From my good friend Tyler Durden at ZERO HEDGE:
What could soon emerge is an early, crowdfunded, DOGE-like network of citizen journalists - funded by tech bros, supported by private investigators, guided by tips and prior research, and aimed at systematically exposing and documenting alleged Democratic Party fraud across blue states. Such an effort could flood the news cycle with so many egregious fraud cases that Democrats would face immense difficulty mounting any compelling counter-narrative.
This is info war gearing up before the midterm election cycle.
This morning, eating breakfast, on my pool deck, watching whales off the coast of Baja my phone rang.
I very seldom answer calls from numbers I don't recognize, but this was from Bozeman, Montana, so I answered. I seldom get cranky or asshole phone calls from Montana. Neither do you.
I answer. It was a paid contractor hired by the Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks to conduct a telephonic survey of big game hunters in Montana this past fall.
I have wondered for years why Montana doesn't stop wasting taxpayers' money on the retrieval of ALL hunter data, which will continue, not just SOME hunter data.
Why can't Montana do what other states do that require MANDATORY hunter reporting? Some states will fine you, others will not allow you to apply for a license the following year. So simple, so easy, everyone has a cell phone.
Silly me, I thought, the survey results were critical and used to improve game management; however, I don't think that is the case. In fact, I think it provides very little information to improve animal herds and more about how to show statistics, so FWP can justify their jobs. Granted, it’s not about fixing the deer herd. Filling out a harvest survey on a swan tag doesn’t do much for the deer herd. Or a cow elk harvest. I’ve never claimed any of this would fix the Montana mule deer herd, because I’m smart enough to know that buck hunting has nothing to do with deer herd numbers and the health of the deer herds.
FWP, you have so much "intel" to glean from these calls, why not do it?
This caller, who was professional and diligent, only asked me about the two deer tags I had in Montana this year. She didn't question me on whether I had harvested an elk, asked nothing about waterfowl or how many I had bagged, no mention of partridge, pheasants, doves or turkey. Had no questions about the number of predators I might have killed. Did not ask me where I had stayed, whether in public or private accomodations, whether I had paid for access, whether I travled by air or drove, hired an outfitter, hunted public land, witness any game law violations, hunted private land, the change in the number of animals I might have observed if I had hunted in Montana in previous years, and on a 1 to 10 scale as a non-resident what I thought of the Montana season overall and my hunt. Didn't close with any open-ended comments like "Will you apply again to hunt in Montana?" or "Is there anything else you would like to add to your overall hunting experience this fall in Montana?"
The call ended and I felt this feeling of dread.
Mule deer numbers are dismal in Montana. That may never change in my life.
FWP was still issuing mule deer doe tags in Region 7. If you care about mule deer, it's unbelievable what government won't do for herd health.
You sit around and watch and listen to the theft and corruption in Minnesota and think that is alot of money. Think again.
These scumbags in Congress getting their pockets lined by special interests, NGO's, foreign entities, it goes on and on and on.
This crap is so obvious!
Now get to work and find out how much grift the system is taking out of the Medicare/Medicaid programs across the nation.
Very seldom will I ever make a market forecast.
For 2026, I will venture a prognostication.
I let the chart tell me what to do and what not to do. To buy or to sell.
Price. My price is the final nail in the proverbial coffin of whether I should be in a given stock.
You see, I don't need stocks. I probably did over a million trades for our investment management firm clients. A few of them DID NOT need stocks; they needed safety, income and time alive.
I will say this. When it hits, it will make last spring's pullback look like a walk in the park.
You see, gold and it's good friend, silver are calling bullshit on a lot, if not all of it.
It's happening, and most people are oblivious.
Common sense surfaced in California the other day.
Imagine that?
“Under the Fourteenth Amendment, parents have a substantive due process right to know of and explore whether their own child’s gender incongruence is a medical or psychological condition and whether and what kind of treatment or approach is in their child’s best interest. The State Defendants’ experts say that a child’s gender identity is innate. There is no evidence presented to back up that assertion.”May you live long and prosper Sir!
Nick doing what the media goons won't do!
Bring us more in 2026 Mr. Shirley!
Not CBSThe lies to the American people continue.
Days, weeks, months, years. No end to the lies.
Pam Bondi told us there was nothing more to see all the way back in July of 2025.
Who would have thought that Pam Bondi would be even worse than Garland or Barr?
Kash Patel worse than Wray or Comey?
Why were these documents just now discovered?
Were these documents reviewed by this Administration’s DOJ for crimes? If not, now what?
What is the internal audit process to make sure legal redactions, and only legal redactions, are being made?
Why can't we have a competent DOJ, ever?
You know what is a very curious thing about this whole Epstein debacle? It appears all the victims were girls, all the johns were men, and it's a woman who's in prison for it!
