My Wisdom Implies Age

Stand up straight facing something of which you are really fond.  Place your legs a little wider that shoulder length apart. Bend over and put your head between your legs, pucker up, and kiss your young ass GOODBYE.

The USA is on the verge of a mental breakdown.  It is similar to what Great Britain used to do to the Scots when an outlaw was finally captured.  Tie a rope onto each arm and each leg and tie those four ends to a horse saddle on a horse that a Brit is riding.  Order each animal to march forward simultaneously and the man is the middle is QUARTERED.

Right now, USA citizens are facing DISUNITY on several fronts:

1. Racism
2. Gender Inequality
3. Wage Inequalities
4. Humanoid Robots with AI
5. Anti-Jewish
6. Anti-Palestinian
7. Police Brutality
8. Chinese Threat
9. Russian Threat
10. BRICS Threat
11. Nuclear Arms Race
12. 2024 Election Candidates
13. Fake News
14. Liberal Censorship
15. War on Fossil Fuels
16. Inflation
17. Illegal Immigration
18. Increasing National Debt
19. End of American Dream
20. Credit Card Debt

If that is not enough, the current administration is trying to push ELECTRIC VEHICLES on us, forcing us to do away with gasoline vehicles.

• EVs are more expensive
• Cost more to recharge
• Not enough charging stations
• Replacement batteries are costly
• Resale value drops more than gasoline cars

WHAT TO DO...   WHAT TO DO...   WHAT TO DO???

As a compromise, there are many of us buying hybrid vehicles that do not require CHARGING...  but there is still a large battery cost in 5-7 years.

What kind of damage will the ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS do when they cannot find:

• Jobs
• Housing
• Healthcare
• Buy Food
• Buy Transportation

HOW FAST WILL HUMANOID ROBOTS WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCES START REPLACING US IN JOBS???

• 2025?
• 2027?
• 2030?

NOTE:  China and Elon Musk are mass producing humanoid robots with AI in 2024/2025...

ARE YOU BENDING OVER???

Fishing

 

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Born to be Wild

 

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

 

US Ship Attacked

Above, te guided missile destroyer USS Carney patrols the waters of the Gulf in support of Operation Southern Watch. The Pentagon said on Sunday that the USS Carney had come under attack in the Red Sea.   © FELIX GARZA/US NAVY/AFP via Getty Images


The Pentagon on Sunday announced that attacks had been carried out on a United States warship as well as commercial vessels stationed in the Middle East, which could be a significant escalation in the ongoing war in the region.

"We're aware of reports regarding attacks on the USS Carney and commercial vessels in the Red Sea and will provide information as it becomes available," the Pentagon told Newsweek. The news was first reported by the Associated Press.

The U.S. has strongly backed its longtime ally Israel in the aftermath of an October 7 attack carried out by the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which left some 1,200 dead. 

Israel's government declared war on Hamas, which is backed by Iran, and has bombarded Gaza, which the group governs, while also cutting off fuel, food and electricity to the densely populated area. More than 15,000 Palestinians have died since the bombing began.  READ MORE...

Octopus

 

The American DREAM

 In the past, the American Dream was go to college, get married, buy a home, and raise a family...  secondary to that main dream was the American Dream of don't go to college, get technical/crafts skills training, get married, buy a home, and raise a family...

Our new American Dream is go to college, get married, maybe buy a home, raise a family, and pay off college debt.  The same maybe buy a home with the technical/crafts skills training but no college debt.

The key here is BUYING A HOME...  that is no longer part of the American Dream...

College debt is increasing regardless of buying a home or not.

I have said for over TWENTY YEARS that going to college is NO LONGER NECESSARY to have a quality life...

HOWEVER, owning a home is CONTINGENT upon where one lives and what one is willing to o to buy that home...

Let me explain...

Buying a home down in the southeastern USA is lot cheaper that a majority of other locations.  A $150,000 home in East TN will cost you $300,000 in Nashville, TN for instance and between $300,000 and $500,000 in the Research Triangle Park of North Carolina.

