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(j)The Hired Hand

Sun, 03 May 2026 10:39:00 GMT

<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The banker saw his old friend Tom, an eighty-year- old rancher, in town. Tom had lost his wife a year or so before and rumour had it that he was marrying a mail order bride. Being a good friend, the banker asked Tom if the rumor was true. Tom assured him that it was. </span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The banker then asked Tom the age of his new bride to be.</span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Tom proudly said, "She'll be twenty-one in November." </span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Now the banker, being the wise man that he was could see that the sexual appetite of a young woman could not be satisfied by an eighty-year- old man. Wanting his old friend's remaining years to be happy, the banker tactfully suggested that Tom should consider getting a hired hand to help him out on the ranch, knowing nature would take its </span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">own course. Tom thought this was a good idea and said he would look for one that afternoon. </span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">About four months later, the banker ran into Tom in town again. "How's the new wife?" asked the banker. </span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Tom proudly said, "Good - she's pregnant." </span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The banker, happy that his sage advice had worked out, continued, "And how's the hired hand?" </span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Without hesitating, Tom said, "She's pregnant, too."</span></span></span></span></p>

Mindconnection eNL 2026-05-03

Sat, 02 May 2026 16:29:00 GMT

<p> Unsubscribe Automatically: <br /><a href=""> </a><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" dir="ltr" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><p> <p> <table align="center" border="0" width="90%"><tbody><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td><table align="center" border="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td width="20%"><a href="https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enl/index.htm">Subscriptions</a><br /><a href="https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enl/index.htm">Past issues</a></td><td width="60%"><h1>Mindconnection eNL, 2026-05-03</h1></td><td width="20%"><p align="right"><a href="https://www.mindconnection.com">Home</a></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFCC"><p align="left"><b>In this issue:</b><br /> Good News | Product Highlight | Brainpower | Finances | Security | Health/Fitness | Factoid | Thought 4 the Day</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#000000"><font color="#FFFFFF">Please forward this to others who might find it useful. If you have a social media acct (Facebook, etc.), please add our link: </font> <a href="https://www.mindconnection.com" style="color: #FFFFFF">https://www.mindconnection.com </a></td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" id="table4" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><ul><li><p align="left">Let's red pill the masses! Send this link to a friend: <a href="https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enlarchives/2025/enl2026-05-03.htm"> https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enlarchives/2025/enl2026-05-03.htm</a><li><p align="left">Please take the time to read, not merely scan. Enjoy over several days! This is not a light daily, it is packed with info and comes out only twice a month.</ul><p align="left"><font color="#FF0000"><b>Defund Nancy Pelosi!</b></font><p align="left"><b>1. Good News: Where the Intel is Good</b><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" id="table8" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFCC" valign="top"><ul><li>Kash Patel has sued <i>The Atlantic</i> for $250 million. Given how egregious their offense was, they will likely lose. Between that and the legal bills, this communist propaganda outlet will likely die. One more harmful parasite gone.<br />  <li>President Trump signed the DHS funding bill that came to him via budget reconciliation rather than the normal process. The communists' 76 day shutdown of DHS finally ended. Their extortion attempt was costly in many ways, and the lesson that the Republicans should have learned is you cannot reason with insane people. As soon as the commies dug their heels in, the Republicans should have taken a drastic countermeasure such as ending the silent filibuster.<br /><br /> The commies have been quite clear that they are conducting a war against America. Comrade Jeffries even used the phrase, "All out war, all the time" to rally the retards against conservatives. Why do Republicans act so stupidly all the time and pretend these America haters are reasonable when they say things like that--which they do all the time? Let us hope they thought long and hard about this problem during those 79 days.<br />  <li>The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) exists to further black poverty by defrauding donors and using the funds for things such as secretly paying hate group leaders. This evil organization got indicted with 11 counts by a Federal Grand Jury, recently. One more parasite bites the dust.<br />  <li>Anthony Fauci is now under federal investigation. His fake pre-emptive pardon from the Autopen "might" protect this psychopath from a conviction in federal criminal court, but the process of getting him there will open him  to civil suits, non-federal criminal suits, and criminal prosecution by the governments of other countries. I said several years ago he should have been hung in Nuremberg, so obvious and so blatant were his crimes that a conviction was a slam dunk. Here's an interesting video from a few years back (thanks to Steve Kirsch for sharing): <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-pHjIbLf3k"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-pHjIbLf3k</a>. The ordeal that is likely coming for Fauci will be warning to other criminally insane people that arrogance and criminal cartel connections will not protect you from the consequences of your bad behavior.<br />  <li>Secretary of War Pete Hegseth recently struck down the requirement that members of the military get the (useless and harmful) flu shot. As noted in previous editions of this newsletter, the flu shot for the USA is developed each year against the flu strain experienced in Australia's flu season (their winter is the opposite time of year of ours, due to our being on opposite sides of the equator). In other words, it is guaranteed to not work! Mandating it has always been stupid, costly, and injurious. Ending this mandate was the only sensible choice.<br />  <li>SCOTUS struck down a racist interpretation of the Voting Rights Act that the communist have relied upon for decades. And according to multiple analysts, this could cost the commies FORTY seats in the House. We sane people currently have a 3 seat majority. The commies vote in a block against anything good for American citizens and try to devise ways to harm us. They constantly spew vicious lies in an effort to undermine the legislative process, the Executive Branch, and the Judicial Branch. With a shift of 40 commies being replaced by 40 sane people, the balance changes by 80 in our favor. They have 40 fewer saboteurs, we have 40 additional representatives.<br /><br /> However, this will have no effect on the Senate races in most states because those are a simple majority not won district by district. To fix the Senate problem, we need to take away the commies' sources of campaign funding. Much of that happened when we shut down various money-laundering operations that ran through USAID. And much of it has happened with the help of the commies themselves, when they decided to punish billionaires and high-end millionaires--their primary source of donations of both money and campaign fraud tools (see Zuckerberg's 2024 antics). They don't have the middle class, which they loathe, at all. The poor don't have money to donate, and they have alienated many of the wealthy.<br /><br /> The Communist Party (aka "Democrat Party"), which has long been the Party of the Stupid, does not appear to have anyone of average or higher intelligence involved in it. We see morons like Elizabeth Warren, AOC, Cackling Kamala, Adam Schiff, and Gruesome Newsom in the headlines, and they always say profoundly STUPID things. One of the downsides of stupidity as a membership requirement is you lack the brains to do anything useful. And that is where the commies are today.</ul><p><b>Protecting the Young and Middle-aged in the UK</b><p>The UK was among the first to ban the deadly mRNA jab that was dishonestly hyped as a "vaccine" against Covid. The initial ban limited this toxic shot to only those under 65, recognizing that it was experimental and dangerous with zero proven efficacy. The thinking was if you're mentally ill enough to take it and already old and dying of something anyhow, why not? So the UK protected its youth and the middle-aged.<p>The UK recently did something similar with a tobacco ban. As reported in 1440 Digest on 23 April, "The United Kingdom passed a bill this week to phase out the sale of tobacco nationwide. Anyone born after 2008 will be permanently barred from purchasing cigarettes, vapes, or heated tobacco when the bill becomes law next week, pending royal assent. Roughly 64,000 people die each year in England alone from tobacco-related causes. The cost to the UK healthcare system of smoking-related illnesses, including cancer and heart disease, amounts to around $4B annually. In addition to prohibiting vendors from selling tobacco to future generations, the bill requires smoke-free premises—including playgrounds, hospitals, and outside schools—to also become vape-free. A study found the new bill could reduce smoking prevalence in young people to below 5% by the late 2040s."<p>This goes against libertarianist views (let adults choose) and the individualist mindset in the USA. But what those with the libertarianist views tend to forget is the high cost is not borne just by the individual drug addict. If people signed a legally binding contract that barred them from taking sick days at work and from obtaining any sort of medical services, a draconion measure, they would still leave the rest of us holding a rather heavy bag. The same thing applies to highly processed foods, though HPF addicts are clearly in the majority while tobacco addicts are merely a very stinky sub group.<p>Passing laws protecting people from tobacco vis a vis the UK method is palatable. Passing laws protecting them from ingesting poison that is dishonestly marketed as "food" is not. So the solution is to change the marketing message, much as was done with cigarettes decades ago. You still get addicts, but at least people stand a fighting chance of saying no. Informed adults should have the right to choose, the problem is the adults are typically disinformed, gas lighted, and manipulated into making self-harming choices that also harm others.<p>Here in the USA, we already have Truth in Advertising Laws. Omitting the primary effect of a poison from your marketing message is not lawful (or moral). Merely enforcing existing laws would go a long way toward protecting the young and middle-aged, without sacrificing freedom of choice. Currently, we have only the illusion of the freedom of choice due to the aforementioned disinformation, gas lighting, and manipulation.<p>We should extend these consumer protection laws into voter protection laws. Require communists to fully disclose their ideological framework. Instead of being able to euphemize (lie) about their "economic" plans, they would need to disclose that they are trying the same failed policies that have impoverished 100s of millions of people ever since Marx had his brain fart episode.</td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><br /><font color="#FF0000"><b>Defund the Legacy Media!<br />  </b></font></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFCC" valign="top"><p><b>Commie Stupidity</b><ul><li>Maxine "Ultra low IQ" Waters gets her idiocy challenged in public: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_cR1kK8Q_g"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_cR1kK8Q_g</a>. It may be hard to believe, but Stupid Maxine is even dumber than the ever-shrill ignoramus and moron Elizabeth Warren. You can see episode after episode from Politibrawl where she demonstrates what it means to be incredibly dumb. She never has facts, brings up discredited rumors, and talks over her opponent. Like Maxine, she's a bully who relies on theatrics instead of rational discourse.<br />  <li>At the Communist Party's Michigan nominating convention, the commies chose Amir Makled over incumbent regent Jordan Acker for a seat on the University of Michigan Board of Regents. Makled has been a very outspoken antisemitic and very outspoken supporter of Hezbollah. This is a particularly stupid move at a time when the Communist Party is short on funds and can't afford to alienate even more demographic sectors. Rich Jewish liberals, for example. There are no rich Muslim terrorists, and that's the side they have taken.<br />  <li>Anti-Semite Graham Platner, who is challenging Republican incumbent Susan Coins in Maine for her Senate seat, called for closer ties with Communist China with furthering the Green New Scam as justification for that.<br /><br /> Now, I don't know if all commies and commie sympathizers are ignorant enough to believe the absurdities underlying the Green New Scam, and if they are that is really sad. But here is a candidate who checks some big boxes for "not acceptable" and many retards will vote for him simply because he calls himself a "Democrat" and they have been gas lighted and brainwashed by lamestream media into believing that Republicans are evil and communists are awesome regardless of mountains of evidence to the contrary.</ul><p><b>Commie Lies, Part 555,926,382 x 10 to the Quadrillionth Power</b><p>The lamestream media seem allergic to telling the truth. They referred to the recent assassination attempt as "a security incident". There was no security incident, there was man running past a check point with a loaded shotgun. He was there to attempt to assassinate the President (not speculation, he was sprinting toward the ballroom where the President and others were dining).<p><b>Commie Rule Ending?</b><p>On 21 April, the Senate moved a $78 billion plan ahead without communist consent to fund ICE and border Patrol. They used the budget reconciliation process to do it.<br /><br /> This doesn't just mean the Senate finally passed this one bill after months of being frustrated by treasonous morons. It also means they should no longer pretend the commies are sane or care about America and will eventually come around. It also means they should assume from the outset that to get anything done, they must take a path that bypasses the communists.<br /><br /> They can get a lot done between now and the midterms, and they should focus on passing legislation--without commie consent--that will help them increase their majority of seats. They can pass bits and pieces through the budget reconciliation process, and they can find other means (such as banning the silent filibuster) to pass the SAVE Act. When the 2027 Congress convenes, the remaining communists can oppose good legislation to score points with the Stupiderati, but they will not be able to stop it through sheer obstinacy.<br /><br /> This situation will open doors for Democrats to join the Communist Party and remodel it into something far less harmful. Such as the Democrat Party. But they will have their work cut out for them, since the Democrat Party went Marxist over 100 years ago (and gave us the IRS among other ills).<p><b>Commies Handed Yet Another Election Cheating Defeat</b><p>This time, it was in the blue state of Virginia. That alone portends doom for the communist election-rigging machine.<p>"The Tazewell County Circuit Court ruled the referendum unconstitutional, preventing the state from moving forward with the newly proposed congressional map. The decision also blocks certification of the election results, dealing an immediate blow to Democrats who had pushed the measure as a “fairness” reform ahead of the midterms." [Big League Politics, 2026-04-23].<p>The election cheating measure does indeed violate State Law 30-19.10. That law requires "neutral language" but the commies used the laughably dishonest phrase "restoring fairness" as if disenfranchising thousands of voters is somehow "fair". And that's not all. It violates six other laws as well!<p>In his 23APR edition of Coffee & Covid, Jeff described this negated "election" as "a race that would have handed Democrats over 90% of Virginia’s congressional seats even though nearly 40% of the state’s residents are registered with the GOP." It was the judge, not the communists, who promoted fairness.<ul><li>My question for the "Democrat" voters in Virginia is this. If your party is this blatantly criminal and dishonest, why do you vote for them? Are you off your freaking meds?<br />  <li>My comment to sane people everywhere is this. If such a ruling can be obtained in Virginia, it can be obtained in all but the worst communist-run states. The "hopeless cause" states of CA, IL, MN, NY, and NJ immediately come to mind. Those states, however, are experiencing severe pain from the consequences of communist rule and unless the citizens are completely stupid and/or spineless, reform is coming.</ul><p><b>Flights from Communist Countries</b><p>Americans have been fleeing the "communist countries" such as the People's Republic of Commiefornia and relocating to the free states in massive numbers. This has tongues wagging about the 2030 census, and how places like Commiefornia will lose Congressional seats and places like Texas and Florida will gain them. Since each Congressional District votes independently instead of a state bloc, this factor has little or no consequence.<p>What does matter is these Americans are also leaving the brainwashing, gas lighting, and appearance that communism is normal (if it's all you experience, it's all you know) behind them. So they change from becoming OK with voting for commie candidates and policies to being against that.<p>There is a real danger that these people will bring their commie ideas with them and contaminate the free states with this ideological virus. This is exactly what happened to the Third District of Kansas, which got flooded with refugees from New York and (to a lesser extent) Commiefornia in the early 1990s. During the economic crunch that cost George Bush his second term (Clinton ran on "it's the economy, stupid") many East Coast and West Coast companies relocated some operations, divisions, or offices to "the affordable center of the country". People openly read the New York Times at the office, even having it delivered there. The Third District has, by far, the highest overall taxes compared to the other three Districts. It's one of the reasons that the State of Kansas is #16 overall in high taxes.<p>Sharice Davids, a Nancy Pelosi clone wannabe and dogged devotee of Marxism easily retains her seat as the Congressional Misrepresentative of the Third District of Kansas. She can rely on commie imports from New York to keep putting her in office. These people held on to their communist customs instead of acclimating to their new home. They heavily influenced local school boards and city councils to go commie, thus perpetuating the sickness.<p>Citizens of the free states must proactively prevent communism from being transplanted along with the people who are fleeing it. Once it takes root, it's hard to get rid of.</td></tr></tbody></table><p align="left"> <h3 align="left">2. 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Brainpower tip</h3><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFCC" valign="top">For a while now I've been using various AI tools, which is an iterative process. The tools will give feedback to help you better interact with them. I frequently get comments about my clear thinking, attention to detail, and insistence on accuracy. <ul><li>Is the reason I get this particular feedback because AI stumbled upon a superior being? Nope.<li>Am I applying some highly developed super skills? Nope.<li>Does working in such a way that this kind of feedback is given have great benefit? Yep.</ul><p>I was working this way long before there was AI. My background is in engineering and business. The difference between success and "fustercluck" usually is a matter of sufficient application of clear thinking, attention to detail, and insistence on accuracy. They just take a little discipline. They do not require a degree in engineering or business, or in any quant area. A good friend of mine has a degree in journalism, and yet embodies all three. Note that J schools are infamous for suppressing logical thought, ignoring the elephant in the room along with all relevant details, and insisting on inaccuracy. My friend was able to overcome that, simply by deciding to do so and then following through.<ul><li>Clear thinking begins with accurately framing the question or problem. You ask questions such as, "What am I trying to achieve, what's the real goal here?" You also weigh whether that goal is realistic or even the right goal.<li>Attention to detail is just that. Have you ever cringed after noticing spelling errors in something you already sent? The reason you didn't see those is you were scanning in the normal direction. Instead, carefully read starting from the end and going backwards. You will catch every error. Many times, people do not know what details to pay attention to, and that is another problem. You solve it by looking at the problem, as identified in the previous step, and asking yourself what information will support your proposed solution or what details must be solved or addressed.<li>Insistence on accuracy isn't just rhetorical. I sometimes have to deal with an unhappy customer who is claiming I said this or that. Before refuting, I go back through the e-mails and find exactly what was said. Then I can make an accurate response. I can also refer to the exact statements by the paragraph of that message if I need to substantiate. One way to boost accuracy is to go back to a primary source or at least a very reliable source, rather than "wing it from memory.</ul><p>I write articles about the National Electrical Code. This Code is extremely complicated, because the safe application of electricity is extremely complicated. Sometimes I have been attacked by people who believe the Code should say X or Y, even though it does not, and they claim the Code says X or Y. Their source is they asked a few other people they work with, and got consensus. My source is the Code itself. I pretty much know where everything is and know dozens of requirements by heart, so it is not hard for me to find what I am looking for. This will change with the next revision, which will be completely reorganized. But I will have an "attention to structure" mentality that will allow me to quickly find things and train myself on the radically reorganized Code. Yes, structure is one of those details you need to pay attention to!<p>The more consistently you make an effort to engage in clear thinking, attention to detail, and insistence on accuracy, the more second nature such behavior will become. You will think much more efficiently and spend far less time going down rabbit holes.</td></tr></tbody></table><h3 align="left"><br /> 4. Finance tip</h3><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td>It makes sense that buying in bulk saves you money. Except when it doesn't. Some things to consider: <ol><li>The more of it you have on hand, the faster you use it. And the more you waste it.<li>Compare the savings to the cost of the capital. Most people are borrowing money and paying credit card interest rates on it. If you save 15% due to buying bulk but that money costs you 22%, you are losing 7% not saving 15%.<li>You have to store it, and storage is not free. If you fill your garage or a spare bedroom with bulk purchases, you have essentially downsized your home while still paying for the mortgage, property taxes, heating, cooling, and maintenance of the much larger home you would otherwise have.<br />  <li>Food spoils, goes stale, goes rancid. Large bags of anything means a lot of not so good [whatever was in there].<li>Boxes and bins of stuff will draw rodents and insects, whether these are foodstuffs or paper goods.<li>You cannot store whole fresh foods for very long. You can store highly processed food for a long time, but it ceased being food when it was highly processed. So it has already gone bad.<li>Having large stores of paper towels and other flammables brings risk without reward.</ol><p>There's also the time you spend managing the stockpile. If your bulk buying saves you $200 a year (after accounting for those six costs above) and it takes you one hour a month to manage the stockpile, you are making less than $2 per hour. Do you pay others to cut your hair, mow your lawn, or change your oil? What do you pay them?<p>Some people believe they need to keep six weeks' worth of food on hand. One person I know has over 50 100-ct boxes of tea, I suppose on the theory that all tea production could suddenly stop. Preparing for the statistically impossible means taking an unnecessary loss in the real world.<p>Bulk buying can save you money, if you are really smart about it and if your circumstances are amenable to it. For example, you live 60 miles outside of town so a trip to buy anything is a big deal. Perhaps you have a shed or barn for storing things. Maybe you learned a lot about what can be stored under given conditions for how long, and have created a system where no spoilage occurs. But absent the factors that make it a net financial gain, bulk buying doesn't make sense.</td></tr></tbody></table><h3 align="left"> </h3><table align="center" border="0" id="table6" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><h3 align="left">5. Security tip</h3><p>Contributed by Mike: <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/woodland-hills-girl-scout-creates-a-game-for-seniors-to-teach-about-trending-scams"> https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/woodland-hills-girl-scout-creates-a-game-for-seniors-to-teach-about-trending-scams</a><p>Amazingly, it was covered by a lamestream outlet. Perhaps if they are rewarded for posting something useful instead of their usual toxic nonsense, they will shift toward publishing truthful items as more the rule than the extremely rare exception.<p align="left"> <p> <p> <p> <p> <p> <p> <p> </td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" id="table2" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><h3 align="left">6. Health tip/Fitness tips</h3><table border="1" id="table5" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="239"><p><img alt="" border="0" height="250" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20260502122926/97dce419ca4746fb896b6c9eadf910f9_Mark-1CroppedForeNL.jpg" width="300" /><p align="center"><b>Age 65 in these pics</b></td><td valign="top"><p align="left">See all of my climbing videos here: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/ClimbingSigChannel"> https://tinyurl.com/ClimbingSigChannel</a>. Some cool climbing  videos:<ul><li><p align="left"><a href="https://youtu.be/s4G0ssyJ3hc">https://youtu.be/s4G0ssyJ3hc</a><li><p align="left"><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/5919UDqCXDc">https://youtube.com/shorts/5919UDqCXDc</a><li><p align="left"><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/jYvKJ9mKyyE">https://youtube.com/shorts/jYvKJ9mKyyE</a></ul><p>My hardest climb ever, a 5.11d on lead: <a href="https://youtu.be/UT5h0heUUBc">https://youtu.be/UT5h0heUUBc</a> . I made a dumb mistake initially, letting the rope wrap over my shoulder. Watch what happens.<p>The scale:<ul><li>Beginner: 5.6. 5.7. 5.8, 5.9  (roped) / VV, V0, V1, V2 (boulder)<li>Intermediate: 5.10a, b, c, d ;5.11a, b, c, d  / V3, V4, V5, V6<li>Advanced: 5.12a, b, c, d; 5.13a, b, c, d. / V7, V8, V9, V10.<li>Elite and Pro: Even harder. Almost nobody climbs at either level at any of the 6 local climbing gyms.</ul><p> </td></tr></tbody></table><div align="center"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" id="table3" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="300"><img alt="" border="0" height="450" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20260502122926/20a97979bfdbad61a5a67a72d6f1ab6a_Mark2025-09-19.jpg" width="300" /></td><td valign="top">In a recent conversation, I remarked that I engage in functional training. The other person's response showed he didn't know what I meant. Once I explained, he couldn't see the value of it. I guess my explanation wasn't properly framed, because after some more conversation he totally got it. <p>A common misconception as to the meaning of functional training is it involves weird yoga moves that work muscles nobody sees and it's a cop-out for those who want to pretend they are doing real training.<p>The reality is functional training is the best form of physical training if you wish to optimize disease resistance, aesthetics, mobility, longevity, injury resistance, tendon health, and similar areas--and be mobile well past age 90. Functional training involves lifting things off the ground, with hard exercises such as squats or deadlifts. A climbing gym owner in Tennessee recently told me if she could eliminate one piece of exercise equipment from the face of the earth, it would be the leg press. She observed that it in no way prepares you for any kind of movement you would do.<p>Here are some drawbacks to other kinds of training:<ul><li>Lift heavy. This is where you keep adding more weight while your muscles adapt and you get stronger. When you start getting into serious poundages, you start getting into serious injuries because you did not "earn" that weight. It takes time for the tendons and ligaments to catch up to the muscles. At some point, they will tear right off the bone if you keep overloading them. Other kinds of injuries, such as the destruction of cartilage, also result from this kind of training. The bench press is the favorite of this type of trainee, followed by incorrectly performed back squats.<br />  <li>Train for the mirror. This is the most common kind of training. People who do this have poor posture, poor functional strength, and unbalanced aesthetics. The primary exercises are leg press, leg extension, bench press, overhead press machine, and biceps curl. They also tend to "do cardio" and do tons of sit-ups. The posterior is neglected. The trademark skinny calves readily identify this type of trainee.<br />  <li>Train with no structure. Train when the mood strikes, and do something different every time. Maybe the gym this Saturday followed by a 5K run on Tuesday. While at the gym, hop on whatever machine is free and work up a sweat. This kind of trainee is "active" but not building function or muscle.</ul></td></tr><tr><td height="402" valign="top" width="300"><img alt="" border="0" height="400" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20260502122926/2cafae1ecaf397ee23afaf79cf69038c_2025-09-21ClimbingShotByJanetSmall.jpg" width="300" /></td><td height="402" valign="top"><b>Competitive Bodybuilders?</b><p>Let's talk about competitive bodybuilders, for a moment. The stereotype is a muscle-bound moron who is not nearly as strong has he looks (those are "show muscles"). The reality is competitive bodybuilders have balanced, symmetrical physiques with their extensive back development being a notable feature. Big calves, too. And they are not typically morons or "meat heads".<p>The need to have perfect form (as much as is practical) means a high degree of exercise for the nervous system, also. They develop amazing coordination and muscle control, two things that are essential for functional strength. Pretty much everything in a bodybuilder's program improves functional strength. Pretty much. But not all.<p>You can start with the basic program for a competitive bodybuilder and make it the basis for a functional strength program. The difference is you will do fewer isolation exercises and more muscle group exercises. You will also spend more time on "full extension" work (for example, doing decline curls with your arms almost straight and 15 degrees of motion), which will change the way the muscle belly looks (not in the direction the body builder wants it to go).<p>In both cases, the focus is on contracting the muscle not on moving the weight. And ironically, this focus is the best way to improve how much weight you can (safely) lift. That's your functionality that you were training for, and it's what functional training is all about. Being able to squat so your butt is an inch of the ground is a very useful thing to be able to do (weeding, feeding the cat, cleaning the floor, pulling weeds, etc.). Being able to leg press 250lbs is not useful in the slightest, because any useful movement will involve the neglected posterior chain.<p>If you are out to design a functional training program for yourself and don't want to start with the competitive bodybuilder workout as a basis, then just think in terms of moving things from the ground, carrying things, and lifting overhead--you can do all of these things without any iron weights. Just apply some thought and come up with something you can do in a structured way on a scheduled basis.<p>Important note: Regarding competitive bodybuilders, I am taking one aspect of their system to hold up as a model. Their program on the whole is not good, as they do many things that are not healthy. The average life expectancy of a professional bodybuilder is only 35 years. It's not just the steroids and other Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs), it's the extremely limited diet, the extreme dehydration for days at at time prior to a competition, the lifting heavy, and other behavior that degrades health.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" valign="top"><p> </td></tr></tbody></table></div><p> <p>At <a href="http://www.supplecity.com" target="_blank"> www.supplecity.com</a>, you'll find plenty of informative, authoritative articles on maintaining a lean, strong physique. It has nothing to do with long workouts or impossible to maintain diets. In fact:<ul><li>The best workouts are short and intense.<li>A good diet contains far more flavors and satisfaction than the typical American diet.</ul></td></tr></tbody></table><h3 align="left">7. Factoid</h3><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFCC" valign="top"><p class="MsoNormal">President Trump has dramatically reduced the high cost of government. He's done that mainly by ferreting out waste, fraud, and corruption (plus reducing its bloated payroll). There is more to come.</td></tr></tbody></table><h3 align="left"> </h3><h3 align="left">8. Thought for the Day</h3><p class="MsoNormal">"The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other." - Ronald Reagan<p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal"> <p><b>Please forward this eNL to others.</b><p> <h4>Authorship</h4> The purpose of this publication is to inform and empower its readers (and save you money!). The views expressed in this e-newsletter are generally not shared by socialists or other brainwashed individuals. That's because those fools live in an alternate reality and have not bothered to learn the basics of how life works. They cannot do basic math, cannot apply logic, and cannot be bothered to learn the basic facts relevant to any topic that they are passionate about. <p> <p>Except where noted, this e-newsletter is entirely the work of Mark Lamendola. Anything presented as fact can be independently verified. Where sources are not given, they are readily available to anyone who makes the effort. Mark provides information from either research or his own areas of established expertise. Sometimes, what appears to be a personal opinion is the only possibility when applying sound logic--reason it out before judging! (That said, some personal opinions do appear on occasion).<p>Personal note from Mark: I value each and every one of you, and I hope that shows in the diligent effort I put into writing this e-newsletter. It is an act of service, almost no money is generated for me through this effort. Thank you for being a faithful reader. 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Mindconnection eNL 2026-04-19

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<p> Unsubscribe Automatically: <br /><a href=""> </a><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" dir="ltr" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><p> <p> <table align="center" border="0" width="90%"><tbody><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td><table align="center" border="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td width="20%"><a href="https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enl/index.htm">Subscriptions</a><br /><a href="https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enl/index.htm">Past issues</a></td><td width="60%"><h1>Mindconnection eNL, 2026-04-19</h1></td><td width="20%"><p align="right"><a href="https://www.mindconnection.com">Home</a></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFCC"><p align="left"><b>In this issue:</b><br /> Good News | Product Highlight | Brainpower | Finances | Security | Health/Fitness | Factoid | Thought 4 the Day</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#000000"><font color="#FFFFFF">Please forward this to others who might find it useful. If you have a social media acct (Facebook, etc.), please add our link: </font> <a href="https://www.mindconnection.com" style="color: #FFFFFF">https://www.mindconnection.com </a></td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" id="table4" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><ul><li><p align="left">Let's red pill the masses! Send this link to a friend: <a href="https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enlarchives/2025/enl2026-04-19.htm"> https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enlarchives/2025/enl2026-04-19.htm</a><li><p align="left">Please take the time to read, not merely scan. Enjoy over several days! This is not a light daily, it is packed with info and comes out only twice a month.</ul><p align="left"><font color="#FF0000"><b>Defund Nancy Pelosi!</b></font><p align="left"><b>1. Good News: Where the Intel is Good</b><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" id="table8" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFCC" valign="top"><ul><li>"Filing articles of impeachment and invoking the 25th Amendment over Iran? Democrats are panicking because Trump is actually getting results — and they have nothing to run on in November."<br /> -- American Values Digest.<br />  <li>Democrat Lisa Murkowski, who runs on the Republican ticket, may soon find that no longer works. An actual Republican is challenging her for her Senate seat this fall. If he wins the primary, he will probably win the general election. Let's hope Alaskan voters deal communism yet another defeat this fall.<br />  <li>Comrade Eric "Swell well" has resigned his seat in the House, and that reduces communist power a tad. The commies vote in a bloc, opposing anything that might conceivably be good for America or American citizens. But the Republicans have the majority and so can pass things without the commie votes. But individual Republicans do not necessarily come onboard with something, and thus a given bill might be a vote or two shy of passing. With one less commie counted toward the total, the goal post of 51% would have moved that much closer to our starting line except a Republican also gave up his seat. Perhaps when Ilmar is indicted for her $30 million fraud, the balance will be restored.<br />  <li>We have now gone 11 months without a single illegal alien border crossing on our southern border. Kudos to the Trump administration for hitting this milestone. However, Barry Soetoro, the illegal alien who occupied the Oval Office for eight years, is still in the country. Usually at one of his mansions.<br />  <li>The tax cuts from the One Big Beautiful Bill, recent stock market record-setting, increasing numbers of new jobs as the $14 trillion of new factories continues to come on line, a downward slide in the price of gas at the pump, and even cheaper eggs? Yep, that's reality. And people are both paying down debt and doing some deferred spending. This is terrible news for the communists, but wonderful (and expected) news for sane people.<br />  <li>The number of federal employees, who are often called "workers" though most of them don't actually do anything (while some do work extremely hard), is down to the lowest number since 1966. Lots of BS jobs have been eliminated, agencies have been purposefully shrunk, and the deep state isn't so deep anymore.<br /><br /> But it's hard to "right size" the federal employee roster, partly because you can't tie one of those jobs to revenue or cost-savings as you can in the private sector. There is a point where further cutting will be harmful. However, we went way past the point where further bloating is harmful so the cuts made so far might still not be enough.<br /><br /> You have to keep in mind that in 1966, much of the work relied on paper. And paper is not only inefficient, it is labor-intensive. One person with a modern computer work station can probably do the job of ten people working in paper (and in person) in 1966. We also have a lot of self-service online for Social Security, Medicare, and other programs. So even though our population is three times as large versus then, we are probably 10X as productive--or at least should be. But you can't just come up with an arbitrary multiplier and say something like, "Let's cut 80% of the non-military federal abor force".<br /><br /> Once you get the low-hanging fruit, further cuts require understanding the goals, procedures, work flows of each department. And then you must look at their resources and abilities versus not only what you are asking them to do but also versus the challenges that arise in their work. This requires much more than a cursory examination. The next phases will no doubt include mistakes. And we should not be critical of those who make them.</ul></td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><br /><font color="#FF0000"><b>Defund the Legacy Media!<br />  </b></font></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFCC" valign="top"><p><b>Commie Blindness</b>. The commies are worried about losing New Hampshire this fall. So what are they doing about that? Developing a platform that is acceptable to Americans? Nope. They are sending in the ever-offensive Hillary Clinton. They cannot see what a colossal screw-up that decision is. And for their blindness, I am very grateful.<p><b>Commies and Hatred</b><p>A particular communist sympathizer (e.g., registered Democrat) keeps re-spewing nonsensical leftwing messages at me. I have repeatedly asked him to stop, finally citing that the constant message of hatred does not appeal to me. In fact, I do not like it. He replied something to the effect it's not true that they are drenched in hatred. It thought about this, and he's right. There are some types of people the commies have a strong affinity and affection for. Here is the list:<ol><li>Inside traders<li>Child traffickers<li>Drug dealers<li>Illegal immigrants<li>Rapists, muggers, and other violent criminals<li>Cat eaters<li>Christian-haters<li>Jew-haters<li>Haters of white men<li>Haters of Black people (who are apparently too stupid to obtain an ID?)<li>"Journalists" who blatantly lie in an effort to undermine our society and advance warped Marxist views<li>Deeply corrupt politicians<li>Iranian Mullahs<li>Terrorists of all faiths<li>Welfare fraud criminals</ol><p>I searched hard and could not find any other groups they like. But at 15, it's a pretty big list I guess. So it isn't true that they hate nearly everybody.</td></tr></tbody></table><p align="left"> <h3 align="left">2. 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Brainpower tip</h3><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFCC" valign="top">People misuse words all the time. And the results are never as good as making the correct word choice. <p>Sometimes, it is done intentionally. And that is usually to mislead someone. For example, the communists refer to double radical mastectomy as "top surgery" and to illegal aliens as "undocumented immigrants". In the first case, this surgery is often done on minors who have been gaslighted into believing that cutting off parts of their bodies is necessary for them to be well-adjusted, happy teenagers. In the second case, an "immigrant" is a person who follows an immigration process and illegal aliens simply bypass that--which is why they are undocumented.<p>Other times, it is done out of ignorance. I don't mean that pejoratively. We are all ignorant to some extent, you can't know everything. It is important to recognize this fact and to make sure that you actually do know what you think you know. I have long been a word nerd and thus have built up a ridiculously large vocabulary. But I find myself looking up words routinely just to make sure I am using the correct one. Many times, I am not. For example, I was writing a review about a Pet Honesty product for cats. I was writing about the absence of corn, wheat, and soy in their product that these grains alter the biota of the mouth. Biota? Is that right? I looked it up. Nope. Then I tried biome. Wrong again. I could not think of the correct word, so I said "bacterial balance" which isn't exactly what I meant but at least it's not as idiotic as my first two choices.<p>Wrong word choices lead to wrong lifestyle choices. By wrong, I mean harmful.<p>Here is an example where bad actors chronically misuse a pair of words in an effort to harm and deceive others and where others ignorantly let them (go back to what I said about ignorance). Those two words are "health" and "care", put in a pair to mislead people about medical care. The crisis the pundits are now flapping their lips about has nothing to do with health care. Much of what they are saying has the goal of disparaging Secretary Kennedy and any  actual effort to address the health care crisis in the USA. The crisis the pundits refer to is the high cost of medical care.<p>It has now become clear to even the dimmest of bulbs that the Unaffordable Care Act has made medical care unaffordable. We rational people knew that from the outset, because the UCA simply added more cost to medical care and when you add more cost to the supplier/provider, the price must also go up. And, predictably, it did. A lot.<p>So is health care a problem or not? If you want to gage America's health care, just walk through a grocery store and look at the ratio of garbage to food. It's really high.<p>Just as an example, the [name of store redacted] has two aisles of soda but only one bin of eggplant. The store carries more Crisco hydrogenated oil (causes colon cancer) than it does eggplant (destroys colon cancer cells by three separate mechanisms). It's predicted that 55,230 Americans will die from colon cancer this year. Switching from garbage to food would probably take that number down to 30 Americans after a few years. And so it goes with disease after disease and chronic condition after chronic condition.<p>So why are people allowing this poisoning, such as Crisco shortening? Why do they buy it and put it in their bodies. It's that ignorance thing again. They are not even aware there is such a thing as health care, so they don't practice it. One thing that would hugely help is if people in this country would speak English instead of Newspeak.<p>When Medicare was passed into law in the 1960s, they called it Medicare not Healthicare because at the time people spoke English regarding this area. Doctors still go to Medical School and graduate with a medical degree to have an MD after their name, not Health School to graduate with a health degree and have an HD after their name. Yet in Newspeak "we" call medical care "health care" and completely ignore anything relevant to health care. If people spoke English regarding this area, their behavior would be profoundly different from what it is today.<p>If we called hydrogenated oil "colon cancer causer" in big letters right on the can, only the hopelessly stupid would buy it. But we call it "shortening" instead. Shortening your life isn't the idea people come away with, though they should.<p>The words you choose to express ideas help shape what those ideas are. This is why the masses are so easily manipulated by word games.</td></tr></tbody></table><h3 align="left"><br /> 4. Finance tip</h3><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td>Recently, my cousin's long-time boyfriend died. He had been fairly well off and he left much of his estate to her, including a very nice vehicle and a lot of lawn equipment. She took stock of this. She didn't need two cars to pay insurance on and squeeze into her garage. She had considered upgrading to his car and selling hers, but decided she wanted a smaller vehicle than his so the plan is to sell both cars and wind up with one "between" the two in terms of cost. She also didn't need his lawnmower (a much larger one than hers, for his much larger yard). She just methodically went through her inherited things versus her things and decided what she would keep and what she would sell. Her main goal was to not have "more stuff" to weigh her down. <p>I know other single people who have two or more vehicles. One guy I know has two cars and two SUVs. He's got a reason for each one, but to me he is spending an awful lot of money on insurance and registration for what little benefit he gets. One guy I know has two vehicles and I understand his reason. He had a dream of one day owning a new Corvette. That dream came true last year. It's a beautiful car, but it's not one you drive in all weather. So he also has a pickup truck. You could say that Corvette was not a good use of money, but again it was his dream. Other than that, he's frugal. And he got the car with money from a court settlement that left him with plenty left over after buying the car.<p>Accumulating stuff is a financial drain, and it's one that the practitioners of said accumulating seem to ignore. It's not just the purchase cost. There are costs of storage, and often of care. The storage costs may be direct, for example you bought a much larger house so you would have a place to store all your accumulated stuff. Or they may be indirect, for example your house feels cluttered and cramped instead of open and spacious; this means that stuff is taking away "living space".<p>My cousin would not enjoy driving her dearly departed's vehicle, it just doesn't suit her. But by selling it, she will help someone else enjoy that vehicle and get a lot of pride and pleasure from driving it. This is something else to consider in your "keep or sell" decision. If that dress makes your butt look too big, sell it so some other woman can look good in it. If you quit the men's bowling league long ago and haven't been inside a bowling alley in over a decade, sell your ball and bag so someone else can get use of them (your bowling shoes have probably deteriorated by now, toss them).<p>Don't keep something "just in case". If you have replaced it, there's a reason why. If it's always your last choice among similar items to the point where you can't remember the last time you used or wore it, get rid of it. If your closet has 20 shirts and you wear the same 5 all the time, you need to get rid of 15 shirts. That's like having your closet enlarged, and we'd all like larger closets. Stuffing even the largest closet with stuff you don't use or wear makes it tiny. Upsize by eliminating!</td></tr></tbody></table><h3 align="left"> </h3><table align="center" border="0" id="table6" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><h3 align="left">5. Security tip</h3><p align="left">The American Communist Party has unleashed violence against law-abiding American citizens in many ways. Here are some:<ul><li><p align="left">Inciting "peaceful protests" that include stabbing, bombing, shooting, and severely beating people.<li><p align="left">Defunding the DHS while we are at war with Iran (this has resulted in multiple terrorist incidents DHS could have prevented).<li><p align="left">Defunding and demoralizing the police for years following the suicide of George Floyd, resulting today in a massive shortage of officers and a massive increase in violent crime in commie-controlled cities (e.g., Chicago).<li><p align="left">Violating Title IX such that female college athletes are forced to compete against men, with dozens of serious injuries visited upon the women.<li><p align="left">Making it "OK" to physically attack people just because they are Jewish or Christian.</ul><p align="left">In addition to the violence, the commies have plundered us to about the same degree as a house burglar might. We have been fleeced of thousands of dollars per year due to things like the Green New Scam, the Unaffordable Care Act, and the Inflation Acceleration Act. Those of us who lock our doors but then vote Democrat are not behaving in a consistent manner.