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2026-10-17, Simply Saturday

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Seems like such an obvious solution.

Elon blasted out the obvious…

Until we muster up honest conservative majority, we’ll…

Stuff…

Ideally, below article(s) and such of interest, that caught my eye.

Idle chatter. Slow Guy on the road through 3 November. Early enough to vote!

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Worthy retread. Posted last Saturday. Great Tulsi speech. If ya missed, truly worth your time. Otherwise, scroll on below.

Tulsi…

  • Shreds flock cameras and the like.
  • Calls out islami ideology IS an IMMINENT threat to America.

34:09

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Laughing here…

Buc-ee’s returns to Simply Saturday.

Buc-ee’s is a fascinating company.

12:06

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Chiefio delivers…

But first. What the hell is Polymath Truth?

Brave.

The polymath truth is the concept that genius and exceptional achievement are not innate traits reserved for a select few, but are instead driven by intense curiosity and the ability to connect disparate ideas. Rather than being defined by deep expertise in a single narrow field, a polymath is characterized by their refusal to silo knowledge, allowing them to recognize patterns across boundaries and synthesize insights from multiple domains.

Key aspects of this perspective include:

  • Curiosity over Credentialism: True polymathy is about what you chase and how you see connections, rather than simply accumulating facts or awards.
  • Pattern Recognition: The core superpower of a polymath is seeing how different fields echo each other, modeling systems, and translating complexity into clarity.
  • Creative Synthesis: Polymaths create by letting inputs from diverse areas collide, resulting in novel solutions and insights that specialists might miss.
  • Action-Oriented: It is not just about knowing many things, but about applying that broad knowledge to solve specific problems and generate innovation.

Back to Chiefio.

Globalist GroupThink & “Consensus” vs Polymath Truth

Globalism requires a “shared vision” or a kind of Group-Think. Polymaths do not.

I don’t find this presenter particularly compelling (she plays with her hair a lot, and hesitates at the limits of her training), but does cite published literature on the topic and seems to have understanding of it). Her basic exposition is that Polymaths (people with skill and understanding in multiple domains of knowledge) are resistant to Group-Think while many (most?) others are not.

I think I have seen that in real life (rather too often…)

It also explains some of my social interactions as I am a polymath, don’t do group-think, and have often got “the hairy eyeball” from a group of agreed people when I point to something that shows them wrong. (Covid, The Jab, Global “Warming” and a long list at work over the decades). What I see as “Keeping a Tidy Mind” where new assertions must integrate with the proven body of knowledge spanning multiple domains – such as Geologic History which “Global Warming” ignores… they see as an attack on The Consensus.

8:51

Where this leads me to ponder

There are a few ponderings that come from this.

1) To what extent is Globalism a case of Group-Think?

2) Have the sociopaths at the very top learned to harness Group-Think to promote Globalism?

3) Is that why the “Leaders In Charge” seem more like the “Idiots In Charge” since they were selected by the sociopaths for their submission to the Group-Think Narrative being pushed from the top? (Think Klaus Schwab to the WEF hoard of followers / “leaders” to be…)

4) Is this why so many of the Best & Brightest who call out Bull Shit in The Narrative get attacked and smeared by said apparatus? The Sociopaths at the top pushing to “name & shame” (or Dox & Destroy…) them via using their “Idiots in Charge” (and their “useful idiot follower hoards – Antiffa, BLM, etc.) for the attacks. Those in a Group-Think Consensus Group absolutely hate anyone in the out-group showing they are wrong. They can’t accept being shown stupidly wrong.

5) Is this also why the push for Boss Babes? Women are MUCH more interested in “consensus” and “agreement”, so would naturally push for expulsion of the Polymaths and adoption of the Group-Think Narrative. Plus, a Female Sociopath is far more sinister (vicious?) in their attacks and quite indirect in their revenge. So put Ursala at the top as the sociopath manipulator, then Kaja Kallas falls in line easily without thinking.

I asked Brave Browser “Women leaders of the EU” and the A.I. answered:


Four women currently hold the five most powerful positions in the European Union, leading a significant shift toward gender parity in the bloc’s top institutions.

The current female leaders are:

Ursula von der Leyen: President of the European Commission (since 2019, re-elected 2024).

Roberta Metsola: President of the European Parliament (second term secured in 2024).

Christine Lagarde: President of the European Central Bank (since 2019).

Kaja Kallas: High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (appointed 2024, succeeding Josep Borrell).

The only male in this top tier is Antonio Costa, the President of the European Council. Von der Leyen has been named the world’s most powerful woman by Forbes four consecutive years (2022–2025) and has actively pushed for gender parity in her Commission team, appointing women to six of the eight top vice-presidency roles in her second term.

AI-generated answer. Please verify critical facts.

I note in passing that “gender parity” in Ursela’s POV means ONE man in five top rolls and TWO men out of 8 at the next tier. So 5:1 and 3:1 women over men. Yeah, that’s “parity” all right… /snark;

Is the whole “meritocracy bad” and DIE Diversity Inclusion Equity based on race and gender due to this? The desire to put more “Group-Think” prone folks in authority and exclude the Polymath who disrupts the Group-Think and derails the Narrative Railroad?

I find it an interesting frame for looking at these questions, even if I can’t provide any definitive answers.

BUT it does seem to fit all the known facts. And, putting on my Sociopath Emulator Hat: it sure looks to me like, were I a socipath at the top, I’d NOT want a widely knowledgeable polymath who would fight me on The Narrative (of deception?) I was pushing, and I would want a lot of emos under me who would just follow my lead and conform to group pressure…

https://study.com/learn/lesson/emo-subculture-traits.html

What is an emo person like?
An emo person tends to be quiet, introspective or shy, and can be creative. They spend time alone or with people who share their interests listening to music or making emo-influenced art. They have deep emotions but aren’t always only angry or sad.

One also wonders if the Gay Guy stereotype comes into play here too. More emotional, less likely to be a polymath. More into music, art, clothes and other “girly stuff”… just a speculation / question. It would be amusing to look into group-think vs polymath tendency by social group with gender & “orientation” as markers.

In Conclusion

So there you have it. Insight of the day, but consisting more of questions than answers.

But it sure points toward more conformance to “all the known facts” than “doesn’t fit”…

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WHY the hell is gas double OR more, than it was one year ago, in the USA?

  • VDH gives part of the answer. But neglects to speak of Lloyd’s, London, Chuckles…

OFF The Wall?

  • What IF IRGC is not attacking tankers in the Strait of Hormuz?
  • What if Strait of Hormuz tanker attacks are rooted in one or more of: Lloyd’s, London, Chuckles, EU, NATO…WEF Globalists.

9:08

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Grateful our ancestors broke the British chains, again, and again…

Thankfully, Trump is finishing off the Brits, Canucks… Along with NATO. Ideally UN.

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Stay The Course. Trust Trump. Remember…

Never, Ever, forget what they did to us.

Celebrate America, Everyday!!!

Relax, It’s Saturday.

Night crew, your nickel.

KK

Health Friday 10.16.2026 Open Thread: NUVAXOVID, the Novavax COVID-19 Bioweapon “Vaccine”: Part Two

The image of Spodoptera frugiperda (fall armyworm) for today’s offering header is courtesy of Wikipedia. Health Friday is a series devoted to information about Big Pharma, vaccines, general health, and associated topics. There are Important Notifications from our host, Wolf Moon; the Rules of our late, good Wheatie; and, certain caveats from Yours Truly, of which readers should be aware. They are linked here. Note: AI-generated items in today’s offering will be cited as such. If readers wish to post AI-generated items in today’s discussion thread, they must cite their source. Thank you.

For previous information on NUVAXOVID, please see Part One of this series, here: https://www.theqtree.com/2026/10/02/health-friday-10-2-2026-open-thread-nuvaxovid-the-novavax-covid-19-bioweapon-vaccine-part-one/.

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NUVAXOVID, the Novavax COVID-19 Bioweapon “Vaccine”: Part Two

This article will discuss a sampling of more “details” from the Package Insert for Healthcare Providers for NUVAXOVID; followed by a presentation of the Patent for this injectable. The Package Insert for NUVAXOVID is here: https://www.fda.gov/media/186544/download. Let’s look at this statement on page 5, under the footnotes for section 6 ADVERSE REACTIONS:

**** In other words: it appears that there were TWO DIFFERENT manufacturing processes for the NUVAXOVID used in the clinical trials listed above the footnotes (seven clinical trials in all) — shades of the “Process 1” and “Process 2” manufacturing methods used by Pfizer-BioNTech for BNT162b2.

