Fed Prints a Rally, Ready Cash Runs Short, and a Runaway Santa Story

Agenda today:  G.A. Stewart is recovering nicely from his triple bypass, the Fed is doing a trillion more of made-up money (which, gee, might explain the market rally, and the biggest problem for people is the threat of an emergency driving them onto the financial rocks.

Fed – Print, Print, Print

The markets continued tearing upward Thursday.  Not because America is slugging its way back after losing world economic leadership to China.  And not because Venezuela has decided to cut off drug shipments. And not because people are believing more than ever in the American dream.  (You know, the one where people immigrate to America and do a billion in fraud?)

No, it’s because the Fed is “making up liquidity” which is another way of saying “Printing Free Money!”

Result:  markets are getting close to a new all-time high on our Aggregate Index.  Full details on our Peoplenomics.com insider’s letter tomorrow.

For now, the Dow futures early were up 81 but both the S&P and Nasdaq seemed to be where we suggested earlier this would all lead us.  To realizing no one is coming to save us.

Russia’s not our pal, Europe is pissed we’ve cut them off at the (financial) teat, China’s coming for us – after Taiwan and Australia, and South America?  Why give up a great drug game, right?

Which – look closely at the cartoon here – explains what’s going on:  As the Congress and President keep spending more than we make, the net effect is watering down the purchasing power of the dollar.  Which (notice the teetertotter here) will be driving prices up even more.

“Tell me uncle George: Does this mean the Fed is a bunch of lying f**ks with their 2 percent goal and now they’re giving up at 3 percent?”

Well, um…yes…but not really.  Fed boss this week dropped the line in passing “due to tariffs.”  The Fed was getting close, but no cigars as soon as the levers of exports and imports started being moved.

Lying is a little tough to nail down in Washington., Because Turth is always changing because they are making shit up on the fly.  Your problem is you’re looking for logic in an irratational asylum where the inmates are doing what the corporate Powers buy with all that election money.  Didn’t you read the damn memoes here?

So to summarize:  Markets can’t crash in the middle of a heavy print job.  (Theory, anyway.) Bitcoin is still a con but one that command $92,166. And quietly, gold and silver are on the march now.

Remember this:  Inflation is   NOT   prices going up.  It is the purchasing power of money   BLEEDING OUT.

Oh…and the evidence?  You would ask so…

Fact For Action:  Get Financial Band-Aids Ready

The finacnail resilience of (real, non-billionaire) Americans is on the rocks.

Fact: Emergency savings rates remain low while insurance deductibles rise.

So What: One shock now causes cascading household failures.

Action: Build a 90-day cash and supplies buffer before optimizing investments.

And  depending on your healthcare situation, that could spill any time. Don’t trust anything when the clown convention is in session. The U.S. Senate failed to advance two competing healthcare proposals this week — one from Democrats and one from Republicans — aimed at addressing the looming expiration of enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium subsidies that helped millions afford insurance over the last several years. Neither bill garnered the 60 votes needed to proceed.

At the clown’s after-party: The Senate Goes Back to Square One on Health Care Subsidies After Dueling Proposals Fail. No healthcare agreement, screwing of real people (though in fairness for real money) is game on for year-end.  Peachy, huh?

And that’s before we review the other cases for Quick-Clot as a stocking-stuffer in 13 days:

Not all dropping this week. But, you don’t need to read financial news every single day to keep up with the general flow.  Just read it often enough to understand the parade that’s running over you and maybe get its license plate number or something.

Pick a Card – Any Card!

Where, once again, we find more crap than Mr. Whipple…

Trump’s “Courting” cards are turning over disasters:  Trump issues ineffective federal pardon for ex-Colorado election official Tina Peters who was convicted on state charges.

And along with that, how much did Grand jury refuses to indict Letitia James a second time in two weeks cost taxpayers?

Disaster Tarot Cards continues now with the Wag the Dog cards: US sanctions Maduro’s family and several vessels it says moves Venezuelan oil. So who owns the oil, now? Seized oil tanker off Venezuela to be brought to US as tensions mount.

Meanwhile, if you know where to look, America edges toward social breakdown.  Wild street brawl erupts during ritzy Nantucket Christmas celebration | New York Post.  Open war between the Bigs and the Wee People are coming.  Early street battles likely to grow, as we plan to dial back our profile in 2026. Y’all have fun.

AI to Kill Copyright

We are putting a couple of more jobs on our “Endangered Species” list with the coming of mass AI.  Specifically, Patent and Copyright.

