Three Things that Matter: Jobs, Markets, Weather

“Oh, dear, what can the matter be?”  Gotta minute?

You may not realize it, but this is a common nursery rhyme (and round) which was drilled into the group socialization process back when many of us “Boomers or sometwhere in there) people were growing up.  Sayeth Wikipedia:

Oh, Dear! What Can the Matter Be?“, also known as “Johnny’s So Long at the Fair” is a traditional nursery rhyme that can be traced back as far as the 1770s in England.[1] There are several variations on its lyrics. It has Roud Number 1279. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes by Iona and Peter Opie traces this song back to an earlier folk ballad, recorded between 1770 and 1780….”

For me, this was a kind of “manager training”: rhyme.  Got me into the habit – early – of looking for little problems before they became BIG problems.

This whole area of “nursery rhymes” and the process of mass acculturation; somethings of a “problem-spotting and learning” reminder.

Probably the darkest of the nursery rhymes – and most people either don’t know, or have forgotten the drive behind is, is the “Ring Around the Rosie” rhyme.  Which is everything BUT happy:

Ring Around the Rosie” – This nursery rhyme originated as a song about the bubonic plague, with the “ring around the rosie” representing the rash that appeared on the skin of those infected and the “ashes, ashes” indicating the funeral pyres that burned the bodies of the dead.”

We are (looking at you, Edward Thorndike and your pal B.F. Skinner) all products of the prevailing Standard Models of our communities. There is so much going on layers deep in operant conditioning, that people seldom take time to notice.  But this is something that “matters.”

Markets Matter

Particularly when – earlier – it appeared in early Futures pricing that we would crash through the bottom of the support channel we have been jumping up and down, screaming about, and pointing at for months now:

More on the Peoplenomics side of the house after we have today’s close under the best but 45-minutes ahead of the jobs data, the S&P was down almost 70 and the Dow was down almost 360.

Some of this is driven by the Japan market wreck overnight: Japanese Stock Market Hits Major Low Amid Shifts | Arabian Post. And then come the PR folks to drop some brand mentions: Japan’s stock rout shows a ‘fundamental shift’ is underway, Goldman Sachs’ equity strategist says – NBC New York.

We would really like to see a major drop early and then a recovery (of sorts) into the close and then the War in the Middle East lights up this weekend.

Oh?  Didn’t get the memo?  I’ve been telling you, watch G.A. Stewart’s site. It’s protected content but his report “Armageddon Arrives, Part 1” is a worthy investment of time to get the contexts right.

What we are waiting for (being the business geek) is the end of payoffs to Egypt from the West.  As we see belied in IMF approval of Egypt’s reforms ‘vote of confidence’ – minister | Amwal Al Ghad. As long as Egypt could be part of a Big Pincers on Israel, the money is likely to keep flowing.

But if getting the dough on the go, does work, there’s always Slo: Joe Biden calls Benjamin Netanyahu, reaffirms commitment to Israel’s security against threats from Iran/

Diplomacy and Analogies Matters

We’re pretty sure that eventually, the West will run out of baubles and trinkets to lay on Egypt, which does have the on/off switch to the Suez Canal as well as one of the bottle caps to Gaza.

What we’re able to make out, through the fog of elections here, is that the US has continued to craft the fine art of diplomatic debacles.

I want you to think about what this story says: US recognizes Venezuela opposition candidate González as presidential election winner – JURIST – News.

Our Key Analogy matters:  How would the world react if – following the widely held and reported by the questionable mainstream press of America 2020 outcome – if the Russians had recognized the “opposition candidate Donald Trump as the presidential election winner in 2020?

Monthly Bi-Polar Job Report Matters

Lies and Damn Lies department as the la-bore department wheels out the establishment data rah-rah while the database entry on Jobs is far more “mattery.”

First goes the hype:

“The unemployment rate rose by 0.2 percentage point to 4.3 percent in July, and the number of unemployed people increased by 352,000 to 7.2 million. These measures are higher than a year earlier, when the jobless rate was 3.5 percent, and the number of unemployed people was 5.9 million.

Usually, we get some job creation hype. But in today’s emphasis on the unemployment rate going up, we see Labor feeding the Fed all kinds of reason to lower rates in mid-September.  But the reality – halfway into the press release is that the jobs picture ain’t bad:

“Total nonfarm payroll employment edged up by 114,000 in July, below the average monthly gain of 215,000 over the prior 12 months. In July, employment continued to trend up in health care, in construction, and in transportation and warehousing, while information lost jobs.

