Joining The Herd Of Lemmings
I’ve had cause to consider a few things. Maybe we’re going about it the wrong way, and we need to ditch Trump
Yeah, NO
Trump all the way! Why? Because being hated by the people who hate him is a sign of impeccable character, that’s why.
The haters can go fuck themselves with rusty twelve gauge bore brushes. I’d prefer ten gauge but that’s kind of scarce, so…I’m willing to compromise.
The RINO’s Dilemma
The RINOs who who have burrowed in and taken over most GOP organizations, from the state down to local organizations, have quite a dilemma on their hands, and most of them have their heads too far up their asses to realize it.
OK, I’m not talking about the liberal in a Republican area, who knows they’re in the wrong party, but is there because it’s the only game in their town; they hope to capture a nomination someday, at which point they’re guaranteed to be elected…otherwise, they never will be. These people are a hazard in any heavily conservative area.
No, I’m talking about the guys who are a little bit conservative and want to do some good by going into politics, and they’re in a closely matched area, closely enough that they can join the party they are most aligned with and still have a chance. They think the Democrats…particularly the ones who end up running for office…are nuts.
They don’t think much better of the Deplorable types, either. A bunch of bumpkins whose hearts are in the right place, mostly…OK a bit extreme. But they think Deplorables can’t understand that first you have to get elected, then work within the system to change things…a slow process. They genuinely want many of the things Deplorables want…just not as much. The government is spending too much. Or they need to spend money on highways instead of welfare for illegal immigrants. But they want to work within the system to get these things done.
Or maybe they think things are pretty close to ideal right now, and they want to nail it in place.
The problem is, that means they don’t stand for anything in particular. And it shows. They’re about as unappetizing to the electorate as a puddle of dog vomit. The folks in the middle, who they think they are appealing to because they themselves are not extreme, would honestly prefer a clear-spoken radical to someone who qualifies everything they say to the point where they sound like they don’t believe anything at all.
The problem these “Mild RINOs” have, is they just can’t see that. And the reason they just can’t see that, is their entire sense of self-worth is tied up in not seeing that. In their minds, they’ve worked tirelessly for their party, to keep those crazy Democrats out…only to have to constantly fight with a small number of crazy Republicans–who are only liabilities if they end up as candidates. They’ve fought the good fight, and if they can just find the right candidate, someone with some charisma, they might stop the crazies…without being too beholden to the OTHER crazies. In the meantime it’s not working. What’s a responsible guy in politics to do?
They simply cannot understand that the Republicans can’t succeed as the party of nothing in particular. Not really in the past, and certainly not today when people are starting to realize that no matter what they do in the voting booth, the country is still about to fly off a precipice. If they did see it, they’d suddenly have two choices: Go away and let the GOP succeed, or stay and fight. But “go away” isn’t really an option, because what’s the point of having a party now owned by the crazies, win?
Well, they have a dilemma…and WE, therefore have a problem. And we would have that problem even IF they realized that they had a problem…that they were the problem.
No one ever thinks they are the bad guy. Even Epstein probably thought he was the good guy. Right up to the moment where he didn’t kill himself.
So if you ever wonder why these unappetizing dufuses cling on even when their fingernails are being left behind…that’s why. They don’t understand no one wants them, and can’t imagine that no one should want them. And oftentimes their greatest pride is in all the hard work they’ve done for the party. They’re not going to give that up; it’d be psychological suicide.
If you’ve worked with these people, there’s a good chance you like them and consider some of them your friends. But even if so…we’re going to have to give them a good, hard shove. Because America is more important than those milquetoasts’ egos.
Justice Must Be Done
The prior election must be acknowledged as fraudulent, and steps must be taken to prosecute the fraudsters and restore integrity to the system.
Nothing else matters at this point. Talking about trying again in 2022 or 2024 is hopeless otherwise. Which is not to say one must never talk about this, but rather that one must account for this in ones planning; if fixing the fraud is not part of the plan, you have no plan.
Lawyer Appeasement Section
OK now for the fine print.
This is the WQTH Daily Thread. You know the drill. There’s no Poltical correctness, but civility is a requirement. There are Important Guidelines, here, with an addendum on 20191110.
We have a new board – called The U Tree – where people can take each other to the woodshed without fear of censorship or moderation.
And remember Wheatie’s Rules:
1. No food fights
2. No running with scissors.
3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
4. Zeroth rule of gun safety: Don’t let the government get your guns.
5. Rule one of gun safety: The gun is always loaded.
5a. If you actually want the gun to be loaded, like because you’re checking out a bump in the night, then it’s empty.
6. Rule two of gun safety: Never point the gun at anything you’re not willing to destroy.
7. Rule three: Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire.
8. Rule the fourth: Be sure of your target and what is behind it.
(Hmm a few extras seem to have crept in.)
Spot (i.e., paper) Prices
Last week:
Gold $1,948.50
Silver $23.68
Platinum $1,015.00
Palladium $1,459.00
Rhodium $7,450.00
This week, 3PM Mountain Time, markets have closed for the weekend.
Gold $1,961.70
Silver $24.38
Platinum $1,018.00
Palladium $1,356.00
Rhodium $7,100.00
Silver up a decent amount. Gold a bit less so (and it went down a few bucks on Friday). Palladium and rhodium continue to slide which either means, someone is finally mining the stuff and meeting the demand, or…the economy is in a world of hurt. (The problem is they tend to piggyback on platinum mining, and no one is bothering with platinum because it’s been a glut on the market for years.)
Arbitrary Powers
No, this is not political, even though our would-be overlords are exercising arbitrary powers.
The last two posts on e and π have probably bent a few minds as people read them. I talked about some pretty wacky arithmetic…and it is arithmetic. Some few people here might not know what fractional and negative powers mean, or that they can even exist, so I’m going to take a break and bring ’em up to speed. Then I’ll bring in the Taylor series.
It seems like it would be a bit tricky multiplying an irrational number by itself, or even by some other irrational number. If it’s a rational number, even a repeating decimal, you can do the multiplication with fractions (where you get an exact answer), then if necessary convert to a decimal. But when the number doesn’t end as a decimal and can’t be represented as a fraction what do you do? You can just take it out to about twice as many digits as you need, do the multiplication, then throw away the digits you don’t need….only some of them at the end were wrong anyway. But that’s not really satisfying to mathematicians (engineers settle for it, because this is the real world and computers can only go so far for rendering numbers–there is a whole branch of mathematics devoted to estimating the errors in approximations).
And especially in the post on e, I talked about raising numbers to fractional powers. OK…at first blush, that is just plain screwy. e you might have a grip on. e2…well you multiply e x e. And e15…well it’s a lot of work and even the most sadistic math teacher wouldn’t expect that done longhand, but you just multiply 1.0 times e, then repeat..a total of fifteen times. But what in the heck does it mean to raise e to the 2.4th power? e2.4 is 1.0 times e…2.4 times. But multiplication is a single operation, you can’t do 4/10ths of a multiplication. It’s either done or it’s not done. And that’s not because e is irrational and transcendental, you have the same issue with 2x.
A similar question arises when someone talks about raising a number to a negative power…what does it mean to multiply 1 by x…negative three times? That one’s a bit easier, and I’ll give you a hint up front…division is the opposite of multiplication. Read on for the answer.
Yet with all these questions about what powers other than 1, 2, 3, etc. mean, you see a nice smooth graph of ex, like this one, with values drawn in between the integer powers:
You’ll note that the line goes through x=1, x=2 and so forth as if it’s meaningful to raise e to any power…fractions, compound numbers, irrational numbers, transcendental numbers, you-name-it. How do we know that line is smooth between e1 and e2, e2 and e3, and so forth, instead of jiggling all over the place in some wacky way that only just has to cross through the integer powers?
Well, it seems fairly intuitive that e2.5, whatever the heck it means, should be somewhere between e2 and e3. And that e2.25 really ought to be somewhere between e2 and e2.5. Follow that one far enough and you have a plausible argument that whatever that line should do, it should climb the whole way between e squared and e cubed, and not jiggle around. That’s not a solid proof, but a fairly strong suggestion. And of course that still leaves the possibility of the line being straight or even convex upward between the knowable, sensible points.
But we can actually go there, in a much more rigorous way–and the graph has it right. Nice smooth curve.
Consider what it means to raise some number, like, say, two, to an integer power…like, say, ten. In other words, 210. That;s simply 2·2·2·2·2·2·2·2·2·2 = 1024 (and that’s where You-Know-Who’s fraction of Indian (feather, not dot) ancestry comes from).
What happens if you multiply 24 by 23? Let’s see…that’s 2·2·2·2 multiplied by 2·2·2…which is to say, 2·2·2·2·2·2·2 or 27. And 7 happens to be 4 + 3. That’s not a coincidence. Provided you’re working from the same base, here 2 in both cases, (rather than doing 24 times 35, where they are different) you simply add the exponents. That’s a quick shortcut in algebra, where you might have to multiply x4 by x3. You just write x7. (But if you’re faced with x4 multiplied by y3, you’re stuck with x4y3.)
You can similarly divide by subtracting exponents, because dividing is the opposite of multiplying, and subtracting is the opposite of addition. So: x4/ x3 is x4-3 = x1 = x. Or written out, x·x·x·x/x·x·x. The three xs on the bottom cancel out three xs on top leaving you with x. And if the latter number is bigger than the first number, you end up with a negative power. That means more xs on the bottom, and (if you’re dealing with x3-4, you end up with x–1 = 1/x.
So a negative power is just the reciprocal of the same positive power. Thus x-3 is 1/x3, etc.
And you now know that any number raised to the zeroth power is 1. In other words, x0 = 1, no matter what x is. Don’t believe me? Do some algebra. Divide x2 by x2 to get 1, then do the same thing by subtracting the exponents.
OK, now for the next trick. There is a number–let’s call it s, which, when you square it, gives you 2. So s2 is 2. Or, s·s = 2. Or strictly speaking, s·s = 21. But we’ve already seen that you can get a number, raised to a power, by raising that number to other powers and adding the powers. So, you could figure s is two raised to some power, and multiply them together, like this 2p·2p=21. So what is p then? What is the one number, which when added to itself equals one? That’s ½.
So we have: 2½·2½=21.
Of course, s, which is equal to 2½, is simply the square root of 2. So…raising a number to the 1/2 power gives you its square root. And raising a number to its 1/3 power is the same as taking its cube root. And so on. That means to take the nth root of a number…you can divide the exponent, whatever it is, by n. The cube root of some number, x, is symbolized by first writing x as x1, so that it has an exponent…then dividing the exponent by 3.
So do you want to know what 22.4 is? Now we can figure it out. It’s 22 x 21/5 x 21/5 because 2.4 = 2+1/5+1/5. Or you can treat it as 212/5. To compute that, multiply 1 by 2…repeating 11 times for a total of 12 multiplications. Then take the fifth root.
No, I am not suggesting you do this, but at least now you can see what a calculator might be doing behind the scenes when you enter 2, then xy, then 2.4.
How about raising the power of some number, to yet another number? Like, say, raising 2 to the third power, then raising that to the fourth power? In other words, (23)4? Well, let’s see, that would be (23)·(23)·(23)·(23) which we already know you can figure out by adding 3+3+3+3 to get 212. But it’s also multiplying 3 by 4 to get 12. So when you raise a power to another power, you multiply the two exponents. (And again the base…the number you’re raising…has to match–in this case it will match.)
