Airspeed, Altitude, and Retail Sales

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Fed-in-the-Box next week.  But it’s OK – they can’t do anything now.  They are in a box to where anything they touch can set off the stampede.

So, as a mood-setter ahead of Retail Sales data, an old flying definition (of a crash):  It’s when you run out of Airspeed, Altitude, and Ideas at the same time. That’s where the Fed is going.

Airspeed began falling when America began to export most everything of consequence we make.  Due to the collapse of barriers to international communications, the break-up of AT&T and all that. Talking to India and China became (essentially) free.  And with pennies to the dollar in labor spreads, Globalism took root in the rich soil of Greed.

Barely noticed, especially when “The Wall Came Down” (1989) was that America began losing altitude.  And we have been losing – slowly over time – ever since.  Our Constitution has been hollowed out, Congress doesn’t read what it votes on, anymore.  And with a few clear exceptions most members of Congress belong to the UniParty.  Both are “owned” by corporate interests.

And the Corporate Chieftains can’t really be blamed: From their standpoint, nothing has a better ROI than investing (buying) favorable government policy.

Still, if you look closely, you will notice the con.  We have allowed cryptocurrency to become the “This time it’s different” Tulip.  Except instead of bulbs promising exotic-colored blooms, we have made-up numbers that “promise to clear”.

Even my consigliere, a mild-mannered tax attorney, called to tell me that he was watching Gloomberg the other morning on his Roku big screen and there were ads for Ethereum running.  “George, you should take some of your money – maybe 5 percent – and put it in cryptos…Wall Street Marketing Muscle is going to make it real…”

I reminded him that ethically, I can’t knowingly engage in a fraud (making up numbers and then selling them to greater fools), but that he should have fun.  His is, after all, an attorney.  I hold that checking the “no crypto box” is the moral equivalent of passing on the clot-shot, too.  But we agree to disagree – and I respect his input on tax matters and historical cyclical economics research which he has done a ton of.  Not enough to have read all of Andrew Odlytzko’s papers, yet. Though I keep recommending: Isaac Newton and the perils of the financial South Sea along with The Railway Mania of the 1860s.

In fairness, he points to the soaring price of BTC and its ilk as evidence.  Similarly undeniable prices happened until the early 1640s, yet even then there is historical lag since few people wanted to jump right to the “being wrong” part.  I’m patient about such things.

Point we’re (godawfully slowly) getting to is the Fed will look at a strong retail number this morning. Look at a Big Win in Sales as verification of Ure’s Postulate.  Which states “At the onset of Rising Prices, people will begin to accelerate purchases in order to lock in perceived relatively lower prices while they can.”

Now we get to the part where I confess the answer based on the…

Retail Sales Scream

One of the true oddities of being 75 is that I noticed (about age 50) that all the people living better than me were going bankrupt. But they didn’t stop spending.  Keep that in mind as you read:

Advance Estimates of U.S. Retail and Food Services
Advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for February 2024, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $700.7 billion, up 0.6 percent (±0.5 percent) from the previous month, and up 1.5 percent (±0.7 percent) above February 2023. Total sales for the December 2023 through February 2024 period were up 2.1 percent (±0.5 percent) from the same period a year ago. The December 2023 to January 2024 percent change was revised from down 0.8 percent (±0.5 percent) to down 1.1 percent (±0.4 percent).

A Picture, too, so you can judge where the pains and gains hit:

Unemployment Filings

Two more Thursday Treats to wolf down.  One is the latest unemployment filings…

Along with how it felt at extremes of low and highs this week:

Last is Rail Data

The Association of American Railroads has a dandy data set for those willing to read past the headline services.  Here’s how street-level economics really works:

“Total carloads for the week ending March 9 were 214,585 carloads, down 3.7 percent compared with the same week in 2023, while U.S. weekly intermodal volume was 258,077 containers and trailers, up 13.5 percent compared to 2023.

Ure (rudely) reminds you that total carloads include stuff like exported farm and mining goods.  We will focus on that when we get to the carload categories.  Intermodal (containers and trailers) is what told us to expect a smoking retail number.

Five of the 10 carload commodity groups posted an increase compared with the same week in 2023. They included chemicals, up 1,916 carloads, to 33,713; petroleum and petroleum products, up 1,399 carloads, to 9,930; and metallic ores and metals, up 685 carloads, to 18,882. Commodity groups that posted decreases compared with the same week in 2023 included coal, down 8,963 carloads, to 55,963; nonmetallic minerals, down 2,691 carloads, to 28,505; and miscellaneous carloads, down 726 carloads, to 7,791.

