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Anybody catch the comet? I waited for the sunset shift...
Ruth Bader Ginsberg is back in the hospital.
Nothing on RBG's latest hospital stay?
What a fine mess
https://mobile.twitter.com/shipwreckedcrew/status/1283115428957446144
Probably
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/did-the-times-print-an-urban-legend/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=featured-content-trending&utm_term=first
The art curator (director) at SFMOMA just folded like a cheap suit in the face of the woke mob after it was revealed that he stated he would keep acquiring works by white artists. He may have resigned before his craven employer even had a chance to take adverse employment actions against him in retaliation for his refusal to illegally discriminate. But he seems like he may be one of the “If comrade Stalin only knew” types.
Selling could accelerate on Wall Street at any moment. This is a propitious moment to evaluate how much of one's assets should be committed into the most expensive stock market in history. A peculiar game as represented by The Emperor Tesla, buck naked.
Worth repeating from the Tucker thread:
Crack Emcee: Whites had a 300 year head start on murder, rape and lying over all other peoples of the earth
Other Althouse bloggers: Uh, that's insane.
r/v: "Crack you are doing a nice job of cracking the racist shell of most of the Althouse bloggers."
And that's all you need to know about r/v, right there.
Just give into the wokes, all they want is to address abject racism.
Karen Attiah, a global opinions editor at the Washington Post, is calling for the Texas Rangers to change their name. The Rangers were white supremacists too.
It’s too bad that the rioters keep doubling down. Like Hoffman and Rubin in 68, the political purpose of these actions is to provoke the police or national guard into another Kent State event which is success to their interests. Trump did not play into their hands, he did not act like the deadly inconsiderate bastard they advertised. He has also disappointed the elites for not starting wars. He did not come see and make people die like Hillary did.
They made their gambit and lost, give it up. How about they now try to save black babies from being shot by their own people.
Something you dont usually see:
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a20213/newly-discovered-star-has-an-almost-pure-oxygen-atmosphere/
who cooked Florida's Flu Manchu #'s?
...Desperate Dems?
FullMoon: "Holy Crap! you guys expect this?"
Yes. So did Sessions. You could tell his heart wasn't really there for the campaign. He knew precisely what was coming. He should have dropped out but I believe he was simply so desperate for an opportunity to regain his Senate and try and make up for the travesty that was his tenure as AG that he just couldn't bring himself to step away.
Desperate Dems via the CDC?
Trump administration tells hospitals to bypass CDC with COVID-19 data reporting
https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/trump-administration-tells-hospitals-to-bypass-cdc-with-covid-19-data-reporting.amp
Further thoughts on Madame De Stael and Gen. Grant: I'm reading Grant's memoirs. He has a clear, direct voice. He writes with humor, genuine modesty and seems to be on the level. He writes that he would be afraid to challenge or accept a duel and about the fear he felt before going into combat. There are no great turns of phrase, but he holds your interest and you get a sense of how decent the man was. No such luck with Madame De Stael. I read her Ten Years of Exile. Lots of semicolons and dependent clauses within the subordinate clauses. She popularized the term romanticism and claimed to be a romantic writer. But for all that, her writing is all artifice and elevated, artificial sentiments. She really didn't like Napoleon, but her dislike is couched in generalities about the evils of despotism and the beauty of freedom and such crap. I feel sorry for the policeman who had to make sure she departed Paris. She spent her last few days in Paris while settling her affairs as the house guest of Joseph, Napoleon's brother. She was great friends with him. The police man had to accompany her to insure that she left Paris at the appointed time. You can imagine how gingerly he must have carried out his duties....Madame De Stael had a great story to tell, but she never told it.
The most populous state in the Union, California, has 40 Million people. This means about 220,000 Californians die each year of something. Heart disease and cancer are the big ones.
This year about 7,000 Californians died of Covid-19 (allegedly).
So, that's about 3% of all California deaths.
If one looks at the California health stats for Covid-19, 2 things jump out:
1. 40% of all Covid-19 deaths are age 80 or higher. The average life expectancy in Cali is 81, so are these deaths from new virus or just old age?
2. There are precisely ZERO Covid-19 deaths for kids 17 and under. Let me repeat that - ZERO.
So, do toddlers and infants and babies and teenagers have super-duper immune systems that somehow thwart this deadly virus? Seems dubious, at best.
