Bill said it best.............

One of my hero’s in life is William O”Neill. 

He said once, “All great things in life require a person to dare a lot in order to win a little.”

CANADA O CANADA

Canada is now euthanizing 2X more people per year than dogs.

16,425 people vs 7,644 dogs

Are You A Birdwatcher!

A recent research demonstrates that birdwatching can literally rewire the human brain through neuroplasticity, producing measurable structural and functional changes that enhance perception, attention, and cognitive performance—potentially even helping to buffer against age-related decline. 

While birdwatching has long been celebrated for its calming, restorative qualities, emerging neuroscientific findings reveal it delivers far deeper benefits. A 2026 study used diffusion-weighted and functional MRI to compare the brains of 29 expert birdwatchers (ages 24–75) with 29 matched novices (ages 22–79). Experts showed greater tissue density—indicating more compact, efficient neural organization—in regions tied to attention, perception, working memory, spatial awareness, and object recognition.

  These structural adaptations enabled experts to identify birds, including unfamiliar or non-local species, with significantly higher speed and accuracy. During identification tasks, experts displayed increased activity in key areas such as the bilateral prefrontal cortex, bilateral intraparietal sulcus, and right occipitotemporal cortex—regions critical for visuospatial attention, object categorization, and memory. This mirrors brain remodeling observed in other expertise domains, like multilingualism or professional musicianship, where prolonged practice fine-tunes visual and auditory processing. By repeatedly attending to subtle cues in plumage, songs, flight patterns, and behavior, birdwatchers drive cortical reorganization. Notably, these expertise-linked changes persisted across the adult lifespan, with older experts exhibiting brain features in relevant regions more akin to those of younger individuals—suggesting the development of cognitive reserve that may protect against aging effects.

[Wing, E. A., et al. (2026). The tuned cortex: Convergent expertise-related structural and functional remodeling across the adult lifespan. Journal of Neuroscience. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1307-25.2026]

Parents Wake Up

 

X

X, greatest tool for allowing free speech in the history of the world.

Congratulations to X and Elon Musk on having the highest usage on X in history on 2/28/2026 , followed by another record day on March 1, 2026.

America's Pain or Listen & Grow Up

It's no wonder that ENVY affects more Americans than GREED!

There is such little perseverance, work ethic, common sense.  

Look around.  Look close.  Ask questions.

You had no further to look than the SOTU last night to see it.

Clear as the morning dew.  

Wake up.  Make yourself the envy they want.  I dare  you.

Go to work.  Wake up.   Get after YOUR life, not mine.

1. You will die, and most people won’t care after a while.

2. People use you until you’re no longer useful.

3. Most people secretly want you to fail.

4. One day you’ll wish you started today.

5. Most people fake happiness while dying inside. 

6. No one is coming to save you.

7. You’ll be judged no matter what you do. 

8. Your health is your greatest wealth.

9. Happiness is temporary—discipline is permanent. 

10. Success takes longer than you think. 

11. No one respects weakness, even if they sympathize. 

12. Complaining changes nothing. 

13. Not everyone you love will love you back. 

14. Money won’t solve all your problems—but it solves most. 

15. Social media lies to you every day. 

16. You’re replaceable at your job. 

17. Life is unfair—get used to it. 

18. One day, you’ll run out of days. 

19. Regret hurts more than failure.

20. Nobody cares about your excuses. 

Work harder. 

The earlier you understand this, the better and easier life gets.

The WALK-UP.

This walk-up was several years ago in eastern Colorado. I had been able to purchase 2 deer tags from a private landowner for my son and myself. The landowners very good friend, a hunter, also had a tag, and was after this deer that was well scouted and known to the locals. We had been told "hands off" this deer by the landowner as he wanted his pal to drill it, and we had cell phone pictures to identify the buck. Opening morning we were approximately 10 miles away and as luck, sheer luck, no other way to say it, than we were on an elevated knob, (not many knobs in eastern Colorado to get a cell phone signal) and my phone buzzed in my front pocket. It was the landowners friend in a near panic. He was half angry (at himself), upset, and just wanted this deer dead. He had tried and missed from long range. The deer were spooked, the does in the group were wild. So, my phone rang and all i heard was "get your ass over here as fast as you can and kill this thing" before somebody else does.

Away we went. Hustled back across the section we were glassing from, to the pickup, and I gunned it, dust flying, headed to him at a speed far too fast for the gravel.

He was at the intersection he told us to meet him at. He was flustered. The deer were on a 2 mile section that did NOT have any roads across it. There was a pickup down the road glassing the deer but they did NOT have permission on that ground. We did. I pulled off the road in front of them and pulled in to the pasture about 100 yards. The bucks sold out to the south and I told my son to bail out and cut them off. He had a long way to go. I saw a big bodied deer go down in a heap a few hundred yards after they took off. If you have been mule deer hunting as long as I have, over 55 years, you will see this happen on occasion. They are heavy, it's hot, it's morning, and it's strenuous on them to run full tilt so they just hit the deck and lay down. So i headed out after what I thought I saw and my son was off running to try to cut them off. The bucks were in the lead followed by the doe group.

