A Website Under the Tree

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George announces plans to “play Santa” for one lucky subscriber this coming week. As we will be giving away a whole website with hosting. This would make the perfect gift for someone interested in the link between genetics and diet.  Why, done right, this could launch the lucky winner (who ideally would be “medically-minded”) into orbit. I can picture a YouTube channel, podcast, or even books to come from this.  Maybe money, too.

This website is already “roughed in” over here.  The niche is the under-developed space between genetic predispositions and what people actually eat.  And how it’s all tied-in to long-term health.

A strange story behind how it arose (one of my “dream things’). But, already using some of the principles (which come with the site) I’ve lost 5-pounds since Thanksgiving.  But wait!  There’s more!  I will also provide the first year of basic site training, as well.

If you like medicine, like to cook, and like to share?  This is your present, needing only to be claimed.

Open only to subscribers and the winner will be pulled randomly from the list of interested parties (if any – remember this is all just a hair-brained idea so far…)

Open to subscriber’s only. Application deadline is Tuesday noon.

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The arrival of Winter assures us another season will be along. But lingering is whether the political weather will really change.  A point the continuation of government (without a shutdown) does bring to mind.

A stroll through headlines as we slow our roll into the holiday and this morning’s ChartPack, too

Thus, two cups ought to do it.  And leave some goodies out for the reindeer.

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47 thoughts on “A Website Under the Tree”

  1. Supplementary video of Santa G past/present and future.

    ? Do you know where Ure editor is after Dark-30 on any given day during the Holiday season?

    Have a look at top 25, sorry to say it aint very pretty..

    -https://youtu.be/sZ0VR802hts?si=2FHW8Y_0x9v6WLJc

  2. I think your website idea has ‘a lot’ of potential.

    I hope someone grabs ahold of it – and the free offer.

    Someone with a lot of energy and drive could make this a “pretty big deal”.

  3. “no shutdown”

    The old .gov shutdown threat routine is one of the greats.

    Now .gov being fully funded again can get to the bottom of the drones. Whew.

    But I do wonder what changed between Monday and Friday.

  4. Someone asked / mentioned this last week
    Federal minimum Wage & COLA
    Starting with $7.25 in 2009.
    [ This was the last year that the Minimum Wage was increased.]
    Applying the COLA rate annually since then – the Federal Minimum Wage today would be $10.25

    • I thought it would be much higher..if it had stayed with the cost of living increases.. the best I ever did..I made under 4 dollars an hour as a wage and rent was 50 a month electricity was 5 and water and sewer was 10.. 15 in summer..garbage was four dollars a month.. A months groceries for four was 75.. gas was fifty to sixty cents and everyone had health insurance..
      today income hasn’t really increased.. when I met my wife a nurses wage was 4.50 an hour a nurse manager or director of nursing u Dec ten dollars an hour..
      at the local shop wages are at 11 and 15 at the gas station its 12 and 13 for shift manager..how he keeps the doors open is beyond me for either establishment.. the nursing home the wife worked for they hire at around ten the wife as making 14 as a part time shift nurse up until she retired..they sell the place every few years..because of government guidelines and the cost of labor they don’t bring in enough money..why it takes so long for them to realize they aren’t making it is the staggering of income.. I experience that when I delivered newspapers it took months for me to realize I was paying them to deliver them..
      now that the wife is finally retired.. half of our monthly income is just for car, home insurance and taxes.. leaves us with 8 grand a year for everything else..I am working on. the budget now..a ton of changes for 2025. there are changes coming..I expect to experience the wailing and gnashing of teeth over the changes..but it is what it is..that’s life..the old people that head to southern Texas and Arizona to get their medications and huge expensive items in Mexico is something I have cinsidered..

      • Yes, it would be- but I got tired of dancing on the calculator.
        So, I just took it from the last increase.

      • The first paying job on the books I had was $ 1 an hour until I was trained. I think it went up to $1.65 after that.

