Wednesday, September 24, 2025

My Emergency Reserve Of Gold & Silver Bullion...

 ...amounts to about 11% of my total cash savings. I'd much prefer it to be closer to 30% but both silver and gold have become so expensive as to make them cost prohibitive for further purchases right now. Regardless, should WW III break out, or should our economy fall into a depression, and I think we are close to either one or both, that 11% of my savings in bullion will be good to have in reserve because it will be priceless under the economic conditions that would ensue. Of course, I also have stock in other metals that I am certain would become extremely valuable in the event of a world war and its aftermath. My metals like lead, brass and copper are in good supply. They may become or may be not be somewhat more valuable in a depression and certainly would be of much more value in the event of a future arms and ammo ban in the United States. My guess is I have at least an additional 14% of my total cash savings worth of ammunition. 
 
Having 25% of my cash savings in things other than cash and in addition to that cash, is very comforting, but monetary value is not alone enough should TEOTWAWKI show its ugly head. Believe me, WW III or a depression would be just that - ugly - and if we get into WW III it will be in part on our soil. I also have laid in what I am guessing to be at least three months of less-perishable food; although, it likely would be six months worth with a little bit of rationing. I probably have enough water for a month and also water filters to cleanse and make safe any I get from natural sources. Add to that gas masks, gas mask filters with a 20 year shelf life, protective suits, first aid supplies, including a few bottles of antibiotics and other equipment & supplies and I am ready to face the prospect of being the last man on earth if it comes down to it. I must admit, if TEOTWAWKI happens, I might not want to survive as the Omega Man but right now my overwhelming drive is to survive and as the gal said in Serenity: "To hell with this, I'm gonna live". 
 
 
 
Hope to see some of you, if not all, should it come to the end times of humanity because we killed off most of ourselves in the final world war.
 
All the best,
Glenn B 

My Gripe With Gun Broker

 Logging into GunBroker.com has become a tedious pain in the neck. They have a system that makes logging in rather a slow process in today's world of super fast Internet speed. Here is the typical process that I need to go through each time I log in:

Type in GunBroker.com

Hit enter

Check a box to prove I am not a robot

Click on sign in, in upper right of screen

Click on sign in, in a drop down box

Verify I am at least 18

Enter my sign in ID

Enter my password

Click another box verifying I am human

Click to request a log in code

Open email to check for code

Wait to receive that code in email, sometimes for several minutes, I think 15 minutes was about the longest time I waited

Copy code from email

Enter code into a box on GB

Click submit

After all of that, maybe it logs me in and maybe not; on several attempts, I have gotten to the point of submitting that code, then am returned to the screen telling me to request the code again, requiring me to start over from that point.

This is the most ridiculous set of log in requirements I have ever encountered. Why? Well first of all, you cannot log into GunBroker unless already registered. To register you must be at least 18, thus that  info is included in your registration info and GunBroker either already has verified, or should have done so, through the registration process,  that you are at least 18. They need no further proof. My advice to GunBroker would be to take CA to court if they say you still need to ask - Gun Broker do something to fight the anti gun nuts. As for requesting a log in code, what is it with sending it to email and with your notice it may take up to 5 minutes. Send it via text message or at least give that option, so it is received in seconds not minutes. Then there is that second time of requesting a log in code. What is up with that!  Finally, how many times does one need to click on sign in or to verify they are human????

 Yep, I realize, this only bothers me because I have fallen into the I gotta have it now trap of the current era. While I completely understand a company wanting to keep my info secure and to follow the law (like the age verification thing), the thing that really gets to me about all of those steps is that not one other website I use has so many or takes so long. Those other sites include my credit card companies and my banks. Yet, somehow, at least to date, my info and money has remained secure at those other sites. 

Sorry to pester you all with that but I had to blow off steam. Telling my dog or my tortoises simply does not suffice.  

All the best,
Glenn B 

 

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Happy Rosh Hashanah

Happy Rosh Hashanah to all who celebtate it. May your new year be a happy, blessed, healthy, and prosperous one. May your celebration of the new year be enjoyed with festive holiday meals full of tasty delights. May the sound of the shofar be heard loud and clear and may God judge you and find you worthy by bestowing only blessings upon you in the upcoming year.
 