I said a couple of paragraphs ago that your calculator might be raising a number to a power, then taking some root of it, to compute a fractional power. But it’s probably not. Taking some weird root of a number is hard. (It’s easier using certain tricks, but still…) There is instead something called the Taylor Series. And unfortunately, deriving it requires calculus, but it can be used for any “infinitely differentiable” (i.e., “smooth-curve”) function.
You use it to approximate the value of some function that might be otherwise very hard to compute. Just run it out as far as you like; eventually you’ll see your answer isn’t changing enough to change the last digit on the calculator’s display, and you stop. (That’s called “converging on the value.”)
Here’s the full Taylor series. Don’t worry too much about it; it’s about to get much simpler.
(For calculus geeks and the brave: A is some number you want to start from; most of the time that just gets set to zero and when you do that, it’s called the Maclaurin series. The fs with all the tick marks are derivatives of the function f. And the ! notation means to multiply a number by all the smaller numbers, so 6! is 6x5x4x3x2x1=720.)
As I said, you can use any smooth function here. And it just so happens that raising a positive number to the power x gives you a smooth function. So we can use the Taylor/Maclaurin series.
If that number you’re raising happens to be e then it gets very simple. The Taylor series for ex simplifies as follows if a=0…because the derivatives of ex are all themselves ex. So you’re taking ex of zero…over and over again. But that’s just one. And with a equals zero all of those (x-a)s become simply x. So you’re left with:
(Sorry if you don’t know calculus…you can take my word for it…or dig, somewhere. If you can’t dig, ask other people who know calculus to confirm I’m not just some guy on the internet bullshitting you…rather, I’m just some guy on the internet actually giving you the straight dope. Will miracles never cease?)
Notice One Very Cool Thing: You’re computing ex without actually using the number e. And you’re doing it without having to take some weird root of the number for a fractional case. And x can be a fraction, a compound number, the square root of 2, some negative version of any of these…you name it! It’s all multiplication, division, and addition. You just have to keep going until it converges. Which, granted, might be a long time.
Yes, it’s a lot of arithmetic…but arithmetic is what calculators do.
I just set this up in a spreadsheet. Each term is simply x/n times the previous term, then you add them all up. So if I raise e1, it converges on 2.718281828 after twelve steps (and you’re just adding 1+1+1/2+1/6+1/24+1/120…). So you can compute e this way, as far out as you like. However, if I raise e10, it takes 35 steps to converge on 22,026.46579. The farther away from zero you get, the longer it will take to converge. Your calculator would probably take some shortcuts; I could guess what they are (and bore you, if I haven’t already) and probably be wrong anyway.
OK, well that’s bloody nice, you might be saying. But what if I want to raise some other number to a fractional exponent? Like, say, ten? Surely ten is a more useful base than friggin’ e is! So….just for an example, what’s 103.7?
This series can help you do that!
There is some number, call it q, that if you raise e to that power, you get 10. In other words, eq=10. Or in yet other words, q is the natural logarithm of 10, q = ln(10). (Apparently ln was chosen as the symbol for this by the French…or some other language that would want to put “natural” after “logarithm.”)
[Logarithms deserve their own post…and they’re not going to get one, at least not in this little miniseries. Suffice it to say you can figure out what two numbers multiplied together is…by adding their logarithms. Calculators probably use them a lot, too, inside and behind the scenes.]
How does that help us? Well, your original problem, “what’s 103.7?” is equivalent to “what’s (eq)3.7? But we already know that that is the same as: eq·3.7. Remember how you multiply exponents, to take the exponent of an exponent? And we know how to raise e to any power; use the series!
You just need to know what the natural log of your desired base is. And your desired base can be anything…a fraction, an irrational number…you name it, as long as you can get there by raising e to some notional power, you can use it. You just need to know what that notional power actually is.
Well, guess what, there’s a Taylor series for that too, a series for ln(x). I’m not going to hit you with that, though, because it won’t matter down the road. Suffice it to say natural logs are readily obtainable…naturally.
OK…so where are we?
We went from wondering how the heck you can raise numbers to negative and fractional values, and wondering how to raise an irrational, even transcendental, number like e to a power…to realizing that fractional and negative powers actually do mean something, and being able to raise e to any fractional or negative value without even having to use the number e to do it, using nothing but multiplication, division and addition. Pretty slick. And going from there to being able to raise any real number to any real power.
You might not be impressed but your calculator loves it.
Fuck Joe B*d*n
Due to complaints about foul language, I’ve censored the most objectionable word in the title of this section.
B*d*n, you don’t even get ONE scoop of ice cream today.
(Please post this somewhere permanent, as it will continue to be true; the SOB will never deserve a scoop.)
Obligatory PSAs and Reminders
China is Lower than Whale Shit
Remember Hong Kong!!!
中国是个混蛋 !!!
Zhōngguò shì gè hùndàn !!!
China is asshoe !!!
China is in the White House
Since Wednesday, January 20 at Noon EST, the bought-and-paid for His Fraudulency Joseph Biden has been in the White House. It’s as good as having China in the Oval Office.
Joe Biden is Asshoe
China is in the White House, because Joe Biden is in the White House, and Joe Biden is identically equal to China. China is Asshoe. Therefore, Joe Biden is Asshoe.
But of course the much more important thing to realize:
Joe Biden Didn’t Win
乔*拜登没赢 !!!
Qiáo Bài dēng méi yíng !!!
Joe Biden didn’t win !!!
A lot of the problem is that people are taught half of what they’ll need to know about, say, exponents…..and then are given YEARS to forget all that before they are taught anything more.
Coothie, you asked about Benedryl and ponies yesterday.
First, the smell of smoke has arrived in my neck of the woods and my allergies have gone nutz … DARN IT!!!
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Ponies DO get allergies, either heaves (sort of like asthma where they cough and their lungs fill up and they can die.) Also they can get hives from insect stings or they get runny eyes. I actually have one pony allergic to hay (The mold in the hay to be precise.)
So far it has ALWAYS been the ‘red heads’ who have the problems.
It used to be you could get Tri-Hist Granules## that worked for 12 hours. It is in a corn meal base and very easy to feed. Unfortunately the product contained Sudafed so it was taken off the market and now we have NOTHING to replace it. For a while my vet gave me Guaifenesin which is used to help clear mucus or phlegm from the lungs in humans. However he found it was pretty useless in ‘heavy’ horses and quit prescribing it. So that leaves OTC benedryl. I grind up 2 caplets per 100 lbs of body weight. I spread molasses on bread and then add the powder — CAREFULLY — and try to get the molasses to ‘wet out’ the powder without having the powder spill onto the bread. A real PITA!! The powder likes to sit on top of the molasses and NOT mix so it takes a while to get the powder coated.
The powder is very bitter and Hubby did not mix it well one time. I now have a pony who panics at the sight of a slice of bread. 🙄 So with him I use a LOT of molasses mixed with the powder and placed in a syringe. I layer it. pure molasses/ medicated molasses/ pure molasses so he gets the proper dose.
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## I am going to have to ask the vet if I can now get it via prescription although now it has more than doubled in price.
Gail Combs
Yesterday, the air quality index of 113 in the Raleigh-Durham area was the worst one has ever experienced. You could smell the smoke in the atmosphere even in the house with the windows closed. The atmosphere was filled with a weird-looking “haze.” They closed the golf course that backs up to one’s property for the day.
Today’s index isn’t much better.
Ours has gone up higher, but is still under 50 in east TN. Got some rain coming tomorrow night and Monday that will help.
But there are times you can really smell the smoke and see the haze in areas that normally don’t have it.
113, really? We were thanking God when it got DOWN to 113, as it had been 350+ for an extended period. You don’t even want to know how it looked and smelled. On the candy-ass east coast.
What a tiny bunch of self-absorbed jackasses this place has become – going around your cul-de-sac.
I realized I had not signed out. Done deal.
I must be sporting an iron lung or something but in my neck of the woods in Cali there were so many times it was bad smoke and ash but I never heard of many having hospital visits and major issues other than it being irritating.
Is there something in this Canadian smoke, like chemicals or something ?
It passed over East Palestine Ohio.
Candy Ass East coast.
hahahahahah right ?!
Mainly jus funnin.
But DC area and NYC, candy asses.
BQQM!
I was at a Fish Club meeting, talking with one of the guys, and mentioned Candy Ass East Coast — and he said, “that’s just what my wife calls ’em.”
Right. Almost 400 air quality for an extended period, right here in NJ, the candy-ass east coast. As I said above, we were happy when it went DOWN to 113. What a jerk.
Cali has a lot of eucalyptus which is used on inhalants. May counterbalance the smoke
Ozzy – just a note. You are using an email hider, and that is why all your comments went into moderation. You have to use your regular email to show up with all the bells and whistles, and not be a “guest”. OTOH, you can now comment as a guest using the email hider, and it should post.
good. I think the email hider is automatic.
I am impressed, and my calculator wishes I would use this sometimes instead of just adding numbers and figuring percentages. 😀
Sadly, calculators seem to make people less familiar with numbers — they want to stuff ’em in a box and hit “equals” instead of thinking about what they are doing.
There’s a famous tale of a young mathematician in Elementary School. The teacher, looking to fill time, had the entire class add up the numbers from 1 to 100. This kid (IIRC, Goethe), popped up with “5,050” before the class even got rolling.
He reasoned as following — take the first number, 1, and the last number, 100 — they add to 101. Then, take the second number, 2, and the second-to-last number, 99 — and they also add to 101. If he kept doing that 50 times, he’d end up with 50 and 51 — which still add up to 101. Fifty times 101 is 5050.
If he’d taken the “easy” way and used a calculator, he’d still be punching numbers….but he lived in a pre-calculator world. He had learned to understood numbers in a different way.
Interesting!
Yes…so now everyone is taught (and then forgets) n*(n+1) / 2 is how to compute a “triangular number”
I was asked a question at an interview. You have a list of numbers, 1-10000, but one number is missing–and they’re not in order. Figure out which one is missing.
Correct answer….add them up and see by how much the answer deviates from that formula.
Sad to say I didn’t see it until they started explaining it to me then I felt like a dufus.
Then, again, I always liked the one about the student measuring the height of a building with a barometer….
“Find the Building Super. Offer to give him the barometer if he tells you the height of the building.”
Method 2: Drop the barometer and time its fall.
Another method — pick a sunny day and measure their shadows….
Sell the barometer at a pawn shop (or to a passing stranger) and get a subway ticket. Go downtown to City Hall and ask to review the permits for the building…..
Going to wikipedia and using the first of the two pendulum methods (the one where you swing it on the end of a short string at both the top and bottom of the building) seems to me would require a very accurate clock, more so than was available for less then four figures back then. (The other one, making a pendulum the height of the building, assumes absolute dead calm weather.)
My favorite of the physics solutions is tossing the thing off the roof and timing its fall. Straightforward physics from Galileo/Newton’s day, first or second week physics; nothing that came afterwards. Stone knives and bearskins
In case you’re wondering, the “official” answer is to use the barometer to measure air pressure at the top and bottom of the building. A pesky kid refused to give the “official” answer on a test and got an F. He was offered a “make-up” and took it, using a different method which was not “official” — so he got an F. Then he sued, and made the school system eat their stupid question — slowly, chewing it thoroughly.
Ah, it is said that this was raised in an academic setting — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barometer_question
It’s a very old story. Poor kid was bored.
Actually I’d likely have listed the three alternates…then written a note saying “But I know this isn’t what you’re looking for so…” and then summarized the “correct answer” briefly enough to make it clear I knew damned well what it was, but without going into TOO much detail.
Nothing like a Smart Ass Kid that is really really intelligent.
NOTE TO TEACHERS: ALWAYS check if the kid has lawyers for parents, BEFORE you pull stupid commie schiff on the kid.
And accommodate the kids’ intelligence. Encourage them instead of punishing them.
They used to sort kids by intelligence so the teachers could make the correct adjustments based on the kids abilities.
Then the Commies got into the act. So now they mix the kids and give Ritalin to the intelligent kids to MAKE them like the slower kids….
And NO I AM NOT KIDDING!
I can not find the article I want, No doubt it is long gone, but I did find this:
Ritalin stunts growth of children; long-term risk to children’s health unknown
Get the kids OFF sugar and caffeine and ON to bikes or other good exercise! There was a reason we had a bit of ‘recess’ before classes started and again after lunch as well as Gym. Kids NEED to run around just like puppies or kittens or goat kids!
Ritalin ‘may cause damage to brains’
https://web.archive.org/web/20050209042116/http://www.srmhp.org/0201/adhd.html
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http://archive.azcentral.com/families/education/articles/0801back-ritalin-ON.html
They are DELIBERATELY destroying our children and have been for decades.
^^^ This. This. This!
I am fortunate that in the early years (1st-4th grade) I had teachers with the good sense to just let me run loose at my own pace.
Then I ran into the Never To Be Named asswipe who taught fifth grade. I hated him; my mother hated him. I lived through it and overcame, obviously. But someone like that could have done permanent damage in first grade.
Grrr! My oldest son had such a teacher in 5th/6th grade combined class. His doc that diagnosed ADHD when I thought he had dyslexia (he’d get the beginning & end of a word correct but just make up the middle) said if he had another year with that teacher he could be scarred for life. Fortunately she left that school & his issues eventually dissipated to some degree.
Probably teaching gender theory now
Good guess but I Really hope not!
Have things Finally lighted up there on the former prison planet? Hope you & yours are doing OK…AND it’s Really Good to see you!!!
We are ok. Skullduggery in politics-wrap up smear but the wheels are coming off as the messages between lefty journo and alleged sa victim nave been leaked
Glad you’re OK! Despise the ubiquitous corruption…grrr
Someone like that was given to you totemper you. Teach you self control, humility and to open your eyes to crap wearing the cloak of authority
“Nothing like a Smart Ass Kid that is really really intelligent.” Q-Tree club motto? 😂
Now they too busy indoctrinating them in woke genderbull to worry about maths
With a spread of shit on the paper?
The real question we are thinking is Was that you?
How hot is it?
building vary in height depending on the ambient temp
before/without abacus &/or slide rule? Neither of which I know I how to use…
Slide rule: MAJOR application for logarithms…
I got into higher math just a few years after slide rules had been superseded by calculators. So I know about them in theory, but would really struggle to use one (and the fancy ones have all sorts of scales on them to do really clever things; I don’t know what they’re all for). I do have my dad’s slide rule…it was top of the line.
The thing about slide rules is that you can multiply 6.3 x 10^4 and 2.7 x 10^3, but you have to keep track of the 10^7 part yourself.
Precisely.
Sorry, overcome by flashbacks…..
If you’re looking for financial information about any public company, you can look for it here — https://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/companysearch
If you want to see a quarterly report, that’s a 10-Q. An annual report is a 10-K. In it, they include financial statements.
When you’re maintaining the books of a company, everything has to balance to the penny. When you’re presenting financial statements to the US markets and the SEC, you typically round to the millions or something…..
The thing is, the stuff on the page has to add up.
Let’s say you have 10.4 + 10.4 + 10.4 + 10.9 = 42.1.
Then you round it to even numbers and it says 10 + 10 + 10 + 11 = 42.
So someone, generally a junior staff member, has to manually screw around with rounding to make it 10 + 11 + 10 + 11 = 42.
You have to preserve the big number, the 42. You can’t change a number that will have to be changed back in a subsequent year — so you can’t revalue your headquarters building. You can’t change a number that shows up in a bunch of different parts of the financials. You can’t change anything that the CFO has mentioned in a conference call….but you have to bury the rounding discrepancy — and there’s no automated way of doing it (at least, back when I was involved).
Two ways to solve that, neither of which will actually happen: Report down to the penny. or B) train people to accept that sometimes roundoffs do weird things. 2.4 + 2.4 = 4.8. Rounding: 2+2 = 5. Deal with it.
There was some fictional End Times book I read way back, I think it was written by the late Christian author & financial “guru” Larry Burkett. Anyway his creative solution to funding the survivors of the Apocalypse was to somehow take the fractional pennies of bank rounding calculations & collect them in an account for use by the latter day Christians. He made is sound “legal” & plausible…if only we could get those crumbs from our “masters'” tables, hmmm 😉
Same gimmick as in Office Space.
I’ve never seen/read that…
You need to see the movie “Office Space”. It explains a lot of Silicon Valley.
I’ll try to look for that at some point. I know hubby watched “Pirates of Silicon Valley” way back in the day 🙂
🤣
You should, it’s iconic. A fair number of memes are based on it.
TY for the tip 🙂
I promise, it is worth watching.
Looking forward to it 🙂
And have the wit to realize that your 1.7 answer is actually times 10^8. (Yes I did that on the rule–then checked on a calculator…I only lost the 4th digit; answer should be 1.701 x 10^8). I think it’s safe to say that if you have to use the right index on the slide as described in your video, you have to bump your answer a power–which he didn’t mention unless I dozed through that.
My dad has/had a slide rule somewhere. I’ll have to see if he can pull it out & explain some of how that worked. Could be an interesting homeschool project for when the grandkids get a bit older 🙂
Yes…that would deepen their understanding. Plus who knows if we are going to end up in a “dark ages” with no electrical power?
I read a novel one time where a group of soldiers was marooned on a Medieval world. The commander had a pocket calculator. He made sure to copy off a table of logarithms before the irreplaceable battery died…because that will be useful for a long, long time with no calculators in existence.
I read a novel where some type of space time wormhole effect dropped a small section of modern America into the midst of the Hundred Years War (actually 30 years war), like in Germany I believe. I think it was called 1517 or some other year…oops, 1632. Very interesting to see how modern theories could be adapted to make middle ages situations & industry so much more productive. AND finding a way to meld disparate times & cultures. I got one of my history buff kids to read it too 🙂
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FREEDOM AND JUSTICE — AMERICAN STYLE 1632 And in northern Germany things couldn’t get much worse. Famine. Disease. Religous war laying waste the cities. Only the aristocrats remained relatively unscathed; for the peasants, death was a mercy. 2000 Things are going OK in Grantville, West Virginia, and everybody attending the wedding of Mike Stearn’s sister (including the entire local chapter of the United Mine Workers of America, which Mike leads) is having a good time. THEN, EVERYTHING CHANGED…. When the dust settles, Mike leads a group of armed miners to find out what happened and finds the road into town is cut, as with a sword. On the other side, a scene out of Hell: a man nailed to a farmhouse door, his wife and daughter attacked by men in steel vests. Faced with this, Mike and his friends don’t have to ask who to shoot. At that moment Freedom and Justice, American style, are introduced to the middle of the Thirty Years’ War.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16967.1632
I had heard of that book…maybe I should seek it out.
I enjoyed it but never went on to read the series.
Sounds very American and I can think of several people I would love to torment with this.
It was very American, including having modern people basically re-install the Constitution & adapt it to times before America even existed!
YUP, I have my Dad’s slide rule and used it but, I am not sure I could use it now. Calculators were made but VERY pricey when I hit college.
Same here, I think I have it packed in his memories box to pass down. He taught me how to use it back then, I would be clueless now.
I know we’ve had this conversation before. I was able to find the instruction book online. Unlike Cooth’s video his didn’t have an A scale for finding squares/square roots…it had a scale that was double length (and wrapped) for square roots. You put the slider on the D scale for the number you wanted to extract the square root of, then picked one of two halves of the scale to read the answer off of (and there was text to tell you which one to use, based on the number of digits). There was yet another triple-length, wrapped scale for qube roots. I guess if you need a fifth root, you were SOL or had to divide the logarithm by five. And yes, I have some tables of logarithms too (CRC Handbooks if nothing else). Ready for Stone Age Computing.
The front side also has the trig scales on it, plus one scale that runs backwards (not sure what that’s for). The other side is a mystery to me since I’ve forgotten what the manual said.
I have no idea what the thing cost new, but I am sure it was expensive.
An abacus is an adding machine. Slide rules multiply using logarithms and force people to understand magnitudes.
Yep. All over Robert A. Heinlein…”Did you drop a decimal?” for “Are you out of your mind? Are you having a brainfart?” Something you could do on a slide rule, but won’t happen on a calculator.
But first I need to attempt to understand logarithms LOL AND I’m not sure I want to work that hard any more 😉
You don’t need to fully understand logarithms to use a slipstick.
I saw what he did but don’t understand Why that would work that way…hopefully Dad can enlighten me 🙂 He loves to recall how he helped me with some high school math by asking me a series of questions & forcing me to figure it out & in my adolescent arrogance I huffed away, after completing the assignment, & saying that he’d been no help at all, even though his questions forced me to work my way through the problems…a necessary life skill ❤
The more you want to know about why, the more you have to know about logarithms.
AND it’s the weekend so it’s almost straying into punishment territory LOL
Yeah, what he said was correct, but doesn’t tell you why it works. He’s teaching a procedure, which is liable to be somewhat complicated (try with the left index, then the right index…) If you understand the why, the procedure almost doesn’t need to be taught at all (though sometimes there’s a handy trick that’s not obvious at first so it’s worth listening to the teacher drone on about what seems painfully obvious to you even if not to anyone else).
It’s one of those things you’d eventually get the feel of…multiplying two numbers that start out with 3 or higher, you’ll end up bumping up a digit in your answer so you’ll want the right hand index and don’t have to waste time trying the other one.
concepts underpinning actions are always helpful for my way of thinking!
nor slapstick, which is more at my level here in the cheap seats 😉
Ah! You beat me to it!!! 😂
Score!!!
Hilarious. Three Stooges were great stuff.
We AND our kids grew up on this stuff!
found on #counteroffensive. Seems slightly applicable.
Well you’d be slightly not wrong 😉
And you don’t need to understand them at all for slapstick.
Logarithms are the opposite of the exponential functions such as e^x or 10^a or 2^n. To the extent that these exponential functions also are called antilogs.
The practical utility, which was big before the days of calculators, was that in order to multiply or divide some large numbers, it was easier to take the logarithms of them, (done by looking their digits up in a table) then add or subtract these, then do the antilog (the exponent, look for the value of this in the logarithm table, using it in the opposite direction) on the sum or difference, in order to convert back to what is the product or quotient.
This will work no matter whether the base of the logarithm and the antilog is e, 10, 2, or anything else, but as most practical numbers are decimal, the base-10 logarithms were the most useful for this.
So they were a form of a shortcut mathematically speaking…as long as one had access to the table (or perhaps the slide rule?) so Not knowing How to “do” a log wasn’t necessarily the issue but being able to Use a log table (when & how) was?
The funky scale on the slide rule is spaced out according to the logarithms. That’s actually why the same actual distance on the line is always the same ratio of numbers on the scale. So without realizing it you’re adding the logarithms of of the numbers, but since the actual numbers are printed on the scale, you read off the “antilog” when you’re done. The slide rule basically mechanizes the process of looking up the two logarithms in the table, then finding the logarithm of the answer and working backwards to find out what it was the logarithm of. The tables can have tens of thousands of entries and you can get a more precise answer with them, but the slide rule is a LOT faster.
That was some math genius who came up with the slide rule apparently. Thanks for this explanation, which makes a lot of sense to me 🙂
We learned about the logarithms and what they were useful for, back in high school. We had a booklet, with the various tables for logarithms, sine, cosine, tangent, error-functions; as well as the factors, 2nd and 3rd powers and roots of all the integers up to 1000.
This was just before small handheld calculators with scientific functions were available and affordable. The practical uses was in physics classes where things were measured and values calculated — in the math classes the answers usually should be exact, that is, leaving square-roots and fractions as such: sqrt(2)/2 in math class, 0.7071 in physics class.
I must have hit HS just after that so I missed the pre-calculator tables as far as I can recall.
I think that I was exposed to logs in college in calculus but cannot recall now. HS was 3 years for me & one was algebra, one was geometry, & one was trig. Physics was in college for me too. HS was bio, chem, & anatomy I think.
I had a toy abacus as a kid but just liked to make noise with the pretty colored beads 🙂
You were halfway there.
That was very understandable. My toy wasn’t aligned like that so may not have actually been an abacus at all but just some beads on wires in a curving frame 🙂
There is another sort of abacus that has four beads down and one bead up — it’s like the “speedster version” but is less easy to get to know.
Mine was sort of like this one
That one is not so optimized for computation.
clearly, but I liked the colors & sounds when very young
Mine just had all those colored marble things in a jar. I could never make heads or tails out of it.
LOL
He talks about that in the video you linked…and subsequent videos even deal with it. He calls it the “modern” abacus.
The fundamental “gimmick” of a slipstick is the funny way the scale is spaced out. It’s set up so that (say) the distance between 1 and 2 is the same as the distance between 2 and 4. So instead of a certain distance being equal to an additional one, there’s a distance that represents a doubling. And another that represents a tripling. So to multiply 2 x 3, you put the one on the top scale over the 2 on the bottom scale. On the top scale, you read over to 3–which is the triple of 1. That SAME DISTANCE on the bottom scale is also a tripling, but because of the way you lined it up, you tripled 2 with it to get six. You’ll see the 6 on the lower scale, right below the 3 on the top scale. Voila, you can multiply with a slide rule.
Thank you for that explanation, which makes sense–whew! You do have a gift 🙂
And that is a very good reason to NOT allow grade schoolers calculators, computers or phones. Get them to really LEARN first before you give them the short cuts.
Pedophiles is the other reason.
Absolutely!!!
Sippycup on top of the wall — must mean something.
All the King’s Horses and all the King’s Men?
The FIB knows his claims don’t hold water, so they’re holding it for him? 😝
JB’s tongue looks awfully red, like his hands. I don’t even want to think about that one.
Laura Loomer:
JUST-IN: MAGA Star Kari Lake is Going to Miami to Support President Trump During Arraignment on Tuesday in Miami
I’d have been surprised if she didn’t.
Every single Democrat who supports the Rule of Law should be there, too.
Then we can see how many people that is.
I can think of two: Alan Dershowitz and Jonathan Turley. Every now and then Bill Maher says something reasonable. But I think that people will think their presence would indicate support for Trump rather than the rule of law.
Yep. That’s exactly it. Any dem who shows up will simply be assumed to be a Trump supporter…and they all know it, so they won’t.
Because opposing Trump is more important than the Rule of Law…..message sent and received……
From their point of view, supporting Trump is treason to the Democrat party. So they dare not be thought of as doing that. I actually kind of understand that. (Though I don’t understand being a Democrat.)
That said, I am sure many of them actually don’t support the rule of law. But you can’t tell which ones are which just from THIS.
I think Alan Dershowitz has already chimed in saying the case is complete Bull Schiff.
Dersh said that a Republican “leader” should draft an indictment of Biden and Hunter and present it to the American public in response to the indictment of Trump.
I replied to a tweet of his and told him, if he loves America as much as he claims he does, HE should draft the indictment!
Way to go!
🙂 Thanks!
Epic genius!!!
I wish!
granted 😉
Lol! Thanks!
an iconic scene to be sure!
CannCon said he is going to go as a reporter for Gateway Pundit.
President Trump’s birthday is coming up June 14, Wednesday, and he plans to bring LOTS of balloons and other stuff. The audience is sending funds.
Snail mail address.
President Trump
1100 South Ocean Boulevard,
Palm Beach, Florida 33480
If you also send a check — Memo line on check. Trump 2024
^^^ Face of evil.
Where would one wear, the demonic outfit he has on?
I think it would look quite fashionable on a gallows.
Maybe here (from Wiki)?
“Where would one wear, the demonic outfit he has on?”
____________
At the Garth Brooks Woke-Ass Bar & Grill.
Saturday is Spot-a-Tranny night.
Fun for the whole family.
Half price Bud Light 👍
Who knew the “Friends in Low Places” were in the gutter?
And the thunder rolls…. ⚡ ⛈ ⚡
Lol!
This morning, I counted 110 motorcycles riding together down the Hwy 211 mountain past my house. As always, I love seeing and hearing them go by. Rolling thunder is out today.
To me that face shouts psychopath with a chip on his shoulder.
Yes.
Why does one think of “Sweeney Todd” when looking at this man’s face?
Any man with a beard that unkempt should be living in a cave in Afghanistan. The resemblance is striking:
Put a turban on him, and he could be his brother.
IMO that’s a hint. There’s something about Jack Smith that is literally deranged.
We need to dig.
The wife (from Wiki):
I removed the links in that text – they were leaking information about your system.
Yikes! Do you mean the Trump quote with the pic of Jack Smith?
How can one guard against something like this?
The Wikipedia stuff about the wife – the links in it were not regular links – they were “reader” links indicating the browser.
Okay. Thank you!
In contrast, the links in the blurb about Smith in the other selection from Wikipedia are normal.
Does that happen if you access an article in “reader” mode? I can’t remember if I had done that or not.
I’m thinking there is a connection.
The VM I use to cruise this site…has no bookmarks. No memory of anything other than the cookies this site leaves on it. (That way I don’t have to log in.) It will otherwise forget this session the instant I close the browser, because that shuts the VM down and it self-lobotomizes.
And I probably still leak like a damned sieve.
What do you get at https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ ?
I leak 13.1 bits.
This one leaks 17.49. And is unique. But let my try some of my others…
Hmm, 16.49 bits, but NOT unique. Which is actually GOOD, because I never went to that site before. Unless somehow it and this browser have the same fingerprint (they shouldn’t).
Reading in detail, they show my timezone wrong as well as other info, wrong. So I may be “unique” but I’m not “me.”
OK, I shut that one down, and restarted that VM. Second time around, 15.9 bits (this is the exact same VM, so there seems to be some randomness in the score). And it doesn’t seem to recognize it as being the same browser. So I am successful, somewhat, in looking like something different every time I use that VM.
The biggest single leak seems to be my browser window dimension, which is pretty generic. I could try to randomize it I suppose.
Yes, it does assume that everything you leak is truthful. I leak 8.89 bits as being Mozilla on Ubuntu — I need to figure out how to lie about this.
Well here’s the thing.
What use is it to anyone to know you’re using Mozilla? Almost everyone else is doing the same thing! I won’t be that unique guy who’s running some custom-built browser who sticks out like a sore thumb.
It says my fonts are consistent with a specific OS. Good. I look generic, not eccentric.
“ I look generic, not eccentric.” A clear mask for Any Q-Treeper!
My OS is simply Linux x86_64. Again, pretty vanilla.
Websites nowadays have to take into account your browser so all the html and other scripts present the info to you the way the website designer intends. It’s purely about helping them get through the variations in how different browsers handle things. MSoft always seems to deviate from the standard because their engineers always thought they had to rewrite stuff. They wrote their own memory manager that Apple provides for the Mac OS and that’s why Msoft was always slower to release Mac updates of their software.
Whoah….my user agent says “Windows NT 10.0”
SCORE!!! Your system is built to lie by its lonesome!
Yeah, but that’s bizarre enough to stick out.
Basically, you could follow the strategy of looking like so many other people that they look at it and say, “Well that don’t narrow things down worth a *shit*.” Thus it wouldn’t matter whether it lies or not.
That said, I’m gratified when I open up google maps and it clearly doesn’t know where I am.
Basically you want it to lie, preferably lie differently every time, and not lie in a way that sticks out like a sore thumb. (So Ixnay on using the Godzilla browser.)
I just tried my bonestock firefox.
Basically this is a disposable where firefox is freshly installed and has never been run before (as far as it knows, ha ha), and has zero customizations.
Leaks “at least” 17.49 bits. Partially protected against ads and invisible trackers. (My others are completely defended).
The bonestock has a unique fingerprint. Shutting down and restarting (thus restoring its “virginity”) it does seem to recognize it as the same browser as before. But now, 16.49 bits. Huh.
Running a third time, however, it doesn’t say that TWO browsers before me had the same fingerprint. So it might not be connecting my browsers to each other. Which would be fine.
Been reading all this and did the test, it said I could be fingerprinted.
In FF I set the “resist fingerprinting” to true and did the test again, and it made no difference to the results.
It takes a lot of work not to be fingerprinted. If using firefox you can look up Arkenfox and be overwhelmed with the geek factor involved.
I’m overwhelmed just doing basic stuff so I’ll play safe.
I’ll summarize. There are files you can tweak, that firefox reads when it starts that set all kinds of parameters, including ones you cannot find on “settings.”
What Arkenfox does is create a config file that locks down firefox’s more leaky settings…and puts it in a place where firefox will read it before it even starts. What it won’t do, though, is completely reset firefox to an freshly installed state. Your configuration lives in a directory inside the mozilla folder, with a randomly generated name on the folder; that can be used to “track” you from one session to another.
(Combine that with my virtual machines, and I literally start, every time, with a fresh install configured to block leaks–and that random name gets regenerated every time.)
And the way to deal with that in a copy-and-paste is to first paste it into Notepad. All the formatting and reader links vanishes, leaving pure text. The paragraph breaks remain.
Good info, thanks!
“In July 2011, he married Katy Chevigny, a documentary filmmaker known for Becoming, an award-winning 2020 documentary of Michelle Obama.”
____________
Sounds like a documentary of Mike becoming Moochelle.
bwah-ha-ha
Wait a second — are you saying our favorite president is being prosecuted by an ex-pat???
Kinda looks like it.
Her wiki is vary sparse, previously married to Dr. Jonathan Michael Chen, and his website looks very ordinary.
He looks deranged. I don’t remember having seen a picture of him before today. He reminded me of what Humphrey Bogart might look like after a 3-day bender.
Like death warmed over.
Looks Demon Possessed.
See above comparison photo.
NOTICE THE PURPLE!!
Hilary Clinton and the PURPLE REVOLUTION
November 11, 2016 The Clintons and Soros Launch America’s Purple Revolution
Unlike the author, I interpret that to mean the DemonRats and RINOS are UNITING to DESTROY POTUS Trump.
BEWARE: The Purple Revolution Comes To America –themillenniumreport.com — 2016/11
They EVEN TOLD US!!!
From Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign manager and White House Senior Advisor, David Plouffe. He also was a Hillary Clinton Campaign Advisor
I see his wiki was last edited today.
very interesting…
Oh, yeah…..
Here’s How Every 2024 GOP Candidate Responded To Trump’s DOJ Indictment
https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/heres-how-every-2024-gop-candidate-responded-to-trumps-doj-indictment-mstef/?utm_source=sheri&utm_medium=twitter
My summary: They clutched their pearls about the fact of it, then threw Trump under the bus.
Asa Hutchinson called for Trump to drop out of the race. 😂 Nice try, but no dice.🤣
Chris Christie said we don’t get our facts from Trump’s Truth Social account, that we have to see what the facts are, and that no one is above the law. 😡😡😡
Tim Scott made an empty promise: “As President of the United States, I would purge all of the injustices and impurities in our system so that every American can have confidence that they will be seen by the Lady of Justice with a blindfold on.” How he would do that, we don’t know, of course.
Same for DeSantis: “The DeSantis administration will bring accountability to the DOJ, excise political bias and end weaponization once and for all.” Yawn.
Vivek Ramaswamy, too: “We have to restore the rule of law in America.” Yesterday he was generous enough to say he would pardon Trump. (/sarc , but he really said it)
Nothing in the article from Nikki Haley, Larry Elder, Doug Bergum, or other no-name people who have zero chance of even making it to the debate stage (which is probably why they were left out).
Let’s see how many show in Miami….
IMO, the most politically savvy of them all is Vivek, although I don’t trust him since his first reaction was not to state Trump’s innocence, but to say he would pardon him. (In other words, campaigning off of this.) It would not surprise me if he showed up.
The poor babies are in a tough position. If they show up, someone might think they have an ounce of support for Trump in their selfish, power-hungry psyches. And if they don’t show up, the MAGA base will chalk it up as another strike against them, never to be forgotten.
But if they do go, it will be to campaign, so I’d rather they stay away.
“…the most politically savvy of them all is Vivek…”
Yes, I would agree. He, unlike the rest, knows he has to woo the diehard Trump supports and NOT antagonize them. It is a real tightrope walk. Ronda is TOO STUPID to realize that and is losing ground FAST!
no Pence posturing?
How could I have left out Pence? 😀
Not a bad idea on its face, but given the players, it would just be a meaningless exercise.
ONLY if he explains why BiteMe and his Crime Family are NOT indicted AND when they WILL be indicted.
Otherwise, Garland has nothing I am interested in.
I’d be very interested to watch Garland suck a muzzle.
I wouldn’t mind seeing him block a muzzle, a la North Korea….
I read somewhere that is the preferred exit method for homosexuals and prostitutes.
We All want to forget about Pence…grrr! Thanks for sharing the details for all these pretender-contenders 😉
YW!
🙂
Me: Just do it. File the articles, and get it done. Stop talking about it.
Why has it taken this long for someone to stick their finger in the wind to see if it might be politically viable to think about forming a committee to make an announcement that they might consider talking about the possibility of stating that they’re wondering if it might be a good idea to impeach Biden?
Jus NOISE.
Biggs will be asking for donations in 3, 2, 1…
Wow. Andy Biggs, acting as IF he were decisive, bold, a leader.
Traits we wish R-Cons exuded. They and he do NOT.
MTG has already filed so it is just a ME TOO.
May 18, 2023 MTG Files Articles of Impeachment Against Joe Biden – But That’s Not All
Then I repeat my question above, only regarding getting on with it. I saw Nancy Mace being interviewed yesterday, and Congress is investigating, to their credit. There are other 1023 forms that they are trying to get from Wray. If they have to wait on all that to actually impeach, it could take years.
1023s NOT NEEDED to impeach BiteMe.
Border.
Afghan fiasco.
Bank records.
—
R-Cons ARE Owned AND Afraid.
DC_Draino:
IF this ever gets to trial, let ALL of these documents be placed in evidence AND presented to the jury.
AND the American people!
Of course. I’m guessing, it’ll be live for us.
We live in interesting times!
REMEMBER POTUS TRUMP DECLASSIFIED THOSE PAPERS BEFORE HE LEFT OFFICE!!!
Amazing rant by “Five Times August” in response to being asked why they’re afraid of gay people. 👏👏👏
In the responses as “Pride Month Never Ends”. Too True.
Wow.
The left can create an endless number of divisive identity groups in service to the Cabal.
Gag a MAGAt
Brava!
😉
That’s fantastic! Congratulations!
LOL Don’t get too many ‘atta girls around here so I better try to revel in it 😉
🙂
^^^ Napalm Piss On All Of Them. ^^^
I am good with:
Jewish holidays?
There is an old story…..
Hitler was fascinated by the occult. He obviously loathed and mistrusted Jews, but heard that in the Jewish ghetto of Warsaw lived a soothsayer of unparalleled accuracy. He sent his gestapo to fetch the man.
Hauled before him, he asked a question that was at the top of his mind — “when shall I die?” The soothsayer replied, “you will die on a Jewish holiday.”
“Which one?”, demanded Hitler — “Rosh Hashanah? Passover? Sukkot?” …. but the soothsayer said not another word. He had the man beaten, and threatened his family, but the man remained silent. Finally, he had the Jew dragged away and dumped in the street.
And as they left him there, he muttered quietly — under his breath so they couldn’t hear — “any day you die will be a Jewish holiday.”
Ka-Boom!
Good with them also.
Jus no LGXYZtranny crap. Nor am I interested in white, black, brown, yellow or any color month. Folks are folks.
Yes!
WHY?
We are a CHRISTIAN country.
63% of the US population is Christian
1.1% of U.S. adults have a Jewish background.
Muslims — 1.1% of the total US population.
According to WIKI:
fair points 🙂 living in a pretty heavy muslim area we are usually aware of ramadan, especially since our son’s respite worker is muslim…
We are doing 2 Ramadan parties…
with no food??? unless after dark?
Empty lives going to be filled with something.
There is a gap between July 16 and September 16.
Let’s celebrate our Freedom from PRIDE during that time.
Great idea!
Humility Month wouldn’t hurt. 😂
Beautiful truth! Awesome rant.
Indeed! Captures it perfectly.
I don’t hate them. I don’t fear them. I’m just sick and tired of hearing about nothing else.
I can’t even read science fiction without there being a tranny main character now.
Read classic SF.
I do, and have (as you know), but there’s only so much of it!
And there are authors “outside” of the establishment (the sad puppies), but I had to let my subscription to Analog lapse after the new editor guy took over from Stanley Schmidt
It’s not that there’s so little of classic SF, it’s that it’s so thoroughly buried under modern crap.
I’ve pretty much read everything I could get my hands on by Heinlein, Asimov, and Clarke…and had done so thirty years ago. Other more recent people would be Niven and Pournelle, and a smattering of others. Flynn is even more recent but isn’t (wasn’t?) woke. Yes, my tastes run to the “hard” SF.
Did you read the Dune series & the prequels by Frank Herbert’s son, Brian, iirc? Perhaps not enough hard science in those tomes but good insights on human nature…
I hesitated when I wrote that list of authors, knowing I was leaving a bunch of them out. But those are the ones who leapt to mind as I wrote the comment.
And Herbert was one I had forgotten.
Dune series yes, but not the prequels.
I read them when they were only a trilogy. Then the fourth book came out, and i read it…then there were a slew of them (by Frank) and I got bogged down at one where they were going to try another Duncan Idaho ghola. (Why anyone, including the author and readers, should expect that trick to work the third time…) I finally did finish those but in the meantime Frank had died and his son was punching them out one a year like clockwork, and I was getting turned off by the fact that at that point it had to be just piecework.
I read the whole original Dune stuff when a teen & quite a few of the prequel stuff as a youngish parent. Given the decade+ time between those readings I still found the prequels pretty enjoyable. I probably don’t have as high of standards on Sci Fi as you do 😉
Do you enjoy Piers Anthony?
I never could get into him for some reason.
I probably would have enjoyed the prequels, so long as son was faithful to father’s vision. But I hesitate to get on a treadmill of a series that continues on and on and on, just milking for money. It’s not about the quality, it’s about the treadmill.
That makes sense. With prequels there is no end to the possibilities it would seem. Yeah it’s probably a cash cow for BH but it is kind of fun to get more of the Dune universe, though unofficially, of course!
Herbert’s Consentiency books were also good — actually, he had all sorts of odd ones that were good reads.
I’ll have to dig in. I’m never going to live long enough to read everything I’d like to read, let alone re-read!
Hal Clement (Harry Stubbs) he was a friend of Asimov.
Asimov had a lot of friends. There are less-well known (today) authors like Poul Anderson and Frederick Pohl and A. E. Van Vogt…and EE Doc Smith (though the latter tends to have very iffy science in his books; he comes from before the golden age when rigor started to be prized). Being less well known, I have had a hard time finding their work but struck a gold mine inheriting a lot of “old” books a few decades ago.
Poul Anderson and Frederick Pohl
OOOOOooo Favorite from Analog days.
I mentioned Harry Stubbs, because I was at a 50th birthday party where he did a really great roasting of a friend of mine.
(They were setting up experiments at White Sands Proving Grounds and then driving away before the bomb went off….)
you throw out these teasers…
“(They were setting up experiments at White Sands Proving Grounds and then driving away before the bomb went off….)”
I Love it when you share your stories!
I have boxes full of Analog from 1963 on. 🤓
Beat me to it, However I noticed they were ALREADY slipping in gays and socialism…
In the teen books section of the local library the stickers on spines put the “new releases” at nearly 25% rainbow crapola. I know for a fact that they don’t always put a sticker on a book w/ gay+ characters, at least in the supporting cast. This is Extreme Indoctrination of the youth, which is the only section where I’ve seen the rainbow stickers…but that doesn’t mean such characters don’t appear in kids &/or adult material 🙁
Before I forget I wanted to let WM know about the lack of functionality on Carl’s Sunday May 28 post, the one about Love. Even after reloading the page no likes nor replies were possible. Also when attempting to copy a comment’s URL & clicking the comment # nothing would happen. I don’t think there was even a reply box for the post itself, at least not in the usual spot. Was that post “locked” somehow or are there possible lingering WP issues? I think the stuff that’s usually in the right margin was either absent or perhaps at the bottom of the page too….just fyi for site tweaking if need be 🙂 I could click on the notifier bell there & the black ribbon was formatted the usual way, fwiw…
Thanks! The page worked fine for me. I suspect that the page never loaded fully for you – possibly because of slow Twitter loading of tweets, which is a problem right now.
I just re-checked & that page worked normally for me now too. Thanks for looking into it 🙂
THAT’S IT!!!!
It’s Elon’s fault.
[only half sarc]
I very briefly had a situation last night where THIS page (“mine”) was frozen for me, Couldn’t click on yellow posts, or do anything. A reload fixed it.
The reload did Not fix it for me on Carl’s post, at least not after a couple attempts, which is why I mentioned it here. I Always try reloads when likes don’t work or when get the red “nonce” box of death appears & Usually that takes care of any weirdness 🙂
I Never could get a reply through to Para (?) from the post I was reading before Memorial Day, Wednesday’s daily iirc. It was the comment on Anathema & the spoiler w/ the original book review that I wanted to reply to. I tried on multiple devices & numerous reloads. It would Never allow me to respond there, which was very strange…
Trump Suit Against Niece Over NY Times Story Advances: Judge
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-suit-against-niece-over-000015936.html
Thanks Steve for that interesting & mostly understandable explanation…So this question probably reveals my lack of comprehension, but why exactly was that specific graph chosen & what’s the meaning of both the curves/lines thereon plotted?
That graph was of e^x. the curved line is the actual e^x function.
The straight slanted line was irrelevant to my point, but this was the first graph I saw that was “zoomed in” a bit and had the axes labelled with numbers. Anyhow the stright line is touching the e^x function at the point where its slope is one. It’s actually a diagram from a calculus class, trying to show that the slope of e^x at any given point is…e^x (which is to say, as I did say later, that e^x is its own derivative). Anyhow that’s calculus.
Well Calculus was the terminus of my collegiate math endeavors & I never really “got” it, though my “B’s” might have implied otherwise LOL
The red line is a plot of e to the x. The blue line is a plot of y = x + 1. They intersect at….
ooops, Steve has an explanation
Yeah unfortunately that blue line isn’t really relevant. It’s amazing how hard it is to find a decent diagram of e^x that isn’t zoomed out so far it looks like a backwards L, or doesn’t have labels, or whatever.
It is relevant, but only after you no longer need the graph. 🙂
It wasn’t relevant to the point I was trying to make, which is simply that e^x has values even where x isn’t a positive integer. Yeah the Taylor thing touched on it, but by accident.
I liked Both your explanations 🙂
This is powerful validation of the idea that many of these trans people were never what they thought they were.
In the conversation
Male pattern baldness in waves???
I think that is actually a man, trolling as a trans-man.
He has too much facial hair and his Adam’s apple is too big for hormones to have developed them.
Just swallow the premise, you peon.
/s
Lol!
I’m a spitter!
That’s sad. I think there are many more factors than that now this person is a “man” and that has made her lonely. Intrinsic to being a “man” is all the knowledge that she’s not really one, that her body parts are probably different than those of both real women and men, and that she’s looking at the situation from a perspective that real men don’t have to deal with. It’s all outside of the norm, and that’s part of what she’s going through, not just differences in how genders relate to one another.
Kristol Meth shouldn’t tweet again.
A good man who rose to the occasion —
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/09/france-backpack-hero-henri-annecy-knife-attack
Turkey supplied precision guided missiles to ukraine so let’s hope it was an accident rather than a FF.
Why? The sooner munitions stop flowing, the sooner the war ends.
I think the globo’s would like an attack so that they could blame the RF and involve natø officially.
Turkey doesn’t always slavishly go along with the lemming, so having some other natø special forces commit a FF there would not aggrieve other eu countries so much.
I understand. I was thinking simplistically – no weapons, no war – which has no room for nuance.
My head hurts with math now. Thanks for sharing, Steve… I think.
“…mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true”.
– Bertrand Russell (“Mathematics And The Metaphysicians”)
He has slipped his cams if that’s really a genuine quote.
It’s the only subject where it is possible to absolutely prove things.
You can formulate a scientific generalization (what gets called a “law”) that explains absolutely every relevant situation you and everyone else knows about. But there’s no guarantee an exception won’t be discovered in the future, and the law won’t need to be reforumulated to account for it (if it’s that good, it probably won’t have to be completely trashed).
But Euclid’s proofs are solid, given the assumptions they themselves were built on.
It seems that such a statement would be more accurate if it were referring to Metaphysics 🙂
feeling your pain 😉
So. Blinken makes an uninvited trip …
Tony, what big shoes you have!
To help you understand the gravity of this picture, here is Sergei Lavrov meeting Crown Prince.
H/T Andrei’s blog
One suspects that all the items which appear to be “gold-colored” in both photos — especially the photo with “Blinkie” and the Crown Prince — are actual gold leaf, NOT gold-colored or gold-infused paint. Even the waste baskets underneath the (gold-gilded) tables beside each chair. Even the gold decorations on the walls.
And, by the way, the U.S. flag is missing that should be behind “Blinkie” since it’s a visit from a Cabinet-level U.S. official. ** Interesting **, no?
Lots of news on him showing up uninvited.
As you can see Zelensky is correct. Getting fierce over there.
Yeah, seems lots of German Leopards and US Bradleys are ending up on the destroyed or abandoned list.
Doesn’t have time to listen to this and never heard this guy, but it doesn’t sound good for Team Brandon.
Master Trolling.
What the devil is M. Trudeau fils doing over in Ukraine when Canada is literally on fire from one coast to another?
Are there ** secret biolabs that have some kind of Canadian involvement ** in Ukraine?
My question too! But we all know the answer. He’s there to distance himself from his crime while committing yet another (dropping off 400 Million dollars that Canada doesn’t really have to prolong war and kill moar people to fulfill his part in the World Genocide).
If Canada would wake up, they’d make him walk back to Canada.
maybe so ?
Talking purple revolution… Turdope even has the Purple Sausage Packer with him…
I thought that was her.
Maybe Zelensky can have a private in the army give the two of them a guided tour of the Russian/Ukraine front…
In one of those shiny new tanks…. 🙂
Oh, wait…
Tanks for the memories, I guess…
Verse of the Day for Saturday, June 10, 2023
✟
“O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.”
Psalms 25:2 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD
Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.
I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.
Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.
With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.
Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me.
Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, Amen.
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
Finally the Cardinal speaks out.
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Cardinal Dolan condemns Dodgers honoring ‘drag’ nuns: ‘This isn’t some benevolent, humorous group’
‘These are the ones that threatened to desecrate the Holy Eucharist,’ the New York cardinal said of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cardinal-dolan-condemns-dodgers-honoring-drag-nuns-this-isnt-some-benevolent-humorous-group/?utm_source=top_news&utm_campaign=usa
Dolan has put out a number of videos this week on Twitter. I need to listen to all of them. but this one….
The comments are brutal. And all he is doing to speaking straight from the Church’s teaching. He’s covering topics like dressing appropriately, quiet at Mass, etc. That stuff should not have to be said.
Well, this is confirmation of certain things —
https://icandecide.org/press-release/fda-admits-it-has-no-records-indicating-covid-19-vaccine-safety-protocols-were-followed/
June 9, 2023
Yours Truly: So much for the FDA insisting for over 3 years that the COVID-19 “vaccines” are “safe and effective.”
Every one who supported its use and approved it are murderers.
💥 NUREMBERG II 💥
I know we are getting this from various sources. This one seemed rather easy to digest.
BOY she really didn’t want to hear that! I bet her producer was screaming obscenities in her ear piece!
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h/t our CminTN 😆
Isn’t that Jack Smith with DJT?
I thought it was hunter, must be or the meme wouldn’t make sense, they do look similar though.
Definitely Hunter. 😆
I forgot /s.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/another-leak-biden-regime-leaks-alleged-trump-audio/
“According to the Biden DOJ leaker, the ridiculous plan was discussed later in a meeting with Mark Meadows who was writing a book. Trump suggests he would like to share the information during the meeting but he’s aware of limitations on his ability post-presidency to declassify records.
This was the alleged “smoking gun” that Jack Smith is using to imprison President Trump.”
MY question, as WH cheif of staff would Mark Meadows have a security clearance.
If he has, why would it matter what PDJT spoke to him about.
if i remember correctly, the audio tape was made by a third person (helping to write the book?) that’s why there’s a transcript–so THAT person may not have a clearance.
but the transcript shows Smith altered the tape–leaving out words which changed the meaning from a what if kind of situation to a definite.
Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
NEW: Special Counsel Smith’s indictment alleges Trump showed off a military paper that he boasted was classified “highly confidential” and “secret,” but the transcript reveals Trump actually said: “like, highly confidential” and “a secret.” Smith omitted the words “like” and “a.”
this is what happens when you hire psychopaths.
snicker
Or that it even existed at all.
PDJT and meadows may be working a gigantic scam on them.
Has milley either claimed or denied he wrote such a document?
Why didn’t they get a copy from milley, he’s bound to have one if he wrote it.
Unless it NEVER EXISTED and was only a bit of spit-balling by Milley.
i dunno…i think i read meadows will testify against President Trump…but not sure.
it’s a grand idea though!
Well time after time after time they’ve tried to get PDJT on something that always turns out to be false.
It would be Trumpian to tempt them with a red herring, watch them swallow it then turn the table on them.
I just can’t figure out how the kicker will be played.
it’ll be YUGE!
The media is salivating at the thought of Meadows testifying against Trump, to the point where they stop just short of saying it will happen. I don’t think anyone knows anything at this point.
So racket Barrel truly got in trouble? My husband found Facebook where they posted their pride stuff.
not stopping there again . I like to stop there when traveling because they have clean bathrooms. I still can use them for that but nothing else.
I have not seen anything pride stuff at their place I am looking.
wonder if someone photoshopped to get Cracker Barrel in trouble?
I want to see it. Left wing sites like Young Turks reporting Cracker Barrel pride rocking chair.
https://nypost.com/2023/06/09/cracker-barrel-slammed-for-woke-rainbow-chair-for-pride/
To bad
I wonder about the ages of people who are promoting it. Wasnt even in the cards 5 yrs sgo. Now like magic its everywhere. Makes me think these are fresh college grads, fully indoctrinated.
I think you are right. I remember when my kids went to school there were 4 years between the first kid and last. In one year my youngest kids class showed already a shift in kids in study style teaching style and sensitivity training.
yeah, that torqued me…Cracker Barrel supporting tranny madness. I hate that it’s on my no-go list now.
Cracked Barrel…
Big mistake
As posted a few days back.
Have give a damn for Cracker Barrell. Bastards tossed me for not wearing a mask.
Have tolerated them as DW likes them.
As for me, I’ll wait in the truck.
^^^ Same thing I told DW, when stores insisted on masks. I’ll be in the truck.
To be honest, I think Cracker Barrel food sucks. Pancakes have the texture of rubber.
the only thing I’ll give them credit for is, clean restrooms.
We only eat egg bacon there when on the road
I do not care for the rest.
The Daily Chart: Smoke Gets in Your Panels | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)
ZeroHedge has more:
WRONG!!!
They steal more like 60%, they just don’t TELL YOU, instead they hide it…
Reagan:
Mismanagement and theft.
Deliberate despotism!
LIVE-STREAM VIDEO: The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft to Interview Trump Campaign Attorney Christina Bobb on Latest Attacks on President Trump – 3:30 ET | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
Christina Bopp after being asked what Trump supporters can do:
“Stay Vigilant”
“Protect the election”
“He (Trump) will get through this, before the election.”
“He will come out victorious.”
“He is going to come out ready to win the primary and general election.”
“What we cannot do is sit and watch all the chaos in court and forgot to protect the election.”
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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AMERICA WENT TO SLEEP LAST NIGHT WITH TEARS IN ITS EYES. SOMEDAY SOON, HOWEVER, IT WILL BE ABLE TO WIPE AWAY THOSE TEARS AND SMILE, BIGGER THAN EVER BEFORE, FOR WE WILL HAVE DEFEATED THE RADICAL LEFT MARXISTS, FASCISTS, COMMUNISTS, LUNATICS, & DERANGED MANIACS, & CLEARED THE PATH TO PUT AMERICA FIRST & THEN, QUICKLY, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!
That woman is SOOO fine!
unabomber is found dead in his cell. he was 81
FTA
WASHINGTON (AP) — Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died Saturday. He was 81.
Branded the “Unabomber” by the FBI, Kaczynski died at the federal prison medical center in Butner, North Carolina, Kristie Breshears, a spokesperson for the federal Bureau of Prisons, told The Associated Press. He was found unresponsive in his cell early Saturday morning and was pronounced dead around 8 a.m., she said. A cause of death was not immediately known.
sorry, forgot the link
https://www.yahoo.com/news/theodore-ted-kaczynski-known-unabomber-165836331.html
Seems like Ted wasn’t wrong about much. Only question now is do we do it Ted’s way or do we round up all the theorists and put them in monasteries. 😁😏😮🙄😖
his 35,000-word essay Industrial Society and Its Future (dubbed the “Unabomber manifesto” by the FBI)
https://archive.org/details/Unabomber-Manifesto-Industrial-Society-And-Its-Future
Hmmm agree 😁
This link skips the browser search step
https://archive.org/details/Unabomber-Manifesto-Industrial-Society-And-Its-Future
or perhaps not…looks like yours 🙃
Next door neighbors who moved to east TN from Cali 2.5 years ago had a medical emergency this past week. The wife had a panic attack over her recently developing health issue of diabetes. The paramedics came along with two deputies, which indicated there was some type of psychotic break.
Her husband came over today to visit for other purposes and confirmed it all. It was in this conversation he stated that 1.5 years ago before they moved in he had a stroke at age 67. He had taken the Pfizer jabs. He has now learned the truth about them and his doc confirmed that it was the likely cause. Up to that point he had been neutral about vaccines in general as they were required a lot in his career and he had no problems until these.
The man is in otherwise great physical condition. Eats well, blood markers are flawless, perfect weight. Puts in three miles a day of fitness walking or light jogging. Was an Army Ranger for 20 years followed by being an LAPD officer before retirement. Eats right, Christian, no booze. His wife is in excellent physical condition otherwise as well in terms of weight, exercise, nutrition, devout Christian, etc. But yet now she is developing diabetes late in life with psychotic events.
The common denominator is both took the Pfizer JABS with their health issues showing up soon after. They are highly conservative and are so happy to get out of Cali. But nobody told them what could happen by taking the jabs or they were not paying attention like so many of our other fellow citizens. Good people being injured everywhere.
I’m sorry for them. I hope they are doing what they can to mitigate the damage with supplements.
This is good news.
Getting him started on nattokwinase to ease him into our regimen on here. She will follow.
TradeBait2
Oh Lord, how sad about your neighbors.
A “full-blown” panic attack can mimic several serious medical emergencies, including heart attack, emotional meltdown, even an epileptic episode.
I hope everything turned out all right for the wife and it was a panic attack only.
IMO, the woman probably needs to be evaluated by an MD and start taking an antidepressant to get the panic issues under control, perhaps in conjunction with professional therapy by a psychologist or psychiatrist.
One hopes both husband and wife will start on protocols like the ones by FLCCC.
IMO, the “vaccine”-engendered injuries and illnesses of the neighbors may fit into what can be called “mid-term” appearance of adverse effects (more than 1 year post-“vaccination.”) This “mid-term” appearance may also explain the growing numbers of “died suddenly” cases.
https://icandecide.org/press-release/fda-admits-it-has-no-records-indicating-covid-19-vaccine-safety-protocols-were-followed/
https://eurjmedres.biomedicalcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40001-023-00992-0
25 February 2023
“A review of neurological side effects of COVID-19 vaccinations”
Roya Hosseini and Mayere Askari
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35135929/
February 8, 2022
“New-onset Type 1 Diabetes after COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination”
Masahiro Yano, et al.
Yours Truly is NOT deliberately trying to be “Debby Downer” here.
However, the “Medical Tsunami” of COVID-19 “vaccine”-engendered injures, illnesses, and deaths are just now starting to show up in real numbers. The “establishment medical” types will likely attribute these injuries, illnesses, and deaths to “other reasons”, like “unhealthy lifestyle” or “previous underlying medical issues.”
BUT — unless these “establishment medical professionals” have been living under a rock for the past 3 years, or are so afraid of losing their medical licenses that they’re still spouting the CDC / FDA / AMA nonsense — they KNOW that the COVID-19 “vaccines” are very much in play as causation and/or aggravation.
IMO, many, if not most, “vaccinated” persons are at risk for “vaccine”-engendered adverse side effects. This includes “vaccinated” family members, friends, and business associates. No matter how healthy they were at time of “vaccination” and/or how healthy they are right now.
IMO, every person who ever took any COVID-19 “vaccine”, no matter when, needs to follow a protocol to try to reduce, mitigate, or cleanse the effects of the spike protein + its mRNA + the lipid nanoparticles in their body.
We can’t underestimate the trauma some will have knowing ( or coming to understanding) what these poison shots have done to their bodies….and maybe their children too.
That’s where the man already is now with all of this. His wife is just now waking up to it.
The damage to the body’s immune system appears to be one of the most insidious / cumulative adverse side effects of the COVID-19 ‘vaccines” — along with the cumulative damage and effects to the cardiovascular system, IMO.
From “personal experience”, one can testify that panic-anxiety issues can have a detrimental impact on the immune system. Panic-anxiety is caused by Fear — Fear of the unknown (the future, the outcome, etc.) Once the immune system is compromised, negative impacts can happen.
IMO, there will be any number of “vaccinated” people, once they realize the damage the “vaccines” have done / can do, to their bodies, who could potentially react with panic-anxiety.
IMO, there will be any number of UN-“vaccinated” people, once they realize the damage the “vaccines” have done / can do, to their “vaccinated” loved ones and friends, who could ALSO potentially react with panic-anxiety.
BOTH of these potential reactions, IMO, may be an “emotional reaction” to a possibly dangerous situation (realizing, for example, that a “vaccinated” family member may develop heart issues from the “vaccine”, or actually be diagnosed with such.)
However, it’s when panic-anxiety driven by emotional reactions becomes persistent and/or extreme, it can turn into panic disorder.
In agreement, I’d be questioning any sudden illness. I’ve been looking at local obituaries in my present local and previous place of residence. The number of people dying in the 30-60 age bracket seems to be very high to me. Died unexpectedly or after a short illness very common. One of my co-workers from afew years ago 42 years old died unexpectedly, healthy non smoker or drinker.
This mirrors what we have seen and heard in our church and SS class of about 40 people. The number is growing rapidly.
Thank you, RDS. You are so helpful and informative.
This 1000%!
FLCCC? Lurk at QTree and our sister sites.
Lotsa great information that may be helpful for them.
It all beats the LIES on cable…
Edit. Shoulda read replies, like RDS… (Repetition is good.)
Without question, they both should be on a protocol that includes ivermectin and nattokinase.
And of course, all the usual vitamins like C, zinc, vitamin D, etc. But the iver and the natto are a must.
Got the natto underway, going to work on the Ivermectin. They are good about the vitamins.
Yours Truly believes a D-dimer blood test to see if there are elevated levels of micro-clots is also a good idea.
Good!
there’s vax detox info out there so maybe encourage him/them to search for what could help combat the poison…
Alan Dershowitz:
The Most Dangerous Indictment in History | Opinion
https://www.newsweek.com/most-dangerous-indictment-history-opinion-1805579?amp=1
…Republicans who will certainly retaliate when they regain control of the criminal charging process.
^^^ Dersch has a higher opinion of R-Cons than I.
R-Cons cower. Even with a majority, R-Cons cower.
R-Cons are the Controlled Opposition.
Trump is scheduled to speak in Georgia at a GOP Conference meeting at 2:45 Eastern. He’s taking the stage now.
https://rumble.com/v2rlub4-live-president-donald-j-trump-to-speak-at-the-georgia-gop-conference-meetin.html
“Every time I fly over a blue state, I get a subpoena.” 😅
“The only good thing about the indictment is it’s driven my poll numbers up.”
Fundraising, less important, is also through the roof.
Beating the h3ll out of the Repubs and JB.
“If I wasn’t, there would be no witch hunt.”
I know this is the Youtube.
I have problem watching any video on any of the other platform.
Youtube at least always works.
LIVE: President Donald J Trump to Speak at the Georgia GOP Conference Meeting – 6/10/23 – YouTube
Talks about Joe BRIBEN.
We caught that and had a good laugh!
Presidential Records Act not mentioned in the document, but it is the ruling act that this case falls under. They use the Espionage Act of 1917, WWI…boxes…JB has 1,850 boxes all over the place. JB is fighting them about turning over the boxes, but they say Trump is being obstructionist.
Our country has tears. We need strength, more than just normal strength.
PDJT speaking about Biden, just did a slip and called him “Joe Bribin”. No, it wasnt on purpose, and he continued without making a joke. I hope other people pick up on it and pay it forward.
😄😄😄😄😄😁
Looks like he’s getting younger 😮
“Jack Smith…what do you think his name used to be. Deranged.”
🤔
PDJT says Smith was shaking, didn’t want to be there.
“A sick nest of people that needs to be cleaned out. Get ’em out.”
Crowd: “USA, USA!”
“I retired the word ‘crooked’ from Hillary because Hillary doesn’t matter anymore.”
Applies to Biden now.
Wiki says his name is John L. Smith, with a birth year of 1968 or 1969. – ???
Same with his wife, is there a reason they don’t put the actual birth date.
“Chevigny was born in 1968 or 1969 to Bell Gale Chevigny and Paul Chevigny.”
They are actually spies?
I don’t know. It seems strange. I didn’t go back to check just now, but I don’t think it gives his parents’ names.
Trump brought MTG to the podium. She says PDJT is beating JB & Kamala in polls. “Four more years!”
Trump: “I just wish she was a little more aggressive.” 😂
“The day that you’re not allowed to complain about an election, then we are indeed Communist China.”
First day in office, I will end electric car mandates.
“If you want to have a dishwasher that actually lets water come out…” 😂
Will instruct a completely overhauled DOJ to go after crooked AGs.
Eisenhower was very tough on immigration.
Will carry out the largest deportation operation in US history.
Executive order, Day One, ending automatic citizenship for children born here.
Will pass the Trump Reciprocal Trade Act. If a country charges us with tariffs, we charge them at the same rate.
Ron DeS voted three times to gut Medicare and Social Security and to raise the retirement age to 70.
Talks about people “kissing my ass,” then becoming Never Trumpers. They claim to have MAGA principles, then go back to their old ways.
Do not forget the 23% federal SALES TAX!!! That plus the nominal 30% tax takes you over 50% in federal taxes.
When I first started my business I figured out the overt taxes. it was 64.5% add + 23% = 87% in OVERT TAX!!!
That is without the 151 taxes on a loaf of bread (over 1/2 the cost) so you are OVER 90% in taxes!!!
Will cut federal funding to any school pushing critical race theory, gender, and any other inappropriate ideas. Will sign a law prohibiting child sexual mutiliation in all 50 states.
No money to any school that has a vax mandate or mask mandate.
Special presidential commission to investigate childhood disorders, obesity, autism, etc.
Will ask Congress for a bill for national concealed carry reciprocity.
Year-long salute to America leading up to our 250th anniversary July 4, 2026.
Now we know why Sparkle Socks went to Ukraine. He can’t resist dancing..so what if Canada is burning up…dancing !!
What’s moar is this is them recruiting woman to fight by flying the drones. (shown at the end of the dance thing).. They are literally at the end of their rope.
I’m pleased to be able to read an article that has an explanation of a Maclaurin series
AND a “FCK JOE BIDEN”
Hey guys I’ve got a family dilemma that I want to run past the Q-Tree geniuses, involving my hubby’s health.
Very recently Michael has had a number of bouts of extreme digestive discomfort, some of which made him miss work for trucking & frequent bathroom trips are mutually exclusive, especially in the middle of the night when his shift starts.
Any way he thinks that he has Suddenly become gluten intolerant & is now trying to lived gluten free. Secondarily he thinks he might have a degree of lactose intolerance so is using very minimal dairy, butter seems to not bother him.
Now he’s had ZERO food allergies his whole life so this SUDDEN ONSET of issues is very bizarre.
Here are some facts that we are Pretty Sure of:
He has Zero tolerance of bioengineered &/or GMO stuff. Any time he’s accidentally eaten it it ends up messing with him pretty quickly.
About a month ago he was on that hiking/backpacking trip in the Jordan River pathway in Northern Michigan. His hiking buddy mentioned that M’s system was messed up when they went out to eat on their way home from that last hike, so this is the Beginning Point of his current issues it would seem.
On that hiking trip he used a Life Straw water bottle with a new filter so would get fresh water from the river or streams along that 20 mile trip & then it would filter through the straw. Could he have gotten some type of parasite that way that Intermittently would impact him, depending on what he’s eaten?
In the 6 weeks or so that we’ve been dealing with this situation once he went mostly/entirely gluten free he had few issues, except when accidentally eating bioengineered/GMO stuff (Kroger tortilla chips) or small amounts of gluten (Cavender’s Greek Seasoning on grilled chicken).
Is it possible to Suddenly Become Gluten intolerant to an extreme degree?
Could several bioengineered/GMO food encounters in the last few months cause gluten &/or lactose intolerance? Or something that Appears to be such intolerance?
I’m suspicious of the Sudden Onset of these issues & hoping that we can find a different solution than completely cutting gluten out of his diet, which appears to be working pretty well for him right now…
As an aside my dad was told some years ago that he needed to cut out gluten & that he was “allergic” to it. He went gluten free for a couple years before discovering, I forget how now, he wasn’t allergic at all & he eats a completely normal diet now w/ no issues.
IF there is some type of parasite that got through via the “wild water” or bioengineered/GMO food products could going through a course of Ivermectin perhaps kick it (we have some on hand)?
Any thoughts or suggestions? This is such an unexpected & unusual change for him…
Thanks for taking the time to read & ponder this dilemma! Blessings to all!!!
I’m sorry he’s dealing with this. I am not an expert and these are random thoughts.
Parasite testing seems like a good avenue to pursue. I think you can order tests online yourself, but I don’t know if that’s the best way to go.
Other conditions can cause intestinal symptoms, like Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO).
Researching IVM dosage for parasites seems like a good thing to do. (I bet others here have info about this.)
It seems like you’re keeping track of what causes symptoms, and keeping a detailed food diary could also be helpful (even though it’s a pain to do!).
Hoping and praying for the best.
Thanks TT these are all helpful ideas.
He did go to the Urgent Care fairly early on & the NP he saw told him to take Imodium & get Gatorade to replenish his fluids & electrolytes. If he’d continued w/ the intense diarrhea she said he needed to go to an ER due to dehydration risk. Thankfully it never came to that!
Thanks for your prayers! God Bless
“…Could he have gotten some type of parasite that way that Intermittently would impact him, depending on what he’s eaten?….”
GIARDIASIS!!!
This sounds EXACTLY like what my Hubby’s old girl friend had. She could not tolerate milk AT ALL. Good luck getting a doctor to actually LOOK for it. I talked to one mom whose little boy was infected. Out of despiration she gave a sample to her vet, telling them it was from her dog. It came back positive. When the pediatritian found out he threatened to have her arrested because it is illegal to lie about that to the vet. She threatened to sue him for malpractice so it was a stand off and he did treat her son with no further problems.
If your hubby tells the doctor he drank from a stream (Do not mention the straw!!!) The dock will probably do the test for giardia.
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Beaver fever or giardiasis, like doctors call it, is a very common diarrheal disease. It is called Beaver Fever after an outbreak in which hikers at Banff National Park became ill from drinking stream water contaminated with Giardia from beavers.
If this came from stream water, then it seems the straw didn’t work.
Could easily have picked it up just by having your hands in the water since it is very transmissable.
OH and the cysts of giardia are NOT EFFECTED BY CHLORINE DISINFECTANTS. That is why I will not drink the local city water.
TY for this important info too!
Out here, we are very cautious about stream water.
Yes. He thought he’d be safe with backpacking precautions where getting on site water is necessary on those long hikes where it’s impossible to carry sufficient water for one’s needs.
That hiking trip was unseasonably warm & he often dipped a hat &/or shirt in the stream water & let the evaporation help cool him down, in addition to drinking the filtered water via the Life Straw.
Lol, I should have kept reading before commenting! Oh, well. At least we have consensus..
You & Gail ROCK…always! It’s good to get differing expressions of even similar info as sometimes those nuances can be key pieces of info. TYSVM!!!
TY Gail for these very helpful insights, which I read out to Hubby to consider. He was familiar w/ Giardia from his boy scouting days…
Sounds like it could be giardia infection. I have known people who got it, and it is nasty stuff. It can last for well over a month:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/giardia-infection/symptoms-causes/syc-20372786
I would try a course of ivermectin to see if that killed it first, before I went to a doc for help.
TY for the helpful info & the link! Blessings ❤
🙂
Valerie Curren
Just catching up on the board, but Yours Truly concurs with the suspicion that it’s Giardia.
One is not a medical professional, but it seems that a course of IVM for your husband — and everyone else in the household — is a good idea.
And washing bedding, towels, dishes and cooking utensils, clothing (if possible) in hot water.
TY RDS! So far no one else in the household seems to be affected, thankfully!
Smart already folks chimed in.
Slow guys perspective.
One word stands out, parasite. Solution, Ivermectin…STAT.
I am not sure Ivermectin will work. I know it does not work on coccidiosis in goats and sheep. It takes an antibiotic and even then you don’t get rid of it.
Coccidiosis is caused by microscopic protozoan parasites called coccidian (Eimeria spp.). It is the most common cause of diarrhea in young goats. It remains in the ground for up to 2 years and even chlorox will not kill it.
How do you get rid of beaver fever?
Darwin has had coccidia, too.
Oh no! Did you take him to a vet & get meds?
Hope he’s OK now!
Oh, yeah this was quite some time ago.
Two different meds get prescribed, either one or the other (he’s had both on different occasions). I have to force feed him; he HATES that.
One of the meds is yellow, and when he’s upset/mad parts of him become almost that exact color, so I call it “lizard dye.”
That’s pretty wild. How do you force feed a lizard? shove it it his mouth & hold it shut while rubbing the throat, like how we’ve done for dogs or some other way?
I pretty much have to pin him against the wall of his tank (so that one side of his head is facing up) then pry his lips open with the (blunt) syringe (not one with a needle) then slowly push the stuff in. I’ve never been able to get his jaw open…not because I couldn’t but because I’m afraid of injuring him. But pushing it in slowly enough, it will flow between the teeth into his mouth.
He seems to tolerate the white stuff better than the lizard dye, which I guess just tastes nasty to him.
Wow. I clearly & erroneously thought it was in a pill form, oops.
I’m Quite Familiar with those blunt syringes being introduced to the need for them with Josiah as a 2 1/2 month old baby fresh out of the hospital after open heart & on Lasix, Aldactone, & some crazy antibiotic that glowed a fluorescent green. One of those doses was 0.2ml, 2 tics on the 1ml syringe.
Much later on when he was on Paxil he tolerated the liquid branded version & was getting 2-7mls, depending on the year w/ either a 5ml or a 10ml syringe. At least then we had a rubber “cork” for the bottle with a hole in the center so we could get that liquid out w/out too much of a mess!
When he was an infant it was so scary because it seemed like he needed meds with almost every feeding & even with those small volumes & trickling the liquid slowly in the corner of his mouth he usually ended up vomiting. Our dog would come running & lick up the formula & meds so probably had a strong heart (: I hope that made an upside down smiley 🙂
It can’t hurt surely & Could help!!! TY
The answer to all of his questions…deSantis is a uniparty stooge who probably would accept $$ from anyone who his handlers tell him to It’s a big club and he’s in it now.
If this was posted, it’s worth the repeat. It gave me chills.
I’m in.
Will assume that this is true ?
Apparently it’s a thing…😏😮🙄😖
BARGAIN counter-offensive…
Fits with Zelensky’s transi proclivities…
Never let rules get in the way of ideology, hush money, graft, or money laundering…
Here is a link for the NC GOP convention…
https://rumble.com/v2s9qpa-live-president-donald-j-trump-to-speak-at-nc-gop-convention.-61023.html
It’s President Trump’s next stop today after the GA convention a bit ago…
Smaller group, more personnel touch but filled with detail and plans for the future along with what happened and is happening on all fronts. Not the same speech at all but just as good and just as funny.
This one would be good for normies who might be on the fence.
Rudy Giuliani DROPS A BOMB: I Have a Witness, Former Chief Accountant of Burisma Willing to Give Up All the Offshore Bank Accounts, INCLUDING THE BIDENS’ ACCOUNTS – HAS ACCESS TO A LOT MORE”
“Rudy, who warned the American public about the Biden Family’s international pay for play scandals years ago, told Rita Cosby that he has a witness who is the former chief accountant at Burisma who is willing to testify on the Biden crimes. She even has the Biden bank account transactions. She has the receipts!”
Suppose Rudy had video of Brandon admitting they stole the election and exactly how they did it, and admitting that he sold national security secrets to the chyneese, and he admitted to child trafficking with his son, the bagman.
Better yet, suppose Brandon went on live TV, during a press conference, and just blurted out all of the above.
Who would do anything about it?
That’s the problem.
Lack of evidence isn’t the problem.
Yup, if a tree falls in the woods does it make a sound?
Yes.
Rudy, whoever in the House…PUBLISH THE EVIDENCE.
OR, the evidence may as well NOT exist.
R-Cons Fixated On Stoopid.
R-Cons would NOT recognize “action”, if it slapped them in the face.
Catturd:
Some of the people who gave homes to the puppies have posted pics, like this one.
Today the Belmont Stakes will be run. It is the 50th anniversary of Secretariat’s huge record-setting win.
Purloined and modified . . .
Did you do that? Nice work!
That is great! Good job!
GWP
Former Top Department of Justice Official Blows Up Jack Smith’s Case Against President Trump With One Tweet – Notices Key Item on Third Page of the Federal Indictment That Is “Grounds for Granting a Motion” to Dismiss
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/former-top-department-justice-official-blows-up-jack/
Exclusive: Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘Dumbfounded’ GOP Colleagues Will Not Call for Biden’s Impeachment
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fpolitics%2F2023%2F06%2F10%2Fexclusive-marjorie-taylor-greene-dumbfounded-gop-colleagues-will-not-call-for-bidens-impeachment%2F
Looks as if they need to hear from us. (And I know it usually feels as if that has no impact.)
Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘Dumbfounded’ GOP Colleagues Will Not Call for Biden’s Impeachment
^^^ MTG needs to get a clue. ^^^
Not me. I not dumbfounded.
Hell I’d be shocked, IF the GOP did anything to hold BiteMe accountable.
There is ZERO excuse for GOP NOT Impeaching BiteMe, since the day after Kevin became Speaker. NONE.
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GOP is worthless. Prove Me Wrong.
You’re wrong. They’d have to show some immediate improvement to get to worthless.
Can’t argue with logic like that!
Uh yup. Ya got a point there.
What foul language?
im conflicted. Either the indictment is the last move prior to the deep state being rolled up and becoming dog mince – kinda like one final bite from a rabid hyena or it’s the deep state having a victory celebration- just before the us population says yeah, nah and takes up arms.