In simple terms, in both my Downsizing and AI series of books, the case is right in plain site: Copyright and Patents are both in place to reward original thinking.  But ask yourself…what happens when thinking becomes generic?

Disney’s latest legal broadside — targeting Google over alleged AI copyright violations while simultaneously cutting a reported billion-dollar AI deal elsewhere in Disney Targets Google Over AI Copyright Violations—Alongside $1 Billion OpenAI Deal – Decrypt — is less about protecting artists and more about signaling panic.

The old copyright regime was built for a world where copying required presses, factories, distribution, and capital. AI blows that model apart. When transformation, synthesis, and remix happen at near-zero marginal cost, the idea that ownership can be cleanly enforced at the “idea” or “style” level starts to collapse under its own weight.

Here’s the uncomfortable truth: AI doesn’t copy the way humans once did — it generalizes. It learns patterns, not property. That distinction matters. Copyright was designed to prevent unfair duplication of finished works, not to outlaw learning itself. If absorbing patterns from large corpora becomes illegal, then education, inspiration, and even human creativity are suddenly suspect. At that point, copyright stops protecting creators and starts protecting incumbents from competition.

The deeper shift is this: we are moving from a scarcity-based intellectual economy to a zero-cost cognition economy. Ideas are no longer the asset — execution, trust, timing, and relationships are. In that world, trying to lock down knowledge is like trying to copyright arithmetic.

It slows progress, favors monopolies, and ultimately fails. The winners won’t be those who sue hardest, but those who adapt fastest — by monetizing experiences, services, authenticity, and real-world outcomes rather than static content.

So where does copyright belong in the future? Narrower, shorter, and more honest. Protect finished works from direct resale and impersonation — yes. Protect “vibes,” styles, tropes, or generalized knowledge — no. The role of copyright should be to prevent fraud, not to freeze culture in amber.

AI isn’t killing creativity; it’s exposing how much of the old system was built on artificial scarcity. You know, the one that lets “the Man” own it all and simple humans get stuck with the bills?

The sooner we admit that, the less painful the transition will be.

Around the Ranch: Runaway Santa

That copyright problem sets up a marvelous example of real-life job planning.

You see, one of Elaine’s boys – mid 50s and working for a government agency – is being sent to a 5-week intro to welding school because it’s a very useful thing for his job.

So while we were pondering Christmas, I thought:  “Since he doesn’t have a welder, I will get him one of those welding guns like the one I got for my neighbor recently for $50 bucks on an Amazon flash sale.”

Well, being the season of firm prices, those were back up to $80 bucks.  And I got to thinking “You know, he might want more than a stick rig…and oh, my, here are low-end multi-process machines for $100!”

Well, then I got reading the specs.  “He might want lift TIG welding, too….”

And 180 amps, not 130.  We want him to be able to do a bead on 1/4 inch in one pass…

By the time I was done, the Runaway Santa had equipped a pretty good home welding present for him and his family.  And because they have a middle school aged daughter, we suggested that welding might be one of the slower to be replaced skills out there with AI coming along.  Lawyers, paper-pushers…even architects – not immune.  But dirty farming small plots, welding, carpentry – basics of real construction and growth?  Yeah.

And at this, the runaway Santa produced to write a 92 page busines plan and welding school course.

The “sanitized version is here” RunawaySantaWelding

I gotta get out of the office and get me into click-therapy one of these days.  After I write a ShopTalk Sunday article…

Write when you get…whateer…

George@ure.net

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  1. “bitcoin still a con”

    What pray tell is USD in Ure esteemed opinion ? UST ?

    Did not ask about Gold, Silver or Copper.
    Like to note We keep finding moar of the sparkly stuff whenever we dig a new mine..
    THAT IS NOT THE CASE BTC..for see it is SCARCE, and getting scarcer every minute of every day. tick,tick,tick – look at that, even now there is less BTC avail than there was when I started hitting this stone age transcription device(keyboard). Think price is sky high now, wait till it starts getting Squeezed.

    Tis the Season..for Squeezing, Santa Baby -https://youtu.be/4I3soS-q4vo?

    * “3 soldiers” up chart pattern in Silver, AM action confirms – we be going higher from here.