All the best
Glenn B 

Sunday, September 21, 2025

Tens Of Thousands More People...

 ...it seems, are attending the Charlie Kirk memorial than were ever seen at all of Biden's political rallies combined; at least certainly it seems that many more than at any single Biden rally. 
 

 

The arena is at full capacity, which I understand to be over 70,000 people.
 
Bless their hearts for gathering so peacefully and I hope they keep it peaceful, as opposed to the actions of BLM and ANTIFA in years past.
 
All the best,
Glenn B 
 
 
 
 

CK Memorial Security

The security of the Charlie Kirk memorial is supposedly very tight, the same, repotedly, as for a Super Bowl. The thing about security, regardless of all the high tech that is utilized, is that it all depends on the people who are enforcing it. Therein are both the strong point and weak point of it. Just one example, from my personal experience shows examples of that.
 
Many U.S. Customs Service, Ofice of Investigations, Special Agents were assigned  to augment the Secret Service, at the Republican National Convention for George W. Bush in Madison Square Garden in 2004. We were assigned specific posts and were all given photos of people we needed to be looking for in the crowd, people expected to be there with nefarious intentions. I was just outside the main entrance. As I scanned faces in the throng of people making entry, I noticed that one of the actual Secret Service agents - who was assigned with another SS Agent to a perimeter choke point, where folks first entered the property many yards away from the entrance to the building - had stopped scanning entrants because a young lady in a micro-mini skirt was taking up 100% of his attention as they chatted with one another. As I watched, another young lady, also provocatively dressed, caught the complete attention of the other SS agent. People just walked passed them without receiving a glance from those SS agents. A moment later, I spotted a face from the photographs of suspected agitators. He walked right between both SS agents who figuratively but yet essentially had their heads up those skirts.
 
When the suspect saw me looking his way he actually got down and duck walked, apparently hoping to be lost in the crowd. I got on the radio and made a notification to another agent in the same area as me. We commenced pushing through the mass of bodies trying to find him. After a minute or so, I grabbed him. As I was escorting him to a secure area, he tried to break away and run. Somehow, many years after my training, I immediately used an arm/wrist lock on him that caused him enough pain to stop in his tracks and to comply completely. I amazed myself, that I used that move never having used it before. It turned out he was probably likely to be more of a nuisance than a real threat and he was held by the SS for a couple of hours at most and released.
 
Had he been an actual serious threat though, he could have caused an extremely dangerous or even a deadly situation, except for me, or anyone so assigned there, being vigilant. I am not trying to say that I did anything special, I just did my job. Had either of those two women started to talk to me, who knows where my attention would have been. I like to think I would have told them to please move on but damn I am all man, so who knows.
 
I was 48 years old then, going on 49 within a month or so, and I think maturity helped give me an advantage over those two young SS agents at the choke point, who probably were driven by higher levels of testerone than I had in me. Regardless of hormones, I was there to do a job, took it very seriously, and got it done much to my own amazement. My wife always told me how unobservant was I, but my reply usually was: when things are going well, I don't always notice, but as soon as something is not right, I notice it almost immediately if not instantaneously.
 
Security at any such event is only going to be as good as the security personnel are alert. Let's hope, after all that has already happened, that they are super vigilant today because they may be responsible, in some way, for what happens after the event, peaceful coexistance or violent chaos unleashed.
 
All the best,
Glenn B 

Hoping For A Peaceful Day...

 ...at the Charlie Kirk memorial today but I keep thinking that may be futile. One guy was already arrested yesterday, inside the venue, after allegedly falsely identifying himself as law enforcement. He reportedly was there as security personnel. He allegedly had expired or otherwise invalid law enforcement ID and was armed with a pistol, a revolver and at least one a knife. He was taken into custody by the U.S. Secret Service. More at the source. The firearms were reportedly not allowed in the stadium and the man allegedly violated multiple laws by being inside with them and with what allegedly was false or expired law enforcement ID that he reportedly presented to real and active law enforcement officers therein.

 

What next? What gets me is I keep reading and hearing that Super Bowl level security is being utilized for this event. I wonder, is that as high as or higher than presidential security. After all, President Trump and VP Vance are  both supposed to attend and as Trump has already faced two assassination attempts, I would think security should be as high and tight as possible. 

