TL;DR: Neocons seem to have pulled the wool over Trump. Don’t hold your breath yet on a Gaza deal. And despite the Prime Big Deal Days, there wasn’t a scanner we liked.
Neocons Getting Their War
On the surface it’s being soft-pedaled by the press: Trump’s considered green light for Ukraine Tomahawks could ‘push Russia back,’ NATO minister says. We think the official needs to be pee tested and sent down for some history lessons.
Here’s our take on it: The Neocons – those slippery warmongers that slide between administrations and political parties – have convinced the CiC that very long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine is a good idea.
We vehemently disagree. Supplying “general arms” via NATO is one thing. But long range offensive tools like the Tomahawks? It’s like going from “Here kids, play with these matches” to more like “Here kids, play with this C-4.”
The BML (big media lie) is pretending that “retaining operational control” doesn’t constitute attacking Russia.
We call that…what’s the baseball term? An Error:
“A baseball error is a judgment call by the official scorer that a defensive player made a mistake, such as a misplay, fumble, or wild throw, that allowed a batter or runner to advance an extra base or allowed a play that should have resulted in an out to continue. Errors are only charged when a fielder fails to make a play that an average fielder could have made, and they are recorded in the basic game statistic of “hits, runs, and errors” (HRE). “
Retaining operational control? That’s a fumble that will be seen as a wild throw. If the neocons hoax Trump into going through with it, the American homeland will be inserted back in targeting packages.
And Europe – whose sorry asses we have saved in two previous World Wars – still conducts government policy for the aristocrats and industrialists.
Not only has Congress abdicated on flimsy MAGA grounds, but with a GovDown persisting, neocons are stoking the future of defense stocks.
Skeptical of Peace
Who? Us? You mean when reading Israel and Hamas agree ceasefire under US-brokered peace plan?
Here’s the soft-pedaled part: There are 21 parts to the plan. This is less than one-twentieth of a home run. Israel, Hamas accept first phase of Trump’s Gaza ceasefire plan. It’s like agreeing to “I won’t slurp soup while plotting to kill the other guys.”
Gaza is, oh.. How does inestimably deep shithole sound? It’s really deep. We will keep our views muted. But we’ll be believers in the Peace Deal when all the Hostages are accounted for, Palestinians get good food and water. And the Gaza Marine Energy assets are pumped for global benefit. Without the “rocket’s red glare.”
To borrow from Frasier “Hello, Washington. I’m listening.”
GovDown and Fed Leak
If your cable went out for two or three weeks, would you call and bitch about it? Maybe want a refund?
Obviously you don’t understand how this GovCon works. Because in the “normal course of events” the Fools on the Hill will still pay federal workers. Trump to his (dwindling) credit understands it, but Ben Dover and Congressional Colleagues can’t have it any other way: This is Bone-Us va-ca – and maybe it will stretch out to the opening of hunting season. Super pay, separate retirement system, and more money than California min-wage – what’s not to love?
Meanwhile, Who’s to blame for the shutdown? All of the above, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds. I would regale you with the partisan yack-yack, but you have better things to do. (Even your throne room visit is more useful and doesn’t come with as much poo…)
Meanwhile – with government statistics MIA, we did notice the Fed Minutes Wednesday. But they were about what we explained, September Fed minutes reveal cautious approach to future rate cuts. Other than TOTHS (time off ’til hunting season) our elected imbeciles are still selling “Tariffs are not a tax!”
“Where’s Ure’s typical optimism, then?” IRS furloughs 34,000 employees as government shutdown continues nationwide.
It’s a start – maybe they can go hunting, too?
As long as we’re reading report cards? Bank of England Says Soaring AI Valuations Risk Sharp Market Correction. Did they figure this all out without help?
A Newswork Orange
Let’s start with a kinder, gentler series of diabetic precursors? Breakthrough as common ice cream and soda ingredient could finally solve hair loss. Like we consumers haven’t been “balled” enough.
Some Theme Music for this one: Ilhan Omar marrying her brother for U.S. citizenship. Why is she not arrested? No time to click? Elvis Costello Watching the Detectives. Which no one is. GovDown, right?
We used to jest about people in the UK being “kneelers” but it’s no longer a joke. on X: “Joe Rogan’s face hardens with grief over the UK’s push for digital IDs and the arrest of citizens for social media posts. You could tell this was taking a toll on Rogan, who delivered a blunt explanation for why this is happening: “Once they do digital ID, they’re going to... 12-thousand arrested/cited for their social posting? [We trust you remember we didn’t base our screed on a social platform because freedom can’t be allowed to be free in End Stage Life…]
On to the Tale of Two G-men: In one? FBI Director: 110,000 Illegal Immigrant Gang Members Are Roaming Free In Chicago. While in the other? Ex-FBI director James Comey pleads not guilty to lying to Congress. Yes, it’s like stepping into Superman’s Bizarro World, isn’t it? So goes life down here on the surface of Htrae.
Around the Ranch: Scanners – Porking Consumers Good
One of the Big Themes in my book Downsizing – even if you (cheaply) avoid reading the book.
