Market Informatics Thursday – Limits of Calculus

“We gonna have us a MIT session, he-ah…”  

(Hopefully, you can still sub-vocalize while reading. Because there’s a certain loss in Hunter S. Thompson-like material when speed-reading.  Loses some flavoring that only an overacted lingo-lango regionalisms can provide…)

Yes kids, time for the Old Man to huff the whiteboard marker and explain: Market Informatics is science of organizing, analyzing, and applying information.

Let’s open the puzzle box and see what’s rattling around inside, shall we? [Maybe Ure will slip and say something useful?]

Are We Replaying 1929 – Really?

You mean besides the:

  • Guthrie as the replay of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping?
  • Besides the market bubble?
  • Besides Smoot-Hawley reincarnated as Trump?
  • Besides Epstein as a replay of Teapot Dome?
  • Besides Crypto filling the Charles Ponzi role?

Or, as reader n__ commented today:

“There would be a temptation to equate today’s AI with the depression era radio and fledgling TV companies (remember RCA?), but other than newness, I think the comparison ends. I’m thinking AI corresponds more closely to the rise of totalitarian states in that era; we just haven’t seen that last shoe drop yet. It’s not that I fear any particular of the electronic bogey men, it’s that their composite compulsion to monopolize financial and production resources will bury all of us. Think a Nikita that never sleeps, has no fear, never backs down. and is more self-centered than any infant. If you are in debt, you are its competitor. If you are not employed serving its needs, then you serve no purpose…”

Of course, high-speed clickers may not slow down long enough to think, so let’s help them out by providing a…

Depression Replay Drought Reader Update

Gee, skeptic, see how it’s lining up?  Click away, replay refuters!

We will save the outbreak of wheat rust for when we bring a bottle of Jack to class.  Tomorrow, drop for the national Drought Monitor update. Because when it comes to Replays, we really know how to party.

The Market Informatics Part

Today’s assembly of cash flows will be assembled as follows:

  1. Take a press release on new unemployment filings:
  2. Stir in Market Futures pricing – around even earlier with a small silver beat-down to keep it below $90 an ounce.
  3. And for the latter day Ponzi sorts $68,272 earlier.  Want me to run my RNG (random number generator) and create some more “wealth” for you?

A Peoplenomics Subscriber Note

Refer to the state-variance extremes chart in yesterdays report, SVE – which closed higher.  Remember that chart and here’s today’s AI read of it in the propen:

Looking at your SVE panel as-is:

You’re right — we’re lifting off the deep short extreme, but we’re not yet in classic “dangerously long” territory.

Observations from the chart:

    • The last deep trough (red zone) was a classic oversold flush.
    • The rebound leg is strong, but historically your bigger short squeezes tend to overshoot the midline before stalling.
    • Prior cycles (see the pink/yellow ramps) often ran to +250 to +350 before real stall risk.

Right now we’re “warm,” not “hot.”

Translation in your language:

Shorts have felt pain.

Longs haven’t felt euphoria yet.

The compression hasn’t fully expressed.

If this is behaving like prior state-variance rebounds:

  • A move higher into tomorrow / Monday is structurally reasonable.
  • The real “risk of being long” zone starts when you press into the upper band and flatten.
  • Volume + breadth will matter more than the level.

What I’d watch:

  • Does it stall below prior ramp highs? (bearish divergence)
  • Does VIX compress toward low 20s / high teens?
  • Does BTC stabilize or continue lagging equities?

Your phrase “getting warm” is right.

This isn’t top-of-channel exhaustion yet.  It’s more like the engine revving after a cold start.

Now the real question:

Do you want the final overshoot to clean the board —
or are you hunting for early rollover confirmation?”

Ah. The Bear to poke in Saturday’s ChartPack, non?  But, today’s elevator up button was pushed by Nvidia sees only marginal gains after better-than-expected results.

War is Coming

The problem always comes down to when.  Since the World has had a WW I and WW II we figure III is out there somewhere.  So we have posted a fire watch and they are pointing at possible smoke:

Naturally, our Peoplenomics.com subscribers have been contemplating Open in Case of (Iran) War – Peoplenomics Subscriber Zone this month.  Which suggests “War with Iran, if it comes, will not resemble Iraq. It will not resemble Afghanistan. It will not resemble anything most Americans think of when they hear the word war.”  After which we describe in a 60-page briefing “WAR WITH IRAN: Fallout, Homeland, Emergency Power.”

And you saw where kooshiar on X: “UPDATE 5,100 Iranians in Silicon Valley signed a letter demanding: Immediate US support for the Iranian people. An end to the Islamic Republic. (Hat tip to reader Ray for the find…)

Yep, fine day to work on the garden.  Drought defense here includes stored water and drip irrigation.

