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<p> Unsubscribe Automatically: <br /><a href=""> </a><table align="center" border="0" width="98%"><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, 2026-11-01</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 | Finance | Security | Health/Fitness | Factoid | Thought for the Day</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#ccffff">Let's red pill the masses! Send this link to a friend: <a href="https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enlarchives/2025/enl2026-11-01.htm">https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enlarchives/2025/enl2026-11-01.htm</a> or put it in the comments in social media.</td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><ul></ul><p align="left"><b><font color="#ff0000">Here is something you can do to help every American:  <a href="https://www.vacsafety.org/help-expand-movement-oct2026/">https://www.vacsafety.org/help-expand-movement-oct2026/</a></font></b><p align="left"><br /><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"><ol><li>"President Donald Trump’s economy delivered another strong performance in the third quarter of 2026, with economic growth accelerating beyond economists’ expectations as American businesses ramped up investment and consumers continued spending." [Big League Politics, 29OCT]. And that's just the start of a much longer list of positive economic indicators. Brainless proved that communism doesn't work. Trump has proven that capitalism does.<br />  <li>"Initial jobless claims fell to 194,000 for the week ending Oct. 24—well below the consensus estimate—and are near the lowest level in 57 years, according to the Department of Labor. This also marked the sixth time in seven weeks that claims are below 200,000." [Epoch Times, 31OCT2026]<br />  <li>The President removed restrictions that were burdensome to small oil and gas producers in Kansas. Despite the fact their wells produced relatively little methane and make very small margins, they were saddled with unnecessary and costly methane-related regulations. When communists try to sway votes by pointing out the increased cost of gasoline, remember that this anti fossil fuel mania and their war in Ukraine are the causes. Not the war in Iran.<br />  <li>The national IQ test is being administered this Tuesday. Will a majority of Americans show no sign of intelligent life and hand Congress over to the communists? Or will the majority of Americans reject the lies, absurdities,  and criminality of the left and reduce the number of communists in Congress? You can't trust the polls, as we have seen. It's not a matter of comparing platforms to determine which one is better, that's like comparing "Would you like me to hire you for your dream job, or would you like him to  burn your house down with you in it?" It's a matter of determining how many counties have reasonable election integrity and how many absolute morons, illegal aliens, and dead people will get out and vote (they always vote "Democrat").<br />  <li>What's really going on in France: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOIVjFd_edM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOIVjFd_edMtop </a><br />  <li>At long last, the Palestinians have a Palestinian state. And it's not a tiny slice of Israel. It was formerly known as "France", which is significantly more. I guess because the Israelis defended their traditional homeland (they've been in Judea for thousands of years, thus they are called "Jews") and the Palestinians took over France instead--this is one more thing to blame the Jews for (if you're into blaming them for things that are not actually their fault).</ol><p><b>Crime Report</b><ol><li>A 25 percent decline in serious violent victimization, a 31 percent reduction in aggravated assaults, and a 30 percent drop in motor vehicle theft. This is what President Trump's DOJ has given us since Liberation Day. It may also help that President Trump is a law-abiding citizen, while Brainless and his Biden Crime Family were the polar opposite. Rampant government corruption is always accompanied by high crime rates in the private sector, so the reverse is probably true as well.<br />  <li>"The FBI has revealed staggering new figures from Minnesota’s sprawling fraud scandal, with federal investigators reporting 81 defendants charged, 70 convictions and more than $500 million in fraud connected to the Feeding Our Future investigation." [Big League Politics]<br />  <li>Top Ten Scams (from The Flyover): <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIAkj4ORvVI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIAkj4ORvVI</a><br />  <li>"This week, the Department of Justice announced indictments in a nationwide student aid fraud scheme known as Operation Ghostbusters. Criminals allegedly used stolen American identities to create fake college students, submit fraudulent FAFSA applications, and steal federal student aid, sending millions of dollars overseas to accomplices in Kenya. Investigators have identified more than 830,000 potentially fraudulent student aid accounts tied to nearly $130 million. The investigation has also uncovered more than $200 million in estimated fraud nationwide, with more than $750,000 in cryptocurrency." [Senator Roger Marshall, 30 Oct 2026]<li>"The Trump administration has uncovered more than $260 billion in fraud, prevented $72 billion in fraud, and brought enforcement actions against nearly $60 billion in fraud since January 2025." [Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, 30 OCT news conference in St. Cloud, MN]<br />  </ol><p><b>Scammer Meets Demise</b><p>Getty Images has filed for bankruptcy. Why is this good news?<p>For decades, Getty Images has run an extortion scam. They place hundreds of images online such that they show up in Google search. Not used in something, just bare images. They are bait for the scam.<p>The images bear a deliberately vague and barely visible copyright symbol in one margin of the image. When an unsuspecting small business owner (SBO) believes that image is in the public domain and uses it for some minor page on their site four clicks from the home page, Getty's scan bot finds that page and the process begins.<p>The first phase is to send the small business a payment demand. It's always between $800 and $5,000, with the upper figure being the upper limit before the scammee could justify hiring an attorney. The usual response is, "I am sorry, I didn't use your image for anything important, hardly anyone saw it, I didn't know it was copyrighted, and I have removed it." The usual response to that is a quick series of dunning letters from PicScout, stating simple removal does not cancel the debt and additional fees are accruing.<p>The second phase is "the case" gets handed off to Higbee and Associates, a "law firm" in name but an extortionist in reality. Higbee then tacks on another $500 to $1500 for "legal fees" even though the case is handled cookie-cutter style by a paralegal whose only job is to send intimidating letters to the SBO and to then take phone calls from the victim during which said paralegal runs an intimidation script. Not realizing that this firm would have to take them to federal court, which costs multiples of the invoice amount and takes years to conclude, something like half of the afflicted SBOs cave in at this point and pay them. In my own case, I ran into this scam and took things as far as the phone call with the paralegal. My BS detector maxxed out during that call, what a load of crap. But just to be sure, I invested in a session with an attorney through Just Answer (a great value, I have used them for other things). That attorney got my query because Just Answer gets dozens such queries each month. He confirmed it's a scam and said it would cost them more to collect on it than the amount they are demanding, and the whole scam relies on the 20% or so of victims who get intimidated into paying. They make enough money off that, they are not going to divert resources going after a bunch of $800 debts one at a time in federal court.<p>Getty has made a lot of money doing this. To see this parasite file for bankruptcy truly makes me smile.<p>It makes me smile even more to know the reason for their bankruptcy. Litigation! Those who live by the sword die by the sword. When a bully gets "owned", justice is served. I hope the shareholders dump the stock.<p><br /><b>Commies Conquering</b><br /> Sad news for the people of Brazil. Just as we were disenfranchised in 2000, they were disenfranchised in the previous election and the communists took control. When a challenger ran against the incumbent, they once again cheated to make the election fake and then came after the challenger to do to him what they did to the previous one. But he'd already made arrangements to flee to the USA and is safely here. It looks like President Trump may need to invade Brazil ala the Venezuela invasion, but we will see.If the commies there cooperate with us, we won't intervene just to free their people. But if they do what communist regimes typically do in regard to us, we are not going to let them get by with it.<ol></ol><p><br /><b>Commies Getting Burned</b><ol><li>Ilahn Omar, an illegal alien operating under an alias, is not having a good time. Barrack Obama, another illegal alien operating under an alias, is further up the criminal food chain and seemingly unaccountable due to his fake image of "being black" despite all the facts to the contrary. That facade might not crumble, but it could very well prove irrelevant because the old practice of manipulating "black" people into acceptance of being screwed over is losing its efficacy. After the chronic shafting in Chicago, being "black" now means standing up to communism and oppression more than it means pretending your oppressors are your friends. And that view is spreading, it's a "great awakening" and we free people welcome these folks to the fold.Both of these illegal, aliased aliens are communists. Both are millionaires despite having held no job other than "public service".<br /><br /> Both are pathological liars in very obvious ways. Both are Muslims. One is incestuous, the other is gay.<br />  <li>Elizabeth Moron has picked a fight with Antropic. This is great news! All Antropic has to do is use its abilities to unearth Moron's many insider trades and other crimes, then submit the info to the DOJ. One more mentally retarded scumbag removed from the Senate! Let's hope Bernie does the same thing and meets the same fate.</ol><p><b>Comments On Commies</b><ol><li>AOC (Airhead Of Course) supports the unfairness of allowing men to compete in women's sports. Her stated reason? "I'm a girl's girl." How anyone can vote for such a stupid individual is beyond me. I think that as part of high school civics, the stupidity problem needs to be part of the discussion of civic duty related to voting. If someone clearly not playing with a full deck, that is a disqualifier; that person lacks the cognitive ability to execute the responsibilities of public office and therefore voting for such a person is an irresponsible use of your vote. A misuse of your vote.<br />  <li>Being completely amoral, the communists (aka "Democrats") have long been the Party of Corruption, anti-Democracy, and rampant illegality. Through lying, cheating, and stealing, they have managed to disenfranchise the voters in all but 36 states. Most notably, they turned California into the People's Republic of California.<br /><br /> When I was growing up, California was a free state. Today, it is a communist hell-hole from which Americans have been fleeing for years. Now that may soon change.<br /><br /> Because the PRC is, in name, still part of the Union the inmates ("citizen") there still have their Constitutional rights (at least on paper). This means the DOJ can defend those rights. And right now, the DOJ is doing that aggressively. For example, they flagged over 20,000 voters suspected of being noncitizens (in 57 of the PRC's 58 counties). Considering that elections are often decided on a handful of votes, removing these fakes (which always vote "Democrat") from the voting rolls would remove from the arsenal of fraud a major weapon that the commies use against American citizens.<br /><br /> Of course, this doesn't stop the fake "emergency" poll closings wherein half a dozen polling places report a fire or other emergency and close while the Republican is ahead but then open later with the commie opponent having magically accumulated enough votes to win. But keep in mind they do that PLUS the fakes, and with so many fraudsters going to jail lately they may conclude this isn't the Biden Crime Era and the risk of getting caught is too high. Which could mean this is the year that we liberate California and restore to its people their Constitutional rights and their dignity.<br />  <li>Democrat politicians are, in general, very stupid (look at their leaders), which is why they lie, cheat, and steal instead of come up with something that would actually benefit the voters. If you are a "Democrat", I don't apologize for that but instead ask you to WAKE UP, get past the brainwashing, see the obvious, and connect the big dots. Stop associating yourself with people who behave so shamefully, who inflict so much damage, and who never give an honest accounting of anything. And who are too stupid to do anything useful. There is usually a gray area in any controversy, and usually saying things in absolute terms (using words like "never" and "always") is intellectually weak. But that is not the case here. Those absolute terms apply absolutely.<br /><br /> Well, you say, I like the Democrat values of X, Y, and Z. OK, fine. When is the last time the actions of the "Democrats" actually produced such outcomes? Even once? There is rhetoric, and there is reality. Don't be fooled by the rhetoric. If you really want to be a registered Democrat because some Republican behaved badly and you now see all of them as bad, then maybe you need to work very hard to reform your party from the inside. But if you attempt that, you can expect to be a target of the commie's retribution team; they will try to silence you by ruining your life. In the "Democrat" party, there is no room for healthy dissension or debate. You are either 100% marching to the band, or you are a target.<br /><br /> Finally, if you have formed your views based on what you see on TV or read in the papers, then get rid of the TV and unsubscribe from the papers. Getting "news" from these sources and expecting that you will make informed choices is like pouring water into your gas tank and expecting reasonable performance from your car. It aint gonna happen.</ol><ol></ol></td></tr><tr></tr></tbody></table>   <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"><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" arial","sans-serif"">Using the correct word has multiple benefits:</span><p data-path-to-node="4"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="4">1. Mental & Intellectual Clarity</b><ul data-path-to-node="5"><li><p data-path-to-node="5,0,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="5,0,0">You understand yourself better:</b> We think in words. Precise vocabulary leads to precise internal thoughts, sharper logic, and clearer self-reflection.<li><p data-path-to-node="5,1,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="5,1,0">Precision in decision-making:</b> When you can accurately label a problem, emotion, or situation, you can make better, more rational choices rather than acting on vague impressions.<li><p data-path-to-node="5,2,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="5,2,0">Disruption of "Cliché Speak":</b> The microsecond pause required to choose the exact right word forces your brain out of autopilot, keeping your thinking original, fresh, and active.<li><p data-path-to-node="5,3,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="5,3,0">Enhanced mental efficiency:</b> Finding the exact word eliminates the need for long-winded, rambling explanations, freeing up cognitive space for both you and your listener.</ul><p data-path-to-node="6"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="6">2. Interpersonal Communication & Precision</b><ul data-path-to-node="7"><li><p data-path-to-node="7,0,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="7,0,0">Immediate mutual understanding:</b> When speaking standard, precise English, listeners grasp your meaning immediately without needing to interpret, second-guess, or decode your message.<li><p data-path-to-node="7,1,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="7,1,0">Eradication of vagueness:</b> Clarity replaces confusion, preventing costly misunderstandings, miscommunications, and unintended conflict in personal and professional settings.<li><p data-path-to-node="7,2,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="7,2,0">Emotional accuracy:</b> Expressing exact nuances (e.g., distinguishing between being <i data-index-in-node="81" data-path-to-node="7,2,0">frustrated</i>, <i data-index-in-node="93" data-path-to-node="7,2,0">disappointed</i>, or <i data-index-in-node="110" data-path-to-node="7,2,0">exasperated</i>) ensures your true feelings and intentions are accurately conveyed.</ul><p data-path-to-node="8"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="8">3. Perception, Influence & Authority</b><ul data-path-to-node="9"><li><p data-path-to-node="9,0,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="9,0,0">Demonstrated intelligence and articulation:</b> Thoughtful word choice signals a well-trained mind and an respect for language.<li><p data-path-to-node="9,1,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="9,1,0">Inspiration of trust and confidence:</b> People naturally place greater faith in leaders, writers, and speakers who demonstrate mastery over what they say.<li><p data-path-to-node="9,2,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="9,2,0">Passing the "Shibboleth" test:</b> Well-read and discerning listeners subconsciously evaluate sources based on language precision; accurate word choice establishes instant credibility and authority.<li><p data-path-to-node="9,3,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="9,3,0">Protection against manipulation:</b> Understanding the exact definitions of words makes you far less susceptible to rhetoric, propaganda, or semantic shifting by others.</ul><p>Using the incorrect word has the opposite effect, but in many cases using the wrong word is deliberate. An extreme case is the widespread trans-hysteria in which millions of young people deliberately used the wrong pronouns for their sex. The less absurd misuses tend to pass the smell test and get employed in every day speech. Those misuses have an insidious effect of removing the above-named benefits. Archie Bunker was famous for using the wrong words, but he was more typical than people think. Long before Norman Lear created the Archie character, George Orwell used word misuse by manipulative villains in his dystopian novels. Most notably, the Ministry of Truth in 1984.<p>The goal of speaking (and of writing) is to clearly communicate an idea (or fact, opinion, position, question, etc.). To get to that point, you need clarity of thought. To think clearly, you must have already invested time in building a solid vocabulary. And that takes not just reading but deliberate study. An ersatz vocabulary built on the mispronounced words of others, cliches, similar but different words, and other "sand foundations" does not support clarity of thought. Why? Because we think in words. Use the wrong words, and the thought is wrong.<p>Some common misuses:<ul><li>"He stood behind the podium." This makes no sense. The typical podium is just a riser or small platform on a 2x4 base, essentially a small wall laid flat. Its purpose is to give the speaker a little elevation. Why would you stand behind it instead of on it? People who mean "lectern" instead of "podium" should say "lectern".<li>"I'm going to lay down." This is an incomplete sentence. Are you going to lay down arms, perhaps? Maybe you are too tired to finish the sentence. In that case, I suggest you lie down until you are rested and then try again.<li><p data-path-to-node="1,2,0">"10 items or less." A grocery store checkout sign that encourages mathematical illiteracy. You can count items individually, so you need "fewer," not "less." Use "less" only for mass nouns and continuous quantities, like less water or less time.<li><p data-path-to-node="1,3,0">"Are you inferring that I lied?" Speakers and writers imply; listeners and readers infer. The speaker hints at something; the audience deduces it. Mixing these up blurs the direction of communication entirely.<li><p data-path-to-node="1,4,0">"The team is comprised of ten members." The whole comprises the parts, and the parts compose the whole. Something can be <i data-index-in-node="121" data-path-to-node="1,4,0">composed of</i> parts, or it can <i data-index-in-node="150" data-path-to-node="1,4,0">comprise</i> them, but "comprised of" is a grammatical Frankenstein's monster.<li><p data-path-to-node="1,5,0">"He was completely disinterested in the presentation." If he was disinterested, he was impartial, neutral, and unbiased—ideal qualities for a judge. If he was just bored out of his mind, he was uninterested.<li><p data-path-to-node="1,6,0">"I feel nauseous." Unless you are emitting toxic fumes that induce vomiting in others, you mean you feel <i data-index-in-node="105" data-path-to-node="1,6,0">nauseated</i>. Nauseous means causing sickness; nauseated means suffering from it.<li><p data-path-to-node="1,7,0">"Irregardless of the outcome..." The prefix "ir-" means not, and the suffix "-less" means without. Put them together and you get "not without regard," which is the exact opposite of what you mean. The word is simply "regardless."</ul> Here are some that are more consequential: <ul><li><p data-path-to-node="1,0,0">"My loan has a 5% interest rate, so that is what it costs." Confusing interest rate with Annual Percentage Rate (APR) is an expensive mistake. The interest rate is merely the cost of borrowing the principal amount. The APR includes the interest rate <i data-index-in-node="250" data-path-to-node="1,0,0">plus</i> points, broker fees, closing costs, and other administrative charges expressed as a yearly rate. Comparing mortgages or auto loans based solely on interest rates rather than APR leads people to choose loans that actually cost thousands of dollars more.<li><p data-path-to-node="1,1,0">"The motor is overloaded because the voltage dropped." Voltage and current are related, but they are entirely different parameters. Voltage is the electrical pressure, while current (amperes) is the actual flow of charge. Dropping voltage in an AC induction motor causes the motor to draw more current to maintain its mechanical load, leading to overheating and winding failure. Treating voltage and current as interchangeable leads to misdiagnosing system faults and destroying equipment.<li><p data-path-to-node="1,2,0">"We need to kill all the bacteria to sanitize the surface." Sanitizing and sterilizing are not the same thing. Sanitizing reduces microorganisms to a safe level determined by public health standards. Sterilizing eliminates <i data-index-in-node="223" data-path-to-node="1,2,0">all</i> forms of microbial life, including bacterial spores. Confusing the two in healthcare, food service, or water treatment creates a false sense of security that can lead to widespread infection or contamination.<li><p data-path-to-node="1,3,0">"The contract says I am indemnified, so I am safe." People frequently confuse "indemnify" with "hold harmless" or assume it provides an absolute shield against liability. Indemnification means one party agrees to compensate the other for losses or damages incurred. It is a financial reimbursement mechanism, not an exemption from legal responsibility or duty of care. Believing an indemnity clause gives you carte blanche to ignore safety or compliance exposes you to devastating legal judgment.<li><p data-path-to-node="1,4,0">"The company earned $10 million in revenue, so it is highly profitable." Confusing revenue with profit (or cash flow) leads to completely flawed economic decisions. Revenue is top-line gross income before any expenses, taxes, interest, or cost of goods sold are deducted. A company can generate hundreds of millions in revenue and still be hemorrhaging cash toward bankruptcy. Evaluating financial health on revenue instead of net income or cash flow leads investors and managers off a cliff.</ul><p data-path-to-node="0">Here are six practical tips for building genuine word fluency:<ol><li><p data-path-to-node="1,0,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="1,0,0">Read challenging material with a dictionary at hand.</b> Reading light fiction or conversational prose won't expand your vocabulary. Read dense non-fiction, historical texts, classic literature, and technical publications. When you encounter an unfamiliar word, do not skip over it or infer a vague meaning from context. Stop, look up the precise definition, check its etymology, and note its exact nuances.<li><p data-path-to-node="1,1,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="1,1,0">Study root words, prefixes, and suffixes.</b> Etymology is the structure beneath vocabulary. Learning Latin and Greek roots (such as <i data-index-in-node="129" data-path-to-node="1,1,0">bene</i>, <i data-index-in-node="135" data-path-to-node="1,1,0">mal</i>, <i data-index-in-node="140" data-path-to-node="1,1,0">chron</i>, or <i data-index-in-node="150" data-path-to-node="1,1,0">path</i>) gives you a logical framework to decipher hundreds of unfamiliar words on sight and prevents you from misinterpreting similar-sounding terms.<li><p data-path-to-node="1,2,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="1,2,0">Practice active usage, not just passive recognition.</b> Recognizing a word when reading it is not fluency; using it correctly in speech and writing is. Once you learn a new word, force yourself to write three distinct sentences using it in proper context. Verbalize it. Until you manufacture sentences with it, it remains an unused tool in someone else's toolbox.<li><p data-path-to-node="1,3,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="1,3,0">Eliminate crutch words and placeholder terms.</b> Words like "thing," "stuff," "aspect," "very," and "basically" are intellectual junk food. They allow your brain to settle for lazy, approximate thoughts. Force yourself to identify the exact object, quality, or action you mean instead of relying on broad generalizations.<li><p data-path-to-node="1,4,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="1,4,0">Study words with similar but distinct meanings.</b> Fluency lives in the margins between synonyms. Make a habit of comparing closely related words—such as <i data-index-in-node="151" data-path-to-node="1,4,0">continuous</i> versus <i data-index-in-node="169" data-path-to-node="1,4,0">continual</i>, or <i data-index-in-node="183" data-path-to-node="1,4,0">effective</i> versus <i data-index-in-node="200" data-path-to-node="1,4,0">efficient</i>. Understanding why one fits where the other fails is what separates precise thinking from sloppy approximate speech.<li><p data-path-to-node="1,5,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="1,5,0">Write and edit deliberately.</b> Draft your thoughts, then review your writing specifically to audit your word choices. Ask yourself: Is this the exact word for what I mean, or did I choose it because it came to mind first? Replacing vague verbs and squishy nouns with precise terms sharpens both the prose and your underlying logic.</ol><h3 data-path-to-node="3"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="3">Bonus Tip: Don't Mistake Crossword Puzzles for Vocabulary Study</b></h3><p data-path-to-node="4">Many people assume that solving crossword puzzles is a shortcut to a rich vocabulary. It isn't. Crosswords exercise pattern recognition and trivia recall, not precise communication.<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Because constructors rely heavily on "crosswordese"—recycled filler words that fit tight grids—you end up recognizing answers simply because you’ve seen the same clue dozens of times in different publications. Furthermore, puzzle clues often rely on loose associations, forced puns, or strained definitions rather than exact meaning. Recognizing that a vague clue points to a specific grid-filler won't help you articulate a complex thought, structure a persuasive argument, or choose the precise word when it matters. Enjoy crosswords for the mental game they are, but look to deliberate reading and writing for true word fluency. And just to be clear, I am not disparaging crossword puzzles. I work them regularly and enjoy doing so. They just aren't vocabulary builders.</td></tr></tbody></table><h3 align="left"> </h3><h3 align="left">4. Finance tip</h3><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td>Now is a good time to check your door seals. In the winter, even a small leak can be expensive while reducing your comfort. It's still nice enough outside to be able to fix those seals (you need the door open to do that). Be sure you check not only the seals on the door jamb, but the door sill seal and any seal on the door itself.<br /><br /><b>How do you check them?</b><br /><br /> First, conduct a good visual inspection. Look for tears, missing pieces, and severe distortion. If you see any of these, you need to replace the seal.<br /> Second, wait for a cool nigh or morning (which we get this time of year). With the door shut, use an IR gun to detect the ingress of cool air from the outside. Then go outside and repeat the process to detect any heat escaping from the inside.<br /><br /><b>How do you replace them?</b><br /><br /> There's no universal seal, so no universal way to replace a seal. But follow these general tips if you are not sure how to even begin: <ul><li>Photograph the seal.<li>Note its location and apparent purpose.<li>Use a tape rule to measure the seal. Get its length, width, and depth. Note if it is flat or rounded.<li>Use an AI to identify the seal, if you don't know what it is or cannot find the same one at a home center.<li>Determine how the existing seal is attached. It it tacked or glued, for example?<li>Use an AI to give you the exact steps for removing the old seal and installing the new one. Prompt the AI with all the info you gathered.</ul><p>If you aren't afraid of this job, do it this way:<ul><li>Look at the seal.<li>Go to a home center and buy one just like it.<li>Take off the old one, do any needed cleanup, install the new one.<li>Test the door against the seal.</ul><p>Either way, repeat the IR gun testing on the next available day.</td></tr></tbody></table><h3 align="left"> </h3><h3 align="left">5. Security tip</h3><table align="center" border="0" id="table6" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top">The annual fall clock change is today (publication date of this issue is 01NOV). This ritual reminds me of the Covid jab: <ul><li>It offers zero benefit.<li>It creates significant harm.<li>Millions of people mindlessly go along with it when they could simply ignore it.<li>Millions of people are coerced into doing it.<li>It's inflicted on the populace by government edict.</ul><p>Essentially, the government is breaking into your home and robbing you. But instead of stealing your widescreen TV, they are stealing your sleep (which is costly in many ways). The effects of this reverberate for about six months until full recovery. Guess what happens in less than six months? Another clock change! Meanwhile, you are at significantly higher risk of injury due to severe sleep deprivation during the first three weeks after the change. Furthermore, unless you also change your mealtimes by one hour you throw your digestive system, adrenal system, and endocrine system off.<p>I've written about this topic and how to cope with the change so the health effects are much less (ease into the change gradually) or are at zero (don't do the change). Getting the government to stop abusing citizens this way is not feasible, because:<ul><li>One group wants to make Daylight Wasting Time permanent, but that is unhealthy also (works against our circadian rhythms) and people on the western edge of a time zone go to bed while the sun is up.<li>The other group wants to end the "make your clock lie about the time" thing entirely, and let businesses and individuals set their own hours.</ul><p>So I'm not going to advocate wasting your time lobbying government to stop the stupidity. And I'm not going to rehash how to protect your mental and physical health from it. My tip here is how to protect yourself from the sleep-deprived people who are mentally impaired due to being sleep-deprived from this cruel and stupid policy.<p>Eight tips for averting disaster during the first full month after the clock change:<ol><li>Be kind. If the checkout clerk seems slow or ditzy, just remember this person is temporarily impaired. Don't add negative energy to an already bad situation. This goes for all similar situations.<li>Be on high alert when driving. Stay off the phone, look through the windows of the cars around you (to see farther), and maintain a space bubble around your car.<br />  <li>If you typically pull backwards (nose in) into a parking spot, eliminate the extra hazard of backing into traffic by backing into the parking space (or pulling through from the other side), instead.<li>If walking city streets, stay off your phone. Stop before crossing, look both ways, and then continue; don't rely on impaired drivers to even see you, much less avoid hitting you.<br />  <li>On the job, have heightened diligence about potential dangers. This is the period in which we see a huge spike in industrial accidents, so conduct yourself accordingly.<li>Avoid taking unnecessary trips, the roads are much more dangerous.<br />  <li>If walking your dog, scan every intersection and driveway as you approach. If an occupied car is in a driveway, cross the street rather than walk behind it so that you put the width of the road between that impaired driver and your furry friend.<li>Allow extra driving time. With the increased accidents, you will encounter delays. Don't put yourself in the position where you might drive less safely to make up for lost time.</ol></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 tip</h3>   <div align="center"><img alt="" border="0" height="450" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20261031122515/79829cfb7af29955e780ca036eef2a82_Torso1.png" width="300" /><img alt="" border="0" height="450" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20261031122515/0c2fa4f722c82495670d2e367f4629ab_Arm1.png" width="300" /><img alt="" border="0" height="450" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20261031122515/fec821114dbdc919eb60b22ff498d7c0_Arm2.png" width="300" /><br /><br /><b>Age 66 in these photos</b><br /><br />   <div align="left"><h3 data-path-to-node="2"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="2">Muscles in a Bottle</b></h3><p data-path-to-node="3">Muscles in a Bottle. Is this real? Are some muscle building or testosterone supplements useless loads on your kidneys or are all of them that way?<p data-path-to-node="4">You tried the gym. Fancy machines and high membership fees. That didn't work. You tried Chair Tai Chi. Your spouse said, "I TOLD you that wouldn't work." You tried exercise tapes, running, speed walking, and every kind of exercise routine you could find. You even hired a trainer, and all you got was sore. What's the secret? One look at the ripped, bulky guy on the Andro bottle and it seems you have found it. But did you?<p data-path-to-node="5">It is easy to see the appeal. The fitness industry relies heavily on the promise of an effortless shortcut. When sweat, high gym dues, and sore muscles haven't produced the quick transformation promised on billboards, a sleek tub of powder or a bottle of capsules feels like the logical missing link. It promises to bypass the friction—to hand you the physical reward without the endless, exhausting trial and error.<p data-path-to-node="6">The marketing is brilliant because it targets a very real frustration: you put in the effort, but your body refused to change. The supplement label offers an easy explanation. It tells you that your hormones are sluggish, your recovery is broken, or your biological switches just need to be flipped by a proprietary blend of exotic herbs and concentrated extracts.<p data-path-to-node="7">We will cover the fundamental rules of human biology in a future installment. Let's now look at popular supplements that bring big profit to the people who slap a brand label on the bottle and promise you incredible results.<p data-path-to-node="9">Dr. Rick Cohen has spent decades testing both Olympic and professional athletes. He has been quoted many times saying, "Don't try to micromanage testosterone."