I wonder why Trump chose Pam Bondi to be his Attorney General? I think it's because he knew he was going to have to deliver on his campaign promises to release the Epstein files, and it was going to be political chicanery.
The greatest cover-up of bribery, child prostitution, entrapment, pay-offs, blackmail, and political leverage that has ever been hidden, found, promised, then redacted or lost and dismissed as fake right here in front of us.
And then there is the unexplained $500,000,000,000 of funds that went through obliging banking cartels with 20% margins to duck the rules of money laundering.
It is literally, 'The Swamp'. Ducks invariably shit in the swamp.
Grandpa always said if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and smells like a duck it's probably a duck.
We are in it pretty deep.
From my keyboard in Cabo, I want to wish each of you a great Christmas.
Remembering the reason for the season is special.
That reason is the Creator, God of the Universe.
Here is a take by Eric Metaxas on the Creator.
In 1966 Time magazine ran a cover story asking: Is God Dead? Many have accepted the cultural narrative that he’s obsolete—that as science progresses, there is less need for a “God” to explain the universe. Yet it turns out that the rumors of God’s death were premature. More amazing is that the relatively recent case for his existence comes from a surprising place—science itself.
Here’s the story: The same year Time featured the now-famous headline, the astronomer Carl Sagan announced that there were two important criteria for a planet to support life: The right kind of star, and a planet the right distance from that star. Given the roughly octillion—1 followed by 27 zeros—planets in the universe, there should have been about septillion—1 followed by 24 zeros—planets capable of supporting life.
With such spectacular odds, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, a large, expensive collection of private and publicly funded projects launched in the 1960s, was sure to turn up something soon. Scientists listened with a vast radio telescopic network for signals that resembled coded intelligence and were not merely random. But as years passed, the silence from the rest of the universe was deafening. Congress defunded SETI in 1993, but the search continues with private funds. As of 2014, researchers have discovered precisely bubkis—0 followed by nothing.
What happened? As our knowledge of the universe increased, it became clear that there were far more factors necessary for life than Sagan supposed. His two parameters grew to 10 and then 20 and then 50, and so the number of potentially life-supporting planets decreased accordingly. The number dropped to a few thousand planets and kept on plummeting.
Even SETI proponents acknowledged the problem. Peter Schenkelwrote in a 2006 piece for Skeptical Inquirer magazine: “In light of new findings and insights, it seems appropriate to put excessive euphoria to rest . . . . We should quietly admit that the early estimates . . . may no longer be tenable.”
As factors continued to be discovered, the number of possible planets hit zero, and kept going. In other words, the odds turned against any planet in the universe supporting life, including this one. Probability said that even we shouldn’t be here.
Today there are more than 200 known parameters necessary for a planet to support life—every single one of which must be perfectly met, or the whole thing falls apart. Without a massive planet like Jupiter nearby, whose gravity will draw away asteroids, a thousand times as many would hit Earth’s surface. The odds against life in the universe are simply astonishing.
Yet here we are, not only existing, but talking about existing. What can account for it? Can every one of those many parameters have been perfect by accident? At what point is it fair to admit that science suggests that we cannot be the result of random forces? Doesn’t assuming that an intelligence created these perfect conditions require far less faith than believing that a life-sustaining Earth just happened to beat the inconceivable odds to come into being?
There’s more. The fine-tuning necessary for life to exist on a planet is nothing compared with the fine-tuning required for the universe to exist at all. For example, astrophysicists now know that the values of the four fundamental forces—gravity, the electromagnetic force, and the “strong” and “weak” nuclear forces—were determined less than one millionth of a second after the big bang. Alter any one value and the universe could not exist. For instance, if the ratio between the nuclear strong force and the electromagnetic force had been off by the tiniest fraction of the tiniest fraction—by even one part in 100,000,000,000,000,000—then no stars could have ever formed at all. Feel free to gulp.
Multiply that single parameter by all the other necessary conditions, and the odds against the universe existing are so heart-stoppingly astronomical that the notion that it all “just happened” defies common sense. It would be like tossing a coin and having it come up heads 10 quintillion times in a row. Really?
Fred Hoyle, the astronomer who coined the term “big bang,” said that his atheism was “greatly shaken” at these developments. He later wrote that “a common-sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super-intellect has monkeyed with the physics, as well as with chemistry and biology . . . . The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.”
Theoretical physicist Paul Davies has said that “the appearance of design is overwhelming” and Oxford professor Dr. John Lennox has said “the more we get to know about our universe, the more the hypothesis that there is a Creator . . . gains in credibility as the best explanation of why we are here.”
The greatest miracle of all time, without any close seconds, is the universe. It is the miracle of all miracles, one that ineluctably points with the combined brightness of every star to something—or Someone—beyond itself.