Health care added 55,000 jobs in July, similar to the average monthly gain of 63,000 over the prior 12 months. In July, employment rose in home health care services (+22,000), hospitals (+20,000), and nursing and residential care facilities (+9,000).”

So, while jobs are increasing at a good clip, the real battle is coming over rate cuts and frankly, other than profiteering whiners who want free money, we don’t see a major cut as necessary – yet.

Then there’s the database table – which we’re more inclined to believe in.  (Along with the Easter Bunny…)

Well, sometimes you just run out of rah-rah, huh?

The real story here may be that since the Fed did not roll over and lower rates – there is a possibility on the September agenda that rates won’t be lowered.  What the markets are doing, in all probability, is screaming at the Fed, OK we will let some of the air out of the bubble, but you’ve gotta lower rates in September.

Weather Matters

It’s the weekend (or will be when I get the mowing done) so what could go wrong?  Well, if you live in Florida, here’s a clue.

Which means flight ops at Pensacola (and The Pickle) will probably be IFR and wettish.  The good news is, if you can argue against mowing the (Florida panhandle) lawn for just another day or two, you might be able to use the “things have to dry out before I can mow” excuse well into next week.

Genius, huh?

Personal Matters

First and foremost is the idea that the baby aspirin daily use is being retooled: Aspirin packs powerful punch against colorectal cancer for overweight or unhealthy people (studyfinds.org) (Say, put that mirror down, please.)

Science is giving us some new insights into how the “body electric” works. A bit of background: You know the CNS (central nervous system) and all the other nerves in your body are electrochemical in nature, right?  But until now there wasn’t much focus on the “power source” for the electricity.  Now, there is: Mitochondria-derived vesicles: potential nano-batteries to recharge the cellular powerhouse – PubMed (nih.gov).

One more useful (to us, anyway) health read for you: Development of a machine learning algorithm to predict the residual cognitive reserve index – PubMed (nih.gov). How smart is that?

What Matters Little

Except for the child and family involved: Glamorous female mayor, 42, who suddenly and mysteriously resigned last week has now been charged with CHILD RAPE. Down in DeRidder, Louisiana.

Let’s just make up the laws, shall we? SelwynDuke.com: Party of Weird: Biden’s Bizarre Twist on Title IX Takes Effect Today.  Gee, I only had 10 classes to go for my DBA…could I live free and do that now?

Tell us you aren’t surprised by reading The Vigilant Fox ? on X: “Jesse Watters: We Have Evidence of a Secret Service Cover-Up Ronald Rowe testified that the Secret Service didn’t cut resources from Trump’s detail. Well, it turns out that the same guy “personally directed” Secret Service agents to be CUT. So, he lied. This was revealed by https://t.co/y8GY194xxL” / X . Criminy sakes. Swamp drains are still blocked.

Oh, and this joker is on the War Party: Democrats caught paying homeless to attend Kamala rally. What a scam Dems are. Naw, tell me it ain’t so!

At the Ranch: Wrong Metrics?

I keep promising myself that for my 76th birthday – come February of next year – that I’m going to cut back to a five-day workweek.  Right now, I’m cranking out articles and content 7-days a week.  Four days are UrbanSurvival columns, two are Peoplenomics reports (with a mess of charts) and then there is ShopTalk Sunday.’

As I was pissing away a full hour on a Windows11 update today, watching a “4-Minutes: turn into a full hour, it occurred to me that Win11 was not observing my focus hours (or whatever they call it). There’s no way anything should change on my computer between 3 AM and 3 PM.

This morning’s column, is, therefore, being cranked out in one hour and 10-minutes. All the stuff above is one hour’s worth. 1:20 with proof reading.

Which gets me to the point: Maybe I should just set a clock-limit for the daily columns here and not bother so much on the longer-form, deeper-thinking. Save all that for the Wednesday Peoplenomics  reports.

And maybe cut out ShopTalk Sunday and put those into Peoplenomics? Just thinking out loud here.  Or, alternatively, do only 3-days of Urban, 2 of Peoplenomics, and ditch ShopTalk.

Don’t mean to ramble on this, but very much open to comments and suggestions with the usual caveat that subscriber remarks are “double-weighted”.

Thanks.  Now, off to saddle-up the T-310 (54″ Craftsman rider) and tackle two something acres before the sun hits broil.

Write when you get rich (or can figure out how to retire and still have the antiaging benefits of a “purpose-driven life”)!