Study 1 (NCT04611802), which Yours Truly will call the first “NUVAXOVID Process 1 study” was conducted in the United States, Mexico, and Puerto Rico; Study 2 (NCT04583995), using the “NUVAXOVID Process 2 study”) was conducted in the United Kingdom; Study 3 (NCT04533300), another “NUVAXOVID Process 2 study”) was performed in South Africa; and, Study 4 (NCT 02368988), the final “NUVAXOVID Process 2 study”) was performed in the United States and Australia. Studies 1, 5, 6, and 7 used the “NUVAXOVID Process 1” manufacturing method. Information regarding the changes to the manufacturing processes for NUVAXOVID is found in this document, beginning on page 23 and continuing through page 31: https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/assessment-report/nuvaxovid-epar-public-report_en.pdf, 4 January 2022. A screenshot of a portion of page 23 is below:

What follows, through page 31 of this document, is a “public-view description” of the multiple changes to the manufacturing process for NUVAXOVID: changes that occurred while clinical studies were ongoing; changes that occurred due to the “vaccine” (NVX-CoV2373, the “other name” for NUVAXOVID) being manufactured by at least two different entities in two different countries; changes that resulted in different types of formulations; and more. Were the human study subjects in the seven studies listed above informed that the NUVAXOVID (NVX-CoV2373) that was injected into them could have been manufactured in, for example, Japan or India? That the composition of the formulation that was injected into them could be different from one human study subject to another? Did the study subjects have to sign off on the above?

Looking “further afield” regarding the (at least two; perhaps, more?) manufacturing processes for NUVAXOVID, Yours Truly found this: https://www.mci.edu/en/news-filter-en/228-researchernews/4068-nuvaxovid-new-vaccine-explained, ” Nuvaxovid – the new subunit SARS-CoV-2 vaccine”, Carmen Nussbaumer, 28 February 2022 (Innsbruck, Austria.) A screenshot of the section, “What comprises the Nuvaxovid vaccine?” is below. This article confirms that the spike protein is the basis for NUVAXOVID. It also confirms that the spike protein is “inserted” into a virus created from the Spodoptera frugiperda Sf9 cell line, which is then introduced into the body — thus, two different viruses are used: the manipulated “baculovirus” that is inserted into the Sf9 insect cells + the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.:

The Package Insert for Healthcare Providers for NUVAXOVID (link above) appears to focus on Study 1 (NCT04611802, https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04611802), which was conducted in the United States, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. On page 8 of the Fact Sheet, for example, there is a breakdown of the types and percentages of study subjects affected by adverse reactions to NUVAXOVID. The figures on page 8 are, in Yours Truly’s opinion, revealing: one sees that the numbers of Study 1 subjects who had adverse reactions to this “vaccine” far outweigh the numbers of Study 1 subjects who were given the saline solution placebo injections. A screenshot of a portion of page is below:

Grade 3 adverse reactions include those which interfere with normal daily activities; which cause a high degree of pain; and so on. Grade 4 adverse reactions include those which require Emergency Room visits or hospitalization; which indicate tissue death (necrosis); and more. One more detail in the Package Insert for Healthcare Providers for NUVAXOVID: on page 42, the (“official”, per the Package Insert) manufacturer of this “vaccine” is Sanofi (also known as Sanofi-Pasteur.) A screenshot of page 42 is below:

Sanofi has a website devoted to NUVAXOVID: https://www.nuvaxovid.com/. This website states that the product does not contain SARS-CoV-2:

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The information regarding the differences in manufacturing processes among what Yours Truly will call the “NUVAXOVID Process 1” and the “NUVAXOVID Process 2” led one to look up the Patent for NUVAXOVID: https://patents.google.com/patent/US11253586B2/en, “Coronavirus vaccine formulations”. A screenshot of the Title and Date Summary of the Patent is below:

A screenshot of Claim 1 is below:

Which, by the way, appears to confirm that: the SARS-CoV-2 virus is NOT found in nature; that the spike protein of this virus is the foundation for NUVAXOVID; and, that elements of the spike protein were modified for use in the “vaccine” (modRNA.) Which also appears to contradict the statement on the Sanofi-sponsored NUVAXOVID website (link above, and image from the website) that there is no SARS-CoV-2 in the product.

Some other details from the Patent: One: Fig. 4 and Fig. 5, regarding two SARS-CoV-2 polypeptides (BV2365 and BV2373) which bind well to the ACE2 receptor enzymes in the body. These receptors are crucial for controlling blood pressure, wound healing, and inflammation (https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/science/051620/what-is-the-ace-2-receptor, 16 May 2020.) Apparently, the inventors of NUVAXOVID spent time and effort in manipulating BV2365 and BV2373 to get the results they wanted: SARS-CoV-2 virus elements that would bind as completely as possible to the ACE2 receptors in the body. Two: there are several types of “detergents” that can be used (“in embodiments” is the language in the Patent) in NUVAXOVID to “scrub clean” the surface of body cells to assist the “vaccine’s” entry into these cells. Two such detergents are NP-9 and polysorbate 80 (PS80.) PS80 was one chosen for the U.S. version of this “vaccine” (see the Package Insert [link above], section 11 DESCRIPTION.)

**** The combination of the spike protein elements + PS80 make up the nanoparticle used in NUVAXOVID (Claim 6): it appears that the PS80 surfactant detergent “scrubs clean” the surface of the ACE2 receptors; so that the manipulated BV2365 and BV2373 enzymes from the spike protein can gain entry into these receptors: therefore interfering with their normal functions of controlling blood pressure, wound healing, inflammation, and other processes. In addition, the PS80 + spike protein which makes up the nanoparticle for NUVAXOVID allows the spike protein to be “mainlined” into every cell in the body.

But wait, there’s more! Reading through more of the Patent, it is apparent that: One: other forms of CoV (coronavirus) elements can be used (MERS, SARS-CoV), either alone OR IN COMBINATION with the spike protein from SARS-CoV-2, in NUVAXOVID; Two: it appears that the BV2373 enzyme from the SARS-CoV-2 virus is the “prime instigator” used in the “vaccine”; Three: that the “vaccine” is formulated to specifically attack the CD4 – CD8 cells of the body; Four: that ALUMINUM salts can also be used as an adjuvant in the “vaccine”; Five: that the use of the Matrix-M adjuvant (made from the soapbark tree) in the “vaccine” MAY LEAVE TRACE ELEMENTS of the manufacturing process for this adjuvant; and, Six: that the Matrix-M adjuvant can comprise AS MUCH AS 85% of the “vaccine” formulation. Note: adjuvants are used in “vaccines” to increase the response in body of the “vaccinated” person.

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**** What we have now is the following: A COVID-19 bioweapon “vaccine”, called NUVAXOVID. This “vaccine”: may include not only the spike protein from the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but ALSO elements from other coronaviruses (MERS, or SARS-CoV, or others); which may include one OR more detergents (NP-9, PS80. or others); which may include UP TO 85% of a lab-created compound called Matrix-M, an adjuvant, lab-created from elements of the soapbark tree; which MAY also include aluminum salts as an adjuvant; which includes a “baculovirus” that is lab-created from the Sf9 cells of Spodoptera frugiperda (fall armyworm), a voracious crop destroyer insect; which is manufactured under “partnership” with Sanofi, or with FUJIFILM (Japan), or in India (the latter two locations were where the NUVAXOVID used in clinical trials were manufactured; it is unknown if these two locations are still being used to manufacture the “vaccine”); which is a “vaccine” that CROSSES THE BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER, in addition to entering into every cell of the “vaccinated” body; which allows the PS80 + spike protein nanoparticle in NUVAXOVID to be “mainlined” into every cell in the body; and, which contains at least one chemical compound — methyl-alpha-D-mannopyranoside) that is “Not for drug or household use” (https://www.tcichemicals.com/OP/en/p/M0368; click on “Safety & Regulations” tab; then click “Safety Data Sheet (SDS)” in English); and, finally, that the FDA-issued Package Insert for Healthcare Providers only contains the information that Novavax has given to the FDA. NUVAXOVID is a modRNA COVID-19 bioweapon “vaccine.” It is NOT a “safer alternative” to COMIRNATY, to SPIKEVAX, to mNEXSPIKE, or to any other COVID-19 bioweapon “vaccine.” In fact, NUVAXOVID, in Yours Truly’s opinion, could be slightly more dangerous than the other COVID-19 bioweapon “vaccines” — because the nanoparticle used in this “vaccine” is made up of a detergent + the elements of the SARS-CoV-2 virus spike protein itself (manipulated with Sf9 insect “baculovirus”.)

The FDA has granted full approval for this “vaccine.” Who, reading the information in today’s offering, along with that in Part One of the NUVAXOVID series, would allow this product to be injected into their body — or into the body of their child?

Peace, Good Energy, Respect: PAVACA1

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Dear MAGA: 20261011 Open Topic

This Rejoice & Praise God Sunday Open Thread, with full respect to those who worship God on the Sabbath, is a place to reaffirm our worship of our Creator, our Father, our King Eternal.

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On this day and every day –

God is in Control
. . . and His Grace is Sufficient, so . . .
Keep Looking Up

Hopefully, every Sunday, we can find something here that will build us up a little . . . give us a smile . . . and add some joy or peace, very much needed in all our lives.

