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 entirely. Why 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 vivo: Effect 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 are a little 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
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?
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
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.
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..
“*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.
AI will be doing that…and that’s the kind of risk we blew 100-years ago
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.
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..
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…
2008 Republican slogan adopted by DJT: “Drill, baby, drill!”
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..
Did you see what happened in Amsterdam yesterday?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2aDM3PPvH4
Israel is sending “Rescue Planes” to evacuate their players and citizens.
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.
Biden / Harris administration..
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
Been pondering…,
Do you think that a couple of Supreme Court Justices will step-down once Trump is in-office?
..not before a past president bites it, then another one..
NAW.. what and have to WORK for a living lol lol…
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 ?
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.
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(“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..
“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/
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
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.
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?
One cup of cocoa butter sheesh..
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?
“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
https://youtube.com/shorts/cGIgNGnq8ws?si=ZeTmQyp8qFebqtIT
great video of Trump dancing lol
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’.