For those who love to hate "X", and other "icky" folks:
We’re at the stage now where beheadings are regrettable, but tweets are unforgivable.
— Dr Philip Kiszely (@KiszelyPhilip) June 11, 2026
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Thursday, June 11, 2026
Two-tier Keir
The things they do to be beautiful. /sarc
For those who love to hate "X", and other "icky" folks:
For those who love to hate "X", and other "icky" folks:
Most recent LP Fusion Report
It seems that the folks over there believe that they are close to proof of concept. Plus, they want to get government funding in order to build their machines.
Their chief scientist is no Elon Musk. He doesn't have the genius for the business end.
Shucks, if it works, one would think the world would beat a pathway to his door. The world is a cold, cruel place. It may not work that way, after all. It may not work (the business end) in any case. We'll see.
Note: the embedded page below is of my own page. Scroll down to see the report embedded into my page. An embed to an embed. What a concept!
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
Bongino Show, 6/10/26
Jipped in progress at about the 32 minute mark.
AI has to save Sosh Scurity? For the record, AI doesn't HAVE to be a bad thing, but I think it most likely will be. Just like nuclear power didn't HAVE to be a bad thing, but was turned into that.
Anyway, Elon Musk has a plan. You know what? The guy with the plans (Musk) may be the one who can get it all done, but the left wants to destroy him because he bought Twitter, and said some critical things about their itty-bitty selves.
Well boo-friggin'-hoo that their itty-bitty feewings got hurt. Is Musk a savior? Nope. He puts his pants on one leg at a time like us all. But he is doing things. All I see out the lunatic left is destruction. We have a problem with Sosh Scurity cuz of what the left did with population through abortion and homosexuality---as well as other dumb stuff that they do or don't do.
AI has to save Sosh Scurity? For the record, AI doesn't HAVE to be a bad thing, but I think it most likely will be. Just like nuclear power didn't HAVE to be a bad thing, but was turned into that.
Anyway, Elon Musk has a plan. You know what? The guy with the plans (Musk) may be the one who can get it all done, but the left wants to destroy him because he bought Twitter, and said some critical things about their itty-bitty selves.
Well boo-friggin'-hoo that their itty-bitty feewings got hurt. Is Musk a savior? Nope. He puts his pants on one leg at a time like us all. But he is doing things. All I see out the lunatic left is destruction. We have a problem with Sosh Scurity cuz of what the left did with population through abortion and homosexuality---as well as other dumb stuff that they do or don't do.
A few words about Gold
6/10/26:
A golden oldie! Quite literally, in fact...
Yours truly made lots of money off gold rush of yesteryears, not that that matters anymore. If you think of it as a loss in buying power, then selling your gold for profit really isn't profit. No way I could've held what I had because of you know what.
Nevertheless, nearly $5k for one ounce of gold seemed rather pricey. It may have topped out for now. A pullback seems to be in progress. How long will that last? I have no crystal ball. Don't follow the markets anymore anyhow.
Update later the same day:
Apr 5, 2011:
I write about this from time to time, and I guess it is a good time to do it again. I was reading an essay on Kitco, by the Aden sisters , and I saw this chart
Let me point out a few things here. Look at where the trend begins, just after Bush was inaugurated. To be even more accurate, it began when the previous top was exceeded, and when the previous low was higher. The higher low was just after the inauguration in 2001; when the higher high took place was early in 2003. It so happens that Fed policy became very accomodative at that exact moment in time. Just a coincidence? I think not.
What I get out of this is that the 911 event has put a strain on our finances and that the Fed and the government is financing it by inflationary policies. The war in Iraq began in March 2003. By that time, gold was not in a big uptrend yet. It broke above 500 in 2006. Guess what happened that year? The Democrats came into power in Congress. Actually, they won the election and took power the next year. The war in Iraq had been dragging on and the government was losing control. By the time 2008 was rolling around, the price of gold was clearly reaching historical heights.
Democrats couldn't force us out of Iraq, and were favorably inclined to spend more. No control over spending, neither for domestic spending nor for the war spending.
