Fauci Laughed All the Way to the Bank

No vax for HIV after 40 years of research. 

No vax for cancer after more than 100 years of research.

No vax for the common cold since 1600 BCE. 

Yet a virus mysteriously appears and within 12 months a 'vax' is found by 4 pharma companies all within 1 week.

Charles William Hild

 

Charles William Hild.      Charles was Father, Son, Husband, Grandfather, Brother, Uncle, Father-in-Law, Deacon, and  Friend.

We knew him as Pepper.  

I stand here as a son-in-law, which is a peculiar and blessed office. You don’t choose your father-in-law. He arrives with the woman you love, and then, if you are fortunate, he becomes one of the men who quietly steadies your life.

Pepper was that kind of man.

He welcomed me not as a visitor, but as family. He never made me audition for a place at the table. He treated the marriage of his daughter as a trust, and he honored that trust by being kind. 

Today, I want to turn this around.     I want to speak to all of us on behalf of Pepper.

What would Pepper want for us?  What would he want to say today? 

In times of death words can be difficult.   I know he doesn’t want tears.

He wants warmth, and smiles, and gratitude for life well lived.  He wants the best for us.

Charles, Pepper, or POP,  none of us will ever forget you.     You were a loving husband.  You were a caring father.  You were a proud grandfather.

Your spirit will carry on,  we will always hear your voice.

Today and all the tomorrows ahead, it will be Pepper and Wanda, together again. with wide smiles, and happy times in the presence of angels and our Heavenly Father.      

Pepper had an attitude that Good always won over Bad.  He always told us to be careful in most aspects of life and things would be okay.

Losing a father is not easy.   There aren’t many people in life that stand in your corner and never quit.

Remember Pam and Adam, Your Dad will always be with you.  You will carry his energy and his spirit, in your heart, and in your mind, and you will never forget the man who gave you so much to remember. 

Now let me speak for Pepper.  Fathers are not replaced but Pepper doesn’t want us mourning his loss.   He thanks us and wants us to gather here and celebrate life, spirit, positive attitudes, and the joy that he brought in his wonderful voice and his warm smile. 

So today, we smile.  We give thanks.  We remember.  What I will remember most is not a single speech or a single day, but a pattern: a man who showed up. Who asked after his grandchildren. Who took pride in work well done. Who loved his daughter without making a performance of it. That kind of love doesn’t announce itself. It simply holds.  Over three short decades ago I talked to Pop about taking his daughters hand in marriage.  Hadn’t done it before, haven’t done it since. 

He said to me after I awkwardly got the question out of my mouth,  “ That would be fine, she’d like that”.     So from the lakes of Minnesota to the hills of Tennessee I knew it would be okay with Pepper!

To my wife: he gave you a foundation. To our sons: he gave you a grandfather’s example of what a decent man looks like when no one is watching. To me: he gave the rare gift of a father-in-law who made it easy to honor him.

We do not replace a man like that. We carry him. We tell the stories. We keep the standards he lived by—loyalty, work, family, and a handshake that meant something.

What Pepper left behind makes us appreciate life even more.   Pop, your legacy lives on.  

We have our memories and more will flood over us in the days to come.  

I only fished with Pop a couple of times, but I know he loved being on the water. He loved fishing and football.   He loved the game.

I always felt Pop would have been a great football coach.  He loved the sport, the play calling, the strategy of the grid iron!  He always watched  U of TN football games.

What I most admired about Pepper was the time, of strength, of effort, of patience and faith it took to take care of his wife, Gramma Wanda, for the last decade of her life as she suffered with dementia.   

Pepper did his best, at her side.  It wasn’t easy.  It was a courageous undertaking and he did his best.  His best was the only thing he knew how to do.

Pepper today we gather not only to mourn our loss in this world  but also to celebrate you “going on ahead” to a better place.              

For sure, Father Time always wins but he was very generous with Pepper.

We know that you were taken from us before we would have liked but the Lord had other plans.     But lucky us,  we had the distinct privilege of having you for nearly 90 years!

I would like to end by thanking God for the many mercies he has shown the Hild family over the last few years. 

In so many ways, Pepper, we were fortunate to have you in good health these past few years.    

Today, Pepper, we know you look down on us from heaven above.  We know you soar with the angels.  You will remain an enormous influence on us.  And so today, Pepper, we honor you.   