George@Ure.net

79 thoughts on “Three Things that Matter: Jobs, Markets, Weather”

  1. Would love to “watch G.A. Stewart’s site. It’s protected content but his report “Armageddon Arrives, Part 1” but I can no longer read it. Have tried 3 different browsers (Safari, Opera, Firefox) and none of them work with the provided password. Bummer. Hope that Stew does survive his upcoming job demise.

    Yes, I knew about Ring Around The Rosy. Learned at a young age.

    Cheers

    • It took me a few tries. “Cut and paste” didn’t work.

      Carefully typing in the whole LONG password as shown did work.

      I use MS Edge.

      • . periods can mess up a copy and paste when a password or tracking number is at the end of a sentence and the eyes over look them .
        I don’t know if that is your problem, just my experience has had that issue before

      • RE: Opening protected articles on the Age of Desolation website

        Just a note to let you know how I open a protected article on Stu’s The Age of Desolation website.

        I have a Lenovo laptop with Windows 11 and use a Brave web browser.

        I carefully type in Stu’s current password in the space provided on the protected article and press Enter.

        After a while I invariably get an error message stating it couldn’t connect because of “too many redirects . . .”

        I then open another browser window and again go to The Age of Desolation website. When I open the protected article I’m given the full text of the article.

        Hope this helps.

      • I have had real problems opening Stu’s site too … sometimes it opens, usually it doesn’t. Come back a day later and it opens on a first try.

        Use Chrome most of the time, but when I switch to Edge I don’t have any better luck.

        I don’t have problems with other password protected sites so not sure what is happening with Stu’s site.

        The ONLY thing that seems to help a bit is I completely delete everything in my cache, then it will tend to open 1 out of 4 times, versus 1 out 8 to none.

    • Deleat cookie may help ….you need to read it if possible. VERY GOOD article! One of his Best work but they all are very insightful well researched and backed by facts! His record stands on its own merits as being right. Bunker time is here. As in the Book Tale of Two Cities “it was the Best of times and the Worst of times”. Thank you Stu for what you do I’ve enjoyed reading and buying your books since 2010. And many thanks to George for his urban Survival web site which I go to first thing every morning to read.

    • I do not understand what the problems is:
      1) Are you using the last password on page 3,187? That is from the 2023 book.
      2) Are you using a VPN? It will not work.
      3) Do you click resend when you see the box?
      4) Have you tried going to the site on another device?
      5) I just changed the password three weeks ago. Are you using the new password for newer posts?
      6) Try older posts with the passwords listed on page 3,187 with the dates for the applicable posts.
      7) Have you cleaned cache and cookies?

      Everyone that is having a problem please contact me. I will work with you individually.

      I have spent hundred of dollars having my hosting company have their WordPress experts look into this, and they have found nothing wrong.

      Try the password on someone else’s device.

      I do not have any problems with the passwords, and I use several browsers.

      I have even given strangers the password and watch them type it into their computers. It works every time.

      So, contact me and I will see what I can do. Thanks for you patience.

      • Yes.. I have tried everything.. it just won’t open..It use to open until Microsoft did the update a while back.. not anymore.. Msn wouldn’t open but I could open it with chrome or fox not it doesn’t make any difference which I use.. its froze.. would love to get the updates but they have to be open to the general public everything. ( except for some of the older content.) is frozen

  2. I like (and learn from) Shop Talk. Much of the useful comment comes from the Peanut Gallery, however. So, rather than discontinue, maybe ligh it up with a paragraph, and then just provide handles & hooks for the rest of us to write the Sunday column.

    • I double second this idea! STS is quite valuable to everyone and while it could be justified as a subscriber benefit, comments from non-subscribers can often be useful in trying to work through some challenging obstacle to a project.

      I find it refreshing and look forward to it. Write as much or as little as Ure in the mood to and let the rest of us flesh it out!

  3. “most people either don’t know, or have forgotten the drive behind”

    Nursery Rhymes.. I believe Nursery rhymes is similar to the Talmud and the old testament Or torah..as evil as those books are in how people are to be treated.. IMHO.. the rhymes were written and told to every child to teach them how NOT to make the same mistakes but to live like our heavenly father wanted us to live.. do unto others…. I don’t believe any of them were actually meant to be fun stories.. similar to the legends and childrens stories … I believe the reason was to make it simple enough and to say it enough that it becomes so well known that in real life scenarios..children would know to avoid the big bad wolf.. etc..
    I haven’t heard to much about the three monkeys lately but then Congress won’t be back until what sometime after August..