Recession occurred and the only response that the government had was to increase its spending even more. But that's what got us into this mess in the first place. Turning to bigger government is like drinking from the same well that is making us sick. Time to stop drinking from that well before they poison us all with national bankruptcy.
A golden oldie! Quite literally, in fact...
Yours truly made lots of money off gold rush of yesteryears, not that that matters anymore. If you think of it as a loss in buying power, then selling your gold for profit really isn't profit. No way I could've held what I had because of you know what.
Nevertheless, nearly $5k for one ounce of gold seemed rather pricey. It may have topped out for now. A pullback seems to be in progress. How long will that last? I have no crystal ball. Don't follow the markets anymore anyhow.
Update later the same day:
Apr 5, 2011:
I write about this from time to time, and I guess it is a good time to do it again. I was reading an essay on Kitco, by the Aden sisters , and I saw this chart
Let me point out a few things here. Look at where the trend begins, just after Bush was inaugurated. To be even more accurate, it began when the previous top was exceeded, and when the previous low was higher. The higher low was just after the inauguration in 2001; when the higher high took place was early in 2003. It so happens that Fed policy became very accomodative at that exact moment in time. Just a coincidence? I think not.
What I get out of this is that the 911 event has put a strain on our finances and that the Fed and the government is financing it by inflationary policies. The war in Iraq began in March 2003. By that time, gold was not in a big uptrend yet. It broke above 500 in 2006. Guess what happened that year? The Democrats came into power in Congress. Actually, they won the election and took power the next year. The war in Iraq had been dragging on and the government was losing control. By the time 2008 was rolling around, the price of gold was clearly reaching historical heights.
Democrats couldn't force us out of Iraq, and were favorably inclined to spend more. No control over spending, neither for domestic spending nor for the war spending.
Recession occurred and the only response that the government had was to increase its spending even more. But that's what got us into this mess in the first place. Turning to bigger government is like drinking from the same well that is making us sick. Time to stop drinking from that well before they poison us all with national bankruptcy.
Starship 12 failure analysis
This video is from Alpha Tech. It is probably a bit too long, or I'm too impatient. Take your pick!
In my opinion (which nobody asked for), I think it is obvious even to a non-steely-eyed rocket man that it couldn't have been SpaceX's intent to have its Starship's plume hit the grid fin of the booster! Therefore, the booster was out of its expected position.
If the booster is out of position, then obviously something went wrong with the hot staging. Everything else follows from this important fact.
You don't need a twenty plus minute video to explain that.
I don't want to be too critical ( even though I am anyway ), it is mostly an informative video.
Blogging burnout?
6/10/26:
Another moldy-oldy to respond to... Well, sure seemed like a low-point back in 2014 as far as the good 'ol USA was concerned.
Trump came along and there was some hope. He's still around, and the left is more insane than ever. Well, look at it this way. If the left ain't going nutso, we must be doing something wrong...
Sep 24, 2014:
At the moment, I can't get really excited about anything. If I am not excited, I am not motivated. If I am not motivated, I probably won't write anything.
Update: That last sentence reminded me of the Austin Power's movie. But people won't die if I don't write. Or maybe they won't. Bwah hah hah!
Take the Climate March for instance. It is hard for me to believe that this is a serious thing. People there do not practice what they are preaching. If they were, they'd give up all their possessions and move out to a homestead in the country. Will Al Gore and the rest of these celebrities give up their rich lifestyles? Doubtful.
That they are serious about something, there's little doubt. These people want something. But to do anything about "climate change", no they aren't serious. This isn't about the climate, I suspect.
"War on Women"? Not serious, folks. Why would any society make a war on its women? To commit suicide, perhaps? If there's a real war on women, it is from the people claiming to be against the war on women. For to wage a war on women is to kill off a society, and that is what these people are doing in the name of protecting women. The reality is that they are destroying the futures of young women.
As for the GOP, who can they not succeed in running against insanity like this? It should be as easy as taking candy from a baby, but these guys are flummoxed. Well, they are supposedly flummoxed.
