Category: Book Review

I’m Thinking of Getting a PhD: The mysterious Qesem Cave

I have been thinking a great deal about pursuing a PhD.  For me, it’s a debate of time; it’s hard for me to dedicate too much time to any one thing, and pursuing a PhD requires a significant amount of time in a specific field of study.  However, my reason for wanting to do it, and I think I will at some point regardless, is that I want to prove it can be done without losing your mind in the process.  I want to prove that if you look at the world with your face up against the glass, you can still see.  And I could do just that, and in the aftermath, I could be very dangerous.  However, typically, it costs around half a million dollars to pursue a PhD, and the time commitment is mind-numbing.  However, it could be fun if it were in a field that you enjoy. I want to pursue one in Bible Studies, Philosophy, or Archaeology because I am passionate about these topics and have many ideas on how to improve them for the betterment of human civilization.  But unfortunately, and this is just how things are in the living world, what you want to do and what you should, or could do, is not always the same.  And the skill that I am best at, which is specifically me, is consuming vast amounts of random information and solving problems outside the box.  And that is something I wouldn’t be able to do if I had my face too close to the glass for an extended period.  My reasons for pursuing a PhD are not the traditional ones, but rather to demonstrate that one can be obtained despite the institutional problems in the process.

The best example of this is in Qesem Cave, a topic I first learned about while reading my favorite magazine in the world, the November/December 2007 edition of Biblical Archaeology Review, which was available in print at the time.  Later, in December, I noticed a brief online article about Qesem Cave that had not been included in the print edition, and I thought it was astonishing.  Here, a cave was discovered just outside Tel Aviv, Israel, and about an hour’s drive to the west of Jerusalem, that had human habitation 420,000 years ago.  The cave was discovered while building a highway connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the interior, and its existence was entirely a matter of happenstance, which I found alarming.  How many Qesem Caves were there in the world just waiting to be discovered, just short of the surface of the earth?  And the answer is an astonishing amount that we are just starting to wrap our heads around, especially in hostile zones like China, Russia, and all over the Middle East.  However, this discovery was so unusual and difficult to categorize that even in an archaeology magazine that typically reports on such issues, they weren’t quite sure what to say about it.  Because it didn’t fit any previous assumptions about the region.  And even then, it took seven years from its discovery for the world to learn about it.  And since then, it has been researched a bit here and there up to 2016.  However, much of the work has been relatively small in scope because the discovery process is overly bureaucratic and detrimentally procedural.  The most intelligent people on the planet who could study these kinds of things were too tied up in peer review commentary to even begin to think of something that was not within the box of their specialized fields of study. 

But Qesem Cave proves something I had long been thinking about in the specific region of the Bible lands.  I believe there was a very good reason why Abraham was instructed to sacrifice Isaac at the location he did, and that the Holy of Holies was situated where it was.  And that the skull of the first human ever, Adam, was buried in a cave under the site where Jesus was crucified.  Academics with their face up against the glass write off such stories as fictional apocrypha, but I think the desire to write such stories such as in The Book of the Cave of Treasures is because under modern Jerusalem is an ancient system of caves that were always there, and that Yahweh was very angry at the Canaanite culture which resided there for many hundreds of thousands of years, well outside our accepted timeline for the flood stories and evolution of the Biblical characters.  I tend to think that the story of Genesis compresses millions of years into the arrival of Abraham, allowing the plot of the Bible to begin.  And that its reference points reach too deep in the past to connect to historical anchors.  And Qesem Cave proves this to be true, not just because humans were using it as shelter from the outside world and the elements, but also because they were practicing shamanic practices there, which would be the oldest spot in the world where such activity was observed.  I think it’s just the tip of the iceberg.  And that the world is filled with such places.  However, the Holy Land is so well-documented that a discovery like this can’t be ignored in any historical discussion. 

Inside the cave were elements of apparent ritual activity using swan wings to mimic shamanic spirit flight while under the influence of hallucinogens, which the current argument is the foundation of all religious belief, the deliberate attempt for people to reach across known perception and talk to spiritual entities to assist with daily life.  And biblically, we have people talking to what they think is God a lot.  Qesem Cave reveals that this kind of practice has been ongoing for a much more extended period than previously understood.  And for me, that’s a big deal, which is why I’m considering getting a PhD.  I want to prove that you can achieve this without compromising your ability to think critically when new information is introduced.  As I am, I excel at solving complex problems because my knowledge base is extensive.  However, academia is designed against the broad acquisition of knowledge and is structured to be too specific, making it difficult to incorporate new information and advance understanding.  And that’s why Qesem Cave has been so little explored, and why the Indian mounds of North America, and the world, get so little attention, because they don’t fit a narrative that academics have staked a stake in, and many PhD papers were written.  I think the best and only way to shatter that assumption is to undertake one myself, so that I can conduct my thesis on the shortcomings of the current PhD process.  We should encourage people to think primarily about multiple matters, rather than focusing on a limited vantage point, and then make the process so complicated that, once you survive it, you are changed forever by the experience.  I interact with many people who hold advanced degrees every day, and I would say I know more of them than most people do.  And I like them, but they all share the same problem: they think too specifically and do not think large enough to deal with the vast world of knowledge that we have yet to unlock.  And in the process, they are often paralyzed by the procedure and cannot see the obvious.  And that is precisely what Qesem Cave, which I think is one of the most incredible discoveries in the world, proves beyond a shadow of a doubt.  And what is both scary and delightful is that it’s just the beginning.  As far as me getting a PhD, I would like to get to a point in my life where I could take a few years and just think about the things I enjoy thinking about.  It would be fun, and I could do a lot of good things with it.  I may not be at that stage in my life now, but if and when I could, I think I would.

Rich Hoffman

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The Jezebel Bonnie Blue: What’s so sad about 2000 men who would have sex with her

Let me start by saying that there is nothing Bonnie Blue could do, which would cause me to want to indulge in anything with her, least be one of her latest losers who have such a low self impression of themselves that they would trade away all their integrity for a 30 second sex session on one of her latest conquests.  The OnlyFans pornography spokesperson has been up to no good for a long time, and is positioning herself socially as a modern Jezebelle, deliberately trying to assault the natures of the human race for her own power and control.  Her latest sex stunt intends to be sleeping with over 2000 “people” in one day.  She recently slept with over 1000.  The former corporate recruiter, Tia Emma Billinger, is a disaster of a person who is doing what people like Madonna did before her to appease evil in the name of exploitation of human necessity and a culture’s lack of ability to control itself.  Any man who is willing to share a woman is a pretty major lowlife.  But even worse is a man who will stand in line to indulge in sexual activity in front of other people and to surrender all integrity to personal pleasure, throwing away intellect for the simple effort of bodily indulgence that lasts a fleeting moment, when the memory of it lasts forever.  Bonnie Blue as her porn name goes, intends on June 15th of 2025 to sleep with 2000 humans, men, young barely age kids, and even girls.   I find her disgusting, and if she stripped naked and lay down in front of me, I would step over her without a pause, as all men should.  But unfortunately, the biggest problem isn’t what she’s doing, it’s that there are easily 2000 people who will gladly indulge in this mess that is the real problem, and it’s what the 25 year old porn star wants to exploit in society, for all the same reasons evil has always worked in the world, to desecrate the concept of goodness so that chaos and malicious behavior can control the human race through animal like temptations. 

