Full time as a percentage of civilian population appears to have stalled in May 2024 at 49.73.
Jan-May average 49.43, lowest since 2021.
Level is 2.46 million down from Jun 2023 peak.
Friday, June 7, 2024
Thursday, June 6, 2024
Chicago Tribune Editorial Board wrings its hands over 450k Illinoisans with concealed carry permits now firing back, calls the right to self-defense "taking the law into your own hands"
Worryingly, we’re seeing more signs of that phenomenon in Chicago, with three separate episodes over the last weekend in which would-be victims proved to be both armed and willing to fire at their assailants. Four people who police said were attacking these concealed carry holders were shot and wounded, all of them critically, according to a report by Block Club Chicago.
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Yeah, citizens doing the job the cops and the courts won't do is horrible.
Hey, concealed carry holders, go back to the range and improve your aim, will ya?
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Dwight David Eisenhower: Peak America on this day in 1944, and Peak $SPX Return in 1969 when he died
America also landed on the moon in 1969.
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Breaking from AP Hamas: Biden to slow illegal immigration to 1 million a year from 2 million by executive order!
The only true sentence in this story from AP Hamas:
Biden’s order is aimed at trying to head off any potential spike in border encounters that could happen later this year, closer to the November elections.
Biden's scores of executive orders on Day One of his administration created this catastrophe of 10 million illegal aliens in the first place, as even AP Obama knows but won't say:
Administration lawyers have been planning to tap executive powers outlined in Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which gives a president broad authority to block entry of certain immigrants into the U.S. if it is deemed “detrimental” to the national interest. It is the same legal rationale used by Trump to take some of his toughest actions on migration as president.
Nate Cohn of New York Times/Siena College Poll: This time around, Joe Biden has become the broadly unlikeable one
Donald Trump has never been popular. He’s still not popular. His unfavorability rating is just as high today as it was heading into Election Day 2020. This group of disengaged voters doesn’t like Donald Trump, and never did. What’s changed, to my mind, is that Joe Biden went from being a broadly appealing person — they didn’t necessarily love him, they didn’t necessarily even like him, but he was acceptable — to someone who many voters do not find acceptable anymore.
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Monday, June 3, 2024
Greek historian Victor Davis Hanson, born in 1953, flips his lid, laughably blames every single problem in America today on the Baby Boomers in a wildly insane rant, my favorite being . . .
. . . the Baby Boomers destroyed the southern border . . ..
Here.
Immigration policy in the United States was forever radically altered in 1965, by no one born in the Baby Boom.
The average age of a US Representative in 1965 was 51.4, the Congress of which overwhelmingly passed the destructive reform 320-70, which ended the American commitment to social homogeneity prevailing from the 1920s.
This was an act of American hubris, born of victory in WWII. One would think Hanson would know about that.
Their average birth year puts them in 1914, children of the mentally-ill Progressive Era (1896–1917) which gave us the income tax (1909), popular election of senators (1913), prohibition of alcohol (1919), and women's suffrage (1920), all of which were sufferable as long as their was social stability. Well, except for the prohibition.
The biggest problem affecting Baby Boomers is a lazy attention to our own history, and perhaps self-hatred.
LA Times editorial board lol: You’re not alone if it seems like your electric bill is getting too damn high
From the story here, slightly edited for clarity:
State greenhouse gas reduction Fascist government policies are pushing forcing residents to adopt
electric cars and appliances that will only increase their electricity
consumption.
Pure fascism: Utility sector is profiteering off the federally subsidized green energy push
Utility stocks are on fire — here are Wall Street analysts' top picks :
The S&P 500 Utilities ETF (XLU) is up more than 12% year to date in a reversal from last year when investors soured on the sector due to expensive projects and high interest rates. ...
Constellation Energy (CEG) is the largest owner of nuclear plants in the US. The Baltimore-based company has been a beneficiary of the government's push to transition to green energies and growing power demand from data centers. Constellation shares are up more than 85% year to date as the company forecasts base earnings to grow by at least 10% annually through the decade. ... The analyst highlights that Constellation produces power at roughly $25 per megawatt hour, while the government's Inflation Reduction Act allows for a selling price floor of $45 per megawatt hour, providing a minimum of $20 margin per megawatt hour. ... Constellation has been operating as a standalone energy provider since 2022 after a spin-off from utility giant Exelon (EXC). The company has been buying back shares and recently upped its dividend ahead of its earnings due on Thursday. ...
NextEra Energy (NEE): The $147-billion-market-cap company is one of the largest electric
power generators in the country. While NextEra owns a regulated utility
in Florida, investors are more interested in its non-regulated part of
the business, NextEra Energy Resources, which involves developing
renewable energy in the US. ... "The re-domestication of industry in the US supported by public
policy will drive the need for more electricity," CEO John Ketchum told
analysts in April. The stock is up about 20% year to date. ...
Among the regulated utilities, Southern Company (SO) is one of the best performers inside the Utility sector year to date, with shares up more than 10%.
It's great to be a Democrat.
Judicial overreach drives Trump critics within the GOP to support him, including Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins, and Mike Pence
Even former Trump Vice President Mike Pence, who has refused to endorse Trump, called the verdict an “outrage.” ...
“He might win in a landslide,” said Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) last month about the political impact of a guilty verdict on Trump’s chances in the general election. “It looks so awful.”
Paul noted that New York’s statute of limitations had expired on Trump’s falsification of business records, which forced Bragg to combine them with campaign finance violations to bring his case forward.
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Democrat fools like Jennifer Granholm retired 108 gigawatts of coal electric capacity 2011-2021, now say we need 200 gigawatts new capacity by 2050
It took 16 years to get this reactor operational, 15 for Unit 3. Each of these new units are rated for net summer capacity of 1.1 gigawatts.
By 2028 alone it is estimated the US will need 38 gigawatts of new peak demand capacity.
Waynesboro, GA
May 31, 2024
Startup of Unit 4 makes Vogtle the largest source of carbon-free power on U.S. electric grid:
To reach our goal of net zero by 2050, we have to at least triple our
current nuclear capacity in this country. That means we’ve got to add
200 more gigawatts by 2050. Okay, two down, 198 to go!
Says the guy who let in 10 million new illegal aliens
In the old America, this son of a bitch would have been impeached, tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rail.
Sunday, June 2, 2024
Emerson College Polling: Trump ahead of Biden in New York among independents by 10 points
Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling, noted that independents in New York are backing Trump by a significant margin.
“Independent voters in New York who traditionally vote for Democrats,
according to exit polling, have flipped to lean toward Trump by a
margin of 10 points, 43% to 33%,” Kimball said in a statement. ...
Last week, the presumptive GOP nominee held his first campaign rally in New York — his birth state — since 2016.
The South Bronx event, permitted for 3,500 attendees, drew a crowd of between 8,000 and 10,000 people, law enforcement sources told The Post. ...
The Emerson College poll surveyed 1,000 New York voters between May 28 and 29. It had a margin of error of 3 percentage points.
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Saturday, June 1, 2024
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