Capt. Gooding and the Musk Paradox

Been one hell of a week, hasn’t it? Market’s set to take a breather this morning. Fed regional chieftess Michelle Bowman’s likely to offer some level-headed assessments after the quarter point cut. And the markets are trying to figure out “Where next?” They hit the top of a trend channel on new highs Thursday, but we’ll get to that.

Captain Gooding’s Assessment

Sounding a lot like a recently retired, modern-day officer corps warrior, Captain Gooding has blessed us with another fine sit-rep on where Middle Reality moved this week, after the red lights were turned off in New York:

“Festus and Uncle Remus ran into Captain Gooding down at the big box hardware store yesterday. Naturally, the topic of the election came up. Festus and Remus were still elated over President Trump’s victory, but Captain Gooding was surprisingly pensive. He suggested the three meet up at a nearby coffee shop a bit later in the day and discuss the matter in more depth. (The Captain had a bunch of home improvement items in the cart, and wanted to get them back to the house first, he explained. Plus, lunch was waiting.) Festus noticed there were a couple of  discounted cans of returned paint in the Captain’s cart, and made a mental note to ask the Captain about them later.

At the appointed time, the three met up at the diner for coffee. It was mid afternoon, and the place was just about empty.

Once the three gents had settled into a booth and gotten their coffees, Uncle Remus broke the ice and asked Captain Gooding why he hadn’t seemed quite as excited about the Trump victory as Remus thought he’d be. Captain Gooding took a slow sip of coffee, set the ironstone mug down carefully, and looked about the diner. From the serious look on the Captain’s face, Festus figured he and Remus were about to get an earful, and he wasn’t wrong.

Mary, the waitress, was obviously listening in, and tha Captain started out by making a point of inviting her over to sit with them, which she did. Satisfied he had a quorum, Captain Gooding took one more sip, and  told Mary it was especially good coffee that afternoon. (“Fresh pot”, she demurred.) Pleasantries out of the way, Captain Gooding commenced to talking.

Lookahere, neighbors, he began. I’m as happy as you are that a resounding majority of this nation’s adults had the good sense to reject the so-called “progressive” left’s agendas by voting against their chosen candidates. Chief Executive, Senate, Congress, all will see Republican leadership or majorities. Maybe not unbeatable 60% majorities, mind you, but solid enough majorities to get most business items passed and moving along. President Trump has the makings of a Cabinet of savvy leaders, who include enough former moderate Democrats that the next administration should be a solid representation of moderate, mainstream viewpoints. They might even be able to make some progress against the blob, at least at national level. But that’s the first point. Make America Great Again supporters have got to realize that President Trump’s focus is going to have to be at the national and international level. He’s got to captain the ship of state. In fact, just dealing with the State Department is going to occupy a bunch of his time. No way he can avoid that.

The new administration is also going to have to deal with the realities of energy issues at a national level, too. Drill, baby, drill will pay off in time, but it will take time before the results start showing up in terms of prices at the pump. And if he chooses to refill national and regional petroleum reserves emptied by profligate Democrats, that substantial diversion of petroleum away from consumption will, at least for some time, result in holding retail pump prices higher than they might otherwise be. Savings always come with the costs of differed enjoyment. It may be the prudent, adult thing to do, but there’s less to party on now if you are saving for future needs. Plus, the electric grid needs help – a lot of help. Block chain computing and AI (artificial intelligence) are notorious energy hogs. Solar and wind are OK in their place, but they both have issues. Solar works well during the daytime, on sunny days. It is far less reliable when those solar panels have a layer of snow on them, or at night, and hail storms and tornados and hurricanes are not kind to solar farms, either. Wind generation works when you’ve got Goldilocks winds: not too weak, nor too strong. And the physics of high energy density mass storage for renewable power generated in excess of immediate grid needs remains problematic. Pumped storage power projects work well, but I can’t think of a single Appalachain Mountain state that wants to see its mountain trout streams turned into giant impounded water battery systems. And Florida and the Gulf Coast states generally don’t have sufficient elevation to make pumped storage power projects viable anywhere near the coast, where most of the people and industries are.

Captain Gooding took a sip of coffee.

Donald J. Trump is a builder of large projects, and a promoter by trade. He’s going to have his hands full these next four years, at national level. I have no doubt he’ll do well for this nation and its citizens. But as for Making America Great Again, well, he’ll be a passionate leader and figurehead, but rebuilding true greatness can’t come from his words or his work. He can help reset conditions that will allow for MAGA, but he can’t do that work. No, folks, that is going to be on us, right here at home. And we have a lot of work to do. A lot of work.

Captain Gooding took another sip of coffee.

“Lookahere. Make America Great Again is a declarative statement. It’s a charge, an order, a dream, and a wish.

“Making America Great Again, on the other hand, is a huge task – a monumental task of sweeping proportions, and frankly, a whole lot of work. And the folks who are going to need to do that work, neighbors, are you and me and the communities we live in. Not the Feds, not even the states, but you and me – local folks getting together and doing the work. And I mean doing the whole job, and doing it right.

“Well,” said the Captain, “It’s not one job. It’s many jobs. Many, many, many jobs. It’s the same sort of broad mission that General of the Army George Marshall gave General Eisenhower in World War II: “Cross the English Channel and free the continent of Europe.” Doing so would take a couple of years and an almost unimaginable amount of time, talent, treasure, and tools – many of those tools invented especially for the invasion landing and the rest of the mission beyond the beach heads. Things like the mulberries and PLUTO. Mulberries were giant floating breakwaters, and PLUTO stands for “pipe lines under the ocean”.)

No, friends, Makng America Great Again is going to come down on the heads and shoulders of folks like us, all across this land. It’s not going to come from the White House, or Congress, or anywhere inside the DC Beltway. President Trump may be able to provide top cover for us, but it is going to be up to us to do tbe work. If you all see me as being serious, well, it’s a serious job we’ve got ahead of us. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about how we’ll get ‘er done here locally. Way I see it, we’ve got four years to accomplish the mission – or at least get a good start done and behind us.

Captain Gooding finished his coffee. Mary asked if he wanted a refill, to which he replied no, he had work to do at the house. Festus was incredulous. “What do you mean? You are headed home now? Aren’t you going to tell us HOW we’re supposed to make America great Again?”

Sure, I’ll lay it all out for you, step by step, said the Captain, but not today. There’s work to get started on at the house, and the jobs are likely to keep me busy all weekend. What say we meet up again for coffee next week, and I’ll lay out the way I see the MAGA mission unfolding and what roles we can all play. But for now, duty calls on the home front. Anyway, I already mentioned step one, although you may have missed it.

With that, the Captain laid coffee money and a tip on the table in cash, stood up, excused himself, and headed home.

We’ll catch back up with him and the gang next week and see what he has to say when he lays out the nuts and bolts and gets down to the nitty gritty. Until then, happy trails!”

We appreciate the insights and focus from “the Captain” though it understates his rank.  What he may not know is that Ure keeps a “hot website in his back pocket” and if this sort of thing “gets traction” we may collect the Captain’s wise counsel and launch him onto web under his own brand.

The Musk Paradox

Not knowing that a dispatch (above) was pending, I awoke at 2 AM today in an economic sweat.  The problem is the prospect of a Great Economic Depression.  And there’s one looming, if we don’t get things just right in the next four years.

The potential source is likely to be “catastrophic technological change” – or what I’ve dubbed – “The Musk Paradox.”