      • No inherent value?
        You mean like US dollars?
        BTC value is based on the “work” done in mining.
        Hear me out on this!
        The dollar is printed into existence on the basis of WHAT?
        The proof of work model of BTC at least says someone did something other than just hit the switch and run the printer.
        There is some competition in there to get the answer first.
        The “proof of work” rather than “proof of stake” is why BTC will still exist when all the other crypto is history which (I agree with you on this) inevitable.
        All of you other objections are overcome-able, believe it or not.
        But ever since dad took the precious metals out of our coins, you can stop with the value argument.
        The dollar is worth, as my dad put it, what someone will give you for it.
        And right now someone will give about 92,000 dollars for one BTC.
        That is a lot more than a year ago

        • Intrinsic/Inherent Value does not seem to be correctly understood around these parts, Pilgrim.

          The millions of HOURS of coding, testing, coding, testing/test nets, changes made, forks adding utility/new products…MILLIONS of hours Developers work = INTRSINIC Value.

          What is the Intrinsic Value of Gold ?

          1)Physical properties-check – triple check for BTC
          2)Historical significance-check – same BTC
          3)Societal Beliefs- check- same BTC
          4)Economic Utility – triple check BTC

          Suggest Adult learning..back to business school, Geniuses .

      • Saddly…neither does the Dollar, pound or euro.. in the end its jus paper or a number on A spreadsheet…

    • An issue with Gold, Silver or Copper is .gov can take it at anytime and $AMZN/$WMT does not trade in metals.

      This is not to say Gold, Silver or Copper is bad but an illusion.

      Trumpers will go along with confiscation becasue it’s easier then admitting they were had by a carnival barker.

      “President Trump signed an executive order on March 6, 2025, to create a
      Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a separate U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile.”

      That rhymes with FDR’s fiat decrees.

      • Government theft(why use four syllables when you can use one) is easy for financial assets and perhaps BTC too. Certainly for other cryptos(sans Monero) and CBDC’s too. All require counterparties to have any value. Metals and materials(both base and precious) have intrinsic value and cannot easily be located or stolen via a computer search and a phone call. You don’t need to sell them to use them. Of course, they’re not “coin of the realm”, and so every purchase or sale becomes a barter. FRN’s have little value if it was not for their near universal acceptance in trade. Otherwise, they’re good as tinder for fire starting. The point is that if it’s easy to use for trade or investing, it’s much easier to steal.

      • The government can take anything from you at any time, including your life, and manufacture an excuse. If your investments are diversified, that mitigates some of that risk, up to a point.
        If you put all eggs in any basket, you are not avoiding risk. That is where diversification comes in. Real estate and enough PM’s to take care of property taxes is a good hedge against a lot of potential outcomes. Being land rich and cash poor can be a problem.
        The cryptos have not been a particularly safe place to put money for the average Joe, with limited technical savvy. A few folks who bought early and cashed in at peak got filthy rich, but every mania has winners and losers. Crypto has left a trail of victims.
        Other paper derivative investments suffer from the same safety issues as crypto, including paper PM’s.
        A time share is not ownership. It is a debt from hell.
        Debts such as mortgages are not assets, even if you are above water. If you can’t make payments, and you can’t liquidate, you can still lose it all.

  2. The true story of obamacare and me

    before obamacare, family health insurance and my choice to have it or not. no penalties if i don’t take it great coverage.
    cost about $75.00 a paycheck.
    AFTER obamacare now forced to take it or face huge tax penalties
    About $500.00 a paycheck no choices or face fines. reduced coverage.
    Just like Obama the biggest scam on the planet.

  3. Prescient. Last my tarot reader warned about coin. Said go ahead and make short term but don’t say I didn’t in the end.
    Praise be for paryers for G.A. recovery. Just a note to stay away from things/people who make you laugh for a while.

  4. Thank you everyone here for the prayers and heartfelt best wishes.

    I couldn’t read anything until today. The drugs have my head swimming.

    I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about when everything goes Tango Uniform and our access to good medical care.

    What a dark day that will be. I suspect that I’m getting in under the wire.

    Again, thanks to all!!!

  5. “the Fed is “making up liquidity” ”

    Who said it best:

    “I am the king of debt. I do love debt. I love debt. I love playing with it.”

    – Donald J. Trump

    That ditty was from the guy who said he’d audit the Fed.

    Could be Trump’s 4D plan to destroy the Fed by destroying the $. To MAGA means tear it all down and build from the foundation up. Rewind to the gold confiscation and play it again, Don. W/tokenization though, instead of fiat.

      • I wish that they would release the investigation report of what they found under the water of the Epstein island…
        that one got deleted almost as fast as some other fake I hesitation reports..

