Private Briefing

11/29/2025

O’s add to bullpen …

Coming off a tough stint with the Mets, the former Cardinals closer lands in Baltimore. Visit MLB Trade Rumors for more.

11/29/2025

The Great Sterling Marlin — my favorite driver of all time …

When drivers were real racers …

Met him a bunch of times, too — as decent as they come.

Belongs in the HOF.

I still think about a high school game in Lynnville TN where I scored the winning touchdown and the crowd got so riled up they tried to tip our bus over. My uncles shoved me into the car…still in uniform…and we had to take off fast before things got rough.

Looking back, that wild night taught me grit long before I knew I’d need it. Funny how life works like that.

And standing here now seeing those original goal posts still standing after all these years…it reminds me just how far life can take you, and how some things stay exactly where you left them.

11/29/2025

The "Illegal" B-25 That Killed 3,000 Men in 15 Minutes

The Weapon That Shouldn’t Exist: The Madman Mechanic and the Annihilation of the Bismarck Sea
Byline: The Historical Research Unit

Dateline: PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea – March 3, 2023 (80th Anniversary)

I. The Unbearable Sight: A Convoy’s Last Moments
For the Japanese Imperial Navy, the transit through the Bismarck Sea was supposed to be routine. It was early March 1943. Eight troop transports, laden with nearly 7,000 soldiers destined to reinforce the besieged Japanese fortress in New Guinea, sliced confidently through the water, shielded by four modern destroyers. This convoy was the lifeblood of their Pacific defense—a conveyor belt of men and materiel. They were safe. The American bombers flew high, and their bombs always missed.

Then, the scream from a lookout sliced through the tropical morning air. He wasn't pointing at the distant clouds where the B-17s usually lumbered. He was pointing straight ahead, at the water.

Approaching at terrifying speed, just fifty feet above the wave tops, were dark shadows that should not exist. They were American B-25 Mitchell bombers, but they were flying in a way that defied every known military doctrine—at mast height, at eye level. As they roared closer, their sleek, modified noses erupted, not with the flash of a single gun, but in a horrific, concentrated solid wall of white-hot tracers.

What followed was not a bombing run; it was, in the words of one surviving American pilot, "an ex*****on." In the span of fifteen minutes, the Japanese Imperial Navy watched in frozen horror as its entire force was annihilated. Eight transports and four destroyers—twelve ships—were ripped to pieces. Nearly 3,000 men were killed. This was not war; it was an act of erasure perpetrated by a weapon that, by all logic, history, and military doctrine, should have been impossible.

11/29/2025

I’d actually like to see this …

11/29/2025

Guaranteed to make you smile …

11/27/2025

This is the time of year when lots of you start thinking about your finances, your future, your family, your investments, your game plan, your goals.

I wrote my latest book — “Wealth Builder/Wealth Killer: Keep Your Cool And Win In a Stock Market Built to Break You” — for everyday investors just like you.

To keep with the times, I published it as an . To make it easy to access, I’ve made it available on Unlimited app.

It’s only been out a few months, but it’s ranked as high as No. 6 on the new ebooks … the feedback has been exhilarating. Check it out …
recommend it to someone you care about and want to help. LMK what you think.

(Link in the comments.)

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Bill P.

11/27/2025

Gold … also like …

Gold steadied, having gained nearly 1% in the previous session on growing expectations of another interest-rate cut in the US

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11/27/2025

50 years ago today: the final flight of the lifting body program

Test pilot Tom McMurtry flew the "Flying Flatiron"—the X-24B—for its final flight in 1975, closing out NASA's lifting body program. From 1963 to 1975, wingless aircraft were flown at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center to demonstrate how a spacecraft could be maneuvered and landed like an aircraft.

11/27/2025

I made this for Joey when he was little …

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone ❤️

11/27/2025

You folks need to read this …

When John Morris’ car skidded off the road in a blizzard, he had to think on his feet. It turned into a Thanksgiving he’d never forget.

11/25/2025

Amazon deliveries …