TL;DR: Empire State data drops, retail may get a tariff-driven bump, and wage growth isn’t “soft” so much as shadow-boxing with inflation. Geopoliics grinds toward expanding war. Personal productivity and how to stall are covered.
Big Picture Economics
Note: Peoplenomics.com subscribers are reminded I posted a special update on Sunday, Click here to access. Or, here to subscribe.)
Big Picturing the Week
This ain’t hard.
Empire State Manufacturing data is just out. It supports the idea of a Fed cut because it dropped – a fair bit…
” The headline general business conditions index dropped twenty-one points to -8.7, its first negative reading since June. New orders and shipments fell sharply. Delivery times were steady, and supply availability worsened somewhat. Inventories edged lower for a second consecutive month. Employment held steady, while the average workweek declined modestly. The pace of input price increases was still elevated, though slower than last month.”
Previous Empire State numbers came in with a modest but clear improvement, the general business conditions index moving into positive territory again, suggesting that manufacturers in New York are feeling a little more confident than they have in recent months. Orders and shipments ticked higher while inventories eased back, painting a picture of a sector that is not booming but was showing signs of stability. We don’t think the chart looks too bad, really:
These numbers have limited potential to drive ahead of the FOMC number Wednesday after lunch. Between now and then? A decline betwixt now and then? That spells “sell the rumor” with a hint of being ready to “buy the news” – which is a maybe – if the Fed gives a half. No cut? Well, suddenly, those cycle charts in the special PN report get real.
Retail Looms Next
If the market can keep out of the ditch today, there’s a chance it will run off tomorrow because our sense is that retail will be strong and that’s because of Trump trembles tariffs. A lot of people (including us) pulled some forward parches into present to lock-in before any more inflation or tariffs,.
Retail Tuesday is more diffuse, since there is no single blockbuster release, but the ongoing dribble of earnings reports from large chains and consumer spending data continues to feed the broader narrative of how much strength remains in the household sector. Remember too: The CPI All Items less food and energy is more than a point higher than the much ballyhooed “target.” Was it all a sham? (Duh – isn’t it always?)
Markets are still balancing a story of resilient shoppers against the headwinds of higher borrowing costs (another media lie – rates are actually stable, but the media spin is in). Softer wage growth? Another misdirection with a bad fecal odor to it. Let’s get real, shall we?
-
“Tracking inflation” is often used loosely. Even if nominal wages are rising faster than some inflation indices, there are big “real world” gaps: taxes, benefits, housing/rent, healthcare, etc., which inflate the cost of living more for many people than headline CPI suggests. Yeash, CPI understates but that’s part of the Rich Screw Workers modality – never changes.
-
The averages hide variation: industries, regions, job types differ a lot. Low-wage workers may see wage gains, but if their living costs (e.g. rent, utilities, food) are rising faster, they’re still squeezed. Meanwhile some white-collar / middle-income sectors may be doing much better relatively. That’s because the greedster/syndicates have job jacked America out of factories – and now it’s our fault? FT. *(Hint: second word is that.)
-
Also, inflation measures tend to lag / smooth things; sudden cost jumps (fuel, food, housing) hurt people immediately, even if overall inflation hasn’t “caught up” yet. So “wage growth vs inflation” comparisons often miss that timing mismatch and real pain.
We would offer a “come to Jesus moment” is due Trump and Bessent: Tariffs is a good story but we’ve outed it all along: IT’S A TAX SCHEME. Tax imported stuff, But when domestic production returns, it will be robotics and AI. People aren’t as stupid as politicians think…
Even without a headline-grabbing surprise, the steady flow of consumer metrics gives Wall Street something to chew on as it tries to handicap how long the buying public can keep carrying the expansion. We’ve said it before:
- If Crypto is so damn useful, why isn’t it pooling to fund development? Why the Fed…why taxpayer money? FTW (Hint: last two words are those whales.)
- Lowering rates will only fund IPOs – which ought to stand on their own two feet first. AI is already running into User Resistance – over-promising and under-delivering. What the hell are we rewarding mediocrity and greed for with a rate cut?
- (Anyone ever drug test the FOMC? Check for blackmailing? Search for insider trading of not only members but related parties like family? Umm…just saying, there’s a whiff of something…)
The Guardians of You Consciousness should be on high alert for suggestions like “…policymakers will acknowledge slower inflation momentum without overstating recession risk…” What kind of gobbledygook is that?
Yeah it’s a big deal. Load up on Astroglide. If you’re over 70? Wesson Oil?
Life Under the Bus
Looks to us like New York State is about to set up it’s version of the Kremlin: New York governor endorses Mamdani for mayor
Another strike (on another country) is rumored to have already been green-lighted. So it’s almost Kabuki to read how Rubio promises ‘unwavering support’ for Israel in Gaza goals, Be looking for the next move which could be Israel shutting off all water supplies to Gaza. Not genocide? Um… Anyway, if country #2 is struck, we assume that will be the second of the three countries to attack Israel that seems to be the buzz in forward-projecting, prophecy, and look-ahead sites. Only thing we’re wondering is when will Egypt get involved?
