RANT: NYJETS suddenly find a “rule book” when they might have to pay off

Thursday, December 25, 2025

https://nypost.com/2025/12/25/us-news/jets-cancel-invite-to-super-fan-set-to-take-100k-field-goal-challenge-in-honor-of-dad/

Jets cancel invite to super fan set to take $100K field goal challenge in honor of her late father: ‘Could have made it’
By Alex Mitchell
Published Dec. 25, 2025, 7:00 a.m. ET

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(Ashley Castanio-Gervasi) felt ready to kick. But then the Jets pulled the ball away from her like Charlie Brown in a “Peanuts” cartoon, when they suddenly said that she was actually not eligible to kick in the final contest for the six-figure prize.

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Sorry, but finding a “rule” at the 11th hour stinks.

I have no problem with them making whatever rule they want, but not deep into the competition.

Argh!

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RANT: Social Media Ban

Sunday, December 14, 2025

FROM 1440 https://join1440.com/

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Australia’s nationwide ban on social media use for children under 16 takes effect today, making it the first country to prohibit underage users from major platforms outright.

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Sorry, but as LAUDABLE as the goal is  —  and tyranny ALWAYS starts from good intentions  —  it’s not the role of Gooferment to police the conduct of children.  

For example, the Gooferment COULD force ISPs to give parents tools to protect their children.  When the inet first started, the ISP were under that pressure but avoided / evaded it by claiming is was “infeasible” or “not cost effective”.  They could have created “MINOR ACCOUNTS” EASILY.  (I know I supported the pitch at Comcast when I was working there.)

The UK countries have a terrible record on “free speech” and this is just another example of Big Gooferment “thought police” taking more power.

Argh!

Gooferment at all levels is always seeking to extend its power over the “We, The Sheeple” with “… it’s for the children”.

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RANT: I hate technology and when I am abused

Friday, December 12, 2025

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AT&T HR Access m55661-ap@mta01.att-mail.com

 

12:14 PM (16 minutes ago)

 
 
 
 
 
to me
 
 
 
 
 
 

12/12/2025
FERDINAND REINKE

When you leave the company, the Former Employee Site is a helpful place to access Payroll Stubs, Tax Information, Discounts and Benefits. You should have already received your username in an email with Subject, “Step 1 – Important: Former Employee Site Registration”

Please use the temporary password below along with the username to reset your password for the Former Employee Site before the password expiry date.

Click the following link or copy and paste it into an internet browser window to register:

https://hraccess.att.com/hraccess/#/resetpwd/formeremp

Temporary Password: <<deleted>>

Note: Your temporary password will expire on 12/26/2025 11PM CT

The system will prompt you to create a new password immediately.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Although you can register before you leave the Company, you will not be able to LOGIN and access the Former Employee Site until 1-2 days after your actual separation date from the Company.

**THIS IS AN AUTOMATED MESSAGE. DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE**
 

*** end quote ***

*** begin quote ***

Error

Unable to process your request, contact your admin An error occurred while parsing EntityName. Line 3, position 58.300000

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I can’t be the only one who thinks that technology sucks.

What do you do to “contact your admin” when you don’t have one?

<<LONG STRING OF PROFANITY>>

@AT&T @AT&T-HR

Argh!

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RANT: A beautiful story marred by facemasks

Friday, December 12, 2025

https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/lunch-lady-builds-cart-for-disabled-student?utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4b9c55d78644b3a882a4d

Meal time was extra challenging for this disabled first grader, so a lunch lady made him a custom ‘cafeteria cart’
Dec 4, 2025 5:15 AM PT

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6th grader Julian stands behind a metal cart with an Oregon license plate spelling his name

Cafeteria workers and school food professionals are often among a school’s unsung heroes, putting in long hours to prepare nutritious lunches, and even working over the summer to make sure their students are well-fed.

*** end quote ***

It’s a wonderful story when ordinary folks make life easier for a disabled child.

BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), almost everyone is wearing facemasks when now we know that they are not only useless but actually harmful (i.e., bacterial pneumonia’ children need to see facial expressions).

What can one expect from the liberal socialist State of Oregon.

So sad.

Kudos and jeers all at the same time.

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RANT: Liberal white women voters stats show they voted for Islamic politicians?

Tuesday, November 25, 2025

# – # – # – # – #

# – # – # – # – #

Maybe MEMEs are the best way to communicate with “We, The Sheeple”?

It’s hard to get them to focus.

We have concrete examples —  North and South Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, London, Paris, and … …

… … the best of all Poland and Hungary.

So sad that th USA experiment in self-governance lasted for 250 years only to fall to the corrupt “two UNI-party system” that the Dead Old White Guys tried to prevent.

I’m a fat old white guy injineer and I focus on solutions; not idle bitching.

Here’s my formula to claw out of this hole:

  • Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment (Direct election of Senators) and return it to the various State Legislatures.
  • Repeal the Sixteenth Amendment (Income tax) and fund the the Federal Gooferment with a population based assessment on the individual States.
  • Repeal all laws the Federal Gooferment has as they pertain to individual citizens.
  • Return the “immigration function” to the individual States.
  • Enact Buffet’s 3% solution on the House of Representatives (3% deficit makes all sitting member of the House ineligible for reelection).
  • Transition back to a gold back currency.  Transition to End The Fed!
  • Size limits on all “corporations” (No more too big to fail —  too big to fail is too big to exist).
  •  All corporate compensation that exceeds the President’s salary must be in the form of corporate bonds laddered over 25 years (No executive rape and pillage companies into insolvency).

I think that’s a good start to returning to the Dead Old White Guys’ vision of the Federal Republic.

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RANT: Border Czar Tom Homan Delivers a Perfect Response

Sunday, November 23, 2025

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/watch-border-czar-tom-homan-delivers-perfect-response-2/

WATCH: Border Czar Tom Homan Delivers a Perfect Response After Catholic Bishops Blast Trump Admin for Carrying Out Mass Deportations of Illegal Aliens
by Cullen Linebarger Nov. 15, 2025 7:30 am

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As The New York Times reported, the United States’ Conference of Bishops sharply rebuked the Trump Administration over its mass deportation policy of illegals during the bishops’ annual conference in Baltimore.

In a statement, the bishops slammed the Trump Administration for creating “a climate of fear,” vilifying illegals, and not granting lawbreakers access to pastoral care.

*** end quote ***

Funny, I don’t remember them criticizing the Biden Administration for “cages”, or human trafficking.  Or, when Obama deported people.

Perhaps, because there was a financial incentive to the Catholic Church to “resettle” immigrants, their opinion was swayed?

Tom Homan reacts to Catholic Bishops on immigration: “I’m saying it not only as the Border Czar, I’ll say it as a Catholic, I think they need to spend time fixing the Catholic Church.”

Yup, spot on!

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RANT:20K mile Colorado pickup truck would need rear brakes

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

https://www.maloufchevrolet.com/new-chevrolet-lease-finance-offers-edison-nj.htm

Find it hard to believe that a few year old 20K mile Colorado pickup truck would need rear brakes. Sounds like a manufacture’s defect or a bad design?

Certainly no reflection upon the dealership.

At least the coffee was “free”.

Argh! Argh! Sigh!

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RANT: Now this is what DHS should be focused on!

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

https://nypost.com/2025/11/12/us-news/operation-dirtbag-sees-over-150-illegal-migrant-sexual-predators-nabbed-in-florida/?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news_alert&utm_content=20251112?&utm_source=sailthru&lctg=6080ba40747925275a09dcd3&utm_term=NYP%20-%20News%20Alerts

‘Operation Dirtbag’ sees over 150 illegal migrant sexual predators nabbed in Florida, Kristi Noem announces
By Emily Crane
Published Nov. 12, 2025, 8:26 a.m. ET

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 “The fact that they were sexual deviants and perverts, and now we’ve gotten them off of our streets, it’s remarkable. And we need to do more of it.”

