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“81%” We’re in deep doo doo!

That’s good to know. As they get better at it and who knows what technology they can discover by then and beyond and hopefully get it to places around the world that need it maybe make it more affordable and reliable unlike what they have now and government supplemented for some kinda trade for the poorest. If they could focus more on the good of the world instead of evil and endless wars.

I took a poll, one of the question asked whether Microsoft News was trustworthy.

81% of the respondents said yes, they were either somewhat or very trustworthy.

I say 100% of there news is slanted left and always anti-Trump.

You all are so lucky to have me here. What other psycho would talk to himself all day long in public?

They have made significant headway on the Small Modular Reactors, the first one will be built at the Idaho National Lab. They are also in the process mostly of developing a mini reactor that is roughly the size of a home generator-mostly for military resupply activity. I expect these technologies to be in use by 2030.

Your friend might do better getting a small freezer make ice and put it in a good cooler that can last days. The ice will freeze faster if he puts half the water in ice trays instead of all and just stack them then put them in plastic bags.
Use solar with battery packs too.
I don’t know why they can’t make smaller nuclear facilities like mini ones scattered about away from people to provide electricity to these places other than getting the kind of people that could run them to live there.
Still it’s the price to the people that some still can’t afford it. Some places like Africa, the Amazon, they don’t even use money to live. I got invited to study in the Amazon for a summer and would like to go and would if headed straight to the tribes medicine men to learn their way but I couldn’t go.

What’s that about?

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Unfortunately, I can not only imagine it…. it has already happened to JFK and others.  I worry about Trump and hope he complies with all the security he can muster.  The deep state has tried everything else to eliminate him, and I fear the ‘wetware’ hunters may be their last resort.

I have a ham radio friend that lives part time in Hilo, and part time down in Micronesia where he has a house on Yap island.  He’s a government telecom consultant there that set up shortwave radio communications at the schools on the scattered islands of the region.  Yap has a population of 11,000 and electricity is provided by diesel generators.   Cost is about $1.20 per kilowatt-hour.  Most cannot afford electricity.  He has a small half size refrigerator that he only plugs in when absolutely necessary if he has food to keep.  He says it will eat his wallet faster than he can eat the food.

Heck, even here in the jungles of Hawaii island maybe half the ‘homes’ are off-grid with catchment water supply.

That’s quite a story! Having something like that happen is sure to give someone a different outlook on life.

” It’s only a cartoon until it isn’t.” Sobering thought. Can we imagine the like happening is the good ole USA?

That brings up a subject of electricity. There’s people over there that still don’t use electricity. Not just there either and they want to go cashless.
Back in the 90s they had a big volcano go off. I called to make sure my girl over there was okay but luckily she wasn’t in harms way.
Years later I mentioned that volcano to a Filipino nurse I worked with. She told me a funny story. She was one of the nurses in charge like paramedics here of treating people. There were people in the mountains who would come down during the volcano she would monitor. They weren’t all compliant with their medicine they were to take at noon. Their reason they told her was because they tell time by the sun and with the volcano there’s no sun.
There’s like a billion people who still live without electricity and they want to cashless.
I wonder if we’re doing them a favor getting these people electricity and how are they going to afford it? They may be the only ones who could survive a wcs.

That was a very close call. They treated the Filipinos horribly. They took a bunch of them and put them on a sub and pulled out to the ocean to shark infested waters then dived leaving them in water. Just cruel things. My grandfather was over there. He said the locals would ask to borrow their weapons but he didn’t let them. And unfortunately you couldn’t trust anyone. You didn’t know who was your enemy or not. That’s where they hid the bomb and assembled it.
I was sponsor for a little girl in the Philippines, she was a great kid. I picked a girl because they had to pay to go to school so figured the boys got the priority, Then came asking for extra things like pots and pans because they only had one pot for cooking and they had to boil water before drinking. Wanting more money on some holidays like Easter than I was spending and think exchange rate on top of it. The the father kept having more kids he couldn’t afford. I finally gave up sending money as I only had two kids left to support and becoming a widow supporting myself out of three one already on his own at 18 by then and this guy had 7 kids so far he couldn’t support. If I could if afforded more I would if had my own baseball team but couldn’t. I told her what ever happens its not her fault. I made sure another was taking over.

