Raining Hamburgers – Scotch in the Wings

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By now, everyone knows that I put a small wager on with my consigliere that the market would not hit new highs on our Aggregate Index by Labor Day.  He took the bet and with the pre-Nvidia beat-down two things happened Wednesday.

Even with a phat cheeseburger, fries, shakes at the local burger drive-through (about $32 bucks) for Elaine and me, my “lunch money” trade Tuesday to Wednesday paid off well enough to fund more than a dozen future burger adventures.

But the best news is that with Nvidia doing OK, we are looking for a snap-back rally going into the weekend.  Which will allow us to deploy the lunch money account on the short side again.

As the Scotch bottles show, the market could be rolling over the top of a Wave (2) rally and then setting up for a vicious wave (3) down after we get back from stuffing ourselves and drinking too much over the three-day weekend.  The Scotch outlook is promising, but this is NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE.

About that little green arrow on the right (next to the bottle?)?  That is a possible first line of resistance if the market drops in an ‘ol tankeroo next week.

We don’t need new all-time highs to re-enter the short.  We just wanted some hamburger money…and that’s in the bag now.

Before getting all cocky and overconfident – remember, this could flip from raining burgers to spilling the mustard any time – how are some of the other indicators doing?

  • Bitcoin was still trying to hold below $60k.  $59,684.90 when we looked.
  • Japan market (Nikkei 225) was down only 9 points and change overnight – which is essentially flat.
  • The Brits were up a third of a percent while the French marts rose almost 3/4s of a percent, so the trade today looks up.

Up, that is until we ride the?

Thursday Statistical Merry-go-round

“Line ’em up, Scotch tender!“

Corporate profits, new unemployment filings, trade, GDP and some inventory numbers.  Why, thanks to the miracles of modern software, I can pretty much cut-and-paste the next part of this morning’s report…

  • GDP: “Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 3.0 percent in the second quarter of 2024, according to the “second” estimate. In the first quarter, real GDP increased 1.4 percent. The increase in the second quarter primarily reflected increases in consumer spending, private inventory investment, and business investment. Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, increased.

  • Personal Income

    Current-dollar personal income increased $233.6 billion in the second quarter, a downward revision of $4.0 billion from the previous estimate. The increase primarily reflected increases in compensation and personal current transfer receipts (table 8).

    Disposable personal income increased $183.0 billion, or 3.6 percent, in the second quarter, a downward revision of $3.2 billion from the previous estimate. Real disposable personal income increased 1.0 percent, unrevised from the prior estimate.

    Personal saving was $686.4 billion in the second quarter, a downward revision of $34.1 billion from the previous estimate. The personal saving rate—personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income—was 3.3 percent in the second quarter, a downward revision of 0.2 percentage point.

  • Corporate Profits: “Profits of domestic financial corporations increased $46.4 billion in the second quarter, compared with an increase of $65.0 billion in the first quarter. Profits of domestic nonfinancial corporations increased $29.2 billion, in contrast to a decrease of $114.5 billion. Rest-of-the-world profits decreased $18.0 billion, in contrast to an increase of $2.3 billion. In the second quarter, receipts decreased $6.2 billion, and payments increased $11.8 billion.
  • Trade AND Inventories:

  • U.I. Filings

Goodness, mercy, sakes alive, it looks like Ure’s crazy ravings about no new highs, but a (predictable) pre-holiday weekend “pump and dump” may come to pass.  But, like the old Farmer up the road says: “Don’t make McNuggets out of them before they hatch!”

War, Gore, and More

Pimping World War III:  With Ukrainian forces trying to bomb a nuclear plant in Russia – which as we have explained would be crossing a red line because Russia’s propagandists would call a containment vessel breach and radiation leaks, a Western “first use” of a nuclear weapon – it’s somehow predickable (sic) that EU war hawk Borrell pushes for unrestricted weapon use, condemns Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians – Euromaidan Press/  Other versions of the story go NATO allies pledge increased military support for Ukraine after council meeting. With your money and Drooler Joe dishing it out on (near as we can figure) whims and delusions.

We would be even more direct in our criticism of war. But, here lately, it seems like the best the demonscraps in Congress can get behind. Still, we’ll bite our tongues knowing that the end of a Free Press is rising in global trends (if you hadn’t noticed). With stories like Hong Kong outlet Stand News and editors found guilty of sedition. Disagree with the Official Line and you do so at Ure own peril.  A reminder, we will be transitioning behind the Peoplenomics.com paywall in 2025 because we’re not stupid. Seeing the future in time to avoid it isn’t a popular business model. Unheard of in D.C. for example.

