Mindconnection eNL, 2025-02-16

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Celebrating Freedom

• The Trump nominees have been getting confirmed in the Senate. Unlike their low-IQ predecessors, most of these people qualify for Mensa and all of these people are A-level players. It is a new era, one in which ability and ethics are valued. In contrast to the previous era, in which stupidity and corruption were valued.
   
• RFK, Jr. was confirmed as the new Secretary of HHS. This is a momentous change, and it will mean (among many other things) we will be on the path to Make America Healthy Again. The Big Pharma predators and the processed food industry have long counted on corruption and government complacency, now they won't have those advantages working in their favor anymore. Note that RINO Mitch is the sole "Republican" who voted against confirmation. Mitch has to go.
   
• Hours after RFK, Jr.'s confirmation, our national hero signed an Executive Order creating The Commission To Make America Healthy Again.
   
• RFK, Jr., being sworn in: https://rumble.com/v6ks5k7-rfk-jr.-sworn-in-as-secretary-of-health-and-human-services.html
   
• It's looking like Title IX will be restored, no more men competing in women's sports (at least in K-12 schools and universities that accept federal funding). Our national hero signed an Executive Order on 05 FEB to restore that protection. The commies would have to use the courts or the Congress to put back in place their female-endangerment policies, and the likelihood of that is poor. Men took nearly 900 medals in women's sports during the Brainless administration, and that is just unconscionable; IMO, those men should have their ill-gotten medals stripped from them and those medals should go to the women who actually won them.
   
• Remember Netscape? Its inventor, Marc Andreesson, later went on to work with David Horowitz in the capital venture firm Andreesson-Horowitz. I listened to Horowits' audiobook a few years ago, this is a prestigious firm that has done much good in the world. One of the latest good things they did was hire Daniel Penny, the Marine who saved fellow subway passengers from a violent offender and for that act of courage was targeted by the Criminal Advocacy Office of the People's Republic of New York. That particular office carries out the mission of protecting violent offenders from their potential victims. While we can't do much about the appalling lawfare brought against "the subway hero", this particular firm stepped up and hired this man of courage. Now the voters of the People's Republic of New York need to step up and elect people who actually have some morals, replacing the degenerates who inflict upon them the hell they currently live in.
   
• From my Congresswoman, improper payments: https://x.com/DOGECommittee/status/1887626070905790791 (1:02)
   
• DOGE is auditing the terrorist organization known as the Institute of Reprobates and Sociopaths (IRS). Here is what they did to 4300 victims in one IRS employee personal enrichment scam: www.mindconnection.com/hoyt.
   
• Want to keep up with DOGE? Go here: https://oversight.house.gov/
   
• JD Vance, the first VP in four years who can give a coherent speech, spoke frankly to the corrupt elites of Europe during the annual Munich security conference. Europe has its own deep-state swamp that stifles liberty, voids elections, and plunders the citizens. His message was basically, "We liberated the USA a month ago and now we will liberate Europe."
   
• The DOJ, controlled by Republicans, has formally asked a judge to dismiss the charges against Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat. Mayor Adams was the victim of vicious lawfare brought against him by the communists ("Democrats"). Under the communists, you go along with their lawlessness and insanity or they come after you. Under Trump, you aren't even investigated until there is reason to believe you did something wrong. Upholding immigration law, as Mayor Adams did, isn't a wrong-doing. It's a duty of the office of the Mayor.
   
• Our national hero removed Brainless' security clearance and removed his access to daily intelligence briefings. Given the sheer amount of destruction Brainless did to the USA during his illegal term as POTUS, this only makes sense and will help protect America from someone who has regularly shown contempt for our nation and hatred for its people (us). Of course, the libtards are incensed by this. It was just fine with them when Brainless did the same thing to Trump, even though Trump (unlike Brainless) loves this country and its people and has never posed a threat to either.
   
• Our national hero signed an Executive Order witholding federal funding from universities that require students to undergo the experimental gene therapy that has shown zero benefit while inflicting massive harm. This would never have happened under the communist regime that we left behind on Liberation Day.

Health News

Are you getting enough petroleum in your diet? https://www.instagram.com/reel/DELePTnSGAD/?igsh=aHgwMnAyMXZ3OGMx

Attacking Christians and Jews is a Constitutional Right?

