The summer doldrums (of seemingly endless political crap) seems to be coming to an end with a number of “actual” news items. Starting today with some…
Trade Figures
I know what you’re thinking – “Gee, I don’t remember the August figure being so high…”
Well, of course not. It was a hell of a lot lower:
I know (again) what you are thinking: “You telling me they come up with huge made up numbers and then ‘correct them; so the scope of our trade disaster isn’t clear?”
Me? Would I do something like that? So if they are saying August was $108.2 billion today but their own data last month said $78.8 billion…would that be a lie? In an election year? Naw…just the difference between an “advance” report and the later actual – even though it’s not clear in the first graphic..but let’s move along, I don’t have all day.
Beside this turned market futures up which – we’re pretty sure – is the whole point of the data…er…unclarity.
Markets Screaming Higher
Balloon looking for a prick (so to speak) as Japan was up almost another thousand points overnight. Between this and the price of gold it should be clear that the globalist game plan now is coordinated global hyperinflation pawned off as simple inflation. Nothing has fundamentally changed – and we do have some concerns about what will happen next week – which is Jobs Week starting with ADP on Wednesday, For now, the threat of going lower seems to be on hold, but IF the market were to decline today into the close, then lower ahead of jobs next week could be in the cards.
Gee, look at Bitcoin – only $5,000 to get back to July highs…
UN Globalists and Vaccinators Coming
Mostly hidden by the Mainstream this week is the UN Pact for the Future – without a vote which is totally BS – which gives the UN self-proclaimed power over, well, everyone. Sneaky bastards trying to take down autonomous nations.
ApotheCarol on X: “It’s happening. Are you ready? https://t.co/9NCtCNyFpo” / X
Only a bit over 3-minutes but important to follow this. Shows up elsewhere too (UN Adopts Ground-Breaking “Pact for the Future” ) but other than Glenn Beck and a few of the brighter bulbs, the Mainstream is glossing this over (because then CAN and DO).
Survey of Uselessivity
Storm time in Florida and uphill: Florida sheriff tells Helene victims to write their names on skin to he can ID bodies.
Another deem comes to her senses: Former Dem Rep Tulsi Gabbard Slams Harris On Foreign Policy, Declares Her ‘Unfit’ To Be Commander In Chief.
Jack Smith is up to his usual, we notice: JUST IN: Jack Smith Files Evidence Under Seal in Latest Attack Against President Trump. Why not put the evidence before the public?
Covering who’s fanny? US Marshals Are Hunting for Fani Willis’s Lover Boy.
And it may also be useful to read: Garland and FBI Wray destroyed child porn evidence from Ukraine that was to be planted on Trump. Gee, and what about the Hunter Laptop…huh? Wanna walk us all through that, or is that an unmentionable now that we’ve have a swap-out at the top out?
Around the Ranch: Personal Org Notes
The day is off to another Quick Start with tons of activities and a high level of ordering involved. I try to start every day by lining up all the ducks. To do that, I use a kanban tool (called Brisqi) and it looks like this:
The left column is where you select which “board” you want to work on. And from there, you move to the right and that’s the “kan ban” area. You use the columns and you can reorder, sort, move between columns and so forth. Anyway, the point is, it’s way faster to use (and you can put due dates on items easier than a yellow pad. I mention this because today is an exceptionally busy day for someone like me who’s supposed to be retired.
There’s a ton about kanban/kaisen on the web. Some companies, like Creative Safety also have downloadable mini books if you’re willing to part with your home address and phone number.
Passing through an Insurance Cloud? I just happened to see one of those online “lower your car insurance” sites Thursday and made the mistake of putting in basic information. Bang! Immediately the telemarketers started calling. OK, fine, to be expected.
But now comes the woo part: Turn on the 3806 (LSB) ham group this morning and what’s the main topic? Car and motorcycle insurance! I swear, sometimes it’s like there are “topic clouds” that people go through as a group. Might even be related to where things are on the GCP dot – no time for another research project right now, but an interesting notion.
