Welcome back to our "Cozy Log Home DIY" series! In Episode 2‚ we're thrilled to share our journey of completing the excavation for our budget-friendly cabin's foundation. Join us as we navigate through the challenges and triumphs of laying the groundwork for our dream log home‚ with a special spotlight on our trusty Caterpillar mini excavator. 🏡✨ 🚜 Caterpillar Mini Excavator to the Rescue: This episode is a testament to why at Wranglerstar‚ we believe Caterpillar makes the best tractors. Watch as our Caterpillar mini excavator not only performs the critical task of excavation with unparalleled precision but also becomes our hero by rescuing our old Ford from the mud — not once‚ but twice! Its versatility and strength showcase the indispensable role it plays in our project‚ reinforcing our trust in Caterpillar's reliability for all our heavy-duty tasks. 💡 What You'll Learn: Effective Excavation: Dive into our strategies for planning and executing the foundation's excavation‚ ensuring a solid base for our cozy log cabin. Caterpillar Mastery: Discover how we maximize the potential of our Caterpillar mini excavator‚ from excavation to unexpected rescues. DIY Insights: Gain practical tips and tricks for managing your DIY project‚ focusing on sustainability‚ cost-efficiency‚ and overcoming obstacles. Budget Building: Learn how we're keeping our log home project affordable without compromising on quality or our eco-conscious values. 🛠 We Want to Hear From You! Have you tackled a DIY building project or faced challenges similar to ours? Maybe you have insights on using heavy machinery like our Caterpillar mini excavator? Drop us a comment below! Your experiences and tips are invaluable to our community‚ and together‚ we can build something incredible. 🔔 Stay Updated on Our Adventure: Don't miss any step of our cozy log home build — subscribe and hit the bell for notifications. Our series is packed with valuable advice‚ innovative solutions‚ and the real-life highs and lows of building a budget-friendly‚ sustainable log home. 👍 Show Your Support: If our journey with the Caterpillar mini excavator or the thrilling mud rescues captivated you‚ show some love! Like‚ share this video with fellow DIY enthusiasts‚ and comment your thoughts below. Your support is our greatest motivation and keeps this exciting project moving forward. #LogHomeDIY #CaterpillarMiniExcavator #BudgetBuild #SustainableLiving #DIYConstruction

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Do you have a gaggle of nieces and nephews? Or perhaps you have a niece or a nephew who self-identifies as “non-binary.” Either way‚ Merriam-Webster has a new term just for you: Nibling. On today’s episode of The Spectator P.M. Podcast hosts Ellie Gardey and Aubrey Gulick sit down to discuss everything wrong with the word and talk about the Left’s hijacking and butchering of the English language to meet its ideological ends. (READ MORE: The LGBTQ Conquest of America) Tune in to hear their analysis! Like and share The Spectator P.M. Podcast‚ and be sure to tune in to our next episode! Read Aubrey and Ellie’s writing here and here. Listen to the Spectator P.M. Podcast with Aubrey Gulick and Ellie Gardey on Spotify. Watch the Spectator P.M. Podcast with Aubrey Gulick and Ellie Gardey on Rumble. READ MORE: Exorcisms‚ Floating Objects‚ and Trances: New Evidence Shows Ruby Franke’s Religious Extremism Motivated Child Abuse The post <;i>;The Spectator P.M. Podcast<;/i>; Ep. 35: What on Earth Is a ’Nibling’? appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

I picture the economists who take part in the New York Times guest essays as people wearing loincloths‚ with painted faces‚ making their predictions after consulting with the sun king‚ following three days of fasting in the mountains‚ whilst feeding only on hallucinogenic mushrooms. The economist of reference there is Paul Krugman‚ famous for his political activism and scientific sloppiness‚ but often the others are even more insane than he is‚ if that is possible. I just read the essay “I’m an Economist. Don’t Worry. Be Happy‚” and I fear that Justin Wolfers‚ its author‚ is a cross between Paulo Coelho and Nostradamus.  If I understood it correctly‚ the central thesis of the article is that inflation is an optical illusion. That is‚ things are not more expensive‚ simply “the world has a lot more zeros in it‚ but nothing has really changed.” So you don’t have to worry about anything. Besides‚ I’m guessing that Wolfers figures that as he was taught at school that zero has no value‚ it doesn’t matter if you have one zero or 1‚000 zeros‚ because they all amount to nothing.  READ MORE from Itxu Díaz: The Bloodbath Hoax Requires an Incendiary Rant Against Childhood Friends The professor defends that the state of panic that is settling in the public opinion due to inflation can be put down to some kind of mental disorder. Yes‚ he believes that those who have economic anxiety should go to their therapist to get help controlling their nervous system. According to the postmodern left‚ this is how things look: Biden‚ who has one foot in the grave and one foot in a parallel universe‚ does not need to see a specialist. Those who have “climate anxiety” are not crazy. Those who consider it reasonable to amputate their testicles to try to change sex do not need the help of a psychologist. On the other hand‚ the worker or the housewife who can no longer do the shopping they used to do at the supermarket because‚ quite simply‚ they cannot afford to thanks to the wild inflation that half the West is experiencing‚ needs to go to a psychiatrist to be convinced that it is not so bad‚ that it is just a matter of a few more unimportant zeros. It was foreseeable that it would come to this. The Left has gone mad to the point of no return. It is no longer enough for them to deny reality‚ or to mold it to their interests‚ they need to go one step beyond and‚ as happens with lunatics and drunks‚ blame everyone else for their delusions. The truth is that the madness that ails the progressives of our time is unhealthier than that which afflicted past progressives. Traditional crazies‚ like traditional drunks‚ used to tell the truth. But the insanity of the left does not involve truth-telling. In fact the New York Times essayist asserts that inflation is unimportant because wages are also going up just as commodities are going up. I bet a glance at your monthly paycheck is enough to disprove such a biased and mutilated assessment of the economic situation. All to avoid telling things like they are: that Biden is failing again and again in his attempts to contain inflation‚ and that‚ yes‚ the U.S. economy‚ like that of several large European countries that only just manage to survive under socialist or social democratic regimes‚ is the victim of a silent depression that left-wing governments insist on denying‚ as if that could change reality.  