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Zerosum:
Lol! You can’t expect your garden to feed you if you have 6 little bunnies sitting at the dinner table too!
When I look back at history, the common theme for my ancestors leaving the old world for the new world, is they did not like being treated as slaves!
Rioters toppled a statue of a confederate soldier in Portsmouth, Virginia, last night, while police watched.
Unfortunately it seems a black lives matter organiser was badly hit on the head by the falling 600 pound statue.
The woman directing the mob, dropped her 10 pound sledge hammer, and slipped away into the darkness.
Clearly his b!ack life didn’t matter. Maybe he was considered just a slave to the cause?
It seems that Christopher Columbus’ statues are falling right and left (mostly) these days.
But not for the obvious reasons commonly given.
Rather for a deep down hidden reason, that is not so obvious!
Because he was, after all, the new world’s first central banker!
John Day:
Those big dump trucks you saw near Window Rock, were driven by an electric motor in each of their 4 wheels. So we have had electric driven trucks for over 50 years now!
Before electric mining trucks were invented, the largest mechanical dump trucks were only about 75 tons because nobody could make a mechanical transmission strong enough to face the wear and tear. Even today nobody has.
Once electric motors were placed in each wheel, then no mechanical transmission was required, and mining truck tonnage quickly shot up.
The mining trucks you saw had at least 170 tons capacity, if not much more. Some mining trucks exceed 300 tons now. Ironically women make the best mining truck driver’s!
Dr. D:
You’re right, I trust Yogi Bear! (To steal my picnic lunch basket!)
You’re right, I can’t trust all the others!
John Day:
If you ever took highway 264 through Window Rock to go to Gallup, then you passed right by the coal mine I once worked at! Likely you didn’t see much of the mines though from the road. They were both north and south of 264, just a few miles east from Window Rock, just inside the New Mexico border!
Today the mines are closed and the area totally reclaimed. I viewed the mine sites via Google space and unless you knew there was a mine there, there is no sign of the mine now!
I enjoyed working with the Navajo Indians. Many were excellent welders! Once when I was welding a homemade metal BBQ, they would all come around and kid me over my very poor welding skills. Naturally they set up the welder for me!
I felt right at home on the reservation. I think the main reason for this is because for the first 10 years of my life I grew up in a Northern Quebec/Labrador mining town and went to school with the local Indians.
Many local Indians worked in the iron mines.
My Father was the one who put into the union contract the general clause that “when the geese and ducks flew south, the Indians could go hunting”! There was also a clause inserted for the caribou too!
The problem was the exact timing of when the Indians went hunting, varied every fall, depending upon the early winter/late winter weather!
My Father simply got tired of the company firing the Indians for going hunting and then rehiring them back again! He had had experience with natives in Saskatchewan where he grew up. The top management of the mining company were all Americans with no experience dealing with natives. My Father knew, no matter what the mining company did, the natives would all still go hunting! It was in their blood!
Just in case you were wondering about the benefits of the Fed’s Yield Curve Control (YCC) efforts.
They are to lower the government’s and other debtor’s borrowing costs.
This naturally comes at the expense of economic growth on Main Street.
Yeah, sure, the Fed has your best interests at heart.
Just in case you are wondering how retail traders are suddenly dominating stock trading on stock markets, the answer is easy!
Institutional traders have suddenly vanished from trading on the stock markets!
All that is left are retail stock traders!
You might cynically say the smart money is selling to the dumb money!
John Day:
I agree Phoenix has beautiful summer weather during the winter months!
When I was working in a coal mine just northwest of Gallup, NM, near Window Rock, AZ, I used to head to Phoenix every time I had a 3 day weekend!
It was glorious to leave behind winter, even briefly, and be able to sit around a sunny pool in Phoenix!
Yes, the good old days!
The Fed has now institued Yield Curve Control (YCC) on the bond market. A new term you need to get used too!
That means the Fed now controls the interest rates for all bond terms from 1 month out to 30 years.
There is no longer free market price discovery of interest rates.
Now the Fed seems determined to eliminate free market price discovery of stocks in the stock markets.
I would call this central planning!
We all know the end result of central planning by communists!
With all the Dem sponsored protests and riots, I wonder how many more people will soon die of Covid-19 in the coming weeks? Hundreds or thousands?
By the way, according to the Dem’s media talking points, there were no protests and riots in Washington, DC! So far the media are not calling the Dems out on this! Must be wonderful to have total control of the media. 1984 anyone?
John Day:
My brother, now back in Detroit, used to work at GM’s hot weather proving grounds in Phoenix.
He said during the summer it was so hot that everybody was trapped in their homes, just like Canadians are trapped in their homes during the winter!
He put a tarp screen over one end of his pool so he could use it!
For awhile, it looked like the protests had completely eliminated the virus, in the news cycle.
But now it seems like the virus is back in the news, like a bad hangover that won’t go away!
I think if I were black, I would likely feel offended by Nancy’s and Chuck’s political behavior.
Using a culture symbol to politically virtue signal just doesn’t fit quite right with it’s normal use. I think I would feel that they were not taking me seriously.
Imagine Nancy and Chuck wearing Scotish tarton kilts and playing the bag pipes! I seriously doubt the Scots would be amused. They would probably feel they were being made fun of.
Maybe the gag failed?
I see today the WHO is now walking back their claim that people who show no symptoms of Covid-19 can not spread the virus.
This adds greatly to their credibility!
To this growing list we can add the CDC, Harvard, Lancelot, all public health officials, politicians, etc.
It always amused me that for the climate change people they must first “pretend to not know” that energy is used to support human life.
