Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, waive to that co-worker, and enjoy another lovely day and the links!
Biden Administration Bracing for a Tsunami of Bad Economic News Next Week
Treasury Sec. Janet Yellen acknowledges economic ‘slowdown’ but downplays recession fears
The U.S. housing market has gone cold
With Strategic Petroleum Reserve at lowest level since 1985, US sells stockpiled oil to China
US Postal Service Set to Make 40 Percent of New Mail Trucks Electric
CIA director ‘proud’ of Afghanistan analysis despite disastrous Taliban takeover
Backlash against progressive, Soros-backed DAs continues as violent crime soars
Immigration system buckling under pressure from open border, Homeland watchdog warns
Photos show supply chain slowdown as line of freighters wait outside Port of Oakland due to trucker
Ford To Lay Off Thousands To Bankroll ‘Green’ Transition: Report
Wild brawl that broke out at Disney World
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Biden Administration Bracing for a Tsunami of Bad Economic News Next Week”
PUTIN!
CLIMAT CHANGE!
TRUMP!
Tsunamis are transitory.
And they provide waves of devastation.
What about waves of mutilation?
Morning, Banjos.
“The automaker is planning to lay off 8,000 of its employees to raise profits and pay for its ramp-up of EV production, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. Ford will spend roughly $50 billion, according to Reuters, to make 2 million EVs annually by 2026 after selling 27,140 in 2021.”
That doesn’t sound like it could possibly work.
There will be more future layoffs… And a huge government payout of tax payer money because this entity is “too big to fail”…
Boy that makes me angry. But that I own Fords, but fuck them. I’d sell them if I did. Fuck them. Worst business decision ever. What a bunch of morons.
Been like this since the late 90s….
Indeed, it sounds like a BS response to falling profits.
I sure as hell hope so.
“In other News, Ford has entered the RC car market”
I mean, I can see no other electric vehicles they can make and offload to reach that 2million mark.
They plan to stock the USG / USPS “transition” — that ought to cover at least 2 million.
On a slight tangent — I’m a little surprised the rental fleets haven’t gone full electric. Most renters (especially airports) aren’t driving that far, more urban, park where there’s power — so it fits their model. And they tell to cycle their fleet every 2 / 3 years, dumping the older ones on the used car market. At 2/3 years, there’d still be value (i..e the batteries aren’t dead), so they should be able to unload them on people looking for a deal / not taking into account battery replacement.
Or maybe they have and I just haven’t noticed…
If they rent you an electric car and you return it with the battery 50% discharged, do they charge you 10 bucks a kilowatt hour to recharge it like they do for gas if you don’t fill it up before you bring it back?
Depends on the location — I’m sure in CA they’ll charge $30/kwh. 😉
Probably the Lightning F-150s.
Lightning will be a good name for it. You’ll get to see the flash of light right before it burns your house down.
If it doesn’t can they just get bailed out (again)
Ford’s already operating on the margins. Their balance sheet looks like shit.
They’re toeing the line with the government and the big equity firms (ESG) in order to preserve access to capital.
In a debt ridden society, the guys who control the lending markets control everything.
Even in a society less burdened by debt the guys who control the lending markets more or less control everything, so long as you have a central bank and single national currency.
Imagine 2 million additional EVs annually being added to the load on the power grids in North America.
I don’t think they’re going to hit that production target.
“Just a little outside”
My mental picture of that.
ayup
The only good thing about that is it’ll be so dark at night you will only be able to smell, not see, the decaying corpses of the millions of victims of the policy.
I’ve only owned two Fords in my life – a used and abused Taurus wagon that promptly chewed through its transmission.
And a 2014 V6 Mustang Premium – back when the V6 made over 300hp with no turbo. It was a fun car mind you but – water pump failed at ~30k miles, ignition tumbler came out while I was driving, and the fit ‘n’ finish – wavy plastic interior pieces – made me feel like I was driving a “modern” Lada.
Add in Michigan winters and I was happy to trade it in for EF’s Audi, a car that I have suspicions of quality-wise, but phew that interior is so nice.
My experience with Fords has been one where the main mechanicals were solid but the fit and finish needed work (audio electrics in particular have been crap, and it loves shedding the screws that hold the sun visors in place.) I swear I’d still be driving my Focus if that Buick hadn’t parked in the wheel well.
The 3.7L V6 in the Mustang – apparently Mazda engineering? – was fantastic. That engine just loved to rev and romp; especially after an aftermarket MPT 93 octane tune and swapping out the rear gears from 2.73s to 3.55s. It was the rest of the car that I didn’t like all that much – manual transmission was odd and easy to miss shifts with; and the problems mentioned above. Leather seats were nice though, looking a lot like the seats in my teenage car; a 1968 Firebird.
I owned a Turbo Probe in the mid 90s. Had a Mazda engine. Expensive car with issues in the other parts, but the engine never was not one of those. Never bought a Ford after that car though because of the experience dealing with Ford dealerships. My kid is a mechanic, and the one car he says he would prefer never to touch is Fords…
Turbo Probe sounds like a sex toy.
Yeah, I wish I could say that I got more ass than a toilet seat with that car, but I was married then (and had to turn away the ladies).
Worst (Mustang replacement) car name evah! Even back in the 80s we would snicker over that name,
It was a fun car mind you but
But Ford motors of late are awful. //FormerMazda6Owner
Inflation metrics have been redefined over the years. Will we now get a redefinition of recession?
We’ve been in a recession for over a year now.
Recession is what you have no matter how fucking awesome the economy is when an enemy of team blue is in power. Otherwise what you have is an economy that underperforms or sucks ass, not because of evil leftists criminal things, but because everyone else is bad to them, but is NOT in recession!
Of course. They’ll mangle the language and explain that just because we had two consecutive quarters of gdp contraction, it isn’t a real recession.
The chocolate ration has been increased from 25 grams to 15 grams.
Traditionally a recession is when your neighbor loses his job. In 2022 is when his 18 year old daughter’s only fans account stops producing money
Who are you, who is so wise in the ways of economics?
18 year old daughter’s only fans account
Some things are recession-proof.
We change definitions to meet current needs of deception, so…
“Treasury Sec. Janet Yellen acknowledges economic ‘slowdown’ but downplays recession fears”
Just remember that this idiot is the same one that first told you there was no inflation, then that it was minor, once they couldn’t hide it anymore that it was not something to worry about, because it was transitory, and finally let her bosses people blame everyone but themselves for it now telling us all not to worry again…
Go buy an expensive electric car you can’t afford under the pretense that you will not only pay less for that electricity to be generated, but now suddenly have a vehicle that limits your mobility, all while making the people they are running this green racket for stinking rich while the middle class evaporates…
Live in a pod. Eat bugs. Do what you are told. That’s how you will be happy serf.
US Postal Service Set to Make 40 Percent of New Mail Trucks Electric – they need to spend all that profit on something I suppose, ity is not good for the postal service to have billions in cash laying around
This will give them a new excuse to make the argument they need more money than they already piss away, but will now because half the vehicles don’t work as intended or at all, need to cut delivery services back another 2 days a week…
A quick web search shows that the average postal driver puts into 250 to 400 miles per day with 300 being the norm.
Show me the electric vehicle that can handle that duty cycle.
That’s part of the plan of going to electric and reducing the distance one worker can do… So now you need two or three vehicles, and employees at full pay (and not reduced because of reduced responsibility) to cover the existing agreement….
I actually applied to be a USPS worker – just after I walked out of my corporate job – but decided, as a route driver, not to take the job. I realized any $$ I made would be swallowed up feeding my (now departed) Infiniti with gas; and getting someone to watch my son.
What happened to the Infiniti?
Traded in – gas mileage was terrible with the 3.5L V6 and 3.7-something rear gears. Living the sad VW Jetta life – no performance and handling attributes worth mentioning but some great (for a non-hybrid) mileage. Also the only car in that price range that will fit my 6’8″ son!
I doubt those in urban areas put in that many miles. They spend a lot of time stopped where the engine is just idling and there’s a lot of stopping and starting. For those applications electric probably makes sense. For routes in rural areas not so much. So I expect the government to roll this out in rural areas first in all their infinite wisdom.
“The World Health Organization (WHO) declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern, its highest level of alert, Saturday.”
https://dailycaller.com/2022/07/23/who-declares-monkeypox-a-public-health-emergency/
No.
Let me guess what’s next…
We need massive mail in ballot voting (and a lot of harvesting) for the 2022 election in the US so the CCP can win in that election like they did the 2020 one?
If they’re even going to pretend to hold elections.
Which will intersect with the electric post awful vehicles to excuse and obfuscate delays, missing ballots, ‘found’ ballots, and other such shenanigans.
We found 50k ballots – all for the team blue people, and reversing the current results of the votes – in the trunks of a couple of Priuses!
Only a dictator would dream of disenfranchising those 50k.
A racist, homophobic, transphobic dictator.
It’s an STD with a low lethality rate spreading among a community prone to high-risk behaviours. Occassionally it will be transmitted to a non-participant, but transmissability is low. There is no ‘crisis’ or ’emergency’ there is an ugly, but treatable, disease that isn’t a threat to most people.
What I am pretty sure is that this is not a man made virus. Unlike the Kung Flu, if this virus was man made too, we would have had the woke fucks doing the reset that are desperately covering their complicity with the CCP to hide their roles in the creation & release of the boomer killing virus, immediately taking the position that it was done for ulterior motives and deciding that they needed to nuke the perps.
I’m pretty sure this one is a normal virus, they’re just trying to hype it up past what it’s danger supports.
It’s an STD with a low lethality rate spreading among a community prone to high-risk behaviours.