With the election just done, there’s still been little awareness of the issue underlying some of our Peoplenomics discussions.  Let me put out the corner posts so you can see it:

  • Even after the dawn of fire, humans were not generally overwhelmed with tech or bandwidth.  Sure, water wheels for milling grain were good, as were those windmills and such.  Still, it wasn’t until the past 200-years that humans hit the nonlinear part of the growth stochastic.
  • What is found, on close inspection of the “hockey stick” inflection (I have a consgiliere who religiously audits for such things) is a major change in multiple industries all about the same time. Leading into the Great Depression, massive change had occurred (radio, networks, the steam rotary press, high-speed (at least comparatively) rail, and so on.
  • Toss in those 7-million acres of land (once use to raise draft animals, then obsoleted by Allis-Chalmers and the like) and you have excess ag production, too. Which arose because farmers still had their bills to pay and the only option was to plant more.  Which paradoxically caused the Great Depression to also become known as The Hungry Years.
  • It turned out, in the rear-view mirror, that it takes society anywhere from 10 to 50 years to really get used to the changing Nature of Changing Times. Sure, construction of Grand Coulee Dam began in 1933 and yet wasn’t completed until 1942.  Which, as it turned out, was just in time to power a massive PNW aluminum industry and those reactors and centrifuges at the Hanford atomic works just a hundred miles southwest.
  • So, we see that just inventing nifty cars in the thirties (for Jay Leno to collect) the build out that mattered was “Regulation and Staffing.”  For each “new or improved” tech would bring new jobs.  We’re certain there was no Licensing Plate Industry in 1900, for example.  It went along fine until the EPA was created on Dec. 2, 1970.  That was another stepping stone to annual car inspections, fees, and whole buildings. A central office, a massive computer system to track all and ferret out neerdowells.  This caused a legal mess, so for this we branched into lawyers and soon things were so out of hand that HR departments were required.  Then Legislative Committees, and more than one Accountant in government finance to count checks, chase the bouncers, and set the overpricing for government services.
  • It was all beginning to “restablize” before the election.  The current tech was finally done “niching out” but some were clearly filled.  For example, the number of rioters seems to have peaked and fallen.  DEI and SGE had peaked with the fortunes of that airplane builder in Seattle which has now reverse course, having discovered that “correct” wasn’t really so.
  • I have been mightily impressed by Elon Musk and his engineering ability.  But the potential for Depression is clearly in sight again with the arrival of Ultra Tech.  Some examples, if you’re not seeing the problem?
    • Elon Musk is a genius at electric cars.  But, how many people *used to be employed making mufflers, catalytic converters, and the whole employment chain (something no one (but us) bothers to consider.
    • Worse, the FedGov’s $3-billion EV charging station buildout has completed (at last check) less than 100 completed bays. (Not even locations.)
    • Musk is also a genius at Space.  But, should the Trump admin do the logical thing, Elon Musk would “change the course of mighty rivers” in the public space industry.  There was a time when a long-ago company (Pan-Am) ran NASA tracking ground stations on such rocks as Grand Turk.  Great spot if you don’t mind the odd donkey on the runway…
    • But we see now The Musk Paradox.  Trump has got some real whiz bangers in tow.  JD Vance is cut of the same cloth.  Things are going to rock.
    • Yet The Paradox is how many people want (as The Captain was alluding to) to “put on their big boy pants” and go get some rock-ripping Made in America work done?
    • How many people will be left when the immigration of drug gangs is ended?  As I pointed out my book “The Millennial’s Missing Manual” there’s a balancing act.  Educate and incentivize a whole society out of illegal drugs and crime and now what do you do with all the left over Police, the end of all police car fleet purchases, no more radios and security tweaks, not to mention NCIC would be finished, public prosecutors would be defunded, criminal lawyers out of a job and there goes how much of the Judicial?

People don’t weight – let alone see and discuss social balances like this.  As you might have guessed, the Captain and I have talked about this because it’s so absurd to have killed middle and high school industrial arts programs. The kind where I learned to turn on a wood lathe, use a milling machine, (green sand) cast aluminum and so much more.

Like the South Park episode put it Annnnd…it’s gone!

There’s a term reader Hank, our retired broadcast engineer out on the Big Island, is totally familiar with: it’s called Impedance Matching.  And it’s the concept America is about to “Tune Its Way Through.”  You see, it’s about matching “the source” to “the load.”

Now in a 5,000-watt AM radio station (let’s say a Collins Type 21M) if you get the impedance matching wrong, you get a phenomenon called “letting the smoke out.”  Until the plate overload breaker pops.

And that’s what a Depression is.  There’s a lot of change and moving about during massive tech changes. And the Musk Paradox is simply stated as “When the world is all-electric, what do you need the air quality industry for?” What new demon will maintain lives  spent fighting climate change?  Any openings on Mars, yet?

Now, if you watch Rogan and caught Musk on there, he has already admitted that all-electric is insane.  As any wise South Floridian who worries about Hurricanes will admit after trying to plot escape routes with charging stations.

That’s the reality of Trump this week. The WORK hasn’t even started yet and in four years color me skeptical that there will be a widespread adoption of woodworking shop classes. Because wood, unlike 3D printers (I own three of ’em) doesn’t produce “microplastics” and doesn’t need a boat ride to get here.

The Big Change?  How about we wait and see how long the “renegotiating our Future” part takes, shall we?  We have too many humans already, which in part has driven the overbuild in HR and “correctness” industries. We need non-regulatory, physical, jobs.  That once existed here (farming) but the Machine got that.  AI is likely The Machine 2.0 in economic terms.

Fortunately it’s not ’29 all over again.  But then again, ’29 is only five-years off.

The Traditional Modulator of Population?

War.

So we track and project from Putin Congratulates Trump on Election Win, Offers Dialogue with Moscow and tie that in to how Hungary’s Orban calls on EU to review Ukraine aid, citing Trump’s resolve.  To us, it means odds are better of war in Europe being contained – at least for now.

Taiwan?  ‘nother problem entirelyWhy China Won’t Stop Ally North Korea From Fighting Ukraine but should be obvious. A strong South Korea held back by the North.  Except maybe this time, John Bolton won’t screw up actual peace which the neocons so fear.

Tariffs on Chinese goods are likely to go up and that could hurt them. Every country has their own version of the Musk Paradox to deal with.  As a reult Taiwan says will help firms leave China to avoid Trump tariffs. And depending on the long-range weather for Taiwan, keep December 7th circled because we read how January 20th could be a “safe zone” for Taiwan.  China braces for tensions after Trump victory in U.S. And in the meantime, Taiwan Says Received First Batch of HIMARS From US which leaves the Biden/Harris administration unbound for 70 more days.

Trend Channel Changepoint?

See what happened to our yellow trend channel?  Smacked into it on the close so we COULD turn down any time.  Depends if Israel and Iran “play nice” this weekend…

There are as many ways to Elliottize the count as Carter had pills. Not the one in Plains, silly.

Bitcoin is up holding $76,137.96.  Gold is criss-crossing $2,700 and silver $32.  The good news (sort of…) is that the War Metal (copper used in, oh, you know…) was down to $4.33 this morning.  Since copper’s big uses include bullets and wiring, a slow winter in housing – because people still want mortgage rates lower before settling their genitals in the Banker’s interest vise.

6.79 percent is, oh, spendy when prime was 8.5 percent.  Bank of Japan overnight held at 0.25 percent – so is the Bankster Class cutting a fat hog on the yen carry-trade spread, you think?

The News Grindings

We can see some of our Bigger Perspective units starting to move around – on the People side.  How many will be here?  Judge Strikes Down Key Biden Immigration Policy Days After Trump’s Election | TIME

Much as we love wood, it’s not a simple solution. Southern California wildfire destroys 132 structures as officials look for fierce winds to subside.

Putting Poison in Water to get the “brushoff” RFK Jr: Trump White House Will Recommend Removal of Fluoride From Public Water..  This is GREAT NEWS because it may lead to a decline in new Alzheimer’s cases if we read the 2018 report that gets glossed over, correctly: Potential Role of Fluoride in the Etiopathogenesis of Alzheimer’s Disease – PubMed.  Maybe it wasn’t just bare aluminum cookware, huh? OK, is that real?  Alzheimer’s disease and aluminum: Is there a connection?

Speaking of Longevity, Peoplenomics subscribers who got the final chapter of my latest book, may want to be aware of this paper just out in the journal in vivoEffect of Nattokinase in D-galactose- and Aluminum Chloride-induced Alzheimer’s Disease Model of Rat – PubMed. What kind of chloride is used to induce what in the rats?

Can you keep an eye on the Chef when you go out? Most fooderies use aluminum pans on their fry lines and such.  But guidelines mention on aluminum cookware that you should use non-abrasive cleaning products and cooking with citric acids. Which gets us wondering about the risks from wine sautees when out…better and faster at home – and no DWI risk…um…did I just go off ‘prompter?

Feel like monkeying around? 43 monkeys escape from research facility in US state of South Carolina: Report,  We’ll demur with “Monkey hunters are all bananas, anyway…”   But wait, we have even more “poor form” distasteful cynical old newsman perspectives.  Try this:

“You’ve Got Dead!”  Elwood Edwards, Voice of AOL’s ‘You’ve Got Mail,’ Dead at 74. We reckon he will remain so at 75, then,  76, and maybe even….

At the Ranch: Renaud’s Season

Elaine is hot.  Of course, children, such things arelittle different at 81, better than lukewarm still, but, um, less smoke. You get the idea.

This is the time of the year some of her “hotness” clicks out.  She has Raynaud’s disease.  That’s where your fingers turn white and you lose feelings in your fingertips. Happens if the fingers get cold – an easy trick in winter.