Home Electronics triumph: Small one, but for the longest time I couldn’t figure out why the TV in the living/media room was never quite loud enough. Well, come to find out, the TV was defaulting audio to the HDMI as an output and then putting only a small signal to the headphones and speaker jack.
A quick change to “Speakers” and suddenly, there’s enough audio to drive us out of the room, it’s so loud.
BUT now the Big News: I got to looking at the 55 UHD computer in the office which has had a (new) problem with the latest super (minicomputer). When “reading back” columns (a very effective proofreading strategy) the the text-to-speech in Win11 was skipping the first word of each paragraph. Well, wouldn’t you know? The audio here was being sent to the HDMI, as well. Apparently, the Vizio big screen’s HDMI isn’t streaming fast and so it drops words. Going analog audio out to the speakers and the “dropped first word problem” goes away.
Computer consulting: My buddy The Major and I will be doing a phone call this morning and going through a complete Win11 speedup routine. I thought Win11 would stay relatively fast but apparently, things like the Co-Pilot add-in to Edge can slow things up or cause WSOSDs (white screen of death(. So I have a whole checklist of STTO (shit to turn off). I don’t need “feeds” and I don’t need a motion-picture screen saver and….oh it’s quite a list.
You never want to be in a position where your brain is “bumping into a speed bump” on the computing side. Which is the sole metric around here. Well, that and turning on the “blue light reducing” (right click blank desktop area), right click display settings, turn on Night Light which is a hell of a lot easier on the eyes if you do hours (and hours, and hours) on the box.
Dell – Check your email: Reader Dell doesn’t like the new PDF arrangement on PN – likes the commentary. But in a longish answer I promise this weekend the whole chart pack will appear as a single PDF so we can get back to both the commentary and being able to see the charts at the same time. A minor change in workflow (doing the whole chart section in Word and printing a PDF, but anything is faster than all the hand work involved in renaming, resizing, and drinking with graphics in the now legacy Expression Web…
OK, let’s wrap this puppy up…I am fighting a bear of a problem this morning in Win11 – seems with the latest update, all of my Excel charts are now showing as text boxes – while on the hot-back-up machine (not updated today) everything is normal and working great.
Such is the price of progress, huh?
Write when you get rich,
George@Ure.net
Au contraire mon frere – BTC has overcome the 50DMA – woot, overcome the 120DMA -wootwoot, overcome the 200DMA-rooty toot toot!
$70K and away, Homegamers. Can $100k be far away ?
How soon before US goes Negative Rates, again?
F -it ! just keep moving the decimal point over, IOW/ Print till you cant print no moar.
* How much in monthly $$ increases to Ure household bottom lines are Peeps seeing with the WAR Dividends from ukraine and ME ?
Bueller?
Got nook fuel stocks? -https://youtu.be/ktvTqknDobU?si=WsH3wtU_W2WeGsh0
I always had a resume client read it back aloud before making it final…
“the telemarketers started calling.”
Now that you mention it I get two to five “scam likely” calls a day on my cell. These are different from private, unknown and calls which the inbound number shows.
Now I wonder if my telly is interconnected – Google demands a number to create an account or $AMZN to occasionally verify as example – and perhaps when my IP visits a partner website my info is passed along to telemarketers.
All these Windows boxes are is spy machines. And Linux boxes are no better. The Linux kernel was compromised a few years back.
As for the market – the takeaway I guess is never short a fiat system. If anything crazy happens we’ll have .gov direct deposits into our account by the end of that week.
“We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.”
– Alan Greenspan
Trump now offers a $100,000 watch so money is flowing. People are flush.
(“Mostly hidden by the Mainstream this week is the UN Pact for the Future – without a vote which is totally BS – which gives the UN self-proclaimed power over, well, everyone. Sneaky bastards trying to take down autonomous nations.
