Mindconnection eNL, 2023-12-17

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Fighting Communism

1. A federal judge struck down the Brainless administration to exclude 18 to 20 year old adults from exercising their Second Amendment rights. When communists talk about "Diversity, Equity, and INCLUSION" they clearly do exclude 18 to 20 year old adults. That's not very equitable of them now, is it?
    
2. One problem with the communism that we feel every day from our federal, state, and local governments is we the sheeple tend to let them single out and punish those who speak out. There is safety in numbers, and if we all speak out then we rob the communists of their power to intimidate and we pretty much neutralize their power to destroy. Don't be afraid to speak out, be afraid of what happens if you don't. Take care to speak out in smart ways, with the goal of changing minds rather than merely venting frustration. You know the adage, think before speaking. Just do that, and you'll nudge the ball toward where we need it to be.
    
3. On 05DEC, a Louisiana judge ruled an election for Sheriff void due to clearly proven election fraud. He said it was impossible to know the true results, so now the election will be held again. This is a major victory for election integrity. If only this had been done following the coup, our country would have been spared three years of communist rule and the devastation that has brought to us and to the world.
    
4. The House voted to overturn Brainless Biden's coal-powered car mandate. Perhaps that will be enough to stop this particular strain of idiocy. It would be nice if someone would provide a reality-based justification for such vehicles, but thus far nobody has.
   
   Maybe that's because EVs have a larger carbon footprint than ICE cars, there's that whole childhood slavery to mine the lithium thing, EVs are enormously impractical for anything but city driving, EVs unnecessarily add strain to an already overloaded electrical grid, the battery changes relegate them to being affordable only by the super wealthy (total maintenance on my 21 year old Camry has cost me less than the cost of one battery change and those battery changes are every 3 to 5 years), EVs can't handle hilly terrain, EVs can't handle cold weather, EVs can't handle hot weather, EV battery explosions are spectacular and the risk of such an explosion isn't minor, and about 100 other problems that you don't have with ICE cars exist with EVs. The only positive side is they transfer the pollution from where the user is to where non-users are, but that hardly seems positive for the non-users.
    
5. Comrade Hakeem Jeffries, representing the socialist party ("Democrats") in the House , voted "present" on  resolution condemning antisemitism. This is the same tactic that Barry Soetoro (aka, "Obama") used toward spending bills when he was an Illinois Senator. This way, you don't go on record as for or against. We know what Soetoro went on to do, upon being "elected" POTUS. We had eight consecutive years of deficits and in each of those years the deficit amount was greater than the deficits run by any other POTUS. In his first year, the deficit was $1.2 trillion. None of the excess spending was lawful, it all violated the 10th Amendment.
    
6. In November, the Financial Times conducted a poll and found only 24% of registered Democrats claimed we are financially better off under Biden. To me, this figure is alarming--that anyone would believe this devastation is an improvement bodes ill for the human race--but another way of looking at it is 76% of voters in Biden's own party are cognizant enough to see 100% inflation, food shortages, sharply higher prices, and sharply higher interest rates as being the opposite of an improvement. Looking at it that way, Democrats are overwhelmingly rejecting "Bidenomics".
    
7. A grand jury indicted Hunter Biden on nine charges:three felony tax offenses and six misdemeanor tax offenses. And it wasn't just any grand jury, it was one in the communist country "California" where communist criminals are coddled (but normal people are severely punished). This was the most lenient venue Comrade Biden could get. If the same hearing had been in one of the "rule by law" states, he probably would have been indicted on nine felony tax offenses at the very least. This does not bode well for Brainless, but it does bode well for freedom fighters everywhere because it gut punches the Biden Crime Family.
    
8. The FBI agent behind the Trump Russia hoax is being jailed for four years. Hillary, of course, was never even indicted.
    
9. Ford Motor Company is cutting production of its CO2-increasing, child slave labor lithium mining, mercury poisoning of tuna cars despite Brainless Biden's fixation on replacing far cleaner ICE cars with these. Ford's decision is a major victory not only against communism but also against Earth-haters.
   
   Perhaps we should build a base on the moon and send Earth-haters there. These are the idiots who aggressively advocate "green" technology even though it is far more damaging to the planet than more traditional options. Or just give the Earth-haters the option of being turned into compost so they at least do something useful for a change.
    