I went probably a third to a half mile and saw some deer heads headed north in the direction they had started south from. I hit the deck. They were peering at me over a slight rise and had seen me but I was down and they couldn't make out what I was. I had nothing to hide behind as you can see in the video As the deer come up to get a better look at me I could see horns, good ones. In a nanosecond I had to decide how I was going to shoot. The grass was too tall to shoot prone, laying on my stomach. I somehow had to swing up on my butt and shoot off my butt, bracing on my knee, trying to stay as small as i could. Tough job given the terrain. Full orange, they took off trotting then running, the buck in the back. I got around, could only shoot at the top half of the deer, the rest of him was behind the hill, and missed. I usually shoot .243's (semi-auto's) and thankfully things worked out. I missed the first shot. I missed the second shot. I missed the third shot. Didn't get excited. Stayed in the scope, believed. At the 4th shot he disappeared. I still am not sure of the distance but it doesn't matter. I guess I could count my steps on the walk up if it was important to me.

It was a beautiful morning. I will post the video below I have of the gentlemen shooting at the buck that had laid down in the grass.  He didn't get up until we all got together to see my buck. Unfortunately he missed again.

HUMOR ahead of SOTU

This comment sums up the private v. public debate very well.

"Elon made a rocket the size of a skyscraper that goes 30 times faster than a bullet shot from a handgun. 

 AOC made a rum and Coke and she had to refer to the instructions cheat sheet."

 - YouTube comment

STARLINK doesn't see color

Am a big fan of STARLINK.   We have it in our homes in Mexico and Montana.  Never fails.  South Africa is failing South Africa.

"Starlink has committed to a R500 million investment to connect 5,000 rural schools with free, high-speed internet, benefiting more than 2.4 million learners each year.

But it is still on hold.

Why? Because South African regulations require 30% local Black ownership for telecom licenses.

South African farmers and rural communities are asking the government to approve Starlink. In many remote areas, there is no internet access at all, and people have to drive several kilometers just to get basic connectivity.

The South African government is the enemy of its own people."

Africans, building mud huts since Europeans figured out cathedrals in the 9th century! Have you ever bought something with a “Made in Africa” tag on it?

South Africa, stop with the "color" of skin and do what is needed for Africans.

X

I thought I was alone in abandonment of RED!

Little did I realize the legions who have abandoned the RED/BLUE, and the LEFT/RIGHT, and see only political loopholes, overreach, corruption, and ballooning deficits.

X is freedom.

Freedom is X. 

Thank you, Elon Musk.

LOS CABOS No Bad Days

No guarantee's except change is certain!    

1989 we started off by a chance meeting in the disco at the Hyatt in Cancun, Mexico. Thirty seven years later we have a beautiful home in Palmilla, Los Cabos, Mexico.

GRATITUDE

 

America's Valentine!

 

Unfortunately probably true............

When all is finally exposed, 98% of Washington will fall.

~Julian Assange

D.C. is a crime syndicate.

~Dean Parisian

HEALTHCARE MAFIA

American healthcare consumers think the United States probably offers decent healthcare compared to Canada and Mexico.   That is the average American.   I never tried to be average.  Stay around average thinking and complaining will become a habit.

Those who know how healthcare is provided in Canada and Mexico do not contend with the healthcare mafia.  You think the Somali fraud is bad?  It's a drop in the bucket compared to Medicaid fraud, insurance fraud, hospital fraud, physician group fraud, doctor fraud, home health fraud and of course, fraud in Big Pharma.   Is hundreds of billions of fraud dollars a big number?

Dean Parisian tries to stay away from healthcare.   He tries to stay away from pharmacies. Eats real food, takes vitamins, moves his body.  He shies away from ingesting pills. Never ingested nicotine in his life.  He thinks healthcare is his responsibility.  Eat right, drink sensible, exercise, what is so hard about that? Success is a choice in life and for you to choose.  You can make it happen or keep making excuses. Reclaim your authority over your own health.  Me, I have never regretted getting older, it is a privilege denied to many. My goal is to grow to a healthy older age.

It was estimated that last year, 2025, improper Medicaid payments alone were close to $40,000,000,000.  Inflated payments, dishonesty in paperwork, kickbacks, and collusion lead the way. 

It is thought the United States healthcare system is the most corrupt on a global scale.  I don't even know where to start it's so bad. Most important, they don't want you healed.  They want you to be a lifelong patient instead of a powerful human.  There are just so many in on it. Never forget, it is not the intent of the healthcare industry to heal people, it is their desire to have you come back for more medicine. From unnecessary procedures, overuse of pathology, kickbacks, upcoding, which is inflating costs of procedures performed on the average American, performing unnecessary treatments, yes, unnecessary surgeries, and the millions of fraudulent bills and theft from ACA reimbursements it is a morass of theft, and effects everyone in the form of higher taxes and premiums.   

