In The Eye Of the World

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

Fellow Americans, the Europeans are exerting their unearned superiority again.

They’re telling the Hi-La-Rious joke of “What borders on complete stupidity? Mexico and Canada.”

It never occurs to them that when a country the size of a continent makes these choices and they disagree it is POSSIBLY their lack of information, their lack of understanding of this utterly foreign country, their ignorance and smug stupidity.

No, it is always that we’ve disappointed them, and they’re very mad at us, because we’re stupid and ill informed, about our own lives and our own priorities.

And I wouldn’t understand it at all, I’d be even more disgusted with them, if I hadn’t just spent time in Europe before our election amid my largely (not every member but largely) conservative European family.

It’s hard to believe how utterly corrupted their information stream is. Take our entire mainstream media. No. Take the most lunatic fringe of MSNBC and assume they’re utterly right wing, then try to correct for it, and make the “news” right. That’s what their media is like.

Listening to my dad tell me that CNN international isn’t left wing (it’s more left than here) made my jaw drop, but it was nothing compared to the general idea that Biden is a nice, kindly, smart man, and that he only recently started losing it, which is why he, wisely stepped down. And none of it, none of it, compared to their idea that “no one is pushing transexuality in the schools in the US. It just happened organically.” and that “it’s neither a right nor a left issue.” One is afraid to ask about other things. They really honestly believe that a) our abortion laws are more restrictive than theirs (guys, throughout Europe pretty much abortion is capped at — I THINK — 14 weeks. Might be 16) b)religion is enforced in all our public life c)kids get shot in schools every day d) every shooter and terrorist here is “right wing.” e) white people are hunting black people on the streets and it’s legal. f) black people are actively discriminated against, and again, it’s legal.

It goes on and on. It’s partly our bizarre Hollywood making movies about realities that don’t exist and haven’t existed for at least 60 years and frankly in many cases forever. And part of it is that our news are completely untainted by reality. And part of it is that EUROPEANS AREN’T HERE. … and part of it is that America is a finger in the eye of the world. More on that later.

This ultimately is the last most perfect example of why “World Government” doesn’t work (and in a smaller point why the electoral college is essential. Most of the idiots on twitter telling me I don’t think I just follow Trump have no clue who the Trump voters are, have no clue what rural areas are like, have no clue in general. They live in an urban bubble made extra bubbly by the fact anyone dissenting will be cancelled and knows it.)

Even if statistics and numbers are not corrupted, they can be spun. They are not a dispassionate witness. It is is easy to twist things, such as claiming more of the rural areas are on Welfare, because they count military expenditures are welfare and government handouts. It’s like truncating politician’s utterances, or massaging others to make them sound coherent.

If you’re not in the area, you don’t know what you don’t know. And main stream information stream — here and abroad — has become concentrated in cities, and within cities in the “intellectual class.” (Note I don’t say the high IQ or highly educated. There are very well educated people who are not part of those who consider themselves “intellectual class.” Part of my current fights on Twitter are the left thinking that any woman voting for Trump is “uneducated” or “unthinking” the intellectual class think they’re a special class and that their leftist politics make them “smart.”) Which means they report what they think they know, but they don’t know anything outside their specialty/area/region.

I’ve said before, and there will be a post on this soon, relating to millennials because even the right makes that mistake there, that the vision of the world the media — entertainment and news push at us are at best outdated — like 100 years out of date, like the idea of “granny” is my grandmother, not me who was born in the sixties and who, if I’d had kids earlier and my kids had married earlier could now have teen grandkids.) — and at worse imaginary, like everyone’s idea of “the fifties.”

They don’t know what they don’t know. And when they “know” all their professors and everyone educated thinks like them, it must mean other people are stupid, and not seeing a drastically different side of reality.

Unfortunately these are the idiots reporting the news and making the movies, which Europe then assumes are accurate and–

I understand. I really understand. Everything but the unbridled hubris of thinking EN MASSE they’re smarter than us.

It also frankly means they ignore their own people, those not expensively indoctrinated for decades in the theory factories by the Marxist morons. For a view of this, note everyone in mind professions in Portugal seems to buy the “global warming” bs unalloyed, while the working people not so far back removed the stop-oil parasites from the street, broke their signs and called them rude names then went about their day.

But there is more to it than that. In a way the US is a finger in the eye of the world. We’ve always been. We don’t believe the “upper crust” has something we don’t or knows something we don’t. By and large we don’t believe in experts. (Since FDR the media has worked hard at building respect for the “ex-spurts” and it all crumbled down with 2020. Thank heavens.) We believe in our lying eyes.

They, by and large don’t. Even their working people by and large don’t. There are centuries in those cultures of “respecting your betters.”

We confuse them and appall them by not recognizing betters. It is all summed in my mother, when I explained why I was NOT getting vaccinated screaming at me I thought I was smarter than everyone else. Oh, h*ll no. There are people much smarter than I. But I understand enough biology to know those “vaccines” were at best ineffective and at worst a bad, bad idea. And given my autoimmune issues, hell no. (I also know enough math to look at Diamond Princess and go “this is not an emergency.”) I am no longer Portuguese, you see. Maybe I never was.

They look at this and see “anarchy” and from that to “they’re just stupid” it’s a step. A short and very stupid step.

The problem is their own citizenry is up in arms and realizing the last 100 years weren’t good. The entire world is in revolt. And they still don’t get our own revolt.

It’s going to be an interesting few years. If they get poked in the eye a lot, maybe they’ll learn to blink.

Buckle down boys and girls. It’s going our way. Let’s show the world how a nation can work and create prosperity, and lead the world to the stars.

They ain’t seen nothing yet.

What a time to be alive.

201 thoughts on “In The Eye Of the World”

  1. Sarah, given what you’ve described about your childhood, I’m not sure you were EVER Portuguese and I don’t mean that as an insult.

    You were just an American born three thousand miles too far east. Eventually, you came home, and here you have been ever since. Home.

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    1. Couldn’t have said it better. Concur.😊

      There are other Americans who’ve never been here, and (unfortunately) far too many NON-Americans who were born here. If only we could ship away the latter in exchange for the former…

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    3. So absolutely true. A big part of being an a American is ‘feeling’ the Bill of Rights. Which our founders KNEW applied to ALL humans. Though your ability to excercise them could be restricted by accident of birth. You, Sarah like many others felt those inherent rights and sought out where you most likely could live them. Elon Musk and many others have done the same.