Second War Coming Notes: DJT is trying to see if Europe will walk their talk. As you read Trump says he is ready for major sanctions on Moscow – when Nato gives up Russian oil, ask yourself “Will the arrogant royals and bunglecrats running Europe into the ground will ‘do without’?” And frankly, we’re confused that mid-war, Ukraine did what? Young Ukrainian men rush to Polish border as Kyiv relaxes war restrictions. Depopulating Ukraine before…(the mind races…)
Speaking of arrogant Royals: knee pads at the ready? Prince Harry’s 41st birthday wish may be royal family reconciliation. Now? Why now? Something close?
Just a fine solution: FAA Proposes to Fine Boeing $3.1M Over Widespread Safety Violations
Yet somehow, it’s all supposed to make sense: This satire on X sums up the world.
But, if you prefer reading to watching, might we offer: IMAGES, WORDS & NARRATIVES MATTER – The Burning Platform
Something Book Length? A classic? Battle of Symbols: Global Dynamics of Advertising, Entertainment and Media by John Fraim. With that, along with Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind‘ (Ries & Trout) you now know enough to ignore noise and run your own life.
Now let’s segue into the “shoptalk” version of life management, shall we?
Around the Ranch: Personal Organizers & Teardrop Stalls
A note on personal organizers. I have written many times around Brisqi – which is my long-time Kanban PIM favorite. Been mentioning it off and on since 2022. Point is, there’s a new update out and slick as ever – Ash and crew have done well, again.
People occasionally ask me: “How do you get everything done?” Answer is simple: if either the brain or body isn’t in motion you’re a lazy person! (Duh!) So every day begins with my personal pre-flight: (right)
Brisqi is free to begin, modestly priced, and it’s just awesome.
The “aerosols” on my morning Kanban? Those of things like lavender essential oil if I am running high of BP, otherwise different oils for clarity and action.
My son G2 isn’t a big Kanban user. He’s more on the neu-minimalist rack. He has coffee and picks his “magic 3” for the day and commits to getting them done, no matter what.
Sure, sure..works. Until life get complicated enough. I need my onboard cores to be working on at-hand tasking and optimizations because the more I can offload into Brisqi and my Ai stacks, the more time I have on the Cal Newport stuff (“Deep Work” “Digital Minimalism“) which is where the rubber meets the road around here.
Small nit with Newport, if I may be so bold. Digital Minimalism will teach you the how (and importance) of not letting your life get sucked out a wireless card. But, AI has left the wireless cards here in “no sleep” mode. Because our track is “Digital Purposefulness.” A simple “Unplug the bullshit, focus on the outcomes you can nail with minimum effort.” And that’s where my next book – Mind Amplifiers (and the website) are going.
And yes – serialized as Peoplenomics episodes – including this week…
The Answer Man is In
A great one popped in to our Comments section overnight:
Question.
Canada geese arrive from farmland daily usually before 11am. Small groups ie; two or four land without any change in flight.. Large flocks come in to this Great Lake and approximately 75% at 50 -80 feet do a 45,90 or 180 degree brief flip before smooth landing. Any airplane history on this?
This will also be of interesting to Fleet-Uber-Admiral, retd. Egor, who also gets the Canadian Bird visits…
The simple answer is YES!!!
I would imagine this is the CG (C-geese) analog to the tower command “take the high-speed” – On big airports,. there is often a 30-degree, or so turnoff so when the tower would be me “Musketeer 7912-Lima, keep your speed up on final and take the high speed…” that would inform me that “Big plane’s right behind and I need to get down and off the runway right freaking now…” (Once you take a high-speed, you’ve still got room to burn off a lot of momentum before you get to a perpendicular taxiway.
Take a fairly busy airport – like the three runways in Seattle:
All though angled light gray taxiways are designed to a) get aircraft off the active runway and b) get them into the terminal gate areas quickly. After a lot of small single-engine time you learn to “land long” because if you do set it down in 500-600 at the far end of the runway, you’ll taxi all day. Which is entertaining in a new city but NOT on a hot day with the sun beating on you and holding the doors open for cooling…
OK, that is one analog. This explains your 45-degree guys and maybe their 90-degrees.
But, what about those bothersome 180s?
For this example, we turn to crop dusters – a hardy and ballsy group if ever was. They make their living doing something called “teardrop stalls”
Basic stalls and recovery is here: Power-off Stall: Recovery Steps Made Easy – Pilot Institute
And almost teardrop is in this video at 1:50: Crop Duster Full Field Ride-Along – YouTube Except that this is a modern crop duster (with flaps). Older a/c – like the post WW II Steerman N2N torpedo bomber (no flaps) – were the more common application of teardrop stalls which hardly anyone knows about, any more.
Procedure?
Let’s imagine spraying along the length of a field, so north to south. When we get to the south end, kill the spreader, pull back hard on the yoke, and go nearly nose-vert. At that point, hard over on the stick (left or right rudder) and the inboard wing (whichever side) will stall first, and the plane will “fall off” that way. It’s similar to the entry into a simple Lomcevak (“headache”) maneuver in aerobatics. Note the fall off to the left wing here: The Lomcevak / Tumble at Fighter Combat International
Down low, you push the nose back down quickly (no time for the Lomcevak rolls and tumbles!) You need to preserve momentum because close to the ground, you will NOT want to run out of “airspeed, altitude, and ideas” at the same time [that defines a crash].
As the airflow reattaches to the stalled wing, (you will see the ground coming at you through the windscreen) you bring the nose up, but not too fast, or you can enter a secondary stall. Which down low has a bad outcome.