Weathering Things

Out in the WestPac, Shan-Shan is bad-bad: Authorities warn of flooding, landslides as Typhoon Shanshan slams southern Japan.

Despite Climate shills, common sense is still around, though not so much in the U.S. Court rules South Korea climate goals ‘unconstitutional’ | The Straits Times. Not in our Constitution, either, but you take 400+ lawyers with nothing to do but get stock tips and set up gigs for relatives and what do you expect?

East-Southeast of How-ah-yah, Hector is dissipating. Maybe just a few showers by the time of Big Island?

Well, HERE is what to expect: Canada’s 2023 wildfire emissions more than most countries. Seems clear to us that to save the climate, the U.S. should water-bomb Canada. OK, just kidding.  Move the fires to Toronto where the drips are congregating?

Labor Day is going commercial.  Big outfits like Amazon have tons of ways to get you further behind the 8-ball. Lots of red, white, and blue banners – which is what happens when corporations take over the world, I guess.

Labor Day Weekend outlooks? Labor Day Weather Forecast: Storms And A Cooldown | Weather.com. We will be having showers and thunderstorms around which might mess with our ham radio (drone lifted) antenna plans.

Minutia for a Minute

Yes, the Commies are coming: Kamala Harris’s Tax Increases and Cuts Take Shape – WSJ. The Obama-Biden-Harris Marxists are doing the “camel’s nose in the tent” here.  Saying their “unrealized gains” tax scam would only apply to those with more than $100 million of assets. We assure you this tax cancer will come to the rest of America if it’s not impaled on the fence now. You remember government (officials) lie, right? Congress has a habit of breaking its pledges.  Read up on how Social Security was going to be a “Trust Fund” and you’ll see how it works. The Public is supposed to have two seats on the Fund Board, but both are vacant. The rest are government sorts who do things their way and whatever PR will allow.  Financial cancer when paper replaces fixed conversion to other assets like gold and silver. But…pointless to argue at this age.

They are also traitors: Biden-Harris Shower Millions on Sanctuary Cities, NGOs (breitbart.com) The way this works is like “stock dilution.” If you have all the stock divided among 100 shareholders, you’ll have a greater equity position than if there are 200-shareholders.  The crooks in the Oval are bringing in “new shareholders” as fast as they can – and funding it with your money.

The screwing is local, too. Up in Seattle, where I did my news reporting spell, a KIRO reporter has a dandy piece on how that leftist insurgency is helping itself instead of the People: Report: Seattle tops national list of highest sales tax cities (mynorthwest.com).

And the battle is in the Church now, too: Commie Pope Francis Condemns Those Who ‘Repel’ Migrants as a ‘Grave Sin’: Sides with Open-Border Globalists Over Sovereign Nations | The Gateway Pundit.  Life in Gomorrah, eh?

And if not Gomorrah? We’re all going to Pine Bluff, AR: The Arkansas city filled with abandoned homes you can buy for as little as $400 | Daily Mail Online

At the Ranch: Tabs II, Working Weather

Anderson County Texas is back in our good graces after a person in the Tax Assessors office took the time to point out that my recent bitch about car inspections (which are going away at year end) was done outside the required window.  Turn out, it’s the state legislature that’s at fault.  (Anyone looking surprised? Anyone?)  I sit corrected.

House Bill 3297 says that the inspections have to be done not more than 90-days before the last day of the registration period.  Gotta love them “law givers.”  The inspections gone; the Fees will remain.  So, if you’re a car owner in Texas you’ll be paying a $7.50 “Do Nothing” fee.  (You’d think Texas had swung into the Blue state column with this kind of crap…)

After acknowledging the error of my ways, I confessed I might have to run for the legislature so my stupidity could be put on fuller public display. I want to be there next year where the “do nothing fee” has to be adjusted higher for inflation.  Because we just know the cost of nothing is bound to go higher…

Working Weather Returns: The next week will bring us an inch of rain here in the East Texas Piney Woods. Which means cool enough to get the new deck built.  We might put that up in our ShopTalk series.  Speaking of which, No ShopTalk Sunday this week, we’ll be putting up a “Labor playlist” if I get time.  ShopTalk Monday has a nice ring to it.

