The summer doldrums (of seemingly endless political crap) seems to be coming to an end with a number of “actual” news items. Starting today with some…
Trade Figures
I know what you’re thinking – “Gee, I don’t remember the August figure being so high…”
Well, of course not. It was a hell of a lot lower:
I know (again) what you are thinking: “You telling me they come up with huge made up numbers and then ‘correct them; so the scope of our trade disaster isn’t clear?”
Me? Would I do something like that? So if they are saying August was $108.2 billion today but their own data last month said $78.8 billion…would that be a lie? In an election year? Naw…just the difference between an “advance” report and the later actual – even though it’s not clear in the first graphic..but let’s move along, I don’t have all day.
Beside this turned market futures up which – we’re pretty sure – is the whole point of the data…er…unclarity.
Markets Screaming Higher
Balloon looking for a prick (so to speak) as Japan was up almost another thousand points overnight. Between this and the price of gold it should be clear that the globalist game plan now is coordinated global hyperinflation pawned off as simple inflation. Nothing has fundamentally changed – and we do have some concerns about what will happen next week – which is Jobs Week starting with ADP on Wednesday, For now, the threat of going lower seems to be on hold, but IF the market were to decline today into the close, then lower ahead of jobs next week could be in the cards.
Gee, look at Bitcoin – only $5,000 to get back to July highs…
UN Globalists and Vaccinators Coming
Mostly hidden by the Mainstream this week is the UN Pact for the Future – without a vote which is totally BS – which gives the UN self-proclaimed power over, well, everyone. Sneaky bastards trying to take down autonomous nations.
ApotheCarol on X: “It’s happening. Are you ready? https://t.co/9NCtCNyFpo” / X
Only a bit over 3-minutes but important to follow this. Shows up elsewhere too (UN Adopts Ground-Breaking “Pact for the Future” ) but other than Glenn Beck and a few of the brighter bulbs, the Mainstream is glossing this over (because then CAN and DO).
Survey of Uselessivity
Storm time in Florida and uphill: Florida sheriff tells Helene victims to write their names on skin to he can ID bodies.
Another deem comes to her senses: Former Dem Rep Tulsi Gabbard Slams Harris On Foreign Policy, Declares Her ‘Unfit’ To Be Commander In Chief.
Jack Smith is up to his usual, we notice: JUST IN: Jack Smith Files Evidence Under Seal in Latest Attack Against President Trump. Why not put the evidence before the public?
Covering who’s fanny? US Marshals Are Hunting for Fani Willis’s Lover Boy.
And it may also be useful to read: Garland and FBI Wray destroyed child porn evidence from Ukraine that was to be planted on Trump. Gee, and what about the Hunter Laptop…huh? Wanna walk us all through that, or is that an unmentionable now that we’ve have a swap-out at the top out?
Around the Ranch: Personal Org Notes
The day is off to another Quick Start with tons of activities and a high level of ordering involved. I try to start every day by lining up all the ducks. To do that, I use a kanban tool (called Brisqi) and it looks like this:
The left column is where you select which “board” you want to work on. And from there, you move to the right and that’s the “kan ban” area. You use the columns and you can reorder, sort, move between columns and so forth. Anyway, the point is, it’s way faster to use (and you can put due dates on items easier than a yellow pad. I mention this because today is an exceptionally busy day for someone like me who’s supposed to be retired.
There’s a ton about kanban/kaisen on the web. Some companies, like Creative Safety also have downloadable mini books if you’re willing to part with your home address and phone number.
Passing through an Insurance Cloud? I just happened to see one of those online “lower your car insurance” sites Thursday and made the mistake of putting in basic information. Bang! Immediately the telemarketers started calling. OK, fine, to be expected.
But now comes the woo part: Turn on the 3806 (LSB) ham group this morning and what’s the main topic? Car and motorcycle insurance! I swear, sometimes it’s like there are “topic clouds” that people go through as a group. Might even be related to where things are on the GCP dot – no time for another research project right now, but an interesting notion.
Home Electronics triumph: Small one, but for the longest time I couldn’t figure out why the TV in the living/media room was never quite loud enough. Well, come to find out, the TV was defaulting audio to the HDMI as an output and then putting only a small signal to the headphones and speaker jack.
A quick change to “Speakers” and suddenly, there’s enough audio to drive us out of the room, it’s so loud.
BUT now the Big News: I got to looking at the 55 UHD computer in the office which has had a (new) problem with the latest super (minicomputer). When “reading back” columns (a very effective proofreading strategy) the the text-to-speech in Win11 was skipping the first word of each paragraph. Well, wouldn’t you know? The audio here was being sent to the HDMI, as well. Apparently, the Vizio big screen’s HDMI isn’t streaming fast and so it drops words. Going analog audio out to the speakers and the “dropped first word problem” goes away.
Computer consulting: My buddy The Major and I will be doing a phone call this morning and going through a complete Win11 speedup routine. I thought Win11 would stay relatively fast but apparently, things like the Co-Pilot add-in to Edge can slow things up or cause WSOSDs (white screen of death(. So I have a whole checklist of STTO (shit to turn off). I don’t need “feeds” and I don’t need a motion-picture screen saver and….oh it’s quite a list.
You never want to be in a position where your brain is “bumping into a speed bump” on the computing side. Which is the sole metric around here. Well, that and turning on the “blue light reducing” (right click blank desktop area), right click display settings, turn on Night Light which is a hell of a lot easier on the eyes if you do hours (and hours, and hours) on the box.
Dell – Check your email: Reader Dell doesn’t like the new PDF arrangement on PN – likes the commentary. But in a longish answer I promise this weekend the whole chart pack will appear as a single PDF so we can get back to both the commentary and being able to see the charts at the same time. A minor change in workflow (doing the whole chart section in Word and printing a PDF, but anything is faster than all the hand work involved in renaming, resizing, and drinking with graphics in the now legacy Expression Web…
OK, let’s wrap this puppy up…I am fighting a bear of a problem this morning in Win11 – seems with the latest update, all of my Excel charts are now showing as text boxes – while on the hot-back-up machine (not updated today) everything is normal and working great.
Such is the price of progress, huh?
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