Mindconnection eNL, 2026-03-08

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• Proud to be an American: https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2025609872046252188
   
• Scouting America (e.g., Boy Scouts of America and Girls Scouts of America) has officially ended its wokeness, following demands from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. No more gender insanity, "social justice" badge, etc. They are even waiving fees for children of active duty service members.
   
• Starbucks has fled Washington State for a free state (Tennessee). Yes, this is the same Starbucks that did the pronoun thing. They have come to their senses, something that happens when "go woke, go broke" shows up in the financial statements. As a consequence of coming to their senses, they are also fleeing this very blue state. This flight from communism is draining the "blue" states of their tax base, and yet they double down on Marxist policies. Talk about stupid. The really great news here is those who flee are not bringing Marxism to the free states, they are joining in the fight against communism. The wealthy who fled have not only stopped donating to "Democrat" causes, but are now donating to Republican ones.
   
• The "Assahola" of Iran is no longer in power. As Senator John Kennedy said, "May he rest in pieces." Yet another bad guy taken out, albeit more violently than Maduro was. Are you are seeing the pattern?
   
• Some people wonder why we haven't taken out Mr. Putin, Xi Jinping, and Nancy Pelosi. The situation with these three is very different. Yes, Pelosi is a straight-up criminal like Maduro but she has not subjugated an entire country while saying if she obtains a nuclear arsenal she will wipe Israel out of existence. You can see there is a very short list of bad actors who may get the same treatment, particularly the "leaders" of North Korea and Cuba. NK because of a nuclear threat (he is really on thin ice with ice) and Cuba because of its proximity to the free state of Florida.
   
• Regarding Nutcase Nancy, she would stand no chance if indicted for even half the felonies she has committed. Just the RICO charges alone would put her away for the rest of her toxic life. There would be no public outcry in her defense. Except among the whackos in Transfrancisco, she is deeply unpopular. It wasn't that long ago she was booed off the stage in the liberal la la land of New York. Of all places!
   
• So why has Nutcase not been arrested? For one thing, there are so many younger criminals to stop while Nutcase is a has been. She has been living high off decades of insider trading and bribery, but is not a future threat. Resources are limited. So the priority for prosecution must be on stopping those who still have potential for massive damage.
  
  AOC self-destructed in Europe and is finished. The Cackler self-destructed in her laughable Presidential run in 2024 so she is finished. Ilhan Omar keeps providing more and more evidence against herself, so that will allowed to run for a while. Then you have morons like Alex Padilla. Just because certain criminals are loud and obnoxious doesn't mean they are enough of a threat to indict. The energy will be saved for those who are particularly dangerous to the Republic. My guess it will a few at the top tiers of the fraud cartels, which JD Vance is now in charge of ending. If you indict a few of those, it will be tantamount to cutting off the head of the hydra.
   
• If this "particularly dangerous" theory is true, why the attention on the Clintons and the Obamas? Because exposing their crimes without the white washing and cover of the legacy media will take the legs out from the communist party while also instilling fear in those aforementioned hydra head folks. That is a strategic play, not a tactical one. The smarter criminals will exit like rats jump a sinking ship, leaving only the morons behind. And then it will be much easier to mop up the moron morass.
   
• The communists have already ceded the 2028 Presidential Election. They realize there is no hope. Trump has done an amazing job in his first year and has three years to go to rack up a record that even the lying commies and their lying lamestream media can't convince anyone with a measurable IQ is not awesome. The Republicans have a deep bench, with at least half a dozen choices that are A+. What are the commies bringing? AOC! Last month, she totally embarrassed herself in Europe with her word salads and non-answers.
  
  So the strategy is to rope-a-dope with yet another dope. And then hope that by 2032 they can recruit an intelligent libtard to challenge a strong incumbent. The thing is, there's no such thing as an intelligent libtard. The decades-long reliance on election cheating, gas lighting, and censorship won't carry them through this time. We are getting stronger election laws (e.g., the SAVE Act), the Covid scam woke up millions of people to stop accepting BS as truth, and the alternate media are rising while the legacy media are dying.
   
• Jasmine Crockett lost the "Democrat" Senate primary to a moderate Christian Democrat. To run for the Senate, she had to not run for her existing House seat. Which means she will no longer taint the House with her lies, deceit, and theater when the new Congress convenes. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
   
• As reported in Coffee & Covid, "California loses a taxpayer every minute and 44 seconds. New York loses one every 2 minutes and 23 seconds. At the same time, welfare people are moving in. Over the past decade, New York shed $111 billion in adjusted gross income to other states. California lost $102 billion. Illinois lost $63 billion. The Daily Economy, late last year."
   
