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We Have a YouTube Weather Guy Who Lives in NC

I’ve had the strangest dreams lately, in part because the world has gone crazy and in part because I keep YouTube playing all night and who knows what gets spoken into my brain. Most of the time I wake up with Emily Baker (retired attorney extraordinaire) reviewing one of the court cases I follow, which are about big, bad crimes with lots of terrible details. No telling what Emily is going over. She’s amazing. So much so that I listen to many of her hour plus videos and live streams, and it’s very hard for me to be still that long. Open YouTube and search Emily Baker and listen in. You’ll love her. And then there’s my personality thrown into that mix and some pretty strange dreams wake me up in the middle of the night.

Here’s my last night’s dream: I was in a bombed out, burned and charred building with no floor left and no roof, but I and a group of my friends were searching for cocktail attire to ‘go out’. I know. I found a red dress that fit, one friend found a black one and one found a cream colored silk one. The TRICK was finding shoes. We all found a pair, but not all at once and not located together. It was like an Easter egg hunt for shoes. Oh, and all clothes were clean, go figure. I woke up just when I had found remnants of a wedding gown, heavy silk, beaded and sequined all over (now that had to be a deep seated illustration of something), torn into 10 inch wide strips… because for some reason I needed a casual scarf to go with my dress. I woke up while my girlfriends were wrinkling their noses about using that piece of wedding dress for ANYTHING. Now this dream tells me a lot, but mostly the resilience of my psyche. Okay, everything is destroyed, but hey, let’s get dressed and to out! It’s gonna be OKAY! If you know me, you know I’d help OTHERS find a dress but you’d have to drag me to a cocktail party. But moving through disasters is something I’ve learned to do well in my life, so…there you go.

I watched a documentary about ravens tonight AND we finally got some much needed rain. I went out on the front porch to move my flower pots into a rainy spot and that was the moment for a huge crack of thunder and of course the leading lightning. Didn’t take me long to move the pots, for sure. So I’m looking forward to some interesting dreams tonight.

I’m grateful for the rain, but we’re going to need a lot more to get us out of this drought. We have rules for watering, and I am also conserving all I can, but my plants are SUF-FER-ING. I dreamed I had to dig out my hydrangeas. Yeah, I did dream that. It’s because 1) they are not blooming; and 2) they are sunburned and dehydrated. Now, understand, this bothers me a lot because I actually care about my plants. I bought some shade cloth to try to give them some relief and it works. Gerbera Daisies are looking much better, as are the hydrangeas. But I wasn’t planning on hiding my flowers under shade cloth all summer, since, you know, I grow them to stare at them.

Anyway guys, we’ve had some discussions about conserving water, and we’ve also talked about light bills. So I DISCOVERED that if I only use the big appliances after 9 pm, my electric bill is a LOT lower. I set the dishwasher on a time delay, so it starts after 9, and I just put in a load of laundry after 9 and/or start the clothes dryer at that time too. This works for me; might not work for you, but I thought I’d share.

Back to the point of this blog post: we have a young, enthusiastic, smart weather guy out of Charlotte that you need to listen to. He’s on YouTube at GM Weather. His name is Gerald Mengel, and wow it’s so good to have someone focus on us for a change. He used to be on a Charlotte news station, but quit to go to YouTube exclusively, and if you follow him, you’ll see why.

My friend says I curse her, because she watches YouTube all the time now. So do I.

I hope you are able to stay cool and have pleasant dreams. I’m very tired of all of the yelling and screaming and burning of buildings and blowing up of the same, that we are experiencing these days. We could go a long way if people would pick up some manners along the way, and learn how to cope with life when it doesn’t go exactly the way we want it to. Coping skills should be taught at first grade and onwards. Better yet, why not start at home. You know, like we USED to. Remember we are told to walk THROUGH the valley, not TO it.

Stay safe and well everyone. (links below to the youtube channels)

Emily D. Baker YouTube Channel (True crime)

 GMWeather YouTube Channel (Weather)

Kouri Richins and Why She Will Never Go Away

These days everybody has to do the disclaimers. So here goes: I am not a psychiatrist, not a psychologist, not a comedian, not a brain surgeon, not an astronaut, not a pipe welder blah blah blah. What I AM is a person with a high IQ who studies human beings, the train wreck of all time. Yes, even worse than Great White Sharks. I know the human heart is wretched. I have the Bible to back me up on that. Jeremiah said “human nature is flawed, deceitful, and prone to rationalizing self-interest or destructive behavior“. He didn’t say it exactly like that. I don’t think they even said “rationalizing” in his day, so of course, it is a TRANSLATION. He also said “the human heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. [1, 2]”