The Ongoing Covid Scam: Tidbits

1. The New Zealand whistleblower who released the data and analysis showing the breathtakingly high death rate from the clot shots forced on New Zealanders was awarded The Order of New Zealand, the country's highest medal of honor. Actually, no. For his service to the country in stopping these murders, he was arrested. Despite all the lives he has saved and will save from this day forward, he is looking at a long stretch in prison. As Ice Cube said, "If you tell the truth, they come after you." But efforts are under way to shame the "government" of New Zealand for their bad behavior, along with taking the legal route to defend this New Zealander whose only "crime" was to expose rampant homicide for what it is and stop the carnage. His case is well-supported by long-standing international law, such as the Nuremberg Code.
    
2. Pfizer has the gall to sue Poland for "breach of contract" for refusing to buy more of its poisonous, worthless "vaccines". Under contract law, a contract is void where there is underlying fraud. Pfizer committed multiple counts of fraud and irrefutable proof is in Pfizer's own documents. Also under contract law, a contract is voidable by one party when the burden on that party is onerous. It is an onerous burden to expect Poland to buy millions of doses of lethal injections for its own citizens. Poland was severely traumatized by state-sanctioned mass murder when the National SOCIALIST Party of Germany invaded Poland and set up places like Aushwitz. The gross insensitivity to the feelings of the people of Poland shows just how mentally ill the Pfizer executives are.
    
3. When people say "long Covid" they usually mean a person is exhibiting flu-like symptoms and that must be due somehow to Covid-19. But I have a new definition for you. Long Covid is when a business fails three years after the "flatten the curve" shutdown due to mortal injuries done to it by the shutdown. In the past few months, business failures and announcements of "we're closing our doors at the end of the year" have proliferated. Covid policy-related problems cited include:
   A. Being unable to fire employees who came back with a poor work ethic because the company took paycheck protection funds.
   B. Supply chain issues.
   C. Unable to obtain affordable capital.
   D. Saddled with debt caused by the shutdowns and no longer able to float it.
   E. Issues resulting from jab mandates and other criminal edicts companies were forced to comply with.
   F. Some employees now insisting on wearing dust masks all the time and consequently suffering from significant cognitive impairment.
   G. Employees who are "vaccine" injured and barely able to function.
   H. Non-Covid issues such as more regulations, racial hatred, antisemitism, wokeness, pressure and harassment from LGBTQ activist, DEI, higher energy costs, higher supply costs, and higher insurance costs.

Other News

1. Brainless wants to inflict on us taxpayers subsidies for "sustainable" corn-based jet fuel. We already know that ethanol for automobiles is stupid in many ways, and not just because it takes more petroleum to produce a gallon of ethanol than it does to produce a gallon of gasoline (apparently, Brainless has never heard of such things as fertilizer and farm equipment). And not just because the extra land sucked away to grow the corn means less land for carbon-sinking trees (that's also a huge drawback to wind farms and solar farms). And not just because ethanol damages seals or that it runs hotter than gasoline so damages rings and other metal parts. The list goes on.... In any case, there is no economic justification and no ecological justification. It's just another ignorance-based dumb idea from the libtard alternate universe.
    
2. May Golan, Minister for the Advancement of the Status of Women of Israel, said that when she asked former first "lady" Michael Robinson (aka, "Michelle Obama") to condemn Hamas for its vicious attack on Israeli women including multiple rapes and murders in the October 7 massacre, she was met with silence. And she went on, "I sent her a description, in authentic, sworn testimony, by people who told about the collection of severed female organs from women who had been raped, on broken pelvises, about shocking things that … I don’t want to continue to say in the Israel media. We know that the request has been received."
    
3. Norman Lear passed away on 06 DEC, at the age of 101. His insight into human nature was exemplified in hilarious television shows such as All in the Family (and its six spin-offs), which not only entertained us but helped us see that other people close to us are complex and flawed, yet and part of what makes us who we are. And nobody is perfect. His many film successes included the unforgettable Stand By Me. It's worth noting that he was a child of Russian immigrants and served in our Air Force in WWII.