I can't let Big Pharma off the hook, so lets take a look.  From 1991–2021, pharma manufacturers paid over $62 billion in penalties (per Public Citizen analysis), with unlawful promotion and drug pricing fraud as top categories.

Res Ipsa Loquiter.   The fines speak for themselves.  

If you have to go to a hospital or doctor in Mexico or Canada I wish you well.   You will be amazed at the care you receive, the price you pay for it, the ease in which you pay for it, the bill itself, most importantly, the quality of services rendered.  

Married Life after today

My beautiful wife:      Honey, i just saw some credit card charges on the American Express card.   What is up with the new gear and booking a trip to hunt in Alaska this fall?

Me:   The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about.

PAM BONDI

Yes, she stooped to a new low today.

Her arrogance in front of the camera's was hard to watch. I thought the hearing was about child trafficking, not how well the markets are doing.  

For some strange reason, I didn’t realize we don’t pursue pedophiles if the stock market is doing well!  

President Trump knows she is a disgrace to the Office and the worst Attorney General in the history of America.

You simply can't make this up.

And she's only been in office for one year.  

Disaster for Trump, disaster for victims of pedophile sex traffickers.

I am truly disgusted with the amount of hate America is showing for Pam Bondi.

I think America can show more hate for her lying, cover-up, mishandling, and failing the victims of Epstein.

YOU INVEST? ASK YOURSELF

I was an arbitrator for ten years for the NASD (now FINRA) and the New York Stock Exchange.

Let me be very clear.   Self-regulation on Wall Street does not work.

It's a joke.  It's insanity.

Today, you have the United States Senate and Congress, bought and paid for by Corporate America.

Where I come from they call that corruption.

In 2008, it was citizens that bailed out Wall Street.   The American taxpayer.

It was Goldman Sachs that put AIG out of business.   Stan O'Neil ran Merrill Lynch into the ground.

How can you forget $1.75 Trillion of losses?

There was a no finer criminal enterprise than the government having taxpayers bail out Wall Street.

It was an elegant form of theft.

Once the Great Financial Crisis got a head of steam it was a cascading effect across the financial scene.

Real estate brokers, lawyers, bankers, title insurance companies, mortgage brokers,  all in on it.

As the crisis worsened, investors pulled out of the stock market, and left Madoff no choice but to admit wrongdoing. 

Bernard L. Madoff ripped off investors for $65,000,000,000.    His brother, who was in on it, only  got 10 years in jail.

Madoff's PONZI was being fed new money by 339 feeder funds from 40 different countries, mostly Switzerland, France, Germany, the U.K., and South America.  Asia was his next target.  

Madoff was a crime boss.  He ripped off Russian and Columbian mobs, he ripped off all his friends.

Madoff turned himself in to his family.  The SEC didn't have a clue and did nothing when they were alerted to his malfeasance.  Zero.

Yesterday I shorted CVNA shares at $409.11.  Lucky me, the fraud is rampant.

The majority of investors aren't paying attention.

The question I ask myself daily is what is Wall Streets delusion today?

 

Winning the Day!

NCAA President Charlie Baker said in a statement that he was glad the court “upheld the rules of our members.”

“Common sense won a round today,” Baker said. “The court saw this for what it is: an attempt by professionals to pivot back to college and crowd out the next generation of students. College sports are for students, not for people who already walked away to go pro and now want to hit the ‘undo’ button at the expense of a teenager’s dream. While we’re glad the court upheld the rules our members actually want, one win doesn’t fix the national mess of state laws. It’s time for Congress to stop watching from the sidelines and help us provide some actual stability.”

Tumbler Ridge

The insanity of the medical profession to give injections of hormone changing drugs that induce the emotion of rage in transgender humans is absolutely criminal. 

The Bernard L. Madoff Ponzi

Number of clients:  3200

Unregistered status with SEC as an investment advisor.

Remained unregistered for decades.

Harry Markopolos started allegations about Madoff almost a decade before the collapse of the firm.

One statement Harry Markopolos gave to investigators sums up the SEC perfectly “they’re a bunch of lawyers who don’t know finance or what to look for”.

The SEC turned a blind eye to the largest fraud in history.

Hell, the SEC never uncovered the fraud, Madoff turned himself in to his family on 12/10/2008 and the sons, both dead now, turned him in on 12/11/2008.

I have a hunch.  

Wait until CRYPTO shenanigans begin to be uncovered.  It will make Sam Bankman Fried look like a piker.

There isn't enough popcorn for what will be discovered! 

WORK! Why I love it today..........