Reopen the schools! Now!
@FullMoon, not by that margin, no. Twenty-seven percentage points Is a lot.
"Anybody catch the comet? I waited for the sunset shift..."
Neowise? As far as I can tell it's damn near unobservable. You need a good northern horizon.
We have a B&B lined up in Toledo. We are taking the train through Madrid this time.
Making the most of it just in case we get shut down again. This is the tourist season there, but there are very few of tourists, and many things seem to be closed. But the city is still the city and we can wander. The weather will be very hot and humid. That is, Manila weather in a medieval city. However, Manila has lots more air conditioning.
Hell? We will see.
"Whites" - actually Europeans, started conquering the world 500 years ago. And succeeded in controlling or otherwise dominating @95% of it by 120 years ago, more or less.
Murder rape and pillage are the human normals in any conquest, and there was no novelty in any round of conquest going back to the Neolithic. What whites did that was new-ish was the global cultural domination they imposed. This had been done before, regionally, as the Romans and Chinese and Muslims managed to some degree millenia earlier. But in no previous case has this domination gone so deep nor has it so completely excluded all rivals.
We have a unified European world now, in culture, technology, intellectual foundations, even most of the daily customs of any population. And every day it is more so. Complaints about this situation are more pathetic than substantial.
I will start to believe ethnic complaints about white domination around when the complainers ditch their pants and adopt g-strings as formal wear.
A peculiar game as represented by The Emperor Tesla, buck naked.
Buck naked? Are you paying attention? He's building the safest cars on the market. Tesla spends no money on advertising, has no dealerships pushing sales and is still outselling the competition. Production is expanding at an incredible rate, efficiency is so good they've just dropped prices across the board even though they can barely meet current demand. Their solar panels/energy storage division is poised to take off. Everyone expects an announcement of a huge breakthrough at battery day, affecting both price and performance of their batteries. Their lead in autonomous driving is literally unassailable. Rumor is Tesla is about to revolutionize the HVAC industry.
People have lost fortunes short selling Tesla...I'm with Catherine Wood and ARK Investments.
Not only is the emperor wearing clothes, they're simply fabulous.
Gahrie - nice of you to have RBG in your thoughts. I had you misjudged ...
Incident to note-
Mission San Gabriel in Los Angeles (the church itself) was burned by arson a couple of days ago. The roof and most of the interior burned. This is a historic place, over 250 years old.
This church - a surprisingly small one, but in truth these missions were all small, the Spanish colonized California with "quatro gatos" - is very similar to Mission San Francisco, in design and dimensions. This sort of attack is very likely there too. I hope the archdiocese is preparing.
There is no doubt that an aspect of the current American disorder is a hatred of the Catholic religion. There has been a spate of such attacks, this one being, so far, the worst.
Spanish cuatro gatos = English three men and a dog
The meaning is identical - a ridiculously small number of people/forces.
The COVID crisis has broken cartoonist Mark Tatulli. I used to buy the Lio collections: Funny stuff about a macbre kid with mad-scientist tendancies and a loving father. For the last few months the strip has been all mask-shaming all the time, and I think, with this one, I have finally given up.
Yesterday our stable genius essentially asked uninterested reporters during an insane 53 minute stream-of-conscienceness monologue at his imagined political rally sans supporters during his Rose Garden press conference: "I mean, what’s more real than reality TV?"
Charlie Sykes at the Bulwark remarked:
As one Republican operative texted strategist Rick Wilson: “Fuck me. Seriously. REDACTED needed this like a hole in the head.”
The Trump campaign has signaled that they intend to spend a few hundred million dollars talking about the cognitive decline of Joe Biden.
Good luck with that.
A biden Presidency will mean economy crushing return of Obama era tax rates that fell on the middle class. The wealthy will see higher rates too, but don't cry for the ones living in high tax leftie states since they will get their state and property deduction back. All without any action from Democrats since the Trump relief is set to expire. Now imagine if the left picks up a few Senate seats. If you love the covid/riot economy of 2020 the left will make it permanent.
Enjoy!
Biden: We’re down to 9 years to save Earth from global warming
The scary part isn't the propaganda so much as Biden reading the prompter and speaking in complete sentences. Yah, he had months to rehearse but time ins't on the side of a dementia patient.
