AP: U.S. government expects households to see heating bills jump as much as 54% compared to last winter

— Josh Caplan (@joshdcaplan) October 13, 2021

Hooray, $600 per month to heat a 2,500 sq-ft home.

Screw the working and middle classes, they can wear sweatshirts and keep the thermostat at 62 degrees.

Fuck Joe Biden.

And any OpEd writer who does a “well ackchyually this price increase/inflation rate is good” while the cost of my heat and hot cocoa goes up by half deserves to have a concrete block duct taped to the side of their head thrown into the nearest deep body of water.

Robot dogs can now have 6.5mm assault rifles mounted on their backs: https://t.co/DTOvHbJIyU

— Tyler Rogoway (@Aviation_Intel) October 12, 2021

From The Daily Mail:

Inflation rate rises to 5.4% – matching the 13-year high set this summer – as meat prices jump 10% and gas prices soar 42% from a year ago

The consumer price index rose 5.4 percent in September from a year ago, up slightly from August’s gain of 5.3 percent and matching the levels seen in June and July.

Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core inflation rose 0.2 percent in September and 4 percent compared with a year ago. The core inflation number hit a three-decade high of 4.5 percent in June.

The big take away of this article is this infographic:

By midterms next year, going to a chain restaurant for a burger will be  $20 and a steak is going to be a luxury $40 item.

Applebee’s is gonna be like Ruth’s Chris.

We’re going to go back to home tailoring clothes and turning every last bit of leftovers into a casserole like our depression era grandparents.

It’s going to suck something fierce.

Don’t worry, according to Bloomberg, that’s good.

America Needs Higher, Longer-Lasting Inflation
The benefits of moderately rising prices and wages outweigh the costs.

All of this has economists and central bankers dutifully poring over data for signs of when or whether inflation, currently just under 4%, will drift back toward the Federal Reserve’s target of 2%. Instead, they should be considering a more fundamental question: whether the Fed should strive to make 4% inflation permanent.

Inflation — particularly when caused by sharp increases in a few products — is politically unpopular. A modest sustained increase in prices and wages, however, would create a more stable U.S. economy by improving debt dynamics and giving the Fed more flexibility. In an uncertain world, those two advantages make higher inflation more than worth it.

Sure, you lost the ability to grill burgers or have a BLT at home whenever you want as a middle-class American.  You’re rationing out food, reusing your coffee grounds, and have given up on a road trip to grandma’s this year because you can’t afford the gas, but that’s a good thing because the Fed or something, something, you don’t understand because you don’t have a degree in monetary theory.

Welcome to the Great Deprestagflation, and your suffering is good for the nation.  You don’t understand why but it is because some Wall Street shit-weasel said so.

Kamala slams European explorers who ‘ushered in a wave of devastation for Tribal nations’ and vows the Biden administration will work to address the impact of America’s ‘shameful past’

Kamala Harris has vowed to address the ‘shameful past’ of America’s European explorers, saying they ‘ushered in a wave of devastation’ for Native Americans when they arrived 500 years ago.

The vice president was speaking at the National Congress of American Indians 78th Annual Convention, held this year in Portland, Oregon.

Harris told the delegates: ‘Since 1934, every October, the United States has recognized the voyage of the European explorers who first landed on the shores of the Americas.

‘But that is not the whole story. That has never been the whole story.

‘Those explorers ushered in a wave of devastation for Tribal nations — perpetrating violence, stealing land, and spreading disease.’

How can you work to help a country if you have nothing but shame for how it was founded and its majority population?

You can’t.

Which probably explains everything else this administration is doing.

They are just not hiding their contempt anymore.

Pentagon: 46% spike in suicide among U.S. Army’s active-duty forces in Q2 compared to same period last year pic.twitter.com/ukOxqNEjFO

— Lucas Tomlinson (@LucasFoxNews) October 13, 2021

I wonder if this is related to the Biden Administration throwing away all of our achievements in the Middle East relegating all our troops’ sacrifices to nothing, clearly protecting highly partisan incompetents to honorable officers, telling career military that they will be discharged under less than honorable conditions if they don’t take the Coof shot, attacking patriotic military personnel as white supremacists, or some combination of all of thee above.

Imagine being a soldier from working-class Middle America.  You sign up after 9/11 out of a love of country.  You become career military.

All of a sudden your Commander in Chief loses the war you fought and lost friends in, your Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says you are a threat because of the color of your skin, your unconscious biases, and white rage, and if you don’t get the Fauci Ouchi, the last decade or more if your service and any retirement or veteran benefits with it are forfeit.

Yeah, I thought so.

If you know a veteran suffering right now, reach out to them.

I just finished the first three books of the Wayfarer series by Becky Chambers.  They are: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, A Closed and Common Orbit, and Record of a Spaceborn Few.

I’m waiting for the fourth to come out on audio (I have a 25 minute commute each way every day so I like audiobooks).

I decided I needed some light sci-fi after the grueling ordeal that was Ordinary Men.  Yes it was edifying and I’m glad I did it, but it was rough.

The Wayfarer series is excellent.

The reviews are shit that almost made me not want to read them, e.g., one review called it “sci-fi for the Tumblr generation.”

Yes, Chambers does use some of the gender neutral neologisms like xir, but it works in the context of alien species with no gender or fixed sex.

The books had delightfully no political bend.   She focuses more on world building and character development then action, which i greatly enjoy.

I’ve always preferred authors who can create interesting universes, which you can tell by the sci-fi stories I’ve posted.

The last two book series I’ve eaten up this ravenously were the Abhorsen (Old Kingdom) trilogy by Garth Nix and The Magicians by Lev Grossman.  Two others that have extraordinary world building.

Her third book, Record of a Spaceborn Few, is very Heinleinian in that the story is a vehicle for discussing social philosophy.

I highly recommend the series.

(UPDATE) HOLSTER HAS BEEN ADOPTED!

Free to a good home. Comp Tac holsters have a well deserved reputation and I never felt my sidearm was less than secured while in this holster. Yes, it is a paddle because where I was working way back then, I had to disarm and I needed a quick on and off system. This holster performed beautifully.

I used it with my CW9, but it is also supposed to fit the CW40 and the P and PM series in both 9 and 40.

First come, first served. Drop me an email: Miguel AT gufreezone DOT net