 

I fear that all it takes will be one more shot to commence a blood bath in our divided nation. I think the reserve of those on the right will fail miserably if any other prominent conservative is assassinated by another unhinged leftist. I don't know if hoping for a peaceful day is enough but all I can do is hope and  be at my best level of readiness for the possibility of massive amounts of violent chaos should my hope be proven to have been pointless.

 
All the best,
Glenn B 
 

 

Thursday, September 18, 2025

A Well Deserved Hat Tip To My Son

 Last year, when I told my son, Brendan, what I pay for auto insurance. He told me that the amount was crazy and I needed to find another insurer. I have Liberty Mutual (LM) and have had them for over 25 years. They have been more or less okay on rates until I moved to TX and then moved again to AR. The rates were much higher down south than they were when living just outside of NY City. That seemed crazy and when I contacted LM about that, 6 years or so ago, I was told those are the rates, take em or leave em. As for their handling of claims and customer service, they were usually excellent but sometimes, a few, customer service was very lacking.
 
Well, I forgot all about it last year right after my son told me to get another company. He reminded me this year and said I was nuts if I did not get a better rate. I was paying just over $2,400 per year for auto insurance on a 2016 Toyota Corolla, with no chargeable accidents and no tickets at all. Today, I called LM and was told, by their customer service representative (and yep this is one of those instances in which I think that their customer service sucked) that there was no way my rates could be lowered because of an accident I had in 2024 and because my car was vandalized in 2025. When asked how I could possibly be held accountable for an accident, for which I was found NOT AT FAULT, she said: "Let me tell you how insurance works" in a voice that sounded like mommy or teacher talking to a second grader at best.  She said that twice, once about the accident and once about the vandalism. I hung up shortly after that because my blood pressure was about to go through the roof.
 
I called  LM back a short time later and asked to speak to a supervisor. I already knew the reply I would get as they will not put you through to one but instead put me through to a retention specialist. Well, that lady reduced my annual rate by $993.00 bringing it down to $1418.00 a year but there was a catch. Because they were rewriting my policy, it is going to go to a 6 month one instead of an annual one at $709.00 per half year. She explained that is the way they are doing it now - 6 month policies. I told the lady I needed time to think about that. I checked on Consumer Reports (CR), and CR confirmed that many auto insurers are going to 6 month policies; oh well. 
 
A little bit after checking with CR, I called LM again. Another lady did a review of my coverage and she affirmed the $709.00 price. I had her drop medical coverage as I have Medicare & Blue Cross/Blue Shield. In the past, I would never have taken medical coverage if I had realized it covered only me and not others who may have been in my car; silly me. Then I asked how much the policy would be if they added Better Car Replacement. As I understand it, if my car is totaled, they pay for the next year's model, so I would be reimbursed for a 2017 model instead of my actual 2016 model. With the elimination of the medical coverage and the addition of the Better Car replacement coverage, my new rate if $712.00 per half year and I have high coverage and low deductibles.
 
I must say, when my rates go up more than just a little bit, in the future, I am going to have another review done by a retention specialist. I also must say, my son will be rewarded, with a nice dinner or maybe some ammo, for his pushing me to get a better rate. Thank you Brendan.
 
All the best,
Glenn B 

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

What Does It Feel Like To Be...

...one of the most hated men in the history of the USA? My guess is, it feels like this guy feels:

 

 Actually, while many possibly hate him, I think most people who followed Charlie Kirk, maybe even most conservatives in the USA,  probably hate what he did but do not hate him. I think that is just the way Charlie Kirk would have wanted it because Charlie did not hate people.

All the best, 
Glenn B 

 

 

Friday, September 12, 2025

She is 100% Right

 Go to the link, listen to what the lady, who used to be a democrat, says. She hits the nail squarely and forcefully on the head.
 
 
All the best
GB 
 
 

The Alleged Killer Of Charlie Kirk...

... has been arrested.
 

I did not sleep even a minute on the night Charlie Kirk was shot. I kept checking the news to see if they caught the killer. Then maybe I got a about a half hour of sleep just before 145pm yesterday. 
 
