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Way back in 1984 I spent $6000 on a high end, high powered “exotic” stereo system, comprised of two tower speakers, pre-amp, amplifier and tuner, and have enjoyed it immensely all these years. Over the years I blew out the woofers and one midrange. The woofers only needed cone replacements but the midrange was toast and a long search ensued for as close to exact a replacement I could find. All this was done about 18 years ago and of course I continued to use the sound system.

Now it’s all 42 years old and those very expensive speakers are sounding kinda tired, so I purchased a high-end pair of Klipsch speakers, which arrived two days ago.

But a little while ago the power amplifier lost one channel and after trying all the fixes on Facebook and a few of my own to no avail, I started looking on ebay, and found and bought one today that’s guaranteed to be fully functional. We will see, upon it’s arrival. It’s the same model as my semi-failed amp, and also considered “Exotic” along with the other system units.

Anyway, today I hooked up the CD player to the pre-amp, the pre-amp to the one good channel left on the amp and that to one of the new speakers and Oh-My-God, was I ever right about the old speakers sounding tired. The sound is CRISP again, I can hear the tiny notes, the sharp cutoff as each one was originally played, the bass is clear again instead of the deep rumble it had become, the high notes are sharp as knives again. I love it. I absolutely love it. How much more amazing it’s going to be when the replacement amp is here and the second speaker joins in the harmony.

My only friendship here has ended, as I previously posted, but the music is renewed. This isn’t seen as a trade-off, just changes. Things always change and we have to know how to roll with them. I actually feel ebullient. Gad, how long has that been?

There’s much to be said for staying within your own purview and that which you can control, especially in old age. Life is difficult enough when we’re young.

Over 30% of the manufactured fertilizer chemicals, produced from oil, passes through the Hormuz Strait each year and it’s these artificial fertilizers that have made it possible for the human population of Earth to increase to 8 billion people. Most farming areas on our globe were depleted of most of their nutrients long ago and without the yearly addition of fresh nutrient, would be unable to produce crops sufficient to feed everyone.

Right now it’s Spring in the Western Hemisphere. It’s planting season and the fields need to be fertilized, plowed and planted. Right now is also when the availability of fertilizers is being blocked. Just saying…

Doctors are becoming more and more alarmed as they see infant mortality increasing among those whose mothers took the Covid injections. These children are dying from diseases and problems they never should have had and are showing the same spike proteins in their blood that their mothers have, even though they never got the shots. Just saying…

NATO seems to be disintegrating. If it does, then when a NATO member, or I should say former NATO member gets attacked by, say, China or Russia, no one will come to their aid. In other words, if NATO goes, the primary impediment to making war on a smaller nation no longer exists, so why not do it? Just saying…

Africa reached it’s maximum sustainable population many decades ago. Anyone remember Kwashiorkor babies? That’s when infants turn into skeletons with bloated stomachs because the people don’t stop making babies even though there’s already too many of them for the available food supply. So there was this massive famine in Ethiopia, over a million people died of starvation, mostly women and children because of a drought that severely limited harvests. That was just Ethiopia and a lack of rain. Now let’s think about just this one year, 2026 and the fall harvest ahead, and a global lack of soil nutrients. What if there’s a drought, too? A global drought? Just saying…

Google says: “Early 2026 reports already indicate significant droughts in the US Southeast, parts of South America, and East Africa.” I don’t know about “parts of South America” but East Africa is the most populous part of the continent, so it looks like Ethiopia may be in for it again. The US Southeast is a massive food producer that includes 60% of the total U.S. agricultural export volume. The USA is still the breadbasket of the world. Just saying…

Of course, all of this is no doubt completely coincidental…

This was the punch line for a cartoon in Playboy Magazine that appeared sometime in the 1960’s, by Gahan Wilson. The cartoon was of a little naked man inside what looked like a cardboard box that was laying on it’s side with him in the open side looking out, and scowling.

There was a lot of truth to that cartoon then and nothing has changed in the 60 or so years since I saw it. What brings me to think of this now is that the very last friend I had is now gone, not by dying, just by abandonment.

I’ve been watching the changes in attitude toward me as the effects of my aging become more prominent. My hearing is degrading along with my eyesight and physical strength and the wrinkles are steadily increasing. The only thing that isn’t slowly failing me is my brain. The rest is going where aging takes it. I’m not a different person, I’m still the same guy, I just don’t look like it the way I used to, I have to wear a hearing aid in public now if I want to hear what a waitress or clerk is saying and I need reading glasses to read menus, receipts and so forth.

My friend, though 34 years younger than me, is aging faster than I am, probably from getting a couple of those Covid poison injections, so maybe it’s just fear of aging that I’m too much of a reminder of. In any case, the more I’ve aged, the less interest or respect for my friendship has been shown me and it’s plainly gone beyond repair.

I think the only real lesson to take from this is that we should be grateful for the good times. Like everything else in life, they don’t last. If we hang on to that which is no longer there, we keep ourselves from moving on to new good times. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is my Philosophy Hint For Today.

Another black guy running amok with a gun. Shamar Elkins just blew away 7, yes that’s SEVEN of His Own kids along with another black child belonging to someone else but with all those kids he no doubt mistook the last one for one of his own. Not that it matters. No one with a brain has any business fathering that many polluting eaters but I have to applaud his actions, as he sure recognized his error and made to correct it.