Around the Ranch: Limits of Calculus

The reason I love this site’s Comments Section (following each post) is that it keeps it all real for me.  And “riding the rails of coherence”?  There’s no greater thing other than finding a soulmate.

So I paused and thought deeply today when a comment mentioned in passing, “I wish I could think and operate in more mathematical terms. Did not progress past algebra and trig, never made it to calculus.”

A lot of us didn’t “get it” in high school. While others didn’t get there until much later. I was always one of those learners who needed the Use Case first – then the math would make sense. Back-asswardization in education rolls math first and you go digging for applications later. Total BS.

So, here’s the deeper insight the comment triggered:

A bit of a long reply here, since missing calculus may have preserved some brainpower rather than diminished it.

Don’t misunderstand: math can describe reality beautifully, but it does not automatically generate insight. Insight usually begins with pattern recognition, anomaly detection, and proportional reasoning.

Math is a language — a specialized one. Calculus, especially, is a compression system for describing change. If you’re modeling orbital mechanics, RF phase behavior, fluid flow, or derivatives pricing, it’s indispensable. It formalizes intuition about rates, curvature, and accumulation. In that sense, it’s powerful — not because it’s fancy, but because it forces clarity.

That said, time in life is limited. My interest in simultaneous equations didn’t arise until I actually needed the tool.  Yes, in physical world, I am a tool slut.  Mental tools, though, can take a long time to sharpen. Days are OK.  After a few months, I check out.  And at a year or two? Plus constant resharpening? Forgetaboutit. I’ve been long gone… If I’m not using a tool, I drop it from the inventory.  Well, except my big metal lathe maybe, but that’s a special case.

To this day, I’ve resisted purchasing a Cat D9 with a rock claw. Not because it isn’t powerful — but because I don’t need one. Tools can become distractions masquerading as progress. People under-appreciate maintenance.  Whether on a D9, airplane, or sailboat.  Time spent on maintenance is time off the enjoyable parts.

Same holds for math skills.  Oh, sure, conceptually it’s logical and you can rebuild from the ground up (Wolfram’s Mathematica) but why? I mean beyond it being the best insomnia medication.  Sometimes, a paragraph or two and I’m down for the count.

In similar fashion, I’ve resisted plans to begin tooling up for the build-out of my thorium accelerator. Same reason — not enough time left in life to produce and benefit from the antigravitic properties of Element 115(s) isotope.

My only real interest in calculus was in the fields of ballistics and certain aspects of “sailing the line” when boating in a rag-bag serious manner. Putting numbers to keel side slip, cross wind and sail loading while in currents of various headings and amplitudes? Maybe there. I’m not a grand fan of calculus as some are. It remains, in my view, a kind of erudite hole from which numberizers emerge.

Rather, I’ve found it more useful to understand how principles behave in the real world. Even in PN this week, when we’re looking at comparative graphics of exponential curves, the lesson isn’t about elegant equations — it’s about recognizing patterns. There’s a lot more going down in those curves than bullets dropping.

By the way, an extension on Trust Function Decay will be coming in early April under the title “Can AI Build a Time Machine?”  Where I “farm out” the heavy-duty math, which I’m getting too old and impatient for.  Which is the whole “link to external math bank” of AI that most people miss….

Mathematics is a tool, not an end in itself. I’m endlessly amused by certain Fed papers that begin with an abstract, wander through a patch of minutia, and then apply what feels like made-up math to retrofit the observation. That’s fine for journals. It’s less useful for living. Tradeable? Mostly not.  But useful for contextualizing.

There is a small (but non-zero) chance that humans operate with limited brainpower and over a generally limited time of less than 100 cognizant years. The Dude simulation has both clocks and levels, you see?

Each of us, born into this massive domain spectrum, multi-player game becomes a kind of coherence-seeking agent. For some, coherence glimmers in simultaneous solutions, numerified. Others catch the scent of discovery — and Beholding — through visualization. Still others through music. See Gödel, Escher, Bach — a dandy book on the subject.

Me? I prefer stepping back, visualizing the whole field, and then extending the search for meaning from there. I trust math as a measuring stick. Tuning fork to compare the “notes.” As a snowplow to break new ground? Sometimes. But pattern recognition and proportion will take you a long way without ever solving for x.

Failing there, we roast a bowl, raise a glass, and dream of distant shores where all coherences converge.

Then we wake up and go see how the futures are doing.

Write when you get rich,

George@ure.net

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  1. i mean look at what Bill Coooper wrote in his book Behold a pale horse and all the shit they are taliing about today as non human intelligence. lol.

    outlandish! preposterous! rediculous!

    some of us are not suprized.

    I Win

    • Thank you completely for the message and blessing of a few days ago.
      Never a victim of punctures here! And also never had the virus.
      Blessings appreciated daily!