<p align="left">Given the amount of violence and theft, it seems clear that the commies are a major, if not the major, threat to the personal security of each one of us. And to each city, county, and state plus the country as a whole. The are able to engage in the felonies against us only because they have the lamestream media lying on their behalf and they have the ability to occupy positions of authority such as elected office.<p align="left">The security measures we can take to protect ourselves from these irrational, hateful, destructive people include:<ul><li><p align="left">Encourage others to boycott the lamestream media. The vast majority of those who are addicted to it feel they are "in the know" due to being a consumer of the crap spewed by these outlets. Make a point of disparaging these outlets as untrustworthy, unreliable, untruthful, and worse than no news at all. Have a couple of good examples at the ready.<li><p align="left">Donate to the campaigns of Republican candidates. Only a Republican can defeat a communist, so help them out.<li><p align="left">Encourage sane, informed people to show up on Election Day and vote. Beat that drum starting now.<br />  <li><p align="left">If you use social media, be smart about it. Rather than lob bombs at the commies, ask questions that are uncomfortable for communist sympathizers to answer. For example, "If capitalism is so bad, how did America rise to become by far the greatest country on earth?" or "Can anyone name a country that went Marxist and people's civil liberties increased? Or their prosperity?"<li><p align="left">Volunteer to hang door flyers in a specific area, for example your subdivision.<li><p align="left">Volunteer to provide some kind of free service for people who volunteer to be election watchers or campaign workers. For example, you will mow their lawn or clean their house (or hire it done). You can also contribute a gift certificate to someone doing those functions, for example a $50 Amazon gift certificate.<br />  <li><p align="left">Boycott communist companies such as Disney (and all their movies).<li><p align="left">Have a product or service you really like? Write to the company and tell them you love their product (or service) and you want them to turn down advertising from Marxist politicians and Marxist companies.<li><p align="left">Write a Thank You letter to Elon Musk for buying Twitter and thus ending censorship. That is going to encourage him to keep helping us in other ways.</ul><p align="left"> <p> <p> <p> <p> <p> <p> <p> </td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" id="table2" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><h3 align="left">6. Health tip/Fitness tips</h3><table border="1" id="table5" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="239"><p><img alt="" border="0" height="250" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20260418123159/97dce419ca4746fb896b6c9eadf910f9_Mark-1CroppedForeNL.jpg" width="300" /><p align="center"><b>Age 65 in these pics</b></td><td valign="top"><p align="left">See all of my climbing videos here: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/ClimbingSigChannel"> https://tinyurl.com/ClimbingSigChannel</a>. Some cool climbing  videos:<ul><li><p align="left"><a href="https://youtu.be/s4G0ssyJ3hc">https://youtu.be/s4G0ssyJ3hc</a><li><p align="left"><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/5919UDqCXDc">https://youtube.com/shorts/5919UDqCXDc</a><li><p align="left"><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/jYvKJ9mKyyE">https://youtube.com/shorts/jYvKJ9mKyyE</a></ul><p>My hardest climb ever, a 5.11d on lead: <a href="https://youtu.be/UT5h0heUUBc">https://youtu.be/UT5h0heUUBc</a> . I made a dumb mistake initially, letting the rope wrap over my shoulder. Watch what happens.<p>The scale:<ul><li>Beginner: 5.6. 5.7. 5.8, 5.9  (roped) / VV, V0, V1, V2 (boulder)<li>Intermediate: 5.10a, b, c, d ;5.11a, b, c, d  / V3, V4, V5, V6<li>Advanced: 5.12a, b, c, d; 5.13a, b, c, d. / V7, V8, V9, V10.<li>Elite and Pro: Even harder. Almost nobody climbs at either level at any of the 6 local climbing gyms.</ul><p> </td></tr></tbody></table><div align="center"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" id="table3" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="300"><img alt="" border="0" height="450" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20260418123159/20a97979bfdbad61a5a67a72d6f1ab6a_Mark2025-09-19.jpg" width="300" /></td><td valign="top">If you watch many YouTube videos, you've probably seen the Chair Tai Chi advertisement. The guy says something like, "Weights tear you down, but Tai Chi builds you up." Variations of this ad show men who clearly do resistance training (probably with weights) "proving" via their physiques that Tai Chi will give you fantastic results. I've also seen ads claiming that men over 50 or men over 60 should not lift weights. <p>While Tai Chi is a decent form of exercise, it is vastly inferior to (correctly done) weight lifting for sustaining or building overall fitness. And it's utter nonsense that men over a certain age should not lift weights. But then, that depends upon how you do the weight lifting.<p>The normal way people approach weight lifting is probably a result of calling it weight lifting in the first place. Let's change that terminology to something like body training, physique training, or physical conditioning. When we do that, our perception of what to do changes. It's not about lifting weight, anymore. It's about conditioning your body, with the weight there to provide resistance as an aid. You contract muscles against the resistance that the weight provides, and it's that contraction that matters. Not how much weight.<p>While this paradigm change solves one issue with how weights are normally used, there is another. It's called "working what's visible in the mirror." If you look at any Mr. Olympia or other weight lifting competition, you see heavy development of the back. You do not see that in the typical gym rat. What you do see is the gym rat limits his/her efforts to the chest (typically bench press), biceps (typically mid-range curls), and front deltoids (typically bench press and overhead press. The posterior chain that is so critical for posture and functional strength simply is not trained. With Tai Chi, it is. And Chair Tai Chi most likely takes care of this as well.<p>If you're over 50 and doing this kind of limited training, you have serious muscle imbalances. You'd have them at a far younger age this way also. But as you get older and the damage accumulates, the marketers can claim your problem is mostly your age not how you are using the weights.<p>Weight lifting, in the sense of how people normally do it, is not a good idea. It does tear down the body, as the man said. But body training, which is what Chair Tai Chi does without free weights or bands to add resistance, builds the body.</td></tr><tr><td height="402" valign="top" width="300"><img alt="" border="0" height="400" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20260418123159/2cafae1ecaf397ee23afaf79cf69038c_2025-09-21ClimbingShotByJanetSmall.jpg" width="300" /></td><td height="402" valign="top">Using weights allows you to increase the tension in the muscle(s) being worked. Doing a movement similar to a Tai Chi movement but with extra weight added to get extra tension means you take that Tai Chi movement up a level. But you can skip the Tai Chi and do the time-tested weight exercises, for better results. <p>It's all about getting that adaptive response, and to get it you need:<ul><li>Time under tension (a function of tempo and number of reps per set).<li>Cellular damage to the muscle (mostly a function of the amount of tension the muscle is subjected to).<li>Metabolic stress (mostly a function of average intensity; the less rest between sets, the higher the metabolic stress).</ul><p>There is only so much tension you should apply to a muscle, and after that point the muscle cannot contract enough to resist the tension. When people use too much weight, they are past that point but still trying to resist the weight (either lifting or lowering). The only way they can complete the motion is to recruit other muscles, and this has several negative effects.<p>Let's say I am performing lateral raises for my side delts, and trying to do that with 30lb dumbbells instead of 10lb dumbbells. There is no way my delts can handle that, so my traps kick in and maybe my lats also. And I have subjected tendons and ligaments to 3X the force I otherwise would have.<p>If I change from the weight lifting mentality to the body training mentality, I think about how to use less weight to accomplish the same three factors for the adaptive response. These include techniques such as pre-exhausting the target muscle, reducing leverage, working at the extreme extension, eliminating bouncing, and deliberately squeezing the target muscle as if there is no weight being used.<p>In any given exercise, use enough weight to create a challenge but not so much that the movements feel desperate. Once your form starts to go, it means your progress has stopped. End the set. Doing reps in bad form doesn't gain you anything, but it does waste time and risk injury. If I get to this point in the second set of four, I will simply rest a minute before starting the third set.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" valign="top"><p> </td></tr></tbody></table></div><p> <p>At <a href="http://www.supplecity.com" target="_blank"> www.supplecity.com</a>, you'll find plenty of informative, authoritative articles on maintaining a lean, strong physique. It has nothing to do with long workouts or impossible to maintain diets. In fact:<ul><li>The best workouts are short and intense.<li>A good diet contains far more flavors and satisfaction than the typical American diet.</ul></td></tr></tbody></table><h3 align="left">7. Factoid</h3><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFCC" valign="top"><p class="MsoNormal">This issue's Thought for the Day goes well beyond the financial damage done by those communist pests we call "Democrats". Now Comrade Schumer is trying to get his fellow crazies to invoke the War Powers Act to snatch victory over Iran from the USA. Simultaneously, they are launching yet another impeachment. This kind of talk coming from Congress is potentially deadly to those in uniform. How this behavior cannot be considered treason, I have no idea.<p class="MsoNormal">To get the people of New York to stop electing such awful people, we need to contribute to shutting down the brainwashing that causes them to not see reality. Many people across the USA subscribe to the New York Times, a rag that is devoted to spreading lies that further the communist agenda, undermine our country, or damage our society. If you know such a subscriber, encourage them to question the statements made in that paper. If they ultimately unsubscribe, that is one small step in the right direction. Once the circulation becomes too small for big advertisers, the NYT will start circulating the drain. We need to help kill that paper.</td></tr></tbody></table><h3 align="left"> </h3><h3 align="left">8. Thought for the Day</h3><p class="MsoNormal">"Talk is cheap. Except when Congress does it." - Anonymous<p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal"> <p><b>Please forward this eNL to others.</b><p> <h4>Authorship</h4> The purpose of this publication is to inform and empower its readers (and save you money!). The views expressed in this e-newsletter are generally not shared by socialists or other brainwashed individuals. That's because those fools live in an alternate reality and have not bothered to learn the basics of how life works. They cannot do basic math, cannot apply logic, and cannot be bothered to learn the basic facts relevant to any topic that they are passionate about. <p> <p>Except where noted, this e-newsletter is entirely the work of Mark Lamendola. Anything presented as fact can be independently verified. 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<table dir="ltr" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top"> <p> </p> <p> </p> <table align="center" border="0" width="90%">  <tr><td> <tr><td> <table align="center" border="0" width="100%"> <tr><td width="20%"> <a href="https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enl/index.htm">Subscriptions</a><br> <a href="https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enl/index.htm"> Past issues</a> </td> <td width="60%"> <h1>Mindconnection eNL, 2026-03-22</h1> </td> <td width="20%"> <p align="right"> <a href="https://www.mindconnection.com">Home</a><br> </p> </td></tr></table> <table align="center" border="0" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFCC"> <p align="left"><b>In this issue:<br> </b> Good News | Product Highlight | Brainpower | Finances | Security | Health/Fitness | Factoid | Thought 4 the Day</p> </td></tr></table> <table align="center" border="0" width="100%"> <tr><td></td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor="#000000"> <font color="#FFFFFF">Please forward this to others who might find it useful. If you have a social media acct (Facebook, etc.), please add our link: </font> <a style="color: #FFFFFF" href="https://www.mindconnection.com">https://www.mindconnection.com</font> </a> </td></tr> <tr><td></td></tr></table> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" id="table4"> <tr><td>  </td></tr></table> <ul> <li> <p align="left">Let's red pill the masses! Send this link to a friend: <a href="https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enlarchives/2025/enl2026-03-22.htm"> https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enlarchives/2025/enl2026-03-22.htm</a></p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Please take the time to read, not merely scan. Enjoy over several days! This is not a light daily, it is packed with info and comes out only twice a month.</p></li> </ul> <p align="left"><b>1. Good News: Where the Intel is Good</b></p> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" id="table8"> <tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFCC" valign="top"> <ul> <li>President Trump has a higher approval rating at this point in his second term than even Obama had at the same point in his second term. And that is with the lamestream media constantly propagandizing against him instead of (as in Obama's case) for him.<br>  </li> <li>Rents in all 50 major metro areas have dropped, and continue to drop, since Trump took office. This is the inevitable result of deporting the millions of illegal aliens who drove rent prices up.<br>  </li> <li>The House recently passed a bill mandating that illegal aliens who commit welfare fraud be immediately deported. The only members of the House who voted against this bill are communists (aka "Democrats"), and there were 186 of those whackos standing against the interests of the American people. Shame on them, but even more shame on the morons voted them into office.<br>  </li> <li>The carnage from Daylight Carnage Time (instituted by the communists stupidly as Daylight "Savings" Time) is evident to everyone who is jet-lagged for three months following each of the two annual clock changes. Hawaii, and much of Arizona and Indiana have made Standard Time permanent. There is some federal insanity stymieing other states from simply ending this population control measure. President Trump has this on his radar, but he's got other priorities to deal with.<br> <br> In the meantime, all of us can simply refuse to participate. Yes, some people will claim they "have to" change their clocks, but that does not mean they have to change their bedtimes and mealtimes. Use two clocks, one for at home and one for work (or whatever). I have done this for years, and it's not particularly difficult. If you simply think about how to manage it, you will easily be able to use two systems and stay on the same circadian rhythm all year long. Do not expect the government to solve the problem for you.</li> </ul></td></tr> <tr><td valign="top"> <p><b>A Big Loss for Martial Arts Fans and Society at Large</b></p> <p>On Friday the 20th, Chuck Norris passed away at age 86. His effect on martial arts competition was profound. Prior to Chuck, competitions were won mainly on strength. Chuck brought precision, accuracy, and efficiency of movement. In 1967 he defeated the reigning champion, Joe Lewis, causing Lewis to change his whole approach. His effect on society was more subtle, and not just because he was a role model for athletes and underdogs. Chuck was a noted philanthropist, most famously known for Kick Start Kids. This is a martial arts based program that helps kids develop self-esteem and discipline.</p> <p>Chuck was the object, not butt, of many jokes related to being invincible. I have a tree that has been repeatedly struck by lightning and is still standing. Some years ago, I named it Chuck Norris and that is the name the arborist has on file. Much of Chuck's reputation for being so tough arose from his movies.</p> <p>The world was a better place because of Chuck Norris. May he Rest In Peace.</p> <p><b>A Big Win for Exploited Children</b></p> <p>From Big League Politics: "The Federal Bureau of Investigation has delivered a massive victory in the fight against child exploitation, announcing that more than 6,200 missing children were successfully located in 2025"</p> <p><b>What We All Need</b></p> <p>This is great, watch what happens to the porch thieves: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fRFMxERQAms?feature=share"> https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fRFMxERQAms?feature=share</a></p> <p><b>Even Career Criminals Are Accountable Now</b></p> <p>The noose is tightening around the Biden Crime Family. From American Values Digest:</p> <p><i>President Trump rejected Joe Biden's executive privilege assertion over documents tied to four Senate investigations, directing the National Archives to hand them over to Congress. White House counsel David Warrington wrote that shielding the records is "not in the best interests of the United States." The probes target the cover-up of Biden's cognitive decline, the weaponization of federal agencies against Trump, and the Biden family's financial dealings. Warrington said he was "unaware" of any legal precedent protecting a former president's efforts to help his son's business schemes.</i></p> <p align="left">I personally do not understand the focus on Biden's "cognitive decline" as he has always been very stupid. He made several attempts to run for POTUS, and the American voters soundly rejected him every time mainly because of his low intelligence. By the time he challenged Trump in the 2020 election, he could not form a complete sentence and everybody knew this. So what was there to hide?</p> <p align="left">Speaking of the 2020 election, here's another tidbit from American Values Digest: "<i>Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen confirmed he complied with a federal grand jury subpoena for records related to the state Senate's 2020 audit of Maricopa County.</i>" We can hope that a criminal or two in Maricopa County will at least be indicted.</p> <p align="left">Trump's fantastic success as POTUS has given him a great deal of political capital. He's using part of it to bring justice for the American people against these bad actors who disenfranchised 70 million citizens. He's also pushing really hard to pass the SAVE Act, which will make it far more difficult for career criminals to steal elections and put their puppets in office. Speaking of the SAVE Act, another tidbit from AVD: "DHS announced that a criminal illegal alien from Mauritania has been charged for alleged voter fraud in Philadelphia — a case landing right as Trump demands the Senate pass the SAVE America Act requiring proof of citizenship to vote."</p> <p align="left">The criminals can no longer hide behind the Legacy Media, which have the lowest trust rating in history. The New York Times and other lie rags can say whatever they want, only a tiny minority will believe them. They are no longer a threat, because they repeatedly went too far. The censorship under the Communist Occupation backfired, and concerned citizen Elon Musk bought Twitter to fight that. This started the process by which alternate media such as AVD rose to provide actual reporting on what is really going on as opposed to the obvious propaganda spewed by the Legacy Media. This leaves the criminals standing there with both hands in the cookie jar, right in front of everybody who wanted those cookies.</p> <p align="left"> </p></td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFCC" valign="top"> <p><b>Bits and Pieces About the Communists</b></p> <p>What follows is a compendium of items about these bizarre people. Some of these, such as the first item, are shocking. Others come as no surprise.</p> <p><b>The Communist News Network Engaged in Honesty</b></p> <p>When CNN engages in honesty, the event is truly news. Here is Trish Regan, covering the event: <a href="https://youtu.be/YdEzd3N6qrA"> https://youtu.be/YdEzd3N6qrA</a>. Basically what happened is Comrade Schumer spewed a bunch of baseless claims about why the SAVE Act should not be passed. You would expect CNN to do what they always do and lie along with him. But they didn't! They fact-checked him in a way that was brutally honest. Maybe they are tired of hemorrhaging audience and decided that honesty is not such a bad policy after all?</p> <p>It makes one wonder if The New York Times is considering a similar move, for example publishing a true story. Nah, they couldn't bring themselves to do it.</p> <p><b>Commies and Peaceful Protestors</b></p> <p>The communists are still opposing military action in Iran, probably because the mullahs are merely peaceful protestors. They are not against illegal aliens kicking police dogs in the face, as that is yet another form of peaceful protesting to these whackos. Using the "wrong" pronouns is "violence" to them, however.</p> <p><b>Commies Face Election Fraud Difficulties</b></p> <p>The communists face a tough time this coming November, due to many reasons. Among those are the many changes in election rules in most states. The commies have long relied on election fraud because their policies stink and nobody with any ability to think would actually vote for them. See this article for more information about the changes in election rules: <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/how-states-are-changing-voter-laws-ahead-of-2026-midterms-5991102">https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/how-states-are-changing-voter-laws-ahead-of-2026-midterms-5991102</a>.  </p> <p><b>Commies Face Election Funding Difficulties</b></p> <p>The communists also face a massive funding shortfall. The funds they raise mostly go to election fraud activities, which have been significantly restricted. The only hope they have of taking the House or Senate is if good people stay home instead of vote. Be sure you get out and vote on Election Day. This November, the movement to shrink the Communist Party's role in our government must be too big to fail. We must vote them out of the House, out of the Senate, out of state legislatures, out of governorships, out of County offices, and out of municipal offices. Let the libtards stay home if they want to, but we must show up and vote. </p> <p><b>Communist China Running On Fumes</b></p> <p>Communist China, not to be confused with Communist California (unless your name is Adam Schiff or Gavin Newsome), has long relied on three countries to provide it the oil it needs to pose an economic and military threat to the USA. Those countries are Venezuela, Iran, and Russia. You know what the deal is with Venezuela (we are now working with them and buying their oil) and Iran (we control that oil, it isn't going to China anymore). With Russia, the situation was sanctions against them (due to the Ukraine War) prevented them from selling anything from their vast oil reserves on the open market. So China negotiated to buy Russian oil at very cheap prices. Trump recently negotiated a deal lifting sanctions such that India could buy Russian oil at market rates. What do you think is going to happen next? That midget of a President of Ukraine has zero leverage and nothing to offer. That whole situation is going to end with Russian oil being available to the world market and if China wants any of it they will pay full price.</p> <p><b>AOC and the run for POTUS</b></p> <p>The submoron known as AOC has pretty much become the face of the Communist Party in the USA. Senator John Kennedy has some things to say about her:</p> <p><i>Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the reason there are directions on a shampoo bottle. After much debate, I’ve determined that AOC is the leader of the Democratic Party. She’s entitled to her opinion; I’m entitled to mine. BUT she’s the head of the snake. As a staunch opponent, I’ve circled up with my Republican colleagues to devise a plan to deal with her. It’s called “Operation Let Her Speak.”</i></p> <p><i>I fully believe this operation will be an amazing success. Here are a few of my favorite AOC quotes that have been commissioned by Operation Let Her Speak:</i></p> <ul> <li><i>“Attorneys don’t know as much about the law as lawyers do.”</i></li> <li><i>“It’s more important to be morally right than factually correct.”</i></li> <li><i>“My choice isn’t what I breathe in, it’s what I exhale… And right now, in this moment, I feel a need for all of us to breathe fire.”</i></li> <li><i>“Under capitalism, man oppresses man. Under socialism, it’s the other way around.”</i></li> </ul> <p>This strategy worked with the Cackler, too. She spoke, and it was clear that she is severely retarded. Brainless Biden, same thing in his first and last "debate" with Trump in the 2024 election. In the 2020 election, Trump kept interrupting Brainless and arguing with him. This gave Brainless legitimacy and made his "win" somewhat semi-plausible if you ignored the fact he could not complete a single sentence even once and nobody showed up at his rallies other than the organizers. This strategy blew Jasmine Crockett out of her own party's Senate primary.</p> <p>Bernie Sanders regularly makes an ass of himself, and Elizabeth Warren can't open her mouth without inserting her foot. We do not need to argue with, or even engage, these idiots. Let them spew stupidity while MAGA leaders get results. And you cannot argue with the results.</p> <p>If AOC is the best the commies can come up with, she will also drag them down this November. Let her speak.</p> <p><b>Communist Party And Voter ID</b></p> <p>The communists see their mission as "Oppose Trump", which is self-defeating and patently absurd considering Trump was elected by a landslide three times already. And the third time, voters overwhelmingly chose America First over the communism that  we endured for four awful years. The overturned the 2020 election via mail-in voting, non-existent people voting, and other fraud that a simple measure such as Voter ID would eliminate. The commies know they cannot win in a fair election, thus they correctly see Voter ID as an existential threat.</p> <p>This is why they oppose the SAVE Act, even though something like 83% of voters want it passed. They are holding DHS hostage, believing that voters will not connect the huge dots between this and having to stand in TSA lines an extra four hours. They are too stupid to understand the SAVE Act will pass, no matter what they do. But the more the engage in "hurt the voters" conduct to oppose it, the dimmer their chances this November.</p> <p>The only hope they have is if non-communists are complacent enough to stay home. We must all get out in November and vote. The communists have never been more vulnerable, and we must strike en masse this November. We might not rid ourselves of Schumer himself, but if we all vote you can bet the commies will lose a record number of House and Senate seats. Making that happen is our patriotic duty, and we have this one chance.</p> <p><b>Cognitively Impaired, #1</b></p> <p>Chuck "Election cheating is a fundamental right" Schumer claimed that the SAVE Act would "kick tens of billions of people" off the voting rolls. Considering the entire world has a population of less than ten billion, that is quite a trick. A claim of even 10s of millions would be absurd; the vast majority of American voters have a driver's license and can easily meet the low bar of voter ID. In fact, there are 242 licensed drivers in the USA and only about 160 million registered voters.4</p> <p>Here is that Marxist Moron spewing his BS: <a href="https://x.com/i/status/2031458602330751470"> https://x.com/i/status/2031458602330751470</a></p> <p><b>Cognitively Impaired, #2</b></p> <p>One ridiculous lie that the "Election cheating is a fundamental right" morons are spewing is that a married woman would not be able to vote because her name on her driver's license won't match the name on her birth certificate. Very few people ever bother to contact their state of birth to obtain their birth certificate, and Barry Soetoro was "elected" twice as President of the USA despite not even having one (his team produced an obviously fraudulent hospital certificate, which is not issued by the government and which is no an official identification document).</p> <p>Nobody is saying you have to produce a birth certificate to vote. Most states have a Real ID driver's license, which you get by submitting various documents. Though I do have a birth certificate, I did not have one at the time I got my Real ID and other documents readily sufficed.</p> <p>By now, the only people afraid of the SAVE Act are the criminals who depend upon cheating in elections and the morons who are too stupid to reject the lies of those same people. Nobody can explain how such morons became so cognitively impaired that they believe Schumer, et al, but at least such morons are a tiny minority. Let's hope they don't breed.</p> <p><b>Cognitively Impaired, #3</b></p> <p>An astounding 30% of voters view the Communist Party favorably, according to a poll conducted by lamestream media outlet NBC. No doubt, that figure is inflated. But even if it is even half right, that is an alarming number. What is wrong with those people?</p> <p>They are cognitively impaired, that's what. They live in echo chambers, filling their minds with nonsense from lamestream media and not paying attention to the reality around them. They do not question the lies, no matter how absurd. They are fully subjugated by the language abuse, calling commies "Democrats" for example. Sunlight is a powerful disinfectant, so what's needed here to restore these people to mental health is to shine light on the lies they so passively accept.</p> <p>One of the lies they are endlessly spewing now is that Trump is anti-immigrant. They need people to believe that so they can stop ICE from deporting fake voters (who always vote commie). When you hear this lie, ask them if they know what country First Lady Melania Trump is from or if they have ever heard her accent. Suggest they watch the documentary "Melania" and then see if they still believe Trump hates immigrants. Ask them if they know what country JD Vance's wife is from, and why an immigrant-hating guy would pick a VP who is married to an immigrant.</p> <p>The main thing we need to do is unplug these people from the Lamestream Media Matrix. Since these people obviously cannot think for themselves, we can use the same simple peer pressure tactics that worked in grade school. Simply scoff at the New York Times and say something like, "Honestly? Nobody who cares about the truth reads that rag. You'll get more accuracy from the National Enquirer." Or, "When you quote from Apple News, you kind of brand yourself as a loser. Is that really how you want people to see you?" </p> <p>Just keep in mind that you cannot have substantive discussions with these people, at least not yet. Make them feel embarrassed for allowing themselves to be taken in by the lamestream media, and you knock one leg off the stool. It's also a step toward permanently shutting down one lamestream media propaganda operation after another. No audience means no ads, and no ads means no money, and no money means they cease to exist. Good riddance to bad rubbish.</p> <p><b>Cognitively Impaired, #4</b></p> <p>The commies keep taking the bait. Their latest act of stupidity was opposing a bill that tugs at the hearts of animal-loving voters. From American Values Digest: "The House passed the BOWOW Act 228–190 on Thursday, making noncitizens convicted of harming police animals deportable and inadmissible. All Republicans voted yes. Only 15 Democrats crossed the aisle to support the bill. Speaker Mike Johnson blasted opponents, writing that "190 Democrats just voted to give illegal immigrants the RIGHT TO PHYSICALLY ABUSE American service dogs." The bill now heads to the Senate."</p> <p>The patriots could have proposed a bill stating that illegal aliens who stab babies to death in their strollers get deported, and the commies would have opposed it because the commies need illegal aliens to fraudulently vote for them. They fail to understand they are up against a vastly smarter opponent, one who keeps setting them up for a pie in the face.</p> <p><b>Morally Impaired, #1</b></p> <p>We are at war and have had a string of terrorist attacks over the past month. Yet, the commies refuse to vote to fund DHS. Why on earth anyone would, at this point, vote for a commie candidate boggles the mind. These sociopaths have no moral compass. At all.</p> <p><b>Morally Impaired, #2</b></p> <p>The Cackler got caught using California Highway Patrol as her personal security, at taxpayer expense, while she was on tour promoting her latest book. 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Brainpower tip</h3> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFCC" valign="top"> <b>Echo Chamber Danger?</b><p>The Covid Scam was one of the weapons used against humanity during the Communist Occupation of the USA. Those of us who applied even minimal common sense were dubious of the wild claims made by Anthony Fauci, the Centers for Disinformation and Censorship, and the Fraudulent Drug Administration. Upon expressing our concerns or merely questioning the obvious stupidity, we were promptly ostracized by many of our "friends", family, and coworkers.</p> <p>When people follow a particular ideology and seek confirmation rather than truth, they block out inputs that don't conform to that viewpoint. Now, here's an ironic development that affects the aforementioned ostracized. Most of us, maybe all of us, might be living in our own echo chambers (emphasis on "might"). Consider that most of us, maybe all of us:</p> <ul> <li>Avoid the lamestream media.</li> <li>Refuse to engage in a "political" conversation with the aforementioned ideologues, because we find it both fruitless and frustrating.</li> <li>Have pruned our social groups such that we don't associate, unless we have to, with the gas lighted, low-information ideology followers.</li> <li>Avoid antisocial media, having found it to also be pro-idiocy media.</li> <li>Reject out of hand any "news" or "information" that comes from propaganda sources like Apple News; we simply do not want to see it.</li> </ul> <p>This sounds like an echo chamber way of looking at the world. But is it? Let's flip that pancake over and see the other side. Most of us, maybe all of us, now:</p> <ul> <li>Seek out unbiased information sources, identifying them as such not because we agree with them but because they build a pretty solid case for what they present to us.</li> <li>Engage in conversations, sometimes arguments, with informed people--with the result that one or both of us come away better-informed. That is, we hash out the issue and debate the points rather than spew talking points that have no foundation under them. Or, we simply engage in polite conversation during and after which we consider what the other person said.</li> <li>Have formed new social contacts such that our existing views are now challenged, refined, or expanded by high-information people and we actually enjoy that.</li> <li>Have replaced antisocial media posturing with engaging conversations that require thought.</li> <li>Don't clutter our mental intake vents with nonsensical garbage from propaganda sources. GIGO (garbage in, garbage out) thus has a minor, if any, effect on us.</li> </ul> <p>Those of us who apply common sense and even critical thinking are, thus, not in danger of living an echo chamber. We have moved in exactly the opposite direction. Further, we are not consumed with hate-based politics but instead feed both mind and spirit in a positive way with information on a variety of topics. We are intellectually curious, seeking to expand our horizons rather than shrink them to fit into the confines of an obsessive ideology. </p> <p>Today's low-information ideologues continue to sink deeper into the stupidity vortex because they:</p> <ul> <li>Limit themselves to the lamestream media and other grossly biased disinformation sources.</li> <li>Refuse to engage in conversation with anyone they disagree with, going instead for talking over us and hurling insults at us.</li> <li>Reject out of hand anything presented to them from outside their echo chamber disinformation sources.</li> <li>Tend to be on a constant newsfeed, clogging their mental intake vents with so much nonsensical garbage that there is no room for information.</li> <li>Are focused on their hate-based politics to the exclusion of anything useful. This leaves them stunted intellectually and emotionally, which partially explains why AOC and Jasmine Crockett are so stupid.</li> </ul> <p>There is nothing wrong with being discerning. You should never feel bad about distancing yourself from leftwing lunatics, especially if they are abusive, obnoxious, or dangerous. Even if you are not a Christian, this advice from the Apostle Paul is probably what you are following now (Philippians 4:8): “Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.” The Muslims have their own version of this in Quran 4:112:"And whatever is good and noble and beautiful and excellent, think about such things."</p> <p>Doing that instead of letting the lunatic lefties divert you into listening to their line of BS is the correct choice. It's not putting yourself into an echo chamber, it is removing yourself from echo chambers entirely.</td></tr></table> <h3 align="left"><br> 4. Finance tip</h3> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tr><td> Many people who have pets believe that "cat food" or "dog food" is something you buy in a bag. What they are talking about is kibble, a highly processed form of food that has a very low moisture content (e.g., 0.15%). I'm going to refer to cats for the remainder of this piece, but the same principles apply to dogs. And to children.<p>If you stay with the mistaken notion that cat kibble = cat food, then your cat's health will benefit from buying the best kibble. A 4lb bag of Blue Wilderness now goes for about $30.</p> <p>There is only so much a kibble maker can do to make kibble a healthier choice. And no matter what they do, kibble will never be a truly healthy Think of it as the protein bar version of pet food. The hydrolyzed protein in those bars isn't easy for your body to use, and there are other problems. The lack of moisture is another problem with kibble, and most cat custodians try to solve this with a bowl of water. Instead, use a pet fountain (change the water and filters each week).</p> <p>The next step up from kibble is canned cat food. You can get something poisonous like Fancy Feast, which you should never feed to a cat unless you totally hate that cat and wish it to have agonizing health problems and a short life. In which case, you should not have a cat. Or kids. If you step up to a product that is basically meat chunks with a sugar-free bone-broth gravy, you are doing OK by your cat. But it's still a canned food. And if you stick with the same few formulations, your cat will be nutrient-deficient. These canned foods are also atrociously expensive.</p> <p>You can save some money and expand your cat's diet by buying canned fish (still a canned food, but are you seriously going to catch sardines yourself?). Tuna, mackerel, and sardines are common choices. The two smaller fish are near the bottom of the food chain, so do not have nearly as much mercury as tuna. Ensure you get plain fish in water, not seasoned and not "lightly salted" or oil.</p> <p>This kind of canned food diet is heavy in meat, which is fine for a cat (not so fine for a dog). But when cats hunt, they eat the whole animal and thus also eat the fruits, berries, and vegetables in that animals digestive tract. For convenience, you can make canned cat food (premium brands) and canned fish your main thing with kibble available for snacking. But you save money and improve your cat's health and happiness with real foods you prepare yourself. Just like kids, cats are individuals who have different tastes. Try these along with canned and kibble with your cat, and see which work:</p> <ul> <li>Scrambled egg. If you scramble one medium egg (in butter) and give your cat about 1/5 of it in a bowl, that's a decent serving for an average-sized cat. You can eat the rest.</li> <li>Giblets from the butcher. This needs to be a once a week sort of thing, if liver is included. Portion size needs to be about half what you would serve from canned cat food.</li> <li>Pumpkin. Yep, another canned food unless you want to prep up an actual pumpkin. Try adding a little on top of some kibble or mix it in with canned cat food.</li> <li>Bone broth. If you use this for soup stock, try giving your cat about 1 tablespoon in a bowl. Try using it to moisten a small amount of kibble, or mix it in with canned cat food.</li> <li>Blueberries. Try a few, and see if your cat likes them. Limit to a few in any given day, and don't feed them to your cat every day.</li> <li>Spinach. Some cats will munch on whole spinach raw, if you set a bunch upright in a bowl. Others will eat it only steamed. This is a super food for your cat, offer it a couple of times per day. And disregard the oxylate nonsense, your cat would need to eat several times his body weight in spinach each day for that to be a factor.</li> <li>Peas. Pea protein is good for cats, and peas are a common ingredient in many cat foods. But feed them sparingly to your cat.</li> <li>Carrots. Try making a thin "stick" that you can hold while your cat chews on it. This brings some intimacy and interaction with your cat. You can also dice it up into tiny chunks and mix it in with canned fish.</li> <li>Banana. A great food for your cat, try putting a few small chunks (cat treat sized) onto a tea saucer and see if your cat likes it.</li> <li>Beef. Small chunks of sirloin or similar are good for your cat. Don't overdo it.</li> <li>Chicken. Small chunks, don't overdo it.</li> </ul> <p>Do take care not to feed your cat table scraps or feed your cat something that you do not first look up to see if it's safe for the cat to eat. Many things that are safe for us to eat can kill a cat. Your cat trusts you, so be very careful to check anything before giving it to your cat.</td></tr></table> <h3 align="left"> </h3> <table align="center" border="0" width="100%" id="table6"> <tr><td valign="top"> <h3 align="left">5. Security tip</h3> <p>From American Century Investors:</p> <p>Check fraud is on the rise, driven by mail theft, organized crime and advanced technology. According to the 2025 Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) Payments Fraud and Control Survey, 63% of organizations experienced check fraud in 2024.* <br> <br> Switching from paper checks to electronic ACH transfers significantly reduces these risks. Here’s why:</p> <p>Security Advantages of Electronic Transactions<br> • Enhanced Security: Account updates require advanced validation and can be managed securely online, minimizing fraud exposure.<br> • Online Access and Control: Manage accounts, report suspicious activity, change passwords and monitor transactions anytime, anywhere.<br> • Fraud Detection: Financial and banking institutions use various controls to help identify suspicious activity and transactions before losses occur.</p> <p>Risks Associated with Checks<br> • Physical Theft: Stolen checks can be altered or forged, leading to unauthorized withdrawals.<br> • Check Washing: Criminals can chemically erase and rewrite check details, causing significant financial loss.<br> • Delayed Detection: Check fraud may go unnoticed for days or weeks, making recovery difficult.<br> • Personal Information Exposure: Checks reveal sensitive details (name, address, account number), making them prime targets for theft.</p> <p>Additional Benefits of Electronic Transactions<br> • Speed and Convenience: ACH transfers between financial institutions and/or banks happen quickly and reduce opportunities for interception.<br> • Paperless Transactions: Digital records eliminate physical storage and handling vulnerabilities.<br> • Account Management: Users can monitor account activity and establish electronic communications.</p> <p>While checks have been a longstanding method for transferring funds, they present several vulnerabilities that can be exploited by fraudsters. Electronic banking offers stronger security, faster processing and real-time monitoring, giving you peace of mind and reducing fraud risk.<br>  </p> <p></td></tr> </table> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" id="table2"> <tr><td valign="top"> <h3 align="left">6. Health tip/Fitness tips</h3> <table border="1" width="100%" id="table5"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="239"> <p> <img border="0" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20260321121620/97dce419ca4746fb896b6c9eadf910f9_Mark-1CroppedForeNL.jpg" width="300" height="250"><p align="center"> <b>Age 65 in these pics</b></td> <td valign="top"> <p align="left">See all of my climbing videos here: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/ClimbingSigChannel"> https://tinyurl.com/ClimbingSigChannel</a>. Some cool climbing  videos:</p> <ul> <li> <p align="left"><a href="https://youtu.be/s4G0ssyJ3hc"> https://youtu.be/s4G0ssyJ3hc</a></p></li> <li> <p align="left"><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/5919UDqCXDc">https://youtube.com/shorts/5919UDqCXDc</a> </p></li> <li> <p align="left"><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/jYvKJ9mKyyE">https://youtube.com/shorts/jYvKJ9mKyyE</a></p> </li> </ul> <p>My hardest climb ever, a 5.11d on lead: <a href="https://youtu.be/UT5h0heUUBc">https://youtu.be/UT5h0heUUBc</a> . I made a dumb mistake initially, letting the rope wrap over my shoulder. Watch what happens. </p> <p>The scale: </p> <ul> <li>Beginner: 5.6. 5.7. 5.8, 5.9  (roped) / VV, V0, V1, V2 (boulder)</li> <li>Intermediate: 5.10a, b, c, d ;5.11a, b, c, d  / V3, V4, V5, V6</li> <li>Advanced: 5.12a, b, c, d; 5.13a, b, c, d. / V7, V8, V9, V10.</li> <li>Elite and Pro: Even harder. Almost nobody climbs at either level at any of the 6 local climbing gyms.</li> </ul> <p></td> </tr> </table> <div align="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" id="table3"> <tr><td valign="top" width="300"> <img border="0" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20260321121620/20a97979bfdbad61a5a67a72d6f1ab6a_Mark2025-09-19.jpg" width="300" height="450"></td> <td valign="top"> It seems there is always some new (and idiotic) idea about improving athletic performance.<p>Last year, anorexia was the big new idea in climbing. It sort of makes sense, the higher your power to weight ratio the better and with less weight the ratio goes up. But this ratio is only a minor factor, and losing lean mass makes you weaker. None of the elite or professional climbers are anemic, and all of them poo-pooed this idiocy.</p> <p>This year, the new idea in climbing is "bulking up". To bodybuilders, this means taking in extra calories during the off season to help you build muscle. But that's not what's meant here, it's a hijacked term. What they are doing is lifting very heavy weights for a very partial range of motion. Doing this tends to cause the muscle belly to bulge in the middle, making it appear larger and stronger. The disadvantages are numerous. No serious bodybuilder will do this, because you lose the aesthetics. No climber should do this, because climbing requires a high degree of flexibility. And yet, there are now people doing it. As my sweetie pointed out, they really should have asked somebody before going down that path.</p> <p>If you can set aside its history of censorship (very one-sided politically), YouTube is a great place to get information. It's also a great place to get disinformation. People are "learning" all kinds of stupid things there. Have you seen the "doctor" who says bananas are a poor source of potassium? Ask any senior citizen who went back for a blood test after giving a daily banana habit a month to work. Gee, the low potassium problem is gone and so are those painful leg cramps!</p> <p>There is some good stuff on YouTube. But you need to filter it using the basic smell test. Some things are, as my climbing buddy Brett says, "Well established". It is well established that subjecting the entire muscle belly to tension (full range exercise) produces an aesthetically pleasing look and optimally increases functional strength. In fact, what classic body builders do has been established for decades.</p> <p>What do I mean by "classic"? There's a division by that name in the Arnold Classic. Those guys look a lot like Frank Zane. Instead of "bubble guts" like the mass monsters, they have small waists and are thin through the belly. They look like athletes, not like freaks. Athletes across nearly all sports follow the same general training methods as these guys. And they do that because these training methods work.</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top" width="300" height="402"> <img border="0" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20260321121620/2cafae1ecaf397ee23afaf79cf69038c_2025-09-21ClimbingShotByJanetSmall.jpg" width="300" height="400"></td> <td valign="top" height="402"> Some elements of these training methods:<ul> <li>Split routine. Nobody does a "full body workout" because (among other reasons) it cannot produce enough time under tension for any given muscle group.</li> <li>Leg day. This is the hardest, most grueling workout. Also the most productive. Every serious athlete sets aside a session devoted to exercises such as squats and deadlifts.</li> <li>Opposing muscles. If you work your chest, you must also work your upper back or you get imbalance. Some people work opposing pairs (e.g., back/triceps) and others work one group in one session and its opposing group in another.</li> <li>No dangerous exercises. You're not going to get some giant improvement by doing behind the neck overhead presses, but you will likely set yourself back due to injury.</li> <li>Controlled, no momentum. It's not about moving the weight, it's about letting the weight resist the movement. That's why it's called resistance training. If you are throwing the weights, you are defeating the purpose of using them.</li> </ul> <p>Let's not forget the diet aspect, either. A whole food diet that includes vegetables of many different colors will hands-down beat any multivitamin product on the market. Jack LaLanne said, "If it's made by man, I don't eat it." People who subsist on junk food try to make up for that with protein shakes and other products sold by the supplement industry, it's a losing game.</p> <p>For athletic performance, you need to get proper instruction in your sport and then practice as recommended to learn the various techniques and when to apply them. You also need to put in many hours of just doing your sport. Be around people who are serious about it and who enjoy doing it. Observe what they do. Ask for tips. Ask for advice. Pay attention.</p> <p>Nobody will ever excel at a sport, or even be able to stay with it, by dint of engaging in training methods that violate the principles that have long been established and empirically tested. The only problem with those principles is that following them takes effort and discipline. But if you're an athlete, this should not be a problem for you.</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top" colspan="2"><p></td></tr> </table> </div> <p> </p> <p>At <a target="_blank" href="http://www.supplecity.com"> www.supplecity.com</a>, you'll find plenty of informative, authoritative articles on maintaining a lean, strong physique. It has nothing to do with long workouts or impossible to maintain diets. In fact:</p> <ul><li>The best workouts are short and intense.</li><li>A good diet contains far more flavors and satisfaction than the typical American diet.</li> </ul>  </td></tr> </table> <h3 align="left">7. Factoid</h3> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFCC" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal">The communists have used our political system as a means to enrich themselves via insider trading, bribery, and other criminal activity. We all know this, which is why the commies are fighting so hard now to prevent basic election integrity measures such as voter ID. If they don't cheat, they can't win. When they win, we lose.</td></tr></table> <h3 align="left"> </h3> <h3 align="left">8. Thought for the Day</h3> <p class="MsoNormal">"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!" - Pericles (430 B.C.) </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p><b>Please forward this eNL to others.</b></p> <p></p> <h4>Authorship</h4> The purpose of this publication is to inform and empower its readers (and save you money!). The views expressed in this e-newsletter are generally not shared by socialists or other brainwashed individuals. That's because those fools live in an alternate reality and have not bothered to learn the basics of how life works. 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Mindconnection eNL 2026-03-08

