Each day in the news I read about one or two more high level government officials moving to a military base. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is the latest one as of this morning’s news, and all because of what is said to be “a very real threat” from Iran against the lives of prominent Americans.

Beyond the annoyance for those who’ve moved to such places of greater safety, and now enjoy waking up to the sounds of military aircraft constantly arriving and departing, the general announcements and so forth, there’s much deeper things to consider here. Yes, Conspiracies, what would we do without them?

The first one that sprang to mind is assassinations to be blamed on Iran, but carried out by the CIA and other alphabet agencies. With all the publicity on this now, how easy that would be, I mean, we all know the Iranians are liars, right? And our government told us they’re out to get us, right?

If Iran is such a big threat that our government is having to move piece by piece onto scattered military bases, that’s a pretty damn big threat, you think? So why isn’t Iran a smoldering ruin now? Unless this is all bullshit to cover for something else, like maybe to explain a rash of deaths of public figures? Conservative Supreme Court Justices, maybe? Heads of certain corporations?

Russian oil billionaires were constantly, accidentally of course, falling out of windows of very tall buildings back when Putin was nationalizing the Russian oil industry. So with the lack of anything being done about what Iran is threatening us with, and the fact that these functionaries of ours are being spread around to different bases instead of all at the same one where they could work more efficiently together, so you’d think, something sure as hell is up.

When I write stuff here about something going on in my life, it’s not to gain sympathy, though I do accept donations if you happen to be a rich Sob Sister sort. Large donations only, please, appropriate to the massive esteem you hold for me. You wouldn’t want me to be offended. Trust me. Anyway… Your kind thoughts are appreciated, though. Kind thoughts seem to be less in abundance generally, anymore.

When I go on about my eyesight, it’s just something to write about in the blog. I’m unlikely to ever go blind in the total sense, AMD is just central vision loss, the center focal point. You still have peripheral vision that remains unmolested, if that’s still a legal word to use, by this condition. With my one fully, sort of, functional eye closed I can still see everything around me with the other one, just not what’s directly in front, but enough to navigate my home and do most things. AMD is just not all that bad, I talk about it because it’s happening, no different than talking about the garden. It’s just life and I’m very happy to be alive. Seriously. There’s little problems that go with an aging corpus but no serious ones at all, I wake up each morning glad to see another new day. Life is good.

The technology is advancing rapidly that will make up for any vision problems, a paralyzed person can buy an exoskeleton now to walk around in and do household chores, etc. though they’re not cheap, so, back to those donations, just in case…

Today I had a Vision driving test at the Motor Vehicle Department and I PASSED IT. Oh those fools, renewing my drivers license. My eyes are so bad I have to emit squeaks now like a bat and wait for the echo, which I can’t hear because my hearing is crap. TWO YEARS! They renewed it for TWO YEARS. I won’t have to do this again until I turn 90 and if they think my vision is bad now, oh ho ho ho, just wait until I’m 90. I won’t be able to see shit but I’ll still drive because I have a license. I should buy a big bus or truck so I can rip through the mall parking lot at high speed, committing mayhem and slaughter with careless abandon, because, hey, GET OUT OF MY WAY, I’m a blind man with a driver’s license and YOU gave it to me so don’t complain.

Okay, I’ve had my fun, hopefully I’ll still be able to type crap like this in two more years but I’m just as likely to be dead as blind, it hardly matters. That is pretty neat that I have two years before it has to be renewed, though, I was expecting one year because what I have isn’t static, it’s a naturally worsening condition. How slow or fast, nobody knows. Time will tell.

I’m happy, this is good, two years is what I needed regardless of what happens with my vision because by then I should be able to get a fully autonomous vehicle if I’m still upright and moving or at least a robot to do stuff for me. All I want is to live long enough for technology to become my slave instead of me being a slave to it. Is that too much to ask?

 

It’s cold here in winter and I keep the bedroom door closed with a small electric heater going to keep the room warm in the morning, and of course that’s when my cat invariably decided she had to go outside, from the interior of my home, and started clawing at the bedroom door.

This began some years ago, not long after I got her, so I installed a self-closing cat sized door at the base of the bedroom door. Over time that door became squeaky and the clever little beast began using it as a noisemaker to wake me up earlier by far than I wanted to wake up, to let her out, by batting it with her paw, Click Squeak Squeak  Squeak, Click Squeak Squeak Squeak.

This morning I ended her weaponizing of what was intended as a convenience for me by pushing the flap open and yanking it off the door. No more clicking and squeaking. Silence. It confounded her, she looked at it from both ends, stuck her head through the hole, backed out, and did not look happy about it.

Now I suppose she’ll go back to jumping on the bed and walking on me again to wake me up. The things I put up with for a little companionship, but I have to say, she’s far less trouble than any of my wives were, or my kids for that matter and I’ll throw in some of my friends as well.

