What is it that feeds our battle, yet starves our victory?
Speaker Johnson: A Reminder.
And MTG is there to help make it stick.
January 6 tapes. A good start…but then nothing.
Were you just hoping we’d be distracted by the first set and not notice?
Are you THAT kind of “Republican”?
Are you Kevin McCarthy lite?
What are you waiting for?
I have a personal interest in this issue.
And if you aren’t…what the hell is wrong with you?
Lawyer Appeasement Section
OK now for the fine print.
This is the WQTH Daily Thread. You know the drill. There’s no Poltical correctness, but civility is a requirement. There are Important Guidelines, here, with an addendum on 20191110.
We have a new board – called The U Tree – where people can take each other to the woodshed without fear of censorship or moderation.
And remember Wheatie’s Rules:
1. No food fights
2. No running with scissors.
3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
4. Zeroth rule of gun safety: Don’t let the government get your guns.
5. Rule one of gun safety: The gun is always loaded.
5a. If you actually want the gun to be loaded, like because you’re checking out a bump in the night, then it’s empty.
6. Rule two of gun safety: Never point the gun at anything you’re not willing to destroy.
7. Rule three: Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire.
8. Rule the fourth: Be sure of your target and what is behind it.
(Hmm a few extras seem to have crept in.)
Spot (i.e., paper) Prices
Last week:
Gold $2,498.20
Silver $28.04
Platinum $931.00
Palladium $933.00
Rhodium $5,050.00
FRNSI* 119.850+
Gold:Silver 89.094+
This week, 3PM Mountain Time, Kitco “ask” prices. Markets have closed for the weekend.
Gold $2,578.70
Silver $30.80
Platinum $1,004.00
Palladium $1,092.00
Rhodium $5,100.00
FRNSI* 123.745-
Gold:Silver 83.724+
Lots going on…gold surged on Thursday, and I was expecting a beat-down on Friday. Instead, it rose almost 20 more dollars. The FRNSI went up quite a bit, nearly four points! Silver did even better on a percentage basis. Note that an ounce of gold is worth 83.724 ounces of silver…but last week it was worth 89.094 ounces. That means that, in comparison to gold, silver became more valuable.
*The SteveInCO Federal Reserve Note Suckage Index (FRNSI) is a measure of how much the dollar has inflated. It’s the ratio of the current price of gold, to the number of dollars an ounce of fine gold made up when the dollar was defined as 25.8 grains of 0.900 gold. That worked out to an ounce being $20.67+71/387 of a cent. (Note gold wasn’t worth this much back then, thus much gold was $20.67 71/387ths. It’s a subtle distinction. One ounce of gold wasn’t worth $20.67 back then, it was $20.67.) Once this ratio is computed, 1 is subtracted from it so that the number is zero when the dollar is at its proper value, indicating zero suckage.
Piling On
One claim that Flat Earthers (“flerfers”) make is that there aren’t any time lapse videos of the sun doing a full circle around the viewer in Antarctica; that there’s always some sort of eight our gap in the videos.
This is a LIE. Don’t fall for it. Here is FIVE SOLID DAYS worth of timelapse with no hiccups and no breaks, taken in early March just before south polar sunset.
By the way there’s an absolute plethora of videos about the Amundsen Scott station, tours of the main building, tours of the buried areas, tours of the Ice Cube Neutrino Observatory (the largest science experiment by volume), and so on. And plenty of ways to get there as a tourist…provided you have $60K (or more). That’s roughly 24 ounces of gold right now.
Also we have a few cases of flerfers trying to run an experiment and finding they don’t get the results they expected…and not coming to the obvious conclusion.
There are three instances here: One where people stood on opposite sides of a body of water, put lights at 17 feet above water level, then tried to establish a line of site through temporary barriers with holes in them at 17 feet above water level. On a flat earth, there’s be no problem; on a curved earth, however. the barriers in the middle would cut the beam off. And that’s what happened; the light had to be raised a number of feet to be visible through the hole. Second, a gyroscope was seen to precess 15 degrees per hour…as it would if the earth were rotating over a period of 24 hours. On a flat, non-rotating Earth, it shouldn’t precess at all. Third, a striped flag was seen to disappear from the bottom to the top as it sailed off, again, as predicted by Globe Earth but not by Flat Earth.
This all forced the Flat Earth charlatans to do a lot of tap dancing, and one body language expert thinks at least one of the Big Flerfer “names” knows he’s a lying sack of shit. (Well, they didn’t say the “sack of shit” part.)
Mars
A while back I wrote something about why Mars sucks. Meaning, why it had such a thin atmosphere and virtually no surface water. This is interesting because by every indication (everything from visible stream beds on the surface, to minerals that only form in water, to sedimentary rocks which form in fairly stationary bodies of water like lakes and oceans), Mars used to have liquid running water on its surface, which in turn implies it once had a much thicker atmosphere. (There is still a fair amount of water on Mars, in the form of permafrost below the ground. This will be useful should we start human exploration.)
And it turns out that there are two key things going on here: one, Mars has weak surface gravity making it easier for the atmosphere (including water vapor) to escape and two, Mars has no magnetic field, allowing the solar wind to help that process by stripping away the atmosphere. Both in turn are consequences of the fact that it’s considerably smaller than Earth. (There’s no magnetic field because the interior of the planet has cooled off, because it is smaller than Earth, which hasn’t cooled off internally yet, and still has molten iron inside.)
This in turn has a bearing on the question of life. We’re mostly convinced nothing lives on Mars (though there’s a significant minority of scientists who make plausible arguments that there could be). But the tougher question is whether Mars ever had life, back when conditions were much better. That’s largely dependent on how long the conditions were good, how rapidly life actually develops…and whether it’s a rare event even given the right conditions. All of these are very much open questions at the moment; the frontiers of human knowledge.
Time to revisit Mars.
Orbit
First, where is it? Its orbit averages 1.52 AUs in radius…which is to say it’s 52 percent further away from the Sun than is Earth. But that is an average; it varies from 1.38 at one end of the elliptical orbit, to 1.67 AUs at the other. This is a large variance and Mars therefore has a much greater orbital eccentricity than most planets, at 0.0934. (0 is perfectly circular, 0.9 and above are very “cigar” shaped with the Sun close to one end of the cigar. No planet comes close to that though some comets do.) Since Earth is at 1 AU and orbits in 1 sidereal year, it completes one orbit in 1.88 (Earth) years or 686.90 Earth days.
As seen from Earth, Mars moves from west to east against the background stars, usually. It can appear to travel in the opposite direction at times, when we “lap” it in our orbit around the Sun. Here’s an animation from 2020, showing the actual relative positions of Mars and Earth, and an inset showing how Mars appears to move across our sky. (Note how, even though Mars’s orbit appears to be circular, it’s not centered on the Sun; that’s because in fact it is very slightly elliptical.)
If you watched that and paid attention to the trace of Mars across the sky as seen from Earth, you might wonder why it’s not just a straight line. That’s because the two planets don’t orbit in exactly the same plane. The Earth’s orbital plane is the zodiac line, Mars is at a slightly different tilt so even though it roughly follows the zodiac, it doesn’t stay precisely on it.
Surface Conditions
So Mars is significantly further away from the Sun and one would expect it to be colder…and it is, with an average surface temperature of -69C or -60C depending on how you take that average. (This is Antarctic winter type temperatures.) Yes, you will see that it sometimes gets up to +35C, but that’s rare; it’s just as liable to get down to -110C.
What else would you experience on the surface other than it being cucking fold there? Surface gravity is 0.3794 of Earth…almost exactly 3/8ths. (A 98 pound weakling is a 37 pound weakling there.) Air pressure depends on elevation, like it does here on Earth. Our scientists picked an arbitrary “sea level” that is about average for Mars (there is of course no sea), and at that level atmospheric pressure is 0.00628 our sea level pressure…not even one percent! We couldn’t live in that, even if it were pure oxygen, which it is not; it’s 96% CO2. There is a fraction of a percent oxygen but when you multiply that by how thin the air is, it might as well not be there. There is actually more argon than oxygen.
This is not to say there isn’t wind on Mars, and even dust storms, sometimes those storms can cover huge parts of the surface; at least one even covering the entire planet just as our first Mars orbiter arrived in 1971. These tend to happen when Mars is nearest to the Sun, and they help keep it warmer than it otherwise would be.
Another aspect of Martian weather is that the surface radiation is extreme, because there is nothing to block the solar wind and also nothing to block ultraviolet light. Solar flares and the like would cook you just as much as they would on the Moon.
Does Mars have seasons? Yes, cold, and colder. But seriously, yes. The axis is tipped a bit more than 25 degrees, and that causes seasons just as it does on Earth.
The Martian day is 24h 39m 36s long on average. That’s noontime to noontime; to avoid confusion with the Earth day, we call the Martian day a “sol.” Of course since it is orbiting the Sun just like we are, it has to rotate slightly more than one time on its axis to do this, it has to rotate another half degree or so to account for the Sun not being in the same direction against the stars as it was the day before. The true “God’s Eye View” rotation of Mars (i.e., relative to the stars) is 24h 37m 22.7s. Visitors to Mars would have an extra 39.6 minutes to kill every day. And this matters a great deal to some people even now, because Mars surface rovers only function in the daylight (because they run off solar panels, besides, it’s hard to see in the dark anyway). So the scientists and mission controllers here must follow the Martian day night cycle. Imagine a job where every day you have to wake up and go to bed 40 minutes later every day; you’d be out of sync with your family pretty quickly, and it would take about 36 days before things got back in sync.
Size
Mars has a radius of 3396 km, or about 53% of Earth’s. Which means a Mars globe and an Earth globe to scale should have the Earth globe looking about twice the width as the Mars globe.
Mars’s surface area is 144 million square kilometers, 28.4 percent of Earth’s. BUT…Earth is mostly covered by water, so Earth’s land area is 149 million square kilometers. Virtually the same. So there’s a lot of real estate there, however, as of now it’s about as valuable as that land just west of Miami or San Francisco.
Here is a map, with elevation coded by color.
Note the northern hemisphere would largely be ocean, if there were an ocean, with the south almost all highlands. But there is a big basin, the deepest/lowest spot on the planet, in the south at 60 degrees longitude–this is the Hellas basin, and likely an old impact basin. Another smaller basin is at about 320 west. But the true highlands area straddling the equator at 240 degrees is the “Tharsis bulge.” There are three white peaks in a line running southwest to northeast, then west of that, an isolated white peak. That peak is Olympus Mons, the largest volcano known to man. It’s so large you could be on its slope and have no idea you were on a volcano, just that the land has a gentle slope to it.
This thing is BIG. Here it is compared to France.
The other tourist attraction on Mars is Valles Marineris, a canyon 4000 km long, 200 km wide, and up to 7 km deep. It would stretch most of the way across the United States. It cuts through the left hand side of the red area on the map. There are other smaller canyons thought to have been cut by running water, but Valles Marineris is actually thought by some to be a rift zone from plate tectonics, one that failed as the mantle cooled too much for such things. (Photographed in infrared which apparently has better contrast.)
Moons
Mars has two moons, insignificant little things that weren’t discovered until August 12 and 18, 1877, by Asaph Hall. They are too small to have forced themselves into spherical shapes. The inner, larger moon is Phobos (named after the Greek deity of panic and fear) roughly 22 km across (it’s hard to average it when it’s basically shaped like a potato), with Deimos (named after the Greek deity of dread and terror) being 12 km across (same caveat).
