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Daily Walking
Responding here to something Bill wrote yesterday about not feeling well. Perhaps daily walking could help, even 10 – 15 minutes. I find it’s very good. Helps me clear my mind. Good for the body; weight, basically everything.
Thanks for your concern. Ten days of heavy antibiotics dosage that ended Fri did not yet stop the problem, The doctor today said to give it another 7-10 days and get lots of rest and fluids. I’m trying to take it easy.
After watching Season 2 of Borgen and tonight starting Season 3, i have come to the conclusion that Borgen is the best TV series I have ever seen, and House is second best.
I could review this all evening but I cannot say more. I hope you watch it.
Definitely woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Again. Just accidentally hit delete after telling you the many reasons that are weighing me down after a successful trading month so far with my performance at +16.31% MTD, +19.84% 1-month, and +11.02% YTD, which has been a terrific recovery from a bad start to the year. But, here goes: I feel down because of market concerns, health concerns, overextended personal and business obligations, tax preparations, cooped up a year for pandemic reasons, TV weary, excessive weight, no visits from family except facetime, new client, new 11-page 3rd party legal… Read more »
The system is now clean
But I am getting pretty tired of this crap
After a day of being hacked, the system is back online. However, the problem has not been fixed. I would avoid this site until I report that it is fixed.
New favorite TV series
While binge-watching TV series and movies on Netflix and Amazon Prime for the past year, Pat and I are no different than most of you: (a) we have watched far more than ever and (b) we have clear favorites.
Along with House, moving into a tie for first place in our home is the Danish series Borgen. The fact that Rotten Tomatoes has it rated 100% caught my eye. That is their highest rating and after watching almost two full seasons, we believe Borgen is worth 100%.
It’s about Life and Politics.
Aloha! In the late 1980s I volunteered at a food bank in Oakland, CA for four years. The food bank was named Oakland Potluck! We delivered food to homeless shelters and battered women shelters and other organizations even meals on wheels. We were small and it still is. Even 40 years ago there was the California homeless issue. I tried to do something about it but discovered a lot of the “issue” was addiction and mental health! There were no former big corporate execs or celebrities and political hacks involved back then at Oakland Potluck! Us “grunts” ran the place.… Read more »
Test. Been trying to post a comment that is several paragraphs long but it doesn’t take. It appears to immediately ‘time out.’ The comments just sit there. Trying this shorter comment now.
If anybody else has this problem, give us an example and Alexei wil look into it as he is here.
Aloha!
WHERE IS OUR HOSPITAL SHIP?
Biden and AOC where is our hospital ship and Javitz Center?
Aloha! LINE OR LOAD Did anyone pass my “line load test”? Well it is one thing to know line and load when you install an electric receptacle in a wall at your house, but it is quite another to know the difference when it comes to utilities. Here is a typical Green Hype article you find on Yahoo or on CNN or even in the Wall Street Journal! It is also the same hype being taught in schools to children. First of all “Green” is not green! There are huge amounts of fossil fuels spent and third world ecologies destroyed… Read more »
My heart goes out to Texans who are freezing without power. When living in the country in the late 1970s, we encountered a once in a century storm that whipped up 10 feet deep snow drifts that closed the roads. With an oil furnace, we ran out of oil and the fuel truck could not get to us. We lost electricity. Three fireplaces and plenty of wood could not help because the house was too big. The toilet bowls all split open when the water froze. All the water pipes inside the walls had burst but there was no leak… Read more »
I recall now how we got through it. A neighbour who had been worried that we had a baby in danger, brought us a portable heater. In times of emergency, it’s why we need support from neighbours.
My thoughts on Mitch McConnell For all the reasons you have been reading, Mitch McConnell is undergoing an onslaught of bad media and remarks from Donald Trump as well as comments from the public, left, right, and center. I am guessing that his popularity if polled across America would be sub-10% and perhaps half of that. I am no fan of Mitch McConnell but I am happy that, like seven other senators and so many other Republicans, he has spoken clearly against Trump. The GOP needs cleansing and rebirth. Maybe McConnell who is a true conservative has to be removed… Read more »
Aloha!