  2. Yo Herman..of the hermits,

    As a child, was taught to STFU, if I didnt have anything nice to say, so kept me fingers silent yesterday after being bitch slapped with Calculus/Maths in Ure report yesterday. Manomanoschevitz do I no likey Math. This after my Calc2 prof at university nicknamed Dr Death (Princeton Math major only wore Black) would make condescending remarks to me in office. I was in his office every week for extra help, and this Fckr resented even having to teach Us Calc2 ,,as it apparantly was beneath him.Used to comment to me about Reagans bitching about low math skills in USA. “Ure one of those guys”..like I said a real f-ing assHOLE. So I started taking delight in coming into office for extra help as I knew he really disliked it.He sucked at teaching by the way. Now the tutor I got for FREE from School of Commercre and FInance (Comics&Funnies) was the bomb! We went over my test results – and figured shit out from there. I ended up taking Him down to the Equity & Currency Options trading floors at the PHLX one time – poor guy was appalled at the Raw, Open out Cry “trading Pits” around the specialists posts.

    All that to say – I got Insurance/Downside protection in back pocket as I try and take more money from the machines. Not a tradeable short, just insurance, but a nice “fat” policy – War will bebreaking out soonly, as [admin edit – but the foaming subsides and he continues] ..as if NOT ENOUGH BLOOD HASNT ALREADY SOAKED THE ENTIRE middleleast Sands.
    SENSELESS prior too, now ? Well Mr Young may not be needed down South, but for predictive programming ? Needle and the Damage Done- https://youtu.be/Hd3oqvnDKQk?
    “a little part of it in everyone” ?? Rut-row..

    But wait homegamers, there is more..Warned in 2016 and again in 2016 with;
    MKUltra- Cybernetic mutation, remote controlled slaves,dragon soldiers and the Zombie empire, paint it blue and blood of christ – hemorrhagic fever, expendable humans and bacteria gone bezerk. We should have killed these fucks when we had chance instead of allowing fools to line up for the kill shot-https://substack.com/redirect/bef5635f-564c-4187-a733-a31bbfaaae4d?j=eyJ1IjoiMWtrNHlkIn0.fVVcJH6f1r_zprDxpYe9yhWMCY9me-zumT3TyeeDR9A

    not gonna close out on a negative vibe, so for Ure reading pleasure I offer a gift – hope you aval Ureselves of the knowledge offered. NOS Book of the Resurrection. By Miguel Serrano – audio style -https://substack.com/redirect/956a652a-72ef-419e-b6b7-b323f192f471?j=eyJ1IjoiMWtrNHlkIn0.fVVcJH6f1r_zprDxpYe9yhWMCY9me-zumT3TyeeDR9A

    • re: “A Foretold Son”
      feat: Glynd?r

      LA area charities will have to spare the goodwill presence of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex lately of Montecito. The pair touched down yesterday in Amman for a sombre visit at the invitation of the infectious diseases trained Director General of the WHO. The King of Jordan, a 41st direct descendent of Mohammed, has not met with the couple. However his aunt Princess Basma, head of the Jordanian Association of Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, granted the visitors a brief audience. Separately the Duke and Duchess were supplied with a football/soccer ball to display their fancy footwork at a Palestinian refugee camp situated outside the capital. A media press conference featured the Duke co-starring with a “Smile” brand facial tissue product placement on the head table.

      Elsewhere the Prince and Princess of Wales were pictured all smiles in a stronghold of the Welsh Rebellion of 1400-1415, Llanidloes. The sleeping village is sited along Glynd?r’s Way enjoyed by ramblers/hikers. Owain Glynd?r declared himself Prince of Wales in 1400. Being a last such Welsh prince later earned him a role in Shakespeare’s “Henry IV”. Glynd?r’s direct descendants are now blended within a Norman Croft baronetcy. Apparently the late Fidel Castro of Cuba judged the Welsh rebel to be “the first effective guerrilla leader”.

  3. “Seeing the whole” is a Dyslexic skill that I recently learned about. Perhaps you will be able to see the missing pieces, the holes in the whole.

    I am very curious if Elaine wove anything yet on her Christmas loom. I wove a placemat using yarn as the weft and a cotton rope as the weavers with my granddaughter. It was a fast project and the placemat is washable. Just an idea for a quick weave for a beginner.

    I wove a repair patch on my granddaughter’s pants that was colorful but not very neat. She has another hole in the same pants and I think I will do a neater job next time. Someone said there was a learning curve.

      • A D9 with a ripper claw is the tool of choice for building on a jungle lava lot here. Push the trees over and shove the organics to a pile at the side of the lot. Then rip up the lava rock plate and level it. Atop that put a layer of red cinders, and if you are really rich, a layer of topsoil on that. After you build on the lot, your days will be filled with constantly beating back the invading jungle on all fronts.

