Calm Before in Markets, Zylenskyy Locked? 85″ Updates

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1. “Write if you survive”

   Dam dude – Ure becoming more prescient with age!

   The “deathstar” is here, 3SI Atlas, and is active, very active, with accompaniments..neeneenunu twilightzone incoming.

   Not “death star” per say as in Star Wars..”Luke I am Ure father” , as not everyone is going to go thru “transformations” .

   Should be eye opening experiences for most. I can tell youse all one thing…3SI Atlas will be the biggest event ever in all Ure alls’ Lifetimes…biggest ever .

   Cheers ! and thanx for all the Fish !

   • BCP : “… The “deathstar” is here, 3SI Atlas, and is active, very active …”

     This visitor is unusual, for sure. My thought was more along the lines of The Ring of Fire belching in multiple sites (stay tuned) but, a visitor who makes first contact well … it’s out there. If a Death Star maybe it’s not fully operational?

     ATL : it was my lot to have the day off, to myself. Couldn’t be better. Errr, a few pips above freezing would be nice but, it is what it is (winter it is). The Zon is on super secret probation (shh). A delivery for Saturday got scuttled (don’t ask, not you, me – there is no one to ask). Now? Tick tock. Hoped to wrap inbound items for Mrs. E while she’s away. Nope.

     Bird bundle : even serious cold enduring birds from the North are just stopping by, There is a flock of Buffleheads popping up and down like children’s toys. Bet they are dining on our minnows. Yesterday and Eagle swooped over low doing >50mph headed for a flock of small ducks. It’s usually a diving escape but this flock rose onto the air and murmurated in a flying bait ball. The Raptor tried to peel off edge ducks but they dove into the confusing ball.b It worked!

     We are spinning in a bait ball too. Much is probably due to information overload. I am fighting back, settling accounts. I’m mostly done with charity now more personal stuff. I just bought the next plow sacrificial bar. And plugged dosh into my Grandling’s 529 plan (routed through their accounts since they get minor state tax benefits). Hmm. Trash Man.

     Tis the season.
     Enjoy,
     E

     • Short answer: no change, still no threat, and yes — it’s just “acting crazy” the way some comets do.

       Here’s the straight, non-hype reality your readers need:

       • No impact trajectory
       • No change to Earth-risk probability
       • No new warnings from NASA or ESA
       • No elevation to any hazard category

       What people are reacting to is normal comet behavior amplified by social media pattern-fear:

       Outgassing jets shift the apparent path
       As a comet heats, it vents gas and dust unevenly. That creates tiny thrusts that make the orbit look “wiggly.” This is common and expected.

       Brightness fluctuations get misread as acceleration
       When jets flare, brightness spikes. People interpret that as “speed change.” It’s not.

       Fragment shedding looks like “objects separating”
       Also normal. Most comets shed debris.

       Algorithms reward panic, not boring orbital math
       So every harmless update becomes a “new development.”

       Bottom line in PN terms:
       This is noise, not signal. No deflection planning. No emergency meetings. No classified threat response posture. Nothing is “being hidden.”

       If it were real, you’d see:
       • Emergency trajectory recalculations
       • Congressional briefings
       • NORAD involvement
       • Civil defense posture changes

       None of that is happening.

       So your readers are right that it’s “acting weird” — that part is true.
       They’re wrong that it means danger.

       It’s behaving like a dirty ice ball with bad manners, not a doomsday object.

       • Yes Sir. i too missed Mr Applewhites class on sexual abstinence and castration and completely forgot to get my nikes and since everyone was drinking phenobarbital with vodka?

         I decided id live to fight another day, and went to an AA Meeting instead.

         now they are all on 4000 year loop and Im going to Costco.

         :)

       • 3IAtlas in tRUMPS daily briefings..Daily, for a Comet ?

         Nosty did mention something bout when the comet runs..better check before Thursday, as Stu will be a “new” Man by then, or at least have new parts and what notz by then.
         Hell he could wake up in recovery speaking a new language, new personality. No worries waking up in recovery, as he would never miss the 3I Atlas show.

