What is it that feeds our battle, yet starves our victory?
January 6 Tapes?
Where are the tapes? Anyone, Anyone? Bueller? Johnson??
Paging Speaker Johnson…this is your conscience calling you out on broken promises.
Evading Reality
Many things the Left believes are simply not true. Right now the focus is on the size and scope of our government, and the many many billions of dollars the government has been spending on no-one-knew-what. None of that money is going to a key role of government. Which, after all, has the sole purpose of protecting rights.
And if you, Leftist Lurker, want to dismiss this as dead white cis-male logic…well, you can call it what you want, but then please just go fuck off. No one here buys that bullshit–logic is logic and facts are facts regardless of skin color–and if you gave it a moment’s rational thought, you wouldn’t either. Of course your worthless education never included being able to actually reason–or detect problems with false reasoning–so I don’t imagine you’ll actually wake up as opposed to being woke.
As Ayn Rand would sometimes point out: Yes, you are free to evade reality. What you cannot do is evade the consequences of evading reality. Or to put it concretely: You can ignore the Mack truck bearing down on you as you play in the middle of the street, you won’t be able to ignore the consequences of ignoring the Mack truck.
And Ayn Rand also pointed out that existence (i.e., the sum total of everything that exists) precedes consciousness–our consciousnesses are a part of existence, not outside of it–therefore reality cannot be a “social construct” as so many of you fucked-up-in-the-head people seem to think.
So much for Leftist douchebag lurkers. For the rest of you, the regular readers and those lurkers who understand such things, well here we go for another week of WINNING against the Deep State.
I confess that the novelty has not worn off.
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.
Yes, we won this time around. Not only did we win, we got to KEEP that win instead of having it stolen from us.
But no one should imagine that that’s the end of electoral fraud. Much work needs to be done to ensure it doesn’t just happen again next time around. And incidentally to rescue those states currently in the grips of self-perpetuating fraud, where the people who stole the last election, make sure it’s easier to steal the next one.
This issue, though it’s not front-and-center right now, is not going away, and if we ignore it, we’ll pay the price. See the article above about the consequences of evading reality.
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.
Kitco Ask. Last week:
Gold $2,861.10
Silver $31.89
Platinum $984.00
Palladium $990.00
Rhodium $5,025.00
FRNSI* 137.406-
Gold:Silver 89.718-
This week, markets closed as of 3PM MT.
Gold $2,883.10
Silver $32.22
Platinum $984.00
Palladium $992.00
Rhodium $4,975.00
FRNSI* 138.470-
Gold:Silver 89.482-
Gold went up nicely this week and closed in the 2920s Thursday. And then it got beaten with the ugly stick on Friday, dropping 45.60. Although silver took a hit on Friday, also, it wasn’t as bad so this week we see the gold:silver ratio dropping just a bit. Still it’s nowhere near the 83-ish range it was in not so long ago.
*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.
The Final Experiment Fallout
The fallout continues.
Jeran is now a glober. To those who have been following this for years (and no, I am not one of them), it’s simply stunning; they could never have imagined it. Austin Witsit has been trying to figure out how he got “fooled” which means he is looking for excuses to remain a flat Earther. It’s an interesting study in psychology. They both saw the same things. One had an epiphany, the other is burrowing deeper into the bullshit that the sights ought to have blasted away.
But of late something else has caught my attention. A South African who goes by the name “Flatzoid” is running hard to be the most obliviously stupid person on the face of the Earth. And yes he has quite a bit of competition from a lot of people on the Left, but from what I see he is up to the challenge.
[Take for instance the fact that he is South African, yet hasn’t noticed that the sun doesn’t rise and set where it should (i.e., to the northeast and northwest) if flat Earth were correct. He once even attempted to measure its sunrise position, and did so on video so people could see he was using a method guaranteed to introduce error. Sure enough he got an answer a few degrees off, loudly trumpeted that the globe earth couldn’t make the prediction…and ignored the fact it was many times further off any conceivable flat earth prediction. Not that they actually make predictions that aren’t just copying off of Globe Earth’s paper during the test.]
It’s referred to as the “upper left” award by the globe defenders; this is an allusion to the Dunning-Kruger effect, which is commonly depicted on a graph like this:
The “upper left” is the peak of stupid but confident, or even arrogant. In this case Flatzoid has accused people far more knowledgeable than he is of being incompetent, and has said so to them in online meetings and debates.
In the case I’m thinking of his target is an Aussie engineer (with almost the same education background that I have), who goes online by “Critical Think” (which makes it very hard to find his channel).
This video is a reaction by an engineer, to the debate between Fkatzoid and Critical Think.
(Warning: You are about to see the worst case of Dunning-Kruger ever. Fkatzoid has no comprehension of the experiment, no actual conception of what it means to control variables, no conception of measurement error, and is so smugly confident he knows more than Critical Think that it can be infuriating at times.)
Flatzoid was on the list to be invited to The Final Experiment, but complained (as his excuse not to go) that he never received an invite. Will Duffy told him (in a livestream) that that was because his email did not appear on his youtube channel page. Flatzoid hastily went to add it so he could claim it had been there all along, but fatfingered his name and it showed as fkatzoid@<whatever the provider was>, so now he’s often called fkatzoid by Globe defenders.
Critical Think was not only invited, but actually did go on the Final Experiment. And he did something very interesting. He brought a very accurate electronic scale with him, along with its test weights. He has been taking those things to various places (like Malaysia), himself lives in (IIRC) Brisbane Australia, and had it with him in Chile–Santiago and Puntas Arenas. And of course Union Glacier camp in Antarctica.
What was he hoping to prove? He was hoping to validate the WGS-84 model of the Earth’s shape. Earth is a very slightly oblate spheroid (not enough so to look “squashed” in pictures–in fact proportionately speaking it easily meets the specs for cue balls) on account of its rotation. This has two effects on the gravity: 1. At the poles you are closer to the center of the Earth than you are at the equator, so you should feel very slightly stronger gravity. 2. The centrifugal effect of the rotating earth should reduce the net gravity on the equator, because the centrifugal effect partly counteracts the pull of the Earth’s mass. #2 is by far the larger of these two effects.
How does one check this? By measuring the force of gravity in different places using the same masses.
You can do this with a scale…but it has to be the right kind of scale. And you have to know how to use it.
And in order for this to make sense, you must understand the distinction between weight and mass. Which Flatzoid clearly does not.
Mass is the amount of “stuff” in an object, and it manifests as a resistance to forces applied to it. You can feel this by trying to push on objects. (Don’t try to lift them for this part.) To wipe out the effect of friction, pick the object up, hold it in your hand, then move your hand toward or away from you. If the object is massive enough you’ll definitely feel it “resisting” the force you’re applying.
This resistance is the same everywhere. Here on Earth. Anywhere on earth. In outer space. You’d feel it even in orbit on the ISS. The Moon. Mars. Jupiter (if there were a surface to stand on). And so on. The same.
Weight on the other hand is the force exerted on the object. The weight of something is actually the force with which it is being pulled, by the Earth.
This is why you can weigh differently on (say) the Earth and the Moon, even without a trip to the bathroom on the way from one to the other, in other words, even though your mass stays the same. The force exerted by gravity is different, and weight is the force.
The distinction usually doesn’t matter for us “groundhogs” here on Earth. Hence there’s a tendency even for STEM people working their STEM jobs to conflate the two. Pounds are actually a unit of force, but it’s not hard to find references to something called “pounds mass” in, say, rocketry, where a lot of the industry stuck with the US Customary System until fairly recently–it’s the mass that on the surface of the earth weighs one pound. (Oh and by the way our customary system is not the “imperial” system as I’ve heard many people call it lately: if you don’t believe that note the difference in volume measurements. A US gallon is smaller than an Imperial one.) So it’s quite correct to say that 100 lb (when she is on Earth) woman weighs 16.5 lbs on the Moon.
The kilogram, the SI unit, is actually a unit of mass. But people are happy to talk about things weighing a kilogram, really meaning (whether they realize it or not): weighing as much as a kilogram does on Earth. (The SI unit of force is the Newton, and to be truly correct, a kilogram of mass weighs 9.8 Newtons. But absolutely no one makes a scale reading in Newtons, though pressure measurements (“pounds per square inch” to us) and torque do reference Newtons.)
Let’s not forget we’re eventually getting back to Fkatzoid vs. Critical Think.
There are two ways to measure “weight” (one of them actually measures mass). 1) A balance beam scale. This is the conceptually simplest variant:
This works by comparing the force exerted by gravity on whatever it is you want to weigh, against the force exerted on known weights. If the two pans are in balance (as indicated by the long vertical bar pointing up from the pivot point), the two forces are equal, and therefore the two weights are equal. For this kind of scale, though, there’s a bonus: You also know the two masses are equal. It can actually be used to measure mass. It would work if you took it to the Moon; the mass of your object would be the same as the mass of the known weights in the other pan, and you will get the same reading.
There are more complex versions of this, including ones with sliding weights where the known weight is moved closer or farther, to balance things like having people of two different weights on a seesaw. The lighter one has to move further out.
If you remember those scales at your doctor’s office with the sliding weights, that’s this kind of scale; it’s set up so that you “hang” from a place very close to the pivot, while the sliding weights are further away; they therefore exert more leverage and a balance can be struck without actually putting something as heavy as you are on the balance beam.
The second kind of scale essentially measures the compression or stretching of a spring (or some other device sensitive to force) caused by gravity pulling on whatever it is you’re weighing.
Springs (et. all.) do their thing in response to a force, so these scales measure force. Take a 1 kilogram mass and a scale like this (that reads off in kg though it should technically read off in Newtons) to the moon and it will read 165.4 grams, not 1000 grams. That’s because it’s really measuring a force then, under the assumption it’s being used in Earth’s gravity, converting to read in kilograms. (If you are ever in such a situation, don’t be fooled into thinking the mass has changed.)
Your bathroom scale, the scale you use to measure ingredients in the kitchen, the scale at the deli and the scale at the post office are all this type (unless you’re like me and bought a used medical scale). If you reload you may have a balance beam scale of some type for the powder.
OK, so now to Critical Think’s experiment. He has a scale…of the second type, and it came with a kilogram mass.
Normally, you’d set up the scale, turn it on, make sure it zeros…and then you calibrate it. How? you put the kilogram mass on it, and push a button, which tells it that the force it is detecting right now is from local gravity acting on a one kilogram mass. It’s then smart enough to know what to do if it feels twice that force: it will tell you that what you’ve put on the scale has a mass of two kilograms. Likewise for any other mass: read out in proportion to that force which it has been taught means there’s a mass of one kilogram.
Why the need to calibrate the scale? Because if you don’t, it will be thrown off by the slight differences in the Earth’s gravitational field. Mountaintops, latitude, depressions like Death Valley or the Dead Sea, etc. will all change the force ever so slightly, and by calibrating the scale, you get it to correct for that.
What if you move the scale to another location, and don’t calibrate it? Your mass readings will be off by a bit, because the force you measure isn’t the same. It’s a small amount, a few hundredths of a gram per kilogram, but nonetheless measurable by Critical Think’s scale.
So this is what he did: He calibrated the scale at home. So in his house, the weights read 1000 g. He then takes the scale and weights somewhere else, and repeats the measurement without calibrating the scale. So the 1 kilogram mass now weighs a bit more or a bit less, and the difference is actually due to the difference in gravity.
On returning home, you weight your kilogram mass again to make sure the scale actually did hold its initial calibration. If the scale doesn’t read 1000 g again, something actually fell out of adjustment in the scale.
Critical Think’s data (multiple weighings of the known mass at each site), by the time you do the stats work that every scientist must do with their data, confirms the WGS-84 ellipsoid combined with the rotation of the Earth.
But it’s key: for this to work, you must not calibrate the scale at the other locations. Otherwise all you’ve done is show that the scale will report 1000g every time you calibrate it.
This is totally, completely beyond Fkatzoid’s comprehension. He insists that because Critical Think did not calibrate the scale at each location, the entire experiment is worthless–oblivious to the fact that the point of the experiment was to use the same calibration in different areas.
Furthermore Fkatzoid has no conception of measurement error. Critical Think took multiple readings at each location, and averaged them. This is standard operating procedure when taking data, because of measurement error. However, when this came out in the conversation, that the multiple readings had all been slightly different from each other, Fkatzoid triumphantly declared all of the data worthless, because it wasn’t “repeatable.”
And finally, Fkatzoid insists that temperature and humidity are factors that must be taken into account. Why? Because. Because what? Because. It turns out that Critical Think actually checked these beforehand, by varying the temperature and humidity at home and seeing what effect they had on the scale (by again, calibrating once then measuring under different temperatures and pressures–and noting that they had no significant effect, so he could from that point forward ignore them so long as he stayed within the operating temperature range of the scale. This point, too, is completely lost on Fkatzoid.