  5. “Math is a language — a specialized one.”

    Apocalypse Now

    Photojournalist: This is dialectics. It’s very simple dialectics: one through nine, no maybes, no supposes, no fractions. You can’t travel in space, you can’t go out into space, you know, without like, you know, with fractions! What are you going to land on, one quarter, three eighths? What are you going to do when you go from here to Venus or something? That’s dialectic physics, okay?

  6. GU : “… Longs haven’t felt euphoria yet …”

    Oh, methinks most are quite drunk on their brilliance. When some who are most addicted to rolling the gainers in levered positions it creates self-fulfilling gamma when brewed with options. The herd is wild and wayward so it’s not cull cream here > roll cream there. But it’s a force. Watch for reversals.

    GU : “… except my big metal lathe maybe, but that’s a special case …”

    Wait, it’s not Sunday is it? What cha got Mister? I retained an industrial South Bend lathe from the family business. Personal attachment decided it had to stay with me. My Grandpa let me monkey with it as a little boy (I smoked a lot of steel). It was in service the day our team of decommissioning electricians took down the power.

    ATL : flipping gorgeous day. The Kraken is so loud we can hear ’em from inside the house. I’m too easy to please. Temp. above freezing with sunshine makes me smile. I’m also too easily amused 02/26/26.

    Be nimble.
    Egor of the Ice
    ___ /) ______________

    • 19×9 Jet geared head. Just the ticket to repair screw-on oil filters and the like – I mean should someone axctually be so inclined which we never are, of course. Of course. Bad times make desperate shopwork – so you never know.

  7. “Mathematics is a tool, not an end in itself.” That’s the view of engineers and scientists, but as a former student of advanced math, I will venture to say that it is NOT the view of most mathematicians. For us, math is a thing of beauty that doesn’t need to be useful in the physical realm. Some areas of advanced math barely use numbers at all because the object isn’t to quantify things, but to create abstract systems through mental gymnastics. It’s a non-physical equivalent of paintings, which are not tools, but they do energize one of the human senses. By happenstance, most of these math systems (especially calculus) were later discovered by engineers and scientists to be accurate descriptions of the workings of nature, which could then be utilized to invent the trappings of civilization. So math could be considered a description of creation, or possibly even a determinant of creation.

    • And I quoth: For us, math is a thing of beauty that doesn’t need to be useful in the physical realm
      But it matters to us – the great suborned dumbshitz – who need application layers to a study to earn its keep.
      Nature does not feed math. Nature nurishes vioklent ends that are distinct from the right side of = sign or < thans D'Lynn -no he's math (bigly) and I'd love him to weigh in...because he is a math and HANDS ON sort.

      • It really does create., a thing of beauty for some [me] and a thing of frustration for others. In some equations I don’t see the numbers at all – but instead, small distinct pictures. It’s a creative flow – ‘not’ a step-by-step process., especially when you work up into theoretical math. [ My area.] Fibonacci boarder on this with his discovery. I have sat for weeks starring at a white board., playing with his math., applying it to the world and nature around us. The “trappings of civilization” simply wouldn’t exist without the beauty and wonder of advanced math., and it’s ebb and flow.
        I try to keep my math in the background., keeping it in the simplest of form and language., when talking about my market math and charting.., expounding on math theory has an unintentional way of pushing people into the furthest corner of the room as they hold up a cross and hiss at you.
        Math, art and music all have their own language, their own soul. I have done some of my best theoretical work while listening to Pachelbel’s Canon in D., [ and similar pieces.] They are distinct and separate., yet somehow, ohh so similar. [ If that makes any sense.]
        A lot of people who take Calculus in high school will never use any of it in the life time.. a small few wonder what is ‘above’ that layer of mathematics., and move on to higher math. [ Trigonometry for example.] It really is an individual “thing”.

        • dLynn : “… expounding on math theory has an unintentional way of pushing people into the furthest corner of the room as they hold up a cross and hiss at you …”

          now that’s ^ funny. for the record I have I always found the display of trends, on physical charts, speak to people. but, math wizards have their own language and symbol set so no wonder people recoil, hey?

          _E___

        • dLynn, thanks for the validation. It’s nice to find other abstractionists in this sea of engineers. Engineers are great, and necessary, but they’re only one side of the coin. This is a good time to inject one of the more profound?/interesting? quotes about math that I’ve ever heard. Here’s what a math professor at a major university said to his calculus class: “Everything through calculus is arithmetic. Math starts after that.”

  8. I have officially removed the Russell2000 from my “Carnac The Magnificent” aggregate index. Though I have threatened to do it for several years, I can not carry this laggard any more and see no way forward for this index.., when over 43% of the companies listed and traded publicly are ‘zombie’ companies. [ and it is growing. ]
    Officially., the are currently 639 companies in the U.S. that have issued stock and are publicly trade that are classified as “Zombie” companies. [ Show no profit, unable to pay their bills, interest charges or meet their debt obligations. How they stay in business has become a real point of interest. One company has just over 600 employees and has not shown a profit in five years and it’s stock has remained at $00.01 for six years.]
    Currently looking for a viable small cap index to replace this misleading atrocity.