The names make sense, because Mars was after all the god of war. (In Greek mythology this god was known as Ares, and a lot of scientific terms to do with Mars actually derive from this root, e.g., “areography” analogous to “geography”)
Phobos has an average orbital radius of 9,377 km, while Deimos has one of 23,460 km. Phobos orbits Mars in a mere 7.66 hours while Deimos orbits in 30.35 hours.
Note that Phobos orbits Mars faster than Mars rotates. These are both in the same direction (counterclockwise as seen from over Mars’s north pole), so Phobos’s actual west to east motion overwhelms its apparent daily east-to-west trip across the sky as Mars rotates. So, it actually rises in the west and sets in the east!
There is some thought that Phobos could be used as a transit point for people traveling to and from Mars; imagine how convenient it would be to set up a space station there. There’s plenty of room for such a thing there.
Exploration of Mars
Mars is undoubtedly the best explored planet other than, of course, Earth. The first successful flyby of another planet was by Mariner 4 in 1965. The first successful orbiter for another planet was Mariner 9 in 1971…at which time Mars was suffering a planet wide dust storm. Fortunately it cleared while the spacecraft was still alive, and we finally discovered the great volcanoes and Valles Marineris. (All prior flybys had just happened to fly by when the wrong side of Mars was presented.) The Soviets tried multiple times but had my luck, having few successes. They were the first to attempt a landing…and failed, repeatedly. They finally succeeded with a flyby about the same time we put Mariner 9 in orbit. (They had better luck with Venus, which is harder. Go figure.)
Finally in July and September 1976 the two Viking landers successfully touched down on Mars. Here is the first photograph taken from the surface of Mars. (With one caveat. The Russians successfully landed on Mars in 1971…but the spacecraft went belly up less than two minutes later, having transmitted part of a picture. I can only imagine the profanity they must have used.)
And a panorama, which I remember being printed on the front page of the newspaper (with messed-up colors that made the sky look blue):
One of their missions was to search for life–presumably microbial life–by running various tests on soil samples. Although most think the tests returned negative results on the whole, there was enough activity in some of the tests that some to this day hold out hope that there was, in fact, life there.
Since then, of course, we’ve had a plethora of orbiters and rovers, but as yet no sample-return mission. China has gotten into the act.
But where to from here? Elon Musk has famously pushed for actual permanent human habitation on Mars, with an aggressive timeline. The idea would be to send one of his Starships to Mars, after refueling in Earth orbit, then on Mars making fuel from the CO2 in the atmosphere and subsurface ice, which would be used to make methane and oxygen. Not the best fuel in the world, but far better than lugging it all the way from Earth (which would require MUCH bigger rockets to launch the mission in the first place). This is similar to the Mars Direct concept put forth in the 1990s by Robert Zubrin, which involves sending a return vehicle first, waiting for the next launch window and sending a habitat with crew and another return vehicle, then again every launch window. Habitats would accumulate on the surface, and fuel would be manufactured for both the return vehicles and for rovers. By spacing the habitats and return vehicles several hundred miles apart, a network of them is eventually set up, and they can even back up for each other in emergencies since they would be in rover range of each other. (And if a previously sent return vehicle fails, there’s one that came with the crew during this launch window.)
Mars is in some ways an ideal target. There are resources there that could be used by human visitors; carbon from the atmosphere, water from subsurface ice. We could breathe there, indefinitely, with help from machinery. We could likely grow food there too. Everything we can create there is less stuff we have to schlep there in the first place. In many ways, it’s a better bet than the Moon, even if it is scores of times further away.
There was an epic set of novels by Kim Stanley Robinson describing the future on Mars, with the first bases, terraforming, and settlement, they are “Red Mars,” “Green Mars” (as some plant life takes hold), and “Blue Mars” as Mars gets an ocean. In fact there’s even a Martian tricolor flag inspired by these classic books, with red, green and blue.
How feasible is that? Can Mars ever be that earthlike?
Maybe more than you might think! It turns out that a big magnet (I can’t seem to locate how powerful it would have to be, but it’s something we could put there) placed at the L1 point between Mars and the Sun might actually be enough so that Mars would find itself in the “tail” of the magnetic field, now protected from the solar wind.
https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-wants-to-launch-a-giant-magnetic-shield-to-make-mars-habitable
The people putting forth this idea claim we might see significant thickening of the Martian atmosphere in years, not decades or centuries. The atmosphere would be mostly carbon dioxide…and that is a greenhouse gas. It might get warm enough even to melt the subsurface water, eventually.
We might not be able to breathe the air, but if the pressure is high enough, we can ditch “space suits” and just wear an oxygen mask over our faces, and maybe a parka if we need to keep warm.
I definitely see our future involving Mars in a big way…provided of course we have a future. I can’t imagine us ever making it if current trends continue…unless Musk is able to pull a rabbit out of his hat, quickly. Because 40 or maybe only 20 years from now we might not have a civilization capable of it any more.
November is important.
What would you name Ben & Jerry’s new Harris-inspired ice cream flavor?
“Ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s has announced they are launching a Kamala Harris-inspired ice cream flavor in partnership with MoveOn. The flavor will be distributed on an ice cream truck that is set to tour key battleground states in hopes of encouraging voter registration.
The new ice cream flavor “Kamala’s Coconut Jubilee,” will be given out as part of a get-out-the-vote initiative to elect Vice President Harris and other down ballot Democrats in November.”
https://offthepress.com/ben-jerrys-launches-new-harris-flavored-ice-cream/
Willie Brown presents – Eastward Ho!
[apologies to old western movies]
Cumbucket Supreme?
A bit too far for me. But it fits. 😆
“…it fits.”
ewww
😵😱😫
I didn’t start this. 
LMAO/YIKES
It could be “Scumbucket supreme” which most people would understand to be a euphemism, and might not offend pgroup2’s virgin ears so much.
And if they don’t you can always make the first S silent.
Perfect suggestion, Steve! Alas, too late to edit.
They left out the word “joy.” But I know that coconuts are a thing with her because of something she said once. It occurs to me that we have heard more personal stories from her than policy positions.
Perhaps she could give us more willy stories.
😅
Wee Willy(‘s) Winky
😮
The grlz is frisky with the punz n stuff today! 😂
Tru dat.
MEOW….
Can’t you tell how much we luv Suxalotacux?
😂
LOL 🙂
hmm You’re onto something. It does feel like they’re marketing her, her personality and they never emphasize her full name much..they want people to call her by her 1st name..like joyful friends
Trying to make her seem to be like Rihanna, or Beyonce, or Madonna. Celebrities so cool they don’t need two names. [NOT MY VIEW]
Or, for that matter, Cher.
Dinosaurs ain’t cool.
Don’t insult dinosaurs by implying she’s one.
Charro 😉 😉
Do we know her middle name? They always give criminals three names. Found it: Kamala Devi Harris. Devi means “goddess”.
Kamala Devi Harris (/ˈkɑːmələ ˈdeɪvi/ KAH-mə-lə DAY-vee) care of Wiki
Dev-ill
The Commie Freeze.
Crème de la Commie
Something in banana?
((snort))
LOL
Kamala’s Joy Lick
Jamaican Hurricane
Jamaican Fluffer?
gross ick
The new ice cream flavor “Kamala’s Coconut Jubilee,” will be given out…
Pure Bribe. Sorta like Feds pushing Jabs, back in 2021 or 2022.
“What would you name Ben & Jerry’s new Harris-inspired ice cream flavor?”
_____________
Turd?
Call ’em Turd cones, or Turd in a cone.
The Left will love it 👍😂
They should just change it to “Ass”.
You want a bowl of Ass? How ’bout a cone?
Would you like a taste of Ass?
What does Ass go with?
So there are tourist attractions on Mars, in the future we could possibly be there without space suits, and Elon Musk wants to make it habitable. This could get interesting.
If not for the CABAL we would be there NOW!
As science fiction mad teens, I can remember my boyfriend and I discussing the possibilities. That was over 5 decades ago. Later, in 1969 there was the first moon landing.
Interesting that they want Trump to disavow memes. That indicates how powerful they can be.
Mostly Peaceful Memes
Even worse MEMES are the perfect advertisement.
They meet the 7 sec ‘attention span’ criteria, they are often very funny AND BEST OF ALL TELL TRUTHS people are afraid to acknowledge in a humorous way.
Those dog to Haitian pet eating reaction videos are a great example. They are hilarious.
YUP!!!
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I remember that moment, little boys are so dang sweet.
eilert brought this one yesterday:
https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1834330072062493044
So I can see it:
God Bless the little Angle.
Amen…Angle is quite the little Angel 😉 😉
“President Trump, will you disavow memes?”
President Trump: 😂🤣😂🤣😂
Disavow memes, is akin to disavow laughing.
Unacceptable.
Does anybody remember laughter????
YUP!
👍 😁
.
Hell yeah!
No matter how many jokes we made about this song, it remains one of the greatest songs ever. Utter genius. Just drop into ANY moment of the song and it’s like 1000 atmospheres of iconic cool just appear.
I remember when girls used to actually cry about the song. Or when it came on the radio – and no man dared change the channel. Those were the days!
It’s best to only hear it once in a while, now, so that it all comes rushing back. 😎
“…it remains one of the greatest songs ever.”
____________
Definitely! 👍
If I didn’t think so too, I wouldn’t have known that line (“Does anybody remember laughter?“), which was an improvisation on that particular live performance 😁
“…disavow laughing…”
remind you of anything ?
👇
link to article…
https://aeon.co/ideas/the-jokes-always-saved-us-humour-in-the-time-of-stalin
Disavow memes????
Memes are the post-covid stand up comedy routines. Because…you know…the left killed stand up comedy with covid.
And now Kathy Griffin wants to shout from the rooftops that Trump will kill comedians if he is elected.
In the meantime “they” want to kill some of the best comedy out there…memes.
My head is spinning. I can’t keep up.
Kathy Griffin Comeback Tour 2.0?
Disavow memes = The ANONS are hitting the Cabal where it hurts!
EXACTLY!!!
Vance didn’t hesitate, either.
How many will go to jail?
I don’t expect anyone to know the answer, but someone DOES know how many PDJT and JDV THINK should go to jail.
real jail, not Club Fed!
Perhaps Putin has space here he can lease us:
I think we can build something similar off the coast of Alaska on the Aleutian Islands. Or just dump them there with supplies in October…
Perhaps Attu Island — ” Attu Station, a former Coast Guard LORAN station, Attu is about 20 by 35 miles” — WIKI
Steve, that is the best idea I’ve seen in a long time. It would go a long way to restoring the historical friendship with Russia and would make Vlad a cultural icon.
Looks too cushy for our traitorous bass-turds!
^^^And this is WHY they are so scared of PDJT.
And threats like this will only make them try even harder to ensure he isn’t sworn in.
Regardless, in for a penny in for a pound. The game began a long time ago. Cash out now and they’ve won. Besides we know how they treat loosers. J6 an excellent example.
I don’t disagree.
I point out that they will fight harder, not to try to get us to give up but to make expectations of how hard it will be to win (which we MUST) realistic.
Trading Places
trying to get them to expose themselves?
Rosters should be public.
