“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
Putting the special needs nephew to bed so this is going to be short and sweet.
Just imagine this as a metaphor of how the president and the rest of the cabinet and XVII team are taking care of things.
Much more tomorrow.
And a reminder to take the pledge:
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.”
And now for the nitty gritty of the Q Tree 5 minute, stand up, Tuesday morning meeting version of the Daily Thread.
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14Then I looked, and lo, a white cloud, and seated on the cloud one like a son of man, with a golden crown on his head, and a sharp sickle in his hand. 15And another angel came out of the temple, calling with a loud voice to him who sat upon the cloud, “Put in your sickle, and reap, for the hour to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is fully ripe.” 16So he who sat upon the cloud swung his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped. 17And another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle. 18Then another angel came out from the altar, the angel who has power over fire, and he called with a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, “Put in your sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for its grapes are ripe.” 19So the angel swung his sickle on the earth and gathered the vintage of the earth, and threw it into the great wine press of the wrath of God;
As always, prayers for the fight against that which seeks to enslave us are welcome. Via con Dios.
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread is VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KMAG/KAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
Yes, it’s Monday…again.
But it’s okay! We’ll get through it.
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Our President is fighting for us night and day…please pray for him.
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If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
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For your listening enjoyment, I offer this collection of compositions from Seventh Dimension Music, titled ‘Beyond Boundaries’, ‘His Stars Gaze Upon Us’ and ‘Rebirth’:
Prepare to defend “conspiracy theories” until the globo-nazis have no choice but to close this blog.
Because there’s nobody better at defending “conspiracy theories” to their proof than US.
When Sundance was kicked off WordPress, and more precisely WordPress.com – the .com part being a subtle distinction – I decided to leave WordPress, too, in some kind of “solidarity”.
We don’t actually HAVE to leave yet – we are not being threatened by the WordPress.com parent company, Automattik – or as I like to call them, AutomattiKKK.
Indeed, leaving at our convenience seemed like a bit of a blessing.
The trouble was, even though I had an excellent plan to leave and move to a censorship-proof home, I simply didn’t have the motivation I needed.
Ah, but Sidney Powell has solved this problem for me.
Sidney Powell is obviously going to cause the other side IMMENSE GRIEF. She is about to drop accusations which the other side will RIDICULE, MOCK and DENY, but which will SCARE THEM TO THEIR BONES.
The weaklings in the Establishment GOP are not up for this fight.
Indeed, I actually believe that the GOP are now WILTING in Georgia, scamming it for MONEY, but perfectly ready to give the Senate to the Demonic Democrats, should Trump manage to win.
What I’m seeing from the GOPe is a lot of FEAR-MONGERING FOR MONEY on Georgia. I’m not seeing people calling for KEMP’S HEAD. I’m not seeing anybody ready for a SHERMAN’S MARCH against Stacy Abrams, COMMUNIST RAT.
I’m seeing the same old same old – monetization of a crisis held in a balance.
And it gets WORSE.
Nobody wants to admit that our elections have been a FRAUD. Not just here, but across this PLANET.
Sidney’s gonna drop bombshells. I already believe her. Why? Because I have not told you stuff – damn near TREASON – that I witnessed during my decades in the shallow end of the swamp.
CHINA. NORMALIZED. CORRUPTION. AND. BETRAYAL.
They had a great, even scientific way of doing this, and it worked.
Communists corrupted America to jaw-dropping extents. On behalf of other interests, yes – and those interests need to pay for THEIR crimes, too. But it is SMART to understand who is who in the fight. We deal with both a corrupt opponent, and their SATANIC ringmaster.
Back to THIS fight.
Sidney is not going to get a break here. The WEAK and the SCARED are going to turn and run.
NOT ME.
The moneybags in the UNIPARTY are going to DENY, DENOUNCE, and DISPARAGE. The QUISLINGS and the COWARDS are going to run.