I have been curious in the way one looks at a train wreck, about humanity. If you haven’t noticed, we are changing and not in a good way…of COURSE. I’m going to talk about that in this opinion piece, and you can agree or disagree. I don’t care. I’ve lived long enough to be able to say that right out loud. One more disclaimer: I have a mirror. I am not perfect; in fact, just the opposite. But I am normal. I’m actually what they call ‘stoic’. And I am an introvert. So all the time, people think I don’t have feelings, only because I don’t wail and hop around when I get upset. I flip into quiet problem solving. Sometimes they feel sorry for me because I spend so much time alone. I LIKE BEING ALONE. I like me, I’m comfortable being me, I don’t want to chatter and chatter and chatter, I like to do projects, like to cook. Stuff like that. That’s how I roll. Most people are clumpers. They need to be around other people, in the thick of chaos, and wow, that’s not me. I digress, as usual.

So, Kouri. Kouri is the personification of a personality type that is becoming prevalent in America. When I was younger, I noticed it in nearly everyone in the Middle East, but hardly ever here. Over THERE, they were so unable to control their emotions, that every time something good happened, grown ass men jumped up and down and fired weapons into the air. Of course the men did it; women were under blankets. Then when something BAD happened, grown ass men jumped up and down and fired guns into the air. THEY HOPPED! IN UNISON!! Absolutely NO control of the big emotions. I remember saying, “Man, I hope that brain wiring never comes to America.” And then came the internet. Now I’m sure there were other hopping men, but back THEN we only saw the middle eastern ones. So there’s that. In any case, I believe that particular brain wiring is not contagious, it’s genetics. Except for the low IQ mules on the cart path, who do nothing but follow, all the way to the cliff.

Humans are followers, generally. Innovators and leaders are definitely the minority in the best of times. Being a leader requires the ability to think logically, to plan, a desire to plan, to want to do and be better. All of that. You can’t be lazy if you are a leader. THAT’S the main reason most people are not leaders: the lazy factor.

Back to Kouri: The Kouri types go into the hopper labeled like this: Psychopath, malignant narcissist, evil. It gets separated out from there. Any person who is 1) devoid of feelings for other human beings; 2) monstrously ambitious; 3) willing to step on drowning people to get to the top; 4) unable to accept that they are responsible for their own behavior; 5) diabolically able to act out long term plans to destroy others; 6) completely comfortable with deception and theft; 7) exceptional charmers and manipulators; 8) always disobedient; 9) fiscally and logistically (relationship) irresponsible; 10) they enjoy hurting people, EVEN if their target doesn’t know they were harmed by the perpetrator, belongs in the hopper. This happened to me. I have experienced this type.

One morning, this ‘person who shall remain unnamed’, ONCE AGAIN blamed me for something only he could have done. Frustrated, I said, “If I had that kind of power, you’d be singing soprano.” He didn’t get it, but I, on the other hand, thought I was HILARIOUS. Ultimately, he tried to destroy my life, and nearly succeeded. Why? Because I saw behind his mask and I stopped being his bank. They are BAD people. Once you are in their crosshairs, you are in true danger. It takes a lot to wrench that focus from you onto something else. Their preference is to not stop until you are destroyed. You get in the crosshairs by 1) seeing behind their mask; and 2) no longer being their best toolbox tool. Once they can no longer use you, you are in danger. And once they know YOU know, you are in danger. I made plans to leave, which I ultimately did (in the nick of time I believe), but it took a while. By the time I got out, everything I worked for my entire life was gone. Imagine.

Tree huggers aways want to say that oh they can be rehabilitated, oh they can get ‘counseling’ and be fine. Well, no. No they cannot. When they sit down with a ‘counselor’, their charm and manipulation kicks in. It’s a challenge to them. Then the lies start. God help you if they decide to blame you. They will make up ALL kinds of crap to destroy your reputation, make their counselor think YOU were the bad guy, you MADE him do it. I know. I’ve been through this. There IS no fixing them. They need to be removed from society. Prison is the only place for Kouri.

You may know that Kouri was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole. You may have heard Kouri say that she’s never going to stop, that she WILL go home, that she is NOT going away. What did I just tell you? She just told all thinking people exactly whom she is. THEY. NEVER. STOP. This is why I am fairly sure that yes, her sons were in danger of the same fate as their father, who died at Kouri’s hands by poison. Watch for her to harass her dead husband’s family for decades. Watch for it.

By the way, poison is one of the cruelest ways to die, and think about that. Eric knew what was behind her mask, and was locking away his wealth from her, planning a divorce. Those two things guaranteed his demise if he did not leave. And he stayed for his sons. It took too long for him to prepare his escape, and Kouri killed him. But he saved his sons’ lives, in my opinion. What a tragic situation, with one psychopath in the center: Kouri Richins.

