Mindconnection eNL, 2025-07-20

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Celebrating Freedom

• The Federalist Wire reported, "A YouGov poll conducted from July 4 to July 7, 2025, showed Trump maintaining an 87% approval rating among Republicans." What is wrong with the other 13%? Gas lighted, perhaps?
   
• Here we are, seven months past Liberation Day. For the past 6 months, I have been able to write the word Covid in a newsletter and not be censored. That is real progress, the opposite of what "progressives" give us (they are actually regressive).
   
• The Department of Diseducation, which has the mission of ensuring the nation's youth don't get educated while suffering through the K-12 failure factories, has a high success rate when it comes to ensuring illiteracy and semi-literacy. Only 40% of incoming college freshmen can pass a test of Standard Written English. And the USA went from having the highest literacy rate among nations the year the DoD was founded to the lowest among industrialized nations barely a decade later. President Trump campaigned on saving school children (and the semi-literate adults they become) from this agency. It's a tough battle (there are a lot of kid haters with political power), but progress is being made. See more about this awful department, below.
   
• Children's Hospital Los Angeles is the nation's largest purveyor of child mutilation "services" for "transgender" purposes. They are shutting down their program as of 22 July. Please note that there is no such thing as "trans gender" or "gender reassignment" because your gender is immutable. Your gender depends upon your sex, and your sex depends upon whether the sperm that penetrated your mother's egg at the time you were conceived carried the Y chromosome (and thus made you male) or did not carry that chromosome (and thus you are female). From there, the zygote kept dividing into either male or female cells. There's no "in between" and no changing this later. You do not need to be a biologist or a DEI token SCOTUS nominee to understand this.

The Department of Diseducation

The United States was the first country to offer universal schooling. Consequently, for many decades we had the highest literacy rate of any nation.

Then in 1979, something truly awful happened. President Jimmy Carter, one of the worst Presidents in our history, established the Department of "Education". In George Orwell's book 1984, the Department of Truth was an agency that functioned much like the CDC did during the Covid scam. It was the government's propaganda arm, and it published lies to manipulate the public. This mentality is behind naming the Department of Diseducation the "Department of Education".

One of the first things this awful agency did was remove phonics from the reading curricula. That meant students would no longer be taught how to sound out a word and understand its meaning from the root. It meant that each variation of each word (present tense, future tense, past tense, plural, gerund, etc.) had to be memorized as a picture. This is called a pictogram system. It is fine for a simple language like Chinese (which has no tenses, gerunds, etc.) but overwhelming for a language as vast and nuanced as English.

Consequently, students who were "taught to read" per the new rules of the DoD did not learn how to read. Those with parents or tutors who taught them away from the disabled "education" system did learn how to read. Twelve years after the DoD was established, the USA was dead last in literacy among all industrialized nations. The USA was also behind many third world countries. And even today, those stats hold. And so does another one, namely that 60% of incoming college freshmen cannot pass a test of Standard Written English (as noted another way in the preceding items, only 40% can).

Going back to Orwell, this creates an ideal environment for manipulating the population. A semi-literate populace lacks critical thinking skills and lacks the ability to discover the truth on their own. This is why the "Democrats" are fighting so hard to keep the DoD in place. And it's why Trump promised to get rid of it.

The communist Department of Truth is claiming that Trump is a threat to "our children's education" when the reality is exactly the opposite. They are also claiming that he is withholding X billions of dollars from education, yet another flat out lie. He's trying to withhold X billions of dollars from diseducation. The only way to Make America Literate Again is to abolish the Department of Diseducation or so hobble it that it can no longer suppress the efforts to educate America's kids.

Economic Progress

• The House passed a $9.4 billion spending reduction bill. Normally, such bills then go on to die in the Senate. But the Senate then passed a $9 billion version of this bill.
• As reported in the Epoch times on 16JUN, "President Donald Trump announced about $92 billion in investments in Pennsylvania and the surrounding region as he led a roundtable discussion on July 15 at Carnegie Mellon University to close out an energy and innovation summit."
• So on the one hand, we are stanching the bleeding by trimming away at wasteful spending. And on the other hand, we are bringing in new investments that grow into continual revenue streams. This two-pronged effort is allowing us to slowly make progress at reducing the national debt.
• We are also knocking down long-existing trade barriers via Trump's hardball tariffs and smart negotiating. This will allow entire sectors of our economy (e.g., farmers) to more than double their potential customer base.

Health Progress

The UN reported that 14 million children did not undergo vaccines last year. These religion-based, experimental, untested medications have not been shown to be safe or effective, but they have left a clearly marked trail of disability, injury, and death. The 14 million is progress, but we need to see a different number. I'd settle for 99.99%, with the balance going to those who most stubbornly value the vaccine religion over actual health (this will help clean out the gene pool).