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  2. I’m still enjoying the melt-down of the elite, and of the national corporate news media … and their absolute shock and horror at the wipe-out of Kamala-walla-bang-bang’s campaign. They spent years in a very special bubble, swilling their own ink … and now reality crashed their pretty party. The lamentations are glorious to my ears.

    As regards Europeans not having a clue about America… we used to have a spot airing on AFRTS reminding our military and dependents overseas to be good and civil guests when living and traveling in foreign countries. “They don’t know America,” the spot narration went, “All they know is Americans,”

    Several decades ago, there was an essay in TV Guide, of all places – rather sorrowfully lamenting the fact that TV shows and movies with an American setting would leave foreign audiences with some very strange notions of what life in the USA was actually like, and wishing that the writers, actors, producers could and would give a more positive and realistic view of American life. Alas, nothing much has changed in the time since that essay was written…

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    1. Not sure if I ever read that, but I’ve felt the same way since I was a kid. It seems like everything is primarily set it in LA, NYC, Chicago, or Miami. Once in awhile you might get Dallas, Houston, or Atlanta. After awhile it gets boring

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      1. We were in Ireland when Hill Street Blues came out. I remember some family friends who were utterly shocked since up to then, America had been all very shiny, squeaky clean and rich. Almost all tgeyd seen was stuff like Dallas and Dynasty.

        Friend: “Are all American cities really like that?” Mum: “Well, parts of the bigger ones? Yeah. Think about Dublin.” Friend: dubious understanding noises.

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        1. An Englishman came to America with his understanding shaped by Dallas and Dynasty.

          Being put to wrangle cows at the local agricultural fair straightened him quickly enough that he entered bread in the competition.

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  3. I’m extremely annoyed at the “entitled” Europeans and their “fellow-travelers” in the US.

    There was a murder-suicide in Minnesota where a lunatic murdered his family and killed himself because he believed the Trump Hitler nonsense and wanted to “protect” them (and himself) from the so-called evil that would be coming thanks to Trump. [Very Angry]

    Oh, while not on the same level as the above, I’m annoyed by two big charges on my debit card. I didn’t authorize and thanks to Veteran’s Day the bank is closed. Oh, I realized the problem when Amazon rejected some Kindle purchases I made today. [Crazy Day]

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    1. You may luck out, and the bank will refund. But that’s why I never use debit cards, since they’re “just like cash” (not; I have direct control of my cash). With a credit card, the bank can refuse or rescind on fraudulent charges, and have several times for me.

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        1. I’ve got that t-shirt, though $SPOUSE has done wonders at (trying to) beat financial stability into me. I actually think about major purchases, though Kindle buys might possibly get excessive…

          We haven’t carried a balance of the credit card in over a couple of decades, even in the happy fun times when I have medical-related hotel stays.

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          1. We haven’t carried a balance on credit cards since, well forever. First 5 years we did. As much to establish credit as anything else. That and to take severe advantage on one of them (once that one closed those loopholes dropped them like a hot potato). But we’ve always had the attitude of “If I can’t afford to pay with cash, I can’t afford to use the credit card.” Advantage today isn’t as great as in ’80s and ’90s, earning interest on checking, and not being charged interest on credit card charges as long as paid off when due. These days the credit cards are paying us, tax free. Although I am seeing that advantage disappear by vendors charging to use credit. But vendors are going to have to start taking checks, because carrying cash isn’t the answer, nor will I expose the debit cards to vendors across, well, anywhere.

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            1. Let’s just say that I could appreciate the BritCom TV series Chef, because like him, I’ve been “stupid about money”. Runs in the family, with one brother and offspring. On the other side, there’s an ex-SIL who might be in the dictionary under “spendthrift”. When her ex ($SPOUSE’s brother) died of Suddenly, she was pissed that she couldn’t get her grubby hands on the estate. We feel sorry about their son; but he’s employed the transAtlantic “I’m not here” option for multiple good reasons.

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            2. Quite honestly, a lot of credit card balance throughout my life has been dental. That’s one area I will not wait on (and unfortunately, my teeth are lousy. It’s insane that I technically still have all my teeth, though one is nothing more than a post for a crown.)

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              1. Right now 8 of my teeth are in a mug of denture cleaner. Lousy teeth are a family tradition, and gum disease didn’t help. I have weak roots and that’s led to some interesting problems. One tooth’s crown was from a bicycle crash; government damnfools did a fancy surface treatment for a walkway, then watering spillover made it wet. And slick. Touched brakes and had an interesting hole (tooth-chip filled, alas) in my lip. A mustache covers the scar, though it should have faded over 3 decades. That crown now has a carbon fiber post when the stub broke.

                When I was working, I had dental insurance ranging from excellent to so-so. (That was HP. Go figure.) Up here, I found a practice that caters to uninsured patients. (Didn’t get dental with my medicare/medigap.) Got partials in 2021-2022 when noticeable/necessary teeth were lost. The price was fairly affordable, for values of “fairly”.

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                1. Dental, when we had it, was always “meh”. We have on/off again dental through our medicare advantage (next year I think it is off again). Even when it is on, we have to go to a certain dental conglomerate. Nope. We’ll stay with the clinic we’ve been with since 1985, and the dentist who bought it in ’88 (now semi retired). His son is the current dentist resident. We pay an annual fee x2 (this year $380), which is essentially 2 cleanings, and yearly xrays, for each of us, discounted for paying on first cleaning. Also gives us discounts on major dental work.

                  My mouth piece for sleep apnea, while created by dental office, is actually a medical expense. Got it while still on hubby’s union retiree insurance before I qualified for medicare. While we didn’t have dental insurance, it is orthodontics that make them (our dentist does because the dentist family needs them). Not make in house, just the forms, and sent out. Oh getting them paid for through medical for an orthodontic or dental was an education. Hint: Pay for them. Then self submit with the prescription to your medical insurance. If the dental/orthodontic submits through their insurance process the clearing house the process goes through before submitting to actual different insurances, will reject the claim as “not dental” with NO return notice of the rejection. But no payment from insurance either, because insurance never gets the claim. Luckily given what I did for a living, I made sure the claim department found out what exactly the process was with the claims. They had no clue about the clearing house portion. At that point, submitted on my own, got paid (not total amount, but 2/3 anyway). Yes, had to do twice. First style didn’t last 18 months (apparently I grind my teeth, at least I do now with my teeth are covered). Current style is now 5 years old.

