News Flash
Today, it is still the case that Joe Biden didn’t Win.
I realize that to some readers, this might be a shock; surely at some point things must change and Biden will have actually won.
But the past cannot actually be changed.
It will always and forever be the case that Joe Biden didn’t win.
And if you, Leftist Lurker, want to dismiss it as dead white cis-male logic…well, you can call it what you want, but then please just go fuck off. No one here buys that bullshit–logic is logic and facts are facts regardless of skin color–and if you gave it a moment’s rational thought, you wouldn’t either. Of course your worthless education never included being able to actually reason–or detect problems with false reasoning–so I don’t imagine you’ll actually wake up as opposed to being woke.
As Ayn Rand would sometimes point out: Yes, you are free to evade reality. What you cannot do is evade the consequences of evading reality. Or to put it concretely: You can ignore the Mack truck bearing down on you as you play in the middle of the street, you won’t be able to ignore the consequences of ignoring the Mack truck.
And Ayn Rand also pointed out that existence (i.e., the sum total of everything that exists) precedes consciousness–our consciousnesses are a part of existence, not outside of it–therefore reality cannot be a “social construct” as so many of you fucked-up-in-the-head people seem to think.
So much for Leftist douchebag lurkers. For the rest of you, the regular readers and those lurkers who understand such things: I continue to carry the banner once also carried by Wheatie. His Fraudulency didn’t win.
Let’s Go, Brandon!!
Hey China!
Or rather, “Hey Chinese Communist Party and your entire array of servitors, ass-wipers, and fellators!”
You’re not even worth my time this week. When you decide to act like civilized people, maybe I’ll give you a lesson or two in how non-barbarians behave.
Hey BiteMe!
(Or, Whoever Has Their Hand Rammed Up That Putrefying Meat Puppet’s Ass)
[Language warning]
You and yours have caused a lot of injury. Literal injury with your war on people who don’t want to take an untested vaccine. When people die in an emergency room because a hospital won’t admit them because they haven’t had their clot shot, that’s a crime.
I’m going to address here the insult on top of the injury, because I am among the insulted. I still have my health but apparently you want me to live under the 8th Street Bridge (which actually isn’t on 8th Street, but whatever, that’s what the I-25 overpass over Cimarron is called), so maybe if you have your way that won’t be true for long. Dreadful time of year to become homeless.
No, you’re just trying to make me unemployed, because I won’t take your fucking shots.
Well, that threat is NOT going to work. I. Won’t. Take. Your. Fucking. Shots.
And it looks like enough people agree, that you’re having to back down, you worthless asswipe.
You’re LOSING.
You LOSER.
You Chinese-bought ratfucking traitor.
I would love to see you die an agonizing, humiliating death. (This isn’t a threat, because I am not threatening to cause that death. I am just announcing my intention to party if it happens.) It would be just recompense for the way you’re killing America…and millions of Americans.
His Fraudulency
Joe Biteme, properly styled His Fraudulency, continues to infest the White House, we haven’t heard much from the person who should have been declared the victor, and hopium is still being dispensed even as our military appears to have joined the political establishment in knuckling under to the fraud.
One can hope that all is not as it seems.
I’d love to feast on that crow.
(I’d like to add, I find it entirely plausible, even likely, that His Fraudulency is also His Figureheadedness. (Apparently that wasn’t a word; it got a red underline. Well it is now.) Where I differ with the hopium addicts is on the subject of who is really in charge. It ain’t anyone we like.)
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 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.)
Tranheuser Busch
Those asshats either get the world, all time record for obtuseness…or this is deliberate somehow. And their namby pamby non-apology that amounts to a “We’re sorry you’re too much of a knuckledragger to appreciate what we did” simply underscores the stupid. It’d be like a 400 pound golfer wearing spikes tromping on your instep and being utterly clueless why you are screaming in pain.
Me
I wrote that months ago, and they are casting about now trying to figure out how to get people to come back. However the one thing that might work (an abject admission that they were wrong to even think of doing this) is the one thing they cannot do. Because the decision makers are woke and cannot conceive that they were actually fuckheadedly wrong to do this.
Spot Prices.
Kitco Ask. Last week:
Gold $1,834.10
Silver $21.69
Platinum $887.00
Palladium $1,149.00
Rhodium $4,450.00
This week, markets closed as of 3PM MT.
Gold $1,932.60
Silver $22.84
Platinum $891.00
Palladium $1,170.00
Rhodium $4,950.00
WOW Gold has recovered nicely from whatevertheheck happened to it the last couple of weeks! (Hopefully, you bought some.) Platinum and palladium have undergone a more modest recovery (and I’ve not compared them to where they were before gold took its dive). Rhodium, on the other hand, went up over ten percent (beating what gold did)!
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 !!!
Thank you. I’m getting the impression that more people are starting to believe this. At least I hope so.
posted in the wrong spot… reposting!
Jonathan Turley:
Bob Menendez is being charged as a foreign agent — so why not Hunter Biden?
Discussion of the Menendez charges, then:
“Bob Menendez is being charged as a foreign agent — so why not Hunter Biden?”
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Because unlike Hunter, Bob is not Brandon’s son.
That’s why.
…which is the point of the article. 😅
If I were Menendez, I would have my lawyer file a petition to be adopted!
LOL
[snort out loud]
TL;DR… didn’t need to, knew the answer from the title! 👍😁
So what did Bob actually do that there going after him now? It’s not like he (and many others) haven’t been doing this for years.
So many possibilities, did he attempt to blackmail Joe and hunter or was he cutting into their action?
Great point! Why go after Menendez now? He’s been a problem for decades.
Look, squirrel >>>>>>>>
twofold imo
first, as tradebait mentions it distracts from biden’s failures and corruption.
second, as you said he’s been a KNOWN problem for decades. taking him out gives credence to their “no one is above the law” crap (see? our doj is not targeting repubs only) while taking care of a problem that’s outgrown its usefulness.
Exactly.
Expendable. Older than dirt. Bring on a fresh (corruptible) D-Rat.
Win-Win for
D-RatsUniparty.Third – he didn’t pay 10% to The Big Guy
It was an offer he should not have refused.
WIKI:
So he will be 70 in January. We do not know what his health is like (JABBED… HEART?) If he does have myocarditis from the Jab, no one is going to mention it. HOWEVER from PAVACA — “According to the Cleveland Clinic, the survival rate for DIAGNOSED CASES of myocarditis is 80% AFTER ONE YEAR and 50% AFTER FIVE.”
Since it is a SENATE SEAT they would not want the condition to show WHILE he is holding the seat.
ALSO WIKI SAYS THIS:
That makes him a good sacreficial lamb.
He forgot how to steal like a gentleman.
Nice to see you back again!
🤗
Yes 🙂
I found this this morning, and thought of you.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/delorean-less-than-1000-miles-found-wisconsin-county
I was just musing the other day that you almost never see one of these on the road. They were so poorly made is why, I think.
I had never heard poorly made as one of its problems. The main gripe is that it is underpowered, using a pathetic Renault engine.
Also, the company didn’t make very many of them before DeLorean was busted for dealing cocaine and the company went belly-up.
timeless 😉 ; )
Lol. Oh, well. I read in the article that sun damage to the interiors was a thing.
They look cool, but not my era.
Much like music, for me, the 1980s was a lost decade for cars.
These are my kind of cars 😁
1963-1967 Corvette (Sting Ray, split rear window coupe body style)
1968-1972 Corvette (Stingray [one word] body style)
1967-69 Camaro or Firebird (original body style)
1970-1972 Camaro or Firebird (Rockford Files body style, I drove one to Florida for spring break my freshman year in college and loved it!)
1967-1968 Mustang (fastback)
1962-1967 AC Cobra (clones, an original is probably too valuable to be driven)
A classic 911 Porsche would be nice.
For newer cars, I would probably be looking for any low-mileage early or mid 2000s Corvette, with Z06 factory performance options for extra fun.
And early-mid 2000s GTOs are fun.
It’s gotta have a V8, unless it’s a 911 😉
My first car, the first one my Dad bought for me, anyway, was a yellow 69 Firebird convertible.
You did list my all-time favorite car in your list, however. That would be the Mustang fastback.
I am not a fan of any Corvette later than the mid-60s.
“My first car, the first one my Dad bought for me, anyway, was a yellow 69 Firebird convertible.”
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Very nice!
My Dad said he would get me a used Chevette. I said Dad, anything but a Chevette.
I’m pretty sure if you took a national poll of 16 year old boys, the Chevette would be dead last on the list, behind VW Microbus and the AMC Gremlin.
His first car was a 1928 Model A Ford, I think he bought it for $50 when he was 15 years old. His first modern car was a 1955 Chevy.
He said my choice was a Chevette, or nothing.
So I said okay, you win.
I guess it’s nothing, then.
Another gem to throw on the memory pile 😁
My younger sister got a Chevy Citation 2-door coupe when she turned 16. My youngest sister got a brand new red Saturn.
I felt like handing him a $20 bill, like Rodney Dangerfield in Caddyshack, and saying “Keep it fair, keep it fair…” 😂
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“You did list my all-time favorite car in your list, however. That would be the Mustang fastback.”
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I liked that one ever since the first time I saw Steve McQueen drive one in Bullitt (1968).
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Here it is!
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My Dad was a car guy.
