Written a year ago, far more true today........

IF YOU HAD IT TO DO ALL OVER AGAIN 

I left Minnesota in January of 1979 on a blowing snowy, minus 30 below zero day and never looked back on my way to find what little fame and fortune might be in store for me. I had been trapping fox all fall and had a beautiful nest egg in a local bank that I figured should last me until I could find a job doing what I wanted to do. That took about 15 years but better late than never. In So Cal I had bought into the mantra of "he who travels alone travels farthest" so the San Diego beaches and associated "talent pool" provided far more diversity than just a muley or whitey if you get my drift so it took a bit for me to slow down, married at 37 and realize I probably should have married earlier but wouldn't have been able to meet and marry my partner in life for the last 33 years. I only wish we had met far sooner.

As for me, Dean Parisian, I believe the purpose of life is the pursuit of happiness and achievement, and that the voluntary transactions that flow naturally out of an enterprise system are the key to peace and material and personal freedom. Happiness means different things to different people. Freedom is a big deal to me. Freedom to roam, to spend my time doing what I want to do has much to do with my happiness. I have learned that many people don't want freedom, they don't relish freedom, they spend more time trying to save money than invest money, they waste time doing things that will never enhance their net worth and hence give them more freedom in years to come. I tell this to my sons all the time, people do what THEY WANT TO DO. So always, watch what they do, not so much what they say.

Here is an analogy for those who think things will just happen for them without doing the work.

Have you ever seen an eagle sitting on a branch with its mouth open to the heavens waiting for a rabbit to drop in? No. Those big, beautiful, majestic eagles scratch and claw for every meal they get their entire life, and in that scratching and clawing they are always provided for.

Humans tend to think we can get our life, our health, our marriage, our children, our career, our giving/contributions, our key relationships, and other areas of our life to a certain place without scratching and clawing first, without doing the work.

Extremely successful people are no happier than the rest of us and they struggle just as much or more than average people. The satisfaction of my success doesn't come from achieving my goals but from struggling well. Struggling gives one strength. The happiest people discover their own nature and match their life to it. Match your life to what you want, it's not that hard because it's all about work. Do the work. Be consistent. Work at life, stop paying lip service, just do it. Work harder on understanding, work harder on loving, work harder on helping others. Work is the only thing you can control that will shape your life. Work to be someone you never thought you could.

For you young guys looking for a significant other here is my story. It's the only one I have. I was a couple years into a romantic relationship when it finally hit me that I was spending much more time working on the relationship than enjoying it. You shouldn't have to work at loving someone and being compatible with them! Letting go and ending that relationship was painful, but it was the right decision. She found a happy marriage and family life, and I recently celebrated my 31st wedding anniversary with my soulmate and our very loved family.

After I had reached a level of financial success that attracted women "who were just crazy about me" I had to learn the hard way that most of them (95%) were nothing but a life support system for a pu$$y. I was in San Diego so that might explain a lot of it but those women were vipers. The advice I give to young guys is to wait until they find a girl who appreciates what he has accomplished (in whatever job he does) and mainly wants to be emotionally secure and have a guy who will always be loyal to her. Loyalty has to be a two-way street. A marriage like that can accomplish wonders. So remember, you can't change what's going on around you until you change what is going on within you.

As well, we have to develop peace on the inside before we can be peaceful on the outside. You can't let idiots, hypocrites, negative past coaches, negative family members, or certain "religious leaders" keep you from developing goodness within your own spirit. The amount of negativity out there these days is almost intolerable. I shut the news off a long time ago. All news. Off.

I had a nickname in college, DREAMER, and it still sticks today. To me, I believed in making dreams happen. The pursuit of your dreams is what life should be about. You need YOUR dreams and your reality and determination to create YOUR successful life.

Today I put a down payment on a home in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. I call it my first investment property. I feel it is an investment in my health. Sure, there are risks, hurricanes, political issues, currency issues, and on and on and on to worry about but why worry? We aren't in control any more than Biden is cognitively healthy.

At 68 years old, I try to read more, pray more, be more consistent in my gratitude, eat better, and exercise more, until I can't work at doing those things anymore. Just the air we breathe is a gift and that's easy to take for granted. Life can be tough for all of us at times so remember this, tomorrow is a new day and I hope for the best for anyone working and struggling in life.