America's Congresswoman and Dr. Michael Kirk Moore

The following is from Congresswoman Greene:

Department of Justice’s announcement that all charges have been dropped against Dr. Michael Kirk Moore—a U.S. Navy veteran and physician who faced up to 35 years in federal prison for refusing to administer the experimental COVID-19 vaccine during the Biden Administration.

Congresswoman Greene sent a formal letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi on July 12, urging the DOJ to immediately dismiss the politically motivated charges against Dr. Moore. In that letter, Greene called Dr. Moore “a hero, not a criminal” and highlighted his medical service, opposition to coercive mandates, and commitment to medical freedom.

“Dr. Kirk Moore was targeted by a weaponized government because he refused to inject an experimental vaccine into people who didn’t want it,” said Congresswoman Greene. “He put his patients and principles first—and for that, the Biden regime tried to destroy his life. I’m thankful to Attorney General Pam Bondi for doing the right thing and bringing this political persecution to an end. This is a huge win for medical freedom and for every American who stood up to the COVID tyranny.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi also publicly thanked Congresswoman Greene for bringing this case to her attention, saying:

“The Department of Justice is grateful to Congresswoman Greene who has been a champion for Dr. Moore and so many other Americans who have been unfairly targeted by the government. We are committed to restoring trust in our justice system by ensuring fairness, integrity, and equal treatment under the law so no American lives in fear of their own government.”

Congresswoman Greene remains committed to exposing the abuses of power carried out by the previous administration and advancing legislation that defends medical freedom, transparency, and accountability.

Commie News

• Jason Bateman. When you really need Batman! He is stunningly stupid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taypUb9u-bE
   
• It's very sad that those little girls were washed away to their deaths in the Texas floods. The people who say they deserved it because they were "white" are all members of the communist party. Yet another reason to not only vote against the communists but to speak out against them so that others do not vote for them.

The Lefty Lies Report

• From Sky News -- Unedited interview reveals Kamala's ‘excruciating’ incompetence: Douglas Murray: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbVBqut95vQ
   
• The communists are on a tour, trying to drum up support for their 2028 Presidential bid. Amazingly, Gruesome Newsom is part of that and recently spoke in South Carolina about "Republican neglect and Democrat governance". Wow, what a whopper! With that pitch, they will scoop up retards, ignoramuses, and those who are mentally feeble due to dementia. And that will be their voter base.
   
• The "tariffs are evil because they are a tax on American consumers" lie. Did these people not hear about sales tax? VAT in Europe? Yes, a tariff is a tax. And it was our federal government's primary source of revenue prior to 1917, when Woodrow "Worst POTUS Ever, until Obama" Wilson signed into law the Frauderal Reserve, the Federal Income Tax, and the IRS. That 1917 Act enabled inflation, which is the single largest tax paid by over 90% of Americans.
   
• The "tariffs are stupid because they will reduce federal revenue by reducing economic activity" lie. Well, sound economic theory supports tariffs. And so do empirical data. During the month of June, the federal government actually ran a $27 billion surplus over the budget. Compare that to the previous June, which under Brainless ran a $71 billion deficit. June was not a one-off, we also ran a surplus in May. That one was $22 billion.

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Using the correct term is vital to clearly communicating an outgoing message, and understanding the terms used by the speaker (or writer) is vital to correctly understanding the message. Word choices matter.

Why does a "health care" system refer you to a "medical doctor", a person whose name is followed by the letters "MD?" But not to a health doctor? I tried to find the initials for a "health doctor" online, there is apparently no such thing. Not even in a "health care" system.

Why can you be arrested for practicing medicine without a license but not for practicing health care without a license? Why are we sold "health insurance" to see a medical doctor who not only does not practice health care but (typically) has had very little training in health care and what he did learn in medical school (not health school) is usually wrong?

I've been practicing health care since about third grade. Without a health care license. As a health care practitioner at age 8, I refused cake for my 9th birthday because "it's junk food". A medical doctor, who clearly does not practice health care, will prescribe a drug for a victim of "adult onset' (Type II) diabetes but not address the cause of this illness--which is 100% of the time a behavior choice. That choice being to regularly consume endocrine modifiers such as table sugar and high fructose corn syrup. Granted, this person is addicted to a drug that has the same grip on a person as does cocaine (hits the same neural receptors, too). But it is still the cause.

As a health care practitioner in high school, I ate a dozen eggs at a time. This was during an ear when eating even one egg a week was "known" to elevate your cholesterol. I applied for a job at age 18, and had to take a physical. The results showed my cholesterol to be 129. That was before we knew about HDL or LDL, it was just the total we tested. And I think if you were under 200 you were considered OK. I was only 129, let that sink in.

