INTERESTING: 88 “somethings”

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

https://www.raptitude.com/2009/07/88-important-truths-ive-learned-about-life/

88 Important Truths I’ve Learned About Life
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Everyone gets drilled with certain lessons in life. Sometimes it takes repeated demonstrations of a given law of life to really get it into your skull, and other times one powerful experience drives the point home once forever. Here are 88 things I’ve discovered about life, the world, and its inhabitants by this point in my short time on earth.

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11. Every problem you have is your responsibility, regardless of who caused it.

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“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” — attributed to Einstein

So I guess there are no “problems”.  Only our paradigms are wrong!  No “problems”; only “opportunities”; only “solutions”.

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ENCOURAGING: Why can’t the USA be more like Japan

Monday, September 21, 2026

https://x.com/rainmaker1973/status/1988482613166612968?t=fNifJ9M-EU2FgGneNcz51w

Massimo @Rainmaker1973

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In Japan, cleanliness isn’t just a duty it’s a reflection of their culture and identity.

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Very impressive as a culture.

I always how the Japanese fans leave their stadium area cleaner than when they arrive.

No one orders it.  They just do it.

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DISCOURAGING: Joe Rogan “Kids Wish Network and Cancer Fund of America pocket nearly everything”

Sunday, September 20, 2026

https://x.com/matrixmysteries/status/1988581895857475898?s=51&t=fNifJ9M-EU2FgGneNcz51w

MatrixMysteries @MatrixMysteries
7:17 AM · Nov 12, 2025

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“They raised $127 million — and only 2.5% went to the kids.”

“Charity is just another business.”

Joe Rogan says groups like Kids Wish Network and Cancer Fund of America pocket nearly everything — while the people they claim to help get almost nothing.

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I bet they are incorporated as a non-profit and enjoy tax advantages.

Seems like some reform is necessary.  Even the Corporate version of the “death penalty”.

Where are all the regulators?

Argh!

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VETERANS: “I will never leave a fallen comrade.”

Saturday, September 19, 2026

https://www.military.com/history/4-things-know-pow-mia-recognition-day.html

POW-MIA Remembrance Day: Our Heroes Are Never Forgotten - Chris Miller

Remember those that the Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats betrayed by leaving them behind!

“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

“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

The most significant item in the Quang report is the assertion that there were 1,205 American POWs in captivity that September. Six months later, Hanoi released 591 POWs, insisting they were the only prisoners alive at that time. If that was true and if the Quang report is accurate, more than 600 POWs must have died or been killed between the fall of 1972 and April 1, 1973. https://time.com/archive/6723016/american-pows-who-was-left-behind/

“I can’t promise you that I will bring you all home alive. But this I swear, before you and before Almighty God, that when we go into battle, I will be the first to set foot on the field, and I will be the last to step off, and I will leave no one behind. Dead or alive, we will all come home together. So help me, God.”  — Mel Gibson playing Lt. Col. Hal Moore in “We Were Soldiers”

In the U.S. Armed Forces, we don’t leave anyone behind. It’s one of the basic pillars of what the Army calls the Warrior Ethos: “I will never leave a fallen comrade.” https://nation.time.com/2012/05/17/the-warrior-ethos-why-we-leave-no-one-behind/

We should add “BIA” (Betrayed In Action) to MIAs, POWs, KIAs, WIAs!

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VETERANS:t September 18, 2026 – National POW/MIA Recognition Day

Friday, September 18, 2026

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Before the POW/MIA flag flew over the White House or was recognized by Congress, it began with Mary Hoff—a military wife searching for answers after her husband was declared missing in Vietnam.

Her request helped create one of America’s most recognizable symbols and the four-word promise printed beneath it: YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN

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“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

And, of course, everyone “forgets”.  Except for the vets and the families of all the KIAs, MIAs, POWs, and those who carry a lifetime of “scars”.

All the “chicken hawks” should be voted out of office.  Any “Congress Critter” who votes for, or allows to happen, should be handed a rifle and sent to “the front” where ever it happens to be.

Argh!

Remember Heinlein’s Starship Troopers’ universe?

“One does not merely have the right to be a citizen and vote by virtue of what Heinlein called the mere accident of birth; rather, one has to earn this right through Federal Service that tested one’s ability and willingness to sacrifice for the greater good of the polity. “

Bet a lot of vets would NOT vote for all the undeclared wars the USA has been in since WW2?

I sure wouldn’t. Would you?

Argh!

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ENCOURAGING: Building a lasting structure is an amazing feat; done by a “dumb” bird is a challenge to ingineers everywhere

Thursday, September 17, 2026

https://boingboing.net/2026/03/25/storks-build-enormous-nests-on-rooftops-that-weigh-hundreds-of-pounds.html

Storks build enormous nests on rooftops that weigh hundreds of pounds
Popkin 10:48 am Wed Mar 25, 2026

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Photo #4 from Lost Found Art is my favorite — a stork nest balanced atop the pointed section of a roof, somehow maintaining its grip on that precarious spot. The whole series of photos is gorgeous, each nest its own piece of accidental architecture. I wish these photos were an entire book.