We’ve been in this fight before. We can win THIS ONE, TOO. But it’s going to be rough.
I am going to back this woman until the Three Gorges Dam of their LIES breaks, and the world is forever changed.
FAKE ELECTIONS are going to be a thing of the past.
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The Storm is upon us. Please remember to Pray for our President.
AND WHAT TIME IS IT? TIME TO DRAIN THE SWAMP!!!
It’s time to replace a failed and CORRUPT political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American People. ~ Candidate Donald J. Trump
Also remember Wheatie’s Rules:
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
And,
On this day and every day –
God is in Control . . . and His Grace is Sufficient, so . . . Keep Looking Up
Hopefully, every Sunday, we can find something here that will build us up a little . . . give us a smile . . . and add some joy or peace, very much needed in all our lives.
“This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn nor weep.” . . . “Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
Grace & Gratitude
There’s a lot going on these days that has a very serious impact on Americans. The depth and breadth of corruption in our politics, government and media is staggering. The cooperation of ordinary citizens with this corruption is equally staggering. Since it appears to be becoming apparent that “We have it all”, we are at a point now where we are eagerly waiting for the public revelation of the corruption in our recent Presidential election.
If you’re anything like me, you’re beginning to feel a sense of relief that this election won’t be stolen by the Democrats and we can anticipate four more years of a President who most surely will prove to be one of the greatest Presidents in our history.
As our outrage grows against the seditious, even traitorous, Democrats, and as the current events unfold, we can begin to feel an expectation that a large number of very guilty people will be identified. Hopefully, most will be subjected to a penalty that provides at least some reasonable recompense for their heinous actions.
As I get caught up in the enormity of this drama, I find that my attention is being pulled away from “things above” and is focused more on the affairs of men. Specifically, as I live my life, I want to be constantly aware that I owe everything I am and have, including my eternal future, to the grace of God. And I want to have a constant awareness of my gratitude to God for His grace.
And so, the following is a gentle reminder of God’s grace and my gratitude.
In all the debates about our role versus God’s role in sanctification—our growth in holiness—we’d stay on the right track if we’d remember the grace-gratitude dynamic. The more we understand how kind God has been to us and the more we are overcome by His mercy, the more we are inclined to love Him and to serve Him.
Yet we can’t get the grace-gratitude dynamic right if we aren’t clear on what grace means. What is grace? The catechisms many of us learned as children give us the answer: “Grace is the unmerited favor of God.” The first thing that we understand about grace is what it’s not—it’s not something we merit. In fact, if that is all we ever understand about grace, I’m sure God will rejoice that we know His grace is unmerited. So, here’s our working definition of grace—it is unmerit.
Paul’s epistle to the Romans sheds light on what we mean when we say that grace is unmerit. In 1:18–3:20, the Apostle explains that on the final day, for the first time in our lives, we will be judged in total perfection, in total fairness, in absolute righteousness. Thus, every mouth will be stopped when we stand before the tribunal of God. This should provoke fear in the hearts of fallen people, as condemnation is the only possible sentence for sinful men and women: “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (3:23).
But those who trust in Christ Jesus have hope, for if we are in Him by faith, we have been “justified freely by His grace.” Note that justification is accomplished not by obligation, but freely through grace on account of the redemption purchased by Jesus alone. There’s no room for boasting, for we are justified not by our works but by grace alone through faith alone.
Paul goes on to cite Abraham as the preeminent example of one who was justified by faith alone and therefore free from God’s sentence of condemnation. If the basis for Abraham’s salvation, his justification, was something that Abraham did—some good deed, some meritorious service that he performed, some obligation that he performed—if it were on the basis of works, Paul says, he would have had something about which to boast. But Abraham had no such merit. All he had was faith, and that faith itself was a gift: “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness” (4:3; see Eph. 2:8–10).
Romans 4:4–8 is a key passage here:
Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works: “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin.”
