I Love Atlas Shrugged and You Should Too

Ayn Rand a Prophet? Atlas Shrugged a Prophecy?

By: Peter Egan Jr.

God has a sense of humor, choosing a Jewish atheist woman to serve as one of the 20th century's premiere prophets

This blog will be short and sweet because if you've already read Atlas Shrugged, then you know exactly what I'm talking about. If you have not, all I can say is I wouldn't consider my life to have been lived to the fullest had I not stumbled across what once upon a time was the second-best selling book in the English-speaking world to only the Bible.

As the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy and KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov tried to warn us, perhaps not so coincidentally in 1984 for the latter, American society was being infiltrated at all levels: the government, the media and the education system. This was dismissed as conspiracy theory. Well, that turned out to only be half-true. The half-false part is that it's no theory.

Here is the full-length interview with Bezmenov from 1984:

Besides the obvious in George Orwell whose works needn't be mentioned in this post because they're so self-explanatory that virtually anyone who has made it this far knows that Orwell was a prophet.

It's another 20th century prophet that I'd like to discuss for a moment. I'm sure some orthodox religious believers would call it utter blasphemy to suggest that God would make into a great prophet, a woman Jew who was Jewish in blood only as she is widely reported to have been an atheist (although this contention has been challenged, I am not interested in discussing that).

Atlas Shrugged was the most influential book I've ever read aside from the Bible, and I suggest anyone and everyone who hasn't read it yet do so and do so with an open mind. Think critically, and don't allow opinions other people manipulated you into thinking were your own fool you any longer. Start from scratch and see where you wind up. I'm betting it'll be somewhere near where most everyone else who has studied Rand has with respect to her work (agreement to one degree or another).

There are some affiliate links in this post to some of Rand's works for anyone new to her or anyone who is familiar but just hasn't developed the muster to tackle a book that long in either Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead. I recommend readers new to Rand start with Anthem. It's short, sweet, can be read in its entirety in just a couple of hours, and provides a simplified but nonetheless profound glimpse into Rand's philosophy, expounded upon in her later works.

If you're new to Rand, perhaps view check out the above links in this post and introduce yourself. Your mind will thank you later.

For a little sampling of what you can expect from Atlas Shrugged, here's an excerpt from Francisco's Money Speech, which to me ranks among the most profound, thought provoking soliloquies ever written, a mic drop moment hidden within one of the most profound works of philosophical literature ever written.

The following excerpt from Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" is borrowed from Capitalism Magazine. The full speech can be seen here: Francisco's Money Speech.

“Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men’s protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it. Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it bounces, marked, ‘Account overdrawn.’

“When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, ‘Who is destroying the world? You are."

For anyone who hasn't yet introduced themselves to this work of art by Rand, consider this your formal introduction and please waste no time in becoming more acquainted.

Peter Egan Jr. is the founder and proprietor of Egan Store, a US-based purveyor of fine and exotic numismatic collectibles.

TwitterCensorship.com For Sale Amid Scandal of Twitter's Censorship of the President, Most Americans

TwitterCensorship.com and Twitter-Censorship.com Web Domain Names Listed For Sale Amid Twitter Censorship Scandal

In lieu of Twitter's totalitarian crackdown on free speech and free thought, CEO Jack Dorsey has only seen his resolve strengthen as he awaits trial from a cell at Guantanamo Bay. Twitter, Facebook, Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, the entire leftist media and many smaller platforms and publications have attempted to disenfranchise the American electorate by censoring any and all truth, spreading lies and punishing with a fury anyone who dares question their monopoly of information. Twitter censorship and Google censorship have been at the forefront of internet censorship for more than a decade.

They determine what you're allowed to see, hear, read and think. You're not smart enough to do those things for yourself. At least that's what they actually believe.

At 10:03 PM on 11/03/2020, Twitter, in a profound embodiment of hypocrisy, censored a tweet by the President of the United States that isn't even controversial or debatable. It was a factual statement. Nothing about it was speculative, hyperbolic or controversial. And everyone who saw what he tweeted knows this to be true.

At the same time, a tweet by Joe Biden saying the same exact thing, albeit with slightly different wording, was of course left untouched. No disclaimer, no shadowban. No reply deboosting. Joe Biden's comment completely validated the President's Twitter-Censored remark yet one was censored and one was not.

