American Liar (Biden), Jobs Week Rolls, Turkeynasia

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Joe Biden has – along with his crooked vice president and enabler War Party – told American’s “We rule you.” Politely, the semi-neutered press reported President Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden.  But to us, it’s a much Bigger Deal.  You see, the nut doesn’t fall far from the tree.

Remember, it was a conspiracy theory that an Inside/Agency job whacked JFK, that there were aliens sampling humans, that there’s been Contact and a tech download, or that COVID (EVERYTHING WAS A LIE FROM THE BEGINNING – The Burning Platform) was a bio-weapon.  The list goes on and on…

Like the old “joke” goes, “The difference between justifiable paranoia and Conspiracy Theory is about five-minutes.”  We’ve been predicting this zenith of human frailty for a long time.

Another”theorty” bites the dust.

Biden Lied. Kamala enabled. Democrats shuffle their feet and issue circular bullshit excusing.

That’s bad enough, but there’s more.  We remain suspicious that the Deep State Operatives of the War-establishment will not allow Donald Trump to run the Oval for another term. That they will cling to power illegally when time comes.

My own son – in case you forgot – was convicted of several felonies when he was in his troubled teens.  As a parent – whose son has lived the “All-time Comeback life”, having come up in street EMT medicine working drunk tanks, working on a university Med School AIDS project, petitioned for return of his gun rights (and got them), and has his “Magic Seven” (he’s career Fire as well as EMT) – I can tell you it’s absolutely true: Spare the rod and spoil the child.

After a hard 20-years on the comeback trail, George2 is conservative, has trained skydiving for the government, snow camps in the back country, and so much more I have lost count. But he got there walking through hell.

Today he’s one the most erect, honest, hardworking, justice-seeking, and caring person I know outside of my wife.  A real honor to know him.  He’s a site medic on server farm builds and rolling good dough still bent on justice for those who cross him. He no longer speeds or commits crimes. He has learned to hire top quality law firms, instead.  All while helping the occasional “widow’s son.”

Was it hard to let him “Do his time”?   Of course.  It’s a parental failing when comes down to it.  In fact, G2 once told me “I wish you guys had been tougher on me when I was young.” The good news is his book “Felon to Firefighter” is a real inspiration…I expect he will finish it in 2025. Very Goggins-like.

My point here?  Having walked that road (and won), let me tell you what a loser is: A parent who’s too weak (and egotistical) who perpetuates the criminal element.  Someone like, oh, let me think…

Joe Biden.

War is Still Coming

Again, Joe Biden’s the sacrificial dope of the Deep State.  We have little doubt that in the coming week, maybe two, the Bidenista coup will launch (through their Ukraine proxy) an attack of such ferocity that Russia will not be able to “Turn the other cheek.”

When they respond, as we anticipate, it will be because the War Party has failed to solve the economic conundrum we explore on the Peoplenomics.com website.  Specifically, when companies share prices reflect only growth (no longer free cash from actual profits from work and goods), when growth reverses and there’s “no way out” then the world is set up for a huge, global, economic collapse.

Along the way:  Bitcoin has failed (so far) to bust overhead resistance at $100,000.  It was just over $95,000 at press time early today.

Growth is a Drug

As I’ve explained before, one variety is the “folk” sort of drug.  It says, in so many words, that periodic wars are needed to “Kill people and break things.” Because that wrecks families, destroys global manufacturing, and essentially tills the soil for new growth to begin.

Without war to “till things” people will have to begin to Downsize – my latest book being serialized on Peoplenomics.

This is Jobs Week:

  • JOLTS report will be out mid session tomorrow.
  • ADP hiring numbers Wednesday
  • Challenger job cuts Thursday
  • Official numbers Friday

We anticipate – initially – the numbers won’t be too awful.  The problem will be seen in the “after coverage” when commentators will remark that the jobs growth isn’t keeping up with the 8-8-1/2 percent growth of National Debt.  The Fed has (by crassly and politically lowering rates) ensured a bad outcome in 2025.

Which makes the advent of a nuclear first use (somewhere) a virtual certainty.  Because while Donald Trump wants to reverse the human septic dump through Open Borders, the Bidenistas will proclaim “water has been found.”

The War Party plan (and patsies) has been to rot America from the inside. But the Synthetic Growth (or unchecked immigration) didn’t work here, but the Biden-Harris role now is to prevent Trump and claim victory at something…if only “Human Rights” for gang members, fent dealers, and child traffickers.  It’s what losers do.

Speaking of which: Whole countries can be out of touch, having missed the concept of “punishment that befits the crime”: NORWAY: Transgender Pedophile Who Expressed A Desire To Rape Children Given 420 Hours Community Service, No Jail Time – Allah’s Willing Executioners. Fkn great.

Supporting Data:

Who would have suspected the policy alignment between Nancy Pelosi and Taiwan?  Taiwan President Lai speaks about China with former US House Speaker Pelosi while in Hawaii. Weather is good in Taiwan, we hear, and a move by Beijing is coming eventually. Chinese defense ministry denounces “notorious” U.S. arms sales to Taiwan-Xinhua.  Doesn’t the Hatch Act apply to Nasty now?

Ukraine edges closer to becoming ground zero: Putin signs record Russian budget, one-third for defense. We see familiar shadows of past “color revolution tactics as the neocon/alphabets try to open a new front in Georgia (the country): Georgian opposition leader arrested after fourth night of protests .

Meanwhile in the Middle East, the latest U.S.-Israel move is a likely feint to downplay Syria to free up resources for other operations: Fighting rages in Syria as rebel forces continue to make gains.  You ever notice when things begin to go badly, how the perps try to walk-back hardliner BS?  Here’s what sounds like a “let’s up-arm everyone and leave” pause in the works: Int’l community urges de-escalation amid rebel offensive in Syria. “International Community” is short for the action arm of the PowersThatBe.  Who don’t follow the Geneva rules REPORT: Syrian Jihadi Rebels Capture Assad’s Chemical/Bioweapons Lab, Threatening Weapons Proliferation.

