A 4/23/2020 Note.......some things never change............

We have survived thousands of years as humans. There is a reason we have survived. We are good at risk management. If you need a doctor the six best doctors are sunshine, water, rest, air, exercise and good nutrition. Make your immune system better. Every day. Work at it.

I used to thrive on pressure and don't personally subscribe to fear or panic. I always found adversity to be my best sparring partner. Most people are scared of this virus killing them. My Creator knows when I will punch out. I don't worry about it. I don't fear death.

What I really fear is not living!

Life's challenges and storms will come again. Be ready. Know your purpose and how you will capture the opportunities offered living in the greatest nation in human history.

And every day be thankful for the ability you have to use the greatest tool known to mankind, the freedom to choose your attitude!

Blue Cities, Wake Up

Communist led American cities must be saved from Mayors like Zohran Mandani of NYC, Karen Bass of LA, Michael Wu of Boston, Brandon Johnson of Chicago, Cherelle Parker of Philadelphia, and Muriel Bowser of DC.

So much theft and grift. The fraud is so bad the average American can't comprehend how much is being skimmed from taxpayers.

What else is missing?

Montana  FWP operates mostly as a self-funded agency through user fees and dedicated sources:

• State special revenue (about 70-73% of funding): Primarily hunting, fishing, and recreational licenses/fees (e.g., the general license account is over half the budget).
• Federal funds (around 18-25%): From excise taxes on hunting/fishing gear (Pittman-Robertson and Dingell-Johnson Acts) and grants.
• Other: Minor sources like bed/accommodations taxes for parks, vehicle fees, etc.

General Fund (from broad state taxes like income tax) contribution is minimal or zero in many budgets — often under 1% and limited to specific items like aquatic invasive species.FWP actually pays property taxes (or payments in lieu of taxes) on its own lands to counties, rather than receiving them.
Property taxes as a nonresident landowner help fund local county services in the area where your land is located, but not FWP programs, wildlife management, parks, or enforcement. FWP's work is largely supported by those who directly use its services (hunters, anglers, park visitors) plus federal matching funds.
Nonresidents often contribute significantly via higher license fees.For official details, check FWP's budget documents on their site (fwp.mt.gov) or Montana Legislative Fiscal Division reports. Tax distribution can vary slightly by county, but the overall structure holds.

Love Is In the Air

 

They are on the move!

Legacy Media, Lies & Distortion

New York Times stories on Henry Nowak: 0 

New York Times stories on George Floyd: 6,397

Britain had a moment of silence for George Floyd.

Politicians kneeled enmasse to show their outrage at his killing. "I can't breathe" became a slogan.

George Floyd died on the other side of the world. 

He wasn't British. Henry Nowak *was* British and his treatment by the police was shocking and negligent in the extreme. Yet there is no minute of silence. There is no coordinated public campaign. There is no kneeling at sporting events.

And we all know why. During the summer of BLM, some people said "All Lives Matter". 

This was treated as the highest form of racism and anyone who said this was immediately cancelled.

Why? Because the people in charge don't actually think all lives matter in the same way. They have created a racial hierarchy of victimhood where a career criminal who died through mistreatment by police in a foreign country with 0 evidence of racism like George Floyd is automatically sanctified because of the color of his skin.

And Henry Nowak, a British man, one of ours, is automatically dismissed and ignored because of the color of his.

This is the ugly fruit of so-called "anti-racism", an obsession with race that has created a two-tier society which treats people differently because of the color of their skin.

If You Live in Montana

 

No Justice, No Peace

 MAKE  IT MAKE SENSE

Way back in the fall of 1977 on my first day in law school I learned all about justice.

There isn't any.

It's all about the weasels that can weave stories to juries you wouldn't want to be related to.

Vax Deaths

 

Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc.

 

Time for some new lead on my trade blotter................. 

When I trained at Kidder under the tutelage of the late, Lee Solot, Ralph DeNunzio was running the ship.

What an interesting day it was when the venerable Al Gordon gave his talk to our class.

Here is some more on Mr. Gordon.

Albert Hamilton "Al" Gordon (1901–2009) was a prominent American investment banker and businessman best known for rescuing and transforming the Wall Street firm Kidder, Peabody & Co.Key Facts

• Born: July 21, 1901, in North Scituate, Massachusetts.
• Died: May 1, 2009, at age 107 in Manhattan.
• In 1931, shortly after the 1929 stock market crash, Gordon (with partners, including help from Stone & Webster interests) acquired the struggling, Boston-based Kidder, Peabody when it was near collapse. He moved its headquarters to New York and rebuilt it into a major player.
• He served as senior partner, chairman, and major shareholder for decades (until selling the firm to General Electric in 1986).
• Under his leadership, Kidder Peabody grew into a respected investment banking and brokerage firm, known for underwriting, sales, and international expansion (e.g., early offices in Hong Kong and Japan).
• Gordon was legendary for his energy: He made cold calls into his 90s, exercised vigorously, flew economy class, and stayed active in finance well past 100.

