Speaker Johnson
Pinging you on January 6 Tapes
Just a friendly reminder Speaker Johnson. You’re doing some good things–or at least trying in the case of the budget–but this is the most important thing out there not yet definitively addressed.
We have American patriots being held without bail and without trial, and the tapes almost certainly contain exculpatory evidence. (And if they don’t, and we’re all just yelling in an echo chamber over here, we need to know that too. And there’s only one way to know.)
Either we have a weaponized, corrupt government or we have a lot of internet charlatans. Let’s expose whatever it is. (I’m betting it’s the corrupt weaponized government, but if I am wrong, I’d like to see proof.)
Armistice Day
November 11th was Armistice Day before we broadened it to be a day about all veterans, regardless of which war they fought in, or even whether they did their jobs the best way possible and kept us out of wars.
November 11, 1918 was the end of a war that was far more horrific than any war before it…and in some ways was worse than the next one.
I watched a lengthy series of lectures on World War I, and it was striking how the narrative concentrated on all sorts of advances and retreats until about the middle of 1915. Then after that, you don’t hear about a lot of changes of tide, until 1918.
That is because the war settled down into a defensive stalemate. As long as each side had machine guns that could mow the enemy down, people either stayed in their trenches…and the front line didn’t move…or they died. By the thousands.
The tank was ultimately to change this, and poison gas also had its effects (it was so horrific that even Adolf Hitler didn’t want to use it in battle, though nothing was too bad for the Jews). But until then thousands upon thousands died…with no net result.
And when things did change, they changed a lot. The map of Europe was redrawn. Germany lost much territory; Austria lost nearly everything. The Ottoman Empire collapsed and was almost completely occupied; present day Turkey managed to assert its independence and not be largely given to Greece (1920 is regarded by them as the year they became independent). And of course the Russian Empire…one of the allies…managed to lose its part of the war earlier and lost its monarchy, becoming after over a decade of turmoil and various subject peoples enjoying independence for a while, reunited under the communists.
As it happens my grandfather fought in the war…before he emigrated to America. (He was born in one of the Allied countries.)
World War One was a shock to the European psyche. There had been a century of comparative quiet since the massive disruptions of the Napoleonic Wars, the worst anomalies being the Franco-Prussian war of the early 1870s, and the Crimean War of 1855. Europe seemed to be pretty stable, with the main hazard being the fact that Ottoman Empire was clearly dying. (It was the “sick man” of Europe.)
And then suddenly the roof fell in, and battles that made the Battle of Borodino in 1812 (itself the second most lethal one day battle in history up to that time) seem like a picnic by comparison, became regular occurrences.
World War II wasn’t as much as a shock, even if it was deadlier. Horrific war was less unexpected that time around.
Europe was determined to remember, and two results of that stick with us today. We are not the only country that has a Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Many European countries set such a thing up. I don’t know how many of them added a World War II soldier to their monuments, like we did. Or subsequent wars…like we did. And almost every country celebrated Armistice Day, November 11, complete with a moment of silence at 11 AM, the time the war ended (in this case we didn’t correct for time zones; it was 11 AM European time, and the moment of silence is always at 11 AM local time). In many countries men would wear poppies in their lapels (an allusion to Flanders Fields, where the poppies grow).
I don’t recall ever going through that moment of silence ceremony. That appears to be gone. And now it’s a moveable holiday in any case. And now it’s no longer specifically about World War I.
But, barely recognizable though it is, it’s worth keeping in mind this bit of history.
We did not have a World War I memorial on the Mall in DC until 2021–too late for any of the honorees to actually see it. It should have been a no-brainer, but people actually fought against it.
Our national monument and museum to the war is instead in Kansas City. I visited it many years ago. Just a few months prior, the last living American veteran of the war had visited the museum, and you can bet he was an honored guest!
Frank Woodruff Buckles, Feb 1, 1901 – Feb 27, 2011.
One can only imagine the thoughts going through his head as he saw all of the photographs of soldiers from every country, from events he likely remembered very vividly…and to realize that every one of those people is dead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Buckles
A Political Statement
One of my stock jokes is to say, as I head off to the bathroom or washroom or restroom, “I’m going to go make a political statement.”
It certainly seems like urinating is a good way to make a statement about the YSM, and defecating works for politicians. Or the other way around is good too, though “#1” just never seems emphatic enough.
Maybe “#1” is just being polite, and “#2” is telling the fixtures what you really think.
Anyhow, I pretty much do plan to be polite to RINOs that electioneer or fundraise. I’ll tell them, Sorry, but I need to GO Pee…
Language Warning
In the next piece I had to discuss a particular topic. Unfortunately, I couldn’t discuss it without naming it. Therefore I apologize in advance for having to do so, and apologize to anyone offended by the sight of the name.
RINO McDaniel
[Well, perfect timing for this one to pop up in the rotation again!]
RINO McDaniel continues to infest the GOP. But RINO McDaniel isn’t the problem.
Let me be crystal clear on this, RINO McDaniel is a lower-than-whale-shit, piss guzzling ratfucking shit eating traitorous rancid syphillitic cunt. Her worth as a human being is substantially less than zero, any oxygen sucked into her lungs is wasted, and it would be, no matter what job she had.
I fear I haven’t been clear enough, but that will have to suffice.
But she is not the problem…or rather, she would not be a problem were it not for others. She’d still be as I have described, but we wouldn’t know who she is and would not care, because she could do no damage. She’d just be anonymous human refuse.
No, the real problem is the fact that a majority of the 168 top GOP people voted for her. And now that has happened five times so they cannot claim they didn’t know what she was.
In spite of the fact that under her “leadership” the party has deliberately sabotaged the will of its base, has deliberately refused to challenge blatant election fraud, had gone out of its way to ensure certain candidates do not get nominated, has diverted donor money to namby-pamby candidates who have all the electoral appeal of a puddle of dog vomit…and in general has done nothing whatsoever to help fix the problems that plague America.
However that last is to be expected; I cannot expect anyone who IS the problem to help FIX the problem.
RINO McDaniel would be powerless without an entire party leadership of the same mind as her. They want this dismal performance; they want to ignore the party base.
If she were to drop dead this instant, it would solve nothing as someone just like her would be elected by those same pustulous people.
According to Charlie Kirk, about 55 people voted against her, 10-12 wanted something different but were too chickenshit to do the right thing, and roughly 100 people voted for her enthusiastically, and even had the unmitigated gall to complain to Kirk about US. Fuck ’em. Rusty 12 gauge bore brushes would be too good for these arrogant pricks and cunts.
Every single one of those hundred is just as bad as she is. In other words, they are all worse than I described at the beginning of this piece. And no doubt those people in turn have people who supported them to be state party chairs and whateveritis they call the other two people from each state and territory who were voting.
It’s time to face up to the fact that the Republican party is effectively owned by the shit-eating RINOs. We’ve got more work to do, a lot more work, to make the GOP an instrument for the restoration of the United States of America. And that’s in addition to cleaning up our elections.
There’s no point in cleaning up elections just to elect ratfucking RINOs.
OK, hopefully now you will have some inkling of my true attitude towards RINOs. Sorry that words were inadequate to give you the full picture.
The Real Fascist is His Fraudulency Joe Biden*
*Or whoever has his hand rammed up that meat puppet’s ass.
Brandon (which I will use as a term for whoever is the power behind the Porcelain Throne) has thrown down the gauntlet…but in a way where most of America will never see it. The networks didn’t carry his tirade. CNN air brushed it (or whatever you call editing the red background) for its five viewers (who aren’t trapped in airports).
Luckily for me I live in Colorado, and therefore, despite my best efforts, I probably didn’t vote for Donald Trump.
