If it was still in print, I’d give ’em a gift certificate at Amazon….

Municipalities are condemning generations of kids to have teeth like British people……and bones that are not as strong as they could be….by stopping fluoridation of municipal drinking water.

Not one can say they have any evidence as to why they should be doing this.

All because some idiot thinks that low levels of Fluoride cause some kind of unspecified health issues….Despite there being no evidence that low levels have any effect, and despite the fact that since about 1950 people have been safely getting fluoride in their drinking water….and that any dentist will tell you that it makes for significantly stronger and denser teeth, and any osteopath will tell you that it makes for better bones. But somehow fluoride in drinking water in the 1950s on is linked to an increase in “autism” that happened in the late 70’s (But we thought it was food dyes and high-fructose corn syrup that caused autism last week….,remember?) …No one can show any evidence that the levels we use in the United States are anything but good for bones and teeth and have no detrimental effects otherwise. Not a single study. Not one. There have been a bunch of “things called studies” that were so poorly done that the data was useless, but nothing that can pass as a decent statistical study. It’s all anecdotal and fear.

But people, folks with zero science background, who couldn’t pass an 8th grade science class, who can’t use logic, think that low levels cause harm because some “studies” showing ingestion of fluoride at 5 times our municipal water amount may have some effect. But, stupidly, they can’t understand and won’t learn. That’s like thinking that all radiation is bad for you but you still go out in the sun. They drink water with chlorine in it, which is just as much a “poison” but have no issues with that….They are as lacking-in-logic as the Glowbal Warming folks…It’s more a religion that anything resembling logic or science. They don’t care what the truth is.  Will all the “believers” all move to Utah or to the counties in Florida that are stopping fluoridation? If they really believed what they say, they would….but they won’t.

The poster child of this is the now-secretary of HHS, a one time “environmental attorney” whose advice not to get the measles vaccination for your children has likely led to the death of 4 or 5 kids…this year. …whose advice is not worth the air he exhaled to speak it. He knows less than he thinks, uses no science in his evaluations but he meets his followers confirmation bias. Honestly he should be horsewhipped for the damage cause by his unscientific “advice”.

So now we get to do an experiment: Kids who get no fluoridation in their water…dental health vs whatever the current claim is for the negative effects of fluoridation. In about 10-15 years we will see….even though the evidence is already there to see from the past. And the kids will be harmed by the lack. Ask your dentist next time you go in for a checkup or cleaning. He or she will tell you that they can tell right away if you grew up with fluoridation or not by the condition of your teeth.

In Woke and Democrat/Liberal policies, Albuquerque is it….

Seems that crime is so out of control, what with drug use and homeless encampments and the crime and violence that they both bring, that they are mobilizing the National Guard to help the local 5-0 to bring it under control.

The democratic states largest (also heavily democratic) city has an illegal problem, a drug problem, a homeless problem and an overall crime problem….

Liberal and Woke policies are just not getting it done, are they?

up 8% in half a day. (and likely down again soon)

The market is easily spooked and even more easily led upwards.

Expect that in 120 days (or less) it will be at or above it’s previous highs.

I found lots of bargains before it skyrocketed though. Wish I had more money to invest…..

Expect a roller coaster for the next month or so.

Innit funny how the folks who have no clue are criticizing the pause on the tariffs as much as they criticized the tariffs themselves? Funny how they are always experts at whatever they comment upon. (and generally know nothing about aything)

At the end of it, the THREAT of tariffs caused nearly every country (except China) to come to the table, (one example) where before they would not. The rest of the world (again, except China (so far!)) has realized that they need the US market more than the US needs them and is willing to change their trade policies. and that, really, was the end goal.

“Life is too short to waste your time on people who do not respect, appreciate and value you”

“The successful man will profit from his mistakes, and try again a different way”

“If you don’t move forward, then you are always in the same place”

“If you don’t go after what you want, you will never have it. If you never ask, the answer is always “no”.

“It’s not that we live so short a time, but that we waste a lot of it”

”If you place your happiness in the hands of others, they own you”

“Often, people give more respect, love, and freedom to their pets than to those people they proclaim to love”

“Many people have lost a good partner because they listened to their toxic SINGLE friend’s advice….Don’t base your relationship decisions on the advice of people who don’t have to live with the results….stop taking relationship advice from people who have never had a successful relationship”

Where are the Epstein Flight Logs?

