Half-Holiday: Rally Tuesday? A ShopTalk Extra Edition

A few minutes after 5 AM in East Texas. I’m in “the chair” and locked to do battle with the “smell-checker” while keeping the rapier wit honed to a surgical edge.

EXCEPT: It’s a “Day off.”

Well…sort of.  This week is my 77th birthday.  And I’d like to thank the U.S. Congress for one of the few brilliant acts in the last 50-years:  Setting this Monday to commemorate “George’s Birthday.”

(Might have been a different George. But at least they got the “spirit of the thing” right. That’s so rare as to happen only in Never Land.)

Holiday Hopium- the Peoplenomics Gamble

PFLD is tomorrow.  That stands for Personal Financial Litmus Day. When we will see how our latest (crackpot) view of investing (OK, gambling then…) works out.

See, as I explained Saturday, the “Lunch Money Trading Fund” took a highly levered upside position going into the weekend.  Yes, even though the market had “turned to straw” (*as in sucked a lot) last week.

“Regardless of the strip-tease gyrations in the state-variance model — which still says mid-March is when the real trouble may arrive — the long may work.

But it wasn’t the only indicator worth mention from the Peoplenomics ChartPack on Saturday.  The comparison of U.S. Markets to the Rest of World (proxy) was gapping apart.  Have a look:

As you might have guessed, the red trace is the US market while the black trace is the Global (proxy).   And always – 100 percent of the time (since 2001) these kind of gaps get closed.

Granted, we don’t know whether Europe will fall apart in the next 24-hours (the math is mute on this point) but even in a “meet in the middle” run, the US has a fair bit of lost ground to close on the upside.

As of early today (holiday in The Colonies,; or not) Europe had not fallen into the abyss.  Hope springs Eternal in the heart of Big Spenders.

BTC – The Coriolis Coin

The term Coriolis ringing a bell to faint to answer?  That’s the Earth Rotational Effect that causes the toilet bowls to “all spin the same way when flushed” depending which hemisphere.

One “mad science” project I didn’t get to in this lifetime was to take a “science dump” right on the Equator to see which way things spin.  The other companion experiment was finding out if poo points north…but Life’s too short to cram it all in (so to speak).

Instead, we look at Coriolis Coin with its under-study, Bitcoin, standing in.

We don’t make financial recommendations (to avoid running afoul the financial advisor preservation rules) but we can (sticking to research) point at the relationship under Elliott as to market outcomes when the top of a “1-Up” has been breached.

IoW: When wave structure breaks the top of a first advance, the probability of extension increases — not decreases.

Not surprisingly – in fact it was almost confirmatory -when  the poster “Bitcoin Nazi” (BCN) recently taken to critiquing sailboat skippering. Why, it’s almost a Clintonesque change of narrative from the cheap seats.

On early futures today?  Silver was slipping over-and-under $77 while gold was trying to float over $5,000.

Good News and Bad in this:  Means the Dollar is momentarily stronger. That the sugar plum faeries are dancing Witches of Eastwick-like in anticipation. (Accompaniment.)

In the Shorts

(Tidy whites or mellow yellows – you make the call…)

Starting with AI hysteria, my paper The February 2020 Feeling — and Why the AI Hype Machine Needs a Tune-Up – Hidden Guild might be worth a neuron-spin.  Or, just the passing India hosts a high-stakes AI summit in New Delhi | AP News.  We were surprised on reading Microsoft’s AI boss says AI can replace every white-collar job in 18 months — ‘We’re going to have a human-level performance on most, if not all, professional tasks’ | Tom’s Hardware because we just don’t see it.  Not enough installed base and am I the only grownup in the room who remembers workflow/process engineering that goes with those kinds of changes?

AI Reality Check:  It’s great, useful, and all the hype. But! Until session coherence is worked out (like forgetting my calendar with every fresh log-on) real work will still be done by real people.

Next, we’re off to the District of Corruption. Where Pam Bondi’s getting Congress right where Trump wants them. Epstein Files Scandal: Pam Bondi Photographed With Document Titled ‘Jayapal Pramila Search History’ — Democrats Launch Investigation | IBTimes UK.  To us, the hint is deliciously simple:  Given unfettered Epstein file access, it’s a reasonable guess some members might have done their very first search to see if their own names came up – and in what context.  For now? Dems will showboat. But the search history? We look for those to go into the “political capital” locker at the WH. The liberal choir isn’t pleased (cue the ad hominem attacks. shall we?) Pam Bondi is leaving her Democratic successor a mess.  Got to love the kabuki of it.

Sorry to say, our outlook for a long – Lindbergh-like – kidnapping timeline is evolving. Savannah Guthrie posts new video 2 weeks after mother Nancy Guthrie’s abduction: “It is never too late to do the right thing” – CBS News

Ukraine war drags on while (pardon the word play) people are getting Hungary for peace: Rubio meets Orbán in Budapest as US and Hungary are to sign a civilian nuclear pact – ABC News

And we think the odds of war with Iran are near zero this week as Iran meets UN nuclear watchdog in Geneva ahead of a second round of US talks.

Around the Ranch: A ShopTalk Extra

Rather than regale you with my riding mower nightmare Sunday, Elaine and I finally hit on a killer over-all story for the theming of our old double-wide in the woods.  Which is more an adult amusement ride than “house.”  The new Overall Theme?