However, the wages are also lower in East TN as well...  so obviously, there is a tradeoff.

Here is a scenario that many people fail to see...  

You buy the cheapest home you can find that is livable, does not meet your needs, and does not require too much renovation and is in a fairly respectable part of town.

THIS AIN'T POSSIBLE YOU SAY...

Yes, it is if you are patient and keep looking.

Stay in that house for 3-5 years and renovate the kitchen and the bathrooms.

Sell the house and use the profits to buy a $200,000 house.

Real Estate will increase in value similar to the inflation growth rate which is typically about 2-3% each year.

Do the same with your $200,000 and in 3-5 years, you sell and buy a $300,000.

In 3-5 years, sell the $300,000 and buy at $400,000 house.

So far, it has been about 15 years and you have at least doubled the value of your original home...

If you did this at age 20, you are now 35....

If you do this for another 15 years, you will be 50 years old and own a home valued between $500,000 to $600,000.

DOWNSIDE:  you will have to move several times which is a hassle and you will have to stay focused on constantly looking for a new home and constantly making sure your current home is not damaged.

While many people say the American Dream is dead, I believe they are wrong because just like other dreams, it takes time to get there, you just don't jump into the American Dream...

To see this any other way, leaves me thinking you are lazy, need immediate satisfaction, or just plain dumb and ignorant.

Eagle Flight

 

Pyramid NOT MADE by Humans

Last month, a study published in Archaeological Prospection garnered a lot of media attention (including from IFLScience) for its extraordinary claim that a mountain in Indonesia is actually the world's oldest pyramid built by ancient humans. But reactions from archaeologists since have raised skepticism about its bold conclusions.

According to the paper, the Gunung Padang – which translates to “Mountain of Enlightenment” – was not formed naturally but "meticulously sculpted" into its current shape between 25,000 and 14,000 years ago. If this were true, it would be considerably older than the world's oldest pyramids, with the team writing that it “suggests that advanced construction practices were already present when agriculture had, perhaps, not yet been invented.”

Among other bold claims was that there are "hidden cavities or chambers" at the site, and that the site itself appeared to have been buried several times “possibly to conceal its true identity for preservation purposes”.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and other archaeologists are far from convinced that the team has provided this, especially given how it would rewrite the history of human development. Lutfi Yondri, an archaeologist at BRIN in Bandung, Indonesia, told Nature that his work showed people in the area lived in caves between 12,000 and 6,000 years ago, and left no evidence of having the “remarkable masonry capabilities” supposedly employed by people of the area thousands of years before them to build the "pyramid".  READ MORE...

Simply Hendrix

 

ROBOTS are our FUTURE

 YOU ARE DELUSIONAL IF YOU THINK HUMANOID ROBOTS WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS JUST A PASSING FAD...

I have seen the enemy and it is US...

In the next couple of years or EARLIER, humanoid robots with AI will start being mass produced all over the world.

This is not speculation, this is FACT.

These humanoid robots with AI will get smarter and smarter as the human race gets older and older.  Technology is boundless in its ability to grow, achieve, and excel.

Humanoid Robots with AI can simply process more information than a human being can process and soon these robots will be designed to design themselves because of that processing ability.

Not only will humanoid robots with AI replace our jobs, but they will become soldiers, air force pilots, and crews flying into outer space.  These humanoid robots will build colonies for humans on distant planets.  These humanoid robots will fight our wars of aggression on each other.

These humanoid robots with AI will:

• be our doctors and surgeons
• be our classroom teachers
• build the products we will buy
• plant and harvest crops
• pilot our commercial aircraft
• operate our factories and machines
• become our law enforcement and fire protection
• secure our borders
• build our roads and bridges and buildings

Right now, we feel like we will be able to manage the growth of humanoid robots with AI...  but, our technology leaders are moving faster than are the laws being created to regulate them.  Soon, the law for robots will no longer be applicable because of the grandfather clause.

We will wished we had move faster but it will be too late...  besides...

WHO WILL REGULATE CHINA, OR RUSSIA, OR INDIA, OR NORTH KOREA, OR IRAN, OR SAUDI ARABIA???