There was a similar illness back in the 1980s and Dr. Fauci handled that masterfully, so I am fully confident in his leadership on this.
We’ve still got those stupid paper seat covers thanks to him.
AKA “ass gaskets.”
To be honest, that might be enough to redeem him in my eyes. Those paper seat covers are the only preventing me from having to dangle from the ceiling like Spiderman 6 feet above the toilet to drop a deuce in a public restroom.
What do you do about the splatter effect when that deuce hits the water and the water comes back p at ya?
Never understood the bathroom phobia so many people have. The key is that you deal with shitty stuff – see what I did there? – through hygiene. You wash your hands, shower, and so on with enough frequency that you reduce your odds of getting sick. Cause just being scared of the yuck is kind of silly. I am not telling you to go German and have people shit all over you, but damn, going through life afraid of getting dirty is a crazy thing to me.
Notice that not one member of the governments health agencies with actually come out and say “Stop with the raw dog anal sex for a bit. Maybe just for 2 weeks.”
You drop some paper in first to reduce splash.
Most of the seat covers have that little flap that you detach that sinks down into the water to prevent splashing. If the seat covers don’t have ’em, I just put a couple squares of toilet paper in there first.
I can’t explain why I’m squeamish about public toilets, other than it’s just a visceral gross-out that I’ve had since I was a kid. I don’t mind working up a sweat or doing dirty jobs and having to come home and take a shower, but when I walk in a place and it looks like the worst toilet in Scotland, I’m retching.
That little flap is there to trigger the auto-flush so it gets sucked away right before you plant your ass on the seat.
I hate public toilets too. It’s the “public” part. I want a private deuce. On road trips I just have to deal with it. Toilets with garden hoses, toilets with bees buzzing around, etc. Not my fave.
Those were old news before Fauci was even on the scene. I grew up in the 50s and 60s; both parents were paranoid about public toilet seats. “If they don’t have toilet seat covers, put down toilet paper before sitting down.” I Rembrandt this as far back as the mid-fifties. (I do wonder where their toilet seat phobia came from.)
Toilet seats and swimming pools were the main causes of unwed pregnancies!
And here I thought it was poodle skirts and tight sweaters…
Not bus accidents?
/HnR Tony
I’ve shat in many places that I wish I didn’t – a rest top in South Carolina with bugs coming out of the brickwork; a Marathon station in Ohio (god I hate that state) that looked liked a junky convention, and out in the woods surrounded by poison ivy.
The duality of glibs.
Ohio – from a Michigander point of view – is in the way of the better Kentucky, Tennessee, and my beloved North and South Carolina.
I’d say the one in the 80’s had a much higher lethality. Some searching over the weekend led me to find that the total deaths from monkeypox in the past year is in the order of hundreds at most.
I don’t think GRID had a low mortality rate.
Monkeypox has been around for decades, it’s nothing new and not especially dangerous. It’s also not easily transmitted.
I think you just described the Dems’ base.
declared monkeypox a public health emergency
As much of an emergency as the common cold. So fuck off.
Actually far leass, because it’s more difficult to transmit, and thus easy to avoid.
“CIA director ‘proud’ of Afghanistan analysis despite disastrous Taliban takeover”
These people are scum.
Speaking off… I heard a lot of people suddenly claiming that Trump plans to fire 50K government workers if he gets elected and a whole bunch of people suddenly saying they will now vote for him if he does this. Me I am pissed. I think we need to fire at least 250K of these fucking evil crooks – practically all of them permanently, and with their pensions and benefits seized for cause – to stand a chance.
Hanging about 50K and firing about 2 million would do the trick.
But you’d also need to lock it up so the rest couldn’t just contract it out. Cripple the beast.
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The U.S. civil service is managed by the Office of Personnel Management, which as of December 2011 reported approximately 2.79 million civil servants employed by the federal government,[2][3][4] including employees in the departments and agencies run by any of the three branches of government (the executive branch, legislative branch, and judicial branch), including over 600,000 employees in the U.S. Postal Service.
50k doesn’t even scratch the surface.
My opinion of the Intelligence Community is right up there with the Department of Education at this point. Salt. The. Earth.
These people are scum.
Don’t conflate me with them.
Good morning, Banjos! I’m usually commuting to work during the first half-hour of AM Lynx and thus can’t participate, but I’m on vacation! So of course, my laptop chooses this exact time to require a reset of its wireless network adapter. 🙄
My boss has said he expects the Fed to raise interest rates again at their meeting this week. On the slighty-plus side, I can afford at the moment to put some of my savings into a CD, so he suggested I wait until after the first of next month to do so, as we’ll probably raise our savings dividend rates in response to the Fed’s move. Of course, it still won’t keep up with inflation. Maybe I should spend more instead. 😒
With Strategic Petroleum Reserve at lowest level since 1985, US sells stockpiled oil to China – Seem silly to sell reservers in order to try to temporarily send down prices instead of addressing the root cause of the increase… oh well I am sure politicians know best
Ireland and Canada decide to join the Netherlands in the destruction of their farmer sectors.
Is somebody going to shoot that piece of shit Trudy or not?
Netherlands tomatoes are crap anyways.
Honestly I can understand excess fertilizer can affect groundwater/aquifers and wetlands and this is not just something to dismiss. But muh globul warming is not really something Ireland should concern themselves with, given the jade elephant in the room.
There’s been pushes for restrictions on fertilizer/runoff issues in Ohio for quite a while now. Lake Erie out by the Toledo area has had a couple years of really bad toxic algae blooms.
The silly part is that in the past governments encouraged / subsidized fertilizer use and now they ban it…
Well, they need to DO SOMETHING!
Down in our corner of the state, Grand Lake St. Marys (it’s a grand lake, if not a great lake) has been plagued with algae issues for years, but finally has been getting bettah.
Just keep in mind that one reason Lake Erie got better because of the invasive zebra mussels. They sponged up pollution out of the water. The death of heavy industry in the rust belt would of course have no impact on the water quality.
On the plus side, the rivers have cleaned up enough that we’ve got river otters back in my area.
Somehow I associate at least some of GLSM’s issues with local poultry factory farms, but I don’t know if I’m recalling that correctly.
SQUEEEEEEEEE!!! 😃
And some of the fires have gone out?
The rest are being used by the otters to roast zebra mussels.
You know where we’re headed when the otters master fire and move on to more complex tools…
Eventually, it helps add a layer of flavor to the rauchbiers made in the area.
Poor Cleveland. You let your river catch on fire a few times, and nobody every lets you forget it.
Fertilizer runoff is a cost for farmers. That’s product they paid for that isn’t doing anything for their crops. Education, better analysis, and better application are the keys to reducing that, not outright bans.
A century ago the Irish were still trying to shed the British yolk in order to be free. My how times have changed.
But at least they are enslaving themselves this time.
Fucking British eggs suck just like their teeth and cuisine
From this link “The U.S. housing market has gone cold”
what exactly are “excess savings?”
Excess sacings are any savings whatsoever. So they’ll inflate away their value.
I just saw the buying power of the money I have in my savings account lose 10% of its buying power (at a minimum) in one year… Have no doubt this is a tax on anyone with savings, and one you can’t avoid unless you are on government handouts and have no savings or belong to the class of people that can make it up by getting sweet government deals to make up the government induced loss. So I am spending a bunch of it. Not worth sitting on cash that just loses value.
So not only the market going down but adding 10 % inflation on the remaining assets. So about a 25 % decrease this year. Of course the inflation and down market get compounded every year.
I’m glad I’m old, need to find a willing buyer for my used up remains.
Money you hid from the government?
This is actually great news for me as I’m likely going to be a cash buyer with a short budget in the near future.
You will need people willing to sell at a loss to get a good deal…
I bought the place I’m about to lose as a foreclosure for far below market, maybe I’ll get lucky again. Smaller landlords will often offload marginal properties if financing costs are too high as well.
You are now competing against Black Rock and a massive pile of government money tey have been given to make it impossible for normies to get a good deal. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try.
Kinda depends how bad it gets, I suppose. Even right now there’s still dumps I could buy this week in various parts of the country (Texas, Ohio and Indiana, I’m looking at you). If those properties give back even the 15% or so they’ve gained in the last 12-18 months I’d be a happy camper.
If you need any info about the greater Cleveland area, feel free to reach out.
Thank you, I will. I’m leaning more towards Texas at the moment, to be honest, but there are some very attractive deals up your way.
Pat:
Fair enough. Houses have jumped up in estimated value in my area (per Zillow, my house is worth almost double what I bought it for ~10 years ago.
Heh, tell me about it. I was actually considering relocating to Ohio just as COVID was hitting, but then very shortly after that my mom got diagnosed with cancer and the plan changed due to Ohio’s Medicaid recovery rules. 2 years later and the prices have risen just about in equal proportion to my savings. So I can still afford the same house, it just costs $15k more.
My sister sold their house in the Tampa Bay area a few months ago, and the first offer they got was a cash offer from one of those outfits. But is was a pretty low offer so they sat tight and got a much better number from a couple also coming in with cash. The Black Rock type outfits will usually come in with fairly low cash offers as soon as a house hits the market to try to get people to jump without paying full market value.
“Many of these progressive prosecutors are funded by left-wing megadonor George Soros, who has spent the last several years injecting tens of millions of dollars into local DA races nationwide, backing candidates who support policies such as abolishing bail, defunding the police, and decriminalizing or deprioritizing certain offenses.”
Wait, I was assured that George Soros wasn’t real.
“He has also made a priority of not prosecuting people who are illegally in possession of guns unless they hurt or kill people.”
