The bill, until January 1, 2025, would establish 55 gallons per capita daily as the standard for indoor residential water use. Now, if you’re wondering where I get my assertion that you can’t shower and do laundry on the same day, here’s some math:

An 8-minute shower uses about 17 gallons of water

A load of laundry uses about 40 gallons of water

A bathtub holds 80 to 100 gallons of water

A dishwasher uses 6 gallons of water

Not only are Californians fleeing the state in droves, but there are other ways these restrictive laws can affect the rest of us directly.

These stringent measures set a dangerous precedent for the rest of the country.

There could be a shortage of food coming out of California because there isn’t enough water to produce it.

The food we do get from there will cost a lot more.

It’s important to pay attention to stuff like this and not shrug it off because “I don’t live in California.” In an economy such as ours, we’re all interlinked. A draconian law that gains a footing in one part of the country is much easier to pass in other parts.

According to the Federal Reserve, 95,915,000 working age Americans were “not in the labor force” in May. When you add 6,065,000 and 95,915,000 together, you come up with a grand total of 101,980,000 working age Americans that do not have a job right now. So we essentially have 102 million working age Americans that are not employed, and that is the same level that we had four years ago.

According to John Williams of shadowstats.com, if honest numbers were being used our unemployment rate would be somewhere around 21 percent at the moment.  That is a slight improvement from the 22 percent level that we were at not too long ago, but it is not nearly good enough.

Meanwhile, Americans continue to spend far more money than they are making. In fact, Americans have now been spending more than they are making for 28 months in a row. As individuals, we simply cannot consume far more than we produce indefinitely, and the same thing is true for our nation as a whole. Time is running out, but most Americans are completely oblivious to this very simple basic fact.

His opening explains the issue.

“I have been asked to talk about what I consider the most important challenge facing mankind, and I have a fundamental answer. The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance. 

We must daily decide whether the threats we face are real, whether the solutions we are offered will do any good, whether the problems we’re told exist are in fact real problems, or non-problems. Every one of us has a sense of the world, and we all know that this sense is in part given to us by what other people and society tell us; in part generated by our emotional state, which we project outward; and in part by our genuine perceptions of reality. In short, our struggle to determine what is true is the struggle to decide which of our perceptions are genuine, and which are false because they are handed down, or sold to us, or generated by our own hopes and fears.”

Yes, we need to get tough on trade.  If you have followed my work for the last eight years, then you know that I have been a very strong advocate of protecting US manufacturers and US workers.  But these things have got to be handled delicately, because any significant disruption at this point could lead to an absolutely crippling global economic crisis. 

Negotiating on an international level requires a great deal of finesse, because if you mess up it can have monumental consequences.  For example, one thing that you shouldn’t do is make an agreement with the second largest economy in the world and then tear it up less than two weeks later…

It is true that we simply cannot continue to run a trade deficit of 40 or 50 billion dollars month after month.  The path that we are currently on is a path to national economic suicide. But simultaneously fighting trade wars with China, Europe, Canada and Mexico is not going to solve anything. In the end, our recklessness could ultimately be the trigger for the greatest economic crisis that any of us have ever seen.

The former hedge fund manager said: “The Europeans, I don’t think, know what to do. I think that they are a little bit taken by surprise. I mean, they were talking about whiskey, denim, trying to hit Senator McConnell – but you see, that’s bourbon. So they’ve got the wrong brown spirit.”

In March, the US President imposed a 25 percent tariff on steel and 10 percent on aluminium on steel exports into the United States as he vowed to protect his country’s ailing industries. However, after early negotiations, the EU was able to negotiate a temporary exemption until June 1.

Mr Trump has ignored EU pleas and threats for the exemption to be made permanent, igniting a trade war between Brussels and Washington. The EU backlash started with the bloc promising to retaliate with its own tariffs which would strike at the heart of American popular culture. Products could include Harley-Davidson motorcycles, Levi jeans and bourbon whiskey.

Mr Cramer added: “Whatever the Europeans are doing they are confused because they have never seen anything like this presence – never. They are so over their heads versus this guy.” The finance expert said President Trump dislikes EU trade practices and wants to "dismantle the way European companies" do business. The UK Government has put its special relationship with the US on the line and vowed to side with Brussels in a bid to reinstate the tariff exemption.

Those outside of Europe may be surprised to learn that Germany's exports are roughly equal to those of China ($1.2 trillion), even though Germany's population of 82 million is a mere 6% of China's 1.3 billion. Germany and China are the world's top exporters, while the US trails as a distant third.

If public and private debt in the troubled nations keeps rising at current rates, it's possible that even mighty Germany may be unable (or unwilling) to fund an essentially endless bailout. Be wary of endless "fixes" to a structurally doomed system.

Euroskeptic Paolo Savona, a renowned career economist, was rejected because he could not have insured the maintenance of the EU's common currency. Under his administration, resistance to Berlin's austerity dictate could have been expected, whereas the newly appointed Prime Minster Carlo Cottarelli passed the test a few years ago as the Rome government's austerity commissioner ("Mr. Scissors").

Savona's nomination is the result of Italy's growing euroskepticism, which, in the meantime, is also shared by other economists. "Germany profits, Italy loses" through the introduction of the euro, concludes Savona's alternative candidate to the post of finance minister.

It’s all fun and games until it comes time for Max to face his biggest challenge in the film: having his private parts inspected as part of the competitive process. This is where the film “Show Dogs” takes what Maldonado describes as “a dark and disturbing” turn for the worse. After repeatedly resisting Frank’s advances early on, Max finally reaches the day where he has no choice but to let the judge touch him in order to win the competition, so he reluctantly agrees.

The deeply disturbing message being conveyed here – and to children, no less – is that, in order to achieve what you want in life, sometimes you have to let other people do things to you that are uncomfortable and invasive. In this case, allowing someone to touch your private parts could be a necessary requirement in order to “win” a competition.

This is how many actors and actresses make it in Hollywood, after all – and politicians in Washington, too. It’s actually been suggested that rape and pedophilia are obligatory “rites of passage” for many young stars and starlets to make it in the ‘biz, which is exactly what “Show Dogs” seems to be suggesting – using cute, fluffy animals, of course. Hollywood resorts to embedding its perversions into happy and hilarious cartoon characters that most people won’t even realize were created to brainwash them.