This is likely what your Canadian Geese are doing – making sure everyone has room to land in the big flocks – and they have the (aircraft carrier f/w ops) analog in that they can fold their wings up in a hurry, as well.
Hope this helps?
ShopTalk Sunday is here, if you missed it. Tool sharpening (written by a tool?)
Write when you get rich,
George@Ure.net
Canada geese not the only migration happening!
“Migration madness is on, both day and night.
As a new study points to the urgent need to address the beautiful insect’s plummeting numbers, Parks Canada has events planned into October to celebrate the fall migration of the Monarch butterfly at Point Pelee National Park.”
Seeing they are less messy than geese, and more enjoyable to watch as they transit south for winter.
It amazing that for it’s fall migration a single monarch butterfly flies up to 3000 miles so as to reach central Mexico from Canada or the NE US. That generation of the Monarch lives up to 9 months.
For the trip up north in the spring though the Moanarchs live much shorter lives and it takes 3 or 4 generations of them, only living a few weeks each, to reach their northern destination with kids in tow.
Pelee Point is the peninsula in Canada that juts south into Lake Erie, which is a short cut across the Great Lakes for the butterflies heading south … but it IS a long single journey even from Pelee Point to reach the first mid lake island where they can rest before jumping off to go to the next island and then back to the mainland and on to Mexico
Some of us just don’t like bugs. And bugs come in all forms. Butterflies are bugs, Lyme carrying ticks are another along with West Nile and Zika carrying mosquitoes. I say the best place to prevent ants, spiders and cockroaches is the property line. If you don’t like bugs and want to keep them away try alternating between these, they work.
Demand CS Insecticide
Talstar P
A lot of giant bug movies in the 50’s…
The Deadly Mantis
Earth Vs. The Spider
Beginning Of The End
Tarantula
The Black Scorpion
The Wasp Woman
Them
“Ed Wood” film (1994)
Bela Lugosi: They don’t want the classic horror films anymore. Today it’s all giant bugs. Giant spiders, giant grasshoppers… Who would believe such nonsense?
Yo OoWS, that scheisse work on Trannies ?
How about the rest of them L,B,G,Q’s ?
How about the Parents of these lil freaks ?
Better yet – how about we chop up some lines of the TalstarP and offer to Macron, Starmer and Merz ? Prolly a better “kick” than the shit they were snorting on the Train. It would be kinda rude not offer any Lines to the Dick playing a piano with his lil pecker, no?
Perhaps we could barter for for some that Andrenochrome everone keeps visiting ukraine for..never know till we try.
FAKEr by the minute, Chief .
Charlie Kirk – Fake – the whole story built up around him (a Walk In) is fake. He is 100 % israHELLi – his security that fateful day – israHELLi.
Following analysis is a real eye opener – this deepstate scheisse runs deep in some families, very deep. Hunting “rabbits” indeed ..https://www.theinteldrop.org/2025/09/14/the-murder-of-charlie-kirk-was-of-course-staged/
Seen this video of event ? https://twitter.com/i/status/1966817311060287534
But the best fake of the weekend ? That would be tRUMP his own dammed zionist self – CGI tRUMP doing a eulogy from oval office – watch his Pinky in the vid = CGI
-https://substack.com/redirect/8f3d917e-00f4-4b5d-b715-7e043b6ddb2a?j=eyJ1IjoiMWtrNHlkIn0.fVVcJH6f1r_zprDxpYe9yhWMCY9me-zumT3TyeeDR9A
Real or Memorex ?
Celebration of the Lizard -https://youtu.be/C82Z5bBnRSI?si=uW1Oj7Kit9GgQQpi
Somewhere in here, a few writers will remember what saying fake about sandy hook cost someone…know what I’m saying? click bait can be the death of over reporting…
Per my previous comment about continuing to create the divide – mission accomplished.
Absolutely Clawsy – right, as usual
There is an interesting interview on YouTube with Chris Hedges and Max Blumenthal Re Charlie Kirk. I am unable for some reason to copy and paste.
The video of Tyler hopping off the building. Does it look like he has a chopper? @ 30 seconds whatever the man in black is carrying seems to bend. Either way we got fed the fed .gov story so that’s the story.
FBI Releases FRESH CCTV FOOTAGE: Charlie Kirk Shooter Caught Jumping From Rooftop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H42VK-HPLTU
And now for the JFK files!! LOL
GU : “… being ready to “buy the news” – which is a maybe – if the Fed gives a half …”
My read : a quarter is cooked in, it’s a plodding procedural norm so SOP for an academic egghead like JayPow. We waits Precious …
Variation either way, cutting more than .25 or stupidly less (0) is when traders push lots of buttons. .25 and dovish dots is center of course
Egor
Make note – Kirk’s position on Israel and Iran was evolving and changing from outright support to not agreeing. Bryan Shapiro an Orthodox Jew is being touted as being the new torch bearer for Kirk and TPUSA a decidedly Christian movement. Lastly up til today there have been 37,000 new College Campus requests for Chapters.