I miss those madmen and drunks of yesteryear. Those who spoke the truth even if it was politically incorrect. Today’s progressive madness is more like a diabolical possession than a true mental derangement. They act like propaganda armies‚ they lack critical sense‚ and their only obsession is to silence the dissenter; and if the dissenter is not flesh and blood but is in fact reality itself (as is the case of supermarket price tags)‚ then they try to silence the truth. An old Spanish joke‚ I don’t know if it has versions in other languages‚ tells of how a drunkard and a woman bump into each other on the street. The inebriated man spits out at her: “You are disgustingly ugly!” And the woman answers him angrily: “You are disgustingly drunk!” And the drunken man settles the dispute: “Yes‚ but I won’t be tomorrow!” As you can see‚ it is not so hard to show sanity even when you are crazy‚ nor to have a moment of lucidity in the middle of a drunken binge. Maybe our friend Wolfers should try it again. “Be happy” is the craziest advice I’ve ever heard from an economist. I wouldn’t be surprised if he read it on a coffee mug somewhere.  Translated by Joel Dalmau. Buy Itxu Díaz’s new book‚ I Will Not Eat Crickets: An Angry Satirist Declares War on the Globalist Elite‚ here today! The post <;i>;New York Times<;/i>;: the Country Is Going to Hell‚ but Be Happy appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Joe Biden once called Robert F. Kennedy “the man who I guess I admire more than anyone else in American politics.” The former attorney general’s namesake does not provoke similar feelings in the president. RELATED: The Censorship Lobby Is Worried About … Censorship? As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Erin Burnett in a very fair — and therefore novel for cable news — and mesmerizing interview Monday evening‚ the Biden administration still refuses to give him (the son of an assassinated presidential candidate) Secret Service protection. While the interview did CNN (and the candidate) much credit‚ the distorted coverage of it told everyone what they already knew about the media. Though Kennedy offered‚ “I’m not going to answer that question‚” in response to whether Donald Trump or Biden posed the bigger threat to democracy‚ many media outlets ignored that caveat and recrafted Kennedy saying he could make a case for Biden as him categorically labeling Biden the worse threat. He actually said: “I can make the argument that President Biden is a much worse threat to democracy‚ and the reason for that is President Biden is the first candidate in history — the first president in history that has used the federal agencies to censor political speech‚ so to censor his opponent. I can say that because I just won a case in the federal court of appeals and now before the Supreme Court that shows that he started censoring not just me — 37 hours after he took the oath of office — he was censoring me. No president of the country has ever done that. The greatest threat to democracy is not somebody who questions election returns but a president of the United States who uses the power of his office to force the social media companies — Facebook‚ Instagram‚ Twitter — to open a portal and give access to that portal to the FBI‚ to the CIA‚ to the IRS‚ to CISA‚ to NIH to censor his political critics.” Kennedy‚ despite sounding as though he’s 145-years-old and not the youngest of the five presidential candidates registering in polls‚ garners anywhere from 3 to 15 percent in recent national surveys. The candidate wondered to Burnett‚ “What president in history has ever tried to censor political opponents?” Few as brazenly as Joe Biden — and the federal government blocking Kennedy’s posts on ostensibly privately controlled social media sites undoubtedly motivates his run. But students of history grasp that Joe Biden did not merely plagiarize the speeches of President Kennedy and his attorney general. The Censorship State aggressively overseen by Joe Biden traces its genealogy to the same places Robert Kennedy Jr. traces his. During Kennedy’s uncle’s presidential administration‚ his father authorized warrantless wiretaps on various political enemies. Targets included a congressional staffer and lobbyists connected to efforts to restore sugar imports from the Dominican Republic. The president and his brother sicced the Central Intelligence Agency on several journalists who invoked the administration’s ire‚ including Pulitzer Prize–winner Hanson Baldwin of the New York Times. When an aide at a meeting attended by both the president and his attorney general suggested bypassing the FBI for the CIA in investigating these American citizens‚ John Kennedy responded: “That’s a very good idea. We’ll do that.” Matthew Dallek in Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right wrote of Attorney General Robert Kennedy’s interest in the John Birch Society that “the FBI under his command opened an investigation of the movement with an extensive undercover operation.” This included Anti-Defamation League activists surreptitiously running credit reports on JBS members‚ posing as Birchers to join white supremacist groups‚ and transcribing license plates in parking lots outside of the group’s meetings. The ADL “Birch Watchers” sent reports to the FBI. Most infamously‚ President Kennedy and Attorney General Kennedy authorized bugging and other surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr.‚ the results of which — like the dirt gathered on the Birchers — not-so mysteriously wound up in the hands of journalists. To put this in context‚ President Kennedy went down a trail blazed by predecessors Franklin Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson‚ both of whom used wars as justifications to silence‚ harass‚ and bully political enemies. It did not start with John Kennedy and his brother Robert. The Biden administration’s censorship of RFK Jr. shows it did not end with them‚ either. Good for Robert Kennedy Jr. for highlighting the Censorship State on a cable channel long acting as its booster sheet. But to effectively fight something planted as deeply as the Censorship State‚ it helps when one can accurately trace its roots. The post What Robert Kennedy Jr. Held Back From His Counterpunch of the Censorship State appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.