The Doug Kenline Newsletter

Death is the reward.  And if you are able to make it to old age before death then I would say consider yourself lucky.  Like Don Williams said I guess we're all gonna be what we're gonna be. So now we have this thing called the internet.  And social media.  Heck I was blogging when blogging wasn't cool.  And every preacher can now broadcast his church services to the entire world.  Not just the united States of America but the entire world. Now some of these government types don't like certain people broadcasting certain things to the entire world so these government types push for censorship and against free speech.  Well I'll tell you there are some pretty wild conspiracy theories out there and most of them are probably closer to the truth than what some other outlets would  have us believe. So the markets become an interesting thing.  It appears that there are those who make a living by trading in the markets.  And this is all because of the internet also.  Prest

  I guess the indians weren't quite up to warfare with the europeans.  Maybe Lee wasn't up to warfare with Grant.  Or the british against George Washington. Warfare with the markets is another thing.  Coach Prime has declared war on the PAC-12.  Is there a national championship on the horizon for the Colorado Buffaloes?  Time will tell.  I'll see what Zac Hubbard has to say about it. God bless America.

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Christopher Gustavus Memminger (German: Christoph Gustav Memminger; January 9, 1803 – March 7, 1888) was a German-born American politician and a secessionist who participated in the formation of the Confederate States government. He was the principal author of the Provisional Constitution (1861) as well as the founder of the Confederate financial system. As the first Confederate States Secretary of the Treasury, Memminger was the main author of the economic policies of Jefferson Davis's administration. Must have been a lot of people who generally agreed with some basic principles but then it took just maybe one to really kick things in to gear. Interesting to me that it appears to have been a money man, but of course it had to be a money man, but then again, haven't there been some revolutions led by a slave?  Well I guess maybe you would want to ask Nat Turner about that. Memminger in Flat Rock The built environment of the site, now known as Connemara and designated as Carl Sa

A question demands an answer.  But some answers never come.  What was my Dad's purpose?  What was my Mom's purpose?  Now that they are both gone I'm not sure if I know the answer.  I think in their minds they had some kind of an answer formulated in their minds.  Nothing written down that I am aware of.  It seems the written word is the one thing that stands the test of time.  And as far as I know the first written words were in the beginning. So is your purpose to be happy?  I think that should definitely be one of your purposes.  How can you be happy in the middle of all of this nonsense that is swirling all around us?  My thinking has led me around to Jesus.  I think I am much like C. S. Lewis even though I know little about him.  I am confident to say as I write these words that the legacy he left behind was the words that he wrote. I guess he was best known as a science fiction fantasy writer who also wrote about Christianity.  That is an interesting combination.  My D

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Rice and beans. It's the Dave Ramsey mentality.  I think it's pretty rock solid and perhaps the most masterful defensive position that is possible for the common man. It's not a new idea by any stretch of the imagination.  It is  as old as money I  would suppose.  From the beginning of money there were those who had more of it and those who had less of it.  I imagine Moses and Aaron would have had more money than some who had less glorious positions in society.   So apparently from the lower levels of the haves comes a calling for communism, socialism, sharing of the wealth.  Fairness and equity and all of that good stuff. Well that is the macro scale.  And myself and my latest goo-roo Mr. Preston "The Pirate" James has me working on his ex-linebacker approved options trading program.  It does seem rather ingenious and the interesting thing to me is that it is actually a thing.  The Traders Edge Network.  All for only $97 per month and you can cancel any time. Wel

  It was a bitter 14 degrees when I was picked to ride with 70 year old grandmother Rebecca Lavrens to the Federal Building in Denver, CO to turn herself in to the FBI.  https://asheinamerica.com/2022/12/19/the-fbi-vs-the-holy-spirit-praying-grandma-gets-arrested/

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  Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was previously the nation's second vice president under John Adams and the first United States secretary of state under George Washington. The principal author of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson was a proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights, motivating American colonists to break from the Kingdom of Great Britain and form a new nation. He produced formative documents and decisions at state, national, and international levels.

  “First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen…” Those words are from Major General Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee’s eulogy for George Washington, after his death December 14th, 1799.

