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All Our Stars Out: On Finding Cheng
Guest Post by Margaret Anna Alice
“Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out, and for no other reason.”
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“Do you know what you will be asked when you die? … I’m so sure you’ll get asked only two questions. Were most of your stars out? Were you busy writing your heart out? If only you knew how easy it would be for you to say yes to both questions. If only you’d remember before ever you sit down to write that you’ve been a reader long before you were ever a writer. You simply fix that fact in your mind, then sit very still and ask yourself, as a reader, what piece of writing in all the world Buddy Glass would most want to read if he had his heart’s choice. The next step is terrible, but so simple I can hardly believe it as I write it. You just sit down shamelessly and write the thing yourself. I won’t even underline that. It’s too important to be underlined.”
—Seymour, J.D. Salinger’s Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour, an Introduction (Kindle, hardcover, paperback, mass market paperback)
J.D. Salinger was my favorite author while I was in high school. I read everything ever published by him, including short stories only available in periodicals I tracked down and photocopied at the library.
These 2 Persistent Trends Undermine Your Financial Stability
From Peter Reagan for Birch Gold Group
There’s no doubt, if your retirement savings aren’t built on a stable foundation, your retirement income could erode even during “normal times.”
In a recent article on retirement planning, Joe F. Schmitz took to Kiplinger to suggest a retirement strategy to address this concern. Schmitz advises:
When building a retirement plan, consider implementing a five-pillar approach that includes taxes, investments, income, health care and estate planning.
These read a lot like common sense pieces of advice that every person should consider to increase the chances their golden years are financially secure. It’s worth a read!
Here’s the problem: There are two persistent forces that corrode those pillars, constantly threatening to undermine your stable foundation.
Let’s take a look…
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Trump Not Sending His Best
Guest Post by Ann Coulter
Picture your ideal Republican candidate. Would they look something like this?
1. An “anchor baby” (technically, “illegal immigrant”);
2. Parents were illegal aliens from Syria, who avoided being deported only because of their “American citizen” anchor baby, i.e. “the candidate”;
3. Father indicted for firebombing a synagogue (charges dropped when co-conspirators refused to testify against him);
4. Supported Sen. Marco Rubio’s amnesty;
5. Was thrilled that President George W. Bush gave a speech at a mosque on 9/11;
6. Constantly demands that Americans become entangled in foreign conflicts having nothing to do with our country;
7. Has been driven to a cursing rage at me for mentioning that immigrants commit a lot of crime.
After Four Years and Thirty Million Deaths
Submitted by Paul S.
Guest Post by Ron Unz
The global Covid epidemic began more than four years ago, and although its visibility has largely faded over the last couple of years, displaced in the headlines by Russia’s Ukraine war and the more recent Israel-Gaza conflict, its lingering impact has been enormous.
Since 2020 The Economist has maintained the most authoritative account of the human toll and by its reckoning, the total number of “excess deaths” worldwide has nearly reached thirty million, while many billions more had their lives greatly disrupted by the lockdowns and economic dislocations. Our own country certainly suffered from these same factors, with well over a million American deaths, and the massive government spending used to avert an economic collapse raised our debt by more than $10 trillion, an increase of roughly 50% over just the last few years.
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Don’t Let The Bastards Get You Down!
Don’t Let The Bastards Get You Down!
Guest Post by Dennis Miller at Miller On The Money
Baby Boomers remember Abbott & Costello’s, famous comedy skit, “Who’s on first?”
Grunge.com explains:
“Lou Costello,…appeared lively and fun in his comedy bits, but behind the laughter was a life marred by tragedy.
…. Despite this success,…(he) experienced a darker side of life.
In November 1943, Costello had just returned from a six-month absence from TV. He had been sidelined with rheumatic fever after touring…different army bases. He arrived at the NBC studios…and received the worst news imaginable for a father — his son had died.
Stagflation Shock: GDP Stuns With Lowest Print In 2 Years, Below Lowest Estimates, As PCE Comes In Red Hot
If the Biden admin was to have any hopes of the Fed cutting rates and monetary easing ahead of the election, the tires would need to start falling off the US economy right… about… now… Which is why we didn’t find it at all surprising that moments ago the Biden Bureau of Economic Analysis reported that in Q1, US GDP unexpectedly collapsed to just 1.6%, down more than 50% from the Q4 print of 3.4%, the lowest print since Q2 2022 when the US underwent a brief technical recession (one which the NBER never admitted of course), and a huge miss to the 1.6% estimate.
Almost as if on purpose, the GDP printed below the lowest estimate (that of SMBC Nikko) which was at 1.7% (the highest forecast was 3.1% from Goldman Sachs which was off by the usual 50%), and was a 3-sigma miss to estimates.
