Secrets Behind Crisis, Inflation Jits Return, Ure Present?

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I’m only going to give you a tiny insight because after working all day Monday on a great Peoplenomics report, events have eclipsed.  This as Syria is likely to continue into bloody collapse and (un) civil war.

The importance of this is largely underplayed in the Mainstream media.  But we’ll get into  that in tomorrow’s report.

For now, just a tiny snip from one of our “situational experts” on topic. Because we see a very “Kissinger-like scenario ahead.”  You’ll remember Kissinger flogged the “dominoes of Southeast Asia” theory back during the ‘Nam war.

What’s different this time is the (captive) ‘Merican media isn’t saying anything about the real play.  Which involves a country of 9 million, dominating the next country north (5.5 million) and with the fall of Syria’s (23 million) we think the obviousness should be clear.  If not, a check of the U.S.G.S. reports on energy assets in region should make things abundantly.

Because when you study the  Map of Levant Basin Province, Eastern Mediterranean | U.S. Geological Survey and understand what’s at play, go a little “Kissinger” maybe, things will become clear.  As our (incredibly well-informed) subject matter expert advises:

“”Syria” as a nation state does seem to be pretty much done. And so closes yet another chapter of WWI. I can really see France and the UK forming a military alliance minus the rest of NATO. They are the only two European nuclear powers. Ankara is going to wake up some morning and discover that the US has pulled its nukes from Turkish soil, and is prepared to bid it adieu as a NATO nation.”

But there are knock-ons to all this which are about to impact the future of the Ure family directly.  Oh, and if you trade crypto, might effect your plans of empire, as well.  But, like I said, more on that tomorrow.

The Daily Gearing

NFIB report is just out and you talk about giggles and grins? From their website:

“The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index rose by eight points in November to 101.7, after 34 months of remaining below the 50-year average of 98. This is the highest reading since June 2021. Of the 10 Optimism Index components, nine increased, none decreased, and one was unchanged. Following last month’s record high of 110, the Uncertainty Index declined 12 points in November to 98.”

Also impacting today will be Productivity and Costs from Labor:

“Productivity increased 2.2 percent in the nonfarm business sector in the third quarter of 2024; unit labor costs increased 0.8 percent (seasonally adjusted annual rates). In manufacturing, productivity increased 0.9 percent and unit labor costs increased 1.7 percent.”

Although BTC was down into the $97,000 range, the hype is as shrill as ever as we noticed.  Still, here’s one to ponder: Google’s Willow Quantum Chip: Will It Crack Bitcoin’s Security Wide Open?

The State of Canada

I’ve been mentioning, several times a year in fact, over the past 25-years of web-squatting here, that the U.S. could solve most of its problems by simply turning both Mexico and Canada into additional American States.

Refreshingly, care to guess who else “gets it” as the answer?

Meantime, one of our highly anticipated Christmas gifts from the (wasted) north is delayed.  A dear reader who sends us gourmet maple syrup (yes, there is such a thing) explains why:

“Canadian post office has been shut down for 3 weeks and no settlement in sight. The union loves doing this at Christmas time to ruin some more Canadian businesses. Need a leader with balls like Trump or Reagan (control tower strike) to save this country.”

We’re just getting started on the demdamn cleanup mess down here, and Labor is set to disrupt things with a longshore strike due to pop on January 15th.  Which – five days before the Go of Slow Joe – isn’t likely to concern the crooked Opposition to the Constitutional Republic.

Way things are going, the feral cats that we feed around are likely to find a law firm and become a “protected class.”  A great deal of “biting the hand that feeds you” seems to be going around.  They’ve been reduced to dry kibble only – no more wet food.  Ure’s only have patience with laziness for just so long…  World’s their oyster and they need to learn to shuck mice, if that makes sense.  (And not trip me at the BBQ!)  Where were we? Oh yeah…

Scrolling Madness

Two items from the Crime Stoppers Newsbook:  Suspect in NYC slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO charged with murder – UPI.com and Hours After Withering Grassley Letter, FBI Director to Resign: Report.

We don’t agree with the value judgment in this headline: Merrick Garland Is The Worst Attorney General In U.S. History. Being optimists, we think “Best Political Witch Hunter” would have put a better spin on things.  But seriously?  Locking up people for exercising free speech and right to Assemble?