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                  1. $SPOUSE tried one of the national chains (shares a name with a famous winter resort town in Colorado) and was quite unhappy* with it. For various reasons, she’s doctor-adverse, and after that, hasn’t had dental. OTOH, she has decent teeth. (I’ve long since given up trying to get her to get breast cancer screening. Epic arguments. Sigh.)

                    Our first dentist up here was good, but he sold to another guy affiliated with a different national chain. One that went under after serious legal issues. (He was sketchy, too.) I was told about my current one, and they’re really good. It’s been over a dozen years, and I get the same hygienist. It’s a DDS/DMD partnership. The original DMD was the father, and daughter is a great DDS. He retired and she found a younger guy. Used him once when a crown broke the base, but I had enough root for a post. The rest of the dental hardware (both interim and final partials, plus nightguard) were done through the DDS.

                    ((*)) They were big on upselling, but seem to have horrible turnover and other issues. Still around, but there are other chains and a boatload of dentists in the area.

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                    1. My previous dentist, picked to proximity of my residence, was very good. My current dentist is insanely good—he bought the practice from the previous one after she’d shopped around for a good inheritor.

                      Pity is that changeover happened right around the time I fractured a tooth, because he went through getting appointments for everybody who hadn’t been in for a while, and thus my tooth fracture went a long time untreated because it was hard to force in an appointment. (I have an odd pain response sometimes and it wasn’t consciously hurting most of the time.) That’s the one that’s basically down to a stump after several rounds of awful.

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                    2. I’ve had a couple of cracked teeth. After the first one, learned to call immediately. Second one was more than cracked. Broke off when dentist looked at it. Essentially put me in immediately, and worked me around all the other appointments all day (before son was even out of HS). Got novocaine multiple times. It was a long day. Given he wasn’t sure he could save the tooth, or enough left to put a cap over it, both of which he did, and it held. I was and am pleased. Another one, way in the back on the bottom (just before wisdom tooth which was removed when I was 19) also a cracked tooth that had a root canal, has a cap, is going through reabsorption, for at least 10 years now. When first found the discussion was “watch it” or “take it now”. Why take it before absolutely have to?

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        2. Copy that. We learned after the second fiasco of letting it build up that the only way is to pay them off every single month, without fail; we’ve done that for about 40 years now, and haven’t paid a dime of interest in that time.

          The other lesson was to have no more than 2 cards; ours are VISA and AmEx.

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          1. Cards are too seductively easy. I have a debit card and a credit card (the latter used only sparingly and paid off the next month). Most larger purchases are by check. I do carry cash for small purchases (like bread or a used book at the thrift shop). Being single and sedentary, I have everything I need and most of what I want (I still want a train set [and books]). Even retired, I spend less than 2/3 of my income (without touching retirement savings). My Dad had some terse valuable to a young farmer renting his land “Get out of debt and stay there”….

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          2. We have two. Our main one (Costco Visa), and the one on the bank account, that acts as a secondary overdraft backstop. I have two more in my name. One is the Barnes&Noble that gets me 5% on anything bought at B&N, including ebooks; adds up. The other is Verizon which gets me up to 4% on purchases (groceries, dinning out, and fuel), plus 2% on all Verizon purchases including charging the Verizon bill to the account. Kickback (rebate) can only be used for purchases (Why? Will get the dang 2% to charge it.) Or pay down the Verizon Cell bill. Paid out monthly against the bill, if automatic. That has amounted to $25 – $45/month off the cell bill. Yes, I gleefully work their system. The CC companies have a love/hate relationship with us. Love because the fees they collect from vendors. Hate, because they pay us, and we haven’t paid them a single penny in fees or interest in 40 years.

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            2. Yeaaah…I pay the credit cards off in full every month, and I don’t really give a good rat’s patoot what the credit card companies say about me. Can’t be too bad; my credit score is in the mid-800’s.

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              2. “my credit score is in the mid-800’s.”
                ……….

                That is the Credit Bureaus. All the credit cards can report is total credit allowed, current posted balance, and amount due. All of which sets a credit to balance owed percentage that affects the credit score.

                What always gets us tripped, even with paying balance off every month on everything, is reporting VS the balance getting paid off, matter of days, but do they care? The known household net income plays a part too, but for us that is laughable. The system has no way to know how much we can or can’t pull from the IRA, etc., accounts to deal with income shortfalls. What gets us our fluctuating credit score, bouncing from super high to mid range 800s, is timing. Even paying off a $15k credit bill only dropped us to 808 (right back up to 870 before the week was out). ($15k = regular monthly charges + new countertops.)

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            3. “…the common term is ‘deadbeat’ ”

              Awwww, what a shame. Poor babies. Maybe we should give them a binkie.🤣🤣🤣

              Their “contempt” is my reward for not being as stupid as they want me to be.

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            4. credit card companies cannot possibly hold me in as much contempt for paying then off every month as I do for them and their userous fees for people.

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            5. Almost everyone carries a balance on the card. And they’re likely to have three or four of them. Most of those balances being quite hefty.

              People like us, paying them off monthly, are just a rounding error in the credit industry. And they can always hope that we might have some major emergency that will put us on the hook.

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              1. Plus, the dirty little secret is that their “processing fees” (i.e., interest under another name) of around 3% means that, if paid off every month, they’re getting around 36% annual interest. What frosts them is that they don’t get it repeatedly for months or years. “Deadbeat” my a$$. :-x

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                1. I’m not sure that your math is right. I think it comes to 3% annually, not 36%. Let me work it out and see if my instinct is right.

                  Let’s assume that your spending is more or less even month-to-month across the whole year. It’ll never be exactly even in reality, but let’s say that it averages out. To keep the numbers easy to do in one’s head, let’s call that spending $100 per month. (If it was $1000 per month, then you’d just multiply every number by 10 but the percentages would come out the same).

                  January, you spend $100 and pay it off. They get their 3% fee from the merchants, so they made $3 off of you.

                  February, same: you spend $100 and they make $3 off of you. And so on.

                  End of the year, you’ve spent $1200 over those twelve months and they made $36 off of you. $36 is 3% of $1200.

