I’m out of the market.

I heard that it did real well yesterday.

Today it looks rough. Some -1,000 Dow rough

Over the last 3 months some NASDAQ Techs are in a painful place.

Be careful out there, some folk are betting heavy on the downside.

There is no doubt about it, you folk that are still doing the daily grind need to put your nose to the stone and shoulder to the wheel. Those of us that have baled are counting on you and the tax dollars you generate!

Here is how poorly you’re doing: productivity fell 7.5 percent in the first three months of this year, the sharpest decline since 1947. NINETEEN FORTIE SEBEN ! Here is how bad 1947 was:

Not only are you not getting shit done, stuff built or papers passed from one desk to the next, you are charging more for not doing it. Labor costs jumped 11.6 percent in the last year. That’s the largest gain since 1982. Remember 1982? That’s the year Reagan finally made headway against the malaise the Jimmy Carter introduced. Let’s not forget how that communist SOB tried to lead us away from a competitive economy with his socialist drivel.

WTF, are we really are back to that shitty economy of the Carter years?

I guess a shitty economy and the promise of WW-Three is about all this ass-hat and the crowd of clowns that infest this administration can muster. Here’s the good news, should his last few brain cell vaporize we all get the consolation prize:

Well, I’m scheduled to have fiber optic cable completely installed in my home this coming Wednesday. Until then I’m still hamstrung by both very expensive HughesNet satellite service and total systems failure due to rain or clouds or whatever atmospheric anomalies parade themselves between the dish adjacent my home and a satellite some 22,000 miles (or so) above my head.

Here is a recent speed test.

I had to double check my math on the download speed. It’s 680 K. It’s 680 K most of the time when it works. Once a month my usage meter resets and I gain high speed (supposedly 25 Mbps). but that last for about 2 days as which point I’m throttled back again.

The ‘ping’ and ‘jitter’ figures are terrible. Shit don’t happen anywhere near real-time on my system!

Hughes is charging me a little more that $100 monthly for internet access and VOIP telephone service. My new cost will $90 with unlimited long distance. Importantly the speed is an unlimited 250 Mbps (both ways). The speed of fiber optic means that I can now stream vice pay Dish Network $150+ monthly for their lousy TV Line up (190 channels of Home Shopping Network and Come to Jesus TV). A Youtube Live package is $65 monthly and covers all the stations I need covered.

All and all a no brainer, more than 10 times the speed day in and day out while reducing monthly costs by almost a hundred bucks. There will be a small fee for equipment rental tagged onto the bill for the modem, but I’m willing to spend the 10 bucks or so just to be able to check email without taking a nap between the send/receive cycles.

Patience.

When I think about military heroes, images from movies about Audi Murphy and Alvin York come to mind. Until yesterday I thought that the highest/most decorated US serviceman was Audi Murphy. Then I stumbled across this write up at a site dedicated to verifying the service claims of US Special Forces operators.

Fight at Oak Park High School prompts closure. pic.twitter.com/NXGm6H3hi0

— Metro Detroit News (@metrodetroitn) April 27, 2022

There is a whole lot of WTF were you thinking in the DOT’s latest propaganda video, not the least of which is showing all of those employees crammed into cubicles with no chairs!

How about you guy’s (I use the term loosely considering Pete’s preferences) focus on fixing the shit you broke. Jeeez, this entire administration is a bad dream.

We're hiring! Rarely in U.S. history has there been such a fitting time to enter a career in public service. @USDOT is ready to bring on thousands of new employees.

Learn more: https://t.co/i95elZinKt pic.twitter.com/KhwIziSxue

— Secretary Pete Buttigieg (@SecretaryPete) April 25, 2022

Don’t shoot the messenger .

Fucking insane: a woman identifying as lesbian argued with a counter-protester over trans inclusion in women’s spaces while a man carrying a hybrid LGBT/confederate flag joins in.

I can no longer keep track to which/what fuckeduppidness society has allocated the higher moral ground. It’s going to be Monday all day today.

The bill prohibits a school, political subdivision or government from “usurping the fundamental right” of a parent in raising their children, allows a parent to bring a civil suit against any government entity or official that violates the Parents’ Bill of Rights in Arizona law, gives parents the rights to all written or electronic records from a school about their child — including a students counseling records — and requires schools to notify parents before a survey is conducted of students, among other changes.

Once a few of these liberal idiots start paying dearly for unduly influencing developing minds, much of the bullshit will end.

When the world was a simpler and less gentle place I was a jumper. I didn’t go to school at Benning however, I attend a course steeped in pain and presented by the 7th SFG at Ft. Sherman in what used to be the Canal Zone. 400 folk showed up for the PT test on day one of the course. 200 passed it. All would have passed it, but the instructors/graders had a nasty habit of walking away while you were pushin up or sittin up and (given that the ‘rules’ stated he could only count a repetition that he saw were correctly performed) that doomed everyone that couldn’t do at least 100 of each. As I recall (which is a difficult task so don’t hold me to it) the minimum passing score for each was 40.

What the cadre knew and we did not was that they were limited to using one C130 and there would be a shitload of strap-hangers on the final jump. Their mission was twofold: cull 164 legs that somehow managed to squeak past the PT test and to embed enough rote/muscle memory into the class to keep them from splattering on the drop zone or affixing themselves to side of the aircraft.

Three weeks later we were down to 36 student jumpers and 20+ strap-hangers. We had the commanding general, his aide and COS. 8 SF instructors, an SF CO, CSM, 1SG, and believe it or not: the 7th SFG Chaplin.

