Happy Sunday! It’s an amazing thing you both do Drs. Malone. Every Friday and Sunday you put smiles on all of our faces. There have been extensive studies done on how our attitude, appearance and personality influence others. They concluded the single most powerful force of influence each one of us have is not our personality, it’s not our looks, or our height its simply our smile. Studies show people that smile frequently get promoted more often and have higher paying jobs. People are drawn to others that are happy and smile a lot. I’ve heard it said if you’re not smiling you’re like a person with a million dollars in the bank that doesn’t have a checkbook. We’re supposed to be happier than other people. When we honor God with our life, when we do our best each day, then God will anoint us, pouring out the oil of joy more than anyone else. You see we are supposed to smile and be happy. The Malones help to give us those all important smiles😁😁😁.
If some of you read my posts on Sunday I want you to know, if you didn’t already, I am a work in progress, I will always be.
So I’ve been renovating this old Victorian home in West Roxbury. There are lots of people involved in this project. Like myself, many have strong opinions how things should be done. The man that sold the owner the cabinets, Igor, had been a bit difficult with me. I had originally told the owner to have the cabinet company use their installer because I don’t have the time with everything that needs to get done, so she did. I never know who the installer is, or how experienced they will be. A young Brazilian pair showed up, and they hung the cabinets, honestly they did a good job. Towards the completion of the cabinets Igor showed up with coffee and donuts for the installers. I heard him praising the two young men up and down. He called the lead carpenter the best installer, and I could see the young man, a bit timid, enjoyed the praise. Igor honored them.
The next morning first thing I called Igor, and said you know Igor I really wanted to compliment you on acknowledging the nice job and hard work your installers did for you. You really built those young men up and it was not only kind but I admired your appreciating them, you honored them. I told him it’s rare to see that, and I thanked him for doing it.
About a week went by and the owner stopped by the job after she got out of work. She said Igor had said to me, you know James paid me a beautiful compliment the other day. He was happy and thanking me for the way I praised the two cabinet installers. He said to the owner he’s never received such a kind compliment for honoring my workers. He went on to say he had come from nothing and these people that work with him have made him successful. The owner went on to tell me she has several large projects she wants me to do for her in the fall. Isn’t it amazing how a simple compliment can create such positive change. From that day that I complimented Igor his whole affect towards me changed. There was nothing that if I asked of him he wouldn’t do for me.
Many times we have to stay aware of the people around us. You will never get what you are not willing to give, certainly honor is one of those things. Sometimes if people aren’t nice to us we can’t let them have the control to effect us, we have to take control and effect them. Happy Sunday Everyone!! J.Goodrich
You told me you would do a post like this, and by gum, you did! I know it's unrealistic to expect this upliftment all the time, but your personal stories of your life and the little ways you notice the effect uplift me and you too, no doubt, James.
Thank You DD, I try these things I talk about and when they have a real positive outcome it makes me positive and happy. I believe Igor got a lot out of it as well. I’ll bet he continues to honor people that work with him. These small changes are very big to me. I feel as though I made a small difference…
Bigger difference than you might imagine! This is a huge contribution to everyone and everything. This is exactly what M. Desmet was talking about in the grains of sand. We ARE all connected and what one person does with intention, good or bad, affects us all.
Thank you James for sharing this great and inspiring story! Smiles and kindness go a long way! And you are spot on how the Malones bring us all so much joy through their stories, funnies, pics and wisdom! We are a blessed group! 💟✝️💗
Thank You Jennifer, what a great space this is, thanks Drs. Malone for your time and efforts. Its funny I’ve noticed other sub stack writers copy this site. Success can be contagious!!
Happy Sunday James!! Everyone needs affirmation—everyone—and it causes people to rise to a level of excellence that is normally beyond themselves.
One day we will hear the words, “Well done my faithful servant”—the best thing a person can hear from Christ. It was his teachings that we are the light and salt of the world that has led others to Him for salvation, built strong governments and families, and built hospitals and orphanages—it has changed the world for those who have ears to hear and eyes to see.
You and I are a work in progress, but here’s our hope: “For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work among you will complete it by the day of Christ
Jesus.” Philippians 1:6–He’s not done with us yet, so we should not be done with others. 🙂
Having worked with and supervised many people over many years the best people to work with were not the most intelligent, not the most talented, not the most skilled, but rather those who approached the job and the tasks at hand with the most enthusiasm.
James, once again clarity in your writing. I always enjoy reading your thoughts and am glad they are often the top post. Joy and happiness are fruits of the Spirit, but we need act on them.
An excerpt from Jeff Childers’ sub stack; too good not to share:
Another highly related story quietly sailed by during the news cycle’s inky darkness. On Friday, CNN ran the deplorably under-reported story, headlined “Blackout in Bali as Indonesian tourist haven hit by power outage.”
The Indonesian resort mecca of Bali —the so-called “Island of the Gods”— experienced a very Spanish-like, island-wide blackout two days ago. Experts remain baffled. Early reports suggested a “damaged undersea power cable,” but the lights came back on before they could track and repair the “damage,” so that theory seems to have been quietly written out of the script.
Like the Spanish, the Balinese folk “enjoyed” a day of simpler life. Nothing to see here.
But wait! There’s more. Now add this Daily Mail headline from last week to the equation:
Experts, who have no idea what caused the Spain, Portugal, France, or Bali blackouts, are one hundred percent sure these events are not connected in any way. And that’s the giveaway. These stories never speculate about or even mention the Earth’s weakening magnetic field, even if only to rule it out or call it a conspiracy theory.
In intelligence analysis or trial advocacy, this is what you’d call a conspicuous omission— the kind that raises more red flags than any official statement could settle. It’s not just what the articles say. It’s what they carefully avoid even mentioning.
The fact that Earth’s magnetic field is both weakening and moving around isn’t fringe theory— it’s well documented by NASA and ESA, and published in Nature and Geophysical Research Letters. The South Atlantic Anomaly, polar drift, and magnetic excursions are all part of accepted geophysics.