    • ALL “Epstein files” (except those that’ve been shelved by a few partisan Democrat judges) will be released in about two weeks.

  7. Peter Grandich: As I noted before Thanksgiving, say no to bah-humbug period for the stock market and the financial arena in general, would kick in and the “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” crowd’s “Party Like It’s 1929” attitude, would be in full force until we run through their great fable, the “Santa Claus Rally”. Sure enough, that has occurred with the DJIA in a melt-up mode.

    But I believe after the holidays and 2026 kicks in, a political tsunami is taking shape that can lead to a 180 from where we were this time last year.

    https://petergrandich.com/a-political-tsunami-is-coming-in-2026/

  8. Of course when crypto is backed by gold it will mean everything with the one exception an audit will never be conducted to determine that it’s worth anything……

  9. “Meanwhile, if you know where to look, America edges toward social breakdown. Wild street brawl erupts during ritzy Nantucket Christmas celebration | New York Post. Open war between the Bigs and the Wee People are coming. Early street battles likely to grow, as we plan to dial back our profile in 2026. Y’all have fun.”

    Is it mass psychosis?

    “It was kind of like the Jets and the Sharks from ‘West Side Story,’ only in Ralph Lauren and Burberry. It was 20-somethings versus like 60-somethings.”

    • It’s the vaccine. Livid-19.
      Haven’t you noticed the level of impulsive anger and psychological extremism worldwide has skyrocketed in the last 5 years….the vaccine years.
      The psycho-emotional damage from the vaccine is so profound that it’s unlikely the extent of it will ever be revealed. It was a chemical brain-worm.

      Regarding AI; it is ABSOLUTELY the end of creativity.
      Artists of every sort: filmmakers, painters, actors, musicians, not to mention thinkers: lawyers, doctors, teachers….cannot compete with AI’s speed, elasticity, and breadth of access to information.
      Calling AI “just a tool” is like saying a chainsaw is useful in the hands of a child.

      Not to mention AI works 24/7/365 without food or rest, costs little, doesn’t have sick days or maternity leave or substance abuse problems or family trouble that marginalize its productivity.
      Human thinkers/creators can’t compete with that.

      The aspect of AI that is rarely analyzed is the cultural shift of “The Source of Universally Accepted Authority”…or simply put, Truth.
      It was once priests, teachers, doctors, parents, scholars, experts. AI will soon be the source of ALL truth.
      A.I. should be renamed “Authority Infinitas”. It won’t be artificial much longer, it will be real, especially for the generation that is growing up now and who won’t need to think much in order to survive.

      Oh, one more thing: you know what the name for Authority Infinitas historically is: God.

      God help us all.
      Oh wait….nevermind.

  10. Haven”t heard of the Wolverine stack mentioned yesterday, but I have been doing the Cosmic Death Fungus detox protocol.

    I take it that the “Mass Divergence Event” with the merging of two universes didn’t happen yet today.

    “Then will come the big event. If we are not able to fix anything, the last reasonably normal year we will know as humanity is 2025. On the 12th of December that year, in the early morning for continental europe, the hole we punctured before will now succumb under the constant pressure and rip open. A merge of dimensions if you will. The rip will last about 3 days and not all of you will be there on the 15th. Expect major anomalies, things popping in and out of existence, written letters changing before your eyes, buildings changing direction, deterioration, or even the entire structure. The worst and most destructive are buildings, or large objects in general, popping into other objects, causing destruction on a massive, MASSIVE, global scale.”

    I suppose I could wait it out in a field, but then I might end up with a tree up my tookus.

    • Was Fringe prescient? It seems like a fascinating adventure!

      Perhaps the Deagel report is true after all. Trippy either way.

    • Care to share ?

      A friend with Weed, is a friend indeed!

      Seems like Ure bowl was spiked with hallucinogens of some sort…Mescaline, DMT, Schroomages..

      Up in Smoke..Xmas -https://youtu.be/VCzlpxBOSEI?si=-LI6KFlNzQR0RMUb

  11. good to hear you are recovering Stu … hang in there.

    and yes, the Fed keep feeding the sheep, and their Banker buds (QE), buy the dips, etc .. keep those casino doors wide open (free meals all) … LOL

    The only “sense” this controlled market melt up seems to be is to make the ones in the “know” more and more rich and richer ………. and that’s fine … “let them eat cake”

    DJT’s latest move to control AI is another off the charts move … seems the sheep don’t care …… control is control after all, just keep feeding the sheep what will make them fat …………

    Epstein files, wars, Gaza …. etc …. na, no story there … keep the sheep fed

    all the best folks

  13. levenworth is the second image. im on the clock, in a dumptruck working with crews to help out.

    its supposed to rain like hell all next week too.

