Talarico lying about class sizes?

Who'da thunk that one? /sarc

Well, it is the New York Times, so it must be the twuth. /wtf?

GDP up 3.4%, led by consumer spending

The report is a bit puzzling if consumer confidence is supposedly so low. This makes no sense unless somebody's lying, and then it makes a lot of sense. Yeah, but who's lying?

Why not ask the olde Brave AI? Questionable output incoming!

There may be a political component to the numbers, check this out:

From the report:

The divergence is driven by three main demographic splits:

**Age / Generation**

The Conference Board's bounce is concentrated among **consumers under 35** (Gen Z and Millennials), who are the only age group showing an upward trend on a six-month moving average. Gen X, Baby Boomers, and the Silent Generation continued to trail significantly, widening a gap that has persisted for two years. Conference Board CEO Steve Odland put it plainly: older consumers on fixed incomes feel their purchasing power eroding while food and gas bills rise. Michigan's current-conditions collapse (−20% YoY) hits those same older cohorts hardest — their sentiment is the most depressed, and they have less flexibility to absorb price increases.

**Income & Wealth**

The Conference Board found that **only households earning $100k or more** expressed increased confidence on a six-month basis. Michigan's data is more granular: **lower-income consumers** (bottom third) and **households with smaller stock portfolios** recorded the steepest declines. The mechanism is clear — wealthier consumers are cushioned by equity gains and can weather inflation, while lower-income households feel every price increase directly. This explains why the Conference Board's headline number can tick up (pulled by the optimistic top tier) while Michigan's current-conditions index plunges (dragged down by the bottom).

**Political Affiliation**

This is where the two surveys tell the sharpest different stories:

- **Conference Board:** Confidence improved across all affiliations, with **Republicans posting the largest gain**. - **Michigan:** Democrats and Republicans each registered improvement, but it was **offset by a decline among independents**, leaving the overall index flat. Independents — a large and economically vulnerable bloc — are the swing factor keeping Michigan's number pinned near historic lows.

**Education**

Michigan separately flagged that consumers **without a college degree** saw some of the largest sentiment reductions, consistent with the income pattern (lower degrees correlate with lower earnings and less portfolio cushion).

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**The net effect:** The Conference Board's 7.5-point jump is a story of younger, wealthier, and Republican consumers feeling relief from lower gas prices. Michigan's flat-but-depressed reading reflects the reality for older, lower-income, independent, and less-educated consumers who are still feeling the full weight of persistent inflation — and who make up a large share of the population. The two surveys aren't contradictory; they're just weighting different parts of the distribution differently.

Comment:

LOWER GAS PRICES??? This is pretty goofy stuff, ya'll.

From the treasured tomes of Whatsomatta U:

I submitted the question to the guru of all knowledge, and henceforth is its reply:

The movie "Book of Daniel", starring Lance Herikensen and directed by Anna Zielenski, depicts the prophet Daniel in the Bible. Can you determine how accurate this story is?

Brave AI:

The 2013 film The Book of Daniel, directed by Anna Zielinski and starring Lance Henriksen, is widely considered **biblically accurate** regarding its adaptation of the first six chapters of the Book of Daniel. Critics and reviewers note that the film sticks very closely to the scriptural account, faithfully depicting key events such as the fiery furnace, the writing on the wall, and the lions' den.

However, the movie takes some **creative liberties** for narrative structure:

* It frames the story as Daniel recounting his life to King Cyrus, a dramatic device not found in the Bible.

* It elevates the role of Cyrus, depicting him as being convinced by Daniel to allow the Jews to return to Jerusalem, whereas the biblical text attributes this decision solely to Cyrus.

* It includes a Christ-like figure in the furnace, interpreting the "fourth man" through a Christian lens rather than leaving it ambiguous as the text does.

Overall, while production values are modest and some historical details are stylized, the film is praised for its **faithfulness to the core biblical narrative** and its avoidance of altering the theological messages of the source material.