It’s all in his head: Brazil’s President Lula undergoes emergency brain surgery. Age related? He’s 79.

Clip this and send it to the kids: 53 Gut-Wrenching Stories About People Ruining Their Lives Forever Because Of One Bad Decision.

Golf to Swing Both Ways?  New LPGA Policy Lets Men Compete As Women If They Look Girly. Next thing you know, Titleist will become Tittiest as the rational world recedes into the rearview.

Speaking of which: University System of Georgia’s board cracked down on DEI. Will universities comply? Depends on how many Marxists, climate alarmists, and historical revisionists we need, doesn’t it?

Fault-Tolerant Computing – something I was involved with peripherally back in the early 80’s – might finally catch a break as New quantum computing milestone smashes entanglement world record | Live Science.

And today’s health note: Eating breakfast later lowers blood sugar spikes in type 2 diabetes patients. Which sounds to us like a variant of Intermittent Fasting, but nope, this is not medical advice. Though we’re huge fans of berberines…

At the Ranch: Ure’s Present

Busy work for “the old man” in the Outback, today.  There’s a Prime Rib run to town (buy one, freeze one) as Elaine’s youngest son will be visiting this weekend.  Garbage day, too.  But likely to delay that just a wee bit because I’m trying to sort out a surveillance camera issue (solar panel output) on one of the street-facing cams.

But then comes the fun part.  What do I really want for Christmas? Lots of options on the Brisqi* board to consider.

  • The purchase of an Icom 7300 keeps coming up.  With 20-some HF stations (I know, ridiculous, right?) why another?  Other than the newer technology…um…long discussion which would bore anyone but a senior RF engineer to death.
  • More hydroponic units.  We will be feasting on my hydroponic Romaine (with the aforementioned prime) this weekend.  Thing is, I don’t want to overbuild too much…
  • More solar panels.  I’ve got my eye on another 10 panels because the last rack of “original” panels (170-180 watts in 2008 when I did the original design-build) are derated now to only about 90-watts per panel.  New 365-watt panels would have a payback period of less than a year because the BOS (balance of system components, things like inverters and charge controllers) are already in place.
  • The Caboose Project.  This is one that has been floating around in the back of my head for a while.  The idea is to build an imitation of an old Great Northern caboose and install it as a useful room (with ladders and elevated windows) between the house and the shop.
  • New guest quarters.  Since the original build of the guest room was only designed for a 15-year service life (now past) the floor in a few places has become squishy and the roof repairs have not done well.  So a complete redesign seems in order.  But a lot of that will depend on whether son G2 returns to the homestead.
  • And a Meta Quest headset may be out there in my future now that Mixed Reality Link app that connects Windows 11 to your Meta Quest is now available. Five Benjamin’s for the headgear, but the prospect of no more monitor is intriguing. (Why, I could gate lost inside my own novel…now that’d be progress, huh?  A.G. wanna try it and let me know?)

More than anything, though, what I need more of it TIME.  Haven’t found it listed on Amazon, however.

This may be the “season to be jolly” for some. But making rational decisions about future at 75 is a lot more difficult than, oh, 20-years ago when Future used to seem a lot bigger than it does now.

As a reader, if you have any suggestions as to what you think could dramatically improve my life, please drop them in as a comment.

(*A “Brisqi board” is essentially a type of Kanban board, a project management tool used to visualize work items and track their progress through different stages of a workflow, often with columns labeled “To Do,” “In Progress,” and “Done,” where tasks are represented by cards that are moved across the board as they progress. Details at Brisqi.com and say hi to Ash, the company founder for me.)

Wait!  When I wheel the big garbage can out to the street in a few minutes, is that White trash activity?

Write when you get rich,

George@Ue.net

69 thoughts on “Secrets Behind Crisis, Inflation Jits Return, Ure Present?”

  1. “This as Syria is likely to continue into bloody collapse and (un) civil war.”

