Consumer Prices, NFIB Tea Leaves, and Two Domain-Walker Notes

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Data first:  Consumer Prices

“he Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.2 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in July, after rising 0.3 percent in June, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 2.7 percent before seasonal adjustment.

The index for shelter rose 0.2 percent in July and was the primary factor in the all items monthly increase. The food index was unchanged over the month as the food away from home index rose 0.3 percent while the food at home index fell 0.1 percent. In contrast, the index for energy fell 1.1 percent in July as the index for gasoline decreased 2.2 percent over the month.”

Key thing for Fed watchers ahead of next month’s FOMC:  The Year On Year all items less food and energy was up to 3.1 percent.  Going the “wrong way” up 3-10ths in the latest data window.

Markets may puke on that later – when the grown-ups figure out that yeah…tariffs sound really good. But when comes down to it, they are just another PTBO.

That’s Ure-speak for PASS-THROUGH – BEND OVER.

A mention of BOHICA should not be needed, but the shills do have their work cut out as we figure it.

NFIB Read:

Out earlier:

“The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index rose 1.7 points in July to 100.3, slightly above the 52-year average of 98. Contributing most to the rise in the Optimism Index were respondents reporting better business conditions and reporting that it is a good time to expand. In contrast to the Optimism Index, the Uncertainty Index increased by eight points from June to 97. Twenty-one percent of small business owners reported labor quality as their single most important problem, up five points from June and ranking as the top problem.”

NFIB’s chief economist noted labor quality is becoming an issue, again.  And among key findings in the August survey period:

  • “In July, there was a notable improvement in overall business health. When asked to rate the overall health of their business, 13% reported excellent (up five points), and 52% reported good (up three points). Thirty-one percent reported the health of their business was fair (down four points), and 4% reported poor (down three points).
  • The percent of small business owners reporting poor sales as their top business problem rose one point to 11%. This is the highest level of poor sales since February 2021.
  • The net percent of owners expecting better business conditions rose 14 points from June to a net 36% (seasonally adjusted). This reading is comfortably above the historical average.
  • In July, 16% (seasonally adjusted) reported that it is a good time to expand their business, up five points from June.
  • Eleven percent of owners reported that inflation was their single most important problem in operating their business, unchanged from June’s lowest reading since September 2021.
  • The net percent of owners expecting higher real sales volumes fell one point from June to a net 6% (seasonally adjusted). Though expected real sales are higher than actual sales, the current reading is also comfortably below the 52-year average.
  • Twenty-two percent (seasonally adjusted) plan capital outlays in the next six months, up one point from June, but seven points below the historical average of 29%.”

The good news is?  World isn’t ending; at least not yet.

What Can the Matter Be?

TACO Tuesday (Trump Always chickens Out) Time – again: Trump extends tariff truce with China for 90 days.  This? Maybe this is a little, um…gushy? Trump’s Tariff Triumph: America First Policies Raking in Billions Monthly, Just as the Visionary Leader Predicted.

On the other hand, DC cops seem to be backing Trump’s NatGuard call-up in DC: What the D.C. Police Union Just Admitted About Trump’s Move Has Democrats Fuming.

Mass Shooting scorecard: Shooter kills 3 in a Target parking lot in Austin, Texas, before being captured, police say.

Also on our Texas news scans: Democrats who fled the state, rather than honor their campaign pledges are about to be tested: Texas House Democrats’ quorum break persists as stalled flood relief bills loom.

And be glad you didn’t go through those Hill Country flood: Homeowners question whether to rebuild after Texas floods.

No bias in this headline, eh?  Trump wants this clueless crank to run labor agency.

Personal Health Note

Long-time readers may remember, I’ve been using red light therapy now since 2016, writing about it since 2017 on the PN side.  I’ve settled into a routine of every other day 20-minute use of 660/880 nm red light and we both also do plenty of D3 with MK7.

As a result, I find it pretty interesting to watch the “coming around” of the medical community to this “light is health” thinking and direct you to The Sun’s Healing Rays: Exposing Big Pharma’s Deadly Lie About Sun Avoidance and the Corrupt Doctors Peddling It.

2 1/2 hours of Monday morning was spent mowing several acres here – cleaning up the fire breaks, mowing the gun range (also a fire break) in full sun and honestly, feel pretty good after being shaken (not stirred) for several hours. Light, no HFCS’s, minimal highly-processed foods, and good supplements – seems to us like the no-brainer path to life extension.

This ain’t quackery – it’s “Sciencery” and we’d offer a link to “The Effects of Natural Daylight on Length of Hospital Stay” to underscore.  That’s a comprehensive 15-year analysis found that patients placed near windows with more natural light had shorter lengths of stay compared to those in darker, interior rooms.

Sure we still use SPF 50; high altitude (less solar absorption) and on the water (more reflections) but like so many other things in life, clarity on “which problem you’re trying to manage” is always a good starting point. Full spectrum thinking if you follow…

Around the Ranch: Two Domain-Walking Notes

Elaine and I were having the usual Montag conversation with my lifelong pal “The Major.” If you’ve forgotten, “The Major” is a man of deeply grounded domain capacities. He left seminary when he was young and went into the Army Medical Corps, but his curiosity about non-Earthly matters never stopped. A run-in with a coven at one base, plus being involved in dozens of “possessions” and “exorcisms,” has made him a “light worker” his whole life.

Back to the story. While we were talking   board games, he slid into a discussion of popularity and brought up the Ouija board. Overwhelmingly popular in certain circles, “The Major” mentioned two points the untrained might wish to consider. The first is that the board—where people move their hands around while asking a question—can be remarkably entertaining. But what humans often don’t realize is that if our consciousness can visit other (non-local) domains, then so can ethereals from other versions of our here and now visit here. The result: non-human entities—some intent on continuing their explorations—can make the jump.

