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Well, that someone active in our current state of disrepair is of less than average intelligence (except for extortion and lying, where he lands in the top 0.0001%) and well below the borderline in mental health. So Adolf may compare favorably with …
NCAA Saturday football has been catching my attention.
The only team I really root for, the Ducks, are back with maybe their best team yet, jumping to #2 in the rankings by beating PSU. Their line outplayed a top Big Ten team, O and D, for probab…
Yeah, and if they can get it up to 4 or 5, they could pad it with say 10-15 blank pages in the middle.
It'll never make it to trial unless they get an A. Cannon-style judge. Malice paired with incompetence; what a combo.
Good piece by NYT's David French on the details of what actually happened (no paywall). But the indictment itself?
The indictment is so short and so bereft of detail that it’s hard to determine the factual allegations in the case.
https://www.nyti…
C'mon now- they just got their asses chewed real good for that 80-pager that they filed against... hell, I don't even remember who anymore, they've filed so damned many. Maybe they're just trying to stay out of trouble.
Anyway, it should cost Comey…
A disaster of his own making. Court found the tariffs to be illegal, but granted him ample time to appeal. Feces. It's all of his making, but the rest of us have to pay. Is he dead yet?
When he does go, for whatever reason, the internecine warfare w…
From the SC decision in NRA v. Vullo (May 30, 2024):
Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors.
https://adflegal.org/article/unanimous-supreme-court-states-cant-c…
Tennyson's lines about the Pleiades, playing a little with the spelling/pronunciation ...
Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising through the mellow shade,
Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.
@Old_Joe: I've started hoping there'll be enough birds and non-human mammals left behind that they can be dominant mega-life forms for the next iteration after sapiens is done.
Meanwhile the Voyagers are 15 billion miles out (after 48 years), and it'll be 40,000 years more before V-1 is closer to another star than to our own Sun. https://www.iflscience.com/in-40000-years-voyager-1-will-have-a-close-encounter-with-gliese-44…
Senate Repubs voted down the Dem stopgap plan too. Each party voted down the other's proposal, by party-line vote, except for two Repubs and one Dem.
Let's not forget that. The D proposal is all about healthcare affordability.
Yep, I am very familiar with DHEAX, having owned it for years. I am also very familiar with SEMMX, also having owned it in the past, but dumped it after its terrible performance in the 2020 crash. I have not looked at it since Medalist took it ove…
You mentioned DHEAX in an earlier post, @dt, and I think it is right up your alley. SEMRX, the IG cousin of SEMPX/SEMMX, has tracked DHEAX closely since a management change in 2023, when Semper and a group called Medalist merged. In the last year, t…
It will take a long time to pan out, certainly ... if it ever does. What is the incentive for the massive corporate investments required, given long planning and construction time, with all the complete unknowns of several years in the future? With …
Excellent. Is Alexandra Petri still writing satire/parody for WaPo? She's the only thing I miss after cancelling, and if they haven't fired her, I bet she's written some zingers.
Another day, another pile of lies and odoriferous dung. If actual national security is the yardstick, it's best to finish the project and keep building capacity.
SYFFX has a large chunk in junk-rated fare (at least right now), while other securitized funds like DHEAX and SEMRX are overall investment grade. At this point I'm emphasizing IG in that category and taking a bit more risk in international funds. In…
Nobody swore "it was coming any minute now." The tariff hits are only barely beginning, and oil prices are low. Marketplace Morning Report this morning reported that the pre-tariff inventory stockup may fade in the next few weeks.
Wall St.'s on an…
LOL - Yes, I have been aware of Moore's incompetence for a while. He is the Joseph Hazelwood of this economic ship.
Ha! How far is Bligh Reef from where we are now?
Also: we don't have the luxury anymore of endless time to outrun total catastrophe, like we would have had 30-40 years ago when we knew what was happening, so any obstacle is a problem.
Plus, there are major actors for whom the price differential …
"The majority of automotive manufacturing facilities in the US are in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana - home to a large number of American assembly plants and parts suppliers. States like Kentucky, Tennessee, South Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi for…
Good to see the funicular in Bergen is still going. A month in Norway, with skis, at the end of winter/beginning of spring 20 years ago is still the best foreign trip ever for this kid.
@ Observant: Thanks for bringing up that Beach interview. I'd like to know the details of the "state and local education" problems. The AI on Duck-Duck answers the question this way:
The revisions in the jobs report indicated that state and local ed…
@rforno: "This is not 'his' government for 'his' personal use and benefit. Sadly, few in this town are willing to publicly agree with that sentiment."
And that is a good measure of the utter, complete insanity of this moment in time in these not-so…
Excellent post this a.m. from Krugman about the attempted tariff extortion on Brazil to save his authoritarian pal Bolsonaro from trial, conviction, and prison.
Short version: It's delusions of grandeur to an absurd level: Dump doesn't have "the j…