For over 20 years I had, by law, to obtain a price for a clients account where price was the same or better than the trade execution I got for stocks in my own account.   Didn't matter, the law was the law and I never, not once, violated that law.  Probably cost me thousands over the years.   

I retired in 2019 and today, manage my own portfolio.  I own somewhere in the vicinity of 150 different securities and love the game now more than I did then.  

This is what former President Richard Nixon said about retirement:  "What makes life mean something is purpose, a goal, the battle, the struggle—even if you don't win it." 

In an age of quiet quitting, early retirement dreams, and infinite scrolling, Nixon reminds us: The fight is what keeps the soul alive.   Endless leisure without struggle isn't paradise—it's a slow death of meaning.

So, hey, you, retiree, what keeps you in the "battle" right now—even when it's exhausting to do very little, if nothing?

We all started somewhere, what's your excuse?

"I arrived in Montreal at 17 by myself with $2,000. No support, no contacts, nothing.  Father said I’d fail & be back in 3 months."

Elon Musk

The weekend before I left for San Diego, California in January, 1979, my cousin told me I would be back in Minnesota in a couple months when I ran out of money.  I knew one person, my friend from law school.  It's 2026, I'm still gone from Minnesota.

Dean Parisian 

An Open Letter to Pine Ridge Reservation

I am a member at the White Earth Reservation of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe.

I grew up on more reservations than anyone I know. I attended 4 high schools in 3 states and lived on Indian Reservations at all times. My father was in Law Enforcement for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Dad was the Captain of Police in Pine Ridge, South Dakota.

I know Indian Country.

The American Dream does not sneak up on you and hit you over the head with a baseball bat.

Success is where opportunity and hard work meet. At 14 I was hauling bales, working in a hot hay field on the Ft. Berthold Reservation in North Dakota. At 15, I hired out to a ranch in Montana while my parents lived on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. My summer job in High school was working on that ranch in Montana. Pay was $200 per month working 6 days a week. My last year it increased to $300 per month. Wow.

Know what? I have worked 57 years of my 72 on this planet. I am a bit tired. You want a good life? Work for it. Strap it on. Forget your skin color. Grow a pair and shut up and work your ass off. Think it is better elsewhere? Then move. Or shut the fuck up.

People who are brought up to believe that work is for suckers and that they are entitled to food and shelter will never move up. This culture of dependence will stunt a child's work ethic for life.

And speaking of children, one quarter of children on Pine Ridge are born with fetal alcohol syndrome, meaning with some degree of brain damage. Stop the cycle. Stop the poverty, the addictions, the suffocating absence of opportunity, and the loss of human capital.

Try this Pine Ridge, how about a communal alcohol-free house for pregnant women and young mothers, with classes?

Get a skill and get your child off to a good start.

Close down the Bureau of Indian Affairs. End the reservation system - it's never brought joy or prosperity to anyone. If Native Americans have to depend on government money for survival, how much dignity and self-respect do they have?

I graduated from a University where today, 27% of the students are of Native American lineage.

I know how business is done in Indian Country therefore I know Indian TIME! I have heard it and seen it all. The kickbacks that tribal leaders wanted, the corruption, fraud and waste at the expense of tribal members who don’t have a clue about the financial dealings of their own tribes let alone the 560 plus other tribes that are not subject to government oversight.

I know people don't want to talk about the real issues in the Native American population.

Fatherhood is the single greatest role a man could play in society. It's an absolute catastrophe that two-thirds to three-quarters of Native children are being raised in a home without a father present, in terms of the social cohesion of the community. People don't want to say that. Fatherhood is the single greatest role a man could play in society.

Today, the big reservation wars are internal -- rape, elder and child abuse, gang violence, alcoholism, obesity, opioids, lack of parental oversight, and vilification of those who understand that the top problem of "Native America" is the lack of in-home fathers.

The permanent victimhood class and the welfare state has created generational welfare, "project housing" to warehouse generations of people who have been told for 50 years that they are powerless and have no hope of ever succeeding on their own. Their family structure has been decimated. Their education has been dumbed down so bad that grammar, spelling and financial literacy is foreign to them.

The race card has been sold as a substitute for ambition and success. Social programs have been sold as a replacement for a job and education. Government has been sold as a replacement for a father, and in some cases, the entire family.

Remember I said this. The only person that can make a substantial difference in my life is the person I see in the mirror every day. My decisions affect my outcomes. I refuse to beg for some scraps with the illusion that something of significance is being done.

To pay people not to work, incentivize fatherless parenthood, and diminish the importance of the family, and guess what happens? Granted, it happens to the most gullible and least educated first, but it's front and center. Millions of Americans don't have a plan A much less a plan B. Pay check to pay check and zero savings. That doesn't stop them from having cable, $200.00 sneakers, the newest cell phones and the free shit army rolls on.