ApotheCarol on X: “It’s happening. Are you ready? https://t.co/9NCtCNyFpo” / X”)
Congress isn’t sitting on its hands.. they are on vacation.. LOL obviously no one realizes that that is how congress works.. they come to work tues wed thurs.. if they are in session.. tues.. well hell they can’t do anything then they just got back to work.. the same with thurs.. they are getting ready to leave.. its why from a manufacturer you don’t want the first day of the shift or the last day of a shift product.. and that is if they show up.. its the illusion that they are there representing us..
they took the summer off.. if the border issue was anything real.. they could have handled it.. if there was a hidden army being escorted into the country.. that puts them in the direct line of threats against them and their families.. they didn’t even consider it.. they in turn only worked for political alignment during an election year..
with the supposedly mountain of evidence.. the kid and the brother are still free getting a mansion to live in and full security staff..
if photos tell a story.. take a look at this one.. of the pres.. hmmm..
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-us-announces-new-military-aid-package-worth-almost-8-billion-for-ukraine/
can’t hide that expression LOL and what we are sending more money to them.. I wonder what he was thinking ..
(” Gee, and what about the Hunter Laptop…huh? Wanna walk us all through that, or is that an unmentionable now that we’ve have a swap-out at the top out?”)
what about his porn hub accounts and his family home videos.. LOL LOL or the fact that all his trips abroad the governments filmed him.. in his motel suites.. then posted them with the childrens privates blurred out..LOL LOL.. there are way more disgusting photos.. but all of that was determined to be fake.. and who in the hell gave hunter access to top secred DOD files.. and that was taken while he was entertaining..
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Thanks everyone for all your thought, comments and links to my water filtration question.
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Sorry I’m late to respond, hope George passes it along. I work in industrial water treatment, 7 years babysitting a ultra-pure system at a nuclear power plant and 10 years waste treatment. A 5 stage system with an RO membrane will take care of Chlorine and Flouride plus most anything else you would be concerned with.
If you have the space under sink or mounted a floor below in a basement makes it easy for filter replacements. 2″ x 10″ standard housings make replacement filters cheap with many choices. Sediment, Carbon (5 micron), Carbon (1 micron) RO membrane, polishing filter. 400 GPD tankless systems are around $300. Booster pump if your water pressure is less than 40 PSI. Use soft water as feed if you can, the membrane will last for years .
Thou hast scrivened thusly:
” I swear, sometimes it’s like there are “topic clouds” that people go through as a group. Might even be related to where things are on the GCP dot – no time for another research project right now, but an interesting notion.”
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We did a very nice commercial, a special effects bluescreen, active mechanical props, and motion control heavy piece, for a regional bank. Their ad agency guy — the agency’s prime cretive mind — worked closely with us to produce it. It was quite complicated and expensive. With a combination of good luck, and skill, the good guys (us-all) won,and it came out super good. Won big awards much later. (…and the checks all cleared.)
Within a week of it starting to run, a VERY, VERY similar ad appeared for anothe bank. VERY similar. Very.
We were outraged. But Mark wisely said, “Some ideas are merely ‘in the air,’ and since we’re all exposed to the same vast puddle of all media, ideas stimlate ideas, and THAT’S why things get re-invented all the time.”
No theft, no spies, no shameless copycats, nothing scurrulous — just coincidence born of parallel experiences.
Since then, I’ve seen it happen quite a few other times.
73
Linux Mint 20.2 with Cinnamon 5 Desktop
w/ three new – additional security protocols installed
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Incredibly fast and running really good. Fastest, by-far, computer I have ever owned – ever faster than my trade station.
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Now to test-to-overload and see just how much it can take.
I have a very similar system with Mint and Cinnamon running on both a Xeon and an I-7 laptop. Minus your particular security protocols, of course. I’m totally satisfied with what I have and plan to install it on a few other machines, including another Xeon. I so far it’s totally bulletproof and I’ve been running this for 3/4 of a year. MS can keep their Windows stuff! There was only one weird case when I had to fill in an Adobe form and upload it to a university site. That absolutely required the stupid MS environment, so I used a Win10 laptop I had sitting around. Other than that, the Linux setup is preferable for everything I do, and I do a lot.
re: “L.S.Y. Uveitises”
feat: shady seer
Folks,
1997: “Will the real Slim Shady please stand up…?”.
