The beginning of Mercury Retrograde was a grand turning point. The market began to “bounce back” and troubled Japan gained back more than 10 percent of their more than 12 percent loss previously. Gold was set to pop a bit silver was about flat. Copper has done OK (war is still coming) and lumber prices firmed. Which means – maybe – spec houses will start going up again; anticipatory ahead of expected rate relief this fall.
The best part of all? Remember when I told you that I wasn’t playing this first leg down due to priorities around here? The earlier futures today (*white arrow on the right in our Aggregate Index) seems to indicate a bounce. If you look closely, however, you’ll see a green arrow (about the 50 percent retracement level) where we might get interested in re-shorting this pig.
Whether this can be a serious rally, though, remains a speculation. We don’t like to turn up right here because the second wave down should never be the largest under Elliott – and for now, a 50 percent retrace would have a bounce overlapping the 1 down and this is where I go shuffling off, quoting dead economists and looking for a bottle.
The Day Ahead
Some International Trade figures just dropped. But they show what should be obvious to all: We aren’t in a big recession yet, so our imports have to come from somewhere since the corporate whores sent American jobs overseas to where less combative working stiffs could be coerced. Which has resulted in much lower breeding levels among the Best and Brightest, but don’t get me started. Except my branch of the Ure clan, for now, looks like it will end with me. Our replacement probably lives in an appliance box in Brazil. Social Just Us? Back to point.
The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis announced today that the goods and services deficit was $73.1 billion in June, down $1.9 billion from $75.0 billion in May, revised.
The follies continue throughout the day with some petroleum stocks to be reported – if the Drooler hasn’t pissed it all away into Chinese hands. And the days Lunar Rover report will tomorrow afternoon with the Fed reports Consumer Debt. Which is why tomorrow’s headline may be “I.Q. Wednesday” because it’s some of the easiest dot-connecting you’ll find.
Let’s go to War Next
Say, doesn’t this just jolt you with new-found confidence? U.S. working ‘around the clock’ to avert Mideast escalation – Raw Story. Ure resident cynic says “No bullets, no budgets, no deaths, no deals, no casualties, no contracts.” See Lt. General Smedley Butler for more. But in case you missed it; while speaking of World War I back in 1935, Butler called it right:
“In the World War (I) a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. That many admitted their huge blood gains in their income tax returns. How many other war millionaires falsified their income tax returns no one knows.”
Happy talk about prospects can be found in There will be no major war between Israel and Iran now – Middle East Monitor. Yet, we prefer the intel out of the Oil Patch because energy matters in that part of the world. Iran Expected to Retaliate Against Israel by Tomorrow | Rigzone
Which means the attack today (U.S. troops injured in Iraq base rocket attack, Pentagon says, as regional tensions soar – Washington Times) may be seen as a shaping operation.
The WarNews247 website headlines are up to a fevered pitch: Suffocating pressure inside Israel for pre-emptive strike on Iran and all-out war – Russian weapons airlift to Tehran. Why, if this kind of frenetic reporting goes much higher, we’ll have to our friends at 3Chi.com send them some Delta-8 to damp paroxysms. Delta-10, then?
Speaking of Drugs (*Who, us?) Did you see where “Debby Does Panhandle and invents “beach buzzing?” Hurricane Debby blows $1M in cocaine onto Florida beach. We draw the line on some drug stories, but not this one. (rimshot)
In Ukraine, the Russians are coming: Morning missile strike in Kharkiv leaves people trapped, fire erupts on site.
George After Dawn
Am I the only one worried China will get what’s inside the moon, first? Kazakhstan, China to Build Moon Base. Possible good news from this, if they will turn off “the soul catcher” on the moon…All while NASA remains Lost in Space: NASA Might Delay Upcoming Crew 9 Mission to Return Stranded Starliner Astronauts to Earth. God, I hope they’re getting triple-time for being how many weeks into overtime?
Funny how the Internet’s Memory holes work, ain’t i? Google Says Trump Shooting Search Result Issues Due to Bugs, Algorithm. Oh, come on man, fake a lil surprise for us.
Weapons of Sexual Destruction: Ted Cruz Slams FDA for Putting Gender Ideology Over Kids’ Safety (dailysignal.com)
Drop-kicking White guys in the UK might change your views on mass migration: Ian Miles Cheong on X: “This is England. It’s open season on the one demographic that doesn’t have the privilege of special treatment. The media does not want you to see this. https://t.co/54J3OGXRsl” / X
Which gets us to wondering if this is law faring: CNN Cites Taliban’s Sharia Law to Defend Against Defamation Lawsuit.
At the Ranch: Time-Engineered Spending
Big Al Brown wasn’t quite sure what I meant the other morning when I admitted that I was shopping for 3-point (Category 1) implements.
Well, on tractors, you generally have a power take-off on the back end. Called a PTO for short, there’s a splined shaft at the tractor back-end with a quick disconnect. This double-jointed shaft them, runs back to whatever plug-n-play (large) tool you want to work with.
You have one of those battery powered impact drive/drivers with a 1/4″ hex on it, right? Scale up, attach to the diesel tractor motor south of the transaxle. Along that line.
