Cool and damp, but no one could say for sure whether it will rain… I’m going with overcast but not raining… yesterday ended up gorgeous. Mid 70sF, sunny, light breeze… please sir, can I have some more??
After a slow start, I did get out and dropped off some bins at one of my auctioneers. He’s trying to downsize his building rental so he didn’t want all that I was hoping to bring. In a couple of weeks he’ll be ready for more. I hope. I’ll do some more sorting and see what I can take to my other auction house. Her next sale is ‘collectibles’ so I have to sort and only send her stuff that would fit with that.
I’ll do some of that today if the rain holds off. I need to do some more cleaning up around the house too. While I’m sorting, stuff tends to pile up. Not something my wife likes to see.
If the rain comes, well, I’ve got stuff to do in that case too.
Out in the world, violence, particularly political violence, seems to be ramping up. Be mindful of your surroundings, where you are, and who you are there with. And although FBI stats suggest that most shootouts are less than 8 rounds, carry a reload. Might be a second guy, might be you missed, but throwing your empty gun at an aggressor isn’t gonna do much.
And have a blow out kit, or stop the bleed kit handy. Could be in your desk at work, could be in your car, could be both… or in your “murse” ie. EDC carry bag, but have access to what you need to help keep the red stuff on the inside…
I hit the local HEB grocery store last night to add to the stacks. Bought stuff that wasn’t even on sale. Added stuff that was on sale too. Bought box meals, flavored pasta pouches, and some canned beans. Bought a lot of snack stuff for the kids’ school lunch bags too. Spent $350 but “saved” $42. That’s about what I aim for. I was surprised by how much canned veg has gone up, almost doubling in price. Milk and eggs are still reasonable here in Texas, with 18 large eggs for ~$4. And even my “lower cost” coffee has gone up dramatically in the small bags, from ~$5 per bag to ~$9. I’ve been buying it in big bags online since costco switched flavors, and haven’t looked at the small bags in a while, but the reason I switched to Community was that it was less than $6 a bag. Not any more. Didn’t buy any meat this trip. Nothing was on sale.
Real inflation is high, much higher than ‘official’ inflation, and that is high enough. We’re gonna need more money and we’re gonna need more stuff to make it through this.
Stack accordingly.
nick
The animals will die if I don’t at least remind everyone else to take care of them or more commonly have to do it myself. This has happened several times in the past ten years, either because I was on an out-of-town contract or because I crossed my arms and refused to do it.
Coffee started. People awoken. Once. I’ll do another round in a bit.
@steve, that is a tough place to be.
n
BTW, I saw that list somewhere associated with the Anheuser-Busch VP. I didn’t make it up.
Microsoft pulled the Linked-in page, however.
I saw that personality type in action recently at con panel in January where a group of five people from Powerhouse Animation, all of whom contributed to the creative direction of killing He-Man in “Masters of the Universe: Revelation”, were protected from questions about the decision by a Girl Boss exec from the company. “No questions about client (Kevin Smith and Mattel) IP.”
He-Man isn’t my franchise, but it was an interesting hour of figurative tap dancing.
My guess is that we are going to see a lot of Brie Larson in Nissan EV ads after Biden’s announcement today.
It could be that the test screenings of “Dune” are going poorly and The Mouse sees an opportunity to salvage “The Marvels” by moving the release up into November, but, more than likely, money changed hands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TqvibZoaRo
DIS at 58.38 PE as of yesterday’s close.
What’s with the cats? Any men in the marvel universe?
n
BTW, this is why you need a BOB and a list. Sheriff knocks the door and it’s TIME TO LEAVE ™.
n
Cool, sunshine and mostly clear sky this morning. Hope it continues.
n
Is that a rhetorical question?
I just posted this on yesterdays thread by mistake so I thought I repeat it here.
Draco was abandoned. On a Saturday last October some apartment renters called the property management company and told them they had moved out and the keys were on the kitchen counter. On Monday the management company found two dogs in a crate in the kitchen.
The neighbors didn’t know the dogs names or anything else about them. I got him the first week of January. He had been named Methuselah by the rescue folks, but did not respond to that name so I renamed him. He seems smart and alert, just not house broken. He weighed 9 pounds and felt skinny, he’s 9.8 pounds now and feels muscular. I weigh myself every day and him at least once a week so he won’t being getting fat.