Our once respected country, is no longer respected by the rest of the world...  and, the only reason to fear us is because of our nuclear weapons...   however, the rest of the world knows the USA will never use its nuclear weapons again...

THAT MAKES US DAMN NEAR IMPOTENT...

The South DOES NOT NEED to Rise Again

There are many people living here in the SOUTH that feel the South should rise up again...

For what purpose?

The Civil War was not fought over slavery, it was fought because President Lincoln did not want to lose revenue from the southern states... as money was needed to build our nation.  Our new nation would not have grown strong without TAXES from the south.

And since we all know that slavery was wrong...  what would be the purpose for the south to rise up again???

There would be no purpose...

PLUS THE FACT THAT IT IS NO LONGER NECESSARY...

Why do I say this?

Put simply...

Would you rather live in the NORTH or in the SOUTH?

• Warmer Weather
• Less Taxes
• Less Crime
• Lower Cost of Living
• People are Friendlier
• Less Traffic Congestion
• Laid Back Lifestyle
• More Recreation
• Country Music
• Great Smoky Mountains
• Southern Cooking
• Southern Hospitality
• Adequate Restaurants
• Excellent Healthcare

Wars and Rumors of Wars

 

Be it known to all those who read this that the WEALTHY ELITE, our LEADERS (Business and Political), our EDUCATORS, our CLERGY, and our ELDERLY...  DO NOT FIGHT WARS...   Those who fight wars are the uneducated and the ignorant...

Does that seem wrong to you?

It does to me but that's the way it has been for thousands of years.

AND YET...

those who fight wars outnumber the ones who don't fight wars.

Go figure?

What brought this to my attention?

For years, our leaders here in the USA have tried to IMPOSE our way of life, our form of government, our democracy onto countries that DONT WANT TO BE LIKE THE USA...  and yet, we did it all the same...

We did the same thing to our NATIVE AMERICANS.

We did the same thing to the slaves we purchased from Africa.

ARROGANT AMERICANS WHO BELIEVED WE KNEW WHAT WAS BEST FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD...

This same arrogance permeates our society in 2023...  with our WEALTHY ELITE telling us that they know what is best for us...  and know when the time is right to send us to fight their wars...

Most of us don't have the BALLS to stand up to the WEALTHY ELITE...  consequently, we do what they say, so we can keep our jobs and support our family....  all done while the WEALTHY ELITE laugh at us for being so easily controlled.

Until we stand up for ourselves, the uneducated and ignorant will continue to be sent to war to fight the battles that these WEALTHY ELITES started.

Humpty Dumpty America

Humpty Dumpty is a character in an English nursery rhyme, probably originally a riddle and one of the best known in the English-speaking world. He is typically portrayed as an anthropomorphic egg, though he is not explicitly described as such. The first recorded versions of the rhyme date from late eighteenth-century England and the tune from 1870 in James William Elliott's National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs. Its origins are obscure, and several theories have been advanced to suggest original meanings.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

All the king's horses and all the king's men

Couldn't put Humpty together again.

Do you think my analogy fits?

Look at the division in this country of ours...

1. Racially divided
2. Illegal Immigration divided
3. Politically divided
4. Censorship divided
5. Educationally divided
6. Legal Justice divided
7. Opportunities divided
8. Financially divided
9. Religiously divided
10. Anti-Israel divided
11. Geographically divided
12. Gender divided
13. WOKE divided
14. Police Brutality divided
15. Militarily divided
16. Globally divided
17. Economically divided
18. Cost of Living divided

UNITED WE STAND - DIVIDED WE FALL

People who are a lot smarter than me will tell you that a country does not survive very long, if its people are as divided as we are here in the US of A...

What will happen to Humpty Dumpty America?