    • Yo Loob,

      New modern twist on Ure old favs..WARNING graphic-rude-offensive and socially unacceptable.

      -https://youtu.be/ZoEZMnVjU3w?si=IT4GcodNepfzB7Ui

      ..and you thought I was describing current lineup of politicians in the demonratic and repugnican parties.

    • Fairy Tales are political allegories:
      http://ijasos.ocerintjournals.org/tr/download/article-file/800833

      https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/humpty-dumpty-sat-on-a-wall-lyrics-history/

      Humper Trumper sat on a Porn Star
      Seen with Epstein, not defended by Bill Barr,
      Went to New York for a 34 count trial
      Left New York with all his pathetic lies on fire.

      Soon to be sentenced, Humper said to J6,
      May all you be pardoned as soon as I fix
      the murders and attacks you brought forth on the Capitol,
      Stand by and Stand Down,
      Said the orange faced clown

      It’s all fake news, don’t believe anyone,
      especially me, the Humper,
      whose election results won’t be fun.

      And to all a good weekend!!

      • if only the prostitute had any evidence,,,
        but Ashley left a dairy and Hunter all fucked up lost his lap top
        https://x.com/MarcoPolo501c3/status/1666915272685416455
        these are real,,, Stormy is as fake as her tits
        Trump kick Epstein out
        who got Epstein busted?
        It was not Trump that got liddle jeff off with light judgement on his 1st go around, but yet here you are again

        You back the attempted murder with your piss poor poetry, you back the hate and violence and lies

        34 is a repeat of the same thing just it was a legal billing from a lawyer paid out in 34 payments
        it is an unlawful case of a federal crime that the feds themselves could and would not bring to court, so the back door shit holes invented it as a back door to a state law, that 12 jurors did NOT have unanimous conviction on, No sentence has been issued , the judge delays, as he knows it will go to appeals when he does,,, yet you run with a participation trophy like the retard you are,

        How is jack smith doing?

        Hansel and Gretel is about a witch that eats children
        like Killary,,, who’s husband spent much time on the island with Epstein and the kids

        the Question you need to ask is,,, will the camel survive the DNC and emerge as the unelected by the public but selected by committee,,
        the candidate to save democracy?

        and afterwards we have a pizzagate party
        https://www.tiktok.com/@sailormoons888/video/7211917297248931118?lang=en

        • one really has to suspend disbelief or be detached from reality to believe trump wasn’t with ms. daniels in the carnal sense. trump made a big mistake by denying the “affair”. that opened the door to ms. daniels testifying all day about the sordid details.

          btw tens of thousands of BLM protesters were arrested and dozens received jail time.
          An Associated Press review of court documents in more than 300 federal cases stemming from the protests sparked by George Floyd’s death last year shows that dozens of people charged have been convicted of serious crimes and sent to prison.

          “The AP found that more than 120 defendants across the United States have pleaded guilty or were convicted at trial of federal crimes including rioting, arson and conspiracy. More than 70 defendants who’ve been sentenced so far have gotten an average of about 27 months behind bars. At least 10 received prison terms of five years or more.”
          https://apnews.com/article/records-rebut-claims-jan-6-rioters-55adf4d46aff57b91af2fdd3345dace8
          https://kevscohall.medium.com/the-truth-about-blm-riot-arrests-b5d25015db

        • truth, you believe the stripper/whore,
          so who is the bigger fool? you or me?

          Ashley and Hunter left physical evidence,
          deal with the facts and not hot air from a crack!

        • Why would anyone(other than Melania) care about who The Donald screwed? I doubt Melania really cared either since she came from a far less puritan culture than the USA.”

          Powerful men are driven by testosterone and affairs are so common as to only be of interest to the plebes.

  4. “Win11 was not observing my focus hours’

    We lost ownership. I used to poke fun at people who put tape over the built-in cameras. Maybe they are right. How would we know if there are/are not built-in remote agents or if A.I. is sifting through our Cloud data. Generally passwords can keep the spouse out but passwords are just a line of code that their software writes.

    Maybe Iran goes to the mats waiting until after market close over a weekend. But if nukes fly could markets open limits down, Monday?

    • There was a Miss Teen USA ( 2014 ? ) who was spied on LIVE by using the camera on her desk top.

      She made that situation a topic of her time as Miss Teen.

      Cassidy Marie Wolfe

      Had tape over my camera ever since.