He’s trying to argue about basic science with an experienced engineer. Not that experienced engineers are automatically right by any means, nor are they necessarily geniuses. But engineering is where the scientific rubber meets the road in a way that’s visible to everyone. All branches of engineering must study and understand physics at a bare minimum (many branches have to go into other disciplines like chemistry as well), and they must apply it to solve real-world problems.
If the physics they understand doesn’t have a close relationship to reality, their solutions can’t work. And sometimes they “don’t work” badly enough to kill people. The Romans knew this. Their engineers would have to stand under the arches they designed, as the blocking for construction was removed. If the engineer had messed up…he died. Better him than someone who had trusted him.
There are certainly plenty of examples of engineering failures in history. (Engineers get to learn about them!) But even those who fail when pushing the envelope understand the basics.
Fkatzoid never had to learn any science past the third grade level (complete with all of the oversimplifications made to get the basic concept across) and it shows here. I don’t think I’ve every seen someone more obliviously but arrogantly ignorant than Fkatzoid.
And in the wake of the Final Experiment, he’s one of the leaders of the Flat Earth movement.
No Geology This Time
I will try to write something up this weekend, for next weekend.
Go gold!!!
And silver, too.
Some days I play parts of my day back in the movie in my head and I realize how ignorant I was in some situation and I just feel so sad about it. I can only imagine that I am ignorant more often than I realize. Maybe it’s like a number line where we are all on the continuum of ignorance, but some of us are more likely to realize it than others. The hardest part of realizing it is also being aware it will continue to be a danger for the rest of our lives.
I like that you gave all the steps this engineer took to be as careful as possible to avoid the traps of ignorance.
You’re in good company … take care
^^^ Wisdom.
Boy, do I feel you there!
Sometimes it IS downright scary, the things I don’t know. The scariest are when I am told something by someone I respect and trust, question it later, do my research, and realize they were WRONG! This has happened to me a couple of times in Bible study. People think they KNOW something about Scripture, but when you look into their belief, it’s way off.
Just had to deal with this. Immediately went to my phone to check both scripture and commentary – no – No – NO – EMPHATICALLY NO – to say nothing of common sense.
When the logical conclusion of something is “There may not be a God” – sorry – I’m not even getting on that bus!
Fortunately I was dealing with a layperson – probably led astray by wokesters (or more subtly, by trying to sell to woke young people). If I had heard this crap from a pastor, priest or rabbi, I would have to say heretic or even satanic embed.
Ultimately, all this stuff leads to straight-up denial of God. Easy test – if it leads there – if it leads to ANY degree of denial of God – it’s WRONG.
This is why I judge churches by the presence of Bibles in the pews (because Bibles are much more permissible to be in hand than phones during sermons). When I hear the unbelievable, I CHECK.
If we have allowed the Holy Spirit to train us to listen with our heart then we can walk closely to the Truth.
And yet Flatzoid and others like him, regarding other subject matters as well, refuses to realize he’s talking with someone who knows his subject matter, has no curiosity about what is being said, won’t do his own research, and won’t listen and learn. Instead he doubles down on stupid. I don’t understand what kind of mental block allows this.
Pride
Misplaced pride.
Or perhaps, it’s just that deep down people like this feel inadequate because they understand very little, so they fake it, and when that turns out to “work” in that some people believe them, the behavior is reinforced. In fact it’s entirely possible they never come to realize that some people who know their stuff…actually do know their stuff and aren’t faking.
In that latter case, they probably think it’s perfectly normal to get through life bullshitting, because they simply can’t imagine any other mode of existence.
Once people discover how well and easily bullshitting works, it becomes a very hard tool to put down.
There is a much different level of satisfaction between making tailored bullshit arguments that convince the other person in a discussion, and a REAL argument that stands on its own, convincing people who may be smarter than the person making the argument. Ah, that is the way school is SUPPOSED to work – to expose people to that difference.
This is why Jeran just admitting that he saw the midnight sun in Antarctica makes me respect him more as a SCIENTIST than PhDs and MDs who dodge and cover up for problematic vaccines.
I am reminded of a guy I saw in Chuck-E-Cheese one time urging his kid to cheat at one of the games…on the grounds that you never win except by cheating.
Somehow I got out of there without assaulting the ratfucker.
AYE-YI-YI!!! I’m feelin’ ya there!!! RF INDEED!!!
That’s where you get the guys licence and ask the cops to look into him. With that mind set you KNOW he is a criminal of some sort.
I’d have to spend who knows how long waiting for him and his offspring to leave, possibly follow them into the parking lot (and he might notice), then get close enough to his car to read the plate. Which he might notice.
And the cops might not even have anything on him anyway.
That reminds me of a story told by one of my relatives. This relative was married but then divorced to someone who advised his children about littering while driving. He apparently advised the children to throw their trash out in good neighborhoods only, on the theory that the residents of good neighborhoods would pick up the trash. I still haven’t decided if there is something noble hiding somewhere in that advice.
Need a moral microscope for that one! Maybe even an electron microscope!
One man’s trash is another man’s measure…..
I keep looking for something noble — under it, on top of it, through it, around it — but can’t find any. You take responsibility for your own trash, period.
I was wondering if he might be a closet environmentalist who had a guilty streak about littering that wasn’t quite strong enough to overcome his laziness.
I can see it now – a car tooling down the street, trash flying out the windows.
Accompanied by a chorus singing This is Our Compliment to Your Neighborhood.
I’m sure the audience will be appreciative.
Have to agree – and particularly with the unqualified version. Even when others say “you should be proud” – pride is dangerous – or even particularly dangerous. I have to say that the “Jeep” marketeers knew their market when they used exactly that POV in the Harrison Ford Super Bowl advertisement. “Pride is a terrible driver” is what he said, IIRC.
Steve, Thank you for clearly explaining the distinction between weight and mass, and how scales work!
Flat Earth has peeled so far away from the need to convince neutral normies, that they simply don’t engage on the basics. The faith (b/c that’s what it is) literally depends on half-believers walking in through the door, already having thrown away some portion of normal skepticism.
Your point about “no curiosity” is critical, because that is what is SHARED with radical vax defenders who cannot be roused to look at shocker data which tells us something was wrong with mRNA, spike protein vax, etc., etc. One cannot know about the Pandemrix vaccines positively known to have caused narcolepsy, the rise of autism, and how neurological damage from vaccines works, and not be CURIOUS if neurological damage is a more general problem of induced immunity. It’s ALL THERE to have a powerful general theory of vaccination, genetics, and neurological childhood injury. Failure to be curious about Nobel-level science? Something is WRONG.
The consensus amongst the “professional” globers (i.e., those who counter-argue against the Flat Earth cult) seems to be that thanks to the Final Experiment they’ll have a lot more trouble recruiting more people from here on out…but the ones already in the cult are basically gone, 99 percent of the time.
Interesting! And that seems to be a common theme among such belief systems – that they “top out” at some point of confrontation. It’s very similar to Scientology, Morris/Gish YEC, and maybe even HerbaLife. They seem unstoppable – snowballing – and then they’re stopped by a small display of rock-hard truth.
Borrowed (OK, stolen) from Filly
[groan]
Gotta hand it to DOGE: They’re funny!
Elon has a great sense of Humor and I think the Autists working for him do too.
i get that they need to hide the real reason for the grant/contract or whatever, but you need a roadmap to figure out what the actual bullshit is that they’re trying to steal money for.
A preposition is a bad word to end a sentence with.
Grammar Nazi likely correct. 
However, Slow Guy understood her message.
Actually it’s a stupid rule.
It’s literally impossible to express some thoughts while following this rule.
Seen in the wild today: A Tesla with a “No Musk” sticker on it (the word Musk with the red circle and line superimposed).
Oh the irony.
I’m sure it’s an EV cultist now finding themselves disgusted with who they bought it from.
Locally, a nearby shopping center has about 12 Tesla charging stations behind the grocery store. The people going to/from the EVs just don’t seem happy or even healthy looking. They look frazzled. I wonder if they bought their car with a vision for something they didn’t end up getting.
If so, it’s inexplicable to me. The car has to be charged, which means the driver is dependent on charging stations that might be hard to find, might not work, or might have a waiting line. They knew from the outset that charging takes time, so I don’t know what they tought they were getting. Being “environmentally conscious” might not offset the hassles.
The idea of just going home and plugging in the car and letting it charge overnight (and cheaper than gas) and having few moving parts that need fixing…is appealing. The slowness of charging isn’t a factor at that point.
Of course, if you drive far enough to need a “refill” during a day, suddenly it’s a problem.
And let’s leave aside the downside of batteries that have been discussed here.
On the fewer moving parts theme. why not have a gas turbine coupled to an alternator constantly charging a much smaller and lighter battery and simultaneously powering to the electric drive motor.
Gas turbine providing just enough power for normal steady driving with the battery providing the extra as required for accelerating going up inclines etc.
You mean, the way locomotives have been doing things since the 1950’s?
I have no idea.
I have zero knowledge about locomotives.
There really big and that might be what the car engineers are trying to avoid.
You’ve described a hybrid. Sort of.
As I understand it the hybrids of today have a generator that supplements a fossil-fuel-burning motor, and the motor actually drives the wheels; you’re describing having an electric motor drive the wheels but be charged by a gas turbine.
Usually hybrids cannot be charged, which again rel3egates the electric part to a support role. There are now “plug in hybrids” you can charge but the battery is tiny and the electric motor is still in a support role, not the direct provider of motion.
Sort of like a hybrid, which has been around for quite a while, I think, as my “outdoorsy” aunt has driven one for Many years.
If Trump truly and openly liberates AMERICAN COAL – and we’re honest that EVs are basically coal-powered vehicles – perhaps the “ideological” portion of the EV base can “flip to the truth”. If I thought coal power was assured for the next 12 years, I would much more seriously consider an EV.
Here’s the thing, though.
I saw someone (Sabine Hossenfelder, or Lawrence Krauss, they did a show together on “what’s new in science”) point out that Trump is notably saying a lot less about coal this time around. Plenty about oil though!
And virtually zero about The (strong nuclear) Force.
And yet he’s talking about liberating energy. So is he just liberating, and letting the market decide?
BTW, I’m seeing a lot of moving coal on the railroads lately. JUST SAYIN’.
I see an EV as a niche market for cities where you do not want the gas exhaust fumes.
Yeah. It won’t work well for country folks, especially those who commute into a city.
And crappy for road trips, too, unless you like to take long breaks. (Generally when I’m on a road trip, I move as quickly as possible to the next destination and resent any need to stop–minimal time at gas stations, pleasethankyouverymuch.)
They could trailer a team of draft horses just in case, as a back-up. LOL
I don’t know why anyone would charge away from home unless they’re driving more than the maximum distance a full charge will take them.
They can charge their car overnight, while they sleep.
The Meijers in Roseville Michigan has two banks of those stations. I park away from them … in case they bow up. I don’t need any help wrecking a car I did that already in July this year, that’s enough for the next decade or so.
Bow up? Yeah/no … blow up … KABOOM
Yep…. EVs are definitely a sinking ship
It’s too late ..
Aluminating their ignorance
«Mind virus» is a good term for the weird idée-fixe that the «give my heart» gesture that Elon Musk did somehow was a Nazi salute. So there are all kinds of virtue-signallers giving up their Tesla, and there have been some of the socialists having put warning notices, resembling parking tickets, on Teslas, explaining that Musk is a Nazi and therefore the owner of the car is, by some kind of daft guilt-by-association logic.
Trying to argue with examples of pictures of Obama, Pelosi, Warren, Bush, and whoever else showing the same outreached arm gesture, brings accusations of «taken outside of context» from some anonymous entities calling themselves «independent fact-checkers», yet if calling the same thing that Elon Musk did something «Nazi», isn’t taking that out of context?
Sauce for the goose sauce for the gander.
It’s so damn stupid the whole thing. Mind virus indeed. It is almost as if the NPCs have had a bad software update, «Tesla Nazi Equivalence», replacing the previous varieties of «orange man bad» and others. Maybe some of the pearl-clutching taking place after JD Vance’s illumination of the EU-critters, will change that.
The NPCs are a bad software update. Just saying.
Bwahahaha … they’re still driving the car right? What a maroon/putz.
As expensive as the things are, I can understand that. Sunk cost.
However, that should be taken figuratively. You do not repeat DO NOT want to immerse a Tesla in water.
Yeah … they don’t float and they can’t swim.
Leftism is a religion of fascism.
For anyone dealing with infections, you might find this next part of a Vitamin C paper I quoted late yesterday of interest. The text is also an example of how researchers test their theories by designing experiments and analyzing their results.