The “implements” are usually big and hard to single-hand. They include such things as the brush-hog. Which is a rotary cutter that will whack down saplings up to about an inch or two in diameter. Wear ear protection, though. Noisy as well. Elaine can hear me two blocks away down on the west side of the property.
Another implement is a post-hole digging auger. We used to have more cedars among our trees than we do now, so adding an auger would make sense. (Everyone knows pine, stuck in the ground, is an insect feeding stick.) For what should be obvious reasons, I haven’t dished out the long green for one of those auger things.
On the other hand, much more interesting is a rotary tiller. In our garden, a 4-1/2 HP conventional tiller (and a backup 1-HP electric tiller) do the ground busting and mixing of soil amendments. Neighbor has a 4-foot wide 3-point tiller and I’ve been told I could borrow it at any time. As a result, the credit card is holstered.
But I did pull the trigger on a trailer drawbar this week. Fits onto the 3-point fittings and what it does is accepts a 3-way two-inch trailer ball adapter. Vevor had a deal on Amazon Monday (for $37 bucks) That trailer balls were under $30. (Hmm…railber balls?)
What this means is I can pull damn near any kind of trailer around the woods not. Which will be useful.
Still looking for either a subsoiler or a middle-buster plow. The cheap ones don’t appeal to me since I’ve done enough plowing in my day to appreciate adjustable depths as being possibly the key feature.
“Which has WHAT to do with Engineered Spending?”
Ah…to the point, at last!
The way the mush moves, between my ears, is I’m always thinking about the Most Probable Future.
I already know, for example, that if a nuke goes anywhere in the world that son G2 and his lady-friend will be here in about 96-hours, depending on radiation and fallout patterns. If/When they get here, there will be the matter of food.
The food issues bring us to gardening and gardening means having a tractor set up for doing a large enough garden that we’ll be able to eat, share, and maybe have some left over to sell. If there has to be a World War III, then the best time (for survival) would be launch the war just ahead of the growing season, right?
Implementing Time-Engineered Spending
Just a simple process that most people haven’t really formalized. Think of it as putting Maslow on a timeline.
- What do we need for the coming day? (Breakfast, let’s buy that!)
- What do we need for the coming week? (Breakfasts and dinners for a week, 5-runs of the water distiller, and more toothpaste and toilet paper!
- What might we need next Tuesday if Iran looses its shit? How about Geiger Counter Nuclear Radiation Detector – Radiation Dosimeter with LCD Display, Portable Handheld Beta Gamma X-ray Rechargeable Radiation Monitor Meter, 5 Dosage Units” which was only $35, but is out of stock this morning. Ooops.
- What might we need next Friday (a week) if that Iran deal happens? How about that positive filtered air system for the house and nuclear fallout washdown tools?
- What will we need in September? Oh, for the Fall Garden? (Got a pencil?) Seeds, fertilizer, more gas for the tiller, say, did we ever pull the trigger on the 3-point tiller?
- Around Thanksgiving? Our consigliere will be here for turkey din-din. Save up for good scotch.
- My birthday next February? Depends on the local nose count but bigger garden seems likely, and then we will want….
That’s the whole point of “futuring” your engineered pending to hit personal goals. So, you can shop for deals before the herd. You will not only have your list, but the sense of peace in a stressed-out world that comes from having enough rad monitors, tossed salads, guns and ammo (plus sacks of lime to bury ’em) for when the zombies show up in the aftermath of Iran going stupid. Or after the election with Trump in jail, or when the Big Quake hits, or…. well, let’s not totally over-engineer the Future, shall we?
You remember, “Movies are the message,” right?
Write when you get rich,
George@Ure.net
upper 60’s at night, hummingbirds starting to hit the feeders, and that smell from the lower biosphere… 1 more week and fall planting. stock up…jars, lids, rings, and propane.
https://lonestarfeed.com/2024-planting-guide/
it has taken over my patio and has grown 20 foot into the yard.
https://sta-rising.site/index.php?id=329003
‘Mideast escalations’
Iran has been under sanctions since 1979. About 50% of Jimmy Carter’s adult life. Jimmy is 99.
The ME has been under escalations since the Six-Day War, creeping up on 60 years. The first Tel Aviv Pride Parade took place in 1993. The ME didn’t have those in 1967. Stark change.
“Drop-kicking White guys in the UK”
It’s over. The 4th Turn. Vance married an Indian woman who comes from the special treatment box. That’s the way it is now.
This X is going around showing ‘Ireland is no longer Ireland’. The same happened to my sector with folks wearing similar clothing, turbans, etc. to the local 4th fireworks show. What’s good for Vance, is good for us. Stark change.
https://x.com/radiogenoa/status/1820665777873121738?s=46
There’s always a:
– hitch
– hitch
– hitch
Consider a disc rather than the tiller. Less moving parts so easier to repair.