                  You were counting the $3 twelve times but only counting one spending of $100. But for them to get $3 from you twelve times, you’d have to have spent $100 twelve times.

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                  1. I don’t deny the credit card companies from getting money for providing a service. But they are providing it to the vendor. I am not paying for it. Now if the vendor passes that fee on to me (allowed in Oregon now), either I will use cash, or I’ll walk away and do business where the vendor isn’t. Right now our mechanic (dealership) is passing on the 3%, so we groan and bear. When utilities were doing the same, no auto pay set. Just manually triggered payment of a check through credit union accounts (utilities are not doing this currently, so CC payment).

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                    1. Of course, that pinches the vendor. SOMEbody has to pay those credit card fees. If vendors can’t charge that cost selectively to those using credit cards, they have to raise prices so everybody pays. People paying cash are forced to subsidize the credit card companies. But that doesn’t matter; you are entitled to use credit cards for ‘free’ after all.

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                    2. In Oregon that is exactly what the vendors can now do, charge a percentage, or flat fee, (if you want to use credit to pay taxes, property or state, pay a flat fee), for credit. Some vendors are starting to do so. Others are forcing use of their credit card (Verizon). Or partnership (Costco) for a cut of the fees.

                      Forever, vendors couldn’t charge the 3%, but they could discount for cash, sometimes did for debit.

                      Either way. Okay. That is now putting the charges on the user. Fine. My guess the CC are going to up the rebates to keep users using them.

                      But. Also, for safety, a lot of places are not taking cash. Plus they do not take checks. Debit cards just are not as safe as credit. Do I then get to go after the vendor for exposing my debit card? Of coarse not. Wait until masses figure that out. Wait for the screaming.

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                  2. Try this again (WPDE):

                    “You were counting the $3 twelve times but only counting one spending of $100.”

                    Not quite; I apparently was unclear. I was counting $3 fee (effectively interest) for the use of $100 for a single month, which is an annualized rate of 36%. A “loan” of $100 only lasts a single month in this scenario. So it isn’t $3, 12 times on a single $100 loan for a year, but $3 for each such loan, each loan lasting a single month, which is an annualized rate of 36%. And it remaing the same percentage regardless of the loan amount, since the fee is a percentage of the loan amount.

                    Granted, if you borrow $100 and don’t pay it off for a year, it is an annualized rate of 3%. But the issue was how much the “fee” amounts to as an interest equivalent if you pay zero interest by paying off each month, thus paying zero interest. If you don’t pay it off for a year, the “zero interest” premise doesn’t apply; in that case you’d pay the 3% fee plus any interest, compounded monthly.

                    Maybe I’m off base here (I’m no CPA), but the logic seems valid.

                    Apparently copy/paste comes through the WP idiocy as a quote of all pasted text. Whatta buncha maroons…

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                    1. Okay, I see where you’re coming from. I still disagree, but my disagreement is more subtle. Let me start by telling a very old joke:

                      A teenager in Scotland took the bus to school every morning. (Note: not a school bus like America uses; this was a paid city bus, fare 50 pence). One day he came home telling his father, “Dad, today I saved 50 pence by running behind the bus instead of paying for a ride. Aren’t you proud of me?”

                      His father answered, “Well, yes, son, but you could have done better. You could have run behind a taxi and saved 5 pounds!”

                      The reason I thought of that story when I saw your longer explanation is that I don’t quite buy your premise that a per-transaction fee is equivalent to monthly interest and can be multiplied by 12 to calculate an annualized interest rate equivalent. What if you paid off your bill within two weeks every time: would you multiply by 24 to get a 72% APR equivalent? What if you paid off your bill within one week every time: would that 3% then somehow become the equivalent of a 144% APR?

                      At some point turning a flat fee into an annual percentage rate becomes silly. I would contend that it’s already silly doing it on a monthly basis. Because no matter how long you take to pay the company back, they’re still getting exactly 3% from the merchant. (They might get more from you in interest if you don’t pay the card off, but that’s a separate transaction, negotiated with different parties than the 3% fee, and should be combined just as much as apples and oranges should have their prices averaged together at the grocery store).

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                    2. OK, I understand your point, and I agree that treating a fixed fee as interest isn’t entirely valid, since the amount paid doesn’t increase with a longer borrowing period (that’s covered by the actual interest). But I can’t think of another way to treat it; you pay (actually, the merchant pays and passes it on via increased price) a defined percentage of the loan for the use of the money, which is sort of the definition of interest. Of course, it’s not a direct equivalence; if you have the use of the money for a month the annual rate you pay is different from having the use of it for a year, the opposite of “actual” interest, where the rate remains constant and the amount changes. Maybe the whole concept of “annual rate” needs some work, but it’s used almost everywhere, including in anti-usury laws; an 18% rate is (legally) still an 18% rate, whether the loan is paid off in a month for a charge of 1.5% or in a year, for a charge of the full 18%.

                      It would be nice if a masochistic CPA would weigh in on this (assuming you’re not one), but until and unless that happens I think we’ve beaten this sufficiently close to death…and I know it’s made me think. Thanks!😉

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                2. None of our credit cards have a payment processing fee. Very simple. Implement that and bye-bye credit card. I’ll take the credit bureau hit, I can afford it. I do not pay to have the credit card. I do not pay fees. I won’t pay interest.

                  (Costco I am not paying to have the Citi Visa, I am paying to shop at Costco. Which is iffy, but shop enough that the higher membership pays for itself. Between the two kickbacks/rebates it is worth about $1k on what we’d buy anyway. We’re amateurs compared to others I’ve seen. But we’re only a 3 person household.)

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                  1. There are some cards that offer benefits that, in theory, would be worth paying for for some people. Some cards offer discounts on expensive things like airline tickets and hotel stays. If you travel enough that you’d routinely get more of a discount than the annual fee — on tickets and hotel rooms that you would have paid for anyway (that’s important) — then it can be worth paying an annual fee for a card. But for me (and indeed for most people), any card with an annual fee is a trap; it’s not at all worth it.

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                    1. Heck. We aren’t paying for ultimate cell phone (60 GB of Hotspot, International Travel beyond Canada/Mexico) plan ($11 more/line). Why? We aren’t traveling outside the US beyond Canada. If we need a hotspot, we won’t have cell coverage, and the hotspot won’t work. So the hotel/airline miles credit cards are worthless to us. We do use hotels, but we don’t have to pay for what we get through the .com booking apps. While when we go, we use up to 6 or 7 reservations at a time, we aren’t going anywhere more than twice a year. Now my sister and BIL, these cards do pay off.

