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    René Magritte The key to the fields 1936   • How Trump Reacted to Jimmy Carter’s Passing (TH) • Trump To Battle Federal Employee Unions As He See
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle December 30 2024]

    #178054
    Red
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    Moral Bankruptcy? No, no I protest. It’s situational ethics. Kind of like collateral damage in war zones. Sounds much better doesn’t it? George Carlin would have a field day with these times.

    #178055
    oxymoron
    Participant

    I don’t really often think of Trump as a bully but hearing him on Letterman saying that the Japanese are treating America really really badly was pure Mafiosi shit. America had not that long ago blown up the Japanese with Atomic bombs and beat the shit out of them, namely by keeping their currency tied to the US dollar which was petro-backed by the 70’s. It became petro backed by the US murdering a shit load of Saudi’s before they got the message.
    I don’t like this side of Trump one bit.
    Elon is being a complete murderous nut job too.
    It’s a shame really – the US seemed to have a bit of a chance there but globalists do what globalists do I guess.

    #178056
    Red
    Participant

    Oxy, baby! Never trust a millionaire and that goes double for billionaires. The coming months and years are going to be very interesting for those that aren’t killed outright during the shit storm. Then again they may be the luckier of the two when hindsight comes into play.

    #178057

    Jimmy Carter is dead at 100.
    I’ve always had a soft spot for the guy, as presidents go.

    #178058
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Not usually on board with the Grumpy Old Man PCR but here he is over the target

    • No Longer Sustained by Education, Western Humanity Is in Death Throes (PCR)

    Finally, someone is noticing the Duh in Duh’merica.

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    #178059
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Happy New Year!

    Life affirmations by the Supreme Leader

    Hahahahahahahaha!

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    #178060
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Red, yeah, I feel you. It’s like why want that much? I guess it is what it is – I try not to judge up to the point of ecological collapse and the horror of war.On a personal note – I wish it would rain. Had a crap year and all the fruit is ripening but totally undersized because we will have to save enough water to keep the trees alive through summer – the 2 hottest to come Jan and Feb.
    If I am out getting wasted with James (one of the lurkers here) and others in town tomorrow I wish you all the very best of good mental and physical health in 2025. Happy New Year everyone here I have appreciated the deep thought and intelligence on display here over many years now and it has grown me into a better person.
    Everyone here actually gives a shit and that’s why everyone here is only slightly mad.
    So glad to have found your company and very thankful to you Raul.
    I hope your back is on the mend. Keep moving!

    #178061
    tboc
    Participant

    “One wonders what people in the West who have either supported Israel’s genocide or remained silent tell themselves to justify their behavior and sleep at night. History will not treat them kindly.“ – Mearsheimer

    They tell themselves they are exceptional and have a right to all wealth on this planet. That is the depth of perception.

    “Elon Musk is the greatest person on the planet right now.” – Munro
    “For in that sleep of death what dreams may come” – Shakespeare

    #178062
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Hey Mike, can ya bark for us?

    Nothing to see here, everything is under control….just keep moving folks…..

    Woof!

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    #178063
    Oroboros
    Participant

    A couple of surprises here…

    Corn?

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    #178064
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Minnesota is Tuna

    New Mexico is Carrots

    What in their state’s culture produced such a choice?

    #178065
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Kinda like Fauci pitching the Covid CON

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    #178066
    Oroboros
    Participant

    PCR is appalled by This Message

    Culture is up stream of politics Paul, but I’m guessing you already knew that…..

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    #178067
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Magritte, breaking the 4th wall again?

    “Trump’s DOJ appointee, Harmeet Dhillon, is poised to demolish corporate DEI policies.”

    Well they’re racist as hell and illegal, so “Just enforcing the law.” These are the headlines? “We’re going to enforce the law”?

    “X: (2024) – 48% Democrat – 47% Republican

    Yes, but CNN pundits said they don’t believe CNN reporting because CNN is false. No lie! No time/need to dig up that quote.

    “”Elon Musk is the greatest person on the planet right now.”

    Ugh, God help us. He’s a scam and a nitwit. However, many other American Industrialists were too, same mold. Later, when all is said and done, we can dispense with the monkeyshine and just count the pounds he put in orbit. One is real, one is not.

