Office calc is a mess

It got fairly fouled and bloated and the UI seems impossible since the last update. Then, on Gnome every muse drag on a chart minimizes calc main window.  In fact, uder X the mouse always drags, and when you push the issue under Gnome you end up triggering yet another widow resize out of no where.

This is the bloat issue which occurs in open software.

And we noticed how synchronous was California

Over the years we pointed out that California localities were all, simultaneously, engaging in Keynesians synchronous action, exactly the opposite of what we were told.  All all these towns, except mine, are screwed visibly fucking themselves, with news commentary, identifying the crooks all along, yet they still synchronously screw themselves. Why?

And they all get hit with this monster, the 4% portfolio loss, an immediate demands of at least double the pension contribution this year for many.  But we knew the synchronous Keynesian failure, the inability of aggregate synchronous action to work at all, we knew of that failure. We took one look at John and said, this guys is a dunce.

Now what? Just in Keynesian time, just when the Federales need to tax. Gavin and Liz are clueless,  I ave never seen two more clueless, except possible Gray Davis.

I have to call the IRS

They are back at work, my paperwork is up to date. Legally they have two choices, accept my settlement or continue as usual. I take either, as I am a legal taxpayer, with a back tax.

I know my guy, the local IRS center is in town. I know him in the sense that he is likely one of the locals hanging out at the Tower district, or up at State.  Met him once, he has no ax to grind, likely will sign off on my deal. I will get a phone interview first, suggest he review the facts and just sign off. His job is as much a nuisance to him as me, it is a very unnatural job, most eventually quit. That is why he is young.

I don't mind the cycle, it is the cyclers

They are the same people.

The same con of giving to the rich and taking from the poor to save same pointless government program.  Then they lie about it. The victims and perpetuators  are the commentators on the Thoma blog, they they are the same people, the same economists, 360 degrees later in the cycle, do the same self delusion.

The  same group of welfare bums on the other side, still feeding guns to the mentally ill tea party  and stealing their money.  We have racist groups still, in the legislature, still after 40 years or something.  California, we sit and watch Venezuela fall apart, almost copying their actions step for step. Illinois, abandoned, hopeless nest of corruption.

It is like living in an insane world, Brad posts one chart that explains the whole mess, and it matters not. The insanity seem impervious.

Why? Look to Stiglitz, imperfect and asymmetric information.  Look at before and after internet, see if the insanity has gotten worse or better. Find folks who got stuck in these delusion in 1975, follow them, did they just up and give up, die an early death, escape.  Is this strictly as boomer mental thing? We need answers, we  are repeatedly self destructive, self delusional, getting stupider, more insane. Why?

In a world where the exiting establishment is in a hysterical frenzy , ready to use deception, then millennials have moral license to set the terms of default.  Whatever ails these folks, millennials did not do it, not yet. Millennials have not yet soiled themselves. And their next vote decides their fate.  A wrong vote and they have signed up for a life time of toil and voters regret.  The bond holders are there, pen and paper, millennials must agree to cover whatever bonehead insanity boomers repeatedly and obviously caused.  Sign that is to sign away the millennials' life.

Republicans plan massive spending increase

The Republican-led Senate advanced largely symbolic legislation opposing President Trump's plans to withdraw troops from Syria and Afghanistan. The action marked the second time in two months the Senate has supported a measure going against Trump’s foreign policy.

Mitch McConnell announced a spending increase so large the average Kentuck voter cannot even count the zeros.  The ';count the zero' campaign has begun, the first Kentuck voter who can guess how many zeros in Mitch's new spending bill get a vacation from the coal mines.

Lifting the layers

Google Predicts Big Year for ‘API-ification’ 

The API initiative also illustrates Google Cloud’s (NASDAQ: GOOGL) ongoing focus on nuts-and-bolts cloud tools targeting emerging frameworks like agile microservices.
In a series of predictions about how APIs will shape the IT market in the coming year, Google’s Apigee team predicted increased standardization of APIs while noting that APIs and microservices are becoming synonymous. In a blog post, they noted “a much larger number of APIs are to be found internally within enterprises as interfaces between software systems and teams.”
As APIs enter the mainstream, Google argues they will kickstart new enterprise architectures driven by microservices that structure applications as collections of loosely coupled, targeted services.

Same approach as the 'Bus' and collections of Snippets.  Everywhere we get a Moore's Layer upgrade, we make the driver layer look more like a set of extension chords, an enterprise connection system.  We always choose a physical  connector metaphor, like 'Plug and Play'. API-ification, think of that as the commons.  

The effect is to 'lift the layers' so a virtual hardware layer re-appears at the stack bottom. Made possible because the new tech allows hardware layers to be simulated.

That is a lot of stupid parents

Biggest Fentanyl Bust in History: Border Patrol Seizes Enough Drugs "To Kill 57 Million People"

OK, parents, tell the teenagers to crash the party, share the punch, have fun. And you to can have your kid come home in a box.

And its one two three four

What are we partying for?

We're dumb kids who don't why

Whoopee, we all going to die

Parents, if you are that stupid, give you teenagers up for adoption immediately.

The classic fraud

Powell's "Caving To The Market" Means "The Practice Of Hedging Has Been Dealt A Body Blow"

Here is the problem I see here.  In California, this is a great relief, we can stall and buy time to solve the pension short fall.  Sure, the rich get a bit richer.

So, Liz, is this OK? Can the rich get a bit richer to save a government goodie?

Any answer is already procyclic, California has already gotten its pension shortage, right on time with the 1/4 fall in home sales .  Our Keynesians professors have already signed on to the rich get rich scheme, and so will you, Liz, because if you do not cover up for the liar professors out here, then they wont' make fairy tales for you out there.

You already frigged yourself twice, Liz has already agreed the rixch get richer on the housing bill, she agrees the rich get richer to save the Calo pansions.  Later, she and Gavin will split the take on capoital gains, the rich will gety richer4.

