Kinda sorta did an experiment this past week.    I went back to my old diet for 7 days.   Mostly due to ‘budget cuts’ with small paychecks and the fact that the bills don’t shrink unless you pay them (over pay them and NOT use the damned cards,,,,)

Had been doing the Paleo thing,,, lots of meat, few carbs (and my biggest issue with the carbs is ‘pop’, or Soda if you are westycoasty,,,   Getting better about it though.)

One week.

One STINKING seven day period.  

It started up tuesday evening, and at first I was thinking ‘just a rough day at work’,,,

The pains were creeping in.   My arthritic joints were starting to flair, and back pains were creeping down into my hip joints,,,   This was the NORM late last year when I decided I needed to do something, and then read that Jordan Peterson (inspired by his daughter) went all meat diet; lost wieght and lost pains, (that last being the selling point to me.)

Keep to the experiment,,,,    Went ahead tuesday night with the ‘new/old’ diet,   heavy on carbs (pasta) partial meat line up but some veggie stuffs too (not my olives that have become a staple.)

I could barely move yesterday I hurt so damned bad.  I needed a couple of Excedrin with my morning coffee to get going.   Felt like I had pulled my groin the pain the hips was so bad, as well as being near crippled with back pain.  

FUCK THIS!!!    Went back to an all meat diet, low on the carbs (as low as I can go without full cold turkey on cocacola,,, my weakness,,,) High protein, few starches, if any.  

and while today, I still hurt, its not the crippling, knock me to the floor pains that I was getting on Tuesday.   I can stand upright without twinges in the spine.

Oh, And my BP had been spiking too: I felt lightheaded Tuesday eve, and checked: 139/98 RESTING,,,,    Yeah, no wonder I was feeling light headed.     Tonight, after a meal of Ribeye, slab of cheese and green and black olives,,,, 118/70,,,,  this right after eating when BP goes up a touch for digestive purposes.

Modern foods are killing us,,,   The Government outline of ‘healthy foods’ is a marketers ploy NOT BASED IN FACTS (and that has been proven)   The obesity problem is NOT in how we eat, but WHAT we eat.    I recall my grandmothers breakfast tables from when I was a wee sprout: loaded to the gills and nowhere to sit.  Grab a plate and find a spot somewhere in the house, seconds and thirds encouraged (eat up or the hogs get the slop,,,,)   And not one fat person in the house!!!   Granted all of the men were workhorses with hard labor jobs, and they needed that store of energy to get to the next meal, but none of them were like the blobs I see in the grocery stores, or wallyworld, these days.   Land whales is what I ‘affectionately’ call them.  And the most offensive to me are the kids: under 18 and showing ROLLS of fat and signs of disease that are common among the overwieght.  Things like asthma, skin issues, BODY ODORS,,,

So I am back on the Paleo diet, not because I can afford it, but because I CAN’T AFFORD NOT TO.   I’d rather be a little more broke than teetering on heart failure (which I am genetically inclined towards)   Ain’t afraid of dyin’, just have no desire to go there just yet,,,,Especially when I can make a choice to hold that at bay ‘just a little longer’.

Watch your health, watch what you eat and how your body reacts to it.   My diet may not work for you, your’s likely doesn’t work for me.  One week is long enough to find out if something is working or not; two will show a decided difference.   Your body processes REAL FOOD so much faster and easier than some of the junk for sale out there.   And that includes fastfood places,,,   There are some that have decent food, but most are right there with GMO crap that your body has no clue how to process well.  (and that includes the beef that is fed with GMO corn,,,,   If my Kat won’t touch the stuff, its probably a bad idea for me as well.)

Ok, stepping off my box,,,  

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I was worried earlier this week about RFKjr being shafted.     That Fear has been laid to rest. Sic’em Robert!!!

INFLATION

Francis does his cover of it here

And I have done so in meatspace on more than a few occasions.   My favorite is using the 1911 as the value guide.

At one time, (and still, but the cost has changed significantly) the USG produced $20 gold coin; one troy ounce of gold with a face value of $20.   For obvious reasons, and maybe not to the uninformed, that $20 gold peice is gonna run you well over $2000 in todays Reserve notes.

Its not that the value of the coin has changed, but the value of the NOTES used.    Thats inflation.   They INFLATE the ‘money’ supply and what remains is worthless paper (in truth, it reverts to its’ intrinsic value.). 

And there was a DuckTales comicbook about what happens when you increase the supply versus the available goods for purchase.    I wish I could find that again, since it explained INFLATION so neatly that even a 6 year old could understand how inflation is subtle theft hidden behind careful wording.   sigh,,, so much lost in the foggy past, even with our tech today, finding snippets like that is trying to find a needle in a hayfield.