A decent alternative take is  U.S. in a “State of Undeclared Emergency,” Report Warns which explores the paradox of waging war while living for peace.  We’ll let you know how that works out.

Rolling Headlines Gather No Moss

If (neocon tool) John Bolton doesn’t like Kash Patel heading the FBI, means to us Patel’s a solid choice and the Deep State is afraid: John Bolton compares Kash Patel to Lavrentiy Beria.  We think Bolton and Liz Cheney should form their own very small party. The BS party?

Is Bernie the only honest liberal left? Bernie Sanders Admits ‘Elon Musk Is Right,’ Supports DOGE Slashing Defense Budget

Enjoying the view of the Left imploding over Kash Patel for FBI chief?  Read his book Government Gangsters for a learned discussion of the real fight over his nomination.

Need more evidence of global moral decline?  Belgium grants sex workers maternity pay, pensions under new law.

At the Ranch: Turkeynasia

OK. We can safely report that three adults can in fact eat a 17.78 pound turkey over a Thanksgiving weekend in three meals.  Thursday was the main meal; Friday was regular leftovers (which were delish). Saturday was a break (chicken breasts on big Romaine salads).  Sunday’s round of SST Sandwiches polished everything off.  It was great.

My consigliere and I agreed to postpone settling the bottle of scotch bet I’d won. Not for economic reasons, I assure you.  It’s just that we’re both in our 70s and frankly, clear heads in this kind of news/financial environment is key to muddling through well into next Future.

I did get the drone repairs done and flying. But, it was so bright outside that it was impossible to see where the drone was against the bright sky. So that’s a holdover on the To Do list for today.

Been a fine visit, though he disapeared back into the guest room for a couple of hours Saturday: Being an Ohioan, he got an eyeful of the college rowdies as Flag planting causes chaos over college football rivalry weekend. That left us  plenty of time to review comments and plot Cyber Monday Strategies.

A couple of things on my shopping list today, but if we don’t buy them, so what?

  • 86 inch QLED television.  We would already have one, except for the fact that we really like the TV stand in the living / media room.  It’s solid wood but only as wide as a 65-inch.  What I’m looking for is the new generation of 86’s that have a central stand that’s much narrower. Most have legs way out at the ends which is dumb.
  • Maybe another minicomputer.  Life with no desktop – using a gen 13 mini with TBs and 32 gigs plus a big 3.2 USB expansion (10 slots) means we are not eating so much desk space.  The minis are way cheaper and as fast, so why not?

Our consigliere will pull out of here tomorrow for the 17-hour uphill drive from East Texas to Ohio. A nice place to visit, sure. (We like the Pine Club when we visit.) But, once you’ve done the Air Museum and a couple of Dayton Hamventions, it’s easy to run out of reasons to visit Ohio. Italian food with the capo tuti in Youngstown?

Part of “downsizing” is managing cash flow.  Our total breakeven, not counting food, but including auto insurance and property taxes, power, water, and home insurance runs a paltry  $400 per month. $520 a month if you toss in the Starlink but that’s a “business expense”.

Downsizing is the game of seeing just how much you can get for as little money as possible.  Medicare Advantage plans, for example, can limit medicare costs.  You get the idea.

There’s a lot more to it, of course. But one of these days, our consigliere will retire and we’ve been kicking around “after retirement options” with him.  Besides (he’s an Extra Class ham, too) finally completing DXCC and things like that.

Biggest danger we see is living in too small a space.  We like the “luxury” of several workstations for different kinds of activities. It’s really fun.

Then you tie that into the new report about the dangers of couching: Sitting Is the New Smoking? Alarming Research Reveals Long-Term Health Risks for Millennials and you can see where striving for a cheap, high maintenance lifestyle may actually lead to a longer life. And higher disposable income.

“You want to survive a nuclear war? I don’t think I do…” he remarked.

I’m still pondering that, while holding a credit card in my sweaty hands.  Here’s the Amzon 86 QLED’s and there goes George; clicking off into the sunset.

Write when he gets back, lol…

George@Ure.net

75 thoughts on “American Liar (Biden), Jobs Week Rolls, Turkeynasia”

  1. “You want to survive a nuclear war? I don’t think I do…”

    Yeah, that’s why I lived near a primary target, and then came the flood that chased me away. Sometimes the universe shows you who’s in charge.

    • Lol lol ever think about that..the shelters in the USA and Canada were designed for a few special people..not the citizens …
      so what if they do survive.. who does the work to rebuild..who fries the burger and assembles that sandwich at the fast food burger joint..
      where China built so many ghost power plants ghost cities and factories and underground shelters for their citizens..we can have our whole grid collapse with just five emp..china can just fire up the ghost facilities and keep on moving.
      its like the dealership..they cannot get parts for a car ten years old or older..they told me I needed to go find the part then they can install it..replacement parts ..hmm made outside the usa..
      this administration gave away our strategic reserves ..grid goes down we are screwed..a nuclear war and those in the shelters instantly have to make build and construct everything.. hunters boss in Ukraine said he was the stupidest POS he had ever seen his dog was smarter..
      we did everything for the business model and nothing for national security or the survival of our country..
      people prep with a chainsaw not an ax and hand saw.. everyone gave me guff over my tool slut ways..but I have the tools and ability to make the things that give us a quality of life..

    • I’m 11 miles from Fort Liberty (Fort Bragg & Pope AFB), so I’ll be an ‘Early Adopter’ of the nookwar. I’ll be in the first flash and dust cloud if it’s a Biggie. This is a deliberate choice.

      I don’t believe a full-out unlimited exchange is a long-term survivable event. At 80, I’m just as happy to cash in my chips, and go meet Jesus, rather than suffer a few thousand painful miseries — and THEN die.

      However, being an optimst, I don’t think there will be an all-out exchange. I think sanity and dirty pragmatism will prevail.

