Immigration from Mexico Tears Down Quality of Life in USA

 I have been more fortunate than others in that because of my father's employment, I went to high school in Cairo, Egypt and during the summers, traveled throughout Europe on $3 and $5/day from 1962-1966.

When I was in the military, we went on a Med Cruise and visited all the countries that bordered that body of water.  When my wife and I retired, we vacationed in the Caribbean, Mexico, and throughout Europe...  so, one could say that I have had ample opportunities to know what the quality of life is like is countries outside the US of A.

And, therein lies my problem with all this immigration as it is going to reduce the quality of life in the US of A wherever a group of them decide to live...   They will bring their lifestyles with them and the US of A will turn into MINI TIJUANA's...  see below...

Movement

 

The Threat to the USA

 

As a North American from the US of A, I can honestly say that there are several threats to the United States of which many may not be aware...

These threats include:

• China/Russia/North Korea/ Iran
• A Weak Military
• STEM Training
• Inflation (slow growing economy)
• Ending Fossil Fuels
• Immigration (limited resources)
• A Divided Country
• Robotics/Artificial Intelligence
• Crime and Violence
• Our National Debt

Most North Americans living in the US of A are concerned with whether or not they can get an abortion or not...  or if, the LGBTQ+ community is given all the rights they deserve....  or if, whether or not we should legalize marijuana nationally...  or if, college education should be free...  or if, everyone in this country should drive electric vehicles, knowing that our power grid is not strong enough to handle the overload and knowing that there is not enough charging stations to handle the demand...

Just for shits and giggles...

1. China is not giving up fossil fuels
2. India is not giving up fossil fuels
3. Russia is not giving up fossil fuels

SO...  how much of an impact will our country have on the GREEN MOVEMENT???

Isn't it interesting that I have only partially addressed ONE OUT OF 10 concerns...  

what about the other 9?  

can you imagine what they might entail?

Still After Trump - Six Years Later

 

Blockchain Development Companies

If you have been following banking, investing, or cryptocurrency over the last ten years, you may be familiar with “blockchain,” the record-keeping technology behind the Bitcoin network. And there’s a good chance that it only makes so much sense. In trying to learn more about blockchain, you’ve probably encountered a definition like this: “blockchain is a distributed, decentralized, public ledger.”

What is Blockchain?
If this technology is so complex, why call it “blockchain?” At its most basic level, blockchain is literally just a chain of blocks, but not in the traditional sense of those words. When we say the words “block” and “chain” in this context, we are actually talking about digital information (the “block”) stored in a public database (the “chain”).

“Blocks” on the blockchain are made up of digital pieces of information. Specifically, they have three parts:

Blocks store information about transactions like the date, time, and dollar amount of your most recent purchase from Amazon. (NOTE: This Amazon example is for illustrative purchases; Amazon retail does not work on a blockchain principle as of this writing)

Blocks store information about who is participating in transactions. A block for your splurge purchase from Amazon would record your name along with Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN). Instead of using your actual name, your purchase is recorded without any identifying information using a unique “digital signature,” sort of like a username.

Blocks store information that distinguishes them from other blocks. Much like you and I have names to distinguish us from one another, each block stores a unique code called a “hash” that allows us to tell it apart from every other block. Hashes are cryptographic codes created by special algorithms. Let’s say you made your splurge purchase on Amazon, but while it’s in transit, you decide you just can’t resist and need a second one. Even though the details of your new transaction would look nearly identical to your earlier purchase, we can still tell the blocks apart because of their unique codes.  READ MORE...

Skateboard Girl

 

Goodbye Nancy Pelosi

A Year's Worth of FOOD...

 

Having Goals to be Successful

Is it necessary to have goals?

Only if you want to be successful...

What is success?

It varies with people's attitudes...

For instance:

some think it is a big paycheck

some think it is a big office

some think it is power or position

some think it is buying whatever you want

some think it is a big house

some think it is an expensive car

What does it mean to have goals?

Having goals is nothing more than having a plan.

For instance:

• I want to finish high school and join the military...  probably the Air Force as that might be the least dangerous for enlisted personnel.
• I want to move up the ranks from E1 to E9
• I want to retire after 20 years
• I will start saving $2.50/day at age 20 and at the end of each month, I will put it in a mutual fund
• I want to take the skill I learn and acquire a job with those skills for another 20 years that has some sort of pension
• I need 40 quarters of outside of the military to qualify for Social Security
• I will work for 40 years and retire for good at 58 with 2 retirements
• At 67, I will apply for Social Security and have 3 retirements
• At age 67, I will liquidate my mutual fund and collect $500,000
• Estimated Retire Income
• Military - $2,000/month
• Second Job - $2,000/month
• Social Security - $1,500/month
• $500,000 Interest - $2,000/month
• Total Montly Income - $7,500

SO...

