EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Home Prices Fall Most Since Great Recession. “In Denver, previously one of the hottest markets, average home prices dipped by $25,000 — a decline of more than 3% — in just one month.”
Author Archive: Stephen Green
August 3, 2022
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Russian Military Satellite Appears To Be Stalking A New U.S. Spy Satellite. “A recently launched Russian satellite with capabilities unknown is getting suspiciously close to what is reportedly a new U.S. spy satellite.”
HMM: Several people injured in blast at French military explosives producer. “The cause of the blast was not immediately clear.”
HOPEFULLY THIS TIME IT STICKS: Al Qaeda Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri Is Dead…for at Least the 4th Time.
PRIVACY: Electric Car Drivers: Why You Might Not Be Pumped Over Privacy-Jolting Mileage Taxes. “The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, passed with bipartisan support last year, authorized the Department of Transportation to launch new pilot programs to test ways to collect necessary fees. These include a range of high-tech means such as accessing location data from third-party on-vehicle diagnostic devices, smart phone applications, telemetric data collected by automakers, motor vehicle data obtained by car insurance companies, data obtained from fueling stations, and ‘any other method that the Secretary [of Transportation] considers appropriate.'”
Previously: New Law Will Install Kill Switches In All New Cars.
The Feds will know where you are and have the ability to shut down your car remotely.
It’s a tyrant’s dream made real.
RAYMOND IBRAHIM: The Islamic Terrorist Blame Game.
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) recently published a video of the execution of about 20 Christian civilians in Nigeria. As with many other such ISIS-type videos, the terrorists stood behind their bound and kneeling victims before knocking them over and carving their heads off to cries of “Allahu Akbar.”
Before doing so, one of the masked Muslims said that the execution of these Christians was “to avenge the killing of the group’s leaders in the Middle East earlier in 2022.” This is apparently a reference to ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi—a man with a reputation for extreme brutality—who was killed last February during an airborne raid by U.S. and Kurdish forces in northwestern Syria.
The reader may be pondering how impoverished Christian civilians in Nigeria are connected to or responsible for the activities of U.S. and Kurdish forces in Syria. The fact is, Muslim terrorists are notorious for offering any number of pretexts — many of which border on the absurd — to justify their cowardly targeting and murdering of the Christian minorities in their midst.
Read the whole thing.
DON’T GET COCKY: Goodbye, Joe Manchin. Your Senate Career Is Over. “Manchin is not up for reelection until 2024, but considering the increasingly Republican landscape of his home state and his willingness to sabotage the livelihoods of the people who put him in office, it grows more and more likely that this will be the last time he is in office.”
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Wouldn’t You Like to Be a Prepper Too? (Shhhh, Just Don’t Tell Anyone). “Now that the commies have made no secret of their plan to cause worldwide food shortages in the name of environmentalism, I thought I’d throw out some ideas on how to not starve to death.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Sports World Weeps—Dodgers Hall of Fame Broadcaster Vin Scully Passes Away at Age 94. “What I’ve missed most since Scully retired after sixty-seven years as the Dodgers broadcaster are his stories. He worked alone, filling three or four hours of air time with a seemingly endless supply of tales. He was, as many have noted, a verbal poet. His delivery was effortless as he would weave the in with the call of the game. He was, in essence, his own color commentator.”
FRIENDSHORING: Companies Are Fleeing China for Friendlier Shores.
LINCOLN BROWN: Reuters Fact-Checkers, Simulated Periods, and Other Signs That the World Is Going to Hell. “I asked several reliable sources (aka, actual women) if they had ever wanted to experience the sensation of having a period. The doctor says I should be back to eating solid food within the week.”
SUPPLY CHAINS: Retailers Seeking More Warehouse Space to Stow Excess Inventory.
Warehouse owners say more retailers are looking to add storage capacity, both for goods now reaching their networks of stores and distribution centers and as they prepare to keep more inventory on hand long-term to guard against stock-outs.
Prologis Inc., the world’s biggest owner of warehouses by square footage, said in a recent market analysis that it expects an additional 800 million square feet of warehouse space to be needed beyond earlier projections to handle the excess inventories, about 300 million square feet of which has already been leased by tenants.
“We have specifically heard from customers who are looking at carrying more inventories and are leasing space,” said Chris Caton, managing director of global strategy and analytics at Prologis.
Just-in-time inventory worked fine when everything else was running smoothly, but those days are over.
August 2, 2022
IT’S HARDER TO RAISE RENTS ON A SHRINKING POPULATION: These 12 US Cities Had the Worst Rent Hikes This Year. New York’s Not Even in the Top 10.
NANNYSTATISM: New Jersey Breweries Push Back Against Crushing New Rules. “In a column earlier this month on recent changes to alcohol legislation in several states, I detailed several good (and not-so-good) new laws. One state I didn’t highlight was New Jersey, where an outrageous and asinine special ruling last month by the state’s Division of Alcohol Beverage Control (ABC)—not a new law passed by the state legislature—is causing chaos for brewers and consumers in the state.”
STILL, I’M GLAD HE’S DEAD: Tucker Carlson Blasts Biden for Bragging About al-Qaeda Leader’s Death: Here’s Why.
MILBLOGGER LAUGHING WOLF’S NUCLEAR WAR PRIMER CONTINUES WITH PART 4: Now What? “It truly is the eternal question: Now What? In 1945, it was the question asked as we realized we were on the back of the bull/tiger/dragon/colorful metaphor of your choice and needed to hang on. It’s still the question today, and we will get to it here in time.”
Here’s Part 3 from yesterday: Delivery.
IT’S A TAX AND SPEND BILL, PERIOD: The ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ Reduces Inflation by One-Third of a Point — Over 10 Years.
NEVER UNDERESTIMATE JOE’S ABILITY TO F*** THINGS UP: Russia puzzled by Biden proposal to replace nuclear arms treaty
Biden said in a statement on Monday that his administration was ready to “expeditiously” negotiate a new framework but that Russia should demonstrate that it is ready to resume work on nuclear arms control with the United States.
“Is this a serious statement or has the White House website been hacked?” a Russian foreign ministry source told Reuters. “If this is still a serious intention, with whom exactly do they intend to discuss it?”
Biden intends to negotiate with that guy he said “must go,” I guess.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: How to Spot a Groomer With This 1 Weird Trick. “Of all the ways the Left has come up with to break up the nuclear family, weaponizing sex for use against children is easily the most sordid.”
Plus:
- CNN tries to find a Liz Cheney supporter in Wyoming, fails
- A pox by any other name would feel as itchy
- Will Nancy Pelosi start WWIII while making insider stock trades?
So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
IT’S ONLY FOOD: Canada’s government is now coming for the farmers. “As Andrew Stuttaford points out in the linked article, this is all part of the war on beef. And the war on beef is a major component in the war on climate change, at least for liberals. Less nitrogen and fertilizer means smaller crop yields. And a lot of those crops are used to feed the cattle. So the government wants them to reduce the size of the herds as well. All of this translates to less income for farmers who already operate on the slimmest of margins in most places.”
CUE THE WORLD’S SMALLEST VIOLIN: Six years later, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign gravy train is almost dried up.“Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign used up almost all its remaining cash reserves during the first half of 2022, Federal Election Commission filings show.”