Mindconnection eNL, 2024-10-06

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Fighting Communism

1. The Epoch Times reported, "The Georgia Election Board has approved a rule requiring election workers to hand count ballots in the November election and confirm that the numbers match machine counts before the vote can be certified. The rule, which was first proposed in August, passed in a 3–2 vote on the morning of Sept. 20, making Georgia the only state in the union to adopt such a requirement as part of its standard vote-counting."
   
   This is a real gut blow to the election stealing communists who keep saying Donald Trump is a threat to their democracy. They are right, he and the vast majority of Americans are a threat to "their" idea of democracy--voting is rendered moot. The thing is, the 2020 election theft has caused massive damage and plunged the whole world into war. And people don't like that. We want to elect our leaders, not be told to just accept whatever moron is installed by people who clearly hate humanity.
    
2. Blabber Buzz reported, "In a significant legal development, a federal judge in South Carolina has ruled that voter rolls constitute public records and, as such, must be open for scrutiny by advocates for election integrity."
    
3. In the small town of Prarie Du Chien, WI (pop 5,000), masses of people lined the streets to welcome Donald Trump. He is America's last hope. Watch them cheer him on: https://twitter.com/i/status/1840113555888386197. This town has been devastated by crimes committed by illegal aliens during Comrade Kamala's tenure as Border Czar. But then, the whole country has been devastated by the communist policies of the past four years. On the brink of WWIII, an economic depression, food shortages, and a slew of other bad consequences.
    
4. To quote George Rasley, "There are currently 425,431 convicted criminal illegal migrants roaming American streets, with an additional 222,141 illegals awaiting resolution of their pending charges. Among them are 15,811 convicted of sexual assault. There’s a war being waged on America’s women, and the Democrats’ illegal alien allies are the brutal shock troops leading it." Our Border Czar is not only an absolute moron, but also an absolute failure.
    
5. Argentina recently revoked rent control, with the predictable result that rents became more affordable (because more landlords entered the market with more rental properties) and many existing units finally got long-overdue maintenance and repairs. Perhaps another communist country, New York City, will deem its victim citizens as worthy of such an improvement and also drop rent control.
    
6. Elon Musk is a great champion of civil liberties in the USA. He is the one who broke the censorship chains and gave sane people a platform for free expression of legitimate information in the face of the propaganda system known as "the media".
    
7. On 24 Sep, the Senate unanimously passed a bill (that passed in the House on 20 SEP) to increase security for Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates. This is a great symbolic gesture. For it to become law, someone must rouse Brainless out of bed and get him to sign it. He might demur, which would be a public relations disaster. If he does sign it, that doesn't mean candidates will get increased security before the upcoming election. The Executive Branch has all kinds of ways to delay, defer, and defy compliance.
   
   And, of course, it's the top muppets in this particular administration (executive branch) who are so complicit in the two assassination attempts on President Trump. If you read the bill, it's all about closing the barn door after the horses get out. Nowhere does it say you can't yell fire in a crowded theater, it just addresses the trampling by calling for more ushers. I say that figuratively, but my meaning is clear.
   
   The real solution is to enforce our existing hate speech laws and lock up felons like Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris, and various legacy media figures who keep pushing the toxic and false narratives about Trump-- especially their repeated use of the word "threat". If you're a communist in the USA, you can get by with nearly anything. But if you actually care about your country and your fellow citizens, they will come after you with no guardrails in place. Libel, slander, deplatforming, lawfare, and inciting murder are all perfectly acceptable behaviors for communists. For anyone else, if you do something awful like tell the truth then you deserve to be destroyed.

The C*O*V*I*D* Scam

Taking a break from this, for a bit. In summary, the narrative-destroying information is hitting avalanche proportions. Anyone still believing in it is badly uninformed.

Other News

1. Short explanation of the communist program in the USA: https://twitter.com/i/status/1835196254563041379
2. Amazon rescinded its ban of Dr. Paul Marik's book "Cancer Care." Marik is an amazing individual who really knows his stuff. This is a major breakthrough for medical system competence in America, and a major setback for our Big Pharma overlords.
3. Abilene, TX has stopped adding fluoride to the drinking water. This is a major improvement in public health policies. While topical fluoride does strengthen enamel, ingested fluoride actually weakens it in addition to causing floridosis, because it poisons the tooth. It's like dumping car wax into your crankcase instead of applying it to the car's finish--your car won't shine any better, but you will have engine damage. It's worth noting that the fluoride used for municipal water supplies is a waste product from processing aluminum.
4. A former high school teacher in Virginia who was fired for refusing to use male pronouns for a female student was awarded $600,000 in a settlement. This is great news for the sanity movement, not so great for the castration industry.
5. How to stop the border crisis: https://www.prageru.com/video/how-to-stop-the-border-crisis
6. A good 30 minute video: https://www.prageru.com/video/ep-361-whos-fighting-for-peace-whos-spreading-terror
7. Heartwarming, great ending! https://www.ganjingworld.com/video/1h1ni273isj7eweXc8ZHjUGxJ16f1c
8. According to new data from recruitment firm Challenger, Gray, and Christmas, US layoffs are up 53% versus a year ago, as communism relentlessly marches on.
9. Unbelievable! https://x.com/i/status/1842018660191195305 (19 seconds). Brainless didn't know what storm the interviewer was talking about, and this was on the 3rd of October.
   
