Don’t Worry, It’s Transitory

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But they got the headlines they wanted;

There’s something wrong with previous U.S. jobs reports.

The government quietly erased 439,000 jobs through November 2023, a closer look at the numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows. That means its initial jobs results were inflated by 439,000 positions, and the job market is not as healthy as the government suggests.

Since the government wiped out 439,000 jobs after the fact, the total percentage of jobs created by the government last year is even higher. Increased government hiring has been driving the jobs numbers higher.

Alberta’s wind power sputtered to next to nothing Sunday night, again

Climate Cult Drill, Baby, Drill 26 Comments
Wind turbines near Pincher Creek, Alberta. Photo by Brian Zinchuk

It’s starting to get cold out. The sun was down and Alberta’s wind power generation fell to next to nothing last night – less than half a per cent capacity.

Meanwhile in Saskatchewan, we’ve had several days of minimal wind power generation.

In other news, they’ve started to bring in floating accommodations for the staff to build the Woodfibre LNG facility.

And Precision Drilling meets debt reduction goal, on track to repay $500 million by 2025. 

It’s Probably Nothing

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Military News;

The aging Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles that have formed the land-based leg of the nation’s nuclear deterrent triad for half a century can no longer be upgraded and require costly replacements, Adm. Charles Richard, head of U.S. Strategic Command, said Tuesday.

“Let me be very clear: You cannot life-extend the Minuteman III [any longer],” he said of the 400 ICBMs that sit in underground silos across five states in the upper Midwest.

“We can’t do it at all. … That thing is so old that, in some cases, the drawings don’t exist anymore [to guide upgrades],” Richard said in a Zoom conference sponsored by the Defense Writers Group.

Where the drawings do exist, “they’re like six generations behind the industry standard,” he said, adding that there are also no technicians who fully understand them. “They’re not alive anymore.”

The Thrill Of Word-Policing

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Apparently, the word collision is, for Dr Madrid, much too brutal and masculine when referring to the convergence of two galaxies, and the subsequent merging of the supermassive black holes at their centres – an event that will entail the sling-shotting of countless stars and their orbiting planets, and which may release energy equivalent to around 100 million supernova explosions, and to subsequently be detectable halfway across the universe.

Come, let’s pay a visit to the publication laughingly referred to as Scientific American.

The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire

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When the clock drawing hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing.

When the deputy secretary of defense began assuming some of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s responsibilities on January 2, not even she knew that it was because Austin was hospitalized, two defense officials told CNN.

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks, the Pentagon’s number two leader, was among the senior leaders kept in the dark about Austin’s true whereabouts until Thursday, three days after the secretary checked into Walter Reed medical center following complications from an elective surgery. Not even the president was aware of Austin’s hospitalization until three days into his stay there, CNN previously reported.

The revelation that not even Hicks knew that Austin was hospitalized is sure to add to questions swirling within the administration about why his status was kept secret, not only from the public but from senior national security officials and the White House.

Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder told CNN on Sunday that Austin transferred “certain operational responsibilities that require constant secure communications capabilities” to Hicks on January 2, the day after he was admitted to Walter Reed. Throughout last week, Hicks made “some routine operational and management decisions” for the Pentagon and was authorized to support the president.

But Hicks, who was on vacation in Puerto Rico at the time, was not informed of Austin’s hospitalization until the afternoon of January 4…

I’m fairly certain that Xi was informed.

Welfare Mentality

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Manitoba has not seen itself as a “can-do” province for decades now, with voters seeming to prefer the passivity of a “have-not” attitude instead. That same outlook has predictably infected the City of Winnipeg as well. One supposes that the main response to the city’s budgetary woes will be to go cap in hand to the province…who will predictably go cap in hand to the Feds. In the meantime, expect infrastructure to continue to crumble and crime to soar.

An accelerated regional road renewal program, funded by the federal government, has come to an end, so there will be less work done on road repairs, he said.

There is also no new money to transition Winnipeg Transit’s bus fleet to zero-emission buses, beyond what council has already committed to, nor to add more buses to the fleet.

Last month, the city released a budget projection that estimated Winnipeg would overspend its budget by $3.1 million, based on financial data from the end of September.

At the same time, the city must replenish a rainy-day fund that was nearly emptied during the pandemic.

Your Moral and Intellectual Superiors

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They’re on a mission from God.

Colby Cosh- CBC finds its purpose — exposing the national shopping cart crisis

Some of the CBC’s other local snapshots of the shopping-cart crisis reject this daring theory outright: in Thunder Bay, Ont., in 2021, an abandoned shopping-cart problem was attributed pretty directly to sociopathic cart-abandoning customers rather than thieves. (Side question: is the word “thief” gradually becoming taboo?)

What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?

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Washington Examiner: Bill Ackman goes scorched earth on MIT and Business Insider after ‘attacks on my family’

Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman is going on the offensive against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Business Insider after the news source reported allegations his wife plagiarized portions of her dissertation at the university. Ackman specifically targeted the research university’s chairman with calls for his resignation. […]

Ackman targeted Business Insider for publishing the allegations, accusing the outlet of not giving the couple adequate time to “research their claims prior to publication.” The billionaire went even further to suggest he would execute a review of all journalists from the media company to search for plagiarism, accusing the author of the story of “trying to destroy other people’s reputations.”

“Not only did Ms. Long not contact me. I have never spoken to her in my life,” Ackman wrote. “Clearly, she had already written her article prior to contacting Fran, our head of communications at 5:19pm when she told him they would be publishing shortly this evening, which they did around 7:10pm. … This is the worst form of so-called journalism.”

Ackman further criticized the story, calling it “unfortunate that my actions to address problems in higher education have led to these attacks on my family.” Instead, the billionaire called attention to “apparent tax fraud” by Gorenberg, which he said “mainstream media failed to report” late last year.

“I guess MIT Chairman Gorenberg did not like it when I outed him for apparent tax fraud using MIT’s donor advised fund. By doing so, he put at risk MIT’s tax exempt status,” Ackman wrote in a post on X. “The mainstream media failed to report on the thread below. They might want to take a closer look now. Following up on the below thread should be a profitable exercise for an IRS whistleblower. I understand that the IRS pays attractive bounties to helpful sources.”

Ashli Babbitt Family Files Suit

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Jonathan Turley;

The long-awaited tort action from the family of Ashli Babbitt has now been filed in Southern California. Babbitt was shot and killed on Jan. 6th and her family is seeking $30 million in a wrongful death action. Equally important, the lawsuit could force additional answers to why Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd shot and killed the unarmed protester as she attempted to climb through a window near the House Chamber. I have previously raised concerns over the shooting as conflicting with governing standards on the use of lethal force. I also noted contradictions in Byrd’s own statements and the government’s conclusion that this was a justified killing. The complaint below adds some troubling facts to these prior concerns.

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