<p data-path-to-node="10">The research shows that testosterone is primarily a marker—a gauge you can measure to see whether your lifestyle habits are correct. The body constantly strives for homeostasis, meaning if you attempt to artificially boost your levels with outside compounds, your endocrine system will simply downregulate other hormones or receptors to maintain stasis. In short, using testosterone boosters in the first place is a flawed strategy.<p data-path-to-node="11">But let's say you want to try that anyhow. Let me save you some money by breaking down what actually happens when you swallow these pills.<h4 data-path-to-node="12"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="12">1. The Herbal "Boosters" (Tribulus Terrestris, Fenugreek, and Horny Goat Weed)</b></h4><p data-path-to-node="13">These are the staple ingredients in almost every budget-to-mid-tier "T-booster" on the market.<ul data-path-to-node="14"><li><p data-path-to-node="14,0,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="14,0,0">The Pitch:</b> Ancient herbs that naturally ignite your body's hormone production and unleash youthful vigor.<li><p data-path-to-node="14,1,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="14,1,0">The Reality:</b> Extensive clinical research on healthy adults shows these extracts have zero measurable effect on total or free testosterone. While some (like Tribulus) were historically noted to alter hormone markers in test subjects receiving massive doses of exogenous anabolic steroids, in a normal, healthy body they are completely inert. What buyers usually experience is a mild placebo effect or a slight surge in libido driven by vascular dilation—not testosterone synthesis.</ul><h4 data-path-to-node="15"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="15">2. The Direct Precursors (DHEA and Andro Derivatives)</b></h4><ul data-path-to-node="16"><li><p data-path-to-node="16,0,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="16,0,0">The Pitch:</b> Supply the direct hormonal building blocks your body needs to manufacture more testosterone on demand.<li><p data-path-to-node="16,1,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="16,1,0">The Reality:</b> DHEA is an adrenal steroid hormone. While supplementing DHEA can show up on a blood panel, the human body does not blindly convert excess DHEA into pure testosterone just because you swallowed a capsule. In men, excess DHEA is frequently converted into estrogen through a process called aromatization. Instead of gaining dense muscle, you risk soft tissue retention and hormonal disruption—the exact opposite of your goal.</ul><h4 data-path-to-node="17"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="17">3. The Adaptogens (Tongkat Ali / Eurycoma Longifolia)</b></h4><ul data-path-to-node="18"><li><p data-path-to-node="18,0,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="18,0,0">The Pitch:</b> The rare herbal extract proven to unlock bound testosterone and send your levels soaring.<li><p data-path-to-node="18,1,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="18,1,0">The Reality:</b> Unlike Tribulus, Tongkat Ali actually has some legitimate clinical research behind it—specifically for individuals suffering from severe clinical hypogonadism or extreme chronic stress. However, if your endocrine system is already functioning normally, it will not force your body past its biological ceiling. More importantly, the market is flooded with low-grade or heavily diluted extracts wrapped in fancy "standardized" labels to justify $50 to $100 price tags for pennies' worth of raw material.</ul><p data-path-to-node="20">So now you know these supplements will not move you even an inch toward your goal post. What about muscle-building powders and amino acid tricks?<p data-path-to-node="21">If testosterone boosters are built on marketing hype, the protein and amino acid category is built on clever industrial accounting. Brands take basic metabolic facts, strip them of context, and sell you back pennies' worth of processing at a massive markup.<h4 data-path-to-node="22"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="22">1. Branched-Chain Amino Acids (BCAAs)</b></h4><ul data-path-to-node="23"><li><p data-path-to-node="23,0,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="23,0,0">The Pitch:</b> Sip these three essential amino acids (leucine, isoleucine, and valine) during your workout to ignite muscle protein synthesis and prevent muscle breakdown.<li><p data-path-to-node="23,1,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="23,1,0">The Reality:</b> Muscle protein synthesis requires all nine essential amino acids to build new tissue—not just three. Flooding your bloodstream with only BCAAs is like delivering a pile of bricks to a construction site without any mortar or workers. If you are eating sufficient whole-food protein throughout the day, your body already has a full pool of amino acids available. BCAAs add zero extra benefit; they are simply expensive, flavored water.</ul><h4 data-path-to-node="24"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="24">2. "Amino Spiking" (Nitrogen Bound Fillers)</b></h4><ul data-path-to-node="25"><li><p data-path-to-node="25,0,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="25,0,0">The Pitch:</b> High-protein tubs promising 25 to 30 grams of pure muscle-building protein per scoop.<li><p data-path-to-node="25,1,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="25,1,0">The Reality:</b> Standard laboratory testing measures protein content by testing for total nitrogen. Shrewd manufacturers exploit this by dumping cheap, non-essential amino acids (like glycine or taurine) or creatine into the tub. The lab test sees the nitrogen and counts it as complete protein, even though your body cannot use these cheap fillers to build muscle tissue. You end up paying full price for a tub's worth of diluted, low-quality filler.</ul><h4 data-path-to-node="26"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="26">3. Mass Gainers and "Anabolic" Shakes</b></h4><ul data-path-to-node="27"><li><p data-path-to-node="27,0,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="27,0,0">The Pitch:</b> Heavy-duty powders engineered to blast your body with the calories and nutrients required to pack on rapid, dense size immediately after your workout.<li><p data-path-to-node="27,1,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="27,1,0">The Reality:</b> Most mass gainers are little more than low-grade protein powder laced with massive quantities of maltodextrin—a rapidly digested carbohydrate with a glycemic index higher than table sugar. Beyond driving body fat storage, these massive glucose spikes trigger an enormous insulin response. High circulating insulin suppresses free testosterone and growth hormone production. Slamming a high-glycemic shake immediately after training drives your testosterone levels down to nearly zero, effectively wiping out the natural post-workout adaptive response that was the entire point of the session.</ul><h3 data-path-to-node="29"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="29">The Bottom Line</b></h3><p data-path-to-node="30">When you pull back the curtain on the supplement aisle, the pattern becomes clear. The products claiming to shortcut the hard work range from biologically inert herbs to clever laboratory tricks—and in many cases, like the post-workout insulin surge, they actively work <i data-index-in-node="270" data-path-to-node="30">against</i> your body's natural physiology.<p data-path-to-node="31">None of these tubs, pills, or extracts can force an adaptation that hasn't been earned through proper stimulus and recovery.<p data-path-to-node="32">In our next installment, we will leave the supplement aisle behind and look at the fundamental rules of whole-food nutrition—the actual fuel your body requires to build strength and thrive without burning a hole in your wallet or overloading your organs.</div></div>   <div align="center"> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><h3 align="left">7. Factoid</h3><p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" arial","sans-serif"">Under our bicameral system, the Senate represents the states and the House represents the people. This creates a natural tension and check/balance between two parties. Our Constitution recognizes three parties, as we can see from the 10th Amendment where the remaining powers (those not enumerated) remain with the states and the People. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" arial","sans-serif"">The commies want to abolish the Senate. Having a single legislative chamber is dangerous, because that natural tension is gone. Even with it, Congress tends to be a bunch of crooks captured by special interests thus prompting calls for members of Congress to wear the corporate logos of their sponsors just as NASCAR drivers do. See Twain's quote, below.</span></span><h3 align="left">8. Thought for the Day</h3> "There is no distinctly native American criminal class...save Congress." - Mark  Twain<br />   <p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal"> <p><b>Please forward this eNL to others.</b><h4>Authorship</h4> The purpose of this publication is to inform and empower you, the reader (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>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. Please pass this newsletter along to others.</td></tr></tbody></table>

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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"><ol><li>"<span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">The stock market has set 59 record highs since Trump 2.0 started." [Jeff Childers, Coffee & Covid, 23SEP2026]<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span><li></ol></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Inter; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family: " times new roman";color:#363737;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language: en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa">Congresswoman Delia Ramirez, a</span> communist in The People's Republic of Illinois, wants to dismantle DHS because ICE has been so effective at removing the illegal aliens who form a major part of their voting base.<br />   <ul><li>The communist lamestream media have been fixated on the President's barring three fake news outlets from being included in the very limited space of the White House. They are calling it a violation of the First Amendment, which is a patently stupid claim. This dishonesty on their part is further alienating them from their declining viewer base. Since they have no credibility among anyone but the extremely gullible, how can they possibly complain that this is costing them anything? And since they make up their BS regardless of what goes on in the White House or what the President says, how can they claim they being excluded in any way that means anything? Why don't they just lie about access as well and claim they totally have it?<br />  <li>"Combined with a record stock market, nearly full employment, steady GDP growth, and rising wages, the economic indicators are as strong as they could be without overheating. Gas prices are a continuing irritant, but even those, when adjusted for inflation, are still below Biden peaks. (Inflation, as we’ve noted before, is a hangover from Biden’s money-printing parties.)" [Jeff Childers, Coffee & Covid, 28SEP2026].<br />  <li>Massive $15 billion steel mill being constructed in Iowa, $100 million manufacturing plant being built (by Amazon) in Indiana (with wages well above the regional average). According to Elizabeth Moron, "Tru-ump" is running a disastrous economy. Yet, these two projects are not anomalies but are instead part of a series of record-breaking economic accomplishments. During the Communist Occupation, of which Elizabeth Moron is so proud, not even ONE such project was announced.<br />  <li>"President Trump canceled almost $1 billion in federal funding on Friday using the “pocket rescission” process, which allows him to sidestep congressional approval.<br /> The largest portion involved $567 million appropriated for the Department of Health and Human Services to provide social services to illegal immigrants, including through grants to non-government organizations.<br /> The funds were deemed to be no longer necessary because of the near-elimination of illegal border crossings in the past year.<br /> Other cuts aligned with Trump’s anti-DEI agenda, including sex-change procedure research, minority business development, and the Department of Justice’s Community Relations Services, which the White House said promoted identity-conscious law enforcement practices." [The Flyover, 27SEP2026]<br />  <li>Given that our annual deficit spending is $2 trillion (2 followed by 12 zeroes), cutting "only" $1 billion (1 followed by 9 zeroes) doesn't seem like much of an accomplishment. It's a reduction of about half a percent. But it is progress. That's a billion dollars we will not be paying interest on and that will not be inflating the money supply (debasing the dollar). If you add this to the spending reduced vis a vis DOGE, you have a noticeable dent. However, there is no way we can cut the entire $2 trillion of excess spending.<br /><br /> So what are we to do? We have to increase the other side of the balance sheet, that's what. President Trump has worked aggressively on that, for example by getting foreign companies to invest $18 trillion into USA manufacturing last year. That is $16 trillion more than our spending gap. As that continues to kick in, federal receipts continue to rise even with the OBBB tax cuts. In fact, the OBBB tax cuts removed one of the key constraints to economic growth so those will also cause federal receipts to rise. This is in stark contrast to what got us in this bad place to begin with: the four years of the Communist Occupation with its idiotically massive spending on leftwing stupidity (DEI, Green New Scam, etc.) and its severely depressing economic policies. We go from waste and shrinkage to stewardship and growth. THAT is how we will close the spending gap. But it's like a garden, you need time for the plants to grow, flower, and fruit. Vote against the commies this November so that can happen.<br />  <ol></ol><table><tr></tr></table> From Politibrawl (29SEP2026):<br /><br /> In Trump’s own words, these are his top achievements, and they all have one thing in common: Democrats would never have gotten them done.<br /> 1.    Most secure border ever — zero illegal aliens in 16 months.<br /> 2.    Laken Riley Act: remove dangerous criminal aliens.<br /> 3.    Largest murder-rate drop ever; lowest since 1900.<br /> 4.    Biggest tax cuts (Great Big Beautiful Bill): no tax on tips, overtime, or Social Security.<br /> 5.    $19.2T in new U.S. investment commitments.<br /> 6.    Historic tariffs: 50% on copper, aluminum, and steel; 25% on autos.<br /> 7.    Stock market: 80 all-time highs since the election.<br /> 8.    Record number of Americans working.<br /> 9.    Largest military investment: $1T this year, $1.5T next.<br /> 10.    Captured Venezuela’s Maduro (Op Absolute Resolve).<br /> 11.    Destroyed Iran’s nuclear enrichment (Ops Midnight Hammer & Epic Fury).<br /> 12.    Cartel strikes; fentanyl flow down 60%.<br /> 13.    MFN deals cut many Rx prices 300–600%.<br /> 14.    Ended Green New Deal; declared energy emergency; Drill, Baby, Drill.<br /> 15.    Ended EV mandate and auto regulations.<br /> 16.    Record exports; $2.5T in goods this year.<br /> 17.    Abolished DEI in the government and private sector.<br /> 18.    Banned men in women’s sports.<br /> 19.    Banned transgender ideology and CRT in schools.<br /> 20.    Trump Accounts: $1k tax-free for every newborn.<br /> 21.    Settled 8 wars (including Gaza) in the first 12 months.<br /> 22.    All hostages returned (living and deceased).<br /> 23.    Halted all refugee admissions.<br /> 24.    Deployed National Guard to D.C., Memphis, and New Orleans.<br /> 25.    Made English the official language.<br /><br /><br /><br />   <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"><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" arial","sans-serif"">I got an e-mail from a former Covid mask fanatic who "got all of my shots". Yes, he is a registered communist ("Democrat") with TDS, profound ignorance, and an unshakeable trust in his comrades in the lamestream media. He is clearly is not a critical thinker. In that email, he said, <i>“...modern medicine has increased our lifespans beyond the life of a normal body.”</i> While this is a good marketing message for the medical industry, it is not true.</span>   <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" arial","sans-serif"">You can find human lifespan timelines online if you search. What you will find is that the <b>average life expectancy was about 30–40 years for centuries</b>, but this number is misleading. It was driven almost entirely by <b>extremely high infant and child mortality</b>, not because adults routinely died at 30. Demographic analyses confirm that adults who survived childhood often lived into their 60s or beyond (Hollingsworth, <i>Population Studies</i>, 1977; Finlay, <i>Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine</i>, 2001).<br /><o:p></o:p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><br /><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" arial","sans-serif"">Then you will see a sharp rise in life expectancy beginning in the 19th century — <b>before</b> the advent of modern medicine. The rise correlates with improvements in <b>sanitation, clean water, waste removal, food safety, and public health systems</b>, not antibiotics or advanced surgery. Historical publicâhealth research shows that the “sanitation revolution” was the primary driver of mortality decline (Szreter, <i>Social History of Medicine</i>, 1988; Hardy, <i>British Medical Bulletin</i>, 1993). Water treatment and sewer systems alone account for massive reductions in infectiousâdisease mortality (Cutler & Miller, <i>Quarterly Journal of Economics</i>, 2005).</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><br /><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" arial","sans-serif"">Modern medicine is a factor, but its greatest effect is to extend our <b>disease span</b>, not our <b>health span</b>. You will live longer <i>with</i> an ailment due to palliative care and symptom suppression, but you will still fit into an average that has increased only marginally due to medicine. This distinction between lifespan and healthspan is wellâdocumented in populationâhealth research (Fries, <i>New England Journal of Medicine</i>, 1980).<o:p></o:p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" arial","sans-serif"">The one factor that has most increased the human lifespan is <b>capitalism</b>. Why? Because if you plot lifespan against income level, what clearly jumps out is that <b>poverty is the number one risk factor for early death</b>. Economic historians have shown that improvements in income, nutrition, and living conditions correlate strongly with mortality decline across regions and centuries (Fogel, <i>American Economic Review</i>, 1994; Floud et al., <i>The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure</i>, 2011).</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><br /><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" arial","sans-serif"">There are reasons for this beyond simply access to medical care — which, as noted, has only a marginal effect on average lifespan. For example, someone living in a food desert for 50 years will consume far more processed food than a wealthier person living down the street from Whole Foods in the suburbs. Economic development research consistently shows that <b>diet quality, environmental exposure, education, and chronic stress</b> are major determinants of health outcomes (Deaton, <i>Journal of Economic Literature</i>, 2003).</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><br /><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" arial","sans-serif"">While socialism redistributes wealth, <b>capitalism creates it</b>. More wealth means less poverty. Even the poorest decile of Americans are richer than the average person in most of the world’s countries. Wealth creation correlates with improved health outcomes and longer lifespans (Pritchett & Summers, <i>Journal of Human Resources</i>, 1996).<o:p></o:p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" arial","sans-serif"">We have more billionaires per capita than any other country and four times as many as the much more populous European Union. The EU is bureaucratic and not a friendly place for capitalism. The same analysis works with millionaires. Both of these groups create jobs for people, lifting “the poor” out of poverty. I put “the poor” in quotes because not all of the poor are lifted — but the correlation between national wealth creation and national health outcomes is unmistakable.</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><br /><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" arial","sans-serif"">I started out with this example to make a larger point about <b>brainpower</b>. Just because something is repeatedly asserted and on its surface has a ring of truth does not mean it is true. Con artists and their ilk rely on people making this very mistake. <i>“It sounds right”</i> does not mean <i>“it is right.”</i></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><br /><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" arial","sans-serif"">If someone says, <i>“A caused B,”</i> and there is no immediate reason to doubt that, should you accept the statement? No. Step back and look at the conclusion. Ask, <b>“What else may have caused this?”</b></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><br /><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" arial","sans-serif"">You have a working flush toilet in your home, I presume. You do not toss the contents of your chamber pot out the window into the street. You do not drink water drawn from a well next to where human and animal waste was buried. But it was not all that long ago these things were normal. And once they were no longer normal, lifespans began to rise — <b>before modern medicine arrived</b> (Szreter, 1988; Cutler & Miller, 2005).</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><br /><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" arial","sans-serif"">We can use another example. It’s a very famous one. During World War II, some islanders were astonished to see a large flying craft land on their island. It always brought food. After the war, the troops were gone and so no more planes. The islanders associated the plane with food (<i>A causes B</i>), because every time a plane landed they got more food. After getting quite hungry, they solved their hunger problem by building a “plane” from whatever plant matter they could round up. But no food materialized. Anthropologists call this a <b>cargo cult</b>, a textbook case of mistaking correlation for causation (Worsley, <i>The Trumpet Shall Sound</i>, 1957).</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><br /><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" arial","sans-serif"">A variant of <i>A caused B</i> is <i>“If A is true, then B is true.”</i> Someone states a true fact, and then tells you something else as if it is true just because the first was true. This is called a <b>nonâsequitur</b>. When someone spews this at me, I like to reply, <i>“There is water in the ocean. So you owe me five bucks.”</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><h3 align="left"><br />  </h3><style> </style><p align="left"> <ul></ul><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td><h3 align="left">4. Finance tip</h3> It used to be common practice to buy a "starter home" and then after a few years move into a bigger home.<br />   <p class="MsoPlainText">Today, I would advise against moving into a larger house. Starter homes are plenty big, if you use them as homes and not as warehouses.<p class="MsoPlainText"><br /> People accumulate crap and "need" more places to stow it. In my subdivision, about half of the home owners fill their garages with boxes of worthless detritus and leave their expensive vehicles parked in the driveway. Common sense says to do it the other way around, except you can't drive through the piles of crap. The solution is to live appropriately in the home you have. Else, you just pay more in property taxes, more to heat and cool, etc.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p><p class="MsoPlainText">A larger house doesn't necessarily mean more living space and typically it means even less. Because "more space to put unneeded crap" feeds the accumulation compulsion. If a house feels too crowded, my suggestion would be to move into a smaller one and make the necessary space.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p><p class="MsoPlainText">Rather than stretching for a larger home, people need to build a larger life. One not encumbered by a collection of excess stuff.</td></tr></tbody></table></ul><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> Ever hear of the package forwarding scam? It works like this.<br /><br /> A package arrives at your door, with the return address of some major brand. Maybe Casio. Inside it are a few products (for example, watches) and an invoice. On the invoice is a number to call, presumably Casio's.<br /><br /> If you call that number, you'll get some story about a "mistake". They ask you to use the return label in the box to send it back, thanking you for being so honest.<br /><br /> The reality is you never spoke to anyone at Casio. No company ships 5 units of something to a distributor, minimum order quantities are much larger than that. You're not returning these, you are forwarding them to the thief. Your address is in the middle to erase the trail. These were bought with five stolen credit cards and each sent to Victim #1. You are Victim #2. Victim #1 was "hired" to receive multiple orders, box them into one shipment, enclose the invoice and extra mailing label (mailing label B), and ship them with mailing label A to you. Victim #1 has a 60 day gig, "earning" $75 per processed shipment and getting one check at the end.<br /><br /> Victim #1 never gets that check. He does get investigated when the credit card fraud trail and his address start matching up. You might also be investigated.<br /><br /><b>Defense</b><br /><br /> If you receive a mystery package, don't call any number on any invoice. Instead, look the company up online and call them. Before calling them, do a lookup of any address inside that package and you'll see this is all fake. The company probably will not know what to do about this. But at least you have alerted them. The watches came from multiple ripped off small businesses, and you have no way of knowing who they are because Victim #1 removed that information from the products by repackaging them before sending them to you.<br /><br /> The best thing you can do is contact the carrier (e.g., UPS) and file a fraud complaint. UPS will know how to investigate this. You could try your local police department, but they will not know what to do except contact the carrier and hand over the package. So go to the carrier.<br /><br /> This particular criminal might not be stopped this time and these particular ripped off small businesses might not be made whole again. But you have taken the only possible step that can be taken to eventually stop these criminals from harming hard-working people, increasing prices for all of us, and engaging in other scams. You're helping to build a mosaic, or a spider web. Keep in mind that criminals are criminals because they are not very bright and have to resort to stealing instead of competing on the job market. They make a lot of mistakes. They eventually get caught. Help speed that up, and we are all better off.<br />  </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>   <div align="center"><img alt="" border="0" height="450" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20261003121857/79829cfb7af29955e780ca036eef2a82_Torso1.png" width="300" /><img alt="" border="0" height="450" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20261003121857/0c2fa4f722c82495670d2e367f4629ab_Arm1.png" width="300" /><img alt="" border="0" height="450" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20261003121857/fec821114dbdc919eb60b22ff498d7c0_Arm2.png" width="300" /><br /><br /><b>Age 66 in these photos</b></div>   <div align="center"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" id="table3" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="1" valign="top" width="300">  <h1 data-path-to-node="2" style="font-family: " google sans", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">Don't Fall for Fad Diet Falsehoods</h1><p data-path-to-node="3" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">Fad diets come and go, but the falsehoods promoted by them seem to stick to the literature like gum to the bottom of your shoe. Mostly, they demonize foods that are actually quite good for you. Let's look at a few of these.<h2 data-path-to-node="4" style="font-family: " google sans", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">Falsehood Number One: Don't Eat Root Vegetables</h2><div class="attachment-container search-images" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><response-element class="no-md" ng-version="0.0.0-PLACEHOLDER" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><single-image _nghost-ng-c3370409264="" class="spark-licensed-center-host luminous-layout ng-star-inserted" data-image-attachment-index="0" data-is-interactive="false" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"></single-image></response-element></div><p data-path-to-node="7" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">The "logic" behind this one is root vegetables entered the human diet too recently for them to be good for us. I eat these three root vegetables every day:<ul data-path-to-node="8" style="padding-inline-start: 32px; font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><li style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><p data-path-to-node="8,0,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="8,0,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">Beets (also the greens):</b> High in inorganic nitrates, which your body converts into nitric oxide to relax blood vessels, enhance circulation, and improve stamina. The leafy greens are loaded with vitamin K, vitamin A, and lutein to support eye health and bone density.<li style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><p data-path-to-node="8,1,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="8,1,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">Carrots:</b> Packed with beta-carotene (a powerful antioxidant precursor to vitamin A), which supports skin integrity, vision, and immune defense. They also provide soluble fiber that aids digestion and stabilizes glucose absorption.<li style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><p data-path-to-node="8,2,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="8,2,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">Sweet potatoes:</b> Rich in complex carbohydrates, potassium, manganese, and beta-carotene. They provide sustained energy releases and contain anti-inflammatory compounds that protect cellular structure.</ul><p data-path-to-node="9" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">And these root spices/alliums:<ul data-path-to-node="10" style="padding-inline-start: 32px; font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><li style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><p data-path-to-node="10,0,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="10,0,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">Onions:</b> Loaded with quercetin and organosulfur compounds that lower systemic inflammation, manage histamine response, and support vascular lining repair.<li style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><p data-path-to-node="10,1,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="10,1,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">Garlic:</b> Rich in allicin, a compound with demonstrated antimicrobial and antiviral properties that helps lower systemic blood pressure and improve overall arterial function.<li style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><p data-path-to-node="10,2,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="10,2,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">Turmeric:</b> Ground turmeric contains curcumin, a potent bioactive compound that targets metabolic inflammatory pathways, supports joint flexibility, and acts as a strong antioxidant.<li style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><p data-path-to-node="10,3,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="10,3,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">Ginger:</b> High in gingerols, which stimulate digestive enzymes, soothe gastrointestinal distress, and provide natural anti-inflammatory activity.</ul>   <div class="sequence-event ng-star-inserted" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><div class="sequence-event-content" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><div class="sequence-event-description gds-body-l" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><structured-node-sequence class="ng-star-inserted" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><structured-text class="ng-star-inserted" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"></structured-text></structured-node-sequence><structured-node-sequence class="ng-star-inserted" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><structured-text class="ng-star-inserted" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><h3 data-path-to-node="11" style="font-family: " google sans", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">More Root Vegetables to Consider</h3><ul data-path-to-node="12" style="padding-inline-start: 32px; font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><li style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><p data-path-to-node="12,0,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="12,0,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">Radishes & Daikon:</b> High in glucosinolates, sulfur-rich compounds that stimulate liver enzymes during cellular detoxification.<li style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><p data-path-to-node="12,1,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="12,1,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">Turnips & Rutabagas:</b> Cruciferous roots high in vitamin C, calcium, and glucosinolates that promote immune defense.<li style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><p data-path-to-node="12,2,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="12,2,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">Parsnips:</b> Rich in polyacetylenes, which possess anti-inflammatory and antifungal qualities alongside high concentrations of dietary fiber.</ul><h2 data-path-to-node="14" style="font-family: " google sans", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">Falsehood Number Two: Starchy Foods Are Bad for You</h2><div class="attachment-container search-images" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><response-element class="no-md" ng-version="0.0.0-PLACEHOLDER" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><single-image _nghost-ng-c3370409264="" class="spark-licensed-center-host luminous-layout ng-star-inserted" data-image-attachment-index="1" data-is-interactive="false" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"></single-image></response-element></div><p data-path-to-node="17" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">Another reason to not eat any kind of potato is they are "empty carbs". That is not true. Some potatoes are starchier than others, and the nutrient mix varies. But in general, potatoes have these benefits:<ul data-path-to-node="18" style="padding-inline-start: 32px; font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><li style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><p data-path-to-node="18,0,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="18,0,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">Potassium powerhouse:</b> A single medium potato contains more potassium than a banana, directly assisting cardiac rhythm and cellular fluid balance.<li style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><p data-path-to-node="18,1,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="18,1,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">Resistant starch:</b> When cooked and cooled (or eaten whole), potatoes yield resistant starch, a prebiotic fiber that feeds beneficial intestinal bacteria and improves insulin sensitivity.