    • FOX had a spot on the flooding — looks Biblical — They were talking evacuations in the hundreds of thousands…

  14. All, irt GU : “… you don’t need to read financial news every single day to keep up with the general flow …”

    Good luck with that. Yesterday I saw a chyron stating the DJIA and SPX hit all time highs. That was repeated all over the internet and even on TV. No one checked, just resaid what someone else said?

    Actually, yesterday the SPX looks to have printed 6,902 and closed at 6,901. The SPX printed 6,920.34 0n 10/29/25. A roaring day, a manic day like oh so many others of late (scalping shorts). But … not an all time high.

    The South Bend FD has great guys, one group who have been aiding my sister. The Captain I spoke with thought it was a great idea. The guy at the particular station couldn’t accept due to policy. Sad to just say thanks.

    Stay well, Egor

    • “Good luck with that. Yesterday I saw a chyron stating the DJIA and SPX hit all time highs. That was repeated all over the internet and even on TV. No one checked, just resaid what someone else said?”

      This is what has constituted our “news” for at least the past 20 years. Somebody writes something, everybody c/p’s the writeup. For any national or international “news event” there will be a maximum of three accounts unless you can find a source local to the event. Even if it’s something reported in every newspaper and RTV station on Earth, it’ll still be a c/p of one of the 2-3 original writeups.

      Why should weather, sports, or financials be any different?

    • snork ^ cloudy brain after intense week, was trying to buy pizza for the station house of guys who have been answering emergency “I’ve fallen and can’t get up” page from dispatch. Nope. Policy. Can’t accept a gift over $15. I’m going downtown first opportunity to ask the Captain who pointed me at the right station. OK, they can’t accept a $50 credit at their preferred pizza joint? How about $5/man x 10? Each is just 1/3 of the $15 thing!

      We are served by the Finest. I make a gift to our County PD a couple times annually. In the day Mrs. E would have baked cookies. Now they can’t accept unless in a sealed corporate package. My fav. is to saunter up in a convenience store and ask “can I buy you fellers a doughnut?” always gets a rise out of them.

      Still recouping. Feeling lucky as the snow is passing just to south
      Have a fine day all,
      E

      • “snork”

        Every time I see something like this, I think of Johnny Hart and the old “B.C.” comic strip. Of all the expressions he contributed to the American English lexicon (yes, “snork” is one), my favorite is “glomp.” Long before the GenXers appropriated it, it meant: “The sound made when an egg is eaten (originally by the dinosaur, but later also by Grog) in a single bite.”

        When I order poached eggs in a greasy spoon, I still glomp them…

  15. Runaway Santa Welding, an excellent post, and great side hustle intro to what could become a great career, with additional training and certification. It also can be a good barter option if/when the wheels come off. Your caution on what jobs to avoid is very important because the liability of a bad critical weld can be forever.
    However, even with 30+ years in the welding automation industry, and the ability to make nuclear quality welds using automatic equipment, I’d be a failure as a home-based manual welder, since I don’t have the hand-ey coordination to draw a straight line without a cad system. Good manual welding requires a lot of artistry.
    Damned Well Done!

  17. “By the time I was done, the Runaway Santa had equipped a pretty good home welding present for him and his family. And because they have a middle school aged daughter, we suggested that welding might be one of the slower to be replaced skills out there with AI coming along.”

    I taught my daughter when she was 12. AFAIK she’s never used the skill, and would burn a few holes before she remembered, but if she ever has to weld…

  18. (“At the clown’s after-party: The Senate Goes Back to Square One on Health Care Subsidies After Dueling Proposals Fail. No healthcare agreement, screwing of real people (though in fairness for real money) is game on for year-end. Peachy, huh?
    And that’s before we review the other cases for Quick-Clot as a stocking-stuffer in 13 days:
    The Fed – Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2024 – May 2025 – Savings and Investments
    Most Americans Are Missing Out on Key Savings Account Benefits, Research Reveals
    Bankrate’s 2025 Emergency Savings Report | Bankrate
    Not all dropping this week. But, you don’t need to read financial news every single day to keep up with the general flow. “)