The assassination was terrible. Almost as bad as the assassination, or maybe as bad, are the responses of leftist looney liberals to Charlie Kirk's death. The hatred, the vehemence, the audacity of these psychos is absolutely abhorrent; 
 yet, they claim it is those on the right who are hateful. I have watched many of Charlie Kirk's question and answer discussions with college students, many who made ridiculous accusations about him; yet, many others, and even some of the nay sayers, were swayed to come over to the right because of those discussions. He was always polite courteous, well informed, intelligently well spoken and was simply an excellent debater. That is what the lefties hate because when they tried to debate him they made themselves out to look like the fools that many of them are in reality.

Then you have guys like that total asshole governor, in my opinion, from I think MN - Tim Walz. You may know him by his alias Tampon Tim. I fantasize that he should be tarred, feathered, smeared with blood and chopped liver, then taken out to sea and used as chum for sharks but of course, I do not actually suggest anyone do that nor would I do it, nor do I condone such barbaric violence, not even for the likes of him. He calls Trump things like Nazi, calls ICE something like the Gestapo and on and on. So of course, the loonies hate them because the lefties are so gullible. That has been the long-term pattern of the democrat politicians and bureaucrat dems, to always look for the easily persuaded potential voters to shove their creed down their throats. Then at the same time they waste tax dollars to persuade them by forgiving student loans, giving them food stamps, welfare, Medicaid and Medicare, giving the incompetent jobs by way of DEI, spewing lies about their political opposition through the media and the educational system, and so on. They did that with black Americans for well over 100 years, but as of the last decade or so, many blacks woke up and realized they had been hoodwinked and became Republicans. With a diminishing voter base, what did Biden do, he allowed the illegal entry of over ten MILLION illegal aliens hoping for a fast track to become citizens, even heinous criminal aliens. They figure those aliens will reciprocate by voting democrat either illegally (probably why they give them drivers' licenses) or upon becoming citizens. Note, they did not allow, in mass, all of the millions who applied for LEGAL immigration status. Heaven forbid that the left would help folks who obey the law.That was likely because most of them have an education, had jobs in their home countries, and would find the same here, and thus are not easily persuaded by falling prey to the handout trap created by the left. 

Other politician lefties, who are disgraceful are, in my estimation: Pelosi, AOC, Schumer, Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, William Clinton, Obama, Schiff and on and on and on. That guy Schiff repeatedly claimed to have evidence that Trump was colluding with the Russians. Have you seen any of it yet, many years later? He never produced one bit of it as far as I am aware. Also, as I have heard, when asked about it during a Congressional inquiry, while under oath, he allegedly admitted he had zero evidence. Then, he allegedly, when not under oath, went back to saying he had it! 
 
Other governors who apparenyly spread lies about Trump and or oppose him at almost every step, are Gov. Pritzger from IL, and that pretty boy Newsum from CA among others.
 
 I think the apparent and alleged constant lies, the seening Trump Derangement Syndrome of leftists, and the seemingly barely veiled calls for violence against the right, will get more people killed because their followers seem to believe only them and their followers seem almost rabi to me.

Then there are the phobic homos and the pedophiles, who by some stretch of their imaginations call us homophobic. They  think it fine to cut off a little boy's penis or a little girl's boobs. About a half dozen, maybe more, recent mass shootings were commited by, in my opinion, delusional psychotic transgender pieces of trash. It is odd, how when leftist lunatics murder people, lefties of influence make excuses by way of the mental health of the killers and suddenly it is not the fault of guns but the fault of society for not taking care of them before they kill. I ask, who coddled them and promoted what I think is the psychotic delusion of  transgenderism in them along with abject hatred for people with differing beliefs? Also, who pushed for the release of the seriously mentally ill from mental health care institutes instead of reforming care in those facilities!
 
They call it normal when people have had body parts removed to pretend to be a different sex. They also seem to accept as normal they who claim they identify as a different species of animal, such as a dog, a cat or whatever. Think about that, they seemingly consider that normal.