    G.A. STEWART: The fall of Syria is not a good thing. It is a major sign on my Nostradamus Timeline that I first explained in detail in my 2013 book, Nostradamus and The Age of Desolation. Most of this post I constructed from various quotes from all of my books. It is clear to see that we have reached that point. The only thing left is for people to identify the characters in the prophecies.

    https://theageofdesolation.com/nostradamus/2024/12/09/uh-oh/

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  2. “Wait! When I wheel the big garbage can out to the street in a few minutes, is that White trash activity?”-GU

    No, it will mean that there is a BEAR in Ure garbage..which is better than having a BLM president in Ure garbage..trust me on that one..

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  3. “As a reader, if you have any suggestions as to what you think could dramatically improve my life, please drop them in as a comment.”

    This wine might improve your life.

    OTreval Extra Brut ‘Rive di Guia’ is a perfect synthesis of pleasantness and balance, La Tordera’s first Zero Sugar Valdobbiadene, produced with only the best Glera grapes.

    This wine contains no sugar at the end of its processing, dry, complex in aroma and rich in structure, with a fine, constant and persistent perlage.

    https://latordera.it/en/products/otreval-rive-di-guia-extra-brut/

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  4. I have spent the last week watching various news videos on Syria. In all the “post game analyses” about the rapid fall of the regime the main reason soldiers abandoned their posts and equipment seems to have been overlooked or even dismissed. It comes down to a single weapons system: The A10 Thunderbolt and social media. Basically if you are operating any Soviet hardware and you see one of those planes, it will be the last thing you will ever see.

    It is rumoured that the Air Force has wanted to scrap the plane since the eighties, presumably because it is their most effective weapon. But so far it has been used very effectively in the following conflicts: Desert Storm, 2003 Iraq, Bosnia, Syria and possibly Libya.

    If you cast your mind back to a week and a half ago the Syrian army was fighting in Aleppo. They were not surrendering or running. Then the A10 entered the conflict. After that social media would have spread that news like wildfire in dry grass. It’s no wonder the Syrian army fled. Anyway that’s my view on the stunning collapse of Syria.

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  5. Turkey and NATO… Been there already…

    Nostradamus and The Third Age of Mars, The Complete Prophecies of World War III, G. A. Stewart, 2019, Page 599
    “The False whirlwind [Trump] concealing folly”, “Makes Byzantium (Turkey) change its laws”. This may be Turkey’s withdrawal from NATO.

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  6. You know George, Tom T Hal said in his song The Cowboy Poet, the mysteries of life are “Faster horses, Younger women, Older whiskey, More money”. I’ve personally checked the younger women and older whiskey. The faster horses and more money will likely remain beyond my reach but I’ll keep trying.
    Off to negotiate with a new neighbor about buying an old windmill he has on his property. Then maybe I can put up an antenna and get the ham gear set back up.
    Stay safe. 73

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      • I had them all over the old ranch. The nearest tree to the house here is 40 yards. This idea may be quashed already though. Diana has already said you are NOT putting that ugly rusty thing next to the house and while you’re at it please move those corral things and that cow holder thing (squeeze chute) with poop all over it from in front of the barn.

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        • Remember Rule 1…….. Happy wife happy life..
          I think I’d keep it away from the bouse…

  7. “surveillance camera”

    Recall the olden days before mass adaptation of cameras. Chupacabras ran wild. Crop circles. Space aliens. Livestock mutilations. Etc.

    “dramatically improve my life”

    Mass adaptation of domestic robots is coming. Beat the rush. Buy one now then use it to run a hoax on the locals. Camouflage the robot(s) up and make people believe.

    Later after you’ve mastered programming the robot for mischief reprogram it to perform chores freeing up your time.

    https://www.unitree.com/g1

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  8. Looking out of the box put a cool popcorn/pop rice gadget in comments awhile back. Make your own Carmel corn or puffed rice for breakfast. Very entertaining gadget.