I want to know what they’re going to do about all those responsible for the genocide jabs. Most everything else pales in comparison.
👍
Shortly after Trump takes the Oath, we’ll know.
NOT a moment sooner.
CDC, NIH, FDA WILL be turned upside down.
We supposedly have ‘Freedom of Speech’ but I can find nothing about laws punishing those who use censorship. However I do find this on ‘HATE SPEECH’
Loretta Lynch Vows to Prosecute Anti-Muslim Speech
I can no longer find the 2 articles about all the cases she brought against ‘hate speech’ since Breitbart uses ‘enhanced Google’ for their search.
There do not seem to actually be hate speech laws although there is 18 U.S. Code § 249 – Hate crime acts
And more importantly this:
18 U.S. Code § 245 – Federally protected activities
Then follows a long list of activities.
INTIMIDATE | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
So that could possible BROADLY mean ‘hate speech’
The entire concept of ‘hate speech’ being illegal is a bad Marxist joke, whose whole intent and purpose is to silence speech the hateful Left disagrees with, but which they can’t successfully argue against.
If the (not)Supreme Court had ever opened a law book before, they would recognize that and declare every single ‘hate speech’ code or law invalid and unconstitutional.
YUP!
Stuff like PRAYING in front of an Abortion Clinic which is now ILLEGAL because it is classified as a HATE CRIME.🙄😣
REUTERS: Fact Check: Paulette Harlow convicted for blocking abortion clinic, not praying
Well we already know that Lawyers are pressured by the government/licencing to NOT protect Conservatives.
Funny how Lefties can BLOCK ROADS and RIOT and DESTROY property but THEY never get charged much less convicted.
MORE…
In the FABIAN UK– Silent prayer outside of abortion clinics is a form of reproductive coercion
I’ve long held the belief that every first degree murderer hated his/her victim. Otherwise he/she would not have murdered the victim.
Sometimes they just have contempt for the person who is in their way and do not value human life. (Psychopaths)
I’m going to agree with Gail. Some simply have no regard for people who are “in the way” and end up charged with 1st Degree, even if they were unaware their victim was downrange.
Under Colorado law, what would normally be a second degree charge can be upgraded if the killer showed absolutely no regard for other people whilst going after the person he wants. This commonly happens during “drive by” shootings and the like.
A reminder to all readers –
“Enumerated powers are the powers specifically granted to the Federal government, particularly Congress, as listed in Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution. These powers include the authority to tax, regulate commerce, declare war, and maintain armed forces.”
Anything not enumerated that exists as law, regulation, ordinance, mandate, policy or practice is ILLEGAL. That is where it starts and ends Constitutionally. Anybody enforcing an illegal law or regulation is a criminal – does not matter who they are. We have thousands of laws, regulations, etc. on the books that are illegal.
A reminder – all laws, regulations, ordinances, mandates, policies and practices are legal, even if illegal and not enumerated, until proven illegal in a court of jurisdiction. Restrictions to prevent citizens from seeking relief from the illegal acts, are illegal. You have “standing” as an American citizen. Barriers to access to the courts for relief are in themselves, illegal.
The primary problem we have in this nation is cowardice that has been primarily brought on by imaginary prosperity of the general population. This fake prosperity has been achieved through the use of federal debt and taxation. There was no cowardice by patriots when this nation was formed and the terms of the Constitution negotiated and signed into existence. The cowards remained aligned with America’s (the colonies’) oppressors, the Brits.
The left has never seen the type of lawfare I believe patriot Americans ought to wage against the current oppressors. Every elected official, attorney, judiciary member, bureaucrat, corporate capitalist, etc. should be held under a microscope for every word or deed that has been taken outside of Constitutionally provided authority.
The Constitution should be amended for definition of its provisions and penalties for violations as needed in a manner as provided in the document itself.
It is going to be a very long road to get rid of the unconstitutional laws.
The fact that Trump’s lawyers such as Rudy and others are targeted AND DISBARRED gives us a major clue.
The Supreme court has been our ENEMY for around a century as they gradually changed our country into an Oligarchy.
Tried before a Jury of YOUR PEERS? Don’t make me laugh Federal Agencies TRY people in front of AGENCY EMPLOYED JUDGES!
Congress makes the laws?
Yeah, right a bunch of Lobbyists and bureaucrats now write our laws and regs…
Lobbyists in any other country are called BRIBERS.
Oligarchs FUND campaigns of their TAME puppet politicians…
I could go on. BUT ALL of that has been UPHELD BY THE SUPREME COURT!
We could start by dumping the law license cartel and getting back to the text of the constitution – counsel of his choice. Not pick from this limited jar of jellybeans.
AMEN!!!
I have seen Skuttlebutt that the ‘Bar’ has ties back to the UK.
I have zero knowledge about that piece of gossip except that it exists.
Law of the Sea stuff…maybe?
A minor quibble – ‘illegal’ means a valid law has been violated. Exceeding the perimeters of the constitution is simply unconstitutional or unlawful.
An exception is civil rights. The amendment itself authorized Congress to legislate, which it did. Once it did that, there were laws that could be violated which is illegal.
In the situation of which we expect to be, most of the active [plotters] fed thugs are subject to what are called the honest services laws. These simply say that a fed employee is required to perform the job for which he/she is paid, and nothing else. Anything beyond the job description is embezzlement. [note – we are not talking about differences in opinion. for example, the laws prohibiting political campaigning by govt employees as part of their employment are a specific version of honest services laws.]
I remember reading things in Colorado firearms law that (when you boiled it down) said it was illegal to carry a gun unlawfully. Which struck me as circular; but apparently as you point out “illegal” and “unlawful” don’t mean the same thing.
There are many, many books out there that purport to explain self defense law. I only read a few of them, none of them explained the distinction.
The problem is that long ago we reached the point where we were following the Constitution by stretching some of those powers to the breaking point. “Regulating commerce” has, for instance, been used to justify a lot of overreach as being a power given to the Federal Government.
Our oldest firearms laws (the NFA from the 1930s) are actually part of the tax code, though I’d be happy to make the argument that it’s a peculiar tax that people must beg for permission to pay.
This is awesome…Hope it happens!
Big tech wasn’t forced – they are true believers and did it gladly and willingly.
President Barack Obama joins a toast with Technology Business Leaders at a dinner in Woodside, California, Feb. 17, 2011. Apple CEO Steve Jobs is sitting to Obama’s left with his back to the camera and Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is sitting to the right of Obama.(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
I want to see their wealth Confiscated and them in prison for their ‘election interference’ and censorship.
“BREAKING: JD Vance just said Trump will FIRE every single official at the FBI, CIA, DHS, CDC, etc that forced big tech to censor the truth about the 2020 election & Covid”
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Why stop there?
What about all the other crimes the ‘officials’ have committed?
This should be on the downlow, but I’d be open to firing 20% of the Federal government per year, every year.
Would that be 20 percent of the remainder every year?
Or 20 percent of the original number?
In the latter case what do you for the sixth year, having reduced the government to the optimum size?
I had considered it both ways.
Upon reflection, I figured that 20% of the remainder would be the easier course, because it would lull all those functionaries who consider themselves indispensable into quiet…..until the bell tolled for them.
Tear the bandaid off fast, without delay. Keep the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Eliminate all else. Then we could build with a clean foundation.
Claw back all the graft and give it in an equal share to legal voters. From there, have auctions of all property including land and buildings. Let the people vote on each thing to keep. I vote to keep historical monuments, the Smithsonian (though I would replace all staff), and so on.
Oh sure, let’s just create a highly motivated army opposed to us. And they’ll all just sit around playing Call of Duty or some shit like that.
They’d never do anything to damage our side, right?
A large portion of them must first be prosecuted, then fired.
“…then
firedSent to ATTU Island Alaska…”Plenty of other good places in Alaska, too.
And maybe we can get the Brits to apologize by ceding the British Antarctic Territory to us. South Georgia island looks like excellent real estate for the purpose.
I wanted the movie clip but this will have to do
Eugene Kittridge : You and I know about this, that’s where it stops. You understand? It never happened.
Frank Barnes : What about him?
Eugene Kittridge : I want him manning a radar tower in Alaska by the end of the day; just mail him his clothes.
Read more: https://ficquotes.com/quotes/2077/
I agree with the spirit of your comment except the last paragraph. The resolution must be immediate. It is common with insider threats to just walk a person out unannounced (remember James Comey?). You just say “We’re going in a new direction.” For those with obvious evidence they have committed crimes, prosecutions may follow but after a walk out and leave without pay if you like. It is imperative to send them home to stop the damage, much evil has been done publicly. I also think the SES must be dismantled.
As far as I am concerned, SES should be shot. They are placed above the Constitution, the Law, and the People.
some things should be played closer to the vest, imo.
don’t show all yr cards ?
the deep state doesn’t play nice when threatened.
just sayin.
HLS, IRS…
Well he’s gotta Start somewhere 😉
Sounds good, for a start. Then those 51 should get a notice that their passports have been deactivated.
Nothing further need be done – the YSM will create and spread the panic [among the swamp creatures] that Trump is up to something bad.
Actually – some Kamalians hate our country.
I think they HATE their fellow citizens and actually want us in re-training camps or DEAD.
Oh yeah – that too!
“You are voting for Kamala because you hate Trump.”
And you don’t even know why you hate Trump, you couldn’t explain it even if your life depended on it 😂
haters gonna hate.
mob rule
mob mentality
fist pump !
Actually, they could.
But the entire rationale is a lie. And they mostly don’t even know that.
Charlie Kirk owns a guy who questions his handing out an annotated version of the Constitution to college students.
Actually the questions he asked verge on trivia, knowing which article (or amendment) by number happens to be the one that establishes or protects X. It’s almost as bad as burning someone for not knowing which page of a book a statement is printed on.
The guy knew there was a prohibition against quartering troops, but attributed it to the wrong number amendment in the bill of rights. So what? It’s FAR more important to know the concepts.
Good questions for him to ask would have been “what are the three branches of the Federal government,” “What are the qualifications for President,” “Does the constitution guarantee the right to health care.” etc.
I personally get the 9th and 10th amendments confused. So what? One of them says (in essence) that not all actual rights are listed here, and the other says that powers not given to the federal government reside with the states or the people. It doesn’t really matter (unless one is writing a paper or opinion, in which case one looks it up) which one of these is number 9 and which one is number 10.
Good points regarding concepts vs. trivia. Concepts are much more important because principles are often based on them.
Indeed.
True, and I certainly agree.
However the subject being discussed was a pamphlet on the actual Constitution written for 3rd graders. The guy was calling it PROPAGANDA.
So This guy is trashing that pamphlet and Charlie is showing he does not know the subject matter covered by the pamphlet except in a vague way. Charlie is ALSO showing he does know the subject.
If the guy is NOT a subject matter expert, can he rightfully call it propaganda? Or is he just tossing out a Liberal talking point with no substance to back it up?
I would argue that if that’s what’s in his literature, it’s useless. Not propaganda, but he’s teaching trivia rather than focusing on concepts.
I would have to see what the pamphlet says before making a judgement. We are talking concepts for an 8 to 9 year old.
I can’t find a copy of the pamphlet but found this.
