For some reason, I think this is funny, true, and great job advice.
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HEALTH: Pandemic or plandemic — is the jab the best way to reduce risk?
Thursday, February 24, 2022https://abnormalreturns.com/2022/02/19/coronavirus-links-a-modifiable-health-risk/
“The pandemic’s greatest source of danger has transformed from a pathogen into a behavior. Choosing not to get vaccinated against COVID is, right now, a modifiable health risk on par with smoking, which kills more than 400,000 people each year in the United States.” (Mazer) https://buff.ly/3ByPebqti
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I’m not sure that we have to accept that the jab is the best defense. India has show that a cheap concoction of vitamins and stuff does great. And a diluted peroxide lavage is another tactic to be used.
Sigh. I think the “parasite class of humans” (i.e., Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats, “scientist with agendas”, “celebrities”, the corporate press, Big Pharma, Big Tech) is leading “We, The Sheeple” down the path to perdition.
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INNOVATION: A “Farmers’ Market” is an example of a new business model
Wednesday, February 23, 2022https://modernfarmer.com/2022/02/new-lebanon-farmers-market/
This Market Stepped Up to Feed a Town With No Grocery Store
FEB 13, 2022
Robin Catalano
- In upstate New York, New Lebanon Farmers’ Market is filling a need and honing a model for others to follow.
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When Josh Young took over management of the decade-old New Lebanon Farmers Market (NLFM) in rural upstate New York in 2020, he needed to think creatively to mitigate the upheaval caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. He didn’t anticipate those efforts would result in a new hybrid market model that would garner a major grant from the USDA, and serve as a fresh-fare blueprint for food deserts.
Like many Northeastern towns that prospered during the Industrial Era, New Lebanon declined when the passenger rail shuttered in the 1950s. The town’s only grocery store closed more than a dozen years ago. Residents had resigned themselves to the 10-plus-mile haul for shopping.
As the coronavirus rocked the supply chain, Josh Young, a freelance software engineer, and his sister, Eleanor Young, who runs a butchery and sausage-making business, took the NLFM virtual, with online ordering and weekly pickup and deliveries. It was an immediate hit.
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The Youngs are confident the New Lebanon Farmers Market can serve as a model for food deserts across the country. “Anyone can do this,” says Josh. “You can start small, and grow it a little bit every week. The next person to bootstrap an effort like ours will be able to point to us as an example in order to solicit capital for an even larger market.”
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Now I am not keen on the term “food deserts”, but I’d like to patronize their NLFM. I find that “food” today doesn’t taste the same as when I was a kid. I remember the rolls from the bakery more like what Ben Franklin described than the “hockey pucks” we buy today.
I’ve read posts after posts in the survivalist sites about how crops are “poorer” in nutritional value from Big Ag than home grown “victory gardens”.
Maybe our taste buds are detecting that and telling our primal brain to forage elsewhere.
Sigh!
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RANT: cablewifi down
Tuesday, February 22, 2022Argh
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INTERESTING: Never underestimate “Mother Nature”!
Tuesday, February 22, 2022https://www.hcn.org/issues/54.3/north-wildlife-a-new-tundra-engineered-by-beavers
A new tundra, engineered by beavers
Once nonexistent in northwest Alaska, beavers are both benefiting from and changing a warming tundra.
Kylie Mohr Feb. 17, 2022
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Selawik, about 80 miles to the east, is a beaver hotspot, too, and some are upset that the animals are blocking hunting access by boat. “Elders said to start getting rid of the beavers, but nobody listened, and now it’s overpopulated,” said Ralph Ramoth Jr. (Inupiaq), a subsistence hunter who also works for the local airport and his town’s road, water and sewer department. Lodges up to 15 feet tall make navigating sloughs to hunt moose on the periphery challenging. “You can’t even go some places now with a boat, because it’s dammed up,” Ramoth said. Sometimes he tries to chip away at beavers’ handiwork, with little success. “If you tear up part of a dam or a beaver igloo, they’ll come right back and fix it up again,” he said. “They’re just busy beavers.”
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Nature abhors a vacuum? Of course, the critters are going to expand and fill up any suitable range. And, there’s not a lot us humans can do.
Aren’t we sort of like those beavers and expanding our “range” across the globe and eventurally the known universe?
Don’t some “greenies” view humans as the scourge of Mother Earth?