The commies are claiming that recent action on the part of the Trump administration to stop the persecution of Christians and Jews in the USA violates the Constitution because it violates the principle of the separation of church and state. Here we go again, more of their non-sequitur stupidity. The administration is not establishing a state religion (which is the one thing that would violate the separation principle). It is merely protecting the First Amendment rights of people to exercise their religion. Here is the actual text:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

According to the commies, we must go overboard to accommodate the delusions of mentally ill people who cannot tell what sex they are, but attacking Christians and Jews is a Constitutional right. If you ever need a reason to never again vote Democrat, there it is.

Nuclear War News

In a nutshell, we have informed NATO and Ukraine that Ukraine will never be part of NATO. We have also told them we are sick of their proxy wars. Mr. Putin is a much happier camper, now. Brainless tried to goad him into a nuclear war, but Putin didn't take the bait. And so now here we are three weeks past Liberation Day with world peace once again becoming "a thing". We also told Europe they are now responsible for their own conventional defense systems (we said we'd still provide nukes, but that also is being addressed).

Other News

A "regressive" is anyone who calls him/her self "progressive" but advocates policies, practices, and laws that damage our economy, social fabric, civil liberties, etc. In other words, they give us the opposite of progress. This is a broader term than communist, but almost all regressives are commies. They regress not to the mean, but to the bottom of the cesspool.

• Because regressives such as Nutcase Nancy believe that killing police officers is "peaceful protesting" and being killed by a Capitol guard while on a guided tour of the Capitol is "insurrection", regressives in general hate it that President Trump pardoned the J6 political prisoners. A few of them may have done something wrong, but all the evidence was destroyed by Nutcase's J6 Commission. Since we hold that you are innocent until proven guilty, this lack of evidence means the State cannot prove guilt. This is a priori grounds for acquittal of all of them.
   
• The regressives also believe it was perfectly fine for Brainless to pardon or commute the sentences of convicted rapists and murders, among others. The also see nothing wrong with his pre-arrest pardons of people like mass murderer and con man Anthony Fauci.
   
• The regressives who operate the insane asylum known as "California" are refusing to honor Title IX, despite President Trump's executive order in that regard. One solution is for all women in that awful place to vote a straight Republican ticket instead of supporting the mentally ill for public office. Men who care about women should do the same. Then California can be a law-abiding part of the USA, rather than a rogue nation that continually and egregiously abuses its citizens. The sane outnumber the insane in California, they just need to be more aggressive in having their own kind, rather than the crazies, running the place.
   
• The communists and other regressive America-haters are now claiming the tariffs aimed at Canada, Mexico, and China will fuel inflation. Inflation occurs when the supply of money grows faster than the basket of goods and services does. This idiotic claim of theirs is a non-sequitor (it cannot possibly follow from the facts). Among the insanity that fueled the breath-taking inflation during the four years of communist rule were all the massive spending boondoggles such as the Green Raw Deal, the Infrastructure Ignoring and Jobs Elimination Act, and the Inflation Enhancement Act. Our national hero and his team have not announced any spending initiatives and have in fact been working on the opposite via DOGE and other measures. To predict that the current administration is fueling inflation is both absurd and deceptive to the point of immorality.
   
• Our new Secretary of Defense has kicked out several communist propaganda "news" outlets from the Pentagon. And he has replaced them with more honest media outlets.
   
• Our new AG, Pam Bondi, has filed federal charges against Kathy "I hate America and the citizens of New York" Hochul. She filed charges against other miscreants who hold the same hatred, plus she filed against the State of New York. The main issue is the chronic, blatant, and egregious violations of federal immigration laws.
   
• Anthony "mass murderer" Fauci, who has been posing as a doctor while running various scams to defraud the government, abuse animals, and kill people, was pre-emptively pardoned by Brainless Biden. But "The Modern Mengle" is still open to trial and punishment by foreign courts, civil courts, and state courts. He can also be dragged before Congress to be exposed and humiliated. Now 17 state Attorneys General have formed a coalition to go after him.
   
• This poor family (thanks to Mike for sharing): https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1888325741156118744
   
• Jeff Childers reported in his newsletter (C&C) that the Google calendar no longer displays a bunch of woke "holidays" and special months. Adios to National Butt Plug Day!
   
• Democrat Congresswoman Jan Shakowsky is making a stink over the "man" in "manufacturing". This focus on meaningless minutae shows you just how disconnected Democrats are from the regular people. People who have been suffering through a severe economic depression ands lots of other problems inflicted upon us by the disconnected Democrats.