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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" dir="ltr" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top"> <p> </p> <p> </p> <table align="center" border="0" width="90%"> <tbody> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table align="center" border="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="20%"><a href="https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enl/index.htm">Subscriptions</a><br /> <a href="https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enl/index.htm">Past issues</a></td> <td width="60%"> <h1>Mindconnection eNL, 2026-03-08</h1> </td> <td width="20%"> <p align="right"><a href="https://www.mindconnection.com">Home</a></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table align="center" border="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFCC"> <p align="left"><b>In this issue:</b><br /> Good News | Product Highlight | Brainpower | Finances | Security | Health/Fitness | Factoid | Thought 4 the Day</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table align="center" border="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#000000"><font color="#FFFFFF">Please forward this to others who might find it useful. If you have a social media acct (Facebook, etc.), please add our link: </font> <a href="https://www.mindconnection.com" style="color: #FFFFFF">https://www.mindconnection.com </a></td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" id="table4" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <ul> <li> <p align="left">Let's red pill the masses! Send this link to a friend: <a href="https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enlarchives/2025/enl2026-03-08.htm"> https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enlarchives/2025/enl2026-03-08.htm</a></p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Please take the time to read, not merely scan. Enjoy over several days! This is not a light daily, it is packed with info and comes out only twice a month.</p> </li> </ul> <p align="left"><b>1. Good News: Where the Intel is Good</b></p> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" id="table8" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFCC" valign="top"> <ul> <li>Proud to be an American: <a href="https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2025609872046252188"> https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2025609872046252188</a><br />  </li> <li>Scouting America (e.g., Boy Scouts of America and Girls Scouts of America) has officially ended its wokeness, following demands from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. No more gender insanity, "social justice" badge, etc. They are even waiving fees for children of active duty service members.<br />  </li> <li>Starbucks has fled Washington State for a free state (Tennessee). Yes, this is the same Starbucks that did the pronoun thing. They have come to their senses, something that happens when "go woke, go broke" shows up in the financial statements. As a consequence of coming to their senses, they are also fleeing this very blue state. This flight from communism is draining the "blue" states of their tax base, and yet they double down on Marxist policies. Talk about stupid. The really great news here is those who flee are not bringing Marxism to the free states, they are joining in the fight against communism. The wealthy who fled have not only stopped donating to "Democrat" causes, but are now donating to Republican ones.<br />  </li> <li>The "Assahola" of Iran is no longer in power. As Senator John Kennedy said, "May he rest in pieces." Yet another bad guy taken out, albeit more violently than Maduro was. Are you are seeing the pattern?<br />  </li> <li>Some people wonder why we haven't taken out Mr. Putin, Xi Jinping, and Nancy Pelosi. The situation with these three is very different. Yes, Pelosi is a straight-up criminal like Maduro but she has not subjugated an entire country while saying if she obtains a nuclear arsenal she will wipe Israel out of existence. You can see there is a very short list of bad actors who may get the same treatment, particularly the "leaders" of North Korea and Cuba. NK because of a nuclear threat (he is really on thin ice with ice) and Cuba because of its proximity to the free state of Florida.<br />  </li> <li>Regarding Nutcase Nancy, she would stand no chance if indicted for even half the felonies she has committed. Just the RICO charges alone would put her away for the rest of her toxic life. There would be no public outcry in her defense. Except among the whackos in Transfrancisco, she is deeply unpopular. It wasn't that long ago she was booed off the stage in the liberal la la land of New York. Of all places!<br />  </li> <li>So why has Nutcase not been arrested? For one thing, there are so many younger criminals to stop while Nutcase is a has been. She has been living high off decades of insider trading and bribery, but is not a future threat. Resources are limited. So the priority for prosecution must be on stopping those who still have potential for massive damage.<br /> <br /> AOC self-destructed in Europe and is finished. The Cackler self-destructed in her laughable Presidential run in 2024 so she is finished. Ilhan Omar keeps providing more and more evidence against herself, so that will allowed to run for a while. Then you have morons like Alex Padilla. Just because certain criminals are loud and obnoxious doesn't mean they are enough of a threat to indict. The energy will be saved for those who are particularly dangerous to the Republic. My guess it will a few at the top tiers of the fraud cartels, which JD Vance is now in charge of ending. If you indict a few of those, it will be tantamount to cutting off the head of the hydra.<br />  </li> <li>If this "particularly dangerous" theory is true, why the attention on the Clintons and the Obamas? Because exposing their crimes without the white washing and cover of the legacy media will take the legs out from the communist party while also instilling fear in those aforementioned hydra head folks. That is a strategic play, not a tactical one. The smarter criminals will exit like rats jump a sinking ship, leaving only the morons behind. And then it will be much easier to mop up the moron morass.<br />  </li> <li>The communists have already ceded the 2028 Presidential Election. They realize there is no hope. Trump has done an amazing job in his first year and has three years to go to rack up a record that even the lying commies and their lying lamestream media can't convince anyone with a measurable IQ is not awesome. The Republicans have a deep bench, with at least half a dozen choices that are A+. What are the commies bringing? AOC! Last month, she totally embarrassed herself in Europe with her word salads and non-answers.<br /> <br /> So the strategy is to rope-a-dope with yet another dope. And then hope that by 2032 they can recruit an intelligent libtard to challenge a strong incumbent. The thing is, there's no such thing as an intelligent libtard. The decades-long reliance on election cheating, gas lighting, and censorship won't carry them through this time. We are getting stronger election laws (e.g., the SAVE Act), the Covid scam woke up millions of people to stop accepting BS as truth, and the alternate media are rising while the legacy media are dying.<br />  </li> <li>Jasmine Crockett lost the "Democrat" Senate primary to a moderate Christian Democrat. To run for the Senate, she had to not run for her existing House seat. Which means she will no longer taint the House with her lies, deceit, and theater when the new Congress convenes. Good riddance to bad rubbish.<br />  </li> <li>As reported in Coffee & Covid, "California loses a taxpayer every minute and 44 seconds. New York loses one every 2 minutes and 23 seconds. At the same time, welfare people are moving in. Over the past decade, New York shed $111 billion in adjusted gross income to other states. California lost $102 billion. Illinois lost $63 billion. The Daily Economy, late last year."<br />  </li> <li>NASA changed the orbit of an asteroid, on 06MAR. This means they could potentially prevent an asteroid from slamming into the earth. Remember the Great Extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs? We certainly don't want another asteroid hit like that, it might leave behind only cockroaches and communists. Ah, but I repeat myself.</li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p align="left"><b>SCOTUS</b></p> <p align="left">The SCOTUS struck down New York's race-based redistricting scheme, 9 to 3. Can you can guess who the three dissenters are? Of course, the senile Sotomayer and the libtard Kagan usually get things wrong. It's no surprise that Ketanji Brown, a grossly underqualified DEI appointee, also got it wrong. Similar math on a child abuse case originating in the People's Republic of California (you can no longer "transition" a child behind the parents' back).</p> <p align="left">We may be seeing 6 to 3 for a while:</p> <ul> <li> <p align="left">Senile Sotomayer may step down soon, due to her obvious mental impairment. But observers have been saying that for several years now.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Unfortunately, Kagan is 65 and still has some tread on her tires; she is a low-information moron, but she is not senile.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Ketanji Brown is 55, so she might afflict the Court with her nonsensical questions, idiotic dissents, and irrationality for another 25 to 30 years.</p> </li> </ul> <p align="left">Justice Clarence Thomas, one of the finest legal minds to ever serve on the court, is now 74. The average American man is dead at 75. So President Trump or his successor will likely appoint replacements for Thomas and Sotomayer some time in the next seven years. Filling the shoes of an intellectual giant like Thomas is no small task, and it is unlikely to be accomplished. But they can easily find someone who understands our Constitution and respects it, and who can correctly interpret the law. Pam Bondi, for instance. If Sotomayer were to resign today due to her obvious dementia, that would rule out Bondi who is perhaps the best AG of all time and needed presently right where she is. But three or four years from now, when Thomas might take a well-deserved retirement?</p> <p align="left">Also note that the communists are self-destructing their way to the November mid-terms; for them to become a distinct minority in the Senate, Republican voters just need to show up on Election Day and vote. When the new Senate convenes next year, confirming a Trump nominee will be relatively painless. Right now, not so much.</p> <p align="left">Some speculate that President Trump might do a Taft after his term and serve on the SCOTUS. I doubt he would do that, it's not his style. Besides, he is 79 years old now and after his heroic and historic second term he should take a well-deserved retirement.</p> <p align="left">Presently the SCOTUS is in good shape, despite having three libtards (one of whom is demented) on it. That makes the Court a panel of six, rather than a panel of nine, because three of them will almost always vote stupidly. Notice the "almost" in there. We've had a few unanimous decisions, mostly due to how narrowly Chief Justice Roberts defines the cases.</p> <p align="left">But also, even libtards have their stupidity limits. Ketanji Brown's dressing down of the Mexican (government) plaintiff last year showed that she is not totally stupid. She has six coworkers who are rational and qualified jurists, she has two who are plainly nuts. This dynamic pulls her toward the reality zone. She's demonstrated a profound weakness in the use of logic, so she is never going to be an equal among those six. But just being around them and being exposed to rationality means she will be less ideologically captured than if the SCOTUS were more heavily afflicted with libtards. And I cannot help but think how listening to Thomas and following along with his reasoning must have a significant effect. Sitting at the feet of the master, one learns.</p> <p align="left">If Senile Sotomayer is replaced in the next year to five years with someone sane, rational, qualified, and non-Marxist, Brown will likely vote with the majority more often than not. And that will leave Kagan effectively isolated and neutralized, writing inane dissents. Her feelings of frustration, combined with the ridicule her inane dissenting opinions will garner her, would then lead to her retiring at perhaps age 70. At which point, DEI Ketanji will be the only Justice remaining who was appointed by an election fraud POTUS (Obama for SS and Kagan, Biden for KBJ). She is not articulate enough to write dissenting opinions that aren't farsical, so most likely she will avoid dissenting to avoid embarrassment.</p> <p align="left">This will then be a conservative, independent SCOTUS that will oppose Marxist lunacy while also refusing to rubber stamp schemes hatched by Republican administrations. That is, balance will be restored.</p> <p align="left">After I wrote this piece, I discovered that President Trump has already said he will nominate Ted Cruz (no relation to Tom Cruise). Senator Cruz may not be a black woman who can't tell us what a woman is, but he is a Canadian immigrant of Hispanic ethnicity. So maybe he'll pass the DEI "standards" likely to be trotted about by Bernie Sanders and other morons, but we really should not care about their opinions. Cruz has an impressive resume and a sound Constitutional footing. The trick for Trump to nominate Cruz or anyone else is getting the demented Sotomayer to retire.</p> <p align="left"><b>Communist Convention Cancelled</b></p> <p align="left">The Communist Party has cancelled its midterm convention. Their disapproval rating is at 70%, the highest ever, and still dropping. They have had a string of embarrassments and humiliations since the Cackler ran for POTUS, and they continue to behave in ways that repel voters. So it would be more of a funeral than a convention.  This November looks bleak for them:</p> <p align="left">No character</p> <ul> <li> <p align="left">Every one of their political stars is a moron. You can't find a single intelligent person among them.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">They are crooks, too. That is catching up with them.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">We know who the insider trading criminals are. They can make a run for public office and get indicted, or they can quietly resign.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">The Epstein files will expose quite a few commies for the scum they are, just as has happened to their counterparts in Europe.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">The Minnesota fraud scandal is just the tip of the iceberg. But it has already sunk the guy who ran for VP on their ticket less than two years ago. It will take down many others, because it also infects other communist countries such as Illinois and California--places that have traditionally held commie seats in Congress.</p> </li> </ul> <p align="left">No money</p> <ul> <li> <p align="left">Their fundraising is anemic, while the Republican war chest is massive and growing. This is unprecedented in history.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">The "capital flight" problem, where people have fled to the free states, has left them with less public funding to misappropriate.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Their money-laundering schemes such as USAID have been dismantled.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">The campaign donations flowing from federal employees are far less now because there are far fewer federal employees.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">The billionaire donors who supported them in the past have switched sides, due to communists turning on them after getting into power. Ultra-wealthy donors bring more than just money, they also bring influence.</p> </li> </ul> <p align="left">No bench</p> <ul> <li> <p align="left">Trump has an All Star Team for his cabinet. Most are very good-looking, in addition to being highly competent, articulate, and dedicated. The glow of this extends to Trump-endorsed senators and congressmen running this November.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">By contrast, it's looking like the Communists will run AOC for POTUS in 2028. In addition to coming across like the complete idiot she is in hundreds of YouTube clips of her behaving stupidly in House hearings, in her recent trip to Europe she showed how dim her bulb really is. This is their flag-bearer? They can't find somebody with at least half a brain?</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">The GOP is replacing its older senators and House reps with younger ones; six senators recently retired and were replaced by people young enough to be their kids or as in Mitch McConnell's case, grandson. All of these newcomers have been selected based on their merits not on their pronouns.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">The Communist Party is still dominated by geriatrics who have yet to do anything useful. Nutcase Nancy, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Rosa DeLauro, are all way past their freshness date. Then you have repeat failures such as Adam Schiff and Gruesome Newsom.</p> </li> </ul> <p align="left">No cheating</p> <ul> <li> <p align="left">Their lamestream media have the lowest trust score ever.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">The censorship they relied on has been largely abated.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Many election integrity measures have been enacted since the 2000 election (when the chads controversy, for example, started Florida on the path of improving election integrity).</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">The election integrity movement got a huge boost after the 2020 election was so obviously stolen.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Millions of the illegal aliens who illegally vote for them have been deported.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Their message of hatred and violence is repelling people.</p> </li> </ul> <p align="left">No contest</p> <ul> <li> <p align="left">Trump has, by far, been the most effective POTUS in history and has brought us into a golden age just as he said he would. People can see it in their everyday lives, and yet this is what the commies are rallying against. It's a failing platform.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">The free states are clearly better places to live (lower taxes, better services, more liberty, less violence) than the communist controlled places. It's A/B testing, people can see the huge difference.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Unless Republicans stay home, and given what we went through during the Communist Occupation that is unlikely, the Communist Party will suffer record losses during this midterm election. Remember, patriots turned out in record numbers after being asked to make Trump's run "too big to fail".</p> </li> </ul> <p align="left">No-win</p> <ul> <li> <p align="left">They are opposing the SAVE Act, even though 83% of voters want it passed. If they continue to oppose it, they will alienate many who might otherwise vote "Democrat". But if they pass it, they will lose their second most powerful way of cheating in elections.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">They opposed the One Big Beautiful Bill, then derided it as the One Ugly Bill once it passed. The benefits of the OBBB, such as vastly reduced  taxes for seniors, take away entire demographics from them. You can see the video clip assault on them already. To survive that, they must either admit they were wrong or continue to lie and deflect. Either way, they lose.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">They keep defending the Unaffordable Care Act, but Trump has negotiated (strong-armed) favored nation status with Big Pharma to bring us the lowest prescription drug costs in the world. They can't harp on the cost of "health" (medical) care without showing that they are largely responsible for the runaway costs that Trump is now taming via the aforementioned drug cost reduction and other measures such as increased cost transparency.</p> </li> </ul> <p align="left">The really good news is their defeat this November will be catastrophic. The word "catastrophic" means something so bad you don't recover from it. They are too arrogant, too ideological, and too stupid to change course now. Even if they did somehow come up with a possibly winning campaign platform, they have nobody to carry it forward for them.</p> <p align="left">It is possible they could repeat the "Obama miracle" and trot out another previously unknown homosexual illegal alien who is good at reading teleprompters. But such as person could win only one Senate or House seat and would cost a lot to put into place during a time when they have a financial crisis. This would, however, solve the AOC problem for 2028 if it plays out the same way as the Obama scam played out. But that person would have to run against a real opponent, not John McCain saddled with an airhead from Alaska. They simply can't pull it off.</p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"><b>Scam Day, 5th of March</b></p> <p align="left">No, it's not a Democrat Party rally or another fake pandemic.</p> <p align="left">"On March 5, 2026, during National Consumer Protection Week, the Social Security Administration (SSA) and its Office of the Inspector General (OIG) will lead National Slam the Scam Day. Take part by using tools from SSA and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to recognize imposters — including Social Security-related scams — and stop scammers from stealing your money and personal information. Help Us Slam the Scam!"</p> <ol> <li> <p align="left">Learn about common tactics and how to recognize the signs. For example:  An unexpected problem or offer of a prize or government benefit increase.  Pressure to act immediately.  Request for unusual payments like cryptocurrency, gift cards, gold bars, cash, or wire transfers, even with the promise of keeping your money safe.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Spread the word. Visit ssa.gov/scam for more information that could help you and others stay safe.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Report suspicious activity. Report Social Security-related issues to SSA OIG (oig.ssa.gov/report) and other concerns to the FTC (reportfraud.ftc.gov).</p> </li> </ol> <p align="left">Go here to report a scam: <a href="https://secure.ssa.gov/oig/scam">https://secure.ssa.gov/oig/scam</a></p> <p align="left"><b>Scam Trial: Musk On Trial in Commifornia</b></p> <p align="left">Elon Musk broke the highly oppressive censorship that we endured during the Communist Occupation, by purchasing Twitter and making it the only major platform that allowed any diversity of viewpoint whatsoever. And just like that, free speech was restored. For this, he is being put on trial in Commiefornia. The jury selection process is revealing, almost half of the prospective jurors were dismissed for admitting that they hate Elon.</p> <p align="left">Why the hatred?</p> <p>They are intellectually stunted, emotionally impaired, delusional, ignorant, unthinking, innumerate, semi-literate sociopaths. They live in their hate-filled echo chambers and lack any interest in understanding reality. Yes, they are all commies.</p> <p>The good news for us sane people is these whackos overwhelmingly got The Jab and are now dying off at an accelerated rate (mostly due to the cancers). In addition, their personalities are an excellent form of birth control so they are not breeding. Maybe in 10 years, there won't be enough of them to worry about. It's one thing we can thank Fauci and Gates for.</p> <p><b>Stupid Commies at SOTU</b></p> <p>President Trump's State of the Union address was a master class in how to contrast yourself with your opponents and get them to show how extremely stupid they are. If you have not watched the SOTU address, do so (plenty of videos of it). It's the longest one ever given, but when it was done I wanted more.</p> <p>The commies just do not get it. Making faces, heckling the President, and refusing to stand to show approval of anything simply confirms that none of them belong in office. When asked to stand if they believe the government should put Americans first not illegal aliens, they sat. And even though 89% of Americans, regardless of party, want Voter ID they also sat when asked to stand if they were for Voter ID.</p> <p>Nutcase Nancy was quick to send out another of her venomous, delusional e-mails the next day. Upon reading it, I could see she had gone off her meds and badly needed to be indicted for slander, libel, and sedition. On top of the insider trading charges that she is so clearly guilty of that Trump mentioned her by name when talking about a bill he would sign to stop this very thing. And, of course, the usual morons made their idiotic rebuttals but outside the stupidity-dome echo chambers, nobody cared about what they had to say.</p> <p>Things are looking very good coming into the November elections. The self-inflicted wounds the commies got at the SOTU and on the next day should guarantee a rout. But unless patriots like us turn out to vote the way we did to defeat Cackling Kamala, our republic is in peril. I do not mean it will be in peril if we don't turn out to vote, I mean it is in peril between now and the conclusion of the election and we must turn out to vote or we will give these mentally ill, immoral people power again.</p> <p>Make sure you vote this November. And until then, do some mild campaigning for freedom and the rule of law. Don't get into angry arguments, but do respectfully counter the commie propaganda and make a point of complimenting Team Trump to others. My sister, a patriot, uses this method. One reason it works is the echo chamber brainwashed are simply unaware of reality because it's not even mentioned in the legacy media to which they are, unfortunately, addicted. So mention it to them.</p> <p align="left"><b>Another Stupid Commie Ploy</b></p> <p align="left">Former Biden Flunkie Susan Rice said that corporations that have “taken a knee to Trump” will face consequences when the Democrats take back power. In other words, "We have nothing positive to offer, but we believe in the random pendulum which means we will be in charge again right after winning the next election and then we will abuse you every way possible for supporting our opponent."</p> <p align="left">First of all, there is no pendulum. The only way the communists can retake the White House is the same way the retook it last time: Massive, obvious, unrestrained election cheating with the cooperation of Facebook and the legacy media. This has three problems:</p> <ol> <li> <p align="left">There's been a lot of election reform since then. And a lot of corruption exposed. The cheating will be inordinately more expensive at a time when the commies have chased away many of their largest donors.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Zuck regrets what he did, and he has a vested self-interest in opposing the commies. Facebook is not going to go down that path again. No more Zuck Bucks campaigns, either.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">The legacy media have dramatically shrunk in size, reach, audience, and credibility. Many of them have lost multi-million dollar lawsuits, and it's looking like one of them is going to lose the $10 billion lawsuit filed by Citizen Trump. They are still a problem, but they no longer control the narrative.</p> </li> </ol> <p align="left">What is the likely response from these corporations, which are now enjoying financial prosperity they did not enjoy under the Communist Occupation? They are going to expend extra effort to ensure the communists do not return to power. Not just the White House, but also key Senate and House races. Some ways they might do this:</p> <ol> <li> <p align="left">Employee education. Simply giving people the numbers and letting them decide might sound weak, but the numbers are extremely compelling. For example, the lowest murder rate in over 120 years.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">District voter education campaigns. They have a right to politically participate in the voting district where their offices are located. They can hire any number of companies to send out a mailing designed to sway voters to support the non-communist candidate. Or they can choose a "battleground" district in their state.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Civic Duty Days. Employees who choose to participate in poll watching or other election integrity efforts get a paid day off to do that.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Donations to candidates they favor. Of course, outright dollar donations have fairly low limits. But they can provide other benefits, such as paying a stipend to interns, providing free office space, providing free coffee, renting them a company vehicle below market rates, providing services such as having their legal department or finance department review documents or expenses, etc.</p> </li> </ol> <p align="left">In the past, leaders of these companies were either conned or extorted into supporting the communists. And it meant forking out money to them. The con doesn't work anymore, so the extortion is being taken to new extremes. Now they are being threatened with severe reprisals if they fail to actively undermine the President who pulled the nation out of a deep economic depression, stopped violent offenders from crossing the border into our country, ended the "green energy" scam, negotiated 10 peace settlements in his first year, and bought $18 trillion (4.5 times the GDP of Japan) of investment into USA manufacturing in his first year. So what do you think their response is going to be?</p> <p align="left">Yep, eliminate the threat. I sincerely hope other prominent commies echo what Rice said. Because the intended victims are listening. And they don't take threats lying down.</p> <p align="left"><b>Yet Another Stupid Commie Ploy</b></p> <p align="left">Winsome Sears lost the Virginia Governor's race to Comrade Abigail Spanberger, despite being far more qualified and having a far firmer grip on economic reality. It did not take Spanberger long to embrace criminals with the special protections they have in places like Commiefornia, and punish those who create wealth. It also did not take long for Boeing to relocate its entire Defense, Space & Security headquarters to St Louis, MO. Losing that tax generating business is going to hurt the state's Treasury severely. And now, the commie-induced death spiral begins. Taxes are raised and services skimped on to avoid going into the red. People get upset and move out of state, further eroding the tax base. Which means another round of tax hikes and service curtailments. Which upsets more people....</p> <p align="left">We need to thank Spanberger for this, because by the time the November elections roll around the stench of communism will offend the vast majority of voters in that state. It could be enough to unseat communist Mark Warner who is running for re-election to the Senate. Six of the state's 11 Congressional Reps are communists; Spanberger's insanity could reduce that number to zero. A more likely outcome is a shift of two seats. If this also happens in half of the 50 states, the Republicans would pick up 50 reps while the communists lose 50. That would be a shift of 100 seats in favor of sanity. The Republicans have 218 seats in the House, and in this scenario they would end up with 318 seats for the next Congress.</p> <p align="left">As you can see, it would not take much change in any one state if the same change happens in half of them, to dramatically change the balance of power. So let's hope these crazy governors (Spanberger) and mayors (Mamdami) keep doing what they are doing. I think this situation is the only reason Nutcase Nancy has not been either indicted for her many felonies or placed involuntarily in a mental care facility. She is a terrible ambassador for the commies and every time she opens her mouth she makes them look stupid and untrustworthy.</p> <p align="left"><b>Sanders' Stupid Solution</b></p> <p align="left">The communists who run Commiefornia have been on a tear, driving billionaires and other wealthy people out of the state. A sane person would respond to this by reversing the bad policies and issuing apologies. 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When their view doesn't align with the facts, they "tweak" the facts to match their view. Leaps of logic, baseless assertions, language abuse, and fact inversion (stating the opposite of what the data say) are all tools they use to avoid being actually right.</p> <p>I'm an objective person. I will even stake out the opposing position and argue against my own view. I learned this while on the debate team in high school. You had to argue PRO in one round and CON in the next.</p> <p>Being objective means that instead of getting into arguments, I get into searches for the truth. I give others the benefit of the doubt, rather than jumping to some conclusion about them. I seek their side of the story. It's more typical to simply run with the first thing you hear, and that's what the simpletons who embrace communism do. They hear some anti-Trump propaganda and no matter how absurd they simply run with it. They are gaslighted with some commie message "Trump is [fill in the blank]" and accept it as true. They don't ask basic questions or in any way challenge the statement.</p> <p>I recently came across a YouTube clip of an old Happy Days episode. It perfectly illustrates the principle of looking at things objectively. It's just under 5 minutes long. Watch it and see how The Fonz practices objectivity and gets at the truth. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyjWus2eR-Y&t=4s"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyjWus2eR-Y&t=4s</a></p> <p>Some tips to being objective when considering a postulation:</p> <ol> <li>Don't just come up with examples that confirm the postulation. Try very hard to come up with counterexamples that may disprove the postulation.</li> <li>Consider your fact sources. This is something communism embracers totally fail at. They are repeatedly and chronically lied to by the lamestream media, yet they continue to eat it up. It boggles the mind that any human being on the planet would bother to open a copy of The New York Times. It is complete hogwash and 100% unreliable.</li> <li>Try to set your own circumstances and experiences aside. Some people cannot grasp, understand, or appreciate something that they have not experienced.  I know a few people who have never set foot in a climbing gym and yet they can have an intelligent conversation with me about climbing. Why? Because they can see outside of their own experience.<br />  </li> <li>Try to see the bigger picture. When President Trump rolled out tariffs on everybody, I did not like it. Why? Because a tariff is a tax on an importer, and I am an importer. Now, I could have decided to hate Trump. But the thing is, you do not throw out the baby with the bathwater unless you are terminally stupid. My monthly business revenue had already more than doubled since the Cackler ceded the election. Particularly, the sales of the items I import and for which I have the highest profit, had gone up dramatically. If I paid some guru a fee to make this happen and he charged me only what I paid in tariffs, I would be thrilled.<br />  </li> <li>Ask good questions. What is a realistic cost? What is the expected benefit? Is that benefit worth the cost?</li> <li>How does this mesh with commonly understood facts and concepts?</li> <li>Analyze the logic. Does A necessarily follow from B, or am I assuming a causation that isn't really there?<br />  </li> <li>Avoid emotional language. Nutcase Nancy is good at tossing firebombs when she speaks. She does not present facts, she presents emotional word salads and uses those to manipulate people. She gets their amygdala involved, which cuts out the neocortex. This is one of the reasons that communists are so stupid, they literally are "thinking" with their reptile brains. Avoid this at all costs.</li> <li>Replace Orwellian language with proper word choices. An example I like to use is calling medical care what it is, medical care. It is not health care. By calling it "health care" the medical industry, which has no doctors who graduated from health school and have a HD after their name, completely changes the perception. As does the medical insurance industry.</li> <li>Treat the postulation as something you have to sell to a hard audience. Of accountants. Forensic accountants. You'd be surprised at the clarity of thought this brings. At least, it does for me.</li> </ol> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3 align="left"><br /> 4. Finance tip</h3> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td>I used to work in Plant Engineering. I progressively made my way through these titles: electrical maintenance manager, maintenance manager, maintenance and facilities manager, and plant engineer. I had the privilege of working with some top-notch people, and also the burden of working with some idiots. <p>I went from that to working as a multi-hat electrical engineer / project manager / site supervisor / CAD guy / Code guy for an electrical services firm. My boss was a great guy, and he reported to the owner (another great guy). We had some top-notch people there. But then I got an offer from an electrical trade magazine and worked there for six years. During that time, I attended many industry conferences. I found that a certain kind of stupidity I had encountered prior to that job was actually very common.</p> <p>That stupidity is the idea that you save money by not doing maintenance. It's a very expensive behavior.</p> <p>I have changed my own oil (car) every 5,000 miles for the past 40+ years and this has probably saved me 10s of thousands of dollars. Here are some other preventive maintenance tasks that save you money:</p> <ul> <li>Clean your coffee maker. I was recently at a climbing gym that serves hot coffee. I could smell that their coffee maker hadn't been cleaned, and I told them so. I also told them how to clean it, they had no idea. There are multiple methods, but the best one is to add a tablespoon of citric acid per 3 cups of water to the carafe (it it's a nine-pot carafe, add 3 tablespoons). Shake it to dissolve the citric acid. Then make a fake pot of coffee. Discard the "coffee" down the drain (to help clean it), and repeat with plain water twice. If you use vinegar instead of citric acid, you'll need a third rinse.</li> <li>Use citric acid to clean humidifiers. Use it to clean toilet bowls, too; simply dump about two tablespoons in and swish with the brush to dissolve, then let it sit for a couple of hours. Do not add it to the tank, you will likely damage the flapper or other parts.</li> <li>Clean and polish your shoes. Not only does this improve your personal presentation, it allows your shoes to last far longer.<br />  </li> <li>Clean or change your furnace filter. Make a monthly appointment to do this.</li> <li>Once a week or so, pull the racks out of your dishwasher and wipe it down inside. I use a bamboo sponge. Clean the filter in there, too.</li> <li>Vacuum your carpet. I use a Roomba once a week, as a sort of baseline. Additional vacuuming with canister, as needed. If your home is too cluttered for a Roomba, get rid of stuff until it isn't.<br />  </li> <li>Have a contract with an HVAC company to inspect your furnace once or twice a year. These contracts are typically around $120 a year, so you really get your money's worth. They are hoping to find something to fix or replace, which of course is going to cost you money. But consider what happens if you have a cracked heat exchanger and they find it. Big money to replace, and in my case last year it meant a whole new furnace. I think that is preferable to dying from CO poisoning, but to each his own. Your insurance agent will probably try to tell you that a furnace replacement costs less than replacing a burned down house, and if you disagree then just work the numbers out and show him.  :)<br />  </li> <li>Keep your car tires inflated to the pressure shown on the door jamb plate.</li> <li>Rotate your tires every 7,500 miles or so. If you don't have a pair of floor jacks or don't feel comfortable doing this, have a tire shop do it. Your tires will last longer.</li> <li>Keep your car clean inside and out. A dirty exterior means that grime is abrading your finish. I sealed mine with a polymer (big job, has to be redone every few years), but if you're not up for that then have car detailer do it. Some car washes offer this service.<br />  </li> <li>Get your sleep. Maintaining your brain health this way is one of the best ways to protect yourself from financial loss.</li> <li>Don't take your job for granted. The vast majority of people fail to do the preventive maintenance needed to keep their job. Then they are surprised when they don't get a raise or do get fired.</li> <li>If you're a husband, be alert for preventive maintenance that needs doing in your marriage. Wives, like any other appliance, break down over time. You can keep them humming along by doing at least one small kindness each day, taking out the trash without being asked, picking up after yourself, telling her each day something you appreciate about her, setting aside time to listen to her, and sincerely showing her that she is valued and respected. For example, stop thinking of her as an appliance!<br />  </li> <li>Maintain your lean mass. I fail to understand why it is normal to allow yourself to lose muscle and end up with pancake butt by age 50. Regularly engaging in vigorous exercise, especially if it is a structured program, will extend your health span dramatically. This is one of the most important things you can do for your physical health, mental health, old age independence, and late-life financial well-being. There are entire books written on this, but don't waste time reading them. Just make sure you do this.</li> <li>Get regular eye exams and dental exams. This may sound contrary to my advice to skip the annual doctor visit, but these exams really fall under health care instead of medical "care" (if you want to call it that). If you don't know why these are such a good use of your time, ask your eye doctor or your dentist. A chiropractor, similar thing.</li> </ul> <p>Some other maintenance is very expensive with little or no benefit. I recommend not doing these:</p> <ul> <li>Getting "your annual flu shot". This shot has zero value, and it carries risk. Don't get it. I've previously covered what's wrong with it, the short version is it's made for an extinct flu bug from Australia.</li> <li>Any kind of scheduled vaccines. The vaccine religion is not based on science, and there are no quality controls. Instead, focus on boosting your immune system.</li> <li>Annual "check up" with the doctor. Unless you have some ongoing condition, there is nothing to be gained by this. You pay a copay, waste your time, and risk getting conned into undergoing unnecessary tests and treatments.</li> <li>"Pest control" treatments for your lawn. These companies all claim their products are eco-friendly, but when you look up the ingredients online you find out they are super bad for bees. If you want great pest control, set up a bird feeder, a bird bath, and a few bird houses.</li> <li>Taking a multivitamin. Take a look at the Nutrition Panel. You will likely see megadoses of B12 and other vitamins. Though these are water soluble, they are not inert. You can do serious kidney damage with these products, and kidney disease is a top killer in the USA.</li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3 align="left"> </h3> <table align="center" border="0" id="table6" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top"> <h3 align="left">5. Security tip</h3> <p>Many stretches of interstate in metro areas are heavily afflicted by overly aggressive sociopaths who have no business behind the wheel of a vehicle and probably belong in a padded cell. They terrorize others by various means. For example, a favorite tactic is to tailgate for a bit, then pass and cut back over without sufficient room to avoid collision unless their victim brakes hard. If the posted speed limit is 65MPH and the car in front of them is doing "only" 75MPH, then apparently the driver of that 75MPH car is a scumbag who does not deserve to be on the same road.</p> <p>These aggressors exhibit no evidence of understanding that they don't own that road, other people who use the road also pay the taxes that allow the road to exist, and the safety of other people is important. They view anyone else on the road as being in their way and deserving of any disrespect that can be dished out.</p> <p>This situation is relatively new, having developed during the Communist Occupation.  It has arisen as a consequence of the "Defund the Police" stupidity that followed George Floyd's suicide by drug overdose. It was already stressful enough to be a cop, this particularly sad chapter in our nation's history increased the stress dramatically. On top of that, many police budgets were slashed. Apparently, if you have fewer police you will have fewer career criminals dying from an overdose of fentanyl and meth. I don't follow the "logic" but you have to remember that line of "thinking" emerged in Moronesota, specifically in Moroneapolis.</p> <p>Today, the rest of us bear the significant costs of that. Whether your formerly safe Chicago neighborhood is now  a free-for-all killing zone or traveling on a metro section of an interstate feels like an audition for a new Mad Max movie, we are all paying for what was done to our police forces.</p> <p>Some tips:</p> <ul> <li>In any interaction with police officers, show extra respect. Even if you are getting a traffic ticket. You can say, "Officer, I don't like getting this ticket. But I appreciate you for trying to make our roads safer. I should not have been speeding."</li> <li>When you see a cop in public, smile big toward that person. This goes a very long way.</li> <li>Write to your state rep and ask why more funds are not allocated to the State Police.<br />  </li> <li>If you live in a border city, write to the Governor's office of the neighboring state expressing support for their State Police.</li> <li>Write to your County Board rep and express appreciation for the County Sheriff's Office and all they do for public safety.</li> <li>When encountering people who make disparaging remarks about police, ask if you can call that person instead of the police to report a violent crime in progress and add, "What's your response time?"<br />  </li> <li>If your city newsletter has an item about an officer getting promoted or completing some sort of certification, send a hand-written note (inside a Congratulations card is fine) congratulating that officer.</li> <li>Mention to neighbors how tough a job the police have, and ask those neighbors for ideas on what you can do to show appreciation (this is reverse psychology, you are getting the other person to think about the police in an appreciative way).</li> <li>To help nip the problem at the source, bring up this issue with friends and relatives. Probably, at least one of them is engaging in this behavior.<br />  </li> <li>When being victimized on the road, maintain present course and speed but change lanes if it is safe to do so. Don't do anything that amounts to letting a lunatic tell you how to drive, such as tailgating the car in front of you, speeding up, slowing down, making an unsafe lane change (cut in front of another driver), or pulling onto the shoulder at highway speeds to let them pass. Try to safely get out of their way, as that improves your safety. Getting out of their way might seem like surrendering and rewarding them for bad behavior, but they are already exhibiting bad behavior. See the next item on how to punish them for it.<br />  </li> <li>Take out one road terrorist at a time. Keep a voice recording app open on your phone, and record as  much info as possible. First few digits of license number, license plate state, quick description of driver, basic description of vehicle, mile marker closest to encounter. Then when you get home, call the non-emergency number for the county Sheriff's office of the jurisdiction in which this occurred. Tell them you were in the parking lot of (name a store you saw from the highway) when this person approached you offering to sell you drugs. You said no. Then later, he whipped past you at a very high rate of speed while driving erratically. Yes, this is lying but it will get the police out to that person's house or get him pulled over. He will get the message that his high speed, erratic driving is not something he can simply get away with. You may just save an entire family from being wiped out by this loose nut behind the wheel.</li> </ul> <p>Worst things you can do:</p> <ul> <li>Engage the road terrorists at the time of the incident (e.g., flipping them off). Remember, they do not see you as human and are in an insane state of mind.</li> <li>Driving ever faster to get out of their way. You cannot drive fast enough for these lunatics.</li> <li>Slamming on your brakes to send a message. This could get you rear-ended, and at the very least it will inflame an already out of control lunatic.</li> <li>Slowing down just to be obstinate. This really does not help.</li> <li>Shrinking your own space bubble to get out of their way. This means you endanger yourself and at least one other driver to make a lunatic feel better? Nope. Don't do it.</li> </ul> <p> </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" id="table2" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top"> <h3 align="left">6. Health tip/Fitness tips</h3> <table border="1" id="table5" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="239"> <p><img alt="" border="0" height="250" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20260307114020/97dce419ca4746fb896b6c9eadf910f9_Mark-1CroppedForeNL.jpg" width="300" /></p> <p align="center"><b>Age 65 in these pics</b></p> </td> <td valign="top"> <p align="left">See all of my climbing videos here: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/ClimbingSigChannel"> https://tinyurl.com/ClimbingSigChannel</a>. Some cool climbing  videos:</p> <ul> <li> <p align="left"><a href="https://youtu.be/s4G0ssyJ3hc">https://youtu.be/s4G0ssyJ3hc</a></p> </li> <li> <p align="left"><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/5919UDqCXDc">https://youtube.com/shorts/5919UDqCXDc</a></p> </li> <li> <p align="left"><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/jYvKJ9mKyyE">https://youtube.com/shorts/jYvKJ9mKyyE</a></p> </li> </ul> <p>My hardest climb ever, a 5.11d on lead: <a href="https://youtu.be/UT5h0heUUBc">https://youtu.be/UT5h0heUUBc</a> . I made a dumb mistake initially, letting the rope wrap over my shoulder. Watch what happens.</p> <p>The scale:</p> <ul> <li>Beginner: 5.6. 5.7. 5.8, 5.9  (roped) / VV, V0, V1, V2 (boulder)</li> <li>Intermediate: 5.10a, b, c, d ;5.11a, b, c, d  / V3, V4, V5, V6</li> <li>Advanced: 5.12a, b, c, d; 5.13a, b, c, d. / V7, V8, V9, V10.</li> <li>Elite and Pro: Even harder. Almost nobody climbs at either level at any of the 6 local climbing gyms.</li> </ul> <p> </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div align="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" id="table3" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="300"><img alt="" border="0" height="450" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20260307114020/20a97979bfdbad61a5a67a72d6f1ab6a_Mark2025-09-19.jpg" width="300" /></td> <td valign="top">A common question when it comes to training is, "How do I get motivated to do that?" <p>Take a look at a bird-legged, pencil-armed 60 year old ambling along with stooped posture. Is that what you aspire to? If not, there's your motivation. If, like me, you are well past 60 then you are already either doing this or wish you had started years ago. There's your motivation.</p> <p>If you need a bit of expert opinion on this, then spend 40:40 watching my Go To Guy, Dr. Rick Cohen, talk about the power of muscle mass for healthy aging: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWD7xCIxO48"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWD7xCIxO48</a></p> <p>But I don't think it's motivation that people need. It's decision.</p> <ul> <li>You don't need motivation to get out of bed in the morning. It's time to get up. You get up.</li> <li>Nobody motivates you to put one leg into your pants and then the other each morning. It's a decision, you just do it.</li> <li>You don't need motivation to eat food. You do it without needing any kind of rah-rah.