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1. Good News: Where the Intel is Good
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Evil
Good
- Deranged haters posting deranged and hateful comments
celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk are finding out their
companies aren't woke and don't tolerate such insanity. And it's not
just private companies firing these nutjobs; universities and even
leftwing media are firing them. So are government agencies at the
federal, state, county, and municipal level. How far we have come
from the moral cesspool that defined the Biden era.
- Airlines have been firing pilots who post or make deranged
comments celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk. This is a public
safety measure. Anyone who is mentally unstable enough to join the
hate cult and be open about it could just as easily decide to fly
the plane into a building.
- From The Capitalist, 19SEP2025: "In a striking bipartisan nod to
conservative activism, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a
resolution Thursday declaring Oct. 14, 2025—Charlie Kirk's
birthday—as the National Day of Remembrance, urging Americans to
celebrate his fervent push for civic education, faith-driven liberty
and robust public discourse."
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RIP, Robert Redford
He died at age 89, so he had a long life. He was remarkably fit
in his old age and was handsome up to the end. Redford was a liberal, but not a
libtard. I always enjoyed listening to him on those rare occasions he would
share his views on politics or the environment. Any time a movie billed Redford,
I made a point of watching it because I knew he would never make a bad movie.
Rate Cuts
The Fed has finally done it. The long overdue rate cut is here,
and it's the quarter point I have been predicting. More cuts will follow. The
official narrative surrounding the Federal Funds Rate is the Fed increases them
to "fight inflation" and reduced them to "stimulate the economy". That is not
the reality.
First, inflation exists if the growth in the supply of money
exceeds the growth in the value of the basket of goods and services. That's
because each additional dollar waters down the value of the others. A problem in
determining inflation is we use dollars to determine the value of goods and
services. But we know that the Fed either "prints money" or sells bonds to cover
the spending deficits. Bonds are poor investments and we can assume the market
for them is fairly fixed; that is, only so many buyers of bonds and only so much
money spent on them. Which leaves "printing money". So when the commies ran
trillion dollar deficits year after year, we could do a few calculations to
infer the inflation rate. For example, in the two years ending August 2023, the
supply of money increased 83%. We know at the same time there was a sharp
contraction in the output of goods (remember all those bare shelves?) and of
services as well. So inflation for those two years exceeded 100%. The Federal
Funds Rate had nothing do do with this.
Second, lowering the rate enables the federal government to make
lower interest payments. This means that mountain of debt, which is now about
the same as our GDP, can be paid down faster. With the Trump administration
running budget surpluses month after month, there's no new deficit to cover via
inflating the money supply.
Rate cuts are:
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Not going to "overheat" the economy, they will help millions
of small businesses pay down their SBA loans, MCA loans, and other high-rate
loans they took during the Occupation. Similar effect for large businesses.
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Not going to reduce employment. The Fed positions this as
choosing between reducing employment via a cut and fighting inflation via an
increase. Reducing the rate increases employment and reduces inflation.
Increasing the rate does mean the bonds are more attractive and if bond
demand were linear with the rates then increasing the rate would mean less
need to inflate the money supply. But there's a limited pool bond buyers so
at some point a rate increase produces no additional bond purchases and is
purely inflationary.
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What we need to reduce the amount spent on interest on the
debt. That amount is currently more than we spend on "Defense".
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Economically necessary, politically stymied. Given the facts
on rate cuts, why has the rate not been cut every quarter since Liberation
Day? Answer: Trump Derangement Syndrome, combined with a slavish devotion to
the oligarchs, combined with a complete lack of both character and love of
country. When Trump fired one such mentally ill person, she took him to
court and the commies are making a lot of noise about that. These people,
however, have violated fiduciary responsibility to an egregious extent.
Russia Hoax
Here's a good article on this criminal conspiracy:
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/the-significance-of-the-recently-released-russia-hoax-documents.
Why is Hillary not serving time for this, along with the other perpetrators? We
need one Justice System, not one for us and then a toothless one for the worst
examples of humanity.
The Wages of ....