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Seems like they have finally hit on what “We, The Sheeple” wants. It’s what I want.

We still have to solve some “illegal immigration” problems cause by the stupidity, malfeasance, and gross incompetence of previous administrations, politicians, and bureaucrats. Especially judges, who see the violent and dangerous felons routinely reappearing in front of them.

(1) Any “illegal immigrant”, who has been here for more that a decade living a good life without welfare or any criminal record, should get a parole and a pathway to citizenship.

(2) Any “illegal immigrant”, who was brought here as a child, and has no criminal record, should get parole and a pathway to citizenship.

(3) Any politicians or bureaucrats, who hinder the efforts of DHS, should be arrested, indicted, and get a fair trial. If guilty, as a condition of sentence, should be barred from political office or Gooferment employment.

(4) Any formal statement — oral or written — in any form (e.g., twitter) — by politicians or bureaucrats — should be considered under oath and subject to perjury prosecution.

That should clean up this mess quickly.

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RANT: Socialist Insecurity — not a Secure Retirement Plan — is a Ponzi scheme

Monday, October 13, 2025

https://internationalman.com/articles/revealed-5-more-dangerous-myths-of-modern-finance-11-15-exposed/

Revealed: 5 More Dangerous Myths of Modern Finance (#11–15) Exposed
by Nick Giambruno

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Myth #13: Social Security Is a Secure Retirement Plan

Social Security is often sold as a “safety net,” a dependable program where you pay in during your working years and collect later in life. It sounds responsible, almost like a personal retirement account managed by the government.

In reality, it’s nothing of the sort.

The money you pay in today doesn’t go into some locked box with your name on it. It is spent immediately to cover current obligations—mostly to today’s retirees and other government programs.

Social Security isn’t voluntary, it isn’t market-based, and it doesn’t offer real security—especially not for younger generations who are coerced into funding a system that likely won’t support them in return.

That’s why the more accurate name is Socialist Insecurity.

 *** end quote ***

“Social Security Insurance”, (note the word insurance — even though it bears no resemblance to real world insurance), is a de jure Ponzi scheme paying current takers from current workers. What could go wrong with that (i.e., scope creep; aging population; longevity discoveries; political corruption; moral hazard). And, de facto, a wealth transfer from poor minority men to rich white women. All set up, by the D’s to create another permanent class of dependent voters (i.e., the third rail of politics). Also, it’s a “political axiom” that one someone gets a “benefit” it can never be taken away. Argh! What a load of “barbara streisand” aka <synonym for excrement>! Argh! Argh!

“For those looking for security, be forewarned that there’s nothing more insecure than a political promise.” – Harry Browne

I’ve read rants by some about if they had had their “voluntary” “Social Security Insurance” “contributions” and the return on “investment”. 

Specifically, “A person retiring at age 65 will only benefit more from Social Security relative to a private investment in the S&P 500 if he is a low earner and lives to be at least 96 years old. For those retiring at age 70, the only individuals that benefit more from Social Security are low earners who live to be at least 94 years old and average earners who live to be at least 108 years old.”

https://www.cato.org/commentary/social-security-vs-stock-returns-no-contest#

Wish I could find that Facebook post that compared ROI on voluntary” “Social Security Insurance” “contributions” versus DIY investing.  The difference was huge. 

The Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats are drones and parasites on “We, The Sheeple”!

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RANT: Why no one takes the Catholic Church seriously anymore

Friday, October 10, 2025

https://x.com/theblaze/status/1973455947860419061

Pope Leo blesses a block of ice at a Vatican, “climate change” event

# – # – # – # – #

And the Catholic Church collectively wonders why no one takes them seriously anymore. Misconduct, corruption, not “speaking truth to power”, and condoning politicians on abortion have ceded the moral high ground and driven people away for decades. Argh!

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RANT: Like click bait, it disclosed nothing.