“This day is holy to the Lord your God;
do not mourn nor weep.” . . .
“Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet,
and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared;
for this day is holy to our Lord.
Do not sorrow,
for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”

We Shall Be Changed

The apostle Paul, in his letter to the believers in Philippi, expressed confidence in God’s continued work in their lives: “I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine making request for you all with joy, for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ” (Philippians 1:3–6).

Paul had seen firsthand the good work that God had begun in the Philippian believers. In Philippi, on Paul’s second missionary journey, he and his companions encountered Lydia and other women meeting by the riverside for prayer. As Paul preached, Lydia and her household believed and were baptized, and the Philippian church was born (Acts 16:11–15). Later, the Christians in Philippi conducted their house church in Lydia’s home. As the church grew, it became one of the strongest supporters of Paul’s ministry (Philippians 4:10–20).

Paul loved the Philippians deeply and desired to see them continue to grow in Christian maturity and abound in ever-increasing spiritual understanding: “I pray that your love will overflow more and more, and that you will keep on growing in knowledge and understanding. For I want you to understand what really matters, so that you may live pure and blameless lives until the day of Christ’s return. May you always be filled with the fruit of your salvation—the righteous character produced in your life by Jesus Christ—for this will bring much glory and praise to God. so that they will be blameless until the day of Christ” (Philippians 1:9–11, NLT).

At the time of our salvation, God begins His work in us. We are made alive in Christ—regenerated, made new (2 Corinthians 5:17). Then, through an ongoing, lifelong process called sanctification, God finishes, perfects, and completes His work in us. Paul referred to the process when he said, “He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ” (Philippians 1:6, NKJV). Spiritual growth ought to continue in steadfast believers until the day Jesus Christ returns (2 Peter 3:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:23).

A biblical definition of sanctification is “the Holy Spirit’s work of setting believers apart to be made holy or made like God.” Sanctification is a three-phase process. At the moment of salvation, Christians enter positional sanctification. Jesus’ work on the cross is a finished work—believers stand positionally sanctified as though they already are made holy before God, even though they are not yet completely holy in practice: “For by one sacrifice he [Jesus] has made perfect forever those who are being made holy” (Hebrews 10:14).

Progressive sanctification is phase two, in which God, who has begun a good work in us at salvation, continues to transform us into His image, saving us from the practice and power of sin. After the initial cleansing from sin, the committed Christian begins to undergo a daily process of spiritual renewal (Colossians 3:10). The Bible also calls this phase “the sanctifying work of the Spirit,” as the Holy Spirit is the chief agent working in the believer to produce the character of God and the fruit of holiness (1 Peter 1:2; cf. 1 Corinthians 6:11; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; Galatians 5:22–23).

From the moment God begins His good work in us until the day of its completion, the Holy Spirit is chipping away, renovating our character, day by day reforming us into partakers of the holy nature of God. God does the work, but believers are also meant to be active in the process, yielding to the effort (Romans 6:13, 19; 12:1) and pressing on toward the upward call to holiness (Hebrews 12:14; Philippians 3:12–14).

God began a good work in us at salvation and then called us to live out the progressing development of being made into His image. The Christian walk is a pathway of ongoing growth. The journey brings us ever closer to God until His work in us is perfect and complete on “the day of Jesus Christ”—that is, the day of Christ’s return when we see Him (Colossians 3:4; 1 Thessalonians 5:23). Complete sanctification is the third phase, also known as glorification.

From the very beginning, throughout the continuation, and until the final stroke, God is working in us (Philippians 2:13). He is the Master Craftsman who never gives up on us (Ephesians 2:10; 2 Corinthians 1:21–22). The Lord’s salvation, His glorious redemption of His people, will reach its crowning culmination when Jesus Christ returns. Only then will God, who has begun a good work in you, put His finishing touch on you.

Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed — in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
1Corinthians 15:51-52

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2026-10-10, Simply Saturday

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Prices pulled last evening.  Gold $4,215.30  Silver $61.59   Bitcoin $82,512

Hell, Elon blasted out the obvious…

Until we have a conservative majority, we’ll…

Stuff…

Chiefio comes through…

Will Trump bring back incandescent bulbs. (I wish.)

Prion & Huntington’s Treatment, & LEDs Getting Worse

Two Stories here, both Medical. In 2028 LED Bulbs get worse, & we might fix Huntington’s & Prion Diseases

I’ll start with the not so good so we can end on a good note.

LED Bulbs to get worse for health in 2028

Current pending regulations will make LED Bulbs even more narrow spectrum (and in a very bad way), so even the better color spectrum bulbs with both aesthetic and health benefits will be banned in the USA.

This will not bother me much, since I have a lifetime supply of IC and CFL bulbs; but I might stock up on a few of the better LEDs and encourage LED using friends to do so.

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For those who have not got an inventory of Incandescent bulbs: You can make work-arounds.

There are Y adapters to turn one socket into 2, then put 40 W “appliance bulbs” in it for an 80 W IC lamp. I also bought some adapters with 3 to 1 sockets and then 3 x 25 W bulbs gives you a 75 W, while 3 x 40 gives 120 W of light.

I also have 2 “three way” floor lamps and, for now, you can still find IC 3 way bulbs ( I bought a bunch of 50 / 100 / 150 from Amazon recently). Then, running it on the low setting, when that burns out, you still have a bulb of the higher wattage that works in a regular socket (since the power comes from the center pin for that filament). I use the 50W as “all day long” ambient light in my office and about once a year get a bulb with only the high power 100W setting left, and move it to the Den Lamp on a dimmer. Run at about 90% of power, they last for several years.

Finally, “Rough Service” bulbs are not “general service” so you can still get “rough service” IC bulibs. I also have some 200 W “High Power” bulbs, that, turn on a dimmer will last nearly forever (though with low efficiency, but with LOTS of healthful IR light 😉

So with some work it is still possible to bypass the lousy LED light.

More…

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Booting islamis MUST be a Major 2028 Theme.

  • Zero immigration.
  • No mosques.
  • No sharia.
  • America wide. NO dual citizenship in federal offices. Elected, appointed, or otherwise. NONE.

France Burning, UK Rotting, Left & Muslim Riots

France Imported the 3rd World, now it burns. UK is importing it too, so far just rot

I do not know who “at the top” made the decision to import a load of leftists, Muslims, and the 3rd World and thought that would be a good thing for Democratic Christian Republics in modernity; but they were wrong. Very very wrong.

So now a bunch of “students” by the thousands in France are burning down their schools with the excuse that they are not good enough… though how a pile of ashes will provide a better education is unclear… The UK continues to force invading “migrants” onto an existing population that is already struggling. I doubt anyone at the decision making point in this migrant invasion has actually read the Koran or knows what it says is mandatory (hint: it is NOT what a Muslim will tell you thanks to Taqiyya – the Koranic permission to lie to the Infidel about Islam until you have converted them and their country (which is also commanded)).

There are fundamental incompatibilities between Islam and Christianity (including that the Koran says to try to convert Christians and only kill them after you give it a good attempt and they won’t pay you a special tax to stay alive… Then there’s the “kill the Jews where you find them” which sure sounds like a “hate crime” to me… and the stoning of anyone gay unless you can toss them off a high building… and more. And yes, I have read the Koran and it does say it is OK to enslave the infidel).

So John Cleese (Monty Python / Faulty Towers comedian) pointed out some of these inherent incompatibilities and the result is that the police (the Thought Police department of the Government Security apparatus) has put this 86 year old man on a potential terrorist list of some kind for speaking a truth that made someone (muslim) uncomfortable. Britain is toast. Cold and soggy toast at that.

Oddly, Better Bachelor who usually covers the Feminist Gender War On Men, has the news about it:

33:40

Here’s the link to the same story on Rumble for when YouTube takes down the original to comply with some European dictate or other:

IMHO, this will continue getting worse until one of two things happen:

1) Most likely is the collapse of European Christian Democratic Republics as Europe becomes Yet Another Islamic Mess like the rest of the Muslim World.

2) Least Likely is that the Native Europeans do what they did in the 1200-1500 A.D. era and once again drive out the invading ideology.

BOTH of them will involve a LOT of death and bloodshed. At present, with demographic collapse among the existing populations of Europe (largely due to the feminist ideology of “career no kids” and blame men), in another generation there will be a majority Muslims in Europe and they will just vote in an Islamic State. Then it will be “conversion by the sword” for any minority population of Europeans. That’s what the Koran mandates.

What would it take for a revival of a Christian Europe? Good luck with that… I don’t know what it would take, and I don’t see anyone making it happen. I do see a LOT of “import fighting age 3rd world Muslim Men”, and the fantasy that this is somehow going to end well.

Islam is NOT just some kind of “Christianity Lite”, and do not buy the lie that it is. Read your history. Read the Koran. THINK for yourself. Speak truth to power (and everyone else too…)

Me? Happily retired and NOT going to ever visit Europe again. Not the UK. Not the EU. Not Switzerland or the Nordic countries. Maybe Latin America selectively… Oh, and I will continue to advocate for stopping the flood of invaders to the USA and removal of the ones already here. It would be nice to save Canada from the European Disease, but as long as Carney and his ilk are in charge, closing the northern border is probably the best we can do. Might be nice to connect Alaska with the lower 48 via the Western Provinces becoming States (should they wish it), but not interested in Ontario / Toronto / Montreal…

I also hope that Australia can reverse some of their Cranial Rectal Inversion… but not seen any evidence there either.