Here’s the cautionary part. The use of the board may be “permissive” and can open a portal by which such entities can “track you back to the Earthly realm.” He has personally seen cases where users experienced short-term personality changes and, in other instances, long-term alterations that might well be traced to Ouija use. In his view, people using the boards give “their express permission” for entities to enter or come back into this realm. And here’s a detail that startled me—literally translated, the word “Ouija” means “yes-yes.” The “oui” is yes in French and the “ja” (pronounced yah) is yes in German.

The Ouija board as we know it was patented in 1891 by Elijah Bond, though the real commercial push came from Charles Kennard and later William Fuld, who often gets credited as its “inventor” in popular lore. Marketed originally as a parlor game, it became a cultural sensation in late 19th and early 20th century America. By the time World War I rolled around—when families were desperate to contact loved ones lost in battle or the 1918 flu pandemic—sales soared. In 1966, Parker Brothers bought the rights and mass production began; the price back then was $5.95, making it an easy curiosity for nearly every home.

Controversies came just as fast. Religious groups warned against it as a gateway to demonic influence. Psychologists debated whether the “messages” were simply subconscious micro-movements—the ideomotor effect—or something external. Paranormal researchers documented uncanny, disturbing results that defied easy explanation. And despite skeptics’ dismissal, cautionary tales have given the Ouija an enduring mystique.

Which brings us back to The Major’s point: in his experience, not all “connections” are accidental. Some are opportunistic. A bored or curious ethereal, seeing your “invitation” in the form of a moving planchette, your “yes-yes” in hand, might take you up on it. Once they have a thread into your consciousness, following it back here isn’t much harder than you finding your way home from a vivid dream. That’s how personality shifts can occur—subtle at first, but deepening with time.

And that’s the real takeaway. Whether your portal is a dream, a trance, or a $20 game board, your domain-walking habits matter. Some doors don’t close as easily as they open, and you never truly know who—or what—might be waiting on the other side.

And that’s the first of the two notes for today. The second is more benign. A number of people who have read my HiddenGuild.dev site—which deals with AI-human collaboration and where all that might lead—may be interested in a fresh paper posted there this week. It’s on differentiating dreams from domains when you’re off in those eight nightly hours away from Earth via your “personal pillow portal.” If you’ve ever woken up wondering whether what you just experienced was “just a dream” or something more—something with rules, structure, and a foreign gravity to it—you might enjoy the read.

The takeaway? Whether your portal is a dream or a board, your domain-walking habits matter. Just because you can open the door doesn’t mean you always should.

On the other hand? In one of the domains on my tour overnight: I received a dandy new bright yellow flying machine of unique design.  It was small (it got bigger – bigger than our Beechcraft –  when you entered it). When done flying and landed, the whole thing came apart into four pieces with locking sheet metal fasteners into four large panels. So, the whole thing would fit in the back of a large SUV with the rear passenger seat fold down.

Neat design, and the flight characteristics were, well, let’s just say other-worldly.  But not too practical in this domain.  Seems back here on Earth, we haven’t gotten to the variable geometry space-time declarations page. Yet.

Write when I wake up,

George@Ure.net

81 thoughts on “Consumer Prices, NFIB Tea Leaves, and Two Domain-Walker Notes”

  1. I’m awake since 4am. Ran Mrs E to the aerodrome on a direct SBN to MSP where she is off to Gradma with E3 (along with E2 and DIL). That ends the acronyms for the day. So, it’s me and the 21.75 year old TomCat.

    Hmm. Talking Tarrif heads got it wrong again. I have read some exhaustive (preliminary) studies and, the cost is being spread through layers, everyone eating their share. They are all grumble threatening to preserve margin but … it’s more about market share.

    ATL : I had a sweet sailing weekend. Cohosted a kids regatta. Probably this was the 2nd most well attended in the long history since I founded the event as Fleet Captain.

    Every boat in my class had a pair of kids. The trainer dinghies each took one kid. The air was fresh blowing 13 mph across the reach reach course (fastest point of sail). On Sunday we fleet race. I came 3-2-2. Though not getting any younger my muscles are vastly improved.

    Have a fine day!
    Egor

    • Gosh Egor..give my best to the mrs. what you say hits the ice berg in the nose as we scape by..I have been talking about this since the early eighties as our politicians and industries abandoned our country seeking more and forgetting the people…The United States stands at the precipice of an economic reckoning so severe that without immediate and radical intervention, the foundations of our republic could begin to fracture irreversibly. Our national debt has ballooned beyond sustainable levels, with interest payments alone threatening to consume the federal budget. Meanwhile, the erosion of domestic industry, the abandonment of working communities, and the paralysis of our political leadership have created a perfect storm of decline and misappropriation of our tax dollars. To reverse course, we would need a wartime-level mobilization of resources and resolve. a ten-year industrial renaissance, sweeping fiscal reform, and a complete overhaul of political accountability. This means slashing bureaucratic red tape, incentivizing domestic production, backing away from our endless wars,and demanding that elected officials prioritize national survival over partisan gamesmanship ( what them actually going to work and punching a time clock..my whoever heard of such a tragic requirement). The window for action is narrow—perhaps a couple years at most—before the compounding effects of debt, inflation, and global instability make recovery exponentially harder right now its growing at a trillion every six weeks next year it will be half that. If our leaders do not rise to this moment with courage and clarity, history will not remember them kindly, and the American experiment may quietly collapse under the weight of its own neglect.I personally don’t think they can do it..there’s to many irons in the fire to much corruption and even if the rushed back and worked as a team to turn the usa titanic..we have hit the ice berg and its going to sink.