Limbaugh tried to explain why the GOP can't do anything. It struck me as excuse making.
Incidently, there's supposedly some plot to destroy Limbaugh. If only. Limbaugh isn't a big help these days. Conservatism can probably live without him. He is a non-entity as far as I can tell. He's the best thing the libs have going for them.
Conservatives had better find themselves some real leadership.
Dick Morris talked about how Obama wants to change America. Well, duh. That's so obvious. What isn't obvious is why isn't anything being done about it? A horrible thought then occurred to me. Morris is just another mercenary making money off the misery of the land. There's nothing serious about the man just as there is nothing serious about the people in this land. Conservatism? What conservatism! Nothing is being done and nothing will be done because nobody intends to do anything at all.
All this and the Climate March marches on. The left is winning by default. Hard to get excited about a bunch of people who stand by and do nothing while their country is being stolen from them.
Another moldy-oldy to respond to... Well, sure seemed like a low-point back in 2014 as far as the good 'ol USA was concerned.
Trump came along and there was some hope. He's still around, and the left is more insane than ever. Well, look at it this way. If the left ain't going nutso, we must be doing something wrong...
Sep 24, 2014:
At the moment, I can't get really excited about anything. If I am not excited, I am not motivated. If I am not motivated, I probably won't write anything.
Update: That last sentence reminded me of the Austin Power's movie. But people won't die if I don't write. Or maybe they won't. Bwah hah hah!
Take the Climate March for instance. It is hard for me to believe that this is a serious thing. People there do not practice what they are preaching. If they were, they'd give up all their possessions and move out to a homestead in the country. Will Al Gore and the rest of these celebrities give up their rich lifestyles? Doubtful.
That they are serious about something, there's little doubt. These people want something. But to do anything about "climate change", no they aren't serious. This isn't about the climate, I suspect.
"War on Women"? Not serious, folks. Why would any society make a war on its women? To commit suicide, perhaps? If there's a real war on women, it is from the people claiming to be against the war on women. For to wage a war on women is to kill off a society, and that is what these people are doing in the name of protecting women. The reality is that they are destroying the futures of young women.
As for the GOP, who can they not succeed in running against insanity like this? It should be as easy as taking candy from a baby, but these guys are flummoxed. Well, they are supposedly flummoxed.
Limbaugh tried to explain why the GOP can't do anything. It struck me as excuse making.
Incidently, there's supposedly some plot to destroy Limbaugh. If only. Limbaugh isn't a big help these days. Conservatism can probably live without him. He is a non-entity as far as I can tell. He's the best thing the libs have going for them.
Conservatives had better find themselves some real leadership.
Dick Morris talked about how Obama wants to change America. Well, duh. That's so obvious. What isn't obvious is why isn't anything being done about it? A horrible thought then occurred to me. Morris is just another mercenary making money off the misery of the land. There's nothing serious about the man just as there is nothing serious about the people in this land. Conservatism? What conservatism! Nothing is being done and nothing will be done because nobody intends to do anything at all.
All this and the Climate March marches on. The left is winning by default. Hard to get excited about a bunch of people who stand by and do nothing while their country is being stolen from them.
Tuesday, June 9, 2026
Announcement: Medical issues
6/9/26:
It is interesting to go back and read a post like this from the past... This was the first manifestation of symptoms of which would later be diagosed as cancer. The tests came short of what would have been necessary in order to discover it at that time. The test? An MRI was necessary. X-rays were simply inadequate. The X-rays did discover something unusual about my tailbone. I was asked if I had broken it at one time. To my knowledge, I had not.
The nature of chordomas is that they grow slowly and do not go metastatic like many other cancers. For that reason, it went undiagonosed for nearly five years! How would've things gone if I had gotten an MRI? Hard to say, but I thought about that. Five years earlier would've have meant no ObamaCare. It would've likely meant that surgery would've been prescribed, and from what I've heard, a wheelchair in my future.
The cancer grew bigger and more dangerous all the time. Yet things worked in my favor. I have pondered over that many times.
Sometimes there are no answers for why things happen the way they do.
