Mindconnection eNL, 2026-01-18

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1. Good News: Where the Intel is Good

RIP

My fellow Mensan and fellow conservative, Scott Adams, has passed away at age 68 after a long battle with prostate cancer. I did not know Scott personally, but thought highly of him. He was the author of several books and was most noted for his witty and insightful Dilbert cartoon series.

The Sound of Silence

The several libtards that I know have always been keen to "inform" me about the latest stupidity they have been fed by the lamestream media echo chambers. They have been oddly silent about Comrade Walz and his obvious involvement in the $9 billion Somali welfare scandal, despite its momentous importance and the fact that this is just the tip of the iceberg. Because I don't pay attention to the lamestream media, this "informing" is my only real clue as to what stupidity they are spewing. Or, in this case, news they are not covering.

The fake news lamestreamers are also not covering the vaccine injury data, the fact there is zero proof that vaccines work, or the fact that the data show that vaccines actually do not work. Thus, the libtard population continues to decrease by volunteering to get injected with poison. Maybe we sane, informed, thinking people should consider this sad state of affairs to be a problem that is not ours to solve.

Let the lamestream media continue to mentally enfeeble, and thus endanger, its followers. While also alienating people who apply even a modicum of critical thinking. The more I look at this situation, the more I see the fake news as a sort of ally. The problem is, of course, all of us have friends and/or family in the thrall of this malicious horde of liars. We'd rather have them free than dead.

Karoline Chastises Communist

She is so awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcXbbcd-gfM

Communism Blowback

• This 20 minute video consists of taxpayer interviews in the communist country we call "Minnesota": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDGp0_G963Y

• This 14 minute video shows Venezuelans bashing communism and praising Trump, white liberals are agog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAEJvW5kf9Q

• The political career of Tim "Super Moron" Walz has finally ended. It should have ended even before his disastrous performance as the Cackler's running mate, since the fraud had been known for many years and widely covered by conservative journalists. That is, despite his acting surprised, this had been a festering wound for a long time.

• If the commies can put a failure like Kamala on their POTUS ticket and a failure like Walz as her running mate, what does that tell you about the commies? It tells you they select morons and rely on election fraud to get said morons installed in office. Then they pull the puppet strings. This is no longer working.

• The commies were quick to toss Walz under the bus when the scandal dam broke and the flooding began. Who is the next failed governor, senator, or House rep to go? They do not lack for candidates, that's for sure.

• Look for this "house of retards" (not house of cards) to continue to crumble from within. They offer nothing but corruption and their hatred of Trump, who is doing a fantastic job in contrast to their string of abject failures. And voters know it.

More Communism Blowback

"In response to the massive fraud scandal uncovered in Minnesota, where an estimated $9 billion or more in taxpayer funds was misappropriated through fraudulent claims, I have introduced the Welfare Abuse and Laundering Zillions (WALZ) Act, designed to stop fraud and restore accountability to government programs nationwide.

The WALZ Act will mandate nationwide commonsense oversight, reporting, and accountability standards with uniform national safeguards to flag suspicious programs and claims to ensure fraud on the scale seen in Minnesota cannot take root in Kansas or other states. Taxpayers deserve to know that their dollars are being used responsibly, not being stolen by fraudsters while officials turn a blind eye."

-- Senator Roger Marshall, 16 January, 2026

BTW, censorship is still a problem. I sent the above item, verbatim, in an e-mail and it got "blocked due to spam in the content." Yep, a direct quote from a sitting US Senator about a bill he introduced and it's "spam". That e-mail went to a "blue" state.

Fighting Communism, #1

When the commies made Minnesota a major base of operations, they also opened the door for the corrupt government of that state to come under federal investigation. Minnesota is the weakest commie base, and it will thus be the easiest to prosecute. The best strategy when taking apart a mafia is to take down the weakest player first, then work your way up to the strongest. By the time you get there, you will have acquired an impressive series of judgments favorable to the prosecutor. And, of course, you'll have a ton of useful information gained through the demise of the weaker players.

Anyone who's been involved in lawsuits knows what Discovery is about. It's quite the weapon, when wielded artfully it will bury the opponent in a compliance burden so punitive that they will concede to almost anything to get from under it. Federal forces can use this and other tools to peel back all the layers of the fraud, indict individual criminals, and make case precedent that they can then use on the bigger players like the New York and California branches of the commie mafia.

