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John Galt?'s avatar

I started life blue-collar. No college for me. But what people don't realize about Men is the fact that we get significant happiness from completing things. Fixing things. Building things. College careers rarely lead there.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

James 1:22 - transformation comes from doing, not merely intending

Nancy Benedict's avatar

Amen. And could I add Ecclesiastes 3:12&13..."I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live. That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil - this is the gift of God."

Matt L.'s avatar

The Book of Ecclesiastes is, IMHO, the greatest of the OT Wisdom scriptures.

Franklin O'Kanu's avatar

🔥🔥🔥 - I might need to write an article about this someday!

Mpup's avatar

22 Amen. ¶ But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. NKJV. “Sanctify them in the truth, Your Word is the truth.” John 17:17.

Perrdog's avatar

Acta non verba - actions not words… be a man of action!

Mary Ann Caton's avatar

That's the truth. I spent 34 years in college teaching and will never have the satisfaction of knowing whether any former student will ever remember my name, let alone what they learned. Once, I found out that a former student couldn't remember what class she took from me, but she did remember what I wore. LOL Most likely, my students learned nothing at all. When you build something, at least you can see it and it's real.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

No. They did because you cared.

However...What Cato proposed for Carthage should be visited upon higher education.

They sold their souls around the time you started teaching.

Mary Ann Caton's avatar

I remember when the Admissions Office started calling students "customers" and "consumers" in place of "students." Words matter.

Hektor Bleriot's avatar

Funny how they're all named...Marks.

Steenroid's avatar

On I’m sure they will. I still remember both under grad and grad professors. But many of them were from the Greatest Generation. On of my favorite flew B17 over Germany.

Mary Ann Caton's avatar

I also remember all my graduate professors. It's different with undergraduates. Taking history was required and they hated having to take courses outside of their majors.

Steenroid's avatar

Yeah not many undergrad but the B17 pilot was in my undergrad. He wrote letters of recommendations to several Universities requesting they give me a position in grad school.

kittynana's avatar

@Steen- that's amazing

Janice Waddell's avatar

It’s not just guys…

Skenny's avatar

Recently came across two items from G. Orwell, at least remotely related to college kids:

1- "The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'" - 1946

2- From boarding school days: "There was a boy named Beacham, with no brains to speak of, but evidently in acute need of a scholarship. Sim was flogging him towards the goal as one might do with a foundered horse. He went up for a scholarship at Uppingham, came back with a consciousness of having done badly, and a day or two later received a severe beating for idleness. 'I wish I’d had that caning before I went up for the exam,' he said sadly..." - 1947

That second one is funny to me.

Toobguy47's avatar

Absolutely true!

Maha's avatar
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Same here, John. Later in college, a few years older than the average classmate, it was easy, even in the early '80s, to see how bent toward communism the professors in political science and history had become. Since I was in pre-med it wasn't as obvious, unless they got off topic. Then I wished I could have speakers blaring Shostakovich's 9th Symphony as they entered a lecture hall.

Evangeline's avatar

Men were purposefully devalued for a reason. Lift up your heads, reclaim the lead, know your worth, stop defending, assert yourseves, lead younger men in solid Christian identity, save the nation, save the world.

BeadleBlog's avatar

Women like building things too! As an elderly woman who had many try and bash that out of me, I'm thrilled to see young, motivated women meeting open doors. https://x.com/mikeroweworks/status/2100719782903550112?s=20

Carlos's avatar

Amen. I'm a writer and consultant. And until I see the finished film, TV, or Script - completed, or the idea in action - I'm restless as a shark on the hunt. My satisfaction comes from the manifestation - not the ideation.

SadieJay's avatar

You are 1000% correct. Hubs can fix anything. Just retired from sea as a Marine Electrician. Started life in the USN.

Politico Phil's avatar

If anyone has children or grandchildren between the ages of 10 and 25, you and they may be interested in this. ..............................................

Next Generation World Economic Conference

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/qa/next-generation-world-economic-conference/

CF's avatar

I'm not a man, but must say, I get significant happiness from completing things - Fixing things, building things - Houses, furniture, you name it, likely I've done it. It's not a man thing. Jeez.

Martin A. Allen's avatar

As a retired turned farmer I can attest to the truth of your statement.

