DISCOURAGING: Broken homes seems to be “acceptable”; not selfishness

Thursday, April 3, 2025

https://nypost.com/2025/03/30/opinion/i-was-devastated-when-my-father-abandoned-me-yet-liberals-make-excuses-for-broken-homes/

I was devastated when my father abandoned me — yet liberals make excuses for broken homes
By Adam B. Coleman 
Published March 30, 2025, 3:54 p.m. ET

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A child growing up in a broken home automatically puts them at a disadvantage. Studies across the board show that children of two-parent families have a better chance of success in education, in business . . . in life. Yet too often, society doesn’t do enough to encourage these unions, even saying it doesn’t matter. In his new book, “The Children We Left Behind: How Western Culture Rationalizes Family Separation & Ignores The Pain Of Child Neglect,” Adam B. Coleman explains how this is a terrible mistake of selfishness. An excerpt:

Why didn’t my father love me? Why did my father abandon me? 

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This really hit home.  

I can still feel the “sting” of rejection.  And, these and other questions just get suppressed.  Maybe I should have been in “therapy”?  Even though that was unheard of. 

At some point in time, one has to “grow up”, “grow a pair”, or “just accept the cards that life deals you”.  

Shut up and move on.

But especially as the “game clock” winds down, the “Shoulda, coulda, and woulda! “ thinking emerges.  How would I have been different and how would my life have evolved differently.

Unfortunately, there’s no “time” VCR to remind and rerun / retry life.

“… checked the Eternal Possibilities Machine, which generates all the possibilities for use in creating the alternative worlds. In all those probability lines …” CHURCH 10●19●62 (Vol 1) 978-0-557-08387-9 page 45

I guess every child feels this and maybe that’s why things are this way now.

One of the many many things we’ll never know.

Sigh!

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POLITICAL: Age limit for politicians and bureaucrats!

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Here’s an original thought:

If there is a minium age for political office, why can’t we have a maximum age for it. I suggest your full benefit retirement age for Social Security.

#agelimitforpoliticians

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ENCOURAGING: Interesting heroic tale of the Polish “James Bond”

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

FROM PRIME VIDEO

The Resistance Fighter

The Resistance Fighter tells the incredible true story of the Polish “James Bond” war hero Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, a man of extraordinary courage, who served as an emissary between the commanders of Poland’s resistance movement and the Polish government in exile in London at the height of WWII.

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I doubt I’d ever have, or would have had, the courage to act in this fashion.

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HEALTHCARE: C-Sections, home births, and a sprinkle of medical correuption make for a complex decision

Monday, March 31, 2025

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2025/03/28/risks-of-c-sections.aspx?ui=f9839516412491bb1e06c9e47058c6fb81b9b9b6acedf03e65e93dfdb263c1b9&sd=20210317&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20250328_HL2&foDate=false&mid=DM1725282&rid=258510807

What They Don’t Tell You About C-Sections

Analysis by A Midwestern Doctor  —   March 28, 2025

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  •     For more than a century, there has been a push to medicalize childbirth and transform it from a natural life event to something requiring major interventions so nothing goes amiss
  •     Many of the standard procedures done during hospital births increase your risk of needing other invasive interventions, eventually cascading into requiring a cesarean section
  •     Like other major abdominal surgeries, C-sections expose mothers to significant risk, require a prolonged recovery, and leave large scars which can cause a wide range of chronic issues
  •     C-sections also expose infants to real risks and predispose them to a variety of chronic autoimmune and neurological issues
  •     This article will discuss the risks of C-sections, the situations where they are necessary, and some approaches that can be used to recover from them

Many traditions throughout history have come to view one’s birth as one of the most important moments in a human’s life as it sets the stage for all that follows. Unfortunately, much in the same way we desecrate the death process by over-medicalizing it (to the point research has found that doctors are less likely to seek end of life care at a medical facility1), the same issue also exists with childbirth.

Many physicians I know who are familiar with the hospital birthing process chose to skip it and give birth at home (along with many more doctors featured in a 2016 documentary2).