Draco walks easily on a leash. We walk a mile almost every afternoon. He usually stays near me although this week the days have been nice so I left the doors to the shop open and he has explored most of the neighborhood in short trips always returning to check on me. He naps in the sun near the shop.
He barks at some strangers but did not bark when he first saw my son. He’s never barked except at strangers. Gets along fine with children, small dogs and cats. Big dogs bother him. Thunder really bothers him; he hides and shakes even when I try to comfort him.
I have given him a couple if baths without any problems. He’s not a big eater, turning down some doggie treats that he has previously eaten greedily.
Some idiot writes an opinion piece for CNN regarding Social Security. He slams the plan to increase the retirement age to keep the plan solvent. I sure most of you have guessed her opinion. Raising the retirement age is raycist because black people don’t live as long.
Why is EVERYTHING in this country raycist? Seems that raycism is becoming the new normal. If a person, or a group does not get their way, play the rayce card. If the object is to eliminate raycism, then keep rayce out of any reporting.
In my opinion raycism is worse now than it ever was 30 years ago.
Why is EVERYTHING in this country raycist? Seems that raycism is becoming the new normal.
– John Wilder has an answer…
https://wilderwealthywise.com/how-occupy-wall-street-led-to-the-current-woke-crisis/
n
Definitely. Driven by two factors: (1) well-intentioned but idiotic things like diversity initiatives – those are explicitly racist. And (2) the blacks themselves pulling the race-card every time something doesn’t go their way. Both of those provoke resentment.
I specifically wrote “blacks”, because other minorities generally don’t act this way. It’s not a minority problem, it’s a black problem, specifically “African-Americans”. Blacks from other cultures – even if they are living in the US – don’t have the same behaviors.
Obviously, individuals vary. The above statements are a very broad brush.
So either they are open to malpractice lawsuits, or they admit trying to talk people out of crazy is hokum….
‘He was under the care of mental health professionals’: Louisville shooter Connor Sturgeon was being treated for depression and anxiety at time of massacre
n
Slo Joe just doing a taxpayer funded bucket list at this point?
n
–it’s declining, except for those ‘stubbornly high prices’… so not actually declining then.
BTW, even though I pay some attention, NINE PERCENT??? I thought the official lie topped out at 7. Where were the headlines at 9?
I guess it’s possible I just stopped looking, since it was an obvious lie.
n
“The Last Dog on Earth” by Adrian J. Walker
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Dog-Earth-Adrian-Walker/dp/1492673633?tag=ttgnet-20/
A standalone alternate reality book, no prequel or sequel that I know of. I read the well printed and well bound trade paperback published by Sourcebooks Landmark in 2019. There was apparently a previous version of the book published by Del Rey in 2017.
In an alternate reality, the United Kingdom was beset by a civil war between the greens (army) and the purples (alt right) that peaked in 2021 when somebody exploded four small nuclear weapons in London. Most people have escaped to the countryside by then but there were still a few holdouts in London. London is a dangerous place since the purples are still executing people that they believe are not fit to live in England.
Most of the book is a narration of either Reginald Hardy (Reg) or his dog Lineker. Lineker calls himself the last dog on Earth because he has not seen his old friends in Peckham Rye Park for over three years. BTW, Lineker has a serious potty mouth.
The author has a website at:
https://www.adrianjwalker.com/
My rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (682 reviews)
“Great Car Reset: Biden’s EPA to release strict new fed emissions standard to ‘move U.S. car market decisively toward electric vehicles’ – ‘Up to 2/3’ of cars sold mandated to be EV by 2032”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/11/great-car-reset-bidens-epa-to-release-strict-new-fed-emissions-standard-to-move-u-s-car-market-decisively-toward-electric-vehicles-up-to-2-3/
“Marc Morano: “This is the planned rationing of vehicles. The planned rationing of American cars. That’s the only way this plan makes sense … the only result is going to be shortages of cars and a completely altered used car market. You can look to Cuba to find out what it’s like to have a raging used car market because that’s what we’re looking at here. And you can look to old East Germany. East Germany had their famed Trabant car, where people would have to get on waiting lists for years to get one and that’s what we’re faced with here when the government is going to mandate you can only buy a new electric car. … An Australian bank is announcing it’s not going to give financing for loans to anyone buying a gas-powered car. The World Bank has now announced it wants to set a timetable to stop the funding for — even at the automaker level for gas-powered cars. The powers that be, the corporate world, the bankers, the governments, academia — they’ve decided that gas-powered cars are over and they’re putting all the forces into play to end it without our say in it.”
