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Life is Good: You’re Ready to Protect Your Turf

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You’re telling me your life is good and, in times like these, it is so great to hear. You’re telling me, especially if you’re retired, that your life hasn’t changed all that much. No, you don’t see family as much (you’re looking forward to the 4th when you might), but you’re keeping busy. Here are […]

Be Ready to Defend Yourself and Family

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UPDATE: You read back in April of 2015 below that you must be ready to defend yourself and your family. Today’s chaos puts a fine point on that statement. Don’t lose a step on your self-defense skills, practice diligently so you are ready to defend yourself and your family.  Originally posted April 14, 2015. You […]

Welcome to Phase 3 in Rhode Island: Bring Your Permission Slip

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Coronavirus Infects Stock Market: Part LXII Welcome to Phase 3 in Rhode Island, where front-page news is “Weddings, Movies, Music (are) on with Masks,” and “A New World: Should the Columbus Statue in Newport be Removed?” Talk about pressing matters. You’re in Rhode Island now, where the governor has gone wild. That’s right, Gov. Gina […]

Life Changes Fast: Need a Boost? Here’s Why I Did

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Coronavirus Infects Stock Market: Part LXI You know, as Your Survival Guy, I’m the guy who gets into tough situations only to discover how ill-prepared I am. You know, like when my backyard almost burned down when a tree landed on telephone wires, breaking the pole at the top, sending the distribution transformer, aka “pole […]

“We Have 120 Million Dead”

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On Thursday, former VP Joe Biden did something he hasn’t done much lately, he came out of his basement bunker for a campaign appearance. The small gathering of Biden supporters was swamped with a large contingent of Trump supporters who came out to protest the former Vice President. In typical Biden fashion, he gaffed his […]

Key Manager Retiring from Vanguard GNMA Fund

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You read from Your Survival Guy back in June of 2017 that Michael F. Garrett might be one of the most important names in the fixed-income world today. He’s the portfolio manager of the Vanguard GNMA Fund, which is managed by Wellington. Unfortunately, as I have followed Garrett for some time, he is retiring. Garrett […]

The Three-Blind Mice of NY/NJ/CT and WWJD?

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You know you’re smarter than blue state governors gone wild. That’s why, if you live in a blue state, you’re considering leaving. They’ll never understand why you vote with your feet and that you can’t be bought. So here we are with the trifecta of blue state governors—New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut—telling (former residents) […]

What Type of Country Do You Want for Your Family?

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What type of country do you want for your family? Are we ok with the demonstrators driving the conversation? I know I’m not. The cowards destroying the statues are lazy. In November, do you want more governors going wild closing schools because someone has the sniffles? Progressives will. They will enable bumbling Joe Biden, and […]