The same people are in favor of more gun laws.
To punish their political enemies, yes… not for potential recruits into their Sturmabteilung.
Well, gun laws target the law-abiding, not the criminal class.
Everything’s legal as long as you don’t get caught.
“In response to the dwindling SPR, Rep. David Valadao (R-Calif.) offered a motion in the House last week to “immediately consider legislation that would prohibit the sale of oil drawn from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to entities under the control of the Chinese Communist Party or for export to China,” he said in a press release.
Every House Democrat voted against his motion.”
Of course, they did.
“That same day, 19 House Republicans sent a letter to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm demanding to know why her department sold nearly a billion barrels of SPR oil to an American subsidiary of Sinopec, a Chinese company in which Hunter Biden invested heavily.”
Nothing to see here.
American tax payers bought this oil cheap to fill up our reserves so the US would have strategic reserves when the shit hits the fan. Lucky for us, Obama shirked this duty, and the reserves were filled under Trump cheaply cause gas was cheap in an America that had become energy self sufficient despite the team blue lies it couldn’t be done. In Obama’s third term they have made the prices skyrocket and are running rackets to sell this oil and profit themselves personally again.
These people all are criminals and they blame others because most team blue believers are idiots.
“Earlier this month, Republican Senators introduced legislation seeking to stop oil sales to China, Russia, North Korea and Iran.”
Why would Iran buy oil?
Buy low… Sell high…
You never go broke making a profit…
And Iran would get it cheap from these crooks who know they didn’t pay for it, so it is all profit to them, then sell it at their own profit margin.. A win for all the criminals and crime syndicate members at the Us tax payer’s expense…
Oil being fungible (for the moment), it’s a symbolic vote, but still…
Why would China buy US oil they are buying all the Russian one/. This motion was clearly racist attempt to cause trouble
Misgendering Mickey can start some shit.
It’s a brawl world after all.
So when I renovated my apartment in 2019 there were two AC units of 9000 BTU rating each. I replaced those with two units of 12000 BTU each and after 3 years it does not really seem to me like they cool more than the old ones. strange.
GLOBAL WARMING CONFIRMED
Bucharest is not particularly hotter now… IN the summer of 2017 we had several 40+ degrees days. We have not had any since.
The funniest thing about the climate cultists is that bad weather in any direction is proof of warming and a reason for people to be stripped of their independence, rights, and cash…
WeAThEr iS NoT cLiMAtE!
(except when it is)
If you were in Poland I would ask if you ever turned them on.
What is the equivalent joke group in Romania?
I don’t think there is one…
yesterday it was 38 degrees outside but did not get under 24 inside despite the AC running from 10 AM to 10 PM
I am suspecting these new energy efficient devices do not give the exact output of older devices of the same rating… But this is just a speculation. Maybe something else changed. But I also have windows now that are better so I would not expect worse results.
Do you have a smart thermostat? Those things are criminal…
I knew this lady that was all proud of having one of those that paid a fortune calling for AC service people to look at why her AC was not working right… I finally offered the idea she monitor her thermostat and see if it was being changed by someone else. And she found out the power company kept bumping her AC to higher temps or turning it off to “help” save power….
Convenience comes with consequences…
I want the dumbest thermostat possible. I set a temperature and the heating or cooling device runs until that temperature is reached. Some slack to avoid short cycling can be built into it, but nothing controllable from anywhere but the dial.
I do not have a thermostat for my AC. I have one for heating but it is basically mechanical, does not connect to anything just a wire to the heater
So how do you set up your AC temp?
Is it one of them portable ACs?
No. the units have a temperature setting themselves. but I do not set the temp I want in the house. turn them on and hope for the best
Like the auto shut-off button in new cars.
Did she find a way to override it?
Yes, turn off the AC…
And she found out the power company kept bumping her AC to higher temps or turning it off to “help” save power
I got an email from my power company that my electric bill is 50% higher than my neighbors. It was ~$230 last month, which seems reasonable for a family of 6 running central air in the middle of summer. The power company suggested I set my thermostat (it’s a dumb thermostat, they can’t see the setting) to 78 to save power and lower my cost.
This has irritated me a bit. The power company’s job is to sell me, the customer, a good/service that I pay for. It’s not to lecture their customers on their power usage or thermostat setting.
Lecturing my family on the thermostat setting is my job by the power vested in me as Dad.
Probably required to do that by the state. The Northam regime created a shit-ton of new headaches for Dominion.
Fair point. I’m guessing that Northam and the other inner party members don’t have their thermostats set to nearly 80 in the summer while pushing that on the proles.
78 F is too warm for good sleep.
I’m not fond of it when awake either.
You lads would melt at my house. I sleep with the thermostat on 78 or 79. Ceiling fan helps a lot though.
Mr Lizard, is that you?
Ceiling fans are great. Can still hear the TV when in use.
Ceiling fans… would be at face level in my house.
I sleep at 68F. 64F in winter.
I should clarify that I would prefer the thermostat around 70-72 while sleeping, but my electric service is costlier than the national average and I live in the middle of a scorching desert where even on a day such as this when the sky is filled with black storm clouds it’s still 90 degrees at 7:23 in the morning.
I got a mailed lecture on my usage compared to myself. “Your usage in January was much higher than in the previous eleven months” or something like that. Yeah, why might that be? Gimme a break, I’m already wearing the toque, muffler, and heavy sweater when I break down and turn on the pricey heat.
My heat would be cheaper if my furnace fed floor vents instead of ceiling vents.
Heh – my friend and roommate had a large basement grow operation back in the 90s. Their electric bills were astronomical.
They got a letter from the electric company – he replied that the house used to have natural gas but was converted, after an explosion, to use own electric. The company gave him a discount after that explanation.
This is the same guy who – I was in the car, shitting my proverbial pants – convinced a cop that his car smelled like weed because of the old stereo gear in the hatch area.
This is the same guy who – I was in the car, shitting my proverbial pants – convinced a cop that his car smelled like weed because of the old stereo gear in the hatch area.
Sounds like Randy from Trailer Park Boys.
1990 – 20 minutes after we had smoked a bowl with all the windows up so we could get “extra high”, we get pulled over in a Honda Civic.
Cop: There is an odd smell coming from the car.
Friend: You mean marijuana? ::at this point LH is seeing at trip to jail::
Cop is taken aback. “Uh yeah.”
Friend: “Well I have some old stereo gear in the back. Maybe that’s what you’re smelling.”
There were some further – in retrospect – comedic moments where the cop searched the car, some rolling papers were buried in the snow, cop kicking said rolling papers, and his eventually letting us go by saying: “My shift is almost over and I don’t want to fill out the paperwork for whatever is going on here.”
Poorer quality electricity. More of it but less electrons.
Lefties and conservatives are about equally prone to conspiracy theories; they just often prefer different ones.
>0 = more common among conservatives
<0 = more common among lefties
0 = equally common on both sides
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1550911057501163520
the issue with claims like this is what counts as a conspiracy theory.
Given they list “COVID thread exaggerated”, “COVID Anti-vax” and “Deep State” as conspiracies… taking them with a large grain of salt.
also there is a non zero chance that Epstein did not kill himself 🙂
Yeah, like 99.9999999%…
Heck, there is a ZERO chance he killed himself. Especially since the corruptocracy managed to try & convict his henchmen without ever releasing the list of the people that went to that island to engage in sex with kids.
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Blots on a field?
A neuroscience image sleuth finds signs of fabrication in scores of Alzheimer’s articles, threatening a reigning theory of the disease
https://www.science.org/content/article/potential-fabrication-research-images-threatens-key-theory-alzheimers-disease
But Schrag’s sleuthing drew him into a different episode of possible misconduct, leading to findings that threaten one of the most cited Alzheimer’s studies of this century and numerous related experiments.
The first author of that influential study, published in Nature in 2006, was an ascending neuroscientist: Sylvain Lesné of the University of Minnesota (UMN), Twin Cities. His work underpins a key element of the dominant yet controversial amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer’s, which holds that Aβ clumps, known as plaques, in brain tissue are a primary cause of the devastating illness, which afflicts tens of millions globally. In what looked like a smoking gun for the theory and a lead to possible therapies, Lesné and his colleagues discovered an Aβ subtype and seemed to prove it caused dementia in rats. If Schrag’s doubts are correct, Lesné’s findings were an elaborate mirage.
You know who else….
Aw, fuck it, too many to count at this point.
amyloid hypothesis seems a bit to dominant in the field given the various issues with it… Then again I read on twitter that the carnivore diet fixes everything.
“Monkey attacks leave 42 people injured in Japanese city: Adults and children are bitten and scratched in their homes – and authorities fear it could be ONE rogue animal
The first reported Japanese macaque attack came on July 8 when the primate climbed into a flat in Yamaguchi city’s Ogori district and tried to drag a baby out of the window, inflicting several wounds.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11045281/Marauding-monkeys-injure-42-Japanese-city.html
WTF??
Well at least the monkeys are not killing the dogs.
I remember when I went to Thailand a tour guide made sure to tell us in an animated fashion don;t touch monkey monkey bite.
SIMIAN SMITH???
Oh oh…. I see what you did there…
MACAQUE ATTAQUE!
Good band name…
Yep. There’s a French band named Louise Attaque.
This is how it starts.
Monkeys are tired of the stigma. The WHO needs to rename monkeypox now.
What we need is common sense monkey control
This is the monkey pox we should fear.
Righteous wroth
Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said the conviction of Steve Bannon on Friday was reflective of a price people pay for ignoring a congressional subpoena after a jury found Bannon to be in contempt of Congress.