somebody brought up the somebody brought up the story about the Russia released fake information about Ukraine sending in children girls and boys and young women and stuff like that anyway I was visiting with somebody that was visiting with family members in Ukraine and that wasn’t a fake story they are. remind me of a guy I was in the service he had PTSD real bad spent one day too long in Vietnam and we would do firewatch which you’d go around and check the gates in the fences and that make sure nobody was jumping over and everything and he carried a hand grenade in his pocket and he would pull the pins put the pin bags stick it in his pocket take it out he juggle that thing and he just and I would get so nervous cuz he was playing with his damn hand grenade everywhere we went. and I says can’t you just leave that somewhere and he says you never know when you’ll need one. anyway he came from Detroit Michigan so on leave he goes up to Detroit Michigan and he decides rather than hire a cab he’s going to just walk home and some guy picked him up and what he told me was the guy pulled out this gun and he pulled out that hang grenade with the painful and he said God there sure are a lot of nuts in this world anymore the guy let him go he said see you never know when you’ll need one. birds hated him too I didn’t want him anywhere near me because they would die funniest thing I ever watched in my life I didn’t want them to soil in my coffee cup
FBI boss seems like a strange dude . any background stuff ? weird eyes. dont look bad just weird , far away.
Didn’t get the memo (being out of the country)? Institutional racism is OK if the left does it. Keep up, Mate.
Flamer – his “beard” is mossad handler.
If you notice ALL the senior leaders in tRUMP admin GAY/Bi – just like their fearless leader.
Not rumor – FACT – Ask Roy Cohn…oh wait he died of AIDS..
G.A..STEWART: No, Alex Jones. No. The connection to Israel begins with Donald J. Trump’s mentor Roy M. Cohn. You can ask your coworker Roger Stone.
“Roy (Cohn) was not gay. He was a man who liked having sex with men.” – Roger Stone
What is it that they say about sucking one… Oops… This is an adult website, so most readers should know the rest of that quote.
My apologies folks; I have used a great deal of profanity in these last few posts; but this is a street fight, and I have been in enough of those; so, I know how this is going to end. Everybody gets bloodied and dirty, and I am on the wrong side of retirement age for this point in history, but I am certainly not ready to be a victim.
https://theageofdesolation.com/nostradamus/2025/07/10/donald-j-trumps-fixer/
Good read today, George, thanks for the few links I looked at. Very rarely do I click on the links you provide, mostly because I don’t care to look at them. Very seldom do I ever click on them. Very good read at the Images, words and narratives matter. I do appreciate a man who is able to put the context of a situation into music and who doesn’t love cool hand Luke who ate 50 hardboiled eggs in an hour. Similar in nature to how many headlines can one man eat in an hour before his head hurts.
Per the Links, I prefer to think for myself and I take a man at his word not because he says just ask so and so. If that man proves to be a liar, liars who are known to be liars are useful as well. For the truth stands firm. You are an Honest Man George. after all these years, you stand for something. I value that.
I might wonder over and talk with the dog poet today, see what his latest rants are about. The problem I have with that fella is he postulates a bit too much for my liking. He disagrees just to stand on the pedestal of disagreement and shakes his fist which much different than honest disagreement.
It is not prudent to always agree with everyone because then one only person is doing the thinking. The Dog Poet Hates the jews.
I don’t hate the jews. I have more than a few Jewish friends who are all cool people. they will feed ya to death if you go to their house. “Oh you look hungry. come sit and have some caviar” Then they start cooking a 9 course meal no matter what time of the day it is as soon as you walk in the door. They always apologize about their house being a mess when it is usually cleaner than any hospital I have ever been to. They are good people. Hard workers. Very Hard workers. In my observations of hanging out with them, every single one of them checks their bank accounts on the hour ever hour. I asked one why are you always checking your back account? They said to make sure the money is still there. I said why wouldn’t it be? They said oh you never lived in the Ukraine or Moscow or Israel. You wouldn’t understand. I asked more than a few of my Jewish friends how many times do you check your bank account in a day? They laugh and say probably 10 times a day. not that much. I found that very interesting.
all agree about Israels government agenda. All of the Jewish friends I spoke to since Charlie Kirk got shot all of them said oh shit Israel got him. Which I found interesting as well.
and they just passed a law that now your US passport can be revoked just for criticizing Israel openly.
I don’t want to get too long winded today, this is my last day off work for a while. I have not been working for over a year and am more than ready to get back to it.
On The Topic of
—-> The Canadian Geese <—–
Yesterday, I took a person close to me to visit her grandfathers grave. He died 19 years and one day after her grandmother. She told me his last words were I want to go home and be with my wife.
A Few things occurred to me. The entire graveyard was filled with Canadian Geese. As I stood there with her and she said the words she came to say. I noticed the dash between the dates. That represents a person's entire life. that – I remembered a poem that Dr Steve 1959 sent me many moons ago about that dash. That is the sum total of a persons life a single dash between dates on a head stone.
Then I noticed something else. The head stones on either side of her grandfather and mother. To the left was burried someone named Sauron White and to the right was burried someone named Soon Won Son, Woo.
I relized in that moment, you are given a name prior to your birth and that name remains with you after you die. You come into this world with a Mother and Father who have the same last name as you. A mother and father who care for you. They send you to school, you might have some brothers and sisters, you work hard, find love, raise a family, do the best you can at life. Ponder God. Be a good person as you measure off your own concepts of right and wrong. Then you die and your entire life is noted as a dash and your placed between two strangers you probably never even heard of. That is the final destination for all men and women on this planet. To be buried next to people they had no idea ever existed.