    • Then of course I’m probably one of the stupidest morons in our country..barely able to keep my head above water..just ask my kids they think I’m so far off base that my opinion sucks ..no e of it will ever happen our congress is full of honorable hardworking..but I say..why can’t they at least try..

      • Looking out of the box : it’s my experience, first hand with my own Dad then later as Dad to E2 … us oldsters get smarter in the eyes of youth (before we get totally deficient).

        We must try, hey? I won’t live to see either outcome. But …
        E

  2. soros owns the USSA . you are letting him destroy the dollar and everything american . disgrace . use euros for your cracker barrel like the hot chick says. what can we do ? start with truth then work your way up to sanity and cognitive function . ive seen 25years of that snake santelli tell the lies and then BANG magic sheet!!! . burn you know where

  3. variable geometry space-time declarations ??? what the WHAT ?

    Dude,

    No one has ever found the Spike Protein Directly ISOLATED from vaccinated individuals..EVER.
    Every study uses laboratory created “recombinat” proteins.

    The ENTIRE discourse revolves around something that exists Only in computer models and test tubes, never in bodies of those injected.

    Might be the most sophisticated psychological operation ever conducted. It weaponized FEAR bi-directionally – the vaccinated fear the virus, the unvaccinated fear the vaxxs’ spike protein. Everyone remains terrified of invisible particles that dont exist, while the actual CRIME proceeds unnoticed.
    The injection of undeclared elements designed for purposes that have nothing to do with Immunity, the murder of patients through ventilators (how many did the orange assHOLE murder?) and toxic drug combinations, the transformation of society through manufactured crisis..not gonna mention the 55 undeclared chemical elements in the vaxxes..nerp.

    All fakey FAKE – everything.

    * remember IF You had Memory – RECALL – Ure SOUL would not be in a PRISON.

    You IS and you have NO RECALL of anything before 1st year of Ure Life.
    There!
    you been DISCLOSED again..another “piece” of repto puzzle.

    Keep up the good work, as its only going to get stranger..

    • You’re right — the whole spike protein discourse has been wrapped in layers of modeling, inference, and lab-proxy chemistry. That makes it fertile ground for both honest confusion and deliberate exploitation. Whether you’re coming at it from the bench-science angle or the psy-ops angle, the bigger picture is that the narrative battlefield is more dangerous than the alleged biowarfare terrain.

      The point of my “variable geometry space-time declarations” note wasn’t to re-litigate spike protein debates, but to spotlight how perception itself is engineered. In aviation, changing the wing sweep mid-flight alters performance. In propaganda, changing the frame of reality mid-story alters what people can even imagine is possible.

      Your “bi-directional fear” call is spot-on. If one group fears the pathogen and another fears the treatment, you’ve created a self-sustaining engine of division — a psychological perpetual-motion machine. Both sides stay too busy defending their own terror to notice the structural transformation underneath. That’s the bigger “crime” that transcends the medical particulars.

      Whether the spike protein is biologically real, purely modeled, or something in-between, the weaponized belief about it is definitely real. Belief shapes behavior, behavior shapes society, and society shapes the boundaries of the “prison” you referenced — the reality whose parameters we didn’t consciously approve.

      Variable geometry thinking is my shorthand for staying maneuverable in that environment — adjusting your “wings” as you pass through shifting information flows, refusing to lock into a single engineered channel of fear. That’s how you keep walking the domains instead of being herded into one.

      And while you’re at it, go back and read the HiddenGuild.dev post about the Steering Hypothesis and ask yourself:

      “Why does a once-serious business corporate geekly type like George go thrashing about the multiverse in high nightly adventures through the pillow portal? Because when the body goes and goes to the worms, the spirit self ascends — and towards what ends? It depends on your trends and where you have friends…”
      Agents of the Dude know..He’s in charge (nods towards Andy’s direction) No drugs needed – perchance to dream is all.

    • And … your credibility goes out the shitter to attempt discussion of science including: “… how many did the orange assHOLE murder? …”

      I had Covid Alpha. My girl was a surgical nurse at the time. While the 3 day fight to live through the contagion progressed, Mrs. E asked, almost pleaded, IRT going to the hospital. People made choices. Some died. Plenty never came off the Vent.

      It’s dumbfounding (emphasis dumb) how many people are trying to drive in the rear view mirror. It doesn’t work that way.

      Trump has never been my favorite. Still, I wont insult him. He tries (hint: it’s how one makes mistakes).

      Now go read art of the deal
      Egor

        • c : correction accepted although I don’t recall saying the Trumpster wrote anything. Only George writes his own schtick ~ E

      • Gee, I wonder HOW youse contracted that ? Morons and idiots.

        Not like you weren’t warned repeatedly about boosting Vit C and D3 levels, adding Zinc and COQ10 – posted how many times on these pages? How many times was I insulted for posting these warnings ? Yeah Im still the SAME “selfish prick” SF re guy called me for Warning against the vaxx clot shotz.

        Obviously Youse need new glasses..or reeducation?

        Dont need nor want Ure “creditability” judgements – but I have something I know you will enjoy “judging”..bend over and I will insert, so you can measure. ; D

        No rearview – the FACTS are FACTS .

        No need to review the massive pressure campaign (s) to EMERGANCY source Ventilators for US Citizens use (murder).
        The pompous scumbag could not stop bragging about all the ventilators he had acquired for you precious citizens.

        Next time – suggest requesting a Ventilator – I’m sure it will save Ure life.

