Saturday, February 22, 2020
ICYMI, I know I did, which is how they want it: Bank failure no. 1 of 2020 occurred on Valentine's Day
Yeah, always on a Friday night, even better when it's a holiday.
It's not that the failures always happen on a Friday. It's just when the FDIC likes to pull the trigger. Put the animal down, nice and quiet like, when fewer people are paying attention.
Ericson State Bank in Ericson, Nebraska, failed on Feb 14, costing the FDIC's Deposit Insurance Fund $14.1 million.
The FDIC insures deposits at 5,256 banks and savings associations as of September 30, 2019, according to the latest bank failure press release from the FDIC.
There were four bank failures in 2019, none in 2018, eight in 2017 and five in 2016.
Friday, February 21, 2020
Dick Van Dyke, 94, is all in for Bernie and Clint Eastwood, 89, supports Bloomberg
And people say the Jews running everything is a myth.
30-year bond yield breaks to all time low
The 30-year bond yield tumbled 5.4 basis points to 1.917%, sliding below its previous all-time low of 1.95%.
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On Friday the 30-year U.S. Treasury bond yield fell 5.2 basis points to 1.92% based on Tradeweb data to an all-time low of 1.89%.
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On Friday the 30-year U.S. Treasury bond yield fell 5.2 basis points to 1.92% based on Tradeweb data to an all-time low of 1.89%.
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| They round it up to 1.90% at Treasury |
Italian outbreak of coronavirus linked to traveler who returned from visit to China on Jan 21
The first to fall ill in northern Italy met with someone who had
returned from China on Jan. 21 without presenting any symptoms of the
new virus, health authorities said.
Coronavirus in Iran linked to Chinese workers in Qom who had traveled to China
The coronavirus has spread to several Iranian
cities, a Health Ministry official said Friday, as an outbreak that the
authorities say began in the city of Qom caused two more deaths. Iran
confirmed 13 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total in the country to
18, with four of the total having died. The majority of coronavirus
cases in Iran have been in Qom, a Shiite Muslim holy city 75 miles south
of the capital Tehran. The new cases comprised seven people diagnosed
in Qom, four in the capital Tehran and two in Gilan province, Health
Ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur said in a tweet. Health officials
had called for the suspension of all religious gatherings in Qom. “It’s
clear that new coronavirus has circulated in the country and probably
the source of this illness was Chinese workers who work in the city of
Qom and had traveled to China,” Health Ministry official Minou Mohrez
said, according to the official IRNA news agency. — Reuters
Story.
Story.
Coronavirus death rate rises again, to 2.93%
76,700+ cases
2,249 dead
The virus has now spread to Iran, where four have died, and to Lebanon.
A passenger returned from the Diamond Princess cruise ship has brought it to Israel.
A person in Chengdu, China, almost 700 miles from Wuhan, who recovered from the infection and was discharged on Feb 10, went into quarantine at home for 14 days but re-presented with the infection this week.
Thursday, February 20, 2020
The best thing about Bloomberg's debate appearance is the highly edited cringe video of it he produced but which everyone he trolled with it is calling fake
Video.
How easily Bloomberg has skewered the liberal fundamentalists, which is why he's the billionaire.
Breitbart's John Binder is one of like two people left who still can't cope with Trump's immigration betrayal as Mick Mulvaney calls for expanding immigration
White House spokesperson Stephanie Grisham told Breitbart News “it’s
always been our position that we are for legal immigration.”
But! But! But!
Just three months ago, Trump slammed plans
to increase the number of foreign workers in the U.S. labor market as
the agenda of elected Democrats to drive down the wages of the poorest
Americans.
Here.
Watch what they don't do, John, not what they say.
Trump's America First immigration agenda is in shambles because Trump was never serious about it.
We wuz had.
Pennsylvania Democrats aren't stupid, the ones paying attention believe Biden +8, Klobuchar +7 and Bloomie +6 are better than anti-fracking Comrades Butt, Pocahonky and Bernie
Pennsylvania kinda slow on the uptake about Comrade Butt +4, however, who hides his anti-fracking unlike Bernie +2.6 and Pocahonky +3, who both would end it and plunge America into deep energy trouble.