There is no library alpha numeric dewy decimal system for burring the dead, your life is marked with a dash and filed randomly between to others who once lived as best they could.
it made me consider destiny. and fate. for her grandfather and grandmothers' earthy life destiny and fate were to forever rest in peace between Sauron White and Soon Won Son Woo.
Then the Canadian geese come flying in and eat the worms and bugs from the grass and shit all over your gravestone.
This morning after I did my morning prayer and meditation I walked outside and had a smoke. I was thinking about all that and I began to laugh. I laughed so hard. I don't know why I laughed, I just laughed so hard. Because that is the honesty of it. That is the truth of it. you might not like it but the honest truth of it. I found the truth of it hilarious.
after I stopped laughing that big Buck Deer who is ready to Rut with is His Majestic Rack, came out of the woods and stood right before me. Samson the great walked right past between us with a giant rat in his mouth and into the garage to do what Cats do.
The Time Monks used to call it the Tipping Point. The world now calls it the turning point. On December 21, 2012 according to Time wave zero we had a singularity event. The Maximum Novelty and Change. Everyone expected a massive sudden impact of such event. It did happen. However, it was so subtle it was unnoticed by most because of personal agendas and broadband ideology and confiscated theory.
However, most would agree the world is much different than it was prior to 2012. How did we get here from there in such a short time. The world is a different place, Unimaginable to what it was prior to the Maximum Novelty.
Well, I do apologies for being so long winded this morning. Don't live your life like you are playing trivial pursuit.
Because all the anxieties and fears, loves and hugs and kisses and late night snuggles, ponders and hopes and dreams, bills paid and income tax returns, profit taking from bit coin and stocks, rantings about politics on social media will eventually lead to you forever resting in peace between two people, you never ever heard of and you won't be alive to give a damn about the Canadian snow geese who fly in twice a year to shit on your grave stone.
Without a purpose, Life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, events without reason. You become effective by being selective in a world filled with aimless distraction.
no song for the day springs to the mind…… today is the first day of the rest of my life,
I Win with God within.
Beautiful read, Andy. We have the land here planned for generational use. My mom’s ashes aren’t on the mantle – they are above the yard under a shady tree with a good view of the front yard. Nearby, two cats that sat on her lap while she was visiting.
No sign of Canadian (or any other imported) geese.
Pappy asked his ashes be planted at his favorite fishing hole for king salmon on Elliott Bay in Seattle. This was a long while back but I’m sure a container of ashes into Puget Sound today would be called out – Pollution, don’t you know?
To which I would say “Go down to Fourth and Cherry and climb the ivory towers of government. Then tell me about pollution.
Canadian Geese (especially if they have been fattened at West Edmonton Mall recently, are a definite cut above, nevertheless.
You’ll enjoy the Mind Amplifiers report on PN Wed – let us know how work goes. Curious if the Bidenista embeds at MSC will every hire anyone or is that just more governmental empire-buiilding on the public purse?
~ that fed many generations and will feed many more.
THE DUDE doesnt concern HIMSELF with the agendas of the Bidenista.
i will remind you, not too long ago, i recieved two postage stamps mailed on my 11th birthday in 1981, from a couple fellas who met at Woodstock and became friends before i was born.
their those stamps sat in a box in a barn for 43 years, only to be discovered the day after arrived at Eagle Mountain Ranch.
THE DUDE knew where i would be and started putting things together long before i was born. :)
As i have been saying,
I Win with God within.
wow G a tear come out . that is damn beautiful . yep G the granite warrior with a heart of good . now that is a hard man . so good
re: “The Mystery of Edwin Drood”, C. Dickens, 1870
feat: – inverse operations
Folks,
What in the dickens is going on you ask? Like “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” that preceded it, a half-finished novel by tragically deceased Mr. Kirk is already a best-seller based upon advance pre-sale orders. “Stop, in the Name of G-d: Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life” will be the cover title printed against a raised palm background. Dissenters can talk to the hand. Although the letters G and d are separated from one another on the qwerty keyboard by an f, you may appreciate the Hebrew direction to not spell out the name of the Creator.
This new advance best-seller is being published by a company whose website advertises legal domicile in a Delaware strip mall bracketed by a paving stone supplier and an antique market at a highway turnoff to Milton. It seems Milton is named after the 17th century poet, John Milton. His epic work, “Paradise Lost”, details the departure journey of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden in Biblical Genesis.
Such publishing house above finds apple rolled not far from the tree informing of one co-founder in the personage of a son of #47. As chance would have it, the second co-founder enjoyed announcement last month as a new US Ambassador to India.
Let it not be considered a protest to the beneficience of capitalism by lodging a hold at one’s library for the book-to-be, thereby palm a copy for free less civic taxation. Of course, those desiring a headstart off the line may wish to work hard and respect the Sabbath.
Gold up $40 today after the Phillies clinched a playoff spot.Further rises will depend on how far they go from here.
I believe that I’m the only one on Earth who said to sell in Oct.2011 at $1900 and to buy in Mar.2019 at $1300.
Phorget the charts.
Phollow the phortunes of the Phillies.
Wonder and Bad – all at once.
Screams he purchasing power of the dollar is implodings. Also says if “unrealized gains” were taxed we’d be in the severely underwithholding box.