Psychologically, there is a lot wrong with Bonnie Blue; she comes from a broken family, she has never known her real dad, and was raised by a stepfather.  Her birth mother is supportive of what Bonnie Blue is doing because she is making a lot of money at it, and that power has caused her functioning parents to carry her business cards around and help where they can to promote these sexual publicity stunts.  She is only 25 years old and has come out of a recent divorce with her long-time boyfriend of over ten years.  And apparently, he also works in the background supporting her, although you can imagine how difficult it would be to see her so loosely indulging in her sex practices.  Sex is a value system, and when you are involved in a relationship with someone, typical sexual expression is exclusive, to show that you value the relationship with that person.  So what Bonnie Blue is exposing in the people around her is her flamboyant sexual personality which ultimately comes from a desire to control the world around her, even if desecration is the way to do it, and people who have very low personal standards will still associate with her because she’s making a lot of money doing what she’s doing.  Her basic premise is that sex is something everyone does and that everyone should do it, and she should and can make a lot of money while doing it, is a justification for something much more sinister lingering in the background—the essential social covenant to restrict animal behavior in our lives in favor of intellect.  There is nothing more creepy about a person who will throw their entire life away for something as common as sexual pleasure.  Sex might be a big deal to someone who is just out of puberty.  But by the time you are 25, it should be like brushing your teeth.  There are a lot more interesting things to think about and if you aren’t, you have something broken inside you.

A corporate recruiter is a personality I know very well; it’s the kind of person who is easy on the eyes, the kind you send to trade shows to hand out business cards.  And while having sex appeal is one thing, sexual indulgence is entirely different.  To commonly agree that a beautiful woman can bridge a business transaction with a foundation of agreement, to get people from various business perspectives to see eye to eye on something is not the same as everyone taking off their clothes and taking a turn with Bonnie Blue, with all social pretense thrown out the window.  She is a creation of a pornography culture created by world governments to control mass population through sexual exploitation.  With porn being so easy to get, the apparent goal is to make it so easy to suppress human ambition to the limits of the control groups.  And Bonnie Blue is making a lot of money because she is helping them do it.  Under that measure of cash, the value of it reflects the value of the people involved.  We can say they are disgusting because they will do anything to make money, whether that is Bonnie Blue herself, her mother, her ex-husband, her stepfather, or countless friends who are tagging along.  Listening to her talk, Bonnie Blue reminds me a lot of Gene Simmons from the rock group Kiss, when he stepped away from being a schoolteacher to indulge in acting like a demon on stage, spitting up blood and breathing fire during rock concerts.  Desecration of a Christian culture is their real motivation.

Without question, I think lots of things have let down the young girl, Tia Emma Billinger, in her life; she has daddy issues and a circumstance of major sex addiction.  However, that’s not enough to excuse her behavior.  Society has let her down, and this method of hers of sexual conquest is an apparent attempt to control that disappointment by embracing evil to the point of manipulating it sexually.  When 2000 people line up to have sex with her, she is trying to keep that disappointment in front of her instead of being a victim of it.  She is trying to desecrate the creation of a family by encouraging dads to cheat on their wives and girlfriends for Father’s Day, and for fathers to share her with their sons.   Ultimately, she couldn’t have a good family, or a good dad, or a good husband, so she is going to destroy it for everyone else.  At 25 years old, she can’t know much, yet she has surrendered all integrity for some short-term money to cover emotional feelings she has about being let down by her own family, and she is turning to the most powerful weapon the world has ever known to do it: sex.  And to throw it around so recklessly is a purposeful destruction of our social construct.  And I would say to anybody thinking about it, don’t.  You should feel more self-esteem in yourself than to spend even one second with Bonnie Blue.  Or pornography in general.  There are a lot of women and a lot of kids who need strong father figures in their lives, and they’d love to know that the men in their lives would never stoop so low as to be seduced by Jezebels like Bonnie Blue.  It’s not a desecration of the Bible culture that Bonnie Blue is exploiting, but rather, the reason that we despise such characters in a biblical context, because we know they are working evil in the world.  And there aren’t enough strong men to stand up to that evil, as presented in the form of a seductress of sexual exploitation.  Even when they know better, they can’t help themselves.  I know what I would do.  It’s a shame that there aren’t more men who share the same sentiment.

I was surprised to learn that Bonnie Blue wasn’t in her mid-thirties or even early forties.  By her appearance, I would not have guessed that she is only 25 years old.  Therefore, it is not a wise decision to throw her life away for such a short-term gain, as her blooming flower is quickly wilting, and she will have nothing to show for her life very soon.  That is the fate of Madonna now, who behaved similarly and is now a laughingstock.  But you cannot abuse yourself the way Bonnie Blue is, with such grotesque sexual exploits, and come out of everything well.  She might have a lot of money and fancy sports cars to enjoy in her young years, but the rest of her life will be a joke, and the people she hurts with these antics will cheer on her destruction.  And she won’t be the first or the last to make this mistake.  Appealing to the insecurities of people’s animal natures is a very evil thing to do, and to exploit it is easy.   What is difficult is to make intellectual decisions that turn away from an animal nature, and it is that which makes a life worth living, as opposed to just indulging in pleasure, and going by way of dust back into the earth in death.  Intellect is the immortal aspect of living, and once you have thrown that away, a life is no better than dirt.  And that will be the legacy of the porn advocate, Bonnie Blue.  Much quicker than she realizes, because the effects are already showing, and she will be very embarrassed with her life sooner than she is planning for.  And all those who fell for her Jezebel trap, which will be many tens of thousands of suckers. 

Rich Hoffman

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Trump’s West Point Speech: Its all about gaining “momentum” in life

I thought Trump’s speech to West Point for their commencement was remarkable and not discussed enough.  The theme of the entire speech was momentum, which was excellent advice that you usually don’t hear coming from a President of the United States, nor do you hear such a thing discussed at any military academy.  Military endeavors, like political experiences, are typically about conformance to a static norm.  Not gaining momentum in life by challenging that static order.  And as examples of capturing momentum in life, Trump mentioned military figures like Billy Mitchell, who was court-martialed and forced into retirement for insisting that the army adopt aerial strategies that utilized the airplane.  Trump mentioned Patten and others who openly challenged the static norms of their day to gain strategic momentum for a tactical advantage, which was excellent advice.  As he was speaking, I thought of the way the great Claire Lee Chennault, the leader of the Flying Tigers, was treated by the military.  There is a long history of clashes between inside-the-box thinking and challengers from the outside.  Yet what is being celebrated at any graduation ceremony is conformance.  The school you are graduating from sets up rules you must learn and comply with, and if you successfully do so, you get a paper from them saying you graduated, and that the world can trust you to play by the rules that are set up.  That’s what employers think they are looking for when they hire people through their human resources department.  If they want a college graduate, they want someone who will follow the rules and not challenge them, and their graduation from an educational institution provides that proof.  However, instead of celebrating compliance, Trump was advocating for rebellion. 