• NASA changed the orbit of an asteroid, on 06MAR. This means they could potentially prevent an asteroid from slamming into the earth. Remember the Great Extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs? We certainly don't want another asteroid hit like that, it might leave behind only cockroaches and communists. Ah, but I repeat myself.

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• Rostra universal cruise control kits
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Engineers and other quants tend to lean heavily on objectivity. Not all, but most, of them have a desire to be right. Not to "be right" as in seeking out confirmation of what they already believe, but to get at the truth by looking at date and other facts dispassionately. To most quants, there's a particular comfort in knowing that your perception of events or situations is based on something unassailable. They know they are naturally biased and try to remove the bias. When their view doesn't align with the facts, they change their view.

People who practice subjectivity tend not to see themselves as biased. They see themselves (and their ideology or position) as inherently right. They will interpret everything through that lens. When their view doesn't align with the facts, they "tweak" the facts to match their view. Leaps of logic, baseless assertions, language abuse, and fact inversion (stating the opposite of what the data say) are all tools they use to avoid being actually right.

I'm an objective person. I will even stake out the opposing position and argue against my own view. I learned this while on the debate team in high school. You had to argue PRO in one round and CON in the next.

Being objective means that instead of getting into arguments, I get into searches for the truth. I give others the benefit of the doubt, rather than jumping to some conclusion about them. I seek their side of the story. It's more typical to simply run with the first thing you hear, and that's what the simpletons who embrace communism do. They hear some anti-Trump propaganda and no matter how absurd they simply run with it. They are gaslighted with some commie message "Trump is [fill in the blank]" and accept it as true. They don't ask basic questions or in any way challenge the statement.

I recently came across a YouTube clip of an old Happy Days episode. It perfectly illustrates the principle of looking at things objectively. It's just under 5 minutes long. Watch it and see how The Fonz practices objectivity and gets at the truth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyjWus2eR-Y&t=4s

Some tips to being objective when considering a postulation:

1. Don't just come up with examples that confirm the postulation. Try very hard to come up with counterexamples that may disprove the postulation.
2. Consider your fact sources. This is something communism embracers totally fail at. They are repeatedly and chronically lied to by the lamestream media, yet they continue to eat it up. It boggles the mind that any human being on the planet would bother to open a copy of The New York Times. It is complete hogwash and 100% unreliable.
3. Try to set your own circumstances and experiences aside. Some people cannot grasp, understand, or appreciate something that they have not experienced.  I know a few people who have never set foot in a climbing gym and yet they can have an intelligent conversation with me about climbing. Why? Because they can see outside of their own experience.
    
4. Try to see the bigger picture. When President Trump rolled out tariffs on everybody, I did not like it. Why? Because a tariff is a tax on an importer, and I am an importer. Now, I could have decided to hate Trump. But the thing is, you do not throw out the baby with the bathwater unless you are terminally stupid. My monthly business revenue had already more than doubled since the Cackler ceded the election. Particularly, the sales of the items I import and for which I have the highest profit, had gone up dramatically. If I paid some guru a fee to make this happen and he charged me only what I paid in tariffs, I would be thrilled.
    
5. Ask good questions. What is a realistic cost? What is the expected benefit? Is that benefit worth the cost?
6. How does this mesh with commonly understood facts and concepts?
7. Analyze the logic. Does A necessarily follow from B, or am I assuming a causation that isn't really there?
    
8. Avoid emotional language. Nutcase Nancy is good at tossing firebombs when she speaks. She does not present facts, she presents emotional word salads and uses those to manipulate people. She gets their amygdala involved, which cuts out the neocortex. This is one of the reasons that communists are so stupid, they literally are "thinking" with their reptile brains. Avoid this at all costs.
9. Replace Orwellian language with proper word choices. An example I like to use is calling medical care what it is, medical care. It is not health care. By calling it "health care" the medical industry, which has no doctors who graduated from health school and have a HD after their name, completely changes the perception. As does the medical insurance industry.
10. Treat the postulation as something you have to sell to a hard audience. Of accountants. Forensic accountants. You'd be surprised at the clarity of thought this brings. At least, it does for me.

I went from that to working as a multi-hat electrical engineer / project manager / site supervisor / CAD guy / Code guy for an electrical services firm. My boss was a great guy, and he reported to the owner (another great guy). We had some top-notch people there. But then I got an offer from an electrical trade magazine and worked there for six years. During that time, I attended many industry conferences. I found that a certain kind of stupidity I had encountered prior to that job was actually very common.