That’s grace. Paul couldn’t say it any other way. To him who works, it’s debt; if you merit something, it means that someone is obligated to pay you. If I hire you as an employee and promise to pay you one hundred dollars if you work eight hours, I must pay you for working the eight hours. I’m not doing you a favor or giving you grace. You’ve earned your pay. You’ve fulfilled the contract, and I’m morally obliged to give you your wages.
With respect to the Lord, we are debtors who cannot pay. That’s why the Bible speaks of redemption in economic language—we were bought with a price (1 Cor. 6:20). Only someone else—Christ—can pay our debt. That’s grace. It’s not our good works that secure our rescue but only the works of Christ. It’s His merit, not ours. We don’t merit anything. He grants us His merit by grace, and we receive it only by faith. The essence of grace is its voluntary free bestowal. As soon as it’s a requirement, it’s no longer grace.
Grace should never cease to amaze us. God has an absolute, pure, holy standard of justice. That’s why we cling with all our might to the merit of Jesus Christ. He alone has the merit to satisfy the demands of God’s justice, and He gives it freely to us. We haven’t merited it. There’s nothing in us that elicits the Lord’s favor that leads to our justification. It’s pure grace.
And the more we understand what God has done for us as sinners, the more willing we are to do whatever He requires. The great teachers of the church say the first point of genuine sanctification is an increasing awareness of our own sinfulness. With that comes, at the same time, an increasing awareness of God’s grace. And with that, again, increasing love and increasing willingness to obey Him.
When we truly understand grace—when we see that God only owes us wrath but has provided Christ’s merit to cover our demerit—then everything changes. The Christian motivation for ethics is not merely to obey some abstract law or a list of rules; rather, our response is provoked by gratitude. Jesus understood that when He said, “If you love Me, keep My commandments.” If I may have the liberty to paraphrase: “Keep My commandments not because you want to be just, but because you love Me.” A true understanding of grace—of God’s unmerited favor—always provokes a life of gratitude and obedience.
. . . He who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus, and will present us with you. For all things are for your sakes, that grace, having spread through the many, may cause gratitude to abound to the glory of God.
It dawned on me yesterday after listening to what attorney Alan Dershowitz had to say about the 2020 election. Our President doesn’t have time to reach 270 electoral votes. He has to prevent SleepyCreepy Joe from reaching 270 electoral votes by December 14th.
In doing so, the 12th Amendment will be used to elect our President and Vice President.
[…] and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President.
But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote;
[…] and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President;
[…] President Trump has a very well-thought-out and clever plan, and all roads lead to the SCOTUS, where Desrh says he will likely win.
“The clock is a double-edged sword in this election because if they don’t have enough time but if they can put forward a sufficiently strong case then they may be able to get some Republican Secretaries of States or legislatures to say, ‘Look, we just don’t have enough time to certify these electors’ and if they can bring down the number of electors, 35 [to] 37, from the 305 and bring it down to 267 or 268 then the election goes to the House, where the Republicans win.”
Dershowitz explained that the Trump Team’s legal strategy is to pull enough electors away from Joe Biden that he doesn’t meet the 270 threshold by the time the election needs to be certified. He also said there’s no possible way for President Trump to get to 270 electoral votes in time.
“The goal is to prevent Biden from getting 270, that’s why the clock is a double-edged sword,”he said.
According to the Harvard professor, Bush v. Gore will be referenced if and when the Trump campaign’s case makes its way to the Supreme Court. The reason: Trump’s Team is focusing on the Equal Protection Clause. Their argument is that not all voters were treated equally because some had their ballots counted with an observer while others didn’t. Some had rules set by other government officials and not the state legislatures, which the Supreme Court ruled against.
In order for these cases to make their way to the Supreme Court, Dershowitz said “the numbers have to be there,” meaning the Trump Team successfully pulls electors away from Biden so the former vice president is no longer at the 270 threshold. The other option is for Trump’s lawyers to provide “hard evidence” of irregularities occurring with voting machines, which could call into question hundreds of thousands of votes in various states.