Trump told the inspiring story, but with a sad ending, of William Levitt, who developed Levittown with his family’s company, Levitt & Sons, on Long Island from 1947 to 1951. This development defined the concept of a planned community that has been copied all over the United States ever since.  Bill Levitt was known for walking his building sites picking up nails to save money and pushing his teams to be very frugal on expenses, and Trump indicated that the key to the success of Levitt was his strong work ethic that captured momentum in life and that through that momentum, he achieved a lot of success.  However, Levitt found it challenging to sustain that momentum after achieving success, and by 1968, they were facing mounting debts and struggling to manage the company’s growth.  They got too far out over their skis and started failing with everything they worked on, leaving Levitt as a crumpled-up old man by the time Trump met him in the 1980s at a party with other very influential real estate developers.   Trump found him in the corner of the party of the big shots, sitting alone, with nobody talking to him.  And when President Trump spoke with him, Levitt told him regretfully that he had lost momentum in life and didn’t have it in him anymore, which is an unfortunate story, but it’s essential and motivational because of what it means to the human race.  Playing it safe is not the path to success.  Neither is doing what other people tell you.  Most people who experience the most tremendous success in life work very hard, take a lot of risks, and manage those risks with significant momentum, riding one success story to another with sheer force.  And if they lose their edge, they start to find all their projects failing. 

Remarkably, Trump discussed the momentum killers in life that impacted Bill Levitt, such as his three marriages, most of which were under the strain of collapsing financial circumstances, and the sale of Levitt & Sons to ITT in 1968 for $92 million.  Levitt had gone from that frugal construction site leader picking up nails to buying lavish mansions and purchasing a yacht.  Then, he moved to a house in southern France.  And he blew through his money quickly and wanted to get back into the game, but had to wait ten years due to a non-compete clause preventing him from developing any real estate in the U.S. until 1978.  And after this period, Levitt tried to make his comeback, but failed miserably, until he was the crumpled mess that Trump saw at the party of tycoons in New York City, broken and pushed aside.  And when Trump asked him what happened, the old man said that “he had lost his momentum.”  This was very valuable information for a group of graduating students from a military academy.  Not the kind of things they typically teach in places like West Point.  However, it is very accurate, and one of those topics we should study more.  And Trump would know.  His life had gone through many of those same types of momentum killers.  However, Trump, guided by his basic philosophy of the Power of Positive Thinking, never lost his momentum.  No matter how bad things got, Trump never stopped being that guy on a construction site who picked up nails.  And he always worked hard and long.  Sure, he married three times, but the women could wait until he was done with work for the day, long after most people go to bed.  Rising early and working until everyone else is sleeping is a great way to maintain momentum in life.

And that’s the point of Trump’s commencement speech to the graduates of West Point in 2025.  It’s one thing to bring in a motivational speaker who says these things, and many consultants out there talk a big game, but they don’t stick around long enough to fight through things and do real work.  The world is starving for these kinds of people who say lots of pretty words, but lack the work ethic to be on a job site picking up nails to save money.  I receive numerous offers to be one of those talkers.  But to Trump’s point, you have to do more than talk in life.  You must be genuinely successful, and one key to achieving this is maintaining momentum.  Not to get sidetracked with fancy boats and expensive vacations, or to live in a house in the south of France.  But to think out of the box and break the rules with an all-in bid to gain momentum.  And once you get it, to keep it, you must work harder than everyone else.  And not listening to the negative people who want to break your momentum so that they can compete with you.  Trump’s West Point speech was wonderfully anti-institutional to a group of people who were graduating from a very rigid institution.  The advice about success is one that few people ever realize in life, but Trump, as a President who had to overcome a lot to even be in that position, gave free advice that was worth many millions of dollars.  And it is valuable to anyone who listens, and it is the key to making America Great Again.  Greatness is not achieved by doing what people tell you to do.  It is achieved by capturing momentum and using it to achieve success where others fail, and avoiding challenges to momentum that might stop it and force people to be just like everyone else in life, stuck in the mud, and complaining that their life is meaningless.  Some people gain momentum in life for a short period, such as when they are teenagers moving out of their parents’ home.  Or as business leaders who happen upon a good thing.  But few people ever get it and maintain it.  And Trump’s advice to the West Point graduates was good in that it told them how to keep it so that their graduation ceremony wouldn’t be the best thing to ever happen to them, but rather, just the beginning of an extraordinary life to come. 

Rich Hoffman

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Don’t Worry About the Moody’s Downgrade: A fight that has to happen

Don’t worry about the Moody’s downgrade of the U.S. credit rating.  Much of the problem starts with the Iranian apologist Mark Zandi and background anti-Trumpers like Warren Buffett using Berkshire Hathaway as a front for the story.  This is a game that has been ongoing in the background for a long time, and the concept is that you want them to want you.  Not where they want you to want them in the balance of power in a relationship, and the course Trump is taking with the American economy will force them to crawl like dogs into the Oval Office begging to be affiliated with the success story that is coming.  But for too long, a lot of weak, stupid people have groveled to these losers of finance who have giggled at the idea of American freedom in the background because they know they control everyone’s money.  And there has been peace, somewhat so, as long as the credit card works.  However, these are power-hungry entities, and this is a common strategy they employ in finance to exert control over domestic policy in favor of globalist intentions.  There are a lot of businesses that have been victims to just this kind of predatory lending and power struggle for control of those companies and what we are seeing applied to the Trump administration is a hatred for the America First policy of Trump and a refocus of their hatred for him and the MAGA movement in general.  The downgrade by Moody’s is not a surprise, and the result will be similar to everything the Never Trumpers have tried to do to Trump and those who support him.  They are attempting to regain control of the world, utilizing traditional financial tactics to achieve this.  And those tricks are baked into the system as it was built. 

This behavior from finance, not just by Moody’s but around the world, is a communist playbook that is precisely how China was set up as a communist country, propped up by these same financial, international monsters.  Their tongue-in-cheek statements about how countries should be run are that people can beat on their chest and declare independence all they want, but it would be central banking that would control people and their lives.  Like fish, they lure people into buying into their credit controls with the bait of easy money, then they snare them with a deep hook, allowing them to control every aspect of their lives.  And they make a lot of money from the debt of the countries to which they have loaned money.  And they believe that control has given them considerable power to override domestic policy on all fronts.  So they use credit ratings to control behavior.  It’s just another variation of the Chinese social media score.  If you exhibit behavior that the government dislikes, they will restrict your access to funds, which in a world where everything is paid for by credit card, could be devastating.  Which is why it has been set up that way, to get everyone addicted to easy cash at a low rate, so they could establish a deep-seated control hook in everyone’s life to run every aspect of their life.  And don’t kid yourself, they mean to do just that.  It’s a power trip that has always been a problem.  They are not our friends, these tyrants who work in finance.  They delude themselves about their actual value, and this impasse was always inevitable.  It has taken this long for a President to occupy the White House who truly represents the needs of the people, as the republic was designed. 