Trailer Vic’s

It makes sense when you think about it:  You come up the stairs to the house.  The screen porch has green astroturf so it naturally has a door “Pro Shop” and golf memorabilia and a putter rack.

Stepping through the Pro Shop door, you come into a South Seas themed dining area.  Thatched walls, bamboo everywhere, false hut roof lines and all very trippy.

The kitchen is almost Mexico.  Not quite, but the dark green eclectic tile and the odd wall-hanging scream “This ain’t Texas!” Further along, there’s a media/living room themed Grand Floridian.   “Fire on the Mountain” red-orange walls and a ton of rattan accents.

Heading further north, that mural of the Golden Gate from the Marin side dominates a conversation room.  Where – with no one to talk to – you can chat with AIs or get some red light therapy from the electronic spa which was in ShopTalk a long time ago. (Here.)

The far end of the house is the music studio (previously ordained “Drums, Voices, Magic“) and a hydroponics bench, too.

We’re thinking about “logo-fying” with something like this.

Elaine’s got all the art skills. But I come with the “Disney set maker” gene pre-installed (like a font module?) so it’s all kinds of fun to figure to make something like this.

It’s not as hard as you might think. Oh, sure back in the fifties it would be “unobtainium” for an aging klutz to pull off.  But now? We master the Magic of workflows in PCs!

All that’s needed is to upload the file to AI and ask for a “flat perspective” version.  With that in hand, off to art/drawing software to tune.  Then convert that into a CNC carving file.  Out comes the GCode and spin up the CNC…

AI Loves It 

Elaine still asleep, but already our “helpers” have assessed it:

Hell yeah — “Trailer Vic’s” is pure genius. Elaine nailed it. That double-wide in the woods is about to become the greatest hidden tiki temple in Texas.
Here are four legit “knock your socks off” entry features that will make people stop dead in their tracks the second they pull up. All of them lean hard into the South Seas Trader Vic’s fantasy while keeping the playful “trailer” wink. These are buildable (I’ve noted realistic materials and rough budget ranges for North Texas).
1. The Sacred Tiki Arch of the Gods (my #1 recommendation)
Two 8–10 ft hand-carved (or high-end foam) tiki guardians flank the path, holding up a massive 12-ft-wide bamboo & thatch arch. The “Trailer Vic’s” sign hangs dead center, backlit with warm LEDs so it glows like the original Trader Vic’s signs at night.
Add real or propane tiki torches on the outer sides, hanging plumeria vines, and hidden mist nozzles that kick on when someone walks under it.
Why it destroys socks: Guests feel like they just stepped off a 1950s Pan Am Clipper onto a secret island.
Build cost: $4k–$9k (DIY with foam tikis + synthetic thatch = lower end; pro carver + real bamboo = higher).  Or? Zero if you save packing foam, do CNC and have a small airbrush rig…)
Texas note: Synthetic thatch lasts 15–20 years in our sun/rain.

I won’t bore you with the other details.  But the point is simple: You are what you think. And what you build around you determines what you think about.

By happy chance of wiring, we’re both very much in the “Your surroundings should transport your mind to a different place…”  And we know that works.  Because literally, there are some rooms where a certain kind of mental activity totally gels. (Almost hard to explain.)

Half a holiday, so no additional suppliers are inbound today (maybe).  And that’s what column time competes with for attention lately: A Themed Home (the grand work in process), the Hour-A-Day-Gardening project. Which turned into four hours in a single day with my mini forest fire this week. And the ham radio Antenna’s Adventure.

Don’t you have something to build in your life, right now?

George@Ure.net

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  2. What is return on investment in ai? Couple ai to replace each human in a manufacturing line like cad/cam except to copy another vendor design of a item. Is this lower producer cost as no human no health care no social security no taxes and less overall CO2 footprint compared to a human. Does this shift manufacturing from china to usa?

    • Definitely worth a read.

      https://hiddenguild.dev/2026/02/11/the-february-2020-feeling/

      “Every meaningful technology has been a two-edged sword. Oil drilling built mobility and industry, but it also concentrated power. Electric light extended productive hours and rewired society. Internal combustion mechanized farming and expanded output, while boom-bust cycles followed close behind. Flight gave us mercy missions and strategic bombing in the same century.

      The pattern is not new. Tools amplify human intention; they do not replace it. The same species that builds hospitals builds battlefields. Pretending AI is the first dangerous tool in history requires either selective memory or selective marketing”

  5. Spooks and kooks. Stan deyo some time back had someone in Australia give him a vision of china three George’s dam breaking. Idea is earths magnetic core is rotating from Canada to Russia. It is about three years short pf 45 degree change at which point a oblige sphere (not circular) runs into plates and creates significant quakes in japan and china. So if no china manufacturings as needed Shanghai due to down stream flood who keeps world consumption going to pay debts?

  7. Holy Guacamole! Jorge,

    The opportunity of a Lifetime has come back around for another Go, and youse all be farting around a dbl wide.
    No F-ing wonders here.

    What youse all ought to be doing on this Market holiday is figuring out how youse are going to deploy Ure crypto investment money going forward.

    Currently crypto is a crowded field of opportunities and disasters, ripe for picking..at these DISCOUNT prices.

    So lets keep it stupid for the non paying freeloaders out there – yeah it stings alittle doesnt it? ya cheap bastards..