Just as "The wages of sin is death," the wages of communism is
poverty. To wit, the People's Republic of California is now tied with Louisiana
for the highest poverty rate in the country despite the fact that Louisiana has
always been poor due to factors that don't affect the PRoC. Before it went
commie, California had the lowest poverty rate of any state in the union. Now
the PRoC acts as if it's not even in the union and is a cesspool of poverty.
There is a big cause and effect relationship in this one.
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All of the items below are related to the Charlie Kirk murder. It's
more of a montage than a rehash, I chose items carefully to avoid "me
too" and copycatting. I have my own thoughts on this also, but long-time
readers could probably write those out without reading them from me. Democrat Party Motto
"If you can't win through debate, then resort to hate". We have
tolerated their abuse and violence for far too long. No more politely taking it,
call them out on it. Ask them if they can offer any rational argument, instead
of defaulting to hate. They can't so they won't. But at least they will know
that we know, and perhaps they will see hate-mongering as a losing game.
Observations from Senator Mike Collins
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Assaulting ICE is NOT a winning issue.
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Shooting at law enforcement isn’t a “peaceful protest.”
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Shielding human traffickers isn’t “compassionate reform.”
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Radical trans activists storming schools while children are
praying is NOT “tolerance.”
Unprotected Speech
For too long, the authorities have allowed the communists and
other lefties to spew their message of hate and violence. It's a message spewed
with the clear intent of instigating violence and more violence. That is not
protected speech. Just as you cannot yell fire in a crowded theater (unless
there is a fire), you cannot engage in non-stop messaging that reliably produces
violence. Nor can you engage in crime diminishment speech by lying about things
afterwards; that is obstruction of justice and it is aiding and abetting. The
penalty for aiding and abetting can be as high as that for the original crime.
Charlie Kirk engaged communists, leftists, bigots, gas-lit kids,
and ignoramuses in polite debate (they were not always polite, but he was) in
public. By issuing the Fatwa on Charlie via their well-proven formula of spewing
lies to instigate a violent assault, the communists instigated a violent
assault. The ring leaders are as guilty of the murder as the imbecile who pulled
the trigger. At least a few of them should get the death penalty.
Update on "Right Wing" Violence Following Charlie Kirk's Murder
There hasn't been any.
This is par for conservatives, who reason
with people (as Charlie did) rather than kill them. The communists and other
lefties have shown their true colors by spewing even more of their hate. It's
their hate that is behind every one of the killings that made national news over
the past ten years. They are
too chicken to pull the trigger themselves, so they incite mentally unstable
people to do it for them. If they incite a mass riot that involves bombing
occupied police cars, they call it "peaceful protesting".
We need to continue to show our grace and our restraint,
invoking the Rule of Law rather than the madness the lefties invoke. And we need
to use the DOJ and its resources to identify, arrest, and indict the people
whose continued sedition almost killed Donald Trump and actually did kill
Charlie Kirk. See previous item. Share that thought with your two senators and
your House Representative. Sedition is a crime, and it should no longer be
tolerated out of a misplaced fear of more sedition. That fear is misplaced,
because those engaging in sedition never stop. They are sure they can get away
with it. Which means the authorities need to show them otherwise.
We also need to show our disapproval of leftie virtue-signaling.
Now I confront masktards with, "What's with the mask? Are you planning to rob
the place?" Lefties have no virtue, and we need to let them know that we know.
Update on "Right Wing" Prayer Following Charlie Kirk's Murder
In contrast to the leftist violence that follows whatever fake
trigger gets them going (such as George Floyd's suicide being misportrayed as a
murder by police), the reaction from people on the right following Charlie
Kirk's murder has been a spiritual awakening. Not just the prayer vigils and
such, but people coming out in large numbers to get involved in conservative
causes. People in the communist party need to be quoting a famous Japanese
Admiral, "We have awakened a sleeping giant".
People are also publicly committing to things like "living a
purposeful life", "serving others", "serving God", "rededicating my life to
living on the right path". But most amazing is how this murder has spurred
millions of young white male Christians to reject the feminization and
demonization of young white male Christians. Their voice has gone from
despondency and hopelessness to purpose, hope, and asserting their manliness. As
a demographic that has been quiet and retreating in the face of years and years
of being told by the leftwing system that they are toxic and useless, most are
now stepping up and being bold Christian men. And among young men who are not
Christians, something similar is happening.