So what they are basically saying is that some proof-of-concept size experiments showed that using a supplement like olive leaf extract at a certain dose was in most cases able to provide the body with what it needs for the liver to generate higher levels of vitamin C when the body is under stress.
Thank you for bringing this, Gudthots! In addition to its help in aiding higher vitamin C levels, I was very interested to read that it chelates iron. I have a genetic condition called hemachromatosis, which is basically iron overload. So I’m always interested in finding supplements that can help me keep my iron levels down.
You may want to be cautious about this. [See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_C#Iron_deficiency ]. Eating vitamin C with foods that contain iron enhances iron absorption.
OTOH, adding vitamin C to a body with too much iron may chelate the iron into a water-soluble form, allowing it to be better flushed by the kidneys.
Of course, one should also look into the various substances involving https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heme .
Dr Mercola used to practice blood letting on himself to lower iron levels! I think he uses some other method for lowering now.
You could get a pet leech and name it “FEMA”.
Or “Fauci”. Or “Gavin Nuisance”.
Coothie, I’m very careful not to have vitamin C or any foods with vitamin C during a meal that contains iron (which is most meals, really). I take mine well away from meals as it does enhance iron absorption.
I’m pretty sure there are much better sources for medical information beyond wackipedia…
I normally have a thesis going in. If Wikipoo backs up my thesis, I’ll cite ’em — if they don’t, I don’t.
I kind of prefer published research on the NIH website. Not that we can trust it much. Just a bit more than weakiepee.
I might do that for a post, were I an author. As it is, however, I just do comments.
If you can, blood donation on a regular basis can help with hemachromatosis.
Yes, this is really the only way to keep it under control. I do iron labs every 3 months and donate whenever my ferritin reaches a certain level. But a few supplements can slow down how fast ferritin rises. Turmeric/curcumin is a big one.
Good to know. Thanks.
If you prefer to avoid medical facilities, you could take up the sport of Rugby.
No thanks!
I tried to find more info and saw that some people have high Ferritin levels and it’s due to inflammation, not excess iron. Therefore it’s important to sort that out with more tests. People that had covid sometimes have this issue. One source suggested that NAC might be of help if the cause is a fatty liver.
I found this at Mayo Clinic’s discussion site:
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/high-ferritin-levels/
Of course, those are just clues on the trail and not solid bits of advice.
High-dose vitamin C: a risk for persons with high iron stores?
One thing to note about vitamin C is the name “ascorbic acid” is not a “real” chemical name, but is “backed into” from its utility.
“Ascorbic” is a made-up word that says that it’s anti-scurvy.
Chemically, it’s a mild acid very similar to glucose (from which it is synthesized at scale).
It should be noted that the Chinese control about 70% of its industrial synthesis — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_C#Industrial_synthesis
Very interesting, but I’m not convinced that they’re actually observing vitamin C biosynthesis in humans (which is a MASSIVE buried lede here, IMO, if there is any truth to it). I followed the references back, and am not finding anything that convinces me this is proven. Prenatal and neonatal vitamin C levels are definitely interesting, but again – there are mechanistic ways to prove restored biosynthesis of vitamin C in humans, and I don’t see that anywhere.
Their argument that oral “megadosing” with vitamin C is not really anything approximating overdosing, and is in fact more like restoration of healthy mammalian levels, is very reasonable, and I’ve pretty much believed that since hearing Linus Pauling himself arguing the same point 50 years ago. But that said, I think that extreme caution about claims of having observed restored biosynthesis is hugely warranted.
What they could be observing is a change in retention / anti-excretion of ascorbate, resulting in increased levels. It’s very likely that polyphenols and other health-improving nutrients and quasi-nutrients operate through multiple mechanisms, essentially restoring multiple naturally evolved optima of various kinds.
My point overall, however, is that restored human biosynthesis of vitamin C is unlikely.
One final point – genetic tampering with humans could actually restore vitamin C biosynthesis, IMO. It’s low-hanging fruit in “transhumanism”. So the question is, should we do it?
All this Klaus Schwab / Noah Harari horror-show globalist transhumanism and their secret meddling by fait accompli progressivism has certainly made genetic change of humans seem horrible and wrong, but restoring vitamin C seems a lot less diabolical, other than my personal suspicion that evolution had some hidden good reason to get rid of it, and we would learn that reason as unintended consequences of restoration.
But is any “gene tampering” the work of the Devil? I can certainly see why many might think so, and that purism on the point seems like a very valid religious position (including no genetic vaccines).
So maybe restoring vitamin C biosynthesis by genetic means is a Cabal temptation. Or maybe it’s like a particular wood that starts fire easily when spun to friction – waiting there to lead humanity where it’s supposed to go. I’m not ready to take a position.
Wikipoo has a very informative article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_C
All plants synthesize their own vitamin C.
Half of rodents can — rats and mice can, capybaras and guinea pigs cannot.
Half of primates can — great apes and monkeys down to tarsiers cannot, lesser monkeys and primates (e.g. lemurs) can.
Teleost fishes (most bony fishes) cannot. Passerine birds (perching birds) cannot. Bats cannot.
Reptiles and older birds synthesize vitamin C in their kidneys; more recent birds and mammals synthesize vitamin C in their livers.
Humans have a vitamin C scavenger pathway that recycles some before excretion — if you starve humans and capybara of vitamin C, the capybara will develop scurvy more rapidly because they do not have such recycling mechanisms.
Ah, thank you! So the little experiment there was very likely observing some sort of polyphenol effect on that scavenger pathway, IMO.
They do a lot of discussion about what they think is going on, but it was just barely understandable for someone that’s not in those sciences all the time.
So what does Posobiec have to do with this? Isn’t he someone who is (or was) on our side?
That was 2017
AFAIK – Posobiec is still on our side.
Posobiec seems to be a deep state ‘Limited Hangout’ type. He was NEVER REMOVED from Twatter or YouBoobTube.
Also recently some dirt came out on Posobeic and was covered here. Unfortunately Google Advanced will not pull it up — SURPRISE! (not)
Granted to me he never rose above the “some guy on the internet that some QTreepers rely on anyway” level.
Report: Trump to begin mass firings of IRS staff as Valentine’s Day gift to America
https://notthebee.com/article/breaking-trump-orders-mass-firings-of-irs-agents-on-valentines-day
Zero out the IRS.
I could go on for hours. Used to be, there was a type of IRS guy that WASN’T Social Justice and WASN’T rah-rah pro-government that were freakin’ fanatics about GETTING IT RIGHT according to actual laws on the books. I could seriously respect these guys.
Just like the military “kill the enemy and break his shit” guys, these IRS guys got washed-out in the last couple of decades in favor of DEI pansy-boys wanting to score political points. And that’s where we are.
Knew some of the types you describe – same here. They were rooted out.
IRS as it stands needs to die the same deaths of the USAID, Depart of Indoctrinating Education, FEMA, etc.
The Department of External Revenue will more than sufficiently provide the revenue the retooled federal government needs to operate.
Taxpaying American citizens need a raise. It can come from paying no personal federal income taxes.
All expressions of 1913 and post WW II repression of American citizens needs to be permanently vanquished off the face of the earth. All Neocons and military industrialist regime participants need to be placed in leg irons. All those who lied and disseminated propaganda to the American public for the intent to undermine and defraud our nation should be rounded up and serve hard time.
I am in the process of sharpening my chiseling tools for the Mt. Rushmore addition.
“I am in the process of sharpening my chiseling tools for the Mt. Rushmore addition.”
I think al of us want the chance to swing the hammer onto that chisel.
Under normal circumstances there’s be dynamite involved in the process.
I think they could skip the dynamite and let people buy the opportunity to swing a sledge. The addition might even pay for itself!
Art of the Deal!
Did you know the one IRS guy who understood Subchapter S? I remember in the early 90s, my friend and recruiter suggested that was a good way to go. I had a question about it, called the IRS and the lady said there was only one guy who knew Subchapter S corps but he was out of the office. Sorry, I don’t remember what the question was anymore.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I’ve just fired thousands
Including you
Can someone…anyone…..Please, please, please ….
get POTUS….during a presser…. to tell the thousands of fired govt parasites not to worry, that they can take the jobs of all the illegals he is kicking out of the country?
I desperately need that soundbite/video.
Thanks.
With the caveat that the job of “deep undercover terrorist embed” should not be taken.
Seconded!!!
By the way as you get further down there’s a link to an article about Boom working on being able to fly Mach 1.1-1.3 without a sonic boom hitting the ground–which would open overland flights to supersonic speeds.
I would like to know what you think of that (when you get there).
A Boom with a view?
One can only hope that he is thoroughly protected.
https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2025/02/14/hell-freezes-over-or-a-cultural-takeover-vanity-fairs-shocking-profile-of-barron-trump-n4936984
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1890702979893801252
WOW. Nice description of how “urinalism” works.
I’m just dropping this here to help illustrate the wonders of British cuisine….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_soup
Num!
Something to help wash down your Brussels Sprouts….
Sticking with bacon cheeseburgers.
Bovril and Marmite’s dodgy ancestor… then there’s Toad-in-the-hole, Cockaleeky soup, bangers and beer (joyless tubes, full of gristle, accompanied by yellow water with gas in it
)…..
Ahh, the joys of English cooking… (having said that, my Mum was a great cook)…
(except the occasional boiled into submission brussels sprouts and spinach)…
LOL!!!
Today’s topic put me in mind of something,
If one took an electric motor with a big heavy flywheel on it, then put it on a weighing scale and weigh it with the motor switched off.
Then switch the motor on and get the flywheel spinning fast,
Would the scales show less weight when the motor was running fast.
If they did, the scales’ design would be faulty.
OK then without getting sidetracked into the various designs of scales, think of it as an imaginary experiment.
Did you have a toy gyroscope when you were a kid?
If you did, you might remember some of the quirky things about it — how if you nudged it, it would try to right itself beginning at a right-angle to the nudge. How you could balance it on the tip of a pencil. How it would hold a tilt. When all was said and done, however, it would weigh the same amount — even if it squirmed a bit while getting there.
If your scale registered a permanent difference, your scale is somehow screwed-up. As is usual, there are few ways of doing something right and an infinite number of ways to do it wrong.
You appear to be avoiding answering my question.
However.
Over a decade ago an old guy, think he was eastern european.
He’d rigged up a device which was basically a beam supported in the center by a bearing or pivot.
On one end of the beam was a weight and on the other end a short pendulum with a heavy bob weight.
It was arranged such that when the pendulum was hanging vertical the weight of the pendulum was slightly greater than the weight at the other end of the beam.
When he set the pendulum swinging the weight end of the beam would drop every time the pendulum rose above vertical either way.
He was playing off centrifugal force against gravity.
All he needed was feedback to keep the pendulum swinging.
I apologize for the weakness in my response. This may be a definitional thing, but the definition of what a scale is supposed to measure should not be changed by any such motions. By defnition, if it is, the scale is inaccurate.
No problem.
I found that old guys “invention” very interesting though, and spent a long time thinking about it.
Trying to figure out some (mechanical) way to provide feedback, to no avail.
As you’ll know if you’ve ever messed around with pendulum clocks, the amount of push to keep it swinging is incredibly small so long as it’s applied just at the right time.
Zelensky 
Zelensky: Russia Has to Go to at Least Pre-2022 Invasion Borders
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/02/14/zelensky-russia-has-to-go-to-at-least-pre-2022-invasion-borders/
Zelenskyy’s f-in’ delusional. He needs to get a visit from Nuland.
Will Nuland EVER accept reality? I think she’s as delusional as Z-bot.
Nuland will accept 500 pounds of JDAM reality at some point. She will enter the afterlife going, “What?”
So she’s useful sometimes?
It seems like all the Euro heads that have control of NATO were trying bully Vance and Rubio at that Munich Security Conference in favor of Zelensky . Not sure of the full read out, but it seems they may not have been all that successful
Rather sure Euro heads tried to bully JD and Rubio. Zero chance of success. JD, A Marine, knows how to follow orders.
Euro heads also tried to prop up spineless Zelensky, insisting Russia roll back to borders when the Special Military Operation was launched. Zero chance Russia will do so. Whatever Russia may return, will only be in Russia’s strategic interest.
“It seems like all the Euro heads
that have control of ARE CONTROLLED BY NATO were trying [to] bully Vance and Rubio at that Munich Security Conference in favor of Zelensky….”From KMAG 20250122 Open Thread & Operation Gladio
ALso see:
Spies, Spooks, Snakes and The Sea Eye Aye
BTW, Will Zoll of the Prussiagate series came to the exact same conclusion from a completely different path.
The idea that PRUSSIA is now an idea AND AN ARMY without a country. Is that not what NATO is?
