What is it that feeds our battle, yet starves our victory?
January 6 Tapes Reminder
After the first release, we were supposed to get more, every week.
As far as I know it hasn’t happened.
Speaker Johnson, please follow through!
A Caution
Just remember…we might replace the RINO candidates. (Or we might not. The record is mixed even though there is more MAGA than there used to be.) But that will make no difference in the long run if the party officials, basically the Rhonna McDaniels (or however that’s spelled–I suspect it’s RINO), don’t get replaced.
State party chairs, vice chairs, secretaries and so on, and the same at county levels, have huge influence on who ultimately gets nominated, and if these party wheelhorses are RINOs, they will work tirelessly to put their own pukey people on the ballot. In fact I’d not be surprised if some of our “MAGA” candidates are in fact, RINO plants, encouraged to run by the RINO party leadership when they realized that Lyn Cheney (and her ilk) were hopelessly compromised as effective candidates. The best way for them to deal with the opposition, of course, is to run it themselves.
Running good candidates is only HALF of the battle!
Biden Gives Us Too Much Credit
…we can move on to the next one.
Apparently Biden (or his puppeteer) has decided we’re to blame for all of the fail in the United States today.
Sorry to disappoint you Joe (or whoever), but you managed to do that all on your own; not only that, you wouldn’t let us NOT give you the chance because you insisted on cheating your way into power.
Yep, you-all are incompetent, and so proud of it you expect our applause for your sincerity. Fuck that!!
It wouldn’t be so bad, but you insist that everyone else have to share in your misery. Nope, can’t have anyone get out from under it. Somehow your grand vision only works if every single other person on earth is forced to go along. So much as ONE PERSON not going along is enough to make it all fail, apparently.
In engineering school we’re taught that a design that has seven to eight billion single points of failure…sucks.
Actually, we weren’t taught that. Because it would never have occurred to the professors to use such a ridiculous example.
Justice Must Be Done.
The prior election must be acknowledged as fraudulent, and steps must be taken to prosecute the fraudsters and restore integrity to the system.
Lawyer Appeasement Section
OK now for the fine print.
This is the WQTH Daily Thread. You know the drill. There’s no Poltical correctness, but civility is a requirement. There are Important Guidelines, here, with an addendum on 20191110.
We have a new board – called The U Tree – where people can take each other to the woodshed without fear of censorship or moderation.
And remember Wheatie’s Rules:
1. No food fights
2. No running with scissors.
3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
4. Zeroth rule of gun safety: Don’t let the government get your guns.
5. Rule one of gun safety: The gun is always loaded.
5a. If you actually want the gun to be loaded, like because you’re checking out a bump in the night, then it’s empty.
6. Rule two of gun safety: Never point the gun at anything you’re not willing to destroy.
7. Rule three: Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire.
8. Rule the fourth: Be sure of your target and what is behind it.
(Hmm a few extras seem to have crept in.)
Spot Prices
All prices are Kitco Ask, 3PM MT Friday (at that time the markets close for the weekend). (Note: most media quotes are for the bid…the price paid by the market makers, not the ask, which is what they will sell at. I figure the ask is more relevant to people like us who wish we could afford to buy these things. In the case of gold the difference is usually about a dollar, for the PGMs the spread is much wider.)
Last Week:
Gold $2,654.30
Silver $32.26
Platinum $999.00
Palladium $1,038.00
Rhodium $5,025.00
FRNSI* 127.402-
Gold:Silver 82.278+
This week, markets closed at 3PM Mountain Time Friday for the weekend.
Gold $2,657.70
Silver $31.60
Platinum $995.00
Palladium $1,088.00
Rhodium $5,075.00
FRNSI* 127.566+
Gold:Silver 84.104+
Gold see-sawed, getting closer to 2700, almost dipping below 2600 on Wednesday and Thursday but recovered nicely on Friday, even to the point of closing up for the week, barely. Silver, however, has definitely slipped, and you would need almost two more ounces of silver this week to buy an ounce of gold, than last week. Platinum a bit down, palladium might be starting another run.
*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.
Moon Roundup
Before 1610, there was one Moon, and it wasn’t a class of objects. Actually at one time the Moon and Sun (!) were lumped in with Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn as planets. They were, after all, all objects that moved with respect to the background stars (that includes the Sun but it takes a little bit of extra work to show this since it’s rather difficult to see the stars and Sun at the same time). And planet derives from a Greek word for wanderer.
Note by the way that Earth was not considered a planet. Planets were things up there in the sky, not down here, and certainly not as “down here” as you can get, the dirt beneath your feet.
This was back in the old “Earth is the center of everything” days, but late in the 1500s some people started suggesting that perhaps it was the Sun at the center. (This was actually a revival of an ancient Greek idea.) Now this is difficult to settle with naked eye observations, but a telescope will show you that not everything goes around the Earth. Venus and Mercury exhibit phases that show they orbit the Sun. And Jupiter, of course, has those Galilean moons.
Galileo actually considered them planets at first, because, after all, they moved against the background stars, just like Jupiter did. He didn’t realize we needed a new category of thing, with the Moon being the first known member. And it took a while; for a couple of centuries the larger moons of the outer planets were called “satellite planets” instead of “moons” or just plain “satellites.”
So if you think Pluto being demoted from planet status was a kerfuffle, imagine what was going on then, when they still couldn’t figure out which buckets even existed that they could put things into (figuratively speaking of course).
Eventually anything that orbited the Sun was a planet, including Earth, and anything that orbited a planet was a satellite or moon, including “the” Moon. We know of no cases of a moon itself having a natural satellite of any significant size.
And yes, “satellite” used to be synonymous with “moon,” but then we started putting things in orbit, and we started talking about natural and artificial satellites. Some people still do so, but most people use “moon” (with a lower case M) for the natural case and just plain “satellite” for the artificial case.
[And yes, we’ve no idea how to classify Stacy Abram’s hindquarters. It’s a moon…sort of…and is of similar size to the major moons, but it’s not a heavenly body by any stretch of the imagination.]
Since those days, of course, we’ve found objects out there of all kinds of different sizes orbiting both planets and the Sun, so we had to sit down and reassess definitions again and Pluto got the boot from the “planet” clique. (And, IMHO, rightly so; the other alternative would have been to promote about half a dozen Kuiper belt objects.) There’s no minimum size, as yet, for moons, so technically any planet with a ring has countless moons: all the constituent rocks that make up the ring.
Anyhow, we’re not even halfway through the moons that are in our solar system. But I thought I’d do a quick roundup, to set up the Big Picture. Let’s start out with a picture from Wikipedia showing planets and large (or famous) moons, all to scale by size. Notably, Mercury and Mars look roughly the size of some of the bigger moons, and Pluto is outclassed by at least seven moons.
Let’s consider them in order of size. If you ignore the planets and Pluto, there seem to be seven “big ones,” and a bunch of medium sized ones.
The big ones are The Moon, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto (all orbiting Jupiter), Titan (Saturn), and Triton (Neptune). They are all 2500 km across or larger. There seems to be a big gap between Triton and any of the moons smaller than it, and when you look at masses, that is confirmed. Triton, the smallest of these seven, is more massive than all of the other moons put together. So you could actually make a list with eight entries, the eighth being “everything else that’s a moon, put together” and that would be the last item on the list.
That makes it seem like a nice, natural dividing line between “large” and “medium.”