Conversely, a minority of childbirths do need advanced medical care. For those mothers, access to a hospital greatly benefits them, particularly if actions are taken to mitigate the most dangerous aspects of hospital birth.

As such, childbirth occupies a similar place as many other medical controversies; neither side of the issue is entirely correct. However, the data clearly shows the risk of routine C-sections outweighs their benefits so this article will attempt to expose what they aren’t tell you about them.

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I was particularly interested in all the stats that were provided.  As well as the anecdotal evidence from the New Zealand Maoris, “getting a spark”, and the old practice of doctors would wack a baby’s soles to trigger a vigorous cry.  I thought it was a smack on the butt.  

In survival school, one of the mandatory lessons was about emergency child birth.  The essence was to do as little as possible until real help arrived.  Keep patient level, legs elevated, clean newspapers to keep the area as sterile as possible, get the baby crying (really), on mom’s chest, and don’t touch the cord.  And to ignore everything we’d seen on TV.  Laugh!

Came close twice, but no cigar.  In the closest case, commuting into NYC on a train, after the paramedics took her away, the old gent came up and complimented me on doing everything right.  Even mentioning the newspaper bedding and “sheets”.  He said he a was the head of obstetrics at Saint Vincents and would have intervened if I was doing anything wrong. His reticence was due to the malpractice law that rendered me immune but made him libel.  Dumb law.  I was almost pooping MY pants  that I might have to deliver.  Labor pains were a minute intervals.  But Saint Simeon the Holy Fool was with me that day.

Glad I never had to make any of these hard decisions as outlined in the article.

I would hope that the incentive structure for “health care” gets straightened out.

Argh!

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ECONOMICS: Second corpoation puts reserves in ₿itcoin to avoid inflation

Sunday, March 30, 2025

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/bitcoin-for-corporations/gamestops-bitcoin-move-looks-bold-but-it-might-be-brilliant?_kx=pYguJkB4-5NWNPpHSMMFBEIA8mUlSirEDlJPaB68tH8lzIRLbKOSwm282F8TWY5D.RLfipm

GameStop’s Bitcoin Move Looks Bold—But It Might Be Brilliant

  • GameStop’s Bitcoin move left many scratching their heads. But behind the confusion is a clear, calculated strategy that more CFOs should be watching closely.

By Nick Ward  —  March 26, 2025

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This week, GameStop quietly updated its investment policy to include Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset. With approximately $4.78 billion in cash—nearly 37% of its $12.9 billion market cap—this move marks more than just a diversification of reserves.

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For companies with material cash holdings, the erosion of purchasing power is no longer theoretical—it’s measurable. Over the past decade, the U.S. dollar has declined in real terms by more than 25%, driven by inflation, expansionary monetary policy, and global fiscal uncertainty.

Bitcoin presents a compelling counterweight to this degradation, particularly for balance sheets with the flexibility to tolerate mark-to-market volatility in pursuit of long-term strategic payoff.

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Now a corporation doing this can spend resources ensuring the security of its assets.  

However, the average consumer retail type needs to be extremely careful not to lose their “wallet”.

Considering the 25% loss of purchasing power over 5 years, that can put a hole in anyone savings.

It’s the same problem as Social Security “Insurance” (see my many rants about that  —  the prepaid Death Tax).  You pay in with “good” dollars say in 1970 and get out “bad” dollars that have lost 90+% of their purchasing power.

Given the state of Gooferment finances (i.e., the current 140T+ national debt and the guesstimated 200T+ in unfunded liabilities that our posterity will have to deal with) how does one preserve wealth in this disastrous era.

I, personally, have some savings, but not enough, in ₿itcoin, gold, silver, and Goldbacks.  As always YMMV.

How does the consumer, to use a military term, “get small in your hole”?  Where is your “underground bunker” for this “tornado”.  Everyone should have one.

In the pre-1913 era, you could save your gold dollars in jar or bury some in your back yard.  Then in your old age you’d find that the money had actually increased a little in purchasing power.  What can you do today?

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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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DISCOURAGING: What can one say when stupidity results in a disaster?