It is because of this type of hypocrisy and Orwellian crackdowns on free speech and free thought that have brought the premium domain names TwitterCensorship.com and Twitter-Censorship.com to the forefront of the world of premium online real estate.

The domains have been made available for purchase by internet real estate mogul and social media savant Peter Egan (me). I've been censored for more than a decade, and watching what was done to me in 2009 be done to the entirety of the American population, I couldn't sit back and fail to take action any longer.

I am open to selling the properties to someone fully committed to developing them into a historical reference that will ensure future generations never forget that in 2020, America nearly entered a time machine back to 1984. I am also open to partnering in development, and/or even donating the domains to the right individual or organization. Please email me at peter.egan.81@gmail.com if you or someone you know may be interested in one or more of these propositions.

A few other semi-related domains are also being made available in lieu of the unprecedented corruption by the American political left, the great evil of our time. They are listed below.

Premium Anti-Orwellian Fascism Domain Names For Sale:

• TwitterCensorship.com
• Twitter-Censorship.com
• TwitterVictims.com
• TheClinton.Foundation
• Reform.College

*Inquiries: Please email peter.egan.81@gmail.com to discuss the transfer of rights of one or more of the above web properties, and/or to discuss partnering in development of one or more of the aforementioned.

One that is not for sale is Egan.News. There is no website there at present, but that domain will be the starting point for the media organization which through objective, unbiased reporting, will replace CNN, MSNBC, the NYT, WaPo, USA Today, LA Times, ABC, NBC, etc. Unlike the others mentioned, my news organization will not answer to anyone, be beholden to anyone or do anyone's bidding. It won't merge with a political party or become invovled in politics at all beyond objective reporting. It will not attempt to censor certain viewpoints, even if I personally disagree with them. It will help to preserve free speech, return integrity to journalism, and return journalism to "news." 

[The above paragraph is dedicated to @EntheosShines (he knows why)]

If you're not familiar with me, I'm Peter Egan. I am one of the world's foremost experts in news media, social media and search engine censorship. I will elaborate upon this statement in a follow-up post. For now, you'll have to take my word for it. I will replace the previous sentence and this one with a link to that subsequent post when I finish writing it.

Suffice it to say, I was among the first (maybe the first) to experience such draconian, targeted censorship online. I've been censored online since at least 2007, with Google going so far as to remove political blogs and news websites from search results in 2009 when my reporting became inconvenient to the Obama-Clinton domestic and foreign policy. Entire platforms were purchased to silence me when their founders refused to.

If Chris McGill had been willing to sell his soul the way Jack Dorsey did, Twitter never emerges as the global, non-localized, non-niche social platform. McGill and I disagree about politics. But I would fight to defend his right to speak his mind, and I'm more than sure he's fought many fights defending mine. More on that in the follow-up post to come sometime later this week or next.

Even today, I'm shadowbanned by Twitter (and every other form of censored besides account termination), no longer use Facebook and Google censors not only anything I publish online, but also my search results! It doesn't matter what I search for Google returns a set or arbitrary results completely unrelated to the search query. I've been compiling a slideshow of screenshots as I reckon I'll probably have to testify in court at some point so I'm trying to get a head start on preparation.

I will post a few when I update this post later this morning. If you come across this post on social media or email, please share with everyone you know as no Big Tech search engine is going to allow my dangerous thoughts to be found by the feeble-minded general public (their opinions of you, not mine).

To purchase TwitterCensorship.com or Twitter-Censorship.com outright without direct negotiations and at an inflated price, please see the below link, and please pardon the layout and design. The store is under construction.

http://ebay.com/str/Buy-Iraqi-Dinar-VND-and-Zim-Bonds

World Currency and Coin: Ebay's Officially Endorsed Scammer & Fraudster of Choice

I'm a primarily a buyer on eBay. I'm not a high-volume seller. A high-volume seller - and the only reason I'm naming them is that there are two Singapore-based sellers of banknotes with similar names and I don't want the other one to be mistaken for the one I suspect is causing these problems - but a high-volume seller with 30,000+ feedback and 60+ negative feedback whitewashed from their profile each month such that no matter how many they receive, their feedback profile never shows more than one or two, defrauded me out of $160, and eBay has bent over backward to harass and punish me for having the audacity to expect fair and equitable treatment as outlined by eBay rules and policies. 