Where are the arrests?

Well?

How much longer are you gonna make us wait?

EU Offering Trump ‘Zero-for-Zero Tariffs for Industrial Goods’

“We stand ready to negotiate with the United States” (That is diplomat-speak for “We surrender”)

Hum, imagine that, now they wanna negotiate.

This includes cars, machinery and chemicals. They want Zero tariffs for their goods ….odd, they weren’t doing that before, were they?  Funny how some pushback and they fold. THEY NEED US MORE THAN WE NEED THEM, and they know it. 

They are realizing what losing the US as a customer will do.

9:2 this whole thing is over in a month, 6 weeks tops.

ETA: Israel too. Huh

ETA 2: And Japan too. Funny how that is happening.

Fuck. Yeah.

Its springtime, with spring rains, and, really oddly, there is (once again) “Historic Flooding” in parts of the country, just like last year and the year before and a few years before that…

It’s almost like a pattern: Low lying areas near rivers and streams get flooded when heavy spring rains happen.

I guarantee that every place that is flooded this year has been flooded in the recent past.

How much the tariffs are going to disrupt the REST of the world economy, then you need to educate yourself:

US produced goods have had, on average a 36% tariff in other countries…that’s an AVERAGE. Some higher, some lower some countries higher, some lower……but the average item manufactured here is the US and imported into any other country in the world starts out at a 36% disadvantage. (that is nearly 4 parts in 10 if you were educated in liberal-run public schools)

Reversing that will go a long way to helping the US sell what few products we still manufacture or produce here in the US. Even grain is often tariffed when it is sold to to other countries (unless, of course, it given as a gift to some poor country that can’t feed itself…) But if it is sold internationally, it is subject to a tariff…often near 100%.

Agricultural products, wines, other foodstuffs….all tariffed. But we don’t have similar tariffs on other products imported into the US from those same countries.

The screaming and crying is because those countries now realize how screwed THEY are going to be…China and much of Asia, and much of western Europe as well. Even if it is just reciprocal tariffs rather than punitive or protective tariffs.

The US is one of the largest, if not THE largest, customer for most of the world.  And they need us more than we need them. They lose in a trade war, and they know it. Combined, they cannot make up for the loss of the US market. And if there is a trade war, the only folks here in the US  that lose long term are those that import items to sell or parts made overseas….Which will be a short term inconvenience until they find domestic sources.  It won’t be painless, and some folks will be damaged, but the US, and the citizens of the US will come out ahead shortly.

At the end of it, the US will still be in a less than perfect position, but we were there already. (The imbalance of trade is another discussion for another day)…We will, for as long as Trump/MAGA reigns, be a whole lot LESS screwed (trade wise) than we have been for the past 40 Years or so. Not perfect, but much less bad.

The stock market has fallen father than it has in the past few days more than once…. several times in this century alone…and it always recovers even stronger a few weeks or months or  later. Don’t panic, you only lose money if you sell the stocks at a lower price. If you don’t sell, then you didn’t lose (or gain) anything. Stand fast and you will come out better than you were last month. If you don’t need the money, just wait.

I will soon be buying whatever stock and equities I can with whatever cash I can scrape up. It’d almost be worth it to have a mortgage again to buy up even more. I can make much more than 6.5 % this year in the market…I am seriously contemplating taking out a HELOC for that purpose…..the bargains are starting to be big.  I might even discount the Cessna 340 a bit just to sell it quicker…..

Stop listening to the message from the Media (and the DNC types).

Think for yourself.

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As of this posting, there are over 40 countries that (currently) have tariffs against US goods that have, oddly enough, contacted the US t “discuss” better trade agreements and reducing their tariffs against US made goods.  They are capitulating because they need us as market more than we need them. Without the US market, in many cases, their industries will collapse and workers will be laid off. At best their production will be cut in half or more and their economies will suffer greatly.

So they are talking, desperately, to head off the damage that their industry and economies will suffer.

It ain’t gonna fix everything, but this will go a LONG way towards that. The US will still be in position of getting screwed, but we will at least get dinner, drinks and a concert  first.