That stupidity is the idea that you save money by not doing maintenance. It's a very expensive behavior.

I have changed my own oil (car) every 5,000 miles for the past 40+ years and this has probably saved me 10s of thousands of dollars. Here are some other preventive maintenance tasks that save you money:

• Clean your coffee maker. I was recently at a climbing gym that serves hot coffee. I could smell that their coffee maker hadn't been cleaned, and I told them so. I also told them how to clean it, they had no idea. There are multiple methods, but the best one is to add a tablespoon of citric acid per 3 cups of water to the carafe (it it's a nine-pot carafe, add 3 tablespoons). Shake it to dissolve the citric acid. Then make a fake pot of coffee. Discard the "coffee" down the drain (to help clean it), and repeat with plain water twice. If you use vinegar instead of citric acid, you'll need a third rinse.
• Use citric acid to clean humidifiers. Use it to clean toilet bowls, too; simply dump about two tablespoons in and swish with the brush to dissolve, then let it sit for a couple of hours. Do not add it to the tank, you will likely damage the flapper or other parts.
• Clean and polish your shoes. Not only does this improve your personal presentation, it allows your shoes to last far longer.
   
• Clean or change your furnace filter. Make a monthly appointment to do this.
• Once a week or so, pull the racks out of your dishwasher and wipe it down inside. I use a bamboo sponge. Clean the filter in there, too.
• Vacuum your carpet. I use a Roomba once a week, as a sort of baseline. Additional vacuuming with canister, as needed. If your home is too cluttered for a Roomba, get rid of stuff until it isn't.
   
• Have a contract with an HVAC company to inspect your furnace once or twice a year. These contracts are typically around $120 a year, so you really get your money's worth. They are hoping to find something to fix or replace, which of course is going to cost you money. But consider what happens if you have a cracked heat exchanger and they find it. Big money to replace, and in my case last year it meant a whole new furnace. I think that is preferable to dying from CO poisoning, but to each his own. Your insurance agent will probably try to tell you that a furnace replacement costs less than replacing a burned down house, and if you disagree then just work the numbers out and show him.  :)
   
• Keep your car tires inflated to the pressure shown on the door jamb plate.
• Rotate your tires every 7,500 miles or so. If you don't have a pair of floor jacks or don't feel comfortable doing this, have a tire shop do it. Your tires will last longer.
• Keep your car clean inside and out. A dirty exterior means that grime is abrading your finish. I sealed mine with a polymer (big job, has to be redone every few years), but if you're not up for that then have car detailer do it. Some car washes offer this service.
   
• Get your sleep. Maintaining your brain health this way is one of the best ways to protect yourself from financial loss.
• Don't take your job for granted. The vast majority of people fail to do the preventive maintenance needed to keep their job. Then they are surprised when they don't get a raise or do get fired.
• If you're a husband, be alert for preventive maintenance that needs doing in your marriage. Wives, like any other appliance, break down over time. You can keep them humming along by doing at least one small kindness each day, taking out the trash without being asked, picking up after yourself, telling her each day something you appreciate about her, setting aside time to listen to her, and sincerely showing her that she is valued and respected. For example, stop thinking of her as an appliance!
   
• Maintain your lean mass. I fail to understand why it is normal to allow yourself to lose muscle and end up with pancake butt by age 50. Regularly engaging in vigorous exercise, especially if it is a structured program, will extend your health span dramatically. This is one of the most important things you can do for your physical health, mental health, old age independence, and late-life financial well-being. There are entire books written on this, but don't waste time reading them. Just make sure you do this.
• Get regular eye exams and dental exams. This may sound contrary to my advice to skip the annual doctor visit, but these exams really fall under health care instead of medical "care" (if you want to call it that). If you don't know why these are such a good use of your time, ask your eye doctor or your dentist. A chiropractor, similar thing.

Some other maintenance is very expensive with little or no benefit. I recommend not doing these:

• Getting "your annual flu shot". This shot has zero value, and it carries risk. Don't get it. I've previously covered what's wrong with it, the short version is it's made for an extinct flu bug from Australia.
• Any kind of scheduled vaccines. The vaccine religion is not based on science, and there are no quality controls. Instead, focus on boosting your immune system.
• Annual "check up" with the doctor. Unless you have some ongoing condition, there is nothing to be gained by this. You pay a copay, waste your time, and risk getting conned into undergoing unnecessary tests and treatments.
• "Pest control" treatments for your lawn. These companies all claim their products are eco-friendly, but when you look up the ingredients online you find out they are super bad for bees. If you want great pest control, set up a bird feeder, a bird bath, and a few bird houses.
• Taking a multivitamin. Take a look at the Nutrition Panel. You will likely see megadoses of B12 and other vitamins. Though these are water soluble, they are not inert. You can do serious kidney damage with these products, and kidney disease is a top killer in the USA.