We have been expecting to see Coal begin to collapse.  Because it represents American energy independence. Which Coal Killers Barack and Joe wanted NOT to happen.  Now, China has the luxury of cutting back American Coal which is down 13.8 percent in the rail stats. China gets 55.8 percent of its coal from Indonesia now, and we wouldn’t be surprised to see that reach for 60 percent thanks to the Coal Killers in remnant ‘Merica.

For the first 10 weeks of 2024, U.S. railroads reported cumulative volume of 2,125,301 carloads, down 4.5 percent from the same point last year; and 2,504,403 intermodal units, up 8.5 percent from last year. Total combined U.S. traffic for the first 10 weeks of 2024 was 4,629,704 carloads and intermodal units, an increase of 2.1 percent compared to last year.

Depending on how “on the ball” Long Beach and Loose Angeles are with their Port data for the month (we’ve learned not to hold our breath on the 15th) we may have more insights into the trade mess on the Peoplenomics subscriber side Saturday…

So that’s the Big Picture:  Sales are rising, which will delay the Fed cutting rates, which probably won’t slow the market, until Monday when a price decline ahead of the Fed meeting and decision would be some logical lobbying and….yes the early market slog was set up for higher, still:

We’ll be watching the clock anxiously for the next several hours.  I hear there’s more Free Lunch on the way.

Creepy Crawlers

Left leaning media strikes again.  The latest (idiocy) is seen in CNNs Don Lemon pressed Elon Musk on ketamine & Trump meeting in interview before ex CNN anchor’s show partnership was axed.  Reality? I must know more people who have depressive disorders than the (alleged) “reporter.” Their use of meds is never on the table beyond what they bring up first and volunteer. Musk has a script for ketamine and it’s how he manages his personal chemistry. I’ll spare you my faux reporter rant. The left’s hatred for Musk (successful, smart, Constitution supporting) is truly becoming absurd. Musk is smart and rich enough he can choose not to work with pricks.

With Russia on the Verge of a nuke strike, how about we piss off China, too?  Why has the US passed a bill to ban TikTok, and what’s next? | Technology News | Al Jazeera  This will go to the Bidenista rubber stamp department next…

Politics fixes nothing.  Since democrats are still running on the same issues they were in 1970. Kamala Harris to visit Planned Parenthood clinic in Minnesota Thursday as campaign puts focus on abortion rights.

There goes the democrat outreach to Palestinian-Americans, too: Biden admin gives Israel outline for ‘acceptable’ Rafah operation, opposes large-scale campaign. Yes, talking out of both sides of their mouth only seems illogical…. On the other hand, Gaza supporters are also out of hand. Gaza protesters block international traffic for hours at SFO in ongoing demand for ceasefire.

Election Fraud is making the rounds globally:  Indonesian presidential rivals plan to contest official election results with allegations of fraud. We can hardly wait to see what cockamamie challenges the 3-letter people will be peddling next week when this one settles: Russia’s presidential election: the who, what and when?  Minus ten points to the British Economist for calling it a “sham election.”  So, why didn’t they apply that term to America’s in 2020?

You did read the Loudermilk report, right?  4F510144C1F427873D3298D955C8E19F.initial-findings-report.pdf (house.gov)  If not, at least try to make it through Loudermilk J6 Exposé: Fani Willis Colluded with J6 Panel (independentsentinel.com).

The Ukraine drain continues, too: Ukraine drones hit Rosneft refinery in second day of strikes.

They’re coming for your steak:  Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates Push to Bankrupt Farmers With Fake Meat.

Around the Ranch:  Busy Writing

I’m going to be kind and not publish my email to the investor relations department of a large telecom outfit.  But remember last year when I told you “Fiber was coming any day!”  This as the local power pole was adorned with a new fiber optic line.

Well, that was the last I heard from anyone – and now I’m 17-shades of pissed.

Tell you what: If they don’t answer, I might share it with you after an appropriate cooling off period.

This is a company which seems to have time for ESG and DEI… but they can’t (so far) provide the services they’re supposed to be providing to make rural broadband a reality.  Grr…

Write when you get connected…

George@Ure.net

54 thoughts on “Airspeed, Altitude, and Retail Sales”

  1. “Our Constitution has been hollowed out, Congress doesn’t read what it votes on, anymore.”

    Who is writing what Congress doesn’t read?