Looks like the left DOES NOT LIKE us pointing out the USA is NOT a Democracy. Remember the Senate originally was picked by the state legislature AND it is the state legislate who determines how electors who do pick the president are allotted. In some cases it is all or nothing in others it is proportional. The article Proportional, Not Popular explains that AND Why the DemonRats want to ‘FIX’ it to make it a ‘Democracy’
Debunking Charlie Kirk on our democratic republic
The author is ‘debunking’ this:
I can not find out what Jefferson said but note that is the only quote they go after.
This seems to be the actual Jefferson quote.
That’s harder on the left than the fake quote is.
Unfortunately it would sail right over the heads of our DUMBED DOWN population.
It is the same old same old tired redefining of truth. Making shiz up as they go so they can gain an advantage, then selling the shiz as candy to people who are too ignorant or stupid to know better.
The Constitution does not say democracy. I have grown to hate the word.
Ditto. My newest theme is,
You’re damn right that I’m a threat to your democracy.
America is a republic and I fight for it.
AMEN!!!
UCLA law school professor Eugene Volokh point seems silly. On the one hand he accepts the distinction on the other hand he tries to negate it, causing one to just accept the “democracy” part and through omission we know how Dems operate and Kirk’s view and that of so many others will come true if the distinction is not made, Thus it Is, So it be Said, So it should be Written, written or not.
“UCLA law school professor Eugene Volokh point seems silly…”
YUP, that is why I posted it. He sounds like Commiela as he tries to twist things.
“Actually the questions he asked verge on trivia, knowing which article (or amendment) by number happens to be the one that establishes or protects X. It’s almost as bad as burning someone for not knowing which page of a book a statement is printed on.”
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Well Charlie’s not there to help the guy who is attacking him 😂
The guy charged at him, Charlie ducked, got him in a submission hold, and the guy tapped out.
Take the win and move on to the next one 😁
😂
😁
Why not just ban illegal aliens from America?
They’re illegal, aren’t they?
If it was a speed limit, you wouldn’t just ban people from breaking it inside the city or highway off-ramps, would you?
What are we talking about here? 😂
Just ban the illegal aliens, and remove them.
Then we don’t have to individually ban them from 10,000 different things, which are probably unenforceable (or wouldn’t be enforced) anyway.
Agreed, round them up and toss them out!
This crap about ‘amnesty’ for ignorant 3rd worlders is SHEER BULLSHIT!
Notice OBAMA NEVER LET ANY MIDDLE EAST CHRISTIANS INTO THE USA! Well actually he allowed in THREE!
Obama Silent As Persecuted Christians In The Middle East Face Extinction
EXACTLY !
Because what he’s really talking about is not just them being illegal by being here, which is a strike against them, but about it making it illegal for YOU to rent to them or lending them money for a house.
Because otherwise, once they are here there is nothing to stop them from doing so.
If one harbored a known bank robber surely there would be consequences for doing that, it’s the same thing.
Reminds one of the camel that got it’s nose under the tent. We all know how that story ends up and it’s a story being played out today, but instead of a tent it’s our nation and soon there will be just shards of it strewn across a barren landscape which is what the old powers want so they can nudge the peices back together to reestablish their fiefdoms.
We know Dems and Republicans alike are all for letting the camel under the tent. Dems to profit from votes, illegal contraband, and general disorder from which they can build their phony Shangri-La. GOPe for the profits of cheap labor and visions of monopolies and oligarchies. Both to be ruled through tyranny and both built off the success of the middle class whom they intent to disassemble, rob and pound into dust least they share in the wealth of the elite.
here’s another good idea..
The Signature That Gets Them To “Start Packing” Sooner
article link…
https://cis.org/Chip/Signature-Gets-Them-Start-Packing-Sooner
9/10
start requiring U.S. employers to use G-Verify (Government Verification) instead of E-Verify (Electronic Verification).
more, at the link.
Or renting houses.
That is a GREAT statement!!!
Given how I concluded my Mars article, I’m certainly not one to disagree.
And OBTW should my article on flat earth from two weeks ago (before the Sun article) be in the sidebar?
Yes, it should.
Well, THAT is an impertinent question!!! 😉
Sorriness and corruption
Do not forget the Clintons ‘HELP’ after the earthquake.
I believe he is correct.
I just said something similar to Hubby when he complained of her slurring speech.
Glenn Beck admits to being an alcoholic. I bet he has picked up on this but doesn’t want to say something that could backfire on him or on Trump.
We do need to be careful not to lie about her. Many of us believe she is probably an alcoholic. She certainly appears to be one. But I personally have not smelled it on her breath, or tasted her drinks.
You don’t even want to imagine what you might smell on her breath….
most “functioning” alcoholics drink vodka throughout the day, so as not to carry any smelly fumes on the intoxicated breath…or so they think…but, come Happy Hour(s) and then on into the night, they will often switch to the more hardcore likkers.
what JOY ! /s/
and they always seem to think they’re fooling everybody, life of the party ! witty as heck ! a laugh riot !
until the next morning after all that good time joy…and breakfast = orange joy juice and a whole new day of vodka.
back the truck up…how close have you been to her? (not to “personally” smell it on her breath) inquiring minds want to know…
He’s making the point that you can’t say she’s been drinking unless either you have smelled in on her breath, or someone else you trust reports that they have. Otherwise, it’s an accusation without hard evidence.
It doesn’t actually matter if you were ever in her presence or not; you haven’t the evidence.
well…you took the fun out of that…LOL
Yeah we gotta stick with clever nicknames about her sexual proclivities.
Or just proceed on the assumption that she is this stupid even without the use of stupid juice.
Those science guys have a habit of doing that.
Many people also believe that Pelosi drinks. I don’t say she drinks; I just notice that her speech seems off. It could be for a number of different reasons. We don’t know what is going on in people’s lives; we just know how they are coming across.
I think it’s called high functioning alcoholic.
no puns intended there.
a high tolerance…able to consume large quantities of booze and still “function” without collapsing in a drunken stupor or passing out…
but it also often involves periods of black outs… the abusive drinker is still “functioning” but will have no memory of any of it, after sobering up.
these are very dangerous toxic people, in denial…irresponsible, deceptive, drunk & careless.
people get hurt.
^^^ This. Have one in our family.
Had one working in a lab. Died fast (one week) from liver cancer at 46.
Seems like perpetual jet lag.
I personally suspect I’d like those extra 40 minutes…at least so long as I don’t have a social/family life. I stay up later and later if not constrained.
At the University of Casual Sun-Bathing, I had one quarter where I spent more time on the Computer Science system than the system administrator, and I shifted into a 28-hour day with 19 waking and 9 sleeping. It was peculiar, especially in that there were only six days in each week.
If I’d had the luxury of bending more of my schedule to accommodate my sleep/wake cycle, I could see myself continuing with it.
I had a semester with nothing but afternoon classes. I was doing TWO senior thesis papers, one in chemistry and one in geology. I was sharing a lab with a grad student who resented my presence so all the work I did on both papers was between 11:00 PM and 3:00 AM. My Chemistry advisor finally asked me WHEN I was in the lab.
For the Chemistry paper I was just doing grunt work for the advisor. It was the geology paper that was fascinating and made a stir in geology circles. My partner and I were asked to present the paper to the state geologist. He and the dean of Geology, really, really wanted me to get a PhD in geology. My partner, who was a freshman English major, they did succeed in getting to switch to Geology.
An English major lost to the world. Sorry but that’s a small loss. Geology is an unambiguous gain.
I was really happy when he switched. An English degree was WASTED on the guy.
The other way around, methinks: Him majoring in English would have been a waste of HIM.
But then, I have a STEM attitude if anyone ever did.
You are correct — BRAIN FART! (We were getting ready for a gig this morning.)
I am STEM or TRADES.
“a STEM attitude” practically sexist given an ultrasound tech once informed expectant parents of “the stem on the apple” of their unborn child 😉
Bob
Bob is one of the alien twins who work at MIB headquarters. He and his twin brother Idikiukup (referred to as Bweryang in Men in Black) are often seen operating consoles and supplying the agents with information. They occasionally leave MIB headquarters and accompany J and K on missions, usually if those missions involve space travel.
Bob’s species has eight arms and a single eye on a stalk.
The twins introduced the 37 hour day at MIB headquarters, which is the length of a Centaurian day. This hints that they might come from Alpha Centauri, but this is never stated anywhere clearly.
https://meninblack.fandom.com/wiki/Bob
practically a “Cthulhu” cousin 😂
I do have a cousin named “Rob”….
😂 😎 😂
Love it!
In case anyone else can’t see it here either, via Gab
I thought this was an interesting observation:
2:06:40 commenter ?Keith? brings up point.
https://rumble.com/v5ei0ua-devolution-power-hour-283-1030pm-et-.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
No need to rewind or replay anything. Has it right here 😁
The problem with that, is it is not that far off from reality!🤓
The real video is actually more convincing, IMHO. The sneering smile with thinning eyes is death for her campaign. I suspect that the wicked boy-love boy Plouffe and his entourage of pedos and haters thought it was a good idea.
The expressions on her face sent this message to me: she is very much aware of her own intellectual shortcomings, is insecure about her lmitations, and uses phony facial expressions and gestures as a cover-up, not realizing that she is only fooling herself. The look of superiority reveals the feelings of inferiority.
Have read Kakala was provided Hollywood acting lessons. Another Kakala failure.
Suxalotacux is 60, hard to over come the DEMONIC at that age.
She appears to have aged a LOT since the Obola years.
Great stuff!!! 😍
sleaze bag spawn Tim Walz…the worst of the worst…
bad dreams are made of this…
From Radical Boot Camp To Congress: Tim Walz’ Progressive Origins Revealed
article link…
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/09/13/from-radical-boot-camp-to-congress-tim-walzs-progressive-origins-revealed/
9/13
let’s start with Camp Wellstone (2005)…the infamous degenerate Marxist “training camp” inspired by DSA’s (Democratic Socialists of America) Paul Wellstone (Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals)…
Camp Wellstone “served as an incubator of progressive leaders…including Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison…”
Walz brags & boasts about the place.
read more about this, at the link.
bad bad news, the degenerate sleaze.
Time and tide wait for no man….and neither do hard disks…..
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/music-industrys-1990s-hard-drives-like-all-hdds-are-dying/
Just saw this, no cause of death given (sorry about a link to MSN):
Ballerina Michaela Mabinty DePrince dies at 29
OK, this is sort of cute but won’t be visible for very long.
Unicode decided to add the Garay alphabet in September. There’s a Wikipoo article here — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garay_alphabet. Down at the bottom of the article there’s a Unicode table of the new letters.
Which, on my browser, show as little boxes, because my browser hasn’t updated Unicode since they made the revision.
Once the browser gets its Unicode updated, the same article will look like any other alphabet in the table at the bottom.
I thought you didn’t do upgrades.
No idea where you got that — I do upgrades promptly when they hit the repos.
I don’t know either. Old brain misfire, I guess.
Two things happened in fairly rapid succession recently–Debian going to debian 12 (and then Qubes producing templates for debian 12) then Qubes itself upgrading from 4.1 (the version I originally installed) to 4.2.
I waited a bit in both cases to let other people find “oopsies” that somehow got past testing; I don’t recall any. 4.2 did make a change that broke my highly customized setup but I was able to change to match it with some effort. I really didn’t want to do both upgrades at the same time.
So NO, I don’t upgrade the instant they hit the repositories, but I do upgrade well before end of life. Unlike with Windoze, where I still use 7, without internet.