• A gradual deterioration from within
• Opposing views prevent forward movement
• Our enemies can take advantage of our weakness
• We will be treated like BOILING FROGS (look it up)
• Congress will remain fighting against each other
• People will emulate their leaders
• Only the wealthy remain untouched
• Life gets progressively worse
• Robots replace jobs
• Misinformation become more widespread - leaving people not knowing what to believe
• More of our privacy is taken away by technology
• THE USA BECOMES JUST LIKE ALL THE OTHER COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD...  No longer special...  no longer the leader...  no longer a place where people want to come...
• The global economy shifts to the FAR EAST...  America is ignored!!!

The USA is Our Home Not Yours

 In 1947, I was born in Raleigh, North Carolina; my parents were also born in the USA as were their parents...

I am an American.  I was born an American.  Do I think I am better than you?  NO.  Do I think I am different than you?  YES.  Do I think you are different than me?  YES.

If you want to come to MY COUNTRY, then do so LEGALLY...  as soon as you break the law to enter my country, I don't want you here...  You are trespassing...

If you are willing to break the law to enter my country then you are willing to break more laws after you are here.  Your presence will HURT not HELP my country.

Here's the deal...

• Leave this country and enter the correct way
• Learn to speak English
• Go to school and get training
• Get your green card
• Apply for citizenship
• Pay your taxes
• Don't send money back to your old country
• Be aware that humanoid robots will replace your job
• Be aware that the USA is moving towards SOCIALISM
• Be aware that the liberals want to destroy the conservative voice
• Be aware that it will cost more to live here
• Be aware that other Americans will resent your presence here

LIFE in the US of A

WHAT'S SO GREAT ABOUT LIVING IN THE US OF A TODAY??? 

We have thousands of illegal immigrants coming into this country and why do you think they are doing that?

Because they perceive that life in the USA is better than life in the country they left...

Perhaps it is...

BUT, they are in for a rude awakening because life in America is no longer like it used to be...

We have a war on fossil fuels which means that gasoline vehicles will soon be obsolete...

Americans will not be able to afford these gasless vehicles...

Will the illegal immigrants be able to afford them???

• Americans can no longer afford owning homes
• Americans can no longer find security in their employment
• Americans can no longer voice their opinions if they are conservative
• Americans are controlled by the WOKE movement
• Americans are confronted by crime and violence in the big cities
• Americans are paying higher taxes and receiving less from the government
• Americans are moving towards SOCIALISM
• American education is no longer the best in the world
• Americans no longer have freedom of speech because they will be canceled if they speak their mind
• America is a divided country and is more concerned with fighting each other than the rest of the world
• Americans NO LONGER WANT illegal immigrants in this country

IS THIS THE COUNTRY THAT YOU WANT TO MOVE TO???

BETTER THINK TWICE BEFORE YOU ACT...

Puppet

 

Open Enrollment Period

 Until December 7, Medicare and Supplemental Insurance has an open enrollment period for those who want to start a program or change their program.

There are all sorts of Supplements Insurance Companies that are trying to convince people to call and check out their possibilities.

CAUTION!!!!!!

There ain't no for-profit company that wants you to sign up for a program that will benefit you more than the insurance company.

Be careful...

Insurance companies are in the business of selling insurance and in so doing, they need to amass a TON OF MONEY as quickly as they can in order to PAY OUT benefits when they creep up.

The more they pay out, the less profit margins they have...  so, they use the enrollment period to sign people up with confusing or misleading information.

We got a cancer insurance policy several years ago for under $10 each month.  We paid for about 10 years before we were put in a situation to file a claim.  We get $10,000 each year as long as I continue to have monthly treatments.

We are one of the few insurers that is benefitting from the program but there are thousands of people that are paying monthly premiums who will never get cancer and never need to use the insurance.

The numbers show that this difference will always benefit the insurance company as long as they can get IDIOTS to buy something they don't need...  but they use the FEAR OF CANCER to get them to buy initially.

If it had been me, I would have never purchased this cancer policy but my wife thought it was a good idea since it did not cost that much.

WE WERE LUCKY...

Somewhat Political

 

Released Hostage Held by UNRWA Teacher

One of the hostages, recently released from Gaza, revealed on Wednesday that he was held for nearly 50 days in an attic by a teacher from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).