We have the same problem now that the world had in 1600! When companies partner with governments as a monopoly. OCCUPY GOOGLE!
kaimu, I wish more people would read your blogs. Unfortunately, most people don’t take the time to link the dots, to understand cause and effect.
I will always rail against public-private partnerships. Big company operatives mixing with sleazy politicians has been toxic, is toxic, and will always be toxic.
Aloha! CLASS ACTION I have contacted my attorneys to start a class action lawsuit against wind farm companies and manufacturers. When oil companies have oil spills there is liability so it is time to hold renewables just as liable! We have no idea how many people died in Texas or will die in other states in the coming months! This is what happens to houses with no power for two days in 9f weather! Good if you have insurance but why should those who are insured pay high premiums for the rest of their life when rich renewable companies can… Read more »
Aloha!
Re-imagine Enron with leftist Democrat Biden subsidies!
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/texas-wholesale-electric-prices-spike-more-than-10000-amid-outages-2
People are dying. Red is the new Green!
Aloha!
HOUSTON SNOW EFFECT
Nothing is sustainable!
Including several Texas coal and gas plants that failed during the extreme weather. They were not sustainable. Additional power should become available after the sun comes out and melts snow that accumulated on solar panels.
Aloha! You get your info from the LA Times echo chamber where they say the same thing! If the politically correct energy technology fails then it is up to the media to spin the best possible excuse and point fingers elsewhere. I attached the part of the LA Times article with the important parts in yellow! But unless you go outside your normal conflicted political media you never know what truths are. Usually in politics it boils down to corruption and money! It is the only way politicians can get rich like CEOs is to team up with the CEOs!… Read more »
My comments on renewable energy were meant to be light. On coal and gas, I said that these plants are supposed to provide constant power but failed. In your response, you didn’t say why the plants failed. You said I get my info from the “LA Times echo chamber.” For the record, the name “LA Times” has no significance to me. I don’t recall ever looking at the website and I can’t say that I’ve ever read an article there (except what you posted). You have repeatedly commented that I use talking points and get my information from politically correct news outlets. This is 100% false. I repeat… Read more »
Aloha! You are dead wrong! According to Orion Renewables lead engineer who I met with last Friday they are targeting coal and gas fired plants because as he calls them “old jalopies” that are too expensive to repair and have lost favor in Washington DC where incentives and subsidies dominate the Green New Deal.
Bill:
I believe the link should be required reading for every one (blue or red) that believes in North American sovereignty: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-thirty-tyrants
The Chinese are masters of decelption – we are tearing ourselves apart needlessly. War may be the only answer, but it needn’t be a Civil War – we would literally hand ourselves over to the Chinese methods of social and capital controls. The enemy from afar is now within and pulling the strings of our puppet governments. Trump merely required them to accelerate their plan, Trudeau and Biden bow before them (and are financially rewarded accordingly).
believe trump is the ONLY president who has left office in modern times worth LESS than when he came in office……………and maybe one of the few who attempts to act in accordance with what he believes…need I go any further than O buying the ocean side mansion worth in the mega millions while touting the “global warming” change that would obliterate his on the water real estate holding????
Trump will soon be worth a lot less
One has only to “google” (maybe) what is happening to the lawyers who defended him to realize how pervasive (and vindictive) the “deep state” is
Congress is not part of the so-called deep state. They heard lies from Trump’s incompetent ‘show’ lawyers read into the record. All media reported it. So, I am not surprised there has been ill will shown. The point is that these lies must stop.
Please don’t ask me to list the many lies those lawyers told. They are well documented. And please don’t say that all media not named Trump is ‘Fake’ because the world is tired of hearing Trump and his followers saying it.