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              2. I read some years ago that the average credit card debt was $15,000. Probably higher these days, especially after 3 1/2 years of ‘Bidenomics’. I am perfectly content to be ‘below average’. :-P

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    2. Try the customer service number on the back of your debit card. They may be open even when the financial institution is closed. We had to do that on our daughter’s debit card and the charges were reversed within a week (put on hold immediately, then reversed after verifying they were incurred out of state).

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      1. Yeah, it’s required by law, a 24/7 fraud hotline so you can cancel immediately. I don’t think they take care of the fraudulent charges, but they can shut your card down.

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  4. To be honest, I can’t get too exercised about European silliness and inability to think for themselves. Frankly, they haven’t been meaningful in my world for at least the last 50 years, maybe longer. Europe? Is that still a thing?

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    1. Frankly that was one of the few good things to come out of Obama desperately wanting to change the subject back in 2009, so we got the “Pacific Pivot”, albeit with absolutely no followthrough nor real money. Typical Barry, all styrofoam columns and lighting..

      They just this past month have Seabees renovating the airfields on Tinian so everything does not have to use the main runway on Guam. Hey, only 15 years after that Pivot thing, but it’s not a bad thing to finally have happened.

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    2. It’s been more like a quarter-century for me. When I was in the Guard, most of our focus was on being a stopgap vs. the Russkies pouring through the Fulda gap.

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  5. Ummm…how can their citizenry be ‘up in arms’ when they’ve been disarmed? :-P

    Which doesn’t stop extremists from murdering people, it just prevents the citizens from shooting the bastards. All while the ‘intellectuals’ are shocked, shocked! that the hordes of savages they let in act like savages.

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    1. Well, one could say that Euro “gun-control” is working, looking at the stabbing/slashing knife attacks by the Aloha Snackbar crowd. Still, I’d rather be able to give them a subtle reminder to behave; via a 230 grain FMJ, courtesy John Moses Browning and Colt Manufacturing.

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    2. It’s not just the physical disarming but the psychological disarming as well – the spreading of the idea that self-defense is an inherently criminal act rather than a basic human right. Unfortunately it’s an idea that they’ve been trying to spread here in the US for a long time now. That’s why they were so hot to convict Mr. Rittenhouse: Everyone knew that his actions were plain self-defense, but the usual suspects considered it a scandal and a horror that he should get away with his heinous malum in se crime on the technicality of an atavistic, barbaric, dead-white-male old law.

      Or the TSA, intended to stop the horrid crime of defending against hijackers rather than stopping the hijackers themselves.

      Or any of a number of other examples.

      If the European citizenry overcome this psychological disarming and find Charley’s Hammer again, it will be ugly – even uglier than a boog here in the US. Maybe not undeserved, but still ugly.

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      2. Are they believing the idea that weapons should only be handled by “special,” people, endowed by Nature to use them? As in, “I am a peasant. It is not seemly for me to touch a weapon.”

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        1. I’m not sure. It seems to be some of that, and some of “Agents anointed by Government Almighty are entrusted with weapons for the purpose of enforcing the law, and it’s a betrayal of that trust if they then misuse those weapons for the criminal act of self-defense.”

          So “Waving weapons around during no-knock raids and shooting those who fail to comply quickly enough with screamed commands – legit law enforcement. Shooting a guy in the street who is running at you with a knife in his hand – criminal self-defense misuse of issued sidearms.”

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      1. Anyone know what the frelling deal is with the double-tap comments, besides WPDE? It has been making me log in again for any comments lately, but I only click once, and yet sometimes, not every time, up goes two with the same timestamp.

        Any clews out there?

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  6. I begin to think we are living in a science-fiction story. I don’t mean the one where the launch gantry catches the first-stage booster with gargantuan tweezers, though that one’s awesome and I’d love to see more in the series. I mean the one where parallel realities, totally inimical to each other, overlap onto the same plane of existence. Inhabitants of one cannot comprehend the workings of the other, and the contact itself corrodes the reality we know. Can the fundamental differences be reconciled, or can the intruder reality be sealed off, or will existence as we know it be wiped out?

    (Am I suggesting a family resemblance between Kamala Harris and Cthulhu? Well, I wasn’t at first …)

    With this story, I am less eager to see it play out.

    Republica restituendae.

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      1. The Reader believes the current Chicago mayor is also a Deep One. Watch a video of him speaking.

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          1. Recalls being in Chicago on St. Patrick’s day. It’s no urban legend that they dye the river green for the day. Eww!

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            1. “If they can dye the river green today, why can’t they dye it blue the other 364 days of the year?” – from the 1993 movie of The Fugitive.

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    4. You’re not the only one to realize how fantastically unlikely this timeline is.

      Most of recent history falls into the “WTF!?” category.

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  7. In my – very uninformed – opinion, European countries will succumb to Islam before they manage to get rid of their current EU overlords. Peasant revolts do not have a very successful history.

    How convenient that the US doesn’t have peasants.

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    1. I’m not sure. Granted that the German parties in power are doubling down on ignoring AfD, but the latter seems to be picking up support steadily. I’m wondering how long it takes before a) somebody in politics gets a clue and breaks the boycott, or b) AfD starts getting outright majorities in places.

      De-Islamification is harder with the constraints placed on the natives, but the weapons are out there; they’re just in the wrong hands.

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    2. No. Believe it or not the take over of Islam is a psy ops more than anything else. There aren’t as many as they project, and once they acculturate (A generation) they stop having kids. There aren’s enough to take over.

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      3. I’m amused by stories the North Koreans sent to fight for Russia (and isn’t *that* interesting?) have been exposed to relatively free internet for the first time in their lives and are spending every spare moment watching porn.

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        3. There are videos being posted by Chinese “volunteer” mercenaries telling the other guys back home not to sign up, that war is not actually like Call of Duty, and the Ukrainian drones are everywhere, and the Russians hate the Chinese or any Asians, so you’ll be abused and disdained and bored and underfed and cold and wet, until you are suddenly terrified and then likely get killed.

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          1. Though in fairness, it should be noted that the Russian army reportedly also treats the Russian soldiers that way.