Geomagnetic interference is a known risk to modern infrastructure. Grid operators and space weather agencies openly acknowledge that CMEs and GICs (geomagnetically induced currents) pose serious risks to power infrastructure— especially in areas where the field is weak. That’s literally why countries like the U.S. and UK have mitigation protocols and hardened transformer initiatives.
Multiple unexplained power disturbances all happening around the same time in weak-field zones is a perfectly reasonable hypothesis. When Spain, Portugal, Bali, and the UK all experience synchronous or sequential grid events, and those regions also correlate to areas of documented magnetic weakening, even a baby expert would include it among potential contributing factors.
They’ll publish overwrought think pieces about the potential dangers of falling gas prices —Could cheap gas destabilize the global economy? Could it ruin the planet? Could it make Trump popular again??— but when entire continents go dark without explanation, they’ve got nothing to say.
As to this truly existential possibility, the press is as quiet as a Harvard professor when the check comes.
🔥 Thanks to media malpractice, most people think only massive solar storms can knock out the power. But the truth is, even minor and unremarkable solar events—like small flares or coronal mass ejections—can wreak havoc if they hit parts of Earth where the magnetic field is weak. That field normally deflects solar energy, but as it thins (which it is doing), more charged particles slip through and induce electric currents in long power lines and transformers.
Put simply, long-range transmission lines (common in the U.S., Europe, China, and Australia) act like antennas for geomagnetic currents.
This power instability causes surges and brownouts that can overload grid equipment, trip breakers, and cause widespread blackouts— even if the weather on the ground is perfectly sunny. Just because experts refuse to talk about this risk, it doesn’t mean it’s not real. It just means they’d rather nobody ask.
The uncontroversial truth is that, if the current magnetic field weakening trend continues —and especially if the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) continues expanding— the consequences could move from “inconvenient” to catastrophic, and not just for power grids. The SAA already forces satellites to temporarily shut down when passing over it to avoid damage. If it keeps growing (which it is), those shutdowns will spread, and GPS reliability, internet, and military communications will all degrade.
We don’t need to speculate about what happens if there is a big solar storm, or if the poles suddenly switch places. Just the effects we can already see and measure are threatening enough.
If the SAA keeps growing, or if the overall magnetic field keeps weakening, or both, we’re talking about infrastructure risk, biological hazards, and technological vulnerability— all wrapped in a phenomenon we can’t control and barely even discuss. And yet, media isn’t worried. No headlines. No planning. Just stories about the joys of blackout beer, trust in government, and worrisome falling gas prices.
🔥 As always, media’s malpractice on solar threats is about money. If major, observable planetary phenomena —like grid failures, atmospheric disturbances, or warming anomalies— are credibly linked to natural, planetary-scale forces (like magnetic field shifts or solar cycles), it dilutes the CO2 narrative. As I’ve observed, they can’t regulate the magnetosphere or sell ‘solar activity’ indulgences.
A declining magnetic field can alter atmospheric circulation, increase cosmic ray influx, and shift cloud formation patterns— all of which affect climate and weather in ways poorly understood and difficult to model. Acknowledging them would force scientists and officials to say, “Actually, there are multiple complex drivers of climate and atmospheric change, some of which we can’t control or predict.”
That’s political heresy. Verboten.
Sadly, they could pivot to focusing on infrastructure resilience instead, and still rake in the money, the regulatory power, and the political points. But they’re too invested in manmade climate theory now. The ossified science establishment doesn’t want to start over. Entrenched climate activists (i.e., successful grifters) fear that a scramble for new positions in a resilience-based science heirarchy might leave them worse off.
We know what we need to do. Our job is to ask so many hard questions they are forced to begin to grapple with the possibilities.
I remember learning something about polar flips back when I was also learning to read a compass as a compass does not actually point to True North.
The Earth’s magnetic field is experiencing some rapid changes right now, but scientists say that has no relation to pole flipping.
When the poles flip, scientists call it a geomagnetic reversal, and the last one happened about 780,000 years ago. It takes between 2,000 and 7,000 years for the poles to reverse. The evidence is contained in magnetic minerals inside rocks. Magnetic minerals record the strength and direction of Earth’s magnetic fields when they’re locked in place, either as sediments or in magma. The study of magnetism in Earth’s ancient rocks is called paleomagnetism.
Currently, there’s a region in the South Atlantic where the geomagnetic field is rapidly weakening. It’s called the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA), and it’s led to questions about its role in geomagnetic reversal if any.
Scientists have known about the SAA for a while. What they didn’t know for sure was if the anomaly signifies an imminent geomagnetic reversal. Researchers behind a new study looked at evidence going back thousands of years to determine if the SAA is heralding an upcoming reversal.
In the past 180 years, the strength of Earth’s magnetic field has decreased by about 10 percent. During that same time, the size of the SAA has grown. Scientists have speculated that these events might be related to a geomagnetic reversal.
A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences searched for a link between the SAA, the decreasing field strength, and geomagnetic reversals. It’s titled “Recurrent ancient geomagnetic field anomalies shed light on the future evolution of the South Atlantic Anomaly.” The lead author is Andreas Nilsson, a geologist at Lund University in Sweden.
“We have mapped changes in the Earth’s magnetic field over the past 9,000 years, and anomalies like the one in the South Atlantic are probably recurring phenomena linked to corresponding variations in the strength of the Earth’s magnetic field,” Nilsson said in a press release.
The researchers examined three types of evidence: solidified volcanic samples, sediment drill cores, and burnt archaeological artifacts. Artifacts like clay pots that have been heated above 580 Celsius (1076 F) allow magnetic materials to reorient themselves to the Earth’s magnetic field at the time. All three types of evidence act as time capsules that capture a snapshot of Earth’s magnetism at a specific time.
“We have developed a new modeling technique that connects these indirect observations from different time periods and locations into one global reconstruction of the magnetic field over the past 9,000 years,” said Nilsson.