“It’s good. I mean, justice, right? Come in, you can plead the fifth if you want in front of our committee but you can’t ignore a congressional subpoena or you’ll pay the price,” Kinzinger told co-host Jonathan Karl on ABC’s “This Week”
“That’s to any future witnesses too,” he added.
Good gravy, what a pathetic little man.
“You’ll pay the price for asserting a right that is guaranteed by the founding documents of our government.”
I keep wondering how many little boys he’s fucked while being recorded by the CIA and/or FBI.
Because that’s the only explanation I have for him being such a raging piece of shit.
He wants his stars in the reserves.
Now do Eric Holder, you lying sack of shit.
Adam, please quote me the section in Article I that gives Congress the power to compel a person’s appearance. [no the FYTW invisi-clause doesn’t count]
Don’t worry, the SCOTUS will handle it with their newly minted bench number of 13 justices
The FYTW clause is on the back, written in invisible ink that responds to citrus and heat. Nicolas Cage can help you read it.
It’s strange Bannon offered no defense. What is he up to?
Betting on an appeal on procedural grounds, I would guess.
Procedural meaning Congress has no power to compel a private citizen to appear before them as juris mentioned above?
The judge limited his defense options to a narrow grounds.
Hoping to use the trial judge’s behavior to appeal for a retrial, and saving everything for that trial?
It doesn’t seem like the trial judge left them with much defense anyway.
The problem with this metaphor is that tsunamis are natural phenomena over which people have no control.
The bad economic news has been years in the making and was predictable to any who cared to observe reality with an objective eye.
“Backlash against progressive, Soros-backed DAs continues as violent crime soars”
I feel for the people not infected with team blue idiocy that are suffering from this, especially the minority communities they use & abuse, but the fact that the people closest to the pain are also team blue idiots, does provide some level of relief. Schadenfreude has its place.
That statement presumes there will be consequences to the “immigration system.”
The immigration system doesn’t care, and will continue to exist while paying its employees. It’s everybody else that gets screwed.
No Context Brits
@NoContextBrits
I read it wrong too.
https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1551143980049616896
“Even if that number is negative, we’re not in a recession now, and we should not be characterizing that as a recession,” she said.
There’s no such thing as a recession when you work for the government.
People, it’s like voting. The rules going in aren’t always the rules used when we announce results. We will let you know when we’ve determined it is a recession.
Glibs with a better film memory than I have – I’ve been trying to recall the name of a movie I watched a while back, but I have a sad dearth of solid information. It was from the time when Japan was going to take over the world economy, set in an american car factory recently acquired by a Japanese company and threatened with closure unless they can meet a production goal. In the end, the last car to roll off the line before the deadline was obviously unfit for sale because they had been rushing it, and was the deciding car between meeting the goal and staying open and missing the goal and closing. In the end JapaneseManager sees the obviously unfit car, recognizes the import and pretends it is fit for sale so the plant can stay open.
I can’t remember the actors or the title, just that plot point. Does it ring a bell for anyone?
Was it Gung Ho?
That would be my guess, I don’t remember the plot at all. Stars Tom Hanks, right?
Michael Keaton IIRC
And Geddy Watanabe.
Michael Keaton.
Yeah, thats right.
In the 80s, they were the same guy.
HOW DARE YOU!
Michael Keaton > Tom Hanks. Although he chose the worst fucking roles of all time.
Only one of them was in Bosom Buddies.
Check and mate.
Although Peter Scolari was also in Newhart, so clearly he was superior to both.
I decided pretty quickly that I would have enjoyed Beetlejuice much more without the title character.
Scolari died last year. Fuck cancer.
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice
::mayor of Chicago suddenly materializes in thread::
Dammit, RoaT!
I wasn’t a huge fan of Bosom Buddies, and I think Tom Hanks was the reason why. There’s just something about him. Also The Bob Newhart Show > Newhart.
I never got into Beetlejuice. But one of my childhood friends must have watched it about 28,000 times, so I’ve heard every line from the movie. I’m trying to think of what I’d consider Michael Keaton’s best roles, but the chaff to wheat ratio is so high I’m kind of blanking. Night Shift, Clean and Sober, Pacific Heights. I remember liking Johnny Dangerously as a kid, but I’m not sure if it would hold up to rewatching. His guest appearance on Frasier as Frasier’s ne’er-do-well con artist brother in law was gold. One of my favorite episodes of that series.
The Bob Newhart Show > Newhart
Sure, but I was discussing 80s TV. And none of the 3 actors were on The Bob Newhart Show, as far as I know.
I’m trying to think of what I’d consider Michael Keaton’s best roles
Mr. Mom!
Though Birdman was godawful.
So much this.
Though Birdman was godawful.
It won Best Picture… statement checks out.
You know, I don’t think I’ve watched a Best Picture winner in over 10 years.
Beetlejuice is just weird and I never got the point of any of it or its characters.
Multiplicity was the best
Michael Keaton, I thought.
Speedy, you are.
Sounds right.
Thank you.
is that not considered racist these days?
Americans pee for distance. Japanese pee for accuracy.
Gung Ho?
“How China sunk its teeth into US farmland: Firms tied to communist regime own 192,000 agricultural acres across America worth $1.9bn and purchased 300 acres in North Dakota 20 minutes from military base”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11044615/China-purchased-300-acres-North-Dakota-20-minutes-military-base-causing-security-concerns.html
Should we all just start learning Mandarin?
Pepperidge Farm remembers when Japanese firms bought up US commercial office space at a breakneck pace.
This is why there is no trade imbalance.
As I argued back then, we imported cars from Japan and exported Skyscrapers and golf courses.
Now we are exporting NoDak farmland.
Balanced, as always.
[from pebblebeach.com]
I recall the sale to Japanese interests for upwards of $1B (with much wailing and gnashing of teeth). The reported sale in ’99 was for $880M.
They took a bath when they sold off their skyscrapers too.
There’s only about 900,000,000 acres of farm and ranch land in the US.
Any farmland not owned by the CCP will be owned by Bill Gates. Can’t decide which is worse.
Doesn’t Ted Turner also own a shit load of ranch/farm land?
He actually uses the land to raise livestock and feed to sell in his restaurants. Not just to idle the land and starves peasants.
Brokeback farmland?
“Twitter is now the only app I can use to post about the #CCP regime – not the first time this has happened, but Facebook and Instagram removed my article 🤦♂️”
https://twitter.com/emharris33/status/1551312266498293760
“FBI efforts to uncover Chinese espionage determined Huawei equipment in the US heartland could disrupt US nuclear arsenal communications”
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1550806275117686787
China’s CCP has let the Biden admin know they are very angry the FBI actually said this, and some tool wrote an article about it… There will be harsh consequences…
What’s the odds we get another dump of Pedo Peter info?
Gee, all these stories about Huawei gear presents a imminent danger comes less than a week after the FCC said they didn’t have enough money for the rip and replace fund.
https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/fcc-can-only-fund-395-huawei-rip-and-replace-costs-time
Just a coincidence…
And city leaders have been willfully ignoring the security concerns because of the 200 jobs it’s supposed to create. While also willfully ignoring that fact that there aren’t 200 extra people in the area to fill those jobs.
That’s okay, China has a billion extra people to loan out. Nevermind the fact that these 200 are all employed by CCP intelligence agencies already.
yesterday it was 38 degrees outside
Bundle up.
I believe that is in degrees commie.
cosplay is getting weird
https://twitter.com/jinchurikween/status/1551215624789102592
Japan got weird a long time ago.
That bulldagger showed the little girl what a dominatrix is for?
Hawt
Michael Keaton > Tom Hanks. Although he chose the worst fucking roles of all time.
Night Shift redeems him.
Mr. Mom, hello!I remember liking Johnny Dangerously too.
I saw that movie, once.
As did I, as a kid. You and Pat owe me jinx Cokes.
I blame Mr. Brooks and his admirably obstinate refusal to thread his comments.
Pacific Heights was great
Out of Sight and Jackie Brown also.
Multiplicity is one of my favorite comedies of all time
“Is this a great country, or what?”
Biden Administration Bracing for a Tsunami of Bad Economic News Next Week
Just from Faux News Channel. All right-thinking people know it’s the best economy evar.
The transitory pain that only afflicts the rich as they have to wait a little longer for their treadmill is necessary to save Gaia and defend Democracy. Now give me three Our Governments and four Hail Bidens.
Brisket flat on the Traeger.
What time did you start?
Oh, he hasn’t lit it yet.
6:50 AM MDT.
Probably gonna be a late night. Good luck.
It is only 4.6 lbs. I am guessing 11 hours.
“Immigration system buckling under pressure from open border, Homeland watchdog warns”
The problem is that the legal immigration system is fuck broken and the illegal one is working at 3005 capacity….
It is almost like there is some sort of agenda…
Treasury Sec. Janet Yellen acknowledges economic ‘slowdown’ but downplays recession fears
Which means it is all about to crash. I hope the government can pay my mortgage, seeing as they have all this money to send to Ukraine.
The U.S. housing market has gone cold
So my house might not really be worth almost twice what is reasonable in normal times?
With Strategic Petroleum Reserve at lowest level since 1985, US sells stockpiled oil to China
Every House Democrat voted against a ban on selling oil from the SPR to China.
Democrats love you and want you to prosper.
CIA director ‘proud’ of Afghanistan analysis despite disastrous Taliban takeover
All the warmongers profited handsomely.
It was Burns who, as ambassador to Moscow back in 2008, sent a classified memo back to DC stating that Ukraine in NATO was a red line for Moscow that would lead to war.