Moody’s cited the growing national debt, with projections exceeding $36 trillion, as one of its reasons, after it became apparent that Trump’s proposed budget would pass through Congress.  They also cited persistent fiscal deficits that are expected to worsen as government spending is outpacing revenue.  This is a shot at Trump’s tax cuts, aimed at extending the tax cuts from his previous term.  Moody’s people want more taxes on individuals, as they are unhappy about the lack of revenue.  They also don’t like that Trump plans to recover revenue by shifting it to tariffs, which has taken advantage of America’s economic power by reallocating wealth around the world to socialist and communist countries with unearned merit.  Moody’s wants that practice of unfairness to benefit them because globalism has set that system up to their advantage.  Moody’s also indicated that rising interest rates are crowding out other fiscal priorities.  However, those rates are directly tied to the Federal Reserve, which has painted itself into a corner with currency manipulation that it had counted on going in an entirely different direction.  Entitlement spending is expected to increase due to an aging population that lacks a sufficient birthrate to support the next generation, thereby requiring additional funding.  Most of what Moody’s indicated as justification for the downgrade are fears of what might happen.  But not so disguised is a hatred for Trump’s domestic policies that turn the power of the American economy back into a nationalist system that runs counter to all the manipulations of globalism have enacted to control all countries through fiscal policy.  It is the same communist controls they have in China and North Korea, even in Iran, where Marxism runs in the background of everything they do.  And in America, that was always the fate they intended for us, and they are angry that we aren’t doing what they expected us to do.

This fight goes back to even before the Presidency of Andrew Jackson, who I think was one of America’s greatest presidents.  The battle with the banks needed to happen, and all this time, there has been a kind of stalemate.  But in the finance industry, if you have had to work with them, there is an obvious power struggle that laughs at the Constitution and the premise that people can run themselves as a government.  Moody’s downgrade is essentially a social credit score designed to put pressure on Americans to comply with international expectations.  But Trump knows how to play this poker game, which essentially is what it is.  And the power of the American economy will force Moody’s to retract its position; it won’t be able to draw a hard line in the sand, as it hopes.  Because they will have a business need to affiliate themselves with success, don’t give a second thought to the Moody’s downgrade.  Those losers will have egg on their face in a much-deserved way for their pro-Communist China affiliation.  But remember that China would be nowhere if not for the money that has been stolen from the United States to prop it up as a communist state and example of the kind of government that central finance, with the option of a digital currency, always wanted.  They wanted to destroy the dollar, destroy American capitalism, and buy up all the debt so they could control all domestic policy around the world.  What these big banks have been doing is nothing short of a military incursion.  And they were out for blood, and Trump is taking all that away from them.  They are losing control, and all they have left is a downgrade to our credit rating.  But when you gain control of your economy so that revenue surpasses their fears, that power returns to the people who run the country.  And those banks and credit agencies will be forced to grovel at our feet.  And when they do, we’ll make a footstool of their cheesy haircuts and golf shirts.  They are going to lose control and there is nothing they can do to stop it.

Rich Hoffman

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The Underwear Gnomes of Lakota Schools: Why do they have a COO

When it comes to waste, we are seeing a lot of that these days, and as we do, remember that public schools are nothing but free babysitting services for busy parents, paid for by taxpayers to support radical labor union structures that are politically dangerous to any healthy society. So there is a cost to that free babysitting service.  Sure, both parents might work to buy things that might impress their neighbors, who are doing the same to try to impress them. In the end, everyone ends up miserable, and the next generation of kids gets all messed up in the process.  And while all that is going on, a bunch of really dumb people with access to over a quarter of a billion dollar budgets fumble around like the three stooges, making mistakes with every step, and try to cover it all up at school board meetings as if they are masters of the universe.  And that is the real problem with the leaked discussions about Chris Passarge, the Chief Operations Officer at Lakota schools, and some money that mysteriously disappeared due to his alleged mismanagement of $64,000.  I have heard several people tell me this story, which the media hasn’t reported on, and likely won’t, as it is under investigation at the large, northern Cincinnati public school.  And my first reaction to it was, why does Lakota Schools have a COO?  Their entire business model is the Underwear Gnome endeavor from the popular cartoon South Park.  They collect money from taxpayers; they throw it into a big basket.  Then the labor union pays itself enormous amounts of money and goes on summer-long vacations.  And when it’s all gone, they ask for more.  Why is there a need for a COO?  And while the people were telling me this story, I kept thinking that $64K is a lot of money to you or me.  But in proportion to these public school budgets, like Lakota’s, it’s a slight drop in a vast ocean, and many administrators take advantage of the system, siphoning money off the top.  We receive reports frequently from people who are, or were, married to these individuals, and numerous free vacations often result from those positions.  It’s not too hard to figure out where that money went.

I have a long-standing interest in this topic. Years ago, I was one of the key individuals featured in an I-Team Report for Channel 9.  They used to hear me on WLW radio all the time talking about these issues, and they conducted a thorough investigation into one of my pet peeves: the issue of whether school superintendents were equal to private sector CEOs, which I thought was laughable.  John Kasich was the governor of Ohio at the time, and we did a whole segment with the I-Team on how most of Ohio’s biggest schools had superintendents who were being paid significantly more than the governor of Ohio, and for what?  I knew a lot then and know a lot more now. Many CEOs and COOs, as well as other types of leadership designations from the private sector, were doing things that were a lot more valuable as to those in public schools.  I had done all this well before Trump was in office, and I went through all the things he did now, which I had already experienced back in 2010 through 2012. Over time, I learned who I could trust at these news organizations and who I couldn’t.  Eventually, I created my own media because there were so many hooks into the public schools that depended on easy money, making it difficult to trust anyone. As a result, I stepped away from doing so much radio and television, as my blog proved to be much more effective. 

But this recent Lakota story regarding Chris Passarge being under investigation wasn’t surprising at all.  It was outrageous to this newer generation of parents telling me about it because this is all new to them.  I’ve observed this over a long period, and what I find most shocking is that these individuals continue to give themselves titles like CEO, COO, and CFO.  All these public schools are just playing house and pretending to be kids, living in a grown-up world.  They are playing with plastic food and pretending to work fake checkout lines in their parents’ basement.  There is no effective management of public schools, and all the money taken from taxpayers is wasted on unnecessary expenses.  It’s a ridiculous scam that people are too busy to pay attention to, but that’s all the public education experience is, and I can say that from years of experience.  This story with the Lakota COO is no different than the South Park story of the Underwear Gnomes, where little people would break into people’s houses to steal their underwear in the middle of the night.  The South Park kids wanted to find out why the Gnomes were doing this, so they followed them one night to a tree deep in the woods and caught the little creatures red-handed.  It was at that point that the Gnomes explained their business model, which is essentially the same as what Lakota schools provides at school board meetings when they try to explain a budget of over $250 million. 