The Death of Excellence, or

The age of the copycat

Do you remember, like, when I wrote (griped) about, like, every few words being, like, “like”? That brain worm still lives, and the worst thing is that it lives in pubic presenters, who spread that disease just by yapping. Some are, like, journalists? You know, like, they invade my brain as soon as they start, like, talking?

Questions? Yep, that’s another one. It began with a generation of scared talkers, who were so insecure that they had to ask permission to speak. I think, like, if they do that? they should, like, stop talking? Because they advertise, like, their weak mind. I mean, to strong, confident listeners anyway, this is a huge tell. To a predator, you become prey.

IF you are going to, like, present yourself as an expert?

Then act like one.

Oh wait. There’s another one. Super. SUPER SUPER SUPER, Everyone is super excited, super happy to be here, super happy that YOU’RE here, super sad, super fat, super full, super cut, super thin. Kill….me… now. Again, as are many issues I bring up, this one is ‘complicated’. First, foremost, we have every day, every hour, constant reminders of how we are herd animals. MOST people are. They just follow. They are insecure, they are lazy, they lack ability to forge a trail, they lack self confidence to even make a definitive statement: Is it, like, super okay for me to, like, talk? I’m going to say 80% of people are like this. I always apply the 80-20 rule, which I have changed to 80-10-10. This means 80% of people follow the herd, 10% of people actually think; 10% of people don’t know/don’t care. Check it out; it applies to almost every scenario.

Complication two: Most parents don’t parent anymore because they are afraid to discipline. Discipline is necessary. Ask a Marine. Imagine undisciplined Marines on the battlefield. 10% of them would have zero ammunition, 80% would have ammunition but not know how to use it, so it would be 10% who would shoulder the burden, if the others didn’t accidentally shoot them. Which they probably would.

So if you have a child who was never disciplined and then they go out into the ‘world’, they will not know how to perform. Hence the questions. Hence the wide-eyed copying of others. Hence the inability to take responsibility. Responsibility frightens many of them. Hence the ease of manipulating them. They don’t know how to walk alone, as it were.

So that makes them SUPER uncomfortable, and often SUPER unqualified, even though they expect to be praised. Yep, that’s the new brain worm: super. Attorneys, ‘journalists’, doctors, interviewers, interviewEES. Super has drilled into the weak brains among us. It never ends.

So what? Well, everybody wants to be a star, have millions of ‘likes’ (not that kind), everybody wants to be the oracle. Let me clue you in. The SECOND you spout “like like like” or “super super super” posed as a question, I know a WHOLE lot about your brain. And so do all of the others you encounter. Right now, when my favorite YouTube creators say like like like and super super super, I’m just very disappointed IN them and FOR them.

Think about it, and kill the brain worm before it infects your brain.

Learn to use BRAIN.

You’ll notice in this image that there are no cords, no batteries. This is the instrument that requires some thought to be in place before keys are struck. It is a typewriter. Purely mechanical, purely reliant upon ideas to come from the mind of operator, or someone plagiarized, which has become all too frequent. Once upon a time…relax, it’s not Snow White…people used these to produce written text: Letters, memos, books, reports, even tests for school. Remember tests? You know, before merit was killed off and education became indoctrination, before actual education was eliminated. There was a brief moment when it was ‘dumbed down’; but then it was snuffed out. This is why people at Harvard can’t do math, that statement I’ve been making for a long time now.

Once upon a time, people had to rely upon “The Big Three” (ABC, NBC, CBS) for news. Anchors on these networks were greatly respected, even revered. Why? Well you could never tell what their own opinions were. Why did that matter? Because we didn’t tune in to hear an editorial rant; we tuned in to watch news, not their OPINION of the news, and we got the truth. How we processed that was up to us; we had to think about it.

These days, all we get from Main Stream Media is garbage attempts to disrupt and indoctrinate. Main Stream is a misnomer now anyway. Main Stream is actually YouTube now. Now, there are thousands and thousands of places to get info about any single news story. So for thinking people (aka people with the ability to think), this is paradise. For thinking people, we are in our element.

The world is full of scared, lazy, time-out everybody gets a trophy for showing up generations. How do you like it, lazy parents? It’s a mess! I’ll tell you, I’m so tired of people in media saying julery instead if jewelry, saying ‘real-i-tor’ instead of REALTOR, and they are in the anchor chair!! In my opinion, if you cannot pronounce the name of your career, you should be kicked out of it. In any case, you advertise your lack of education when you cannot pronounce everyday words. You want to say it that way? Okay, just stay off of my radio and TV. Bottom line is that we are seeing the ‘I showed up’ crowd now in charge. No WONDER we have global issues.

