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11/26/21… 14,540.13
11/19/21… 14,537.69
6/27/13… 15,000.00 |
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(THE DOW JONES
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35,804.38; 11/19/21…
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LESSON for November
26, 2021 – DON JONES is THANKFUL, FOR…
Don Jones and the family sat down, yesterday, to eat turkey…
or, if inflation overpowered income, mac and cheese and rutabagas… and give thanks
for what 2021 has wrought, and brought, to date.
For example: it’s not 2020.
The rich and famous – most of them
were happy. Really! Really happy!
Don Jones?
All things considered, here at his Index, we have totaled up
the indicators and found 2021 to have been a pretty good year, so far. Not so bad, especially compared to 2020 which
began with the Dow five thousand points and the Don five hundred lower.
So, herewith, are the good things of 2021, as captured by
the DJI from assorted media and other sources, month by month. (For the implacable haters, we also include
the worst developments of the month.)
Take note that, as ever, our Index fingers the good, the bad and the
ugly without regard to partisan or special interests, but only on balance. So, for example, January’s failed election
coup was a good thing because, on balance, overthrowing a democratic government
in favor of a fascist dictator is a step in the wrong direction that, in the past,
has led to bad things for the country, and even for the dictators (Hitler a
suicide, Mussolini hanged, Qaddafi, Saddam and several others, untimely
demises). One could argue, if one was
MAGA, that it was a bad thing, but this would have been a minority
position. Elsewhere, inspirational children,
miraculous rescues and falling unemployment were adjudicated good things. Gun and highway carnage, bridge and road
collapses, civil wars, terrorism and rising inflation are bad (except to some
few hedge fund operators who can turn failure and tragedy around and make a
profit).
Critics have criticized our Indices and our Lessons as
biased… usually to the point of excess optimism (especially in categories such
as Crime, Disasters and the plague half of Health)… and they would be
correct. However, inasmuch as the print,
social media and broadcast news sources that we steal from to compile our Index
are heavily biased (for their own profit) towards the spectacular and the
disastrous, we keep in mind that for every Afghan terrorist, New York hedge-fund
profiteer and Chicago or Colorado active shooter, there are millions of
ordinary Joneses, going to work (some, like the My Pillow People even making
things other people can buy, and use), raising their children as good
Americans, consuming consumables and maybe even taking small steps in a
positive direction by donating to charitable causes or refraining from throwing
their Burger King paper and plastic waste out the window whilst on the
highway. Their struggles and sacrifices
seldom make the New York Times or even local evening news, but we appreciate
them, all the same.
And so, month by month, here are a few things we had to be
thankful for, yesterday, (and one incident, per month, that most of us did
not). Some, designated by (Par.) had
partisan connotations… good for some, but not so for others. (A precious few, designated (SPar.) gladdened most but made a few very, very
angry.) As Kyle McLaughlin and Laura
Dern commiserated in “Blue Velvet” (RIP that fuckin’ suave Dean Stockwell), it can be a very strange world.
Dji.2021 Month by month to date…
JANUARY
The Good:
The J-6 insurrection had its upsides and downsides. For the majority of Joneses, the upside was
that even Mike Pence (love ‘im or hate ‘im) wasn’t hanged. Order
was restored, the election results (love ‘em or don’t) was certified and Joe
Biden became the 46th President of the United States two weeks
later. That has also had its up and
downsides… as well as partisan outcomes… but it did, and does, demonstrate that
the American process is stillworking, for better or
worse.
Also:
Sen. Majority Leader Mitchy
concedes… evil Joe Biden won the election.
Democracy survives. (Par.)
Ossoff and Warnock win in Georgia, Senate now in 50-50 tie with VP
Harris the tiebreaker. (Par.)
First babies of
2021 coo’ed over and gifted.
Impeachment Two
proceedings under way as Don Jones reacts, in his own way, to the J-6. (Par.)
Betty White turns 99.
Joe Biden inaugurted as 46th
President, issues 17 Executive Orders. (Par.) Peacefully.
Youngest inaugural poet Amanda Gorman reads a nice poem.
Capitol police officer hero Eugene Goodman promoted to
Acting Deputy.
Dr. Fauci calls Washington’s
pro-science pivot “liberating”). (SPar.)
The Bad:
If you believe that the 2020 election was stolen, the
insurrection and subsequent confirmation were a bitter disaster. But take heart! Mister Hitler’s 1923 beer hall putsch in
Bavaria was also a failure and he was locked up in jail, but he used his
incarceration to write “Mein Kampf” and, upon leaving
prison, founded a political party, was elected Vice-Chancellor and, upon the
death of Bismarck, Chancellor of Germany.
He started World War II, conquered most of continental Europe and would
have become Master of the World but for the American intervention after Japan’s
misguided sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.
Take heart!
The Dow:
30,606.48 The Don:
13,930.44
FEBRUARY
The Good:
So-called “plague
plateau” augurs the end of Covid and the survival of
humans on earth? Perhaps. If not, Perseverance survives its “seven
seconds of terror”, landing safely on Mars.
Astronomers marvel over Mars photos – they’re in color and have a
soundtrack of blowing Martian wind (for kit-fliers and balloonists). That’s the
good news to dig under the surface of the planet in search of non-infectious
life (and have a back-up planet to move to).
Also:
Now ex-Pres. Trump survives Impeach Two. (Par.)
After saving Djonald from ImpTwo, Rudy G. is fired, then stiffed on his fee. (SPar.)
Bucs defeat Chiefs on Super Sunday. Old guys win!
Old guys win!
Americans celebrate Presidents’ Day with their new boss patrón, Jill Biden celebrates Valentine’s Day, Chinese and
Chinese Americans celebrate the end of a dreadful Year of the Rat (or bat, as
the case may be).
The Bad:
With Djonald Unhors’d
in the rear view mirror (but leading among 2024 contenders… a mixed blessing
for Republicans), America turns to face an old and new devil: bad weather and
the plague. Hospitals nationwide report
running out of beds and supplies as the toll of infections and deaths goes up,
up, up!
Silver Medal: Tiger
Woods breaks leg in car crash.
Bronze Medal: Bruce
Springsteen arrested for drunk driving!
The Dow: 30,982.22 The Don: 13,847.97
MARCH
The Good:
Plague in full retreat.
Fewest new cases since October, 2020.