I’m reminded of the old horse drawn middlebreaker that hasn’t been used for a while. It’s standing against the shop under the lean-to by the tractor. My grandfather then my dad and I used it to “pull taters”. Hooked to the drawbar with a log chain then the operator (me when I got big enough) would follow it down the row controlling its draw by lifting up or pushing down on the handles. The skill required for the driver was to be able to judge the correct speed where the operator (me) could keep up without getting dragged behind the plow while simultaneously keeping the tractor centered over the row in the waist high dead tater vines and Johnson grass. No easy feat that is. The difficulty level is much like that of a jet fighter pilot in a dog fight or maybe threading one of Grandma’s embroidery needles in the dark blindfolded. At least that is how Grandpa described it to me when I asked if I could drive the tractor. The best way to describe the process was poetry in motion until you reached the end of the row then it started to resemble a rodeo bull dogging when Little Jimmy ( grandma called me that) would have to wrestle the plow over to its side without it getting stuck since the tractor cannot stop until the plow is out of the ground and there is limited space at the head rows. This is when Little Jimmy would be left with the collecting of the taters in bushel baskets that had been prepositioned along the tater patch rows. Ah, memories.
Stay safe. 73
I agree with small disk and a small drag harrow. Friend uses them with small tractor, but before he got the tractor used his atv.
George,
With the Nikkei’s bounce today the final 13 day: 4/10 day count of the 1 July 6/13/13 day decay fractal series appears to be correct. Both the Nikkei and the ASWI are following the same 1 July decay series. The final 10 days of the (4/10) 13 day third fractal appears to be a 2/4/4/3 days series as previously predicted. This would put a low on Thursday of this week, rebound growth on Friday and possibly a 1987-like crash on Monday of next week. The market is a zero sum game with winning speculators and AI winners reentering the market after crash days.
BOJ sacrificed the yen to save the market. now, hyperinflation in japan is only a matter of when.
Very envious of Ure tractor and its PTO.
Wish I had room for such here in the sub-Urbs.
Meanwhile when we get going on the two or so acres up the highway and into the mountains here, one of the first things to install is a good worm bed, Worms do the job of breaking up soil for you, they help you fish, they can be sold to other fishermen at your fruit stand.
And Anything buried in a worm bed is usually gone, teeth and all in about 7 days.
So Worm beds are mighty handy to have.
See below…
(“Say, doesn’t this just jolt you with new-found confidence? U.S. working ‘around the clock’ to avert Mideast escalation – Raw Story.”)
yeah right you betcha… so why did congress pass the bill giving slo the authority to go to war with Iran just before they took off for the summer..
speaking about cardboard boxes..I am not only impressed but amazed and proud of my mini me 8 year old grandson and his 10 year old btother.. almost a hundred degrees and high humidity…mini me comes in and asks. papa do you have any hinges..hinges..yes we are going to build us a fort…
a year ago I had gotten the rocket heater.. it was shipping in a really nice box with a pallet on top and bottom.. he asked how to take ut apart .I said with a pallet buster. so then he asks if I have glass no just some screen..
spent the day at appointments..
I get home well mini me is a tool shut to. he gad 2vhammers a tippy tap tack hammer and a 2 pound framing hammer a hand saw and my screw gun…
now I don’t know if anyone has disassembled a pallet..they use kick nails glue coated.. it’s a real job.. I tried to convince them to let me get a couple of boxes to make a miserable collapsible playhouse..
I get home the fort.. they not only got the pallets apart they had constructed a pretty impressive little house. they even made rafters a window and door..they only git half of the roof done but dam.. what an impressive little playhouse out if nothing but crap laying around..
it could be a homeless man’s paradise..
I was amazed.. I built a fort when they put sewer in at about the same age. using the tile separators. ( it still stands 60 years later )
Yo Loobsters,
Youse just gave me a big smile and fond recall of my childhood growing up in the 60’s in east coast college town, wit the above action r e’d grads mini me and minions.
On the regular we would dumpster dive the dorms for Playboy magazines and whatnot. As university grew, need for more student housing grew-and with it our supply of quality construction materials. Hello Fort building? Man did we recreate some epic battles in those forts-logical step up from dirt forts. Silly games of yutes. Of the 5 principal group of “friends”involved in said fort building- 3 Vets -2 of which decorated SF operators, 1 died Cancer, 5 th highly successful – gay man. …yeah we kinda knew..
I hear ya.. the boys had a blast.. BUT.. the downside was the boss.. the boys were talking about making a door into the garage.. so she said.. fort or no fort it has to go.. LOL LOL so I think I worked harder at deconstructing it than the boys worked constructing it.. OMG.. they were heart broken.. they worked so hard on the fort.. So.. the boss said ok.. help them build a different fort but no doors into the house LOL .. I am going to go to the appliance store to see if they have any freezer boxes.. then I will help them build a collapseable fort.. I use to build the kids and older grandkids.. play houses out of cardboard..there was a Tsunami years ago and years ago I use to be asked what I would do for this or that.. anyway I had replied making those.. they lay flat for a simple small two to four person shelter.. easy peasy and they could drop a bale of them for emergency shelter.. of course like all the other ideas I had submitted they said naw that wouldn’t work and then used the idea anyway..
