Saturday, June 8, 2024

Free Republic: "Ridiculous Jobs Report"





12:06 PM

Largest ever gap between Establishment and Payroll numbers ( 9 million ). The Household number's trend has gone flat. Even Bloomberg is saying the numbers are overstated by 100k each month.

Birth/Death adjustments are the culprit. These are statistical phantom jobs. The model has added 1.9 million jobs since last April. Haven't been adding full time jobs, a long running issue.











6:00 PM

They're lying to us again.









IFT-4 is now completed

6/8/24:

This looks authentic. ( YES!) Everything's fake these days. The last part was tacked on and is available everywhere by now. The first part of the video shows the booster landing near a buoy. Not to be confused with goyle.





end update of 9:02 AM, 6/6/24 post:

6/6/24, 9:02 AM Central



After a successful launch, SpaceX's Starship went to orbit and appears to have had a mostly soft splashdown in the Indian Ocean as planned. There were no holds in the launch, and it took off right on schedule.

The launch itself was fairly smooth, however one engine went out shortly into the flight. The booster performed well in all of its planned aspects, and may also have had a soft landing in the Gulf of Mexico as planned.

First indications are that it was a very good test, but not everything was perfect. There was heat damage to the Starship before splashdown in the Indian Ocean. After losing the video for over 20 minutes, reacquired video showed a good performance most of the way. However, damage became noticeable and continued at an accelerated pace till shortly before splashdown. There were additional intermittent loses in video on the way down, but the video was reacquired until the end of the flight---drawing cheers from onlookers. It was not clear from the video if the engines fired as expected, but there were other indications that it did fire off as expected.

All in all, a very good show. Congrats, SpaceX.







2:57 PM

Nice job on the highlights from Scott Manley.

I started to do something along these lines, but it isn't as good as this, so forget it.











Heh





Today's priorities for the ruling class.









ZeroHedge: "Mistrial?"







The so-called "Hush money" trial may have gotten a self-inflicted fatal wound.

For the record, it wasn't "hush money" because there was no secret. The story wasn't being suppressed, because it was published several years earlier.

Stormy Daniels may have been trying to get it re-published because it came shortly after the Access Hollywood tapes.

So why isn't this an extortion case instead?

If this is a self-inflicted wound to the case, it may be getting done for strategic reasons. In other words, the politics of it are bad, and getting worse. The left may want an off-ramp.











Friday, June 7, 2024

Same old same old





Brandon does it again. He had to drop out of the race in 1988 because of this. Of course, things were different then.









check this out, the two videos are oddly familiar:
















No One Wants a New Car Now. Here’s Why.

Free Republic link to Wall Street Journal. (short excerpt not behind a subscription wall)

Comment:

Seems like I had one of these posts fairly recently, but where is it? Right here.





We all knew this at the time







Now it is official. Trouble is, they're off doing something else. Need to get on top of these things at the time that it matters the most. Trump was indicted and convicted over "hush money". The "hush money" was supposed to have "interfered" with the 2016 election. Did this not interfere with the 2020 election? Who gets indicted and convicted over THIS?













Something familiar about this...









That one was said to have drawn a lot of laughs.











Reading between the lines







You cannot put lipstick on a pig and still not get the pig.











The Morning Briefing: Rocket Week in America Was Pretty Cool







Indeed it was.











Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Sweet Dreams --- The Departed Soundtrack



Kickass













Saw a bumper sticker that looked like this, this afternoon







 






What do you make of it? Anti-woke? Pro-woke?

If you don't stay "woke", Freddy will get you. So who's the nightmare? What's the nightmare?

Oh yeah, stay "woke". But Freddy will always get ya. Bwah, hah, hah!





American flag is now a target of the political left







Old Glory is now a "symbol of hate and extremism".

It should be recalled that the 9-11 terrorists attacked SYMBOLS of America: 1) The World Trade Center's Twin Towers, 2) The Pentagon, and 3) an unknown target, presumably either the White House or the Capitol Building. So now the left wants to attack the symbols of our country? Whose side are they on?