True story, he grew up really poor, and quit high school to make money so he could have a car like the other guys he was in school with. He did, too.
His first was a 55 Chevy. My mom made him sell it, because it went so fast it scared her. It was legend in my small town that the cops clocked my dad at 165 in that car. He should have been a stock car driver, seriously. The cops respected his driving so much it was ridiculous. One time, our house caught fire. The cops followed him in on the drive to the house, not the other way around!
He had many cool cars over the years, including a fastback Mustang in a blue so pale it was almost white. Then he fell in love with, of all things, El Caminos!
I think you were right to turn down the Chevette. That’s the car equivalent of military-issue BCGs! No chicks with that car!
My Dad was a car guy too, he was an engineer at GM.
His first new car was a 1968 GTO. The bank said he needed to have a loan of some kind to establish credit to buy his first house, so he bought the GTO.
When I was about six or seven, he flew to Oklahoma to buy a 1966 Corvette (327/300 engine with Muncie 4-spd) that he saw advertised in Hemming’s Motor News.
He drove home straight through, all night, and the headlights didn’t work. I don’t remember if the headlights were out, or if there was a problem with the motors that flip the headlight buckets around so the lights are facing forward. It was probably the motors, because he would have just replaced the headlights at a gas station, now that I think of it.
That was back in the CB radio days, and he had a CB, so he talked to a couple of truckers on the CB as the sun was going down, and the 18-wheelers let him drive between them (one in front, one behind), and he drove all night like that, with no headlights.
About a year later he found a 1967 Corvette closer to home that he liked (327/350 engine with Muncie close ratio 4-spd), and bought that. This was probably around 1976 or 1977.
That’s the same one that I’ve been trying to restore since around 2009.
So for a few weeks we had the 1966 and the 1967 Corvettes in the driveway, until he sold the ’66. When I was little, we always knew when my Dad was home from work, because we could hear the Corvette coming up the street if we were outside playing.
When I was in 9th or 10th grade, about the time I was going to turn 16, he parked the ’67 Corvette, and restoring it was going to be his retirement project.
He almost traded it in for a brand new 1982 Camaro Z28 Indy Pace Car. As a GM employee, he could get one if he wanted it. For some reason he asked me what I thought about trading in the ’67 Corvette for the 1982 Camaro Pace Car.
His 1966 and 1967 Corvettes were the most amazing cars I had ever seen or been in. They were loud, raw and exciting. It felt like you were going fast, even when you were going slow. And they looked like something out of a science fiction magazine. They still look futuristic, even today.
Every other car I’d ever been in felt soft and tame like a Cadillac, compared to the old Corvettes. I loved them. Even the instrument cluster reminded me of a WWII fighter plane.
I used to make models of 1963-1967 Corvettes, and it was the most amazing thing, that I could go out in the garage and look at a real one whenever I wanted to 😁
So I said if it was me, I’d definitely keep the ’67 Corvette, there had never been a cooler car than that one, and they will never make cars like that again. In all the years since, to me, that’s still true 😁
For whatever reason, he decided to keep the ’67. I never got to drive it though. So if the restoration is ever finished, it will be the first time I have ever driven a midyear (1963-1967) Corvette.
I had a 1969 Corvette (350/350 engine, Muncie close ratio 4-spd) for 11 years that I bought after college. I wanted a 1965, 1966 or 1967, but the midyear Corvettes (1963-1967) were already too expensive by then, they were at least twice as much as my 1969.
When my Dad stopped driving the ’67, he bought a 1974 big block Corvette (454 cubic inch, 4-spd), and that was his daily driver.
A couple years later, he bought a nice dark blue 1968 Olds 442 with a Hurst shifter. I’m sure it reminded him of his first new car, the 1968 GTO that was totaled when a trash truck hit him while merging onto (or off of) the highway.
Then he bought a red 1970 El Camino SS 396 big block with black interior in the 1990s.
When he retired, a Chevy Tahoe was his daily driver, but he drove the 1970 El Camino for fun, whenever the weather was nice 👍
That’s funny about the El Camino!
I hope you finish the ‘Vette!
“I think you were right to turn down the Chevette.”
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I had been hoping I could get a red 1965 Corvette coupe. Like the model I used to have on my desk.
They were still pretty cheap in the mid 1980s, it was just a 20 year old used car back then. I thought he could teach me how to work on it, something we could do together.
So when I found out my choice was a Chevette or a Chevette, it was pretty much like having the wind knocked out of me.
Funny how changing just a couple of letters makes such a big difference… 🙂
🙂
They are sorta similar, I guess.
I mean, they’re both red, and they both start with a ‘C’… 😉
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You left out the Yugo in your poll of dead-lasts. Of course it wasn’t around yet, then. (Likewise the “smart car” or these ugly misshapen Fiats I have been seeing.)
One of my best friends in high school had an early 1980s Fiat Spider, dark blue with tan interior.
He drove that thing like the parking garage attendant drove the Ferrari in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 😂
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Wait for it… 😁
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My friend’s Spider looked pretty much like this one:
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“For many, the question is not whether Hunter has acted as an agent of foreign principals but whether the Justice Department is acting as an agent of the principal Biden.”
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Or whether the Just-Us Department is itself acting as an agent of foreign principals.
Which of course it is, just as their boss Brandon is, just as his boss Hussein is, and so on.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/pfizer-crashes-after-slashing-profit-guidance-more-half-collapsing-demand-covid-meds
I have bulk crocodile tears for sale – 40% off if you buy 4 quarts or more.
Such a deal!
I see what you did there. Nice of you to have a current events theme.
Are they harvested sustainably from organic crocodiles, and produced without the use of artificial hormones?
Picky, picky!
Great news. >>> Paxlovid demand collapsing. As has demand for the latest Booster.
Folks are NOT buying the lies any more.
Now, if we could only start getting lawsuits against big Pharma.
^^^ This. Massive, class action type.
Enough different data points are leaking out to make that possible.
For one, IVERMECTIN WAS ALREADY KNOWN TO WORK!
From my old notes
Chiefio has a thread on Ivermectin+Doxycycline and a few other treatments. The success rate when instituted early enough is 98%. https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2020/08/01/ivermectin-doxycycline-98-cure
NOTE DATE IS AUGUST 2020
Yes the EUA was illegal but so necessary for the depop/unseat Trump/destroy America AND then the world agenda 😡
Agree. Need the legal sharks to smell the blood in the water because once they do they cannot resist.
Win!
Wisconsin court ruling a “huge win” for parental rights
This is huge:
Great news! That needs to go national.
This is why the EPSTEIN GROOMERS in Ohio are going for a GROOMING AMENDMENT!
Piker.
I know it’s stank but cami is still a good idea
AND it is recognized by the sand ‘Extremists’
Jim Jordan Wins GOP Nomination for Speaker – 55 RINOs Say They Won’t Vote for Jordan on the House Floor
We need to hear why, from these people, and their phone lines need to burn up from public calls. But I don’t know if the public can even know who the “no” voters are.
“We need to hear why, from these people,”
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Because they’re globo-homos.
We need to hear it from them.
It would be hilarious if they said “It’s because we’re globo-homos” 😂
Because they’re globo-homos 𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗜𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗦!
THERE, FIXED IT FOR YA.
LOL!
Greg Price clearly is unaware of my opinion about RINOs.
Either he doesn’t read here, or I haven’t been clear.
It must be the former. 😅
You’ve been Extremely clear AND rather restrained 😉
If I’ve been restrained, then I certainly haven’t been clear. 😀
Nice 😉 😉
Preliminary win!
Judge Blocks ATF From Treating Forced Reset Triggers As Machine Guns
Liking the win!
THIS right here is extremely sound reasoning. This judge GETS IT. Congress can fix the law if it wants.
It would be SIMPLE to amen the law to state that the defining characteristic of a machine gun is that a single firing action by the user, then maintained in a state of continuous firing intent, results in multiple and continued firing of the weapon. THAT includes bumpstocks and forced reset triggers, or any other “sneak-around” technology that is developed by ingenious gunsmiths.
Better still, to revise the law to allow easier ownership of select-fire weapons by legal gun owners. Although I’m happy just keeping ALL semi-auto weapons legal, including those “ugly” black rifles. I believe that our strongest defense is to make all attacks on any semi-auto legally impossible. Basically trade these stupid pseudo-machine guns for rock-solid federal law stating that ALL semi-automatic weapons are legal for the people in all states, PERIOD.
Basically, make the LAW conform to the DUCK THAT QUACKS – and strongly.
Yes, on one level that’s true…the ATF should not exceed statutory authority.
On a deeper level, there should be no such fucking statute according to the 2A.
1,000,000%
“shall not be infringed” couldn’t be clearer…
color of law crapola is what ATF is pursuing 😡
Amen!
I read only 2% of Americans have had their latest covid booster shot.
if nothing else fatigue is setting in.
Very good news!
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3rd time success
Whoo hoo! Oz have shitcanned the referendum!
no apartheid!
could you elaborate?
We had a referendum on whether to introduce a preamble to our constitution to recognise our indigenous people . It would have added a 3 Rd layer of govt at the federal level. All the usual suspects were in favour so naturally ozzys said fuck that- resoundingly . It would have been the greatest boondoggle/ scam ever. As it is the 2% indigenous population get an extra 5/billion/ year spent on them
OK thank you! the government version of “go woke, go broke”, g’day bloke 😉
I saw the same thing happen awhile back when someone from a Muslim(?) country tried to burn an American flag.