Positivity in Los Angeles testing drops from 19% to 2%. FDA approves Johnson & Johnson single
dose vaxx, making three (if American arms want to get
shot) and earning the Don a 100 point bonus (well, 80-something after all the
other grim news is factored in). Dr. Jah says
“we’re rounding third and headed for home, (but Dr. Fauci
warns that variants might “come around and bite us”). Ridiculous!
Also:
DJI proposes making Trump a King… King Donald I. (But only ceremonially) (Par.)
Stim Three checks roll out, some Republicans cry foul (but
cash them anyway).
CPAC holds its alt-right convention, proving there’s life in
Republicanism yet. (But is it real life
or alien zombie life?) Speaking of Republicons, Ted Cruz enjoys a merry vacation in
Cancun. (Par.)
Predicted “Q-Day” riots and revolt on March 4th
(old Inauguration Day) fail to manifest.
(SPar.)
Six Dr. Seuss books cancelled by publisher resulting in
copies being sold for over $400 by deplorable.
(Par.)
FCC slaps robocallers with $225M
fine.
The Bad:
Mister
Trump continues fulminating against vaccines to the extent that his 30 to 40
percent base follows dutifully refuse the shots, preferring to get sick and
die, but in doing so spread the plague on to other (mostly unvaxxed)
Americans and children, (for whom the bureaucrats are still shuffling papers on
dosages). Sort of like Islamist suicide
bombers.
The Dow: 30,924.14 The Don:
13,928.57
APRIL
The Good:
Derek Chauvin found guilty on all counts in murder (2nd
and 3rd degree) and manslaughter (2nd degree) of George
Floyd after only ten hours’ deliberation.
Blacks celebrate. Most whites at
least acknowledge the presumption of guilt, especially after so many of
Chauvin’s fellow cops testified against him, as did a winsome nine year old
witness, Judeah, and, of course, the video. Pertinent
quotes include…
“Don’t
judge us, get to know us. We’re not animals.”
(George Floyd’s brother)
Blacks
experiencing “bio-psycho social stress.”
(Black trauma Professor Dr. Wizdom of UConn)
“My mom
says we brought change. My dad says we
won.” (9, now 10 year old witness Judeah)
Black
protests must get “more confrontational.”
(Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Ca)
“This was
a jury of Americans.” (A TV legal
expert)
“We won
the championship.” (BLM signs held up
and waved in George Floyd Square)
A day of
“justice for Black, Latino, Asian and Native Americans.” (Lawyer Benjamin Crump)
Blacks
comprise “19% of population, 63% of arrests” and 500% traffic stops. (ABC researchers)
With riots failing to manifest, blacks and whites are both
“beginning to exhale”.
Also:
Pope touts Hope for Easter.
Trump rolls Easter Eggs at Mar-a-Lago and hosts a wedding.
Our DJI contest asks: are you an April Fool who can tell
true from fake news?
Stuck ship that stuck the Suez Canal finally pried away…
freeing up supply chain. (For now!)
Vegas back in business.
Plague? What plague!
Cher adopts a “lonely” elephant and relocates him from
Pakistani cage to a new luxury mansion in Cambodia with two females on
hand.
President Joe convenes Climate Summit, tells world that he’s not Trump. (Spar.)
With that behind us, he signs legislation making Juneteenth
a flash Federal holiday. “We’re headed into a summer of joy and freedom,” he
says as a 6 foot tall bust of George Floyd’s head is unveiled in Brooklyn.
Advice from scientists Kaku and Tyson on what to do if
you’re kidnapped by a UFO… and more!
The Bad:
Cancel culture slaps down everybody from Sharon Osborne to
Pepe le Pew to the World Champion Atlanta Braves (soon to be renamed Atlanta
Victims). Red states are passing pre-emptive legislation
prohibiting mandatory vaccine passports for a number of occasions such as going
to college at Rutgers, Duke or Brown.
“You have a right to live your life,” the Governors say (as infection
rates bottom out and begin climbing again).
Despite eight killed at Indiana Fed Ex by a faux-Brooklyn boho, Senate filibusters gun control to death. Volcanoes
erupt in Caribbean and Iceland while Texas has three earthquakes.
The Dow: 33,101.48
The Don: 13,913.18
MAY
The Good:
President
Joe’s climate summit comes to a close. Even Vladimir Putin and President Xi of China
say nice things (but it helps that they’re on video and don’t have to travel to
the dirty and dangerous America). “We must be committed to harmony between man and Nature,” declared the
avatar of Chinese President Xi (or, at least, his speechwriters did). “All things
that grow live in harmony and benefit from the nourishment of Nature… Mother
Nature is the cradle of all living beings, including humans. It provides
everything essential for humanity to survive and thrive. Mother Nature has
nourished us, and we must treat Nature as our root, respect it, protect it, and
follow its laws. Failure to respect Nature or follow its laws will only invite
its revenge.” Poor countries (and
especially low-lying island nations) are grateful to be heard, but skeptical of
results.
Also:
Everybody agrees – Bhutan is full of virtuous people. (But nobody wants to move there.)
All fifty states show plague declines as masking and vaxxing spreads.
J-6 investigation vote passes Congress with 35 Republicans
telling Mitchy and McScratchy
“hell, no!”
Once in 17 years cicada invasion – adventurers tell Don
Jones to “eat them tasty bugs!”
The Bad:
Disastrous US pullout from Afghanistan reflects the pathetic
Vietnam retreat… screaming people stranded at airports, American soldiers left
behind, billions in lethal military equipment abandoned for the Taliban or ISIS
or whomever to confiscate. (It also
marks the beginning of the Biden pollslide and ramps
up chances for Trump 2024.)
The Dow: 34,548.43 The Don: 14,210.73
JUNE
The Good:
Economic recovery
continues; Labor Dept. reported over 600K new jobs added. Stocks are soaring, most corporations earning
record profits and turning them over to top executives – leading to a spike in
sales of luxury items like yachts to Beemers to
private islands. “Tax the Rich”
legislation fails. Pro Publica releases tax returns from the rich (like Mr. Bezos) – they
pay less than the average burger flipper.
But the little people are gaining, too… new unemployment claims dropping
for 6th straight week… and long-brutalized workers are quitting
their jobs in record numbers.
Also:
Facebook grows tired of Trump’s bitter rants… suspends him
for two years. Others soon follow suit. (Par.)