Actually there is a LOT of unicode that doesn’t display on this box. The Chinese I used to have in my daily suddenly ended up among that one day, I have no idea what happened.
I run into problems a LOT with people sending me stuff with fonts I don’t have (probably Micro$haft standard crap), and the system defaults to one of the standard linux fonts wrecking the PDF they sent me. Then I have to go a) figure out what font I am missing, then b) find the font in question and install it…then c) make sure it stays installed, since I’m running a disposable.
All because Linux and Micro$haft don’t use the same fonts. And that’s mostly because some dickweed somewhere (not necessarily in Micro$haft land; I’ve run into lots of Linux UI designers who are just as arrogant as M$) decides the next release should have different fonts because the current ones don’t look goddamn fucking trendy enough.
That explains it! Must stay trendy or die.
Sheeeesh. The stupidity is stunning.
Here’s a beaut…windows without borders. So 1) if it’s two terminal windows overlapping, you cant tell where one ends and the next one begins. 2) because people like to be able to grab the borders to resize the windows, there’s now an issue with having a completely hidden area where you can mouse down and drag. On my current work Linux system, that area is so freaking wide it can reach the edge of the screen and certainly DOES go into nearby windows, so I can’t select anything there.
All because some trendpuppy faggot fuckwit decided window borders were ugly. And people who complained and asked for a prepackaged option to change it were basically just told to go away and do it themselves.
And this was NOT Micro$haft, this was Linux desktops.
Our President endorsing 45-47!
BO is melting.
And we didn’t even need to throw water on him.
boom.
dude’s a treasure 💞
simple enough even a democrat should understand it
Maybe they should have statistics for crime victims also.
Nice try, but if not prosecuted, there’s no legally no crime and therefore no victim to count.
Trendy Arugula ??
President Trump Signs Federal Animal Cruelty Bill Into Law – The New York Times
It’s unconstitutional.
AHHHhh but first the Supreme court has to strike it down and there are a heck of a lot of other laws & regs that are ALSO unconstitutional. However a heck of a lot of people ended fined or in jail anyway.
Yup. Like most of the laws and regulations.
This!
Ridiculous overreach, agreed. WTF was he thinking?
IMO — either Santeria or Voodoo rituals; and.or, gang “initiation rites.”
Tax free overtime: Who or what or where is it decreed that the working week is 40 hours.
I’ve never given it a moments thought, it’s something I’ve just accepted.
What if sometime in the future it’s reduced to 30 or even 20 hours.
The outcome would certainly upset the balance of whose pockets the money went into.
when i was 18, i got a job sewing in a local factory. (we were not a part of ILGW union). Our workweek was 36 hours regular time, meaning if we had to work Friday afternoons, we got overtime. (same applied to Saturday morning–OT). the minimum wage back then was pitiful, but good operators were paid piece rate and if you were good and accurate–you made $$. It was a great job. then NAFTA was signed. we couldn’t compete, and we closed.
My point is that one would still work for 40 hours but it would severely reduce the proportion of your money going to the government.
Exactly. Hire everyone for 10 hours per week, and have everything over 10 hours be untaxed overtime.
That’s it, and it could be arranged to be good for the employer also, in that he could reduce the overtime premium and still leave the employee with a win.
Maybe it could be PDJT;s long term plan to gradually stop income tax.
People at 10 hours a week typically don’t get employee health insurance…..which would matter less if it weren’t 80% government-sanctioned grift.
It would be a gradual thing spread over several years 40 hours, 35, 30 etc., that would give time to iron out knock on effects.
Indeed, in some cases straight time pay but with no withholding would be enough.
That would cost them absolutely nothing extra.
I was wondering if that might be possible, needs some careful maths.
I don’t know what the income tax rate is over there. Here the lowest rate is 20% and then there’s 10% national insurance on top of that.
Then of course there’s 20% VAT on nearly every purchase.
Not sure if I read you right–but you are not in the United States? I’m going to assume that’s the case.
Our rate increases with income, so a bigger earner doesn’t just pay more as they would even at the same rate, they pay a higher percentage of what they earn. This is called a “progressive” tax here.
A straight-up consumption tax is considered regressive because the poor have to spend absolutely everything they earn on consumables (food, transportation, etc.) whereas wealthier people can invest or save some and thereby avoid the tax (for now at least; eventually money must be spent or it’s useless).
There is a proposal, called the Fair Tax, to scrap all taxes on income and impose a sales tax…which would be included in the price of all goods. Everyone would get a “prebate” check equivalent to the tax they’d pay on poverty-level spending so the truly impoverished would pay nothing. This is not nearly as intrusive on one’s privacy as the current income tax because absolutely everyone would get the check, even billionaires; you wouldn’t have to file and prove you’re poor to get it. They’d only care about how many people are in your household.
Your income tax sounds broadly similar to that in the UK, going up in bands depending on how much one earns.
What I forgot to say is that there is no VAT on food.
That “fair tax” sounds like a reasonable idea.
The fair tax would apply to EVERYTHING if passed. Including food. The prebate would compensate for that to a point. Obviously if someone lives on Beluga caviar, they’d net pay tax on it.
The “fair tax” would be a good intermediate stage after removing the income tax taken from wages.
The final stage would be to impose import duties on every thing that COULD NOT be made or acquired in country.
Monies raised from those duties could then be used to lessen the amount taken via the fair tax.
Part of the problem with alternative tax systems is that they are never “alternative”.
When a new tax is put in place, old taxes are temporarily lowered during the “transition” period. Unfortunately, no government has ever let loose of a means of taxation once it has been imposed (which is why you still see “excise taxes” on various utility bills).
If anyone thinks that having a “fair tax” will rid them of the tyranny of an income tax, they are a poor student of history — they will have both.
One night, the Fiancee and I were having dinner in Fiji. The bill came, and (to my eyes) it didn’t add properly, so I asked the server.
“Oh, that’s the 4% VAT tax,” was the response.
I said, “Oh, yes, that was from the national emergency about 5 or 6 years ago, right?” The server agreed. “It was initially levied at about 1%, if I’m not mistaken,” and the server also agreed, confused as to how I knew the details of Fiji’s VAT tax when I previously hadn’t known it existed.
I hadn’t the heart to keep going further.
VAT taxes are always imposed during some national emergency or crisis. They are always imposed at some minimal rate, generally 1%. They always increase, year over year, until they always reach about 20% in about 20 years. You can set your watch by it.
If the waitress had said, “it’s the 15% VAT tax,” I could have said the same things, but about 15 years ago.
Part of the proposal entails repealing that amendment.
But yes. I don’t want it AND the income tax.
European welfare states generally make enough money off the VAT (a fancier sales tax) that their income taxes are lowered and they actually leave businesses alone, more than we do at any rate. It’s easier to start a business in Denmark than it is. here, for instance. They have the wit to get out of the way of the productive engine and parasitize it in a way non-lethal to the host.
The fact of the matter is our federal government shouldn’t be nearly as big as it is. Import duties would never replace these other taxes (not before they kill trade entirely). [I know you didn’t say that they should.]
Ideally we’d get to a lean federal government, one lean enough that it can make the money it needs solely off of tariffs that are themselves low enough not to discourage trade.
Sounds like that would put a lot of bureaucrats out of business, win-win!
Indeed it would.
The counter is that businesses would have more paperwork; they have to collect it.
But for individuals…the IRS is gone from our lives. It’s even been billed as “ending the IRS” which is frankly not true; some government agency would have to administer it. It’s just that Joe Deplorable WageEarner would never hear from the IRS except to say he has three dependents, send me the appropriate sized prebate.
We can dream…sigh…
Hope Trump makes it so!!!
“maths” vs “math”…Brit?
Perfection!
NAFTA also threw 75% of Mexican farmers off their land as tax payer subsidized US corn under cut the prices. The land was then bought up by the likes of Cargill, who now has a total of 27 facilities. Remember the SWINE FLU attributed to a Mexican Hog farm???
I thought the Swine Flu was another US created/orchestrated/manipulated bio-weapon like SARS1, SARS2 (Covid 19), Bird Flu, MERS, & who knows what else!
Most likely.
sickos!
Get your passport. France has been there for many years.
zephyrbreeze
September 14, 2024 2:02 am
gonna be fun, right ?
gonna be lit
comin in hot !
25 million ineligible names. What could go wrong?
Key Red states “vote” Kakala.
Could be any Red state. FL, TX and OH my primary focus.
Do not forget NC
Yea. Could be any Red state, where we don’t pay enough attention.
NC has been very close to switching to DemonRat thanks to Cooper, the Soros State Ag. who ended up as gov. He made sure the Voter ID law passed a decade ago FAILED in front of the Supreme court. It was his job to defend the state law and he did not. So he was rewarded with a governorship in 2016.
Cooper is one to watch BTW.
As you have probably gathered, King Crimson is frequently an over-intellectualized exercise. I didn’t quite build a spreadsheet, but…..
The theme of the concert was three 1980s KC albums — Discipline, Beat, and Three of a Perfect Pair. There are 24 “songs” on these albums. The concert played 18 of them, plus one extra KC song, “Red”. This left six songs off — Discipline, Two Hands, The Howler, Requiem, Nuages (That Which Passes, Passes Like Clouds), and No Warning.
I was seriously expecting Discipline to be the second encore. It is everyone’s favorite song in 17/16 time, because most people don’t know any other songs in 17/16….
An old Wikipoo version (now lost) summarized it thus —
I suspect that this is the song that broke Steve Vai. I hope it becomes a regular part of the set during the tour.
While I certainly missed Discipline, I was delighted to hear live versions of Industry and Sartori in Tangier, which I did not expect.
In the meantime, I keep boppin’ along to weird KC riffs in my head. I’m going to have to listen to a bunch of country or europop or something to get myself back to 4/4.
I shared some of this w/ Hubby from above the video & the video itself, & when it was done playing he brought up Steve Vai, not knowing that he was filling in at your concert 😉 Given Michael’s a bass player & formerly played drums (sax & clarinet) he was able to pick out the rhythms quite well, which wasn’t so easy for me 🙂
Steve Vai is actually filling in for the entire tour. He did an amazing job and deserved every bit of the applause he got along the way, but it was unquestionably a difficult assignment. Robert Fripp’s guitar parts on these three albums were not quite lead and not quite rhythm, painstakingly precise and mathematical, and very, very, very quirky.
Sounds like he was the right guy for the job even though unable to completely fill those legendary shoes 🙂
Fripp wasn’t the guy with that strange exhibitionist chick, Toya iirc, you used to share videos of was he?
I think so…at least, it was someone named Fripp.
At one point she showed the WGTTs without hindrance, shortly after Cthulhu stopped sharing the videos.
You mean no “camouflaging” paint? LOL
or even sheer clothing. Yep.
past middle age chic desperate for attention LOL
Yep. That’s Robert Fripp.
He evidently decided to stay home with the WGTTs rather than go on this tour.
Does anyone blame him?
Thx 🙂
sorry this is long…but an interesting read about Ohio and the Dewines and Haitians
Pete Santilli 🇮🇹
@petersantilli
Sep 13 • 10 tweets • 7 min read •
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🚨🚨🚨BREAKING EXCLUSIVE 🚨🚨🚨
Since Chief Executive Human Trafficker of Ohio @GovMikeDeWine announced he was deploying his armed Troopers to “protect Haitians in Springfield Ohio, @debthecohost and I started taking a closer look.
