I took a trip to Turkey a few weeks ago. If you had read the US news the past decade, you would have thought the nation was already gone, with fear porn financial reports constantly discussing the "death of the Turkish lira."
Wife and I found it to be paradise, much nicer than many, many years ago when part of our honeymoon in Greece found us somehow in Epehsus, Turkey. People seemed happy. You would never have known a scamdemic had occurred. Lots of children, smiling, unmasked. Well fed, the food supply is so much healthier and less toxic than the USA.
Why do I bring this up? I can't stand the ever browner, less intelligent, more corrupt USA. And, am looking for an ethno-state less targeted (for now) by the Globalists. I believe they tend to impune such places, via their media and financial influence, to keep tax slaves like me on the reservation.
And, the USA and Japan are key targets of the Kryptocron. It is going to get vastly worse in both places by 2030.
I have never been to Turkey but know several Japanese who have. They all loved it and highly recommended it as a tourist destination. One of my all time favorite coworkers was a Turkish women. One of the only sane nonJapanese people I have worked with in Japan. Miss working with her. I have done business with a couple of Turks, mainly we bought rugs from them. Great experience.
Somehow, seeds of doubt were planted in my mind at least by high school if not earlier, but I learned while in the navy to never believe anything in the news. Regardless of the source, the only safe response to any news story is, “I wonder how much of that is true?”. If the topic is of importance or interest, then one must dig to learn the truth of the matter.
I was pretty impressed by the average Turk's understanding and tolerance of various religions. Having lived as the crucible between tectonic forces like Christendom and Muhammadan influence for so long, they have a really well formed life-view. In my estimation.
Glad you sensed something was amiss young, and have lived a life of doing things mostly your own way. Even in besotted systems, I would contend we as individuals do derive some advantages as part of a tribe. But, when they become so onerous we can no longer sell our soul for some shekels and a sputtering water heater, it is time to fight.
Hail Victory Brother, good luck with the dental issues. That is a miserable pain, I hope you can cure it soon.
Ah, another reason to drink, to stave off dental pain. I swing back and forth between alcohol and pain meds, preferring drink as its properties, good and bad, are well known. I do have limits though, and use aspirin and other meds as circumstances require. No alcohol before or during the work day, for example. I have a self imposed limit on my daily drinking depending upon circumstances with a hard set, no mare than this limit regardless. Quite often go without either and just deal with it. I hate have to need to take anything, drink or meds. I drink coffee all the time. My students are shocked to hear me say i hate coffee. I hate what I need to take. Ever since joining the navy, my mind will not engage until I have had coffee and I hate that fact. I hate being dependent upon anything, including coffee.
Enjoy your hike. Hope to hit the trail again once the heat goes down a bit.
We’re all dependent on something. I depend at the very least on water, air, clothes, and a roof above, but I hear you. And it becomes harder when the system is breaking down.
I think our risk reward calibration was shot and now people have list conception of what real work and care means. Maskless adults and masked children is the perfect illustration of how upside down everything is. It is Stacy Abrams in a classroom of masked children. No amount of reasoning will convince the educational system that children are not susceptible to Covid. They have the same irrational fear that there are legions of guys in primered vans carousing streets looking to offer kids candy for a ride in the back.
When you mentioned your friend who you might have a falling out with, I think I may have the same with my family. Although I have done more tha an my fair share of things to drive her away, I can’t help but think things really went sour during Covid when she thought it was the next Spanish flu and I refuted all the talking points. I know we touched on the mask and vaccine because her response as to why she wore the mask was that “she could and it wasn’t hard.” This is someone with a PhD talking.
My brother who is very conservative also is very safety conscious. He would be the guy who would not drive a rental car until he was sure the child seat was properly secured, so you can imagine why he was masked.
And I am an amputee diabetic with heart failure so how likely are they to take advice from me. They must think I have somehow won the lottery in terms of not buying it from Covid being both vulnerable and recklessly flouting the rules.
I am glad you have found some moments of joy in this. All I know is that where things end other things can then begin. For those “new normal” people, they should be careful what they wish for. I wanted a new normal as well, one far less restrictive and far less “nanny state.” And just as some have been primed for compliance, there are others primed in defiance.
I can’t explain why I disliked cats for most of my life until circumstances suddenly led to a very sick cat coming to live with us. The owner had kept 6 cats in a tiny apartment inside a very limited cat run. They were surprised when all of the cats suddenly began to get sick. They spent thousands (HKD) on vet bills but the vet was unable to find anything wrong but charged them anyway and gave them a bag of pills. A couple of the cats died and in desperation they asked if we would take one female. Others surviving cats had gone to friends and volunteers. By chance I had been reading up on natural healing methods and basically if an animal (or human) is sick, it is usually related to nutrition or environment, or a combination of the two. We gave her space (although she was almost too weak to even stand) and I made sure she had a variety of good quality food. Finally we gave her half a boiled egg for lunch each day which she really seemed to like. Within a couple of days of the egg treatment she was walking around and about a week later she was jumping and climbing and running like normal. The idea of sending her back to that hellish place broke my heart and I asked the owner if she could stay (even though my wife was totally against the idea). One year later she is now 4 years old and happy and healthy although my wife still doesn’t like her - mainly due to the hair that gets everywhere.