I’d be willing to be if that class of human parasites called Gooferment didn’t keep us down and monopolize “space travel” by force, humans would all ready be living on all the planets of “our” solar system. And be pushing the boundaries of space exploration to the far away stars.
Watch out aliens — if there are such — I think there’s a good chance there are — we coming for you. It’s our “manifest destiny”.
“Be fruitful and multiply is NOT just a Bible verse. It’s in our DNA.
Ad Astra.
As well as a bunch of other mottos — ad astra per aspera, etc. etc. And my personal favorite — ad astra per alas porci!
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RANT: Maher getting “better and better” from a libertarian perspective
Monday, February 21, 2022‘Is that cool now? To choose a totalitarian police state over America?’ Bill Maher slams US-born Olympic gold medal skier Eileen Gu for choosing to compete for China
- ‘Real Time’ host Bill Maher criticized Olympic gold medal skier Eileen Gu, 18, for defecting to China’s team amid rampant human rights violations in the country
- He also criticized the NBA, basketballer LeBron James and action star John Cena for ‘kowtowing’ to China’s regime
- ‘Is that cool now, to choose to represent a totalitarian police state over America?’
- ‘Because the “woke” now see race first and everything else never, fear of being accused of racism has given a free pass on human rights abuses to China’
By CHRISTINA COULTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 09:28 EST, 19 February 2022 | UPDATED: 10:32 EST, 19 February 2022
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‘Real Time’ host Bill Maher struck out at American celebrities who he said ‘kowtow’ to China on Friday night, including California-born Olympic skier Eileen Gu who is competing for China, her mother’s homeland, in this year’s Beijing Olympics.
‘Is that cool now, to choose to represent a totalitarian police state over America,’ he asked, kicking off his monologue.
‘The Olympics pretends to only be about sports but of course, the games have always been a bit of a proxy war for which country has the best system.
‘And by choosing Team China, Eileen Gu became a living symbol of China’s triumph over the west, which wouldn’t bother me so much if I thought China had triumphed over us in the ways that really matter. But they haven’t.’
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More and more, either I’m changing or Bill Maher is becoming more “libertarian”.
I was stunned that anyone would go over to China for the “genocide olympics”.
Give Bill Maher credit for calling out a “turncoat”. Maybe that’s harsh. But, I don’t understand the decision, unless it came with a big cash stipend.
Sigh!
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POLITICAL: A political prosecutor should not get two bites at the same “apple”!
Sunday, February 20, 2022Donald Trump, Ivanka and Don Jr. must testify in Letitia James’ probe: judge
By Priscilla DeGregory
February 17, 2022 3:08pm
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Donald Trump and his kids Ivanka and Donald Jr. must testify in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ investigation into the Trump Organization’s business dealings, a Manhattan judge ruled Thursday.
The Trump family trio has been fighting to quash the subpoenas for their sworn testimony, arguing that James’ office is targeting the former president for “selective prosecution” for political reasons and to bolster her career.
Trump’s camp says the AG’s office will use the depositions from the family members to aid a parallel criminal investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office in conjunction with the AG’s Office, rather than calling the family members before a grand jury — which would give them immunity from civil claims involving the same facts.
But Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron denied the motions to quash the subpoenas in a decision Thursday afternoon and said the three Trump family members must appear for depositions within 21 days.
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“Let’s say your clients are compelled … to appear for a deposition,” Engoron asked the lawyers for the Trumps. “Can’t they refuse to answer?”
“Isn’t that what Eric Trump did 500 times? Why can’t your clients protect themselves by refusing to answer questions?” Engoron said, referring to Eric Trump having already been deposed in the case.
But lawyers for the Trumps responded that a judge or jury could then draw an “adverse inference” at trial against them for choosing not to answer questions.
Ronald Fischetti, a criminal defense lawyer for Donald Trump, responded, “If he takes the Fifth, how am I going to pick a jury if it’s all over town?”
“You can’t put your civil hat on and then put your criminal district attorney hat on when it suits you,” Trump’s civil lawyer Alina Habba said.
“The civil and criminal actions involve the same subject material,” Habba said. “You’re putting my client in a position where they disclose evidence in a civil investigation or they have to invoke their rights and have an adverse inference. How is that fair, your honor?”
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I’m not a fan of any politician or bureaucrat. But this is obviously unfair.
The prosecutor should be forced to adjudicate the personal criminal case BEFORE getting to try the civil case.
