Mindconnection eNL, 2026-02-08

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• Mitch McConnell, who represents everything America Firsters and conservatives loathe, is retiring. But he intends to leave his repugnant stain on the Republican Party with his network of candidates, one of which will presumably fill the seat he is vacating. But Elon Musk has put up $10 million to back Nate Morris, who is running for that same seat. If Morris wins, it will be a huge blow to the RINOs, scumbags, and crooks who have, like McConnell, set much of the agenda for the GOP.
   
• This holds the potential to break the Uniparty system that everyone from the Libertarian Party to Marjorie Taylor Greene have been complaining about. Even back in the 1990s, I referred to them as Demopublicans, The Party, and Republocrats. Because they would simply take turns screwing the country for their own personal gain.
   
• The more that the Republican Party can replace morally bankrupt people like McConnell and his acolytes, the more it will appeal to people who have long been Democrats. One reason many people vote Democrat is they do so out of repugnance for these people who need to be replaced. At the same time, the "Democrat" Party is increasingly intolerable and shedding voters.
   
• If Musk, et al, can break the Uniparty system and produce a mostly clean Republican Party, the "Democrat" Party will have no choice but to purge itself of morons, imbeciles, crooks, criminals, and Marxists of all stripes. That would also be a good development.
   
• Tim "Moron in Minnesota" Walz says he's never going to run for office again. As if he is delivering bad news or something. The fact is Walz, who only two years ago was the VP nominee of the Communist Party running alongside low IQ Cackling Kamala, is a massive liability. He's also facing a very strong possibility of being indicted on RICO and other criminals charges that could result in his being sentenced to hundreds of years in prison.
  
  His "I'm not running again" is meat tossed to the prosecutorial dogs, maybe if he removes himself as a threat they won't come after him. Dream on, Tim--you are exactly the kind of corrupt politician they need to make an example of. And as stupid as you are, they will probably have an easy time of it. Once they have a case settled and precedent set, it will then be easier to go after yet another corrupt politician. They will have tested various strategies and tactics on someone without a legal dream team. So, Tim, it's time to get your affairs in order and maybe hold a "going away" party because it looks like you might be going away for a very long time.
   
• A "must see": https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/trump-first-year-by-the-numbers-5972437
   
• "Venezuela’s interim president Delcy Rodriguez announced Tuesday that the country has received $300 million in initial proceeds from a U.S.-brokered oil sales deal following Nicolas Maduro’s capture, with funds aimed at stabilizing the economy amid ongoing political upheaval." [The Capitalist]
   
• Since the USA took control, Venezuela's oil exports have doubled. This is going to make the citizens of Venezuela a lot better off. MVGA--Make Venezuela Great Again!
   
• The USA has officially withdrawn from the World Harm Organization aka the World "Health" Organization. This was long overdue.
   
• Led by morons for decades, the bureaucracy of the EU has withered against the force of nature known as President Trump. The aforementioned morons got by with gutting their own energy infrastructure, hamstringing their manufacturing and distribution sectors, imposing costly socialist nonsense on their citizens while constricting basic freedoms, by stealing from the USA. And ever since 1916 or so, we have bailed "Western powers" out of one European war after another that they got embroiled in due to their own stupidity and failure to properly fund and command their militaries. This has all been borne on the backs of hard-working European citizens who lack the right of free speech. Now that right is increasingly being asserted. Will ordinary Europeans at last be able to cast off the monarchies that contribute nothing and take so much? Let us hope so. They deserve better.
   
• The child mutilation industry just suffered a serious setback that sets the stage for its total destruction. See the full story here:
  https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/jury-finds-doctors-liable-for-malpractice-in-gender-surgery-lawsuit-5978849
   
• In the final year of the Communist Occupation, India ran a $45.8 billion trade surplus with the United States. They were also buying Russian oil. Now that has all changed, and President Trump used tariffs to change it. President Trump wrote that India has agreed to buy American goods “at a much higher level, in addition to over $500 BILLION DOLLARS of U.S. Energy, Technology, Agricultural, Coal, and many other products”. Even politicians in Moronesota should be able to do the math, here. We went from about $46 billion in the hole to about half a trillion to our benefit. The people of India benefit in many ways also, including getting quality American goods for their money instead of being ripped off via cheap Chinese junk products.