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

https://nypost.com/2025/09/24/sports/how-erin-dolan-bet-on-herself-with-new-espn-contract/

How Erin Dolan bet on herself with new ESPN contract — and the ‘double-edged sword’ that comes with it
By Jenna Lemoncelli
Published Sep. 24, 2025, 9:27 a.m. ET

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Dolan, who joined ESPN in December of 2021, said she knew exactly what she wanted when it was time to negotiate her contract.

She did not share the exact details of the deal.

*** end quote ***

TL;DR (Too long; don’t read)

I was interested in what she “negotiated” to “bet on herself”.  But like most click bait, it disclosed nothing.

Argh!

Wasted my valuable time.  Don’t waste yours.

Argh!

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RANT: Here’s the interefernece I was referring to in my previous post

Friday, September 19, 2025

https://nypost.com/2025/09/18/media/heres-the-real-reason-abc-suspended-jimmy-kimmel-live/?lctg=6080ba40747925275a09dcd3

Here’s the real reason ABC has suspended ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
By Charles Gasparino
Published Sep. 18, 2025, 10:31 a.m. ET

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Jimmy Kimmel’s comments on the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk weren’t just noxiously offensive and seemingly misleading — their timing was also incredibly bad: They threaten to derail Nexstar’s $6.2 billion takeover of rival broadcaster Tegna, telecom insiders tell On The Money.

The already controversial deal — which would combine two of the nation’s largest owners of local TV stations — poses significant antitrust questions and needs a close review by the Federal Communications Commission and its conservative firebrand chairman, Brendan Carr.

Kimmel’s comments made that approval even dicier. That’s why Nexstar publicly announced Thursday that its stations would no longer carry the show, telecom insiders tell On The Money. Ditto for ABC, which produces and distributes “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” to broadcasters like Nexstar — and likewise has business before the FCC.

*** end quote ***

Here’s the conflict of interests!

It was wrong when the D’s did it.  It’s still wronger when the R’s do it.

Argh!

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RANT: Clear cutting a small green island in 08901

Friday, August 1, 2025

Dear Mayor 

It’s a shame no one asked about the impact of clear cutting the “island” at Paulus Blvd and Route 18.  Today, the Public Works men show up and devastated the “island” of brush, trees, and anything green. So much for ecology and green spaces. Expect to see birds and deer displaced; maybe even more “accidents”. Spoke to the crew chief and hey said they had “orders from the mayor”. Argh!  

Supposedly, a fatal accident occurred there which was blamed on limited visibility. We never heard or read about it. An internet search did not revel any accident.  

Now let’s chat about the impact on my house.  

  • The traffic noise for 18, which was significantly muffled by the green space, is louder than ever.
  • Drivers coming up the ramp to “make the light” or “get ahead of the 18 traffic” don’t even have to pretend to stop at the stop sign. Talk about an accident waiting to happen.  
  • The value of my property has be hurt but I can’t quantify the amount.

Now what happens next:

  • Will the city put up a big ugly sound barrier?
  • Raise the berm to cut down on the noise?
  • Replant some hedges or trees?

If a neighbor did something like this, the various city agencies would ask for public comment. But the city does it with aout any “impact statements”.

My wife and I are very upset and we vote.

s/ Ferdinand J. Reinke

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RANT: Barbie debuts first doll with type 1 diabetes; I’m not a fan

Monday, July 28, 2025

https://www.optimistdaily.com/2025/07/barbie-debuts-first-doll-with-type-1-diabetes-boosting-visibility-and-inclusion/?utm_source=rss

Barbie debuts first doll with type 1 diabetes, boosting visibility and inclusion
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM
This article was originally published on July 18, 2025

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Mattel introduced its first-ever Barbie doll with type 1 diabetes in an effort to improve representation and produce dolls that truly mirror real life. Created in partnership with Breakthrough T1D, a nonprofit focused on type 1 diabetes research and advocacy, the new Barbie aims to normalize life with the condition and inspire empathy, understanding, and pride.