Leftist are generally not very bright in the common sense department when planning things out.
(0:33)
https://rumble.com/v3p634a-they-always-think-burning-an-israeli-flag-is-a-good-idea-until-someone-catc.html
Hilarious.
I hope they lived with near fatal burns
Verse of the Day for Saturday, October 14, 2023
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“For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.”
1 Corinthians 2:16 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!
Great passages! Thank you!
Amen!
makes me think of this Leslie Phillips song ❤
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.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/10/the-daily-chart-colonizers-seriously.php
Priceless!
I left a comment on the Liberty Den. It was down voted. So I left a comment as a reply to that. DOWN VOTE WITHIN 5 SECONDS!!!
So there definately is an AI BOT down voting ALL my Rumble Comments.
Let’s see if we can counter that!
This is the URL going direct to my first comment:
https://rumble.com/v3p57py-the-liberty-den-10623-fri-1030-pm-et-.html#comment-299973019
As of 7:13 am PDT, it shows 0-0.
And all your replies to yourself as well, including the one that states 5 seconds.
No votes at all on any of them.
As I said try making a comment and you will see you automatically get ON UP VOTE. It was there and then it disappeared.
Also any down votes I make on Gunnels videos never show up.
I saw no votes, up or down 10:15 am, fwiw…
Looks to me like someone’s trying to gaslight Gail.
“I know I saw downvotes.”
“Honey, all your comments are at zero up or down.”
You automatically get ONE UP VOTE when you post. A ZERO means someone CANCELED THAT automatic up vote.
Try actually making a comment and see what I am talking about.
I understand. I was just trying to get you to smile.
It is a bit frustrating because it means it is completely useless for me to make comments on Rumble now.
When you first post a comment you automatically get ONE UP VOTE. I am NOT getting that after I refresh the page.
Face reality – you’re so important that you have a bot following you.
FOR DECADES!!!
And no I am not kidding. At least I did not get disappeared like Linn Cohen-Cole did.
The last I heard from her via e-mail, she was scared of a stalker around her house. She stopped writting in 2009.
🙁
Gail Combs
If one may ask, please be careful out there.
Believe me I AM!
That is why I am not on Truth Social or Farcebook or Twatter or anything that I have to give a phone number for.
TY for clarifying 🙂
As always you remain over the target which is why the bots breathe down your neck!
Yes, they really do hate me. Esp after some of my research SHOWING FOOD POISONING DOUBLED after the switch FROM SAMPLE AND TEST by the USDA or FDA to HACCP. This analysis using the government’s own data base was presented to Congress. MAJOR TAP DANCE ENSUED. Think CDC and the VAERS data.
HACCP = Corporations write a ‘plan’ and then do THEIR OWN safety testing. USDA/FDA JUST CHECKS THEIR PAPERWORK AND DOES NO TESTING. The result was the e-coli poisonings from CON-AGRA hamburger. Those poisonings were then used to push the ‘Food Safety Modernization Act’ that transferred liability FROM CORPORATIONS TO THE FARMER and gave the World Trade Organization jurisdiction over US food production.
Can’t keep pulling back the curtains on the globullist totalitarian genocidal psychopathic agendas now/s 😱
Yeah, they really hate me.
But We Really Love YOU!!! 
And that is what counts in my book. 🤗
Agreed!
Both have two up votes now.
ThankQ muchly!
😁
Complain to Dan Bongino. He’s an investor in Rumble.
How?
bongino.com is my guess. I know he has a webpage or two – I just never needed to know the address of any of them.
I tried his Locals page but that goes to Locals and THEN MIGHT get forwarded to Bongino
I went back to look at Liberty Den and saw this:
This is Halper:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/must-watch-pres-trump-amplifies-dr-jan-halper/
She is also mentioned here:
https://www.theqtree.com/2023/09/11/dear-kmag-20230911-joe-biden-didnt-win-%E2%9D%80-open-topic/
IIRC somewhere on the Qtree she was accused of claiming DOD creds she did not actually have.
Interestingly, Google advanced search the second time using only the name Halper instead of Jan Halper turned up NOTHING. HMMMmmm 🤔
Try “Jan Halper Hayes.”
This is a learned skill which gets more use in direct proportion to more age and more wisdom. In fact, using this skill is wisdom in action.
When I’m forced to go to Republican social functions, I always fill out my name tag with Grumpy Old Person. Just so everybody knows I’m deplorable.
Interesting, in a couple ways.
Wondering.
“…I’m forced to go to Republican social functions…”
I just follow my wife around.
Sometimes I just park myself near the snack table.
🍉🍊🍋🧀🍕🍰🍣
^^^ Makes perfect sense.
Happy Wife. Happy Life. <<< My story. 🙂
Yours Truly has been pounding on this aspect of the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” for some time — the damage that these “vaccines” do to the heart.
NOW HEAR THIS:
http://www.igor-chudov.com/p/covid-vaccines-damage-all-hearts
Yours Truly: the paper referred to by Mr. Chudov is here:
https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.230743
“Assessment of Myocardial 18F-FDG Uptake at PET/CT in Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2-vaccinated and Non-vaccinated Patients”
Takehiro Nakahara, et al.
18F-FDG is basically an indicator of glucose demand by the heart, which would indicate abnormal heart activity. The patients in the study who had the PET/CT scans of their hearts WERE ASYMPTOMATIC for COVID-19 infection. ALL of the “vaccinated” patients showed elevated levels of 18-F-FDG. The “unvaccinated” patients showed much less incidence of high 18F-FDG levels.
*** The patients who underwent the PET/CT scans of their hearts were NOT HAVING THESE TESTS PERFORMED DUE TO SYMPTOMS OF MYOCARDITIS, but for other reasons.
*** The high 18-F-FDG levels in the “VACCINATED” patients DID NOT DISCRIMINATE regarding age or sex.
*** The results of the PET/CT scans indicated “SILENT” MYOCARDITIS in ALL of the “vaccinated” patients and in SOME of the “unvaccinated” patients.
*** The “vaccinated” patients who had the scans performed UP TO 180 DAYS AFTER A SECOND “VACCINATION” or “BOOSTER SHOT” STILL SHOWED INDICATIONS OF MYOCARDITIS.
There is a “response editorial” to the paper by Dr. David Bluemke that’s amazing to read. Dr. Bluemke appears to be an “establishment medicine” professional who actually tries to praise the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines”, but who also obviously got scared enough by Dr. Nakahara’s findings to call for “more investigation” of the situation.
Yours Truly’s conclusions:
One: The modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” WILL DAMAGE THE HEART MUSCLE.
Two: The damage that these “vaccines” WILL do to the heart muscle CAN BE “SILENT” (non-symptomatic.)
Three: The damage that these “vaccines” WILL do to the heart muscle WILL HAPPEN TO “VACCINATED” PERSONS REGARLESS OF AGE OR SEX.
Four: Damage done to the heart muscle IS PERMANENT and the heart CANNOT GENERATE NEW TISSUE TO REPLACE DAMAGED HEART TISSUE.
Five: Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna KNEW, and STILL KNOW, along with the CDC / FDA, that the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” WILL cause heart damage.
Five: According to the Cleveland Clinic, the survival rate for DIAGNOSED CASES of myocarditis is 80% AFTER ONE YEAR and 50% AFTER FIVE YEARS. (https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22129-myocarditis)
Six: EVERY PERSON who has EVER taken a modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine” needs to have their heart scanned for damage, IN ADDITION TO having a D-dimer test to check for elevated levels of microclots.
Thank Q, I am saving this and giving it to friends who have had the Clot Shot.
Always appreciate your posts. Downloading links AND information.
Daily, I Am Stunned, Legal Action Is NOT broadly taken against Big Pharma, AND Every Health Care Organization.
Big Pharma has virtually unlimited funds with which to wage legal war. Few lawfirms can come even close to matching the enemy’s war chest.
Not to mention that Pharma has the full and total support of govt agencies that used to, at least moderately, be concerned with drug performance and patient’s health and welfare.
Pretty damning report. I’m wondering about the unvaxxed who had the same heart damage. Did this come from being around vaccinated people who were shedding? Or did it come from simply getting COVID? Or is myocarditis simply that common among the population?
Great Q’s!
My suspicion is that COVID is behind “lesser damage”, but that vaccination is the biggest risk. MOD-mRNA and injection apparently are a bigger risk than catching it, but the virus is cardiotoxic, period, and injecting its spike (or even worse the MOD-mRNA version) is a BAD immunity strategy. This confirms what Malone was thinking. MOD-mRNA is just risky, because it does not degrade fast enough.
Linda
Yours Truly believes the following:
That an “unvaccinated” person can get myocarditis from modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine shedding.”
That it’s possible to get myocarditis from a COVID-19 infection, “vaccinated” or not — one believes that there are heart muscle damaging elements within the COVID-19 virus itself.
That it appears that myocarditis can be linked to high glucose levels in the blood. Cutting sugar consumption as much as is practical may be a way to limit the potential for heart muscle damage.
That good hydration levels (to get glucose and other toxins out of the body), and regular mild to moderate exercise (to burn off glucose) are also important.