I don’t know what the plans are, IF ANY other than ‘tarrifs’, to bring that supply back in line with reality.   The National Debt is so far off the hook, it can never be paid back, and I don’t think the government has any intentions of even trying.   The Banks on the other hand,,,,    Try and play that game as an individual and see how rapidly you end up in trouble.     Maybe doing away with Debtors prison wasn’t such a hot idea,,,   (not that we could toss the poli-tickians into it for creating this mess,,,)  

EVEN SO, shrinking the size and scope of the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT is not a bad thing.   Doing so will cut back a lot of the problems with overbudget spending by simply reducing the size of the bill.   Serious cuts are needed, and not just in the spending on welfare and the like, but in salaried positions that don’t actually do a damned thing but hold the people down, crippling innovation and drive.  (if you know before you start a business, that you will need to beg permission and jump through hoop after hoop after hoop in regulations and Permits, there is a strong chance you won’t bother.)   Like Elon talking about the Sharks,,,,

“Am I in a bad comedy skit?” 

We all are, and we are the butt of the joke.   And the Comedians are the bankers IMO.

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Rained out, again.    Seasonal work sucks on that note.   Rolling into holiday seasons and the pay gets cut by weather.   sigh,,,,,      Well, not weather alone.   right now people are playing close to the bone financially, and that cuts into everyone’s payroll to some extent.  Our business also has the weather factor added in so this time of year means tighter paychecks and snug that belt tighter to get through.   

No matter what happens over the next few months, with Trumpeds efforts to curtail a man-made disaster in finances, things are gonna get tight(er) for everyone.    ANY benefit that may come about is going to be in the future, not an immediate return.   The biggest thing that he could do is deregulate energy production: that would lower the costs on everything across the board, and while not a complete solution, would be a start.

And kill the department of education.   KILL IT.     I wouldn’t mind working one day a week FOR FREE MIND YOU, to teach kids about the economy, REAL money, and a lot of the other things that ARE NOT TAUGHT.    Knowledge is the ultimate currency, information is a commodity (and it shows in our current economic state.) and if you have neither, you are a destitute peon.    (and lord, how I wish I could get more people to learn how to ENJOY reading,,,   Not just for the enjoyment, but the fact that readers tend to be better, more rounded THINKERS,,,,)

rambling,,,, icky weather,,,  BORED KATS, so my focus keeps getting hit broadside by two Tomkats playing,,,,  one of which weighs 14# 

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First off, I’m worried.  Pessimist I am, always have been, probably always will be.  I try for optimism, but more often, my pessimist side gets justified.

Why am I worried?   Its been one week since the news broke that “Trumped won!!!” and what I am seeing is a shit load of a complacency building.   People feel like “they got this, we can relax now”

NO, no you can’t.    This war is not over by a long shot.   Ya want proof? Go give QueMalas concession speech a re-listen.   Or, if you didn’t listen the first time (and I can understand your hesitency to do so)  go give it a listen NOW.     That was no concession speech, that was a call to arms of those that are still in that mindset.  And if the numbers are correct, there are 67 million of them.   Thats no drop in the bucket if you consider them an ingredient in the “Trouble” recipe. 

We don’t have this.   And I don’t expect Trumped to be able to pull of 1/4 of his promises.   IF he is able to get that 1/4, its a huge step forward, but its not the end of the road and there are four years between now and the next Selection cycle for Bathwater Barry and crew to regroup.    Do not expect the next run of Demoncrap wins to be as sedated as “Biden-nomics”…   

And there are still legacy drippings from before Bathwater Barry.   The REAL ID Act horseshit is coming to harvest in May,,,    That shit is carry over from the SHRUB,,,   No Real ID, no plane flights for you, can’t go to the military base for ANYTHING, and certain Federal Buildings are off limits to you.   IT literally creates a second class citizen out of a large portion of the US, and if you think those restrictions are the last of that line,,,,

If so, you really need to go back to history classes for a refresher.    Remember, Income tax is “voluntary” and won’t grow past 3%,,,,   

My perception has always been “If it has government in the mix, corruption and abuse are right behind and coming up fast.”    That thinking is why I have qualms with Trumped wanting to cap Credit card debt at 10% while we still have this thing called the Federal Reserve in existence.   