First point is that the Global economic system is based on an addiction to Growth. Which means – listen closely, Bunkie – it BLOWS UP!!! when there’s no more growth. I’ve been writing about this on the Peoplenomics side for years. I call it SynGrow – synthetic growth – which is why the democrats wanted the borders open and the coal mines shut down. Problem is, even with a few surviving “imperial religions” down on birth control, we have passed our ability to “screw our way to growth.”
The second point is (lacking people, and enough real shared innovation to re-engineer for ZPE and the like) we have instead started to “institutionalize obsolescence.”
Here’s where we arrive at Ure’s Bitch du Jour.
See, I had a dandy Fujitsu page scanner (duplex, color, dependable as hell). Worked great. BUT their software sucked eggs. Would not play in Win10 and users of my series were “orphaned” in the support loop not because the product broke. It was a software change to scam sales. To my shame, I relented.
January 17, 2024 I purchased an Epson Workforce scanner. Never got “down with it” because the software sucked. Wouldn’t scale with Win11 right and – being in the declining vision part of life – I cobbled my way through with native Win11 apps. Kinda works. My point?
Horseshit has condensed – whole new planets worth – around Scanners. Why, it was so bad, I asked the Ai stack (with far more expletives than we serve at breakfast here).
“Seriously? WTF? Is this more evidence that the DDA – Digital Dark Ages – are descending around us? After a few minutes, “Electric George” and “Ara” came up with AI e-Truth, distilled.
Why Scanners Are Hopelessly Fouled Up
Back in the 1990s and early 2000s, scanners were real engineering products—SCSI or USB 1.1 tanks with TWAIN drivers that actually obeyed standards. Companies like Fujitsu, HP, and Canon had small pro teams writing tight C code. You installed it once, it showed up in Photoshop, and it just worked. Then the accountants and marketers took over.
Margins fell, and scanners turned into razor handles for selling toner, subscriptions, and “cloud services.” Drivers that used to be 5 megabytes grew to 500. Every brand built its own “ecosystem”—cloud vaults, AI document naming, workflow automation. The once-simple TWAIN interface got buried under layers of Java, .NET, and telemetry daemons. Each scanner became a bloated “platform” with background services, tray icons, and update managers that hijack your CPU at 3 a.m.
Security paranoia made it worse. Scanners got HTTPS wrappers, signed tokens, and sandboxed permissions so your $300 desktop box now behaves like a bank server. HP and Epson in particular turned updates into subscription nags disguised as security patches. Fujitsu’s hardware stayed bulletproof, but its ScanSnap software still drags fifteen background tasks just to do what TWAIN did twenty years ago.
Then came cloudification. Every scan app phones home “to improve the experience,” so a simple scan-to-PDF lags while it waits for a server handshake you never asked for. They could have left us a lean offline utility, but there’s no recurring revenue in simplicity. (<—!!!!! – My point in Downsizing, exactly!!!)
Economics finished the job. A $400 scanner today should cost $1,200 if built to old standards. So we get cheaper plastics, outsourced firmware, and QA replaced by “let the user debug it” updates. The real engineers left when the margins did.
In short, the scanner market is hopeless because hardware margins collapsed, software became a marketing leash, corporate IT demanded lockdowns, telemetry replaced performance, and nobody can make money selling simple anymore.
If you want sanity, the fix is to run a minimalist stack—use good hardware and clean third-party software that ignores the vendor’s cloud circus. Pretend it’s still 2003 and just scan the damn paper.”
I’m back to eyeing an ancient edition of Windows 7. Before the “call the Mothership” went big. Then, my still dandy Fujitsu ix-500 could get back to work – and stop being a doorstop in the recording studio.
All of which is shared with heart and purpose this morning. As Downsizing (and its tag-along compound debt service) piles into the world, you will notice a glaring error in Bible.
Sure —Four Horsemen get mentioned — but the Bible missed naming the fifth: Compound interest and declining revenue.
That’s what will pay for the other Four Horsemen’s rides, shortly.
Those of us Old Enough? We have feared it since the Divorce Rate went SpaceX in the seventies. When permanence of Love and Relationships went, the long fuse to the blow up was lit. If you’re alert enough, you can smell burning more every day now.
Octopussy Note:
Thursday was World Octopus Day. Did you go “armed?”
We see today is World Sight Day. It’s also World Post Day – when celebrating “going postal” is OK. And a word for Python programmers. This is Panda’s Day.
If you remember, World Programmer Days was last month – on the 256th’s day of the year. If you missed it, Pandas is a Python library for fast, flexible data analysis — it lets you easily load, clean, manipulate, and analyze structured data using powerful table-like objects called DataFrames.
Python and I were born around the same time in February.
Day Watch: Jay Powell speaks this morning. Watch for market reaction. Sand in the Vaseline or money used as gasoline? Stay tuned.
Write when you hear thundering,
George@Ure.net
Yo MotherGoose,
Ya got Ure ears on ?
Have Youse seen latest from UrepeeanSpaceAgency regards 3iAtlas ?
MrMBB# on Youtube has a pretty good breakdown/analysis of latest views/vids/pictures that they are releasing to public..very interesting.