Do not forget Nattokinase or go for SpikeDefend from the good Doctors.
https://www.twc.health/blogs/news/introducing-the-wellness-company-chief-medical-team
Gail Combs
Yes. And there may a role for NAC and Vitamin K to play here, also.
I take both of those too.
SpikeDefend has Dandelion Root
….
A different source listing 10 benefits:
I used to take dandelion root and milk thistle all the time for liver support. But unfortunately, I found that with my cancer I can’t take them because they are estrogenic. There are certain other supplements that are as well.
^^^ 100% agree.
Inositol is what my wellness guy calls the Sugar Terminator.
It’s a Standard Process product.
https://www.standardprocess.com/products/inositol
HUGE. And this back us THIS public health observation:
https://slaynews.com/news/study-links-mrna-shots-17-million-sudden-deaths/
Wolf Moon
Yes.
Also, the myocarditis induced by the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” will effect “vaccinated” persons of all ages and of both sexes — not just males in the 12 – 40 age range.
AND could take up to five years or more to KILL…
Wolf Moon
Yours Truly wonders if there are elements within the COVID-19 virus itself, and/or in the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines”, that can kick off what might be called predispositions for certain heart conditions — for example, irregular heartbeat, congestive heart failure, or Afib.
Recall that RALPH BARIC was experimenting with inducing heart conditions, including myocarditis, in lab rabbits infected with “enhanced” rabbit coronavirus BACK IN 1991, funded by NIH / NIAID (Fauci was NIAID at that time, also):
The Journal of Infectious Diseases 1992; 165:134-140
“An Experimental Model for Myocarditis and Congestive Heart Failure after Rabbit Coronavirus Infection”
Ralph Baric, et al.
The experiments he conducted at UNC for this paper were performed in 1991.
(search https://academic.oup.com/)
Yeah, Baric was playing with Covid for YEARS.
demon in human form 👹
I think the same can be said for cancers. In my Fenben cancer groups there are a lot of turbo cancers where people suddenly found themselves with Stage 4 cancer. But there are also many people who are unvaxxed who swear they got it from just getting the virus. I don’t know if that explains my cancer, but I do know that both of my autoimmune conditions which were under control before I got the virus were suddenly way out of whack afterwards.
Thank you for sharing insights from your personal journey. I hope you are finding healing in the approaches you use. Blessings!
Linda
Thank you for keeping us all here updated on your situation. All good wishes, much Good Energy and Deep Healing to you.
Yours Truly’s allergies became much more severe after she had what one firmly believes was COVID-19 in February-March of 2020. It also took almost two years for taste and smell to completely recover—however, some food and smell sensitivities appeared that weren’t there before.
Yours Truly also believes that “vaccine shedding” does indeed happen after a person gets injected with a COVID-19 “vaccine.”
What isn’t yet known is how long the “vaccine shedding” goes on; or exactly what elements of the virus itself and/or the “vaccines” are shed.
Is this an explanation for SlowJoe’s malfunctions?
https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/what-are-frontotemporal-disorders
from a year ago:
Egypt is set to take part in developing Gaza’s offshore gas field -officials
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/egypt-is-set-take-part-developing-gazas-offshore-gas-field-officials-2022-10-12/
—————————–
Today:
Israel shuts major offshore gas field near Gaza: Will this drive up global gas prices?
Israel has ordered the shutdown of the Tamar natural gas field run by US energy giant Chevron in the eastern Mediterranean. The offshore platform meets the energy needs of not only Israel but also its neighbours Egypt and Jordan. A prolonged closure may ramp up European gas prices
https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/israel-shuts-tamar-offshore-gas-field-near-gaza-global-gas-prices-impact-egypt-jordan-13233822.html
The Gates of Gaza
It sounds like a narrative torn from the front pages of today’s newspapers, one of many such stories—too many to count—describing the atrocities inflicted on the civilian populations of Israeli towns and Kibbutzes adjacent to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
But it is not. Instead, it is the recollections of Yaakov Sharett, the son of Moshe Sharett, one of the fathers of Israel, a signatory to Israel’s Declaration of Independence, and Israel’s first Foreign Minister, and second Prime Minister. Yaakov Sharett was recounting the seizure of the Arab town of Bersheeba, in 1948, by Israeli soldiers, during Israel’s War of Independence.
con’t https://www.scottritterextra.com/p/why-i-no-longer-stand-with-israel
Everyone on here should read that article from start to finish. Every word.
Beginning of the civil war (30 November 1947 – 1 April 1948)
Aftermath of the car bomb attack on the Ben Yehuda St., which killed 53 and injured many more.
In the aftermath of the adoption of Resolution 181(II) by the United Nations General Assembly recommending the adoption and implementation of the Plan of Partition,[14] the manifestations of joy of the Jewish community were counterbalanced by protests by Arabs throughout the country[15] and after 1 December, the Arab Higher Committee enacted a general strike that lasted three days.[16]
A “wind of violence”[17] rapidly took hold of the country, foreboding civil war between the two communities.[18] Murders, reprisals, and counter-reprisals came fast on each other’s heels, resulting in dozens of victims killed on both sides in the process. The impasse persisted as British forces did not intervene to put a stop to the escalating cycles of violence.[19][20][21][22]
The first casualties after the adoption of Resolution 181(II) were passengers on a Jewish bus near Kfar Sirkin on 30 November, after an eight-man gang from Jaffa ambushed the bus killing five and wounding others. Half an hour later they ambushed a second bus, southbound from Hadera, killing two more, and shots were fired at Jewish buses in Jerusalem and Haifa.[20][23] This was stated to be a retaliation for the Shubaki family assassination, the killing of five Palestinian Arabs by Lehi near Herzliya, ten days’ prior to the incident.[24][25][26]
Irgun and Lehi (the latter also known as the Stern Gang) followed their strategy of placing bombs in crowded markets and bus-stops.[27] On 30 December, in Haifa, members of the Irgun threw two bombs at a crowd of Arab workers who were queueing in front of a refinery, killing 6 and injuring 42. An angry crowd massacred 39 Jewish people in revenge, until British soldiers reestablished calm.[21][28]
In reprisals, some soldiers from the strike force, Palmach and the Carmeli brigade, attacked the villages of Balad ash-Sheikh and Hawassa. According to different historians, this attack led to between 21 and 70 deaths.[22]
According to Benny Morris, an Israeli historian, much of the fighting in the first months of the war took place in and on the edges of the main towns, and was initiated by the Arabs. It included Arab snipers firing at Jewish houses, pedestrians, and traffic, as well as planting bombs and mines along urban and rural paths and roads.[29]
On December 31st 1947, having recruited a few thousand volunteers, al-Husayni organized the blockade of the 100,000 Jewish residents of Jerusalem.[30] To counter this, the Yishuv authorities tried to supply the city with convoys of up to 100 armoured vehicles, but the operation became more and more impractical as the number of casualties in the relief convoys surged. By March, Al-Hussayni’s tactic had paid off. Almost all of the Haganah’s armoured vehicles had been destroyed, the blockade was in full operation, and hundreds of Haganah members who had tried to bring supplies into the city were killed.[31] The situation for those who dwelt in the Jewish settlements in the highly isolated Negev and North of Galilee was even more critical.
From January onward, operations became increasingly militarized. In all the mixed zones where both communities lived, particularly Jerusalem and Haifa, increasingly violent attacks, riots, reprisals and counter-reprisals followed each other. Isolated shootings evolved into all-out battles. Attacks against traffic, for instance, turned into ambushes as one bloody attack led to another.
On 22 February 1948, supporters of Mohammad Amin al-Husayni organized, with the help of certain British deserters, three attacks against the Jewish community. Using car bombs aimed at the headquarters of the pro-Zionist Palestine Post newspaper, the Ben Yehuda St. market and the backyard of the Jewish Agency’s offices, they killed 22, 53, and 13 Jewish people respectively, a total of 88 fatalities. Hundreds of others were injured.[32][33]
In retaliation, Lehi put a landmine on the railroad track in Rehovot on which a train from Cairo to Haifa was travelling, killing 28 British soldiers and injuring 35.[34] This would be copied on 31 March, close to Caesarea Maritima, which would lead to the death of forty people, injuring 60, who were, for the most part, Arab civilians.[35]
According to the Iraqi general Ismail Safwat in March 1948, shortly prior to the launching of Plan Dalet:
However, Walid Khalidi describes this quote as inaccurate by way of Safwat’s own report.[clarification needed][36]
David Ben-Gurion reorganized the Haganah and made conscription obligatory. Every Jewish man and woman in the country had to receive military training.
S U P E R B read. An eye opening education, for me.