Of course, for this purpose who I actually did try to vote for will be essential, and they undoubtedly know.
Come and get us, asswipes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h6ZZ28QtX4
Justice Must Be Done.
The prior election must be acknowledged as fraudulent, and steps must be taken to prosecute the fraudsters and restore integrity to the system.
Nothing else matters at this point. Talking about trying again in 2022 or 2024 is hopeless otherwise. Which is not to say one must never talk about this, but rather that one must account for this in ones planning; if fixing the fraud is not part of the plan, you have no plan.
Small Government?
Many times conservatives (real and fake) speak of “small government” being the goal.
This sounds good, and mostly is good, but it misses the essential point. The important thing here isn’t the size, but rather the purpose, of government. We could have a cheap, small tyranny. After all our government spends most of its revenue on payments to individuals and foreign aid, neither of which is part of the tyrannical apparatus trying to keep us locked down and censored. What parts of the government would be necessary for a tyranny? It’d be a lot smaller than what we have now. We could shrink the government and nevertheless find it more tyrannical than it is today.
No, what we want is a limited government, limited not in size, but rather in scope. Limited, that is, in what it’s allowed to do. Under current circumstances, such a government would also be much smaller, but that’s a side effect. If we were in a World War II sort of war, an existential fight against nasty dictatorships on the brink of world conquest, that would be very expensive and would require a gargantuan government, but that would be what the government should be doing. That would be a large, but still limited government, since it’d be working to protect our rights.
World War II would have been the wrong time to squawk about “small government,” but it wasn’t (and never is) a bad time to demand limited government. Today would be a better time to ask for a small government–at least the job it should be doing is small today–but it misses the essential point; we want government to not do certain things. Many of those things we don’t want it doing are expensive but many of them are quite eminently doable by a smaller government than the one we have today. Small, but still exceeding proper limits.
So be careful what you ask for. You might get it and find you asked for the wrong thing.
Political Science In Summation
It’s really just a matter of people who can’t be happy unless they control others…versus those who want to be left alone. The oldest conflict within mankind. Government is necessary, but government attracts the assholes (a highly technical term for the control freaks).
A Few Things We Cannot Blame on His Fraudulency
I am pretty sure Joe Biden had nothing whatsoever to do with the 30 Years War that ran from 1618-1648 and probably killed about a third of the people then living in what is now Germany.
Nor did he cause the collapse of either Roman empire (Western, 476 CE, Eastern 1453 CE). Nor the ignominious failure of most of the Crusades. Nor the collapse of Bronze Age civilization around 1200 BCE (including the collapse of the Minoans and the blowup of Santorini).
However, my utter lack of ability to imagine how he could possibly be responsible for these things is not a valid argument against them, so I await correction if appropriate.
His Truth?
Again we saw an instance of “It might be true for Billy, but it’s not true for Bob” logic this week.
I hear this often, and it’s usually harmless. As when it’s describing differing circumstances, not different facts. “Housing is unaffordable” can be true for one person, but not for another who makes ten times as much.
But sometimes the speaker means it literally. Something like 2+2=4 is asserted to be true for Billy but not for Bob. (And when it’s literal, it’s usually Bob saying it.) And in that sense, it’s nonsense, dangerous nonsense. There is ONE reality, and it exists independent of our desires and our perceptions. It would go on existing if we weren’t here. We exist in it. It does not exist in our heads. It’s not a personal construct, and it isn’t a social construct. If there were no society, reality would continue to be what it is, it wouldn’t vanish…which it would have to do, if it were a social construct.
Now what can change from person to person is the perception of reality. We see that all the time. And people will, of course, act on those perceptions. They will vote for Trump (or try to) if their perception is close to mine, and vote against Trump (and certainly succeed at doing so) if their perception is distant from mine (and therefore, if I do say so, wrong). I have heard people say “perception is reality” and usually, that’s what they’re trying to say–your perception of reality is, as far as you know, an accurate representation of reality, or you’d change it.
But I really wish they’d say it differently. And sometimes, to get back to Billy and Bob, the person who says they have different truths is really saying they have different perceptions of reality–different worldviews. I can’t argue with the latter. But I sure wish they’d say it better. That way I’d know that someone who blabbers about two different truths is delusional and not worth my time, at least not until he passes kindergarten-level metaphysics on his umpteenth attempt.
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.)
(Paper) Spot Prices
Kitco “Ask” prices. Last week:
Gold $1,993.20
Silver $23.31
Platinum $942.00
Palladium $1,142.00
Rhodium $4,525.00
This week, 3PM Mountain Time, markets have closed for the weekend.
Gold $1,939.70
Silver $22.36
Platinum $853.00
Palladium $990.00
Rhodium $4,600.00
WOW. An absolute hammering. Look at palladium. Down over ten percent in one week. Platinum bleeding too. Rhodium managed to eke out a net gain though lost a lot on Friday. And gold is basically on a yo-yo right now. I was visiting a coin shop and the individual I was working with expressed amazement at how volatile the markets are.
Tread cautiously if you are planning to change your position.
Infinities
No…not this.
And not this either…but it’s a little closer.
I am speaking of the mathematical concept.
There are really two variants. The one usually represented by the “lazy eight” (∞) is the end point of the number line. Which actually has no end point. It can also be thought of as the limit of 1/x, as x gets closer and closer to zero (but never quite gets there–more on that shortly). Or, when a function “increases without bound” ∞ is the symbol for that (non-existent) limit.
It’s commonly thought of as the biggest number. Unfortunately, that makes little sense when one thinks about it. It doesn’t behave like a number. If you add 1 to any number you get a different number (and the prior number clearly wasn’t the largest). Add 1 to infinity…and you get infinity.
The other concept commonly “bucketed” under the term “infinity” is more correctly termed the aleph number. Georg Cantor (1845-1918) first enunciated this concept and, apparently feeling we needed fresh meat for symbols, went to the Hebrew abjad instead of the Greek or Latin alphabets, using the symbol aleph (א).
Aleph numbers have a lot to do with set theory, they count the number of elements in infinite sets. And notice I am using the plural here. There is more than one aleph number.
The “basic” aleph number is aleph nought (or aleph zero, or aleph null), with a zero subscript:
(This is one of those things that over in Wikipoo is an embedded graphic, rather than character data.)
There are many sets of infinite size. For example, the set of all integers is infinite in size. The number of points on a line segment, is infinite in size. The set of all rational numbers (i.e., those numbers that can be expressed as the ratio of two integers)…again, infinite.
But it turns out that not all of these are the same size. Or to make noises like a mathematician, they do not have the same cardinality.
What does it mean for two infinite sets to have the same size?
Let’s consider the set of all whole numbers. 0, 1, 2, 3, etc., ad (ahem) infinitum.
And also the set of all odd whole numbers: 1, 3, 5, 7… and so on.
(One of the perennial arguments in math is whether “natural number” means 1, 2, 3… or 0, 1, 2, 3… I was taught the former but apparently that’s not a standard everyone abides by. Whole number is also ambiguous, but I was taught as seen here, 0, 1, 2, 3… Just to clear up any misunderstandings. If you are pretty sure this isn’t what you were taught…you’re probably right.)
You would think that the second set would somehow be half the size of the first. But no, not really.
The most primitive method of comparing the size of two sets is so simple in concept that it does not involve counting and checking equality. Rather, it’s to pair elements from one set with elements in the other. If you run out of one set before the other, it’s the smaller of the two sets. For example, consider {3, 17, 14} and {a, r, x, p}. Pair 3 with a, 17 with r, 14 with x and p is left over; the first set is smaller than the second.
You can pair the odd numbers with the whole numbers; every whole number, if you multiply it by two and add one to the answer, has a “mate” in the set of odd numbers. Pick any whole number, it has a mate in the other set, and the reverse is true…start with any odd whole number, subtract one, divide by two, and you have one of the whole numbers. In mathematician-speak, they map one-to-one.
