RANT: Good bye “penny candy” as the Gooferment forces us to recognize inflation

Saturday, May 31, 2025

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-14739561/US-Treasury-gives-final-decisions-pennies-creates-new-problem.html

US Treasury gives final decisions on pennies…. and it creates a new problem
By ALICE WRIGHT FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
Published: 09:45 EDT, 22 May 2025 | Updated: 11:50 EDT, 22 May 2025 

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One cent coins will stop entering circulation next year. 

After more than two centuries the US government has finally decided to kill the penny.

The Treasury Department will stop minting new pennies and putting them in to circulation by early next year.

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Now will “We, The Sheeple” recognize that the Federal Reserve … …

The Federal Reserve Bank is a misnomer. IT ain’t “federal”. It reserves nothing. And, it ain’t a “bank”. It is a private cartel of the elite banks run for their benefit and that of the entrenched politicians.

… … has printed so many “dollars” that the resultant inflation has devalued the “dollar” by 95% since about 1970.

That’s why there is no more “penny candy”, “nickel cigars”, “dime comic books”, or “quarter a gallon gas”.

Remember in history when the dollar was “as good as gold”.  From 1870 to 1913, we had a gold backed dollar and prices went down as the standard of living went up.

Then, arguably, the second or third worst President FDR took the dollar off the gold standard,  allowed the Federal Reserve to take over “money”, and passed the “income tax”.  This started the USA down the road to perdition.

Here’s one of the signs that it’s going to get a lot worse.

Save in gold and silver.  Avoid anything denominated in dollars.  

Beans, Band Aids, Bullets, and Bullion.

Semper Paratus

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HISTORICAL: Narvik: Hitler’s First Defeat

Friday, May 30, 2025

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9737876/

Narvik: Hitler’s First Defeat

2022 1h 48m Drama / History

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April 1940. The eyes of the world are on Narvik, a small town in northern Norway, source of the iron ore needed for Hitler’s war machinery. Through two months of fierce winter warfare, Hitler is dealt his first defeat.

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From a civilian Mom’s pov.

Essentially, she is faced with a Sophie’s choice decision.

Not to spoil it, you learn that you have to decide for yourself what is your best course of action for you and yours.

Hard to criticize anyone who is not living through the decision.

Politics aside, it also teaches that you can’t trust politicians and bureaucrats!

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ENGINEERING: Almost all of our infrastructure has this corrosion problem

Thursday, May 29, 2025

https://news.mit.edu/2025/allium-engineering-enables-100-year-bridges-corrosion-resistant-steel-0520?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4b9c55d78644b3a882a4d

Startup enables 100-year bridges with corrosion-resistant steel

  • Allium Engineering, founded by two MIT alumni, has developed a process for improving steel rebar to triple the lifetime of bridges and other infrastructure.

Zach Winn, MIT News

Publication Date: May 21, 2025 

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Now Allium Engineering, founded by two MIT PhDs, is tripling the lifetime of bridges and other structures with a new technology that uses a stainless steel cladding to make rebar resilient to corrosion. By eliminating corrosion, infrastructure lasts much longer, fewer repairs are required, and carbon emissions are reduced. The company’s technology is easily integrated into existing steelmaking processes to make America’s infrastructure more resilient, affordable, and sustainable over the next century.

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Allium is also experimenting with other cladding materials and composites. Down the line, Jepeal sees Allium’s tech being used for things beyond rebar like train tracks, steel beams, and pipes. But he stresses the company’s focus on rebar will keep it busy for the foreseeable future.

“Almost all of our infrastructure has this corrosion problem, so it’s the biggest problem we could imagine solving with our set of skills,” Jepeal says. “Tunnels, bridges, roads, industrial buildings, power plants, chemical factories — all of them have this problem.”

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Considering that the Gooferment is up to “its elbows” in bridge construction, it’s no wonder that the bridges are falling down.  If an entrepreneur was “selling bridges”, then we would have bridges that would last virtually forever.  But politicians and bureaucrats have no incentive to solve the problems of the world. 

Argh!

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BITCOIN: OPSEC with your ₿itcoin holdings

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

https://blog.bitbox.swiss/en/dont-talk-about-your-bitcoin/?utm_source=brevo&utm_campaign=BitBoxNewsEN039&utm_medium=email

Bitcoin

Don’t talk about your bitcoin!

Why operational security and being mindful with whom you share information is an important aspect of Bitcoin security.