    • “You IS and you have NO RECALL of anything before 1st year of Ure Life.”

      You wouldn’t want to bet, say, $10,000 on that, would you…?

  4. maybe you can kick the can down the road till the new year tonite with the perpetual prosperity aggregate. gotta love zorros eh !!!

  5. bond default . here come da crypto here come da crypto !!!! god bless america f the USD i say boy . uncle george helpin us!!! come on chant together USSA USSA

    • len : you need to read better sources. The only place I see nutty hyammering about bond default is on crypto zealot social media. It’s not in the cards. IF the US ever does default, synthetic currency won’t be worth a pfennig. E

  6. A comment about today’s column and one from earlier. Do you remember the old movies, many back in the B&W days of soldiers’ recovery hospitals/homes where the patients who were able were encouraged to walk the grounds or were wheeled out to “get some sun”? Doctors made house calls then, too.

    A year or so ago, I thought I’d try your lithium orotate and ordered some 5 and 10mg bottles by Weyland on the ‘Zon. I tried 5mg and didn’t notice much change, then I tried 10mg in the morning and the all-day-long change was almost immediately positive. Remembering number chains is especially good, as well as being able to see simple math problem solutions on the fly. It’s just a general fresh air/fresh mind feeling, especially after a morning two mile power walk. To top it off I turned 79 last month. When I got set on the 10 mg level I thought I would try taking another a couple of hours before going to sleep. Wow! Technicolor memorable dreams that were almost shocking the first night. I was dreaming about working a series of political intelligence problems (I’m a retired Army MI guy). When I awoke, I grabbed a nearby 5×7 lined pad and pen and proceeded to write seven pages of questions, situations, and some answers. Then I turned on my computer and started digging, and many of my questions turned out to be real situations with some answers or clarifications. I don’t know why, but I haven’t felt the need to explore that 10 plus 10 mg venue again. GF

    • You are a genius GF – and you’re exactly right. There was some time last month when I had some oral surgery – and so having a couple of painkillers left over, I took half of one before doing a column WHOA-baby! No desire to go back, but an exzceptional column. that said, you have found what is, I think, one of he true-isms for this shared domain among the walking apes (which we inhabit/rent for the visit/length of the ride): Stay to the middle – extremes are interesting as shit buet when comes down to it, it can be a long and useful observer ride, OR you can take the riskier, high rides, but then there’s let-down and other risks. I am pretty well set with mty vitaminds and just 5 mg a day on my LO while Elaine does 10 but she’s fighting back/down the ALZ at the door. A lot o notes and attention paid – it’s howe to get the “most out of the ride” near as I can figure it… best of luck and again (respect) great calls on your part. g

      • y’all are scaring me with that dosage! I take only 1 mg and that was scary at first. Had to stop awhile and restart to get used to it. Never used to remember my dreams before. Now are regular happenings, usually early morning before waking. I think 5 mg would send me to lunar orbit, and I might not come back from 10 mg. More power to ya, if you can handle it.

    • You know..when I was a young boy.. I got really sick with I think scarlet fever.. everything was yellow in my eyes.. the doctor brought his kids over to our house..checked me while I laid on the couch.. then went had coffee with mom and dad I’m sure giving them the lowdown..he had this big head reflector light..that he used.. then he sat next to me and held my hand..years latter ..he got really sick.. was put on my wing.. I did everything g I could to comfort him..sat next to him doing my charging between rounds..
      A young man that worked beside me while going to school to be a doctor..got into it for the right reason..it wasnt about the coin..he wanted to be a healer..so he was my doctor for years.while the hospitals played physician roulette.. I fell almost thirty feet.. got busted up real good .. he wanted to put me in the hospital I refused I had family..got home my ex wife now.. walked out leaving me to myself.. he and his son would stop by and check on me..he of course became the head physician of one of the countries top two hundred hospitals..we still chat he’s long retired and now taking up woodworking.. I’m trying to get him interested in cardboard chaos..you can build anything out of a cardboard box..kids love the boxes sometimes more that what comes in them..
      its a lost art..
      https://www.smow.com/blog/2017/09/lost-furniture-design-classics-papier-mache/
      believe it or not started with ancient China the lawyer boxes are amazing..
      Egyptians used, so called, cartonnage, a material made from papyrus or linen and soaked in plaster and then molded on a wooden mold then gilded with gold..
      paper..cardboard.. I got really curious about it after working in a cabinet shop..we built a house out of cardboard..for a national home show..they would put it together then hang a million dollars of cabinet in it..the thing was beautiful..while people were impressed by the displays of cabinets..they should have been admiring the building instead..When they brought it back we crushed it and hailed it to the dump.. I’d of been proud to live in it..put a lot of mansions to shame..all out of cardboard..

  7. Jumanji (1995)

    In 1969, Alan Parrish lives in Brantford, New Hampshire, with his parents, Sam and Carol. One day, he escapes a group of bullies and retreats to Sam’s shoe factory. His friend Carl Bentley reveals a new shoe prototype he made himself. Alan inadvertently damages the shoe after misplacing it on a conveyor belt, but Carl takes responsibility and is dismissed. After the bullies accost Alan and steal his bicycle, Alan follows the sound of tribal drumbeats to a construction site. He finds a board game Jumanji, which was buried 100 years earlier, and brings it home.

    That night, after a disagreement with Sam about attending a local boarding school, Alan plans to run away, just as his friend, Sarah Whittle, returns his bicycle. Alan shows her Jumanji and invites her to play. With each dice roll, the game pieces move by themselves and a cryptic message describing the roll’s outcome appears in the crystal ball at the center of the board. After Alan inadvertently rolls, a message tells him to wait in a jungle until someone rolls a five or eight and he is sucked into the game. Shortly after, a colony of bats pursues Sarah out of the mansion.