“If that happens, then yes, it will go to the Supreme Court,”Dershowitz said.“I think at least under the Constitutional challenge, the Article 2 challenge in Pennsylvania, they have a pretty good chance of winning.”
That is why the Wisconsin recount that is currently taking place in Dane and Milwaukee county is so crucial.
Thankfully their was no last minute revision to the recounting rules. As you can see from the tweet below, this isn’t a Georgia recount. All the checks and balances are in place.
The WI Elections Commission met last night & there was a push to make changes that would make the recount harder and that would make observing the recount harder.
They should follow the law and let the whole world watch the recount. Transparency is key for legitimate elections.
The number of ballots that will be rejected in Wisconsin will allow our President to win the state. That will drop SleepyCreepy Joe down to 296 electoral votes.
Our President will win at the Supreme Court once they toss all the ballots because of the last minute changes allowed by the Governor and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. That will drop SleepyCreepy Joe down to 276 electoral votes.
The remaining 7 electoral votes needed will come from Michigan and/or Arizona. My money is on Michigan because the cheating their was on steroids. It will be really easy to argue that 200,000+ votes should not count because of fraud by people and the Dominion voting system.
Arizona’s Governor will not certify the election until all court cases are resolved. I also think that once Wisconsin gets reversed based on the number of votes that shouldn’t have counted and the GLITCHES found from the audit, Arizona will have to conduct a full audit. 61% of the votes came from Maricopa County. It uses the Dominion voting system.
Public opinion is going to play a big factor as well! Thankfully a majority of Americans are seeing what we are seeing about the 2020 election.
WOW! 30% of Democrats Believe Election Stolen from Trump — 75% of Republicans Believe It Is Likely Election Was Stolen from Trump https://t.co/SLES6MtEDC via @gatewaypundit
Rasmussen Polling found this week that 75% of Republicans believe it is likely the election was stolen from Trump.
And, even 30% of Democrats believe that it was stolen.
According to a Rasmussen poll conducted November 17-18, nearly half of likely voters, 47 percent, believe the election was stolen from Trump. If Joe Biden is ultimately certified as the winner, there will undoubtedly be a big fat asterisk on his presidency.
This put a BIG smile on my face!
BREAKING: Look who is now in charge of PA, WI, MI, and GA
Circuit Courts have been Reassigned
Effective November 20, 2020, ordered pursuant to Title 28, United States Code, Section 42
MI – Brett M. Kavanaugh WI – Amy Coney Barrett PA – Samuel A. Alito GA – Clarence Thomas pic.twitter.com/kMsRK5k54a
Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell was interviewed by Glenn Beck where she discussed the ongoing “election rigging” involving companies involved in ballot counting (software) as well as foreign actors engaged in data gathering.
Powell states she is hopeful to begin sharing documents as early as this weekend, but the scope of the investigation is taking time to complete.
Sidney Powell was also interviewed on Newsmax yesterday.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=F5vndAmMqAM
Our President also tweeted the following videos for us to watch:
It’s Thursday evening in Colorado, Friday morning on the East Coast (you know, the place where the people think we’re just their frigging backyard live). So as I write this, I have no idea what happened on Friday. Hopefully the Kraken left some footprints around with tiny little squashed swamp dwellers in the bottom.
(Well, now the Kraken can get crackin’.)
So the hottest news in the last couple of weeks was the press conference, mainly by Rudy Giuliani and Sydney Powell, with a bit of YSM bashing by Jenna Ellis.
They mostly stated they had evidence, without actually showing it (which is entirely proper); though Giuliani read some affidavits from some brave people. So there is evidence. There is absolutely evidence.
And yet the YSM simply continues to assert there is none, and even Fox has shown itself to be controlled opposition, now.
Giuliani, and Powell, and Ellis all took those YSM ratfuckers to the woodshed.