    Enquiring minds want to know…

    Hey, how about a reality show?
    “Meet The Authors”.

    Possibile first episode?

    Ladies and Gentlemen!
    Meet The Authors Of… The Patriot Act!

      • A famous leader once said, “What luck for leaders, when the people don’t think!” Thinking and knowing is the key!
        Beliefs are for fools!
        I agree, You ALL stay well & SANE. ;-)

        • “Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”
          – – Henry Ford

      • On the politicians side of this…..
        what would I do.. what does the majority of the world do… we all know that the world turns on a number on the paper or screen… we live for it.. it is called the business model.. make numbers..
        https://youtu.be/cRgEwsLlV_Q?si=xC-ZIOmUbEsxr5Qx
        they can write all kinds of numbers on those pieces of paper..
        Look at the lottery as another example.. or gambling.. the dream of riches beyond our needs.. someone tossed a bag of cash on my porch I would be a total supporter to.. probably do something stupid with it.. like give exoskeletons to people that are paralyzed feed poor people.. etc.. I know how I am.. the boss tells me.. you can’t save the world.. no just a little bit of it is nice though.. the hand up.. one paralyzed young woman what a thrill it would be to see her walk.. he goal is to be motivational speaker for other young paralyzed people to not give up.. work at it don’t let the disability put you down .. Wow.. that would be awesome…such a deserving young woman and so much to offer.. the message of hope.. to hone your skills whatever they may be..
        cancer patients that they just hold off of doing any treatments until it is to late… all because of a number.. build the solar tower.. the way I see it in my mind.. I was talking to my banker and he asked me about solar and what I thought.. I went off on my rant.. everyone has heard it.. and the solar came up. I said if I ever win the lottery and can do it.. I will build one.. then give it to the power company.. he said why give it to them.. It is what I believe in.. hand out ten kw solar grid tie.. freeze the rates for anyone willing to have one installed for ten years.. and no money back for excess.. the hand up for the power company.. the solar tower..build one.. the vision will be complete once they see that they could build between fifty and two hundred towers for the same cost of one big wind turbine no lang leasing.. no infrastructure changing.. it would bullet proof the grid increase our national security and keep the power flowing in times of storms..
        so what would I do.. I would be the supporter just like our politicians are.. bend to their wants and needs. almost all politicians go in with a plan to make changes to be the one.. then end up swayed by the bubble..

    • I actually was told to not share the contents of any bills I read.
      the members of congress are rarely in congress..our representatives are at home away right now some sort of time off for Easter or some other holiday..with several hundred page bills they one aren’t at work Long enough to sit down and read it.. and would they take and read the contents of a hundred or more thousand page bills..I made it through 699 pages of the healthcare bill.. my guess is with all the defer to other publications and sections my guess is the total bill was maybe fifty thousand pages when it’s all said and done..
      the members of congress should be writing them and reading them as all high school kids are taught .. Rand Paul attempted to get passed the read the bills act. they basically laughed him off the floor..
      I believe the reason the bill writers write them this way..is to boar the members and make them long enough to sneak through just about anything they want. Rand Paul just brought up that in one bill someone was trying to get passed authorization for the usa to fund public sex parties.. I need to get one to write a thousand page bill filled with boring drivel then sneak in a ten thousand dollar a week donation to the LOOB fund lol.. or better yet lobotomies for the dumb..lol

  2. 2 weeks ago, my i-net line got cut by a trencher. windstream repair dude said that fiber was already ran down hwy 19 and that it will not be ran the 1 mile stretch to us from them. perhaps some other company will “take up the slack” but i sense a cell phone app. for u.b.i./fed coin as being the outcome.

  3. 2 cambells soup cans and a wire strung tween em.. yerp rednecking Ure coms is sure fire way to stay connected in the 2024..no wonder youse don’t understand Blockchain / Scarcity/ BTC. So 2 more lights for your Cave and Caveman ways of thinking, UNCoNFISCATABLE and UnHackable.

    Imagine all that in one Vehicle?

    Wondering how much more of Ure nose you have left to cutoff, to keep spite-ing Ure face.

    Told youse bout the ETH Trojan horse weeks ago, in and out how much have we EARNED ?

    Lambos sold out thru 2024…dammit.

    PS – all unemployment numbers released …pure unadulterated bullscheisse.

    It’s ALL made up bullscheisse anymore homegamers, buyers beware of bubbly bubbles and Scarcity. FOOD 4 thought..

    • Speaking of scarcity of food for thought – give peace a chance?