IF anyone has sussed out the origin point for the idiocy of our Idiots In Charge in the West, I’d love to know about it. Is it all just the WEF? Or is something behind those curtains too? Cultural Marxism and Islam seem like strange bedfellows, and why Feminist Women are all for it is a mystery too (as being put in a tent without education and part of a harem seems counter to their POV)… I have trouble believing that our “Leaders” are really so stupid as to think they can benefit from the Chaos that they are causing. They ought to look at the results of prior French Revolutions and the resulting French Haircuts… So it all remains a mystery to me. But a cure can start without knowing where the root cause is located… for now.

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Another take on plagues. Well, the plague in Californicate.

Plague Panic! – not so much…

There’s a lot of Russian Lab Plague Panic! stories going on.

Why do I not care? Because I lived 60+ years with Plague in California.

I asked Brave A.I. for a summary of “Plague endemic in California” and it said:

Showing results for California, US

Plague is endemic in many parts of California, specifically in rural and undeveloped foothill and mountainous areas, as well as some coastal regions. The disease is naturally present in wild rodent populations, primarily ground squirrels, chipmunks, and woodrats, which serve as the main reservoir for the Yersinia pestis bacteria.

The South Lake Tahoe area in El Dorado County is a known hotspot, having recorded a human case in 2025 and evidence of plague in rodents since 2021. Other high-risk areas include the Angeles National Forest and San Gabriel Mountains in Los Angeles County, as well as higher elevations in Tulare County. Plague is not found in the Central Valley or the southeastern desert regions, and human cases in urban areas have not been reported in nearly 100 years.

Transmission to humans typically occurs through the bite of infected fleas from wild rodents or by handling infected animals. Pet cats are particularly susceptible and can carry infected fleas into homes or transmit the disease via respiratory secretions if they contract pneumonic plague. The average number of human cases in the United States is about seven per year, with most occurring in western states, and these cases are effectively treated with antibiotics if diagnosed early.

AI-generated answer. Please verify critical facts.

Bolding done by me.

BTW, it isn’t just California.

From: https://www.cdc.gov/plague/maps-statistics/index.html

So ask me again how worried I am about ONE case of plague in a guy in Russia?

It is one big Ho Hum.

Many more cases outside of Russia:

https://chiefio.wordpress.com

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One more Chiefio for grins.

3, 2, 1…Queue lawsuits.

3, 2, 1…Software stock(s) selloff?

Don’t “Learn To Code” – Do an A.I. Clone…

Well this is going to be huge…

A small group used A.I. to write an open source clone of Photoshop in Rust in a few weeks. The whole thing.

Software companies just took a major hit to their business model. Even if nobody makes an A.I. Windows Clone, or Micro$oft manages to sue folks to prevent it: Any group could now make a ‘work alike” that was better than their crap, and a LOT more efficient, that required minimal changes to work flow and user skills, and make it free or minimally priced.

Going to Programming Classes and “learning to code” is no longer a viable career path. Learning to prompt an A.I. is.

Expect a flood of cheap software that works FINE from places like India, China, and frankly, just about anywhere. Were I, say, the Chief Tech Officer of the Government of Some 3rd World Country: I’d NOT be cutting a check for ANY Western Software. I’d either use the existing Open Source stuff, OR if some particular need existed and no open source product existed – I’d tell my computer department staff to whip up a clone using A.I. tools.

IMHO, there will be a huge reduction in valuations of Software Companies… the survivors will make it on “consultants” and “maintenance” fees. Not a software license fee.

10:40

Time to change from “learn to code” to “learn to prompt A.I.”

It looks (from what they said) like even the Q.A. & Validation was done with A.I. assist.

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Grateful our ancestors broke the British chains, again, and again…

Thankfully, Trump is finishing off the Brits, Canucks… Along with NATO. Ideally UN.

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Charlie nailed it…

Stay The Course. Trust Trump. Remember…

Never, Ever, forget what they did to us.

Celebrate America, Everyday!!!

Relax, It’s Saturday.

Night crew, your nickel.

KK

Health Friday 10.9.2026 Open Thread: The AMA Wants Americans to Take More Poison “Vaccines”

The vintage image of a doctor’s office sign for today’s offering header is courtesy of iStock and Google Images. Health Friday is a series devoted to information about Big Pharma, vaccines, general health, and associated topics. There are Important Notifications from our host, Wolf Moon; the Rules of our late, good Wheatie; and, certain caveats from Yours Truly, of which readers should be aware. They are linked here. Note: AI-generated items in today’s offering will be cited as such. If readers wish to post AI-generated items in today’s discussion thread, they must cite their source. Thank you. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The AMA Wants Americans to Take More Poison “Vaccines” Note: AMA stands for the American Medical Association, a private organization founded in 1847. The AMA currently has approximately 270,000 members (https://www.ama-assn.org/.) The organization has a large and powerful lobbying presence on Capitol Hill. The subject of today’s offering is a JAMA Learning interview (Journal of the American Medical Association) by JAMA Deputy Editor, Preeti Malani, MD, MPH, with former Director of the CDC Rochelle Wolansky, MD, MPH. Please see: https://edhub.ama-assn.org/jn-learning/audio-player/19096301, “Influenza, RSV, and COVID-19 Vaccines: Effectiveness, Safety, and Trust in 2026.” Note that Dr. Wolansky, as Director of the CDC from 20 January 2021 until 30 June 2023, was one of the prime figures in the implementation of Operation Warp Speed; she resigned from the CDC after the COVID-19 pandemic was declared ended on 11 May 2023 (https://archive.cdc.gov/.) Dr. Wolansky is currently a professor at the Harvard University School of Medicine. The following are four items from the Transcript of Dr. Malani’s interview with Dr. Wolansky:

The copyrighted items above are from the American Medical Association, and are available on the Internet.

Dr. Wolansky is a co-author of the following report, produced by the AMA in conjunction with the Vaccine Integrity Project (https://vax.integrity.cidrap.umn.edu), itself a division of CIDRAP (Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, https://cidrap.umn.edu.) It appears, in Yours Truly’s opinion, that the Vaccine Integrity Project views itself as an “ACIP / CDC replacement vaccine recommendations organization”, since the actual ACIP group was disbanded by Federal Judge Brian E. Murphy earlier this year, and that there is no current ACIP roster past 24 July 2026 (https://www.cdc.gov/acip/membership/roster-archive.html.) The Vaccine Integrity Project, in conjunction with the AMA, released its’ “independent vaccine evidence” report on 2 September 2026: https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/ama-press-releases/ama-vaccine-integrity-center-unveil-independent-vaccine-evidence. The summary of the “recommendations” of this “ACIP / CDC replacement vaccine recommendations organization” is here: https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/vip-reviews-highlights.pdf; which “recommendations” are, of course, that all Americans continue to take: the RSV “vaccine” the COVID-19 bioweapon “vaccines” the influenza vaccines (see above regarding Dr. Wolanky’s enthusiastic endorsement of mRNA-1010 (mFLUSIVA). Translation: Establishment Medicine (the AMA; the Vaccine Integrity Project; the American Academy of Pediatrics; the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists — all prime examples) is continuing to “recommend” that Americans continue to “follow the science”, to “listen to the trusted messengers”, and have more of the above injectable poisons put into their bodies.

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Hulscher, et al., have just published a paper on Zenodo which proves that CHILDREN who take COVID-19 bioweapon “vaccines” are at higher risk for developing anxiety / autism / ADHD / needing Special Education services: https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-study-covid-19-vaccination-9fd. “BREAKING STUDY: COVID-19 “Vaccination” of Children Linked to AUTISM, ADHD, ANXIETY, and SPECIAL-ED Use”, Nicholas Hulscher, MPH, 5 October 2026. Note: there is an AI-generated image in this article. Please see the screenshots, below, from the Hulscher piece:

The paper is found here: https://zenodo.org/records/23165256, “Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in COVID-19 Vaccinated Versus Unvaccinated U.S. Children: Analysis of the National Health Interview Survey 2022 – 2024”, Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, John Catanzano, NMD, PhD, et al.; 5 October 2026. Please see the screenshot of the Conclusions of this paper, below:

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Americans must educate themselves regarding the dangers of the injectables that they are “recommended” to take, or for injectables that are “recommended” for their children. Demand to see the healthcare provider Package Insert for the injectable, NOT the “dumbed-down” Information Sheet for Patients and Caregivers for the product. Read the healthcare provider Package Insert. Ask the healthcare provider to clarify or explain any questions. Ask WHY the injectable is being “recommended” for the patient. Yes, there are circumstances where an injectable drug may be indicated or necessary — however, the patient has the right to ask the reasoning behind the indication. In Yours Truly’s opinion, the “good old days” of blindly rolling up the sleeve and “taking the shot” are finished.

