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TIME TO….
DRAIN THE SWAMP
Our movement
Is about replacing
A failed
And CORRUPT
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With a new government controlled
By you, the American People.
Candidate Donald J. Trump
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Does everyone get to see this or just me?
This is a terrific primer, Wolfie, thank you.
I won’t stray.
Gotta tip my toe in the water, first.
Thank you.
We can all see it. Keep your eyes peeled. He let me loose on Wednesdays.
I luv ya’ Dep!
I’m getting the image of a BAND….
DEPLORABLE PATRIOT
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Here’s a more clear look at the image I cropped.
http://www.elite-paintings.com/w/10/alph/M/Bartolome_Esteban_Murillo/Murillo_A_Girl_and_her_Duenna_artist_painting_reproduction_handmade_oil_canvas_or_print_art_deco.jpg
Thank you! I was looking for this, or at least a larger version of your cropping. Google was unable to zero in on this image or any other pieces of the original, when I went to “visually similar”, but I think it got many from the same artist and time period.
It’s from Murillo’s The Lady and her Duena, or the Girl and her Duena. The original is in the National Gallery of Art, I think.
Very nice! Nice links here for prints and background:
https://www.ancientsculpturegallery.com/a-girl-and-her-duenna-by-bartolome-esteban-murillo-1670.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolom%C3%A9_Esteban_Murillo
Interesting to see which name Commiepedia chose for the painting! 😉
Murillo is a household favorite. And the day I actually made it to the Prado in Madrid, the Murillo room was closed for renovations. Oh, well. I’ll just have to go back to Spain.
Spanish Baroque period.
Yes, this was inspired by a query for directions from trumpismine (MR. Trumpismine) who has Thursday nights starting NEXT WEEK.
BTW, Daughn – do you want to start THIS Friday or NEXT? Either way is fine – I have a placeholder up now, but if you choose this Friday, I’ll simply “edit my post forward” into my night (Tuesday) in October or November. I’m doing massive “post production” tonight!
Well hey, I can flip mine to this Friday if easier on you.
Only a couple of words to edit.
I’m okay with it.
Yes or no?
Sure, go ahead! Let’s get this party started!
Okay, you got it!
Okay, Friday is ready!
I looked at it, too! Looks AWESOME! 😀
Well, thank you TrumpisMine.
I just copy pasted the whole think so I would not forget anything.
Thank you both.
awe shuck-TY
opps – back to the drawing board
Let me try it this way – moving the image part to its own line (with some blank lines just to be sure)…..
awe shucks
-TY
Got a few things to wrap up before we ( wife and puppy ) head up to camp. Family are meeting us up there for the Labor Day weekend.
See ya’all Sunday God willing and will get to work on 1st post.
Thanks Wolf
Have a great weekend and see you when you get back! 😀
Help Wolf!! the 9/5 open thread got published
Ohhhhhhhhh, this is cool as hell.
I LOVE the block editor.
I keep telling people that the block editor is AWESOME. It has a few little quirks, and you will note that WordPress is constantly tweaking the code, so you have to update your own little games with it all the time, such as how you copy URLs, etc., but it does some things REALLY NICELY.
Mmm…
I’ve been doing content for 15+ years on content editors. Block looks like portlets. I’ll do it the old fashioned way.
I know this isnt for me, but Im glad you put the primer here. I can try this on the laptop. 👍
Let me know if / when you’re interested in taking a daily thread. When that happens [which could be RIGHT NOW!!! 😀 ], I will either give you mine, or Wheatie can hand off one of hers, if she wants (her choice).
Yep, kiddo starts school next week, and im hoping to get time to learn the ropes then. Then i can take a day…once i figure what to write aboot!
OK – holler when you’re ready! Right now, it would be Monday or Tuesday, most likely.
Daily threads are easy, because you REALLY don’t have to write about ANYTHING – they can be placeholders, where you just pick some nice images that speak to you at that time.
ALL boilerplate, if you so desire. But fresh images are enjoyed by the crew, and easy to add, or select from our massive index.
Yes everyone can see this Wolfie . . . I am not sure that was your intention.
No – this is for everybody! I have a stealthy motivation here – I’m TROLLING FOR FUTURE AUTHORS by making people think authorship is something within their capabilities! 😉
But yes – it is primarily for the THREE new Daily Thread volunteers – Daughn, Dep Pat, and trumpismine!
I’ll have to play with the “block editor.”
What it does is basically shares the “object-oriented” system of the editor with the author, so that you can “declare” what a thing is, and let WordPress give you powerful assists that come with the “strong typing” of a declared object.
My biggest hint: a “paragraph” is sometimes the best place for a LINK, instead of putting the link all by itself as an “embed”. Just type “LINK: ” and then paste the URL, and it goes in as linked text in the paragraph, instead of a “link”/”embed” block.