DeVaughn, I mean Trayvon, no, wait…, Shamar Elkins, sorry, those names they give their kids always kinda run together… anyway, Shamar got whacked by the cops after losing a car chase with him being the chasee. Good ending really, I mean, if he’d lived, who knew how many more of those critters he would have bred? He relieved the welfare rolls of 8 non-contributing eaters and future drug dealers, drive-by shooters and rapists and then got offed, you can’t ask for a better ending.

Donald J. Trump, The New Jesus. He Walks Among Us. Ooowow. Yes, these are the AI pictures he actually posted on his Truth Social site.

He’s really pissing off a lot of the Very Religious right now, portraying himself as being The Second Coming’s Big Buddy or something. He’s been spouting a lot of stuff about God lately, but if he’s a follower of Jesus’s teachings, I’m the King of England.

There’s an absolutely massive mountain of dirt that’s still growing larger, on one end of the District of Columbia golf course, not far from the White House where it was revealed that the ballroom being constructed as a White House extension is actually a cover for what Trump describes as an extensive bunker, a sort of big “safe room” in case of attack.

I think that’s a big LIE. I thought so the instant he said it. If the White House is hit with a nuke, no one in that supposed “underground bunker” will survive. What I’ll bet my favorite pair of socks on is that they’re digging a tunnel for a one-way rapid transit roadway to take them far, far away from the White House, in a big hurry if the need arises. Nothing else makes any sense. I mean, an underground bunker right by the White House that everyone knows is there? You might as well mark the D.C. maps with a bullseye. BANG, there goes the entire US government.

There’s other things I’d look for to prove my little theory but I’m not going to speak of them. No sense giving the bad guys any more of a leg up on this than they probably already have, assuming they’ve already come to the same conclusion I have.

And conveniently forget that it’s Iran we’re at, not Mars.

There’s not one single thing that we stood to gain by sending four people around the moon, because we’ve already done that many, many times fifty years ago. We know all about the moon, we’ve mapped and remapped it, we know where the water sources are, we know it’s interior, we know the moon.

The reason a rocket was sent around the moon was to distract everyone from what’s going on in the Middle East for awhile and the fact that the Strait of Hormuz is still blocked by Iran in spite of a so-called cease-fire deal that stipulates that Iran had to open it. They have not and now the US is going to be NEGOTIATING with Iran again, meaning that absolutely nothing will change.

We said that there would be no cease fire until Iran surrendered. Then we shot off a rocket to the moon and while everyone was staring at the shrinking dot of it, we stopped attacking Iran and agreed to negotiate.

Joe Rogan, who’s a fat, bald, stupid, loudmouth piece of shit but has a pretty successful podcast where he spouts a lot of unlikely brainfart crap, has been going on about missing and dead very important scientists, nine of them now, and he may be on to something actual. I mean, those scientists have died or disappeared under extremely suspicious circumstances and it’s too many to just be a strange coincidence. Those men were into advanced sciences and now they’re gone. Violently. Rogan says they were into advanced energy research. He says.

Iran and the Middle East are all about oil. Oil gives us Energy, Chemicals, Drugs, Plastics, Fertilizers. That’s what oil is, it runs the world and the world runs on oil. Most of the world’s oil must pass through the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile top energy scientists that might know how to open new energy sources that eliminate our need for oil for energy all disappear and a rocket flies around the moon.

If this isn’t all connected, I’ll eat Freddy Kreuger’s shorts.

Amazon is preparing to spend $200 billion on Artificial Intelligence computers and infrastructure. Amazon makes their own computer chips as a competitor of Nvidia and they’re not alone in spending vast sums on the development of AI, which is currently much like a Gold Rush worldwide. AI is the new industrial future coming to us, where everything is done by AI. When all goods are self-produced, all factories are built and maintained by AI robots that are also maintained by other robots, the cost to humans goes to zero. Once all this is established there’s no need for further investment, just tell the AI what to do and it does it. The AI will have to limit what it makes, to prevent exhausting available raw materials and that will naturally cause groups of people to start demanding More, More, and riots……….

A science fiction nightmare at it’s finest and it’s becoming reality.

How do you count 513 humpback whales all humping away at a mating gathering in the middle of the ocean? Why would you count them? Exactly how perverted do you have to be to count them while they’re humping? Is there no privacy anywhere anymore? These are all questions that should be answered by someone, preferably someone in a wet suit being mistaken for a baby humpback by a doting mother with a massive lactating teat.

Wikipedia tells us that “Project Blue Beam is a conspiracy theory alleging that NASA and the United Nations plan to simulate an alien invasion or a “Second Coming of Christ” using advanced holograms and technology. Proposed by Serge Monast in 1994, this theory claims the goal is to implement a New Age religion and a totalitarian New World”

If you’ve seen what hologram technology can pull off now, then this shouldn’t seem like a far stretch. When they can fill the whole sky over a large city with a realistic, 3 dimensional moving image of what passes very nicely for a deity that talks, that’s a pretty good start and if they can make it seem like it’s talking inside your head, and I bet they can, then what’s not for the average dumb schmuck to believe?

No, I don’t think this is a real conspiracy, but it would make for a great science fiction movie.