        • you must have started working the same time I did.. I started at a buck on a wage job.. I did sack groceries in Nashville for a half buck an hour..part time when I was like twelve.. LOL..
          I met my wife in the late eighties.. and at that time nurses made less than five dollars an hour… average wage was three fifty…one of the aides at the nursing home I worked at went to the administrator and asked them about a raise.. to five dollars an hour.. the administrator said.. IF i wanted to pay nursing wages I will put a nurse in that position..
          now they have one nurse and maybe fifteen med techs or iv techs.. radiology techs.. etc.. the nurse puts her license on the line if one of the techs makes a mistake.. the same with doctors.. to get an appointment with an actual physician is almost impossible.. two year average wait time.. they have you see a PA or a nurse practitioner.. and yes they are just as good as the guy that makes the million dollar decisions.. his or her license is on the line.. all of their licenses are on the line if they think the malpractice insurance the facility has is going to protect them.. that is the facilities insurance.. ( I know two young ladies that found that one out the hard way both got nailed for seven mil and lost their licenses and their homes.. one works at a gas station) its the business model

      • exactly… when the cost of living changed was after outsourcing jobs stated..during the Reagan recession..

        • Minimum wage went from $2.00 to $2.30 during Ford’s term, and $2.30 to $3.35 during Carter’s term.

          Minimum wage was $3.35/hr during the entirety of Reagan’s time in office.

          Annualized inflation rates were:

          1971 3.30%
          1972 3.40%
          1973 8.70%
          1974 12.30%
          1975 6.90%
          1976 4.90%
          1977 6.70%
          1978 9.00%
          1979 13.30%
          1980 12.50%
          1981 8.90%
          1982 3.80%
          1983 3.80%
          1984 3.90%
          1985 3.80%
          1986 1.10%
          1987 4.40%
          1988 4.40%
          1989 4.60%
          1990 6.10%
          1991 3.10%

          Sources: dol.gov and investopedia.com

          I’m waiting to see where LOOB’s “Reagan recession” showed itself in the historical financial records. I’m frankly only seein’ where he fixed the “Carter recession.”
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          Minimum wage is the entry wage for entry-level jobs. It was never designed to be a “living wage.” Every time it is raised, the spending power of the people receiving “minimum wage” diminishes. It is governed by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which determined the U.S. “minimum wage” from 1938 to 2007.

          Current minimum wage in the U.S. is $7.25/hr, except for exempted laborers. “Exempted laborers” are typically contracted seasonal farm workers (migrants) and performers (entertainers, strippers, etc.), and non-independent service workers (waitspeople) whose principal income stream is in the form of tips. The guaranteed (minimum) wage for waitspeople is $2.136/hr. Contract employees get whatever is negotiated into their contract.

        • (“Minimum wage went from $2.00 to $2.30 during Ford’s term, and $2.30 to $3.35 during Carter’s term.”)

          Dam Ray… I didn’t know that..

          hell I still made three fifty in eighty seven.. during the early eighties I made two seventy five.. use to think I would be rich if I ever made four dollars an hour….they must have been paying us below minimum wage..
          in ninety two the most I was making at the country for a wage salary was six an hour.. but after they took out for health insurance I took home 304.00 a month total.. so I had to work two full time and one part time job..
          My wife was making 4.50 an hour the nurse manager was making 5.75 an hour at the nursing home.. nurses made under five bucks an hour.. the administrator promised them big time.. stay with it we are going to give you a huge raise.. the outrage was when they got the raise.. wasn’t because of corporate but came out of her years bonus.. the raise was one cent an hour.. they lost a lot of nurses that year because they seen that huge wage increase as an insult…..daughters best friends dad was the second in command of a hospital.. ( listed as one of the top two hundred in the country) they downsized but rather than downsize the nurses like they did at another local hospital they took down from the top… we sat around the pool watching the kids play and he was mortified.. the only offer he had gotten was one in a large hospital in the southwest for a half million a year.. I was making three fifty an hour.. I thought to myself at that time.. dam they could insult me all day for money like that LOL…
          even now the shift manager at the local gas station makes thirteen dollars an hour.. the manager at the local shopping mart.. makes fifteen the workers make eleven.. at the gas station the workers make twelve..
          walmart offers twelve an hour here..
          rent at the low income apartments was more than what low income workers living there were making..
          I am not sure what they are making at the old work house.. but I believe it is around fifteen dollars an hour.. when I left there.. I made ten fifty an hour..my wife just retired as a part time shift nurse.. she made fourteen dollars and I believe fifty cents.. no benefits.. they sold the whole thing .. they don’t take in enough to keep up with the government requirements and the residents can’t afford to pay what the cost is to live there..