What are the ties that bind Natives to the reservations? Love of that plot of land they were displaced to? Racial allegiances/prejudices/bigotry? Distrust of those not like themselves? Shared misery? Handouts? Rejection of curiosity, adventure, exploration, or socialization?...more

If only Robert Gipp from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation would still be alive and in politics. For sure, Mr. Gipp was one of the finest teachers in the history of Oglala Community High School in Pine Ridge, SD.

Robert Gipp always said, more government is the problem, not the solution.

Dean Parisian: The answers to problems at Pine Ridge must come from Pine Ridge

    

Monday, December 11, 2017   

Call it red privilege, or American privilege

By Dean Parisian
deanparisian.com

I lived on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation when I was in high school. Didn't have a choice. My father was Chief of Police for the Bureau of Indian Affairs Police Department in Pine Ridge. If you want, call it red privilege!

It is a rather poor place. Not much has changed in the 40 years since I was in high school except the names. The truancy, the lack of motivation, lack of parental involvement, lack of desire to make oneself better is still there. The crabs are still trying to claw their friends back into the bucket when they try to escape. If you go to school in Indian Country you know what I mean.

Lots of blame to go around. Lack of two parent households are the biggest culprit but nobody wants to talk about that because the financial incentives are all wrong there.

Oglala Community High School was the roughest high school out of the four I attended without a doubt. I was failing algebra. I bought my first beer in Whiteclay, Nebraska, for the high school prom. Walked in with cash, no questions asked.  Age: 15.

To say that I am grateful for the life I have been given is an understatement. There is absolutely no way my life has turned out the way I thought it would. We all face great challenges in life. All of us. It is the privilege we all have for waking up.

I thank my Creator daily for the will and motivation that my parents fostered towards education. The privilege of education. We all have it. It is what prompted me to start my scholarship at the University of Minnesota. My scholarship helps leverage resources to produce long-term meaningful impact for students who need them the most and to help break the cycle of poverty, addiction, moral courage and the suffocating absence of opportunity.

Call it American privilege, I get it, you should too. Gratitude is an awful powerful human emotion and I am elated to have plenty of it. Every. Single. Day.

In Pine Ridge it is hard to swallow the poverty and carnage of the federal government handing out scraps of freebies. The drug scene is out of control. I would like to help the enormous loss of human capital. Bringing coats in the winter isn't doing it. Painting churches in the summer isn't doing it.

Pine Ridge has the problem. Pine Ridge and only Pine Ridge has the answers. Pine Ridge has the privilege.

It starts in the mirror. The power of one. Go ahead Pine Ridge.

Change! You can do it. Reach deep Ridge. Get after it.

Dean Parisian is the CEO of Native American Advisors, Inc., the oldest Native American investment management firm in the United States. The Registered Investment Advisory firm was founded in 1993 to help Native American entities after Parisian began his career on Wall Street in 1982. Parisian is a member at the White Earth Reservation of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, a former NYSE arbitrator and trader who began his career with Kidder, Peabody and later worked for Drexel Burnham Lambert in LaJolla, California. His philanthropic interest is in Native American education and he's endowed a significant scholarship for Native American students at the University of Minnesota. His greatest accomplishment includes raising two sons and 34 years of marriage.

To say that I am grateful for the life I have been given is an understatement. There is absolutely no way my life has turned out the way I thought it would. We all face great challenges in life. All of us. It is the privilege we all have for waking up. I thank my Creator daily for the will and motivation that my parents fostered towards education. The privilege of education. We all have it. It is what prompted me to start my scholarship at the University of Minnesota. My scholarship helps leverage resources to produce long-term meaningful impact for students who need them the most and to help break the cycle of poverty, addiction, moral courage and the suffocating absence of opportunity. Call it American privilege, I get it, you should too. Gratitude is an awful powerful human emotion and I am elated to have plenty of it. Every. Single. Day.

In Pine Ridge it is hard to swallow the poverty and carnage of the federal government handing out scraps of freebies. The drug scene is out of control. I would like to help the enormous loss of human capital. Bringing coats in the winter isn't doing it. Painting churches in the summer isn't doing it.

Pine Ridge has the problem. Pine Ridge and only Pine Ridge has the answers. Pine Ridge has the privilege.

It starts in the mirror. The power of one. Go ahead Pine Ridge.

Change! You can do it. Reach deep Ridge. Get after it.

I hope Pine Ridge can help itself. I hope Pine Ridge can get back to two-parent households. I hope addiction treatment centers work for many. I hope the healing can come. The Oglala warriors are up against a powerful enemy, alcohol.

I can only pray. Here is the Lord's Prayer in the language of the Oglala Lakota.