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​Argh! This makes me think of Evy and her brother Jack. Both Type 1’s. Is this “Barbie” going to have a shortened lifespan, infertility, ill-health, vision problems, and blood sugar swings that make life a wild painful ride?

It seems like it trivializes the problems they had all so that Mattel can make a few bucks.  I am not against making a few bucks.  And maybe it can make children feel differently about themselves.

BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), I suspect that Mattel’s motives are not all altruistic. If they said their profits were going to fund a research prize for a cure, then I’d be positively impressed. Otherwise, Argh!  I suspect that any “donations” will come off their taxes and will go fund (what I call) “Red Cross style” bureaucrats① (i.e., high paid “leadership”) and a never ending (what I call) “March of Dimes” charity organizations② (i.e., an organization which when it cures its disease  — like polio  —  rebrands to a “disease” that can never be cured, ever. Hence the organization attains “immortality” of lucrative high-paying jobs).

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FOOTNOTES: 

① Salaries of “Leadership”  

$832,241: Gail McGovern, President and CEO ARC https://paddockpost.com/2024/03/24/executive-compensation-at-the-american-red-cross-2022/

Compared to: 

Reports suggest the General earns between $13,000 and $79,000 annually, depending on the country and organization structure. 

https://salaryideas.com/salvation-army-ceo-salary/

 

② “March of Dimes” rebrands to fight “birth defects”

What began in 1938 with President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s personal struggle with polio led to the creation of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, better known as March of Dimes. 

In 1958, the organization expanded its purpose to “broader medical causes” but retreated in 1965 to a narrower, birth-defects focus. In 1979, the group changed its name to March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, but the phrase “birth defects” was removed in 2006. 

https://www.fplglaw.com/insights/more-troubles-march-dimes/

 

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RANT: Hey, “kill the ump” isn’t even acceptable these days

Sunday, June 29, 2025

https://nypost.com/2025/06/25/sports/diamondbacks-ketel-marte-cries-on-field-after-fans-disturbing-comments/

Diamondbacks’ Ketel Marte cries on field in heartbreaking scene after fan’s disturbing comments
By Mitch Fink 
Published June 25, 2025, 8:36 a.m. ET

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“I hope MLB can do something with that guy. I don’t know who it was, but they’ve got to do something. We can’t continue to do that [expletive] here in MLB … he should be banned, for sure. Everybody knows Ketel lost his mom. She was the world to him.”
*** end quote ***

I’d hope that MLB would ban this bozo fan for a decade. Hey, “kill the ump” isn’t even acceptable these days. I think that the “bread and circuses” crowd has lost all public decency. Cheer, boo, whatever, but personal slurs are, or should be, severely punished.

Same with verbal and physical assaults at ANY sporting event should be prosecuted to the full extent of the local law. It’s a real “HATE” crime. (Even though as a little L libertarian, I don’t believe in “hate enhanced penalties”.)

I can’t imagine how I’d react if I was really focused on my job and performing it to the best of my ability and someone came up behind me and yelled slurs about my sainted past wife.  I’d probably try and deck the guy.

Argh!

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UPDATE: 2025-Jun-30 

https://1057thehawk.com/ixp/385/p/branchburg-youth-baseball-umpire-assault/

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Read More: Major win for youth umpire punched by coach at NJ baseball game | https://1057thehawk.com/ixp/385/p/branchburg-youth-baseball-umpire-assault/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral

In March 2023, he was sentenced to five years’ probation. He also had to complete five months of anger management counseling, NJ.com reported.

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FJR: No jail time? To light IMHO.

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RANT: Red Sox fans fume over Rafael Devers trade — Any taxes due?

Friday, June 20, 2025

https://nypost.com/2025/06/16/sports/red-sox-fans-fume-over-rafael-devers-trade-with-100m-conspiracy-theory/

Red Sox fans fume over Rafael Devers trade with $100M conspiracy theory

By Ryan Giancola 

Published June 16, 2025, 9:37 a.m. ET

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The owner of the Red Sox, John Henry, also owns the Premier League-winning soccer team Liverpool.