</li> <li>There are dozens of things you do each day without needing to go through some motivational moment. You decide. You do.</li> </ul> <p>Much of my life, I have had demotivation. But I decided and did it anyhow. Some examples:</p> <ul> <li>I competed with my buddy Mike for worst baseball player on the youth league. I think we were about 9 or 10. Nothing motivated us to participate and look like such fools. We just decided we were going to play baseball for the whole season.</li> <li>I was so bad at middle school wrestling, the coach came up with C string so I could stay on the team. Despite being so bad at it, I decided to stick with it.</li> <li>In high school, I was motivated to get into better physical shape so I hit the gym after school. One day, the basketball MVP stopped in to tell me that daily commitment was motivating him. He asked me to promise not to miss my workouts. I decided to make that promise. From that point forward, I didn't need motivation. A decision had been made, I stuck to it. That was in the spring of 1977. I have kept that promise ever since.</li> </ul> <p> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="402" valign="top" width="300"><img alt="" border="0" height="400" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20260307114020/2cafae1ecaf397ee23afaf79cf69038c_2025-09-21ClimbingShotByJanetSmall.jpg" width="300" /></td> <td height="402" valign="top">Perhaps "I can't get motivated" is not the real reason for you? What if it's one of the following: <ul> <li>I am too fat to go to a gym, I would feel like an outsider just walking in there.<br /> Answer: Why is that gym there? Just for people who are in perfect condition? Go to one and look around, most folks are trying to fix a problem!<br />  </li> <li>Gymtimidation. I know I can't bench press very much. Other people are going to ridicule me.<br /> Answer: Then don't use the bench press. Do other training. What you are far more likely to find is others will be willing to help you. This may be with training tips or, get this, motivating comments!<br />  </li> <li>I don't have the time to drive to the gym.<br /> Answer: Then don't. Buy a set of bands and a few dumbbells, then figure out a split routine program you can do with that simple equipment (which takes up very little space).<br />  </li> <li>I don't have gym clothes.<br /> Answer: I work out in whatever I am wearing. Usually blue jeans and a T-shirt during winter. No shoes, except when doing seated calf raises.<br />  </li> <li>I don't have the budget for all the supplements I would need.<br /> Answer: Really, you don't need any supplements. Forget about protein shakes, make yourself some scrambled eggs instead. Definitely do not take a multivitamin, these have dangerously high doses of B vitamins (especially B12). Your kidneys will thank you for avoiding this abuse.<br />  </li> <li>I would do it, except for the cardio.<br /> Answer: I don't do cardio work. There is no need for it if you do supersets.</li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="top">Many people decide they will train, if there's time at the end of the day. The problem is if training is not firmly scheduled, there will never be time at the end of the day. I train very early in the day. I used to train late in the day after work, but that was at a scheduled time. Not if I had time. At a specific time. <p>Perhaps the most common barrier is not understanding the nature of training at all. A common  misunderstanding is that training consists of moving a lot of weight around for 60 to 90 minutes. Preferably while carrying around a towel and water bottle. People who start with this idea soon quit, because it's exhausting and time-consuming without producing any results other than achy joints.</p> <p>The main goal of training is to stimulate the adaptive response. You can do that without using much weight at all. In my own case, I use five sessions of 20 to 30 minutes each week. That's it, no marathon sessions. But it's highly structured and I am very strict on form. Another goal of training is to develop functional strength through a given joint's full range of motion. I don't toss weights around or try to set records for my one rep max. For example, I use a 10lb dumbbell for a type of biceps curl you almost never see anyone do. It's the full extension curl, there's no way a mortal can do it with a heavy weight. But it is very productive and I have the arms to prove it (see photos).</p> <p>So:</p> <ol> <li>Decide that you will train consistently per a schedule.</li> <li>Make the schedule and just get started.</li> <li>Develop a training program that stimulates the adaptive response while developing functional strength. If you don't know how to do this, find someone whose physique shows that understanding and ask for advice. A good resource is <a href="https://athleanx.com/">https://athleanx.com/</a>. This channel is very popular among bodybuilders and climbers.</li> <li>When out in public, look around at the people who clearly have not trained and are now paying for it. You don't need more motivation than that.</li> <li>Stick with your decision.</li> </ol> <p> </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p> </p> <p>At <a href="http://www.supplecity.com" target="_blank"> www.supplecity.com</a>, you'll find plenty of informative, authoritative articles on maintaining a lean, strong physique. It has nothing to do with long workouts or impossible to maintain diets. In fact:</p> <ul> <li>The best workouts are short and intense.</li> <li>A good diet contains far more flavors and satisfaction than the typical American diet.</li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3 align="left">7. 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Good News: Where the Intel is Good</b></p> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" id="table8" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFCC" valign="top"> <ul> <li>The newspaper long known as the Washington Compost was bought by Jeff Bezos in 2013. Near the end of the Communist Occupation, which caused extensive damage to Amazon and most other businesses that weren't doing something extremely immoral, Bezos said the Post would not endorse a Presidential candidate. This took the paper back to its pre-1976 policies. Since most subscribers were libtards, most subscribers cancelled. They wanted their echo chamber, not news. Bezos has made other changes to make the paper far more honest. If Elon Musk could bring Twitter over from the dark side, Bezos can do it with the Post. More good news ahead, you wait and see.<br />  </li> <li>Speaking of Bezos, the economy is on such a tear now that most Amazon warehouses are now at capacity. Processing an inbound package used to be a matter of a couple of days, and now boxes sit outside in trailers for sometimes an entire month waiting in queue. Normally, this kind of overload happens only in November with the last-minute rush to capture those Christmas sales. With Trump in office, it looks like every day is Christmas--at least from the perspective of a professional Amazon seller that uses Fulfillment By Amazon.<br />  </li> <li>The murder rate in the USA is the lowest in 125 years. Yes, one hundred twenty five. That's even including the "gun control" cities, some of which President Trump has cleaned up (Washington, DC was the first of them).<br />  </li> <li>"U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized more than 660 pounds of methamphetamine worth nearly $6 million from a single truck at the U.S.–Mexico border, the agency shared exclusively with The Epoch Times."<br />  </li> <li>From The Capitalist: "Federal civilian employment plummeted to 2.686 million in January 2026 — the lowest level since May 1966 — as President Trump’s administration and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) drove massive workforce reductions through attrition, buyouts, and program cuts during his first year back in office."<br /> <br /> That is an astounding reduction, and yet the federal government is functioning better than it has in 60+ years. Most federal jobs consisted of writing pointless reports, drafting interdepartmental memos, attending pointless meetings, and hiding from the supervisor. Those jobs are gone, freeing up people who have a work ethic to actually work instead of being forced to read pointless reports, read interdepartmental memos, get bored half to death attending pointless meetings, and hunting for their supervisor who was also in hiding.<br />  </li> <li>Much of the employment shrinkage involved the "Democrat" Party  money laundering operation known as USAID. It shrank by 92%. Another notable is the Department of Diseducation, whose mission was to minimize the number of kids who graduate from high school being able to read and do basic math. While largely successful in its mission (they took us from the most literate country to the least literate among industrialized nations and did something similar for numeracy), the DoD wasn't well-liked by people who have morals. Which is most of us.<br />  </li> <li>Between DOGE and the tax cuts for the poor and middle class (whom Nutcase Nancy refers to as "billionaires"), IRS abuse has seemingly disappeared. It would be nice if the IRS simply disappeared.</li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p align="left"><b>Civil Rights Underminer Jesse Jackson, Dead at 84</b></p> <p align="left">Jesse Jackson got his start in the Civil Rights movement by tagging along with Dr. King. When King was assassinated, Jackson's very first question to [an individual close to King] was about what would happen to his own career. Having minimal intelligence and no real talent of his own, Jackson wasn't able to aid the movement in any serious way. So instead, he spent decades disrespecting the movement by making a clown show spectacle of various incidents and issues. He was joined by Al Sharpton, another self-aggrandizing moron with delusions of adequacy.</p> <p align="left">While King's raw honesty and calls for unity brought people of all races together, Jackson's dishonesty and combative rhetoric pushed them apart. Jackson deliberately stoked the flames of division so that he would have a pretense of being a Civil Rights hero. He severely impaired the movement. If not for King's assassination and the subsequent rise of charlatans like Jackson, the racial conflicts of the 1970s would not have occurred.</p> <p align="left">This reality is not how "history" will see Jackson, which is really a travesty. It's even more of a travesty that the reality wasn't the mainstream viewpoint at the time Jackson was selling his con. Jackson's ploy has been repeated by other charlatans, much to the detriment of the very people they have pretended to champion.</p> <p align="left">Even today, there are Jackson copy cats who play the race card for their own benefit. The most notable, perhaps, is the Communist Party which maintains that black people are too stupid and too lazy to obtain voter ID therefore we should not have this or any other basic election integrity measure in place. That level of insult should have every black person voting Republican; why support someone who publicly insults you as being stupid and lazy? Sadly, the Jesse Jackson effect is in play.</p> <p align="left"><b>Citizens Boycotting Crime</b></p> <p align="left">In the People's Republic of California, a communist country noted for election fraud and inept government, more and more voters are simply boycotting the fake system. Voter participation was down 6% in this last November's general election compared to the previous one and that downward trend has gone on for some time now. The boycott rate is now nearly 40%. A similar thing has occurred in the People's Republic of Illinois, where the joke goes that dead people vote in alphabetical order.</p> <p align="left">It should not be surprising that Florida, now the freest of the free states, has the highest voter turnout. Citizens there have a lot more confidence that they aren't being disenfranchised.</p> <p align="left">What the inmates/serfs of the PRoC and the PRoI should do is turn out en masse to vote Republican. Not that Republicans are perfect or will do everything those voters want (they aren't, and they won't). But to boot out the criminals. If the commies cannot win an election no matter how much they cheat, that will be a major reform. It's DIY election integrity. We saw this work during the 2024 election, when Candidate Trump asked voters to make this "too big to fail".</p> <p align="left">Remember, the commies stole the swing states in 2020 by very narrow margins. All of which resulted from mail-in votes after the polls closed. Staying home because you know the system is rigged does not actually help. Showing up and voting against the system riggers is how you beat them.</p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"><b>Two Scammers Convicted</b></p> <p align="left">Two executives were sentenced to 20 years for their role in defrauding the government of $233 million via the Unaffordable Care Act.</p> <p align="left">While this is good, why have not the architects of the UCA ever been indicted? Nutcase Nancy grossly abused her power as Speaker to ram the bill through the House before it was even read. For example, the Speaker assigns office spaces and parking spaces. She threatened some of the opposition to this clearly illegal act with reassigning their office to a far flung broom closet somewhere and putting their parking space as far from the Capitol as possible. She had done such petty things before, and so her threats were credible. And enough to get the Unaffordable Care Act passed into law even though it was based on the Senate version and thus originated there and could not be ratified by the House because it contained a tax element and all tax laws must originate in the House.</p> <p align="left">It was skulduggery and theft on behalf of certain companies, some of which Pelosi had invested in. That insider trading should have put Pelosi in prison, but it didn't. This is our Two-tier Justice System.<br />  </p> <p align="left"><b>Communist Opposition to Democracy, Part 1</b></p> <p align="left">The "Democrats" (communists) have a multi-layer strategy for eliminating democracy. And they use it aggressively. The communists cannot win an honest election, because who would vote for the stupid and destructive things they keep doing? So they use a slew of dishonest tactics.</p> <p align="left">We all know about the gas lighting and brainwashing they do to pull the unthinking and easily malleable into their ranks. But that alone is not nearly enough. To make up for the shortfall, the commies buy voters from other countries. They encourage illegal immigration, shower illegal immigrants with all kinds of benefits at taxpayer expense, then indemnify the illegal immigrants from being prosecuted for massive financial fraud and even from violent crimes. This comes with the message, "As long as you vote Democrat, the gravy train will continue to run." This effectively disenfranchises American citizens, who are highly motivated (unless gas lighted and brainwashed) to vote against Democrats.</p> <p align="left">This is why the commies fight against:</p> <ul> <li> <p align="left">Immigration enforcement (they want to increase the illegal immigrant population, under Biden it was up a staggering 21 million)</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Funding the police (adequate police protection poses a threat to illegals who would otherwise get arrested for rape, kidnapping, drug dealing, battery, etc.)</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Voter ID laws (such laws prevent one person from voting at multiple voting precincts or voting even if not a citizen)</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Counting only US citizens in the Census.</p> </li> </ul> <p align="left">No parentheses on that last one, because it bears more explanation.</p> <p align="left">The Census determines two things of import to governing the nation:</p> <ol> <li> <p align="left">The allocation of Congressional seats for each state. As the population shifts between the states, so do those Congressional seats.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">The allocation of Electoral College votes between the states. Same shifting concept.</p> </li> </ol> <p align="left">You can see how having tens of millions of illegal aliens puffing up the population in some places relative to others is a powerful tool for cheating American citizens out of being represented in Congress and also for stealing the Presidential elections.</p> <p align="left">If we took a new Census today and (based on the numbers we have from DHS) did not count illegal aliens in that census, the free states of Texas and Florida would gain four EC votes, respectively (similar effect on Congressional seats). The free states of Idaho and Utah would gain one EC vote each. These states have struggled with (and been tilted by) election fraud, and in 2020 their citizens were disenfranchised; they would have much fairer elections and provide an EC vote to the Republican candidate: Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina.</p> <p align="left">But where would these additional free state votes come from? The People's Republic of California would lose four (note that many residents of the PRC have already fled to TX and FL). Losing one each would be these communist countries: IL, MN, NY, and Rogue Island. Also losing one each would be these states that have struggled with (and been tilted by) election fraud: OR, PA, WI.</p> <p align="left">By doing just two things (enforcing our immigration laws and requiring voter ID) would keep the commies out of the White House forever (a reformed Democrat Party could get in there) while also rendering them a permanent minority status in the House. It would also most likely shift the Senate, especially in states dominated by a single megacity that's full of illegal aliens.</p> <p align="left">This is why the commies are encouraging people to attack, doxx, and oppose ICE agents and seeking legislation (via this latest budget battle) to expose the identities of ICE agents and thus make their families exposed to kidnapping, intimidation, and violence. It's also why they are insisting that people of color are too lazy and too stupid to obtain a federal ID (most illegal aliens are also people of color).</p> <p align="left">If you understand these dynamics, then you will also understand just how important it is to enforce our immigration laws and require a federal ID to vote.</p> <p align="left">The concept that just because your skin is tan, brown, or black you are too lazy or too stupid to obtain a federal ID is insulting and absurd. Think of all the things you need an ID for (buying liquor, driving a car, opening a checking account, obtaining a job, buying a home, traveling by train, traveling by air, etc.). And think of all the people of color you know, is there even one who does not have a federal ID? Or who strikes you as too lazy or stupid to obtain one?</p> <p align="left">Each of us has some power in stopping the narrative. Do not subscribe to any legacy media, either in print or online. And when someone spews an absurdity such as requiring voter ID somehow will take the vote away from some racial group(s), ask them how many people of color they know and if any of those people strike them as being too lazy or stupid to obtain a federal ID. Then tick off a few things for which federal ID is required. You can also write these thoughts to your representative or misrepresentative in Congress.</p> <p align="left"><b>Communist Opposition to Democracy, Part 2</b></p> <p align="left">Here's something from Coffee & Covid:</p> <p align="left">• Gallup: 84% of ALL Americans support requiring photo ID to vote. Including 98% of Republicans, 84% of independents, and 67% of Democrats.<br /> • Rasmussen (Jan. 2026): 74% favor voter ID requirements.</p> <p align="left">So, overwhelmingly the American people want voter ID required for someone to vote. Even people who are deluded that the "Democrat" Party isn't actually the Communist Party with a horrendous track record on the economy, civil liberties, human rights, censorship, medical freedom, the Rule of Law, border security, and international relations. If they ever get one thing right, we should declare a national holiday. And yet, the communists are adamantly opposing the SAVE Act. In the House, only one "Democrat" voted for it.</p> <p align="left">Which just goes to prove the "Democrats" are extremely anti-democratic.</p> <p align="left">Now it goes to the Senate, where the communists are expected to invoke the "silent filibuster" and hold the federal government hostage. I predict the Republicans will let that psychodrama play out, sickening and infuriating the 80% of voters who want this bill enacted to protect their votes from being rendered moot.</p> <p align="left">Which just goes to prove the "Democrats" are counting on voters not knowing how bad they really are. The thing is, sunlight is a great disinfectant. The days of hiding behind the legacy media are over, even the most insular among us will learn the truth. This is a trap the "Democrats" would be stupid to step into. Given the caliber of AOC, Walz, Harris, etc., you can bet they will step right into it. What morons.</p> <p align="left"><b>Commie Failure # 728,147,962,874 x 10 to the 555th power</b></p> <p align="left">The commies have been yelling "Save Democracy" and "Save Our Democracy" for a long time, now. Yet, they brazenly and obviously nullified democracy in 2020 with brazen and obvious cheating. But they kept beating that drum. And now, they must either vote for the SAVE Act (which helps protect democracy) or take the position they are against democracy by going on record as being against fair elections. One of their tactics to avoid choosing is the claim that black people are too stupid to obtain a government ID. The more they make this claim, the more they will cause people of color to switch from Democrat to Republican and if they are already Republican to stay there.</p> <p align="left"><b>Commie Failure # 728,147,962,875 x 10 to the 555th power</b></p> <p align="left">The commies have been flapping their lips about "affordability" but you can look at what they did during the Communist Occupation that made life in America far less affordable. The list is very long. Since Liberation Day, President Trump has done dozens of things to make life in America more affordable. All of this is backed not only by what we see around us, but by the actual numbers. For example, adding $9 trillion to our debt in 2022 and 2023 and then increasing the money supply by 83% while simultaneously causing a sharp reduction in the basket of goods and services inflated the money supply relative to the BOS by over 100%.</p> <p align="left">The commies claim that tariffs have made housing unaffordable, even though we do not import houses from Europe or any other country. They believe that letting 21 million illegal aliens into the country during the Occupation somehow had zero effect on demand relative to supply and thus did not drive housing prices sky high. On and on the absurdities go. If they really wanted to make America affordable, the best way they can help is to simply disband the "Democrat" party. Given the damage they've done, that seems obvious.</p> <p align="left"><b>Commie Failure # 728,147,962,876 x 10 to the 555th power</b></p> <p align="left">Cackling Kamala is doing something with social media, but she's so stupid it's not worth spending even a minute to see what she's come up with. The fact that the commies allow such low-IQ submorons represent them politically tells you pretty much all you need to know.</p> <p align="left"><b>Commie Failure # 728,147,962,877 x 10 to the 555th power</b></p> <p align="left">The morons running the People's Republic of California have been talking about an extra 5% tax on billionaires. Election-cheating enabler and billionaire taxpayer Mark Zuckerberg just moved to Florida as a result. So all of the taxes he was paying into the PRC Treasury (real estate tax, sales taxes, license fees, utility taxes, etc.) will no longer be paid there. What the commies fail to understand is that when you penalize people too much they will get mad as hell and not take it anymore.</p> <p align="left">The PRC is rapidly reducing its mean net worth and its tax base. Once evacuees taste freedom in one of the free states, they are very unlikely to go back. So the PRC will have to rely on fleecing its already strained middle class. Or it will have to give up communism.</p> <p align="left">As for the Zuck, perhaps he will try to atone for betraying his country with his successful efforts to undermine the 2020 election. After all, the people he helped put into power have threatened to turn on him like a pack of hyenas. The America First people will welcome him with open arms. And going into the mid-term elections, the timing could not be better.</p> <p align="left"><b>Commie Failure # 728,147,962,878 x 10 to the 555th power</b></p> <p align="left">The flight of high-income taxpayers from the People's Republic of California has not deterred the communist mayor of NYC, who apparently believes billionaires in the Big Apple are stupid enough to stay put when a similar tax is passed in New York. The result will be a much bigger gap between taxes collected and funds spent. yet this idiot is trying to get state lawmakers to approve anyhow.</p> <p align="left"><b>Morons Self-Destructing, #1</b></p> <p align="left">It started with the moron who had this stupid idea she could interfere with enforcing the laws that Congress passed by running over an ICE agent with her gashogmobile. Deadly force got met with deadly force, she unfortunately did not survive the encounter. Of course, Nutcase Nancy and other insurrectionists claim that attacking law enforcement officers should be a perfectly safe activity to engage in.</p> <p align="left">Then there was the moron who brought a loaded pistol with him, and started physically pushing around ICE officers. What did he think was going to happen? Ah, he didn't think! He'd already been injured in previous acts of stupidly assaulting law enforcement officers so he probably wasn't able to think. It strikes me as at least slightly odd that the same moronic members of Congress who have been trying for decades to strip us law-abiding citizens of our Constitutional right to bear arms are now claiming this criminal had the right to arm himself while breaking the law.</p> <p align="left">Insurrectionists like Nutcase Nancy believe that these acts of stupidity and self-removal from the gene pool have resulted in the commies having martyrs they can trot out to further their "destroy America" agenda. That is bad enough, but some tattooed coward tried to incite the mentally feeble to take up arms and truly escalate things. He was arrested. He told half-truths, and referenced our Second Amendment. He's wrong that it enables citizens to self-appoint as a superior fourth branch of our three branch government and kill government employees who are merely enforcing duly passed laws that said citizens don't understand and don't like.</p> <p align="left">We have the Rule of Law, and these "peaceful protestors" are trying to replace that with tyranny. The fact they are morons means they fail in their efforts, and always will fail. When Nutcase Nancy and other anti-America communists try to blame law enforcement officers instead of morons for self-inflicted moron deaths, they somehow always fail to mention that 80% (that is the actual number) of deported illegal aliens have been charged with, or convicted of, at least one other crime in addition to illegal entry. A significant number are convicted (by a jury) rapists, murderers, or drug dealers. They get caught, get convicted, and then are held for deportation. Why it is so important to "Democrats" to keep these terrible people in our country, no sane person can explain.</p> <p align="left">Meanwhile, two activist morons have "self deported" themselves to the morgue. Good riddance to bad rubbish.</p> <p align="left"><b>Morons Self-Destructing, #2</b></p> <p align="left">Executives at DEI-sney, formerly known as Disney, cannot understand why their recent remake of Snow White lost $170 million. Despite years of strongly negative blowback from non-delusionals along the lines of "go woke, go broke," they continued to shove their woke ideology down the throats of their target demographic (families). Disney "woked" the Star Wars franchise into oblivion and yet the woke execs could not grasp the idea that the vast majority of Americans do not want to sit through what amounts to a sexual pervert religious service. Especially with their kids.</p> <p align="left">To save itself, Disney must make a clean sweep of morons and replace them with people who have some respect for Disney customers and audiences. They are then going to have to ensure anything they produce is acceptable to normal audiences or they will not have those audiences.</p> <p align="left"><b>Morons Self-Destructing, #3</b></p> <p align="left">This moron is eviscerating himself in response to Josh Hawley. This is priceless: <a href="https://x.com/i/status/2021982753655235011"> https://x.com/i/status/2021982753655235011</a></p> <p align="left"><b>Morons Self-Destructing, #4</b></p> <p align="left">How there can remain a single registered Democrat in the People's Republic of California is a mystery. But the morons who run the state may have just solved that problem. The PRoC is running out of gas. And the only reason that is happening there is the PRoC is a defacto secession state that operates outside our Constitution. And also outside the reality zone. Governor Gruesome and his fellow ruling morons decided that somehow burning coal is cleaner than burning gasoline so went on the warpath against the former. The last refinery there is closing down soon, and this communist country will have to import all of its gasoline. They are not set up to do that, so there will be shortages and price increases for at least a few years. Due to their "green energy" religion, gasoline in the PRoC is already insanely expensive compared to what it costs in the de facto United States.</p> <p align="left">The only hope for people who are too poor to relocate from the PRoC to a free state is to vote Republican and be adamant to all of their voting age friends and family to do the same. They need to be wearing MAGA hats all the time, starting in October. They also need to insist on election integrity, calling their state misrepresentatives and their County Election Offices. They need to boycott the lamestream media and encourage others to do the same. Given how badly the morons who run the PRoC are treating them, the chances they will take such actions are significant.</p> <p align="left">Let the games begin!<br />  </p> <p align="left"> </p> <h3 align="left">2. Product Highlight</h3> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="2" id="table1" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top">We are proud to offer the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B8TS14RX">Rocket Pen Reading Tutor</a>. Click the image for more info, such as videos. 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Comes ready to use, no setup needed, easily customized. 1.9 inch color touch screen; Physical buttons for screenless scan and read; Select English or Spanish user interface.</li> </ul> </td> <td align="left" valign="top"> <p align="center"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B8TS14RX"><img alt="Rocket Pen" height="295" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20260221124516/634482af4fd7ce2ef63de40e4d78a42e_619hizYHyUL._AC_SL1500_.jpg" width="300" /></a></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" height="23" valign="top"> <p>In <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?me=AVFHERP2L596L&merchant=AVFHERP2L596L"> our Amazon store</a> you will see more offerings, including:</p> <p><b>Disability Products:</b></p> <p><b>(We are the sole Amazon seller for these)</b></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F3N3P4ZY">BlindShell phones for the blind</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BGCWV67M">RealSAM Pocket</a>, which is a voice operated Galaxy smart phone for the blind</li> <li>SmartPens4U <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B8TS14RX">Rocket Pen Reading Tutor Scanning Pen</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BSHQRK9Z">Case Bundle Black </a>| <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FVBG83J6">Case Bundle Lavender</a></li> <li>WeWalk Smart Cane "Cane with a Brain" for the blind: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B095XFYK54">47-inch</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B095XJK5WH">54-inch</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B095XHH16C">59-inch</a></li> </ul> <p><b>Radios:</b></p> <ul> <li>Connex 10 meter radios</li> <li>Dosy meters</li> <li>Galaxy 10 meter and 11 meter (CB) radios</li> <li>President 10 and 11 meter radios</li> <li>Ranger 10 meter radios</li> <li>Texas Ranger radios (Chuck Norris not included, sorry)</li> <li>Uniden radios and scanners</li> </ul> <p><b>Tools:</b></p> <ul> <li>AEM instruments</li> <li>Bahco tools</li> <li>Case tools</li> <li>CAT tools</li> <li>CPS tools</li> <li>Irwin saw blades</li> <li>Mayes tools</li> <li>Rigid Tools work lights and related</li> <li>Vessel tools</li> <li>Wera tools</li> <li>Wiha tools</li> <li>Williams tools</li> </ul> <p><b>More:</b></p> <ul> <li>American Hard Bag aftermarket sound system parts for Harley Davidson motorcycles</li> <li>Centerpoint Archery devices</li> <li>Cold Steel knives</li> <li>Dead Downwind hunting products</li> <li>G5 hunting products</li> <li>Flexilla hose connectors</li> <li>Funko collectibles</li> <li>Mike Holt Electrical Exam Preparation products</li> <li>Nagy's aftermarket sound system parts for Harley Davidson motorcycles</li> <li>Paraben Consumer data recovery sticks, porn detection sticks, and similar diagnostic/ IT tools</li> <li>ROK straps</li> <li>Rostra universal cruise control kits</li> <li>Swhacker archery products</li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3 align="left"> </h3> <h3 align="left">3. Brainpower tip</h3> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFCC" valign="top">It takes a lot of good decisions to succeed in life. One bad decision can ruin everything, forever. <p>For example, in first grade you decide to pay attention in class and do all of your homework. You keep making this decision for the next twelve years, and you smoke the ACT. But let's say you decide to, just this once, pass other cars on the shoulder of the road while doing 90MPH. You hit a cement embankment and end up eating from a tube during the remaining miserable eight months of your life. Or maybe you got scammed out of your life savings, because just this once you saw easy money as being a reality.</p> <p>We make hundreds of decisions daily, and most of them don't matter. But some truly do. How can you ensure you make good decisions? Here are some tips:</p> <p><b>General Decision Making</b></p> <ul> <li>Gather facts. Just relevant ones, and not mere assertions that support your general inclination on the decision.</li> <li>Run the decision past someone who shares your values but doesn't always agree with you.</li> <li>Use some device such as the Franklin Close. This is a device sales people use to help prospective customers decide. Yes, they typically manipulate the customer with this device. But used objectively, it can help you make a good decision. Fold a piece of paper in half. On one side, write down every reason FOR. Flip the paper over and right every reason AGAINST. Then compare the two lists. Obviously, you can improve on this so use the concept but in a better way.</li> <li>Look at all costs and all benefits, not just the ones that are immediately obvious. For example, eliminating processed food from your life means you must incur more time preparing meals. But it also means you save huge amounts of time visiting doctors plus you extend your health span significantly.</li> <li>Make a list of potentially bad outcomes and assign each one both a likelihood factor and a severity factor. Most people underestimate the risk involved.</li> <li>Make a list of potentially good outcomes and assign each one both a likelihood factor and a value factor. Most people overestimate how good the outcome will be.</li> </ul> <p><b>Physical Support</b></p> <ul> <li>Eliminate processed sugars from your diet. These stick to neurons and then oxidize, shrinking your brain over time.</li> <li>Consistently engage in rigorous exercise. This boosts your brainpower in a multitude of ways.</li> <li>Get enough sleep. A 10% level of sleep deprivation just about wipes out your ability to use good judgment.</li> </ul> <p><b>Mental Support</b></p> <ul> <li>Don't watch television, read legacy newspapers, or subscribe to newsfeeds. There is a reason these disinformation sources manage to keep people captive, it's called brain rot. Something about these will impair your judgment and that is by design.</li> <li>Avoid BS artists. They can fill your head with nonsense, making it harder for you to deal with reality.</li> <li>Consistently and routinely engage in mental challenges. The more you use your brain to solve tough problems, the smarter you will be. There's not a direct effect on judgment, but your tools for judging correctly will be much better.</li> </ul> <p><b>Sussing out Scams</b></p> <ul> <li>If you feel a sense of urgency, as in "I'd better jump on this opportunity now" that's a good sign you need to sleep on it and rethink it the next day.</li> <li>Beware of funny math. It is used all the time. It works especially well when used verbally, so get it in writing and then analyze the numbers in a spreadsheet. I don't mean just glance at them. If you do not have this skill, contact a friend who is an engineer and offer that person a $75 fee to do this for you. If that sounds like a lot of money, how much money is this "deal" going to set you back if it's a scam?</li> <li>Convert everything to common units, so that you can compare apples to apples. When some loan shark says 5% interest that sounds good except he means 5% per month; in the case of finance, always annualize the interest rates between options.</li> </ul> <p><b>Relationship decisions</b></p> <ul> <li>If you are trying to decide whether to argue with another person, ask yourself how much skin you actually have in this game. Is a fight going to be worth it? What do you hope to accomplish, and are you equipped to accomplish it? What are the odds you can argue in a respectful, productive way versus just exchanging angry or inflaming an already irrational person who won't listen to reason anyway?</li> <li>Don't bring up old grievances to settle a new dispute. If the new dispute can't stand on its own merits, it's an error of judgment to pursue it.</li> <li>Some people need to be dropped from your circle. Others, such as family, should never be dropped even if they are very difficult to get along with. Approach both situations with dignity and respect for them and for you.</li> </ul> <p><b>Integrity</b></p> <ul> <li>Never bring shame on your family by acting with little or no integrity.</li> <li>Recognize that having integrity doesn't mean being a doormat.</li> <li>The other person's level of integrity does not dictate your level of integrity.</li> </ul> <p><b>Health care decisions</b></p> <ul> <li>Health care is what you do to protect or improve your health. Medical care is what someone else does to you to presumably (but not necessarily) remediate a health problem or injury.</li> <li>So-called health screenings are "after the fact" tests. They often give false positives, leading to detrimental medical treatment.</li> <li>Screen at the input end. What you eat, how rigorously and consistently you train, and how you rest and relax are the real health markers. Be aware of your mistakes and fix them here, rather than waiting until the effects show up on a "health screening".</li> </ul> <p><b>Purchases</b></p> <ul> <li>Many people engage in impulse buying, and they end up with closets full of stuff they never use. Before buying, ask yourself what exactly you need this for, how you would use it regularly (not "nice to have in case"), and whether it replaces or upgrades something you already have.</li> <li>Do you already have something you can fix, alter, or repurpose to do what this new item would do? For example, why buy a tea maker if you already have a coffee maker?</li> <li>Annualize the cost (see earlier tip). Then determine how many hours per year you would work for this. This enables you to clearly see things such as that fancy latte you pick up on the way to work is a bad decision.</li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3 align="left"><br /> 4. Finance tip</h3> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td>Cheaper goods aren't always less expensive. There's a concept called total cost of ownership. And you to, for many types of items, consider ownership over your entire life not just for a few months. That's because you always need that type of item: a car, shoes, a shirt, etc. <p>When I was in my early 20s, my mom found a real-wood bedroom set at a relocation sale. It was, at the time, a $3,000 set. They couldn't take it with them and were offering it for $1,200. My mom negotiated an even $1,000 and explained to me the economics of this. I called my dad's Uncle Tommie, who had decades of experience selling furniture. He said not to embarrass him, take the deal. So I did. That set moved with me to Louisiana, South Carolina, Michigan, Ohio, Texas, back to Ohio, Kentucky, central Tennessee, west-central Tennessee, and finally to Kansas. That's a lot of moving trips. That set is still in good shape today.</p> <p>My Uncle Tommie always said to buy real wood furniture, sticking with top names like Drexel and Lane. That bedroom set isn't my only furniture purchase. Instead of replacing cheap particle board Ikea crap every few years, I've had the same nice furniture for decades.</p> <p>It's not just furniture. I have always bought quality tools, and they last a very long time. My clothes, shoes, dinnerware, mowers, etc. all last a long time. The money I save by paying a 25% or even 100% premium is truly astounding.</p> <p>When I buy a computer, I up the specs to help make it far outlast the normal obsolescence curve. I bought a business laptop eleven years ago, it's still functional and useful today. It won't run Windows 11, but it boots up fast and can handle anything I throw at it. I could have saved $150 back then, and instead bought three more computers in the interim.</p> <p>This doesn't mean you should opt for the most bells and whistles or plunk down money for the most expensive option. It means that you need to think about the projected longevity of what you are buying. My ex-wife (RIP) used to say. "It makes no sense to pay nine prices for something". If you buy something cheap that soon falls apart, you've wasted a lot more money that if you buy something nice that lasts for years. Years ago, I stopped in at one of those hip discount clothing stores, I think it was Old Navy. I found a nice-looking, albeit thin, tee shirt on sale for about $4. I bought it. When I went to pull it back over my head after my first wearing of it, the shirt tore apart. I took it back and exchanged it for another one. It didn't last long, either. I have other shirts I have worn many times, and they are 25+ years old--but they cost probably $20 instead of $4. The cheap clothes are appealing to people who like to wear something only once, and as you might surmise I consider them to be wasteful morons.</p> <p>So the $20 range delivers a good value. I could opt for a $60 tee shirt. But what would make it worth three times as much as the $20 one? Nothing. I can buy three $20 shirts for the price of that one, and have three shirts that I can rotate in wearing.</p> <p>That is the gist of it. Look not for the lowest price, but a good value. Ultimately, the low price has the higher cost of ownership while the good value gives you a fair deal.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3 align="left"> </h3> <table align="center" border="0" id="table6" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top"> <h3 align="left">5. Security tip</h3> <p>Beware fake surveys. These are used to collect information such as your name, address, and cell number, among other things, which then go into a database from which telescammers can lease potential victim information. These often sound innocuous. For example, I received one allegedly from the "MyLowe's Special Team". It offers a free leaf blower for simply filling out a survey. I did not click the link to the survey, as that would validate my e-mail address to them and possibly open me up to a ransomware attack.</p> <p>Twelve clues this was not from Lowe's:</p> <ol> <li>Lowe's takes its branding very seriously. The colors did not quite match Lowe's brand messaging colors.</li> <li>Did I mention that Lowe's takes its branding very seriously? The look of this e-mail is incongruous with the look of <a href="http://www.lowes.com"> www.lowes.com</a>. Not even a Lowe's logo.</li> <li>Lowe's is a big company. If they send out a message, that message will be from the Lowe's domain, which is lowes.com. This one was from bitteronline.com. That domain is a bit of humor from the fraudsters (as in you will have a bitter experience), and if you do a quick search on scamadviser.com, there they are.<br />  </li> <li>They don't mention my name, which Lowe's has and would certainly use.</li> <li>A survey company would have its own branding message and introduce itself with something like, "We are qualtronics, a consumer survey company and we are conducting a survey for Lowe's." And they would address me by name.</li> <li>I shop a lot more at the Home Depot, and have yet to receive a survey like this in over 30 years as a customer. This would be a first for Lowe's, also.<br />  </li> <li>It's enticing because they show estimated time as ~ 1 minute. And for that tiny bit of effort, you can receive a nice leaf blower!</li> <li>The message has a false green flag. "Since you have shopped at Lowe's". But what homeowner has not? Many apartment dwellers shop there, also. No authentic marketing department would say something like that without addressing you by name and thanking you for your purchase of item X on date Y.</li> <li>Would you not expect a $10 Lowe's Gift Card so that they get you into the store? That's what any decent marketing department would do, not simply ship you a leaf blower. So there is no leaf blower.<br />  </li> <li>The format is fixed-width, a practice that has been obsolete since before Android 5.0 was released.</li> <li>As noted, the "from" address says MyLowe's Special Team, but the actual e-mail address is missing the "l" in special. It reads "mylowesspeciateam" at that stupid domain.</li> <li>Most of the text is about the leaf blower, another clue this isn't from a professional marketing department or survey company.</li> </ol> <p>Twelve clues in one short e-mail. You would think only a card-carrying Democrat would fall for this, after all they fell for the Democrat Party propaganda. And you may be right, as "Democrats" zero in on the prize with no regard to the cost or anything else in the reality zone. The scammers are counting on the recipients to focus exclusively on the prize (the leaf blower) and not notice anything else.</p> <p> </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" id="table2" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top"> <h3 align="left">6. Health tip/Fitness tips</h3> <table border="1" id="table5" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="239"> <p><img alt="" border="0" height="250" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20260221124516/97dce419ca4746fb896b6c9eadf910f9_Mark-1CroppedForeNL.jpg" width="300" /></p> <p align="center"><b>Age 65 in these pics</b></p> </td> <td valign="top"> <p align="left">See all of my climbing videos here: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/ClimbingSigChannel"> https://tinyurl.com/ClimbingSigChannel</a>. Some cool climbing  videos:</p> <ul> <li> <p align="left"><a href="https://youtu.be/s4G0ssyJ3hc">https://youtu.be/s4G0ssyJ3hc</a></p> </li> <li> <p align="left"><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/5919UDqCXDc">https://youtube.com/shorts/5919UDqCXDc</a></p> </li> <li> <p align="left"><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/jYvKJ9mKyyE">https://youtube.com/shorts/jYvKJ9mKyyE</a></p> </li> </ul> <p>My hardest climb ever, a 5.11d on lead: <a href="https://youtu.be/UT5h0heUUBc">https://youtu.be/UT5h0heUUBc</a> . I made a dumb mistake initially, letting the rope wrap over my shoulder. Watch what happens.</p> <p>The scale:</p> <ul> <li>Beginner: 5.6. 5.7. 5.8, 5.9  (roped) / VV, V0, V1, V2 (boulder)</li> <li>Intermediate: 5.10a, b, c, d ;5.11a, b, c, d  / V3, V4, V5, V6</li> <li>Advanced: 5.12a, b, c, d; 5.13a, b, c, d. / V7, V8, V9, V10.</li> <li>Elite and Pro: Even harder. Almost nobody climbs at either level at any of the 6 local climbing gyms.</li> </ul> <p> </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div align="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" id="table3" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="300"><img alt="" border="0" height="450" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20260221124516/20a97979bfdbad61a5a67a72d6f1ab6a_Mark2025-09-19.jpg" width="300" /></td> <td valign="top">People who see me with my shirt off, whether in person or in my fitness photos, notice I am ripped. And they also notice those washboard abs. A frequent question I get is along the lines of what exercise do I do for my abs. <p>Before I go further, I will say people would not be asking that same question if they saw me with my shirt off in the winter. As cooler weather sets in, I eat more and my weight starts going up. I'm usually about 8lbs heavier by late January, with both a pad of fat and a smallish belly roll. This is not bad for a guy over 40, OK, over 60, but still I share your pain when it comes to midsection "growth".</p> <p>This also means I am not enjoying some genetic advantage, can't eat whatever I want in whatever quantities I want, etc. So how do I go from pudge belly to ripped abs over the course of spring?</p> <p>It's not some kind of ab exercise. It's been many years since I have directly worked my abs. Unless your abs are weak (as in you recently awoke from a coma), there is no reason to work them directly. My abs will sometimes hurt after squats, and if you understand proper squatting that will not surprise you. My abs also get worked very hard while I practice on the punching bag and even harder when I am sending one gnarly climbing problem after another during a climbing session.</p> <p>For the purpose of having showy abs, most people have sufficiently developed ab muscles, even without the extreme sports or the intense weight training sessions. Lack of muscle isn't their problem.</p> <p>Right, you say, the abs are covered in fat! Well, that is a factor. But there are four others, and while they don't hide your abs they do contribute to a bulging belly. And that bulging belly looks bad even under a shirt. They are:</p> <ol> <li>Stuck poop.</li> <li>Too much fiber passing at one time.</li> <li>Excess gas.</li> <li>Poor posture and thus belly sag.</li> </ol> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="402" valign="top" width="300"><img alt="" border="0" height="400" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20260221124516/2cafae1ecaf397ee23afaf79cf69038c_2025-09-21ClimbingShotByJanetSmall.jpg" width="300" /></td> <td height="402" valign="top">  <ol> <li>Unsticking stuck poop. Stop taking any anti-gas products, other than something like Beano is which is an enzyme. Simethicone (in Gas-X and similar products) is actually a detergent, and it will take your motility to about zero. If you have material stuck in your small intestines, your IG valve is inflamed. In that case, stop eating spicy foods for at least a month. Go online and find the IG valve relaxation technique and do that. Double your water intake.<br />  </li> <li>If you try to pass too much fiber at once, you create a slow-moving clog that swells out the intestines. Your first defense is to eat less fiber. A person on a whole food diet (the only good diet) has the downside of getting an awful lot of fiber. You can peel some vegetables and fruits to reduce this, and you can simply eat less. Something that works for me is eat maybe 15% of a planned meal about an hour before mealtime. It sort of gives you seven meals instead of six. You can apply this in many ways, for example if you usually eat a couple of bananas in the afternoon along with meal #4 then have one banana an hour before and one an hour after. This small change reduces the size of the rat the snake is swallowing.<br />  </li> <li>People who switch from a fake food diet to a real food diet often experience voluminous gas. The main reason is they developed a habit of scarfing fake food down instead of chewing it, and that has carried over to real food. Take the time to enjoy a meal, and chew thoroughly.