It seems like these traders have the best business idea.  No employees, no overhead, no sales, no product inventory, no shipping, and all done from the computer keyboard. The barrier is many hours of work, study, practice, and learning.  And even then, you might not be able to ever make it work. But just like writing a blog, if it's fun and it gets you through the day, and it gives you something to write about and you don't go broke betting everything on Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX then it could be just another little hobby like researching Civil War and American history. In fact I could research all of the market trading gurus throughout history and write about them here.  In twenty years I could generate many terabytes of potentially useless information and have wasted the last twenty years of my life the same as the first sixty years. But life is not a waste if you believe in God and care more about those who have gone on and those who are yet to come and the man upstairs and

I can't help but wonder what kind of society would unfold if kids were taught in 7th grade how to print money.  I think in 7th grade I could have handled starting and running my own business.  I enjoyed being a kid up until the end of 6th grade I think, and I guess I enjoyed turning from a kid into a man from 7th grade to the end of 12th grade, but as a 60 year old adult now I  can't help but wonder why any school system in America would have such a lousy government indoctrination communist so-called education system in the heart of the capitalistic world. I did enjoy the sports and I still do but even in sports there seems to be the hand of nefarious forces at the highest levels.  I like to try to figure out where the line ends amongst the pool of 8 billion or so people in the world today.  Is there anybody at the very top echelons who is  good?  There must be, otherwise I would be a total slave and not even be allowed to sit here and write these words all while living in the

It's fun to be done.  I think I'll go sit in the sun.  Or maybe take a short run.  It's so fun to be done. I was going to start out with Maybe It Was Memphis.  But it's so fun to be done that I couldn't pass the pun. Writing on a blog is so much more fun and satisfactory than writing on In-Your-Facebook.  The In-Your-Facebook app shoves your writing up underneath anybody and everybody's nose and says look at me look at me look what I just wrote.  I don't give a rat's rear end if anybody or nobody reads what I wrote.  The thing is in theory these words will be here long after I am gone and let's say I went ahead and was able to give quite a bit to the church and also in my will would be full rights to all of my writing.   Now odds are I will just end up being a retired old man typing away at his keyboard and die an even more anonymous death than Johnny Paycheck or Jimmy Martin.  However, somebody somewhere might find it interesting.  I see all the tim

That's my fun day.  My I don't have to run day. Well every day of the week is about the same for me.  Get up, check the internet, do some reading, take a nap.  Maybe this Spring I'll start going out and going fishing down by the stream.  Maybe follow the stream all the way down to the lake and catch some lake fish.  I'm not sure what they got in the lake.  I've seen some little fish in the stream.  Have to check on the license situation here in Fairfax.  I don't think Huck Finn cared too much about fishing licenses. The say Mark Twain was one of the greatest writers of the 19th century.  Born and bred right here in America.  I like to look up the greatest writers of the 19th century.  I want to collect all of the great American literature in as close to original printing date as possible and build me a nice collection of American literature to keep on the bookshelf and read and study.  I'll hope that I'm still free to write on this blog for as long as I

Where'd they go?  Twenty years.  I don't know. I think I'll get a nice leather recliner and sit in it for twenty years and read books.  The good book would be the most important one.  I wonder if I can make it to the end in 20 years.  Revelation 22:21 And the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.  Amen. Working my way through Leviticus now.  Twenty-seven chapters.  I'm on chapter 12.  Chapter 10 is where Nadab and Abihu get struck dead.  Don't play with strange fire.  Paul said to study the law to bring you closer to Jesus.  After I get through my ten hours tomorrow I will send a little down to pastor Murray and get a good study book from his library there at The Shepherd's Chapel in Gravette, Arkansas. Meanwhile the homeless problem still appears to persist.  Looks like they got a lot of them where Coach Prime is heading with his $29 million five-year contract.  I think his kid has locked in a couple of million with NIL deals already too.  Well there&

