James in Utah

[James in Utah @oldiesmuseum]

What’s the difference between Mormons¹ and Jews?

It’s big. We all know Jews have faced centuries of persecution, murder, and expulsion. Mormons had a similar experience in the 1800s.

Mobs drove them from Ohio. In Missouri, violent attacks—including the tarring and feathering of leaders—led Governor Boggs to issue an “extermination order” forcing them into Illinois. The murder of founder Joseph Smith triggered even more violence and further moves to the west.

Finally, well over 100 years later, on June 25, 1976, Missouri Governor Christopher “Kit” Bond formally rescinded the extermination order as a Bicentennial goodwill gesture. He expressed “deep regret” for the injustice and suffering it caused, calling it a clear violation of constitutional rights (life, liberty, property, and religious freedom).

For all the suffering Jews have endured, a special phrase evolved to shame those who mock or criticize them: “anti-Semitic.” Interestingly, no equivalent term exists for those who mock what Mormons hold sacred. There’s a reason for that. Mormons are Christians who take living Christian values seriously.

In this short clip, Kyle Seraphin admits: nobody’s thrilled when Mormon missionaries knock on the door. But he also notes they’re “super nice people.” He then explains how the Mormon Church responded to the satirical Broadway musical The Book of Mormon (which mocked things Mormons consider sacred). Instead of outrage, they thanked the creators and invited people to learn more about their faith. Because of that graceful response, Mormons grew in public respect — and they won.

Watch the clip. Jews: take note.

@RealAlexJones @KyleSeraphin

¹ “Mormons” is the common nickname for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It comes from their extra scripture, the Book of Mormon, and is much shorter than the full official name.

#Mormons #LDS #BookOfMormon #ReligiousFreedom #Persecution #AntiSemitism #ChristianValues

[James in Utah @oldiesmuseum]

@GrrrGraphics Happy Semiquincentennial

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Happy Semiquincentennial, America!

Just got back from the Utah Freedom Festival. Celebrating 250 years from beautiful Utah with these incredible hot air balloons. How uplifting can you get?!

#Semiquincentennial #Utah #FourthOfJuly #America250 #HotAirBalloons

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@realchrismanion @Irina_exh And I bet you boarded a Jet without having to go through any kind of security.

[James in Utah @oldiesmuseum]

Everybody, now that Mamdani is freezing rents, watch for these effects:

Supply-side distortions:

Reduced new construction — Developers stop building because they can’t charge enough to cover costs, worsening the housing shortage over time.
Under-maintenance — Landlords have less revenue and incentive to repair or upgrade buildings, leading to declining quality.
Conversions & abandonment — Some units get turned into condos, short-term rentals, or commercial space — or are abandoned when they become unprofitable.
Black/gray markets — “Key money,” under-the-table deals, and favoritism in tenant selection become common.

Allocation distortions:

Misallocation of housing — Long-term tenants stay in units that no longer fit their needs, while new residents and growing families can’t find space.
Reduced mobility — People are locked into their current apartments to keep the below-market rent.
Discrimination — Landlords become more selective and favor tenants who can pay side payments.

Broader effects:

►Higher rents in unregulated units as demand shifts there.
►Lower property values and reduced tax revenue for the city.
►Workers have a harder time moving for better jobs due to housing shortages.
►Overall economic inefficiency (deadweight loss).

Rent control has never worked as intended. This won’t be different.

#RentControl #HousingCrisis #NewYork #NYCMayor #Economics

[James in Utah @oldiesmuseum]

@paultguitarist Stuff and things in my office.

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@Music__Mentor @Spotify I don’t need Spotify. My playlist lives on my iPod — straight from my own collection. The image below is just a tiny slice of it. It’s on shuffle with songs ranging from 1946 to 2021. See the full list here:

https://t.co/EnM5dBh7yo

[James in Utah @oldiesmuseum]

It begins with understanding that 9/11 didn’t happen the way we were told. In this 2007 interview with Alex Jones, filmmaker Aaron Russo reveals what his friend Nicholas Rockefeller (a member of the Rockefeller family and connected to the Federal Reserve) told him 11 months before 9/11.