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• Has dictionary lockout and ExamRead feature, so it doubles as an exam pen.
• Left-hand user mode.
• Scan left to right mode.
• Fast shutdown.
• Selectable voices for playback of scanned text.
• Selectable UI language: English (default) or Spanish.

Other features and benefits:

• Allows students or adults with reading difficulties to gain independence and reading fluency without stigma.
• Reading tutor functions include spelling, syllabication (how the word is "built"), and one word displayed in big font.
• Syllables break for each word.
• Direct lookup of phrasal verbs and idiomatic expressions (for example, get ahead, get along, keep on, keep off, look forward to).
• Uses colors for the different fields, to improve the understanding of the dictionary definition.
   
• You scan, it reads to you.
• Scans lines of text or individual words from almost any surface, not just paper. It can read the text on a computer, tablet, or phone.
• Hear individual words or even multiple lines of text read aloud in natural voice.
   
• Completely self-contained, no computer or Wi-Fi required.
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• Full 1.9 inch color touch screen, and simple physical buttons for screenless scan and read.
   
• Multiple built-in dictionaries to search definitions including the New Oxford American Dictionary (over twice the size of what the cPen uses) with Oxford Thesaurus of English (Americanized), Oxford American Children’s Dictionary with Oxford American Children’s Thesaurus, and English to Spanish dictionary.
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1. Emotional appeals such as scare tactics. When someone uses these instead of rational arguments, your BS detector should peg its needle.
2. Appeals to authority. This classis propaganda technique was heavily used. Constant references to the CDC, as if they are infallible, with zero supporting facts. In nearly all cases, the CDC was dead wrong and in most cases spewing absurdities.
3. Spewing of absurdities. This is a clue the vast majority of people miss. They fail to question things. When the CDC was advising people to wear dust masks to protect against a biohazard, that should have set off major alarm bells. It didn't. The vast majority of people believed this stupid nonsense, and some of them were fervent about this idiotic belief.
    
4. Claims of omniscience. Mr. Fauci famously said, "I am the science." Yet, everything he said (other than his early statement that masks don't work) was wrong. Some of his BS was patently wrong on its face, and people should have picked up on that and insisted he be removed from his highly influential position.
5. Censorship. When only one viewpoint is allowed to be expressed, it is almost certain that viewpoint is wrong. Science, for example, is all about challenging a hypothesis (which is why Fauci should have said, "I am definitely NOT the science, I'm a con man.").
6. Intolerance. This characteristic is rampant on the political left, which likes to make false claims of being diverse, equitable, and inclusive. They tolerate no diversity, they live by extreme double standards, and they exclude (very actively, such as via deplatforming) people who do not follow their ideology. We saw this to extremes during the height of the Covid scam, and we are still seeing it to extremes.
    
7. Incriminatory or accusatory statements. "If you don't get vaccinated, you put everyone at risk" (my medicine doesn't work if you don't also take it), and the reality-opposing, "It a pandemic of the unvaccinated". Such statements have no bearing on the facts, they merely redirect blame from the guilty party to the innocent ones. Most married couples have arguments in this manner, which is why most marriages end in divorce. It's dishonest, to say the least.
8. Distorting of pertinent facts or data. It's a crime to tamper with evidence at a crime scene, and for very good reasons. When people distort the facts, they are trying to manipulate you. Died with Covid became "
   died of Covid" even though almost nobody died of Covid. Scam!
9. Hiding of pertinent facts or data.Suppose I tell you my neighbor burst in on another neighbor while she was naked. Oh, what a terrible man. I left out the fact her house was on fire and he risked his life to enter the building, found her collapsed on the floor, and carried her out. She just happened to not have any clothes on, but I focused on that and left out the real story. We saw this tactic used repeatedly during the Covid scam.
    
10. Illegal or immoral behavior. The so-called vaccines did not have the fact sheet that is supposed to be in the box with every bottle of every injectable drug. There was no informed consent. That violated a basic tenet of Western law, including the Nuremberg Code.
11. Ad hominem attacks. Why were people attacked for simply asking due diligence kinds of questions?
12. Strong-arm measures. If the "vaccines" were safe and effective and the masking had any value, why were we not simply given evidence to back these wild claims? Instead, hundreds of millions of people were threatened with bank account closure, job termination, yellow stars sewn on their clothing (whoops, I meant vaccine passports), and even being force into internment camps.
     