Note that if the link is Twitter or YouTube, it will turn into a “block” for each of those, which shows more than a link.
Understanding this different treatment of a simple web link “explains” blocks well.
I find that blocks really let me be “artistic” with the overall post. I love to add separators, headings, lists, and other little gizmos, in addition to paragraphs, images, videos, etc.
Latest email from Laura Loomer:
“Your Travel has Been Restricted by Facebook”
That could be the notice you get in the mail sometime in the future.
Months ago, I wrote about the Tech Giants secretly building a Chinses-Style “social credit system”.
Just like your credit score monitors every financial move you make to assign a score, your “social credit score” will be compiled from your online actions – what you say, who you associate with, who you vote for, and, in the case of at least Twitter, your “off-line” actions as well.
While I’m already the creator of the #StopTheBias movement to end discrimination and censorship of Republicans on social media . . . this is ONE THOUSAND TIMES WORSE.
And it’s one of the reasons why I’m running for Congress with your support.
When I’m in Congress, I’ll put an end to digital extermination.
The “social credit system” has already been implemented by the Chinese Government.
Our future may look like China’s OR WORSE very soon. Just imagine . . .
Having a loan for a new car denied because your Facebook friend was recently arrested.
Being informed that your child or grandchild has been rejected from attending a private school because the child’s father liked too many pro-gun memes on Twitter.
Excitedly preparing to go on vacation when your airline reservation is cancelled because you commented on a Facebook post critical of the TSA.
Your shock when you get a knock on the door from law enforcement because Siri overheard you jokingly say, “you’re killing me!” to your spouse.
Now consider the personal humiliation you would face when – just like in China – your name, picture and address appeared on your town’s online “Black List”.
It may seem unbelievable that America would move to a Communist style social credit system . . . but here’s the dirty truth . . . it’s already here.
For the last decade, financial lenders, specifically those operating in “high risk lending” communities, have been experimenting with and using social media profiles of credit seekers to determine loan qualifications.
Seventy-five percent of employers in the United States use social media as part of their hiring process.
Facebook was one of the first to jump on board and patented a product that would give creditors backdoor access to social media profiles in order to assess a loan application.
America’s social credit system isn’t coming . . . it’s already here.
And I’m running for Congress so that the residents of Florida’s 21st district have their privacy respected – and Facebook, Twitter, Google and Apple don’t become our digital overlords that determine our worthiness in society.
Social Media Giants have worked for years to restrict our Freedom of Speech by silencing voices like mine that don’t fall in line with their socialist views.
But behind the scenes, they’re working just as hard to erode any privacy that still exists in the lives of Americans – even if it’s just a thought you explore with a Google search.
Help me get into Congress and let’s stop this madness.
Respectfully,
Laura Loomer
P.S. Several of the scenarios mentioned above have already happened. Swat teams have raided homes due to alerts by Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa. Loans have been denied because applicants associate with the “wrong” people online. I even had my own online account with Chase Bank suspended because of my pro-Trump views. The Chinese-Style “Social Credit System” is already in play in America – get me into Congress to help stop it.
..what only Siri and Alexa, facebook ??
What do we have to do to insure our privacy ??
..electronically Frisk our family, friends, guests at sight??
Lock their cellphones up in a tinfoil wrapped safe until they are ready to go home ??
How in the H3LL can this social credit plan NOT be an infringement on free thought and speech ??
This “idea ” has to be completely destroyed. OUTLAWED !!
Anyone who works to create or facilitate it EXILED to Chyyynna, .. or simply set adrift alone in a rowboat in the middle of the Pacific.
I’m glad to hear Larry Klayman is working with Laura .
See, a handful of us who are gluttons for punishment volunteered to take some tasks off of Wolf’s plate.
Love it!!!
Great tune for a great movie. I saw it as a kid on a Saturday with a large group of other paperboys who were treated to it.
Funny, for the last few hours I’ve been looking for orchestral stuff for “my” day of daily posts, and I’ve been trying to find the ones that actually show the orchestras. John Williams is notorious for wearing out the brass and strings. Elmer Bernstein, apparently, is too. WOW. I mean, there are no 100+ bar stretches of rest.
Great tune for a great movie. I saw it as a kid on a Saturday with a large group of other paperboys who were treated to it.
Thanks…pleasant memories. Paper boy making bucks and earning prizes…Santa Cruz Boardwalk (when it used to be family fun), Disneyland trips…;-)
.50 Cal Hawkin Renegade. Let’s do this
Yes – one of the most powerful and advanced personal armaments of the day, it put the power of a country in the hands of CITIZENS responsible for their own actions!
The percussion cap was a great development for these single shot cap and ball rifles.
Major improvement over the flintlock guns.
Then, along came cartridges and that was the next major improvement.