4th Attempt to post. They keep appearing and then disappearing. Tries plain text with no links. ultimately this story is joining a larger story in midstream…
Beginning of the civil war (30 November 1947 – 1 April 1948)
In the aftermath of the adoption of Resolution 181(II) by the United Nations General Assembly recommending the adoption and implementation of the Plan of Partition,[14] the manifestations of joy of the Jewish community were counterbalanced by protests by Arabs throughout the country[15] and after 1 December, the Arab Higher Committee enacted a general strike that lasted three days.[16]
A “wind of violence”[17] rapidly took hold of the country, foreboding civil war between the two communities.[18] Murders, reprisals, and counter-reprisals came fast on each other’s heels, resulting in dozens of victims killed on both sides in the process. The impasse persisted as British forces did not intervene to put a stop to the escalating cycles of violence.[19][20][21][22]
The first casualties after the adoption of Resolution 181(II) were passengers on a Jewish bus near Kfar Sirkin on 30 November, after an eight-man gang from Jaffa ambushed the bus killing five and wounding others. Half an hour later they ambushed a second bus, southbound from Hadera, killing two more, and shots were fired at Jewish buses in Jerusalem and Haifa.[20][23] This was stated to be a retaliation for the Shubaki family assassination, the killing of five Palestinian Arabs by Lehi near Herzliya, ten days’ prior to the incident.[24][25][26]
Irgun and Lehi (the latter also known as the Stern Gang) followed their strategy of placing bombs in crowded markets and bus-stops.[27] On 30 December, in Haifa, members of the Irgun threw two bombs at a crowd of Arab workers who were queueing in front of a refinery, killing 6 and injuring 42. An angry crowd massacred 39 Jewish people in revenge, until British soldiers reestablished calm.[21][28]
In reprisals, some soldiers from the strike force, Palmach and the Carmeli brigade, attacked the villages of Balad ash-Sheikh and Hawassa. According to different historians, this attack led to between 21 and 70 deaths.[22]
According to Benny Morris, an Israeli historian, much of the fighting in the first months of the war took place in and on the edges of the main towns, and was initiated by the Arabs. It included Arab snipers firing at Jewish houses, pedestrians, and traffic, as well as planting bombs and mines along urban and rural paths and roads.[29]
On December 31st 1947, having recruited a few thousand volunteers, al-Husayni organized the blockade of the 100,000 Jewish residents of Jerusalem.[30] To counter this, the Yishuv authorities tried to supply the city with convoys of up to 100 armoured vehicles, but the operation became more and more impractical as the number of casualties in the relief convoys surged. By March, Al-Hussayni’s tactic had paid off. Almost all of the Haganah’s armoured vehicles had been destroyed, the blockade was in full operation, and hundreds of Haganah members who had tried to bring supplies into the city were killed.[31] The situation for those who dwelt in the Jewish settlements in the highly isolated Negev and North of Galilee was even more critical.
From January onward, operations became increasingly militarized. In all the mixed zones where both communities lived, particularly Jerusalem and Haifa, increasingly violent attacks, riots, reprisals and counter-reprisals followed each other. Isolated shootings evolved into all-out battles. Attacks against traffic, for instance, turned into ambushes as one bloody attack led to another.
On 22 February 1948, supporters of Mohammad Amin al-Husayni organized, with the help of certain British deserters, three attacks against the Jewish community. Using car bombs aimed at the headquarters of the pro-Zionist Palestine Post newspaper, the Ben Yehuda St. market and the backyard of the Jewish Agency’s offices, they killed 22, 53, and 13 Jewish people respectively, a total of 88 fatalities. Hundreds of others were injured.[32][33]
In retaliation, Lehi put a landmine on the railroad track in Rehovot on which a train from Cairo to Haifa was travelling, killing 28 British soldiers and injuring 35.[34] This would be copied on 31 March, close to Caesarea Maritima, which would lead to the death of forty people, injuring 60, who were, for the most part, Arab civilians.[35]
According to the Iraqi general Ismail Safwat in March 1948, shortly prior to the launching of Plan Dalet:
Despite the fact that skirmishes and battles have begun, the Jews at this stage are still trying to contain the fighting to as narrow a sphere as possible in the hope that partition will be implemented and a Jewish government formed; they hope that if the fighting remains limited, the Arabs will acquiesce in the fait accompli. This can be seen from the fact that the Jews have not so far attacked Arab villages unless the inhabitants of those villages attacked them or provoked them first.
However, Walid Khalidi describes this quote as inaccurate by way of Safwat’s own report.[clarification needed][36]
David Ben-Gurion reorganized the Haganah and made conscription obligatory. Every Jewish man and woman in the country had to receive military training.
Now tries a link… The above came from this below… it’s a small excerpt… There is much more. Point being unless we are talking about God, nothing starts in a vacuum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947%E2%80%931948_civil_war_in_Mandatory_Palestine
More good news…
This means Trevor Loudon is having a really good day.
For old times’ sake:
Still, it’s good to be prepared.
Something will happen. Maybe not today, but they won’t leave the Palestinians despondent for long. Too much shame in all that for the hard liners. If nothing else it will revert to various mosques donating a few members for operations, then passing it on to other mosques to do the same, just so we can’t catch on with anything definitive. Just enough to keep the kettle boiling. Just like in the good old days…😬 Ackkk!
I nominate this guy for Speaker of the House.
He’s obviously smarter than your average congresscritter.
Kate on the Liberty Den caught an interesting series of dots. 1:52:30
https://rumble.com/v3p57py-the-liberty-den-10623-fri-1030-pm-et-.html
WebMed was encouraging anyone with Ashkenazi Jew heritage to get DNA tested on the pretext of possible genetic defects. This was in the Spring of this year. THEN 23& ME was hacked this fall and all the data on the Ashkenazi Jews was sucked up including name, address….
Interesting. Who is behind the hack?
According to 23andMe, it sounds like a “threat actor” who will sell the stolen information on the dark web.
https://blog.23andme.com/articles/addressing-data-security-concerns
It appears that WebMD was encouraging people, including Ashkenazi Jews, to get their DNA tested prior to trying to conceive a child.
http://www.webmd.com/baby/genetic-tests-before-pregnancy
Thanks for doing the digging for me.
Gail Combs
We all on this board help each other out.
On thing that can be said re China. They may be utter assholes but they know how to deal with Islam
Judging from the extensive schooling on all things Islam/MiddleEast (and Jewism too at times) in the last week…how the F do they exist at all ? All they do is fight, blow crap up, kill people and bitch about their lot in life.
They breed like rabbits.
😁 guess that’ll do it !
Molly, I just love you. What a great assessment!
😃 They’re crazy folks ! I take that as a high compliment coming from you…one of the best straight talking shoot- from- the- hip gals around .
🙂
Thank you, Molly! That is very nice of you to say.
If I was better at emojis, I’d do that cute blushing one!
😊 😚 😳
The only options I could see from Wolf’s collection 😉
Lol! I just can’t get the emoji thing right.
Me neither. I thought that larger one, from the green emoji box at the bottom of the Q-Tree reply box, Might have been closest to what you were looking for 🙂
So interesting how this is framed….
Double Tragedy: Venezuelan Immigrants Shot Dead in Chicago Neighborhood
Details of the Incident
The victims, 31-year-old Jesus Tirado and 28-year-old Victor Hernandez, were recent immigrants to the United States, seeking safety and a better life. The incident occurred outside a convenience store at the intersection of Montrose and Kimball Avenues. According to witnesses, Tirado and Hernandez were near their car when a group of individuals approached them. An altercation ensued, leading to gunshots being fired. Both Venezuelans were struck by bullets and pronounced dead at the scene as the suspects fled before the police arrived.
The motive behind the shooting remains unknown, and no arrests have been made.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Isn’t diversity grand ? The new “immigrants” placed by the native territorial thugs.
Call me jaded but I’m pretty sure a group of individuals wasn’t a gang of MAGA types or else that would’ve been clearly stated.
Sounds drug related. Newbies moving into an already claimed territory maybe?
Could be OR like we’ve seen before…gib me yur $$ or whut R you doing..whut did you say …boom
Another timely news blurb since we were talking about the chinese balloons the other day.~~~
A hot air balloon racing across the country in an international competition exploded Monday night after it crashed into a power line in Kaufman County.
In a harrowing incident in Texas, two pilots were injured when their gas balloon crashed into power lines, reportedly while attempting an emergency landing after being shot at. The balloon burst into flames upon impact, drawing the attention of nearby bystanders who played a crucial role in the pilots’ rescue.
Pilots Mistaken for Chinese Spies?
The pilots, whose identities have not been disclosed, reported being shot at during their flight. One of them expressed concern they might have been mistaken for a Chinese spy balloon. This speculation has yet to be confirmed by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) or any other official agency.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/more-sports/hot-air-balloon-crashes-into-power-line-and-catches-fire-in-north-texas-injuring-2-pilots/
AChechen with Russian citizenship slit a teacher’s throat at a high school in Arras, France. Due to the attack and fears of bringing the conflict between Israel and Hamas onto French territory, the safety alert has been raised to the highest level there.
France has raised its security alert level to the highest. This decision was made following a knife attack that took place in the city of Arras, as well as due to growing concerns that the conflict between Israel and Hamas may be transferred onto French territory. The head of France’s Ministry of the Interior, Gerald Darmanin, announced this decision on Friday, appealing to “all French people” to exercise caution.
The attack on a high school in Arras in northern France, in which a Chechen with Russian citizenship slit a teacher’s throat, was the result of “barbaric Islamist terrorism” – said President Emmanuel Macron, adding that the police helped foil another attack in a different location in France.
– The murdered teacher came forward to protect others and undoubtedly saved many human lives – emphasized Macron.
The media reported that the police also arrested a second knifeman on Friday, who planned an attack in another city in France.