James Goodrich's avatar

All of these dinosaur networks are on the verge of going extinct. If it wasn’t for Biden and big Pharma they would be long gone. This is their motive for bashing Trump and getting him out of power. It’s all about their own survival, like so many others on the take. Without their daily bashing and lying about Trump their ratings would be even closer to zero if that’s possible. Trump is 99% of their broadcast content.

Maha's avatar

One further hamstringing of the networks has yet to occur. Outlaw drug advertisements. That will drain their corporate coffers and not force allegiance to the predatory Pharma industry.

Who knows? If that came to pass, media might be able to utter or write a truthful sentence on a variety of topics.

KC & the Sunshine's avatar

There are terrific videos out there, done in the days when Big pHARM-us weren’t writing the checks for ads. There’s a 60 Minutes segment on Guillane Barre Syndrome a teacher got— (think “polio-lite”) from a highly pushed swine flu shot that has since been removed from the “safe & effective” list. There are a couple of really good Phil Donahue segments talking about vaccine injuries and which vaccines were the culprits.

There are even 60 Min. segments on the mighty,

fabulous DMSO.

Search 60 Minutes, Guillane Barre Syndrome.

You can search

Maha's avatar

Indeed, those 60 minute reviews seem like they are from another dimension today; they provide such a contrast to what media viewers have lost it makes the case against advertising pretty compelling.

Franklin O'Kanu's avatar

I touched on the 60mins GBS thing in this article: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/vaccines-cause-autism-no-one-wants

I think show how FDR had GBS not polio in this article: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-polio-cover-up-how-a-disease

Long story short, vaccines have never done any good but they’re are praised and protected solely by big Pharma: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-complete-vaccine-harm-profile

KC & the Sunshine's avatar

THANK you for these links. I keep everything vaccine related as well as a lot of DMSO, colloidal silver, CD/MMS/Jim Humble stuff but I’ve been keeping it all since about a year prior to covid so it takes forever to weed through it all.

Thanks!

Help Needed in KS's avatar

"There are even 60 Min. segments on the mighty, fabulous DMSO." Say what now?

John Boy West's avatar

If you eliminated Trump related articles from the NYT, you’d have a two page rag with ads. It is hilarious to follow Jeff’s blow by blow chess match between Trump and the bloviating MSM.

Joseph Kaplan's avatar

What happened to Trump’s plans to end drug ads?

Words Beyond Me-Janice Powell's avatar

✝️✝️✝️

Oh send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me;

Let them bring me to Your holy mountain

And to Your dwelling places.

Then I will go to the altar of God,

To God my exceeding joy;

And upon the lyre I shall praise You, O God, my God.

— Psalm 43:3-4 LSB

✝️✝️✝️

Coop's avatar

1+2=3

1Blessed is the person who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,

Nor stand in the path of sinners,

Nor sit in the seat of scoffers!

2But his delight is in the Law of the LORD,

And on His Law he meditates day and night.

3He will be like a tree planted by streams of water,

Which yields its fruit in its season,

And its leaf does not wither;

And in whatever he does, he prospers.

4The wicked are not so,

But they are like chaff which the wind blows away.

5Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,

Nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

6For the LORD knows the way of the righteous,

But the way of the wicked will perish.

Psalm 1:1-6 NASB

Bard Joseph's avatar

By threatening the annihilation of you civilization.

Betsy's avatar

Once again, C&C is better than that first cup of coffee in the morning. So many really good things happening in our country and the world!

LMWC's avatar

Agree. I can’t catch it as often any longer because it comes out later. I am usually up and gone by the time it comes out, but what an optimist Jeff is and how I love it!

Also love Mike Rowe and his brand of optimism, in seeing problems and finding ways to get them done. There are many more young entrepreneurs doing marvelous things than we realize!

Now please tackle the takeover of the Midwest and mid Atlantic by solar pop ups papering over thousands of acres of farm land, and we can’t stop them.

Truth 101's avatar

Solar pop ups also taking over farm land in NY state. Alexandra Fasulo fights against this and writes about it. https://houseofgreen.substack.com/p/new-yorks-ores-solar-complexes-are

DaveL's avatar

Reminds me of the British “clearances” that resulted in displaced Brits that either moved to their cities or to the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries. Along with data centers, which are resource hogs. Is that what we’re seeing being re-enacted here?

westbound's avatar

I'll bet you think the book of Revelation is a giggle too. Why does this substack attract so many idiots????

KBB's avatar

If these be idiots, sign me up! Methinks you are a troll.