Seems like @GovMikeDeWine is not only using Ohio State government resources to protect his own Dewine Family Haitian Trafficking Network, he is potentially triple dipping in the very lucrative business of child sex trafficking. There’s already a flood of publicly available information about Dewine’s Haitian IMMIGRANT TRAFFICKING into Springfield, @debthecohost discovered some very interesting information about Hillary Clinton’s fellow Haitian child smuggler’s potentially incriminating money-laundering mortgage fraud scheme. READ THIS BOMBSHELL THREAD ALL THE WAY TO THE END AND SHARE.
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BACKGROUND: Although Dewine — in typical RINO fashion — recently took to the podium to state that the “federal government needs to help provide solutions” to solve the problem of dumping 20,000 Haitians into Springfield. Dewine’s family has been in Haiti packaging up his human/sex traffic-slaves and DUMPING THEM INTO SPRINGFIELD OHIO HIMSELF.
The Republican governor has an extensive connection to Haiti. In 1998, DeWine and his wife, Fran, began their support of the Becky DeWine School, named after the DeWines’ daughter who was killed in a 1993 car accident at 22 years old.
The school was situated in a slum known as Cite Soleil in Haiti capitol Port Au Prince and run by a charity that had long been supported by the DeWines. Mike and Fran DeWine in 2013 traveled to Haiti to commemorate the school’s first graduating class.
…and like Hillary Clinton, we’re very confident they used a @CIA child-sex trafficker like Laura Silsby (disguised as a baptist humanitarian ministry) to get their pick of the litter. The young, pretty little Haitians get TOP DOLLAR!
(but that’s NOT all…..continue reading for the most explosive info)
In Clintonian style [look up Laura Silsby & Hillary Clinton’s Haiti Child Trafficking Network], Dewine has a nice little pipeline of Haitian slaves pumping through Ohio – indisputably, America’s #1 hub for human / child / sex trafficking in the United States of America. To protect his family’s cash cow, disguised as a “humanitarian effort”, the media gushingly assists in writing fluff pieces to cover-up their abuses.
We’re headed to Springfield Ohio, and we were wondering why there is suddenly an army of Ohio Troopers deployed by Dewine, and NOW we see reports of “bomb threats from racist MAGA supporters spreading internet rumors about Haitians eating CATS”.
Over the past 13 years, whenever @debthecohost and I ever see the entire government activated to “protect the plight of the _____ XYZ____ (fill in the blank) “, we immediately smell “@FBI and @CIA cover-up of crimes. Been there. Done that. Red dots all over our chests by sleep-deprived @FBI agents.
These extremely rich and well educated elite are brilliant operators, but they give themselves away by repeating old, stale techniques in covering up their crimes…..so we dug deeper.
Meet “Sony”.
Sony is one of Dewine’s Haitian propaganda models, who is a clean-looking (vs cannibal voo-doo priest-looking) healthcare worker who now calls Springfield his “home”.
We found out why “home” is potentially a coded word for Dewine’s very lucrative human trafficking network.
In fact, we now suspect that his pleas to the federal government for relief money are undoubtedly one more ladle which he can dip into the Haitian stew to enrich his family….especially if they reward him with millions in humanitarian relief for the crisis his family actually caused themselves — FOR PROFIT.
By the way, we are now discovering that kick-backs to his co-conspirators in DC are easy-breezy when you see how they’re laundering money through mortgage fraud in Springfield Ohio. Forget the cats & ducks for a few moments.
Check out this property address connected to Dewine’s poor little Haitian refugee, propaganda model & government healthcare slave “Sony”Image
The property is owned by a private shell company called Ohio Hsng Inv Opportunities. (hey @FBI and @CIA , please thank us with a comment below for giving you some busy work…like deleting public records connected to Dewine’s sex trafficking network, or causing those in the know to suddenly die in a car crash)Image
The property is worth $55,000. Image
We pulled comps in the local area — properties of comparable value. Image
…and look what we found.
The Ohio Investment Opportunities shell company allegedly (per public records) bought a $55,000 “home” for Sony to live in for $1,646,000.
Now WHY would any entity pay $1.6 million for a property worth $55,000?
They didn’t.
Please allow me come up with a fake scenario everyone can understand. Just take a look at the $617,000 loan.
……continue
In this fake scenario:
1) Dewine Family writes a fake sales receipt for $1,646,000.
2)The call their appraiser who writes a fraudulent appraisal — posssibly stating that Dewine did a 77 story home-improvement and adds 2.3 MILLION SQUARE FEET TO THE APPRAISAL.
2) They go to their cronies at the bank, and ask for a mere percentage of what the property is worth — $617,000 — for an equity line or bag of cash.
3) The criminal insider at the bank gets the deal approved, becuase on a square-footage basis, this “OPPORTUNITY” is a DEAL! WoW! Local property is selling for much much higher per square foot!
4) The bank also pulls the wool over everyone’s eyes in the underwriting department, because their computer screen shows that they are only loaning 50% of what the property is worth! Underwriting says “WOW! WE HOPE THESE PEOPLE DON:T PAY THEIRR LOAN, BECAUSE WE CAN EASILY FORECLOSE ON THE PROPERTY, SELL IT FOR $1.6 MILLION, GET OUR $617,000 BACK, AND WOOHOO!
WE GET TO KEEP THE REST!
5) The bank cuts a check for $617,000, and Dewine’s cronies cash it. $10,000, of course, goes to “Sony” to keep his mouth shut, except for interviews with the @CIA run media saying he is a happy American who calls Springfield “home”, but is in fear of his life because of President Trump’s racist CAT statement.
6) Of course, Dewine kicks $100,000 to the DC bureacrat who cuts a check for $3 million dollars in humanitarian aid for Springfield.
7) Dewine also cuts a $50,000 check to the Springfield City Manager for calling @CIA -run ABC and telling them — right before the debate — that he has seen “no evidence” of Haitians eating cats or ducks. (BTW: “we have seen no evidence” is Deep State-speak after the @FBI /@CIA completes their mop-up job and gets rid of all the evidence and either pays off or kills uncooperative witnesses)
8) Then, of course, Dewine suddenly deploys Ohio State Troopers with a made-up excuse of protecting the poor little Haitian victim of racist Trump remarks; falsely accused of eating ducks by his loyal racist MAGA supporters.
Then, of course, when @debthecohost and I are driving around Springfield, the Ohio State Troopers (useful idiots) will pull us over because the @FBI has been surveilling us forr 10 years — because we are, of course “domestic terrorists” for exposing their child sex trafficking network.
The useful idiots of the Ohio State Troopers — who are only reading the information fed to them by the @FBI through the fusion center “are only doing their jobs” — when they pull out their guns and shoot us —- because they were informed by the fusion center via their patrol car computers as soon as they run our plates:
“BOLO….DOMESTIC TERRORISTS….ARMED & DANGEROUS…POSSIBLE SPRINGFIELD BOMB-THREAT SUSPECTS….PROCEED WITH CAUTION.” (all made up by the @FBI and pumped out to all fusion centers via Fort Washington Maryland)
(How else can the Deep State get unknowing, useful idiot patrol officers to shoot MAGA SUPPORTERS & not feel bad about it? Pete & Deb are possible “racist Trump Supporters wanting to place a bomb…why else would they be in Springfield?” “Pete shouldn’t have reached for his iPad…we would never have shot him 78 times —- shaking in our boots after reading our FBI-provided warnings on our computers sent to us via Fort Washington Maryland ! Geez…”we were just doing our job for Dewine to protect the Haitians from racist MAGA conspiracy theorists”)
Oh, and BTW, not all @FBI agents are bad guys. Some of them would NEVER participate in criminal activities & will blow the whistle! You’ll know who they are when they are printed in the newspaper…found dead from a suicide…2 shotgun blasts to the back of the head.
I’m guessing this will not be good for Vance, who SHOULD have known about it.
SHOULD have known about it.
Sitting senator from Ohio. Should know stuff about his state.
I’d guess JD is now, up to speed.
A whole lot of people C L O S E to the problem, likely know AND have been silent. Springfield centric. Perhaps Dayton. Banks, local TV, radio, newspapers, city council(s), DA’s…
Do you have a link for the original tweet? I’d like to read more (including comments) at Nitter, if possible. Thx for bringing this.
Is that Santilli the guy who started the Taxed Enough Already Party (TEA Party)?
Looking at his twitter feed, most of what shows is from 2023 or early 2024. Perhaps he’s hitting too many nerves so “they” don’t want us to easily see what he’s currently talking about!
This appears related & is the pinned tweet on Santilli’s profile at twitter
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@petersantilli
Since you understand real estate @realdonaldtrump
, what is wrong with this picture? I am in Springfield , Ohio to see for myself if this property at 526 Mulberry is worth $1.6 million, worthy of a $617,000 loan. As a real estate mogul, you know government sponsored mortgage fraud when you see it. BTW: the CEO of the investment company listed on title was arrested for “allegedly” running a sex trafficking ring in Ohio. Coincidentally, the govt has placed 10-15 Haitians in this property. I won’t ask a conspiracy theory question because the goons are too busy attacking you about CATS. This is way bigger than CATS. This is a full blown #SpringfieldCrimeScene @LFATVUS
is investigating. I am telling Haitians here in Springfield to save the cats. Eat the pedophile sex traffickers and mortage fraudsters and #GovernmentGangsters running Kamala’s cartel. @debthecohost
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Excellent opener, Steve. Much appreciated.
GGGGGggggrrrrrrrrrrr
September 14, 2024 8:26 am
President Trump actually solved the problem years ago, Reichert notes, when he bought those pumps to be built on the Mexican side of the border so that Mexico could keep its own sewage.
When Joe Biden took office, the pumps were mysteriously turned off and the sewage flowed into San Diego County, making a lot of people sick, forcing Navy SEALs up north to swim in it, Border Patrol agents to come into contact with it, and property owners to take the hit to the value of their properties as the giant Mexican toilet flowed northward.
Why were those pumped turned off? Reichert says in her video to follow the money. From what I got from it, it’s likely federal funds were to flow so long as the beaches stayed filthy and a lot of Biden and Newsom cronies were to be made rich.
Reichert charges that the Biden administration actually colluded with the Mexicans to create the problem, allowed it to go on (in a bid to shake out federal cleanup funds), and were actually sitting on the solution all along.
Full article here:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/09/nation_s_filthiest_beach_gets_reprieve_from_tijuana_sewage_after_biden_agrees_to_turn_trump_pumps_back_on.html
Great opener.
Five day time lapse at South Pole very cool.
Mars. Mars retrograde video really, really enlightening. Retrograde crystal clear. Thoroughly enjoyed all the Mars information.
A lot of understanding astronomy–particularly within our solar system and trying to relate it to what we see in the sky) is being able to visualize what’s going on, when you have to mentally piece together the Earth’s rotation (one motion), our annual trip around the sun (another motion), the Moon’s orbit about the earth (yet another motion) and sometimes precession of the equinoxes (now we’re just rubbing it in) then realize we’re WITHIN the diagram, in the plane of our orbit about the sun, at a certain location on a round Earth which will muck with the orientation you’re viewing at. IF you can keep all that in your head the night sky makes sense–conceptually. You still won’t be able to make precise predictions but you can “get” the results of those that do.