Anything less is unfair to ANY defendant.
Argh!
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INSPIRATIONAL: His fate was seal-ed.
Saturday, February 19, 2022California man survives frigid five-hour night swim with a friendly seal as his guide
By Yaron Steinbuch
February 17, 2022 12:35pm Updated
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His fate was seal-ed.
A California man thought he would die when he fell off his fishing boat and into the frigid Pacific Ocean — but a friendly harbor seal showed up in the nick of time and helped get him to safety.
Scott Thompson, a sea urchin diver, blamed a lapse in judgment for the mishap that sent him falling off his boat into the Santa Barbara Channel in the middle of the night last month.
“I thought to myself, ‘Great, this is how I’m going to die. Today is the day I’m going to die,’” Thompson, who was wearing nothing but his shorts and T-shirt at the time, told KABC-TV.
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“Even putting on a wet suit, being prepared, getting in that water, and swimming to the platform was horrendous,” Paul Amaral, president of towing company Channel Watch Marine told KABC.
“I can’t imagine being in the water with shorts and a T-shirt at night. There was no moon, I mean it was pitch black,” he said.
In his post, Thompson wrote: “I’m a believer that there is a higher power now. I don’t know what it is, but there is a power greater than me. That was shown to me and I will never doubt that for the rest of my life.”
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Guess someone can enumerate for all us land lubbers what this fellow did wrong. I’ve read about dolphins and porpoises rescuing sailors adrift and downed military pilots. It was always chalked up to the animals being “playful”. But, maybe it’s just “Guardian Angels” is wet form.
In any event, an inspirational story.
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INSPIRATIONAL: Maybe there is an “oriental” way of raising children?
Friday, February 18, 2022For no apparent reason, other than spending a lot of time with a four year old boy, I began to think of the children of a family who ran a Chinese takeout restaurant back in the 70’s. Since I ate a lot of “Chinese food” (and not what was Goood for me), I watched their three children grow up. While Mom and Dad were sweating their asses off, hustling food, the three children sat very quietly and did what looked to be schoolwork. As they got older, the started to work the business. I remember watching an about ten year old girl stop doing schoolwork and help her overwhelmed Mom answer the phones to take orders. I was amused to listen to one side of the conversation and then see her turn to the kitchen and yell the order just like her Mom. She’d put the orders on the carousel and, when the phone volume died off, return to her studies.
It was a model of decorum and hard work.
Last night, when I was drifting off to sleep, I wondered if the Chinese have a secret to raising children?
Certainly seems like that to me.
Hmmmm?
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TECHNOLOGY: Old hardware gets a new life?
Friday, February 18, 2022CLOUDREADY BECOMES CHROME OS FLEX —
Google turns old Macs, PCs into Chromebooks with Chrome OS Flex
Google acquisition results in free, downloadable Chrome OS.
SCHARON HARDING – 2/15/2022, 12:00 PM
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Google is positioning Chrome OS Flex as an answer to old Mac and Windows PCs that might not be able to handle the latest version of their native OS and/or that might not be owned by folks with budgets to replace the devices. Rather than buying new hardware, consumers or IT departments could install the latest version of Chrome OS Flex.
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Sounds like something I want to try and maybe better than trying to run some version of Linux on old junk?
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SURVIVAL: Society is falling apart; “juveniles” they ain’t!
Thursday, February 17, 2022Texas coach has broken arm after he’s chased, beaten by middle schoolers
By Patrick Reilly — February 14, 2022 12:13am
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“Our campuses must be the safest places in our community for students, staff and visitors,” school officials said in a statement Friday. “We will not tolerate anyone compromising the safe environment of our campuses, and will address violations to the greatest extent possible.”
Four students involved in the attack were taken into custody and will be disciplined according to the code of conduct, district officials said in a letter to parents.
It’s unclear if the juveniles will face charges for the beatdown.
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“juveniles” my tush. They are “adults” and should be charged as such.
I thought Texas was Red State tough on crime jurisdiction.
This is an example of society on the road to perdition. There should be public outrage.
And, I notice that no one is mentioning the race of all involved. Could it be a “hate crime” too?
Also, teachers SHOULD be armed!
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POLITICAL: Release ALL the past “visitor logs” for EVERY past President?
