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Meandering Monday Ahead of Data – PNW March of Socialism

Oh rats!  It’s Monday.

U.S. Hantavirus Cruise Passengers Fly to Quarantine Center After Positive Test – WSJ seems to be on everyone’s mind today.  With passengers about to be quarantined in Nebraska, we have to wonder if the “sage of Omaha” will stick around town?

I don’t know about you, but to us there’s a distinct rhyming with early 2000 when we were all assured “nothing to worry about.” And then people started to drop with COVID-19.

Son G2 – as a COVID-19 section chief back then – told me this weekend, “Dad, I don’t know if I have another pandemic in me...”  I bet him a nickel he’s not the only one worried about that.

“Look at the bright side, son.  Maybe they’ll be right this time.”

Maybe.

Wading Pool or High Board?

While we all crank that old option-picker song (“Gonna jump down, turn around, pick a bale of options, gonna jump down, turn around, short a bale a day“), the Dow and the S&P are on an early wobbly.  The Techs are still in Pretend Land.

Bitcoin was just over $81,000 after popping over $82,000 over the weekend.

Oil’s Behind All

You don’t have to look very far to see what’s happening. Iran made a (bullshit) offer for peace.  And as you’d expect Oil prices jump after Trump dismisses Iran proposal to end war.

Is this called “put the bad assumption” in the headline? Trump likely to lean on China to use its influence over Iran.  Who really is going to influence whom?

While a great deal of the doom porn purveyors are talking up food shortages, we just keep putting tomato clips on our vines and training the squash toward overhead trellising. (There’s talkers and doers in the world, in case you missed the subtext.)

Day Running the Casino

Pretty empty dance card today.  Mostly, look for news, rumors, and innuendo to rule.

Tomorrow, though, Consumer Prices will pop.  By pop, I mean we expect not much will be cheaper and if the numbers come in strong enough, maybe some of the “no rate change” mantra will fade.  As of this morning the CME FedWatch tool showed about four percent were being “rate drop die-hards.”

Our back-of-the-envelope says if CPI tomorrow comes in way hot, then rate hike talk might make the rounds and that could be hard on this house of cards.

Social Security Hikes?

Yes these same inflation concerns ripple.  And honestly, this is a pretty good summary of the ranges that are coming into view now: What the 2027 Social Security COLA Could Mean for Your Retirement Budget — Early Estimates Are In.

With food likely to “go vertical” we at least have time being retired to get into gardening which we plan to remarket as foodening.

Oh, sure, that’s right: Foodening – because food is the whole point of gardening, right?  (Yes, I bought the dot-com domain name as a lotto ticket for when people figure it out…)

At the Ranch: The PNW March of Socialism

I spent a few years in the Pacific Northwest.  In fact, since I quit swimming in amniotic fluid in 1949.  As someone who lived in what was arguably the best city anywhere, to grave-side mourner, there are lessons to be learned.  Important ones.

Washington State – while we lived there – was a dandy place.  The late Joe Davis and the Washington State Labor Council battled-back the banister class and got a 12 percent cap on interest rates put on credit cards and such.  This was the sixties.

Being a “union man” was a good thing.  Pappy was a firefighter, so he went to the Local #27 firefighter union meetings.  When I was a “boy wonder” R&E mechanic at West Coast Airlines, which became Airwest, I was a card-carrying IAM 751 member. And proud of it.

The old labor-state version of Washington was work, wages, dams, mills, airplanes, and public institutions that actually did something. The new version increasingly looks like process worship: tax the productive, regulate the essential, and then hold a meeting to decide whether a sick child’s helicopter is too noisy.  (Mind the needles on the sidewalk, while you’re at it.)

There recently, governor Bob Ferguson (“Side-show Bob”) signed a Washington State Income Tax on “rich people.”  Don’t make more than a million a year in Seattle. Will Hunts Point and Medina follow? Don’t be silly!

A nod to reader Ray for pointing out “Today’s Eastside/Bellevue Zillow looks like the biggest wave of $5 million plus luxury listings in Seattle-area history…”

The rich didn’t often attain “richness” through stupidity. Yet, in the “latest side-show,” Washington’s no-income-tax selling point took a direct hit.

