VETERANS: Armistice Day should be remembered for the carnage of a generation of young men wasted by Gooferment supidity

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

I prefer that we revert to the old meaning of 11 November — Armistice Day.

On November 11, 1918, the armistice between the Allied nations and Germany took effect, marking the end of major hostilities. The following year, the date was remembered as Armistice Day, dedicated to honoring those who served in the “war to end all wars.”

And go back to the “end all wars” feeling that WWI generated.

“Only way to win is not to play at all” — from the movie ‘War Games’

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.” — Sun Tzu’s The Art of War

— 30 —

Leave a Comment » | VETERANS | Tagged: , , , | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj

POLITICAL: Socialism interferes in the private sector—via regulations, taxes, mandates, and bureaucratic controls

Monday, November 10, 2025

https://www.cato.org/blog/democratic-socialist-plans-will-only-make-nyc-worse

November 2, 2025 8:04AM
Democratic Socialist Plans Will Only Make NYC Worse
By Michael Chapman

*** begin quote ***

The Nature of Democratic Socialism

Libertarian economists have long explained that democratic socialism does not involve outright government seizure of the means of production. Rather, it manifests through layers of government interference in the private sector—via regulations, taxes, mandates, and bureaucratic controls. Each intervention distorts market processes, producing inefficiencies and crises that, in turn, invite yet more intervention. The cycle repeats, expanding state power and eroding prosperity.

A contemporary example can be seen in the Democrats’ push to extend Obamacare subsidies, which are set to expire at year’s end. These subsidies were meant to stabilize insurance markets, yet their expiration will drive premiums upward. The government created this instability by intervening in healthcare and now seeks to intervene again—at an estimated cost of $415 billion over ten years—to “fix” the problem it caused.

This incremental approach is socialism by installments: policy by policy, the private market is replaced with a government-run one. Mamdani’s proposals fit within this framework.

*** end quote ***

Congress is a known cesspool for producing market distortions.  Creates more opportunities for “insider trading”.   How else do so many enter broke and leave grazilionairs?

How can “We, The Sheeple” stop this ever quickening slide into Socialism / Communism?  End “Federal Gooferment Benefit” programs.  If the States want welfare, let them pass and pay for it.  No more “sugar” coming from the Feds.

Also, eliminate all “non-profit” entities —  NGO’s, “Foundations”, and “Trusts”.  

End the cycle of “political contributions” that come from “winners” of lucrative Gooferment contracts.

Political contributions Should be limited to small amounts from “inside” the representative’s district.

Time to shrink all levels of Gooferment!

— 30 —

Leave a Comment » | Political | Tagged: , , , | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj

MEME: Maybe MEME’s are that powerful

Sunday, November 9, 2025

 

Maybe MEME’s are that powerful.  Gets the message across at gut level; usually humorous.

Remember the king’s new clothes?  Laugh at them and they lose their power!

— 30 —

Leave a Comment » | MEME | Tagged: | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj

DISCOURAGING: When the Church is silent, evil advances

Saturday, November 8, 2025

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/10/when_the_church_whispers_why_silence_is_no_longer_an_option.html

October 26, 2025
When The Church Whispers: Why Silence Is No Longer An Option
By Christian Vezilj

*** begin quote ***

The Cost of Cowardice

When the Church is silent, evil advances. When pastors refuse to speak, laws are passed that mock God’s design. When parishioners are not guided, they vote blindly or not at all. And when Christians abandon the ballot box, they abandon the battlefield.

This is not just a political failure, it is a spiritual one. For a man who does not stand up and fight for truth is not merely passive. He is disobedient. “Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins” (James 4:17).

God did not call His people to comfort. He called them to courage. He did not promise ease; He promised presence. “Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you” (Deuteronomy 31:6). That promise was not just for Joshua—it is for every believer who dares to speak truth in a hostile world.

*** end quote ***

I firmly believe that just as a bee hive can only have one queen, so Gooferment — the gang that claims its God-give right to inflict violence on everyone within a given geographical area and sometimes outside of that area — see the Church, any church, as a rival for the loyalty of the individuals within their domain.