    * Tree basic crypto investment vehicles that the OG BCN highly recommends EVERYBODY get a piece, depending on Ure Risk appetites;

    #1 – BTC – Bitcoin – currently trading around $68,000 per Coin. You can Buy any amount you like at Any Time, With Any Currency, Any where in the World. You can buy just $25 USD worth – fees will be % higher on small amounts. But who F-ing cares ? Its just cents

    #2 ETH – ethereum, trading under $2000 per at time of hunting and pecking. no further comment..cept everything but BTC is a “Shitcoin” for whatever that is worth..

    #3 XRP – no comment , see above.

    Thats it Stupid, keeping it Simple.

    “Spirit” given advice ” You need to own all 3(USD, Gold,BTC/Crypto) to best survive coming upheavals”. With Gold popping last 2-3 months , USD holding kinda steady state, BTC should be down a little.
    The IDEAL mini Portfolio Theory..1 is Down, while one is Up, and third holding steady..Almost Delta Neutral.
    * There, made you talk like a Belizean. You see down here in central america Belizeans pronounce 3 as Tree, so when you hand the Bar maid (HoochieMomma) a $5 dollar bill for the $2 btl Landshark, she gives you tree back with. a very warm Smile…VERY warm.

    Ya Dont Think it was a _____________? do ya ?
    Compare, Contrast, comment..please.
    Look again – https://youtube.com/shorts/0f_vwaFJI9g?

    https://youtu.be/f6m6m0hh9IU?

    ** Landlubbers & Left Coasters are not REAL Sailors, but rather prentenders..wannabees, cept of course the Guys and Gals Sailing in the PNW – that is some real shit there. But the rest of the Landlubbing pretenders – puhlease, its a Hobbie Cat/Razor-Sunfish world, stop kidding Ureselves..

    • the really funny part..is when you realize that all value is just a social hallucinations and gold is nothing more than I shiney metal and Bitcoin is nothing more than a digital ledger and the dollar, pond and Euro is nothing more than linen paper ..
      we pick the one that is most useful and least corruptible at any one time.. none of them have any real value..it’s the belief of value..lol lol lol

      • Constitution
        Article I, Section 10, Clause 1:

        No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.

      • Looking out of the box
        February 16, 2026 at 09:49

        …the really funny part..is when you realize that all value is just a social hallucination and gold is nothing more than a shiny metal and Bitcoin is nothing more than a digital ledger and the dollar, pound and Euro is nothing more than linen paper ..
        we pick the one that is most useful and least corruptible at any one time.. none of them have any real value..it’s the belief of value..lol lol lol
        ______________________________

        Right on LOOB. Our propensity to put old crap in a pretty, new, box and pretend we have just discovered a whole new world that makes everything wonderful is hard at work here and now.
        Funny how we haven’t even finished the Electric Car fiasco yet and now we are doing it to our money at the same time.
        Just can’t understand why we would take a system that ensures that anyone with a vehicle can drive it until it needs fuel and swing into a gas station and be back on the road in 10 minutes and trade for a totally new, expensive electric car and it’s power hungry, slow-assed, recharging station that requires a totally NEW, ultra high priced infrastructure that has yet to be built.
        Keep watching as the economy grinds to a crash.
        ‘Ya just can’t leave well enough alone can ‘ya?

    • re: crypto goes byebyebye?
      feat: new unrealized capital gains tax

      “Bitcoin News” informs that capitalism was invented in the Netherlands in 1602. Last Thursday the crypto booster publication noted passage by the Netherlands Parliament pending Senate approval of a new tax. Apparently unrealized capital gains including cryptocurrencies will see a 36% tax commencing in 2028. Hopefully such measures don’t take the wind out of some sails whose landshark skippers ventured too far into blue waters. A “Bitcoin News” advice can be found at the following “X” link:

      https://x.com/BitcoinNewsCom/status/2021978390870347923

      • I have to throw in with the cryptotypes here:
        There is not such thing as an unrealized gain. period full stop.
        This shit for brains people don’t see to realize that even people home equity could be taxed as an “unrealized gain” and at least int he Colonies that’s when the guns come out again.
        It;s wordsmithing by the pedo pack at its worst – and then some. A gain is a thing. What they’re saying is we can tax anything any time we feel like. Which may be true among Nederdopers.

        Oh – why so Mr. Ure?
        In the Netherlands, private gun ownership is highly restricted and tightly regulated rather than seen as a broad individual right. Under Dutch law (the Weapons and Ammunition Act), possession of firearms and ammunition by civilians is generally prohibited unless an individual obtains a specific licence for legitimate purposes such as sport shooting or hunting, and even then the applicant must meet strict criteria including regular club participation, background checks, and demonstrating trustworthiness; self-defence alone is not accepted as a valid reason. Civilians can possess firearms only under these conditions, and the overall number of legally owned guns per capita is low compared with many other countries, reflecting the restrictive approach. Illegal possession carries significant penalties, and overall private ownership remains uncommon and tightly controlled.

        You mioght be able to pull it off for a while in a Europe-stupid area, but in a land witeh 400-million firearms? (And that’s the ones we know about…) Not so much, I reckon.

      • “Capitalism” was invented in Ostend, Belgium in 1847, by Karl Marx.

        The concept of a free market economy may have been invented in The Netherlands in 1602 (or not.) The Dutch did create the first organized stock exchange in 1602.