The perpetrator of the knife attack in Arras, Mohammed Mogouczkow, was known for his connections with radical Islam. During the attack, the aggressor shouted “Allahu akbar”.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/highest-level-of-alert-in-france-barbaric-crime/
Send him back to Chechnya
Yeah..or somewhere else preferably underground
Or Russia
Ain’t Cultural Enrichment great?
Star of David graffitied on Berlin homes in chilling echo of Nazi crimes
one incident, a Jewish resident arrived home on Thursday evening to find graffiti smeared on her house door. “I speak Hebrew, talk on the phone in Hebrew, and wear a Star of David,” the young woman told Bild newspaper. “I really thought about whether I should stay at home.”
Of three further incidents reported on Saturday, police have confirmed that at least one Jewish person lived in the building.
It came as one of the country’s top spies warned that Hamas sympathisers could stage terror attacks on Jewish buildings.
Hamas supporters may “no longer stop at demonstrating and using hate speech… but may carry out specific attacks against Jewish and Israeli buildings and individuals,” Stephan Kramer, head of domestic intelligence in the state of Thuringia, said.
Speaking to Handelsblatt newspaper, Mr Kramer said that the war in Israel could also motivate other Islamist groups to “intensify” their activities, saying that they see “the whole of Germany as the enemy of muslims.”
He said that the protests by pro-Palestinian groups on German streets in the wake of the Hamas terror attacks proved “a new level of escalation and lack of inhibition has obviously been reached in this country as well.”
Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday announced a ban on all Hamas activities in Germany, a move Berlin said is intended to send “a signal that all forms of support for Hamas’ terror are forbidden.”
Despite the Islamist group being listed by the EU as a terror organization since 2003, Berlin only banned public displays of support for Hamas in 2021.
Since then it has been illegal to publicly wave Hamas flags or distribute the group’s propaganda material.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/star-of-david-graffitied-on-berlin-homes-in-chilling-echo-of-nazi-crimes/
Wictor!
https://x.com/awakenedoutlaw/status/1713267419534553116?s=61&t=NMBpPoziCr3gCCF_qNHbdg
here it is using twitter.com so it might show here:
Here’s a link for those of us not on Twitter, where there are 16 threaded messages
https://nitter.net/TheThomasWictor/status/1711894190756610219#m
Thanks a lot Valerie
YW Molly. I copied the Nitter “tweet” stream but that comment is awaiting approval as it’s likely got too many links within…
Not sure which one you’re talking about but the thread was fine 😀
Well that comment, in reply to the one where I put in the nitter link, will only show if Wolf or Steve approves it, for it disappeared for me so I can’t even break the links or clean it up LOL
OK I’m trying again, breaking most links & removing “garbage” so it’s easier to read here…hopefully 🙂
@TheThomasWictor
Oct 10
As the Israeli Operation Swords of Iron against terrorists in Gaza begins, we’re seeing the same propaganda put out during Operation Protective Edge (July 8, 2014 – August 26, 2014).
Here are some things to keep in mind as the current war progresses:
Oct 10, 2023 · 11:59 PM UTC
TheThomasWictor
Oct 10
I am the only person on earth who took the time to actually verify the claims made about deaths of Palestinian civilians.
To do so, I studied hundreds of thousands of documents, photos, and videos.
TheThomasWictor
Oct 10
These are my conclusions.
1. The majority of the bodies seen were intact and showed no major traumatic injuries, inconsistent with death by high-explosive aerial munition or artillery.
TheThomasWictor
Oct 10
2. In videos, Palestinian civilians are seen running TOWARD explosions, indicating that they know that the Israelis use guided munitions and will not hit a target already destroyed.
TheThomasWictor
Oct 10
3. If the bombing and shelling were indiscriminate, one would expect the victims to represent the demographics of Gaza: roughly evenly split between males and females of all ages, with 50 percent under the age of 18.
This was not so.
TheThomasWictor
Oct 10
3. (cont.) Instead, 60 percent of the dead “civilians” were military-aged males, 10 percent were adult females, 5 percent were elderly men and women, while only 25 percent were reported under the age of 18.
Additionally, terrorists use children as young as five as combatants.
TheThomasWictor
Oct 10
4. Of the children, 80 percent of the dead were males, while only 20 percent were females.
TheThomasWictor
Oct 10
5. Of the children, at least half of the males over 13 had terrorist martyrdom posters, indicating that they were combatants.
The youngest acknowledged combatant was nine years old.
TheThomasWictor
Oct 10
6. Of the children, several were listed as adults on multiple lists.
TheThomasWictor
Oct 10
7. The majority of military-aged men reported as civilians were in fact terrorist operatives, as revealed by terrorist martyrdom posters or announcements.
TheThomasWictor
Oct 10
8. No two lists of the 2200 civilian dead contained the same names, and no two lists contained consistent ages for those named.
TheThomasWictor
Oct 10
9. One hundred percent of the victims on all lists were identified, despite the nature of their alleged modes of death. No victim was burned beyond recognition, blown to pieces, or buried irretrievably under rubble.
Nobody went missing either.
TheThomasWictor
Oct 10
10. In Gaza, the terrorists blew up over 3000 buildings and fired over 800 rockets that fell short. It is unknown how many of the thousands of mortar rounds fell short. Video and photographic evidence shows that at minimum, hundreds of Palestinians were killed by their own side.
TheThomasWictor
Oct 10
11. Battle damage on cars and buildings in Gaza shows the use of weapons not in the Israeli arsenal; for example, holes created by explosive ordnance packed with ball bearings.
TheThomasWictor
Oct 10
12. Palestinian medics reported that the overwhelming majority of the civilians killed in the Battle of Shijaya were locked inside their homes by terrorists.
TheThomasWictor
Oct 10
13. The Fatah Party reported that Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad carried out hundreds of political murders. Cross-checking the names show that these were reported as civilians killed by Israel.
TheThomasWictor
Oct 10
14. According to Palestinian eyewitnesses, terrorists murdered civilians trying to flee or violating curfew and counted these deaths as caused by Israel.
TheThomasWictor
Oct 10
15. Terrorists in Gaza have adopted the concept of “involuntary martyrdom,” which means that civilians can be murdered so that their deaths can be attributed to the actions of Israel.
TheThomasWictor
Oct 10
This will be my only post on X.
Nor will I read or respond to comments.
Godspeed, Israel. You will win in Gaza, and then you must deal with Iran.
Best to all,
TW
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It appears that Mr. Wictor proved what Yours Truly stated on this board a couple of days ago—viz, that once a jihad is begun, innocent Muslims can, and will, be killed by the jihadists. In other words, Islam is OK with sacrificing its own co-religionists in the insane push to “conquer the world.”
Yes–good catch!
fwiw “I am the only person on earth who took the time to actually verify the claims made about deaths of Palestinian civilians.
To do so, I studied hundreds of thousands of documents, photos, and videos.”
that seems a bit dubious for one person in a week or so…is Wictor actually some kind of team? AI assist?
He has done this type of stuff before in the past so he may have a lot of it automated.
TY!
See my response to Valerie. I think these stats are from the 2014 operation.
I think Wictor is talking about statistics and claims from the other operation, the one he references in his first tweet, Operation Protective Edge.
All those statistics he cites are to be kept in mind as we hear of “new” stats, or see video from the current op, now ongoing.
That’s what I think he means. They will have similar propaganda as last time, as he is showing.
Of course, I could be wrong, but I don’t think so. He has had years to study all of that.
Thx A 🙂
Of course 🙂
And thanks also to Ozzy
Definitely!
Always good to hear from Ozzy!
Yes!!! ❤ 😍 ❤
That sounds like Thomas doing work for ???The Saudis ??? Again. He did mention that he did this type of work, looking at photos & data for a middle east state.
TY that makes at least some sense to me as I was questioning the pouring over such a volume of material as he claimed…
“I am the only person on earth who took the time to actually verify the claims made about deaths of Palestinian civilians.
To do so, I studied hundreds of thousands of documents, photos, and videos.”
Good news!
https://mole.substack.com/ is back up and running! He/she had major computer issues that have been resolved.
The post today is a “catch-up” post. It has a bumper crop of good links:
https://mole.substack.com/p/spox_dilemma-2023-10-14-sat-killjab
TY! It was one of the resources I wanted to pull from on one of my fill in for DP posts & it was such a bummer to see that they were down w/ computer issues. I wonder if they actually came under some type of attack, given their effectiveness?
Via https://t.me/s/VA_Nikonov/
They got Gaza as a going concern and turned it into a cesspool
Something more lighthearted 🙂
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-12614995/A-secret-agent-TRAVEL-AGENT-Lavish-new-book-shows-Bond-movies-sparking-wanderlust-decades-amazing-filming-locations-Scotland-Egypt.html?ico=related-replace
A secret agent… and a TRAVEL AGENT: Lavish new book shows how Bond movies have been sparking wanderlust for decades with their amazing filming locations, from Scotland to Egypt
New book James Bond Destinations by Daniel Pembrey invites you to follow in ‘007’s well-shod footsteps’ In the book’s introduction, the author says that the locations ‘are places that lend themselves to fantasies’
More than 100 locations have appeared in Bond films over the past 60 years…
This map from the book shows the variety of James Bond destinations that feature in the tome
Here’s the full info:
Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
The $1.9 TRILLION American Rescue Plan was supposed to be about helping *Americans* recover from idiotic COVID lockdowns.
But for some reason, $500 million of that deficit spending went to the State Department to “resettle refugees.”
