What is it that feeds our battle, yet starves our victory?
Do We Still Need the Kang (Mis)Quote?
I’m still using the quote about winning the battles but losing the war. It seems like this doesn’t make sense right now given that we seem to be going from triumph to triumph.
On the contrary. This is the exception that proves the rule. The quote isn’t just a lament, it’s to point out why we can never seem to win.
You see, the RINOs cannot interfere and that is why, just for once, we are actually winning. And that is just one more piece of evidence (for the willfully blind) as to what I have been saying with that quote.
It stays.
Speaker Johnson
Pinging you on January 6 Tapes
Just a friendly reminder Speaker Johnson. You’re doing some good things–or at least trying in the case of the budget–but this is the most important thing out there still hanging. One initial block released with the promise of more…and?
We have American patriots being held without bail and without trial, and the tapes almost certainly contain exculpatory evidence. (And if they don’t, and we’re all just yelling in an echo chamber over here, we need to know that too. And there’s only one way to know.)
Either we have a weaponized, corrupt government or we have a lot of internet charlatans. Let’s expose whatever it is. (I’m betting it’s the corrupt weaponized government, but if I am wrong, I’d like to see proof.)
Justice Must Be Done.
The 2020 election must be acknowledged as fraudulent, and steps must be taken to prosecute the fraudsters and restore integrity to the system.
Yes this is still true in spite of 2024. Fraud must be rooted out of our system and that hasn’t changed just because the fraud wasn’t enough to stop Trump winning a second term. Fraud WILL be ramped up as soon as we stop paying attention.
Otherwise, everything ends again in 2028. Or perhaps earlier if Trump is saddled with a Left/RINO congress in 2026, via fraud.
Small Government?
Many times conservatives (real and fake) speak of “small government” being the goal.
This sounds good, and mostly is good, but it misses the essential point. The important thing here isn’t the size, but rather the purpose, of government. We could have a cheap, small tyranny. After all our government spends most of its revenue on payments to individuals and foreign aid, neither of which is part of the tyrannical apparatus trying to keep us locked down and censored. What parts of the government would be necessary for a tyranny? It’d be a lot smaller than what we have now. We could shrink the government and nevertheless find it more tyrannical than it is today.
No, what we want is a limited government, limited not in size, but rather in scope. Limited, that is, in what it’s allowed to do. Under current circumstances, such a government would also be much smaller, but that’s a side effect. If we were in a World War II sort of war, an existential fight against nasty dictatorships on the brink of world conquest, that would be very expensive and would require a gargantuan government, but that would be what the government should be doing. That would be a large, but still limited government, since it’d be working to protect our rights.
World War II would have been the wrong time to squawk about “small government,” but it wasn’t (and never is) a bad time to demand limited government. Today would be a better time to ask for a small government–at least the job it should be doing is small today–but it misses the essential point; we want government to not do certain things. Many of those things we don’t want it doing are expensive but many of them are quite eminently doable by a smaller government than the one we have today. Small, but still exceeding proper limits.
So be careful what you ask for. You might get it and find you asked for the wrong thing.
Political Science In Summation
It’s really just a matter of people who can’t be happy unless they control others…versus those who want to be left alone. The oldest conflict within mankind. Government is necessary, but government attracts the assholes (a highly technical term for the control freaks).
His Truth?
Again we saw an instance of “It might be true for Billy, but it’s not true for Bob” logic this week.
I hear this often, and it’s usually harmless. As when it’s describing differing circumstances, not different facts. “Housing is unaffordable” can be true for one person, but not for another who makes ten times as much.
But sometimes the speaker means it literally. Something like 2+2=4 is asserted to be true for Billy but not for Bob. (And when it’s literal, it’s usually Bob saying it.) And in that sense, it’s nonsense, dangerous nonsense. There is ONE reality, and it exists independent of our desires and our perceptions. It would go on existing if we weren’t here. We exist in it. It does not exist in our heads. It’s not a personal construct, and it isn’t a social construct. If there were no society, reality would continue to be what it is, it wouldn’t vanish…which it would have to do, if it were a social construct.
Now what can change from person to person is the perception of reality. We see that all the time. And people will, of course, act on those perceptions. They will vote for Trump (or try to) if their perception is close to mine, and vote against Trump (and certainly succeed at doing so) if their perception is distant from mine (and therefore, if I do say so, wrong). I have heard people say “perception is reality” and usually, that’s what they’re trying to say–your perception of reality is, as far as you know, an accurate representation of reality, or you’d change it.
But I really wish they’d say it differently. And sometimes, to get back to Billy and Bob, the person who says they have different truths is really saying they have different perceptions of reality–different worldviews. I can’t argue with the latter. But I sure wish they’d say it better. That way I’d know that someone who blabbers about two different truths is delusional and not worth my time, at least not until he passes kindergarten-level metaphysics on his umpteenth attempt.
Lawyer Appeasement Section
OK now for the fine print.
This is the Q Tree Daily Thread. You know the drill. There’s no Political correctness, but civility is a requirement. There are Important Guidelines, here, with an addendum on 20191110.
We have a new board – called The U Tree – where people can take each other to the woodshed without fear of censorship or moderation.
And remember Wheatie’s Rules:
1. No food fights
2. No running with scissors.
3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
4. Zeroth rule of gun safety: Don’t let the government get your guns.
5. Rule one of gun safety: The gun is always loaded.
5a. If you actually want the gun to be loaded, like because you’re checking out a bump in the night, then it’s empty.
6. Rule two of gun safety: Never point the gun at anything you’re not willing to destroy.
7. Rule three: Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire.
8. Rule the fourth: Be sure of your target and what is behind it.
(Hmm a few extras seem to have crept in.)
(Paper) Spot Prices
Kitco “Ask” prices. Last week:
Gold $2,911.50
Silver $32.60
Platinum $974.00
Palladium $934.00
Rhodium $6,000.00
FRNSI* 139.844-
Gold:Silver 89.310-
This week, 3PM Mountain Time, markets have closed for the weekend.
Gold $2,985.50
Silver $33.87
Platinum $1004.00
Palladium $988.00
Rhodium $5,700.00
FRNSI* 143.424-
Gold:Silver 88.146-
Gold blooped up over the 3000 dollar mark briefly Friday, but retreated a bit and closed at the level shown above (it actually closed a bit higher than that on Thursday). So of course the FRNSI is at an all-time weekly high. Silver did very well this last week; long overdue; gold is now worth over an ounce less silver than last week. Platinum shows some signs of life. Maybe it is only mostly dead.
*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 Ides of March
Yes, our calendar is a direct descendant of the Roman calendar, particularly after Julius Caesar’s reforms.
That doesn’t mean we’d have any idea WTF we were looking at when looking at a Roman Calendar. They didn’t lay out months in tidy little rectangles like we do, with days numbered from 1-31. (Or 30, or 28 or fairly rarely 29.)
Nope they did something totally wacky, at least from our point of view.
The Kalends was the first day of the month. The Nones was the ninth day before the Ides. The Ides were, in turn the 15th day of full months (months of 31 days), or the 13th day of hollow months (months of 30 days) [Before Julius and Augustus Caesar, February had 30 days.] After some reforms months could have four different lengths and even the 31 day months were handled two different ways.
Counting through the days of the month, the 1st was “on the Kalends”. the 2nd was “the day after the Kalends” OR it could be called (in March, May, July and October–MMJO) the “Sixth day before the Nones” and for every other month the “Fourth day before the Nones”. Then count down each subsequent day until on the 7th (MMJO) or 5th (all others), was “On the Nones.” But beware because the “Third day before the Nones” was followed by “the day before the Nones” (there was no “second day before the Nones). The next day (8th or 6th) was “The day after the Nones.” OR that day could be called the 8th day before the Ides. Then the 7th, 6th, 5th, 4th, 3rd days before the Nones…and then skipping over “the second day before the Ides” to “the day before the Ides.” Then the Ides…which was on the 15th (MMJO) or 13th (all other months).
Then it gets tricky. For MMJO, the day after the Ides (the 16th) could be called “The day after the ides” or “the 17th day before the Kalends” Note, though that (for example) March 16 was called “the 14th day before the Kalends of April.” So April was being named…even though it was really still March! For January, August, and December, the “day after the Ides” (the 14th) was also “the 19th day before the Kalends”. For April, June, September, and November (all 30 days at the time), the “Day after the Ides” (the 14th) was “the 18th day before the Kalends”. For February (28 or 29 days) the “Day after the Ides” (the 14th) was either the 16th or 17th day before the Kalends of March”.
You would then count down to the second-to-last-day of the month and that would be the 3rd day of the Kalends, and the last day would be “the day before the kalends.”
Of course they did this in Latin, not English, so for example, they’d say “ante diem tertium decimum Kalendas” (the 13th day before the Kalends) and write it down as “a.d. XIII Kal.” since who wants to write all that out?
The day after Kalends, Nones, or Ides were considered “black” days and unlucky. (Though they were off one day for Julius Caesar.)