Thursday, February 17, 2022Biden rejects Trump’s executive privilege claim and orders the release of ALL White House visitor logs to the January 6 committee
- Joe Biden rejected Trump’s executive privilege claim to stop the National Archives from releasing White House visitor logs to the January 6 panel
- Is the former president’s second attempt to block the release of documents from the Archives to the panel
- Unclear if Trump will take this case the federal court like he did the last
- Court ordered the Archives last month to hand over to the panel a batch of documents and materials from Trump’s administration
By KATELYN CARALLE, U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 07:50 EST, 16 February 2022 | UPDATED: 09:15 EST, 16 February 2022
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Joe Biden is rejecting another executive privilege claim by Donald Trump as he tries to invoke the right in order to withhold the White House visitor logs from the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot.
In a letter sent to the National Archives on Tuesday, Biden’s White House Counsel Dana Remus told the archivist of the U.S. David Ferriero the agency should provide the material to the panel within 15 days.
Former President Trump is attempting to invoke executive privilege to keep the panel form obtaining the logs, just as he did with other White House documents that were turned over to the committee earlier this month.
The White House plans to inform Trump Wednesday morning of the rejection for his executive privilege claim.
Trump could try to block or slow the release of the logs like he did with other White House documents and materials.
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NOW, I want EVERY past President’s visitor logs published.
I think the Bush’s, Clinton’s, and Obama’s would be very enlightening.
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Bob Saget’s family sues to block release of death records
Wednesday, February 16, 2022Saget suffered “blunt head trauma,” likely during an “unwitnessed fall” in his room at the Ritz-Carlton Orlando, according to the results of an autopsy released last week. The medical examiner said the actor suffered severe skull fractures, but his death was ruled accidental.
Bob Saget’s family sues to block release of death records
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Yes, but was a crime committed? Then all privacy concerns take a back seat to the investigation. How many “accidental deaths” weren’t?
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TECHNOLOGY: The cost of EVs are much higher than our current gas vehicles.
Wednesday, February 16, 2022EMAIL FROM LUDDITE
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I have been talking a lot with friends about the push for EVs, and am hoping that you would consider doing a segment that investigates the practicality of electric vehicles. Here are the questions I have that I believe have not been addressed:
1. The cost of EVs are much higher than our current gas vehicles, that will exclude many from being able to afford one.
2. I have also heard that the cost of replacing the batteries in 4-5 years is in the thousands of dollars. Add that to the high cost of a new vehicle, and it makes it even more prohibitive.
3. Each home or business that needs to charge their vehicles will require a new electrical circuit installed.
4. Charging an EV requires anywhere from 25 minutes to 1.5 hours, depending on whether the charging station has a fast super-charger or not. What will the impact be on people waiting to get their EV charged? First, assume that every current gas station will have to convert to have both gas and electric fill pumps, making them available for older gas vehicles and new EVs, more additional costs and additional space required. With an EV the average time to “charge up” will be at least 4 times longer (5 minutes for gas versus 20 min for EVs). Without the “fast” chargers, it could be 12 times longer (5 min vs 60 min) or even longer to charge up. Think of the impacts, time itself on the traveler, at “least” twice as many charging stations as current gas pumps, waiting locations for travelers while they charge up?
5. What about apartment/condo dwellers that park outside, or city street dwellers that have to park in the street? Will chargers be installed in all apartment parking lot locations or street parking spaces? At whose cost?
6. Where is all the additional electrical power to come from? Can you imagine the peaks during nighttime charging?
7. Hazard/space component to storing so many dead batteries after they are no longer useful?
I’m sure there are several more questions that I have not thought of, and many more issues that would need to be addressed. But it does seem as if the government has “environmental blinders” on, and are not able to foresee the damage that moving to EVs will cause. If they are concerned about “climate change” they shouldn’t be, that’s what our climate does, change. It’s been very cold and very hot off and on since it’s creation, it’s what the earth does, and we are just along for the ride!
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EV’s seem to be a dead end technology.
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VOCABULARY: “The Overton window”
Tuesday, February 15, 2022https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/overton-window-bitcoin
The Overton Window & Bitcoin
BY TYLER DURDEN
SATURDAY, FEB 12, 2022 – 09:00 PM
Authored by ‘DON’ via BitcoinMagazine.com,
As Bitcoin enters the mainstream conversation, it is becoming increasingly common for politicians to embrace or disparage the technology…
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“The Overton window is the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time. It is also known as the window of discourse.