So these two sets are considered to have the same cardinality, and that cardinality is called aleph-nought.
It has been shown (but don’t ask me how) that rational numbers (in other words, all fractions you can write with integers) have this same cardinality as well, and so do all algebraic numbers…numbers you can find as roots of polynomials with integer coefficients. This includes numbers like the square root of 2, the golden ratio, etc. but it does not include the transcendental numbers like e and pi.
But all real numbers, including the transcendental numbers, and points in a line segment, have a different cardinality.
Returning to aleph-nought, there’s a common misconception out there: If a set is of infinite size, it contains everything.
This is simply not true. For example the set of all even integers is clearly infinite, it just as clearly doesn’t include everything. It doesn’t include your dog. It doesn’t include your house. But more significantly and less wiseassedly (is that a word? It is now), it doesn’t include odd numbers.
OK, let’s get our feet on the ground.
I talked about infinity being the limit of 1/x as x gets closer and closer to zero…but was careful to specify you can’t set x to precisely zero. This seems like a bit of nitpicking, but there’s a very good reason you cannot divide by zero, and it’s not just to avoid infinity.
It’s fundamentally undefinable. If you can’t define it you can’t do it (not even if you’re Chuck Norris). Consider:
(Any number ) × 0 = 0
(Any number other than zero) × (Any number other than zero) = (some number other than zero).
But there’s no way to multiply a number by zero, and come up with a non-zero answer.
Division is the reverse of multiplication. If a × b = c, you can start with c and divide by b and get a. Or divide by a and get b.
But there’s no way for either a or b or both to be zero, and for c to not be zero. So there’s no reverse of this operation. Let’s say a is zero. Then c must be zero: 0 × b = 0. You can’t have a non-zero number on the right side. Since such a statement would be invalid, re-arranging it with algebra can’t give you anything valid either.
You can, however, legitimately divide by b, and have 0 = 0 / b.
But what if you divide zero by zero? That seems to be legitimate at first, because at least in converting the multiplication to a division, you’re starting out with a possible multiplication, not an impossible one. Take a look: 0 × b = 0 (legit) so b = 0/0 ought to be legit too.
The problem here is that in the original multiplication, b could be literally anything, and you end up with zero. If you try to reverse the process, you literally cannot tell what b ought to be. So 0/0 is considered undefined too.
OK, this turned out to be more “rambly” than I was hoping…and it’s nine minutes to midnight, ET. I’ll just post and hope for the best.
But one last point (which I’m adding shortly after this drops)
In physics, if the math for some theory leads to infinity or has a divide-by-zero in it, it’s called a singularity, and physicists consider that a sign that under those circumstances, we need a new theory, one that will look like the old one most of the time, but doesn’t have the singularity. This is so for black holes (that, it seems, must be of zero size and therefore of infinite density) and also for the time=zero mark under the big bang theory. No credible astrophysicist doubts that black holes exist or that the big bang happened…but these are nagging issues.
But if science had no nagging issues, it wouldn’t be science. We’ll figure these out someday…maybe a huge surprise lurks here. (Quantum mechanics came out of one such old singularity.) And then there will unimagined-by-us nagging issues to replace them.
Obligatory PSAs and Reminders
China is Lower than Whale Shit
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 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 for the Armistice Day history. To all veterans, thank you for your service.
If you read the infinity section, you may want to reload and look at the end, I added a couple of paragraphs.
Okay, thanks.
OK, now that I’m not in the notifier and can see the picture: That is cool!
(It probably also happens on some date in late January, though almost certainly not at exactly 11:11 AM. The key factors are the sun’s declination and its hour angle, the declination repeats, the hour angle will be slightly off at 11:11 that day because of the equation of time)
This is in the town of Anthem, AZ.
It is cool. Are there no variables that might affect its accuracy from year to year?
I would imagine one Nov 11 at 11:11 AM is not exactly like the next year. The sun won’t be exactly at the same declination (height below the celestial equator) from one calendar year to the next because the actual solar year is ~365.2425 days long. So going from 2022-2023 the alignment happens about six hours earlier (from the sun’s POV) than it did the previous year. Then leap year comes along and counteracts that. I don’t know how big the effect is. Note that in the photo the sunbeam isn’t perfectly centered on the seal…BUT it’s also dated November 9. How much difference a six hour variation in sun declination makes? I don’t know. I could try to figure it out, but it’d be a lot of work. It’s certainly much less than a degree, though.
The time of day should be good every year.
Good info; thanks.
I have no idea if that made any sense whatsoever. It’s the sort of thing that just screams for a diagram. Or about ten times as much verbiage.
It made sense.👍🏼 I had an inkling that variables like that were in play but wasn’t sure how to accurately verbalize it without doing some research.
Actually, there’s a cool engineering trick hidden in there — how to make all the ellipses a trifle bigger (and the seal a mite smaller) than they need to be for one time success in order for the same effect to happen year-after-year.
That would depend on whether they find lighting too much more acceptable.
The comment you’re replying to just talks about how it will also align at about the same time on some other day of the year. You really don’t care about that, so you don’t have to consider it in the design. The fact that the sun’s declination will vary very slightly year to year (as I pointed out elsewhere, to ThestTruths) simply because the solar year isn’t a whole number of days long, is the sort of thing where you might want to design some slop into the system. But I don’t know how big that effect is.
Then, again, with extremely finicky and precise design that includes just the right amount of slop to make the thing work, they’re lucky the contractor didn’t install one of the service stones upside-down or backwards.
Too true.
Heck maybe it did happen and the contractor had to fix it.
LOL!
“…they’re lucky the contractor didn’t install one of the service stones upside-down or backwards.”
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Or make it too small… don’t laugh, it’s happened before!
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It certainly wouldn’t have the same effect if it could fit on a picnic table, even though the amount of calculations would be the same.
“It certainly wouldn’t have the same effect if it could fit on a picnic table,”
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The addition of dancing dwarves would help to compensate for a smaller presentation.
Seems like they make everything better.
Not according to Peter Dinklage.
He’s still upset to this day about being passed over for the role in This is Spinal Tap.
Never got over it.
Celebrating PI is always in style!
The sunbeam doesn’t speak clearly at times…
Ellipse… 🙂
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Little does anyone know, but there is a large black obelisk in orbit with a similar hole….to include the Space Force.
More good news… unless you’re the ATF 😂
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I keep forgetting that agencies like that have to abide by rules set out by Congress. They so often seem to go rogue. Thank goodness the judge did not allow them to overstep their authority.
Yes. This is a good thing.
But let us never forget that Congress overstepped its bounds in passing these laws in the first place.
^^^ This. illegal laws are still illegal even if enforced.
We need a REAL STRICT constitutional Supreme Court to start swatting down the accumulation of unconstitutional laws and SC decisions. There are so very many, — a 100 + years worth.
And a defense against the statist tactic of simply re-passing a law in a slightly different form, therebyu forcing someone to have to wait to be injured, then sue, then fight their way up to SCOTUS so it can swat the law down again. Repeat, ad infinitum.
Let us fix this “the other way around.” Instead of needing to remove all the overreaching, unconstitutional laws individually, we could pass a “clean sweep” law. It would be very simple. Except for what is explicit in the Constitution, eliminate all laws. New laws have a 3 month expiration date. Is that too long? Your thoughts?
I can guarantee you that people will argue over whether something is explicit or not, oftentimes on semantic grounds, but often because the founders weren’t very specific.
A lot of what we consider government overreach comes from a quite plausible reading of the commerce clause, just for instance. I can wish all I want the the founders had simply prohibited the states from erecting trade barriers between states…but instead they gave a general regulatory power to Congress to prevent the states from doing that.