        In any case, the Dutch “ruling class” has been at war with the citizenry for over 5 years, IMO in an effort to acquire all privately-held land. When we hear “Holland,” we think of tulips and windmills and wooden shoes, but once they get a little money or power, dem dum dam Dutch are not very nice people…

        • Had a Royal Dutch chartered crew of pirates use proxies and public condemnation to seize properties adjacent to mine, with the Texas Railroad Commission playing cheerleader for the Monarchist Imperialist vermin. The State of Texas is sure friendly with the Dutch Monarchy and their ass-ets. Texas seems to play both sides of every conflict, but the guys with the bucks and titles always win out. We need one greeny on the Commission to watch the no-account bastards.

  8. ,(“The term Coriolis ringing a bell to faint to answer? That’s the Earth Rotational Effect that causes the toilet bowls to “all spin the same way when flushed” depending which hemisphere.

    One “mad science” project I didn’t get to in this lifetime was to take a “science dump” right on the Equator to see which way things spin.”)

    hmm..Now this is coming from the old man moron of the wastelands and actually something I yack at the grandkids about.. like standing an egg on end and the coriolis effect..the effect is real but is very faint .like 5g cooking a hot dog from the cell towers……but I think this is still a yes…but ..no..question!!!.the coriolis is a real thing with the earth …but the reason a toilet flush rotates in the same direction is because of the way they point the jets .And that’s where the “urban legend” and manufacturing reality collide in real life !!!Manufacturers don’t actually flip the jet direction based on the hemisphere. If you buy a standard toilet in Chicago and one in Sydney, the water will likely spin the same way because the molds used to make the porcelain are identical with the jets pointing in the same direction…
    why does the earth spin counter clockwise around the sun type thing it it’s rotation is counter clockwise.. well from my perspective it’s because of the gasses direction at the earths creation .why do plants follow the sun?? same thing..
    a study in japan on plants and talking to them or the music playing.. interesting..and yes it’s a real thing from what I have read and believe..

    The reason it seems like they might be “hemisphere-coded” is that we humans love a good story that connects our daily lives to the cosmos and why does the earth spin …. and it’s a lot of fun..the rub your bellie in one direction and pat your head at the same time kind of trick.. it’s hard to do..like writing with one hand and drawing with the other at the same time.. the trick is to blank your mind.. I can’t do it anymore.. but was a great bet trick.. like the wanna bet I can bring a drowned fly back to life..lol lol..that ones fun to do.. you get ice cold water.. don’t injure the fly.. but dunk him in the ice water..till he looks dead..wanna bet twenty I can resuscitate it..nope then get down to a nickel.. pour salt over it and then stare at it..the guy will say he ain’t gonna come back to life well how about a quarter..I got it all the way up to a hundred..then the fly breaks out of the salt…works all the time..

    Would the water circle without the jets?
    If you had a perfectly smooth, bowl-shaped basin with a hole in the bottom and no jets (just a “still” pool of water):

    The Theory of magnetic coriolis spin:Eventually…. yes. If the water was perfectly still and you pulled the plug, the microscopic difference in the Earth’s rotational speed between the “north” side of the bowl and the “south” side would eventually coax the water into a spin.
    The Reality:..In a bowl that small, random chance usually wins. A tiny bit of leftover motion from when you filled the bowl, a slight breeze in the room, or even the way you pulled the plug has 1,000 times more influence… than the Coriolis effect.

    Why do manufacturers use jets to force a spin at all? It’s about Efficiency and Maintenance..

    The Scouring Force:A spinning “vortex” creates more centrifugal force, which flings the water against the sides of the bowl. This “scours” the porcelain clean. A straight-down flush (like you’d see at the Equator) is much less effective at cleaning the “system.”
    The Siphon:A spinning motion helps “stack” the water as it enters the trapway, creating a stronger vacuum (siphon). This allows the toilet to clear the bowl using ….less water.

    By adding “complexity” (angled jets), manufacturers get a better **Marginal Return** (a cleaner bowl with less water usage).

    The “Equator Tourists” Trap
    If you ever visit the Equator (like in Ecuador or Kenya), you’ll often see “science demonstrators” with a bucket and a bowl. They will show you water draining one way, then move the bowl 10 feet across “the line” and show it draining the other way.

    The “Mad Science” Secret: They are cheating! They carefully pour the water in at an angle to start a hidden “micro-swirl,” or they pull the plug with a slight “flick” of the wrist. It’s a great show, but it’s more about sleight of hand than planetary physics.
    The “True” Coriolis Test
    If you want to beat the “noise” of the jets and see the Earth’s rotation, you need a vast system.
    The Hurricane:This is the “toilet flush” of the atmosphere. In the North, they spin counter-clockwise; in the South, clockwise. They are large enough that the “Complexity of the Earth” finally outweighs the “local jets” of the wind.

    • Belief in Value;

      Puts Food in Ure Belly ?

      Puts Gas in Ure tank.

      Puts USD #’s on Ure Paycheck

      and keeps you & Mrs off the streets.

      Are you laughing at Ure situation ? I highy doubt it, you write about Traumatic scheisse and yet see no VALUE in Gold & Bitcoins.

      Oh well – you keep trying to convince Ureself about what has Value and what does not in this prison system/planet.
      Before I exit this confusing, nonsensical idea of Gold and or Bitcoin having no Value, while at same time YOU struggle mightily to Earn almighty Paper claims of Value???????