Simmons hinted on X that the possible motive behind the trade was to help finance the newest transfer to Liverpool, Florian Wirtz. Liverpool reportedly paid his former club $100 million for the midfielder.

Devers is in the third season of a 10-year, $313 million contract and had been at odds with the team this spring training, after he was moved from third base to DH for the newly signed Alex Bregman.

*** end quote ***

Good for the Yankees? 

It’s all about $.  Who cares what the rubes think?  They will just keep spending their money on these circuses.

My question is “Is that taxable”?   Short term capital gains, long term capital gains, sales tax?

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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.

*** end quote ***

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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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)

# – # – # – # – # 

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. 

# – # – # – # – # 

Copyright by Ernest Graves in 1921

# – # – # – # – # 

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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RANT: Google-driven search tools have somehow changed their algorithms in some way, deterring folks from seeing SurvivalBlog

Monday, May 19, 2025

https://survivalblog.com/2025/05/14/survivalblog-readers-editors-snippets-212/

*** begin quote ***

I noticed that SurvivalBlog site visits took a dive, starting on April 20th. Apparently, Google and other Google-driven search tools have somehow changed their algorithms in some way, deterring folks from seeing SurvivalBlog when they search for preparedness information. To compensate for this recent drop in visits, I’d like to ask a favor of my regular readers: Please let your cousins, friends, co-workers, fellow church congregants, and shootin’ buddies know about SurvivalBlog. Please tell them that we now have more than 40,000 archived articles, columns, and quotes — all freely available. Thanks! – JWR

*** end quote ***

It’s really sad when Google goes to the “dark side”.  Weren’t they the non-evil folks?  

All I want from a search engine is a prejudiced-free collection of links.  I don’t mind if they throw one or two ads at the top as long as they are identified as ads.

Argh!

This seems like bias to me.

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RANT: What happened to Intego Mac Podcast?

Sunday, May 11, 2025

One day they just signed off.  

Where will I get my Mac Security information?

Argh!

What happened?  Did @intego pull their funding?  Argh!

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RANT: When do “We, The Sheeple” wake up to the world around us?

Saturday, April 19, 2025

https://www.commanderzero.com/?p=12029

“The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.” ― Robert A. Heinlein

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RANT: End “Unemployment Insurance” — it’s a scam

Sunday, April 13, 2025

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/whoa-doge-makes-three-major-findings-regarding-unemployment/

WHOA! DOGE Makes Three Major Findings Regarding Unemployment Benefits Fraud, Including One Discovery That Left Elon Musk Shocked: “So Crazy I Had to Read It Several Times”

by Cullen Linebarger Apr. 10, 2025 9:30 am

*** begin quote ***

An initial survey of Unemployment Insurance claims since 2020 revealed the following:

– 24.5k people over 115 years old claimed $59M in benefits

– 28k people between 1 and 5 years old claimed $254M in benefits

– 9.7k people with birth dates over 15 years in the future claimed $69M in benefits

In one case, someone with a birthday in 2154 claimed $41k.

*** end quote ***

Time to end that program.

Or at least reduce eligibility.  Why should “everyone” be eligible?  Maybe a “poor” person with a low paying job should get some “help”.  But that’s NOT what’s happening.

If someone filed a tax return in the past year, then they should be planning on their own.

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RANT: It’s only fair that “women’s sports” is for women

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2025/04/04/usa-fencing-defends-punishing-female-athlete-for-refusing-to-face-trans-opponent/

USA Fencing Defends Punishing Female Athlete for Refusing to Face Trans Opponent

Warner Todd Huston  —  4 Apr 2025

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USA Fencing is deending itself over its policy of including transgender fencers in the women’s category and for punishing a female athlete for refusing to face a trans opponent.

The fencing organization is defending itself after fencer Stephanie Turner took a knee and refused to compete during a match with transgender opponent Redmond Sullivan last weekend.