“5-Year-Old Windows Defender Bug That Caused CPU Spikes on Firefox Finally Fixed”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/5-year-old-windows-defender-bug-cpu-spikes-on-firefox-finally-fixed
“The fix reduces CPU usage from Microsoft’s MsMpEng.exe by as much as 75% while using the Firefox browser, according to a Mozilla engineer.”
I got rid of this bug by adding uBlock Origin to my FireFox. The cpu problem was being caused by all of the advertising.
And although FBI stats suggest that most shootouts are less than 8 rounds, carry a reload.
Huh, there is a speedloader for my seven shot Ruger GP 100 snubby. I figured that there was not.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08KTDHSJ5?tag=ttgnet-20/
I hit the local HEB grocery store last night to add to the stacks. Bought stuff that wasn’t even on sale. Added stuff that was on sale too. Bought box meals, flavored pasta pouches, and some canned beans. Bought a lot of snack stuff for the kids’ school lunch bags too. Spent $350 but “saved” $42. That’s about what I aim for. I was surprised by how much canned veg has gone up, almost doubling in price. Milk and eggs are still reasonable here in Texas, with 18 large eggs for ~$4. And even my “lower cost” coffee has gone up dramatically in the small bags, from ~$5 per bag to ~$9. I’ve been buying it in big bags online since costco switched flavors, and haven’t looked at the small bags in a while, but the reason I switched to Community was that it was less than $6 a bag. Not any more. Didn’t buy any meat this trip. Nothing was on sale.
Real inflation is high, much higher than ‘official’ inflation, and that is high enough. We’re gonna need more money and we’re gonna need more stuff to make it through this.
My son says that The Powers That Be were given a choice. Either drop the Dollar or inflate the you know what out of it. They chose the inflation option. The others may still drop the Dollar though.
I got my annual Social Security update Monday. I can retire now and get $2,600/month (I will be 63 in a couple of months). I can retire at 67 and get $3,100/month. I can retire at 70 and get $4,000/month. I understand why Social Security is going broke.
Never the less, I plan to work until I can’t. Having a disabled daughter living with us is very expensive. If something happens to my business then I will find another job, several businesses and NASA are hiring. I just don’t know if they want old broken down C++ programmers.
And yet, they will still travel around in chauffeured limos and taking their private jets hither and yon.
“Gen Z and millennials are so broke they’re ruining their parents’ retirements”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gen-z-millennials-broke-ruining-184645218.html
“A majority of U.S. parents have made financial sacrifices to set their adult children up for success, many times at the expense of their own savings.“
I am not surprised. Most parents sacrifice for their children from day one.
“Baltimore Mayor Calls For Citywide Curfew After All Hell Breaks Out”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/baltimore-mayor-calls-citywide-curfew-after-all-hell-breaks-out
“All hell broke out on Sunday night in Baltimore City’s Inner Harbor district when gunshots were heard, causing hundreds of spring break youngsters to scatter through the streets. The mayhem, captured on video, resembled an apocalyptic scene. As a result, Mayor Brandon Scott has proposed a citywide curfew for minors during the upcoming summer months.”
23 of Baltimore’s schools did not have a single student passing math last year. The place is a freaking disaster.
When I started on SS at 62.5-ish the math for me was breaking even when I hit 80 versus waiting until 66 or so. Yeah, it might not last but I’ll take what I can while it is paying.
I’m cool. Everything is paid but the truck.
One of Biden’s recent visits to Europe, they televised part of his “arrival”. An entire entourage of at 30 or 40 black vehicles. SUVs, armored cars, I don’t know what all was in the mix. Totally absurd. Sure, give the guy a police escort for his armored car, and maybe another couple of cars for staff and security. But an entire parade?
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On Swiss news, I expect you have heard about the Credit Suisse debacle. For whatever reason, the government decided to broker their takeover by UBS, and to back this with a credit line of over $100 billion. With various other loans and commitments, the total allocated is $250 billion.
Now remember that our total population is only 8 million. That is a governmental commitment of $30k per person.