Rockefeller said there would be a major “event,” and out of that event:

►We would invade Afghanistan (to run pipelines from the Caspian Sea)
►We would invade Iraq (to seize the oil fields and establish a permanent Middle East base)
►We would go after Chavez in Venezuela

And we would see soldiers “running around caves” looking for Osama bin Laden — while the whole “War on Terror” would be a hoax, a phony war with no real enemy, used as a pretext to control the American people.

Russo called it exactly what it was: a fraud.

He also explained the Rockefellers’ longer-term plan for a cashless society and digital control over money — essentially the blueprint for what we now call a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) — as a tool for total population control.

This is the closest we'll ever get to a confession from the perpetrators. Russo passed away in August 2007. Watch it. It’s worth your time.

#911 #AaronRusso #FalseFlag

[James in Utah @oldiesmuseum]

"...But I look for the light through the smoke and the haze
…Give me the beat boys and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away…"

Need I say More?

Dobie Gray - Drift Away
https://t.co/mDlRPUPTbm

[James in Utah @oldiesmuseum]

@gatewaypundit RFK, Jr takes Methylene Blue as a supplement. It's actually a dye as well. Why would that not work for M&M's?

[James in Utah @oldiesmuseum]

Get well soon, Patrick,

No attention-seeking at all, Patrick — those of us who follow you know music is central to your life.

Here’s another song for the recovery playlist:

Echo & the Bunnymen – “Don’t Let It Get You Down”

https://t.co/nUdeWBtijL

Don’t let it get you down
The moon and the stars go crashing round
Don’t let it get you down

Hope it lifts the spirit while you heal.

Keep fighting — a lot of people are pulling for you.

[James in Utah @oldiesmuseum]

This is interesting what @RealAlexJones
brought up about the gelignite in the 9/11 attacks.

He pointed out that gelignite was specifically placed in the exact impact zones where the planes hit. That explains why the steel columns in those precise areas gave way so cleanly — allowing the aluminum aircraft to penetrate deep into the towers instead of being shredded or stopped by the structure.

But there’s an even bigger part of the story:

Nano-Thermite was the primary explosive used to bring down the three towers. Physicist Dr. Steven Jones and his team proved it in their landmark 2009 paper. They found unreacted nano-thermitic material in multiple independent samples of WTC dust. The red/gray chips (see 2nd image below) showed clear high-energy signatures consistent with military-grade nano-thermite.

Full paper here:

https://t.co/46v6oNRbTG

So it looks like they used two different explosives:

►Gelignite — precision charges in the plane impact zones
►Nano-Thermite — throughout the buildings for the actual controlled demolition

Extremely sophisticated operation.

#911Truth #NanoThermite #Gelignite #ControlledDemolition

[James in Utah @oldiesmuseum]

Let me clarify what Billy Carson was getting at when he talked about higher-dimensional beings (4D or beyond). He gestured with his fingers [at 53:00] and said something like: “…imagine there were one-dimensional people living inside the line…” and explained that his finger wouldn’t look the way we (3D beings) see it. His point lands much better if we start with a 2D universe as the example — exactly like this classic Dr. Quantum clip that you see below. Watch how a 3D object appears to flat 2D beings.

Now let’s take the same idea one dimension higher. Imagine a transparent glass cube. All edges are black except two: one translucent red, one translucent blue. When you look at it normally:

►The nearest face has mostly black edges + one blue edge
►The farthest face has mostly black edges + one red edge.

Now imagine shining a point light from your position (blue edge side) so the cube casts a shadow onto a flat 2D universe (the world of Dr. Quantum’s beings) behind it. To those 2D inhabitants, the shadow would look like the first image below.

In their 2D reality they would see:

►The red and blue lines appear as if they must intersect if extended.
►Four of the six faces look squished into trapezoids instead of perfect squares.
►The small square with the red edge actually represents the face closest to their plane.

All of this is just a projection artifact. In true 3D space the colored lines never meet and all faces are perfect squares.

Now go one dimension higher — into 4D.

The second image below is a 3D projection (what we can draw on a screen) of a tesseract — a true 4-dimensional cube made of 8 cubic “faces.” Six of them look distorted here for the same reason. In 4D space, the red and blue highlighted squares [which now are part of the skeleton] never intersect even if extended forever — they’re separated along the fourth dimension.

