On Discursiveness in Reading
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*Do you ask what is the proper limit to wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary, and, second, to have what is enough.
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Whatever I have is more than enough. What I have had, I had for long enough. I can’t look back at that which is lost. Better to enjoy what I have and hopefully will have.
BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), i’d still like ti win the lottery.
Laugh!
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Gavin Newsom lets all of California’s 548 death row inmates escape ultimate punishment
By Titus Wu
Published Nov. 5, 2026
Updated Nov. 5, 2026, 2:57 p.m. ET
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“But as Governor, I have concluded the state cannot morally kill them,” he wrote. “We can now let these offenders die in obscurity while we forever remember and honor their victims.”
“I take this action because I firmly believe that state-sanctioned killing is incompatible with California’s values, undermines the foundations of our legal system, and diminishes each of us,” Newsom explained.
“I know we cannot execute people in our imperfect legal system and remain true to our core values, first among them justice and human decency.”
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Well, “the King of California” has decided that the death penalty is unfair. While I agree with that, what happened between yesterday and today, that changed his moral compass? Could it be that he sees an opening to become the “King of the USA”! That would be my opinion.
Argh!
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Californians Just Elected the Most Prolific Child Trafficking Enabler in American History to Run Their State
By C. Douglas Golden November 4, 2026 at 5:37am
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Also Democrats, with more than enough proof: “Hey, let’s elect the most prolific enabler of child trafficking in the history of American political officialdom to the governorship of the country’s most populous state!”
Yes, in proof that the blue wave carried plenty of cognitive dissonance ashore, the people who waved the bloody flag of the tenuous, brief, and terminated connection between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein long before Epstein’s crimes were fully known decided that Xavier Becerra, who led the Department of Health and Human Services under President Joe Biden, was their best bet to serve four years as governor of California.
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Protecting the border was the job of the Department of Homeland Security, but keeping track of minors who arrived unaccompanied was the job of HHS — which is to say, Becerra’s job.
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As early as 2021, a Freedom of Information Act request revealed that tens of thousands of illegal immigrant children who were released to sponsors in the United States had been effectively lost by HHS after leaving the agency’s shelters.
As it turns out, HHS was merely calling to check in on these children — and in 37 percent of the cases, they got no answer.
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Unlike the private sector, if you’re in an organization that fails bad, then it’ll be hard to find another job. (Ask the accountants and secretaries from Enron!)
But in the USA’s Gooferment world, failure means your ready to make bigger mistakes.
Normally I wouldn’t care what the voters of another State pick for their leaders. In this case, I do. It seems like every loony idea seems to originate in California; although we do get some from Massachusetts and England.
Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy. And, those who work at the top levels are either unable, or unwilling, to get the “system” under control. From that, I assume it is operating as designed.
Shame on them and “We, The Sheeple” deserve the ill-treatment they get.
Don’t blame me; I vote little L libertarian all the time.
Sigh!
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https://lists.theepochtimes.com/archive/iyApJW4ZG5/5kdG8QBtO/C4ZJRnZSH
Democracy Is Under Threat
By Jeffrey Tucker
<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2026-11-03>>
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The U.S. system was fundamentally distorted by the 17th Amendment, which changed the Senate from being a body to represent whole states of the union to one that mostly reflects the politics of big cities. This is all due to a small change: from a position elected by the state legislature (which represents the whole state) to making it an office voted in by the majority of people. With a word change, the bicameral Congress established by the Founders was at an end.
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Hard to imagine what the Dead Old White Guys would tell us or call us. “Fools” would be the most polite word; what does one call some one who messes with a system, without understand the implication.
I, for one, would favor the repeal all the amendments after the first ten!
At the very least, we should have a national discussion of how we think the USA should govern itself. I’d favor dissolution back to 50 individual States and proceed rom there.
Argh!
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https://internationalman.com/articles/the-great-wealth-divide-own-the-right-assets-or-fall-behind/
The Great Wealth Divide: Own the Right Assets—or Fall Behind
by Nick Giambruno
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Let’s start with three assumptions that I consider rock-solid.