The ReichsWEF is not a friend; it is the enemy of humanity.
We conclude with a message to every member of the Young Global Leaders Community and every member of the World Economic Forum:
You are all citizens of sovereign nations built on the premise of freedom, democracy and the rule of law. In this invisible war, the WEF has appointed you to be enemies of your own nations. As Tyranny begins to destroy itself by unleashing wave-upon-wave of crises, Freedom will most-certainly prevail. As members of Klaus’ army, it is important to understand you are involved in one of the highest crimes known to man:
https://prussiagate.substack.com/p/reichswef-part-vi
[QUOTE]
….During the Constitution Convention, the extent of Prussian influence was exposed. General von Steuben was working behind the scenes to have Frederick the Great’s brother, Prince Henry, installed as King of America…
From day one of its independence, America was under a silent and invisible siege by Prussian autocrats. The failed attempt to ordain Prince Henry the king of the United States was a victory, but it simply marked the beginning of centuries of Prussian infiltration and subversion:
.
.
.
Since 1776, there is almost no part of America which has not been influenced by Prussia. Indeed, the same can be said for the entire world.
Today, we are faced with a myriad of crises that always lead toward the same consensus amongst these self-appointed rulers: Humanity must be willing to sacrifice its freedoms to find safety. This is nothing more than a public declaration to shape the world into the same order that Frederick the Great imposed upon Prussia 250 years earlier. This tyrannical order embodies the opposite intent to the freedom envisioned by the US founding fathers and the Constitution….
[UNQUOTE]
CIA: Russia Has to Go to at least Pre-2022 Invasion Borders
Fixed.
That means the four oblasts annexed since the beginning of the war would be given back, but Russia could get to keep Crimea, which happened in 2014.
Hegseth said the pre-2014 border is unrealistic, so this is actually NOT inconsistent with what he said.
Zelen is wayyy out over his skyyyyys…..
More weird stuff on car theft —
They left
Little by little, putting things back together…..
My guess is that they were typical short-sighted, short attention span, “need of the moment” thieves, grabbing this or that for whatever they were doing, keeping things wherever they set them down (probably in other vehicles or abodes), and thus appearing to be inscrutable to those not having the whole movie of what they did.
Nothing professional about them. IMO. Incompetent opportunists.
Couldn’t recognize a manual shift, which they couldn’t safely drive. Which is part of why they ditched it within a few miles. Illegally parked, because of their inability to drive the car.
Took lots of random stuff. Mostly to be tossed within a day or so. Not even worth trying to sell at a flea market or garage sale. Not bad mouthing your stuff. Just no market or resale value.
Perhaps, initially thought they had a car, a chop shop may want. Only to find out they couldn’t even drive it properly.
Reflecting on Gudthots post earlier today. Wonder if these thieves reflected on their “prize”. A supposed opportunity, that they were too ignorant to operate.
Watch for the manual on eBay…. old car manuals can be hard to find…. good that you got your car back!
Likely druggies on a high, as happened to my grandson’s car and same weird things they took or left. Are you testing for presence of fentanyl, etc. ? It was present in tests if car interior, and required special cleaning.
sorry this happened to you, Coothie.
Indeed.
Military bases will search incoming vehicles at random and can even use drug or explosive dogs.
They offer a service for people (both civilian and military) to pre-screen their recently-purchased used cars to check whether the previous owners did something that would be a problem in a search.
That’s a good idea before buying a used car. I’ve thought about that being a risk – meth – in apts or any attached housing. It’s not just the slums where drugs are pervasive.
I think it’s only for those that work on base…and you have to have possession of the car, obviously.
I don’t know what happens if you show up with a “new” used car, go through the screening, and the dogs go nuts. How do you fix that, since you’re probably not allowed to set the car on fire in the parking lot?
Unless it’s an EV?
You’re still not allowed to.
It might just decide to go ahead and break the rules for you.
And end up with some hot dogs…
True.
Also applies to every government employee.
Heck I do all that for free, dang it
Well not the wheel chair or walker …
Mitch voting against the nominees while he lets Collins and Murkowski bizarrely vote for them – STRANGE.
Maybe he doesn’t control them any more.
Maquis
February 15, 2025 4:09 am
The model he is holding is the design Boom Supersonic hopes to have in production soon, the craft will be named Overture, the first supersonic airliner since the Concorde was retired, with technology that will allow her to fly overland with no sonic boom reaching ground level. They are still conducting proof of concept testing with their prototype, which is acing its goals.
Japan Airlines, United Airlines and American Airlines have already placed a combined total of 130 orders for the Overture once it’s ready to go. Boom has likewise already constructed the Overture Superfactory in Greensboro, North Carolina, where it expects to build as many as 66 aircraft per year.
btw some were freaking out over the little face in the mirror behind the President. could be the interviewer…???
I think the face may be Elon Musk talking to somebody else who’s not taking the picture (because I think I can see the back of that person’s head).
Oh, I see now. I thought it was the bust of Martian Luther King sitting on the table and people were accusing Trump of displaying racist trophies or some such. 
LOL!!!
So what is the deal here? I have not heard of this company. Did good people flee “Chinatized, Obamatized, woke, stupid, dying, DEI” Boeing, and start an actual good American aviation company?
Please keep all the rats out of this new operation! Spray the boardflies on the board with MAGA until they flee in horror!
sorry i don’t keep up on these things. perhaps someone knows here?
I will start looking for info!
One of my former neighbors who was working for Northrop Grumman at the time. is working on this project. She’s the only woman on the engineering team. She moved to Utah a few years back, then went to work for Boom in CA. The DW hears from her occasionally.
Yes
GREENSBORO NC!!!!!!
Yeah, there you go! Now you just need to get rid of the
ChineseDemocrat governor!From Steve…
Well, there is a lot to say, actually.
Boom Supersonic is an American compan that is developing a supersonic airliner called Overture. The company recently achieved a significant milestone with its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft, which completed its first supersonic flight in January 2025 and concluded its flight test program on February 10, 2025.
XB-1 Demonstrator
The XB-1, nicknamed “Baby Boom,” is a single-seat, three-engined supersonic demonstrator aircraft. It successfully broke the sound barrier, becoming the first privately developed dedicated supersonic piloted civil jet aircraft to do so (the Concord had substantial backing from both the UK and French govts). The XB-1’s flight test program consisted of 13 flights, with the final flight landing at Mojave Air and Space Port in California.
Overture Airliner
Boom’s main project is the Overture, a supersonic airliner designed to carry 64 to 80 passengers. Key features of the Overture include:
Cruise speed: Mach 1.7 (975 knots or 1,805 km/h)Range: 4,250 nautical miles (7,870 km)Four Symphony medium-bypass turbofan engines, each producing 35,000 lbf of thrustCarbon fiber composite construction for improved efficiencyAugmented reality vision system replacing the traditional moveable nose
Boom aims to make supersonic travel more accessible, with ticket prices comparable to current business class fares. The company has received 130 orders for the Overture from various airlines.
Development Timeline
March 2024: XB-1 demonstrator’s first flightJanuary 2025: XB-1’s first supersonic flight2025: Planned unveiling of the first Overture aircraft2026: Projected first flight of Overture2029: Target for type certification and entry into service
Boom Supersonic’s efforts represent a significant step towards reviving commercial supersonic air travel, with advancements in technology and design aimed at addressing the challenges that led to the retirement of the Concorde in 2003.
What’s your evaluation? Would you want to fly one?
A little outside of your expertise as the pilot: do you think it makes sense economically?
My evaluation of the jet is worthless at present, as it does not yet exist except on paper.
Want to fly it? Sure.
With the responsibility of passengers? That remains to be seen.
Does it make sense? Lots of questions there.
Cool, thanks!
EDIT: Actually, I could see some circumstances where it would make sense even now for you to call “Bullshit!” on the jet itself. You haven’t done so, which tells me that at least it seems plausible…so far.
Can I just say?
I am amused that the principals elected to call the company “Boom”, even as they claim to possess technology that prevents a supersonic aircraft from making a “boom that will reach the earth’s surface”.
That will be quite a trick.
Also…..building a jet is one thing.
Getting regulatory approval for it’s use as a passenger jet is a different topic entirely.
That part sounded like solid theory…as long as they don’t go too fast, and do fly high enough. Of course I have zero real understanding of that branch of physics, so they could just be bullshitting with confidence.
Even without that, though, they were claiming mach 0.94 over land which would still be a bit faster than “typical” airliners fly. 1.7 where no one cares (oceans). Still, if they can claim 50 percent faster instead of 20 percent, that’s got to help the business case. Because I don’t imagine tickets on this plane would be cheap; sizewise it’s like a small RJ (meaning all fixed costs including aircrew would be spread across fewer passengers) and the seating shown was distinctly not “cattle class.” (Though wait for the airlines to get a hold of it and turn the passenger area into a sardine can.)
IIRC Concorde was not profitable at 92 to 128 passengers; how is this one going to be anything but a similar turkey?
Maybe if it is significantly cheaper (after adjusting for inflation).
Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
$1.9 billion of HUD money was just recovered after being misplaced during the Biden administration due to a broken process. These funds were earmarked for the administration of financial services, but were no longer needed.
@SecretaryTurner
and
@DOGE
worked together to fix the issue and de-obligated the funds which are now available for other use by the Treasury.
@HUDgov
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‘Keep them coming DOGE, good job!
MOAR! MOAR!!
Critical Think is awesome! I enjoyed watching him do his weight experiment in the videos. Real science! Bravo!
Fkatzoid’s inability to see both sides of things is, sadly, a problem EVERYWHERE in science. All sides of the vaccine debate are filled with Fkatzoids, from “no virus”, nanomachines, and similar absolutism on one end, to the useful idiots of the Fauci Mafia, for whom vaccines can do no wrong, and even if they do, “math, so just take your vaccine and if you die, tough.” They’re all assholes, at all points along the [wrong and mythical, but it will never go away] Dunning-Kruger curve.
Your (Steve’s) description of some of the flat earth pushers as knowing grifters, who know it’s a lie, surely applies to some of the Faucists who know damn well that (1) vaccines are responsible for much human damage, especially neurological, and (2) the COVID vaccines had massive side effects that science absolutely failed to admit, in historically scandalous ways.
My admiration for Jeran is significant, and I hope that this Witsit character can break through like Jeran, although that sounds unlikely.
Flat Earth is a very useful demonstration – a model of scientific problems for all of science. Everybody needs to take a whipping from it.
Wolf Moon
You bet Fauci, Collins, Birx, KNEW that the COVID-19 “vaccines” had / have, the ingredients and the capability to damage and/or destroy neurological processes (and this INCLUDES in the amygdala [emotional center] and the in hippocampus [memory and learning]), thinking and decision-making capability, as well as Central Nervous System functions.
Seems the FDA is trying to slowly break the ice that the mRNA Covid 19 vaccine causes cancer. That’s what right wingers have been reporting that the FDA is finally admitting it with this study below however fact checkers are out in force saying the FDA has made no such admission even though that is what the study concludes and the study was conducted in a FDA lab and sanctioned by the FDA. Alas still no formal announcement by the FDA but you can see it coming.
FDA-Led Peer-Reviewed Study by High School Students Uncovers Alarming DNA Contamination in Pfizer’s mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine at FDA’s Own Lab
Of course this could change quickly with new management.
YUP!!!
Here is the website with the “Myths and Facts” LIES LIST about the COVID-19 “vaccines”, from 30 August 2024 (hasn’t been updated or removed yet — paging RFK, Jr.):
https://www.cdc.gov/covid/vaccines/myths-facts.html
Here is the FDA’s current MEDICAL WORD SALAD website about “safety surveillance” of the COVID-19 “vaccines” as 10 January 2025 (paging RFK, Jr.):
https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/safety-availability-biologics/covid-19-vaccine-safety-surveillance
The FDA WILL DRAG ITS FEET regarding any release or official acknowledgement of the paper that the high school students prepared and wrote (AND which paper was peer-reviewed prior to being published), showing that there ARE “loose” DNA fragments AND pieces of the SV40 African Green Monkey cancer promoter genome in the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines.”
Thank you Pavaca I saved this.
Archived version of your first link:
https://archive.fo/wGu2L
Saved, thank you para
A lot of people on both sides of the Youtube culture know each other pretty well just from having watched them.
Witsit has been described as a narcissist. If true, in his mind he can’t be wrong. Period, end of sentence. (He also has been arrested for assault on his wife, however knowing the current environment I don’t know how much credence to lend that.)