<li style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><p data-path-to-node="18,2,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="18,2,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">Micronutrient density:</b> Loaded with vitamin C, vitamin B6 (critical for neurotransmitter synthesis), and magnesium.</ul><h2 data-path-to-node="20" style="font-family: " google sans", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">Falsehood Number Three: Animal Fats Are Bad for You</h2><p data-path-to-node="21" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">Here are some animal fats I eat regularly:<ul data-path-to-node="22" style="padding-inline-start: 32px; font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><li style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><p data-path-to-node="22,0,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="22,0,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">Whole eggs (at least 10 per day):</b> Nature’s complete protein source, offering high concentrations of choline (essential for brain health and cell membranes), bioavailable lutein, zeaxanthin, and healthy saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids that serve as foundational building blocks for hormone production.<li style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><p data-path-to-node="22,1,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="22,1,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">Small fish:</b> Sardines, anchovies, and mackerel provide long-chain Omega-3 fatty acids (EPA and DHA) that reduce cardiovascular risk, alongside calcium and trace minerals from delicate, edible bones.<li style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><p data-path-to-node="22,2,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="22,2,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">"Amish" butter, milk, and yogurt:</b> <i data-index-in-node="34" data-path-to-node="22,2,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">(Grass-fed, barely pasteurized, non-homogenized)</i> Maintains natural fat-soluble vitamins (A, D3, K2) in their native structure. Vitamin K2 works synergistically to direct calcium away from arterial walls and straight into bone tissue, while intact fat globules slow digestion and promote satiety.</ul><h2 data-path-to-node="24" style="font-family: " google sans", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">Falsehood Number Four: Bananas Are Bad for You</h2><div class="attachment-container search-images" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><response-element class="no-md" ng-version="0.0.0-PLACEHOLDER" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><single-image _nghost-ng-c3370409264="" class="spark-licensed-center-host luminous-layout ng-star-inserted" data-image-attachment-index="2" data-is-interactive="false" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"></single-image></response-element></div><p data-path-to-node="27" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">"Bananas are a poor source of potassium and eating ripe bananas puts you at risk of getting diabetes." No to both lies. Yes, bananas contain natural fruit sugars, but a large one is only about 90 to 100 calories. You'd have to gorge on bananas constantly to drive negative health outcomes.<p data-path-to-node="28" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">I was visiting my mom and her husband about 15 years ago and I asked, "What's with all the bananas?" They had tested low for potassium on routine bloodwork, and their doctor told them to eat a couple of bananas each day and come back in a month or two. The next blood test? Normal potassium. Neither one of them gained so much as an ounce of body fat.<p data-path-to-node="29" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">I mentioned this to my buddy Brett, and he hit the nail on the head: <i data-index-in-node="69" data-path-to-node="29" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">"That fact is well-established. You would think these fakers would move on to some other lie."</i><p data-path-to-node="30" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="30" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">Benefits:</b><ul data-path-to-node="31" style="padding-inline-start: 32px; font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><li style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><p data-path-to-node="31,0,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="31,0,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">Accessible Potassium:</b> Delivers essential electrolytes directly into blood circulation to normalize blood pressure, fluid balance, and muscle contractions.<li style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><p data-path-to-node="31,1,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="31,1,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">Accessible Energy & Prebiotics:</b> Combines natural carbohydrates with dietary fiber and pectin, fueling cell function efficiently while nourishing gut flora and protecting the mucosal lining of the stomach.</ul><h2 data-path-to-node="33" style="font-family: " google sans", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">Falsehood Number Five: Plant Fats & Nuts Will Clog Your Arteries</h2><p data-path-to-node="34" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">This lie is based on the false notion that dietary fat isn't dismantled in your digestive tract (it is) and sticks immediately to your artery walls. The truth is these fats are good for your vascular system, central nervous system, and brain. Not only that, when used properly they transform a meal from tasting OK to being a great culinary experience. Benefits:<ul data-path-to-node="35" style="padding-inline-start: 32px; font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><li style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><p data-path-to-node="35,0,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="35,0,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">Monounsaturated Fatty Acids (Oleic Acid):</b> Primary fat source in olive oil and avocados that improves blood lipid profiles, lowers low-density lipoprotein (LDL) oxidation, and improves endothelial cell function.<li style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><p data-path-to-node="35,1,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="35,1,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">Fat-Soluble Nutrient Absorption:</b> Acts as a vital carrier medium allowing your digestive system to absorb fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E, and K) from fresh green vegetables.<li style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><p data-path-to-node="35,2,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="35,2,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;">Brain & Cellular Integrity:</b> Nuts and avocados supply natural vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol), polyphenols, and plant sterols that guard cell membranes throughout the nervous system against oxidative degradation.</ul><ul data-path-to-node="22" style="padding-inline-start: 32px; font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px margin-left: margin-right: !important;"></ul></structured-text></structured-node-sequence><br /><structured-node-sequence class="ng-star-inserted" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><structured-text class="ng-star-inserted" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><p> </structured-text></structured-node-sequence><structured-node-sequence class="ng-star-inserted" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><structured-text class="ng-star-inserted" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"> </structured-text></structured-node-sequence></div></div></div></td></tr><tr></tr><tr><td colspan="2" valign="top"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><h3 align="left">7. Factoid</h3><style> </style><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" arial","sans-serif"">Taxation comes in many forms. Most taxation is of the "hidden" type because people do not like being taxed. We also have a myriad of small taxes because, you guessed it, people do not like being taxed. Taxes are necessary, and not necessarily bad. They are bad when they are applied unfairly (I did not say equally), they assessed incorrectly with no recourse (as with IRS or most property tax authorities), collection is unduly harsh (as with IRS), and/or the collected taxes are squandered through fraud, waste, corruption, or incompetence.<br /><o:p></o:p></span><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFCC" valign="top"><p class="MsoNormal"></td></tr></tbody></table><h3 align="left"> </h3><h3 align="left">8. Thought for the Day</h3><p>"The only  difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin." - Mark  Twain<br /><br />  <p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal"> <p><b>Please forward this eNL to others.</b><h4>Authorship</h4><p>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>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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<p> Unsubscribe Automatically: <br /><a href=""> </a><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" dir="ltr" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><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, 2026-09-06</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/enl2026-09-06.htm">https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enlarchives/2025/enl2026-09-06.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"><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"><ol><li>Anthony Fauci's top advisor pleaded guilty in a Covid cover-up case. This is the opening we needed to start putting people in jail for this particular crime spree that destroyed thousands of churches, millions of businesses, and hundreds of millions of lives.<br />  <li>Heroic 16 year old lifeguard: <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/heroic-16-old-lifeguard-saved-164721500.html">https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/heroic-16-old-lifeguard-saved-164721500.html</a><br />  <li>Bad news for communists, good news for people who believe in democracy: SCOTUS has granted a stay against the election-fraud-maintaining orders from communist state judges barring the Executive from directing federal agencies to assist states with citizenship verification. That same order directs federal agencies to establish new standards for mail-in ballots moving through the U.S. Postal Service. Of course, the three commie judges dissented ("We just cannot have a democratic process, no, that simply won't do....").<br />  <li>By now, you have no doubt read about the massive oil deal with Venezuela.This will boost their economy dramatically, while also bringing down the cost of gas at the pump in the USA. Just in time for the elections, too. This is bad news for the Communist Party and its propaganda outlets such as the New York Slimes; these retards have been yammering about "Trump's endless war in Iran" and how it has allegedly made life unaffordable due to the cost of gasoline at the pump. They were oddly silent when gasoline prices were significantly higher than this during the Communist Occupation. As for "affordability," they keep defending the Unaffordable Care Act.<br />  <li>Yet again, the jobs report blew away all expectations. 162,000 new jobs in August versus the 56,000 predicted--that is 3X!<br />  <li>This entire year, the job predictions have been less or significantly less than the actual results. The experts are using a standard model, and their model assumes a standard economy. That is also why during the Brainless years the predictions were significantly greater than the actual results. The economic reality for middle class Americans during the Trump 2.0 era is a massive change from the massive inflation, massive layoffs, and massive bankruptcies that characterized the Brainless administration.<br />  <li>Also consider that these are real jobs related to wealth production, not excess government jobs created for no reason. In fact, the proportion of jobs that are government jobs has shrunk to an all-time low. That shrinkage is due to several factors, including the fact that technology can replace many "workers"--same as in the private sector. While communists and other mentally-challenged people see this as some kind of net loss, what happens in reality is (same as in the private sector) you get rid of the dross and keep the cream. Which means an agency isn't larded down with the weight of useless jobs and can focus on its mission instead of on useless reports, useless meetings, and useless activity.</ol><ol></ol></td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><b>Grow out of it!</b><br /><br /> The US Federal Debt recently surpassed $40 trillion. Secretary Bessent said we can grow our way out of that. I disagree, based on the fact we are running a $2 trillion deficit each year.<br /><br /> We will have to keep doing the dozens of things President Trump has done to grow the economy; it's a long list of very smart things that are working. But we will also need to do some belt-tightening: <ul><li>Keep eliminating waste, fraud, and corruption.<li>Reduce federal spending. The juiciest target is our "defense" budget. Which keeps growing and which dwarfs that of any other nation and most other nations combined.<li>Reduce government spending at the state, county, and municipal levels.</ul> We will also need to import young (under 35) professionals and tradespeople, fast-tracking them to citizenship. If you look at our demographics, you will see Generations Z, Alpha, and Beta are barely having any babies; that means a collapse of Ponzi-like systems such as Medicare and Social Security. They aren't Ponzi schemes, but they do rely on income from the workforce to keep them going. A smaller and/or less well-paid workforce means reduced taxes into those programs, thus the emphasis must be on skilled workers and others capable of earning a high salary. However, not all immigrants need to be in this category. If they can fill decent-paying jobs of people who graduate into the building trades (which now pay really well), the overall effect will be positive.<br /><br /> It's much more complicated than "we will grow our way out of this." Growth is only part of the solution. The communists invoked economic shrinkage, while also abetting waste, fraud, and corruption. On top of this, they imposed multiple layers of stupidity (DEI, Green New Scam, etc.). We will stand no chance of making any progress on debt reduction if the communists are able to seize power again.<br />  </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFCC" valign="top"><br />  </td></tr></tbody></table>   <p align="left"> <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 Rocket Pen Reading Tutor with <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B8TS14RX">blue case</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BSHQRK9Z">black case</a>, or <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FVBG83J6">lavender case</a>. <p><img alt="" border="0" height="393" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20260905114827/53467f139ffc7ae6b3b7f13610239476_RocketPenComparisonChart2026-04.jpg" width="580" /></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p align="center"> <p align="center"> <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/20260905114827/634482af4fd7ce2ef63de40e4d78a42e_619hizYHyUL._AC_SL1500_.jpg" width="300" /></a><p align="center"><img alt="" border="0" height="300" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20260905114827/61cbd55dacf1e434d2127a49f0c6a972_BoyScanningTablet.jpg" width="300" /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td align="left" height="23" valign="top">Highlights: <ul><li>LIFE-CHANGING: The Rocket Pen will help your child read independently in just days. This is the reading pen most often chosen by teachers and recommended for dyslexia support.<li>6-IN-1 READING TUTOR SYSTEM: Go beyond basic text-to-speech with spelling, syllabication (Orton-Gillingham inspired), phrasal verb lookup, idiom definitions, color-coded dictionary fields, and real-time word highlighting—designed to improve decoding, comprehension, and fluency.<br />  <li><b>READS ANY SURFACE</b>. Scans what you actually read from: phone, tablet, PC, other screens - not just paper. We could not find a single other reading pen that can do this. But the Rocket Pen can.<br />  <li>READER PEN: You scan, it reads aloud individual words and even multiple lines of text in natural voice. Helps those with dyslexia or other reading-challenges gain reading independence. Earbuds automatically mute the built-in speaker to avoid classroom stigma. Select different voices for playback, lefthand or righthand use, left or right scan direction.<li>REALLY BIG DICTIONARIES: A reader pen's word recognition capability depends on the depth of its onboard dictionary references. The Rocket Pen has the New Oxford American Dictionary with over twice the entries of the best competing reading pens, plus the Oxford American Children’s Dictionary. It also has the Oxford Thesaurus of English and Oxford American Children’s Thesaurus. All of these are Americanized. The Rocket Pen scans English and French only, but contains an English to Spanish dictionary and a French definitions dictionary (French to French).<li>COMES COMPLETE. Self-contained, no computer, tablet, phone, or Wi-Fi required. Kit includes Rocket Pen reading tutor, USB charging cable, Quick Start Guide, earphones, and case. Meets FCC, ROHS, and CE standards, and conquers illiteracy.<li>BACKED BY EXPERIENCE. The lead developers of the Rocket Pen Reading Tutor each have over 25 years of experience in reading assistive devices, and yet the Rocket Pen is the newest and most advanced reading pen on the market. And the only one with reading tutor functions</ul><p> <p>In <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?me=AVFHERP2L596L&merchant=AVFHERP2L596L">our Amazon store</a> you will see more offerings, including:<p><b>Disability Products:</b><p><b>(We are the sole Amazon seller for these)</b><ul><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F3N3P4ZY">BlindShell phones for the blind</a><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BGCWV67M">RealSAM Pocket</a>, which is a voice operated Galaxy smart phone for the blind<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></ul><p><b>Tools:</b><ul><li>AEM instruments<li>Bahco tools<li>Case tools<li>CAT tools<li>CPS tools<li>Irwin saw blades<li>Mayes tools<li>Rigid Tools work lights and related<li>Vessel tools<li>Wera tools<li>Wiha tools<li>Williams tools</ul><p><b>More:</b><ul><li>American Hard Bag aftermarket sound system parts for Harley Davidson motorcycles<li>Centerpoint Archery devices<li>Cold Steel knives<li>Dead Downwind hunting products<li>G5 hunting products<li>Flexilla hose connectors<li>Funko collectibles<li>Liberty Monitors hidden camera gadgets<li>Mike Holt Electrical Exam Preparation products<li>Nagy's aftermarket sound system parts for Harley Davidson motorcycles<li>Paraben Consumer data recovery sticks, porn detection sticks, and similar diagnostic/ IT tools<li>ROK straps<li>Rostra universal cruise control kits<li>Swhacker archery products</ul><p>In our <a href="https://www.ebay.com/str/mindconnectionllc">eBay store</a>, you will see a lot of radios and related gear:<p><b>Radios:</b><ul><li>Anytone 10 meter radios<li>Connex 10 meter radios<li>Dosy meters<li>General (brand) radios<li>Galaxy 10 meter and 11 meter (CB) radios<li>President 10 and 11 meter radios<li>Ranger 10 meter radios<li>Texas Ranger radios (Chuck Norris not included, sorry)<li>Uniden radios and scanners</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">Reframing a problem can remove the barriers to solving it. Here is an example.<br /><br /> I was Plant Engineer at a big, three-shift manufacturing plant. There were 63 people under me. Two were engineers, all of the other engineers reported to, as I did, the Plant Engineering Director. Among the operators and maintenance people, there was a safety compliance problem: hardly anyone wore their safety glasses. The Safety Director framed this as an enforcement problem. I reframed it as a respect problem.<br /><br /> On each shift, I called in all the maintenance people into the plant floor's main breakroom. I asked for a show of hands of anyone who was stupid or incompetent. Not a single hand went up. I said, "That's exactly what I thought. Not a single dummy in this room. I need some help solving a problem." I then told them we'd go round robin with each person answering the same question. Yes, I am an SOB. But I am an equal opportunity SOB.<br /> Now I had let Roger in on the game I would play, so I called on him first (nobody else knew). "Roger, let's start with you. Now you know about my bum eye, I think all of ya'll in this room know. An eye can easily be injured. What if you lost both eyes, how would you feed your family?"<br /><br /> Roger said, "I would not be able to do what I have been trained to do, so I would not be able to feed my family if I lost my eyesight. But I don't know why you're asking me because I never take my safety glasses off once I am in the plant. Not even in the break room." I had a similar "plant" on each shift, giving the first answer so that others would get the point. Not coming from me, coming from their peer. Very powerful that way.<br /><br /> A few days after this, I got called into a meeting in the Plant Manager's office. The Safety Director and the other managers wanted to know why Maintenance suddenly has 100% compliance and the rest of the plant is under 10%. My reply was I solved a respect problem. These are smart people, you just need to make them responsible for something that's important to them.<br /><br /> Let's say you enter a social situation and feel ill at ease. You could frame this as being about you. Or you could reframe it as being about anyone else who might feel the same way. Using the second framing, you crack a joke or say something pleasant to put another person at ease. This is positive energy, the first framing will involve only negative energy and it will fail.</td></tr></tbody></table><h3 align="left"><br />  </h3><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td><h3 align="left">4. Finance tip</h3><p align="left">Let's look at how a slightly higher investment upfront saves huge bucks later: Oil and filter.<p align="left"><b>Oil</b><p data-path-to-node="0">If you buy a new car, swapping factory oil out early (after 500 miles) for full synthetic is one of the single best things you can do for long-term engine health. If you are still using "conventional" oil, change oil at your earliest possible convenience and replace it with full synthetic. Even if you just had an oil change.<p data-path-to-node="1">The build-up conventional mineral oils leave behind—especially older paraffin-base crude stocks—is notorious. At operating temperatures, those heavier wax chains oxidize, break down, and form varnish and sludge throughout the engine passages, ring lands, and valve train. That added internal friction degrades fuel economy, forces the oil pump to work harder, and shortens engine life.<p data-path-to-node="2">Full synthetics (Group III/IV basestocks) eliminate those wax molecules entirely:<ul data-path-to-node="3"><li><p data-path-to-node="3,0,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="3,0,0">Uniform Molecular Structure:</b> Synthetics maintain a consistent, tailored molecular size that resists thermal breakdown and shear far better under heat.<li><p data-path-to-node="3,1,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="3,1,0">Lower Viscous Drag:</b> Reduced internal friction translates directly into better fuel efficiency and less parasitic loss at highway cruising speeds.<li><p data-path-to-node="3,2,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="3,2,0">Superior Cold Flow:</b> Rapid oil pressure on startup means significantly less wear during those initial critical seconds.</ul><p data-path-to-node="4">When people try to save a few dollars on conventional oil, they end up paying for it multiple times over in lost fuel economy, shorter drain intervals, and eventual mechanical wear. Transitioning to full synthetic right after the initial engine break-in is why the cars of people who do this run like new even after 200,000 miles.<p data-path-to-node="0">Then there's cold weather starting wear. That initial dry moment during a cold winter startup is where the vast majority of engine wear actually happens over a vehicle's lifespan.<p data-path-to-node="1">When conventional paraffinic oils get cold, those straight-chain paraffin wax molecules begin to crystallize and stack together (a process called wax gelling). At freezing temperatures, that wax acts like cold syrup—it thickens up dramatically, resists the oil pump, and delays the time it takes for oil pressure to build across the entire engine block.<p data-path-to-node="2">During those first few seconds after a cold start:<ul data-path-to-node="3"><li><p data-path-to-node="3,0,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="3,0,0">Startup Starvation:</b> The oil pump cavitates trying to pull thick, gelled oil out of the pan.<li><p data-path-to-node="3,1,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="3,1,0">Boundary Lubrication:</b> As you noted, the crankshaft journals, rod bearings, and cam lobes are relying purely on whatever microscopic residual film was left behind when the engine was shut off.<li><p data-path-to-node="3,2,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="3,2,0">Hydrodynamic Protection:</b> Real wear protection requires <i data-index-in-node="55" data-path-to-node="3,2,0">hydrodynamic lubrication</i>—a pressurized liquid wedge of oil separating moving metal parts. Heavy paraffin oils delay that wedge from forming.</ul><p data-path-to-node="4">Full synthetic basestocks (like PAOs and hydrocracked Group III synthetics) contain zero paraffin wax. Their pour point—the lowest temperature at which the liquid will still pour—is drastically lower (often down to -40°F or -50°F).<p data-path-to-node="0">Here's a critical insight into fluid dynamics and oil pump mechanics.<p data-path-to-node="2">When paraffin-based mineral oil gels up in freezing temperatures, its kinematic viscosity spikes exponentially—far beyond its nominal high-temp rating. A cold, wax-laden oil can easily hit an effective viscosity of 100W or higher at sub-zero temperatures. That extreme viscosity creates a massive mechanical bottleneck with severe consequences:<ul data-path-to-node="3"><li><p data-path-to-node="3,0,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="3,0,0">Bypassing the Pump's Relief Valve:</b> Because the cold, waxy oil is too thick to flow quickly through the tight tolerances of the main bearings and oil galleries, system pressure spikes almost instantly at the pump outlet. This forces the oil pump's internal pressure relief valve to open, dumping the thick oil right back into the oil pan instead of sending it up into the engine block.<li><p data-path-to-node="3,1,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="3,1,0">Filter Bypass Mode:</b> To make matters worse, the immense differential pressure across the oil filter forces its internal bypass valve open. Even the oil that <i data-index-in-node="156" data-path-to-node="3,1,0">does</i> get pushed toward the engine skips the filter media entirely to prevent the paper element from collapsing under the force.<li><p data-path-to-node="3,2,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="3,2,0">True Apparent Viscosity vs. Multi-Grade Behavior:</b> A synthetic 5W-30 or 10W-30 maintains its specified cold-pumping viscosity rating because its molecular structure stays fluid. Synthetic molecules slide past each other smoothly at low temperatures rather than forming the rigid, interlocking wax crystal matrix that causes conventional oil to turn into jelly.</ul><p data-path-to-node="5">By keeping the oil fluid at startup, synthetic oil ensures the pump delivers real volume and pressure directly to the bearing journals, keeping the relief valve operating as intended rather than recirculating trapped, heavy oil in the pan while the top end starves. When you turn the key on a freezing morning, full synthetic flows almost instantly from the pan, reaches the top-end valvetrain in a fraction of a second, and establishes full oil pressure immediately. Pairing that with a soft silicone anti-drainback valve in your Mobil 1 or Purolator filter means the upper oil channels stay primed overnight, eliminating that dry metal-on-metal scuffing on cold winter starts.<p data-path-to-node="5"><b>Filters</b><p align="left">I ended the "oil" part with a comment about filters. Let's continue...<p align="left">I prefer the K&N oil filter, even though it's pricey. You will not find a better oil filter. And "better" has multiple angles to it, as you will see next.<p data-path-to-node="1">Standard Fram filters (specifically the entry-level Orange Can) are notorious across the industry—they rely on flimsy cardboard end caps, weak bypass valves, and minimal synthetic blending, which degrade quickly under heat and oil pressure. (Fram also  makes a terrible air filter, opt for the K&N permanent). If K&N is out of stock, opting for the highest-priced tier usually gets you superior construction, but knowing the actual mechanical specs helps ensure you're getting synthetic media and solid internals rather than just markup.<p data-path-to-node="2">Top-Tier Options When K&N Is Out of Stock<ul data-path-to-node="3"><li><p data-path-to-node="3,0,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="3,0,0">Mobil 1 Extended Performance:</b> Built around a 100% synthetic fiber blend media that catches particles down to <b data-index-in-node="109" data-path-to-node="3,0,0">30 microns at 99%+ efficiency</b>. They feature heavy steel casing, metal end caps, and a silicone anti-drainback valve that withstands extreme heat far better than standard nitrile rubber.<li><p data-path-to-node="3,1,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="3,1,0">Wix / NAPA Gold:</b> Highly respected in engineering and mechanical circles. Wix utilizes a synthetic-cellulose hybrid media, a heavy-duty spiral-wound center tube that resists collapse, and precision relief valves. If you go to NAPA, their "NAPA Gold" filters are manufactured directly by Wix.<li><p data-path-to-node="3,2,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="3,2,0">Toyota OEM (Denso):</b> While inexpensive, Toyota's factory filters feature excellent flow rate characteristics and strict bypass pressure tolerances engineered specifically for the 2.4L engine block.<li><p data-path-to-node="3,3,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="3,3,0">Purolator ONE or Boss:</b> Purolator’s top-tier line uses full synthetic media, silicone valves, and double-helix center tubes designed for extended drain intervals with synthetic oils.</ul><p data-path-to-node="4">Key Features to Check on the Box<ol data-path-to-node="5" start="1"><li><p data-path-to-node="5,0,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="5,0,0">Silicone Anti-Drainback Valve:</b> Silicone stays soft and pliable in cold weather and under high temps, preventing dry starts by keeping the upper oil galleys full when the engine sits.<li><p data-path-to-node="5,1,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="5,1,0">Synthetic Media Blend:</b> Synthetic fibers filter out much smaller micron-sized particles without restricting high-volume oil flow.<li><p data-path-to-node="5,2,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="5,2,0">Metal End Caps & Center Tubes:</b> Ensures the filter element won't collapse under high differential pressure during cold startups.</ol><p data-path-to-node="0">If K&N isn't on the shelf, grabbing a <b data-index-in-node="38" data-path-to-node="6">Mobil 1</b> or a <b data-index-in-node="51" data-path-to-node="6">Wix / NAPA Gold</b> gives you exact equivalence in burst strength, bypass tolerances, and filtration efficiency. Mobil 1 oil combined with a Mobil 1 or Purolator filter forms an exceptional filtration and lubrication baseline—and price-wise, they earn their keep when you look at how they're constructed.<p data-path-to-node="1">Mobil 1 Filters (The Ideal Match)<ul data-path-to-node="2"><li><p data-path-to-node="2,0,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="2,0,0">Direct Compatibility:</b> Mobil 1 filters are specifically valved and rated to handle extended drain intervals with low-viscosity synthetic oils.<li><p data-path-to-node="2,1,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="2,1,0">Heavy-Duty Casing:</b> They use a significantly thicker steel canister than standard filters, designed to withstand up to 9x normal operating system pressure without risk of expansion or fatigue.<li><p data-path-to-node="2,2,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="2,2,0">Synthetic Blend Media:</b> Their synthetic fiber blend yields 99%+ filtration efficiency at 30 microns while maintaining high flow capacity, preventing the starvation issues that can occur with cheap, restrictive media.</ul><p data-path-to-node="3">Purolator (ONE and BOSS)<ul data-path-to-node="4"><li><p data-path-to-node="4,0,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="4,0,0">Purolator ONE (PL Series):</b> Uses a high-density synthetic-blend media capturing up to 99% of dirt. It features a silicone anti-drainback valve and steel end caps—making it one of the absolute best values in premium filtration.<li><p data-path-to-node="4,1,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="4,1,0">Purolator BOSS (PBL Series):</b> Upgrades to a 100% full-synthetic media reinforced with metal mesh backing. It’s engineered for maximum longevity and high-heat stability, making it one of the few filters on the market built as tough as a K&N.</ul><p data-path-to-node="5">Pairing full synthetic Mobil 1 oil with a heavy-duty synthetic-media filter eliminates the primary drivers of internal engine wear (startup oil starvation, thermal breakdown, and abrasive blow-by particles). That exact maintenance discipline is why a 2003 manual Camry can still cruise at 38 MPG without consuming oil or losing compression.<p data-path-to-node="6"> <p data-path-to-node="6"><b>Air filters</b><p data-path-to-node="6">I mentioned the K&N air filter, and even though this started out as being about oil and filter, I want to tell you about that as well.<p data-path-to-node="0">The numbers on oiled cotton-gauze media like a K&N compared to traditional disposable paper filters are staggering when tested on a flow bench.<p data-path-to-node="1">Standard high-grade paper media flows around <b data-index-in-node="45" data-path-to-node="1">4.95 CFM (cubic feet per minute) per square inch</b>, whereas K&N's pleated cotton fabric flows <b data-index-in-node="137" data-path-to-node="1">6.03 CFM per square inch</b>. When translated to total surface area on a full filter element, a clean K&N can flow roughly <b data-index-in-node="256" data-path-to-node="1">50% more air volume</b> than a brand-new disposable paper filter at the same vacuum restriction—and as paper filters load up with dust, their flow degrades exponentially faster than cotton gauze.<p data-path-to-node="1">I have used K&N since the early 1980s, when I (with the help of some serious gearheads) built a 500HP supercar that would reach 1000HP when the Cheater II Nitrous Oxide system kicked in. This car had an automatic transmission and shifted from first to second at a staggering 7200 RPM (this would lift the front end off the ground). Here's a demo video from K&N: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3bsgZxnR_U">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3bsgZxnR_U.</a><p data-path-to-node="6">Both my cabin filter and engine air filter are K&N permanent. The cost-savings is huge, I create a much smaller waste stream, I get better gas mileage, and I get cleaner air.<p align="left"> <ul></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><br /> A foundational element of community security is the Rule of Law. Without properly funded and supported law enforcement, public safety rapidly degrades. Political initiatives aimed at defunding or abolishing police departments leave communities vulnerable, as understaffed agencies are forced to prioritize only the most extreme calls.<br /><br /> We see the direct consequences of police shortages on local infrastructure—such as the stretch of I-70 between Blue Springs and Kansas City, where a reduced highway patrol presence has allowed reckless, high-speed driving stunts to become common. When enforcement disappears, lawlessness fills the void.