Still dont believe DISCLOSURE, and the blowing up of all that was thought sacred, org religions/god..? That is/was biggest reason for the suppression, for the fake realities we be living in. The biggest fear of Scientists and “experts” for NOT doing DISCLOSURE.
Setting the table so to speak, so wont be so gobsmacked drooling idiots when finally do witness off world entities and their massive craft..ET, “bad” guys never left…Fear not, We will have a Choice – prezactly because we have Free Will to choose..
“A crooked tree lives its own life,
but a straight tree is turned to wood.
*old chyknees proverb
** screw the scanner – EVERYTHING, and I mean everything at least financial is going MOBILE. Infrastructure has already been built, while youse were looking at bullscheisse.
The Who , Going Mobile -https://youtu.be/8sI3888lfvo?si=x-sVRfmUnAHo6mtg
I guess if you’re low alti or int he city you may be forced…in the woods on a hill…abnd solar and wind….
Earthquake tired confirmed?
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/magnitude-72-earthquake-strikes-philippines-mindanao-emsc-says-2025-10-10/
Concur, quality Printer-Scanners were great. Now they are dead.
Over decade ago had to buy a cannon hi resolution printer-scanner just to scan dad’s 3,000 plus family slides (1950-1990.) HP had slowly destroyed their capability of real hi resolution scanning. One time was able to scan the small 1 x2 BW photos and expand the images into a useful picture. Apples old iOS photo app was able to perform actual image adjustments. Then they made it a pay for feature, then just dropped the capabilities. Then the transition from 32 to 64 machines wherein they slowly dropped any ability to work with older files. Forget anything Windows. That was a disaster from the beginning. In a few short years they made many people files unusable. Storing copies of the old film to digital and analog to digital and digital to digital in as many different formats and media as possible, in the hopes that one might survive in useable or recoverable format.
Amen, amen, brother Phil. gather round chilluns and putcher hand on the sheet feeder…
Didn’t you keep a Windows 7 machine up and running?
We still run two older Windows 7 machines daily, plus bought a neew one just after Win 10 came out which is still lighting fast that wee use now and then, because of software issues for the so called “upgraded” software for Windows 10 /11 for one MUST HAVE work program won’t do as good a job as the original software. (and that “up graded software is much harder to use and costs almost 10x what we paid for the original software)
Our Win 7 machines will probably still be running at work after I am long gone … since that operating software is virtually bullet proof (as long as you keep it off the internet so as avoid the newer viruses) and does stuff that can NOT be done with Win 10 and Win 11.
As far as I am concerned Win 10 was a HUGE step backwards … and Windows 11 went backwards even further (and with the new registration requirement Microsoft is about to require to even have a Win 11 machines start running their entire Windows “Universe” is going backwards even further).
Yep … dig out an old Win 7 machine and put your old scanner back to work!! That is how we do it!
My Epson & later H-P are in the trash. Biggest bitch was when they ‘chipped’ their inks… at several grand per oz! Got brand new H-P inks in the box and the printer would not accept them. The whole mess of inks and printer went immediately to the trash. Got a BROTHER printer/scanner with refillable ink tanks… no chips… and it works great. Scanner function works fine standalone or with my Mac interface.
“Thursday was World Octopus Day.”
It Came from Beneath the Sea is a 1955 American science fiction monster horror film from Columbia Pictures.
A monstrous giant octopus rampages along the west coast of North America after becoming too radioactive from nuclear testing in the South Pacific for it to be able to hunt its natural prey in the Mindanao Deep.
It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955) ORIGINAL TRAILER
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MXAR5qSDgtE&pp=ygUkSXQgY2FtZSBmcm9tIGJlbmVhdGggdGhlIHNlYSB0cmFpbGVy
Out of primordial depths to destroy the world!
IT CRUSHES! KILLS! DESTROYS!
Havoc! Chaos! Destruction!
Can IT Be Stopped?
good question..from my personal perspective… the only way would be totally drop the present business model… announce that there is now a multi polar planet and pull back from all aggressive actions…what I see is all the world leaders would have to collectively admit that the pursuit of war is a failed business strategy with only a guaranteed negative outlook. and would have to align all major systems .( economic, academic, political and ideological ) as the only way to move forward in a peaceful coexistence..but I can’t see that happening..hell first you would have to have politicians willing to work..show up and give a dam.. right now that can’t even agree on toilet paper .allowed the infrastructure to crumble so a few can prosper .
GU : “… If the neocons hoax Trump into going through with it, the American homeland will be inserted back in targeting packages …”
I rather doubt the fractured States of America have been deleted from targeting packages Tex. Likewise our enemies I’m sure.
Hopefully this never comes to pass. That’s my guess as to work around. We bluff and bluster while never launching (thank heave).
Though every deal has cracks (and crackheads who refuse to relent). Peace in the ME? Woulda bet a fine bottle against it ever.
Let’s do it.
E
ps – last team fighting becomes the primary target. Hello RUS?
-Not sure you picked up on the dramatic change in Trump after going to meet w/ the king of england and kiss the ring. Sure feels like he was given marching orders to get WW3 going sooner than later and stop w/ all this peace talk. Time will tell….