<br />  </li> <li>We all sit. And that is one of the worst things you can do if you desire a flat belly. Carrying a baby to term is also bad for those who want a flat belly, which to me means that moms should get a free pass here. That gentle outward curve is actually pretty sexy, just not on a man. When we sit, we tend to relax those abdominal muscles. Over time, and not a whole lot of time, the muscles, tendons and ligaments elongate. Your only defense here is to consciously pull those abs in. Not every second of the day, but many times per day. You can also wear a girdle or girdle-type device. This one is excellent: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQV64LHK"> https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQV64LHK</a> and it's less than 30 bucks.</li> </ol> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="top"> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p>So what about the belly fat? Don't go on some crash diet. Just chip around the edges of your portion sizes. If you cut out 300 calories per day, that's about 9,000 calories per month. It adds up over time. So when I start cutting back a little in January, it takes me a few months to shed that excess fat in time for the shirtless warm weather and those photoshoots. I still have to take care of those other things on a regular basis year-round.</p> <p>Finally, don't focus on abs. Think of your mid-section as a measurement of your fitness rather than an end unto itself. If you are doing what I outlined above, you'll have a strong, attractive mid-section. Going on some stupid diet like the Paleo Diet or the Predator Diet will undermine your fitness and actually set you back. Consistently eating right, training right, and getting adequate rest is the right way. It's the right way for a lot of reasons. If you got off track in one of these areas, get back on track and trust the process. Do not trust crazy diets, doctor-prescribed drugs, surgeries, or other shortcuts.</p> <p>OK, not finally. I have one more thing to say. Go on YouTube and watch a power lifting event. Those folks are massively strong. None of them have ripped abs. You can bet they have super-strong mid-sections, however. I have a couple of buddies like that, and they are impressive athletes. While I personally prefer the ripped look, it's not for everybody. It does require walking that thin line between getting enough calories and getting too many. For your health and athletic prowess, those four enumerated items regarding a bulging belly are far more important than trying to be at 5% body fat or less. And, of course, being physically strong is paramount. You get that by training in a structured way designed to elicit the adaptive response while also eating in a way that allows your body to use that response.</p> <p> </p> <p>At <a href="http://www.supplecity.com" target="_blank"> www.supplecity.com</a>, you'll find plenty of informative, authoritative articles on maintaining a lean, strong physique. It has nothing to do with long workouts or impossible to maintain diets. In fact:</p> <ul> <li>The best workouts are short and intense.</li> <li>A good diet contains far more flavors and satisfaction than the typical American diet.</li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3 align="left">7. Factoid</h3> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFCC" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal">The January jobs report showed private payrolls surged by 172,000 jobs, far exceeding forecasts of 70,000. And yet, the communists call this "disastrous". For their election prospects, yeah. But not for America.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3 align="left"> </h3> <h3 align="left">8. Thought for the Day</h3> <p class="MsoNormal">The socialists preached racial division and hatred during the "Obama" years, then the party became outright communist after that. They have been preaching racial division and hatred ever since, then wonder why they have to massively cheat to win an election. The rest of us know, it's pretty obvious.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p><b>Please forward this eNL to others.</b></p> <p> </p> <h4>Authorship</h4> The purpose of this publication is to inform and empower its readers (and save you money!). The views expressed in this e-newsletter are generally not shared by socialists or other brainwashed individuals. That's because those fools live in an alternate reality and have not bothered to learn the basics of how life works. They cannot do basic math, cannot apply logic, and cannot be bothered to learn the basic facts relevant to any topic that they are passionate about. <p> </p> <p>Except where noted, this e-newsletter is entirely the work of Mark Lamendola. Anything presented as fact can be independently verified. Where sources are not given, they are readily available to anyone who makes the effort. Mark provides information from either research or his own areas of established expertise. Sometimes, what appears to be a personal opinion is the only possibility when applying sound logic--reason it out before judging! (That said, some personal opinions do appear on occasion).</p> <p>Personal note from Mark: I value each and every one of you, and I hope that shows in the diligent effort I put into writing this e-newsletter. It is an act of service, almost no money is generated for me through this effort. Thank you for being a faithful reader. 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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" dir="ltr" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top"> <p> </p> <p> </p> <table align="center" border="0" width="90%"> <tbody> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table align="center" border="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="20%"><a href="https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enl/index.htm">Subscriptions</a><br /> <a href="https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enl/index.htm">Past issues</a></td> <td width="60%"> <h1>Mindconnection eNL, 2026-02-08</h1> </td> <td width="20%"> <p align="right"><a href="https://www.mindconnection.com">Home</a></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table align="center" border="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFCC"> <p align="left"><b>In this issue:</b><br /> Good News | Product Highlight | Brainpower | Finances | Security | Health/Fitness | Factoid | Thought 4 the Day</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table align="center" border="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#000000"><font color="#FFFFFF">Please forward this to others who might find it useful. If you have a social media acct (Facebook, etc.), please add our link: </font> <a href="https://www.mindconnection.com" style="color: #FFFFFF">https://www.mindconnection.com </a></td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" id="table4" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <ul> <li> <p align="left">Let's red pill the masses! Send this link to a friend: <a href="https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enlarchives/2025/enl2026-02-08.htm"> https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enlarchives/2025/enl2026-02-08.htm</a></p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Please take the time to read, not merely scan. Enjoy over several days! This is not a light daily, it is packed with info and comes out only twice a month.</p> </li> </ul> <p align="left"><b>1. Good News: Where the Intel is Good</b></p> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" id="table8" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFCC" valign="top"> <ul> <li>Mitch McConnell, who represents everything America Firsters and conservatives loathe, is retiring. But he intends to leave his repugnant stain on the Republican Party with his network of candidates, one of which will presumably fill the seat he is vacating. But Elon Musk has put up $10 million to back Nate Morris, who is running for that same seat. If Morris wins, it will be a huge blow to the RINOs, scumbags, and crooks who have, like McConnell, set much of the agenda for the GOP.<br />  </li> <li>This holds the potential to break the Uniparty system that everyone from the Libertarian Party to Marjorie Taylor Greene have been complaining about. Even back in the 1990s, I referred to them as Demopublicans, The Party, and Republocrats. Because they would simply take turns screwing the country for their own personal gain.<br />  </li> <li>The more that the Republican Party can replace morally bankrupt people like McConnell and his acolytes, the more it will appeal to people who have long been Democrats. One reason many people vote Democrat is they do so out of repugnance for these people who need to be replaced. At the same time, the "Democrat" Party is increasingly intolerable and shedding voters.<br />  </li> <li>If Musk, et al, can break the Uniparty system and produce a mostly clean Republican Party, the "Democrat" Party will have no choice but to purge itself of morons, imbeciles, crooks, criminals, and Marxists of all stripes. That would also be a good development.<br />  </li> <li>Tim "Moron in Minnesota" Walz says he's never going to run for office again. As if he is delivering bad news or something. The fact is Walz, who only two years ago was the VP nominee of the Communist Party running alongside low IQ Cackling Kamala, is a massive liability. He's also facing a very strong possibility of being indicted on RICO and other criminals charges that could result in his being sentenced to hundreds of years in prison.<br /> <br /> His "I'm not running again" is meat tossed to the prosecutorial dogs, maybe if he removes himself as a threat they won't come after him. Dream on, Tim--you are exactly the kind of corrupt politician they need to make an example of. And as stupid as you are, they will probably have an easy time of it. Once they have a case settled and precedent set, it will then be easier to go after yet another corrupt politician. They will have tested various strategies and tactics on someone without a legal dream team. So, Tim, it's time to get your affairs in order and maybe hold a "going away" party because it looks like you might be going away for a very long time.<br />  </li> <li>A "must see": <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/trump-first-year-by-the-numbers-5972437"> https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/trump-first-year-by-the-numbers-5972437</a><br />  </li> <li>"Venezuela’s interim president Delcy Rodriguez announced Tuesday that the country has received $300 million in initial proceeds from a U.S.-brokered oil sales deal following Nicolas Maduro’s capture, with funds aimed at stabilizing the economy amid ongoing political upheaval." [The Capitalist]<br />  </li> <li>Since the USA took control, Venezuela's oil exports have doubled. This is going to make the citizens of Venezuela a lot better off. MVGA--Make Venezuela Great Again!<br />  </li> <li>The USA has officially withdrawn from the World Harm Organization aka the World "Health" Organization. This was long overdue.<br />  </li> <li>Led by morons for decades, the bureaucracy of the EU has withered against the force of nature known as President Trump. The aforementioned morons got by with gutting their own energy infrastructure, hamstringing their manufacturing and distribution sectors, imposing costly socialist nonsense on their citizens while constricting basic freedoms, by stealing from the USA. And ever since 1916 or so, we have bailed "Western powers" out of one European war after another that they got embroiled in due to their own stupidity and failure to properly fund and command their militaries. This has all been borne on the backs of hard-working European citizens who lack the right of free speech. Now that right is increasingly being asserted. Will ordinary Europeans at last be able to cast off the monarchies that contribute nothing and take so much? Let us hope so. They deserve better.<br />  </li> <li>The child mutilation industry just suffered a serious setback that sets the stage for its total destruction. See the full story here:<br /> <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/jury-finds-doctors-liable-for-malpractice-in-gender-surgery-lawsuit-5978849">https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/jury-finds-doctors-liable-for-malpractice-in-gender-surgery-lawsuit-5978849</a><br />  </li> <li>In the final year of the Communist Occupation, India ran a $45.8 billion trade surplus with the United States. They were also buying Russian oil. Now that has all changed, and President Trump used tariffs to change it. President Trump wrote that India has agreed to buy American goods “at a much higher level, in addition to over $500 BILLION DOLLARS of U.S. Energy, Technology, Agricultural, Coal, and many other products”. Even politicians in Moronesota should be able to do the math, here. We went from about $46 billion in the hole to about half a trillion to our benefit. The people of India benefit in many ways also, including getting quality American goods for their money instead of being ripped off via cheap Chinese junk products.</li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p align="left"><b>Investment in America</b></p> <p align="left">Within one year of Liberation Day, President Trump was able to persuade companies in other countries to invest $18 trillion in the USA.</p> <ul> <li> <p align="left">Germany, the richest country in the EU, had a GDP of $5.8 trillion in 2025.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">That same year, the GDP of Japan was $4 trillion.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Our own GDP was $30 trillion, and now we have investments of over half that amount all secured in less than one year with presumably more to come.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">The word "investment" means that $18 trillion is going to grow year after year. Our GDP will grow, our debt will shrink, our incomes will rise, inflation will be reduced.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">No wonder the commies and libtards hate Trump.</p> </li> </ul> <p align="left">Of course, the massive investments are just part of what President Trump has done for this country.</p> <p align="left">And he's done a lot for the world, too. It's too bad the morons on the Nobel Peace Prize committee are mentally ill. They gave "Obama" the Peace Prize just for showing up, and it turned out that "Obama" was among our most warring Presidents ever. And he did a lot of damage to world peace. Trump, by contrast, ended several wars and brokered many peace deals in his first year in office. If the Nobel awards committee could give out 12 Peace Prizes on one year and did that based on the merits, Trump would have gotten all 12 of them. The runner up was a very distant runner-up. Not taking anything away from her, but there really is no comparison.</p> <p align="left">To keep the wins coming, we sane people must vote this fall and convince other sane people to vote. We must push for election integrity, praise what is good, disparage what is evil, and be kind to others in the process. Pushing back gently but consistently against the TDS victims and other delusionals among us now will make it easier to persuade them later to accept reality over gaslighting. Drop a truth bomb here and there. Have a respectful conversation (or at least be respectful when trying to have a conversation) with an insane person; listen without judgment, then ask questions like, "Can you give me an example?"</p> <p align="left"><b>Stopping the Plundering</b></p> <ul> <li> <p align="left">Citizen Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the Institute of Reprobates and Sociopaths (IRS) and the Treasury Department over leaks of his confidential tax returns during his first term in office. It's important to note that this is a well-justified personal lawsuit, not something being done with his executive powers.<br />  </p> </li> <li> <p align="left">If I could afford to sue the Institute for what they did to me, I think a $20 million payout after attorneys' fees and the other costs of prosecuting the case would be reasonable. But it takes $3 million just to get a case through the preliminary defenses and into federal court. The Institute has long relied on its ability to cripple an individual to the point where getting justice is out of the question. But Trump has the means to make this happen. Let's hope Trump prevails and then sets up a fund for other IRS victims.<br />  </p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Kevin Brown, the criminal mastermind behind the Hoyt Fiasco ($110 million) and apparently two other scams he operated via misallocation of government resources, is happily retired without a worry in the world. I do not normally wish bad on people, but I hope he becomes the target of several personal suits from former victims who were able to bounce back far enough to afford to go after him. This will make his final years full of stress while draining him of his ill-gotten gains.<br />  </p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Both President Trump and Citizen Trump have taken the long view, though. First, make the Institute increasingly irrelevant by reducing the 1040 tax burden via things like high standard deductions. Second, lay off half their "work" force, returning this terrorist organization to just under its pre-Biden size. Third, Make America Prosperous Again so that potential victims are more able to fight back. Fourth, reduce the size of the federal government so there is less to fund (under the goofy idea that the IRS somehow funds the government). Fifth, dramatically reduce waste, fraud, theft, and inefficiency in the federal government.<br />  </p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Sudden Millionaire Syndrome (SMS) seems to have afflicted most members of Congress. Two of the worst cases (Nutcase Nancy Pelosi and Ilhan Omar) are currently under investigation (Omar has gone from zero to $30 million), but so are many others. In most cases, the criminality is self-evident. For example, Congresswoman Ayanna had a negative net worth in 2021 when she joined Congress (salary of $174,000/year). Now only five years later, her net worth is over $8 million. Even Tim Walz should be able to do the math, there. But if not, this "humble public servant" millionaire could easily afford an accountant to do the math for him. Or maybe a third-grader.<br />  </p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Cross-dressing Michael Robinson, who calls himself "Michelle Obama" and lives with the illegal alien Barry Soetoro who calls himself Barrack Obama, have a lot of 'splainin' to do regarding their vast wealth. Robinson was a disgraced lawyer who had his records sealed and Soetoro was a fairly destitute "community organizer" (also with sealed records due to being here illegally) until Soetoro's meteoric rise in the Democrat Party. After "serving" eight years as POTUS on a salary of $400,000 while "Michelle" had no other employment, they are somehow able to own multiple multi-million dollar residences. If this does not have an overpowering smell of corruption to you, get your nose fixed! If you know any people who think going after these two crooks is ill-advised because it would allegedly start a race war, ask them why they believe that black people believe in a two-tier justice system.<br />  </p> </li> <li> <p align="left">The Clintons, legendary for their corruption, have finally agreed to be deposed. They tried extremely hard to evade deposition, but their efforts failed. What's great about this is Bill does not depose well and Hillary is a bad liar. Her tales are fantastical, failing to stand up to basic scrutiny. So the result of the deposition will be self-incrimination, since every unclever lie will be a de facto admission of guilt. It may at long last be possible to hold these two reprobates accountable for a wee bit of their sordid misconduct and criminality. Moreover, they have no problem tossing others under the bus, so expect a ton of perp walks to be conducted as a result.<br />  </p> </li> <li> <p align="left">There is a ton of waste, fraud, theft, and inefficiency in municipal governments, but people tend to ignore that. Check your city council and how they spend your property taxes and sales taxes, you will likely be shocked. There is also a huge amount of waste, fraud, theft, and inefficiency in every red state government and in the counties surrounding commie-controlled big cities like Chicago. President Trump cannot fix these things. We individuals must act. An easy way to do this is to turn out for all "off cycle" (non-POTUS) elections vote against anyone who runs as a "Democrat". Stop and think about why. Would an honest person align himself with the Party of Corruption?<br />  </p> </li> <li> <p align="left">You can also find out who the radical commies are on your city council. Then pick one to help defeat. Print up 50 or 60 door flyers pointing out 3 or 4 things bad this person has done, then go hang those on doors in that person's ward. This is not a huge commitment of time or money, and it can swing the election. I stopped a commie from gaining a council seat by doing this very thing. I also helped unseat a commie by going more hard core with 300 flyers I hung on doors. It didn't stop commie rule of our council, but it did cause a subtle shift in mindset toward the idea that plundering the city is not OK.<br />  </p> </li> <li> <p align="left"><font color="#FF0000"><b>This is super-important. </b> </font>The commies just won a district in Texas, in a low turnout election. Sane people probably figured only completely delusional people, rapists, and career criminals would vote for the commie so it was safe to stay home and not vote. And besides, this seat had been held by a Republican for decades so there was no danger a commie could take it. They were wrong.<br /> <br /> Between now and November, you need to talk with your sane friends and cite them this example. Make sure they get out to vote. Text them and call them the day before and again on voting day. As for any commies you know, don't give them any clue you are doing this. Let them think THEY have it in the bag so THEY stay home. You might want to text them that it looks like Comrade X (whatever commie is running) has it in the bag and you are wondering if you should even bother showing up.</p> </li> </ul> <p align="left"><b>Stopping the Child Mutilation Industry</b></p> <p align="left">Fox Varian was awarded a $2 million settlement against these sex offenders. That's a civil suit, with more to follow. This sets the stage for demolishing that industry and thus sparing millions of kids from being mutilated via amputations, drugs, etc. It will end immense emotional pain and immense financial drain, too. As the facade crumbles, you can expect free state after free state to pass child protection laws that will come with severe penalties for those who prey upon kids and their families in this way.</p> <p align="left">The "logic" that protects these predators is nutso. It's a crime for a grown man to fondle a 16 year old girl's breasts, but if he is a doctor and cuts them off that is OK. Really? The jury in this landmark case disagreed with that absurdity.</p> <p align="left">Now that the curtain has been pulled back and a jury has created precedent, legal momentum will build. The mistake these sickos made was believing during the Communist Occupation that they could incite their victims to behave badly in public to scare away the opposition. Instead of scaring away the opposition, this had the effect of showing that mutilation makes mental illness worse instead of curing it. Having bad actors like Nutcase Nancy (who was booed off the stage when she appeared at a NYC music festival in 2022) advocate for them also backfired.</p> <p align="left">This is not a MAGA thing, as pro-mutilation commies claim. Parents were fighting to protect their kids from this long before MAGA, and many parents went to jail for their efforts. MAGA does come into play, however, because a major feature of MAGA is its emphasis on basic human rights--something the commies are adamantly opposed to.</p> <p align="left"><b>What Nutcase Nancy Calls "Tax Breaks for Billionaires"</b></p> <p align="left">Tax Foundation estimates that, altogether, these seven provisions of the OBBB cut individual income taxes by $129 billion in 2025.</p> <ol> <li> <p align="left">Maximum child tax credit increase of $200</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Standard deduction increase of $750 for single filers and $1,500 for joint filers</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">State and local tax (SALT) deduction cap increase to $40,000 for taxpayers earning under $500,000</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">New $6,000 additional deduction for seniors that starts phasing out when taxpayers make more than $75,000 ($150,000 joint)</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">New $10,000 auto loan interest deduction that starts phasing out when taxpayers make more than $100,000 ($200,000 joint)</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">New deduction for up to $25,000 in tip income that starts phasing out when taxpayers earn more than $150,000 ($300,000 joint)</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">New deduction for up to $12,500 in overtime income ($25,000 for joint filers) that starts phasing out when taxpayers earn more than $150,000 ($300,000 joint)</p> </li> </ol> <p align="left"><br /> <b>Imprimis on the Somali scandals</b>: <a href="https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/learning-from-minnesotas-somali-fraud-scandal"> https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/learning-from-minnesotas-somali-fraud-scandal</a></p> <p align="left"><b>Commie Nonsense, Part 488,299,874,653</b></p> <p align="left">Now the commies, such as one "Democrat" in Maine, are cautioning ICE agents to be "mindful of Constitutional rights". But the Constitution protects the rights of citizens, and illegal aliens are by definition not citizens which is why they are being rounded up and deported.</p> <p align="left">Clearly, President Trump needs to write an Executive Order that will repurpose SETI to look for signs of intelligent life in the "Democrat" Party.</p> <p align="left">It's also rather rich that the commies are crying about Constitutional rights now, when during the Covid scam they egregiously violated our Constitutional rights on a mass scale. And they work overtime to void our voting rights</p> <p align="left">Clearly, Roget's needs to update their Thesaurus to show "Democrat" in the list of synonyms for "hypocrite".</p> <p align="left"><b>Even More Commie Nonsense</b></p> <p align="left">Chuck "I hate America" Schumer has announced the commies will hold America hostage yet again if ICE continues to enforce the law by removing illegal immigrants. It's hypocritical, of course, because the forced deportation numbers under Obama dwarf those under Trump. A big difference is Trump has used voluntary self-deportation with success, while Obama had no such program.</p> <p align="left">Since the vast majority of Americans, including most lawful immigrants, want illegals deported, this is yet another losing issue for the commies. Opposing our immigration laws does have strong appeal for shrill white rich liberal women, but for nearly everybody else the idea is repugnant.</p> <p align="left">Let's hope the commies choose to fall on this particular sword. It will play great on social media this November.</p> <p align="left"><b>Even More Commie Nonsense</b></p> <p align="left">In the European Union, which has for decades relied on massive subsidies from the USA to prop up its Marxist utopia, sales of battery-powered (e.g., "electric") cars have passed sales of gasoline-powered cars for the first time. This is the same EU that stopped building coal-powered and natural gas-powered generating stations to chase the nonsensical "green energy" delusion. You can easily predict the pain that lies ahead for those unlucky enough to live in Europe. Perhaps it will be enough to snap the "leaders" out of their stupidity or at least snap the subjugated population of about 400 million unfortunate people into demanding massive reform in the EU system if not its dissolution.</p> <p align="left">There are some very good people in Europe (all the ones I know are very good people, anyhow), and they do not deserve what their "leaders" have done to them. And it's not just this. Remember America before Liberation Day and the harsh censorship measures employed against people who told the truth? The EU is still under that kind of oppression.</p> <p align="left"><b>Even More Commie Nonsense</b></p> <p align="left">The communists tried to rally around "affordability", though they made life in the USA profoundly less affordable during the four year long ordeal that was their illegal occupation of the White House. This isn't an issue they can win on, since the problem is entirely their fault. Best for them to shut up and pick something else stupid. So they did.</p> <p align="left">Now they are rallying around keeping murderers, rapists, and drug dealers safely ensconced in our major cities and receiving welfare checks if they are in this country illegally. This, despite the fact that 61% of voters support deporting illegal aliens and only 34% oppose deporting them (recent Cygnal poll). The other 5% can't decide. Illegal immigration was a major issue in the 2024 election, and now the commies want a repeat. Their current focus is on Moronesota, a de facto seceded state that is being run by morons and very corrupt public officials.</p> <p align="left">Surely, it must be the case that most citizens currently stuck in Moronesota are not, themselves, morons. Or corrupt. Those with any sense, and there must be many, will vote a straight Republican ticket this November and stop the insanity. The communists are practically begging for such an outcome, by loudly going against the wishes of 61% of voters (nationwide). The more the commies keep up their pro-rapist rhetoric, the more voters they will alienate. This might be the year that Moronesota again becomes Minnesota. The land of 1,000 lakes instead of the land of thousands of loonies.</p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"> </p> <h3 align="left">2. 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Brainpower tip</h3> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFCC" valign="top">Don't be misled by labels. Ask a few basic questions to get at the truth. <p><b>Example 1</b></p> <p>An acquaintance of mine is pretty slow on the draw. During the Covid scam, he accepted all the BS no matter how absurd. The latest thing with him is he has a Windows 10 computer that works just fine but is too old to change over to Windows 11. I don't like the word "upgrade" in this context, it's different not necessarily better. When you UPgrade, you go to something better. For example, you upgrade your sheets from polyester to cotton. The use of "upgrade" when it comes to software is usually a marketing deception. In some cases, you are truly downgrading. We have seen that in a few releases of Windows that had users howling, followed by a very early release of the next version. Windows 11 does break a few things, mostly legacy programs that run just fine on Windows 10.</p> <p>My acquaintance is agonizing about the loss of "support" and the end of "security" updates. So I asked him, "What support have you ever gotten from Microsoft in all these years? Give me one example."</p> <p>As for security, if you are on the load side of a router (and almost every home computer is, these days), you are behind a firewall. Let me give a concise explanation for those who are fuzzy on what a firewall is. To get inside a connected device, you have to access it through its MAC address. Your router is exposed, but there's nothing on it to hack. Loading a root worm onto it will get you nothing, if such a load is even possible. What you're really after is the data on a connected device. But you cannot get to any connected devices because the firewall is in the way. We speak of connecting our computers to the Internet, but what we are actually doing is connecting our computer to our router. It's the router that is connected to the Internet.</p> <p>Back in the days of dial-up, this was not the case. You connected your computer directly to the Internet.</p> <p>Today, it is almost always the case. It is now standard practice among ISPs to provide users with a modem that is a combo modem/router. So you are behind a firewall with no option not to be. If your ISP doesn't provide that type of modem, the home almost certainly has a router anyhow. Aside from those Stone Age installations that have no router, the only way malware gets on a home computer these days is if the operator does something stupid like surf the dark web or download "free" things from dubious websites. And that same vulnerability exists no matter what security updates you get from Microsoft.</p> <p>Worms and other malware can't target something on the other side of the router, because they don't know what's there. They rely on an "ID Ten T" error (ID10T) to get into the system. This is why you see the same warnings all the time, such as don't open e-mail attachments from sources you don't know and don't click on links from spoof sites or spoof e-mails.</p> <p>Having support or security is not a reason to change over to Windows 11, because in those aspects nothing really changes from Windows 10. This new OS has some great features, and I especially like the way it handles Notepad. But it also has drawbacks, such as breaking programs that I am accustomed to using. If you buy a new computer, it's going to be a Windows 11 computer. So the question of changing to it is kind of moot. Unless, of course, you have a program or service that no longer supports Windows 10; this is unlikely, if you have the 64-bit version of Windows 10. So all the angst this guy has over nothing would have been prevented if he'd simply asked a few basic questions instead of leapfrogging into a doom scenario.</p> <p><b>Example 2</b></p> <p>I got an e-mail from the Communist Party. They still call themselves the Democrat Party, a big red flag there. The e-mail said they were fighting "to protect the voting rights of every American". Which is a laugh, as they are the party of election fraud, and they take that fraud to extremes.</p> <p>When I was in high school, the public school systems still had the goal of providing an education. Yeah, it was a long time ago. One of the books we read was George Orwell's 1984. I often ask people if they have read it, and the answer is usually no. Which is a travesty. If you have not read this book, order it on Amazon today and then read it. I suggest reading Animal Farm (also by Orwell), if you don't quite understand how toxic communism is.</p> <p>Here's a bundle deal: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/1984-Animal-Farm-SET-BOOKS/dp/6059076351"> https://www.amazon.com/1984-Animal-Farm-SET-BOOKS/dp/6059076351</a>. Or just get 1984: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/1984-Signet-Classics-George-Orwell/dp/0451524934"> https://www.amazon.com/1984-Signet-Classics-George-Orwell/dp/0451524934</a>. If you want to skip reading the books (not your best decision), you can do an online search for the Cliff Notes version or maybe Copilot or whatever AI will provide a nice synopsis. But I recommend reading the books, then giving them to a lefty friend so (if your lefty friend isn't too far gone) the two of you can discuss the meanings.</p> <p>If you are familiar with 1984, then you already know the point I'm about to make regarding Newspeak. If you are not familiar with 1984, then read it with the goal of understanding the concept of Newspeak and how it allows bad actors to get away with incredibly destructive behavior.</p> <p>If you can recall the general flow of 1984 or if you read it today for the first time, you will be struck by the fact it is a playbook for today's Communist Party. They suppress dissent, suppress thinking, spew fake news, invoke endless wars (in the book, the wars between Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia), reverse the meanings of words as a means of propagandizing, and destroy people who go against their narrative. And what about Animal Farm? I read that one in middle school, and I thought it was a metaphor for the Marxist progression of American politics (yes, it was happening even then). Imagine my surprise when my teacher said it was a metaphor for the Soviet revolution and all the betrayal that followed. So I told him what my initial impression was. His reply? "Smart kid. You actually get it."</p> <p>The examples I just gave aren't the point of this issue's brainpower tip. They illustrate the point. Abusers of power are also abusers of language, that's how they capture people's minds.</p> <p>Remember what preceded the Holocaust? Cartoons of Jews with exaggerated noses, followed by other tropes. Then came the absurd accusations, then came the language abuse. Who can object to cleansing, for example? And don't forget, this was done by the National Socialist Party, which in German is Nationalsozialist or Nazi. Socialism was the concept touted in Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto, both by Karl Marx. Every Marxist movement or party has used these same dishonest means to gain or retain power. They do that because the only possible outcomes of Marxism are negative ones, poverty being its most notable outcome.</p> <p>Less notable, but more corrosive over time, is the stifling of thought. Marxism depends upon duping people, and a lot of stupidity enhancement is built into it. In the USA, a cornerstone was the establishment of the Department of Diseducation (in Newspeak, it is the Department of Education), whose primary goal was to abolish functional literacy in the USA. One of the first acts of that department was to remove phonics from reading education. The result was the national literacy rate plummetted from first in the world to dead last among industrialized nations.</p> <p>This stupidity enhancement is one reason I am so against Marxism in the Brainpower Newsletter.</p> <p>Ask basic questions. Get at the truth.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3 align="left"><br /> 4. Finance tip</h3> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td>I was talking recently with a woman who was concerned about her diet but said her mom had never taught her how to cook. Her solution is she buys prepackaged meals and sometimes prepackaged greens over which she pours bottled salad dressing. I asked her if she thought this was an expensive way to go, and she agreed it was. But what choice did she have? She bought a recipe book, but it's just not easy to use. The truth is, you don't need a recipe book. I make nutritious, pleasing meals without ever following a recipe. To do this, a person needs only some basic equipment and some skill in a few food categories. <p><b>Equipment</b></p> <p>You don't need to make a huge investment into pots, pans, etc. to efficiently make good meals. As a starter set, I'd recommend a nice set of stainless steel or other high-quality fry pans, a pair of glass pie dishes, a Dutch oven, and a pair of high-quality cookie sheets. A decent set of kitchen knives, a few mixing bowls, some glass storage bowls with lids, some plastic storage bowls with lids, a couple of spatulas, and whatever else catches your eye in the supermarket cooking equipment aisle.</p> <p><b>Categories</b></p> <p>Consider these food categories, below. No recipes are needed, you simply use what's on hand with an eye to keeping the ingredients compatible (for example, garlic is good with omelets not with pies):</p> <ul> <li>Stir fries. For many years, I commuted to work so I relied on bags of frozen vegetables rather buying fresh. I would add things like cashews, diced apple, diced garlic, and sesame seeds. This is very basic, but the main skill involved is understanding how to control the heat. It needs to be no more than medium heat, or you wreck your pans. Back then, I also ate meat so I would separately fry up sirloin steak with onions and garlic or I would bake chicken and dice it up. You can buy these meats prepared already, if you don't want the mess. Dice them up and store in bowls in the refrigerator, taking them out as needed.<br />  </li> <li>Cold veggie mixes. If I call them salads, people default to iceberg lettuce and a ton of gross dressing. Instead, buy a slew of vegetables like bok choy, spinach, eggplant, acorn squash, and kale. Dress it up with walnut pieces, chopped avocado slices, a bit of onion, and a bit of chopped garlic. Own a cruet, and use it to mix a robust olive oil (the "mild" ones are cut with linoleic acid and are toxic) and either balsamic or cider vinegar.<br />  </li> <li>Soups. These consist of water and whatever meat and vegetables you care to add. A common practice is to cook a pound of beans in a crockpot (on Instapot), then divide the beans into storage containers. You then use a portion of the beans for whatever soup you are making. Serve with rice, and you can have something wonderful that is satisfying and nutritious.<br />  </li> <li>Eggs. My mom used to say if you have eggs and greens, you always have a meal. Eggs are so versatile. You can scramble them, make a foldover omelet, boil them, etc. You can have them as the main part of a meal or as a supplement to it. When I worked construction, a lot of the guys would have a couple of hard-boiled eggs with pepper for the main part of their afternoon meal (often followed by a banana or orange).<br />  </li> <li>Custard pies. This is the simplest kind of pie to make, partly because the eggs hold things together. The variations are endless. Perhaps the most famous custard pie is the pumpkin pie. You can use the same recipe, but instead of pumpkin use chopped up banana or any other fruit--surprise yourself and make a different pie each month of winter.<br />  </li> <li>Drop cookies. These are simple to make. The basic recipe is flour, eggs, water, and baking powder. You can add various cruits. Blueberries, raisins, and apples are all winners. Pears, bananas, peaches, whatever is in season or on hand.</li> </ul> <p>Note that butter and healthy oils are essential to good cooking. Disregard the "advice" that says otherwise.</p> <p>Instead of using:</p> <ul> <li>Wheat flour, which is toxic, use oat flour.</li> <li>Processed sugar, use L-glycine or monkfruit.</li> <li>Condensed milk, use a thick mix of a plant-based vanilla protein powder (Garden for Life makes the best one for this purpose).</li> </ul> <p>You also need to have spices and condiments on hand. Carefully think about a system that works for you. Don't buy preground spices that come in a cardboard shaker, those are stale before they hit your shopping cart. Buy in bulk and use a funnel to fill designated glass shakers (with lids) or designated glass bowls (that can be stacked). Label everything. Figure out if adding a Lazy Susan or two will help keep things functional and organized. Don't go nuts with creating a huge spice collection. Condiments include (all sugar-free) mustard and hot sauce, which will come in their own containers. But for spices, set up a trial system with the following and the modify as needed if you add more:</p> <ul> <li>Allspice</li> <li>Basil</li> <li>Black pepper</li> <li>Cinnamon</li> <li>Cloves</li> <li>Cocoa powder</li> <li>Ginger</li> <li>Glycine powder (sweetener) [Note that L-glycine is a "lefthanded" version of glycine, they are not the same thing].</li> <li>Monkfruit powder (sweetener)</li> <li>Salt</li> <li>Turmeric</li> <li>X</li> </ul> <p><b>Notes:</b></p> <ol> <li>What the heck is X? Don't call your grocery store and ask for it. I tried here to compile a basic list that would allow for whatever spices your ethic backround or experience considers essential. For example, I did not oregano and for Italians that is borderline sinful. My sister loves to use curry, a wonderful spice that is also absent from my list. And you can't make a good chili without cumin.<br />  </li> <li>Why is salt on the list? We are always told to reduce sodium! If your diet does not include processed foods, colas, or "energy drinks" you have plenty of room for salting your food before it becomes a problem. You need salt when baking, and to some people scrambled eggs "just aint right" without a dash of salt.<br />  </li> <li>Turmeric: The capsules cost about 100X per gram what a 1lb bag costs. But turmeric is messy. A solution that works for me is I fill a glass bowl  (with lid), and then use office Bulldog clips to close the turmeric bag (which I store elsewhere with my bulks, not in the kitchen where I am trying to work). I don't leave a scoop in the bowl, as grabbing it out will make my fingers orange. I dip in there with a metal spoon.<br />  </li> <li>If you really don't know what to do, ask a friend, neighbor, or relative to come to your home and show you. Then share a meal and have a visit. This person can point out where you need this or that added to your kitchen equipment, and demonstrate the basic process. Be careful not to get sucked into someone's orbit and thus learn wrong things as if they are right. Repeat this process with a few people. Another way to learn is to watch cooking shows, this is what housewives often did in the decades before YouTube. Hmm, you could also watch on YouTube.<br />  </li> <li>Be very careful with nonstick pans. Stainless steel and cast iron are non-stick, especially if you apply butter, lard, or a heat-stable oil (e.g., avocado oil) to them first. Some enamel-coated or copper-coated pans are safe, some are not; look for titanium or steel, not aluminum. In no case is any TEFLON or similar coating safe.<br />  </li> <li>The services that deliver meals you simply heat up sound good. But they are costly and there's a lot of cheap plastic involved. You don't need more microplastic lodging in your brain.</li> </ol> <p>Not only do you save huge amounts of money by doing your own cooking, you eliminate the "need" to go with unhealthy alternatives. And if you gain some skill and experience in the few categories mentioned above, you can make an endless variety of tasty, nutritious, satisfying meals. You gain the skill by experimenting on your own and also by watching others to see how they do it (or by having them coach you). You can add to these categories, for example the category of what to do with a whole chicken.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3 align="left"> </h3> <table align="center" border="0" id="table6" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top"> <h3 align="left">5. Security tip</h3> <p>This is from a regional bank, The Bank of Labor (lightly edited by me). The goal of the message is to inform people how to protect themselves from a bank impersonation scam.</p> <p><b>What is a Bank Impersonation Scam?</b></p> <p>A bank impersonation scam occurs when a scammer disguises their phone number and pretends to be a trusted financial institution. Their goal is to trick bank account holders into sharing their personal information so they can access online banking accounts by impersonating the bank's fraud department.</p> <p><b>How Does It Work?</b></p> <p>Scammers will call their victims and claim to be from a bank's fraud department. They may say there is suspicious activity on your account, unauthorized access, or a fraudulent pending charge. To "fix" the issue, the scammer will ask for your personal information, including your online banking user ID, password, answers to security questions, or your social security number. Once shared, this information allows them to access your account.</p> <p><b>Tips to Identify Spoofing</b></p> <ul> <li><b>Check Numbers</b>. Carefully examine the phone number that’s calling you. Scammers will often use a number that looks similar to one you recognize. In some cases, the number may even appear identical to the institution that they're impersonating. For example, the caller ID may be listed as 913.321.4242, but it is not Bank of Labor contacting you for your personal security information.</li> <li><b>Detect False Urgency</b>. Scammers will try to create a sense of urgency to pressure you into giving information to them immediately.<br /> DO NOT give your personal data over the phone no matter how critical the situation may appear.</li> <li><b>Note False Friendliness</b>. As you may have guessed, I do business with this bank. A few people know me and I recognize their voice on the phone. If MMMMM calls me, she can use her first name and I will know who it is. But aside from those people, the caller always identifies him/herself by first and last name with Bank of Labor and also identifies the exact issue they are calling about. If someone were to call and say, "This is Phil with Bank of Labor" I would immediately be suspicious. [Added by me]</li> <li><b>Note Lax Procedures for a Security Problem</b>. If there's a security problem, the bank uses secure procedures to address it. They will, for example, send me a secure document for me to download using a code they text to me. Or they will ask me to come into a branch location. What's especially comforting in these cases is they know which branch I normally use and ask me if I want to set up a time (usually with MMMMMM) at that branch. The bank will never just call me and ask for sensitive information. They will ask for verification information or ask me if I can call the bank right back at the main number and ask for extension YYYY. [Added by me]</li> <li><b>Note Any False Issues</b>. I check balances each weekday morning. The bank is never going to call me to say my account is overdrawn and then ask me to wire money from some other bank. They are never going to call me and say the IRS has put the account on hold, because I use a separate bank in a separate city for all IRS-related and government-related financial business. The bank is never going to call me about a bounced check on my main account, because I use a separate account for checks. The bank is never going to call me about my deposit box fees, because I don't have a deposit box at that bank. [Added by me]</li> <li><b>Know Which Bank Does What</b>. As you may have surmised, I have different accounts with different banks in different cities for different purposes. This is not paranoia, it's basic financial prudence. If my government transactions bank calls me about something related to the IRS, I will take that call seriously and proceed--but not if such a call comes from any other bank. [Added by me]</li> </ul> <p><br /> The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) offer several other tips and resources to help combat bank impersonation scams.<br /> <br /> <a href="https://www.fdic.gov/consumer-resource-center/2025-06/bank-impersonation-scams-and-fake-banks">https://www.fdic.gov/consumer-resource-center/2025-06/bank-impersonation-scams-and-fake-banks</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/cyber/alerts/psa/account-takeover-fraud-via-impersonation-of-financial-institution-support">https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/cyber/alerts/psa/account-takeover-fraud-via-impersonation-of-financial-institution-support</a></p> <p><br /> <b>What To Do If It Happens to You</b>: No bank is going to call you with personal questions. If you receive a phone call from someone claiming to be a X Bank, hang up and call that bank. Ask for the Fraud Department. It is possible there isn't any fraud, just a poorly trained employee. But let the bank decide that, because it is almost certainly fraud. If you were to personally call law enforcement, you'd have little effect. But a complaint coming from a bank gets noticed. Let the bank handle this and do your best to cooperate in any way. We may not be able to stop The Democrats from stealing, but we sure can put a dent into stealing that starts with bank spoofing.<br />  </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" id="table2" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top"> <h3 align="left">6. Health tip/Fitness tips</h3> <table border="1" id="table5" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="239"> <p><img alt="" border="0" height="250" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20260207114851/97dce419ca4746fb896b6c9eadf910f9_Mark-1CroppedForeNL.jpg" width="300" /></p> <p align="center"><b>Age 65 in these pics</b></p> </td> <td valign="top"> <p align="left">See all of my climbing videos here: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/ClimbingSigChannel"> https://tinyurl.com/ClimbingSigChannel</a>. Some cool climbing  videos:</p> <ul> <li> <p align="left"><a href="https://youtu.be/s4G0ssyJ3hc">https://youtu.be/s4G0ssyJ3hc</a></p> </li> <li> <p align="left"><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/5919UDqCXDc">https://youtube.com/shorts/5919UDqCXDc</a></p> </li> <li> <p align="left"><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/jYvKJ9mKyyE">https://youtube.com/shorts/jYvKJ9mKyyE</a></p> </li> </ul> <p>My hardest climb ever, a 5.11d on lead: <a href="https://youtu.be/UT5h0heUUBc">https://youtu.be/UT5h0heUUBc</a> . I made a dumb mistake initially, letting the rope wrap over my shoulder. Watch what happens.</p> <p>The scale:</p> <ul> <li>Beginner: 5.6. 5.7. 5.8, 5.9  (roped) / VV, V0, V1, V2 (boulder)</li> <li>Intermediate: 5.10a, b, c, d ;5.11a, b, c, d  / V3, V4, V5, V6</li> <li>Advanced: 5.12a, b, c, d; 5.13a, b, c, d. / V7, V8, V9, V10.