Further, I think that when the Roman Catholic Church allowed pedophiles to inflict harm on little children, the Gooferment was perfectly happy to let it happen and then use it to blackmail it into silence.  Gooferment Skrules were allowed to kill parochial education.  Politicians were not condemned and excommunicated for their positions on abortion and euthanasia.  And, the non-profit status was used as an additional club for their silence.

Only Black Churches and Pastors resisted that club by ignoring it.  Unfortunately, they misgudedly supported politicians that inflicted the welfare state and drugs on their neighborhoods.

Until “We, The Sheeple” wake up and take back their liberty from Gooferment, we have no savior in any other entity.

Argh!

— 30 —

Leave a Comment » | DISCOURAGING | Tagged: , | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj

GOLDBUG: 8,133 metric tons if it is there

Friday, November 7, 2025

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2025/10/28/more-hints-at-whats-coming-in-2026/

More Hints at What’s Coming in 2026

Administrator — Posted on October 28, 2025Categories 

*** begin quote ***

In an interview last week, the U.S. Secretary of Treasury made an odd statement that was simultaneously ignored and discarded. We caught it, though, and you should again be made aware of what it foreshadows.

And what was that odd statement from Secretary Bessent?

As you undoubtedly know, the U.S. dollar has not been connected to the gold price since 1971 and the U.S. currently carries its 8,133 metric tonnes of gold at $42.22 per ounce. As such, how in the heck does a rising gold price “help the U.S. substantially”? Why does it even matter? And in this context, it’s a very odd thing for the sitting U.S. Secretary of Treasury to say.

However, what if we changed the context?

  • What if, instead, the U.S. is planning to monetize the asset side of its balance sheet?
  • What if, instead, the U.S. is planning to revalue its gold reserves in order to create a “deficit neutral” funding vehicle for its planned Bitcoin Reserve?
  • What if the U.S. Congress was considering a new bill to codify a gold revaluation as part of a Bitcoin and Sovereign Wealth Fund?
  • What if The U.S. Federal Reserve was already studying the impact of an official gold price revaluation?

Under those conditions, the seemingly odd, throwaway comment by Secretary Bessent makes a lot of sense. The higher the gold price, the more “deficit neutral” funding cash becomes available. Again, here’s the process. It’s plainly written into both bills that are currently before Congress:

*** end quote ***

8,133 metric tons is about 259,200,000 ounces at ~4k$ per ounce is 1,036,800,000,000 or ~1T$.

Guess that could make a dent in the 33T$ national debt?  NOT!

— 30 —

Leave a Comment » | GOLDBUG | Tagged: , , , , | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj

INSPIRATIONAL: The Stockdale Paradox: A Philosophic Principle for Tough Times

Thursday, November 6, 2025

https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/advice/stockdale-paradox/

Brett & Kate McKay • October 27, 2025
The Stockdale Paradox: A Philosophic Principle for Tough Times

*** begin quote ***

Years later, when his plane was shot down and he was imprisoned in the infamous POW camp known as the “Hanoi Hilton,” Epictetus’s Enchiridion would become a survival manual for Stockdale and the men he led. It would also help birth a guiding principle that got Stockdale through seven and a half years — four of them in solitary confinement — of torture and debasement: what’s now called the “Stockdale Paradox.”

*** and ***

Stockdale paused and said:

You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end — which you can never afford to lose — with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.

That single sentence became known as the Stockdale Paradox.

In practice, it meant living in two opposing realities at once: facing the brutal truth of the moment while maintaining unbreakable faith in the eventual positive outcome.

*** end quote ***

Brutal honesty and unshakeable faith?

Not sure that if presented with a test like the Hanoi Hilton, then I could conduct myself so well.  One can only hope.  I’d pray make my “tests” small in proportion to my character.

I remember the “Perot – Stockdale” ticket.  