Like a good hubby, I got her another “kit” this year consisting of a fleece sweatery thing, some open fingertip gloves, plus I’ve resolved to make more soup since it’s often a best of class nutrition choice in winter. I’ll take a CoJack fried cheese sandwich, please…hold the lollypop…that’s Colby & Jack… (I make better soup than jokes…)

But that’s not what this-here at the ranch note is about.

It’s about the timeline shift we just experienced.

Because before events of the past couple of weeks, the ‘cold fingers” disease used to be spelled everywhere as Reynaud’s. Think back and see if you don’t agree.  R-E-Y  Not “Ray.”

Now – and it’s a huge Mandella Effect moment for Ure’s, truly. Fortunately, we covered earlier this week how randomness is positional. But it’s curious to see it wander through, now and then.  The Adjustment Bureau may not have set things right forever, but for now the language damage noticed in our seldom-visible time wake is fairly minimal.

(Didn’t mean for this to be such a Peoplenomics type report, but consider it your early Christmas Present or a Black Friday Deal.)

Write when you get rich,

George@Ure.net

103 thoughts on “Capt. Gooding and the Musk Paradox”

  1. Yeah. Bring jobs back to America.
    And where are our able workers looking for those jobs?
    Probably hungry new-comers, leaving a big cohort of “regular” Americans out.
    Big adjustments to be made, how?

    • Eliminate Federal “means-tested” welfare programs. They’re Federal overreach and not legal, anyway.

      Eliminate illegal aliens.

      Eliminate needless and redundant regulations.

      Problem will then solve itself.

  2. Annnnd … it’s gone …

    https://abc7ny.com/post/new-york-city-ending-voucher-program-allowed-migrant-families-buy-own-food/15523750/

    Annnd … as China braces for uncertainty … it’s gone …

    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/restructuring-underway-soros-fund-management-hong-kong-office-shut#google_vignette

    I’m sure all the ABC organizations are running their shredders 24/7 for the next couple of months. Hoping … it’s gone.

    All the scrambling reminds me of the old K-mart commercial … you’ll get the idea. Lol.

    https://www.facebook.com/share/r/2pRz16jZv13c3wMj/?mibextid=W40cHY

  3. This country has been divided between idiots ( leftist/dems) and the rest of us, so that means there is only between 1/2 to 1/3 of the country to make it great again while we have to fight off their efforts to derail anything we do. Anyway you roll the dice between Trump and us it will be a HUGE undertaking to repair this country in only 4 years, probably very unlikely and more than likely it will continue DOWN for awhile longer before it starts back up, providing we keep the dogs at bay. My view is we are still in for lots more heartache before/if we recover from all the years of the Obama and Biden era’s.

    • whenever i see a comment like this practicing rosy retrospection i wish i had a time machine then you could experience 2008 again (the great recession, 1,000,000 foreclosures a year) and 2020 (lockdowns, 14% unemployment, thousands dying every day, shortages and not being able to go to weddings, funerals or visiting a loved one in the hospital or nursing home).

      • caused by DEMOCRAT governors and mayors!!!
        I had no lock down and wore no fucking masks
        only one store I refused to go to because they had a sign about masks
        Walmart had signs but very few paid any attention,, I even went against the damn arrows on the floor
        I’ve always been a little rebal at heart
        those thousands died every year from flu but one year those flu deaths disappeared and became covid/
        How are your foster daughters doing???
        Blind ignorant folks fail to see the attack from higher forces against the human race by fellow ‘so called’ humans,,, Fauci and Gates at the lead

        vax free and NO REGERTS, snicker snicker

        all the wives that got notes at Bush sr funeral come from the same witches kettle,
        https://rumble.com/v1vwokw–the-bush-senior-funeral-the-mystery-of-the-envelopes-game-over-.html

        • If you consider going the opposite direction from the arrows on the floor as – “being a rebel” – we need to talk.

        • Thank you for leaving this link. It provided me with another glaring example of intellectual theft.

          On December 10, 2018, I wrote a post called, “The Funeral Message”.

          https://theageofdesolation.com/nostradamus/2018/12/10/the-funeral-message/

          This post received over 3,000 hits in one day, and it had the highest reader viewing in the 17-years that my website has been online.

          I watched this Rumble video, and the narrator basically rephrased everything that I had pointed out in that post. In my opinion, it is outright theft.

          I enshrined my observations in my “Trump Prophecies” page.

          https://main.theageofdesolation.com/GA-STEWART-NOSTRADAMUS-TRUMP-PROPHECIES.html

          As far as I am concerned, most of the people running clickbait Alternative Media websites are as crooked as the so-called “Global Elite”.

          Frankly, given what I do for a living, I find riding the coattails of and exploiting the Patriot Movement as disgusting as it gets. Throw in stealing other people’s work makes it a multiplier.

          These people are all selling their souls for pennies on the dollar.

          I left a comment on Rumble for this one-year-old video. The creator is free to challenge me legally or any other way.

          This is what I will tell all readers and consumers of the so-called Alternative Media, since I have the best seat in the house, I basically know who is pumping out the bullshit.

          Throw in the Nostradamus stuff, and we can put the clickbait artists side-by-side with my material, as I did here, and show readers who got there first.

          I have never figured out the consumer appetite for the copy cats. If it’s Big Macs or steak, most people go for the Big Mac every time.

          I will describe my feelings on that in detail in my next post.

        • dLynn , it was just a comment to show that I don’t blindly follow.
          but sitting down with you as I have coffee and listen, would be a pleasure.
          and a spelling lesson for me the “rebal”,,,
          oops

          G.A.,,, it was just a random search for the funeral,,, glad it gave you a desire to link more of your work.
          While I am a Q tard and you seem to anti that psyop,,, I see psyops as a tool or a gun,,, all depending on who is in control,
          It has brought world wide attention to the satanic pedos, and for that exposure, I am thankful.

          The demon witches are dems and repubs
          aka uniparty deceivers.
          Power on, G A Stewart,, I look forward to your next post

        • (“These people are all selling their souls for pennies on the dollar.”)

          the hilarious part..is its not even pennies..
          sure they have plenty of things.. hell I have more than my share of things..lol.. They sell their souls for a… NUMBER…
          in the end things come and go.. what’s important doesn’t come clear until the end.. Family, Friends,and Faith.. the hospitals and state will take your numbers and things.. they are nothing but .. hey que in a song by Kansas here..
          https://youtu.be/tH2w6Oxx0kQ?si=uT9WvsI_wbAbncol
          dust in the wind..
          there isn’t anything that I own that is worth more than my family , friends and faith..
          no voice of anger over a broken whatever.. oops are oops now if something is broken in a fit of anger then you will get a talking to..but nothing in an oops..
          The wife and I was watching pawn stars..a guy had a rare toy worth 150,000.00 we both started to laugh at the same time.. the wife says yup I can see it now..a grandchild funny by down the hall excited.. look at the cool toy as they cram the broken box in the trash.. I gave the grand daughter a toy when she was real little the daughter says oh my that’s a collectible.. I saved d do you have a discord she handed me one I cut the tag off and said now its a toy…
          people value shiny bubbles of shiny metal, pieces of paper or a flickering number on a screen..lured by the extravagance ..

    • The only way to get it to turn..is stop the deficit interest freefall..A parachute of sorts.. IF .. that can be done then we have a chance..if not..then things will continue to erode..
      my bunn coffee pot experience was a total nightmare..and if anyone seriously takes the time to view how it has escalated in the Biden Harris administration and the absence of any leadership in congress..they will be totally horrified by what they see.. you have to be making forty percent interest at this point just to maintain your present position on the economic end.. wage earners cannot keep up with it.. they are falling behind faster than anyone..

  4. “*used to be employed making mufflers, catalytic converters,”

    The world is going to be completely different in four years. We know Trump & Musk do not like union labor and China’s BYD impressed Musk so look for more manufacturing automation.

    Look for more automation in services – Trump and Musk are crypto guys. A digital world is coming.

    Instead of building mufflers work on self healing robots.

    • It’s a feint by Trump – loves the Bitcoin loves the CBDC better which is where this is headed. They are talking about making it a bank reserve- which makes 2 worthless Federal reserves backed by nothing. Gold and Bitcoin

    • I think that one of the first moves that Trump makes in the “Crypto-World” is to task NSA and FBI with tracking down and arresting as many ‘black market’ bitcoin users and abusers – that they can find. Drug cartels & dealers, sex traffickers, money laundering, massive tax evasion…, it’s a long list.
      It would be a very wise move – psychologically – for the unwashed masses – to show that seedy and criminal aspects of digital currencies can be traced – tracked – and hopefully stopped.