Ate unyapi Mahpiya ekta nanke cin, Nicaje wakanlapi nunwe. Nitokiconze u nunwe. Mahpiay ekta nitawacin econpi kin, he iyecel maka akanl econpi nunwe. Anpetu ihohi aguyapi kin, anpetu kin le unqu piye. Na tona ecinsniyan ecaunkicinpi wicaunkicicajujupi kin, he iyecel waunhtanipi kin unkiciajujupiye. Na taku wawiyutanye cin ekta unkayapi sni piye; Tka taku sice etanhan eunklaku piye; Wokiconse kin, na wowasake kin, na wowitan kin hena ohinniyan naohinniyan nitawa heon. Amen.

Puerto Rico Fact

Is America supposed to feel bad about Puerto Rico?   Do taxpayers know their hard earned money is being given to Puerto Ricans?  

Puerto Rico does not participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly called food stamps on the U.S. mainland. Instead, it has its own Nutrition Assistance Program (NAP) (also known as PAN in Spanish), funded by a federal block grant from the U.S. government. This is entirely paid for by U.S. federal taxpayers (i.e., "US citizens" in the broader sense, including those on the mainland contributing via federal taxes).

Recent reliable sources (from 2024–2025 reports) indicate NAP participation is around 42–43% of Puerto Rico's population:

• A 2024 report cited 42.7% of Puerto Ricans receiving NAP benefits.
• Other analyses from around 2020–2023 put it in the 40–43% range, serving roughly 1.4–1.5 million people monthly (out of a total population of about 3.2–3.3 million).

This is significantly higher than the U.S. mainland average for SNAP (around 12% of the population) and reflects Puerto Rico's much higher poverty rate (often 40%+), economic challenges, and reliance on imported (expensive) food.

FOR CRYPTO GURU'S

This past week there were many lives across the world changed.

Many lives were impacted by the fall of BITCOIN. Billions were lost when long positions on the blockchain were closed out.

Most of those investors had little investment training. Having libertarian dreams they knew very little about position sizing or controlling risk. Never forget, greed kills.

So let me ask you, if it's considered and talked about as an alternate currency, why is it traded like a commodity?

What would be the business case for this asset being in an institutional pension plan?  For that matter, what is the business use case? 

What good is a currency if it fluctuates so wildly?

Doesn't that volatility negate its core value, which is no country can inflate it?

What is the cost to create it? Isn't it the most expensive currency ever produced?

Just simple questions from someone who owns ZERO crypto except for 200 shares of IBIT.

Laid off at Washington Post?

If you were one of the lucky ones who had their position at The Washington Post eliminated the other day you should consider applying to become a writer at the Minneapolis Star Tribune.   That newspaper is always hiring and they need experienced journalists who can bring fictional content to their readers and present it in the tone and style of a distinguished news outlet.   

Alpharetta's $380,000,000 THEFT

Thirty years ago I moved to Alpharetta, Georgia.   Left the Big "A" and headed north up 400 to Exit 10.  Best move in my life.  Started a family there, then moved to the adjoining Milton, Georgia.  Started a business, made a small fortune and departed in 2016.   Sent two Milton High School students to Georgia Tech and UGA that took Engineering degrees that happen to be my sons.  Still encounter cheats, liars, and thieves if you keep your eyes open.  Still manage my own funds and know most of the tricks Wall Street uses to fleece investors.  Wall Street breeds the type and the SEC and FINRA aren't in the business of looking out for retail investors.   

Alpharetta was home.  It was community.  It was suburban Atlanta with most from someplace else.  It was a great place to raise a family.  Great schools with educators who actually cared about their students.  I will never forget the day the principal at Milton High School (Cliff Jones) told me he had the best job in the world being around his teachers and students.   

While living in Alpharetta, I spent 10 years as an arbitrator for both the New York Stock Exchange and FINRA.  Got to see the financial thieves and shenanigans that went on in the world of financial investments.  There are scum bags everywhere and Alpharetta is no exception.  And truthfully, the clients can be as bad as the brokers when it comes to doing bad things.  Why investors don't deal with investment management firms instead of Series 7 stockbrokers is hard to fathom but the nature of the business is to keep investors in the dark.  Human nature doesn't change.  Greed and fear will never go out of style.  

In Alpharetta, there was a lot of greed and those trying to keep-up-with-the-rich types who were anxious to get a deal in life and investing.  Not certain I fit that mold, I bought homes I could easily afford, purchased used vehicles, ate at Waffle House far too often, and never marketed my company because I only wanted to do business with people who knew me, trusted me and let me do my very best for them in the world of investment management.    

Another massive PONZI in Alpharetta has been prosecuted and the final tally of damages is rather large.  Unfortunately, rather huge!

Read about it here.  I didn't make this up.  If you live in Alpharetta you probably know a party that has been affected.

ALPHARETTA $380,000,000 PONZI

You see, it just wasn't $380,000,000.  It was far more than that.

Much more.

It was retirement dreams vanished, I.R.S. problems, marital strife, college plans, new cars, second homes, and on and on and on.