(“Trump after going to meet w/ the king of england and kiss the ring. “)
well at least its just the ring ..hopefully the king washes his hands..lol lol from my years in healthcare, I’ve learned that fame and wealth don’t always correlate with hygiene practice. In fact, the higher the status, the lower the likelihood of handwashing. Whether it’s to save on water, avoid wrinkling silk cuffs, or simply because “someone else will clean it,” the elite often treat sanitation as optional. It’s ironic… I for one wouldn’t kiss that filthy thing… its like men that weren’t cercumsised foreskin rarely take care of their hygiene in that area Causes a higher rate of health issues..
I never thought Trump would be subservient to any terrestrial authority; maybe he is setting-up the King? It’s about time this country takes an energetic dump on the Brits; after all, they have been dumping on the world for centuries!
G.A. STEWART: Great Britain is the Chairman of the Board; hence, Donald J. Trump publicly bent the knee to King Charles III and the globalists. Obviously, Trump is now onboard with World War III.
https://theageofdesolation.com/nostradamus/2025/10/06/fight-club-goes-global/
https://valdaiclub.com/a/reports/culture-of-confrontation-21st-century/
putin. made a comment at the valdai think tank club discussion this morning.. really has the old question mark hanging in the air.. a few EMPs at winter start the cascade collapse .. we have ignored the obvious for to many years.. an old moron in the Midwest can see it..obviously those out of the real life issues can’t.. it doesn’t exist in their world..
Great Britain is the chairman of nothing.
‘Tis a shame nobody noticed that Trump is STOPPING wars, not starting new ones. While DJT is playing 3D GO, everyone else is trying to figure out the rules for tiddly winks.
Capital BULLSCEISSE.
Which War has he stopped ?
Not a single one, he has thrown GAS on all global conflicts, including south america.
Murderously satanic scum this guy is.
WTF are you ingesting that would cause you to go jewyork times on Us ? “stopping wars” .
Bullsceisse mofo ____________, or complete IDIOT ?
3D GO? – that heel spurred Moron couldnt figure out a game of Checkers if it was explained to him.
Nostradamus and The Third Age of Mars, Volume I, G. A. Stewart, 2017, Page 561
As I described in Chapter Three, Nostradamus writes in Quatrain X-100, the last Quatrain in The Centuries, that Great Britain has ruled the Western world for over three hundred years.
The 1701 Act of Settlement began the Hanoverian Succession and the German ascendancy to the throne of Great Britain.
This is clearly a very successful prediction. “Free not at all its support Germanic” is a reference to the Hanoverian Succession. Add 290 years and Great Britain was “steeped in blood” in 1991 when it joined George H. W. Bush’s New World Order in the Desert Storm invasion of Iraq. The biggest banks are in Great Britain; the leaders of the Western world do get their marching orders from the City of London. Gog and Magog are, therefore, the appropriate symbols as the guardians to the financial interests of the globe.
Charlie kissed Trump’s ring?
Who’da thunk…?
George et al.: VueScan has saved the functionality of an old Fujitsu and my current Canon page scanner. I use a Mac but it is also available for Windows. Reviewers grouse about bugs every time it is upgraded but I have never had issues. A demo version is available. I use the “pro” which offers (or at least did when I bought) perpetual upgrades.
HUGE GOLD START – Thank you!!!!!
Second vote. VueScan has a stack of drivers built in. It drives my 9600dpi UMAX SCSI and 4800dpi Epson USB photo scanners better than their original software…
I have an old Canon flatbed scanner that somehow managed to get working with Windows 7 and then Windows 10. I’m reluctant to upgrade my Dad’s PC to Windows 11 so I opted with ESU to keep the system going for a while longer.
Canon helped us win the Revolutionary War, no reason to abandon it now.
Blast famy
BOOM!
‘Little Rocket Man’ Kim strapped his uncle to the barrel of a howitzer and blew him away… allegedly for telling bad puns like this.
I’m fond of the Mac OS, and using HP printer/ flatbed scanners with the cheaper replacement cartridges, seems to still work OK I don’t use any of the HP software/subscriptions crap but the macOS seems to scan fine with it.
The mandatory digital IDs being rolled out in the UK won’t be mandatory for everyone, only those who wish to participate in working. On the other side of the world perhaps the NY SIM farm issue would have been avoided if all employers had to ‘know their employee’. Tech & .gov collaborate.
“Last month, the government announced plans to roll out digital IDs by the end of the parliament—but digital ID would only be mandatory for those who are looking to work in the UK, not for “everyone”. For example, someone who is retired wouldn’t need a digital ID. ”
“The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology says: “It will not be mandatory for everyone in the UK to have a digital ID.