[Note before the Julian reforms, there were no thirty day months; there were MMJO (31 days), February (28 days) and everything else (29 days) and they followed the rules for MMJO, 28 day Februaries, and the 29 day February, respectively). When the caesars made January, August and December into 31 day months, they actually left the Ides in the same place relative to the Kalends (i.e., on what we call the 13th of the month) rather than moving the Ides to the 15th, to avoid messing up festival days.]
Somehow, they were able to use this insanely complex system and still have enough brainpower left to conquer the entire Mediterranean world.
And NO I don’t have this memorized, I had to look it up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_calendar. Otherwise I’d not have the brainpower left to butcher the topic of geology.
A Deeper Dive on Isotopes
Last time I described the atomic nucleus as it came to be known during the early 20th century, and I discussed radioactivity. I touched on isotopes a bit; time for a deeper dive.
As chemists worked to measure atomic weights for all known elements (painstaking and unglamorous work; the ones doing this are the unsung heroes of chemistry) it became apparent that most elements had atomic weights that were almost an integer multiple of the element with the lightest atomic weight: hydrogen (for example, taking hydrogen as 1 (not the currently used value!), helium comes in at 3.971, very close to 4. But there were a few oddballs, too, elements with a not-very-close multiple, like (and now I’ll use the current values, with hydrogen at 1.008, not 1.000) boron (10.81), neon (20.18), chlorine (35.45). Just eyeballing the list it looks like about a quarter of all elements are “off” like this.
It wasn’t until people started ionizing elements and sending the ions through a magnetic field to see how much their trajectories bent that we started to understand this. This was first done by J. J. Thomson (who had discovered the electron, and loved to play with magnets and charged particles) in 1912 with neon gas. Neon is atomic number 10, ten protons, and as I mentioned its atomic weight is 20.18. Thomson discovered that neon is actually mixture of two different things, one with an atomic weight of 20, another with an atomic weight of 22. The signal was weaker for 22, so he figured it neon was mostly the atomic-weight-twenty stuff.
These were both undeniably neon; there was no way to separate them chemically because they both behaved the same (which is to say, being totally unwilling to engage in chemical reactions; neon is a noble gas). They just weighed different. Thomson however had been brought up believing that atomic weight was an inherent property of an element, so he thought of it as two separate gases. We don’t think this any more. They’re both neon. And we now know there’s a very small amount of neon atoms with a mass of 21.
As more and more of these experiments happened, it became clear; if an element’s atomic weight was far off from an integer, it was a mix of these “isotopes.” Aston (who formulated the “whole number rule” for isotopic masses) showed in 1920 that chlorine’s 35.45 atomic weight was due to being a mixture of atoms with mass 35 and mass 37 units.
When talking about just the nucleus of an atom, we often use the term nuclide instead of isotope (which is the whole atom). It’s not a hard and fast rule but chemists will tend to use “isotope” and nuclear physicists including those researching fusion will be a bit more likely to say “nuclide.”
Again, the chemical behavior is nearly identical. In principle a heavier isotope should be slightly slower to react than an lighter one, but the practical difference is nil except in one case. Thus when it matters (and it usually doesn’t), chemists and physicists will write something like neon-20 or neon-22. When they can do so they will follow the formal convention: 20Ne or 22Ne. I am able to do that here (writing the post) but not in comments; but it’s such a pain to do so (wordpiss), that I will stick with writing either neon-20 or Ne-20.
And by the way, for our purposes here, it does matter. Quite a lot.
The one exception regarding chemical differences is the case of hydrogen, which usually has mass number of 1, but some few atoms have a mass number of 2. If you concentrate the mass-2 stuff, and use it to make water, you have heavy water, which even though it’s technically hydrogen monoxide just like tap water is, will kill you. (It also melts at 4 degrees Celsius so it’s possible to put a heavy water ice cube in a glass of water at 1 degree Celsius and it won’t melt. It will sink to the bottom, too, which is even weirder.) In fact for hydrogen and hydrogen alone, there are “special” names for the heavier isotopes; hydrogen-2 is called deuterium and (in this context) hydrogen-1 is called protium. There is also hydrogen-3, which is radioactive and is called tritium.
Once the neutron was discovered by James Chadwick in 1932, we got some clarity as to what was going on. Neutrons, it turns out are very slightly more massive than protons, We now know that neon-20, neon-21 and neon-22 all contain ten protons (neon has ten protons, by definition), but they contain 10, 11, and 12 neutrons, respectively, the total of the two numbers 10+10, 10+11, 10+12 gives you the mass number.
So what happens when you do this sort of analysis on other elements as found in nature? Fluorine (#9) has one isotope, F-19. Tin (#50) has no less than ten isotopes: Sn-112, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 122, and 124. The natural proportion for each of these ranges from 0.34 percent to 33 percent.
It is possible to create isotopes in the lab. So long as the number of neutrons isn’t too high or low, you’ll get a nucleus that hangs together for a while, perhaps even permanently. Otherwise the excess neutrons will “drip” off (fail to stick even momentarily) or if there are too few neutrons, a proton will “drip” off.
Between these bounds, the isotope will be intensely radioactive, less intensely radioactive, even less intensely radioactive, dang near stable, or actually stable. (Those are not “official” terms by the way.) And if you include all those made-in-a-lab-and-very-unstable isotopes the isotope counts go way up. Tritium is one of them for instance, and tin actually has isotopes ranging from 99 through 140.
Why do we need to make those highly radioactive isotopes in a lab? Because if there were any on earth originally, they have long since decayed away and none are left.
[If you poke around on wikipedia you may see references to something being “observationally stable.” That means an isotope that they believe on theoretical grounds is almost stable but it’s so close to stable they haven’t caught it decaying yet. In other words “we think this ought to be very very mildly radioactive–so mild we haven’t detected it yet so maybe it’s really stable after all.” Three of the ten tin isotopes I mentioned are “observationally stable”]
Because we are able to produce almost-arbitrary nuclides in the lab, we have pretty complete tables of nuclides–both a table with columns and a bunch of numbers in them, like you see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_tin, or nice graphical ones like this:
You can click on this to make it larger, but even there you can’t see what’s written in the boxes. Here is a link to a version that is 17,800 pixels across: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/NuclideMap.svg
Going across the bottom, you have the number of neutrons, going up you have the number of protons, as shown in this excerpt from the very lower left corner. Note that the same isotope number for different elements lie on a diagonal. (They also threw in a bare neutron, mass number 1, element zero.)
The colors indicate how the isotopes decay; black is a stable isotope. Blue is a β+ (positron) decay (or capturing an electron), orange is losing a proton (technically it’s “dripping” the proton), deep purple is dripping a neutron, yellow is alpha decay (note that 8Be alpha decays–and what’s left over is a helium nucleus, which is itself an alpha particle; so really it just splits in two). Green (visible at the other end of the chart) is spontaneous fission where a nucleus splits into two or more large pieces. Finally the pink or light purple squares like 3H are β– (ordinary beta decay).
If you paid attention last time, you should be able to figure out what the isotope will turn into. For example 10Be undergoes beta decay, so it goes up one in charge (it now has 5 protons) but stays the same mass. It becomes boron-10, which is stable.
This chart also indicates half life. And I will more than likely be pasting in other pieces of it in future posts.
OK, so we have this list of all possible isotopes (and ones that arguably shouldn’t be considered isotopes because they “drip” when you try to create them). What do we see when we look “out there” on Earth? This is, after all, supposedly a series on geology, right?
The isotopes we see fall into three broad categories.
Stable isotopes. Every single stable isotope is found on Earth. Every last one.
Long lived isotopes. Isotopes over a certain half-life (which I will discuss below) will be found on Earth too. Again, every last one. (And by the way some of those half lives exceed present day estimates of the age of the earth by millions or even billions of times. And “observationally stable” isotopes, if they turn out to be radioactive, will have even longer half lives.)
Short lived isotopes. Some of the known short-lived isotopes can be found in nature. Here’s the thing though. In all of these cases, we can identify a natural process that is creating those isotopes, even at the present moment. For example, carbon-14 with a half life of about 5,760 years is being produced in the upper atmosphere by cosmic rays impacting nitrogen-14 nuclei. Uranium-234 has a half life of 245,500 years, and is created by uranium-238 decay (U-238 becomes thorium-234 due to an alpha decay, then Th-234 becomes protactinium-234 via beta decay, then Pa-234 becomes U-234 after another beta decay). All of those intermediate products, of course, we also detect in nature (and they have very short half lives of days or hours) so they fall into this category too. But, very important: We do not have any short lived isotopes we cannot account for this way.
This actually paints a picture: We have a situation where we have primordial isotopes–ones that apparently were always here on Earth, and the others, that weren’t. Since anything that could be a primordial nuclide based on being stable or having a long half life, is here, there’s no reason to suppose that some other nuclide that is now not found in nature wasn’t actually once here–only to have decayed completely away. Which means the Earth would have to be old enough for them to be gone by now.