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    • The canon lol lol lol… it is pretty cool..
      we were talking about it and one friend was talking about how her husband opened the pressure cooker before the pressure was all the way down..stew all over the ceiling lol

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        • Lol lol lol lol nope..he was in a hurry.. his wife said he scared her half to death lol…I took the pressure gage off mine temporarily.. I seen a video of a street vender that put a t fitting on the back. A relief valve on one side and the pressure gage on the other.. sounded like a great idea.. so that’s what I am going to put on it.. more control and less boom.. he had to repaint the ceiling lol.. now I love my pressure cooker.. I cannot see someone doing that..way to dangerous..when I drove truck..it had split ring rims..one time I had a flat the guy coming to fix it..no cage or no chains..jumping on that..I turned to walk away..he said where you going..somewhere where I won’t have to watch that take your head off.. A year later I was at their shop..the shop boss made him cage the tires up.. at ten pounds of pressure a small piece of the spit ring broke off..like a bullet it shot through the wall.. now that guy got scared had to scrape his shorts out..now when he changes tires..there’s about six chains around them and in the cage..
          the corn cannon is like that..pop it open at 10 lbs that scares the hell out of you..you pop it into a big sock..I am going to have the grandson.make a cage..
          so by putting the relief valve you could pop it at 1 pound and still get it cleared out..
          This is a small one like the one I sent G and gave to my grandkids lol..
          https://youtu.be/9j0JiVLOYoo?si=OCSkb1WfADM7GxFH
          now this one is like the one I have..he has the release valve on the back..
          https://youtu.be/2g_BSC4ikPY?si=GhZVndbLH4PzvY0g
          mine is hand crank.. my grandson came home a few years ago and said explain to her how puffed rice cereal is made.. she didn’t have a clue..lol lol …
          the cheese curls is fun..
          https://youtube.com/shorts/BczXdbEAdV4?si=OlfS-0U_mneur0V-
          that is the same extruder that I have..works similar to hand oil expeller..pretty cool stuff to play with.. and imagine how much a half cup of corn meal will make.. any flavors ..

  9. It’s all in his head: Brazil’s President Lula undergoes emergency brain surgery. Age related? He’s 79.

    he fell and hit his head a few months ago…related to that

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  10. With regards to the caboose, why not just purchase a surplus caboose from one of the rail companies and have it installed on a short section of track? I have traveled over Blewitt Pass for decades and a guy next to the highway has a set-up just like that. I believe it’s still there?

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      • Caboose?

        My Great Dad, Dad’s Dad, was an engineer when the New York Central was big time. Elkhart, IN was (is) a major switching yard. Have you ever actually been in a caboose matey? I’ve been in plenty. Lots are rolling wrecks and quaint but … rough living.

        Building a clone? Sounds like a great way to double the work required. Here’s a life changing concept: Build.Simple. Then enjoy fruits of labor and, write something? Or, get rich. One or the other.

        Both would be too much to ax for.
        Stay warm alles,
        Egor

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        • Art should be simple, so too housing. but not so simple the art’s not there. We like complicated. I married a blonde and flew single engine transcons. Simple is boring shit. Gotta roll high-speed now and then…

        • -picked up a Railroad Bell at auction bout 3 years ago, in previous life it lived in a Caboose.

          The thing has its own stand-massive, iron knocker/ringer and is 100% Nickle. It has a sweet ring/resonance to it, that can be heard clear across the Placencia Lagoon.

          Rarely does it ring, though many have tried, and are still trying.
          You have to throw a frozen shot glass – ice – about 30 yards across the pool, up into an old Oak tree to get it to ring out those sweet Nickel tones.
          ..AFTER you toss back Ure shot of spirits.. usually Rum or Teakillya, as whiskey is way too expensive for pleasure drinking in British Houduras..

        • Friend of mine bought an old Soo line wooden frame caboose. Had to be put at the back of the train due to wooden underframe. It could not haul cars behind it. He had to pay to have it hauled to a storage siding on a branch line 30 miles out of town. He planned to make a cabin out of it, but never got around to it. Paid RR storage fees for years before finally selling it to some other sucker.

          The good news about building your own is that you can make it the way you want, not the way the RR made them and then modify it. Cabooses (cabeese?) were not exactly luxury comfort travel for the conductors.

        • (“Simple is boring shit. Gotta roll high-speed now and then…”)

          lol lol lol lol my wife was picking up dog hair fang 1 sheds…..she was staring at it and I asked..I know what you mean..want me to run out to the garage and bring in the spinning wheel to make that nice sweater..lol lol lol she started to chuckle then said as she gave me the look… you know your not as funny as you think.. how about some holiday pillows perfect stuffing lol lol..

          her mother and she use to do bobbin lace..

          https://youtube.com/shorts/d7N4_PXEk8I?si=sDrTrDd62xROrFuM

          the woman doing the lace in the video is a tally someone my mother knows taught.. the group has several videos up.. one reason why if I find an old lace dresser or table cover at a good will I will buy it..that was a special gift that took a long time to make..

