From Crisis, Another Book?

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A reader poll on whether a new book (serialized first on Peoplenomics before general release) is of any interest.  This, as a result of Elaine’s healthcare crisis this week. Which got both of us seriously refocused on Aging, the point of living Life, and how to live our important roles to the fullest.

In the midst of all this, the markets are “going to the Moon” and we’ll explain what we did in response going into the weekend.

Also, a role through some headlines as the “World going to hell…” is slithering ever closer.

Might need a cup-and-a-half for today’s report.

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77 thoughts on “From Crisis, Another Book?”

  1. “the acquisition of more things”

    Personally I don’t like possessions. Inherited possessions are even worse.

    Most stuff is obsolete within 10 years. Not long ago I found a plastic oil funnel that I bought around five years ago but never used. As I touched the funnel it crumbled. That’s to say a lot of stuff has plastic parts that don’t contain UV do to a manufacturing cost savings. Even the old shotgun/1950’s steel meat grinder will rust and disintegrate if not stored properly/cleaned regularly. Who still uses a meat grinder?

    I think when we pass things down we burden the recipient. Who will want our old Keurig machine with the busted LED? Or the Trijicon scope that now fades and can’t be recharged?

    Drive around through neighborhoods.

    Older neighborhoods have older people with garages packed to the rafters with junk, but the junk is valuable possessions to the owner. They still see it with retail tags and have memories with emotion attached.

    Medium aged neighborhoods have medium aged people that can still fit a car in their garage with a beginners junk pile, the camping tent with the one pole that needs to be rigged that special way which will be fixed when they get time. And maybe some junk inherited from the first group that one day they’ll go through.

    New neighborhoods have younger people with spotless garages. Or one box given from the medium group inherited from the previous group that’ll eventually be tossed as “what is this old junk, toss it.”

    I notice most estate sales are in older neighborhoods and during the sale inheritors take offers. So now the $149.00 Keurig machine has a $20.00 tag on it and buyers are dickering. Some other heathen is rolling a magnet around in the jewelry pile hoping nobody checked it.

    Raise of hands, who still has their mother’s wedding dress? Or that favorite chandelier from aunties home? Who wants the USB drive with our preferred D/Ls that the new tablet can’t read? It’s like a stack of 8 tracks or Beta tapes.

    Battle used WW2 leather bomber jackets are fewer and fewer because they turn to dust just like our stuff and us.

    Kansas – Dust in the Wind (Official Video)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH2w6Oxx0kQ

    Scorpions – acoustica – dust in the wind

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO29FkM6LZM

    • I can agree with your comments. However, we really do recycle a lot of junk we have, such as the wind ravaged gazebos now becoming grape vine trelises. The saved stored totes of things will need to be reviewed, so that some keep, some go away. We’ve been given too much from elders after the time we needed them and we’d already had together our own (of whatever the handy X item might be). It’s how people end up with multiple crap and desperate auctions. Currently, I have three complete sets of fine china in storage and none of it was mine to begin with. All of it the MIL’s. Why does anyone ever need these, much less three of them?!?

    • George,

      Out of Work Steve is so very right, in that many of the things we possess have cherished memories and hold value to us but not necessarily to others and sometimes not even to those who are related to us.

      There was a bluegrass song some years ago about who will watch the old home place and take care of the tools in the barn and the cooking items in the kitchen.

      I understand that some homes with decor and furniture in that home have become cherished treasures that hold meaning to many of the heirs. Those heirs remember significant times spent with family there and can recall that grandma used her best China for those dinners. I have heard about fights breaking out between the heirs over certain items, like grandma’s biscuit bowl or her iron skillet used for frying chicken.

      I believe what Steve was referring to is that many garages, sheds, and attics are full of stuff that is not really usable anymore or even valuable, although there are exceptions to this. Some items can be considered as collectible, and some items are valuable antiques and can generate money when sold at certain venues. However, much of the items in these deep storages can just be tossed in the trash, as no one, family or strangers, want them.

      I am at the age where I am concerned about how to disburse my household items. I do have a trust set up by a lawyer for certain things, but I would need to sell many of those other items at an estate sale. I do not wish to burden my heirs with the task of disbursing my household items, although I will discover who may want a certain item.

      George, you are most fortunate to have a son who will benefit from inheriting your home place and its many practical additions and attributes, when that time comes. By the way, I do still have my mother’s wedding dress from 1948.

      • https://youtu.be/LXA3UGcbZFI?si=6FmIH3ANXzcqOMSf

        so true.. I know most people don’t have a clue what I have.. to them it is junk.. to me its things.. because of the things that have happened to me.. I have a variety of tools and things that no one would ever know what it is even..
        In the end.. when you end up going to a nursing vacility or a hospital.. everything is tossed out sent to the good will.. a few momentos.. My brother made a comment.. he said after my mother passed on.. His comment hit home a lot.. he said..
        (” isn’t it sad that at the end of your life.. all that you have is a couple of boxes of assorted crap. a few photos and the memories of what you stood for”)
        He hit a home run with that.. my life was work.. then work again moving from one place to another .. meeting those along the way.. there wasn’t any vacations or memorable get togethers.. no parties.. it was working to pay medical expenses..since my rant for most of my life was .. solar and wind.. greenscaping etc.. the wife and I decided to show our kids and those around us that that was the way of the future..
        I am working real hard to make up for my misgivings as a father to my grand kids.. I for years was very empathetic to those suffering.. what I thought I understood.. I didn’t.. it didn’t hit me that I didn’t have a clue until it hit me.. you don’t know what someone else is experiencing.. until you experience it.. that was the biggest shock to me.. let those around you know how much they mean to you.. no one leaves our home without a hug and a comment on how much their presence means to us.. drive safe until we meet again..