All through her senate career I suspect this bonehead woman has done nothing but make rich richer, and she will continue, but for one thing. The millennials ain't got  the dough, and the monetary stimulus idea was horse manure anyway. I doubt any sane country would take her assets in a sale, so her favorite government goodies will still be under threat.

Howard, Howard you missed my point

After telling NPR's "Morning Edition" on Tuesday that Warren's plan for a 2% annual tax on households with a net worth greater than $50 million was "ridiculous" and nothing more than a "good headline," Warren hit back - tweeting "What's “ridiculous” is billionaires who think they can buy the presidency to keep the system rigged for themselves while opportunity slips away for everyone else."

You debate the Red Herring, the 2% surcharge, that is not the issue, as you point out, so skip that part.

Explain quite carefully that is is Liz Warren, Gavin  Newsom, Nancy Pelosi who have been systematically making the wealth wealthier by driving up debt.

The poor suffer, they lose discretionary government and suffer the most while Liz Warren and Gavin promise all the government goodies for their particular special groups, then these clown lie, commit the Keynesian fraud continually when it has done nothing but make the rich richer.

It is Gavin, Gray Davis, Obama who leave the middle class with huge wealth losses each change of government or each recession.  It is the liberal economists who ask the peasants to pay rich people a premium.

Making the wealthy pay is not a problem, Howard, and if you do not understand the socialist nature of central banking, then get out of the race, you have to get that right.   Show folks the idiocy of the recession cycle, brough on by the combined idiocy of Liz warren and Mitch McConnell.  Put it on the screen.  Put up the chart that says Bushies and oil get American bombed.  Show the stupidity of trading trillion dollar defense commitments for hotels, make both side look as stupid as they are.

Tell us exactly how much poorer we are every time some dumb shit cattle rancher goes to DC and starts a war.  Tell us the exdact rollover cost we are paying when our Communist president bailed out the Bush kid in Texas.

Both parties, experts in fraud.  Tell us that tea party members were never rebels at all, they kissed the Kings ass and never stopped doing so.  Tear into the skewed structure of our government, tell us the states are not 50 equal hoovers, educate us.

Beating Pocahontas is easy, every liberal know she will end, in the finalle, cost them dearly, she is another Nancy about to lose four elections in a row.

The voters cannot find the hard working billioniare, Howard, because the world is full of  billioniares who make wealth off the stupidity of John Maynord Keynes and his ilk.  Soros makes money from Liz and her idiocy.  As does Bill Gates. No need for hard work, just locate a dufas seller of pixel dust in the Swamp, follow that trail to riches.

Do not be the dufas accountant debating a marginal tax rate.  It is immaterial anyway, Gavin is going to take every last dime of the wealth tax from Liz anyway, Texas ain't giving her a dime.  The ongoing assumption everywhere is that she, like the Venezuelans, immediately transfer the tax to Soros anyway, because Keynes got the sign backwards so there is always a huge bet that pays off as long as we keep the Keynes fraud gunwinds

Don't panic the peasants

Redoing banking in the middle of a default.  The problem is that some things that were obviously stupid about central banking will change, and the lies we told the peasants for 50 years come undone.  The peasants will freak once they discover we had it backwards.  I can't explain to the peasants that Liz Warren, as president in three years, will be asking poor folks to let the rich get richer for a while. I know, Soros knows it, Eddy Lambert and Goildman Sachs knows it, be we are not allowed to tell the peasants.

Waddya do?  The idea is to pretend this is a small technical adjustment.  No, the central banker i\s running backwards, lower loan charges when we have fewer deposits.  That stuff cannot be hidden.  Like watching rates rise as the Fed buys, it is hard to be an economists with a straight face.  Like increasing debt payments from Italy to Germans is a stimulus for Italy.

Then, they say, oh know, you are missing a trick. What trick, so you look around for another of the same exact cycle, get the same exact result and say to yourself, they are playing the trick.  But then everyone is stuck, it is either screw the poor of save face, and save face wins out.

It ios the constant, unending fakery.  How does one do a study of the depression if you do not know its cause? You fake it, so you can sound important.  Never mind that an asteroid hit New Yokr, bankers cannot see that stuff.

Really silly assumptions that defy all human conditions that I know of.  The predictable result is a sudden monetary regime change. And then, let us drop the sophisticated, two step, sectret ecnomic manipulation that only secret societi8es of se...yad yad yada.

No, it is working the WalMart checkout stand, it is nothing more, never has been and an if a bunch of country bumpkin economists start believing the fraud, then stop then and there, set it straight again before the peasants get suckered.

Decoding the fraud

Stiglitz asymmetric information, it is called.  One has to decode the horse manure, most of it having opposite sign than what they say, mots of it obviously proclyclic when they say otherwise.  But the fraud is part of the circus, it represent real good bottlenecks which is what the kenynesians mostly cover up.  So follow the opposite path, find the thing the Kenynesians are covering up, and that essential thing will be short, the shelf almost empty.
The peasants have neither the time nor inclinations, nor should they have to do the decoding,l it is government supported fraud.  Ultimately, government participates, and like Sacramento, the Swamp becomes financially responsible for defrauding the peasants.

It is exposed, we are free to personally avoid the Venezuelan model.  I have no responsibility to cover the pension shortage.  I did the work, I wasn't the one with the fraud.

The nightmare of predictability

Money in the bank, Soros will make a bundle from Liz when she is fasted with the quandry, paying Soros far a marginal lending facility and agreeing to let the rich get richer.  She will do it.  Her constituency is a collection of entitlement hysterics, they always take from  (or bomb) the poor and give to the rich.

She has no choice, she does not have the resources to pyay for the crap, and each of her constituents has a favorite among the sacred, they will all undercut her and agree to give to the rich.  Professors sell out to get their pensions,  nothing negotiable, our only choice, double, yet again, the inequality and we can thaqnk Krugman.

My home town in the news

And, lest you think the report is all bad news, 12 cities had a net surplus, that is, assets in excess of their debts. The top five such "sunshine cities" are

• Irvine, per-taxpayer surplus of $4,400;
• Charlotte, $3,400;
• Washington, D.C., $3,300;
• Lincoln, $2,900; and
• Fresno, $2,500.

