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The Ads Are Back

28 Monday Sep 2020

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Yes, I’ve seen them in posts and along the right PC sidebar. This is not me, it’s WordPress – a testament to traffic returning to previous levels in spite of my ban on anti-social media madness. It’s really quite the compliment. Of course, as soon as you kindly increase donation and/or purchase amounts to the sufficient point, I will convert the site to a higher, more expensive platform level. Based on long-past fundraising efforts here … enjoy your ads.

*At some point, hopefully, the site will convert over to a fiction-based author sales site with an included multi-subject blog. The promise of the future…

**Thank you for the increased visitation. Quality will improve tomorrow.

***Any political ads or ads not in keeping with my house themes are automatically disclaimed.

Defund the Skoolz

08 Wednesday Jul 2020

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For months this year, Amerika’s youth have had a needed reprieve from the hell that is their government-dulled “education.” Sadly, many (most) parents tire of pseudo-homeschooling and are so happy about the idea of shipping off the kids they don’t enjoy raising. And, what do the skoolz have to offer now? 2 + 2 = Racist!

A Black Lives Matter-supporting teacher took to Twitter to assert that 2+2 only = 4 because of “western imperialism.”

Yes, really.

Brittany Marshall’s tweet went viral after she claimed during the course of a discussion about racism, “Nope the idea of 2 + 2 equaling 4 is cultural and because of western imperialism/colonization, we think of it as the only way of knowing.”

Marshall, who includes her pronouns in her bio, lists her occupation as “teacher, scholar, social justice change agent” and apparently is studying for a PhD at Rutgers.

Yes, really. Amerika’s skoolz are ruined from kindergarten to grad skool. Though this woman(??) lists her “pronouns,” she probably doesn’t know what pronouns are – aside from being vestiges of colonialism or something.

Yet and still, like the dim-witted parents, the dim-witted Orange Man says it’s time for skoolz again!

President Donald Trump ramped up his pressure campaign to get public schools to fully reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic, tweeting Wednesday that he may withhold federal funding from schools that do not resume in-person classes this fall.

The tweet was the latest step in an administration-wide effort to convince schools nationwide that the risks of not reopening for in-person classes outweigh those posed by the coronavirus pandemic, which has reached new record levels across the country in recent weeks.

Wait a minute! Tweety Bird has a point, there. Cut all of the funding to all of the schools. Then, make it a felony to operate them. Make Let Kids Learn Again!

All Gassed Up

30 Monday Mar 2020

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With nowhere to go.

It’s a little ironic: gas is the cheapest we’ve seen since almost the end of the previous century, and yet we have no place worth driving to.

U.S. crude prices fell to their lowest level since 2002, briefly dropping below $20 a barrel, as investors grew more pessimistic about oil demand.

West Texas Intermediate futures, the main U.S. crude gauge, were down 6.5% at $20.11 a barrel after hitting their lowest level since February 2002 on Monday. Brent crude, the global benchmark, fell 6.4% to $26.18 a barrel.

The taxes are up, but by the old metrics, going below $20 per barrel should yield gas under $1. I’ve seen it, where I am, for around $1.60. I’ve heard it’s $1.30 elsewhere. It’s gonna be like 1995 again! Minus the functioning society.

You’re Too Big To Fail

16 Monday Mar 2020

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Hey! You’re about to get paid a little – just a tiny bit – of that bankster graft!

What’s happening: A growing chorus of liberal and conservative economists are lining up behind a proposal published in the Wall Street Journal by Harvard professor Jason Furman, who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) under President Obama, that calls for direct government payments to households.

What it means: Furman proposes Congress pass a “one-time payment of $1,000 to every adult who is a U.S. citizen or a taxpaying U.S. resident, and $500 to every child who meets the same criteria.”

He adds that the law “should also specify that the payments would continue in 2021 and beyond if the unemployment rate rises to 5.5% and remains there or higher. Hopefully this will not happen, but if it does, the money will be needed.”

What it REALLY means: America is DONE.

When Money is Tight

12 Wednesday Feb 2020

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It’s their fault, the millions of Amerikans who chose to be something other than central or commercial banksters. Now, 1/3rd of them complain about the choices they made.

About 31% of respondents earning over $100,000 also regularly experience a budget shortfall before payday.

Kids, go to banking school. It’s as simple as that. Those at the head of the through get more of the slop. The rest, $100Kers included, get priced out for their hard work. The article mentions educational expenses, so let’s compare those to a $100k income. The web says that the average in-state college tuition today is about $10,200. A generation ago, it was one-quarter of that price. Now, $100K today is about the same as $56,000 back then. A doubling versus a quadrupling. Again, it’s not that hard – be a bankster. That, or continue to buy used food and toilet paper. The Republicrats will be all over this issue by October.

The Face of Evil Tipped Really Well

21 Sunday Jul 2019

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Thus, nobody did a damned thing about the obvious crimes.

Another employee at the airstrip, who requested anonymity because he is not allowed to speak about travelers in his official capacity, says Epstein would land at St. Thomas twice a month on average. “There’d be girls that look like they could be in high school,” the employee recalls. “They looked very young. They were always wearing college sweatshirts. It seemed like camouflage, that’s the best way to put it.” Epstein would be dressed in a tracksuit, but the girls carried shopping bags from designer labels: Gucci, Dior.

The employee adds that he and his co-workers would joke around about what they were seeing. “Every time he landed or took off, it was always brought up. We’d always be joking, ‘How many kids are on board this time?’” But the employee also says he felt “pure disgust,” calling it “absolutely insane” that a convicted sex offender was able to move around so openly in the era of MeToo.