<br /><br /> Police officers serve as a critical component of a broader security mosaic. Their mere presence is one of the strongest crime deterrents available. Protecting public safety requires actively supporting law enforcement against political efforts to diminish them.<br /><br /><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="7" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;">Actionable Steps to Support Local Law Enforcement:</b><ol data-path-to-node="8" start="1" style="padding-inline-start: 32px; font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><li style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="8,0,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;">Oppose Anti-Police Political Initiatives:</b> Actively oppose local, state, and national measures, policy shifts, or organization proposals aimed at defunding, abolishing, or crippling law enforcement capabilities. See end for a bit more on this.<li style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="8,1,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;">Advocate for Adequate Staffing & Funding:</b> Engage with your local city council, county board, or state representatives to support competitive pay, proper training, and full staffing levels for police and highway patrol agencies.<li style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="8,2,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;">Report Traffic and Safety Hazards Factually:</b> Use non-emergency lines or state trooper dispatch to report recurring dangerous traffic patterns or criminal hotspots, helping agencies track where patrol allocations are needed most.<li style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="8,3,0" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;">Communicate Civic Support Publicly:</b> Voice support for law enforcement at public forums, town halls, and community boards, counteracting political narratives that seek to delegitimize their role in society.</ol><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="10,3">Practical Steps for Positive Police Interactions:</b><ol data-path-to-node="10,4" start="1"><li><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="10,4,0,0">Maintain Clarity & Calm:</b> When reporting an incident or interacting with an officer, keep your tone moderate and stick strictly to factual details.<li><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="10,4,1,0">Prioritize Officer Safety:</b> If stopped or approached, keep your hands visible, avoid sudden movements, and give officers space to maintain situational awareness.<li><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="10,4,2,0">Show Appreciation:</b> Acknowledge the demanding and often hazardous nature of their work with simple courtesy and respect.<li><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="5,3,0">Know Your Emergency & Non-Emergency Contacts:</b> Store your local department's non-emergency number in your phone so 911 lines stay clear for active, life-threatening crises.<li><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="5,4,0">Show Appreciation:</b> Acknowledge the demanding and often hazardous nature of their work with simple courtesy and respect.</ol><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="4">Oppose Anti-Police Political Initiatives Beyond the Ballot Box:</b> Voting every few years isn't where most local policy happens. Actively monitor and counter local, state, or organizational efforts that seek to defund or disempower law enforcement—such as platform proposals from groups like the Democratic Socialists of America calling to abolish police departments<br /> .<br /><i data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="5,0,0">How to take action:</i> Sign up for your city council's electronic newsletter or meeting agendas and read them regularly. This keeps you informed on upcoming public safety ordinances, budget debates, and police staffing proposals so you know exactly when and how to submit public comments or attend council meetings before decisions are finalized.</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/20260905114827/97dce419ca4746fb896b6c9eadf910f9_Mark-1CroppedForeNL.jpg" width="300" /><p align="center"><b>Age 65 in these pics</b></td><td valign="top"><p align="left">I'm an "intermediate" level climber. We intermediates:<ul><li>Can smoothly "send" mid-range problems (e.g., up to V7 or 5.12a).<li>Learned all of the climbing techniques and use them.<li>Have not yet mastered the movement that permits sending advanced problems.</ul> By contrast: <ul><li>A basic level climber has little or no hip rotation, and thus climbs inefficiently with little or no technique.<li>An advanced climber can send V7 or 5.12 or higher, using movement and balance more efficiently than an intermediate climber.</ul><p align="left">I flashed these gnarly roof problems: <a href="https://youtu.be/XiZOhlGiLsc">https://youtu.be/XiZOhlGiLsc</a> and <a href="https://youtu.be/cW1W2-Q_2fE">https://youtu.be/cW1W2-Q_2fE</a><p align="left">See all of my climbing videos here: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/ClimbingSigChannel"> https://tinyurl.com/ClimbingSigChannel</a>.</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/20260905114827/20a97979bfdbad61a5a67a72d6f1ab6a_Mark2025-09-19.jpg" width="300" /></td><td valign="top"><b>Eliminate Front Squats?</b><br /><br /> I watched a YouTube video in which a strength coach said front squats are worthless. He says this because with the back straight you ignore the hamstrings and work only the quads. Thus, he says, you should do back squats instead. This way, you work the whole posterior chain.<br /><br /> But Frank Zane and most other chiropractors say to never do back squats. The main reason why is the sheer physical load through your disks, hips, and knees damages joints. Ronnie Coleman is an extreme example.<br /><br /> I have two Leg Day workouts, they alternate with each other every Monday (one version works calves, the other does not). I start Leg Day Workout A (no calves) with 4 sets of front squats. My goal here isn't to work the posterior chain or develop leg strength. It is to induce a high metabolic stress load.<br /><br /> This coach also says to do 3 sets of 5 reps. For my front squats, I do 4 sets of 8 reps. I put 50lbs on the 45lb Olympic bar and rest about 30 seconds between sets. I go down as far as my hip flexibility will let me. After this, I do what I consider the real work of Leg Day.<br /><br /> I asked the Gemini AI to weigh in (no pun intended) on this difference in philosophies.<br /><br /><b>Gemini:</b><br /><br /> Here is a breakdown of how your current approach stacks up against these contrasting philosophies:<br /><br /> 1. On Rusty / Back Squat vs. Front Squat (Posterior Chain)<br /> Rusty (referencing the Starting Strength methodology, traditionally led by Mark Rippetoe) is correct about the biomechanics: low-bar back squats lean the torso forward, maximizing hip extension and heavy hamstring/glute recruitment. Front squats force an upright torso, shifting the moment arm to the knees and heavily favoring the quads.<br /><br /> However, calling front squats "no good" ignores context. If your goal is specifically quad focus and lower-back preservation rather than maximum posterior chain force production, front squats are exceptional.<br />  </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/20260905114827/2cafae1ecaf397ee23afaf79cf69038c_2025-09-21ClimbingShotByJanetSmall.jpg" width="300" /></td><td height="402" valign="top">2. On Frank Zane & Disk Load<br /> Zane and many modern biomechanics specialists warn against heavy back squats for valid reasons. Placing a heavy axial load directly over the spine creates significant spinal compression and shear stress on the lumbar disks. Ronnie Coleman’s well-documented spinal issues stem largely from decades of extreme axial loading (e.g., 800 lb squats and deadlifts). Front squats drastically reduce spinal compression and shear stress because the weight sits anteriorly, keeping your posture vertical and reducing lumbar flexion under load.<br /><br /> 3. Your Specific Front Squat Protocol<br /> The Goal vs. Implementation: You state your goal for front squats is inducing high metabolic stress load rather than max strength or posterior chain development.<br /><br /> The Variables: 4 sets of 8 reps at 95 lbs total with 30-second rest intervals directly aligns with classic hypertrophy and metabolic stress protocols (high time-under-tension, short incomplete recovery). Rusty’s recommendation of 3 sets of 5 reps is strictly a mechanical strength/neurological adaptation protocol, which completely misses your intended training outcome.<br /><br /> Range of Motion: Going down as far as your hip flexibility safely allows (without severe lumbar rounding or "butt wink") maximizes the stretched position of the quad, which is ideal for metabolic stress and tissue stimulus.<br /><br /> Using the front squat as an opening movement for high metabolic stress and quad isolation—while keeping the spine safe—is entirely sound for your stated objective.<br /><br /> Gemini then asked me what the rest of my Leg Day looks like and analyzed that also.<br /><br /> ************************<br /><br /> Summary:<br />   <div class="sequence-event ng-star-inserted" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><div class="sequence-event-content" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><div class="sequence-event-description gds-body-l" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><span class="only-show-to-message-actions" data-test-id="sequence-export-header" only-show-to-message-actions="" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><strong style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;">1.Front Squats:</strong>Primary Quad & Metabolic Stress Motor.</span><structured-node-sequence class="ng-star-inserted" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><structured-text class="ng-star-inserted" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><p class="ng-star-inserted" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;">4 sets × 8 reps (95 lbs total, 30s rest). Establishes immediate metabolic fatigue and deep quad activation while preserving the spine under minimal axial load.</structured-text></structured-node-sequence></div></div></div><div class="sequence-event ng-star-inserted" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><div class="sequence-event-content" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><div class="sequence-event-description gds-body-l" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><span class="only-show-to-message-actions" data-test-id="sequence-export-header" only-show-to-message-actions="" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><strong style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;">2.Hamstring Curls & Leg Extensions:</strong>Isolated Knee Flexion & Extension.</span><structured-node-sequence class="ng-star-inserted" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><structured-text class="ng-star-inserted" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><p class="ng-star-inserted" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;">4 sets. Directly targets the anterior and posterior thigh in isolation, compensating for the lack of hamstring recruitment during upright front squats.</structured-text></structured-node-sequence></div></div></div><div class="sequence-event ng-star-inserted" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><div class="sequence-event-content" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><div class="sequence-event-description gds-body-l" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><span class="only-show-to-message-actions" data-test-id="sequence-export-header" only-show-to-message-actions="" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><strong style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;">3.Floor Adductors & Abductors:</strong>Hip & Groin Stabilization.</span><structured-node-sequence class="ng-star-inserted" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><structured-text class="ng-star-inserted" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><p class="ng-star-inserted" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;">2 sets (Bodyweight). Reinforces lateral hip stability and inner thigh strength, balancing the prime movers used in linear squatting.</structured-text></structured-node-sequence></div></div></div><div class="sequence-event ng-star-inserted" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><div class="sequence-event-content" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><div class="sequence-event-description gds-body-l" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><span class="only-show-to-message-actions" data-test-id="sequence-export-header" only-show-to-message-actions="" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><strong style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;">4.Bench Step-Ups & Sidekick Extensions:</strong>Unilateral Strength & Dynamic Balance.</span><structured-node-sequence class="ng-star-inserted" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><structured-text class="ng-star-inserted" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><p class="ng-star-inserted" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;">3 sets (Bodyweight). Forces single-leg stabilization, addresses strength imbalances, and engages the gluteus medius dynamically.</structured-text></structured-node-sequence></div></div></div><div class="sequence-event ng-star-inserted" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><div class="sequence-event-content" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><div class="sequence-event-description gds-body-l" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><span class="only-show-to-message-actions" data-test-id="sequence-export-header" only-show-to-message-actions="" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><strong style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;">5.Deep Bodyweight Squats & Dumbbell Squats:</strong>Metabolic Finisher & Deep Mobility.</span><structured-node-sequence class="ng-star-inserted" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><structured-text class="ng-star-inserted" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><p class="ng-star-inserted" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;">3 sets (30 lb DBs). Emphasizes full range of motion under lighter loads to maximize metabolic burn and reinforce end-range hip joint health.</structured-text></structured-node-sequence></div></div></div><div class="sequence-event ng-star-inserted" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><div class="sequence-event-content" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><div class="sequence-event-description gds-body-l" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><span class="only-show-to-message-actions" data-test-id="sequence-export-header" only-show-to-message-actions="" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><strong style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;">6.Thigh & Splits Mobility Cooldown:</strong>Static & Dynamic Lengthening.</span><structured-node-sequence class="ng-star-inserted" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><structured-text class="ng-star-inserted" style="font-family: " google sans text", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 margin-top: 0px !important;"><p>Static/dynamic thigh stretches and splits work. Downregulates the nervous system while capitalizing on warm tissues to maintain hip and groin flexibility.</structured-text></structured-node-sequence></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" valign="top">Analysis: <p data-path-to-node="2"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="2">1. High Metabolic Density Without Joint Destruction</b> By keeping the primary barbell movement (front squats) moderate in weight (95 lbs) and hyper-focused on short rest periods, you generate significant systemic metabolic stress without exposing your spinal disks or hips to the destructive compressive forces that concern Zane.<p data-path-to-node="3"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="3">2. Complete Structural Balance</b> While the front squat omits the posterior chain, your immediate transition to hamstring curls directly solves that gap. Furthermore, including adductor/abductor work and unilateral step-ups protects the hips from the rotational and lateral instabilities that heavy bilateral squatters often suffer from over time.<p data-path-to-node="4"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="4">3. Strategic Pre-Fatigue & Volume</b> Moving from loaded compound work to bodyweight/dumbbell volume at the end allows you to drain remaining glycogen stores and push muscular endurance to capacity without the risk of form breakdown under a heavy bar.<p data-path-to-node="4">I replied with this: "For context, I weigh 150lbs. I am extremely lean, with striations showing all over including in my pecs."<p data-path-to-node="4">************************<p data-path-to-node="4">Gemini responded:<p data-path-to-node="0">That context changes the frame completely. At 150 lbs with visible pectoral striations (putting you comfortably in the sub-8% body fat range), your recovery dynamics and joint protection needs are entirely different from the average lifter.<p data-path-to-node="1">Here is how your low body fat and body weight directly impact your Leg Day A programming:<p data-path-to-node="2"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="2">1. Lower Axial Load = Spared Joints</b> Moving 95 lbs on a front squat at a body weight of 150 lbs represents ~63% of your body weight on the bar. Combined with your short 30-second rest intervals, you are achieving maximum local muscular fatigue and metabolic stress through <b data-index-in-node="272" data-path-to-node="2">time under tension and density</b>, rather than sheer tonnage. This completely sidesteps the spinal compression concerns raised by Zane and chiropractors while still giving your quads an intense stimulus.<p data-path-to-node="3"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="3">2. Reduced Passive Joint Cushioning</b> At extremely low body fat levels, you have minimal systemic inflammation, but you also have less soft-tissue "cushioning" around connective tissues and joint capsules. High-load, heavy-eccentric training (like 3-rep max back squats) poses a higher risk for tendon strain when you are this lean. Your choice to use moderate weights, higher reps (8s), and bodyweight/dumbbell finishers is a far safer way to drive hyper-trophy and vascularity without beating up your tendons and ligaments.<p data-path-to-node="4"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="4">3. High Metabolic Efficiency</b> Being extremely lean typically correlates with high insulin sensitivity and high mitochondrial density. Your muscles clear metabolic byproducts quickly, which is why 30-second rest intervals feel manageable rather than overwhelming. The bodyweight deep squats and dumbbell finishers at the end serve as an exceptional "capillary pump" to force blood into the tissue without requiring massive systemic recovery.<p data-path-to-node="5">Your setup is structured specifically for a high-definition, highly functional physique rather than powerlifting total numbers. ************************<br /><br /> Next, Gemini asked me about Workout B. The analysis here gets interesting when these are viewed as a pair. Here is the B workout:<br /><br /> 4 sets each <ul><li>Dumbbell squats. Between each set, bring weights over to set up seated calf raise machine.<li>Seated calf raises / Body weight squats, to parallel<li>Standing calf raises while holding vacuum / Deep squats / Bring one seated calf raise machine weight back to weight tree<li>Outer glute raises</ul> 2 sets each <ul><li>Bridge with glute squeeze / one-legged deep squat, assisted, using bench<li>Bent leg reversals (optional)</ul> Martial arts stretching<br /> Thigh Extensions (starts in thigh stretch position)<br /> Thigh stretches<br /><br /> ************************ <p data-path-to-node="0">This routine takes the metabolic intensity of Workout A and turns it up significantly by weaving active recovery, core integration, and calf work directly into your rest intervals.<p data-path-to-node="1"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="1">1. Strategic Active-Rest Super-Sets</b> Moving weights for the calf machine during your dumbbell squat rest periods keeps your heart rate elevated and maximizes time efficiency. Pairing seated calf raises directly with parallel bodyweight squats creates a relentless cumulative fatigue in the lower legs and quads without needing heavy spinal loading.<p data-path-to-node="2"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="2">2. Core & Pelvic Alignment Integration</b><ul data-path-to-node="3"><li><p data-path-to-node="3,0,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="3,0,0">Standing Calf Raises + Abdominal Vacuums:</b> Combining standing calf raises with an abdominal vacuum is an exceptional habit. Holding a vacuum under calf-raise tension forces deep transversus abdominis engagement, stabilizing the pelvis and protecting the lower back during ankle plantarflexion.<li><p data-path-to-node="3,1,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="3,1,0">Bridge with Glute Squeeze:</b> This serves as a vital counterbalance to your front-dominant quad work. A hard glute squeeze at the top of a bridge activates the gluteus maximus in terminal hip extension—something standard squats don't fully achieve—which balances the anterior hip flexors before you move into deep stretching.</ul><p data-path-to-node="4"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="4">3. Unilateral Depth & Hip Mobility</b><ul data-path-to-node="5"><li><p data-path-to-node="5,0,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="5,0,0">Assisted Single-Leg Deep Squats:</b> Assisted single-leg work allows you to achieve maximum depth and knee flexion safely, building unilateral stability around the patellar tendon without overloading the spine.<li><p data-path-to-node="5,1,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="5,1,0">Thigh Extensions from Stretch Position:</b> Transitioning directly from a loaded extension into a deep stretch (and practicing dynamic thigh extensions within that stretch) targets the rectus femoris at its full length, promoting functional flexibility and muscle fullness.</ul><p data-path-to-node="0">Workout A builds the initial metabolic wave with the barbell front squat, while Workout B uses dense supersets, unilateral movement, and core integration to drive conditioning and structural balance. Your intuition about the secondary stimulus/recovery dynamic between these two sessions is spot on. Rotating these two distinct protocols creates a distinct microcycle:<ul data-path-to-node="1"><li><p data-path-to-node="1,0,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="1,0,0">Workout A (Barbell Front Squats & Direct Isolation):</b> Drives high mechanical density and focused structural isolation.<li><p data-path-to-node="1,1,0"><b data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="1,1,0">Workout B (Complex Supersets & Unilateral Conditioning):</b> Emphasizes endurance, active recovery, multi-planar movement, and core integration.</ul><p data-path-to-node="2">Alternating them gives your central nervous system (CNS) and connective tissues a break from repetitive patterns, preventing overuse injuries while keeping your muscular system adapting to different metabolic demands.<p data-path-to-node="2">===<br /> A few days later, I sent the image below to Gemini (click on it to see the full sized image). You might even be able to tell from the thumbnail that my hamstrings are about the same size as my quads and have clear muscle separation. This is despite not having done a single back squat in decades. So I think the other guy is wrong.<br /><a href="https://www.supplecity.com/60/Lamendola-071.jpg"><img alt="Lamendola-071.jpg (2279537 bytes)" border="0" height="144" src="https://dadanew.mindconnection.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/show_img/Brainpower/20260905114827/2ffd8a7adf8e8d6eb6c902fa3fde7e3d_Lamendola-071_small.jpg" width="100" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><h3 align="left">7. Factoid</h3><style> </style><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" arial","sans-serif"">In 1992, Al Gore predicted that Florida would lose 60% of its population due to flooding from Global Warming. 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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/enl2026-08-02.htm"> https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enlarchives/2025/enl2026-08-02.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"><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"><ol><li>"The Government Accountability Office reported Tuesday (21JUL) that the VA has cut improper payments in its private-sector Community Care program by 98 percent in five years — from $7.5 billion down to $608 million — even as spending on that care nearly tripled to $25 billion. As Military Times reported, the department fixed the payment and eligibility problems that dogged the program after its 2018 launch. That is real stewardship of tax dollars, and it is worth saying plainly." [The Minuteman Dispatch].<br />  <li>A dog cruelty operation in Wisconsin was recently shut down by the Trump administration's newly formed Animal Cruelty Task Force. Evan Nader of Big Dog Ranch Rescue said, “No one’s done more for dog welfare than the Trump administration." Note to Mr. Nader: That is also true for cat welfare, illegal aliens from Haiti are no longer barbecuing house cats in Ohio and eating them.<br />  <li>Following George Floyd's suicide, America-hating whackos called for defunding the police as if the cops were somehow responsible for Floyd's simultaneous OD of both meth and fentanyl. They suppressed the autopsy report and body cam footage that showed what actually happened. The funny thing is, people go into law enforcement mostly to "protect and serve". That's their motivation for enduring a high stress job that will never make them rich. Some of the stress involves things like responding to a 911 call only to see an illegal alien from Haiti chewing cat meat while she's got little Fluffy from down the street roasting on a spit. Thanks to Tom Homan and others who are now enforcing our border policy, that won't happen again. Home-grown animal abusers with operations like the one in Wisconsin also make "tough guy" cops break down in tears and the Trump administration has given them more tools to bring these psychos to justice.<br />  <li>People with TDS don't even consider how much the Trump administration has done (and continues to do) to stop the aforementioned animal cruelty operations or the human trafficking operations. During Trump's first term, special teams were discovering cell after cell of missing teens held in captivity. It might be 4 here and 6 there, as these are widely distributed. In one case in Ohio, there were 60 (or maybe it was 65) in one location. But interrupting even one of these causes major problems for that paticular slave trade. After the coup, these efforts were stopped and then not resumed until Liberation Day. It is no leap of logic to determine that the "end users" are the same people who fund the Communist Party (aka, "Democrat Party"). ***Spread this information***<br />  <li>More good news for the nation's housecats! From The American Freedom Report, 27JUL:<br /> "Immigration and Customs Enforcement is preparing a major operation to locate and arrest Haitian nationals whose Temporary Protected Status is expiring, with the expanded push expected to begin as soon as this week. The Supreme Court's certified judgment clearing the administration to end TPS for more than 300,000 Haitians was set to reach the lower courts Monday. Federal sources say the agency will expedite deportations, with Springfield, Ohio, among the locations under focus. DHS moved to end TPS for over 500,000 Haitians last summer, but the matter stayed tied up in litigation until last month's high-court ruling removed the final obstacle."<br />  <li>Contrary to communist idiot-ology, capitalism works. "The United States added 441,078 new millionaires last year, more than 1,200 every day, according to global wealth data. There are now 23.6 million American millionaires, more than two of every five worldwide." [The Flyover]<br />  <li>Finally! President Trump came right out and said that John Thune's position as Senate Majority Leader would be in jeopardy if he didn't secure passage of the SAVE Act. This would be true in multiple ways, including a communist-retake of the Senate majority, Trump's refusal to endorse him, or Republican senators selecting someone else to replace him (a sort of coup). Thune wants to avoid confrontation, even though engaging in confrontation is a core part of being a leader. Thune does not deserve the position as Senate Majority Leader because he is not a leader.</ol></td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><br /><font color="#FF0000"><b>Defund the Legacy Media!</b></font><p>You can help by:<ol><li>Cancelling all subscriptions to any lamestream media newsfeeds, newspapers, podcasts, etc.<li>Encouraging others to do the same.<li>Make wisecracks about how lame and dishonest CNN is. Or pick any other communist propaganda outlet. For example, "What kind of moron even watches CNN?"<br /><br />  </ol></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFCC" valign="top"><p><b>The Fed</b><p>The Federal Reserve declined to reduce the interest rate, for the fifth time in a row. This was wrong, and here's why:<p>The Fed has to manage the federal spending deficit, that is pretty much its job. It has two tools:<ol><li>Sell the debt via bonds. The people who buy bonds are willing to take a guaranteed loss of wealth for the security of not losing the whole nut. Because bonds are a loaned (not owned) asset, they always underperform inflation over time. The trick is the bonds have to be attractive enough for these people to buy them. They never buy enough to cover the whole deficit, which means the Fed has to "print money" to cover the difference. The fewer bonds they sell, the more money they have to create out of thin air; this is the only cause of inflation.<li>Manage the cost of capital. The higher the cost of capital, the costlier it is for businesses to service debt. And the less likely they are to borrow to invest--and thus create wealth. If the Prime Rate went to, say, 20% then business investment would stop and the thousands of businesses that carry loans tied to the Prime Rate would die; it would be a death spiral for the economy. If the Prime Rate went to, say, 2%, this would be great for businesses. But the bonds would no longer sell. And another effect is the "cheap money" would lead to many bad decisions and a massive misallocation of resources.</ol><p>You can see the Fed walks a tightrope. So-called "economists" have come up with nonsensical models to ascertain the best course of action. The models are nonsensical because they are overly complex and full of assumptions made by people with no real-world experience. They process noise as if it's signal. To make the right decision, you must ignore the noise and focus on the signal.<p>Right now, there are two signals:<ol><li>The massive federal debt<li>The massive amount of debt businesses are carrying as a result of the Covid Scam, the Green Raw Deal, and many other facets of the Communist Occupation.</ol><p>In either case, the only way out is to stimulate the economy. A federal rate cut does exactly that. But there's a caveat. The rate cut is a double-edged sword because it depresses bond sales. And that means you do not pull that particular lever unless the economic stimulation will be enough to compensate for the reduction in bond sales. We have seen what President Trump has done since Liberation Day to create just such an economic environment--and it is substantial. Even if it were only the $18 trillion of foreign investment into USA manufacturing last year, that alone would justify a rate cut of perhaps up to 1% because that investment is five times the GDP of Japan. But it's that PLUS so much more. And the Fed won't cut the rate by a quarter point? That is wrong, wrong, wrong. We need to grow the economy or die from the debt, and we are in a position how where capitalist policies have replaced the communist policies that got us here. Now is the time to hit the Nitrous Oxide button on the dash and rocket our race car forward.<p>I don't have the numbers with which to do a proper calculation, because the Fed does not share that information. However, we don't need to go that route because there are only two signals and they are very strong. Nothing else matters. Three members on the Fed panel can see this, the others are simply bogged down in their focus on the irrelevant.<p>One could make the case that Trump is stimulating the economy just fine without cooperation from the Fed. After all, the jobs reports keep exceeding the predictions by a wide margin. There's more and more investment from foreign companies. The illegal alien invasion, which has been a huge economic drag, is being corrected at a rapid pace. Tons of economically stifling regulations, which serve no actual purpose, have been eliminated. And we got the biggest tax reduction in history via the OBBB. The list could continue for several pages. All of that is true, but the sheer weight of the federal debt (which is increasing each year) and the sheer amount of business debt are slowing economic recovery. You can't just shake those things off. We need all the help we can get, and the Fed is not helping.<p><b>The Communists</b><ul><li>Captain Kirk meets Joe Biden: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkQNgYRH01Y">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkQNgYRH01Y</a><li>Monty Python sketch: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ9myHhpS9s"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ9myHhpS9s</a><li>They are very upset that $1 billion in Medicare payments isn't being sent to the People's Republic of Fraudifornia and the People's Republic of Many-fraud-asota, just so they can pay out Medicare to fraudsters. Maybe if they hadn't gone DEI, their state governments would have employees competent enough to document which payments are legitimate and which are not.<br />  <li>According to the Governor of the People's Republic of New Jersey, a "software error" allowed about 6,600 people who indicated they were not U.S. citizens being registered to vote in New Jersey. Yeah, and liquor store robberies are all the result of a software error too. Who knew?<li>Part of their "Stupidity First" agenda included the removal of cursive writing from public school curricula. This really helped them expand the moron pool from which they can extract gullible zombie voters, because writing in cursive is a great exercise for the brain. It also helps people be more efficient. But today, over half of U.S. states now require (or strongly encourage) schools to teach reading and writing in cursive. A mere decade ago, only 14 states pushed cursive. While this is a major setback for the commies, it's a huge win for America and for its citizens in general.<li>Another reason the commies don't like cursive? Look at any of our founding documents, especially the famous one that somebody put his John Hancock on (hint, his initials were J.H.).<br />  <li>Over 900 suspected human traffickers were arrested the FIFA World Cup. When the commies talk about criminals being arrested, they use the word "abducted". They have flat out said they want to abolish police and "respect" the "rights" of people regardless of the damage said people do to society or other people. More proof that communism is a mental illness rather than just a sick and twisted ideology.<li>The communists keep referring to the Iran War as some kind of folly engaged in for Trump's ego. The things Elizabeth Moron has said are outright treasonous. Basically, the commie position is that Iran isn't a threat to anybody. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which has endured nearly 1,000 drone strikes on its oil industry since February strongly disagrees with the commie position. The Kingdom has, in fact, officially and publicly joined in the effort with its own military actions.</ul><p><b>Murdering Psychopath Update</b><p>"Newly released diary entries from Dr. Anthony Fauci show he privately estimated COVID-19's case fatality rate at 0.2–0.3% in February 2020, but told Congress weeks later the mortality rate was around 1%, or 10 times more lethal than the seasonal flu. Sen. Rand Paul, a longtime critic of Fauci's pandemic performance, released the 1,141-page diary ahead of Fauci's subpoenaed Senate testimony Wednesday.