Cities with the least debt.  

San Francisco ranked worse on the scale of dufas mayors who date teenagers.

Not yet a big deal

US weekly jobless claims jump to a near one-and-a-half year high

Still within volatility.  One more report like this and I start to worry.  At some point, California will be making very tough choices as the cities are absolutely broke based on their pending pension bill.  Then we get the very long four or five year unemployment cycle in California. But even that could be mild.

Nice start, Howard, an improvement

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz reflects on his childhood growing up in public housing in Brooklyn, New York, and the abuse he endured from his father; how it drove him to succeed and what he calls his biggest business regret.

But it is not you we are worried about.  It is John Keynes whose theories managed toi take 50 billion dollars from poor people and give it to Bill and the bankers over the last ten years.  Gine drove ever higher, Bill did not do one bit of work, he just let Goldman Sachs negotiate with our keynesian counter parties, and Bill basically quadrupled his money

This is what we are fighting, pure unadulterated socialism for the rich promulgated by a bonehead  backwards mathematicians from MIT.  For forty years this fraud has been going on, and today, right in front of us we have Liz Warren lying.  Liz Warren, if elected, will do the reverse transfer, the rich will get so wealthy, the economy will collapse.  I know it, the poor know it, Bill knows it, Goldman Sachs knows this, and Gavin will date teenagers.

It is this pure, unadulterated nonsense that needs to be stopped.  Take this problem on, never use the word democracy, you will be called out as a fraad, we are a republic. If your supporters do not get the difference, explain it, educate us.  Explain that California is not a little Hoover.  Texas does no bail out East Coast pensions, Florida basically collect entitlements.  That leaves New York to foot the bills, and New York is nearly broke.   We have frigged ourselves by accepting the Keynesian fraud from MIT.

California legislatures votes to cut pentagon funding to zero

“The United States will use any means necessary to protect our citizens and those of our allies from unjust prosecution by this illegitimate court,” Bolton said in September. He also called for sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) and warned the body against pursuing any investigations into “Israel or other U.S. allies.”

Trumps''s threat to shut the Federals is nothing compared to cut off pentagon funding competely unless John Bolton is fired immediately. John Bolton is a direct threat to the eight largest eonnomy in the world. California will seek an alliance with either China or Russia, whatever it takes to get that bonehead idiot out of government completely.

We managed to staighten out the curve

The three month is 2.41% the five year  2.44%, that leaves about three basis points to support a band trader for five years.

We are already contracted, we are already recessing, we are just playing out the hand. Gavin is really prepping us for recession, the pension system will falter, and little brown people will sell their grand daughters in the street, like Venezuelans.

We have already voted, there is no claw back.

At least they protected their precious government goodies

At the cost of a recession and an even bigger interest charge from German banks.

What is the point?   Just put the Italians on a starvation diet until they start dying off, once you have killed off a few million they will figure out how important their government goodie really is.

Hey Liz, sweetheart. I have a song for you

 Elizabeth Warren Faults ‘Capitalism Without Rules’ in Pushing Wealth Tax 

Pocahontas on the war path.

The new Aspen?

So you think you want to buy a house in Boise? Where the region’s median home prices are at record highs, construction is still below precrash levels and West Coast ex-pats are flocking in, flush with cash and amazed at all the real estate “bargains”?Buckle your seat belt. And take a little hard-earned advice from Mike Daniels.He is 47, a blue-collar worker and Chicago native who fell in love with Boise, wanted to buy a house on a tree-lined street in the City of Trees and grow old here with his wife, Dee.Sadly, the capital of the fastest-growing state in America played hard to get. Because it could.In June 2017, the middle of the Daniels’ home search, 35 percent of the houses sold in Ada County went for more than their list price. One in five was sold for cash. Houses were spending less time on the market than they had since 2006, the climax of the last housing boom.

Well, well.... The fastest growing state in the union, low crime rate, great mountains, a bit cold.

Warm spike in the North Pole

Barely freezing and ice is not forming.

Have we not seen this before? Polar vortex descending in great lakes, Northern Alaska and North pole bathed by warm air?

Millennial taxpayer

If a decade of positive investment returns can't fix what's wrong with America's public pension systems, how much worse could things get in the event of another downturn? That's what Greg Mennis, Susan Banta, and David Draine, three researchers at the Harvard Kennedy School, set out to determine. They subjected state pension plans to a series of stress tests meant to simulate the consequences of a variety of adverse economic climates over the next two decades, including everything from another major recession to merely lower-than-expected investment growth.What they found isn't pretty."Public pension systems may be more vulnerable to an economic downturn than they have ever been," the trio of researchers concluded in a paper published by the Pew Charitable Trusts in 2018. Deeply indebted pension plans in places such as Kentucky and New Jersey face insolvency if annual returns average 5 percent for the foreseeable future rather than the higher (usually around 7 percent) rates the plans assume. In other words, it won't take much to tip those systems into bankruptcy.If a major downturn does come, states such as Colorado, Ohio, and Pennsylvania—which are closer to the national average in terms of how well-funded their pensions are—could require "contributions that may be unaffordable" to avoid insolvency.One of the only states that seems ready to survive fiscal troubles is Wisconsin, where the combination of low existing debt and a 401(k)-style defined benefit plan means unexpected costs would be manageable and shared between employees and taxpayers.

Next could recession could be tomorrow, so millennials should be getting their budgets ready to send another, unexpected, chunk to local guv.  In California that would be all of gov, city, county state; all come threatening millennials.

Powellomania kinks curve

The ten year down to 2.68, the five year 9 points below the one year. That is a contango from repricing, everyone covering the bad bet they made just prior.

I like the ten at 2.68, sustainable, but Powell cannot keep it there, the moment is arriving for Swamp to refinance the mortgage. So both parties are trying to fake it, except for the mortgage bill swindle they might have gotten away with it.  Both parties play their hands, welfarism on a monster scale with that horrid bill. With both parties faking it, the ten year will suddenly jump as they emerge from their closed door plot.