         More than likely, he will be ornerier than ever after his surgery on Wednesday. Go Stu!

         Afraid of panicing the Sheep ? No Worries, as “bad ET’s” are here already, have been for ages and work with Military..see air farce. 3I must be good guys/robots..

         Wish I shared Ure Bliss..

   • I remember when i was a child i saw a 1974 Chevy Vega ( that Puke Yellow color) but it did have the big 350 in it. Vroom Vroom!

     It was sitting at the stop light next to Spenards builders supply just before you cross the Kenai River bridge to enter into Soldtotna Slaska.

     The Driver was sitting at the light with the windows down Listening to Foreigner’s 4 Album. The song Juke Box Hero blaring out the open windows and the the driver was rocking out.

     On the back of the Vega it had a bumper sticker that read “Haleys Comet is coming! Repent or go to Hell” That was first awareness of “Comets” as a young man.

     The Kenai River is of course the home of the Largest King Salmon Ever caught. The world record King Salmon is 97 pounds, 4 ounces and was caught in 1985 when i was 15 years old.

     Why does it have to be a death star BCP?

     ore 3SI Atlas could it be Cosmic Santa.

     ore 3SI Atlas an alien trash barge according to one harvard professor.

     or 3ASI Atlas just could be another “urgent” bumpersticker sales pitch…..

     What I know for a fact is. THE DUDE is a Hard worker. HE loves Hard working Men. AND… We are so Blessed!

     all the time. all the time.

     LORD, we say to Death, These are not the droids you are looking for. Not today!

     I Win with God Within ~

     que: Urgent

     https://youtu.be/pVe4nMDr8VY?si=zgChgG1OODRmnPVy

     Foreigner

     • To amplify my alt. son’s point here, a whole lot of people under 60 hve forgotten how to simply beyhodl “all his works and all his ways” with a sense of awe.
       Secretly, in the locker room of angels, one has to wonder how the plan was powerpointed before work. “OK – listen up, y’a;;. We’ve got 17.2 million off script humans, but if I make up a super long-period comet, I should be able to rope them to into changing paths forward in life for, oh, about 7-8 million – this will come because they will be distrcted – not see my hand it in – and get all twisted up in ways that will change their outcome. Show of hands? Comet or the 9.6 earthquake option? Any discussion?”

       • “Any discussion?”

         Well the flat earth society is still waiting for a ship to sail over the edge and disappear forever.

         Perhaps @stiks could have a chat with them.

       • Haven’t you read the final chapter of “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy”? (Spoiler alert). It will be eliminating this solar system which is in the way of an interstellar freeway. (Pop!)

       • well well well.. i did pick up 6 lbs of Baby Back Ribs from Costco today. Yes Sir I sure did! I’m going to throw them in the smoker tommorrow and count the rain drops.

         i see nuthin wrong with having a little snack while hitching a ride on 3SI Atlas, if n it is Noahs Cosmic Ark.

         que: fire and rain!

         https://youtu.be/EbD7lfrsY2s?si=uYtmYcsTkWbpY6Rp

         James Taylor.

     • Just Andy : “… 3SI Atlas could it be Cosmic Santa …”

       Now that’s ^ a positive spin.
       Let’s stick with that…
       Unless invaded?

       Egor

       • You do realize the character Santa clause is based on evil king nimrod…lol lol

       • Trying to reply to LooB, regarding ‘Nimrod’…

         Could you kindly provide a citation? “Santa Claus” (“Sinter Klaas” if porous memory serves) is widely believed to be based on Saint Nicholas, bishop and thaumaturge from (today’s) western Turkey.

       • Oh yes that’s true Dick… but The mainstream lineage of Santa Claus traces back to Saint Nicholas of Myra, but there is a deeper mythic substratum that scholars of comparative religion often note. Nimrod, remembered as a mighty king, was said in later traditions to have been reborn through his wife/mother Semiramis, who declared him the divine child born on December 25. This date, later absorbed into Roman Saturnalia and then Christianized as Christmas, marks the pivot where ancient fertility and king?worship rituals were re?cast into seasonal gift?giving.