OK, so what’s the dividing line between short lived and long lived isotopes? Somewhere between 100 and 700 million years.
I found this table: https://sites.astro.caltech.edu/~dperley/public/isotopetable.html which bills itself as all radio isotopes with half lives over 1000 years. I am going to excerpt everything between 1 million and one trillion years, below:
Selenium-79
Iron-60
Beryllium-10
Zircon-93
Curium-247
Gadolinium-150
Neptunium-237
Cesium-135
Technetium-97
Dysprosium-154
Bismuth-210m
Manganese-53
Technetium-98
Palladium-107
Hafnium-182
Lead-205
Curium-247
Iodine-129
Uranium-236
Niobium-92
Plutonium-244
Samarium-146Uranium-236
Uranium-235
Potassium-40
Uranium-238
Rubidium-87
Thorium-232
Lutetium-176
Rhenium-187
Lanthanum-138
Samarium-147
Platinum-190
1,130,000
1,500,000
1,510,000
1,530,000
1,560,000
1,790,000
2,144,000
2,300,000
2,600,000
3,000,000
3,040,000
3,740,000
4,200,000
6,500,000
9,000,000
15,300,000
15,600,000
17,000,000
23,420,000
34,700,000
80,800,000
103,000,000234,200,000
703,800,000
1,280,000,000
4,468,000,000
4,750,000,000
14,100,000,000
37,800,000,000
43,500,000,000
105,000,000,000
106,000,000,000
650,000,000,000
Uranium-236 is listed twice (I just noticed). The 234,200,000 figure should not be there, so I crossed it out.
We cannot find plutonium-244 in nature. We’ve tried, some claim to have found it, but it’s inconclusive. Likewise with samarium-146. But we have no trouble finding uranium-235…and were even able to send Hiroshima, Japan a care package of the stuff on August 6 of 1945, the first nuclear bomb to be detonated in anger.
As it happens, samarium-146, if any were present on our Earth 4.5 billion years ago, would have gone through over 40 half lives, which is to say less than a trillionth of it would be left today. Uranium-235 (which we know was here) has gone through six half lives, so over one percent of it is still left.
In other words, this situation is consistent with Earth being 4.5 billion or so years old, as dated by other methods. If there were significant amounts of Pu-244 or Sm-146 around, the Earth would have to be considerably younger than this (though it could still be in the billions of years) for that to make sense.
All told, there are 251 stable nuclides, and 35 long-lived primordial nuclides.
As it happens many of the primordial nuclides can be of use in radiometric dating. We’ll dive into that next time. It’s now 10:16 PM here and I’m sure people are getting antsy.
WOW, I am first! 
That should be, “WOW, you are Gail Combs! — who, incidentally, is first tonight.”
Congrats. Now go take a nap and feel better.
That is what I did. 
Yeah now you can read it and find my mistakes.
No way am I going to point out your mistakes!
That’s my job!
What’s “chnoring”? I think all those Nones and Kalends were getting to you….
It’s “chlorine” when I’m in a hurry.
If that’s the only mistake it would be a miracle. I literally finished writing at 10:16 and hit “Post Immediately.”
Your efforts are much appreciated!
This has been a frustrating week. I had a draft that was an absolute tangled mess, and was thinking of just saving it off and not doing a science section at all. I had tried tweaking it for days.
I finally figured out an approach that would be a bit more coherent, on my way home from work. Started typing roughly 8:45 PM and got it done in an hour and a half.
Thanks. No doubt it takes time to distill the subject matter down into a palatable article.
I literally threw the whole section away and started over. The text table is the only thing I kept.
I have hit delete on some of mine the same way.
Sometimes the mind flush needs to be a toilet flush and just move on and try again.
Thanks for all the information you provide. Much to learn and enjoy.
In some ways, though the effort made it easier to simply do a brain dump when I did work it last night, I knew exactly what I wanted to say. (And that table was a pain to put together, but it had already been done.)
I usually work on mine for a week and then have Hubby do the editing. He catches the bad Engrish for me and tells me if it makes sense.
Alas I am a one-ape team here.
If I have the luxury of waiting a couple of days and can read it again, I’ll find a lot of mistakes, and maybe even think “Oh I need to add a graphic/video here” or even “Oh, I need to add one more thing here.”
Same here. I like to write a piece and then let it sit at least for 24 hrs. Having a tech writer/ 5th gen newspaper man as a husband really improves my writing too.
Alas Friday night/this morning I was literally done at 10:16 and just went straight for “publish immediately.”
Living dangerously.
I have the luxury of not having a day job.
So the ponies get ignored? ‘Cause I thought that was a job.
Of Course not! At this point we have six that have to be fed ‘mush’ three times a day since they have no grinding teeth. My oldest just turned 49 years old!
(So much for taking a vacation!)
And this is when you are not collecting goat spit.
At least the goats and sheep have teeth!
I had tried tweaking it for days…..
I LIKE IT!!!
You did well.
This was really interesting to read, and well written.
And your succinct «Political Science in Summation» was formulated just right.
You Rock!
A couple of weeks ago I included a link to a video by Marly Hornik of U.S.A. giving a talk on elections to a group in Palo Alto, California in February of this year.
I am finally getting the time to watch it myself and it is excellent.
She knows this topic inside and out.
And she shares not only what they have found, what the law is, but also some details about how this is unfolding with federal law enforcement, and how to go about getting solutions to the big mess we are in.
Hope you find the time to listen.
https://rumble.com/v6na9m9-ceo-marly-hornik-presentation-in-silicon-valley-palo-alto-ca-2-14-2025.html
There are specific “asks” by the U.S.A. organization for individuals to do to help with the effort to complete what needs to happen to secure our elections.
At about 1 hour into her presentation (in the Q&A) she explains how their work is likely part of the reason there were 18 million less votes in 2024, v.s. 2020. It has to do with finding a technical way to observe the injection of votes into the system during the election process.
At about 1:20 she is discussing the very first control point for a secure system, which is the production of “a NIST compliant risk management framework assessment” she explains that what the chief election official does, or a local county official does is they write a waiver. Or CISA sends out a waiver. “This is the law, but for this time, you know, it’s just too difficult. It’s too hard. So we’re just gonna write a waiver.” … “there’s already a process that’s defined for testing the equipment, it’s simply not being followed.”
Another question follows asking about Trump’s comments when he was in California (after the LA fires). She responds with what specifically Trump was saying has to happen. California has to get voter ID if they want federal money.
for Steve
Colorado
Lawsuit filed in Colorado on September 10, 2024.
to ensure a legally valid 2024 election.
United Sovereign Americans and individual plaintiffs represented by counsel John S. Zakhem and Andrew C. Nickel, of the law firm Campbell, Killen, Brittan and Ray, have filed a federal lawsuit against the State of Colorado, the Colorado Secretary of State, Jena Griswold, Phil Weiser, in his individual capacity as Attorney General of Colorado, the Colorado Office of the Attorney General, Merrick Garland, in his official capacity as Attorney General of the United States, and the United States Department of Justice. Plaintiffs revealed 1,431,998 facially ineligible or uncertain registrations resulting in 100,693 improperly counted votes and 34,912 more votes counted than votes reported. Plaintiffs assert that Respondents need to perform their ministerial duties requiring Colorado’s federal elections be conducted in conformity with law as Congress has set forth. Petitioners seek redress from the constitutional harm brought upon them, and the Colorado electorate at large, by Respondents’ failure to comply with federal and state election law.
Voter ID … needs to be required
https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/31/opinion-unverified-voters-may-be-a-bigger-problem-than-anyone-realized-marly-hornik/
With mail-in voting unverified voters becomes an even bigger problem. With same day in person voting you physically had to produce a warm body which meant you had to bus around a bunch of PAID criminals from voting location to voting location all within a 10 to 12 hour time period.
With mail-in voting over a months long period, you can have 10 people in a room filling out 100 ballots a day for 20 to 50 days. so that one room could fill out as many as 50,000 fraudulent ballots.
[QUOTE]
https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/early-in-person-voting
Early in-person voting periods vary by state:
[UNQUOTE]
this is just insane.
Yes it is.
MAIL-IN VOTING = VOTER FRAUD!
Heck as that truck driver showed, you can have the mail-in ballots filled out in one state and shipped into another state via the US Postal service.
As a lawyer here in NC pointed out 50 out of the 100 counties in NC had MORE VOTES than LIVE ADULT BODIES in the 2016 election. RESULT? we got a DemonRat governor and Attorney General. From there it is EASY to turn the state from a ‘swing state’ to a blue state.
This is Colorado, where EVERYONE (real or fake) is mailed a ballot.
Dedicated Commies running the gov.
Mail-in voting is rife with fraud. I hate it. But if it is allowed there must be sufficient time pre-election day to do due diligence on the subject ballots for them to be cast. A fraudulently cast and counted ballot should result in stiff charges and penalties.
I agree with Trump. ONLY invalids and those overseas should be allowed to do mail-in ballots.
I would go further; I’d send election officials (more than one) to the invalid and have them vote while they witness.