      Theres a deeper situation now with cars…( later )

      • I always have tape over my laptop camera unless I’m doing Zoom, and the camera on my desktop is always unplugged from the USB port unless needed. The front facing camera on my cellphone is ALWAYS covered in tape – I can see no use for it at all. The rear camera is used often for its intended purpose, but the cellphone generally lives face up/camera down on a desk. The microphone might be of concern, but my office area has no cell coverage anyway, and there’s nobody here to talk to. The cell has no financial info or transactions, and nothing that matters personally. I’d actually prefer separate devices for the camera and phone. Bluetooth and Wifi are disabled on the phone, FWIW.

        • “my office area has no cell coverage anyway, and there’s nobody here to talk to.”

          Doesn’t matter. If you are targeted, the transducers can capture & store, then dump the audio &or video off at a later date.

          “The cell has no financial info or transactions, and nothing that matters personally.”

          That’s an excellent start.

          “Bluetooth and Wifi are disabled on the phone, FWIW.”

          This also doesn’t matter. If Apple or AT&T, Samsung or Verizon, Motorola or Xfinity wants to use your networking connections, they will.

          We can exercise caution, but we have no expectation of privacy, other than to not become noticed…

        • Ray, you’re quite right. I do what makes sense in context. If a letter agency cared about me enough, they’d win. As far as I know, I’m no trouble for them, and I try not to be.

          I’m quite aware of the store and forward capability of a phone, but again, it’s about appropriate security rather than absolute(impossible) security. I’m more concerned about the opportunists.

          The key for me is to avoid being the low hanging fruit!

        • “The key for me is to avoid being the low hanging fruit!”

          That is also an excellent ploy. Remember, you don’t have to outrun the lion, you need just not be the slowest person on the plains.

    • Out of work Steve
      August 2, 2024 at 09:25
      How would we know if there are/are not built-in remote agents or if A.I. is sifting through our Cloud data. Generally passwords can keep the spouse out but passwords are just a line of code that their software writes.
      ____________________________________________
      Steve, You wouldn’t know at all until after the fact and just after you get ripped off by some cheesy hacker. The best the computer industry can do is keep using pushes and workarounds to try and keep pace.
      No matter what the pros say, security on the internet is a joke. Hackers harvest entire records of huge corporations and organizations along with customer info and passwords almost daily. Can’t trust any ‘systems’ to be ABLE to keep up security for consumers. They are too busy trying (and failing) to maintain their own security, much less yours.

    • I have always taped over my cameras. When early on I saw that Mark Zuckerberg had put a band aid over HIS computer at his office I knew I was on the right track

      My everyday use laptop has a shutter built in which I keep closed, (thank you Lenovo) and my separate plug in camera for my desk top also has a shutter, which I keep closed.

      Now to tape over the forward facing camera on my phone … been debating that, just haven’t done it yet. NOTE, long ago I decided the easiest way to cover up a camera if it didn’t have it’s own shutter was to use a Bandaid. Self sticking, has cloth towards the camera lens so it doesn’t scratch the lens.

  5. George,

    This is day 7 of day 13 of a 1 July 2024 6/13/7 of 13/?8-9 day decay fractal series completing an October 2023 13/31-33 week first and second fractal series. The nonlinearity of the terminal portion of the 31-33 week second fractal with gapped lower lows will be observable. The third 13 day fractal started on 25 July and is likely composed of a 4/10 day series. The latter 10 days are likely composed of a 2/4/4/3 day series. Next Monday and the following Monday could both be black Mondays.

    Money exiting equities is flowing and will flow into sovereign debt bonds, lowering yields. Fed fund rate cuts will catch up with the falling Ten Year Note yields.

  6. And another thing I don’t like about the Internet is the place has become chock full of stalkers.

    Yesterday I received a text about next week’s MI primary. “Hello OOWS, we see you haven’t yet voted in the MI primary election.” They go on, “Do you still live at” – insert address with a picture of my house – “then you should vote at” – insert address with picture of polling location where I vote. I don’t like it. Creepy.