The old populist union state has curdled into redistribution-by-permit-office. And that decay shows its other dimensions elsewhere in once-glorious Seattle. One of them really sticks in my craw.

The Children’s Hospital Side-show

Driving east on 45th from the (modern) I-5 freeway, you drive past the University of Washington and eventually downhill to merge into Sand Point Way.  I remember asking Pappy “What’s up there?” pointing to a left turn light to the northeast after passing the U-Village shopping center.

“That’s how you get up to Children’s Orthopedic,” he explained.

Founded in 1907 by a group of Seattle women determined that sick and injured children deserved specialized care regardless of a family’s ability to pay, Seattle Children’s Hospital began as a modest 10-bed facility known as Children’s Orthopedic Hospital.

In an era when childhood diseases, industrial accidents, and poverty often left young patients without adequate treatment, the founders combined philanthropy, civic activism, and progressive-era medicine to create one of the Pacific Northwest’s first institutions devoted exclusively to pediatric care. Over time, the hospital expanded beyond orthopedics into comprehensive children’s medicine, eventually becoming Seattle Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, a nationally recognized pediatric research and treatment center serving families across Washington, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho.

Now the Seattle political angle.  It involves helicopters for sick kids and residents who don’t want to hear what real lives being saved sounds like.

Under a decades-old 1992 agreement involving the hospital, the city, and the Laurelhurst Community Council, many helicopter transports were routed to a pad about a mile away, then completed by ambulance, while only the most critical cases landed directly at Children’s.

The issue blew up again after medical pilots and critics argued that the rule added risky delays and transfers for sick kids. Recent reports say the Laurelhurst council now supports ending the review committee and allowing Seattle Children’s to seek city approval for more direct helicopter landings.

City approval means the Seattle City Council gets in the process.  For the moment, the happy-talk is it has a 75-80 percent chance of passing.  Politically, voting against it now means siding with helicopter-noise process over sick-kid transport time. In Seattle, even a liberal council will have trouble defending that.

But I’ve watched PNW liberalism three-quarters of a century now. I like to think there are still rational people up that way.  However, looking at California, Oregon, and past Seattle politics?

I wouldn’t live in a place where “neighborhood noise concerns” and Life Flight access for children can occupy the same moral paragraph. Which — oh my — we don’t. Thank God.

Write when you get rich,

George@Ure.net

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  1. Holy SHIT Man !

    HANTAVIRUS is going KILL EVERYONE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    OMG – get rebreathers, masks, hand sanitizer-GALLONS, Antibiotics by the truck load, And VACCINES, OMG do we need tons of new, novel, UNTESTED Vaccines. Surely 3/4 of Ure readership are ready to get in Line for more Corpse Abuse.

    ..might as well be corpses..

    See how long you can stick Ure head out of window and flap Ure arms after receiving 8 or 9 doses of Vaxobscenes.

    What ever youse all do, Do Not Look Up, Do Not meditate on Ure Pineal Gland – DONT DO IT ! What ever you do, Do not look at anything ET.

    Just keep PRAYING – been working so well for so long, why stop now ?

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO4Xd5PfIo0&t=218s

      I don’t dismiss the Professor’s concern (express in the short video above) as out of hand, on the other hand there is NOT yet enough data to really know.

      We will find out over the next 90 days if transmission of this virus is easy or hard … ie: see what pops up wrt those who were on the ship and those who come into contact with them AFTER they left the ship.

      For those of us out in the general universe the risk is virtually nil at the moment even if the virus can easily be transmitted, but if the virus can be easily spread and it escapes containment things will change come this fall.

      This is NOT Covid.

      With Covid the FDA /NIH /Government did a terrible job with their SCARE tactics since virtually the only people dying were those who had existing bad comorbidities or were old, which for some reason they never wanted to disclose PREFERRING FULL ON PANIC of the populous instead. PANIC = CONTROL and they were aiming for Control regardless of the reality of the disease since they were CONTROL FREAKS

      This disease is different. It apparently does NOT require bad comorbidities or old age to be deadly. ***The risk envelope is much wider***

      IF this thing is shown to be easily spread do NOT think it is just another Covid situation which actually had a non-existent death rate if you weren’t in one of the high risk groups cited above. (I personally knew 3 people who died from Covid … but they were ALL in one of those high risk groups)

      Watch the next 90 days … but imo this is NOT to be taken lightly if the disease is shown to be as easily spread as the Professor thinks it may be and it has escaped confinement.