It gets better. This was done using emergency powers that allow the ruling council to bypass the parliament. More or less like an executive order. This isn’t all that unusual when time is of the essence, but normally they commit a few $million here or there. Not hundreds of $billions.
People are…not happy. Granted, it’s not spending; it’s in the form of loan guarantees, but still, guarantees could be called in. That’s a hell of a lot of money to commit with the stroke of a pen…
At least there is serious talk about fixing the banking system. Permanently. We’ll see if the fleeting attention spans of politicians can persevere long enough to actually do that. If they don’t (and even if they do), it is entirely likely that there will be some very interesting public referendums – which flow straight into the constitution, if they pass.
@Lynn
The year-to-year increase in benefits is 8%.
The 63-67 increase is less than that by your numbers. Are they correct?
The 67-70 increase is about right.
The question used to be could you get 8% elsewhere. Now it’s how long before they cut benefits? And we already know that they have changed the inflation calculation to keep it lower, so benefit increases will fall behind.
When I started on SS at 62.5-ish the math for me was breaking even when I hit 80 versus waiting until 66 or so. Yeah, it might not last but I’ll take what I can while it is paying.
I will start taking SS when I am forced to retire or when I turn 67 (so I do not get penalized by the income from my job).
https://www.investopedia.com/4-reasons-not-to-delay-social-security-payments-4687576
One of Biden’s recent visits to Europe, they televised part of his “arrival”. An entire entourage of at 30 or 40 black vehicles. SUVs, armored cars, I don’t know what all was in the mix. Totally absurd. Sure, give the guy a police escort for his armored car, and maybe another couple of cars for staff and security. But an entire parade?
Don’t forget the four or six decoy vehicles. That means a whole lot more RPGs.
“The Oldest Functioning Satellite”
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2023/04/the-oldest-functioning-satellite.html
“The Lincoln Calibration Sphere 1, or LCS-1, is a large, hollow, aluminum sphere with a precisely defined cross-section that has been on Earth orbit since 1965. It is considered to be the oldest functioning satellite even though it has no power and no electronics. This is because, this 3 feet 8 inch diameter metal sphere is still true to its original purpose—provide ground based radars with a target to calibrate their instruments.”
Cool.
SS is scheduled to be broke before I can start collecting. But that’s OK. As I continue to work after my nominal retirement date, I’m sure that I’ll continue to be taxed for the benefits I’ll never get.
But that’s OK. I’m sure that a portion of my other taxes will go to pay for “public servant” retirement plans which were approved before I was born and from which I will never benefit. And another portion will pay to support bastard children which I did not father.
Yah, I’m really loving the system. Looking seriously at going Galt once The Child is grown.
My friend going through a divorce got a new tactic from the soon-to-be ex-wife on Sunday.
“Think of our boys’ inheritance…”
Our kids know the clock is ticking. I don’t pay for health insurance beyond the Obamacare plan cutoff, and I don’t pay for house down payments.
Huh. How about thinking of raising the boys in a family with their mom and dad? You know, me being a hater and all, how about the parents getting their shit together long enough for the kids to get out of high school? The kids might like that much more than whatever money they collect when you croak.
Update on my Dell Alienware gaming PC:
Still waiting on Dell to respond to my open ticket. It’s been 8 days since “Shireesha” tried to fix the Alienware Command Center. It still won’t start. The Steam VR app also wouldn’t run, but I fixed that. After searching high and low and trying multiple fixes and reinstalls, I googled the right phrase and found an article from 2019 in the Steam Community of all places. It came down to when W11 was installed, not all of Visual C++ was install. The article showed how to find if SteamVR was missing the needed dll’s and how to get them. I followed the instructions and VR is working again. I updated all the hardware and can play Half-Life Alyx, again.
Dell support is on my “sucks donkey balls” list right now.
Hence my countdown of “two years, two months, ten days”.
Consider yourself lucky. Comcast “sucks elephant balls”, if you can understand Paul, who “speaky goodly English”.
Moisture from the sky cut short my organizing and sorting at my storage unit. There are rumblings and more drops, but no downpour yet.