One thing leapt out from your article - your mention of the passing of your old cat due to kidney disease. I was recently reminded by the previous owner that the cat had not had her booster jab. Having seen all the death and destruction caused by needles over the last couple of years I also read up on jabs in general and it seems they are all bad news and so imagine how much less care is taken for animal safety. This led me to find an article claiming the shots given to cats are likely responsible for kidney disease. Not only that, the illnesses they claim to protect the cat against are rarely fatal in adult cats.
Just like everything else, the animals we do and do not like are often subjective. Some do have allergies associated with them though. Cat hair is a problem but one cat owners learn to live with. Our Roomba is excellent at picking it up from our rug. They do make great pets though.
Foo came to us after the family that rescued her in a Typhoon, Taifu in Japanese and hence her name, had been begging us to take her as they were compelled to keep her in a cage, just the one cat. They felt very sorry for her and sought a new home for her.
I rescued Hoki on July 4th last year. Due to his starved state, fungus had taken hold in his skin and it took 2 full months of two applications of medicine to the areas affected and of course, we had to keep him in a cage away from our other two cats until he was given a clean bill of health. So from 3 months to 5 months old, he was in a cage. A big cage but still a cage. He is a very clumsy cat now and I wonder if those months of confinement in his developmental stage have caused him to miss out on necessary exercise and play. I have been told by those I trust that it is a possibility. Six cats in a tiny cat run is too many in too confined a place, in my opinion.
I too now question any and all vaccines. It was not easy to get Hoki his required shots. I am against it now especially as ours are indoor cats. But my wife works for Pfizer, and we are required by law to get at least some of the shots for our pets. We got our latest from a volunteer organization that my wife’s porker co-worker worked for. We had to sign a formal contract stating that we would get him fixed, microchipped and vaccinated. Either we agreed or the kitten would eventually be taken in by another family that would do all those things anyway.
Funny, though called an antivaxxer for being against the covid shots exclusively, by the mad jabbers mandating and otherwise forcing it on most of the world’s population, they have driven me to be a full fledged antivaxxer. Not too keen and the medical profession in general now either.
Hope your wife comes around to liking the cat your rescued from what amounts to a prison.
Indeed one of the possible blessing of the last few years in that it gave me time and cause to question so many things. I have never liked doctors and avoided all allopathic medicines for decades now without any ill effect and in fact I’m fitter and more healthy than many people half my age. I was indifferent to vaccines before although I never opted for any of them and like you, only when my back was forced up against the wall did I read up on it and became a fully fledged anti-vaxxer. I watched helplessly as every family in the village and most of my friends got jabbed. Pretty much all of them had side effects and still got what was claimed to be Covid, some of them numerous times. My unjabbed family of 4 was the only family not to get sick at all over the last 4 years. Even my daughter who was excluded from certain school activities due to her untouchable status witnessed her entire class get sick - including those on all four sides of her. She was also the first in her class to immediate discard the stupid mask the first day it was allowed. All other classmates and teachers continued - many of them still to this day. My wife also worked for a number of families as they came down with Covid and yet she never got ill.
I'm very curious about this French restaurant if you want to share details because I'm always looking places that offer lamb (and not just "Ghenghis Khan" BBQ style).
Anyway, here in rural Western Japan we had our first proper obon matsuri since 2019 in the village where my wife comes from. Lots of fun and no one could remember the steps to the dance to begin with, but we improved with practice. One thing I noticed was that out of the 100ish people of all ages from toddler to probably late 90s not a single one wore a mask. And come to think of it, over the weekend very few of the tourists that have shown up to visit Izumo Taisha and the like were wearing masks. I won't say none because there were a handful but they were definitely the exception. Maybe, finally, sanity is breaking out....
Suwako? Oh, I do a lot of over night car camping in that area, mostly the michi-no-eki at Kobuchizawa, but occasionally as far as the areas around Kurobe Dam. Car camping, so I can't say much about French wine, but when engaged in fine dining to meet my budget, the convenient stores have some tasty SuperDry. 😂 Alas, probably not quite enough to ease dental pain. Take care K.
I took a trip to Turkey a few weeks ago. If you had read the US news the past decade, you would have thought the nation was already gone, with fear porn financial reports constantly discussing the "death of the Turkish lira."