USA Fencing immediately disqualified Turner, who had kicked her out of the tournament.

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I wonder who funds USA funding?  If it gets any from my taxes, then I hope it gets “DOGE-ed”.

It seems like the woke LGBTQ mafia has infiltrated all sorts of organizations.

Argh! Sigh!

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RANT: Lotto tries to welch on a winning ticket

Saturday, March 29, 2025

https://nypost.com/2025/03/25/us-news/mystery-winner-of-83-5m-lottery-may-never-see-her-money/

Mystery winner of whopping $83.5M lottery may never see her money — due to a sudden technicality

By Isabel Keane   —  Published March 25, 2025, 9:53 a.m. ET

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A Texas woman with a winning $83.5 million lottery ticket may never get her mega payout because officials are investigating the app she used.

The woman, who has not been publicly identified, bought $20 worth of Texas Lotto tickets for the Feb. 17 drawing on the app Jackpocket — a lottery courier service state lawmakers are now trying to ban.

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Why is the Gooferment involved in gambling in the first place?

And, if the “courier service” is a legal business now, what’s the problem?

Will the State refund all the tickets purchased thru the app?

I don’t think so.

And, economics experts have all pointed out that these State run games are a tax on the poor.  As well as provide lucrative “jobs” for Gooferment bureaucrats.

Like so many other things run by the Gooferment, the private sector could do it better and give the players a better prompter payout.

Argh!

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RANT: “Climate change” is a ruse for Communist revolution

Sunday, March 23, 2025

https://mailchi.mp/tomwoods/extinction?e=39307912abhttps://mailchi.mp/tomwoods/extinction?e=39307912ab

FROM TOM WOODS’ EMAIL LETTER

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Here’s an insight you get as you grow older:

When revolutionary lunatics demand this or that crazy thing, they’re rarely motivated by this or that crazy thing. They’re motivated by a much bigger goal, and these lesser things are simply how they get there.

For instance:

The “climate change” people, who inanely blame every weather-related development on “climate change” (even when we have the charts showing that weather phenomenon X has actually been on the decline) and who demand radical changes to human life that will mean the decimation of the developing world and the impoverishment of the middle classes in the developed world, are not in fact motivated by climate change.

If they were, they’d say: we don’t care for the politics of Elon Musk, but his company is doing so much to help us reach our goal. So his good deeds in the private sector must in our calculus vastly outweigh the costs of what he does in government.

And yet, what a surprise: that isn’t what they say.

Matt Walsh is absolutely right [warning for delicate eyes: there’s a bad word in this paragraph]:

Elon Musk has done more than any single human on Earth to promote and propagate “green” alternatives. He has one of the largest electric vehicle companies on the planet. By the Left’s climate change logic, he has saved millions of lives and prevented untold number of hurricanes, tornadoes, and other catastrophes. If they took their climate change bullshit seriously at all, they would celebrate him as an environmental hero. They would happily overlook the MAGA stuff because he is — again, by their logic — doing more than anyone else to save the globe. But of course they don’t actually believe in any of that climate stuff or care about it at all, which is why they’re in the process of trying to destroy one of the greenest companies in the world.

I was especially struck by this recent testimony by a former member of Extinction Rebellion, a lunatic group founded in the UK:

I was in Extinction Rebellion for several years. I produced over 60 videos for them and helped with several protests.

I can tell you directly: It was never about the climate. It was about controlling you. 

Specifically, it was about mobilising 3.5% of the population into permanent revolutionary protest in order to trigger a Communist revolution. (Per Trotsky, Sharp, Hallam, Mao)

This was told to me directly by some of the leaders of the organisation. I tried to organise some programs to help businesses lower their carbon footprints without lowering profit margins or impacting the GDP, and I was told in no uncertain terms that *solutions* were counter to the goals of the movement and that I should stop.

It was then that I started to realise their true motives, and understand that perhaps I was being taken for a ride.