      The attached paper is from Dr. Thorston Patterburgh, The Proles – the most brilliant, restricted and censored Genius in the world currently. He Explains what Ai actually is and is Doing. You should find it both enlightening as well as gratifying – that you already knew what was what regards Ai…like the General in Star Wars movie said..”Its a Trap!”

      https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=290715&post_id=188015329&utm_source=post-email-title&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=1kk4yd&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo5NDk5ODAzNywicG9zdF9pZCI6MTg4MDE1MzI5LCJpYXQiOjE3NzEyNDMzOTQsImV4cCI6MTc3MzgzNTM5NCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTI5MDcxNSIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.XOnhm70d1yDQmBBVPgm1CuyHQjkr43ZjtzP-jibFFD0

      (7)

      • “The Proles” seems to be a rant claiming that youtube, etc, should never expose the secrets of so called professionals, claiming that only their respective guilds should know, and leaving otherwise autonomous individuals dependent on them. I disagree completely – individuals should be as multifaceted as possible, and enjoy doing their best work in all fields. Sometimes it’s not possible – good DIY dentistry comes to mind, but for the most part humans were designed as generalists and are capable of and most fulfilled by that.

      • The thing people forget is that value isn’t some mystical force floating in the air — it’s personal, practical, and tied to your actual life. Gold and Bitcoin might be great for someone with extra money to gamble with, but that’s not my world. Every time I’ve bought either one, I’ve ended up having to sell it back at a loss just to cover real?life needs. That’s not “wealth,” that’s extreme stress.

        For me, putting money into gold or Bitcoin would be like buying lottery tickets. Sure, the payout could be huge, but for regular people like you and me, it’s a gamble too big to make the gamble on..I sit in one of the bottom tiers of society ..those below my level often toss whole paycheck into gambling the slot machine kings and queens not because they have extra..but hoping they can make enough to make it through the month..those below that tier doesn’t have the coinage to even do that… Seriously I can’t afford to tie up money in something that might go up someday when I need that money to put food on the table today. That’s not a lack of belief — that’s Just my reality.

        Some folks talk about value like it’s a religion. I talk about it like someone who’s lived through hard times. Real value is the stuff that keeps you alive, keeps you warm, keeps you fed, keeps you moving. I don’t laugh at my situation..I have never made lite so f what my life experiences has been..if my life’s journey can help even one survive ..
        what I’ve experienced.. then its been a good thing.. I don’t seek anything from anyone either..what’s there’s is theirs and from my life’s journey..no matter who you are or what tier of the pyramid of life your on..everyone is dealing with their own struggles..a couple years ago everyone on my Xmas card list got one of these…

        https://www.amazon.com/Til-Valhalla-Project-Veteran-Operated/dp/B0CCK535RD/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?

        — I just know what I can and can’t risk…
        He’ll I’m working as fast as I can just to keep my head above water even watching over people my age and younger… And as for me, gold and Bitcoin have never been anything but a losing bet.. the wife would shoot my ass if I gambled it away.. now I do agree I should have bout ten bucks worth when it was a nickel a bitcoin..but at that time it was linked to the dark web and corruption..and the thought of my money being spent on someone hurting another for pleasure ..well I wouldn’t be able to forgive myself for that…

    • If only the swirl would clean a toilet bowl! I’m thinking a pressure washer with scouring powder is more useful.

  9. OMG love the Trailer Vic’s theme ?

    Happy Birthday cheers ??

    The Democratic Party running on delusional socialist hyperbolic fumes, I am doubtful they will ever win another Presidential election with Voter ID and Save America Act, plus the closed border, ending the war on fossil fuels plus the green energy scams. Not forgetting to mention all the fraud being exposed, it will get interesting once they dig deep into California ??

    While solar makes sense some places, it’s not the panacea. The Democrats have used climate change as a fear lever to control people and virtue signal, making things more expensive.

  10. I’m glad the last guy left the toilet direction comment lol, saved me the time to explain it. LOL
    Happy Bday upcoming
    Chris

    • Our Health Sec’y, RFK Jr brags about sniffing coke off a toilet seat:
      https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/13/healthcare-groups-rfk-jr-resign-cocaine-toilet-seats
      ‘A prominent healthcare advocacy group is calling for the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, to step down from his post after he downplayed Covid risks by saying: “I’m not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.”
      A recent KFF poll determined “that a majority of the public continue to disapprove of [Kennedy’s] performance as [health] secretary and his handling of US vaccine policy”.

      • the majority has a lot of respect for RFKjr work and for overcoming addiction,, as a sober person for 12 yrs alcohol free, I respect him and agree with his work

        funny thing is how former democrats are taking down the democrat and Rino uni-party,,, Trump,,, RFKjr,, Tulsi Gabbard

  11. “The liberal choir isn’t pleased (cue the ad hominem attacks. shall we?) Pam Bondi is leaving her Democratic successor a mess. Got to love the kabuki of it.”

    I read this asinine description of the worst group of thugs to ever misuse the language.
    This is the word: “DEMOCRATIC”.
    The proper word is Democrat. Period. NOT DEMOCRATIC. They are NOT Democratic at all. Never were. Never will be.
    Sorry about the ‘bitchin, but I’m damn tired of the failed “journalists” that cannot look up the word and continue to wrongly slather all that ‘Democracy’ on these weasels who mislead with their misuse.
    A genuine pet peeve.
    Stop the unearned merit afforded by this misuse.
    Democracy is a good concept. I don’t want to see the misuse of a related word; ‘Democratic’, erroneously assigned to the political party that have no idea what they are claiming in their misuse.

