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StarboardEdge's avatar

As a lifelong dog owner and lover, I enjoyed today's article - particularly because it was a break from the garbage we got earlier this week. Reading the comments I can see that many people are not dog lovers, which is fine, to each his own. I would say that for people who don't have children, pets most likely mean much more on a personal and emotional level than they do to people that do have children. Just my opinion, as are all my posts.

PS - Reviewing mainstream media over the last five days has been extremely enjoyable, while also extremely enlightening. Be prepared to be bombarded nonstop with the false narrative that everything Donald Trump wants to accomplish and everyone Donald Trump selects for Leadership is going to result in the end of the world and either the policy or the individual is 100% anti-government, anti-democracy and anti-freedom. It's coming and you can tell by the way they are squealing like stuck little piglets already.

If you feel yourself getting down and even beginning to wonder if the "Narrative" could be at all true, just remember how the domestic enemy "media" has lied to our faces on 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 issue for virtually the past 8 years. These people are desperate because they are hemorrhaging audience, fewer and fewer Citizens are believing their Lies and a DOJ/Court System that is actually about Justice would see them lose their shirts, pants and panties from Defamation Judgements that don't go their way. They are vicious, evil and cornered. Consume media accordingly...

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Cartero Atómico's avatar

Perhaps one of the reasons for a decline in family size is the economic environment. I grew up in the 50s and 60s and there were tons of kids in my working class neighborhood. Practically all of us walked home for lunch because it was the golden age when only one income earned was necessary. Now with the need for two incomes new parents enter a real rat race: daycare, pre and after school programs, get home from work, make dinner, help with homework, practically no time to relax. Now couple that with a excessively materialistic and narcissistic. culture.

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Bill's avatar

I too walked home from school everyday for lunch. When I was little there were a 110 kids in a 10 house.Stretch on our street. That's twenty houses. It was awesome, never a dull moment.Always older and younger kids around you to learn from or help out. People just don't know what their. Good and bad.

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Don Hrehirchek's avatar

Just a note . I agree with Bill's assessment of dog owners. When pets rule You , then You are the "pet". I have a few friends with pets and what Bill says is true. I do believe that the world is upside down and perverted.

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pete's avatar

Not sure if this is relevant though I suppose it has some correlation. Just prior Covaids immediately prior to it, as I was preparing to embark on a road trip into the interior of BC during Summer, a middle aged woman passing through our back alley, as I was loading the SUV turned to look at her rummaging through our recycling bin and have her ask in the moment, " can I take your empty cans and bottles"? Sure why not, help yourself I replied. She then asked If I was familiar with the neighbour directly across us two houses down. She had noticed the neighbour had a substantial lot of bottles who fequently as they accumulated would set them in his carport to be picked up in biweekly collection. Her interest? She didn t want to take them if the neighbour was taking the collection in but, she could use the money to save her dog as the vet bill was substantial. I told her, take them, if there s any concern over the bottles I would take care of it. Yup ! Its a dogs world.

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Don Hrehirchek's avatar

Just really sad. A dogs world in many more ways than one!

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pete's avatar

Agreed

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Bill's avatar

The dog folks used to be my friends without kids who said I have my nephews and nieces. Now they don't. They Have dogs. I do like dogs. But these pet commercials that talk about pet parents frankly pisses me off.

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Don Hrehirchek's avatar

Yes, like they are human. I guess it easy to "trick" people.

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Ron Gerber's avatar

The dog article and past dog comments are greatly appreciated as they are totally relevant to our societal decay. I have owned and personally manage a number of residential rental units for many years. The vet and medicine bills and other costs of precious poochy often are of more importance than the rent. you can abort a Human baby, late term, legally, but mistreat an animal, and you will be all over the nightly news. Look at the cost that Americans spend on pet food,care and supplies and you will see where the love is. I am not saying, a dog or cat cannot be a good companion and great company. And I surely believe you should be kind to animals, but they are animals. God created them less than mankind. I appreciate the loyalty and companionship of a great pet but a dog is a dog. They lick their own and other dogs asses,they eat their own vomit, because they’re a dog not a human. What amuses me is the fact these loyal owners will lead their pet in the public eye and allow it to do its bowel movement in full view of the public,how embarrassing. I like to tell these pet owners the least you could do is Carrry some kind of foldable partition that would give the animal a little privacy. How would you like it if someone had you on a leash and led you into the front yard or in the park and you do your movement in the public eye. Actually, the dog breed suffers as they are inbred for purity and forced to lead a life that a dog is not created for. A dog will be healthiest running free on the farm eating rotten dead animals , which they also instinctively roll in.Tip: don’t pet your farm dog without observing him first,you may end up with a handful of good old rotten animal grease that,trust me, doesn’t smell like perfume.

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Bill's avatar

Well , in California , people are led around on a leash Blby the dims. And they do "express" bowel movements on the street, the front yard wherever? Thankfully, and I might be wrong, they're not eating it yet.

I think I just came up with a couple new letters for the l.B.G. T...

It's gonna be S.E. sh** eat*** It'll be a while they're in line behind the pedophiles.

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Worm Farmer extraordinaire's avatar

Hey Ron. I have been a landlord since 1976. I cannot tell you that number of times That I have a struggling family Who now acquire a dog.1 once they have the dog Now they have problems making rent. Tenants today Sometimes have a problem with priorities. My advice would be, don't get a pet unless you could afford it.