Wife and I found it to be paradise, much nicer than many, many years ago when part of our honeymoon in Greece found us somehow in Epehsus, Turkey. People seemed happy. You would never have known a scamdemic had occurred. Lots of children, smiling, unmasked. Well fed, the food supply is so much healthier and less toxic than the USA.
Why do I bring this up? I can't stand the ever browner, less intelligent, more corrupt USA. And, am looking for an ethno-state less targeted (for now) by the Globalists. I believe they tend to impune such places, via their media and financial influence, to keep tax slaves like me on the reservation.
And, the USA and Japan are key targets of the Kryptocron. It is going to get vastly worse in both places by 2030.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/trying-times-slide-fall-turkish-lira-2023-06-07/
I have never been to Turkey but know several Japanese who have. They all loved it and highly recommended it as a tourist destination. One of my all time favorite coworkers was a Turkish women. One of the only sane nonJapanese people I have worked with in Japan. Miss working with her. I have done business with a couple of Turks, mainly we bought rugs from them. Great experience.
Somehow, seeds of doubt were planted in my mind at least by high school if not earlier, but I learned while in the navy to never believe anything in the news. Regardless of the source, the only safe response to any news story is, “I wonder how much of that is true?”. If the topic is of importance or interest, then one must dig to learn the truth of the matter.
I was pretty impressed by the average Turk's understanding and tolerance of various religions. Having lived as the crucible between tectonic forces like Christendom and Muhammadan influence for so long, they have a really well formed life-view. In my estimation.
Glad you sensed something was amiss young, and have lived a life of doing things mostly your own way. Even in besotted systems, I would contend we as individuals do derive some advantages as part of a tribe. But, when they become so onerous we can no longer sell our soul for some shekels and a sputtering water heater, it is time to fight.
Hail Victory Brother, good luck with the dental issues. That is a miserable pain, I hope you can cure it soon.
Off to hike.
Ah, another reason to drink, to stave off dental pain. I swing back and forth between alcohol and pain meds, preferring drink as its properties, good and bad, are well known. I do have limits though, and use aspirin and other meds as circumstances require. No alcohol before or during the work day, for example. I have a self imposed limit on my daily drinking depending upon circumstances with a hard set, no mare than this limit regardless. Quite often go without either and just deal with it. I hate have to need to take anything, drink or meds. I drink coffee all the time. My students are shocked to hear me say i hate coffee. I hate what I need to take. Ever since joining the navy, my mind will not engage until I have had coffee and I hate that fact. I hate being dependent upon anything, including coffee.
Enjoy your hike. Hope to hit the trail again once the heat goes down a bit.
We’re all dependent on something. I depend at the very least on water, air, clothes, and a roof above, but I hear you. And it becomes harder when the system is breaking down.
I think our risk reward calibration was shot and now people have list conception of what real work and care means. Maskless adults and masked children is the perfect illustration of how upside down everything is. It is Stacy Abrams in a classroom of masked children. No amount of reasoning will convince the educational system that children are not susceptible to Covid. They have the same irrational fear that there are legions of guys in primered vans carousing streets looking to offer kids candy for a ride in the back.
When you mentioned your friend who you might have a falling out with, I think I may have the same with my family. Although I have done more tha an my fair share of things to drive her away, I can’t help but think things really went sour during Covid when she thought it was the next Spanish flu and I refuted all the talking points. I know we touched on the mask and vaccine because her response as to why she wore the mask was that “she could and it wasn’t hard.” This is someone with a PhD talking.
My brother who is very conservative also is very safety conscious. He would be the guy who would not drive a rental car until he was sure the child seat was properly secured, so you can imagine why he was masked.
And I am an amputee diabetic with heart failure so how likely are they to take advice from me. They must think I have somehow won the lottery in terms of not buying it from Covid being both vulnerable and recklessly flouting the rules.
I am glad you have found some moments of joy in this. All I know is that where things end other things can then begin. For those “new normal” people, they should be careful what they wish for. I wanted a new normal as well, one far less restrictive and far less “nanny state.” And just as some have been primed for compliance, there are others primed in defiance.
I can’t explain why I disliked cats for most of my life until circumstances suddenly led to a very sick cat coming to live with us. The owner had kept 6 cats in a tiny apartment inside a very limited cat run. They were surprised when all of the cats suddenly began to get sick. They spent thousands (HKD) on vet bills but the vet was unable to find anything wrong but charged them anyway and gave them a bag of pills. A couple of the cats died and in desperation they asked if we would take one female. Others surviving cats had gone to friends and volunteers. By chance I had been reading up on natural healing methods and basically if an animal (or human) is sick, it is usually related to nutrition or environment, or a combination of the two. We gave her space (although she was almost too weak to even stand) and I made sure she had a variety of good quality food. Finally we gave her half a boiled egg for lunch each day which she really seemed to like. Within a couple of days of the egg treatment she was walking around and about a week later she was jumping and climbing and running like normal. The idea of sending her back to that hellish place broke my heart and I asked the owner if she could stay (even though my wife was totally against the idea). One year later she is now 4 years old and happy and healthy although my wife still doesn’t like her - mainly due to the hair that gets everywhere.