so we will put up a different fort.. the wife said would it be water proof.. absolutely.( years ago I worked at a cabinet shop. we built a display for the national home show..it was gorgeous. would put multi million dollar mansions to shame to..they hung a million dollars worth of cabinetry in it the customers oogled and ahhhed about the cabinets.. they shoul dhave oohed and ahhhed about the display. they could take it all down load it in a truck along with the cabinets then traveled from home show to home show..the company bought us a KEG we were at a park and having a picnic and two cops rode by on their bicycles on the bike path a bunch of slightly inebriated cabinetmakers were joking and laughing about running back to the shop and building a cardboard ginger bread house with a mailbox then setting it up.. later we put a homeless guy up in one of our spare rooms.. nicest guy in the world big heart hit on bad times. and I secretly had wished that instead of joking about it that we had actually had done it maybe he would have found it and used it as a shelter). since the inflated cost of materials big construction companies are using that as sheeting. My grandson inlaw builds mansions that is what they are using on the outside of the houses as a sub sheeting..saves them money…. heck at the local VA hospital they are building a huge building.. from crap I questioned on how strong it would be with a few tons of materials on top.. heck even on the top they used it for roofing..had to call my son in law an engineer that built some of the last building spree the hospital had.. ( I still give him guff over the fact that they did away with wheelchair ramps to the sidewalk) he explained to me that the strength is not in the outside of the wall but the center.. ( why the twin towers collapsed..) but they must have seen me wandering around the construction site and put a big fence around it.. LOL..
you can build anything out of cardboard.. so the DAT( double angled Trapezoid ) solar cookers are on hold for right now.. I had to make a new template for the fins.. had the kids assemble the one I have. I used duct tin on the one I have … the ones they will make is cardboard.. I am going to use pop flats for the case and base.. then a couple of pipe hanger for the pot holder they fold up flat like an accordion and doesn’t cost much to make .. simple things.. but fun build and I believe this time I will have the kids cut a half moon out of the top.. your still going to get a good five hundred degrees. ( one of the worst mistakes I ever did with the older grandkids was show them how to make lava out of the sun and stone dam bad mistake never show little kids how to do that.. they was burning everything.. zapping ants on the ground gummy worms I thought they were going to burn the house down so we went solar cooling instead.. built my solar beer chiller suns rays creating ice LOL..fun build you actually had to put ice in the box otherwise the beer and soda would freeze… ended up the wife wanted to park in the garage so I gave it away.) but it will be easier for the kids to stir a soup or grab the pans.. ( I burned my fingers when the older grandkids and I made scalloped potatoes years ago)
someday one of my projects is to build a solar grill.. told some kids at MIT about my idea for use in remote regions when a professor friend came over to have the kids hang solar panels. of course my rant of solar towers and air wells in arid regions came up handing out solar powersystems and green scaping cities.the dat is easy to build and anyone that wants to can make one in no time at all.. I still have the kids making small emergency oil lamps.. ( these will go out in the christmas cards.. every year I send a light of some sort.. let your light shine on christ is king ) .. so I get to build another fort with the boys.. we still have a few other lamps in the works to.. fun memories.. love that stuff.. lamps are fun.. with the oil lanterns we are using wine bottles as the globes LOL..
If I lived in a more arid region.. I would show them how to make bricks from salt LOL…making salt plates is a blast.. when the kids were little we would take table salt and mold it into shapes like ceramics.. then they could paint them or make what ever they wanted to out of them.. cheap materials easy to work with non toxic.. ( depending on what you use for paint that is) salt is as good as cement ..
a dream house I have always wanted to build is a earth block house or rammed earth.. but I would have to live in an area where something like that would be acceptable.. sent a CEB ( compact Earth block ) press to some missionaries a few years ago they were going to build a clinic school and shelters.. so I had one sent to them and one sent to me.. the cost of shipping to them was nothing the cost to have one shipped here was Oh my god.. BYU students were making wagon wheel well drilling units to send to missions around in remote regions.. great concept.. great project.. anyway I am rambling on.. fun times and fun projects.. the kids are now excited grandpa is going to help.. trying to keep them busy and heck between the kids and grandkids.. they are keeping me busy….
Wordslinger: counting SPX this appears 1-2-3 and … 4 in progress. There’s a gap above through 5,302. If it fills there’s another above but I expect more downside. Selling begets selling. The most exciting plays have been in the TNX. Months starting with A have seen CraCra move one to the other. And A2 has lots to go. Watching levered bond ETFs but correlation looks wobbly. Carry Trade anyone? Nope. Be nimble or be out sez me. BR, Egor
re: “Pause, Rally…” Walz
Folks,
I didn’t know of about a Mexican birthday tradition. Apparently strains of the “Blue Danube Waltz” signal imminent serving of cake to eagerly awaiting partiers.
re: Tweety Bird takes wing
feat: Looney Tunes
Folks,
One of the interesting underlying currents of the Twitter hq building in San Francisco regards its pre-Musk era owner-landlords. They appear to have possibly previously departed California for the tax-lite Delaware registry setting (after a 2008-ish California tax holiday ran its course?).
re: calling an audible
feat. coinkydoink playbook
Folks,
The recent Second Gentleman allegations confirmed by UK msm and subsequently picked up in America offers coinkydoink food for thought.
Apparently the violated, single former teacher was forced to change career following impregnation. She has successfully risen through the ranks in a subsidiary now the under the guidance of the world’s 2nd richest man as of last month. His Wikipedia page “politics” commentary highlights a $100 million donation in 2021 to the Obama Foundation.