Drones are going on the chargers today.  I’m planning to get some “boy time” ham radio antenna lifting done – which ought to be fun.

Off to watch the open – which will be an adventure (if there’s no lightning about).  We noticed that Ford joins list of companies walking back DEI policies. Maybe equality instead of wars between “the special” will allow us to resume being One Nation, under God, again.

Well, I can dream, right?

Write when you get rich, or a good steady rain of hamburgers falls on you…

George@ure.net

59 thoughts on “Raining Hamburgers – Scotch in the Wings”

  1. Watchout for Pine Bluff, George. The reason real estate is cheap there is much the same as it is in Detroit. It’s why we call it Crime Bluff. Not very neighborly.

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      • “Over the past two decades, an increasing number of epidemiological studies have evaluated the possible role of HCA exposure in the pathogenesis of human cancers. Because HCAs are formed during high temperature cooking of meats, many epidemiological studies have used the intake level of meats prepared with high temperature cooking methods (such as pan-frying, baking, grilling/barbequing) as surrogate measures of HCA exposure.”

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      • With any flesh, even fish: The longer it’s cooked, the less nutritional value it has. This is why meat thermometers exist.

        However, in today’s world, one also has to consider the growth hormones (unless you like having B-cup boobies on your 7yo daughter) and antibiotics with which it’s laden, and whether they can be cooked out before the meat turns to cinder (if at all.) Either that, or be able to source your cow from farm field to freezer, and pick & choose said source.

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  4. A tax on unrealized gains has been around forever.It started with racetracks and casinos and now has spread to sportsbooks.You can’t leave the money in there as you can do with the stock market and with housing.They want their money on profits every year but will not allow you to deduct losses unless you can itemize-and only if you have winnings.

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    • I know some damn smart horse players that would congregate around the $50 windows. They picked up and sorted the losing tickets.

      I , uhhh, never needed to do that !

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    • But like lotteries, it is an elective tax.

      Nothing compels one to gamble. Those who choose to, should understand the inherent financial risks, of which the tax code is but one…

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  5. I guess the “customers” do NOT like the potential of their crypto assets being seized willy nilly by their Crypto Brokerage Firm … so in response they start to FLEE, very very quickly

    https://x.com/TeamMonyCompany/status/1828703424390516796?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1828703424390516796%7Ctwgr%5E588c45121d64d8a09bf531c23557ccae20f90494%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.godlikeproductions.com%2Fforum1%2Fmessage5794195%2Fpg1

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  7. The stock market has settled down since this mornings’ open – and in reaction to Nvidia’s financial earnings statement released after the close yesterday. They met, or exceeded all the expectations [ with numbers that are hard to believe for a single stock.] -but the stock market appears rather leery and is holding back.
    It is not turning out to be the huge ‘spike-up’ that everyone was predicting. Not even close.

    “Carnac the Magnificent” – my aggregate index, is still four hundred points below a new high. Don’t believe it’s going to make it. [ I much prefer bourbon – Single barrel Blanton’s will do nicely.]
    – I am still going to wait until tomorrow’s closing numbers before I make any “Lunch Money” move. Not too sure why though – but something tells me to wait.
    .
    I do not believe the revision in the GDP, upward to 3%. I just can’t believe that number. And what does that do to the Federal Reserve’s rate cut ?

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  9. Considering DG has so many locations, most within minutes of each other, I’d say this is a good indicator of how consumers want quality and not trivial necessities, (A.k.A junk.)

    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/dollar-general-shares-crash-after-earnings-miss-outlook-slashed-financially-constrained

    People are realizing the need for quality, durability and price for the long haul. Little “wants” are being sidelined to make their checks go farther.

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  10. “was going to be a “Trust Fund””

    That was the big lie/untruth/con.

    The following is from SS:

    “Ida May Fuller worked for three years under the Social Security program. The accumulated taxes on her salary during those three years was a total of $24.75. Her initial monthly check was $22.54. During her lifetime she collected a total of $22,888.92 in Social Security benefits.”

    The first year Ida Mae took $270.48 out of the ‘Trust Fund’ while only inputting $8.25 per year. Including an employer input double her combined contribution was $16.50 annually.

    If the SS ‘Trust Fund’ return was 100% annually with 100% efficiency her take would have been about $1.37 per month just to keep the fund even.