In short, killing Charlie only made millions decide to be like
him. The commies made yet another strategic blunder. And they piled more
strategic blunders on top of that with their public response, which has been
repulsive in the extreme. They are spewing even more of the same hate that got
Charlie killed, and that cannot end well for them as a societal force. The age
of the mentally ill telling the rest of us what to do and what to think is over.
Update on Nutcase Nancy Following Charlie Kirk's Murder
In her September 12 newsletter, Nutcase has a section "Standing
with Veterans". In the accompanying photo, she is seated.
She concludes the
newsletter with a very short blurb, only two sentences, about the assassination
of Charlie Kirk. She refers to it as "gun violence". As if the
gun used by the deranged killer was the problem, not the killer who had become
deranged because of the non-stop hate campaign waged by Nancy Pelosi and her
fellow communists.
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Problem-solving is something I enjoy, do often, and am very good at. I know
quite a few people who can say the same thing, but I know even more who can't.
And they are the majority. If you solve the wrong problem, you are right where
you started. Minus the mental effort and use of resources expended. If you solve
a problem in a wrong way, you might create another even worse problem. Wrong
approaches are also less efficient than good ones, which is why some people can
labor for days over something that another person solves in a matter of minutes
(I have an example to share in a moment).
The first step to accurately, efficiently, and correctly solve a problem is
to identify exactly what it is.
Here is an example. In the 1980s, I was a contractor working on
instrumentation systems during a maintenance shutdown at a nuclear plant
(Calvert Cliffs) owned by Baltimore Gas & Electric. This plant would have
feedwater system trips that would result in a reactor shutdown at about $1
million a pop. Three times a year. This had been going on for several years. My
in-house supervisor pulled this folder out of the Unsolved Problems file and
handed it to me. "Take an afternoon and see if you have any ideas about why the
feedwater system is so unstable." I came back an hour later with the solution
and a set of marked-up drawings.
Previous problem-solving attempts had defined the problem as "feedwater
system instability". But the theory of operation behind the protection was
variance between the levels in the different feedwater tanks. It had to be no
more than a certain value. I forget now what that was. So I defined the problem
as a variance between the levels of the different feedwater tanks.
My next step was to determine what the reference was for those levels. The
drawings showed each level transmitter as being referenced to the grating upon
which the tank sits. This is fine if you care only about the one tank. But we
had multiple tanks.
I measured from the grating to the center line of each tank and found the
distances varied. So much that there was almost no room for normal fluctuations
among the tanks. Thus, the tripping. I redefined the problem again, this time as
"incorrect reference point". Solving this was simple. I recommended, very
strongly, to use the center of each tank as the reference for that tank's level
instrument. This eliminated a whole slew of variables. No surprise, this solved
the problem.
If you get the first step right, you often don't need a second step. The
solution simply shows itself.
But how often do we try to solve the wrong problem?
- It's not that you are overweight. It's that you eat too much processed
food. The solution is obvious.
- It's not that you don't make enough money. It's that you spend too much
money.
- It's not that other people don't find you interesting and thus avoid you
socially. It's that you don't show them they are interesting.
- It's not that your boss won't give you a promotion or raise, it's that
you have not taken the initiative to add enough value that he wants to
ensure you don't leave for a better job elsewhere.
- It's not that your repair bills are too often and too high, it's that
you haven't done the necessary maintenance.
Take any problem that has been bothering you, and redefine it. This isn't
very helpful advice on its face, though. Redefine how? Playing word games solves
problems? So here is some insight on that. Identify the apparent problem. Then
mull over what might cause that apparent problem. Why does this happen? Then ask
why THAT happens. Keep going until you have come to the end of potential causes.
Notice the sequence I used in solving the feedwater problem. The apparent
problem was system instability. But there was no instability in the system.
There was a measurement variance. What could cause such a variance? Only one
cause, using different points of reference.
In case you don't understand the reference issue, here's more about it. How
full is a cylindrical tank? Well, when the water is at the halfway mark
(centerline) of the tank, it is half-full. When calibrating the level
transmitter, you start there because no matter where the tank is sitting that
50% point will always be the same. You can go halfway up for 75% full and
halfway down for 25% full. But if you reference Tank A and Tank B to the grating
and their centers are 43 inches and 46 inches, respectively, from the grating
then you already have a variance of three inches.