That high interest, 30 year mortgage Congress signs on to is paid for all the way through the careers of our trailer park millenials.

Millennial learn trailer park life

The average Nevada teacher is losing nearly $7,700 a year to pay for other people’s retirement

These are Howard voters. I have the Howard platform:

• Yes, filthy rich are welfare bums and will pay more than they expect, one way or the other. 
• Yes, federal government will rescale to match the economy, and rescale down a bit. 
• No, millennials are not covering all that debt, and debt relief starts on day one.

Claw back from the rich, cut and rescale government, and monetary regime change. Pareto efficient, everyone is better off if done right.  Everyone is worse off if it is done in secret, in dead of night.

I know all about angle brackets

 More About Angle Brackets in Bash

They never got included in the lexicon, we tossed them ages ago and do not understand why they are back.  

A short history of computer languages:

It started with grunt and shouts and evolved to plain text pronunciation.  We encapsulated that into 26 alphas, then Fibonacci made the case we should introduce simple arithmetic and partenth.  Sam squashed that down to a 40 sets of primitive ascii, he dumped the arithmetic except numbers.

We never added angle brackets, never added curly brackets, bell rings.  We had a tab, message stop and start it was. OK, we buy the shift key.  Functiuon keys are complete horse manure, as is menu key.  Most of those puncts are throw away, meant not to be used.

That is all you get, computer geeks, it is our language, you conform to us. Plain text, parenth, arithmetic, and we do like recurse.

Time to shut government once again

Bipartisan Housing Finance Reform: A Blatant Giveaway To Special Interests

A large and continuous program of corruption and theft in the Swamp.  Suggest millennials immediately demand that government be shuttered again.  Seriously.  The Fed is having to leave trillion in government bonds on the books to cover the volatility of the unending corruption.

 Things are bleak, we may be driving the system to monetary regime change on purpose.

Bottlenecks and corruption

There are two thing we know for certain about Illinois.  Corruption has always been rampant, and it has historically been the monopoly transportation corridor to the North east.

The two may be connected, Illinois failure may be due to New York's failure to break the supply grip.  The pension catastrophe is simply the result of public sector making sure they get the same level of corrupt gains as anyone else.

Chicago itself, having to mainly serve as intermediary, never really developed beyond the corrupt stage.  This is the result we would expect from Patterns of sustainability or Krugman trade theory; when   blocked,  reconstruct the capability in Idaho, reagglomerate.

A life time of voters regret

Maduro "Open To Talks" As 20 Tons Of Gold Mysteriously Disappears From Venezeula's Vaults

Every parent and grandparent in Venezuela is watching their little girls sell themselves on the street because they voted badly, believed the horse manure.

In California, once the little browns figure out we have a Venezuelan legislature, they have no where to go, they migrated into hell hole. They will rebel in place, they are running from corrupt legislatures, then discover California has one of the worst of the Hispanic corrupted forms of government.

Little Ice Age coming

So reports NASA based on a solar minimum.

The midwest will be hit by yearly, sever polar vortex for a number of years, more years than Illinois or Minnesota can endure.  The Illinois pension system will collapse much sooner, if we can collapse any faster than they are collapsing.  We could end up with a migration crisis similar to dust bowl.  The worst of two worlds, an impossible pension crisis and an ice age.

Maybe the California environmentalists have it right, the best defense againstc limate change is o spew CO2 in an orgy of inefficiency and fraud.

Trump, you idiot You traded a hotel for a trillion dollar defense commitment

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House will propose significant non-defense spending cuts in its 2020 budget proposal, officials said on Tuesday, but it will miss the Monday, Feb. 4 deadline for submitting its plan to U.S. Congress, where the new Democratic majority in the House of Representatives plans to oppose it.

Now you are fucked, that little snot nosed kid got a hotel, but California is not paying for the crap, kiss off, I am supporting Howard Schultz.   You blundered, you sucked up to the Saudis and got shit for it except a humongous tax bill for California.

I know the Venezuelans out here, your money is spent, it is gone. Say hello to shut downs. Your adviser, John Bolton has the IQ of a turnip, your in sad shape Trump.

This is the same crap Reagan pulled, spending some 255 of GDP to bail out one of the Bush kids.  This is why Howard Shultz needs to be a different from the traditional welfare bum Republican as he can be, and it is easy.  We like capitalism, we do not like Republican socialist scumbags.

My advice to the armed forces, you are losing support badly, you cannot be Bell Hops to the Trump hotel business, you will be funded at a bellhops wage. If the armed forces puts up with more crap from Trump and Bolton, then we will shut down DC permanently.

We can feed the East Coast

The new food delivery network to replace Chicago, Boise can do it.

Without much ado, they can pass the food right below the Chicago net. Boise already supplies the potatoes, they need only aim a bit farther south, rebuild some local connections, and bingo, New York no longer need Chicago, just let Michael Madigan and pals have the place, it saves us from Pocahontas and her 1 trillion dollar bailout of Chicago, her real plan.

New York is better off, including the liberals.  We can still feed them and their children likely much cheaper than Chicago in any event.

Invest in Boise, I think they have a real shot at getting the entire food business to the east coast.

Not even close

A city of Boise-owned tract near the Boise Airport offers a combination of benefits for industrial uses that is rarely found near cities of any size.The 275-acre parcel is zoned for all industrial uses, located within two miles of two interstate interchanges, close to the airport, 15-20 minutes from Downtown and close to fuel pipelines.“It’s such a good piece of property,” city spokesman Mike Journee said. “All of the elements are right there.”

Hey, wake up Idaho, you are the new food hub for the Northeast, Chi8cgo is gone, kaput. 

A look at the migration pattern shows Idaho a big recipient of Northeastern exodus, especially Illinois.  They are coming to Idaho to rebuild the food delivery network for the Eastern seaboard, Boise is not even close to getting this large enough.

The power chords were a bit tangled

Hospital let woman pull the plug on wrong man, lawsuit claims

I have done that, unplug the lamp by accident, it happens.