  2. thats just a genius start to the week . humour , sarcasm , facts all rolled up into a great one . thx i needed that G . after listening to the can kicker chief the can kicker from florida on howe street . the picker . mr fibonnaci with a touch of his own phony chart projections . wow all sorts of garbage and he has gone fishing !!! when he talks that monotone slow slur and gives the targets in his stars and stripes outfit, you can hear the cogs winding slowly as the mrna and complete backflip to maga man to make $$$$ . yep thanks G for some humour and fact . picker hope you catch a cold not a fish .

    • Still no Sunshine, hunh “Shorty” ?

      A glutton for PAIN no doubt. Its the oddest thing this AM on my Market screens, so very odd.
      Gold Stock-UP! – Call options to Buy-May exp, out of da Money, this AM – in the MONAY! Same with the Crypto play stock – STKE, built off the Solana network.
      Oh it gets better “Shorty’ I’d tell ya about record high in NVDA – as Silicone takes over 25% market share today, versus 6% last year – can you say Sea of Change or how about Sea of Massive profits ? Thats alot of IceCream to be Licking..
      Why even that marvelous Aussie GAS Play(big Ammonia play too) has me counting decimal points again..AND, And they have just announced a new massive gas project right off the AUS coast that will produce thousands of JOBS and Millions in tax receipts for you Prison folk. How could I have possibly known ?

      Feeling like “Hi Ho Kermit de Forg here…whoops, Kermit the Frog as its ALL Green this AM…Ribbit!

      “Its hard being Snoop F R O G” -https://youtu.be/VxsG7k1mgn4?

      Its that time for tbs to start “Slicing and Dicing” the counter parties – I picture a UGLY hook nosed, hatchet faced, child abuser as the counter parties on all my trades.

  3. ohh the picker fishin for sarkers for his boss the Don . and no mention of dah boyz and da Don destroying the USD $ again . sick bunch of greed ridden pigs all in the trough .. ayy jimmy crack corn . all the facist american oligarchs feeding AI and bread to the masses of fully vaxed zombies

  4. Recent History and answer to Why We do stuff now?

    Russia announced peace under Reagan and Boris Yeltsin. KGB stood by. USA vote out military as democrasy..AN No, Actual result in 1990 was 1/3 reduction forces only for USAF. Forces actually needed. 9/11, Iraq 1 and 2. Afgan again.

    Fast forward. Georgia rebels. Likely KGB. Meeting in Moscow bombings? Likely KGB, Putin leader now… No democrasy. Plutocrats all gone. Queen England did not met Putin. Why, communist. Reason he hates democrasy. IN 2014 Nato larger and then move on Ukraine. Issue was return nucs in 1990 for independence. Now 6 day Russia war to take Ukraine capital. Failed. Wanted Blitz. Ensued ongoing war. Isreali in nearby Abinazar. Next Georgia, Russia confronted by British and Jews. Queen tweaked Russians…Test if Russia communist again. Answer yes. War ukrained war Isreal south by arms Egypt. War Syria war Iran. Belligerent China. So all false. No trust east west. Wars. In meantime west sent message to putin. We can have false gloss nice vinure too. Bad boy island carabean was message British can corrupt USA too. Attitude communist is play dead… Attitude British is covid rat poison… we can Do Russia.

    • Putin has publicly commented, several times, on the satanic nature of All western leaders.

      The lizard queens’ demon was visible during the funeral procession from inside coach. I have posted that picture here on urbsurv..more than once. Nobody been able to DEBUNK..that I am aware of..

      Pooters dont do satanic nor does he tolerate any “demonics”, at least not british ones. Russia is the LIGHT of the World right now, and “Spirit” is on Her side.

      Big question in DC right now..Whats that Smell around his Arrogance ..?

  5. So, tell me again, why are the individuals quarantined for hantavirus being brought to a heavily populated fly-over area? Hey, maybe we can use the same contractors we used for the Covid II evacuees. No sense in deviating from what has worked in the past.

  6. Rules road:
    1) Russians hate close borders and arms
    2) British dutch hate arrogance and non democrasy
    3) Chinese hate non Chinese…loss resources
    4) USA…show me the money

  7. Interesting

    Rumor has it that Musk is on his way to China for a meeting with Trump and Xi.