Old is when you check personal M1 on Mondays like this, only to discover you can “write a check for everything you have.” Then realize you ALREADY OWN IT.
Makes life a successful simulation…kinda like winning at Monopoly? Yeah great but how do you live on Boardwalk if you’re under it?
World Series TD – World Series Champions 2025 !
Thats an easy peasy lemon squizzy Predicktion. Who, who’s gonna get in our way ? Yanks – hardly, Asstros – think not, BluJays, Mariners , Tigers – not a prayer, this is the Phightins year ! Throw in a Super bowl Repeat, and you have Ureself a recipe for Championship City.
*2026 = All “Sports Roads” lead to Philly..we got Allstar gameS, World Cup Games – place to be in 2026
Need a place to stay, wanna score tickets ?
Well do youse have any bitcoinz to exchange ?
Dont want no stinkin FRN’s – the “devils” money, as a Libertarian, only BTC will suffice, the rest are cheap fakes..floozzies as it were..young, dumb and full of _________.
No wonderz Oz man all over the pair – a blunder down undr?
re: US military at Borisov, By
feat: Boris fizzles in Kyiv, Ua
Folks,
Last week’s YES Conference in Kyiv was opened with a speech from the star of the “Servant of the People” television series. According to Finland’s “Italehti”, he began his presentation with a joke. Subsequently the President of Finland addressed the gathering which received interruptions from mike-in-hand audience member Boris Johnson. The normally taciturn Finnish media described the heckler as being “the architect of Brexit” when UK pm.
In a separate wopr, Belsat – broadcasting to Belarus and Europe – informs of a US military presence observing the Zapod 2025 Belarusian-Russian wargames. Belsat is funded by the Polish state and is headquartered in Warsaw. The following Belsat links portrays two alleged American military attachés chatting with the Belarusian defense minister at the friendly joust:
https://en.belsat.eu/88933357/us-military-attach-arrives-at-zapad-2025-exercises
Let’s turn a page in the berger wars and join DJ George ready to reheat a #14 hit from the 2011 “Eurovision” tv competition perhaps courtesy of east of the Potomac request lines. From Anastasiya Vinnikova, crank it up for “I Love Belarus”!
The math doesn’t lie..,
– I’ve said this many times., and here is a prime example.
SAG [ Screen Actors Guild ] just elected a new President, he won with over 80 percent of the vote. Wow. 80% of Hollywood actors, all agreed on something ? Astonishing.
I was amazed. Then I did a few moments of research – for some odd, time-wasting reason.
There are 160,000 members of SAG. But only 17.3% voted.
Meaning – only 27,680 voted. 80% of those is 22,144 votes.
So., the numbers look damn impressive but, out of a possible 160,000 votes the new President received 22,144. That is slightly below 14% of the total. Not exactly a mandate., is it? But with the proper spin, it reads like an incredible, voter unification, landslide victory.
[ Which is how it was written.]
The math doesn’t lie.., but with the right spin, you can make the numbers say ‘anything’ to an unquestioning audience.
If you take the market value of all the stocks on the S&P500, it is worth more than all the stocks combined, on all of the exchanges of the European Union. [ You can throw in the U.K., Africa and South America, Russia and the Middle East, too ! ]
– There is a lot of power and money in that one stock Index. A lot.
One of my weaknesses has always been my inability to understand fanaticism. Fanatical about exercise., or religion., or beliefs, or even peanut butter sandwiches. To me a fanatic is a weak person. Mentally, morally, intellectually, ethically weak. They have no individuality. They can not stand on their own. And I don’t understand that. How can someone be so lacking and survive? But there are a lot of them. An extraordinarily large number of them. I guess because it is much easier to be a blinded follower., than a reasoning, thinking individual who takes on the responsibility of living a life.
Leading (or going one’s own way) requires thought and effort. Animals are lazy — as lazy as they can be, and still survive. Man is the laziest by far, because we can create things which facilitate our laziness. Once someone created a social ruleset, it ceased being necessary to “fight for leadership of the pack,” or even for “pecking order,” because everybody eventually got fed.
An alpha will take the lead, and every good little beta, male or female, who falls in line and “hails the Chief” will move to the front of the feed line. For the followers, it is more-efficient, because they no longer need to think about, well, much of anything. For the leaders, it is great, because their societal power is measured by the quantity of their followers. Quality never comes into play.
This applies in every arena of life.
Man has an actual need for “religion.” If a man or woman chooses not to follow God, they will substitute something in His place — ‘Might be money or power or prestige, or a combination of the three. This “need” is the reason faulty science like “global warming” or “gender dysphoria” becomes a religion. The more nonsensical an idea, the more it requires fanaticism. The supporters speak loud, both to convert others, and to hide their own insecurity. The more people they convert, the easier it is to convince themselves their faulty science lacks fault.
This is the reason I don’t listen to preachers or political pundits.
I am a Quaker by birth, and a Christian (perhaps not a good one, but that’s between The Lord and Me, and no one else), but long ago I extrapolated the “no Man may know” lines (which occur at various points) in the Bible and other Christian tomes to mean: This means to you, what it says TO YOU, and not what someone else tells you it means. A relationship with God requires devotion, not fanaticism. Religious fanatics attempt to “take your brain out of the circuit” to acquire things from you to which they are not entitled.