Earth’s magnetic field is a dipole field because it has two poles, like a bar magnet. The dipole moment (DM) measures a field’s polarity or separation of positive and negative charges. In this study, the researchers reconstructed Earth’s DM for the prior 9,000 years, which makes up the bulk of the Holocene epoch.
According to the authors, the SAA doesn’t suggest an upcoming reversal of Earth’s magnetic poles.
“Based on similarities with the recreated anomalies, we predict that the South Atlantic Anomaly will probably disappear within the next 300 years and that Earth is not heading towards a polarity reversal,” said Nilsson.
Here's a bit of science e stuff related if you are so inclined to read about it:
Fred, I would love it if you would continue to shine the light on this ever increasing phenomena and can you get this information out even more? People that Dr. Malone knows and others need to include this information, as well as the Earth's magnetic North/ South shift.
That panel of Elon talking about NGO's is comparable to a ton of "Charities". After running one for 10 yrs and realizing the little bit of money a lot of them actually put towards their stated goal made me queezy. The 501c3 world is just as corrupt as the NGO world. So sad and disheartening.
People really have no understanding just how much of big business charities really are. Have armies of employees with the empathy capacity of a hyena for its next meal
Isn’t the Fetterman situation unreal? The Dems are ruthless. His own wife is playing Julius Caesar. I guess it takes a serious brain injury to come out of TDS. We now know how to cure it.
Fetterman is an old style populist Pennsylvania Democrat. I guess it’s best to come from the Upper Ohio Valley, but Fetterman lives literally across from the Edgar Thompson Works in Braddock, PA. He was Mayor of Braddock before running for Senate. Edgar Thomson isn’t just any steel mill, but Andrew Carnegie’s and the nation’s first Bessemer plant. It was also the site of much steelworker labor strife in the day. I grew up in a little town some distance south of there and very historical much earlier slightly before the Revolution, but in my day it had become a little college town combined with a steelworker’s bedroom community. At my church the elders were old families like my dad, college professors, steel workers, and the occasional coal miner. They all got along as many do in small towns. It was a heyday for steelworkers, who could support a family on one paycheck and an idyllic time for most. Fetterman knows the guys who go to work across the street and most aren’t hard to like. Fetterman was born with the proverbial silver spoon, but has spent enough time with working men and women to be deeply effected. I am sure the good old days are the 50s and 60s for them, just the days Donald Trump would like to bring back. Fetterman is a MAGA populist Republican, but hasn’t and might never realize it!
Good to know but didn’t he do all sorts of leftist crap when he was mayor and like ruined the town? His ideas led to even higher unemployment or was he listening to his communist wife?
I'm not certain he could have done much more to Braddock than the decline of Pittsburgh industry. To quote Wikipedia, a source I rarely use, but here is a sentence not possible to bias. "The population (of Braddock) was 1,721 as of the 2020 census, a 91.8% decline since its peak of 20,879 in 1920."
Having a freak stroke where the only reason he (Fetterman) survived was the right specialist was known to be visiting the Pittsburgh area (on a weekend as I recall) and pitched in to save him (yes, God works in mysterious ways) is the sort of sobering experience to make someone rethink all of their views and values. I'm not saying he will ever switch, but stranger things have happened. He had an accident driving home from DC recently making me realize he drives his own car.
Mebbe. Just thought he tried to make the town a utopia for leftist dreams is the article I read. It’s hard to be your own man in the Dem party. Once you step out of line they have everything lined up to take you out.
Check out the Wikipedia photos not really Utopia material, but, believe me, not at all atypical of the region, both steel and coal towns and I’ve seen a lot of both. Feterman was a rich kid from Sewickley as I recall, a fancy neighborhood of the Pittsburgh area. He might have tried the impossible.
My uncle (mother’s step brother) was a Democrat Committeeman in Washington County, PA. My father was a Republican Committeeman in an adjacent county in West Virginia. They were good friends, always sat together at family gatherings, and joked about their differences. Politics has changed and not for the better!
That’s a statement I wholeheartedly agree with! I recall days where you could debate with the other side and shake hands coming away with more knowledge than you went into it. I blame this on the media. Social and legacy. Finding the truth anymore is difficult but Substack has helped at least with finding investigative journalism and the few that are still left. Social media has made attention spans sparse and legacy media is all negative with the spin for either side and there isn’t any middle anymore. The left has gone too far and trying to unfuck what was done the last four years has been like pulling teeth. The right has been not much better as DOGE has shown because they voted too or turned a blind eye with OUR money. I’d love for us to get back to the middle again but I’m not sure that will ever happen and if I have to choose a side it sure isn’t going to be the one erasing women or censoring me.
Not the first time this occurred to me, but diming sunlight and then trying to use what is left seems a little counterproductive when you plan to count on it to drive wind for windmills and power solar farms.
I may be wrong but I think it means one party could end up having all the highest ranked individuals therefore you would only have that one parties candidates to choose from at the end.
In California there are huge numbers of Democrats in the coastal and big city areas. Ranked choice voting means you will usually end up with two Democrats against each other in the final vote, not a Republican and a Democrat. On the last election, there were a crazy number of people running for office, 10 or 15 for Senator as I remember. Some of them were clearly running as a joke, too. In any case, the two top vote getters were of course Democrats, and that is usually the case. I'm surprised a Republican ever gets elected in this state. That is where we are headed.
CMCM, thanks, I think I'm getting the picture now. I had not looked at it that way. It could easily make it impossible to stay with your preferred party. Tricky.
I don’t venture into the center of grocery stores, much, doing most of my shopping on the periphery, unless I’m at Costco 😉, since most of what I eat comes out of the meat coolers or the veggie aisle. When I do meander off my usual track I still tend to buy foods that are almost elemental in nature - rice, pasta, dried beans/peas (pulses), tea, tinned fish and (forgive me) crackers 😂 Not much for canned plants but it’s difficult to find hominy any other way. What I’ve noticed over the past… 🤔 , since roughly 2000, is that these elemental foods seem to be taking up less&less shelf space, replaced by cans and frozen bags&boxes of prepared meals; and meal kits - which may be an improvement. I don’t recognize much of what goes into these non-elemental foods and it’s getting more difficult each year to pronounce the names of these "ingredients."
