How Are 7 Million Unemployed Men Actually Surviving? - Nicholas Eberstadt

 I've known for 15 years or longer that there was a massive number of people in the USA who have dropped off the unemployment rate radar - the official unemployment rate is fake and doesn't include those who quit looking. These are people (mostly men) who had eventually given up actively looking for a job.  Eberstadt discusses this this group.  According to him there are over 7 million persons in this group.

MANY STATE RAINY DAY FUNDS GOING THE WRONG WAY

 I wrote about the State's Rainy Day Fund and it wasn't looking so bad.  Since then and mainly due to the Wuhan Virus issue, a number of  states have drained their rainy day funds to keep things afloat.  

I thought it would be time to take a look at the funds.  The main takeaway was that the responsible states are still flush with cash with many doing better.  The irresponsible states (Illinois) completely emptied their RDF. So, what will these states do when things get REALLY BAD? I don't know, but if I were you. I wouldn't stick around much longer.

The state of West Viginia that everyone wants to parade around as one of the most impoverished states in the Union, has 68 days of money to keep the state government funded.  Talk about being responsible! I find that impressive. In fact, that number hasn't changed from 2016!

The other state to suffer (more) was Illinois.  in 2016 they had a miserable 3.7 days of money on hand. Now they have ZERO.

It looks like the state whose RDF suffered the most was Alaska.  They went from 478 days of funding down to 111 days (I'm rounding up). 

As you can see the median fund is now funded to function for 28.5 days compared to 19.1 days four years earlier.

From Pew:

Unlike the Great Recession, rainy day funds made up the bulk of states’ reserves in the year before the pandemic, accounting for 65 cents of every dollar in total balances at the end of fiscal 2019, compared with 45 cents just before the 2007-09 downturn. The contrast highlights the more prominent role of rainy day funds today in managing state fiscal uncertainty. Ending balances, which make up the remainder of total balances, were historically high before both recessions.

When things get really bad, and a state and towns runs out of funding for police, what happens?  

Temperatures in Northern Hemisphere Due to Fall Over Next 25 Years, According to Six Top International Scientists

This is not a surprise.  As the Fake News has been telling us that we're all going to die from "CLIMATE BOILING" the opposite could be the real reality.

Whisper it quietly – and don’t tell Al ‘Boiling Oceans’ Gore – but the Northern hemisphere may be entering a temperature cooling phase until the 2050s with a decline up to 0.3°C. By extension, the rest of the globe will also be cooled. These sensational findings, ignored by the mainstream media, were released last year and are the work of six top international scientists led by Nour-Eddine Omrani of the Norwegian Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research. Published in the Nature journal Climate and Atmospheric Science, the scientists say that the North Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, an important sea current that has been pumping warmer water into the Arctic, is weakening and that’s leading to a cooler North Atlantic area and lower temperatures, as was observed in the period 1950-1970.

 The article mentions Al Gore's BOILING OCEANS RANT that is just off the charts unhinged.

Paper straws contain toxic ‘forever chemicals’ potentially harmful to health: study

 So much for being "environmentally friendly".

Of the brands tested, 90% of the paper straws contained PFAS, compared to 80% of bamboo straws, 75% of plastic straws and 40% of glass straws. None of the steel straws contained the chemicals.

Wait a second.  Glass straws contained them.  Why?? 

Here's a YT vid that covers lawsuits over this in fire fighting foam.

California Woman Sues... California MAN Sues

 This has been a funny time.  Over the years in the past I would search for "California Woman Sues" and do a check for "California Man Sues".  The number of women stories overwhelmed the number of men stories.  This time, many of the "women" stories are just too serious to highlight.  So, I thought I would cover both. 

California Woman Sues...

California Woman Sues State Fair After Her 9-Year-Old Daughter's Pet Goat Was Sold and Barbecued

SoCal woman sues after getting struck by garbage truck  "The defendant of the waste management vehicle being driven in this case was on his phone at the time he impaled Deanna Beck..."

California woman jailed for 13 days after being mistaken for person with the same name, lawsuit says  Farber reportedly told TSA agents that she had never visited Texas and that she was innocent. “I asked them repeatedly to double-check, and they completely blew me off,” Farber said. “They said ‘Nope, Bethany Farber, we have you.’” 

California Woman Sues Amazon for Not Stopping Scammers After Losing $3,000 in Gift Cards  The scammer claimed that he was an Amazon employee, and told Oates that her account had been hacked. The solution, the man said, was to buy $3,000 worth of Amazon gift cards.

 Bay Area hospital slammed with lawsuit over $6,000 emergency room bill for urine test  Yeah, these "emergency rooms" are REALLY bad. This cost more than the scammer in the above article.

California Man Sues...  

A California man is suing a psychic saying she falsely promised she could remove a curse put on him by his ex-girlfriend.

California man sues maker of Texas Pete hot sauce because it's produced in North Carolina This sounds like a "California Woman Sues..." story to me.

California man sues after being startled by dumpster-diving bear  I don't think the bear is gonna pay.

California man sues Amazon, alleges he was fired for mourning parents' deaths 

‘They got the wrong guy’: Lawsuit says California deputies nab wrong man in sex case This seems to be a not-uncommon ocurrence

California man sues Uber claiming it stole ride-sharing idea You know the saying :" Go big or go home"

Global warming predictive models aren't worth a shit.

 Whom do you believe?   Nuccittelli or your lyin' eyes??

Environmental scientist Dana Nuccittelli accuses University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) atmospheric scientist John Christy of “manufacturing doubt about the accuracy of climate models” at a May 13 hearing before the House Natural Resources Committee. Nuccitelli claims Christy’s testimony “played rather fast and loose with the facts.” Those allegations are incorrect.

In my early days as an engineer, I used a lot of charts and correlations in my work.  Unfortunately, nowadays, many of these are "invisible" since they are embedded in computer code.  Because of this, there is a missing intuitive link where we don't get to visibly gauge the accuracy of numbers we use.

That is why this chart is so important.  We can visibly see and attest that the models are not only wrong or in error, but are utterly and completely useless in our decision making process.

“There Is No Climate Crisis”…1600 Scientists Worldwide, Nobel Prize Laureate Sign Declaration

 NOTRICKSZONE is a great resource on debunking the over-the-top shit we get from....whoever they are.

Looks like more and more are willing to put their names on paper stating that rising CO2 is not a crisis.

Here is the website that gathered the signatures

Here is the text of the petition.

Below are the bullet points of the declaration:

- Natural as well as anthropogenic factors cause warming

- Warming is far slower than predicted

- Climate policy relies on inadequate models

- CO2 is plant food, the basis of all life on Earth

- Global warming has not increased natural disasters

- Climate policy must respect scientific and economic realities