I can’t look into Ross Perot’s soul but I believe he was there as a “spoiler” to allow Bill Clinton to defeat both Bush and Bob Dole.  Near the end of the campaign, I remember Perot’s antics to distroy his chances of winning.  To me it was an obvious prize fighter’s “dive” because the fix was in.

It’s a shame and a national disgrace that “democracy” is really an “oligarchy”.  The Dead Old White Guys must be rolling over.

Sigh!

— 30 —

Leave a Comment » | INSPIRATIONAL | Tagged: , , | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj

MONEY: A suggested little L libertarian boycott of small change?

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

https://survivalblog.com/2025/10/29/survivalblog-readers-editors-snippets-236/

survivalblog.com
SurvivalBlog Readers’ & Editors’ Snippets
Pure-Gas.org has a list of gas stations that sell ethanol-free gasoline.
James Wesley Rawles
October 29, 2025

*** begin quote ***

Libertarians have many of the right answers to the problems facing the United States and need to be heard loud and clear above the confusion disseminated by the mainstream media and their lackeys in government, all bought and paid for by the crony capitalists of Wall Street.

If all of the nickels and pennies in circulation rather suddenly disappeared, it would generate a lot of media attention and curiosity on the part of the public. It would be a brilliant protest against the devaluation of our currency and the debasement of the Republic by the bankers and their ilk. Change could be made only to the nearest dime.

There are roughly 140 billion pennies and 28 billion nickels in circulation. It would “cost” only $2.8 billion dollars to remove them all from circulation. If we can find 2.8 million libertarians to each accumulate $1000 of pennies and nickels, we will be heard loud and perhaps clear. I use the quotes on “cost” to indicate that it actually could be quite profitable to remove these coins from circulation.

*** end quote ***

I’m in for that boycott!

And, the Mint is stopping making pennies soon.  Next year? 

Count me in!

— 30 —

p.s., Shoprite in Marlboro is also requesting that if you have any extra pennies to spare, donate them at the customer service counter so they can continue to make proper change. 2025-Oct-31 1036

— 30 —

Leave a Comment » | MONEY | Tagged: , , , | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj

MEME: Something to remember this Election Day — choose wisely,

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Something for “We, The Sheeple” in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerk to remember this Election Day?

Your candidate is a self-proclaimed Communist.  

“The problem with socialism is that you can vote your way into it but you need to shoot your way out of it.” — Larry Lambert

When NYC becomes a “socialist paradise” like Cuba, at least the escape won’t be as far or as dangerous?

Unless this mentality infects the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee too.

“When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.”

“But choose wisely, for while the true Grail will bring you life, the false Grail will take it from you.” Grail Knight in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097576/quotes

— 30 —

Leave a Comment » | Political | Tagged: , | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj

DISCOURAGING: Gooferment crowds out private charity

Monday, November 3, 2025

https://www.malone.news/p/homeseading-home-again-home-again?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=583200&post_id=177369074&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=3snn7d&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Homesteading: Home Again, Home Again
The wonders of dairy
Dr. Robert W. Malone
Oct 28, 2025

*** begin quote ***

At one time, this country had a strong volunteer base to help those who needed help; the government has since replaced many of those efforts. Of course, we hope that as the government shrinks, our volunteer efforts must grow. We must grow a strong, giving populace and a strong economy – to help those who need help. Not because we must provide help when truly needed, but because we can and want to. Because we want to build our local communities up, as well as the people who live in them. We must rebuild our culture of giving… That is truly the American way.

But these efforts won’t develop overnight. It will take resources, organization, and time to build such a culture again. So we have a problem in the United States today; there are people who need our help now.

*** end quote ***

I see many “social clubs” languishing and eventually dying out.  The Italian American club in North Brunswick recently sold out.  My American Legion post has all aging members and very little “new blood”.  Same for the local VFW.  Last gasps?

As the Gooferment devalues our money stealing our wealth and increases the welfare roles, it shoves the local Churches and Civic organizations into oblivion. So, in short, welfare is nothing more than redistribution of wealth, or theft. Those in legitimate need could have their needs better met by private companies or charities without government involvement, and without forcing others to pay for it.