Singapore-based seller "WorldCurrencyandCoin" sent me an empty envelope with a tracking number for $160. Ebay's money-back guarantee is a farce, they removed my feedback after I inquired about the whereabouts of the shipment, he said he would really send it this time, then sent me an empty envelope with a tracking number. And eBay not only looked the other way, they actively encourage that kind of fraudulent, criminal behavior.

If you're on eBay buying currency or coins and the seller is in Singapore, buy from the other major seller. If you buy from Singapore-based eBay seller WorldCurrencyandCoin he will steal your money.

I've dealt with WorldCurrencyandCoin on three occasions. Being in Singapore amid the scamdemic, I was extremely patient as I awaited my 2,000,000 VND (4 x 500,000) Vietnamese Dong polymer banknotes.

While I don't sell a ton of different banknotes, if you need to buy Iraqi Dinar or a 2008 Zimbabwe 100 Trillion dollar bill please come and stop by my store instead. If you can't find what you're looking for there, you'd be better off going with literally any other eBay seller offering the products you're looking for than dealing with that thief. He averages 60+ negative feedback each and every month, and eBay takes great care to delete them all so it appears as though he's running a clean operation to anyone whom he and eBay haven't victimized already.

There was a separate occasion while I was patiently awaiting the arrival of my VND when I purchased a listing he had stated was for 20 million VND in the title, however the fine print contradicted that and stated that it was only ten million. I assumed it was an innocent mistake until I noticed he refused to edit the listing so that prospective buyers wouldn't be duped into paying for twice what they'd be receiving when I saw the same listing worded in identical fashion to the order I refused to pay for because of World Currency and Coin's duplicitous and misleading sales tactics.

This is a person with no ethics or morals who would pickpocket a starving cancer patient if he thought he could get away with it. Arguably the worst part of this entire story is that eBay fully endorses and condones this criminal behavior, which for the purchase I made on June 25 has risen to the level of fraud.

Buy Iraqi Dinar, Vietnamese Dong and Zimbabwe Dollars

My store for anyone wondering is entitled, "Buy Iraqi Dinar, Vietnam Dong & Zim Bonds."

Why is eBay Helping Scam Artist WorldCurrencyandCoin Commit Wire Fraud?

Why is eBay protecting scam artist WorldCurrencyandCoin?

He didn't ship the first time. I have a screenshot proving it. He asked buyers to wait 90 days because of covid and he's in Singapore.

When in late September I finally asked him to review tracking from his account with Singapore Post, he went on an abusive and incoherent tirade and even referenced another incident in which I had to cancel an order because his deceptively written title misled buyers into believing the listing was for twice the quantity that he actually intended to ship.

 

As an experienced eBay seller, he knew about the insanely stupid 21 day policy so he posted a tracking number and claimed to have actually shipped the order this time. It naturally took more than 21 days to arrive. When it arrived, I opened it to find nothing but half of a page torn from a magazine advertising women's underwear. That's not what I paid $160 for. I paid $160 for $2,000,000 Vietnamese Dong for sale, Vietnam's currency (money).

 

 

I never received anything, eBay has bent over backwards to protect him and I'd like to know why. What dirt does he have on eBay as an organization or on individual employees? Is he bribing employees? There has to be some criminal activity of some form or fashion for eBay to lie and make an exception to their money back guarantee (which isn't real for anyone reading this), but were willing to collude with a criminal in committing fraud by way of lying and buying time using proximity to his advantage to get the resolution center case closed.

 
Since then, eBay has made excuse after excuse for him. "We can't." That's F^ck|ng b%llsh|t.

Why does eBay remove on average 60 negative feedback per month from his profile including mine? Why was mine removed? Nothing I said was inaccurate or in any way inappropriate.

I have screenshots of everything and friends in high places. You're picking a fight with the wrong guy. All I want is fair treatment. I was scammed by an eBay seller. Ebay has deflected and defended him in ways that will not look good when forced to defend these criminal acts under oath.

This is not civil suit material. An actual crime was committed here. Several actually. At best, eBay is an enabler, but eBay has had ample opportunity to correct its mistakes and redeem itself, but instead has chosen to double down on crime and wire fraud, not to mention false advertising.