State and local governments offering Big Prizes! to those
who get vaxxed.
(The sticks fall later.)
Unfilled jobs
swelling… 500,000 each in retailing and manufacturing, a cool million in
healthcare. (Par.)
More signs of
recovery: housing values up, gas prices down and a rare dip in government
spending. (Par.)
The newly divorced and wealth Mrs. Ex-Bezos donates another
3B to charity making Jeffy wince (that’s a thousand
voyages into space!).
Actor Armie Hammer drops into
rehab to deal with his cannibalism “issues”.
(Par.)
Diana Warren, a
songwriter for Celine Dion does a Cher, giving sanctuary to the sole successful
escaped L.A. slaughterhouse cow.
The Bad:
With
Covid still in retreat, Americans fall back on the
Old School method of death… gunfire. The
month’s toll includes a road rager
killing 6 year old on LA freeway; 14 shot at NJ house party, ten in
Minneapolis, three killed at Ohio bar, three more in Atlanta condo, 22 shot, 2 (later
3) die at Miami rap concert, 8 shot in
Savannah, 5 in Cleveland, 4 in Cincinnati, 4 in Yonkers, NY. Gunslinger clocks thirteen in and around
Surprise, AZ; 3 more in Palm Springs; Michigan creep shoots two kids. Psycho killer ravages Oregon. 3 cops shot in Dallas. 3 more accused of
Floyd-like strangling of black man in Tacoma, WA. A mass shooter clocks 13 in Austin, another
kills mother, child and self at a Palm Beach Publix after posting on social
media that children should be shot.
Different grocery cashier shot and killed by mask refusehik
in Georgia. Race War heats up – Ocean
City, Md police beat, tase and arrest black vapers
while Black Revenge Matters vigilante guns down random white people in Columbus
– Phenix City (Ga/Al) and the usual gang retaliation toll doubles 2020s. Killer drivers ram Pride parade in Florida
and bicyclists in Arizona. Tennessee
woman deliberately runs down a line of pro-vax marchers, protest-protester runs
down woman protester in Minneapolis; presumed nonpartisan car runs down crowd
at racetrack in Texas. New York has 634
gun deaths in first half of 2021, up 64% over last year.
But
plague-lovers take heart… a mysterious new “Delta Variant” is appearing in the U.K. and especially
targeting unvaxxed teens. (But prior variants like the Peruvian and
Vietnamese have come and gone and affected hardly anybody.)
The Dow: 34,464.64 The Don: 14,210.59
JULY
The Good:
Plague progress splits along party lines. Red states, loyal to Donald Trump’s “what, me
worry?” dictate have largest population of mask and vaxx
refuseniks, hospitals are overwhelmed (especially in POThead
strongholds like Arizona, Utah, Southwest Missouri and South Dakota), supplies
running out, some traitor politicians even bringing back quarantines! Blue, bicoastal states, on the other hand,
are exhumed and reanimated… Bruce Springsteen will play Broadway soon, the
Washington Monument and Hollywood’s Chinese Theater to reopen and even some red
states bring back the Fourth of July fireworks.
The bottom line is
that, if MAGAnation suicides itself with Covid like the craziest Mideast terrorists with their
suicide vests, they’ll do a lot of collateral damage (to grandparents, mostly)
but will then die out, leaving America to a Biden dictatorship. Mixed message, but positive, on balance –
unless you still believe in the stolen election.
Also:
A soluble dilemma – too many refugee migrants,
too few workers… presto! Braceros! (Par.)
As Village People sue to stop “YMCA”, Trump
rally train tests a new theme: “The Snake”.
Al Wilson’s heirs sue him, too. (Par.)
America inches up from 19th to 18th
place on the World Happiness
Index despite the plague.
Optimists say that booster shots won’t be needed for
years, if at all. (Par.)
“Wrong-o,” Rush (doesn’t)
whisper from Hell - DJI
Also shot (into space) Bezos and Branson. They envision private space travel within a
few years.
Dems exploit Florida condo collapse as evidence
that infrastructure bill needs to be passed.
But all America hails the heroism of rescue workers laboring through
storms and heat. And everybody applauds
at the rescue of Binx the Cat. (Par.)
The Bad:
Delta Variant now comprises 20% of US cases and rising while
an even stronger Delta Plus is emerging in India. With ten percent of the Joneses (15M) refusing second shots, leaving them vulnerable to
the vaxx-resistant ΔV, Government and corporate
goons shelve the carrots and break out the cudgels… Wall Street and Texas
hospitals firing resisters and students at Indiana U. are expelled. 42, then 44 states report increases in new
cases and/or deaths. A grim TV doctor
warns viewers: “You are either going to get vaccinated or get Covid.” More
fighting and firings to come. As well as
Hurricane Elsa and the assassination of Haiti’s leader (which will lead to more
trouble shortly).
The Dow: 34,633.53 The Don: 14,304.62
AUGUST
The Good:
President Joe extends the moratorium on
evictions of Americans who can’t pay their rent due to the plague – either
they’ve gotten it, or their job has disappeared. (There’s some relief on mortgage payments,
too.)
Homelessness, men and women of medicine mostly agree, is not
conducive to good health. People freeze
to death in winter, die of heatstroke in summer and are frequently targeted for
beatings, or worse, by the police, by cruel teenagers and POTheads
(followers of the Party of Trump who direct their anger downwards) out for
kicks or, lets face it, each other.
“What the pandemic is doing is it is
upending all the structures and supports that we have in place to handle
emotional unrest in a small number of people. Now we have a whole lot of people
that are experiencing increased anxiety and depression all at once,” said
Jonathan Singer, President of the American Association of Suicidology and
associate professor of social work at Loyola University in Chicago. In separate interview with The Guardian UK,
Singer also said the there could be a “dramatic increase in suicide deaths, or
at least despair.”
Also:
U.S. Olympians gain cereal box covers (and more medals)…
notably backup gymnast Suni Lee, replacement gymnast Mykala Skinner and swimmer Caeleb
Dressell at the strange, truncated Tokyo Olympics.
700,000 maniacs
converge on Sturgis, SD for resumptive biker
rally. To Hell with the plague.
The dangers of the
Delta Variant conceded, economists, employers and workers all celebrate a massive
half-point drop in the unemployed ledger.
MTV turns 40, nostalgics remember “when they actually played music
videos.