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Bob Gmitter's avatar

There needs to be a balance between protecting the rights of U.S. citizens and legal immigration. There should be no place for illegal immigration which is against the U.S. Constitution. For now people all over the world want to come to America and can maintain our population and hopefully paying into Social Security. Not sure what role AI will play in providing enough jobs for people. I always thought it was illogical that whackos want illegal immigration but then complain we don't have the environmental resources (water, food, energy) to support them?????

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Abe Porter's avatar

Agreed

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Doug Hornig's avatar

Hey, I'm all for seeing-eye dogs and those that find people alive in a collapsed building. But if a woman can't fly without her emotional "support dog," then maybe she just shouldn't fly. Thanks, Bill. Needed saying......

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Bill's avatar

That

Was awesome.Everybody who skipped over should read it. Let's train all the people to forego kids in order to save the planet. " Soilant Green is People!"

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C Eti's avatar

Humans, are the 'CARBON' that (((they))) want to eliminate !!😳😏

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libertate's avatar

I long ago came to the conclusion that rather than humans domesticating dogs, dogs have, in fact, domesticated us.

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Bill's avatar

Apocalypse called the ancient has a show on how dogs were domesticated.. Way way back. Big research DNA etc, it's worth a lesson.

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Bill's avatar

Is a podcast called the ancients

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libertate's avatar

Cool, I'll check it out.

A good book on the subject is Pierotti & Fogg's "The First Domestication - How Wolves and Humans Coevolved"

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Mark S.'s avatar

That was a ruff article to read. If I was to put my dog and my wife in the trunk of my car and come back an hour later, which one do you think would be happy to see me? Charlie, Tessa and Rhett have contributed to the quality of my life and worth every penny I've spent on them.

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Odin's avatar

Dogs never complain, and are loyal, which is more than I can say about most people.

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David's avatar

What am I missing here with the WSJ article. Women in the 35-44 age category are past their child bearing years? At least in the terms of their physical and mental health and that of their children. From memory the peak child bearing years are something like 18-25. Sounds young, But look at your own parents and compare.

In society today women of child bearing age are too busy reading/seeing what their latest idol is doing on FB or tiktok or one of the dozens of other social media crap apps. They are not having children because, like their male counterparts, their maturity levels have been pushed back by ten to fifteen years, thanks to social media.

And for all those of you, offended by my use of the words women and male, get a life.

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Ellen's avatar

One good EMP will change all that...

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Odin's avatar

An EMP event will reset us all to about 10,000 years ago, and not a lot of us either !

Just in time for the next ice age.

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Gone Fishin’'s avatar

(gulp) and cost of a loaf of bread in post EMP bitcoin will be…

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StarboardEdge's avatar

Won't be able to pay it, of course - but the good Bakers will probably accept an IOU written in crayon on the back of a $100.00 bill...

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Gone Fishin’'s avatar

Note to myself: buy more crayons - good as prepper candles & IOU’s

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Odin's avatar

How are you going to use bitcoin in a new stone age ?

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Mackinac's avatar

Couldn't agree more with Bill's comments dogs, although I have owned several. I draw the line on picking up their poop. I can see why they choose dogs over babies because the way the world was trending was obnoxious. I've listed it all many times. It's why Trump won, society is tired of negative choices.

Dan, you present amazing findings and graphs. Although I believe in Trump's agenda and direction, I also believe tremendous change in government is possible. I also believe the weight of the credit creation isn't going to subside quietly into the night. The confluence of financial forces, business forces and societal forces have aggregated together to set up global society to deal with all these aggregations, debt, health, war etc.

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Don Hrehirchek's avatar

So You say it is O.K. to go global?

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Mackinac's avatar

No. Poor wording, sorry. I think all these events, financial credit excess, shutting down businesses during covid and societal nonsense of DEI and associated BS of the Dem narrative is now forcing global society to deal with these stupid ideas. No society will go local in my opinion and the votes, so far, are doing just that.

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Don Hrehirchek's avatar

Thanks for clarifying. For a minute I thought You had " lost" it.

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Gone Fishin’'s avatar

‘Ya know, I count on you as my sanity checker Don :)

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Don Hrehirchek's avatar

I would not put a lot in My sanity as I like You am human. Subject to winds direction at times! LOL

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C Eti's avatar

Blackrock's continuing promotion of 'ESG', goes into the catagory of associated BS I presume ??

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Gone Fishin’'s avatar

Is this a good thing or not “…letter from the Nasdaq Stock Market on September 17th, informing it [SMCI] that it [SMCI] could be de-listed from the exchange…”

Woof, woof woof.

Now, what tha vuca is it with Intel (INTC) anyway? More here - https://tinyurl.com/2p9fenms

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StarboardEdge's avatar

Sumtin must be REAL smelly with their books...

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Bill's avatar

Thought it was breaking news as a stock recommendation at first. Dump energy and containers. Go to chips!

This could be a really big deal though....

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Weston Parker's avatar

Hope you do some follow up on SMCI and what might be causing these serious problems which definitely spill over onto Nvidia. The cascade could be pretty messy.

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WALTER OAKES's avatar

As my little dog says-"Its one bitch or the other" ! Walter

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Ralph   E. Wood's avatar

Bill, you need not think the "DOG" scene around the Western World, is new. Great prosperity as the U.S.A. and most of the West has attained causes, leads to, etc., the humans caring less about jobs, work, other humans and caring more about pets that do not talk back or tell "them" what to do or should do. Called "NO PROGRESS", with comfort.

RALPH W.

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Kevin Johnson's avatar

Too many in the West have become entitled sloths, flabby in mind and body, and this age of excess will surely end in tears. And certainly Seneca's thoughts about life apply in the here and now:

"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it".

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Don Hrehirchek's avatar

Just another "cycle". History in the works.

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