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?