(I despair of ever being able to explain precession of the equinoxes without a good animation or in person with a model…and I’ve never found such an animation. I found one that came close many years ago whoever it was ruined by the fact that viewpoint was revolving around what was going on. It took me a while to realize that that was the issue, not just a total lack of understanding by the animator.)
Well there is this one:
https://geologyscience.com/geology-branches/historical-geology/milankovitch-cycles/
But it is stationary.
If you use yandex.com and search for: precession of the equinoxes Milankovitch you might find something that is not ‘WOKE’
I used to have one but I am out of time today.
That’s a useful image, although I will admit that one has to superimpose motion on it to see the final product.
This doesn’t explain what you see in the sky as a result of the precession; how the sun will be in Aries on the first day of northern hemisphere spring one year, then in a totally different constellation 12,000 years later. (This is key to understanding the difference between a sidereal and a tropical year.) Precession is the LAST thing I’d teach, honestly, because it’s a second or third order effect. Since we define our year as “time interval between the sun crossing the celestial equator moving north, to the same thing happening again” (described from Earth POV), the effect of the precession is to make that interval (the solar or tropical year, tied to our seasons) slightly shorter than the sidereal year (one orbit of the earth about the sun, from the viewpoint of the stars), by about 20 minutes, because the position of the Earth on “first day of northern spring” in absolute terms is actually shifting because of the precession.
Ignoring this complication (because it’s relatively small in effect during one year), the big “two hundred proofs for flat earth” video posted a bit over two weeks ago in the comments made one point that’s semi-intelligent (but hangs on people believing an over-simplification). In essence, it runs something like this: The earth rotates on its axis in 24 hours. So (say) on the first day of spring at one point in its orbit, Kansas City is experiencing noontime, at 1200. Wait exactly half a year and at 1200 Kansas city is facing the same direction with respect to the stars, but the sun is on the other side of the earth and so KC should be experiencing midnight. This is actually a point our local flat earther brought up, and I know now he got it from that video. Unfortunately, it’s based on a misunderstanding of what a “day” is; 24 hours is actually a bit longer than our rotation relative to the stars (about four minutes more), the four minutes extra is so the earth can rotate enough to bring the sun back to overhead because the earth-sun line is at a different angle. Again, this needs a diagram (though a static one will do for this). Basically the flerfer video exploits people’s ignorance of the difference between the sidereal day and the mean solar day, which in turn is likely due to a simplified “fact” being taught in elementary school. In other words just this once they took what would be an intelligent question to ask, and supplied the wrong answer to it, and I don’t blame people (much) for falling for that one.
Precession of the Equinoxes is the wobble of the Earth’s axis as it passes through the seasons in its orbit around the sun…maybe? When the axis is pointed toward the sun it is starting Summer in that hemisphere & when pointed away from the sun it is starting Winter in that hemisphere?
Excerpt from book review might help.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/161167930-prehistoric-lunar-astronomy-19000-3100-b-c
TY 🙂
Let me try to draw a picture of what’s going on (para59s response is more along the line of how and when we figured it out, good info but I suspect not quite what you were asking about).
When you talk about the axis being pointed toward the sun being summer, etc., you’re right on, BUT this is not the precession of the equinoxes.
Without the precession of the equinoxes, the north end of the axis would point away from the sun at the same spot in Earth’s orbit, every year, forever. When the axis is most tilted away, that’s the beginning of winter. As seen from Earth, the sun would be in a particular location, in a particular constellation, every time this happens. (Yes, it’s hard to tell that because you can’t see the stars when the sun is visible, but even without any equipment astronomers could plot star positions when the sun wasn’t in that part of the sky, and know just from tracking the sun what was there when the sun *was* in that part of the sky.) All of this would be a consequence of the fact that the Earth’s axis points in the same direction at all times.
Now add in the precession. Now as it turns out the axis DOES shift, very very slowly, and what I described just now is an oversimplification. OK so imagine the earth in its orbit…and start at the center of the Earth. But instead of following the earth’s axis, draw a line perpendicular to the plane of the orbit (in the diagram below, it’s the dashed vertical line). The axis should form a 23.5 degree angle with this line. Now imagine pivoting the earth so the axis points in some other direction…but is still at a 23.5 degree angle to that line. If you keep shifting the axis without changing that angle, you draw a big “cone” in space with that axis.
Precession of the equinoxes is the result of the axis doing that…over a timespan of about 26,000 years (I think I’ve also seen the number 24.500 years).
Note if this happens at a constant rate, then wherever Earth was in its orbit at the beginning of last winter (i.e., when the north polar axis was most tilted away from the sun), will NOT be the same spot the following year, because the axis will have slewed a bit, and there’s some other nearby spot in the orbit where the axis is most tipped away from the sun.
We base our year length not on Earth’s absolute position in its orbit, but rather on the interval between the repetition of the seasons, which is slightly different because the axis shifts a bit every year. Enough to shorten it by about 20 minutes.
OK I hope that made sense. Like I said it really needs an animation to go along with the verbiage.
This is helpful, including the diagram–TY
I was guessing (rather badly) based on the pic Wolf shared, without reading source material 🙂
I didn’t think that pic of Wolf’s would be helpful…and apparently I was right.
🙂
You are Right a lot!
Oh, and why is it called “precession of the equinoxes”?
There is a point–actually two points–on Earth’s orbit where the axis is tipped neither toward or away from the Sun. From the Sun’s point of view the Earth is NOT tipped so that one pole faces the sun, rather the earth just looks tilted to the left or the right. From Earth what we see is the Sun directly over the equator; on the sky it’s crossing the “celestial equator”. At that time, day and night are of equal length…”equi”+”nox”
Now, what stars are behind the sun (as seen from earth) when this happens? If there were no precession, it’d be the same thing every year, instead the Sun will appear to cross the celestial equator in a slightly different spot each year (a spot on the zodiac, but a different spot on the zodiac one year to the next); that’s the “precession” of the “equinox” points.
So “precession” could sort of mean shift?
Precession generally means some sort of a rotation of a line about a point on that line. In this case it’s the line joining the two equinoxes at opposite sides of the Earth’s orbit (and projected out into the sky, that’s two points at opposite ends of the celestial sphere (which is a notional sphere at infinity that for the most part you can approximate as having the stars on it–they’re not at infinity but with them being trillions or even quadrillions of miles away, they might as well be for earthbound purposes). That line pivots around the Sun. [This is a classic example of making approximations, appropriately.]
It’s “precession of the equinoxes” (two points on the zodiac) event though it’s caused by the polar axis drawing a big cone in space…yes, confusing. This is a case were you must visualize in three dimensions to make sense of it. (A lot of other things you can think in two dimensions to get the idea.)
Another famous precession is that of Mercury’s line of apsides…that’s the line across its elliptical orbit, the long way. Perihelion is the point on that orbit closest to the Sun, Aphelion is the point furthest away. That line actually shifts, very slowly, over time (also pivoting around the Sun) and it turns out you need general relativity to explain why; it in fact was good evidence for it. When Einstein realized his theory (still handwritten on the paper in front of him and nowhere else) accounted for it perfectly, not just that it happened but exactly how quickly, he knew he was on the right track and (IIRC) it was one of the happiest moments of his life as he had solved a centuries-old mystery. (Story told in my physics series. https://www.theqtree.com/2021/08/21/2021%c2%b708%c2%b721-joe-biden-didnt-win-daily-thread/ )
This is also coming from a place of ignorance(shock!), but I’m guessing you are using the term “Zodiac” astronomically, not astrologically right? So the “Zodiac” would be the twelve predominant constellations, primarily in the plane of the Earth’s solar orbit that Might be visible from both hemispheres as they are closer to the Equator than the poles (my ignorant stab at a basic working definition)?
Obviously I’ve never dabbled in Astrology, for as a biblically based Christian that would be forbidden territory, as I understand things. Signs of the Zodiac, as astronomical signposts but Not tools of divination (after a fashion) would seem permissible territory to investigate 😉
And, yet, it is quite useful to scientifically study astrologers…..to better understand how people can be taken-in by their line of bunkum.
True that. It’s becoming vital to figure out how people can be suckered by charlatanic bullshit.
And in another way as well; ancient astrologers made a lot of observations that are useful today to astronomers, since they were interested in accurate knowledge of where things were in the sky (as seen from Earth…though they themselves probably didn’t know about that qualifier)
no doubt 😉
I’ve never dabbled in it either…because it’s bullshit.
To an astronomer the zodiac isn’t, strictly speaking, a group of constellations. It’s the line drawn on the sky that is the plane of Earth’s orbit about the sun; as seen from Earth the sun is always on this line somewhere and it travels all the way around that line, one full circuit, in the course of a year. Since we of course are on that plane, it forms a great circle, just like the celestial equator* does, and the two planes intersect at about 23.5 degrees (because they are different by the amount of the tilt of the axis).
It so happens this line cuts through 13 (not twelve!) of the constellations, at least as they are defined by astronomers today–astronomers have drawn boundaries between the constellations, and you can see these boundaries on star charts. An object is “in” some constellation if, as seen from Earth, it’s inside those boundaries, regardless of how far away (or close) it is. Thus the Andromeda galaxy is “in Andromeda” though it’s by far the farthest away thing you’d see in that constellation. (The extra one is Ophiuchus.)
You can buy globes that, instead of having the Earth’s surface on it, show the stars as they appear in the night sky (hence the term “celestial sphere”). The trick is you have to imagine yourself in the center of the globe looking out through the surface (in other words the printing on the globe looks “backwards”).
Very interesting, thx!
I was going to ask what P of the E meant so thanks for this partial elaboration 🙂
I’ve got to watch retrograde a few more times (& less sleep deprived) to get it better 😉
Verse of the Day for Saturday, September 14, 2024
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“I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.”
John 14:18 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!
God gave me a song for this verse many years ago 😇 Blessings to you Duchess!
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
HOLY SPIRIT POWER
Whoever values the world – is not of God;
The Spirit cannot dwell in him – he is flawed;
Seek ye first the kingdom of God – in His Word;
All will be added too – have you not heard?
The Power of the Spirit is immense;
Indwelled with the Spirit is intense;
There is no comparison – none at all;
To anything worldly – the world is too small!
His Spirit within you empowers – protects;
He convicts you of sin – and He corrects;
No power in the universe – can compare;
Anytime – anyplace – or anywhere!
Trust in God – keep close contact – let Him in;
Pray He will send His Spirit to dwell within;
When the Spirit indwells – He guides your way;
Whatever you do – whatever you say!
All bad feelings – all hurt – attendant pain;
He will dispel – till you are free again;
He will guide your heart – so free you will stay;
The demons that pursue you – He’ll keep at bay!
All turmoil – torment – they seek to create;
He will disable – and surely abate;
Keep in obedience – and He’ll bless you;
With His gifts and fruits – that’s what He will do!
When you are tempted – by the evil one;
Think not twice – ask Him – and it will be done;
Take this thought from me – please take it away;
In Jesus’ Name – it has no power to stay!
In all that you do – what you encounter;
He will assist – and put it asunder;
Fear not the evil one – his power fades;
With the Spirit inside – His power aids!
In the supernatural war – we fight each day;
There’s no greater power – to keep them away;
Than His Spirit inside you – strengthening;
Protecting – their distance He’s lengthening!