I know of one school of thought that basically amounts to the cabal having existed back then and made the constitution vague on this point (and leaving other backdoors) on purpose.
Perhaps they left things vague so future generations could stay busy going round and causing less harm?
Vagueness left room for government to grow.
….which is exactly the problem.
Related — https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/05/12/technological-progress-stagnation-regulatory-explosion-1970s-column/84225066/
I am all for it!
Maybe a Second Declaration of Independence, and a Redux?
How about 20 years of nothing but repealing laws?
I think we rid All laws. Because, wasn’t the Constitution supposed to BE our Law? Confused in NYS!!!
I don’t think the founders thought that the Constitution was supposed to be all of our Law, just the supreme law of the land.
Or they would have written the first amendment as simply “Congress shall pass no law.” Period.
“Bill Maher stands up for Western Civilization.” Good rant, 6:08 long.
Maher is an interesting sort. He’s definitely no raging MAGA, but he’s not nearly as nutty as many leftists are.
Yes, he has the ability to look at some issues in an unbiased way.
I would say the Maher is trying to do some DAMAGE CONTROL for the DemonRats.
He is trying to calm down the wigged-out JFK type democrats and con them into thinking the WOKE crap they see is NOT the TRUE FACE of the DemonRat Party.
When the majority of Democrats were people who thought like Maher, we had a functioning government. Neither side was always happy with it, but we didn’t have chaos.
Barack Obama’s marxist/communist/muslim ass changed all that.
Maher behaves like a rational leftist (much of the time) who understands his view on political realities is a perspective and subject to correction when conflicting information is verified.
He seems never to have fallen for much of “woke.”
With the little tease about infinity, you’re just being aleph-nought-y.
This is a picture of the master diamond cutter Joseph Asscher doing the original split of the Cullinan diamond — the largest diamond ever discovered.
I had a High School friend who nearly apprenticed to be a diamond-cutter…..he ended up as a petroleum geologist instead. One of the peculiar things about the profession — in common with surprisingly many others — is that one cannot become too enthralled by perfection.
Many people will try to get things absolutely right, taking ten hours to try to ensure that a 1% error will be a .5% error, and another twenty hours to make it a .25% error, and another forty hours to make it a .125% error, and so on…..at a certain point, you have to just whack the stupid thing with your hammer and deal with the consequences. The alternative is to forever keep chasing imaginary improvements no bigger than a butt-hair on a nit.
This leads to an interesting side-effect, where professionals tend to denigrate their work-product among themselves, particularly as it gets closer to delivery. The partner in charge of signing a financial statement at a major CPA firm will frequently say something like, “let’s push the button on this piece of crap and all go home and sleep.” Mind you, he can truthfully testify under oath that this financial statement exceeds the standards of the industry, is the product of a team of dedicated and competent professionals who have worked on it for months, and only differs from absolute perfection in ways that auditors might only perceive with difficulty if the light were right…..but he has to emotionally distance himself and his team from the work so that they can let it go.
Plaintiff’s attorneys love delving into internal records and finding this sort of statement, of course. They immediately leak them to the press and play ‘gotcha games’ in courtrooms — which is rank hypocrisy, because their internal communications are full of the same thing: “you have that stupid filing for Judge Smith ready for tomorrow’s ten o’clock?”
You can’t call something “done” and ship it out when there are still people clinging to it and trying to make it better — and, sometimes, it takes a certain amount of brutality to get people to let go.
I sure hope he knew what he was doing.
The hammer must be made out of clear diamond, I can’t even see the head on it.
I’m sure they hired the best they could.
The tool would probably be better recognized as a mallet — but I’m sure he had an assortment at his disposal. https://www.amazon.com/wood-carving-mallet/s?k=wood+carving+mallet
Oh.
So the head of the mallet probably flew off when he raised his hand, just as they snapped the photo.
😁
If you look again you can see he is holding the cutter in one hand and striking it with something like a wooden dowel with the other.
If you have ever struck another tool with a hammer, something like a chisel, you really want to use wood or hard rubber to dampen the rebound unless you absolutely need to use steel. It also depends on what frequency you want.
Ima guess it takes some amount of force to split a diamond, based on the hardness of diamonds, and on how high Joseph raised his arm before striking it.
But it looks like he’s using a Popsicle stick, and I don’t see how a Popsicle stick has enough mass or weight to split a diamond, no matter how hard he whacked it.
That’s why you’re not a diamond-cutter.
The short explanation is that diamonds have natural fracture lines — if you “encourage” one just right, the diamond will split accordingly. Mapping them is a significant part of the effort.
Using a larger hammer and hitting the diamond approximately where it is weak is unlikely to properly preserve the size and character of the resulting stones.
You want to smack the plane of cleavage to get a smooth edge.
Otherwise you will probably get something like quartz fracturing.
I do like the cut of diamond named for him. I take it he was the one to originate it.
How many badly-cut diamonds do we ever hear about?
[loud snort]
HEEHEEHEE! H/t!
End up as industrial diamonds…. or emery cloth.
Lara Logan has another episode out about her documentary of Jan 6:
This is again about Ray Epps.
Here is an alternate URL for the 2nd episode of Ray Epps. It is larger and maybe worth saving since it is the primary source.
https://truthinmedia.com/
Don’t know how to look at this, is it trying to nudge people in this direction? Or is it just a sign of the frustration everyone is feeling now, including the rapper generation?
Check your username – you’re leaving off some letters, making things go into the bin.
I meant email username, specifically.
Julie Kelly says what we’re all feeling.
It would help to start calling it a ROGUE regime. A lawless rogue regime.
An illegitimate, lawless, rogue regime.
Should have been calling it that from day 1.
Which of course, I have.
Well I messed up again 😩 and went into the waiting for approval bin, so I’ll repost.
Are we being nudged in this direction with this video or is it a reflection of how this segment see’s things.
The Rittenhouse anthem
julie Kelly says what everyone is thinking
Julie Kelly’s whole tweet:
Also:
They planned this raid with the help of Propaganda Stream Media (PSM).
POLICE STATE:
absolutely revolting
Julie’s TWs should be read by All. Then shared.
I might be wrong but my last reading of this incident is that Greg is being held in a local jail. I’d hope the locals would put up some kind of fuss before being forced to release him into the Feds hands.
I certainly hope so too. It is about time the locals told the FIB to GO POUND SAND!
She sounds sick of a lot of things.
But is she sick enough to take action?
If not, then I guess she needs to get more sicker.
Alternate to Twitter for that video:
https://nitter.net/loudmouthgrant/status/1722649743728296443#m
Good post. Should carry this over to Gail’s post she put up today. Fit’s perfectly and will be easier to find again.
DONE!
WHAT???? 50,000 NEW government jobs A MONTH?????
to do what?
FTA
Job growth in the private economy, the kind that creates wealth and tax revenue, was only 99,000. The government contributed 51,000 of the new jobs, second only to hiring in healthcare (58,400) by industry. This continues the trend of 50,000 new government jobs a month over the past year. Government employment is now back where it was before the pandemic in February 2020.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/11/shocker_no_matter_how_bad_the_economy_gets_government_jobs_are_doing_fine.html
51,000 feds + 58,400 Murder inc = 109,000 SUPPORTED by 99,000…
Dems building back their voting bloc along with all of the illegals.
Banana Republic R US.
For Wolf, does this mean anything?
This is hilarious.
Joe putting on his shirt(go to the link below)
Odd. Tried two paths. I am blocked. Have accessed Truth before. Never posted Truth. Maybe I gotta log in or something…
Can’t even get to log in page. Will shutdown in a bit. Try again.