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• READER PEN: You scan, it reads aloud individual words and even multiple lines of text in natural voice. Helps those with dyslexia or other reading-challenges gain reading independence. Earbuds automatically mute the built-in speaker to avoid classroom stigma. Select different voices for playback, lefthand or righthand use, left or right scan direction.
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In our Amazon store you will see more offerings, including:

Disability Products:

(We are the sole Amazon seller for these)

• BlindShell phones for the blind
• RealSAM Pocket, which is a voice operated Galaxy smart phone for the blind
• SmartPens4U Rocket Pen Reading Tutor Scanning Pen | Case Bundle Black | Case Bundle Lavender
• WeWalk Smart Cane "Cane with a Brain" for the blind: 47-inch, 54-inch, 59-inch

Radios:

• Connex 10 meter radios
• Dosy meters
• Galaxy 10 meter and 11 meter (CB) radios
• President 10 and 11 meter radios
• Ranger 10 meter radios
• Texas Ranger radios (Chuck Norris not included, sorry)
• Uniden radios and scanners

Tools:

• AEM instruments
• Bahco tools
• Case tools
• CAT tools
• CPS tools
• Irwin saw blades
• Mayes tools
• Rigid Tools work lights and related
• Vessel tools
• Wera tools
• Wiha tools
• Williams tools

More:

• American Hard Bag aftermarket sound system parts for Harley Davidson motorcycles
• Centerpoint Archery devices
• Cold Steel knives
• Dead Downwind hunting products
• G5 hunting products
• Flexilla hose connectors
• Funko collectibles
• Mike Holt Electrical Exam Preparation products
• Nagy's aftermarket sound system parts for Harley Davidson motorcycles
• Paraben Consumer data recovery sticks, porn detection sticks, and similar diagnostic/ IT tools
• ROK straps
• Rostra universal cruise control kits
• Swhacker archery products

Example 1

An acquaintance of mine is pretty slow on the draw. During the Covid scam, he accepted all the BS no matter how absurd. The latest thing with him is he has a Windows 10 computer that works just fine but is too old to change over to Windows 11. I don't like the word "upgrade" in this context, it's different not necessarily better. When you UPgrade, you go to something better. For example, you upgrade your sheets from polyester to cotton. The use of "upgrade" when it comes to software is usually a marketing deception. In some cases, you are truly downgrading. We have seen that in a few releases of Windows that had users howling, followed by a very early release of the next version. Windows 11 does break a few things, mostly legacy programs that run just fine on Windows 10.

My acquaintance is agonizing about the loss of "support" and the end of "security" updates. So I asked him, "What support have you ever gotten from Microsoft in all these years? Give me one example."

As for security, if you are on the load side of a router (and almost every home computer is, these days), you are behind a firewall. Let me give a concise explanation for those who are fuzzy on what a firewall is. To get inside a connected device, you have to access it through its MAC address. Your router is exposed, but there's nothing on it to hack. Loading a root worm onto it will get you nothing, if such a load is even possible. What you're really after is the data on a connected device. But you cannot get to any connected devices because the firewall is in the way. We speak of connecting our computers to the Internet, but what we are actually doing is connecting our computer to our router. It's the router that is connected to the Internet.

Back in the days of dial-up, this was not the case. You connected your computer directly to the Internet.

Today, it is almost always the case. It is now standard practice among ISPs to provide users with a modem that is a combo modem/router. So you are behind a firewall with no option not to be. If your ISP doesn't provide that type of modem, the home almost certainly has a router anyhow. Aside from those Stone Age installations that have no router, the only way malware gets on a home computer these days is if the operator does something stupid like surf the dark web or download "free" things from dubious websites. And that same vulnerability exists no matter what security updates you get from Microsoft.