I have proof of everything I've stated here including the entire resolution center conversation. I've tried going about this in a professional manner and eBay is adamant about defending a known criminal who evidently has committed scores of crimes against hundreds if not thousands of people per year based on how many negative feedback eBay whitewashes every month.

I want my $160 back. It's about the principle much more than the money. Did he split the $160 with the eBay employee overseeing the case so that eBay would make it go away? if not, prove it and prove that eBay is no actively colluding with him. Because by the amount of bad feedback removed from his profile every day it certainly appears as though eBay's role is more of a co-conspirator rather than an organization run by incompetent buffoons who are just too stupid to know any better.

You've got until the end of the month. Then I start to fight back.

I've waited long enough for eBay to do the right thing and eBay has demonstrated that it will not honor its money back guarantee nor enforce rules such as sellers being required to actually ship the items they list when those items are purchased. Or how about not write deliberately misleading titles to entice buyers into paying before reading the fine print and discovering that the title is simply a lie.

 

How dare you people place a hold on $1,000 of MY MONEY at any given time because I bring my own customers here to make purchases for the sake of convenience and most of them are in Canada?!? I've never received one complaint or negative feedback as a buyer or seller. WorldCurrencyandCoin receives 60+ every month that eBay makes disappear. Why does eBay hide the truthful buyer horror stories for this horrible seller? Yet you collect interest on my money while helping him steal it, with absolutely no repercussions for his crimes, including but in no way limited to either forcing him to ship the actual item purchased or taking my money back from him and returning it to its rightful owner.

 

 
It was 62 the last time I looked at it, mine was removed without explanation. How many other negative feedback is eBay covering up for this seller?

I'm willing to spend as much as I have to in order to win this fight. I will spend $100,000 if I have to. This won't end until I win. Ebay choosing to continue siding with the criminal instead of with the model buyer and seller would be an extremely bad decision, which is what I expect because that's all I've seen from eBay when it comes to enforcing policies as a buyer or seller.

On the one hand, you've got a seller about whom customers all write customized feedback and talk about the kind of person I am, and how they appreciate me for so much more than just the products I sell. Most of them are MY CUSTOMERS who only created an account because I wanted to expand my selling methods and am temporarily short on time. I'm bringing in new accounts every day. WorldCurrencyandCoin defrauds people every day.

You have no idea how tenacious I am when you pick a fight with me, but I an give a list of companies who made the mistake as references. Unfortunately, most are bankrupt and no longer in business. Not small companies either. At one point Volusion was among the world's leading e-commerce software platforms. I ended them over a very similar situation. You're playing with fire in a paper castle with cans of gasoline piled floor-to-ceiling by picking a fight with me.

 

 

I'd much rather this be resolved peacefully (figuratively speaking, I'm not threatening physical harm). I'd rather eBay do what's right. I don't like conflict, but when someone chooses to become my adversary and forces me to retaliate for crimes committed against me I won't stop until I utterly destroy them. At this point, if I'm not refunded by November 01, eBay will have stated in writing for all I'm concerned that it enjoys stealing my money and will be every bit as guilty as the crooked seller.

This was an item purchased June 25 **bleep**! Quit being criminals and do the right thing. It's either that or pay the price. Every executive within the organization and every employee who colluded with that criminal to defraud me will be looking for new jobs if eBay refuses to do what is right and just.

I have proof of it all. Every single detail. I even still have the empty envelop and underwear ads. And I have screenshots of everything else. Let me be perfectly clear, this is eBay's final chance to make this right before I retaliate. The fact that eBay has stolen almost $1,000 of my money to collect interest on for months before releasing it doesn't help. It's a very, very bad look. I'll engage in an unprecedented campaign to bring you down and will succeed. You'd be wise to stop stealing from me. I won't steal because I'm an honest and decent person, but I am willing to cost your company untold millions of dollars in other ways.

Choose wisely.

For anyone reading this who is actively looking to purchase exotic foreign currencies such as the Vietnamese Dong (VND), Iraqi Dinar (IQD), Nigerian Naira (NGN) or Zimbabwe Dollars ("Zim Bonds"), whatever you do avoid buying from World Currency and Coin. They are corrupt thieves who are either bribing or blackmailing eBay employees in turn for eBay enabling them to prey upon buyers who don't know eBay is removing over 60 customer complaints every month. Instad, buy from a trusted seller. Please visit my own eBay store: Buy Iraqi Dinar, Vietnam Dong & Zim. Or, alternatively you can buy Iraqi Dinar at Iraq-Dinar.com.