I suggest you try cooking dried beans. I get mine from Rancho Gordo. They sell a nyxtamilized hominy (dried) which makes a fine posole. They also sell cookbooks, I bought them all. Lots of simple recipes with few ingredients.
You will still need veggies like chilis, onions plus salad greens.
I love crackers, but enjoy locally made ones with no GM ingredients. Luckily I have a good selection.
I don't either except that it is hard to keep my husband from wandering over to the middle aisles. Since he's the cart conductor, we get home with items that weren't on my list⁉️‼️⁉️🤷🏻♂️🤷🤷♀️
I have also stopped buying almond milk because I recently heard that it has SEED OILS⁉️‼️⁉️
There is so much contradicting information and I'm totally confused 😕
AG, it’s not just contradictory info, they change the info from year to year. Don’t even need to delve into the lowfat/nofat controversies, the "to carb or not to carb" silliness, diet soda is the elixir of the rotund - NOT! ( sorry POTUS ); I went thru 3 cervical collars keeping up with the coffee-good/coffee-bad reports ( eventually decided it was less expensive to switch to tea - and I think better for my GI health 😉).
I try to keep my food rules fairly simple: if I grow it I can eat it with little restraint ( the only exception so far is fresh corn on the cob - I learned personally why cattle are fed corn for fattening (and that was w/o buttering - fresh corn doesn’t need it)), too many ingredients at some point transforms "food" into "wasfood," etc.; and finally, if there’s any dark chocolate involved then I’ve been known to throw caution to the wind and fair food is exempt - especially if you walk to the fair.
Enjoyed the A.I. short - but really, just an updated shorter version of "Her." Ya’know, we have bio-ethicists, medical ethicists, we have intimate scene ethicists on production sets — why don’t we have more prominent "Tech-Ethicists?" We’re already having issues of integrating tech into society (our brains are being asked to accommodate too much too quickly) with children/teens/even adults unable to balance "social apps" into some sort of life balance. While I’m generally positive In my tech views - 1st computer interactions beginning in early 70s, couple dozen "computers" of one sort or another in my dwelling, another couple dozen microcontrollers laying about (distinct from the microprocessors (CPUs) in computers), 50+TB of storage, I am concerned how this is impacting our social and "political" structure.
When information flow moves faster than the average human can digest, it doesn’t take much for errant info to skew perceptions; when errant information is intentional…
What’s it going to be like when these A.I.s, based on the programming they (it) receive begin to further tailor individual’s newz/info for a particular result. I think we’re already seeing this - I don’t think Tik-Tok is a benign short video service; similarly, despite their protestations to the contrary, our own "native" social media/search engine entities have nefarious skill sets.
Looked it up: "Her" is streaming (free) on Prime Video - first time I’m aware of it being available on those services I subscribe to. Was gonna watch tonight but opted to abuse myself with a ½ marathon on the erg (between a podcast on the stereo and my momma cat demanding dessert (kibble) it goes by fairly quick).
Great funnies this Sunday Docs! My faves are the Fetterman one, the grocery store confusion (my world!) and what Elon said about NGO scams. Love the pic of you both and several other Conservative heroes! Rock on and thank you! 💛💛
You are right Dr Malone, regarding the globalists taking over, here in Australia, yesterday (Sunday) our Federal election chose "unbelievably" (in my view) to re-elect the previous government that had the VERY widespread reputation of "the worst and most inefficient government in living memory". That is a true and fair sampling of Many of our top rated commentators etc (AND ME)! The end result which I am yet in NO WAY ready to come to terms with is :- We The Australia People have re installed a communist headed government for another three year term. I am yet unsure of HOW the globalists organised this, but I am sure they did. God help Australia.
Always grateful for these funnies that Dr Jill has so graciously toiled to bring to us and for some reason today causes me to remember Freud's Theory of Humor, a book I read in grad school. In which he claims that humor moves our unconscious --specifically, jokes can be powerful because they release responses in us in which we are otherwise, for whatever reason, forbidden to hold and harbor; and in this manner jokes have a liberating, cathartic effect. Often, the funnier they are, the closer they are to the bone. Or vice versa.
Also humbled and grateful for the comments here, today especially for the goosebump-causing link shared of Secretariat winning the Triple Crown in 1973, and for the discussions about the vagaries of the earth's magnetism causing the numerous power shortages within the past week.
Thanks to all who contribute to tickle our funny bones and our curiosity for those of us, like me, who have not kept up on our physics and need the nudge.
Thank you all, and especially Malones for hosting our party.
You sure do hang out with the best of the cool kids!
Ranked choice voting is the best way to destroy conservatives. We fought it and won in Idaho. Here’s an article we put together to explain and combat this terrible attempt to destroy our elections: https://tinyurl.com/33972hyy
I feel that ranked choice voting is unconstitutional. Each citizen should have one vote. Nobody should be able to take that vote and redistribute it to another person.
Happy Sunday! It’s an amazing thing you both do Drs. Malone. Every Friday and Sunday you put smiles on all of our faces. There have been extensive studies done on how our attitude, appearance and personality influence others. They concluded the single most powerful force of influence each one of us have is not our personality, it’s not our looks, or our height its simply our smile. Studies show people that smile frequently get promoted more often and have higher paying jobs. People are drawn to others that are happy and smile a lot. I’ve heard it said if you’re not smiling you’re like a person with a million dollars in the bank that doesn’t have a checkbook. We’re supposed to be happier than other people. When we honor God with our life, when we do our best each day, then God will anoint us, pouring out the oil of joy more than anyone else. You see we are supposed to smile and be happy. The Malones help to give us those all important smiles😁😁😁.
If some of you read my posts on Sunday I want you to know, if you didn’t already, I am a work in progress, I will always be.