Christine's avatar

Hmmm. It attracted you today. 🤔

Steenroid's avatar

See there was no need to hide your idiotic comment under hidden reply’s because I was able to block you to prevent any chance I would read your stupidity again.

Roger Beal's avatar

DeSantis / Rubio or maybe Rubio / DeSantis ... either way, the dream 2028 ticket.

Juju's avatar

I love our bench! Oodles to choose from, so many combinations that would be thrilling for our country. It really is exciting. I love DeSantis and would heartily promote him if he won our primary, but then I’d heartily promote ANYONE on this administration.

We all need to remember what primaries are for. Choose your favorite candidate and campaign like the dickens, but leave the smears and bashing out of it. They are ALL amazing. We need to come together after we choose our candidate. Whatever the majority wants most will need to be campaigned for in the general election as if you personally voted for them in the primaries. So let’s not create hate or spite against who you don’t want, using the same manipulative tools used by leftists and RINOs. I really hope our party can be more respectable given the embarrassment of riches we have in candidates. Let’s just have fun with the choices.

We are in a candy store! Nobody denies the gummy bears are great, but that doesn’t mean the chocolate covered raisins aren’t just as enjoyable!

Joseph Kaplan's avatar

First let’s get through Nov

CeeMcG's avatar

Would love Rubio/DeSantis!

LeadCPA's avatar

Agree...DeSantis for president. Rubio stays where he is. Vance should not run for President. I like him but he is not the best choice.

westbound's avatar

Rubio is ineligible since he is an anchor baby and not a natural born citizen.

CeeMcG's avatar
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He is eligible. Rubio was born in Miami in 1971, so he is a natural-born U.S. citizen. He will be 57 in 2028 and has lived in the country his whole life. That meets the Constitution’s requirements.

Some people have argued that his parents were not yet citizens when he was born, but courts and most legal scholars reject that theory. He ran for president in 2016 without being disqualified.

DaveL's avatar

14th Amendment states anyone born here is a citizen. So he is eligible.

Karmy's avatar

Where were you when Obama was running?

Dix Gary's avatar

Wrong, he’s a national born US citizen. Research before posting. I verified with GROK!!

CeeMcG's avatar

So did I! I love Grok.

Mary Sholl's avatar

Great another idiot attracted. Rubio was born IN the United States. He is an American citizen. Natural born. What kind of moron thinks otherwise? Troll. Be gone.

Joseph Kaplan's avatar

I think there is problem with a Rubio/DiSantis ticket. Something about the Pres and VP both being from the same state. Don’t remember exactly. But I’m sure there are at least 100 people out there who will instantly correct me

Karmy's avatar

I think you are right.

CeeMcG's avatar
19mEdited

There is a small issue, see my earlier post.

Larry Warren's avatar

Correct, 12th Amendment

kittynana's avatar

@west- he's not an anchor baby, ffs

Lori's avatar

DeSantis rocks!

Sherrylyn Young's avatar

Vance is great. Rubio is great. But DeSantis is fabulous! Just heard the man speak at a conference. He is powerful in the same way that Trump is. He knows and understands the issues, and is intelligent and well-intentioned in devising solutions. He's not afraid of the blow-back. I am already campaigning for DeSantis as our next president.

Mary Sholl's avatar

Yeah. But he has zero charisma. And that was quite clear in 2024 primary season. So nope. Vice president maybe but nationally he ain’t got it.

Sherrylyn Young's avatar

Mary--I know what you are saying, but I would hope the voters could see that intelligence and competence can be charismatic!

CeeMcG's avatar

Rubio might want to consider changing his state of residency if he hasn’t already. If he ran with DeSantis, there is a bit of a glitch with the 12th amendment. I had to go look this up because it was at the back of my mind …

(From Grok) Yes, they could run together. There is no law that bars presidential and vice-presidential candidates from the same state.

The source of the common misconception is the 12th Amendment. It does **not** prohibit a same-state ticket. It only restricts *electors*: when they meet in their own state, at least one of the two people they vote for (President or Vice President) must not be an inhabitant of that state.

Both Marco Rubio and Ron DeSantis are Florida residents. If they were the nominees and won Florida, the state’s electors could vote for one of them but not both. Florida’s electoral votes (currently 30) would therefore be lost for one of the two offices. In a close national race that could matter; in a landslide it would not.