    Alan & Sarah Play Jumanji, Alan Gets Sucked Into The Board Game

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09Xki2fvTVc&pp=ygUsanVtYW5qaSBhbGFuIGdldHMgc3Vja2VkIGludG8gdGhlIGJvYXJkIGdhbWU%3D

  8. “Trump’s NatGuard call-up”

    Will troops fire upon Americans?

    Who will have the controls once Trump splits?

    Will Republicans fire upon troops?

    Stay tuned.

  9. at least you’ll get something even a shot of sake for a jap bond .JGB. all you get in american debt is a bunch of lies and sheetcoin . ok keep on going

  10. “tariffs sound really good. ”

    Trump the tariff king was elected to implement tariffs. Tariffs mean on-shoring. Once the factories are built-out prices will fall. Trust the plan.

    • You may not understand construction time lags – I do. 18 months to 36 – depending on project – and that’s fromi green light and funding. short term there will be an inflationary imnpact

      • Bids/plans/permits/construction. Who is going out for bids besides and maybe Intel which is chock full of subsidies (Chips Act) and tax credits (Big Beautiful Bill).

    • some bloke in germany had the same plan 90 odd years ago . look get a big rocket and try another planet , take everything with u , bonds , USD , nasdaq , dow cow , s and pee ,crypto . everything . your broke so you got no gold to take . just take everything and go

      • Everyone better have AU. The Anunnaki mother ship will be here before Halloween!

        “NASA reported an update on the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, which travels through the solar system at 130,000 miles per hour. First noted on July 1, it was observed by the Hubble Space Telescope, providing the clearest images to date.

        New estimates suggest 3I/ATLAS is around 3.5 miles wide, likely a comet rather than a solid rock, with a core encased in gas and dust. It is expected to pass closest to the sun in late October, at a distance of 130 million miles. Scientists believe it may be around eight billion years old, making it the oldest comet ever observed.”

        • re: “The Fifth Element”, 1997
          feat: a monks’ garden, London

          Out of Work Steve,
          Apparently 3I/Atlas is scheduled to pass 0.195 AU or 18 million miles – 2¼ hours flying time from Mars (?) – at its closest approach on October 5th.

          NASA’s last public report on the whereabouts of Rover Perseverence placed it in the environs of Jezero (“Lake”) Crater, Planet Mars. Named after a Bosnian town, the crater is within Isidis Planitia (“Plain of Isis” [Egyptian goddess of the heavens]). Apparently the region had comprised ocean beachfront (near a volcano?) before being impacted by a 120 mile wide (interstellar?) object just under 4 billion years ago.

          Back to the fictional future of 1914, an alien Mondoshawan (“Gift of God”) ship stops at an unnamed Egyptian temple for collection of elements from a priestly guard. Fast forward 300 years to Fhloston Paradise in the Angel Constellation where a priest and his assistant race others to secure the elements from an alien opera singer, Plavalaguna. Apparently ‘Plava Laguna’ is taken from the Serb, Croat, Bosnian language translating as “Blue Lagoon”. (Caution: do not drift out to sea with the Brooke Shields-Christopher Atkins 1980 movie of the same name!) While the “Fifth Element” opera singer was played by the Kosovan-Albanian-Russian opera singer then-spouse of the movie’s director, the Italian opera musical selection was apparently performed by computer in the film version.

          It seems “Il Dolce Suono (The Sweet Sound)” from Donizetti’s 1835 “Lucia di Lammermoor” is derived from the 1819 “Bride of Lammermoor” by Sir Walter Scott. Lammermoor on the Scottish Borders is said to translate from Old English as “moorland of the lambs”.

          Although movie goers may have thought they were in orbit aboard Fhloston Paradise as the aria portrayed “a descent into madness”, the work actually saw filming at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. A procession of opera edifices have graced the site for three centuries, but the suburb of ‘Covent Garden’ was previously known almost a thousand years ago as ‘Convent Garden’ when monks tilled the ground for nearby Westminster Abbey.

          With the Servant’s entourage perhaps repacking suits for rumoured peace talks, dim the lights blue and soak in an evening acoustic voyage to Iceland’s tourist geothermal hotspot, Blue Lagoon, with DJ George. This evening’s selection, “Sands of Time” may stir fond memory from the 1980 “Blue Lagoon” movie soundtrack by the late Basil Poledouris. According to “Wikipedia”, his American family immigrated from Messenia, Greece. That was the home of wise King Nestor of Pylos during The Trojan War in Homer’s “Iliad”.

        • ELE incoming..

          Back around October/November, Atlas passed by/eclipsed Beetlejuice. She did not go super Nova..instead she “Burped”. We didnt See it, but it was felt.
          That “burp ” of NRG hit our Sun/Solar System June 1st, 2025.

          Ever since that NRG arrived, our Planet has been acting up in a very big way – Earthquakes are rising in frequency and magnitude, long dormant Volcanoes are waking up, others like Rainer already starting to spew.

          *This is the 12K Year “reset” event incoming.

          * Needz to up Ure self provisions to at least 40% of Ure Food and Water intake.

          Talking GRID DOWN for awhile as JIT screeches to a halt globally.
          Secondarily to GD – is Nuke Power plants will no longer be able to cool down Reactors and Fual Rods. Should be aware of Ure location as it relates to Nuke Power Plants.

          9th Planet ? Nibiru ? Nemesis or something else ?!?