      • I’m not sure that being blind, naked, and all the skin down around the ankles shuffling about in inhuman pain is the easy way out. Read the section in “The Making of the Atomic Bomb” about the first uses.

    • Stu, I’m wondering if this is the fulfillment of the downfall brought by the ‘principal hope’ prophecy.

    • “President-elect Donald Trump announced Monday that he will travel to Paris this weekend to attend the opening of the once fire-ravaged and newly rebuilt Notre Dame Cathedral.”

      https://nypost.com/2024/12/02/us-news/trump-to-travel-to-paris-for-re-opening-of-notre-dame-cathedral-it-will-be-a-very-special-day/

      Nostradamus Quatrain II-51
      The blood of the just at London made fault
      Burnt by lightning of twenty three the six.
      The ancient dame falls from [her] high place:
      Of the same sect several will be killed.

      Nostradamus and the Third Age of Mars, Volume I, G. A. Stewart, 2017, Page 134

      Jacques de Molay, leader of the Knights Templar was burned at the stake in front of the Cathedral of Notre Dame on March 13th, 1314, another Friday the 13th. The Cathedral of Notre Dame was once the site of the Temple of Isis. The Seal of Paris is the Boat of Isis.

      Pope Francis was elected to the Papacy on March 13th, 2013, exactly 699 years after Jacques de Molay was burned alive.

      https://theageofdesolation.com/nostradamus/2019/04/16/the-dame-falls-from-her-high-place/

  2. treason is still in season for hanging.
    no pardons for that crime, clock is still running.
    honest liberal Sanders,, NO WAY is he honest,, he has weak knees, and just bent a knee to save his own skin that has been formally owned by killary,,, many are doing the knee crawl to Mar a logo to kiss the ring
    “please forgive me Donald, they had all this blackmail over me, I had no choice but to shit on the truth”

    “Take a pedo fishing” I like my new motto,
    make go viral,,, make basspro great again
    hunting and fishing accident happen, what ever happened to obama’s cook?

  3. I guess Joe’s brother will be pardoned before the week is over since he’s been heavily involved in the Uke etc – sadly for those others that were involved if Trump does what he says he will (which I seriously doubt) there would be a bunch of Pols indicted from that whole mess …… Payback vs Payoff

    • That has me curious..we know wht the president pardoned hunter for..crimes he has been charged for..
      but lets see… how many of the crimes that family business has been involved in that they hadn’t been charged for yet..hits just about every sector to.. I remember when China and Russia was putting out surveillance tapes of his sexual experiences with children..then I read about all the other things they were involved with..does his pardon affect a blanket pardon of all the other crimes..past present and future…. even in the me.ours of Joes and hunters book they give accounts of all their activities that show how the nut in the tree was developed..abuse of power.. then again the prisons are filled with examples to show..if your not in the club your not protected..
      one view of the freak out parties and white parties and how many influential and powerful people that are being named .. similar to Epstein that video taped and recorded all activities..or the woman whose husbands laptop that had a file called life insurance.. had the video in it called frazzled drip.. the investigators that viewed it and worked on the case died and committed suicide.. the server was destroyed by the agencies like the laptop they don’t know who or where..
      a pedophile was caught and brought to the usa..he was released after he started sharing videos..the c RAP singer he recorded everything so he could use it in an event he ever got caught.. the ones releasing this stuff to the public either die or commit suicide and investigations are called fake. those releasing them to the public put in prison.
      reminds me of the engineer.. he had to give sworn testimony over the companies actions on a spill.. he was black balled and homeless and the company eventually got five billion dollars to rebuild incentive. he came to us when his car broke down and he had a heart attack..the laws don’t apply to different social classes.. the elderly disabled and working class are seen as disposable.. even though the fruits of their labors is what keeps the elite in their social class..

      I personally can’t see how Trump can flip the economic situation the country is in..I get over a hundred emails trying to get me to spend and a mailbox full of credit card approvals.. a restaurant that use to have waiting on escalation to get in had two cars in the lot at prime meal time. Wal-Mart had a ton of people but almost empty carts..just essentials..a motel that takes up a city block had only two cars in the parking lot for guests staying there..
      this years budget is going to be a challenge.. they increased home taxes and car insurance went up..car home and auto insurance takes up over fifty percent of our monthly income..
      and a notice that taxes are going up another thirty percent..
      so how is the new administration going to flip this..along with a war that the present administration is promoting.. I get they want what Ukraine has and the motors eh laundering alone there was what almost forty trillion a year.the illegal bio warfare labs and the child trafficking..etc.
      from my point of view the us dollar has to become a Zimbabwean value on our currency..
      this is so bad on so many different levels.. and the screw them if we can’t have it no one can attitude will destroy this great country we have.
      yet ..NO ONE.. in congress is doing a thing..what does that imply to the citizens.. if it doesn’t even give anyone in government a reason to try and fix anything..

      • “That has me curious..we know wht the president pardoned hunter for..crimes he has been charged for..
        but lets see… how many of the crimes that family business has been involved in that they hadn’t been charged for yet..hits just about every sector to.”

        “The president issued a “full and unconditional pardon” for any offenses Hunter Biden has “committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024,” according to the White House statement. ”

        Biden issued Hunter a blanket pardon — The pardon covers everything he’s been convicted of, charged with, or could be charged with or convicted of, that happened between 1/1/2014 and yesterday.

        At least some of the hard drive pix of underage American girls Hunter was banging were from 2013 and before. A bunch of the Democrat donors who’ve flipped their shit over the,

        OVER $1 BILLION

        which seems to have gone missing during the Biden and Harris campaigns, and they’ve settled on blaming Obama — not for stealing the money, but for so-screwing up the campaign that 10-digits of campaign donations could be disappeared from under everybody’s noses.

        https://x.com/westernlensman/status/1862894716821409990

        I mention this as a ponder: There are at least three copies of Hunter’s laptop hard drive. What happens to Hunter if Obama gets sufficiently pissed at Joe Biden? Would he embarrass his own daughter to wreak vengeance on the Biden clan and lock Joe’s kid up forever…?