Have to get the kids from their dress rehearsal at 530 so I’m headed out in the other truck. Maybe the rain will clean the pollen off of it. Dark paint and yellow pollen, what a great looking combination.
n
“Scott Adams And Two Filters: The Race Filter And The Success Filter. Choose The Success Filter.”
https://wilderwealthywise.com/scott-adams-and-two-filters-the-race-filter-and-the-success-filter-choose-the-success-filter/
“But Adams isn’t done. There is another filter that he suggests can replace the Race Filter – the Personal Success Filter. I generally use the Personal Success Filter, but I never called it that. I endorse Mr. Adams’ thoughts entirely, and I’ll spend much more time talking about his success filters than I spent on the Race Filter, since the Race Filter sucks:”
I agree.
White paint and pollen ain’t exactly great. What you need is the color Chrysler called KY4. Sort of a butterscotch slash bug guts spattered on the windshield color. Did not show pollen at all. The car wasn’t shiny but hey.
’75 Cordobas looked good in any color.
Just remember: Pollen is just plants’ way of being “really happy to see you” and getting it all over everything you touch. And all over your face.
No, no need to thank me. Knowing that you now have this thought in your heads is all the thanks I need.
Win11 had updates today. Updates of what is unknown. It didn’t put the magnifying glass for search back on the taskbar like last month.
All the doom and gloom for SS failing will not happen. It will get extended somehow. No way that SS payments will stop.
And I am one of those SS payment recipients. I retired at 63 because my local government job was going to be downsized or eliminated. I took the early retirement (with a one-year bonus for taking it) from that job.
And, we are part of those “Public Service Retirement Plans” that some here complain about. The retirement plan (I had 23 years with that employer) was via CalPers, which I also don’t see going away.
The combined SS and CalPers retirement (for both of us, since SWMBO also retired early on disability) is enough for us to live comfortably. In fact, we are able to place some income in savings. (I need to move some of that into some short-term CDs that pay more than the savings account.)
I’m not worried about either benefit stopping.
@MrAtoZ
Regarding your Dell issue – try using ChatGPT for the question. I sometimes find that it’s answers are faster than searching through search results.
It’s been helpful for a few short code questions, and some topic/situations research for the ‘thriller’ book series I am in the middle of writing now.
>> Huh, there is a speedloader for my seven shot Ruger GP 100 snubby. I figured that there was not.
@lynn, do you carry the speedloader on your belt? I’ve seen semi-auto holsters that integrate a sleeve for a spare magazine but haven’t yet seen something similar for a wheel.
I’m not worried about either benefit stopping.
Me either. But, SS and Medicare will be changed in the future. Yes, I know you were talking about CalPers, that is not going away either.
The challenge for SS and Medicare is that both are paying out about a trillion dollars per year each. Statisticians say that SS and Medicare will rise to two trillion dollars a year each in the next ten years. Something will have to change. I suspect that the tax rates will rise and the maximum bite for SS will rise significantly.
I am still on the fence for Medicare For All. My wife is on Medicare now, it is not the be all, end all for health insurance. In fact, it is quite expensive with the cost for Part B and all of the supplements.
>> Huh, there is a speedloader for my seven shot Ruger GP 100 snubby. I figured that there was not.
@lynn, do you carry the speedloader on your belt? I’ve seen semi-auto holsters that integrate a sleeve for a spare magazine but haven’t yet seen something similar for a wheel.
You can, I do not. I do not carry any speedloaders at this time. Here is a belt pouch.
https://www.amazon.com/Kosibate-Speedloader-Holder-Tactical-Universal/dp/B07765W7FP?tag=ttgnet-20/
“America Imported $78.8 Billion in ‘Cell Phones and Other Household Goods’ From China in 2022”
https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/terence-p-jeffrey/america-imported-788-billion-cell-phones-and-other-household-goods
Interesting, the number one import in 2022 was $113 billion of crude oil from Canada. Probably most of the crude oil was from the Tar Sands Project that employs thousands of highly paid workers.
Hat tip to:
https://www.drudgereport.com/
>> And yet, they will still travel around in chauffeured limos and taking their private jets hither and yon.
Like Bill Gates said when asked about his use of private jets, the “special” people do so much good it out-weighs their need for jets and limos.
I got my annual Social Security update Monday. I can retire now and get $2,600/month (I will be 63 in a couple of months). I can retire at 67 and get $3,100/month. I can retire at 70 and get $4,000/month. I understand why Social Security is going broke.
Never the less, I plan to work until I can’t. Having a disabled daughter living with us is very expensive. If something happens to my business then I will find another job, several businesses and NASA are hiring. I just don’t know if they want old broken down C++ programmers.