    Ida ate the funds inputted by multiples of people. And when they went to collect, Ida was gone along with the so-called Trust Fund.

    SS beats working until we drop or get set out by the big tree but SS is an economic control method.

    “Before the Social Security Act was passed, there was no typical retirement age in the United States. Most people worked until they (or their employer) decided they could work no longer.”

    “Without a job, a pension, savings or children to rely on, some Americans had to lean on their extended family to get by in the era before Social Security. Aunts, uncles, cousins and beyond were often tapped to provide assistance for elderly family members with no other means of support.Apr 24, 2024”

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  12. oh. ya know i realized on 08/14

    i wrote “1964 Lincoln Contental. “, 3rd line. from the top.

    ya see i have this practice i do on occasion. i sit in silence for an hour. any thought that enters my mind i push it away. i sit. close my eyes and just breath for a whole hour. every single thing that enters to take my attention or wandering thought, i push it away. so im mentally clear, for a whole hour. sometimes longer. i am just present in the moment. only breathing in and out. alive. not thinking at all.

    it gives me a provisional space.

    once and a while,
    after i open up a note book to two empty pages. grab a pen and then write a series of 2 to 3 word sentances, occasionally 4 or 5 word sentances. some only one word sentances. i fill both pages. writing contiuously from left to right across the seam of the note book joining the pages together. then i return and start at the next line until both pages are completely filled.

    i dont proof read it. i just write them all down. then i sit for a few minutes. close it and put it away. i dont read it or anything. i just write it all out. then close it and put it away.

    i write whatever comes to mind. its mostly a compile of seemingly random 2 to 3 word sentances.

    once im finished.

    i put it away for a while.

    i wait a while, then i open it up every so often and highlight the things that match. i wrote on 08/14/2024, i wrote ” 1964 Lincoln Contenental.” 3rd line from the top on the right side of the page close to the seem between the pages.

    and on 08/25 I found a mint condition news paper from 1965 with Kennedy getting shot in a “1964 lincoln contental”, on the front page.

    in an old delpaitated barn that nobody has been from the looks of the place on some old country dirt road.

    i hadnt looked at it since i wrote those 2 pages on 08/14/2024. so i got it out. and in my scan today of what i wrote. i highlighted 28 occurances. heavy on the page to my right side with 19 sentances highlighted on that side and 11 on the other page. most occurances close to the seem between the pages.

    huh. pretty cool.

    i have several examples of this. i go back and look at them all and highlight the ocurances. one example from almost 9 moths ago has every single thing highted with the exception of 5 items yet to yeild.

    its a really large note book. so there is around 300 to 400 2 to 3 word sentances. occasionally a 4 and 5 word sentance and some are just one word.

    here is an example:

    Purple post. Dueling Irons. Jubalee. matching socks. eagle flys high. streaming corn. lazy eye. twin turbo vette. 5 right on 5. master cylender. CASH. Yellow Airplane. Star. exit path. rubber neck road head. happy sun flowers. venice! helicopter crash. google blue sceeen of death. pork chop lemozine. I find money. i find money. i find money. white picket fence. smash. smush. smushy smash. Hay guys! crystal mountain tops. one way. birkana. ashley smiles. one stop shop. A.N.D. smooth operator. pot whole.
    merlins plaza. Red Heart. Fondu. Made in Austrailia. power conduit. purple sundress. godzilla! white toyota 4 runner. Milf. Milk Money. tricycle tacos. evergreen. Montana Treasures. Big Scoop in a waffle cone. Harris hits the floor. double ohhh seven. random indian. Big Chicken Sandwich. rainbow swimming goggles. ho ho ho green giant. palm tree. tweet tweet, tweetly tweet. tapastry. Bmw 550 I X drive. birthday cake. Bell Bottoms. dracula twister. buttercup
    landscape connection. WIN. l8r g8r. meriachi music. desert sun. cheese cake Love. ladies black panties. hungry hippo. child care wherehouse. lime green light. bumble bees. lemon drops. horse shoe. crab pot. tuba. Big ol Jet Liner. jump! jump! jump! long hot bath. Hamster turbo wheel. swiming in sage.

    stuff like that. i just clear my mind for an hour or so. push every thought that enters my mind out. and be still. just breath. be present and alive.

    then go write everything untik both pages are filled. I dont even look at or read it. then once im done. close it up and put it away. nobody ever sees it but me.

    then after a while. go back and see. high light everything thats on it that i saw or experianced.

    i did write that. 1964 Lincoln Contenental. huh. okay cool.

    i will take a pic of both news papers i found and post it on X then link it here for the old fart.

    pretty cool.

    hope smokes and faith the size of a seed. pass me the mustard. but the greatest of these….. is Love!