Fighting Communism, #2

Oddly enough, the People's Republic of Canada has launched a direct and deadly assault on the people of China in exchange for allowing China to launch a direct and deadly assault on Canadian citizens. Here is how this mutually damaging relationship works. Canada is allowing China to sell their crappy, dangerous EVs in Canada, while the Chinese are now importing a poison that will be marketed as "food" to Chinese consumers. Canada is notorious for producing this poison, it's called canola. Canola oil is used for such things as increasing the rate of Alzheimer's, stroke, and heart attack.

From a strictly utilitarian viewpoint, the Chinese communist party is making a good move here--because of China's demographics. Due to their one-child policy decades ago, they have a large retiring class without enough earners to support it. By feeding these people canola, they can kill them off quicker and help correct the demographic imbalance. Maybe they should also try "Daylight Savings Time," which has done wonders in the west for reducing the population. The USA has been using both measures with pretty decent success.

Question for Communists

Why is it when peaceful protestors entered the Capitol and were uneventfully escorted on a tour, some of them went to prison for "insurrection" but when a crazy woman interferef with lawful police action by attempting to run over an ICE agent with her car she was "peacefully protesting" and he's a monster for defending himself? You people have lost all sanity and any sense of fair play. Keep it up, you are showing your true colors and how disgusting you are. Inciting insurrection is a felony, all of you need to stand trial.

Commie-fornia is Number One!

"California", aka, The People's Republic of California aka Commie-fornia is

• Number One in homelessness

• Number One in poverty

• Number One in illiteracy

• Number One in unemployment

• Number One in gas prices

• Number One in illegal border crossings

• Number One in funding for illegal immigrants

• Number One in budget deficit

...and, no surprise, Number One in the number of people leaving the state.

Catching Up with Commie-Fornia?

In NYC, rent control has proven to be a disaster. Yet, it remains in place. One consequence is landlords have no motivation (or money) to do repairs or upgrades, and tenants have no motivation to treat the property respectfully. Only when a tenant dies or moves away can the rent be increased. And because this whole situation is a disincentive to build new apartments, there is a shortage and rent prices are insanely high.

Thus, rent control has resulted in run-down apartments that are disgusting, uncomfortable, and mostly unsafe. And in short supply. The new mayor's solution? Threaten to seize the properties from the landlords. Which means, of course, even more of a shortage. It also means a greater exodus from NYC. It's as if NYC and Commie-Fornia are competing to see who can have the highest rate of exodus.

One upshot of this insanity is it's making conservatives out of millions of people who formerly fell for the liberal language games and empty promises. We don't need blue states to turn red, we just need them to keep alienating their citizens and reducing their populations and thus their Electoral College votes. If Commie-Fornia keeps up its current pace, it could drop from 54 EC votes to 34 EC votes with the next census. New York will be right behind it. Not only will those communist countries lose a big chunk of their election heft, that chunk will go to "red" states like TX and FL. This changes the entire dynamic of federal elections, and it changes the entire dynamic of the battles for control of the House. It doesn't change anything regarding the Senate, because each state has two senators.

A Healthier America

• The CDC removed over 50 doses of experimental shots (vaccines) from the childhood vaccine schedule to about one-third of the previous dose recommendation. That is a huge win for health care (not medical care) in America. Some shots were removed entirely. The very dangerous and totally useless Covid shot and the somewhat dangerous and totally useless flu shot were among those removed. Also, under the theory that babies are not routinely engaging in unprotected sex, the Hepatitis A and B shots were also removed. There were a few others, but these are the big ones that never should have been given to children in the first place.
   
• It is an empirical fact that the USA, with nearly 7X the child injection rate compared to Europe, is far sicker. Clearly, the injections do not promote health. What if we took the injections to zero? Since we have already been experimenting with over-injection, why not experiment with zero injections? Take the vast amount of money saved and put it toward incentives to feed kids actual food instead of fake food.
   
• If the vaccine makers want to get their products back into the schedule, all they have to do is get an approval based on "double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized trials." This is a low bar for something that actually works, so you can bet vaccine makers will not even attempt it.
   
• Fentanyl deaths spiked up during the Communist Occupation, in some cases wiping out nearly all people in a given age bracket in a given city (Port Huron, MI, for example). Less than a year after Liberation Day, the Trump-ordered (and tariffed) interruptions in the global fentanyl supply caused the death rate to plummet. Generally speaking, being alive is a requirement for being considered healthy.  The monthly average is now about half of what it was when President Vegetable last meandered around the White House grounds.

The Covid Shots are Working!