Michael Madigan uses forced migration in Illinois

Maduro Fights Back With Targeted Killings and Media Blackout

But they share some other common traits. Both believe children should be sold on the streets to make the pension payments.  We need to find some rice farmers to carpet bomb, they need a simple outlet.

Here is Maduro, notice the evil face:

Here is Maduro, planing on how to sell the vast wasteland of Illinois which is not almost completely evacuated.

Timmy!

iPhone sales crater 15% in Apple's worst holiday results in a decade, and the forecast looks just as grim

Hmm....  linux and Moore's law. 

But it is OK, you can join our singularity movement and become gazillianares again.

Redneck U is opening a racism school

Alejandro Godinez and Luis Torres, testified in December that a group of 10 to 12 Antifa members called them "Nazis" and "white supremacists" 

We are losing our ability to be good racists, unable to tell whitie from brownie.  Here are our classes. We offer a bachelors in racist prick, be the first to join.

• Nancy Pelosi  on how  to treat your little brown people
• NRA on different sex methods with long steel pipes
• Me, a class on Hispanic Caucii in the House.
• Diane Feinsteinn, how to appoint an affirmative action senator from the secretarial pool
• Howard Schultz, how not to sound like some dufas Republican Welfare bum.

Nope, we are planning more of them

Senator McConnell would support bill making shutdowns more difficult

Shut downs is how we deal with McConnell's career of bailouts and cyclical recessions.

Starting with the Alzheimer's president, we have 22 trillion of McConnell foul ups and we can only pay for them by shutting  down the Swamp now an then. McConnell knew of the ongoing fraud, did nothing to stop it, has no credibility. Go home, McConnell, get out get out get out.

All this fakery is due to Howard entering the race.  Take notice, Howard, you want to play off the Republican welfare bums against the Dem welfare bums, a can't lose strategy.

Never ever claim that republicans somehow earned their money, most of it comes from poor people, via taxes and high prices as Keynesians sold out the poor to get interest payments made.  There is nothing in republicanism that includes hard work and sacrifice, it has all been welfare, subsidies from the Fed, and premiums from kenyesian debt.

Ten year is at 2.7%, good rate, keep it

2.71% is high, but sustainable for taxpayers, if you keep that rate for 15 years, millennials have hope.

So who is driving up short term rates? The Swamp, the system is out of balance and the Swamp is engaging in fraud by hiding the new debt at the short end of the curve.  Bernanke rigged the curve so it can extend and pretend as long as possible, the but corollary here is sudden collapse.

Bernanke got us ten years to figure it out, we just made it worse. 3% is the tipping point, and suddenly, like over a week or so, the ten year will get above 3% and we will crash.

Howard needs to read my blog, the millennials read it, I feed them the undisguised truth. Tel the truth, Howard, and you will win.  Talk like yet another Republican welfare bum and you are out early, do not even bother.

Pocahontas is lost, bad advisers and a ton of government goodies she is protecting.  She will be exposed as yet another liberal fraud on her own terms.  I know this stuff, I know with message wins here Howard needs t tel the wealthy the truth, it is either devaluation or wealth taxes, both result is a substantial loss of wealth.   Do not lie about this , Howard, you will be spotted as a liar welfare Republican bum almost immediately.

Millennials have dane both, the Dem kanosian fraud thing and the Trump Republican welfare bum thing, they are getting smarter each day.

Says Howard

America doesn't want far-left ideas like 70% t

This is not quite right.

 Americans do not want a 70% wealth tax because they know it will bailout failing liberal programs, like Illinois pensions. The idea is to stop the deception on both sides, or else shut down the union.  

You have two choices here, devaluation, or actually pay down the debt.  Either one is a 70% wealth tax, or something like that, sorry Howard, you are stuck on this the boomers have already fouled their pants, you cannot stuff the crap back up their arses.

If you take the old Republican strategy, you will end up with a massive increase in debt, economic collapse.   The fraud here is simple, and you know it Howard.  Super wealthy get a premium on rates because they marginally bailout the Dems in DC, a well known fact.  Simple Republican welfarism will not work, Howard, if you take that track you are wasting your time.

You have already fouled your message, you are coming off like yet another Republican welfare bum, that approach has already been rejected by your constituents.

Starbucks has become my favorite coffee shop

Democrats Plan Starbucks Boycott If "Egotistical, Billionaire Asshole" Schultz Runs For President

Howard, you are my man, and I am not even a millennial.

Dems are idiots who lost five elections in a row, and still do not get that millennials are adamant, they are not covering the interest charges on all the crap that boomers bought, they are not paying for the Illinois bailout, they are not going to be available when Gavin and the venezuealans crash California.

Millennials know  repeat performance, we did a Gray Davis out here, had a disaster.  We know the outcome of having a Gavin,  millennials are already hiding, already figuring out the pattern and there is no kanosian fraud that will work, not from Pocahontas, not from Krugman, the jig is up.

Howard is the new story.

 Dems will just repeat the same crap in a never ending destructive kanosian cycle.  Millennials do not care anymore about Hispanics having legislative cockii.  No more finding for DC until we get a Howard.  Millinnelias have seen the Illinois history, the venezuelan history, the mexican corruption, the kanosian frauds, they have decoder rings, they have Howard, they have power.

The 19th time they tried this

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Budget Committee on Tuesday said he and other senior Democrats aim to write a fiscal blueprint this year that would cut annual budget deficits by 50 percent in the next 10 years, possibly including tax hikes on corporations and the wealthy.
Representative John Yarmuth, in an interview with Reuters, said part of the effort could focus on raising the U.S. corporate tax rate to 26 percent or 27 percent, up from the 21 percent enacted through a broad Republican tax cut law in 2017.

This is bullshit, we all know. The premise is that  'Our special government goodies' will be protected,". We have watched this scheme result in deep government cycles.

Nor this this bonehead mention Chicago, the transportation hub New York relies on.  This guy was part of the conspiracy that caused the Chicago problem.

Texas fixed this pension problems, California at least contained them since we almost went bankrupt.  A human tragedy, a war crime, was committed in Illiniois by this dufas and his cover up.

