Saturday, July 29, 2023

Friday, July 28, 2023

Average temperature year to date is still below normal in Phoenix, as is average max temp year to date, and yet they persist

 

 Phoenix brings in refrigerated morgues to prep for heat-related deaths...

 "as backup"

"we typically see a surge in intakes to the Office of the Medical Examiner (OME) in July"

 Average temperature year to date is still below normal also in Yuma and Tucson.





Headline pce inflation of 3% year over year is driven lower by the collapse in energy prices, mostly natural gas not gasoline

Natural gas is twice as important as gasoline for America's energy needs.

eia.gov says the United States used 369 million gallons of gasoline per day in 2022. That's the equivalent of 13 billion kWhr/day last year.

America also consumed 88.52 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day in 2022. That's the equivalent of 26.88 billion kWhr/day last year, 2.06 times as much.

Gasoline is down 14.6% in 1H2023, natural gas 60.5%.



 



Pawn Vanity thinks Nancy Mace is pretty funny

 

Like I said . . ..

Core and services inflation remain well above pre-pandemic levels

 



Thursday, July 27, 2023

Like I said, the culture is lost, especially among Republicans

 US Representative Nancy Mace (SC-1) is an unmarried used car. Twice married, two kids, 45 going for broke.




Those witnesses testifying about UFOs on Capitol Hill are missing something

 


Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Well, well, well, close Biden family associate Alexander Mackler worked in the Delaware US Attorney's office 2016-2019

 

Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf featured prominently in the testimony of two IRS agents who spent years working on the Hunter Biden investigation. Both Gary Shapley and Ziegler, the IRS whistleblowers, said Wolf intervened to stop multiple investigative steps from moving forward, including by preventing FBI agents from asking witnesses any questions about Joe Biden’s involvement in foreign business affairs and by tipping off Hunter Biden’s attorneys about a planned search of his storage unit.

Wolf worked alongside Mackler in the U.S. attorney’s office before Mackler’s departure. She and Mackler prosecuted a major case together, for example.

More.

That's because the culture is lost, especially among Republicans

 Culture-war battles fail to deliver for Ron...

No job too low for Snakes "R" Us

 Woman hires deadly snake to kill boyfriend...

Hunter Biden most hurt

 Yet another load of drugs found floating off Florida Keys...

"Yeah, I got a new Xitter, what's new with you?"

 


Sunday, July 23, 2023

NASA Psyche Mission headed to iron and nickel-rich asteroid possibly worth quadrillions

 The current value of ~208,874 tonnes of all the gold ever mined is only $14.47 trillion, so the discovery and mining of huge new supplies of precious metals could cause a deflationary depression . . . some day.

Launch date is October, arriving in 2029. 

Stories here and here.

Meanwhile we can exchange worthless pieces of paper for all kinds of stuff made in China.

Seems fair. 

Saturday, July 22, 2023

Win or lose, Ron DeSantis is saying out loud the things which must be said by a Republican with actual skin in the game

 

DeSantis' average in the polling has dropped to 19.3% in July from 21.5% in June, 39.9% don't want Trump in July vs. 40.9% in June

 The GOP seems more determined to go down with their captain than they did a month ago, however so slightly.

Meanwhile many-mucho-mega-multi-millionaire Vivek Ramaswamy, age 37, born in Cincinnati in 1985, surges to third place.




LOL US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm: Our planet is on fire, but OPEC needs to produce more crude oil

 

“There is a lot of emotion in these markets and so we have deep concern about trajectories of where things are headed,” the energy secretary added.   

No kidding.

Story. 

Friday, July 21, 2023

To be fair the whole team is gay

 NFL coach comes out as gay in first for American pro sports...

Oh, sorry, I was thinking of a different team.

 



 

 

 

 

Democrats Debbie Washerwoman Schultz and Stacey Plaskett try to stop RFK Jr testimony at House censorship hearing

 

Scott Walker, who ought to know, urges DeSantis to spend less while remembering what made Trump's campaign unique


He's from Milwaukee. For president in 2016 he spent like he was blitzed on Blatz.

 Here:

From the moment he opened his mouth at the first presidential primary debate in Cleveland, he took command of the discussion. Every voter knew he was going to build the wall, drain the swamp, and prevent radical Islamic terrorists from coming to America.

Yeah, build the wall. 

Too bad about that.