1. Government spending will continue to grow.
2. The government will need more currency debasement to finance that spending.
3. Wages will not keep up.
If I had to distill this into a single point, it would be:
You can’t outrun the money printer by working harder. You need to own the right assets or fall behind.
Owning inflation-resistant assets matters more than income, though income still matters.
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According to the rigged CPI, prices rose 977%, while wages rose 1,179%. The official numbers claim that wages have outpaced inflation since 1964.
Yet anyone with eyes to see and a functioning brain knows that claim is false. Reality lies in a different ballpark.
The government uses the CPI as misleading propaganda to conceal its atrocious currency debasement.
The growth in the money supply provides a better measure of the damage. It grew 5,775% over the same period.
In other words, wages kept pace with about 20% of the currency debasement. Relative to the money supply, wages lost about 80% of their value.
To me, this better reflects reality and provides a sound benchmark and hurdle rate.
If your wealth does not grow at least as fast as the money supply, you are losing ground and h.
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Seems like if “We, The Sheeple” want to “save” for their “golden years”, then it better be in GOLD! The kind you can hold in your hand. Not “paper gold” which isn’t worth the electrons holding it.
If anything, I have become MORE of a “gold bug”.
You might consider ₿itcoin, but while I am a HODL maxi (i.e., Hold On for Dear Life because it has a limited supply), I am concerned about AI and its ability to defeat encryption and its bug finding ability. (See the Biance hack!)
YMMV but I want things that the greedy Gooferment can’t steal from me.
For us “little people”, like me, a fat old white guy retired injineer who’s a poor old senior citizen on a fixed income, I like saving silver. Everyone can put a roll of nickels away for a “rainy day”.
Remember pre-1913, people saved in gold and silver coins. Argh! A much simpler time, when there was price deflation because the Gooferment couldn’t silently tax us with the horrific “inflation” of “money printing”!
Sigh!
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On Saving Time
Greetings from Seneca to his friend Lucilius.
Continue to act thus, my dear Lucilius—set yourself free for your own sake; gather and save your time, which till lately has been forced from you, or filched away, or has merely slipped from your hands. Make yourself believe the truth of my words—that certain moments are torn from us, that some are gently removed, and that others glide beyond our reach. The most disgraceful kind of loss, however, is that due to carelessness. Furthermore, if you will pay close heed to the problem, you will find that the largest portion of our life passes while we are doing ill, a goodly share while we are doing nothing, and the whole while we are doing that which is not to the purpose. What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily? For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed. Whatever years lie behind us are in death’s hands
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I wish I had read this decades ago. Of all the stuff I was forced to read in high school Latin, I really didn’t care how many parts Gaul was divided into. But, maybe, just maybe, this advice might have changed my life. Maybe not, but it certainly might have been an easier read.
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A survivor of the deadly shooting at a Spirit Halloween in California described her heart-stopping escape from the store as gunfire erupted, leaving one person dead and six others injured.
— Read on nypost.com/2026/10/31/us-news/spirit-halloween-shopper-recounts-heart-stopping-escape-from-california-store-as-1-killed-6-hurt-in-shooting/
in California, for the most part, only criminals have guns.
“We, The Sheeple” are left like helpless lambs for slaughter at the whim of every criminal, gang banger, crazy teenager on SSRIs, or lunatic.
The Dead Old White Guys must be turning over at this turn of events.
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The older I get the more I don’t like “democracy”. I think the Dead Old White Guys vision of a country led by the upper echelon of society that got there by hard work and their contribution to the Commonweal was a better idea. Although there is something to be said for a “king” by birth who “owns” everything like a shepherd with his flock.
We’ve seen what happens when we have an “Elected King” — nothing good.
Maybe we need to try only allowing successful ex State Governors to be President? And same for the Senate and House. That would at least eliminate grifter and celebrities. And, maybe only those born here who are literate and landowners should be allowed to vote. Also maybe their should be a THIRD house of Congress elected by TAXPAYERS!
By the way, all acts of Congress should be passed by ⅔ majority in recorded votes!
That should slow these rogues down.
Argh!