Animals in the
news: Gangs of monkeys battle on the streets of Thailand. Nanook, the car-chasing abandoned husky finds
a forever home.
New Lambda variant
fizzles.
Dominion voting
machines sues Rudy G. and My Pillow for accusing them of fixing election. (Par.)
Fellow celebs like
Paris Hilton and Cher applaud Britney Spears’ liberation from her father’s
conservatorship.
Party of Trumpsters (POTheads) promulgate a strange scenario – G.O.P sweeps
House and Senate, impeaches Joe and Kamalala, Speaker
McCarthy becomes President, appoints Trump Veep, then
resigns so that ol’ 45 becomes the new 48.
(SPar.)
Rising wages and housing values mean more money in pockets
to buy Chinese toys.
A pop psychologist declares: “Stressed spelled backward is ‘desserts’.”
The Bad:
Back to school nearing and confusion reigns… masks or no
masks, vaxxes or no vaxxes,
in person or remote learning. Violent local
school board meetings add to chaos.
Refusenik Gov. Ron deSantis (R-Fl) orders his
own children not to wear masks. Delta
also causing employers to reimpose mandates and remote employment… which many
workers like.
Afghan withdrawal proves an unmitigated disaster. While partisan vaxx and mask marauders do battle on the streets of America
and Haitians start digging out of quake rubble that has claimed an official 700
lives (and double that, unofficially), the Taliban take Kabul with little or no
resistance. “Polls showed Americans
experiencing bipartisan war fatigue,” said ABC’s Jon Karl. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani scarpers off to
Tajikistan with as much as 169M
in cash and the old folks at home call it “Saigon on steroids.”
The Dow: 35,064.25 The Don:
14,296.17
SEPTEMBER
The Good:
Three days after the
Nine Eleven, California held its elections to 1) recall and 2) replace Gov.
Gavin Newsome. Part of the
million-signature effort was simple revenge against a Democrat for the two
impeachments of and stolen election from Republican hero and once and future
President Donald Trump. And Newsome was
not without baggage. Back in the day, CalVoters recalled colorless Gov. Gray Davis and replaced
him with Arnold Schwarzenegger… but there was no terminator among potential
replacements – only he/she celebrity Caitlin (nee Bruce) Jenner. Also a man who campaigned with a live bear, a
porn star and 43 other assorted California fruits and nuts… the likeliest of
which was talk radio host Larry Elder.
Given this menu of alternatives, the voters returned Davis to office by
a two to one margin, sending Elder back to his microphone and the rest back to
from whence and wherce they came.
President Joe
promises to declassify 9-11 documents.
Someday.
Also:
Many
inspirational speeches and soundbites attend 20th anniversary of
9-11.
Ordinary
citizens and first responders step up to save lives during Hurricane Ida.
Apple CEO
Tim Cook gifts himself with a $750M bonus… just because he can. (SPar.)
March podcast sponsored by The Atlantic
cites the 1905 Jacobson v. Massachusetts decision
which legalizes government-mandated vaccination, arguing that collective good
sometimes outweighs individual rights. (Par.)
Heroic overland escapes from Taliban-tortured Afghanistan by
Americans and others.
California Governor Newsome defeats recall by 2-1
margin. No Governor Caitlyn! L (Par.)
New book credits Gen. Mark Milley
with stopping Trump from starting nuclear war.
(Par.)
U.K. P.M. BoJo
invokes Miss Piggy and Kermit on climate change 40 days to Glasgow.
Heroic
firefighters and lots of silver mylar save General Sherman… the world’s
oldest/tallest tree.
The Bad:
New infections and deaths rose and fell and
rose and fell again until starting to decline in January as the vaxxs rolled out.
They continued to fall until late July, when a sudden spike…
attributable to the Delta Variant, holiday gatherings, a loosening of travel
and, above all, the politicization of vaxxing which,
like masking, could be seen as disloyalty to President (then ex-President)
Trump. This rise only recently peaked
and has begun to fall but… as the pessimists (or realists) among doctors and
medical reseachers warn… new variants are on the way,
some of which will not be affected by the existing Pfizer, Moderna
and J&J vaccines (as well as pig dewormer and bleach).
The Dow: 35,443.86 The Don: 14,361.00
OCTOBER
The Good:
With only hours to spare, President Joe Biden,
on Thursday evening, signed legislation to avoid a partial federal shutdown and
keep the government funded through Dec. 3. Congress had passed the bill earlier
Thursday. “The back-to-back votes by the Senate and then the House averted one crisis, but delays on another continue as
the political parties dig in on a dispute over how to raise the
government’s borrowing cap before the United
States risks a potentially catastrophic default,” reported the Associated
Press.
The House approved the short-term funding measure by a 254-175
vote not long after Senate passage in a 65-35 vote. A large majority of
Republicans in both chambers voted against it. The legislation was needed to
keep the government running once the current budget year ended at midnight
Thursday. Passage will buy lawmakers more time to craft the spending measures
that will fund federal agencies and the programs they administer.
Also:
The Senate, on a 50-to-50 party-line vote, squelched an
amendment by Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas to cut off aid for things such as housing,
food and medical benefits after March 31, 2023, for Afghan refugees. (Par.)
Dr. F. and CDC say holiday family gatherings are a no-no,
then pivot, say a maybe-maybe (if every celebrant is vaxxed
and there are no old or young people around).
More good news for kiddies: Pfizer’s juvenile vaxx at 1/3 dose is 91% effective for 5 to 11 year olds
while ICE
to stop raiding schools, dragging out screaming migrant children and sending
them back to from where they came.
Britney Spears,
liberated from conservatorship, thanks her fans and gets a whole “Dancing with
the (infected) Stars” soundtrack to herself.
House J-6 committee issues subpoenas to 15
people, including four Trump aides: former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, former Deputy
Chief of Staff for Communications Dan Scavino, former
Defense Department official Kashyap Patel and former White House strategist
Steve Bannon (who vows to resist). (Par.)
Captain Kirk shat to space for 11 minutes; says “Wow!” One
of only 600 now and oldest (90), he philosophizes: “Out there lies coldness,
down here, sustenance.” Sponsor Jeff
Bezos dons a cowboy hat.
Speaking of billionaires, MicroSoft says it asked
Bill Gates to stop “flirting”, while
US
Marshalls rescue eight children and bust 18 pedophile kidnappers.