Post-Flerfer Jeran has a “Friday Unplugged” livestream and the initials are no accident; he’s giving a middle finger to a lot of people right now. I’ve gone and watched it after the fact for a few weeks now. He spends a lot of time talking to Flerfs who might be watching. He found a very good site that shows the Earth-Sun geometry and includes a sunrise/sunset predictor; you can position a notional observer anywhere on the Earth and it will show a band the sun will always appear in from that POV (the band is everything between the two tropics as projected onto the celestial sphere). He plays with that a LOT on the livestream, as he makes the point that ONLY the rotating spherical earth can explain the sun’s apparent motion as seen in different places on Earth. He also dumps on those awaiting a new flat earth map; the Gleason map, he maintains. is the only possible one that can even half-assedly work–just so long as you don’t go too far south or try to do actual calculations with it.
Jeran has actually come up with an “earth is actually curved” demo that I hadn’t seen before. He films space X launches nearby and remotely–like a hundred miles away remotely–at night and then after syncing the two videos notes that the remote one doesn’t show the rocket until a minute after launch (when it rises above the horizon). He then continues to show the videos for however much time they ran before the appearance of the rocket over the horizon, again. (So if it took 1:04, he runs the video to 2:08 at least.)
At this point he makes a mistake, but not one that invalidates his point. He asserts that the rocket has risen as much in the first 1:04 as it did during the second 1:04. This is not true; it’s accelerating. If it accelerates at a constant rate it should rise 1/3 as much in the first interval as it does in the second. However, it’s likely to be accelerating faster the longer it burns (same thrust, F, decreasing mass m, so a goes up). Nevertheless any time at all spent below the horizon shows curvature.
He also likes to use a “Home Depot” analogy. You build a Home Depot store, it’s flat inside, even though we’re on a sphere. He’s basically saying that if you make the sphere big enough (and 8000 miles in diameter is big enough), it’s a flat surface…which is slightly different from the truth (it’s close to flat, so close you’d have a hard time measuring the curvature over such a short distance).
His understanding could use some refinement…but at least he’s on the right path, and I suspect he WILL refine it as he learns.
Good stuff! Thanks for that!
Beyond Pravda News and District of Criminals, No One Would Notice if WH presstitutes boycotted WH pressers.
CNN: Media Elites Weigh Boycott of White House to Support AP’s Feud over ‘Gulf of America’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/14/cnn-media-elites-weigh-boycott-of-white-house-to-support-aps-feud-over-gulf-of-america/
there’s really no need for them to be at the Press meetings–they make up their news anyway.
From their POV there is every reason to be there.
So they can make it up with authority.
if you can’t wow them with facts, dazzle them with bullshit?
“I’m a respected journalist. I’m even in the White House Press Corps. I saw the President (or Press Secretary) say this…”
Knowing America First MAGA would be pleased by their departure, they will still be there. They know average Joe could not give a rats azz about their grandstanding.
All the more seats for America First Journalists.
Vacate them at your PERIL jack asses, YOU WILL NOT GET THEM BACK!
LOL
Ooooooooooo. A threat?!
Do it!!! Pretty please!!
See what happens.
They show up and lie anyway.
What are they going to do if they’re boycotting? Double lie?
Army repurposed over $151 million from soldier paychecks for food to spend elsewhere: Report
It is not clear from the data where the money is actually being spent, but 2024 financial records from Fort Stewart, Georgia, showed that just $2.1 million of the $17 million collected for food, actually went to food.
The United States Army allegedly repurposed more than $151 million that it took from soldiers’ paychecks for food, and spent it on other costs instead, according to a Military.com report.
The Army typically takes $460 per month from junior enlisted soldiers who live in barracks on base, which is supposed to go toward food. But data reviewed by the outlet show that for the Army’s 2024 fiscal year, over $151 million of the $225 million that was collected by 11 of the Army’s largest bases for food, went into the Army’s general fund.
The data examined is from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024, according to the outlet.
It is not clear from the data where the money is actually being spent, but the 2024 financial records from 11 of the Army’s largest bases showed that just $2.1 million of the $17 million collected at Fort Stewart, Georgia, went to food.
Hawaii’s Schofield Barracks allegedly collected $14.5 million for food, but used only $5.3 million. This means that 63% of the funds were donated to the general fund instead, Military.com reported.
The review found that all but two of the 11 bases left more than half of the money for food unspent in 2024, with Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska and Fort Bliss, Texas, leaving 41% and 49% respectively.
Army spokesperson Maj. Andrea Kelly told Military.com in a statement that they only use funds “needed to feed the projected number of meals based on previous head counts,” meaning they base how much they purchase on past attendance at the dining facilities.
Other service officials have addressed this in the past, saying the amount of food purchased has gone down because of a perception of reduced interest by the service members.
But according to the outlet, service members have frequently described “undercooked meat, unseasoned meals, a lack of fresh ingredients, and unhealthy menu options,” as the reason fewer soldiers are using the facilities.
Hawaii Democratic Rep. Jill Tokuda called for an immediate investigation.
“Stealing food money from our soldiers is not how we achieve military readiness,” Tokuda told Military.com. “The fact that at least $151 million was collected from soldiers and not spent on food as required demands not just an immediate investigation, but swift accountability.”
https://justthenews.com/government/security/army-repurposes-over-151-million-soldier-paychecks-food-spend-elsewhere-report
That woman!
You’re a gentleman Wolf,
she’s a “thang” shudder 
I want a refund on my money this creature took …
I’m not at a loss for word about this nasty putz, I just can’t say them here. I’ll go over to a corner and mutter, spit and sputter for a spell.
AAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGUUUUUUUUUEEEEEEEEE
looked into her bio…
she graduated law school and worked as a public defender before opening her own law firm in 2019 “which became notable for taking pro bono cases for Black Lives Matter activists. Among her legal career highlights was her commitment to defending the most vulnerable and ensuring everyone had access to fair representation.”
she’s only been in congress since 2023.
I imagine she got plenty of $$ from blm
‘pro bono’ now means $$$$ ?
no…i think pro bono means she got no $$ from the clients but she probably got paid well by blm using “grant money”. you know the scam…under the table…thru convoluted means… but that’s just my opinion.
how else does a person go from taking nothing from clients, joining congress 4 years later and having multi million dollar properties?
Yep. Pro-bonehead(s) paying her every step of the way…..
You got it! Likely enriched by federal money. Same with all these “players for the narrative” who get rich on mystery money, having salaries that don’t explain things.
Imagine the corporate money sent to BLM, that Crockett mooched.
USAID grants…
EXACTLY. I’ll bet that USAID grants shipped money to lefty pols through NGOs.
So who paid for those pro bono cases?
Winston
February 15, 2025 7:50 am
Cash For Migrants: FEMA Isn’t The Only Agency Spending Big
Feb 14, 2025
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cash-migrants-fema-isnt-only-agency-spending-big
Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), housed inside the Department of Health and Human Services subagency called the Administration for Children and Families.
ORR has spent over $22.6 BILLION since 2020 on grants to nonprofits providing everything from help accessing Medicaid to help building credit, help with home and auto loans, and cash assistance.
It’s beyond infuriating. Americans have been struggling for years with no assistance, no programs. Americans are facing obstacle after obstacle to maintain their homes and lives. Won’t even mention the ones dealing with disasters.
RFK Jr can work on making this go away.
Likely quicker if DOGE engages, with Trump emphasis.
ILLEGAL ALIENS!!!!!
NOT “Migrants”…
“Repeat a lie often enough, and people regard it as truth” (Goebbels, et. al.). These folks are illegal aliens until and unless they follow the laws guiding and controlling LEGAL IMMIGRATION…
The name of the game was to FLOOD the borders since each person has to be looked at individually. Flood the USA with 10 million asylum seekers and the courts are overwhelmed.
That is the GOAL of those prepping the Illegals like AOC so they have the correct legalize to help jam up the system.
The First Safe Country Principle in Law and Practice
It is from 2011 and talking about South Africa.
March 2018 Harvard (Commie central) Law Review
American Courts and the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees: A Need for Harmony in the Face of a Refugee Crisis
A Complete Guide to U.S. Refugee Jurisprudence, Asylum Law and PolicyThis is a good reference.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Same thing with the Dublin Regulation(s) over here, i.e. first safe country. Regularly abused… We have Coudenhove-Kalergi, the USA has Cloward-Piven, both evil sides of the same Satanic globalist coin…..
https://twitter.com/i/status/1890445018814427272
Yeah I like it.
… opps just heard the bad word stuff … 
still like it.
Yeah I found that delightful…though I am not typically into that kind of heavy metal. (I enjoy the heavy metals that have squares on the periodic table.)
It has a sort of Mercurial flow to it….
The best part about this song is that we’re only just getting started.
I have a clip I almost put into the opener.
The problem is it comes from a TV series that people should probably not show to their children under 30. (The clip itself is fine.)
Even my wife likes it!
Not a real fan of metal, particularly anything leaning “diablo”, but I think this stays out of that territory. If one is OK with the term “FAFO”, then this is fine.
Louisiana
while in Ohio…
cucumber
February 15, 2025 9:18 am
Attention Sundance…. Look at this absolutely insane law Dems are trying to pass in Ohio .
So glad they are not in power. Figure you may want to make fodder of it on your X space ..
Part of article:
A newly proposed Ohio bill, the “Conception Begins at Erection” Act, would make engaging in unprotected sex without the intent to procreate a fineable offense of up to $10,000.
Wow just wow
Link
https://www.metroweekly.com/2025/02/ohio-men-could-face-10k-fine-for-ejaculating-irresponsibly/
Bunch of stand up guys, there in Ohio.
Ohio Dems are just horrible in every possible way.
I can see the donations to Dems from gay groups must be faltering. I guess that when you can’t con them you have to tax them.
Agreed.
So do we count them anyway for a headcount, and produce two totals (total number of US Nationals, and total number of humans)? I’d think the government would have reason to want to know both numbers.
If nothing else, help ICE focus on select area to round up illegals.
^^^ Likely the unspoken part.
Here’s the thing, though. If counting humans is the job, then the Census Bureau has to credibly promise not to turn illegals in. (This is in addition to keeping the data secret for decades.)
It’s sort of like how the IRS wants you to pay taxes even on money you stole or otherwise did something illegal to obtain. In order to accomplish that they have to promise not to rat you out; if you’re open with them and pay tax on the money, they don’t care. And the law at least used to be that way; IRS records were sacrosanct.
so when the Census people count people in DC–do they count the diplomats who might be there on Census day? do they count people in shelters who may be there for a night then move on to another town or state? migrants are migrants they move from place to place–what prevents them from being counted numerous times?
I would guess normally they don’t do a census count in a hotel/motel, but in NY there’s a lot of illegals LIVING in those places–do they count them then?
seriously seeking answers.
They count those in shelters, yes
This is a problem.
seems rather reminiscent of slave schedules…hmmm
If you have not signed up yet for the White House newsletter, do so. The first was released this morning.
Link?
My quick search gave me a hussein something and other stuff. No weekly newsletter seen. Yea, I am this slow.
Thanks.
BTW, do you have an article coming out tomorrow? Or maybe next week? Wondering. No being pushy.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/
Thanks. Saw that. Lots of great information.
Guess I am not seeing what is clearly there – sign up for weekly newsletter.
Dang, I am so slow.
Ohhhhhhh
… very nice 
thank you bakocarl 
OMGosh… I just keep replaying and laughing at this little video clip. “Do you remember the real Ken?”
https://x.com/KathleenWinche3/status/1890764451344736457
LOL
… another icon bites the dust … dang. 
I love how he says Kenesha has a swoop… hahahaha
SteveInCO
Wow, gold and silver are doing well!
On the other hand, Yours Truly is waiting for the price of a dozen eggs to come down from the current $7.25 around here.
So, Jeran is now a Glober. Good for him.
“One had an epiphany, the other is burrowing deeper into the bullshit that the sights ought to have blasted away.”
In a sense, that kind of sounds like the CDC / FDA / AMA “burrowing deeper into the bullshit” about the “safety and efficacy” of the COVID-19 “vaccines” (bioweapon toxin injections.)
The image of the balance scale and the set of calibrated weights (with the box) reminded me of the versions of these my late father had (and used) in his pharmacy, decades ago. I still have the box and the weights. ADDED note: However, the smallest weight is missing.
Sharing this scripture posted over there
… with hymn added, God bless you all have an awesome day.
Psalm 94
18
When I said, “My foot is slipping,”
your unfailing love, Lord, supported me.
19
When anxiety was great within me,
your consolation brought me joy.
20
Can a corrupt throne be allied with you—
a throne that brings on misery by its decrees?
21
The wicked band together against the righteous
and condemn the innocent to death.
22
But the Lord has become my fortress,
and my God the rock in whom I take refuge.
23
He will repay them for their sins
and destroy them for their wickedness;
the Lord our God will destroy them.