    OTFLMAO..one..Boy how those stupid reports make it all appear as if I’m rich lol lol or at least richer than real life…The tragedy of these reports is not just the numbers themselves but the way they’re presented. The “average wage” in government surveys like the SSA’s index is a blended figure that includes the earnings of multimillionaires alongside ordinary workers. This inflates the apparent well?being of households and masks sector?specific realities. From an accounting perspective, it’s like averaging the balance sheets of Fortune 500 firms with small family businesses — the result tells us little about the lived experience of most Americans. Without disaggregating by sector or income bracket, policymakers are left with a distorted picture, which explains why debates over healthcare subsidies and household savings keep circling back to square one…the whole report would appear way different if they took the different sectors of societies incomes into account …lol

    Now take this information into account…The Census and IRS data show that the top 1% earn over $700,000 annually, while the median household earns about $74,000. Reports that blend these figures into an ‘average’ wage obscure the lived reality of most taxpayers. From an accounting perspective, it’s like averaging Fortune 500 firms with small businesses — the result hides the distributional truth.”

    The notion of the “thriving citizen” That was made by our congress and president collapses under closer accounting. Government surveys often cite average wages, but those figures are distorted by the inclusion of multimillionaire incomes. The median household income — roughly $74,000 — tells a very different story, than the one of families trying the old jugglers balancing act with rent, healthcare, and debt with little very little margin for savings. From an accounting perspective, it’s the difference between reporting a blended average across Fortune 500 firms and small family businesses: the number looks healthy at first glance having everyone nodding their heads saying yah this is good news, but it hides the fragility of most balance sheets of the average household or small business. In reality, the majority of households are not thriving; they are barely surviving, and the gap between statistical presentation and lived experience is precisely where policy missteps originate.

    What we’re witnessing is a clown parade of political leadership that operates inside a bubble, insulated from the realities most citizens face. In their world, deficits, healthcare gaps, and wage stagnation are abstract numbers rather than lived struggles. Similarly, those in affluent neighborhoods often fail to perceive the issues because they simply don’t exist in their daily experience — poverty, medical debt, and housing insecurity are invisible when your balance sheet is secure. The result is a governance culture that debates policy in theory while ignoring the practical consequences for households outside the bubble.

    • “Government surveys often cite average wages, but those figures are distorted by the inclusion of multimillionaire incomes.”

      …Which is why, when we become a Socialist state, the average annual worldwide family income of ~$3185 is something we’ll never see. The $1.70/hr I keep talking about is the average family income of all families, worldwide. That includes all those folks with 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 figure incomes.

      Instead of making $1.70/hr, everybody who’s not already in the “Billionaires’ Club” will be making the median wage, which is about 35¢/hr, and working about 72hrs/week (that’ll be everyone who frequents George’s sites.) We will be living in government housing, because our individual property rights will go away and we’ll have a choice of selling our shit to an oligarch or ceding it to the government.

      If you and your family can’t live on 35¢/hr, I suggest you start voting Republican. If you can’t hold your nose and do that, then I suggest you turn off the 24/7 propaganda and help find, promote, and elect a better class of Republican…

      • Now Ure a comedian too ?

        “elect a better class of Republican…” Bwahahahahahahaah, as if !

        Yeah sure, a better class of Republican, like an honest politician ?

        Uncle Georgie, we aint in Kansas anymore.

        Either that or our Swedish chef has gone off the reservation again..https://youtu.be/VEMWyBWw0cA?

        • Are you really still sore over all the money you spent to get Kammy elected?

          Just getoverit and in the future, make better choices, okay?

      • You are right on.. we need the social classes….The idea of social class separation is not inherently socialist — in fact, it has historically been a business reality. Industrialists of the past understood that their prosperity depended on the strength of the communities around them. They invested locally, built schools, funded hospitals, and created stable work families because they recognized that a healthy, educated workforce was the foundation of sustainable profit. This was not charity; it was sound business practice that has vanished. A congress that’s not involved and old industrial cities now appearing as war torn. A country that has dedicated itself to staying at war in the effort to fatten the pocket books of the elite. neglecting the essential care of our own infrastructure.

        Today, however, the model has shifted dramatically. Instead of reinvesting in communities, many at the very top have extracted value to maximize short?term returns, degrading the very workforce that once sustained them. The result is a hollowed?out middle and lower class, stripped of both opportunity and will. Countries that allowed economic structures to collapse under this model did not empower their citizens — they entrenched oligarchs and left the majority under their thumb. Even in our democratic society, the current business model risks the same outcome of a socialist state: a system where the numbers look strong on paper, but the people behind those numbers are losing hope.