No major-party ticket has ever been composed of two candidates from the same state, precisely because of this rule and because parties usually want geographic balance. The practical workaround, used by Dick Cheney in 2000, is for one candidate to change legal residency before the election. Either man could do the same if they wanted to preserve Florida’s full electoral vote.

So the ticket is constitutionally allowed; it is just electorally inconvenient unless one of them relocates or the race is not close.

westbound's avatar

Rubio is not a natural born citizen and therefore ineligible. He is an anchor baby.

Sherrylyn Young's avatar

Also, President and Vice President cannot come from the same state.

Hana CL's avatar

Read CeeMcG’s clarifying comment on this. 😊

kittynana's avatar

@Sherrylyn- not true but not smart, either.

Steve Stevens's avatar

Rubio was one of the “Gang of Eight” that wanted amnesty for illegals.

It doesn’t matter if there’s an R or a D next to their name, if they’re Hispanic their main goal is more Hispanics.

Another example is Florida Rep. María Elvira Salazar.

“ RINO ALERT: Rep. María Elvira Salazar Stabs Trump in the Back on Immigration, Demands “Dignified Life” for Illegal Aliens”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/rino-alert-rep-maria-elvira-salazar-stabs-trump/

Blair's avatar

I clicked on the link above, but it doesn't take me anywhere - must be a problem with my browser I guess.

CeeMcG's avatar

Which link? Not seeing one on this particular thread.

Quiltlady's avatar

Just go to the website for the Gateway Pundit. I have Brave Browser, and had no problem opening the link.

NancyP's avatar

This is SO encouraging and uplifting. We can always count on you, Jeff, to provide truth, humor, and hope. Thank you! Being a part of this C & C community is a tremendous gift to us.

John Galt?'s avatar

Don't worry.

“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

John Klar's avatar

"The only foreign government openly campaigning for a Democrat House is the one we’re at war with. "

Add Canada? Maybe not AS openly, but pretty much. ;)

wily_coyote-genius's avatar

I hope Trump "Maduro's", Mark Carney!

MariaABC's avatar

The dream of many Canadians!!! We'd love to see him locked up in prison where he belongs.

Crash Pile's avatar

We have been battling Canada since King William’s war in 1689. Some periods are just quieter than others. Now it’s King Charles turn to be belligerent.

kittynana's avatar

@Crash- that man- term used loosely- can't even summon up the courage to swat a fly.

Karmy's avatar

Good morning all!

“You say you are anxious about the future, but don’t you know that the Lord is with you always and that our enemy has no power over one who has resolved to belong entirely to Jesus?” (3/29/1914). St. Padre Pio

Dena's avatar

“ For I did not give you a Spirit of timidity & fear, but of power, love & self- discipline “. 2 Timothy 1:6.

RunningLogic's avatar

Good morning Karmy!

Karmy's avatar

Good morning RL!

PamelaZelie's avatar

Happy Feast Day of St Padre Pio.

Karmy's avatar

Yes Pamela!! I wondered if someone would know why I posted one of Padre Pio’s wonderful quotes.

PamelaZelie's avatar

Sure did. Paste Pio is one of my favorite saints. One day I hope to visit San Giovanni Rotondo.

No. 6's avatar

Amen, Karmy!

Juju's avatar
2hEdited

I swear I heard yesterday a sound bite when watching news of a Democrat saying, “artificial super intelligence” 🤣🤣 They are trying so hard to avoid his power but they are fireflies to his bug catcher. 🤣🤣

Dorota's avatar

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the broad category of machines performing tasks requiring human intelligence, such as chatbots, recommendation systems, and self-driving cars. In contrast, Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) is a hypothetical form of AI that surpasses human intelligence in every domain, including creativity, problem-solving, and emotional understanding.

The key distinctions include:

Current Status: AI exists today and is widely used, while ASI is purely theoretical and has not been achieved.

Capability Scope: Current AI is "narrow," excelling only in specific, predefined tasks. ASI would possess generalized cognitive abilities that exceed the best human minds across all fields simultaneously.

Self-Improvement: ASI is expected to have the ability for autonomous self-improvement, leading to exponential growth in intelligence, whereas current AI relies on human-designed algorithms and training data.

Lori's avatar

"Hey, Times: nobody wants a President who governs by polls."

Who needs a Pres who governs by polls? No one. We got a Pres that governs with his Big Beautiful Gold Balls. Now that is worth posting on the front of a newspaper.

And as far as his UN speech, It was balls in spectacular!