5. Security tip

Many stretches of interstate in metro areas are heavily afflicted by overly aggressive sociopaths who have no business behind the wheel of a vehicle and probably belong in a padded cell. They terrorize others by various means. For example, a favorite tactic is to tailgate for a bit, then pass and cut back over without sufficient room to avoid collision unless their victim brakes hard. If the posted speed limit is 65MPH and the car in front of them is doing "only" 75MPH, then apparently the driver of that 75MPH car is a scumbag who does not deserve to be on the same road.

These aggressors exhibit no evidence of understanding that they don't own that road, other people who use the road also pay the taxes that allow the road to exist, and the safety of other people is important. They view anyone else on the road as being in their way and deserving of any disrespect that can be dished out.

This situation is relatively new, having developed during the Communist Occupation.  It has arisen as a consequence of the "Defund the Police" stupidity that followed George Floyd's suicide by drug overdose. It was already stressful enough to be a cop, this particularly sad chapter in our nation's history increased the stress dramatically. On top of that, many police budgets were slashed. Apparently, if you have fewer police you will have fewer career criminals dying from an overdose of fentanyl and meth. I don't follow the "logic" but you have to remember that line of "thinking" emerged in Moronesota, specifically in Moroneapolis.

Today, the rest of us bear the significant costs of that. Whether your formerly safe Chicago neighborhood is now  a free-for-all killing zone or traveling on a metro section of an interstate feels like an audition for a new Mad Max movie, we are all paying for what was done to our police forces.

Some tips:

• In any interaction with police officers, show extra respect. Even if you are getting a traffic ticket. You can say, "Officer, I don't like getting this ticket. But I appreciate you for trying to make our roads safer. I should not have been speeding."
• When you see a cop in public, smile big toward that person. This goes a very long way.
• Write to your state rep and ask why more funds are not allocated to the State Police.
   
• If you live in a border city, write to the Governor's office of the neighboring state expressing support for their State Police.
• Write to your County Board rep and express appreciation for the County Sheriff's Office and all they do for public safety.
• When encountering people who make disparaging remarks about police, ask if you can call that person instead of the police to report a violent crime in progress and add, "What's your response time?"
   
• If your city newsletter has an item about an officer getting promoted or completing some sort of certification, send a hand-written note (inside a Congratulations card is fine) congratulating that officer.
• Mention to neighbors how tough a job the police have, and ask those neighbors for ideas on what you can do to show appreciation (this is reverse psychology, you are getting the other person to think about the police in an appreciative way).
• To help nip the problem at the source, bring up this issue with friends and relatives. Probably, at least one of them is engaging in this behavior.
   
• When being victimized on the road, maintain present course and speed but change lanes if it is safe to do so. Don't do anything that amounts to letting a lunatic tell you how to drive, such as tailgating the car in front of you, speeding up, slowing down, making an unsafe lane change (cut in front of another driver), or pulling onto the shoulder at highway speeds to let them pass. Try to safely get out of their way, as that improves your safety. Getting out of their way might seem like surrendering and rewarding them for bad behavior, but they are already exhibiting bad behavior. See the next item on how to punish them for it.
   
• Take out one road terrorist at a time. Keep a voice recording app open on your phone, and record as  much info as possible. First few digits of license number, license plate state, quick description of driver, basic description of vehicle, mile marker closest to encounter. Then when you get home, call the non-emergency number for the county Sheriff's office of the jurisdiction in which this occurred. Tell them you were in the parking lot of (name a store you saw from the highway) when this person approached you offering to sell you drugs. You said no. Then later, he whipped past you at a very high rate of speed while driving erratically. Yes, this is lying but it will get the police out to that person's house or get him pulled over. He will get the message that his high speed, erratic driving is not something he can simply get away with. You may just save an entire family from being wiped out by this loose nut behind the wheel.

Worst things you can do:

• Engage the road terrorists at the time of the incident (e.g., flipping them off). Remember, they do not see you as human and are in an insane state of mind.
• Driving ever faster to get out of their way. You cannot drive fast enough for these lunatics.
• Slamming on your brakes to send a message. This could get you rear-ended, and at the very least it will inflame an already out of control lunatic.
• Slowing down just to be obstinate. This really does not help.
• Shrinking your own space bubble to get out of their way. This means you endanger yourself and at least one other driver to make a lunatic feel better? Nope. Don't do it.