“The term is named after American policy analyst Joseph P. Overton, who stated that an idea’s political viability depends mainly on whether it falls within this range, rather than on politicians’ individual preferences. According to Overton, the window frames the range of policies that a politician can recommend without appearing too extreme to gain or keep public office given the climate of public opinion at that time.”
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Can’t stop BITCOIN because it fulfills a basic human need — the ability to save financial wealth from the rapacious of seizure by central Gooferments!
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RANT: Bill Maher is right “we are all NOT in it together”
Monday, February 14, 2022Maher on Canada Protests: There’s an Accurate View That Some Can Afford to Stay Home and Others Who Can’t
IAN HANCHETT — 11 Feb 2022
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Maher stated, “I thought, like during the pandemic, I talked about this many times, we would see these ads, we are all in it together. And I’d think, no, we’re not. There are some people who stay home and some people who bring them the food. If you’re just ordering Amazon and you don’t ever have to go out and your job, you can do remotely — but who’s bringing the Amazon things? The trucker.”
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Like my feelings about Piers Morgan, I am finding myself more and more agreeing with Bill Maher more and more.
I think that these politicians and bureaucrats who say “we are all in it together” are just peddling more “barbara streisand”!
I guess my views are becoming more into alignment with these guys calling the hypocrites out.
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VOCABULARY: pareidolia
Sunday, February 13, 2022https://www.futilitycloset.com/2022/02/10/second-life/
pareidolia, our tendency to see significant patterns where none exist.
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WORD LE hacked
Saturday, February 12, 2022Wordle 238 2/6
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Time to delete this. Way to take the fun out of life. It was a simple pleasure. Good bye cruel world.
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GOLDBUG: Time to diversify savings?
Saturday, February 12, 2022EMAIL TO LUDDITE AND OTHERS
Bitcoin: The Inevitable Path Toward Global Adoption Of The Next World Reserve Currency https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/bitcoin-inevitable-path-toward-global-adoption-next-world-reserve-currency
So, if the USD has a shelf life partially due to historical precedence and partially due to fiscal irresponsibility (overprinting of the money supply), what comes next? What replaces the USD? Another fiat currency? It’s possible, but my guess is the days of trusting a centralized party to maintain a stable supply of a currency have come and gone. Why trust, when you can just verify? An argument could be made that gold is today’s reserve asset as it is held by the majority of central banks.
RESPONSE
Not sure what to say on this, it’s above my pay grade.
MY CONCLUSION
Me neither. But, with the Gooferment’s inflation destroying the U$D’s value, it would seem that “diversification” of savings is essential to preserving what little wealth one has.
Pre-1913, people saved gold and silver coins. Since there was a gentle price deflation in the USA during that interval, it was a great strategy for preserving wealth. After 1913, the erosion began, I blogged in June of 2006 about Evy’s Dad and his Fifty Dollar bill —
https://reinkefaceslife.com/2006/06/30/rant-a-visit-from-one-of-my-favorite-socialists/
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My now departed father in law used to have a folded up fifty dollar bill in his wallet. He had carried it their since he was a young man, so that he’d “never be broke”. He was blue collar working guy. Salt of the either. Raised his family, paid his bills, and did the best he could. He was poor! BUT, he never realized, (I didn’t tell him cause he wouldn’t have believed me! I was just a child in his eyes.) that HIS beloved DEMOCRATIC (not that the R’s are any different), silently stole his “fifty in sunken city”. Yup, when he put that Fifty in his wallet if could buy lots of stuff: A hundred gallons of gasoline. Feed his family for a week. Ffity cartons of his beloved Lucky Strikes. Pay an entire hospital bill for an accident. It had value 60 years ago. After 60 years of inflation, I didn’t have the heart to tell him that his beloved Fifty was really was worth about 13 cents. Sad isn’t it.
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As you know I like gold and silver bullion coins, but recently I’ve been thinking about diversifying to bitcoin. Now I’m thinking about GOLDBACKS. I’ve dabble in BITCOIN and ETHERIUM. I’ll probably dabble in GOLDBACKs too. My bullion coin dealer is shifting out of coins and into middleman. (Why use him when I can go directly AMPEX or others?). Sigh. So in March, I’ll be shifting. Not sure exactly what mix but I’ll do something.