Quinnipiac poll of 823 registered voters in Wisconsin through 2/18/20 shows Trump trouncing all Democrats
Klobuchar -11
Pocahonky -10
Bloomie -8
Comrade Butt -8
Comrade Bernie -7
Biden -7
Pocahonky -10
Bloomie -8
Comrade Butt -8
Comrade Bernie -7
Biden -7
Quinnipiac poll of 845 registered voters in Michigan through 2/18/20 shows Trump losing to all Democrats
Comrade Bernie +5
Bloomie +5
Biden +4
Pocahonky +2
Klobuchar +1
Comrade Butt +1
Bloomie +5
Biden +4
Pocahonky +2
Klobuchar +1
Comrade Butt +1
Quinnipiac poll of 845 registered voters through 2/18/20 in Pennsylvania: Trump losing to all Democrats
Biden +8
Klobuchar +7
Bloomie +6
Comrade Butt +4
Pocahonky +3
Comrade Bernie +2.6
Klobuchar +7
Bloomie +6
Comrade Butt +4
Pocahonky +3
Comrade Bernie +2.6
Ilhan Omar lied to the infidel to steal from the infidel: She married her brother Elmi, while still married to her husband Hirsi, in order to get student loans for Elmi at North Dakota State University
Omar kept her marriage to Elmi quiet, with no one from the Somali community invited to the wedding. ... 'When she married Elmi, no one even knew about it.' ... The first report that Omar and her husband were siblings appeared on the website Somalispot in 2016. It said of Elmi, 34: 'As soon as Ilhan Omar married him he started university at her alma mater North Dakota State University where he graduated in 2012. ... Elmi and Omar married on February 12, 2009 at a Hennepin County office in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, southwest of Minneapolis, their marriage license shows. Omar said she and Hirsi had separated in 2008, and because their faith-based union was never recognized by law, neither is their separation. ... After their marriage Omar and Elmi moved to Fargo, where they both attended North Dakota State. But Omar and Hirsi were still together as husband and wife, [community leader Abdihakim] Osman said. ... 'She said she needed to get papers for her brother to go to school. We all thought she was just getting papers together to allow him to stay in this country. 'Once she had the papers they could apply for student loans. 'They both moved to North Dakota to go to school but she was still married to [Hirsi]. In the Somali way, the only marriage that mattered was the one in the mosque. ... Osman believes Elmi and Omar sought out someone outside the Somali community to conduct the ceremony because an imam would have known they were related and would have refused to marry them. ... Omar and Elmi eventually divorced in 2017 and she remarried Hirsi — with whom she had a third child — in a civil ceremony the following year, just in time for her election to Congress. Osman scoffs at the idea that this was a real remarriage. 'They never parted,' he said.
Stephen Miller "names" conservative frauds, including Mona Charen, Bill Kristol, Charlie Sykes, Evan McMullin, David Frum, Pete Wehner, Ramesh Ponnuru, Tom Nichols, Pete Wilson . . .
It's always helpful to have an enemies list.
And he ought to know, since so many people think he works in the White House.
Wild guess: First US patient with coronavirus who has now recovered (Snohomish County, Washington man) is East Asian
The Snohomish County man went to an urgent care
clinic on Jan. 19 with a cough and fever. He told the staff he had seen a
health alert about the outbreak in China – that he had returned four
days earlier from a trip to visit family in Wuhan.
South Korea's 2.5 million population city of Daegu in a panic over coronavirus superspreader at a church
Korea’s Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) reported 53
new cases of the virus on Thursday, following 20 a day earlier, taking
the total across the country to 104. Of that national tally, 70 patients are from Daegu or nearby and the
majority have been traced to an infected 61-year-old woman known as
“Patient 31” who attended a church, a scenario that KCDC described as a
“super-spreading event”. ... Daegu Mayor Kwon Young-jin told residents to stay indoors as he warned of likely further cases. ... Kwon cautioned that at least 90 more of the about 1,000 other people
who attended services at the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony
were also showing symptoms.
More.
South Korea reported its first death from coronavirus Thursday
South Korea reported its first death from the
coronavirus on Thursday. The country’s Center for Disease Control (KCDC)
reported 22 new confirmed cases of the virus, with the deceased among
that number. The cause of death is under investigation. - Holly Ellyatt
More.
Reported separately:
The Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention said the 63-year-old victim, who died Wednesday from pneumonia, had been bedridden for more than 20 years at a hospital in southeastern city of Cheongdo.
More.