      • In my shed.. there is a basket..
        the story behind the basket was that William Clark of the lewis and clark expedition made it.. my great great uncle told me that my great great great grandpa.. was invited to go with lewis.. but he didn’t know how to tell the family.. so he made baskets.. then told everyone that he had a hankering for a berry pie.. the whole family went out to pick berries just for his craving.. which in iteself was a big deal.. while they were out he took off.. not telling them a thing about what he was up to.. he left them without provisions.. Now the family up until my mothers generation hated him..didn’t want to even own that they knew him.. who the savior was was Daniel Boone.. he heard what clark had done and came to help them get the provisions so that they could survive..
        Then on top of it.. when he came back he brought a young indian girl.. my great great uncle showed me the shack or more shelter at least what was left of it that she lived in in their woods.. when they were burning down all the stuff.. I grabbed the basket.. I have had it my whole life.. looking at it .. it isn’t much.. a little boys butt broke the handle on it long ago when I use to keep toys and comic books in it..
        more than likely that will be thrown away.. long gone..
        Its just a story that was told to me.. I remember seeing photos and his papers.. someplace I did get some of the poems ( really rotten but then that was something he was not a poet LOL )

    • When I read your post, it stuck me not so much as “I don’t like possessions,” but more like “I don’t like taking care of my possessions.”

      After SHTF, you may well realize why people may still want tools such as meat grinders.

    • One man’s trash is another’s treasure. I shredded a lot of documents, sent dozens of lawn-leaf bags to the dump, made numerous runs to Goodwill, and made several runs to the recycle metal buyer last year. But old manual tools are keepers, as is anything that might be of use in a non-grid operating environment. I got a lot of my father’s tools, and virtually none of their junk. A sibling hauled a truckload of it off out of state. I had no room for it.
      I will probably do another round of junk elimination this spring. I need to thin out the old shoes and clothes further. I have thinned out the old computer junk, but I need to finish the job. I have a new Keurig in a box which needs a home. I have no use for it. I will make more runs to Goodwill, then turn around and buy some new old stuff off the web. Trading old stuff you don’t use for old stuff you will use is laudable.

    • My 55 year old flight jacket is not turning to dust. Neither is my Grandfather’s WW1 uniform. Nor my Father’s WW2 diary of 35 missions on a B-17. My dad’s uniform is displayed in England. His ashes are interred there as well.

      A Keurig and plastic funnel is not in the same class as any of the above.. Sorry that you don’t have any “heirlooms” of your own.

  2. Thanks George, another good column … and yes on a new book, especially if it touches on your ideas of health. Always appreciated … be safe

  3. Hi George – the new book outline sounds fascinating. Consider this a “YES”.

    Cheers from the Great White North!

  4. But,but Mr Narrator,

    The orange jesus is returning,yippee-NOT.

    “They” hate him, but is main feature story everyday on the platforms “they” own..everyday. ?
    ? Stupid morons , or have they the self assembling Nano Platform courtesy of Charles lieber & co. coursing thru their blood systems.

    Peek a peekies…”Once the white population falls below tilt level, which is a happenin now, country will implode almost overnight. North America will balkanize, with Asians and Hispanics battling it out for dominance. Hispanics have the numbers, but the Asians have more wealth and brainpower. The one good thing about this disaster is that neither group will kiss the Blacks asses and artificially elevate them to undeserved positions of authority, like the jew controlled white idiots and race traitors have done and will consign the Blacks to their rightful place in the dustbin of history.

    Of course Ragnarok will be the ultimate game changer .-HP

    IMHO – a probe is a drone, but G already knew that..hmmm

    *tried to “ buy market “insurance” for fam ofc business accounts last hr of trading yesterday..could not execute orders as both of my “contacts” were in high level meeting with another client, other contacts only execute Equity trades, not options. Will put in place come Monday, no matta the splatta going on in mkt, 20% downside protection thru Apr. Not advice,Ever, just information ..

    Peace out

    PS -you catz ever hear of Metformin, of course you have, youse have even discussed hear on these pages..???

    • I take berberine.
      “Metformin and berberine are used to lower blood glucose and increase insulin sensitivity. However, there are several key differences between the two; notably, metformin is an FDA-approved medication, while berberine is a natural supplement.”
      George, I think you also mentioned about “Metoprolol (Lopressor®) is a medication that lowers your blood pressure and heart rate, making it easier for your heart to pump blood to the rest of your body. It treats high blood pressure.”
      It’s one of my meds, 25mg morning and again at night. Wonder if taking instead of or with baby aspirin.
      I take an aspirin about once / week for bowwel cancerprevention.

  5. CNN headline today is the economy is booming but most of the country can’t afford to live in it. Sounds contradictory to me. Shades of the French Revolution? Anyone know a modern historical example of how this might play out?

    • Weimar Republic..the German Reich from 1913 to 1934

      All around the world I watch those countries that did the National Socialists wrong, the double crossers ,the tribe and tribe controlled/blackmailed countries being “Punished”.

      Russia absolved as their actions during that dark time are considered self defense, USA not so much..

  6. Butter Pecan Pound Cake Recipe :

    Ingredients:
    For the cake:
    1 cup unsalted butter, softened
    2 cups granulated sugar
    4 large eggs
    1 teaspoon vanilla extract
    3 cups all-purpose flour
    1 teaspoon baking powder
    1/2 teaspoon baking soda
    1/2 teaspoon salt
    1 cup sour cream
    For the butter pecan filling:
    1 cup chopped pecans
    1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
    1/2 cup brown sugar
    1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
    For the glaze:
    1 cup powdered sugar
    2 tablespoons milk
    1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
    Instructions:
    Preheat your oven to 325°F (163°C). Grease and flour a bundt pan.
    In a large mixing bowl, cream together the softened butter and granulated sugar until light and fluffy.
    Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in the vanilla extract.
    In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
    Gradually add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture, alternating with the sour cream. Begin and end with the dry ingredients. Mix until just combined.
    In a small bowl, mix together the chopped pecans, melted butter, brown sugar, and ground cinnamon to create the filling.
    Spoon half of the batter into the prepared bundt pan. Sprinkle the pecan filling evenly over the batter. Top with the remaining batter.
    Use a knife to gently swirl the batter and pecan filling together to create a marbled effect.
    Bake in the preheated oven for 60-70 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
    Allow the cake to cool in the pan for 15 minutes before transferring it to a wire rack to cool completely.
    For the glaze, whisk together the powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla extract until smooth. Drizzle the glaze over the cooled cake.
    Slice and enjoy your delicious Butter Pecan Pound Cake!
    Feel free to adjust the recipe to your liking, and happy baking!