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  8. I’ll read later. But somewhat OT (other than to illustrate why the current government needs to be cleared with a flamethrower) – the FDA just ordered the recall of 80,000 pounds of Costco butter – because the label doesn’t say “contains milk.”

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    1. I saw the recall. Did not read what it was about (don’t buy butter from Costco).

      Response now is: Seriously?

      That is like recalling water because the label doesn’t say “might get wet”.

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      1. It might be recallable because it contains that highly dangerous Dihydrogen Monoxide chemical. I lived too long in California to think they wouldn’t do it.

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      2. Seriously.

        Channels Fed. It lacks the allergen report required by the FDA. Someone who is deadly allergic to milk proteins might eat some, not realizing that butter is made from milk. End channeling Fed.

        It’s probably more to reduce the chances of getting sued by some … individual … looking for a quick million.

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    2. Butter doesn’t contain milk.

      It contains milk solids, but not milk, unless you are selling bowls of butter swimming in buttermilk.

      (Goes and looks at butter label of Sam’s Club butter)

      Well. Even though the ingredient list is “Pasteurized cream, salt”, they indeed have another line on the label that says “Contains milk.” Even though it doesn’t contain milk; it contains cream.

      Argh argh argh argh.

      I can see labeling something about potential allergens for those allergic to milk; but milk is not cream and cream is not milk. If cream were milk, they’d label it as “cream-style milk” or something.

      I disapprove, FDA. I disapprove.

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      1. The FDA probably has its own definition of “milk”, which might not agree with the dairy industry or common usage definitions.

        It’s like the EPA saying electric cars have “zero emissions” when they’re mostly powered by coal.

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        1. Well, the cars don’t have any emissions. It’s the power plants that charge the batteries that emit the stuff the EPA objects to. And once we get the unicorn herds with farts that store enough energy to run the power grid 24/7 bred and raised to maturity, the evil power plants we have to use today can be decommissioned and Mother Gaia will bless us again.

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          1. There was a thing on Twitter that the Biden Administration was planning to build three new nuclear plants…interesting that should come out now.

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    3. The stories I have heard about directions on how to dispose of the butter that was already sold are unfortunately plausible.

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        1. apparently nothing specific to the recall, but in general, they tell you to discard or return for a refund.

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    4. That’s the same FDA that allows packagers to lace their foods with artificial sweeteners without having to mention it on the labels.

      Artificial sweeteners are much cheaper than sugar, and a lot of people can’t tell the difference. To others, they taste very bad. And for some, they can cause anything from rashes to “severe intestinal distress.”

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        1. So do I – artificial sweeteners in things taste really gross to me. I don’t drink sodas, but I have sometimes accidently bought fruit juice with an artificial sweetener in it, and it tasted so awful that I had to pour it down the sink.

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        4. Calling the opaque or semi-opaque liquid extracts of nuts and grains “milk” is a traditional usage that’s older than the US, to say nothing of being older than the FDA.

          Just because it’s not dairy milk is no reason to abandon the usage.

          You far more easily fix any labeling problems by requiring cow milk to be labeled “cow milk”.

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      2. “for some, they can cause anything from rashes to “severe intestinal distress.””

        For others it can trigger severe hypoglycemic reaction. Sweetener that isn’t. Triggers high insulin without a significant actual glucose response.

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    1. No one in America is an aristocrat (despite the hankerings of certain critters on the Left). And so in certain ways we all are aristocrats. E.g. hunting here is a blue-collar sport, rather than an upper-class one.

      There’s also a nose-thumbing ‘failure’ of “Know your place” here that I’ve noticed among those in the UK and Europe more generally. Thus the Instapundit meme of KNOW YOUR PLACE, PEASANT!

      The end of Milton and Rose Friedman’s *Memoirs* has a discussion of “America Gonif” (Literally “America the thief, but figuratively “America the magician.”) They also discuss the way that Jews in America see themselves as American in ways that Jews in Europe commonly don’t see themselves as natives of their countries. That why I found the intensity and Jew-Hate of the “Hamas” riots shocking as well as appalling (whereas the recent Amsterdam pogrom was horrifying but sadly not shocking.)

      We could use Milton Friedman, or someone like him, in charge again.

      And as a last thought for this post: America is the place where many brands of BBQ sauce are certified kosher.

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        2. Um… brisket?

          Next time you’re in the Dallas, TX area, check out Hard Eight BBQ. There’s a reason their lines are routinely out the door.

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          1. Don’t plan to travel, and there’s a really good (but spendy) BBQ place in town. I’ve had brisket, but if God didn’t love us, he wouldn’t have made pigs so tasty when cooked properly. :)

            Agreed as to where the sauce goes. Am not going to get into a heated discussion with Fluffy. The aardvark says the burn ward doesn’t like it when that happens.

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            1. The local grocery (which has a very nice beef/pork section) is running a sale on Boston butt. My beloved has announced he will devote tomorrow to grinding sausage and smoking butt. He is living proof a properly trained Yankeee can make first-rate BBQ.

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          2. Hard Eight is for tourists and Yankees. :P

            Native Texans let the commercial operations handle the masses while we cook the good stuff for family, friends, and church occasions.

            (Staring out the back window at two smokers and ricks of pecan, oak and mesquite stacked nearby.)

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        4. The BBQ we had catered in (Mission BBQ) at the VFW yesterday had chicken, pork and brisket.

          I pigged out (so to speak) on the brisket and never got around to the other stuff.

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        5. I introduced two scout troops to the concept of jackfruit for a vegetarian “pulled pork” substitute. (Several vegetarians around to complicate meal planning.) It is apparently very similar overall.

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    2. “And I am sick of your smart mouth too,” Brewster said. He did his stare again. “Who is your superior?”

      “I have none,” I said. “I’m not sure I even have an equal.”

      — Robert B. Parker, ‘A Savage Place’

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  10. My ancestors chose to emigrate from Europe (18th, 19th, and 20th Century waves) to a land that offered freedom to choose their own destiny. Many of them fought and died for those freedoms.

    My current family will not bow the knee to Eurotrash under any circumstance.

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      1. I’ve only done a cursory dig, but so far it looks like that “kicked out of NATO” thing is bad rumor.

        It’s entirely possible I missed something, though… but if it’s not a lie I’m thinking “Oh Br’er Fox, don’t throw me in that thar briar patch”.