Keep working the job. Dave Ramsey.  Beans and rice.  Rice and beans. There's lots of guys in worse shape than I'm in.  But that's no excuse to quit working.  Coach Prime isn't going to stop working and he ain't hard to find either.  National championship baby.  You know that's the only thing on Coach Prime's mind. And Dave Ramsey is not retiring by any stretch of the imagination.  And I'm sure Matt Furey is out there somewhere.  I'll keep my goo-roo watch blog going and keep pushing out paychecks from my remote work headquarters.  It is a privilege to have such a good job as I have and I am glad to have it.  My good old manager Maurice just lost the battle to cancer.  Earth is a lot poorer and heaven is a lot richer. He's up there with Mom and Dad now. Meanwhile down here.  If you're reading this I'll assume you are still down here.  Now it's possible that you are reading this after I am long gone.  That would be the dream of any writ

Even George Washington eventually kicked the can.  As did Adam and Abraham.  They say nobody ever found the bones of Moses.  Adam lived for 930 years.  I often think rather than having it to do all over again I would prefer to be granted another 100 years knowing what I know now. Today I am writing from a nice office on a nice chair at a nice desk on a nice computer in a nice home overlooking a nice park with a nice tree outside of my office window.  Someday I may be writing from a hospital bed in a rehab and nursing home.  Maybe writing from the hospice.  Someday I would write my last words and take my last breath and go on to see Mom and Dad and Jesus in heaven. Between now and then I would like to read a lot of good books, finish reading the good book, start going through the good book a second time and maybe even get through it a second time.  Will I ever do it?  Does it matter if I don't or if I do?  I think it matters that I put in an effort on the good book.  Other than that

I just talked on the phone with Leah down at Anderson.  She says I should set up an LLC in Wyoming to protect all of my assets and make it to where nobody can never sue me for nothing.  I doubt I'll ever get sued but probably better to be safe than sorry.  Defense wins championships. https://andersonadvisors.com/ Hi Doug,   It was a pleasure speaking with you. Here are some videos that you might find helpful: Creating Anonymity for your LLC (20-minute video) Stock Trading (5-minute video) 8 Stupid Mistakes in Your LLC Operating Agreement (12-minute video) What is charging order protection? (13-minute video) Setting up a Living Trust (14-minute video) I have attached a diagram with a typical sample structure along the lines of what we went over during our call.   We briefly discussed the significant benefits of Anderson's Platinum Membership which the vast majority of our clients subscribe to. In summary, for just $35 per month plus a one-time joining fee, Platinum will immediat

 

  https://www.homeserviceacademy.co/hsa-opt-in54446149?utm_source=IG-BIO I like the idea of a cleaning business.  I think it would only work if you were not slave driving a bunch of cleaners 15 hours a day for slave wages who hated your guts so you could drive a Lambraghini but rather were paying some dang good money to some good hard working cleaners for just a few hours of work per day while you the owner of the business was making a fair profit right along with them. I mean if I were making $10,000 every 60 days guaranteed like Mr. Goo-roo says in his headline then why not take $5,000 of that and give it back to my employees as a bonus?  Help them start their own business if they would like to, or just keep raking it in working for me.  But then in your employee meeting zoom calls would you always offer to help your employees and encourage your employees to go ahead and purchase Johnny's system and do it themselves?  Why not?  Why would you not share this top secret super duper

It's not easy to write for a living.  Tell that to a coal miner.  Tell that to the guy who cuts your grass and pulls your weeds and has to put in 12 hours a day at his second job to make ends meet. What are the ends that have to meet?  The expenses have to be less than the income.  You have to spend less than you make.  Uncle Dave will tell you that.  It's not rocket science. Baby step one.  Got that one?  Good job, now baby step 2. Once you have completed baby step 7 and assuming your income is still there and your expenses remain at baby step one beans and rice, rice and beans, four walls scorched earth levels in perpetuity and you can work your job from home in remote covid 19 fashion so that your paycheck continues to come in like clockwork and all you have to do is look over and see if any emails have come in asking you to do a quick little Cisco network routing and switching lab real quick and talk to the phone to other network engineers all around the world and write out