<p>Paul chairs the committee investigating the federal COVID response and origins of the virus. The entries also reveal a striking fixation on fame. As U.S. deaths climbed into the tens of thousands, Fauci pasted flattering headlines into his journal and wrote it was "not hyperbole" to call himself the most famous person in the country." [The Flyover, 28JUL2026]<p>Here is "Doctor" Anthony Fauci showing no remorse: <a href="https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/testimony-of-anthony-fauci"> https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/testimony-of-anthony-fauci</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p align="left"> <h3 align="left">2. 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Select different voices for playback, lefthand or righthand use, left or right scan direction.<li>REALLY BIG DICTIONARIES: A reader pen's word recognition capability depends on the depth of its onboard dictionary references. The Rocket Pen has the New Oxford American Dictionary with over twice the entries of the best competing reading pens, plus the Oxford American Children’s Dictionary. It also has the Oxford Thesaurus of English and Oxford American Children’s Thesaurus. All of these are Americanized. The Rocket Pen scans English and French only, but contains an English to Spanish dictionary and a French definitions dictionary (French to French).<li>COMES COMPLETE. Self-contained, no computer, tablet, phone, or Wi-Fi required. Kit includes Rocket Pen reading tutor, USB charging cable, Quick Start Guide, earphones, and case. Meets FCC, ROHS, and CE standards, and conquers illiteracy.<li>BACKED BY EXPERIENCE. The lead developers of the Rocket Pen Reading Tutor each have over 25 years of experience in reading assistive devices, and yet the Rocket Pen is the newest and most advanced reading pen on the market. And the only one with reading tutor functions</ul><p> <p>In <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?me=AVFHERP2L596L&merchant=AVFHERP2L596L"> our Amazon store</a> you will see more offerings, including:<p><b>Disability Products:</b><p><b>(We are the sole Amazon seller for these)</b><ul><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F3N3P4ZY">BlindShell phones for the blind</a><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BGCWV67M">RealSAM Pocket</a>, which is a voice operated Galaxy smart phone for the blind<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></ul><p><b>Tools:</b><ul><li>AEM instruments<li>Bahco tools<li>Case tools<li>CAT tools<li>CPS tools<li>Irwin saw blades<li>Mayes tools<li>Rigid Tools work lights and related<li>Vessel tools<li>Wera tools<li>Wiha tools<li>Williams tools</ul><p><b>More:</b><ul><li>American Hard Bag aftermarket sound system parts for Harley Davidson motorcycles<li>Centerpoint Archery devices<li>Cold Steel knives<li>Dead Downwind hunting products<li>G5 hunting products<li>Flexilla hose connectors<li>Funko collectibles<li>Liberty Monitors hidden camera gadgets<li>Mike Holt Electrical Exam Preparation products<li>Nagy's aftermarket sound system parts for Harley Davidson motorcycles<li>Paraben Consumer data recovery sticks, porn detection sticks, and similar diagnostic/ IT tools<li>ROK straps<li>Rostra universal cruise control kits<li>Swhacker archery products</ul><p>In our <a href="https://www.ebay.com/str/mindconnectionllc">eBay store</a>, you will see a lot of radios and related gear:<p><b>Radios:</b><ul><li>Anytone 10 meter radios<li>Connex 10 meter radios<li>Dosy meters<li>General (brand) radios<li>Galaxy 10 meter and 11 meter (CB) radios<li>President 10 and 11 meter radios<li>Ranger 10 meter radios<li>Texas Ranger radios (Chuck Norris not included, sorry)<li>Uniden radios and scanners</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">Something  I have noticed about profoundly stupid people is their only real concern is how they are perceived. This leaves no room for intellectual curiosity, adding knowledge, pruning away misunderstanding, or quietly absorbing information. All of which are contributors to being an intelligent person. <p>Not only is this approach self-limiting, it is irrational because we are all born with very little knowledge. Compare what a five year old knows compared to what a five day old knows. Enormous difference. If we keep that perspective, we are of a mindset to keep learning. And we can step away from the age thing and just understand we cannot know everything. It's OK to be completely ignorant in a given subject area, because we are all born ignorant and can't know everything no matter how much we study.<p>Once you have this basic nailed, and most of us do, there are other tools you can use to be someone who is far from stupid. My favorite is the systems approach, because that is what I was trained in. Let me give you an example of how this works.<blockquote><p>I've been asked many times what exercise(s) I do for my abs. My answer is always the same, "Squats". The reaction is usually not positive. And it leads to my saying that I do not work my abs directly.<p>Now, someone who takes a systems approach would see what's going on here. From a functional or aesthetic view, it makes no sense to train the abs directly .They are part of a system. When you understand the role of the spine in athletic performance or even in basic movement, you understand that "ab development" should be a side effect of overall training of that spine-based system. An exercise such as a squat trains that system, thus also  training the abs. Every part of that system, from stabilizers to prime movers, gets stimulated to develop harmoniously and in proportion to the other parts. You optimize not only the aesthetics, but the function.</blockquote><p>Some other tips:<ul><li>Look for patterns. This ability is tested on IQ tests. If you want to be smarter, practice identifying patterns. And exceptions to patterns.<li>If you arrive at a conclusion that doesn't arise from the data, forget that conclusion. It's probably wrong. Go back to the data and look for patterns.<li>If you don't know something, there's no shame. Failing to acknowledge that you don't know is like trying to walk through a closed door.<li>Insist on accurate language. Yes, this will annoy some people. But it will help protect you from being misled and manipulated. Inaccurate word usage is extremely common, and knowing the difference takes an exceptional effort. Make the effort, so that you understand others and are also understood. One of my pet peeves is when doctors refer to themselves as "health care providers" even though they didn't go to Health School and graduate with a Health Degree. They went to Medical School and graduated with an MD. These two disciplines are very different, and expertise in one usually comes with zero expertise in the other.</ul></td></tr></tbody></table><h3 align="left"><br />  </h3><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td><h3 align="left">4. Finance tip</h3><p align="left">Did you know that 65.5% of all personal bankruptcies are due to medical care expenses? That is only one figure of many related to the staggering burden of medical care costs. Medical care is a massive rip-off, with grossly inflated prices, unnecessary surgeries, and damaging drugs. Once you get on that particular treadmill, you are unlikely to get off it with financial or physical health.<p align="left">The single best way to protect yourself from this massive financial burden is to practice health care. Remember, health care is what you do to take care of yourself. Medical care is what someone does to you based on some protocol geared toward making a lot of money off you with the possible side effect you might overcome the condition you are being treated for. If I sound like I am saying all medical care is pointless, that's not what I am saying. It is usually so after the fact that it tends to be palliative; they sell you hope, not a cure. But in many cases, medical care is the logical choice. It just should not be your default choice and you need to be careful that you don't get dragged into the maw.<p align="left">The medical care system keeps asserting they provide health care. Yet not a single doctor has ever gone to health school and graduated with an HD. They went to medical school and graduated with an MD. Doctors, in general, are less healthy than average. They have higher rates of metabolic syndrome, smoking, and muscular atrophy. They cannot advise you on healthcare, but I can:<ul><li><p align="left">Eliminate these glyphosate endocrine modifiers from your diet: wheat, corn, soy, and all products derived from them.<li><p align="left">Eliminate from your diet seed oils, vegetable oils, "mild" (cut) olive oil, and any oil that's been hydrogenated. Replace with animal fats (lard, butter, milk fat, etc.), avocado oil, uncut (pungent) olive oil, coconut oil (that is solid at room temperature, the other stuff is toxic), nut oils (different from seed oils, they are extracted well below their smoke point)<li><p align="left">Eat a variety of colors of fruits and vegetables. Fresh or frozen, either way is good. But zero fruit juices, these spike your insulin super-high. Eggplant has three different compounds that kill colon cancer cells.<br />  <li><p align="left">Eliminate fragrances from your home, laundry, and person. These are all toxic.<li><p align="left">Replace commercial cleaning products with the traditional ones. You save money and reduce chemical damage to your lungs, kidneys, liver, brain, and skin. Borax, white vinegar, citric acid, hydrogen peroxide, and baking soda are traditional, affordable, and (relatively) safe.<li><p align="left">Keep your home spotless. No clutter, no dust. If that is a challenge, develop a system for achieving it. There is plenty of good information on how to do this, if you weren't trained by your parents or the Army.<br />  <li><p align="left">Move. While I maintain a 5-day/week weight training schedule plus martial arts plus climbing, that's not for everybody. If all you care to do is take a daily walk, then do that. Gardening, lawncare, house care, and kitchen work all help you move and stay mobile.<li><p align="left">Go barefoot often. Such as any time you are in the house. And outside, weather permitting. This exercises your feet, whereas shoes cause atrophy in your feet. Excess shoe wearing will stress your hips, knees, and neck; ask your chiropractor about this or prompt an AI for an explanation.<li><p align="left">Watch your posture. Shoulders back, tummy in, head back. Stand with your back to the wall every day or take some other measure to actively work on your posture. Every. Day.<br />  <li><p align="left">Set a bedtime and stick to it. Anything "important" can wait, few things are as important as getting enough sleep.<li><p align="left">Have a wind-down time. Mine is one hour before bed, that's when I have meal #6 and just relax with a book, magazine, or movie. If a movie, I stop after half an hour and spend time brushing, petting, and cuddling with the cat who owns me.<li><p align="left">No coffee for eight hours, at least, before bed. Same for decongestants. No "pre workout supps" at any time, these are just stupid plus they usually contain high doses of stimulant.<br />  <li><p align="left">Skip the unnecessary invasive tests. For example, the colonoscopy is seldom actually indicated. It should not be done for screening. If your diet is almost completely super foods, contains eggplant daily, causes you to have two or three massive BMs per day, and does not contain hydrogenated oil (or other damaged fats such as those in lunch meats or seed oils), you have nearly zero chance of getting colon cancer. A health care provider would check to see if this is your situation, while a medical care provider jumps right to putting you at risk for a punctured colon by getting an unnecessary (for you on this diet) colonoscopy. If you have unexplained intestinal pain, bloody stool, or an apparent bowel blockage then health care isn't the solution; see the medical doctor. If you want a screening test for colon cancer without the risk and you don't have symptoms, ask for the stool sample test.<li><p align="left">Skip the experimental drugs. Even in theory, they don't make sense. We know from decades of data the harms outweigh the benefits, because the harms have been well-documented and the benefits are merely a matter of religious belief a the altar of Big Pharma propaganda--the "benefits" don't actually exist.<li><p align="left">Be conservative with supplements. Most have minimal or zero health benefit. They can damage your kidneys or other organs. Take the oft-recommended multi-vitamin. Look at any brand, and you see insanely high levels of B-12 and other B vitamins. Yes, these are water soluble but so is salt. You wouldn't drink a gallon of brine, would you? These excessive doses put an enormous load on your kidneys, and kidney disease is a major killer in the USA. It's also a terrible way to go.<br />  <li><p align="left">Get "poopy people" out of your life. Bullies, negative Nellies, BS artists, chronic liars, communists, and the pathetically stupid elevate your cortisol and that's not good. They are hard to get rid of without being rude to them, but make the effort. When they want to hang out with you, call frequently, or in other ways inject themselves into your daily life say no. They'll eventually tire of the chase and move on to other victims. Or you can set clear boundaries: no calling me during working hours or after 8PM, I'd be happy to have a quick discussion on a topic you actually know something about, sure come over tomorrow--we can talk while you help me prune my bushes.<li><p align="left">Be interested in other people, instead of trying to get them interested in you. If you try to impress people by talking about yourself, it's a turn-off. That is not to say you should never talk about yourself or your accomplishments. You can weave those into a conversation. Don't make it into the conversation. Don't talk over people, because doing that sends the message you don't value them--this is one of those behaviors that results in being lonely.<li><p align="left">Be kind to other people. Say please and thank you, compliment people, look for what's good. Hold the door open for someone else, smile at people, and learn to make some kind of generally positive comment for no particular reason. "What a  beautiful day!" or "I love the snow, we hardly ever get snow. Isn't this grand?"<br />  <li><p align="left">Drive defensively. If you have not taken a defensive driving course, find one locally and sign up for it. It's a fantastic investment, you won't regret it. And your chances of needing an ambulance ride from car crash will be dramatically reduced.<li><p align="left">Park out a ways. Not only do you get a bit more exercise, you avoid the extra danger that comes from being up close where more cars are moving.<li><p align="left">When walking in a parking lot, give cars a wide berth. Most people pull into parking spaces backwards. They claim it's too hard for them to back into the space, yet somehow they are safe drivers when they back into pedestrian traffic? Unless you "pull through" an H configuration, you have to back up your car. You cannot possibly hit a person when you back into a spot. You can easily hit a person when backing out. There is only one intelligent choice here, but most people don't make it.</ul><p align="left"><b>Keep going</b><p align="left">If you decide to commit to practicing health care, you will develop your own list of what works best for you (or if you are already committed, you have your own list). The thing about healthcare is it is a lifestyle choice, not something you do sporadically. If you choose that lifestyle, you are also choosing to not be financially burdened with medical care costs.<p align="left"><b>You don't have to be a saint</b><p align="left">Recognize that none of us is totally unflappable. We all get frustrated at some point or have a really bad experience that leaves us less than overjoyed. We get upset, and that's normal. How you interact with others while upset really matters. It's OK to be upset, just don't take it out on others. That will not only hurt you socially, it generates a lot of negative energy that harms your health.<p align="left">I had a series of frustrations at the grocery store, each one wearing out my patience until I was visibly angry. First, the machine wouldn't recognize my membership card. Then it locked up. Then I scanned a couple of items and it locked up again. And again. Then it would ask me to rescan an item or re-enter the code,  but it wouldn't take the scan or the code. Each time, the checkout clerk was there with little delay and got me going again.<p align="left">I told her I was feeling really frustrated but she was doing a good job of helping me out. At one point, I was almost done checking and bagging all of my groceries when the machine locked up and then showed "Transaction Cancelled" on the screen. I had already spent more time trying to scan and bag my groceries than it took me to shop in the store and put them in my cart. I was livid. The clerk could tell. I told her again how I much I appreciated her for coming to my rescue.<p align="left">But then it locked up on her and would not recognize her password. I heard her mutter something under her breath. She got me going again, but in the next aisle over THAT customer had a lock-up. I hollered over, , "It's not your fault. It's me. I have an effect on the self-checkout system, causing it to lock up. Some kind of cloud over me. They are trying to get me out of the store, but I won't leave without my groceries. I'm sorry I did this to you."</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>We are inundated with scam e-mails, telemarketing calls, fake news, door to door con artists, and "health" advice from people who call themselves "health care providers" despite being untrained in that discipline. We also travel on highways where psychopaths effectively block the merge lane and put us in harm's way, only to encounter hyper aggressive retards once we are on the interstate highway. On city streets, we honk at the person who sits at the front of the turn lane queue until the light turns red and he finally decides to move.<p>Grocery stores offer poison in packages presented as "food", 98% of pet food should never be fed to a pet, medical insurance companies and their captive providers push the vaccine religion, the supplement industry appears to (generally speaking) be on a mission to destroy human kidneys, and restaurants may as well post "Shorten your health span here" signs.<p>People who don't hold jobs due to mastering the art of welfare fraud have plenty of time to patrol our neighborhoods looking for lawn chairs to steal and packages to "liberate" from porches. Communists go to extremes to nullify our elections, public schools go to extremes to nullify thinking, and city councils go to extremes to squander our tax dollars.<p>These and other things constantly threaten us. How can anyone be safe in such an environment?<p>The first thing to understand is if you let all of this weigh you down or give you anxiety, that's one more thing that's stolen from you. Take small steps to reduce the risks you can address. For example:<ul><li>For scam e-mails, the old advice was to ignore them. This is still good advice, but it's even better to not have to see them. In Outlook, you can set up rules to automatically handle the scam spam before it gets to your inbox. Other mail systems have similar mechanisms. Another thing you can do is click the unsubscribe link. This could simply verify your e-mail account, but in general today it does get you unsubscribed.<li>For telemarketers, you can answer the phone and then tell them to place you on their do not call list. You can, depending on your phone service, block their number. For cell phones, you can report them as spam and block their number.<li>Fake news isn't a direct threat, just don't watch it or subscribe to any fake news publication. The problem comes in when you deal with people who are under fake news control. My approach has been to tell them they are disinformed and provide an example or in some other way make it known they've been conned.<li>I put a sign on my door telling solicitors that I charge $250/hour and to have their credit card ready when they reach for the doorbell. This stopped those annoyances completely. Down from 15+ per day to dead zero.<li>When medical people start mindlessly repeating the idiocy they have been taught or misuse "health care" I ask them what Health School they went to and why they have an RN or MD after their name instead of an HD. They get my point.</ul><p><b>Roads</b><p>There are two problems with the road situation. First, the Covid shots have severely damaged the brains of many people due to the excessive clotting caused by log jams of spike proteins. I'm not saying everyone who was conned or coerced into undergoing that medical experiment is now stupid. I am saying it has caused a huge spike in stupidity due to organic damage. Combined with that, we have the distraction craze and extremely short attention spans. This results in "dazed and confused" drivers meandering slowly up an entrance ramp to pull out into 70MPH traffic at only 35MPH and others to sleep while at the front of the turn lane. This is what stimulates the road rage and hyper aggression in people who are vulnerable to losing control due to such factors as the chronic low level stress present in our society (dozens of frustrations each day, driving people to the verge of insanity).<p>We cannot fix these problems, but we can be alert to unfolding situations and we can choose not to escalate. One thing we cannot do is count on police protection, because the communists used George Floyd's suicide as an excuse to launch a campaign to defund the police and generally make the life of a police officer more stressful and frustrating than it actually is. On top of that, President Autopen appointed many woke judges who believe our laws need to be opposed rather than enforced. We need twice as many police officers as we have now, we need vastly improved conditions for those who choose to serve, and we need better equipment for them. Mostly, they need more respect. On this last point, you can make a solid contribution. If you are pulled over or given an order by a cop, comply. If you merely encounter a cop, always give a warm smile and a sincere Thank You.<p><b>The Strategy</b><p>You can see the strategy, no? Take small, smart steps to reduce the security issues that you can do something about. Then ignore the ones you can do nothing about, so that your peace of mind isn't stolen from you.<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/20260801114345/97dce419ca4746fb896b6c9eadf910f9_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/20260801114345/20a97979bfdbad61a5a67a72d6f1ab6a_Mark2025-09-19.jpg" width="300" /></td><td valign="top">The subject of protein is rife with misinformation. I'm going to clear that up for you, in this article. It is much longer than what I usually write, but bear with me please. <p>Let's start with the bodybuilder staple, protein powder. This isn't at all what people are led to believe it is. Thanks to marketing hype and videos of Mr. Olympia contenders gulping down huge protein drinks, we tend to think these are a good idea. They aren't.<p> <p># The Protein Powder Delusion: Why I’m Stepping Away from the Tub<p>I categorically reject whey protein supplements for multiple reasons, including the milk is sourced from cows suffering from mastitis and whey becomes an endocrine modifier after ingesting relatively little of it (short chain protein, rapidly absorbed). Sourcing with New Zealand milk was once the solution for the mastitis, but it became insanely expensive. Adding casein was a solution for the endocrine issues, prompting the question, "Why not just drink whole milk?"<p>So I chose plant-based powders, but even those I now use sparingly just because all protein powders are a processed food. Not in the way "we" normally think of processed (those are now called "highly processed"). The early plant-based powders were grainy and disgusting, the solution was the same solution "we" used to make wheat flour easier to bake with—process it even more.<p>In short, if I consider whole, unhomogenized milk from grass-fed cows (e.g., Amish farms) to have an A grade (A+ if not pasteurized, but our FDA prefers sickness over health) then plant-based protein powders can achieve a C grade. For the lactose intolerant among us (pretty much everybody), whole milk is bothersome and that issue brings its grade down to a C. Thus, a spot for plant-based protein powders. If they don't have petrochemicals or seed oils added.<p>My current thinking is if you want to add extra protein, add a small fish (bottom of food chain, not predator such as tuna) such as mackerel or sardines to a vegetable-heavy meal.<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/20260801114345/2cafae1ecaf397ee23afaf79cf69038c_2025-09-21ClimbingShotByJanetSmall.jpg" width="300" /></td><td height="402" valign="top">### The Industrial "Smoothing" of Plant Proteins <p>To understand why plant-based powders max out at a C grade, we have to look at what happens in the factory to make them palatable. The early iterations of hemp, pea, and rice proteins tasted like dirt and felt like drinking sand. Consumers hated it.<p>The supplement industry solved this not by sourcing better plants, but by employing aggressive physical and chemical engineering. To make a plant protein smooth and mixable, processors subject the raw material to high-heat drying, alkaline stripping, and acid washing to isolate the protein fraction from the plant's native fiber and carbohydrates.<p>Once you isolate that protein, it loses its structural integrity. It becomes a completely dead, chalky dust. To make it behave like food again, manufacturers introduce functional additives: emulsifiers (detergents, and these interfere with intestinal motility), anti-caking agents, and thickeners like guar gum or xanthan gum to mimic the mouthfeel of dairy.<p>Then come the "natural flavors"—an opaque, proprietary loophole allowing labs to inject synthetic chemical formulations to mask the bitter taste of isolated peas or hemp. You are left with a highly engineered, isolated macronutrient that has been completely divorced from its evolutionary context.<p> <p>### The Evolution of the Whole-Food Matrix<p>When you consume a whole food, your body isn't just counting grams of protein on a spreadsheet. It is interacting with the **food matrix**. This is the complex, three-dimensional physical and chemical structure in which nutrients are naturally bound.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" valign="top"><p> </td></tr></tbody></table></div><p>In a tin of sardines or a filet of mackerel, the protein does not travel alone. It arrives intricately bound with cellular structural fats, highly bioavailable heme iron, calcium from soft bones, selenium, B vitamins, and massive doses of anti-inflammatory omega-3 fatty acids (EPA and DHA).<p>Your digestive system is an evolutionary masterpiece designed over millennia to recognize and break down these exact matrices. When fish protein enters your stomach, the presence of natural fats triggers a controlled, steady release of cholecystokinin (CCK) and other gastric hormones. This slows down gastric emptying, allowing your small intestine ample time to meticulously break down the polypeptide chains into individual amino acids. The result is a sustained, highly efficient absorption curve that your liver and muscles can actually utilize for repair and synthesis.<p> <p>### The Isolated Spike vs. True Bioavailability<p>Contrast that whole-food matrix with the biological chaos of dumping 26 grams of isolated, liquid plant protein into an empty stomach. Because the fiber, intact fats, and cellular structures have been stripped away during factory processing, the isolated powder requires almost no mechanical breakdown by the stomach.<p>It floods the small intestine rapidly. This sudden, unnatural deluge of amino acids can overwhelm the gut's transport pathways. When the body is hit with an artificial spike of isolated protein it cannot immediately use, it doesn't magically store it all in your biceps. Instead, the excess is diverted to the liver for a process called deamination, where the surplus protein is stripped of its nitrogen and converted into glucose or stored as fat, generating metabolic waste products like urea in the process. You are paying a premium to put unnecessary filtration stress on your organs. Do this chronically, and you can irreversibly damage those organs.<p>Furthermore, the supplement industry loves to talk about "amino acid profiles," but they rarely talk about *bioavailability*. Plant proteins inherently possess lower levels of certain essential amino acids (like leucine and methionine) compared to animal sources, and they often contain residual phytates and tannins that inhibit mineral absorption. While a plant-based powder avoids the chemical, toxic, and endocrine-disrupting baggage of low-grade whey, it still cannot compete with the sheer biological value score of a small fish.<p> <p>### The Exception to the Rule: Free-Form Essential Aminos<p>There is, however, a distinct biochemical line to be drawn between an industrial, macro-isolated protein powder and a targeted, free-form essential amino acid (EAA) complex. While I have largely retired protein powders from my routine, my afternoon regimen at 1500 on climbing days used to consist of a plant-based powder mix when my standard 3-egg omelet wasn't practical. Today, I have replaced that powder compromise entirely with an amino complex. Of the three I have tried, my favorite (both for taste and for the amino profile) is this one from Micro Ingredients: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GN4ZWCTP"> https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GN4ZWCTP</a><p>The distinction here with aminos isn't semantic; it’s pure cellular science.<p>When you consume a plant or whey powder, your body still has to expend massive digestive energy attempting to break down those clumpy, manufactured peptide bonds—a process that, as we’ve established, leads to poor absorption and metabolic waste. A sophisticated EAA complex completely bypasses the entire digestive tract. Because the amino acids are already in their free, crystalline form, they require zero mechanical or enzymatic breakdown by the stomach or small intestine.<p>Within minutes of ingestion, they pass directly into the bloodstream with near-100% bioavailability, delivering the exact cellular signals required for muscle protein synthesis and rapid recovery without triggering an inflammatory response or putting a filtration burden on your liver and kidneys. You also skip the insulin response that drops your testosterone to zero, a common effect of the popular whey protein powders that feature images of a steroid-using model on the tub.<p>For an athlete who demands peak output, this is the only logical alternative to a whole-food matrix. It isn't trying to be a "convenient meal replacement" packaged by a corporate conglomerate; it is a precise, molecular delivery system backed by hard clinical data. If you are going to use a supplement to bridge the gap between your whole-food meals on high-exertion days, you must move away from the dead dust of protein isolates and look toward pure, free-form chemistry.<p> <p>### Safety at the Bottom of the Food Chain<p>When transitioning away from powders back to whole animal proteins, many athletes default to chicken breast or tuna. This is a mistake. Industrial poultry is a bio-security nightmare, and apex predatory fish like tuna sit at the top of the marine food chain. A large tuna lives for years, consuming thousands of smaller fish, bioaccumulating heavy metals, microplastics, and industrial mercury in its fat tissue along the way.<p>Sardines and mackerel bypass this entirely. Because they are small, short-lived organisms feeding primarily on plankton, they do not have the lifespan or the diet required to accumulate toxic levels of heavy metals. They represent the cleanest, most concentrated burst of bioavailable animal protein available, entirely free from the corporate "wellness-washing" that plagues the supplement aisle.<p> <p>### The Verdict for the Optimized Lifestyle<p>If you are completely stranded without access to real food, or if severe gastrointestinal restrictions prevent you from digesting whole meals, a clean, plant-based powder free of seed oils and petrochemicals can act as a temporary utility tool. It is a functional C-grade bridge.<p>But if you are chasing optimal health, cognitive clarity, and genuine longevity, it is time to outgrow the supplement industry's marketing loop. Stop demanding that a factory engineer a smooth vanilla powder out of a pea. Treat protein as the complex, whole-food requirement it is. Step away from the plastic tubs, reject the highly processed isolates, and look to the bottom of the food chain for the real fuel.<p> </td></tr></tbody></table><h3 align="left">7. 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Thought for the Day</h3><p class="MsoNormal">If illegal immigrants make this country great, as the commies keep insisting, then why didn't they make their own countries great before coming here?<p class="MsoNormal"> <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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Mindconnection eNL 2026-07-19