      • But Gold and Silver cannot. Which is what 1% ers have Always used in their business dealings..put it all on blockchain so we get rid of all the old OG Criminals,drug dealers,traffickers and other general scumbags.

        • And do they have a list of people that will buy gold or silver in an extreme SHTF scenario.
          how much gold can you carry..f we become nomads once again..Applying Chaos Theory to this scenario highlights how intertwined systems and seemingly minor events could drastically alter the accumulation and value of precious metals. The initial conditions would be incredibly influential, and small variations could lead to vastly different outcomes.In the immediate aftermath of a complete collapse, basic necessities like food and shelter would take precedence over precious metals, potentially leading to a temporary devaluation.
          similar to ancient civilizations gold and silver were decorative to show ones status.aka bling…
          Over an extended period of time, as new systems of trade and barter develop, precious metals may regain value as a medium of exchange, especially as traditional currencies lose their significance. but then that’s only when society once again established a form of economy.
          that’s why during the Weimar depression there were affluent carrying baskets of gold and silver items to trade for vegetables.
          what i believe you would see is that different regions might adopt varied barter systems. Some might heavily rely on precious metals, while others might use different commodities based on local availability.
          Smaller, localized economies would emerge, each with its own dynamics and value systems.
          food shelter water.. all essential .. gold is just a decoration that was used as a form of symbol to show ones status ..in June an archeologist opened what would have been a primitive vault estimated ten thousand years old.what they found was a Wine amphora coated inside with wax sealed with wax strips and a stone ware cap.. a necklace of colored clay beads a hair comb and a short sword. the lab results of the wine came back to a regular spiced wine.. garum and yes I have the recipe..
          In times of severe economic hardship, people have often resorted to bartering essential goods and services to meet their basic needs. Here’s how food and, in some cases, sex, have been used as barter items: during the Greek economic meltdown young women would sell their bodies for a can of soup and the elderly would dumpster dive to find anything they could use… areas today that have a much lower cost of living that is used to lure women to migrate to the USA..
          back in the eighties I had to barter my skills to get food and necessities.. a lot of day labor and part time..
          those that haven’t experienced the down side that can be a reality..don’t understand its not part of their black book of experiences..
          that’s why all the kitchen gadgets.. I may not use the tools regularly..but I have them..I teach all the kids how to use them..I’m getting older..if it melts down..the youth of today has to have the knowledge how to carry the burden..

      • Trump said it’s war on the cartels. Remember the olden days when BTC folks said BTC was private/anonymous but we found out it’s not. A crypto (maybe we should call it blockchain?) world makes cartels manageable.

        Crypto/blockchain takes “know your customer” to the next level. Mix blockchain with the X everything app and most street commerce is forced into the open.

    • IF…. an employer takes care of his laborers.. they don’t even consider a union.
      my father worked for the colonel.. a big cookie company.. he took care of everyone that was in his employ..they didn’t even think union until after he retired and management neglected the laborers..

      • Unions have become much better at organizing, radicalizing, and coercing people into voting in a union. As usual, if the union is running the show, they can selectively invalidate or forget to count ballots that they think will go against them. All they need is the appearance of fairness.

        Never underestimate this sort of coercion. I was forced into a union to keep my job back when I was 18. I quit two months later. Others won’t. It’s the same kind of group indoctrination that the democrats used successfully for years, until they got complacent and we got annoyed.

  5. I hate to be the cold, wet blanket at the party, but it is a long way to January 20, 2025.

    During the breaks in-between my rebuilding process, I have been working out some scenarios based on several Nostradamus’ prophecies.

    Nostradamus Quatrain III-59
    Barbarian [Islamic] Empire usurped by the third [Antichrist]
    The greater part of his blood being put to death:
    By senility death through him a fourth [NATO] smitten,
    By fear that blood for blood is acceptable death.

    This can all go south very quickly with events now going on in Israel.

    I am still awaiting what I have called “The First Blow of Steel”. If this prophecy does describe nuclear terrorism directed against “The Relative of The Leech”, a war could ratchet up very quickly.

    “The Leech” is certainly the Arab League.

    I have come to accept that “The Relative of The Leech” are the Palestinians. Why is a long story, and that will be part of an upcoming post. However, at one time I did consider another possibility that this was North Korea, who received its nuclear weapons technology from Pakistan.

    So, it’s interesting that North Korean troops are now fighting in Ukraine; however, I am still sticking with the Palestinians and Egypt as source of “The First Blow of Steel”.

    The “Senile Leader” who starts a nuclear war is still in power and will be for 68 more days.

    • Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior

      Narrator: My life fades. The vision dims. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos… ruined dreams… this wasted land. But most of all, I remember The Road Warrior. The man we called “Max.” To understand who he was, you have to go back to another time… when the world was powered by the black fuel… and the desert sprouted great cities of pipe and steel. Gone now… swept away. For reasons long forgotten, two mighty warrior tribes went to war, and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all. Without fuel they were nothing. They’d built a house of straw. The thundering machines sputtered and stopped. Their leaders talked and talked and talked. But nothing could stem the avalanche. Their world crumbled. The cities exploded. A whirlwind of looting, a firestorm of fear. Men began to feed on men. On the roads it was a white line nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice. And in this maelstrom of decay, ordinary men were battered and smashed… men like Max… the warrior Max. In the roar of an engine, he lost everything… and became a shell of a man… a burnt-out, desolate man, a man haunted by the demons of his past, a man who wandered out into the wasteland…

        • Now I am all for adopting new technology green tech.. but implementing it gradually.. support the old implement the new.
          I know everyone has heard the rant of mine..greenscape cities..turn the tide on our fifty five acres a minute consumption of farm land.
          embrace the strengthening of our infrastructure.. distribute solar kits to anyone willing to have them installed. build solar towers at every sub station starting at the furthest point from the power plant and work back to the plant.
          build air wells in our arid regions
          put CO2 filters on every city lamppost. replace the what 4000 trees being cut a minute.. the thing that it doesn’t do is fit the business model. until the business model changes the climactic changes have to continue. the change will happen its a regular cycle..we can’t change that only slow it down.. it just can’t happen until our business model changes..
          right now its death and destruction so a few can have more power and bigger numbers.

    • GA Styewart wrote:

      “… I hate to be the cold, wet blanket at the party, but it is a long way to January 20, 2025…”

      Several astrologers and at least one good remote viewing person have raised in a serious manner the issue that Trump may not be taking the oath on the 20th.

      Each one has a slighly different perspective wrt to the details they will disclose but none want to expressly say why . While even the best astrologers and remote viewers are only correct some of the time it does raise the issue to a level to being one of concern, for me at least.

      • hmm..who would have guessed that possibility ..
        they spent BILLIONS and ten years trying to destroy him. Take all his properties on some fantasy attacks .. had people willing to kill him for money all with ties to DC.. I read there was a possible attempt again yesterday..
        Lindsey Graham lait it out on face the nation.. they need the war in ukraine..
        to get the New world order they have to be totally in control instead the brick walls are crumbling due to their greed.

    • “The First Blow of Steel”

      Back in 2017 Trump imposed tariffs on steel, steel tariffs. Could that have been the first blow of steel?

      “Steel and aluminum. On March 1, 2018, Trump announced his intention to impose a 25% tariff on steel and a 10% tariff on aluminum imports. In a tweet the next day, Trump asserted, “Trade wars are good, and easy to win.” On March 8, he signed an order to impose the tariffs effective after 15 days.”

      The latest conspiracy is a cyber attack will take place before January which will invoke continuity of .gov plans which cascades into the inauguration being canceled which in turn leads to CW2 and the end of America.

      Bear in mind theses conspiracies churn from the same places such as Kam will be replaced and Biden will step down so there’s not much grist in the grind.

  6. a little smoked turkey slices on that grilled colby/jack.
    Please,,, when is lunch? what do you mean, right after I do some chores for ure,,, ok , ok, what do you need done?

    • That sounds great for lunch… Subway has a two for sale to..
      I don’t know where they get their smoked turkey but dam its good..
      honey mustard on it to.. god I love honey mustard..

    • Wow..well that answers the email I got from an old friend yesterday.. lives there was scared to death and totally petrified about the possibilities of the USA pulling out of this war in Israel and ukraine..
      while the idea administration set the border countries up as cannon fodder and they announced their support.. now the fear is they will be left standing without the usa on the battle lines..
      I had to say yeah that’s how it works.. set the smaller countries up as meat shields then walk away..its exactly hoe the puppeteers work to..they sit in safety and get everyone else to get them what they want..