“However, if you wish to work in the UK, your employers will be legally required to check your digital ID as proof of right to work.”
https://fullfact.org/politics/lib-dems-digital-id/
(“Using recent output in the 310–330 tonne range, one tonne of gold is about 32,150.75 troy ounces, so at $57,000 per ounce a tonne is roughly $1.83 billion. Multiply through:
At 310 tonnes: about $568 billion
At 313 tonnes: about $574 billion
At 330 tonnes: about $605 billion”)
SO…………at that range.. the value of gold is to low.. let me elaborate on this as the unedjumicated moron in the room…From my perspective if we are using the recent gold reserve estimates in the 310–330 tonne range, and knowing that one tonne of gold equals approximately 32,150.75 troy ounces, we can calculate the total value of U.S. gold holdings at various price points. At $57,000 per ounce, a single tonne would be worth roughly $1.83 billion. This means 310 tonnes equates to about $568 billion, while 330 tonnes reaches approximately $605 billion. To pay off the full U.S. national debt—currently over $37 trillion—the price of gold would need to rise dramatically. With 310 tonnes available, each ounce would need to be valued at around $3.76 million. Even at the upper estimate of 330 tonnes, the required price per ounce would still exceed $3.5 million. These figures highlight the vast scale of the debt and the symbolic weight we place on gold as a measure of value.Now what if we found a flock of those giants geese ..a satirical twist on fiscal salvation, imagine a nation turning to geese—not economists—to solve its $37 trillion debt. Each goose, a waddling alchemist, lays two ounces of gold daily, worth $114,000 at that rate.. To erase the deficit, the country would need over 328 million goose-days, or a honking army of 10 million geese working for just over a month.
Once the deficit was vanquished by a heroic honking horde, the elders faced a new challenge: sustaining the realm’s appetite. With spending at $7 trillion, the geese union calculated that 168 million of their kind would be needed to keep the golden eggs flowing.In other words…From my vantage point, the dollar—and by extension, all fiat currencies—have crossed the threshold of viability. Their value is no longer rooted in production, stewardship, or trust, but in spectacle and debt unending wars to gather more, the destruction of industry from outsourcing and neglect ion of the infrastructure and the citizens essential needs along with the cost of endless war, both literal and economic, has hollowed out the foundation of all these currencies, leaving all nations teetering on the edge of a Weimar-style collapse. This isn’t just inflation—it’s checkmate. The game was rigged, the board scorched, and our adversaries played the long game using greed and the image of wealth and control as their game play of choice… now the players are pretending the rules still apply and there’s nowhere to move that doesn’t send us into the war of all wars..with opponents that have strategically gotten the military armies of the world separated leaving the king vulnerable…then again who Ami an unedjumicated moron in the wastelands of the country..
“Gold is money, everything else is credit”
-JP Morgan
As we no longer use gold, all we have is credit. We attempt to use credit to retire credit debt which is impossible, leading us to ever increasing amount of debt until everything goes “Bloui”.
We have no money, so stop using the word as it just perpetuates the worldwide massive fraud!
“Gold is money, everything else is credit”
until you need food and water..“Gold is money, everything else is credit,” they say—but only until thirst cracks your lips or hunger hollows your belly. Then gold is just a heavy, useless ornament. The Spaniards saw the gleam of Aztec and Mayan gold and mistook it for wealth, while the native peoples saw corn—the giver of life—as sacred currency. In one tale, the conquistadors were forced to drink molten gold, a brutal satire of their obsession…Here, consume what you value. It’s a lesson etched in fire—that true wealth is not what glitters, but what sustains. And in that reversal lies the heart of legacy of an empire…to teach that care, nourishment, and continuity are worth more than all the gilded illusions of all that glitter. People forget that gold rushes weren’t just about wealth—they were about desperation dressed up as destiny. Men abandoned homes, families, and sanity chasing flakes of metal through mud and myth. And in the Weimar depression, the illusion cracked wide open…wealthy individuals hauled baskets of silverware and heirlooms to market, trading gilded opulence for potatoes and cabbage. Gold couldn’t feed them. Silver couldn’t warm them. The currency of survival was suddenly elemental—food, water, firewood, dignity. It’s a lesson buried beneath the glitter: when systems collapse, value returns to the basics.
LooB : this makes code-zero sense mate. In your own tale those who had gold and silver walked away with the potatoes and cabbage. Correct. They had a store of portable wealth so ate the vegetables. Those who had no store of value … as the fable goes, had none.
People can choose to hold whatever they think is valuable. When the spam hits the fan value is found, or not.
E
(“LooB : this makes code-zero sense mate.”)
hmm…Here’s a historical reflection that might suit your scroll or satire….“Gold has dazzled empires and crowned kings, yet in famine, it cannot be eaten; in fire, it cannot shelter; and in sickness, it cannot heal. The Incas called it ‘the tears of the sun,’ but even they knew it was for ceremony, not survival. Across centuries, gold has served more as ornament than instrument—adorning the dead, decorating the divine, but rarely feeding the living. Its value is a story we tell, not a function it serves.”This echoes what exhibitions and historians have long noted: gold’s allure lies in symbolism, not utility. Ancient Egyptians used it to honor gods, not to build homes. Medieval churches gilded icons, not soup bowls. Even today, gold’s primary use is in jewelry, art, and financial abstraction—not in tools, medicine, or sustenance.
You overlooked the gold inflationary aspect of millions of golden geese! “Printing” that much in golden eggs is inflationary, and golden eggs will soon drop to 3 cents each… similar to FRNs since 1913.
