Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Trend for annual precipitation in Grand Rapids, Michigan 1903-2023
Wetter!
The long term trend for the Oceanic Nino Index is thought to be predictive of this wetter outcome in the Upper Midwest. The index trend is cooler from about +1 degree F anomaly to -1 degree F anomaly since 1951.
Mean annual precipitation at KGRR has risen from 31.88 inches 1903-1951 to 36.81 inches 1951-2023.
Trend for Oceanic Nino Index 1951-2023
Long term trend is definitely cooler: La Niña.
Values for the first five measuring periods of the 2024 season are warmer, totaling +7.7: El Niño.
Monday, February 5, 2024
Mayor of Chicago deserves a medal lol
If the job gets any harder watch out fam! He may trade you in for a different color.
Sunday, February 4, 2024
This is your periodic reminder that the net worth of U.S. households is $151 trillion but there's only $2.3 trillion fiat currency in circulation anyway
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TNWBSHNO
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CURRCIR
Meanwhile all the gold and silver in the world hardly close the gap:
The former president of ABC News James Goldston was the Joseph Goebbels of January 6th The Movie
About 6% of the country at best tuned in for the Jan 6th theatrical production, compared with 71% for the Watergate hearings.
You can't put bitcoin in your pocket like gold and silver, and gold doesn't require 150 terawatt-hours of electricity annually for its existence
Crock of shit this bitcoin is. Same for anything digital.
But crypto has a dirty little secret that is very relevant to the real world: it uses a lot of energy. How much energy? Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, currently consumes an estimated 150 terawatt-hours of electricity annually — more than the entire country of Argentina, population 45 million. Producing that energy emits some 65 megatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere annually — comparable to the emissions of Greece — making crypto a significant contributor to global air pollution and climate change.
More.
Drudge promotes Kamala Harris because . . .
. . . her unfavorables are sky high and somebody better do something quick, might as well be me, lol. Timed for the bigger Sunday audience:
| PAPER: How Kamala Harris found her groove... |
43% of registered voters in the Bloomberg/Morning Consult swing state poll have a VERY UNFAVORABLE view of her.
43% also have NO CONFIDENCE WHATSOEVER that she could fill Joe Biden's shoes.
Her numbers are worst with anyone aged 45+, with total negatives in the vicinity of 60%.
She's a huge drag on the ticket, which is why they keep her on a tight leash.
D.C. anarcho-tyranny proves fatal to ex-Trump U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission official Mike Gill
| UPDATE: Ex-Trump official shot in D.C. carjacking spree dies.. |
In a statement, Washington's Metropolitan Police Department said the violence began Monday afternoon when an unidentified person got into a car and shot a male driver before running away. Gill's family said he was the man who was shot.
Police said the ordeal, which involved a Jeep Grand Cherokee, occurred in about three minutes. The attacker later tried and failed to steal a Mercedes-Benz, according to police. ...
The attacker, identified as 28-year-old Artell Cunningham, was fatally shot by police Tuesday in New Carrollton, Maryland, Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown said in a statement.
Saturday, February 3, 2024
Friday, February 2, 2024
The Declaration of Independence's Anarcho-Tyranny of King George III holds up pretty well, requires but little updating for today
He Joe Biden has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Illegal Alien Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
Thursday, February 1, 2024
Is four days long enough since Iranians killed American soldiers for them to escape back to Tehran or nah?
SHOWDOWN: Pentagon plans for strikes on Iranian personnel and facilities approved...
Weather will be a major factor in the timing of the strikes, the U.S. officials told CBS News, as the U.S. has the capability to carry out strikes in bad weather but prefers to have better visibility of selected targets as a safeguard against inadvertently hitting civilians who might stray into the area at the last moment. ... [SECDEF] Austin told reporters the U.S. was trying to "hold the right people accountable" without escalating the conflict in the region.
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Another Fed interest rate pause and dashed hopes for a March rate cut, so the greedy money men throw a little temper tantrum
Core inflation has a long way to go before it's like it was in the Trump era.
Meanwhile the little people continue to pay, and pay, and pay.
Obama affirmative action hire admits she's not up to the task of serving on the Supreme Court
“Cases are bigger. They’re more demanding. The number of amici are greater, and you know that our emergency calendar is so much more active. I’m tired,” she said, per Bloomberg Law.
In Bloomberg/Morning Consult poll in Pennsylvania, it's still the economy, stupid: More important to women voters than abortion by 29 points, the cost of everyday goods being the most important economic factor
The women shop. The women remember.
The massive poll results for seven swing states is available here.
The women think Trump is the one to fix it, by 11 points.
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