        • Ray- You didn’t go back far enough for the Tricky D. wage control show.
          Minimum wage was $1.60 2/1/1968 thru the end of April ’74.
          (Minimum farm wages were $1 to $1.60 during that period).
          I was in and out of the officious labor force in my teen years. At $1 to $1.60 an hour, you had to work a lot of hours part time to make $1500 in a year.
          Social security determines your monthly payments based on your highest 35 years of income. While my wage history goes back 50 or so years, only the last 40 or so really amounts to anything. And the highest mean 30 years is double the next lower mean 10 years. That is part of the reason why I want to work to age 70 if at all possible. Retirement at age 70 yields 25% higher payments over retirement at age 68+8months. In addition, if my wages stay up reasonably high through age 70, the leanest of my adult wage years won’t figure in at all. The most advanced age I would consider working to full time would be to about 72, when mandatory IRA disbursements kick in.
          And of course, as my brother reminded me when I worried about running out of dinero too soon, I might not live long enough for any of that to matter anyway.
          Unfortunately, employment agreement renewals may intrude, and I may end up on SS sooner than later, whether I like it or not. Sh!t happens. Either way, I am not going to starve to death, as long as SS and Medicare keep up their end of the bargain. Retirement will be a lot tougher if I suddenly have to compete for jobs with a whole bunch of starving retirees with no savings or assets who are completely SOL.
          You would want to already be on SS before a round of hyper-inflation rolls in, to get some COLA protection. It takes a whole lot of years to compensate for a year or two of hyperinflation in the initial payment calculation. As to whether SS could survive prolonged hyperinflation, I think it would.

        • @n____

          “Ray- You didn’t go back far enough for the Tricky D. wage control show.”

          I know.

          Reagan became da Prez in 1981, so I went 1981 ± 10 years. I had no intention of going further, since I gave my sources.

          I first mentioned several years ago that there was no Reagan recession. The recession began in 1973 with the wind-down of the Vietnam War, and the sudden re-integration of 1.2 million people to the workforce. We had a minor calming in 1976, then the Carter Administration (with the help of the Hunt brothers) caused our economy to utterly shit itself, starting in 1977.

          The fact no one read my detailed post regarding this is neither my problem nor my concern.

          As far as either inflation in the 1960s or the Rockefeller wage & price controls which Nixon implemented (these were all Nelson Rockefeller’s ideas. There is a HUGE difference between making a bazillion dollars, and inheriting a bazillion dollars. People who make it, understand basic economics; people who don’t, don’t…) Regardless, artificial flows gum up the works; wage controls create slow-downs; price controls create shortages, and in the 1970s “created” new products (for instance, the Nixon Administration imposed price controls on beef. The result was a whole bunch of “new” cuts of beef, which weren’t subject to the price controls the Administration had imposed through the USDA. Things like “chuck steak” and “eye of round” did not exist before the 1970s, and were in-effect created by Richard Nixon.)

          Counting the time spent collecting its weekly subscription, I earned about a dollar an hour on my paper route in the early 1960s. I grossed an additional, roughly $5.65/hr on my paper route by using it to cultivate customers who paid me $2 to mow their lawn or rake their leaves, and $1 to shovel the snow off their sidewalks. My Dad was a journeyman tradesman. Working ~3hrs/day after school and “can see to can’t see” on Saturdays, I often out-earned him.

          Jobs, even suck jobs, can be an opportunity in-waiting. As a teenage “hooligan” I’d never have convinced the elderly men and women who lived in the area to which I delivered papers, that I was trustworthy enough or had a strong enough work ethic, for them to employ me as a menial, roving groundskeeper. The paper route gave me the opportunity — It opened the door to an uncountable number of chocolate milk shakes and Calrad kits, box kites and 12AX7s, LPs and test tubes, model rockets and control-line cable, etc., none of which my parents ever bought me…

      • Post 1960’s bailouts like Studebaker. Plus the system is expensive to maintain.

        Look at this from today’s Yahoo –

        “Approximately 1 million taxpayers will automatically receive special payments of up to $1,400 from the IRS in the coming weeks. The money will be directly deposited into eligible people’s bank accounts or sent in the mail by a paper check.

        The IRS said it’s distributing about $2.4 billion to taxpayers who failed to claim a Recovery Rebate Credit on their 2021 tax returns.”

        I don’t think the 1960 ,gov had the infrastructure to touch anyone.

        1,000,000 folks out of ‘The IRS processed 164,997,000 individual tax returns in 2022″.

        That’s expensive.