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      • i will have a look today. joe even said wow 1965. that was a long time ago. how cool.

        maybe its a miss print? idk. i will verify it and take a picture.

        like i said. i was driving down an old dirt country road. an ex girlfriend. well kinda a long time girlfriend since we still get together when we are not in relationships once in a while. she says stop the car. lets go have a look. we go in this old run down barn. nobody has been in there for decades as far as the looks of the place. we start messing around. and after i noticed something in the corner. i walked over and looked. 2 news papers in mint condition. just the front sections. pages 1 through 12.

        first one cost a dime. President Kennedy Shot today. with a picture of the Lincoln car and him and jacky on the front page. it clearly says authorities are looking for a possible sniper in connection with the assassination.

        i cant believe id get the date wrong. i swear it read November 22, 1965. Cowboy Joe even said ahh 1965.

        the other cost a nickle and is dated: May 25th, 1951 the test of the nitrogen bomb. there is an article about crossing the 38th paralell and another one about Russian planes flying into korea. The General of the 8th army says, i dont care that we crossed the 38th paralell, the 8th army is unstopable force and we are pushing them reds back.

        it even gives the weather on the front of both news papers.

        honestly I havent seen a news paper in a long time. long time.

        i will take a picture of it and post it on X and link it here.

        maybe its a miss print. idk.

        pretty weird finding them in an old barn out on some dusty dirt country road. the papers are yellow ish. so they look old but they are in mint condition.

        maybe its evidence of time travel? lol. the guy at the antique shop in snohomish said he would give me $20 each. i said nah. im going to frame them and hang them on the wall.

        i could be wrong about the date. but joe and the fella at the antique place both said 1965 out loud. and i read it. that is what it says.

        maybe you are a time traveler??? and your mixed up?

        hahaha. could be.

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      • The Lord of Hosts did say to me a few months back that neither time, nor gravity, nor element and a bunch of other stuf would stop HIS perfect Will for me.

        like i said. i will have a look and take a picture. maybe im wrong about the date. and it could be a miss print. idk.

        more importantly, why did i find these old news papers that have been sitting there in that old barn for God knows how long. now.

        because its a reooccurance? idk. pretty wild they were sitting there. as the saying goes. fuck around and find out.

        we fucked around and then i found them old news papers. one about a presidential asassination and one for a nitogen bomb.
        laying together in a old barn nobody has been in, in very long time. with the exception the papers turned yellow, they look as good as they did coming off the press they day they were printed.

        i seen 5 year old coupon flyers that turned the paper pages that same yellow that didnt look like they came off the press that day.

        i will take a pic and post it.

        now i gotta get busy. hit the gym, the library and see about a lady.

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    • Oh who knew ? thought kaMANala was a IndiMan – ya know red dot on forehead, brightly colored, loose fitting clothes, sandals..SS prolly made her scrub that dot off her forehead so it wouldnt be mistaken for a Laser Dot..pewpew

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  14. i dont do that writing stuff all the time. just on occasion. i do the clear my mind thing almost daily. i just do the writing part once and a while. and sometimes i paint. sometimes i draw pictures after.

    i dont really have a set schedule to when i do it. but i do, do it. with astounding precision. kinda trippy.

    sum stuff is a personal experiance and some i see others doing. and some is just stuff i see.

    the time before i did it. the first thing i highlighted was “Shopping Spree extra van aganza.”

    a month later my roomate had saved some money went on a big shopping spree.

    he came home one day with his entire van filled with stuff.

    brand new airfryer, coffee pot, brand new pots and pans, a new vaccum, ton of groceries, a dog pen, a new 55″ Tv for his room, a new Xbox 1, and a ton of new clothes. a bunch of other stuff.

    i laughed when i went back and read what all i wrote as i highlighted it.

    haha.

    okay cool. see ya around.

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  15. the pro abortion, anti wall, Pope should invite some illegal immigrants to stay in his house. it looks like he has a few extra rooms , behind his ‘walls are immoral’ 20 ‘ wall around his country.

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    • You beat me to the post. I was going to suggest a million. I’m sure Vatican City could handle it, and they damn’ well can afford it, so why not? C’mon Francie, put the Pontiff’s gold where your mouth is…

      (In case you can’t tell, I don’t like the Pope, because he is a communist oneworlder who has led about a billion Catholic lemmings down the path to Perdition. The smart, or at least intellectually-honest Catholics have sat on the sidelines and waited for the next smoke. The vast majority follow this jerk blindly, which both offends me and pisses me off, even though I’m not Catholic…)

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  16. Pope Francis says keeping illegal migrants out is a sin…maybe he should house some radical Muslims in his room. That would end badly for him,… or well for us.

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    • There are many reasons I repudiated catholicism at age 13. This is just one more nail in that coffin.

      People do have an innate sense of morality unless it’s been denied or stunted in some way. There’s no need for an intermediary to dictate right and wrong. Anyone that preaches such things is automatically suspect. Certainly people can teach their own understandings, and that’s sometimes helpful. IMHO, we each need to find our God in our own way and seek our own path. Some people do better in groups, though not all. I’ve personally never enjoyed the rituals of church, though obviously some do.

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  17. “And if not Gomorrah? We’re all going to Pine Bluff, AR”
    So sad. George we are seeing the geography of nowhere {America} metatisizing.

    https://kunstler.com/books/the-geography-of-nowhere/

    I couldnt get throught this book when I first read it. Had to put it down and revise my urabn survival strategy. I’m grateful to have Kunstler and You Sir as early warning resources.

    GotBlockchain?

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  18. ya know George i ran into this half hopi half filipeno fella a few months back. driving a right side driver, Honda Odyssey. youger fella with his finger nails painted turquoise. i had never seen a right side driver Honda before.

    we were chit chatting at the beach. and i told him about going to new mexico for BP training. he said i was just there for a year. he said its a beautiful place. he said when you get down there, if its in the winter time, go out there near where they tested them nuke bombs. he said in the winter the sky looks like its fluid water at night. like the stars are dancing on the waves of a big black ocean of water. you see the silouettes of shadows of giant whales floating accross the sky. if ya have a keen eye. i said im from Kenia. alaska! he laughed and said perfect. you will see what im talking about.

    he said i never seen anything like it.

    i said idk if im going to go. part of me says yes. the other part says stay put. and every night before i go to bed i hear, a whisper.. “rest…. you are not going to be here much longer. one more short leep of faith and your in the promis land. you’ll breath easy in garden of eden. ”

    i dont know what that means. but i hear it as im falling asleep almost every night.

    i only hear it at home. i didnt hear it on my walk about.

    i dont really wanna travel anymore unless its to a nice tropical resort, with big tiddie blondes in tight little pink thongs. hahaha.

    a note: the night before i found the news papers. i saw that new alien movie at the imax with a lady friend. they showed the advertisement tailer for the new movie “The Crow” staring some young yahoo.

    i turjed to my lady friend and said wow, hollywood cant come up with anything new anymore. its just extenstions and remakes anymore. i said nobody is going to watch that Crow remake. she said why.

    i said Because the last one was epic. Brandon Lee who stared in it got shot in set and died. just like his Dad Bruce did in one of his movies. the fact that they did a remake of a movie that The Actor got shot qnd died just shows ya how low class hollywood has become now. not a single original thought anymore out of Hollywood. nobody left there with any imagination anymore.

    she said Brandon Lee, Bruce Lees son was shot in the filming of The Crow. i said yep. he died just like his dad did, got shot making a movie.

    the next day i found them news papers. about a day after i found them news papers, i thought i wonder if its a remake? like The Crow. like Bruce Lee and Brandon Lee. it is my understanding that Brandon Lee was shot in an action seen where the prop gun was accidently loaded with a single live round.

    are the old news papers similar in remakes? a production. i dont know.

    anyway, i got get. i bitches blowing up my beeper, yo! time to get jiggy wit it.

    the world waits for nobody.

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  19. The CEO of Intel has been “asked” [ no subpoena ] to appear before a Congressional hearing., to be asked why Intel is about to lay off 12,000 employees. [Reportedly.]

    I do not understand how Intel has fallen so far. Rather amazing to me.
    – Last December Intel breached 50 $ a share., and it’s been down-hill ever since. On August 2nd the shares dropped from $30 to $20 a share – in one day. Trading this morning at $20.27 a share. [ 19 trading days and no recovery.] In 2021 Intel shares were trading at $68 a share. A 70% loss.
    – From the number one chip manufacturer in the world., for decades – to “Avoid at all costs.”
    – I don’t think they “missed the boat” – I think they got one the wrong one!
    – Time for a share-holders revolt ?
    – ……., wow !