Cliff High’s latest wrt War Issues
Monday 8-5-24 release:
https://clifhigh.substack.com/p/smackeraled-normies
Hi George,
I don’t think you said whether or not you have a quick hitch on your tractor. If you do not I highly recommend this one: https://www.patsquickhitches.com/
I have a 50hp Mahindra and these work really well.
“You will not only have your list, but the sense of peace in a stressed-out world that comes from having enough rad monitors, tossed salads, guns and ammo (plus sacks of lime to bury ’em) for when the zombies show up.”
Goodfellas (1990)
Jimmy Conway: What’s the fuckin’ matter with you? What – what is the fuckin’ matter with you? What are you, stupid or what? Tommy, Tommy, I’m kidding with you. What the fuck are you doin’? What are you, a fuckin’ sick maniac?
Tommy DeVito: How am I meant to know you’re kidding? What you mean, you’re kidding? You breaking my fuckin’ balls?
Jimmy Conway: I’m fuckin’ kidding with you! You fuckin’ shoot the guy?
Henry Hill: He’s dead.
Tommy DeVito: Good shot. What do you want from me? Good shot. Fuckin’ rat anyway. Kid’s all rat. He’ll grow up to be a rat.
Jimmy Conway: You stupid bastard, I can’t fuckin’ believe you. Now, you’re gonna dig the fuckin’ thing now. You’re gonna dig the hole. You’re gonna do it. I got no fuckin’ lime. You’re gonna do it.
Tommy DeVito: Who the fuck cares? I’ll dig the fuckin’ hole. I don’t give a fuck. What is it, the first hole I dug? Not the first time I dug a hole. I’ll fuckin’ dig a hole. Where are the shovels?
The joys of the three point! Prying a bush hog around to line up the arms to the pins, cleaning rusty female splines on the driveshafts, changing bad U-joints that are 70 year old, and making sure you still have all functioning limbs and appendages! The design is simple and elegant for its function, though it can be a challenge. The auger I bought 38 years ago always hangs from a beam or something when not in use since it’s a bear to wrestle into place alone! I bought that auger new for only $500+ dollars way back when and it’s worth having IF you’re careful. Most of my implements came from farm auctions and required some serious rework to make usable, but they were pretty cheap. The bush hog get the most use, though I could use a finish mower. It would be great to find a second tractor at a good price just to avoid swapping implements too often, and a backup is really a good idea. This year it’s been raining a lot and things are just growing everywhere, including the weed trees. The Amazon deal for the trailer hitch is definitely priced right, though tongue weight is a consideration. The pivot point for the ball is well back from the tractor on a Cat 1 compared to the overall length, so having weight forward, or a full bucket on the loader can balance things. I just welded up a 2″ receiver for the drawbar on mine. It’s not quick to attach, but can carry more tongue weight. Just need to keep the lift arms up and out of the way in turns.
“The way the mush moves, between my ears, is I’m always thinking about the Most Probable Future.”
Wouldn’t you give a dime to glance at your property in 100 years from now ;-) ? (I was brought up with the idea in 50 years everything will have changed.)
It’s all about design patterns here George.
1)Let’s start with the collapse of SWIFT and introduction of the XRP ledger as an option:
https://www.thecryptoalert.com/post/ripple-forms-trillion-dollar-partnership-connecting-xrp-to-swift
2)Now let’s kick the legs out from under the petro $.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-US-Is-Facing-A-Major-Challenge-As-Petrodollar-Loses-Force.html
https://www.vox.com/22306919/biden-keystone-xl-trudeau-oil-pipeline-climate-change
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/biden-cancels-last-oil-and-gas-leases-in-alaskas-arctic-refuge-overturns-sales-held-by-trump
https://www.nbcnews.com/data-graphics/data-point-bidens-oil-reserve-release-biggest-us-history-rcna6627
https://dailyhodl.com/2021/10/27/ripple-tackles-78-billion-remittance-industry-in-middle-east-using-new-xrp-based-on-demand-liquidity-program/
3)Let’s digitize / hypothecate property on onto XRP ledger
https://www.ledgerinsights.com/r3-corda-ripple-xrp-payments/
3) Then there’s that broken carry trade in Japan that left things suddenly fluid before being put into the recirculating air apparatus this last weeekend.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/sbi-group-xrpl-japan-ripple
4) I could go on like how El Salvador fixed there Bitcoin settlement time, high fees, and network congestion, by doing what? Transact in Bitcoin licensing a layer 4 payment app that uses what (Layer 1) currency in the transfer and settlement of Bitcoin?
https://thecryptobasic.com/2023/08/05/xrp-ledger-powered-company-obtains-bitcoin-service-provider-license-in-el-salvador/
T-0) Then There’s that question of an FRN recall and repricing coming to a banking statement near you. Think Mexican Peso so many decades ago.
https://ripple.com/solutions/stablecoin/
Got Blockchain?
https://github.com/XRPLF/rippled/issues/3037
Got blockchain??
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/06/17/stealth-erosion-imf-issues-striking-us-dollar-collapse-warning-as-the-fed-primes-bitcoin-ethereum-and-xrp-for-a-crypto-price-boom/
Got Blockchain???
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/economics/two-tier-monetary-systems-local-currencies/
Suffice it to say, fintech disruption is danger close. Strap in home gamers .