The large moons verge on being planet sized, with Ganymede more voluminous than Mercury (though made of much lighter stuff). So much so that at least some astronomers call these seven the “satellite planets.” (I.e., things that would be planets, if only they weren’t orbiting a planet!) [As an aside I suspect we’ll be looking, again, at reclassifying things soon. And I would not be entirely unsympathetic.]
Now just eyeballing that diagram again, there are nine moons in the “medium” bracket (with S for Saturn, U for Uranus, and P for Pluto): Titania (U), Oberon (U), Rhea (S), Iapetus (S), Charon (P), Ariel (U), Umbriel (U), Dione (S), and Tethys (S). And again, it turns out that Tethys, the smallest of the nine, is bigger than all of the remaining “small” moons, put together. So, another natural dividing line, between medium and small. These medium moons are all 1000-2500 kilometers in diameter.
Up to here, moons seem to be named after mythical figures, however for some reason the moons of Uranus got named after Shakespearean characters.
So that’s sixteen medium and large size moons. Everything else is “small.”
But there’s another criterion we could use…and that’s “hydrostatic equilibrium” which when you dumb it down means “is it spherical”?
If you don’t dumb it down, there are nuances. For instance, if a moon is orbiting fairly close to a planet when it’s still largely molten, it’s going to take on an oblate shape, first because it’s rotating once per orbit, and second because the planet’s going to tend to make it egg shaped (tidal forces). If it then solidifies and its orbit gets larger, it’s technically not quite in hydrostatic equilibrium any more; because if it were liquid it would flow into a slightly different shape. Our own moon is actually an example. But in general, for classification purposes, this is a nuance that is ignored; the sucker is round or it isn’t.
All of the large and medium moons are “major moons.” But as happens, three of the biggest “small” moons, those below 1000km across, are round too and also qualify as major moons. (There is quite a gap here. No moon is in the range of 505-1000 km across.)
These are: Enceladus (S), Mimas (S) and Miranda (U), 504, 400, and 470 kilometers in diameter respectively. So you might conclude that 400 kilometers is enough to get a round object…and yes, but not always. Proteus, a moon of Neptune, is not round but is 410 kilometers across, so there is some overlap. But this makes some sense. Surely the composition has some effect. A ball of ice will become round under less force than a ball of rock. (Also, Proteus has had a colorful past that may have “unrounded” it.) Speaking of composition Mimas and Tethys have such low densities they may be porous…riddled with caves, essentially, and if so they cannot be in hydrostatic equilibrium, which would cause voids to fill in. But our eyeballs will say “round” and these are major moons.
The 250-500 km bracket contains four non-round/non-major moons in addition to the two (remember Enceladus is just barely over 500 km) major ones. These are: Hyperion (S), Proteus (N) [already mentioned], Nereid (N), Vanth and Hi’iaka. The later two orbit dwarf planets Orcus and Haumea, just like Charon orbits the dwarf planet Pluto.
So there’s your roundup. Expect to see talk of Large, Medium and small moons, as well as major moons and minor moons; “major” encompassing large and medium moons as well as three of the scores of small moons.
Saturn
History
Saturn, to the ancients, was a star-like object that took 29.5 years to make one trip around the ecliptic. Dimmer and slower than Jupiter, which was associated with the king of the gods, it got associated with the prior generation.
You see, in Greek and Roman mythology the Olympian gods were the third generation. The first was Uranus (Οὐρανός), the sky, and Gaia, the Earth. He was both her son and her husband. Their children were the titans, twelve of them: Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, Theia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Tethys, and Cronus. (You will see some of those names again…in fact if you read the previous section, you already have.) Cronus (or Kronos) was the father of Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Demeter and Chiron. These are all the Greek names. The one called Kronos was known to the Romans as Saturn.
In 1610 Galileo turned that telescope towards Saturn, and saw…well, a couple of lumps one on each side of Saturn that each looked like it might be a moon a third the size of Saturn. (Let’s face it, it wasn’t a very good telescope, even if it was one of the best in the world at the time.)
A couple of years later, he looked again, and the moons were gone. He predicted that they would be back later, and indeed they showed up. And got bigger to the point where Saturn seemed oval-shaped. Christiaan Huygens finally saw this as rings in 1655, publishing his results in 1659. Huygens spotted one moon, which he named Titan. Shortly thereafter (1675) Giovanni Domenico Cassini discovered a gap in the rings, and also four more moons, Iapetus, Rhea, Tethys and Dione–all named after titans. (Dione is either another daughter of Uranus and Gaia, or the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, depending on whose rendering of the mythology you’re reading.) In 1789 William Herschel (discoverer of Uranus) discovered two more moons, Mimas and Enceladus–these are two of the three “small” moons in our solar system that are nevertheless big enough to be round, from the previous section. Hyperion was discovered in 1848. It’s comparable to Mimas and Enceladus, but not round…far from it, as we’ll see.
Saturn ends up having seven major moons, one large, the other six medium. Add in Hyperion, and that’s eight. When I was a kid, the count was ten (with most books still saying nine). The missing two were Phoebe (1898) and..well..number ten, first spotted in 1966, was a bit confusing. It was first spotted on December 15, 1966. But then another astronomer spotted it again…but in a different place in the same orbit…on December 18, 1966. Here was a moon that appeared to be jumping around in its orbit, but it was there (well, maybe not) and it was number 10. Finally in 1978, a couple of astronomers realized what was really going on. There were two moons sharing the same orbit, Janus and Epimetheus, a situation which had been assumed to be unstable up until then. So elementary school Steve didn’t realize Saturn’s tenth moon was really the tenth and eleventh moons. Today’s count is (drumroll) one hundred and forty six, with the most recent discovery being in 2020. But I am going to save detailed discussion of the moons until next time.
Pioneer 11 flew by in 1979. Voyager 1 zipped by in 1980, and Voyager 2 followed it in 1981. What a nice little barrage, especially since the cameras on the Voyagers were so much better. After that nothing until 2004, when Cassini went into orbit around Saturn. It not only stayed there for 13 years (until we deliberately deorbited it into Saturn’s atmosphere, since it was about to die anyway), it even put a lander on Titan! The ONLY landing ever made beyond the asteroid belt.
The Planet Proper
Saturn itself orbits at an average distance of 1,434 million kilometers, nearly a billion and a half. That’s 9.58 AUs. It has an axial tilt of about 28 degrees, a bit more than Earth’s 23 degrees, so Saturn definitely has seasons, unlike Jupiter (whose axial tilt is about 2 degrees). This will turn out to be important when we finally quit fiddling around and talk about the rings.
Saturn has a magnetosphere, like Jupiter, Ganymede, and Earth. Unlike Jupiter and Earth, the Saturn “magnet” is aligned with the axis of rotation pretty well. This magnetosphere isn’t as strong as Jupiter’s, but still significant.
Measured across the equator, Saturn is as wide as 9 earths. Measured through the poles, on the other hand, it’s only 8 earths tall. That’s because it is spinning very rapidly, once in about 10 1/2 hours, and it’s fluid clear down to a solid core that’s about 16,000 km across. We were able to learn a LOT about Saturn’s interior just from monitoring its gravity’s effect on both the Cassini probe and the rings.
Saturn has a banded atmosphere much like Jupiter’s though not nearly as colorful. It doesn’t have a long-standing storm like the Great Red Spot, but from time to time white spots will appear. Great white spots tend to appear once every Saturnian year, during its northern hemisphere summer, the last one in 1990. Cassini got to see one form, stretch out along its band, and eventually dissipate, after the head of the thing caught up and passed its tail. And then in 2010, ten years early, we got another white spot.