He was a Harvard graduate (class of 1923), a lifelong Republican, and known for his integrity, salesmanship, and long career on Wall Street.Kidder, Peabody itself had a long history dating back to 1865 but faced severe difficulties in the Great Depression. Gordon's turnaround is often cited as a classic Wall Street success story. The firm later faced challenges in the 1980s–90s (including the Joseph Jett scandal) before its eventual dissolution.

Cycle of Life

 

Across North America they are hitting the ground.

WHATTADAY!!!

 

OFFICIANT!

New York,  New York

May 23,  2026

Too easy..........

How can I ever forget the laughter and glee of my great friend, Dave Utter when he would  tell me, "buy em, and they go up, it's too easy"! 

One of the many things I have going for me in the stock market is that I have looked at over a million charts since the 1980's.  The charts don't lie, show pain and pleasure, greed and fear.  The chart will make the move before the news does.   You still think insider trading is a thing of the past?   The thieves are everywhere and you don't know they are there.  The SEC allows it!  Imagine that!   Ask Harry Markopolos about that bunch. 

By the time you enter a trade on your computer and hit the "send" button about a thousand people have seen your order and trade against it.   There is nothing pure and nice about the markets.   The little guy is low man on the totem.

So, you see, stocks don't know I own them and wouldn't behave any differently if they did.

In a very simple sense, I invest a fair amount of money, for access to all my tools, (needed for me to make a large amount of money).  All i do is generate lots of great ideas, far too many to act on, winnow that list down and down some more, (while adding to it), continue to evaluate the risks in the general market, eyeball earnings forecasts and then execute a plan to position size relative to the risk and buying power in my portfolio. 

That said, it has been a glorious year.  So far.

But look around.  What do you see?    I see a populace having a tough time.

I see every car dealership from Atlanta to Nashville, so full they can't get any more cars on the lots.

I see savings being depleted.

I see inflation.

I see homes for sale, sitting.   

I sense interest rates rising to slow things down.

When it comes it will be rather fast and furious. 

It's coming.  It will.  Trust me.  It always does.  Right when you least expect it.

Berkshire sitting on $400,000,000,000 of cash. That is with a "B" boys and girls.  Berkshire waiting for better times to enter the market with new buys at the right time;  when blood is running in the Street.

The cycle of manias, on full display.

Today, greed is in control. 

Eventually the winners and losers will be sorted out.   

This has been a powerful rally the past few months.

Thank you Mr. Market.

Take what the markets provide and say "thanks".

In Ojibway/Anishinabe we say, "miggwech", thank you.

118 for 118 so far...............

 Congratulations President Donald J. Trump

You Want Some Truth?

"If the vaccines are so safe, why are they blocking the safety studies? Looking at how these vaccines are actually approved has completely changed how I practice medicine. When the FDA and HHS are actively blocking publications on safety, it’s no longer about health—it's about control."

-----Mary Talley Bowden, M.D. 

TO: Montana Governor Greg Gianforte

This is too good not to post here.   There is a growing sense of outrage in Montana.

I’ve been reliably informed that Montana’s governor and lieutenant governor have both seen my posts, so I just wanted to say hi. And since you’re apparently reading, here’s an open invitation. Come do a public interview with me and explain why I’m wrong on corner crossing. Explain why the average Montana hunter should not be able to step from public land to public land without touching private property. Explain who you think public land actually belongs to. Unless, of course, it is easier to hide from this issue, hope it goes away, and avoid answering tough questions from regular hunters who are tired of watching public land become private playgrounds for the well-connected outfitters and landowners. I understand. Politicians usually prefer controlled rooms, softball questions, and friendly audiences. Maybe Montana’s governor is different. Maybe he has a backbone. I guess we’ll find out.

But this issue is not just me making noise on Facebook. Backcountry Hunters & Anglers and the Public Land & Water Access Association have filed a lawsuit in Montana to try to cement the legality of corner crossing and open access to roughly 871,000 acres of corner-locked public land in that state. onX deserves a ton of credit too, because they put real mapping and real money behind this fight and showed there are 8.3 million acres of corner-locked public land across the West, blocked by more than 27,000 land-locking corners. This is not about stealing private land. This is about stealing public land, and whether it only belongs to people with the money, lawyers, outfitters, and political connections to the governor to keep everybody else out. So Governor, Lieutenant Governor, the invitation is open. Come explain your position to regular hunters in public. They vote!

— Stephen Ziegler

Outdoor writer | Owner, DeLong Lures

Let’s look at the landowner argument on corner crossing. They say they are worried people will trespass, wander off the public corner, cut across private land, or use corner crossing as an excuse to violate property rights. Fine. That is a real concern. But if a homeowner in town is worried someone might break into his house, he does not get to block off the whole street and tell everybody else they cannot walk down it. That street is not his.

