Friday, July 6, 2018

Unemployment ticks up - who cares! - GREAT weather coming up

Yes - I have read The Killer Angels, AND The Last Full Measure AND Gods and Generals  - HOWEVER - I have not read Jeff Shaara's (Micheal's son) book The Rising Tide: A Novel of World War II and I'm waiting for the new USS Indianapolis book (Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man) that comes out Tuesday and I am thinking I might start to read the Horatio Hornblower (saw a few shows of the mini series) series.

With that said - I'm curious to see what Trumps Presidential library will have in it since he literally cannot read a book according to the person who actually wrote "Art of the Deal".

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WEATHER - awesome . . .but let's look at the past.

The hottest Heat Index was at 5PM on June 29 when we hit 107.0 degrees. We have been over a heat index of 100 three times with once at 99.9.  The Dew point has been over 75 degrees seven times.

Coming up, a small stretch of GREAT weather  . . at least until Monday  but basically - normal summer hot. Nothing special.  No chances of any real rain for the next few weeks.

OH - yea - that heat wave?  I was in Kewaunee - the high temp there was like 74.  When we are in 107 heat index I called my brother and it was 74.

Kewaunee pier

and while walking on their beach I saw this . . weed.


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Going to check out Boulders climbing wall in Madison today I think.

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The Bill Clinton Whitewater Investigation
6 Years in duration

0 indictments 
0 Convictions 

The Hillary Clinton Benghazi Investigation
4 years in Duration
0 indictments
0 convictions

The Hillary Clinton Email Investigation
2 years in duration
0 indictments
0 convictions

The Donald Trump Russian Collusion Investigation
1 year so far: plus Mueller just added two more Prosecutors to his team (ominous music here – Da Da DUMMMMMM)
19 indictments
5 guilty pleas
4 convictions

And this one is the witch hunt?

Trump and his family are going to jail at some point.

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Massachusetts and Vermont become yet two more States that have legalized cannabis.  Wisconsin?  We have increased cannabis arrests by something like 15% in the last two years.

Columbus is searching for a new head of the Police Department.  I THINK there is a meeting coming and I THINK it's the same day I have tooth #2 pulled.

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After America kidnapped 3000 children from their parents, sent them thousands miles away with absolutely no way to reunite them  . . . all of a sudden we have to give them back . . . HOW?   OOPS - our inept GOP in power never really thought this one through did they.

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Kids trapped in cave - bad news as an X-Navy seal has died as he ran out of air.  HOWEVER - here comes Elan Musk to the rescue with an idea.  His idea is a giant tube, inflate it and the kids could get out that way.  Like a giant bouncy castle of tubes. 

The big issue now is air and the monsoons that will start up this weekend that will flood the cave. 

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For the 93rd month in a row the US hired more people that it lay off.  Oddly full employment, which is what we have now, is not that great for the economy.  When in order to hire someone for a job you have to have that employee first quit the job they have already  . .  it raises the pay which also raises inflation.

In fact for the first time EVER - there are more jobs in america then there are people to fill them. The REAL unemployment rate is 2.6%.  These are people that WANT a job but cannot find one.  34% of Americans are unemployed but do not WANT a job (like me).

So far inflation is in check but with the GOP trade war starting . .today? we shall see what happens.   I know China was suppose to buy 97 million tons of soybeans from America (Wisconsin) and said they are canceling that order.  SWEET!! More for us!!  YOU get a ton of soy beans and YOU get a ton of soybeans. And some farmers in Wisconsin have said they will begin pouring milk into the fields and that market has dried up.

all is well

The news today is that "unemployment" went up to 4% . - meaningless as this number gets adjusted twice more in the coming months. Well, not THAT number but all the numbers associated with it.

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So that is all I got.  Have a GREAT weekend.

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