They reject using all forms of fossil energy sources, claiming we should only use renewable energy like solar panels.
What they need to “forget” is fossil energy is needed to create the solar panels! And when the solar panels get old they have to be replaced! We will always need fossil energy to build and maintain solar panels!
Basically solar panels do not produce enough energy to produce baby solar panels and then grow them into adult solar panels and then provide all the necessary infrastructure required to make the solar panels productive! Only fossil energy can do that!
So if you were left on an island with a solar panel, after 20 years or so, you would end up with a non-functional solar panel and no energy at all! In the first 20 years of solar panel life, you would not be able to produce a new replacement solar panel using the energy from the first solar panel!
Thus you were doomed, by your false beliefs in renewable energy being self sustainable, from the very start!
John Day:
Interesting read on Libya.
I worked in Morroco in the late 1970s and Jordan in early 1980s. My brother worked in Libya for Westinghouse back in the early 1980s.
So much for living in the Sarhara Desert! That dam dust getting into everything! Bloody cold at night too! Then dam mud during the rainy season!
Libya, even when left alone, is a mess for sure!
If it wasn’t for the oil, nobody would go there!
Arttus:
I have been in Cuba and my brother has been in Vietnam.
Cuba Is a mess! The only part of Cuba that works is the tourism industry run by western hotel chains.
Vietnam has a capitalistic economy and is doing much better than Cuba.
I have also worked in Russia and Serbia back in the 1970s and 1980s.
Russia was truly a nightmare! Russia didn’t function period! A total police state! KGB everywhere! I crossed swords with them more than once! Today communists are outlawed in Russia!
Serbia allowed some private enterprises so was at least somewhat functional. There are no communist left in Serbia today!
So, I know a few things about how communism doesn’t work! Seen it first hand!
Mr. House:
What you are running into are these people’s need to “pretend to nothing know certain things” especially those that conflict with their beliefs.
These people’s leaders then “pretend to not know certain things” that conflict with their political beliefs.
We know from experience, for example, communism does not work. The reason communism doesn’t work is because there is nothing in it for the individual person. Each individual person is quite happy to let the other person do all the hard work.
If you try to explain this to a communist, they will simply dismiss this out of hand because it conflicts with their beliefs. It is very important to a communist that they ” pretend to not know this”, so they can continue to believe in communism.
A more recent example of this “pretend to not know certain things” is Michigan’s Dem governor banning the use by doctors of HCQ to treat Covid-19. She threatened to revoke the medical license of any Michigan doctor who proscribed HCQ to patients suffering from covid-19.
Why did she do this? She did it because after President Trump mentioned HCQ, the Dems immediately attacked the President for saying the obvious. As a Dem politician, it was more important for her, to do anything that might hurt the President, than it was to help the people of Michigan. In order to do this, she had “to pretend not to know certain things”.
Yosemite Sam.
The toughest cowboy this side of the great divide!
Try taking this cowboy’s guns away from him!
You’re as good as dead!
Only Bugs Bunny can disarm Yosemite Sam!
So Elmer Fudd can no longer use a gun to hunt Bugs Bunny!
But using dynamite is OK!
So let the politically corrected violence continue!
Yesterday’s TAE picture of a little boy, clutching some fireworks with one arm and the flag in the other arm, is 1906’s version of an American patriot.
In today’s politically correct world, this child would be considered the FBI’s poster child for a domestic terrorist!
Herds of Hypocrites.
The “in thing” is to protest. I guess that is what sheep do. Mindlessly follow the herd.
I guess these sheep have nothing better to do with their time.
Never mind that they are being irresponsible by helping to spread the virus so that it can successfully kill more people. And some of those dead people will be black people. I guess their lives really don’t matter.
I am not a very good sheep. I will continue to do what I can to not help spread the virus to other people. I guess I believe everybody’s lives matter. But clearly I don’t matter to the sheep.
It is however, maddening, to see the sheep not caring about the lives of other people while loudly protesting they care about other people.
I am not confused. What they say and then do are perfectly clear to me.
Their actions tell me they really don’t care about the lives of other people at all! It is really all about them trying to impose their lack of morals upon others.
I am not buying it! I have better things to do with my life.
Miss Lindsey Graham is doing what he does best, put on a dog and pony show that exposes nothing!
A classic political cover up!
With all the people protesting today, thereshouldbe a nice spike in Covid-19 cases by next Friday.
I wonder how many more people will die because of the protests.
Obviously the protest organizers are not concerned about causing more deaths
Zerosum:
You say the glass is only @0% full.
From an engineering point of view o, I say the glass is nine times bigger than it needs to be!
Zerosum:
It would seem here in Ontario, there are no longer any rules of engagement!
Almost no one is wearing face masks now that warmer weather has arrived.
In DC, no crimes were committed in creating false crimes to convict innocent people with.
This is just what the DoJ and the FBI do.
Doc Robinson:
Thanks for the graph of Ontario! No I hadn’t seen it since the last time you posted it!
One of the worst spots is in Brampton immediately south of me. New Canadians simply not wearing masks!
Yeah, I am not encouraged by what I am seeing. Testing is actually falling not going up!
Only government workers can actually get tested!
Sure they say anyone can get tested but local authorities say not so fast. You still need to qualify!
If you are Canadian, you don’t qualify!
My recent 2 shopping trips this week in Toronto show an alarming decrease in the wearing of masks.
I would be very hard pressed to say 15% are wearing masks now that warmer weather has arrived.
Inside stores social distancing doesn’t exsist! Only in line ups, outside the store or at cashiers!
The only hope now is that warmer weather reduces the spread of the virus.
Did buy more Vitamin D & C.