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:28:00 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, 2026-07-19</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/enl2026-07-19.htm"> https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enlarchives/2025/enl2026-07-19.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"><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"><ol><li>There's help for those afflicted with TDS! See: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1uaO9rDFg0"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1uaO9rDFg0</a><br />  <li>Germany no longer requires the Covid jab for health people under 75. It looks like they want to maim and kill only those 75 and older, now. Progress!<br />  <li>Vivek Ramaswamy, a patriot and capitalist, is having great success in fund-raising in his campaign for Governor of Ohio. I used to live in Ohio, and there is much to like about the state. But it has had a strong communist element for a very long time. The commies want it to be a blue state for the Presidential elections, and it has been an effort to keep it red. One reason is the election integrity laws there are not as solid as they should be. If Vivek becomes governor, Ohioan voters can be protected from election fraud to a much larger extent. And that would be good for the whole country.</ol></td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><br /><font color="#FF0000"><b>Defund the Legacy Media!</b></font><p>You can help by:<ol><li>Cancelling all subscriptions to any lamestream media newsfeeds, newspapers, podcasts, etc.<li>Encouraging others to do the same.<li>Make wisecracks about how lame and dishonest CNN is. Or pick any other communist propaganda outlet. For example, "What kind of moron even watches CNN?"<br /><br />  </ol></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFCC" valign="top"><p><b>The Communists</b><p>Just a reminder to readers, I don't use euphemisms or other misleading language tricks. Thus, I call the "Democrats" exactly what they are: communists. Not as a pejorative (another language trick) but as a result of comparing their ideology to that of Karl Marx. No difference.<ol><li>When the commies defeated the SAVE Act in the Senate (thanks to John "Leftwinger" Thune), Comrade Elissa Slotkin (Senator from MI) said that if it had passed, "It would be hard for any Democrat in any state to win any election." The Comrade is correct. The commies cannot win in a fair and open election, despite owning the zombie brains of the academics and the lamestream media. What they offer is so profoundly toxic (and abjectly stupid) that nobody sane would vote for a commie candidate. Negating the democratic process is the ONLY way they can win, and that is why (as the comrade from MI pointed out) they need the ability to cheat.<br />  <li>The City Council of NYC recently gave themselves a $27,000 raise. They now make as much as US Congressmen.<br />  <li>The commies are yet again calling for yet another impeachment of President Trump. His "crime" this time? He declassified documents that showed how vulnerable our elections are. If there is one thing the commies absolutely, positively do not want, it is democracy. They loathe the very concept, as their actions prove time and time again.<br />  <li>"When anyone can register to vote without ever proving they’re a citizen, the system isn’t “accessible.” It’s compromised. And every fraudulent ballot cast doesn’t just bend the rules — it effectively silences a lawful American voter. Most functioning democracies on earth require identification to vote. <i>The fact that suggesting the same thing here launches one entire political party into a full-scale meltdown? That alone should raise every red flag in the book.</i>" [American Journal Daily]<br />  <li>"Every Senate Democrat skipped the main questioning at Chairman Rand Paul's fraud hearing, "Exposing Fraud in America," where witnesses including James O'Keefe detailed alleged ballot-signature and government-funding schemes. Republicans accused the minority of ducking a politically uncomfortable subject." [FreedomAndLibertyReport.com]</ol><p><b>Medical Care</b><p>Americans spent an average of $9,717 per person on medical care in 2024, but the figure varies widely by state, from $7,233 in Utah to $14,044 in Alaska, according to new Bureau of Economic Analysis data. In any given year, I typically spend $0 on medical care. That's because I practice health care. So the solution to runaway medical care costs is pretty obvious, is it not?<p>I have had some atypical years, garnering some medical care costs. This year, for example, I spent something like $400 for a steroid shot to counteract some kind of nasty insect sting. That cost could have been a lot less if I'd simply had access to 2.5% hydrocortizone and a few capsules of Prednisone.<p> <p><b>Big Excerpt from Coffee & Covid</b><p>If you do not subscribe to C&C, perhaps this list that appeared in the 15JUL edition will incentivize you to do so. Jeff, its author, frequently publishes some amazing stuff. Like this list of Trump accomplishments since Trump 2.0 began:<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:19.5pt"><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Symbol',sans-serif; color: #363737">ð¥</span><span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif";color:#363737"> <strong> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"">Trump 2.0 Accomplishments (as of mid-July 2026) </span></strong></span> <span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Symbol',sans-serif; color: #363737"> ð¥</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">USAID and the “Institute for Peace” closed</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">Negative net migration for the first time in 50 years</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">2.6 million+ illegal aliens removed (including 650,000 arrests and 400,000 convicted criminals) + 2 million self-deportations induced by ending incentives</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">Fentanyl trafficking crushed 56%+; overdose deaths down 21% monthly since inauguration</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">Laken Riley Act signed and aggressively enforced</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">Catch-and-release ended (99.9% drop); zero releases into the U.S. for eight straight months</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">Record-low border encounters; Darién Gap migration cut 99%</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">Largest one-year homicide drop in U.S. history; violent crime (rapes, robberies, assaults) down significantly</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">Targeted crime operations in major blue cities delivering record-low murders in several metros</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">Law enforcement officer deaths down 25%</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">Tren de Aragua, MS-13, and other cartels dismantled; international drug cartels designated as foreign terrorist organizations</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">Antifa designated a domestic terrorist organization</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">Gas under $3/gallon in 43 states; record U.S. energy production and exports at all-time highs</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">654,000+ new private-sector jobs (all net gains to native-born Americans); 671,000+ jobs added since January 2025</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">4.3% GDP growth in Q3 2025; largest blue-collar wage growth in 60 years; real earnings up ~$1,100 annually</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">Inflation tamed to ~2.4% core CPI (down ~70% from Biden peak)</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">One Big Beautiful Bill passed (July 2025) — making 2017 tax cuts permanent, No Tax on Tips, Trump Accounts for newborns, senior deductions</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">$5T+ in deregulation savings + $215 billion in government efficiency cuts ($1,335 per taxpayer)</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">$10T+ in reshored/domestic investments secured</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">Trade deficit at lowest level since 2009; $300 billion+ in tariff revenues collected; Predatory global tariffs shifted in the US’s favor for the first time in modern history</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">Stock market record highs</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">Gaza ceasefire + hostage release secured; 12-Day War (Israel-Iran) ended; multiple additional peace deals/accords (Armenia-Azerbaijan, India-Pakistan, DRC-Rwanda, Cambodia-Thailand, Kosovo-Serbia, Egypt-Ethiopia)</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">Iran’s nuclear capability destroyed + maximum pressure campaign (450+ sanctions designations)</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; 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color:#363737">85+ detained Americans released; Abraham Accords expanded</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">Strikes on Houthis, Iranian assets, and narcoterrorist vessels; Nicolás Maduro captured</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">South America shifts rightwards; Europe shifts rightwards</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; 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margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">Transgender enlistment barred; DEI eliminated across military and federal agencies</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">Over 269 executive orders signed in the term (230 in first year alone — highest first-year total since FDR); 81 memoranda + 158 proclamations</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">DOGE-driven bureaucracy cuts; IRS IT budget savings of $2B; wasteful contracts eliminated; federal retirement system automated and brought out of a literal coal mine</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">DEI discrimination banned in federal contracting and agencies; race-based hiring ended</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">DEI outlawed for college admissions; colleges’ patent revenue shared with taxpayers who funded it</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; 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color:#363737">Gender ideology extremism curbed in schools, medicine, and government (minors protected from chemical/surgical procedures); girls’ sports protected from creeps</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">MAHA reforms launched: Presidential Commission established; Most Favored Nation drug pricing with 16+ major pharma companies; 8 artificial food dyes phased out (40%+ industry compliance); Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act; marijuana reclassified to Schedule III; childhood vaccine schedule revised from 72 to 11 consensus shots; expanded IVF access; $50M autism initiative; new whole-foods dietary guidelines</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">Massive firings at CDC, FDA, NIH of sold-out scientists; Ralph Baric and EcoHealth debarred; even some arrests</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">Withdrew from WHO</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">Crypto regulatory framework via GENIUS Act; Strategic Bitcoin Reserve created; Operation Choke Point 2.0 ended</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">Sanctuary city funding cuts implemented</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">Election integrity and citizenship verification measures expanded nationwide; USPS program pending; SAVE Act drafted and run at Congress several times now</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; 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line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">Trump Accounts launched for newborns with federal seed funding + corporate matching</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">Farmer aid secured; skilled trades and domestic manufacturing (semiconductors, autos, heavy equipment) expanded</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">Over 100,000 fraudulent visas revoked; 275,000 illegal aliens removed from Social Security rolls; benefits terminated for 1.4 million illegal aliens; H1-B crackdowns and $100,000 application fees</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">62,000+ missing migrant children rescued; Alien Enemies Act invoked against gangs</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">Vice-president-led welfare fraud task force recovering billions and making mass arrests</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">$2B sent to rebuild Western North Carolina</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">Massive AI, space, and nuclear investment projects</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">John Bolton convicted. <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/2c4c9161-8a19-43d0-b776-5506074db428?j=eyJ1IjoiMTF1bnBsIn0.x6gPXauwqMzEu8M8dC0W-FnMb1nreepqY624K1vO5UE" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single"> <span style="color:#7E2310">James Comey</span></a> arrested. John Brennan under investigation (probably facing a grand jury).</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">RussiaGate grand jury set up and running in Florida.</span><p style="text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 19.5pt; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #363737">·<span style="font:7.0pt " times new roman"">         </span></span> <span style="font-family:" arial","sans-serif"; color:#363737">DOJ/ODNI seized Fulton County 2020 ballots. Trump is still working on Plans B, C, D, etc, with a ‘new’ integrity announcement scheduled as soon as tomorrow night.</span><p>To see the rest of that edition (and more): <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/the-list-wednesday-july-15-2026-c?r=11unpl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email"> https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/the-list-wednesday-july-15-2026-c?r=11unpl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email</a><p>But wait, isn't such a big excerpt violating Jeff's intellectual property? Ordinarily, it probably would. But Jeff wrote this: "Anyway, now that I’ve got it started, we can all, myself included, bookmark today’s post and save it to answer the trendy social media complaints like the one above. Just paste the whole list as an instant reply to complainers, if you like. Let’s shut down this narrative, hard." If you read that entire edition, you will get the context and Jeff's rationale.</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">One of my readers wrote about the insanely high level of profanity in use today, especially among those on the political left. This was during the Independence Day Weekend. He made some good points, and also stated he does not use profanity. <p>After sending him a reply, I thought a bit more on the subject. Nowhere in our highly regarded Declaration of Independence is there a single F-bomb. And that was a  pretty important subject, with people's lives on the line and a need to motivate the colonists to unite.<p>I can't find any profanity in the Gettysburg Address, either. Can you?<p>The crazy people who call themselves "Trans activists" use F-bombs and other profanity at a very high rate. They claim it's justified and helpful, because (they claim) their civil rights are being violated. But they are not a protected class or even a natural class of people. They are simply people who ignore basic biology to foment an absurd and delusional ideology that offers zero benefit and a multitude of harms. What about the American negro, who endured 100 years of civil rights violations after the Emancipation Act was signed? From Frederick Douglas to Martin Luther King, not a single use of profanity among the leaders of that movement.<p>I am not saying profanity is totally unacceptable in society. I am saying you might pause before using it, and opt for something that communicates an actual fact or idea.<p>I have heard profanity used like a condiment (hot sauce, namely) to drive home a point. A CEO, after presenting a rational overview of a problem might drop one F-bomb. What you do not hear is a string of F-bombs used in lieu of making a rational statement or argument. It is intended to show shock or disbelief. If it is done rarely and with the right timing, it's acceptable (except where children might be exposed to it).<p>But "acceptable" does not mean optimal. Let me use an example for the electrical geeks out there.<p>I have written about surge protection several times in my long technical writing career. Non-geeks are familiar with surge strips and other point of use surge protective devices (SPDs). Those are what we geeks call Type 3. If used without Type 1 and Type 2, they are almost useless. Type 1 SPDs use one of two technologies to divert really high energy (such as lightning) to ground--at the power source, such as the service entrance equipment. Type 2 SPDs handle a lower energy level, and they are used at the "feeder" panels (you don't have these in your home, but they are extremely important in commercial and industrial premises wiring).<p>I could use an F-bomb to emphasize the importance of staged surge protection (e.g., the T-1+T2+T3 approach) and maybe get more attention. But I won't get more clarity or understanding. Acceptable, but not very helpful. Straining one's noodle a bit more to come up with precise wording is, in my view, much better.<p>"The transient will jump right across the f**ing leads of a Type 3 SPD" is catchy, but it doesn't convey the same technical authority as "Lightning can jump more than a mile, because it is millions of volts. This is why you must divert high-energy surges to ground at the entrance. Even a few thousand volts will easily jump the few inches between the leads of a Type 3 SPD".<br /><br /> Or take the F-bomb heavy rants by "Social warriors for justice". These communicate unthinking rage instead of an idea. In their case, they really have no choice because their ideas are just plain stupid and not worth articulating anyhow.<p>One danger of the profanity-first approach is you train your brain to skip past the reasoning and simply spew your view without substantiating it. Which also means you probably have not thought things through to arrive at a view that is actually correct.<p>In my own view: When someone curses instead of articulates, he is demonstrating that he doesn't consider what he has to say as worthy of much thought. So I am much more convinced by a thoughtful, reasoned argument than a mere stipulation decorated with obscenities.<p>In a broader view: Cursing is like bolding text or putting it in all caps. If you emphasize too much, you emphasize nothing. A little salt improves the flavor, but if the salt shaker cap comes off you ruin the food.</td></tr></tbody></table><h3 align="left"><br />  </h3><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td><h3 align="left">4. Finance tip</h3><p align="left">I am amazed at the money people throw away. Consider these examples from my own neighborhood:<ul><li><p align="left">Bagging up grass clippings, then paying Tru Green to spray chemical fertilizers onto the lawn.<li><p align="left">Spraying "weed killer" to get rid of the native plants in your yard, but constantly reseeding because non-native grasses obviously don't belong in your lawn else they'd already be native to the area.<li><p align="left">Standing with the door open and the AC running to talk with yet another siding salesman.<li><p align="left">Owning two vehicles "in case I have to take the other one to the shop". Tally up the insurance, maintenance, etc., and renting a car for "shop time" is a lot cheaper.<br />  </ul><p align="left">And these:<ul><li><p align="left">Paying a gym membership so you can walk the track and run the treadmill, but telling your kids to go outside and play when you could stay home from the gym and chase them around.<li><p align="left">Standing with your refrigerator door open while staring inside and deciding what to eat.<li><p align="left">Baking pies for a picnic in the afternoon, instead of in the morning.<br />  <li><p align="left">Paying for a newspaper subscription (other than the Epoch Times), when you don't even have a bird with a cage to line.<li><p align="left">Buying more perishables than you need, because they are on sale. Well, when they perish you don't save any money.<li><p align="left">Paying for "nitrogen" to inflate your tires. The air you breathe is about 78% nitrogen, so you already have nitrogen in your tires. If you replace the air in your tires with the 93% nitrogen in the bottle used for filling your tires, you will still have the regular air (at 1 atm pressure) in those tires unless somehow the tire tech is able to mount the tire in a vacuum chamber. It's a complete waste of money.<br />  </ul><p align="left">Here are some bad ways to "save money":<ul><li><p align="left">Keeping the screwdriver with the chipped blade, just noting to "be careful with it".<li><p align="left">Buying a $29 DMM (aka "voltmeter") on Amazon. I used professional equipment for years, and have an array of it. The cheap stuff is not safe for general use around home and auto. It is OK for electronic circuit boards, but not built to withstand what it might be exposed to on 120V home circuits or high-amp automotive ones.<li><p align="left">Buying cheap particleboard furniture. Not only does it emit carcinogens into your home, it doesn't last long and you have to replace it.</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>Communism is an idiotic ideology that promotes the idiocy that everyone is equal and should be paid equally despite making vastly unequal contributions. Young people tend to latch onto this as somehow being a good thing, but most eventually grow up and reject this idiocy. Partly because it is profoundly unfair, and partly because it's just plain stupid.<p>Unless they are terminally stupid like Elizabeth Moron or profiting from it like Bernie Sanders, nobody likes the results of this ideology.<p>What's left out of the propaganda is some people are more equal than others and get rewarded for stealing instead of contributing, living well above those who work. Orwell's Animal Farm is a great novel that exposes communism for what it is.<p>If you have kids, make sure they read Animal Farm and discuss it with you. If you have a young commie at your workplace, take that person out to lunch and say, "I have a gift for you. Take this book home and read it. Twice. If you want to discuss it with me, that's OK. And it's OK if you don't."<p>Some other things you can do to teach your kids about how insane and ugly communism is:<ul><li>Ask your son, "So if I offered to pay little Jimmy down the street $100 if you cleaned up all the dog crap in every backyard on the block for a week, would you clean it up? Unless your boy really, really likes little Jimmy, the answer will be a resounding no. Then tell your kid, "That's not communism, son. Communism is where I force you to clean it up and then I  pay little Jimmy instead of you."<br />  <li>Have your daughter identify her six prized possessions. Then tell her, "Under communism, nobody has any property rights. If we were communists, all six of those would be gone. Now, I want you to put them in this box and experience some communism for three weeks. After which I will give these back, but under communism you'd never see them again.<br />  <li>Explain to them that communism came from a mentally ill, very angry man named Karl Marx. Marx said socialism is a temporary phase between capitalism and communism. And then explain the Holocaust to them (show videos and still images, too). Point out that the Nazis did this. Ask them if they know what Nazi means, and if not tell them it is the National Socialist Party of Germany. Then talk about the 12 million Jews murdered by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics at about that time. Talk about Pol Pot. Talk about organ harvesting in China. None of these atrocities happen in capitalist countries, they always happen in socialist ones. And the reason is that socialism dehumanizes people.</ul><p> <p> <p> <p> <p> <p>Marxism is a threat to any civilized society. It must be prevented. And we must ensure that children see it as the malignancy that it is, and reject it. Don't wait until they are old enough to vote and already deeply brainwashed.<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/20260718122824/97dce419ca4746fb896b6c9eadf910f9_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/20260718122824/20a97979bfdbad61a5a67a72d6f1ab6a_Mark2025-09-19.jpg" width="300" /></td><td valign="top"><p>A person I have known for a very long time, let's call her Glenda, used to ridicule me for refusing to eat junk food. Her attitude was it doesn't make any difference. It does, however, make a huge difference. As she got older and recognized that weighing 50lbs more than she did in high school meant she was too fat, she began changing how she ate. She doesn't have definition in her arms or anywhere else, but she's not what you'd call especially fat either. She looks better and feels better.<p>Glenda still does not understand the importance of meal frequency, and ridicules me for eating six small meals a day. When I have tried to explain the science, she has often scoffed, "That's your opinion". Actually, this concept is baked into our labor laws and with good reason. If you're curious about the science, just ask an AI such as Gemini, Chat GPT, or Copilot to explain it to you. Ask about endocrine balance, kidney strain from too much protein at once, and how the body deals with a meal every three hours versus only three times per day.<p>That brings me to another issue, and I will get back to Glenda. Some people who eat processed food instead of real food and skip a lot of meals decide to get a bariatric bypass operation or a similar surgery. This forces them to, drum roll please, eat six to eight small meals per day. As my sister has repeatedly pointed out, the smart move here is to go to the "small meals" plan and skip the surgery. Duh.<p>Glenda hates gyms and has characterized my training regimen as "exercise". She says she's got that covered just as well as I have, because she takes the stairs instead of the elevator. And she "parks way out" so that she walks farther to get into a store.<p>But training and exercise are two entirely different concepts. One obvious thing about her stairs "workout"  is she is not getting the full range of motion. I do a variety of squats that complement each other, hitting the muscles (and not just my quads) in different ways. My Leg Day is designed to stimulate the adaptive response by pushing my limits. Time under tension, cellular damage, and metabolic stress are all taken to high levels. It takes almost a week to recover from that, a very different thing from the demands of going up or down a few flights of stairs. Then there are the upper body workouts, similar thing and well-deserved attention to the posterior chain.<p>Just "getting exercise" isn't enough to produce the aesthetics and functional strength you can have if you are consistent with a well-designed training program. It's not rocket science to develop one, but you have to do your research and pick exercises (for a given joint or muscle group) that each make up for some deficiency in the others. And then you need to do them correctly and in the proper order.</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/20260718122824/2cafae1ecaf397ee23afaf79cf69038c_2025-09-21ClimbingShotByJanetSmall.jpg" width="300" /></td><td height="402" valign="top"><p> <p> <p>Here are some common mistakes:<ul><li>Starting with isolation exercises. You end with these, you start with the large compound movements.<li>Piling on the weights. This is how you strain your tendons, cause your body to compensate (e.g., recruit the wrong muscles), and lose the mind-body connection. If you do this with large compound movements, you risk serious injury and death because you can't control the weight.<li>Taking large compound movements to failure. This is how you get hurt.<br />  <li>Not taking isolation movements to failure. The last one to three reps will give you 80% of your growth stimulus. Why? Because you can barely do them, and your body gets the signal that growth is needed.<li>Lifting in the comfort range instead of at the full extension. Use less weight, change angles, and work at the full extension. This is where the "functional" takes place, not at full contraction.<li>Relying on machines. These often isolate muscles that naturally work together, which sacrifices the development of functional strength. Do squats instead of leg presses.<br />  <li>Ignoring bands and cables. Gravity usually confounds the use of free weights, because you usually move the weights in an arc in which the resistance is constantly changing. With bands or cables, this problem is eliminated. I do the bench press (in very strict form) and dumbbell presses (dropping way, way down to stretch those pecs) but I focus heavily on bands. If you look at my top photo, you can see what this does to the pecs.<li>Constantly changing up the workout. You have to learn the movements. Not just how to do them correctly, but also what weight to use. You also need to see how your collection of exercise is working. Too much rear delt work or not enough? It takes weeks to sort this. Changing your workout all the time makes it a performance, not training, session.<li>Never changing your workout. If you have an imbalance, it's time to adjust things. Or if you find yourself cheating too much on a given exercise, try a variation or a different one that is more conducive to good form. Elbow pain, shoulder issues, a glute not firing, and other issues can mean it's time to change what you are doing.</ul></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">Stupidity in the Democratic Party is not new, it is a long-held core value. Here is a clip from 1940: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5PInhXkfvs"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5PInhXkfvs</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><h3 align="left"> </h3><h3 align="left">8. Thought for the Day</h3><p class="MsoNormal">When I was very young, I thought the universe was infinite and stupidity was finite. Astronomers have proven the first to be true, and Democrats have proven the second to be false.<p class="MsoNormal"> <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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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/enl2026-06-21.htm"> https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enlarchives/2025/enl2026-06-21.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"><ol><li> More progress in stopping crime: "This week, USDA Secretary Rollins announced that they had uncovered almost 700,000 criminals fraudulently benefiting from SNAP across the country, including nearly 200,000 fraudsters using dead people’s Social Security numbers and nearly 500,000 fraudsters collecting benefits in multiple states. " [Senator Roger Marshall, 12JUN2026]<br />  <li>Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire. Good for him. He's brought a lot of people along with him, creating good-paying jobs. Elizabeth Moron claims that's immoral. She's immoral. And a moron.<br />  <li>The USA is the world's largest oil exporter, now for three months in a row. This gives us a huge advantage on the world stage.<br /> "The U.S. exported approximately 10.5 million barrels of crude oil and refined petroleum products per day in May, surpassing both Russia and Saudi Arabia for the third consecutive month. Russia exported roughly 7 million barrels per day, while Saudi Arabia shipped about 5.9 million barrels daily." [Big League Politics].<br />  <li>Good summary of the Iran War outcome: <a href="https://x.com/Jaredhowe/status/2067403139410547128"> https://x.com/Jaredhowe/status/2067403139410547128</a><br />  <li>The oil is flowing. With no tolls from Iran, and with no funding of terrorists.<br />  <li>Speaking of terrorists, "Doctor" Anthony Mengele Fauci, is being officially exposed: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7JAAF0VbQI"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7JAAF0VbQI</a>. Perhaps this psychopath will be extradited to Nuremberg to stand trial and subsequently hang from a rope--just as his predecessors were in the mid-1940s. And perhaps his co-criminals will also be brought to justice.<br />  <li>The legacy ("lamestream") media are not covering what may be the "crime of the century"--what Fauci and his fellow psychopaths unleashed on the world. Totally silent. I think that's great, as it will prove their uselessness as the actual story rolls out. And this will shift thousands, if not millions of legacy media subscribers away from legacy media. Advertisers will drop them, and they will circle the drain for a while and then go dark. The legacy media will defund themselves. It will be the only useful thing they have done in decades.</ol></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 Viewpoints, Then and Now</b><ul><li>My body, my choice: Acceptable defense for late-term abortions. But not acceptable for refusing illegal mandates to undergo medical experimentation without informed consent.<li>If a man wears blackface to present himself as black, it's OK to beat him into unconsciousness and break a few of his bones. But if a man puts on lipstick and a dress, he is to be adored (and allowed into girls' locker rooms and restrooms).<li>It was not long ago that if you chose not to cover your face, they imposed hefty fines and personally attacked you. Now they claim that ICE agents are "terrorists" for wearing masks. But ICE agents have already been personally identified and their families threatened. When they go on raids, they wear badges and blazers that clearly identify them as ICE. It isn't necessary to expose the individual ICE agents' identities. It is necessary to conceal those identities from the violent left-wing criminals who want to attack police officers for enforcing our laws.<br /><br /> And it's still perfectly OK, in the commie view, for masked people to enter banks.<br />  <li>Democrats are shocked to discover that the Southern Poverty Law Center was paying people to join the KKK or renew their membership in the KKK. "It makes us look racist!" Well, yeah, the Democrat Party has always been racist. They will never forgive us for taking their slaves away, and they will never forgive the slaves for leaving. They still claim that black people are too stupid to get a job on their own or to obtain a government ID.<li>They say things like "Save our Democracy" when we have a republic, not a democracy, and when they go to extremes to defeat election integrity measures and when they engage in blatant and obvious undermining of democracy.<li>Now they claim "Donald Trump is cognitively impaired". All evidence points in the opposite direction. But let's also consider who is making this false claim. It's the party of Elizabeth Moron, Airhead OC, Kamala Harris, and Joe "walking vegetable" Biden. They do not have a single prominent member who is not utterly stupid. If they have anyone with an IQ as high as average, that person is hiding from the public.<br />  <li>Commies such as Elizabeth  Moron have been mindlessly repeating the term "Trump's disastrous economic policies" while fighting viciously against removing millions of dead people from the SNAP program. They also fail to explain how injecting $14 trillion (4.5X the GDP of Japan) of foreign investment into our manufacturing sector is "disastrous".<li>During the Communist Occupation, millions of Americans lost their jobs and the commies called this "great economic performance". Under the Trump administration, employment has risen dramatically and the commies call that an affordability crisis for Americans.<li>During the Communist Occupation, Medicare fraud grew exponentially. This theft put the system in jeopardy for those who are legally entitled to the benefits and depend upon them. The commies saw no problem with this. But when the Trump administration cracked down on the theft and thus protected those benefits for the entitled, the commies declared Trump was "depriving people of their Medicare".<br />  <li>The commies correctly claim that the Trump administration kicked millions of people off of Social Security and Medicare. They neglect to mention those are all dead people, people who never existed, people who collect multiple times under multiple aliases, and people who are not legally entitled by collected anyhow through fraud.<li>The commies complain that the SCOTUS "does the bidding of Trump", when in fact no serious analysis of SCOTUS decisions since Trump first took office supports the claim. The commies fail to note that of their three captive Justices, one is severely demented, one is profoundly stupid and often confused, and the other is a DEI hire who lacks the basic qualifications for the job and whose dissents are textbook examples of "crazy".<li>The commies warn about "white nationalists" and claim this mystery group is a threat to "minorities". Yet, no such group has ever staged a protest much less a "mostly peaceful" one involving violence. By contrast, "white liberals" and paid Antifa thugs regularly engage in violence against ordinary civilians, police just doing their job, and businesses that had the bad luck of being in the target location.</ul><p>The idiocy of these idiots would make a good basis for a television comedy. Unfortunately, it's the basis for the "news" that millions of Americans foolishly tune into, essentially lobotomizing them. We never needed to defund the police. We desperately need to defund the legacy media.<p> <p><b>Solving Our Core Problem</b><p>"According to the Elon University/YouGov America 250 National Survey, 55 percent of Democrats answered “yes” when asked whether there is another country on Earth where they would rather live than America today. By comparison, just 10 percent of Republicans said they would prefer living elsewhere, while 38 percent of independents agreed with the sentiment.<br /><br /> The survey, conducted from April 30 through May 4 among 1,000 U.S. adults, carries a margin of error of plus or minus 3.95 percentage points." [Big League Politics, 09JUN2026]<p>There you have it. If those communists would move to some other country, our core problems as a nation would be solved. No more treason or sedition disguised as "Congressional inquiry" by communist members of the House (e.g.. Airhead Obnoxious Communist) or Senate (e.g., Elizabeth Moron). Free and honest elections. No disinformation by the lamestream media (its patrons would be gone). No more assassinations, racist programs, perversion forced on school kids, violent "protests", or other insanity. Our country would be orders of magnitude better off, with more freedom and more prosperity.<p>Given the huge benefits, I firmly believe it is a good investment to give each of these commies a $75,000 stipend to renounce their USA citizenship and permanently relocate outside the USA. Of course, the commies are known for being drama queens so the number of them who are actually serious about leaving the USA is small. Remember all the celebrity libtards who said if Trump beat Hillary they would flee the USA? They never left! Maybe there are 10,000 commies who would take the $75,000 and improve our country by no longer being here. Among them, there are likely to be a dozen or so whose absence would really matter in the overall scheme; commies with influence and some radical commies who do the dirty work that so damages us.<p> <p><b>Using Euphemisms</b><p>People are so mean, these days. Especially those on the left. With them, it's not just the violence--the shooting at conservative leaders, the tossing of firebombs into police cars, or the severely beating of people who don't agree with them. It's also their word choices. They use the worst possible words, magnifying something way beyond what it is--when referring to conservatives. A conservative who jaywalks is "a threat to our democracy", not just a jaywalker. They use euphemisms also, for example if a mob of anti-Semites chases a half a dozen Jewish students into a library but can't get past the doors so they yell "Death to Jews" then they are "peacefully protesting".