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I believe it is language abuse. Some related examples include calling the experimental gene therapy a "vaccine" and calling the Chinese virus a "deadly" "pandemic" and later calling it a "pandemic of the unvaccinated".

This last charge was technically true, since nobody was actually vaccinated. But the language abuse meant that Brainless and others (including Arnold Schwarzenegger) were accusing those who did not take the immunity reduction jab of somehow being the only ones infecting others. The reality is those who got the jab were significantly more likely to host and spread the pathogen. And the practice of claiming the jab was "safe and effective" but then turning around and saying it wasn't effective because there were people who refused to get it was especially idiotic--yet many people believed this! Contributing to that belief was the blatant lie that it was a vaccine--a great example of language abuse to manipulate others.

How do you protect yourself from language abuse?

First, choose your own words correctly and say what you mean. Don't speak in clichés (e.g., "circle back") or use one word to mean something else (e.g., "impact" to mean "affect" or "podium" to mean "lectern"). Don't change the meaning of a word by adding a modifier (e.g., don't say "very unique" because something is either one of a kind or it isn't). Use simple words where possible, to avoid confusion. But not so simple as to create confusion.

Second, insist that others choose their words correctly and say what they mean. Some ways to do this:

• Ask for clarification. I am confused when you say this is absolutely unique, because something is either one of a kind or it is not. Can you please rephrase what you mean so I can clearly understand your message? Do you mean it's special? If so, in what way exactly?
• Ask for directness. I'm sorry, but your meaning is hidden behind trite expressions that people routinely misuse. While these are convenient, they don't tell me what you mean. Can you please speak more plainly and directly to me?
• Ask for plain English in place of "New Speak". I would appreciate if you stopped referring to the Inflation Enhancement Act as the Inflation Reduction Act, because just about everything in that Act demands spending lots of money we do not have which of course means the Fed will create money out of thin air which will inflate the money supply. This is like calling Obamacare "affordable". It's despicably dishonest.
   
• Challenge backward word usage. How is it that tossing firebombs into occupied police cars during the summer of 2020 is not an insurrection, but peacefully entering the Capitol building unarmed while security personnel open doors for you is an insurrection?
• Challenge words used to mischaracterize. I'm having trouble understanding what you mean when you say the J6 pardons mean those people, who suffered for four years in filthy, horrible conditions, are getting off with no punishment even though their sentences are invalid because the J6 Commission destroyed all the evidence? And even though Black Lives Manipulated goons shot, stabbed, and burned people to death only a few months earlier and were not even arrested for it?
• Challenge the underlying assumption. You parroted that voting for Harris/Walz was "doing the right thing." In what way would continuing the horribly destructive communist policies of the Biden/Harris regime be "doing the right thing"? Are you saying you are pro-poverty, pro-war, and pro-censorship? I'm just asking.

A couple of tips beyond just the language abuse:

• Ask for evidence. What you just said doesn't smell right to me. Can you please cite a credible source for that?
• Attack sources that are not credible. It's beyond dispute that the New York Times peddles fiction and cannot be trusted to get anything right. Do you have a source that's credible, instead?
• Learn some statistics and trot them out as needed. I realize you believe Trump lost the 2020 election. I was just wondering how you explain the fact that when the polls closed in the battleground states he had won but by the next morning a flood of mail in votes, 83% of which were for Biden, caused him to lose in five of those states by less than 2%. You don't consider that to be as mathematically impossible as the fact that in a few counties that went to Biden there were significantly more votes than voters?
   
• Provide obvious facts in the face of an obvious lie. I realize you believe Barrack Obama was born in Hawaii. But his mother was a minor at the time, and it was a big deal for a minor to hop on a plane. She was not old enough to have a credit card. Someone had to pay for her travel there (very expensive at the time, regular people simply did not fly), go with her to arrange for lodging and transportation, provide her meals, and have legal authority to sign her in at the hospital. There is no record of her or an accompanying adult going to Hawaii for Barrack's birth. Nor is there any evidence of a newspaper announcement or return flight to Kenya. So his mother wasn't there when he was born. How is it possible he was born there?

If you don't flip a mattress on a regular basis, it becomes uncomfortable due to compression of the material. You have difficulty sleeping and you get "mysterious" aches and pains in your hips, legs, and back. It feels lumpy, too.

Nobody really needed a pillow on top of their mattress, but it did add a tad more comfort. But people who bought these were told not to flip their mattress. This meant instead of getting twenty years of use out of it (by also keeping it in a mattress bag, washing bedding weekly, applying non-toxic dust mite spray, and vacuuming it) you would get maybe 5 or 6. The solution was the double pillow-top! It was significantly more expensive than the single pillow-top, but you could flip it.