Not to be out-ego’d, Amazon dubs Jeff’s NHL Seattle Kraken rink “Climate
Pledge Arena” after he’s dethroned as Number One by Elon Musk, who garners a
$13.8B gift of charging stations for all those Teslas
sold to Hertz while embattled Mark Zuckerberg changes FaceBook’s
name to Meta to throw authorities off his trail and Richard Branson’s Space X
suffers a toilet malfunction. (Par.)
Unemployment
tumbles, so Starbucks responds to worker shortage by raising wages while Ben
& Jerry raise prices and cut less profitable flavors. Good bye, Grey Poupon
joint venture (but they still have their mustard wine).
More books,
articles and anecdotes about the horrors of Trump manifest for Halloween – old
Nixon-slayer Bob Woodward praises National Security Advisor Gen. Mark Milley
for preventing Djonald from starting a nuclear war. (Par.)
Celebrity Gaby Petito’s
killer Brian Laundrie does all America a favor by
killing himself in a swamp.
The week ends on a
happy note for the old folks… Social Security payments will rise by an average
of almost six percent.
And McDonald’s brings back the McRib.
The Bad:
It was disclosed (and not convincingly refuted)
in Michael Wolff’s “Landslide” that, after he abandoned his supporters at the
Capitol, ran (or was driven) home to the White House and watched the rest of
the J-6 riot on television, former President Trump (reportedly) told a sixpack of sidekicks, including family members and aides
Justin Miller and Mark Meadows, that his own, much beloved POTheads
looked “like a bunch of Democrats.” (See Attachment One, here). Parsing this particular truth, Djonald Unaware was far nearer the mark than all of the
liberal crybabies in the mass and class media; if anything, he grossly underestimated the comparison of his mob
to the left-wing revolutionaries of their grandfathers’ generation who took to
the streets of burned out inner cities, various placid university communities
and, ultimately, a Democratic
convention… sometimes peacefully, sometimes with bombings and terrorism…
inaugurating racial and cultural conflicts that persist to this day – strangely
linked, through a dark, magical mirror-image, in bipartisan disgust with and
disbelief in America’s government and institutions.
The Dow: 33,843.92 The
Don: 14,369.19
NOVEMBER
The Good:
J-6
fades behind us (except for the swelling carbuncle of mass arrests and
draconian sentences… active plotters like Steve Bannon face two years max while
ordinary rioter who punched a policeman gets 41 months for
J-6, the “Q-Anon shaman” gets 51… for real or
nebulous crimes such as wearing a horned helmet or “parading”). A Federal court rules that
unindicted mastermind Trump must hand over boxes of incriminating J-6
documents… a higher court overturns this, so it’ll be going to the Supremes.
America goes back to settling personnel and
policy by free (maybe not always) fair elections. Winners include a Trump-dodging Republican in
Virginia, a Democratic cliffhanger-er in New Jersey…
also an Asian woman as Mayor of Boston.
Minneapolitans decide disbanding the police is a bad idea.
Also:
Anti-Trump conservative Kevin Williamson posits the J-6
insurrection as an episode in an Apollonian-Dionysian (as opposed to
right-left) feud - Ol’ 45 squarely in the camp of change and chaos, along with
Hitler and the 60’s student protests (See: “The American Right Hits Its Hippie
Phase” in National Review, Attachment Four, here.)
Pope Francis says President Joe can
continue taking Catholic Communion, regardless of the cabal of bishops who want
him excommunicated for supporting Roe v. Wade. ((Par.))
Also in Rome, Biden promotes “green
steel” (whatever that is) at G-20
summit, then it’s on to Glasgow. (Par.)
Bipatartisan eulogists (except Donald Trump)
shower praises on Colin Powell, RIP. (SPar.)
Atlanta Braves win World Series,
then go back to fending off Native Americans who demand cancellation. (Par.)
Monthly economic report cites 500,000 new jobs – many
holiday related.
Split decision on racially charged trials: Ahmaus Arbury defendants (Brunswick, GA) guilty, Kyle
Rittenhouse (Kenosha) not. (Par.)
Traditions return: the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree,
the Rockettes, in-flight liquor sales, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade and, of
course, turkey day itself. (As ever,
President Joe pardons those two fat, spoiled birds while Sen. Cruz (R-Tx) chows
down on a Muppet.)
100th
anniversary of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
“If we could all live together,” a veteran observes, “we’d do much
better.”
The Bad:
Titled and freelance observers largely determine the
Glasgow climate summit bottom line to have been below the horizon of
expectations. Failure was in the cards
once news that China and Russia would not attend the meetings wafted eastwards
from Moscow and Beijing like a cloud of dirty pollutants – not only CO2, but
pig, cow (and Biden) farts and… particularly prescient given the extra days and
hours of dealmaking, coal smoke. Particularly offended by the outcome were
small island nations that will disappear beneath the waves before the dawn of
the 22nd century and young protesters like Greta Thunberg, who
called Glasgow a "global north green wash
festival."
Back home, inflation strikes Don Jones’ warmth and comfort –
heating oil up 39%, propane up 48% and electricity up 6%. Overall, it’s up 6.2%, highest in 30… no,
31!... years. And food costs more too…
bacon is up 60% to $15 in NYC. Milk up
9%, Eggs 11%, Beef 13%. Also: Tyson raises
chicken prices (as Trader Joe’s bad birds are recalled)… clothing (up 13%) and
televisions (up 10%); holiday
inflation finds turkey up 23%, rolls 15%, cranberries 11% and best bargain
Pumpkin Pie 7%. Also up: usuals like gas, General Mills cereals and Chinese
toys. More supply chain victims include
Victoria’s Secret – a Christmas without lingerie?
And breaking just
tonight: here comes a brand new, bad new plague variant… Omicron (?) that
transmits faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a Delta, able to
leap national walls at a single bound: fighting for Truth, Justice and the
American Way oops, cancelled, maybe “a sicker
tomorrow”? Not thankful!