I’m sure he’d rather talk about the “distant” memory of Afghanistan right now.
stating that Ukraine in NATO was a red line
Brandon said that as well, back when he was cognizant.
The blob needs an enemy and Putin is it. They can’t go biting the hand of the CCP after all.
Right wing disinfo
The family of Charlie Tebele, owner of Digital Gadgets LLC, has donated almost $300,000 to Hochul’s gubernatorial campaign. By great coincidence, surely, the state has paid Digital Gadgets $637 million for at-home COVID-19 test kits. No bidding, no problem. It’s an emergency, you see.
When they’re not grifting, Democrats nationally have been blatantly using these emergency powers for their own policy goals. There’s been a pause on student-loan payments since March 2020. It’s set to expire in late August — though creditors shouldn’t start counting their money just yet. The pause has been set to expire six times before.
Why are student loans paused? The COVID emergency, silly. If it doesn’t make sense, that’s because it doesn’t make sense. The Biden administration tells us unemployment is remarkably low, yet the demographic Democrats need to keep happy for their electoral chances get this carve-out to pause their loans. What a convenient emergency!
Politicians grabbing power isn’t anything new, but keeping Americans in a heightened state of panic to do it is unwise. The pandemic wreaked a lot of havoc on our country, but the virus was secondary to the terrible political decisions we were forced to endure.
A June Pew poll found “public trust in government near historic lows.” Who’s surprised by that? Continuing the state of emergency for COVID, and potentially adding new ones such as for climate, is not the way to rebuild it.
When he was President Barack Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” Democrats have internalized that as “Get all your political proposals through by keeping the emergency going as long as possible.”
That can’t be right. They did it all for us, because they care. They want us to be happy, and safe, and live forever, even if it kills us.
Governor Accident is giving Cuomo a run for the money in the corruption department. Holy mackerel, she’s awful.
That must be why Gannett was running a piece on Republican linked grifters making buck on states opening the floodgates for COVID related spending two years ago.
On Wednesday, June 22, 2022, the Foreign Policy Research Institute organized a panel discussion with leading experts to discuss the transformation of international energy relations during and after the second Russo-Ukraine War. The event was broken into two sections, each with a different set of four panelists. The first series of panelists explored the notion of energy transformation in Russia after the war in Ukraine, while the second sought to explore the same in Europe. Both reached a similar conclusion: Russia’s current energy strategy with Europe is predicated on testing Europe’s resolve and its ability to withstand an energy crisis this winter. Conversely, if Europe is able to maintain solidarity and effectively coordinate this winter, it will be in a stronger long-term position with respect to Russia.
The event was held under Chatham House Rules, meaning participants remained anonymous in this piece with the hope of being able to share opinions, facts, and findings more freely. What follows in this report is a summary of these main ideas, as well as broader implications for the war in Ukraine.
Panel 1: Energy Transformation in Russia
Key Takeaways
The interaction between Russia’s energy sector and Russian foreign policy has changed markedly in the last 20 years;
Nearly half of Russia’s tax revenue in the last several months has come from the energy sector;
Russia is increasingly using energy policy to further its political aims rather than economic ones;
The Russian government has been sanction-proofing the Russian economy since 2014, which has softened the blows from recent Western sanctions;
Russia’s strategy is predicated on testing European resolve.
https://www.fpri.org/article/2022/07/energy-transformation-after-the-second-russo-ukrainian-war/
Second? Are they actually counting the Bolshevik Soviet aggression against Ukraine as the first?
Luli Fama Fashion Show / Miami Swim Week 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVrrFJbMWws
Good morning, Banjos!
The U.S. housing market has gone cold
Only lightly chilled here. Although stuff is sitting on the market longer.
Hey Tundra! We missed each other on the GlibFit post.
I’m 4 months into Zone 2 cardio. 2.5 hours a week, usually 45 minutes on the recumbent bike 2x, and 30 minutes on the ski erg 2x. I keep my heart rate at about 120 (180 – 50yo – 10 due to high blood pressure). You’re supposed to see results in 6 months, but I have seen a definite increase in my work capacity on both the bike and the erg. Last week I saw a particularly big jump. It’s hard to say if it’s improving hockey, I think it is, but I’ll know for sure when the season starts and we do sprints and have actual games.
That’s great! It’s fun when something new actually works. I’ve added 40Lb rucks to my routine and it has done wonders for my mountain hikes.
To me it’s like magic seeing something new work out. 40lb rucks? Keep that up and you’ll be joining Mrs. TOK in her Spartan races.
Ford is moving to lay off thousands of workers in order to fund its electric vehicles (EVs) program that supports the Biden administration’s climate goals, according to Bloomberg.
Ford? More like Backward, amirite?
Just got an email telling me I can buy Clase Azul Plata for just 150 USD for a bottle. Seems pricey for tequila. You can get a lot of good scotch for that or less.
You better peso yourself, that stuff is strong!
Scurrilous innuendo
Elon Musk had a brief affair last fall with the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, according to an explosive Wall Street Journal report published Sunday. The Journal reports that the affair led to Brin’s divorce with Nicole Shanahan earlier this year, and that it ended the close friendship between Musk and Brin. Musk, however, denied the report and called it a “hit piece.”
Brin and Shanahan were separated but still living together at the time of the affair in December, a person close to her told the Journal. Brin, who married Shanahan in 2018, filed for divorce in January, citing “irreconcilable differences,” several weeks after learning of the affair, the Journal reported.
Musk rejected the Journal’s report in a tweet, calling it “total bs.”
“Sergey and I are friends and were at a party together last night!” Musk tweeted Sunday. “I’ve only seen Nicole twice in three years, both times with many other people around. Nothing romantic.”
Responding to a comment on Twitter, Musk then tweeted: “Haven’t even had sex in ages (sigh).”
Being the richest man in the world ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Wasnt his most recent kid just born? So not quite ages.
“Ages” could mean different things to, say, Wilt Chamberlain, Elon Musk, AOC, or Nancy Pelosi.
separated but still living together
That’s not separated, but whatev.
Ohhh, it can be. For ordinary folk, anyway.
Well, I suspect it means the only sex they would have with each other was hate sex.. Otherwise it would be one or the other bringing in someone else to banh – preferably loudly – to make the other feel miserable…
When you live in 16,000 sq. ft., it can be.
Good morning Glibs and Glibettes!
As a frequent visitor of Disney World, I can tell you Mickey’s PhilharMagic is a movie attraction in a theater, that has continuous shows and a lot of seating capacity. Even on busy days it has one of the lowest wait times. There seem to be a lot of assholes in this story.
I was there in April. This is correct. But it is a good show. And inside with nice A/C.
But is it “woke” or still promoting cis-hetero white man propaganda? I’d hope a black skinned mouse would do better.
Wasnt his most recent kid just born? So not quite ages.
Was that his, or his dad’s?
I can’t keep up with the scandal sheets.
Los dos. Eh, X-K-Red-27 was probably born last year.
What we need is a Democrat to be the face of the Republican party.
“Her voice is absolutely needed,” Luria added. “And I think she’s one of, unfortunately, a very small number of people who need to be the face of the Republican Party in the future. I would love to get back to where we had two political parties that, you know, debate on issues and facts and not, you know, lies. And I, you know, really hope that Liz Cheney will continue and — you know, I don’t want to speculate. She’s said herself she doesn’t know what her future plans will be.”
I’m disappointed that I’m no longer in Luria’s district so I can’t vote against her. As soon as she was in office, she went whole hog on the Dem agenda to cleanse the impure.
What in hell is wrong with LC’s mouth? Aside from the obvious ptosis.
/rowr, ffft ffft 🐅
Well, the Dems have skin-suited nearly every other organization – might as well aim for the GOP as well.
It’s Astroturf, all the way down</a<
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) on Sunday criticized the GOP gubernatorial primary winner in his home state, calling him a “QAnon whack job” and declaring that his victory was the result of “collusion between Trump and the Democrats.”
“It was kind of unprecedented collusion between the Democratic Governors Association and Donald Trump,” Hogan told ABC “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl of the GOP primary win of candidate Dan Cox.
Hogan alleged that Cox’s win was assisted by campaign ads by the Democratic Governors Association (DGA), as part of a move purportedly aimed at helping Republican candidates unlikely to win the general election beat out their GOP opponents in the primaries in order to lead to a Democrat winning to lead the state in November.
“So, it was a win for the Democrats. It’s a big loss for the Republican Party and we have no chance of saving that governor seat. We actually had a chance if they hadn’t gotten together and done that,” Hogan said, adding that he believed the DGA had spent $3 million to help advertise Cox, while the candidate himself had spent just $100,000.
Cox won the Maryland GOP primary with Trump’s endorsement and has backed Trump’s baseless claims about a stolen 2020 presidential election. He’s also clashed with Hogan, who is term-limited, but has reportedly considered a 2024 presidential bid.
We could have put an authentic legitimate Mitt Romney Republican in that seat.
Hogan is running a Democrat for President, right? Because there’s no way that guy is a Republican anywhere outside of MD or the like.
He’s barely a Republican in Maryland, either
That should resonate strongly with the Marylanders who entered a coma in October 2016 and just came out of it yesterday.
Go ahead and laugh, Edit Fairy.
separated but still living together
It’s a big house.
It happens – the stories I hear from EF about how messed up people are.
Economics, stubbornness, War of the Roses (serious stubbornness and spite)…
Recession, explained.
Clever.
Down in the comments someone is asking how it can be a recession if there’s such a low unemployment rate. 🤦♂️
Perhaps my view is colored by my reading of “North & South” but I thing America is due for a national divorce.
This isn’t a regional matter of yore – but it is, like the past, a cultural one.