Worms and other malware can't target something on the other side of the router, because they don't know what's there. They rely on an "ID Ten T" error (ID10T) to get into the system. This is why you see the same warnings all the time, such as don't open e-mail attachments from sources you don't know and don't click on links from spoof sites or spoof e-mails.

Having support or security is not a reason to change over to Windows 11, because in those aspects nothing really changes from Windows 10. This new OS has some great features, and I especially like the way it handles Notepad. But it also has drawbacks, such as breaking programs that I am accustomed to using. If you buy a new computer, it's going to be a Windows 11 computer. So the question of changing to it is kind of moot. Unless, of course, you have a program or service that no longer supports Windows 10; this is unlikely, if you have the 64-bit version of Windows 10. So all the angst this guy has over nothing would have been prevented if he'd simply asked a few basic questions instead of leapfrogging into a doom scenario.

Example 2

I got an e-mail from the Communist Party. They still call themselves the Democrat Party, a big red flag there. The e-mail said they were fighting "to protect the voting rights of every American". Which is a laugh, as they are the party of election fraud, and they take that fraud to extremes.

When I was in high school, the public school systems still had the goal of providing an education. Yeah, it was a long time ago. One of the books we read was George Orwell's 1984. I often ask people if they have read it, and the answer is usually no. Which is a travesty. If you have not read this book, order it on Amazon today and then read it. I suggest reading Animal Farm (also by Orwell), if you don't quite understand how toxic communism is.

Here's a bundle deal: https://www.amazon.com/1984-Animal-Farm-SET-BOOKS/dp/6059076351. Or just get 1984: https://www.amazon.com/1984-Signet-Classics-George-Orwell/dp/0451524934. If you want to skip reading the books (not your best decision), you can do an online search for the Cliff Notes version or maybe Copilot or whatever AI will provide a nice synopsis. But I recommend reading the books, then giving them to a lefty friend so (if your lefty friend isn't too far gone) the two of you can discuss the meanings.

If you are familiar with 1984, then you already know the point I'm about to make regarding Newspeak. If you are not familiar with 1984, then read it with the goal of understanding the concept of Newspeak and how it allows bad actors to get away with incredibly destructive behavior.

If you can recall the general flow of 1984 or if you read it today for the first time, you will be struck by the fact it is a playbook for today's Communist Party. They suppress dissent, suppress thinking, spew fake news, invoke endless wars (in the book, the wars between Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia), reverse the meanings of words as a means of propagandizing, and destroy people who go against their narrative. And what about Animal Farm? I read that one in middle school, and I thought it was a metaphor for the Marxist progression of American politics (yes, it was happening even then). Imagine my surprise when my teacher said it was a metaphor for the Soviet revolution and all the betrayal that followed. So I told him what my initial impression was. His reply? "Smart kid. You actually get it."

The examples I just gave aren't the point of this issue's brainpower tip. They illustrate the point. Abusers of power are also abusers of language, that's how they capture people's minds.

Remember what preceded the Holocaust? Cartoons of Jews with exaggerated noses, followed by other tropes. Then came the absurd accusations, then came the language abuse. Who can object to cleansing, for example? And don't forget, this was done by the National Socialist Party, which in German is Nationalsozialist or Nazi. Socialism was the concept touted in Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto, both by Karl Marx. Every Marxist movement or party has used these same dishonest means to gain or retain power. They do that because the only possible outcomes of Marxism are negative ones, poverty being its most notable outcome.

Less notable, but more corrosive over time, is the stifling of thought. Marxism depends upon duping people, and a lot of stupidity enhancement is built into it. In the USA, a cornerstone was the establishment of the Department of Diseducation (in Newspeak, it is the Department of Education), whose primary goal was to abolish functional literacy in the USA. One of the first acts of that department was to remove phonics from reading education. The result was the national literacy rate plummetted from first in the world to dead last among industrialized nations.

This stupidity enhancement is one reason I am so against Marxism in the Brainpower Newsletter.

Ask basic questions. Get at the truth.