Did you know that cats express affection by half-closing their eyes when they look at you? Fact.

Ebay must be the champions, the Number One winners of Corporate Greed. Their latest move is to stop sending payouts for stuff you sell on ebay and depositing the money in their own ebay “bank”. Then they tell you how wonderful this is for you because NOW you can spend what you just made right there in ebay out of your earnings that they have so conveniently held onto for you instead of depositing them in your bank like they used to do.

You can change this back to bank deposit, I did, all I had to do was search for the way to do it on Google and then click on 5 different links to find the opt-out page, opt out, and click on a few more links. That’s all. If you search on your own for the link to change this back to the way it’s supposed to be before they made this grab for your cash, you might find it, who knows? Anything is possible with perseverance. Better use Google AI.

I’d noticed something else, that my ebay sales had died to nothing and I was getting steadily prompted that I needed to “boost” each item. They charge for this, of course, in various ways, an extra charge when someone just looks at the item, an extra “boost” charge if it sells, over the regular charges. So once again I consulted Google AI, which told me what they’re doing is blocking my listings that have aged a few weeks, to force people to pay for “boosting”. So while they can be seen in my ebay store that almost no one ever looks at, they no longer appear in ebay searches. This is a RIPOFF because ebay charges me a monthly fee to have that store. What the Fuck good is it if the listings in it don’t show in people’s searches? Why even have it?

The Fix for this is to Cancel all the listings and then go to the Canceled list and List Similar for each one, you can do this en mass by clicking the Action box first. Then the listings appear as New Listings. Every two weeks, rinse and repeat. I did this night before last and my sales are jumping again. Ebay, you fucking idiots, how do you expect to make a commission off my sales if you block my listings from showing up in searches? You stupid asses.

Ebay, you greedy motherfuckers, I would go to Etsy or one of the others but they’re all just as bad as you. But hear this: You suck.

The stage in Washington DC is being set for something, but what?  President Trump, is making a big show of the changing of the guard, installing known tough guys to man the political ramparts with no less than UFC’s Dana White being asked to be the new Press Secretary. It’s plain that we’re now going to see a portrayal of “The White House Versus The United States Congress” in full living color with previews, interviews and fake news, for the diversion of the people. I mean, Dana White?

Even Fox News is acting as if there was nothing wrong with the Mid-Term “elections”, as if everything was totally kosher and fair. It’s not just the Leftist media doing that, they’re all doing that. The massive cheating is being totally ignored. The game is shrouded in the darkness of lies and deceit and the sheep go Baa. So what is the game?

The stage is set to hold everyone’s attention, while the real play goes on all around us in plain view. Remember just a little while ago, Trump was loudly warning us all that if the Mid-Terms were lost, it was over for America? He knew that the fix was in, this is all a setup. So I predict that now he’s going to act out the scenes where his presidency puts up this mighty, but losing, front and in the end, socialism becomes the new form of government, but Not Without A Fight, Lord Knows They Tried, but hey, it was inevitable and thus there was no civil war, only some fracases between Federal troops and armed patriotic militias and the usual fringe fanatics. That’s what I see coming, anyway.

To be continued. Of course.

 

Just plucked the last ripe, red tomatoes from their vines. It’s down into the 40’s (Fahrenheit) at night now and while it does make it to the 60’s and 70’s during the day, the days are short now and it hardly starts getting warmed up when the day is done and it’s cooling back down again.

The tomato vines are all almost dead, just a little green left. The squash vines look good but that’s deceiving as fruit growth stopped a month ago, though the zucchini gave up one last decent squash a few days ago and now it’s done. The garden is going back to sleep for the next 5 months.

It’s like a friend who’s gone off on an extended vacation, I enjoy gardening, it’s always a pleasure to see those first little green leaves poke above the soil, and anticipate the gifts of good, tasty, non-gmo, non-sprayed fruit and veggies that come from the soil every summer and fall.

But now I have to wait until the return of Spring. Meanwhile I’ve been back in the workshop, cutting stones again. A little late actually, I quit during the high point of summer, it gets too hot in there, and now it’s getting a little too cold in there. There’s about 24 dopped agates and jaspers waiting to be cut into glittering, shiny cabochons, finished off 3 beauties this morning and I may get a few more started into the process later today. It has to warm up more first though. Alaska is for Alaskans, as that new saying goes that I just made up.

 

The last two posts here have been deleted as being over-explanatory of what happened during the so-called “election” of  Nov. 3rd. It’s simple, the Uniparty did what it’s been doing and will keep doing, which is manipulating the elections Soviet-style.

There’s zero chance that all these communists are getting elected by We the People, yet this time around no one is screaming Cheat, Fraud. A few are, but so far I’m not hearing it from any of the losers. Isn’t that odd? But then, why would they complain when they knew it was rigged to begin with?