Now as a health practitioner in my mid-60s, I still have two omelets a day plus two eggs with meal number 5, plus whatever eggs are in the wheat-free cookies I bake and eat for breakfast. A medical doctor would tell a person with high cholesterol to take dangerous, health-damaging cholesterol drugs. The actual solution is to eliminate seed oils from your diet. These are what mechanically cut the blood vessels and cause the leaks that signal the liver to produce more cholesterol. Ah, the things that medical doctors don't know about health care! Volumes!

Some have asked me why I refer to the Democrat Party and its most famous members as communists. One libtard (not a reader of this newsletter) castigated me for using "communist" to "tar anyone whose view I disagree with." He doesn't even understand his own ideology, which is typical for libtards. Some of them like to say, "People don't understand what socialism is" then go on to talk about services provided by government. Services that all governments with a capitalist economy provide. This degree of vocabulary ignorance is shameful, but par for libtards. It's why they are shackled by their own libtardedness and unable to have thoughts of their own. In other words, vocabulary abuse is tool of slavery. We should not blithely tolerate it.

Karl Marx, the inventor of Socialism and Communism, said socialism is a system in which the government controls the means of production and distribution. That means, for one thing, you as a manufacturer cannot determine what to manufacturer or how much of it to manufacture. It also means, for one thing, a seller cannot determine what to sell or for how much. It means everyone who is poor stays poor and those who are not poor become poor. Karl Marx also said this was an intermediate step before graduating to communism. Which he defined as socialism without property rights.

We saw socialism come on very strong during the Obama years, and even stronger during the Brainless years. Mostly, it was done by subsidizing what they wanted (e.g., the green new scam) and using regulations, lawfare, and financial penalties against what they didn't want (e.g., dishwashers that work, a legitimately elected President, gasoline to fuel our trucks, and firearms with which to protect our families).

But then the communism hit really hard, with the Covid scam being the main vehicle. In the two years ending August of 2023, the money supply increased 83% while the supply of goods and services dropped dramatically. Remember all those empty store shelves? In those two years alone, inflation exceeded 100%. Which is a massive seizure of the value of your property (over 50%). The effort to obliterate private property rights made homes unaffordable to young people moving up, cars beyond the reach of many, and everyday items agonizingly expensive. We saw this in the form of record credit card debt, among other indicators.

So, yeah, the Democrats are communists. Let's call things what they are, it makes reality so much easier to grasp.

In this light we need to speak English when speaking to communists, rather than using their Orwellian euphemisms and fake words. English words: covid scam, clot shot, Frauderal Reserve, Big Harma, illegal aliens (not undocumented immigrants), men competing in women's sports, criminal violence (not gun violence), George Floyd's suicide (he died from a double drug overdose according to the coroner's report but not according to the Communist News Network), assassination-stimulating propaganda (not "hot rhetoric"), Black Lives Manipulated, Centers for Disinformation and Censorship, Federal Disinformation Agency, Institute of Reprobates and Sociopaths, experimental injections, and Nutcase Nancy.

We can also speak English in the affirmative to replace the pejoratives the communists use so inaccurately: hard worker, person of faith, patriot, law-abiding gun owner, literate adult, immigrant (this one, they will be confused by--but that's their problem), informed person, personal responsibility, America first, the rule of law, and numeracy. Because every one of these concepts is absent from the libtard lexicon, always define the word before using it (as is done in those electrical standards).

When words are used accurately, only then can accurate thoughts emerge. Inaccuracy in word usage means you can test out with an IQ of 170 but have an effective IQ of zero in the real world. Some word inaccuracy is OK, we should not have to walk on eggshells every time we speak. But when it comes to things that truly affect your life insist on accurate usage. Not so much by "correcting" other people but by defining what you mean (at least your main idea word) right up front.

• Some of it is for clothing that is worn a couple of times, then hardly ever worn again. We can fix that.
• Some of it is for the latest fashion or trend, so after a season those clothes stay in a closet or drawer for years or decades without being worn again. You can look current without this cost.
• Much of it is to replace clothing that is worn out. Here, we can save big-time. I will explain.