Texas no longer believes the BS, they are keep their wealth taxes in state, the eastern seaboard has a choice, start tracking real problems of starve.

California may be doomed, but Gavin will doom us with our own money and our own stupidity. We will not be asking the Swamp for a handout.  Mr. Bonehead here would be better off planning for a partial default.  No one believers the horse manure anymore, the only reasoning the scam is back is because of Howard Schultz.

Today;'s lesson for millennials:

Listen to Howard Schultz, the other politicians will cycle, sound like methheads, cover up, scheme, protect their goodies, etc etc etc. 

Let us do a California wealth tax

Increase the income tax rate for the high earners of Silicon Valley

Why?  Mainly because they have already agreed to it.  By virtue of selling these stupid code of conduct systems, funding Gavin, and personal choice; whether accidental or not, they have already signed and agreed to the tax scheme.

The ides of de3claring globalwamring emergencies and stealing t5he energay funds has run its course, Jerry milked thatplot for all it is worth.

We have the venezuelans, we have Gavin, we are better off just doing it since even the wealthy liberals seem to agree.  As a libertarian, my feeling is go for it as long as you have consensus and it seems we do.  I think it bad policy, but libertarians support both good and bad policies as long as they are democratatic.

The much worse policy is to get the rich liberals sending their wealth taxes back to DC, no one, especially the liberals like that idea.  There is no reason to fight this, the Silicon Valley execs already agree, take them up on their offer.  Otherwise, California liberals will be producing some half a trillion just to get started on bailing out Illinois, they would rather bail out California.

But wait, you say, this is very inefficient and ultimately the little browns suffer the consequences, and they do, suffer.  But, the movement is way beyond stopping, the venezualans have already committed to frigging the poor, I cannot stop them, I cannot get symmetric information to them, and the optimum path is to let Gavin play his hand and support an additional wealth tax, otherwise the unions will impose a regressive tax on little browns and screw them over the way they did to the browns of Illinois.

Smart move

PG&E To File Bankruptcy Within Hours; Joins Lehman And WorldCom In Tragic Ranking

The venezuelans were after the company, bankruptcy protects them from the little rats. I don't call this a harbinger, this is strictly a California thing. PGE was in a difficult situation, required to be the income transfer agent for the socialist, our home remodeler, our financial lender, and in the process the energy delivery business was shot, pretty much the same crap the gray Davis caused during the Enron disaster.

Millennial candidate staffing up

Howard Schultz has hired ex-Obama aide Bill Burton as a communications advisor as the former Starbucks CEO mulls running for president in 2020, according a source with direct knowledge of the matter.
Schultz's team has been speaking with potential staffers as the former Starbucks chairman debates whether to run for president as an independent, this source added.
"There's a lot of people who have reached out who wants to become involved," this person close to the former Starbucks chairman told CNBC on the condition of anonymity.

The Dems really fouled this, did they think they could just shaft the millennials without a response?  President Schultz is the response, his constituency are the young kids saddled with 22 trillion in debt to service, for all of eternity, according the Bernanke.

They will not pay it, and their goal is agree not to pay it until there is a fair negotiation.  The Dems suffer major problems of delusion and no one is waiting for them to recover.

President Schultz going full sandbox

Ex-Starbucks CEO and Presidential Hopeful Howard Schultz Is a Crypto Fan

Millennials listen up. If you do get a partial write off of boomer debt, this guy will be managing the monetary regime change.  He can take us to full auto currency banker, Giggles has the set up, this is all doable.

Listen to this guy, he might find a way out of a horrid lifetime left you by your parents.

Dems attack millennial's candidate

Democrats are begging Howard Schultz not to run for office — and threatening a Starbucks boycott if he does

This is an attack on our children, Bloomberg is leading the charge.   Dems will lose the millennial vote sooner than expected if they keep up this crap.

My advice to millennials, tell this guy to run, run, run.

Wasserman, you are not Venezuelan

'Election-Meddler' Wasserman Schultz Now "Fixing Democracy" In Venezuela

Somewhere the Dem party got afflicted with identity crisis of the worst sort.  I am closer to being Venezuelan, I am Calizuelan.

Fewer hurricanes, forest fires and earthquakes

Specifically, the U.S. budget deficit is forecast to widen to "only" $897 billion over the 12 months through September, from $779 billion last year. This means that contrary to the CBO's last forecast in April, the U.S. budget deficit will top $1 trillion in fiscal 2022. The CBO estimated in April that the budget deficit for the entire fiscal year would increase to $804 billion, before widening to $981 billion in fiscal 2019 and topping $1 trillion in 2020.“That reduction in projected deficits results primarily from legislative changes -- most notably a decrease in emergency spending,” the CBO said, somewhat optimistically especially since the economy is forecast to slow over the next three years with the growth rate easing to 2.3% in 2019, 1.7% next year, and 1.6% in 2021, the CBO forecasted; growth was an estimated 3.1% last year.

Bold face mine.

What is neglected is the spread.   We will see about 10 million boomers dump there share of debt service onto the millennials next year.  The CBO cannot count that.  The CBO projections are nice Euler curves going up and away. But the measure curves had been going straight up, an there is every reason to believe they will go straighter up than usual during the down turn.

Tell Pocahontas that Gavin is not taking any chances by sending his wealth taxes back to DC, suggest Gavin and Liz  have a conversation before the issue becomes public. We are in the peculiar situation of our collective fate depends on Gavin getting a clue, and the real risk is Gavin flounders and goes teenager dating.

The last time we did this, it all depended on Obama, Brown, and DC repubs agreeing on a split of the income taxes and sequester, that was the deal that got us out of the mess. We don't have a Jerry Brown, no Obama, we have Pocahontas, the Sacramento venezuelans and Gavin. The odds are not looking good, can we get Jerry to phone in some friendly advice?

Taunting him into a run

Trump: Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz 'doesn't have the guts' to run for president

Trump would like to see Howard in the race, you can bet on that.  I think he has a duty to run, he is the only one potentially offering millennials a way out.  The millennials are still  dumb shits, and we should at least give them a wider choice when possible.