Having goals will put you in a position to be successful in many ways...  and, with the above example, there is no borrowing money for college...  you don't have to go to college to be successful...

If you have a burning desire for college, you have 20 years in the military to attend college and the MILITARY WILL PAY FOR ALL OF IT...  University of Phoenix was specifically designed for people in the military.

BUT...  not to have goals means you will flounder and not get anywhere until you realize how important goals really are...

In the end, the choice is always YOURS...

 

Chinese Artist - Gu Kaizhi

Gu Kaizhi, courtesy name Changkang, was a Chinese painter and politician. He was a celebrated painter of ancient China. He was born in Wuxi and first painted at Nanjing in 364. In 366, he became an officer. Later he was promoted to royal officer. He was also a talented poet and calligrapher.

Our Divided Country Changing

 

One of the outcomes of the 2022 midterms point out by Dan Bongino was the fact that in most every State in the United States the majority that the DEMOCRATS won by DECREASED from 2020...

In other words, let's say the Democrats in general in 2020 won by 20 points across the board... where Democrats won either House seats or Senate seats....

In 2022, Democrats only won by 10 points or less in most of their House and Senate seats...

SO...  what does that tell you?

It tells you the Democrats won again...

but, not by much this time...

REASONS:

1.  The Democrats pushed for early voting among their ranks so they could not change their minds based on new information...

2.  The Democrats got more votes to be counted by hand that by voting machine...

3.  The Democrats lied about abortion, saying the Republicans did not want it to be allowed...

THE TRUTH ABOUT ABORTION:  The Supreme Court did not make abortion illegal, but said that it was the responsibility of the STATES not the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT...  that is a huge difference.

4.  Donald Trump was seen as still the leader of the Republican Party and many people HATED him...

5.  The Republicans did not have any solutions to offer the American people.

6.  The Republicans did not fight the lies the Democrats were spreading...

So...

What will happen in 2024?

The Democrats might continue to win but their margins will decrease...

The Democrats could be destroying themselves with their progressive, liberal views more than they realize...

The global community could turn against the leadership of the USA because of their role models and the fact that they are projecting weakness to Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran...

Winston Churchill Saying

Diesel Reserves Running Out

President Joe Biden is proposing a plan that would require fuel suppliers to maintain a minimum amount of diesel in their inventories this winter to stave off severe shortages and prevent extreme price hikes. However, it could create a demand surge and drive up already high prices, according to Bloomberg.

The plan would force diesel vendors to take supplies off the market which could cause short-term diesel demand to soar and drive up prices in the Northeast, where fuel shortages are most severe, according to Bloomberg. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has exacerbated the East Coast’s fuel shortages as the region has become dependent on Russian imports due to the region’s constrained pipeline capacity.

“We also want to make sure there’s enough fuel in the United States,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said when asked about U.S. fuel exports to energy-starved Europe during an interview at the COP27 climate conference in Egypt. “It may not be a business choice that they make, but we’re asking, as the companies that are operating in America, to do what they are doing in other countries.”

The national average price of diesel is $5.31 per gallon and is $1.58 higher than it was in November 2021, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA). The Midwest region’s wholesale diesel prices skyrocketed in July after pipeline operator Magellan Midstream Partners increased the minimum inventory levels for fuel held throughout its pipeline, according to Bloomberg.

The European Union (EU) required its member-states to fill natural gas storages to 80% of full capacity in order to prepare for potential winter shortages, according to the European Council press release. Europe is currently heavily reliant on U.S. oil and gas imports as Russia has continuously disrupted natural gas deliveries through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline in retaliation to EU sanctions.

Americans who use heating oil (a form of diesel) will spend an average of $2,354 to heat their homes this winter which represents a 27% increase from winter 2021 and the highest price point in more than 25 years, according to the EIA.

The White House did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

Curious

 

Surrealistic Artists

 

Salvador Dali - The Persistence of Memory

Pablo Picasso - Guernica

Rene Margritte - Lovers

Joan Miro - Harlequin's Carnival

Max Ernst - The Tobing of the Bride

Surrealism

Surrealism, movement in visual art and literature, flourishing in Europe between World Wars I and II. Surrealism grew principally out of the earlier Dada movement, which before World War I produced works of anti-art that deliberately defied reason; but Surrealism’s emphasis was not on negation but on positive expression. The movement represented a reaction against what its members saw as the destruction wrought by the “rationalism” that had guided European culture and politics in the past and that had culminated in the horrors of World War I. 