A Mighty fortress Is Our God- Haven of Rest Quartet (Acapella)
NTSB’s preliminary investigation is over concerning the mid air collision of the Black Hawk and the CRJ. Still unanswered questions. One of the major things they will be working on the near future is recreating what the Black Hawk could see. NTSB said it would be a few months before they could release such a recreation.
Also there was no playing of what they had from the voice recorder during the briefing although they briefed some new things said and not said that came from the voice recorder that sounded minor but oddly no one asked if they could play it.
Video of the briefing is in the story.
https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2025/02/14/ntsb-preliminary-findings-n2185599
Trying to get a flavor of what happened at the Munich Peace Conference with this post. The last part pretty much indicates the war will continue until Putin is knocking on the doors of Kiev at least.
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1890622062286209118
squisher must be out getting his coffee. 
Reuters is rotten and far, far left…
EU, NATO, UK, Germany will get onboard with ending the war.
Perhaps kicking and screaming as our childish libtards and Deep State do.
But they will get onboard AND the Ukraine war will end.
I couldn’t give a rats ass how EU, NATO, UK or Germany feel.
Until they get their heads out of their asses, I view them as lost, AND no loss to me.
They do NOT support democracy. Nor free speech AND seemingly Only Want War.
It doesn’t matter what the EU says or does.
The war is a proxy war between the CIA and Russia. It will end because Trump will end it.
Period.
Of course they want war. War is BIG BUSINESS and makes lots of money for the elite at the expense of the serfs.
Full transcript here:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/02/14/vice-president-vance-scheduled-to-meet-president-zelenskyy-in-munich-tonight-as-jd-vance-stuns-the-eu-with-confrontation-of-their-hypocrisy/#more-269209
Reuters: European court rejects Romanian far-right presidential candidate’s election appeal
“The ECHR ruled that his appeal fell outside its remit.”
Eurospeak for no standing…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/shocking-scandal-151-million-intended-soldiers-meals-11/
Is this something that has been a very long term oroblem? Hiw the hell can soldiers be not getting enough food or decent food? Its one of the few things they can enjoy on a daily basis. This is disgusting.
A bombshell report has exposed that more than $151 million meant to feed soldiers at 11 of the Army’s largest bases was repurposed for undisclosed uses.
This revelation, first reported by Steve Beynon of Military.com, comes as junior enlisted soldiers struggle to access nutritious food on base, with some being forced to survive on substandard meals.
The funds in question are deducted directly from service members’ Basic Allowance for Subsistence (BAS), a monthly $460 allotment meant to cover food costs for soldiers living in barracks.
For junior enlisted personnel earning approximately $30,000 annually, this deduction represents a significant financial burden. Yet, instead of using these funds to provide adequate meals, the Army appears to be diverting them elsewhere.
Incredibly, out of $225 million collected across just 11 bases, a staggering $151 million was not used for food expenses. With the Army operating a total of 104 garrisons, the true amount of unspent funds could be far higher.
The Army refuses to disclose what the extra funds are being used for. Major expenses like dining hall infrastructure and food service worker salaries are covered under separate budgets, and despite repeated inquiries from Military.com, officials have declined to provide any transparency.
At Fort Stewart, Georgia, for example, soldiers contributed $17 million, but the base spent just $2.1 million — redirecting 87% of the funds. Schofield Barracks in Hawaii collected $14.5 million but used only $5.3 million, meaning 63% of the money was used elsewhere.
All but two bases left more than half of the money for food unspent. Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska and Fort Bliss, Texas, left 41% and 49% of funds on the table, respectively.
It’s unclear what specifically the additional funds taken from soldiers are being spent on, but they do not appear to be going toward feeding soldiers.
[…]
How to feed the force is an equation service planners continue to grapple with. In 2023, Military.com reported that Fort Cavazos, Texas — the Army’s most extensive base — was barely able to keep its food services running for much of that summer, with only two of its 10 dining facilities open, leaving soldiers struggling to find meals.
In November last year, the publication reported pervasive food shortages at Fort Carson, Colorado. Soldiers were fed meals that were just a slice of toast and lima beans, troops told Military.com.
What the fuck? What the fucking fuck?!?!
I am sure if Hegseth hears about this (and he will) heads will roll, especially if they continue to stonewall about where the money is going.
I hope he does and quickly. Thats well over 55% of the money going somewhere else.
Who ever is behind it needs a 12 bore up the rear!
THIS makes me more mad than ANYTHING I have heard yet from DOGE.
THIS IS FUCKING COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have had just about enough of hearing how our military is mistreated. This must be addressed IMMEDIATELY. Tomorrow is Monday, and I am going to start making phone calls.
What the hell has happened to our country?
Tomorrow is Monday, Presidents Day…..nobody is going to answer your calls.
Tomorrow is Sunday.
Always ready with the truth!
I’ll call until somebody does!
And who the f do they think they are when confronted to ignore it. This is super widespread so it a feature not a bug in their administration.
Exactly. They just clam up and expect it to go away. I don’t think the new SecDef will allow that this time.
Apparently despite what you’ve been told or think people from India can not dance.
https://twitter.com/iamshalabhkumar/status/1857848185898533281
Well, that’s how I dance …
bwahahaha .. yeah I’m no Ginger Roger’s and Fred Astaire would avoid me like the plague lol 
. I can’t even polka and I grew up in a German/Polish neighborhood (great pastries though, yum
)
Pierogis!
I just made perogies yesterday–about8 dozen.
Thats a lot if work!
And you mailed me exactly none of them!
LOL
USPS?!?
THAT is funny.
Yeah, the pierogis would take the scenic route that way.
Though what they’d see of Portland OR from the inside of a mail truck is hardly scenic.
I’m amused you seem to think you would actually receive them at some point.
If registered, then more than likely. (Registered is serious shit: It literally has to be signed for every step of the way and kept in locked cabinets. Coin dealers send valuable coins that way. Even classified documents go that way sometimes.)
Though they won’t be edible by then.
I wouldn’t trust express mail or whatever it is, especially the three day version. I’ve had stuff vanish into oblivion that way.
Gotcha.
Whenever I need to send something I just give it to one of my Fed Ex peeps.
I never got my soccer ball, tho. That one time….
I could tell you a story about Fed Ex losing a rare coin (not mine fortunately) and refusing to stand by it. Fortunately it was insured.
The guy (a dealer who does a lot of business by mail) switched TO Fed Ex during the height of Covidschina because he was finding slow USPS delivery to be annoying, customers pinging him about both coins they sent to him for consignment, and vice versa. Three weeks later, he switched back–Fed Ex had thrown the package onto the wrong porch, not collected the signature as required, and the guy who got the coin made it disappear (he kept it but disavowed any knowledge of it).
Wilson is bobbing in the ocean
LOL
‘WILSON
Everyone dinner at Pat’s house tonight!!! WHOO-HOO YUM
♥️
Yum
Nothing like a Polkaface when you’re dancing
(oops, this might be a bit weirder than I’m used to for Al… songs are newer than 30 years old so that could be part of it :eek:)
Polka polka polka yayyyyy!
My mom always told me it’s good to want, not to get. Her way of saying I wasn’t going to get it.
Zelensky repeating his want.
Zelensky Makes Desperate Plea for United European Army to Take on Russia in Ukraine Now that US Backed Out (Video)Jim Hoft Feb. 15, 2025 9:45 am 39 Comments
He’s an unrepentant narcissist putz, unrepentant with a napoleon complex. Sheesh
then sit down and shut up.
At some point maybe he’ll buy lifts for his combat bunny boots,
I can dream can’t I?
…
…
I love the purity of her tone and articulation, and that she was pitch-perfect.
Yes send the European Army into the meat grinder and Europe will collapse. Zelinsky is sniffing to much coke.
Double Header! Jesse Waters and Jack the Tap Dancer. Subject After 4yrs. the Durham Report has dropped.
https://twitter.com/iontecs_pemf/status/1890784470317273260
Don’t listen to the whole thing … I didn’t so I don’t know if there’s bad stuff in there. Heh heh
Great. 
Does this mean they’ll unseal secret indictments? Arrests? Prosecutions?
Durham noted that there would be no charges brought.
Nevermind the whole of it was insurrection and treason.
Yea.
Forgot to insert my, /s.
That aside, I do believe Trump, Bondi and Kash will indict and prosecute.
No idea where statute of limitations may stymie justice.
I would be willing to pay in contribution towards such a prosecution.
Where do I send the wire transfer?
Durham noted that HE would bring no charges…
Ahh. So what you’re saying is….
.
…
… great movie 
Four years?
We’ve been waiting for this for EIGHT YEARS.
Q: Are the white hats building an absolutely air-tight case that will result in executions?
Hmmmm.
Who knows?
I was just saying it took longer than para59 said, for whatever reason.
I do remember people breathlessly awaiting “the memo” and this report and some other report I forgot the name of and…nothing. Meaning, in fact, nothing immediate.
In THIS environment if something COULD be done, it probably WILL be done. Maybe all they were doing was waiting for a Justice Department worth the electricity it takes to light up the words “Justice Department” on a computer screen showing this comment.
Swore off hopia early 21. Shortly after Maggot was installed.
I will say, it really is now or never for prosecutions.
Relatively soon, weeks ort perhaps a couple months, we’ll know if Bondi and Kash will move on the Stoeln Election, Coup/J6 Fedsurrection, Covidiocy…
Hopeful. Quite positive. But hopia, Tik Tok…Not going there again.
I’m with you. It’s just not worth the ongoing roller-coaster. If it happens, it happens.
EACH DAY WE TAKE UP THE OFFENSIVE WEAPON OF THE WORD OF GOD – THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT – ONE VERSE OPENS THE DOOR TO THE CONTEXT OF THE CHAPTER MESSAGE
Verse of the Day for Saturday, February 15, 2025
✟
“Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.”
Proverbs 3:13 (KJV)
Commentary for Proverbs 3
13-20 No precious jewels or earthly treasures are worthy to be compared with true wisdom, whether the concerns of time or eternity be considered. We must make wisdom our business; we must venture all in it, and be willing to part with all for it. This Wisdom is the Lord Jesus Christ and his salvation, sought and obtained by faith and prayer. Were it not for unbelief, remaining sinfulness, and carelessness, we should find all our ways pleasantness, and our paths peace, for his are so; but we too often step aside from them, to our own hurt and grief. Christ is that Wisdom, by whom the worlds were made, and still are in being; happy are those to whom he is made of God wisdom. He has wherewithal to make good all his promises.
Commentary by Matthew Henry, 1710.
________________________
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!
WE ARE FIGHTING A SPIRITUAL WAR OF GOOD VERSUS EVIL
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.
PLEASE PRAY FOR ABUSED, MISSING, AND TRAFFICKED CHILDREN
BE MY VOICE
JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
CHILD NOT CHOICE
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Amen.
AMEN!
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
MAPA = MAKE AMERICA PRAY AGAIN
LEAN NOT ON YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING
So many times we think we know better
But in our minds we see not the fetter
Trapped in a world of utter madness
We see no way out only sadness
We think we are smart can figure it out
Without God’s help we really have no clout
For it is in His Word where answers lie
Simply the what and when and how and why
His ways are not our ways nor His thoughts
Without discernment we remain tied in knots
The answer to what is plaguing us
Is found in His Word and rightly thus
We think we can flourish all on our own
Taught this from childhood until we are grown
We wonder why we continue to fail
Our sacred source sadly of no avail
We lean on our own understanding
Knowledge is rarely ever expanding
We have no clue how to reach higher
Wisdom eludes we’re left in the mire
We must trust in God with all our hearts
From whom knowledge initially imparts
From knowledge comes the understanding
And wisdom erupts ever commanding
What is it that brings us life and success
With what ability does God rightly bless
The conviction of Faith in things unseen
The assurance of things hoped and have been
So if our leaning is all on our own
We miss out on what Faith has truly shown
We miss God’s vast unconditional love
His Fatherly assistance from above
D01: 02/22/2023
Thank You Duchess! 
https://www.theqtree.com/2019/05/23/the-poetry-tree/#comment-1379557
Amen! Thank you! Just what I have been trying to say this morning! 
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
Sleep Well with Psalms. Psalm 91, Psalm 121, Psalm 3, Psalm 4, Psalm 139.
#faith #god #psalms
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Man in yearslong battle to retrieve lost Bitcoin hard drive worth around $800 million offers to buy landfill
James Howells has been in a decades-long battle with local officials to gain access to the landfill to look for the lost Bitcoin hard drive
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/man-yearslong-battle-retrieve-lost-bitcoin-hard-drive-worth-800-million-offers-buy-landfill
Been following this for years. It is driving this man insane.