Yes that’s expensive but invalids are supposed to be an unusual circumstance, right?
Not a bad idea. That would take care of the nursing homes strong arming people.
There are also people who are laid up in the hospital due to injury.
In fact Isaac Asimov tells a story. For the election of 1940 he was twenty (and voting age was still 21). He was visiting a friend laid up in the hospital and that friend let him mark his absentee ballot for president (confident he’d vote the same way).
(The bad news is, it was for Roosevelt.)
and students who are at school elsewhere but still tied to their home district, at least I voted absentee that way for years.
I grew up (and now live) in a very red area, but went to school in an electric-blue area in the same state.
I told Republicans here I had deserted them. They were alarmed. That damn commie school had “got” to me! No, I decided they needed my Republican vote more than my home county did, and had moved my registration up there.
This was back when Colorado was still, on balance, a red state.
The price of some metal is “mostly dead” … as opposed to the metal itself, as it isn’t considered alive, right?
Yep, I guess I’m using market slang. They don’t say “the price of Tesla stock is…” they say “Tesla is…”
I loved that line in the Princess Bride!
Yeah I figured it would be recognizable.
I’m guessing that the only reason we only hear of the Ides of March rather than the Kalends or the Nones of any month is due to Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/julius-caesar/read/1/2/
CAESAR Ha! Who calls?
CASCA Bid every noise be still. Peace, yet again!
CAESAR Who is it in the press that calls on me?
I hear a tongue shriller than all the music
Cry “Caesar.” Speak. Caesar is turned to hear.
SOOTHSAYER Beware the ides of March.
CAESAR What man is that?
BRUTUS A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.
CAESAR Set him before me. Let me see his face.
CASSIUS Fellow, come from the throng.
⌜The Soothsayer comes forward.⌝
Look upon Caesar.
CAESAR What sayst thou to me now? Speak once again.
SOOTHSAYER Beware the ides of March.
CAESAR He is a dreamer. Let us leave him. Pass.
The Romans can have their system; I’ll take neat little rectangular, consistent months any day.
It wasn’t Shakespeare; it’s history; according to surviving sources, he was assassinated on the ides of March.
I know. Im saying that the reason it’s so well recognized today is because of Shakespeare’s play. “Beware the Ides of March” is a memorable line.
Growing up, I had “The Classics Reclassified” by Richard Armour to educate myself. Accordingly, I remember the response to the Soothsayer slightly differently….as Caesar thinks to himself, “why do I need to worry about Tax Day? I don’t pay taxes; I collect them.”
The only reason I knew the word “Kalends” was from the expression, “when the Greeks reckon time by the Kalends.”
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/ad-kalendas-graecas
Open the box and you’ll find he’s cut up into 8 pieces.
Known as C-sections.
“MAGA Resource”:
I’m going to miss him on my car radio so much. But I know he is going where he is really needed.
(Posted on yesterday’s by mistake, so I brought it here.)
I started out good, but too much flashing/movement for me to handle, had to let it go. I do love a well developed sci-fi movie.
Perhaps it’s not clear, this was a TV series. 15 one hour episodes before it was cancelled (that was half a season back then, now a season is likely 10 episodes of whatever). Then a movie was made years later. (DO NOT watch the movie before the series, much of it will make no sense.)
PDJT on Truth Social:
Footage of the strike from the air:
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1900739968047177868
Looked like the target vehicle was hit twice.
The first missile or drone or projectile was moving fairly slow, the eye can easily track it all the way from its appearance on the left side of the screen to impact.
The second missile / drone / projectile seemed to be moving much faster.
Insightful!
So did they say it was because communists are terrorists, or was it more complicated than that?
I’m not sure how this question applies. 
oh, sorry.
Leftists are sympathetic with communism, therefore they would be sympathetic with terrorists?
Ah. She makes the case that “liberals” believe themselves to be good people supporting all of the right causes; that the Palestinians have long been subjugated; that supporting the Palestinians was the “good” thing to do, etc.
Then along came October 7 with its horrific brutality, especially against women, children, and old people. Rather than questioning and adjusting their own views ~ which would be too much for them to handle ~ the liberals went into massive denial, exemplified in various ways.
thank you.
In this case (as in many others) I believe they are being “herded” into causes that seem right from what they have been told, but often are very wrong when all the facts are given.
The slaughter in Syria is another situation that seems upside down.
Indeed.
I haven’t watched the video but I agree.
The YSM is such a bunch of systematic liars and when not outright lying, spin doctors, that those who watch it can be herded.
That was an excellent summary of the video. Are you an AI?
Her final conclusion is that the Progressives must deny the truth because if they acknowledged the truth they would have to conclude they are evil.
Or everything they believed was wrong.
Something that is very hard to do.
See Flat Earth.
LOL. No, I’m not an AI, but thanks. 
This beginning part from the video, it’s like she is cracking the code, discovering the Genesis block of virtue-signalling.
………………………………
(0:00) “The Western liberal mind, um, uh conceives of itself as being um, good, because it’s liberal. The Western liberal tells him or herself I’m a good person because I’m liberal, I’m liberal because I’m a good person, which means that I believe in things like the Brotherhood of Man um, conscience and compassion uh, looking after the uh, the wretched of the world, the poor and the wretched of the world, standing up against abuses of power, these are all good things and that’s why I’m a liberal.”
……………………………….
Note that they don’t actually do any of these things… it’s all superficial, for show, for demonstration, to be seen, for signalling to others that they think the ‘right’ things.
There is no constructive action associated with any of it. To the extent that any action is involved at all, it is always and only destructive. Vandalism, violent protest, chaos, censorship, deplatforming, banning, doxxing, etc.
Continuing:
…………………………..
“I’m a liberal because of all these good things. So, one of the expressions of my goodness and my liberalism is that I support the Palestinian Arabs, uh who I think are an oppressed people, and they are oppressed by the Israelis who have taken their land away from them, and they are oppressing them.
Now every part of that, in my view, is a lie, but put that to one side.
This is what the liberal Progressive thinks, and the liberal Progressive thinks that supporting the Palestinians is therefore something that makes the liberal Progressive a ‘good’ person.
…………………………..
She could have said the same thing about the liberal Progressives supporting the Ukrainian Nazi regime.
Continuing:
………………………….
October 7 happened, and suddenly you have a situation in which the people that the liberal Progressive has supported as being oppressed, and everything they do is a legitimate defense or resistance against oppression… suddenly we can see that those people have turned into the most bloodthirsty savages that could ever be imagined.
Not just people who kill, but who slaughter in a sadistic, barbaric, uh debauched and depraved fashion, that people can’t imagine ever happening. They have slaughtered, raped, beheaded, tortured, burned alive, babies, children, women, elderly men and others, and, in which the people that they have supported as being oppressed, and good people, because they’re their victims, are these savages.
And the people they have represented as oppressors, are the victims.
They can’t have that.
Because if they have that, if they admit that that is the case, then their entire worldview is shattered, because the people, you know, the, [if] the cause they have supported as representing ‘goodness’, is shown to be evil, and what does that make them?
It makes them evil. So they can’t have it.
So what do they do?
They go to extraordinary lengths to pretend that black is white, that justice is injustice, that oppression is resistance, and vice versa…”
……………………………
.
This psychological phenomenon, part of the ‘Great Pretending’, which separates Left from Right so completely, ties into everything else which divides our country, from covid (and the response to it), to politics, to religion, to everything.
The Left abandons reason to maintain their position and identity within the collective.
And the professional Left has become so toxic, with so many purity tests and barriers to exit — like a cult — that they have locked themselves in a psychological box and thrown away the key.
There is no way out, not without destroying their entire sense of self and identity.
And that’s all they have, because they don’t believe in anything bigger than themselves.
Tina Peters update:
https://nitter.poast.org/annvandersteel/status/1900584435583418467
Ann Vandersteel™️
@annvandersteel
14h
UPDATE:
@realtinapeters is out of Solitary Confinement.
Anyone interested in sending letters to her can do so at:
Larimer County Jail Colorado
Tina Peters
ID#00138336
PO BOX 247
Phoenix, MD 21131
As of 3/12 no bond has been set
https://nitter.poast.org/JohnStrandUSA/status/1843777718745178185
John Strand
@JohnStrandUSA
8 Oct 2024
WOW: Tina Peters backing up the elections data before they wiped the systems gave the public a rare opportunity to analyze before and after the tampering — and it shows clear and deliberate manipulation of the voting systems.
-Audit trail deleted
-System logs deleted
-Voting files replaced with new files
Now we know why the Democrat Judge in her case refused nearly all of her witnesses and excluded virtually all of her defenses, then sentenced her to 9 years in prison — because if this became a nationwide story the entire house of cards with Dominion could fall.
@realtinapeters
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her whistleblower reports are here:
https://nitter.poast.org/realtinapeters/status/1843687985403068762
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https://uncoverdc.com/2022/03/28/mesa-county-clerk-tina-peters-says-backup-was-lawful-and-required
You know who leftist Dems remind me of? The “Boss Hogg” racist Dems of the old South who would commit injustice on anybody who got in their way.