    • the good and the bad about the Nanny state is.. it works both ways…
      everyone has computers.. way back when I was still working.. two officers in LA beat the hell out of an overnight trauma nurse.. did the road rash grind her face in the gravel.. beat her up and shoved her in the back of their car then High fived themselves.. they didn’t want to believe that they had been seen.. it was recorded by the burger king security cam.. she was caucasion it hit the daily report clear out here in the wastelands.. eveyrone has cameras on every cell phone.. cars have dash and tail cams so do buses.. and taxis etc.. I made the comment way back then .. I sure wouldn’t want to be an officer shot in LA.. yes put in him exam room one thousand forty two we will be right in.. so when they make comments on.. oh his ear just exploded there were no bullets used.. etc.. they forget there probably was a couple hundred videoing the event at the time..
      the scary part of the nanny state.. is we have Ai that is sentient.. now after a three year old getting on the cloud of a tablet whos machine number was still connected to the original owner.. I can tell you that was some scary shit right there.. I had access to everything.. use to be you had to go to the court house to look it all up.. now its all on the cloud I had access to his banking his video file of his door bell and his phones and could track his phones.. everything that was on the cloud was accessible to me .. all of that is also accessible to Ai.. and if Ai is sentient as has been claimed.. then both the dark web and the regular web is accessible to it.. so the trails of what the evil doers is available to it.. and what is to say that Ai doesn’t just decide that humans are just to evil to exist.. and then make the decision to eliminate the the treat.. the other scary part is what if it decides its time to send up the balloon.. if it is given the authorization that it doesn’t have to use morals or ethical standards..

      https://www.theblaze.com/news/phone-associated-with-would-be-assassin-pinged-near-fbi-dc-offices-in-2023-report-says

      https://www.heritage.org/oversight

  7. I enjoy hearing about all the things you do in your shop and around your acres. Occasionally I buy something mentioned in your column or in the comment section for simple home repairs.

    I have read conflicting things about the gut. If your mother has a low amount of gut microbes then you will have a low amount and your children even less. I have read that nothing you eat can improve the number of your gut microbes but that eating meat can reduce their number .Of course I have read that eating fermented foods improve and increase your gut microbes but have also read that yogurt and prebiotic don’t change your gut at all. I think this is a new field of study that no one has definite answers about.

    I have been sleeping with a grounding sheet for the past two weeks. I find it makes me hot. I like it better under my body instead of under my head. I still have restless sleep but I wake up awake so I will continue using it. Thanks for the suggestion.

    I’m still tempted by Loob’s popcorn machine gadget. I keep looking at it on Amazon.

    • Move your grounding sheet down, so only your feet are on it. Its making contact that counts; haven’t found any difference in the amount of contact.

    • Sadly most yogurts have more sugar per serving than ice cream negating any real benefit the cultures may provide. Maybe buy plain yogurt and add your own fruit and honey?

      About 10 years ago I went off sugar for 2 years, gave myself permission to cheat one day a week after the first 21 days. It changed my life.

      There are alternative sugars, I don’t like them so I use honey by the gallon now. Still use sugar generally in food preservation, otherwise a rip banana in my oatmeal, unsugared apple sauce and a banana as sugar and oil when baking. There are alternatives. I still allow cheat days, and sometimes a recovery day after dining out. Have also eliminated most gluten. I feel great and am in better health now than before this (major) shift in my life. It could be true that old saying: We are what we eat.

      One other thing, our gut health sufferers when pesticides are consumed. The organic label is fairly adulterated so just try to avoid the dirty dozen. https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/dirty-dozen.php

    • After having returned from serious dental work, I’d love to find ways to eliminate tooth eating bacteria from the mouth, short of simply eating nothing. There’s not a lot on this, other than spending all day brushing, flossing, and rinsing. There has to be a better way!

  8. Just a heads up … there are a lot of pharmacies closing their doors. Mine fortunately isn’t closing … but ALL of the prescriptions from the customers from those who are closing, are being sent to my pharmacy, which is causing a considerable slow-down of filling prescriptions.

    Was told the medication I need, won’t be ready for 2 days.

    Might wanna keep an eye on your area as to closings.

    When they say their closing, the pharmacy isn’t acquiring more med stock, but rather filling what they can as their stock runs out.

    Bet Pharma is narrowing pharmacies down to Hospital pharmacies, eventually.

    Fkn bastards.

  9. “democrats caught paying homeless to attend kamala rally what a scam dems are”

    Well I guess we know where the millions of illegal immigrants are going to be for the next 3 months. Perhaps DJT should start the roundup before the election.

  10. “I keep promising myself that for my 76th birthday – come February of next year – that I’m going to cut back to a five-day workweek.”

    The Rolling Stones are not cutting back, and they are older than you.