Probaby where we are at today....................

Well put.   Worth your time to read if you invest in stocks. 

And this too shall pass when it's least expected!

The week got off to a great start.  January is not going out with a whimper.

It's a leap year.

Beware the Ides of March!

It was a good day on the turret.  Raised some cash last week, sold off several positions, and trimmed by half some other positions.  Today, sold call options on some long-term holdings that are well out of the money.  Free money, who knows but every little bit always added up.  I have been a call option seller since 1983.  The last long call option I have ever bought was on the original breakup of ATT shares when I worked at Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc.  Haven't bought a long call option since but have sold literally thousands upon thousands of call options since.  Grinder, sure.  Time is a wasting asset on a long call, I will always play the part of the house for my take.  SOFI turned in some good numbers today and helped the Parisian Family Office.

Thank you SOFI!

I didn't make it in the ocean today but there is enough lightning and rain in Los Cabos today to get my attention and stay out of the water.

 

BUCKHORN EXCHANGE Denver

Denver has had this restaurant in a museum a long time! It is the oldest restaurant in Colorado.   Last night, three of us dropped in for what we thought would be an excellent meal. Total failure on many fronts but let’s start with the awful steak cuts we were served.  Old cows aren’t my idea of great steak.   My steak (WAY OVERPRICED) was tougher than the leather on my spurs or saddle!   The stringy meat was so tough I could barely cut it.   All 3 of us were totally disgusted.  The calamari appetizer was atrocious.  I have eaten at Sonny Lubicks Steak House in Ft Collins several times.   In comparison to the Buckhorn Exchange that I rate a 2 or 3 on a 1 to 10 scale, Sonny Lubicks I would rate a 9.  The service was okay but one of us ordered salmon and was served a terrible steak!   How about that for making a customer happy?    It’s been 30 years since I last went to the Buckhorn Exchange.  It was my last night to ever walk in there!  Save your money and eat someplace else that serves good steak and is not overpriced.  You’ll thank me!

Los Cabos, Covid "FOG" and Markets

When the market rallied hard last fall I was in the throes of Covid.   I had a hit list of names that I continually monitor and massage and was able to take rather aggressive action.  I wasn't close to being 100% either physically or mentally and am still bothered by COVID FOG.  Not certain what it is other than old age or dementia but seems to be improving!   

In the market this week I have been selling full positions and cutting back positions.  I am not acting on the charts.  Just a feel for froth, greed, and exuberance.  Time to go short?  Not a clue.  The charts will tell me that.

Just 40 years of educating myself, working hard, and staying focused.

It was a good fall, went hunting, and had some holiday fun.  Even made a few bucks today!

Markets will humble the best of traders.  Playing defense is the first rule.  The second rule is to not forget the first rule.

I hope the beautiful sunshine in Cabo and ocean swims will cure the Covid fog!

    

Man Cave!

 

The whole truth and nothing but the truth................

I'm a member of the White Earth Chippewa Tribe. I didn't choose my parents. I grew up on many reservations. Most tribes at every turn have been ripped off by their tribal council members. Look at my tribe or the Crow tribe. Crow had 3 Tribal Chairman go to the Federal Pen. In 1988 they threw the Indians a bone to allow for casino gaming, to try to let them make a few bucks. The something-for-nothing mentality of gaming!

The American Dream does not sneak up on you and hit you over the head with a baseball bat. If not here? Where? If not now? When? If not you? Who? Success is where opportunity and hard work meet. At 14 I was hauling bales working in a hot hay field in North Dakota. At 15 I hired out to a ranch in Montana while my parents lived on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. My summer job all through High school was working on a ranch in Montana. Pay was $200 per month working 6 days a week. My last year it increased to $300 per month. Wow.

Know what? I have worked 55 years of my 70 on this planet. I am tired. You want a good life? Work for it. Strap it on. Forget your skin color. Grow a pair and shut the fuck up and work your ass off. Think it is better elsewhere? Then fucking move. Or shut the fuck up.

Sports Illustrated

They didn't learn from Bud Light.

Putting a chick with a dick in the SWIMSUIT edition was WOKE over-the-top. 

Now into the dust bin of history. 