The link is acceptable to me in many ways but the rationalization that this is all the fault of everybody except Trump is too much hooey for me to accept. What this article implies is that money is the root of evil but that Trump was and is above it all, that the Dems are to blame. Trump is the classic mobster who believes that your money is his money or will be when he can get control of it. Do not go down that rabbit hole. What true Republicans and Democrats need to do is understand their strengths and… Read more »
I agree with you. As things are today, Biden and Trudeau are not the answers. I have consistently given that opinion. I have also said that I believe both have committed criminal acts in recent years. I have also agreed with kaimu that the CCP is a scourge and I implored him and others to say that 95% of Chinese and Cubans and Iranians and Russians are every bit as good in every sense that he or I am. The problem is in leadership that seeks and enjoys the spoils of power. That said, Trump is an altogether different level… Read more »
I don’t believe that Trump was shown to be “above it all” – however you need to quit focusing on “Trump” – he’s gone, he’s done – if we think he was our problem and we’re headed to greener pastures, then you didn’t grasp the message delivered. The issue is China’s control of our officials in power (and at the trough – Yellen, Mattis, McConnell, Feinstein) and the system that they have in place between Beijing and D.C. If we don’t end it (all of it!) – then we have no hope to be the land of the brave and… Read more »
I don’t “need” to do anything.
I will stop 100% with Trump when people stop telling me they believe him when he says that he was elected in a landslide, that he never incited a mob to attempt a coup, and that he should remain in control of the GOP.
If everybody here stops that nonsense then I will stop speaking out against Trump.
Deal?
I really do want to write about how to fix the problems. Deficits and debt. Fed policy. Business support for child labor in other countries. Political pork and corruption. Immigration policies that enable the worst kind of people who come to our country to try to poison our lifestyle to serve their interests. There seems to be no end. I want people focussed on those problems.
Pat and I have just watched the local news where slimebags have been killing one another. They come from hovels in the world’s worst slums to live in luxurious buildings a few miles from me. The problem is not our country or our neighbourhoods. Human scum that come here will always be human scum no matter what we do to help elevate them, to give them and their families a better life. The United States and Canada are built on immigration but too many of the wrong people are getting in. That’s on our leaders. Our major corporations are also… Read more »
You’re getting warmer……..I’d much rather that this forum act as an electronic town square than Bill’s front porch. I grew up in an age where the idealism of Kennedy was destroyed by the narcissism of Nixon. Ask not what you’re country can do for you; but what you can do for your country. Now it’s all about greed – bribe the little people with “stimulus” (so that the people only ask what the country can do for them). The one thing that I ask is that my nation preserve it’s border (and defend it against enemies that won’t necessarily be… Read more »
LatLong I agree but I sure would not want this place to be my front porch. To inject some fun, Pat is a lifelong Liberal, and our son is a Lefty and our daughter a tree-hugging greenie. My words. The point is that I come here because my own family is not conservative and will not talk politics with me. At least here, I get to let off some steam. Btw, former participant Kyle wrote me to say that SCOTUS on Feb 19 will be considering voter fraud cases in PA, MI, and GA. I replied that I hope the… Read more »
Aloha!
IMPREACHMENT 101
Yet another one gone bad! The best part was hearing a pin drop after the Dems got caught “fixing” videos and editing text and inciting riots! None of them ever needed Trump to learn the finer points of “incitement”!
Here is my formula!
If SCOTUS=NO then IMPEACH=UNCONSTITUIONAL
If IMPEACH=UNCONSTITUIONAL then VOTERS=VIOLATION OF OATH
If VOTERS=VIOLATION OF OATH then IMPEACH= ALL OF CONGRESS
Its not Nancy, not Chuck, not Mitt, not Hillary or even CNN’s Constitution … it is the US Constitution!
Sorry, I hit edit and not reply My reply is simply that the constitution is at risk from one group only and that is Donald J. Trump and his family and the thugs they employ. So, all the distractions you throw out about Clinton, Pelosi, Romney, Cheney, ANTIFA, and whomever you finger point to, is just more Trumper b.s. The nation is in trouble and smear tactics and goon squads are not going to fix it. The good news is that the political mock trial is over and now we are going to experience criminal and civil trials the likes… Read more »
Never in my life have I seen such mismatched lawyering as in this week’s trial to convict Trump. Trump’s lawyers appeared incompetent at times. Of course, the evidence the defence faced was overwhelming. Trump hired high-quality lawyers for the first impeachment trial, but they stood down for this one. Then apparently, the lawyers he retained or wanted for this trial, all quit or were forced to quit by their law firm partners. So, his last minute stand-ins were either not capable or were ill prepared due to time constraints. To be fair, ask yourself a single question: if the jurors… Read more »
The Trump trial arguments and Q&A are over. The result has never been in doubt.
