IDAHO

What the hell is going on?

What kind of scum bag do you have to be to lure in firefighters after starting a fire and start shooting them?

God will have the last say. 

All Time High

My portfolio is at an all-time high, as it should be.

The S&P 500 Index is at an all-time high today.

It took time and work to get here.  

Here are some words that never get old.

Human is not a synonym for rational. Don't confuse net worth with self-worth. Success has nothing to do with money and everything to do with how you feel about yourself. People can do whatever they think they can do. I've never met a successful pessimist. I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. The extra mile is never crowded. Americans underestimate the value of pure freedom. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Hustle never has an off night. Don't fear giving up the good to go for the great.

Thour Shalt Not Steal

Theft comes in many forms.  I hate thieves.  I worked with legions of them in the investment business.  It is legally allowed.  The guy next to me putting 8 points in tax-free bonds (he's dead now), crossing stock in-house with "no commissions" of several points,  corporate bonds with 7 point mark-ups (he's dead too);  the grift and fraud are endless.   

The construction business is ideally suited for theft.  Theft of time, theft of materials, theft of tools, it is boundless what is ripped off from unsuspecting homeowners.

I am especially scared of unscrupulous painters and handymen who, under the color of SCRIPTURE, either on business cards, letterhead or trailers, apply a Bible verse to show the world how honest and caring they are.  

I run from people like that.  You should too.  FLEE is the better word.

I have had several instances in life, I'm only 71, where I have seen Scripture verses on business cards, trailers, and letterhead used as a front to pilfer.

Here is one I saw again today.  

I caught this guy stealing from me.   He was stealing material that I had bought for MY job and at completion he was loading it up in his trailer when I caught him.

Big Christian?  No, just a scum bag.  A bona fide thief. 

Moses only left us 10 Commandments.  This one is fairly clear.

   

QUESTION

I'm not that bright.   Went to West Point, accepted into 5 of the 6 law schools I applied to, made millions in the stock market, graduated college in 3 plus years with two majors, but still learning daily.

The best schooling I received was from dealing with successful people over the past 35 years, who asked me to help them preserve and grow their financial assets.

That said, don't you rise and shine every single day, feeling rather queasy about life in America?   Looking around the major cities, seeing the entitlement, the theft, the lack of parental skills, the lack of two-parent households, rampant drug use, and on and on and on it goes.  

Common sense is lacking everywhere.  

Where are we going? 

PAMELOT

 Pollinator plantings take time to develop.  Nature has its own speed.

FOR SALE

 

LIFE over the PHONE

I made my career on the telephone.

Some salesmen were a lot more polished, but they definitely didn't do the numbers.   

However, no one outworked me when it came time to make cold calls.

I made a million of them.

I am a believer in using telephone scripts to this day.  And a mirror.

Smiling on a telephone call makes all the difference in the world.  

Try it.

This was the phone that started my career in 1979 as a salesman with the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company in San Diego before I was hired at Kidder Peabody & Co., Inc on April 1, 1982.

The General Agent was Robert Windegardner, a gentleman in the ranks of Northwestern agents.  And yes, we had to pay for our phone calls.

 

Generational Dysfunction, Cognitive Extinction

Once society is ready for the conversation!  Do not co-parent with the United States Government.  Growing up in a single-female household is the greatest indicator that a child will live in poverty.  Return fathers to families, and you will see a vast improvement in the first generation raised within a proper nuclear family.