6. Health tip/Fitness tips

	A common question when it comes to training is, "How do I get motivated to do that?" Take a look at a bird-legged, pencil-armed 60 year old ambling along with stooped posture. Is that what you aspire to? If not, there's your motivation. If, like me, you are well past 60 then you are already either doing this or wish you had started years ago. There's your motivation. If you need a bit of expert opinion on this, then spend 40:40 watching my Go To Guy, Dr. Rick Cohen, talk about the power of muscle mass for healthy aging: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWD7xCIxO48 But I don't think it's motivation that people need. It's decision. You don't need motivation to get out of bed in the morning. It's time to get up. You get up. Nobody motivates you to put one leg into your pants and then the other each morning. It's a decision, you just do it. You don't need motivation to eat food. You do it without needing any kind of rah-rah. There are dozens of things you do each day without needing to go through some motivational moment. You decide. You do. Much of my life, I have had demotivation. But I decided and did it anyhow. Some examples: I competed with my buddy Mike for worst baseball player on the youth league. I think we were about 9 or 10. Nothing motivated us to participate and look like such fools. We just decided we were going to play baseball for the whole season. I was so bad at middle school wrestling, the coach came up with C string so I could stay on the team. Despite being so bad at it, I decided to stick with it. In high school, I was motivated to get into better physical shape so I hit the gym after school. One day, the basketball MVP stopped in to tell me that daily commitment was motivating him. He asked me to promise not to miss my workouts. I decided to make that promise. From that point forward, I didn't need motivation. A decision had been made, I stuck to it. That was in the spring of 1977. I have kept that promise ever since.
	Perhaps "I can't get motivated" is not the real reason for you? What if it's one of the following: I am too fat to go to a gym, I would feel like an outsider just walking in there. Answer: Why is that gym there? Just for people who are in perfect condition? Go to one and look around, most folks are trying to fix a problem!   Gymtimidation. I know I can't bench press very much. Other people are going to ridicule me. Answer: Then don't use the bench press. Do other training. What you are far more likely to find is others will be willing to help you. This may be with training tips or, get this, motivating comments!   I don't have the time to drive to the gym. Answer: Then don't. Buy a set of bands and a few dumbbells, then figure out a split routine program you can do with that simple equipment (which takes up very little space).   I don't have gym clothes. Answer: I work out in whatever I am wearing. Usually blue jeans and a T-shirt during winter. No shoes, except when doing seated calf raises.   I don't have the budget for all the supplements I would need. Answer: Really, you don't need any supplements. Forget about protein shakes, make yourself some scrambled eggs instead. Definitely do not take a multivitamin, these have dangerously high doses of B vitamins (especially B12). Your kidneys will thank you for avoiding this abuse.   I would do it, except for the cardio. Answer: I don't do cardio work. There is no need for it if you do supersets.
Many people decide they will train, if there's time at the end of the day. The problem is if training is not firmly scheduled, there will never be time at the end of the day. I train very early in the day. I used to train late in the day after work, but that was at a scheduled time. Not if I had time. At a specific time. Perhaps the most common barrier is not understanding the nature of training at all. A common  misunderstanding is that training consists of moving a lot of weight around for 60 to 90 minutes. Preferably while carrying around a towel and water bottle. People who start with this idea soon quit, because it's exhausting and time-consuming without producing any results other than achy joints. The main goal of training is to stimulate the adaptive response. You can do that without using much weight at all. In my own case, I use five sessions of 20 to 30 minutes each week. That's it, no marathon sessions. But it's highly structured and I am very strict on form. Another goal of training is to develop functional strength through a given joint's full range of motion. I don't toss weights around or try to set records for my one rep max. For example, I use a 10lb dumbbell for a type of biceps curl you almost never see anyone do. It's the full extension curl, there's no way a mortal can do it with a heavy weight. But it is very productive and I have the arms to prove it (see photos). So: Decide that you will train consistently per a schedule. Make the schedule and just get started. Develop a training program that stimulates the adaptive response while developing functional strength. If you don't know how to do this, find someone whose physique shows that understanding and ask for advice. A good resource is https://athleanx.com/. This channel is very popular among bodybuilders and climbers. When out in public, look around at the people who clearly have not trained and are now paying for it. You don't need more motivation than that. Stick with your decision.

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.

Under the "Democrats", the goal has been redistribution of wealth. Under the Republicans, it has been the creation of wealth.