This is why a 4D civilization would have no practical need for stoplights. Vehicles on roads could cross without colliding by simply being offset in the extra dimension — just like 3D overpasses, but without needing “height” in our limited perception. Higher-dimensional beings or vehicles could therefore appear to pass through solid objects or phase in/out of our reality… not magic, just extra-dimensional movement.

Here is the entire Dr. Quantum video:
https://t.co/7sgIm6Afnn

#HigherDimensions #Tesseract #BillyCarson #UAP

[James in Utah @oldiesmuseum]

@Hot_Pepper76 I have every one of those and have had them at least since the 1990s or early 2000s at the latest.

[James in Utah @oldiesmuseum]

@def_leppar20044 I have 4 CDs by the Cars and these made it into mi iPod:

Touch and Go
My Best Friend's Girl
Just What I Needed

[James in Utah @oldiesmuseum]

The Mars colony goal sounds ambitious, but calling it “sheer lunacy” ignores how often this exact skepticism has been proven wrong.

From the a16z article pmarca posted:

“When a16z was doing diligence on SpaceX in 2019, several people told us the economics would never work. The dish [Starlink user terminal] required antenna technology previously reserved for F-22 fighter jets and Navy destroyers that were never mass-produced for consumers. SpaceX’s first units cost about $3,000 to build and sold for $499. But they figured out how to drive the manufacturing costs down and prove the skeptics wrong.”

This is the same deliberate strategy Texas Instruments used in the early 1970s with handheld calculators. TI sold early units at big losses, knowing learning curves and economies of scale would rapidly drive costs down. They captured the lion’s share of the market and moved into strong profitability — exactly what SpaceX has done with Starlink.

On top of that, Elon builds deep integration across his companies (SpaceX + Tesla + xAI) — a “constellation” where chips, Optimus robots, solar power, and talent reinforce each other instead of operating in silos. That’s how the hard physics and economics of a Mars city become solvable, especially with orbital AI compute coming online as planned.

Skeptics said the same things about reusable rockets and cheap satellite internet. The pattern is clear. Just because you can't envision it doesn't mean it won't happen.

[James in Utah @oldiesmuseum]

@GrrrGraphics Nothing against former presidents but today's coinage is obligatory and uninspiring.

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Israel is not our ally — it is a big bloated parasite

I first learned about the USS Liberty from The Spotlight back in the 1980s. My friend Jim Stone had me watching Jenin unfold in real time — the destruction was horrific. Grok can still pull up those brutal photos today. Gaza wasn’t the first time.

Trump needs to put Israel on notice: For every strike they launch on Iran, delay the next U.S. arms shipment by one full month and cut it in half. No more blank checks.

#USSLiberty #AmericaFirst #NoMoreBlankChecks #Israel #Iran

[James in Utah @oldiesmuseum]

I know more about rock than you can imagine.

I’ve forgotten more great songs than most people have ever had as favorites.

The image below is just a tiny sliver of my 500+ clickable picks from the rock era.

Yes, I include some disco, reggaetón, pop, and rap — but the vast majority is rock.

Any list is subjective. That’s the point.

Challenge: Go to my full list and try to find just 10 songs that qualify as “real rock and roll” by your standards.

Hint: Start with your favorite decade.

https://t.co/VkMbaNGSH8

#RealRock #RockAndRoll #RockMusic

[James in Utah @oldiesmuseum]

Influence and popularity are two very different things.

Van Halen is undeniably huge commercially. You can see all their major hits in the first photo below.

In Joel Whitburn’s Top Pop Singles 1955-2018, Eddie Van Halen / Van Halen ranks #176 all-time — that’s very impressive for the rock era. In the newer 2023 edition they’ve dropped slightly to #186, largely because of the massive streaming numbers from modern acts like Drake and Taylor Swift pushing older artists down the list.

The Velvet Underground, by contrast, had zero hit singles on the Billboard Hot 100. From a pure popularity standpoint on the singles charts, they’re basically 0%.

I’m not a fan of Drake or Taylor Swift either — personally I find a lot of it pretty boring — but tastes differ, and their numbers have clearly diluted the historical rankings of earlier artists (including the Beatles dropping from #2). That’s just how the charts work when new data keeps getting added.

Rolling Stone’s “best of” lists are extremely subjective. Joel Whitburn’s chart research, on the other hand, is meticulously compiled data. One is opinion. The other is what actually happened on the charts.