Friday, March 28, 2025

https://nj1015.com/racing-car-with-4-brothers-from-nj-somersaulted-before-diving-from-overpass/?lh_aid=84349&lh_cid=ihudnz1r7o&di=ff7a74372a8025944d951624d55a7076

Racing car with 4 brothers from NJ somersaulted before diving from overpass

Dan Alexander  —  Published: March 24, 2025

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  • The Mazda was racing another vehicle on Route 95, police say
  • It overturned numerous times before crashing through the guide rail
  • 2 brothers and a puppy died after the crash

PHILADELPHIA — A New Jersey man who was behind the wheel of a car that crashed off a Route 95 overpass on Friday night remains hospitalized with one of his siblings after their two brothers died in the wreck.

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What can one say when stupidity results in a disaster?

I guess that’s why the universe delivers 1.04 boys to 1.00 girls in population studies.

Only the puppy was “innocent”.

Sometimes the “Darwin Award” is funny like the man hitting the sleeping crocodile because he want to see some action.  In this case, it’s just sadly needless.

I feel for their parents and friends. 

Old enough to know better; now will never grow old.

Dona Nobis Pacem

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ConspiracyTheories: Time to end the CIA! Can DJT47 do it?

Thursday, March 27, 2025

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/deeply-intriguing-memo-in-jfk-file

Deeply Intriguing Memo In JFK File Dump

  • Gary Underhill publicly stated that “a small clique within the CIA was responsible for the assassination” and was then found shot to death less than six months later.

John Leake

Mar 19, 2025

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I am indebted to fellow Substack author, Jon Fleetwood, for drawing my attention to a deeply intriguing memo that was part of the JFK files that were just dumped. Fleetwood’s piece on the memo is linked below.

The CIA memo, dated 19th July 1967, opens with a long quotation from an article published in Ramparts, June 1967. 

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The totality of circumstances—including the fact that the CIA insisted on keeping this memo top secret until now—suggests that Underhill knew what he was talking about and that his stated fear was well-founded.

To be sure, it’s possible that Underhill did not know—or chose not to disclose to his friends—the extent of the activity in which the “CIA Clique” was involved. It may have been more than just gun-running, narcotics, and other contraband.

Going pack <<sic>> to the Roman Praetorian Guard, the trouble with elite security services is that the secrecy they are granted almost inevitably tempts at least some of their members to engage in nefarious enterprises. Considering this, it strikes me as remarkable that the CIA hasn’t assassinated more than just one president. 

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Now the Conspiracy Theorists are again being proven right. CIA, Israel Mossad, and the Mafia are involved. And the “lone gunman” is “Barbara Streisand”.

Argh!

Now what happens to the CIA that JFK wanted to shut down. Does DJT47 have enough juice to do it?

#disbandtheCIA

I expect more revealing facts as the various writer sort through the document dump.

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ENCOURAGING: A movie about a fellow I never heard of who had great courage and faith

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

FROM PRIME MOVIES

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Escape From Germany

79 Missionaries are trapped inside German borders as Hitler races to invade Poland. The last one got out and into Denmark on August 31. The next day Germany invaded Poland and the war began.

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Hard to believe that this is a true story, but it appears to be.

Not a Hollywood adaption but more of a documentary of one man’s faith.

Very impressive how they avoided and evaded the Nazi terror.

While not a Mormon, it is a testament to their faith. 

I found the movie very motivating.

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ConspiracyTheories: Donald Trump assassination attempt at Butler PA needs an impartial investigation

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2025/03/17/many-questions-no-answers/

MANY QUESTIONS – NO ANSWERS

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Joe Rogan and Elon Musk point out the INSANE details surrounding the Butler, Pennsylvania Donald Trump assassination attempt shooter

– The assassins house was PROFESSIONALLY scrubbed

– His home was scrubbed so well there wasn’t even silverware left in the home

– No footprint on the internet

– No social media footprint (completely wiped)

{Extraneous Deleted}

– There was never a formal report

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This stinks.  As a conspiracy, it appears obvious.  The only question is who was involved and how up the Gooferment hierarchy the rot goes.

Sorry but this needs a good airing. 

In the alternative, every one in the FBI and Secret Service need to be let go and COMPLETELY replaced.

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