    • There’s that Vanilla again! My Pompona cuttings have their feet in the mulch and are tied to the climbing sticks out by the fence, in the shade of the Lychee tree. It will be a few months before they get acclimated and start to sprout… I hope. Shelley Burich-Vaoala in Samoa has a vanilla farm to be envious of:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7Y8YMZL9UY

  7. THE SEA GYPSY TRIBE – 2024 UPDATE
    – by Ray Jason

    For over a decade I have been encouraging people around our Watery World to form Sea Gypsy Tribes. My belief is that they are the best defense against any catastrophe that may overwhelm Society. Here is my 2024 update.

    The basic concept remains the same. Essentially, it provides all of the survival benefits of land-based emergency “prepping,” but with the significant advantage of not being stationary.

    Human history proves that when people have to choose between starving and marauding, they always attack. Having an ocean-ready sailboat, properly equipped and stocked, allows one to “Flee to the Sea!”

    https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/02/29/the-sea-gypsy-tribe-2024-update/

  9. Now that you had a little time., is there any indication/ thoughts on what may have caused Elaine’s episode?
    .., and – has that ever happened before?

  10. My yes click linked to Outlook, where it has been stuck with a blank screen for the last 15 minutes. At 79, your new book is of profound interest to me.
    I’m not quite ready to move on to the next adventure/realm yet, I still have at least one more book to finish.

  11. phew…finding one’s path..the heart, the soul cries..it’s time to be the change.
    after a couple of serious situations.. one of my many hats..ir learning moduals of life..was in caring for others..what I discovered was what I enjoyed was learning their life’s story. a man that as a boy was traveling with his parents on the titanic.. as the ship sank and he was aboard a life raft he had to watch his father sink in the cold dark waters. every night he had horrible nightmares ..reliving that moment in time..sitting by his bed ready to comfort him as he relived the horrors he witnessed.. a gent ..that reliving war hid in his closet or the shower stall.. the horrors of the 4th of july..
    where I realized the true path was the wife if a pretty important and arount the wastelands famous surgeon..he would make yearly trips to foreign countries..in a hurry to get back to his wife he failed to wash or change out of his scrubs..she caught what he carried..a vicious flesh eating disease bacterial horrific.. it was si scary that none of the professional staff wanted to go near her..the husband so remorse over it that he couldn’t bear to see her.. he from what I heard retired and never went again..there was two if us that took care of her..it was one of the saddest things I had ever seen. the woman with complete faculties in such horrible pain..terrified knowing what laid ahead for her.. it was then I knew my life’s journey..some see their journey seeking a number some seeking an inanimate object or thing. some just lost trying to find their way a reason fir even existing. some hope..a listening ear or a simple hand up while at their lowest.
    my path is a simple one..do unto others…some say I’m nuts or I have a misguided path.. for myself I see the reason for my existence..

  12. Greatly enjoyed “Toaster,” “Packing,” and “Ark.” (Stored them, chapter by chapter, as they arrived, for later re-reading after all the plugs go out.)

    In the new book, don’t neglect a chapter on Simply Being Happy. And perhaps one on Being “Satisfied.”

    Else, What’s it all for?

    73

    • Excellent point! Being happy is a bit of a conundrum – you need to be happy to attract a mate and you need a mate to be happy, at least in my world. There may be other paths, and you can do good in the world regardless of how you feel inside.

      It’s amazing that in all of our schooling/indoctrination process, there was never a serious course on being happy, being comfortable with self-expression, connecting socially/sexually, or really anything else that mattered beyond being a “productive member of society”.

      Money and possessions are a very small part of the solution. Necessary to some degree, yet the intangibles are what really matter.

  14. according to the book of Wisdom,

    proverbs 3:16

    “Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.”

    I have found this to be true.

    while most people my age are having strokes, and other health problems etc etc etc

    I am getting healthier the older I get.

    now I have a white beard, but I’m not going bald, have a full head of hair and no Grey or white hair on my head. my beard skipped silver and went straight to white.

    I think it has to do with actively meditating and dedicating time to seeking God at all turns. always on the lookout for God moving in life. that and living in the Now, Present. more often than the shackle of a clock.

    well that and not living in fear. I think the product of ->> fear ages ya faster.

    honestly I don’t even have my phone on me, most times. I forget it all the time at home. sometimes I leave it on the mountain in my work truck for days. I know where I’m going to be and what in going to be doing etc etc. I don’t really need to be attached to a phone all the time.

    I think the more ya allow God to move in and around you, the healthier you become.

    the more I seek to do the work God lays out for me to be part of, the more God lays more work out for me to do.

    and when I go to bed at night, I sing mantras of gratitude until I fall asleep and when I wake up on a new day they are still singing in my head. all night long.

    I do this especially when shit isn’t going my way.

    you ever read those books by John Peretti, “This present darkness”.

    In it he talks about how these demons feed on fear and doubt, etc. etc. and how when we praise God, or have an attitude of gratitude it calls the Angels to come to us and it strengthens them.

    I like that. that has stuck with me.

    super good books.

    I’m not worried about cancer or any of that shit. I won’t get cancer or any of that stuff.

    I just know I won’t. I know they won’t ever get me or hurt me or anyone I love. because I’m protected. The Hand of God is upon me, He has anointed me and lights my path. I know that.

    had I not made the exact mistakes and exact right choices and everything and everyone around me, I would never experianced standing inside a rainbow. among a thousands upon thousands of other miracles.