    “26 Federal Agents in the crowd IS SUCH BULL”

    So the Government is saying they can’t count to 26? That’s their official statement? Why? Oh because they already said there were so many agents there they lost track of them all and had to run an audit. Right.

    “• Trump To Battle Federal Employee Unions As He Seeks To Shrink Government (JTN)

    Yes, true, but nothing has happened yet. Luongo says from election to inauguration, he adds 1% per day of the odds of him making it there. Sounds legit. (It’s about 100 days between) Again, the SIGNALING, why is it that they seemed to have conceded? And the Deep People, the foot soldiers like “The View” look like idiots because they weren’t informed of this. Why no “Memo”? And why “Concede”? First time evah for either. Why?

    Well as Dowd says, they took on 12 Million humans, giving each $5000/mo to keep the economy levitated. Now that falls on Trump’s/ GOP watch.

    “• Lefty Legal Experts Call on Congress to Disqualify Trump (Heine)

    Gee, we become more like Romania every day.

    “• Musk’s Big Bet: Could Germans Kick Out Their Liberal Elites? (Romanenko)

    Not if Elon is helping. My bet. They may think his endorsement helped Trump and I’m sure Elon is selling that notion. I’m not sure it moved anyone not already voting, and may not apply to Europe. Remember Obama losing every advocate? Stay out of it if you can. Being a good example is the best argument.

    ““The AfD is in parts xenophobic and anti-Semitic. That is why it is a danger to Germany.”

    Okay, nobody wants this level out of me, but why would that be de facto dangerous to Germany? I can easily make a Germany that has that and is successful and not dangerous. Almost all nations over all time were that way and did great.

    A difference should be noted here: although the “Far Right” of Europe is the “Far Left” of America (Whatever that means), nevertheless, AfD IS more “Far Right” than any American Party. …”Far Right” would mean, in concept, to have a powerful state. They are the classical faction of the King, Army, Police, of “German” institutions. American “Far Right” is the #Opposite of this. They want a WEAK state, and personal independence. ‘Just saying. As Europeans, the “Far Right” still means something. I don’t think this is a problem, just bringing it up.

    ““The disassembly of our civilization has left a barbaric people who would not be able to understand Shakespeare if they were to read him.”

    • No Longer Sustained by Education, Western Humanity Is in Death Throes (PCR)

    Or the #Opposite. As Trend-predictor Celente said, this will be the New American Renaissance. Already the backlash is pushing through of a tireless minority reading, promoting, discussing such things.

    Independently, aside from government, or in essence, DESPITE government (education’s) tireless push to destroy all human knowledge. But that’s one of the only core competencies of Government: killing things. “Government is FIRE, it is FORCE” – Geo Washington. The other is wasting money. Not even just handing it out to pals, that’s a second; straight up wasting it, like on bridges to nowhere, arms that are made then disposed, windmills…

    And “Get off my Lawn!” Yeah, EVERY generation says this about EVERY new generation, read Cicero. Read Homer. It’s probably in Gilgamesh. Synopsis: Western view is LINEAR. But history and living things aren’t linear and digital, they’re cyclical and analog.

    Yeah, this turn took longer than Celente and such though, but here it is as predicted. Everywhere. From people competency posts on tiny houses, fixing cars, permaculture, to Barsoom, AltHist, etc scholarly re-Westerning and Re-Enchanting the world in a new orbit. You’ve go NeoPagans, Stix, Greer, Bjorn, hand in hand with TradCatKnight, Barnhardt, Eastern Orthodox. Ta dah! There you go. Now go catch that bus and do it.

    What were we gonna do? Stick with thinkers like PCR and his assumptions? That’s the OLD world, that didn’t work. His thinking is WHY it collapsed from 1952 America to a toxic s—t heap today. The Boomers won’t give up and will consume every last twig to extend their lives and power. They’ll murder every child’s future for just one more “Winning” and already have. We can’t preserve and adopt their ideals, can we?

    “• The Moral Bankruptcy of the West (John Mearsheimer)

    There you have it, kids in Michigan can protest this, but +70 dinosaurs in Congress and State Dept keep promoting it. ‘Cause: Reasons.