Voyager 1 spotted something very peculiar around Saturn’s north pole. For some reason we don’t fully understand, the clouds there form a hexagon, which appears to rotate with the planet, in time with Saturn’s radio emissions.
The south pole, by contrast, shows something like a hurricane eyewall. (No word yet on whether this is where all the FEMA hurricane money goes.)
OK, with that out of the way…
The Rings
They have been called “Gravity’s Masterpiece.”
And that is an understatement.
Gravity created them, gravity maintains their structure, and gravity is slowly destroying them.
Galileo noticed change when looking at Saturn, but could not resolve the rings; his telescope was simply too small. That change is caused by Saturn’s seasons. When it’s northern hemisphere summer, the north surface of the rings is tilted toward the Sun, at autumn they are edge on, at northern winter, the south surface is tipped toward the Sun, and finally at northern spring, they are edge on again. And since, comparatively speaking, we’re quite close to the Sun, we see the same thing. Here is a twenty nine year time lapse:
The rings are thin. At the time the earth crosses through the plane of the rings, we can’t see anything, not even a thin line. It has been likened to looking at a sheet of paper edge on, but relatively speaking the sheet of paper is much too thick! The next “disapperance” is next year, right now it looks something like this:
The rings are skinny but definitely there.
The rings are themselves subdivided into seven sections, imaginitively named A, B, C, D, E, F, and G.
What we see through our telescopes are basically A, B, and C. This is typically what you’ll see…only it’s much smaller in the telescope field of view than this:
This picture (from Cassini) shows the rings from well above the plane, with Saturn itself casting a shadow on them.
Going form the outside in, there’s a medium-bright ring (A), a wide gap–the one noted by Cassini, a brighter ring (B), and a much fainter ring (C). There are other, smaller gaps as well. Where do they come from? The Cassini gap happens to be at that spot where, if something were orbiting there, it’d do so in a 2:1 resonance with Mimas. That causes enough instability to force objects into smaller or larger orbits. In other cases, small moons within the rings help clear things out.
That’s just the beginning of the crazy stuff that happens in the rings. Ripples one to two kilometers high raised by embedded moons, spokes on the B ring we can’t figure out (yet)…some scientists are spending their entire careers on this stuff!
To see the D through G rings readily, we must look at Saturn backlit…something we couldn’t do until we sent spacecraft there.
By the way, if you right click and open in new tab, between the two “gray” fuzzy rings (a narrow one and a broad one) at about 4 oclock…that dot there is Earth.
The rings appear to be made of chunks of ice, averaging about a foot across. And they’re pretty bright; they haven’t been covered with dark space dust. That leads most scientists to think that they aren’t that old…150 million years at the most. It’s possible that they weren’t there when the non-avian dinosaurs were killed 66 million years ago.
The most common thought is that a medium-sized moon got too close to Saturn somehow, perhaps thanks to perturbations from the other moons, and tidal forces (yes tidal forces again) did the rest.
Picture this: a spherical body maybe 200 kilometers across in orbit. It will orbit as if the entire mass of the moon were concentrated at the center. But a rock at the far side of the moon is 100 kilometers further away, and one at the near side is 100 kilometers closer. An object 100 km further out, in order to stay in orbit, wants to move slower than this moon is orbiting, yet that rock is being forced to move faster than that, since it’s stuck to the moon. If the moon were to suddenly disappear and leave the rock behind, it would actually go into a new, elliptical orbit, with the closest part where the rock was, sitting on the moon, and the furthest part, oh, some distance away. And so, this is what the rock “wants” to do. It actually feels a slight tug pulling at it, off the surface of the moon. If the moon is close enough to the planet, and its gravity weak enough, the rock will actually feel no net attraction to the moon, and drift off. As will its neighboring rocks. And similar things happen on the side of the moon closest to the planet, they want to go into smaller orbits and feel a net tug toward the planet and off the moon.
That’s how loose rocks might peel off, but moons are generally solid, aren’t they? Sure. But, if you think about that orbit where things on the far side will just barely want to drift away, but put the moon closer, then something deep underground at the far side would (if it weren’t buried) drift away. Now bury it again. Everything above it wants to drift away too. Those miles of stuff are effectively “hanging” wanting to fall off the moon. Enough of that, and even a solid rock will fracture. Rocks don’t do too well under tension, a fact which has had a profound effect on architecture here on Earth.
So, basically, we think a mostly-icy moon got too close and shattered. And the tidal forces have kept it from reforming. However some suggest that instead, two moons collided and this is the debris from the collision.
The rings are dying, though. The ice is slowly sublimating with help from cosmic rays, and that ice ends up in Saturn’s magnetic field and eventually forms auroras in its atmosphere. There are also other forces causing ring material to rain down onto Saturn’s equator (this was discovered by the Cassini spacecraft). The rings have 10-100 million years to live at the rate they are losing mass.
I’ll close this with another picture:
..or two, just to see the aurora…
..or three (you can see the hexagon in this one).
Obviously I could go on. But some of the coolest stuff is on the moons. So…until next time!
A post of great beauty.
Amen! A very fun and welcome read.
Saturn is fascinating. Definitely deserves more science fiction movies. Mars and Jupiter have been hogging them!
You may not be aware of this, but the book 2001 had its endgame at Saturn, not Jupiter. The round trip mission to Jupiter was turned into a one way mission to Saturn (with the astronauts to be retrieved from cold sleep by a later mission), to see what was up with Iapetus, the moon of Saturn that was the target of the transmissions from the Lunar monolith.
When Arthur C. Clarke wrote the sequel 2010, he decided to make it a sequel to the movie, rather than the previous book, so it is written around Jupiter.
Wow! Did not know that!
I have been enjoying Jason Whitlock’s commentary on all the drama surrounding the WokeNBA over the past month or so.
Today’s commentary is an idea to start a rival league, a league about playing basketball instead of being a woke tool of the Left.
With Elon Musk broadcasting the games on Tweeter 😁
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On the “saturn backlit” picture, the bottom (where Saturn is between us and the rings) seems to have a white outline on the planet. Is that sunlight passing through Saturn’s atmosphere?
That would be my best educated guess.
Honestly I found Saturn itself puzzling in that picture.
Actually considering the level of expertise of the people who do this work…I should have said semi-educated guess. At best.
How so?
It feels a little eerie, but when I figured that the rings between us and the planet were illuminated by reflected ‘ringlight’, it made sense.
When you think about how close the rings are in cross section to the actual planet, the solar exposure of Saturn’s “surface” must be exceedingly wonky. With the rings tilted toward the sun, you’d get “ringlight” + sunlight on one hemisphere, then sunlight – ring shadow on the other hemisphere.
It’d be like New York potentially getting 50% extra sunlight, while Rio gets a partial solar eclipse, depending only on the tilt of the rings to the sun.
It’s also apparent on the earth picture.
From Insty:
Related (same source) —
“How Hot Girls Became the Right’s New Obsession”
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You know you’ve jumped the shark in the Snake River Canyon when you are reduced to accusing your opponents of liking hot chicks…
Because that’s the best you can do…
That’s all you have left… 😂 🤣 😂
Men: We’re all right wing now… the crazy Dims finally united us… 😂 🤣 😂
LOL!!!
Boom! Democrats change party name to the Stupid Party.
Dumocrats?
That’s usually the Rs because of continuous tactical mistakes (or sabotage by RINOs). Maybe the Dems should be the stupid party and the Rs can be the d’oh! party.
Too many of both parties’ politicians want to be the dough for me party.
Looks like Elon Musk is going to take over the smart phone market next.