@Lynn
The year-to-year increase in benefits is 8%.
The 63-67 increase is less than that by your numbers. Are they correct?
The 67-70 increase is about right.
The question used to be could you get 8% elsewhere. Now it’s how long before they cut benefits? And we already know that they have changed the inflation calculation to keep it lower, so benefit increases will fall behind.
My letter is at home so I had to produce those numbers from memory. Which, sucks nowadays. That first number may be $2,100/month but, that is a guess.
re: Social Security
I’ve been told by Josh Scandlen that in the absence of any other recourse, Social Security is self-funding at the current tax rate for 70% of the benefits.
So a simple resolution is to cut benefits by 30%. Which sucks, but is not the same thing as “oh my god, on some specific day the entire system crashes and all the poor fixed-income retirees will die!”
As we get closer to the day they have to do that cut, the politicians (mostly Dems, since the stupid party has talked about SS reform for a long time) will wake up and do something.
Whether it’s a good thing, like modest delays in benefits, slight tax increases, and some sort of reduction in benefits for people with high non-SS incomes, or a bad thing like means testing (Own a house? No SS for you!) or drastic race-based reductions for married white people, remains to be seen. But politicians being politicians, they’ll do something.
All of this presupposes that the US government and economy will continue to exist in the future. Which was never guaranteed, even back when we had more-or-less free and fair elections.
re: speedloaders
I can hide my Charter Arms .38 Undercover snubbie inside the waistband, either appendix or 4:00, but the little 5 shot speedloader goes in my pocket. Most belt pouches like the one Lynn linked seem to shout “I have a gub!” , especially in tactical nylon. May as well carry your gub in a belt holster.
I am resigned to “5 shots and done”. Not happy about it, but it’s better than being unarmed.
Thanks, Mr. RickH. I have a ChatGPT account and tried to ask all the searches I tried with the googles. Pretty much the same answers. It comes down to I wasn’t asking the right question. The article where I found my solution took time to drill down and read all the solutions. The solution involved running “vrmonitor.exe” and when it failed to start, it gave the missing dll’s in an error message box. I would have never figured that out, what they were, and where to get and install them. Who would think C++ missing dll’s were the culprit. However, when I mentioned missing dll’s in ChatGPT, it DID recommend reinstalling C++. I would have no idea how to find those missing dll’s without the smart Windows guy who wrote the article. And that was in 2019!
I tried using Bing AI to find a solution to my problem. There is a small app “MacBing” you can download for free so I don’t need MS Edge. I ran in to the same problem because I didn’t have a narrow enough search. When I mentioned a missing dll, It came back with solutions that included the one I needed. Digging through the tons of googles worked in the end.
Bud Light marketing manager knows “fratty” when she…
sees it?
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/04/12/well-well-well-bud-lights-marketing-vp-turns-out-to-be-a-total-hypocrite-n1686580
You can’t fly commercial to Pedo Island.
I didn’t make up the list – Wharton. Harvard. Groton (boarding school).
The Linked In page got pulled as well, unfortunately.
Female. Girl Boss. It would have been well known by now if she was a he at some point.
MSVCRT C++ DLL hell is much worse than old fashioned DLL hell. Not only do you need the same point release as what was used to compile, but mixing the build UUIDs is also a problem which will happen in extremely rare circumstances, leading you to believe that your product passed QA and is ready to ship.
The local Alamo has a 40th Anniversary screening of “Wargames” next month.
Geesh, I’m old.
I knew John Spencer was the missile commander who wouldn’t turn his key, but Michael Madsen was his partner.
Mr Blonde!
“Firearms, crime, politics and race”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/04/firearms-crime-politics-and-race.html
“I looked up the figures to confirm what I was seeing – one’s never sure about a social media post until one verifies it – and they match up. The racial disparity in firearm homicide rates in the USA is profound.”
The “firearm homicide rate per 100,000” graph is much worse than I believed it to be. US whites are 1.7. Canadians are 1.8. France is 2.6. Austria is 2.8. Finland is 3.3. US Hispanics are 6.4. US Blacks are 19.8.
“The next time someone argues that your private ownership of firearms, and your willingness to use them to defend yourself and your loved ones against criminals, is contributing to the “gun violence” problem, show them those numbers, and point out the reality of the problem. It’s not a gun problem. It’s a people problem, and more specifically, a problem with people in particular population groups. That may not be politically correct, but it’s the truth.”