MnmMom's avatar

Wasn’t it a Kennedy who wrote the book “political courage”? I never read the book but had always heard discussions of it; the central theme being that a good leader does what he thinks is right despite the winds of popularity or lobbyists. That would definitely apply to Trump’s leadership style.

Susan Seas's avatar

I love it! He is in their heads rent free! They can’t handle it. 🤣

Ed Thorrens's avatar

Blessings, health and a long life are my wishes for you brother Jeff!

Dawn's avatar

I am so jealous! If I was a young woman again, I’d move to Florida & start my welding career-& I’d take my father with me-the best welder GE ever had 👍🏻

Juju's avatar

Right!? Shop classes were my favorite in high school. They combined my artistic skills with my analytical ones. And I had so much fun learning architectural design. But back in the late 70s early 80s they were pushing girls into STEM interests. The same guy that taught our shop classes taught computer programming and he noticed how good I was at that.

But my heart never left the hands-on creation fields, and I was never fulfilled behind a desk programming.

I’d LOVE to go back and become a furniture designer, or a welder! I wanna do-over 😩😅

RunningLogic's avatar

See, I am not good at that stuff at all! Drawing is as far as I get with hands-on creation! I liked shop class because I learned how to do some things that seemed useful to know (like Home Ec) but there was nothing I loved enough to want to do it as a job or even an intense hobby. I did like soldering a lot for some reason, but again, not enough to seek any employment with that skill or anything like that.

Dawn's avatar

YES!!! My education was 60’s & 70’s -had shop in 7th grade-it was great!! I was a math girl so everyone pushed me into accounting 🤮 Oh well! A life wasted. Imagine if everyone loved what they did & were not shoved into college debt?

Lisa Runquist's avatar

When i was in school they had cooking and sewing for the girls and shop classes for the boys. I already knew how to cook and i knew enough about sewing to know i was not cut out to be a seamstress so i begged too be let into the shop classes instead. Nope. No girls. That was in the 60s.

Dawn's avatar
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We also had ‘Home Economics’-baking, sewing aprons (really? I knew how to sew at 8..), cleaning, & introduced the dishwasher to us-be still my heart! 🤣

Dr Linda's avatar

I appreciate yesterday’s post regarding Missouri.

It’s interesting that the Missouri population, at least where I live, is completely unknowable but not unsurprising regarding this map situation.

Julie Ann B's avatar

I’m from Missouri, too, and the election map situation is creating a lot of uncertainty and will affect our great Senator, Senator Rick Brattin! They better get this right!

Dindu Nuffin's avatar

Good morning y’all

RunningLogic's avatar

Good morning Dindu!!

shayne's avatar

Morning DN... 10 minutes and it'll be afternoon. 😉

JT's avatar

Just wondering out loud…would a female who transitioned to male become more likely to forget the milk? Inquiring minds…

RunningLogic's avatar

And more likely not to be able to find something in the cupboard or refrigerator? :P

Cookie Dee's avatar

When I see my husband heading to the fridge I say “move something “. Haha

Juju's avatar

Hahaha so true!!! They need to design a fridge for men that takes up an 8’x10’ wall that is one shelf deep. 🤣🤣🤣

RunningLogic's avatar

I am not even sure that would help! :P I can give extremely precise instructions (the xyz is on the top shelf on the right side next to the sour cream) and they STILL can't find it (my sons are the same lol).

Susan Seas's avatar

The struggle is real! Sometimes I get so annoyed. I let my husband look for something for an entire day before I go and hand it to him. 🤣

RunningLogic's avatar

LOL too funny!! :D

Dana Hope's avatar

Men’s brains are wired to primarily see objects moving not those which are stationary. Which explains why they don’t see the dust on the shelf and can focus on the location of a hockey puck the entire game. When my husband opens the fridge or pantry door before he asks I say “it’s not moving or it’s underneath something. “😆

Susan's avatar

…my husband to me: look behind something! 😂

Sherrylyn Young's avatar

I have a husband and two sons. When they are looking and looking for something and throwing things everywhere, I say to them, " I can find it; I have a vagina!"

wily_coyote-genius's avatar

I read this morning that high levels of estrogen, (mimic estrogen in plastics, etc.) and a dysbyosis of the gut can cause brain dysfunction, cognitive decline.

The transitioned male likely would forget the milk, just spitballing.

Mykool's avatar

Even forgetting is not foregoing. The gender confused XX (likely) has a built-in, off-line, milk factory.