If it really has privacy features as mentioned, and is not a personal tracking device, I would probably step into the 21st century and get one 😁
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Very appealing to me.
Apple tries to hide it’s radical left bias, but it’s there. Apple News is just shockingly anti-Trump, woke, and cuckoo for cocoa puffs, basically. I don’t trust Apple not to go completely off the rails at any point. Also, I know that woke kills products, and there are no exceptions. Apple is very likely underperforming relative to where they would be without woke.
Apple came very close to self-destructing when they tried to allow NGOs to spy on smartphones (fOr tHE ChILdRens!) using a hashy method that tried to pretend it wasn’t a danger to political abuse, but I refused to fall for it. Had Apple not backed off on that error, I would now be off the platform for good.
IMO Tesla’s move will either force Apple and Google to “de-woke” to compete, or the market will split politically.
Either way, I’m in the market, potentially, for a Tesla phone. I have a few secret tests of “broke” in current phone features that will allow me use Tesla as a comparison, to see if Apple’s “woke” is breaking things. If Tesla’s phone out-performs on those tests, I will know for sure that Apple is failing due to woke.
I’m so sick of the almost-weekly I-phone software updates “to fix a security bug” when I know damn well they are installing more insidious ways to track every aspect of my life. Every time I have to go through all my privacy, comms, mapping, etc. settings because it is 100% certain they have turned ‘on’ something I don’t want tracked, but since I don’t know what they changed, I gotta look at all of it ….. again …..
And just because I’m in a ranting mood, I’m also sick of getting notified at least twice a month by some 3rd-party contracted I’ve never heard of that was hired by one of the insurance companies or medical offices or whatever other service companies I use that their system was breached/hacked and MY data *might* be at risk, and I can sign on to yet ANOTHER company or “secure” site to monitor the breach of my data!!
when do we get to file class action suits for these routine breaches where WE are at 100% risk and neither the company that contracted with the 3rd party nor the 3rd party has any risk ?? 😡😡😡
I’ve had to repace my credit card 4 times this year because of bogus charges on my statement – one to the tune of $1,500 for an airline ticket !!!!
I don’t do ANY banking/purchasing through my phone. My phone has no idea what my credit card number is.
I never use a debit card on my desktop computer, nor do I bank online. Purchases online, I use a regular credit card, and when I type the number in, I leave out digits, then use the mouse (not the keyboard arrows) to go back and fill them in. This avoids keyboard loggers getting your card number.
I don’t know whether any of these measures would help but at least your PHONE wouldn’t be the financial security hole.
Just let us computer-challenged types know the results please!
ThankQ
Given that his cars are tracking devices, I’m not sanguine.
Yep, that’s the biggest concern.
The cars have to be, at least currently, until they have enough data to perfect the self-driving software.
But since roads change (blocked by construction, expanded, etc.), the self-driving software will need to be continuously updated. The first time a Tesla encounters construction or a new road, the entire fleet is instantly updated with that same data.
The new phone will be a test of Elon’s commitment to freedom, privacy, etc.
It won’t take long for technically knowledgeable people to figure it out, and since his brand is basically turning into opposition to Big Brother (and because unlike most CEOs, he actually interacts with his customer base on a daily basis), he will almost need to be responsive to the privacy concerns of his customers, if he intends to maintain the image he is creating as someone who cares about these critical issues.
We’ll see 👍
played for a chump…
Kamala Unwinding
opinion piece…link…
https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/kamala-unwinding
10/11
very perceptive article by Kunstler
Excellent!
Excellent article!
they must be terrified because…
👉 Bill Clinton Joins Obama As A Part of Harris Campaign
article link…
https://www.axios.com/2024/10/10/bill-clinton-harris-campaign-events-battleground-states
10/10
now she’s really blowin it .
they need to secure the sexual predator vote.
LMAO! Oh my! Epstein is voting D for sure this time! Maybe in all 50 states!
And each State multiple times from his grave.
When she talks she sounds like an idiot.
Slick Willy is there to give her something to keep her quiet.
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Gotta wonder who that woman was working for, beyond Satan himself. I just can’t fully believe it was amateur hour, IYKWIM!
He just wants a BJ.
Awesome moony post! Curious, are there any ‘moons’ with satellites of their own? Satellite²?
I actually ran into a statement that there aren’t any known, and aren’t expected to be either. The primary (planet, usually), moon, and moon’s moon is apparently an unstable configuration; the moon’s moon would probably get yanked out of its orbit by the primary at some point. (This is a classic example of a three-body problem…so it’d take tons of computer time to solve.)
My intuition is it’d have to be a far, large, and fairly distant moon, and a close-in moon’s moon. We’d be pretty close to that situation in our own Earth-Moon system, except that our own Moon is so irregular as far as its mass distribution (very “lumpy” inside), that even thinking in terms of just the moon and its satellite (ignoring Earth), there’s no stable low orbit around the moon.
Should say NOT sorry.
I saw the video of Opompous scolding a room full of black dudes, and it was sad and humiliating.
They just sat there and took it, not one of them jumped in Odumbo’s face and read him the riot act.
It was like watching a cult leader trying to reestablish control over his subjects.
I wonder how much they were PAID. One lady said is was something like $1,500 to do a canned pro-Haris Til-Tok.
Get Ben Carson on that vehicle!!! 😉
YUP!!!! He never gets the applause he deserves!
I remember when he was just a kid! How time has flown!
SpaceX Starship Booster catch attempt possibly on Sunday.
This would be the most epic episode in space travel, if it is successful and a huge step forward for a fully reusable space craft.
Animation of what they are trying to achieve:
It’s an amazing time to be alive. Glad I’m awake and not woke!
Thank you, Eilert!!! Shared with my nephew who loves working at a local airport as a mechanic. He has always been fascinated with engineering and now is a firefighter too.
They are humiliating NASA (and government in general) with every advance.
NASA hasn’t done anything meaningful (besides MIC dark stuff) since the Apollo missions.
SpaceX is showing what can be accomplished when a giant political bureaucracy is completely ABSENT and the only thing that matters is ability.
And that’s the last thing a giant, worthless, corrupt, unimaginably wasteful and parasitic political bureaucracy wants the public to realize or see.
Ashley Parker: “Is the Trump Campaign’s male-dominated culture losing women Votes?”
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Nope, they never had those votes to begin with, and they were never going to get them, not in a million replays of I am Woman, Hear me Roar.
They realized a coalition of the willing beats trying to appeal to angry lesbians and man-haters who will never be satisfied, no matter what you do.
Sorry angry lesbians and man-haters.
As a consolation prize, because we care (even though we’ll never get credit for it), all biologically female (you figure it out) man-hating democrats are eligible to receive a free cat and 10% off all cat supplies through Black Friday 👍😁
awfully BIG brush you’re painting women with Scott.
I AM WOMAN…hear me roar.
I just don’t have WGTT’s…I’ve got a brain.
I AM A TRUMP VOTER HEAR ME ROAR LOUDER!
I specifically referenced “angry lesbians and man-haters”.
Not once, but twice 😁
Angry lesbians and man-haters won’t be voting for Trump, no matter what, no matter anything.
They are unpleasable, implacable, inconsolable, incapable of being happy or satisfied, because they have bought into all of the Left’s feminist lies.
And that ultimately leads to a very dark place, populated by angry lesbians and man-haters.
The practical reality of feminism, the ultimate destination which has revealed itself, is the hostile rejection of everything male, while simultaneously trying to become the very thing which they angrily reject.