      The end of last week saw Mr. Zelensky stopping in at Istanbul to at least talk cold turkey with Mr. Erdogan about peace talks aimed at Russia so we were told. Have those efforts perished on the olive branch? Yesterday “Deutsche Welle” reported on the EU announcment from Brussels of a further contribution of €5 billion to the EU-administered “European Peace Facility” fund. It’s a fund for arms for Ukraine in orwellian-speak. DW mentions the £5billion main intent is towards artillery shell buys from unmentioned sellers via middleman Czech Republic because EU arms makers are at short-term production maximums.

      Separately London’s “Telegraph” fills in some blanks saying the Czech’s are buying back their previously exported artillery shells from Turkey, South Africa and South Korea for around US$1.5 billion. So in honest accounting books, one would think there should still be somewhere in the neighborhood of a US$ 3.5 billion residual left from yesterday’s European Peace Facility top-up to buy more weapons?

      Let’s dial into sonic refreshment on the March to peace journey with DJ George. From the champagne music crooner himself Lawrence Welk, raise a toast! Here we go-
      “Bubbles in the Wine”.

  4. The high-speed access we get through the electrical Co Op is good enough when it works but lately, we end up switching over to our old hot spot a lot more. Got tired of waiting for star link. And honestly neither of us is bothered too much by it.
    Thunderstorms and hail over night. Not much sleep. I woke up around 0100 with Diana holding my hand asking me to check on the boys. While I checked the windows in the sun room I could see Thelma and Louise our Peronese were on post sitting in front of 2 of the goat huts. Then they went inside and hung their head out the door. I guess they were just on rounds or something. I could see the boys were in the bachelor pad by the back door looking out. Diana wants me to make the girls their own houses now too.
    Stay safe. 73

    • the cell phone companies are cutting towers to save money . to get decent service you have to climb on the roof an aluminum foil hat on and a metal coat hanger in each hand lol

  5. Hey Yanks,

    How about dem Houthi’s ? When you feel the need for speed, there be only one way to go,hhhhhhhhHYPERSONIC !
    https://www.theinteldrop.org/2024/03/14/yemen-beats-the-us-in-successful-test-of-a-hypersonic-missile/

    Wonder if their hypersonics are as fast as the US military complexes hypersonics ? Of wait, we don’t have any. Begging the question – what did we get for all those BAZZILLIONS of dollars spent during the orange jesuses 4 years in office ? How about the previous admins defense expenditures, and current cgi mask wearing douchebags term, beside planes that can’t fight, and submarines that keep running into undersea mounts ? Prosperity ? WTholyF, over?

  6. The Bill was passed.., speeches made.., and France could send ground troops into the Ukraine.

    You would think that would make their stock markets a little “uneasy”. Nope. The CAC40 Index [ Frances’ leading stock index] just set a record high this morning.

    Proof Positive that we need to examine and question the sanity of ‘investing’ in this new algorithm era.

    • IMHO NATO is setting up for a nuclear first strike.

      Generally and capturing these moments we’ve seen in the Ukie/Russian contest troops, tanks, ships and airplanes are obsolete. Missiles and drones are the current thing.

      The U.S. is working on laser systems in real-time while defending against the Hotuhis. Once lasers are perfected missiles and drones will be obsoleted making lasers the current thing.

      Laser superiority won’t last forever so the laser advantage will have to be used right away.

      After first strike when most missiles and drones are neutralized or used the troops, tanks, ships and airplanes become important again.

      After first strike NATO will flood troops/tanks into Russia securing whatever is left.

      That’s not to say NATO doesn’t risk losing millions of bodies in Europe once first strike begins.

      “First strike, attack on an enemy’s nuclear arsenal that effectively prevents retaliation against the attacker. A successful first strike would cripple enemy missiles that are ready to launch and would prevent the opponent from readying others for a counterstrike by targeting the enemy’s nuclear stockpiles and launch facilities.”

      • just imagine how much could be accomplished..if everyone took the efforts and money that’s spent on war and killing and weapons to things that are for the good of mankind

  7. Question:
    If France does decide to send ground troops into the Ukraine – how will they get there?
    They will have to transport through Germany., or airlift.
    If they do attempt to transport through Germany – will the Germans let them? If they do allow such a military maneuver through their country – does that make them – the entire country of Germany – a ‘partner’ with France in the escalation of foreign combat forces in the Ukraine?
    And., if so., that makes them a justifiable – viable target for Russia.