I learned that Communist countries have had some of the WORST environmental records in existence. What XR was proposing — degrowth, agitation, “decolonisation,” post-capitalism and every other agitprop buzzword — would effectively drop civilisation back to a pre-renewable era and force developing nations into a protracted industrial age, leading to ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE more carbon emissions than the incremental improvements found by market innovations.

Population density is a critical function of renewable energy infrastructure. You don’t have a factory. You have a market ecosystem. That’s how technology works. It blew my mind that they didn’t understand this.

After years of pushing against fossil fuels, they were suddenly vehemently opposed to Elon Musk and his EVs. It was mind boggling to witness.

I realised that Musk had singlehandedly done more to reduce emissions than the entire climate activist movement combined. And it’s not close. Mentioning this, I was met with bewilderment and anger.

It was very hard to come away from that experience with much sympathy for the activist left movement. At their best they were devoid of ideas and completely incapable of making meaningful technological or engineering innovations. At their worst, they were actively working against their own stated goals in order to maximise agitation and mobilise discontent toward a destructive revolutionary movement that would ultimately lead to measurably worse outcomes.

Applying Occam’s Razor, it became apparent to me that the goal is Communist revolution, and all these random causes — climate, gender relativism, immigration, BLM, defunding police, Islamisation etc etc etc weren’t about triumphing over injustices, but about agitating blocs of useful idiots into a perpetual state of protest in order to seize power and control in the name of Marxist Revolution.

I thought they were creators and visionaries. I was wrong.

True change comes from the builders.

Yes there are problems on this earth, but they’ll only be solved by you tackling those problems, building useful things and helping to push the species forward.

If you’re smart enough to contribute, you belong amongst the builders.

Although the rest of it rings true, I’m skeptical of the “communist revolution” stuff. These are not the (equally idiotic) doctrines of Marx, which none of these alleged revolutionaries have read anyway. The causes these people champion would have been dismissed as bourgeois decadence by old-time communists. Try championing homosexuality within the US Communist Party during the Cold War, for example, and see what would have happened to you.

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I was stunned when I read this.   “Climate change” is ruse to cover for the destruction of society,  Always knew it was “Barbara Streisand”  — bull <synonym for excrement>  —  but I thought, at first, it was just a bunch of folks who never studied history.  Then, when the fudging and distortion of measurement became common knowledge, I suspect it was just a cash grab from the various public treasuries and rich idiots.  This article made e believe that it is an organized communist rebellion to destroy society.  Now, I’ll still be polite to the useful idiots, but not so much to the “leaders” of this subterfuge.

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RANT: If Germany’s foreign intelligence agency knew that COVID-19 was from a lab leak, then the USA knew it too

Friday, March 21, 2025

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/germany-knew-covid-lab-leak-early-2020-hid-evidence-from-public/?utm_id=20250313

March 13, 2025 
Germany Knew About COVID Lab Leak Early in 2020 But Hid Evidence From Public

  • Germany’s foreign intelligence agency determined with 80%-95% certainty in 2020 that the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic originated with a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China — but successive governments kept the information “under lock and key,” according to a German investigative report published Wednesday.

by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. 

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Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, the BND, determined with 80%-95% certainty in 2020 that the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic originated with a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China — but successive governments kept the information “under lock and key,” according to a German investigative report.

The report, published jointly on Wednesday by Die Zeit and Süddeutsche Zeitung, was the result of an 18-month investigation.

The investigation found that in 2020, then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel commissioned a BND operation code-named “Project Saaremaa” that targeted Chinese agencies and research institutions.

When the BND’s investigation concluded that a Wuhan lab leak was the most likely source of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Merkel government prohibited the spy agency from releasing its results to the public.

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If Germany’s foreign intelligence agency knew that COVID-19 was from a lab leak, then the USA knew it too!

If so, then how can we believe ANYTHING they said.  And the whole “plandemic” with the “it’s not really a vaccine” by Big Pharma was a fraud.

Argh!

Some people and corporations should be held to account.

Argh!

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