        True separation of classes should create aspiration, not despair. It requires leaders who see community investment not as a cost but as the engine of long?term survival. Without that, we are left with gluttony at the top and erosion everywhere else.

        • ‘Thing is, under a free trade economy (which the illiterates call “capitalism,”) you can move up (or down) the “class ladder” by your own effort, knowledge, and (more often than not) luck. Under every other form of government, you can’t, unless the PTB “award” you a social status (like granting a knighthood, dukedom, lordship, etc., under feudalism, which is actually hereditary imperial socialism…)

    • The last comment I made I double read it before posting to make sure my fat fingers didn’t hit the question mark..yet when I hit post..there they were it has to be the auto correct doing that lol

  20. Ok…here’s a family favorite…EGG BAKE
    6 eggs
    half and half about a cup and a half to two cups variable..
    four cups of bummed bread ( I use home made bread)
    A couple cups of mild cheddar cheese
    salt and pepper
    1 stick of butter
    melt the butter and pour it over your bread ( I cube mine)mix the butter into your cubed bread

    whatever you enjoy bacon Ham etc..can be added as a topping..
    mix the eggs add the half and half till it takes on A yellow eggnog look..
    pour over the Buttered cubed bread till it covers the bread..
    at this point is where you place a layer of crumbles sausage or grated ham bacon etc.. mushrooms etc. you know what you like..
    salt and pepper to taste..
    take your grated cheese And cover it till you can’t see the egg bread mix..
    cover with parchment paper then aluminum foil.. set it in the fridge over night..
    the next morning put it in the oven at 325 degrees for one hour then take the aluminium foil off and bake another fifteen to twenty minutes until the cheese is browned..
    we make this often.. its a favorite meal
    the daughters do one as a French toast egg bake with maple syrup..the grater I use is a rotary one awesome and one everyone gets as a gift this year..

    At Christmas, I always add a strand of tinsel in the kitchen, right where the family gathers around the table. For me, it’s not just decoration — it’s a reminder that love shines brightest in the everyday places where we share meals, laughter, and stories. I also give a light of some kind, to symbolize the reminder that in life everyone should be a light unto others. In a season often filled with glitter and gifts and advertising marketing, these small touches remind me that true celebration is found in family love and in carrying Christ’s light into the lives of those around us and not in the mainstream of marketing.

  23. Observation: I read the entire comment section twice. then i mentioned my observation to another commenter in private.

    the whole comment section reads very jagged. it feels for lack of a better word “Desheveled”. i mentioned this to that person and they said holy cow! you are right. it doesnt have its usual melody and flow. its off centered. really off centered.

    its usually flows in contribution comments as a community like dadda dadda dada ding ding dada dada dada ding ding ding. dada dada dong ding dada dada.

    it nornally has a flow and melody to it.

    i never seen it flow like this, since the comment sections inception and i have been around long before you could comment here.

    its not the the artical. the artical George wrote is great. its usual flow and charm.

    it not anyone in particular. GA comment and Feeling Blessed comment flows in the usual melody. many other comments flow like Bing Booong! BANG! dada da Bing BONG BONG BONG. ding dada ding BONG! DING. DOOONG ding ding BOOM bang

    as a whole its covered in static. Static like watching the old ant races on the tv when i was a kid before the channel comes on line. or like someone who just woke up and put their pants on backwards, has their collared shirt only tucked in on one side and hair all a mess spilling coffee as they look for their glassses.

    never seen it like that before.

    just an oberservation.

    • George has changed the “Comments” parameters twice in the past 8 weeks or so. He has also changed the layout and is using his AI bots (at the very least) as both spellcheck and grammatical tools. We all come here for “a piece of George” — his life experiences, knowledge, and quirky pursuits. I cannot yet tell whether the AI-bots dehumanize Ure host or not, or make him less-interesting. I hope if it seems like they are, we have the stones to tell him and he has the stones to listen.