    I have walked into situations that most people would crumble in fear. or know that ohhhh I’m not doing that. Many times, Boldly knowing that THE DUDE speaks softly but carries a really big stick.

    and walked out unscathed. not even a hair on my head harmed. I have escaped death more times than I can count, even recently, and even had 12 NDEs. and I’m still here. because THE DUDE is with me.

    sure I eat only Heathy food. and live in an area of little to no crime, no traffic except when a herd of elk are crossing the road. I sleep good every night etc etc. and I exercise frequently.

    but I think it has more to do with God, His Lady Wisdom, and The Love and Grace of Christ Jesus, than it has to do with any of that other stuff. the indwelling of Christ, seeking His mysterious ways and His wonders to perform.

    I find it interesting that the world gets weaker and I get stronger. I mean, how many fellas you know put 8 wheels on the bar and bench press 405lbs, 3 times on their 50th birthday. I have video of it.

    and smoke packs marlboros, chew cans of griz, drink gallons of coffee and have perfectly white teeth, and perfectly pink lungs anyway.

    I think it has all to do with my relationship with God. every day page one upon awaking even when I am feeling shifty, I leep out of bed and start dancing and singing. and especially when I had a shitty day and am feeling like crap, I end it with singing and gratitude. like the each day’s a book, the front cover, and back cover are gratitude, prayer and meditation etc etc and the pages or hours of the day, is everything inbetween.

    now, I know im not an idiot. I’m a smart man. I am hard worker, I’m very respected and trusted in many fields and professions. I am a good man. am I perfect, absolutely not. I am big fucking dude.

    when you walk as close as I do with THE DUDE, you feel small and when you see how THE DUDE, arranges life and situations and everything on a consistent bases, many times in a day, I feel small and feel like a clueless passenger in life. because when you truly see GOD move, you are of the understanding wow! I don’t know shit. hahahah I’m a bumbling idiot by comparison to THE DUDE. haha.

    and when you see stuff like your going over to shoot your buddy in the leg, for messing around with your girl, and ya talk to DUDE, he says well just ask him. so ya do. he lies, ya leave it at that, then ya let go, and 4 months later he shoots himself in the leg.

    or like when a fella at work was trying go get me fired. and I hear a voice whisper, call in sick. so I do. then the next day at work the same fella gets fired for doing exactly what he was trying you get fired for, ya think,

    don’t mess with THE DUDE.

    You understand Fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom. I certainly want THE DUDE on Andy’s side. stay close to Him. hahaha. because when THE DUDE has had enough, HE kicks some ass!

    I’m grateful Elain is okay. we both had a close call. good job George, handling Ure business.

    on a personal note, Dear BCN. I love crypto currency. I actually think I know who satichashi is what ever his name is. I know where he worked when he invented bitcoin.
    he worked for blackberry. I know that. I ain’t naming him. but when I read his emails. I saw that. I got the imprint of that.

    cryptos always rally into a big bull market with Republician Presidents. everyone is loading up.

    even me.

    I hope your not the kinda fella that would with hold my trade until after it goes to the moon, then process it after the big sell off. because if ya were? I’d shoot ya in the leg.

    cause we are friends and shit.

    I hope your not that kinda fella. I really do.

    you don’t ever fuck with someone’s wallet or their girl. ever! that is the big rules in this world.

    about 4 months ago I had this sooo hot 35 year old buck ass naked in bed. ready to roll. Blond hair, ice blue eyes, all tan, perfect ass and legs. sooo hot. right as I’m climbing into bed, she says, I have to tell ya something. I said oh and she laid there with her legs open. she said ya. I’m married. but my husband is in jail. and he won’t be home and nobody will know. and she pulled me close to her.

    I sat up on the end of the bed. took a deep breath. I will know. and I don’t sleep with married women. unless they are my wife. I got up and put my clothes on.

    she said no man has ever gotten up out of bed with me laying their naked. nobody will know. come back to bed.

    I said darling, I’m not that guy. that is not who I am. you are gorgeous no doubt. but I’m not the same as all those other men. it has nothing to do with you. it has to do with who I am.

    as I was walking out, she followed me. I said stop. i was trying to be nice about it

    now listen, I am a good man! you are a no good woman. we aren’t the same. now there is lots of no good men looking for a no good woman. go find one of those. I gotta roll, and I walked out the door and never heard from her again.

    you don’t ever fuck with another man’s wallet and you don’t ever fuck with another man’s girl. ever.

    not just because of karma or sowing and keeping.

    you don’t do it, because that is not who you are. i am who I am. the world doesn’t change that.

    you are either good when nobody is watching. or your not good.

    I sleep good at night. I know who I am and what I’m about.

    on to the gym, make some calls and figure some kinda get rich quick scheme.

    hahaha.

    the opposite of poor me is always,

    rich me!

    • p.s. I don’t sleep with vaccinated women. not because they have the mrna in them. only because they failed the world scale litmus test.

      and I’m not dumb enough for them.

      I think I will fire up old Willie tonight. it’s been sitting there for a couple months. I named my computer after Mr Nelson’s for his song, On the Road again.

      my step father was a race car driver and ever single time we loaded up the car and headed to the track, he spun his ball cap around backwards, took a big drink of coffee, popped that casset in the deck and that song started playing, he put the truck in gear and we were off to the races.

      30 years of racing. 8 state championships.

      it was part of his ritual. and it was one of the first personal rituals, I had ever seen as a child.

      it has all my old doorfore stuff on it. and stuff I had written if n I should do another website. and a few personal notes about ~~~ The Future ~~ (echo) ( echo)

      and…. SEE what I SEE.