  5. re: “Miracle on 34th Street, 1947
    feat: new projector 4 Xmas

    Folks,

    Hollywood moneybags in 1947 were jingling new highs charting a story about the rise of a self-proclaimed Santa Claus at New York’s Herald Square. The plot thickened as the feared imposter was sent for a psychological evaluation and institutionalized.

    Monday evening will mark the 201st anniversary since publication of that anthem to all believers in Santa Claus, “Twas the Night Before Christmas”. Originally appearing anonymously in the “Troy Sentinal” newspaper as “A Visit from St. Nicholas”, the poem came to be associated as being from the pen of William C Moore.

    Bishop Moore was a man of the cloth and attached to King’s College now known as Columbia University. (His inherited two sq. km. Chelsea, Manhattan estate is bordered by 34th Street?) The area was named after a soldier’s retirement home, Royal Chelsea Hospital, founded in 1682 by King Charles II. Scottish royalty watchers will be pleased to know that the bishop is related to a naval officer whose service during the American Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars was rewarded with a Vice-Admiral post. One of his descendents married a sister of the late Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother thereby becoming a cousin of the late QE II.

    As the poetic Bishop Moore did inform us, Santa had encouraging onward and upward words for his reindeer including Donder and Blitzen.

    “Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!”

    • re: a benevolent Mr. Burns
      feat: Mr. Smithers

      Folks,

      President Zelensky published his warm words of parting as US CIA Director Burns made his final visit in Kyiv with the self-described Servant of the People. The President, never one to miss a photo op, had the duo flanking what could appear to be a new coat of arms of Ukraine not yet voted upon by elected Ukrainian parliamentarians. The background pictured coat of arms featured the previously seen Ukraine Trident with added elements perhaps of the Zaporizhian Host whose Cossacks were suppressed by Russia’s Catherine the Great almost 300 years ago. The President expressed sentiments to his visitor of “not telling secrets” as he offered future best wishes to “Bill”.

      When in 1982 the Servant would have been 4 years old and learning Russian in sparsely populated northern Mongolia, politically ‘Independent’ Mr. William J. Burns – fluent in English, French, Arabic and Russian – was entering diplomatic service with the Reagan Administration. At the same time he was completing his DPhil degree at Oxford. Three and a half decades later in 2008 as his tenure as US Ambassador to Russia wound down under the Bush Administration, Mr. Burns penned a letter to Secretary of State Rice which is publicly quoted in generous detail by “Wikipedia” as follows:

      “Ukrainian entry into NATO
      is the brightest of all redlines for the Russian elite (not just Putin). In more than two and a half years of conversations with key Russian players, from knuckle-draggers in the dark recesses of the Kremlin to Putin’s sharpest liberal critics, I have yet to find anyone who views Ukraine in NATO as anything other than a direct challenge to Russian interests.”

    • Lol lol now imagine 50,000 letters it averages out to seven truckloads of mail.. a simple note saying you wish congress would deal with whatever issue.. sent to every member of congress once a day..
      seven hundred members of congress..
      that’s 4900 truckloads of mail..thirty pallets per truck…
      if you have ever been to the insane asylum… oh I mean DC beltway.. you know just how nuts it is there.. a bicycle gets around easier than a motor vehicle.. that is news..doesn’t matter where the morons are..they would come back to take care of that issue.. there wouldn’t be any office worker having sex on the capital floor..it takes two hours for a Texas farm boy to unload a truck..for a government worker as hard as they work in dc..they would need twenty.. and it would take all day..no threats even to pitch and toss.. that’s news..
      the morons wouldn’t be there with their heads tucked up their butts..the matter would be fixed..it doesn’t matter which way they voted they wouldn’t be tabling any bills or running off to some resort..doesn’t matter how much money they would get..thousands of jobs would be created.. big news and no threatening gestures a simple I wish you would address this issue..

      • Loob,

        Willow the White House Cat, named after the First Lady’s hometown, always seems pretty chill about the complexities surrounding her. Sadly, it’s a dog’s breakfast over in London. Ten days after an 18 months long secret hearings saga by UK immigration services determined prince Andrew did indeed personally introduce a Chinese spy to a UK prime minister, the prince has undertaken retaliatory measures. He will no longer walk the dogs at Royal Lodge, Windsor. Courtiers are now attending to the physical needs of the two Corgis who were bequeathed to prince Andrew upon the passing of QE II.