There are tens of millions of people who will believe them, because they have seen nothing else.
They’re not evil, just ignorant.
I am reminded of some of the stories I heard about the collapse of the Soviet Union. Now, everyone in the USSR knew the media bullshitted them a lot. They’d read Pravda (Правда) back to front to glean real information. For instance, once there was a time when an airliner had crashed while taking a bunch of Communist Party mucky-mucks home from a Party Congress. The crash was never announced (socialist planes never crashed, you see), but the obituaries in the back, suddenly a hundred prominent people, gave it away. Now the point isn’t that Soviet airliners crashed. The point is that the people over there were so used to their media bullshitting them they had developed tricks to counteract it. They also had a joke, that there is no truth in Izvestia, and no news in Pravda. Izvestia, of course, is the Russian word for News, and Pravda is the Russian word for Truth.
So they thought they had a handle on the bullshit, because they could see the over-the-top propaganda (that we once-upon-a-time would satirize).
But the far more subtle propaganda was beneath their notice. They had been taught, every day in school and every day as an adult, about how the United States was evil, poorer than they were, and everything they saw supported that. So they didn’t question it. They’d question specific news items, but they didn’t question the things that everyone knows.
Just like tens of millions of Americans don’t question what the news feeds them every night. Trump has been portrayed as a pompous buffoon, an asshole who never admits defeat, and won’t admit he lost this election. And he has been portrayed, over the last five or six years, as having those personality traits. It would never occur to these people to question it. Because everyone knows Trump is a reality TV buffoon!
So going back to the ex-Soviets. What was their response when they realized just how deep and pervasive the lying was?
Absolute fury and outrage.
What will our YSM Bubble People’s reaction be?
Keep in mind that the YSM Bubble People don’t even have the sense that the jurinalists lie to them at all. They’re not like Soviet citizens, aware of lying but not comprehending how much and about absolutely everything. They are completely ignorant of the lies.
If and when they finally see the truth, be prepared for some very serious “I’ve been betrayed” outrage. Many of us will be tempted to laugh, but I would venture to say that would be the wrong reaction ninety percent of the time (the other ten percent of the time would be those specific people we have tried, unsuccessfully, to redpill).
Of course some small number of them are truly dedicated ideologically to Leftism, and will be OK with the lying since it was “necessary.” I’m not talking about them; I’m talking about the people who would be on our side if only they had any real knowledge of the world.
We don’t know when, or even if, the YSM’s grip will ever be broken. I just know these next couple of months are one of the most likely times for it to happen. And when it does, a lot of good people are going to need comfort and reassurance. Be prepared.
But by all means piss on the dedicated Leftists when THEY are outraged because their sheeple are furious with them. If you can arrange to pee red fuming nitric acid, so much the better.
Justice Must Be done.
Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American People...Our campaign represents a true existential threat, like they’ve never seen before.
Then-Candidate Donald J. Trump
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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.)
The Mandatory Coin
I’m going to step back a bit from coins.
The United States issued Continental Currency during the Revolutionary War, and issued some interest bearing notes during the War of 1812. But for the most part, we avoided government issued paper money until the Civil War.
Private banks could and did issue paper money, backed by their own financial soundness. You could, if you had a bank note from Mulligan’s Bank and Grill (h/t L. Neil Smith, who loathes the concept of paper money and not without a lot of justice), you could walk into that establishment and exchange it for silver and gold. As long as not too many people decided to do this the system worked; people confident in being able to exchange the banknote for real money at any time were happy to use the notes. Yes, there were more notes out there than there was real money at the bank; what backed the notes was the value of the assets of the bank; i.e., the loans the bank had made (money owed you is an asset, though getting your hands on it Right Now is problematic).