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Interesting.  I wonder if architects stay this stuff to learn Mother Nature’s secrets. There’s so much we don’t know!

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GOVERNACIDE: Each VAERS report is assigned a VAERS identification number — let’s use this tool

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

https://vaers.hhs.gov/reportevent.html

If you need further assistance with reporting to VAERS, please email vaersinfo@cdc.gov or call 1-800-822-7967.

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What happens after a report is submitted

Each VAERS report is assigned a VAERS identification number. This number can be used to provide additional information about the report to VAERS, if necessary. VAERS will send the identification number to the reporting individual in a confirmation letter (electronically or by mail, depending on communications preferences listed on the original report).

Other than the confirmation letter, VAERS will only reach out to the reporting individual for additional information if “essential fields” of the VAERS form are not filled out. VAERS will not contact the reporting individual by phone for follow-up. Additional information requests are sent electronically or by mail and will explain what information is missing from the report and how the reporter can update it.

The VAERS program follows up on reports classified as serious by attempting to obtain medical records to better understand the event. These requests for medical records are made directly to health institutions or public health authorities that create and maintain medical records. The medical records are added to the permanent record under the VAERS ID, compliant with privacy standards.

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I’d hope that every person would make use of this system, if they are injured or knows someone who’s injured by the Covid clot shot. If for no other reason, then it would be impossible to fudge the statistics. Certainly anyone who has a relative or friend that was died after a Covid vaccination, or any vaccination, would take the time to fill out the form as a way of grieving for their friend or relative.

I’m sure that there can be many excuses to cover up, but I remember the reported cases of people dying in hospitals from auto accidents that were coded as “covid” so the hospital could claim the extra money for their death.  I’m just as sure that strong young athletes’ dying for no apparent reason weren’t coded correctly to satisfy Big Pharma’s need to cover up the problem.

And let’s not forget the corruption of the various politicians and bureaucrats in passing the various forms of “immunity” and “get out of jail free” cards for political contributions.  They all should be punished.  If not in a court of law, then shamed by publicly putting them out in the world as shameful people.  They should be shunned.

Sack cloth and ashes. Tar and feathers.  A ride thru their home town like Lady Godiva.  At least, she did it for good purpose.  I’m think of that Game of Thrones scene were the peasants thru <synonym for excrement> on the shamed queen.

Argh!

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ECONOMICS: “Social Security Insurance” was and is a Ponzu scheme to benefit the politicians and bureaucrats!

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

https://x.com/michellemaxwell/status/1951822943446614464?s=12

Michelle Maxwell ™
@MichelleMaxwell
Proud Virginia Constitutional Conservative,1A, 2A Proud MAGA Trump Supporter, Wife, Mom, Mimi, Author, BRCA2 Previvor, Ran For Local Office and Won 🇺🇸HTT
9:50 PM · Aug 2, 2025

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Just another reminder how wrong it is that politicians are ok with handing out OUR money to those that aren’t entitled to it!!

A woman dies at age 65 before collecting one benefit check. She and her employer paid into the system for almost 50 years and she collected NOTHING. Keep in mind all the working people that die every year who were paying into the system and got nothing.

And these governmental morons mismanaged the money and stole from the system, so that it’s now going broke. BEAUTIFUL!  And they have the audacity to call today’s seniors “vultures” in an attempt to cover their ineptitude. DISGRACEFUL!

The real reason for renaming our Social Security payments is so the government can claim that all those social security recipients are receiving entitlements thus putting them in the same category as welfare, and food stamp recipients.

THIS IS WORTH THE FEW MINUTES IT TAKES TO READ AND DIGEST!

F.Y.I. By changing the name of SS contributions, it gives them a means to refute this program in the future. It’s free money for the government to spend under this guise.
The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a Federal Benefit Payment ?

I’ll be part of the one percent to forward this. I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you.

Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it.
The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a “Federal Benefit Payment.”
This is NOT a benefit. It is OUR money, paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too! It totaled 15% of our income before taxes. (This should be enough for you to forward this message, If not read on.)

If you averaged $30K per year over your working life, that’s close to $180,000 invested in Social Security.

If you calculate the future value of your monthly investment in social security ($375/month, including both you and your employers contributions) at a meager 1% interest rate compounded monthly, after 40 years of working you’d have more than $1.3+ million dollars saved.

This is your personal investment. Upon retirement, if you took out only 3% per year, you’d receive $39,318 per year, or $3,277 per month.

That’s almost three times more than today’s average Social Security benefit of $1,230 per month, according to the Social Security Administration. (Google it – it’s a fact). And your retirement fund would last more than 33 years (until you’re 98 if you retire at age 65)! I can only imagine how much better most average-income people could live in retirement if our government had just invested our money in low-risk interest-earning accounts.