    Hey, would that piss off everybody on the planet, lose all support, and fail FASTER? Now you own the Golan Heights and traded it for the evaporation of support in the 200 other countries. #Winning. Look up “Pyrrhic”. Part I can’t stand is it takes too long.

    “• New Strategy For DNC: Younger Candidates Launching Bids To Run Party (JTN)

    Is Clinton too old to murder them all first? For that matter, which Clinton? The 50 year old one or the 75 year old one? I expect this will carry on as it was: screwing every child, destroying every Progressive. It will lift slowly like the tide, and probably take a new party, but we don’t see its seed yet. Somehow they need to digest the hard-rock of terrible, erroneous thinking called “Woke” which is 80% of their members, and it’s hard to see how that can happen. Until they do, they can’t unify the party or apply it to practical tasks. The magic of what they were doing was it was fake Woke on the bottom, with cynical, craven NeoLiberal billionaire war-criminals at the top being very realpolitik about who to screw. But that’s not a stable, organic position. If the mask comes off it can’t work, and if the root Progressives win it won’t work; it’s a Frankenstein.

    [Hogg said] the Democratic Party had to do a better job about reaching the male demographic.”

    Yup, there’s your problem. The DNC is VIOLENTLY anti-male. By foundation. Not just vocally, actually, but in their approach to the world and how to interact with it is now exclusively female.

    “we understandably are hesitant to make men a main point of conversation (given we have been for thousands of years)

    Proving my point. He can’t speak a single sentence without apologizing for existing. If you know men, there’s nothing they like better than that! Soooo…women never talked during that time? Tell me how you did that, I’d like to know. Men never thought of women? I’d like to know how they kept that out of all the books and movies over the last 500 years.

    “he co-founded Leaders We Deserve,

    Wow, you may not want to go forward with the magic implied in that name.

    “• Ukraine Could Agree To Non-NATO Security Guarantees – Envoy (RT)

    You’re kidding, right? Both that you have the option to – you don’t – but also that Russia is mobilized and will just take a de-facto NATO if they’re not de jure? Uh, no.

    “the budget of the Federal Republic for next year had been slashed from eight to four billion euros. He also reiterated his country’s demands for German long-range Taurus missiles”

    And? And you’re going to do what? Those missiles – even IF we had 24/7 assembly lines making them and every one went to Kiev – would do what exactly?

    No one notices the balance and structure hasn’t changed? IF you go anywhere near defeating Russia, in ANY way, they would nuke the planet, so be glad they’re winning. But so long as they are winning, Ukraine is de facto losing. What men would shoot them? To save what cities/people/land?
    Anyway, they’re trying to get Poland on deck to invade next. I don’t have details about the likelihood, but since they’ll false flag a reactor or something it’s worth mentioning. And that’s why NATO (??) is cutting their OWN cables (??) in the Baltic? To get premise to station an army and blockade there? Can’t prove it, but it’s always been Davos before, so…

    “• Zelensky Charges Slovakia’s Fico With Opening “Second Energy Front” (ZH)

    Every day, Zelensky can f—k right off. Ackshully, HE owns the entire planet and YOU have to give it to him.

    “• EU States Seek To Protect Russian Gas Flow Despite Ukrainian Threat (RT)

    Has anyone ever seen a war as retarded as this? Where you get your war material from your own enemy, then just keep fighting them? And hey, wait: I thought Europe boycotted all Russian gas and oil. Except for the part where they bought MORE THAN EVER, and the U.S. too. (In $$ terms). Smart! They’re going bankrupt from it. Smart!

    “The Guardian recently called Kavelashvili “a pro-Russia, hardline critic of the West.”

    Well, that’ll all be false then.

    “the US did not think twice before sanctioning Georgian Dream party’s founder Bidzina Ivanishvili for”

    …being elected. That’s all it took. Like Obama’s Nobel Prize: we give the prizes BEFORE you win the match. Giving the prizes for something you did in the past is so last century. That would mean “Time Exists” and there is “Reality”; get with the program, you’re out of fashion with the cool kidz.

