Who is “Corney???” OIG Punked

Hats off to NM Mike for the tip on this:  We just downloaded the official report of the IG from the DoJ Website here and and there is, indeed, a telling misspelling of the former FBI Director’s name. There are 149 instances of it being spelled “Corney” instead of “Comey.” See how much the font looks … Read More

Can Consumers Save Trump?

We’ll have a “plain speaking” report this morning because there is so much else going on at the ranch – more on the subscriber side (Peoplenomics.com) tomorrow along with the new market charting thoughts I mentioned Wednesday. The main things to be looking at today include the Retail Sales figures, the ongoing circus in Washington, … Read More

The New American Poorhouse

Shearing of the Sheep.  “We the People” is not ewe and ewe, as the US in U.S. has checked-out and headed for parts unknown. The problem comes down to a simple “We have lost our values and our hustle.”  In place of American Exceptionalism (ask Hitler how challenging that worked out), we have turned into … Read More

Reader Advisory: Stormy Monday

We are under a tornado watch here in the East Texas Outback at this hour (3:40 AM).  And with the lights off, the winds howling, and on our backup power systems (with sat comms down due to high cloud and precip densities) we are down to bare-minimums today. Could be a while coming back, too.  … Read More

Ham Radio: Alzheimers & the Digital Human

Carrying, as I do, one of the genes associated with Alzheimer’s disease, there are many, many things done around here to keep that risk “managed” – as much as one can. That includes the usual:  Working on “mental projects” a  lot.  Reading voraciously, though that’s as much for pleasure as anything.  Benchmarking reaction times,  regular … Read More

Independence, Killing, Growing and Woo-Woo

Several items in the ponder-pile today – thinking pieces all: My buddy Gaye who writes StrategicLivingBlog.com has a dandy post on the rampant, runaway, nonsensical divisiveness that the Digital Mob Rule types are using to bring down historical (balanced) America and replace it with their version of socialism they’re all after.  The Idiocracy I think … Read More

Saturday Woo-Woo: Automatic Writing

A fair amount has been written about the woo-woo topic called (variously)  automatic writing and  channeled writings.  Until last week, I’d never given it a whirl. But, life is short, so with the usual “purity of intent” I sat down at the keyboard to see what would “fall out” of unsupervised fingers; uncensored by conscious … Read More

Prepping: SHTF Weekend for Hams

Tons of ham radio operators will be planning for your Hard Grid Down (HGD) and electromagnetic pulse (EMP) laced future this coming weekend with something called  Field Day. Sponsored by the American Radio Relay League (https://arrl.org) the event had its roots in 1933 when a bunch of hams decided to “take to the field” with … Read More

New “Feature” Added to UrbanSurvival

Got to say, with the unrelenting censorship of views on a certain large social(ist) media platform, a lot of moderately conservative types to conservative liberal types can be found here freely discussing a lot of interesting topics.  Invasion by Mexico, them wanting states back (Revolcion 3.0) and the ICE dumpings in cities that are far … Read More

A Useful Tech Note: Win 10-1903

While I wasn’t going to write (free) columns on Wednesday, I just had to give some high praise to Microsoft on the recent update to Win-10 v. 1903 which was released a couple of weeks back. It’s stable, love the new features, but there are also a couple of install snags that we ran into … Read More

Coping: Life-Long Friends

Got some keen insight into reality a couple of years back. Oilman2‘s son was doing some work for us on a project and on a lunch break we got to talking about “friends” on social media. He was just finishing college and had lots of friends on social media.  But, he was shocked at how real friends work … Read More

Coping: Planting Your “Time Garden”

Although there has been a small improvement in curriculum with all the talk in education about STEM (science, tech, engineering and math), many of the major concepts in Life – traditionally passed down by two parents and a set of grand parents – has blown-up. Not that there is much anyone can do about it:  … Read More

Prepping: “Stuffing-proof” Your Email

No, I don’t talk much about my role in the cyber-insurance world.  But, I have become much more informed than most and I want you to do one simple thing for me: “Stuffing-proof Your Email” Data breaches are happening at an ever-increasing rate.  We (the people I work with) anticipate huge growth in the number … Read More