Trump and Feb boss Jerome Powell are doing what Bankers and Developers have turned into an institution: Arguing about rates. Trump again calls for Fed to cut rates, says Powell’s ‘termination cannot come fast enough’

Meanwhile, early Futures were way down on the Dow but actually up a bit for the techs – leaving us waiting for more Rally because we have so far failed to break lower.

The yellow arrow on the right points to the upper level where the rally (if it can keep going) seems likely to run out of steam.  But there’s a real bum’s rush on to keep the market from going higher today and it likely has something to do with Middle East, Easter, Iran – but not enough logic to it to be shortable yet. Least-wise to us’ns.

Especially now that we’re reading Diplomacy wins: Trump blocks Israeli military action against Iran and other versions – like Dramatic report: Israel planned to attack Iran’s nuclear sites – and was stopped by Trump.

Our view of tech hints that up is still ahead because the trend change hasn’t broken yet.

Unemployment Filings

Nope, no sign of the world ending…

And thumbing through which states were doing what:

No change in the running rates, yet, however.

Wires and Fires

Left is going nuts because the handouts are being scaled back: Trump administration threatens to ban ‘joke’ Harvard from enrolling foreign students.

And from their “That Poor Fellow Being Deported” whine:  Alleged MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s rank, street name revealed as fight over deportation to El Salvador mega-prison rages: docs

Say, here’s another surprising reveal: Arrest Warrant Exposes Sprawling Election Fraud 5 Blue State Democrats Engaged In.

Free speech may actually begin to live up to its moniker if this keeps up: State Department Shutters Controversial Center Used To Censor Americans Under The Biden Admin.

We’re also going on a “baseball diet” as New York Yankees Recommit To ‘Diversity Initiatives’ After Push To End DEI.  Meanwhile, the whole gender-thing is still out there and crazy: Transgender Miss Maine Contestant Will Face Off Against Bill Belichick’s Girlfriend Jordon Hudson.  Too early for a drink?

Shades of the Wunderwaffen?  TOP TRUMP OFFICIAL: “We have the technology to manipulate time and space”.  Well, then why mess around with tariffs?  That’s what we wanna know…

For your “Possible sources of chemtrails” file: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Targets Geoengineering Firm “Make Sunsets”.  Putting balloons of sulfur dioxide into the air?  While in the real science community word is that Edward Teller’s albedo plan was back-asswards. Doesn’t work – actually causes warming… OMG.

Around the Ranch:  An Off Planet Tale

A short story from The Anti-Dave.  (The Collaborative George with A.I. stacks at the ready.)

Is this the answer to UFOs and “first Contact?”

The Very Good Friday – Hidden Guild

(Tell ’em the Kanamits were by, as well…something about being on a steak-out?)

“I’m ready to conclude with the final answer and citations, ensuring it’s thorough and accurate.”

That makes one of us…

And from Stiks… who as readers know lives on a sailboat as he and the missus are down in some tropical bay near to where there are people and such.  But not many, and not much… But his summary of life at anchor on a sailboat just nails the vibe around here,  And rained like hell down there…

But in the tropics? Fore deck and a bar of soap? (From an earlier email from the real Reality):

“I know what it is to miss being  on a boat. It was something I could never leave behind, even while I was flying the globe and being ‘successful’. There was always a longing that I  have no more. “

Elaine and I envy Stiks and company; having lived a decade on a boat as I did, the land (and the yard work that comes with it) is just nowhere near as much fun.  Plus, the closest thing to crab you can pull out of a yard in East Texas is crabgrass…

” Spent doing what a long life of hard work is giving… doing nothing. But that is so much better than having nothing to do….”

And so, off we all trundle along into Thursday, trusting Stiks to hold down the anchorage… I mean, it’s a tough job, but someone has to do it, right?

As the rest of us rush off to do more of whatever it is that’s so damn important to get done before we all end up in the same boneyard; a little shy on adventure and never enough good memories. Too busy to remember who’s driving our lives…

Write when you get rich or the wind comes up…

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