    • owww the great economist free money man . the 100 kid man !! solving the financial apocalypse. is he bringing the well hung guy for a meeting at dennys . hang on he is taiwanese not allowed

    • Meh…

      Along with about 20 other billionaire CEOs.

      They are carrots for Trump’s stick. Every one has assets in China, which means every one can offer to build more, or withdraw what they have now.

  8. the VIX is coiled like a cobra or a crouching tiger . sucko market riggers . the VIX the great tool . titanium tough

  10. the senior advisor to the trading floor at the white house or low cognitive function house , gave them the fibbo pizzanaci number of 86k . his wait for it hidden pivot !!! for sheetcoin . so the 2 trump young uns jumped on to get some $$$$ wow the florida guru , can kicking his retracements from a made up chart . probably bobby Ps useless dribble. nothing like a bit of Ewave and fibbo pepperoni on a scam

  11. dont worry its turnaround tuesday tommorrow !!!!! YMCA , come on up to the YMCA !!!!

  12. re: warfarin’ on the high seas
    feat: Old Windsor (“Winch by the Riverside”), 899 ad

    Ask Winston to raise a yellow flag if he smells a rat? Independent Ukrainian digital platform “Liga” based in Kyiv brings a newsgust of a nautical tack. Their young reporter Ms. Kuzmenko allegedly advised under “society news” that five Ukrainian crewmen aboard hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius are in good health. The journalist’s name appears to derive from Greek perhaps translating as “descendant of order/universe/world”. As chance would have it, a young person of the same name registered a new business of declared “lawful” but unstated purpose in the UK government registry two months ago. The company’s anglicized name translates from Ukrainian as “goal fire”. Here is a link to the “Liga” article:

    https://news.liga.net/en/society/news/ukrainians-from-hondius-ship-have-no-signs-of-hantavirus

    Oh, well. The report seems to have moved perhaps elsewhere within the 404 constellation. “Liga” (league/alliance) was first registered about 30 years ago but started up on the internet half a dozen years after. It appears to have received supportive direction around the 2018 mark from “Internews”. The latter is headquartered in London allegedly financed in part by various European governments as well as the European arm of USAid. The “Internews” chairman is a lawyer whose past clients are said to have included an alleged boyfriend of the late Princess Diana, the founder of Wiki Leaks, and heavyweight boxer Mr. Mike Tyson. Publicly listed advices show the chairman’s birthplace as being Old Windsor which is a couple of miles from Windsor Castle. It served as a royal fortress to Saxon King Alfred the Great in the 9th century ad.

    Keep your weather station dial tuned to DJ George for prognostications about the week’s lucky Bingo call under the I-95 from Washington. Be sure to fasten seatbelts in accordance with all local driving safety regulations!

  13. Don’t know about you., but as Captain of that boat I’d be pretty damn mad.

    The Pentagon revealed the location of a U.S. Navy nuclear-armed submarine in a rare move a day after President Trump rejected the latest peace proposal from Iran.

    The Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine arrived in Gibraltar, a British territory on Spain’s south coast, on Sunday, the U.S. Sixth Fleet said on Monday. [ no name was given.]

    This information was given in a press conference. I wonder why ?

    • WHY??

      Why would the Captain, or you, be MAD?

      They went into Gibralter ON THE SURFACE … seen by tens of thousands of locals and day trippers as well as those passengers in all of the planes that were flying into Gibralter (plus those on any cruise ships in the harbor). Do you think that after going into Gibralter on the surface that the fact the sub was there was some “Big Secret”?

      That was a staged event … and the Submarine was acting like a Billboard in Times Square!! “LOOK AT ME!! LOOK AT ME!! LOOK AT ME!! Come on … LOOK OVER HERE!! LOOK AT ME!!”

      Sheesh … the Pentagon PR notice was just a confirmation of what 100,000 people had already seen and was all over the internet already.