Much of life is that way. We reference something that gives us an erroneous
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4. Finance tip
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After spending the previous four years sending us into an economic
depression via delusional economic policy, the communists are alarmed that the
majority of people see them as communists. So they are lamely trying to defend
their image with statements such as this one: "If you call Democrats communists,
then by the same logic Republicans are fascists."
Let's parse this out to show just how dishonest and idiotic this is. First of
all, communism is an economic system and fascism is a governmental style.
Communists are typically fascists because their economic system is so profoundly
negative in its results people don't want to stay under it. The communists are
also blatantly lying that President Trump is a fascist, to misdirect attention
from their own failed economic system and their brutal fascism that we
experienced during the Communist Occupation. By "brutal" I mean the violence
against dissenters, the deplatforming, the forced medical experimentation, the
debanking, and the other things they did to silence dissenters. This seemed
unstoppable until Elon Musk bought Twitter, and that one action moved mankind
back from the precipice of nuclear annihilation to a chance at a more free and
prosperous world led by a free and prosperous USA. None of this is hyperbole,
it's just reality being described without the sugar coating.
Let's define some terms:
1. Fascism. "
Extremely authoritarian, intolerant, or oppressive ideas or behavior"
In regard to Trump, none o these apply despite the communists' repeated and
baseless assertions:
a. Extremely
authoritarian. This is just total fiction. Compare his use of the power of
his office to broker peace, end corruption, reduce waste and abuse, and
enforce our civil liberties against Biden's many attacks on freedom such as
his "our patience is growing thin" statement and related efforts against
those who refused to consent to undergoing experimental medical treatments.
b. Intolerant. His
"big tent" approach to the 2024 election and governing since shows this to
be inapplicable.
c. Oppressive
ideas or behavior. Under Trump, the censorship of the Occupation ended. A
year ago, if you spoke "the truth, they come after you" (Ice Cube). Today,
we have First Amendment rights. That's the opposite of oppression. However,
the communists still have massive influence and if you speak out against the
forced sterilization of children that Nancy Pelosi is so fond of you have a
strong risk of being physically attacked.
2. Socialism. Under this system, the government controls the means of production
and distribution. We shifted sharply to this modus after the coup, it's not open
to debate as to whether that happened. And it was heralded as "progress".
3. Communism. Marx called socialism a transition phase to communism, which he
defined as socialism without property rights. This also was painfully obvious.
Three examples of communism (taking away property):
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During the two
years ending August of 2023, the money supply grew by 83%. At the same time,
the production of goods and services sharply contracted (remember all the
empty shelves?). So for those two years, we had >100% inflation. And
inflation is a tax (a taking by the government). In this particular case,
dollar-based assets lost 50% of their actual value.
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The communists
objected strongly to the One Big Beautiful Bill, which retained and
increased the huge standard deduction (to $15K), provided an additional
$6000 standard deduction for those 65 and older by claiming it was a tax
break for "Trump's billionaire buddies" that would increase taxes on the
poor and middle class. The facts are, as usual, not on the side of the
communists. What they proposed was going back to a tiny standard deduction
with no extra for seniors and retaining the tax on tips.
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The communists
also proposed an "unrealized capital gains" tax. This meant if you were 75
and on a fixed income but your home's appraised value increased you would
pay an additional tax on that amount. For many, this would force them to
sell their home to pay the tax. And they'd pay income tax on the proceeds of
that sale.
I
don't want to belabor this too much. I just wanted to quickly expose yet another
idiotic lie from the communists. Their economic system is the single biggest
risk to your financial security. Expose and oppose not just their lies, but
their dismal track record so that even the badly gas lighted can understand it's
in their own best interests to vote against "Democrats" consistently and not
just at the polls.
Remember, their economic system sprang from the sick mind of Karl Marx, an angry
academic who had never held a real job, risked his future on owning a business,
or even pondered human nature. In theory, it cannot possibly work to the good.