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https://nypost.com/2026/10/07/us-news/congress-eyes-push-to-stop-minting-nickels/
Congress eyes another major US currency change after killing the penny
By Natalie O’Neill
Published Oct. 7, 2026
Updated Oct. 7, 2026, 11:26 a.m. ET
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Now, some lawmakers want to focus on making the high-cost nickel for cheaper, according to Fox News.
“If it costs 13 cents to make a five-cent coin, Washington should fix the problem instead of wasting more taxpayer money,” House GOP Conference Chair Lisa McClain told the outlet.
“My bill gives Treasury a path to make nickels at a lower cost without disrupting how Americans use them. It is a simple reform that saves money and brings a little more common sense to government.”
Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis also told the outlet: “More and more Americans are paying with credit cards, debit cards and stablecoins for everyday purchases that once would have been made with cash or coins.
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Anyone care to examine WHY the pennies and nickels are being eliminated?
Yeah, like saving the Taxpayers’ money was, is, never on the mind of any of the politicians and bureaucrats!!!
Anyone remember “penny candy”? Why is there no more “penny candy”, “nickel cigars”, “dime comic books”, or “quarter a gallon gas”? Or that we had a half-cent coin? (Coin collectors probably do!)
Perhaps it might have to do with the U$D (“dollar”) has lost 99% of its purchasing power in the “modern era” of deficit spending!
No it’s all about pulling the wool over the rubes’ eyes.
I think it was downright <synonym for the act of procreation in real time> hilarious that Senator Lummis had the audacity to mention “STABLE coins”. What is stable about digital representation of a “dollar” when its purchasing power is depreciating by double digit percentages every year? At least ₿bitcoin has only a fixed number that can ever be “printed”. Argh!
“Inflation allows them to borrow in dollars and repay in dimes.” — Nick Giambruno
“Inflation is theft, you’re stealing value from people who save money.”-Ron Paul
“Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon” — Milton Friedman
So, of course, “Don’t look at the man behind the curtain!” commands the Great And Powerful Oz — from the 1939 Judy Garland hit!
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Cybersecurity
Breach of Denmark’s National ID System Demonstrates the Risks of a ‘Papers, Please’ Society
Centralized databases and national ID systems make tempting targets.
J.D. Tuccille | 10.30.2026 7:00 AM
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Hackers ‘Harvest Records on Approximately 8.8 Million People’
“Denmark is reviewing security controls around its national citizen registry after unauthorized parties exploited a company’s access credentials to harvest records on approximately 8.8 million people over a 10-day period,” Shweta Sharma of CSO, an enterprise-level security publication, reported earlier this month. “The breach covers people living in Denmark as well as individuals who have died or moved abroad, while people with protected names and addresses were not affected.”
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Why are we surprised when we hear about such disclosures? Actually, we probably should be surprised that we hear about it at all management of the news is no big surprise and anything that conflicts with Big Brothers desires is to be hidden by the elite.
Remember that Social Security Insurance, that’s a humorous euphemism, was not supposed to be used for identification. Guess what’s used for identification for everything now?
The Mafia does a better job of securing its data. No hacker in the right mind seek to hack that. Unlike the Mafia’s competitor, the US Federal Gooferment, who if they can find the ne’er-do-well, gives them a slap on the wrist; the Mafia would put the down six feet and leave a hand stick out as a reminder. (An old traditional method the mob used for dealers cheating. Not that they care about the rube’s losses; the dealer was stealing what would eventually be their winnings. The same reason that crime on tourists or panhandling around the casinos was punished vigorously.)
So let’s try and (1) keep all levels of Gooferment from collecting ANY data; and (2) let’s keep any data collection at the lowest level of Gooferment and in the smallest collections possible.
Keep Gooferment small, powerless, and unliked.
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FJohn Reinke
Consultant at Technology Legacies LLC
Advisor, Computer Governance Committee at Manhattan College
Editor / Publisher at Jasper Jottings
Greater New York City Area
JJ Positraction JJ Endnotes Downsize DC
Philosophy of Liberty
I have NOT received any gagged governmental information requests
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