  14. Slow., sad day..,

    My life has been full of unique people, ‘characters’ like “Lady Fingers”., from a very early age. People who have lived their entire lives on the border of society. Fringe Walkers. Preferring to work in the shadows in realms that you have never heard of., and quite a few you wouldn’t want to venture into.
    I spent nearly twenty years of my life that way. A very small group of friends, scattered across the country and no one else knew I existed, or even where I lived. Even the police detective that lived two houseboats down from me, played poker with him on the third Thursday of every month and never had my name right – always called me Jim., I don’t know how he came up with that, but I let him do it. I was fine with that.
    “Lady Fingers” was one of those unique characters. A true Fringe-Walker. For over sixty years. She walked through life her way. Big names. Big bucks. She reveled in it.
    I have wondered today why she decided I was a friend. Her son is afraid of me., which she thought was interesting., as he knows nothing about me.

    Whether it was a blessing., or a curse – I can’t say. It was, however, very fascinating & rewarding. I have no idea what happened to all those that I knew at one time. I am sure though, that there are many others who have taken their place. Society itself creates them., and the larger the society the more border-lands for them to live & work in. Societies can create some pretty dark shadows.

    Been an interesting day looking back. [ Alas, tomorrow is back to “The Now”., to my slightly boring existence – “far from the maddening crowd.”]

    As long as you know who you are, inside, being socially-invisible has it’s advantages.

    – and I wouldn’t change a thing. Nothing.

    – One ‘now’ change, though. I am going to retire my black Stetson. I’ll leave the hundred dollars folded-up inside the sweat band., brush it spot-less., put it back into the original box and up on the shelf over my black three-piece tailored suit. Which is probably permanently retired. [ Not sure I want to let ‘Doc’ back in.] Time for a change.., a new one. Maybe a 20X fur felt custom ‘Marshall’ [ think., Marshall Raylan Givens ] Some people look good in a cowboy hat.., some look OK.., and some look ridiculous. I am right in-between ‘good’ and ‘ok’. .., but I like ’em.

    “Stay Frosty !”

    • You will need a new moniker also. I dub thee… “Ten Ounce”. You are worth it.

  15. Mel K is an investigative journalist and the host of The Mel K Show. Her new book,

    Infiltration Instead of Invasion: America Betrayed, 1944 to 1954

    explains how a supranational globalist architecture, established after World War II, controls American politics, finance, and intelligence beyond democratic oversight. This conversation gets into Operation Paperclip, color revolutions, Agenda 2030, and the co-opting of education and institutions by globalist forces. Mel K emphasizes the need to transcend partisan politics to confront what she describes as an existential threat to American sovereignty.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1MqNshvcO4

    Two minute farcebook capsule:

    https://www.facebook.com/reel/2434112493733186

    She had me when she played a clip of JFK talking about, what metastasized into the WEF…

    • Interesting find, I need to check it out, but…

      Tell me Mel K. reads theageofdesolation.com without telling me Mel K. reads theageofdesolation.com

      • Dunno. Until yesterday I’d never heard of her. She showed up at Lara Logan’s site (which always gets a glance from me.) If she’s a real IJ, she wouldn’t visit Stu. She WOULD visit some of the same sources he uses though. A snoop isn’t going to mess with a theoretical site. (S)He’s going to skirt the gray spaces of the Web, looking for leads to their current investigation or their next story…

  17. RED ALERT: Former COVID Task Force coordinator Deborah Birx is now calling for “widely available” PCR testing for Hantavirus, including in schools, and many people are noticing the exact same pandemic playbook that preceded the chaos of 2020.

    The real red flag is not the virus itself. It’s watching the same fear infrastructure suddenly reactivate in real time—PCR testing, asymptomatic spread warnings, quarantine language, hazmat imagery, and nonstop media coverage telling the public not to panic.

    Birx openly argued that viruses should be tracked through PCR testing instead of symptoms, the same testing system that used to inflate COVID case counts and justify lockdowns across the world.

    https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/2053990392731742662?s=20

    What I have to say about this:

    https://www.facebook.com/reel/1433273965220287

    • Dawn Of The Dead (2004)

      CDC official: I’ll take your questions.
      Reporter: Is it a virus?
      CDC official: We don’t know.
      Reporter: How does it spread? Is it airborne?
      CDC official: Airborne is a possibility; we don’t know.
      Reporter: Is this an international health hazard or a military concern?
      CDC official: Both.
      Reporter: Are these people alive or dead?
      CDC official: [Pause] We don’t know.

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