"There have been at least 15 million flu cases this season, according to the latest estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This year, outpatient visits for flu-like symptoms reached the highest recorded level since the agency began tracking cases more than 30 years ago. The US flu season typically begins in October, peaks between December and February and extends as late as May. This season has seen at least 180,000 hospitalizations and 7,400 deaths, with 26 states reporting “very high” levels of flu-like illness and 16 seeing “high” levels." [1440 Digest].

The immunity reduction jabs are still killing people who were jabbed with them. It became crystal clear to many of us (those who connected the giant dots) that the purpose of the Covid jab was to reduce the number of humans polluting the planet. The good news for the sickos out there who see humans as "a problem to solve" is the Covid shots are doing what they were intended to do. They are working!

On top of that particular population reduction measure, public "health" authorities and "health" care [alleged] experts are still running the flu shot con. The way this con works is Big pHARMa produces a USA vaccine based on what Australia had in the previous season and then pretends there is some connection between the two different viruses that allows the vaccine for the extinct one to work for the new one. Of course, it cannot. But the injection itself reduces the overall immunity of the injected population, and Voila! More people come down with the flu, and more of the people who get it die.

Food Pyramid

The new "inverted" Food Pyramid is a major improvement over its predecessor(s), but it is still wrong. Let's break it down.

• It removes grains and cereals from the top spot. However, it shows a picture of refined monoculture grain as an example and uses the fake term "whole grains" which 98% of people misunderstand to mean processed grain with detritus added back to it.
   
• Modern wheat, corn, and soy do not belong in the diet of any mammal. They are not only endocrine modifiers, they are loaded with glyphosate. They form the basis for most baby foods and pet foods, too. Almost any other grain is good. Some examples are oats, rye, and quinoa. Flours made from beans are also good. If you can get genuine Mexican corn or corn flour, also good. By "oats" I do not mean the typical oatmeal. I buy whole rolled oats and eat them uncooked. I also buy oat flour to use in place of wheat flour. One problem with oat flour is it is low in gluten and thus to hard to work with. Add some nutritional yeast and extra butter to it to help make up for this (and work fast).
   
• Putting protein at the top is a huge mistake, because this move neglects to consider that most Americans skip half their meals and thus get too much protein at one time. This overloads the kidneys (contributing to renal failure), elevates blood sugar (the protein cannot be stored, the body turns it to sugar), and does other things you really don't want being done. Even if someone has proper meal frequency, protein belongs in the middle unless you are an extreme athlete. Notice, "extreme" doesn't mean you participate in an "extreme sport" at a moderate level. What top athletes are doing now is supplementing with an amino acid product. This eliminates the whole nitrogen, sugar, kidneys problem. Just be careful that you are getting a quality product. Something cheap is going to contain fillers, including some form of sugar.
   
• Regarding protein, don't misconstrue what I said. There is a huge difference between eating 4 oz of beef tips and scarfing down a 20 oz steak at one sitting. Protein isn't "bad for you", it just needs to be spread out across the day. If you supplement with a protein powder, take that into consideration as well.
   
• It puts animal fats at the top. Your body can handle only so much of this. We must also consider how Americans typically get these fats, namely: highly processed foods, meat from glyphosate-fed animals, and milk from glyphosate-fed cows. These need to be farther down, and used sparingly.
   
• Vegetables and fruits are not the same. Lumping them together makes zero sense. Vegetables should dominate the upper two thirds. And since all plants have the same 20 amino acids (building blocks of protein) in their tissues as all animals do, plants are proteins just as meats are proteins. The difference is the amino profile varies widely among plants, so you need to combine different plants to level things out.
   
• Dairy is not necessarily good. For most people it used to be, before the dominance of Concentrated Animal Farming Operations (CAFOs) and the extremely poor diets and living conditions of the modern dairy animal. Go organic or go without. Most people have lactose intolerance, so another concern regarding a blanket recommendation.
   
• Grapes are shown as examples of fruit, but due to their ultra high sugar content should be eaten sparingly.
   
• Nowhere does this pyramid mention fermented foods. You need those, so have some sauerkraut (not pickled cabbage, there is a difference) or other fermented food. Before you reach for what is commonly called "yogurt" (a sugary snack that contains some contaminated milk that was converted into yogurt and that has had emulsifiers--detergent--added to it), stop to consider what you are actually buying. Look for nonhomogenized (cream on top) yogurt made from pasture-fed cows. The flavor is awesome, and so are the health benefits. But so are the calories, so be careful how much of it you eat per day.