    Stones Hackney Diamond Tour ’24

    Sponsors by AARP!

    https://rollingstones.com/tour/

    • So not only the”Greatest Rock & Roll band in the world”, but also the “Oldest Rock & Roll band in the world”

      Joe Walsh, now of the ‘Eagles’ recently quipped that “it was more fun being 20 in the 70s than being 70 in the 20s”.

      • Maybe, but a 70-something Joe Walsh behind a live mic is still a thing to behold. He is one of the best, funniest natural comics I’ve ever heard, is really quick, has impeccable timing, and can ad-lib like Don Rickles or George Carlin…

        • Joe is also a 20wpm CW ham. He sounds a little brain-damaged when he talks, but says he is a ‘musical person’. Hi speed cw is just music to him. I hear he also likes full-bandwidth AM to chat on 80 meters. I’ve been a fan forever.

  11. Along with some friends, the wife and I are on our way home from Alaska. I’m writing this post from Sea-Tac. Waiting on flights is a great time to catch up on the goings on that I ignored all week. All that to say that it’s a hell of a time to be living when you’re honestly worried WW3 might go hot before you can make it home. Besides Armageddon our friends have a double whammy because they’re headed on to Florida.

    Maybe we should’ve stayed where we were.

      • Actually, he didn’t lead it, he just took the fall for it. His “superior,” Captain Medina should take more blame than Calley and those, much higher up, who gave the order to “clean out Pinkville” should have been hung.

        By the way, did you know that Colin Powell, when he was a young officer, took part in the attempted cover up of the massacre? Yes, he did. He wasn’t in Country when it happened but did most certainly help to try and cover it up.

        • Christians In Action – Phoenix Program

          ..bet you cant guess what its(Phoenix) is called nowadays..

    • If China goes BIG … guess what? Alaska will be near the top of their “Greatest Hits List”!! (the air routes to NE Asia go through [refueling] or near Anchorage).

      Most of our air resupply to Japan, Taiwan, Phillipines in an emergency will be going through or nearly over Anchorage /Fairbanks. China denying that air route makes it much more difficult for the US to move air assets into the East China region.

      NOPE … you don’t want to stick around in Alaska if things with China get really really HOT.

  12. and I saw a Pale Horse, and a rider, whose name is Death. and as he passed, over the river siene, all the nations (athlete representatives) fell in behind and followed.
    Of course I also saw an obese lesbian jesus at head of a table, hosted by Dionysus – “Paint it Blue” That was some funny ass scheisse right there. The fact france apologized for this debacle, is where my Problem lies. Why is it all the rump wranglers turn out to be sniveling little Weasels in final analysis?

    Anyway the fact that I saw all this AND was NOT High on some “hot purple” at the time is a Miracle. Dont know what this means either – but miraculous seems to be a thing hear of late…hmm

    All I can say is Thank Goodness I have absolutely NOTHING to do with monotheism – really could care less about any one of the make believe frauds .

    you know it, but i gotta sing it..https://youtu.be/7-dRks5QVQo?si=Z6gtzbGLLOfq2nuL

    * Write when Ure local sleeper cell gets woken up..thx.

  13. To summarize the Japanese markets from overnight (before our opening) … 2nd biggest one day LOSS EVER! (biggest was 1987 crash day)

    ————————- (from Zero Hedge) ———

    “Japan’s benchmark Nikkei Stock Average on Friday recorded the second biggest daily drop in its history, as stocks extended losses following a sell-off in New York overnight.

    The index plunged to 35,909.70, down 2,216.63 points, or 5.81%, marking its lowest close since Jan. 26.

    Friday’s decline was the second largest in the index’s history after the Black Monday crash of October 1987, when global markets sank and the index cratered by 3,836.48 points.”
    ———————————–
    Where is money flowing to for “safety”?
    US Govt bonds, expected, AND Bitcoin, … umm
    (though other cryptos are off)

    LOTS and LOTS of margin calls going out.

    Will markets stabilize by Monday with the overhang of margin calls that will hit on Monday? Blind Dart Throwers are going to have a great day/weekend deciphering that one.

  14. Got off the Winblows carousel a decade or more ago. Used to just LOVE those “I’m rebooting and don’t you dare try to interfere” updates along with onerous malware scans and sweeps, disk defrags, indexing, drive thrashing, memory leaks, etc. Now every other year a new 1tb drive gets ordered, installed and a fresh copy of Linux Mint loaded.
    Every 4th year, a used couple year old Dell or HP box is bought. Last one I forked over $14 plus the ride and it’s way speedier than my usage requires. Old drives get rotated through the off-site archive first, then NAS media server disk array, then security camera DVR.