Looking to Buy Iraqi Dinar & Vietnamese Dong? Market Prices Continue to Skyrocket as Demand Dwarfs Supply

Market rates continue to grow farther apart from exchange rates for IQD & VND (Iraqi Dinar & Vietnamese Dong currencies)

By: Peter Egan

The prices for people in the United States and across the globe seeking to purchase Iraqi Dinar and Vietnamese Dong continue to soar as we enter the fifth month since the entire marketplace of money services businesses (like currency exchanges), banks and other financial institutions have all stopped selling IQD (Iraqi Dinar), with most either discontinuing to offer VND (Vietnamese Dong) altogether or essentially engaging in arbitrage using private sellers on third-party marketplaces as the gauge for their price points, and potentially even for their supply.

The few still offering VND have prices set to 400%-500% above the exchange rate, consistent with the mid-tier pricing of sellers on third-party marketplaces like eBay and Bonanza. In other words, even if you buy through an exchange you won't be saving any money over just buying it on eBay or elsewhere.

As someone who has been captivated by the movement of the marketplace with regard to these two currencies since it began in late April or early May, I've observed as the exchanges first began raising prices, then stopped selling altogether. Yet one detail sticks out as peculiar: NOT ONE of these entities has stopped buying either of the two currencies. In fact, one such business (Safe Dinar) has been advertising on eBay and Google - not that they're selling Dinar & Dong, but to announce that they're buying at a higher rate than that which they were selling for just a few short months ago.

Having bought in just before the prices began to surge, I've amassed a fair amount of both for someone very new to the two currencies on which I've been and am still extremely bullish.

As such, I've decided to make available some of my holdings for prices that are fair and reasonable, but only to new buyers who either do not hold any of either currency or own very little.

Below you'll find my sales offerings as of this time:

50,000 Iraqi Dinar Banknote - $215.00

Buy 50,000 Iraq Dinar Now

Denominations:

50,000 (x 1 Note) $215.00 USD 25,000 (x 2 Notes) $105.00 USD 10,000 (x 5 Notes) $110.00 USD 5,000 (x 10 Notes) $115.00 USD 1,000 (x 50 Notes) $350.00 USD

Quantity:

1 2 3 4 5

Shipping Information

USPS Priority Mail (insured) - $4.95*

*Shipping to US only.

Anonymous’ Mission is Misinformation Designed to Hurt President Trump

Anonymous: Known Facts Mixed With Anti-Trump Misinformation

Anonymous YouTube channel is a misinformation factory designed to mislead people as to the direction of the country and the performance of President Donald J. Trump.

I don’t want to link their channel or videos because I don’t want to see anyone else fooled by them. They are anti-Trump, anti-Q and anti-American sovereignty.

I made the comment below into a misinformation video and sleight-of-hand trick to stop people from learning about NESARA and trick people that the investment that may very well depreciate the most of any currency is the one people should be buying.

NESARA is the end of money “as we know it,” not Bitcoin.

Bitcoin seems to have all the characteristics for the mark of the beast. One world currency. You cannot trade without it. 🤔 

I don’t know how comfortable I’d be dependent on a digital-only system that one can’t buy, sell nor trade without.

This is all misinformation anyway. NESARA will be announced in a few weeks and the US will return to a gold-backed currency. Anonymous is not the Anonymous of a decade ago. The new Anonymous releases nonstop videos with 3/4 truth, and 1/4 big lies that are very convincing.

If you haven’t heard of NESARA, I’d suggest reading up on it from a right-leaning source. Trump is going through with it and the world is following suit. Go see if you can find Iraqi Dinar for sale anywhere. Ebay and Amazon are the only places left that you can get it. The prices are 5 times the exchange rate. Same with Vietnamese Dong. Now ask yourself why.