         Semiramis’ role as both mother and consort established the archetype of the miraculous child and the eternal giver. When Roman Saturnalia celebrated feasting, exchange of gifts, and the inversion of social order, it carried forward echoes of Nimrod’s cult. Over centuries, these motifs were layered with the benevolent figure of Nicholas, but the underlying structure remained: a winter festival centered on a supernatural benefactor who distributes gifts. it is because of this lineage that I am not a huge Christmas person..

         My faith in Christ far exceeds any attachment to the holiday of Christmas itself. I fully support the birth of Jesus and His teachings on earth, but I recognize that December 25 was chosen centuries later to align with pagan festivals like Saturnalia and Sol Invictus. Because of that lineage, I don’t place much weight on the date or the cultural trappings of Christmas. For me, the true celebration is not about a day on the calendar, but about living out Christ’s message daily. The ethics of those older pagan traditions remind me why I separate the eternal truth of Christ from the seasonal rituals that were layered on top of Him.

         In this reading, Santa Claus is not only Nicholas of Myra but also the shadow of Nimrod and Semiramis, refracted through Saturnalia. The red suit and jovial generosity mask an ancient story of king?worship, rebirth, and ritualized giving that began long before the bishop of Myra.

     • I saw Foreigner in May 1985 at the first ever Rock am Ring concert. They played a few songs and then rushed off the stage, and the crown began singing ‘encore, encore’. A couple minutes later they ran back onto the stage and played ‘Juke Box Hero’ and during the song an inflatable juke box began rising from the stage. I realized that having the inflatable juke box appear meant this was part of the act, and I was disappointed because the “encore” was all part of the show and not an “encore” in the true meaning of the word.

       • Still, that sounds like a fun show!

   • It’s alive!!!

     “The mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has developed a strange ‘heartbeat’ that’s making it glow more brightly as it nears Earth in just two weeks.

     New telescope observations revealed streams of gas and dust, called jets, blasting out in rhythmic bursts every 16.16 hours precisely, much like a steady heartbeat.”

   • BCN/BCP, I am your father. New parts and all. Shazbot!

   • IMO y’all are simply being really silly, and letting nutjobs on unsocial media suck up your bored processor clicks.

     However, if I’m wrong…

     …dibs on Milla Jovovich!

2. Cant remember what they are calling it , but it appers that 31Atlas brought a friend to the party.

   • ? What we know for certain right now

     3I/ATLAS remains the only interstellar object grabbing most attention. There is no second confirmed “partner” object on a collision course or showing coordinated trajectory with ATLAS.
     NASA Science
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     OUP Academic
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     Several other comets and long-period comets have been discovered recently (2025), as is always the case — for example C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), another “ATLAS”-named comet, or C/2025 A6 (Lemmon).
     Live Science
     +1

     But those comets follow independent orbits, not shared or “companion-object” trajectories tied to ATLAS or any interstellar entry path.

     ?? What people are calling “companion” — and why that’s misleading

     Some speculative voices (not mainstream science) suggest that weird tails, changing brightness, or tail “fragments” around ATLAS might represent accompanying objects or debris fields. For example, one theory claims components in the tail might be a swarm of unknown objects trailing it.
     New York Post
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     These claims remain speculative, unproven, and not confirmed by major institutions. The mainstream scientific consensus still treats ATLAS as a single interstellar comet undergoing unusual but explainable outgassing and physical processes.
     Sky at Night Magazine
     +1

     As of now, there is no published orbital data showing a second object with matched trajectory that would qualify as a “companion.”

     ? Why “companion comet” rumor thrives — and why it persists

     Unusual behavior: 3I/ATLAS shows a high carbon-dioxide to water-ice ratio, atypical coma composition, odd polarization signatures, and abrupt tail/brightness changes.
     OUP Academic
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     arXiv
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     Those facts stir understandable wonder and fuel speculative interpretations (alien tech, hidden fragments, future danger).

