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Mike Jones
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GDP growth for the last three quarters of 2018: 4.2%, 3.4%, 2.2%.
Consensus estimate for 1Q2019: 1.5%.
It sure looks like Trump bought about a quarter and a half of fake "prosperity" with his tax cut and things are continuing to cool off.
Genuinely concerned that he's going to start a war to take people's minds off it if the economy goes into recession.
Stan Ridgway was one of the most wonderfully strange things from the 1980s, first with Wall of Voodoo then with a number of solo albums.
Here he goes "noir" and with his offbeat voice and clever lyrics, it just...works. It's the title cut from his first solo album in 1986.
Stan Ridgway - The Big Heat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpBa56cBmFE
THE BIG HEAT - STAN RIDGWAY
The EU legislature has voted to get rid of daylight savings time starting in 2021.
#BrewAndWho
More Flying Dog winter warmer and In Cold Blood.
I’m rather warming up Matt Smith as The Doctor.
More Flying Dog winter warmer and In Cold Blood.
I’m rather warming up Matt Smith as The Doctor.
Mark@mike_jones Let’s hope that the info they ultimately decide to release to the public is done so with transparency, so that we do have enough data to make our own judgment of the findings.
I’ve had the fortune and the pleasure of seeing #Ichiro #Suzuki play #baseball. He transcended the game and I’m happy he was able to retire as a #Mariner. He’ll go down as one of the best to have ever played. He’s guaranteed to go into both the America and the Japanese baseball hall of fame. On a side note, because of him #Safeco Field started featuring #sushi on its menu at the ballpark. The sport will surely miss this one of a kind class act. #Seattle #sports
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2019/03/22/baseball/mlb/ichiros-remarkable-baseball-journey-comes-end/
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2019/03/22/baseball/mlb/ichiros-remarkable-baseball-journey-comes-end/
So the Mueller report is out.
Lots of people are talking about what it means.
NONE of them know what's in it.
My suggestion: withhold judgment until we've actually seen what's in it.
If you're going to judge Mueller, do so on the basis of whether the report is honest and thorough, not on its conclusions.
Second suggestion: don't watch any "news" programming on TV this weekend.
#baseball
A local historian has found the location of the first grand slam HR in Major League history. It was hit by Roger Connor of the Troy Trojans, against the Worcester Ruby Legs on September 10, 1881 at Riverside Park in Rensselaer, NY, near the location of the current Albany-Rensselaer Amtrak station.
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Grondahl-Sleuthing-reveals-MLB-s-first-grand-13699502.php
Grondahl: Historian finds first grand slam in MLB history — in Rensselaer
RENSSELAER - Each time Matt Malette stepped across the sodden field, his brown leather Oxford shoes made a slurping sound as he picked his steps across a muddy expanse speckled with Canada geese droppings. Sandwiched between the Hudson River and Broadway, near the Amtrak train station, this forlorn patch of low-lying real estate hardly looks like a spot where major league baseball history was made more than a century ago. It sits in the shadow of a Dunn Memorial Bridge ramp.
Stanford has done a study of >100 million traffic stops. Findings include:
- black drivers are more likely to be stopped than white or Hispanic drivers.
- the disparity drops for stops at night
- once stopped, black and Hispanic drivers are more likely to be ticketed, searched, and arrested
- black and white drivers are roughly equally likely to be found with contraband in a search, and Hispanic drivers less likely
Tell me again there's no white privilege.