Iraqi Dinar Exchanges Scamming Customers & Hoarding Dinar Reserves

XChange of America

SafeDinar.com

Treasury Vault

NESARA: National Economic Securities & Reformation Act

Trump and America are leading a global revolution over the banking canal, bankrupting the central & global banks,  returning to gold & silver backed currencies and allocating the wealth seized from the cabal, human traffickers, child molesters & the Satanic cult that the Bushes, Clintons and Obamas all belong to with many, many others to all countries willing to invest properly so that every child born has enough to eat, clothes to wear, an opportunity to receive an education while their parents can find gainful employment. Iraq & Vietnam are expected to see the biggest fried in value, and right now, there’s not an exchange or dealer in the world that is fulfilling orders. They say they’re out of stock, but the truth is they know what’s about to happen and that the foreign currencies will soon see an unprecedented appreciation leading to 1000-to-1 ROI (or above).

Don’t take my word. Try going to a business — any business — that exists primarily to sell Iraqi Dinar, and trying to buy Dinar. You won’t be able.

Anonymous is a misinformation agent, probably from the central agency. Their videos all start out educational and factual, but the endings and the point of Anonymous’ videos is to try to damage President Trump’s reelection chances. Disregard the main points. The facts in the beginning are okay, but Anonymous is neither credible nor trustworthy.

How Long Should You Be Chumming Before Actually Fishing?

Catfish Chum: How Many Days in Advance Should You Chum Before Fishing?

By: Peter Egan

How long before fishing should catfish chum be deposited into the water in and around the desired fishing hole?

Catfish chum is a wonderful enhancement to any catfish fishing experience for many reasons, most notably because it will help the fisherman catch more and bigger catfish, and depending on the location possibly other species as well.

How to Make Catfish Chum from Dog Food

As many readers of this blog are probably already aware, much time and effort is devoted to the topic of fishing over at the Peter Egan YouTube Channel, and in particular fishing for freshwater catfish. While reading and replying to comments on one of these videos recently, I came across a comment by a gentleman named Robert Chillcott, who shared with viewers that his preference is to wait a week and a half to two weeks after planting scent in the water before returning to actually go fishing in the waters where the chum was deployed.

"I always waited about a week in a half to two weeks to fish an area that I baited." ~ Robert Chillcott

A week and a half to two weeks may seem like a rather lengthy wait for most fishermen, many o whom probably plan their fishing trips on far less notice than that. Paul Atkinson was one such fisherman.

Asked Mr. Atkinson:

Really? You hang the chum and let it soak that long before fishing it?

I decided to jump in here since the discussion was taking place on my YouTube channel in response to a video teaching viewers to learn to use dog food as catfish chum*, a technique in which the fisherman takes one or more cans of large dog food, pokes plenty of holes in each can with a pocket knife, then ties the cans to a metal wire before suspending them in the water at or around the desired fishing location.

Back to the question of how long must one start the chumming process before baiting that first hook, let me make clear that it is not necessary to start chumming efforts 1.5 to 2 weeks in advance if traveling to and from your fishing spot is overly burdensome. Notice that greater portion the previous sentence is underlined, with the latter half of the statement in bold. This is deliberate.

While one can have plenty of success beginning chumming efforts only a few days before the planned fishing trip, and will likely still experience better results waiting until the day of the fishing to chum the water than if no chum had been used at all, there's a science to why those of us with ease-of-access to water (or opportunity to venture out to the fishing hole a week or more in advance) prefer to do so whenever possible.

I can't really speak for still bodies of water, such as lakes or ponds. The lack of movement of the water makes the patterns of movement by the fish far more difficult to predict. However with regard to rivers, streams, canals, bayous or any other bodies of moving water, regardless of pace, that movement of the water carries the scent downstream (or in whichever direction the water is traveling).

Catfish Feeding Frenzy

The objective is to use a chum that is soluble enough to get immediate effects, with scent being released immediately serving as an attractant that lures fish into the area, appetite inducer that makes the fish hungry, and ideally also a drug of sorts that causes the fish to part with their rational judgment in favor of "feeding frenzy" type behavior. However, the ideal catfish chum will also be insoluble/dense enough that it doesn't all dissolve at once, but rather over the course of a week or two. This retains the scent in the area in which you plan to fish, while also steadily disseminating a scent trail downstream, covering as much aquatic linear and cubic distance as possible. Ideally, a chum that meets these criteria and smells good to the fish will consolidate all of the catfish that encounter the scent trail over the course of the week right in the very spot you'll be fishing.