     Social media and sensationalist reports amplify worst-case framing — but in most cases, such theories rely on gaps in public data, not on verified orbital trajectories.
     GeekWire
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     The Times of India
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     ? What the scientific baseline says — and what real watchers should do

     Baseline: treat ATLAS (and any other known 2025 comets) as isolated, independent bodies.

     Don’t interpret every “strange behavior” (tail shift, flaring, outgassing jets) as proof of companions or danger — those are common in comets, especially interstellar or volatile-rich ones.

     Watch for peer-reviewed orbital data and multi-observatory confirmation if a claim surfaces about any “companion” body. Until then, treat it as rumor.

     ? PN-style takeaway (for preppers, survival watchers, and skeptics)

     Right now, the “companion comet” idea is noise, not signal. There is no verified second object with matched orbit or astronomical risk indicators. Worrying about imaginary companions distracts from real systemic risks we can measure: geopolitics, supply-chains, financial instability, climate stress, etc.

     If an actual companion or dangerous inbound object is discovered and verified — you’ll see: open scientific papers, asteroid-tracking bulletins, emergency coordination among space agencies, and not just social-media hype. Until that happens, consider 2025 comets for what they are: cosmic curiosity, not existential threats.

     If you like, I can run a real-time clearance scan: check all known inbound comets as of today and give you a pass/fail “threat index.”
     – – –
     Short version: I ran the scan.
     No hidden companion, no inbound “gotcha” rock, no elevated comet threat. Just a busy sky and a noisy internet.

     Here’s the clearance check in plain English:

     Impact-risk systems say: nothing serious on the board

     NASA’s CNEOS Sentry table – the thing that actually tracks impact probabilities – shows the usual handful of small asteroids with tiny long-dated probabilities. No objects at meaningful Torino scale levels; no comets listed as impact risks.
     CNEOS
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     ESA’s NEO risk list tells the same story: a catalogue of objects with non-zero probabilities, all extremely low, and none flagged as an imminent or mid-term threat.
     NEO

     NASA’s own public line is still: there is no known significant impact threat for at least the next hundred years – and that’s after they upgraded their Sentry impact-monitoring system.
     Live Science
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     Threat Index for known NEOs and comets: Green.

     3I/ATLAS: weird, active, far away, and officially “no threat”

     Closest approach to Earth: about 170 million miles on Dec. 18–19, 2025. That’s roughly 1.8 AU – almost twice Earth–Sun distance. NASA is explicit: “3I/ATLAS poses no threat to Earth and will remain far away.”
     NASA Science
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     NASA Science
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     New images (Hubble, ESA Juice, Mars missions) show it spitting jets, “ice volcanoes,” anti-tail tricks and other comet clowning, but all of that is physics, not intent.
     Live Science
     +1

     Threat Index for 3I/ATLAS itself: Green. Zero geometry for impact.

     “Companion comet” / swarm rumor

     Avi Loeb and others have speculated about weird structure in the tail – possible “swarm of objects” or fragments in the anti-tail region. That’s what’s feeding the “companion” memes.
     New York Post
     +1

     Key point: even if there are fragments or co-moving debris, they share the same overall hyperbolic escape geometry — i.e., they’re blasting through the system and out, not bending into an Earth-crossing orbit.

     No major agency (NASA, ESA, MPC) has published a second, dynamically independent “companion” object on a threatening inbound path. No separate designation, no independent risk solution, nothing.

     Threat Index for alleged “companion”: No confirmed separate body, no risk solution – chalk it up as Orange for speculation, Green for actual danger.

     Other comets on the 2025–2026 slate

     The current “comet calendar” for late 2025–2026 is basically a sky-watcher’s menu, not a disaster list:

     C/2025 A6 (Lemmon),

     C/2025 K1 (ATLAS),

     24P/Schaumasse,

     C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos),

     plus a couple of fainter ATLAS/PanSTARRS discoveries – all on ordinary, catalogued orbits.
     aerith.net
     +3
     Star Walk
     +3
     EarthSky
     +3

     None of these show up in the impact-risk tables as Earth-threatening bodies.