2024: Today’s official public White House schedule informs that the President was to receive the President’s Daily Brief under the Joint Base Andrews Overhang at 0815. The President was then to depart the South Lawn of the White House at 0905 destined to Joint Base Andrews arrival 0925, and onwards to a Scranton, Pa. arrival of 1015. Finally a departure from Scranton at 1300 via Dover AFB will see arrival at Rehoboth Beach, De. at 1415.
By the way, last night’s WH Talahassie locations’ “code red” on the Waffle House Index should have lifted by now. Have a great weekend, everyone!
Hi George,
I just read your Florida Hurricane Helene update via Stu’s boots-on-water update. Hope things level out his way quickly. In the meantime, the GCP dot is currently running solid red.
My home laptop stopped doing sound with the last Win 11 auto update. After the audio self repair (built into Windows 11) didn’t fix the problem I ended up in Chat with an actual REAL and LIVE MS tech. after I was done complaining about MS Spying via EVERYTHING, their auto update dynamic and then REFUSING to let the MS person take control of my computer … they led me through the process of taking off the last MS Win11 update.
Once I took off the last Win 11 (auto installed) update everything was back to being OK and I had sound again.
I absolutely HATE Microshaft’s SHOVING updates and in fact entire operating system changes down your throat. That is the reason why at work we still use Windows 7 exclusively.
I have a Dell super-duper Optiplex 9011 beast I bought used, with maxed out memory and an big honkin’ SSD.
But guess what? The IQ giants at MS tell me it’s “not ready for Win 11!
Guess that reigns me in at Win 10 and I’m probably better off for it!
I had to get tech support from MS for the work computer, when the auto-back-up went south on me. The tech fixed the problem when the contract IT support couldn’t. The MS tech was polite and efficient. I had a favorable experience with MS tech support. The contract IT tech did the key punching remoting in. He apparently could share a screen with MS to steer. I like Windows 11 better then any OS I have used.
I am sorry to hear you are having issues with audio. Maybe look into using a USB audio card and wire it to a Klipsch computer monitor set. The Klipsch turns the PC into a multi-media powerhouse, for less than $150.
is Jack Smith a political witch ,,, hunting Trump?
connections?
“Jacks Smith Wife Katy Chevigny
producer of Michelle Obama film Becoming!”
https://x.com/AndyLevinson2/status/1839717223562133509
also J Smith is NOT a legally appointed officer, Judge Cannon has pointed this out in her court,,,
“Cannon came to such a decision “based on the unlawful appointment and funding of Special Counsel Jack Smith.” She also said that Smith’s appointment by Attorney General Merrick Garland “violates the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution” and found that Smith’s “use of a permanent indefinite appropriation also violates the Appointments Clause.””
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2024/08/26/jack-smith-files-appeal-to-reverse-judge-cannon-dismissing-classified-documents-case-n2643950
the drama continues
jack be nimble
jack be quick
ya could get ure balls burnt
leapin that there candlestick
O&O Software has a couple of great free utilities for Win 10 & Win 11: Shutup to disable various features:
https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
And AppBuster to easily remove unwanted bloat:
https://www.oo-software.com/en/ooappbuster
If you are willing to run a script, Chris Titus has a great utility that I’ve used many times on multiple PCs. The O&O Shutup program is even an option in the “Tweak” section:
https://www.oo-software.com/en/ooappbuster
Sorry to be spammy, just trying to help.
Israel Defense Forces Confirms Hezbollah Terror Leader Hassan Nasrallah Killed in Beirut Airstrike
“The IDF confirms that Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Hezbollah terrorist organization and one of its founders, was eliminated yesterday, together with Ali Karki, the Commander of Hezbollah’s Southern Front, and additional Hezbollah commanders. Nasrallah will no longer be able to terrorize the world.”
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GYjHovlW0AAtBUz?format=jpg&name=small
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/israel-defense-forces-confirms-hezbollah-terror-leader-hassan/