Sunday, May 5, 2019
Climate Update for Grand Rapids, Michigan, April 2019
Climate Update for Grand Rapids, Michigan, April 2019
Max temp 77, Mean max 79
Min temp 19, Mean min 22
Av temp 47.7, Mean av 46.5
Precip 4.05, Mean 3.31
Precip to date 12.61, Mean to date 9.62 (8th wettest Feb on record, 35th wettest April)
Snow 4.9, Mean 2.4
Snow to date 81.3, Mean to date 66.1 (26th snowiest)
Heating Degree Days 515, Mean 553
HDD to date 6425, Mean to date 6402
The winter season is ending much snowier and wetter than the mean levels, but has been only just slightly colder than the long-term mean, less than 0.4% colder, using heating degree days as a yardstick.
At Muslim Community Day in Philly the kids were singing and talking about chopping off heads, torture, and liberating Jerusalem
"Jesus loves the lit-tle child-ren, all the little children of the world!" this was not.
Saturday, May 4, 2019
Same with education: America was greater when knowledge was pursued as good in and of itself, not for the job it could get you
Beauty for beauty's sake, knowledge for knowledge's sake.
Joe Biden is the Democrats' low-IQ version of the Republicans' low-IQ John McCain
McCain graduated from the Naval Academy in June 1958; he was fifth from the bottom in class rank, 894th out of 899.
Erick Erickson's conservatism adopts the categories of cultural Marxism, is impotent before today's revolutionary speech enemies
Put another way, "there is no contradiction between economic liberalism and socialism".
Counter-revolt, or die.
Average hourly earnings for most people increased at a 2.9% annual rate in April 2019, a downturn from recent average quarterly experience
If this were an economic recovery like past ones, you'd think we could put together a string of year over year increases on a quarterly average basis above 3.5% lasting a couple of years, but that is still far from the case. The best quarter we've had is 4Q2018 at 3.46%.
Employers still have the whip hand.
Friday, May 3, 2019
The Hill's John Solomon drops a bomb on Alexandra Chalupa's head, reports she may be source of Trump-Russian collusion narrative even as she spearheaded DNC/Clinton-Ukraine collusion
Ukrainian Embassy confirms DNC contractor solicited Trump dirt in 2016:
In its most detailed account yet, the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington
says a Democratic National Committee (DNC) insider during the 2016
election solicited dirt on Donald Trump’s campaign chairman and even
tried to enlist the country's president to help.
In written answers to questions, Ambassador Valeriy Chaly's office
says DNC contractor Alexandra Chalupa sought information from the
Ukrainian government on Paul Manafort’s dealings inside the country, in hopes of forcing the issue before Congress.
Chalupa
later tried to arrange for Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to
comment on Manafort’s Russian ties on a U.S. visit during the 2016
campaign, the ambassador said.
Chaly says that, at the time of the contacts in 2016, the embassy
knew Chalupa primarily as a Ukrainian-American activist and learned only
later of her ties to the DNC. He says the embassy considered her
requests an inappropriate solicitation of interference in the U.S.
election. ...
Reached by phone last week, Chalupa said she was too busy to talk.
She did not respond to email and phone messages seeking subsequent
comment. ...
Andrii Telizhenko, a former political officer who worked under Chaly
from December 2015 through June 2016, told me he was instructed by the
ambassador and his top deputy to meet with Chalupa in March 2016 and to
gather whatever dirt Ukraine had in its government files about Trump and
Manafort. ...
“She said the DNC wanted to collect evidence that Trump, his
organization and Manafort were Russian assets, working to hurt the U.S.
and working with Putin against the U.S. interests. She indicated if we
could find the evidence they would introduce it in Congress in September
and try to build a case that Trump should be removed from the ballot,
from the election,” he recalled. ...
Though Chaly and Telizhenko disagree on what Ukraine did after it got
Chalupa’s request, they confirm that a paid contractor of the DNC
solicited their government’s help to find dirt on Trump that could sway
the 2016 election.
April 2019: 882K dropped out of labor force, labor force contracted 726K, employment level contracted 103K, participation rate fell to 62.8% (the 2016 average), average weekly hours so far in 2019 down 0.4 from 2018 average
Data.
Data.
Data.
Data.
Data.
But other than that it's an economic boom because total nonfarm is up 263K.
Thursday, May 2, 2019
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