Now by God I have to admit I like Dave Ramsey.  He's a salty old brother and he's quick to preach the gospel of Jesus and he likes to read one chapter in Proverbs every day.  And he's got around $55 Million is the number it seems I've heard tossed around.  I've seen pictures of what they say is Dave's house down around Nashville.  Heck it's even bigger than Johnny Cash's old spread out Hendersonville way. So I says to myself, Doug, head on over and see what old uncle Dave is up to today.  That's the great thing about the internet.  You can lead, follow, or get out of the way.  Same as back in the time of Abraham but now the leaders can lead better and the followers can follow better and the one's who just get out of the way it's pretty much status quo.  Complain and consume. So I goes to uncle Dave's Facebook page to see what he's got for me on this December morning in Virginia and here's what he's saying to me today by divine

Maybe I'll go to hell.  Maybe I'll be sorry when I die. The great Mel Street.  Smoking Mountain Memories. Mel's idol was George Jones.  Maybe they're both in heaven now.  Maybe they're in hell.  I don't like to think about hell but that may be one of the best reasons to believe in Jesus Christ and read the bible.  Jones did some good Gospel songs.  Drank a little beer too from what I've heard. These online money making goo-roos  are really something.  I don't think I'll ever get tired of writing about them and following them.  It is quite a different world today than it was when Herman Melville wrote the great epic Moby Dick.  I'm thinking I will start to collect old books and maybe build me an old books country store website on Shopify.  I think Moby Dick was first published in London and then in New York City around 1871.  Not sure where Melville lived.  I'm  thinking Europe.  I wonder if Mel Street read Melville's  book. I'm going

I'm thinking of my Mom and Dad in heaven.  They're back when they were young before they had any kids.  Or maybe Dad is in an old honkeytonk bar on the east coast before he met Mom.  Maybe he just got out of the army and he's  thinking about going to school and becoming a Veterinarian.  George Jones  is playing on the jukebox.  An empty bottle, a broken heart, and you're still on my mind. One area that I disagree on with my buddy Zachary K. Hubbard is the idea of an after life.  I think my Dad had a pretty strong faith in Jesus Christ.  One time I was trying to show off to him and show him how smart I was and I was talking about Neil Diamond's song where he says Ho Chi Minh and Gunga Din, Jesus Christ and Fanny Brice, Genghis Khan on down to H. G. Wells.  Oh boy was I one smart son of a gun.  I knew it all.  There was no way this old man was not going to have to hand it to me for rolling out such pearls of wisdom. But he was quiet.  Didn't say anything for a min

Denzel Rodriquez I like his live 1030 broadcast time slot.   Works good for me. I like where he's coming from and his visionary philosophy. It run's pretty parallel to my own. He calls  it the kingdom focus. And tithing is right on top of his priorities. That is where it should be.

I like the Jerry Fetta house program.  I'm going to look in to it some more.  Sounds like he's buying $50,000 homes, putting about $50,000 into fixing them up and then selling them to families that are having a hard time getting a loan and financing the house for the buyer giving himself a tenant who has pride of ownership and a long term committed outlook for the property. Practically ingenious.  If it could work.  And apparently it is working just fine for Jerry.  He says you can get a pretty darn good return on investment and he says he rigs it up to where it is actually purely passive like a bank that loaned you the money only cares about the loan repayment and nothing more.  He says somehow he has it figured out to where it works pretty smooth. I'll let Jerry take it from here... Seller Finance For Passive Income! What if I could show you a way to invest that is: - Secured by a real asset - Under the control of the investor at all times - Has the ultimate downside prot

I get emails every day from Martin Goman at bulletproofretirement.com. I just now found his website.  Not seeing anything on twitter yet.  Seems to me all good goo-roos would have a blog and make a nice little newsletter post for their followers every day. Still looking for his blog. Also looks like he's got a business partner there namely one Edward Pritchett. I'll be keeping an eye on these guys to see what I can learn. God bless America.