The Dow: 36,327.96 The Don: 14,550.86
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Friday,
November 19, 2021 Infected:
47,660,779 Dead: 770.691 Dow: 35,601.98 |
It’s National Play Monopoly
Day! (Some of us play more seriously
than others… ) A blood moon eclipse welcomes several
bloody vigilante murder trials… Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse is found Not
Guilty on All Counts. In Georgia,
defense lawyers at the Ahmaud Arbery
case protest the presence of a “woke mob” led by “black pastors” like Al
Sharpton and Jesse Jackson trying to intimidate the nearly all-white
jury. And a tipster provokes the FBI
to search a New Jersey landfill for long-missing Jimmy Hoffa. On the other hand, President Joe pardons
Peanut Butter and Jelly, those two insolent, white turkeys gobbling up their
feed on the taxpayers’ dime. And, in a
possible case of non-partisan dementia, the Governor of Oklahoma commutes the
death sentence of a black prisoner to life. The woke (and sleeping world) asks: What
have the Chinese done to Peng Shuai? (the tennis star who accused a top
Communist official of rape… to each according to his need!... and then
disappeared, or was disappeared.) Rumblings and mumblings of a girlcott of
the 2022 Beijing Olympics are heard. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy
entertains (or horrifies) colleagues with an Up All Night 8½ hour filibuster
not without its own Fellini-esque aspects and
remarks. The Infra 2 bill at issue
passed, nonetheless (party-line vote, one Democrat dissenting) – headed to
its Manchin of Doom in the Senate. A
rare copy of the Constitution sells for $43M… presumably not to McCarthy (but
possibly to a cabal of Wall Street and Oil Street monopolists who plan to set
it on fire during one of their weird, witchy rituals). |
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Saturday, November 20, 2021 Infected: 47,701,872 Dead: 771,013 |
Except
in Kenosha, where Rittenhouse riots blaze (and a few of the usual other
antifa hot spots like Portland and Minneapolis) and in Washington, where
President Joe says he has to stand by the jury’s decision (but Kamala won’t),
Don Jones’ attention was turned towards the holidays and the twin terrors of
travel and inflation. Plane, train and automobile traffic
(well, maybe not train) is expected to be at pre-plague levels, airports
fully booked and complicated by Biden’s vaccine mandate, which could
disappear TSA workers just as the crunch begins. Road warriors face gas prices higher than
$6/gal in California and, once they get to Grandma’s house, inflated turkey,
cranberry and turnip casserole outlays (as well as a shortage of toilet paper
for post-feast issues). It won’t get
any better next month, either, Christmas trees are in short supply and prices
are breaking through the roof, even on the puny Charlie Brown models.\ Over there, the U.K. faces allegations of
racism in, of all things, cricket! (Send for Malala and her husband.) A Thames River cleanup proves a mixed
blessing… sharks return, and are hungry! |
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Sunday, November 21, 2021 Infected: 47,730,391 Dead: 771,118 |
Dr. Walensky
touting boosters. 16% now have them –
they will be made available to everybody soon, and to children now (children infection
rate exceeds that of adults). 2021
plague deaths top 2020 toll. W.H.O.
predicts 500K more deaths over winter.
Official officials say that the TSA refusenik purge “won’t affect” air
travel… as mandate gets extended, TranSec Buttigieg
says enfocement will not be a “cliff” (at least not
until the holiday rush is over).
Violence is a different story – one gunman in El Paso kills a
Southeast employee in the parking lot while another shoots up the Atlanta
airport. Atlanta described as the
worst travel hub, along with B and C (Boston and Chicago).
But there is, at least, some good news… after weeks of menacing
silence (and, probably, back-channel negotiations) the Haitian kidnappers
agree to release two of their 17 hostages.
Refugees, however, continue to cross into Mexico then congregate on
the Rio Grande. |
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Monday, November 22, 2021 Infected: 47,888,144 Dead: 772,343 Dow: 35,614.25 |
Criminal maniac escaping police in
a red SUV deliberately plows through crowd at a holiday parade in Waukesha,
Wi – a suburb of Milwaukee not far from Kenosha (where the Rittenhouse riots
are dying out). Six are killed,
including a child and three members of the “Dancing Grannies” – sixty two
injured including more children and a Catholic priest. The suspect, a rapper and career criminal,
was out on one thousand dollars bail
for previously mowing down his baby mama with the same SUV.
Crime towers over the holidays.
Police are still searching for the Atlanta airport gunman. A pregnant woman is murdered at the baby
shower. Coroners say that celebrity
killer Brian Laundrie shot himself to death in the
swamp. And the “flash mob robberies”
spread from San Francisco to Los Angeles to Chicago. (Perhaps a job for Kyle Rittenhouse?)
SPACE
FORCE!
on the attack against a harmless asteroid being used as a test to see if they
can crash it out of orbital path before another space rock with badder intent menaces the earth (as they do every 16
million years). And GMA’s Michael
Strahan (the gap-tooth wonder) chosen by Jeff Bezos to be a passenger on the
next Blue Origin private jaunt. |
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Tuesday, November 23, 2021 Infected: 47,980,780
Dead: 773,780 Dow: 35,313.80 |
With Infra2 passed by the house
and on hold in the Senate while Dems lobby Manchin and Sinema,
President Joe attacks inflation (and his sagging popularity) by releasing 50
million barrels of oil from the Strategic Reserve. Critics say it will lower gas prices by
only a dime or 15¢ at most. In other
automotive news, Dodge says it will phase out its greediest gas guzzlers in
three years, while Tesla gets unflattering reviews from consumer media and a
glitch locks drivers out of their vehicles.
No collaboration implied…
Mixed news on old problems.
Supply chain concerns ease as stranded container ship backlog drops by
half. But plague is on the march again…
particularly among children, whose new infection rate is up 40% for the
month.
Capitol riot probers keep churning out subpoenas. Targeted this week: conspiracy theory and
snake oil peddler Alex (“the Mouth”) Jones, and giant Nixon tattooed Trump
sycophant Roger (“the Penguin”) Stone.
Convicted lawyer Michael Cohen, freed from house arrest, rats out Erik
Trump. “Daddy, help!” |
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Wednesday, November 24, 2021 Infected: 48,091,937 Dead: 775,397 Dow: 35,804.38 |
Busiest travel day since the start
of the pandemic. Psychologists advise Don
Jones what to do at family gatherings among people he doesn’t like. Grief counselers
address the empty places at the Thanksgiving table, formerly tenanted by
persons who died of Covid (or gunfire or something
else). Professional shoppers advocate
moneysaving tips like smaller turkeys or substituting hard-to-find vegetables
with other stuff nobody eats.