</li> <li>Elite and Pro: Even harder. Almost nobody climbs at either level at any of the 6 local climbing gyms.</li> </ul> <p> </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div align="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" id="table3" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="300"><img alt="" border="0" height="450" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20260207114851/20a97979bfdbad61a5a67a72d6f1ab6a_Mark2025-09-19.jpg" width="300" /></td> <td valign="top">Let's talk about arthritic joints. Arthritis is a general term for inflammation in the joints. The cause varies, and thus there are different types of arthritis. The more swollen the joints appear, the more the inflammation is a factor to deal with. <p>The medical industry focuses on medical treatments. Health care is outside their purvey, despite the language abuse to the contrary. But, they are very good at diagnosing and labeling things. Get a diagnosis, so you can better understand what you are dealing with in your particular case.</p> <p>In general, there is a three-pronged approach to solving this problem:</p> <ol> <li>Remove inflammation-causing foods from your diet. You can do an online search for a comprehensive list, but the main culprits are wheat, corn, soy, meat from any of the three major meat packers, processed sugar, high-fructose corn syrup and similar, seed oils (e.g., canola, safflower, etc.), and vegetable oil. It can seem like a tall order to remove these, since for the typical American they constitute over 85% of the diet. I eat exactly zero of these.<br />  </li> <li>Add anti-inflammatory foods to your diet. The big one here is curcumin, which is found in turmeric. Turmeric is what gives mustard its color. If you take capsules, you pay at least 300X for the same amount bought in a bulk bag. So go online to Vitacost and order a 1lb bag. When you get it, fill up a small glass bowl with lid (found at any supermarket, if you do not have one--I use such bowls a lot so I have many--you can also order them through Amazon). Turmeric is very messy to handle, so don't leave a scoop in that bowl. When you need some, use a metal teaspoon and take what you need. You can sprinkle turmeric over soups, beans, rice, and many other dishes. If you're into protein shakes, toss in some turmeric. Add it to whatever you bake, too.<br />  </li> <li>Reduce loading and add therapies. If you have arthritis in your hands, you can reduce loading by being more careful how you grab things when you pick them up. If you have arthritis in your back or hips, you can reduce loading by doing specific exercises to improve your posture; you can also avoid doing head-down activities (e.g., excess time texting). Therapies include foot spa (can be used for hands or feet), laser therapy performed by a licensed practitioner, red light therapy, vibration therapy, and infra-red therapy. These last three therapies are available in a single device called the DNA Vibe.</li> </ol> <p>That's it for this column in this issue. Please page down.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="402" valign="top" width="300"><img alt="" border="0" height="400" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20260207114851/2cafae1ecaf397ee23afaf79cf69038c_2025-09-21ClimbingShotByJanetSmall.jpg" width="300" /></td> <td height="402" valign="top"><br />  </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="top"> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p>At <a href="http://www.supplecity.com" target="_blank"> www.supplecity.com</a>, you'll find plenty of informative, authoritative articles on maintaining a lean, strong physique. It has nothing to do with long workouts or impossible to maintain diets. In fact:</p> <ul> <li>The best workouts are short and intense.</li> <li>A good diet contains far more flavors and satisfaction than the typical American diet.</li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3 align="left">7. Factoid</h3> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFCC" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal">From the start of December through the one year anniversary of Liberation Day, ICE removed over 10,000 illegal aliens from Minnesota (mostly Minneapolis).</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3 align="left"> </h3> <h3 align="left">8. Thought for the Day</h3> <p class="MsoNormal">Have you noticed how the Trump administration is putting pressure on countries in South America to stop with the stupid socialism and instead treat their citizens well? Despite securing its southern border, Mexico still has a massive influx of people fleeing those countries and using Mexico as a way station. When we secured our southern border, that was only part of the solution. The other part is fixing the problem at its source. There was a time when nobody (except criminals) in Venezuela had a reason to flee the country, now nobody (except criminals) has a reason to stay.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p><b>Please forward this eNL to others.</b></p> <p> </p> <h4>Authorship</h4> The purpose of this publication is to inform and empower its readers (and save you money!). The views expressed in this e-newsletter are generally not shared by socialists or other brainwashed individuals. That's because those fools live in an alternate reality and have not bothered to learn the basics of how life works. They cannot do basic math, cannot apply logic, and cannot be bothered to learn the basic facts relevant to any topic that they are passionate about. <p> </p> <p>Except where noted, this e-newsletter is entirely the work of Mark Lamendola. 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<p> </p> <p> </p> <table align="center" border="0" width="90%"> <tbody> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table align="center" border="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="20%"><a href="https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enl/index.htm">Subscriptions</a><br /> <a href="https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enl/index.htm">Past issues</a></td> <td width="60%"> <h1>Mindconnection eNL, 2026-01-18</h1> </td> <td width="20%"> <p align="right"><a href="https://www.mindconnection.com">Home</a></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table align="center" border="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFCC"> <p align="left"><b>In this issue:</b><br /> Good News | Product Highlight | Brainpower | Finances | Security | Health/Fitness | Factoid | Thought 4 the Day</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table align="center" border="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#000000"><font color="#FFFFFF">Please forward this to others who might find it useful. If you have a social media acct (Facebook, etc.), please add our link: </font> <a href="https://www.mindconnection.com" style="color: #FFFFFF">https://www.mindconnection.com </a></td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" id="table4" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <ul> <li> <p align="left">Let's red pill the masses! Send this link to a friend: <a href="https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enlarchives/2025/enl2026-01-18.htm"> https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enlarchives/2025/enl2026-01-18.htm</a></p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Please take the time to read, not merely scan. Enjoy over several days! This is not a light daily, it is packed with info and comes out only twice a month.</p> </li> </ul> <p align="left"><b>1. Good News: Where the Intel is Good</b></p> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" id="table8" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFCC" valign="top"> <ul> <li>There is almost no chance that she's a liberal: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hEDRZJTMP6E?feature=share"> https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hEDRZJTMP6E?feature=share</a>. Notice that her primary concern is not for herself.<br />  </li> <li>Rogue Island's answer to Medicare fraud and the high costs of the socialism it has embraced is to encourage top earners to leave the state by hitting them with punitive taxes. Brilliant.<br />  </li> <li>Remember when the commies left North Carolina flood victims to twist in the breeze? Now for the first time ever, there are more registered Republicans than registered Democrats in North Carolina.<br />  </li> <li>On Wednesday, the 14th, the Senate killed a commie-led resolution to impede our President's further actions with Venezuela. It is not clear whether the issue was the "need" to protect the illicit drug trade or the "need" to keep Venezuela from prospering through being able to sell oil from its vast reserves. As the commies are fond of both death and poverty, perhaps both "needs" are driving this toxic and insane behavior on their part.<br />  </li> <li>It looks like things are going to work out well for Venezuela, which has for decades been the poster child for failed communism. Indeed, I once wrote to Comrade Pelosi suggesting she move there because her vision of paradise was already in place. But criminals in Venezuela don't live with two Sub Zero refrigerators they could afford due to illegal stock trading, so Pelosi didn't make the move.<br />  </li> <li>Things are not going so well in Cuba. Their communist system has been propped up by Russia since the very start. Now neither Russia nor China can afford to support that sick economy. And after the capture of Maduro, no leader in his right mind wants to antagonize the USA. So the ruling Cubans have a choice to make. They can either die in a bloody uprising of their own suppressed, impoverished, abused people--or they can negotiate something with the USA. The unrest in Iran is also something they are looking upon with horror, because of what it means for their own personal security.<br />  </li> <li>Notice the string of liberations, starting with the USA. It's been only a year since we wrested control from our communist oppressors, restored the rule of law, restored Constitutional freedoms, and ended the dozens of pro-poverty initiatives that were enacted during the Occupation. The dominoes are falling, and they are falling fast.<br />  </li> <li>Election integrity got another boost with the recent SCOTUS ruling. Previously, the communists claimed they were allowed to cheat because the plaintiff had no standing due to not being a resident of the state in which the cheating took place or due to some other lame excuse. The SCOTUS ruled that any candidate automatically has standing, and gave good reasons why. This one ruling is going to render most mail-in ballot cheating not only futile but very costly to the perpetrators.<br /> <br /> One thing that could happen is the Plaintiff can use the power of Discovery to unearth all kinds of dirt that could be handed over to federal prosecutors. This alone will have a chilling effect on cheating, because if there's one thing commies truly fear it is having their crimes exposed to daylight. Maybe it will take one test case to drive this point home to the commies, as they are pretty stupid and arrogant plus they have never believed that rules apply to them.<br />  </li> <li>The hits keep on coming. Our Deal Maker In Chief created yet another huge win for America. This time, it was a sweet deal with Taiwan. "The deal includes a minimum of $250 billion in direct investment by Taiwanese tech enterprises in chips, energy, and artificial intelligence innovation in the United States, as well as credit guarantees by the Taiwanese government for another $250 billion in other Taiwanese investments to expand the chip supply chain in the United States." [Epoch Times]<br />  </li> <li>Biden is still trying to formulate his first complete, coherent sentence.</li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p align="left"><b>RIP</b></p> <p align="left">My fellow Mensan and fellow conservative, Scott Adams, has passed away at age 68 after a long battle with prostate cancer. I did not know Scott personally, but thought highly of him. He was the author of several books and was most noted for his witty and insightful Dilbert cartoon series.</p> <p align="left"><b>The Sound of Silence</b></p> <p align="left">The several libtards that I know have always been keen to "inform" me about the latest stupidity they have been fed by the lamestream media echo chambers. They have been oddly silent about Comrade Walz and his obvious involvement in the $9 billion Somali welfare scandal, despite its momentous importance and the fact that this is just the tip of the iceberg. Because I don't pay attention to the lamestream media, this "informing" is my only real clue as to what stupidity they are spewing. Or, in this case, news they are not covering.</p> <p align="left">The fake news lamestreamers are also not covering the vaccine injury data, the fact there is zero proof that vaccines work, or the fact that the data show that vaccines actually do not work. Thus, the libtard population continues to decrease by volunteering to get injected with poison. Maybe we sane, informed, thinking people should consider this sad state of affairs to be a problem that is not ours to solve.</p> <p align="left">Let the lamestream media continue to mentally enfeeble, and thus endanger, its followers. While also alienating people who apply even a modicum of critical thinking. The more I look at this situation, the more I see the fake news as a sort of ally. The problem is, of course, all of us have friends and/or family in the thrall of this malicious horde of liars. We'd rather have them free than dead.</p> <p align="left"><b>Karoline Chastises Communist </b></p> <p align="left">She is so awesome: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcXbbcd-gfM"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcXbbcd-gfM</a></p> <p align="left"><b>Communism Blowback</b></p> <ul> <li> <p align="left">This 20 minute video consists of taxpayer interviews in the communist country we call "Minnesota": <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDGp0_G963Y"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDGp0_G963Y</a></p> </li> <li> <p align="left">This 14 minute video shows Venezuelans bashing communism and praising Trump, white liberals are agog: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAEJvW5kf9Q"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAEJvW5kf9Q</a></p> </li> <li> <p align="left">The political career of Tim "Super Moron" Walz has finally ended. It should have ended even before his disastrous performance as the Cackler's running mate, since the fraud had been known for many years and widely covered by conservative journalists. That is, despite his acting surprised, this had been a festering wound for a long time.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">If the commies can put a failure like Kamala on their POTUS ticket and a failure like Walz as her running mate, what does that tell you about the commies? It tells you they select morons and rely on election fraud to get said morons installed in office. Then they pull the puppet strings. This is no longer working.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">The commies were quick to toss Walz under the bus when the scandal dam broke and the flooding began. Who is the next failed governor, senator, or House rep to go? They do not lack for candidates, that's for sure.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Look for this "house of retards" (not house of cards) to continue to crumble from within. They offer nothing but corruption and their hatred of Trump, who is doing a fantastic job in contrast to their string of abject failures. And voters know it.</p> </li> </ul> <p align="left"><b>More Communism Blowback</b></p> <p>"In response to the massive fraud scandal uncovered in Minnesota, where an estimated $9 billion or more in taxpayer funds was misappropriated through fraudulent claims, I have introduced the Welfare Abuse and Laundering Zillions (WALZ) Act, designed to stop fraud and restore accountability to government programs nationwide.</p> <p>The WALZ Act will mandate nationwide commonsense oversight, reporting, and accountability standards with uniform national safeguards to flag suspicious programs and claims to ensure fraud on the scale seen in Minnesota cannot take root in Kansas or other states. Taxpayers deserve to know that their dollars are being used responsibly, not being stolen by fraudsters while officials turn a blind eye."</p> <p>-- Senator Roger Marshall, 16 January, 2026</p> <p>BTW, censorship is still a problem. I sent the above item, verbatim, in an e-mail and it got "blocked due to spam in the content." Yep, a direct quote from a sitting US Senator about a bill he introduced and it's "spam". That e-mail went to a "blue" state.</p> <p align="left"><b>Fighting Communism, #1</b></p> <p align="left">When the commies made Minnesota a major base of operations, they also opened the door for the corrupt government of that state to come under federal investigation. Minnesota is the weakest commie base, and it will thus be the easiest to prosecute. The best strategy when taking apart a mafia is to take down the weakest player first, then work your way up to the strongest. By the time you get there, you will have acquired an impressive series of judgments favorable to the prosecutor. And, of course, you'll have a ton of useful information gained through the demise of the weaker players.</p> <p align="left">Anyone who's been involved in lawsuits knows what Discovery is about. It's quite the weapon, when wielded artfully it will bury the opponent in a compliance burden so punitive that they will concede to almost anything to get from under it. Federal forces can use this and other tools to peel back all the layers of the fraud, indict individual criminals, and make case precedent that they can then use on the bigger players like the New York and California branches of the commie mafia.</p> <p align="left"><b>Fighting Communism, #2</b></p> <p align="left">Oddly enough, the People's Republic of Canada has launched a direct and deadly assault on the people of China in exchange for allowing China to launch a direct and deadly assault on Canadian citizens. Here is how this mutually damaging relationship works. Canada is allowing China to sell their crappy, dangerous EVs in Canada, while the Chinese are now importing a poison that will be marketed as "food" to Chinese consumers. Canada is notorious for producing this poison, it's called canola. Canola oil is used for such things as increasing the rate of Alzheimer's, stroke, and heart attack.<br /> <br /> From a strictly utilitarian viewpoint, the Chinese communist party is making a good move here--because of China's demographics. Due to their one-child policy decades ago, they have a large retiring class without enough earners to support it. By feeding these people canola, they can kill them off quicker and help correct the demographic imbalance. Maybe they should also try "Daylight Savings Time," which has done wonders in the west for reducing the population. The USA has been using both measures with pretty decent success.</p> <p align="left"><b>Question for Communists</b></p> <p align="left">Why is it when peaceful protestors entered the Capitol and were uneventfully escorted on a tour, some of them went to prison for "insurrection" but when a crazy woman interferef with lawful police action by attempting to run over an ICE agent with her car she was "peacefully protesting" and he's a monster for defending himself? You people have lost all sanity and any sense of fair play. Keep it up, you are showing your true colors and how disgusting you are. Inciting insurrection is a felony, all of you need to stand trial.</p> <p align="left"><b>Commie-fornia is Number One!</b></p> <p align="left">"California", aka, The People's Republic of California aka Commie-fornia is</p> <ul> <li> <p align="left">Number One in homelessness</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Number One in poverty</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Number One in illiteracy</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Number One in unemployment</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Number One in gas prices</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Number One in illegal border crossings</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Number One in funding for illegal immigrants</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Number One in budget deficit</p> </li> </ul> <p align="left">...and, no surprise, Number One in the number of people leaving the state.</p> <p align="left"><b>Catching Up with Commie-Fornia?</b></p> <p align="left">In NYC, rent control has proven to be a disaster. Yet, it remains in place. One consequence is landlords have no motivation (or money) to do repairs or upgrades, and tenants have no motivation to treat the property respectfully. Only when a tenant dies or moves away can the rent be increased. And because this whole situation is a disincentive to build new apartments, there is a shortage and rent prices are insanely high.</p> <p align="left">Thus, rent control has resulted in run-down apartments that are disgusting, uncomfortable, and mostly unsafe. And in short supply. The new mayor's solution? Threaten to seize the properties from the landlords. Which means, of course, even more of a shortage. It also means a greater exodus from NYC. It's as if NYC and Commie-Fornia are competing to see who can have the highest rate of exodus.</p> <p align="left">One upshot of this insanity is it's making conservatives out of millions of people who formerly fell for the liberal language games and empty promises. We don't need blue states to turn red, we just need them to keep alienating their citizens and reducing their populations and thus their Electoral College votes. If Commie-Fornia keeps up its current pace, it could drop from 54 EC votes to 34 EC votes with the next census. New York will be right behind it. Not only will those communist countries lose a big chunk of their election heft, that chunk will go to "red" states like TX and FL. This changes the entire dynamic of federal elections, and it changes the entire dynamic of the battles for control of the House. It doesn't change anything regarding the Senate, because each state has two senators.</p> <p align="left"><b>A Healthier America</b></p> <ul> <li>The CDC removed over 50 doses of experimental shots (vaccines) from the childhood vaccine schedule to about one-third of the previous dose recommendation. That is a huge win for health care (not medical care) in America. Some shots were removed entirely. The very dangerous and totally useless Covid shot and the somewhat dangerous and totally useless flu shot were among those removed. Also, under the theory that babies are not routinely engaging in unprotected sex, the Hepatitis A and B shots were also removed. There were a few others, but these are the big ones that never should have been given to children in the first place.<br />  </li> <li>It is an empirical fact that the USA, with nearly 7X the child injection rate compared to Europe, is far sicker. Clearly, the injections do not promote health. What if we took the injections to zero? Since we have already been experimenting with over-injection, why not experiment with zero injections? Take the vast amount of money saved and put it toward incentives to feed kids actual food instead of fake food.<br />  </li> <li>If the vaccine makers want to get their products back into the schedule, all they have to do is get an approval based on "double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized trials." This is a low bar for something that actually works, so you can bet vaccine makers will not even attempt it.<br />  </li> <li>Fentanyl deaths spiked up during the Communist Occupation, in some cases wiping out nearly all people in a given age bracket in a given city (Port Huron, MI, for example). Less than a year after Liberation Day, the Trump-ordered (and tariffed) interruptions in the global fentanyl supply caused the death rate to plummet. Generally speaking, being alive is a requirement for being considered healthy.  The monthly average is now about half of what it was when President Vegetable last meandered around the White House grounds.</li> </ul> <p><b>The Covid Shots are Working!</b></p> <p>"There have been at least 15 million flu cases this season, according to the latest estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This year, outpatient visits for flu-like symptoms reached the highest recorded level since the agency began tracking cases more than 30 years ago. The US flu season typically begins in October, peaks between December and February and extends as late as May. This season has seen at least 180,000 hospitalizations and 7,400 deaths, with 26 states reporting “very high” levels of flu-like illness and 16 seeing “high” levels." [1440 Digest].</p> <p>The immunity reduction jabs are still killing people who were jabbed with them. It became crystal clear to many of us (those who connected the giant dots) that the purpose of the Covid jab was to reduce the number of humans polluting the planet. The good news for the sickos out there who see humans as "a problem to solve" is the Covid shots are doing what they were intended to do. They are working!</p> <p>On top of that particular population reduction measure, public "health" authorities and "health" care [alleged] experts are still running the flu shot con. The way this con works is Big pHARMa produces a USA vaccine based on what Australia had in the previous season and then pretends there is some connection between the two different viruses that allows the vaccine for the extinct one to work for the new one. Of course, it cannot. But the injection itself reduces the overall immunity of the injected population, and Voila! More people come down with the flu, and more of the people who get it die.</p> <p><b>Food Pyramid</b></p> <p>The new "inverted" Food Pyramid is a major improvement over its predecessor(s), but it is still wrong. Let's break it down.</p> <ul> <li>It removes grains and cereals from the top spot. However, it shows a picture of refined monoculture grain as an example and uses the fake term "whole grains" which 98% of people misunderstand to mean processed grain with detritus added back to it.<br />  </li> <li>Modern wheat, corn, and soy do not belong in the diet of any mammal. They are not only endocrine modifiers, they are loaded with glyphosate. They form the basis for most baby foods and pet foods, too. Almost any other grain is good. Some examples are oats, rye, and quinoa. Flours made from beans are also good. If you can get genuine Mexican corn or corn flour, also good. By "oats" I do not mean the typical oatmeal. I buy whole rolled oats and eat them uncooked. I also buy oat flour to use in place of wheat flour. One problem with oat flour is it is low in gluten and thus to hard to work with. Add some nutritional yeast and extra butter to it to help make up for this (and work fast).<br />  </li> <li>Putting protein at the top is a huge mistake, because this move neglects to consider that most Americans skip half their meals and thus get too much protein at one time. This overloads the kidneys (contributing to renal failure), elevates blood sugar (the protein cannot be stored, the body turns it to sugar), and does other things you really don't want being done. Even if someone has proper meal frequency, protein belongs in the middle unless you are an extreme athlete. Notice, "extreme" doesn't mean you participate in an "extreme sport" at a moderate level. What top athletes are doing now is supplementing with an amino acid product. This eliminates the whole nitrogen, sugar, kidneys problem. Just be careful that you are getting a quality product. Something cheap is going to contain fillers, including some form of sugar.<br />  </li> <li>Regarding protein, don't misconstrue what I said. There is a huge difference between eating 4 oz of beef tips and scarfing down a 20 oz steak at one sitting. Protein isn't "bad for you", it just needs to be spread out across the day. If you supplement with a protein powder, take that into consideration as well.<br />  </li> <li>It puts animal fats at the top. Your body can handle only so much of this. We must also consider how Americans typically get these fats, namely: highly processed foods, meat from glyphosate-fed animals, and milk from glyphosate-fed cows. These need to be farther down, and used sparingly.<br />  </li> <li>Vegetables and fruits are not the same. Lumping them together makes zero sense. Vegetables should dominate the upper two thirds. And since all plants have the same 20 amino acids (building blocks of protein) in their tissues as all animals do, plants are proteins just as meats are proteins. The difference is the amino profile varies widely among plants, so you need to combine different plants to level things out.<br />  </li> <li>Dairy is not necessarily good. For most people it used to be, before the dominance of Concentrated Animal Farming Operations (CAFOs) and the extremely poor diets and living conditions of the modern dairy animal. Go organic or go without. Most people have lactose intolerance, so another concern regarding a blanket recommendation.<br />  </li> <li>Grapes are shown as examples of fruit, but due to their ultra high sugar content should be eaten sparingly.<br />  </li> <li>Nowhere does this pyramid mention fermented foods. You need those, so have some sauerkraut (not pickled cabbage, there is a difference) or other fermented food. Before you reach for what is commonly called "yogurt" (a sugary snack that contains some contaminated milk that was converted into yogurt and that has had emulsifiers--detergent--added to it), stop to consider what you are actually buying. Look for nonhomogenized (cream on top) yogurt made from pasture-fed cows. The flavor is awesome, and so are the health benefits. But so are the calories, so be careful how much of it you eat per day.</li> </ul> <p align="left">So disregard this new pyramid. Instead:</p> <ul> <li> <p align="left">Focus on eating minimally processed foods with most of them being vegetables.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">You need those healthy fats, which do not include flavorless seed oils or vegetable oils or hydrogenated oils. Healthy fats include animal fat (if the animal wasn't subsisting on wheat, corn, or soy) such as lard, butter, and egg yolk fat; but if you are vegan and do not ingest these fats that is OK. Healthy fats also include nuts, nut oils (e.g., walnut oil) which are cold-pressed or extracted at low heat, olives, olive oil that hasn't been cut with linoleic acid, avocadoes, avocado oil, coconuts, and coconut oil. These healthy fats add flavor and texture to our foods, use them with a bit of common sense and all will be well.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Eat several pieces of fruit per day, avoiding dried fruits and absolutely not consuming fruit juices.<br />  </p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Spread your nutrition out over the day (e.g., at least six small meals) so you don't overload your kidneys with protein breakdown.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Don't forget that water is "food" also. Drink plenty of it. Exclude sodas and "energy drinks", drink coffee and tea in moderation.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Exclude anything containing alcohol, as that is just empty calories with permanent brain damage each time you consume. But if you are prone to stress, the benefits of relaxing with a drink will outweigh the very tiny brain damage done each time. Notice "a" drink. As in a glass of wine in the evening.</p> </li> </ul> <p align="left">Apply what you know about good nutrition since clearly the "experts" have no clue. Secretary Kennedy appears to understand the subject very well. But he is only one person and has to massage a lot of egos, overcome entrenched dumb ideas, and avoid making (even more) enemies. This new pyramid is a huge step in the right direction, but it is not the right information.</p> <p align="left"><b>Secession</b></p> <p align="left">In December of 1860, South Carolina seceded from the union and other states followed to form the Confederacy. Lincoln, fearing intervention by France or England, promoted the useful lie that this was a civil war (even though nobody tried to seize the means of government--a definitional requirement for a "civil war"). What followed was a bloody and protracted war of secession. That was old school. When the socialists and communists began their ascension to power under Woodrow "Let me give you the IRS" Wilson, they took a long-view approach. They began to erode away the various means by which certain states were tied to the union.</p> <p align="left">Today, these ten states (below) have de facto seceded from the union. They don't have fair or open elections, don't have the rule of law, routinely violate the Bill of Rights, fail to provide adequate police protection, and rip off their citizens in myriad banana republic ways:</p> <ol> <li> <p align="left">California</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Colorado</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Hawaii</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Illinois</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Maryland</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Minnesota</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">New Jersey</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">New Mexico</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">New York</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Washington</p> </li> </ol> <p align="left">There are 36 free states (comply with the Constitution), leaving four states that are compromised but not to the extent that they have succeeded in seceding. By seceding without a formal declaration, and by doing it via "boil the frog gradually", they have avoided the appearance of a shooting war. But if you look at what's actually happened in the big cities of most of these seceded states, especially Minnesota (Minneapolis), Illinois (Chicago), and California (multiple cities), a shooting war is exactly what has been going on.</p> <p align="left">What is the solution to this secession problem? Can we reconstitute (meant in more ways than one) this union of 50 states? Since the primary tools of secession have been election fraud and legacy media gas lighting, it follows that taking these tools away will lead to the liberation of the occupants and a restoration of these states to our union. If you've noticed what the Trump administration has done in the past six months, you have noticed great and concerted effort toward doing exactly that. From Karoline Leavitt's putting legacy media in their place when they ask stupid and misleading questions to DJ Trump's calling out individual "reporters" as doing a terrible job and promoting fake news to a series of court cases. And, of course, securing our borders.</p> <p align="left">What if the citizens of California could, for the first time in decades, be treated by their state's government as if they are actually American citizens with American rights? What if the residents of Chicago had basic city services and were spared the constant increase in their property taxes? These people need to rise to the occasion, and now many of them are doing exactly that. This is very good news.</p> <p align="left"> </p> <h3 align="left">2. Product Highlight</h3> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="2" id="table1" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top">We are proud to offer the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B8TS14RX">Rocket Pen Reading Tutor</a>. Click the image for more info, such as videos. 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Brainpower tip</h3> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFCC" valign="top">Certain obnoxious people pop up in my thoughts, diverting attention and brainpower from useful purposes to thinking about how much they annoy me. I know I am not the only one to bear this cross, so I thought it would be a good Brainpower topic. For most of you, anyhow. <p>I was watching a Prager University clip, when the guest and moderator were talking about derogatory comments made in a certain context. Then they pointed out that the people making the comments are lonely. This got me to thinking.</p> <p>The behavior is obnoxious, and these people are lonely because nobody can stand being around them. The anxiety from being excluded and lonely causes them to engage in even more of that behavior, because it is a maladaptive response to being excluded and lonely. It's a vicious positive-feedback cycle with negative consequences. Here are some examples of that behavior, see if you recognize any:</p> <ul> <li>Talking over people</li> <li>Spewing a long monologue, with no chance for the other person to get a word in edgewise</li> <li>Gaslighting games</li> <li>General bullying</li> <li>Eye-rolling and other dismissive body language</li> <li>Talking at excessively low volume, excessively low speed, or with excessively long pauses</li> <li>Talking at excessively high volume, excessively high speed, or with no pauses</li> <li>Keeping a pig sty instead of a home; nobody wants to visit</li> <li>Expounding on topics they know absolutely nothing about and spewing "facts" they make up as they go along, in hopes of impressing you with their brilliance</li> <li>Telling the same old jokes or war stories on every occasion</li> <li>Making false statements, then cutting off any conversation about it (common among people with TDS)</li> <li>Pointing out mistakes you didn't make or flaws you don't have</li> <li>Castigating you for opinions you don't have and never stated; this is a way of implying you're stupid while simultaneously implying they have special insight</li> <li>Talking about some problem and then blaming someone else for it (as opposed to saying what they learned from it)</li> </ul> <p>Most of this behavior is intended to pull them up by pushing others down, but it has the opposite effect. We don't like being disrespected and devalued, so we avoid these people and keep any interactions with them to a minimum. Which drives them crazy.</p> <p>One of the worst things you can do is try to "fix" one of these people. Normal people with normal self-esteem can handle constructive criticism and usually find it beneficial. We even seek it out, right? "What do you think of my proposal, is something missing?" or "Can you help me with my golf swing" or even, "Let me know if I mess something up." When we do get constructive criticism, we usually smile and thank our ersatz coach for the advice.</p> <p>But these obnoxious, lonely people have low self-esteem and are always on the defensive. Their defense consists of offending others with even more of their obnoxious behavior. Most of us know this, which is why most of us just try to avoid these people.</p> <p>Some of us, like me, can't seem to also avoid thinking about them. My excuse is I am a problem-solver and each of these lonely people represents a suite of unsolved problems. A more realistic view is we have only so much time to live and we need to focus on other things. That is also a more productive view.</p> <p>Some examples:</p> <ul> <li>What can I do to bring a little happiness to this person who is important to me?</li> <li>If someone is not important to me but I frequently interact with that person, what can I do to improve my perspective?</li> <li>What I can accomplish in my career, hobby, sport, or other interest in the near future?<br />  </li> <li>What has gone well lately for me or for a friend?</li> <li>Which three problems need the most attention today?</li> <li>How I will stay healthy?<br />  </li> <li>What one thing can I do today to be healthier tomorrow?</li> <li>Which friend or loved one has needs I can meet in even a small way?</li> <li>What I might do this week to fight communism or other collective mental illnesses?<br />  </li> <li>What old friend has not heard from me in a while, and would now be a good time to call, text, or e-mail that person?</li> <li>How can I improve my job performance?</li> <li>How can I improve my relationship with my boss and coworkers?<br />  </li> <li>How can I improve my relationship (if in sales) with one of my accounts?</li> <li>What around the house needs fixing, and which project will I do next?</li> <li>How can I improve my mental abilities? What one habit can I eliminate or add to this end?</li> </ul> <p>We cannot solve the "obnoxious lonely person" problem at its source. But we can displace them in our minds by turning our attention to people and goals that matter to us and that improve the flow of positive energy. For example, if you find yourself cogitating about what an idiot Paul (name picked at random) is, stop. Picture your friend Joe and something really smart he did. Then think more about that. Over time, thoughts of Paul will be trained out of your system.</p> <p>BTW, I have two friends Joe and Paul who know each other. They are both awesome human beings. Joe is Mensa caliber and Paul has an IQ that must be closing in on 200. I am definitely not referring to THAT Paul!</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3 align="left"><br /> 4. Finance tip</h3> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td>Imagine a planet much like ours, except it skipped a couple of extinction events and thus its human-like creatures had about a 200 million year head start on us. That would be a highly advanced civilization, assuming an advancement rate similar to our own. <p>Let's further imagine they had a means to visit us, in person, from their own planet without being subject to the speed of light speed limit (some kind of dimension-hopping or warp drive). They come not only in peace, but also bearing gifts. One such gift is a means of making electricity from sand (or some other abundant material) at very low cost with practically zero pollution. They realize that we don't have a central governing body, but instead consist of nearly two hundred competing nation-states. And many of those have private enterprise.</p> <p>They realize this technology would hugely change the competitive landscape, vaulting one ideology to the very top. They have to pick a winner, and thus also leave many losers.</p> <p>They decide to limit the competition based on some kind of algorithm. It takes them on tours through Venezuela, Columbia, Iran, Russia, California, and China. They are appalled at what they see. Rundown buildings, grime, poverty, violence, censorship, and propaganda that is absurd in its dishonesty. They are reconsidering their gift. The algorithm next takes them to the United States, stopping first at a few Democrat-controlled cities and blue states. They are becoming despondent.</p> <p>Then it takes them to one free state after another, and to cities run by conservatives. Their despondency quickly is replaced with elation. But why are there these two modes for humans, when one is clearly so dismal and the other so bright?</p> <p>The system presents them with graphs and charts showing the differences and what the major drivers are. It concludes with a narrative that explains the causes of the Communist Occupation, and how liberation was achieved. And what fantastic things have happened since Liberation Day. This, they say, is fragile due to the "huns at the gate." It could become like those other places that left them feeling despondent. They decide they have a moral obligation to give the free humans the gifts, because to do otherwise would hold the potential of sending humans into a centuries-long era of poverty and social sickness. They marvel at the fact that the most socially sick among humans call themselves "socialists".</p> <p>While we are unlikely to have such visitors, it's also true that we don't need any special insight from them to know that:</p> <ul> <li>Communism (which is socialism without property rights) produces an unbearably bad society.</li> <li>It's not the case that the better system will prevail because it's the rational choice.</li> <li>It is the case that the irrational people who push communism expend most of their energy trying to destroy what's good instead of producing something good.</li> <li>Communists have infiltrated our society and wield huge amounts of power in it, including control of the legacy media, K-12, and universities.</li> <li>They will not rest until they have achieved universal poverty and the total elimination of thinking.</li> </ul> <p>All of which means we must actively promote and defend our successful system or it will be destroyed by the communists from within. Again, we do not need space aliens to show us this. We need merely contrast North Korea to South Korea or look at what happened to Trans Francisco.</p> <p>Because the communists are relentless and play very, very dirty the threat to our individual and collective prosperity is real. And it's a huge threat. Since, like the "Deceptacons" in the Transformer stories, they rely heavily on deception, truth is to them what sunlight is to a vampire. This gives you a framework for defending your accumulated wealth and future prosperity. Some things you can do:</p> <ul> <li>Drop truth bombs. For example, when a communism enthrallee spews some nonsense about Trump's "reckless" economic policies, ask which big investment they don't like. "Was it the $550 billion that Japan is investing in American jobs?"</li> <li>Counter opinion with opinion. "I really like President Trump" is a good statement to make in response to some TDS statement.</li> <li>Use the phrase "echo chamber" to denigrate their "information" sources. As in, "I'm more open-minded than that, I try to stay out of the echo chambers and consider information that is independently verifiable."</li> <li>Don't just react, proact. I like making positive statements about our economy and our restored freedoms. "Isn't it great that they don't lock people up for singing hymns or praying anymore?" And, "It sure seems like people are much better off than they were a year ago."</li> <li>Let out something that sounds like a slogan. "We are already off to a Trumptastic year. Lower taxes, lower gas prices, reduced inflation, it's wonderful."<br />  </li> <li>Don't get into petty squabbles with other non-communists. This just divides us and weakens us as a group. The commies do not tolerate diversity, much less dissension, in their ranks; this is one thing that makes them a lot stronger than they otherwise would be.</li> <li>Treat others with respect. As much as you would love to, out of sheer exasperation, go off on a commie for being stupid, don't. That will only push them back to seeking the approval of their tribe, when what you actually want is for them to leave their tribe.</li> <li>Avoid arguing with commies. Let them speak, and listen respectfully. Interrupt if they are going into a monologue, but only to ask a question such as, "Can you give me an example of that?"</li> <li>Engage in random acts of kindness. This is in contrast to the commies, who engage in random acts of unkindness and incivility. This contrast alone is persuasive to many people, they'd rather join the camp of good, decent people than have to contend with thoughtless, mean people.<br />  </li> <li>Arm yourself with some facts and figures. You don't need to be a walking encyclopedia, you do need to know something. You can find a treasure trove on these every time our very capable Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt holds a press conference, those are on YouTube. Also, I often quote from good information sources in this newsletter. Go through a few back issues and find them, then subscribe to one or two.</li> <li>Keep your personal finances in order, so that you are a living example of how well our system works.</li> <li>Bring your A game to your job.</li> <li>Provide some kind of direct assistance to a non-commie who is running for office. You can donate money, print and distribute door flyers, work the phones, or [fill in the blank]. If you're not sure what to do, call the campaign office and say that you'd like to help out a little bit--what do they need? If you took a vacation day to work the campaign pledge by phone system, that would be hugely helpful. And you keep your sanity by doing it for one day only. If you do anything that is public (e.g., distributing door flyers which would necessarily mean interacting with people), be sure to dress nicely and be well-groomed. Greet everyone with a sincere smile, don't get into arguments, and don't be condescending or rude.</li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3 align="left"> </h3> <table align="center" border="0" id="table6" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top"> <h3 align="left">5. Security tip</h3> <p>If someone slipped into your home every day and administered a poison that reduced your IQ, increased your stress level, caused you to have delusions, and impaired your judgment, would you want to put a stop to that?</p> <p>That may seem like a rhetorical question, but it's not. This is actually a common problem. That "someone" is the legacy media and fake news. They enter through television, YouTube ads, antisocial media, smartphone news feeds, and "discussions" (propaganda respewings) with the afflicted. The losses are substantial and debilitating. The solutions are obvious.</p> <p>'nuf said.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" id="table2" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top"> <h3 align="left">6. Health tip/Fitness tips</h3> <table border="1" id="table5" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="239"> <p><img alt="" border="0" height="250" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20260117114412/208abef31801537c6dbb9dbcfad2c23a_Mark-1CroppedForeNL.jpg" width="300" /></p> <p align="center"><b>Age 65 in these pics</b></p> </td> <td valign="top"> <p align="left">See all of my climbing videos here: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/ClimbingSigChannel"> https://tinyurl.com/ClimbingSigChannel</a>. Some cool climbing  videos:</p> <ul> <li> <p align="left"><a href="https://youtu.be/s4G0ssyJ3hc">https://youtu.be/s4G0ssyJ3hc</a></p> </li> <li> <p align="left"><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/5919UDqCXDc">https://youtube.com/shorts/5919UDqCXDc</a></p> </li> <li> <p align="left"><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/jYvKJ9mKyyE">https://youtube.com/shorts/jYvKJ9mKyyE</a></p> </li> </ul> <p>My hardest climb ever, a 5.11d on lead: <a href="https://youtu.be/UT5h0heUUBc">https://youtu.be/UT5h0heUUBc</a> . I made a dumb mistake initially, letting the rope wrap over my shoulder. Watch what happens.</p> <p>The scale:</p> <ul> <li>Beginner: 5.6. 5.7. 5.8, 5.9  (roped) / VV, V0, V1, V2 (boulder)</li> <li>Intermediate: 5.10a, b, c, d ;5.11a, b, c, d  / V3, V4, V5, V6</li> <li>Advanced: 5.12a, b, c, d; 5.13a, b, c, d. / V7, V8, V9, V10.</li> <li>Elite and Pro: Even harder. Almost nobody climbs at either level at any of the 6 local climbing gyms.</li> </ul> <p> </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div align="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" id="table3" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="300"><img alt="" border="0" height="450" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20260117114412/a8f900830774cefae3dbfb25b3e128be_Mark2025-09-19.jpg" width="300" /></td> <td valign="top">I was at a New Year's Day party with my totally hot sweetie. It's almost a given when we are at an event that people who talk with us will bring up diet and exercise. Often, it's to just find out what we do. But we always ask what they do, because in a conversation it's better to be interested in other people than to try to be interesting to them. <p>A very nice guest whom I knew from previous parties at this particular home is about our age and brought up this subject shortly after asking what the ingredients were in something I brought for the party. It had no sugar, but did have a sweet taste due to the L-Glycine in it. This is an amino acid with huge benefits for your health, and like most aminos it's sweet. Of all the aminos, it's the sweetest.</p> <p>This fella isn't in terrible shape, but he does need to make changes. And he's aware of that. He went on to tell us what he had in mind, and then he concluded by saying, "I don't want to start right now because I'm helping to take care of my 93 year old mother and I don't want add stress by changing my routine."</p> <p>I immediately responded, "Now is the perfect time to get started. You are adding a positive. Your stress will go down. Your mother's stress will go down also, when she sees that you are doing this."</p> <p>Then I said to designate one day a week as squat day and do just this one squat. I showed him a body weight only squat he could do while holding onto a door jamb for balance. I said to just do as many as he could and then stop when his legs shake. Then rest a minute and do another set. That's it. "You can do this while your dinner heats up."</p> <p>This, of course, is not a substitute for Leg Day or any other workout. What it does is change the dynamic. He had been thinking doing a lot of new things, and thus putting off doing anything. By doing something, he can ease into it.</p> <p>Anyone's natural tendency would be to eventually add more. "What if I do three of these instead of only two? What about my calves, I think I'll do some calf raises on the stairs." Maybe he doesn't have any equipment. But he's now got a minimal routine going. So he thinks, "I could wait until Wednesday and do three sets of pushups then." Perhaps this is what he does for several months, but the thing is he sticks with the program for several months because he's made a habit of it.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="300"><img alt="" border="0" height="400" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20260117114412/2d2af4ba2e0c1953c4bfc65bb78517dc_2025-09-21ClimbingShotByJanetSmall.jpg" width="300" /></td> <td valign="top">Too often, people start out with good intentions but they feel overwhelmed and stop. Going from a dead stop to a full split routine system four days per week is really too much for most folks. Failure is guaranteed. <p>I've started training a new climber. There is so much to learn. I see him make a lot of mistakes, and I don't do anything about it. Am I a lousy coach? He doesn't need to do everything to perfection. He needs to do. If I stop him from doing because I am always correcting him, then I would be a lousy coach. Sometimes I will point out something he did well and reprimand him for learning that faster than I did, he gets a kick out of that.</p> <p>In both cases, I focus on the basics. The most basic of exercises is the squat. That's why I encouraged that fella to start with the squats. Even with such a minimal approach (only two sets), he will see results. Not big results, but results that are noticeable. Which will mean he's going to stick with it and expand on it with no prompting from anyone.</p> <p>With the new climber, I focus on how he points his toes. Once he masters that, I'll focus on something else. But mostly, I don't say anything. If he gets the thrill from climbing then he will stick with it.</p> <p>Each January, people make New Year's Resolutions that involve biting off more than they can chew. Instead of going from couch potato to gym member, it is better to adopt one training habit and stick with it, then expand it. Then maybe this summer, visit a gym and sign up for the trial membership (even if a full year appears to save you money). Don't jump in and go full bore gym rat. Just expand on what you were doing. See if they have a qualified trainer who can work with you, so that you learn good form.</p> <p>If you are trying to upgrade from some stage better than couch potato, that's excellent. But again, make it gradual. Improve on, and expand, what you have. Maybe replace some older things with some newer things, but set a pace so you aren't overwhelmed.<br />  </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="top">In the past six months, I have been asked this question several times: "How long have you been working out?" That's tough to answer precisely, because it depends on your definition of working out. My grandfather gave me "the wheel" and a training booklet for it when I was 10 or 11. A buddy bought the Charles Atlas course from the back of a comic book and showed me what he was learning, that was maybe in that same time frame. We messed around, but we were exercising somewhat systematically. <p>So I don't give a precise answer. I typically say, "I train five days per week and have not missed a workout since 1977." At the climbing gyms, where I most often get this question, the parents of the person asking had not even been born yet.</p> <p>If you think that I think consistency is important, then you think right. If you train at 85% quality for 20 years, you will be much better off than the person who trains at 100% quality for three years. The most important thing is to get started. Now. The second most important thing is to stay with it. Having not missed a workout in nearly 55 years, despite many life events and much travel, I don't accept anybody's excuses. An excuse is a rubber crutch.</p> <p>Now, there's one other thing I told that fella. I told him this after saying I hadn't missed a workout in all these years. If you do mess up on your diet or do miss a workout, that's no reason to stop. It's a minor glitch, not a failure. The worst failure is not starting at all, the second worst failure is not staying with it. I am about as stubborn and disciplined as they come, but that doesn't mean someone less stubborn or less disciplined can't get right back into things if life knocks them for a loop. Things happen in life. If those things hit your PAUSE button, don't confuse that with the STOP button. Never let those things stop you. Hit GO and get back with the program.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p>At <a href="http://www.supplecity.com" target="_blank"> www.supplecity.com</a>, you'll find plenty of informative, authoritative articles on maintaining a lean, strong physique. It has nothing to do with long workouts or impossible to maintain diets. In fact:</p> <ul> <li>The best workouts are short and intense.</li> <li>A good diet contains far more flavors and satisfaction than the typical American diet.</li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3 align="left">7. Factoid</h3> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFCC" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal">Health care is what you do to protect and improve your health. Medical care is what is done to you when you do a poor job of health care or you suffer an injury. Part of good health care is rejecting medical "care" that damages your health or presents unnecessary risk. Such "care" includes experimental medications (vaccines), invasive procedures based on calendar instead of symptoms (e.g., colonoscopy), and following idiocy-based nutritional advice (e.g., eat vegetable oil, don't eat butter, limit your egg intake to two per week, consume "Ensure").</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3 align="left"> </h3> <h3 align="left">8. Thought for the Day</h3> <p class="MsoNormal">I believe this statement came out during the Hillary Clinton "Universal Health Care" fiasco. What they are referring to is medical care. "If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!" - P.J. O'Rourke</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p><b>Please forward this eNL to others.</b></p> <p> </p> <h4>Authorship</h4> The purpose of this publication is to inform and empower its readers (and save you money!). The views expressed in this e-newsletter are generally not shared by socialists or other brainwashed individuals. That's because those fools live in an alternate reality and have not bothered to learn the basics of how life works. They cannot do basic math, cannot apply logic, and cannot be bothered to learn the basic facts relevant to any topic that they are passionate about. <p> </p> <p>Except where noted, this e-newsletter is entirely the work of Mark Lamendola. Anything presented as fact can be independently verified. Where sources are not given, they are readily available to anyone who makes the effort. Mark provides information from either research or his own areas of established expertise. Sometimes, what appears to be a personal opinion is the only possibility when applying sound logic--reason it out before judging! (That said, some personal opinions do appear on occasion).</p> <p>Personal note from Mark: I value each and every one of you, and I hope that shows in the diligent effort I put into writing this e-newsletter. It is an act of service, almost no money is generated for me through this effort. Thank you for being a faithful reader. Please pass this newsletter along to others.</p> <p> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> </p> <img src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/spacer_image/Brainpower///spacer.png" width="1" height="1" alt="" />