        I don’t know if we’re going to hear about the 700 year old grudge between Kyiv and (Sunni muslim?) Kazan. According to Google, Kazan is 1250 km northeast of the Sumy, Ukraine/Russia border. Azure blue was the flag colour of the Khanate of Kazan prior to its conquest by Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible in 1562. Apparently the 40 story Azure Skies residential/office tower was evacuated after a second Ukrainian missile struck it. It seems tower dwellers snuffed out a small fire themselves created by the first missile. Under wassailing air raid sirens the Mayor of Kazan encouraged citizenry to assist military interception efforts and shoot at the drones with rifles or small arms fire.

        Loob, they aren’t in Kansas anymore.

      • So, you’re saying if I spend $3.4 million dollars on letters and postage I might be able to affect a policy change in Congress?

        That’s practically economicable!

        Okay!

        You go first…

        • LOL LOL LOL. seriously divide that 3,400,000 by 50,000 individuals…. that price even though high is cheaper than fear and damage and violence done during demonstrations.. the death and destruction of personal and community infrastructure..

          https://acleddata.com/2020/09/03/demonstrations-political-violence-in-america-new-data-for-summer-2020/

          https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/five-months-blm-protestors-trashed-americas-cities-after-the-election

          https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/02/2020-protests-changed-insurance-forever/

          the cost of just the damage done at the capital and the approximate losses suffered as a result of the siege at the Capitol totaled $2,881,360.20.

          https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/02/2020-protests-changed-insurance-forever/

          there are people still in jail without having a trial.. and now to discover that it was mostly set up and instigated by other sources..
          fifty thousand people each sending in one letter.. and hey its expensive but a hell of a lot less than the damage to infrastructure and the lives. A simple letter wouldn’t get the national guard involved no threats or damage just the voice of the people.
          its like farmers wanting higher prices for crops.. if they just stopped buying products.. grow the crops.. sell them but don’t spend any money on anything else.. back during the farm crises..back in the seventies during the farm crises.. when the farmers quit buying products they shut the plant down.. it made for my worst and best christmas in my life.. they first drastically cut hours.. I was only making 2.75 an hour… but it was devistating..
          the grocery store lost his grocery store.. because of that.. and they put a gent in the small town in the witness protection program he owned the local bar in the small town.. and drew to much attention by having big name entertainers come and entertain and he built a steak house.. the local store owner put everything he had into the new local steak house and no one had a clue that the gent was in that program.. the guy was discovered and moved on in the middle of the night.. the government refused to pay the tab the guy owned at the grocery store went belly up he had put everything he had into that small town steak house…. No one knew who he was until the guy made an appearance on the donahue show.. it was the talk of the town back then.. but no one had money to spend the loss of economic income was devastating to local businesses..

        • Damn’ dude. Thanks for the explanation. Some of us are a little slow — Ya gots ta walk us through when you say something like that…

          And yes, there ARE still people held in the D.C. gulags who’ve never even been charged. There are a few who’re guilty of minor vandalism (a low-level felony punishable by 4 years max) but the vast majority are guilty of, at most, a level-3 trespassing misdemeanor which is punishable most places, by a maximum of 90 days in jail or a $500 fine.

          Mr. Trump will free them all, within days of taking office, probably pay them a million dollars or so each, as restitution, and the lamestream media will lose their damn’ minds because of it.

          They should be ashamed.

          We should ALL be ashamed, but the mouths behind the mics should be especially ashamed, for allowing it to happen. What is left of our free-trade (or as Marx called it: “Capitalist”) society should put them out of business. Rachel Maddow is the most “out there” conspiracy theorist on mainstream television; rarely communicating or even dealing in actual hard facts, yet Microsoft, Comcast, and NBC pool $11,446.89 PER MINUTE ($25mil/yr after her pay cut, or about 100x her actual worth) to pay her for poisoning the minds of those people who’re unfortunate enough to have to hear her tripe. She’s the worst example, but there are many others who aren’t much better. They should hang their heads in sincere contrition, every time they’re in front of a camera, yet they won’t. Instead, they will double-down on the hate speech and bullshit.

          In truth, this is a huge black mark against the United States. The folks in the hoosegow are political prisoners.

          POLITICAL PRISONERS! IN THE UNITED STATES…!