Latenite ringmaster Stephen Colbert mocks
Biden’s floating of 50 million barrels of oil (hopefully into refineries,
then pumps, then cars – not the ocean) and his bandleader Jon Batiste scoops
up eleven Grammy nominations. Other big winners include Billie Eilish, Oliva Rodrigo, H.E.R and Lady Gaga (whose
“Versace” movie also opens tomorrow).
And, of course, the Beebs.
Also returning after their plague hiatus – the Macy’s Thanksgiving
Parade,
Einstein manuscript on
relativity reportedly sold for $15M… no confirmation that the buyer was
either Marvel Studios or Djonald Unstuck-in-Time –
scheming to go back and relive 2017-19 over and over again. |
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Thursday, November 25, 2021 Infected: 48,126,574 Dead: 775,797 Dow: Closed for Thanksgiving |
It’s Thanksgiving Day! (See Lesson) Ahmaud Arber’s relatives and numerous black pastors give
thanks as Brunswick, GA jury finds all three defendants guilty of murder and other
crimes and face life without for their “driveway assumptions”. Kyle Rittenhouse, not guilty, is called a
“hero” by ex-President Trump and Q-Queen Marjorie Taylor Green nominates him
for a Congressional Medal of Honor. As
for the current Chief Executive, President Joe wishes Don Jones a happy and
“closer-to-normal” Thanksgiving. Then
he eats some other, unluckier turkey with Jill while Peanut Butter and Jelly
loll and gobble on the taxpayers’ tab.
And normality may be a thing of the past… a new variant, more
transmissible more vaxx-proof and more deadly than
the Delta is emerging in South Africa.
Happy holidays? |
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Fat and stuffed with turkey and
grease, Don Jones sat back, watched the games, and then got up to go to the
bathroom and excrete. Mightily. All of the Index Indicators were maybe up
or down a fraction, but it was evident that real movment
(not that other movement) would not commence until Monday… when it will be
humongous (Christmas shopping madness, debt ceiling crisis, and the just
announced new Omicron Variant (the Dow, early today, was crashing). Enjoy your R&R now because December
will be incoming.
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CATEGORY |
VALUE |
BASE |
RESULTS |
SCORE |
SCORE |
OUR SOURCES and COMENTS |
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INCOME |
24% |
6/17/13 |
LAST |
CHANGE |
NEXT |
11/19/21 |
11/26/21 |
SOURCE
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Wages (hourly, per capita) |
9% |
1350 points |
10/8/21 |
+0.42% |
12/3/21 |
1,487.38 |
1,487.38 |
|
Median Income (yearly) |
4% |
600 |
11/19/21 |
+0.03% |
12/3/21 |
675.91 |
676.12 |
http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 35,741 |
*Unempl. (BLS – in millions |
4% |
600 |
10/1/21 |
-4.35% |
12/3/21 |
436.39 |
436.39 |
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*Official (DC – in millions) |
2% |
300 |
11/19/21 |
+0.19% |
12/3/21 |
528.58 |
529.58 |
http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 7,374 |
*Unofficl. (DC – in millions) |
2% |
300 |
11/19/21 |
-0.07% |
12/3/21 |
436.06 |
436.36 |
http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 13,279 |
Workforce Participtn. Number Percent |
2% |
300 |
11/19/21 |
+0.027% -0.55% |
12/3/21 |
321.10 |
319.34 |
In 154,148
out 100,469 Total: 254,617 |
WP %
(ycharts)* |
1% |
150 |
10/8/21 |
-0.16% |
12/3/21 |
152.23 |
152.23 |
https://ycharts.com/indicators/labor_force_participation_rate
61.60 nc |
OUTGO |
(15%) |
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Total Inflation |
7% |
1050 |
11/12/21 |
+0.9% |
12/3/21 |
964.60 |
964.60 |
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm +0.9
nc |
Food |
2% |
300 |
11/12/21 |
+0.9% |
12/3/21 |
270.11 |
270.11 |
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm +0.9 |
Gasoline |
2% |
300 |
11/12/21 |
+6.1% |
12/3/21 |
236.57 |
236.57 |
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm +6.1* |
Medical Costs |
2% |
300 |
11/12/21 |
+0.5% |
12/3/21 |
283.62 |
283.62 |
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm
+0.5 |
Shelter |
2% |
300 |
11/12/21 |
+0.5% |
12/3/21 |
285.89 |
285.89 |
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm +0.5 |
WEALTH |
(6%) |
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Dow Jones Index |
2% |
300 |
11/19/21 |
-0.19% |
12/3/21 |
383.40 |
382.69 |
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Home (Sales) (Valuation) |
1% 1% |
150 150 |
11/19/21 |
+0.79% +0.31% |
12/3/21 |
199.77 177.56 |
201.36 178.11 |
https://www.nar.realtor/research-and-statistics Sales (M): 6.29 6.34
Valuations (K): 352.8 nc 353.9 |
Debt (Personal) |
2% |
300 |
11/19/21 |
+0.13% |
12/3/21 |
265.33 |
264.99 |
http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 66,558 |
* Fuel oil up 12.3 for November,
59.1% for year! |
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AMERICAN ECONOMIC INDEX (15% of TOTAL
INDEX POINTS) |
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NATIONAL |
(10%) |
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Revenue (trilns.) |
2% |
300 |
11/19/21 |
+0.012% |
12/3/21 |
346.36 |
346.40 |
debtclock.org/ 4,051 |
Expenditures (tr.) |
2% |
300 |
11/19/21 |
-0.08% |
12/3/21 |
218.79 |
218.61 |
debtclock.org/ 6,855 |
National Debt tr.) |
3% |
450 |
11/19/21 |
+0.06% |
12/3/21 |
317.09 |
316.89 |
http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 28,991 |
Aggregate Debt (tr.) |
3% |
450 |
11/19/21 |
+0.05% |
12/3/21 |
371.77 |
371.59 |
http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 85,089 |
GLOBAL |
(5%) |
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Foreign Debt (tr.) |
2% |
300 |
11/19/21 |
+0.16% |
12/3/21 |
274.14 |
273.70 |
http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 7,671 |
Exports (in billions) |
1% |
150 |
10/8/21 |
-2.79% |
12/3/21 |
184.54 |
184.54 |
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Imports (bl.) |
1% |
150 |
10/8/21 |
+0.52% |
12/3/21 |
113.20 |
113.20 |
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Trade Deficit (bl.) |
1% |
150 |
10/8/21 |
+9.39% |
12/3/21 |
85.46 |
85.46 |
https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/index.html 80.9 |
SOCIAL INDICES (40%) |
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ACTS of MAN |
(12%) |
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World Affairs |
3% |
450 |
11/19/21 |
-0.1% |
12/3/21 |
381.73 |
381.35 |
Olympians and the concerned curious ask: “What has China
done to (tennis star) Peng Shuai?