Mr. Metaxas is the author, most recently, of “Miracles: What They Are, Why They Happen, and How They Can Change Your Life” ( DuttonAdult, 2014).
Correction
An earlier version understated the number of zeroes in an octillion and a septillion.
Mr. Victor Neiderhoffer and his son, Aubrey Niederhoffer.
Truly meals for a lifetime. Imagine the start for Aubrey with Laurel, Victor and the entire crew of family giving their input to little brother!
Larry needs a favor. Today and all the tomorrows ahead.
Larry suffered a major brain injury about 3 weeks ago.
I would like you to pray for him.
To pray for his caregivers, his family, and his colleagues.
If you don't know Larry, please pray for him.
The hourglass of life doesn't stop. The sand doesn't stop. There is no turning back the clock.
Brain injuries take time. Larry has a tough recovery ahead of him.
He is a tough guy.
Thank you for your prayer.
Bongino fleeing the Swamp?
Imagine America getting any truth from the likes of Fauci, Halper, Brennan, Clapper, Pompeo, Schiff, Pelosi, Wray, Myorkas, you get the drift.
Yes, Dan spoke at the Trump election campaign often enough.
Less than a year in, he learned that he can not walk the walk.
They are all compromised.
Perhaps Pam Bondi can start with these crimes:
Welfare fraud.
The southern border of the ranch is the Yellowstone River. I have come to love and appreciate it more with every passing year. It has a pulse, a vibe, a look, a manner that changes every single day of its existence. The millions of acres that drain into the Yellowstone watershed are some of the most remote areas in the U.S.
To some, Montana holds a mystical, spiritual place in our souls. The scenery and the wildlife are etched in our memories. The possibility of shaping, improving, and protecting what Mother Nature has provided intrigues and drives us. This picture shows the BNSF rails on the south side of the Yellowstone across from the Ghost!
Millions of dollars of coal are carried daily down these tracks to points east; grain being shipped to the Far East headed west to maritime ports.
The Ghost Ranch deer population is robust. Last summer we counted over 100 fawns in a hay field at the same time. That is rather amusing watching that many does and fawns trying to figure out who belongs to who by smell.
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In September we found over 20 dead whitetail deer. EHD, blue-tongue was the culprit. Too many deer, ripe conditions for the virus and this is what happens. Nature is cruel. The smell of death was easy to detect.
Dandy buck in the tall grass!
There's always one that is rather odd.
In summer velvet fighting deer flies and mosquitoes 24/7.
They heard something. Deer live in the present. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow. Their singular focus is to stay alive in the moment.
More velvet! Amazing how fast bucks get velvet removed when it's time.
For some reason this youngster loved strutting around the yard.
11/11/2025 This beauty came to the Ghost Ranch a couple of hours before I put him in the freezer. He spent the summer a mile or two away, coming down the river hunting does. It took a nanosecond to decide to take him to the taxidermist.
This brute had been in a hell of a fight. Notice the bloody mess by his ear. These big bucks are nasty when a hot doe is involved.
We usually have or hear of bucks dying from locking up, unable to get free. This year we heard of a couple of brutes who locked up and drowned in a pond close to the Ghost Ranch.
This year we had a young man come to the Ghost Ranch and harvest his first whitetail deer. It is exciting to provide the opportunity to a young guy (and excitement for his father) to harvest a mature deer.
Cancer is a terrible disease and our great friend SIS has a large tumor in her back leg. It is growing so fast she won't see spring. Sad is an understatement. You probably have experienced cancer in pets, loved ones or even family. Why Lord, why?
I still do my part to keep our deer numbers down. These girls eat good.
Pheasant numbers are thru the roof at Ghost Ranch. We don't hunt them here, only watch them! Thanks to the efforts of so many locals (myself included) killing raccoons all year round, the turkey and pheasant numbers are spectacular.
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This buck spent all summer on the river a couple miles away. The property owner had hoped to get him killed but this buck had other ideas and roamed off the property. We last saw this picture of him on social media! Oh well, who said life was fair?
The Merriam turkey population in the Yellowstone corridor is in good shape!
One of my sons had a good fall.
I went elk hunting and thumped the first 6-point bull I saw. Lying on a bench across the canyon, he slid off the cliff to take a dirt nap.
After Thanksgiving, the geese were flying, and we put a few in the freezer.
It is hard to give a Christmas goose to anyone in Montana! Trust me.
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As winter takes over, life is tough in Montana. For humans, livestock, and wildlife. Strength, toughness, attitude, luck, all play a part in making it through on a daily basis. Let's hope 2026 is the best ever!
Let's hope bucks like this make it through the winter. Look at his ears move. Cautiously, he smelled a human for a nanosecond.Winter is here now.......