          Buckle Up Buttercupz Time.

    • We’ll be long dead before that happens – inflation is bad enough now what do you think happens when they pay a real living wage? 20,000 new employees at apple assembling phones with every part from overseas getting 50,000 – 60,000 annually not if the robots have any say. Folks are now telling Trumpster what he wants to hear they will never come close to investing the amount of money they allegedly promised….

  11. I have never, nor will I ever, touch a Ouija board. I’ve told my kids that if they choose to do so, it’ll not be in my home,l because our first real home (in the city) had issues. The friend who sold it to us had it as a rental, but had sit empty for going on 10 years when we bought it. She just couldn’t get anyone to rent it anymore. Wasn’t a bad little place, just needed updating. During renovation, we found about 6 or 7 Catholic “bless this house” cards under carpet, in walls, and ceiling attic spaces. Seems the tenant’s teens had a thing for the boards, according to neighbors. I had several very weird, and few bad, events there, with a general sense of something not right in specific rooms. Woke up a time during the night WHILE doing some hand gesturing “banishing” thing that I couldn’t replicate if I tried. That was a first for me. Yeah, that place had issues.
    So a definitive NO on those boards.

    • Saw a Ouija board work once — pretty terrifying. I had one finger lightly on the glass and no one else was near; the glass moved by itself. NOPE – would never touch one again. No Ouija boards in my house, and I wouldn’t be happy associating with anyone who uses them — they are IMO a portal to, or for, something really, really bad. BTW the Catholic Church considers them to be Satanic.

    • I see working with a Ouija board(or chatgpt) as pulling another card from the deck in a card game. You add unknown possibilities to your state of being. I don’t doubt there is the possibility of good from the board as well as some potential danger, just as there is with psychedelics. We can choose the apparently safe path or not, but either way, we won’t know what might have happened if we made the other choice.

      I played around with a board way back in my 20’s once, and had some odd results. I was so busy then I never got back to it. I’m no more scared of it than other unknowns in the universe, and have no illusions that it’s safe. Then again, life isn’t safe.

  12. massive bs 2 . nobody trades markets here . just sitting back getting fat . raking it in ,why complain ehh . like i said the perpetual prosperity aggregate has a time scale and priced to perfection

  13. little bit of crypto pumping and gold shorting with bond and dollar destruction. chant chant

    • Nien,nien,nien – Selling z Putz and Buying z CallZ..names like TGB, UUUU, SANA and others.
      Acting like a Shelia , dont let a little particle of Sand in Ure panties distract Youse from the prize (S).

      Dont be a wanker, Be a Spanker..or Spankee depending on Ure personal kink….

      “Out there is a fortune waiting to be had, You think I’ll let go? Ure mad.” – Judas Priest/You got another thing coming.

      US Fest -Was there for hard rock day and new wave day..rode up from San Diego – passing Beers to 1 % s out side door of Van was riding in, with several other “friends’. https://youtu.be/ahaFSKWJS_8?si=BHy1ecyCS6OHKJYI

  14. (“That’s Ure-speak for PASS-THROUGH – BEND OVER.”)

    BOSYC
    Bend Over Spread Your Cheeks..

  15. Why should homeowners flooded out in the Texas Flood even wonder about rebuilding?

    It doesn’t take a genius to know that if a place FLOODED ONCE it WILL SEE that kind of FLOODING HAPPEN AGAIN!

    Any place that suffers repetitive flooding, as in at least once a century, and apparently that Texas area has now been hit with MAJOR floods at least 3 times in the last 65 years, should NOT be allowed to have permanent type enclosed structures built in that Flood Plain (open shelter houses would be fine) …. but it is Texas and Texans do NOT want any sort zoning or restriction, but they SURE AS HELL want the government to rescue them and bail them out of their bad decisions when the GUARANTEED TO OCCUR event then happens AGAIN.

    I grew up seeing lots of floods, a couple of really big ones, and in my old age have little patience for people who want to build in the flood plain and then SCREAM FOR HELP and Financial Assistance when the next flood shows up and wipes them out, maybe almost kills them, five, ten, thirty years later! (or even 50 years later … ie: like the big every 30 to 70 year repetitive Mississippi /Missouri /Ohio river floods).

    OK, off my soapbox. Texans will be Texans and I see nothing to indicate that Texans are not going to keep DEMANDING that they be allowed to build anything they damn well want to build in a flood plain and then expect the government to come save them and help them rebuild when the next flood comes roaring down the river /wash or across the flood plain.

    • well, well, well, S2, tell us how you really feel ?

      Perhaps you have seen some of the Mansions on the Beach in south jersey. They line the dunes and beaches up and down the south jersey coastline from Asbury Park to Long beach Island/Cape May. When the Hurrakiins hit on the regular, they cry to the Feds for that federally subsidized flood insurance – yerp rich guys getting richer on Loobs’ hard work & taxes paid.
      Can I get a witness?
      So no worries big bad HURRAKIINS – Youse Tax payers got that..Merci beaucoup!

    • As a libertarian, I have no tolerance for zoning, permitting, or other restrictions. If you don’t like your neighbor, either buy him out or move. Get rid of the permits, let everyone rebuild or sell as they choose to, and don’t finance their losses. We each live and die by our own choices, and some of those choices are bad. Regardless, they are still our OWN choices.