The Gnomes’ business model was to steal underwear.  Their step two was a mystery to them.  They had collected piles of underwear, but it was still stacked in the tree waiting for something to happen that would make them a lot of money.  However, they had step three all worked out; their goal was to make a profit.  Everything was great; they were happy stealing underwear and storing it in their tree.  And they knew they wanted to make a lot of money.  However, they had no idea how to complete the middle part, specifically the step 2 portion of their business plan.  And that is precisely what Lakota school administrators are like.  It’s not a surprise at all that Chris Passarge could lose such a large amount of money.  What is most surprising to me is that they refer to him as a COO.  He’s just a tax looter stealing money from the public and distributing it to a bunch of government employees who want an easy living, grooming children into liberal politics.  And if a free vacation to some Bahamas cruise comes out of it, with a cover story of being an “education conference” is where that $64K went, it would not at all be surprising.  And the media doesn’t cover the story because they have kids and drop them off at these schools while they run around the city covering every cat that gets stuck in a tree, so they can buy a new car and impress some nosy neighbor, who is equally worthless.  But they want to think that Chris Passarge knows what he’s doing.  But he doesn’t.  None of them do, that’s why they work in government schools, they are all Underwear Gnomes pretending to be enterprising public servants.  But what they are, are small-minded pretenders playing house with taxpayer money, and hoping that nobody notices that they have no plan, but to steal money, put it into a bank account, and then give it to unionized employees for work nowhere near good enough.  And they call that public education.  However, the Underwear Gnomes refer to it as making a “profit.” 

Rich Hoffman

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We Have Discovered Atlantis: What’s left of it is in North America

I feel very comfortable in saying that I believe the lost civilization of Atlantis, as Plato described it, is best reflected in what remains of the North American mound cultures, and that a significant portion of that culture ultimately ended up in the Ohio Valley.  And I can say that because it is very controversial and challenging, given our previous assumptions, because I think it’s one of the best examples of the failures of institutional thinking, which I find repulsive, defective, and socially corrosive.  To illustrate the shortcomings of institutional thinking, the story of Atlantis is a perfect example. At this point, given all that is known, I believe the timing is right to discuss it, well ahead of the eventual realization that will follow.  I have a pretty good track record in these kinds of matters, and part of that credential is demonstrating the ability to see things far ahead and to be right about them.  At this point, I think it’s wise to say that the mound builders of North America can best help us understand the lost civilizations of Atlantis and Mu.  However, we also see them all over England and South America, with a mound culture that utilized the science of geometric shapes to establish a relationship with supernatural forces as part of their technology, deeply committed to star power.  Our previous assumptions have been incorrect, and this is important to establish because when we talk politically about a “Native American,” what are we talking about?  I would propose that the evidence shows that a Native American was a native of the homeland of Atlantis and that by the time Columbus followed a bunch of old maps already well chronicled to North America, those cultures had been in decline for many thousands of years and had fallen back into groups of warring nomads hunting and gathering for basic sustenance. 

The Middletown Mound, lost right in front of our faces

It’s such a big idea that I have seriously been considering obtaining a PhD to drive the point home, because credentials help an established culture trust information that can be rattling to their foundational beliefs.  My problem with that is the time involved to do so.  My schedule is already too busy for a task like that just to help people understand the inevitable.  However, the idea that the Clovis people emerged into North America and settled in the manner that pre-Columbian archaeology has established is, at this point, preposterous.  It’s also important to understand why, so that we don’t carry over the same traits into other parts of our lives.  This is something that has bothered me for a long time.  And it became much more so after I visited Stonehenge and saw that essentially the earthworks there were identical to what I saw in my hometown of Ohio where there are a lot of mound structures that are not for burials, but ritual significance dedicated to a culture using occult technology that had already been well established before building them.  There are thousands of them, everywhere, that the social structure of a shaman-based society communicating with the spirit world was not an anomaly, but an accepted culture with an intense past, dating back 250,000 years to just before the last Ice Age.  We had a global civilization that spread across the world, utilizing occult technology that is still evident in methods of magic and sorcery, which persist in pockets here and there, and in speculation.  However, the proof lies in the mounds of the world and their often very complicated alignments with stars, which utilized a form of communication that was more than just superstitious for them.  It was a significant part of their lives, and it was global in scope, not regional. 

Newark Ohio

Of course, the central point is to assume that there could never have been an Atlantis civilization because the established sciences have already established the timeline for all human beings.  According to them, established science suggests that humans originated from the Indus Valley, Mesopotamia, and Egypt, approximately 6000 to 4000 years ago, and evolved into the technological world we see today.  I am saying that the evidence suggests that what was well chronicled in the Bible were the last remnants of a previous culture that had existed for hundreds of thousands of years, perhaps even millions, and that their entire society was built around occult technology.  Not mysticism, but actual utilization of supernatural forces, and they formed their whole belief structure along those lines until Yahweh put an end to it and built the Jewish people to rebel against the premise of that whole, global culture.  However, this is the point of view of the Book of Genesis, where the culture God wanted to destroy wasn’t just a few hundred years of emergence.  The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was not a blip on the surface of the earth, erased just as fast in a catastrophe.   They are likely many tens of thousands of years old, and the evidence for it is literally everywhere, and only hidden by institutional assumptions provided by the frail moorings of academic society.  To challenge that foundation, it is necessary to shake the foundation of other assumptions that are just as ridiculous.  The point of the matter is to establish the value of thinking outside the box on many things. We can initiate this process with a premise like Atlantis, and likely many other ancient cultures that predate our known assumptions by a significant period.

Chillicothe, Ohio

Even in our modern understanding of Freemasonry, it is well discussed that the Hermetic society emerged from the lost continent of Atlantis, which is why Plato was interested in the topic, and that the civilization of Egypt emerged directly from it.  But I would say, based on what we know about the mound cultures, Egypt wasn’t the only place.  And even in North America, we see the same kind of rebellion against it emerging with the same sort of Hebrew law and order rising to overthrow that old technology.  It wasn’t just in the Newark holy stones that we see this, but in earthworks that have clear indications of Jewish influence.  And I am saying now that I’ve seen enough to say that I think this is how it will all go down.  We have discovered the lost civilization of Atlantis, and what remains of it is reflected in the North American mound culture.  It’s everywhere around the world, but was most evident along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers due to the extremely high concentration of earthen structures aligned with the stars.  We know that Atlantis failed long before a natural catastrophe supposedly sank it in the Atlantic Ocean; it had become corrupted by magicians and sorcerers who exported their thoughts around the world well before there was ever an ice age.  Most of their civilization has long since eroded.  However, what remained were their beliefs and technologies, which emerged in the mound-building culture and can still be observed.  What has lasted is just a fraction of what it once was.  However, it’s enough for us to ask the obvious questions and challenge our previous assumptions.  And I think for our own good, we need to shatter those previous assumptions and the thought process that created them.  The Atlantis story is a good example of why we need to do that, because the process will help us with many other things, unlocking many better attributes of modern culture that we had not previously considered. 