  11. “ … making rational decisions about future at 75 is a lot more difficult than, oh, 20-years ago …”

    If that’s what you Believe, then that’s what’s gonna happen. We’re all self-fulfilling prophecies in the making and, it all comes down to what you believe to be true.

    The universal filmstrip flashes at billions of times per second and there are little gaps in between frames. Clif taught me that.
    Bashar taught me this: You can change things about yourself at any given moment. Just change that core belief, -believe you are able to think as you did 20 years ago. Give that realization about 15 minutes of thought, then let it go and let your higher self do its magic.

    Your experience doesn’t have to be what other people claim a particular experience is. Our society programs us to be negative, and tells us we can’t do many things but the truth is, if you believe you can, you most likely will.

    Stay positive … always.

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  12. (“And a Meta Quest headset may be out there in my future now that Mixed Reality Link app that connects Windows 11 to your Meta Quest is now available. Five Benjamin’s for the headgear, “)

    in a way I have to thank Microsoft.. I use Microsoft money checking account program..
    they decided they wanted more..so they rent it for what twenty bucks a month a d took out the download ledger option..I tried another one but it has issues to .. and when quicken took over control of everyone’s banking in another country.. I quit using it.. it forgot how to count and the bank and quicken statement was always a couple dollars off..now I don’t know but if you have almost a billion people anyway..the only use I had for a computer was that money ledger program.. so the computer dies.. we won’t replace it.. the value of having it has left the building..I won’t upgrade ever again and won’t be needing any more gear.. that brings up internet services..well I have prime and Disney plus so I will keep that..

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  13. MARTIN ARMSTRONG: I have previously warned that Turkey has the largest army in the Middle East, and Erdogan praised the Hamas attack because he dreams of resurrecting the Ottoman Empire and he sees himself as the leader. They are mortal enemies of Greece and that goes back to the fall of the Byzantine Empire. Turkey has funded these rebels, and that became possible only because Israel destroyed Hezbollah. On the one hand, you have the US cheering Al-Qaeda all because the Neocons have been trying for years to overthrow all three dictators they created in Syria, Iraq, and Libya. Now, they can get the pipeline from Qutar to cut off Russia’s energy sales to Europe. So this is all about Russia, Russia, Russia. Meanwhile, they are so fixated on conquering Russia that they have ignored the real threat in the Middle East of the resurrection of the Ottoman Empire.

    https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/geopolitical/syria-how-can-the-computer-forecast-decades-in-advance/

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    • AND because the Neocons are so focused on their ETHNIC HATRED of Russia they have totally ignored China’s rise to the top of the heap wrt industrialized countries.

      (Victoria Nuland, her husband Robert Kagan, his brother Frederick Kagan “Heritage Foundation”, her sister in law Kimberly Kagan “Institute for the Study of War” who are among the leading lights of the Neocon movement ALL have a deep seated family hatred of Russia since they think Russia pissed on THEIR Eastern European Ethnic Group before their families moved to the US).

      Russian GDP is 1/13 that of the EU, a good chunk being that of a 3rd world natural resource producer only … but all of their focus is Russia Russia Russia, as if Russia is a true competitor to the US or Europe which they are NOT, because of their (Neocon) ETHNIC HATRED of any and all things Russian.

      China’s about to eat our lunch … but somehow those in DC who are of the Neocon variety can’t get away from their Russia Russia Russia HATE.

      Time for all of those Dual Passport Qualified people to move to where they can move to at the drop of a hat where they can practice their other set of Ethnic Hatreds (Muslim Muslim Muslim).

