VETERANS: Time to remember all thise still unaccounted for … … 

Wednesday, November 11, 2026

https://department.va.gov/veterans-day/

2023 Veterans Day Poster winner

National Veterans Day Ceremony

The Veterans Day National Ceremony is held each year on November 11th at Arlington National Cemetery . The ceremony commences precisely at 11:00 a.m. with a wreath laying at the Tomb of the Unknowns and continues inside the Memorial Amphitheater with a parade of colors by Veterans’ organizations and remarks from dignitaries. The ceremony is intended to honor and thank all who served in the United States Armed Forces.

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Unfortunately, it’s become a Day of Pandering To Vets — with discounts and free food — and then the world returns to making more veterans.

“A veteran is someone who at one point in his life wrote a blank check made payable to the ‘United States of America’ for an amount of ‘up to and including my life.'” -Anonymous

I wish that we could account for all the MIAs and pay more attention to this issue on days other than a few “holidays”.  I think is it shameful when the President doesn’t show up at Arlington on these “holidays” and remind “We, The Sheeple” of the cost of their freedom.

As a vet, I feel real emotion for all the KIAs, WIAs, MIAs, and all those who have suffered from PTSD so badly as to commit suicide.

The Gooferment has a terrible track record of fulfilling its moral obligation to these men and women who made such sacrifices only to be forgotten.

“A soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member, defending it, if need be, with his life. The civilian does not.” — Lt. Col. Jean V. Dubois (Ret.) and student, p. 26 Starship Troopers (1959) by Robert A. Heinlein

I continue to thing that the veterans are not represented in the US Federal Gooferment.  Only vets should be voting, representing the people, and having a say on these military adventures we seem to get involved in with a cavalier attitude.  At one time, this was the de facto criteria for even being considered.  Maybe if we went back and formalized this criteria into the Constitution, we could have “peace in our time”.

Seems like the Taxpayers and the Veterans are not represented in the Gooferment.  I’m sure that the Dead Old White Guys could never conceive of this happening in their Republic.

Dona Nobis Pacem 

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HEALTH: No children on any kind of wheels with a MOTORCYCLE-GRADE helmet

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

https://nypost.com/2026/11/04/health/kids-e-bike-injuries-skyrocketing-doctors-advice-for-parents/

Kids’ e-bike and e-scooter injuries are skyrocketing — doctor reveals what all parents should do
By Allie Yang
Published Nov. 4, 2026, 11:46 a.m. ET

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Head injuries present more danger to kids in particular — the skull is thinner and offers less protection, and their brains are still developing and more easily damaged.

“My son passed away three months ago due to complications from the TBI [traumatic brain injury] he got while riding,” commented one mom on a pediatric surgeon’s PSA about e-bikes. “I do not wish this pain on any parent. Please make your children wear motorcycle-grade helmets if they are riding electric scooters or bikes. Please.”

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When I was on the first state squad, we used to call helmet, motorcycle riders “organ donors”.

In my neighborhood, E scooters and E bikes are very popular. I don’t particularly worry about the adults because they’re responsible for their own safety. I do worry about the children of all ages that I see frequently on these motorized units without any helmet at all. Never mind, just a dumb flimsy, bike helmet. What are these parents thinking?

Not much I can do about it but just pray for their safety. It’s like watching a traffic. Accident happens real time slow motion.

Argh!

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RANT: National Popular Vote Interstate Compact becomes a possibility

Monday, November 9, 2026

https://www.westernjournal.com/big-blue-wave-gives-democrats-power-effectively-end-electoral-college-2028/

Big Blue Wave Gives Democrats the Power to Effectively End the Electoral College Before 2028
By Bryan Chai November 5, 2026 at 4:49pm

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For those unfamiliar with the arrangement, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is an agreement among states to award their electoral votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the national popular vote.

The Electoral College would technically remain in place. But once participating states collectively control at least 270 electoral votes, their agreement would effectively make the national popular vote determine the presidency.

Currently, the compact has been enacted by 18 states and Washington, D.C., representing 222 electoral votes. If the five newly Democratic-controlled states join, that number could reach 283. The threshold is only 270.

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I thought this was dead since “compacts” are unConstitutional?

Imagine the cheating that will go on in the Big Blue States when winning the Presidency would be the reward. 

Argh!

And I don’t understand how “We, The Sheeple” can allow any vestige on the Dead Old White Guys’ magnificent construction to be destroyed.

Argh!

Maybe it is time for everyone to have a Plan B for international relocation.

Sigh!

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POLITICAL: The judiciary is a branch of the state

Sunday, November 8, 2026

https://www.malone.news/p/notes-on-my-brownstone-annual-conference?publication_id=583200&post_id=223933860&isFreemail=true&r=3snn7d&triedRedirect=true

Notes on my Brownstone Annual Conference Speech (to a sold out crowd)
Address by Robert Malone, Saturday 07 November 2026
Dr. Robert W. Malone
28 minutes ago << EDITOR ADDED DATE 2026-11-07>>

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Murray Rothbard set out the structural reason in Anatomy of the State. The judiciary is a branch of the state. Judges are appointed by the state, paid by the state, housed in state courts, enforced by state police. To expect such a body to deliver justice against the state is to expect a monopoly to rule against itself. In Rothbard’s framing, the court is a branch of the government interpreting the rules of the government in a game against the government. That is a feature, not a flaw. It is what the institution is for.

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In short, “We, The Sheeple” can’t catch a break.

Need to SHRINK the Gooferment down to where it’s unobtrusive.

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ENCOURAGING: What is enough?

Saturday, November 7, 2026

Letter II

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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POLITICAL: Gavin Newsom commutes 548 death row inmates

Saturday, November 7, 2026

https://nypost.com/2026/11/05/us-news/gavin-newsom-changes-california-death-sentences-to-life-in-prison/

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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RANT: Xavier Becerra led the Department of Health and Human Services and “lost” all those children

Friday, November 6, 2026

https://www.westernjournal.com/californians-just-elected-prolific-child-trafficking-enabler-american-history-run-state/

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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POLITICAL: Repeal the 17th Amendment

Thursday, November 5, 2026

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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MONEY: Heading down the road to serfdom

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

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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INSPIRATIONAL: saving time

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/seneca/moral-letters-to-lucilius/richard-m-gummere/text/single-page#letter-1

Letter I

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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