Arkansas

Rich Hoffman

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I Feel Sorry for Elon Musk: CEOs build culture, and are extremely important

I do feel sorry for Elon Musk. I would say to him, the government is a very negative experience, full of losers.  And that fixing it will take a lot more work than he can give in short spurts.  People who choose to work for the government are quite different from those drawn to the private sector.  Government is filled with entitled losers who want to make a lot of money off taxpayers without the risk of earning it themselves.  Therefore, it will require significant reform, which is just getting started with the Trump administration.  But it will take decades to unwind the mess that has been given to us.  And I can see that Elon Musk began his DOGE campaign with a lot of bright ideas.  But making the cuts permanent that he has identified isn’t as easy as it would be at one of his companies.  The government is full of parasites, and you have to play the long game with them.  Elon Musk can do the world a great deal of good if he focuses on what made him great to begin with.  He needs to be back at SpaceX every day, sending Starships into space every three weeks.  It has been evident that he has been absent from those companies; they have been experiencing a decline.  The job of a CEO is often not well-defined; they create the culture.  It’s not the work they do but the culture they make in their wake.  And SpaceX has slipped significantly since Elon has been frequenting the White House daily since Trump’s return to office.  It will take more than CEO stunts to save the government.  However, some business success on the frontier of innovation is the best way that Elon Musk can make the world a better place and establish a civilization to save by going to Mars. 

I thought it was astonishingly short-sighted for Disney-run ABC to characterize the Starship 9 mission that launched this past week as a series of failed missions.  The process SpaceX uses for data collection involves launching these Starships to see what works and what doesn’t, so that every configuration of the problem can be witnessed and designed, modified in real-time.  Drawing on extensive experience with this very issue in the aerospace industry, the world is fundamentally flawed in its approach to manufacturing processes.  And SpaceX has taken a noticeably different approach, one that is much more akin to the Skunkworks at Lockheed Martin many years ago.  The world has learned the wrong lessons and incorporated them into its management systems, and the entire industry is in desperate need of an overhaul.  And if Elon Musk wants to change and save the world, he can do it most effectively with Tesla and SpaceX.  The big secret is that you can’t put engineers in a room and get everything right the first time, which is the assumption in aerospace that began with NASA and the need to avoid any accidents that would become public relations nightmares.  When you can automate flights, you can afford to have launches to measure cause and effect, and approach the whole process of technology development much more aggressively.  Even though Starship 9, which launched at the end of May 2025, burned up during re-entry, as did the booster rocket, much of what SpaceX needed to achieve was successful, leading to the technical adjustments that need to be made at the engineering level. 

However, the way the industry operates now is very risk-averse, and, of course, the least risky thing to do is to do nothing, which is why things are so slow in aerospace and why cost overruns are so common.  And when ABC says that the previous SpaceX missions were failures, they are speaking from the vantage point of the administrative state —the kind of world that the government has created for us, with over-regulation and a world shaped by insurance industry lobbyists.  From that world, exploding Starships are a bad thing.  For the innovative SpaceX world, they provide a lot of information, and when you look at the rate of innovation that is needed to build Starships, you need to collect a lot of data to get repeatability outside of engineering tolerances, because until you see all those inventions working together, there is no way to know how stable a process is.  When it came to the NASA approach, you get lucky with a design and then never deviate from it, fearing the unknown, and that is essentially how they built the space program.  SpaceX is seeking complete, automated redundancy that remains reliable after thousands of trips.  To achieve that, SpaceX needs to be launching a new Starship every week, which is why Elon Musk has been so crucial.  Since he has been at the White House, doing good work that often goes unappreciated, SpaceX has been addressing engine bay leaks that have compromised spaceflight, and the Starships have been exploding.  Not a great way to have a space program.  However, the best thing about this most recent Starship 9 mission was that much of it had become so commonplace now.  The Starship was able to undergo stage separation and space flight, solving many of the problems it previously had, so now the other lingering issues can be addressed. 

The best engineering is to do things and fix things as you see problems emerge.  And for something as complicated as Starship, it will take Elon Musk to foster a productive culture among the many great people at SpaceX, guiding them toward corrective actions to address the numerous problems that must be solved for stable space flight.  It’s fantastic that we’ve had only 9 Starship missions and that they’ve made getting them into space so routine.  Now, getting re-entry right, with stable space flight, will be the key, and it will take a full-time Elon Musk to pull it off.  However, when it comes to cutting the deficit, given the current state of affairs, the first step in fixing the American economy is to achieve magnificent growth through new market sectors.  The SpaceX Starship is the best way to reach that point.  China, in their wildest imaginations, won’t be able to copy SpaceX, because they don’t have a person like Elon Musk to act as the CEO.  Just like other considerations of the administrative state, people cannot be swapped out.  Great people are irreplaceable; when they take vacations or are absent from work, things don’t run smoothly.  Exceptionalism comes from unique people.  Not process controls that allow losers in life to be just as good as winners.  Exceptionalism matters, and Elon Musk needs to stay on the cutting edge at SpaceX for it to continue its success.  And if he wants to save the world, he can do it best in the private sector.  DOGE will still be a good idea that will do good work.  But it’s going to be a slow boil.  What we need most is Starship, and missions going to space so routinely that people take it for granted, as usual.  And with the recent Starship 9 mission, that is becoming the standard.  Normal is launching the biggest rocket humanity has ever produced into space, routinely.  Now, getting it to do what we need it to do time and time again is the next challenge, which is very close to being completed. 

Rich Hoffman

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Don’t Ever Turn the Other Cheek: Seeing and knowing everything

I would say I’m an easy person to get along with.  As long as you don’t smoke pot, drink too much, cover yourself in tattoos and body piercings, don’t cheat on your spouse, don’t live off the government as a welfare recipient, aren’t a Democrat, didn’t compromise yourself in college hazing rituals, aren’t a sexual deviant, aren’t a godless heathen, aren’t a lazy loser, if there are any people left in the world at that point, I’m very easy to deal with.  But love is not promised, it’s earned, and if people abuse their relationship with me, I hold it against them.  And I have to say that because over the Memorial Day weekend, I heard at least three times that I’m a controlling lunatic who is too difficult to deal with.  I wouldn’t say that. Instead, the people complaining, from friends and family who expected something out of me over the holiday weekend, were unhappy at my lack of appeasement of their wishes.  And that comes down to my very rigorous schedule and people who clearly don’t respect it.  I don’t make time for people who have let me down.  And when I get to that point with people, I don’t even care enough to explain it to them.  I drop them, never to look back, and many people find that unsettling.  But to answer the statement that was brought up to me, that I am so hated that when I die, nobody will come to my funeral, I say, that is fine.  I don’t lower my standards for anybody, and if nobody comes to my funeral, which I have no plan to attend anytime soon, I’m okay with that.  I don’t think it’s important to be liked in the world because to do so, you have to compromise to the weaknesses of others.  I’d rather be alone in the world and have nobody come to my funeral than to lower my standards in any way. 