  9. Mathematics, music and art are all specialized languages.
    Far too many people are inept at comprehending them.

  10. Something to print, keep it taped on the refrigerator door, read at the beginning of each day.

    dLynn
    February 25, 2026 at 17:23

    It’s a vicious, violent world out there, folks., and it can happen anywhere, at any time. Please. Learn to defend yourself. Physically and mentally prepared. No one is coming to save you. No court order is going to stop a bad guy, and no piece of paper is going to deflect a bullet., or a knife. No law ever written has stopped a crime. In the barrio, or an upscale neighborhood – it’s all on you and no one else.

    • I’ve never carried a switch blade or OTF automatic knife, but they are legal to carry in Texas with a blade under 5.5″, in all the places a pocket knife are allowed. Under Federal law, personal ownership of automatic knives is not prohibited, with a caveat: you cannot ship automatic knives across state lines except for sale to a select few.
      In reality, I can open (and close) most crossbar and button lock blades one-handed about as fast as I could manage a switch blade, but a switch blade does have a gee whiz factor to it.
      There are a couple of outfits in Texas that manufacture (or at least assemble) and sell automatics from their storefront. Some of the OTF’s look pretty good, but I have no use for an OTF blade. The blade are too skinny for my purposes. There are a couple of side swing switch blades made here, but metallurgy and features are kind of substandard. I would probably pay money to buy a 3,5″ Magnacut swing blade with good slabs out the front of a Texas knife company.

  12. there is 2 much emphasis here on depression . its just a word . call it bad times and capitalism adjustments. its 2026a different world to 1930s.either way nopain no gain going forward. world survives always but will look totally different

    • re: “Scandals of 1922”, Gershwin
      feat: a “Reader’s Digest” version

      Apparently “(I’ll Build a) Stairway to Paradise” featured as the Act 1 close to George Gershwin’s opera of sorts, “Scandals of 1922”. It seems that by 1922 the Gershwin family allegedly offered music and additional sustenance for the soul at literally the “Three Steps Down” from sidewalk level situated at 19 W. 8th St. in Greenwich Village. Next door in the basement at #17, a recuperating WW1 veteran and his wife – Mr. and Mrs. Wallace – launched the first issue of “Reader’s Digest” in February, 1922.

      The growing publication’s English office occupied a prestigious address on Berkeley Square by the 1930’s whose ‘American in London’ presence is now replaced on the square by Blackstone. As chance would have it, Berkeley coincides with Mr. Wallace’s alma mater in San Francisco. Berkeley Square had comprised the back yard of the long ago demolished Devonshire House. Mrs. Wallace’s Canadian hometown is named after that German one of the Anglo-German 8th Duchess of Devonshire. The latter pried His Grace the Duke from the clutches of a courtesan affectionately known as Skittles who had already inspired England’s poet laureate. The Duchess famously hosted the 1897 Devonshire House Fancy Dress Ball in celebration of Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. While the Prince of Wales allegedly showed up as Grand Master of the Knights of Malta, the Duchess countered as Queen Zenobia of Palmyra. The latter defeated the Persian Empire but was herself defeated by Roman Emperor Aurelius in 270 ad.

      Likewise, “Reader’s Digest” retreated some years ago from its long-held global corporate headquarter haunts in Chappaqua (Alonquin: “the rustling land”), N.Y. While a past US Secretary of State gave her DNC acceptance speech from the Kittle House Restaurant in Chappaqua 10 years ago, her Epstein testimony today made before a congressional committee took place at the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center situated within the former Reader’s Digest Campus.

    • We couldn’t be so lucky witnessing a 1990’s style Soviet Union in the US. Rand Paul out there selling nuclear missiles to the highest bidders, which are all MSS buyers keeping the world safe. McConnell left and found mummified years later. Mar-a-Lago burned to the ground by pitchfork wielding retirees w/Barron narrowly escaping to Coobah.

      Maybe.

  13. A lot of heart attacks as the pension system goes whoosh. Pensioners won’t have comped meds either. A double whoosh for them. And their kids likely will not be able to afford the estate and there’s the triple whammy whoosh. She gone.