The story was publicized on X by Channel 13 journalist Almog Boker.

The hostage also said that the teacher who held him captive was a father of 10 children. He had barely been provided food or medical attention, and was locked away by the teacher, he said.  READ MORE...

On The Cover

 

I Like Bragging

I moved to East Tennessee (TN) in 1990 for work.  I moved from North Carolina (NC) where my skills were a dime a dozen to TN where my skills were exceptionally rare.  So, I have lived here for 33 years.  I don't miss North Carolina at all...

• What I discovered here was that the TN Valley has damn near perfect weather.  Protected by the Smoky Mtns on the right and the Cumberland Plateau on the left, adverse weather seldom enters the valley.
• I discovered that the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) built this incredible system of lakes that we now can use FREE OF CHARGE for recreational purposes.  There are two lakes on either side of where we live about 10 miles from the house.
• I also discovered that East TN has a cheaper cost of living (15-21%) than most other places in the USA.  7% of that is because we do not have a state income tax.

What I left behind in the North Carolina Piedmont...

1. a state income tax
2. higher property values
3. more traffic congestion
4. higher cost of living
5. more crime
6. better high schools
7. more restaurants
8. longer waiting lines
9. highly competitive job market
10. houses built close together

Because my wife and I have no debt, we can live comfortably on $3,000 a month in East TN which is about the same amount of our SOCIAL SECURITY CHECKS...

1. We are 40 minutes from the University of TN Medical Center.
2. We are 50 minutes from McGhee-Tyson airport.
3. We are 60 minutes away from Oak Ridge National Laboratories
4. We are 60 minutes away from Asheville, NC
5. We are three hours from Nashville.
6. We are 90 minutes from Bristol Motor Speedway (NASCAR)
7. We are 45-60 minutes from the Great Smoky Mountains, Sevierville, Pigeon Forge, and Gatlinburg.
8. We are 90 minutes away from Cherokee Gambling Casino
9. We are 4 hours away from Atlanta
10. The Cherokee Indian Nation is currently breaking ground for one of the biggest resorts in the area to be built beside Buc-ee's, just 30 minutes away.

PLEASE DON'T COME TO EAST TENNESSEE AND SPOIL ALL OF THIS FOR US....

What??? Me Worry???

Alfred E. Neuman is the fictitious mascot and cover boy of the American humor magazine Mad. The character's distinct smiling face, parted red hair, gap-tooth smile, freckles, protruding ears, and scrawny body first emerged in U.S. iconography decades prior to his association with the magazine, appearing in late 19th-century advertisements for painless dentistry – the origin of his "What, me worry?" motto. The magazine's editor, Harvey Kurtzman, claimed the character in 1954, and he was named "Alfred E. Neuman" by Mad's second editor, Al Feldstein, in 1956. Since his debut in Mad, Neuman's likeness has appeared on the cover of all but a handful of the magazine's over 550 issues. Rarely seen in profile, Neuman has almost always been recognizable in front view, silhouette, or directly from behind.  SOURCE:  Wikipedia

UNLIKE...

most of you, I grew up buying MAD Magazine and reading it from cover to cover.  Not sure when I stopped doing this, but it probably had the same fate at Puff, the Magic Dragon.  (of course, that is before your time as well).

Thirty miles or less away from me, is a place called Buc-ee's... it is a convenience store that was just built - originating in Texas.  The store has 120 gasoline pumps...

NOW...

Do you seriously think this company would have invested money in 120 gasoline pumps if they thought gasoline powered vehicles were going to disappear???

NO...

Therefore, my next vehicle purchase and probably my last will NOT BE AN EV...  it will be a gasoline vehicle and I might, just might consider a HYBRID that does not need charging if the price of the battery replacement comes down.

If they change the law and require EV, those people owning gasoline vehicles MUST RECEIVE GRANDFATHER CLAUSES...  so, people like me will be good to go.

INFLATION does not bother me either because I have been debt free for almost 20 years...  Plus, I have saved money and planned for inflation, so I still have the resources to live just like I always have.