Maybe you should clear your cookies.
I am also not registered with Truth Social, but I don’t have problems accessing.
It showed for me but when I refreshed it did not.
I am getting a lot of that with Twatter sometimes showing one day and sometimes not the next. Same with pictures.
short video in the tweet. at what point is there push back for this behavior?
Fits in with Gail’s post that includes talk of the Algerian Strategy thing where in the government does absolutely nothing until everyone submits and votes their way. The fact that nothing is done about this seems to lend to that.
All I can say is that this is a big country and we are armed and own the land. When recompense comes, I hope it swamps the swamp , the cabal and all their WEF friends because overshadowing all this Algerian strategy thing along with the effort to establish a medieval feudalistic tyranny is the Depop Strategy.
I included that tweet and your comment on my article.
LE “could” arrest them.
Just trying to save the taypayers’ money 😆 😡 😡 😡 😡
more…
NYC police standby as Hamas supporters tear down American flags.
it’s so predictable that it’s become white noise. The big difference between this psy op and the BLM idiocy is that simply by virtue of their skin color black youths could identify and participate, many hoping for the bonanza looting opportunities.
These islamic supporters ( probably a huge proportion professional protesters on call) are so foreign in nature that the average leftie who jumps on any oppression bandwagon..isn’t going to stay in high march/protest mode.
Verse of the Day for Saturday, November 11, 2023
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“The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.”
Psalms 121:7 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!
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 at and Marica’s blog. Be well.
In the you can not make this up category…
New York Post – HUNTER BECOMES THE HUNTED
Eye of the Storm does the Q dig on this ‘meme’ starting at 13:15 to 14:14
https://rumble.com/v3uy8rk-eye-of-the-storm-ep-71-fri-900-pm-et-.html
Connects
Q-drop 3625, Nov 24, 2019
and
Q-drop 158 Nov 20 2017
to that headline.
EXCELLENT!
Some of those IDIOT college students need to SEE the footage this reporter has seen to SHOCK them into REALITY. (Include smells and sounds at high volume.)
The idiot college students should see it, their often idiotic parents should view and every teacher, professor and cleric of all denominations should watch it
That too but The students are more likely to change.
Oh, that’s quite awesome!
Unusually, Blunt Truths. Truly should GO viral.
I am noticing something that I “think” could be happening here on the Tree. Maybe I am having a mad, wild conspiracy moment, I don’t know.
Since Hamas attacked Israel, I have seen comments from people here that seem really contradictory. One day, a poster will appear to be Hamas sympathetic in the extreme, and the next, not at all. It is so striking, it’s as if it’s two different people writing.
Does anyone else see this?
Does anyone think it’s possible that the site could be controlled to the extent that one could not see posts being attributed to them, but only see the ones they actually wrote? Could the control extend to who sees which comments?
I know this sounds nuts. But it really seems odd, the way some of the comments go back and forth from one extreme to another.
Wolf, what do you think? Is this possible? Anybody?
When was the last time you saw a suspicious pro-Hamas post? And by whom?
Let me do this offline. In this case, I get how FIB tries to sort these things out quietly.
I’ll go so far as to say I’ve not seen an actual pro-Hamas post since Phoenix Rising left.
I’ve seen a lot of “This is Israel’s problem, let them deal with it” but that’s often followed with the hope that they’ll annihilate Hamas–without our help.
That could hardly be considered pro-Hamas.
Exactly.
That’s part of why I’m curious, and part of the problem. Selective MITM modification of content is unlikely to be seen by all of us. The asymmetric advantage, e.g., to create disunity or influence site position, is most likely to come from small and selective provocation and influence operations.
I saw some very impressive actions by all sides in my time working on state and local electoral politics. The left in particular will make BOLD moves to try to change the playing field.
Some of the stuff left me thinking three letters of unknown content had to be involved. IMPRESSIVE.
I think Weird Al’s excellent parody of a song by an MK songstress makes some pretty good points (and about as cheerful as Weasel-Stomping Day)…
Just like here; if the Greens didn’t have a problem to solve, they’d create one…
Oh, wait…
I’m pro hamas-should-meet-God-today.
Assuming of course that was PR, yes.
I think any one of us would like to know if there have been posts written by another entity in our name. I know that I would..paranoia is my middle name!
I’m sorry but…who are you?
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LOL!
Thanks a lot…the psychiatrist is expensive man…
Biggest Hershey Kiss I’ve ever seen!
See, the trees ARE moving 😀
That gif is enough to make someone go cross eyed. It’s annoying ! My bad on that one
Beware of geeks bearing gifs 😀
…. 
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Always remember – you don’t see what others see. You ASSUME you see what others see. I watched Facebook tinkering with this stuff – and RAN when I realized that it’s an insanely tilted playing field, designed to CHANGE SOCIETY.
So does that explain why the orange new post circle can say ’18’ new posts but all I see is a few, not 18 ? I always figured it was a fluke or something
I know that if I reply in the notifier, I won’t see it on the main page until I reload. If someone replies to my notifier reply, I won’t see it either (except in the notifier) until I reload.
If someone replies to my notifier reply, and then someone replies to THEM….I won’t ever see it, neither in the notifier or on the page itself, unless I reload (or unless it’s Saturday, in which case since I am the author EVERYTHING shows up in the notifier).
(EDIT: in fact, I just reloaded the page so that THIS would show up. I did it in the notifier.)
Also…when I reload the page a lot of yellow highlights come back…even if I clicked on the comment to clear the yellow highlight earlier.
Same here.
Oh, and…if someone responds to an invisible comment I wrote through trhe notifier, and the orange number lights up…if I click on it, normally it will scroll to the first highlighted post. But if that happens to be a reply to a not-visible “notifier” comment I wrote, it will spin endlessly and I have to reload the page.
Thanks for the tip!
…and I get to go through and hunt for highlighted comments and click on them again to clear the highlight. Otherwise the “go to” feature of the orange dot won’t take me to anything new.
Some people refer to Edsger W. Dijkstra’s letter to the editor of the Communications of the ACM as a warning against GO TO… others consider it Wirthless… 🙂
The funny thing is that for the past 30 (if not more) years the preferred way for a language to deal with an error condition is to “raise an exception.” That basically stops the program where it was and finds an error-handling block able to handle the exception…and then if none is found the program just terminates without a core dump. (This can make it VERY hard to debug.)
The problem with this is it’s actually a GOTO…and it’s a hidden goto.
Beats the daylights out of a computed goto (I’m looking at YOU, FORTRAN!)
(WAT, FIV?)…
In MPE/XL and MPE/IX we had try/recover blocks…
Once in a while the recover didn’t 🙂 which made reading the dump even more fun, especially if it walked over the links of virtual spanning spindles (usually hardware issues)…..
Patching together broken dumps was one of my specialities back in the day… one might say, “The SOM is over, but the memory lingers on”…
(But, of course, “Real Programmers Don’t Write Pascal”… and “Babbage” by Tony Karp)…
HMMMMmm now that is an interesting point. I know the yellow and circle sometimes do not match or the yellow comes back.
Well well well,
you mention the orange circle and it has just now quit working!
Sometimes it stops working but only when the number of comments is much higher than it is right now.
Those posts can be distributed throughout the comments, and they can also be “de-oranged” accidentally without you seeing or noticing. Graphical interfaces are very complicated, as is the logic behind all the commenting, databasing of comments, and display of comments. And complexity is the enemy of security.
Your best bet to test that is – when there are not many posts – right after midnight – to do a head count, carefully, of new comments, watching very carefully for orange posts to “disappear” when you move your pointer near them. You can prove or disprove what YOU might be seeing.
And bear in mind what Steve points out – that sometimes new comments simply WILL NOT show up until you do a refresh of the page.