          This should never happen, but it especially should never happen here. The United States is the world’s benchmark for personal freedom. We originated the concept, and are the only place on Earth where personal freedom is contractually-defined and statutorily-mandated. There is no chance the leadership of every other nation on the planet hasn’t noticed how much our “freedom” has been degraded by our Democratic Party, and how irrationally they’ve acted over the past 16 years. Among other things, this will make it virtually impossible for Democrats to negotiate diplomatic arrangements because nobody trusts an irrational liar. If Mr. Trump is successful, it will take a generation for the Dems to rehab their reputation. If he isn’t, they may never be able to do so, and that’s assuming the DNC finds some sane and honest Dems to run for National office, before they all bail…

    • I actually had our congressman XO that to me in the middle eighties..I kept writing about an issue .. he had his aids send me fifty pounds of scrap to read.. to discourage me from writing…its why the guys that actually write the legislation for congress write it as confusing and expanded..hell Congressional members will give you as ma y thousand reasons why they don’t have to read that scrap as there is in it.. I tried to read the Obama care bill..I got through 600 plus pages but with all three referrals revert to op gov screw you paragraph two section one thousand line two.. my guess is it’s closer to fifty thousand pages.. for people that make as many reasons why they are ineffective and negligent or unable to do their jobs.. they only work what 26 days a year there’s no one there and they really don’t give a hoot what happens..

      https://youtu.be/IsWlkcsI5Ko?si=eqklHH5aXd0TB8nK

    • Fast forward 2 centuries and now you have Twas the Flight Before Christmas…
      Enjoy your flight!

      TWAS THE FLIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS

      ‘Twas the flight before Christmas, when all through the sky,
      The planes were jammed pack cause you wanted to fly,
      The pre-flight and checks were done with great care,
      To make sure that all engines were hanging out there;

      The passengers were nestled all snug in their seats,
      With visions of push carts filled with great treats,
      With neckties a-loosened from around our neck
      We all settled in for our long winter trek;

      From the back of the cabin there arouse such a clatter,
      I sprang from my seat to see what was the matter,
      Away to the cabin I flew like a flash,
      Tore open the curtain and knocked over the trash

      When what to my wandering eyes should appear,
      But a miniature jet, and eight tiny reindeer,
      With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
      I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.

      More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
      And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name;
      Now, Dasher! Now,Dancer! Now Prancer and Vixen,
      On, Comet! on Cupid! on Donder and Blitzen!

      From the floor to the seats and along the side wall,
      Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!

      His eyes — how they twinkled! His dimples how merry!
      His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
      He had a broad face and a little round belly,
      That shook, when he laughed like a bowl full of jelly.

      He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
      And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself.

      He sprang to his jet, to his team gave a whistle,
      And away they all flew like the down of a thistle,
      But I heard him exclaim, ere he flew out of sight,
      HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD FLIGHT!

  6. (“Because there is so much to do. Halls to be decked and so forth.]”)

    bah humbug…..
    https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/winter-solstice-wild-tales-of-slaughtered-bulls-human-sacrifice-and-much-merriment-3073502

    https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.a5ce8046ee1fb76bc897ca1bc2970c35?rik=BWJfqHO8ej4a8w&riu=http%3a%2f%2fwww.eternalkeys.ca%2fsite%2fsatanic-ritual-agenda.jpg&ehk=cevbjKa%2bJS3l6c400Wd4bkYLWfR5LZvtc%2fm60CB4rlM%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0

    https://www.rawgist.com/the-true-origin-of-christmas-child-sacrifice-nimrod-christmas-tree-santa/

    we adopted the pagans holiday to represent the birth of christ..the true beginnings of the december 24th festivities are much darker and ugly..
    I am not allowed to say anything about santa or christmas to the grandkids..when iamasked..I simply say the only fat man in pajamas is me

    • LOOB; then LOOB up Saint Nicholas. That Saint is who Saint Nicholas, aka Santa Claus is named after and where that tradition comes from, that spread via Christianity to Europe.

      No shame in Saint Nick!!!

  7. Losing Weight? After my Ortho surgeon suggested I was a ‘bit heavy’ and any weight I could lose before Feb. 10 surgery would be a good thing, I decided to do the easiest thing I could find: ‘Intermittent Fasting’.

    I eat normal breakfast and lunch… anything I want. No food after 2pm… only water. Make the evening ‘fast’ last for 18 hours and the body runs out of carbs and switches to fat burning. I have lost 14 lbs in the past month. If I have cravings in the evening, I chug more water and tell myself I will have that craving tomorrow for breakfast.

    • I do the opposite, I stay slim most of the time and then eat a lot for a while and then get slim again.