The first two are related. You spot something on the rack or see an ad for it. Then you decide to buy it, without considering how it fits the rest of your wardrobe, how it fits your particular physique, or whether you will want to wear it next year. Tips (for men, women can translate into what works for women):

• Have a few color themes. For example, you can go Johnny Cash black. This means black shoes, black pants, black shirt. A second theme would make use of the black pants and shoes, so perhaps a mix of shirts in colors that go with black. A third theme would use gray or white sneakers plus blue jeans and some casual slacks to make use of that mix of shirt colors. If you go with all solid colors plus a few (at most) subtle stripes, you'll have a timeless ensemble. At least as far as colors. Don't go with loud patterns or neon colors.
• Have a few conservative blazers.
• Choose cuts and styles conservatively. A small flare in the pant leg will be suitable for years to come, while bell bottoms won't. Similar logic for skirt styles.
• Have a mix of shirt styles. A couple of plain black tees to be worn under open collar shirts or under a sport coat would be good. But also have plain polo shirts and plain button-down short sleeved shirts.
• Avoid printed tees. Any printed tees are likely to sit in the closet after a year. I still have some Y2K ones that I hardly ever wear!
• Don't buy clothes on clearance. There is a reason nobody wants them.

Now, let's move on to that worn clothing problem. Some tips:

• Start with clothing selection. Avoid polyester, which pills. Avoid cheap clothes, which are really no bargain; due to their thin material and poor weave, they wear out quickly. That $8 tank top on the "savings" rack costs more than the $30 one over the course of a couple of years.
• Do you have a top-loading washing machine? If practical for you, replace it with a front loader. The upfront cost is more, but the operational savings will compensate for that in less than a year in the typical household. One complaint about front-loaders is the seal grows mold. That problem has been solved with features like an antimicrobial seal and a seal drying cycle; my GE front loader has both of these features.
• A front loader spins the water out so well, your clothes can simply be hung to dry even indoors. It makes using a dryer optional. It makes using a dryer at any setting other than low unnecessary.
   
• Use a detergent that does not contain cellulose. This fiber abrades clothing.
• Never use bleach in your wash. Not even for stains. In addition to being a carcinogen, bleach damages fibers. Add a smallish amount of Borax to do the same thing.
• Use less than 1/3 the detergent recommended by the detergent manufacturer. This will not only get more dirt out of your clothes, but it will permit rinsing out all of the detergent. Dried detergent feels rough on the skin, and it is rough on those fibers.
   
• For bedding, wash in hot water to kill any dust mites. For all other wash, use the cold water or (at most) warm water setting. You can combine this with a longer wash cycle (typically 4 to 6 minutes to go to the next highest level), plus add vinegar to the main detergent tray (not the prewash tray, it can get directly on the clothes which is not good) to soften the water; a 1/4 cup is sufficient.
• If you use a dryer, use the low setting until clothes are barely damp, then finish with the tumble dry (no heat) setting to remove residual heat. Use a clothes rack or two (there are many models that can be folded for storage between uses, taking up hardly any room) for the last couple hours of drying. I have a small tabletop air purifier that I set under the rack to blow clean air across the clothes. For bedding, I hang one end over the bedposts and turn on the ceiling fan.
   
• End with clothing selection. Select clothes that you will wear only for grubby jobs, such as mowing the lawn, painting, or rotating your tires. Keep them separate. I keep mine in a designated drawer. This practice spares your nicer clothing from being subject to stain remover sprays, long wash cycles, etc.
• OK, that wasn't really the end. Sort and store your clothes in a way that fosters rotation. For example, I take my jeans from the right side of the cluster of jeans in my closet and add washed jeans on the left. I do the same thing with casual slacks and with dress slacks. Else, what happens is you wear the same things all the time then buy new clothes to fix this while already having the solution right there in your closet.

5. Security tip

This is from Amazon:

We've recently noticed an increase in customers reporting fake emails about Amazon Prime membership subscriptions. We want to help you stay protected by sharing important information about these scams.

What's happening:

• Scammers are sending fake emails claiming your Amazon Prime subscription will automatically renew at an unexpected price.
• The scammers might include personal information in the emails, obtained from other sources, in an attempt to appear legitimate.
• These emails may also include a "cancel subscription" button leading to a fake Amazon login page.
• Do not click on any links in these messages - scammers use fake websites to steal your Amazon login credentials and banking information.

What you should do:

Scams can typically be ignored with no action. However, here are some suggested actions that may be applicable:

• If you want to verify your Prime membership, open your Amazon mobile app or go directly to Amazon.com. Select "Prime" from the main menu to view your membership status, renewal dates, and plan details.
• If you clicked on any suspicious links, monitor your credit/debit card statements for unfamiliar charges and contact your bank immediately about any unauthorized transactions.
•  Report suspicious communications to amazon.com/reportascam.

Best practices to protect against scams:

• Always access Amazon directly through our mobile app or by typing amazon.com in your browser.
• To find out if a message is really from Amazon, visit the Message Center under “Your Account.” Legitimate messages from Amazon will appear there.
• Enable two-step verification for your Amazon account through the Login & Security settings or visit amazon.com/2SV.

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.

The One Big Beautiful Bill is designed to hugely stimulate our economy. One of its main effects is to reduce our heavy tax burden; see the Thought for the Day below.