    Calling the cops on Huskies: Don’t worry about it, it’s not related to that. They’ll call the police on EVERYONE, for EVERYTHING. All verbs, nouns, and adjectives. It’s what Karen does, it’s her life of AWFUL “Helping”. A nose that is everywhere except where it belongs, in her own house.

    Was just reading French and Indian wars, and look: 1684, (French) Canada sends out a genocidal war into NY, either murdering or enslaving any poor sap they find, including women and children, though I’m thinking of the straight slavery of deporting them to galley-slaves back in France, like Jean Val-Jean. But that’s not the interesting part. That genocide is the norm is just a sideline.

    So they collect up the largest army on the continent to that point, 2,000 men, which was large even for Colonial Armies a generation later (Saratoga was like 300 men combined), did this by conscripting, that is, enslaving the French farmers up in Montreal who wanted no part of it. Not only do they have their own farms (and goals, work) there, but IF you start whacking away at whole nations next door, they’re going to come whack you back. And so they did, wiping them all out later, sending New France almost back to the stone age cuz they just couldn’t keep their hands off opening that can of whoop ass. But that’s not the interesting part. Don’t start a war you can’t finish, as the Mohicans also found.

    No, so when they were under French command, combined white, army, and Indian forces, they landed in NY, sacked the area, burned everything in genocide, not war party fashion, which was a new turn and disgusted the f– out of the Indian allies there. Great job! Now you BARELY got them to fight at all, yes, because they know the second you hit NY tribes, the New French will turn around and kill YOUR tribes, and now you’ve pissed them all off as well, not to barely have a you know, normal, European, genocidal campaign? Yeah, that worked so well back home (Read the “Calamatous 14th Century” as they genocided then criss-cross genocided each other, largely through Belgium for 100 years.)

    But that’s not the interesting part. So when the Ottawa beat up some Iroquois, they then tortured them to death for sport – just ‘cause – and THEN PUT THEM IN THE POT AND ATE THEM. Yum!!!

    Yeah, I did have the sense that this happened, but from time to time and earlier, fading out before 1600. NOPE. Here we are, 1680, into the colonial era, and cannibalism as a cultural norm. But Noble Savage! Wonders of nature! All cultures R equal and that, right? White Man Bad.

    Ah, will White Liberals give the land, the University of Toronto back to the natives, and take up their Mother Earth, nature-loving “Harmony with the Earth” ways? ….Er, don’t ask. They probably would. Yup. Real thing.

    Listening to AltHist on the idea of Canada becoming a state (he’s lived there), he points out – cause I guess we have to now – the West, Europe, and especially Canada, are the most peaceful, safe, prosperous, liberal, tolerant, crime-free society in the history of the universe. So far as we know. They had an empire, they gave it up. Voluntarily. They had slavery like most societies, they gave it up. Voluntarily, and for moral reasons and arguments. The treatment of Indians Canada can’t stop apologizing about is almost laughable. There are almost no broken treaties and almost no conflict, with a literal zero Indian wars. That also goes with the United States, while we did those things, I’ve discovered it’s been over-stated by like 2/3rds. That doesn’t make it right, but taking over like Puerto Rico is different than dropping Depleted Uranium on Iraq, and it’s criminal to just lie and not make the difference because to makes your case simpler. “We Make S–t Up!” yeah, you can’t “Just do that” in court, like this essentially is. It’s too complicated to cover, but be warned “The White America killed all the Indians and took their lands” is essentially false if you drill down. So note to yourself to drill down next time you hear it.

    Example: Same story, 1623, (yeah, that’s a generation earlier, sue me) smallpox wipes out half of the tribes that had probably ALREADY been wiped out 90% previously (fisherman landing on coast, it spreading inland, like we see in Pequiot original “Thanksgiving”) NOBODY “DID” this. Most people didn’t know it COULD be done. Nor could it have been prevented if they had known, look at Covid, Spanish Flu. So who killed all those Indians and left NY eg, empty so colonists could move in? No one. Honest Injun’. So it’s not fair to say they did. Can we just convict them of the many bad things, they DID, and no “Make S—t Up” about all the bad things they didn’t?