But all of the poor kids on the Jackson State University football team are not any different than many poor kids on football teams all across this great country.  And American football is about the best game any young man could be in.  That and wrestling and any competitive sport is good for any young man who is able to compete at any level.  Chess is also good.  Physical and mental competition is good.  And it doesn't matter how poor you are or if your idol coach just pulled up stakes and went to a better opportunity thousands of miles away, that don't matter.  You got to pay your bills and work on your business.  And that's where Dave Ramsey comes in.  I think a core component of any young person's athletic career should be education.  This is nothing new but it seems to me that financial Dave Ramsey type education is sorely lacking and needs to be kicked up to the Prime Time level. If you can motivate those kids to win back to back championships and pull in the coach

I don't like the word problems.  The only problem anybody should have is that they don't spend enough time reading the good book.  If you got any kind of problems you should go to church and get your problems solved.  Or if you are like me and you are working seven days a week including Sunday mornings you just read when you can and go to church online.  It's a far drive down to The River Church in Tampa Bay. But Coach Prime should preach I think a little more on money problems that his players might have.  It might have been pretty bad down there in Jackson and probably still is for next season.  Got the Cricket Championship game in Atlanta coming up.  That will be an interesting trip.  Like Coach Prime says he left Jackson, he didn't leave African Americans.  He says in case you haven't noticed, I'm black. Now the thing is, he's getting paid big time.  And God bless him.  And I certainly can't begrudge a man for being successful in America.  My thought

Coach Prime is building a team. Every living person should be building a team. Denzel Rodriguez' first advice to me was to build a team. Why should every living person be building a team?  To make their life better and to make the world a better place for everybody. How could the world be better for everybody?   Make sure everybody has more money. Like the title of Matt Manero's book says, you need more money. Not to buy new Lambroghini's  and new Tesla's and gold chains with diamond studding, but to help other people get more money so they can help other people get more money so they can  help other people get more money.  It's the economy stupid. Jonathan Shuttlesworth and Rodney Howard-Browne and many others preach this same message.  And they do it by building a church.  Which is probably the smartest thing I have ever seen in my life.  And Denzel Rodriquez is  doing the same thing.  Call it a church, call it a ministry.  A church to me kind of means having a bu

The thing I like about blogs is the fact that nobody reads them.  I can sit here and write to my heart's content and publish my writing to the entire world for free and at the same time I am not pushing it out  there on anybody.   If anybody hears about my blog it will not be because it popped up on their news feed.  No siree Bob.  Anybody that's reading this came here of their own initiative and not because it popped up in front of their nose on some kind of a push out news feed alert system.  I don't like to write on Facebook because I like to write where it's nice and  quiet and nobody is going to be bothered with thinking I care if anybody reads it or not. It's mostly to just clear thoughts out of my mind and to motivate me to do something.  I think Coach Prime is keeping himself quite busy at the moment.  And I'm sure that Zachary K. Hubbard is doing the same.  Week 14 in the NFL this weekend.  Got the Bills looking like the number one team.   Playing the J

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Philip F. Smith videos keep popping up on me on YouTube.  I'm going to look into his business a little more and see if I see anything interesting.  I put him on my goo-roo watch list. Nothing new on his blog since 2020. https://philipfsmith.com/

Twenty-five years ago, I set off on my own with nothing but a folding table and a phone. For years, real success eluded me. I told people I was doing well when I was often on the edge of being broke. https://www.amazon.com/You-Need-More-Money-Financial/

 I guess this is Matt Merano's business. Founded in 1995, Commercial Fleet Financing, Inc. was launched by the president of the company in a one-bedroom apartment with a folding table and a phone book. Over the past 25 years, CFF has become the number one independently owned transportation equipment finance company in the United States. https://commercialfleetfinancing.com/

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Jerry Fetta introduced me to Matt Manero.  I like a good truck driving story.  I think I'll read a little bit more about Mike Merano to get the day started here. It's 5:58 AM in Boulder, Colorado right now.  I wonder what Coach Prime is doing.  I'll bet he's thinking about the college football national championship coming up next year.  My bet is that the game will occur.  I don't think the united States of America will be coming to an end between now and then.  It certainly could if that is God's will.  I pray that as my favorite preachers say God is not through with America yet. I like a blog versus twitter versus facebook versus instagram versus tik tok verses anything that is to come.  I was one of the first on blogger back in the day and I totally nuked that blog which had thousands of pages of commentary and newslinks and documentation regarding the Bob Schulz campaign and final march on Washington DC when I got the telegram that Lee had surrendered to Gra

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Jerry Fetta introduces me to Matt Manero today. How Matt Manero Transformed From Maniacal Tyrant To Culture Guru - And Finally Started Having Fun https://www.forbes.com/sites/lewisschiff/2018/06/20/