      • Having balls just because your big brother’s gonna protect you, is weekness. Being able to fight your own battle, is strength. – if they can’t finish their fight on their own, they should have thought of that first. Oh no, that’s unthinkable.

        And we all too often stick our nose where it doesn’t belong.

        We all sat here watching Biden instigate wars, then depopulating and profiting. That’s evil.

        Biden invited the millions to come here during the presidential debate, and they did. I never agreed with that. And now, the Biden Administration is going to stop feeding them. I don’t agree with starving people either or the crimes that may come from this.
        Sloppy Joe’s BS.

        Sloppy Joe just did whatever, without a plan. He just did it, not giving a shit about potential changes that may occur. No back up, just bullshit.

        Lots of WOKE getting flushed down the toilet since election results came in. If it ever meant a damn thing, folks wouldn’t be so quick to dismantle it. – if someone is old enough to go in a bathroom by themselves, they’re old enough to know which one to go in and which one to stay out of. If that’s confusing to anyone, they need a therapist and a service animal to make sure they make the correct choice. Even a service dog can do it.

        Now, if we can stop the media propaganda, that would be great.

        • “Having balls just because your big brother’s gonna protect you, is weekness. Being able to fight your own battle, is strength. – if they can’t finish their fight on their own, they should have thought of that first. Oh no, that’s unthinkable.”

          I assume you are speaking of Hamas and Hezbollah…

      • The U.S. is “in” neither war. Thus, “pulling out” is a moot argument.

        Israel can wipe Gaza and Lebanon off the map in three days, by themselves, and without the nukes so many people have stuck in their heads. Our presence is to prevent them from getting so pissed they do so.

        Never forget: Our “foreign aid” is, in its simplest terms, a bribe we pay other countries to keep our noses in their political and diplomatic business. We bribe Israel a lot. They don’t need the money, but like everyone else, they take it and allow us to tell their PM how to fight his war…

        • Like bullies..they push the issue.. get those standing for them to do the dirty work. the Ukraine war was not ever needed Putin tried to show the world to back away for over a year..we went forward.. the whisper in their ear oh you can do this.. Putin gave plenty of time for those seeking his help against their corrupt regime..
          we moved more in.. when I was being the Adult in the middle we moved more against them..
          my fear is that at some point they decide to take the head of the snake in the grass..

  7. The Time Tunnel – Episode 18
    “Visitors from Beyond the Stars”

    Tony and Doug arrive on an alien spacecraft in space above the Americas. Two aliens soon appear and force Tony and Doug into a translation chamber. The aliens say they are taking all Earth’s protein (food) and leaving no one alive, as they have done with other planets. The aliens describe three kinds of people: those who cooperate, those who can be made to cooperate, and those whom they must kill. “Resistance is impossible”.

    • that’s one show I wish they would make a remakebof..that or sliders.. I loved both of them

  8. Been pondering…,
    Do you think that a couple of Supreme Court Justices will step-down once Trump is in-office?

  9. New York Times called Putin a dictator on/about 2000 or so… long before the ethnic cleansing of sending zays untrained to the front lines of Ukraine… Putin used British Ukraine issues (return nucs, have own country) to create on/about 2014 modern nuc subs and missles..not so much bommers.. nor tactical acft like F-35s.. So Putin appears as a thug and has a vietnam on his doorstep. The British view is Europe should get gas from Arab friendly DAE, Kuwait, Dubai, Saudi via pipeline. To do that go thru Egypt as Syria democrasy failed under Obama.. north route closed. Gaze is just in the way.. Pass thru Isreali fees for transport keep Isreal alive as baby boomers die off and want kids to stay home. So fast forward to 2024 and Iran wants to get even in spades for Isreali police actions (like Russia in Ukraine)..Germany fails government to stay at home.. and Russia ablows up Estonia..more thug… leaving Trump with no funds to fix just spend on police actions..no great america.

    • Nein,nein,nein.

      ukraine is a oligarch war – with both sides “ollies” battling it out. This why certain bridges in donbass were never bombed, and civilian targets are not bombed..unless housing foreign mercs. The whole of ukraine war was about Ollies freaking out about the FREEDOM movements igniting in Donbass back 2014 or there abouts.

      *jewish oligarchs – hmmmm, now who do we know in USA that fits that bill ?

  10. I was less than unimportant to The Great Man. But, I was a necessary short-term irritant and interruption to his work as CEO of one of America’s Truly Great Industrial Age Manufacturing Companies.

    The Company, now defunct due to later severe mismanagement and misdirection, was on the actual Dow-Jones Industrials list for decades. You would not know his name, but you would know of The Company. He was of the Old Style American Upper Management three-piece suit gentleman’s school, and was cordial and affable to everyone. Even to me and my crew.

    His desk was quite uncluttered, He remarked that his job was to fix broken things, and ceremonially complete closures of Big Deals — and his job daily was mostly empty of busywork things to do. It was all being well-done by capable departmental delagatees further down the ladder. Nothing reached his desk unless it was non-routine and urgent or important. The whole floor of high-ranking nearby offices had an air of control and competence. It was serene.

    Nevertheless, he was happy to chat with us, and at one point said something I’ll never forget and have often used.

    He said one key to success was to always FIRST decide if a thing was truly worth doing or not — DEVOID of all minor parameters. Once that decision was firmly made, EVERYTHING else was just minor steps and decisions along the road to the clearly defined goal.

    Too many people get lost in small contrary details and problems, and never put the little roadblocks in perspective. Too often, problem-oriented thinking prevents a worthy project from ever getting started. Committees jabber endlessly, and nothing happens.

    If the journey is judged as worthy, take a step — then another.

    Then another.

    One foot in front of the other.

    Repeat.

    .

    • (“His desk was quite uncluttered, He remarked that his job was to fix broken things, and ceremonially complete closures of Big Deals — and his job daily was mostly empty of busywork things to do. It was all being well-done by capable departmental delagatees further down the ladder. Nothing reached his desk unless it was non-routine and urgent or important.”)

      Dam..that is exactly what my older sibling said to me .. almost word for word.. if he had to get involved heads would roll… speaking of them I need to give them a call see how they are doing..he rebuilds old cars for a hobby..
      he once asked me what my dream car was..I told him an old marathon taxi cab..
      I got a model of one and never could afford a real one..

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker_Marathon#/media/File%3AChecker_Taxi_Madison_Sq_jeh.jpg

      all of them had a million miles on them..great car..

  11. “What is found, on close inspection of the “hockey stick” inflection (I have a consgiliere who religiously audits for such things) is a major change in multiple industries all about the same time. Leading into the Great Depression, massive change had occurred (radio, networks, the steam rotary press, high-speed (at least comparatively) rail, and so on.”

    Spot on George…… “Blockchain”

    The future Grid will use New Batteries.

    https://electrek.co/2024/05/17/china-first-large-scale-sodium-ion-battery/

  12. Bachelors degree, or better – 44% voted for Trump
    High School, or less – 56 % voted for Trump
    [ Does this prove that a college education doesn’t mean you are smart?]
    .., and
    Adding it all up [ though there are some ballots yet to be counted – as California and Washington State are deliberately slowing the count – thinking it will somehow make a difference if they delay certification..,]
    .., 1.5 million fewer ballots for Republicans but a whopping 13.2 million fewer votes for Democrats than the total count in the 2020 election.
    Some talking-heads are saying that this is largely due to a shift in the Independent vote – but other pundits are pointing-&-saying that this proves the 2020 election was tampered with.., and the comedians are saying that; “It looks like the Democrats forgot how to cheat.”

    • Did you see-hear about that Nuke (MM3) in the air On election night ? space force was running that this time, heard say it was a active, live threat to soviergn actors-cheaters who wouldve “fixed” another one..
      .. also mis info/dis info whispers regards Starlink playing a role on election night – hard to debunk that one

    • 230,000 trained Republican poll watchers, and 6500 law firms on retainer to the RNC.

      Democrats didn’t forget how to cheat. They learned very quickly that cheating would not be tolerated, this time around…

    • The ONLY place where extra counting would have been worthwhile is in the Swing States in 2020 since overcounting in places like California /New York /Mass etc. would NOT have changed the outcome for President, only some Congressional races.

      Once the vote counts are finished (all the mail ins and military voters), which is still a couple of weeks out, so we can compare apples to apples I will do a short dive to compare state by state the SWING STATES ONLY total votes 2020/2024 and see what the data shows.