    The first missile strike in German [ or France ] by Russia to try and stop the incoming troops and.., voila! World War 3 just got underway.

    .., and air traffic in Europe as a whole just came to a sudden halt. Which would affect the entire world’s air traffic. Stranding millions around the globe.

    Biden’s response will tell us if we can expect a nuke torpedo up the Potomac.

    Fun and Games – boys and girls.., stay tuned

    • Um… did you forget the roads through Switzerland>? Which is NOT a Nato member.
      Now that I mention it, Austria is not a member, either…
      This and a wink-wink passage through lesser developed countries at this latitude would be seen as an acceptable loss compared with the higher population bases in Poland and Germany.
      I think this is why in Stu’s fine work, Nosty paid so much attention to Macedonian lands. Disposable members in British and Teutonic thinking, I’d wager.

      • Didn’t forget the Swiss.., I think that they would not allow a huge military combat convoy to transit their country.., it would make them a real target.
        … but – it’s a whole new era in Europe., and anything is very possible.

    • “does that make them – the entire country of Germany – a ‘partner’ with France in the escalation of foreign combat forces in the Ukraine?”

      Ai’s prediction is an anticipated.. YES

    • Travel to Europe for an American is now RISKY imo

      Almost went to Europe a couple of weeks ago to go skiing (Italy), but alas the person who’s was suddenly not going to go at the last minute changed their mind and decided to NOT cancel out so I didn’t go.

      Anyway though a late notice trip coming just 4 days before I would leave I decided I better have a backup plan on how to get back to the US if the air corridors shut down while I was there (like they did for 30 days after 9/11), so I pulled up the location of the freighter ports of Spain & Portugal and figured out how to get there VERY quickly via rail from Italy. Many freighters carry a few passengers and I figured if I could get to a major freighter port QUICKLY I could secure passage on one before others thougtht about it, or somehow pay to get on a regular freighter,that was heading across the pond to at least Panama (to get from Panama to Mex City is easy, once there it is easy to get to the US border) (Miami, Quebec City or a Mexican port would be better of course – would NOT want to go to NYC, Boston, or Philly).

      Obviously nothing happened in the bigger picture and sadly for me I ended up not skiing in Europe last week, but, imo anyone who is now crossing the oceans from the US at the moment should think ahead about alternative ways to get home if things get nasty since a 9/11 style aviation shutdown of flights into the US would be near 100% certainty.

    • I think Putin knows all to well if France sends Troops regardless of the verbiage not being NATO troops – he would not make limited strikes – I think he’d go for the complete shock and awe – all major countries within Nato or perhaps just the jugular – Britain and the US with nukes and the tidal wave bombs – let the rest of NATO stand up after that

  9. Banning TikTok is bad news. For those unaware, read more here:

    The so-called TikTok ban is a trojan horse.

    From Rep Thomas Massie:

    “The President will be given the power to ban WEB SITES, not just Apps.

    The person breaking the new law is deemed to be the U.S. (or offshore) INTERNET HOSTING SERVICE or App Store, not the “foreign adversary.””

    https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1767525209064558954

    Maybe I’m wrong but believe this means G, the host may post something .gov doesn’t like and in the dead of night the Urban Survival IP is unpropagated.

    • Just exactly HOW can this “law” be enforced? Technical means to circumvent have existed for decades, and if needed, Eastern group associated satellite(s) could function like Starlink to share information. Failing that, we always have ham radio and other means of communication. The only way to make this work would be to ban any kind of computer or radio receiver, and even then individuals would find a way.

      IMHO, this is a direct assault on the First Amendment.

    • Yellen is as dumb as they come. Can’t believe she even received a BA /BS degree, let alone a Masters and Phd in Economics.

      Must have been one of those “just pass them through” because she was one of those “protected classs” students is all I can figure out.

      • I have known a lot of college grads.. that couldn’t read the evening paper.. and understand what was in it.. My guess is.. if you have the right amount of money or who your daddy is then your set.. the business model is they would push them through.. very few schools really teach anymore.. they give a lecture.. the kids go party time.. as long as they know their own name and daddy has the money they want.. they can get a diploma..

  11. Professor Scott Galloway, a popular Podcaster, author and regular left leaning guest on Bill Maher and other shows…who I actually like…Scott is more moderate than left…announced on his podcast that he is experimenting with ketamine in a controlled, clinical session. He also thinks that Biden should step down and hand off to a younger, more vibrant moderate. Where is the outrage? He is a major influencer. So why isn’t the far left screaming in disgust? The hypocrisy of the liberal media disgusts me…In fact, both parties on the extreme make me want to scream.