Of course, the further away you got from Mulligan’s Bank and Grill, the fewer people would accept the note, since they didn’t know the bank and they were too far away to just casually cash the note in. Or they’d take it at a discount, charging you eleven Mulligan bucks for a $10 item. Worse, if Mulligan went belly up, people far away from it might not know it. And if people had never heard of the bank before, who was to say it was till in business.
And even worse, there was no standardization of designs. The banknote you were being presented might not even be genuine, or it might have been raised (altered to show a higher denomination). If you are presented a ten dollar bill with a train vignette on it from Mulligan’s Bank and Grill, how likely are you to remember that Mulligan’s put the train on their one dollar bills, but not their tens?
A lot of the headaches can be alleviated with standardized designs and clearing houses that know the notes from far away and will accept them at par (providing the bank is in fact solvent).
This is one of the things the Federal Government started doing in 1862, when paper money was created, and this time it was here to stay. “National Bank Notes” were of standardized design with only the name and charter number of the bank differing, they were printed by the Federal Government, and their issuance was strictly regulated. The Federal government also issued demand notes, backed by nothing but a promise to eventually redeem them (which they eventually did do), and a host of other things.
[Of course, there are people who collect paper money. It tends, in general, to be far, far rarer than coins, because a piece of paper would wear out quickly. Large denominations ($50 and up) from the 1800s tend to be extremely rare, with deep-into-five figure pricetags the rule rather than the exception, with, in some cases, no known survivors and pictures you see in catalogs are off of specimen notes. In many cases, because the government tracked them when they were redeemed, we have upper limits on the number of notes that still exist (i.e., we know how many were never turned in), and in many cases even for fairly “common” stuff there are only a few hundred out there.]
Before I continue, I should mention something you may not know. Before 1928, US paper money was of a larger size than it is today. In fact, it was the same size as those old “computer cards” (or Hollerith Cards). Or rather, the other way around; the cards were the same size as the paper money. When Hollerith invented his cards, he made them the same size as the paper money, so the same machinery that banks used to handle the notes could be adapted to handle his cards. No dummy, he!
Another thing they began to do, in 1878, was issue silver certificates. (There were also gold certificates, identifiable by bright orange/yellow (not green) print on the back.)
Each silver certificate was essentially a receipt for silver dollars deposited in the US treasury. As such they were 100% backed by real money, unlike a bank note, that was backed by loans on the books of the bank. (Of course, by 1878 the price of silver had fallen so far that a silver dollar itself wasn’t worth a dollar intrinsically, but those, in turn, were backed by gold, which was itself by definition equivalent to dollars at a certain ratio.)
In 1878 and 1880, two different series of silver certificates were issued, of very similar design (denominations 10, 20, 50, 100, and $500). Another, quite different issue came out in 1886 (1, 2, 5, 10 and $20). This one is famous for actually showing five silver dollars on the reverse of the five dollar note.
1886 $5 Silver Certificate (back). Note: Multiple thousands of dollars in very fine grade or above.
There yet another series in 1891 with the same fronts as 1886 where possible (in 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, and $1000), and then there was another series in 1896.
This series was only issued in $1, $2 and $5 notes. And it is famous. They are called the “Educational” notes. They have the most magnificent artwork ever to appear on US paper money. And this is our destination tonight.
The notes’ artwork actually has names. This one is “History Instructing Youth.” The woman is a personification of history, and under her foot you can see the name of the work of art.
This note should endear itself to us all. It’s loaded with detail. In the background the capitol, and the then-newly-constructed Washington Monument. There is a fasces, this was about forty years before the Fascists stole the symbol and tarnished it forever. The names in the wreaths are politicians, generals, and writers, and a couple of inventors.
It’s worth right clicking and opening the picture in its own window. But in case you can’t, from lower left clockwise, they are: Longfellow, Sherman, Lincoln, Irving, Cooper. Fulton, Calhoun, Clay, Jacksonson, Adams. Jefferson, Washington, Franklin. Hamilton, Webster, Marshall, Perry, Morse. Hawthorne, Bancroft, Grant. Farragut and Emerson. A veritable who’s who of American history up to that time.