On top of rewarding ignorance, we have allowed rampant violent aggression to become the norm. Whatever emotion pops up first is okay to act out, and more and more often, it is hate and anger. What is the solution? Who can say. I do think it would be a good idea for schools to teach logic, beginning right from the start. Teach teamwork, right from the start, and punish hateful aggression. We have to cure the cancer that has infected our world.

Not everything is a crisis.

Speaking of crisis (you know I have to talk about real estate), sometimes people need a realtor BECAUSE of a crisis. Okay I’m talking about divorce. I’m shaking my head. Now, most marriages end that way. Sad. But know, if you are heading that way, there are RULES in real estate. Better get an experienced agent…and one who will understand what you are going through. That’s me.

I’m Brenda, with Premier Advantage Realty. Call me at 919-210-6113

Excellence Matters!

What you are about to read are MY opinions, to which I am ENTITLED. If it bothers you, just go away NOW. I will not miss you. I want people around me who can hear others’ opinions without going hysterical. That’s how YOU LEARN. And I especially like people with humor in their DNA. Get this:

While Janet Yellen, US Secretary of Treasury, cowered behind a lectern seemingly dreading press questions, her emblem fell off the lectern. Fell off! HOW HARD is it to hang a decoration? Forget about the gloom and doom being yapped our way from Yellen; the emblem fell OFF. I am shaking my head. And I’m laughing. Yep, laughing. This is a perfect, PERFECT demonstration of our entire country right now…and dare I say it…the world.

Yay! Everybody gets a trophy! We don’t grade tests, heck we don’t GIVE tests! We are allll okay, nay we are allll FANTASTIC. Oh and did I tell you? We are alll geniuses!! Isn’t that great? Let’s all clap our hands together! That, my friends, is the problem. Why? Because excellence matters, quality matters, logical thinking matters. As in…don’t use a puny little hanger certified to hold .5 pounds of weight and then hang a 2 pound emblem on it. For God’s sake, that’s NOT rocket science. Who was the dumbass who did that?? I want pictures. PICTURES, I say! Hold on to your little hat now: NOT EVERYBODY IS QUALIFIED TO HANG DECORATIONS. I can hear wailing and gnashing of teeth. WHO CARES??? Wail away. While I laugh, by the way.

Elon does rocket science. People who work for him do rocket science. Why? Because they actually learned something. They actually cared about excellence. And by god they are smart! Yes, that’s how you put rockets into space! You don’t dye your hair blue and scream at the ceiling demanding respect. You actually EARN respect. That’s how it works. You study, you actually read, oh and forgive me but you THINK. Hey, do you think the wheels might fall off of your car as you drive? Hahaha. Oh they will. They will. Well, not if you drive a Tesla. If you DON’T drive a Tesla, I bet shit is breaking on your NEW non-Tesla car! Hahaha. I know the look on your face right now. By the way the great unthinking ran from Twitter like rats from a sinking ship when a THINKER bought the company. That’s how it works. Do NOT come at the little special children who never had a cogent thought, expecting them to use logic. I laughed my ass of at that too. Laughing now just remembering it.

Listen, I’m watching economic news this morning hearing about more and more bankruptcies, more businesses closing and I swear, I’m actually laughing. I PREDICTED THIS CRAP when the idiots started making hard work and studying unnecessary…when they started making the laziest smooth brain the benchmark. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?? Oh I’m being logical. I just lost half of you. Think about having a glass…real glass…in each hand and banging them together. Then you say, “HEY they broke!” Welcome to America.

Look, a college degree used to mean something. But the smooth brains monetized the degrees, handing them to anyone who could pay for one, or have ME pay for one FOR them…and now people show up waving their diploma screaming, “Hire me or I will throw a fit!” and I just sigh. What a freaking waste of paper. BS degrees, or even BA degrees are not worth the powder to blow them to hell. Same thing for masters’ degrees. Thank you, Smooth Brains. I actually EARNED my degrees. I lost sleep studying, I read books and books and books, I took tests tests tests and oh yeah, I LEARNED. By the way, I will NOT hire unqualified people, I don’t care what color you dye your hair.

I went to one of those doc-in-the-box places a few years ago when I had bronchitis. The ‘doctor’ shuffled in (yes shuffled) wearing bedroom slippers. BEDROOM SLIPPERS! Not kidding. And people wonder why I don’t automatically genuflect at the sight of a white coat. I want to know if THAT person graduated at the bottom of the class. Pretty sure my doc-in-the-box did.