According to the major spokesman of the movement, the poet and critic André Breton, who published The Surrealist Manifesto in 1924, Surrealism was a means of reuniting conscious and unconscious realms of experience so completely that the world of dream and fantasy would be joined to the everyday rational world in “an absolute reality, a surreality.” Drawing heavily on theories adapted from Sigmund Freud, Breton saw the unconscious as the wellspring of the imagination. He defined genius in terms of accessibility to this normally untapped realm, which, he believed, could be attained by poets and painters alike.

Characteristics
In the poetry of Breton, Paul Éluard, Pierre Reverdy, and others, Surrealism manifested itself in a juxtaposition of words that was startling because it was determined not by logical but by psychological—that is, unconscious—thought processes. Surrealism’s major achievements, however, were in the field of painting. Surrealist painting was influenced not only by Dadaism but also by the fantastic and grotesque images of such earlier painters as Hieronymus Bosch and Francisco Goya and of closer contemporaries such as Odilon Redon, Giorgio de Chirico, and Marc Chagall. 

The practice of Surrealist art strongly emphasized methodological research and experimentation, stressing the work of art as a means for prompting personal psychic investigation and revelation. Breton, however, demanded firm doctrinal allegiance. Thus, although the Surrealists held a group show in Paris in 1925, the history of the movement is full of expulsions, defections, and personal attacks.

CHECK OUT TOMORROW'S POSTINGS FOR 

5 SURREALISTIC PAINTERS AND THEIR ARTWORK

Strictly Political

 

A Trip to SAMS

 

About once a quarter, my wife and I drive down to Knoxville to make bulk purchases at SAMS because it is cheaper.  Knoxville is about about 30 minutes away from where we live...

What we usually purchase is Toilet Paper, Kcups for McCafe, Pomegranate Juice, Box of frozen COD and Salmon, Turkey Burgers, Atkins Shakes, Raisin Bran, Pimento Cheese, Nuts, and any odds and ends that come to our minds, that are cheaper that WalMart.

It is interesting to know that SAMS is a storage warehouse for WalMart, but some items are cheaper at WalMart than at SAMS...  so, you cannot assume anything and check all prices.

Today after shopping we were going to go to Panera Bread for lunch...  possible a cup of potato soup and 1/2 Tuna sandwich...  but, as we walked by the instore cafe, we decided to get a hotdog and a drink and eat while we were there.

A hotdog and a 24oz drink cost us $1.40 each.  The hotdog was delicious...  just like a hotdog that you would buy at a baseball park.

One of the things that we like about SAMS is that when you go there on the weekends, there are vendors (not SAMS employees) giving away FREE FOOD.

So, for desert, we had 2 pieces of strawberry cheesecake and 1 serving of apple pie (which was about 2 bites)...

Filled up the drink before we left to have something to drink on the way home...

I am just wondering how many people get a SAMS card and go to SAMS everyday for lunch?

Classic Sunday Morning Newspaper Cartoons

 

Democratic Speaker of the House is Gone

 

Nancy Pelosi has an approval rating of 31% and a disapproval rating of 48% or almost half the county...

I guess that means not many people liked her...

While she was the first female speaker of the House, not many American thought she was a good leader...

Did her being a Democractic female congress person stand in the way of compromising with the Republicans so that something positive could be done for the American people?

The Democrats and Republicans SPLIT THE US in HALF...  which means whatever one side wanted because they had the majority WAS NOT what 50% of Americans wanted.

While that is how our DEMOCRACY WORKS, those kinds of decisions only represent half the country...

The Republicans now have the a majority in the House but by only 1-2 hairs of their asses...  which means whatever they push through WILL NOT REPRESENT our entire country...

ONLY ONE SIDE WILL BE REPRESENTED...  a huge flaw in our Democracy...  and one that we did to ourselves in the 2022 midterms....

NON ONE SIDE HAS A MANDATE  from the people...  therefore whatever one side does, HALF THE COUNTRY WILL DISAPPROVE...

We just screwed ourselves for another 2 years...

AGAIN...  