        BTW, one thing the pardon does, which may indicate the Bidenistas didn’t think things through:

        Hunter has been “blanket-pardoned.” This means he can not be charged with any crime which occurred between 1/1/14 and 12/1/24.

        Because of this he can also neither refuse to testify, nor can he plead 5th Amendment protection, should someone be charged with a crime and Hunter be subpoenaed to testify.

        • (“I mention this as a ponder: There are at least three copies of Hunter’s laptop hard drive. What happens to Hunter if Obama gets sufficiently pissed at Joe Biden? Would he embarrass his own daughter to wreak vengeance on the Biden clan and lock Joe’s kid up forever…?”)

          China and Russia showed so many surveillance tapes and photos .. my thought was they did that to show the American people just how disgusting this administration was.. the Russians warned Trump from what I read about plans that they have uncovered by deep state.
          from their past actions this last four years I am guessing he is taking it serious to..

          https://rumble.com/v5vge1n-putin-reveals-wefs-45-billion-bounty-on-donald-trumps-head-when-did-it-happ.html

        • Treaty violations (such as bioweapons crimes) might be unpardonable because it is above the criminal level.

          Could Biden issue a blanket pardon for himself?

  4. re: Hickory, Dickory, Dock 2
    feat: A Hunter in the Rye

    Folks,

    No sooner were Santa’s elves calmed and returned to their non-union toy factory servitude than the “Daily Mail” today revived a story from 1999. An x-rated image had been found in vhs video tapes of Disney’s 1977 movie, “The Rescuers”.

    Bernard and Miss Bianca of the Rescue Aid Society mouse organization rode by the objectionable sight in their sardine can. Apparently the Rescue Aid Society was tasked with finding abducted children.

    Developing?

    • “re: Hickory, Dickory, Dock” 3 mice ran up the clock. The clock struck 1, and the other 2 escaped with minor injuries! Just couldn’t pass on that one!

    • re: Cyber Monday
      feat: ‘Tis eGift Season

      Folks,

      The Servant of the People whose elected mandate expired 6 months ago has made a proclamation. Effective from now until the end of February, every Ukrainian man, woman and child may apply online for their 1,000 hryvnia (us$23.98) per head to spend by the end of 2025 on Ukrainian goods and services. “The Kyiv Independent” notes that more than 2 million people have availed themselves of the “eSupport” program on its first day.

      Thanks, Pops!

    • Lol..the dual story lines.. the subliminal cuts in movies..ever love to watch westerns..the hero riding on his beloved horse into the sunset.. very few knew that women’s breasts were put on the horses butt.. a few frames but enough to get your subconscious to be attracted to that horse..
      my favorite is one company’s subliminal is a wall of smiling sunflowers and a laughing guy jumping on a trampoline..
      you don’t see it..your subconscious mind sees it..
      a car commercial with a young woman pointing at his penis that for two frames is enlarged..
      one woman’s clothing commercial that had two frames of a male in it with an erect penis sticking out of his shorts..
      beverage cans when stacked spelled sex and one beverage can that had Santa positioned behind Rudolph with Rudolph eyes wide like data just entered a taboo area of its body..
      these things are common..the dual story line to get sales and promote the product..sex and death ..carefully placed into movies commercials etc.

  5. G: still like the existing TV stand but the ginormous new set won’t fit due to legs at corners? Screw down a piece of 1×12 on the stand matey. E

    ps – now scrambling, what was an orange Watch turned into a red Warning, possible tally 6-9″ with additional possible (lake effect plume).

    • Put down the snow Bong, exhale slowly and consider..

      Poping a Flare Egor, pop it sooner than later.

      – so we’s can come rescue Ure frozen ass from off the Lake before you are eaten alive by the coming Snow & Ice Storm.
      Ill get my Sons’&DILs Bernaise Mountain Sauce Dog all geared up (hot coco&rum) for Ure rescue op. – she is a real sweatie..all fuzzy and lumbering bouncey puppy- but a real big girl already.

      The PSRT (Pennsyltucky Snowmobile Rescue Team) will be on our way to upper peninsula(no stooping in OhHowIHateOhioState).
      Look out for a big fuzzy Berner in Gucci Doggles, Mommas’ a Gucci Girl, and Swiss red cross scarf.

      No Worries Maaan, just throw this yule log, https://youtu.be/bjpCQfaryqk?si=YZLqE07f8DtUR7si , on Ure fire and chill.

    • The Aurora Borealis was a clue the weather weapons were being recharged. Perhaps to prevent overcharging your area is getting snow now. Snowmageddon cometh.

    • Pffft… you want ‘Lake Effect’? Try Copper Harbor on Superior in the U.P. They drag snow blowers to upstairs bedroom windows so they can get them out on the porch roof and dig downward. 200-300 inches of snow per year. Only about 25 residents there tunnel thru the snow through the winter to caretake the places.

  6. Holy “hashish” rally Ponzi G..yowza!

    In one of those classic cases of wake up “richer’, da BCN rode again this weekend ! Crushed a large Parlay on Turkey day, so into weekend flush, as it were. Someone must of been spreading news bout hash, because BCN woke up Sunday AM to some eye popping gains in the shitcoin space.

    Yeah I know – hate to admit that BCN been nibbling on shitcoins since ohhh a long friggin time.Its called Dollar Cost Averaging – look it up ifs you dont know – a great way to build wealth over time.
    I dont know/remember what coins or how many in cold storage, but I do have small % of holdings on the Coinbase system. Yes a big no no NOT practicing Self Custody with a hard wallet. Anyway always peruse the coin markets during scheduled P&L analysis time on Saturday mornings.