So I’ve been renovating this old Victorian home in West Roxbury. There are lots of people involved in this project. Like myself, many have strong opinions how things should be done. The man that sold the owner the cabinets, Igor, had been a bit difficult with me. I had originally told the owner to have the cabinet company use their installer because I don’t have the time with everything that needs to get done, so she did. I never know who the installer is, or how experienced they will be. A young Brazilian pair showed up, and they hung the cabinets, honestly they did a good job. Towards the completion of the cabinets Igor showed up with coffee and donuts for the installers. I heard him praising the two young men up and down. He called the lead carpenter the best installer, and I could see the young man, a bit timid, enjoyed the praise. Igor honored them.
The next morning first thing I called Igor, and said you know Igor I really wanted to compliment you on acknowledging the nice job and hard work your installers did for you. You really built those young men up and it was not only kind but I admired your appreciating them, you honored them. I told him it’s rare to see that, and I thanked him for doing it.
About a week went by and the owner stopped by the job after she got out of work. She said Igor had said to me, you know James paid me a beautiful compliment the other day. He was happy and thanking me for the way I praised the two cabinet installers. He said to the owner he’s never received such a kind compliment for honoring my workers. He went on to say he had come from nothing and these people that work with him have made him successful. The owner went on to tell me she has several large projects she wants me to do for her in the fall. Isn’t it amazing how a simple compliment can create such positive change. From that day that I complimented Igor his whole affect towards me changed. There was nothing that if I asked of him he wouldn’t do for me.
Many times we have to stay aware of the people around us. You will never get what you are not willing to give, certainly honor is one of those things. Sometimes if people aren’t nice to us we can’t let them have the control to effect us, we have to take control and effect them. Happy Sunday Everyone!! J.Goodrich
You told me you would do a post like this, and by gum, you did! I know it's unrealistic to expect this upliftment all the time, but your personal stories of your life and the little ways you notice the effect uplift me and you too, no doubt, James.
Thank You DD, I try these things I talk about and when they have a real positive outcome it makes me positive and happy. I believe Igor got a lot out of it as well. I’ll bet he continues to honor people that work with him. These small changes are very big to me. I feel as though I made a small difference…
Bigger difference than you might imagine! This is a huge contribution to everyone and everything. This is exactly what M. Desmet was talking about in the grains of sand. We ARE all connected and what one person does with intention, good or bad, affects us all.
James: now YOU brought a big smile to MY face!
I’m glad Barbara, your smiles worth a million dollars 🤗. Thanks Barbara
"I've got a good feeling about this"!
A wake up daily mantra.
Gratitude has it's ways to continually improve the well lived life every single moment!
It has no boundary's!
Thank you James for sharing this great and inspiring story! Smiles and kindness go a long way! And you are spot on how the Malones bring us all so much joy through their stories, funnies, pics and wisdom! We are a blessed group! 💟✝️💗
Thank You Jennifer, what a great space this is, thanks Drs. Malone for your time and efforts. Its funny I’ve noticed other sub stack writers copy this site. Success can be contagious!!
Happy Sunday James!! Everyone needs affirmation—everyone—and it causes people to rise to a level of excellence that is normally beyond themselves.
One day we will hear the words, “Well done my faithful servant”—the best thing a person can hear from Christ. It was his teachings that we are the light and salt of the world that has led others to Him for salvation, built strong governments and families, and built hospitals and orphanages—it has changed the world for those who have ears to hear and eyes to see.
You and I are a work in progress, but here’s our hope: “For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work among you will complete it by the day of Christ
Jesus.” Philippians 1:6–He’s not done with us yet, so we should not be done with others. 🙂
Happy Sunday Indeed!!
Great post CQL, Happy Sunday my Friend!
Having worked with and supervised many people over many years the best people to work with were not the most intelligent, not the most talented, not the most skilled, but rather those who approached the job and the tasks at hand with the most enthusiasm.
Sincere appreciation is a powerful motivator.
Empathy to all goes a long way for sure, James. Be the change you want to see!!
Hope you'll have time for and enjoy this:
https://x.com/i/status/1918836573618970647
James, once again clarity in your writing. I always enjoy reading your thoughts and am glad they are often the top post. Joy and happiness are fruits of the Spirit, but we need act on them.
Blessings,
Carolyn
Thank You Carolyn! Blessings to you and your family as well.
I agree 💯 %
An excerpt from Jeff Childers’ sub stack; too good not to share:
Another highly related story quietly sailed by during the news cycle’s inky darkness. On Friday, CNN ran the deplorably under-reported story, headlined “Blackout in Bali as Indonesian tourist haven hit by power outage.”
The Indonesian resort mecca of Bali —the so-called “Island of the Gods”— experienced a very Spanish-like, island-wide blackout two days ago. Experts remain baffled. Early reports suggested a “damaged undersea power cable,” but the lights came back on before they could track and repair the “damage,” so that theory seems to have been quietly written out of the script.
Like the Spanish, the Balinese folk “enjoyed” a day of simpler life. Nothing to see here.
But wait! There’s more. Now add this Daily Mail headline from last week to the equation:
Experts, who have no idea what caused the Spain, Portugal, France, or Bali blackouts, are one hundred percent sure these events are not connected in any way. And that’s the giveaway. These stories never speculate about or even mention the Earth’s weakening magnetic field, even if only to rule it out or call it a conspiracy theory.
In intelligence analysis or trial advocacy, this is what you’d call a conspicuous omission— the kind that raises more red flags than any official statement could settle. It’s not just what the articles say. It’s what they carefully avoid even mentioning.
The fact that Earth’s magnetic field is both weakening and moving around isn’t fringe theory— it’s well documented by NASA and ESA, and published in Nature and Geophysical Research Letters. The South Atlantic Anomaly, polar drift, and magnetic excursions are all part of accepted geophysics.
Geomagnetic interference is a known risk to modern infrastructure. Grid operators and space weather agencies openly acknowledge that CMEs and GICs (geomagnetically induced currents) pose serious risks to power infrastructure— especially in areas where the field is weak. That’s literally why countries like the U.S. and UK have mitigation protocols and hardened transformer initiatives.