Instead, the folks in Washington pulled off a bigger Ponzi scheme than Bernie Madoff ever did (or Lyndon Johnson).

They took our money and used it elsewhere. They “forgot”(oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking. They didn’t have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them … and they didn’t pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they’ve told us that the money won’t support us for very much longer.

(Isn’t it funny that they NEVER say this about welfare payments?)

But is it our fault they misused our investments? And now, to add insult to injury, they’re calling it a benefit, as if we never worked to earn every penny of it. This is stealing!

Just because they borrowed the money, doesn’t mean that our investments were for charity!

Let’s take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.

Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of the 92% of our population who need it.

Then call it what it is:

                      Our Earned Retirement Income.

90% of people won’t forward this.

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“You can’t taper a Ponzi scheme.” — Max Keiser

I ABSOLUTELY AGREE!  “Social Security” has always been a Gooferment Ponzi scheme that transfers, wealth from poor minority men to rich white women.

  • It was a step towards socialism, and then communism.
  • It destroyed the extended family by allowing grandparents to “retire” and move places like Florida andArizona away from their families who needed their physical presence as support.
  • Also, they got everyone used to the idea of a government monthly check thus destroying the savings incentive.

The federal reserve system destroyed the value of money and people could no longer put a few coins away for their old age.  It created an entitled boomer-class of voters beholding to the Democratic incumbent politicians. Both the Democrat and Republican incumbent politicians should share the blame and our scorn at their malfeasance in office.  The Democratic Socialist cabal DSA should be laughed out of every election by pointing to North Korea, Cuba, and the third world hell hole.  

Now that the government has made the wage slave class a serfdom we requires two salaries to barely stay afloat, we need a multigenerational decades long GENTLE plan to remove Social Security. We, The Sheeple should not allow the politicians to “pull the rug out “from people who planned their retirement around having that Social Security income.

Like separating “EDUCATION” from the Gooferment (i.e., Gooferment SK-CRUEL-as, we need about 40 year, 4 decades, 2 generations to erase these SOCIALIST mistakes. 

For starters, make “social security” a transferable asset upon the death of the original recipient.  This way poor minority men, who have paid in forever, have something to leave their families.  A fair way to assess it is: if you put in more than you collected, the excess amount should go to your estate.  (Yes, I KNOW that ignores BOTH the time value of money and you put in “dollars” with high purchasing power and receive ‘dollars” with much much less purchasing power.  But let’s start fixing the problem.  Ponzi victims are victims of theft by deception)

Next step is for the Federal Gooferment to recognize and assume all the unfunded liability as a Federal Debt.  Then, release all the wage slaves from paying the regressive “social security contribution”.  We can adjust the FLAT TAX on income to cover the difference.

There’s a start!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: The injured were left to bear the loss.

Monday, September 14, 2026

https://www.malone.news/p/congress-gave-big-pharma-immunity?publication_id=583200&post_id=215365992&isFreemail=true&r=3snn7d&triedRedirect=true

Congress Gave Big Pharma Immunity. Vaccine Victims Got the Bill
The compensation system built to fail Americans
Dr. Robert W. Malone
Sep 12, 2026

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This is the story of a bargain Congress made with the American people in 1986 and quietly gutted in 2005. The original bargain was not perfect, but it recognized a basic moral fact: if government protects an industry by taking away an injured person’s ordinary right to sue, government assumes a corresponding duty to provide a fair and meaningful alternative. In 2005, Congress retained sweeping immunity for big pharma, while substituting a narrower, harsher, less transparent program effectively beyond the reach of any court. The manufacturers kept the protection. The injured were left to bear the loss.

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Sorry, but how do “We, The Sheeple” hold the politicians and bureaucrats accountable for giving “us” “the short end of the stick”?  Like the criminals they are, they hide their identities (often with out a recorded vote and all sorts of other subterfuges) and escape from the “crime scene” (i.e., Congress) with a pension, a bag of loot, and everything they can take including the kitchen sink if they can.

Where is the Vax Injured, their families, and the Tapayers’ hook to bring them back to face some sort of “justice”.  If such is possible?

These are “honest mistakes” or “little white lies”, this is corruption, malfeasance, and deliberate criminal action.

Argh!

<<Feel free to ask me how I really feel while I’m getting my pitchfork and torch!>>

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MEME: Again, many a true word is said in a meme?

Sunday, September 13, 2026

https://www.malone.news/p/friday-funnies-trust-me?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#media-fd833cec-208b-4e7c-8c2c-468f1bd8b356

I’m surprised that people don’t kill themselves by accident.

Just the other day, I saw a pack of school kids on their scooters, with helmets, all looking at their screen while zipping along at about 20 miles per hour.

Lot of good this helmets will do when there is nothing Under them to protect.

Sigh!

Almost as bad as the drivers who are so engrossed in their screen that they completely miss the light from red to green and back to red.  It’d never happen in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee.

Argh!

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