Thursday, July 21, 2022

Land of the sooty, home of the knave


 In those countries that pretend to freedom, princes are subject to those laws which their people have chosen.

-- Jonathan Swift

We live in a pretend world where everyone is pissing down our backs while telling us it's raining

Men pretend to be women.

Doctors pretend jabs stop spread of disease.

Know nothings pretend masks don't work because mandates don't.

Bankers pretend low interest rates will bring down high inflation rates.

Politicians pretend they had nothing to do with causing inflation.

Scientists pretend the world has never been hotter and we're all going to die if we don't do something.

Policy makers pretend the future is electric while shutting down power plants.

Women pretend their fetuses aren't alive.

Catholics pretend the pope is infallible.

Muslims pretend Muhammad was illiterate.

Jews pretend to be chosen above all the races of the earth.

The Chicoms pretend they're not committing genocide in Xinjiang.

The Russkies pretend Ukraine had it coming.

White people pretend to be anything but white.

Americans pretend we're all good and everything is awesome.

 


 



 

 

Wow, the fierce inflation fighters of the European Central Bank have raised their key interest rate to 0%!

The ECB, the central bank of the 19 nations that share the euro currency, surprised markets by pushing its benchmark rate up by 50 basis points, bringing its deposit rate to zero. Traders had expected a smaller hike of 25 basis points. ... The ECB had previously signaled it would be increasing rates in July and September as consumer prices keep surging, but it was unclear whether it would go as far as bringing rates back to zero.    lololololol

More.

Where will the shocking inflation-fighting developments end?!



Like almost every other public official who has come down with COVID-19 this year, who are now too numerous to list, Joe Biden was fully vaxxed and boosted twice

 

Joe is taking Paxlovid even though the new drug has been shown to work best on older individuals who have not been vaccinated at all.

Before Joe Biden came down with COVID-19, he was at Brayton Point Power Station in Massachusetts, where 1530 MW of electricity used to be produced from cheap, plentiful coal

 Torn down starting in 2019, the former coal power plant will become a hub for just 804 MW of offshore wind energy, 52% of what used to come from that location.

Biden was accompanied by the usual suspects.

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It doesn't matter that China has been selling US Treasury securities, world appetite for US denominated debt inexorably rises year after year

 Beijing Dumps $100 Billion Worth Of Treasuries... ^




Wednesday, July 20, 2022

How is it that the National Weather Service at Grand Rapids, Michigan, station KGRR, can't get the high or the low temperature right for July 19, 2022?

 The three day history for KGRR shows that the high on the 19th was 88 degrees F at numerous points throughout the afternoon and evening, and that the low was 71 degrees F early in the morning, but if you look at the daily data for a month it says the high was 90 degrees F and the low was . . . 49 degrees F.

The mean minimum for July going back to 1892 is 49 degrees F, so that explains that error. Some idiot transcribed that value instead of the actual value. So far this month, the lowest minimum was 52 degrees F.

Can't explain the 2 degree F discrepancy for the high, though. You would think that there would be room for a spike up to 90 during an hour interval by the presence of at least one 89 value at some regular hourly interval, but there isn't one.

Is someone's fat finger on the scale over there?

It's a good reminder that the human element introduces error into the record, whether intentional or not, and that you can't believe everything you're told, even about the simplest of things.

By the way, I'm just four miles from the station as the crow flies, and we had a rain shower last night which doesn't show up in the three day history either.

I know, I know, aLl wEaThEr iS LoCaL. 




 

 

Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Nancy Pelosi knows nothing about her husband's purchase of Nvidia on June 17th

 


Paul Pelosi, an avid stock trader, was shown to have spent between $1 million and $5 million to purchase 20,000 shares of the semiconductor company Nvidia in late June, around the same time when he sold portions of his stocks in Apple and Visa. The disclosure raised questions about whether Paul Pelosi had knowledge of the pending legislation. 

More here and here.

Anyone invited into the Capitol by Capitol police on January 6th (there's video for crying out loud) but still prosecuted will rightly find this to be a double standard

 

In a statement, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia said that after reviewing the evidence, it “cannot move forward with misdemeanor charges of unlawful entry against the nine individuals who were arrested on June 16, 2022 at the Longworth Office Building.”

The office confirmed that those individuals had been invited in by congressional staffers “and were never asked to leave by the staffers who invited them, though, members of the group had been told at various points by the U.S. Capitol Police that they were supposed to have an escort.”

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Monday, July 18, 2022

Sunday, July 17, 2022

LOL, nominal retail sales were up 7.7% year over year in Friday's report, but when adjusted for inflation were down 0.5% year over year

 Put another way, it went up because you're paying more for food and energy, not because you're letting the good times roll.

YOU ARE SPENDING MORE FOR FEWER THINGS:

Rising costs for food and gasoline in particular helped propel the increase.   

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Saturday, July 16, 2022

This is why people are rightly optimistic about the future of the pandemic in America

 


LOL, on Tuesday July 12th Joe Biden told the president of Mexico in a meeting that America has the fastest growing economy in the world

 

Biden, once López Obrador finished, reminded him that America's economy is the fastest growing in the world, while showing no umbrage and restating his respect for Mexico and its leader.