Part of my lifestyle is that I have a simple lifestyle and don't need to spend a lot of money to be happy.  We just downsized our home and yard to minimize our work.  We threw a ton of shit away that we did not need or were not using.  Our yard is small but almost more than we really need.

I have plenty of clothes to last for the rest of my life so nothing new there to buy.  I don't have to eat at a restaurant and I don't buy the most expensive.  

I have stopped eating red meat (stopped age 40) and when I purchased a bowl of Wendy's chili which I used to LOVE...  it tasted horrible because of all the turkey and vege burgers I have been eating.

BELIEVE IT OR NOT...  Alfred E. Newman is perfect for me once again...  What, me worry?

The 2024 Election

 Currently, it would appear that Joe Biden will be the Democratic Party nominee and Donald Trump will be the Republican Party nominee...  although, there are others on both sides who are still hanging in hoping to gain ground.

Here's the situation:

1. Biden has been a terrible President, from my perspective because of illegal immigration, inflation, foreign policy, and war on fossil fuels.
2. Biden is under investigation for being corrupt when he was VP.
3. Biden's age will open the for Kamala Harris

ON THE OTHER SIDE...

1. Trump is fighting 91 felony indictments
2. Trump will seek revenge if he became President
3. Foreign countries fear Trump
4. Trump built a healthy economy

SO...   and this is my opinion...  neither party has presented a suitable candidate for President, including those that are still hoping the party will select them.

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR THE USA?

• China will become stronger as the USA becomes weaker
• The USA will continue to be seriously divided
• Our war on fossil fuel will hurt us in the short run
• Congress will be too late in their regulation of humanoid robots with AI
• Our national debt will increase
• Our personal credit card debt will increase
• Our military will weaken
• The wealthy will continue to escape paying their fair share of taxes
• Our American dream will fade
• Illegal immigration will change our culture/country

HOWEVER...

The USA has been and continues to be controlled by those from the BABY BOOMER Generation...  or post WWII births...   which means people like me who are in their 70s and born between 1945-1955...

It is our generation that created the mess that we are in and continued to be mired in...

Is the YOUNGER GENERATION correct or better?

Who the hell knows.

But, it is time for them to take over and make of this country that which they want it to be...  whether it is better or worse.

It is now their opportunity to do something.

Once the 1945-1950 birth generation TURNS 80 years of age, there is no turning back...  the transformation MUST TAKE PLACE...

Pit Stop

 

I Now Know This Man Differently

 There is commercial out there about a pill that will help you sleep.  The couple that is providing a testimony are senior citizens and extremely OBESE and the female says as she is about the break down in tears that because of her husband getting a good night's sleep, she now knows this man differently...

What the hell does that mean?

• Is she talking from a sexual perspective?
• Is she talking from a less anxiety perspective?
• Or, is she talking about something else?

I am sure that there are many people who are impressed by this commercial but the more I see and hear it, the more turned off I become...  consequently, I will never buy this product.

So, what am I talking about here?

ADVERTISING  and MARKETING

One of the concepts I learned in graduate business school is that Marketing Executives use Advertising to sell goods and services that the CONSUMERS do not realize that they want, nor do they realize if they need it or not.

THEREFORE -  advertising is designed to get the consumer to BUY whether they need it or not.

They do this with LEGAL but misleading advertising claims and through live testimonies of REAL PEOPLE...  however, these real people are, for the most part, just ACTORS.

The general public is being MANIPULATED...  and, if you continued to remain unaware, then you will continue to be manipulated and will continue to WASTE your money...

LET THE BUYER BEWARE...

Somewhat Political

 

Hydrogen Powered Jet

The Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) is working on a new aircraft called FlyZero.  The FlyZero is powered by liquid hydrogen, which is why the range is so massive.

The hydrogen-powered jet is fitted with tanks designed to store liquid hydrogen at minutes 250° Celsius (418° Fahrenheit).It has four tanks in total, two at the back – the biggest ones – and two smaller ones at the front.

In car terms, this is a bit like having a rear-biased all-wheel drive car.     READ MORE...

IMAGINE