Peace, Good Energy, Respect: PAVACA1

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The Blessing of Not Seeing

Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” (John 20:29)

The Advent story is filled with people who got to see Jesus face-to-face. Mary and Joseph, of course, were the first to set eyes on God in human flesh, to hold his hands, to kiss his feet. They were quickly joined by others. The shepherds arrived next: “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see,” they told one another (Luke 2:15). Simeon also saw the child—even held him in his arms (Luke 2:28). Anna saw him (Luke 2:36–38). The wise men saw him (Matt. 2:10–11). And those initial visitors were just a small fraction of the multitudes who would soon come to sit at the incarnate Savior’s feet.

We haven’t seen our Savior face-to-face. But Jesus says we are blessed.

We are those of whom Peter says, “Though you have not seen him, you love him” (1 Pet. 1:8), and who Paul says “walk by faith, not by sight” (2 Cor. 5:7). While the crowds in Jesus’s earthly lifetime often sought him for the dazzle of a miracle or the spectacle of a sign, we seek our unseen Savior by faith—a faith that could only come from his Spirit. If we haven’t seen and yet still believe, we can have confidence that he lives with us and is at work in us (cf. John 14:17). Truly, we are blessed.

The manger is empty, and the tomb is empty too. Ultimately, it would be foolish to look for Christ in either of those places. Instead, we turn the eyes of faith heavenward, “[seeking] the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God” (Col. 3:1). Do we want to see Jesus? We must seek him where he is. We approach him in worship, we seek him in prayer, and we gaze on him in his Word. We may not have made it to Bethlehem on that starry night, but Christ is nevertheless present with us by his Word and Spirit—particularly in the gathering of his church.

We may not have touched his swaddling clothes or heard his newborn cries, but we have everything we need to experience him. His voice resounds from a pulpit and a page, his eyes and ears and hands are on display in the weekly assembly of his beloved body.

And one day, just as he ascended, he will return. Writing from his lonely exile on Patmos, John encourages our hearts: “Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him” (Rev. 1:7).

“Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!” (Rev. 22:20).

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Seems like such an obvious solution.

Elon blasted out the obvious…

Until we elect a conservative majority, we’ll…

Stuff…

OK so I was bouncing around YT and saw below video. Being a geezer, thought, what the hell…

  • Not in the market for a new vehicle until, I hope 2028.

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Then I wondered, would geezer car insurance rates go down. So I asked Grok.

  • Yea, grok would have no conflict of interest here.

Grok

71yo driver. No accidents OR moving violations since 1975. Texarkana, TX. Typical insurance rates for a Tesla Y FSD?

Typical full-coverage rates for a Tesla Model Y in Texarkana, TX, for a 71-year-old with an exceptionally clean record (no accidents or moving violations since 1975) are roughly $180–$320 per month ($2,200–$3,800 per year), depending on exact coverage, deductibles, mileage, credit, and insurer. Liability-only is substantially lower. These are estimates based on 2025–2026 published averages and comparisons; actual quotes vary and require personalized shopping.

Key Benchmarks

  • Texas Model Y averages (full coverage, typical middle-aged clean-record driver, 100/300/100 limits + $500 deductibles): Around $4,169 per year / ~$347 per month. Liability-only (higher limits) averages closer to $1,495 per year. insurance.com
  • National Model Y full-coverage averages: Often $3,000–$4,600 per year (~$250–$380/month) for similar profiles, with some sources lower for safer/older drivers. insurance.com
  • Age effects: Rates for seniors in Texas rise modestly after ~65–70. A typical 70-year-old pays about 8% more than a 65-year-old for full coverage on an average vehicle (e.g., statewide senior full-coverage averages near $2,800–$3,000/year). Tesla premiums run higher due to vehicle value, battery/repair costs, and parts. Clean multi-decade records and mature-driver discounts help offset this. carinsurance.com
  • Texarkana specifically: Lower than major Texas metros (DFW/Houston averages for Model Y clean-record full coverage often $220–$400/month). Overall city auto averages for full coverage are frequently in the $170–$180/month range for typical cars—noticeably below the Texas statewide average—due to lower urban density/claim frequency. insurify.com

Tesla Insurance Advantage (Available in Texas)Tesla Insurance prices primarily on the vehicle’s Safety Score (and mileage/garaging) rather than age or credit score, which can benefit a very safe senior driver. It also offers an FSD (Supervised) usage benefit/discount in Texas (up to ~10% on eligible coverages for ≥50% of miles with FSD engaged; higher usage can produce larger effective savings in examples).

Example order-page estimates (Austin-area Model Y context, not Texarkana-specific): ~$205/month without heavy FSD use vs. ~$148/month with high FSD usage. Real rates depend on your Safety Score, ZIP, and coverage. High scores can produce competitive or lower-than-traditional rates.

Factors That Help or Hurt Your Rate

  • Helpful: 50+ years clean record, potential low annual mileage, mature/defensive driving course (common 5–10% discount for 55+ in Texas), multi-policy bundling, higher deductibles, Tesla’s advanced safety features, and strong Safety Score/FSD usage with Tesla Insurance.
  • Higher cost drivers: Newer/higher-trim Model Y, low deductibles, high mileage, urban ZIP nuances, or comprehensive coverage in hail-prone areas.
  • Company variation is large: In Texas Model Y data, full-coverage quotes have ranged widely (e.g., State Farm or Incline often lower; others substantially higher). USAA can be competitive if eligible. insurance.com

Practical AdviceShop quotes from Tesla Insurance, State Farm, GEICO, Progressive, Nationwide, local/independent agents, and others (or comparison sites). Provide your exact ZIP, model year/trim, desired limits/deductibles, annual mileage, and any other vehicles/homeowners policy. Complete a Texas-approved mature driver course if you haven’t recently. Rates are not guaranteed and change with market conditions, claims experience, and underwriting.These figures assume standard full coverage on a typical recent Model Y; liability-only or higher/lower limits will differ materially. Get multiple personalized quotes for the most accurate picture.

Me. Interesting it appears some insurance company rates go down with increased FSD engaged. Minor plug for Tesla insurance. 🙂

Maintenance appears to be minimal, as compared to ICE.

EVs still have a ways to go.

Are EV fires still an issue OR was that mainly non-Tesla EV fires for the most part. Based on Grok search, does not appear to be a significant issue. I spose, keep the Tesla out of water and hope it doesn’t catch on fire for any reason.

Cold weather issues. Charge time. Charge limits. Increase charge drain. Long distance travel on holidays likely long wait times to charge EVs.

Then I looked at Tesla weight Vs my Ram and Grand Cherokee L. Ram 25% heavier. Grand Cherokee L about the same. So much for the EVs are too heavy hype.

Tire prices comparable to what I buy these days. Maintenance appears to be much less than ICE.

Charging station availability on demand, likely my biggest concern. 2028 charging station availability may not be an issue.

So much for the Tesla rabbit hole deep dive of sorts.

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This looks interesting.

Elon Musk Makes A Move On The Banks

When Elon Musk took over Twitter, fired four out of five employees, and rebranded it X (just because he thought it sounded cool), the talking heads predicted doom for the company. The opposite happened. It is now one of the most popular sources of news in the world, and a major delivery system for what social media is supposed to be.

He always had more in mind. He explained at the outset that he wanted to turn X into the “everything app.” I winced when I heard those words. As someone who worked in web development for years, I learned to regard every promise of a “one-stop shop” to be foolish. It never happens. Best to pick one thing you do well and stick with it.

To my own amazement, X is indeed taking steps toward being the Everything App. Not yet, of course, but the advent of his X Money platform is major and serious. It is being rolled out gradually to premium members. Under the new content-creators payout program, people are paid within the app and invited to use the service for transferring money.

Described thusly, it would seem to be another version of Zelle or Venmo and therefore not that much to notice, much less celebrate. But when you look at the details of what X Money is doing, another reality emerges. It would appear that this app is making a move on the banks themselves.

The evidence is on the app now. It offers a way to link your paycheck to X Money to enjoy a quicker payout than if your paycheck flows to your bank account. Speed is one thing, and a good thing, but why else would you do this?

The key comes in the details which have not been advertised (Musk doesn’t like old-style marketing). These are not regular dormant cash accounts like you get in a regular checking account. They pay a return. Not just any return. The return is higher than you would otherwise get in a normal money market.

For now the Annual Percent Yield (APY) is an eye-popping 6 percent as an initial customer-acquisition rate.

Not only that, the X Money card that comes digitally with the service (and physically on the ask) offers fully 3 percent cash back.

A high rate plus instant peer-to-peer transmission, a metal Visa card with 3 percent cash back, and early direct deposit is meant to pull balances and daily activity onto the platform.

What you notice from these terms is that this goes way beyond a mere money-transmission service. What’s being provided here, with quick and easy signups, is a highly lucrative vehicle for serious investment. Put your cash in and have it earn 6 percent. That beats inflation. With 3 percent cash back, you are way ahead of the game. That is reason enough to switch.