      Understand, I’m not saying any of the changes are bad, but each “tweak” he makes will upset “the flow” until we (his readers) get back into the groove of it. I doubt I’m the only one who’s noticed the physical changes, although to some users, it may simply be a “feeling” that something is “out of whack.” I was a website developer and HTML coder for years. I wrote clean, efficient code but have the artistic aptitude of a rock, so my view is analytical, not social. My guess is George is trying to have a life and still provide esoteric content to us, so give “the flow” a few weeks and see if its perception returns…

      • As usual, Ray is exactly right. The “inside story” he’s seeing is the work I have bveen doing on the server-side in order to TRY to get Urban to at least break-even.
        As you may (or may not) know – Urban is a xfirst-class money-losing proposition. Total ad revenues for December so far come to $19.24.

        I have been using AI to track down why (and where) what looks like traffic throttling has been coming from. this has invovled turning some knobs this way – others that – to look for real problems with site delivery time.

        I have been pretty clear on this but it’s worth saying again: I will be 77 in two months and I write every morning seven days a week. The AI is used for quickie research, idea gathering, and cleaning up language and such. It hasn’t “replaced George” but it is part of his workflow reinvention to avoid the other option on the table: To put up a “Gone Fishing” sign on Urban that points readers to Peoplenomics which is a twice weekly report that stands on its own.

        Right now, Urban should be semi-stable for a week – after I found a server-side “feature” that had been screwing up Googhle stats for years. So Ray’s not imagining things- there’s a lot going on under the surface here and I really like writing more than getting down in the php and xml levels of life.

        For now, the vagaries of WordPress vitals are back in the “elite class” but it’s not fun having to “ride shotgun” on a server farm to make sure “auto upgrades” and other helpers don’t torpedo the site.
        OK, back to working on charts for PN… good comments Ray – as always

        • I have played with those “server-side settings” many times. I know nothing about WordPress, but recognize the attempts at “adjusting” things to make a site a “better experience,” while hoping one hasn’t irrevocably trashed either access or usability, because I have done it, and felt it, many times. You’re doing fine. My only suggestion is to have the patience to turn only one of those dials at a time, to better-tell whether you’ve made an improvement or a fuckup.

          My suggestion to my fellow users is: Have patience and kwitcherbitchin…

      • you both may have missed the part where i said clearly,

        “its not the the artical. the artical George wrote is great. its usual flow and charm.”

        the comments come from those who are commenting. the melody of the group -synch- dialog is at “desheveled” and feels off center.

        not George. lol.

        there is a certain rythem and melody to the community who all contribute in the comment section. where you see juxtoposed ideas and phrazes line up and synch through out the entire comment section. that produces a rythem and melody.

        perhaps the community is adjusting to the imput output changes of the system. perhaps it is the result of Mr Stewarts recent experiance.

        either way its pretty glaring as i read it today again with fresh eyes.

        there is a certain melody, a rythem and rhyme to communities on platforms. as if they almost develop their own language.

        what i am saying is the Irish have an accent. Austrailians have an accent. People in Montana dont sound and speak like people in London. even though they are both using the English language. People fom Minisooota dont sound like people from the Louisiana Bayou.

        as a community they have their own meanings to certain words and ideas.

        and yesterdays comment section didnt read like it was written usually by the community here. at all.

        FWIW.

        • No, sonny. The “flow” of the comments comes from the actual essay George writes, but also from the “rolling tweaks” he is making to his sites. He will eventually stop jacking with those 8:1 geared vernier dials and when he does, the site, and the comments, will stabilize.

          Have a little patience, and don’t assume the weird shit you “feel” right now at US/PN is a permanent aberration.

          In the meantime, I assume you are laying a temporary berm/levy to help control the flooding? Are you ahead of, or behind the problem? Is there anything we can do to help?

  24. you both may have missed the part where i said clearly,

    “its not the the artical. the artical George wrote is great. its usual flow and charm.”

    the comments come from those who are commenting. the melody of the group -synch- dialog is at “desheveled” and feels off center.

    its not George. lol.

    perhaps the community is adjusting to the imput output changes of the system. perhaps it is the result of Mr Stewarts recent experiance.

    either way its pretty glaring as i read it today again with fresh eyes.

    there is a certain melody, a rythem and rhyme to communities on platforms. as if they almost develop their own language.

    what i am saying is the Irish have an accent. Austrailians have an accent. People in Montana dont sound and speak like people in London even though they are both using the English language. People fom Minisooota dont sound like people from the Louisiana Bayou.

    as a community they have their own meanings to certain words and ideas.

    all communities have a certain rythem and rhyme to them. where you see juxtoposed ideas and phrazes line up and synch through out the entire comment section. that produces a rythem and melody.

    and yesterdays comment section didnt read like it was written usually by the community here. at all.

    FWIW.

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