Same thing, other end of the political spectrum.
They are very much STILL RACIST. Consider the fact they think Blacks are not capable of getting an ID or even a decent job.
That bit about an ID is a horselaugh.
Go to any “ghetto” neighborhood…basically any place where the non-working poor live. In other words the neighborhoods the Left claims would be disenfranchised by a voter ID requirement–and ask them about IDs.
They can’t do ANYTHING without them. They’ll be carded for alcohol and tobacco, carded when they write a check, you name it. You’re liable to have them laugh in your face if you ask them about having no ID.
EXACTLY! You have to have an ID to buy alcohol and cigarettes PERIOD.
John Strand
@JohnStrandUSA
11h
BREAKING: Whistleblower @realtinapeters is in serious danger; deprived of nutrients by horrific prison conditions, her health is declining rapidly.
This is madness—we must demand IMMEDIATE action by @AGPamBondi & @FBIDirectorKash, before this patriot DIES IN PRISON.
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Steve’s post brought this to mind….
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“Nationalist Demyan Ganul , who was one of the ardent participants in the arson of the Trade Union House on May 2, 2014, was shot dead in Odessa, Ukrainian publications write. Recently, Ganul has been assisting the TCC staff in capturing Odessa men and sending them to the front.
Ganul was reportedly shot twice by a man in military uniform. Interestingly, back in July 2024, Ganul publicly appealed to the police and the SBU for protection after he allegedly began receiving threats and a bounty was announced for his head. Apparently, such a valuable asset was not protected”
“The moment of Demyan Ganul’s murder in Odessa was captured on a surveillance camera. The killer, without much ceremony and without even hiding his face, approaches the already lying Ganul and makes another control shot to the head with a pistol in front of the onlookers. Initial information that the killer was in military uniform was not confirmed. The main version is possible revenge for the death of one of the mobilized soldiers, in whose sending to the front Ganul himself took part”
https://nitter.poast.org/Intel_Slava/status/1900777566845481004#m
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1900777535509831680/pu/vid/avc1/1200×720/1qybk2H7JKfnDZ3o.mp4?tag=12
Interesting
There’s likely all kinds of reasons for that event but considering the gunman’s overt behavior and the fact that Demyan Ganul was involved right from the beginning of the regime change and was not given protection, gives cause for thought.
Being as ukraine is close to collapse maybe some IC is tidying up the loose ends who may have had things to say.
“……………We also touched on the withdrawal of Daniel Davis’ nomination to serve as a Deputy to Tulsi Gabbard in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Danny was attacked by the rabid Zionists that populate Washington, and the Trump team, lacking a spine, succumbed to the Israel lobby and notified Danny he would not be hired. A real shame.
I spoke with Danny Thursday evening, after the news broke, and reminded him that he should take comfort in the fact that the Zionists are afraid of him……..”
“………..I also learned that David Corn, a Zionist shill masquerading as a journalist, is prepping a hit piece for Mother Jones on Danny. Corn, according to an email he sent Danny, is going to attack him for regularly interviewing Doug MacGregor and me…….”
https://sonar21.com/friday-video-tsunami/
Wikipedia…
Corn with journalist Michael Isikoff co-wrote a book about the Donald Trump campaign and administration’s ties with Russia and Russian hacking during the 2016 presidential campaign, including a history of similar Russian tactics during earlier administrations.[17] Their book, Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump, was released by Twelve in March 2018.[18]
No real loss then.
What DD’s no real loss!?
Corn is no real loss. Sorry for not making that clear.
“A zionist shill masquerading as a journalist.”
Reminds me of Karoline Leavitt calling a jurinalist a “Leftist activist pretending to be a journalist” to their face.
I doubt I could do the job anything remotely as well as she does but I would love to be able to spend my working day cudgeling those assholes. And they have to sit there and take it.
Oh right, not just him though…
https://nitter.poast.org/marklevinshow/status/1899833371976487074
https://nitter.poast.org/LauraLoomer/status/1899894682156753412
From what I have researched Israel is NOT what we think it is. And yes they are preforming Ethnic Cleansing. Remember HAMAS was created by Israel to take the place of the more moderate Arabs so they had a target to point at.
I will add that Mark Levin is a MAJOR TROJAN HORSE. He was part of the group pushing the Convention of States, that would rewrite the ENTIRE CONSTITUTION instead of pushing an amendment to the current Constitution.
I have not trusted the SOB ever since.
Also it is interesting that the Federal Reserve was legislated into existence in 1913 AND the ADL was formed in the same year.
IDF knew of Hamas’s plan to kidnap 250 before October 7 attack – report
Try finding info on Loomer
On the Roman calendar thing I’m surprised that you didn’t touch on where in the year the months lay, September was the 7th month, October the 8th, November the 9th, & December the 10th, I believe based on those prefixes.
That Roman calendar stuff you articulated is wild. I’m guessing that Ides were festival days in most or all months perhaps? People always counting down to the bread & circuses it seems
The article does talk about festival days.
I was focused on the “Ides” concept. Yes the year originally began with March. And the whole thing about “months” (how many in a year, how long was the year) changed around a LOT before Julius Caesar; that’s largely why he reformed it into almost the one we have now (minus changes in nomenclature).
Actually even more recently the “start of the year” has changed around. Russians started the year on September 1st until about 1700 (and used Byzantine year numbers to boot).
We (england->america) started the year on March 25th until 1752. Yes, the break was in the middle of a month!
March 25th is a big feast for both east and west churches.
The Annunciation.
The Incarnation.
“radiometric dating”???
goodness is there another transsexual movement coming?
No but under the rules of radiometric dating, men have to assess the women on the dating site by reading their measurements in centimeters, and if the date goes well, and there is chemistry…in order to get any action, he has to tell her at least once she looks positively radiant tonight.
hmmmm…what do the women use to assess the men??
You tell me.
well the measurement certainly wouldn’t be centimeters…LOL
15 centimeters wouldn’t do it as well (or as poorly) as six inches?
it’s not necessarily about the length. a piece of string can be 15 centimeters long, but not really useful. on the other hand, a man can own a stradivarius–a truly magnificent instrument–and not be able to play anything beautiful with it.
There is an old story about a cello instructor scolding a female student, to the effect of, “you have something between your legs capable of giving pleasure to thousands, and you just scratch at it.”
Edit: Attributed to Thomas Beecham: “Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands – and all you can do is scratch it.”
Can’t push a string, eh? 
https://twitter.com/i/status/1900680065970528502
https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbardrep/status/1900680065970528502
I had to copy this as a comment at my main blog, SpecialConnections.wordpress.com on All of the various posts I did back in the day on Stefan Halper. Revenge served cold
Good. Now go clawback that million dollars.
In all earnest, how does that work if they’ve already spent the money?
Government gives me a grant to study transsexual acceptance in Transdnistria and Transylvania, and I spend it on lavish vacations instead. How do they claw it back?
There’s probably some sort of report due at the end. Demand the report, or sue for breach of contract.
When it’s a clawback, that means they want the money back NOW, regardless of the state of the work being done.
Can’t wait for a final report.
h/t Marica
also h/t Marica
https://xcancel.com/teslaownersSV/status/1900741806217965615
That is the URL
You can always know who to trust by watching kids and dogs. They know instinctively.
I’m bringing the entire article because it is just so galling! how many Americans made $80,000 a year? and AOC KNEW he was an illegal. His “non profit” obtained $15,000 checks to undocumented workers in the pandemic–how much did citizens get?
article
March 15, 2025
Illegals Working for Congress?
By M. Walter
In a sympathetic article titled “AOC Campaign Aide Self-Deports to Colombia,” interviewed Diego De La Vega, a thirty-one-year-old illegal alien (with an illegal alien wife). He complains that he spent twenty-three years “in the shadows” but, notably, felt emboldened enough to accept an invitation to see President Trump deliver the 2018 SOTU (State of the Union) as a guest of (now former) Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY). The article even features a nice picture of him in the gallery.
The article tells us he’d been here in America since the age of seven when his parents let him overstay his visa. That was, as a minor, obviously not his choice. However, every day since he was eighteen he made a choice to remain illegally, until Obama’s DACA, which conferred quasi-“legal” status upon him. His wife, however, did not avail herself of the DACA program (for reasons unstated in the article). Though he and his wife have now left the country, there are lingering questions about the propriety, if not the legality, of his job for a sitting congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
It was his work for the non-profit Make the Road NY which got the congresswoman’s attention. Make the Road NY is devoted to aiding and abetting illegal immigration, and De la Vega was very, very good at his job. He says matter-of-factly and with a sense of absolute entitlement, that he “became politically active (and) he helped secure a $2.1 billion fund (yes, billion with a “b”) that provided $15,000 relief checks to undocumented workers excluded from federal pandemic aid.”
That’s some serious scratch.