    

CK (Cackling Kamala)

• Check this out: https://x.com/i/status/1836870674461380725
• Did CK actually say anything in this 49 second clip? https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1842328110508978670
• Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Why is CK never right about anything?
   
• Hurricane Helene was not as devastating at Hurricane Katrina, but Hurricane Kamala would easily do 10X the damage that both of these together did. We know this from her FAIL record, and from the fact she spews general platitudes and makes baseless ad hominem attacks on Donald Trump instead of communicating anything specific she'd do to fix the momentous screw-ups of the Biden-Harris administration.
• The communists are going to great lengths to give illegal aliens voting privileges. Watch this video: https://twitter.com/i/status/1793697365519388766. If you were a dues-paying member of, say, a Corvette club, you would not like it if non-members attended your meetings and overwhelmed your votes. Especially if they ate the refreshments and glued Ford emblems on your cars!
   
• North Carolina is a battleground state. Polls are showing that the open border and inflation are the two top issues.
  
  Our "Border Czar" gets an F for effort and should be expelled for dismal performance there. But I find it odd that inflation would be a top issue, since very few people ever bother to do even a rough calculation. I'm going to guess that this is Newspeak for "higher prices". In which case, inflation is a major input into prices and the Marxist spending since the coup has cause the Federal Reserve to create at least $15 trillion in new money out of thin air, thus sharply inflating the money supply and diminishing the value of each dollar. Since CK keeps talking about even more reckless spending (trying to buy votes), she's moving right along the path that got us to the economic depression we are in.
  
  Regardless of what the polls mean by "inflation", only the dumbest of us cannot compare the Before and After and conclude we are economically far worse off than when Trump was in office. The problem is stupidity is rampant, and people who latch onto political ideologies instead of cause/effect turn their brains off. A sign of this is I have lately seen a lot of Harris/Walz yard signs not far from my home (which is, unfortunately, in the most liberal zip code in Kansas). I cannot understand why people would advertise their own ignorance and stupidity, but perhaps that is a self-answering question.

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• CAT tools
• Cold Steel knives
• Connex radios
• Dosy meters
• Flexilla hose connectors
• Funko collectibles
   
• Galaxy 10 meter and 11 meter (CB) radios
• Hogue pistol grips
• iRV products for RVs
• Liberty Monitors security cameras
• Metra saddlebag lids
• Mike Holt Electrical Exam Preparation products
• Minigadgets hidden camera CO detectors and receptacles
   
• Nagy's aftermarket sound system parts for Harley Davidson motorcycles
• Paraben Consumer data recovery sticks, porn detection sticks, and similar diagnostic/ IT tools
• Plantronics headsets
• RealSAM Pocket, which is a voice operated Galaxy smart phone for the blind
• Rigid Tools work lights and related
• ROK straps
• Rostra universal cruise control kits
   
• Sig Sauer pellet guns
• SmartPens4U Rocket Pen Reading Tutor Scanning Pen | Case | Case Bundle
• Texas Ranger radios (Chuck Norris not included, sorry)
• Uniden radar detection systems (hard-wired)
• Victron DC power modules and related
• Wera Tools
• WeWalk Smart Cane "Cane with a Brain" for the blind

Very simply, they drain the world's third largest aquifer, the Ogallala. It extends from Canada into southern Texas and from the Rockies nearly to the Mississippi. Most of the people in this area (and I am among them) get most of their water from this source (the large rivers such as the Kansas and Missouri are additional sources). Decades ago, I learned that a handful of Big Agra companies had bought all the tiny farms that eked out a living in this area and went big-scale with irrigation. Their intent was to make billions of dollars using up all the water, and then leave. The wheat and soy were used to "feed" the tortured cattle subsisting in the CAFO (Concentrated Animal Farming Operations) that produce the toxic, disease-causing beef that so many Americans gullibly consume much to their detriment.

Recently, a friend wrote to me that out west of us a lot of the "farming" land is owned by Arabs and Chinese and the products are not used to feed American cattle but are instead exported to Arabian countries and other places.

This contradicted what I knew about the area, so I wrote back, "Unless something has changed...." and provided what I knew. He replied with a few comments, but didn't provide any evidence. Yet, I wrote back and agreed with what he originally told me. Why would I do this, since he didn't argue his position with any data, references, or similar?