The Barbarians Are Inside The Gate
THE LONG PLANNED & HIGHLY
ORGANIZED COMMUNIST PLOT
TO TAKE OVER THE AMERICAN
REPUBLIC PROCEEDS WITH ALL
DELIBERATE SPEED
JOE BIDEN:
A Zionist Puppet and Jesuit Agent
Criminally Installed as POTUS
to Destroy America
First, some essential history:
Who’s really in charge—the Jews or the Jesuits?
Or, is it the Jewsuits?
Submitted by Revisionist Historians for World Peace
The Millennium Report
This debate has been raging on the Internet for years … by purposeful design of course.
In nearly every single debate, the Jesuits seem to win the day … by quite purposeful design.
The truth is really very simple.
US sided with evil and fascism
Washington is sacrificing lives of Ukrainians ‘for the sake of its greedy and insatiable defense industry,’ Moscow’s ambassador has said
The US government has made its choice in favor of war, siding with evil and supporting fascism, the Russian ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov has said. He was referring to the latest American military aid package for Ukraine, signed by President Biden, which grants Kiev a fresh $61 billion war chest.
Biden said the US would start sending weapons and military equipment to Ukraine “in the next few hours.”
Musk concurs that civil war looming in West
NEW YORK, April 24. /TASS/. US entrepreneur and one of the world’s wealthiest people Elon Musk has asserted that a civil war will break out in the West over the situation around migrants.
“War will come whether we want it or not,” he wrote on the X social network commenting on remarks by Gad Saad, a Canadian professor of Lebanese origin, who insisted that “the path that the West is taking will result in civil war.”
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THE FALL OF THE CABAL
AND…..isn't it odd that the creator of that series, Janet Ossebard, was found dead after she was missing for weeks, of suicide.
— SHELLY KRAUS (@ShellyKraus757) April 24, 2024
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NO CAUSE FOR CONCERN: JUST LET IN A FEW MILLION MORE THIRD WORLD SAVAGES
US Births Alarmingly Slide To Lowest Level Since 1979, Failing To Exceed Replacement Rate Since Before GFC
“There are certainly some big risks that humanity faces. Population collapse is a really big deal, but I wish more people would think about…the birth rate is far below what’s needed to sustain civilization at its current level,” Elon Musk explained in a recent interview posted on X.
Elon Musk: “There are certainly some big risks that humanity faces. Population collapse is a really big deal, but I wish more people would think about…the birth rate is far below what’s needed to sustain civilization at its current level. We need to take action on climate… pic.twitter.com/GDoSfVJr1H
— Camus (@newstart_2024) April 16, 2024
Musk wrote in a post on X early last week, “Any nation with a birth rate below replacement will eventually cease to exist.”
Any nation with a birth rate below replacement will eventually cease to exist
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 15, 2024
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Will Jewish Voters Stop Voting For The Democrats Who Want To Kill Them?
Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
Jewish Americans are going to have to make a decision – the famously Democrat-leaning minority has a big problem because many of its fellow Democrats want them dead. That’s not an exaggeration – the chant of the Democrat’s left wing is not, “From the river to the sea, the Chosen People should be happy, safe, and free.” Kind of the exact opposite. These scumbag commies are so promiscuous with lies about the Jewish people like “apartheid” and “genocide” they ought to hand out rhetorical condoms on the many college quads these loathsome heirs of the Nazis have infested.
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‘A Dangerous Vaccine for a Nothing Disease’: U.S. Stockpiling Bird Flu Vaccines
Guest Post by
As bird flu outbreaks spread among birds and mammals, the U.S. government says it has three FDA-approved H5N1 vaccines in its stockpile. However, experts questioned the effectiveness against current strains and raised concerns about potential side effects.
With the recent spread of H5N1 bird flu to dairy cows in eight states — and the infection of a Texas dairy worker marking the second known human case in the country — public health officials are raising concerns over the adequacy and safety of stockpiled vaccines meant to protect against a potential pandemic, according to Barron’s.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) maintains bird flu is a low risk to humans — the infected dairy worker only contracted a case of conjunctivitis (pink eye) — and that there is currently no known mechanism for human-to-human transmission.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), avian flu is responsible for 463 deaths worldwide over the past 20 years. The CDC reports only two U.S. cases of bird flu, and both were mild. No Americans have died from the virus.
Still, government agencies and Big Pharma manufacturers are building their capacity for bird flu vaccine production.
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Should Donald Trump refuse to participate in his show trial in Manhattan?
Guest Post by Alex Berenson
I’m serious. Democratic prosecutors in New York are bringing a fundamentally corrupt case against Trump. Maybe he needs to stop legitimizing his tormentors.
The Manhattan prosecution of Donald Trump is an embarrassment to the American justice system.
Like Trump or dislike him (and as you know, I dislike him), he is neck-and-neck with Joe Biden in the 2024 Presidential election. Trying the leader of the opposition party on criminal charges is no small matter in a democracy. It should be reserved for very serious crimes – espionage, for example – with irrefutable evidence.
As I wrote Monday, this indictment is the opposite.
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