I listen to political pundits when I have no other option. I simply don’t want someone else’s opinion “coloring” mine. I sift information, analyze, and draw the best, most-accurate conclusion I can, based on the information I have, and taking into consideration the innate bias of the source or sources of that information. My opinion is always subject to change, when more-accurate information becomes available.
FWIW, I am also the guy who runs TOWARD the burning building or gunfire, but only when it is prudent to do so. It’s not that I am less lazy than any other human — I’m just too stupid to know better…
I hope I didn’t analogize you to death…
Wonderful read…here’s what I think…“The Word was not given to be wielded—it was given to be walked. What it says to you, in the stillness of your soul, is the path you are called to follow. Not for applause, not for perfection, but for presence. To do the right thing is not to obey blindly, nor to perform for others—it is to listen deeply, to act with compassion, and to carry the teachings in your hands, your bread, your shelter, and your silence to give the hand up where you can… The Lord sees not as man sees, He sees the heart. And if your heart bends toward care, toward truth, toward the kind of love that stays and demonstrates his will—then you are already walking in the light .”
A member of my local trade-group told me an interesting story a few days back. He has not voted since Clinton won the White House. He is a staunch Republican.
Every year he takes the voters pamphlet – does a little internet research – makes notes next to the Bills and Candidates – and writes in who, or what will win.
Since he has started doing that, January 1993, he has never been wrong in his selection. In any Local, State, or Federal election.
As far as he is concerned, his vote would not have made any difference.
.., and he is probably right.
.
.., But, what would happen though if tens of millions started doing this?
“If you set the bar low enough then all of life will be a pleasant surprise.”
– Crazy Chicken Lady / August 2025 [ Local friend.]
Nice analogies Airplanes and Gooses, but you youse miss the landing strip, G-Pops.
Those aerial maneuvers you see the Gooses making right before touchdown are due to that particular Gooses Beak orientation.
There South Beaks and there are North Beaks.
They always fly true to their Beak orientations, which all depends on Temperature of Eggs during incubation..Cold temps = North Beaks and Warm Temps = North Beaks.
now youse all know
Want to compare actual pilot in command flight horus?
The computer engineering & science nerds believed that AI & crypto would make them overlords. Instead, AI has kicked the coders to the curb, and the coders who aren’t already rich from early crypto hoarding aren’t going to get rich quick.
Not sure how the AI / crypto coexistence will pan out, but grid instability does not favor cryptos. AI’s are buying gas turbines for their data centers, in mass. Will the natural gas infrastructure hold up during grid instability ? Short answer – no. Still, I would give the AI’s the advantage when push comes to shove over grid resources.
We rarely saw Canada Geese on Canada’s East coast until a couple years ago and now there are so many that our provincial government has declared open season for anyone to hunt them to reduce the population.
Really strong analysis I like how you tie together the Empire State numbers with the consumer behavior and Fed expectations. The point about “shadow-boxing with inflation” instead of wage growth being uniformly soft really hit home.
One thing I think could deepen it: how might regional differences in wage gains / inflation burden shift the Fed’s path, especially if some states are far ahead or behind? But overall, excellent read.
8 Budget-Friendly Options for the Biden Library Since Donors Refuse To Pay
Joe Biden, 82, is struggling to raise money for his presidential library. NBC News reported last week many longtime donors are not particularly eager to contribute.
Biden is reportedly hoping to raise about $300 million for his library, which is well short of the $850-million cost of the hideous (and still unfinished) monstrosity former president Barack Obama is building to honor himself.
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/8-budget-friendly-options-for-the-biden-library-since-donors-refuse-to-pay/
EXCLUSIVE: FBI Investigating Social Media Accounts That Appeared To Indicate Foreknowledge of Kirk Assassination
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating social media posts by at least seven different accounts that appeared to indicate foreknowledge of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, according to three people familiar with the investigation and screenshots obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
The posts—one of which referenced the date of Kirk’s assassination, September 10, more than a month before it took place—were all deleted in the days following the killing. Several of the accounts appear to belong to transgender individuals,
https://freebeacon.com/politics/exclusive-fbi-investigating-social-media-accounts-that-appeared-to-indicate-foreknowledge-of-kirk-assassination/
See shooter with Pistol and special shoulder holster – betcha he had foreknowledge..same with the dude giving hand signals.
-https://substack.com/redirect/8bc856ad-25f7-4946-951d-335bf413570e?
Something else that does not fit ANYTHING so far – see for yo selves -https://youtu.be/xfuVqPDoSCs?si=0xrEYOLDw6Nm6-yn
?=weeping androgyne?
But once again – the source of all Darkness in our modern 21st century USA ?
* Behold reality – a deep dive into currentz -https://youtu.be/xfuVqPDoSCs?si=0xrEYOLDw6Nm6-yn
Trump says he would designate Antifa, other left-wing groups as ‘domestic terrorists’
President Donald Trump said Monday he’d consider naming far-left anti-fascism group Antifa as domestic terrorists, previewing a plan to crack down on what he’s cast as a widespread network of left-wing radicals inciting violence.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/15/politics/left-wing-groups-trump-domestic-terrorists
Definitely written by leftist hacks.
That said, I hope he does so, and I hope the Administration makes a point of clarifying the fact that “Antifa” is a fascist, socialist organization, that “NAZIs” are fascist-socialist, and that BLM and the KKK are neocom socialist organizations, and all of them are radical “left wing.”