In practice, it has always been a spectacular failure. Lying about it doesn't
change the reality. No matter how many times you lie and no matter how unhinged
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5. Security tip
The brutal stabbing of Iryna Zarutska followed the next day by the
assassination of Charlie Kirk are not only related, they are from the root
cause. The leftist (communist) messaging after her death was it wasn't
racially motivated (even though her killer said, "I got the white bitch").
The leftist (communist) messaging after his death was that he was "divisive
and polarizing" (despite the fact he calmly took hostile questions from
people and treated them with respect) and initially that his killer was "a
supporter who fired off a gun in celebration".
If I told you that you are a sinner but God loves you anyhow and there is
hope for all of us, and pretty much everyone around you said this to you for
the whole time you were growing up, how would you turn out? Well, in the
past 100+ years, we have had exactly zero killings by people who were
messaged this way. This is a message of faith (in God), hope, and love.
Even if I told you there is no God and the world is a tough place that
nobody leaves alive, but if you conduct yourself with honor and integrity
and work hard you can have a good run and life that's worth living, how
would you turn out? Probably not too bad. You certainly wouldn't be inclined
to divert your energy into killing people, there's no honor or integrity in
that. This is a message of faith (in yourself) and hope.
But suppose I told you that you live in poverty not because of generations
of personal failure but because white people oppress you because of the
color of your skin. And I said there is nothing you can do about that, it's
systemic and you will never amount to anything or have anything. This is a
message of despair, and if you heard it day after day the despair would lead
to anger. We see this all the time, people who call themselves black and
have been gaslighted this way engage in passive aggressive behavior against
"white" people. And sometimes, it's not aggressive at all, someone gets
stabbed to death for no reason other than being "white". A corollary
message, "You're black so you can get away with it" is also continually
broadcast.
This is the messaging of the left, and is purpose is to subjugate people who
call themselves black; it is the worst kind of racism.
Now suppose I told you that a popular politician who was running on a
platform of fighting corruption and restoring civil liberty is "Hitler". And
suppose you kept hearing that message, along with other wild claims along
those lines. Lie after lie supporting the idea this man is the new Hitler.
You know Hitler was a very bad man. Suppose you are in your early 20s,
lacking full brain development (still a few years off for you) and are still
loaded with those teen hormones. Among other issues, you are insecure, prone
to fantasies, and a bit unstable mentally. You are also unstable financially
and in other ways. But you can redeem yourself and win adoration by killing
Hitler. If you got the messaging sent from Brainless Biden and the other
commies about how Trump is Hitler and maybe you even listened to the Cackler
blame Trump for the results of leftwing policies, what might you do if you
don't live very far from a certain place in Pennsylvania where he's going to
have a rally? This is what the commies were banking on.
Suppose a school counselor had told you in third grade that you were in the
wrong body, and then coconspirators gas lighted you and your parents for the
next ten years that this was the case. And they backed it up with viable
threats to make you a ward of the state if you didn't go along with it. So
you go through chemical castration and surgical mutilation while living a
lie that doesn't make you any happier. It diverts your energy away from
fulfilling your promise to playing this role. Then at 25 your brain matures
and you start regretting what was done to you. Time wears on, and you get
increasingly angry over it. This is why we have had a spate of "trans" mass
killings. Prior to the rise of this ideology and the mass induction of gas
lighted kids into it, there were zero such killings. I grew up in the 1960s,
zero. Every decade after that, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, zero trans
people going on killing sprees. But starting with the coup that put a
vegetable into the Oval Office, these sprees are the most common type. All
because of leftitst messaging.
The leftists (communists) spew a message of hatred, despair, and anger. It
incites not just the incivility they are so well known for, it also incites
violence. The commie leaders want to kill the people they disagree with,
namely those who believe in things such as faith, hope, love, integrity,
honor, and hard work. But to avoid prison, they incite others to do the
killing for them. We saw this with Pelosi's "peaceful protestors" who
committed millions of dollars of property damage and murdered police and
civilians in cold blood during the summer of 2020. We have seen it in many
other places, too. This messaging is exactly why south Chicago is a killing
field.
The people who do this messaging are never held accountable, even though
they are clearly accessories to murder. That is starting to change, with
some of these "liberal" judges being investigated and maybe arrested. But
generally, the DAs, judges, mayors, and governors who commit these acts have
total immunity.