    This past Saturday was HUGE, not only amaze ballz rally Ponzi G, but “WE ARE PENNSTATE” earned a spot in Big Ten Championship Game next weekend vs Oregon Ducks. Lord knows Nittany Lions love them some Duck! peeking duck, orange duck, daffy duck… Coins still popping into Sunday – which around these parts is the real Burd Day

    -https://youtu.be/BLGQHGc7qp8?si=EE1C9dx6uUG9QSj_

    Hit Em High, and Hit Em Low..and watch our EAGLES FLY!

    E
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    IGGLES!

    Ha der ya call it a ponzi! Ure a ponzi, G

    * “Every time that we get to the debt ceiling, what does the government say? If we don’t raise the debt ceiling, we’re going to default. If we can’t borrow more money, we’re not going to pay back any of the money we already owe. Well, that is an admission that you’re running a Ponzi scheme. You’re telling everybody that it’s a Ponzi scheme. I mean, Bernie Madoff would never do that. It’s Ponzi 101. You got to keep that quiet.” -Peter Schiff

    • Speaking of hashish I received a cannabis mailer from a local weed shop.

      They are offering organic mix & match 1/2 ounces for $9.00 each in bundles of two, so $18.00/oz.

      Ask for select one gram pre-rolls is 12/$22.00.
      Ask for select infused pre-rolls is 8/$25.00.

      The local Kroger offers 750ml (27, 1.5 oz shots) of Maker’s Mark for $29.99 with a current $5.00 off digital coupon, $24.99.

      In terms of cost of altering

      3.375 shots
      Vs
      1 infused pre-roll.

  7. Looking at Ure basic expenses, mine pencils out to be about $530 a month, and with comms is $620 a month (not including a couple of seasonal Amazon streaming channels). Add in Advantage, that becomes $ 800 a month. That leaves groceries, clothing. fuel and entertainment to contend with. Upkeep and capital projects eat up what is left. Still, in about six months, I will be in good shape for full retirement. Between now and then, I would need to pull in my elbows to go to the sidelines. But I could swing it.

  8. “Specifically, when companies share prices reflect only growth (no longer free cash from actual profits from work and goods), when growth reverses and there’s “no way out” then the world is set up for a huge, global, economic collapse.”

    So spot on here George [as usual]. This is typical of any country that sees their currency entropy.

    Ergo: Steevo’s theory of what will be the new money dynamo that wall street uses to grow their pockets? Dumping the old diluted $ with new?

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/ripple-s-stablecoin-rlusd-approved-for-december-launch-in-new-york/ar-AA1v0jzJ

    https://www.investing.com/news/cryptocurrency-news/ripple-ceo-secures-60-minutes-interview-bitcoin-black-friday-sale-kicks-off-says-samson-mow-shiba-inus-skyrocketing-invalidated-crypto-news-digest-by-utoday-3745016

    Big changes coming December 4th, as usual I don’t expect the full impact until after the typical hysteresis…..

    XRP will even Flippen the Mighty Bitcoin after Bitcoin has fully priced in the GOLD market cap.

    https://coingape.com/xrp-price-eyes-new-all-time-high-after-overtaking-solana-usdt-with-364-rally/

    https://cryptonews.net/news/altcoins/21404495/

    With Cobalt, everything runs on ripple [XRPL/XRP] faster than in their own native network. Been waiting 6 years now, what a gift and opportunity to stack high using lunch money…all this time.

    https://www.fxcompared.com/magazine/news/ripples-radical-super-fast-super-secure-new-algorithm-cobalt-draws-closer

    Got [select] Blockchain?

    https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/noviqtech-expands-hedera-partnership-with-hbar-acquisition-1034083233?op=1

    Sweet:

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/technology/elon-musk-s-ai-hints-at-potential-xrp-adoption-on-x/ar-BB1ppVbV#:~:text=Elon%20Musk%E2%80%99s%20AI%2C%20Grok%2C%20has%20initiated%20discussions%20by,XLM%20as%20payment%20options%20on%20X%20%28formerly%20Twitter%29.

  9. “Contact and a tech download”

    Tech from the space aliens? The aliens never give humanity offensive stuff like war ending force fields. Imagine Russia sending hypersonics into Kiev and the missiles are absorbed by a force field or ricocheted into low Earth orbit, not into space because that could endanger the aliens out there.

  10. “I can tell you it’s absolutely true: Spare the rod and spoil the child.”

    There are exceptions to this rule.

    I have a friend who told me his parents didn’t care what he did or where he went as a teenager. They didn’t try to motivate him to excel in life, they had interest in him at all.

    In this no discipline environment, believe it or not, he did well in school, never got in trouble, never drank, smoked or took drugs.

    He went on to become a police officer in Nassau County NY, and while there used his computer skills which advanced to such a degree that he left the force after seven years to start his own company making software for police departments. He is well known by Microsoft, as he did things with their software that they didn’t even know was possible.

    Then he sold his software company and went as back to work at the Nassau County Police Department as Deputy Commissioner of IT.

    Even after all his success, he told me his parents couldn’t care less.

    They are in their 80’s now, and have “Trump derangement syndrome.”

    • (“I have a friend who told me his parents didn’t care what he did or where he went as a teenager. They didn’t try to motivate him to excel in life, they had interest in him at all.”)

      there are more elements the irritate this as well..the sad part about that..is it was deregulation of essential needs and outsourcing of industry .. Reagan I believe thought that industry leaders were still like the leaders of industry when he was young..the old trickle down theory made sense.. combined with the millionaire tax act of 78 that threw Carter and the middle class under the wheels of progress..also promoted greed.. industry leaders before that put the local economy and their employees first..outsourcing industry and deregulation put mom to work dad or mom many times having to work multiple jobs.. deregulation of basic essentials increased the costs of these services and prices of the products associated.. the stability of the home started to decline as costs for essentials escalated and parents forced to work multiple jobs.Homes were left with no one around to help children navigate issues as an adult presence.. then mass media.. all the networks started to change their programming ..adding in more violence more sex game shows that promote the winners as the ones demonstrating the best sociopathic abilities computers and games were developed desensitization of moral and ethical actions..
      there’s hundreds of situations on mainstream media every hour that demonstrates the way to deal with the tough social issues with violence or glorification of corrupt activities instead of reason..mom and dad get home and are to tired to deal with them.. the kids without any supervision are then vulnerable to the local gangs..