    And the Indians, can we just admit they were head-smashing, heart-stabbing cannibals (some), and not hand-holding hippie crunchies? The Indians I know would like that story better anyway, but White Liberals tell them who they gonna be and are too arrogant to ASK. Mommy knows best. All those little jungle forest children need mommy’s help.

    Anyway, there’s your “Sharing” for today. Native culture is communist. Everybody’s gotta eat from the same pot, right? Long Pig.

    And Canada, props to you for NOT having done this – mostly – AND the “Indian School Killings” turned out to be a hoax. Total hoax! Apologized for a year now and nobody “Asked”.* Won’t see that in the Globe and Mail! So don’t lose your brains for apologizing for a thing you did RIGHT, and more right than most of the world, ever in time. If you want to feel guilty about killing someone, feel guilty about murdering the Maritimes and selling the Grand Banks to be raped by China.

    * It seems all they had was archaeological radar maps from the area, showing hundreds of mass graves. Uhh…turns out there was nobody in them, they weren’t “graves” at all, just soil disturbances. Probably from 50 years of having the kids grow their own tiny educational garden plots. Hey, uh, when you accuse somebody of Murder, don’t you usually look for the “Body” first? Not in Canada! Not when there are Liberal Feelz to be milked!

    #178068
    Dora
    Participant

    Sasha Latypova quoting Toynbee.
    https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/a-toynbee-universal-states-ends-or
    ‘According to Toynbee, a “universal state” is the last phase of a society before extinction. This doesn’t mean people go extinct: they don’t disappear as a group, however they may be reduced in numbers. We are talking about the concept of a “state” in this case. As Toynbee describes, universal states typically last a century or two, and all eventually disappear, but all proclaim that they are eternal right up to the point of their demise. The chapters I am quoting from primarily deal with Rome as a universal state, but draw comparisons and reference from many others – Chinese, Russian, Ottoman, Japanese. Toynbee postulates that the imperial Rome (but not its earlier versions, i.e., royal, magisterial and republican) became the universal state for the disintegrating Hellenic (Greek) world. Reproduced below without commentary. I hope the quotes from ~2000 years ago ring a bell…

    ‘One World Government is a desperate last-ditch “Indian summer” attempt at staving off the collapse and disintegration of the existing world order. IMO, it has no chance of coming to fruition now. ‘

    #178069
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Hiroshima was a long time ago, but it’s been all since then. The bond rush, the currency, then the carry trade. Arguably when Japan shifted on their US Bond purchases “We”(Who?) tsunami-bombed them and caused Fukishima. Wait, that’s cray cray…yeah except Russia publicly SAYS they have a tsunami bomb, so I guess they don’t exist, huh.

    Gee, didn’t think I’d have to fight the entire Trump admin so soon. A lot of it is mouthing off, but like, can’t we have have a honeymoon where you do something first? I guess Trump and Co turn out to be Republicans and not Democrats after all. Oh wait: the Democrats screw their people for billionaires too.

    Stay tuned for how to position ourselves to attack Trumpland and not lose what ground we’ve gained so far.

    #178071
    John Day
    Participant

    Paging Celtic Biker:
    Al-Jawlani, Head of HTS That Overthrew Syria President, is Jewish
    The Head of HTS, a.k.a. “ISIS,” a.k.a. “Al Qaeda,” which overthrew Syrian President Bashar Assad, is Jewish, and graduated from the Islamic School of Jurisprudence, in Tel Aviv. How many other “Head-choppers” are also Israeli Mossad?
    According to Israel’s YNET News, Abu Muhammed Al-Jawlani was born Yonatan Avi-David, and is a Mossad Mole.
    https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/al-jawlani-head-of-hts-that-overthrew-syria-president-is-jewish

    #178072
    John Day
    Participant

    Jimmy Carter is welcomed in Heaven. He went down into the overheating nuclear sub to secure the reactor core, and had no reason to expect to live, as a junior officer. Rickover liked him and mentored him.
    Good, honest, sweater-wearing farm-boy. Screwed by dark imperial CIA forces (Bush et al) like Nixon was.