13. Claims that human rights must be subverted for the greater good. When Arnold Schwarzenegger made his infamous "Screw your freedom" video, that should have been the mother of all red flags. He has yet to apologize for this, but I hope some day he will. He was one of many people using this very abusive form of manipulation.
14. Emotional responses to any attempt to discuss the issue. This was the only response I ever got from the face diaper evangelists. No facts to back their position.
15. Citing of disreputable sources. I am shocked than anyone in Mensa would actually read the New York Times, given how overtly biased it is. Yet when exchanging e-mails with some Mensans about masks, they referred to articles in that joke of a publication while I simply pointed out the pores in the mask material were 4X the size of the virus. This always got the "saliva cloud" argument back, to which I responded that no car has windshield wipers on the inside and thus the saliva cloud thing is just fiction.

No amount of coupon clipping or turning down your thermostat can make up for this. Awareness of this fact is widespread, as evidenced by the sharp decline in discretionary spending. But those measures deal with the symptoms. What we need is a cure.

To fix a problem, you must know its cause:

• The expansion of the money supply occurred because the socialists rammed through one massive (trillions of dollars) spending plan after another. These were funded by the Federal reserve, which simply "printed" the necessary money; that is, these spending orgies were paid for with counterfeit money.
• The contraction of output occurred due to multiple attacks (by the socialists) on the energy sector, small businesses, and the supply chain by various means including abuse of War Powers, Executive over-reach, and legislation based in extreme ignorance of how things work in real life.

It does not take much analysis to show that the core problem is the socialists have power. Therefore, the solution is to take that power away from them. Some ways to do that:

• Boycott socialist-coddling businesses, such as Facebook, Disney, Dick's, etc.
• Boycott Big Pharma. Stop taking their drugs to the extent possible, and make it more possible by practicing responsible eating (eliminate highly processed food from your diet).
• Support businesses that are obviously not woke. For example, use Rumble instead of YouTube.
   
• Write to your County Elections Commission asking what measures they are taking to ensure that voters are not disenfranchised by election fraud.
• Write to your House Rep and both of your senators every other month or so some message about reducing federal spending dramatically, saying it starts with the low-hanging fruit and goes from there. Ask them to say no to any new spending, no matter what the "justification" is because we simply cannot afford it. Don't advocate for across the board cuts, because those are political suicide and your suggestion will be ignored. Target something specific such as the disgraceful CDC.
• Write to the House Minority Whip and the Senate Majority Leader (both are America-hating communists) and ask them to stop pretending that money grows on trees. They won't stop, but at least they will receive negative feedback on their destructive behavior.
   
• Write to any Ivy League University and ask that they go back to teaching academics instead of proselytizing failed communist doctrine.
• Where you can scrounge the funds, support strongly anti-socialist members of the House such as MTG even if you are not in their district.
• Drop truth bombs into conversations. Just a wry observation here and there.

You cannot count on elections to oust America-hating, economically destructive socialists from office. That's because in the USA we have huge election integrity problems and we sane people are often disenfranchised due to the fraud. Nobody in their right mind willingly votes for more unemployment, vastly higher food costs, uncomfortably cold homes in the winter, food shortages, electrical blackouts, increased violent crime, or the other "benefits" bestowed by socialist politicians. Therefore, the existence of severe election fraud is obvious. As lawyers say, it's "prima facie" and needs no other proof than its mere existence. We must cut off the socialists from their corporate sponsors and we must also work toward gaining a modicum of election integrity.

Even with a lot of practice, do you really want to slug it out? Hit, get hit, hit, get hit. Or, if you do traditional karate, it's like this. Block, counterpunch, block, counterpunch. These approaches are not how you stop an opponent and quickly end an attack. These approaches are how you dance with an opponent and count on luck that you won't get hurt.

And to top it off, most people will punch at their opponent's face. The face is hard bone and it's going to hurt your hand, possibly even break some bones.