YMMV
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“Three hundred years from now where will you be and where shall I be?” — Thich Nhat Hanh
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WORD LE 237 3/6
Friday, February 11, 2022Wordle 237 3/6
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A very hard THREE
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RANT: I hope NO ONE is watching; that’ll send a message
Friday, February 11, 2022https://www.breitbart.com/news/several-factors-contribute-to-nbcs-low-olympic-ratings/
Several Factors Contribute to NBC’s Lower Olympic Ratings
by AP — 8 Feb 2022
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In the case of ratings, though, topping that has meant producing record lows.
Through the first four nights of competition, NBC is on track for the lowest-rated Winter Games in history. Friday night’s coverage on NBC, USA Network and Peacock averaged 12.8 million viewers, significantly down from the 27.8 million average in Pyeongchang four years ago.
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I, for one, ain’t watching and I guess others aren’t either.
China should NOT be rewarded for its bad behavior.
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WORD LE 236 4/6
Thursday, February 10, 2022Wordle 236 4/6
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FOUR spot. Shoulda coulda done better.
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ECONOMICS: Inflation reduces real wages
Thursday, February 10, 2022The FED is about to raise interest rates and shaft American workers – again
Robert Reich — Sun 6 Feb 2022 01.00 EST
- Policymakers fear a labor shortage is pushing up wages and prices. Wrong. Real wages are down and workers are struggling
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Fed policymakers are poised to raise interest rates at their March meeting and then continue raising them, in order to slow the economy. They fear that a labor shortage is pushing up wages, which in turn are pushing up prices – and that this wage-price spiral could get out of control.
It’s a huge mistake. Higher interest rates will harm millions of workers who will be involuntarily drafted into the inflation fight by losing jobs or long-overdue pay raises. There’s no “labor shortage” pushing up wages. There’s a shortage of good jobs paying adequate wages to support working families. Raising interest rates will worsen this shortage.
There’s no “wage-price spiral” either, even though Fed chief Jerome Powell has expressed concern about wage hikes pushing up prices. To the contrary, workers’ real wages have dropped because of inflation. Even though overall wages have climbed, they’ve failed to keep up with price increases – making most workers worse off in terms of the purchasing power of their dollars.
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It’s a fact of life the at the FED’s 2% inflation target is a joke. The FED has debased the currency of 99% of its value with its “2% target”! But over and above that, the inflation has been robbing poor people, working slobs, and senior citizens on fixed income.
So maybe a good liberal like Reich might be enlisted into the “End The Fed” movement.
IMHO we need to go back to “real money” aka gold and silver.
Under hard money, prices go down and real wages go up naturally.
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WORD LE 225 5/6
Wednesday, February 9, 2022Wordle 235 5/6
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That was a hard FIVE!
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HEALTH: Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease with Diet; similar evidence exposed the Covid plandemic
Wednesday, February 9, 2022Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease with Diet
Written By Michael Greger M.D. FACLM on February 1, 2022
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KEY TAKEAWAYS
- The dramatic increase in dementia in Japan over recent decades has been associated with an increase in animal products, including meat, and a decrease in rice consumption.
- Animal fat and meat consumption has gone up by 500 percent in Japan, while calories only increased by approximately 10 percent.
- Across countries, intake of meat, especially, as well as eggs and high-fat dairy, appears to be the “most important dietary link” to Alzheimer’s disease.
- Alzheimer’s and cognitive decline have been associated with diets heavy in meat, sweets, and fat, while most plant foods are associated with reduced risk.
- Many factors have been proposed as the cause of high-fat, diet-induced damage to the brain, particularly with aging, including inflammation and changes to blood vessels and the integrity of the blood-brain barrier.
- On autopsy, the cerebral arteries of Alzheimer’s patients are so clogged with atherosclerotic plaque packed with cholesterol and fat that they are nearly closed.
- The standard American diet, rich in saturated fat, cholesterol, and animal products, has been shown to compromise the integrity of blood vessels in the brain.
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When did the Covid truth bubble break?
When Israel had a huge number of “breakthrough” deaths. When Florida didn’t have any spike in deaths despite not locking down and having a lot of old people there? When college and pro football stadiums were packed with people and no spike? When the Sturgis motorcycle rally didn’t result in anything with Covid.
Or was it when we saw pictures of politicians, bureaucrats, and “celebrities” frolicking without masks or “social distancing”.
So to here we have strong evidence that the “Standard American Diet” is a cause of all sorts of bad results — one of which is Alzheimer’s!
What can we do?
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MEME: You only live once
Tuesday, February 8, 2022
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