Rather than wait on the government to solve this problem while more refugees
are stabbed and more "bridge building" conservatives are shot, we, as
regular people, need to move to fix it. Some tips:
- Don't act like a white liberal and patronize people of color to "prove"
you aren't racist. This merely proves you are.
- Keep those Christian values at the forefront of your life, even if you
aren't a Christian: love, hope, faith, honor, integrity, and hard work. Your
example speaks far more loudly than leftist lies do.
- Be fair to others, even if that means getting the short stick sometimes.
- Actively counter the leftist (communist) message. Those people live in
their own echo chambers. Charlie Kirk went to some of those chambers
(college campuses) to engage in dialog with these people. That's very
effective and it liberates their minds, which is why Charlie is dead now.
Let's make sure he didn't die in vain.
- Disagree firmly but respectfully.
- Disparage their "information" sources. CNN is the Communist News
Network, the New York Times has an accuracy rate of under 1%, and so on.
- Share your own positive message and explain (briefly) why it matters.
- Call out the negative messaging for what it is. State flatly that the
message is toxic and false. Back this assertion with a brief take-down of
one point. "Not to get into a debate about it, but for example...."
- Ask questions like, "What do you hope to accomplish by repeating such
absurdities?"
- Ask questions like, "Can you explain why communist-run cities are so
over-run with crime while those run by Republicans are not?
- Make statements like, "Did you know that Hitler was a socialist? That's
where the acronym Nazi comes from, National Socialist Party. Trump is no
socialist, Bernie Sanders is."
- Watch some videos of Charlie Kirk and note how he interacted with the
brainwashed. Learn from it.
Whether you are Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, agnostic, atheistic, or
some other persuasion that does not stem from Marxist ideology, you have a
set of core values based on a positive outlook and based on the idea that
you can make a positive difference. Karl Marx was an angry, delusional
man whose ideas have made hundreds of millions of people victims of his
angry, delusional followers.
A neighbor has boys between the ages of 7 and 12. I often tell them things
like:
- The world is full of mean people. Make sure that when you grow up, you
aren't one of them.
- Your dad is a good role model. You know that, right?
- Do what your mom says. She's a good mother.
- Study hard, work hard, smile often.
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6. Health tip/Fitness tips
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See
all of my climbing videos here:
https://tinyurl.com/ClimbingSigChannel. Some cool climbing videos:
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.
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I recently turned 65 (the photo above is recent), and I am bombarded with
solicitations that basically assume I am quickly moving toward immobility if
not there already. Also, I signed up for Medicare A&B because there is a
very strong "twist your arm" incentive to start on it right away. And thus,
I am bombarded with solicitations from "experts" and "advisors" trying to
sell me their rip-off Medicare Plan C products. They paint a picture of huge
medical costs besetting me any day now. My county publishes a very nice
magazine, and I am in the 50+ demographic so I get the content aimed at that
group. Nothing about climbing or martial arts (my two passions), of course.
What strikes me most about these activities is they are geared toward people
who have not been very active.
There is normal aging. There is premature aging. Then there is aging the
way I do it. The vast majority of people are in the middle group, sad to
say. "Normal" would be the actual norm if people simply did not eat
processed food. That is the number one ager.
To age normally, you are reasonably active. You don't mind shoveling
snow, mowing the lawn, weeding by hand, or engaging in other physical labor.
Maybe you play a little pick-up basketball or hit the gym sometimes. You
generally don't skip meals, and avoid overeating except at Thanksgiving or
when that chocolate cake comes around the table a second time. All minor
sins. You're not Zen-like, but you tend to stay fairly calm instead of being
frequently rattled by the latest "news". You've got a decent social life and
a sense of purpose for life in general. You are going to beat the average
age of death by quite a bit. And you will experience a decline in health and
mobility but it will be tolerable enough that you will remain independent
until your last year or three. That's normal. More or less.
The day I wrote this, I manually removed about 1500 lbs of dirt and rock
left out front by an AT&T contractor. I pushed wheelbarrow after wheelbarrow
up a steep hill and dumped it out a block from my home. And it was 94
degrees outside. I worked nonstop, didn't get out of breath, and barely
broke a sweat. This would have killed many a man far younger than I.