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      • (“the Neocons are so focused on their ETHNIC HATRED of Russia “)

        I never did understand that…… there are good and bad in every nationality…

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      • “(Victoria Nuland, her husband Robert Kagan, his brother Frederick Kagan “Heritage Foundation…”

        Always check. Freddie Kagan has nothing to do with Heritage. He is with the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). You can add the Vindman twins into this mix, too. AFAIK they have no blood connection with the Kristols, Kagans, or Vichy Nuland, other than they’re ethnic Ukrainians, but there IS something there. They DO seem to all hate Russia, don’t they? Neocons are akin to fascists. Fascism is a competing socialist philosophy to communism. They don’t necessarily disagree that we should all be socialist — they just disagree on the kind of socialists we should be (and who should run the show.)

        Russia is no longer communist or socialist, but Russians still hate NAZIs with a purple passion.

        If you look at the Russia-Ukraine War, it IS principally about a buffer zone for Russia, but it is also about Russia killing a million (or so) State-sponsored fascist (neoNazi) thugs who’re functioning as Ukrainian soldiers. Those thugs are the political (and often blood) kin of the American neocon, and for some reason buried in antiquity, they and Russians simply can NOT coexist.

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  14. 1 package of Knox gelatin
    1/4 cup of water
    1 cup of whole milk
    1/2 cup powdered sugar
    1 tbsp of vanilla
    (4 white chocolate Hershey kisses)

    put the package of Knox in a bowl pour in the water let it bloom mix slightly ..
    warm the milk with the Hershey kisses in it.. this is optional you can add more if you want..put it in the fridge to cool
    place the bloomed gelatin on to heat it up until its all dissolved..
    let set till it is cool pour the milk in it add the sugar and vanilla in it and mix it up..
    place in the fridge for about an hour..
    take it out and whip it up.. milk whipped a whipped cream alternative..you can use instant milk for this to..

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  15. George, do you remember that upper respiratory infection I had back in October. My daughter has had it 3 times since October and it takes about three weeks to fully recover. Pretty much she’s always coughing.My granddaughter seems to have a constant sniffle and an on and off sore throat. The second time i only had a runny nose for a couple of days. This time it’s more like a cold with a bad sore throat but definitely the same bug. I would be healthier if I didn’t hang out with relatives.

    I’m mentioning it because the emergency clinic is always booked. Tests negative for covid, flu, or Strep but highly contagious. It is a real nuisance. It’s like it never truly goes away. A few people have commented on the internet about the bug that never goes away. Just thought I’d update you on this. My vaccinated daughter gets it almost as bad as the first time, every time.

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  16. re: Presents
    feat: Father Frost

    Folks,
    Russian journalist Yumashev caught a soundbite from Moscow visitor Kadyrov in festive spirits at a social gathering concurrent with meeting the Russian prime minister. The bearded and jovial Chechen leader could have been mistaken for Santa Claus save for his jest that the Ukrainian military “have until the end of the year to fight, then it’s up to the Russian military”.

    Mr. Yumashev is described as a son-in-law of the late President Yeltsin, and a past “unpaid advisor” to President Putin.

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  17. “The purchase of an Icom 7300 keeps coming up. With 20-some HF stations (I know, ridiculous, right?) why another? Other than the newer technology…um…long discussion which would bore anyone but a senior RF engineer to death.”

    ROFL! I resemble that remark! The brain seed has been planted, and is growing nicely. You are welcome.

    Well my crowing about having survived a lightning bolt to the antenna mast has come around, retrograde style, to bite me. My IC-910H V/U satellite rig worked fine in the aftermath… for a couple weeks. Then began exhibiting PA shutdown at full power. I kept reducing the output power, and it was fine for awhile… then more glitches. So I checked the lightning arrestors at the base of the mast & ran the antenna analyzer on antenna and lines. All nominal. By now I’m down to minimum power on the rig. Put it on a dummy load and it still fails. Obviously, a static pulse cratered the final PA. RF transistors are actually like 10 transistor dies in parallel in the device. One can crater and it works at reduced power… until another domino falls, and on and on.

    So my beloved IC-910H is toast. I talked to the commander of the ISS on this radio. No longer made or supported by Icom. I had the magnificent good fortune to find an excellent one on eBay. It only cost me a bit more than an IC-7300. BTW, the IC-7300 is fine after the lighting stroke. Still transmitting… so far.

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      • I will reUse the shipping boxes from the new arrival, and the old IC-910H will go on eBay ‘for parts only’. The LCD readouts are contrast-wonky also. Pass it on to somebody more ambitious than me who needs donor parts. The receivers work great!