Come – Holy Spirit – within me – I pray;
Keep all evil from me – keep it at bay;
Keep my heart – and my thoughts – pure with Your grace;
Indwell in my heart – shine Your light on my face!
D01: 12/02/2013
Thank You Duchess! 😁
https://www.theqtree.com/2019/05/23/the-poetry-tree/#comment-1336178
I SAID A LITTLE PRAYER
I said a little prayer for You
And You and You and You
It was so instantaneous
Cause I care so much for You!
I asked Our Heavenly Father
To bless each and every one
From early in the morning
Until the day is done.
I asked Our Heavenly Physician
To heal you; make you whole
To reach inside of you and touch
Your mind, body, and soul!!!
I asked the Heavenly Angels
To attend to all your needs
To lift you up and comfort you
And help you plant those seeds!!!
I asked the Holy Spirit
To guide, inspire, and direct
Every single step you take
Mind, body, and soul perfect.
I asked those who are suffering
Remember one important thing
After the trial is over
His blessings He will bring!!!
I asked God for some laughter
The best medicine we know
To ease your pain wherever
As you come and as you go.
But most of all I asked God
To heal your aching heart
And from you never never
To leave you or depart!!!
D01: 11/20/2021
Thank You Duchess 🙂
https://www.theqtree.com/2019/05/23/the-poetry-tree/#comment-1336176
Psalm 91. The most powerful prayer from the Bible. God’s protection, healing
#psalm91 #psalms #prayer
Pray Everyday
https://rumble.com/v57jz8d-psalm-91.the-most-powerful-prayer-from-the-bible.-gods-protection-healing-p.html
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Sleep Well with Psalms. Psalm 91, Psalm 121, Psalm 3, Psalm 4, Psalm 139.
#faith #god #psalms
Pray Everyday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKUPiqPMs8M&t=2s
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HAVE A VERY BLESSED DAY !!! ❤️❤️❤️
going out to do some errands soon. got on my “I’m voting for the Outlaw & the Hillbilly” t shirt! I’ll let you know if it garners any response.
In case you have any thoughts of accessorizing there is this… but use your best judgement. 😁
The way things are going, it may be a ‘must have’ accessory.
At least for those not schlepping a main battle rifle.
Initial thought, she just bought the gun. But, Nope. She is in TarGay.
Wish it were real, but not buying it.
Lucky trigger guard. 😂
what would you call this? Typical crime, low level terror, Stage 1 terror …
I’m so sick of the deliberate demise of law & order.
Since they messed with our MASTERS expect swift action and harsh sentences…
If it is more than a one off, swift justice inbound.
Please read Aubergine’s article
I think I may have made the Voodoo — MK Ultra connection via the Huxley’s UNESCO, Travistock Institute.
It really is a small group!!!
Huxley in the rain forest – Francis Huxley and the Human Condition
And Julian…
I should add there is a lot more about voodoo and Huxley and such in the article. The above is just a ‘taste’
Offspring of Aldous?
Francis is the one who investigated Voodoo. Julian is the guy who was originally in charge of UNESCO and World Wildlife Fund, along with Prince Phillip.
Matt says the Huxleys are connected to Tavistock and one is connected to Rice UNIV in Texas.
Amuse had an interesting take on what will happen after Ukraine gets the go ahead to use long range armaments against Russia.
I’d modify that to say a limited number of attacks will likely be carried out as a show of force and to beat down Russian resolve and wear out Putin’s red line. Limited in the sense that they are seen as more tactical and not strategic and can easily handled by Russia so that they’d not respond strategically, but only tactically in return until as she says the election is over and then the gloves are off. Definitely playing with fire. GB has already given the go ahead… I think we are still waiting on the Bidenese?
…beat down Russian resolve…
Whatever Putin does in response to Ukraine, US and UK Long Range Millie attacks, WILL sting Ukraine, US and UK. Rightfully so.
Putin has actually been playing ‘nice’ up until now.
Absolutely true.
He should destroy the satellites used for observation and targeting, be like the gas pipeline everyone knows which side did it but no proof.
Failing that I wouldn’t complain if he put a rocket in the houses of parliament and Buck house also.
Yea. Unlikely he wants to venture into space, at this point.
Stations receiving the data are fair game. Regardless of location. US and UK would throw a hissy fit. But, TDB. FAFO.
Drones are quite versatile these days, cheap and can be made in dozens of countries. Seems easy to take out an dish farm of sorts, in many locations.
At some point, taking out Frances Scott Key Bridge will look like child’s play.
Do I wish it to happen? Hell no. But the USG is FA and will FO.
Exactly. It grieves me that we have dopes and GIMPS OF EU in charge of this nation and its military.
Grieving with you, as are most if not all Patriots.
One shot at turning this around…
“…It grieves me that we have
dopes and GIMPSTHE NAZIS OF THE EU in charge of this nation and its military.”Pretty much!
AND DAVOS the next time the WEF is meeting…
This almost has me believing in the mythical “PLG” (Project Looking Glass)…..
“mythical”?
The movie Paycheck seemed to outline such capabilities…predictive programming?
Trained skeptic here! 😉
survival AND sanity imperative!!!
https://badlands.substack.com/p/q-for-dummies-chapter-19
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/09/climate-change-causes-mega-tsunamis-that-shake-the-earth-for-nine-days/
Title alone is comical.
yep!
If Shakespeare was alive today he may have re- written Henry the VI as Kc d’Turd and the line would be “Let’s kill all the climate scientists”
we’re back. went to the Harley store (needed a new battery for the bike), got the propane tank refilled, and the PO. wore my I’m voting for the Outlaw & the Hillbilly. Got a lot of quizzical looks–one biker dude asked me–who’s that? I said Trump & Vance. He whooped–and said I gotta get me one of those!! so i went back to browsing the clothes when he came back up to me with 2 other dudes–he said ma’am (what an insult, right?) can you show these guys your shirt? so i turned to them and they got big smiles on their faces…(maybe cuz I’m busty, but maybe not). Out of the three of them, they maybe had 30 hairs between them…lol
but they all wanted shirts.
Best ground report with a biker theme EVAH. 😂 🏍 🇺🇸
the place was lousy with bikers today—big sale plus free hot dogs and burgers in the parking lot. it’s really a great store. lots of good vibes.
I’m going with mostly (but not totally) option A there.
that’s okay–whatever draws attention to the message
I still remember the woman…HUGE in that area (unfortunately huge in all areas) who had YUGE written across the chest on a T-shirt…back in 2016.
I suppose now you could go with “Don’t be a boob” placed at “that” level, with “Vote Trump/Vance” below it.
bwahahahaha…
I think hubby would veto that one
I dunno…I would personally be in “eat your hearts out” mode.
Slow Readers (guys in general) would focus, focus, focus AND may never get to Vote Trump/…
Real men like large caliber weapons. That’s all I know about that.
Because we love Missouri, I thought I’d donate this:
Too true! Both ways are “ARE WE THERE YET???!!!”
Five more minutes. 
One of them even named themselves “Kansas” to try to sucker the Kansastanis into accepting it.
(Bonus: I get to tweak TWO states downstream from me with one sentence.)
👍 👍
In case anyone else can’t see your cute (sorry DP) image here, via Gab
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-renews-missile-appeal-after-us-and-uk-fail-to-reach-deal-in-washington/ar-AA1qApfm
A really good summary of the big picture by ZeroHedge.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/coming-shift-world-trade
Drop off your current opinion about COVID and all things related to it.
All are welcome! Even virus deniers and Branch Covidians! 😉
COVID – Give Us Your Current Thoughts and Theories
h/t Filly
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HA! Love it!
one more observation from our outing today. plenty of yards with Trump/Vance signs on them-flags flying too. In the several towns we traveled thru to get to the highway I only saw one Harris sign (NOT Harris/Walz) and it was almost obscured by the myriad of other dem buffoons’ signs in that yard.
along the highway there was also Trump/Vance signs but no Harris or Harris/Walz signs at all.
We went out last night & drove through a few of Detroit’s suburbs. In yard signs &/or flags I only ever saw Trump signs, occasionally Trump/Vance, & nothing for Harris.
Along a major road there was a huge billboard (in a blue collar Downriver community along a 40mph major road) with a get out the vote message featuring a young black male. It ended with “we won’t go back” which cryptically implied to me that “they” don’t want to go back to another Trump presidency, don’t want to go back to a Republican presidency, don’t want to go back to a white president, don’t want to go back to the era when blacks couldn’t even vote. Seemed subtle for Harris implied but I could be misinterpreting the inkblot nature of it all 🙂
When I came back from Up North after almost 2 weeks away there was a noticeable uptick in Trump signage & a large flag along a “main thoroughfare” into our neighborhood that was most heartening ❤ 😍 ❤
We saw ZERO Harris signs but lots of Trump signs.
Happy dance!
That’s actually rather enjoyable!
OK. I’ll stop chuckling. Later. 
ROTFLMAO!!! 
Nothing like a New Yorker to tell you like it is!
Oh, that’s good!
VERY interesting, because that’s all people are talking about now.
AMEN!!!
That is a GREAT video.
But there is more to it, and I think James Lindsay has figured it out.
The DEMs are creating a new CLASS for their planned Maoist cultural revolution. One that isn’t so PUSSY. Remember – Kamala is a MAOIST.
You see, what happened in Chile in 1973, is that the communist Allende brought in revolutionaries from all over Latin America, but he didn’t bring in ENOUGH of them before the military figured it out, discovered how an autocoup was in the works (for the commies to take complete control), and stopped the communists in their tracks.
I can see it now. Lindsay is right. There is a RACE by the left to create a left-wing protector class who will become their RED GUARD.
“Two: prioritize the needs of these millions of non-citizens over the needs of the American citizen.”
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It’s the exact same playbook they’ve used to divide the domestic population and erect barriers against the ‘most hated class’ for my entire lifetime.
Just change a couple words:
“Two: prioritize the needs of millions of new ‘protected-class’ members over the needs of white American boys and men.”
And white men couldn’t really complain about it, because they’re supposed to have more dignity than that (or some BS), and since white men were still running most of the mega corporations and government, it was easier to mock any complaint by regular American white men than it was to mock ‘conspiracy theorists’.
Great news! Thanks for this!
Another falsehood exposed and it appears were not talking physical health of the mother but mental health of the mother. Rather subjective.
Putin with another warning and Nickey with a perfect summary of the situation that got the world here.
Commenter in chat on Badlands Devolution Power Hour.
Imagine what would have happened to a person who told us something we didn’t already know….
This is the only news so far from yesterday. Nothing on auto accident yet… https://www.dailydot.com/debug/donald-trump-debate-kamala-harris-abc-whistleblower/
Someone just posted to twitter 30 mins ago.
Are the ChiComs helping their Maoist? Their sweet fallen angel of the Gang of Four?
They’re pissed at Loomer for being Trump’s mouthpiece!!!
edit: Just realized what time it was, might as well post the new Dr. Malone article in the new daily thread.
Deleted.
Was wondering if you’d notice it was a semi-blarp away. (The 400 is self fulfilling.)
It’s not self-fulfilling if you change a 300 to a 400 (which I had to try, since I didn’t know it would work).
Nope, but the post count was 399…the 400 post itself only became proper because it was posted.