  13. Something I’ve been pondering for quite a while now:

    How the hell do we “Make America Great Again” in less than a couple of generations? Can we do it with the current structure of our Universities, High Schools and even Grade Schools? Children are being taught in preschool now, that boys can be girls and girls can be boys.

    The “Three R’s” have been replaced with “social awareness” and kids who can’t use their own language are being graduated from High School. I’ve even seen things written by teachers who don’t know the difference between “your” and “you’re” or “here” and hear.”

    Some people like to point the finger at our generation, the “Boomers,” but the move to the left can be traced (I believe) to a couple of generations before us. Their “Long March Through the Institutions” began in the 1930’s, or earlier, and really only became obvious in the 1960’s.

    Now they have a couple of generations after us “Boomers” who have grown up spoon fed on the belief that they are right and anyone who opposes them is “Literally Hitler.”

    So, how do we retake the entire education system in addition to cleaning out the “deep state?” How do you fix something that is broken that badly?

    • It will take time — quite possibly a lot of time; but it’s long journey, best begun with one step; put some common sense back into the lesson plans.

      And that isn’t an instant fix; but just a place to begin. Somebody has to roll in the dirt, and get elected to a local school board, and begin causing changes. Yes, there will be opposition and heavy drag. Persistance will wear them down in time

      It was a long time being ignored as it was being subverted and misdirected. It will be some time fixing it. But, once you’re under way, your rudders will gain authority, and the ship WILL turn.

      Trick is to BEGIN, and not just observe how hard it will be. THAT is the Spirit Of The Age.

      • “local school board”
        Local is the solution. With ‘local’ being defined as you see it.
        A true story – there was a state that wanted to build a reporting system for their public education system. At the state level they defined what they wanted reported and supplied that to the school districts, along with a timeline for when they wanted to see the collected data. The state DID NOT tell the districts how to do the job, just what they wanted reported and in what format. The results were rather interesting – some small districts built their systems on PCs, others banded together with nearby districts and built LARGE data centers. In the end the state got its data, as it desired.
        The point is, the problem got solved LOCALLY.

    • President Trump
      Vice President Vance

      President Vance
      Vice President Gabbard

      President Gabbard
      Vice President Ramaswamy

      President Ramaswamy
      Vice President Trump

      Any questions?

      • After 20 years in that stackup… counting two terms for each ‘newbie’… Trump will likely not be alive anymore.
        Helluva legacy, though.

        • Y’all are catching on.

          My post isn’t necessarily a prediction.

          What it means is MAGA (which is really Trump’s vision of what a common sense political movement should be) has a wealth of highly qualified potential Presidents. The Democratic Party, in its current iteration, is devoid of qualified potential Presidents.

          The longer the Dems embrace communism and fascism, and fail to honestly wax introspective and self-diagnose their shortcomings, the more all PoC and men of all ethnicities will gravitate toward (for wont of a better term) “MAGA Republicanism.”

          Vance WILL be the Republican nominee for President in 2028. I will not be surprised if he wins 26% of the Black vote and a true majority of the Latino vote. The rest of my list is fluid, although Trump DID ask attendees of a couple of his rallies how they’d feel about a “President Gabbard,” so Tulsi is on a short list already.

          Trump, Vance, and Ramaswamy are business executives. So is Nicole Shanahan. They are action people. They don’t worry about a problem, they find a solution, then walk, run, or fly toward that solution until they implement it and achieve “success.”

          Gabbard is not. She is a Lieutenant Colonel who might be anything from a wallflower to a battalion commander, purely at the whim of her commanding General. LtCs who command are often still wallflowers, acting more like an XO than a decision-maker.

          They all are going to go through the Donald Trump School of Rapid Accomplishment. By the time Tulsi graduates (if she does), she will have achieved a level of executive excellence comparable to that of the others. What they will ALL learn is “there’ll be time for sleep when we die.” I have heard both Vance and Rammy marvel (or bitch?) about the fact Trump is in high gear all the time, and seems to rarely sleep. They will learn how to do this (and may God have mercy on their wives…)

          Shanahan was still a Liberal Democrat when she hopped aboard the Trump train. Then, after just a few days as a Trump supporter, Letitia James dragged her into a New York courtroom and grilled her for nine hours regarding her relationship to Donald Trump and her knowledge of his business dealings. This made a permanent, negative impression on her. I don’t know if it altered her Leftist core values. With that said, I admit I don’t know a lot about her yet, but I know enough to know that she is one of the people on this planet whom I would least like to piss off.

    • Zero Federal school funding and eliminate the Department of Education (RFK’s non-health priority, BTW.)

      When Counties and States are funding 100% of schools, they’ll cancel tenure, then break the AFT, NEA, UFT, and every other teachers’ union when they walk out. COVID may have cost us four years of posterity, but it also taught parents they could teach their own children, if they had to.

      Law of unintended consequences…

      • Their mother and I taught our kids – NO REGRETS AT ALL! No need for public schools and we were able to avoid them. The kids learned to think for themselves, have an intrinsic work ethic, and are doing very well. They think for themselves and have the social lives they want – no trouble at all with socializing. They avoided the cliques and most bullies, though they did have enough interaction with other kids to know the ropes. None of them had any interest in drugs, though I’m rather agnostic with respect to non-addictive drugs. They did play more than I wished with video games, but on their own time. They had access to the uncensored net and drew their own conclusions. Yes, you need to be a parent, but you can’t shelter your kids for 18 years and then expect them to be able to immediately function in the world. I’m glad they did OK. Nicks and dents yes, but generally OK.

        • “but you can’t shelter your kids for 18 years and then expect them to be able to immediately function in the world”

          Why a fair number of female PK’s (Preachers Kids) seem to go seriously off the sexual reservation when they arrived at college back when I went to college (decades ago – BEFORE Aids). At least in the Midwest at the large public Universities in those days that seemed to be a very common occurrence, not sure about today since a lot of things changed once Aids arrived.

  14. Hmm.. well my daughter cut off her mint for winter..
    peppermint.. she has a nice crop of it to.. and she would like some peppermint oil..
    first you heat it in a low heat oven for an hour or half hour just enough so the essential oils loosen up and begin to get to the surface ( oh grind it or chop it before this) then steep it like a slow tea for what four or five hours constantly agitating it..
    tigers really concentrated essential oil use vodka rather than water then separate it with a separation funnel..
    because I am going to do the work.. I am going to make some cream DeMint
    10.3oz Vodka
    1/2 tsp Ascorbic Acid
    1/2 cup (4oz) Mint Tea
    1/4 cup Sugar
    green food coloring
    that’s the fast version using teabags..
    Here’s the one with the essential oil..
    Creme de Menthe
    2.5oz Everclear
    1 ounce Peppermint Essential Oil
    10oz Water
    1/2 cup Sugar
    20oz Vodka
    green food coloring or leave it clear..

    use it in cakes or food or make yourself a grasshopper drink.
    with what she harvested I should be able to make myself a couple of bottles of this and she should have more than enough for holiday baking and for drinks etc through the year..
    For the grasshopper you will need the cream decacao…
    two versions here.. both the same one a little stronger both great..

    1 chop cocoa butter
    375 (1/2 bottle) of vodka
    1 tbs of vanilla extract ( or one bean split and scraped)
    1/2 to 3/4 ( your the boss on how you like it) sugar
    blend it up for a couple minutes..
    strain it..

    the second version exactly the same except you leave out the sugar for two weeks in a jar slowly infusing the vanilla bean and the cacao into the vodka.. after its been infused then strain it and add the sugar at the end when bottling it..

    that will save you forty bucks two bottles .. for less than the cost of one..now you can warm it slightly in a double boiler after blending it..this gets the coconut flavor to separate from the oil.. ( which is what I do) I actually have a machine to do essential oils..its like a coffeepot)
    https://www.amazon.com/LEVO-Botanical-Extractor-Decarboxylator-Tinctures/dp/B0B3Y6PPK4/ref=sr_1_12_sspa?

    they make cheaper ones to.. but seriously you don’t need one everything can be don on the stovetop..you just have to babysit it ..
    https://www.amazon.com/Separatory-Funnel-500mL-Polypropylene-Leak-Proof/dp/B07HXGLHJP/ref=sr_1_15?

    • Why vodka? You have a still. Why not make some tater moonshine? 3x through the still = “Popov.” 4x=”Stoli.” 5x will give you a potato liquor so smooth you might not taste the alcohol or feel the burn, even before you’re shitfaced.