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  18. Incidently, the ‘new’ IC-910H installation will include an antenna relay to disconnect the RF lines when system is powered down, and put dummy loads on the radio ports. It worked for the HF rig, and I’m not going to push my chances of finding a third IC-910H if I get ‘retrograded’ again.

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  19. Thanks for the link.
    At 80+, I’m very aware that my life clock is nearing midnight. I’m too jealous of my time to consider another expensive toy. The linked novel will probably be my last one. My current project is a biography of my grandparents.
    My grandfather delivered a 1908 Maxwell from Midland, TX to San Francisco in 1909, and then used another one to replace the stagecoach over a 400-mile mail route through West Texas and Eastern New Mexico. In 1911/12, he built and flew the first airplane built in Texas. He went on to become a boilermaker/welder working at the DuPont powder plant in TN, and in the West Texas oil fields for the next 30 years. I am putting the available historical pieces together with bits of artistic license, and I hope to last long enough to finish their story.

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    • God I love stories like that – Clive Cussler’s Isaac Bell series is great for the genre/period if you haven’t yet.
      Oh, yeah – too much time strapped to the keyboard. That’s why I am semi retiring from the public web when 76 shows up…

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      • Between my wasted knees and my failing vision, I’m stuck behind the keyboard most days. Any walking beyond 25 yards is pain city, and the knees can’t be fixed. We have to live the best we can, even with our limitations, and do what’s important to us.

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  20. I would think we only need the Western States of Canada, we can let Macron and France have Quebec and New Brunswick.
    We take all the natural resources and they France take all the Socialists.
    As for Mexico, what do we get in return for that?
    They have oil, and cheap labor which now would be subject to our minimum wage laws, and would all have to pay into out SSI. But I don’t see an advantage other than our LEO now can police the drug business down there.
    We may offer any Canadian provinces a deal.
    The Mexicans government is too crooked and not really in control there, so we give them a “deal they can’t refuse.”

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  21. Trigger Happy? Roy Rogers ain’t around to say…
    5.8 quake in Nevada perhaps triggered by 7.0 off CA coast:
    https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/earthquake-nevada-yerington-19598924.php

    One hopes that there are no reruns of Trump triggering gun violence during his first term:
    https://www.everytown.org/press/shameful-president-trump-ignored-gun-violence-during-tonights-state-of-the-union-speech/
    ‘This State of the Union marked just over three years since President Trump took office. (2019) During Trump’s first year in office, 58 people were killed at a concert in Las Vegas and 25 people, including a pregnant woman, were killed at a church in Texas. During Trump’s second year, 17 people were killed at a school in Parkland Shooting and 12 were killed at a country-western bar in California. And during one weekend in Trump’s third year, 22 people were killed at a Walmart in El Paso and 9 were killed at a bar in Dayton.’

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    • hold on there sour ‘Buttermilk’
      the BLM has come back now that Trump is back, they used the subway vindication as an excuse,
      with your TDS popping out again, blaming shootings that Trump had nothing to do with.
      the fruitcake lefities come out just like you.
      What was Dale Evens horse’s name?

      the violence is the tool of the libtarded left

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    • “C”…I broke my shoelace during Trump’s first term. Normally I would blame global warming. But after reading your most recent gormless, loonie lefty screed…I am now convinced that it was the Bad Orange Man’s fault. C…Your world view and logical, rational thought are simply immiscible.

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    • (“Trigger Happy? Roy Rogers”)

      boy I was a Roy rogers fan when I was little…I wish they would go back to television of that calibre..

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  22. “I’ve been mentioning, several times a year in fact, over the past 25-years of web-squatting here, that the U.S. could solve most of its problems by simply turning both Mexico and Canada into additional American States.”

    Choices had already been thinking about same
    since >75 years ago ;-); Would benefit people,
    but not appreciated by numerous politician.

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  24. “Golf to Swing Both Ways? New LPGA Policy Lets Men Compete As Women If They Look Girly. Next thing you know, Titleist will become Tittiest as the rational world recedes into the rearview.”

    It’s just about time for Mildred Zaharias’ reincarnation to hit the links and encourage the girly-men to feel so worthless they off themselves…

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