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      • I was looking at the same thing., for the same reason. Made a few notes in my ‘Trade Journal’.
        IBM just signed a deal with Intel for their new highspeed server chip. So, they aren’t completely out of the market – just really lagging behind.

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    • Intel is in a world of hurt. Only thing making money for them is their design division. The foundry division is at best “Break Even”. Positive Cash flow is nonexistent which is why they just cut their dividend to ZERO.

      Their current generation of their biggest selling chip is alleged to have a serious flaw in it … and is not consistent in the results it generates as a result (2+2 can be 4 at times, other times maybe 7 or 9 or 3). To top it off it also reportedly starts getting more and more computational flaws in it if it gets physically hot which then damages the chip internally (but the “hot” is within the temp parameters that are supposed to be OK for the chip).

      Intel has put out a “software fix” … but again it is hit or miss as to correcting the original issue. If the additional computational flaw have cropped up because of heat Intel has NO fix for that.

      So far Intel will NOT reimburse anybody any money for their flawed chip and will NOT replace ones that have a proven history of generating bad processing outcomes. The reports I read is that Intel says their NEW generation of chips will be coming out late next spring, but until then they continue to sell the chip that is flawed (probably since they need the cash flow)

      SO … the markets are now saying Intel is going to split into two companies. The design division which is making money and the foundry division (which actually makes chips) which is at best breaking even (but most analysists think is losing money).

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  20. After a lot of scattered power outages around the island from Hurricane HONE passing, I notice yesterday our power was excessively ‘noisey’. I know this because the big Astron linear 50amp supply that runs my ham radio was having a drumming festival as the transformer was doing the ‘thunk, thunk-thunk… thunk’ thing with the power dips. Most switching supplies will deal with these noisey dropouts, but not the transformer. Sounded like tree branches hitting power wires somewhere in the system and arcing.

    So to confirm the noise, this morning my bathroom digital clock was 40 minutes AHEAD of real time. It’s one of those cheap digital plug-ins that keeps time from the 60 Hz power line for a timing standard. So all that extra pulsing from noisy power lines in the past 24 hours goosed it up a full 40 minutes!! That would be 40×60=2400 extra ‘hash pulses’ since yesterday. Something definitely arcing. Never seen that before.

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  21. Market has closed
    “Carnac the Magnificent” is up a little over 24 points – just over 600 points from a new high – Nasdaq really turned around in the afternoon and slowly dropped all day.
    Far cry from the tens of billions ready to flood into the market yesterday.

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  23. George, I got this from my son a couple hours ago. He told me I could share, so share I will (and take of it what you may…)

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    I went long last night after NVDA sank the market — took profit right about the time Trump made news that he was going to have a crypto announcement

    I assumed it would be after hours, so i waited until close and reentered long for 3k less than I sold this morning. Now I’m just waiting on Trump

    That dump, from 61.2k to 57.6k — occurred when binance froze all Palestinian assets, at the request of Israel. Now that’s gotten buried in the news under NVDA earnings hype, but personally I think it’s the most important news this year. — a country, managed to sway the CEO of an exchange, to freeze another countries crypto assets. And no one is talking about it because if they can do that, then what’s to stop Russia from freezing all American assets. — all they gotta do is get the right leverage on the right CEO of a crypto exchange, and it’ll all crash like dominoes.

    But again. They are burying that to keep retail bullish. So for now I follow the money, but I’m fully aware that the strings are unraveling for crypto. — and now you have something to talk to George about

    Btw, not sure Harris is gonna have a chance to get elected if she pushes that 44% unrealized gains tax. Never seen so much hate speech on a presidential nominee

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    • Strings UNraveling for crypto ?????

      on the contrary Raymondo, the “strings are tightening”. This all started before US confiscated Russian assets – the first crack in Western Financial dollar regime. See fibbies stealing BTC from the silk road community.

      All contracts, derivatives and such are now considered WORTHLESS to BRICS nations. There is no “there” there anymore. Trust has VANISHED – Cold HARD Assets – Verified & accounted/assayed for is only thing of Value left in this mess.