Feminism is wanting to be the thing which they hate.
Nobody can fix that. No one can help them, because they will not be helped. No man in his right mind should even try.
Just let them be.
Men will go overseas, to non-Western countries where the poison of feminism has not corrupted everything, to find women who enjoy being women, and who like men.
And bring them back to America.
Everybody wins.
YUP! I know a guy who told his sisters to SHUT the F..k UP! and NOT to try to turn his foreign born wife into an American feminist. He married her BECAUSE she was NOT an American feminist!
There is no point in telling feminists to shut up, because if they would listen, would they be feminists in the first place?
I would use a different approach. I would take it as an opportunity to show my wife exactly why my feminist sisters are so miserable and lonely.
Or if my feminist sisters are miserable and married, I would point at my feminist sisters’ man-servants, and ask my wife if she thinks they look miserable or happy.
Then I would explain that feminism, like all aspects of Leftism, is a self-destructive type of mental illness.
And if you catch this feminist mind-virus, the only cure is for me to go overseas again, and find a newer, younger hottie.
And I don’t want to have to do that… 😁
I am not an American feminist and told my husband I am the best thing that ever happen to him ? German feminists can be brutal 🙂 But I am harmless and hubby would not exchange me 😂
I am sure your import is stronger than you think 😋
“I am not an American feminist but told my husband I am the best thing that ever happen to him ?”
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Presumably he already knew that before you told him, or he wouldn’t be very smart — and if he wasn’t very smart, would you have married him?
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“German feminists can be brutal 🙂 ”
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I will, of course, have to (and gladly) take your word for that 😁
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“But I am harmless and hubby would not exchange me 😂 ”
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Harmless brutal feminists are my favorite kind 😁
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“I am sure your import is stronger than you think 😋 ”
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That’s what my favorite brutal, harmless German feminists always say… 😍 😁
🙂 you made my day
And you just made mine! 😁
but your BEGINNING comment says “those votes” referring to the statement above mentioning women voters…ergo you meant women voters…you only qualified it later in your diatribe.
Go get’em gal!
The door is always open 😁
“but your BEGINNING comment says “those votes” referring to the statement above mentioning women voters…ergo you meant women voters…you only qualified it later in your diatribe.”
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And if I had stopped after my first sentence — which I did not — and if all women voters are a subset of Helen Reddy feminists — which they are not — your point would be well-taken.
However, neither of those two conditions are met.
And I reserve the poetic license to order my sentences in whichever way I please… 😁
What’s more, this should be the one form of immigration not subject to EXTREME LIMITS.
Unattached military-aged man? Take a number —
i hope you know my diatribe was all in fun
“i hope you know my diatribe was all in fun”
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But of course! 😁
“I
justdon’t just have WGTTs” fify 😜😜Didn’t want the guys confused or disappointed LOL
Confusion and disappointment are cornerstones of the average guy’s life — it’s why honor and accomplishment are so valued.
I think there are Zero average guys in the Q-Tree! 😎
Let’s take a closer look at this lunacy.
Paul Joseph Watson: “After a New York Times poll showed she was 11 points underwater amongst male voters, Harris and her campaign surrogates are now trying to address the issue with a bizarre mixture of shaming and insulting them.”
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It wasn’t easy to find the MSNBC source video, but I found an article referencing the video (here), and the black woman who says the following in the video is named Mara Gay. Mara is everything a feminist democrat woman born in Brooklyn in 1986 ought to be.
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Mara Gay: “…is actually for all men you know, I think men are in crisis actually, in this country.”
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Why would that be?
If what you are suggesting is true, do you suppose men put themselves in crisis?
If they are in crisis, and they didn’t put themselves in crisis, who do you think did?
Do you think men who are in crisis should seek help from the same kind of people who put them in crisis?
Is that what you would do?
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Mara Gay: “Uh I think that plays out different ways… and not all men, uh, are in crisis of course,”
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At least not the ones who know their place, right Mara? Like that silent token white guy at the wymyns roundtable, the one sitting to your right?
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Mara Gay: “…and not all men are just at home listening to Joe Rogan being angry or being recruited to Fascism,”
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Recruited to fascism?
In spite of everything the fascist Left is doing to censor and ban and deplatform and totally control every aspect of social media, in addition to already controlling TV and print media?
Who are the real fascists here, Mara?
Do you even know what the word means?
Did they teach you any vocabulary words where you went to school, or did they just endlessly flash images of Trump followed by the word ‘fascist’, Clockwork Orange style?
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Mara Gay: “…Some just need therapy.”
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Will you be my therapist, Mara?
There are so many things I could teach you.
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Mara Gay: “Allowing this kind of drift toward this faux masculinity that we see Donald Trump (unintelligible)”
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How do you distinguish between ‘faux masculinity’ and real masculinity? In fact, you’re just the person to ask. What is your definition of ‘masculinity’, Mara?
A New York feminist’s definition of ‘masculinity’ would be very insightful, no doubt you’re something of an expert, along with the other feminist hens on the panel.
Please, go ahead.
Make my day 😁
Mark Milley shitting in his pants when Trump is back in office, according to CIA half-twit and supposed author Woodward’s new book.
OTH everything that comes from Woodward must be regarded as dis-, miss- and mal Information, which is his specialty since being an “Intelligence” officer during Nixon’s administration.
(I know, I know he is supposed to have exposed Watergate as a reporter for the Washington Compost)
There should be a few courts-martial when Trump wins.
There needs to be accountability to prevent the same bullshit from happening again.
Yes.
Actual crimes will be and need to be punished, IMO. Sadly, most of the “barely legal” bullshit that Dems did, will not. And Trump would be wise not to get drawn into such traps. Demmunists will try to create phony friction where smooth change is possible. Drown them in LUBE and get the wheels moving again! 😉
Lol! Call Diddy, he’s got plenty to spare.
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🙂
All in good time. First order of business is get MAGA up and running again. Behind the scenes though you can bet lower echelons will be prepping to squash the toads in the road.😁
Amen
Bogus fears, IMO. They’re trying to use fear to drive Dem votes, and to embolden the cheaters.
Trump and Vance will be very busy fixing things. Wasting time on LOSER DEMS will not happen, unless they get in the way of the fixes, and then there will be CHEERS from the nation, as the trouble-makers are given more justice than they dreamed possible in their worst nightmares.
Let Trump and Vance fix things – OR ELSE.
They should all fear justice … if they’ve been busy screwing us.
We ain’t taking it no more:
Mark Milley knows what should happen to him based on his own actions harming our people and our republic.
Can I Please be sitting in the front row staring holes in this stolen valor asshole???
This is from yesterday. Good updates. Broken down in chapters if you mouse over the time bar on the bottom.
That hexagon thing is wild. What in the world would cause such a thing, I have to wonder.
Hexagons form naturally when circular or cylindrical things are packed together, so perhaps there is some circular weather feature that is being “packed” toward the pole. Then, if the longevity of the feature is dependent on latitude, it’s conceivable that the polar one might become darker or “dirtier” than the next row down.
My prediction based on that theory, would be that temporary changes to 5 or 7 sides might be possible, over long periods of observation, due to the lesser permanence of the more equatorial features.
Best guess is it’s some sort of standing wave. But we don’t know.
Cool. Still wild!
interesting question.
Rhh0nda
October 12, 2024 9:32 am
V.P. Mike Pence certified the 2020 Presidential election but he wasn’t a Presidential Candidate, Kamala is.
So if she wins, will she be certifying her own election?
What role, if any will House Speaker Johnson play?
Really curious.