Let’s talk about yelling and screaming in support of the ones who want to behead you WITH A MACHETE! ON TV! I’m shaking my head while it is still attached to my body. Somebody show these idiots that video for God’s sake. Never mind, it won’t do any good at all.

Why am I finding this shit funny? Hahaha. Well, what else am I going to do? I have a fully functioning brain. I was able to see this disaster coming YEARS ago. Still laughing. Pepsi closed their Chicago operation? Well I wouldn’t want to make sugar water in a war zone. Good for them! Oh and they gave no notice? Well if they HAD, the entire factory would have been razed by mad little children who have zero coping skills. In other words: WE DID THIS TO OURSELVES. Still laughing. And the instantly unemployed say, “I don’t have a job now!” Well what the HELL did you expect?? Whom did you vote for?? How much violence are you willing to tolerate? Well apparently all of it until it costs you your job.

I had a friend who had a spoiled grandchild who loved to get in the family gatherings and have screaming temper tantrums. Most of her family members just looked uncomfortable. Not my friend. She put the kid in a bedroom and told her to scream as loudly as she wanted in there, and then she closed the door. Well, holy shit, the screaming stopped. No audience. That’s called being a parent. That’s called intelligent thinking. That’s called not letting the children take control. In America, or whatever this country is called now, children with zero talent, nothing to contribute, are in control. And people wonder why shit is going upside down.

There’s no WONDERING here!! Somebody predicted this and that somebody wanted it to happen. And the general population were too dumb to see it coming. Well, not ALL of the population. Some of us actually have intelligence and foresight. But we also have no power, so we’re tied to the the tracks upon which the idiot train runs. The only solution is for all wheels to come off and have the idiots unable to move forward. They won’t know how to put the wheels back on; that requires thinking and SKILL. I’m picturing an ape scratching his head.

We have people in charge who cannot do basic math, who have JUST NOW discovered Venn diagrams. How can any marginally smart person think you can hand out billions of dollars to criminals and expect hard working people to support that to their own detriment? Everybody has a limit. Everybody. Yeah, look out the window, pal. It’s happening. Oh yeah, let’s hand the reins to people who wear the right clothes, who are in a super minority, who have no idea what the rest of the world even LOOKS like. Let’s put THEM in control. This train is about to run out of tracks and the ‘conductors’ are too dumb to look beyond the control stick or whatever you call that thing.

The worst thing for me is knowing that people are so dumbed down, they will continue to vote in other dummies. Nobody, not ONE of them, had better cry around me when the shit hits the fan for good. Because at that time, there will be no reason not to clock them. I probably won’t be laughing when this happens and it will.

My country used to be the place everyone wanted to come to, everyone wanted to copy. Now, my country has ‘aspired’ to mimic third world countries. My country seems determined to have bullet ridden buildings, unpaved streets, criminals lauded, children abused, a greater and greater lack of things we have come to expect and enjoy…like food…, and a dictatorship with a double digit IQ at the helm (I may be giving too much credit there). Why? They’ve never been anywhere else, so they can’t know what we have here in America. Countries all over the world are struggling to survive rampant stupidity, and that’s what it is. There is an effort to instill mass slavery and yet the anti-slavery crowds cheer for this movement. THEY CHEER!!! Zero critical thinking skills. Well, it is said that you don’t know what you’ve got ’till it’s gone. That, my friends, is true. And we are about to learn something. By the way, a double digit IQ is AVERAGE AND BELOW, for the ones who don’t have a clue what that means.

Tuck and roll, my people. Tuck and roll.

I Was Just Thinking….

I was looking at quotes online, things people say about life.  I noticed how many all-or-nothing quotes there were.  Like this: Either you grab it with both hands and swing or you miss it.  Or: We were meant to live life in vivid, living color or not at all.  Not exact quotes, but you get the drift.  After reading a couple hundred of them I had to stop reading.  Life is not like that.  In fact I think this idea of complete gusto, full living color, fireworks and loud music stuff rarely happens… for sane people, at least.

Life is not black or white, all or nothing.  Rather, it’s filled with infinite shades between, infinite amounts of life.  Sometimes its painful, or boring or lonely or stalled.  It just is.  I can’t imagine living as though I have to swing from the rafters every day, day in and day out.  How exhausting that would be, and how much great stuff on the ground would I miss?  The few times when life actually is all out, are great, and should be savored when they’re good.  But there’s max-out bad, too…and everything between…and THAT is life.  Like it or not.

If you’re being chased through the jungle by a cannibal, it would be great to be just greenish gray.  Imagine how “vivid color” would work for you.  You get the idea.