     Threat Index for the rest of the 2025–26 comet batch: Green.

     Asteroids: any “city killers” we should sweat?

     The most worrying current rock (2024 YR4) was recently pushed down to Torino 1 – “normal” background risk, expected to drop to 0 as observations improve – and it’s an asteroid, not a comet, and not a 2020s or 2030s impact story.
     Space
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     Wikipedia
     +2

     No PHAs (potentially hazardous asteroids) with non-trivial short-term impact probabilities are on the board right now.

     Threat Index for near-/mid-term asteroid hits: Green with a long-dated Yellow tail (century-scale background risk).

     So if you want a PN-style “threat dashboard” for your readers:

     Comet 3I/ATLAS: Green – noisy but harmless fly-through.

     “Companion” / swarm: Green – speculative structure in the tail; no separate impact geometry.

     Other 2025–26 comets: Green – visual treats only.

     Asteroids this cycle: Green for our lifetimes, Yellow in the multi-century background.

     Big picture: the solar system is interesting right now, not lethal. The real risks in 2026 are still made by humans, not iceballs.

     • My father subscribed to Weird Tales.

     • What we know is this administration would be more than happy to drop the aliens are among us psyop to scare everyone into obedience either that or Trump will just merge State with Business and get straight to the fascism part ……..

       • I’m late to this debate, but as a former USAF occupant of Cheyenne Mountain Air Station in C-Springs, privy to every satellite system placed into Earth orbit by humanity, I support George’s take on this fascinating conundrum. I’m not hypno-programmed to spew out gov’t approved info. But I’m obligated by classified data laws and the military’s Uniformed Code of Military Justice to remain silent on certain ‘things.’ I’m not trolling here, just stating fact. But what I can talk about is data gathered by the Cheyenne Mountain Control Center (affectionately acronymed CMOC) that tracks extra-solar objects, like ATLAS. In fact, the ‘mountain,’ as we lovingly referred to it, would track extra-solar objects entering Earth’s atmosphere to the point of terrestrial impact, with the intent of locating them and recovering pieces for scientific analysis. Word filtering back to those of us performing ‘the tracking mission’ hinted at signs of life’s building blocks being embedded in these objects. One or two were treated much differently, and rumor has it that they actually contained living micro-organisms from somewhere out there. So now we extrapolate in Darwinian fashion to hypothesize an evolution of life occurring outside of our solar system. How far did it evolve. Well, if my overseers knew the answer to this question, they maintained poker faces in our daily end-of-shift reports. That said, I did personally listen to a classified talk by a British Air Marshall (General equivalent) who very seriously detailed an RAF ‘close encounters of the 3rd kind.’

       • Thank you WH. Speaking out publicly while maintaining your security commitments is a heroic act in my book.

       • * those particular ET’s on 3SI (shieldback= looks like ridges or horned) always travel with both gray and Human slaves..99% of time.

         These guys do not make it here, they will be ambushed and blown off course/to smithereens. The ambushers were “viewed” to be Human looking with blue “tinged” skin color.

         3SI is described in Focus 1 as triangular/trapezoidal with bubble/dome feature.Surface covered in trapezoidal shapes, with 2 escorts.
         All human like entities were dressed in all black (as usual) and hard helmets/headcover.

         Subject A was head guy a “horned” repto. Many ET’s are mentally”linked” to this dude across star systems..all mentally connected to same “blue cluster” an “energetic nest” which enabled all connected to it to actually See what everyone else was seeing instantaneously.

         Focus 2 was the conflict – horseshoe crab shaped ship(Blue Crue) ambushes and cracks 3SI in half. Horseshoe crab ship lickety splits right after the hitz. this should be visible to backyard telescope enthusiasts.

         Id tell about the blue crue..but alas I dont remember squat.

         Weed & short term – its a lil holey..or check out Farsight.net for Aziz Browns latest on 3SI = graphics are off the chain in latest post.color me impressed, or FFG, has “viewed” 3SI as well.