Nope… no way out. Brace for impact.
Meaning..more geese…
LOOB- Ure price for gold looks a bit optimistic. The price per troy ounce is running about 4K.
I know..all it’s showing is just how far we have fallen.. there’s no way back from this without a reset..just like the Weimar
Another Dbl in the bag homegmerz, and Youse heard it hear first.
Of course never advice on things financial, like the street signs in Belize, they bee optional (at Ure own risk).
Double bagggerz you say ? Yes indeedy do the PM’s returning some serious Cashish to investors this Qtr.
Silver miners are ripping, Gold Miners still flying higher. And now what do my wandering Eyes see but Dr. Copper is going “consenseo” too.
What the blazes is “consenseo” ? Glad youse axed, it is “old goats” model for measuring parabolic moves in stocks that utilizes a 30DMA, 9DMA and 2-3DMA.
BCP favorite lil PNW copper miner (Taseko) is getting some love here lately.
In these type of markets, I hedge total exposure of NAKED Call Buying and lil Put Selling. Wild west kinda action going on in markets with crazy ass valuations.
What to do what to do, taking profits guarantees MOAR pieces of my gnawed on ass cheeks will be sacrificed to molech again this coming tax year, and that be on Z top of this years 1099DAv issuance.
* this year and only this year taxpayer will provide historical Data for 1099DA.. small Win for the BCP! Ya just know Im reporting massive LOSSES, MASSIVE!
** hearda whisper recently regards a new ETF in……………….wait for it…………………………………………………patience……………………………………………………….
HBAR ! wootwoot, for the Bandicoot, action is getting HOT!
Get pregnant at 16 and find fame and fortune!
Farrah Abraham’s daughter Sophia, 16, debuts massive stomach tattoo!
The mother-daughter duo — who found fame on MTV’s “16 and Pregnant” when Abraham was pregnant with Sophia at the age of 16 — first teased their followers by suggesting that Sophia might be expecting.
https://pagesix.com/2025/10/09/parents/farrah-abrahams-daughter-sophia-16-debuts-massive-stomach-tattoo/?_gl=1*1k54dvt*_ga*MTI2MDMxNzgyNi4xNzU5OTg4MzE5*_ga_0DZ7LHF5PZ*czE3NjAwMzA3MDgkbzIkZzEkdDE3NjAwMzA4MDUkajMwJGwwJGgw
It appears the Flyers, Phillies, and Iggles f’n went.
Perhaps the Coot should start rooting for a winner, like the Giants?
My Dodgers will take it all again. Go Blue!
Scored one for Usha Vance’s Hindi heritage – JD has got to be elated.
“California has declared Diwali, the Hindu “Festival of Lights,” an official statewide holiday starting January 1. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law Tuesday to go into effect on Jan. 1. This law allows public schools and community colleges to close, giving state employees the option for a paid day off and students an excused absence to celebrate. “
looks like the dopamine freaks and their robots have now safely navigated peutz crash window . even with a shutdown . what could possibly go wrong . pile on the euphoria boyz . some of us are always loaded
Denial, anger, grief, acceptance, denial, anger, grief, acceptance, denial… anger…. grief…….. acceptance.
Another factor is the change in speculative psychology, “investors” (i.e. gamblers) finally accept that the Titanic is in fact going to sink, that is, the Fed is not going to bail out the stock market with newly issued trillions. We can anticipate the stair-step down as confidence slips to denial, then anger, then grief and finally, acceptance.
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If they fixed it.. printing more numbers.. goes back to the noodle..The Federal Reserve may no longer play savior to the stock market with freshly minted trillions, and so begins the stair-step descent..into depression and the confidence gives way to denial, then anger, grief, if the situation becomes extreme then we have the french revolution or burning of rome..and finally, the quiet surrender of acceptance. Like the story of a cooked noodle on a table, the economy can be nudged forward only if the flow of liquidity is just right. Too little water — as in austerity masked by grand bills that siphon from the poor Such as the big beautiful bill recently passed— and the noodle fractures, brittle and broken..just take a look at the shopping carts..carts that were full now nearly three quarters less. Too much water — endless printing — and the noodle surges briefly before absorbing its own excess, collapsing into mush. In both cases, the illusion of movement hides the deeper truth: that the noodle was never meant to be pushed…the big beautiful bill was in my opinion only optics..your not hearing a thing about DOGE that discovered tens of trillions of dollars that was mismanaged and distributed in error..my only thought on that was as they did the forensic analysis they discovered it wasn’t just a leak..the water was flowing over the walls and we are going down..before that we were starting to back away from war in ukraine and gaza..now it appears like we are going back in..the question i have is could that be because there’s a glimmer of hope to get trillions in raw resources revitalizing the dollar in freefall?
Beware of Amazon 3rd party sellers. When my old printer died, I ordered from a 3rd party retailer via Amazon, a new Brother inkjet printer. When it arrived, I installed it & found the ink jet system was dead. On the line with Brother support, I found that SN printer had been sold & registered to someone else, so Brother would not supply any support.