Will it happen? Who knows. But I bet a lot of people, even in 1858 or 1859, didn’t have a clue it would really really happen until South Carolina broke away.
A divorce only works when it’s mutual. When one side
wantsneeds to control the other, there will be blood. And you can sure as hell bet the left has a need to control others.Agreed. Divorce only delays the inevitable conflict. As I’ve said before, drive them into the sea and take back the beautiful lands. They want us dead and they want our stuff.
Can you win a civil war when you only control the cities?
That seems like a good way to starve.
When cities existed because of all the factories located there, then perhaps for a while.
Now, I don’t think so.
Didn’t work for Chiang Kai-shek, no
You would need to be able to quickly seize enough of the nearby agricultural lands to feed the cities, meaning you would already need a certain amount of the urban population ready, willing, and able to fight and another portion ready, willing, and able to work tie seized land. Since this prerequisite will not be med, there will be famine.
The LGBTQI+ Combat Brigade will conquer all!
They will use their Love Gun
The British found out in the Revolutionary War that they couldn’t.
When one side … needs to control the other, there will be blood.
Funny, that’s what happened that last two times.
My ex-wife said I couldn’t live without her.
She was wrong
In the case of individuals, there is a third party mechanism for enforcement.
Any third party in a ‘national divorce’ would be an invading power, likely invited in by the losing side and intends to be suzerain over the smoking ruins.
So….China?
“South Carolina is too small for a republic, but too large for an insane asylum.” – James Louis Petigru
The problem with a national divorce NOW is that it’s urban/suburban against rural. You’ve got too much commingling to get an effective divorce.
Testing bulletproof glass in the 1930s
https://twitter.com/lostinhist0ry/status/1550403823415734272
Will we ever be able to identify the precise moment that we became a centrally planned socialist republic, with arbitrary application of Jack boots on necks, etc?
1971
August 15?
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
I do love me some graphs with arrows.
1964, Great Society, LBJ
Just the one? Gradually then suddenlys?
^^^THIS^^^
And the usual suspects are still at it… Globally.
June 16, 1933
December 23,1913
1913 was a banner year
Indeed it was
Yowza. Somehow I had forgotten that 16 and 17 came in the same year. I was thinking 16 was 1910.
It passed in 1910 and was ratified in 1913.
Hopefully Wilson will have company soon.
Dec 8, 1941
Wartime production (which is still our emergency trump card in politics).
This cunte is still talking: Al Gore says “climate deniers” are like the Uvalde police officers who didn’t rescue the children
Come on, Baby, Release my Chakra
He has become stinking rich peddling this marxist totalitarian shit. Why would he stop?
Some talking head on CBS “Sunday Morning” was blathering on about the world burning and that the U.S. needs to treat the crisis like a World War II event. One wonders at what point will some of the extremist enviros will come right out and demand the U.S. nuke any country – say India and China – that doesn’t agree to zero emissions by 2030? Otherwise, what is their answer if persuasion alone isn’t enough to convince these countries to decimate their economies?
They won’t want to nuke India, China, or any other country outside of the western hemisphere… The countries they will want to nuke is their own.
They might want that, but I don’t see the American voters going along. But American voters can be ginned up to go after those nasty foreigners who are destroying democracy, raping nuns, murdering Christians, drinking the blood of infants, burning up our planet, and whatever other atrocities can be claimed.
CWAA
I know what we can do about the recession and impending economic data that is about to drop….just change the definition and long-held trigger for recession and bam!
– White House Council of Economic Advisers
– White House Council of Economic Advisers
– Yellen
Those quotes above make me wonder why Krugman stated he was wrong.
This is just what happens during the transition from the old yucky fossil fuels to the new Green ™ future. Yolks have to be broken, omelets have to be made. So, peasant, suck it up and starve for the glorious new dawn.
Yeah, but where’s the omelette?
That comes later, comrade. First the suffering.
Oh, OK. I will wait here patiently, like for the Great Pumpkin.
They Tom. Men. are already enjoying their omelet. We don’t get one.
Boy, 8, cycling 1,000 miles for hedgehog charity
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-berkshire-62283581
Waive?
no
To bring a little laughter to your day. Check this tweet.
People have lost their minds.
Have you found mine? Ive been searching for weeks but couldn’t remember where I last placed it.
You assume they had minds to begin with.
Biden is obviously no Clinton but I’m still surprised by their Gun Ho approach to politics. Clinton would have, at least publicly, backed off from the stupidity but nope, not Biden and Co.
What gives?
Biden’s not in charge, at all.
The people who are in charge are all-in on their ideology, and have neither the skills nor the desire to do politics the old way.
Newp. He’s a marionette at the service of a variety of former Obama staffers
For is probably doing the smart thing.
Klaus’ latest brain-fart
At some point, people are going to start killing those fuckers.
On the bright side, the WEF has provided us with a neat and tidy list of all their graduates who need to be sent to Siberia.
Of course it does…
nitter.net people. If you’re going to expose yourself to the toxic wasteheap that is twitter, at least put on a containment suit.
Everything to hide it from the rubes and idiots they plan to put back into the new serfhood order…
Und if zey are not capable, jhust send zem to ze left.
The current theme seems to be the unaccountable “power” class making huge decisions that affect everyone with themselves immune from the consequences.
“unaccountable “power” class making huge decisions that affect everyone with themselves immune from the consequences.
That last part of the equation is what they want codified….
Omelets… breaking eggs.. and such.
current theme
Current meaning the last 75 years or so?
Fuck him too.
Just passed through New Mexico. Damn. 48 hours here is long enough. Is our future burned out towns and no public restrooms? Is that what Klaus has planned?
It seems that the #1 redeeming feature for a silent film era actress was to have big, expressive eyes. Harold Lloyd’s leading ladies:
Mildred Davis
Jobnya Ralston
Makes sense, since only the face could expression emotions without dialogue
Express….christ, fire my editor
Doe eyes = kryptonite.
Yeah… I would gather the troops, destroy my enemies, tear apart the world for a flash of those eyes.
The eyes that launched a thousand ships
oh my
I would say people like this are not serious. But they are serious and they seriously want you dead.
Climate alarmist demonizes farming, says “eating meat and milk and eggs is an indulgence we cannot afford.”
How much we wanna bet this is a vegan asshole that feels social justice would be to make everyone as miserable as he has chosen to make his own stupid self?
Perhaps it’s his obvious myopia that makes him miserable.
Yay, crickets!
My oldest brother, when he was in med school, had a classmate from China who was extremely right wing.
When teenage me asked my brother why, he replied: “Well eating bugs in a Chinese reeducation camp had that effect.”
Who hangs picture frames like that? A crazy person… that’s who.
WTF is that? I can’t even.
George Monbiot is a loon of the nth degree.
When the reactionary wave comes and he mysteriously disappears, he will not be missed.
Silly people think food just grows on trees, too.
Tundra’s link:
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
Holy shit, that’s depressing. Thanks, Nixon!
I will preface this by saying that my understanding of macroeconomics is fairly limited and the gold standard is not a subject I’ve ever read much about. All that can’t possibly explained by the move to fiat currency, could it? There have to be other primary factors for many of those graphs and charts.
Nixon closed the gold window (temporarily of course) which meant that holders of US debt couldn’t demand reimbursement in gold reserves anymore. We were piling up debt to support the Vietnam War of course, plus LBJ’s welfare programs didn’t help.
We weren’t completely on the gold standard, but this move ended any attempt to limit the printing presses.
While there were some other compounding factors, the closing of the gold window took all the brakes off the government and enabled the funding of the Wall Street elite at the expense of everyone else.
Yep.
US Money Supply 1900-2017
The problem I have with the people that believe staying on the gold standard would have prevented the inflation of today, was/is that there was not enough gold to back up a monetary system based on physical assets – a modern one with a lot of money as more wealth was generated by productivity – and the various economies had already been fudging that crap for decades by the time they pulled out from that system. You can’t have a system based on physical assets if there isn’t enough of that asset to back it up (and just changing the value of the asset is going to get your right where we are today).
There is no system that prevents the problem that modern economics is replete with idiots that think government needs to pick winners and losers and that the future needs to be top down command economics of global (or stellar once we go into space) scale.
I agree. My crazy idea is that the gold standard worked for thousands of years because productivity never increased that much until the industrial revolution. After the industrial revolution using the gold standard was trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. It was made to work in one fashion or another but was the wrong tool. You also ended up with a lot a various bad socialism/communist ideas in part because of people trying to understand what was happening. My other crazy idea is that even though the gold standard should have been dropped along time ago. The credit based system we have now is worse for the average person than the Bretton Woods system. I’m not quite sure what should replace the credit based system.
Agreed. I didn’t say that what we have now is better. The problem with either system – asset backed money or not – is that the game breaks as soon as you have to create a capability to drastically fluctuate to deal with productivity/growth of capital/assets/value. I surmise that allowing the price of gold to fluctuate to account for the limited supply would have caused the same problem as a system where there was no hard asset backing the money.
The problem with any currency system that has to fluctuate is the people that have decided governments should be allowed to manipulate the system to further their goals. A fiat system could have worked if you didn’t have politicians and their buddies (donors) whose priority was to buy power and raid the state coffers. A gold backed system would have also worked there.
Any system however will fail when the people running it decide to abuse it.
I have to disagree. It’s only a problem if you believe “deflation” is a problem. The inability to expand credit beyond aggregate savings is a feature, not a bug, of a commodity-backed currency. Having multiple currencies potentially based on multiple commodities could also help alleviate lack of credit if we accept that that’s a problem. Do you suppose that Bitcoin will simply disappear when the 21 millionth coin is mined and no more new coins are issued?