If somebody trespasses, prosecute them. If somebody damages your property, go after them. But you do not get to block the public from public land because you are worried someone might break the law. I do not get to violate your rights, and you do not get to violate mine. Corner crossing is not about violating property rights. It is about protecting property rights. public land is all of our property and nobody gets to violate our property rights. Public land is not yours just because you own the land beside it just like your neighbors house doesn’t belong to you just because they live next to you.

— Stephen Ziegler

Outdoor writer | Owner, DeLong Lures

Imagine the DRAIN................

The next Congress WILL NOT have...  

Al Green

Jasmine Crockett 

Dan Crenshaw 

Eric Swalwell 

Mitch McConnell

Nancy Pelosi 

Don Bacon 

Jerry Nadler 

Bill Cassidy 

Thomas Massie 

John Cornyn 

It's called draining the swamp.

George Floyd

The fake tears crowd comes out every year in Minnesota for the memory of the shooting of George Floyd.

Liberals always need a reason to get out on a spring day and bemoan the law enforcement efforts of great professionals who put their lives on the line every day they go to work to look out for justice across the United States of America.  

So you think Mr. Floyd left such a legacy of being an exemplary father?  The law breaker wasn't a model citizen; his record reflects little but poor choices.

His 5 children didn't have a clue who he was. Imagine that? Be a responsible citizen, sire 5 kids,  be an active parent in their lives,  have a job, obey the law?   Naw, not George.

George Floyd had a lengthy criminal history, primarily involving drugs and theft, with one notable violent armed robbery. This is well-documented in court records from Harris County, Texas.

Why the media portrays Floyd as being a saint or martyr is beyond me. Floyd was a career offender for years—drug dealing, theft, and a violent armed robbery that terrorized innocent victims.

This is your annual reminder that George Floyd dressed as water company worker to commit a home invasion with 5 other men. The three victims were female, one of them was pregnant.

Central Park, New York City

Among other things, I have been a birder my entire life.

Love the chase, love the scenery.

Have had a few opportunities to bird in Central Park and this past weekend was no exception.

Here is what I found most amazing and rather sad.

Central Park is a beautiful place for sure.

I was able to spot probably a thousand humans while birding.

980 had their faces glued to their cell phones.

The dopamine hits owned them.

Reels, texts, whatever, I would bet my Swarovski's they never saw a tiny bit of nature in Central Park. 

I bet you $10,000 that out of those 1,000 humans I saw in Central Park, there weren't 20 that saw what I saw.

Look at this Central Park beauty on a rainy day!

Life in America Today? Put it down and turn it off...................

 I have a job to do in New York City this weekend.

Officiating a wedding ceremony in the borough of Manhattan!

Today, think about what Elon Musk had to say and stew on it for a good bit............

Elon Musk said five words on Joe Rogan that explain everything wrong with your life right now.

Musk: “Happiness is reality minus expectations.” 

Five words.

And it explains why the most comfortable generation in human history can’t stop feeling empty.

Musk: “If you just go try living in the woods by yourself for a while, you’ll learn that civilization is quite great.”

He’s right.

On Naked and Afraid, people tap out in days. Sometimes hours. They crawl back to the same civilization they spent years resenting. Because comfort is invisible until you’re sleeping in the dirt.

But the formula has a second variable. It’s the one destroying you. Reality didn’t get worse. By every measure, it’s the best it’s ever been. Expectations did. Your grandparents compared themselves to their neighbor. Maybe a cousin. That was the whole universe. You compare yourself to 10,000 strangers before your first cup of coffee. Curated. Filtered. Showing you a life that doesn’t exist.

Theodore Roosevelt said it a century before any of this was built. Roosevelt: “Comparison is the thief of joy.” No Instagram. No TikTok. No algorithm designed by the smartest engineers on the planet to show you precisely what you don’t have. And he still called it. 

Now run the equation. Reality holds steady. Expectations spike every time you unlock your phone. The distance between them stretches. And happiness doesn’t fade. It collapses. Not because your life got worse. Because your reference point moved. 

We built the greatest civilization in human history. Then we built the perfect machine to make sure nobody enjoys it. Every scroll. Every notification. Every “suggested for you.” None of it connects you. It’s recalibrating what you think you need. Upward. Constantly. Without your consent. And you wonder why you feel behind. You’re not behind. You’re running toward a finish line that moves every time you look up. 

The most dangerous lie of this generation isn’t that life is hard. It’s that everyone else figured it out. And you’re the only one who didn’t. Nobody figured it out. The formula doesn’t negotiate. It just runs.

Raise expectations faster than reality improves and you will be miserable inside a paradise you built with your own hands. That’s not philosophy. 

That’s arithmetic. And the calculator is in your pocket right now.