The weaponized tendrils of the deep state now have Tulsi Gabbard under surveillance for her conservative views. Four federal goons follow her on her flights, unbeknownst to her!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/federal-air-marshal-whistleblowers-report-tulsi-gabbard-actively-under-surveillance-quiet
Oh never mind me. What does the banker’s bank have to say?
https://thecryptobasic.com/2024/07/18/bis-releases-new-requirements-for-banks-looking-to-hold-xrp-other-group-2-assets/
There’s that 2 tiered reference again.
“This could enhance the functioning of the monetary system and provide new solutions using smart contracts and programmability, while maintaining its two-tier structure. “
https://www.bis.org/about/bisih/topics/fmis/agora.htm
Everything is going so well in the USSA and the world, ol pedo joe is gonna take a 5 day weekend , last weeks 4 days wasn’t enough.
i recieved my answer today. among many other answers… when you know it is sent, and its on its way,
you only need wait for it to arrive.
“Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.”
having recieved my crown.
see you in the future.
~ La Dolce Vita ~
i was sitting for a while. clearning my mind. clearing it of every want, discomfort, comfort, desire, every thought, every feeling. beyond past, present and future….. just being still, just breathing… listening……
after a while…. i can only hear my heart beat. after a while even the sound of that fades… and im just listening.
it is has been my experiance when i do that, i dont get any answers. but what im doing is giving a provisional space.
later, while laying in bed, i sat right up, the coin i found in the center of divine labyrinth, on the large letter I, represents the Gold Medal! First Place!, in the Divine Race.
I won the Gold the Medal!
https://www.iconfinder.com/icons/616349/first_place_gold_medal_prize_winner_award_icon
Not in competing in Olympics, but in the Divine Labyrinth.
if you look at the center stone. it has a Large Letter I in the middle.
I, One, Won The Gold Medal and The Golden Crown in the Divine Labyrith.
O.K. Thanks!
this Mornings meditation read, “Peace is not an elusive goal, hidden at the center of some complicated maze. Actually, you are always enveloped in peace, which is inherent in My presence. You are Royalty in My Kingdom. As, you Look to Me, you gain awareness of this Peace.
The wisest of all men, Solomon, could never think his way to peace. His vast understanding resulted in futility, rather than fulfillment. The world presents you with endless problems, As soon as you master one set, another pops up to challenge you. Stop searching for understanding and mastery. you dont need to understand and master everything. I already have over come the world. When you listen to Me? I always give you the answer.
The only thing you need to understand is I am with you. When you place your trust in me, You need only recieve.
I will make your feet like that of a deer. I make you move quickly, over and around and through any obstical in the path I lead you. As you trust in Me, not gravity, nor time, nor element, nor any other powers of this world, will keep you from My perfect Will. As you do this you can have all that Solomon had, and in the end of your, you wont find the futility that Solomon found at the end of his life. For I will be your reward.”
I sat back, had a smoke and thought…..Wow! I stand corrected.
The future begins today!
~ La Dolce Vita ~
In the center of the Divine Labyrtinth, I seen the I.
the gold coin was over it.
by removing it, i removed the spec from my own eye and the I in the center.
Now, We clearly see.
When THE DUDE speaks? He sure says much, in a little.
I And I
Bread of Life… wow.
and that is where,
I and I
became 1.
Wow!
I too have no Kith or Kin. In a few years when I move on that will be that. Some sort of genetic problem I am told. Man may come and man may go, but Earth abides.
Here is an interesting video of prof. Nez.. on nez nation..
https://youtu.be/2KaTxNniMgs?si=t5UXct9oXgrZGI12
“Weapons of Sexual Destruction: Ted Cruz Slams FDA for Putting Gender Ideology Over Kids’ Safety”
The Dems don’t like Cruz because he’s a bedrock-stable conservative and one of the top living USSC scholars. He’s coming up for re-election, and the Democratic Establishment is projected to spend close to $250mln to take him out and “Make Texas Liberal.”
‘Twas nice having the freedom to chat with y’all. ‘Lessen you pony up some bux and find some honest poll-watchers in them thar dens of inequity y’all call “cities,” you’ll prob’ly be pullin’ forks out’n yer backsides on November 6th and wonderin’ how they got there…
Trump claimed Cruz’s father helped Oswald assassinate JFK:
https://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/05/trump-ted-cruz-father-222730
You are bringing up a 2016 story. Do you own a calendar?
Flag down on the field. Trolling. Replay the down.
Here’s a fresher take, check your ‘sense of humor’ meter, this one’s a 10!
Current ramblings (2 weeks old), of the tRump: ‘Hannibal Lecter was a wonderful man’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adZYjigrqtI
Simone Biles loves her Black job!
Ingo Douglas Swann was a Remote viewer while at the Stanford Research Center ad he remote viewed the moon. It is there that term soul catcher on the moon came from, as he saw an alien device there that catches our souls at death and views us from knowing our past lives.
“Which gets us to wondering if this is law faring: CNN Cites Taliban’s Sharia Law to Defend Against Defamation Lawsuit.”
After CNN tosses every non Sharia-compliant employee off the top of the Westin Peachtree Plaza, they should be allowed to use this defense — not before.
However, there would be no compulsion for a judge or jury to accept it.