Reported separately:
The Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention said the 63-year-old victim, who died Wednesday from pneumonia, had been bedridden for more than 20 years at a hospital in southeastern city of Cheongdo.
Coronavirus deaths in Iran are not yet confirmed by WHO
The World Health Organization has not yet confirmed the two Iranian
coronavirus deaths, but should they be confirmed, it would raise the
death toll outside of China to seven.
Story yesterday.
Two elderly Japanese who were guests on Diamond Princess cruise ship have died from coronavirus
From the start, experts raised questions about quarantine on the
ship. Passengers were not confined to rooms until Feb. 5. The day
before, as passengers were being screened, ship events continued,
including dances, quiz games and an exercise class.
More.
Separately reported:
The deceased patients — a man and a woman — were in their 80s and were residents of Japan. Both were taken ashore for treatment last week after having prolonged fevers, and they ultimately tested positive for the newly identified virus, known officially as COVID-19. They both died Thursday, according to Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, which is leading and coordinating the public health response on board the cruise ship. ... The WHO has not yet officially confirmed several other deaths recently reported in various nations, including the two cruise ship passengers in Japan.
Separately reported:
The deceased patients — a man and a woman — were in their 80s and were residents of Japan. Both were taken ashore for treatment last week after having prolonged fevers, and they ultimately tested positive for the newly identified virus, known officially as COVID-19. They both died Thursday, according to Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, which is leading and coordinating the public health response on board the cruise ship. ... The WHO has not yet officially confirmed several other deaths recently reported in various nations, including the two cruise ship passengers in Japan.
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Joe Biden can't close
Reeled off three points no one will remember.
He couldn't remember 'em either, had 'em written down.
Bernie's not a vanguard communist
He's a bottom up, proletariat uprising communist.
But there aren't enough of them in Trump's America, which is why he'd lose.
Bloomie havin' a hard time remembering to criticize Trump's tax cuts, not Obama's
Obama made the Bush tax cuts permanent.
Democrats forced Obamacare on the country and Pocahonky says Americans are suffering
How would any of these people do anything different?
Democrats are supposed to be about choice, but are not.
Democrats are supposed to be about choice, but are not.
Bernie Sanders says military socialism is bad socialism, social socialism is good socialism, doesn't get it that most military spending is on PEOPLE
The Defense Department knows it needs to become more efficient. It now
spends a third of its budget on personnel and maintenance. That will rise to 100% by 2024, thanks to retirement and medical costs.
More.
The nuclear family is communist and the US military is socialist, and yet they call it capitalism.
China didn't restrict travel soon enough: Between Jan 10-24 trips by rail jumped 17.2% year over year
There were already seven cases of untreatable viral pneumonia on Dec 30, 2019 at the Wuhan Central Hospital, according to now deceased Dr. Li Wenliang.
By Jan 23, 2020 830 confirmed cases and an unknown number of clinically diagnosable cases had piled up, at which time Wuhan in Hubei province was locked down.
Much too late.
From the CNBC update:
China’s railway operator said 210 million trips were taken in the 40
days of the Lunar New Year travel period from Jan. 10 to Feb. 18, state
news agency Xinhua reported. That number marked a 48% decline from last year.
During roughly the first two weeks of the travel period, through Jan.
24 (Lunar New Year eve), 168 million trips were taken, an increase of
17.2% from the corresponding holiday travel season last year, the report
said. For the remainder of the time period, rail trips fell 83.9%, the
article said. The report noted the number of average daily trips during
the latter period fell to 1.7 million from 11.2 million. — Cheng
Diamond Princess cruise ship coronavirus infections jump to 621
The infection rate for the 3,711 passengers and crew therefore jumps to 16.7%.
China says 74,185 coronavirus infections, 2,004 deaths, fatality rate jumps again
Fatality rate jumps to 2.7%.
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Rush Limbaugh today sees an idiot in the Mini Mike Mirror and backs away thinking "Yeah, I'm pretty dumb and look at all the money I've got!"
Here:
I
just don’t think he’s very bright, and I know that cuts against the
grain so strongly because most people say, “My gosh, Rush, he’s got more
money than you, more money than we got. He can’t be dumb and have that
happen.” Ehhh. I think there’s a lot of these rich people, folks, that when it comes to flat-out common sense are just idiots.
Absence of non-East Asian coronavirus fatalities so far makes some wonder if there ever will be any
There are considerations other than genetic racial predisposition or vulnerability to infection, however.