They aren’t pro-Hamas exactly, as in rah-rah Hamas. It’s more like it’s not our problem, let them work it out, etc. Like they are equivalent in the fight. As if Israel should be left on its own, to sink or swim. But then later, it’s “go get ’em, Israel!”
So it’s subtle. And maybe the couple of people it is really have that wide range of opinion, or are vacillating. I can’t tell for sure.
Several perspectives here, I suppose.
Can’t recall a pro Hamas post, authored by a QTreeper.
Some have posted concerns for civilians, caught up in the bombing, fighting… Fair concern. Me. Don’t much give a shit. Hamas problem is well documented AND appeasement will not alleviate the problem.
QTreepers posting stuff like dopes protesting for Hamas or other muzzies, yes.
Posts have suggested the unchecked movement by Israel, may lead to a larger conflict in ME. Further draw our idiot government, into a wider more robust long-term fight in ME. And, the possibility of WW III.
By all appearances, in the short-term, months, it looks to me like either ME supports Hamas getting waxed, or simply want Palestinians, to stay the fuck out of their countries.
I for one am pleased, Hamas is getting waxed, or whatever word one wants to insert. I do NOT care. <<< Long over due.
I am perfectly OK with selling Israel arms. NOT giving arms.
I also believe, this is all playing into bigger problems, Later.
In the future, Hezbolah. I don’t think Iran will unleash Hezbolah. Dunno how this my play out.
Posted a few days ago. I believe, Israel will implode, from internal bickering. IMO, Precisely what allowed October 7 to happen.
Yes. Your position has been pretty solid and clear to me all along.
Theoretically, what you are describing is possible, and it’s a very desirable technical capability for DHS and the “censorship industrial complex”. Facebook basically HAS this capability, and IMO uses it to “change” things.
The reason I say this is possible, is that the code would be surprisingly similar to code for people to “ignore” each other, which is fairly straightforward, and which I halfway designed for this site, at some point.
My suggestion is to contact me via Gab Chat (either version) with any examples, and let me look at them. I have my own data that can be used to dig deeper. Bear in mind the “and logic” that some cases may be nothing, but others could be real. I should probably look at several cases.
My suspicion is that it is NOT due to injected posts, but is due to people’s ambivalence on the current situation. We are seeing two sides in a titanic struggle, and both sides are deeply embedded in not just the US government, but also the Democrat party. If you think the ambivalence is bad HERE or on the right, or on this site, just imagine wokies trying to deal with their insane logic breaking down right now.
Interesting times!
“…My suspicion is that it is NOT due to injected posts, but is due to people’s ambivalence on the current situation….”
If it is me, then ambivalence is the correct word.
I am trying NOT to toss all Muslims into the same pot. The question then becomes whether Gaza/Hamas is SO cancerous it MUST BE eradicated to the last toddler.
On top of that, I know that the people are the victims of the Deep State and it’s games and have been for over a century.
Also does eradicating Hamas/Palestinians set off massive repercussions (That the Deep State WANTS) down the road?
Will Saudi Arabia and others be able to keep a lid on while Israel takes care of the problem?
At the end of the day I want the USA OUT of the situation PERIOD. Also I do not think we should take sides since that plays right into the hands of the Deep State.
I’m still thinking it’s a DS ploy to sucker us unto WWIII.
OH, I am very much on that page.
The timing is WAY too ‘convenient’
I am hoping the other national powers are on to the DS tricks and decide not to ‘play’
ITA but the way it was carried out deserves unambivalent condemnation toward hamas
Amen!
AND THOSE WHO ENABLED HAMAS — I am looking at YOU Obama & Kerry….
Absolutely. Ukraine didn’t work, so now it’s on to a new war. Dead Jews, dead Arabs, dead Americans – all of them are chump change in their evil schemes.
“Collateral damage”…
What’s a few tens or hundreds of thousands, when they’re trying to eliminate SEVEN BILLION!!!
To them, it’s just a cost of doing business. And since the losses are on OUR SIDE, it’s on the ASSET side of their Satanic Ledger…..
Precisely. Every body counts towards, 14 of 15
gottaWill Go.Deep State is absolutely at work here.
This is one where some of us aren’t taking sides. I’m watching it play out.
👆I am with her!
Sorry that campaign slogan died on election night 2016.
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Ahhh, but here’s another one; Ready For Hillary 🙂
Yes. While I’m very pro-Israel and anti-Hamas, that does NOT mean that I want to get sucked into the horribly bad psychology of the moment. Worst of all, when OBAMA is running this country through his senile pedo proxy Biden.
There is so much very WEIRD co-dependence and enabling in America’s relationship with Israel right now, that to get sucked into it at all is incredibly dangerous.
The radical left, and a majority of American Jews, have EMBRACED THE SNAKE. I personally will NOT be suckered into “treating for snakebite” anybody who is “embracing the venomous snake” and refuses to let go.
Israel’s highly manipulative relationship with the United States is understandable, but it’s WRONG. Compound that with Israel sabotaging itself at every turn with leftism, vaccine / globalist nuttery, and rampant socialism, and I just say KEEP IT ALL AT ARM’S LENGTH.
Yes, Hamas must be destroyed. But that cannot happen with HUSSEIN running this country, protecting the Iran regime.
Best thing to do now is NOTHING. IMO. Let Israel heal itself. Get clarity on the situation. Get power AWAY from Hussein and the GloboNazis.
Agree. We can and should defend Israel on the world stage as an ally. If they are threatened by major powers, then unfortunately we have a fight on our hands. But that does not mean we jump in every time they get into a scrape or do something stupid like the jabs.
Israel has been doing stupid stuff for thousands of years. Our response to them is scripturally provided if you are a Christian or Jew. It is different if you have a secular approach. Which is what happens here and elsewhere – a mix of viewpoints.
But what Hamas did should be unacceptable to any human being.
I’m anti-atrocity no matter who does it.
I think you may be right about the ambivalence angle.
I will find some examples, but I may have to do a private message to wolf on here, as I have been having troubles with Gab chat again.
It may also be the evolving understanding that this was orchestrated and manipulated by the war complex . What at first seemed to be Israel vs Hamas became US calling shots, That’s a giveaway that a deadly event was created to roil up worldwide division. If that’s the case, and I think that it is, we shouldn’t be part of it unless they ask for specific help.
There has been an evolution of sorts by many, including governments.
Try the Chat link on their home page. It’s easy.
https://gab.com/messages
It’s not as secure as the other one, but it’s good enough.
Thanks. I’m looking for the post that made me go hmmmm.
I plan to release my complete worldview on the subject soon that has zero to do with the actual kidnapping, torture, rape, murder, etc. of innocent civilians by the Hamas animals.
That said, if our clowns were involved in it to help start WW III they should suffer the same pain. There is ZERO justification for that. It keeps getting easier to identify who is on the black hat side.
Looking forward to it.
Wolfmoon, you in particular will love this! Rolling Stone is upset about the flag Mike Johnson displays outside his office:
“The Rolling Stone article also had a problem with the flag that Johnson displays outside his office.”
WHOA!!! I love it! Thanks for the tip!!! 😎
🙂
Speaker is doing well. Thus far. Impatiently want more, faster. But no huge missteps. Yet.
The Revolutionary War was not only about taxes. It was also about trees, specifically white pine trees of New England. Those trees grew tall and straight, which made them highly prized for use as ships’ masts.
The King’s men would go into the forest and pick the best trees for the King’s navy. This infuriated the colonists because they had land grants yet their property was being taken without recompense. That’s why there’s an eminent domain clause in the constitution saying that just compensation must be paid.
The Green Tree sketch was a very important symbol of the war.
Very cool. Thanks for that tidbit!!!
That is really fascinating! I did not know that!
