Kiss-off freedom on the Internet. The Trump administration’s pick to chair the Federal Communications Commission is quoted as saying he’s in favor of FCC content regulation of the Internet. “Trump names new FCC chairman: Ajit Pai, who wants to take a ‘weed whacker’ to net neutrality.” What’s worse? In a 2015 news story here, Pai … Read More

I can not believe how incredibly stupid the White House lefty pressed corpse (sic) has become.  Monday after breakfast, Elaine and I watched appalled as a parade of “experts’ argued minutia of crowd size at the Washington events of the past couple of days. GMAFB – can  we just turn over some dirt and build … Read More

I don’t know if you remember the first week of the Obama administration. But it was goo-goo and gah-gah and “Oh this is so cool.” Yet to see the crime-spree demonstrators and the vulgarity of the made-up “women’s marches” what comes into focus is that America has become racist, sexist, and bigoted, indeed.  International Women’s … Read More

Since this should be a quiet week, I managed to sleep in for a while Sunday – making it all the way to 6 AM whereupon I awoke from an amazing dream. As in a few other dreams in the past, I was in a school of some kind and what was being explained was … Read More

We offer some investing ideas and discussion this morning.  After running numbers, it looks to us like the Trump administration might bring back that long time friend of real estate and precious metal investors… Inflation… More for Subscribers       ||| SUBSCRIBE NOW!       |||   Subscriber Help Center

(From the White House press office for those who missed the live coverage) The Inaugural Address Remarks of President Donald J.  Trump – As Prepared for Delivery Inaugural Address Friday, January 20, 2017 Washington, D.C. As Prepared for Delivery – Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow Americans, and people … Read More

The Left is really playing dirty now, in their efforts to keep the duly-elected President from taking office. First example is by talking about how a “Disaster could put Obama cabinet member in Oval Office” in this YouTube video: https://youtu.be/qxIG4dduqy0 Trying to get some “Catcher in the Rye” reader to go off, you think? Second … Read More

I don’t know why, but the other day I happened to be looking for some Mung bean sources and I tripped over a few sites that were making miraculous claims for sprouts.  Beam sprouts. Well, sure, they’re good and all, but as I got into it, there turns out to be an ingredient in sprouts … Read More

There has been some speculation in the financial press (such as it is) that Housing might begin to soften sometime after the first of the year. Reasons? Debt saturation of young people, interest rates firming to rising, and so forth. But there’s another factor: A lot of people who are Baby Boomers (like us, for … Read More

(book title then article begins if graphics are down) Reader Note: If you are just catching on, each Thursday we’re are doing a chapter each week of a book I’m writing for Millennials – teaching the insights that will (hopefully!) allow them to live long and prosper – and be around to clean up after … Read More

What’s more, News is going Consumer-direct. Join us this morning for a step into the world of Mesh Networks and you’ll see with astounding clarity how Trump has radically changed the playing field of “Old Style News” dissemination. With the network topology in plain site, of course the NY Times will have to reduce its … Read More

The “news budget” this week is pretty interesting: Consumer Prices tomorrow, Housing Starts Thursday, but just more FedSpeak on the rubber-chicken circuit Friday. The BIG event Friday will be the Trump Inauguration ceremony in front of the U.S. Capitol. High noon, Trump will be sworn in by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts . Just … Read More

Minor disaster here at the Ranch Monday:  Our Rain gauge broke. Could I have fixed it?  Ummm… I suppose so, but it was getting sun-damaged and I felt like living large a bit, so I went shopping. Here is the data as collected by Old Man Labs research: NCAA Penn State Nittany Lions Rain Gauge: … Read More