I started an Amazon return. The 3rd party vendor sent me an email with return instructions & a shipping lable, which required me to pay to ship his junk printer back to him in TN, where he would have 30 days to evaluate, before deciding if he would send me a refund.
This 3rd party vendor knowingly sold me a dead printer, which is fraud.
I have spent the last 2 weeks unsuccessfully attempting to get Amazon to resolve this issue. As the injured party, I won’t pay to ship this boat anchor back, so that this vendor can sell it through Amazon to another sucker. I have been told by an Amazon agent in one of my multiple calls to Amazon support, that they were processing a refund, and that I should dispose of the printer. However, their most recent emails say I should contact the vendor, who in his most recent message, told me he has closed the file, since I won’t pay to ship the printer back to him.
An expensive lesson learned, & I bought a new printer from Cosco, who will take returns without questions.
Keep pushing with Amazon, especially on the phone. There’s still a chance that they will cover you, even though it’s third party.
(“We have feared it since the Divorce Rate went SpaceX in the seventies. When permanence of Love and Relationships went, the long fuse to the blow up was lit. If you’re alert enough, you can smell burning more every day now.”)
phew….the love me age.. I had a toxic first marriage.. one day at lunch break I was visiting with a coworker at the park.. every woman married or single wanted a piece of him..I asked him ..what am I doing wrong his response was . you care.. Your willing to work hard for what you can to make them happy… I don’t care about their needs or wants it’s what I want..about that time there was a young married woman peddling by on a bicycle..they started visiting joking around..laughing etc. then he calmly said well I have fifteen minutes left to lunch ..if we are going to make it memorable we had better start..she gave him oral intimacy in the car ..on our way back he calmly said that’s all there is to it .I refer to them as bar sharks..lurking waiting for the married woman that feels her life is to routine in a rut.. starts out with girls night out and expands from there.. estimated half of all children are being raised by men with a different DNA …the free live movement of the 60s.. men get bored and move on to the next. the moment responsibility hits them they are off to the next.
Please, too much truth at one time, spread it out a bit.
Yeah Loob – Youse were schooled wrongly.
What do you say to a Women with 2 black eyes ?
Nothing, you already told her twice! duh-oooh. Just kidding Loobster, dont get Ure granny panty’s all bunched up.
Raised Son and Daughter knowingly with dbl standards. Between Me and our 120 German import GSD – teenage yrs and boyfriends – they lived in extreme fear of Moi, thought I was nucking futz. I would regularly sharpen my service blade(KBar)with the GSD by my side in Den, waiting for the prospect to show up at house. GSD name was Ivar(E-var), he even nipped one boy – he knew. Turned out the young man was extra frisky at movies with my Daughter..friggin Dog knew.
Son on the other hand was coached on how to breakdown the wily Females’ defenses. Even had to remind about being left handed and which side to sit in movie theater. Hard as young man going Right, when youse Left handed newbie, and a smoke show as your date. He was proof of the “ask the prettiest out theory”, he always did, and he had one hell of a hit rate.
Does Previous Performance Predict Future Results ?
Homeskillets just got married this year – to a “HotGirl”(college)…with big brains, as in she is a Surgeon in research triangle area, NC.
Lol..I knew a couple guys that simply walked up and asked every woman or young lady they seen..they were routinely turned down..but on the other hand they were the luckiest guys on the planet..
(“the “ask the prettiest out theory”, he always did, and he had one hell of a hit rate.”)
in the military there was an e-6 he had all us in his class and told us about the bar trolling .. guy brings a woman in then trolls her around showing everyone..later he gets up and searches for the one he wants to hit on..the woman then gets up and wanders in a reverse trolling technique looking for another guy..
that women that are searching brings other married or women in relationships with as cover.. aim for not the prettiest but the opposite..prettiest are routinely hit upon.. the odds are they get bored of being the one constantly given the attention. he also said if you want the daughter get the mom first..married women are the easier pickup..they have forever already..but with forever you have routine..
Sorry, but today is Independence Day here. No more kneeling as of 1976. Sure, there have been some military coups to clean out the corrupt, but now is mostly just corrupt lawyers and officials. The pigs are in the ground steaming in the banana leaves along with fine mollusks and fish and meat wrapped in ti leaf filled with coconut cream. Yummmm.
Then finish it off with three or four bowls of kava root and you fall asleep all dreamy and stuffed with smokey goodness.
And no more kneeling.
Yesterday at the market was like the night before Christmas, the whole island seemed to be shopping for the long weekend, loud music from every portal.
Must be peace in the East. Good thing ounces are still ounces even though their ‘value’ just popped down in anticipation of no war around the oil pools. Funny, this paper money thing. It’s over and that fact hasn’t caught on yet. THEY are here and I just hope THEY aren’t interested in us sailing over the undersea housing units.
It’s a good day for marlinspike on the running rigging. No rest for the responsible.
Stiks
The sea isn’t forgiving Stiks. Our women are. I ifgured that much out after 11 years aboard. Rum is safer ashore.
I know a full-on Luau when I smell a pig in an imu! Polynesian Party time. We have those here on the dirt, and make the tourists pay extra for them. Locals take home the ‘leftovers’ and the party continues all week. Yum!