  14. Math… navigation doesn’t need it if you are filled with knowledge of the planets, the stars, the movement of clouds, sea, and the vibration of our sphere. Having a sextant, timepiece, charts and tables come next as we grew ‘more knowledgeable’, and now satellites and electrons have suborned the previous expertise allowing even fools to cross trackless wetness.
    Meanwhile it’s the dirt that poses the most dangers, while the mobile moat makers move about with most fears allayed , actually mostly being apprehensive about the next close approach to dirt and the inhabitants who may or may not be welcoming in any sense. I have never been at sea and had the same anxiety that dirt related moments have given me. Thirty days at sea was never enough. There was plenty of sustenance, plenty of water, but dirt schedules always cut the pleasure of being out there. I will always understand the psyche of the non-stop voyagers. Once experienced, the sanctity of the sea can never be forgotten.
    Stiks

  15. The end of the world as we know it.., has been proclaimed for a very, very long time.
    .
    The earth is degenerating today. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer obey their parents. Every man wants to write a book. It is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching.
    – roughly translated from an Assyrian tablet circa 2800 BC.

  16. A friend told me today the weather this winter here on the plains has actually been –too– mild. The winter wheat crop has not had enough cold to properly go dormant like it normally would. As a result, it may start heading out too early, and be zapped by a late freeze (a very real possibility through April or even May). If that happens, no wheat crop. The spring wheat up north may fare better.

  17. For Trump, Military Strike in Iran Could Serve Symbolic Purpose – The New York Times

    You can tell some Leftist, oneworlder, or terminal TDS patient wrote this.

    {q}
    “When we initiate contact, we should expect Iran to launch 100 missiles at U.S. bases, because that was what they did to Israel in June,” said Maj. Gen. Paul D. Eaton, a retired Army veteran of the war in Iraq. American troops, he added, have neither Israel’s vaunted Iron Dome air defense system nor its vast bunker network that helped keep casualties down during the country’s armed conflict with Iran last June.

    Mr. Trump, General Eaton said, “has failed to make the case to the American people for why we are conducting this war of choice.”
    {/q}

    We don’t need an Iron Dome, because we won’t have any ground troops. All ground forces within range of Iran’s missiles have been evacuated.

    Trump doesn’t have to make a case to anyone who’s even marginally cognizant in international affairs. The “case” is: They intend to kill us all, have announced they are going to kill us all, and have been working, for 47 years, almost exclusively toward the dual goals of killing us all, and killing all Israelis and Jews. “Conventional wisdom” from these Leftist military fossils is: “They won’t even look at the U.S. until they’ve eradicated Israel, so we’re good, using the Israelis as shields.”

    This is why Leftists and oneworlders should never be allowed into West Point, the War Colleges, and Military Institutes, either as students or faculty. They create a mental construct but have a singular lack of ability to plan beyond the construct, and become absolutely lost whenever anything deviates from the narrow constraints of their artificial construct. As faculty they can’t accept deviation (no thinking outside the box) and as students, they absolutely lose their shit whenever anything, no matter how trivial, goes off the rails.

    A “strike” on Iran would do nothing.

    The Ayatollahs await the coming of the 12th Imam. Nothing short of the fulfillment of this prophesy will serve any “symbolic purpose.” In the interim, every day they move closer to nuking NYC off the map (which DOES, in fact, take a step toward the Coming.) There is no-one and no-thing in The Apple for which I care one whit, but I also don’t want to see the Planet of the Apes become prophetic…

  18. George, remember, every time you play “wastebasket basketball,” pitch darts, drive a car, drill a hole, or hand-tighten a screw, you use calculus. Navigate a boat in a crowded harbor and you use both calculus and geometry or trig. Your mind does this automatically and can compute thousands of equations simultaneously, and nearly-instantly.

    Dogs, cats, bunnies, houseflies, and every other animal which exists as either a predator or food, also do these computations — not as many, simultaneously, and without the layers of logic and reason we can (and usually do) apply, but they use the math and do the equations, nonetheless. The reason it is difficult to catch a fly is the fly sees a hand moving to catch or swat it, then computes exactly how far it has to move how fast, and in which direction, to escape the hand…

  19. In the last hour and a half, Canada and China have ordered all citizens out of Iran and the U.S. has done the same, from Israel.

    I’m digging, but figured I should post this now, in case missiles fly before my research can dig up anything else…

  20. RESISTANCE FIGHTERS CLASH WITH IRGC NEAR AYATOLLAH KHAMENEI’S HEADQUARTERS

    The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, an organized resistance in the country, said that members clashed with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps around Ayatollah Khamenei’s headquarters in Tehran on Tuesday, resulting in the death or arrest of more than 100 of the resistance fighters.

    More than 150 of the Mojahedin fighters who had participated in the storming of the headquarters on Monday safely returned to their bases, according to PMOI/MEK.

    “Enemy casualties inside Khamenei’s headquarters are reported to be heavy, but no precise figures are available. Ambulance traffic into the compound, escorted by special units, continued until noon on Monday,” PMOI/MEK said Tuesday.