Multiple unexplained power disturbances all happening around the same time in weak-field zones is a perfectly reasonable hypothesis. When Spain, Portugal, Bali, and the UK all experience synchronous or sequential grid events, and those regions also correlate to areas of documented magnetic weakening, even a baby expert would include it among potential contributing factors.
They’ll publish overwrought think pieces about the potential dangers of falling gas prices —Could cheap gas destabilize the global economy? Could it ruin the planet? Could it make Trump popular again??— but when entire continents go dark without explanation, they’ve got nothing to say.
As to this truly existential possibility, the press is as quiet as a Harvard professor when the check comes.
🔥 Thanks to media malpractice, most people think only massive solar storms can knock out the power. But the truth is, even minor and unremarkable solar events—like small flares or coronal mass ejections—can wreak havoc if they hit parts of Earth where the magnetic field is weak. That field normally deflects solar energy, but as it thins (which it is doing), more charged particles slip through and induce electric currents in long power lines and transformers.
Put simply, long-range transmission lines (common in the U.S., Europe, China, and Australia) act like antennas for geomagnetic currents.
This power instability causes surges and brownouts that can overload grid equipment, trip breakers, and cause widespread blackouts— even if the weather on the ground is perfectly sunny. Just because experts refuse to talk about this risk, it doesn’t mean it’s not real. It just means they’d rather nobody ask.
The uncontroversial truth is that, if the current magnetic field weakening trend continues —and especially if the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) continues expanding— the consequences could move from “inconvenient” to catastrophic, and not just for power grids. The SAA already forces satellites to temporarily shut down when passing over it to avoid damage. If it keeps growing (which it is), those shutdowns will spread, and GPS reliability, internet, and military communications will all degrade.
We don’t need to speculate about what happens if there is a big solar storm, or if the poles suddenly switch places. Just the effects we can already see and measure are threatening enough.
If the SAA keeps growing, or if the overall magnetic field keeps weakening, or both, we’re talking about infrastructure risk, biological hazards, and technological vulnerability— all wrapped in a phenomenon we can’t control and barely even discuss. And yet, media isn’t worried. No headlines. No planning. Just stories about the joys of blackout beer, trust in government, and worrisome falling gas prices.
🔥 As always, media’s malpractice on solar threats is about money. If major, observable planetary phenomena —like grid failures, atmospheric disturbances, or warming anomalies— are credibly linked to natural, planetary-scale forces (like magnetic field shifts or solar cycles), it dilutes the CO2 narrative. As I’ve observed, they can’t regulate the magnetosphere or sell ‘solar activity’ indulgences.
A declining magnetic field can alter atmospheric circulation, increase cosmic ray influx, and shift cloud formation patterns— all of which affect climate and weather in ways poorly understood and difficult to model. Acknowledging them would force scientists and officials to say, “Actually, there are multiple complex drivers of climate and atmospheric change, some of which we can’t control or predict.”
That’s political heresy. Verboten.
Sadly, they could pivot to focusing on infrastructure resilience instead, and still rake in the money, the regulatory power, and the political points. But they’re too invested in manmade climate theory now. The ossified science establishment doesn’t want to start over. Entrenched climate activists (i.e., successful grifters) fear that a scramble for new positions in a resilience-based science heirarchy might leave them worse off.
We know what we need to do. Our job is to ask so many hard questions they are forced to begin to grapple with the possibilities.
I remember learning something about polar flips back when I was also learning to read a compass as a compass does not actually point to True North.
The Earth’s magnetic field is experiencing some rapid changes right now, but scientists say that has no relation to pole flipping.
When the poles flip, scientists call it a geomagnetic reversal, and the last one happened about 780,000 years ago. It takes between 2,000 and 7,000 years for the poles to reverse. The evidence is contained in magnetic minerals inside rocks. Magnetic minerals record the strength and direction of Earth’s magnetic fields when they’re locked in place, either as sediments or in magma. The study of magnetism in Earth’s ancient rocks is called paleomagnetism.
Currently, there’s a region in the South Atlantic where the geomagnetic field is rapidly weakening. It’s called the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA), and it’s led to questions about its role in geomagnetic reversal if any.
Scientists have known about the SAA for a while. What they didn’t know for sure was if the anomaly signifies an imminent geomagnetic reversal. Researchers behind a new study looked at evidence going back thousands of years to determine if the SAA is heralding an upcoming reversal.
In the past 180 years, the strength of Earth’s magnetic field has decreased by about 10 percent. During that same time, the size of the SAA has grown. Scientists have speculated that these events might be related to a geomagnetic reversal.
A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences searched for a link between the SAA, the decreasing field strength, and geomagnetic reversals. It’s titled “Recurrent ancient geomagnetic field anomalies shed light on the future evolution of the South Atlantic Anomaly.” The lead author is Andreas Nilsson, a geologist at Lund University in Sweden.
“We have mapped changes in the Earth’s magnetic field over the past 9,000 years, and anomalies like the one in the South Atlantic are probably recurring phenomena linked to corresponding variations in the strength of the Earth’s magnetic field,” Nilsson said in a press release.
The researchers examined three types of evidence: solidified volcanic samples, sediment drill cores, and burnt archaeological artifacts. Artifacts like clay pots that have been heated above 580 Celsius (1076 F) allow magnetic materials to reorient themselves to the Earth’s magnetic field at the time. All three types of evidence act as time capsules that capture a snapshot of Earth’s magnetism at a specific time.
“We have developed a new modeling technique that connects these indirect observations from different time periods and locations into one global reconstruction of the magnetic field over the past 9,000 years,” said Nilsson.
Earth’s magnetic field is a dipole field because it has two poles, like a bar magnet. The dipole moment (DM) measures a field’s polarity or separation of positive and negative charges. In this study, the researchers reconstructed Earth’s DM for the prior 9,000 years, which makes up the bulk of the Holocene epoch.
According to the authors, the SAA doesn’t suggest an upcoming reversal of Earth’s magnetic poles.