Don’t let them take away your guns. The looting of the suburbs by flash mobs might be soon.
“Deficit Tops $1 Trillion in First Six Months of FY2023”
https://www.cnsnews.com/article/washington/terence-p-jeffrey/deficit-tops-1-trillion-first-six-months-fy2023
“(CNSNews.com) – The federal deficit topped $1 trillion in the first six months of fiscal 2023 (October through March), according to the Monthly Treasury Statement released today.”
And there is the real problem with Social Security and Medicare. At some point the music will stop and those two are the largest items in the Federal spending.
In the event of a default, neither program is a Constitutionally mandated payment. Tax receipts arriving at the Treasury will be prioritized.
Greg Norton:
FTFY. There’s nothing in the Constitution that authorizes transfer payments such as Social Security or welfare.
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-1/#article-1-section-8
Of course, 95% of all Federal expenditures are not authorized by the 18 “Enumerated Powers”.
FTFY. There’s nothing in the Constitution that authorizes transfer payments such as Social Security or welfare.
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-1/#article-1-section-8
Of course, 95% of all Federal expenditures are not authorized by the 18 “Enumerated Powers”.
Sure there is. Right there where you pointed at. “provide for the common Defence and general Welfare”. General Welfare is not well defined so it means anything the Congressional weasels want it to mean.
“The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;”
@Lynn
US whites are 1.7.
US Hispanics are 6.4 (3.8x)
US Blacks are 19.8. (11.6x)
from the linked article:
Sooooo…
If we want to have a discussion about controlling guns, where should we start?
Particular areas? Particular groups? Combination of both?
Washington, D.C. appears in 13th position on the county list. That would appear to be a natural place to start.
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What would happen to the other country’s numbers if they were divided by racial group? Ethnic group?
“Canadians are 1.8. France is 2.6. Austria is 2.8. Finland is 3.3.”
Despite gun confiscation in Canada, it appears that their rate is higher than U.S. whites. How can this be?
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–Ann Coulter, writing about the Tennessee Two, but the point has wider applicability
The above quote could be changed to an equally valid form:
I’m sorry if white people break rules in lower proportion to their numbers in the population, but we don’t punish the innocent to achieve some childish idea of “equity.”
Or in other words: Punish the ones breaking the laws, not everyone.
@Lynn
True now. In a simpler time it was universally recognized that fedgov could not impose an income tax on some incomes (rents, etc.) without a constitutional amendment.
Ah DM, now you too?
– that’s the “front page” headline. “Teetotalers” !!!! Yeah, no alcohol, but snorting coke off a hooker’s @ss is just peachy [like the posterior!]
The article actually has a slightly modified headline when you click on it.
– and even that headline is changed from a couple hours ago.
Retconning ongoing.
n
added- and “President” is properly capitalized, j-school dropout.
I first looked at this because the still photo the DM used for the link was a rare one, someone F’d up and showed Bidden’s hair and head with the weird “Skeletor” thing going on that you normally only see in the ¾ shot from behind. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11965933/Biden-gazes-sea-great-great-great-grandfather-set-sail-1849.html
Then I watched the video (may auto play) and something weirder is going on. His head looks different. His combover is longer? or his forehead is bigger? Dunno, but he looks different.
n
Re the speech… I was wondering if he could hold it together for 23 minutes. Nope. Starts slurring words around 13 or 14 minutes and has a little brain glitch at 14 mins…
Annnddd there it is, “the fragility of democracy,…as we saw on Jan6 in my own country…”
Jeez, he sounds like he’s barely awake.
n
“Think We Can Model the Climate? Clouds Get in the Way!”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/12/think-we-can-model-the-climate-clouds-get-in-the-way/
Simulating anything is HARD !
These morons are modeling three phases: vapor, aqueous liquid (fresh and salt, very different behavior), and frozen water. And they typically use 5 km boundaries. You can see three micro climates in 5 km here in Texas.
The IPCC clowns think that that 5 km by 5km by 5 km is in total equilibrium across the cube. No freaking way.
>> Biden goes to the PUB: Teetotal president heads to watering hole to tell stories about his grandfather, Xi Jinping, his rugby playing cousin and how he’s ‘proud’ of son Hunter during Irish homecoming
What, Beau doesn’t even rate a mention?!