    News of this incident is trickling out, but it is being ignored by many legacy media outlets.

    https://x.com/RudyGiuliani/status/2027198845659017395?s=20

  21. Iran just closed the last door. From a pulpit. In front of God.

    Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami stood before Friday prayers in Tehran today and declared: the Islamic Republic has never accepted suspension of enrichment and will not accept it. Not temporarily. Not partially. Not under any conditions.

    Friday prayers in Iran are not sermons. They are state policy delivered through divine authority. When a senior cleric declares enrichment non-negotiable from the minbar, he is transmitting the Supreme Leader’s final position through the only channel that outranks a diplomatic cable.

    Washington’s demands in Geneva: destroy Fordow, destroy Natanz, destroy Isfahan, hand over all enriched uranium, zero enrichment permanently. Iran’s own counterproposal offered a 3-to-5 year suspension with continued enrichment rights. Today Khatami did not just reject America’s position. He rejected Iran’s own compromise. The regime publicly narrowed its own negotiating room to zero.

    400 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60 percent sits in Iranian facilities right now. Enough for roughly 10 weapons if further enriched. The centrifuges at Fordow under 80 meters of granite keep spinning.

    Washington says dismantle. Tehran just made “never” into a religious covenant that no negotiator can walk back without challenging God’s representatives on earth.

    Now hold what happened on this single Friday, February 27.

    China told its citizens to leave Iran. The country selling Iran missiles evacuated its own people. Ambassador Huckabee emailed Jerusalem staff: leave Israel today. Canada issued its strongest warning. India, Germany followed. And then Khatami stood before Friday prayers and slammed the door on the only demand Washington calls non-negotiable.

    Six governments evacuated. One ayatollah spoke. The distance between America’s only acceptable outcome and Iran’s only acceptable position became infinite.

    At 10:24 this morning, Friday February 27, the United States Ambassador to Israel emailed his own staff and told them to leave the country today.

    Not next week. Not when convenient. Today.

    https://x.com/shanaka86/status/2027361232542744686?s=20

  22. a lot of disparate thoughts have been coalescing tonight….

    a few years ago when dropping off to sleep I would hear voices – sometimes male sometimes female – coming from just one spot close to the French doors which I have my back to when sleeping. I was still very much conscious – feeling my body on the sheets, wrestling with an uncomfortable wrinkled pillow, staring at the dim outline of the wall. just one word – Mother – or a short sentence or the sound of a brass band in the street at 130am – got up to look, parted the curtains, nothing but an empty street lit by dull yellow light. another time the sound of a chair rolling across the wooden floorboards. after a while I gave up trying to make any sense of it, it seemed to be just out of reach of my consciousness. asked for it to stop and it did. it seemed like a portal had closed but I did miss these glimpses into something other………

    tonight I’m remembering one of the few times I wrote down one of these messages – “USS Roosevelt….remember it”. now I don’t give any attention to these musings but tonight when I checked the US military build-up in the ME I noticed that the Destroyer USS Roosevelt has been deployed to the Eastern Mediterranean just south of Malta. first time I’ve ever come across that name since the message.

    and when it comes to seeing the whole picture and the missing pieces I’ve always been struck by this:

    the Australian Aboriginal constellations are not only the network built by linking the bright stars, but also the dark space between the bright stars, the dust lanes of the Milky Way. This is a big contrast to Western astronomy, which emphasises the sparkling points of light.

  23. Good morning George. I have not been around much lately, just stop by occasionally when I have a few minutes. That will likely be permanently after this week. My Love, Diana had a heart attack on Monday. Came out of nowhere. I found her on the shower floor when I came in from chores expecting to be grilled for not wearing my shoulder sling or something. She just turned 65 and is healthy as can be. I’ve mentioned before that, much like Elaine, she looks more like she would be in her 40’s rather than just receiving her first social security check last week. On the way to the hospital 45 minutes away after taking the ambulance nearly an hour to get here I was told that there were no beds available in any hospital in the 5 county area. She spent 2 days on a gurney in the hallway outside the exam rooms of the ER. The nurses were actually at a nearly constant dead run between caring for their patients. One nurse stopped and asked Diana if she wanted something to eat then wrote on her hand what she wanted. I noticed her entire forearm and back of her hand had what looked like food orders written on it. I haven’t seen anything like this since Viet Nam. She had a catherization yesterday and we spent the day hearing about all of the tests and meds coming up. We should be going home after a doctor comes in and releases her. Our calendar is full next week.
    The point here is our infrastructure is broken and nobody is trying to do anything to fix it. It is going to be necessary for us to take care of ourselves as best we can since when the time comes when you need emergency medical care you will most likely be in the same situation we found ourselves in. Nothing other than my wife, family, friends, and home matters to me anymore. Our world just got a whole lot smaller.
    Stay safe everyone.

