Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

[aeden]

https://x.com/Bk_Hanas/status/1866481745672941921
The slaughter will not stop as the gravity well filled with demons
SITREP 12.10.24 report is stupidy to tear our Country down and apart.
Flights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A8V8ZlPsvM
and unhinged debt spending to cripple it.
That would be you.
Unhinged as the Senate is and has been the problem.

[Higgenbotham]

Elon Musk's ideas about government efficiency are all wrong, political scientists say
Erin Snodgrass Sep 14, 2024, 3:01 AM CDT

Ultimately, however, both said the 235-year-old federalism that governs America simply isn't equipped to handle the pressures faced by private businesses.

"My fear is that it would collapse," Crouse said.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-mu ... rts-2024-9

[Higgenbotham]

Luigi Mangione

Stan Ridgway

[Verse 1: Stan Ridgway]
He got the high sign so he jumped a bus
And along the roads that wind on through
The hot Mojave and the Jericho
He'd start his whole life anew
And what he'd left behind he hadn't valued
Half as much as some things
He never knew
Right around sundown...

[Verse 2: Stan Ridgway]
He got dropped off on a street in town
Where a grey old man looked him up and down and said
"Son, this ain't no Western movie matinee
And you're a long way off from yippee-yi-yay
'Cause I can tell at a glance
You're not from 'round these parts
Got a green look about ya
And that's a gringo for starts
Sometimes the only thing a Western savage understands
Are whiskey and rifles and an unarmed man like you."
"So you gotta keep on the move
Don't let that fancy paint job fool you."
And then the old-timer pulled him close and said

[Chorus 1: Stan Ridgway]
"You've come a long way, I know
You got a longer drive ahead
Through the bones of the buffalo
Through the claims of the Western dead
And just like the spokes of a wheel
You'll spin 'round with the rest
You'll hear the drums and the brush of steel
You'll hear the call of the west."
Call of the west
You'll hear the call of the west
Call of the west

[Bridge; Spoken: Stan Ridgway]
Harshly awakened by the sound of six rounds
Of light-caliber rifle fire
Followed minutes later by the booming of nine rounds
From a heavier rifle
But you can't close off the wilderness
He heard the snick of a rifle bolt
And found himself peering down the muzzle
Of a weapon held by a drunken liquor store owner
"There's a conflict," he said
"There's a conflict between land and people...
The people have to go
They've come all the way out here to make mining claims
To do automobile body work
To gamble
To take pictures
To not have to do laundry
To own a mini-bike
To have their own CB radios and air conditioning
Good plumbing for sure
And to sell Time Life books and to work in a deli
To have some chili every morning
And maybe... maybe to own their own gas stations again
And to take drugs
Have some crazy sex
But above all, above all, to have a fair shake
To get a piece of the rock and a slice of the pie
And spit out of the window of your car
And not have the wind blow it back in your face"

[Chorus 2: Stan Ridgway]
Now from the high timber line to the deserts dry
Who'll risk dangling on some hangman's tree?
To stake their claims on these prairie plains
While they say this lunch is not had for free?
Just like the spokes of a wheel
Who'll spin 'round with the rest?
They'll hear the drums and the brush of steel
And I'll hear the call of the west
Call of the west
(Yippee-yi-yo, yippee-yi-yo-ki-yay, yippee-yi-yo-ohh)
I'll hear the call of the west
Call of the west
(Yippee-yi-yo, yippee-yi-yo-ki-yay, yippee-yi-yo-ohh)
I'll hear the call of the west
Call of the west
(Yippee-yi-yo, yippee-yi-yo-ki-yay, yippee-yi-yo-ohh)
I'll hear the call of the west
Call of the west
(Yippee-yi-yo, yippee-yi-yo-ki-yay, yippee-yi-yo-ohh)
I'll hear the call of the west
Call of the west
(Yippee-yi-yo, yippee-yi-yo-ki-yay, yippee-yi-yo-ohh)

[Outro; Spoken: Joe Nanini]
("I used to be somebody!
I used to be somebody, do you hear me?
Do you hear me?
I-I've been there!
I used to be somebody, goddamn you!
I've been there before!
Don't walk away!")

Call of the West
From the album of the same name
1982

[tim]

https://www.oftwominds.com/blogdec24/bi ... 12-24.html

Inflation statistics are easily gamed. So are statistics such as median wages. Official inflation is gamed by various statistical tricks (hedonics and what's in the price basket) to understate the real-world decline in purchasing power.