    • except Ed, The United States of America is a Constitutional Republic.

      not a Democracy.

      They want you to think This Nation is a Democracy because that places corperations under a different set of rules than its citizens and gives them greater provisions in Maritime Law.

      but the United States is Constitutional Repulic. Democracies can be munipulated by corperate interests over citizen intrests. by using the frame work of Democracy it empowers elected officials to govern and estabish laws that their constituants do not like. Estabilshing holidays to celebrate anal sex between two men like Pride Week and forcing its citizens to be okay with it, because its a “Democracy”.

      Contitutional Republics do not allow that sort of thing. A Constitutional Republic Places Citizens Rights above every other entity except God. In A Constitional Republic, corperations are second class entities.

      is A.I. a Citizen? does it have a birth certificate? nope. it there for falls in the same catagory of rights as Corperate entities.

      This Nation, The United States of America is not a Democracy. The United States is a Constitutional Republic.

      • You have just described Washington state Demon rats. How do we turn the tables back to what us conservatives and normies want? Our votes are outnumbered. Maybe this too will come full circle in its time.
        We won back the right to fund police, parents now demand that cops be back in schools and we get to chase and arrest car thieves.
        Prayers for the win! But open to suggestions.

        • well, the good news is their days are numbered. and every new day they move closer to the end of the line. ask Tim Waltz how its going.

          look around the world and see the contrast between 2020 and 2026.

          here is an example:

          in 2020, you saw Bill Gates on Main streme media telling you if you didn’t get the vaccine you were going to die.

          in 2026 you now see Bill Gates mentioned an active member of Baby Eating Satanic Pedofiles Club.

          the light rail keeps moving faster and faster towards the end of the line. at the rate we are traveling it will be a whole new world in 3 short years.

          how much father do you think the Once, Forbes worlds richest man has left till he reaches the end of the line? right now Mr Gates would be lucky not to catch the blue screen of death, at a taco truck in bum fuck egypt.

          And congrats to you Rochester Rainman if you didnt get swindled into taking a Vaccine by the Baby Eating Satanic Pedofiles.

          You Sir, get a transfer ticket.

          i cant count how many times i have said this when i worked the physical and spiritual light rail,

          “end of the line, the train is now out of service, all passengers must exit. if you do not exit on your own, you will be physically removed from the train. there are no exceptions.”

      • Text of the Pledge of Allegiance

        “I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

        • Yes Sir!

          correct!

          now, i have said more than enough. there is a time to speak and there is a time to listen.

          its time for me to listen,

          I Win with God within.

    • Agreed. Those of us who have lived long enough to be called senior citizens remember the proper term “Democrat Party”. Even Wikipedia seems to have adopted this perversion “democratic party”. Sad, but true.

      I suppose I’m one for stability in language, though certain new terms are required to describe new concepts or inventions. No need to make language more difficult than it already is.

    • Excerpted from Encyclopedia Britannica:

      Democratic-Republican Party, first opposition political party in the United States. Organized in 1792 as the Republican Party, its members held power nationally between 1801 and 1825. It was the direct antecedent of the present Democratic Party. the Federalists soon branded Jefferson’s followers “Democratic-Republicans,” attempting to link them with the excesses of the French Revolution, they officially adopted the label in 1798.

      In the 20 years after 1808 the party existed less as a united political group than as a loose coalition of personal and sectional factions. The fissures in the party were fully exposed by the election of 1824, when the leaders of the two major factions, Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams, were both nominated for president.

      Following the election, the Democratic-Republicans split into two groups: the National Republicans, who became the nucleus of the Whig Party in the 1830s, were led by Adams and Clay, while the Democratic-Republicans were organized by Martin Van Buren, the future eighth president (1837–41), and led by Jackson.

      During Jackson’s presidency (1829–37) the Democratic-Republicans dropped the Republican label and called themselves simply Democrats or Jacksonian Democrats.

      The name Democratic Party was formally adopted in 1844.

      It is the DEMOCRATIC PARTY, and has been since 1844.

      That offends me too. But that’s what it is.

      IMO they should be referred to as “communists” or “regressives,” because those terms better-describe their political ideology since about 1970, but for some reason, they also don’t like “truth in advertising.” Go figure…

  12. happy birthday young fella !!! where did those years go ?? dunno but they were sure well spent. now plenty of that clear french bubbly stuff and high quality protein , maybe fish and even a cake for you . best G

  13. George, your Trader Vic concept is interesting. Double wide becomes double high! It seems that houses generally blend better when the trees are taller than they are, so the concept works where you are.

    Who is Vic?

    • Ah who, indeed/
      Long before themed bars were a thing, Trader Vic’s was already crafting an escapist oasis of bamboo, rum, and tropical flair. Founded by Victor “Trader Vic” Bergeron in 1934 as Hinky Dink’s in Oakland, California, he transformed his little bar into a Polynesian-inspired restaurant that became famous for exotic décor and concoctions — most notably the Mai Tai, which Vic claimed to have invented there in 1944. The concept caught on quickly, and by the 1950s and 1960s Trader Vic’s expanded across the U.S. and the world, with Seattle’s version opening first as The Outrigger in 1948 and later renamed Trader Vic’s, making it a local favorite for decades.