Pandemic relief checks to Americans were quite literally a fraction of that. Yes, it appears to have come from New York State’s budget, but we all know how this works: states fund illegals then go straight to the federal government for reimbursement, so any reasonable person from the other forty-nine states could easily conclude it wasn’t New York’s largesse; it was ours… our money.
(And amazingly, the second they ran out of it, they went right back to the State to ask for three billion more! Given that Make the Road NY spends fully half of its roughly thirty million dollar a year budget on salary for it’s own staff, brazen is the order of the day for these “do-gooders.”)
The article goes on to say that “his work did not go unnoticed. Within a year, he was hired by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s reelection campaign…”
Oh, I’m sure she “noticed.” Two billion dollars has a way of attracting attention.
But back to the question at hand: what, pray tell, is an illegal doing working for a sitting congressperson?
“‘Diego is amazing,’ said AOC on Wednesday in a brief hallway interview, adding: ‘We love him.’ However, De La Vega’s aspirations to work on Capitol Hill were stymied by House rules barring DACA recipients from serving as aides in Congress.”
Note that the article states De La Vega was hired for AOC’s reelection campaign. She was a sitting congressperson at the time of his hiring. So… DACA-recipients are prohibited from working for congresspeople on Capitol Hill, but not from working for a sitting congressperson as long as it’s outside the Capitol Complex? Okay…
“Deputy communications director” was De La Vega’s official job title for AOC’s reelection campaign for which he reportedly made $80,000/yr — which means he had to have given his legal ID to her payroll administrator to get his salary. From what this writer has been able to ascertain, DACA-conferred identification (driver’s licenses, passports) are indistinguishable from those given to native-born Americans so it appears to be somewhat of an honor system. No one would know he wasn’t native born unless he told them. We don’t know the backstory as to why he never went to work for her on the Hill. One presumes it’s because it was just too flagrantly illegal, not that that stops most of these cretins but at least here, it appears to be the case.
Still, the potential for illegality just rolls like a river here. Quite apart from the troubling matter of him (likely) still having his DACA-conferred Social Security card (Obama was handing out Social Security cards like candy) and his (presumably) DACA-conferred American passport sitting in a sock drawer somewhere in Bogota (imagine the black market value of that down there), then there’s the matter of De la Vega harboring an illegal. He harbored one here (his wife) and AOC harbored him!
How is any of this in any way legal?
DACA was 100% done by fiat, and though its veneer is to confer “legal” status upon recipients, there is still no actual law behind it. A very good argument could — and should — be made that multiple laws were broken here.
Our elected leaders should be held to a higher standard, not lower. We don’t have teams of aides, assistants, lawyers, staff, etc. to advise us on our every move. These people do, and if they aid or abet illegal immigration then they should be made an example of. If they can lawfare thirty-four felonies on Trump out of nothing, surely we can make a righteous use of black letter law to hold those who ask for our trust to a trustworthy standard.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/03/illegals_working_for_congress.html
The most surprising thing about this guy is that he left the country. If he’s been here since age 7 his entire life almost has been here. He just uproots and leaves? His DACA status is the kind of thing AOC would usually use as loud press coverage. Very strange. His departure doesn’t really doesn’t negate AOC’s culpability in the illegal issues.
“… If he’s been here since age 7 his entire life almost has been here. He just uproots and leaves?…”
I am reminded of a friend. He was born here but he spent a LOT OF TIME in Mexico with his parents.
I would imagine Diego was the same. He spent a lot of time, probably the winters, in Bogota. He most probably has property and investments down there so why should he bother staying in the USA?
I also ran into a Mexican in the outback of Mexico while caving. He was the local sheriff and had been a farm worker in the USA. He made enough money in the states to retire and become a “big man” in his home village.
Not because he got paid a lot, but because Mexico is so damned poor.
It wasn’t always such; they used to be almost as wealthy as we are. But decade upon decade of government so corrupt it might even make our current deep state blush has kept them down.
Not to mention NAFTA which wiped out Mexico’s farmers.
I see what you’re saying but he grew up with his parents in the USA so it makes sense that there were visits to grandparents/family in Columbia but feeling like it was home…not buying that. It seems like possibly there’s more that hasn’t been brought out about his placement in US politics maybe?
didn’t DACA have opportunities to become citizens??? maybe i am misremembering.
Nothing can be a lie if it hurts the Orange Man.
Similar with Taco Bell.
And (for the most part) IHOP and Wienerschnitzel….
And we had a chain called “Hamburger Stand” for a while, too.
39 cent utterly generic hamburgers with no fresh toppings…ketchup, mustard and onions. The 39 cents was posted on a sign that almost looked like a gas station price sign.
Sounds like the fare at Red Barn, yet another iconic building…
that’s right..we had something like that here too.
Yes yesterday was Pi Day. With the same level of precision, tomorrow will be the square-root-of-10 day. 3.16, which is also an irrational day. But later this summer will be the Perfect Day, 6/28, since both 6 and 28 are perfect numbers.
…and ironically, 6/28 is also Tau Day.
For those who maintain we should be working with the ratio of a circle’s radius to its circumference; tau = 2 * pi. It actually makes a lot of sense. One thing that’s hard to get used to is describing angles in radians, pi/2 radians isn’t a half circle, it’s a quarter circle. But tau/4 is actually a quarter circle.
2*pi also shows up in a lot of formulae; many more than pi by itself does.
Tau is nice for explaining circles and parts of periods of sinusoidal signals.
For quick in-head calculations of things like capacitive reactance, the approximation of 1/tau = 0.16 is useful. It is actually 0.159155, but that is off by about 0.5 %, while all the relevant components seldom are more precise than 5%.
But there are some textbooks about phase-locked loops that have equations with pi in them as well as tau, the latter used for some time-constants. So I could foresee some editing there. And that particular kind of theory is quite gnarly to begin with.
Indeed. (Original education background: EE.)
Number of seconds in a year (of 365.25 days) = 31557600, which is close to square root of 10 (3.16227766…) times 10,000,000
Well, Q-tree missed pie day yesterday which means we’ll have to one of these other ones, perhaps both cause we missed pie day 
I think it was noted in the comments, at least.
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, March 15, 2025
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“Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.”
Matthew 5:14 (KJV)
Christ’s sermon on the mount. (1,2) Who are blessed. (3-12) Exhortations and warnings. (13-16) Christ came to confirm the law. (17-20) The sixth commandment. (21-26) The seventh commandment. (27-32) The third commandment. (33-37) The law of retaliation. (38-42) The law of love explained. (43-48)1,2 None will find happiness in this world or the next, who do not seek it from Christ by the rule of his word. He taught them what was the evil they should abhor, and what the good they should seek and abound in…
…”13-16 Ye are the salt of the earth. Mankind, lying in ignorance and wickedness, were as a vast heap, ready to putrify; but Christ sent forth his disciples, by their lives and doctrines to season it with knowledge and grace. If they are not such as they should be, they are as salt that has lost its savour. If a man can take up the profession of Christ, and yet remain graceless, no other doctrine, no other means, can make him profitable. Our
light must shine, by doing such good works as men may see. What is between God and our souls, must be kept to ourselves; but that which is of itself open to the sight of men, we must study to make suitable to our profession, and praiseworthy. We must aim at the glory of God.
Commentary by Matthew Henry, 1710.
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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.
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
MAPA = MAKE AMERICA PRAY AGAIN
LIGHT OF THE WORLD
Jesus said: Ye are the light of the world
As children of God darkness is unfurled
We walk as children in the light of God
Because He called us out not to be flawed
If we walk in the light as He is in the light
We have fellowship with one another aright
The Blood of the Lamb cleanses all from sin
Darkness cannot exist or live within
Let light shine out of darkness in our hearts
Where knowledge of His Glory light imparts
His Word is a lamp right unto our feet
A light unto our path none can defeat
Let your light shine bright before all others
Show your good works to sisters brothers
All praise to the Heavenly Father of all
That they may give glory both great and small
Then your light shall break forth like the dawn
Your healing shall spring up quickly bygone
Your righteousness shall go well before you
The Glory of God behind you accrue
Your eye is the lamp of your whole body
When the eye is healthy it shines broadly
But when it is not beware you will see
Darkness will envelope encompass thee
Come out of the darkness into the light
Proclaim the excellence of God outright
He who walks in darkness loses his way
But he who walks with God will not stray
D01: 07/30/2023
Thank You Duchess! 
https://www.theqtree.com/2019/05/23/the-poetry-tree/#comment-1336670
Lifesong
The Word of God in sacred scripture sings,
A call to faith in all that God brings,
To guide our weak hearts through all our lives’ days,
To walk in love down God’s holy pathways.
To pray without ceasing, to seek His face,
To shine His bright Light in every dark place.
Rejoice, it bids, through every dawn and night,
For Christ has cloaked us in His holy might.
Give thanks through the storms though raging winds roar,
For the grace debt we carry evermore.
With kindness clothe your soul, forgive each wrong,
And speak His Truth . . . our lives His endless song.
Don’t we owe it to Him who gave us His Son,
Conquering sin on the cross “It is done”,
Saving our souls, then bringing us to Him,
To live our lives as a thankful praise hymn?