One thing leapt out from your article - your mention of the passing of your old cat due to kidney disease. I was recently reminded by the previous owner that the cat had not had her booster jab. Having seen all the death and destruction caused by needles over the last couple of years I also read up on jabs in general and it seems they are all bad news and so imagine how much less care is taken for animal safety. This led me to find an article claiming the shots given to cats are likely responsible for kidney disease. Not only that, the illnesses they claim to protect the cat against are rarely fatal in adult cats.
Just like everything else, the animals we do and do not like are often subjective. Some do have allergies associated with them though. Cat hair is a problem but one cat owners learn to live with. Our Roomba is excellent at picking it up from our rug. They do make great pets though.
Foo came to us after the family that rescued her in a Typhoon, Taifu in Japanese and hence her name, had been begging us to take her as they were compelled to keep her in a cage, just the one cat. They felt very sorry for her and sought a new home for her.
I rescued Hoki on July 4th last year. Due to his starved state, fungus had taken hold in his skin and it took 2 full months of two applications of medicine to the areas affected and of course, we had to keep him in a cage away from our other two cats until he was given a clean bill of health. So from 3 months to 5 months old, he was in a cage. A big cage but still a cage. He is a very clumsy cat now and I wonder if those months of confinement in his developmental stage have caused him to miss out on necessary exercise and play. I have been told by those I trust that it is a possibility. Six cats in a tiny cat run is too many in too confined a place, in my opinion.
I too now question any and all vaccines. It was not easy to get Hoki his required shots. I am against it now especially as ours are indoor cats. But my wife works for Pfizer, and we are required by law to get at least some of the shots for our pets. We got our latest from a volunteer organization that my wife’s porker co-worker worked for. We had to sign a formal contract stating that we would get him fixed, microchipped and vaccinated. Either we agreed or the kitten would eventually be taken in by another family that would do all those things anyway.
Funny, though called an antivaxxer for being against the covid shots exclusively, by the mad jabbers mandating and otherwise forcing it on most of the world’s population, they have driven me to be a full fledged antivaxxer. Not too keen and the medical profession in general now either.
Hope your wife comes around to liking the cat your rescued from what amounts to a prison.
Indeed one of the possible blessing of the last few years in that it gave me time and cause to question so many things. I have never liked doctors and avoided all allopathic medicines for decades now without any ill effect and in fact I’m fitter and more healthy than many people half my age. I was indifferent to vaccines before although I never opted for any of them and like you, only when my back was forced up against the wall did I read up on it and became a fully fledged anti-vaxxer. I watched helplessly as every family in the village and most of my friends got jabbed. Pretty much all of them had side effects and still got what was claimed to be Covid, some of them numerous times. My unjabbed family of 4 was the only family not to get sick at all over the last 4 years. Even my daughter who was excluded from certain school activities due to her untouchable status witnessed her entire class get sick - including those on all four sides of her. She was also the first in her class to immediate discard the stupid mask the first day it was allowed. All other classmates and teachers continued - many of them still to this day. My wife also worked for a number of families as they came down with Covid and yet she never got ill.
I'm very curious about this French restaurant if you want to share details because I'm always looking places that offer lamb (and not just "Ghenghis Khan" BBQ style).
Anyway, here in rural Western Japan we had our first proper obon matsuri since 2019 in the village where my wife comes from. Lots of fun and no one could remember the steps to the dance to begin with, but we improved with practice. One thing I noticed was that out of the 100ish people of all ages from toddler to probably late 90s not a single one wore a mask. And come to think of it, over the weekend very few of the tourists that have shown up to visit Izumo Taisha and the like were wearing masks. I won't say none because there were a handful but they were definitely the exception. Maybe, finally, sanity is breaking out....
Delightful to see this, perhaps it is not so bad everywhere else.
There are always the individuals that make it a sure thing for one (or two- three), such as your chef.
Suwako? Oh, I do a lot of over night car camping in that area, mostly the michi-no-eki at Kobuchizawa, but occasionally as far as the areas around Kurobe Dam. Car camping, so I can't say much about French wine, but when engaged in fine dining to meet my budget, the convenient stores have some tasty SuperDry. 😂 Alas, probably not quite enough to ease dental pain. Take care K.