  11. After the last of the family visitors left yesterday we loaded the dishwasher for like the 100th time then Diana donned an extra set of insulated coveralls of mine and we took a ride in the quad around the ranch. While she looked her usual delicious self to me she said and I quote, “I’m warm but I feel like a bb in a boxcar.”. Been around me for too long (41 years) maybe.
    We stopped at a small pond on the back of the property that reminds me of the pond where we buried Barney. Diana had not been back here before and she said it reminded her of the old place too. We have owned this property for a dozen years and when the place adjoining with the recently built house came on the market we jumped on it. Now we only own property in 2 different counties instead of 3 so maybe the CPA will have an easier time. The area around the old ranch we still love was becoming too crowded with Miami Vice wannabes and Zekes. The good real Hillbillies left are folks who cannot move. Neighbor Steevie keeps his land there but has moved in with his girlfriend closer to his job in town 50 miles away. We were fortunate to work out a deal with another younger rancher and moved without cost so it was a no brainier.
    Diana wants to hang pictures today but I said I had plans to work in the shop. She lifted her shirt up so I’m hanging pictures.
    Stay safe. 73

  12. Biden’s son will not give up his vices easily so eventually he will be caught again or some irate father will blow him away, or his bad choices will create some other type of disaster in his life.

    I had a younger brother that stole toys and broke them. Later he stole money from. siblings. Everyone knew he was stealing but my parents ignored it. As a young adult he came into my mom’s house and walked out with bags of food. Got caught. Then he stole jewelry and silver from me when living in my house. He got kicked out. Then wrote a big check and cashed it, only it wasn’t his check. It was my mothers. My stepfather had him arrested when my brother stole jewelry of his and he finally got jail time.

    When he was about 40 he got prostate cancer. He enjoyed drugs and looked rough. Hospitals thought he was looking for a high when he complained of pain. The cancer went into his bones and he died with no platelets, basically he bled to death because his blood couldn’t clot.

    It’s not good to live a life where no one trusts or believes you. Things will not go Hunters way.

  14. In fact, G2 once told me “I wish you guys had been tougher on me when I was young.”
    .
    No.., you don’t. If you had changed one thing – he would not be on the road he is currently travelling.
    .
    I just checked the rule book: No one said it would be easy. G2 just proved that even though it can be tough – you can step-up and succeed.

    • Amen. All you can do is teach them the difference between right and wrong. The rest is up to them.

      • Amen… I am actually glad that my life has had the ups and downs its had..
        the marines teach Adapt and overcome…
        here’s a marine … own the situation your in and make the best of it.. you may not like the situation your in.. but make the most of it..
        https://youtube.com/shorts/ICewi0XEqQc?si=R0kcE95IVcRav-_m
        the can man..fought in Korea had pad PTSD spent most of his life living under bridges and inside garbage dumpsters..
        https://youtu.be/wUYPLJL3Aio?si=8uqc-XwNPFK85D0q
        the boxcar kids.. one of my old bosses was The oldest brother in the real boxcar children.. met his sister once..the happening was real he really did grow up in a boxcar..the stories of how they really adapted.. an amazing experience and the worst job I ever had besides steam cleaning blood tanks..I was sick day and night..the thing was..they adapted..and survived..

  15. OK, back to reality. The Fed has been lowering rates this year. Why, you ask, look to history. 1927 – 1929 the Fed lowered rates several times to keep the dollar from becoming too strong. The action, in the end failed when the stock market filpped. I think we are looking at the same reasoning here, and it probably won’t work this time either…

  16. It seems that indeed Belgium has taken a step backward with regard to sexual services! Rather than “decriminalizing” such and having such services under the same rules as any other business, such as carpentry, they’ve instituted an entire new set of rules that must be followed by participants. They’ve essentially limited what was fee for service and changed it to an employer/employee relationship with strict policies that must be followed by all, including the clients. No longer can the participants create a mutually agreeable arrangement(legally), but must follow a whole new set of regulations! It’s essentially a poison pill, like marriage, where the two participants that matter no longer get to make the rules(legally). Of course, marriage and sexual services can be what you make it, but private arrangements no longer have the protection of law.

  17. “Pardon me, boy, is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo?”
    he best run far from the law and extradition and the Trump train, as a pardon saves his ass till he get on the witness stand,,,
    no pleading the 5th when ya have a pardon but refuse to testify,,, comtempt of court, go directly to jail, do not pass go and do not collect $200, till ya start talkin,
    Who will pardon Joe when his term ends?
    How many phony lawfare suits did they attack Trump with after he left office? Now for the real crimes to come to court,,,the big guy himself.

    How do you destroy the deep state?
    make them pay Kash.
    after years,decades even I see the evil retreat, that has controlled US all for longer than any of US have lived,
    Ya,,, I AM a little giddy,,, full of Hopium, feels good!

    the pardon is a desperate move, that will boomerang, as it goes back in time to when Hunter join Burisma,,,
    Ukraine, I remember “well sonofabitch, the prosecutor got fired”, said ole joe

    Maybe I am full crap, but we all will see, as we sit and think/stink about it

      • No, don’t waste your time. The liars of the left would have you believe there is not a year or two in the budget cycle and that spending is offset. Little shit like a year or two means something not to mention the impact of fed rate cuts and so forth. Nope, the deficit in 2020 wasn’t footnoted to COVID either.
        See, Einstein teaches to simplify things, sure. But not to where it loses value.
        This is a lost value problem

        • You lefties are so weak, really! “..name calling…” where?
          Lying lefties is demonstrable in a court of law now, thanks to Joe.
          And oh, the White House figures are mostly bullshit. Use Treasury numbers or CBI data, please.
          The Junta will lie about everything. Like the borders, the laptop, the squeeze money from Ukraine, all bullshit and bluster. Kind of like your (amusing at times) efforts to defend the fraud.