    Elon, Prof. Galloway and others are just telling the truth. Chris Cuomo and Tucker Carlson just interviewed each other on Tuckers show. Now both are being criticized by their respective fan bases. Why? It’s a great interview. Both won points with me in that interview. It was refreshing to hear two adults, being adults in the room. This diviseness needs to stop now!!! Republicans are quitting Congress, Democrat house and Senate members are moving to the middle en masse. The extreme idiots on both sides are the straw that’s breaking America’s back and those with brains are realizing that nothing is getting done. It’s time to meet in the middle and think about we the people for a change.

    • Brilliant synopsis – both extremes are nuts. I look forward to the Tucker-Cuomo interview. Feel like we should make up judge scoring numbers to we can hold them up when one or the other lands a solid blow…verbally of course.

      • My sea Daddy was a CMH recipient.. wonerful man.. no one ever said he had the CMH.. until we had a dress inspection the secretary of defense etc.. I was sweating it because I just couldn’t get a brilliant shine on my shoes.. he said don’t worry about it.. and of course he came out covered in gold and medals everywhere.. the inspection team was driving by.. slammed on their brakes.. got out went up to him came to attention and saluted him.. I had never seen anything like it.. afterwards I went to his house and we were having a cookout with his family.. and I asked him.. what did you do.. his answer.. I tried to do the right thing.. That is what we need.. no right or left.. red or blue.. but people willing to do the right thing for the country and the people in it.. instead we see groups all trying to follow some sick business model filled with corruption.. Now I have been a demacrat my whole life.. I am mortified at what they are doing.. and it appalls me to see them go the way they are.. what about doing the right thing.. no brown shirts groups like the lincoln project or BLM and Antifa doing terrorist activities..
        Reflecting on all the religious books and scrolls that I have read.. the one thing that comes up over and over in all of them before being perverted by some joker wanting to change the message.. is DO UNTO OTHERS the message of peace and tranquility.. not do to others..

    • Mark, you have been the face and spokesperson for the extreme idiots with your Guatamala excursion and your BLN/Antifa support and Lincoln Project support.
      Here is the extreme idiots from both side,,, or should we just tell the truth, the extremes are one side. like RINOs and Demonrats are one side pretending to be at odds
      https://x.com/drawandstrike/status/1766625095202550217?s=20
      Mark your trying to act like the middle,,, does not fly pass my radar,,, are you on the list? you know the list that Maher and that other A-list movie star ,
      https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/us-news/trump-news/2024/03/10/de-niro-hates-trump
      that FEAR the rightious retribution of their souless child molestation, when Trump makes his glorious return to the seat of power. Is Epstein dead? Why has not the list of Island vacationers been released yet?
      Mark, you are not the middle ground and the extremes are the same two faced monster
      ‘seek penitence’ is what YOU said we normals should do in your past post of some time ago,,, do that, publicly, if you want to be considered as centered, balanced or normal,,, till you confess, this lowly being looks down on you as a treasonous traitor to our beloved US Constitution, our Republic, one nation under God.
      you have a nice day now liddle Mark, as I will, singing glory to God
      what was movie of which Q spoke? oh ya
      “Guardians of the Pedophiles”
      https://www.tmbfiles.com/bill-maher-isnt-laughing-now-pictured-with-anthony-wiener-look-up-satanic-symbolism-red-shoes-tony-podesta/

      • obd, your fixation and obsession with contrived injustices is quite obvious.

        Also the ‘baby talk’ put downs ‘liddle Mark’?, really shows your maturity level.

      • Don’t look like regular (cow) leather to these reddened eyes..

        Grouped in wit google/google works employees..OSOK

        But then again I am a rather sick and deranged individual (Patriot) who would like nothing more than have a “shot” at a swamp critter..any swamp critters. As I told my local congressional rep several years ago while complaining about DHS nazi agents aggressive handling of old ladies in our Airports, old ladies and the wheelchair bound, I quote “Your wall is not high enough”. Yeah I am on a list, every single time my luggage has DHS slip inserted when I travel, every single time.

        As the veil lifts on the outrageous acts committed on the Populace, no wall or underground bunker will be safe and or secure, none , this includes the reds&whites walled city..

      • OBD,
        An investment into the app Grammerly may be wise. I see English words, but not in the order that would constitute a sentence. Take care of yourself.