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      3. Blink. Wait Europe wants to kick the US out of NATO now? Um. Promise! Wasn’t it 6 years ago when President Trump was threatening pulling out of NATO if countries didn’t start paying their share that NATO had a tantrum (started some of them paying their share, didn’t make up for their lack prior, but they started paying up). Not only should US pull out of NATO, NATO should be kicked out of the US. Let them deal with Russia and China when they come out to fight between themselves over Europe (not really, because then we have to deal anyway, that isn’t good either).

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              1. The only problem is kicking out the US from the UN gives some credibility to some bad actor countries that weren’t ever let in, or got kicked out. But … worth it.

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  12. Every time I see the word “anarchy” I get caught in revery to my first time watching The Osterman Weekend with Rutger Hauer and John Hurt. It was my first introduction to news bias and lying for political gain.

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    1. I didn’t realize they’d made a movie of that Ludlum novel. I remember reading it as a teen. Local libraries had most of his novels; not only was Ludlum popular, but he was a local.

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      1. His early stuff was good, but he started going political and barking-moonbat Left. I’m used to reading around that in mainstream fiction, but it got so bad the storylines started wandering off the “willing suspension of disbelief” reservation.

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        1. Yeah, anything past mid 90’s or so kinda sucked. But the stuff of his I was reading in high school all predated that.

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        2. The Road To Omaha was the last book published of his that I read. I’d read around ten or so of his other novels, and liked almost all of them. The one I liked the least was The Road To Gandolfo

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  13. I get a kick out of reading the English and then German versions of the official German news websites. The German is a lot less … measured … about US politics and culture. And German politics.

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  14. Look, I don’t expect to understand everything about European countries, so I wish more Europeans would realize that they are clueless about the US, Canada, Mexico, et al.

    If you want to see something kinda funny, the Pasta Grammar channel has the Italian immigrant lady’s parents visiting the US from Calabria in Italy. The Pasta Grammar lady spent the early years of the channel disapproving of all Italian-American cooking; and apparently she got it from her mom and dad, whom she takes to Costco to go grocery shopping and skeptical eyeing. They even get to disapprove of the Swedish approach to meatballs. (But both the mom and dad are good cooks and will be doing cooking videos this week too.)

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    1. You’re not surprised, are you? After all, hereditary royalty is the very definition of ‘entitled’. :-P

      Of course, we’ve got pretty much the same thing here; see the Kennedys, Clintons and 0bamas. All they lack are the ‘patents of nobility’.

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        1. The Reader believes she gives shrews a bad name. Shakespeare’s portrayal of Katherina makes for a much more sympathetic character.

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    3. Well, um, Britain doesn’t want them back … Or rather they don’t want her. Harry and the children are welcome. Nothing to do with racism. They just don’t want the shrew around.

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    1. From a Canadian singer-comedian in the 1970’s (and I wish I could find out who it was… was lent an unlabeled tape..):

      “There’s a new British joke over here, ‘The pound has fallen, but the penny hasn’t dropped.'”

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  17. Amusingly… there’s a guy running around who’s actually Kermit Roosevelt IV, but he goes by Kermit Roosevelt III.

    Apparently his dad just went by Kermit Roosevelt, and didn’t do anything in particular in public life. But his granddad was Kermit Roosevelt, Jr., and his great-granddad was Kermit Roosevelt, Sr. So that should make him IV.

    I mean… if you’re going to go by a number, and you don’t have to, it really should be the actual number. You don’t just use the wrong one.

    Weird, weird, weird.

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    1. I was reading about the German “Traffic Light” government, and that with its collapse, the party that will fare the worst is the one that was trying to inject sanity into the mix. The moderate-right collaborating with the left and lefter parties is interesting, if you like real time trainwreck watches.

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  19. To be fair, people in Europe who want to understand the US will tend to look around and find good info. Even if they disagree with how Americans think, they will see that we have reasons for our opinions and way of life.

    Everybody else just isn’t bothering.

    Being persuaded to not look, because it’s just too dumb to investigate — that’s some real propaganda mastery being exercised on people. I’ve been fooled that way myself about some things, and I always kicked myself afterward.

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  20. If Europe was “all that” our ancestors would have stayed there.

    And, dear Europe, it’s not that we do not know our “betters” – we deny the very existence such critters.

    Oh, and we DO know our place. It’s at the top.

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    1. Makes you wonder why we keep rescuing the darned pace from itself.

      I mean, would the Kaiser really have been any worse than what we got by going “Over There”?

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      1. It’s not like they hadn’t been attacking each other for centuries already, going back to the Goths vs. the Franks.

        Of course, America’s entry into WWI can be summed up with one word: Wilson.

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        1. It’s too bad the folks who invent time machines keep going after Adolph, where all the Time Police are kept on alert.

          Moving Woodrow’s stroke up a few years, I’d think to right around the 1916 election, which he won by barely winning the swing state of California’s electoral votes by 3k-ish votes.

          A bit before that election, with Edith doing the same hiding his unconscious body, might paralyze everything so he loses, but the R guy probably would have gone ahead and joined the war. So probably better right after, with Wilson barely winning by his public posturing for neutrality (his election slogan was “He kept us out of war!”) locked in as official public policy, but Woodrow, being unconscious with Edith guarding the door, unable to scheme to get us in the way he did. That might have kept us out long enough for the German frontline innovations to take hold and France to collapse.

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  21. Off topic.

    Prayers appreciated. Hubby goes in for surgery tomorrow morning for Prostrate removal, cancer. PSMA test showed the cancer confined to the prostrate. Surgery should get it all (10% chance cancer has spread but cancer not clustered enough to be visible to the test.)

    What we have learned in this process.

    1. Son needs to start PSA scanning at 40 because primary parent had it (so did maternal grandfather, but secondary relative does not trigger suggested early scanning).
    2. Most die with prostrate cancer, not of it, it is that slow growing. That said there is a threshold where “do something” recommendation is tipped from “keep a watch on the number”. Depends on how much cancer and rating. Hubby tipped over that point.
    3. Surgery, then radiation is an option, if PSA numbers rise again.
    4. Radiation was an option instead of surgery, but if PSA numbers go up again, neither surgery nor more radiation is an option.
    5. Once surgery is done and cancer is removed PSA numbers will drop to 0 and needs to stay there. Any raise in PSA means cancer is not gone.