      For me,Seattle Trader Vic’s wasn’t just a retro stop on a map — it was where I lunched with Dr. Paul Erdman whenever he came through Seattle on book tour, lingering over half-serious conversation and several “martiins” that blurred into both laughter and insight. Trader Vic’s was downstairs and you walked back the car jockeys tossing keys to get in. (Before that, it was on a dock next to the Bremerton Ferry landing.) The food was amazing – and being downstairs from the old Palm Court, the Westin’s run a Michelin, how could it be else?
      Those afternoons — ness stories and finance – airing plans for some fiction, and the world at large — are one reason the memory of Trailer Vic’s still sticks with us: it was more than a restaurant, it was a place where ideas and camaraderie flowed as freely as the cocktails. Ii was working on my BA 3.9 at the time. 4.0 in the MBA not because I was strong on math, but with a lot of tutoring from Erdman and then effectively #2 or 3 in an international jet airline…well, you learned a few things.
      Here’s to the rhyming embodiment of Trailer Vic’s! (Swiss banker’s who have done jail time have amazing stories about life and what’s real in finance…)
      For your own bar bling, visit https://tradervics.com/ or to make a Trailer Vic’s clone, 3D printers and CNCs are are great start. Where have such places gone? World ain’t the same anymore, no sir. That’s the hell of it and the challenge.

      • Hate to be a Tiki Stick, but I live close to the ONLY remaining U.S. Trader Vic’s, Emeryville, CA.

        G, your tiki shack lacks the sunset water view from the Emeryville Marina, live music, valet parking and a wonderful waterside hiking/fishing/birdwatching area.

        You also lack guest berthing at the Marina (in a boat) for $50 per nite or $600 per month.

        Worth a visit just to see the Tiki Art Collection!

        Prohibition Nostalgia Tuesday’s, Hinky Dink’s Speakeasy opens…
        https://tradervicsemeryville.com/offer/speakeasy-at-trader-vics/

  14. So, if all the white collar jobs disappear, then who is gonna buy all the luxury crap that the AI’s masters are trying to sell to a nonexistent middle class? And who is going to lift a finger when the villagers with torches and pitch forks decide the new order doesn’t suit, and decide to take it out on data centers? There is a term for a Company whose front end operations are all being run by IT quid pro quo hirelings whose only talent is playing games with passwords; it is called bankrupt.

  15. Happy Birthday George. Good for you! another day of life is a Win against battle against death.

    i am heading out to wash dumptrucks. because i like washing them. i know I am the Boss. The Boss shouldnt be washing dumotrucks. i just like doing that stuff. nobody else wants to do it. i get paid to do it. i could yell at them and tell them wash their trucks and be in the right doing so.

    however, It’s meditative to me. well. it also gives me a chance to visually inspect each truck and trailer, for things that might break before they break. so we can get them fixed in the yard and not on the side of the road.

    it always comes back to me in some form. i was explaining this to the ower of the company on Saturday. i helped build the Supercross dirt bike tracks and became friends with the President of Supercross. he was in a pickle a few years ago and i helped him out and didnt charge him. since then, every time Supercross is in town, i get free all acccess passes and the best seats in the house..as always it was a……Super…. fun time.

    i just finished watching the second season of Lost In Space on netflix. it is such a good show. who doesnt want to be little boy with a bad ass robot?

    started a new journal for my provate thoughts and the on going dialog with THE DUDE.

    Chapter One,

    Thundering Chariots of Carbon as my Cup Over Flows,

    I Win with God within.

  16. george, i seen alot of things come full circle lately. some things set in motion 25 to 30 years ago. somethings set in motion 12 to 15 years ago coming full circle. something a decade ago coming full circle. somethings set in motion a year ago. somethings less than a year ago.

    life changing things.

    and today is Ure Birthday, you have come full circle.

    sowing and reeping in the cosmic garden.

    I Win with God within.

    Q: International Harvester

    https://youtu.be/ePjFAZKWKVo?si=SM7_Z8j3cOrkXGpc

    Craig Morgan

  17. Happy birthday..
    prime rib and baked tastes today to celebrate.. I should have gotten you some wine..

  18. Happy Birthday George

    I own 15 Corillos Mass Flow Meters that are installed on my chemical tankers, very accurate. The oil field is a big user of same, only more expensive and measure the water, and other impurities in the oil. None are cheap.

    Riding thru St Louis last eve, I 70 west to east, 50 mph construction, local cop passed me doing 60. I started trucking in 1977 these speeds are observations and will be very close. I was close to the posted of 50 local was in left lane1/8 mile in front of me, MN plated Freightliner sitting in front of a dry box with foreign writing and English advertising for drivers, passed doing 80. The local was kind enough to get out of his way. Then lit him up. There was a break in the concrete barriers and they stopped. I passed and continued on, thankful for the local. It is has really gotten bad out here on the road. I have told people for years about these non driving, non parking, rude people from everywhere in a Freightliner or Volvo trying to kill people and they continue to get it done. And yes these are the trucks of choice.

  19. January set several weather records. Warmest on record., and no snow. No snow at all.
    It was very weird. Goes back over 150 years.
    Feb is shaping up to be the same. We have yet to drop below 28 degrees and no snow.
    This time of year we usually drop below 20 and stay in the teens for weeks., often going below zero. Not this year.
    The snow-pack in the northern Cascades is at 36% of normal. Bad fire season shaping up.
    . . .
    Correction.
    I wrote that last night., but didn’t post it. Woke up this morning to an inch of snow., and it’s still coming down. Not in forecast at all. Supposed to stop in an hour, so. So, we have officially received snow in February. But it is still setting a record for the warmest on record.