All things intoxicating best be on the Dirt. A woman i trusted was on watch at the crucial moment before our boat was crashed into the rocks at midnight. It was my fault, being the Captain. Always is, but her reaction was wrong, and correct action in the critical moments could have meant I would still be sailing that boat. The difference was all in one or two minutes of incorrect action.
So maybe women must be passengers more than crew? That was always the unspoken rule for many centuries of sailor life. And for sure no booze or other shit.
Stiks
Trump is pissed at Putin.
He is showing him a direction this could go.
No way Ukraine gets a single TLAM.
The Art of the Deal.
Deals do go up in smoke sometimes, Dave…seen it first-hand.
It looks like the cat is out of the bag and the big money is calling the AI influence on markets for what it really is. Because of “circular financing”, what looks like froth really is froth. If we scrape it away, the remaining market can be used to map where we compare against the big adjustment in 1929… Anybody know what the magic guaranteed to make you rich quick investment was in 1929?
Radio was the High Tech Excitement of 1929.
Haven’t gone into the archives to read the scan the newspapers /magazines of late 1928 and all of 1929 up to the crash, but my expectation would be to see article after article about Radio being almost the Second Coming Event.
Radio did have the huge impact many expected, and made many people RICH, so it really was a useful and REAL technology, NOT vaporware … it is just that that market valued it with Pie In The Sky valuations that ended up not being justified even though it was a profitable business.
re: “Forebodings”, 2020
feat: the servant’s Producer
Folks,
Please don’t tell me purple and orange clash! Thank you to Barney the Dinosaur’s Slavic cousin offering pleasant opening serenade of “?? ????????, ???? ????????” (Don’t Worry, Be Happy) perhaps to placate nervous hunted Ukrainian flocks? Today’s exciting Telegram episode opens with an announcement by The President of the Ukraine. Next week a team (appointed by whom?) of three wise emissaries shall journey to make their presentations to their great Mandarin in Washington.
The team is led by head of government Mrs. PM Yuliya Svyrydenko who recently posed at the foot of the “crowned staircase” in Kyiv’s federal Government Building. London-educated sanctions expert Vladyslav Vlasiuk, lawyer, and past leader of multiple NGOs has the President’s blessing. Third and not least is the Chief of the Presidential Office, Mr. Andriy Yermak.
As chance would have it, Mr.Yermak (tr. Old German “Warrior”) – a well-positioned lawyer and no stranger to private film production with government funding – is said to have first met Mr. Zelensky in 2011, the same year of “The Adjustment Bureau” movie. According to “Wikipedia”, the Ukrainianian-Jewish Russian Mr. Yermak represented Mr. Zelensky in the 2019 discussions with the volunteer US Special Representative to the Ukraine along with a lawyer of Mr. Trump. Allegedly a promise was made for Mr. Zelensky to make a public statement in support of an inquiry into Burisma employee, Mr. Hunter Biden, last featured by msm at leisure in South Africa. Somehow or other, such a supporting statement never materialized.
Let’s join DJ George in studio ready to drop a needle on a teaser trailer. From their self-tltled album “Humble Pie”, here we go with a ditty at the following Youtube link:
“Theme from Skint (See You Later Liquidator”).
https://youtu.be/QK0a8dDbIDU
Of course, they are talking about banking liquidators. One imagines that everyone will be wearing a suit.
“Thursday was World Octopus Day. Did you go “armed?””
No, I was not a sucker for this one.
now that’s ^ funny Hank!
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As I said above: While DJT is playing 3D GO, everyone else is trying to figure out the rules for tiddly winks.
Today is the first time I ever saw Trump get positive coverage on ABCCBSNBC. Hannity got the Exclusive, last night, but every network and news channel was carrying Trump’s Hannity interview on a few second delay (except MSLSD, where Jen Psakoshit was busy pushing TDS via Jeffries’ Capitol dust-up.) Even the commenters on CNN and [News Nation] were flat aghast at what had happened, and supportive of Trump.
I wonder what the “Palestinian ‘rent-a-protester’ shitheads” are going to do now…?
Honestly, I won’t give Trump credit for accomplishing peace until the hostages come home (because that’s Hamas’ principal leverage) but by getting even just this far, he’s accomplished something that kings, emperors, religious leaders and diplomats have been trying and failing at, for over 1400 years.
I’ll leave this for better minds to ponder:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdwHMookiK4
Apparently three sources are saying that Xi Jin Ping has suffered a significant stroke and a transition of power may have begun. Take from it what you will.
Phew I hope its wrong…If the reports about Xi suffering a massive stroke are true, it could mark a major turning point not just for China, but for global stability. In a world teetering on escalation, Xi has often been a voice of restraint—measured, strategic, and cautious, especially compared to more hardline factions within the CCP. Similarly, Putin, for all his rhetoric, has kept a steady hand on the nuclear threshold. Leadership health isn’t just personal—it’s geopolitical. The absence of such figures, however controversial, could open the door to more aggressive actors who see chaos as opportunity. Let’s hope the rumors are false, because in this climate, even silence can be a signal.