You don’t mess around with smoke on a boat. Which is where Your Survival Guy found himself last Saturday preparing to bring our boat, Tom Sawyer, back to Newport after a two-week stay on a mooring I keep in Mattapoisett. (You can read here about how my yard went up in smoke). Turning the engines over, they just wouldn’t catch. I checked the safety kill switch. It was connected. Made sure I wasn’t in gear (Read here about that one from last summer.) Check. Tried the engines again. No go. But this time, I saw smoke rising through the console from down below, along with the smell of burning … [Read more...]
Run Away: Fleeing Big Blue Cities and States
Is it any wonder Americans are fleeing big blue cities and states? Look no further than sitting Governor of New York Kathy Hochul’s come to Jesus moment, asking New Yorkers to be her vaccine Apostles. You can imagine how this is going to go for those who refuse. Actually, it’s scary how many Americans are compliant and seem just fine being told how to live their lives. Well, Hochul and the like aren’t stopping with the vaccine and will carry this beyond the point of telling you how to run your family. That’s why Americans are fleeing states and cities where politicians want to tell them … [Read more...]
The Time Peter Thiel Outsmarted Elon Musk
In The New York Post, Eric Spitznagel tells the story of PayPal founder, Peter Thiel, with an interesting vignette on Thiel's interactions with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, when the two were building PayPal. Spitznagel writes: Thiel, who turns 54 next month, is one of the most cutthroat financiers of his generation. With a fortune of $4.3 billion, according to Forbes, he’s difficult to pigeonhole — having gone from hedge-fund trader to Silicon Valley entrepreneur to data-mining surveillance capitalist — and almost impossible to understand. “He is self-created, a Silicon Valley Oz, who has, through … [Read more...]
What It Takes to Be like Tom Brady
You may have noticed that Tom Brady threw for five touchdowns yesterday. Ho-hum. Just another day at the office. Why can’t the Patriots get good players like Brady? Actually, New England fans are pretty excited about rookie QB Mac Jones, a product of Nick Saban’s Alabama. Heading into this season here’s what Saban and Patriots head coach Bill Belichick talked about regarding drafting Jones. What did Nick Saban, Bill Belichick discuss about Mac Jones ahead of NFL Draft? Nick Saban and Bill Belichick are obviously very close, as Saban is perhaps Belichick's closest friend in the … [Read more...]
WHAT IS CHINA HIDING? Blogger Crackdown Obscures Market Picture
The Chinese Communist government has begun a crackdown, arresting market influencers and scrubbing the internet of negative news about the country's markets. The Financial Times reports: China has launched a crackdown on financial blogs and social media, a move that risks exacerbating the difficulty of obtaining reliable data about the world’s second-biggest economy. The restrictions were implemented as fissures widened in the top echelons of Wall Street over whether investing in China was a smart bet. A snowballing policy overhaul has caught seasoned China investors off guard, spooked … [Read more...]
Your Survival Guy: Fast, Furious End to Fiefdoms
You live in a world where you don’t know who to trust. Look at the disaster in Afghanistan where common sense tells us we should not be there. This truism was known by you and me years ago. It would be a boondoggle. And yet, here we are. You have Navy SEAL boots on the ground, with real-time intelligence telling us the end of the Afghan war will be a disaster because we lost the hearts and soul of Afghanistan a long time ago—if we ever had them. You have the Deep State lying to your face, saying the intelligence agencies never predicted this. Sure. And you have Biden left hanging in the … [Read more...]
Your Survival Guy: What’s the Greatest Force Multiplier?
When Your Survival Guy looks at any ranking for countries (not county or states), guess which one is marching up the list if not already at the top? You guessed it, Ireland. Now, Your Survival Guy’s never been to Ireland, but I’m sure I’d like the golf and the pubs, the weather not so much, but, I’m absolutely sure I’d love the Freedom. Watching Tucker Carlson last night to relax (it has been a struggle figuring out how to deal with the vax and masks in school), Ireland is standing up to the political virus called COVID and saying “No, our children will not be forced to wear masks in … [Read more...]
The Top 15 Destinations for Americans Escaping the City in 2020
In 2020, Americans fled from big blue blob cities to escape the COVID-19 pandemic, the strict mandates of governors and mayors gone wild, and the rioting and looting that took the cities by storm in the summer. Now CoreLogic has determined which cities gained the most refugees, and which lost the most residents. The top 15 destination metro areas were: Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL Port St. Lucie, FL Jacksonville, FL San … [Read more...]
China Eradicates Tutoring Industry to Boost Birth Rate
Chinese authorities are forcing the country's tutoring industry to go non-profit, effectively killing it off. One motivation for doing so is the drive to raise birth rates in the demographically imperiled nation. Bloomberg News reports: China is considering asking companies that offer tutoring on the school curriculum to go non-profit, according to people familiar with the matter, as part of a sweeping set of constraints that could decimate the country’s $100 billion education tech industry. Shares sank. In rules currently being mulled, the platforms will likely no longer be allowed to … [Read more...]
Your Survival Guy: Boats and Your Island Life
Your Survival Guy's looking forward to getting out on the boat this weekend, cruising from Newport, RI, to visit family in Mattapoisett, MA. You know I advise the island life for you because it's the island life I love for me. I eat my own cooking. That being said, thank you for sticking around. I know you might be getting sick of hearing from me every single day. It's a bit much, even for me, hearing from Your Survival Guy. It's like, "OK, enough already." Here's the deal, Your Survival Guy's boating so far this summer? Zippo. It's my fault. Sure, I can blame it on the rain, but when is … [Read more...]
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