$33.7 million went directly to Gaza via the UNRWA, an organization that’s been described as “effectively a branch of Hamas.”
In total, Biden has given this branch of Hamas $730 million since 2021, making the US taxpayer its largest donor in the world.
UNRWA employees in Gaza belong to the Hamas-linked trade union and a number of employees are actual Hamas fighters. UNRWA schools teach kids to hate Jews and glorify terrorism. UNRWA facilities are often used to store rockets, munitions, and serve as human shields for Hamas.
Trump defunded them in 2018 because all of this is common knowledge. But Biden’s State Department says it’s in “America’s national security interest to fund them” despite the group being guilty of war crimes.
Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan ended up being the spark inflation, fund terrorism, and kill Jews plan.
This flow of money must immediately stop and the terrorist sympathizers responsible should be fired and held accountable.
Absolutely infuriating how DC spends our money.
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Okay!
I have pictures from the eclipse.
Yes I went even though it’s just an annular. I consider it a dry run for next year’s eclipse. But don’t let that confuse you into thinking eclipses are annual (or “annular” if you butcher it redneck style). Next year’s is neither annual nor annular, it’s a total eclipse
I’ll be putting together a special post with the pictures, since it’s a wee bit late to go backfill into today’s post…too many might miss it.
Looking forward to the post, pics AND learning of next years eclipse.
COOL! Can’t wait.
Looking forward to it! Hope you had a good time, even though Darwin wasn’t along to play wingman w/ the babes 🙁
Yeah, that would have helped since I was checking out heavenly bodies.
Napoleon Dynamite…BARF.
No doubt 😜
A couple generic observations, Hamas and Israel.
My only wish is for the US, to stay out of the Hamas, Israel, Hezbollah Cluster F…
My head spins with all of this and seriously I don’t care about any of them but isn’t it so convenient like always that ‘we’ fund the terrorists. We give them millions. We left a huge weaponry store to the Taliban. Wasn’t it said that ozero created isis to get rid of Assad..which of course means we funded them too. We fund the ukrainian nazis
We created blm and fund them and I’m fairly certain we pay for antifa too.
In the big picture..WE”RE the problem.
Throw in drug cartels too. We allow them entry into our country to set up shop.
The Law of Unintended Consequences rears its ugly head, in my opinion.
I think “creating” groups outside of our control to accomplish dubious aims overseas is the absolute height of hubris. And our crap government does it again and again.
It’s what they do. never learn. USG, is NOT, the Masters Of The Universe.
They are absolutely the best at putting fish lures on hooks.
snicker
Well at least one person got it…
well at least partially LOL
Al intentional to Rd the military/ industrial nexus
You know, I wonder about that. Sometimes I think intentional, other times I think utterly, completely, unalterably STUPID.
My oldest son, Nathaniel, just shot his first deer today & brought me a bit of the tenderloin that he’d seasoned & grilled to perfection (along w/ broccoli & herbed butter crusty bread & red wine) to share in the bounty. I’m so excited for him! We’ll have to wait about a week to hear the tale though because he wants to tell me & my husband together & hubby won’t be home until Monday when N will be out of town on a business trip. He was sighting in his crossbow in our backyard just last night! ❤
Congrats to Nathaniel.
Thank You! 😍
Congratulations to Nathaniel,
I remember when I took my son out and he shot his first deer. Big nine point, bigger than anything I’ve ever taken.
How very special to have such memories. My husband told me recently that he isn’t jealous if our kids exceed him in the hunting domain. In fact he’s often helped one or more of our kids to find a new hunting spot in the woods around the family hunting cabins & those new locations inevitably reveal more deer to our kids than Michael usually ends up seeing in his own locations. I think if Anyone in our hunting collective saw a 9 point in Northern Michigan they would think they’d seen a unicorn 😉
Did you guys get such a trophy mounted?
Turned him into a rack man for life no doubt.
Congrats to him!
Though “Let’s Go, Nathaniel!!!” doesn’t have the same punch as Let’s Go Brandon, it’s true nevertheless.
TY Steve!
Funnily, last weekend Brandon was staying after my husband’s weekend hunting trip ended, as B had more days off in a row as an EMT…Anyway Michael had helped him find a new sweet hunting spot w/ plenty of deer sign including evidence of a good size buck. Well I think it was B’s first hunt after M came home & B saw Two Doe, but passed on taking a shot because he wanted to hold out for that buck. The weather & his inability to wake up a couple mornings in time to get in position before dawn meant he had few further opportunities, though he did see “another” doe in one of those hunts. He couldn’t bring himself to kill that doe because she was absolutely oblivious to him being there & it just didn’t strike him right to take her out. He’s a “tender little guy” (Napoleon Dynamite quote)…
So when Nathaniel stopped by with his venison bounty last night I had to ask if this was just his first Official deer. Years ago both N & B had apparently shot at the same deer & ultimately B was credited w/ the kill (I think it was his only deer in more than a decade of hunting, iirc). N was adamant that He had Not hit B’s deer, based on the location(s?) of the wounds on the animal.
It’s not easy for the big brother to get “bested” by his little brother. To compound N’s emotions about hunting, & he’s been fairly ambivalent about it for years whereas B & our daughter Clarissa LOVE to hunt, he was witness to his cousin Zach’s epic kill on the only hunt where Zack was with the Michigan family. N & Z had been in a longtime rivalry, being so close in age. Z is 9 months older & got held back a grade due to his ADHD so N was actually a grade ahead (N graduated at age 17). In the few summers the Okies came to my parents’ Cottage & everyone’s heights got measured & marked on the doorjambs there was only One year where Z was taller than N…Their rivalry was very interesting to observe & Z used to exhibit a lot of the annoying characteristics similar to those his dad used to torment me with when we were kids LOL apple & tree & all 😉 😉
h/tt to sunnydaze at CTH
Rest of the tweet
Pay attention to the bomb’s location: it detonated on the bridge over Wadi Gaza, aimed at obstructing the exit from northern Gaza. We stand in unity with both #Israel and the people of #Gaza against these ruthless Palestinian terrorists.
To me this is like the alleged bombing shown yesterday saying it was israel bombing people trying to evacuate. That looked like buildings exploding spontaneously not from a jet which is what was claimed.
Details of the attack…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12630883/BodInside-unimaginable-horror-Hamas-brought-one-Israeli-kibbutz.html
Miraculously the 10-month-old twins survived the attack after they were hidden by their parents in a shelter inside their home
These parents died while their twin sons have survived…
“Israeli army arrived 12 hours after the attack began.”
Rafi Farber, the American who lives in Israel now and does youtoob videos for Arcadia Economics, said it was 7 hours.
Either way, it sounds like the Israeli military needs to turn on itself.
I don’t care who you are or what orders you’re given, if monsters are raping and murdering your countrymen, you go save them.
They didn’t.
And that’s all anyone needs to know about them.
“dame” fame…
Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney has won Attitude magazine’s Woman of the Year award
“In her acceptance speech Mulvaney said being honoured with the gong ‘from a queer publication’ ‘means so much more to me.’
She said: ‘Some see me as the woman of the year, some see me as the woman of a year and some change as I only publicly came out online 560 days ago – and some people don’t see me as a woman at all.’
But speaking to MailOnline, Maya Forstater said: ‘It is an insult to women. It is hard to imagine something more misogynist than to pronounce that no woman has achieved anything more significant this year through their work than a man putting on a dress and having cosmetic surgery.’ ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12626659/Campaigners-fury-transgender-influencer-Dylan-Mulvaney-wins-Attitude-magazines-Woman-Year-critics-accuse-awards-gaslighting-women-everywhere.html
It appears he’s also caught the attention of this more prestigious media outlet. Same guy, different category. 😮 I’m really at loss of how to explain it. 😁
https://thelibertydaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Dylan-Mulvaney-435×245.webp
Dylan Mulvaney Is the Babylon Bee’s Man of the Year
Great Find! LOL
So very true
https://x.com/santiagoaufund/status/1713194208897515624?s=61&t=NMBpPoziCr3gCCF_qNHbdg
TY Ozzy–hopefully using the twitter.com link will allow this outrage to show!
Steve, I thought you might find this interesting, though some conclusions appear pretty speculative (to me) 🙂
The data from the initial analysis in August showed that the fragments are rich in Beryllium, lanthanum and uranium, along with low content of elements with high affinity to iron, like Rhenium. Pictured is the composition of a fragment found at the site
About 700 metallic spherical objects were pulled from the sea, which Loeb determined contained alloys that could only be found in interstellar space
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12625053/scientists-new-insights-alien-objects-pacific-cean-harvard-physicist-meteor-naturally-explained-extraterrestrial-technology.html
There is a preprint paper that is mentioned but not linked & then another article by the controversial scientist here (which I haven’t read):
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/interstellar-meteors-from-disruption-of-rocky-planets-by-dwarf-stars-09e4e5837f80#:~:text=Tidal%20disruption%20of%20an%20Earth,be%20expelled%20to%20interstellar%20space.
I’m not quite sure what low concentrations of rhenium could mean here, since it’s already pretty damned rare to begin with (and without any minerals that preferentially contain it, it just doesn’t get concentrated all that much like gold does). Not really relevant to the topic but when I read the comment about low rhenium, I said, “and…?” to myself.