There’s some other poor sod who still has his hard drive…but can’t remember the decryption key (password). And apparently it’s one that is designed to wipe after a few unsuccessful attempts.
Let. It. Go.
”For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, but lose his soul (or mind) in the process?”
They can be mollified by the fact that no one else will get the $$ either.
Clone the drive and then run your decrypt efforts on the cloned drive.
Could be that the drive’s hardware encryption has the key/destruct code in the “non-public” area of the drive… as defined by the ATA standards, etc.
That ratchets up the cost/complexity of drive duplication/recovery immensely… though there are some, no doubt, who would pay it…
Also he should be looking for the cost of the bitcoin/etc. at the time he bought it, not the current value. As far as I know, there isn’t an insurance company on earth that would pay replacement cost in that case (if at all, considering the scandals, etc. associated with bitcoin in the early years)… Silk Road says howdy, as it were…..
Disk recovery is pretty good these days — they actually got data off of a drive that was in a Shuttle crash.
Its sad. I dont think he can recover it though.
Kyle Cheney
@kyledcheney
WOW: Judge Reyes just absolutely tore into the lawyers for the fired IGs, saying they waited 21 days to file suit and then demanded emergency same-day relief. She forced them to withdraw their TRO motion and threatened them with sanctions.
LOGIC! I love it!
A real judge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://joannenova.com.au/2025/02/revenge-of-the-geniuses/
From that link. Elon Musk as Sherlock Holmes. Tucker Carlson as Watson.
Very nicely done.
Thank AI, your soon-to-be master.
Master of disaster…
Why is Tucker a part of this?
Big Balls should be Dr. Watson.
BB has no recognizable face; Tucker does.
I tried to watch it, but watching AI-generated film makes me literally nauseous. It hurts my brain. Same with video games.
The first time I saw a movie with a lot of CGI, the same thing happened. I was at “Toy Story” with my kids, and I kid you not, I had to watch the floor for most of the film! I was sick the rest of the day.
I can’t drink absinthe, either. It makes my vision weird, and freaks me out.
Have to watch out for Screwtape and Wormwood then
(don’t like AI photos either… the Holmes thing seems clever, but still… I’ll take CGI over AI any day)…
I think it’s because it requires you to release what you know is true and join with the fantasy. You have a visceral response because you WILL NOT leave what you know is true.
But that’s what non-AI asks of you as well. Any fictional movie or story requires the suspension of disbelief. Of course, if it’s TOO ridiculous it won’t succeed and you’ll walk away saying it was a crappy movie. But you can get away with a LOT if everyone understands it’s satire.
I tried taking a guess as to what was happening with Aubergine, but fortunately I realized it made no sense before I hit “Post Comment” and made a fool of myself.
What AI is doing now is allowing basically anyone to make a very high quality animation (not quite realistic) and put it in a youtube video; if I were a professional animator working for a studio I’d be VERY worried about my future right now.
I am suspecting that the AI generated stuff comes with some sort of “essence” that is discernible by people that are sensitive to it.
Or just the slightly fake look.
That is surely a part of it.
I am also a visual creative. I paint, draw, and make visual art. The way I see things is different anyway. Interference with my vision is uncomfortable.
Yep… it’s the seven fingers on a hand that gets me 
Shades of “The Five Thousand Fingers Of Dr. T” 
Creepy…
That was fun.
Another similar thing, the Mermaid with Kamaltoe as the evil woman.
Aubergine, don’t watch.
WGTT warning.
Also from that link.
But seriously, Musk explains in one minute how to get on top of the mountain of debt.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1890291174508056688
This is a Musk classic (care of Jo)
Also care of Jo.
American Stories – Part 7 will be out a couple hours after Carl’s tonight. I plan to take a week off to catch up on some home and family things before rolling out Part 8. Thanks to all who have been reading and posting.
Thank you! This series has really boosted my “patriotic strength” – in part by simply knowing what these people did – but also emotionally, by feeling connected to these folks. It has increased my resolve not to quit fighting every day for MAGA!
Same here. Some of the same battles were fought then as now.
TradeBait2
Thank you, looking forward to it!
Hoping that all is well with you and yours.
Thank you, friend. Back at you!
ThankQ!
HEYDONMUSICPAGE “Latest Videos & Breaking News” 2.15.25
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I wish it was easy to post an X, but this has an impressive listing of DOGE finds.
https://x.com/CaptJohnRambo/status/1890313756875583768
I remember when the govt spending just $1B was a BIG DEAL.
And that was only about 30 years ago.
I think it was Dirksen who said, “A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you’re talking about real money.”
(Nope: Per wikipedia, it’s often attributed to him, but there’s no evidence he actually said it. He can be found saying “a billion here, a billion there.” One time he was asked about it, and said “Oh, I never said that. A newspaper fella misquoted me once, and I thought it sounded so good that I never bothered to deny it.”)
That is such a sleazy politician’s trick.
Groucho said something similar in one of their movies.
copy paste from
https://x.com/CaptJohnRambo/status/1890313756875583768
CLAW EVERY STINKING PENNY BACK!!
And, for those monies that cannot be retrieved, pro-rate them against ALL govt salaries and budgets until every dime is paid back.
And do I need to say…?
All US NGOs should be OUTLAWED. Period. Full stop. NO EXCEPTIONS.
CLAW EVERY STINKING PENNY BACK!!
And, for those monies that cannot be retrieved, pro-rate them against ALL govt salaries and budgets until every dime is paid back.
And do I need to say…?
All US NGOs should be OUTLAWED. Period. Full stop. NO EXCEPTIONS.
Again, NO EXCEPTIONS.
A THOUSAND POINTS OF FAILURE
The listed celebrities are denying receiving payments to travel to Ukraine or even making the trip. When I first saw that Ukraine list, it was not in anything DOGE-related which made me smell a rat.
Also, no publicity pics on the ‘net with Z-man. The list is a temptation trick IMO.
I remember seeing some of them with Z.
Ben Stiller made the trip:
https://twitter.com/benstiller/status/1538996580849786881
So did Jolie and Penn.
In this article, they say they were there for other reasons than for the government and weren’t paid by USAID, but who knows what tentacles USAID had in variously-named organizations that could have paid them? I’d like to see investigations into this.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/02/06/ben-stiller-slams-fake-video-claiming-he-angelina-jolie-sean-penn-received-millions-from-usaid/
I stand semi-corrected. 
O.M.G.
The magnitude of this is otherworldly .. just profound!
A DOGE tracker that doesn’t just seem to mindlessly count up at a constant rate.
https://www.doge-tracker.com/
nice find–TY
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/freedoms-ring-saturday-february-15
Good morning, C&C, it’s Saturday! Time for the Weekend Edition.
Today’s roundup is critically important. Trump’s assault on Europe has begun. Any second now, corporate media will deploy brand new Russia collusion narratives and cry about Trump torching our European relationships. So let’s look at what is REALLY going on. It includes my boldest, most controversial claim yet, and I promise that the scale of Trump’s master plan will astound you. Prepare to forget everything you thought you knew about geopolitics.
Wolf Moon—
Yours Truly is working on the Health Friday post for this week. It may be a shorter post. I may schedule it for early Friday morning publishing sometime tonight.
There’s a weather service High Wind Warning for the Raleigh-Durham area from 6AM through 4PM tomorrow. Calling for high sustained winds and 55+MPH gusts. Warning that trees will come down, widespread power outages, general destruction. Sounds like a very serious situation.
Tonight?
SteveInCO
The post can be advance scheduled via WP Drafts using the calendar feature.
I was confused by you saying “publishing tonight” rather than “scheduling tonight to publish on Friday.”
I often write well in advance. The only reason I don’t schedule well in advance is I have to stick the precious metals prices in sometime after market close on Friday. I *could* schedule in advance and edit Friday afternoon, but I don’t like to hit that button until I think it’s done.
I think she meant:
One little comma…
Yeah, that makes sense, my bad.
I read it the same way you did at first.
Actually I didn’t even notice “early Friday morning” until you pointed it out. If I had, I’d probably have understood it properly.
So like I said, “my bad.”
Worse, if the Klint00ns are anywhere near, it’s Sax and Violins…
EVENING PRAYERS
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 night’s 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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Prayer Of Reflection On The Past Day
Loving Lord, as the day is coming to an end, I want to thank You for being with me in all that has taken place today. I also want to lay the whole day before You, asking that you would show me if there is anything that I have done to hurt or harm another person unknowingly, or if I have done anything that is displeasing in Your sight, or quenched the work of the Spirit in me, so that I may turn away from such things in the days that lie ahead.
Lord, I desire to do Your will in all things. I pray that You would cleanse me of any wrong thoughts or attitudes that may have surfaced in my heart today. Wash me in Your cleansing flood, I pray.
Thank You, that You are a God who forgives our transgressions when we are willing to confess them to You, knowing that such cleansing before You immediately draws us back into sweet fellowship with Yourself.
Give me a good night’s rest I pray, and may I rest quietly in Your loving arms in the knowledge that in Christ, I am eternally secure, due to Your amazing grace, for which I praise You. In Jesus’ name,
Amen.
Source: https://prayer.knowing-jesus.com/Evening-Prayers
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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
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/02/15/valentina-zharkova-grand-solar-minimum-little-ice-age-in-2031/
TL;DR
Conclusions!
THE LEDE
Astronomical Sun-Earth distance and radiation changes driven by gas giants are what drives global heating and cooling. Stated another way, Jupiter and Saturn change our distance from the sun, and this accounts for increased temperatures. We don’t need carbon dioxide. So why are people thinking CO2 drives climate? Turns out the warmists made a mistake in heating calculations – there is a point in the basic equations where CO2 contribution saturates, and adding more CO2 doesn’t change the temperature – further contributions by the term are negligible – they did it wrong. This comports with the observation that increases in CO2 directly follow increases in temperature – not vice versa – so CO2 is not behind the effects we are seeing.
Further – sunspots show another indication of cyclic solar activity, and this is related to solar magnetism. There is going to be a big minimum from 2020 to 2053, and we are already seeing it.
Link to her full paper is at the top of the stack here
https://solargsm.com
Link to her videos which are numerous. Not sure which one your slide may have come from.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=valentia+Zharkova&t=vivaldi&iax=videos&ia=videos
Okay, Bakerjim had in this link.
Sorry, that’s bullshit. Any perturbation to our orbit from Jupiter and Saturn is too minuscule to have an effect. Unless we are talking about tens of thousands or even millions of years…but the current brouhaha is over a much shorter term change.
That said, I’m not claiming we’re AREN’T heading into an ice age. But it would be for other reasons than THAT.
Assumes she’s describing an effect accumulated over a vast amount of time, 2100 years to 2200 years from which variations from the norm are only minutely detectable for much shorter periods of time at the end of their cycles showing up as an increase or decrease in average global temps by a few degrees which would I’d assume fold into other cycles and weather pattens which would result in more extreme changes. Sounds plausible here but I’m not the science guy. Any ways she’s five years into one of these cycles that won’t finish for another 25 years if I read that right. Plenty of time to see if she’s right.
A lot of other things in the summary made sense, at least superficially. But Jupiter and Saturn perturbing our orbit? Not significantly, not in any way that will cause a 25 year cycle. That pegged my bullshit meter.
Not saying I believe all of what she’s saying, but I think her point about barycentric orbit of all bodies is NOT short-term (like 25 years) but instead leads to changes in the Earth-Sun distance over centuries, that can be VIEWED in a particular way that she claims makes sense (and which I’m not so sure about).
I think the 25-year stuff fell out of the sunspots, magnetic fields, and all that. She’s talking about several models and referencing between them while explaining the others.
She is proposing that a known, apparently well-predicted lengthening and (currently) shortening of Earth-Sun distance is responsible for global warming, and used the directly predicted (I presume Newtonian) values from others. We’re looking at differences of a single solar diameter – WTH – I’m not sure that’s enough, frankly, but she apparently thinks that it makes her numbers work.
Her way of explaining that change in the Earth-Sun distance is to break it into the Earth and the Sun BOTH, separately, orbiting the barycenter, and that this leads over time to changes in the relative distance of the two bodies. That actually seems to be a reasonable way to do it, although I’m just accepting the argument. She is apparently in a feud with Ken Rice over him NOT using a barycentric model.
IF her assertion here is true (not so sure), THEN an alternative “heliocentric” view (ignore barycenter, fix the Sun) of what she is saying, might be that the gas giants are varying their combined, immediate, and cumulative gravitational effects on all other bodies in the system – each other and the smaller planets. In other words, remove the barycenter and try to get the same effect, over centuries, resulting in the same prediction of changing Sun-Earth distances (assuming those are correct), using a different (and likely inferior, but set that aside) but Rice-compatible approach to the many-body problem. OR the fallacy or validity of what Zharkova is doing may show up in a more obvious manner by going heliocentric.