We cannot just standby nd let the two major partiesddestroy the next generation, even if the next generation is clueless.  Milennials will not be clueless forever, eventually they learn.  In the meantime, we do not  want to saddle them with voters regret, they will give up. We need Schultz to get some ideas into our childrens heads, otherwise we are frigged with stupid for ever.

Dan Waters on the teacher strike

The union that represents teachers in the state’s largest school district, Los Angeles Unified, is claiming that its six-day strike produced a victory, and local media are echoing that line.
It may be, however, a pyrrhic victory because it could drive LA Unified, which is already in a deep financial hole, mostly of its own making, even closer to insolvency.
United Teachers of Los Angeles settled for the same 6 percent salary rise over two years that the district had offered before the strike. Its victory claim rests mostly on the district’s agreeing to place more nurses and librarians in junior and senior high schools and reduce class sizes. 

It was strictly a political and union strike not directly aimed at teachers, but aimed to extract more jobs from the state.   But the district is about a billion in the hole per year.  Gavin will have to borrow money, the state is due to cover costs, as is the usual practice after the Dills Act.  But the state is about 15 billion shrt, the rainy fund wiped in two days by Gavin, and this year the stock returns are looking dismal so far.  Gavin will be hitting the debt market pretty quick.  Once Jerry left, it is straight to Venezuela.

NVidia has bad lnux support so we gonna crash the economy

The Dow drops 350 points as Caterpillar, Nvidia stoke China growth fears

A racist pig by any other name

Hispanic Caucus sees expanded role for itself in Congress


Special political groups organized by race, Dems been ding that for 240 years, they will never stop it is in their blood, racism. Our gal from California is one of the worst, by the way.

But if Hispanic caucus like their racism, here let me help.  The reason white people do not make white caucus might be because they are a helleva lot smarter than hispanics.  Another, forming a rcist organization is like admitting one is a dufas welfare bum, an embarrassment to any persons intellect. You look like one of those  Tea party bums.

So, suggest you disband the racist cockii, and join the human race.

Egad!

Using words such as "life-threatening," "dangerous," "brutal," and "unprecedented," the National Weather Service is preparing us for the extreme cold that's forecast to roar into the U.S. next week. -USA Today

My WalMart algorithm in detail

The Walmart checkout manager has a task, walk up and down the different counter and change the 'items per basket' sign, one counter at a time.  Clerks and customers arrive at random intervals from the shelves, where they put stuff up and take stuff down.

All customers and all clerks have equal view of the check out stands and the checkout manager.

What is the condition when all queues are stable?    My algorithm says this is a matching problem between compact generators, a compact generator akin to a generalized Huffman tree.  The generator converts a uniform sequence indices into typical arrivals,  at stability.  The store manager is, in fact, a dual Huffman encoder, running real time adaptive.  The manager is adiabatic, one node at a time, access to the queues round robin, there is no party with biased access.

Since there is flow, it is implied in the quantization process, there is queue asymmetry.  In particular, at the minimum there will be zero to one clerks, the customer queue backed up to one or two. This algorithm is likely optimal, any time two or three customers a see the counter vacant, they will migrate to the next available queue, tracking the manager , causing an inefficient loop..

Since the millennials are doomed anyway

Dems Warn Howard Schultz Independent Run Would "Secure Trump's Reelection"

At least give them an alternative voice before they begin their lifelong journey of poverty. This guy  might have a plan, a way to partially write off some debt and pay some of it back. He could restore a future for the millennials. If I were the millennials, I would demand at least a partial write down, devaluation. Then the deal only works if paygo rules are strict, for like 20 years, so we can see the economists have plenty of opportunity to doom the result. But at least consider it.  And a bonus, this guy did his political correctness program, he got a code of conduct for the PCers.

Ben Franklin built the first electronic processor

For those who assign patents.

Kite, storm, key, pail of water; one bit per week, if you are not electrocuted.

Then came Sam and got the rate up to one bit per second. It has followed a Moore's law of its own ever since, and I do not see it stopping yet.

Autoreaders are here

I forgot to mention, along my travels in the web I an across a great product, it summarizes your favorite web sites, an auto reader!  Basically a dedicated construction of join, a Watson-lite. Neat idea, dedicated web reader.

Gets us back to the point, what is the point of XML? That is another wonder of duplication, comma separated files with a few key words can do the same function, and almost everywhere the first software action is to remove the tags, bots don't really read them, in the sense of look them up.

I have a better idea.  Use the xml tags to describe you lay out, then use a bit of intelligence to map arbitrary text to your layout, put it in receivers hands. So, reader needs it in report format, for example, bingo his browser base rectangle is set. Then use has a slightly intelligent lexical analyzer that can pretty much get headers, footers, body, summary and the rest; just flow that text into the preset layout. Then keep all those tags off the net, especially the bot nets, they cause useless spaghetti everywhere.

Doing deals with the Saudis is not my best defense

"At the end of the day, the president’s commitment is to defend the nation and he’ll do it either with or without Congress..."

Mulvaney: Trump Will Build The Wall "With Or Without Congress"

You trade a hotel for a trillion dollar defense commitment with the same folks who bombed us. You support mass slaughter in Yemen.  

Millennials are screwed, getting hammered from both sides.

How does xchars handle the browser function?

How would xchars mimic the Jupyter browser based rectangle system?
It doesn't, bu xchars lets a browser function connect to one of its rectangle using a binding interface.  So one particular window can be web browser and another running QT_Charts. So the encapsulation is reversed, or more precisely, the xchars system, at the command line level, is low level, it is something that browsers build intelligence onto.  But the symbol table, the universal bus all make the lower level of rectangle available universally, as long as you can pick a unique name for your rectangle.

The new  systems will adopt this new decomposed approach, it enables a whole host of configurable applications if we can get plain text access to the lower level.  Jupyter will do a simple switch out from xwindows to an xcb/cairo style rendering system, and lower level rectangle access is automatic.  Any implementation of xchars that additionally exposes the xcb interface is a jupyter candidate at run time configuration.