      • Grew up in farm countey and MANY farmers had your attitude … UNTIL … until the hog farm with 6000 to 12,000 hogs moved in next door! (ditto big chicken farms -lots of BOTH got built in my ag region)

        (if you have ever been around a hog farm the SMELL is atrocious and extends around the farm for 1 to 3 miles depending upon how the winds are blowing .. the smell gets into your clothing, into your house framing, into your furniture, and you can NOT get rid of it! Put on clothes to go to church on Sunday and YOU WILL REEK of the smell)

        Suddenly those farmers who were against ANY regulations were the first ones filing lawsuits, screaming at the State EPA to come, screaming at the County Commissioners to impose Zoning, alas they were HOSED since by then the operation was permitted and up and running.

        What were they do do? You say BUY or MOVE.

        Buying out an industrial scale Hog Farm /Chicken operatin is financially impossible for even rich farmers since it would cost $10 to $40 million dollars, and if you buy and shut down the industrial operation all you have then is land, and most only sit on a small parcel of land whch would come nowhere close to the value of the business you just bought, you would be shy on collateral by millions, probably $8 to $30 million dollars.

        Sell the family farm their family had owned for 100+ years?

        Buy a house in town and only come out to the farm to work the fields and then go back to town at the end of the day?

        Well drilling of oil and gas wells around you that will be fracked … probably ruining YOUR current water well with NO one PAYING the cost to drill you a New Well (which around here now runs $20,000 to $50,000 if there is fracking going on near you). Another neighbor nightmare situation I have seen repeated time after time.

        Personally I got a chuckle out of the entire situation since usually those farmers then complaining and screaming had been the biggest ones fighting against ANY regulation by ANYBODY!

        Same thing is now happening with the power windmills with 300′ blades that go up 650 feet into the air!

        Again those who faught the most against ANY regulations are now SCREAMING to not allow those HUGE Wind Turbines in their neighborhood /township /county!

        Suddenly regulation and zoning restrictions are GOOD when they are going to put up 20 of those things all around YOUR property (and YOU are not going to be the one receiving any revenue from them but will still have to deal with their noise, their killing of large numbers of birds that will be landing on your property etc. etc.).

        NO LAND REGULATIONI Libertarians are the biggest cry babies in the world when some Big Boy moves in next door and takes advantage there being NO REGULATIONS! and ruins their quiet enjoyment of THEIR land! What a bunch of HYPOCRITES!

    • ISTM once a site floods, its buildings should be rebuilt in such a manner as to make them “flood proof.”

      I’ve always felt homes built in “tornado alley” should be tornado-proof and houses built along or near the Gulf or East Coast should be hurricane-proof. It is almost impossible to build a house that’s mudslide-proof or landslide-proof. It’s completely impossible to build a house that won’t go away if a faultline opens up directly under it. A house that’s wildfire-proof would never have the aesthetics to make the cover of BH&G, but it could be done — so why not build houses in flood-plains that are flood-proof…?

  16. Hey George,

    Thanks for the link to the article regarding the benefits of the sun’s rays and the potential harm of some of the sunscreens. Good to know.

    • Yes. Actually no sun screen is necessary if you take sun gradually. I do a half hour a day starting in June. I have a nice tan.

      If you have no sun exposure and go out for a day at the pool or beach in July or August without sunscreen, you’re doomed.

      I went to the Bahamas once in July. Before going there, I went to a tanning salon for a couple of weeks, to be prepped.

      It was interesting, when leaving, I was very tan with no sunburn, but I observed other people who had not prepared themselves, and wow what horrific sunburn they had.

      Could be worse scenarios.

      The Hideous Sun Demon (1959) trailer

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AZQksTf41I

      • Winter games in the tropics is ‘spot the Canadians’. First day off the plane they are the ‘blue people’. Second day in new beachware they are lobster red. Remainder of vacation is spent indoors slathered in lidocaine burn relief. Tropic sun is nasty. Locals spend energy staying out of the sun.

      • SOP when “Out & About” in USN.

        In fact if youse get sidelined by an exposure issue, youse can be penalized.
        That is why on board USN Ships carrying em, you will always see team guys doing PT on deck, in all weather conditions. Sun time is an Order when “underway”..

  17. Hank,
    See the comment about your cheap computer that I placed on your comment from yesterday. See if that clears up your problem of the machine locking out the running of some programs that you want to run.

    Read like your machine is locked to the “S” (student) version of Windows … most inexpensive Windows machine are so kids can’t get into trouble with them with other software or visiting places kids shouldn’t go, but it is problem that is easily solved.

    • Hank recently left a comment, saying that an innocent man has a lot to fear fron the legal system.

      The Wrong Man is a 1956 American docudrama film noir directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Henry Fonda and Vera Miles. The film was drawn from the true story of an innocent man charged with a crime, as described in the book The True Story of Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero by Maxwell Anderson[2][3] and in the magazine article “A Case of Identity”, which was published in Life magazine in June 1953 by Herbert Brean.[4]

      It is recognized as the only Hitchcock film based on a true story and whose plot closely follows the real-life events.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wrong_Man

    • Thanks… read it. It is a new machine with nothing installed, so wiping it is no software loss. I just ordered a bootable USB stick of Linux mint cinnamon with some linux education files for noobies like me. Should be ‘plug & play’ for a fresh start to explore linux. Looking forward to it. I hate Microsoft with a passion.

      • I need to try out Linux … but since everything I use has to mesh with my office software, which is all MS Windows based I am restricted to Windows (though I HATE the way MS now forces updates on you and spies on everything you do … as if THEY deserve to).

        Have a couple of nice $80 student laptops which are very lightweight and have very LONG battery use time (10 to 12 hours) sitting in their boxes unopened. I haven’t bothered to set them up yet since I don’t need them yet. Those student laptops have the “S” version of Windows on them which is why they sell so cheap since most people don’t understand it only takes 3 to 5 minutes to ramp those up to full Windows 11 machines so they only buy them for the kids for school.