And my gas guzzling Ford trucks are going to change the planet? GMAFB

Global coal demand likely rose by 1.4% in 2023 and surpassed a record-high level of 8.5 billion tons for the first time, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in a report in December.

Moreover, the three top coal producers in the world – China, India, and Indonesia – are boosting production, which is reaching new highs, the IEA said in its Coal 2023 annual  report.

While coal demand in the United States and the EU was set for a 20% record decline in 2023, coal use in emerging economies “remains very strong, increasing by 8% in India and by 5% in China in 2023 due to rising demand for electricity and weak hydropower output,” the IEA said.

Ben Carson, M.D., Great American talking straight................

"I have operated on thousands of people throughout my career.

Every time the skin was peeled back, the brain was the same color, loaded with the same amount of potential. We need to end the “victim” mentality that consumes this country.

You can be anything you want to be, you just have to work hard! That’s America! That’s the dream! I am living proof of that! Go make it a great day today! Work hard! You’re in America! No dream is too small!"

BitCoin, Tether, and B.S. across America

Cantor Fitzgerald CEO On Tether Reserves: "They Have The Money"

Silicon Valley Bank CEO:  "Our balance sheet is strong."

Enron CEO: "I can assure you our company ethics is beyond reproach."

Bear Stearns is FINE!

Inflation is TRANSITORY!

I DID NOT have sex with that woman!

I won this belt buckle at a rodeo.

My 4-wheel drive is paid for.

Two weeks to break the curve.

Safe and effective.

Ft. Knox has all the gold. 

The check is in the mail.

"Trust me, I'm a banker."

While the SEC goes after all other so-called stablecoins, Tether, for some peculiar reason is flying completely cloaked in secrecy without any questions. 

FIRE!!!

If you don't know by now I love a wood fire in the fireplace.   I love to chop wood, cut wood, split wood, and burn wood.   

On a rather chilly day in TN, I have been working with some wood and keep coming back to a rather harsh reality.  You see, I am one of those who believe that the United States and its beautiful, creative, hard-working citizens are the single greatest experiment in human history.

All day I've been thinking about this, and want to ask you;  don't you think it is rather weird or odd or unusual that the President of the United States of America has dementia and no one you know, cares or gives a dam about it?

Death at GHOST RANCH

This video was taken by a friend whom I have hunted with for about 35 years.  We have a lot of miles under us. He was surprised at the carnage. Expand to FULL SCREEN to look at death on my Montana Ranch.  We have lost as many as 60 deer in the winter but usually find around 30 carcasses in the spring.  One year, we had a bobcat dine on about 25 animals.  Cold temperatures will get the predators doing what they do best.  The circle of life.  It is what it is.  No one gets out alive.  

Hey, YOU, American taxpayer, WAKE UP!!!

It's what you work for ladies and gentlemen.  It's what you toil for weekly.  It's where your tax dollars have been squandered.  Read this and weep!   

SPLIT. Ukrainian Military and Zelensky!

YOU, yes, YOU should read this! Will give you some insight.

The ONLY HARVARD law suit that matters

Obvious! Clear as a bell ringing in the Artic

From my seat here at Pamelot it seems the plan hatched by the DNC is to keep Biden on the ticket until the Democratic primaries are over and then appoint their favorite candidate. 

This bypasses all the ugliness of an open debate format given Biden's feeble state and decreases the risk that primary voters actually have a say in who they can and will select as their presidential candidate.

No doubt in my feeble mind that Biden will get bounced sometime after Super Tuesday and the Pennsylvania primary in late April.

Obama is in control. 

Want to bet?

And one more thing while I am still at the turret.  They found Hunter Biden's stash of cocaine IN THE WHITE HOUSE.  Do you think anyone in Congress will ask him about that today?

The GREATEST at WORK

Over the weekend I was going through some old material here in my office.

Kept thinking back to the greatest artistic talent I have ever seen.

He could do it all.  

Footwork, attitude, movement, voice, vibe, speed, talent on loan from God!   I liked to go out to some clubs once in a while in San Diego back in the 1980s and bust a move.  D.O. Mills comes to mind, Flanigans, Diego's, it was all there just for asking.

This choreography and that of his mates is hard to fathom!

Truly the KING!

The Greatest at Work!