        • will the app Gammerly remove your treasonous activity? as I am not a graduate of a journalism school, like your wordsmithing self, so I ask .
          But you don’t help understanding what I am communicating to you, shall we go on a diving trip,,, did ya try any adreno-chrome on your excusions??? I hear ya got to be able to afford a Tesla to even think about buying some of the most expensive drug on the blackmarket, it helps to have some bitcoin to buy it
          it is your future that you are really concerned about, wish ya luck.

          so tell US Mark, are you pro maps or anti-maps?
          ‘minor attracted people’ aka pedophiles,
          takes a Haitian village to feed a Chilton.

          But we all need to worry about Darrell’s grammar or
          mystery’s statement “obd, your fixation and obsession with contrived injustices is quite obvious.”
          Am I just making stuff up or is the lying wordsmithing lame stream media hiding the sausage?
          Now they are scared, so they need to ban tictok, as a foot in the door to get the other social platforms back under government censorship,
          I smell FEAR coming from the depths,,,
          do a little dance, sing a little song , give God thanks today, I AM happy
          Brewer and Shipley, the light
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?
          “Don’t want to die in Georgia”
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH1DGcD1srov=u7kCkJvSa5M
          or maybe ya should spend some time with God and go sit on the Platte River at Alda NE and listen to the cranes as they gather for their happy time and fill the air with their voluminous song filling the air and it vibrates within ure soul and you can physically feel it, it is awesome to experience, early morning at sunrise, when they awake and take wing to the cornfields it is the season right NOW, like a Cadbury Easter egg they will be gone around Easter time,,, everything cycles and the light is coming as dawn’s early light is peeking over the horizon after thousands of years in darkness, cycles,
          nothing can stop what is coming
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFut6WXJ1cg

          Mark, we all are going to through that veil, at the end of the line,,, are you prepared?
          will you be greeted by those who you have helped , or by those who you have caused pain, physical or mental or financial
          no man is an island, we all are drops of water in the ocean we call God, source, or even “The Dude”

  12. Madness & Stupidity — or some of both — or, a lot of both…

    So, I see where they plan to build a “pier” to unload relief supplies for the poor, innocent Gazans. Who can oppose relief for a beleagured people? (Not me.)

    A few minor points, if you please:

    A “pier.” How Nice. Visions of fishermen with poles at sunset. Warm sunset light, music up & fade. Lovely. A long but simple boardwalk, with supporting piles, jutting out into the water.

    Piers need roots –big wharfs. A big parking lot where containers — “CONEXes” — are parked and shuttled around as in a gigantic “15” puzzle. A big parking lot of maybe a few hundred to a few thousand acres, served by railroad tracks and trucks LOTS of trucks. A big parking lot that will need some serious security forces — being, as it is, A VERY LARGE TARGET.

    Ships carry dozens to hundreds to thousands of CONEXes these days — long gone are quaint booms and nets with a few akimbo plywood boxes, and swarming steevadores. Now, it’s BIG ships, feeding ENORMOUS cranes, off-loading to LARGE staging areas for sorting and forwarding. THAT is how cargo is handled these days.

    Newark. Shanghai. Port of Los Angeles. Rotterdam. Cam Rahn Bay. That’s what is needed to feed all the poor, starving, innocent Gazan people.

    It must-needs take YEARS to build and fit with supporting infrastructure. And a few dollars. A LOT of dollars

    This may prove to be a bit prolematic…

    We could call it Port Cho Bi Den, and save the eventual inevitable owners the trouble of re-naming it later.

    Maybe it will one day also serve cruises ships to the Holyland. (With a high-speed light-rail link to Jerusalem. Elecritcally powered of course.)

    • Matt Bracken, says: This operation is “planned to fail.”

      Speculation is, it opens the door for wider US involvement to “aid” our Jewish friends. General Smedley Butler USMC, says: All wars are bankers wars” ergo Jewish Bankers are out friends? Just asking for a friend.

      see Rumble.com LTC Steven Murray

  13. Hi George
    We have the same phone company you have, it sucks.

    Over the years a lot of us were encouraging our Electric Co-Op to put in fiber. They finally started installing some two years ago, it works great, local home grown service is awesome. Over 20,000 customers to date adding more each year. I have had mine for two years now and zero down time!
    They use the existing power grid lines. “Much Cheaper”
    no renting poles. I have 2 MB speed and telephone service for $110.00 per month. For another $10.00 I can have a Gig.