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Deflation is only a problem when RGDP growth is also negative.
My understanding, from economist Scott Sumner, is that as long as Nominal GDP growth is positive, deflation isn’t an issue.
NGDP growth rate ~= Real GDP growth rate + inflation rate
So, as long as RGDP growth is greater than the deflation rate, deflation isn’t a problem. What you don’t want is deflation and a recession at the same time.
I’m convinced the alternative is as bad or worse based on historical economic data. You don’t want deflation and a recession at the same time, and you also don’t want inflation and a recession at the same time. The latter was not even supposed to be possible based on Phillips curve analysis, until it willed itself to life in the form of stagflation in the 1970s. A rapidly deflationary environment typically seems to result in a deeper but briefer recession as inventories fall and prices reach their clearing rate. Throwing credit at a recession never staves it off, it just stretches it out so the effects are felt less obviously over a much longer period of time. The difference is that when you wake up from the deflationary recession with commodity money you don’t have trillions of dollars in excess liquidity to try to mop up.
Its obvious deflation is seen as a problem. More so, having your growth hampered by lack of capital is an even bigger problem. Any system that by default dissuades and punishes rapid economic growth (I mean REAL growth, not just currency printing) is a problem unless you are so desperate to keep an illusion of stability over growth.
I’d trade price stability for growth if the cost of growth is funny money. If aggregate savings is insufficient to provide enough capital for growth, you have to ask what’s driving the demand for the growth in the first place. The price of money is just as much an economic signal as the prices measured by money itself. If we look at GDP growth over time, if anything it appears to have declined since we went off commodity money and closed the gold window.
Pat I am sorry, but you have not addressed the reason I point out a gold (or any other commodity) based system, with a fixed price for that commodity, will always have a problem because of the scarcity of the commodity. The issue is not funny money, but not enough gold to back the creation of new wealth. When you can’t find more gold to back up your money, you are going to end up forced to cheat. The price will have to fluctuate, and as soon as you have that, you have opened the door for the system to be abused and collapsed.
If there are only X metric tons of gold available, your cash supply is limited to that. If it is not, then your gold backed system is going to have the same problem any fiat money system has.
Close but not quite – the Curt Flood case was decided in ’72 and is clearly the cause of everything bad since.
I remember in the Raymond Chandler book The Big Sleep (1939) where Philip Marlowe goes to visit a wealthy family:
4 million in 1939 was a fuck ton of money. These days you’re comfortable but not living with a chauffeur, gardener, maid, and etc. That’s the power of inflation – even a “targeted” 2% a year adds up as the decades go by, killing family money.
It’s become a bit of a parlor game with my kids – when watching movies or shows set long in the past, and a character names a sizeable sum of money like a thousand dollars, they will guess how much that would be worth today, and then we look at an online inflation calculator to see what it was.
Fifteen Marks – 1276
So the American Heart Association finally identified what we all have suspected. The spike protein in COVID-19 causes hear damage. It’s a good thing that the “vaccines” make the body generate just the spike proteins and flood the body with them. No mention of it in the article that I saw, however the Yahoo article referencing the study added the following, this is why it’s so important to get vaccinated at the end of the article.
AHA article quote:
“During this study, researchers also examined a heart biopsy from a deceased patient with inflammation due to COVID-19. They detected the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and TLR4 protein in both heart muscle cells and other cell types. In contrast, these two proteins were absent in a biopsy of a healthy human heart. “That means once the heart is infected with SARS-CoV-2, it will activate the TLR4 signaling,” Lin said. “Besides directly damaging the heart muscle cells, the spike protein itself is very inflammatory and may cause systemic inflammation that indirectly causes heart problems.”
From the Yahoo article:
“Our data show that the spike protein from SARS-CoV-2 causes heart muscle damage. That’s why it’s important to get vaccinated and prevent this disease.”
https://newsroom.heart.org/news/coronavirus-spike-protein-activated-natural-immune-response-damaged-heart-muscle-cells?preview=7155
So when is it a violation of the NAP and we can start putting these purveyors of murderous propaganda in mass graves?
Because that’s what Scruffy would do given the option.
Shit – when the “Vaccine” was first released, EF and LH Jr. went out and got it as soon as they could. Given EF’s job and the various special needs of LH Jr, the idea made sense.
I didn’t, wanting to let the older population get it first. And then the first glimmering of heart issues with the J&J shots came up. After that I decided to stay away.
I’m glad I was in a position where a mandate didn’t effect me. I never, like so many, had to make the choice between jab and job.
Gah – read the article further and saw:
– and get a shot which will increase the spike protein? Say what now?
It’s beyond incompetence now. Even a layman can see the issue here. It’s malicious.
It’s better to be hurt by someone you know accidentally, than by a stranger on purpose.
After much distress, I decided that if I was in a ‘shot or sack’ scenario, I would walk away from the job, since in theory I could fine new work, but I’d not be able to fix my health. Thankfully, I didn’t get pushed quite that far, but my stress over the bind was real enough.
Health is wealth.
^^^ This. I can carry stress around quite well and that time period was wearing me down.
Right there with you. The fact that I never did get a final decision about an accommodation from the company doesn’t help (first one was denied while I was on vacation, and the request closed since I didn’t respond… except with my out of office response).
Same. I think we are the fortunate few.
A friend had to take her kid out of private school because she wouldn’t let him get the vaccine, and she’s lost a lot of friends over it. The really bad part is they were parent friends, so the kid’s friends went away too so now he has none.
People really are fucked. Same thing happened to a friend of mine who refused to get the jab – not because of any strong personal reasons, but because his girlfriend wouldn’t get it and felt strongly enough about it to break up with him if he did… Either of those two positions is so unbelievably fucking stupid it’s hard to even know where to start.
My son effectively lost a friend, as his mother would not allow her son to hang out with mine any longer once we told her that we would never subject him to that vaccine under any circumstances.
Additionally, the Salk Institute identified the spike protein as a vector of damage over a year ago and it was roundly ignored.
What changed?
I talked with my PCP last week and am getting scheduled now for an echo to see if there was damage done.
A friend is also being evaluated for myocarditis from the vaccine after going to the ER. He’s an active ironman competitor and so regularly tracks his heart rate and whatever else those crazy fucks do. His stats never recovered after getting the vaccines. He couldn’t figure out what happened until the heart trouble started.
I’m beginning to think that athletic, fit types are more likely to be affected by the vaccine than sedentary types.
But again getting good data is hard. However the number of Euro soccer stars or even HS football players who are suddenly having heart issues seems out of the ordinary.
It looks like it is more likely to affect males in their 20s, which aligns with the athletic, fit types, but I don’t think that is the cause.
I’m beginning to think that athletic, fit types are more likely to be affected by the vaccine than sedentary types.
For me, I started getting chest pain when pushing my body to the limit. Not even strenuous exercise but only things that really pushed me, which I’m guessing these athletes are doing. Riding 20 miles on a bike for 2 hours at a steady pace is fine for me, but then the chest pain hit after only a minute of trying to carry a calf up a steep hill. Or carrying logs that were too heavy. Knock you to the ground type chest pain where the wife has her phone ready to call 911. Never experienced that before getting the vaccine.
Woah – didn’t know that! – but I’ve been out of the Glibs loop for a while.
I already have some heart health risks from childhood illness, so I was really not ready to add another risk on top of that for protection from (for my age and health range) a minor flu.
I was debating whether I should share this, but I had a real strange encounter this past weekend I guess I will share. Was at a function where there were a ton of lib ladies. They were al having the usual discussions while I avoided cheering them on like the cucks there with them. Finally one of them pointed out I was not a member of the tribe, and they all asked me why I was not one of them. You should have seen the heads exploding when I pointed out that I had no mental disorders, valued logic, real facts, and reasoning above emotional appeals, and actually considered appeals to emotion failures to be able to defend any argument you are making.
After some sputtering they demanded a concrete example of why I accused them of having mental disorders, and yes, most of them suffered from some sot of disorder and were on medication or psychiatric care based on the previous conversations where they jockeyed for whom was the bigger victim). I pointed that out, but that was not accepted. they wanted something concrete. So I then brought up that I couldn’t understand anyone that thought validating their rights and freedoms against the patriarchy came from being to kill their own offspring. To me that is one of the biggest wins for guys that want sex without responsibilities (patriarchy!). I told them there were countless other examples where their logic was based on pure feelings and no matter how horrible the results, they never backed off. They shut down in a second and basically acted as if I was not there and the conversation had never happened.
I didn’t care much but was surprised when one of the cucks told me he didn’t understand why I was successfully dating while he, a real team blue woman’s lib type that agreed with them all the time, couldn’t score. I told him he should should study some basic biology and psychiatry, but he didn’t get it.
“You should have seen the heads exploding when I pointed out that I had no mental disorders, valued logic, real facts, and reasoning above emotional appeals, and actually considered appeals to emotion failures to be able to defend any argument you are making.”
“After some sputtering they demanded a concrete example of why I accused them of having mental disorders, and yes, most of them suffered from some sot of disorder and were on medication or psychiatric care based on the previous conversations where they jockeyed for whom was the bigger victim).
My advice: don’t argue or accuse. They don’t care about your position or credentials. (“Don’t wrestle with pigs; they like it.”)
Bring up that the fetus has its own DNA.
Mo, look at me. I’ve forgotten how quotes go.
Meh, I was not discussing, definitely not in the vain of trying to persuade, as much as I was trying to convey contempt and point out they are idiots driven by emotional bullshit.