The empty halls would save them so much money they could just pay the settlement…
“You remember, “Movies are the message,” right?”
Aundy….. do you know why we dont have clocks? because we live every day as if its an entire life time. the next day you may wake up living an entirely new life.
if you dont like this movie, put on a different one.” The Eldest of The Elders, of The Oldest tribe in North and South America.
“how do i do that?” Andy
” you have the remote. push the button. its that easy.” The Eldest of The Elders
Honestly, I think George is stuck on the shopping channel. He is either out in the shop or buying shit.
he is probably keeping the whole damn chinese economy going between his amazon purchases and trips to wally world.
hmmmmmmm… i thought about what the eldest said to me for a long time… about changing the movie to a different one.
then what if i just turn the damn movies off and tell everyone to go outside and play?
Then Playto said, “whoooaaa duuuuudde! that is a novel idea!”
you know how lately I been saying, ” See ya in the future!”
i saw a sign on a double decker bus after my post earlier that said,
“Your Future begins today.”
and i said “whoooaaa duuuuudde! that is a novel idea!”
To Big Al, George, and anyone who might be interested in a lawn & garden tractor:
The difference between a riding mower and a “lawn & garden tractor” is the machine’s ability to run implements off a front &or rear power takeoff (PTO.) L&G tractors which don’t have hydraulics of any kind are a bitch for running front implements (blade, snow blower, rotary broom, etc.) because stuff has to be levered manually into place, using brute strength, and it is impossible to run anything off the rear that’s more-complicated than a drag (a piece of I-beam that’s dragged down a dirt road or around a ball diamond to level the surface.)
[Not counting Gravely and Wheel Horse 2-wheel walk-behinds] the first real L&G tractor was the John Deere Model 110, prototyped in the 1950s as, essentially a completely functional, miniaturized farm tractor — complete with front & rear hydraulics and a PTO. The rear hydraulics made it possible to use a 3-point hitch, and JD released a whole bunch of implements which could be attached to one end or the other, and put to work.
A “3-point hitch” is a device consisting of two trailing links which pivot off the rear axle-housing of a tractor, and which locate and orient a heavy tool with respect to the rear of said tractor, and an upper, hydraulically-actuated link, which can raise, lower, and in some cases guide the tool.
The JD 110 essentially created and standardized the “Category Zero” sized 3-point attachments. The Deere brush-hog style mowers and their tillers, planters, blades, vacuums, etc., will all fit any John Deere L&G tractor of any age. They will also fit any other “Cat-0” L&G tractor made by anyone else, and a Case, Wheel Horse, Simplicity, Jacobsen, or any other implement (except things like proprietary vacuums that don’t attach to a Deere belly-mower) will fit a Deere.
A new L&G tractor will set a body back between $5,000 and about $14,000. Since you can get a real (<80 acre farm-sized) John Deere or Kubota "compact utility tractor" (CUT) for only a few thousand more, buying the $14k Kubota or $11k Deere L&G tractor new isn't really cost-effective. (I don't consider buying the $5,000 MTD or Mahindra cost-effective, either.)
What I DO consider cost-effective is buying a L&G tractor which was made in the previous millennium. They are much better made, much less likely to break catastrophically, and for name-brands (JD, Kubota, Case, IH, Snapper, Simplicity, Wheel Horse, etc.) virtually all spare parts are available. This is not a blanket endorsement. Deere and Kubota are head & shoulders above the others, yet JD, at least, has had 3 product lines since the early 1990s. The top shelf tractor will only be sold by a JD dealer, and cost $5800 when I bought mine, in 1986. By 1992 you could walk into a Lowe's and buy a "John Deere" L&G tractor for about $2000.
Ask LOOB how that works out.
(“you could walk into a Lowe’s and buy a “John Deere” L&G tractor for about $2000.
Ask LOOB how that works out.”)
never again unless I need an anchor really bad lol lol
even JD didn’t have a clue.. the hood was made of platic.. UV lighting made it extremely brittle..
I threw away money that I could have used on a good piece of equipment..
I bought a cub snow blower.. put it on layaway in the early spring..got it about the end of june..
we had monster snow.. got it out popped right off.. halfway through the driveway it just stops..3 feet of snow .. I called the store you need to call the factory..I called cub.. halfway from some joker the could barely speak English he said sorry..you bought it in the spring your 90 day warranty has expired.. you bought it you own it.. I ended up having to drag the 40 year old two hundred dollar snowblower out of the kids garage to finish.. I called Ace..sure we can fix it ( 300 ) and I got a different snow blower till they could fix the cub..I now have to new snow powers in the garage one us made I don’t have a clue where the cub was made..But the sirens is a workhorse.. no pile of snow is to big..
Airens
I won’t ever own another Maytag either..
Now the speed queen set..rock solid.. I would of had to have gotten two sets of the units made outside the usa..in the time we have had the speed queen..
the wife and I decided since dishwashers are about as good as the JD lawn tractor.. in a year when this one fails ..I am just going to build a kitchen gadget storage ..and wash dishes by hand..since we no longer have people living in our spare bedrooms why waste the money and the frustration..