And to that point, I have instructed my wife that should such a day ever occur, to burn my body and disperse it somewhere so people can’t spit on my grave and have access to me in any compromised way.  I don’t talk about it much.  People wonder what it’s like to be as opinionated as I am, and how it works out.  I would say it isn’t easy at best.  But it all comes down to expectations, how people manage their lives, and whether I choose to make time for them when they want me to.  But here’s the thing: nothing is done in the world that I don’t understand, especially regarding people.  I know all the causes and effects of why people do what they do.  Nothing surprises me.  I see through every scheme, deceit, and misplaced non-verbal communication.  I know everything they try to hide from the world, every wart on a person.  Call it a gift I have from God.  To what purpose can I use it to some good enterprise? It would be easy to abuse that talent.  It takes quite a lot of discipline to keep a skill like that pointed toward justice.  But when you have that ability, people can’t snowball you.  And when it comes to family engagements, where many people just haven’t lived very good lives, and as a result, they aren’t very good people, I see and understand why they do everything they have done and they shouldn’t expect a free pass from me. 

I genuinely let people live their lives the way they want to.  But when they show me they don’t care what their actions do to my loyalty, I show them that I care so little for them that I’ll drop them off the earth without a second thought.  That is a long-standing policy I have, and it wouldn’t bother me if it resulted in nobody coming to my funeral or inviting me to do things.  However, that is not the case; I have too many people in the world who want me to do things with them, and my phone never stops receiving text messages and emails from someone wanting something from me.  But the same thing has been happening to my immediate family, and the kind of advice I give them about people in the world.  When my family members ask me what I think of this and that, I tell them.  I tell them everything, and it turns out to be painfully right every time.   And that makes people trying to do bad things in the world very upset that they can’t operate in the shadows, because I so easily shine light on everything.  And when they can’t manipulate people I care about easily, they get angry with me for removing the illusion they have built their lives around.  I don’t go out of my way to do it.  But if I’m asked, I tell it all.  And it’s always right.  Call it a gift from God.  And I use it effectively and in the way that God designed a skill like that.  But saying that, I’m not like Jesus, I don’t turn the other cheek on anything.  I carry grudges for decades and never get over things when bad things have been done to me.  And I’m not about to start doing so. 

There is a long line of very parasitic people.  I would say most people are.  And when people I care about ask me what I think, and I warn them to watch out for people who want to associate with them because they want to loot off their essence, because they are good people and those looters aren’t good people, to beware that they don’t take your soul away from you.  Always manage the eternal component of yourself with the understanding that you can’t undo a compromised self.  And when people try to control people I care about, and my advice keeps it from happening, there will be a lot of anger.  Tough tootles.  If you don’t want the ramifications of that behavior, don’t do the behavior.  But there is nothing I don’t know about human nature.  And I have no cell in my body that seeks to appease people who have done bad things.  So if that upsets people, I don’t care.  I never forget.  I do hold things against people.  And I don’t turn the other cheek only to have it slapped again.  And if that makes me a bad person, I would say that the value system of the people who feel that way is all messed up.  Of course, a log being burned in the fire thinks the fire is evil.  I can live with that because there are a lot of people who have made themselves worthless so that they can easily be tossed into the fire to be burnt up and disposed of without a thought in the world.  And that might upset them.  But I genuinely don’t care.  People who have done bad things to themselves, I don’t forgive.  And I don’t ignore it when they’ve done it to me and people I care about.  Too many people have lived bad lives, made bad decisions, and wished to hide those things by associating with good people to keep their conduct concealed with mass collectivism.  But that doesn’t work with me.  Never forget, I see everything.  I can read the contents of people’s souls, and I know what’s really there and I use that information with great success in life.  That might make people very angry that I can do that.  But they can only blame themselves for being bad people.  You can’t hide it with money.  With community service.  Or snacks at a family gathering.  I don’t have a tolerance for bad people, and yes, I do judge and judge often.  I never signed up for this stupid notion of not judging people.  That is a dumb political position created by bad people to hide their conduct from the world.  I have the opposite view.  I judge and hold it against people forever.  And that might seem unfair to people who are too far gone. But they should have thought about that before they went there.  Don’t be a bad person, and we’ll get along just fine.

Rich Hoffman

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Mexico is a Dump: Where is the arrest of the killer of Valeria Marquez

So, where are the arrests? The killer showed his face on the livestream on TikTok when he killed the 23-year-old Mexican beauty influencer on May 13th, 2025.  The Mexican government promised justice, so where is it?  With all the face recognition software there is in the world, why haven’t they gone to his home and arrested him spectacularly for such a horrendous crime?  Because they can’t, because the drug cartels run Mexico and the token government there, just like globalists were trying to do to the United States, won’t allow it.  In Mexico, it’s a dump, and the government facilitates that kind of violence.  Valeria Marquez was trying to escape her drug cartel boyfriend, be a good girl, and turn her life around as a social media beauty consultant.  And when her old boyfriend saw that men were sending her gifts because she was very popular and had quite a large audience, he decided to send a hit man into the salon, right in front of everyone, and while the livestream was running, assassinate her while she clutched a cute little stuffed animal.  And in those moments where her life was stolen from her, she looked like a little girl who, just ten years prior, would have been a little girl thrilled to get such a stuffed animal from a trusted adult.  But she was brutally murdered because she wanted independence from a personal tyrant, and it has turned out to be a terrible story.  But you know what is most sad about it?  You would have never heard about this story if she weren’t a popular social media star.   Because they happen all the time, and in Mexico, they happen every few minutes.  Mexico is a dump, and the criminal elements who run these governments in the world want to keep it that way, because it gives them power over the degradation.

Violence in Mexico is so bad that the other day I saw a Family Guy episode where Peter Griffin made a joke as his head had been cut off and stuck on a pike, bleeding profusely.  And he said, “I took one step away from the resort,” meaning that’s how it is in Mexico.  The drug cartels leave the resorts alone most of the time to give the illusion that things are safe enough to have a tourist economy.  But if you step out of the lines they give you, it’s anything goes, and tourists end up dead all the time.  But more than that, young women like Valeria Marquez know they have no choice.  Once they hit puberty, if somebody sees them and they look reasonably attractive, the cartels will take them away from their families, and there isn’t much they can do about it.  When people wonder why she was dating a gang banger, she had no choice.  If she wanted to live, she had to play the game; her family could do nothing about it.  If you have a pretty daughter, in places in the world where crime rules, which is most places, the world will take her and use her until they are done with her.  And at that point, they might let her return to an everyday life.  But in the case of Valeria Marquez, she was just too pretty.  At 23 years old, her shelf life for sexual exploitation was expiring.  It’s the young girls that these drug dealers want, and at that point, they are starting to get old.  So she tried to turn her life around with a social media account that took off, and hoped that the high profile would save her.  But her ex-boyfriend figured if he couldn’t have her, nobody else would, so he had her killed.