Equipment

You don't need to make a huge investment into pots, pans, etc. to efficiently make good meals. As a starter set, I'd recommend a nice set of stainless steel or other high-quality fry pans, a pair of glass pie dishes, a Dutch oven, and a pair of high-quality cookie sheets. A decent set of kitchen knives, a few mixing bowls, some glass storage bowls with lids, some plastic storage bowls with lids, a couple of spatulas, and whatever else catches your eye in the supermarket cooking equipment aisle.

Categories

Consider these food categories, below. No recipes are needed, you simply use what's on hand with an eye to keeping the ingredients compatible (for example, garlic is good with omelets not with pies):

• Stir fries. For many years, I commuted to work so I relied on bags of frozen vegetables rather buying fresh. I would add things like cashews, diced apple, diced garlic, and sesame seeds. This is very basic, but the main skill involved is understanding how to control the heat. It needs to be no more than medium heat, or you wreck your pans. Back then, I also ate meat so I would separately fry up sirloin steak with onions and garlic or I would bake chicken and dice it up. You can buy these meats prepared already, if you don't want the mess. Dice them up and store in bowls in the refrigerator, taking them out as needed.
   
• Cold veggie mixes. If I call them salads, people default to iceberg lettuce and a ton of gross dressing. Instead, buy a slew of vegetables like bok choy, spinach, eggplant, acorn squash, and kale. Dress it up with walnut pieces, chopped avocado slices, a bit of onion, and a bit of chopped garlic. Own a cruet, and use it to mix a robust olive oil (the "mild" ones are cut with linoleic acid and are toxic) and either balsamic or cider vinegar.
   
• Soups. These consist of water and whatever meat and vegetables you care to add. A common practice is to cook a pound of beans in a crockpot (on Instapot), then divide the beans into storage containers. You then use a portion of the beans for whatever soup you are making. Serve with rice, and you can have something wonderful that is satisfying and nutritious.
   
• Eggs. My mom used to say if you have eggs and greens, you always have a meal. Eggs are so versatile. You can scramble them, make a foldover omelet, boil them, etc. You can have them as the main part of a meal or as a supplement to it. When I worked construction, a lot of the guys would have a couple of hard-boiled eggs with pepper for the main part of their afternoon meal (often followed by a banana or orange).
   
• Custard pies. This is the simplest kind of pie to make, partly because the eggs hold things together. The variations are endless. Perhaps the most famous custard pie is the pumpkin pie. You can use the same recipe, but instead of pumpkin use chopped up banana or any other fruit--surprise yourself and make a different pie each month of winter.
   
• Drop cookies. These are simple to make. The basic recipe is flour, eggs, water, and baking powder. You can add various cruits. Blueberries, raisins, and apples are all winners. Pears, bananas, peaches, whatever is in season or on hand.

Note that butter and healthy oils are essential to good cooking. Disregard the "advice" that says otherwise.

Instead of using:

• Wheat flour, which is toxic, use oat flour.
• Processed sugar, use L-glycine or monkfruit.
• Condensed milk, use a thick mix of a plant-based vanilla protein powder (Garden for Life makes the best one for this purpose).

You also need to have spices and condiments on hand. Carefully think about a system that works for you. Don't buy preground spices that come in a cardboard shaker, those are stale before they hit your shopping cart. Buy in bulk and use a funnel to fill designated glass shakers (with lids) or designated glass bowls (that can be stacked). Label everything. Figure out if adding a Lazy Susan or two will help keep things functional and organized. Don't go nuts with creating a huge spice collection. Condiments include (all sugar-free) mustard and hot sauce, which will come in their own containers. But for spices, set up a trial system with the following and the modify as needed if you add more:

• Allspice
• Basil
• Black pepper
• Cinnamon
• Cloves
• Cocoa powder
• Ginger
• Glycine powder (sweetener) [Note that L-glycine is a "lefthanded" version of glycine, they are not the same thing].
• Monkfruit powder (sweetener)
• Salt
• Turmeric
• X

Notes:

1. What the heck is X? Don't call your grocery store and ask for it. I tried here to compile a basic list that would allow for whatever spices your ethic backround or experience considers essential. For example, I did not oregano and for Italians that is borderline sinful. My sister loves to use curry, a wonderful spice that is also absent from my list. And you can't make a good chili without cumin.
    