While I am seeing some good people put in place to do some serious turn around in high places, I have also seen some that made me do a double take (called, RESEARCH THAT ASSHAT,,,)

The real problem is TRUMPED.   Its not that he is a tyrant wannabe, its that he is gullible when it comes to people and expects that everyone else is just as patriotic as himself.   Its what got him in dire straights the first time around as he surrounded himself with bad actors/deepstate stooges who only wanted to stymie any advances he was making.  

And yes, he made some bad decisions as well that had nothing to do with personell: Bumpstock ban for one.   Operation Warp Speed as another.    Even with that last, he did try to keep the Fed Gov out the mix by letting the States decide on the lockdown things: As IT SHOULD BE.     And I do know part of his decision was based on what he was being told by ‘experts’ under him.    That those experts are now richer for all the graft and corruption that took place with the lockdowns wasn’t because of Trumpeds decision alone, but because they were fuckin’ lying to the boss, KNOWING that they were gonna skim the system for all they could get.    Seriously, the whole thing needs investigated with a flea comb and any that showed profit from the deaths and the tyrannical efforts to shutter a country, Need to be prosecuted for crimes against humanity and any other law on the books that were broken.    Prosecute and let the chips fall as they may.   AND LET THE PUBLIC KNOW WHO THEY ARE,,,,    I am betting that the court of public opinion will be MUCH harsher than the Federal courts system is currently.

One good thing I am seeing is the happenings over at CNN.    Personally, I wouldn’t mind hearing Musk bought the whole thing for $.15 on the Dollar.   If he could turn it around like he turned around Twitter,,,,,   (and I have some ideas of how that turnaround would look, but I ain’t Musk ,,,,   )

Another good thing I saw was that Mitch McTurtleboy is retiring.    THAT is bring about a HUGE sigh of relief here in the KY.    I have seen “Ditch Mitch” stickers the entire 16 years I have lived here, and yet, he still sits in DC,,,   Him, Peelouzy, Screw-em-mer, some others,,, they all need to take the hint and get while the getting is good.  ALL OF THEM.    ,,,,,,

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One other thing I HAVEN’T heard from Team Trump,,,,  This one is leaving me a bit peeved.    What the F! are they gonna do with the Epstein Lists?     I, personally, want those names made public knowledge and let the people decide how to handle them.    BUT, nary a peep from Team Trumped on that little tidbit just stewing in FBI custody.   Like Hunters Laptop, stewing, hidden away,,,,    Let all the information hit the public information highways and I think the Swamp will self-jettison to calmer climes.

this shit ain’t over, its the end of the beginning, and now its time for the next chapter, but we have to hold Trumped and his crews’ feet to the fire.   Make them stick to the plan, and if someone is slacking, make sure that person is held to task or removed/replaced.    That includes Trumped himself. 

(personally, If I were in Trumps shoes, I would have a stack of pinkslips that would need a pallet to move, ready to hand out on Jan 21st.   Fire the whole damned lot of ’em and figure it out along the way.    FBI, CIA, BATFE, IRS, DoE EPA CDC,,,,,,,,   All of ’em.    I know that ain’t gonna happen that way, and I do know it would get stonewalled fast, but the effort would feel so GRAND,,,, 

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Seasonal slowdown.   Son o Bossman has been giving extra effort to give us stuff to do so we get our hours in.   Highly appreciated, and I hope now that the selection is over, and those that were holding their cards close to the chest in hopes of a Red Wave, will now lighten up on the purse strings and start getting some work done.    Will see.   

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But there are a couple off points about things Trumped is up to that have me feeling a bit queasy,,,

The biggest one is his “Tarrifs” plan.    History shows time and again, Tarrifs do not work.   Much like Communism does not work.   Fact: Tarrifs were a big part of why the first CW happened.   Look to the tarrifs levied against the Cotton markets (and who really produced the most cotton,,,,) and you will see one aspect of Tarrifs in action.  

The other side of tarrifs is much like taxes: the seller doesn’t actually pay the bill.   The buyer does.   So more tarrifs means higher prices and that means those that are already hurting from Biden-nomics are going to feel a further pinch.   

Free markets are the way to go.  You wanna get more revenue AND eliminate the Income Tax (which I am all for!!!) then make a flat rate sales tax, or if you can’t get rid of the income tax thing, make it a flat percentage across the board, and eliminate the regulatory morass off bullshit they call ‘The Tax Code’.   No filing needed at the end of the year, no loopholes, no special status filing, no credit system or ‘refunds’; just a simple deduction and nuff said.   The savings by eliminating an entire agency that has a lower respect rating than a used car salesman would more than make up for any loss of revenue.