The problem in Mexico is so bad that not even the latest Rambo movie dared to deal with the situation as we needed to.  In the last Rambo movie with Sylvester Stallone, even the famous movie star bent the knee to the cartels’ power.  Otherwise, Mexico wouldn’t have considered allowing that production company to film there.  The Mexican government pretends that it wants to put an end to cartel violence when, in truth, it wants the world to know just how bad it is so that it will be afraid and be very compliant.  Rambo in the movie I’m talking about, Last Stand, went to Mexico to save a young girl, much like Valeria Marquez, from the cartels, and he ended up getting beaten up pretty bad, which is not the way the Rambo movies were supposed to go.  Rambo, in true American fashion, should have gone to the stronghold of the cartel members and killed every last one with a spectacular gunfight.  But instead, he had to barely escape Mexico with his life to retreat to his home in America, where the cartel came to kill him on his home turf, to show the power and control they have even in America.  And Rambo managed to live as they destroyed his home.  But the whole movie was flat because it failed to solve the problem.  What the movie did show accurately, even if it’s really what the Mexican government wanted out of the deal, was to show how the grooming process works for young women, and what the substructure of the organized crime was really like.  And not even John Rambo was strong enough to confront it.

The power of these drug cartels even extends into our Supreme Court, where they have refused to get behind Trump’s war against the cartels, because there is real fear that some hit man will come to their homes and kill them, just as they did Valeria Marquez.  And that’s the point.  Not everyone has the kind of security that President Trump has, and they don’t want to be killed for fighting back against the drug cartels.  These criminals want to make a product that poisons its targets, and we are supposed to let them do it, which is what the Supreme Court decided in its attempt to stop Trump from deporting criminal thugs.  The people Trump has been deporting were the kind of people who killed Valeria Marquez.  And they terrorize the world, especially in socialist countries like Mexico, where the government exists to facilitate organized crime.  There is no concept of private property, so there is no reason to defend it, even if it’s a daughter.  If you have a pretty daughter, you aren’t allowed to have a gun to protect her from criminal thugs.  Instead, you are supposed to surrender her over to them and let them have their way.  And if you don’t, you will be killed too.  It’s so common that it’s even joked about on the popular show, Family Guy.  It’s not even a secret; everyone is in on it.  And the bad guys in the world, many who find themselves in government and getting kickbacks from allowing the crime to occur, facilitate the violence to keep the easy money coming, because they are too lazy and stupid otherwise to earn an honest living.  That is the truth of Mexico.  They don’t want to catch the killer of Valeria Marquez because they want the fear of such killings to keep people under their power and dependent on the government for their safety, which has only perpetuated the problem into the mess we see now.  There are a lot of young women like Valeria Marquez.  And there aren’t enough good people in the world to save them.  And that is a shame. 

Rich Hoffman

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Hitting the Lottery: My feelings about family are closer to the Amish

This is going to sound bad, but I don’t care.  I’m not humble, and I have no plans to be.  When I say that my fourth grandchild was lucky to be born into the family she was, I mean it for how it sounds.  I always like to see little kids born into the world. And as far as I’m concerned, nothing in the world is more important than family.  Our job as human beings is to emerge from the void and to fill it with consciousness.  And long after the shell of a living body dies away, the spirit that emerges lives eternally for all kinds of purposes.  And even though that spirit has its characteristics and is immortal in its conduct, the experience of a physical existence profoundly shapes the content of that eternal character. As I visited one of my daughters in the hospital giving birth to my fourth grandchild, that was what I was thinking as I visited the hospital wing full of optimism, as other families were giving birth also.  And it was a generally happy floor full of hope for the future, and I enjoy places like that.  But as I was holding this new baby, I couldn’t help but think that she had hit the lottery relative to the other families on the floor.  Out of all the random chances of landing in a body that gave birth in such a family as she had, she was one of the luckiest creatures in the universe.  And it made me sad for the other little kids who will never get such an opportunity.  I wish I could be a parent or grandpa to more kids.  Because most of them have terrible families that cripple them usually before life ever starts to get going and its just not fair to them.

I say that because I don’t spend much time slowing down.  I live a fast-paced life full of high stress and chaos.  So a moment alone with family to talk to each other doesn’t come often.  But for us, a couple of holidays are the best; the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving give us great moments that carry us through the rest of the year.  There are many more throughout the year, but those two are benchmarks that we value more than others.  And they are usually very positive experiences.  But when a new child is born, of course, that is an even rarer occurrence, and we take those kinds of things very seriously in my family.  Because we like life and all the opportunities that come with it.  I want kids more than the average person, and I like them a lot until they start showing signs of becoming adults, and if they start taking on the signs of becoming just another loser in the world, then I lose my enthusiasm for them.  I can’t say I like people, so when kids trade away their childhoods for adult behavior, I think they give away a fortune, and the rest of their lives are wasted.   But with kids, those dumb decisions haven’t been made yet, so knowing them is usually full of optimism.  And for my daughter and her new little daughter, there are many very supportive people in their family, and no matter how bad life gets, there is always room to grow and recover in our family activities.  But compared to the rest of the world and their approach, it almost feels like we are an Amish family.   I can relate to them much more than a normal family these days, because we have similar beliefs about the value of family. 

As I was pushing my granddaughter around the hospital floor to keep her entertained while her mother recovered a bit from birth, I had a good look at the other families also having babies.  Especially the dads.  And by their look, they weren’t ready to have a baby.  You could see the fear in their eyes as they held their newborn children at the tremendous responsibility they suddenly found themselves in.  Most of the dads having new babies were going to let down their families in some way, and they would never get the chance to understand what I’m talking about.  Most people probably won’t.  But to see that fear in the faces of people during such an optimistic time in their lives is sad to see, and I instantly feel sorry for the kids born into such a weak family with bad dads who aren’t up to the rigors of the task.  Most moms at least get a connection to a child who grows with them during the pregnancy.  But the men don’t get to have a baby or bond with it during the pregnancy.  So they aren’t so flat-footed when the baby is born; they have made at least some psychological transition that has prepared them for having a baby.  But the men must go deeper to get there, and most never do.  And the kids end up without a positive primary influence.  I am pretty standoffish with most people because I find them insulting that they don’t take the parenting process more serious, and I know that if they screw that up, then most things they do in their lives will also be screwed up and the kids will grow up to be bad people.  And most of those kids being born with my granddaughter don’t have a chance at a happy life, just by looking at their parents’ faces. 

I wouldn’t say it’s challenging to be a good parent or a grandparent, but unfortunately, most people fall short.  I was thinking about this recently during my birthday in April, when we were all at Hocking Hills doing a ghost hunt at Old Man’s Cave with the grandkids.  It was a lot of fun, and as we were doing it, it was nice to see the lights of discovery light up on the little kids’ faces, and many of those memories with family will shape them for a lifetime in everything they do.  And I enjoy my role in that process, and I always give as much as possible so they get the best opportunities out of it.  But most kids are born randomly into life, and they get the parents they get, which is usually not very good.  And most of the time, they are doomed before they ever get started, and that was certainly the case with all the kids born with my granddaughter.  There are always exceptions, of course.  But for the most part, most kids born that day were born into families where the adults raising them would disappoint them greatly.  And I feel sorry for the lack of chances they will have in life because of it.  I don’t think there is a better or more important job than being an adult mentor for a little, emerging child.  But what’s sad is that so few adults feel that way.  And when I have to see and talk to them, it just reminds me how few there are, and I feel sorry for the kids.  I want to help them all, but unfortunately, I can’t because of how families work.  But for my new grandchild, she hit the lottery. 

Rich Hoffman

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