I dunno man the last paragraph seem a bit too stereotypical
That’s why I was not sure if I should share the story… When that happened I was the one left going “WTF???”….
Waitingnto board a flight out of PIT. About 0.25% masking but one guy makes up for all that: N95 mask, face shield and gogglrs under the shield.
He wants you to know he is team blue extra woke… Chicks dig that, he thinks…
How is he not unconscious from hypoxia?
Having had covid, I did determine that if I went out, I would wear a mask “to protect” others (note quotes). So now I’m giving the benefit of the doubt and just assume they’re sick.
Interesting thing is, based on my own observations of people I know who either aren’t vaccinated or who have really realized that the vaccine isn’t all its cracked up to be, operate in this fashion you describe. Others that still have faith in the vaccines are out about hacking and coughing all over the place.
I was gratified that at my HS reunion Saturday evening – with lots of hugging going on – I only saw one classmate in a mask, and a paper one at that.
Christ, what a contemptible asshole.
“I’m going to tell you, I truly believe in my heart in five years, maybe not five but definitely ten, you’re not going to be able to find a single person that admits to supporting or voting for Donald Trump in this country because they’re going to be embarrassed because their kids are going to say, ‘You actually supported Donald Trump? Are you kidding me?’ And they’re going to be like, no, no, we didn’t — like trying to find a Nixon supporter a couple of years after he resigned. I got to tell you, your kids, to my fellow Republican congressmen, stand up and speak out, or your kids will be ashamed of having that last name. I’m not saying that to be mean. That’s just a fact.”
Just like Hitler!!! Oh wait… something something skinheads.
And in a case of what aboutism. What about Biden? How many people are going to admit they voted for him?
More likely will be similar to the sons of Confederate soldiers helping to erect monuments to R.E. Lee and Stonewall and such rebels.
What are they planning to do when the third impeachment attempt fails to yield the results they want?
Anonymous sources confirmed that Adam Kinzinger fucks iguanas.
I was just eyeballing some stuff on Zillow and pulled up ADS-B Exchange to get a feel for how busy the airport near Portsmouth, NH is (it’s not busy at all); one of the few flights was this thing, landing from Gatwick:
https://comlux.com/aviation/fleet/boeing777-200lr-vip
Holy smokes, I know what I’ll be booking if we win the lottery.
The bar looks great. But the seats… They are fine if you fly with somebody. But many airlines have better seats in business class.
No you won’t.. Why tie up all of that capital in an asset you can’t use often? Why be limited into landing at 777 sized fields?… You aren’t going to Aspen?. Hilton Head, Sun Valley etc?..
Global Express or Gulfstream is where you want to be. Or smaller, in airplane ownership your 80% mission is what defines your plane, and once a year when you need a 737 BBJ, you can charter it.
Whoops.. missed the book a flight.. well either way, you want a fractional ownership… not a ride on a nice bus.
Thus “booked” – I wouldn’t want to own that.
I’m thinking Dassault Falcon, but I could be convinced by one of the others.
Incidentally, that’s my definition of “wealthy” – “private jet money”. Win $20MM in the lottery? That’s not really private jet money.
20MM is plenty for private jet money. Depending on the use, ~200K/year. However, like Dr Mossy stated, fractional ownership is the way to go to stretch that FU money
There are turboprops. https://www.planesense.com/
Lots of different levels.
Even with some ungodly windfall I don’t think we’d travel enough to have straight-out ownership make sense. Fractional would be the way to go.
Speaking of turboprops, we ate at the airport diner on Block Island and there was a turboprop getting ready to leave (off to JFK, I think) – JFC, was that thing loud.
Mitsubishi MU2? The garret/Honeywell engine is even louder on the ground than the PT6 used in many other aircraft.. It is a beast on the ground due to the fixed shaft turbine, but more efficient in the air.
No idea; unfortunately, the only photo I have is head-on:
https://ibb.co/LP5HLfK
The little BN-2 Islanders that New England Air flies are cool little things – I regret not taking that 12 minute flight to Block from Westerly when I was going there.
It says those are the Allison 250-B17C engines, which are also fixed shaft engines, so yes, the fixed shaft engines are louder than the free turbine PT6 design on the ground.
The only planes allowed after the global reset?
Serfs will not be allowed to travel anyway…
Incidentally, that looks to be the plane the Red Sox took to London when they played the Yankees there a few years back.
Speaking of the vaxx- early on, I felt no particular urgency to get it, nor did I have strong feelings against it. I thought I’d let those older and more infirm have mine. As more and more information came out, and people like Birx and Foochy revealed themselves to be hysterical quacks motivated by politics and personal ambition I became more explicitly reluctant. But the desperate push on the part of the “public health” industrial complex to eliminate any semblance of a control group sealed the deal.
Pretty much this. The health establishment convinced me to not trust them. I started from a default position of “they probably know what they’re talking about” and through their extreme shadiness, incompetence and corruption they successfully argued me to the point of “these people are sociopathic killers”.
gooble gobble
ONE OF US!!
She should have taken a drink. The freaks are always more fun.
When I realized how unscientific medicine is and how political it is, I quit taking all prescription drugs (blood pressure, cholesterol, etc) except for my anti-epilepsy one which is demonstrably valuable.
Guess what? Cholesterol is very good, blood pressure is 115/75 most of the time, Etc.
Pharma can kiss my ass.
My only regret with you taking epilepsy meds HS is that we can’t get drunk together at some unspecified Glibs meetup.
I am a casual drinker. I’m on Keppra, not life support.
I think the “no alcohol” rules are more specific on a case-by/case basis. Folks on depakote or lamictal have more side effects. Keppra is great for me. YMMV.
My son takes Keppra for seizures – he’s 21 and has recently discovered beer – but only drinks an occasional Coors Light.
I, however, keep him off the weed.
My maternal grandmother, who is all of 5 foot 3 inches tall, weights about 110 pounds soaking wet, and has never been overweight in her life, has had freakishly high cholesterol all her life. She’s still alive at 89 years of age, having also survived ovarian and brain cancer and having smoked for most of her life. My mom died at 59 from complications of lung cancer having quit smoking when she was 27 years old. Medicine gives us an illusion of control that we really probably don’t actually have.
When I was diagnosed with moderately high cholesterol I changed my diet pretty radically and got the numbers down quite a bit, and then found out that it’s basically impossible to cut saturated fat out of your diet without replacing it with carbs or processed shit, and that my overall health picture was actually better when the cholesterol was a bit higher. My HDL:LDL in particular was abysmal when I got my cholesterol “under control” because my HDL had plummeted from 65 down to the low-mid 40s. My LDL fell as well, but by a smaller percentage, and because of the change in diet my triglycerides increased by about an equal amount. I’m not a physician, biologist, nutritionist, or dietitian, nor do I play one on TV, but after examining the state of current evidence and research, I decided I’m not going on a statin drug, nor am I going to take the Pritikin/AHA train of 80% carbs, 10% soy protein, and 10% hydrogenated vegetable oil to a massive coronary at the age of 45 with a “healthy” total cholesterol of 120. Even if the current dietary and medical advice on cholesterol and heart disease were perfect (and I believe it’s anything but), I’d still not go on a statin or adopt a quasi-vegan diet. We all have to die of something, and I’d far rather drop dead of a massive coronary than live to the ripe old age of 99, shitting in my drawers, having lost my memory, hearing and eyesight 2 decades earlier, waiting to see if cancer or Alzheimer’s kills me first.
Dead thread: HDL of 65 is good, especially if you triglycerides are reasonable. That ratio is so much more predictive than LDL which, in and of itself is essentially useless. Except for fairly robust results that it is inversely correlated with all cause mortality especially as you age. Any regiment that results in lowered HDL and increased triglycerides is killing you, no matter what happens to LDL.
I have a bunch of notes on statins that I put together years ago, maybe I’ll try to put into something resembling a coherent article.
Disclaimer: I am not, nor have I ever claimed to be a medical dr. I consider that a point in my favor, but grain of salt, not medical advice, etc.
Not to worry, I accidentally left the tab open and just came back to it.
Exact same conclusion I reached based on my reading and research. I ended up switching up my diet quite a bit after that and I’m happier with both my cholesterol risk profile and overall health (or at least I was, I haven’t been in for a physical since 2020 because of the COVID bullshit). I did cut out a lot of superfluous saturated fat I was eating, like deep fried food, which I used to eat probably 3 or 4 times a week between battered fish fillets, crunchy taco shells, panko fried chicken, and french fries. I avoid hydrogenated oils like the plague (lard and tallow are better in every possible way without exception anyway). But I quit limiting cheese, butter, eggs and avocados. Made some substitutions like chicken tacos on unfried corn tortillas instead of beef tacos with deep fried corn tortilla shells. Eliminated white bread products entirely except for my Friday cheat day when I eat a nice 5 oz. juicy cheeseburger on a white bun. What carbs I eat are almost without exception complex carbs instead of refined carbs, and I’ve reduced the percentage of my daily calories from carbs pretty substantially. I ended up with my HDL back in the mid to high 50s, triglycerides back where they were when I started (can’t remember offhand, but I think it was around 75), and LDL ended up down around 15-20% from where it was when I started. My total cholesterol was exactly 200, which is the exact threshold for “high” from the lab. I’m sure it is higher than that now, as I’ve let my diet slip a bit while dealing with a lot of other things and haven’t been on my daily exercise regimen for a while, but it’s not something I’m concerned about.
I would be interested in reading that article if you ever write it up.
Mammary Monday.
https://thechive.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/f3dba0b036a64e0f930ccfb07918cdcd_width-300.mp4
And:
https://tinyurl.com/2kk4t379