    

Without admitting or denying.............

That phrase keeps them in business.......... sick, twisted, legalese for guilty as charged, guilty as hell, guilty as sin.

Washington D.C., July 24, 2019 —

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against Facebook Inc. for making misleading disclosures regarding the risk of misuse of Facebook user data.  For more than two years, Facebook’s public disclosures presented the risk of misuse of user data as merely hypothetical when Facebook knew that a third-party developer had actually misused Facebook user data.  Public companies must identify and consider the material risks to their business and have procedures designed to make disclosures that are accurate in all material respects, including not continuing to describe a risk as hypothetical when it has in fact happened.

Facebook has agreed to pay $100 million to settle the charges.

According to the SEC’s complaint, in 2014 and 2015, the now-defunct advertising and data analytics company, Cambridge Analytica, paid an academic researcher, through a company he controlled, to collect and transfer data from Facebook to create personality scores for approximately 30 million Americans.  In addition to the personality scores, the researcher, in violation of Facebook’s policies, also transferred to Cambridge Analytica the underlying Facebook user data, including names, genders, locations, birthdays, and “page likes.”  Cambridge Analytica used this information in connection with its political advertising activities. 

The SEC’s complaint alleges that Facebook discovered the misuse of its users’ information in 2015, but did not correct its existing disclosure for more than two years.  Instead, Facebook continued to tell investors that “our users’ data may be improperly accessed, used or disclosed.” (emphasis added)  According to the SEC complaint, Facebook reinforced this false impression when it told news reporters who were investigating Cambridge Analytica’s use of Facebook user data that it had discovered no evidence of wrongdoing.  When the company finally did disclose the incident in March 2018, its stock price dropped.

The complaint further alleges that during this two-year period, Facebook had no specific policies or procedures in place to assess the results of their investigation for the purposes of making accurate disclosures in Facebook’s public filings.

“Public companies must accurately describe the material risks to their business,” said Stephanie Avakian, Co-Director of the SEC’s Enforcement Division.  “As alleged in our complaint, Facebook presented the risk of misuse of user data as hypothetical when they knew user data had in fact been misused.  Public companies must have procedures in place to make accurate disclosures about material business risks.”

“We allege that Facebook exacerbated its disclosure failures when it misled reporters who asked the company about its investigation into Cambridge Analytica,” said Erin E. Schneider, Director of the SEC’s San Francisco Regional Office.  “This gave further weight to Facebook’s misleading statements in its public filings.”

Without admitting or denying the SEC’s allegations, Facebook has agreed to the entry of a final judgment ordering a $100 million penalty and permanently enjoining it from violating Sections 17(a)(2) and 17(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 13(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and Rules 12b-20, 13a-1, 13a-13, and 13a-15(a) thereunder.

The 80's

Be honest.   Admit it.

The 1980s should be a tourist destination.

Timing is everything.  When I left Minnesota for San Diego in 1979 the temperature was about 30 degrees below zero. It was a long drive.  Saying goodbye to my grandparents' was a tough one.  Shed tears from Hancock, MN to Sioux Falls, SD!  Non-stop.

In 1984, one of the people who helped me get to the Drexel Burnham Lambert office in LaJolla, California was Cynthia Ekberg Tsai.  With an ocean view, migrating whales, and plenty of beauty it was a superb location to work and play. 

She made the call to get me an interview.  

Forever grateful.  Thank you, Cynthia.

I believed that I could, so I did,  I had no handouts.  No rich parents.  No assistance.  No favors.

Straight ambition.  Straight hunger.  Straight hustle.

Four Winds Treasury Money Market Fund, 24 years ago already!

It was a good idea.   The Canadians we dealt with were some of the biggest bullshit artists I have ever met in my life.  They didn't even try to pretend they weren't liars.   The guys at Federated were great.  Honest and did what they said they would do.   

Don't Let the Old Man In

 

January 6

The single biggest insurrectionist in America today, without question, is President Joseph Biden. 

His failure to secure the borders of the United States of America is valid grounds for charges of treason and conspiracy.  

Thank your Creator you don't have to live and deal with this quagmire of human flesh near you today or tomorrow. 

You are only helping pay for them, today and for all of your tomorrows ahead!

The infamous A.G. BILL BARR talking ..........