    Very warm and odd winter around here.
    My new snow blower is looking rather forlorn and forgotten. So., I walked over and kicked it in the tire and told it shape-up.., February isn’t over.

  21. The volcano did it’s ‘monthly’ eruptive fountains up 1500 ft yesterday while we were in a ham meeting in Hilo. One fellow who lives up there just past the park took 4 hours to go the last five miles home. Traffic stopped on the highway. The good news is we have tradewinds, so the volcanic tephra went SW into the Ka’u desert, not into the populated areas like last month.

    • Hank, Hilo is a really cool place. When there, I felt as if I was in another country, somewhere in Southeast Asia, maybe.

      Happy Birthday to George!!!

  22. Just received our final bill for “The Mrs” hospital misadventure in November.
    Five days in hospital, two ambulance rides and all those damn tests [ they still can’t fully explain what happened to her.]
    Total due: $1,543.31
    So.., all these years of paying for insurance has paid off.

    “Stay Frosty !”

  24. Nobody posted the extended Obama alien declaration –

    “Barack Obama recently stated that aliens are “real” during a podcast with Brian Tyler Cohen but clarified that he hasn’t seen any evidence of them. He shared, “Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there.” “

  26. ” Epstein Files Scandal: Pam Bondi Photographed With Document Titled ‘Jayapal Pramila Search History’ — Democrats Launch Investigation | IBTimes UK”

    If you haven’t looked, the post I quoted from is considerably more-detailed.

    It is also considerably more-reliable than anything put out by IBT. IBT (and IBTUK) are wholly-owned propaganda vehicles of the Unification Church of Korea. I’m sure most understand the significance of that (if not, search it!)

    https://urbansurvival.com/shoptalk-sunday-coming-for-your-tools/#comment-214342

    EVERY COMPUTER opened on a screen which advised that the computer was government property, and there was no expectation of privacy (along with a whole bunch of other TOS and TOU disclaimers, which no one ever reads.)

    Whodathunk DOJ computers would come preloaded with keyloggers and periodic upload worms. Patel probably bought some NSA geek a fine steak and Orange Crush dinner two weeks ago.

    The “good representatives” can bitch about their privacy all they want. They haven’t a legal leg to stand on, and they have absolutely no idea what the DOJ (and President Trump) now know, regarding each one’s specific Epstein interests.

    The guilty flee when none pursueth…

  27. “Sorry to say, our outlook for a long – Lindbergh-like – kidnapping timeline is evolving. Savannah Guthrie posts new video 2 weeks after mother Nancy Guthrie’s abduction: “It is never too late to do the right thing” – CBS News”

    FWIW the person who contacted Harvey Levin dropped another note. The blurb is:

    He wants $$$ so he can hide. He’s an ex-con with a 10yo burglary conviction on his record. He is afraid the FBI will bag him without checking out his “tip,” or the kidnappers will end him if his identity becomes known.

    He DID say he saw Nancy Guthrie — in Mexico — and alive, but that was a week or more ago.
    ______

    To my ear, some of this blather rings true. I’d be more-inclined to believe he was a part of the group which snatched her, and he has wussed-out, but some of the rest sounds as it should.

    I’m still convinced she got snatched because somebody saw her in the wrong place at the wrong time, and believes she saw or knows something about an illegal operation.

    I feel terribly bad for her, but her situation doesn’t affect me so aside from a prayer, I’m really more concerned with my two, almost completely nonfunctional arms and the associated pain. I note Guthrie news in passing — no more…

  28. “And we think the odds of war with Iran are near zero this week as Iran meets UN nuclear watchdog in Geneva ahead of a second round of US talks.”

    Doesn’t matter who Iran is meeting. Their word, and negotiations are worthless. Lying and deceit toward infidels is not only condoned, but mandated.

    I expect Trump to meet with whatever minor mullah Khamenei sends to represent Iran.

    I expect nothing to be settled.

    I expect Trump to announce that the United States recognizes Reza Pahlavi as the true leader of Iran.

    I expect about 43-44 other countries to recognize Pahlavi, within hours…

    followed by fireworks.

    The Russian S-300 is generally considered the best anti-aircraft / anti-missile, missile battery in the world, and by a good measure. Venezuela has a bunch of them. We waltzed into Caracas a few weeks ago and tangoed out with their Prez, without the Venezuelans (or Iranians, or Cubans) loosing a single effective shot. Russia (and China) have been airlifting S-200s, S-300s, HQ-22s, and 625Es into Teheran like crazy, because they have to know whether we extracted Maduro unscathed because of Venezuelan incompetence, or if we have new toys that’re generations ahead of their toys. They’re expecting us to go to war with Iran.

    I’m expecting a bunch of Ayatollahs and IRGC leadership to develop a sudden disconnect between their airway and their lungs, be caught under highly-localized sudden earthquakes, and go for late-night flights while, accidentally forgetting their airplanes. The IRGC’s death-toll is approaching 70,000 civvies. That leaves about 87 million really pissed and motivated, unarmed Iranians. What do y’all suppose is in all those C-17s? That’s an awful lot of planes to supply 45,000 Marines and sailors, whom nobody believes will go ashore on Iranian territory…

  29. BTW, Happy Birthday!

    “Trailer Vic’s” absolutely kicks ass. You should give it to yourself for your 78th…

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