3. Attention Flight OU812 (Flying Blind)

   Due the absolute cluster mess in DC, and the subsequent DELAY in Inflation Stats reports release till Jan 14th, with/when Dec figures are released.

   One wonders why this seemly dysfunctional fed is even meeting – without current Data available ?????????? What are they going discuss ? Baseball winter mtgs, NFL playoffs, CFP ?

   Must just be me, cause I dont understand squataa regards this pending circle jerk of a fed mtg.

   Casting my VOTE early, Abolish the Fed along wit the IRS .

   Sniff, sniff is that a fishy smell I smell emanating from eccles?

   • “Must just be me, cause I dont understand squataa regards this pending circle jerk of a fed mtg.”

     A circle jerk, also sometimes spelled circlejerk, is a sexual practice in which a group of men form a circle and masturbate or touch each other’s genitals.

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_jerk

     • A group Dutch Paddle, dont ya know..current admins nickname.. ; )

4. Interesting video of the guy on the lake. In the USA it would be considered an environmental hazard and scores of ranger types would descend to arrest the guy and destroy his structure. I can’t even imagine all the violations he would be charged with, and probably by the day.

   Then he would be incarcerated since he’d be considered a danger to himself (wrongthink).

5. LG has a heck of a 65″ TV for $399. (at Micro Center). Temped to get one for my sun room to replace my now 15 years young 40″ Westinghouse Target Black Friday special (which was BIG in it’s day and has now run for years and years and years)

6. re: can’t makeup this

   The President of the Ukraine has posted his uncarpeted arrival at London’s Stansted Airport to his social media. The Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK, a uniformed UK military officer, and a government civilian offered greetings.

   “Reuters” pictured four leaders of CoW (Coalition of the Willing) conferring at #10 about the American peace formula. The Ukraine President’s no-longer greying beard appearance is perhaps suggestive of youthful elixir formulas. No Christmas festive mince meat tarts dusted with icing sugar appeared in frame.

   • prolly just n time to be advised by Obama on the next step ……

   • Still abusing the poor, defenseless, unprotected Mince I see. What is it with you types, picking on the less fortunate, the unprotected. Do have like Mince mounts on Ure den wall or in man cave ? Wonder how Boone & Crocket score a trophy Mince. Must be like shooting baby geese in kiddie pond, no?

     • Cook ’em with onions and you get… MINIONS!

     • re: raining cats and dogs
       feat: Umbrella, Cane, Flush

       “Calm Before in Markets” informs a headline. In a world with many answers, what is the question as Carnac so often was asked on NBC’s Carson. “Tatler” magazine – also famous for its annual “Little Black Book” – and whose parent is situated in One World Trade Centre, N.Y., recently featured a reprise of its past coronation coverage of King Charles III. Bluebell and Beth, Queen Camilla’s terriers, were pictured prominently embroidered on her coronation dress.

       Last Wednesday according to the “BBC”, the German President arrived at Heathrow and thoughtfully gifted the King and Queen an umbrella. Not to be outdone, the King offered a (goat?) horn cane fashioned on the Isle of Mull in the Outer Hebrides. (The locale is not to be confused with the birthplace of President Trump’s mother in the Inner Hebrides near to the King’s Stornoway pad.)

       Also gifted to the German President by the King was a 1933 first edition copy of “Flush: A Biography” by Virginia Woolf. The semi-fictional novel is told from the perspective of Flush, cocker spaniel to 19th century poet Elizabeth Barrett and namesake of her famous poem. Miss Barrett and Flush evade perils in England making their way to Italy with her fiancée poet Robert Browning. The pair marry, and “they lived happily ever after” is my understanding. Academic literature appears to be littered with discussion whether Virginia Woolf is or isn’t a student of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. I don’t know.