“Based on similarities with the recreated anomalies, we predict that the South Atlantic Anomaly will probably disappear within the next 300 years and that Earth is not heading towards a polarity reversal,” said Nilsson.
Here's a bit of science e stuff related if you are so inclined to read about it:
https://www.sciencealert.com/new-study-shows-that-earth-s-magnetic-field-is-weakening-more-rapidly-than-we-thought&
Fred, I would love it if you would continue to shine the light on this ever increasing phenomena and can you get this information out even more? People that Dr. Malone knows and others need to include this information, as well as the Earth's magnetic North/ South shift.
Fred. Thank you for posting Jeff's info! You are so right - it is too good [and important!] not to share. More please.
That panel of Elon talking about NGO's is comparable to a ton of "Charities". After running one for 10 yrs and realizing the little bit of money a lot of them actually put towards their stated goal made me queezy. The 501c3 world is just as corrupt as the NGO world. So sad and disheartening.
People really have no understanding just how much of big business charities really are. Have armies of employees with the empathy capacity of a hyena for its next meal
Corruption is everywhere. Which makes me wonder why the concept of original sin is considered to be so passe.
Free will comes to mind.
Isn’t the Fetterman situation unreal? The Dems are ruthless. His own wife is playing Julius Caesar. I guess it takes a serious brain injury to come out of TDS. We now know how to cure it.
Fetterman is an old style populist Pennsylvania Democrat. I guess it’s best to come from the Upper Ohio Valley, but Fetterman lives literally across from the Edgar Thompson Works in Braddock, PA. He was Mayor of Braddock before running for Senate. Edgar Thomson isn’t just any steel mill, but Andrew Carnegie’s and the nation’s first Bessemer plant. It was also the site of much steelworker labor strife in the day. I grew up in a little town some distance south of there and very historical much earlier slightly before the Revolution, but in my day it had become a little college town combined with a steelworker’s bedroom community. At my church the elders were old families like my dad, college professors, steel workers, and the occasional coal miner. They all got along as many do in small towns. It was a heyday for steelworkers, who could support a family on one paycheck and an idyllic time for most. Fetterman knows the guys who go to work across the street and most aren’t hard to like. Fetterman was born with the proverbial silver spoon, but has spent enough time with working men and women to be deeply effected. I am sure the good old days are the 50s and 60s for them, just the days Donald Trump would like to bring back. Fetterman is a MAGA populist Republican, but hasn’t and might never realize it!
Good to know but didn’t he do all sorts of leftist crap when he was mayor and like ruined the town? His ideas led to even higher unemployment or was he listening to his communist wife?
I'm not certain he could have done much more to Braddock than the decline of Pittsburgh industry. To quote Wikipedia, a source I rarely use, but here is a sentence not possible to bias. "The population (of Braddock) was 1,721 as of the 2020 census, a 91.8% decline since its peak of 20,879 in 1920."
Having a freak stroke where the only reason he (Fetterman) survived was the right specialist was known to be visiting the Pittsburgh area (on a weekend as I recall) and pitched in to save him (yes, God works in mysterious ways) is the sort of sobering experience to make someone rethink all of their views and values. I'm not saying he will ever switch, but stranger things have happened. He had an accident driving home from DC recently making me realize he drives his own car.
Mebbe. Just thought he tried to make the town a utopia for leftist dreams is the article I read. It’s hard to be your own man in the Dem party. Once you step out of line they have everything lined up to take you out.
Check out the Wikipedia photos not really Utopia material, but, believe me, not at all atypical of the region, both steel and coal towns and I’ve seen a lot of both. Feterman was a rich kid from Sewickley as I recall, a fancy neighborhood of the Pittsburgh area. He might have tried the impossible.
My uncle (mother’s step brother) was a Democrat Committeeman in Washington County, PA. My father was a Republican Committeeman in an adjacent county in West Virginia. They were good friends, always sat together at family gatherings, and joked about their differences. Politics has changed and not for the better!
That’s a statement I wholeheartedly agree with! I recall days where you could debate with the other side and shake hands coming away with more knowledge than you went into it. I blame this on the media. Social and legacy. Finding the truth anymore is difficult but Substack has helped at least with finding investigative journalism and the few that are still left. Social media has made attention spans sparse and legacy media is all negative with the spin for either side and there isn’t any middle anymore. The left has gone too far and trying to unfuck what was done the last four years has been like pulling teeth. The right has been not much better as DOGE has shown because they voted too or turned a blind eye with OUR money. I’d love for us to get back to the middle again but I’m not sure that will ever happen and if I have to choose a side it sure isn’t going to be the one erasing women or censoring me.
Not the first time this occurred to me, but diming sunlight and then trying to use what is left seems a little counterproductive when you plan to count on it to drive wind for windmills and power solar farms.
It just makes no sense ‼️⁉️‼️
Ranked voting here in CA has worked really well for the donkeys to the disadvantage of the us others.
I don't understand why Ranked Choice voting is bad.
I may be wrong but I think it means one party could end up having all the highest ranked individuals therefore you would only have that one parties candidates to choose from at the end.
In California there are huge numbers of Democrats in the coastal and big city areas. Ranked choice voting means you will usually end up with two Democrats against each other in the final vote, not a Republican and a Democrat. On the last election, there were a crazy number of people running for office, 10 or 15 for Senator as I remember. Some of them were clearly running as a joke, too. In any case, the two top vote getters were of course Democrats, and that is usually the case. I'm surprised a Republican ever gets elected in this state. That is where we are headed.
CMCM, thanks, I think I'm getting the picture now. I had not looked at it that way. It could easily make it impossible to stay with your preferred party. Tricky.
RECALL the lot with the Second Amendment.