Sebastian

22 May 2025 • 6 min read

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Avoid bragging

Putting the altruistic idea of peer-to-peer cash aside, Bitcoin has been a great asset to own over the last few years when it comes to return on investment. Many have purchased their coins at significantly lower prices than we see today, and some may even consider themselves rich now – and that’s great!

However, this high financial success can also result in a need to share the story with family members, friends or even strangers. First and foremost, you should be aware of when this “desire to brag” comes up and stay on top of it. It may be perfectly fine to share the fact that you own bitcoin with a close friend, but it may be out-of-line to share how much bitcoin you own with a stranger in a café, where even more strangers might be listening in. Of course, this entirely depends on your personal situation and how you value your privacy at any given moment.

In any case, bragging about your wealth is rarely a good idea, especially in front of strangers. The main reason for this is how difficult it can be to accurately predict what the other person is gonna do with the information that, for example, you “own six figures in bitcoin”. They may forget it five minutes later, but they might also start to envy you, develop negative feelings – or in the worst case, come up with a plan on how to get a slice of the pie!

Even if you do want to tease your friends and family a bit with your “Bitcoin gains”, it’s probably better to do so in a private environment and without revealing too many specifics. This is not to say you shouldn’t trust anyone at all, but to be more aware of who you entrust with what information.

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No one needs to know about your bitcoin holdings except the executor of your estate.

One of the more interesting USE CASEs of ₿ is the ability to transfer assets without the Gooferment involvement.  And, this is important even if you’re NOT in a Third World Country.  Here in the USA, the IRS wants you to report all capital gains.  Even in ₿!  They have coerced the various Crypto Exchanges to cooperate by rating you out to the IRS under KYC rules.

Remember not your keys; not your coins.  

AND

TRUST NO ONE, EVER.

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LIBERTY: End the TSA and the FAA; let the airlines “do” security

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

https://internationalman.com/articles/the-day-freedom-ends/

The Day Freedom Ends
by Jeff Thomas

<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2025-05-20>>

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Temporary Becomes Permanent

Sounds Orwellian. And of course, it is. It worked well for others (Messrs. Hitler and Stalin come to mind), and if a population is properly prepped (as Americans have been), it should be accepted. After all, it’s for the sake of safety and will only be temporary, right?

Possibly not. As Milton Friedman so correctly stated, “Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.” So, if the above premise seems to the reader to be the logical outcome of the present direction of the government, what of the timing? Well, if we observe the rapidity at which the US is implementing its controls and we hazard a guess as to when they will become so overbearing that a dramatic event is necessary before full lockdown can be implemented, the reader can make his own guess. A year? Two years? Longer?

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Seems like a great time to end the TSA.  DOGE likes to nuke whole functions; turn them lose on the TSA.

If El Al can do their own security, why not all the other airlines.

And, while we’re at it, why should Gooferment run airports and Air Traffic Control?  Let’s turn that over to the airlines as well.  #endtheFAA

That’s a lot of overhead that can be better managed that with Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats involved.

I think FedEX and UPS would like to have voice in “air travel” and I bet they are not using obsolete systems on 1950’s hardware and COBOL/CICS.

Argh!

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VETERANS: Never forget what this day is supposed to be about

Monday, May 26, 2025

Words can’t describe the sacrifices made.

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ConspiracyTheories: Jean Paul Luwig or Barak Hussein Obama? SSN# 042-68-4425

Sunday, May 25, 2025

NewsBarron (@Barron🇺🇸) posted: Well, Well, Well,

Jean Paul Luwig or Barak Hussein Obama? SSN# 042-68-4425

An intensive investigation has revealed the identity of the man whose Social Security Number (SSN) is being used by Barak Obama:

Jean Paul Ludwig, who was born in France in 1890,immigrated to the United https://x.com/_newsbarron/status/1924191340201734447?s=51&t=fNifJ9M-EU2FgGneNcz51w

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On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM My Favorite Luddite wrote:

“Born in Kenya”

[JR: A very succinct statement!]  

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As a Conspiracy Theorist, I think this a “Likely” and “Political”.

Checking the Conspiracy Theorist “thermometer” — I think it’s overwhelmed by all the myriad of crimes committed by the Political Class. It’s almost like “Conspiracy Theory” fatigue. So many are true and there is never anything done about it.

So, for example, the “autopen” Conspiracy Theory sucks all the “air” out past Conspiracy Theories.