With rivers like the Tchefuncte (the river which the bayou my home is located on connects to) where water levels can vary widely based on local and regional rainfall, as well as tidal movements in the Tchefuncte's case, you'll typically observe the best results from your chumming efforts when the water level recedes due to whatever the reason. As the water drains out, the scent is spread far and wife. When the water eventually subsides to mean levels, with the water come fish - lots of them.

The exception to this rule would be in a very large, fast-moving river such as the Mississippi, where there is to much water traveling at too great a speed for chum to produce the same effects that it does in most moving freshwater bodies, rivers, creeks and streams.

*Of the many different techniques I've tried while chumming for catfish, using dog food has yielded some of the best results if done properly.

The first embedded video within this post teaches viewers to use canned dog food as catfish (and other fish) chum. The subsequent videos consist of catfish eating dry dog food off of the surface of the water inside of a boat slip located along a bayou which drains into the Tchefuncte River in Covington, Louisiana.

Catfish Eating Dog Food

Reader questions and comments are welcome both at this blog and on the respective YouTube pages for each fishing video featured within this post.

Target Practice

Target Practice

Below are some photos of Peter Egan's cousins Brooke and Bailey Gonzales taking target practice. 

The final image is a target that Peter fired 8 rounds at from 75 yards with a .243 hunting rifle. All eight shots hit the target (two hit the same spot), including one bull's-eye.

Brooke Gonzales taking target practice.

Brooke did very well, hitting the target more often than not.

Bailey Gonzales taking target practice.

Bailey took a little while to get the hang of it, but once she did she was deadly from 150 feet.

Peter Egan hit the target with all 8 rounds he fired, including one bull's-eye.

Above is the target that I (Peter) used at 75 yards (225 feet), firing eight rounds with a .243 hunting rifle. All eight shots hit the target, with two rounds going through the hole bottom-right. I hit the bull's-eye once, and was inside the inner circle with all 8 rounds.

I would say that's decent marksmanship for a guy who hadn't fired a gun in over a year prior to this.

While not the actual gun used in these photos, below is photograph of a .243 hunting rifle, which is the gun we were all using when these pictures were taken.

I don't hunt because I don't like the cold. I'd much rather be fishing, especially fishing for catfish.

I have to go to my parents' house to take target practice as the area in which I reside is too suburban to fire a gun.

Trichinella Worm Spreads Through Undercooked Bear Meat

The Trichinella Roundworm: Diarrhea So Bad It's Scarier Than Being Attacked By A Bear

By: Peter Egan

A new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia dubunked a long-standing and common myth regarding roundworm infections and their respective sources.

Most people have never even heard of a parasite (a roundword, to be specific) called Trichinella. The Trichinella worm, once it makes its way inside the digestive tract of humans, attaches itself to the intestinal walls resulting in a parasitic infection known as Trichinosis.

Trichinella is most commonly spread by way of undercooked bear meat. Luckily, bear meat is not commonly eaten, but enough people eat it for it to be the leading cause of Trichinosis.

What would possess someone to go out of their way to eat undercooked bear meat is beyond me. In fact, until I first got word of the CDC report, I had never even heard of people consuming meat from bears.

The most common side effects of the Trichinella worm and subsequent Trichinosis infections are intense pain and cramping in the abdominal region, as well as severe, intense and often explosive diarrhea.

One final note on Trichinella, here is what the Wikipedia page had to say on the matter:

"Trichinella is the genus of parasitic roundworms of the phylum Nematoda that cause trichinosis. Members of this genus are often called trichinella or trichina worms. A characteristic of nematoda are one-way digestive tract, and a pseudoceolom (body cavity made up of only an ectoderm and endoderm)."

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New Research Suggest BHRT More Effective, Less Risky Than Synthetic HRT

New Research Reveals Bioidentical Hormones to be At Least as Effective as Synthetic HRT, and Much Safer

By: Peter Egan (Jr.) and Dr. Pamela Egan

New research by an already highly acclaimed doctor and medical scientist has shown Bioidentical Hormones to be At Least as Effective as Synthetic HRT, while posing far fewer risks. This according to research conducted by doctor and medical scientist Dr. Pamela Egan of the EGAN Wellness and Anti-Aging Clinic and the EGAN Skin Care and Med Spa.