    • I see no replys as I type,YET,, but expect a chorus of prayers for you both, as I join in prayer

    • Prayers en route for Diana’s successful procedure and fast recovery. May God bless you both in this time of stress.

    • Prayers for you both. One never knows when your time will come. Our club secretary recently passed away in his sleep at only age 54.

    • I am so sorry to learn about your beloved Diana. Prayers for you both. She will need to have several heart tests done, including the one that determines the plaque buildup in her arteries. I was dismayed to also learn about your hospital experience, as it was horrible. Hopefully, another hospital can be accessed. I do hope you can get a good heart doctor for her.

    • Jim. I feel your pain. Been in the exact same circumstance with my wife last November. Only 17 hours on a gurney in ER hallway. If you think the medical system is better in Canada, it is not.

      I agree completely with your last paragraph.

      Prayers for you both.

    • I am so sorry to hear that Jim..my heart and prayers goes out to you..

      I hear ya on the nurses on A dead run..the medical system is the world of short shifts.They cut the support staff.. there are face prints of mine at 32 years old on windows in areas that they haven’t renovated or expanded..they cut housekeeping and kitchen to….I personally wish I had a dollar for every hour it was tag your it for over a hundred patients.. I believe its not because of the lack of people willing to do the job.. but it the only flexible number they can budget with….labor is the only true flexible number they can work with brick and mortar costs remain ..insurance industry dictates what they’ll pay. and almost all federal funds is estimated at an average that doesn’t even reach half hour of minimum wages…. or if they’ll pay at all..leaving the hospitals struggling..I believe that to balance the bottom line they add more tasks and cut more hours work with less floor staff.. I was tag your it for almost a year..every night I would come to work and the DON would apologized for there not being anyone else..then my niece was being born..as I sat in the waiting room I was thinking..hell how would they remember who I am with all these people and after all these years..I didn’t recognise anyone after they got out of their scrubs and everybody I sent to apply told me they weren’t hiring..so I applied … they said..sorry we aren’t hiring right now..that night when I got to work and the I’m so sorry speech came up..I said speaking about that.. that was over thirty years ago..I walk in to get some Kleenex at the drug vender tables and some kid not even old enough to have been born then in HR will ask me by name and offer me coffee..I have looked behind the desks many times to see if my photo is hanging there..

    • (“The point here is our infrastructure is broken and nobody is trying to do anything to fix it.”)

      the real problem isn’t the reason…When you look at what happened to Diana, it’s impossible to pretend the system is just “strained” or “overloaded.” What we’re seeing is the result of a structure that has been hollowed out for decades. The medical workers are doing everything they can, but they’re trapped inside an economic model that no longer supports the mission it was built for….

      Federal reimbursements don’t cover real labor costs, insurance companies take in staggering amounts while fighting to avoid paying for care, and hospitals cut support staff just to keep the lights on, and the utilities working….
      Meanwhile, the professionals who keep the system running are buried under school debt and burnout. It’s not that people aren’t trying—it’s that the design itself is failing.
      Layer that onto an economy where long hours and low wages leave families stretched thin, where adults have less time, less stability, and less community support, and you end up getting a population that feels more like victims of a system than members of a functioning society…

      where I’m working right now.. I have twenty nine .. I do all the laundry, cook the next days meal, the maintenance and house keeping..pass the meds do the dishes etc.. they like all the rest cut staff and work a tight shift.. yet the facility is sold along with 36 others every three to five years..once the resources are gone..yup even a millionaire can only afford a quarter mil a year plus so long before its gone..then they get on federal assistance that doesn’t even cover the cost of one 8 hour shift at minimum wage..they can fix it..but then the burden on the healthcare system would just shuffle over to the legal and insurance industry..A damned if you do..damned if you don’t scenario..
      where I am fortunate is the majority of the local community either works trauma.. flight for life and volunteers on our volunteer rescue..or they build fire fighting equipment .yup they were at the twin towers.. was in the process of delivering equipment and instead grabbed gear and went to work..emergency responds is u set ten minutes.. I have three AEDs myself..one in the buggy one in the shop and one in the house..

  24. yeah sad how life gets so complex so quick . always remain positive no matter what they tell you about your wifes condition . prayers and thoughts for recovery

    • Amen.. len…amen…
      my wife had one to many mini strokes.. her leg was twisted and all the doctors ..the orthopedic specialists had a grim outlook.. the therapist even wasn’t sure.. but thought what the he’ll she has the will..and is willing to give it a go..she’s walking..it still has a long way to go but dam.. don’t give up.. keep a positive thought and prayers.. about twenty years ago..the doctors tried to talk my wife into putting me in hospice.. hell I had the look I was almost convinced to give it up… the one thing no one in healthcare wants to see looking in the mirror is the look…… yet here I am.. pestering everyone.. with my lame thoughts and opinions..

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