Old white guys who speak in complete sentences are electable...
So far as I have seen, which admittedly is not very far, news organizations are not reporting on this:
Keeping Schools closed is not about Safety
Instead, the local news (CBS Boston) last night featured a segment with Liz Warren scolding in her usual way that opening the schools would be a very, very, very serious threat to the health of children and teachers. She also called for the firing of Betsy DeVos. They interviewed a teacher (youngish black male) who said he absolutely was not comfortable returning to the classroom. They did include a clip of Gov Charlie Baker soberly explaining that re-opening the schools was the right thing to do for the children and families, and not a health threat. Especially younger children.
Question is why don't the proponents of re-opening as normal leverage the study that Ross references?
Etymology
Literally "four cats".
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /kwatɾoˈɡatos/, [kwat̪ɾoˈɣat̪os]
Noun
cuatro gatos m (uncountable)
(idiomatic) very few people, almost nobody; just one man and his dog
éramos cuatro gatos viendo el concierto ― we were very few as an audience to the concert
a la inaguración fueron cuatro gatos ― almost nobody attended the inauguration
Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see cuatro, gatos.
"Not only is the emperor wearing clothes, they're simply fabulous." [Gahrie]
The real car companies are going to destroy Tesla with serious autonomous driving that doesn't kill their own customers. The building quality coming out of Tesla is atrocious, check the testers like Consumer Reports. There are other issues, too. Check the turnover at important jobs in the company. Do you drive one?
I saw a headline Monday that said stock target $2,000. It had closed Friday at 1545 or so; it opened on another ever-bullish Monday morning at 1650 and quickly shot up to 1794. It has been boosted in an absolute frenzy, which I suspect is yet another indicator that this is a major top in stocks.
But it did drop back to 1450 by yesterday morning. The market loves big round numbers, but I think TSLA will see the 200s before it hits 2,000. Which is to say, I don't think it will ever hit 2,000.
Futures are strong this morning, a good day for selling.
Gahrie says..
Tesla spends no money on advertising, has no dealerships pushing sales and is still outselling the competition.
This is true, Tesla sales are the highest among all electric car manufacturers. Tesla's total sales of all models for all years combined ending in 2019 was 543,540 units. That includes the years when the government was giving tax break incentives to buyers of electric cars. Would Tesla sales have been this high if it hadn't been for the government essentially paying people to buy an electric car? Maybe but I highly doubt it.
In comparison, total sales of the Ford F150 for just 2019 was 896,526 units. For the first 6 months of 2020 Ford has sold 367,387 units and that's with record unemployment.
Of course once Biden is elected and the government forces everyone to get rid of their gas powerd cars and purchase coal powered electric cars Tesla sales will really skyrocket!
But it did drop back to 1450 by yesterday morning. The market loves big round numbers, but I think TSLA will see the 200s before it hits 2,000. Which is to say, I don't think it will ever hit 2,000.
It'll hit $2,000 by the end of the year. You guys have been selling Tesla short, and losing your shorts in the process, for ten years now.
Gahrie - nice of you to have RBG in your thoughts. I had you misjudged ...
I feel bad for her. I really wish she would retire and spend some time with the grandkids at this point in her life. Especially since it is highly improbable that she will last through Trump's second term. The Left really is guilty of elder abuse at this time. Won't someone step in and save RBG and Biden?
"https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a20213/newly-discovered-star-has-an-almost-pure-oxygen-atmosphere/"
Did Popular Mechanics give instructions on how to tip the planet over and destroy it?
Beautiful color...
---It'll hit $2,000 by the end of the year. [Gahrie]
Monday was a striking reversal in TSLA. Also in NFLX. It isn't just these two stocks. They are handy examples of egregious extremes in this market's pricing. Did I read that TSLA was the fifth most highly valued company on earth, the other day? I'm afraid you would tell me that is justified! Then tell me when they will turn a profit.
This market is priced beyond 1929 and 2000. What happened after those peaks? Why will history not repeat? I can't find any reason. The Fed was involved both those times, too. The overriding point here is that the American stock market is priced so that there is very little reward left, if any; but a ton of risk. People with money in the market for savings or for retirement should consider that fact carefully, IMO.
PS Nope, TSLA did not hit the fifth largest valuation in corporatedom. I have that garbled up.
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