So disregard this new pyramid. Instead:

• Focus on eating minimally processed foods with most of them being vegetables.

• You need those healthy fats, which do not include flavorless seed oils or vegetable oils or hydrogenated oils. Healthy fats include animal fat (if the animal wasn't subsisting on wheat, corn, or soy) such as lard, butter, and egg yolk fat; but if you are vegan and do not ingest these fats that is OK. Healthy fats also include nuts, nut oils (e.g., walnut oil) which are cold-pressed or extracted at low heat, olives, olive oil that hasn't been cut with linoleic acid, avocadoes, avocado oil, coconuts, and coconut oil. These healthy fats add flavor and texture to our foods, use them with a bit of common sense and all will be well.

• Eat several pieces of fruit per day, avoiding dried fruits and absolutely not consuming fruit juices.
   

• Spread your nutrition out over the day (e.g., at least six small meals) so you don't overload your kidneys with protein breakdown.

• Don't forget that water is "food" also. Drink plenty of it. Exclude sodas and "energy drinks", drink coffee and tea in moderation.

• Exclude anything containing alcohol, as that is just empty calories with permanent brain damage each time you consume. But if you are prone to stress, the benefits of relaxing with a drink will outweigh the very tiny brain damage done each time. Notice "a" drink. As in a glass of wine in the evening.

Apply what you know about good nutrition since clearly the "experts" have no clue. Secretary Kennedy appears to understand the subject very well. But he is only one person and has to massage a lot of egos, overcome entrenched dumb ideas, and avoid making (even more) enemies. This new pyramid is a huge step in the right direction, but it is not the right information.

Secession

In December of 1860, South Carolina seceded from the union and other states followed to form the Confederacy. Lincoln, fearing intervention by France or England, promoted the useful lie that this was a civil war (even though nobody tried to seize the means of government--a definitional requirement for a "civil war"). What followed was a bloody and protracted war of secession. That was old school. When the socialists and communists began their ascension to power under Woodrow "Let me give you the IRS" Wilson, they took a long-view approach. They began to erode away the various means by which certain states were tied to the union.

Today, these ten states (below) have de facto seceded from the union. They don't have fair or open elections, don't have the rule of law, routinely violate the Bill of Rights, fail to provide adequate police protection, and rip off their citizens in myriad banana republic ways:

1. California

2. Colorado

3. Hawaii

4. Illinois

5. Maryland

6. Minnesota

7. New Jersey

8. New Mexico

9. New York

10. Washington

There are 36 free states (comply with the Constitution), leaving four states that are compromised but not to the extent that they have succeeded in seceding. By seceding without a formal declaration, and by doing it via "boil the frog gradually", they have avoided the appearance of a shooting war. But if you look at what's actually happened in the big cities of most of these seceded states, especially Minnesota (Minneapolis), Illinois (Chicago), and California (multiple cities), a shooting war is exactly what has been going on.

What is the solution to this secession problem? Can we reconstitute (meant in more ways than one) this union of 50 states? Since the primary tools of secession have been election fraud and legacy media gas lighting, it follows that taking these tools away will lead to the liberation of the occupants and a restoration of these states to our union. If you've noticed what the Trump administration has done in the past six months, you have noticed great and concerted effort toward doing exactly that. From Karoline Leavitt's putting legacy media in their place when they ask stupid and misleading questions to DJ Trump's calling out individual "reporters" as doing a terrible job and promoting fake news to a series of court cases. And, of course, securing our borders.

What if the citizens of California could, for the first time in decades, be treated by their state's government as if they are actually American citizens with American rights? What if the residents of Chicago had basic city services and were spared the constant increase in their property taxes? These people need to rise to the occasion, and now many of them are doing exactly that. This is very good news.