Good to know.
https://junkscience.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Climate-Fact-Check_October-2023-Edition_v2.pdf
Surely hope Linda is recovering well.
(I may have missed a Linda update, since Wednesday’s appointment)
Please thank Shirley for her concern. 😀
More seriously it’s always worrisome when we don’t hear back from someone who either hints or outright tells us they’re heading into precarious times. I hope all are OK.
I’m doing fine, Kalbo. Thanks for asking. I’ve just been on Oxycodone for the pain and have been far too goofy to post. 😎 I don’t think I could have put 2 sentences together that made sense. Even my dog was giving me the side eye.
The operation went well and my surgeon said she got all of it. But we’re waiting to see the results of the lymph node biopsy. That’s the lymph node that breast drains into. So if the cancer had spread, it would show up there first. I should know about that in a week or two.
I’ve mostly just been relaxing at home. The pain has slowly gone away, so I’m today completely off the pain killers and back on my protocol. And the incisions are looking better each day. So I’m doing well. I really appreciate the prayers. God has been good to me.
Thanks for letting us know, Linda! Praise God! Prayers for your continued recovery!
AMEN! Prayers up from over here, too…
God Bless, Linda …
Glad you are doing well!
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If you’re getting loopy on oxy, then the dosage is too high.
Wonderful news! Thanks for the update.
Good to hear from you! Very glad it seems to have gone well.
And dogs know things, lol. 🙂
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/11/the-daily-chart-the-debt-bomb-starting-to-go-off.php
So what, precisely, is so bad about people from Poland dancing?
Immigration-related stories have been getting negative publicity lately.
In this particular case it’s probably quite common in Chicago which is the second largest Polish city on Earth.
LOL!!!
This is even more scandalous. Women with shovels are quite popular around here!
Paging Sylvia of the golden shovel 🙂
Sylvia’s original shovel. I selected it for her…it’s quite charming once you get to know it!!!!
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2023/11/11/dr-richters-diabolical-experiment/#more-320411
Great article!!!
yeah, the old Hopium bong, hellava drug
Well it cuts in more than one direction.
The article implies that we’re going to tolerate the next lockdown a lot more because we figure it will end eventually.
But the same psychology could be used against us with all of these psyops about devolution, etc. As long as someone has hope for deliverance, they won’t stand and fight.
“…The article implies that we’re going to tolerate the next lockdown…”
Tolerate??? HELL NO! I am going to tell anyone who tries a ‘lockdown’ on me to stick it where the sun don’t shine…. I wasn’t exactly tolerant the first time and then I thought there was a problem.
The article was about experiments suggesting how the public at large would act. You ain’t typical.
Well there is that…
Public at large = Sheeple.
Baaa-a-a
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2023/11/11/is-a-cyber-9-11-coming/#more-320402
Great show for Veterans day!
Alternate
https://nitter.net/JohnSmi58204481/status/1723399396186808343#m
It’s sickening. All that bullshit at the airports thanks to Bush and cabal’s mass casualty event anyway.
Plus that amputee probably lost his limbs in one of the subsequent globobastards wars
WORSE he gets a finger up the Ass ON VETERANS DAY while the ILLEGALS get the wire held open for them by Border Patrol!
%##***^$^%%EE#Q@Q*)(*(**&T&^RR!!!!!!!
Good online friends,
Yours Truly is around but mostly “lurking.” I’ve been told to take a few days to recover from the ER trip this week, followed by a battery of doctor’s appointments and exams.
So far, the exam and test results are good.
Good to hear about good results!!!
Feel free to lurk as you wish! Or to speak up. Even to yell every once in a while! 😉
Thank you for letting us know, PAVACA! I was wondering how you are doing. 😊
And now for something completely different…which is to say, off topic but might be interesting. The narrator discusses various eastern US accents…and uses those accents himself while doing so.
I’m midway through part 1, apparently there are three parts.
STEVE KIRSCH
I just offered MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer $10M to debate me about COVID vaccine safety on Nov 30 at MITI think the mRNA shots are deadly. The evidence is in plain sight. I’m so confident that the data supports this that I’m willing to donate $10M to MIT if I lose the debate.
The tweet says 1M not 10M. Does Langer have to donate 10M or 1M if/when he loses?
So it looks like $10M
Cool. Thanks.
Here’s the latest on that.
I have a $10M offer out to debate MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer about the safety of the COVID vaccines. He’s the billionaire co-founder of Moderna. No word from Langer. Are you surprised?
STEVE KIRSCHEpic Fail: MedCram founder tries to prove that anecdotes are unreliable
I hate how anything that is not a ‘scientifically’ conducted Double Blind study by a DEEP STATE PAID SCIENTIST is poo pooed as not good evidence.
It’s not good evidence – it’s great evidence.
😍
Italian fashion designer Davide Renne has died age 46, nine days after accepting joining luxury brand Moschino as a creative director.
While Renne’s cause of death is not known, a statement from Moschino’s parent company Aeffe revealed the designer had experienced a “sudden illness”.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/style/301007112/moschino-creative-director-davide-renne-dies-nine-days-after-stepping-into-role
“Tiny Pretty Things” actor Barton Cowperthwaite revealed he’s been diagnosed with “at least” a stage 2 cancerous glioma.
The 31-year-old said an Instagram post Nov. 10 that the brain cancer is a result of a “fairly decent sized brain tumor.” He said the cells originated in the brain, “so it’s not spread from a cancer anywhere else in the body.”
This is so weird it might be jab related~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The family’s ordeal began in October 2021 when Jaxson and his twin brother, Kingston, were born premature at 25 weeks, weighing just 1 pound. After an agonizing wait in the NICU, the boys finally came home last February.
But the family’s joy was short-lived, as a year later his parents noticed Jaxson’s stomach had ballooned and he refused to consume anything.
Around the same time, Donna, 35, noticed three lumps in her breast, but she was told it was nothing to worry about.
On May 27, a CT scan and X-ray revealed he had stage 3 liver cancer, known as hepatoblastoma.
She underwent further tests, and a biopsy revealed stage 3 metastatic cancer. This is cancer that spreads from where it started to a distant part of the body.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/heartbreak-as-mom-and-baby-diagnosed-with-stage-3-cancer-within-four-months/
Is this how they’ll try and cancel the election? Ballot boxes comprised across the country, hmmm have to postpone the results.
https://thelibertydaily.com/fentanyl-laced-envelopes-sent-antifa-terrorists-election-offices/
Easy solution Just outlaw ballot drop boxes. Either mail the darn things in or drop them of in person.
ballot drop boxes were a bad idea from the get go.
Depends on your point of view. Commies sure think they’re a good idea.
True but they’ll never give them up now. Kinda like term limits.
Mailing in involves the USPS.
True, but mail boxes are better watched.
It’s not the mailboxes, it is the criminal operation INSIDE USPS stations. They KNOW who votes which way, routinely throw out and create new mail-in ballots inside the USPS. Involving the printing shops.
Remember when PDJT appointed the new Postmaster General. Everyone went APESHIT when he wanted to sort at night and deliver in the morning, deleting overtime and late deliveries to voting areas at night on Election Days.
They KNEW how this scam was working. Even Pelosi went ballistic.
All part of the decades long scam. Also remember, the USPS was relieved from requiring the JAB.
PS If you have ever seen Men In Black II and the scene inside the local USPS with all of the aliens in the sorting room…
ALL TRUE!
People will need to get off their sofa and go vote. Let’s see those millions and millions of happy satisfied with Biden voters.
STEVE KIRSCHThe one question they cannot answer
There is more
I wonder what might be happening in the Gaza theater?