My 1986-vintage John Deere is a Model 318. This is considered the best L&G tractor ever made. It is considered so because its predecessor, the Model 317, was one of the worst ever made. The 317 damaged JD’s reputation (built on 20 years of awesome 100-series tractors), so they seriously overengineered the 318 (also the 316, 322, 332 diesel, and 420, to an extent.) The 317’s main failing was in the form of an absolute junk Kohler engine. A Kohler-powered 317 can be had off eBay today for less than $1500. A 318 with just a belly mower will often be $3500 or more.
With that said, the 100-series and 1980s 3-series tractors show up all the time in yard sales and on Craigslist, and in the fall can often be found for a few hundred dollars, sometimes with a pile of implements (which can be important. The Model 30 hydraulic tiller sells used for ~$2500, the Model 47 snowblower, ~$1400, the belly mower is nearly $1000, etc.) The WeekendFreedomMachines and MyTractor Forums are good sources for research. WFM is principally John Deere, but has sections for most other L&G tractors. MTF is totally non-brand-specific.
Sometimes these yard sale tractors are perfect; sometimes they suck. Suckage is usually from a bad engine or electrical, or fuel-delivery issue. “Repower” kits from Small Engine Warehouse are the gold standard in engines. Typical “repowers” are done with Honda or Onan, or sometimes Kawasaki or Briggs & Stratton engines, or Yanmar diesels. SEW has a huge web presence and sells a lot of stuff through eBay, and places like Century Power and Jim’s Tractors. Their kits were between about $1400 and $2000 when last I looked, but that was several years of Bidenomics ago, so YMMV.
I find it ironic.. companies spend decades to build a reputation of quality and excellence.. only to toss it out so that the top executives can get higher bonuses in their business models of I want more..
then as the brand crumbles they once again have to tackle the challenges of having to rebuild their reputations having to regain what they once had..
we have a freezer..it was bought by my in-laws before I was born..I keep bread in it..the meat freezer not even a year old failed in a power outage and never came back on..we lost a thousand pounds of beef and 60 lbs of chicken..I should have put the bread in that freezer..
the companies throw quality and value out for short term profit from a lower quality products..
The Model 30 tiller was designed for the 400-series L&G tractors, so it won’t normally fit a 3-series tractor. I had a chance to buy one for a few hundred dollars, so I purchased a hydraulic motor from Surplus Center
( https://www.surpluscenter.com )
and had a local machinist build me a custom driveshaft to drive the motor off my PTO, then set things up to drive the tiller off the motor.
The L&G tillers will generally run from 9-13 inches deep (depending on model) and do a wonderful job of breaking up clay or loam soil. They are so much more powerful than any walk-behind tiller that there’s no comparison. Mine also lifted every rock bigger than a shooter marble and left them on top for me to remove at my leisure. My garden space is about 80×80 and it took less than an hour to till (twice), sew the green manure, and remove the stones. I built a portable ramp and rented myself out to people who wanted garden plots, for several years. The tractor w/tiller, weights, and the ramp, fit without issue in the bed of my old compact pickup.
I am a huge fan of tractor-driven tillers. The tiller doesn’t run as deep as a plow, but runs deeper than a disc and does a much better job on unbroken soil. My only issue was my tiller weighs 405 pounds, so I had to use front counterweights. I have three Deere hydraulic blades, so I took one apart and turned the mount into a counterweight-holder, to which I could pile barbell weights to my heart’s content so, no problem. I use that blade mount most of the time as a trailer mule, by having fit it with a hitch ball. When dragging a trailer, the mount makes no difference (and I DO have a drawbar, also), but when backing the trailer, it is amazing how fast one can place a trailer within a quarter-inch of perfect, and in incredibly tight spaces. The hydraulic height adjust on the mount makes it so one can “scoop” a trailer and move it faster than a Quik-Tatch, then drop it where desired — all without leaving your seat.
I got a sunny boy tiller.. I paid twenty bucks for it on winter shelf reduction.. dam I love that thing.. it is probably one of the best things I ever got and for twenty bucks..
https://www.amazon.com/WEN-TC1318-13-5-Amp-Electric-Cultivator/dp/B09T3WJL2Q?th=1
super nice.. last year I bought the wife a sunny boy snow broom.. she can’t use a big snow blower ( her mobility is a factor in this) and the sunny boy snow broom great she can use it where she likes to go sit.. built just like the tiller..easy to use light..
Note to George: Danuser created the tractor screw. If you buy an auger with a tractor name on it, it is likely made by Danuser. If your local street department or electric co-op has an auger, it is likely also made by Danuser. You can buy augers ranging from 1″ to well over 2′ and with steel, carbide, or diamond teeth. They can be expensive. I paid $150 for my Danuser Cat-1 auger (had to pick it up at a farm store, located about half way between Peoria and Davenport) but I got new, carbide 8″ and 12″ augers with the purchase. I had to purchase a new driveshaft for it (~$225, I think it was, from a Danuser jobber in Greenville, Ohio. I picked it up on my way back through, so no wasted petrol.)
BTW, didja know you can use Google’s site tools to search Craigslist and iOffer? The auger was not a salvage purchase.
Even if you’re just installing T-Posts, I heartily recommend an auger, IFF you can get ahold of one for <$500. You can not conceive how much easier it makes the job…