ON that note, look at what the BRICS are doing,,,, That may not be true free market, but it sure as hell beats the pants off what we have in mind.    LET THE MARKETS DECIDE, while protecting our interests here at home.  You want to bring manufacturing back, DUMP THE REGULATORY BULLSHIT AND THE ONEROUS TAXES and the manufacturuing will return.   Being a businessman, I would expect Trumped to understand this.   I am certain Elon does,  

Remember the rule of thumb.  You want more of something, you subsidize it, if you want less, TAX IT.    Subsidies can be removing restrictions, just as much as pouring money into things.

Something else that I caught.   Capping Interest rates on Credit cards.    Oh fuck, did that tweak a nerve for me.     That echoes right alongside Que-malas “Price Controls” Marxist pile of dog-doo.    Yeah, people are hurting.  Yeah, many credit companies are charging ursurous rates.   

THATS NOT THE PROBLEM. (well, the ursury is, but no one held a gun to your head to accept that rate; it was a choice if you wanted that credit option.   I know, because I have two cards that have a nearly 30%rate on them, and I have excellent credit.   I took them because I was building that credit rating: it was a ‘bite the bullet to accelerate the process’ choice.   I try like hell to not carry a balance on them.     But I digresss,,,,) Nope, The real problem is deeper than that.   Mostly lack of education in finances: Too many have no real understanding what “money” is, and ISN’T.    Second off, many take those cards with ungodly interest rates because they live beyond their means.   This is the big killer IMO.   Live beyond your means and unlike the FedGov that can borrow at whim, EVENTUALLY you are gonna have to pay it back, and those interest rates stack up FAST.    Francis has some good points on Government Borrowing (and follow the link for an real educational moment.

There is also a human nature aspect to all the spending.   Many people (and I am guilty on occasion) spend beyond their means ‘to feel better about themselves’: we are a materialistic society, we even have a term for it “keeping up with the Joneses”.  Signs of this are all around: you need only look at the plethora of Rental storage places.   Learning to let go of all the bells and whistles and keeping only the essentials does wonders for keeping you within your means.   When I built my house, I intentionally made it small.   A small house gets cluttered very quickly if you start buying every gizmo and thing-a-ma-jig: it focuses me with “do I REALLY need this?” and often, far more often, the answer is ‘Nope!’  (side note, my weakness is, you guessed it: KAYAKS,,,, (and books)   and my biggest clutter in my house is kayak-y gear and camping gear.   Tools aren’t clutter, they reside in the truck or the shed (except the ones I am using around the house at such and such time. But Kayaks and Camp gear,,,,   yeah, I’m a sucker,,,,)

It’s still early in this four year run, and the Man is doing things in a big way faster than anyone ever expected.   And he hasn’t even sworn in yet.    I only hope his Security is Hopped up and in overdrive. 

BUT,,,,I would like for President Trump to invite a few members from the Mises Institute in for a brief run down on why his policy proposals are gonna backfire and bite him (and US) in the ass.   I think his stance would 180 quite quickly.  

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I’m beat.  Full day at the J.O.B. and now that the sun has settled over the horizon, my eyelids are trying to set as well.

Shout out to all the Veterans out there, not much to add to things on that note: lots of other much better writers are spreading the word.  

tired,,, trying to break my jaw by yawning, tired.   so calling this post ‘good enough’ and calling it a night.  

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Alright, let me start by saying this all started because of a comment by BCE in Private Texts, tonight.

He made comment that the Suicide rates are off the charts since Jan6th and no one is touching this subject with a ten foot pole.  

Well, I did read ONE article talking about how, ” if Trumped wins, the mental health issues of this country are going to be apocalyptic”,,,,

Some people step off the deep end when they step off and thats not a good thing; obviously.   I won’t go into the details of the link, but I can say, a lot, A LOT, of the problem is our STANDARD MEDIA OUTLETS pushing agendas.  

The other side of that coin is our education system.    So many indoctrinated in agenda/ideology, so few learn to think critically.   In fact, in current teaching trends, critical thinking is abhorred and ‘shamed’ into submission.   The Education system as designed and implementation of the Prussian system: the whole idea of this was to create obedient soldiers and workers.   Critical thinking was anethema to that goal.    Our system abandoned Classic education modes and never looked back.