The left has been trying to distance itself from their WWII era torch bearers for close to eighty years. They have been doing it for so long, that I’m not sure the leftists of the current era even comprehend their real history. And with the neo-Nazi’s largely merging with the KKK and related groups in this country, the left has a pool of hate monger dupes than can trot out as opposition when they need it, or manipulate into doing their dirty work, under false right wing flags.
Whether extremists run under a left or right spin banner, they all operate the same way, with similar goals. And using first amendment as a cover for radicalizing young operatives has limited validity. The FBI needs to make a case study of the Kirk assassination, and use it to revamp their domestic anti-terrorism activities. The leap from social justice vigilante to radicalized terrorist is a lot smaller than you may think. I’ve had to deal with the vigilantes; we all will end up dealing with their radicalized offspring.
Agreed.
I honestly can’t think of any violent “right-wing” extremists. I suppose one could deem Muslim fundamentalists as “right-wing” or “conservative,” but only within the narrow plane of their existence. They certainly don’t fit the description of “modern American conservatism” (which is classical or Jeffersonian Liberalism.) “Strong central authority” is a hallmark of socialism, which is the antithesis of modern American conservatism. I can think of a few examples where individuals were pushed to violence, but none where a whole Rightist culture or sub-society went ballistic…
Hamilton County Judge Ted Berry on Charlie Kirk assassination: ‘How’s he feel about gun violence & gun control in Hell, now?’
Hamilton County Municipal Court Judge Ted Berry is facing increasing calls to resign and has been removed from an advisory post at the Joe Burrow Foundation after social media comments that critics say celebrated the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Local and state officials called the remarks incompatible with the duties and ethical obligations of a sitting judge.
https://www.ohio.news/stories/hamilton-county-judge-ted-berry-on-charlie-kirk-assassination-hows-he-feel-about-gun-violence-gun-control-in-hell-now/
Hamilton County is Cincinnati. I try to avoid it whenever possible. Both Republicans and Democrats in political office in Ohio are calling for this jerk’s head. Joe Burrow is the star quarterback of the Cincinnati Bengals football team and is a huge draw in that area. I am unfamiliar with his foundation but I assume it is like others, and donates huge sums to medical research or neighborhood outreach…
I have no problem with folks saying, even the most vile and reprehensible stuff about Charlie Kirk. I think they’re sick, depraved, and lack both a conscience and tact, but they have a Right to speak their mind (even if they’re lacking one.) I have a HUGE problem with educators and persons in authority doing so. They are our community leaders and they lead by example. If they proffer an exceeding bad example for the people whom they lead, that exceedingly bad example is what people glom onto and learn from.
Their bad example gives license to the next assassination – which might be them or their family rather than someone to whom they’re politically or ideologically opposed. Once life itself is cheapened, the bloodlust becomes impossible to control or direct. This is not a place any of us wants to be, regardless the level of Fallout we’re playing.
The kiddies don’t realize: In real life, we don’t respawn…
FBI probing possible ‘extended network’ that ‘aided and abetted’ suspected Charlie Kirk shooter Tyler Robinson
The FBI’s no. 2 man said Monday that he suspects Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer Tyler Robinson could have been “aided and abetted’’ by an “extended network’’ — alluding to “multiple warning signs” he gave leading up to the assassination. As The Post reported Sunday, law enforcement was already probing whether pro-trans online groups, sexualized animal-obsessed “furries” and others connected with Robinson had advance knowledge of his alleged murderous plans.
The groups include communities on the online gaming platform Steam, as well as Armed Queers SLC, which took down its Instagram page after Kirk was murdered.
https://nypost.com/2025/09/15/us-news/fbi-probing-possible-extended-network-that-helped-charlie-kirk-shooter-tyler-robinson/
I can think of nothing worse for a criminal perp, than having a pissed Dan Bongino on his(her) trail…
Man claimed to shoot Charlie Kirk to ‘draw attention from the real shooter,’ police say
OREM — Police say that a Salt Lake City man — who was no stranger to the state’s political scene — claimed responsibility moments after the shooting death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, in an attempt to “draw attention from the real shooter.”
The arrest also sparked a child pornography investigation.
https://www.ksl.com/article/51373320/man-claimed-to-shoot-charlie-kirk-to-draw-attention-from-the-real-shooter-police-say
Lessee, we’ve got the gun-totin’ tranny militia, pervie furries, and now a childbanger on the side of the murderer, and a bunch of Christians on the side of Erika Kirk. The good thing here is between the felony obstruction and child exploitation charges, this KP-producer is never going to see freedom again, and is gonna die in prison, probably in GenPop…
‘childbanger’,, m’fing pedos,, the guy running for NYC mayor has been indicated as a pedo by President Trump as Trump refered to him as ‘liddle’,,
same word he used to describe pencil neck adam schiff
“Governor Kathy Hochul of New York has Endorsed the “Liddle’ Communist,” Zohran Mamdani, running for Mayor of New York. This is a rather shocking development, and a very bad one for New York City. How can such a thing happen? Washington will be watching this situation very closely. No reason to be sending good money after bad! President DJT”
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/115207991871277413
https://steemit.com/pizzagate/@newtreehints/massage-for-children-the-liddle-kidz-foundation-and-house-representative-liddle-adam-schiff-of-california