      As for stupid “Shitz” that dont understand POSSESSION is 9/10ths of the LAW, they ignored warnings regards Self Custody and Hard Wallets, deserve what happened to their scheisse, as Binance went just went “woke”. Betcha cant guess what comes next for those geniuses..

      In the final analysis, it does not matter anymore, the dam has been breached, and the Overflow is just increasing with time..majority will be drowning, being too stupid to move or get out of the way.

      ..like Russia – peeps in the west are completely deceived by Pooteens apparent calmness. They should take note near Kursk a regiment of the second line held out against the ELITE Forces of the ukraine and the west.
      Imagine what the most combat ready unit of the Russian army , which are currently busy ripping through nato constructed defenses at Pokrovsk and Toesk, will do to you.
      The west while applauding zelensky, fail to appreciate the cold resolute fury which the “kursk adventure” has generated in the hearts of Russian soldiers. This attack has too many associations and historical parallels. And Russia reaction to it will be terrible.* like the attacks by Hitler,Napoleon or Khan Batu.
      The kursk adventure will always serve to remind the Russia people the west is dangerous, merciless and fight like rats when cornered.

      Bang,Bang, Bang/ Feuer Frei!! https://youtu.be/ZkW-K5RQdzo?si=5M5UrfA6geVusG82

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      • “It’s all a Ponzi!” – Ure
        “Unraveling” – BCN

        Hell yeah, no bitcoin for me! How many years from 2009 to be right? But here we are – getting right. Again.

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        • FUREther Details.

          I think BTC and others will survive in some fashion – they are all spins of S&H green stamps of the previous Depression.

          But our view continues that while BTC may have some “collectible alue” (like NFTs) it will die as a transactional currency replacement because when emp comes, btc goes if you follow. If you have btcs and no solar p[anel, inverters and a list of people equipped to trade after we god dark…who are you kidding?
          By food growing tools has it will have some residual value. OK and a case or 10 of 9 mm…

  24. Long story short I’ve got a pal who keeps rattling about the dot. He thinks something bigger than July is in the pipe. Shrugging shoulders.

    This is a real time data analysis of the Global Consciousness Project.

    https://gcpdot.com/

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  25. About three weeks ago three high school senior girls got on the train in Seattle heading for the downtown area, where they were going to spend the night together at one of the girl’s house.
    When they got off the train they were immediately accosted and attacked by a seven year old boy swinging a hatchet. Screaming, demanding their phones and purses.
    The police, after looking at the security video, agree the assailant does look 6, or 7 years old.
    The police still have not identified, nor arrested anyone.
    Armed robbery with a hatchet. Was that on your ‘to-do list’ at seven years old?
    …, damn !

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  26. re: Aurora
    feat: goddess of the dawn

    Folks,

    Tuesday morning an East Texas newsletter writer had the blues in a headlined “Twilight of Normalcy”. Yesterday the President of Ukraine issued his evening address to the world following an early Wednesday morning (precision?) Russian missile strike on a hotel in the President’s hometown of Kryvih Rih. ‘This terror must never become some kind of new alleged “normalcy” for Europe’, he said. Msm appears rather reticent to name the impacted hotel as done by London’s right wing “Express”. Here is a link from the Aurora Hotel, Kryvri Rih, explaining that the accomodation’s work has stopped due to destroyed infrastructure.

    https://optimahotels.com.ua/en/news/avrora-stop/

    Public information reflects that the Aurora’s parent Optima Hotels has offices in Kyiv. It in turn is subsidiary to a German ceo-managed hotel group headquartered in Odesa. The Odesa entity answers to a holding company in Berlin, Germany. The holding company has a Western veneer. Curiously though what could appear to be on Wikipedia as a Moscow headquartered hotelier oversight of the Berlin holdings is seemingly Russia’s 60th richest person as of 2020?

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  27. re: “Car Tab”

    Folks,
    This is a crazy thought. But, in Ukrainian could “car tab” loosely translate as “designate the Tsar/King” ?

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  29. Nicole Shanahan

    @NicoleShanahan
    I’ll admit I used to kind of roll my eyes when people claimed that President Trump was being “persecuted.” I was looking at it through the distorted filter of the media. Well, I just completed my first cross-examination in our second New York Ballot Access case, where the DNC-aligned PAC attorneys questioned me like a criminal. OK, I get it now. Our justice system is clearly being co-opted and abused by nefarious people with malevolent political agendas.

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