    • Lol at your age.. to most of us old doggies your a child not wet behind the ears yet lol lol lost in the fog of time and space seeking his way.
      https://youtu.be/q5XfXECpU6w?si=xqN-l5NUZ4zQoxUe
      be patient young man you will find what you truly seek. just relax settle down and let it happen.
      (“and smoke packs marlboros, chew cans of griz,”)
      be careful of that one..your just a young pup yet.. at your age I thought I could go on at my pace forever.. your health can change in a heartbeat.. what’s important is family friends and faith..
      I have seen way to many leave this realm alone..I made it a point to attend the funerals of those I took care of. The saddest funeral I ever attended was of a woman.all the years I took care of her she didn’t have one visitor.. she had a disease that had her in agony all the time. who was there..the priest and myself alone as a wanderer through life she never settled down her goal numbers..alone .. I actually made my funeral arrangements because of her.. no funeral.. only thing in the obit is I went on vacation love my family and friends very much and hope to meet again in mild temperatures..
      anyone knowing me would be curious and come ask. then everyone can go to chicken dinner and give the kids a roll of quarters have a cold one for me..

    • “The Hand of God is upon me, He has anointed me and lights my path. I know that.”

      That’s why ‘the rest of the ramble’ doesn’t make sense to this very old man; And I’ve heard a lot of b/s during my lifetime, sorry Andy !
      Why this exaggerated need for attention ?
      Something haywire with your sex drive ? ;-))

  15. Definite yes! on your next book idea.
    A discussion with (through?) a few very reputable mediums indicated that those on the other side do their own life review and move forward based on lessons learned (or the need in the future to re-learn them!) We “drones” do have missions. And, based on contact with a deceased spouse, we retain soul, mind, memories, and all but our physical bodies. The challenge in this life is how to learn from those in “the room next door” to improve our performance of the tasks assigned, not to mention figuring out what they are so we don’t depart “empty-handed,” so to speak.
    – “tabbyfan”

  16. I heard an interesting theory about the open boarders.

    the reason the borders are open is to replace all the workers who got vaccinated when they die.

    to reassemble the US population with alternative workers, at a cheaper wage.

    interesting theory.

    • Hmm..see now I see it as a crack in the snow ledge..
      those calling the shots live a life of privileges that most never know.
      sitting on that high mountain of luxury and privilage.. they have no knowledge of what the one at the bottom deal with daily.
      we support and fund wars that we should not be in.. A crack appears in the ledge of snow.
      the dual standards of law..another crack appears.
      we send our forces on 8 fronts another crack..
      we show favoritism.. one has documents that legally can have them ever legal effort is made to destroy them..
      another that didn’t have the legal authority and oh its nothing..another crack appears.
      spending unheard amounts of money that the guy working produce at grocery world has to cough up..another crack..
      opening the borders a huge crack..those in privileged life eat steak or lobster its no bid geal..then hear comments similar to what the CEO said ..
      https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/27/kelloggs-ceo-cereal-for-dinner
      see I bet you thought he would say let them eat cake…lol
      one day people don’t really give a shit about political parties..they worry about day to day living. sometimes politicians wait to long to address the concerns of the people..poor crops higher prices and less products can really turn the opinions of a parent feeding their chikdren.
      dancing and showing off the dual standards is not good to flash it in the faces of the people.
      if they would have put the corrupt kid and brother in prison three years ago..no one would be questioning the dual standards..they would be out about now from the luxury resort prison system just like those that were jailed for the Watergate scandal.. if Biden had just came out and stopped the run to destroy trump.. there wouldn’t be a question on the dual standards trump would have appeared as a sore loser.. game over instead they pushed to destroy him.
      we all seen how fast BLM and Antifa marched across the USA doing billions of dollars of damage , needless violence destruction death and pillaging..
      we have seen how fast the tides of change happened when 4 illegal aliens beat up two police officers..
      if it continues each crack will widen the gaps of acceptance..
      then we can see the scary part..the avalanche

  17. and besides, I stayed true to who I am that day, and I had unhitched pussy all over me last night.

    and when she was done. she walked out the door.

    and I didn’t even have to go look for it. she just came to me.

    there is plenty of fish in the sea. and there is more than enough of money to go around.

    X marks the spot……

    hmmmmmmmm. time for a new real?

    where is that cigarette burn?

    oh there it is,

    one of my favorite,

    Cue: ~ Drop dead legs ~

    https://youtu.be/-EwJ9PkcZk4?si=ZaQMw3_-bzDYX-UZ

    Van Halen.

    • “and I didn’t even have to go look for it. she just came to me.” In my dreams, ha, ha, ha !

    • One thing I never quite understood young man…
      why do you cheapen one of the most precious gifts a woman can offer a man?
      There’s nothing wrong with sex.. sharing oneself with another is a comforting feeling of acceptance and communication.. of home.. but from
      how you usually describe your sexual excursions as more of conquests..
      I’m not trying to judge because it doesn’t make any difference which is using who to cheapen such a beautiful thing..I am just curious..

      • Andy has a rare and valuable skill, and how he actually feels about his various lovers(other than the married one) is really not ours to know. For many men, it’s female connection that determines one’s value to one’s self, if not the self itself. Andy seems to have a valuable skill in self-expression and is not wedded to the result. Few can claim this. He also apparently has an internal joy and zero social shame. These things are of great value, yet cannot be learned easily, nor even faked reliably. Andy seems to care about his lovers, and that matters.

        IMHO, it’s better to have one truly available lover that you’re deeply bonded to that a new one every month, or even every night. Body count doesn’t matter, though intimacy count really does. To each his own, and it’s not for us to judge. It would be nice to learn these skills well while young enough to regularly use them. Few men could refuse a hot naked female sharing their bed, regardless of other factors.

  19. There is now “strong video evidence” that the soldiers who fired into the crowds at the north Gaza Food Aid Station were not Israeli soldiers., but Hamas dressed as Israeli soldiers.
    As one reporter who was there with his video crew said:
    “I have never seen an Israeli soldier wearing open-toe sandals.”
    .
    Wouldn’t surprise me., not at all. Killing their own to keep the hate going.

    • Youse not remember The Phoenix Program in Vietnam ?