Percussion caps revolutionized the muzzle loader for sure 👍
And it’s quite adequate in taking down big game. For personal defense they’ll have to get past the Winchester 94 🤨 … well, and the handcannon (.357)
http://gunsamerica.com/userimages/5212/977406453/wm_1652107.jpg
Love that lever-action! What’s it chambered in?
It’s a .30-30. Dad gave it to me when I was 12. Shot the face off the 1st muledeer I came across 😬 …legally of course
.30-30 is a great round! Gets more classic all the time. I love the old Winchesters!
It’s my cowboy assault rifle. Figure I’ll be good 👍
One of the most amazing things to realize is that a large percentage of modern weaponry are knock-offs of stuff originally produced in a home shop attached to a mini-mansion in Ogden, Utah, that was listed as “for-sale” in 2011 for $350,000 — https://www.ksl.com/article/16489297/gun-maker-brownings-mansion-in-ogden-listed-on-ksl-classifieds .
All these congressional idiots hyperventilating about assault weapons and extended magazines and short barrels and rapid-fire…….this was all originally manufactured by a guy in his home shop (and test-fired down a hallway in his basement) with no plans — because he invented it, out of his head. John Moses Browning (PBUH) is responsible for the classic M1911 pistol, the water-cooled M1917, the air-cooled M1919, the M2 heavy machine gun, the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR), and the Browning Auto-5 (first semi-automatic shotgun), and many, many more. Again, these were initially created in his home shop, in his house, with reasonable tools that he personally owned.
Gun control nuts not only have to suppress knowledge of why the Founding Fathers created the Second Amendment (after having just fought off the #1 military in the world using firearms [and cannons!] they had in their barns), they also have to suppress knowledge of metalworking and manufacturing techniques. JMB made his first firearm at the age of 13 and got his first firearm patent at the age of 24.
And that is part of the evil of pushing manufacturing to China. There are damned few machinists left who could reproduce JMB’s work given a print — and fewer still who could invent it.
Yes, Browning was amazing.
This REMINDS ME of something. An interesting point that will prove to be a bit “future proves past” later.
I knew somebody who was an admirer of Browning as a KID. That’s unusual as hell. That’s why I remember it.
People thought that was somewhat remarkable. He, likewise, understood weaponry from the inside out – a kind of “x-ray vision” for how firearms worked. When other kids were drawing “keep on truckin'” graffiti on their notebooks in class, he was drawing meticulous diagrams of firearms in a kind of “see-through” state in operation.
He wanted to be a mechanical engineer and a weapons designer. It was his dream in life. Could have done it, too, but a weird combination of things destroyed and derailed him utterly, during a disastrous first year of college. Cultural Marxism, writ large, but many smaller aspects of it, sneaking in to destroy him. Potent forms of cannabis, most of all. ONE useful idiot who targeted another idiot who snuck in the Thai stick. But people talked about it. It was one of those “Wow – did you hear?” downfall stories.
Eventually the firearms kid recovered, but never as an engineer. He switched to “cabal sciences”, so to speak. It’s a miracle he survived at all.
I take note of this, because his case mirrored, in many ways, the “language super-guru” “non-diaper Russian learner” who died in a one-car accident before college.
Such losses, so early.
This is my favorite print of a painting I bought many years ago. It shows two frontiersmen in the wilderness setting up a fish trap in a creek when along comes a huge grizzly bear who takes umbrage with them fishing in his grocery store. The man with the flintlock muzzle loader has but once chance to dispatch the bear and knows he’d better hit it in a vital organ or else. And one has to ask, is his powder dry? Is the flint going to fire?
That is beautiful
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Of course, that could be the nightcap talking.
LOL!
Miss Wheatie gonna get you FGaC!!! And you’ll deserve it😜
LOL 😜
Wow – what a day of outstanding posts & topics. QTreepers are The Best!!! Looking forward to MOAR here in the Den, and mucho gratitude to all of you helping Wolfie keep this place rockin’. 💞💞🇺🇸🇺🇸
…. we are right there with you Alison .. give us a hug … 🤗🤗🤗❤️
Thanks, Alison! I’m havin’ a good old time! We have some GREAT MONTHS coming right up!
Okay Wolfboss, I have one scheduled for Friday. September 6. already.
One question.
Do you want it to come out at about 12:05 eastern time?
Just asking.
Take a look at it and tell me what you think.
Looking now!
Monday, Sept 9th in Fayetteville, N.C.
A date that will live in honor and glory.
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/rallies/
Hey boss…are we still trying to conserve space on the Media File?
I’ve been trying to recycle images that are already in there, rather than upload new ones…and trying to keep my new uploads to a bare minimum.
We’re at about 34.3% space used now.
What happens when we reach ‘Full’?
Good questions.