Thank You Carl! 
https://www.theqtree.com/2019/05/23/the-poetry-tree/#comment-1433036
Amen!
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
prayeveryday777
https://rumble.com/v57jvfg-sleep-well-with-psalms.-psalm-91-psalm-121-psalm-3-psalm-4-psalm-139.faith-.html
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HAVE A VERY BLESSED DAY !!!
Breaking: listen to the sweet babes
I caught this little clip before going to bed last night. My last dream this morning was of Elon mowing my yard in super fast circles and yet somehow, the yard was totally tidily trimmed. Then he handed me his sleeping boy who was twirling my hair in his sleep. Elon wanted his son tucked under his chair to be safe. So I put Lil X there on a pillow and covered him with a soft red blanket.
When I woke up, I realized that Lil X had pointed out to me why cleaning up the FIB will be such a chore. In all my time in tech, we were teams on the same side, working toward a common goal. That’s how I arrived to support FIB inside. I was given tasks, and I completed them to the satisfaction of my team and government managers.
What I did not think too much about at the time is how hateful and divisive different gov groups can be against other gov groups in the same agency on their way toward greater power, control, and approval from the 7th floor. Internal strife and a lack of “one mission” was a big problem though I cannot say what the Biden years torqued it into. In 2007, “One Mission” was a thing. That was quickly dropped during the next administration.
One cannot build a chopsticks rocket catcher unless you have a good team. Elon will see the ugly results of envy, hate, selfishness, greed, and false pride. Perhaps for the first time.
God watch over him and his little boy as they Help Trump.
…but he repeats himself.
I have several scheduled releases for each Sunday of American Stories after Carl’s opener. God has been so good in granting me time to work on these while handling the home improvement project that is underway at the home of our daughter’s family.
This week’s is about the “dash”. Thanks for reading!
Trade Bait, may I make the suggestion that you do the releases on TUESDAY to relieve Wolfie?
Probably could. Need to build in the site info. I will work on it let Wolf know when ready.
Thank You!
See the message I dropped on your last post. We have two Tuesday posts ready to drop on 3/18 (Gail) and 3/25 (Aubergine), and it’s wide open after that. You can handle it however you want to do it!
Makes a lot of sense to start it on April Fools Day, don’t ya think?!
April 1 here we come. I will drop this scheduled one after Carl’s tonight and one more with a notifier of the change on Sunday morning, 3/23.
I agree with the suggestion (and I know you’re working it–just being encouraging).
You’re writing weekly, why not just make it a regular post?
Certainly your current topic is completely apropos on a patriot site. You probably won’t need as much “boilerplate” as I use; just the site rules. (If I didn’t repeat the stuff I repeat every five weeks it wouldn’t fit.)
I’d like to start some trouble. So here ya go:
Although it appears that he has no idea how rules are made (it’s her way or the highway)
It’s just good o’l fashion passive aggression and he’ll still get hit by a frying pan if he keeps it up.
As the saying goes, a woman’s place is in the wrong
(ducks and runs from flying frying pans, breakable dishes, and unmeasurable cups)
Please check your email address – a missing letter sent your last two comments into the bin!
Thanks! I was wondering where they went… problem with the chair-keyboard interface here… aka the nut behind the wheel…
I had a shooting friend who would refer to “operator headspace problems”
LOL!!!
LMAO!!!
Groan!
should i send flowers to the hospital or the funeral home?
Both.
As well as to the wife.
LMAO!!!
Just don’t ever ask me to mow the lawn again!
Run the chainsaw, dig post holes or build a pole barn….
My dad calls such things “squaw work” LOL
Well —
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2025/03/14/urgent-they-knew-it-was-a-lab-leak-all-along/
by Alex Berenson
Yours Truly: This article is about the BND (German intelligence agency) giving the information to Angela Merkel that the COVID-19 virus disaster was a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology — and that Merkel hid the report for years.
HA!!! Hilarious!
There was nothing accidental about that leak/release nor of the design/intent/targets of the virus and the vaccines.
Merkel would she is brainwashed Stasi
https://www.nius.de/wirtschaft/news/klimaneutralitaet-wenn-dieses-wort-wirklich-ins-grundgesetz-kommt-war-s-das-fuer-die-deutsche-wirtschaft/65e150a6-0d2c-41cb-8f24-edaf67a83d74
She hid a lot of things for years….
And decimated the “bench” and the “farm system” of ALL the political parties in Germany!!!!!
Merz is at the verge of putting Germany on the wrong end of 1.5 TRILLION Euros in debt, and anchoring CO² neutral (i.e. ZERO CO²) in the GERMAN CONSTITUTION!!!!!
We’re seeing the Satanic globalists at work here, first hand…..
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/political-alchemy-saturday-march
Good morning, C&C, it’s Saturday! In the weekend edition roundup: with apologies, a full-throated morning monologue deemed this year’s surreal motif and describing why no one seems able to keep up with President Trump’s political alchemy; Joe Biden’s presidency of unreality and his fake oval office debuts at last; President Autopen’s cabbage-like orders raise legal questions; Trump legal team claps back with blockbuster Supreme Court appeal challenging nationwide epidemic of TROs and injunctions; and Trump and Putin put on a masterclass about negotiating for the hapless corporate media.
“….And yet, here we are—watching the impossible become inevitable.
Frankly, I doubt they are even sure what’s exactly is going on. Like the rest of us, media is struggling to keep up with the frenetic rush of events. Media isn’t even sure what to disbelieve. And I hardly blame them. The timeline itself is flying at hypersonic speeds, defying the laws of physics, far beyond anything we’ve previously considered to be possible in the real world….”
I certainly agree with him. We are getting win after win so why are people still complaining instead of being happy we are getting WINS?
They want arrests.
So do I.
But I know we have to have a DOJ and FBI to work with. Even these current investigations we hear about like the one regarding Tina Peters, I half expect to be sabotaged by embeds.
YES.
EXACTLY!
First you have to clean out the departments THEN you can go after the criminals.
This is very relevant…..
I think all sides realized Biden was fake, as the left (not the right) was faking it, but there was a fight over attribution of the fakery, as the left saw opportunity to lull the right with a fake Q message. The left and their protecting TLAs were clearly faking Biden to let Obama run things, and were likely (IMO) behind trying to convince us that “Patriots Are Still In Control” with crazy assertions like fake planes, Kamala has been indicted and is acting, Biden is dead, etc. (You may remember that stuff in early 2021.) Another Operation Trust, IMO. And yet I’m thinking that their BS eventually got hijacked as Trump began winning, and Patriots really did get back into control – ready to take control, as the Obama control messed up, panicking after the Biden-Trump debate, then making a series of bad choices.
Complicated business!
Remember it? There were numerous people here who bought into it wholesale and we had nothing but arguments over it. And OBTW it continued on into 2022 and even 2023.
I don’t recall any of them ever conceding that they were wrong.
I had suspicions that Badlands Media was set up to be a ‘Limited Hangout’ Patrick Gunnels pretty much convinced me it was.
After all how did a guy, going thru a divorce with NO INCOME set up Badlands? And then suddenly have the $$$ to buy a house.
Well it’s quite possible there are a LOT of idiots out there.
But I am actually going to take you to task. You were posting incessantly about “devolution” back then, all the stuff about Trump never having actually surrendered power.
There is such a thing as “devolution” and Trump did write some very interesting EOs.
Whether there was a ‘Fail Safe’ in place in case stuff went sideways very badly, I have no idea and I doubt we will ever know.
I do think there were some behind the scenes stuff going on by the ‘good guys’ for years.
It is pretty clear Trump has a very good plan of action this time around.
Regardless of good ill or unknowable intent, it’s end result was it kept the home fires burning. Good enough and time well spent!
I felt it was worth exploring.
It has become very obvious that all sorts of illegal stuff was happening. Trying to figure out if there was anything that could be done about it during the four years of hell, at least kept us occupied.
Lots of ideas tossed out. Lots were useless but some were of use. Gregg Phillips and Catherine Engelbrecht information on the China-linked Konnech Company was one for example.
There’s a huge difference between that and the crap you were posting, implying that Trump chucking Biden out and resuming the oval office could happen at any time.
We were certainly hoping so. Remember there was a heck of a lot of fraud and if the courts had allowed the cases to have ‘standing’ and if the judges were not as crooked as a dogs hind leg, Trump SHOULD have been able to win in court and become president.
That was before the inauguration though. Once inaugurated there was a flood of stuff claiming that somehow Trump could just take office again at some point, because he had never *actually* relinquished power. “This is all a movie” because Trump was really the president.
I know someone who won a steak dinner betting a buddy that Trump would NOT be restored to office by such and such date in 2021.
For the umpteenth time, once sworn in POTUS can only be removed via impeach/convict.
The idea that an election can be undone after being certified by the electoral college violates the constitution.
Only if there is no majority can the choice of POTUS escape being certified by EC in which case the constitution says it goes to a vote of the states in the House.