There is only one true measure of prosperity: the purchasing power of an hour's labor / wage. It doesn't matter what the wage or price numbers are, what matters is: how much can you buy with an hour's wage?

Fact: in 1977, it took 2.25 days of work (18 hours) to pay the monthly rent on my studio apartment in the most expensive city in the U.S., Honolulu. In virtually any other city or town, the rent would have been less. I was 23 years old, working as a non-union apprentice carpenter for a small contractor. The pay was a bit above average, but by no means fabulous. I wasn't working at Goldman Sachs. The rent was fair market; it wasn't some special deal offered by a relative.

Since this was a cheap apartment, let's round that up to 3 days of work to pay the monthly rent.

OK, so how many young wage earners today can pay the rent for their own apartment with 3 days' pay? Any hands? OK, the Ivy League MBA working at Goldman Sachs, making mega-six-figures in annual compensation. Any average folks out there paying their rent with 3 days' pay? No?

Today, that would require an hourly wage of $60 to $90 an hour. The median annual wage is around $60,000, around $30/hour--half or a third of what it takes to pay the rent on a studio apartment in a high-cost urban area with 3 days of work.

[aeden]

Orban to weather the storm as others are the suicide mission.
The new Trump team will facilitate possible effective change with Orban on point who seen the course set.
As it is the warning was clear long before they provoked the Border issues.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aYAV0udC ... ture=share
The other lunatics, and the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone,
where the beast and the false prophet are also; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

As we know and just witnessed is the miry clay period assent to divert attention from those who indeed decieved them.
The headlight or a the tail lights in view is rather clear as some looked in the rear view mirror to see what they
are as insane.
Revelation 20:10

Numbskull of the north proves what a worthless lunatic He actually is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx9ihaqUvXM

[Higgenbotham]

A timeline of developments in the UnitedHealthcare CEO’s fatal shooting

Dec. 8

Fencing is erected around the entrances and parking lot of UnitedHealthcare’s Minnetonka offices over the weekend.

https://www.startribune.com/luigi-mangi ... /601192998



No delay there...

[Higgenbotham]

The global energy landscape is facing a crucial turning point. Various studies show that oil liquid production is expected to peak in 2035 at a magnitude of 500 petajoule per day (PJ/d), but when the energy required for the extraction and production of these liquids is taken into account, the net-energy peak is expected to occur in 2025 at a level of 400 PJ/d (Delannoy et al. 2021). For context, the US consumed 100,000 petajoules of energy in 2021.

Energy necessary for the production of oil liquids is growing at an exponential rate, representing 15.5% of the energy production of oil liquids today and projected to reach a proportion equivalent to half of the gross energy output by 2050 (Delannoy et al. 2021).

https://jpt.spe.org/plummeting-energy-r ... -landscape

Let's remember some version of this has been said before. But someday it will happen, most likely.

[aeden]

The free shit army in Alinsky transfer costs have taken out the health care systems as we posted a long time ago.
Reports are flowing in the on the left coast they ran off weeks and cannot spend as the unemplyment benefits are gone.
The cascading effects effect are spreading and will.

[Higgenbotham]

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Unite ... -E1991.htm

Probably not much different than the employee reviews of the rest of the S&P 500 companies: management is poor, good managers are run out, but employees are thrown a few crumbs. As one person told me a long time ago regarding a different company, the shit floats to the top.

[Higgenbotham]

For the process of how the shit floats to the top, I can give many examples but this one comes to mind. This has been discussed from a different angle previously. I was a new supervisor on the floor where a lot of underweight packages were being discovered due to an equipment change. Our plant manager had previously worked at Procter and Gamble (a company that Procter and Gamble owned but has since sold) and he was maybe in his mid 30s, so he had risen 3 notches in the corporate heirarchy by then and was over several hundred people. I asked him whether it would be reasonable to consider using checkweigh machines to ensure there would be no underweights. He told me that in his first job as a new product manager with that company they had checkweigh machines and he had turned them all off, with the result being that his production numbers soared. I guess that is what they call "mentoring".

James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
When the world is upside down, shit floats to the top…

https://x.com/RealJamesWoods/status/180 ... 55?lang=en

The larger issue is not to rail against the unfairness of it all, but to understand where things are at. Where things are at in my view is at the cusp or slightly into a new dark age.

That will accelerate markedly if the projection of the net liquids peak in 2025 posted on the previous page is correct.

"...but when the energy required for the extraction and production of these liquids is taken into account, the net-energy peak is expected to occur in 2025..."