As the Chinese are now reporting, the coronavirus infection affects older men much more than women. In the initial phase of infection in Wuhan, for example, 68% of patients were men. Strikingly, as recently as 2015, 68% of Chinese men were said to smoke cigarettes, making them predisposed to infection because of impaired lung health.
Still, no death so far has involved someone without East Asian ancestry, which may indicate, as with the SARS coronavirus epidemic in 2002-2004, that fear of a global pandemic resulting in millions of deaths may not be reasonable and that this may remain an East Asian epidemic. It could be that just as sub-Saharan Africa is responsible for 80% of genetic sickle cell disease China may be prone to respiratory disease for some as yet unknown genetic reason.
China liberalized case counts to include clinical diagnoses recently, so the death rate is already much lower
And on top of current skepticism about current data, we still don't know how many cases, or deaths, may not have been counted in the early period of the outbreak.
And we probably never will know.
There were 999 confirmed cases outside China as of this morning. That's what we'll have to watch.
Ukrainian partisan Alexandra Chalupa has spent way too much time in the deep fryer of German hatred, comes out scorching two Jews as Nazis
Why the DNC ever gave this woman a position to import foreign hatreds to American soil tells you everything you need to know about Democrats.
LOL, what a shock: Chicom state capitalism has produced the most severe income inequality in the world, enriching The Party
According to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the
United States, China has the world’s highest Gini coefficient, a
measurement of inequality. The institute found the gap stemmed from
structural problems with China’s political system. State capitalism has
been effective in fueling growth in the economy, but worsened inequality
because of its inefficient distribution. The downside of China’s state
capitalism has been exposed.
NIH's Anthony Fauci says quarantine of 2,666 passengers and 1,045 crew on Diamond Princess cruise ship wasn't unreasonable but failed
"The quarantine process failed," Fauci said. "I'd
like to sugarcoat it and try to be diplomatic about it, but it failed.
People were getting infected on that ship. Something went awry in the
process of the quarantining on that ship. I don't know what it was, but a
lot of people got infected on that ship."
Whoa, overnight infections with coronavirus onboard quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship jump again, to 542 as tests come in on more of the 3,700 passengers and crew
Previous recent news reports had indicated approximately only 1,743 of the 3,700 passengers and crew had been tested.
The new test total is now 2,404.
The overall infection rate thus jumps to 14.6%, but the way this is being handled and reported is, let's just say, something only Gunney Highway could properly assess.
Coronavirus cases onboard Diamond Princess cruise ship jump to 454
Infection rate jumps to 12.3%, despite confinement to cabins.
Monday, February 17, 2020
Chicoms report 72,436 cases of coronavirus infection, 1,868 deaths: Death rate rises to 2.57%
Contrast that with the US influenza data for 2017-18:
The overall burden of influenza for the 2017-2018 season was an
estimated 45 million influenza illnesses, 21 million
influenza-associated medical visits, 810,000 influenza-related
hospitalizations, and 61,000 influenza-associated deaths.
Death rate: 0.136%.
Coronavirus is a bfd.
Trump's latest immigration joke on America: 375,000 illegals caught and released directly into US in fiscal 2019
The total 375,000 people released into the country are among 3.2 million who have been released by federal immigration authorities and are awaiting court hearings to decide whether they will removed from the country.
"Let them go! Let them go! Let them go!", they shouted at every Trump rally in 2016.
Ask the old blind man, he heard it, too.
Sunday, February 16, 2020
Death rate from coronavirus in China increases again, to 2.5%
There are 70,548 confirmed cases, and 1,770 deaths, according to Chinese authorities.
A 40% global pandemic and at this death rate would kill 74 million people worldwide, and about 8 million in the United States.
The Diamond Princess cruise ship, quarantined in Japan and with all passengers confined to cabin, has an infection rate of 9.6%, with 356 total cases of coronavirus out of approximately 3,700 passengers and crew and no deaths reported to date.
If the US observed similarly strict quarantine measures during a pandemic and achieved a similar infection rate of only 9.6%, there would eventually be roughly 32 million domestic cases of which about 800,000 would die at a 2.5% death rate, far surpassing total world deaths from influenza in a bad year.
The US has fewer than 1 million hospital beds available, dropping from 1.5 million in 1975 to about 931,000 as of 2017.