As a user I immediately found myself in a bind. Initially I thought I would enjoy spending my X Money on groceries and movie tickets or something along those lines. But with this level of earning power, I will lose money if I do that. I would be forgoing the return from the money held. Better to use the cash in my bank or my credit card that also pays 3 percent cash back.

The calculation here favors keeping the money in X Money, not spending it. Indeed, the calculator favors moving cash from banks into X Money and earning the return. To be sure, that 6 percent could change in a year or two or three. It would be up to how the app is managed.

Meanwhile, do you understand what this means? It means an actual reward for … saving money! Imagine that. Cash that earns a return on an app that allows peer-to-peer transfer at zero cost. This is disruptive innovation of the sort we’ve come to expect from this man and his companies.

Elon has designated the X Money app for now to be a loss leader in direct revenue but a huge investment in becoming what he likely thinks it can be in the long run: an actual option to the banks.

There might even be more afoot here. The banking rails themselves are provided by Cross River Bank. Founded in 2008, the bank carved out a special niche in working with new digital companies that focus on in-app service provision and edgier products like cryptocurrency. It is FDIC-insured but eschews traditional banking in favor of innovation. Even with its smaller capitalization, it is an ideal partner for a disruptive technology like X Money.

Recall too that Elon Musk was one of the founders of PayPal. It was started with a high hope of developing a new form of money transmission and even a new form of money. It eventually found itself regulated out of that vision to become what it is today, which is a highly valued means of payment for the digital age.

X Money seems to learn from mistakes made in those days to build out fully banking services from the very foundation. With the inclusion of crypto as part of the banking rails, we can easily imagine a future in which X Money integrates with a service like Coinbase to move money from dollars to crypto and back again.

One thing that is notable to me is the effortlessness of the signups and verifications. The developers have learned that customers recoil at too many screens, too much language, too many aggressive demands for passwords and accounts. They are using the latest technology to make signups and management extremely easy and clean.

That said, X Money does of course comply with all the arduous federal regulations concerning Know Your Customer laws and tax-reporting requirements. This is by no means an app that places a premium on your privacy. Even to make it work requires government IDs and 3D facial scans from our phone. I despise all of that while also understanding that this is the price any financial entrepreneur pays to make anything innovative these days. X Money is compliant across the board, which, from my point of view, is unavoidably regrettable.

It’s entirely possible that Elon has a big vision for this platform that he has not yet shared. Indeed, I’m struck by how much of the system that he has built so far has not been advertised at all. It’s extremely interesting how the rollout is going. The app presents direct information to the customer screen by screen, the pitch, the conditions, the advantages. Normal advertising speaks to the masses; Elon’s way is to speak to the individual user. It’s very different.

We can imagine two polar opposite futures with this new service.

Optimistically, it becomes the innovator of a new form of money and monetary services that eventually replaces paper money and even the dollar.

Remember that the app is global. What if the assets of X and other companies emerge as the asset baking of a new form of currency?

Pessimistically, X Money becomes just another new layer of the emergent financial control grid that spies on us and even worse: the integration of money and social media reminds one of China’s Social Credit System. This future sometimes feels baked into the technologies we use and the deep relationship of tech companies and the government.

Which will it be? We do not know. But from what I can see, there is a strong rationale for expecting this platform to be a major player and going concern in the future world of money and finance.

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/elon-musk-makes-move-banks

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Have a laugh…

1:02

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Worthy rerun. Hilarious back and forth between 84yo guy and traffic judge.

Yes. It was posted late last Saturday evening. Still funny.

2:48

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Grateful our ancestors broke the British chains, again, and again…

Thankfully, Trump is finishing off the Brits, Canucks… Along with NATO. Ideally UN.

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Charlie called out the islami cancer…

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Stay The Course. Trust Trump. Remember…

Never, Ever, forget what they did to us.

Celebrate America, Everyday!!!

Relax, It’s Saturday.

Night crew, your nickel.

KK

Health Friday 10.2.2026 Open Thread: NUVAXOVID, the Novavax COVID-19 Bioweapon “Vaccine”: Part One

The image of Spodoptera frugiperda (fall armyworm) for today’s offering header is courtesy of Wikipedia.

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NUVAXOVID, the Novavax COVID-19 Bioweapon “Vaccine”: Part One

Yours Truly has written many times regarding the modRNA COVID-19 bioweapon “vaccines”, BNT162b2 (now COMIRNATY, by Pfizer-BioNTech); and, mRNA-1273 (SPIKEVAX) and mRNA-1283 (mNEXSPIKE), by Moderna. Today’s offering concerns NUVAXOVID, the mRNA COVID-19 bioweapon “vaccine” by Novavax. One will state at the outset that NUVAXOVID is not a “safer” COVID-19 bioweapon “vaccine.” In Yours Truly’s opinion, there IS NO “SAFE” or “SAFER” COVID-19 bioweapon “vaccine” — no matter what “delivery platform technology” is used. This includes modRNA-based, mRNA-based, saRNA-based, “protein subunit” based, “inactivated”, or any other platform technology. Any COVID-19 “vaccine” that is based on the SARS-CoV-2 virus (no matter if the entire spike protein is used, or part of the spike protein is used, in the product). Why? Because of the following, among other reasons: First, the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein itself, which was developed to invade the lungs and to attack the ACE2 receptors of the body (in the heart, intestines, and kidney, among other locations); and, Second, the other ingredients that these “vaccines” contain, among them: dangerous nanoparticles (ALC-0159; ALC-0315; SM-102); N1-methylpseudouridine; antibiotics; detergents; SV40; “loose” DNA fragments; — and, in the case of NUVAXOVID, insect matter from an invasive crop destroyer insect. By the way, NUVAXOVID utilizes the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 — and has deletions / alterations that were introduced into it — thus making this “vaccine” a modRNA-based injectable.

Spodoptera frugiperda (fall armyworm) is found all over the globe. This pest, swarming in large numbers and eating every part of the crop, can destroy entire fields of, for example, corn, in days. Please see: https://www.sygenta.com/agriculture/crop-production/pest-disease-management/billion-dollar-problem, “A billion dollar problem”, August 2024. A screenshot from this article is below:

The “culturing bath” for the modRNA mixture used in NUVAXOVID is lab-created from elements derived from Spodoptera frugiperda. This, in itself, in Yours Truly’s opinion, makes the final product suspect from the start. Such a “culturing bath” has its own potential risks and issues. Such a “culturing bath” is NOT “safer” or “better” than the E. coli-derived ones used by Pfizer-BioNTech and by Moderna for their COVID-19 bioweapon “vaccine” products.

Yours Truly now turns to the FDA-issued Package Insert for Healthcare Providers for NUVAXOVID: https://www.fda.gov/files/vaccines,blood&biologics/published/Package-Insert-and-Patient-Package-Insert-NUVAXOVID.pdf. The healthcare providers Package Insert will be discussed first. Please see the following screenshots from this document. Note the admission, in section 5.2, that this “vaccine” can cause myocarditis / pericarditis; the dismissive language in section 6.2; the “potential benefits outweigh the potential risk”-type of argument in section 8.2; and the enormous amount of “adjuvant” used per injection of NUVAXOVID, compared to the amount of modRNA per injection:

Also: Pages 11 – 14 et seq. in the healthcare provider Package Insert — the Adverse Reactions sections — consistently has clearly dismissive language regarding adverse reactions reported as being “not causative.”

So far, what we see from the healthcare provider Package Insert is: that NUVAXOVID can cause heart issues; that postmarketing “vaccine”-induced issues can be dismissed under “not sufficient causal relationship” to having taken the “vaccine”; that, apparently, no animal (non-human) studies were performed to investigate whether or not NUVAXOVID elements are excreted in breast milk; that the “potential benefits outweigh potential risks” canard regarding taking COVID-19 bioweapon “vaccines” somehow applies to human lactation; and, that the ** published ** ingredients list of NUVAXOVID reads like a “laundry list” of chemicals plus a dose of crop-destroying insect residue plus a hefty dose of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein.

Let’s look at some of the ingredients listed in section 11 DESCRIPTION of this “vaccine”: One: the “rS” spike protein used in NUVAXOVID is the full-length S protein; and, the “vaccine” attacks both the B-lymphocyte and the T-lymphocyte immune mechanisms. Please see: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8897963/, “Editorial: First Approval of the Protein-Based Adjuvanted Nuvaxovid (NVX-CoV2373) Novavax Vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 Could Increase Vaccine Uptake and Provide Immune Protection from Viral Variants”, Dinah V. Parums, MD, PhD, March 2022. Two: the lab-creation of the Sf9 Spodoptera frugiperda insect cell line used for the “culturing bath” for NUVAXOVID apparently only requires a BSL-1 laboratory level (thus making the process of culturing insect cell lines for use in “vaccines” faster and cheaper.) Please see: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/392062088_The_Bioengineering_of_Insect_Cell_Lines_for_Biotherapeutics_and_Vaccine_Production_An_Updated_Review, Michal Sulek, Angieszka Szuster-Ciesielska, May 2025. (The title of the paper is the same as the URL.) Three: a few of the other ingredients in NUVAXOVID: potassium dihydrogen phosphate, a potassium salt that is used in fertilizer (https://pubchem.ncbi.nim.nih.gov/compound/Monobasic-potassium-phosphate); and, disodium hydrogen phosphate heptahydrate, a chemical compound that is not for food or drug use: https://www.biosynth.com/Files/MSDS/FS/32/MSDS_FS32721_7000_EN.pdf; see section 1; and, polysorbate 80, a surfactant (a type of detergent) used in soaps and cosmetics.