Nowhere is there any re-do.
However Biden was NOT certified by a quorum. The quorum was present but was PREVENTED FROM VOTING BY PIGLOSI.
On Jan 6th there was a literal Coup d’état.
What blew my mind at the time was theories that Biden would be arrested as soon as he finished taking the oath (in order to “complete the crime”) and the real doozy was the “Ten Days of Darkness”. Trump would swoop back into office after ten days of phony Biden Administration. We even had someone here who was adamant about that one and swore they’d eat crow if it didn’t happen (they didn’t).
Actually I think it is Piglosi, Mitch the bitch & Pence who committed the crime.
Nancy told everyone it was the Doctor that insisted on the 6 feet apart rule or some such nonsense thus requiring a much pared down number allowed on the floor to vote. However later the doctor said he never said anything like that.
The ‘breach’ of the capitol by ‘Deplorables’ at the critical moment was needed to silence the challenges to the verification of the vote count in each state. It was very well timed. When the joint session was reconvened, none of the challenges were allowed to be heard and the small number of hand picked Senators and Congressman Voted to ‘certify’
So whether or not that ‘Certification’ was actually valid…. I am not a Constitutional Lawyer, but Raiklin is and he thinks it was NOT valid.
I will also add proven FRAUD has been used to unseat other sitting elected officials.
Thank you for remembering all this stuff!
Oh and for the first couple of years, all those theories that he had been replaced by a double that was doing Trump’s bidding. Or other variations of the theme that the Brandon Administration wasn’t “real.” Years upon years of that bullshit.
Fraudulently installed, yes, but installed nevertheless, and therefore real.
Doubles? I am neutral. However they did find the mock-up of the oval office that Biden used. It is shown in one of the tweets on this page.
The Fake Oval Office (TM) was known to be “real” (as in a real thing) from shortly after it was exposed by mainstream media, IIRC. It had an obvious explanation in that it was easier to FAKE Biden’s competence in a television-like environment, than in the REAL Oval office. Etc. Just useful Hollywood fakery. But SAD, SAD, SAD.
But the LEFT covered that up by convincing a substantial fraction of patriots that WE were doing it – and that WE were really in control – so don’t worry about the left being in control of the nation – it’s “not happening” (TM).
GRRRRRR.
As I said I became very suspicious of PatricK Gunnels.
I very much think he was a Trojan Horse used to sow bull schiff.
The Doubles thing is so bad – now they’re claiming Trump ain’t Trump.
Look in the replies on this thread of insanity.
https://x.com/deluxe_pepe/status/1900931175058731162
Definitely, and that was never in doubt. From what I can tell, Trump sees it as his mission to restore this country and make it better than ever, if possible. There’s no way he would give up even when an election was stolen from him. We are seeing the fruits of his planning now.
But the country was not being run from a fake WH, nor were JB body doubles interacting with and fooling people who knew him well, nor was Trump “really in charge” during the JB years, nor did he plan to lose in 2020, etc. (I’m not saying you were espousing all those views; just listing a few of them.)
I will bring theories that I do not necessarily believe. If nothing else they are good for discussions.
My opinions have certainly changed a LOT over the last decade.
I love it! So at the “whole earth” level, just looking at what’s NOT here, tells us quite a bit the age of the planet.
Indeed.
It would kind of be fun if there were primordial plutonium out there, and there still might be.
THAT would be very interesting!
An oldie but goodie:
LMAO!!!
From one hour ago. Provides a good over view of what’s next in the Sumy region with in the first 5 minutes.
Per Fox News, transgender sailors and marines (that last is especially hard to believe) are given until March 28 to leave voluntarily (and keep benefits) or be booted out (and lose half of them).
LOL!
Joe with the receipts on the Clintons.
https://badlands.substack.com/p/america-for-sale-part-3
Concerning the calendar talk and Ides of March stuff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Roman_calendar
On talk section of that wikipedia page I left a note back in May of 2024.
2 links. one explaining the 10 month calendar as is accepted, but note the meaning of the names of the months for the last 6. 2nd link is Tilak in his own words. Good sampler for how he wrote as he address’s the 10 and 12 month colanders of the Roman’s in light of his Artic Theory.
Freedom Ring
March 15, 2025 2:04 pm
Republicans are searching for ways to “pay for” their tax cuts. Democrats want the rich to pay more tax. Here’s a solution that should make everyone happy.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith is suggesting a tax on the $840 billion college endowments. These endowments will soon eclipse $1 trillion in size — more money than the entire GDP of many countries.
https://hotair.com/stephen-moore/2025/03/15/want-to-soak-the-rich-tax-university-endowments-n3800780
As much as I hate colleges charging enormous tuition (because students will just borrow the money and end up saddled with student loans forever) while they sit on a trillion bucks…this would be an awful precedent. Depending of course on what they plan to do–which the article is simply not clear on.
If it’s a demand to simply hand over some of the endowment as a tax, it’s no different in principle from them taxing your savings account or 401k or other retirement account; an idea floated by the Klinton administration. If they want to make donations to universities not tax deductible, on the other hand, that might not be so bad (but it wouldn’t touch the trillion bucks already there).
what about the research grant money colleges receive? can’t they fund their own?
Yes but that’s a different issue than trying to use colleges as a new source of taxes.
I’d say if they want to research the sex lives of transgender molluscs they should fund that themselves or raise the money themselves.
As a bit of unrelated trivia, good colleges (ones whose degrees mean something) apparently come in two types.
One type admits a lot of students but weeds them out; most admitted do not manage to graduate. (This is particularly rife in state systems where they have to take in a bunch of two-year-college grads at the beginning of junior year. You hear stories about freshman orientation: “Look at the guy to your left. Look at the guy to your right. If you’re here three years from now, they won’t be.”)
Harvard, however was called out as an example of the other type. Once admitted you would almost certainly graduate; the hard part was getting admitted in the first place. In other words they weeded you out outside the door.
My Univ was the first type. Less than 1/2 the freshman class made it to graduation.
Me Too …
I wonder how many good people…who COULD graduate…were getting weeded out to let lesser-grade 2-year-grads in.
That wasn’t what was going on in my school, but nevertheless it was tough and people would change majors to the business school or something else.
We were one of the top engineering schools so I do not think so.
Doncha just love the phrase: “pay for” ?
OMG, stop spending OPM and we’ll get outta this hole quickly,
Yeah no shit. You don’t “pay for” getting less income.
Russell Brand does an excellent impersonation of Jordan Peterson:
https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1900784181040365910
Well, that about settles it; Shaggy, another round for our Q-Trieer horde.
One of these days, Ill tell you who Shaggy (bartender) is/was. Dawn knows for sure!!!!
I’m assuming this means that descent will not be tolerated in Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/JamesElliottIII/status/1900563163399000551
At around 30:00 nuland look like she’s off her feed something must be bothering her.
She’s not getting any classified information, and she can’t discuss anything with people who have access. She’s shut out. She’s flying blind and can’t strategize.
Please note the clip by the former NATO commander that follows.
May I laugh uproariously? Never mind – too late – I already am. 
Life’s a bitch when you’re a demon, and the righteous are suddenly in charge.
A bunch of delusional people who need a reality check.
Beautiful!
https://twitter.com/Brink_Thinker/status/1900941659682038064
WONDERFUL! 
This did not take long my president, I voted for, started a war with the Houthis. I pray to God this works out but the peacemaker label is gone. First Bush get us into Iraq then Obama gets the war going in Ukraine now Trump pulls us back into the middle East ? I am confused. Time to stop the madness let Europe take care of Ukraine, Israel take care of the Palestinians and whoever needs to take care of the Houthis should take care of them but not us.
I think I understand the attack on the Houthis.
Like you, I do NOT want more foreign wars, at all. But the Houthis are attacking ships attempting to navigate through the Gulf of Aden into the Suez Canal. It is a major, major shipping lane for oil, the lifeblood of the planet. The Houthis can’t be allowed to continue. They have also attacked the USS Harry S. Truman at least half-a-dozen times.
I think we will destroy them fast, in and out.
Hope this shows
Thank you.
You’re welcome…I’m out of the loop on current happenings so when I read your comment I went to find out the reason and thankfully Pres Trump is always transparent.
Thanks.
Sure…I agree with your comment too
Trump does not play games. And yes I was about to say it was about the Gulf of Aden into the Suez Canal. ALSO it is about the game playing. I think it was the Brits who moved into the area to get the Egyptians to send troops so their forces were divided. That was when the Israelis attacked the SSLiberty.
Thank you for your explanations. I think people are out there to psy- op already.I hope we have the weapons to stop the Houthis attack’s on the ships.
There are some wars which NEED TO BE FOUGHT.
The Houthis hearken back to the Barbarians which Jefferson fought, indeed which birthed the US Navy. They are destroying OUR shipping vessels and capability.
As such, they need to be completely, utterly, and quickly destroyed.
Perhaps in the sense of “do unto others before they do unto you”.
This IS OUR WAR…
I did not know that. Thank you.