Sounds like a great excuse for a revolution. We’ll have to wait and see.
This has happened many times, a VP certifying their own win.
There are also VPs who certified their own losses, because they were trying to step up into the Oval Office, and failed.
This is why I don’t hold to the theory pushed out almost 4 years ago that Pence could simply have discarded some states’ votes by himself (with vote from Congress, yes). If it were so, then a losing VP in the past could, and would at least sometimes, simply have done so whether or not it was legit, and given themselves the job anyway. And that would be a blatant coup.
well maybe in those cases, the VP was an HONORABLE person. clearly this time the difference is obvious…lol
This is what traitor Pence claimed he was asked to do, when in fact he was asked to send the results back to some States who claimed to have evidence of fraud and wanted to be able to investigate it and if possible, recertify.
Michael Moore telling the truth – before he then tries to rationalize it back to communism.
SteveInCO
Thank you so much for the history of moons and of Saturn!
I guess the people who come up with names for moons and planet rings and so on, “ran out of steam” — hence, giving the rings of Saturn the letters of the alphabet.
Am I correct in guessing that there’s no possibility of anything living on Saturn because it’s all gas?
It’s not completely impossible…there could be floating balloon-like creatures as has been speculated for Jupiter.
The problem with speculating about life is we simply do not know all the forms it could take, we just know of one. So we tend to look at places that resemble our environment the most. Anything more than that is flights of fancy.
There are SOME things we feel pretty solid on…SMDH things like there must be chemistry, so nothing made out of pure hydrogen and the like; you just can’t form complex molecules with that.
SteveInCO
Thank you. Can pure hydrogen form a one-cell molecule organism? Does hydrogen have to use another component to do this? (I guess this sounds like me thinking in terms of things that resemble our environment.)
Pure hydrogen can’t do much of anything. It simply can’t build any sort of complex structures.
It’s like having a box of LEGOs, all the same size. That wouldn’t be so bad, but then, it turns out they have no round bumps on that side that usually has them. You’re kind of stuck.
SteveInCO
Got it, thank you!
To carry the metaphor further, you’d have a box of LEGOs, all the same color, and all 1×1 bricks (the usual is 2×4) with either a bump on the top or a hole in the bottom….but never both. Normally, they’d pair-up with each bumpee attached to a holee.
Yes that’s what it’d be, carried further (as you say) to the atomic level.
Another variant (one closer to being an actual chemical model), each H atom is a ball, with one hole in it. You can use as many sticks as you like but all you can get is pairs of balls connected by one stick. You can’t do anything further with the little “barbells” you’ve assembled.
I was sticking with LEGOs.
Need a PG-13 rating for your last sentence 😜😜
Katanji Brown Jackson would miss the point.
😂
[Imagines bunches of Dems trying to pair up bumpees with bumpees and holees with holees…..]
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/10/the-daily-chart-careless-walkers.php
Just for fun, courtesy of http://www.theburningplatform.com/ —
Well, that landed with a thud.
hahahahaha lol
it certainly did.
Ouch. Every one of them… 😂
follow up…
Well they got that one fixed while we weren’t looking. But Hey! We see what you did there!.
Outrageous! Vegas Teen Who Mowed Down Biking Retired Police Chief Found Incompetent to Stand Trial, Will Be Released to Psychiatric Facility Cristina Laila Oct. 11, 2024 8:00 pm 341 Comments
They sound competent and focused during the murder . Now the poor fellow is not?
the collision on his iPhone.
“Yeah, yeah, yeah, hit his a–,” he tells the driver, who then veers the Hyundai Elantra into the bike lane behind Probst, who is wearing a red shirt and shorts as he pedals.
The passenger turns, points his iPhone out the window and records Probst rolling to a stop on the side of the road
“Damn, that n—- got knocked out!” the passenger says in the 31-second clip.
“Oh, s—, we need to get out of here,” the panicked driver replies as he steps on the gas.
Probst was taken to a hospital where he died. Police arrested Ayala later that same day, and he allegedly bragged that he would get off easily as a juvenile.
“I’ll be out in thirty days,” he was allegedly captured saying on an officer’s body camera.
Keys was arrested days later after he shared the sick footage with friends on Instagram, and the video started circulating at his local high school.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/nevada-teen-charged-death-retired-police-chief-found-unfit-stand-trial
If you thought you were slaying a purple evil dragon when you were actually killing the postman, you’re not competent, no matter how carefully and calmly you planned out the killing of the dragon.
I have no idea if that’s operative here, but the point is methodicalness (if that’s a word and WP didn’t flag it so maybe it is) is not an indicator of sanity.
One out of the 3 doctors administering the psychological evaluation agree with that thought . The judge also apparently agreed with it so I guess it’s best if I don’t presume things.
I would prefer getting all the prosecution witnesses on video, and all the documentary evidence [such as autopsy reports] copied into the court file and then issuing an indefinite continuance until he’s declared sane.
Then release his butt from the mental facility straight into a courtroom in order to resume the prosecution from where it left off. Present all the evidence to the jury. If you get a conviction, off to Graybar Hotel.
Yup. The guy is dangerous, and will remain so, IMO.
In MA they put a guy in a mental institution. They then released him AND DID NOT TELL the woman he was threatening to murder that he had been released. He murdered her the next day…
Locals were outraged but the courts said the mental institution and the cops HAD NO DUTY TO WARN THE WOMAN!!!
😠😠😠
I no longer remember the details but what some here thought at the time was that the retired police chief from the LA area got professionally wacked because someone feared the cop was going to spill some beans. This release of the perp lends to that theory. Only problem now is that I doubt we can recall what it was that made us think that at the time.
Slow response to Hurricane explained with these numbers. Heck.. Hurricane explained with these numbers. Need to get this fixed quick and we don’t need solutions from the people who brought this.
para59r
Thank you.
Yup.
IMO, ditto for areas devastated by Hurricane Debby and Hurricane Milton.
Simple solution – just copy the 2020 results by party. SlowJoe won that one, right?
Right?
Verse of the Day for Saturday, October 12, 2024
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“But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”
Matthew 4:4 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!
PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD
Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.
I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.
Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.
With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.
Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me.
Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, Amen.
BE MY VOICE
JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
CHILD NOT CHOICE
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
GOD’S BLESSING
I was just wondering the other day
Why is my friend in a sorrowful way
What is it that has caused him so much grief
Why is it he can find no right relief
Seems to me he has given in this time
To machinations of enemy rhyme
The voice he is hearing is not of God
The adversary perpetrated fraud
You are not worthy to be loved at all
The enemy’s cruel clarion call
Another has taken your rightful place
And you are left with egg on your face
Well that is just numbnuts my buddy dear
Absolutely absurd do you not hear
Who could possibly replace you in mind
Let’s take a step back and set the rewind
What did you do wrong or not do at all
What turned her head and you fatally fall
What caused the rift and diminish your joy
What evil intent and enemy ploy
Were you not there when she needed you
Did you fail to provide neglect her too
Maybe just maybe no flaw could be found
Twas probably the other way around
Was the grass greener on the other side
Or was there something she just had to hide
You probably do not want to hear the truth
But you are better off without the uncouth
Have you searched inside and found a lacking
Were you uncaring and prolly slacking
Not paying attention to your own needs
Or the unseen plans and enemy deeds
Are you blaming yourself for what occurred
Without considering it to be blurred
Can you love someone who loved you or not
Truth be told not worth your effort besought
There is naught more precious than love returned
It is for what the heart has always yearned
When two are united with God’s blessing
There is no turmoil and no guessing
D01: 10/12/2024
New!!! Thank You Duchess! 😁
https://www.theqtree.com/2019/05/23/the-poetry-tree/#comment-1349049
Psalm 91. The most powerful prayer from the Bible. God’s protection, healing
#psalm91 #psalms #prayer
Pray Everyday
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Sleep Well with Psalms. Psalm 91, Psalm 121, Psalm 3, Psalm 4, Psalm 139.