Adding these into the summary of what NUVAXOVID contains, we now have, citing only the items above: The full-length SARS-CoV-2 spike protein + residue from the “culturing bath” that is lab-created from the Sf9 elements of the Spodoptera frugiperda (fall armyworm) + a potassium salt that is used in fertilizer + a chemical compound that is not to be used in food or drugs + a detergent. Then, there is the “Matrix-M” adjuvant used in this “vaccine”, made of “Fraction A” and “Fraction C” from the soapbark tree (Quillaja saponaria Molina.) Matrix-M is the largest amount of any ingredient in NUVAXOVID — 50mcg in the injection. Please see: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/drug-delivery/articles/10.3389/fddev.2023.1279710/full, “Biodistribution of the saponin-based adjuvant Matrix-M (TM) following intramuscular injection in mice”, Cecilia Carnrot, et al., 5 November 2023. Note: every author of this paper is affiliated with Novavax AB (Sweden), or with Novavax Inc., Gaithersburg, MD. An image of Figure 3 (biodistribution) of this paper is below. Apologies for the length of the image:

Note the accumulations of the Matrix-M adjuvant COMBINED WITH THE SARS-CoV-2 SPIKE PROTEIN (the dark blue dots on the above image) in areas of the body. Note that NUVAXOVID crosses the Blood-Brain Barrier and enters the brain. Note that many of the accumulations INCREASE over the timeframe biodistribution period.

Let’s look at the Information for Patients and Caregivers section of the FDA Package Insert, which begins on Page 44 of the document. Yours Truly is including two images from this section of the Package Insert:

Note the FDA “bafflegab” regarding the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in NUVAXOVID. The “vaccine” is BASED ON THE SARS-CoV-2 VIRUS. The “XFG variant”, which is the “official” SARS-CoV-2 variant used in the “vaccine”, IS “DESCENDED” FROM THE ORIGINAL WUHAN HU1 SARS-CoV-2 VIRUS VIA THE OMICRON LINEAGE. The FDA “bafflegab” is like saying, for example, “Well, I don’t have any German blood in me, since my German ancestors came to the United States 150 years ago.” Of course the DNA of one’s ancestors is present in the bloodline, even if in smaller amounts. And, note the complete lack of information regarding the “other ingredients” listed for NUVAXOVID. Unless the patient / caregiver looks up information on the chemicals listed, they won’t know, for example, that disodium hydrogen phosphate heptahydrate is not for food or drug use (see above in today’s offering.) Yours Truly will again state: NUVAXOVID is NOT a “safer” modRNA-based COVID-19 bioweapon “vaccine.”

To be continued with a deeper dive into the modRNA details, and more, of NUVAXOVID, in Part Two.

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Living in America: Monday Morning Quaterbacking – Pete & DS Operatives

Today’s subject is more frequently asserted conspiracy theory that turns out to not be conspiracy theory. The following is my dot connecting and should be viewed as such. So the rename of my threads has become Monday Morning Quarterbacking to honor the day they will occasionally occur, the football related connection that all fans have, as well as our human tendency to look back in the rear view mirror of life and see reality.

As many have observed, Pete Hegseth attacks have been on the upswing as of late. It is also clear our military is achieving many goals at PDT’s direction. So I could stop the story here and the conclusion as to the reasoning for the attacks would be easy to determine.

However, in the bigger picture it is also clear that some war pig industries as well as aligned nations housing our bases are losing income streams and influence in the process of our military upgrading tech, weaponry, strategic asset placement, methods of engagement, and so on. For example deemphasizing Germany and moving to the proposed Fort Trump in Poland with a nation that is all in with America would cause great consternation in globalist as well as some war pig supporting industries.

https://unn.ua/en/news/nawrocki-expects-a-permanent-us-military-base-to-be-established-in-poland-which-will-be-named-fort-trump

Then there is Pete’s recent retooling of the requirements for generals and admirals,

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/news/hegseth-announces-new-pentagon-battlefield-test-for-generals/ar-AA2cLJgy

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/pentagon-overhauls-officer-promotion-process/ar-AA2cLDwW

He is stirring the hornet’s nest. It appears that testing for the ability to conduct war fighting instead of buying into the lip services of desk jockeys is a requirement with Pete. Imagine that. All of which has already been instituted into the rank and file. This bottom up approach is inspiring to all patriots.

As a result the media and internal DS military operatives with the help of the uniparty have been called into action in an attempt to upset and redirect the plans; which leads to treasonous and seditious media involvement, of course.

As I posted recently, I believe it is obvious that Pete Hegseth knows all too well that Jennifer Griffin is a DS cabal plant for the Murdoch’s and fellow Chyna connected globalists. They worked at Fox News together at one point. His counterattack on her in front of peers during the Iran conflict presser in the early days, which embarrassed the gal to no end on national TV, spoke volumes to me about how he knows the game has been played.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5370774-hegseth-briefing-jennifer-griffin-fox

Ever since then she has narrowed her focus and become quite one sided and shrill in her reporting about Pete and the military on Fox at times. My observations are that she played the game of getting back into sync with Pete and the military until recently activated to do the dirty by the Murdoch’s. It will not work. Pete, PDT, and We the People are way too far ahead of their treachery to fall for it.

For what it is worth, this is a perfect example as to why I continue to watch the globalist presented news of the traditional networks (fake news) on a rotating basis. I know they are all cabal and clown controlled. I want to know the narratives they are presenting to the many sheeple Americans so I can counter their garbage and plant seeds of truth around me. My influence is small, but seeds of truth being planted have a tendency to grow abundant fruit when more of us are planting them. Which is a Biblical principle as many on here know.

Media

When you run in the same circles with DS globalist operatives in any setting, you tend to blow off the signs that are right in front of you because you think you know the person behind the smiling face that you run into when you are out and about. They act friendly and helpful – until they don’t. Glad to see Lara finally figure one of them out.

Jennifer Griffin has long appeared to me to be a tool of the deep state & numerous sources over the years have come to me about this. But I always thought it was a real mark of her character that she was a source for a WaPo hit piece on me when I was at 60 Minutes & they came after me for my Benghazi reporting. Right before the hit piece came out, it was Halloween & I was with my young children “trick or treating” in the neighborhoods around our DC home. I ran into Jennifer that night & we spoke – the one person I saw who knew me & would have immediate access to reporters. Amazingly, the next day the article quoted an anonymous source as describing me dressed like a stripper when out with my kids for Halloween. Actually My four-year-old daughter had asked me to be the Pink Power Ranger because my children loved that show so that’s what I was – for them. And I was wearing some standard Power Ranger pink & white one piece from Walmart. It was such a personal attack that had literally nothing to do with my work. So small.

Then when I was reporting at Fox News on the disastrous Afghan betrayal/withdrawal, she complained about me to the “front office” & I was notified by my agent.

Many of us know the highs and lows of Lara Logan’s career along the way. However, the same is true for all of us in some regard. What is good is that she has a large following of those who believe her or are even her quiet enemy. Her words have now been widely read about operatives like Ms. Snake Griffin.

Within the comments (always read some of the comments) of the X post you will find one with Griffin’s husband’s photo in it. You will learn that he has NY Slimes, AP, and currently NPR among other clown controlled fake news organizations in his bio. Below is his bio link at NPR.

https://www.npr.org/people/348766539/greg-myre

From the above:

“Myre is a scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington and has appeared as an analyst on CNN, PBS, BBC, C-SPAN, Fox, Al Jazeera and other networks. He’s a graduate of Yale University, where he played football and basketball.”

For those who have access, spend some time here:

Seems hubby has been spending quality time in Ukraine of late. 😂 my azz off with his Al Jazeera analyst connection. Note that he is a graduate of … Yale. Surprised?

Note that Daniel Driscoll is also a graduate of Yale Law School – same as JD. JD and he knew each other well while in law school. They both enrolled at Yale on the GI Bill after serving in Iraq. Note also that Driscoll came through another clown university – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – the home of Dr. Ralph Baric and his Coronavirus bioweapons research. Note that like JD, Driscoll also went into investment banking and management of venture capital at BlackArch and Flex Capital. See his Army bio below:

https://www.army.mil/e2/downloads/rv7/leaders/bio/driscoll_bio.pdf

How does it make you feel when you realize 16 Dem Senators voted to confirm Daniel Driscoll to U. S. Army Secretary in 2025? Did you go, “Aha!” or get a bit queasy. It tells me he was a uniparty pick for the role and PDT went along with JD’s friend having the job. Until he didn’t.