“We, The Sheeple” don’t know what to believe and even if they did believe nothing appears to be able to be done.

Trump just “resurrected” the one about all the Hillary suicides; but, after a brief flash of Twitter outrage, business goes on as usual. Chelsea’s wedding and house grift out of USAID for Haiti gets similarly ignored.

Guess I should create a list on this blog of ConspiracyTheories and a link to my post about them? 

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On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM John Francois <dude51_97@yahoo.com> wrote:

 

    Born in Kenya

 

    Sent from my iPad

 

> On May 18, 2025, at 7:36 PM, reinkefj via gmail <reinkefj@gmail.com> wrote:

>

>      

> _NewsBarron (@Barron🇺🇸) posted: Well, Well, Well,

> Jean Paul Luwig or Barak Hussein Obama? SSN# 042-68-4425

>

> An intensive investigation has revealed the identity of the man whose

> Social Security Number (SSN) is being used by Barak Obama:

>

> Jean Paul Ludwig, who was born in France in 1890,immigrated to the United https://x.com/_newsbarron/status/1924191340201734447?s=51&t=fNifJ9M-EU2FgGneNcz51w

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PRODUCTIVITY: Another free dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom) source — free of course

Saturday, May 24, 2025

https://makeuseof.tradepub.com/?

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My Library

Browse your personal collection of resources. Hosted content can be accessed by clicking “Open Now.” Content hosted on other sites is marked as “Requested.” Please contact the content creator directly for access.

Windows 11 , ChatGPT, iPhone Help, Gaming Tips, Facebook Help, Avoiding Scams, Emojis Explained, Free Movie Streaming 

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Require a “work address” but I’m not sure how that’s enforced.

FWIW YMMV

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RANT: “Hard Back Press” and Amazon are selling old scanned books; who has the copyright?

Friday, May 23, 2025

https://www.amazon.com/Line-Mans-Bible-Foot-Ball-Instruction/dp/0371724171?&linkCode=sl1&tag=stucosuccess-20&linkId=bc86c9a014f89e03bf2127d551eb5a42&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl

The Line Man’s Bible: a Foot-Ball Text Book of Detailed Instruction Paperback – August 12, 2021

by Ernest Graves (Author)

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FROM AMAZON

This is a copy of the original book. In this series, we are bringing old books back into print using our own state-of-the-art techniques. Generally, these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way that the author intended. However, as we are working with old material, so occasionally there may be certain imperfections within the text. We are so pleased to ensure these classics are available again for generations to come. 

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Copyright by Ernest Graves in 1921

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By my understanding, this should now be in the Public Domain.

Yet, “Hard Back Press” and Amazon are selling it.

Are they asserting a copyright?

I’m confused.  Can I take old out of copyright books and sell them as well?

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SURVIVAL: Someone trying to win a “Darwin Award”!

Thursday, May 22, 2025

https://nypost.com/2025/05/16/us-news/tiffany-slaton-survives-getting-lost-in-sierra-nevada-for-3-weeks-thanks-to-unlocked-cabin/

Lost hiker missing for 3 weeks in Calif. mountains survives — thanks to cabin left unlocked for this exact reason
By David Propper 
Published May 16, 2025, 12:47 a.m. ET

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A lost hiker missing for three weeks in the California mountains miraculously survived when she stumbled upon an unlocked cabin that had been left open by its owner for this exact situation — and was rescued just in time to celebrate her 28th birthday.

Georgia woman Tiffany Slaton found shelter at a closed resort in the eastern Sierra Nevada range after she was initially reported missing on April 29, authorities said.

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He typically leaves the cabin doors open while the resort is closed during the off-season in case a wayward hiker needs a place to crash amid harsh weather conditions like blizzards.

“It’s mainly for people, just as this scenario played out, if they need to hole up in there one of shelter then it’s available,” Gutierrez said.

Slaton, who hails from Jeffersonville in the Peach State, told Gutierrez she survived for weeks solely munching on leeks before the resort owner fed her a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

“It was a blizzard, and she pushed through that blizzard, and the first thing she saw was a cabin,” said Gutierrez. “And she held up in the cabin overnight … this girl was saved for the reason.”

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Needs more details.  

If you leave the cabin unlocked, then you should leave some food and communications gear.

Happy she survived, but the story is incomplete.

Who goes hiking without gear?

Answer: Someone trying to win a “Darwin Award”!

I hope there is some follow up.

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