You need to practice a little to position yourself to strike one of these soft targets:

1. The throat. This is usually fairly well-guarded, but if you face your opponent and strike dead-on, he won't see it coming. But if his hands are up, you won't nail this target without going through his hands.
2. The collarbone. It's not really a soft target, but if you break it the fight is over. This requires a sharp downward strike. It's not the easiest thing to hit unless you are in a prime position to do so.
3. The femur. A downward hard blow to the femur will nearly always disable an opponent. The pain is unreal, and one leg is taken out. If he doesn't pass out, at least you can now easily outrun him. Drop down as if quickly dropping into a squat and at the same time drive a hard blow between the two muscles at about the middle of the thigh.
4. The kneecap. It takes 16 lbs of sideways pressure to dislocate the kneecap. But it the leg has to be fairly straight. This is an opportunity strike, the opportunity might not be there.
5. Side of the knee. Deliver a sharp palm strike or kick to the side of the knee; with moderate to severe force, the knee will be taken out of service. The pain is unreal.
6. Top of the instep. Stomp down hard. Very painful.
7. Fingers. If you can grab the hand and punch his fingers from the ends, you will probably break at least three of them. A hard punch to the back of the hand is also effective.

You probably noticed I omitted gut-punching and I omitted hitting the solar plexus. Why? First of all, these are usually too well-guarded. They are not easy targets. Second, a gut punch may not work because your opponent might stiffen his abs or have a big roll of fat there and the solar plexus is a fairly small target. If you are accurate enough and skilled enough to punch the xiphoid process back, you can do serious damage to your opponent; but that gets back to hours of practice.

Memorizing these seven targets and then practicing attacking them with punches (and kicks, if you can) will greatly improve your personal security (unless you have already done so). You should practice (gently, in slow motion) with a partner to get a feel for how these work and how they don't work (your partner needs to react in slow motion and try to counter you). You should also practice at high speed but with "ultra soft contact". Once you have these down, then you can recall that training through visualization and program yourself for immediate, automatic responses where you easily obliterate one of these soft targets.

Yes, carrying a firearm is a good idea. But there are criminal safety zones everywhere, the gun is heavy, and in most cases you will use it to psychologically stop your opponent. I personally prefer to inflict injury on someone who takes on the predator persona, and striking one of these seven soft targets is how I have done that when confronted.

Which brings up another point. I haven't been confronted by an assailant in a very long time. I think it's because I no longer work and travel in places where there's a high rate of violence. But I am prepared, no matter where I am. You would do well to prepare, because you just never know what is going to occur in places you thought were safe.

6. Health tip/Fitness tips

Statistics when this photo was taken, 10 days before my 63rd birthday: Height: 6'0" Wingspan: 6'1" Weight: 152.6 lbs, which is more than the 148.8lbs from the 2022 shoot. I am also leaner for this one (notice the striations in my left pec). Bodyfat: Unknown, but well below what the Tanita scale says is 5% Waist: 29 Chest: 48 Arms: 15 Quads: 20.25   Max bench press: Unknown, but I do 4 sets of 10 reps with 150 lbs to warm up on chest day Max squat: Unknown, but I do 4 sets of 8 reps of front squats with 90lbs to start Leg Day Cholesterol: In normal range, on low side Testosterone: Above the upper limit of the normal range   Last illness: 1971 Last workout missed: Spring of 1977 Training days per week: 6 Type of training: Split routine, heavy on supersets   Meals per day: 7 on training days, 6 on rest day Number of eggs eaten per day: Between 7 and 10 Percent of diet that is processed food: 0 Amount of meat, wheat, corn, or soy eaten annually: 0 Number of clot shots received: 0. ********* See all of my climbing videos here: https://tinyurl.com/ClimbingSigChannel. Some cool climbing  videos: https://youtu.be/s4G0ssyJ3hc https://youtube.com/shorts/5919UDqCXDc https://youtube.com/shorts/jYvKJ9mKyyE My hardest climb ever, a 5/11d on lead: https://youtu.be/UT5h0heUUBc . I made a dumb mistake initially, letting the rope wrap over my shoulder. Watch what happens. The scale: Beginner: 5.6. 5.7. 5.8, 5.9 Intermediate: 5.10a, b, c, d 5.11a, b, c, d Advanced: 5.12a, b, c, d 5.13a, b, c, d. Almost nobody climbs at this level at any of the 5 local climbing gyms.

• The best workouts are short and intense.
• A good diet contains far more flavors and satisfaction than the typical American diet.