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Joe Biden's own US Bureau of Economic Analysis, June 29th, said GDP fell at an annual rate of 1.6% in 1Q2022:



Deaths per day from COVID-19 in the United States July 1-15, 2022: 383

 

June 2022: 363

May 2022: 373

Apr 2022: 426

Mar 2022: 980

Feb 2022: 2,247

Jan 2022: 1,987

Friday, July 15, 2022

Why is the Biden administration compromising with devils?

 

 

CNBC story blames capitalism's law of supply and demand for inflation: 92 million millennials caused it, not Federal Reserve interference with interest rates and mortgages

... too many people with too much money chasing too few goods ... millennials are still making up the largest chunk of the homebuyer market by generation ... 


Meanwhile, this housing bubble dwarfs the last one, and we're supposed to blame millennials for it.

Sounds like a repeat of the excuse for the last one: greedy Baby Boomers.




















Just forget about Zero Interest Rate Policy artificially driving down borrowing costs for over a decade, and forget about the crappy low-yielding $2.7 trillion in MBS still on the Fed Balance Sheet nobody wants, because millennials are to blame!

The chutzpah.




Thursday, July 14, 2022

Who ya gonna believe: Law & Order: SVU, or Ann Coulter?

 Ann Coulter, December 14, 2019, here:

. . . according to “Law & Order: SVU,” the main demographic with a sexual fetish for pre-pubescent Hispanic girls is: handsome, married American white men. ... Reviewing my years of research on child sex crimes, I see that this has happened NEVER. It’s kind of the opposite. I ended up with so many immigrant child rape cases for “Adios, America!” that most of them had to be left on the cutting room floor — or the book would have been twice as long. ... But for William Edward Ronca, there would not be a single confirmed case of a white man in the Western Hemisphere impregnating a girl 10 years old or younger. 

A report from the Inter-American Children’s Institute explained that Latin America is second only to Asia in the sexual exploitation of women and children because sex abuse is “ingrained into the minds of the people." ... Incest and child rape are not native American habits. Nor is child rape common in Spain. This isn’t genetic. Bestial behavior toward women and children is a hallmark of primitive, peasant cultures — the cultures we are importing by the million. The hallmark of civilized cultures is to arrest and imprison child rapists. But the brain-dead writers of “Law & Order: SVU” invent little stories to demoralize the defenders of civilization, so we can let the incest and child rape flow!


 

Reuters has "MAGA" on the brain

 Here.

 


 

Russia: "In order to save the Donbas, we have to destroy the Donbas"

 

Illegal alien arrested in rape of 10-year old in Ohio: Perverse newspaper calls him "Columbus Man"

 

A Columbus man has been charged with impregnating a 10-year-old Ohio girl, whose travel to Indiana to seek an abortion led to international attention following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v Wade and activation of Ohio's abortion law.

Gerson Fuentes, 27, whose last known address was an apartment on Columbus' Northwest Side, was arrested Tuesday after police say he confessed to raping the child on at least two occasions. He's since been charged with rape, a felony of the first degree in Ohio. ... believed to be undocumented ...

On Wednesday, once news of the arraignment of the Columbus man accused in the child's rape came, Yost issued a single sentence statement:

"We rejoice anytime a child rapist is taken off the streets." ...

Assistant Franklin County Prosecutor Dan Meyer requested Fuentes be held without bond. He said Fuentes is not believed to be in the country legally... 

... the Franklin County Public Defender’s office, said it was unconstitutional to hold Fuentes without bond, especially with DNA confirmation of the pregnancy’s father still pending. He said Fuentes had lived in Columbus for the last seven years and had a steady job at a café.

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This perverse newspaper has plenty of data about abortions in Ohio in children 15 or younger for 2016-2020, averaging 61 per year, but NOTHING about where the perps come from and how many child sex crimes they commit, except for little old "Columbus Man".

Meanwhile in North Carolina, the absolute SCOURGE of child rape by illegal aliens is so bad there's a LIST detailing HUNDREDS of illegal alien perps charged with THOUSANDS of child sex crimes going back all the way to 2009. 

But our perverse media want this to be about children's need for abortions.

Sickos, all of 'em.

Ann Coulter has been right about this since 2015:

There’s a cultural acceptance of child rape in Latino culture that doesn’t exist in even the most dysfunctional American ghettos. When it comes to child rape, the whole family gets involved. ...

Far from “I am woman, hear me roar,” these are cultures where women help the men rape kids. ...

In some immigrant enclaves, the police have simply given up on pursuing statutory rape cases with Hispanic victims. They say that after being notified by hospital administrators that a 12-year-old has given birth and the father is in his 30s, they’ll show up at the girl’s house — and be greeted by her parents calling the pregnancy a “blessing.”

And yet, in the entire American media, there have been more stories about a rape by Duke lacrosse players that didn’t happen than about the slew of child rapes by Hispanics that did because Democrats want the votes and businesses want the cheap labor. No wonder they hate Trump.