Comment:

The prophet Daniel fits in with the Messiah, does it not? Actually, this question is not posed to Brave AI; but rather, one in which I just thought up...

I'm writing this because I'm not that knowledgeable about such questions. Assuming that the AI can do this competently, it should be a easy and fairly comprehensive source in order to acquaint someone who is ignorant with the Bible.

I might get myself in a bit of hot water for writing that. Update later in the morning:

More movies analyzed here using the GAB AI. It is perhaps more efficient to just link to the page as opposed to reproducing it here.

I looked at some Biblical movies, including one that I mentioned before, and maybe one or two that I haven't. One has to be careful about the information that one partakes in. The goal is to be ACCURATE and PRECISE. Hopefully that can be accomplished thusly without having to consult Biblical Scholars directly. Of course, this may not be the BEST WAY, but it may be better than nothing providing that it is in accordance with the aforementioned goal.

For the Midterms, Democrats Hate President Trump’s Stunning Record!

American Thinker: by Joan Swirsky:

Unless Democrats succeed in rigging the upcoming midterm elections, Americans will continue to benefit and prosper from the POTUS’s heroic vision.

Quote:

But their maniacal and clinically irrational hatred of all things Trump and their ongoing abject failure to produce any policies or action plans or even philosophies to counter his juggernaut of all things good and great for America are not worthy of even one single vote in the midterms.

Comment:

Never underestimate the power of stupid. The article also mentions that if the Democrats win, it will be because the public decided to believe in a myth.

In other words, the public will let themselves be deceived. But for what???

Not very smart, but there it is. That is, if you believe the polls.

I'm not into believing myths. I'd prefer to strip away all the phoney tinsel, and get down to the real tinsel.

What would Jesus do?

If you want answers, go to the source... The commies are not the source...

Look up in the New Testament what Jesus had to say about phonies and fakes.... He called them Devils. To their faces. Their response was an effort to stone Him, but He hid Himself in the Temple.

Here it is in the Gospel of John movie. The movie follows the New Testament closely---- jipped to the relevant scene.



We know from the New Testament that what Jesus did in that time. It was probably be the same today. But hearing the commies, they'd say that Jesus wouldn't say this at all.

But the commies really don't want to hear the truth, and the commies want to kill Trump, who says things they don't like. Would Jesus have done this?

A close examination of this video will reveal an answer not convenient to the commies, as they well know. That is why they are trying to usurp the Word.

Democrats now favor oppression and censorship by almost 3 to 1

10/28/26:

A Democrat yard sign around here says that "Democracy is Important". Nothing wrong with that except the fact that Democrats are more for oppression and censorship than for democracy. You can tell communists by the fact that they like to use feel good labels for themselves, but the reality is that they are quite the opposite of what they present themselves as being.

7/27/23:

Behind the Black Blog: Democrats now favor oppression and censorship by almost 3 to 1

Comment:

There has been a shift in opinion, according to this. As recently as 2018, there wasn't any difference between Republicans or Democrats. But now, the Democrats have switched over to favoring censorship by a large margin.

The truth is that the Democrats have ALWAYS been in favor of censorship. But they are open about it now. For example, The late Rush Limbaugh had a TV show, in which he demonstated the attitude of the left. He hid his face behind the dot, as he introduced himself on his first TV show. It was done in humor, but there has always been that component in of the Democrat psyche. They ALWAYS wanted to "flush Rush".

Now that it is all out in the open, what is to be done about it?

A related story:

Study: Democrat Support for Violence to Coerce Members of Congress, Restore Federal Right to Abortion Rises

Comment:

The article also said that there was hope that the Trump indictments would REDUCE his support, but has radicalized Republicans instead. More indictments would mean even further radicalization.

The Red-Green Alliance Burning France (Obama, Slotkin and El-Sayed Bring It Home)

There's a lot more at stake in this election than prices at the pump. Barbara Boyd gives the Monday Brief at Promethean Action.