LOL, purchasing power of the US dollar FALLS a whopping 2.3% in January 2023 compared with last year's average

 From 34.2 average annual 2022 to 33.4 in Jan 2023.

That's on top of the 7.3% average fall between 2021 and 2022.

Inflation. It's what's for dinner.

LOL WaPo, stroking Gen Z for not driving cars because of "significant effects on carbon emissions"

Here:

If Gen Zers continue to eschew driving, it could have significant effects on the country’s carbon emissions. Transportation is the largest source of CO2 emissions in the United States. There are roughly 66 million members of Gen Z living in the United States. If each one drove just 10 percent less than the national average — that is, driving 972 miles less every year — that would save 25.6 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from spewing into the atmosphere. That’s the equivalent to the annual emissions of more than six coal-fired power plants. 

Six!

Oooh. Sounds like a lot.

 

 

Purchasing power of the US dollar is down 96.61% from 1913 in 2022 on an average basis

 The index average for 2022 is 34.2.

Here.

WaPo: US military fails to detect slow-moving objects like balloons because speed gate, velocity gate, altitude gate sensors and the like aren't set to detect them

 The Chicoms are obviously testing us to see what we are NOT looking for.

 

From the story here: 

The incursions in the past week have changed how analysts receive and interpret information from radars and sensors, a U.S. official said Saturday, partly addressing a key question of why so many objects have recently surfaced. The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said that sensory equipment absorbs a lot of raw data, and filters are used so humans and machines can make sense of what is collected. But that process always runs the risk of leaving out something important, the official said. “We basically opened the filters,” the official added, much like a car buyer unchecking boxes on a website to broaden the parameters of what can be searched.

But you said you would bring a return to normalcy

 

QAnon mating call

 

What fresh hell is this, Drudge?

 

Right, right, that's why they voted for Democrat tool Joe-they told me no more questions-Biden

 Totally garbage poll.

The poll questions don't match the rhetoric about them . . . by a long shot. Nothing anti-democratic asked at all.

Pure fantasy masquerading as truth.

POLL: Many Americans Want Strong, Anti-democratic Leader...

From balloons The Chicoms get clearer pictures and intercept signals satellites otherwise cannot obtain in preparation for global conflict

 China Sends Spy Balloons Over Military Sites Worldwide, U.S. Officials Say... 

Nice to see the GOP going to war with the US Chamber of Commerce

 . . . not over immigration, but hey, I'll take it.

Count me in on abolishing the State of the Union addresses to Congress

They're embarrassing enough anyway, on both sides, without the antics from the peanut gallery.

Dog and pony shows, trottin' out their acts. 

Bret Easton Ellis has moved up to zero

 "I’m nothing." 

Interviewed here.

82% of parents of millennials have regrets

 

82% of millennial first-time homeowners have regrets — here’s how to avoid the most common one

 

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Killer earthquakes in Turkey make five 7.0+ so far in 2023, but frequency was actually down in 2022 to 11 from 19 in 2021

 

Both full time jobs and overall civilian employment in Jan 2023 remain relatively strong but both are far from US potential: 12 million more could be working but are not

Full time as a percentage of civilian population dropped to 49.32% in January 2023 from 49.77% in December.

 

Peak full time at 53.6% in 2000 applied to 2023 would mean 10 million more working full time than actually do.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Civilian employment as a percentage of civilian population dropped to 59.67% in January 2023 from 59.99% in December.

 

Peak employment at 64.4% in 2000 applied to 2023 would mean 12 million more working at all jobs than actually do.

 

Pathetic underperformance.

 

The shortfall with peak manufacturing jobs in 1979 at 19.4 million was 6.6 million in 2022. 

 

 

Natural gas prices have collapsed from the summer on unseasonably warm January temperatures meeting 2022 high production levels

 

top lines show full 2022 and start of 2023

 

Grand Rapids, MI, had its 5th warmest January by average temperature in Jan 2023 since 1892. Case is similar in many US cities which broke into the top 10 warmest Januaries on record, including Indy, Syracuse NY, Columbus OH, and Madison WI.

Meanwhile Joe Biden says half the women in his administration are women

 President Biden: 'More than half the women in my administration are women'

Good to know.

 

 

The damn fool Biden administration can't even shoot down a Chinese spy balloon

 

Chinese spy balloon flying over U.S. ‘right now,’ Pentagon says

The "tight" US labor market is a complete myth, the deleterious effects of globalization on US workers since 2000 the sorry reality

 Part of Trump's success in 2016 was his appeal to the former greatness of America, which resonated most with those who remembered what it was like in this country before the elites shipped their jobs to China.

Americans are not working up to their potential because it's not worth it. They have voted with their feet. 2019 was but a shadow of what might have been.

No cash, no hope, no jobs, no bacon. Alcohol, drugs, and accidental death.

 

 

 

 

This is the third anniversary of Andersen telling Fauci that some of the features of the virus look engineered and that Andersen and three others doubted the genome evolved

The virus was most likely illegally engineered at Wuhan in sub-standard lab conditions funded against the rules in part by Fauci's NIH, subsequently accidentally escaped, and went on to kill millions and destroy the economies and livelihoods of millions more.

I think one low-level guy went to jail for the 2008 financial crisis, but so far no one is even being investigated for the travesty which occurred under Fauci.

Thankfully @R_H_Ebright of Rutgers University won't let go of this story.