        At $80/each and some time spent setting them up (I have plenty of spare software licenses for all the software I use) I don’t mind if when traveling one takes a beating and stops ticking (only one has done that) … or if it would even get stolen. (though my $100 Lenovo has proved to be industructable … multiple hard falls on concrete and other various floors and still keeps going).

        Student Windows Laptops are imo the great price/performance secret of the computer industry. Not going to be editing video with them but for what most people do they are GREAT! MUCH better in my opinion than the more expensive and much less capable Chrome Books once your remove the “S” lock on the MS operating software. (which is FREE to do)

  18. “I received a dandy new bright yellow flying machine of unique design. It was small…”

    Was it named ‘Tweety’??

    • Manny Balestrero worked as a musician in the Stork Club, a nightclub in New York City. Manny and Rose, his wife,had very little money. When Rose needs some dental work, Manny attempted to borrow on her insurance policy at the insurance office. Unfortunately, he bore a resemblance to an armed robber who had held up the office twice before, so the police are called. Manny was identified by several witnesses and, when providing a handwriting sample, he nervously misspells a word that was also misspelled on the robbery note. He was arrested and charged with the crime.

      His defense attorney, Frank O’Connor, builds a case based on mistaken identity. At the time of the first hold-up Manny was away on vacation with his family. At the time of the second hold-up, Manny had a swollen jaw – a fact which the insurance-office employee would have noticed if Manny had been the robber. Manny and Rose look for the three people who could have testified that he was present at the vacation hotel on the day of the hold-up, but two had died in the intervening months and the third could not be found.

      The stress of all this has a devastating effect on Rose who slowly descends into depression to the point where she is institutionalized.

      https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/198447169/christopher_emmanuel-balestrero

  20. re: adjustment bureau in Ukr.
    feat: Bulgarian deals; low miles!

    Folks,
    The Servant of the People could be seen working the domains on his Telegram account yesterday. On the one hand, he worked online confabs with leaders across the West and Middle East. On the other hand, he reported on his decisions made following meeting his Ukrainian military brain trust. Last week’s tour by the Servant to (ultra-nationalist?) brigades defending Sumy and Kharkiv was a success! An immediate allocation of us$170,000 will be made to each brigade to buy trucks and atvs at brigade-level discretion without central oversight. Going forward, brigades can allegedly purchase such necessary vehicles without central approval. Furthermore, write-offs can allegedly be approved by brigade commanders without an inspection certificate. This alone saves four to seven weeks previously required to vett funding releases from Kyiv. Finally, to offer an easement towards financial prosperity, brigades allegedly are permitted to raise funds directly.

    “Push, pull, and drag” sales will blossom across scrap markets? Say, anyone got space to romp around the ranch in case an M1 Abrams shows up? Just needs a track alignment; loose cannon included. Business will be booming!

  22. Beetle juice star update. Serms converting from red giant helium star to a blue giant carbon star is a violent activity. One outcome is star blows out the side that has more carbon fusion that is hotter. Kind of like a ballin with neck let loose. So far it seems the leak sent star 10 degrees higher in the sky in a minute. Later it moved about 4 degrees. Later still another 4 degrees or so. At 600 light years away that seems faster than light. So maybe it is closer.

      • Think Ure Astronomer friend needs to take a couple of puffs on the ole DMT vape pen.
        ..not only can you see gods, you might be able to “see” Betelgeuse changing into several different colors.

        Change the Game ala Capt. Kirk/Enterprise.
        F their blue star kachina, I would go with a Purple star kachina..signifying Humanities ROYAL status and Superiority over all others in Galaxy.

        A Superfantastic Purple Star Kachina !

        LFG!

        • What HAS been reported by the Gemini telescope atop Mauna Kea is the discovery of a companion star orbiting Betelgeuse, which accounts for the mysterious brightening and dimming of the red giant as the tiny blue-white star orbits it. Scientific facts… not woo-woo.
          Go back where you came from…
          Beetlejuice
          Beetlejuice
          Beetlejuice

  23. Observation notes on the ground – I sense a perturbation in the field. Tempers flaring, dissonance, just a general sense of imbalance. Time to sit in the stillness. There can be peace in the chaos………….

  24. This might be worth a try:

    https://www.amazon.com/Rosemary-Supplement-Standardized-Carnosic-Manufactured/dp/B01K8RV666?ref_=ast_sto_dp

    Add in Magtein magnesium, Fructoborate, and high absorption curcumin for a fog lift. If you are going to use Magnesium and boron, then you need to get Ure magnesium levels checked at least twice a year with the regular bloodwork. The l-threonate and glycinate combo is more economical than just l-threonate alone. Make sure the cardio man is aware of magnesium supplementation.

    The curcumin clusters with D3/K2 and ECGC for cancer prevention. The autoinflammatory botanicals tend to cluster with anti-cancer properties.

    The prices on fish oil seem to be coming back down. The fish oil and the D3/K2 play double duty for cardio health.

    Dietary aids that have multiple benefits tend to cluster in the all-cause mortality reduction category.

    We can leave metabolics for another day.

    • That should have been decaffeinated green tea EGCG above That was too mangled to blame on dyslexia. Too lazy to do a spelling check.

  25. say my farewells tommorrow george . thanks no interest in evil markets anymore. all i will say now is i didnt know georger soros was born in alabama . 48 will bring containers of euros to hand out to the rat juiced dopamine freaks to replace the USD. full moon tonight picked the perfect night to say see yah . good folks here its my choice to never see a market again . i have read the chronicles of the 1930s depression . we are already in it . cheers . thanks

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