It mastters not if the code is mine or hers, the semantics dictate a simple solution.  There is a rectangle, it has a name, it has an optional size, it is one you make.  There are like, three different, basically the same, combinations of those variables, there is no need to complicate the interface, add typeface explosion, run 20,000 lines of ncurses, or call grandma.  Just ask, using the common form with plain text, choose your favorite unique name, acquire bunches of them.

What?

browser ./startpage newrect conn myrect;

Browser has top name space, how it unfolds generates the steps needed to consume following arguments. All is plain text. you see in the examples a name space grammar emerge, rules and order to maintain unique names at all point of argument consumption, going left to right. The immediate name space terminates at semi-colon, but import ed name spaces have persistence.  Names must be unique command line to command line regardless so user can carry key values across his interactions, local persistence.

Note my file indicator ./  ;  We can remove that with a file snippet having symbol table front end. Hundred lines of code, well worth it as files can have ad hoc local names with hardly any cost. I might change my m,ind about keeping that double operator, but then it may be one of those typeface explosions that prove the rule, it is only there because of long standing use among everyone since the dawn of computer disks.

A simple, programmable name space function, identical; enterprise wide. It is where we were all headed, as the geeks will assure you. Go,go,go.

Economists caused the problem

PARIS – The West is in crisis – and so is economics. Rates of return on investment are meager. Wages – and incomes generally – are stagnating for most people. Job satisfaction is down, especially among the young, and more working-age people are unwilling or unable to participate in the labor force. Many in France decided to give President Emmanuel Macron a try and now are protesting his policies. Many Americans decided to give Donald Trump a try, and have been similarly disappointed. And many in Britain looked to Brexit to improve their lives. 
Yet economists have been largely mute on the underlying causes of this crisis and what, if anything, can be done to restore economic vigor. It is safe to say that the causes are not well understood. And they will not be understood until economists finally engage in the task of reshaping how economics is taught and practiced. In particular, the profession needs three revolutions that it still resists.

Economists engage in war crimes, they are taught dishonesty in universities, it started with MIT when Paul Samuelson was tasked by the defense department to lie, and they have never stopped lying.  Today we have central bankers completely ignorant of banking, due to MIT and its ilk.

The first concerns the continuing neglect of imperfect knowledge. 

This one is easy, break up the variance into its lines of symmetry and one can see precisely where one economist is lying and the voters is defrauded.   What you find is that those closest to policy formulation are first in line, get the biggest bailout, and the remainder seethes until the next election whereby economists restart the same destructive cycle.

For example, takes Brad's chart, ask a hundred economists if they see a pattern.  Those with no ax to grind will point out the symmetry right away, the cycles.  Those with priors and and special exemptions will see no such pattern.  The whole science has been designed around fakery, expectations they call it, but pure fraud is another more accurate term.

Your will find much better economics in the biology department that studies populations under stress.  Biologists are sufficiently separated from the human endeavor, they are more accurate.  A biologist, when asked, 'Why the sudden stop", will get out a microscope and tell you why the bacteria had a sudden stop.  The economists first thought on looking at a sudden stop is whether his particular goodie is safe, the first and sometimes the only concern of an economist.

This kind of deception is quite common among the public sector professors nd we saw a ton of fraud from them justifying the pubic sector debt during the near bankruptcy, and now that we are back to bankruptcy, the professors will once again be generating fraud.

So, move economics back into biology of species where it belongs.  Prohibit economists from discussing banking at all, they are constitutionally unable to understand it and they just cause cycles. So, instead of economics we get accountants with a calculus tool, not like Newtons tool, bu a tool based on structural analysis.  Then let accountants compute an accurate (or fraudulant) measure of  assets to liabilities, especially the variance between the two.  Accountants who commit fraud are discovered, they do not hid under the expectations scam. 

Who does the smallest mass slaughter

China does not have a Nobel Prize winner in economics for the same reason that none of the Muslim countries have a Nobel Prize in economics, the Nobel Prize in economics is heavily skewed towards western economics pioneered by Europe and the United States. Islamic Economics and Marxist economics in China's case does not appeal to the Nobel committee. 

Try this: 

The great famine was caused by a combination of adverse weather conditions, social pressure, economic mismanagement, and radical changes in agriculture imposed by government regulations.Mao Zedong, Chinese Communist Party Chairman, introduced drastic changes in farming policy which prohibited farm ownership. Failure to abide by the policies led to punishment. The social pressure imposed on the citizens in terms of farming and business, which the government controlled, led to state instability. Owing to the laws passed during the period and Great Leap Forward during 1958–1962, according to an analysis by journalist Yang Jisheng, about 36 million people died of starvation in this period.^[4]

The Nobel committee likely awards the prize to the economists who kills the fewest, and American economists, at the time, only killed 2.5 million Vietnamese.  So, according to my calculation,  Americans should get 20 times the  Nobels than Chinese.

But I am not sure what the Nobel rules are, they may just reward the economist who does the most killing, and are simply biased against Chinese Commie killers.

The Fed's real worry

ST. LOUIS ― Recent movements in several housing indicators, including mortgage rates, existing home sales, real house prices and the momentum of residential investment, could suggest another housing downturn may be on the horizon. William Emmons, assistant vice president, and chief economist of the St. Louis Fed's Center for Household Financial Stability looks into the possibility that current housing market signals may mean a broader economic downturn in 2019 or 2020.

The Fed wants a slow housing adjustment, as slow as the bubble developed in the past few years.  Unfortunately, the fed has little choice, rates will likely rise above 3% and the housing market will crash.

But it does not single a major recession, it signals a small dip.  We are having a debt recession, too much of it drives up rates, and the Fed will be part of a sharp contraction if history is any guide. Here is California it is a big deal, housing collapses.  Home sales are the exit strategy for many of the boomers, and they are getting trapped as home sales keep falling YoY.

Cun California go bust without taking down the whole economy? No, California is just too big.  It is Gavin, not Trump who delivers the recession, and he is well on his way to doing so.