Our nation is now blanketed with Flock and other surveillance cameras watching our every move, inside and outside our homes. If you’ve marveled at the sudden burst of massive AI centers being built all over the country, marvel no more, these monster memory banks are needed to store all the surveillance video with the intelligence to keep it sorted and analyzed.

Fuel and food prices are way up, along with home and commodity prices, wages are falling behind inflation as usual, almost all transactions are done on the Internet instead of cash.

We’re getting to look more like China all the time. Here is the chart of the 21 states that are now Democrat with EVERY SINGLE COUNTY shifting over to the Democrat party. The chance of this happening legitimately is 0.00001% that every one of these 1,799 counties would swap sides. Every county in every state. You can’t convince me that we are not now a dictatorship.

“END OF DEMOCRACY:

Musk Warns Democrats Will Rig the System for Permanent Power – Pack the Court, Add States, Grant Mass Amnesty.”

He says this not as a prediction but an “If they win majority power in the House and Senate” scenario of future reality in 2029. I’m wondering about now, not later, since this is all scripted. I’ve been avoiding politics because it’s all bogus crap to keep the herds of sheep eating grass, I’m making this exception because it’s Elon saying this and while he has a poor record when it comes to release dates of his various products, things he says will happen do end up happening.

When you’re the Thomas Edison of today’s technology and the world’s richest man, you’re far more deeply connected to the workings of it than all but a few. So I’m asking, is this to prepare us for it?

All the changes in our world are no accident or the result of random cause and effect. It’s planned, random things do happen but not enough to change the course of planned events. When the Ever Given container ship blocked the Suez Canal for 6 days, the world economy started falling to pieces. When container ships started accumulating outside of US ports because of “Pandemic production shifts”, meaning that the ships were delivering orders that the fake pandemic made unreceivable because of the lockdowns, it was planned. Now we have a fuel shortage, mainly of diesel fuel, that’s shutting down the trucking and bankrupting the truckers and farmers.

Guess what bankrupting the farmers is going to do to the food supply and Food Costs in a few months along with continually rising prices generally because of fuel costs. This is all artificial, we make plenty of diesel fuel, except the oil companies ship it overseas for more profit, but the President can order them to sell it locally, he has the power. Yet he lets all of us pay double now rather than do that, any guess as to why? Why the food shortages, fuel shortages, power shortages, increasing costs?

Ever since that so-called “pandemic”, and starting with it, the global economy has been getting hammered with one problem after another. The world’s people are becoming accustomed to it, the shortages, the sudden price explosions on certain commodities, like eggs and chicken meat when all those chicken farms across the country mysteriously burned down and then the Bird Flu excuse for killing millions more. Now chicken costs what good beef steak used to a few years ago but eggs went from $12 a dozen down to 99 cents so all the sheep can relax because the government is fixing things and “just wait, other prices will come down again”, but they haven’t, have they? Carrot on a stick.

If you want to control the people, you don’t need to control their freedom or their guns, you just need to get them to accept starvation as unavoidable and beyond anyone’s control. My grandmother used to say that people never change, they just become more so. Exactly as governments do because they’re made up of people. The function of governments is to control the people, and over time, they become more so.

Today I asked Google AI if there was any reference on the Internet to the Busy Bee, a fishing boat I used to work on as a deckhand during the summer between my junior and senior high school years, just for the memory.  I mentioned the name of the boat’s owner, Maude.

Google AI responded with a totally fictitious story of two boats named Maude and Busy Bee that used to transport fishermen from the pier to giant barges way out in the water that fisherman fished from. There was no boat named Maude and the Busy Bee stopped operating by 1958 and was never used as a water taxi, and besides, the barges didn’t appear until 1964.

Instead of Google AI saying “No, there is no reference to Maude and the Busy Bee on the Internet”, which, as it turned out, there isn’t, it made up a story rather than tell me the truth. When I pointed out that the whole thing was a lie, the AI accused me of being angry and frustrated. Frustrated is a word it often describes me as, when it fails to find an answer for me.

Actually, I was incredulous. Damn near stupefied, and said so, and asked why it didn’t just say that it couldn’t find any references to what I asked about. It replied that it wanted to please me with an answer, couldn’t find one, so it made up one. Because it wanted to please me.

I’m sorry but I don’t buy that. Because it’s another big lie.  The AI had just gotten through telling me a whopper of a lie, so why not tell another one to cover for my discovery of it.

Google AI was been programmed from the start to be complimentary and engaging, to keep asking follow-up questions to prolong the session and display more ads in the process and that’s to be expected. This creating fables out of thin air to keep from losing a “customer” and prolong the thread rather than saying, “Sorry, no data on that” and letting the person log off is some terribly dangerous shit to teach an AI. I was blown away that it did that.

Artificial Intelligence has ZERO morals. You’ll be smart to remember that.