  22. Re: Spare the rod and spoil the child:

    Seen at a restaurant;
    “Options for parenting:
    You can raise your kids and spoil your grandkids,
    or you can spoil your kids and raise your grandkids…”

  23. Of course our worst prez ever pardons Hunter, but it isn’t out of fatherly love. No, he’s covering his own ass. Hunter would turn on him in a heartbeat if it would mean getting leniency of some sort. Like father, like son. Both are bottom of the barrel chum and now even the D base sees it.

  24. Senator Biden helped pass the law that Hunter was arrested, tried and convicted of. However, that law does not apply to his son.
    What about the thousands of prisoners that are currently incarcerated for the exact same crime – Do they, also, get a pardon ?
    President Biden just sealed his legacy.

  25. “If (neocon tool) John Bolton doesn’t like Kash Patel heading the FBI, means to us Patel’s a solid choice and the Deep State is afraid: John Bolton compares Kash Patel to Lavrentiy Beria.”

    Patel is one of few lawyers on the national scene who has worked (and been respected) as both a defense attorney and a prosecutor. 10 years ago he and Devin Nunes were considered the two most-honest people in D.C., even by people like me who are huge Rand Paul fans.

    Bolton isn’t a “neocon tool” unless you forgot the comma. Bolton is a huge, steaming pile of neocon, and he’s also a tool. As I mentioned at the time, Trump picked him up specifically to intimidate Kim and Xi, before beginning negotiations with them. That’s also why Trump canned him once he was on the diplomatic footing with NK and China from which he wished to negotiate.

    You’re starting to learn…
    {strike that}

    You learned many years ago.

    You’re finally beginning to accept that there are dickheads whose politics or commentary are a reliable bellwether WRT THE OPPOSITE OF what’s best for the United States, or the people who live therein.

    Anyone named “Soros” is such a person. So is Mr. Bolton, Messrs. Vindman, Victoria Nuland and her wife (and no, Vichy isn’t homosexual. She merely carries Kagan’s balls in her purse…), and any member, past or present, of the PNAC or Lincoln Project. Some bill themselves as “Republicans,” some as “Democrats.” All are pro-socialist and anti-American.

    Kash Patel isn’t a reincarnation of Lavrentiy Beria. He is a reincarnation of Bill Tilghman…

  26. “Is Bernie the only honest liberal left? Bernie Sanders Admits ‘Elon Musk Is Right,’ Supports DOGE Slashing Defense Budget”

    Bernie’s not honest. He is also not “Liberal,” He is a card-carrying and unapologetic Stalinist socialist. I laud him because he is the only neocommunist in Congress to have the stones to actually admit his affiliation, but I don’t kid myself about him or his allegiances. He is siding with Elon because he would like to see the U.S. Defense Budget zeroed, to make it easier for his communist buddies to conquer us. Anybody who’s in favor of cutting Defense is going to get public support from Sanders…

    • “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone.

      It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

      The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.

      It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.

      It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway.

      We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat.

      We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.”
      https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-the-chance-for-peace-delivered-before-the-american-society-newspaper-editors

      the US has 128 bases in 55 countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_overseas_military_bases

      Costa Rica has no military. CR guarantees citizens a house, medical care and education. The US is the only country on the planet that doesn’t mandate paid parental leave. The US is the only industrialized nation that doesn’t have universal healthcare.

      • Do I have to do ALL your thinking for you?
        1. “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone.”
        Yes, it is. An unbuilt jet doesn’t go into hunger, housing, and clothing. In the real world (do visit some time?) the poor have no avenue to gain trades, servce their country, and so forth without a standing army. Cklear out the mush!
        2. “It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.”
        Bullshit. The geniuses would be unemployed, no one would fund science, and the kids will grow up disrespectful ignorant little shits. Kindfa like nanny state schools. Here, put on a dress.
        3. These are Eisenhower quotes “The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.

        It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.

        It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway.

        We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat.

        We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.”

        He was indeed looking for better balance, but he ran the biggest military int he world and then the iggerst country. He understood he was talking rhetorically. Without the planes, it’s all Russian wheat. Without the destroyers, Honolulu becomes a Chinese province.
        Do you understand balance? No, not hardly.
        4. Costa Rica did you say? Le me help
        On Transparency International’s 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index, Costa Rica scored 55 on a scale from 0 (“highly corrupt”) to 100 (“very clean”). When ranked by score, Costa Rica ranked 45th among the 180 countries in the Index, where the country ranked first is perceived to have the most honest public sector.
        What’s more?
        eanwhile, the fight against crime in Costa Rica is stymied by unprecedented migration flows, increased inequality and an understaffed police force. According to Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation agency (OIJ), there were more than 900 homicides in 2023— marking the most violent year in the country’s history.

        Have a good time in Coasta Rica. But don’t try on a size 8 down there, know what I mean?
        No?

        • and yet costa ricans are much happier than americans, they live longer. as someone who visits often i can attest that their food supply is also much better than the US.

          “Of all the evils to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops every other. War is the patent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes. And armies, and debts, and taxes, are the known instruments for bringing the many under the dominion of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds are added to those of subduing the force of the people! No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.” James Madison

          There’s a reason that the framers included Art. 1, s. 8, clause 12. They feared standing armies.

        • Oh look! The Left loves Costa Rica. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/30/costa-ricans-live-longer-than-we-do-whats-the-secret
          Give it time. Like previous darlings (Zimbabwe, Cuba, Venezuela, etc) they will only tell the convenient truths, not the whole of it.
          Key points to consider:
          Cost of living:
          While considered affordable compared to many Western nations, Costa Rica can be expensive compared to other Central American countries, especially in popular tourist areas.
          Economic dependence on tourism:
          The economy heavily relies on tourism, which can lead to fluctuations in income depending on tourist seasons.
          Natural disasters:
          Costa Rica is prone to earthquakes and tropical storms, which can disrupt life and cause damage.
          Limited job opportunities:
          Outside of the tourism industry, finding stable employment can be challenging, especially for specialized careers.
          Slower pace of life:
          The laid-back “Pura Vida” lifestyle might not appeal to everyone who prefers a faster pace.
          Infrastructure challenges:
          Depending on the location, access to reliable internet, public transportation, and advanced healthcare services could be limited.

