The passing scene is hilarious, until it careens through the front yard and crashes into my living room.
Saturday, June 4, 2022
Friday, June 3, 2022
Full time as a percentage of civilian population vaults to 50.4% in May 2022, the 2019 average level
Full-time usually peaks in the summer months.
The average level for the year through May 2022 is 49.8%.
More representation for the people does not equal "bigger government and more politicians"
The last thing most Americans want is a bigger government and more politicians, yet the solution to the zero-sum redistricting game is to create more seats for the House of Representatives.
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The founders of this country wanted representation to GROW with population. The original formula, never ratified, would have entitled every 50,000 Americans to one representative in the House. You know, one who might actually know who the hell you are and what you think, elected by funds raised from you and not from special interests a thousand miles away?
Mostly Republicans stopped this constitutional process in 1929 by act of Congress, fixing representation at 435 in the US House. But the impulse to Congressional supremacy over the other branches of government has ever been bipartisan.
Now, the "ideal" House district represents 761,000 people. All it takes is an oligarchy of 218 to decide the fate of hundreds of millions, whose leader is a shadow president popularly known as The Speaker of the House who can serve year upon year while the real president is limited to two terms.
Such an awful outcome was never intended by the framers.
The resulting system has turned politics into a binary pressure cooker without a relief valve, threatening to explode in another civil war at any moment, if contemporary doom and gloom political rhetoric on the extremes of both sides is to be believed.
In fact thousands upon thousands of Congressional staffers and lobbyists run everything and write the legislation, not the people through their elected representatives.
Politics is a fact of life. Aristotle taught us that man is a political animal.
Denying that fact is the surest route to the barbarism of civil war, or the present system of legislative tyranny which has saddled the American people with $30 trillion of debt.
A bigger House is actually a smaller government where you keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.
Thursday, June 2, 2022
The lying sacks of shit at the New England Journal of Medicine inflate gun deaths among children by counting 18 and 19 year olds among the children
The previous analysis, which examined data through 2016, showed that firearm-related injuries were second only to motor vehicle crashes (both traffic-related and nontraffic-related) as the leading cause of death among children and adolescents, defined as persons 1 to 19 years of age.
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Leave it to the professional liars in the medical establishment to do this sort of thing, adding to their well-deserved tarnish earned during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Measure it properly as persons 1 to 17 years of age and this is what you get, below (Motor Vehicle deaths still number one by far and drownings and firearm homicides way back running neck-and-neck for number two).
And even more importantly, compared with 1981-1998, firearm homicides among children are DOWN by 12%, firearm suicides among children are DOWN by 15%, and accidental firearm deaths among children don't even make the top ten any more (Motor Vehicle deaths also were down 34%, drownings down 25%, deaths by fire or burning down 56%, accidental suffocation deaths down 16%, and pedestrian and other land transportation deaths down 6%).
Suicides among children by suffocation were up from 5,085 to 12,890, a whopping 153%, perhaps due in part to mandatory gun locks causing a change in choice of method. Combined firearm and suffocation suicides among children still rose significantly, however, from 17,968 to 23,824 or 33%.
We won't speculate on the prominent role models trailblazing the way for this horrible new trend, like Robin Williams who hung himself in 2014.
You can do that for yourself.
Wednesday, June 1, 2022
For all you haters out there, here are the top 10 LGBT-friendly companies
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Monday, May 30, 2022
Firearms are not the leading cause of death in children: CDC's own data over time shows that motor vehicle accidents are far and away the number one cause
Here's the CDC data for all children, all races, ages 1-17, from 1999-2020 showing drownings and firearms neck and neck for number two position but motor vehicle accidents far and away the leading cause.
Liberals are all upset about 3,000 children shot and killed in one year when America's liberals are responsible for that many abortion deaths EVERY GODDAMN DAY.
Sunday, May 29, 2022
The only undergraduate college in this 10-page list requiring four units in a foreign language to graduate is Bard College
Many require no foreign language at all at the undergraduate level, and as a consequence . . .
Presently, 23 U.S. states do not require the two years of foreign language study that is required for admittance into many colleges.
Thankfully, the Visigoths at Princeton still have some standards. They require German majors to pass 2-3 courses actually taught in German.
NAACP President: Forgiving $10k in student loan debt ain't good enough, is a slap in the face to the average black who owes $53k
From the story:
Canceling $10,000 per borrower would cost around $321 billion and completely forgive the loans of about one-third of student loan borrowers.
This is all BS, of course. Millions of those borrowers can afford to pay off their loans themselves.
Student loans are another form of welfare for far too many borrowers of color, who dig themselves into a deep hole with government and education establishment encouragement and never get a degree, both of which also profit off the scheme. Meanwhile colleges continue to increase the cost of tuition knowing there is a ready source of government loan funding to pay for it.
Forgiving student loan debt without paying attention to income will inevitably be a handout to millions upon millions of high earners like Representative AOC who drives a Tesla Model 3 while reducing the average black loan balance by less than 20%.
If you make over $74k you are in the top 20% of all wage earners in the United States in 2020. You can afford to pay your obligations. AOC is in the top 4% of all wage earners.
Handing $10k in loan forgiveness to American elites isn't a vote-buying scheme. It's a Democrat patronage payment.
Saturday, May 28, 2022
News flash: He doesn't mean abortion and never mentions it, almost as if killing 1 million unborn every year since the 1970s wasn't the prolegomenon to the violence now everywhere around us
We accept the death of children because we accept a politics that enables it.
Friday, May 27, 2022
Like a creepy neighbor, State Farm is there, targeting 5-year-olds, lol, but not for the time being
Thursday, May 26, 2022
Russia to hit full capacity for natural gas storage this summer with virtually no market left in Europe and no pipelines to Asia, forcing it to shut down wells
So says George Soros, and this guy, here:
Leon Izbicki, an associate at Energy Aspects, agrees that Russia’s gas storage is close to being full.
“Russia went into last winter with record high stocks of around 72.6 billion cubic meters and aims for an even higher underground storage target for winter 2022 of 72.7 billion cubic meters,” Izbicki added via email. “While we do not have visibility on Russian underground storage, it seems plausible that Russia could reach this target this summer already.”
He added that that Russia lacks flexibility in its gas storage and does not have the means to divert gas from Europe to, for example, Asia due to a lack of pipeline infrastructure.