Tomorrow we will miss you. 

Forever Pop, we will love and remember you. 

We hope to join you in heaven in our own time.  We loved you dearly, Pop.

And we close today not with a goodbye,  or a farewell, but with wholesome gratitude for the life we were lucky enough to share.

May the light Pepper carried shine in each of us.

Pepper, thank you. You were a good father, a good grandfather, and a good man to have standing behind a marriage. Rest easy. We have the watch now.

May we never forget the goodness of Charles William Hild as he would want the Lord to be with every one of you.

Amen.

Boys of Fall

 

Nevada doesn't require orange gear to hunt mule deer.  That said, deer are color blind.  

There's fun ahead.  Nevada here we come. 

When is the IMPLOSION?

 

Corporate America Calling the Shots?

American corporations have 535 red and blue, Dem and Republicans (Christian Taliban) who do the bidding for Corporate America.

There is no difference.

None.

You know it.

I know it.

Nothing gets done.

$40,000,000,000,000 deep in debt (fraud?) today but no one is talking about the Medicare unfunded liabilities that are NOT on the balance sheet and the Social Security liabilities that are NOT on the balance sheet.

Here is GROK talking:

The bigger numbers you are pointing at are real, they are official, and they are mostly off the balance sheet.

What is on the books right now

Gross federal debt outstanding is about $40.1 trillion as of mid-September 2026.

Breakout from early September:

• Debt held by the public: ~$32.4 trillion
• Intragovernmental holdings (what Treasury owes the trust funds): ~$7.7 trillion

The FY 2025 Financial Report of the U.S. Government (as of Sept. 30, 2025) books $47.8 trillion of total liabilities:

• Federal debt and interest payable: $30.3 trillion
• Federal employee and veteran benefits: $15.5 trillion
• Other liabilities: ~$2.0 trillion
• Net position: –$41.7 trillion

Social Security and Medicare future shortfalls are not recorded as balance-sheet liabilities. Federal accounting rules put them in the Statement of Social Insurance instead. That is the “not on the balance sheet” point.

The off-balance-sheet numbers (official)

FY 2025 Financial Report, 75-year present value, open group:

Item	75-year PV shortfall
Social Security	$27.9 trillion
Medicare Part A (HI)	$3.3 trillion
Medicare Parts B & D (SMI)	$57.1 trillion
Other social insurance	$0.1 trillion
Total social insurance	$88.4 trillion

That $88.4 trillion is up $10.1 trillion from the prior year.

The 2026 Trustees Reports (newer than the FY 2025 financial statements) update Social Security and Part A:

• Social Security OASDI 75-year unfunded obligation: $29.3 trillion (as of Jan. 1, 2026)
• Social Security infinite-horizon unfunded obligation: $71.9 trillion
• Medicare Part A 75-year unfunded obligation: $4.2 trillion

Parts B and D do not “go insolvent” the same way. Law requires general-fund subsidies and premiums to be reset every year, so the shortfall shows up as future Treasury cash, not a trust-fund crash. That is why SMI is the largest single off-balance-sheet item.

When the trust funds run out under current law

• OASI (retirement): Q4 2032 — then only 78% of scheduled benefits can be paid
• Combined Social Security: 2034 — then 83%
• Medicare Part A: Q2 2033 — then 89% of Part A costs can be paid

Fraud vs the $40 trillion claim

There is no official $40 trillion fraud estimate. That number is the debt.

What the government does measure:

FY 2025 CMS improper payments (overpayments, underpayments, missing docs — not all fraud):

• Medicare FFS: $28.8 billion (6.55%)
• Medicare Advantage (Part C): $23.7 billion (6.09%)
• Part D: $4.2 billion (4.00%)
• Medicaid: $37.4 billion (6.12%)
• CHIP: $1.4 billion

Call it roughly $95 billion in one year across those programs. CMS itself says a large share is documentation/eligibility error, not proven fraud.

GAO has said there is still no reliable government-wide estimate of actual Medicare fraud. Recoveries are much smaller: state Medicaid Fraud Control Units reported about $2 billion recovered in FY 2025.