Well, he didn't have to provide any research. His comments added some (excuse the usage) beef to what he'd already said, making my little recognition bell go "Ding!". He and I have had similar discussions before, where there's a string of dots and no guide as to how they connect but they line up in a familiar pattern. When we're talking about "they" and stealing America's natural resources or a similar activity, all we have to do is put that into the context of what has come before and what is going on now. My information fit a much earlier pattern, one that has been supplanted since then. His information exactly fit today's pattern, one that has significantly gained legs over the past few years. The only rational response on my part was to shift from my view to his view.

Caution

Now, it's possible this situation was the exception to the rule. But I could not think of any reason it would be. In fact, there was more reason for it not to be. The original exploiters had an asset of declining value, as the aquifer was predicted to run dry in the near future. So it would make sense for them to get out by selling to other exploiters.

Framing a proposition in context of what you can see is generally going on is a mental shortcut, so it's not 100% reliable. But for most purposes, it's good enough. It's useful for saving time, especially when the answer either way won't change anything for you.

Consider this question. "Is Anthony Fauci a war criminal or just a mass murderer?" He's so well connected and protected, the answer is academic rather than of practical import. You can match the pattern of the Covid scam to other unconventional wars, look at the breath-taking death toll on civilians, and conclude he's a war criminal. But if you insist that he has to be indicted by a world court to be classified as a war criminal, then you can hold the position he's just a mass murderer. Either way won't affect the practical outcome. So you can take the mental shortcut of matching the patterns and it's good enough. You don't bear a legal burden of proof, partly because you're not bringing suit against him.

Benefits

Using this method allows you to get a better picture of the world quickly, versus wasting many hours and many brain CPU cycles doing research. You can also use it to avoid being disinformed. For example, something published by the New York Times is almost certainly the opposite of the truth. So you come across a quote or statement and find it's from the NYT. You can check the box for "It's a lie" with no further research needed. Similarly, if you read a health recommendation from the Centers for Disinformation and Censorship, you can dismiss it as a hoax with no further research needed based on the CDC's track record of spewing absurdities left and right. The same thing applies to the federal agency that gave us the disease-causing Food Pyramid and that also failed to protect millions of now severely injured Americans from an unsafe, untested, injection that had no reason to be approved in the first place.

This method is also useful for cutting through the crap when you need to persuade. I used it, for example, to persuade legislators to reduce the budget of the IRS by showing that organization cannot be trusted to do anything that has anything to do with math. I cited enough examples to show a pattern.

But to me, there are two main values to this method. One is it lets me easily update my perceptions based on what I know about the current environment. As in the case cited at the outset.

Another it is helps me avoid gaining new misperceptions.  We hear "white" libtards talk about systemic racism and they fail to even look at the current environment. They are still mired in 1960s era viewpoints, and here we are more than half a century past that. By infantilizing Group X (typically, people who call themselves black) they can support this delusion and then claim they personally are above it and thus are morally superior to non-libtards even though taking this viewpoint requires embracing a particularly toxic form of racism.

If they are strictly indoor animals, consider installing pet doors in certain rooms. For example, you should close your bedroom door at night both as a fire safety measure and also to keep sleep-interfering light out. If you have occasion to bathe or shower with your pet in the bathroom, install a pet door so the pet isn't stranded if you slip and bash your brain to death.

I've installed pet doors many times. There are some tricks to doing a great job. Here are some of them:

• Select a high quality door. Cheap ones never look right and tend to work poorly. This is especially important for an outdoor pet door, of course the ones with chip detection eliminate the low-bucks problem.
• For a chip-coded door, set the door up on some blocks and get your pet's chip programmed into it. Don't try to do this once the door is in place.
• Measure, measure, measure. Don't guess at your pet's belly height. Take measurements over the course of a few days, writing them down each time and then comparing them after you get several sets.
   
• Be sure to account for height changes between the inside and outside of the door (common issue with outdoor pet doors). Don't "split the difference" and thus have two wrong heights. Do something to bring the low side up or the high side down.
• If it's an outdoor pet door, account for dirty feet. A welcome mat on each side might be the solution. Don't be afraid to cut material fit fit. For my cat's front of the house pet door, I built a raised walkway and steps to it out of patio blocks. For her back of the house pet door, I used welcome mats. Don't use something painful to your pet's feet, such as Astroturf or gravel.
• If it's an indoor pet door, account for the noise of the door. For my bedroom door, I used kite string to hold the little door always open. I can remove the string at any time, for example if I want to lock her out for some reason. Removing the little door is also an option but you lose the option of easily closing and locking the door.
   
