Thursday, June 20, 2019

June cold snap in Grand Rapids, Michigan

Using Cooling Degree Days (the more of which you have the more you need to run your air conditioner) Grand Rapids, Michigan has been about 56% cooler than normal to date.

Through June 19 we've had 33 CDD. A normal full June would have 139.   

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

"If [Trump] gets distracted with irrelevant messages, he will fail"

Wow, I'm among the elite 5%


Incompetent CNBC runs headline saying Fed rate hike could be near, story mentions cuts only!

Sure, blame it on a summer intern.

Update: And then they fix it.

Rate cut: stocks go up.
Rate hike: stocks go down.

Got it now?


LOL, Mexico soccer fans ruin Gay Pride Month at Rose Bowl, shout "Puto!" with abandon

Rose Bowl and Concacaf allow anti-gay chants throughout Mexico’s Gold Cup match

Mexico fans chanted the homophobic ‘puto’ chant repeatedly at the Rose Bowl with no consequence.
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Wow, pro-amnesty Zuckerberg funded fwd dot us is running an ad on Rush Limbaugh's show asking me to thank Fred Upton for protecting the dreamers

They're taking the battle to the enemy, folks.

Republican turncoat Fred "lightbulb" Upton represents MI-6.

Trump 2016 vowed to deport 11 million, then 2-3 million, but actually expelled only a quarter million in fiscal 2017

Trump's all hat and no cattle. The illegals know it, the Democrats know it, the only people who don't know it are the Trump voters.


ICE already has been stretched thin by the near-record influx of migrants at the southern border, chiefly from Central America, over the last year. Its record of deportations was relatively low even before that. In fiscal 2017, which includes Trump’s first six months in office, ICE deported only 226,119 immigrants, according to federal data.

Traditionally, ICE has prioritized criminals for deportation. Of the 160,000 arrests made by ICE in 2018, about 120,000 were picked up illegally crossing the border, or were in custody of law enforcement for criminal offenses. Only 40,000 were detained in ICE raids or other actions inside the country.

Randy Capps, a research director at the Migration Policy Institute, a Washington-based think tank, said ICE doesn’t have the manpower to carry out a vast surge of arrests.

“How are you going to get from 40,000 to a million?” he said. “Are you going to hire 25 times as many ICE officers?”


At 7,000 deportations per month it will take Trump only 12 years to deport one million with expulsion orders

What a clown.


U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is averaging approximately 7,000 deportations per month from the U.S. interior, according to the agency's latest data. With unauthorized border crossings soaring under Trump to their highest levels in more than a decade, ICE has been facing a shortage of funds and detention beds, and experts say that a large-scale push to arrest and deport hundreds of thousands of migrants would be exorbitantly expensive and highly unlikely. ...

With hundreds of ICE agents deployed to the border in recent months, interior arrests have dipped. From October to December, the most recent period for which statistics are available, ICE deported 22,169 people from the U.S. interior, down 7 percent from the same period in 2017. About 10.5 million unauthorized immigrants are in the United States, according to the Pew Research Center.

To meet the president's goal of "millions" of deportations, ICE would need significantly more agents and funding. ICE's division of enforcement and removal operations has fewer than 6,000 officers nationwide who are potentially available to carry out the kind of arrests described by the president, which would entail higher risks because they would involve knocking on doors and arresting parents and children in homes and apartments. ...

John Sandweg, acting ICE director in 2013 and 2014 during the Obama administration, questioned ICE's capability to undertake such a massive operation, given the agency's staffing and budget constraints. ICE is detaining the largest number of migrants in its history - more than 50,000 a day - and is under "incredible strain" because of an influx of Central American migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, Sandweg said.

At its peak, ICE deported more than 400,000 immigrants during the entire 2012 fiscal year, and more than half of those were border-crossers who could be quickly sent home. "The idea that somehow by just presidential will the agency's going to go [up] 250 percent to the biggest, largest number of removals in its history is just ridiculous," Sandweg said. ...

The Justice Department, which runs the immigration courts, said it is aware of at least 12,780 removal orders issued to "family units" from Sept. 24 through Friday. Of those, nearly 11,000 orders were issued in absentia, meaning the immigrant did not appear in court. The orders were mailed to their houses, said Justice Department spokesman Alexei Woltornist, with the largest numbers in Houston, Miami and Atlanta. ...

Trump told a cheering crowd in Phoenix three months before his election that he would deport millions of immigrants who had allegedly committed crimes. "Day one, my first hour in office, those people are gone," Trump said. "They're going to be gone. It will be over. They're going out. They're going out fast."


Remembering the most irresponsible stock market call of our times: Jim Cramer on Monday, October 6, 2008 on The Today Show before the markets opened


“I thought about this all weekend,” Cramer told Curry. “I do not want to say these things on TV.

“Whatever money you may need for the next five years, please take it out of the stock market right now, this week. I do not believe that you should risk those assets in the stock market right now.”


Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Just great, like Trump the UK's Boris Johnson wings everything and is hopelessly disorganized

Now where did I put that submarine?

Advice to Fed Chair: Give Trump the finger, raise rates some more

Trump's intimidation of the Fed is disgraceful.

P. J. O'Rourke: Capitalism Gets Rid Of Things That Don't Work [You Know, Like Babies]

About 56 million are aborted annually worldwide at the zenith of global capitalism.


And of these other systems which spend money in strange and silly ways the smallest is the heterosexual nuclear family, with its ethos of never requiring work of children commensurate with the cost of subsidizing them, strange and silly as it may sound, nor of the elderly commensurate with the cost of subsidizing them.

Because some things are more important than working.

The entire Democrat Party is in revolt against human nature

Well then, the next logical step is for them to commit mass suicide.



Ann Coulter says no other word is like the n-word

Tell it to the subjunctive.

David Cole for allegedly white supremacist Takimag: Mixed race is the way of the future



Mr. Murderface must've skipped "Against the Jews and their Lies" in his Luther 101 course


Know-nothing Rush Limbaugh just said the Flores Settlement goes all the way back to Obama, when it goes all the way back to Bill Clinton, with Bush in between doing zero, zip, nada about it

The History of the Flores Settlement

The shrunken Trump economy is still over 5 million full-time jobs behind the Great Recession average

The 2-point average percentage difference applied to current population amounts to nearly 5.2 million full-time jobs behind what used to be normal for more than two decades.

Trump's do-nothing government: More than 1 million illegal aliens have deportation orders but remain in country


WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is threatening to remove millions of people living in the country illegally on the eve of formally announcing his re-election bid. ...

An administration official said the effort would focus on the more than 1 million people who have been issued final deportation orders by federal judges but remain at large in the country. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to explain the president’s tweets.



"I really mean it this time, Johnny, boy are you going to get it when your father gets home."

"Publicizing a future law enforcement operation is unheard of at ICE"


Large-scale ICE enforcement operations are typically kept secret to avoid tipping off targets. In 2018, Trump and other senior officials threatened the mayor of Oakland, California, with criminal prosecution for alerting city residents that immigration raids were in the works. ...

Publicizing a future law enforcement operation is unheard of at ICE. Trump administration officials blasted Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf last year for warning immigrants about an impending raid, saying she endangered agents’ safety.

“The Oakland mayor’s decision to publicize her suspicions about ICE operations further increased that risk for my officers and alerted criminal aliens - making clear that this reckless decision was based on her political agenda with the very federal laws that ICE is sworn to uphold,” then-ICE deputy director Thomas Homan said at the time.