I didn’t dig any further into it than that. I have wanted to read her papers – this looks like the best way into her thinking that I’ve seen, assuming that I can get anything past a paywall.
Col Davis has had this guest on previously, I had assumed he used a green screen and the celler full of random stuff was a photograph. Apparently not, unusual story at the end.
Given the way NATO/EU leaders are acting we seriously need to abandon that treaty. We don’t need to be committed to any hair triggers with those idiots acting the way they are.
Our 80 Billion annual commitment can be spent better else where. Drop it to 20 Billion to save our investment and were still the top spender and also rewrite the treaty. Or better just leave.
Leave NATO is the correct answer.
Whatever the need for NATO was decades ago, No Longer Exists.
Whatever NATO stood for decades ago, No Longer Exists.
Trump knows both of those facts.
Quitting the UN, will be harder than quitting NATO. BOTH need to happen.
Direct from DOGE. Looking forward to their receipts posting sometime this weekend they claim.
https://www.doge.gov
This is beyond ridiculous.
IMO we need investigations into who authorized these spending sprees. Put them under oath. Ask them if they thought that was a good use of tax payer money. Then ask them if they thought money was actually being used for these programs. Ask them to prove it.
Show where the money went. Are there reports on each of these many expenditures? Were we going to get an accounting on how many men in Mozambique voluntarily underwent circumcision? I guess that one has been canceled, but I want public access to reports on all the other programs. Accountability…
I strongly suspect that less than 1/10th of 1% ever went to any of these ’causes’.
It’s all grift and graft, money laundering and kickback schemes.
The United States government is the biggest criminal organization on planet earth.
Nothing else even comes close.
There is literally only 1 way to prevent this again. The judge should be left alone in the cell with the mf.
https://nypost.com/2025/02/15/us-news/trans-migrant-arrested-for-raping-boy-in-nyc-park-bathroom/
A migrant transgender woman wanted by federal immigration officials allegedly stalked and raped a boy in Manhattan this week, The Post has learned.
Nicol Suarez allegedly followed the 14-year-old into the bathroom of a bodega across the street from Thomas Jefferson Park in East Harlem Tuesday and attacked him, police and sources said.
The boy then left the bathroom and flagged down witnesses, who alerted police, the sources said.
Suarez, 30, who is originally from Colombia, was arrested nearby the following day and charged with first-degree rape.
Suarez was wanted in New Jersey and Massachusetts at the time, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had a detainer on her, a law enforcement source said.
The nature of the out-of-state charges wasn’t immediately available.
ICE could just pick this person up and deport them back,” the source said. “But due to our sanctuary laws we can’t do anything.”
Prosecutors initially asked for $500,000 bail and $1.5 million bond for Suarez, the law enforcement source said.
But Judge Elizabeth Shamahs, who became a judge in January after she was elected on the Democratic ticket, lowered the amount to $100,000 bail or $250,000 bond, online court records show.
“I feel really bad for the kid that has to go through this because his life will never be the same,” the source said. “We worry about the migrants but what about the victim? This is a true victim.”
Suarez was being held on Rikers Island, online records showed Saturday.
“This rapist should be deported so he can’t do that to any other innocent young boy,” Lindsaey Gonzalez said.
“That boy must be traumatized a lot for the rest of his life,” Gonzalez, 24, said. ‘I feel bad for him because I’m a mother.”
Wolf Moon
@WOLFM00N
NYC Mayor Eric Adams tried to stop this assault, but Danielle Sassoon stopped Eric Adams from returning to “migrant” sanity with her extortion lawfare.
Thank you, @AGPamBondi, for turning the DOJ back toward real justice, from Democrat power politics.
https://nypost.com/2025/02/15/us-news/trans-migrant-arrested-for-raping-boy-in-nyc-park-bathroom/
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Yep.
That snippybitch look drives me up the wall…
So “holier-than-thou” although she’s moonlighting in Hell…..
Tyv very m for posting that. From the tranny crap, illegal, multi state criminal, child sexual assault, sanctuary state, and activist liberal judge, this codifies everything WRONG in the govt that needs to be changed.
It started with homosexuals saying they just needed the freedom to “love whom they please.” That opened the door to the political correctness of not being allowed to criticize them or observe patterns of behavior, health issues, and crimes within the community.
The trans movement builds on that. They are “supposed” to be deemed “normal,” merely having been “born in the wrong body.” Just as with homosexuals, we are supposed to coddle them and go along with their deviancy. So now that many parts of society have allowed them to infiltrate, we can see that the deviancy extends to sex crimes, school shootings, and more.
I’m not equating homosexuals with transgenders. I’m saying that the one paved the way for the other.
We wouldn’t have any of this nonsense without a radically feminized society.
In a masculine society, homos stay in the closet and trannys get psychological help.
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Activists get the “top left” award.
Looks like xkcd to me… Interesting that Powerlineblog doesn’t allow deep linking, but avails themselves to the likes of xkcd without crediting them…..
(the captioning style and drawing technique is a dead giveaway)…..
“How can you not be romantic about baseball?”
Get a tissue handy, and read this story. This is just wonderful, all the way through.
https://pjmedia.com/chris-queen/2025/02/15/college-baseballs-opening-day-sees-one-players-inspiring-tribute-through-tragedy-n4937019
Wow. And that fan. WOW.
That was so sweet. I love baseball.
Seems complimentary to some posts today.
Thats the truth.
This was several days back. Congressman talking about our National Debt. Currently hovering around 36 Trillion. In just 9 yrs accumulated interest alone will take our debt to 74 Trillion. That’s not just our grand kids future being talked about any more. Nor is it just our kids future. Now it’s our Retirement. Even if your already retired it’s your retirement. 9yrs. Watch the first 4 to 6 minutes.
As posted Friday. Two more days of winning, until Monday.
BREAKING: Trump DOJ Fires 20 Immigration Judges
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/breaking-trump-fires-20-immigration-judges/
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Promotes Luigi Mangione’s Defense Fund — Then a Troubling Detail Emerges
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/cnns-kaitlan-collins-promotes-luigi-mangiones-defense-fund/
That entire situation is disgusting to me. So many people lionizing that murderer just because his victim was an insurance company executive.
I can understand the impulse to do so, even though I don’t approve of murder.
Health “insurance” is mostly a parasitic drag on the health system–and one that arbitrarily forbids things that make sense, and when people notice things like uninsured being charged a fortune and health “insurance” companies being cut special deals, and when they see huge armies of clerks at their doctors’ offices who do nothing but file paperwork with insurance companies (even when what is being done isn’t covered)…they realize that these assholes are why our system simply doesn’t serve the customers.
That would be true even aside from the crap we learned during Covid, where it turns out the docs are largely either incompetent or too chicken to stand up against the system.
Haven’t followed it much. Does he have further mitigating circumstances besides not liking the system, like family or friend that died because they were turned down for insurance? I understand he comes from a well off family though he may be on the outs. If not murdering someone seems a bit too extreme and he needs the jail time or else he’ll be doing it again for some other perceived grievance.
Some people were saying that things didn’t add up and that he might have been “tinkered with” by the people that do things like that. He seemed confused when they picked him up in a way that was consistent with having been drugged or something like that.
Happy for the Dumrats ignorance hiring Hogg.
REPORT: It Appears That David Hogg is Already Using His Position as Vice Chair of the DNC to Enrich Himself
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/report-it-appears-that-david-hogg-is-already/
More fed firing.
Massive Shake-Up at NIH and CDC: Over 5,000 Probationary Employees Fired in Friday Purge
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/massive-shake-up-nih-cdc-5000-probationary-employees/
Someone should start a daily countdown clock of the number of employees fired or terminated.
Another 1.9 Billion misappropriated monies found in Hud.
https://twitter.com/GuntherEagleman/status/1890856837617988060
Nobody can misplace $1.9Billion. 
Waiting on the rest of the story.
This gal totally bitch slapping EU socialists. One solid minute of bitch slapping.
Greek Member of EU Parliament Delivers Epic Indictment of Socialist Policies: “YOU HAVE FAILED” (Video)
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Greece Isn’t Playing Anymore
https://twitter.com/Playteaux1/status/1890235057278972403
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Afroditi Latinopoulou, a Greek member of the EU parliament representing the “Voice of Reason” party, delivered an epic and fiery indictment of Europe’s socialist policies.
Latinopoulou argued that 50 years of socialist rule and the modern pervasiveness of woke ideology have decimated economies and destroyed Europe, not the “far right.”
Latinopoulou began, “Seriously, ladies and gentlemen?”
“Did the right destroy industry? Did the right idolize Greta Thunberg? Did the right impose green energy at the expense of industry, destroying the EU’s competitiveness?”
“Or was it the socialist governments that have been ruling the European Union for 50 years?”
“France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and my homeland Greece have been devastated by groundless socialist policies.”
“And today you, the destroyers of Europe, have the audacity to point fingers at us, saying that we conservatives are a threat to Europe?”
“I laugh. I truly laugh.”
“As Margaret Thatcher wisely said, ‘The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.’”
“So abandon these ghost stories about supposed far-right threats and implement liberal economic policies.”
“Lower taxes, increase competitiveness, bring back plastic straws, leave lignite alone, invest in the industry and, above all, face reality: YOU HAVE FAILED.”
“Follow what we’re telling you before it’s too late for everyone. We are the future and you are the past.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/greek-member-eu-parliament-delivers-epic-indictment-socialist/
Don’t mess with a “goddess” (Aphrodite)! 
WOLF MOON and ALL —
The Health Friday post for this week is finished and will publish just after Midnight on Friday. Yours Truly is now battening down the hatches here. All H3ll is already breaking loose in Kentucky. Heading this way, expected in the Raleigh-Durham area by 4AM – 5AM tomorrow. Please spare a prayer for those anywhere near the path of this dreadful weather event.
Thank you!
Thanks for scheduling Friday. Be safe.
Thanks…and sorry about my confusion earlier.
We got significant snow here earlier.
Thank you! I really appreciate your being proactive here. I hope you are fine, and staying warm.
I am very fortunate that I’ve been pre-stacking Monday and Tuesday posts, because my world is being multiply impinged by weather, health and other issues. I wish I could be more helpful to MAGA now, but I think getting to that inauguration and helping make it spectacular took a lot of wind out of my sails for over a month, and possibly two. We’ll see!
I’m mostly done with upcoming Saturday. Don’t know about the week after that.
I’m way behind in reading at the Q-Tree; hope you are doing OK & the storm system spared you & your neighbors.
Steve, good talk today. I tried to watch the video, really I did, but I couldn’t make it past “you’re wrong because correlation is not causation”
What a bizarre situation, it doesn’t seem healthy.
My favorite bit:
“Flatzoid” is running hard to be the most obliviously stupid person on the face of the Earth… but from what I see he is up to the challenge.
There’s a big ol’ Bless his heart in there
There is, indeed.
What gets me is how smug Fkatzoid is in his ignorance.
And it’s not complete ignorance; he’s obviously heard a lot of things. It’s just so…scrambled, bad enough to be effective total ignorance.
Any chance this guy is working for somebody? A “chaos agent” as Malone calls them?
That would make him a shill. And only globers and people who go to Antarctica can be shills.
LOL!!!
More on the plane/Blackhawk crash.
The plane pilots saw the helicopter at the last moment, and did take evasive maneuvers, but there wasn’t enough time.
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Steve I’m just now reading your post as I’ve been catching up on reading in general due to many hours elsewhere on family & business matters.
I thought of you yesterday when my husband was talking to our son Brandon on speaker phone. B was on his way to Toronto for a short weekend w/ his fiancée & reminiscing about their 8th grade class trip from his Christian School, that was Supposed to go to Toronto but had to sub in a US destination because one of his classmates was international & couldn’t easily cross the border between the US & Canada.
So anyway B actually lives with one of his classmates from back then in his big “frat-house” rental. They were discussing this class trip the other day about how they ended up going to the Creation Museum & got to meet Ken Hamm. The sarcasm with which that last phrase was delivered was absolutely hilarious. Teen humor a decade & half later
Actually I know an internet creationism debunker (a very good one, who spends time plumbing the depths of AIG and thus knows creationism extremely well) who managed to get photographed with him; he had no idea who she was.
LOL that’s fun!!!
Back in the 70’s there was a nice academic library containing some amazing research on YEC, and I got to visit and look through the materials. They were very kind, because this obviously wasn’t my scholarly professional interest – just a personal side interest as a scientist. I was very impressed that there were people who took the movement very seriously in a surprisingly even-handed, scholarly way. They were not “debunkers” per se, but I found their interest reassuring – in part because they were watching the “opposition” too.