      I call it “Intermittent Fatting.”

      • LOL! Trouble is, ‘fatting’ isn’t intermittent. It tends to cling. Prying it loose is the hard part.

        • Hank… just remember…that’s not fat…Rock hard muscles bruise easier..like you I have Rock hard muscles..out of fear..yup fear that those rock hard muscles would or could be xamaged..I for one put that protective padding over them to ensure their safe from harm…lol lol lol kind if like a policeman wears Kevlar we put our own Kevlar in place..
          these muscles are so powerful that it enables me the ability to sit for long periods of time without tiring..lol lol lol

    • Good luck hank.. I have been trying to lose weight..so far I have lost about thirty pounds..but getting it to go down further is a challenge. just keeping the body operating it sits at what 800 calories a day which is why most diets revolve around the 1200 and men with a semi active around 2400 calories..
      I have to say I have thought about Georges offer for a web page..cooking it screams me all over..I have the love for cooking and kitchen gadgets..its but one of the two things in life that give everyone a quality of life is the simple pleasures..cooking food and sex those pleasures gives you the feeling of well being and security.. we call it comfort foods or comfort sex..Mills hedonism theory(“Mill contends that pleasure is not merely one thing that contributes to our well-being, it’s the only thing. Similarly, only pain makes us worse off. Mill thinks that a person’s life goes well for her just in so far k as she is happy.

      Mill defines “happiness” as pleasure and freedom from pain. In his Utilitarianism, he describes the best life as “an existence exempt as far as possible from pain, and as rich as possible in enjoyments.”This theory of well-being is called “hedonism.”)
      the rest is just temporary.. things break and get replaced family, friends and faith are forever.. the simple pleasures that truly matter..
      my downfall is I don’t know anything with supplements.. that’s where Gaye shines she is or was my guru for essential oils..
      then I have a tendency to ramble on.. I have a ton of life experiences.. met people from almost every walk of life..took care of people from almost every walk of life to in the healthcare field..
      somehow I don’t believe I could do a blog like that justice.. even though I use to when I worked at the grocery stores I would daydream about making up a recipe flyer offering recipes for the items they would have store coupons for.. the daydream was printing them out ..different categories and offering a binder for them then the recipes would be in a ring binder as a build a recipe book..

  8. “But wait! There’s more! ”

    Not to be a nit picker BUT …. to be an effective copier of Ron Popeil’s great works you need to have at least FOUR different items of description, the last three of which utilize that phrase preceding the recitation of the next item of description.

    Now … go to the woodshed and properly beat yourself with a wet noodle for NOT properly following in the footsteps of that Great GOD Of Marketing, Ron Popeil!! The man who created the greatest marketing phrase ever to be heard by the human ear.

  9. I was one of this first to get a Hotmail account., just days before Microsoft bought it – in 1997 I believe. Signing up it required a ‘password’. Being rather ignorant at that time, I didn’t understand why I needed a ‘password’ to get into my own email account. But I thought about it and came up with an incredible ‘password’ that no one would guess.
    Eight months later Computer Magazine published the top twenty passwords used on Hotmail.., and there was my brilliant, incredible password.., at number five.
    NCC-1701-B
    .., oops

    • I remember when my brother was telling me to buy stock in this guy he knows company ..I had 2500.00 and no one would make the trade for me.. my friend had the same amount.. the stock traders laughed at us.. that piddly amount they told us to go and find twenty more with the same amount.. Microsoft went ballistic.. and I would have been fairly well off if we could have gotten the stocks..today the bank will do trades for you and you can right at home..back then very few had a computer and the internet was just a wild crazy thought..

  10. For Marilyn found Tibet brass singing bowl and set 6 nesting bowls wit the lids tops so finished my shopping, and found a Marine 1920 Dollond London telescope f0r myself.
    At the Amazon returns store, last mi nut things for $67.CDN

    • It might very well be.

      This makes me wonder if part of our strategy about flying into a hot zone is killing our transponders, and part of the antiaircraft programming is

      “If it don’t say USA, you shoot away…”

  12. Other than visiting south-east Asia mid 70s my weight has stayed same. (165lbs) Lost 27 pounds in three months there after two episodes of disyntari. Lost some of my spelling capability at same time. Suggestion for weight watchers. Go imbibe polluted water and watch the scale, NOT MEDICAL ADVICE. Consult your Doctor

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