2. Why is salt on the list? We are always told to reduce sodium! If your diet does not include processed foods, colas, or "energy drinks" you have plenty of room for salting your food before it becomes a problem. You need salt when baking, and to some people scrambled eggs "just aint right" without a dash of salt.
    
3. Turmeric: The capsules cost about 100X per gram what a 1lb bag costs. But turmeric is messy. A solution that works for me is I fill a glass bowl  (with lid), and then use office Bulldog clips to close the turmeric bag (which I store elsewhere with my bulks, not in the kitchen where I am trying to work). I don't leave a scoop in the bowl, as grabbing it out will make my fingers orange. I dip in there with a metal spoon.
    
4. If you really don't know what to do, ask a friend, neighbor, or relative to come to your home and show you. Then share a meal and have a visit. This person can point out where you need this or that added to your kitchen equipment, and demonstrate the basic process. Be careful not to get sucked into someone's orbit and thus learn wrong things as if they are right. Repeat this process with a few people. Another way to learn is to watch cooking shows, this is what housewives often did in the decades before YouTube. Hmm, you could also watch on YouTube.
    
5. Be very careful with nonstick pans. Stainless steel and cast iron are non-stick, especially if you apply butter, lard, or a heat-stable oil (e.g., avocado oil) to them first. Some enamel-coated or copper-coated pans are safe, some are not; look for titanium or steel, not aluminum. In no case is any TEFLON or similar coating safe.
    
6. The services that deliver meals you simply heat up sound good. But they are costly and there's a lot of cheap plastic involved. You don't need more microplastic lodging in your brain.

Not only do you save huge amounts of money by doing your own cooking, you eliminate the "need" to go with unhealthy alternatives. And if you gain some skill and experience in the few categories mentioned above, you can make an endless variety of tasty, nutritious, satisfying meals. You gain the skill by experimenting on your own and also by watching others to see how they do it (or by having them coach you). You can add to these categories, for example the category of what to do with a whole chicken.

5. Security tip

This is from a regional bank, The Bank of Labor (lightly edited by me). The goal of the message is to inform people how to protect themselves from a bank impersonation scam.

What is a Bank Impersonation Scam?

A bank impersonation scam occurs when a scammer disguises their phone number and pretends to be a trusted financial institution. Their goal is to trick bank account holders into sharing their personal information so they can access online banking accounts by impersonating the bank's fraud department.

How Does It Work?

Scammers will call their victims and claim to be from a bank's fraud department. They may say there is suspicious activity on your account, unauthorized access, or a fraudulent pending charge. To "fix" the issue, the scammer will ask for your personal information, including your online banking user ID, password, answers to security questions, or your social security number. Once shared, this information allows them to access your account.

Tips to Identify Spoofing

• Check Numbers. Carefully examine the phone number that’s calling you. Scammers will often use a number that looks similar to one you recognize. In some cases, the number may even appear identical to the institution that they're impersonating. For example, the caller ID may be listed as 913.321.4242, but it is not Bank of Labor contacting you for your personal security information.
• Detect False Urgency. Scammers will try to create a sense of urgency to pressure you into giving information to them immediately.
  DO NOT give your personal data over the phone no matter how critical the situation may appear.
• Note False Friendliness. As you may have guessed, I do business with this bank. A few people know me and I recognize their voice on the phone. If MMMMM calls me, she can use her first name and I will know who it is. But aside from those people, the caller always identifies him/herself by first and last name with Bank of Labor and also identifies the exact issue they are calling about. If someone were to call and say, "This is Phil with Bank of Labor" I would immediately be suspicious. [Added by me]
• Note Lax Procedures for a Security Problem. If there's a security problem, the bank uses secure procedures to address it. They will, for example, send me a secure document for me to download using a code they text to me. Or they will ask me to come into a branch location. What's especially comforting in these cases is they know which branch I normally use and ask me if I want to set up a time (usually with MMMMMM) at that branch. The bank will never just call me and ask for sensitive information. They will ask for verification information or ask me if I can call the bank right back at the main number and ask for extension YYYY. [Added by me]
• Note Any False Issues. I check balances each weekday morning. The bank is never going to call me to say my account is overdrawn and then ask me to wire money from some other bank. They are never going to call me and say the IRS has put the account on hold, because I use a separate bank in a separate city for all IRS-related and government-related financial business. The bank is never going to call me about a bounced check on my main account, because I use a separate account for checks. The bank is never going to call me about my deposit box fees, because I don't have a deposit box at that bank. [Added by me]
• Know Which Bank Does What. As you may have surmised, I have different accounts with different banks in different cities for different purposes. This is not paranoia, it's basic financial prudence. If my government transactions bank calls me about something related to the IRS, I will take that call seriously and proceed--but not if such a call comes from any other bank. [Added by me]