This isn't really new for the left. In the late eighties, George HW Bush accepted the nomination by noting that Michael Dukakis, his opponent, did not honor the flag.

He mentions this in this part of his acceptance speech for the nomination for President in 1988:











Later in the speech, he leads in the recitation of the pledge of allegiance:









These days, the left does no honor to the flag. But it is no longer hidden behind the niceities of "freedom of speech". You can burn the flag, but don't you dare disfigure the Rainbow Flag. The left now protects the Rainbow Flag and terrorists and their sympathizers. Such is now the condition of our country.

Grin of Evil







Rhymes with Skin of Evil. The evil hides behind the crazy grin.



The Grin of Evil and the Posts of Cowards by Julie Kelly

Successful tyrants also prevail because their opposition is craven, impotent, and feckless. On that score, Joe Biden again drew the luck of the Irish.

Read on Substack








Tuesday, June 4, 2024

St. Fauci has a critic?







Whoda thunk? Keep an eye on the guy in the back.













Behind the Black Blog: FAA issues launch license for the fourth test orbital launch of Starship/Superheavy





I sure would like to go down there and watch this thing launch. What a sight that would be. But I can't.



Let's light this candle...





3D Printing on the Moon ( and Mars )





On 60 Minutes, of all places. Maybe they're not as dumb as they look.











Monday, June 3, 2024

This tweet is a mistake







In a moment of anger, the feeling expressed below could be understandable. But it should be kept in mind that the left is fanning the flames of hatred and fear. Telling people that you are going after them in retribution only reinforces the kind of rhetoric that the left is advancing.

Consequently, the tweet below is unmeasured, and a mistake. We need to get the left to question what they've just done. Reactions like this may only unite them. This kind of tweet only plays into the left's hands.













Once again, there will be no civil war



7:20 PM

Violence is the last resort. If they use it, which they might have to, since their efforts may come up short, it will have to look like they're not doing it on their own initiative, but in response to something else. Therefore, there will be provocations.

The problem with the people at J6th was that they got violent in response to violence. If they had used non-violent responses, then it would have been very difficult for them to protray it as a "violent insurrection". It would probably have been completely censored out, as they would have likely have gotten brutal.

That's what's coming. People are going to have to be prepared for the worst, and its aftermath.

First things first. That stupid conviction and the rest of the Lawfare has to be shitcanned. If that doesn't happen, it' going to be hard to stop them.

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There has been talk of civil war for a long time now. I've disagreed that anything like that is going to happen. Why? There is no organized polity that could run a war.

The only "war" will be a lot of civil disobedience that the left will call a war. But it won't actually be a war.

If you want a real war, then you need an organized polity to run it. Otherwise, it just a mob.

Considering all the mass surveillance that is going on, how can there be anything like a war being organized anyway? They can see everything. Everything means E.V.E.R.Y.T.H.I.N.G...

If you want to resist, then do it down the still currently legal routes. Even these are closing down fast. That's what the Trump conviction was about. That is what the anti-Trump Lawfare is about. You don't change things with violence because they are almost certainly ready for anything like that. What you do is to follow the law and encourage people to stop sitting on their asses and just letting everything go to hell.

J6th was just a lot of foolish people who let themselves be tricked into compromising positions. The left took advantage. Of course they did. That's what they do. People have to be smarter than that. Nobody should've gotten themselves into those positions. They went with trackable phones. Paid for the trip with trackable credit cards. They went into a city that is highly surveilled. DC votes 90% Democrat. It was a hostile venue. Every step could be monitored and WAS. There was no surprises on January 6th. That's one reason you KNOW it wasn't an insurrection. It was innocent sheep being led to a slaughter. A real insurrection would have been much better prepared and organized. January 6th was a set up. Don't fall for any more of these, please.



The new normal



Nearly 3/4ths of voters say that country is out of control. It's not really news. Problem is, what to do about it?











Sunday, June 2, 2024

The trial was rigged

No one is going to tell me what I can say, do, or think. Especially this rotten fu**.