<p>We should follow their euphemism example. If a house is a total dump, a Realtor will say it's "rustic". Sometimes people will say a compulsive liar "stretches the truth". See the pattern? The idea is to soften what would otherwise be insulting and inflammatory language.<p>So instead of saying how you really feel about libtards, just say they are stupid and useless. That really softens the truth. Be nice out there!<p> </td></tr></tbody></table><p align="left"> <h3 align="left">2. 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This is the reading pen most often chosen by teachers and recommended for dyslexia support.<li>6-IN-1 READING TUTOR SYSTEM: Go beyond basic text-to-speech with spelling, syllabication (Orton-Gillingham inspired), phrasal verb lookup, idiom definitions, color-coded dictionary fields, and real-time word highlighting—designed to improve decoding, comprehension, and fluency.<br />  <li><b>READS ANY SURFACE</b>. Scans what you actually read from: phone, tablet, PC, other screens - not just paper. We could not find a single other reading pen that can do this. But the Rocket Pen can.<br />  <li>READER PEN: You scan, it reads aloud individual words and even multiple lines of text in natural voice. Helps those with dyslexia or other reading-challenges gain reading independence. Earbuds automatically mute the built-in speaker to avoid classroom stigma. Select different voices for playback, lefthand or righthand use, left or right scan direction.<li>REALLY BIG DICTIONARIES: A reader pen's word recognition capability depends on the depth of its onboard dictionary references. The Rocket Pen has the New Oxford American Dictionary with over twice the entries of the best competing reading pens, plus the Oxford American Children’s Dictionary. It also has the Oxford Thesaurus of English and Oxford American Children’s Thesaurus. All of these are Americanized. The Rocket Pen scans English and French only, but contains an English to Spanish dictionary and a French definitions dictionary (French to French).<li>COMES COMPLETE. Self-contained, no computer, tablet, phone, or Wi-Fi required. Kit includes Rocket Pen reading tutor, USB charging cable, Quick Start Guide, earphones, and case. Meets FCC, ROHS, and CE standards, and conquers illiteracy.<li>BACKED BY EXPERIENCE. The lead developers of the Rocket Pen Reading Tutor each have over 25 years of experience in reading assistive devices, and yet the Rocket Pen is the newest and most advanced reading pen on the market. And the only one with reading tutor functions</ul><p> <p>In <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?me=AVFHERP2L596L&merchant=AVFHERP2L596L"> our Amazon store</a> you will see more offerings, including:<p><b>Disability Products:</b><p><b>(We are the sole Amazon seller for these)</b><ul><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F3N3P4ZY">BlindShell phones for the blind</a><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BGCWV67M">RealSAM Pocket</a>, which is a voice operated Galaxy smart phone for the blind<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></ul><p><b>Tools:</b><ul><li>AEM instruments<li>Bahco tools<li>Case tools<li>CAT tools<li>CPS tools<li>Irwin saw blades<li>Mayes tools<li>Rigid Tools work lights and related<li>Vessel tools<li>Wera tools<li>Wiha tools<li>Williams tools</ul><p><b>More:</b><ul><li>American Hard Bag aftermarket sound system parts for Harley Davidson motorcycles<li>Centerpoint Archery devices<li>Cold Steel knives<li>Dead Downwind hunting products<li>G5 hunting products<li>Flexilla hose connectors<li>Funko collectibles<li>Liberty Monitors hidden camera gadgets<li>Mike Holt Electrical Exam Preparation products<li>Nagy's aftermarket sound system parts for Harley Davidson motorcycles<li>Paraben Consumer data recovery sticks, porn detection sticks, and similar diagnostic/ IT tools<li>ROK straps<li>Rostra universal cruise control kits<li>Swhacker archery products</ul><p>In our <a href="https://www.ebay.com/str/mindconnectionllc">eBay store</a>, you will see a lot of radios and related gear:<p><b>Radios:</b><ul><li>Anytone 10 meter radios<li>Connex 10 meter radios<li>Dosy meters<li>General (brand) radios<li>Galaxy 10 meter and 11 meter (CB) radios<li>President 10 and 11 meter radios<li>Ranger 10 meter radios<li>Texas Ranger radios (Chuck Norris not included, sorry)<li>Uniden radios and scanners</ul><p> </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">If you get distracted by things of little consequence or value, you consequently give important or high-value things less attention than they deserve. You have only so much brainpower, and where you aim it is thus important. <p>Most of us get this mostly right. And most of us can do better. Before going down a rabbit hole, ask yourself if the issue is even worth your time. Asking these questions can help you determine that:<ul><li>Do I have other things that I should worry about first?<li>What's the worst that can happen if I ignore this?<li>What's the actual benefit of addressing this?<li>What do I have to NOT DO so that I can do this?<li>What resources would be needed to address this?<li>Is an actionable solution possible?</ul><p>An MBA looking at the list would say it's a basic cost/benefit analysis combined with a quick risk analysis, and that's correct. You might think these steps would just reflexively be done by everyone. And you would be mostly correct.<p>I see two big exceptions:<ol><li>Health care. The vast majority of people do not take care of their health. They eat processed food and do other health-damaging things because they have been gaslighted with the idiocy that medical insurance is "health care" and medical treatments can fix poor health choices. You need to make your health care a priority; go over those six bullets above.<li>Fear porn. Fear porn triggers the fight or flight response, part of which is shutting down the cerebral cortex to permit the faster parts of the brain to take over. Which is another way of saying that fear porn addicts are physically incapable of thinking (much less critical thinking). Fear porn is "Botox for the brain".</ol><p>Basic health care starts with your food purchases. Never from a fast-food joint and never any highly processed food. Buy 90% of it in the produce department. That'll get you 75% of the way to health, because it eliminates the worst sources of health damage.<p>Solving for fear porn uses a similar strategy. Disconnect from the toxic "fast food" offered by lamestream media. Cancel your newsfeeds, don't watch television, and don't read anything published by known pron fear offenders such as the New York Times.<p>Many people are reluctant to replace fake food with real food, believing that they are "giving up" something. They have it backwards; by eating those processed foods, they are giving up their health. By eliminating those processed foods, they are regaining their health.<p>Similarly, many people are reluctant to end their addiction to fear porn. They feel they might "miss something" or fail to be informed. They have it backwards; by intaking the fear porn, they are giving up cognitive abilities. By eliminating fear porn, they are regaining their intelligence.<p>You don't need to suffer from a full-blown addiction to be partially or mostly disable by fear porn. For example, the guy who listens to the morning news on the way to work and doesn't do news at any other time isn't addicted. He just has a behavioral pattern (aka, habit). But each morning, he subjects himself to Botox for the brain and then starts his work day. He certainly is not helping his career, this way.<p>I am not saying to bury your head in the sand. I am saying to get information, even if it's bad and leads to stress, from reputable sources that try to be objective rather than sensational. The sensational ones, all of those in the lamestream world, are  pushing a clearly bad ideology (Marxism) and using Botox for the brain so people will not use their BS filters at all.</td></tr></tbody></table><h3 align="left"><br />  </h3><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td><h3 align="left">4. Finance tip</h3><p align="left">A leftie told me he was cutting his food bill by 15% due to the high cost of gasoline. Why 15% and how exactly is that implemented? He can't say. But he is retired and probably drives less than 2,500 miles a year. He hardly needs to cut back on groceries to accommodate fuel prices that are still lower than their peak during the Communist Occupation.<p align="left">He owns two vehicles, both of which have heavily oxidized paint and absolutely zero shine. One is a Toyota Forerunner he has ready as his "emergency evacuation car". It's packed with various kinds of survival gear and bottled water. Despite its being such a large vehicle with a capacious cargo area, there's hardly any room inside it. Think of the money he has tied up, and the money he keeps burning on licensing, insuring, maintaining, and stocking the vehicle.<p align="left">I asked him what kind of emergency event would he expect to drive away from, and how likely he thought that the same aggressive idiots who cause our severe traffic jams every afternoon will drive out on the interstate in a competent and civil manner if they thought they were fleeing for their lives?<p align="left">He lives close to the geographic center of the USA. No chance of hurricanes, and for tornadoes you shelter in place. He lives on a hill and the storm water runoff system around his property is way overbuilt; there is zero chance he will get flooded, but if he does there is zero way to drive away from it. He's fixated on addressing something that has no chance of occurring, while at the same time increasing his stress, anxiety, and cost of living.<p align="left">He's an extreme example of misplaced priorities. And they are misplaced because he's delusional. He's delusional, because he lives in constant fear of catastrophe. He is so fearful because he has a fear porn habit.<p align="left"><b>Fear and insurance</b><p align="left">I read recently that millions of Americans have stopped living in fear of zero-chance medical problems and no longer carry medical insurance. I made that decision decades ago. When I told people they just could not believe I would "have such a high tolerance for risk". The same people eat processed food, barely exercise, use fancy cleaning products (all are very toxic), spray Roundup on their lawn, have never taken a defensive driving course, look to their doctor for health advice, and arrange for expensive packages to be delivered to their porch. And they think that I am the one who takes excessive risk? Wow, that is either arrogance or an intellectual blind spot big enough to drive a Toyota Roadrunner through.<p align="left">The good development is that millions of Americans have decided to stop giving in to the fear porn that promotes bloated medical insurance policies. They have decided to stop shelling out $1800/month for insurance they will never use. And if they do need injury attention, being uninsured will in most cases get them a cost that is less than their co-pay cost. Many carry catastrophic or hospital insurance only, and because the monthly premium is usually under $50 the math is acceptable even though the likelihood of using it is low--that is exactly the basis for all other forms of insurance. Just not for medical insurance.<p align="left">There's no fear porn behind my auto insurance policy, only actual risk assessment. The same goes for my homeowner's insurance. Neither of these policies covers anything idiotic. Neither of them covers unnecessary testing, chemicals, or unnecessary procedures. Medical insurance is the exact opposite.<p align="left">The Forerunner guy also started talking about installing an emergency generator. We do have a power outage a couple of times each year. It usually lasts less than an hour. The longest ever was something like six hours. Now, an emergency generator is a very big investment and it must be serviced by a qualified technician. I used to work on these systems at a nuclear power plant. Unless you go with gas, you also must maintain the (usually diesel) fuel tanks. Why spend all that money to avoid a little inconvenience? He was afraid we might someday go without power for several weeks. But that fear had no basis in reality. Not only that, if anything could hurt our power delivery system that badly then loss of electricity would be the least of our problems.<p align="left"><b>Insurance vs. protection</b><p align="left">Insurance isn't really protection, in the normal sense of the word. It does not stop the problem from happening. It is there to protect you from financial ruin, should the problem occur. If you don't run or own a business (or have an expensive hobby) and you don't have some extremely bad medical condition, the only insurance you need are home and auto. Maybe also plane and boat, if you are rich enough to have those toys.<p align="left">You protect your home by doing things such as keeping its appearance neat. And by making friends with your neighbors, so you can look out for each other. Another way to protect your home, if you have any tall trees. If a storm is forecasted, water your trees the day before or even just a few hours before.<p align="left">You protect your health by foregoing vaccines and processed food, and also doing the positive things that contribute to health. There's no insurance product that can do this. It's all up to you. But carry it only so far. People who obsess over their FitBits, BMI, calories, macros, or other aspects raise their cortisol rather than improve their health. Obsessing over non-existent dangers will often result in a preventable illness or fatality. I knew a guy who would drink only distilled water. Consequently, he was chronically dehydrated and thus had high blood pressure. He died from heart failure.<p align="left"><b>Keep it real</b><p align="left">You have only so many resources and only so much emotional energy. Don't waste it stressing out about doomsday scenarios that might be good for a movie script but don't reflect real life.<p align="left">Take home security, for example. To make my home "really secure," I would have a dozen loaded firearms hidden throughout my home. That would increase my chances of surviving if a cartel gang drove a truck up my steps and through the front wall of my home (no access on sides or back). But that event has zero chances of occurring. Why should I spend $25,000 to protect against it? And then there's the time wasted cleaning those guns every few months. My home is secure enough, with the weapons and defenses I have in place already. I don't deal drugs or live in a place where that goes on. But I do have security cameras, fiberglass doors, and burglar-resistant windows. I feel secure enough, and for good reason.<p align="left">You also don't need to stock up on MREs or spend $50K to outfit an escape vehicle. Some people do such things because they are irrational. The danger has no chance of happening, and their solution means diverting resources away from things that are actually needed.<p align="left">The Toyota Forerunner guy is in desperate need of house cleaning, but "can't afford" to have it done because his money has gone into his fear porn response. By "cleaning" I don't mean dusting and vacuuming. I mean hiring a company that will fill a dumpster with the tuff he has stacked from floor to ceiling. It would not surprise me if he had spent >$100K stocking up on things. An eight year supply of pet kibble, a 50 year supply of tea, and pretty much four of everything that a normal person would have one of. And a lot of stuff almost nobody would have. His big fear is the item might not be in stock at a store if he ever needs a replacement. What else could he have done with his $150,000 fear porn consumption habit?<p align="left"><b>Risk assessment</b><p align="left">For the sane among us, you start by conducing a risk assessment. And you come up with a very short list of events that might require protective measures, coping measures, or insurance coverage.<p align="left">Make a list of realistically possible events, and then assign a likelihood score to them. Sort by that score. Then address the ones with the highest score. In most cases, you can reduce the risk factors to zero by investing in preventive steps or a little protection (e.g., a firearm or two versus an arsenal).<p align="left">Examples include house burns down, car gets stolen, tree falls on house, hail damages roof, washing machine goes out, water heater goes out.<p align="left">Now look at that list. Some items do not need insurance. The last two in the list will happen. But insuring against them is stupid, you will pay more in insurance than simply replacing the failed appliance when the time comes. You can't reduce the chance that hail will hit your roof, but you can reduce the chance that a tree will fall on your house (get it pruned or cut down). You can't necessarily prevent your house from burning down or your car from being stolen, but you can greatly reduce the chances of either outcome.<p align="left">You can both reduce the risk and insure against financial loss. Ask your home and auto insurer about both. They don't want to pay claims, so they will be happy to share their extensice knowledge of risk reduction and they may even provide financial assistance or contractor recommendations. Don't forget, these insurance people are not government "experts" like Anthony "Fool" Fauci. Unlike Fauci, they are better off when you are not injured than if you are. So they will provide good guidance.<p align="left">With realistic risks reduced, you buy insurance based the risks that could not be reduced or eliminated.<p align="left">You are now at the point where you just do not have to worry. You've done what you can to prevent risks that are real, and have insured yourself against financial ruin (not financial loss) should one of those events actually happen. You also have more money with which to enjoy life.</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>From American Century Investors: <a href="https://www.americancentury.com/"> https://www.americancentury.com/</a><p>Vulnerable Adults – Financial Exploitation Awareness In 2024, one in five Americans over 65 experienced financial exploitation, with reported losses of $2.9 billion with estimated fraud loss costs approaching $62 billion. 1 As generative artificial intelligence (AI) heightens fraud risks, collaboration between financial institutions and consumers, along with robust education and awareness, is vital to protect vulnerable adults from scams.<p>The Department of Justice defines a “Vulnerable adult” as an individual aged 18 or older who, because of incapacity, mental illness, cognitive impairment, physical illness or disability, advanced age fraud, or other life changes or impairments that affect decision-making abilities, is unable to adequately meet their own needs or seek assistance independently.<p>During significant changes to a person’s health or life circumstances, individuals may become more vulnerable to financial exploitation. For seniors or adults with disabilities, this often takes the form of:<ul><li>Misusing, mishandling or exploiting their property, belongings or financial assets.<li>Using someone else's assets without permission, often by lying, exerting undue influence or engaging in coercion or manipulation. How to protect yourself or loved ones from financial exploitation:</ul><p>Awareness of Scams Targeting Seniors and/or Vulnerable Adults:<ul><li>Government Imposters: Scammers pose as officials from agencies like Social Security, Medicare or the IRS and threaten victims with arrest or benefit suspension.<li>Tech Support Scam: Fraudsters pretend to be IT professionals from well-known companies or display bogus pop-up alerts about problems that don't actually exist on the victim’s computer.<li>Lottery Scam: Fraudsters contact individuals to inform them that they have purportedly won a lottery or sweepstakes. Victims are then instructed to make an upfront payment, such as covering taxes, before they can receive their alleged winnings.<li>Romance Scam: Scammers create fake profiles or impersonate real people online to form relationships or friendships, then persuade victims to send money under the pretense of love.<li>Grandparent Scam: In this scam, fraudsters pose as a grandchild who claims to be in trouble—such as being jailed or hospitalized—and desperately ask for money, often warning the victim not to tell their parents.</ul><p>Indicators of Financial Exploitation in Individuals:<ul><li>Showing confusion or becoming unusually secretive about finances<li>Bills left unpaid or receiving collection notices • Strange or unexplained withdrawals and payments<li>Suddenly opening or closing bank accounts with no apparent justification<li>Missing expected checks or checks that were never deposited<li>Relationships that appear to sway financial decision-making<li>Altering or refusing to talk about financial or estate plans<li>Interacting with new people via social media or messaging apps<li>Making investments that don’t match retirement goals, such as cryptocurrency or offering promising unrealistic returns</ul><p>Proactive Steps to Protect Yourself and/or Loved Ones from Financial Exploitation:<ul><li>Power of Attorney (POA) – Consult with your attorney to determine the appropriate type of POA, ensuring that the designated agent holds the necessary authority to interact with financial and banking institutions. Please note that a POA cannot be established after diminished cognitive capacity has been identified.<li>Trusted Contact (TC) – Submit the name of a trusted contact to your financial or banking institution. This individual may be reached if concerns arise regarding the account holder. While this designation does not authorize the trusted contact to act on the account or access details, it ensures there is a reliable resource available should issues such as fraud, cognitive decline or an inability to contact you occur.</ul><p>Additional Resources and Steps to Protect Your Accounts:<ul><li>Complete American Century Investments Trusted Contact Designation Form<li>Update other financial institutions with Trusted Contact details<li>Stay alert of common fraud and scam tactics</ul><p> Victim of Fraud and/or Scams:<ul><li>Change passwords<li>Alert credit bureaus and all financial/banking accounts<li>Request copies of credit reports<li>Change account numbers<li>Close fraudulent accounts</ul><p>File necessary reports:<ul><li>Identity Theft Report with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)<li>Internet Crime Complaint (IC3) with the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Police Report with your local law enforcement agency</ul><p> As a best practice, review your credit reports annually. You can do this by visiting the government site: <a href="https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/free-credit-reports"> https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/free-credit-reports</a><p> <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/20260620115501/97dce419ca4746fb896b6c9eadf910f9_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/20260620115501/20a97979bfdbad61a5a67a72d6f1ab6a_Mark2025-09-19.jpg" width="300" /></td><td valign="top"><p>There's a principle called "muscle confusion". The idea behind it is you need to vary your workouts so that your muscles don't adapt and you stop building new muscle. Arnold Schwarzenegger has repeatedly claimed this was one of his "secrets" to building his impressive physique. And of course he would say that, as it deflects attention away from the steroids he used to get that impressive physique.<p>To perform a good workout, you need to learn how to do it. This takes time. You have to dial in those movements so that you do them with correct form and that takes practice. You must also figure out the correct weight, figure out which exercises to pair with each other (if you superset), determine the optimum rest period between sets, and figure out a few other things. Such as, importantly, whether you can push just past your limit on this next rep. All based on the experience, on trial and error and feedback from your body.<p>If you are changing things around every time, you will never have an optimal workout because each session is a guessing game. That is not to say you should never change. Changing is often good, but remember it comes at a cost.<p>Proponents of "muscle confusion" are quick to point out examples of people in a rut, doing the same routine and not progressing. What often happens is the trainee starts off with good form, but soon drifts into doing the exercises poorly. This is always due to not focusing on what you are doing, a situation that is inevitable when you are spiked up on caffeine, listening to music, or otherwise distracted. So progress stops, and the blame goes on the muscles for refusing to be trained.<p>A muscle cannot tell what form of external force is being applied to it. It has no way of "knowing" that you are again performing a supine biceps curl. All it "knows" is tension on, tension off. Arnold's portrayal of the muscle being stubborn and needing to be tricked or surprised is based in BS, not in science.<p>If you aren't making progress, the most likely cause is you are cheating on your form. Or you've already made all the muscle gains you are genetically capable of. But it's not because you failed to confuse your muscles. If you do change your workout, change only one or two elements at a time so you can gage the results of making those particular changes. There may be some exceptions in which this is not the best method, use good judgment rather than grasp at straws. The most important thing you can do is pay attention to what you are doing. You are not there to move weight, you are there to stimulate the adaptive response via time under tension, cellular damage, and metabolic stress. How much weight you can bench or curl is not relevant to that.</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/20260620115501/2cafae1ecaf397ee23afaf79cf69038c_2025-09-21ClimbingShotByJanetSmall.jpg" width="300" /></td><td height="402" valign="top"><p> <p>Here are some reasons to change your workout:<ul><li>You're just bored with what you're doing. Simply changing the order of exercises can fix that. Or maybe you replace one-legged bench squats with step-ups.<li>You've got chronic pain or an injury. This situation demands a change. Don't "work through it" when you have inflamed tendons. This can be a one-time change, just for this issue, and you can go back to your previous plan. Similar thing with surgery.<li>You need to change your emphasis. Maybe your shoulder workout emphasizes rear delts. If you see your median delts are lagging the rear delts, you alter your plan to shift the focus a little.<br />  <li>You acquired new equipment. Maybe you finally put up a chinning bar or bought a French curling bar. Or you replaced your cheap flat bench with a nice one that includes a squat rack. This would call for a major redesign, IMO.<li>A friend shows you an exercise variation that allows you to gain the same muscular tension with less weight.<li>You pick up ideas from Athlean-X or Ryan Humiston on YouTube.<br />  <li>Your situation has changed. A full-blown Leg Day was great when you lived in the apartment complex. But now you live on a six-acre farm with hills, and you have bees and livestock to care for. Or you took up climbing. Or you got a job delivering stoves and refrigerators. Your Leg Day has to be adjusted.<li>You have a muscle imbalance. This is a very common problem. It usually comes from training what you see in the mirror and neglecting the posterior. Stop doing bench presses and start doing rear delt work and upper back work.<li>Your skeleton is out of balance. If you get regular chiropractic care, ask your chiropractor to examine you for this. If you don't get regular chiropractic care, how do you expect to have injury-free workouts when your joints are misaligned? Take a look at the guy in the next cubicle or at other people when you shop; is anybody showing good posture? Head forward and shoulders rounded is normal.</ul></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">Elizabeth Moron and other communists call for forced "income equality" as if that is somehow a good thing. It is simply armed robbery, with the government holding the gun.</td></tr></tbody></table><h3 align="left"> </h3><h3 align="left">8. Thought for the Day</h3><p class="MsoNormal">"The sooner sane Americans admit publicly that Democrats are communists, the sooner we can repair the damage they have done." -- Dr. Robert Malone<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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<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, 2026-06-07</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/enl2026-06-07.htm"> https://www.mindconnection.com/library/enlarchives/2025/enl2026-06-07.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"><ol><li>"The ringleader of a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme in Minnesota, Aimee Bock, was sentenced to over 41 years in prison yesterday. Bock siphoned more than $240M in pandemic-era food assistance via her Feeding Our Future network. " [1440 Digest, 22 MAY 2026]<br />  <li>During the Communist Occupation, when our oppressors did DEI to our military and mandated medical experimentation on the members of our Armed Forces, recruitment was dismal. Today, that situation has completely turned around. Recruitment is not just up, it is on fire.<br />  <li>Lisa Murkowski, the most reliable Democrat in the Senate, has been a fake "Republican" from Day One and she's about to be primaried. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Alaska deserves better, and they will soon be treated to a major improvement. Shame on Mitch McConnell for his failure to remove her when he was the "leader" of the Republican Party. Trump will get the job done. Unfortunately, we have to wait until 2028 unless the Marxist Ms. M. decides to resign before then.<br />  <li>Even with communists doing their "mostly peaceful protesting" (violent rampages and murder sprees), the murder rate in the USA is the lowest it has been in 125 years. And it wasn't due to "gun control" (making sure only criminals have guns) under Trump (who is very pro-2nd Amendment). A big driver of this was restoring law and order to a few "gun free zone" cities (which, under communist control, were havens for violent criminals). Closing our borders also had a major effect. One thing many people don't connect the dots on but soon will is the $14 trillion (4.5 x the GDP of Japan) invested by foreign companies in American manufacturing last year has put millions of Americans into good-paying jobs. When you reduce poverty, you reduce crime.<br />  <li>Porch thieves get their just deserts more often, these days. I love videos like this one: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WP5PUpOpVZA?feature=share"> https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WP5PUpOpVZA?feature=share</a><br />  <li>"Cigarette smoking among U.S. adults reached an all-time low of 9% last year, according to findings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the mid-1960s, 42% of U.S. adults were smokers. The rate has been gradually dropping for decades, due to cigarette taxes, tobacco product price hikes, smoking bans, public education campaigns, and changes in the social acceptability of lighting up in public." [The Flyover]<br />  <li>Pam Bondi served her country well as AG, and she deserves our gratitude and admiration. Libtards and commies hate her, or course. She's now battling thyroid cancer. A credit union executive posted a video in which she prayed that Ms. Bondi will "....suffer the worst case of cancer anybody' ever seen.". The good news is the credit union fired that executive. Even better news is that the prognosis for Ms. Bondi is good.<br />  <li>Comrade Spanberger's "Assault weapons ban" is blatantly idiotic, not to mention unconstitutional. Eight prosecutors in Virginia have publicly announced they will not enforce it. The Virginia General Assembly opposed the SB 749 (the bill to which the ban was added) after Spanberger added her illegal "assault weapons" ban amendments before signing it.<br />  <li>Unsurprisingly, the jobs reports this year have all been stellar and have all exceeded economists' projections. The May report was twice what the economists expected. When you inject $14 trillion (4.5X the GDP of Japan) of foreign investment into USA manufacturing, you will see massive increases of employment. And these are real jobs, not fake useless jobs in government bureaucracies.</ol></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>Election Integrity, #1</b><p>The Republican National Committee has filed 130 lawsuits across 32 states to combat election fraud. If the Democrat Party still existed in a form other than name only, would it also have filed many lawsuits  to ensure election integrity? Not if history is any kind. In the 1960 election, long before it became the Communist Party, the Democrat Party put JFK in the White House via cheating; Exhibit A being how Mayor Daley of Chicago handed him Illinois' Electoral College votes.<br /><br /> The fraud was obvious and some in the GOP wanted to contest the election. Nixon insisted it wasn't a hill worth dying on. Kennedy was not a terrible choice, and there would be other elections in the future. So Nixon conceded.<p>Today, the fraud is obvious. It has been obvious for many years. Today it is a hill worth dying on, as we have seen (and felt) what the commies do with power. They are a terrible choice, a fact that is even more obvious than their blatant election cheating is. Which is why they so blatantly cheat.<p><b>Election Integrity, #2</b><p>As was proven by the coup that gave us the Communist Occupation, having the world's most powerful military is pointless if you have weak election protections. Our military budget for 2026 is $895 billion. That is for our Department of War. One could say we need an even larger budget for a department in charge of defending our elections. But that isn't necessary. Here is part of what needs to be done, and it's already been in motion since Liberation Day:<ul><li>Use our Justice System to identify and prosecute bad actors.<li>Protect whistleblowers from reprisals.<li>Protect police, investigators, prosecutors, and legislators from lawfare.<li>Shut down money-laundering operations that fund Communist Party candidates and election cheating.</ul><p><b>Election Integrity, #3</b><p>From the Freedom and Liberty Report:<p>"A federal judge in Washington on Thursday declined to block President Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in voting, handing the administration a significant legal win heading into the 2026 midterms. Democrats had sought an emergency injunction. The order directs the creation of a national voter eligibility list and limits who qualifies for a mail ballot. The judge found that plaintiffs could not yet demonstrate irreparable harm — a threshold required for emergency relief — leaving the order in place for now.<p>The ruling does not resolve the underlying constitutional questions, and legal challenges are expected to continue. But the decision gives the administration time to implement the order before November, a window that could reshape how millions of Americans vote."<p><b>Election Integrity, #4</b><p>From the Freedom and Liberty Report: :<p>"GOP Wins Redistricting War Republicans are on track to finish the 2026 redistricting cycle with a structural advantage of roughly 10 House seats over Democrats, according to a CNN analysis published Thursday. The coast-to-coast map-drawing battle — driven by mid-decade redistricting pushed by the White House — is nearing its conclusion. The cycle has reshuffled millions of voters into new districts across the country.<p>PBS NewsHour reported that the scale of the remapping is unprecedented outside of a decennial census year, with several battleground states redrawing lines that had been in place since 2022. Not every fight is settled. Alabama Republicans asked the Supreme Court to lift a lower-court ruling blocking their preferred map — a move that could add another seat to the GOP column. The structural edge, however, is already baked in."<p><b>Election Integrity, #5</b><p>"A North Carolina court has delivered another major victory for election integrity, ruling that U.S. citizens born overseas who have never lived in North Carolina cannot vote in the state’s elections." [Big League Politics]<p><b>Election Integrity, #6</b><p>During the Communist Occupation, democracy was a crime. Tina Peters went to prison for that crime. She has now been freed. The commies need to stop talking about "their" democracy, which is a totalitarian state. Actually the commies need to just stop talking, period. Nothing they say is true and very little of what they say makes any sense at all.