Plague spike motivates Europeans to re-impose travel bans. |
Terrorism |
2% |
300 |
11/19/21 |
-0.4% |
12/3/21 |
219.07 |
218.19 |
SUV ramming Thanksgiving parade in Waukesha called
deliberate – kills 7, injures 62. Amok
Time in Jerusalem: Hamas gunman killed by cops. |
Politics |
3% |
450 |
11/19/21 |
-0.1% |
12/3/21 |
439.47 |
439.03 |
Congress up all night enduring Kevin McCarthy’s anti
stim-2 filibuster. For its part, the Pentagon
will launch another UFO investigation. |
Economics |
3% |
450 |
11/19/21 |
+0.2% |
12/3/21 |
403.03 |
403.84 |
Fed. Chair Jerome Powell re-nominated as new
unemployment claims hit 52 year low. But
holiday inflation finds turkey up 23%, rolls 15%, cranberries 11% and best
bargain Pumpkin Pie 7%. Also up: usuals like gas, General Mills cereals and Chinese
toys. More supply chain victims
include Victoria’s Secret, foreign automakers and lotsa
Big Boxers, but the ranks of waiting container ships in harbors are being
lowered by half. |
Crime |
1% |
150 |
11/19/21 |
-0.3% |
12/3/21 |
237.78 |
237.07 |
Oregon
state troopers seize 250 tons of “illegal” marijuana. Holiday flash-mob “shoppers” commit waves
of smash-n’-grab robberies at high-end boutiques, ordinary muggers and mall
murderers attack the dollar store shoppers while cybercrooks create a 300%
rise in ransomwarring. 500th murder recorded in
Philadelphia as FBI, over the river, sifts through New Jersey landfill for
Jimmy Hoffa. California couple in the
wind after stealing Covid relief funds. Evil woman convicted of burglaries plotted
after reading obituary pages. Haitian
kidnappers free two of 17 hostages. |
ACTS of GOD |
(6%) |
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Environment/Weather |
3% |
450 |
11/19/21 |
-0.1% |
12/3/21 |
380.97 |
380.59 |
Thames
River cleanup has unexpected problem: sharks.
Summer fires destroyed 20% of all giant sequoias. Fresh off Glasgow summit, Biden will float 50M
barrels of oil to depress prices.
Weathermen predict a La Niña (mild) winter. |
Natural/Unnatural Disaster |
3% |
450 |
11/19/21 |
-0.1% |
12/3/21 |
218.63 |
218.41 |
Hundreds of FedEx packages thrown down a ravine in
Alabama. Two bags of cash fall out of the
back of speeding armored car. 48
killed in Bulgarian bus crash, 57 in Russian mining disaster. |
LIFESTYLE/JUSTICE INDEX (15%) |
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Science, Tech, Education |
4% |
600 |
11/19/21 |
+0.3% |
12/3/21 |
401.66 |
402.86 |
NASA launches rocket to knock asteroid off course in
test. Blue Origin selects GMA host
Michael Strahan as next celebrity astronaut. Old Apollo hand’s advice: “look
out the window.” |
Equality (econ/social) |
4% |
600 |
11/19/21 |
+0.1% |
12/3/21 |
406.40 |
406.81 |
Biden overturns Trump jihad against gay foster
parents and nominates a “woman of color” (unnamed by the media) as new Budget
Secretary. Liberals call for
“reparations” for illegal border crossers who suffered “trauma”. |
Health Plague |
4% |
600 |
11/19/21 |
nc -0.7% |
12/3/21 |
396.86 - 102.92 |
396.86 - 103.64 |
U.S. birthrate declines for sixth straight year (WashPost). Flu
revivifies after an off year due to Covid-imposed
masking and social distancing. Facebook/META
investigated as harmful to children’s mental health. The crazy and menacing
posts are harmless to adults? Omicron (potential planet-killer) Covid
variant emerges in South Africa as Eurospike
brings lockdowns, riots and panic.
American fourth-wave plague creeps in too, despite public denialism:
2021 toll exceeds 2020’s, FDA recommends booster shots for everybody. General Hospital refusenik star Steve Burton gets his walking papers. |
Freedom and Justice |
3% |
450 |
11/19/21 |
+0.5% |
12/3/21 |
460.42 |
462.72 |
Three Ahmaud Arbury
defendants guilty. Kyle Rittenhouse
not – he hits the interview circuit, tells Tucker Carlson he wants to be a
lawyer. Riots fail to manifest in
former, fizzle out in latter. Happy holiday for prisoners: Oklahoma Governor
commutes inmate’s death sentence, Missouri man freed after 43 years (witness
admits she lied). NYC vows to “rein
in” creepy AI hiring tools. Neo-Nazis
face $125M judgment in Charlottesville riots.
House probers indict two more J-6 clowns (Stone, Jones) and members of
alt-right groups like Proud and Boogaloo Boys, Three Percenters and Oath
Keepers. All of them! Michael Cohen, sentence served, rats out
next patsy: Erik Trump! “Daddy!” |
MISCELLANEOUS and TRANSIENT INDEX (7%) |
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Cultural incidents |
3% |
450 |
11/19/21 |
+0.3% |
12/3/21 |
535.16 |
535.77 |
It’s award-a-palooza time! Bryce Harper and Shohei Ohtani
win AL and NL MVPs. BTS rocks AMA. Bandleader Jon Batiste nominated for eleven
Grammies (see list here). |
Miscellaneous incidents |
4% |
450 |
11/19/21 |
+0.2% |
12/3/21 |
487.92 |
488.90 |
Millions
of Americans hit the road, air and water for (almost) back-to-normal Thanksgivings
with the Macy’s parade, turkey n’ dressing, NFL and scolding wokesters. JFK and
son again fail to manifest in Dallas, but Q-Anon faithful are undeterred…
they’ll stay through the winter if they have to. RIP: Peter Buck (Subway sandwich founder) |
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The Don Jones Index for the week of
November 19th through November 25th, 2021 was UP 2.44
points.
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