I knew a filipino gent here, patriarch of a large family with six children.  After Papa retired, some family would ask him if he wanted to travel to the Philippines to visit his boyhood home.  Papa always answered ‘No.  Too many bad memories back there’.  One day I pressed him and asked ‘Why?’.

1945 Papa was 14 years old.  The war was on, and the Japanese invaded the Philippines.  Papa and his father were captured by the Japanese soldiers who were rounding up the men & boys who might give them trouble.  They were taken to prison camp where the Japanese were executing them… hanging from a flagpole so as to not waste bullets.  Papa found himself in a lineup of prisoners, watching as his neighbors and friends in front of him in line were hung.  Can you imagine this at 14 years old??

Papa was about number five in line to be hung when a miracle happened.  American planes began bombing the camp.  Guards ran and filipino prisoners scattered.   Papa and his father ran into the jungle and hid for five days, not coming out until they spotted someone they knew.  They were reunited with family and shortly after that the entire family was taken to America… to Hawaii to work the sugar plantations here.  Papa lived to 91.   He became a citizen and served in the Korean war.  We buried him with full military honors and a 21 gun salute.  A survivor prisoner of war.

The cartoon reminded me of that.  It’s only a cartoon until it isn’t.

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Unfortunately, I bought a little presale. 🙂

Bitcoin down $800, it could be worse.

Agree. I don’t see how we can let it stand, but it will take some strong people in gov’t. to change it.

I predict that Joe Manchin will change to Republican bfore the year is out. He is the least favorite Senator in America and that’s tough to be with all the competition.

maddog – no doubt it’s the scum. I’d say this could be a lot worse today, and maybe it will be. 3 points on the HUI isn’t that big of a deal. Unfortunately, the juniors aren’t fairing quite as well.

If we’re to have a chance at a comeback, they better get it started pretty soon.

while Gold is down $ 30…

It’s doubtful if any of our politicians can avert some serious blows to our living standards in the future … having said that if one side is habitually cheating in the elections that will be a real death blow to our system. Civil war becomes a possibility.

Interesting about the young Republicans in FLA endorsing Trump …

$182.50 still in play. I’d hope we’d make another stand there, and 250 HUI.

James Kunstler comments on RFK,Jr’s run for the Presidency.

Which, IMO, if he is successful, would really raise the quality of the debates and the race.

Anyhow,

Bobby Steps Up

I suspect the TPTB knows this (except maybe Uncle Joe and his idiot press secretary) and the order of the day is to destroy the economy and make us like Europe. Hopefully the Republican House can stem the tide for a while until we get rid of Biden, fortunately we have young strong Republicans fighting the good fight and keeping McCarthy’s feet to the fire.

What will we do if another Democrat, Biden or otherwise cheat in the 2024 Presidential?

Until that gets resolved, we will never have a legitimate gov’t. I just haven’t seen them do anything to stop it. Plus, corrupt judges back the B.S. that goes on and let it continue. I have to wonder just how much this Biden crowd has turned off even Democrats. In a free and fair election, Trump or DiSantis mop the floor with him, but anymore of these drop and rolls, and we’ll never win another election.

OK, that was therapeutic. Time to hit the gym. Bring us back while I’m gone. 🙂

One more thing, the young Republicans Congress people in Florida here have almost all endorsed Trump. I have a feeling that I have an officer buddy that worked with DiSantis when he advised Team One back in the early 2000’s, love the guy but I’m not sure he’ll get the support over Trump, especially if he’s awash in Bush money as is rumored, and they are involved in his campaign. He’ll never win if that comes out.

Bought some RGLD earlier @ $129 – I’m crazy, but that thing will turn early.

US govt debt has gone from $1.2 trillion to $31.4 trillion since 1980.

1980 Debt to GDP = 26%
2023 Debt to GDP = 123%
2040 Debt to GDP = ???

Anyone who thinks this path is sustainable is insane. pic.twitter.com/nP8xqnJygS

— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) April 21, 2023

my sentiments exactly. It feels like to me that the silver shorts in particular are being challenged, maybe even being forced to cover their mountain of shorts?

Long way to go yet but silver has already done one round trip today.

These markets for a long time….
Could be wrong, but it feels like the criminals are getting very desperate, and the raids are a terrific opportunity to pick up some nuggets!!!!

silver shares getting supportive.

You gotta be kidding me. I will say it’s nice to have a chance to make a comeback every day that we’re weak.

Here’s the culprit: