Speaker Dungsmear? Or?
McCarthy 2.0 seems a vast improvement over Speaker Dungsmear. So here’s the question. Was he once a conservative with a little fire in the belly that got captured by the system and now is finding the bellyfire again? Or is this all completely under duress?
For the moment, it doesn’t matter which one. But some day it will matter, and we will have our answer.
RINOs an Endangered Species?
If Only!
According to Wikipoo, et. al., the Northern White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) is a critically endangered species. Apparently two females live on a wildlife preserve in Sudan, and no males are known to be alive. So basically, this species is dead as soon as the females die of old age. Presently they are watched over by armed guards 24/7.
Biologists have been trying to cross them with the other subspecies, Southern White Rhinoceroses (Rhinoceri?) without success; and some genetic analyses suggest that perhaps they aren’t two subspecies at all, but two distinct species, which would make the whole project a lot more difficult.
I should hope if the American RINO (Parasitus rectum pseudoconservativum) is ever this endangered, there will be heroic efforts not to save the species, but rather to push the remainder off a cliff. Onto punji sticks. With feces smeared on them. Failing that a good bath in red fuming nitric acid will do.
But I’m not done ranting about RINOs.
The RINOs (if they are capable of any introspection whatsoever) probably wonder why they constantly have to deal with “populist” eruptions like the Trump-led MAGA movement. That would be because the so-called populists stand for absolutely nothing except for going along to get along. That allows the Left to drive the culture and politics.
Given the results of our most recent elections, the Left will now push harder, and the RINOs will now turn even squishier than they were before.
I well remember 1989-1990 in my state when the RINO establishment started preaching the message that a conservative simply couldn’t win in Colorado. Never mind the fact that Reagan had won the state TWICE (in 1984 bringing in a veto-proof state house and senate with him) and GHWB had won after (falsely!) assuring everyone that a vote for him was a vote for Reagan’s third term.
This is how the RINOs function. They push, push, push the line that only a “moderate” can get elected. Stomp them when they pull that shit. Tell everyone in ear shot that that’s exactly what the Left wants you to think, and oh-by-the-way-Mister-RINO if you’re in this party selling the same message as the Left…well, whythefuckexactly are you in this party, you lying piece of rancid weasel shit?
In Defense of Ranked Choice Voting
One of the biggest obstacles to direly-needed change is RINOs, and one of the weapons in their arsenal is the “Wasted Vote” argument.
Periodically a third party has arisen, trying to hold RINOs to account by putting pressure on them from outside of the party, since doing so from the inside has historically done very little good. But, even if you find a third party candidate who perfectly reflects your views, you’re likely to vote for the RINO anyway. Why? Because if you don’t, the Democrat might win, and that would be even worse. So if you vote for that third party (that few will vote for), you’re throwing your vote away and increasing the likelihood of the Democrat winning. (It’s half as much a gain for the Democrat, as actually voting for the Democrat would be. Not as much, but half as much. Because although you denied the R your vote, you did not flip your vote to the Democrat.)
The Republican Party Establishment knows you don’t love them. But they know you hate the Democrats worse, and they use that to continue to herd you into supporting them. With gritted teeth you cast your vote, but your vote counts the same whether you cast it enthusiastically. And the other alternative, pissing on the voting apparatus to express your actual feelings, is probably a felony.
But what if you could vote for that third party without increasing the chances of the Dem walking away with the prize?
This is what ranked choice voting, or instant runoff voting, can do provided it is properly implemented. (And this includes the votes, and only genuine votes, being counted honestly, of course. However, I’m going to compare it to what we have today, and pretend that is honestly done too. RCV can’t work if it’s not honestly administered, just like our current system isn’t working because it isn’t honestly administered.)
The idea behind RCV is to vote by expressing your order of preference. You could vote for the Patriot Party, then for the RINO Party as your second choice (and ignore the Democrat, the Green, the Overt Socialist Schmuckmonkey Party, etc).
What does this do? It nullifies the wasted vote argument. Your vote will be counted for the Patriot party, first, then instead of it being “wasted” when the Patriot Party loses, it ends up going to the RINO. Actually, it’s just barely possible that the Patriot Party would actually beat the RINO, if people weren’t all individually afraid to vote for it.
It’s just like the famous “Prisoner’s Dilemma” where your fear of other peoples’ actions prevents you from doing the optimal thing–and vice-versa. As long as Job Lowe is afraid to vote Patriot because he’s afraid you’ll vote RINO, you’ll have to vote RINO because you fear that Job Lowe will, because he fears you will.
So on the whole I like RCV. It gives you a no-risk way to vote against the RINO scum, and in favor of someone who deserves your vote.
The problem is, as done here in the US, it comes packaged with a “jungle primary.” A bunch of candidates get to put their name out there, and the top four (or so) candidates get onto the “main” ballot. This gives party establishments their way around the threat of a good third party bumping them off. Because they know that few people bother with primaries, and third parties don’t have the resources to run in a primary…so they throw two or three establishment hacks into the primary and they will probably beat the third party. The result is the RINOs end up with two of the four slots in the general election, and the Dems get the other two. Now there’s suddenly no third party candidate on the ballot at all.
If we were to combine RCV with the present system where each party could nominate exactly one candidate to appear on the November ballot, or at the very least, ensure minor parties could get onto the ballot with at least one candidate regardless of the primary, we would be getting somewhere, but the establishment is smarter than we like to give them credit for. They will support the jungle primary + RCV “solution” rather than the more appropriate one-candidate-per-party + RCV solution.
It’s not RCV that is the problem, it’s the primary structure grafted onto it.
Justice
It says “Justice” on the picture.
And I’m sure someone will post the standard joke about what the fish thinks about the situation.
But what is it?
Here’s a take, from a different context: It’s about how you do justice, not the justice that must be done to our massively corrupt government and media. You must properly identify the nature of a person, before you can do him justice.
Ayn Rand, On Justice (speaking through her character John Galt, in Atlas Shrugged):
Justice is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake the character of men as you cannot fake the character of nature, that you must judge all men as conscientiously as you judge inanimate objects, with the same respect for truth, with the same incorruptible vision, by as pure and as rational a process of identification—that every man must be judged for what he is and treated accordingly, that just as you do not pay a higher price for a rusty chunk of scrap than for a piece of shining metal, so you do not value a rotter above a hero—that your moral appraisal is the coin paying men for their virtues or vices, and this payment demands of you as scrupulous an honor as you bring to financial transactions—that to withhold your contempt from men’s vices is an act of moral counterfeiting, and to withhold your admiration from their virtues is an act of moral embezzlement—that to place any other concern higher than justice is to devaluate your moral currency and defraud the good in favor of the evil, since only the good can lose by a default of justice and only the evil can profit—and that the bottom of the pit at the end of that road, the act of moral bankruptcy, is to punish men for their virtues and reward them for their vices, that that is the collapse to full depravity, the Black Mass of the worship of death, the dedication of your consciousness to the destruction of existence.
Ayn Rand identified seven virtues, chief among them rationality. The other six, including justice, she considered subsidiary because they are essentially different aspects and applications of rationality.
—Ayn Rand Lexicon (aynrandlexicon.com)
Justice Must Be Done.
Trump, it is supposed, had some documents.
Biden and company stole the country.
I’m sure enough of this that I put my money where my mouth is.
The prior election must be acknowledged as fraudulent, and steps must be taken to prosecute the fraudsters and restore integrity to the system. (This doesn’t necessarily include deposing Joe and Hoe and putting Trump where he belongs, but it would certainly be a lot easier to fix our broken electoral system with the right people in charge.)
Nothing else matters at this point. Talking about trying again in 2024 or 2026 is pointless 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 in the system is not part of the plan, you have no plan.
This will necessarily be piecemeal, state by state, which is why I am encouraged by those states working to change their laws to alleviate the fraud both via computer and via bogus voters. If enough states do that we might end up with a working majority in Congress and that would be something Trump never really had.
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 Prices
Last week:
Gold $1,943.60
Silver $23.73
Platinum $930.00
Palladium $1,290.00
Rhodium $4,750.00
This week, 3 PM MT on Friday, markets closed for the weekend
Gold $1,914.10
Silver $22.75
Platinum $921.00
Palladium $1,338.00
Rhodium $4,750.00
Everything down or flat except palladium. Interesting!
Sines and Cosines from Plain Old Arithmetic
Well after last week’s difficulty with editing I’m going to have another go at it.
I ended by stating that there was a way of computing the sine and cosine of any arbitrary angle, without knowing any other sines or cosines.
This is good because if you do need other sines and cosines as inputs, then roundoff error in the previously determined sines and cosines will start you off wrong, and you’ll be making an roundoff error here (remember you can’t specify most of these numbers precisely, they’re irrational). These errors will only accumulate. A direct method that doesn’t depend on other calculations would be much better.
We have that method. Sort of. There are a couple of caveats: This method will give you an approximation, though you can put more work into it and get it as close to the actual sine or cosine as you want. The more accurate you want, the more work you will need to do. (It becomes precisely accurate if you do infinite work.
And the other caveat is you have to give your angle in radians, because that is the “natural” way to measure an angle: as a distance along the arc of a circle.
OK, here we go:
Remember a few weeks ago (https://www.theqtree.com/2023/06/10/2023%C2%B706%C2%B710-joe-biden-didnt-win-daily-thread/) I talked about the Taylor series, and a special case of it called the MacLaurin series. These can be used, in some cases to compute values of a function that might otherwise seem intractable, and by using pure arithmetic.
The function must be infinitely differentiable, which is a calculus concept. I’m going to try to explain it, but if you don’t want to know it won’t hurt you not to know…much. You may want to skip the next few paragraphs…I’ll put bold where it’s safe to pick up so you can scan for it.
Basically, if you have a function like sinx which is shown below with x in radians.
…you can create another function that gives the slope of sin x at any given point. So what would such a function look like? Well, when x is zero, the slope of the wiggly line is just about 1. Which is to say, right there at x = 0, it’s climbing at the rate of one square vertically for every one unit to the right (in radians). Our new “slope of sin x function” has a value of 1 at x = 0. At π/2 (or 90°), the curve of sin x is level, so the slope is zero. At π, the slope is -1. At 3π/2, it’s zero again. And at 2π, it’s back to being 1 again.
We already know of a function that has these values at these points. It’s the cosine of x. Is that a coincidence? Actually, no. It turns out (after a lot more proof than I am going to show you), that the “slope of sin(x) function” is indeed cos(x). Now for some terminology; the correct way to phrase this is “the derivative of sin(x) is cos(x).”
You can repeat this exercise for cos(x), and you will get -sin(x). So the derivative of cos(x) is -sin(x). But cos(x) is already the derivative of sin(x), so the derivative of the derivative of sin(x) is -sin(x). But we don’t want to say “the derivative of the derivative of..” so we call that the second derivative.
Unsurprisingly, the derivative of -sin(x) is -cos(x). And the derivative of -cos(x) is back to sin(x). In other words, you can keep taking the derivative of the derivative of the derivative…forever. Kind of boring.
But that’s what it means to say that sin(x) is infinitely differentiable. With most functions you’ll eventually end up with a derivative that’s zero for all values of x, and then you’re done. But not with sin(x) and also (since it shows up in the chain) not for cos(x).
Which means that sine and cosine are infinitely differentiable and we can use the Maclaurin series on them.
(OK the calculus-averse are back with us now, and we can continue.)
So here is the Taylor series of any function, f. The idea is to pick a central point, a, and then compute the value of f for some nearby x. Note that all of the terms have x–a in them; you get closer if x is very close to a.
If a is zero, it becomes the Maclaurin series:
And the tick marks denote the first, second, third, and four derivatives.
The 1!, 2!, 3! etc are factorials. You get a factorial by multiplying the number by every smaller number down to 1. So 4! is 4 x 3 x 2 x 1. (Practically, of course, you don’t bother multiplying by 1.)
So if we set a equal to zero (we’re going to be interested in values for x close to zero), the formula can simplify.
I pointed out in the section you skipped over that the first derivative of sinx is cosx, the second derivative is -sinx, the third derivative is -cosx, the fourth derivative is sinx again, and so on…the cycle repeats.
So if I substitute those in we have:
sinx = sin(0) + (cos(0)/1!)x + (-sin(0)/2!)x2 + (-cos(0)/3!)x3 + (sin(0)/4!)x4 + …
But we know that the sin(0) is zero, and so is -sin(0). So we can simply throw a bunch of these terms out (and as I do so I’ll bring in more terms from where the ellipsis was)
sinx = (cos(0)/1!)x +(-cos(0)/3!)x3 + (cos(0)/5!)x5 + (-cos(0)/7!)x7…
And the others (cos(0) and -cos(0)) can be replaced with 1 and -1 respectively, so simplifying:
sinx = x – x3/3! +x5/5! – x7/7!…
This is a nice pattern. Every odd power of x, divided by the factorial of the power. Every other term gets a minus sign. The further you carry it out, the more accurate you will be. Also, the closer to zero x is, the more accurate it will be, but you can always just carry it out further if x isn’t very close to zero, to make up for it. If you can follow this infinitely far, you can get the correct answers for numbers very far away from 0, as far away as you like.
Here is a graph of sinx, along with a graph of what you get out of the Maclaurin representation taken to the x7 term.
As a practical matter you do not need to go past x=π/2, because the function makes the mirror-image curve going down to π as it did climbing to π/2. So the sine of 89° is the same as the sine of 91°, and so on. And the stretch from π to 2π is also a mirror image, except flipped vertically. After that, it repeats. So even though you can see some difference at x = π, and a lot of difference at 2π, you can probably get everything you need from the range 0 to π/, where this is pretty close.
So you can get pretty close with this function, between –π/2 and π/2. I’ll repeat it with the factorials written out:
sinx is roughly equal to: x – x3/6 +x5/120 – x7/5040.
Certainly the brain inside a calculator should be able to do that very quickly! And so, that’s probably what it does. It might go out one or two more terms:
x – x3/6 +x5/120 – x7/5040 + x9/363,880 – x11/39,916,800
But you can see if x is small you’re not going to get much change from the x11 term.
So let’s do the same thing for cosines. Now when we go back to the MacLaurin series, everything shifts over, it starts with cosine, then -sine, then -cosine, then sine.
cosx = cos(0) + (-sin(0)/1!)x + (-cos(0)/2!)x2 + (sin(0)/3!)x3 + (cos(0)/4!)x4 + …
And now we know that the cosine of zero is 1, and the sine of zero is zero, so:
cosx = 1 + –x2/2! + x4/4! + –x6/6! + x8/8! +…
So here we have a pattern oddly like, but oddly unlike, the sine version. Now it’s the even powers of x (including x0 = 1) that show up, again with alternating signs.
And we have:
cosx is roughly equal to: 1 – x2/2 +x4/24 – x6/720 + x8/40,320.
So we can get increasingly accurate. Because, remember sine and cosine swap at 45 degrees. The sine of 60° is the same as the cosine of 30°, so if you want the sine of 60°, compute the cosine of 30° instead; your answer will be closer. (Needless to say first, convert to radians!) So we really only need these series to be accurate enough for whatever our purposes are, to 45° or π/4 radians.
Next time: I pull a mathematical rabbit out of my hat!
Obligatory PSAs and Reminders
China is Lower than Whale Shit
To conclude: My standard Public Service Announcement. We don’t want to forget this!!!
Remember Hong Kong!!!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=L3tnH4FGbd0
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 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 !!!
Finally!
The old lady throws me out of the nest this morning and says not to come back without a fish — I’ve been sitting on that stupid branch overlooking the lake for seven hours straight! After working my tailfeathers all day, I finally get to go home, get some shuteye, and enjoy some Justice.
–large eagle
I have no words. 😟
If I remember, next time I’ll write it from the perspective of the tiny worm that the little fish just ate….
Sounds fishy to me 🙂
Okay, I’ve got one.
A rare treat.
The first time this person has ever heard Stairway to Heaven. I have seen more than a few reactions to this song, where partway through they recognize it.
But not this time.
This seems like the real deal 😁
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I can understand his reaction. The first time I ever heard Stairway was 45+ years ago when I was in Air Force tech school. We played that song endlessly. I’ve never gotten tired of it. But I’m really shocked that he never heard it before.
There is something about that song that is just… right… 😁
I haven’t checked in a long time, but for years (in the 1990s), Stairway to Heaven was regularly voted number 1 in ‘greatest songs of all time’ lists.
I remember rockin’ out to Stairway to Heaven in junior high school, in my attic bedroom, with the shades all pulled down and the sound turned as high as it would go without distorting 😂
I had a Technics SL-D20 turntable, a Kenwood KR-720 Receiver, a BSR EQ-3000 graphic equalizer out of the Crutchfield catalog (I think), a Technics RS-B78R autoreverse tape deck, and a pair of Sansui S930 3-way floor standing speakers with 12″ woofers. Then I added a Sony CDP-302 II CD player, when prices for CD players were low enough that I could get a nice one (on sale) for under $450.
All paid for with my paper route money.
Lights out, bean bag chair in the stereo sweet spot, drop the needle and then dive for the bean bag chair before the music started 👍😁
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It all went to college with me, except for the turntable 😎
I first got into the audiophile thing in college. My roommate had a pair of Infinity Reference Standard 3-ways, so I got an Onkyo A-7090 to drive ’em. I got a Technics SL-D3 turntable and he got a Nakamichi cassette deck….
Nice!
I was doing the best I could on a paper boy’s salary 😁
If I had known better, I would have bought higher quality used equipment for the same or less cost. That’s mostly what I do now, and have done for years.
I remember in the early 1980s when the local hi-fi store had the Nakamichi autoreverse tape deck on display.
It wasn’t technically auto “reverse”, since the motors only went one direction, and the cassette itself flipped.
It was pretty cool!
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Came in 202, 303 and 505 models if I recall, and the 505 was their highest end tape deck other than the Dragon.
On the dragon, the tape head would flip over and it had servos that would auto-align it with the magnetic stripes. If the stripes were at a slight diagonal with respect to the gap in the head, you’d lose the high frequencies (and usually it *was* out of alignment which is why cassettes never seemed to have a lot of high end even aside from the tape hiss issue).
I personally own a mere base model BX-100 (it’s broken unfortunately) which I’ve never been able to bring myself to throw out. On the BX 100 you had to flip the tape yourself, of course, but I had it tested and it had excellent frequency response–the caveat being it had to record the tapes it was playing back (no problem for me of course, I never bought factory cassettes. I’d buy vinyl and record it the first time I played it.
I never bought factory cassette tapes either. I bought the LPs, and then made my own mix tapes.
Greatest Hits of Everyone. Like listening to a classic rock radio station, except with a better song selection 😁
You can of course do similar today loading oh several hundred favorite songs onto an otherwise lobotomized used smartphone (with no sim card in it), and putting it in shuffle mode. That’s more than most radio stations’ playlists and no commercials or DJs,
Uncompressed .wav files, i.e., at least CD quality?
And then what, plug it into the home stereo?
If so, I’d have to rip about a thousand CDs to a computer hard drive. Just thinking about it makes me tired 😂
I grew up spinning rekkids. Had to clean them each play with my old Discwasher brush (still have it, still use it, even found a 30+ year old original new old stock still sealed-in-the-box replacement Discwasher on eBay, in case the one I’ve had since 7th grade ever wears out… because the newer ones just aren’t the same!), and then clean and check the needle with my stylus brush & magnifying mirror.
So I decided a long time ago, that pushing a button to open a CD player drawer, dropping a CD in, and pushing a button to close the CD player drawer really wasn’t too difficult or time consuming… I can live with that… 😁
Currently have 2325 albums on my HD, ripped to lossless FLAC. It took a while.
“It took a while.”
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I bet it did! 👍😁
So you have roughly 28,000 songs. If the average song is assumed to be 4 minutes that would be just under 78 days of continuous play. Take a little time off to sleep and you can have a three month rotation. I think you are ready for cthulhu radio; live from the Bay area.
Good guess — 28,661.
Some of it is a bit……eclectic…..
I was assuming 12 songs per album which is the way it was when I was buying albums.
Full ahead Mr. cthulhu, maximum warp(ed) 🙂
Would be nice if there was one of those CD libraries that could dump out a USB2 or 3 (heck, USB4) interface to an awaiting program on a PC to build up a FLAC, WAV, or whatever library.
Then I guess it would be “please library please, don’t crush B-17…” 🙂
They have been loaded one CD at a time, over the course of years. The vast majority are FLAC, with some of the earliest rips in .mp3(256).
And that is my CD library that I can dump out on USB. If I want it in .mp3 for the car, I can do selections and set a conversion going and…..voila!
FLAC files, and I use such a thing in my car.
I was stuck with a 1950s 12 volt Japanese transistor radio in a black leather case.
I still have it. I wonder if it still works. I should toss a 12 volt battery in it and find out. 🤓
Or plug it in into 120v and it’ll go 10 times as fast/loud 😆
Ahhh. The good old days. When we called those radios “Jap Crap” because they had the reputation then that RED China does now, for technical things…
And how transistor radios were compared based on how many transistors they had, much like watches had “12 jewels” or “19 jewels” etc. My sister got a radio from (I think) Montgomery Ward (Airline Brand) with 6 transistors and it was like winning the AM (/FM?) lottery…
Here it is, complete with box 🙂
I double checked, It is a 12 transistor Radio….
I had 12 volts on the brain because we are having trouble with the NEW 12 volt battery in the lawn tractor and spent all day yesterday chasing down the bad connection it seems. And yeah it is now fixed.
Well you were a WAY more successful paperboy than I ever was!!! 😍
It was pretty miserable. I rode a BMX bike, that I had assembled myself from parts bought locally or through the BMX magazine.
Mongoose chromemoly frame (dark metallic blue!)
Mongoose double gooseneck (regular single gooseneck wasn’t strong enough to keep the handlebars from pushing forward when landing from bicycle jumps, the double gooseneck fixed that problem!)
Red Line front fork (black)
Fluted alloy handlebars and seat post (black)
Oakley 1 handlebar grips (black)
Excalibur seat-post clamp (black)
Tuff Wheel 1 mag wheels (black)
Snakeskin racing tires
Mine had a coaster brake. I tried hand brakes, but I never trusted them… coaster brake always works 😁
Pretty much like this one, except everything on mine was black with a darker metallic blue frame:
Great for jumping stuff with, not really great for a paper route, but it got the job done!
My paper route was in a very hilly area, about a half mile from my home, and the route was in a wealthy part of town so houses were not close together.
I could only carry half the papers in the carrier you put over your head and wear like a poncho, so I had to make two trips every day.
Sunday was the worst because the newspapers were at least twice the weight as weekdays. I was in amazing physical / cardio shape.
Good times! 😂
Sounds like a route that was uphill Both ways 😉 😉
You have Amazing recall of the details of your bike….hmmm I had a 10 speed bike behind which I pulled a red metal wagon using a rope & the wagon would crash into my back tire whenever I’d stop.
My collections & tips got spent on candy & comic books & I’d also set aside money for Christmas, which amounted to maybe $40 by the time I bought presents. Oh & I tithed off the money first too 🙂
Stairway To Heaven as you’ve likely never heard it before. Greg most often plays Christian inspired music “Take Me In (to the Holy of Holies”) is a good example.
Not the best sound as this was recorded using a camcorder mic. But, still…
He’s definitely working that harp!
Very nicely done 👍😁
Yes, full of passion.
You know what I am always waiting for in these reaction videos, and I have never gotten? I’m waiting for the moment when the person listening gets so lost in the song, that they forget themselves and quit stopping the tape to comment.
I’ve never yet seen that moment. But I’ll admit, I don’t watch a ton of these. Maybe you’ve seen it.
Auditioning for clicks, I suppose. The music is typically fantastic.
The “emotion” and yammering stuff, I don’t get it. Yea, clueless old fart in Nevada. Need more coffee.
It’s a good thing they don’t have a typical listener like us listening to rap. The reaction wouldn’t be so kind.
My bf’s daughter is with a rap dude, not a young one. Sometimes he gives me his phone to listen to the dude’s latest..omg. I just look at him like he’s nutz for even wanting me to waste my time.
I HATE what passes for music now a days. Rap, Heavy Metal and what ever they call the latest ear splitting headache creating noise.
I have very good hearing and I want to KEEP IT!
LOL, half of it is cussing and graphic, barely any “music” from the young punks. The OG’s aren’t much better. Most can’t carry a tune, whatever the message is is lost in the bad singing/talking/yelling/ and the synthetic beats background.
Listen to Weird Al’s “Smells Like Nirvana”, where he talks about unintelligible lyrics 🙂
The video is hilarious. Funny trivia, both Nirvana, with “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (the original) and Weird Al, with “Smells Like Nirvana” (the parody) were up (against each other) for a Grammy one year. Not sure who won (maybe it was a tie, that would be a hoot)…
Yep.
Crap, I call it. Not music at all… and usually vulgar as well…
And over here they have something called techno, which I can hear for free just by listening to my dishwasher or the washer on spin cycle 🙂
Sort of like this 😀
Slaad and Veeter, the Techno Twins 😂
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They might want to “Break Free”, with help of the Floppotron 😀 😎
I’d like to see the cable jungle behind that wall of floppies…
Probably designed and build a custom I/O channel and drivers… and how could he afford all those scanners (dumpster diving, no doubt)…
Aaaaaand, it’s in this video. Custom power supplies and driver boards, etc. Cool as anything. Now I know where all that old hardware goes… Maybe I could send him a few (5-10) shipping cartons with vintage stuff 😀
“It’s a good thing they don’t have a typical listener like us listening to rap. The reaction wouldn’t be so kind.”
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It only works one direction. Rap people constantly find themselves listening to more and more classic rock, folk rock, even country, after they first hear it.
But it doesn’t work the other way around 😂
I just watched this one last night 👍
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The world is a better place, because John Denver’s music is in it 🙂
My parents had the album Poems, Prayers & Promises since it came out in 1971, so I grew up hearing that one, and it’s my favorite.
I have a mint condition U.S. first pressing LP (on that funky RCA flexi-vinyl) and a mint UK first pressing LP on nice, thick pre-oil embargo vinyl.
Just look at this track listing. Every one is great. I was fascinated by the spoken word ‘The Box’ when I was little, I had never heard a spoken word ‘song’ before!
Poems, Prayers And Promises (4:04)
Let It Be (Lennon/McCartney, 3:38)
My Sweet Lady (4:23)
Wooden Indian (1:38)
Junk (McCartney, 1:40)
Gospel Changes (3:24)
Take Me Home, Country Roads (3:08)
I Guess He’d Rather Be In Colorado (2:07)
Sunshine On My Shoulders (5:10)
Around And Around (2:16)
Fire And Rain (James Taylor, 3:44)
The Box (2:44)
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In my life I have only been to 3 live pop music concerts. The first was the BeeGees. The other two were John Denver concerts. All were with my spouse.
I would love to have seen John Denver perform live! 👍
In the first Denver concert he introduced a new song he had just written and, if I remember correctly, was the first time the song had been sung in public. The song: I’m Sorry.
My two favorites John Denver songs:
Glad I checked back here and found this post! 👍
Those are both beautiful songs, I don’t think I had heard either one before. Maybe Thirsty Boots, it seemed vaguely familiar.
Thank you Robert!
Lol! My son used to do that to me, back in the days when he liked rap. These days we agree more often. He loves “Rich Men North of Richmond,” the workingman sensation of the last couple of days. I love it, too.
that’s an awesome song…great that he likes it too
I have seen it occasionally, but the reaction video is usually blocked shortly afterwards by youtube.
I figure they learn pretty quick that if they don’t stop to comment at least twice, youtube blocks the video for copyright violation.
Then they have to do it over again.
There are some who don’t monetize their youtube content, and they seem to get away with little or no interruption.
I also notice that the rules seem unevenly applied, but I’m guessing it has to do with monetization or lack thereof.
These guys (Andy and Alex) always listen all the way through and comment at the end. If they comment during the song, the don’t stop the song, they just say something quick while the music keeps playing:
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They’re talking about it like this was the ‘hit’ song that makes people buy the whole album.
They have no idea how many other great songs they have yet to discover on that same album… it’s practically a greatest hits album 😂
Cool to know. Thanks!
It would be entertaining to watch some fool try to milk a bull.
Side note – Kari Lake is a hot babe!
I remember an editorial cartoon from the Carter years. You’re looking at a bull face on, one clearly getting very angry, and to the side is Carter on the milking stool insisting he knew what he was doing…
Must’ve had cold hands.
She’s awesome… 😂🤣😂
Wrong. You can milk a bull but it doesn’t taste right
I wouldn’t know about that.
BUT if it is a high rated bull the semen is worth MAJOR $$$. For example in Holstein bulls, you get about 10 straws per ‘milking’ with an average price of $26 or over $250/milking.
Greetings, Ozzy! Hope all is well with you and yours.
And Starlink will reign supreme.
Laura Loomer:
What a train wreck… 😂
The Trump curse 😅…he should not have run against Trump.
This is a harbinger of what would come, if DeSparkless were to be the nominee. The idiots who think he’s “Trump without the baggage” would find out real quick that if the Deep State wants you to carry the load, then they’ll provide the bags.
Jesse Watters:
Al Gore, George Soros, and others were involved in this💰scheme.
“…House Republicans need to launch immediate investigations into this tax payer scam that Biden donors and cronies made a fortune from”.
Should have some free time now that they’ve been frozen out of investigating Hunter and Joe in other areas…
They should title the Congressional hearings Investigation to Nowhere, so they could have that on the crawl at the bottom of the screen on all the propaganda stations.
It’s the most honest thing they could do 😂
👍
Yes
Awful news about Hawaii
I did read that there are 7 tunnels there and from the maps they appear to be burning.
don’t know anything about it but Epstein had a lot of evidence at his temple destroyed.
maybe some cleanup?
Maybe. Then there’s this.
Praise God!
The name of the parish in Hawaiian translates to “Our Lady of Victories.” There’s one of those here.
If one is looking at the video clip correctly, it appears that the church’s rectory was also spared.
Dirty liberal tries to argue back.
Great catch and response !
Just a poem . . .
Time to Go
As I grow older my time nears to go
I may keep quiet or let you all know
If you find out, then I’ll ask you to pray
But not for more time so that I can stay
But that my going be free from great pain
And that I hold fast to Him who was slain
I’d ask that my exit be time for thought
That you’ll come my way because we’ve been bought
We’re not of this world, and I’m going home
To walk in God’s garden, never to roam
To walk at His side in full joy and peace
To see the wonders that will never cease
We’ll see, after all, our trip is the start
Of being complete, not living in part
Of being whole – what God wants us to be
As we are with Him for eternity
And so as I go, I’ll keep looking up
And being grateful that Christ drank His cup
To pay the price for the victory won
“Praise God forever! May His will be done!”
Thank you, bakocarl. Sending prayers, Good Energy, Deep Healing, and Deep Peace.
💖 Amen
Beautiful.
🙏
I look forward to our meeting in person one day.
Verse of the Day for Saturday, August 12, 2023
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“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.”
John 14:1 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!
Hi Dutchess, thank you for sharing these posts. They are lovely and inspirational. ❤
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.
BE MY VOICE
JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
CHILD NOT CHOICE
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
duchess01
Thank you for these. Prayers ongoing for you here and at Marica’s blog. Be well.
Steve… a fierce dragon in camo. 🙂 Unsure of the date, but the photos went onto the CD I was given in 2003. It was given to me in 2004. Permission granted by Gary DeBarge, Former Machine Gunner USMC.
Correction: Gary DaBarge.
Macaroon and France get triple bitch slapped…
ht Chiefio
“…She really does not like him…”
UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE YEAR!
🤔 Fire at three recycling plants in one day. Before that one large one in NM 5 days ago and two in April in Indiana and Oklahoma. Infrastructure under attack or is this some sort of owner protest because of Federal Laws kicking in?
Oakland CA. 1 day ago.
Springbranch, Tx Houston area. 13hrs ago. Friday 5PM
Brockton Ma, yesterday afternoon.
2-Alarm Fire Burns at Plastic Recycling Facility Near Albuquerque6 days agoALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities evacuated a plastic recycling facility south of Albuquerque after a two-alarm fire broke out Sunday, authorities said. Bernalillo County Fire Rescue crews …
Richmond, Indiana fire: Fire at plastics recycling plant put out as …Apr 13, 2023CNN — As a two-day inferno fizzles out at a plastics recycling plant a state judge deemed a public health hazard, up to 2,000 residents of an eastern Indiana city are still waiting to learn…
Hundreds still waiting for OK to go home after Indiana recycling plant …Apr 15, 2023The massive fire – which began Tuesday at a recycling facility in Richmond, Indiana – was largely reduced to hotspots and flare-ups by Thursday. People within a half-mile of the plant – about…
Article from April showing recycling plant fires are more common than normal and they draw in a lot of information on cause but seem to point mostly at hotter temps 😮🙄😏🧐 but say nothing to changing regulations and the fact that most recycling plants have likely gotten their start through some sort of crony arrangement involving nepotism in local and state govts.
https://time.com/6271576/recycling-plant-fire-indiana/ “Why Recycling Plants Keep Catching on Fire” Some interesting graphs in this story that demonstrate the scope of the problem. Also the lower graph shows Trump was taming the problem, but it got out of control again, way out of control, when Biden came in office.
Recycling, a nice concept. Certainly PC. Mostly BS, in my opinion.
Thus the nepotism. Sweet heart deals to kin and friends from dirty politicos. Often tied in with organized crime as a way to launder their illicit profits and make them look legit.
Wrong TYPE of recycling. By labeling things like Grape Skins from wine pressing as ‘HAZARDOUS INDUSTRIAL WASTE’ It means you have to PAY Clean Harbors $$$$ to take your compost away.
There are at least 2 other examples I can think of where ‘REGULATIONS’ were ALL ABOUT MONEY TRANSFER (TO CLEAN HARBOURS) and had nothing to do with the environment. Like My B-in-l followed a clean harbors truck to a regular landfill after the town paid $$$ for deposing of ‘hazorous waste’ from the local school. The other example has to do with my former employee…
Clean Harbors founded 1980
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Law Offices of Brodsky & Smith, LLC Announces Class Action
Northeastern, trustee Alan McKim is giving $25 million to Northeastern to establish eight new endowed chairs across the university…
More here:
https://peoplepill.com/people/alan-mckim
I notice that there is ZERO INFO on WHO he donates to politically…
Just this:
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/clean-harbors-inc/summary?id=D000067231
I’m pretty sure that Rush Limbaugh said he didn’t recycle. I don’t know his exact reasons.
I do NOT. Folks are welcome to believe and do as they wish.
All I see are “jobs programs”, added costs and stoopid regulations.
There are instances that likely make send. But, NOT common.
Al cans are about the only ones. Reusable GLASS milk and coke bottles that were washed and reused made sense too.
We’re having a lot (OK, relatively speaking) of recycling places go up because people don’t take the Li-Ion rechargable batteries out, so they spontaneously combust. Had a huge fire not far from here, and the firefighters were pumping water directly out of the Neckar (wonder if they got any fish cooked thereby 🙂 ) for hours to cool the conflagration down.
I think many, MANY people aren’t aware of the danger, or simply ignore the instructions to take the batteries out. And, of course, there are probably a lot of folks who either don’t have the tools, will, or expertise to do it…
e-cars and e-bikes: not a blessing, but a curse… ending in an e-mergency…
She’s something.
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Video: Kari Lake trolls media and mocks radical leftist gender ideology, apparently while milking a cow
https://www.theblaze.com/news/kari-lake-milking-cow-gender
Kari would make a great VP.
Absolutely!
Another Covid-effects study. What I notice about this one, like all the others, is there is NO mention of whether the studied dead were VAXXED or not. Of course.
“New data may provide answers for those experiencing persistent symptoms long after their bout with COVID-19 has ended. These may include fatigue, lightheadedness, brain fog, cognitive issues, gastrointestinal problems, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, or an inability to tolerate upright postures.
A July 15 study published in Acta Neuropathologica suggests that SARS-CoV-2 infection may damage the nerves of the autonomic nervous system (ANS), causing an inflammatory response that can later lead to dysautonomia observed in long COVID patients.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/covid-19-vagus-nerve-inflammation-may-lead-dysautonomia-new-study
The study is linked in the article.
Aubergine
Thank you for this.
Below is another paper (pre-print) along similar lines. One finds it ** interesting ** that this paper also appears not to identify if the human deceased that died of severe COVID-19 infection were “vaccinated” or not.
It IS very possible that the COVID-19 spike protein IN THE VIRUS ITSELF contains elements that can damage the brain’s structure and functions. If this is true, and since the original virus ITSELF is the “template” for the lab-enhanced spike protein + its modRNA in the COVID-19 “vaccines”, it can be argued that these brain-damaging elements from the original virus were added into the formulation for the “vaccines.”
What IS known is that TWO of the four lipid nanoparticles in the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 “vaccines” (their REAL names, ALC-0159 and ALC-0315, are NOT used in the Description of these “vaccines” in the FDA-issued Fact Sheet for Healthcare Providers for these “vaccines) DO HAVE side effects in and of themselves of CNS depression (in other words, Central Nervous System damage or issues) if one is exposed to them.
What IS known is that the lipid nanoparticles of BOTH the Pfizer-BioNTech AND of the Moderna COVID-19 “vaccines” DO cross the blood-brain barrier, carrying the spike protein + its modRNA with them.
It appears, IMO, that “Long COVID” can occur in an UN-“vaccinated” person after infection by COVID-19 and the person recovers; AND in a “vaccinated” person, EITHER as the result of a “breakthrough infection” of COVID-19 — OR, as a LONG-TERM RESULT OF THE “VACCINATED” RECIPIENT’S BODY BEING CONTINUOUSLY FORCED TO PRODUCE ANTIBODIES AGAINST THE “FAKE INFECTION” THAT THE “VACCINES” INDUCE IN THEIR BODY OVER AN INDEFINITE PERIOD OF TIME.
What IS known is that the spike protein + its modRNA in the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 “vaccines”, FACILITATED by ALC-0159 and ALC-0315, DO accumulate in the brain. This was demonstrated in the 2.6.5 Pharmacokinetics Tabulated Summary Report given by the company to the FDA in 2021.
The 5.3.6 Post-Marketing Experience report for the Pfzier-BioNTech COVID-19 “vaccine” BNT162b2, which the company gave to the FDA in early 2021, in the Appendix 1: Adverse Events of Special Interest, lists the following among other brain / neurological serious side effects of this “vaccine”:
16 types related to Central Nervous System / Cerebral issues
5 types related to Epilepsy
6 types related to Meningitis
3 types related to Multiple Sclerosis
5 types related to Seizures
The pre-print paper one referred to above:
https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.04.04.535604
April, 2023
“SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Accumulation in the Skull-Meninges-Brain Axis: Implications for Long-Term Neurological Complications in post-COVID-19”
Zhouyi Rong, et al.
Remember my friend and I got Ralph Baric’s Disease the year before covid. Sortly afterwards she had a ‘ministroke’ (or so UNC told her) and then started having seizures a couple times a week for the first time in her life at age ~50. In the same time frame, I ended up with ‘Asthma’ again for the first time in my life.
I think they may have been doing some playing around with Covid at the time.
2018 was also a very bad ‘flu season’
https://medium.com/@drjewilliams/what-made-2017-2018-seasonal-influenza-so-tough-d3b77d2017c8
^^^ Zero doubts in my mind this is true. They have been experimenting on all of us for over 20 years in my opinion.
YUP! That is why I wrote the DePop series. It gives the PROOF!
I’m glad you saw this. You really are a subject matter expert on Covid and the quackzines!
Aubergine
You are very kind.
Yours Truly is not a trained scientist or a trained medical professional. However, after 3 1/2 years+ of intense reading / researching about COVID-19 and the “vaccines”, one could likely hold her own in a conversation with a “vaccinated” medical professional if necessary. Like on the subject of ALC-0159 and ALC-0315.
I’m sure you could hold your own, and probably shut them down with facts and information! The truth is, you are better off without the medical degree. They teach them a lot of erroneous things that you don’t have clogging up your brain!
My mother is shot and boosted, dunno how many. Over the past 6 months shes having a lot of skin issues. Had shingles, eczema, bilateral severe cellulitis, and differing unknown rashes that dont heal well(that part may be dt DM type 2).
And i warned her. I dont say anything now bc its done.
My lt covid stuff prob mixed w hysterectomy is still parosmia, fatigue, and some brain fog. New injury adds to it.
Wish we knew if this was, as you said, rt the shot or not.
My understanding is the shot IS the major problem.
I do send some stuff to Jabbed adult children. Tow focuses.
Just incredible that youve got to say something at all at this point.
I saw a blurb on news today- L.A. County workers can stop wearing masks now….
Rashes that do not heal well…. Try Aloe (direct from the leaf) and vitamin E
She is unfortunately way past responding to simple things like that but it should be a 1st defense.
http://www.theburningplatform.com/2023/08/12/excess-mortality-for-ages-0-to-24-is-only-44-8/
Yours Truly: Notice the huge uptick in excess deaths among this age group in the United States starting in 2021 (after the rollout of the COVID-19 “vaccines.”)
Nothing like eliminating young Americans and “replacing” them with illegal alien invaders flooding over the southern border, is there?
Great Reset IS glaringly clear to slow guy.
kalbo
Yours Truly doesn’t think “slow guy” applies to you!
One is hoping that not-up-to-speed “normies” who come across this board see items like the above and start thinking there really might be something to investigate about the “vaccines.”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/08/the-daily-chart-china-syndrome.php
Agreed. Hell No!!! Let Democrats Pay for it.
If the regime says it wants $40 billion..it will get $40B
We have no representation.
The infrastructure of the Republic has crumbled.
We have no representation.
^^^ This. ^^^
Called my congressman, Mark Amodei, Reno office Thursday.
Asked when and where Mark Amodei would be holding a town hall, as the House is in recess for two months.
OK. When might Mark Amodei be in the office, so I could get ten minutes with him.
Suggested I go to Mark Amodei’s web site. Request a meeting.
Requested a meeting in any format.
Have zero faith that I’ll hear from these assholes.
Great efforts! Please keep us updated if there are any developments.
Props for trying. That’s a cushy schedule he’s got.
Wonder if the local Antifa branch has outed him? Or is he on their side… 😡
That’s flippin’ outrageous! 😡
AOC demands DOJ target Clarence Thomas over relationship with Republican megadonor
Ocasio-Cortez and four of her Democratic colleagues sent a letter to AG Merrick Garland demanding the investigation
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-demands-doj-target-clarence-thomas-relationship-republican-megadonor
I’m pretty sure there’s a hit list of people the cabal want to crush . They have all the time in the world and since there’s no checks and balances they will. It’s Clarence Thomas’ turn.
The lawfare leviathan has the file ready
They’ve been after Justice Thomas for a while.
I love the smile.
Paging Scott 😆
[groan]
The two heaters are Mario and the plane lady…
One on the left: “It’s-a me, Mario!”
(turns to the other heater, saying): “That’s-a lotta hotta watta”… 🙂
That’s great. Anymore it’s either “helicopter parents” or ultra-permissive parents. Over here it’s illegal to spank children, and in some countries “time-outs” are not allowed!
And whatever you do…
Don’t Mess With Aunt Maureen
A teacher gave her fifth-grade class an assignment. Get their parents to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it. The next day, the kids came back and one by one began to tell their stories.
One little girl began: “My father’s a farmer and we have a lot of egg-laying hens. One time we were taking our eggs to market in a basket on the front seat of the pick-up when we hit a big bump in the road and all the eggs went flying and broke and made a mess.”
“What’s the moral of the story?” asked the teacher.
“Don’t put all your eggs in one basket”
“Very good,” said the teacher.
Another little girl raised her hand and said: “Our family are farmers too but we raise chickens for the meat market. We had a dozen eggs one time, but when they hatched we only got ten live chicks.”
The moral to this story is, “Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.”
“That’s a fine story,” said the teacher.
A little boy at the back of the class is waving his arm wildly.
“Yes, do you have a story to share?” inquired the teacher.
Yes ma’am, my daddy told me this story about my Aunt Maureen;
“Aunt Maureen was a fighter pilot in Desert Storm and her plane got hit. She had to bail out over enemy territory and all she had was a bottle of whiskey, a machine gun and a machete.
She drank the whiskey on the way down so it wouldn’t break and then she landed right in the middle of 100 enemy troops. She killed seventy of them with the machine gun until she ran out of ammunition. Then she killed twenty more with the machete till the blade broke. And then she killed the last ten with her bare hands.”
“Good heavens,” said the horrified teacher,
“What kind of moral did your daddy tell you from that horrible story?”
“Stay the hell away from Aunt Maureen when she’s been drinking.”
I know one of those “mean” moms. Her daughter didn’t get into trouble, got her college degree, married her equally responsible college sweetheart who is moving up the ranks in his profession, and got her master’s degree. Amazing how that works.
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=249491
Now THAT Is Ridiculous
Won’t they just claim he resigned his previous job, and fiddle the dates.
via ZH
‘On The Verge Of The Abyss’ – No US Presidential Election In 2024?
In January 2023, US special counsel Jack Smith applied for -and received- a subpoena for Twitter, specifically for all of Donald Trump’s utterances at the site through the years, including the ones he may have never published. Note: the subpoena came long after Trump left Twitter. And no, it wasn’t X then, and therefore it is not now. He wrote it when it was Twitter. Important. Trump left Twitter (was cancelled) on Jan 8 2021, Elon Musk bought it on October 27 2022, and renamed it “X” in late July 2023. Just so we get our horses and dogs in line.
Special counsel Jack Smith received his Twitter/Trump subpoena with the added provision that it had to be entirely secret, not even Twitter or Trump could know. US District Court Judge Beryll Howell gave Smith what he wanted, agreeing that if Trump’s years-old Twitter past was known, he would become a flight risk. But both Smith and Howell knew this was absolute nonsense. Not only is Twitter the last place you turn to when you have nefarious secrets to hide (it’s the opposite!), but the man is running for President, for God’s sake! And because of some 5 year old -or so- tweets he would pack in the family and disappear to an -underground- bungalow on Vanatua, never to be heard from again?
I would put this down as the moment when it became impossible for the US to have a presidential election in 2024. We’ve had some 8 years of this anti-Trump circus now, non-stop, Hillary, Pelosi, Adam Schiff and Robert Mueller, yada yada yada, but I don’t think we’ve reached the point before where the elections might as well be cancelled.
We’re there now though. And that is a BIG point.
We’ve let it come far too far. We’re in slapstick territory.
Think of it as a boxing match.
In the one corner, we have the former champion/president, wearing the slightly widened red trunks. At age 77, he looks somewhat bruised and battered, but he doesn’t look beaten- yet. What’s noticeable though is that his corner is empty, except for Melania cleaning his brow, not even his own party is there to support him. There are some 90 million Americans behind him, but they are at home.
In the other corner, the defending champion, in blue trunks, weighing in at about 25 pounds and falling, looks a little lost. But behind him in his corner he has thousands of operatives: his entire party, plus the CIA and NSA and FBI and DOJ. And all the newspapers and TV channels and social media in the country. And all the judges and prosecutors, the DAs and GAs, it’s a veritable love-in. The guy in the blue trunks could be braindead and he’d still win. And I wish I was a cartoonist, and could capture the entire image in one frame. I can see it in front of my eyes, but I can’t draw it.
Where the boxing analogy goes astray is that in this case the blue side is allowed to harass the red side before, during and after the (preparations for) the fight, and during the fight itself. You can’t a have a free and fair fight, and a level playing field, if some “blue operatives” can put shackles on the ankles and wrists of the red candidate, or even lock him up while he’s preparing for the bell to ring. If the system allows him to be a candidate, it must also allow him to prepare for his candidacy, in the same way that his opponent can. That is not happening.
US special counsel Jack Smith has announced that the US plans to drag Trump before court after court starting January 2 2024. At least 3 major indictments (will be a dozen) , likely many more, and at my last count, 82 charges (it’s impossible to keep up). Smith can then finger pick any of these charges to put Trump in custody, whenever he feels like it. The judges are almost all “blue”, and so are the jury pools: New York and DC. And this is while he’s supposed to be campaigning!
And also: Trump allegedly already spent $40 million on legal expenses. But what if Trump doesn’t have $40 million? We could argue the $40 million should be spent on his campaign. Look at Imran Khan, guys, who was just convicted to a 3-year prison term in Pakistan on US directives. Like Trump, he is the most popular political candidate in his nation, and they got him on selling necklaces when he was PM.
That is Trump’s future too.
And hence, the end of American democracy.
He doesn’t stand a chance. And if he doesn’t, the system doesn’t, and you don’t. You’re fine as long as you agree with the boot stomping on your neck, and you maybe even enjoy it. But if you don’t, Jack Smith and his ilk – and Obama, Hillary, Adam Schiff, Pelosi, the whole gang, will come with charges and indictments directed at you.
You’re on the verge of the abyss.
If you want to take your chances with what you might find down there, fair enough. But always know that you have a choice.
And that, if somehow they do manage to stage a presidential election in November 2024 as things stand now, it’ll be fake from A to Z. Grow a pair, people, grow a backbone. You’re going to need them.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/verge-abyss-no-us-presidential-election-2024
Horsepucky.
He needs to find another hedge to zero…
I don’t see value in the “no election in 2024” fearmongering.
I do bot buy it either
Gab has all the Twitter posts as I remember that could be helpful? They thought Trump might come to Gab . Trump needs to know this? Maybe Gab can see to it that trump gets the copies so he can defend himself.
Regardless what happens I vote Trump that is all I can say.
I keep on hearing that skuttlebutt about no 2024 election. Is the Cabal trying to get us used to the idea?
And since the Gore-Bull-ists aren’t wreaking enough havoc with the remnants of COVIDIOCY, they’re back to CAGW climate BS.
Simplicius (spelled it right, for once 🙂 ) has a very good article on it:
https://darkfutura.substack.com/p/climate-paranoia
Here’s a brief comparison of 2009-ish (just when ClimateGate broke out) and now, with some pictures from all over the web, newcasters broiling and color consultants being paid to represent “hotter, Hotter, and HOTTER” 🔥 🔥 🔥 ) 😡 😡 😡 😡
(hope these come out)
What’s funny (not) is that the older (2009-ish) pictures have HOTTER temperatures, yet they’re GREEN and the cooler, NOT THAT HOT temperatures of the last few years are in deep deep red!
There’s also a pic of that idiot “health” minister Lauterbach, who, with a little caterpillar mustache would look just like old Adolf… probably an ancestor of his…
And here’s another from Pierre Gosselin’s NoTricksZone, a great weather site with lots of articles translated from German (and other languages) and some REALLY deep dive articles on weather, climate, and GoreBull Globalism, etc. from Kenneth Richard, among others)…
https://notrickszone.com/2023/08/11/winter-cold-darkness-kill-while-summer-heat-and-sun-save-lives-data-clearly-show
Here’s a chart comparing heat vs. cold deaths from the folks who should know: the funeral homes and embalmers:
P.S. that (darkfutura at Simplicius) article I mentioned above has a dive into the origins of the weather madness that includes some familiar globalist names (Rothschilds, et. al.) and a lot of Gail’s posts have parallel data/infos. Seems the GoreBull-ists have been busy trying to bury it all, even more reason to have a look at it (and the wayback machine)…
When I was a kid often the weather was 30C to 32C in August.
Even in the US I remember in St Louise temp going up to 98+ F%. I seldom put air conditioner on did not believe in in and then only at night. It is astounding what one can get used too. Now that my husband is home and retired the air conditioning is on 24/7 from June to October. He does not do well in heat.
Today we have 89F% but S Ohio is very humid but not worse than St Louise.
A looooong time ago in West Virginia, my cousin was helping me install insulation batts in the attic of a house I was restoring/rebuilding. Our only light source was a single 100w bulb (erm, “bub”) hanging down from the top rafter, which I broke by mistake (and killed time fixing it and cleaning up the glass).
That wouldn’t have been so bad except for the fact that it was 40°C (104°F) outside, AND RAINING!!! It was like a sauna, and of course hotter still up in that attic…
BUT, it was late August, so no surprise there at all.
And now, 46 years later, it’s neither hotter nor colder in West-by-God. And just as beautiful, I hear tell…
This week in the German south (wilden Süden 🙂 ) it’s around 30°C, with occasional thunder and lightning, raining cats and dogs and small appliances… pretty much normal for this time of year. But of course “The Weather Channel” and the DWD say we’re all gonna die and in spite of all the rain, we’re in a drought (just talk to the folks in the Ahrtal about that!)…
CAGW idjiots….
I just took those 2 comments and added them to the comments at :
GREENHOUSE, ICEHOUSE OR CLIMATIC MADHOUSE? h/t Neuman and Hearty (1996)
So they do not get lost.
I read something about how the networks are coerced into pushing “global warming” on the public. I can’t remember what the incentive or the blackmail was, but the powers-that-be have a hold over them.
And from the darkfutura article I quoted above, guess who owns the weather graphics companies? the GEB “Red Shields”, to wit:
This is really important reading, as it connects many, MANY dots:
https://darkfutura.substack.com/p/climate-paranoia
The warming is a farce. When one lives long enough one experiences all kind of weather and it is a normal circle. Young people can be fooled because of their age and lived all their lives in air conditioning. I know people who never open windows just live from heat to air conditioning all year long.
We used open windows up until July when it finally got hot at night so I could not cool the house down using fans.
We did also. Spring was cool.
Ugh. Europe does this bs worse than CA.
They’ve been doing it longer…
(Having been born and raised in Kalifornistan and now over here, I’ve more or less gone from the frying pan into the fryer… 🙂 )….
Here’s hoping the GoreBull-ists end up in the liar fryer 🔥
P.S. Hope you’re feeling better and managing OK !!!
Deep fat fryer?
Nah, hot air fryer….. they’re full of hot air over here…
(OK, fat and full of hot air would be Ricarda Lang, head of the GreenGang over here…)….
Liar fryer. Yep.
Doing better. Managing w frustration but gittn er dun.
Hey Gil, glad to see you’re doing better!
I was talking to my sister-in-law yesterday & discussing homeschooling a bit. She has homeschooled her 5 kids, w/ just her youngest teen still at home & HS age. Most days they got schooling done between 9am & noon. Her take, at least for her kids, was that by age 12 they were almost entirely self-directed. I don’t know if that is your experience & I think your son is still grade-school age so you might not have even hit the age 12 “line” yet. They also participated in various homeschooling co-ops over the years so their kids also got various kinds of socialization w/ other homeschoolers, even a couple of classroom situations in a church school.
I’m interested in the topic because my daughter & DIL both plan to homeschool, even though neither of them were homeschooled themselves, though they both had extensive private Christian school education when they were younger. I hope to assist them, as needed or requested, once their kids reach (home) school age…
Mine has to be dupervised to make sure he is doing his work. He is tragically slow. Causes problems slow. Smart, can fo it quick, but just doesnt. He has a comprehensive schedule and never seems to be done before 2pm. Starts at 8. Yeah, one kid, long day. 🙄 math homework every day and a rather comprehensive language arts/vocab/writing course bc thats his weak point. I went to private Christian school 1-8 and did well, with typical exceptions, so i dont know how to get him to go faster. This is his personality though, bc its how he is even now during summer w everything else, and has always been this way. I just have to push him to keep speeding up i guess.
My SIL was talking about some program she ran into that advised to not teach boys reading & writing until about age 9 because they basically really struggled w/ the fine motor skills when younger, so they needed to be “working in the fields” (they clearly had farming clientele w/ that program) for those earlier schooling years & then get reading/writing started for the boys. For my nephew who had dyslexia & dysgraphia he was a late bloomer in the reading & writing arena but after seeing that particular perspective on boys my SIL lightened up on her son & though he started behind he has advanced very well to where he was scoring 98% on certain government tests.
You know your own kid best & will figure out together how to best prepare him for what’s coming down the pike.
Hope you don’t push yourself too far or too fast so your recovery has no set backs 🙂
I dont believe that about reading at all. Mine was reading extremely early at an advanced level and his vocab skills are 98% percentile. He just doesnt want to fo the work or invest time in learning proper rules and regs of writing. Now, for diagnosed learning challenges thats totally different and needs to consider delay.
Testing on govt tests, i havent bothered. At some point i will have to test him. Likely summer before 7th grade. Thatll be fun. 🥴😀
Yes my SIL’s view in that arena was likely biased by her son’s learning disabilities & his performance compared to his sisters at the same age. The government test she was telling me about was testing after her son took airline mechanics school & then tested in the 98th%ile in that domain. I don’t actually know if she had her kids tested w/ the typical standardized tests that are given in school. They did take advantage of Michigan’s free college for high school students & her kids got good grades in those classes, even though were as much as 3 years younger than their college classmates!
Good for them!
They are just further along and we are normally 6 months behind or longer. Give it some time it will come here also.
https://mole.substack.com/p/spox_dilemma-2023-08-12-sat-killjab
Gail, the slideshow is available. I created it on a Mac and the file format is M4V. File size 426.89 MB and 47:50 minutes long. I cannot test the M4V since I don’t have a Windows PC or other boxes. Please let me know if you cannot play the video and I can try to convert the file format. 1/2 Charlie Co. Task Force Tarawa in IraqNew
Off for nap time… hehe
Just opened. Auto play. Great clarity in the pics. Off to watching…
Great, thank you for checking kalbo!! Glad you can see the images well. I tried building the slideshow in Apple’s Photos at their higher quality. I could do that but it would have been over twice the size (over a gigabyte). That’s just standard quality 300 dpi.
Works well for me, great images and sound!
Thanks for checking it out, barkerjim!! I’ve enjoyed getting to see a little of what front-line Marines have done for us. Especially seeing them smile.
Thanks for checking, barkerjim!!
My replies to barkerjim and mollypitcher temporarily disappeared and the site asked if I wanted to leave or not. I went back to these posts and did not see either of my replies at all. So I wrote you both again. LOL User error probably…
Barb! Great slideshow and tribute to some of the heroes of our military.
Thank you for watching, Molly! It’s always a good day to pay tribute to some of our military who actually make things happen.
You’re so right and a wonderful person for being the one to put it together. I tried really really hard to stay focused on them, each face, and not give into my anger and disgust at what the OBiden regime has done to the military. I loathe them for it.
Thank you for the compliment! I know, Molly. I refuse to let them have our USA. It’s ours. They cannot have it.
Thank you, molly!! Now is always a good time to pay tribue to our military. ❤
Wow, Barb! You did a great job. Those are wonderful pictures.
Thank you, Linda! I thought so too and am delighted to get to share them.
It opens fine for me. I have ubuntu and use Brave.
Very nice and I love the music.
Thank you, Gail! Great to know it works with different systems and browsers.
Hey Barb, Great Job! That played for me just fine in Windows 10 on a laptop using the brave browser, fyi 🙂
My heart skipped a beat when I saw “Tarawa” in the name for the slideshow, for my mom’s birth father was a marine at Tarawa. We never knew him while he was alive though did meet some of his siblings, sib-kids, & his other daughters (3 girls from 3 different women) so- we only got some limited info about those war-time “adventures”. So Tarawa always makes my ears perk up just a bit 🙂
Vivek is open to pardoning Hunter. People need to wake up to who this guy is, and isn’t.
https://nypost.com/2023/08/12/gop-candidate-vivek-ramaswamy-open-to-hunter-biden-pardon/
🙄🙄🙄
Wouldn’t he love to have power over Trump, to give him a pardon. And 🚩”move the nation forward” 🚩means forgive and forget. That’s not how you win a war. We need justice. The lack of it is what got us here in the first place.
There you go again – lifting rocks to what crawls out. 😂
Elllllllllviiiiiissssssss 🙂
It’s a dirty job, but someone has to do it…😅
Hunter and the entire Briben Crime Family, should never be considered for pardons.
Vivek seemingly says something 100% disqualifying for WH. Spit.
Vivek says something 100% disqualifying for WH, WEEKLY. Spit.
Sounds like Vivek is “open for business”, too… 😡 😡 😡 😡
Well Vivek just hit the curb.
NO FORGIVE AND FORGET!!
They think they can bamboozle Christians AGAIN.
THE WRATH OF THE AWAKENED TRUMP VOTERS
stolen from Rudyard Kipling
It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When
the SaxonMAGA began to hate.They were not easily moved,
They were icy — willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere
the SaxonMAGA began to hate.Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When
the SaxonMAGA began to hate.It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When
the SaxonMAGA began to hate.It was not suddently bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That
the SaxonMAGA began to hate.
I could not resist…
Think we ought to make lots of copies and send it to all the Politicians?
Anonymously of course. We sure don’t want to find American Gestapo at our doors ! A few hundred thousand from all over the US would be a great idea
That is where new envelopes, latex gloves and post boxes at airports come in handy.🤓
I could probably dig up a scuzzy face mask in the car door from the scamdemic lol
How true. I never walk past a penny. They used to say the streets in America are paved with gold or money. Every time I pick up a penny it reminds me of the saying. I have a jar I put the penny in.
Reminds me of this one:
Q: “How do you get a seat at a booked-out restaurant in Scotland?”
A: “Yell out ‘There’s a penny out here, under the mat.’ You’ll have your choice of tables 😆 “….
(Probably works here in Schwabenländle too 😀 )…
I always think of the phrase “see a penny, pick it up, all the day, you’ll have good luck.” Now as a Christian I don’t actually believe in luck, so I’m trying to retrain myself to Automatically think “In God We Trust” when seeing a penny, or any money, that I find. The “luck” jingle usually hits first still, but I Always thank God for even the smallest windfalls 🙂
My dad told a story, from obviously a Long Time ago, when a bank executive (I believe) observed a man bend down to pick up a pin off the sidewalk. The banker offered the man a job on the spot thinking that if he were that frugal he would do a really good job w/ the banks funds. I guess Those were the days!
Yes good old days 🙂
Amen!
😀
Good news.
Driver Who Protected Family by Driving Through Abortion Mob Found ‘Not Guilty’
https://www.frontpagemag.com/driver-who-protected-family-by-driving-through-abortion-mob-found-not-guilty/
Saturday just got better.
A defendant who testifies virtually guarantees conviction. This guy had angels monitoring the jury [if there was a jury – the article doesn’t say].
The truckers did NOT lose in Canada. They WON. And so can we, however long it takes (if we don’t let them panic-and-divide us)
Saturday continues to get better.
You keep making me smile, even reading all these comments a couple days late (AND dollars short). I Love your spirit!!!
If MAGA walked off their jobs and went on a national strike along with all of their family members, so much would change for the better in this country. Stay out for a couple of weeks. Trucking would shut down. Then go back after some politicians do some negotiating. See if there are positive changes. If not or not enough, do it again. The second and third times would bring the hammer down on them.
Rinse and repeat until the message is ingrained.
Meanwhile the overall public would get a good education on capitalism and the American way.
If they do that we need to support them the way Canadian did. The DOJ will go mercifully go after them and they will need lawyers.
Very true they also shut down the bank accts of the people who donated to the Truckers.
C A S H. Folks need to hold & use cash.
AMEN!!!
I try to ONLY use cash if at all possible.
A lot of people don’t know that lumber has grades — construction 1; construction 2….
Stud grade lumber is among the lowest.
I suppose you might find some lower grade wood labeled “kindling.”
Ain’t that the truth!!!
And then there are the ranches where they raise minute steaks 😀
That image didn’t show for me so hopefully it shows here when running through Gab…
You can, when framing a house, deal with a bow in your lumber. But not a crown.
(If you’re looking at the narrow side of the 2×4 and see a curve, that’s a bow. If you see a curve looking at the wide side, that’s a crown.)
I went through an entire pallet of Home Depot lumber, and every shing pice was crowned about a foot from one end. I actually said to an employee, “You would think they could have turned the log ninety degrees before running into the sawmill so it’d be bowed.”
Wow that’s unreal! I hope they get that crappy wood at a discount & pass the savings along to the unsuspecting shopper (:
Maybe they do. Who knows how much non-crappy framing wood would cost…if such were even available.
elites say “non-crappy wood for me but not for thee!” 😉 😉
Has anyone posted about Carl?
He left a poem over at Marica’s place …
https://marica1776.wordpress.com/2023/08/11/happy-state-fair-saturday-trump-is-at-da-fair/comment-page-1/#comment-972914
He posted it on this page, too. I hope he’s not trying to tell us something…
He IS telling us something …
Marica says she just finished a post for her blog for tomorrow, so he obviously is not doing one for tomorrow.
🙏
I think that he is telling us something from his heart. A poignant message from him to friends.
💔
He’s been posting a lot about looking up.
A true man of God, and a great person and patriot. I hope to be able to see him when the roll is called up yonder… though I also hope he stays around for a while, too, but God sets the times.
GOD Bless you Carl…
Numbers 6:24-26:
24 The Lord bless thee, and keep thee:
25 The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
26 The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.
He’s usually trying to tell us something, to our great benefit.
I think it’s a good idea to send kind thoughts and prayers to our friend bakocarl — I think he’s telling us all in a gentle and lyrical way that it may soon be time for him to rest under the Wings of the Almighty God…
I’m in a fair amount of discomfort, but there are no hidden messages. Thank you for the concern.
Thank you! Please know that you are held in high esteem.
🙂
Heritage Foundation: American Aid to Ukraine Costs $900 Per Household
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/08/12/heritage-foundation-american-aid-ukraine-costs-900-per-household/
Rob enjoying the Iowa State Fair.
Wonder if it was free food? 🙂
DeMeatball gravitates to free.
Not as much as Chris Krispycreme gravitates to food.
Nah, it was the flamingos.
Probably pinko flamingos (in the now ancient reference to commies) 🙂
Jus too funny…
Small aircraft towing banner, “Be Likable Rob.”
Must watch !!
Sund talks very fast and indistinct to my ears, but worth concentrating on.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/08/12/tucker-carlson-interviews-capitol-police-chief-steven-sund-about-january-6th-remarkable-revelations-about-dhs-fbi-and-dod-proactive-intent/
While listening live to Jan at American Thought Leaders this evening, I chatted briefly with SymphonicEllen. She plays the flute for fun and is on Twitter. She mentioned she’s been listening to Epica’s “Tides of Time.” I found it analyzed at The Charismatic Voice on YouTube. Epica’s voice is lovely.
must watch
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/08/12/tucker-carlson-interviews-capitol-police-chief-steven-sund-about-january-6th-remarkable-revelations-about-dhs-fbi-and-dod-proactive-intent/
Will always remember the awesome Canadian winter of 2022
Canadian Truckers
wereARE awesome. An inspiration.Along with the Canadians, along the highways to cheer the truckers forward.
A wonderful couple of weeks.
Saw WEF was trending again on twitter… Apparently it was this.
“45° or π/4 radians.” So clearly I’m ignorant, but shouldn’t that be 90
= pi/4 or 45 = pi/8? Or perhaps I’m thinking wrong that degrees or radians just different ways to theoretically divide the circumference of a circle into 360 equivalent segments?
360 degrees is 2π radians. 180 would be π radians, 90 would be π/2 and 45 is π/4.
So a radian is equivalent to 2 degrees? TY for the info 🙂
What? How did you get that? It’s very roughly 56 degrees. 2×3.14159…x that is 180 degrees.
I guess I’m a confirmed idiot now. I was looking at what Cthulhu wrote w/ 360 degrees = 2pi radians & I Thought that 360 degrees = pi so was subbing in my mind (that obviously works very poorly now) 🙁 Not that it’s an excuse but I’ve got a bit of Extra brain fog still from too much heat yesterday LOL
Do not feel bad about this. It’s a common source of confusion and even those not confused have to go through a little mental hiccup. π/4? People want to say thats 90 degrees, because that’s a quarter circle. And you have to remind yourself no, that’s 45 degrees.
There are people out there who want to use tau (τ) instead of pi, with τ being 2π, so that tau is a full circle instead of a semi circle.
It would certainly help with learning trig.
I was tempted to use it in this series but didn’t want to lengthen things with the side discussion.
Thank you for that explanation. I guess you got the side discussion anyways, but later than most people are likely to read it, so my “genius” unmasking Might stay on the down low 😂 You’re a good sport to joust w/ us mere mortals, or is that knuckle-dragging troglodytes or something? No disparagement meant to beings lower on the “evolutionary” scale 😉 😉
So to beat the dead horse (that I can keep up with since it’s not moving)…
pi = the circumference of the circle
r = the radius of a circle, which is half the diameter
pi-r-squared (sorry no fancy keys here) = the area of a circle
360 degrees is sort of a way to carve up the “clock face” of the circle, 90 degrees = 3:00, 180 degrees = 6:00 etc.
But radians are more representative of a semicircle, maybe arced on the x-y axis w/ x going from the negative to the positive side but y only having the arc over the positive side? So when using radians Pi suddenly means a semi-circle?
Resuming my seat in the dunce chair now…
Well…not quite. See there’s the confusion. Pi is the ratio of the circumference to the *diameter* (not the radius) of the circle. The diameter is of course twice the radius (which goes from the center to the actual cure of the circle, rather than from side to side), so that’s why 2*pi shows up a lot. 2*pi is the ratio of the circumference to the *radius*.
2*pi shows up so often that some people think it would have been better to create a constant for that, instead of what pi stands for; they’re the ones arguing for using tau instead of pi.
TY, I realized before reading your remark that the circumference of the circle is pi X Diameter so the 360 degrees is Not equal to pi…which error of thinking started me on my random bad pathway there.
I guess I don’t really know or recall exactly what a radian is & was erroneously trying to define it in terms of degrees to wrap my head around it but by STUPIDLY thinking that Pi represented the circumference of the circle not a constant to be multiplied by a given circle’s diameter to obtain the circumference.
I guess to represent it all formulaically it could be said:
One Degree (in length) = 1/360th of Pi X Diameter of a given circle
Though I think Degrees are probably better considered to be the angles that comprise a circle…
How that compares to what a radian is is where I remain a bit unclear…Also since I’m replying in the notifier I can’t just scroll back to the other info, like the body of your post or Cthulhu’s shorthand info to aide my rusty “brain” in making sense of it all…I probably need a picture (book level response) to grasp it to some “degree” LOL
As for a radian, it’s simply the length of the arc of the circle…compared to the radius. If the radius is (say) one foot, and you measure along the arc of the circle one foot, that angle is a radian.
So a way I Might be able to remember this is a Radian is the length of the Radius of a circle but measured along the arc of the circle. So there are roughly 6 radians in the circumference of the circle so each radian would be roughly 60 degrees…no?
Yes, very roughly. There are 2*pi radians in a circle (remember the circumference is 2*pi times the radius), so a radian is a bit less than 60 degrees. 56-point-something if I recall correctly.
Great! Hope it roughly sticks with me, but no guarantees with this aging, over-cluttered brain 🙂