Mindconnection eNL 2026-01-04

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:34:00 GMT

<p> </p> <p> </p> <table align="center" border="0" width="90%"> <tbody> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table align="center" border="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="20%"><a href="https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enl/index.htm">Subscriptions</a><br /> <a href="https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enl/index.htm">Past issues</a></td> <td width="60%"> <h1>Mindconnection eNL, 2026-01-04</h1> </td> <td width="20%"> <p align="right"><a href="https://www.mindconnection.com">Home</a></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table align="center" border="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFCC"> <p align="left"><b>In this issue:</b><br /> Good News | Product Highlight | Brainpower | Finances | Security | Health/Fitness | Factoid | Thought 4 the Day</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table align="center" border="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#000000"><font color="#FFFFFF">Please forward this to others who might find it useful. If you have a social media acct (Facebook, etc.), please add our link: </font> <a href="https://www.mindconnection.com" style="color: #FFFFFF">https://www.mindconnection.com </a></td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" id="table4" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <ul> <li> <p align="left">Let's red pill the masses! Send this link to a friend: <a href="https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enlarchives/2025/enl2026-01-04.htm"> https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enlarchives/2025/enl2026-01-04.htm</a></p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Please take the time to read, not merely scan. Enjoy over several days! This is not a light daily, it is packed with info and comes out only twice a month.</p> </li> </ul> <p align="left"><b><font color="#FF0000">Happy New Year!</font></b></p> <p align="left"><b>1. Good News: Where the Intel is Good</b></p> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" id="table7" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFCC" valign="top"><b>Political News?</b> <p>I have long considered myself to be apolitical. Yet, when I talk about subjects such as economics or crime, nearly everyone takes that as political commentary.</p> <p>I am against communism, which is a mental illness. We just underwent 4 agonizing years of Communist Occupation. It was during the Occupation that I began commenting in a way that many people consider political. I was surprised a few weeks ago when a friend referred to my newsletter as "your political newsletter" when stating it was one of only two subscriptions he actually reads.</p> <p>In my view, I am just reporting on the facts and naming both the villains and the heroes. But because the villains are "Democrats" and the heroes are MAGA and America Firsters, the impression I give off is that I am being political. That's not the impression I want to give. And I say that because when it gets political, facts fall by the wayside and propaganda gets spewed. If it turned out that the "Democrats" were not devoted to destroying our country, society, economy, military, etc., and making debt slaves of all of us while ignoring not only our civil rights but our human rights, I would seldom mention their party.</p> <p>Until such time as the "Democrats" free themselves from communist control, I will see the "demo" part as short for "demonic" because their behavior is, when objectively viewed, evil. They behave not rationally, but as if demon-possessed. And I will correctly report on their damaging communism.</p> <p>I'm not a big fan of the Republicans either. I used to call them Repugnocrats and Demopublicans. Most of them are RINOs who give not one whit about this republic. Until Trump actually won his second term most of them were talking trash about him. Now they wear MAGA hats and give lip service, but the leopard does not change its spots. Most are still the same uni-party criminals getting filthy rich through insider trading and accepting bribes.</p> <p>One big difference between the left and right wings of this uni-party is if you look at each of the past 40 years of spending increases, they are something like 80% from the Democrats. All of the huge policy failures have come from the Democrats. All of the wars in the past 120 years have come from the Democrats, with the sole exception being President-de-facto Cheney's Iraq War. But the Cheneys are neocon America-lasters and well-noted for their TDS. You can't really put that war in the Republican pocket. What about the first Gulf War? That was the only other war not actually started by a Democrat POTUS, but it was the result of Deep State meddling and the Deep State is run by the Democrats.</p> <p>So if I seem to be political, that's because all of the big failures are coming from a single source and that source operates politically.</p> <p>Full disclosure: Late last summer, I re-registered with the county election office as a Republican. I had been a registered Libertarian for decades. But the LP is irrelevant at the national level and I want to participate in Primaries. There's also the not inconsequential fact that only Republicans can defeat the communists. Neocons and ne'er do wells like Mitch McConnell no longer wield power in the GOP, so it is far less repugnant than before Trump 2.0.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p><b>Family Cat to the Rescue: </b> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xnI4M6W8bCc"> https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xnI4M6W8bCc</a>.</p> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" id="table8" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFCC" valign="top"> <ul> <li>It is going to be a Trumptastic year! So much has been done since Liberation Day, including trillions of dollars invested by other countries, to boost our economy instead of poison it.<br />  </li> <li>"The U.S. economy exploded at a 4.3% annualized growth rate in the third quarter, smashing economists’ 3.2% forecasts, a delayed Commerce Department report revealed Tuesday amid fallout from the recent government shutdown." [The Capitalist, 23DEC2025]<br />  </li> <li>The USA did not have a single hurricane in 2025. So much for Al Gore's dire warnings and the communists' effort during The Occupation to eliminate fossil fuels to "save the planet".<br />  </li> <li>Here's a marketplace that connects buyers to USA businesses: <a href="https://www.rivly.com/">https://www.rivly.com/</a><br />  </li> <li>Hakeem "Lying Moron" Jeffries gets called on his BS by an informed interviewer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixzmfP8utaU"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixzmfP8utaU</a>. On the left-wing CNBC!<br />  </li> <li>The People's Republic of California continues to address the perceived shortage of violent criminals by continually writing laws that make it safer for such criminals to rape and murder the innocent. One such law was recently struck down by the Ninth Circuit Court; it was a law banning open carry.<br />  </li> <li>It is worth noting that for decades the 9th Circuit Court was one of the worst around, if your case went there it would not be heard on the merits, case law, or statutory law. This court frequently sided with the Institute of Reprobates and Sociopaths despite the fact IRS had an indefensible case in those instances. President Trump fixed this in his first term by appointing to the 9th Circuit judges who do not deeply hate human beings and who actually respect our laws. The 9th Circuit Court has, since then, been a beacon of hope and justice.<br />  </li> <li>DHS released figures at the end of last year showing that the U.S. Coast Guard has seized more than 469,000 pounds of cocaine since Liberation Day.<br />  </li> <li>A recent Gallup Poll showed an astoundingly high 8% of conservatives trust the media. My theory here is they were just messing with Gallup. What a stupid question to ask a conservative. "Do you trust the lying, "always gets it wrong", anti-America, anti-thinking, anti-freedom, leftwing mouthpiece media?" The question is disrespectful, as it is no different from asking, "Are you profoundly stupid?"<br />  </li> <li>A recent Gallup Poll showed an astoundingly high 51% of Democrats trust the media. My theory here is they are profoundly stupid.</li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p align="left"><b>Testing A Planet-Saver</b></p> <p align="left">If some libtard expresses "green" virtue-signaling or support for stupid anti-fossil fuel policies, ask this simple question. "Do you drive a stick or an automatic?"</p> <p align="left">Why do this? In Europe, where the price of gasoline has been very high for decades, nearly everyone drives a car with a standard transmission. Here in the USA, where gasoline is a lot cheaper, the "standard" is an automatic. An automatic gives a smoother shift between gears and a smoother start from a dead stop, because of the torque converter that sits between the engine and the transmission. This torque converter slips a bit, while the manual gearbox doesn't slip at all. The only slippage you get with a standard transmission is what the driver produces in the way he releases the clutch. The torque converter slips all the time, not just during shifting. The fuel savings of a standard transmission is significant. But to get it, you sacrifice a little comfort (Europeans don't even notice this) and you have to (or get to, depending on your perspective) manually shift gears.</p> <p align="left">Of course, you can ask dozens of questions along this line and the typical "save the planet" libtard will have the wrong answer nearly every time. Here are a few:</p> <ul> <li> <p align="left">Do you combine trips?</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Do you use chemical fragrances?</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Do you buy processed food or Big Agra food (very high use of petroleum)?</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Do you use electric heat (very energy-wasting compared to gas)?</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Gas stove or electric?</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Do you have a top loading washer (inefficient) or a front loader?</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Do you hang your clothes up to dry, or do you dry them completely in the dryer?</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Have you replaced your incandescent lamp fixtures with LED fixtures or did you simply replace the lamp (bulb) with a retrofit?</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Where do you set your thermostat?</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Do you wear sweaters and such in the winter, or just crank the heat up?</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Do you use fans in the summer or rely totally on air conditioning?</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Do you take hot pans outside to cool off when your air conditioning is on?</p> </li> </ul> <p align="left"><b>Minnesota Mess</b></p> <ul> <li> <p align="left">Tim "Incredibly stupid" Walz is Governor. Still.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Misrepresentative Ilhan Omar, who frequently badmouths America has somehow gone from a negative net worth to having a net worth of over $30 million while in Congress.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Welfare fraud in Minnesota is now estimated to exceed $9 billion. That's 9 followed by 12 zeroes.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Just about all of that fraud has been committed by Somali immigrants, the very people whom Omar claims are the victims of racism.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Minnesota, also sometimes called Taxesota, is #11 in the list of states with the highest tax burden. It's even greater than that of "Taxachussetts"</p> </li> </ul> <p align="left"><b>The Fake Election of 2020</b></p> <p align="left">"Did Biden win Georgia? 2020 election results now in doubt after county admits counting perhaps 315,000 uncertified votes." [Electoral Defense Digest, Dec 2025].</p> <p align="left">Given the gross "irregularities", not to mention common sense, one must conclude that only the willfully stupid believe that Brainless Biden with his zero-attendance rallies won the 2020 election without massive cheating. Especially when there were verified reports of things like more Biden votes than residents in some counties.</p> <p align="left">Those of us who saw that preposterous fiction for what it was took a lot of abuse, some of it pretty vicious. And our nation was plunged into four dark years of the Communist Occupation. It was a time of violence, censorship, religious persecution, racism, and financial malfeasance at extremes not seen before in our history.</p> <p align="left">That election fraud should have been stopped by VP Mike Pence, who had the Constitutional authority to remand the election to the states. But Mike was afraid, and rightfully so, of having his life destroyed by the criminals who had already been doing terrible things to Justice Thomas, President Trump, and many others they didn't agree with. Pence took the cowardly way out, and the entire world paid a very steep price for that.</p> <p align="left">What is happening now that the communists don't have total control is investigations are moving forward. Many years too late, but better late than never. The practical effect is not readily apparent, because the massive damage has already been done and cannot be undone, and the millions who died as a result of this are simply gone.</p> <p align="left">But proving that election was false and doing that beyond a shadow of a doubt will show very clearly that election reform is badly needed. Part of election reform will be the ability to arrest fraudsters and put them away for a very long time. Much of this needs to be done before the midterms, this November. The commies are counting on stealing dozens of seats in Congress via fraud, and we know that because they blatantly lie about everything and heavily gas light those who are imprudent enough to expose their minds to mental pollution such as CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, and other fake news outlets.</p> <p align="left">What these fake news outlets do isn't protected by our First Amendment. They are involved in active sedition, libel, and slander; all of which are criminal acts. Part of election reform should, but probably will not, involve severe penalties for disseminating fake news about a political office seeker. What is happening instead is Citizen Trump is suing these a--holes for very large sums of money and thus inflicting nearly mortal wounds on their companies. As President Trump, he is gracious to the non-fake news even if he doesn't like their questions. And he is brutally honest with the fake news people that they are awful at their jobs. We all need to do the same. Let friends know that the Communist News Network is a sewer and the New York Times is a joke. It'll be like the "wearing white socks" thing, nobody will want to be associated with the ridicule. This will go a long way to preventing another Biden-geddon.</p> <p align="left"><b>Obamarama</b></p> <p align="left">The criminal going by the name "Barrack Hussein Obama" (even though he was adopted by Lolo Soetoro and did not legally change his name back to Obama) has been strongly implicated in several felonies related to the Russia Hoax of 2016. Tulsi Gabbard talks about it at a recent White House Briefing: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nko8kyu_kPc"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nko8kyu_kPc</a>.</p> <p align="left">How do we know she's telling the truth, aside from the fact "Obama" was a racist scumbag and communist operative who did immense damage to our country? Politifact, known for its leftwing bias, claims she's "misleading" people and MSN, known for being absurdly leftist, belittles her and the evidence she talks about. You cannot get a better endorsement if you are telling the truth!</p> <p align="left"><b>The Fake News Never Stops</b></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Trump detractors have to make sh** up because they can't find anything actually wrong. It is amazing how low they will stoop and how desperate they are. </span> Recently, a consumer of the fake news system told me, "They were really close to finding a cure for Alzheimer's but Trump cut the research funding."</p> <p>Notice the vagueness. "They" were really close. Notice the disrespect. Not "President Trump" but "Trump"</p> <ul> <li>I cracked a smile and replied, "Did you read that in the New York Times? Nobody is anywhere close to finding a cure for Alzheimer's. We know the major risk factors for it, one of those being the consumption of seed oils."</li> <li>He said that several people had told him this.</li> <li>I said it's all fake news, and just because people repeat it doesn't mean it is true. There's no cure on the horizon, these "researchers" were simply scamming the government for research dollars that would produce nothing.</li> <li>He then said he was sorry he brought it up.</li> <li>I told him it's good he brought it up.</li> <li>Then he said he has never heard anyone else express the view I expressed on this subject.</li> <li>I replied, "Which means you need to talk to more people, and get out of your echo chamber."</li> </ul> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Thank You, Elon</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">"Once Twitter/X was freed in 2023, the other platforms followed suit out of commercial necessity. Ironically, the only place where censorship remains fully in control is in corporate media itself. They’re still operating under the old rules." [Jeff Childers, Coffee & Covid, 29DEC2025].</p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"> </p> <h3 align="left">2. Product Highlight</h3> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="2" id="table1" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top">We are proud to offer the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B8TS14RX">Rocket Pen Reading Tutor</a>. Click the image for more info, such as videos. Highlights: <ul> <li>READING TUTOR: The only reading pen with learn-to-read functions, and we have six: spelling, syllabication (how the word is "built"), lookup of phrasal verbs, lookup of idiomatic expressions, colors for different dictionary fields, and it highlights words as it reads from scanned text. These combine to dramatically improve literacy and reading fluency.</li> <li>READER PEN: You scan, it reads aloud individual words and even multiple lines of text in natural voice. 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Brainpower tip</h3> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFCC" valign="top">Have you ever noticed that people who are especially stupid, such as that coworker who consistently gets things wrong, seem to be on some sort of autopilot? At the other end of the spectrum are those people who apparently never have any major problems, who can figure out just about anything, and who frequently come up with insights. Then there are the rest of us. <p>What's going on here?</p> <p>That person who seems to be on autopilot actually is. And this is what you must replace with deliberateness, which is also called mindfulness or intent. People aren't inherently mindful or not mindful. Mindfulness is a choice, notice again the words "deliberate" and "intent". Rather than passively letting things flow past you, choose to control those things. The more you do this, the more it will be your default mode. It's a habit that needs nurturing.</p> <p>A caveat here is there's a toe-dipping aspect, we can think of it as superficial mindfulness. Rather than give things no thought, you give them a little thought and then move on. It may seem like this is fine for things that are neither urgent nor important, but sometimes we overlook the contribution that mindfulness can make to little things that are often repeated.</p> <p>Consider, for example, how you organize a drawer in your kitchen. You access that drawer regularly, and holds things that you frequently use. But it also holds somewhat related things that you never use. The clutter inside the drawer is inefficient. By putting the few things you frequently use into a drawer bin (or putting all the other stuff into drawer bins), you end up with an efficient way of storing and accessing the things you really need.</p> <p>The benefits of mindfulness, of course, can be come from many other things than drawer organization.  If you were to deliberately think through each of your systems for doing things, you would make life easier and have more free time. But it's easier to just be on autopilot and live with the loss of time that comes from inefficiency. All of those little inefficiencies add up. If all of your life routines took 50% less time (this is more achievable than you might think), the effect could be the same as living an entire extra decade (depending on how old you are when you optimize and whether you continue to optimize).</p> <p>Practice mindfulness on your job, and watch what happens. The vast majority of people are on autopilot at work, which is a major reason something like 80% of people say they are not happy in their job. Be mindful, and your job happiness will increase exponentially. As will your prospects for promotion, plum assignments, greater pay, and being recruited by a better employer.</p> <p>Practice mindfulness in your marriage. Rather than reacting to what comes along, deliberately make some happiness. Look for something you can do to make your spouse happier, even if just a tiny bit happier. That will have a snowball effect.</p> <p>Practice mindfulness in adversity. This is where the benefits are often outsized. Whether it's a single small problem such as a needed fix-it or a major "life sucks" situation, deliberately putting your smarts to work on it can pay enormous dividends on even small efforts. Going on autopilot and reacting accordingly will often make matters worse.</p> <p>The more you practice mindfulness, the better you will be at it. Partly that's because when you are mindful you are exercising your mind and thus making it stronger. People who are on autopilot often seem hopelessly stupid, and that's because of the mental atrophy from not tapping their brainpower. They will have to start with really small efforts, and build up their strength. If such a person is important to you, provide encouragement by noticing they actually put a little thought into something and complimenting them on "using the ol' noggin".</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3 align="left"><br /> 4. Finance tip</h3> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td>In 1988, I bought an electric clothes dryer. I still have it. A few years ago, the drum seal failed. I replaced it. A few weeks ago, the drum drive belt broke. I bought another one at Lowe's (Home Depot does not have them in stock) and replaced it. I have a 28 inch dryer. The belts for the 27 inch and the 29 inch are 92 inches long and 1/4 inch wide. They cost $12.82 and $16.14, respectively. The difference is the one for the 29 inch dryer is stronger, so I installed that one. <p>Out of curiosity, I looked online to see how much a replacement would cost. It would be about $800. Copilot says a dryer should last between 12 and 18 years. Mine is now 36 years old. So I have saved about $1600 on dryer repairs by properly maintaining my dryer, properly using my dryer, and fixing it as needed (very cheap to fix).</p> <p><b>Volume</b></p> <p>And I do a lot of laundry for a single guy. I change bedding every week, change my mattress pad every month, and use cloth rags instead of paper towels. I wash bath towels, hand towels, and wash towels weekly. There are two and a half baths with towels. Plus a towel on my weight bench. When guests eat here, we use cloth napkins (which get washed). I have cloth dish towels, too. When it rains, the cat likes to go outside and then come in to be toweled dry. As soon as he's dry, he goes back outside. Then we repeat this a few times. Each time, he gets a fresh hand towel (one use on him, and in the hamper it goes). Sometimes, there is much more laundry than this. For example, when a guest visits from out of town. The extra bedding and towels, sure. But also they will typically wash everything they've packed. Plus I go through more cloth rags.</p> <p>Every year, I wash two canvas tarps, eight bedsheets, and two large (fold over three times when using them) garden covers. And I dry them in that dryer. The use of these keeps some plants well past Christmas, those being cabbages such as bok choy and kale.</p> <p><b>Maintenance</b></p> <ul> <li>Cleaning the lint trap is your first line of defense. I clean mine before and after each use. I also clean around the dyer. Sometimes I will unplug it, then remove the top and front panel so I can clean all the lint out of the inside (this is the main thing that will cause the motor to fail).</li> <li>Sometimes, dryer vent piping has to go around a sharp bend or two and then up. This means that lint will eventually build up in that pipe. Most lint is due to using high heat settings and/or using clothes made of polyester. How to fix this: Pull the dryer out and disconnect the dryer vent hose. Use an electric leaf blower to blow into the hose, forcing any lint to go out the vent. If you do not have such a blower, you could use the blow feature of your vacuum if it has one. To avoid having lint blow back over your face, stuff newspaper or similar into the first several inches of the vent, jamming it in there around the vacuum cleaner hose. Then, with the other end of the hose inserted into the blow port of your vacuum, turn the machine on and let it run for a full minute.</li> <li>Do not use your dryer top as a storage area. If you need storage, install a shelf or cabinet. Never stand or sit on your dryer (it is OK if the cat does it, that's not enough weight to hurt anything). Never use anything harsh to clean your dryer; an old sock that's been made damp should be sufficient.</li> <li>Ensure the ventilation for your dryer is not blocked. You will notice vents on the back, if you look at any new dryer on the showroom floor or pull yours out and look at the back. Heat from the drum will escape into the dryer body, which is where your motor is. Heat is the number one enemy of motors, and it's not so great for the other parts of your dryer either. Air must flow around your dryer. Ditto for your washing machine.</li> <li>Maybe once a month, wipe the drum down with a damp cloth or vacuum it.</li> <li>Ensure your dryer sits level. If you've bumped it and now it vibrates, see if you can jiggle it back to where it was. If not, you'll need to adjust one or more of the leveling feet. Use at least one bubble level when doing this. I like to use several magnetic levels (be careful, and they will not scratch the coating which may be paint, anodization, or enameling), each one on a different plane. Unlike the washer, the dryer is light so you can easily lift it. Leveling a washer is more challenging, I use small crowbars to do the heavy lifting.</li> </ul> <p><b>Usage Best Practices</b></p> <ul> <li>Use a front loading washing machine. This is the single best way to preserve your dryer, because it wrings out the excess water.</li> <li>Don't overload the dryer. It is better to do multiple small loads than one big load. If something is heavy with water, wring it out by hand. Try to avoid putting more than 15 lbs into the dryer at a time.</li> <li>Do not start and stop it frequently, doing so will burn up your motor. If you stop it, wait ten minutes before starting it again.<br />  </li> <li>Allow a good 30 minutes between dryer loads. This allows</li> <li>Don't use the high heat setting. It damages fabrics and also is hard on your dryer.</li> <li>Don't completely dry anything. I use a combo strategy of a small clothes drying rack, a large overhead rod, and one of those over the door hangers. I also hang things from my chinning bar and drape them over my Olympic bar; in those cases, I let the portable air cleaner blow dry them. I have another portable air cleaner that I set in front of the clothes rack.<br />  </li> <li>I hang damp bedsheets over my bedposts, then run the ceiling fan to finish drying them. Over time this will wear the varnish off those posts, but that is easily and cheaply repaired--something you can do when repairing the finish on moldings and on other bedroom furniture .</li> <li>If you have a portable air cleaner, use that for the final drying.</li> <li>Do not use fabric softener sheets. Those petrochemicals cannot be good for your dryer's finish, the conductor insulation (wiring), or your drive belt. If your clothes feel rough, reduce your detergent by half and if your washer has a fabric softener bin then add plain white vinegar there. Also, do not dry clothes fully or (as mentioned already) on high heat; these bad practices damage fibers, making them feel rough.<br />  </li> <li>Turn jeans inside out so the zippers don't scratch your drum.</li> <li>Use a delicates bag if drying bras, the hooks can destroy the drum finish.</li> <li>Don't put polyester in your dryer. It will "pill" and that's going to fill your lint trap. And it's going to cause your dryer to spew microplastics everywhere. In fact, don't put polyester it in your washer either; once it's dirty, throw it away and replace the item with a fabric that isn't so toxic and that won't melt into your skin due to a grease splatter or similar occurrence. Now, there is an exception. Microfiber is so tightly woven it doesn't behave like normal polyester. So go ahead and wash your microfiber lens cloths and cleaning cloths, but hang them to dry rather than put them in the dryer.</li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3 align="left"> </h3> <table align="center" border="0" id="table6" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top"> <h3 align="left">5. Security tip</h3> <p>Animals in the wild will typically try to intimidate the animals they feel threatened by rather than engage in a fight. Even housecats do this, they puff up their fur and hiss at the other cat. When threatened, humans (especially men) do this, also. Men will shout at each other, one will threaten to kill the other or say something to show bravery such as "Bring it." Or maybe he will wave a knife at the other person.</p> <p>On the surface, this sounds reasonable; scare off the attacker and avoid getting hurt. But it's legally called assault and it is a crime. Battery, a separate crime, is when things go beyond threatening and verbal attacks to a physical attack. If you do both, you can be charged for both.</p> <p><b>Better</b></p> <p>A much better approach, for those of us capable of doing it (and anyone can become capable), is to simply attack your opponent without the warm-up drama and without warning. You will not get charged for assault, even if you do get charged for battery. But your chances of getting caught are about nil, because you didn't spend time creating an audience via a drama show. You end what could have been a dangerous confrontation by surprising your opponent with quick delivery of excess force when they had expected a few minutes of idiotic battery first.</p> <p>I started using this approach when I was a little kid being bullied by other kids who were much larger than I was. They never saw it coming, and nobody else really heard or saw anything until the bully was running away or lying on the ground moaning. I used it in high school when a kid twice my size attacked me for wearing my Naval Junior ROTC uniform. He knocked my books out of my hands, and the next thing he knew he was flat on his back (I charged at him and lifted him at the knees, a classic wrestling takedown move). When I traveled all over the country on construction products, I would run into low-life deadbeat dads and other people who needed one of my lessons in why bullying isn't a good idea. They'd start blustering, and I'd hit them in something soft, such as the throat. Fight ended. In once instance, I interrupted an enraged football player who was beating his estranged girlfriend while her father lay on the ground with a broken arm. I just rushed up and tiger-clawed into his rib cage, something that is excessively painful to experience.</p> <p>Anyone can practice and become adept with two or three "go to" movements for disabling an attacker. If someone is a threat, let your actions speak for you. Don't say a word. Not only will you be physically safer, you will avoid being charged for assault and stand only the slimmest chance of being charged with battery.</p> <p><b>Best, if applicable</b></p> <p>An even better defense tactic may present itself. If someone is bellicose or threatening, simply stay calm. It is easy for me to do this, because I know what will happen if the other person tries to attack me. It is not easy for most people, but make the effort. Think of something nice and smile. Say something like, "Yep, I think I get where you're coming from. Tell me more about it." Now all of the sudden you have changed the dynamic. You're a friend. You want to listen. This usually brings the anger down several notches.</p> <p>I have used this tactic far more times than a quick and brutal assault. But it is not appropriate in all situations. Use your common sense and you'll be able to determine when to use this. It is always appropriate when dealing with an upset or scared police officer (the physical attack never is). It is not appropriate when (for example) the other person is closing in on your personal space or your odds of prevailing are not so good unless you hit first and hit really hard. If you feel scared and cannot get calm, your system is telling you something. Launch the attack.</p> <p><b>Return to the wild</b></p> <p>Back to those wild animals. A bear or a mountain lion is likely to make short work of you, even if you could whup just about any human. There simply is no contest. But they don't know that, and so your best option (if there is room enough between you and nobody is charging at you) is to puff up and make yourself look bigger. You make noise, but slightly retreat (not yelling, that escalates things). I did find this works with mountain lions, they just back off. I have never encountered a bear, but my cousin's boy did. A black bear charged at him, and his response was to calmly take aim with the one arrow he had and shoot the bear in the neck. The bear took a few more steps, then dropped dead.</p> <p><b>Dogs</b></p> <p>This blustering can also work with dogs; but keep in mind if a dog is defending his turf and you are on it such antics will just make him even more likely to come after you. There's a lot of conflicting advice on this, but my advice is don't turn and run. Here is how I have handled the few dogs that have come after me: Keep facing the dog, but back slowly away and speak calmly unless the dog lunges.</p> <p>Something else I have done with success, but that is risky, is to just squat down and talk to the dog like he's a puppy. "Good boy. Are you a good boy?" That's for a mildly aggressive dog, it won't work on a dog that is snarling or rushing at you.</p> <p>So only once have I had to hit a dog. He jumped at me and while he was in mid-flight I punched him in the nose. The force knocked him back and knocked him out. The soft tissue of his nose protected the bones of my hand, if I'd hit him in the teeth I would have been injured. The face is generally not a good target, but in this case it was all I had.</p> <p>Note also that dogs are naturally people pleasers. If a dog attacks you, it's either because you pose a threat due to raising your voice or doing something else to cause the threat response, or his "owner" is an abusive a--hole who should never have a dog (or a kid). The latter case is the most common. Either way, reporting the incident to the proper authorities is in the best interests of everyone. If you are uninjured because you acted per the above, your report should not end in a euthanasia action by the government (especially if you say the dog "threatened" you instead of "attacked" you). People have a right to walk in neighborhoods without being attacked, but when they are attacked it is almost certainly the "owner" who is at fault.</p> <p><b>Footwear</b></p> <p>Whether confronting aggressive humans or aggressive dogs, your odds of success are greatly diminished if you are wearing flip-flops. My fighting style relies heavily on footwork, and I always wear shoes that facilitate that. If you go around in flip-flops, maybe you should just dial 911 and wait 6 minutes for the cops to arrive. They can fill out a report and take you to the hospital.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" id="table2" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top"> <h3 align="left">6. Health tip/Fitness tips</h3> <table border="1" id="table5" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="239"> <p><img alt="" border="0" height="250" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20260103123426/97dce419ca4746fb896b6c9eadf910f9_Mark-1CroppedForeNL.jpg" width="300" /></p> <p align="center"><b>Age 65 in these pics</b></p> </td> <td valign="top"> <p align="left">See all of my climbing videos here: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/ClimbingSigChannel"> https://tinyurl.com/ClimbingSigChannel</a>. Some cool climbing  videos:</p> <ul> <li> <p align="left"><a href="https://youtu.be/s4G0ssyJ3hc">https://youtu.be/s4G0ssyJ3hc</a></p> </li> <li> <p align="left"><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/5919UDqCXDc">https://youtube.com/shorts/5919UDqCXDc</a></p> </li> <li> <p align="left"><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/jYvKJ9mKyyE">https://youtube.com/shorts/jYvKJ9mKyyE</a></p> </li> </ul> <p>My hardest climb ever, a 5.11d on lead: <a href="https://youtu.be/UT5h0heUUBc">https://youtu.be/UT5h0heUUBc</a> . I made a dumb mistake initially, letting the rope wrap over my shoulder. Watch what happens.</p> <p>The scale:</p> <ul> <li>Beginner: 5.6. 5.7. 5.8, 5.9  (roped) / VV, V0, V1, V2 (boulder)</li> <li>Intermediate: 5.10a, b, c, d ;5.11a, b, c, d  / V3, V4, V5, V6</li> <li>Advanced: 5.12a, b, c, d; 5.13a, b, c, d. / V7, V8, V9, V10.</li> <li>Elite and Pro: Even harder. Almost nobody climbs at either level at any of the 6 local climbing gyms.</li> </ul> <p> </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div align="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" id="table3" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="300"><img alt="" border="0" height="450" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20260103123426/20a97979bfdbad61a5a67a72d6f1ab6a_Mark2025-09-19.jpg" width="300" /></td> <td valign="top">Over the past few years, I have informally interviewed dozens of athletes about their training methods. Most of the interviewees are climbers, and that is so because that's convenient for me. I have found a variety of training methods used, but some common themes that simply do not vary. <p>First, I need to set the stage a bit. Climbing at the Intermediate or higher level is physically demanding. The posterior muscles are worked especially hard; this is in direct contrast to the typical gym routine which practically ignores these muscles. So climbers have a different emphasis:</p> <ul> <li>They almost never work arms, chest, or abs.</li> <li>They do a lot of squats.</li> <li>Most do not do the bodybuilder split routine (involves 4, 5, or 6 training days/wk). A common approach is two days per week for weight training--there's a leg-emphasized day and then a day primarily for the shoulders and the large muscles of the back. Climbers tend not to do a lot of sets, but do tend to go to failure.</li> </ul> <p>Bodybuilders, climbers, and other athletes are trying to do something unnatural with their training. If you look at old pictures, black and whites from a century ago, you do not see the modern athletic physique. That physique is the result of training in a specific way, one that is not natural. Which also means if you don't train for it, you won't get it. In other words, it is an enhanced physique and it does not happen by accident.</p> <p>Bodybuilders aim for symmetry plus size. Other athletes aim for balance plus strength. How is symmetry different from balance? In bodybuilding, each muscle group must be proportionate to every other muscle group. In Pumping Iron, Arnold said if he increased the size of one muscle, he would then have to increase the size of every other muscle or he'd lose his symmetry. Balance is typically a lateral thing. You want the left side of your back to be as strong as your right side, but your back doesn't have to be proportional to your legs.</p> <p>Both get vascularity because of the time spent in high metabolic stress. But bodybuilders will typically chase vascularity, while other athletes get is as a secondary result. You don't need big veins to climb, so you don't train for those. But the training that you do will enlarge your veins. Make sense? When you see the typical squat-free, count reps and stop at eight, "use poor form and excess weight" gym rat, the vascularity is missing. They exercise in the comfort zone, they don't push into high metabolic stress.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="300"><img alt="" border="0" height="400" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20260103123426/2cafae1ecaf397ee23afaf79cf69038c_2025-09-21ClimbingShotByJanetSmall.jpg" width="300" /></td> <td valign="top">Getting high metabolic stress is one requirement for hypertrophy (the other two are muscular damage and time under tension). Most athletes get into the high metabolic stress zone by engaging in big compound movements. These also train the nervous system, as they require coordination. But the main feature of these is the metabolic response. The massive calorie burn depletes the muscles of glycogen while simultaneously pushing the heart and lungs into the red zone. Doing supersets and/or taking hardly any rest between sets keeps the metabolic stress high. When you see gym rats walking around with a towel over their neck or texting between sets, you are seeing metabolic stress going away. Which is counterproductive to having a good training session. <p>One of my gym climbing buddies is also a rock climber. I have seen him do his Leg Day routine in the weight room of a local climbing gym.</p> <ul> <li>He does walking lunges using 40lb dumbbells. Once around the entire weight room, then from one wall to the other and back.</li> <li>Then he does calf raises while standing on something that allows him to dip his heels.</li> <li>Then he does another set of walking lunges using 25lb dumbbells.</li> <li>Calves again.</li> <li>Then he does a set of walking lunges with no weights at all.</li> </ul> <p>This doesn't seem like much, only 5 sets total. But try it and you'll understand just how well he jacks his metabolic stress through the roof. No rest between the walking lunges and the calf work, though he does sometimes pause for a few seconds during a walking lunge set. That is a huge amount of alternate leg squatting, none of which is particularly easy, so he gets intensity and volume in one go.</p> <p>He also is very in tune with his energy store. I once briefly disagreed with him about how long I was resting between multiple attempts on a V7. I said it was enough to get your heart rate back down. He said to give it another five minutes. I did that, and I proved myself wrong; I got my best attempt ever on that try. This is how climbers "argue," generally. Each states a position, then we test to see which position is correct. Nobody who has advanced in the sport has ever been stubborn about an opinion. As Cicero noted, "Anyone can make a mistake, but only an idiot persists in his error."<br />  </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="top">Of course, I am talking about opinion. This is something often confused with fact. If someone wants to argue with me about whether you should do squats, I'm outa there. Not going to waste my time. On the proven fundamentals, there is no room for argument. But, you need to be careful as to what is a proven fundamental and what is not. <p>For example, we can all agree that you must train your core muscles--including your abs. But what does this mean? A few years ago, I was talking with another climber about scaling back my ab work. He said he stopped doing separate ab work a long time ago. I asked him for his rationale. He said climbing is so core-intensive, your abs get plenty of work. That's one reason we climbers are known for our abs. Then he went on to say the only training he did outside of climbing was one day for upper body and one day for lower body and the squats alone sometimes meant he'd wake up the next day with sore abs. This is exactly in tune with what Shawn Phillips wrote in his book Absolution decades ago. Shawn was asked what exercises he does for his abs, and his reply was "All of them." That's profound, think about the implications. I am sure many people just did not get his point because they were fixated on their own opinion.</p> <p>Now, when my climbing buddy said "squats" he was not talking about dipping your butt down a few inches by barely bending your legs. He was talking about the kinds of squats that all serious athletes do, the kind that load your quads, glutes, and hamstrings until they practically scream.</p> <p>In my own case, I have not adopted the typical climber approach. I know many other climbers who have not, either. I started with the wheel, a gift from my grandpa, when I was a pre-teen. Then I dabbled with the Universal machine in the high school weight room until the spring of 1977 when I did more than just dabble with it. I did the recommended circuit on it almost every day after school. I have not missed a workout since. But I have changed how I work out. I moved to Kansas in 1996 and met a stunning beauty with very vascular arms. Of course, I started a conversation with her. She was a trainer, in the bodybuilding style with the split routine. No more circuit training for me. Over time I deviated from what she told me, doing things like radically slowing my tempo.</p> <p>A few years ago, I got back on the "regular plan" with a tune-up from a gold medal winning body builder. And since then, I have gotten both bigger and leaner. I don't intend to change my program to the climbing one, even if that means not optimizing for climbing. One of my climbing buddies is almost my age and very developed from years of body building training. When asked about this by a young climber why he wanted to carry around so much weight while on those walls, he replied, "There's more to life than climbing." Which is how I see it. If another climber thinks differently, that's fine; she or he is still going to be remarkably fit.</p> <p>One thing I won't do is downgrade my training to make it in line with what's recommended for seniors. Everything I do is deemed wrong by the "experts" who don't have the first clue about training. And you know what? I'm fine with that. They are parroting baseless opinion that they have been told, I am living the science that I have learned. And that science is confirmed by other athletes on a regular basis. It's also confirmed by actual experts, such as Dr. Rick Cohen of Pure Clean Performance, <a href="https://purecleanperformance.com/"> https://purecleanperformance.com/</a>. That's a free plug, just because this guy knows what he is talking about because it comes from a ton of research. It also helps that he, his wife, and their adult son are extreme athletes and they work with a lot of extreme athletes. Testing things at the extremes tends to cull the BS artists from those who are telling the truth.</p> <p>I hope this insight into how athletes train is helpful to you.</p> <p> </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p>At <a href="http://www.supplecity.com" target="_blank"> www.supplecity.com</a>, you'll find plenty of informative, authoritative articles on maintaining a lean, strong physique. It has nothing to do with long workouts or impossible to maintain diets. In fact:</p> <ul> <li>The best workouts are short and intense.</li> <li>A good diet contains far more flavors and satisfaction than the typical American diet.</li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3 align="left">7. Factoid</h3> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFCC" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal">Government "service" has long been a euphemism for "Where they send the incompetent people who are especially stupid and especially dishonest". It's very discouraging for the accomplished, honest people who take a government job and then have to deal with the morons and crooks who surround them. This has radically changed under the Trump administration.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3 align="left"> </h3> <h3 align="left">8. Thought for the Day</h3> <p class="MsoNormal">"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts." - Will Rogers</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p><b>Please forward this eNL to others.</b></p> <p> </p> <h4>Authorship</h4> The purpose of this publication is to inform and empower its readers (and save you money!). The views expressed in this e-newsletter are generally not shared by socialists or other brainwashed individuals. That's because those fools live in an alternate reality and have not bothered to learn the basics of how life works. They cannot do basic math, cannot apply logic, and cannot be bothered to learn the basic facts relevant to any topic that they are passionate about. <p> </p> <p>Except where noted, this e-newsletter is entirely the work of Mark Lamendola. Anything presented as fact can be independently verified. Where sources are not given, they are readily available to anyone who makes the effort. Mark provides information from either research or his own areas of established expertise. Sometimes, what appears to be a personal opinion is the only possibility when applying sound logic--reason it out before judging! (That said, some personal opinions do appear on occasion).</p> <p>Personal note from Mark: I value each and every one of you, and I hope that shows in the diligent effort I put into writing this e-newsletter. It is an act of service, almost no money is generated for me through this effort. Thank you for being a faithful reader. 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Mindconnection eNL 2025-12-21