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6. Health tip/Fitness tips Age 65 in these pics 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.   I was at a New Year's Day party with my totally hot sweetie. It's almost a given when we are at an event that people who talk with us will bring up diet and exercise. Often, it's to just find out what we do. But we always ask what they do, because in a conversation it's better to be interested in other people than to try to be interesting to them. A very nice guest whom I knew from previous parties at this particular home is about our age and brought up this subject shortly after asking what the ingredients were in something I brought for the party. It had no sugar, but did have a sweet taste due to the L-Glycine in it. This is an amino acid with huge benefits for your health, and like most aminos it's sweet. Of all the aminos, it's the sweetest. This fella isn't in terrible shape, but he does need to make changes. And he's aware of that. He went on to tell us what he had in mind, and then he concluded by saying, "I don't want to start right now because I'm helping to take care of my 93 year old mother and I don't want add stress by changing my routine." I immediately responded, "Now is the perfect time to get started. You are adding a positive. Your stress will go down. Your mother's stress will go down also, when she sees that you are doing this." Then I said to designate one day a week as squat day and do just this one squat. I showed him a body weight only squat he could do while holding onto a door jamb for balance. I said to just do as many as he could and then stop when his legs shake. Then rest a minute and do another set. That's it. "You can do this while your dinner heats up." This, of course, is not a substitute for Leg Day or any other workout. What it does is change the dynamic. He had been thinking doing a lot of new things, and thus putting off doing anything. By doing something, he can ease into it. Anyone's natural tendency would be to eventually add more. "What if I do three of these instead of only two? What about my calves, I think I'll do some calf raises on the stairs." Maybe he doesn't have any equipment. But he's now got a minimal routine going. So he thinks, "I could wait until Wednesday and do three sets of pushups then." Perhaps this is what he does for several months, but the thing is he sticks with the program for several months because he's made a habit of it. Too often, people start out with good intentions but they feel overwhelmed and stop. Going from a dead stop to a full split routine system four days per week is really too much for most folks. Failure is guaranteed. I've started training a new climber. There is so much to learn. I see him make a lot of mistakes, and I don't do anything about it. Am I a lousy coach? He doesn't need to do everything to perfection. He needs to do. If I stop him from doing because I am always correcting him, then I would be a lousy coach. Sometimes I will point out something he did well and reprimand him for learning that faster than I did, he gets a kick out of that. In both cases, I focus on the basics. The most basic of exercises is the squat. That's why I encouraged that fella to start with the squats. Even with such a minimal approach (only two sets), he will see results. Not big results, but results that are noticeable. Which will mean he's going to stick with it and expand on it with no prompting from anyone. With the new climber, I focus on how he points his toes. Once he masters that, I'll focus on something else. But mostly, I don't say anything. If he gets the thrill from climbing then he will stick with it. Each January, people make New Year's Resolutions that involve biting off more than they can chew. Instead of going from couch potato to gym member, it is better to adopt one training habit and stick with it, then expand it. Then maybe this summer, visit a gym and sign up for the trial membership (even if a full year appears to save you money). Don't jump in and go full bore gym rat. Just expand on what you were doing. See if they have a qualified trainer who can work with you, so that you learn good form. If you are trying to upgrade from some stage better than couch potato, that's excellent. But again, make it gradual. Improve on, and expand, what you have. Maybe replace some older things with some newer things, but set a pace so you aren't overwhelmed.   In the past six months, I have been asked this question several times: "How long have you been working out?" That's tough to answer precisely, because it depends on your definition of working out. My grandfather gave me "the wheel" and a training booklet for it when I was 10 or 11. A buddy bought the Charles Atlas course from the back of a comic book and showed me what he was learning, that was maybe in that same time frame. We messed around, but we were exercising somewhat systematically. So I don't give a precise answer. I typically say, "I train five days per week and have not missed a workout since 1977." At the climbing gyms, where I most often get this question, the parents of the person asking had not even been born yet. If you think that I think consistency is important, then you think right. If you train at 85% quality for 20 years, you will be much better off than the person who trains at 100% quality for three years. The most important thing is to get started. Now. The second most important thing is to stay with it. Having not missed a workout in nearly 55 years, despite many life events and much travel, I don't accept anybody's excuses. An excuse is a rubber crutch. Now, there's one other thing I told that fella. I told him this after saying I hadn't missed a workout in all these years. If you do mess up on your diet or do miss a workout, that's no reason to stop. It's a minor glitch, not a failure. The worst failure is not starting at all, the second worst failure is not staying with it. I am about as stubborn and disciplined as they come, but that doesn't mean someone less stubborn or less disciplined can't get right back into things if life knocks them for a loop. Things happen in life. If those things hit your PAUSE button, don't confuse that with the STOP button. Never let those things stop you. Hit GO and get back with the program. At www.supplecity.com, you'll find plenty of informative, authoritative articles on maintaining a lean, strong physique. It has nothing to do with long workouts or impossible to maintain diets. In fact: The best workouts are short and intense. A good diet contains far more flavors and satisfaction than the typical American diet.

7. Factoid

8. Thought for the Day

I believe this statement came out during the Hillary Clinton "Universal Health Care" fiasco. What they are referring to is medical care. "If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!" - P.J. O'Rourke

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