THIS IS WHAT BIDEN IS GOING 

TO GIVE YOU:

1.  Higher gas prices

2.  Higher food prices

3.  An increase of illegal immigrants

4.  An increase in illegals drugs

5.  An increase in Fentanyl from China

6.  An increase in Crime and Violence

7.  An increase in Taxes

8.  Higher rates to borrow money to stop inflation

Hot Inflation Will Wipe Out Most

With price levels continuing to spike, the Fed is no longer using the word ‘transitory’ to describe inflation.

U.S. consumer prices jumped 7.7% in October from a year ago, still hovering near the the highest levels since the early 1980s. Food and energy are still spiking at a historic pace, which could give the Fed more reason to keep raising interest rates.

It’s a vicious cycle criticized by many investing veterans. And Rich Dad, Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki is one of the latest experts to sound the alarm.

“When inflation goes up, we’re going to wipe out 50% of the U.S. population,” he told Stansberry Research earlier this month.

Let’s take a closer look at what Kiyosaki means by that.  READ MORE...

Landing

 

Squares

 

Politics and Shit

I realize that I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I am smart enough to realize that DONALD TRUMP should not run for President...

His policies worked and our enemies were scared shitless of him...  but, half of the residents of the United States, frigging hated him...

However, if DeSantis would agree to be his VP, then I believe Trump could win the election...  on the bright side, Trump could not run for a 3rd term, which would give DeSantis a chance to have his 8 years as President.  And, the GOP would run the show for over a decade...

"Lets just have happy thoughts..."  as painter Bob Ross might say.

On the other side of the coin, I doubt DeSantis would agree to that...  so, if he throws his hat into the ring against Trump, I believe DeSantis will win...  and if so, that will be the end to Trump as he will hide away, never to be seen again, disgraced...

On the DEM side of the political equation, I hope to hell that Biden does not run again.  Whoever is pulling his strings, we cannot stand 4 more years of that puppet.

Of course, I like the idea of the government giving us more money...  and, it would be nice not to pay any healthcare fees at all...  no premiums and no co-pays...  that is if you are 67 or older.

I also think that we should try complete socialism for a few years just for shits and giggles to see how bad it screws up our economy...  UNLESS, we can get the wealthy people to allow their sheltered money be taxes...  then socialism might work...  although HISTORY says NO WAY JOSE...

I remember my parents telling me not to do this or that...  and, being the arogant little prick I was, I did not listen to them...  what I found out years later, was they they were right and I was wrong...  I lost a good decade of my life learning from experience when all I had to do was listen to them...

I hated myself for many years for being so frigging stupid...

 

Strictly Political

 

The Way It Should Be

Saturday Morning in the Valley

This week has been rather busy for me as I decided to finish cleaning out and organize my basement and assciated storage areas. 

We made several trips to the landfill with the back of our Venza full, including laying down the back seat so there was a lot of shit to throw away.

In addition to those trips, we put about 3 car loads of stuff on the other side of the road for the city to pick up...  mostly wood stuff like bookcases.  There is all kinds of hoops you have to jump through at the landfill for wooden products, so we just let the city deal with it.

While I cleaned up, I also did some re-organizing, making sure that everything was spread out, so that you could see exactly what you had.  Nothing was behind something, or on top of something else.

We re-organized the upstairs office area too, so I have to take that downstairs and blend it in which might take an hour or so.  Then I plan to label everything, so that anyone can see at quick glance what is inside, if the container has a lid.

All day Thursday was spent at UT Hospital getting my montly infusion of toxins to fight my cancers...  and then on Friday, we cut down the bushes in front of the house, which concludes all our outside work until spring.

Time to spend time inside doing stuff for the next few months  (Dec through April) and what is left of November...

Sex Laws

 

First-Ever Documented Hybrid

This healthy, 1-year-old male offspring of a rose-breasted grosbeak and scarlet tanager is the first-ever documented hybrid of its kind. The two species have such divergent nesting preferences that they have been on independent evolutionary trajectories for at least 10 million years — until now. Credit: Stephen Gosser

Birdsong reveals a rare hybrid coupling

Stephen Gosser, a self-described “diehard birder,” was out in the Western Pennsylvania woods in June of 2020 when he believed he heard the singing of the elusive and breathtakingly beautiful scarlet tanager.

The blood-red bird, which has black wings and a tail, is a favorite among birders because of both its beauty and rarity since the species prefers to remain hidden high in the forest canopy.

When Gosser finally located the songbird, he found what looked like a rose-breasted grosbeak but sounded just like a scarlet tanager. 

He snapped a few photos and called for backup; shortly after, a team from National Aviary in Pittsburgh arrived to catch the bird and collect a blood sample.  READ MORE...

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