For years.

The government won't get all the scum bags that were in on it.  They don't have the time nor the resources.  They are still out there.

Funny, the company web site is still up and the Chief Thief still has his LINKED-IN account.   Funny how that happens!

So, be aware.  Ask the tough questions when investing.  Understand if it's too good to be true it probably is.  Call the appropriate regulatory authority to check on firms and people.  Do YOUR due diligence, it's YOUR money.  Use common sense, it seems to be in short supply.

Today, I can only pray for the thousands of customers of DRIVE PLANNING who were victims and their families that were impacted.     

 

  

America underestimates the value of FREEDOM

"Elon Musk is the biggest net positive for society in so many ways. If Elon didn't buy 𝕏, it would be very unlikely that Trump was elected. We wouldn't have free speech. And you'd see just more and more corruption." 

一 Nick Shirley

Nicki Minaj

Maybe there's still hope!

Go get the weirdo's girl!

California Fraud

Everything is fake.

A cheap facade hiding the decaying ruins of the American dream.

One comment, just one on this sordid tale...........

Turns out that Gates was a Russian "INSIDE-HER"!Turns out Bill Gates was a Russian "inside-her"

Well, well, well, the irony..................

 

Going into the weekend like............

I need a break from all the bullshit going on. 

Turd sandwiches being handed out to Americans daily.

Anyone else sick of it?

Minnesota?  Off the rails.  Gone, over, yuck.

Time for America to get back to basics. 

Tom Brady said it best.  Let me share his words. 

"To be successful at anything you don't have to be special.  You just have to be what most people aren't:  consistent, determined, and willing to work for it.  No shortcuts."

Amazing how few people want to go to work.  And work.  And work smart.

These are the best times of your life.  

Blessed with gratitude...................

 

The extra mile is never crowded.  Luck, typically created by hard work, colliding with opportunity.

UMN Morris Land Acknowledgment

The University of Minnesota Morris is located on land that has been cared for and called home by the Dakota people, and later the Ojibwe people and other Native peoples from time immemorial. By offering this land acknowledgment, we affirm tribal sovereignty and express respect for Native peoples and nations.

By offering this land acknowledgment, we affirm tribal sovereignty and express respect for Native peoples and nations. The University of Minnesota Morris is located along Owobopte Wakpa—a place from which Dakota turnips have been dug river—on the edge of mashkode akiing—prairie land. This land has been cared for and called home by the Dakota people, and later the Ojibwe people and other Native peoples, from time immemorial. Our state’s name, Minnesota, comes from the Dakota name for this region, Mni Sota Makoce—the land where the waters reflect the skies. Acknowledging the land and our history in this place is an offering of solidarity with and respect for Native nations and peoples. In doing so, we—The University of Minnesota Morris—reaffirm our commitment to our responsibilities rooted in the history of our campus site as a Native American boarding school, our distinctive mission as a public liberal arts college within Minnesota’s land-grant university, and our federal recognition as a Native American-Serving Nontribal Institution.

Price is everything. Your price. What you paid, what you owe.

It's not what you make, it's what you owe.

Income is NOT wealth.

Deportations v. Protests

Clinton: 12.5m-Protests: 0

Bush: 10m-Protests: 0

Obama: 5.2m-Protests: 0

Biden: 7m-Protests: 0

Trump: 1.2m-Protests: THOUSANDS

All whipped up by the legacy media.

The point is political rhetoric: Deportation volumes were higher under Democratic presidents (Clinton, Obama, Biden) or Bush without widespread protests, but President Trump's lower numbers have triggered massive backlash and demonstrations and is evidence of selective outrage or media-driven narratives rather than consistent opposition to deportations.

TDS on full display!

SHORTEST BOOKS in the WORLD

MY BLACK GIRLFRIENDS by Tiger Woods

THINGS I LOVE ABOUT MY COUNTRY by Jane Fonda & Michelle Obama

THINGS I LOVE ABOUT BILL
by Hillary Clinton

THINGS I LOVE ABOUT HILLARY
by Bill Clinton

THINGS I CANT AFFORD
by Bill Gates

THINGS WE KNOW TO BE TRUE by Al Gore and John Kerry

HOW TO DRINK AND DRIVE SAFELY
by Ted Kennedy

TO ALL THE MEN WE HAVE LOVED by Rosie O'Donnell and Ellen Degeneres.

HOW TO LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST
by Dr Jack Kevorkian

MY BOOK ON MORALS
by Bill Clinton
Introduction by Tiger Woods

MY COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF MILITARY STRATEGY
by Nancy Pelosi

HOW TO BE A BARTENDER
by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

And, the shortest book of them all

THINGS I DID TO DESERVE THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
by Barack Obama

The AUTOPEN

Tulsi says it best!   