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) offer several other tips and resources to help combat bank impersonation scams.

https://www.fdic.gov/consumer-resource-center/2025-06/bank-impersonation-scams-and-fake-banks

https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/cyber/alerts/psa/account-takeover-fraud-via-impersonation-of-financial-institution-support

What To Do If It Happens to You: No bank is going to call you with personal questions. If you receive a phone call from someone claiming to be a X Bank, hang up and call that bank. Ask for the Fraud Department. It is possible there isn't any fraud, just a poorly trained employee. But let the bank decide that, because it is almost certainly fraud. If you were to personally call law enforcement, you'd have little effect. But a complaint coming from a bank gets noticed. Let the bank handle this and do your best to cooperate in any way. We may not be able to stop The Democrats from stealing, but we sure can put a dent into stealing that starts with bank spoofing.
 

6. Health tip/Fitness tips

	Let's talk about arthritic joints. Arthritis is a general term for inflammation in the joints. The cause varies, and thus there are different types of arthritis. The more swollen the joints appear, the more the inflammation is a factor to deal with. The medical industry focuses on medical treatments. Health care is outside their purvey, despite the language abuse to the contrary. But, they are very good at diagnosing and labeling things. Get a diagnosis, so you can better understand what you are dealing with in your particular case. In general, there is a three-pronged approach to solving this problem: Remove inflammation-causing foods from your diet. You can do an online search for a comprehensive list, but the main culprits are wheat, corn, soy, meat from any of the three major meat packers, processed sugar, high-fructose corn syrup and similar, seed oils (e.g., canola, safflower, etc.), and vegetable oil. It can seem like a tall order to remove these, since for the typical American they constitute over 85% of the diet. I eat exactly zero of these.   Add anti-inflammatory foods to your diet. The big one here is curcumin, which is found in turmeric. Turmeric is what gives mustard its color. If you take capsules, you pay at least 300X for the same amount bought in a bulk bag. So go online to Vitacost and order a 1lb bag. When you get it, fill up a small glass bowl with lid (found at any supermarket, if you do not have one--I use such bowls a lot so I have many--you can also order them through Amazon). Turmeric is very messy to handle, so don't leave a scoop in that bowl. When you need some, use a metal teaspoon and take what you need. You can sprinkle turmeric over soups, beans, rice, and many other dishes. If you're into protein shakes, toss in some turmeric. Add it to whatever you bake, too.   Reduce loading and add therapies. If you have arthritis in your hands, you can reduce loading by being more careful how you grab things when you pick them up. If you have arthritis in your back or hips, you can reduce loading by doing specific exercises to improve your posture; you can also avoid doing head-down activities (e.g., excess time texting). Therapies include foot spa (can be used for hands or feet), laser therapy performed by a licensed practitioner, red light therapy, vibration therapy, and infra-red therapy. These last three therapies are available in a single device called the DNA Vibe. That's it for this column in this issue. Please page down.

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.

From the start of December through the one year anniversary of Liberation Day, ICE removed over 10,000 illegal aliens from Minnesota (mostly Minneapolis).