Hey, DePat…are you going to be taking Wednesdays?
I uploaded a Camel pic one time, for a ‘Hump Day’ daily that I was working on, to quickly throw up when Wolfie was busy somewhere doing something.
He showed up though, before I posted it…so there was no need for it.
Here’s the Camel pic, if you wanna use it sometime:
You can access it by using the Search feature in the Media File.
Just type in “camel-e…” and it should pop up for you.
This one is already off-centered and cropped for use as a Header pic…or “Featured Image”…so that the Wolfmoon logo is to the side of the camel.
I have a bad feeling I’ll be collecting camels…AND I DON’T SMOKE!
Thanks.
Yes, we are now at 34%+ – but our rate of increase has fallen DRAMATICALLY due to heavy recycling by you and me, so I have hope. We WERE skyrocketing. Now it’s much slower.
We DO need to teach the n00bs all about….
SEARCHING THE MEDIA FILE FIRST, BEFORE UPLOADING
I may do a post for the authors, explaining good tactics for recycling images, or you could do that, too.
When we reach full, we will likely follow one of several plans I’m thinking of right now, but not revealing yet. However, I will try to delay that moment as long as possible.
“I may do a post for the authors, explaining good tactics for recycling images, or you could do that, too.”
__________
Probably would be better, boss, if it was coming from you.
😏😉
Also need to caution people about using ‘recent uploads’ that others have uploaded for posts that are scheduled to drop.
Wouldn’t want to see someone use pics that the original uploader hasn’t published yet.
Whomever uploads an image first should be the one who gets to use it first.
Good Rule of thumb is…’If It’s Been Used Before In A Post Then It’s Fair Game’.
The further back in the Media File that an image is, is a good indication of the image being ‘fair game’.
Great point – that will prevent a lot of bruises.
Questions about images:
What is the featured image size we should seek or resize to?
Will WP resize for us?
I’ve been using URLs for images other than the featured one. Is this not Kosher? It will save space.
WP will resize them…stretch the smaller ones to fit, or crop the larger ones equally from all sides.
If I’m trying to use a smaller one, I check the ‘Preview’ to see if the image is blurry when it’s enlarged.
It’s different with each pic…but sometimes the blurriness is too much, IMO, so I don’t use it.
That’s a good idea about using URLs for other images, instead of uploading them.
I haven’t tried that…but I will.
😀
I tried to move the corners to resize…I think I’m going to have to do it on other software.
Yeah, WP will auto-stretch for the Featured Image.
But I haven’t been able to manually stretch anything using the Edit Image tools…those seem to be for cropping only.
Loose-ratio resizing always looks bogus to me, so I invariably crop what I need. Just get a 1400×500 *RATIO* image cropped out of whatever you like, and you’re good.
You can also use photocollage.com to merge pictures into a collage. That was a great tip in the answer to Sadie’s question about a collage maker. PhotoCollage has a 15:5 (1500×500) image size option, which basically creates a perfect header with just a little chopping at each end (1400×500).
Thanks.
Yes – URLs is a good way to add images while saving space, although if the image link goes bad, so does the image. Just something to consider for CRITICAL images that the text may depend on years from now.
Also, using URLs is “hot-linking”, and offends some hosts, such as CTH. I would avoid hot-linking to CTH. I would also avoid using any ORIGINAL images from CTH, even if downloaded.
Note that another way to add images is to put them YOURSELF on a site like imgur, and then use THAT URL on WordPress.
Now – about SIZE….
WordPress has a nice algorithm that just “handles” header images in a very cutthroat way. It “cuts” a 14:5 (roughly) width-to-height image right out of the center of the image and uses that for the header. It shows the WHOLE IMAGE in the list on the homepage, but then it creates a header automatically from that.
What results, looks like this:
So what I tend to do is IMAGINE if the central slice of a tall image has the properties I want, or else I may CROP a header image to very close to 14:5, so that it just fits right into the header.
Note that if your header image is too thin, the algo cuts the CENTER section out.
This is helpful. Thanks.
BTW, for me, CTH is OVER, as in OVER. Don’t worry about me hotlinking. I have so much Celt in me, Greenland will turn green again before I grace that space. And don’t think I can’t do it. I walked out of my home parish over a professional dispute with the music director and didn’t walk back into the place for almost nine years.
FYI – this post has been added to “Key Posts” in the sidebar, as “Exemplary Daily Post”. Authors can always come to this post and discussion if they have questions.
Just finished a draft of the 9-11 daily. I need a drink.
Yeah, I had one earlier, and I was happy to scrub it when you took over Wednesdays. But it may come back in better form as a special post.
I think I need to reread this when I don’t have a head cold and things make no sense… lol
S.O.S. Wolf. I left a comment on the author page. Need help.
Just got back on. Hang on. Troubles at this end, too.