How to read it in one sentence

About $40 trillion is borrowed and on the Treasury debt clock. Another ~$15 trillion of federal worker/veteran benefits is on the official balance sheet. Social Security plus Medicare future shortfalls add on the order of $80–90 trillion over 75 years in present value — and those promises are not booked as liabilities.

Let me ask you, you are reading this so you must have a couple of brain cells working, why aren't the CEO's, the CFO's, the Chief Risk Officers, the Chief Investment Officers being fired or led out in handcuffs for all the fraud?

The lack of accountability, the breach of fiduciary duty, the lack of oversight by BOD's, and of course the lack of any integrity in journalism and this is what America is left with.

Yes.

It's coming.

And don't get me started on FINRA or the SEC. All you need to know about the Securities & Exchange Commission is one word.

MADOFF.

Dylan Ratigan Talking Buffet

I was 24 years old when Warren Buffett invited me to sit next to him at a minor league baseball game in Omaha, Nebraska.

It was the late 1990s and the Omaha Royals were playing at Rosenblatt Stadium during Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting weekend. Buffett sat to my right; people came up one after another. Autographs, pictures, handshakes. In between, I peppered him with questions. Buffett was already one of the richest men in the world, however what interested me wasn’t his wealth. It was how he thought about capitalism.

Buffett believed the most important consideration was that capital should find good people. Give trustworthy people control of good businesses and resources. Let them work. Let them create real value over long periods of time. The product didn’t have to change the world, it could be Coca-Cola, it could be See’s Candy. What mattered was whether the people running the company could be trusted to allocate capital intelligently.

Then we started talking about the estate tax. I thought I understood it. I didn’t. 

Buffett didn’t describe the estate tax as a punishment for rich people.

He didn’t even principally describe it as a way for the government to raise money. He described it as critical part of the machinery of capitalism. 

Capital must circulate to ensure society adapts and grows. Europe had spent centuries building aristocracies in which enormous pools of wealth passed from one generation of a family to another and the continent had stagnated. America was built in direct rejection of this idea.

Buffett argued that America must be different. The people who created great fortunes had demonstrated an ability to allocate capital. (Monopoly and regulatory capture were not so prevalent at that time to make money.) The children of the rich had demonstrated only that they had chosen their parents well.

He gave me an analogy I never forgot. Imagine choosing the next Olympic team from the children of the current gold medalists. Maybe the fastest man’s son is fast, maybe his daughter is faster. But there is no reason to believe either is the fastest person in America….so why would we assume that the child of a brilliant capital allocator is also the person best qualified to allocate billions of dollars? Especially when this allocation is a critical function? Buffett’s argument was not against wealth. It was against an aristocracy that freezes the flow of capital to productive use. Break up enough dynastic capital and the money has to compete again. (This also assumes a trustworthy government that doesn’t squander our tax money on war and fraudulent government contracts.) The freed-up money finds the young entrepreneur, the engineer, the immigrant. The kid nobody has heard of with an idea nobody understands yet. The hungry people. 

That conversation changed how I understood the estate tax.

I stopped seeing it simply as a debate about taxation. I began seeing it as a debate about who gets the next chance. Warren Buffett has spent his life arguing that capitalism works best when capital follows ability rather than bloodline. 

He has also arranged for the overwhelming majority of his personal fortune to be given away rather than simply inherited by his children. But now, at the end of one of the greatest careers in American capitalism, his son Howard is succeeding him as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. There is an important distinction. Howard Buffett isn’t taking over Warren’s job running the company. Greg Abel is CEO. Howard’s role is different. Still, the symbolism is impossible to miss. The man who taught me that America should not choose its next economic leaders from the children of its previous winners—has chosen his son to guard the institution he built. Maybe there is no contradiction, just something endearingly human. But the larger principle he taught me that night remains more important than the irony. 

Healthy capitalism needs circulation, of money, of ownership, of opportunity, of power. When capital stops circulating, capitalism begins hardening into something else. The people who inherit the money keep the money usually with limited productive use. Children inherit the money, then they inherit the institutions and eventually they inherit the power. 

That isn’t capitalism finding the best and brightest. That’s the very aristocracy America was created to reject. 

I was 24 years old when Warren Buffett taught me the difference.

I never forgot it.poly and regulatory capture were not so prevalent tha

Swan Song of the Oracle of Omaha

 

Ever track a black bear?