Sat, 20 Dec 2025 16:27:00 GMT

<p> </p> <p> </p> <table align="center" border="0" width="90%"> <tbody> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table align="center" border="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="20%"><a href="https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enl/index.htm">Subscriptions</a><br /> <a href="https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enl/index.htm">Past issues</a></td> <td width="60%"> <h1>Mindconnection eNL, 2025-12-21</h1> </td> <td width="20%"> <p align="right"><a href="https://www.mindconnection.com">Home</a></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table align="center" border="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFCC"> <p align="left"><b>In this issue:</b><br /> Good News | Product Highlight | Brainpower | Finances | Security | Health/Fitness | Factoid | Thought 4 the Day</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table align="center" border="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#000000"><font color="#FFFFFF">Please forward this to others who might find it useful. If you have a social media acct (Facebook, etc.), please add our link: </font> <a href="https://www.mindconnection.com" style="color: #FFFFFF">https://www.mindconnection.com </a></td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" id="table4" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <ul> <li> <p align="left">Let's red pill the masses! Send this link to a friend: <a href="https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enlarchives/2025/enl2025-12-21.htm"> https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enlarchives/2025/enl2025-12-21.htm</a></p> </li> <li> <p align="left">Please take the time to read, not merely scan. Enjoy over several days! This is not a light daily, it is packed with info and comes out only twice a month.</p> </li> </ul> <p align="left"><b>1. Good News: Where the Intel is Good</b></p> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFCC" valign="top"> <ul> <li>" White House border czar Tom Homan said more than 60,000 children who were illegally smuggled into the United States have been located by the Trump administration and that some were rescued from dire situations, including sex trafficking and forced labor." [Epoch Times]. Homan actually said 62,000. Close enough.<br /> <br /> You would think, with the communists being so hateful toward Homan and his work in rescuing sex-trafficked kids, that rank and file Democrats would switch parties. The truth is that many big donors to the "Democrat" Party are the end customers of the human slave trade and sex traffickers. We know this for many reasons, including the fact the spectacular results during the first Trump administration were not even attempted under the Brainless administration.<br />  </li> <li>Jasmine "Yet to say anything intelligent" Crockett has announced her run for Senator from Texas. That should chew up a lot of Democrat campaign dollars, while ensuring the Republican stays in office. It's a lot harder to cheat in a Senate race, because there's no gerrymandering of a district and you have to face the entire state's electorate. Someone this momentously stupid stands no chance of winning a debate against even a person of moderate intellect, and her opponent is pretty sharp. Let's hope the commies fund her generously, which will mean draining funds from other commie candidates.<br />  </li> <li>The Trump administration negotiated critical minerals pacts with nations across three continents in 2025, a pace that will accelerate in 2026 as the United States and trading partners integrate mining and processing capacities to break free from China’s manipulation of global metals markets." [Epoch Times]. Such negotiations are impossible via autopen, thus they did not happen during the Brainless years.<br />  </li> <li>One of the greatest disasters in US history occurred in 2020. That was the year that blatantly obvious and obviously blatant election cheating overturned the actual election (83% of the mail-in votes that came in after the polls closed were for Brainless Biden). This installed a demented pervert in the White House, enabling government-by-autopen and launching the four years of the Communist Occupation. The cost of those four years exceeded the inflation-adjusted cost of the execution of World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War -- combined. By more than an order of magnitude.<br /> <br /> Now, less than a year after Liberation Day, the DOJ has been left no choice but to sue Fulton County, GA to get the voting records. If the "election" was "fair and honest," why has there been such fierce resistance to any sort of investigation? Why were so many people destroyed at the time for seeking the truth (and they are still trying to bury Guiliani)?</li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p><b>Federal Funds Rate</b></p> <p>The Federal Reserve (which is neither federal nor a reserve) dropped the federal funds rate by another quarter percent. This has several effects. It:</p> <ul> <li>Reduces the cost of capital for businesses, thus allowing them to both reduce debt and invest in growth (a little better). This is the effect the Fed, operating under a disproven theology, does not want. Many "economists" say it will fuel inflation. Well yes, the supply of money will grow a bit with this cut. But so will the basket of goods and services. It is when the government borrows and the Fed creates money out of thin air that you get inflation. Government does not produce goods or services, so there is no growth on that side of the equation. You get inflation, which is another word for currency debasement.<br />  </li> <li>Reduces inflation, by fueling growth in the basket of goods and services.<br />  </li> <li>Reduces the vast sum we spend on interest on the National Debt.<br />  </li> <li>Increases the amount of tax the federal government collects, because it increases the generation of wealth. This means surpluses instead of debts.<br />  </li> <li>Allows the federal government to pay down the National Debt that much faster. It's still a crawl, considering the size of that debt, but it's in the right direction.<br />  </li> <li>Reduces the ability of the Treasury to dupe people into buying bonds. But if there's no deficit, there's no need to sell bonds. The Trump administration keeps running monthly budget surpluses rather than monthly budget deficits (and that started even before rate cuts, which simply add to this positive effect).<br />  </li> </ul> <p><b>Fake News Held Accountable</b></p> <p>The British Bullsh-- Corporation (BBC) is facing a $10 billion (not million) lawsuit from Donald J. Trump for their fraudumentary (passed off as a "documentary") grossly mischaracterizing (via malicious editing) his January 6th remarks.</p> <ul> <li>If he wins, they will sling bullsh-- no more because they will go out of business. This will put other fake news organizations on notice.</li> <li>If they win, they still might not survive; compliance with discovery orders could cost more than they can borrow.  And, of course, the exposure of their unreliability is already shrinking their viewer base.</li> <li>What will likely happen is they will settle out of court for a smaller (but still substantial) amount and agree to massive changes including an editorial integrity oversight board, the firing of all employees associated with slandering DJT, and a series of public retractions, admissions, and apologies. That is, they will be broken and humiliated. This will also serve as a warning to other fake news outlets.</li> </ul> <p><b>Fake Judge Held Accountable</b></p> <p>"On December 18, a jury found Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan, 66, guilty of obstructing federal law enforcement for helping an illegal immigrant evade ICE agents inside a courthouse. The conviction carries a potential sentence of up to five years in prison." [Big League Politics].  This is a major breakthrough, as it puts judges on notice that it is Congress, not the Judiciary, that makes our laws and it is the Executive Branch, not the Judicial Branch, that is in charge of carrying them out.</p> <p>I noticed from Dugan's photo that she is an endocrine modifier consumer who now has metabolic syndrome. If she has not been diagnosed with adult onset diabetes or pre-diabetes, that is only from the lack of being examined for it. So if sentenced to five years in prison, she will likely go from there to an assisted living facility and then on to a nursing home to die of neglect and abuse. Or she may just die in prison. However, if she is very lucky the prison she goes to will rehabilitate her from her eating disorder and she will enjoy a decade or so of reasonably decent health before paying the price for her previous years of unhealthy behavior. But she'll never be a judge again.</p> <p><b>Public Medical Policy versus Public Health Policy</b></p> <ul> <li>Schools are closing due to outbreaks of the flu. Can somebody PLEASE connect the dots and end the stupid, pointless, harmful flu vaccine mandates? Flu shots are not intended to work (they are made based on the last virus in Australia not on what Americans would encounter), and --surprise surprise-- they don't. Flu shots are just a rip-off that enriches Big Pharma while reducing immunity in the injected. Flu shots are not just medically wrong, they are morally wrong. Be sure to mention this wherever these shots are offered.<br />  </li> <li>Making the giant leap of faith that vaccines stimulate the body to produce antigens to pathogens and thereby confer immunity (despite zero evidence since vaccines started), it still makes no sense to vaccinate newborns. The reason is they are coasting on their mother's immune system for their first two years, and it's not until after the age of two that their immune systems come online. That is, even if we accept by faith that vaccines do what the priests of the vaccine religion claim, they absolutely do not do that before age two. Thus vaccinations given prior to age two are 100% risk and 0% benefit. President Trump ordered a review of the USA vaccine schedule in relation to other countries. This seems like a weak action, but it is a huge first step. It starts the process of putting the health of Americans over the financial interests of the medical industry.<br />  </li> <li>Polio is often cited as “proof” vax works, but polio’s rise and fall corresponds with DDT’s rise and fall. There have been no outbreaks among the Amish. Vax “side” effects are horrific, thus Big Pharma got the 1986 product liability exemption law.<br />  </li> <li>Ten 2025 studies published in peer-reviewed journals show unvax’d are healthier than vax’d.<br />  </li> <li>Outbreaks of measles and pertussis occur in highly vax’d populations, disproportionately among the vax’d.<br />  </li> <li>There is no science, it’s “accept by faith” and that makes pro-vaccine a religion. Vaccine mandates violate the First Amendment, “The government shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion.”<br />  </li> <li>No pro-vax "expert" will debate Steve Kirsch, even for a $1 million fee. They must defend mere beliefs, while Kirsch has data. This alone is the klaxon that should have EVERYONE refusing EVERY vaccine.</li> </ul> <p>Public policy in the USA and in China is on trying to handle the financial implications of the disease and on trying to provide places to warehouse the victims. This, I do not understand. At all. In a world not run by psychopaths and retards, public policy would focus sharply on preventing the disease. That would begin with banning seed oils and vegetable oil from being sold for human consumption--these are, by far, the main drivers of Alzheimer's.</p> <p>Yet:</p> <ul> <li>Dr. Oz, who runs Medicare and Medicaid, recently sent out a well-intentioned newsletter that featured a recipe using vegetable oil. In fairness to him, Dr. Oz went to Medical School and is an MD; he did not go to Health School to become an HD.</li> <li>The Alzheimer's Association touts recipes using seed oils, which is why I do not donate to them even though my mother has AD.</li> <li>As with every other health issue, there is ZERO done to take even the first and obvious steps toward prevention.</li> </ul> <p>We could end or greatly mitigate:</p> <ul> <li>Esophageal cancer by banning their #1 cause: soft drinks.</li> <li>Osteoporosis not by advocating that people drink milk but by making it a felony to manufacture or distribute HFC or similar toxins</li> <li>Colon cancer by banning Crisco Oil and other forms of hydrogenated oil. And instead of advocating an invasive colonoscopy every other year, "health" insurance companies and "health" providers would issue rebates for eggplant (home grown or store bought) each month.</li> <li>At least twenty other illnesses by simply removing poisons from the food supply. This is far cheaper and more humane than what we are doing now.<br />  </li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><b>The Crux of Libtard "Reasoning"</b></p> <p>Everything in the libtardverse is consequence-free and somebody else's problem. Thus, libtards:</p> <ul> <li>Want wide-open borders yet balk at the idea of opening their homes to illegal immigrants. Or they oppose Trump's "No Samali's" immigration policy yet won't put their money where their mouth is. See this video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHyjOj1zwv0"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHyjOj1zwv0</a></li> <li>Embrace socialism as long as it's someone else who is impoverished by it.</li> <li>Oppose election-integrity reform because stolen elections hurt others, not them.</li> <li>Want wars, but don't send their kids to die on the battlefield. It's always someone else's kids.</li> <li>Claim that socialism (no reward for risk) and communism (no property rights) are good, but (at least the rich ones) amassed their wealth through capitalism and hoard it instead of giving to the poor (the giving is done mostly by poor and middle class church goers).</li> <li>Claim to hold the high moral ground, yet consistently treat others with gross disrespect.</li> <li>Tout their education (if they have one), but can never get their facts straight.</li> <li>Make fun of everyone else for being ignorant and brainwashed, yet faithfully read the New York Times.<br />  </li> </ul> <p><b>Excellent Response to Libtard Rant</b></p> <p>In her attack on Secretary Noem, LaMonica McIver asks Noem whether Trump is embarrassed by her (allegedly) poor performance of if this is the kind of incompetence he wants. Then McIver repeatedly insists it's a Yes or No question. Josh Bresheen's response to that is excellent. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVbOtQGiaQo"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVbOtQGiaQo</a>. McIver is the libtard Congressional Rep who physically attacked ICE agents.</p> <p><b>Libtard Worker "Protections"</b></p> <p>The minimum wage in four states will rise past $17/hr soon. Many other cities are seeing big hikes. This all sounds good on paper, but consider the consequences:</p> <ul> <li>Entry level jobs will disappear. To get work experience, young people will have to go the intern route. Which is unpaid. In libtard math, $0 is greater than $17. But in the real world, it means teens and recent grads will work for free or not at all. Way to go, libtards.</li> <li>It's estimated that roughly one third of small business owners make $15/hr or less and many exist below the poverty line. A small business that is a Subchapter C must pay a wage to the owner(s), and with this hike many businesses will become insolvent if the state requires salaries to be on par with hourly wages. Those business owners would lose everything. Way to go, libtards.</li> <li>Where states do not require salaries to be on par with wages, many hourly workers will get "promoted" to salaried and not get the pay increase. They will, however, be expected to work many extra hours for free to offset the additional hourly worker costs of the remaining hourly workers. We saw this with engineering jobs in the 1980s, the forty hour work week on an hourly rate became a sixty hour work week for the same pay but salaried. Way to go, libtards.</li> <li>Companies will shed full time workers, offering part-time replacements so they don't have to pay benefits. Way to go, libtards.</li> <li>Companies will replace employees with freelancers, who do not fall under this minimum wage edict. They also do not get benefits. Freelancers tend to live close to the poverty level. Way to go, libtards.</li> </ul> <p><b>Libtard Racism Guilt</b></p> <p>"Maryland will form a commission to study the possibility of providing reparations for slavery after the state’s legislature reversed Gov. Wes Moore’s veto." [Epoch Times].</p> <p>How incredibly ignorant.</p> <ol> <li>Reparations were already made to former slaves right after the War of Secession ended (and Maryland was a Union state, not one that seceded).</li> <li>The descendants of slaves have always had the choice of leaving the USA or staying here for the opportunities. The vast majority have stayed.</li> <li>Only the elite were slave owners, it was too costly for anyone else. Something like 98% of "white" people never owned slaves as of the Emancipation.</li> <li>The vast majority of "blacks" today either came here on their own volition (long after slavery ended) or are descendants of people who came here after slavery, so would not be owed reparations.</li> <li>The vast majority of "whites" today either came here on their own volition (long after slavery ended) or are descendants of people who came here after slavery, so would not owe reparations.</li> <li>People who call themselves black have disproportionately (by a very wide margin) been paid reparations over the past 60 years via government jobs they can't be fired from, SNAP and other welfare programs, subsidized housing, and favorable racial quotas for university admission, housing, and hiring. Even police give "blacks" more of a wide berth than they give non-blacks, due to the need to avoid the optics of appearing racist against blacks.</li> </ol> <p>How much more reparation do blacks need, and who is going to pay for that? What about other oppressed groups, such as people who have worked as wage slaves (80 hour weeks on a salary)? What about the Irish and Chinese who built our railroads? What about the Italians (including my own ancestors) who were worked to death in the Pennsylvania coal mines and in digging tunnels through the mountains?</p> <p>What about reparations for victims of the Covid scam, such as the 83% who were conned or coerced into getting the experimental mRNA shot that has ruined their health? Do the remaining 17% have to pay them? Or do we get reparations for the abuse we suffered for four years of mandates and near-mandates?</p> <p>Libtards never look at reality, never consider the key facts, never have a picture that is more than 10% complete, and never consider the implications of whatever scheme they are trying to push onto society. Libtardism is a mental illness characterized by nearly zero cognition. Because of this, libtards can never debate their positions (they always lose). Instead, they resort to violence just like wild animals. If not violence, then incitement to violence, bullying, intimidation, slander, and libel.</p> <p align="center"> </p> <h3 align="left">2. Product Highlight</h3> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="2" id="table1" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top">We are proud to offer the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B8TS14RX">Rocket Pen Reading Tutor</a>. Click the image for more info, such as videos. 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Comes ready to use, no setup needed, easily customized. 1.9 inch color touch screen; Physical buttons for screenless scan and read; Select English or Spanish user interface.</li> </ul> </td> <td align="left" valign="top"> <p align="center"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B8TS14RX"><img alt="Rocket Pen" height="295" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20251220112756/634482af4fd7ce2ef63de40e4d78a42e_619hizYHyUL._AC_SL1500_.jpg" width="300" /></a></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" height="23" valign="top"> <p>In <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?me=AVFHERP2L596L&merchant=AVFHERP2L596L"> our Amazon store</a> you will see more offerings, including:</p> <p><b>Disability Products:</b></p> <p><b>(We are the sole Amazon seller for these)</b></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F3N3P4ZY">BlindShell phones for the blind</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BGCWV67M">RealSAM Pocket</a>, which is a voice operated Galaxy smart phone for the blind</li> <li>SmartPens4U <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B8TS14RX">Rocket Pen Reading Tutor Scanning Pen</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BSHQRK9Z">Case Bundle Black </a>| Case Bundle Lavender</li> <li>WeWalk Smart Cane "Cane with a Brain" for the blind: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B095XFYK54">47-inch</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B095XJK5WH">54-inch</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B095XHH16C">59-inch</a></li> </ul> <p><b>Radios:</b></p> <ul> <li>Connex 10 meter radios</li> <li>Dosy meters</li> <li>Galaxy 10 meter and 11 meter (CB) radios</li> <li>President 10 and 11 meter radios</li> <li>Ranger 10 meter radios</li> <li>Texas Ranger radios (Chuck Norris not included, sorry)</li> <li>Uniden radios and scanners</li> </ul> <p><b>Tools:</b></p> <ul> <li>AEM instruments</li> <li>Bahco tools</li> <li>Case tools</li> <li>CAT tools</li> <li>CPS tools</li> <li>Irwin saw blades</li> <li>Mayes tools</li> <li>Rigid Tools work lights and related</li> <li>Vessel tools</li> <li>Wera tools</li> <li>Wiha tools</li> <li>Williams tools</li> </ul> <p><b>More:</b></p> <ul> <li>American Hard Bag aftermarket sound system parts for Harley Davidson motorcycles</li> <li>Centerpoint Archery devices</li> <li>Cold Steel knives</li> <li>Dead Downwind hunting products</li> <li>G5 hunting products</li> <li>Flexilla hose connectors</li> <li>Funko collectibles</li> <li>Mike Holt Electrical Exam Preparation products</li> <li>Nagy's aftermarket sound system parts for Harley Davidson motorcycles</li> <li>Paraben Consumer data recovery sticks, porn detection sticks, and similar diagnostic/ IT tools</li> <li>ROK straps</li> <li>Rostra universal cruise control kits</li> <li>Swhacker archery products</li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3 align="left"> </h3> <h3 align="left">3. Brainpower tip</h3> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFCC" valign="top">Recently, I wrote an article on defeating distraction. It was for a major trade magazine for electricians. Now, I'm not going to copy and pseudo-alter that article to present to you. That would be stealing, as I sell that magazine the rights as well as the material. <p>What I want to stress is the importance of recognizing distraction and dealing with it. Some people believe they can chit-chat and do good work at the same time. They are mistaken. Their lack of focus has a cost.</p> <p>What you need to do is think about distraction in general and how you can reduce it, specific distractions that you can eliminate, and circumstances in which you need to focus. The less your brainpower is diluted among different calls for it, the more brainpower you can bring to bear on whatever you are doing.</p> <p>I'm in three sports that require intense concentration, and my work requires intense concentration. I have also found that when speaking with someone, concentrating on that person instead of thinking of what to say next produces a satisfying conversation for at least that other person. Bill Clinton was a master of this, and people often gave him what he wanted because they felt he respected them. Which he did. And he showed that by focusing on them.</p> <p>You can't have 100% focus 100% of the time. So don't try. But make a point of focusing when you are doing something where work quality, safety, athletic performance, etc. are at stake. And always focus when communicating in a relationship. I don't mean necessarily in a romantic relationship. I mean in any relationship. Especially with a child or pet, because they look up to you and the message you send about whether they are important to you really matters to them.</p> <p>I see people walking their dog while yakking on their phone, as if the dog is not even there. I do not have to guess, such a person treats his wife, friends, and coworkers the same way. He can't focus on what matters, he tries to multi-task and thus fails in both tasks.</p> <p>To manage tasks, I schedule things in my Outlook Calendar. For those who don't know, Outlook became the standard corporate communication suite--with e-mail, scheduling, and contacts all in one program. It hugely advanced team collaboration for multiple reasons. I have been using it since before it took the corporate world by storm. Before Outlook, we MBA types and many others managed our activities with a Franklin Covey Day Planner. The point of any such tool is you schedule things into 15 minute slots. For those 15 minutes, you don't think about anything else. This was magnificent for productivity among those who adopted it.</p> <p>The alternative of trying to do everything at once is disorganized, inefficient, and error-producing. You might appear to be busier, but you are getting less done and what you do get done is less than it should be in terms of quality. That's the corrosive effect of distraction.</p> <p>Lasers are powerful because they focus light instead of diffuse it. Try laser focusing on one thing at a time, and you'll see how much more you get done in any given day.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3 align="left"><br /> 4. Finance tip</h3> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td>How would you like to double the size of your home, without increasing your property taxes, mortgage, or upkeep? And without having to deal with shady contractors, construction mess, and project cost? <p>Notice I said home, not house. Your home is the usable space within that house. I sat next to a Japanese CEO on a flight from somewhere to somewhere else, and we had an interesting conversation. He was the CEO of a major brand you would recognize.</p> <p>I asked him why he was flying coach. He said First Class doesn't get you there any sooner so why spend the money? At some point, he told me his house in Japan was 600 square feet. I said that is very tiny by our standards. He asked me how many square feet my bed was, and then asked me the square feet of this or that. "Add them all up. Not even close to 600 square feet." He said there is actually less space in an average American home than in his 600 square foot home, "...because you Americans fill your homes with stuff and there's no room left for you. So you buy bigger house and repeat the mistake."</p> <p>You can free up some space using creative storage means, such as lazy Susans and under-bed bins. But that goes only so far. The single most effective thing you can do is get rid of stuff. Look, for example, in your clothes closet. Do you see any items you almost never wear? Typically, this amounts to half of what's in there. Get rid of the half you hardly use. You can repeat this for floor space in your living room, counter and cupboard space in your kitchen, and so on. Old lamps, tables, chairs, book cases, and books you will likely never read again are all just taking up space; get rid of them. Knick knacks collect dust and detract from clean lines; do you do a nice little accent with a few, or is it time to get rid of all but a few? Your old cassette tapes, VHS tapes, and CDs you haven't played in years? Toss them.</p> <p>Some ways to get rid of stuff:</p> <ul> <li>If it is in good condition, offer it for sale on eBay so someone else can enjoy it.</li> <li>If it's in poor condition, toss it out.</li> <li>Keep a box for charity items, but only items that are in good condition. Charity organizations are not trash collectors.</li> <li>Give it to another person as a token of your friendship.</li> <li>If you have gloves that you don't wear, put them in your car and the next time you see a panhandler at an intersection, give them away. It might help to stuff a $5 bill inside.</li> </ul> <p>As you remove things that you don't get much use from, your home becomes visibly larger inside and you feel less cramped.</p> <p>What about consumables? The big things today are econosize and pouches. Yes, these save money. But they add to clutter and reduce the usable cupboard space in your kitchen. What I do:</p> <ul> <li>Use small glass bowls with plastic lids. You can find these at your supermarket or order from Amazon.</li> <li>From the larger container, fill a small bowl. Use masking tape and a permanent marker to quickly make a label. These will take up 1/5th the space and eliminate 100% of the mess.</li> <li>Zip the pouch shut, fold it over, and clip shut with a Bulldog clip (available at an office supply store, buy a bag of 10). Then store all of the pouches in a dry, dark place out of the way. For example, a cupboard in your laundry room.</li> <li>Refill the glass bowls as needed.</li> </ul> <p>Speaking of pouches, you can buy turmeric for about $1 a pound in a pouch. It's very messy to deal with, so spoon some out to fill a glass bowl as described above. Capsules are more convenient, but you have to pull the capsule apart to get the turmeric onto your food or into your recipe or you use the capsules as intended (swallow with water). Capsules are great if you don't mind paying $45 a pound for tumeric. I mind, so I get the pouch.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3 align="left"> </h3> <table align="center" border="0" id="table6" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top"> <h3 align="left">5. Security tip</h3> <p>Let's talk a little about phone scams.</p> <p>This is from Medicare: "Scammers are extra busy this time of year. They may pretend to be from Medicare or an insurance company to try to steal your personal information — or even enroll you in a plan without your knowledge. Remember, legitimate agents and brokers who represent Medicare plans need your permission before contacting you. If you get an unsolicited call, just hang up. Uninvited emails or texts? You can ignore those, too."</p> <p>Other common scams:</p> <ul> <li>Quick loans. These usually are unaffordable, but presented in ways that make them seem otherwise. The emphasis is on speed, and remember that speed kills.</li> <li>Buy your house. Yep, for way less than a decent Realtor could sell it for. The emphasis here is on no-hassle speed. Be prepared to lose at least half of what your house is actually worth.</li> <li>Extended car warranty, appliance warranty, home warranty. Total rip-off.</li> <li>Job offer from some company you never heard of. Unless the job is for a position for which you specifically applied (e.g., electrical engineer, 3rd grade teacher, yoga instructor, marketing exec), it's a scam. Any job offer for a job not related to your training and experience or that pays you "at the end of the season" is a scam. Package forwarding is a scam.<br />  </li> <li>Microsoft Support. Microsoft does not offer support. Even if they did, that would be a scam!</li> <li>Computer virus solution providers. They claim there's a virus on your computer and then will try to con you into installing malware.</li> <li>Burial insurance. A really dumb thing to buy.</li> <li>Burial plots. The vast majority of people who buy these later relocate and cannot sell them. It's a total loss.<br />  </li> <li>Health insurance. As I have noted many times, there is no such product. If you are interested in medical insurance, set aside some time to shop online for it. Better yet, practice health care so you don't need medical care in the first place. Note also that "pay with cash" gets you a much lower rate, often less than the insurance co-pay amount.</li> <li>Investments in gold, movie project, oil, bitcoin, etc. All flimflam scams.</li> <li>IRS protection. Nobody can protect you from these terrorists, except a very good tax attorney. And those folks don't need to drum up business by calling random strangers.</li> <li>The IRS itself calls you. Never speak directly with anyone from the IRS, they are phishing for information to use against you. Tell them to speak with your tax attorney and then hang up. If you do not have a tax attorney, IRS won't have that attorney's contact information or a valid POA. Which means they will make more phone attempts and finally follow up with a letter to you. Then, get a tax attorney and sign a POA. Don't try to save money here, IRS can go back to your very first job even if you are 79 years old today and assess you for taxes owed plus penalties and interest (yes, they have ways to disregard statutes of limitations). IRS even goes after pre-teens for not filing, even though they are not required to file. Always, always, always, have a tax attorney deal with them.<br />  </li> <li>Free X inspection. Someone will come out to, for example, inspect your roof. Then they will (surprise!) find out you need a new roof. Don't fall for the free inspection traps.</li> <li>Extended car warranty. It's a fake warranty, you pay and pay until you file a claim. Then they don't pay.</li> <li>Home alarm system installer. These often come with a free promotion. These are always a scam.</li> <li>Caller ID shows a name similar to one that you trust. For example, it's a call from Dscover but not from Discover. Do not even answer it.</li> </ul> <p>The sheer volume of spam calls has become punitive to just about all of us. How to protect yourself:</p> <ul> <li>Use NoMoRobo or similar.</li> <li>Use call blocking to block every spam number that calls you.</li> <li>Don't answer calls that are obviously from spammers.</li> <li>If you do get a spam call, either hang up right away or ask them to stop calling you.</li> <li>Don't agree to anything solicited by phone. Ask them for their website address, saying you'll look at it when you have time.</li> <li>If they say it's a one-time offer or phone exclusive, or use any other pressure tactic, tell them to eat your shorts. And then hang up. Or just hang up while they are still flapping their lips.</li> <li>Don't easily give out your phone number.</li> <li>Keep a whistle handy. If you get the same company pestering you, blow that whistle into the phone.</li> </ul> <p> </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" id="table2" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top"> <h3 align="left">6. Health tip/Fitness tips</h3> <table border="1" id="table5" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="239"> <p><img alt="" border="0" height="250" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20251220112756/97dce419ca4746fb896b6c9eadf910f9_Mark-1CroppedForeNL.jpg" width="300" /></p> <p align="center"><b>Age 65 in these pics</b></p> </td> <td valign="top"> <p align="left">See all of my climbing videos here: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/ClimbingSigChannel"> https://tinyurl.com/ClimbingSigChannel</a>. Some cool climbing  videos:</p> <ul> <li> <p align="left"><a href="https://youtu.be/s4G0ssyJ3hc">https://youtu.be/s4G0ssyJ3hc</a></p> </li> <li> <p align="left"><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/5919UDqCXDc">https://youtube.com/shorts/5919UDqCXDc</a></p> </li> <li> <p align="left"><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/jYvKJ9mKyyE">https://youtube.com/shorts/jYvKJ9mKyyE</a></p> </li> </ul> <p>My hardest climb ever, a 5.11d on lead: <a href="https://youtu.be/UT5h0heUUBc">https://youtu.be/UT5h0heUUBc</a> . I made a dumb mistake initially, letting the rope wrap over my shoulder. Watch what happens.</p> <p>The scale:</p> <ul> <li>Beginner: 5.6. 5.7. 5.8, 5.9  (roped) / VV, V0, V1, V2 (boulder)</li> <li>Intermediate: 5.10a, b, c, d ;5.11a, b, c, d  / V3, V4, V5, V6</li> <li>Advanced: 5.12a, b, c, d; 5.13a, b, c, d. / V7, V8, V9, V10.</li> <li>Elite and Pro: Even harder. Almost nobody climbs at either level at any of the 6 local climbing gyms.</li> </ul> <p> </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div align="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" id="table3" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="300"><img alt="" border="0" height="450" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20251220112756/20a97979bfdbad61a5a67a72d6f1ab6a_Mark2025-09-19.jpg" width="300" /></td> <td valign="top">Bad advice on diet continues to be rampant. Here are some things I have come across recently. <ul> <li>Some YouTube "doctor" claims that bananas are not a good source of potassium. However, it has been well-established that they are. People who reach their 60s with reduced kidney function have low potassium numbers. Their doctor says to eat a couple of bananas a day, and subsequent blood tests show normal potassium. Even if this were not so, bananas are a nutritional bonanza and a culinary delight.<br />  </li> <li>Another YouTube "doctor" is selling some supplement to treat constipation. He claims that fiber supplements don't help. This is actually correct, except in the case of people who have an ultra-low fiber diet. In my own case, I consciously try to reduce fiber where practical. Why is this? Because my diet is 100% whole-food based, therefore I get so much fiber it can be a problem. Rather than take some fiber supplement, the solution is to replace processed foods with real foods.<br />  </li> <li>In a recent conversation with friends, I found they were buying the seed oils lie. The lie is that these oils aren't harmful and when you "need" a neutral-tasting oil for a recipe you should use these oils. If the oils are extracted via cold-press with no hexane or heat to damage the lipids, you can consume these oils. But the cold-pressed versions are insanely expensive because cold pressing is an inefficient and wasteful way to get the oil out. Generally, you will need to choose a non-seed oil and adapt to the flavor. Avocado oil and walnut oil are a couple of options. Coconut oil is a good option. "Olive oil" isn't always olive oil; the cheap versions and the "mild flavor" versions are cut with oleic acid and should not be consumed.<br />  </li> <li>The "low carb" diet myth continues to plague us. If you are on a balanced whole food diet devoid of meat, wheat, corn, and soy, you are going to get carbs. You need those carbs to fuel workouts, fuel your brain, burn fat, etc. Rather than go "low carb" go "zero ultra-processed food" and zero "glyphosate contaminated food" and you will be fine.<br />  </li> <li>Another myth is the collagen myth. Collagen is just a type of protein and protein consists of amino acids. You don't need to take expensive collagen supplements and you don't need to pay for a bone broth tea powder. If you really want collagen, buy some soup bones and make a broth that you can add to rice, beans, or both.</li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="300"><img alt="" border="0" height="400" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20251220112756/2cafae1ecaf397ee23afaf79cf69038c_2025-09-21ClimbingShotByJanetSmall.jpg" width="300" /></td> <td valign="top"> <ul> <li>Multi-day fasting. This has never made any sense, and it puts a lot of stress on your body. It's hard on your kidneys, causes a loss of motility in the colon, retards workouts, retards recovery, etc. People report that they feel better after the first 24 hours, but what is happening is they are physiologically shutting down and thus entering a false euphoric state. Their physical and mental condition is actually getting worse. Some of the damage, for example to the bones, is permanent.<br />  </li> <li>Because multi-day fasting is a hard thing to sell to people who apply the smell test to the idea, intermittent fasting has been pushed as a good alternative. It's not. Instead of spreading your nutritional intake over the day, you jam it into a smaller time frame. While theoretically this will cause you to eat less by forcing you to skip meals, the same calorie reduction can be achieved through portion size reduction. Body builders and performance athletes have known this and proven this for decades. A huge downside of intermittent fasting (cramming meals into a smaller time frame) is to get adequate nutrition you overload your protein intake when you do finally eat. The body cannot store protein and can process only so much at a time. Excess protein gets converted into sugar, when then causes the pancreas to produce more insulin, which then causes testosterone to drop like a rock. Your kidney have to deal with excess byproducts of the conversion process, and the health ramifications of that are not minor.</li> </ul> <p>Some older gimmicks include these:</p> <ul> <li>Calorie-counting. This practice makes eating a chore, when it should be a pleasure. And it's totally unnecessary. I understand that Weight Watchers considers all fruits and veggies as zero points, and this underscores the point I just made. If your diet is >70% fruits and vegetables and you don't eat any junk, then by WW standards it is impossible to overeat. The other 30% might be things like beans, rice, sugar-free condiments, tea, coffee, and whole raw oats--which are not fruits or vegetables but won't make you fat.<br />  </li> <li>Low fat. This is achieved by replacing healthy fats with unhealthy sugars for taste, and modified food starch for texture. Products like Yoplait Fat-Free Yogurt are advertised as healthy, when actually they are poison. Many low-fat or fat-free "foods" are made with detergent in place of the fat, this really messes with your colon by dramatically reducing motility. If your belly bulges and you are eating low fat "foods", you are actually making matters worse.</li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="top"> <ul> <li>Salads. Why is it that your vegan friend who lives on mostly salads is so fat? Many salad consumers buy prepackaged salads in plastic containers, then douse them with a bottled dressing that is loaded with sugar, petrochemical products, and seed oil. The greens themselves are at the lower end of the nutritional scale (e.g., mostly iceberg lettuce) for a longer shelf life.<br />  </li> <li>Whole grain breads. So they mill the flour down until it's basically sugar. Then they add back the now sterilized, enzyme-free byproduct of this and call it "whole wheat". They bake the bread using hydrogenated oil, which causes colon cancer. If you want actual whole grain you're going to have to look at expensive products such as Ezekiel bread.<br />  </li> <li>Eat by color. This is one of the dumbest things anyone ever dreamed up. All it does is make people neurotic if they go this route. Allegedly, you can't eat white foods with brown foods or something like that.<br />  </li> <li>Eat by blood type. This is also a dumb idea that makes adopters of it neurotic. Blood types differ based on the presence of specific antigens on the surface of red blood cells. This has to do with immunity to pathogens, not some kind of interaction with specific foods. The folks who came up with this have an elaborate system that has zero basis in reality.<br />  </li> <li>Eat by ethnicity. According to this, you need to eat what your forbears traditionally ate for the past few centuries. So if you are German, you eat mostly cabbage and Italians eat mostly pasta. Humans do not evolve fast enough for anything like this to matter in any way. Eat whatever ethnicity of food you want. In fact, it's good to sample foods from other cultures and keep eating whatever you like from that culture as long as it's not highly-processed.<br />  </li> <li>"Eat margarine instead of butter". The false idea behind this is that the cholesterol in the butter will raise your blood cholesterol. The reality is that cholesterol is broken down in the stomach, so it never enters your blood. Margarine is made from seed oils, the damaged lipids if those cause abrasions and leaks in your blood vessels. The liver responds to that damage by secreting cholesterol. So if you want to avoid getting high cholesterol, then you need to eat butter instead of margarine.<br />  </li> <li>"Don't eat eggs". A similar concept as the idiocy behind eating margarine. Eggs are the perfect food. Many bodybuilders toss the yolk (or every other yolk) under the mistaken belief the yolk, because it contains cholesterol, is bad for you. The reality is they are tossing the most nutritious part of the egg, and the cholesterol breaks down into the building blocks of testosterone. Instead of spending big money on supplements that allegedly improve testosterone levels, bodybuilders need to just eat the whole egg.<br />  </li> <li>Paleo and other diets that eliminate entire categories of whole foods. Any diet that limits foods by category is a physically, socially, and psychologically damaging diet. The promoters of these stupid diets always come up with some semi-plausible explanation that does not stand up well under scrutiny. But you don't need to scrutinize the diet, the fact that it has the limitation in the first place means it's not a diet to adopt.<br /> <br /> The exception here is lacto-ovo vegan (vegans who still eat dairy and eggs), you can eliminate meat and be perfectly healthy. But if you go vegan or a variation thereof, don't freak out because a friend serves you meat or there are ham bits in a soup that someone is sharing. Your body can handle the little bit of glyphosate you get. If it's the animal-killing that bothers you, exactly how many animals have to die for you to eat the little bit of meat that's in that dish?</li> </ul> <p> </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p>At <a href="http://www.supplecity.com" target="_blank"> www.supplecity.com</a>, you'll find plenty of informative, authoritative articles on maintaining a lean, strong physique. It has nothing to do with long workouts or impossible to maintain diets. In fact:</p> <ul> <li>The best workouts are short and intense.</li> <li>A good diet contains far more flavors and satisfaction than the typical American diet.</li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3 align="left">7. Factoid</h3> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFCC" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal">We are taxed to the nth degree. Not so much the 1040 tax, but all the other taxes. You pay 121 different taxes on a single loaf of bread. We need less government waste, fewer city councils blowing taxpayer dollars on status symbols, and fewer nuisance fees.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3 align="left"> </h3> <h3 align="left">8. Thought for the Day</h3> <p class="MsoNormal">"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." - Ronald Reagan (1986)</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p><b>Please forward this eNL to others.</b></p> <p> </p> <h4>Authorship</h4> The purpose of this publication is to inform and empower its readers (and save you money!). The views expressed in this e-newsletter are generally not shared by socialists or other brainwashed individuals. That's because those fools live in an alternate reality and have not bothered to learn the basics of how life works. They cannot do basic math, cannot apply logic, and cannot be bothered to learn the basic facts relevant to any topic that they are passionate about. <p> </p> <p>Except where noted, this e-newsletter is entirely the work of Mark Lamendola. Anything presented as fact can be independently verified. Where sources are not given, they are readily available to anyone who makes the effort. Mark provides information from either research or his own areas of established expertise. Sometimes, what appears to be a personal opinion is the only possibility when applying sound logic--reason it out before judging! (That said, some personal opinions do appear on occasion).</p> <p>Personal note from Mark: I value each and every one of you, and I hope that shows in the diligent effort I put into writing this e-newsletter. It is an act of service, almost no money is generated for me through this effort. Thank you for being a faithful reader. Please pass this newsletter along to others.</p> <p> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <img src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/spacer_image/Brainpower///spacer.png" width="1" height="1" alt="" />