I’ve read many stories of American in the past where charity was very local and very selective.  It also rebuilt the civic society by stressing individual responsibility and a “helping hand” bu t not a “handout”.

I remember the Black Churches on the 50’s and 60’s where families worshiped together and stood proud in their communities.  They may have been poor in material wealth but were “rich” in their community.

The Gooferment destroyed all of that.

The “plantation of slaves” was rebuilt by Gooferment handouts.

So sad.

Not sure if it can ever be reversed.

I remember Samuel Jackson as Zeus in the movie “Die Hard”.

 

Zeus: *So who’s gonna help you*?
Dexter: We’re gonna help ourselves.
Zeus: And who do we not want to help us?
Dexter, Raymond: White people.
Zeus: That’s right. Now get on outta here. Go to school.

 

Sounds like the absolute truth!

— 30 —

Leave a Comment » | DISCOURAGING | Tagged: , | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj

FUN: Way too funny or why I don’t dance?

Sunday, November 2, 2025

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/comedy-wildlife-contest-unveils-wonderful-photo-finalists-to-make-everyone-smile/?_bhlid=09200a8b0d635a45582c8760c52baba000277c86

Comedy Wildlife Contest Unveils Wonderful Photo Finalists to Make Everyone Smile
By Good News Network – Oct 26, 2025

*** begin quote ***

The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards just released their annual finalists.

“We are absolutely delighted to reveal the hotly anticipated finalists of the 2025 competition. They are a cracking collection of jaw dropping and laugh out loud photos of some of the most incredible wildlife that we share this planet with,” said contest officials in a news release.

*** end quote ***

Animals in nature should teach us not to take ourselves too seriously.

Who cares what others think?

Isn’t bullying the absolute expression of jealousy?

Dona Nobis Pacem

— 30 —

Leave a Comment » | FUN | Tagged: , , | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj

TECHNOLOGY: AI replies with a canned response which has nothing to do with my problem

Saturday, November 1, 2025

https://www.dunkindonuts.com/en/account/dunkinrewards

*** begin quote *** 

Dear Ferdinand Reinke,

 

Thank you for taking the time to contact Dunkin’.

To add a Dunkin’ card to the Dunkin’ App, please follow these steps:

 

1. Expand the menu in the top left-hand corner.

2. Tap “Add/Manage Cards”.

3. Scroll to the bottom of the screen and tap “Add a Dunkin’ Card”.

   i. If you have an existing card that you want to add, select Yes and enter the details. If not, select No to purchase a virtual card.

4. Select your card design and tap “Done,” and then “Done” on the next screen to complete registration.

To add a Dunkin’ card using our website, please follow these steps:

  1. Log in to your Dunkin’ Rewards account on the Dunkin’ website.
  2. Click “My Account” on the top right-hand corner and select “Add or Delete a Dunkin’ Gift Card”.
  3. Enter the Card Number and PIN to add it to your account.

To remove a card from the Dunkin’ Mobile App, select the card you want to delete and tap “Delete Card.” (Please note that if the card is not at a $0 balance, you will not be able to remove it from the account.) Before you complete the deletion, write down the card number and PIN in case you want to re-register the card later. Removing a card from the app will also unregister it from your account, and unregistered cards will no longer earn points or rewards.

 

If you have any further questions, please reply to this email, or give us a call. Our support team can be reached at 800-447-0013, Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. ET.

Thanks again for contacting us.

 

 

Customer Care Coordinator

Case# CCC6870586

 
Ref:MSG1362625_wmb3eHsyFfthTCngJSJV

*** end quote ***

My réponse:

please read what I wrote
 
I don’t have the original rewards card.  Please recover it and all my points.
 
# – # – # – # – #
 
Boy, do I hate AI!  It seems that when some Corporation deigns to allow you to email about a problem, they have AI reply with a canned response which has nothing to do with my problem.
 
Don’t they realize the damage that they are doing to their brand?  Or do they just don’t care.
 
— 30 — 

Leave a Comment » | Technology | Tagged: , | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj

Next Entries »