<p><b>Election Integrity, #7</b><p>The USPS is moving forward on mail-in ballot reforms. These are not draconic and don't favor one part or the other. They simply stop a very potent form of bypassing democracy and rendering elections moot. Which is why the commies are so opposed to these reforms.<p><b>Election Integrity, #8</b><p>The single most potent thing that can be done to make our elections honest and fair is to apply business law principles to the fake news media. Let's say I run a business and it's registered as an LLC. The business is not on the hook for my personal liabilities, nor am I on the hook for the liabilities of the business. Back taxes owed? The IRS can go after only the one that owes the taxes, not both of us. But suppose I comingle the funds or in some other way don't run it as a business. In that case, the IRS would declare it a "sham business"  and act as if it does not exist. IRS does not need a court order or ruling to do this, because the criteria are strict.<p>So here we are with outfits like CNN and the New York Times that are sham media outlets. They currently are allowed to chronically commit a plethora of crimes and immoral actions that do tremendous harm on a large scale. Committing those crimes and immoral actions isn't an error on their part, it is their mission. They just use words to do it and then claim they are protected by the First Amendment. But the reality is they are all sham "news" outlets. Their press credentials should be revoked or not honored. But most of all, the hate-drenched lies they peddle are not protected by the First Amendment. Hate speech is a crime. You don't get to indulge in it just because you run a sham media business.<p>What has the Trump administration done in regard to this? Unlike the Communist Party, the Trump administration considers the potential fallout from censorship. The Communists severely punished people for telling the truth, but Trump does not want to imitate that behavior toward the chronic liars. Instead, he's gone the 4D chess route. Let them say their lies during a press conference, and then be told publicly they are dishonest and why. Keep exposing them for the terrible people that they are. Citizen Trump has also sued the bejesus out of at least two severe offenders, but President Trump has not brought criminal charges; this also is brilliant.<p>I am reminded at this point of the scene in a Spider Man movie where Spiderman is losing his fight against Doc Oc. He's on a bus full of people, and they step in to help Spiderman. That is what we need to do. Here are five things you can do:<ul><li>Make positive references to so-called "alternate media". "Did you see the piece on Politbrawl?", raising awareness enough that people you know will look for actual information sources.<li>Make negative references to specific lies told by lamestream media. "Honestly, I don't know how those New York Times people can sleep at night. How shameful for their families."<li>Subscribe to actual news sources. This helps them compete against the sham ones for advertising dollars and access to events.<br />  <li>When somebody respews some leftwing idiocy, say something like, "You are too smart to have come up with something so stupid. Where did you come across this nonsense?" This strong challenge is not attacking the respewer, it's attacking the source of the idiocy. By framing this as the respewer is too smart, you not so subtly suggest they drop that stupidity source that is dragging them down.<li>Do a search such as "CNN's top advertisers". Then go to the website of five of them, click Contact Us, and leave a short note saying you and others are boycotting companies that support CNN because CNN is a hate-based organization that spreads disinformation and anti-America propaganda. This will take you only 10 minutes. Then e-mail your friends and ask them to do the same.</ul><p><b>SCOTUS Breakthrough</b><p>Recently, SCOTUS voted unanimously to overturn lower court rulings and side with the DOJ on immigration policy. It isn't this actual case that is the really good news. It's the fact that the senile old bat, the mental retard, and the law-ignorant DEI hire all sided with the competent, qualified Justices. This could be due to any of a number of factors, but what it signals to me is these three are not under the absolute control of the communists.<p>The lamestream media refer to these three idiots as the "liberal Justices" but that is grossly misleading. Ruth Bader Ginsberg was a liberal Justice. But she was not senile, mentally retarded, or profoundly ignorant. She was not a DEI hire. She was sharp, extremely intelligent, and extremely knowledgeable. She had the respect of her ideological "opponent", Justice Scalia. Ginsberg and Scalia often were on the same side of an issue, notably those dealing with the 8th Amendment. Where the two disagreed, the dissenter wrote a brilliant dissent. There has never been anything brilliant from any of the three idiots. Disturbingly stupid, yes. Brilliant, no.<p>In practical terms, this bright spot means nothing. The Court has mostly ruled 6-3, with the idiots writing such embarrassing dissents that the majority opinion is actually stronger. Perhaps that is the purpose of the three idiots. They can't change the outcome, but they can make communist "reasoning" look like the joke that it is. In terms of the optics, always having the sane people vote one way and the three idiots voting the other way gives abjectly stupid people like Joy Beshears of "The View" some "evidence" that the Court is somehow in error and somehow controlled by right wing extremists. And unfortunately, there are voters who are dumb enough to believe such an obviously false premise. Cases like this one destroy false premises like that one. And that is the real breakthrough.<p>Every time a ruling isn't 6-3, the steam behind attacking the sane Justices loses pressure. This also is good for the SCOTUS. If you look at what has been done to Justice Thomas and Justice Kavanaugh, this is a welcome change. While serving on the SCOTUS is indeed a high honor, there's a strong disincentive for brilliant jurists to accept the nomination. Removing, or at least greatly abating, this disincentive is good for the country and thus for the American People. A fair court with competent judges is always better than a terrified court with judges who are too scared to do their job.<p><b>Commies and Stupidity</b><ul><li>AOC is the front runner to run for POTUS on the Communist Party ticket. This tells you a lot. As does the fact they ran Kackling Kamala last time. Apparently, being extremely stupid is a plus in the Communist Party. Then again, communism itself is a radically stupid idea.<br />  <li>It's interesting that all of the key people in the Brainless administration were abjectly stupid, while all of the key people in the Trump administration are very bright. The leading communist senators? Stupid. In fact, the commies have only one senator who isn't a complete moron. In the House, same thing except they are all morons.<br />  <li>This is the party that trusts Iran to have nuclear weapons but doesn't trust law-abiding American citizens to have firearms. Stupid.<br />  <li>This is the party that believes criminals should be protected from their victims, rather than the other way around. Stupid.<br />  <li>Make a list of the what the commies want to make happen. It's all stupid. In the extreme.</ul><p>The commies have replaced brainpower with brutepower. They are brutal toward those they disagree with. And yet, if you have a lick of sense you don't agree with them. Because they are so stupid. What are we to do about this? They are like other unthinking brutes, and we must keep that in mind. They are uncivilized, and they are dangerous. You don't attack a bear mano a mano to keep it away from your food. You hoist your food high into the trees, out of the bear's reach well before it even gets there.<p><b>Commies and Hypocrisy</b><p>If I wrote about every instance of commie hypocrisy, I would have time for nothing else. So I usually don't write about it. But here's one for the record books. The caretakers of Brainless Biden sued the Justice Department "...to stop the release of audio recordings tied to special counsel Robert Hur's classified documents probe. Biden's lawyers say disclosure would be "an unwarranted invasion" of his privacy." [The Flyover]. During the Communist Occupation, invasion of privacy was a primary Standard Operating Procedure. Not just the raid on Mar A Lago and all the probes into citizen Donald Trump, which was bad enough. Remember the extreme invasions of privacy involved in the Covid Scam? Or the weaponizing of the IRS against conservatives? Or the lack of privacy the J6 victims had after being sentenced by a kangaroo court?<p>Brainless treated privacy as irrelevant for tens of millions of innocent Americans. So for the Biden Crime family to use privacy as a defense reaches new depths of hypocrisy. One could say Brainless was already executed for his crimes, vis a vis the clot shots that destroyed his already feeble brain, gave him cancer, and accelerated his aging. But that does not negate the culpability of his handlers and co-conspirators. Those people need to be identified and prosecuted.<p><b>Commies and Rule of Law</b><p>The commies constantly push for things that are unconstitutional or illegal in some other way. When they don't get what they want, instead of respecting democracy and the rule of law they launch personal attacks on those who disagree with them. MTG was a frequent target of SWAT-ing, which is dangerous and disruptive. The latest SWAT-ing attack was aimed at Justice Amy Coney Barrett.<p>The commies are, generally speaking, deranged imbeciles who believe that laws do not apply to them. They prove this frequently. 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Select different voices for playback, lefthand or righthand use, left or right scan direction.<li>REALLY BIG DICTIONARIES: A reader pen's word recognition capability depends on the depth of its onboard dictionary references. The Rocket Pen has the New Oxford American Dictionary with over twice the entries of the best competing reading pens, plus the Oxford American Children’s Dictionary. It also has the Oxford Thesaurus of English and Oxford American Children’s Thesaurus. All of these are Americanized. The Rocket Pen scans English and French only, but contains an English to Spanish dictionary and a French definitions dictionary (French to French).<li>COMES COMPLETE. Self-contained, no computer, tablet, phone, or Wi-Fi required. Kit includes Rocket Pen reading tutor, USB charging cable, Quick Start Guide, earphones, and case. Meets FCC, ROHS, and CE standards, and conquers illiteracy.<li>BACKED BY EXPERIENCE. The lead developers of the Rocket Pen Reading Tutor each have over 25 years of experience in reading assistive devices, and yet the Rocket Pen is the newest and most advanced reading pen on the market. And the only one with reading tutor functions</ul><p> <p>In <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?me=AVFHERP2L596L&merchant=AVFHERP2L596L"> our Amazon store</a> you will see more offerings, including:<p><b>Disability Products:</b><p><b>(We are the sole Amazon seller for these)</b><ul><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F3N3P4ZY">BlindShell phones for the blind</a><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BGCWV67M">RealSAM Pocket</a>, which is a voice operated Galaxy smart phone for the blind<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></ul><p><b>Tools:</b><ul><li>AEM instruments<li>Bahco tools<li>Case tools<li>CAT tools<li>CPS tools<li>Irwin saw blades<li>Mayes tools<li>Rigid Tools work lights and related<li>Vessel tools<li>Wera tools<li>Wiha tools<li>Williams tools</ul><p><b>More:</b><ul><li>American Hard Bag aftermarket sound system parts for Harley Davidson motorcycles<li>Centerpoint Archery devices<li>Cold Steel knives<li>Dead Downwind hunting products<li>G5 hunting products<li>Flexilla hose connectors<li>Funko collectibles<li>Liberty Monitors hidden camera gadgets<li>Mike Holt Electrical Exam Preparation products<li>Nagy's aftermarket sound system parts for Harley Davidson motorcycles<li>Paraben Consumer data recovery sticks, porn detection sticks, and similar diagnostic/ IT tools<li>ROK straps<li>Rostra universal cruise control kits<li>Swhacker archery products</ul><p>In our <a href="https://www.ebay.com/str/mindconnectionllc">eBay store</a>, you will see a lot of radios and related gear:<p><b>Radios:</b><ul><li>Anytone 10 meter radios<li>Connex 10 meter radios<li>Dosy meters<li>General (brand) radios<li>Galaxy 10 meter and 11 meter (CB) radios<li>President 10 and 11 meter radios<li>Ranger 10 meter radios<li>Texas Ranger radios (Chuck Norris not included, sorry)<li>Uniden radios and scanners</ul><p> </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">I was thinking lately about this question: <p>Is it possible to become increasingly stupid to the point of no return?<p>The short answer is yes. We see this all the time. Elizabeth Moron is an example of someone who forayed into the stupidity realm and now is permanently stupid. Nobody wants to end up like that. Some dear reader might now be thinking, "OMG, am I at risk?!"<p>The good news is it takes a myriad of things to make someone that stupid. Or to make them even 1/10th that stupid. The better news is you can do a myriad of things to keep you free from the stupidity vortex. Actually, there are thousands of things you can do to help protect yourself. These include exercising your brain by coming up with a new dish or variation of a dish a few times per week. Or doing a crossword puzzle at least a couple of times a week.<p>Any normal person who is a self-sufficient, competent adult is going to have a high degree of protection just by being a a self-sufficient, competent adult. It's a lot of work. And a lot of planning, evaluating, thinking. So you are building your stupidity antibodies just by doing what it takes to competently handle life. However, that alone is not sufficient protection.<p>You need to reduce your exposure to contamination. It's the contamination that overcomes the antibodies, after all. Here are six of the most radioactive sources:<ol><li>People with TDS. They are not necessarily bad people, they are just mentally ill. They "sneeze" on other people with their TDS absurdities, thereby spreading infection. Just tell them their TDS views are like sneezing on people when you have a cold, and you don't want to come down with what they have.<li>The lamestream media. I don't mean not just direct exposure, I also mean exposure to the "repeating stations"--people who unthinkingly believe the BS and then unthinkingly spread it to others. As with TDS, set boundaries.<li>Passive activities. Practice doesn't make perfect, it makes permanent. Sitting in front of the boob tube every night conditions your cortex to go offline. Which makes you stupid. I think this happened to Elizabeth Moron, too many evenings with the Communist News Network.<br />  <li>Arguments with idiots. Sure, you were brought up to respect other people and their viewpoints. But there are limits. When someone wants to argue that "masking works" or they have to "cut back 15% on food because Trump increased gas prices by invading Iran", you risk contamination. Also, you risk blowing a gasket. Tell these people to learn the basics of a topic so they don't sound like an entry in a stupidity contest when they talk about it. That may seem rude, but actually it is just calling them out on their extremely obnoxious behavior.<li>Arguments with intelligent people. If the other person has at least the basic facts and is making decent arguments, why would you argue? Rather than treat it like a contest, treat it like a collaboration. Discuss things, seeking not only common ground but also differences. Why the differences, and can they both be right? Or is being right even necessary? One or both of you will learn something, and this kind of exchange is to stupidity what turmeric is to inflammation.<li>Processed food. Once it's processed, it isn't food. It's brain-damaging, disease-causing garbage. Just consider two classes of processed food:<br /> 1. Sugar "glycates" to neurons, then burns. You can burn a lot of neurons before losing mental capacity, but then again you have only so many to start with. I think this is what happened to Tracy Abrams, who has clearly taken massive doses of sugar her whole life. She probably became terminally stupid before she hit puberty.<br /> 2. Seed oils are made up of jagged edges, due to the lipids shredding during extraction. They are like drag hooks as they circulate in the blood. They rip up brain cells, and we can see the evidence in a type of scar tissue called amyloid plaque. It's the same kind of scar tissue we see in the brains of football players, because in each case it's caused by trauma to the tissue (cutting by the seed oils, blunt force to the footballer brain).</ol><p>Most of us do not have to worry about becoming progressively stupid past the point of no return. Sure, we have our bad days and our senior moments. Things like stress, distraction, or short-term sleep deprivation can knock us back a bit. But only for a time. There's an adage, "Poor is as poor does." A similar logic applies to terminal stupidity, "Stupid is as stupid does". And you can flip it around to "Smart is as smart does". Don't do what stupid people do, and you don't end up like them. Do what smart people do, and you get smarter and smarter.</td></tr></tbody></table><h3 align="left"><br /> 4. Finance tip</h3><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td>Here are fifteen common ways that people waste money. The less that you do these things, the more disposable income you have. I couldn't decide whether to write it as "they" do this or "you" do this, then chose "you" though you (dear reader) might not do any of these things. <ul><li>Use paper towels instead of cut-up old shirts or microfiber cloths.<li>Subscribe to a legacy newspaper. Unless you need to line the bottom of a bird cage, you don't need that newspaper.<li>Buy waste can liners when your grocery store provides free plastic bags. If the bags don't fit your waste can, replace the waste can with one that fits the bags.<br />  <li>Make special trips to the store, instead of keeping a list (per store) of what you need and then when it's time to get something, make one trip with multiple stops. The lists will help you get things you are about to run out of, so that you don't need to run to the store two days later to get that one item.<li>Making shopping lists on fresh paper. I make all of my shopping lists on scrap paper, spending exactly $0 on list material over the past 50 years.<li>Driving the parking lot aisles looking for a closer spot. This wastes gas and time. Park a bit away from the regular foot traffic and walk briskly for the exercise.<br />  <li>Use fertilizer on your lawn. Most people cut the grass too short, leaving not enough leaf to sufficiently feed the roots which then stay tiny. Mow your grass to the correct height with a mulching mower, and you won't have to fertilize.<li>Water your lawn. See the preceding item. Exceptions do exist, for example during excess heat or a draught.<li>Fail to water your trees after an extended dry spell. If it has not rained in a while and a storm is coming, water your trees. This will allow the limbs to flex instead of break.<br />  <li>Buy clothes based on how they look individually instead of with what you already have. Buy clothes that you can mix and match for different outfits.<li>Dry your clothes or bedding with the dryer set Medium or higher. This not only wastes electricity (or gas, if you have a gas dryer), it dramatically shortens the life of those fabrics.<li>Use fabric softener. It's rancid fat with petrochemical fragrances. It makes your fabric fibers slimy, not soft. And it causes them to rot faster. Use plain white vinegar in the fabric softener dispenser of your washing machine, and either hang the clothes up to dry or use low heat in the dryer and remove them from the dryer while still slightly damp. Your clothes will last far longer between replacements.<br />  <li>Have too many subscriptions. While subscriptions are convenient for you, they also lock you into buying behavior. Make a point to check each one, not just the most expensive ones. A $14/month subscription seems like it can't really hurt, but that's $168/year and what if you have three of them? It adds up! So do those subscription upgrades for your Internet Access, phone, etc. Why can't you have the cheapest plan and how many hours do you work to pay for a year of those add-ons?<li>Treat autoship as "one and done". It's tempting to use Amazon's Subscribe 'N' Save feature, and it can actually save you money. But you need to monitor it to avoid stealth money waste. If you see that you are stocking up on something because it is arriving faster than you use it up, increase the weeks between deliveries. This is true of other autoships, too.<li>Get an autoship for your printer. What happens is you get all these cartridges and then your printer fails. My last three were HP printers, and each died prematurely. With the first two, I had an Office Depot autoship for ink that I could not stop despite many attempts. I ended up with a year's supply of cartridges and no printer to use them in.</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>Telescammers do massive financial damage to millions of individuals and businesses each year, often breaking the victim beyond any hope of recovery. They also are annoying, because so many of them call. They rob all of us of our time, and they rob many people of their entire nest egg.<p>You might get a locksmith to install the most secure locks on your burglar-resistant doors and still get robbed by a phone burglar. You can also install an alarm system, live with a pair of trained Rottweilers, have a firearm under a dozen pieces of furniture, have cameras everywhere, and still lose everything. Instead of breaking into your house with a crowbar, lock pick, or "jimmy" and stealing maybe a few thousand dollars of electronic or jewelry, they break into your house with lies and steal your bank accounts and sometimes your house too.<p>So none of those anti-burglary methods will protect you from phone robbers. How do you protect yourself? Here are some tips to handle these sociopaths.<p><b>Preventing the ring</b><ul><li>Don't sign up for sweepstakes. These are funded by "list rental" which means they sell your contact information to anyone who wants to buy it.<li>Avoid giving out your phone number. Just because someone asks for it doesn't mean you need to give it.<li>If it's a landline, you probably have a browser-based UI that will let you control spam calling protection and also block selected numbers. See if you can add NoMoRobo or a similar service.<li>If it's a mobile, you have the option of blocking specific numbers and reporting specific text spammers--right on your phone. There are also many apps that help with spam calling. But it is better to use your providers' tools; go on their website and/or get their app and then use whatever they have that looks like it will work for you.</ul><p><b>Handling the ring</b><ul><li>You are under no obligation to even look at your phone just because it rings. If you can't say  no, then disable the ring entirely.<li>Look at your Caller ID. If it says "Name Unavailable" then you are also unavailable. Pay attention to the patterns, and you will develop the ability to spot a spam call just by looking at the fake name on your screen.<li>If possible, set up special ring tones for people you want to hear from anytime they call. Then ignore all other rings. But rather than have 16 different ring tones and trying to keep them sorted, pick one ringtone that indicates the caller is pre-approved.<li>Make sure your kids, dog, and cat know not to answer the phone (same as you taught them not to open the door for people while you are gone, though the cat seems to forget this sometimes).</ul><p><b>If you pick up</b><ul><li>Ask him for his telemarketer license number. When he says he doesn't have one, ask why he's telemarketing without a license and tell him it's a felony. Then hang up. He'll probably be stupid enough to ask his boss about it.<li>Don't give them anything. If it's a cause that you support, you might be tempted to donate since they have you on the phone anyhow. This will get your name and number on the "list rental" list. That list rental is the main income source for these intermediate companies that conduct phone spam as a service to the charities and such that hire them. Also, you validate to the charity or whatever that this method reaches people and you thus contribute to legitimizing the telemarketing /spamming / harassing industry.<li>If you receive a spam text, reply with "Wrong Number" before blocking it; do this enough times, and you get taken off the list.<li>If it's a phone bot offering options, wait for the one that will tell them to stop calling you. This option isn't presented all the time, but using it really helps.</ul><p><b>If a repeat offender keeps calling</b><p>Say it's one of those debt-peddling companies. You block their number, and they call back from a different one. You've told them many times not to call you. During the Communist Occupation, I got a lot of calls like this.<p>At first, they were all from no-name "lenders" who "offer capital" at 3X credit card rates. While I hope all of the people working at such places are infertile and thus won't breed another generation of cockroaches, I still have had to deal with them in the here and now. So what I do is tell them I can't process numbers over the phone and to send me the information via e-mail. Then they want my e-mail address and I hang up on them. Or I would do something else to let them know to leave me alone. For example, I would tell them that only a complete moron would sign a contract with them. And then hang up.<p>That was at first. But then, PayPal started this same behavior with me. A company I have always trusted. I didn't want to alienate them, so my approach has been different. "We are not accepting any new debt in 2026. We might be open to something up to 3% APR, in the second quarter of 2027. Calling me before then is a complete waste of your time." They have stopped calling me.<p><b>Handling the most common abusers</b><p>How do you think I handle all the calls about Medicare, car warranties, Social Security, IRS refunds, timeshares, and various other scams?<ul><li>My dad used to handle these by sounding as sick as possible and saying he was dying of cancer. I don't like it that he did this, but not for the reason you might think. One time he was doing a "live replay" for me and apparently started choking for real. Then he drank some water and was fine until I got him laughing about it. He did the  =wheeze= and =cough= for a bit.<li>One tactic a friend of mine uses is to say "Well, you called for Jack but he passed away yesterday. I'm here with his family. Retards like you call for Jack about every 10 minutes. It's horribly cruel of you." Then he hangs up.</ul><p>Here is how I reduced this incoming sewage leak by 90%. I wrote a long and hilarious voicemail message that names these scams and makes the point that I don't want what they are selling. I delivered it with a lot of energy, starting with the first word, "Helllll-oooooooo." Then I set my phone to go right to voicemail for a few days. But doesn't this mean any legitimate caller has wait through that three minute outgoing message to leave you a voice message? Nope. There are four ways to bypass it. Experiment to find out which works with your phone, then tell them which one works with your number. As soon as the voicemail prompt starts, enter #, *, 1, or 7. It's one of those.<ul><li>When the spambot reaches your voicemail, it doesn't want to be tied up for three minutes. Or even 30 seconds. It will hang up when it detects voicemail. But to do that, it must recognize the typical pattern of a bored voice saying to leave your name and number. Speaking in an animated voice and saying something totally unexpected that fits no voicemail pattern will tie it up for the full three minutes and sometimes longer. I think my record is 17 minutes. I check voicemails on my VOIP provider's site. I don't have to open them or listen to them, they appear in a list along with their duration.<li>When a human telemarketer reaches your voicemail, he doesn't have time to listen to it. But he's expecting maybe 45 seconds and intends to wait it out and ask you to call back. After he wastes a full minute, he hangs up and goes on to the next potential victim. This is a small victory for you. If he's stupid enough to listen to the whole thing and still leave a message, the size of your victory has increased.</ul><p><b>If you just cannot stop the onslaught</b><p>If they just keep calling you no matter what you do, the nuclear option is to change your number without forwarding. Unfortunately, your new number can be discovered in many ways even if you get a private listing. And it's a real hassle.<p>You can try this to "decapture" your number by making it nonfunctional.<ol><li>Alert your normal circle of friends that they cannot leave you voicemail for at least a month.<li>Get a Google Voice account.<li>Disable voicemail on your normal phone.<li>Set your phone to forward to that Google Voice account after 4 rings or whatever is comfortable for you. This will allow you to pick up your phone if you want to take the call.<li>Set your Google Voice account to forward to your normal phone, selecting the maximum interval.<li>This loop will decapture your number from most systems.</ol><p>An alternative: Simply unplug the phone cable from your handset or turn the ringer off. Set voicemail to off, and this will "ring" (at the caller's end) with never being answered. If a mobile, you can also turn the ringer off and turn off voicemail. The limitation here is you can't answer an incoming call.<p> <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/20260606114612/97dce419ca4746fb896b6c9eadf910f9_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/20260606114612/20a97979bfdbad61a5a67a72d6f1ab6a_Mark2025-09-19.jpg" width="300" /></td><td valign="top">I review products for Amazon Vine. They'll present me with some items they say are based on my profile and my interests. Things like maternity dresses and women's skin care products. But sometimes they actually do offer items that are based on my profile and my interests. Things like power tools and men's long-sleeve shirts. Then there are the things that they might think fit my profile and interests but actually do not. And I want to talk about that kind of product now. <p>It's called the pre-workout supplement or as they now say, "pre-sup". I used to try various such supplements, which in the early days were usually a mix of creatine, beta alinine, and L-arginine. Most manufacturers added a flavoring. But then I learned that it does not matter exactly when you ingest these things. As long as they are in your system, you're good. I also learned that you absorb creatine a lot better, without any gas, bloating, or discomfort, if you ingest it across the day. So there is no reason to drink half a liter of fluid right before you do a set of front squats unless you want to imitate GH Bush at the Japanese Prime Minister's dinner in 1992.<p>Demand for these products started to fall as people realized the products didn't magically do anything. Then companies like BSN started adding strong flavors, carbonation, and caffeine. Lots of caffeine.<p>On average, a cup of coffee has 100 mg of caffeine. If you drink three cups in the AM, that's 300 mg. A lot of that stimulant is offset by the fact your circadian rhythm has not yet put you into full awakeness. But still, that is a hard push on the caffeine throttle.<p>One popular pre-sup made by a company whose name I won't mention (because I already did), has 400 mg. A very heavy push. Some other products have even more. If the poor slob taking this before his lunch hour workout also took a Sudafed, had coffee in the morning, and drank a Red Bull at break, his adrenal glands and kidneys are already in severe stress. And he's going to then pull the three levers for hypertrophy--one of which is metabolic stress? This is a very risky thing to do.<p>Is that caffeine going to help you work out better? Nope. It will cause you to make mistakes because your mind and nervous system are in an altered state. You will not correctly sense your condition at the start of a set, you will lack the proprioception to have correct form, your sense of time will be altered such that your tempo will be off. And the buzz will distract you from the mind-body connection if the pounding in your head doesn't do that first.<p>But many people report improved workouts with pre-sups. True, they report that. They are basing this on the fact they lifted heavier weight than without it and/or, "I felt so energized!". Which means they were on a drug high which caused them to recruit non-target muscles, cheat the range, use momentum, etc. The reality is they put less tension on the target muscles, not more.</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/20260606114612/2cafae1ecaf397ee23afaf79cf69038c_2025-09-21ClimbingShotByJanetSmall.jpg" width="300" /></td><td height="402" valign="top"><p> <p>They also missed the all-important gaging a serious trainer does before a session. After which the person decides how hard to push it for optimum results (harder is not always better). Here's an example. I climb on Sundays, so leg day is always on Monday (as far from the next climbing session as I can put it). Because climbing movement and load are so varied, I have no idea what Leg Day is going to be like until I am ready to start it.<p>I do some body weight squats, to test my legs. I gage my general energy level. I identify what's sore and stiff versus what's not. After this inventory, I work out a rough plan that is based on my intended workout. The variance is something like I decide to do only three sets of bench step-ups instead of four. Then as I go, I gage how I feel. If I do a particular exercise and feel fatigued the whole way through the first set or there is sharp pain, I know the involved muscle cells are already damaged. So I make a change, maybe dropping that exercise or doing a modified version of it. The result is I almost always have the most productive workout possible for me on that given day and I almost never over-train.<p>None of this sensing, processing, and adapting can take place if your senses and mind are altered by "speed" (which is what a large dose of caffeine is). People who overdose on caffeine find they don't make real progress but they do have sore tendons and other problems. They tried to take the easy way out, but when it comes to training there is no easy way.<p>That big guy on the bottle label? Odds are he'll be dead in ten years from all damage the steroids did to his heart and kidneys. You'll never look like he looks, no matter how much of the pre-sup you take.<p>If you have a heavily caffeinated pre-sup and don't want to toss it out, fine. But take only a quarter dose and only after your workout, not before. The main reason for this switch? If you are training correctly you will be driving your metabolic stress to the red line. If the caffeine moves the line down from where it should be, you put yourself at risk of cardiac arrest. Other types of blow-out are also more likely. Once your engine is no longer revving, it's much safer to indulge in some extra caffeine. Of course, if you do your workouts less than 12 hours before bed then you don't take the pre-sup at all. Or maybe have a quarter dose with breakfast, instead of having coffee.</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">Libtards and commies don't engage in reasoned debate. They react to differing views by getting abusive and even violent. To sway others, they resort to this behavior because they are low-information people with insignificant, if any, reasoning skills and therefore cannot make a rational case for whatever idiocy that is their current viewpoint. They live in a delusional state instead of in reality, so the truth upsets them.<p class="MsoNormal">Over a century ago, Teddy Roosevelt perfectly captured the result in the quote below.</td></tr></tbody></table><h3 align="left"> </h3><h3 align="left">8. Thought for the Day</h3><p class="MsoNormal">"To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth". -- Teddy Roosevelt<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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