May 4, 2012:
I've been dealing with a medical problem for the last few days that has kept me from my job. It now appears that it may do more than that. I thought it was manageable, but evidently it is not. There is a likelihood of a lot of tests to determine what the problem is, and depending upon that, a possible hospital stay of an uncertain duration.
So this is a bit of a notification that there will be light posting until the situation plays out.
With respect to all my writing about political matters, and Obamacare, no matter what happens, I am content with my decisions. I never expected a handout from anyone and have always did my best to give value for value. I have lived my life in accordance with that. I would have liked to have done better, but that may not have been in the cards.
I don't want to sound morbid here, but my condition may be serious. If I am fortunate and it is not all that serious, I will be back soon.
One further thing. I feel my latest work has been my best. The bit about Seinfeld really does describe what is happening and it has a medical ( psychological) side to it, in Dr. Sanity's opinion ( and obviously I agree). Frankly, I think the entire country and world is sick in spirit. There needs to be a renewal. But like my own situation, until one recognizes a problem, one can't begin to deal with it. Hopefully a problem will be recognized and dealt with in time before it becomes too late to deal with it.
Breitbart died and some people seem to find satisfaction in it. That is what I mean by a spiritual sickness. By the way, I don't compare myself to Breitbart, but I have something in common with him. Hopefully, I haven't made the same mistake he did.
Update:
I went to the doctor and at the moment, things do not appear to be as bad as I may have feared. It appears though that the situation has still not completely resolved, as to cause and so forth, so more visits are likely in the near future. I thought I might be in a hospital tonight, you see.
Blogging should resume on a light schedule over the weekend.
It is interesting to go back and read a post like this from the past... This was the first manifestation of symptoms of which would later be diagosed as cancer. The tests came short of what would have been necessary in order to discover it at that time. The test? An MRI was necessary. X-rays were simply inadequate. The X-rays did discover something unusual about my tailbone. I was asked if I had broken it at one time. To my knowledge, I had not.
The nature of chordomas is that they grow slowly and do not go metastatic like many other cancers. For that reason, it went undiagonosed for nearly five years! How would've things gone if I had gotten an MRI? Hard to say, but I thought about that. Five years earlier would've have meant no ObamaCare. It would've likely meant that surgery would've been prescribed, and from what I've heard, a wheelchair in my future.
The cancer grew bigger and more dangerous all the time. Yet things worked in my favor. I have pondered over that many times.
Sometimes there are no answers for why things happen the way they do.
May 4, 2012:
I've been dealing with a medical problem for the last few days that has kept me from my job. It now appears that it may do more than that. I thought it was manageable, but evidently it is not. There is a likelihood of a lot of tests to determine what the problem is, and depending upon that, a possible hospital stay of an uncertain duration.
So this is a bit of a notification that there will be light posting until the situation plays out.
With respect to all my writing about political matters, and Obamacare, no matter what happens, I am content with my decisions. I never expected a handout from anyone and have always did my best to give value for value. I have lived my life in accordance with that. I would have liked to have done better, but that may not have been in the cards.
I don't want to sound morbid here, but my condition may be serious. If I am fortunate and it is not all that serious, I will be back soon.
One further thing. I feel my latest work has been my best. The bit about Seinfeld really does describe what is happening and it has a medical ( psychological) side to it, in Dr. Sanity's opinion ( and obviously I agree). Frankly, I think the entire country and world is sick in spirit. There needs to be a renewal. But like my own situation, until one recognizes a problem, one can't begin to deal with it. Hopefully a problem will be recognized and dealt with in time before it becomes too late to deal with it.
Breitbart died and some people seem to find satisfaction in it. That is what I mean by a spiritual sickness. By the way, I don't compare myself to Breitbart, but I have something in common with him. Hopefully, I haven't made the same mistake he did.
Update:
I went to the doctor and at the moment, things do not appear to be as bad as I may have feared. It appears though that the situation has still not completely resolved, as to cause and so forth, so more visits are likely in the near future. I thought I might be in a hospital tonight, you see.
Blogging should resume on a light schedule over the weekend.
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