      • Oh I could easy enough..I have what six stills..two just for looks they are like some of my coffee pots..pretties for viewing..
        I actually only use the one for distilled water and the other is a juicer for fruit juices..and essential oils ..
        the cost of essential oils makes it cheaper to make than buy.. its the same with cooking oil I have a couple extruders.. one hand and one automatic. SHTF I can make all the cooking oil..or fuels like grasoline.. heck I could make hydrogen easy enough.. simplest and most abundent. the issue with hydrogen is its to hot. it has to be cooled down extremely. for a motor to keep it from burning out the cylinders you need to cool it and lubricate it. that was the same thing with alcohols to..it burns to hot and skill knock the carbon from the cylinder walls. the thing most people don’t see..is they use force to rip the water atom apart. that’s similar to pulling a string apart or pulling a twig till it bulls apart..frequency.. A similar example is like the mystery of the Bermuda triangle .. or a crystal goblet.. put a tuning fork up to a crystal goblet then make the same frequency the goblet is vibrating at and the goblet will fall apart or shatter..
        tesla did this with a what 4 ounce weight..called it an earthquake machine.
        once you reach a resonant frequency of an item it will fall apart. take Bermuda.. there are strong magnetic vortexed forces from below connecting to the magnetic shroud of earth insert a highly magnetic storm and weird deal happens ..Atoms split through radioactive decay or because it has been bombarded by other subatomic particles..in a hydrogen reactor using electrical frequency in a highly magnetic vortex once you reach the frequency of the water molecule it simply falls apart. anyway I could go a all day on my theory.. microwaves is but only one example which is what pushes the fear of 5 g communications..
        until I need to..I buy it. once in a while I will make things lime cheese or cottage cheese.. I make wine just to hone my skill the easy deal I don’t have to keep practicing .. and until it becomes a necessity its like my percolator it sits on a shelf.now if the prices get to far above what I can afford..then I make it to maintain a quality of life.
        I will show the kids how easy it is.. just tell them to hold off until it becomes socially acceptable by the business model.

        • Making stuff to show the kids..lol lol
          when my grandson was little.. his mother breast fed. so she had a whole freezer of milk ..anyway.. I would tease the kids..we should make some butter or do you want me to make you some cheese.. it was the joke .. and yes I showed all of them how..two years ago everyone received a cheese making kit.. and they already have the butter churn we made..
          we used quart wide mouth jars for the bigger kids and pint for the little kids cut out the plunger to fit in the top and drilled holes in it screwed it to the shaft and its ready to go..
          anyway the store had discounted cream ..I thought great I will whip up some home made ice cream..the kids were all enjoying their home made ice cream when one of the older girls eyes grew big..she looked up at me and she says..GRANDPA….where did you get the milk???
          all eight grandkids quit eating the home made ice cream at the same time..
          they thought I used breast milk..lol lol lol

  15. A lot of questions are popping-up on my radar:
    Three Iranians were just arrested and charged with a murder-for-hire plot to assassinate President-elect Trump.
    How will Iran fare under the Trump Presidency? .., and just how ‘strongly’ does Trump support Israel?

  16. “Renaud’s Season”

    Around here we are trying to clim.a.tize and accept the cold that comes next, every year. Get back to me when it doesn’t get negatively freezing here and I’ll finally drink a slash ‘o that “global warming” “climate change” kool-cocktail everyone else was having.

    I have Renaud’s Syndrome. My digits get stone white cold and are not in the game when chill. We have a _lot_ of chill around here. Out of the 10-15 pairs of gloves I own, the best are thin fleece glove liners. Easy to pocket, they go places so pop out when out.

    Best to your Misses George. Got Fleece?
    Off to do ATL stuff.
    Egor

    • Egor, see the post I made to George RE: Gloves.

      I don’t, but I have poor circulation and work outside in winter.

      I just bought a pair of the heated, vibrating gloves from Hammacher.

      H-S is offering a 20% off coupon storewide, through Sunday (it’s on the front page.) The description makes me think they’re the same Copperfit gloves that’re $129 on Amazon (H-S never advertises manufacturers’ names.) The gloves were (a buck cheaper than Amazon), after the discount and the shipping charges. From Hammacher, they come with a lifetime warranty…

  17. When Trump was officially declared the next President the stock markets went nutz. It has been estimated that $20.2 billion dollars in-flowed to the markets. [ Could be a one-day record.] At the same time it is estimated that just over $900 million dollars out-flowed from European stock markets.
    This “in-flow” to our stock markets and “out-flow” from European markets is still going on today – just not as ‘robust’.

  18. It is an autonomous, stand-alone A.I.
    A sentinel., as it is being described. It is a mainframe security program designed and self-learning to protect and defend from and destroy system intruders. It is also a Hunter-Killer., fully autonomous as it free-roams throughout the mainframe in search of illegal intrusions and code breaches.
    In over five thousand attempts to gain access to the mainframe, by human operators [hackers] and other computer systems, the new A.I. security program has never failed.
    Sound like a science fiction novel? Nope. It’s a start-up company by four programmers in Memphis Tenn., and they just received a $502 million dollar investment. [ By who? Didn’t say.]
    It is a private company., no plans on going public or issuing shares.
    And no name was given for the A.I. program [ which I found interesting.] But I am going to keep an ear out on this one. The potential – good and bad – is fascinating.

  19. To be fully honest here , I consider BOTH Parties to be utter Whores in most every way. Having said that , I am extremely happy that the Dems cannot continue the massive destruction of the past 4 years. My only real hope is that Trump will slow down that destruction as seemed to be the case during his last term. He is fully an Israeli Ass Kisser just like the outgoing group but perhaps he can mitigate the Ukraine situation. One great concern that I now have is the Republican monopoly with the House , Senate and Executive all under one Party control. That throws Checks and Balances under the bus and that’s dangerous. Even the Whores interfered with each other a little bit other than with unchecked support for Israel. Unchecked everything might be just around the corner.

    • Voting the “keep’em at each others throat” ticket has merit, though in recent years, bipartisan (or uniparty) looting has nullified much of the value of that. And the treasury department and the fed simply issue more debt to billionaires to stop margin calls, perpetuating the balloon and the bureaucracy, unencumbered by budgets or fiscal reality. That is the bottomless purse.
      The sad truth is that there is no chance of a long term recovery without either prolonged hyperinflation or a major default on debt, along with putting the treasury and Fed on a microscopically short leash for issue of new debt to private financial concerns like hedge funds. A partial default targeting foreign enemies holding US obligations would probably be insufficient.

    • “One great concern that I now have is the Republican monopoly with the House , Senate and Executive all under one Party control. That throws Checks and Balances under the bus and that’s dangerous.”

      Did you wet yourself when the Dems had all three?

      Also, “interfering with each other,” yet there being enough neocons (Democrats in Republican clothing) and RINOs to ensure the Dems’ agenda is passed through while the Repubs’ agenda is passed over, is no check or balance on anything, except freedom.

      Remember, “Republican” John McCain is the reason we still have to deal with “Obamacare…”

      • Ray , occasionally you are interesting and often just an asshole. You don’t seem to comprehend very well either. Think more , post less.

        • So, you did not.

          Why, then, would you wet yourself when the Republicans take charge, as you seem to be doing? Are you against fixing D.C. or against running the pedos out of politics?

  20. “Making America Great Again, on the other hand, is a huge task – a monumental task of sweeping proportions, and frankly, a whole lot of work. And the folks who are going to need to do that work, neighbors, are you and me and the communities we live in.”

    See Glenn Beck’s 9/12 Project.

    We are fully capable of being motivated toward community outreach in our own communities (which is the key to this commentary.) All it requires is that we be focused, then turned loose. DJT is probably going to have to be the entity which supplies both the focus and the freedom, but once done, and based on GB’s initiative, that should be sufficient for several years worth of energy…

  21. “So, we see that just inventing nifty cars in the thirties (for Jay Leno to collect) the build out that mattered was “Regulation and Staffing.”

    ‘Twas not quite that simple.

    In 1929 you could spend $100,000 on a Duesenberg, Rolls, Packard, Cadillac, etc. By 1932, not even Clark Gable or Andy Mellon were looking for a new ride. Rolls and Packard branched into the aircraft industry, and they (and Cadillac, Chrysler, etc.) found a way to sell that V-12 or V-16 for $12 grand or create & sell cheaper lines (Chrysler, Packard, etc.) A lot, like Doozy and Cord, merged, re-merged, and finally just went away, because they could neither cut cost nor make a Ford/Chevy/Plymouth-priced line of cars to stop the bleeding.

    It took cascading or overlapping multiple financial philosophies for many companies to survive the Depression. Halligan wasn’t selling radios in 1934 that cost the average Joe a month’s wages, but he was selling a “necessary diversion” which made people look past RCA, Crosley, and Stromberg often enough to keep Hallicrafters in business until 1946, when he could begin doing so.