    One funny issue I need to tell you about. Our mutual phone company is no longer required by the state to keep the old lines going. So we decided to go fiber with that as well.
    The old land lines sucked anyway.

    We have had the same phone number for over 50 years, when we went to transfer the number, the very small company who once owned the original lines, would only let us have the original number if we paid $2000.00. Needless to say we got a new number!! best thing that ever happened all the crap calls quit.
    Enjoy the day
    73’s

  15. According to the most recent Chaos Theory calculations complete human extinction has a 38% chance by 2034.
    .
    Don’t you feel so much better now ?

  16. James Crumbley, father of a school shooter was found guilty on four counts of involuntary manslaughter. His kid shot-up a school killing four. The mother, Jennifer Crumbley was found guilty of the same last month.

  17. Was that don lemon the idiot totalitarian authoritarian fascist who was attempting to force you to take the turbo cancer clot shot cause i would have erased his noise..

  18. “With Russia on the Verge of a nuke strike, how about we piss off China, too? Why has the US passed a bill to ban TikTok”

    Um, because it needs to happen.

    I really don’t want to see TikTok go away. I want to see the CCP divest itself of the platform and somebody like Musk acquire, disassemble, and reverse it without the snoopware, then rerelease the app minus its push propaganda potential.

  19. I was in Anderson, Indiana today (Anderson University and the po-po, ‘cuz Guide Lamp, Delco Remy, Delphi, etc., no longer exist.) The local sporting goods store had .220 Swift rounds on sale. I was almost tempted to buy a rifle. I’ve seen a lot of bullets — never seen a Swift before: 18mm exposed on top of the shell, lead 50 grain FMJ, surprisingly small shell casing (about the size of an AK. For some reason I thought size-wise it’d be somewhere between a 30-06 and a .300 magnum), 4810fps factory…

    I left Anderson and was going through Muncie when the dinner bell rang. Stopped in to a greasy spoon and halfway through my salad the air raid sirens went off. I took off my “picker” hat and put on the Skywarn, grabbed my ham & cheese, threw the gal a $20 and headed for the really fugly wall cloud which lay across my path.

    First tornado of the season. Big funnel, especially for March…

    Y’all will see the carnage on your teevee news today. The storm passed about 10mins in front of me — ransacked a town called Selma, then skipped happily east along Route 32 (which had been my intended route to the East.) The storm took down power lines across the highway and relocated a house into the middle of the road, dropped a tree on a moving car and speared another with another tree. I ended up taking to the country roads to get past the “Selma mess,” following the funnel at 6000yds to starboard and several miles behind. Then I heard that “Winchester” (famous for the “Silver Towne” mint and probably not much else) had been shredded and was considered a “mass-casualty” event.

    My best guess (and it’s just a hunch, because I never made it to the war zone) is two twisters came together — the Selma storm (which traveled straight East) and a second tornado which came across from the North or Northwest, met up at wherever the Goodwill and Taco Bell are (were), the remnants of which will be featured in tomorrow’s news coverage.

    The death toll is at least three.

    Nothing I could do…

    Winchester is about 9-10 miles into Indiana. Union City, Indiana (where I bought a rack of quad Zeon multicore servers a couple years ago) lies straight east of Winchester, on the State Line and is twinned with Union City, Ohio. By the time the storm got to Union City, the tornado was gone.

    I turned around and headed back toward Anderson.

    I pulled off the County road to let the flashing lights pass. 27 cop cars headed to Winchester in the first group. A few miles later, 31 more cops. I was probably also passed by about 60 ambulances and another dozen cops before I got to Muncie. I saw ambulances from as far away as Indy and Tipton (middle of the State, somewhere) before I reached Anderson.

    And no, I didn’t go into Winchester to help. I’m an old fart, didn’t have my credentials, and had just checked out of the hospital a couple days ago from an ongoing battle with cellulitis, so I’m weaker’n a cat. I would just have been in the way, so…

    With age comes wisdom — Sometimes it’s the wisdom to perform a task; sometimes it’s the wisdom to get the hell out of the way and let someone else perform it…

    • Glad to see you are up and around. We had 2″ and 3″ hail to the west of me last night. Rotation aloft, but I haven’t seen any evidence of tornadoes on the ground. I heard that CO had 4 ft drifts piling up. Crazy March weather.

  20. Little north of the big storms. I had an inch of gentle rain, now two inches since I fertilized the garlic (March 4th) which has greened up nicely. Just like growing tulips, but the squirrels don’t like or dig them up.

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