      It never died . Just washed, scrubbed and blow dried, prior to resurrection in Europe and ME..see Gladio.

      Nothing is what it seems, guess the tank involved in the food aid truck massacre was hamas, those dirty, filthy sand [redact – flag down on the field’

  20. what is it you always tell me george?

    oh yes, Write the Book.

    there ya go. you have your answer.

    I have a good start for one on Willie. not sure what I wrote, but there is 40 pages for a start for a book, I started writing 4 years ago.

    wonder what it says. lol

    have you eve seen lightning and thunder in a snow storm????

    I just did. that’s something new.

    • You from Alaska have never experienced “Thunder Snow”? I have in Wisconsin many times. One night at my AM radio station I watched lightning leaping across the guy wire insulators on the tower in a heavy snowstorm. Next spring the tower inspection revealed that ALL the big ceramic guy wire insulators had been pierced by lightning and had to be replaced. Large flakes of heavy snow falling rapidly building lightning static, and … thunder!

    • I’ve driven through thunder-snow in NM, and also out Amarillo way. It’s been trippy. windy, and lots of accumulation.

  21. ohhhh thunder in a snow storm,

    I-ching hex 55 mentions both the eclipse and thunder.

    I see…. the world around me speaks…

    changes in line 4,

    Changes in Line 4″The Eclipse Still Lingers”

    “A special someone may feel distant from you at this time. This is a temporary setback. Their love and light will return. Like a curtain slowly rising in front of a window, light will shine again and seem even brighter than before.”

    “The electrifying trigram of thunder resonates with mystery and power. According to ancient Chinese beliefs, thunder is often associated with legends of dragons. the thunder trigram is also known as the “The Arousing” and indicates intent, motion and initiation. The trigram is composed of raw energy and forward movement. Thunder may refer to an ‘eldest son’ or the compass direction north.”

    the thunder represents Creations round of applause.

    something I said?

    hmmm.

    that what Creation speaks back to me, this day.

    now, only you can assess,
    what the world saying to you. today.

    to each in their own way. the earth responds in dialog.

    • Thunder and a 1990-2011 model year Mitsubishi product? Hexed is right! What the fuck kind of prescience is that?
      Know if a Mitsu driver is coming for you (or did the chick last night drive a….)

  22. Just had a what -if thought …

    What if the Arab nations rise up against Israel and Putin attacks NATO simultaneously?

    Shit, there’d be so much dust and radiation in the air, we wouldn’t even notice if China took Taiwan then.

    • Seems to be what they are all waiting for – someone else to start the ball rolling so they all can join in the game.

    • Degradation of satellite tracking/guidance/communications is 1st order of business =Self Defense of Motherland. Not that they can’t track hypersonics in flight, just notice ignition/blastoff, by time that info is analyzed youse yanks will be vaporized. Speaking of Weinie’s and roasting there of, heard Ramstein will be hosting a “hot one” like 10k degree Fahrenheit hot.

      Noto will be suppling the weinies, Russia the means for the “roast”..Salud!

      Natasha, Mother Russia must protect and defend herself, we must stop the Moose & Squirrel !

    • The first pix is a rack of Video distribution amplifiers like I used at old NTSC TV stations back in the 70s. I knew a ham back in Honolulu, now a silent key, who used to copy morse code news via shortwave for the local newspaper back during the war. Like George, he described it as another language for him. He was Japanese American, and fluent in Japanese, English, and Morse. When working CW as a ham, he would grow impatient with just one contact, and would focus in on a slightly offset CW tone within his radio bandwidth and carry on another simultaneous QSO with a second… or more … ham operators. He said the most he had ever contacted like that was to hold FIVE separate conversations simultaneously!! RIP Kitashi Nose’

    • Ham radio ops still do Morse in large numbers. No, not everybody — it’s no longer a requirement for a license — but quite a few. Hundreds of thousands, globally, probably. It still has some key advantages.

      • William of the RR,

        re: “It still has some key advantages.”

        Tuning into the Morse pun code net, the idiom of “putting a bug in someone’s ear” appears to have taken root at around the same time as ham operators began swarming radio spectrum waves.

  24. Just a few notes for the assembled crowd. I was a sugar baby most of my life, with borderline high sugar test levels. As I have aged now, I find sugar overwhelms me in bad ways. I have found supplements that help normalize things. Berberine is one. The other is Gymnema Sylvestre which is a tonic for the pancreas to normalize insulin levels. Since I have started these two, I now have normal range sugar test levels at every checkup… even if I indulge in a treat or two. One doctor posits that dementia is “Type 3 diabetes”, so controlling your sugar levels and pancreas health can also ward off the brain problems that come with aging.

  25. 1
    (12 ounce) can corned beef, crumbled
    1
    cup macaroni (cooked and drained)
    1?4
    lb cheddar cheese, grated
    1
    cup milk
    1
    (10 1/4 ounce) can condensed cream of chicken soup
    1?2
    cup minced onion
    3?4
    cup buttered bread or 3/4 cup cracker crumb

    I use stove top stuffing chicken.. night before toss it in a zip lock melted butter about two tablespoons ..shake it up let it sit over night.. mix up all the ingredients cover with the croutons and bake at 350 for a half hour to 45 minutes when its all hot and bubbly..

  26. re: The Woman in Red, 1984
    feat: Notting Hill, 1999

    Folks,

    Keep the line moving, please. Nothing to see this week perhaps according to the Man from Black Rock City.

    Unlike America, where inquiries can take years, not so in the UK. Firms operate efficiently. That inquest pertaining to the gentleman married into royalty late of Notting Hill deceased last Sunday eve began at or about 1400 hours of yesterday’s Friday afternoon and concluded shortly after 1405 per the “Daily Mail”. Death occurred by gunshot, a weapon lay nearby, and all within the confines of a locked outbuilding upon the aristocratic property of the in-laws being cousin to the late Queen. The parent couple had seen fit to walk their dogs about the spacious estate grounds prior to leaving the decedent-to-be in good spirits. Case closed, let’s move on.