    #178073
    John Day
    Participant
    #178074
    zerosum
    Participant

    Happy New Year
    Words matter/motivate/influence/control the narrative

    – Investors Trim risk or take profit before year ends.
    – Increasing Bird flue pandemic risk or get your flue shot
    – • No Longer Sustained by Education, Western Humanity Is in Death Throes (PCR)
    – • Trump To Battle Federal Employee Unions As He Seeks To Shrink Government (JTN)
    – • Trump’s Tariff Threats Cast Shadow Over European Auto Industry (RFGE/RL)
    – • Musk Pens Pro-AfD Op-Ed In Major German Paper; Editor Resigns (ZH)

    https://usawatchdog.com/sugar-juice-fraud-propped-up-failing-biden-economy-ed-dowd/
    Biden Administration (and Kamala) re-elected. So, they went on binge spending.
    They did it two ways:
    They hired massive amounts of government personnel to float the economy, and they also did illegal immigration.
    The bottom line is there is pain coming
    Ed Dowd, author of the updated book called “Cause Unknown: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021, 2022 and 2023” for 12.28.24.
    The “sudden deaths” are still happening at epidemic levels!!

    https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/the-moral-bankruptcy-of-the-west
    – • The Moral Bankruptcy of the West (John Mearsheimer)
    One wonders what people in the West who have either supported Israel’s genocide or remained silent tell themselves to justify their behavior and sleep at night.
    History will not treat them kindly.

    – • Most, But Not All, Republicans Lining Up To Support Speaker Of The House (JTN)
    Weekend talk shows have featured considerable discussion about the vote in the House on Friday, January 3, for speaker, a position currently held by Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana.
    —————

    #178075
    Red
    Participant

    “It seems all they had was archaeological radar maps from the area, showing hundreds of mass graves. Uhh…turns out there was nobody in them, they weren’t “graves” at all, just soil disturbances. Probably from 50 years of having the kids grow their own tiny educational garden plots.”

    Exactly DrD and I said this the very moment the story broke here in Canada to any and all who were within earshot. Some even acknowledged my amazing vision! I’m still amazed at their lack of vision.

    Old joke:
    A jewish woman gave birth to a baby boy born without eyelids, “oh my god doc what will we do?

    Doc: Don’t worry we have to circumcise him so we’ll use the foreskin for his eyelids.

    Woman: Ahh we can’t do that he’ll be cockeyed!

    Doc: Yes, but think of the foresight he’ll have.

    #178076
    zerosum
    Participant

    Duplicate reply detected;
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    #178077
    zerosum
    Participant

    Trudeau even paid natives to dig up gardens for graves, to get more votes.

    #178078
    Red
    Participant

    Is this really a universal antidote?

    This is the first post in a series I plan on doing on chlorine dioxide, a broad and powerful anti-microbial and disinfectant that is, contrary to the propaganda surrounding it, safe for human ingestion at therapeutic doses. I promise that what you will come to learn (especially in later posts) will massively impact your ability to protect your health, especially in regards to any future pandemics that may arise from bioweapons research (I suggest subscribing now so you don’t miss out on the rest of this series).

    https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/trumps-bleach-conference-alluded

    #178079
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    18 U.S. Code § 1512 – Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant

    @JD

    Careful John Day.
    Watch out for the ‘opprobrium’ coming your way.

    You failed to make distinction between the distinguished graduate of the Tel Aviv school of Islamic Jurisprudence and the The Innocents.
    No one thinks the Sodom n Gomorrah Option applies yet.

    Regarding SOTH Mike Johnson: i suppose Witnessing Tampering (during The January 6th Tribulations) is no longer a disqualifying, impeachable offense.

    #178080
    zerosum
    Participant

    Limits to freedom: Disposable income

    #178081
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    “Underway on nuclear power” and too late for non-nuclear engineerJimmy Carter. There’s no shame in that. Hell, Ike Eisenhower No.1 West Pointer shipped off to The Philippines a veritable hotbed of combat action, during WWI.

    Today in Spot The Psychopath, traits or full-blown disorder.

    Subtitle: Affectations, Cherry tree chopper, Simple Peanut Farmer, non-Nuclear Engineer, Resigned His Commission Because The Peanut Farm and His Dad Died.
    Is there such a program for “ordinary” Sailors?