Was Driscoll playing JD in hopes of booting Pete and taking the job? If he was, PDT would already know what team he played on, which means JD would also have been made aware. The resignation coming when it did appears to be another hit job attempt to portray things in upheaval within the military before the midterms.

Or…was he a plant within the cabal part of the military by the white hats? Did he fulfill his mission and is now moving on to other things?

Presently I opt for the former, but also realize that the way things appear are not the tale of the tape at times. That leaves this Monday Morning Quarterback with the only thing left to do from here, and that is to follow where Daniel Driscoll goes after he works out his notice. Does he go back into the M&A or other venture capital functions? Or, does he use his “drone” expertise and expanded industrial military complex connections to his personal and team’s advantage? Who he works and aligns with going forward will be a big tell. Now that he has the resignation from the Trump administration due to “policy differences” on his resume while still remaining a friend of Vance; it sure makes him more marketable to the cabal going forward without severing ties to our likely POTUS after the 2028 election.

The way we will know is from observation of future activities and events. I bet there will be a bingo on the card with him entering at a high level into the war pig industry. Whether that is for the white or black hats is the question to be resolved. Regardless of the team, there will be interconnections that can be traced and mapped going forward.

The neocons will keep breeding their own operatives. However, what we really learn from this story of three operatives of the DS globalist cabal – Griffin, Myre, Driscoll – is that the apparent object of their contempt and skullduggery is a true patriot and a person we should value very highly. Who loves and respects Pete? The right people, including us.

When you have the time, enjoy the digging for the associations and interconnections of the players. Enlist the AI that is developing that you trust to assist. Follow where they go next and know that the white hats are mapping all of it as well. It is just a modern form of war gaming.

All of that is also why our VP (“friend of Driscoll”) needs to stay somewhat connected to the other team. Same as Marco when he was in the uniparty enemy camp; a man who may be the second most powerful leader in the world today. Who on here would have ever thought that a few years ago? It is the same as with Scott Bessent when he was in the pit with the Soros/Rothschild beast as well as the same with Pete when he was getting screwed within the Bush/Soetoro military. They are building their own network of patriots. PDT himself was deep into the uniparty for a time. That’s how you obtain intel for future endeavors and learn who the secret operatives are. Today, all of the folks above have proven to be white hat patriots in support of We the People and the views of our founding documents.

When and how they personally became white hats is not for us to necessarily know or even in some cases, to judge. Somebody and/or something helped them to the proper conclusion. There is no applicable purity test required for clandestine dirty work. Much of this obviously took military intelligence involvement going back decades. For example, how else can you explain the systematic worldwide economic strangulation you see Bessent executing with Iran? The world saw how quickly Venezuela came to heal when we put an end to their criminal operations by cutting the head off the snake. Many nations operating in the fringe have become much less combative as a result of what they observed and felt. Ask Denmark and Mexico. More will be added over the coming days.

USAID funded much of the cabal’s operations in the Caribbean basin, Central and South America. With that funding gone we now see new leaders elected in Latin America that all align with the Trump Administration, which aligns with We the People. By extension we can surmise that the previous MO for CIA operations in the region are being neutered. Which leads the remaining elements of the cabal’s politician operatives to reinvent themselves as Democratic Socialists with Muslim Brotherhood Islamic ties in a last gasp attempt to stay relevant and in the money.

It’s not in our pay grade to know the details. However, we can be in the know of general direction and steps we can take through observation and even our own mapping of current and future events.

The patriots have been and will continue to spring the traps at the appropriate times.

Q said to enjoy the show. Q said we have everything we need. Q said to follow the wives, which also means to follow the husbands. And everybody should know by now to always follow the money.

Wonder why Leon Black refused a House subpoena to appear and is now suing same? Oopsie, did they hit a nerve within the DS Epstein beast? Seems both GOP and Dems now want that guy in the hot seat and held in contempt. Why both sides?

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And I am off to the next conspiracy theory, which will probably lead to more Monday Morning Quarterbacking.

Stay safe, be blessed, VOTE, PRAY, and may God bless America

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Pride: 7 Symptoms

Seven Symptoms of Pride

Pride will kill you. Forever. Pride is the sin most likely to keep you from crying out for a Savior. Those who think they are well will not look for a doctor.

As seriously dangerous as pride is, it’s equally hard to spot. When it comes to diagnosing our hearts, those of us who have the disease of pride have a challenging time identifying our sickness. Pride infects our eyesight, causing us to view ourselves through a lens that colors and distorts reality. Pride will paint even our ugliness in sin as beautiful and commendable.

We can’t conclude that we don’t struggle with pride because we don’t see pride in our hearts. The comfortable moments when I pat myself on the back for how well I am doing are the moments that should alarm me the most. I need to reach for the glasses of Christ-like humility, remembering that nothing good dwells in my flesh, and search my heart for secret pride and its symptoms.

In his essay on undetected pride, Jonathan Edwards points out seven sneaky symptoms of the infection of pride.

https://www.edparton.com/blog/pride-edwards.html

1. Fault-Finding

While pride causes us to filter out the evil we see in ourselves, it also causes us to filter out God’s goodness in others. We sift them, letting only their faults fall into our perception of them.

When I’m sitting in a sermon or studying a passage, it’s pride that prompts the terrible temptation to skip the Spirit’s surgery on my own heart and instead draft a mental blog post or plan a potential conversation for the people who “really need to hear this.”

Edwards writes,

The spiritually proud person shows it in his finding fault with other saints. . . . The eminently humble Christian has so much to do at home and sees so much evil in his own that he is not apt to be very busy with other hearts.

2. A Harsh Spirit

Those who have the sickness of pride in their hearts speak of others’ sins with contempt, irritation, frustration, or judgment. Pride is crouching inside our belittling of the struggles of others. It’s cowering in our jokes about the ‘craziness’ of our spouse. It may even be lurking in the prayers we throw upward for our friends that are — subtly or not — tainted with exasperated irritation.

Again Edwards writes, “Christians who are but fellow-worms ought at least to treat one another with as much humility and gentleness as Christ treats them.”

3. Superficiality

When pride lives in our hearts, we’re far more concerned with others’ perceptions of us than the reality of our hearts. We fight the sins that have an impact on how others view us, and make peace with the ones that no one sees. We have great success in the areas of holiness that have highly visible accountability, but little concern for the disciplines that happen in secret.

4. Defensiveness

Those who stand in the strength of Christ’s righteousness alone find a confident hiding place from the attacks of men and Satan alike. True humility is not knocked off balance and thrown into a defensive posture by challenge or rebuke, but instead continues in doing good, entrusting the soul to our faithful Creator.

Edwards says, “For the humble Christian, the more the world is against him, the more silent and still he will be, unless it is in his prayer closet, and there he will not be still.”

5. Presumption Before God

Humility approaches God with humble assurance in Christ Jesus. If either the “humble” or the “assurance” are missing in that equation, our hearts very well might be infected with pride. Some of us have no shortage of boldness before God, but if we’re not careful, we can forget that he is God.

Edwards writes, “Some, in their great rejoicing before God, have not paid sufficient regard to that rule in Psalm 2:11 — ‘Worship the Lord with reverence, and rejoice with trembling.’”

Others of us feel no confidence before God. Which sounds like humility, but in reality it’s another symptom of pride. In those moments, we’re testifying that we believe our sins are greater than his grace. We doubt the power of Christ’s blood and we’re stuck staring at ourselves instead of Christ.

6. Desperation for Attention

Pride is hungry for attention, respect, and worship in all its forms.

Maybe it sounds like shameless boasting about ourselves. Maybe it’s being unable to say “no” to anyone because we need to be needed. Maybe it looks like obsessively thirsting for marriage — or fantasizing about a better marriage — because you’re hungry to be adored. Maybe it looks like being haunted by your desire for the right car or the right house or the right title at work: all because you seek the glory that comes from men, not God.

7. Neglecting Others

Pride prefers some people over others. It honors those who the world deems worthy of honor, giving more weight to their words, their wants, and their needs. There’s a thrill that goes through me when people with “power” acknowledge me. We consciously or unconsciously pass over the weak, the inconvenient, and the unattractive, because they don’t seem to offer us much.

Maybe more of us struggle with pride than we thought.

There’s good news for the prideful. Confession of pride signals the beginning of the end for pride. It indicates the war is already being waged. For only when the Spirit of God is moving, already humbling us, can we remove the lenses of pride from our eyes and see ourselves clearly, identifying the sickness and seeking the cure.

By God’s grace, we can turn once again to the glorious gospel in which we stand and make much of him even through identifying our pride in all its hiding places inside of us. Just as my concealed pride once moved me toward death, so the acknowledgement of my own pride moves me toward life by causing me to cling more fiercely to the righteousness of Christ.

Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting! (Psalm 139:23–24)

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