    The father-in-law of the deceased, a nephew of the Tsar of Russia, had the good fortune when a younger man to meet a previously married Austro-Hungarian Princess bearing high ranking from Bavaria of the Roman faith. Her early years had been spent first in Australia and later Mozambique, currently the second poorest country in the world. Matters pertaining to her father’s decade of service in the ss under Reichsmarschall Göring were apparently dispensed with. Subsequently the Princess embarked upon a salaried interior designer career with custom to London high society. The marriage to her English banker first husband was unhappy. He quietly sought respite in a hopefully happier New York banking millieu. His second father-in-law of a banking and OSS background is commended in a publicly available cia dot gov webpages obituary as a chairman of two committees that drew up documents leading towards formation of the CIA.

    The Austrian Princess having now found true love in the arms of the Queen’s cousin entered into the bonds of marriage via Viennese civil ceremony. By the grace of His Holiness the Pope, an annulment was granted regarding the abandoned first union. Her new second husband eventually was able to regain his place in the line of succession when Queen Anne’s Act of Succession from 1701 was amended. According to the “Daily Mail” the late QE2’s sister was furious that she was not allowed such mercies in the 1950’s. As well the newspaper notes a neighbor of the Anglo-Austrian couple at the Kensington Palace residence was the late Princess Diana who apparently introduced the “U-Boat Commander” monicker into Palace circles regarding those claiming to be of finer breeding to her. The Prince has sent back his Friend of Russia medal to Moscow since the sequence of events in the Ukraine. Apparently it is unknown by the same media whether the couple had opportunity to offer reimbursement of £320,000 received via overseas from a Russian oligarch and backer of President Putin prior his first election. Regrettably the Russian gentlemen was located the year following his generous largesse within a locked room of his English country estate near Ascot bearing fatal self-harm wounds with lesser blunt trauma and radiation reading. The verdict from the coroner appears to be open.

    Tabloids are in an uproar that the disgraced prince andrew was leader of the procession of Europe’s Royal Houses into Saint George’s Chapel, Windsor this past week for the memorial service of the late King Constantine of Greece. Video and picture stills show the prince grinning. Behind was the stern countenance of his sister the Princess Royal clad in most extraordinary attire for the occasion. Her above the knee wardrobe fashion gave way to knee high black english riding boots when the other women were wearing heels and dresses below the knee. The Crown Princess of Greece uniquely stood out wearing a red dress reminiscent of Marc Chagall’s “La Mariée” currently held in a Japanese private collection. According to Wikipedia, the specially painted replica for use in the “Notting Hill” movie was required to be burned after filming was completed.

    Over to DJ George whose renaissance-like background includes goat herding. He may wish to suggest to us what tune the goat is playing on the harp for La Mariée in Chagall’s masterpiece.

    • Obviously das Ziege is spielen some Country .

      ..Devil Went Down To Georgia – Charlie Daniel’s Band

      • re: “From Crisis, Another Book”
        feat: Navigating the Styx

        BCN (Herr Geistreich),

        Today apparently is a portentious day for the “Daily Mail” to release an author-written book report of her/their newly published tome “In True: A Woman’s Life in the CIA, Unmasked”. Author Ms. Mendez, head of the CIA Master of Disguise unit, teases out a fine global yarn covering the 60’s to the 90’s which closer to home ranges from Washington swing clubs to the Oval Office.

        Going with your compass heading perhaps to the USA low country, one could similarly embark on an adventurous search for the above book’s ghost author Ms. Wyndham Wood. Searching yields a cv with keywords taking one from toothpaste to bodies green. Where in the world is Wyndham Wood?

        From such discombobulations, one may take solace in comforting disparate tales found in “Wind in the Willows” whose author – born in Castle Street, Edinburgh – held a day job at The Bank of England which he described to friends as ‘sojourning among the termites’. Mole and Rat shared adventures with Mr. Toad, and separately with Pan who is based upon the Greek half-goat pagan god associated with sex.

        Following the author’s passing, his wife – a past hostess to the illustrator of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and daughter of the Scottish inventor of the pneumatic tire – remarried as like her mother before her. Her new step-father was The Right Honorable The Lord Moulton. He was caricatured in a 1900 issue of “Vanity Fair” by Sir Leslie Ward who drew under the pseudonym “Spy”. Lord Moulton had membership in the Cambridge Apostles, a discussion group. Allegedly he was deemed to be in his day to number among the 12 most intelligent men in England. Supposedly meetings began by reciting a curse from one of the group’s mid-19th century founders. History records that three of the Cambridge Five worked within the British government for the Soviet NKVD from the 1930’s onwards.

  27. The Biden Administration has announced new labor rules that will effectively make side hustles illegal in America, impacting an estimated 80 million Americans within the next 10 days.
    The new rules, set to go into effect on March 11th, redefine the classification of workers, particularly in the gig economy, as employees rather than independent contractors.
    However, the transition from independent contractor to employee status will strain businesses financially, leading to layoffs, outsourcing, and increased reliance on automation. The ramifications of this decision extend beyond the gig economy, affecting industries such as construction, trucking, and healthcare. This, coupled with the end of the Biden Administration’s relief programs for small businesses, paints a grim picture for the economy., and warns of a potential wave of defaults and delinquencies as millions of Americans face job losses and financial uncertainty with household debt and consumer credit already at record highs.
    “It clearly rewards illegal labor over the citizen labor. Cash employment will start a black-market labor force for illegals. Since when can’t someone have as many jobs as they want?”
    As the March 11th deadline approaches, the nation should brace for a seismic shift in the labor landscape, with far-reaching consequences for workers, businesses, and the economy as a whole.
    And the penalties from the IRS if you don’t follow the new rules are massive.

    • OH NO… I could have gone all day without reading that one D… thanks for sharing..

    • Somehow, I never heard of this and March 11 is only three days away. One can always start a corp and create a B to B connection. That’s stupidly complex for most, but it’s better to risk IRS ire than risk starvation. Got cash?