 I do not think I ever really hated anyone in my entire life, except maybe for a while my father who was a real life monster, but I now am close to hating most democrat politicians. At least I hate the barely veilled attempts to repeatedly promote illegal violence against those on the right. Their cadre of lunatics, whom they apparently have brainwashed to hate ANYONE who disagrees with them, is disgusting. I can imagine that if I had a terminal illness, with nothing to lose, I might consider doing something drastic to as many of them as possible. Of course, the difference between me, and most of us on the right, from those on the left, is that we only think about, as in imagine, doing stuff like that. We would never do it, nor recommend anyone else do it, or condone it. That does not mean though that I and you can not imagine it.
 
Hopefully they arrested the actual killer and have not detained another person acting as if he was the killer. Supposedly, as I saw reported on Fox News, the police charged a man for obstruction, or a similar charge, for doing just that. My guess would be to confuse investigators in an attempt to give the killer more time to escape, which I believe is another sign of the sickness of the leftists if true.A speedy trial, a guilty finding or even a quick guilty plea, and a swift execution of the killer, if found guilty of a capital crime, would be justice in my mind. My guess though is he will plead guilty in an attempt to escape execution and will opt for a life sentence.
 
All the best,
Glenn B
 

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

RIP Charlie Kirk - The USA Ha Lost A Champion

 Today, Charlie Kirk was assassinated by who I can only sssume was a piece of liberal scum. More at the source.
 

​Violent liberals are a rapidly spreading cancer within the USA. The equally dangerous disease though, in US society, are the despicable pieces of political liberal scum like Schumer, Biden, Harris, Hillary Clinton, and others on the left, who obviously, in my opinion, promote and spur on violence against conservatives or any others who disagree with them, and who are probably secretely ecstatic due to  his death.


Mr. Kirk was a peaceful conservative - he was well spoken, very knowledgeable and an extremely intelligent man - who openly discussed his ideals with anyone who would listen or care to debate him. Such a person is despised by leftists.


Sadly, it seems evident to me that the typical liberal's response to answer people like him is full of vitriol, hatred, lies and nonsensical rhetoric that leftist politicians and influencers have spewed forth for decades. When that does not work to their ends, they evidently resort to actively promoting slightly veiled calls for horrific violence in an attempt to silence they who think differently. Yet, somehow they call themselves tolerant.


I almost hope that this results in wide scale violent retaliation, but note I said almost. I said almost because I believe as Mr. Kirk believed that peaceful intelligent dialogue and debate are the better way to go. The thing is, in my opinion, I also believe that any politician who evidently espouses violence against their opposition, the likes of that low life Schumer, should be jailed for life. The shooter should be executed upon conviction as I see it.


Rest in peace Charlie Kirk, I will miss you greatly. My sincere condolences to his wife and his young children who now will grow up without their loving father. 

 

Stay safe, stay armed, be ready for an explosion of leftist violence; be ready to protect yourselves and others from liberals who hate us. I can only hope that the U.S. Secret Service will excel at protecting President Trump, his family and his inner circle because I feel another assassination attempt against a conservative is almost certain to come all too soon.

 

All the best,

Glenn B 

 
 
 
 
 

Thursday, September 4, 2025

Ark of the Covenant - I Dislike Come-On Titles In News Articles...

 ...and if this title is not one of them, then I am a monkey's uncle. The title to which I refer is: 

"Has the Ark of the Covenant been Found? Monumental Structure Unearthed at Tel Shiloh"

That was the title of an article in the Jerusalem Post, dated August 8, 2025. The article, as can be surmised from the title, obviously was about an archaeological discovery that would have had extremely significant religious, cultural and historical ramifications if the ark had actually been discovered. The question of whether or not the Ark of the Covenant has been found in the title, then the article about archaeologists discovering an ancient structure, believed to have been a Jewish place of worship post-Exodus, maybe even the first stone and mortar Jewish post-Exodus temple, has one reading it with great interest, and has one hoping, maybe even expecting, to get to the part of the article that tells about this truly magnificent discovery. 