    Surreptitious Recordings Or Lust in My Heart

    Andrew Cockburn and Robert Scheer

      November 1952, he began a three month temporary duty assignment at the Naval Reactor branch. He started nuclear power school (a six month course of study that leads to operator training) in March, 1953. In July 1953, his father passed away and he resigned his commission to run the family peanut farm. He was discharged from active duty on 9 October, 1953. According to an old friend of mine who served as Rickover’s personnel officer at Naval Reactors, LT Carter did not complete nuclear power school because of the need to take care of business at home

    https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19961219/2365751/theres-lust-in-his-heart-a-door-knob-in-his-back

    Carter:

      Carter asserts that the door knob conversation was off the record and the Playboy interviewer had surreptitiously restarted his recorder

    Scheer:

      You never turn off the tape machine, you talk up to the last second. I believe I had three machines going at once. There was nothing surreptitious.”

    Cockburn:

       In other words, he’s not giving up on the “surreptitious” charge. A man who’s nearly been door-knobbed out of the presidency doesn’t forgive easily
    #178082
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Trump:

    I strongly disagree with him philosophically and politically,I also realized that he truly loved and respected our Country and all it stands for. He worked hard to make America better place, and for that I give him myhighest respect.

    Just as PCR, I too ask: What is Trump’s definition of great?

    Never understood visceral hatred for the Man expressed in many, many comments throughout the internet in all this decades of visiting the various sites.

    #178083
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Speaking of Biker:

    #178084
    those darned kids
    Participant

    why are fetid war criminals fêted in these pages?

    #178085
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Red Never trust a millionaire and that goes double for billionaires.

    I agree with the sentiment, however…being a millionaire isn’t all that much these days. My grandparents on my mother’s side made that mark by living off my grandpa’s salary and investing my grandmother’s — they retired at age 50, bought an acre of land, built a big (but very unpretentious) house, farmed half the acre, and traveled some in the winter months until their health was not well enough for travel. Grandpa died at about 85, and grandma at 95. They were examples of frugality for me. I suspect that my parents technically qualify, (I’ve never asked,) but only because my father, (a corporate and business accountant who never “climbed the ladder” much because he was too nice,) safely invested during his working years, they bought homes that appreciated before they sold them (always one at a time — the place where they lived,) and they received some sums when their parents passed. As a result, they have had no debt for the past 20 years, and their current investments include mortgages on the homes of two of their children. They currently live in a modest 3-bedroom home — one for them, one for guests, one for my mom’s sewing and crafts — with a combined commons area that easily fits them, my family, and my sister’s family. They do all of their own landscaping, and are happily growing food from their garden.

    I have realized over the past two decades that my best clients for my computer business are all millionaires — many are fine people.

    A million just isn’t what it used to be.

    So, I think that I’d have to adjust the statement to be “ Never trust a deca- or centa- millionaire and that goes double for billionaires. ”

    #178086
    those darned kids
    Participant

    we’ll all be millionaires soon.

    never trust a triskadiskatillionaire is the new way, georgie boy!

    #178087
    a kullervo
    Participant

    All causes require a set of heroes, preferably dead, so their faults may become inconsequential.
    Truth is boring, irksome even. We all deserve some vacations away from it, hence human life.

    May you have a stress-free New Year’s Eve, and an uneventful New Year.

    #178088
    thomasjkenney
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    All is spectrum. Even in late 19th C, barbarism, with white explorers allaying with one side or other, as convenience dictates.

    Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard

    #178089
    zerosum
    Participant

    Democrats are trying hamstringing, (severely restrict the efficiency or effectiveness), of Trump by committing Billions of $ and military assets to Ukraine to prevent peace and to prevent a cease fire.

    #178090
    those darned kids
    Participant

    mr trump et al. may close ukraine down, zero, but the evil blaster will just be aimed somewhere else.

    #178091
    zerosum
    Participant

    World Populations keep growing faster than the depopulation efforts.

    #178092
    tboc
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    January 20 there will be a new commander in chief
    he will only be hamstrung if that is his desire

    hamstringing – the narrative sales pitch for maintaining the status quo

    #178093
    D Benton Smith
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