A pandemic in the US would present some of the same survivability issues faced by victims in China, where the sick are turned away simply for lack of space.
Saturday, February 15, 2020
China reports coronavirus deaths jump to 1,665 and cases climb to 68,500
The death rate therefore jumps from 2.29% last night to 2.43% tonight.
In a global pandemic covering 40% of the global population, that adds 4 million deaths right there.
Would you look at that, he posted it at 2:29pm, too: We have to kill 2.29% of the population in order to save it
152300 / 66492 = 2.29 current coronavirus death rate
Get your affairs in order: If Harvard professor is correct about global coronavirus pandemic, expect 68-136 million deaths worldwide in 2020, dwarfing deaths from ordinary influenza
Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch told The Wall Street Journal that
"it's likely we'll see a global pandemic" of coronavirus, with 40 to 70
percent of the world's population likely to be infected this year.
"What proportion of those will be
symptomatic, I can't give a good number," added Lipsitch, who is
the Director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Others have recently estimated that the virus could hit 60 to 80 percent of the world's population.
More.
Current deaths from coronavirus officially are 1,523 out of 66,492 cases, a death rate of 2.29%.
Global population currently stands at 7.44 billion.
A 40% pandemic would infect 2.976 billion people, with 68.15 million deaths at a 2.29% death rate.
An 80% pandemic would infect 5.952 billion people, with 136.3 million deaths at a 2.29% death rate.
100 years ago this year the Spanish flu infected 500 million people, 27% of the world, killing at least 17 million, a minimum death rate of 3.4%.
Man-made virus theory of coronavirus as similar to HIV by Indian scientists withdrawn
Conspiracy theories spreading online have claimed that the virus, which has claimed almost 1,400 lives in China, was made as a biological weapon and released by accident. ... Its mutations appear to be
natural evolution rather than any bizarre or unexpected changes,
according to Dr Trevor Bedford at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research
Center in Seattle, Washington. ... One of the triggers of the man-made virus
theory was a scientific paper published by researchers in India which
said the virus looked suspiciously similar to HIV. The paper has since been taken back but the rumours it started continue to circulate online.
The story promotes the missing link theory of transmission from bats to humans via an unknown animal.
60,000+ cases.
1,523 dead.
Friday, February 14, 2020
Is George Will dead? 5 more years of Trump will mean more utter gridlock, the very definition of his brand of conservatism.
But George Will is nowhere to be found, and is seldom discussed.
Is he dead?
He of all people should be ECSTATIC that Trump and the Democrats keep fighting, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year. After all, he continuously praised gridlock to high heaven when Barack Obama was president.
But George never appears in my copious, daily reviewing of who's who, saying what's what.
OK, I'm too cheap to pay for WaPo.
I also have standards.
The truth is the more the two sides fight, the fewer the opportunities they have to come together, "get something done" for the American people, and pick our pockets.
We've had way too much pocket picking.
Surely George Will must be keeping quiet these days, repentantly pondering the Ineffable Truth of Trump?
If you plan to vote for Trump in November, dear KAGA, remember to make sure you split your vote to keep Republicans from controlling the US House.
It is under the circumstances Nancy Pelosi at the helm in the House who makes Trump great again, every frickin' day after all, along with Cocaine Mitch in the Senate.
Little new bad spending should pass if this arrangement is maintained indefinitely.
Little new bad spending should pass if this arrangement is maintained indefinitely.
Honestly, don't make me laugh. Kevin McCarthy is not an alternative.
Chuckie Schumer?
A horror show on two legs.
We need more of the current gridlock so that the US Senate judge confirmation machine keeps on spitting out Trump appointments, the only thing Trump seems relatively good at.
So vote for Martha McSally in AZ, for example, who beat Bernie Sanders to the punch when she recently called CNN's Manu Raju a political hack.
So vote for Martha McSally in AZ, for example, who beat Bernie Sanders to the punch when she recently called CNN's Manu Raju a political hack.
Times that try men's souls bring out the best in heroes, and Martha has risen to the occasion. Yes, a brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt! from the gun of her A-10 Warthog would have been better, but hey, politics is war by different means.
The best part of Martha winning won't simply be warming a seat along with loser Bernie in the US Senate, but when every time he votes not to confirm a judge she does, and nothing much else gets done.
We must continue to keep George happy, and silent.
We must continue to keep George happy, and silent.
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