 The Ark Of Covenant Replica

 

The thing is, they did not find the ark. The photo above is not from the article but was among many other images in a DuckDuckGo (quack quack) search of: Ark of the Covenant images. Oddly enough, after posting the search link, I went back to get the actual link for the photo but the photo, like the actual missing ark, has disappeared and is now missing from the search results!  What an eerie coincidence, but I would think it may show up again if I keep searching. I am guessing that the images, resulting in the image search, try to depict a description of the ark from the Bible; almost everyone I looked at was gold and had two angels up on top, with poles attached at the bottom by which it could be carried. What the article says was the thing they actually found was evidently a Jewish post-Exodus temple, just as was the one described in the Bible that was said to have housed the Ark of the Covenant. In fact, as per the archaeologists, that temple matches said description in great detail, once again meaning archaeological findings have shown at least parts of the bible to be accurate in content.

As to what happened to the ark and where it may be located, if it still exists today, those are a mystery that has not yet been solved. if there was an ark as described, I suppose the ark could be hidden somewhere within or near those temple ruins. If it is there and if it is found, that would be a truly stupendous discovery. If found and if it still holds its purported contents, the tablets of the Ten Commandments, that would be absolutely awesome. Since the ark was supposedly made of, or at least covered in, gold, it would be even more amazing that someone had not already found it ages ago and melted the gold down to possess a fortune or simply sold it to the highest bidder to that same end. In fact it has been believed that the ark had been captured by the Philistines during a war with the Israelites. That seizure was supposedly made after the Israelites carried the ark into that battle, a battle in which they were defeated. Why carry a valuable gold chest, containing such important stone tablets, into battle? Well, I suppose, because they believed that to touch it or to open it and look inside would have deadly effects; so, maybe they thought it could be used as a weapon of war against their enemies. I seem to vaguely recall - from many years ago, prior to the age of the Internet - speculation that the tablets or the ark itself may have been radioactive. If real, radioactivity could explain why it was said to be lethal if someone touched it or  viewed its contents. Of course, it could all have been a bunch of bunk meant to keep anyone from opening it only to find a few slabs of stone with no inscriptions or in other words to find a religious hoax. In effect, the mystery of the ark lives on and we may never know any more about it than what we can speculate from what was written about it in the best selling book in all of history. Then again, who knows, maybe it will be discovered someday and a lot of answers, to many millennia old questions about it, will be answered.

While the article is quite interesting, the question in the title gives one a sense of hope that is utterly destroyed once you realize it indeed has not been found. So, the article's title, when it appears online, is essentially click-bait. Very disappointing, at least to me.

All the best, 
Glenn B 

 

It Does Not Matter How Much You Spend - Sometimes Life Just Goes All Topsy Turvy...

 ...as can be seen in the example of the newly launched one million yacht, the Dolce Ventoa, capsizing mere minutes after its maiden launching this past Tuesday. The ship was launched, in the Black Sea, from the port in Zonguldak, Turkey. Now, I may be wrong in what the title of this blog says about how much you spend not mattering. I am guessing that a mere (ha-ha) million dollars is pretty cheap for a luxury yacht; so maybe it should say - you get what you pay for!
 
The yacht can be seen listing to port, at 39 seconds into the video, as evidenced by the starboard side water line being above water by some feet and the port side waterline being under water. At 1:49 of the video, the yacht is over on its port side. I imagine the boat's owner was having a psycho episode at that moment; and if one feels any sympathy for him or her, you might hope the owner had it insured. 
 
Of course, since there was no explosion, like if it had hit an old WW II mine or a rogue mine left behind by the Ruskies in the Ukraine war; and since there was no scream of a submerged rock ripping open the hull - I am led to the conclusion that some type of human error caused this catastrophe. I am thinking along the lines of a manufacturing flaw, but that is just my guess. It could have been due to other types of human error, such as bad weight distribution in the hold, but then, I would think, it would have been listing immediately once in the sea. Then again, I am not a mariner or nautical engineer. 
 
More at the source:  https://www.foxnews.com/world/luxury-yacht-tips-sinks-minutes-after-launch-terrified-passengers-jump-overboard. There was a nice video of it in the article but no embed code, so go to the link to view it. I have to say this, and I am just noting it and not making a conspiracy out of it - the guys you can hear in the audio of the video certainly did not seem excited by what they were witnessing, they were talking so calmly almost as if they had expected it to happen, and that seems odd to me to say the least. Again, just noting that.
 
All the best,
Glenn B