The relative absence of other siderophiles tells me this likely came from a planetary crust. Those elements tend to be *less* concentrated in planetary crusts because during the formation of planets when they’re still liquid, the heavy stuff (iron) sinks down to the core. There is plenty of iron in Earth’s crust, to be sure, but the overwhelming majority of it went straight down to form a mostly iron inner and outer core thousand of miles across, and any other element that tends to stick to iron went down with it. This is why there is so much interest in mining metal asteroids; they’re not only 90 percent iron and about 10 percent nickel but there are trace amounts of all kinds of other goodies in them…trace amounts but much higher concentrations than we deal with mining things on Earth (our mines are confined to the crust; anything else is simply too far down for us to be able to dig to, crazy theories about super deep tunnels notwithstanding).
I note from the pictures that these are very small spheres (the included scale is in millionths of a meter–or thousandths of a millimeter if that will help you visualize how small these things are).
Alien (as in space aliens) origin is speculative. Sure the materials could have been used in transistors and reactors…but if so there should be other signs (fission products would be a good marker, otherwise uranium is just uranium, yet another element found in planets–that’s how we discovered it after all). But could is a broad, broad word. Wolf could be Donald Trump’s secret identity too. There could be a 20 foot across platinum nugget just under my house foundation, and if we had dug one shovel deeper… (Such would contain more platinum than has ever been mined–and would also contain a good amount of the other PGMs.) Could is meaningless other than meaning “not absolutely impossible.”
It will be interesting to see what comes with this but if I were forced to bet…natural explanation, albeit a new one, or a simple unlikely event. (Unlikely events do happen from time to time…if nothing unlikely ever happened, we’d be suspicious.)
Thanks for your insights! It seems a stretch to me to make rather sweeping generalizations about extra-solar system origins when there is No Way that we have exhausted the mysteries of our solar system, let alone our major satellite (the Moon), nor our 3rd Rock from the Sun home 🙂
Note: I am disputing the extraterrestrial aliens as speculative.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they do turn out to not be from our solar system (but of natural origin). We have, after all tracked interstellar-origin asteroids, (See here: https://www.theqtree.com/2023/02/18/2023%C2%B702%C2%B718-joe-biden-didnt-win-daily-thread/)
Is the “interstellar-origin” based on their calculated trajectories (without reviewing your link, sorry) so that we can be “sure” that their origin is outside our solar system?
We don’t have a trajectory since we didn’t see it in motion. But they’re claiming the composition is weird for Earth or anywhere else in the Solar System.
The link points to me telling about ‘Oumuamua, the asteroid that came from somewhere else…zipped through our solar system, and is now on its way to a *different* somewhere else. So we do know things get here from outside the solar system.
But we simply don’t have any information on how these things were traveling before they ended up on the bottom of the ocean, so we can’t compute an orbit.
It’d be like finding a baseball out in your yard. You don’t know how fast it was going or what direction it came from, before it stopped in your yard, unless you saw it happen.
I thought there were eyewitnesses to the meteor hit which is why they knew the general region of the ocean in which to search.
My other reply to you thought you were referencing Other objects in space not the one that resulted in the finds of the metallic spheres in the DM article…
Eyewitnesses, sure. But how many? Did anyone get it on “film”?
The Chelyabinsk meteor in 2013 that blew out zillions of windows and even gave some people burns from the intense flash, was captured on dozens of dash cams. From knowing where the cars were, and when they were there (timestamps on the videos) and which direction they were pointing, and being able to measure direction and altitude off the images, they could triangulate the location of the meteor at several different times, thus figure out the exact direction and speed of its travel, and then backtrack. It wasn’t interstellar but they can figure out what orbit it was in before it blew up in the upper atmosphere.
They almost certainly can’t get something that precise from eyewitnesses, who cannot measure as it happened, where in the featureless sky something was…though they’d be very good for knowing where it hit.
But the biggest problem here is scientists are speculating, which they are entitled to do, and they are not jumping to conclusions. The damn media is doing that for them.
Speculation is a first cut at figuring out what’s going on. “Maybe it came from the core of an alien reactor.” “OK, but if so we should be able to find X, Y, and Z when we look for them…” Eventually some speculation will actually match the facts found, and they’ll have a likely explanation. Meanwhile before then some of the speculations get a bit wild, and the Daily Mail loves that stuff.
Yes the DM does get rather tabloidy about stuff…but they have lots of pics & seem to dig into A Lot of stories that don’t get much coverage over here so it’s an occasional fun indulgence–ymmv.
Thanks for elaborating on the data allowing scientific calculations of trajectories. That was pretty common sense but I appreciate it being spelled out in your methodical manner!
In science speculation could/should precede hypothesis which used to be a/the cornerstone of the scientific method before “the science” became unquestionable dogma–puke emoji!
Yeah, the DM has value…provided you know its limitations.
But really it’s science journalism in general that has issues.
I know I’ve told the story of the article that was about some star that was 326 light years from earth. I was reading on, thinking “they never know the distance to something 300 light years away quite that accurately” then it dawned on me. Whatever astronomer the journalist was interviewing probably said “100 parsecs”. Astronomers think in parsecs, not light years, for historical reasons (it’s a long story I’ll be happy to tell, but I don’t want to jump down that rabbit hole in the middle of this sentence), and a parsec is 3.26 light years. So the journalist, not having any notion of significant figures, simply multiplied by 3.26. The problem is, that “100 parsecs” was likely an approximation, “about a hundred parsecs” and the journalist assumed it was exact and gave an exact figure; realistically, if 100 is an estimate so is 326 and the journalist should have written “300 light years away.”
That’s not an astronomy thing, that’s an every-single-science thing. All of them have to deal with how many significant figures the data is good for, and this is *literally* first semester stuff for any science major–in fact you probably got some of it in a high school science lass. So whoever wrote the article revealed either should have known better and revealed rank incompetence [if they studied some science while at J school], or that he was clueless about science through never having taken any classes in it, and got assigned the science beat because the boss didn’t think he deserved to look at celebrity cleavages for the celebrities section, and be paid for it.
Bwah ha ha for your cleavage remark!
I took A Lot of science in HS & got a BS degree in Biomedical Chemistry, Pre-Med, but never had a parsec explained, sadly LOL. I hope you elaborate even further in one of your “sciencey” posts, so more people will get to partake of your explanations…hopefully with pertinent illustrations 🙂
OK…I’m sure I explained this *somewhere* but I don’t know where.
The way we first measured distances to stars was by finding one we figures was probably nearer than the others (a nice bright one like Sirius or Alpha Centauri).
We then took a photograph through a telescope aimed at that star.
We waited six months, and took another photograph.
The idea being that the Earth is now at the opposite end of its orbit, so if that star is closer, it should shift, ever so slightly, in position compared to all of the other (farther) stars in the pictures.
The effect of nearer objects apparently moving against the background is called parallax; that’s where the “par” in “parsec” comes from.
In fact this does happen, but it’s really, really hard to measure because the stars are SO far away that even shifting position 300 million kilometers results in a very tiny shift.
Since we’re talking about the direction of a star, we work in angles, and no-not-radians-this-time, we did this in seconds of arc. The full circle is 360 degrees, a single degree is split into 60 minutes of arc, a minute of arc is split into 60 seconds of arc.
A quarter at a hundred yards is about a minute of arc wide. People sighting in their rifles will talk about how close they are in “MOA” (minutes of arc), because there too direction is what matters. If your rifle shoots one MOA, that means you can expect your shots at a hundred yards to be an inch apart or so; but at two hundred yards, they’ll be two inches apart, at 300 years, 3″ and so on.
The sun and moon appear to us here to be about 30 minutes of arc across.
So how far is the parallax shift of a star?
The *nearest* star shifts a bit more than ONE SECOND of arc.
Astronomers use the Earth orbit radius (not diameter) of about 150 million km (93 million miles) as the baseline; if a star shifts two seconds in those six months, it’s considered to have a parallax of one second.
A star twice as far will have a parallax of 1/2 of a second.
One can readily compute the distance a star would have to be to shift that much, and it’s 3.26 light years. A light year, in turn, is the distance light travels in a year…and light travels at almost exactly 300,000 kilometers *per second* or one billion kph. A light year is roughly ten trillion kilometers (10,000,000,000,000).
So a parsec is roughly 32,600,000,000,000 kilometers. (Almost exactly the federal debt right now…not cool!).
I’ve done a lot of rounding on the way here, so I looked up the real numbers, and it’s: 30,856,775,814,913 km 673 meters…but that’s not absolutely accurate because there’s a pi in the calculation so the number will never end. In words, about 31 petameters.
(The average radius of the earth’s orbit is called an Astronomical Unit and is *defined* now to be 149,597,870,700 meters. If we ever manage to measure it more accurately than that, then the Earth’s orbit will have been measured to be not quite 1AU in radius. But this number is the basis of the parsec, so astronomers don’t want it changing every time someone makes a better measurement.)
So the parsec is convenient because: measure the parallax of a star in arc seconds. Divide that into 1, and you have its distance in parsecs. Easy peasy. Well, once you’ve done the measurement…which is very finicky work.
TY for that very detailed explanation. I might have to read it a few times to “get” it enough to hold on to…The gun sighting made it fairly real world around here given hunting season is on now 🙂
I figured that would be the best way to explain it to most people around here…
🙂