Bill Barr.  Former Attorney General of the United States.

He made a few bucks off the failed ATT merger as well if memory serves.

As a side note, what a cluster of inept management at the ATT company today...........the same guys who ran that once great company into the ground, the same worthless Board of Directors who allowed those guys to run the company into the ground, the same clowns running the company today, (disclaimer, I no longer own a single share of ATT, symbol T, for obvious reasons, I want to own companies with great management teams).   All of the hundreds of thousands of great employees gone, the dividend cut so low, the lack of operating talent, it just never ends.  And ATT tossed Bill Barr a few bucks along the way to "help" with his magnificent lawyering skills!   What a hoot! 

Read this article if you want some honest analysis of Jeffrey Epstein's death.  It has some Bill Barr commentary for you to digest!

Mark Epstein Analysis of Jeffs's Death! 

FALL, 2023, a Review

It was fun. Really fun.   Getting Covid in November throttled my effort (and memory) but was able to rally.  My golf game needs work for sure.  My shooting, not so much, but I still practice. The coyotes caught hell, I love thumping fawn killers!  Now at the age of 70, let us eat the finest meats and cheeses and an occasional fine wine!

I look forward to 2024.  The best is yet to come!     

Took longer to set out the decoys than to dump a limit of Canadians on the Ghost Ranch!

Celestial dirt nap for a fawn killer on Ghost Ranch.

Colorado mule deer.  Big boys are big for a reason!

 

Was naked when I pulled the trigger to drop this TN coyote.  And you wonder how that happened?  Only the birds n bees know for sure!

The Covid buck.  6 x 5    A Montana GHOST RANCH buck.

Made the best of slowing down a wide-open herd bull!

Christmas Day golf at our winter camp, CASA TULE', in Los Cabos, Mexico. 

Youth

We all get to be young.   Not all get to be old.

It was the Poole brothers, Reuben and Creel that got us hunting in the Mussellshell River Country of Montana.  These pictures were taken in 1997 before cell phones.   Time went by and things evolved and now, I own a ranch on the Yellowstone River in Montana, truly God's Last Great Place.   In the 1980's a hunter could harvest 5 antlerless deer per season, back when the government trappers were using M44 cyanide devices and coyote numbers were cut.   

  

Sickeness Depravity in MEDIA

Sick MEDIA for the world to see!

Where is here? Is he here or there?

The supposed leader of the greatest country on the planet.  

Your intelligence level is impressive if you voted for this clown.

Basement Biden is WHERE? 

Elon Musk

I have a long list of people around the world I admire that would be a hoot to dine with.

Elon Musk is one of them.  

@elonmusk    Jan 3   The @AP has the woke mind virus growing out of its head like a giant mushroom!

In case you have been living under a rock or under the DNC mantra you have to realize that X, (formerly called TWITTER) is one of the last mediums for free speech on Earth!

Ukraine and weep.............

I have had some good friends from the Ukraine.  I, and probably you, would like to know where the $200,000,000,000 that America printed and indebted both you and me to send to Ukraine?  How many billionaires did we mint?

It's an election year.  The stooges have had enough it seems. You aren't getting any thank-you's from Ukraine?  Awwww, shucks, your generosity is astounding. 

Zelensky has pocketed his billions, he's in good shape.  Funny how a guy who dresses up like a janitor can be so rich (with your $$$$)!   The guy literally reminds me of Chip Wadena!  (Google Chip Wadena, he still owes every penny he stole to my tribe, the White Earth Band of Chippewa.

No sooner do we exit Afghanistan after a couple of decades of spending trillions of dollars and get humiliated and then we start a war in Ukraine against Russia and get humiliated after squandering billions and billions of dollars.  The United States spends a trillion dollars every year on the Military Industrial Complex.  Will anyone in Congress who you voted for be held accountable for pissing away over $200 BILLION in Ukraine? 

Imagine that money being spent on research, healthcare, or even education? 

If you think about it, if that money were to be spent wisely our borders would probably be secure. 

Read TWICE!

If you read nothing but your social media that creates the dopamine to make you log into the bullshit and depravity you will want to educate yourself on issues that will surely affect you and America in 2024!

2023 BEST of Zero Hedge!!!!

Hiked in to 2024!