“I could see him with my own eyes,” the employee says. “I compared it to seeing a serial killer in broad daylight. I called it the face of evil.”

Epstein apparently made no attempt to hide his travels with young girls. The airstrip in St. Thomas sits in plain sight of a central highway, and a nearby parking lot at the University of the Virgin Islands provides a complete view of the tarmac and almost every aircraft on the ground. When he’s “home” on Little St. James, Epstein’s plane is always parked right in front of the control tower.

“The fact that young girls were getting out of his helicopter and getting into his plane, it was like he was flaunting it,” the employee says. “But it was said that he always tipped really well, so everyone overlooked it.”

I’m thinking a control tower would have offered a nice, clear shot…

HHS Burn$ It Up

10 Wednesday Jul 2019

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The ONE Single Federal Department is spending $100 Billion PER MONTH.

In the first eight months of this fiscal year, which began in October, HHS spent $834,346,000,000, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement for May. That is up from $731,724,000,000 in the first eight months of last fiscal year.

Through all of fiscal 2018, HHS spent approximately $1,120,500,000,000 — or $93,375,000,000 per month.

Through this full fiscal year, according to the estimate published in the Monthly Treasury Statement, HHS will spend approximately $1,230,273,000,000 — or $102,522,750,000 per month.

In May alone, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement, HHS spent $146,552,000,000.

This one great reason why the FedGov rockets towards fiscal insolvency – not that they’re not technically there now, nor that any of this really matters anymore. But once upon a time, it did. For perspective, consider that HHS, which didn’t exist until 1979 and had no predecessor agency before 1939, now spends more every month than the entire government spent during the whole year of 1961. Yearly total federal spending wouldn’t reach monthly HHS levels until 1990. And, that was but a fourth as much as they spend in total now; soon to be but a fifth.*

The slope was slippery, the descent rapid.

*For reference: the craziest spreadsheet in the world. Yes, math fans, the sum of all federal outlays for the first 60 years of the Nation’s history, are a mere 1% (or about 8 HOURS worth) of HHS’s current monthly spending.

Priced Out

05 Friday Apr 2019

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Numbers don’t lie.  Politicians and economists do.

There (before the last housing bubble) was this rule of thumb: hypothetical folks could afford (via debt instruments) a house costing approximately three times their annual income. Applying that rule in 2019 works like this: $63,000 per year income X 3 = $189,000 home price (with zero down and no costs, etc.). The $63,000 is the average American household income. Therefore, through the magic of usurious multiplication, the average American family should be able to purchase a $189K home.

It doesn’t work out quite that way sometimes. Other debts and expenses eat away at the equation. But, by the old rule, and with a little money down (or some extra financial tricks), Ma and Pa ‘Murica should hypothetically be able to buy the average All-American home for around $200,000. Except, they can’t do that.

Even if all the tricks are in play, it all falls apart because the average US house now sells for $300,000.

The median asking price for a U.S. home hit $300,000 for the first time ever in March, according to housing data from Realtor.com to be released later Thursday and provided early to USA TODAY. That topped the previous peak of $299,000 reached in June and July of last year.

Is there a new 5X rule? It would fit with the new average waistline anyway. But, no. People are just being priced out of the average. That’s now, during the boom to end all booms. If and when prices fall, look for incomes to do the same.

We definitely need more foreign wage competitors in the USE. More financialization too. More politicians and economists.

Stop Supporting the Enemy

10 Sunday Mar 2019

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Every other week, at least, I get asked if I’ve seen [______] show or if I’m going to [______] movie. No and no!

Vox Day gets it (as always):

In the meantime, a crew man, GafferAnon, explains what you can do to shut down the Pedo Palace:

Make the money dry up.
Stop going to the movie theaters.
Stop using the products they pimp.
Stop paying to be entertained.

Just stop. Stop buying tickets and then complaining about how they inserted SJW poison into your favorite franchise. Stop making snarky comments and posting negative reviews about movies you paid to see. Stop supporting those who hate you, hate your politics, hate your faith, and hate your nation. Stop funding your own destruction!

I have not been to a movie since The Return of the King came out in 2003. I will never see another Hollywood movie in the theater. Anyhow, be sure to read both linked posts in their entireties, as there is a copious amount of information in them.

Get out of the sewer and stop supporting people who hate you, your family, your nation, and your God. Stop it!

This week’s TPC article, if published…, will focus on the foreign influence perhaps as never before. Therein, I make passing mention of the cultural rot. The Devil stalks you like a lion. Either shoot him or run away; don’t feed him.

The Gig is Up

25 Tuesday Sep 2018

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Small, independent entrepreneurs are finding it harder to make a buck in a booming, changing economy.

The “gig” economy might not be the new frontier for America’s workforce after all.

From Uber to TaskRabbit to YourMechanic, so-called gig work — task-oriented work offered by online apps — has been promoted as providing the flexibility and independence that traditional jobs don’t offer. Yet the evidence is growing that over time, these jobs don’t deliver the financial returns many workers expect.

And they don’t appear to be reshaping the workforce. Over the past two years, pay for gig workers has dropped, and they are earning a growing share of their income elsewhere, a new study finds. Most Americans who earn income through online platforms do so for only a few months each year, according to the study by the JPMorgan Chase Institute released Monday.

So many reasons why. Many you know. This may help explain why we have about as many self-employed people in America as we have prisoners and convicts. The one they want, the other they don’t.

Meh.