I agree with this except the part that ole Joe is directing this, everyone knows it’s zero and his d o j
https://revolver.news/2023/11/biden-deploys-fbi-against-another-critic-and-the-timing-on-this-one-is-soooo-suspicious/
Biden..ackhhhh, the perfect stooge for Zero and pals
Exactly. This is pure OBAMA. This plot to open the border is SOVIET, and it’s PURE OBAMA.
He is acting through his girl at DOJ, Lisa Monaco.
The one on the right.
My question as always…to what unholy end ? How does destroying the country from within make them happier or richer? Their children and grandchildren will be better off when they live in a 3rd world craphole?
I can see them wanting to eliminate white people but with uneducated losers?
They all believe they’ll be protected by their masters. They have no morals or belief in God, they don’t believe they’re going to be held accountable.
so they’ll live like Elvis or Michael Jackson or..and never be able to enjoy anything unless the whole area is cleared of riffraff? Go to an amusement park with other protected kids and nobody else there?
Their only friends are from other protected elite…it would be like living in a zoo.
Twilight Zone existence
Revenge. And brainwashed soldiers.
It’s not due to logical thought – not due to cause-and-effect thinking. It’s due to FEELING at the moment of action. They FEEL BETTER doing it. That’s how the virtue signal mechanics work.
Yup exactly, I couldn’t remember her name.
The monster is unleashed….
They’re at Biden’s house too but I don’t think he and Dr Bedspread are there..taking a break ya know..
Right about now, contrary to much advice around, my emotions are in the stratosphere and it would make me feel better if Israel wipes them clean off the earth
Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist’s Guide Out of the Madness Hardcover – July 18, 2023
by Miriam Grossman MD (Author), Dr. Jordan B. Peterson (Foreword)
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars
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Throughout our country, atrocities are taking place in doctor’s offices and hospital operating rooms. Physically healthy children and adolescents are being permanently disfigured and sometimes sterilized. Those youth say they’re transgender, and we—their parents, teachers, therapists, and doctors—are supposed to agree with their self-diagnosis and take a back seat as they make the most consequential decision of their lives: to alter their bodies in order to, we are told, “align” them with their minds.
Medical, educational, and government authorities advise us to support the “gender journeys” of still developing kids, including medical interventions with poor evidence of long-term improvement.
This would not be acceptable in any other field of medicine. Indeed, the treatments our medical authorities and Washington call “crucial” and “life-saving” have been banned in progressive Sweden, Finland, and Britain.
Dr. Miriam Grossman is a child and adolescent psychiatrist whose practice consists of trans-identified youth and their families. In Lost in Trans Nation, she implores parents to reject the advice of gender experts and politicians and trust their guts—their parental instincts—in the face of an onslaught of ideologically driven misinformation that steers them and their children toward risky decisions they may end up mourning for the rest of their lives.
The beliefs that male and female are human inventions; that the sex of a newborn is arbitrarily “assigned”; and that as a result the child requires “affirmation” through medical interventions—these ideas are divorced from reality and therefore hazardous, especially to children. The core belief—that biology can and should be denied—is a repudiation of reality and a mockery of what hard science teaches about being male and female.
Dr. Grossman believes that parents know their child best; they especially know if they have a son or daughter. But currently in our country when it comes to gender identity, everyone knows better than mom and dad. Schools enable students to live double lives—Patrick at home, Patti at school. Activists tell kids their loving homes are “unsafe” when parents voice doubts about the child’s new identity. For refusing to see their son as their daughter, parents might be reported to protective services, a development that can lead to a family’s destruction.
Lost in Trans Nation arms parents with the ammunition to avoid, or, if necessary, fight what many families describe as the most difficult challenge of their lives. Parents will learn what to say and how—at home, at school, and if necessary, to police when they appear at the door.
“Don’t be blindsided like so many parents I know,” warns Grossman, “be proactive and get educated. Feel prepared and confident to discuss trans, nonbinary, or whatever your child brings to the dinner table.” Whether it’s the “trans is as common as red hair” claim, or the “I’m not your son, I’m your daughter” proclamation, or the “do you prefer a live son or a dead daughter’ threat, says Grossman, no family is immune, and every parent must be prepared.
No child is born in the wrong body, Dr. Grossman reassures us, their bodies are just fine; it’s their emotional lives that need healing. Whether you’re facing a gender identity battle in your home right now, or want to prevent one, you need this book to guide you and your loved ones out of the madness.
Get kids OUT of government schools. It’s the best protection against this crazy crap.
Does anybody but me wonder if Sundance has been arrested or detained?
He hasn’t posted for a few days. Menagerie says he is “taking a break” to handle some “business matters.” But with the FIB shitstorm against so many people happening recently, I wonder.
I don’t always like the guy, but I hope he’s ok. It’s kind of mysterious.
If he actually went to Jan 6th, which is a good possibility, I could certainly see the Biden Stassi hassling him even if he did ZERO things wrong. Remember a Proud Boy or Oath Keeper got sentenced even though he was no where near the area.
Sundance would certainly be on their radar.
I think so too.
Something is “off.” Near zero production over at CTH, past few days. No heads up, until today.
Day or two ago, I almost posted a sarcastic, Must Be A Writers Strike At CTH.
I do wish SD, CTH and all there, the best. Collectively, we have a huge hill to climb, for America’s sake.
Yes, we sure do.
Whatever happened, it took SD off guard, or he would have given warning he was going to be away.
NOT good news…
Bank of America “Near Insolvent”? Bank Run Possible?
I covered a story last night about the $650 BILLION of “unrealized losses” about to hit the
Big Banks in the United States.
Wild story!
I will post that full report below in case you missed it.
But what I really want to focus your attention on is a couple quotes from a Yahoo News article that I featured in that story.
Because it’s not getting nearly enough attention….
It’s a quote from Larry McDonald saying that Bank of America is INSOLVENT at a 6% Fed Funds rate.
Read that again.
BOA — INSOLVENT — in the same sentence!
So, you might be asking, “what is the current Fed Funds Rate”?
It’s 5.5%.
Uncomfortably close to INSOLVENT.
Wow.
https://100percentfedup.com/bank-of-america-near-insolvent-bank-run-possible/
It must be really easy to write Simpson scripts these days.
Likely so. May or may not matter much. Simpson thing looks to be Jan 23 vintage.
Banks have been increasingly in trouble for awhile. That is, if I understand stuff TB share with us.
They have been talking about this derivative bomb for the last 5-10 years. It is not new information but it is achieving critical mass with the interest rate hikes.
JaJab, strikes again…
Former FC Zurich Star Raphael Dwamena, 28, Tragically Passes Away After Collapsing on Pitch in Albanian League
Former FC Zurich star Raphael Dwamena, aged 28, tragically passed away after collapsing during a league match in Albania. Dwamena, a Ghanaian footballer who played as a striker, collapsed while participating in a game between FK Egnatia and Partizani.
According to reports, the 28-year-old player collapsed in the 23rd minute of the game.
He was rushed to the hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. It has been reported that he suffered a heart attack during the game, according to Ghana Soccernet.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/former-fc-zurich-star-raphael-dwamena-28-tragically/
The only way they’re gonna save these jab victims is keeping AED machines handy at every game, and then AGGRESSIVELY using them, until they get a heartbeat back – just like Damar “It Wasn’t The Jab” Hamlin.
Yea. AEDs really need to be more common. Every sporting event, grade school on up. Schools, jobs sites… Gym clubs…
Trump Arrives!!! 😁
Arrived??? How did he get there??? 🙄🤔
He went this a way… 😃
Where’s that? 🙂🫤🙄🤔😏😛
Where he’s speaking tonight. Claremont New Hampshire👍😁👍
G R E A T stuff. First clip. Bongino there. Also Tucker. Tucker at UFC? Nice surprise.