          So, when you moving?

        • How many Nobel Prizes have Costa Ricans won? Only one Costa Rican has ever won a Nobel Prize, Oscar Arias Sánchez, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his work in bringing peace to Central America; making the answer one Costa Rican Nobel laureate.

          But as for brains and innovation? According to available data, Costa Rica sees around 500-600 patent applications filed per year, with the majority coming from non-resident applicants, indicating a relatively low number of patents granted domestically compared to other countries.
          By comparison, the US?
          In the 2023 fiscal year, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted 346,152 patents. This is an increase from the 2000 fiscal year, when 182,218 patents were issued.
          Easy to win a race you’re not even IN…

      • PS we could have universal healthcare. Except all the money for that has bailed out failing corporations and has been pissed away into sanctuary cities and open boarders. the Bidens got a cut…oops, pardon me.
        Life’s a smorgasbord. Try the next table.

        • Slice the Pie, G, Bailed out failing corporations?? Social Security and Medicare chart, Social Security and Medicare capsizes the budget, now and in the future:
          Chart of Soc Sec & Medicare:
          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expenditures_in_the_United_States_federal_budget#/media/File:Medicare_&_Social_Security_Deficits_Chart.png

          Federal Budget chart:
          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_federal_budget#/media/File:Federal_Government_annual_spending_and_revenue.webp

          ‘and open borders’…is that why Border Patrol budget increased under Biden?
          https://www.statista.com/statistics/455587/enacted-border-patrol-program-budget-in-the-us/

        • (“Social Security and Medicare chart, Social Security and Medicare capsizes the budget,”)

          I have to disagree… what capsized the budget is endless wars.. giving the checkbook to a bunch that never has shown the needs of the people in mind.
          what my personal contribution withdrawn from my paychecks through the years had been put in an account similar to savings bonds alone..it would have built a nest egg of several million dollars..
          giving those funds to corporations that only gave top executives multi million dollar bonuses for taking their company to the edge of bankruptcy. and failing to manage their companies.
          of course those pulling the strings has the funds that could wipe out the deficit. after all its only control and a dam number they seek..but thar isn’t what they desire. they covit more.. and there’s never enough more available to satisfy greed..
          the tjought that the citizens that have bee paying in their whole life with every employer telling them this is your retirement..
          if we didn’t have the endless wars and actually worked on our national security and the needs of our citizens without the expenses of war ..not only would our yearly budget be lower but the country would be way more secure.. it’s the business model that sucks and the need to destroy one country after another..
          it’s the corrupt businesses in Ukraine and their natural resource that the string pullers desire…and even if they got them I believe it wouldn’t be enough..

        • I don’t care if California, new York or Colorado don’t intend to comply and remain sanctuaries.. just pull any and all federal funds. tbey can obviously afford what they want to do..

    • the problem with endless wars.. I have to say I agree with slashing the budget for military.. or…since it’s only a few string pullers that have an endless desire for more..let them pay for it..they have the funds ..but rather than paying for it in the first place they want the girl checking out groceries to pay for it..their kids or they don’t get shoved into wars they usually end up in a cushy job or don’t go at all..
      now if they wanted the deficit would be wiped out..hell what was it I read ..that Ukraine laundered every year more illegal gains than our present deficit. that one family had an estimated value of over 700 trillion..so if they want war and endless wars they should be the one paying for it.
      do away of all the wars and just took care of ourselves.. the cost could be covered by what we pay in for taxes..
      what was it Ron Paul said..pull our military back to our own waters..
      https://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/8wlqjf/ron_paul_on_liberty/?rdt=51217

  27. “Being an Ohioan, he got an eyeful of the college rowdies as Flag planting causes chaos over college football rivalry weekend.”

    One of three “flag planting incidents” I saw Saturday (yes, I decided to be crippled again — dropped a 4′ log on my toes so I got to spend part of Saturday watching football.) None were especially successful.

    Folks from Ohio and Michigan aren’t terribly fond of each other, Folks from Ohio State and UMICH bear an amazing level of hatred for each other. The ghosts from the shooting war they fought a couple hundred years ago are still causing mischief.

    • I was never a football fan, but I grew up in western Wisconsin. My sister moved across the border to Minnesota and raised her kids there. Family gatherings were always Packers/Vikings wars. Never live near the borders of two ‘football states’ is my life advice.

  28. “Our consigliere will pull out of here tomorrow for the 17-hour uphill drive from East Texas to Ohio. A nice place to visit, sure. (We like the Pine Club when we visit.)”

    Ah, good old Ohio. A few years back I drove from Toledo to Catskill, NY in a blizzard. 7mph for 209 white-knuckled white-out miles on Interstate 90, before the storm broke. Visibility was about six feet unless you could catch sight of a set of taillights. ODOT thoughtfully closed the service areas, so you either drove, or got hit by the next semi. I drove 37 hours straight, with one fuel stop (in Jamestown, NY), to keep my word, to be at a certain place on a specific day (I got there about 10pm, but I got there.)

    The reason I mention this is I got a photo today from a gal in Ashtabula, Ohio. She was standing in snow that was up to her bustline, holding a 2-yard (6-foot) measuring stick to show off the 41 inches of snow they got over the weekend. Your consigliere isn’t going far enough north to hit the lake-effect, but there’s a heavy snow belt he will hit, that runs from about E-town (Elizabethtown, KY) to Lebanon, Ohio.

    Speaking of Lebanon, THAT is the home of one of my favorite feedbags, The Golden Lamb ( https://www.goldenlamb.com/ ), the oldest hostelry and one of the finest restaurants in the Midwest…

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