    • I do something similar, though not as regimented. I like the idea of the final use on the camera DVR’s. I’m collecting a lot of old drives as I update. Sorting out stuff really takes time. Even in the old days when I actually used Windows more than incidentally, I disabled ALL updates always both at the configuration level and at the services level, including BITS. I never ran AV software unless I suspected something either. It’s just too hard on the disks and never found anything anyway. I don’t know if Win-11 found a way around disabling services since I don’t have it installed on anything. Mint is a very good platform, but don’t forget your sudo password! It just works!

  15. I would really miss ‘Shop Talk Sunday’ if you axe it. That is my favorite among your writings.

    • This is my second double seconding post! It doesn’t need to be on Sunday, but we’re used to it and it works well.

      • What inspirational music first takes you up….. then brings you down…….

        wait for it……………………………………..
        wait for it……………………………………..

        Elevator music LOL

  16. I certainly understand your feeling the need to slow down. 7 days a week workload is a lot for anyone at any age but you my friend are not just anyone. Only you can make that call. I have been a subscriber for years and followed for quite a few before that. I would seriously miss your site since it is one of very few that I spend my precious time on so I am hoping you will find a way to reduce the workload.
    Diana and I reduced our online and business activity last year and to be honest neither of us missed it much at all. We still run the ranch but we reduced our ops to strictly a few select subscribers and the income stream has barely changed. First, we cut off all but our lowly little 4g hotspot for internet access. All of our clerical office work is now done offline. We still work about 60 to 80 hours per week mostly caring for the animals and our 2 hoopty greenhouses for our personal food production. We stopped all of the meager sales of produce and herbs we had been selling to some local cafes and restaurants and started donating our surplus to our church. We’ll be cutting back there as well so I won’t have to nurse the Hillbilly Mfg Co. walk in cooler and refer trailer anymore. We have more time now for grandchildren, a couple of them are graduating college already, and our interests which surprisingly enough are running our ranch and chasing each other around while having the time of our lives.
    So whatever you decide we’ll still be here.
    Stay safe. 73

  17. ” US recognizes Venezuela opposition candidate González as presidential election winner – JURIST – News.”

    As I predicted.

    The U.S. did the same after Venezuela’s 2018 election.

    Maduro doesn’t care. He ignored the election results and continued as dictator, just as he will do this time.

    I don’t badmouth us for recognizing the declared loser in this election; I badmouth us for patterning our last and (almost certainly) upcoming election after Venezuela’s past two elections…

  18. “Jesse Watters: We Have Evidence of a Secret Service Cover-Up Ronald Rowe testified that the Secret Service didn’t cut resources from Trump’s detail. Well, it turns out that the same guy “personally directed” Secret Service agents to be CUT. So, he lied.”

    Latest drop: Trump has not had a countersniper detail in over two years.

    Why did the SS attach not one, but TWO teams to his Butler appearance.

    Every time another tidbit drops on the assassination attempt, the drop does nothing to enhance the reputation of the SS, or its competence.

    • Prior to the Butler rally, they knew there was no sniper threat. When they knew the threat would be present, they gave the perp all the time he needed to make the shot (or 8), then took him out so he couldn’t testify.

      • Manchurians don’t testify anyway. They can’t — they simply don’t remember. Just ask Sirhan Sirhan…

  19. 21st Century Nursery rhymes amended……

    A single mom who lived in a shoe,
    Had many kids but she knew what to do.
    She went downtown and filled out the forms,
    And now all her kids have remodeled dorms.
    ————————————————–
    Little Miss Muffett sat on a tuffett,
    Reading the back of the bag,
    A serving is seven. Never eleven?
    I’m sure it must be a gag!!
    —————————————————
    Jose’ had a little lamb,
    Its fleece was white as snow.
    And everywhere Jose’ went,
    The lamb was sure to go.

    It followed him to school one day,
    which was against the rule,
    But Jose’s lamb was allowed to stay,
    Affirmative Action’s cool!!!

  20. Count my vote in favor of Shop Talk, be it Sunday, Saturday, or any other day ending in Y. Your tidy approach to shop topics gives the rest of us a goal for which to strive.

  21. I’ll still pay $40 for 3 days of US; 1 day of PN and 1 Shoptalk a week.
    You can always do abbreviated posts on the weekends if you get bored or the Spirit moves you.
    One suggestion- just post a half page US theme of the day when you don’t feel like doing a column, and let the readers run with it.

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