Here's a newsflash for you. You can flip any pillow-top mattress. Why is this? As noted, they did not even exist until 1973. You can go every other month without the pillow. If that's not good enough for you, then you can use a separate mattress topper. Or do what I do and use a high quality mattress pad (changed monthly, along with flipping or rotating the mattress).

Here is my recommendation on how to flip or rotate your mattress, based on how we rotate the tires on our cars (I rotate my own). It's a three month pattern:

• Month one. Flip the mattress along its long axis.
• Month two. Rotate the mattress 180 degrees so the foot is at the head.
• Month three. Flip the mattress along its short axis.

If flipping the mattress along its short axis is impractical due to ceiling height implications or other factors, or it's just too complicated, then flip it on its long axis instead and keep the same schedule. If keeping track of this is too much hassle, skip rotation and go with flipping only. I did that for over 20 years with one mattress and it felt just as comfortable as a new one on the showroom floor. I finally replaced it simply due to its age, but it was likely a perfectly good mattress anyhow.

What damages mattresses:

• Fabric softeners and other chemicals that might be in your bedding. Since these also damage your brain, liver, and kidneys, just don't use them.
• Standing on the mattress. This causes far more local pressure than the mattress is intended to take.
• Going to bed without showering first. You will shed orders of magnitude more skin particles into your bedding, mites will feast on these, mites will inhabit the mattress, mites will poop in the mattress, there will be significant biological activity inside the mattress.

If your mattress feels heavier than when you bought it or feels heavier than a similar model on the showroom floor, it is probably loaded with mites and other critters. Time to replace it. A more scientific way to judge end of life is to use a thermal gun or infrared camera to see if it's generating heat. Flip it over, wait 10 minutes, then measure the exposed side. Compare that to something nearby that is about the same color and texture (to avoid emissivity issues). Also check the ends versus the middle.

By taking care of your mattress you can make it last a long time. A really good mattress is going to set you back a couple thousand dollars. How many 50 cents off grocery coupons would you need to clip every five years to match that?

Perhaps you've come across convincing information that the 1040 tax ("income tax") is not legal. Technically, this is true from a statutory view. But that is a meaningless and useless fact.

There are shysters who extrapolate from this technical point that you don't have to pay the 1040 tax. They are wrong. There is massive case law behind the idea that you do. And, technically legal or not, the 1040 tax is legal in the eyes of all three branches of the federal government.

The shysters hook their victims by claiming they can protect you from any retribution you might incur from refusing to file and/or refusing to pay. For this alleged protection, one shyster has you fill out a Form 1040 and from the amount of Tax Owed you pay him 10% and you are good to go. What he doesn't tell you is it costs about $3 million to get through Tax Court and into Federal Court, and there is no argument that will persuade either court to let you off the hook. You will owe taxes, penalties, and interest. The penalties can be arbitrary and severe, especially if the IRS attorneys successfully label you a tax protester. Once they do this, they can isolate you socially and destroy your reputation while they take away your job or business, home, car, and any family heirlooms. Few people survive this, it's basically a death sentence with no appeal. And in Tax Court, you don't have as many protections as in a criminal court; there's no discovery, for example.

What is especially ironic about this particular form of predation is the target demographic really doesn't pay all that much in 1040 taxes--it's usually much less than they pay for rent, and many of them shell out more for car payments than for 1040 taxes. All of them pay far more in the form of the inflation tax, which most of them do not even realize is a tax.

Yes, we in the USA are the most highly taxed people in the world. Sadly, very few of the myriad taxes we pay are identified as such. But the 1040 tax, with the out of control and wickedly mean IRS in charge of abusing people in the name of "administering it", is very visible. So, wow, getting out of paying that would be nice! Except you can't. So don't go there.

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  (roped) / VV, V0, V1, V2 (boulder) Intermediate: 5.10a, b, c, d ;5.11a, b, c, d  / V3, V4, V5, V6 Advanced: 5.12a, b, c, d; 5.13a, b, c, d. / V7, V8, V9, V10. Elite and Pro: Even harder. Almost nobody climbs at either level at any of the 6 local climbing gyms.

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

A person's sex isn't "assigned at birth" or chosen later. It is determined when the sperm meets the egg; the sperm either passes a Y chromosome to the egg and makes a male zygote, or it doesn't.