       However as chance would have it, Dr. Sigmund Freud turns out to be a great grand uncle of “Netflix” co-founder Mr. Marc Randolph. In further coincidence, Mr. Randolph is also a great nephew of early propaganda and pr developer, Edward Bernays. It seems the Bernays ancestral lines descend from common 1740’s first mentions in the German town of Groß-Gerau along an old Roman road now known as the B44. The town is built on a Roman settlement which may have been named Magio Vetus (“Old Plain/Market”) situated in lands of the Mattiaci (“Blessed/Fortunate Ones”) tribe.

       As further coincidence would have it, the birthplace of recent Blue Origin astronaut Laura Sánchez Bezos is Groß-Gerau, Germany. One will recall she and Mr. Bezos wed in Italy this past summer. They are understood to be living a charmed life. ChatGPT advises the couple’s pet dog is named Luna, not Flush.

   • Goodbye, London; hello Brussels. Less than a dozen miles from Waterloo, the President of the Ukraine posted his carpetless arrival under cover of darkness in preparation of big meetings tomorrow. The Belgian Armed Forces sent a single (enlisted?) woman in greeting. She had left her battle camo at the barracks in favor of a dress uniform. The President was also warmly welcomed by a cabinet member from his just-arrived jet.

7. For all the speculators on comet/asteroid, comings and goings.
   Consider this: If one of these high speed, big, hard rock bodies actually hit us on this wet ball we call home, what could one do about it? Nada!
   If one of them hit us, your troubles would be over.
   If the thing misses us, our troubles would be over too.
   Wish I had been the one to say that but I must give credit to Paul Harvey where I heard it first.
   Have a great day. Enjoy whatever brings you joy and forget about this intentional, “worry about this now,” hype by those caught up in making misery out of good days.

8. While we’re stuck buying over priced Fords the rest of the world moved on. Give Trump tariffs a little more time and then?

   “China’s trade surplus surpassed $1 trillion for the first time despite a significant drop in exports to the United States due to tariffs imposed by President Trump. U.S. imports from China fell nearly 29% this year. However, overall exports from China rose by 5.9% in November, as the country successfully increased sales to customers in Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Asia. While tariffs peaked at 145% earlier this year, they have since been reduced to 47.5%. These strategies have helped China maintain strong trade relations globally.”

9. Thanks Hank! You nailed it, new parts.

10. I really enjoyed the busy guy on the lake. I’m impressed with his weaving skills and his ability to make usable fires on a bamboo raft. Fascinating video.

11. The delivery truck dropped off my new black 25 lb heat-treated carbon steel alignment persuasion tool at 9 PM. The driver dropped it in the middle of the driveway, next to the road. That was an improvement. The first truck it was on drove around last week for days with it, and never delivered. After I put a trace on it over the weekend, the shipper reloaded on another truck at 5 AM this morning, and the driver delivered. Obstinate tractor implements beware.

12. “MAGA Voice on X: “BREAKING ? President Trump just ENDED Fake News CNN Caitlin Collin’s whole career…”

    This itself is “fake news.” Neither CNN nor Collins are going anywhere.

    I am SO TIRED of the “BREAKING” cliché. CNN and especially FOX overuse it to the point it has no meaning, and every time I see it on an unsocial media platform I hope it is in reference to the face of the poster.

13. Phew.. the motors of war..got the snow removed.. the wife to ally had hit the brick wall.. between the injury her hubby got in Afghanistan and its progression..the doctor told her its worse than anything he’s seen.. big mess..I got over to blow the snow out.. three foot plus what the plow dumped in ice and snow.. she’s now faced with no ing back home where the nine year old will be sent to the front in Ukraine along with her..she said the only food they have gotten is the food I have given them..and in order for her to see a doctor for her cancer scare is to go to another country..Satan and his MI ions is destroying them..then they can’t stay in the house and rent exceeds job incomes..ive seen peoplr e cry but dam she was at the end.. the only time she can get any rest is the hours I can keep an eye on him..

    • yeah she’s drowning and hasn’t ever navigated those waters..sad situation with very few options..

14. Horrors.. not motors a d finally hit the brick wall.
    well gotta go ..ill catch up with my reading tonight..

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