• Use the correct tools. Don't use a hand saw. Use a jigsaw that is at least prosumer grade, not some Black & Decker piece of junk. You want a precise, clean cut not something jagged. Buy a blade just for this project, and ensure it is the correct type for this project.
• Carefully tape the template in place. Then remeasure and recheck everything. If you spot an error, don't fix it. Check your reference points and how exactly you are measuring. Then measure again. If you still find an error, then fix it.
• Always cut from the finished side to the other side. In some cases, both sides are finished so this won't always apply.
• Apply masking tape or similar to the "back side" (non-template side) of the cut. This will keep the wood (if that's the material) from splintering. If the door is fiberglass, this will still help in several ways.
   
• If you are installing in situ (door in place), find a way to keep the door from moving. A wheel chock or door wedge, for example.
• If you are doing this on saw horses, clamp the door down so it can't move. Relying on the weight of the door isn't smart, and you will likely bump it with your thigh anyhow; this can cause the blade to bind and then kick.
• Set up the work area before cutting. That includes putting down a dropcloth or newspaper or similar to catch most of the sawdust.
• When cutting, apply a firm, steady hand. Watch the path of the blade and push the saw along that path. It's similar to driving a car, you look ahead and point things there rather than look at the hood ornament and try to correct. The right method will result in a smooth cut line, and even if it's not perfectly straight it will be good. Wiggling the saw will give you an irregular edge, which is not good.
   
• Where does the saw blade actually track? It is standard operating procedure among carpenters that you cut just to the left of the line (assuming a right-handed set-up) rather than on the line because you must account for the fact the blade has width. Doing it this way means your actual cut will be exactly where the line is rather than a blade's width larger on that dimension. For a pet door, there's a lot of forgiveness because the cover hides so much--so you can cut directly on the line if that is more comfortable for you.
• If your hole is pretty accurate, there's no need to seal it in place. But if you cut a big and sloppy one, you might want to run a bead sealant to close things up. To avoid irrevocably gluing your cat door into place, apply some kind of lubricant to it (close to where the sealant would have contact) before laying down the caulk. Or use the old trick of applying tape inside out around the neck of the cat door; it won't stick to the cat door but will be held in place when the leftover end sticks to the starting end.
   
• Most cat doors have enough "tongue" so nothing is exposed between the two halves. But if something is exposed (for example, you put the pet door in a wall or your door is thick), cover it with tape. Standard duct tape will suffice, but you can find more attractive colors and better materials at your local hardware store.
• Outdoor cat doors always leak air. They have to, else a pet can't easily push them open and just won't use them. In the winter, you can place a styrofoam cooler over the pet door to block the cold air. You may need to make a platform from some old 2x4s. This is easy, just use ordinary wood glue to stick the pieces together. To store the cooler in warmer weather, put the wooden platform inside it and stick the complete kit out of sight somewhere.
• Periodically clean the chute (if an outdoor pet door).
• If the pet door uses batteries, get two or three sets of rechargeable ones and use your calendar app (e.g., Outlook calendar) to remind yourself to replace the batteries with freshly charged ones every 3 weeks or so. Don't wait for the door to go dead, it needs to be reliable for your pet.

The drop boxes in US Postal Service branches are not secure. There's no scanner on the slot, so your package drops into a bin unscanned. There is no proof you ever brought it there. USPS has cameras in its lobbies, but you cannot compel them to review the footage showing you walking into the lobby with a package. Even if you were able to do that, you can't prove you dropped off a box with that tracking number. There is an "inexplicable loss rate" with packaged so dropped off. And the shipper has no recourse.

Self-defense methods that don't work:

1. If you take your package after hours, hold the label up to the camera so it can capture the tracking number. This is "iffy" at best, even if you can somehow get them to look at the footage.

2. Wait in line during regular business hours and hand your package to the clerk. This could take a very long time. Be sure to bring a shave kit and a few meals.

3. During regular business hours, skip the line and just put your package on one end of the counter. This is akin to using the drop box. Don't do it.

Self defense methods that do work:

1. If you use USPS, take your package to a store that accepts USPS packages. These include CVS, Walgreen's, Walmart, Office Depot, and Staples.

2. Use a different carrier. If you use UPS, you can drop your package off at The UPS Store or CVS. If you use FedEx, you can drop your package off at Office Depot.

3. Hand your package to a driver and watch him scan it. One may deliver to your home or near it, or you may find a driver simply by driving around and happening upon one. This is true of all carriers except Amazon Logistics.

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.

Karl Marx published the first volume of Das Kapital in 1867. His "detached from reality" views are the basis for socialism, which he said is the precursor to communism. The former is an economic system devoid of motivation and innovation, the latter is the same without property rights. Russia adopted communism in 1917. It was a total failure there, and has been a total failure everywhere it's been tried. Most recently in the USA, following the coup of 2020, communists took power and quickly plunged the economy into the toilet while doing massive damage in other areas.