#faith #god #psalms
Pray Everyday
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HAVE A VERY BLESSED DAY !!! ❤️❤️❤️
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/10/12/fruits-that-motivate-stem-cell-repair/
Good stuff!!!
1. Black Raspberries
2. Blue Berries
3. Strawberries
4. Mangos,
5. Prunes
Hi Q-Treepers!
I’m still Up North at my parents’ Cottage enjoying the solitude and seasonal change. Every day there is increasing Fall color visible around the lake. God is good and I’m thankful for this special place of retreat. Lots to do in the coming days to winterize this place before I head home downstate. Blessings to All 💖
My neighbor’s company does electric/plumbing. He just headed to FLORIDA!!! WTF!!!
WHAT ABOUT OUR STATE???
That Demon RAT BASTARD gov COOPER wants those people DEAD so he can turn the state DEMON-Rat.
Anti-American Americans are fallout from the destruction of the Soviet Union.
YOURS TRULY WROTE ON THIS BOARD THAT THERE WAS THE POTENTIAL FOR DYSENTERY IN THE PLACES DEVASTATED BY HELENE.
DYSENTERY IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND CAN KILL QUICKLY.
Yes, it is no joke. It’s not a case of the runs. You can’t stop, and become dehydrated very quickly.
All those poor babies.
Yep…. certainly did and Scott with the trench foot stuff…
What seems amazing is we are 14 days since the weather cleared and that should of been plenty of time to blanket the area, roads or no roads they should of been airlift or hiked in enough to have set up outposts to mitigate the damage. But the Federal Response still seems to be lacking when we still hear sparse contact with FEMA/Red Cross/Military. Seems everything is still civilians. .
It’s comparable with an arrow to the knee.
[ https://www.visitoregon.com/the-oregon-trail-game-online/ ]
Brings back junior high memories of playing on a dino computer system with a phone handset placed in the designed spot in order to connect to the remote system, late 70s…
More than just the front loaded meme. That’s a starting point to discuss the Kamala photo op and more.
That woman is demonic
This was mentioned yesterday.
Brave shows NOTHING but I found this on Yandex.com
October 8, 2024 Leaked DoD Document Details Plan for Military To Execute ‘Non-Compliant Americans’ People’s Voice
They learned well from Nazis because these were the orders of Hitler against any German or anyone who did not comply. Dam these monsters and any military who fallows those orders.
The dam is breaking!
Evening Prayer For Forgiveness
Heavenly Father, thank You for bringing me through this day and Lord, forgive me for the times when I have wandered outside Your best will for me, instead of trusting You implicitly.
Thank You, that You are such a gracious Shepherd to me and that You come and rescue me even when I lose my way and stray from the path that You have laid out for me.
As I look back over today, I know Lord that there were things that I should have said and done differently, and times when I reacted in a manner that was not honouring Your holy name. Forgive me I pray, but thank You, Father, that You always faithfully prepared to gently bring me back to Yourself.
Give me a good night’s sleep I pray, knowing that there is no condemnation because I am in Christ, and may I wake up in the morning refreshed and ready to do Your will. In Jesus’ name I pray,
Amen.
Source: https://prayer.knowing-jesus.com/Evening-Prayers
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Evening Prayer For Future Guidance
Heavenly Father, as I lie down to sleep tonight, I pray that You would guard my sleeping and protect my mind from wandering thoughts and unnecessary planning. Teach me to wait for Your perfect timing and not to try to plan my future in my own strength.
Lord, I know that You have scheduled every day of my life. Help me to trust You in all things and rely on You to lead me along the straight path and guide me in the direction that You would have me to go.
Give me patience to wait for Your perfect timing, and may I not trust in my own abilities and scheming, but rather rest in Your love and trust my future into Your hands.
And so now Lord, I commit this night to you, asking that I would rest soundly and wake refreshed and strong to do Your bidding. This I ask in Jesus’ precious name,
Amen.
Source: https://prayer.knowing-jesus.com/Evening-Prayers
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Prayer Of Thanksgiving In The Evening
Praise Your holy name Heavenly Father, for granting yet another day in my life and for being with me every step of the way. Thank You for the many blessings that You have provided and the love and fellowship that I have with the friends and family that in Your grace You have placed in my life.
My heart is so thankful for all the many blessings that I enjoy day by day, and today I am once again reminded that Your mercies are new every morning and Your faithfulness endures from generation to generation.
Thank You, that I have been brought into Your family and have been made a child of God and a citizen of heaven. Words cannot express my love and devotion to You Lord
I pray that You would watch over me as I rest tonight, and that You would give me a restful nights sleep so that I may wake up in the morning refreshed in body and spirit and ready to do Your will. Guard all those that I love and may we all grow in grace and in a knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ in the days that lie ahead. This I ask in His precious name,
Amen.
Source: https://prayer.knowing-jesus.com/Evening-Prayers
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Burning platform goes into the mineral wealth under NC mountains and In Wyoming…🤔
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/10/12/a-brutalist-regime-dies-in-absurdity-illogic-and-circus-animals-passing-for-leaders/
Somewhat related Good talk but it would of been better given during a budget debate or something. Dem game plan is to put everything on ignore.
OK, Yours Truly just found proof that the COVID-19 “vaccines” that my brother took (at least 5 shots) either induced, or paved the way for, the “sudden-onset dementia” that now has him in Memory Care in a nursing home for the rest of his days on this planet:
Start here:
https://mole.substack.com/p/who-monkey-pox-is-side-effect-of-covid/comments
“WHO: Monkeypox is ‘side effect’ of Covid ‘vaccine'”
12 October 2024
Yours Truly: the WHO published a document on reported negative side effects from the Pfizer-BioNTech modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine.” This report, and the lists of negative side effects, are found on the WHO’s “VigiAccess” website.
The Mole blog post outlines the steps to search the database on the “VigiAccess” website. And the list does indeed show that Monkeypox is a ‘side effect’ of the Pfizer-BioNTech modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine.”
But Yours Truly wanted to go further, and see if this “vaccine” had reported cases of mental impairment / dementia, etc. So, I followed the search instructions, and here is a PARTIAL screenshot of the DOZENS of REPORTED TYPES of neurological / nervous system / cognitive ‘side effects’ from this “vaccine” —
And, sure enough, there’s “mental impairment.”
IMO, any number on this list needs to be multiplied by at least 100 at get any kind of estimate for the ACTUAL number.
Meanwhile, here is my only brother, who was a very intelligent person, always reading, could talk for hours about the history of the ancient Greeks and Romans — and, now, cannot read more than a couple of sentences from an easy book, who doesn’t recognize the voice of his own sister…
Meanwhile, here is my only brother, who had beautiful handwriting (taught to him by the nuns in our Roman Catholic grade school) — and, now, cannot write his name…
Meanwhile, here is my only brother, who once was an active, independent person — and, now, is locked into the living nightmare of dementia.
DAMN THE COVID-19 “VACCINES.”
DAMN THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS THEY ARE HAVING AND WILL HAVE ON BILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO TOOK THEM.