Globalism on full retard

The University of Minnesota (imagine that) is offering a minor in the greatest hoax in the history of the universe, the green scam.

A newly approved climate justice minor is the first of its kind at an R1 university in the U.S. and addresses an urgent need.

January 2026

One of the emerging intentions is the power dynamic of the liberal left.

It seems to be the only thing that matters.  Reality is optional to these clowns. The regurgitation of the lies, the storytelling, the lack of honesty.

They don't even pretend anymore.

GO, at throttle up..................

I was in my office at Drexel Burnham Lambert that morning in LaJolla, California.

My TV was on to watch the launch.

Nearly 40 years ago, I get the same sick feeling today as I did then.

"Go at throttle up" was the last command. 

Roger Chaffee

 

Always been, will always be, an optimist

130 schools said no. He led the losingest program in college football history to a national championship anyway. Fernando Mendoza was a 2-star recruit from Miami. He tried to walk on at his hometown school. They passed. So did FIU. So did FAU. So did everyone else. At 17, he was sitting in his bedroom, crying over a silent recruiting inbox—after driving to 18 camps with his dad and sending highlights to more than 100 programs. Not one FBS offer. His only option? Yale. No scholarship. No NFL path. Everyone told him to be “realistic.” “Know your place.” “Be grateful.” He didn’t listen. Because Mendoza understood something most people miss: The worst outcome isn’t failing. It’s never getting the chance to try. Two weeks before signing day in 2022, his phone rang. Cal needed a body. One offer. Out of 134 schools. He took it. He arrived as the third-string quarterback. Spent a year on the scout team. Lost his first four starts. Got sacked 41 times behind a broken offensive line. Still got up. Every time. Then Cal brought in a transfer instead of building around him. So Mendoza left the only school that had ever said yes. He transferred to Indiana—the losingest program in college football history. People laughed. “Career suicide.” “Graveyard program.” “Nobody wins there.” One coach told him something different: “I’m going to make you the best Fernando Mendoza possible.” That was enough. Mendoza wasn’t just playing for football. His mother has battled multiple sclerosis for 18 years. Before every snap, he thought of her. “My mother is my why.” Indiana went 16–0. Beat six Top-10 teams. Won their first Big Ten title since 1945. Mendoza threw 41 touchdowns. Won the Heisman—first in school history. First Cuban-American to ever do it. Then came the title game. Miami. Near his hometown. Fourth-and-4. Season on the line. Quarterback draw. The kid 134 schools rejected spun through defenders and dove into the end zone. Game over. Indiana—national champions. The losingest program became the best team in America. All because a 17-year-old refused to believe “no” was the end. Rankings don’t decide your ceiling. Gatekeepers don’t write your ending. Being overlooked isn’t a verdict—it’s a starting point. Sometimes all you need is one shot… and the courage to bet on yourself when nobody else will. Don’t quit.

PURE BLOOD HERE

"People" said it was "safe and effective".

I will never listen to "People" again.

-- Pure Blood

470 300 7448

 Slime of the highest order.   Beware of these fraudsters.

Honesty in Government starts with the Law of the Land

 

MARRIAGE TIP

Every time you talk to your wife your brain should remember that this conversation is being recorded for training and quality purposes.

Anything you say can and will be used for reference in the future.

Minneapolis Star Tribune

The liberal rag can't seem to find a number of parents who had enrolled their children in all the day-care facilities around Minneapolis.  No weeping, no tears, no issues with finding alternative day-care.

Amazing and brazen theft. 

Paid for by you and me. 

GREAT GOLF (and LIFE) WISDOM

Hit 'em straight

Minnesota Trapline Products

Never forgot my roots.  It was a Minnesota trapline of red fox that got me to San Diego, California in January of 1979.  It's been upward bound ever since.  I never forgot how to catch that right front foot on canines.

A client of mine, Tim Caven, is without question, the best lure maker in the world. Tim is the founder of Minnesota Trapline Products.

I used some of Tim's bait and call lure to bring this song dog in close to his demise.  I have used Tim's lures since the mid-70's and will continue to use them for the rest of my natural life.

Boo-yeah Mr. Wily Coyote!   A big stout male is # 1 in 2026.

It won't be my last TN coyote this winter!

INFLATION

When I moved to San Diego, California in January, 1979, it was starting.  

Inflation.

I think later that year or the next, every third person in San Diego (except me) had a license to sell real estate! 

Look at the devaluation of the United States currency since 1979.

Here is a chart showing the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) — the standard measure of the CPI in the U.S. — from January 1979 to the most recent available data (through November 2025, as of early 2026).

The index uses the base period 1982–1984 = 100, meaning values represent average price levels relative to that reference period. The long-term upward trend clearly illustrates the cumulative effects of inflation over more than 45 years, with notable acceleration periods in the late 1970s/early 1980s (high inflation era), the 2000s, and post-2020.