We will pay for that.  We ARE paying for that.    And if what BCE stated, is true, we haven’t even begun to see the tip of that iceberg, nor all that is hidden below the surface (read that as ‘shushed by the MSM’s’ )

No, I have not done any research into it: don’t wanna go down a rabbit hole of that nature.    Worked out my own suicidal nature* many many MANY years back,,, Don’t want to revisit that sort of shit.    And to be honest, what an individual does is their own business, by my outlook.   ITs when the individuals start ‘collecting’ and doing shit that begins to effect MY WORLD, that I start to take issue.   Think of it this way: If you wanna wear a mask in public because you’re afeared of some bugs in the air,,, Have at, your business, and you get to deal with the funny looks.   BUT,,, when you get all your buddies to start making it MANDATORY,,,, Now, we have a problem.   

Hmmmm,,,,, See a timeline coorelation here?    Maybe the problem is Lemming Mentallity, and the fact that this world doesn’t work like that, no matter how many Lemmings there are.

And I do know the Mental health issues are decidedly left aligned.   The right tend to be more stoic and “I’ll deal with it” instead of suppressing things under medication and Circle Jerk therapy sessions.   (I have little love for modern psychiatry,  Though there are some characters out there that have gained my respect: Jordan Peterson as example.)

The right also tends to accept fault, instead of trying to shift the blame elsewhere.   I know I am not perfect or have infinite knowledge, and I won’t try to make you think otherwise.   I see more  on the left having that attitude of “we know better than you” but when it flies in their faces (Trump WON,,, who do we blame now?) they completely lose thier shit and can’t see that THEY are the problem.

Like I tell my boys at the J.O.B.: if’n ya fuck up, OWN IT.    Shit’s gonna suck for a bit, but the respect you gain by owning up to it will balance in the end.  (so long as no one died, right?  )   I’ve seen time and time again since I started paying attention to politics, the left side ALWAYS points the fingers,,, never ever looking at those three fingers pointed back at themselves.

The same aspect is how I apply my managment/supervisory role.   If one of them screws up, I do my damnedest to fix it, have them help me if able, and hold them to task for it.  IF I DON’T CATCH IT, I take the heat, I don’t shift the blame, I take it.   BUT, when I find out, if I don’t already know, who did me dirty, I tend to bring the heat back down on that person, personally.   I don’t pawn it off to the Bosses.

Sounds tyrannical you might say?   Then why am I the favorite crew leader of all the crew (with the exception of one total loser,,,)?    Because I give them responsibility and free rein.   The other crew leaders wont’ let them do jack without micromanaging them into quivering masses off spineless jelly.

Think about how the left can’t maintain a steady state of Ideology.   First it was the Gay marriage thing.   Then it became LGB, and that grew into whatever fucking acronym it is today.    There is NO FOUNDATION because the rule is “whatever cause draws the most attention”, always shifting, and those that can’t keep up ‘aren’t liberal enough’ or something.     

That quicksand under their beleif system (and its more religion than even they want to admit) doesn’t set up a body or stable mental states, let alone a solid foundation to grow from.   

I may not be ‘religious’ in the sense that I don’t claim to be Christian, or Catholic or Baptist or any of the other myriad Gospel based religions there are out there.  BUT I WAS RAISED WITH THOSE FOUNDATIONS, and they are the bulwark with which I face the world on the day to day.   

And yet the left continually debases ANYONE that voices any of those foundations.

They’re nutz.   Pinballs bouncing around the inside of the game, directed by a couple of paddles someone else controls.  

Of course when the ‘plan’ falls apart, the weaker members are going to want to take the easy way out.

So, keep an eye on those near you that aren’t ‘right’, and if need be, intervene.    Suicide is bad enough, but like in that link above, sometimes they step off the deep end in a big way.    This shit is going to get even more Kray-kray as Trumped and the X-men start to unravel the lefty world even more.   I just saw where Trump is going to go after any Agency and Agents that have been involved in the manipulation off Free-speech/Mis,dis,mal-information.  

Seems to me, that the left lost thier shit when X-formerly Twitter became free-speech: many went out and created their own platform to carry on as before.   They can’t handle the truth.    And that is about to get way worse for them.    Try to catch them before they go over that edge, and try to help them see “You’ve been lied to your entire life, and its not your fault”, but that from that day forward, they are gonna have to own it.

And if the numbers from this past selecton are any indicator (and truthful), we have about 67 million of them that are gonna be hurting in the head,,,,,and a lot of them already are.

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*after a few minutes of reflection, I realized that my suicidal nature THEN was in no small part that I was still very lefty indoctrinated.   Once I ‘woke up’, those thoughts went buh-bye easily.   Death Cult indeed!!!!

249 years ago, a bunch of drunk mercs decided they needed to form something like family.

And so we have Uncle Sams Misguided Children.

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Happy Birthday to my Brothers and sisters out there.