      Apparently March 11 is also where the Fed reserve requirement for banks goes from the covid 0% to 3%. It’s the anniversary of the Fukushima meltdowns, and it’s only days away from the Ides of March. It would seem that the Bidenistas want to be sure the country is fully destroyed before erection day, if we even have one.

  28. I wonder how the Labor Department is going to work this., as most of these side-hustle jobs are not eligible for unemployment – but a lot of them are going to be transitioned into ’employees’. So., a sudden surge in New Jobs Created ??

    • Hmmm… UNEMPLOYMENT.. insurance.. is a joke.. its for seasonal employees..only.. if you are let go.. you are not eligible for unemployment compensation.
      If you quit you are not eligible for unemployment compensation..
      but if you are a seasonal employee that was laid off with the intention to go back to work in lets say three months.. then you can get it.. it is the same with all the good samaritan laws..for wage earners… in the medical field every fall they have the annual witch hunt..where they can mostly those that are at the top end of their income bracket.. that still doesn’t have enough time in.. ( now that has changed since companies no longer offer retirement benefits) the year we went without an income.. the facility fired twenty five of the older top of the wage bracket employees.. they stage it so that the unemployment insurance department doesn’t get a rush job of it.. but for over fifty years I seen that.. NOW if you were hired lets say february.. then your job is pretty secure.. because february the kids are all busy with classes..
      Where you won’t see this.. and you will see full staffing.. is in the VA healthcare system..they don’t have the annual witch hunt.. what they have is a hiring freeze no new members to balance the budgets….
      My grandson when he was going to school working as a waiter.. got it during covid.. but as soon as he went back to work. He had to pay every dime back..
      Now I will hear a lot of arguements over this.. but I have seen a lot of refugees get it. and more.. we owned a house..( bank held the papers) and a car same thing bank owned it.. and we couldn’t get heat assistance food stamps.. etc.You were on your own.. see the logic is.. you can sell your car.. ( if it is ten years old and younger) or you can sell your house and use that money to survive.. if you have any retirement funds whatsoever.. they don’t give a shit about that you have to use them up that is money you have.. been down this road..

  29. Your tax returns are private – by law.
    TurboTax also wants your consent to disclose details from your tax return for ‘other purposes’.
    You’ll see the permission request once near the beginning of the tax prep process. If you skip it then, you’ll see the same screen again near the end. You’ll have to say yes or no to use information from your tax return for something other than filing your tax return.
    Read carefully what TurboTax is asking.
    Turbo Tax is asking to sell your private tax information to other companies and marketing firms. Do you really want your private tax information all over the web??
    – H&R Block does the same.

    • I quit using turbo tax and quick books.. in 2016… the reason I quit using it…. they moved all your banking information and control to another country.. when I put the new one on that year.. bank statements and turbo tax and my figures just did not reconcile out.. it was always showing a small amount of money missing from the bank account. figures have to match on all sides. a nickle I am ok.. .
      anyway.. I remembered a story my brother told me.. he lived in one of those gated communities.. and made more money in a year than I could spend in a lifetime..
      his neighbor was downsized in the early eighties.. the guy had a large income.. ( like my daughters best friends dad that was downsized and felt like someone slapped him with disgrace by offering him a half million a year wage at a new job.. dam them don’t they know what his value was.. LOL ) ( I doubt the guy ever really worked a real job in his life it was pencil time only)
      so the guy got a business license and would pick the top money making industries in the USA and send them a bill for a buck or so over five.. but always under ten… he did good until he got greedy.. then big companies started to question and he got caught..
      When I started seeing discrepancies in the bank information sure it was less than a dollar or up to just about five dollars.. that story my brother told me hit hom.. if you have a billion customers.. and you loose a half a buck a week.. how much did they get ..most people won’t even question that..a half buck isn’t any great amount..
      I worked at a retail store to.. that the same thing happened.. but their tills were adding up but something wasn’t quite right.. so they put cameras on it.. a woman in the money room was doing the same thing..she would add a half buck.. NOW…I doubt that the company is doing that.. but when it stopped being accurate I quit using the software.. it was driving me crazy.. I had to call the company every day knew all the kids there by name just to reconcile my account daily..
      I am a little anal about the check book.. I have to be .. I am at the bottom of the pile.. it can get away from you in a heartbeat..and there isn’t anyone at all that is going to come to your rescue

  30. re: Castling: king-rook
    feat: “Through the Looking-Glass”

    Folks,

    As previously noted, President Zelensky’s X account only follows that of the First Lady of the Ukraine. Thursday last, she visited the Queen Consort at her London residence, Clarence House. Now msm notes the Queen has had a hectic schedule of 13 additional public engagements since Valentine’s Day following the King’s withdrawal from public-facing duty. Therefore she will be availing herself of private airplane conveyance to an unnamed overseas destination for rest and sunshine. Return to the UK is expected not sooner than Commonwealth Day, March 11.

    Thought takes wing upon this 43rd anniversary of a first meeting between the Duke of York and adult film actress Koo Stark. Following introductory formalities, the Duke and his new affable company deployed to the sands and sea of luxurious Mustique prior to the Duke taking up station for the Falkland Islands War. Speaking of the Duke, prince andrew is presently forecast to be the most senior Royal available for public engagements in the UK. Please contact Windsor Castle for your booking requirements.

    The Palace has reminded the press that King continues on his recuperative path to good health. When a time of passing arrives as is so with all mortal beings, the King’s arrangements will be handled under the guidance of Operation Menai Bridge. The bridge connects the island of Anglesey with the Welsh mainland.

    Probably this would be a fine moment to join DJ George in studio for one from the archives. The bridge features in a song from Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking-Glass”. No,sorry, it’s not Jefferson Airplane with a “White Rabbit”.

    Give a big hand then to the White Knight who brings us a rousing rendition of “Haddock’s Eyes”.

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