    Side affect of both Surgery and Radiation is essentially the same. Some additional side affects of the hormone taken before radiation. Bonus of surgery is “once and done”. Radiation is 45 days, 5 days a week for 9 weeks, after taking hormone for 6 weeks.

    After surgery, he’ll come home after one night in the hospital, with a catheter for a week. Restricted from doing anything at all for a few weeks to prevent a hernia (not looking forward to this. He won’t be a good patient.) Surgery uses fine control surgery instruments with an expert surgeon manipulating the instruments, which is a small incision, but to pull the prostrate out the incision has to be larger.

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      3. Hubby’s PSA started low, with enlarged prostrate. But escalated quickly over about 2 years. Which is why the biopsy. His was rated 4 of 5 or 8 of 10, take your pick. Which is what triggered the “waiting and watching is an option, but not the recommended option”. Hubby is 72 (73 in Feb ’25).

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    3. The surgery used to be a big deal, and usually had unfortunate and permanent side effects.

      In recent years newer procedures, better imaging, and sometimes robotic assistance have made long-term outcomes *much* better. It’s still not risk-free, but it’s not the life-changing event it used to be.

      About the PSA thing… you might want to look that up. There are other things besides cancer that can affect the PSA test, and the test seldom shows zero, both due to that and that it can react to other, non-PSA proteins. PSA isn’t definitive, and there’s some handwavery in interpreting the numbers.

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      2. Thank you. Will research PSA numbers.

        He is under robotic surgery (10:10 AM this morning, tracking where he is at now through hospital portal) currently.

        PSA levels triggered biopsy. Found cancer in 8 of 10 on one side, and 4 of 10 on the other. Grade 4 of 5 across the board. The PSMA scan showed confined to prostrate (91% confident).

        I’m sure we’ll be more educated as surgery finishes, and followups over time.

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      1. Hubby is recovery currently. Should be hearing about what room they moved him too shortly. Surgeon called. Procedure went good. Hubby did good. Heard from recovery nurse and hubby is waking up slowly but good. Stays one night, so home tomorrow.

        Next. At least a week with a catheter and not picking up or carrying anything larger than his cell phone. No golf for at least 4 weeks or more (if very good might get to put in 2 weeks, and chip in 3). The risk is hernia. (He will drive me nuts. Will roll my eyes, so if they roll any of your way, toss them back please. Will enjoy every minute.)

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        1. Black bruises, sudden cramps, and shooting pains are common. It’s also common to pass blood occasionally. The urinary sphincter takes some abuse during the surgery and then from the catheter, and it can take a week to a couple of months before leakage is fully under control. Which is tedious and embarrassing, but it will get better.

          Recovery takes a while; the big part is for him not to get discouraged before he’s fully recovered.

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          1. Most, especially the last, he’s been told (I was there) as part of the side affects from surgery. Interestingly enough (don’t know if he started the exercises or not) he was told last Friday, by the radiation urologist specialist to start doing Kegels before the surgery. He’ll be doing them after the catheter comes out. (We women know what those are. Learn about them if are pregnant, then later because older.)

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  22. OT: An X post arguing that social media is the new oral culture. The “perpetual now” part is what struck me. That’s the main difference between social media and blogs. Blogs are semi-permanent, and you can catch up on past events by reading the relevant posts. Social media is transitory. Even when you can dig up the relevant posts, you won’t get the hundreds or thousands of other posts that gave them context. You had to have been there.

    https://x.com/default_friend/status/1855428042694221942#m

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  23. ‘They’re telling the Hi-La-Rious joke of “What borders on complete stupidity? Mexico and Canada.”’

    ——–

    Europeans, no. Local areas, perhaps. But not across the breadth of Europe. For one thing, as someone noted yesterday on X, Europe has many different languages. And the joke doesn’t translate properly in some of the languages, as those languages don’t have the dual meaning to “borders on” that English does. Apparently French is one of the languages in which the joke doesn’t work.

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    2. You know, part of this post-viral syndrome is that my brain turns off at some point in the evening. So when you posted this I just went “oh, okay.” Then woke up this morning with waitaminute.
      You are TECHNICALLY correct that in those words you can’t tell that joke. But hell, you can tell it in Portuguese with a tiny alteration and that means “translation” works fine. Translation always betrays a little. And if it works in Portuguese it works in EVERY Latin language. And since the idea is easily translatable, it should work in Swedish too. Nope. This is not true at all.
      Beyond the fact that most of Europe communicates between countries in English, and that this is the level — the transnational elite — at which this joke gets/got told, what you say is not true. It’s wrong.
      And yeah, the joke came back to me four times, from different countries, so yeah, they are saying this. Now, is it at street level? Normally I’d believe not. After this visit …. who knows? Also Europeans IN GENERAL love feeling superior to the US. It’s just a thing. Maybe ego salving for us saving their bacon TWICE.
      In Portuguese it would be “O que esta perto da estupidez total?”

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  26. “It never occurs to them that when a country the size of a continent makes these choices and they disagree it is POSSIBLY their lack of information, their lack of understanding of this utterly foreign country, their ignorance and smug stupidity.”

    You should see the sh1t-talk that passes for news in Canada these days. It has been decided by the purveyors of mainstream news that they’re going to run with “Trump Voters Are Morons” for the next news cycle.

    Nothing new for Canada. Canadians widely consider Americans to be low class and low education. Which really says more about them than it does about Americans. Self-satisfied idiots, thinking all they have to do is vote Liberal and Jimmy Government will look after their every want and need. Since the 1960s, always the same.

    Kind of not working now though. The Canadian government very much appears to have been taken over by China, and I do mean that literally. Canadian government programs are destabilizing Canada with ever-greater speed and effectiveness. Its the kind of thing that can only be explained by treason at the highest levels. Like the pullout from Afghanistan, except its all happening HERE.

    To me, the best possible thing to happen to Canada in the last ten years was #OrangeManBad wining that election. Slap some tariffs on Canada please. Give our Laurentian Elites a hearty kick in the nethers, slap the banksters so hard their teeth rattle. When the Normies finally wake up to the fact that they’ve been sold to China, there will be one hell of a reckoning.

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  27. Jean-Francois Revel wrote about European ignorance of America (and their ignorance of their ignorance) in his book “Without Marx or Jesus” in 1970, and again in 2000 in “Anti-Americanism”. Apparently nothing has changed.

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