Once my tour in Panama ended I moved on to the 82nd at Bragg. We jumped C130’s and 141’s. Always the door, never the ramp. Watching the next generation ‘hopping and popping’ out of C17’s is amazing. That door is huge. Only two fucking things to remember once the light turns green: control that static line all the way to the Jump Master and vigorously clear the aircraft.

How then can these folk not even fall out of the aircraft? Yeah I get it you have shit in your ruck. Well boo hoo, try carrying a medic’s ruck, that’s one heavy bag. There was a time when everyone I knew used short lengths of coat hanger to reinforce the rucks quick release so it wouldn’t fail because of the weight. I’ve seen jumpers jump PRC 77’s, secure sets, spare batteries for both, the cabling, head, and head elements for a 292, but I’ve never seen a jumper fail to clear the doorway. Never. NEVER.

Seems like someone needs a little remedial PT. Lets start off by beating your boots!

OBTW, here is what will keep you watching your static line: the SF Captain that honcho’d my jump school was once a ‘towed jumper’. Just before our first jump he removed his blouse and showed the class what a mangled mess a static line can visit upon the flesh. That’s all it took for me!.

Warner Bros. Discovery will reportedly shut down CNN+ 23 days after announcing the streaming service.

Warner Bros. Discovery will nix the streaming service on April 30 just after CNN after having fewer than 10,000 daily views, according to reports.

Celebrating the life of CNN+

Originally tweeted by Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) on April 21, 2022.

Axios reports that CNN executives believe the launch has been successful. Yeah, well, these are the same CNN execs who spent five years spreading:

the Russian Collusion Hoax the Jussie Smollett Hoax; the Hands Up, Don’t Shoot Hoax; the Trayvon Martin Hoax; the Donald  Trump Jr. Wikileaks Hoax; the 17 Intelligence Agencies Lie; the “Very Nice People lie; the Trump Fish Food Hoax; the Governor Cuomo Is on Top of COVID Hoax; the Republicans Funded the Russian Dossier Hoax; the Racist Covington Kids Hoax; the Brett Kavanaugh Rapist Hoax; the Melania Trump Is Missing Hoax; and on and fucking on.

The article below caught my eye while scanning the webs this AM. Who would have thought that the black democratic leadership of Detroit would do such a thing to the black democratic followship of Detroit. A little digging seems appropriate as I empathize with the dilemma my fellow taxpayers are/were experiencing.

The direct article referenced by the head line reads:

About 100,000 Detroit’s residents lost their homes to foreclosures because the city overcharged them for property taxes. The city owned up to the mistake, but the residents are still waiting to be reimbursed five years later.

Detroit owes the mostly Black residents $600 million, according to reports. Between 2010 and 2016, the city assesses properties at 85 percent of their market value, going against state law. The Michigan Constitution prohibits property from being assessed at more than 50 percent of its market value.

Many Americans work to accomplish the goal of homeownership. However, for Black Americans, the dream of the white picket fence could be harder to achieve, data shows. Advocates said the over-taxation of the Detroit residents is racial injustice issue that blocks inter-generational wealth.

Before looking at the first two paragraphs I’d like to admit that as my mind ages it looses it’s ability to rightly rationalize. If it was working properly I’d be able to see how this is a racial injustice issue (as stated in the third paragraph) if everyone was treated equally. But then again when black folk treat black folk poorly I guess it really is whitey’s fault.

As for the first two paragraphs. 2010 to 2016 is 7 years. $600 M divided by 7(years) is $85.7M annually. $85.7 divided by 189,000 (number of Detroit households= 270,000 of which 70 % are homeowners= 189,000) equals $454 annually or $38 dollars monthly in over payment in property tax.

So if 100,000 folk lost their home in to foreclosure. And I expect that they are double or triple counting people (versus households) because if they were not, then well more than half of every home purchased ended in foreclosure!

But lets keep the 100K number. It seems to me that some of those 100,000 tax payers must have known they were overpaying and raised an alarm during that 7 year period. Unless, unless……they were not paying their taxes and did not care.

Doncha wonder? Here is how some of that happens (this taken from the link in the first paragraph below the very first graphic above):

In 2011, Detroit native Anna Bolden purchased her first home. She purchased the brick bungalow in a tax foreclosure auction for $4,800, according to the Detroit News. Yet when Bolden received her first tax bill from the Wayne County treasurer, her bill was $2,600, as if her home was valued at $57,000.

“My taxes shouldn’t be this high,” Bolden told the Detroit News.  “My house was only $5,000, why am I paying this money?”

“I went down [to city and county offices] to ask questions, but it’s like everybody is giving you the runaround,” she added. “It makes you feel like they are cheating you…but what can you do?”

In the years that followed, Bolden’s home was assessed at a rate higher than its true value. Finally, in 2017, local tax officials lowered the value to $28,000, after the property was reappraised. 

Bolden, who currently owes the Wayne County treasurer at least $4,600 in back taxes, is scared she will lose her home to foreclosure.

So here is the bottom line, when she closed on the home she was told what the taxes would be. She closed anyway. She currently owes the same amount in taxes as she purchased the home for (in unpaid taxes). That means that (assuming the taxes were more than halved in 2017 to roughly $1,300 annually) she has not paid her property taxes in 4 years. That’s a sweet gig if you can get it!.

And Detroit? Well it’s population is running at about 80 percent POC so you know it must be a racial injustice issue.

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