Dr. Egan's research has raised new questions about the way menopausal women are treated for symptoms associated with menopause. Notably, while bioidentical hormones achieved the same or better results in terms of symptom relief and restoration of overall health, patients who used synthetic hormones throughout the trial ended up with a litany of unwanted side effects, in particular excessive amounts of estradiol, a form of estrogen that is harmful to the human body and has been linked to breast, uterine and ovarian cancers (as well as other cancers) in women.[1]

It (estrone/estrodiol) prostate cancer in men who have abnormally high estradiol levels. Bodybuilders and athletes commonly experience this with age as excessive free testosterone is converted by the male body into estrone and then estradiol. Men with low testosterone but high estrogen levels are also considered to be a high-risk group.[2] Ironically, it is the men with the highest testosterone levels who have the highest probability of developing gender-specific cancer (prostate) resulting in part from the excess testosterone being converted into excessive amounts of a women's hormone with its share of negative side effects.[3]

Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT)

The research has been presented to the medical sciences center at Southeastern Louisiana University, and is awaiting publication in one of the major trade journals for doctors and medical science. Once an agreement with a publication has been reached and the actual research along with its various components published, this article as well as the article appearing on Dr. Egan's website will be updated to reflect that by linking to the official debut of the research documentation.

While the clinical trial focused on the outcomes as each respective type of hormone (bioidentical or synthetic) on menopausal women, there has been ample research showing that the same may be true for men as well.[4] While obviously, men aren't going to request a doctor's prescription for synthetic women's hormones (at least not for medical reasons, perhaps for cosmetic reasons, but that's not really relevant); if men's testosterone levels get to be too high the body converts it into the same toxic form of estrogen that has been and is still being used in Hormone Replacement Therapy to treat menopausal women, and often times illicit use of testosterone products (like anabolic steroids) and adaptogens (over the counter substances believed to increase testosterone in men or improve physical performance i one way or another) is what leads to excessive female hormones in men. These excessive female hormones can lead to prostate cancer, heart disease and other ailments.[5]

Index:

[1] "... numerous studies demonstrate excess estrogen can cause breast, uterine, and ovarian cancers (all of which are considered estrogen dependent cancers), cervical dysplasia (a precancerous condition characterized by abnormal changes to cervical tissues), and even contribute to menopausal symptoms." Source: Naturopathic.org

[2] "Since men lack this female anatomy, they need to produce estrogen through a process involving an enzyme called aromatase that transforms testosterone into estradiol." - Source: Life Extension

[3] "The reason you see symptoms like shrunken testicles and breast enlargement is because a lot of excess testosterone is converted to the female hormone estrogen,” Drincic says." - Source: EveryDayHealth

[4] Testosterone is a hormone produced by the testes in men and, in smaller amounts, by the ovaries in women. There can be positive effects from slightly elevated testosterone levels in men, or there can be negative effect from testosterone levels that are extremely high. Source: LiveStrong

[5] How too much testosterone can lead to prostate cancer in men. Prostate.net

Video Link: Dr. Pamela Egan on Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT)

Dr. Pamela Egan is a primary care doctor in Covington, Louisiana whose specialties include being well over a decade ahead of the curve with regard to bioidentical hormones used in hormone replacement therapy compared with synthetic HRT; and closer to 20-25 years ahead of medical science when she broke the story that vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol - the form of vitamin D molecularly identical to vitamin D absorbed from sunlight) was vastly superior to what until the article was published was the standard bearer of vitamin D supplements in vitamin D2, also known as ergocalciferol. D2/ergocalciferol are synthetic and not bioavailable like vitamin D3.

Dr. Egan's was the first to address the subject (of D2 vs D3), and is now among the world's most plagiarized articles as a result. Even well known internet doctors like Dr. Oz and Dr. Mercola (along with every major health site) have regularly plagiariazed Dr. Egan's work.

Because of Dr. Egan's research and articles on vitamin D3 and the manner in which they revolutionized the supplement industry such that D3 is virtually all that's still being made, and D2 has become difficult to find in stores or online. This author expects this research involving BHRT to Synthetic HRT to have a similar impact in time. Once word spreads that someone actually researched the topic and found that the results did not match the medical consensus opinion, smart physicians will accept and embrace the science while less intelligent doctors will argue the validity of the research for any number of ulterior motives at which we can only speculate.