I resemble that meme of trying to read labels at the grocery stores ‼️⁉️‼️
🤷♀️🤷🤷🏻♂️
I don’t venture into the center of grocery stores, much, doing most of my shopping on the periphery, unless I’m at Costco 😉, since most of what I eat comes out of the meat coolers or the veggie aisle. When I do meander off my usual track I still tend to buy foods that are almost elemental in nature - rice, pasta, dried beans/peas (pulses), tea, tinned fish and (forgive me) crackers 😂 Not much for canned plants but it’s difficult to find hominy any other way. What I’ve noticed over the past… 🤔 , since roughly 2000, is that these elemental foods seem to be taking up less&less shelf space, replaced by cans and frozen bags&boxes of prepared meals; and meal kits - which may be an improvement. I don’t recognize much of what goes into these non-elemental foods and it’s getting more difficult each year to pronounce the names of these "ingredients."
I suggest you try cooking dried beans. I get mine from Rancho Gordo. They sell a nyxtamilized hominy (dried) which makes a fine posole. They also sell cookbooks, I bought them all. Lots of simple recipes with few ingredients.
You will still need veggies like chilis, onions plus salad greens.
I love crackers, but enjoy locally made ones with no GM ingredients. Luckily I have a good selection.
I don't either except that it is hard to keep my husband from wandering over to the middle aisles. Since he's the cart conductor, we get home with items that weren't on my list⁉️‼️⁉️🤷🏻♂️🤷🤷♀️
I have also stopped buying almond milk because I recently heard that it has SEED OILS⁉️‼️⁉️
There is so much contradicting information and I'm totally confused 😕
I can't picture an almond being milked, can you?
I think its done by pressing the nut (sans shell).
Oh too too funny!
I guess it's like milking a snake‼️⁉️‼️🤔
Thanks for the laugh!
AG, it’s not just contradictory info, they change the info from year to year. Don’t even need to delve into the lowfat/nofat controversies, the "to carb or not to carb" silliness, diet soda is the elixir of the rotund - NOT! ( sorry POTUS ); I went thru 3 cervical collars keeping up with the coffee-good/coffee-bad reports ( eventually decided it was less expensive to switch to tea - and I think better for my GI health 😉).
I try to keep my food rules fairly simple: if I grow it I can eat it with little restraint ( the only exception so far is fresh corn on the cob - I learned personally why cattle are fed corn for fattening (and that was w/o buttering - fresh corn doesn’t need it)), too many ingredients at some point transforms "food" into "wasfood," etc.; and finally, if there’s any dark chocolate involved then I’ve been known to throw caution to the wind and fair food is exempt - especially if you walk to the fair.
Enjoyed the A.I. short - but really, just an updated shorter version of "Her." Ya’know, we have bio-ethicists, medical ethicists, we have intimate scene ethicists on production sets — why don’t we have more prominent "Tech-Ethicists?" We’re already having issues of integrating tech into society (our brains are being asked to accommodate too much too quickly) with children/teens/even adults unable to balance "social apps" into some sort of life balance. While I’m generally positive In my tech views - 1st computer interactions beginning in early 70s, couple dozen "computers" of one sort or another in my dwelling, another couple dozen microcontrollers laying about (distinct from the microprocessors (CPUs) in computers), 50+TB of storage, I am concerned how this is impacting our social and "political" structure.
When information flow moves faster than the average human can digest, it doesn’t take much for errant info to skew perceptions; when errant information is intentional…
What’s it going to be like when these A.I.s, based on the programming they (it) receive begin to further tailor individual’s newz/info for a particular result. I think we’re already seeing this - I don’t think Tik-Tok is a benign short video service; similarly, despite their protestations to the contrary, our own "native" social media/search engine entities have nefarious skill sets.
"but really, just an updated shorter version of "Her.""
Yeh, I thought that, too - but it was a good reminder...
"Tech-ethicists' - Amen to that!
Looked it up: "Her" is streaming (free) on Prime Video - first time I’m aware of it being available on those services I subscribe to. Was gonna watch tonight but opted to abuse myself with a ½ marathon on the erg (between a podcast on the stereo and my momma cat demanding dessert (kibble) it goes by fairly quick).
Great funnies this Sunday Docs! My faves are the Fetterman one, the grocery store confusion (my world!) and what Elon said about NGO scams. Love the pic of you both and several other Conservative heroes! Rock on and thank you! 💛💛
You are right Dr Malone, regarding the globalists taking over, here in Australia, yesterday (Sunday) our Federal election chose "unbelievably" (in my view) to re-elect the previous government that had the VERY widespread reputation of "the worst and most inefficient government in living memory". That is a true and fair sampling of Many of our top rated commentators etc (AND ME)! The end result which I am yet in NO WAY ready to come to terms with is :- We The Australia People have re installed a communist headed government for another three year term. I am yet unsure of HOW the globalists organised this, but I am sure they did. God help Australia.
Always grateful for these funnies that Dr Jill has so graciously toiled to bring to us and for some reason today causes me to remember Freud's Theory of Humor, a book I read in grad school. In which he claims that humor moves our unconscious --specifically, jokes can be powerful because they release responses in us in which we are otherwise, for whatever reason, forbidden to hold and harbor; and in this manner jokes have a liberating, cathartic effect. Often, the funnier they are, the closer they are to the bone. Or vice versa.
Also humbled and grateful for the comments here, today especially for the goosebump-causing link shared of Secretariat winning the Triple Crown in 1973, and for the discussions about the vagaries of the earth's magnetism causing the numerous power shortages within the past week.
Thanks to all who contribute to tickle our funny bones and our curiosity for those of us, like me, who have not kept up on our physics and need the nudge.
Thank you all, and especially Malones for hosting our party.
Doctors Malone run with a great crowd of people.
You sure do hang out with the best of the cool kids!
Ranked choice voting is the best way to destroy conservatives. We fought it and won in Idaho. Here’s an article we put together to explain and combat this terrible attempt to destroy our elections: https://tinyurl.com/33972hyy
I feel that ranked choice voting is unconstitutional. Each citizen should have one vote. Nobody should be able to take that vote and redistribute it to another person.
Now Oregon’s going to do this BS
Thanks for the Sunday lift!!
If sense was common we wouldn't have to say it.
Amen!
Wascally wabbitt! Love it. (not Tim). Back when cartoons were drawn by real people with talent.