So how do you go beyond normal, so that you are not just mobile at 65 but
physically powerful with excellent balance and coordination? Where you can
go like the Energizer Bunny and outlast other athletes who are half your
age? Well, there's a lot to it. But here are 21 tips:
- Eat a diet almost exclusively of "super foods".
- Eat real foods, not fake foods. Butter is a real food, margarine is
a fake food.
- Eat enough. Many people under-eat and over-train, in a crash program
to "get fit". Instead of cutting carbs, ensure you have sufficient
energy by eating fruits, sweet potatoes, rice, etc. I have a high
calorie intake and eat "a lot" of carbs, but am (as you can see in the
photo) ripped. You need the carbs to do the training. What you don't
need is excess protein via big whey shakes (those do more harm than
good).
- Keep a consistent schedule for normal biological functions. Rise at
the same time each morning (more or less), eat all six meals at the same
six times daily, have a relaxing "shutdown" time before bed, and go to
bed at the same time each night.
- Have some flexibility with these, but don't sacrifice them.
- Take time to laugh. If it's getting late in the day and you haven't
had a laugh yet, go online to find cat videos or something. Or look at
pictures of clowns, such as Rosa DeLauro.
- Boycott Daylight Carnage Time, if at all possible. It's one of the
dumbest little things that people do, and they do it twice a year. If
you can't outright boycott it, then start adjusting by 10 minutes per
week six weeks away from the clock change time (or do something
similar).
- Schedule things, using an Outlook calendar or other device. This has
many benefits, most of which reduce stress.
- Keep a clean, uncluttered home.
- Design a rigorous physical training program, then implement it
faithfully. This is ambiguous as stated, most people grossly
underestimate "rigorous". The key is to stimulate the adaptive response,
not to check off the box, count reps, or just put in the time.
- Engage in regular physical activity that will cause you to use your
"mobility muscles", stabilizers, etc. Develop and maintain balance by
using balance. Everybody has a floor, try cleaning it by hand without
kneeling or bending over (hint: deep squat and duckwalk).
- Stretch daily. Do this with purpose, knowing which stretches you are
going to do and why.
- Don't over-stimulate to compensate for lack of sleep. Get caught up
on your sleep, instead. Many people are way over the safe limit for
caffeine. This is really hard on the adrenals, and it will age you
prematurely.
- Do things that stimulate your mind.
- Be interested in other people.
- Don't waste time and energy arguing with libtards or other mentally
absent, mentally ill people. It is more productive to simply spit into
the wind. Btu do engage in respectful conversation with people whose
outlook differs from yours. [Note that this is not possible with
libtards, as they hate diverse view and people who, like Charlie Kirk,
engage in respectful conversation].
- Say something nice to somebody at some point in the morning, before
you have lunch.
- Smile at strangers. People love being smiled at, and they smile
back. One benefit is the oxytocin release you both get.
- Stay away from prescription drugs. Nearly everybody my age is on
multiple prescription drugs. Do you know anybody who is on only one
prescription drug? Nope. And that's because these drugs have "side
effects" that require you to take yet another drug. Which also has side
effects. It typically starts with cholesterol. If your cholesterol is
too high, then fix the problem by eliminating seed oils from your diet
and also eliminating inflammatory non-foods such as wheat, corn, and
soy.
- Don't go nuts with supplements. If you're going to use any
supplement, then understand exactly what it does and take it only to
meet a certain goal. Generally, non-athletes don't need supplements; a
notable exception being D3. Magnesium might also be correct for you, but
get tested before taking it.
- Don't take multi-vitamin formulations. These contain vitamins and
minerals you are not deficient in if your diet is mostly superfoods. So
the are not necessary for "insurance". They contain megadoses, which
means extra strain on your kidneys and liver.
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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.
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7. Factoid
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The Democrat Party went solidly socialist (then communist)
when the illegal alien Barry Soetoro took office as POTUS following the 2008
"election" (which was rigged against John McCain). Since then, its core message,
oft-repeated, has been one of hate and despair. Also a blizzard of lies. |
8. Thought for the Day
A message of hate and despair has a predictable outcome of
hate and violence.
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