DAMN THE MONSTERS WHO DEVELOPED THESE “VACCINES” — THEY KNEW EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE DOING.
Again, I am so sorry. It’s just tragic that so many people believed Big Pharma was trying to “help.”
Aubergine
Thank you.
One of the “larger issues” of this entire COVID-19 “vaccine” disaster is the attack that these “vaccines” do to the brain and its mechanisms of the “vaccinated” person.
How many “fully vaccinated and boosted” medical professionals (meaning, at least 4 – 5 injections total so far) are **perhaps just starting** to feel **a little “off”**? How many “fully vaccinated and boosted” airline pilots? How many of the “fully vaccinated and boosted” of the general public?
I can see it in many people I know who are vaxxed. They are not the same. It’s terrible.
In total agreement with you. I see it in my family and friends. Very sad indeed.
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We have to consider that a lot of the forced vaccinations were of saline, particularly in donkey party strongholds. The intent was to induce a servitude attitude among the population at large while creating a substantial sized pool of ‘jabbed’ people who had no side effects. The purpose was to make it plausible to call people like PAVACA conspiracy theorists.
IOW, keep the ratio low enough so it never becomes obvious that the ‘vaccines’ cause damage.
Of course, this meant they knew they were doing wrong.
Do we have evidence that saline was administered, ever?
(And No, “Not Everyone died from the jobs” is not evidence)
Nothing that I can remember. The allegations by the Slovenian nurse, about her orders, remains believable to me, but it’s not proof by any stretch of the imagination.
I remember people here, who on hearing of someone who got the shot and didn’t die within days, saying “oh they must have got saline.”
That Burning Platform guy did a “hot lots” analysis, iirc, but not sure if that “proved” saline deployed…
Karl, at the Market Ticker, did a “hot lots” analysis.
The problem is with people who had multiple jabs, like Pavaca’s brother. Even if saline were used in some jabs, would that same person get saline every time?
Exactly.
I am so sorry about your brother. May God give him comfort and the whole family.
Should read, “memory impairment” in the text, not “mental impairment.”
This is such monstrous evil belched from the pit of Hell. I’m so sorry for this being visited upon your family 😠😓😠
HILARIOUS!
Conversely, the more they show Kamala talking, the voters become less pro-Kamala…..
That’s the way it worked in her first Presidential run.
For sure!
So instead they should show some of his mean tweets?
Incoming! Someone tell Tim and his Daffy wife to duck and cover.
I’ve been seeing posts about this but have waited until there was more information. It will be interesting too see what he releases tomorrow. Do we know if the allegation is about a minor girl or a minor boy?
What’s the old line — a live boy or a dead girl?
Wasn’t that said by former Louisiana Gov. Edwards?
I think it was old before he was born.
Apparently boys… Seems a lot is hitting the intenet today.
Some posted this saying “Hey Tim, today’s your day”
https://rumble.com/v5b5911-predator-exposed-why-did-tim-walz-leave-nebraska.html
Okay, now this one below is making sense… Saw it earlier but didn’t realize that was Tampon Tim.
https://granitegrok.com/national/2024/10/exchange-student-alleges-tim-walz-groomed-him
IMO, “Shadow of Ezra” needs major levels of vetting because he will twist the truth to purvey conspiracy theories, as I showed yesterday regarding his X post about Acapulco having had a string of hurricanes over the past year, which is not true. So his entry into the scene gives me pause. I need to hear from other people.
I don’t know anything about “Black Insurrectionist,” but he at least seems to be approaching this seriously and not just from a conspiracy p_rn point of view.
I’m sure Tampon Tim is going to be ready to toss some flack at this. Likely something along the line of telling MSM to expect and ignore it. Next steps will be attempting to ambush him and get him to address it.
Anyway, the pin has been pulled and now we wait to see if the grenade explodes. As far as trump is concerned he didn’t toss it so it’s not his problem and there’s enough to this whole thing to give it some cover of legitimacy. Not to mention Tim has long been thought to be be gay and people are fairly familiar with how some of them like to play. Even the weird dancing fits Tim whether that’s him or not.
Watch for the MSM to try to run cover for Walz by getting Trump to disavow one thing or another, before the smoking gun is found.
Shadow of Ezra is already two strikes against whatever he says.
At least. He weaves innuendo where none exists. He makes stuff up. He caters to those who are addicted to conspiracies.
IMO it’s similar to other addictions. People need their fix. It becomes paramount even in the face of facts to the contrary. Conspiracy addicts will throw those who challenge the theories under the bus instead of actually looking at the facts because they are so threatened at the thought of the conspiracy being taken away.
IMO, the video of the guy dancing harms rather than helps the case. You can’t tell whether that’s Walz or not, and alleging (or insisting) that it’s him is what the conspiracy p_rn liars do.
That wasn’t just an impromptu dance, whoever that was practices to that song a LOT 😂
Please let it be Tim Walz… 😆
I don’t know who Shadow of Ezra works for, but whoever it is, it’s probably not a friend.
It’s that time of the night…..
From comments:
@jimmythundarrsdrumcoverser4921 year ago
I don’t always listen to Ted, but when I do, so do the neighbors.
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Valerie probably knows that he’s the Motor City Madman.
Nuge got a lot of hunting tips and gear from the legendary hunter Fred Bear, who bagged a number of the trophies on display at Call of the Wild, a small museum here in Gaylord. Hubby used to regularly take the kids there for knives and T-shirts in their extensive gift shop.
My first “big concert”, and my first “road trip for a concert”, was Ted Nugent at The Cow Palace, San Francisco.
I was living in the dorms at the University of Casual Sun Bathing about 350 miles south. There were substantial contingents from the Bay Area and also many from Greater LA. To illustrate the cultural difference, I had no idea what a Cow Palace might be, but I had a car.
The Cow Palace [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_Palace ] was originally intended to be a livestock pavilion. It has since been used for a variety of purposes.
We got to the venue and walked to the queue for the gate. The queue went around three sides of a square, maybe fifty yards each, and the interior of the square was paved with broken glass from the bottles discarded therein before passing security.
Once seated inside, there was a lot of pot. At the time, it didn’t seem as troublesome as it does today.
The opening band was The Scorpions, who nobody had ever heard of. At the very beginning, there was a bit of “clear off and let Ted on”. But then they played, and gradually won the crowd over. I think they were on their fourth encore before management finally pulled the plug — it was obvious that they were appreciated.
Ted was Ted. He got riotous applause and appreciation…..but I think a teeny bit less than the Scorps.
And then our group dispersed to sack out on couches around the Bay Area, before heading back to Santa Barbara.
So, yes, I’m a bit fond of Uncle Ted.
Back in the Day, the Fiancee and I attended the San Francisco Flower & Garden Show was at the Cow Palace. It was there for a number of years. One of the shirts available at the time said, “Talk Dirty to Me”.
Out with it. More to the story…?
One of the shirts available at the time said, “Talk Dirty to Me”.
Gardeners tend to work with dirt a lot.
In our local fish club, a couple of prominent breeders of cichlids has been Pam & Gary Chin.
Pam’s family was near-royalty in the The Grand National Livestock Exposition, Horse Show and Rodeo [ https://www.grandnationalrodeo.com/event-info/about-the-grand-national-rodeo.html ]. I have no idea what has happened to it in the last decade (the link is for 2014).
So there is a weird connection between Rodeo, breeding exotic fish, gardening, and my undergraduate concert experiences.
https://x.com/i/status/1844819396662878666
Very interesting article. (Finally had time to get through it.) Thank you.