Money talks and Principle walks.
Regardless of the issue, the Senators on both sides will vote precisely how their handlers i.e., the lobbyists who own them, demand. Both sides.
Yes, I do believe that some Senators on each side would vote their conscience. Just not enough of them.
Rinse and repeat.
Aloha! CHINA BRIBES Once you get away from the mainstream US media and the Twitter and Google and Facebook sponsored propaganda and once you look at the infamously ignorant Democrats squander their power you will see stuff like THIS! LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZI_5gMNnEU When you watch this video that simply reports what the CCP does to politicians who accept bribes you notice how many views this video has. It has over 426k and there are over 360 comments. It is a video of a CCP court room putting two mayors on trial for taking bribes. One of them had been caught doing… Read more »
excellent………..even my reasonably good local republican congressman has increased his net worth over $40 MILLION whie in office…at least he has a car dealership to tie some of it too…………..guess which calif senators husband got the contract to sell all the vacant post offices several years ago???? disgusting……………..keep it up Kaimu…..
I agree toby. Let’s be fair to both sides. Now that Trump is finished — even his allies like Nikki Haley say so — everything I wanted to see to that “despicable” man has happened and it’s time for me to get back to the “old Bill Cara” who is all-in for conservatism.
I wish I could, but this steal nonsense keeps coming
Marijuana smuggling
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/us-dea-nys-1.5907805
Aloha! CCP FAVORS FOSSIL While the West destroys its fossil fuel base the CCP keeps building its cheap fuel source! But you can trust they will comply with the Paris Climate Fraud! I guarantee XI is laughing all the way to the bank every time Biden signs an executive order! Lol! How can US factories compete against coal fired CCP factories? Just the fuel input alone makes the USA non-competitive! The CCP will never stop their fossil fuel and they will never stop being the #1 polluter in the world! Greta? Woke Capitalism is destroying the West and paving the… Read more »
Please post this in Life & Politics
Nothing more efficient than an 80 year old coal plant 🙂
Right, especially when the coal plant is able to bill society and our children and grandchildren for the true costs of running the plant. Which are the emission of climate altering carbon dioxide and toxic substances like mercury, lead and other heavy metals that accumulate in the food chain (what we eat). There is also nitrogen and sulfur dioxide that directly causes acid rain, asthma and other respiratory ailments. Acid rain kills trees, plants and fish in our waterways. This happened to great extent in the Northeast from the 1960’s to the 1980’s. Then, in 1980, EPA partly fixed the problem through a… Read more »
how about putting it in life and politics when you mention our previous president either positively or negatively???
Toby
You are right about this. I am glad you admit that Trump is the previous president.
Yes, I ought to restrain my remarks about a president who has every trader I talk to stunned at his behavior. However, disgust for Trump seems to be all they want to talk to me about this week. So, I apologize when on a few occasions I forget to post where I know I/we should be in referencing Trump.
I was responding to a comment here, but point taken.
forecast Chinese 5 year plan has record number of coal fired plants planned but many are in outer Mongolia so maybe biden administration/UN/ etc doesn’t count them
Aloha!
NFIB
Google NFIB OPTIMISM INDEX JAN 2021 and there won’t be a single major news agency reporting the total collapse! Like the Obama era small business suffered for many years. The Democrat party is no friend to unions or small businesses.
Aloha! WOKE CAPITALISM This kid stood around while his fellow students in Florida were gunned down and he has been the Al Sharpton of School Shootings ever since profiting off mass murder the way Al Sharpton has made a fortune off racism! He might have given Sharpton and BLM a new idea from Rwanda … Good Machetes! This is a bad idea! Besides since when has buying a pillow prevented school shootings? Woke is out of control, but … This is the same school shooting the FBI decided they’d give the shooter a pass! Anyone who uses mass murder or… Read more »