One family, which presumably lived in a home where they presumably wrote the obituary and where the woman could have stayed temporarily, blames "the system" for the death of their homeless sister:
 

When a 62-year-old mentally ill woman named Shawna Wright died last summer in a hot alley in Salt Lake City, her death only became known when her family published an obituary saying the system failed to protect her during the hottest July on record, when temperatures reached the triple digits.

Her sister, Tricia Wright, said making it easier for homeless people to get permanent housing would go a long way toward protecting them from extreme summertime temperatures.

“We always thought she was tough, that she could get through it,” Tricia Wright said of her sister. “But no one is tough enough for that kind of heat.”

 


Housing market conditions update, now vs. then

 Housing market conditions, now vs. then:


Average borrower FICO score today: 751
In 2010: 699

Underwater today: virtually none (2.5% with less than 10% equity)
In 2011: more than 1 in 4 underwater (25% plus)

Today: 2.5 million ARMs (8% of mortgages)
In 2007: 13.1 million ARMs (36% of mortgages)

Facing resets today: 1.4 million ARMs (56%)
In 2007: 10 million (76%)

 
Housing remains as unaffordable as ever. The cost of the median new one is up a whopping 45% in April 2022 vs. April 2020, to $450,600. 

Germany's Economy Minister Robert Habeck of its Green Party says Germany will fire up the coal plants to produce electricity and conserve natural gas for winter heating as Russia reduces gas shipments

 Reality trumps ideology.