  22. “She has Raynaud’s disease. That’s where your fingers turn white and you lose feelings in your fingertips. Happens if the fingers get cold – an easy trick in winter.

    Like a good hubby, I got her another “kit” this year”

    George, have you considered something like these:

    These vibrate, and are sold by the pair:

    The Vibration Therapy Gloves
    https://www.hammacher.com/product/vibration-therapy-gloves

    This vibrates and is heated, but is weird and wired:

    Intelligent Upgraded Hand Massage Rehabilitation Robotic Glove
    https://www.temu.com/——–for–paralysis—patients—g-601099712795145.html

    Looks interesting, but is both huge, and is terribly narrow:

    Cordless Electric Hand Massager
    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFS35T91

    These last two are full gloves which have heat, vibration, and compression (they squeeze and relax the fingers to stimulate circulation and reduce edema) and are sold by the pair:

    Copper Compression CopperVibe
    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CR2TCRV7

    Heated Vibration Therapy Compression Gloves
    https://www.hammacher.com/product/heated-vibration-therapy-compression-gloves

    I favor the ones sold by Hammacher-Schlemmer (both the first and last in this list), because they come with an unconditional lifetime warranty.

  23. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
    Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, November 8, 2024

    An Open Letter to President Trump, Mr. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and First Lady Melania Trump
    Congratulations on a New Era in Public Health Reform
    OMNS (Nov 8, 2024)

    Dear President Trump, Mr. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and First Lady Melania Trump,

    On behalf of the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service (OMNS), we extend our heartfelt congratulations on the beginning of a new era with your leadership. The re-election of President Trump, the anticipated involvement of Mr. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in public health reform, and First Lady Melania Trump’s ongoing advocacy for wellness and preventive health present an extraordinary opportunity for advancing American health through fresh perspectives and policies.

    We are particularly encouraged by Mr. Kennedy’s commitment to transparency and accountability within critical institutions, including the FDA, NIH, and CDC, as well as by Mrs. Trump’s dedication to promoting preventive healthcare. Many of these initiatives align closely with orthomolecular medicine’s focus on personalized, nutrient-based approaches to health and wellness. These principles support “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) by embracing natural, science-based solutions for preventing and managing chronic diseases-an urgent need in today’s healthcare landscape.

    In light of this alignment, OMNS and its team of experts stand ready to support and collaborate in these transformative efforts. We believe that together, we can build a healthcare system that prioritizes prevention, empowers patients, and embraces innovation.

    Congratulations once again on this promising new beginning. OMNS is committed to contributing our expertise and knowledge to support your vision for a healthier America.

    Sincerely,

    Richard Z. Cheng, M.D., Ph.D.
    Editor-in-Chief, Orthomolecular Medicine News Service
    On behalf of the OMNS Editorial Board

  24. “Elon Musk is a genius at electric cars. But, how many people *used to be employed making mufflers, catalytic converters, and the whole employment chain”

    Zero, until government regulations were created which required mufflers and catalytic converters. Suddenly people needed to both make, and install/replace them.

    “How many people will be left when the INVASION of drug gangs is ended…”

    Fixed that for you…

    Hopefully, every person who’s legally-entitled to be here, and hopefully also, most will still be above both ground and room temperature.

    “Educate and incentivize a whole society out of illegal drugs and crime and now what do you do with all the left over Police… fleet purchases… radios and security tweaks… NCIC finished, prosecutors defunded, lawyers out of a job and there goes how much of the Judicial?”

    Until Jesus Christ is running the show, there’ll still be aplenty of domestic thuggery, buggery, mayhem, and mischief. Therefore, the po-po and prosecutor, jurist and jailer, will still be in business. Any who lose their jobs can get out and go to work for a living. Maybe learn to teach advanced lathe and milling machine at the local combination trade school and old folks home…

    In 1995 there were a million government jobs, something like 722,000 in FedGov. Today, there are around 2.2 million jobs in FedGov alone. I have no problem with about 1.8 million of them getting axed. Why do people whine about the loss of these jobs? Do they want stuff fixed, or not?

  25. I don’t understand the people who’re constantly bitching because “Earth is overpopulated,” yet every time someone develops a means of reducing the population without killing us all off, they whine about there being an insufficient number of people to do the necessary jobs.

    Maybe the jobs aren’t necessary.

    Maybe the people should be doing something productive instead of making stupid money at do-nothing makework jobs.

    The libtard “women” are going to shave their heads and stop putting out. People are whining about this. I view it as a huge positive. Guys are still going to get laid, only now they’ll be able to recognize the undesirables and avoid them. The girls that’re left will be, what we used to call “the marrying kind.” They will be a lot less likely to become pregnant outside a stable and reasonably permanent relationship, and a lot more likely to make stable relationships. The need for “birth control abortions” will plummet, and RvW will cease to have any significance.

    Yet even some thumpers will bemoan these boobs with boobs, crossing their legs. Eventually they’ll uncross them, and my hope is by that time, every guy not on Viagra will have learned to recognize and avoid the toxic commie vixens, and every guy who is will either get it snipped or wear a raincoat…

    • “get it snipped or wear a raincoat”

      NO! Those should not be the only options! There were many effective MALE contraceptive pills, ultrasonic techniques, and perhaps other methods I don’t know about that were researched and dropped. The current paradigm has no desire for men to control their own fertility, though they seem to approve of it in women. I believe that both should use contraception if they’re serious about it. Abortions and unwanted kids happen because couples relied on only one person using a contraceptive. People are lazy and sloppy, but there’s little that the man can do beyond a condom, and condoms fail regularly. Every contraceptive has a failure rate, but two high reliability methods used concurrently have an incredibly low failure rate! This is basic math, not rocket surgery!

      • Reminds me of an early snow storm in Dallas around 1977. We had an electronic siren mounted on the light bar on the roof of the car. En route to an accident on the freeway, our siren was extremely muffled. We stopped once to scoop the snow out of the siren’s mouth, but then decided it wasn’t worth the effort. There was no way to drive any faster than the cars and trucks around us, so we just turned off the lights and siren and made our way there as best we could.

  26. During the past two days here, there’s been so much snow that I couldn’t even open an outside door. I eventually put on snowshoes(yes, I keep them for things like this), and went out through the garage to trudge 500 feet to another garage where I put the tractor(with blade). Along the way I had to dig out around a wide gate just to open it. Eventually I got to the tractor and did an hour’s plowing around the place. Today I’ll do more plowing and hopefully get the car free for a trip to town to get mail. This is all from an unseasonable snowstorm that snarled much of the state, but here it was really bad. Snow was measured in feet rather than inches. Snow really stops all work in progress even if you get some warning. This coming week the weather will get back to around 60 degrees again, so much of that snow will become mud! It happens every year, but not this early or this bad. Either that or I’m getting old.

    Such is life.

    • One of the two worst blizzards in the history of my area of the Midwest occurred in November, November 1950 to be precise (other one was the blizzard of 1978, Feb?). Feet upon feet of snow. They finally had to bring in some Air Force snow blowers to get the roads open since front end loaders weren’t getting the job done even a week later. (I wasn’t around yet but know of that blizzard since my older sister had just been born and my parents talked about it every year when it was her birthday time)

      Don’t forget the Edmond Fitzgerald sank in one of those awful early blizzards on Nov 10th, 49 years ago.

      • The “Blizzard of ’78” began in January in the Eastern Rockies, and crawled across CONUS. For me, it began about 3:30pm on Tuesday, January 24th, 1978. I had a remote recording gig at a local church or college. The event ended about 6:30-7:00 and by that time, roads were impassible, so I walked the 3.5 miles to my GF’s apartment. My Dad picked me up at about 2pm on Saturday, after the National Guard tank with the snow blade mounted on it, rolled by and opened the roads. Dad made the trip because GF and I ceased to be a “thing” after only 3 days of cabin fever (lessons learned) and neither of us wanted me in her apt. It was nearly two weeks before I could retrieve my wheels.

        Snow there was 23″ on the level. It crippled us because the first few hours it fell at 3+ inches per hour.

        If you search, you’ll see the Blizzard got a recharge from Lakes Huron and Erie, so by the time it got to New England (first week of February IIRC), it was dropping feet, instead of inches, of snow.

        Physically, the “Blizzard of ’79” was as bad — same 23″ over 2.5 days — but everyone had been through it the year before, so it was far less crippling. I walked to work every morning at 0530 and worked until 0030 before walking home — 19 days straight, until the roads were open and my co-workers could make it in.

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