And, just to top all of that, what is History pointing to? That open book. What’s in the book? It’s the preamble and part of the first article of the United States Constitution. And–I’ve seen this with my own eyes–it is perfectly legible under a magnifying glass! How about that, a note that puts it in your face that the US Constitution was written by people who had studied history and learned many lessons from it. Which they did, so any Leftist lurker reading this wanting to argue about those men can just fuck right the hell off.
The back of the note is a pair of portraits of Martha and George Washington, not terribly interesting (usually the backs of those old notes are more interesting than the fronts, but not in this case).
The $1 is much more affordable than the $2 and the $5, you should have no trouble finding a presentable specimen for well under a thousand bucks.
[And one good thing about paper money is that the grade is mostly applied to the condition of the paper. Having been folded once is a huge penalty, for instance. But the artwork doesn’t become seriously impaired until you go all the way down to very fine or maybe even fine (12-35 on a scale of 70). You can pay BIG money for the nosebleed grades, but the design won’t look all that much better. Just avoid paper that has turned dark. Since a large part of my motivation to own coins and paper is to be able to see the designs, that means I typically collect uncirculated coins–the design is the first thing to go on a coin–but I will happily take unstained circulated notes with no significant damage to the artwork.]
OK, so here is the $2 1896 “Educational” Silver Certificate.
$2 1896 Silver Certificate, “Science Presenting Steam and Electricity to Industry and Commerce”
This one isn’t as rich in little details as the $1 note, but the message is nonetheless profound. (OK, we’re here because of politics, and this is not politics. The $1 is cooler. I understand.) It is probably about ten times rarer. It’s not hard to find the $1 at a coin show; you’ll have to walk a lot more to find a $2.
A century earlier, the Industrial Revolution was just getting underway. There were people alive in 1896 who remembered what it was like not to have railroads. And scientists and engineers had tamed steam power, making it possible to cross the continent in days, and ship goods worldwide in a timely fashion. Just a few decades earlier, in 1861, they had “cracked” electricity, learning how to turn motion into electricity (generators) and electricity into motion (motors). The effects of steam power had already proven to be profound; electricity had made communications almost instantaneous and since 1878, was expected to light the nights as never before. But electricity was just getting started; think of the profound effects computers have had on the world in the last 30 years–all dependent on electricity.
The reverse is portraits of Fulton and Morse, indeed two inventors who worked with steam and electricity. And the two who were named on the $1 note.
$5 1896 Silver Certificate, “Electricity Bringing Light To the World.”
Being able to flip a switch and have light. A commonplace thing today. The dawn of a new age, then!
Light before that day involved outright open flame (candles, gas) or flame that was just barely protected, or rather, flame you were just barely protected from. Who can ever know how many disastrous fires were started by lanterns? Electricity was safe and cheap…and brighter. No more going blind trying to read and write at night!
Yes, electricity again.
I mentioned that scientists and engineers had “cracked” electricity in 1861-2. I’m referring of course to Maxwell who wrote equations relating electricity to magnetism, showing how magnetism could be used to create electricity, and vice versa. And then it turned out that light…plain old light…was actually an electromagnetic wave!
And chemistry turned out to be electrical interactions between atoms. Gravity doesn’t hold molecules together; it’s ridiculously weak for that task. Electrical forces do.
Those equations of Maxwell essentially govern everything that happens in your life, other than gravity. And unless you took a lot of math in college you will have no idea what they could possibly mean (I on the other hand took nine credit hours in college playing with them).
(I’m not sure why Wordpus did that to me). By the way the bold face is significant, and the fact that some things aren’t in bold face is significant, too. Oh and the X signs and dots don’t mean the same thing like you might think if you stopped after algebra.
Add to those equations a fifth one, Newton’s law of gravitation (much easier to understand), and you’ve got a handle on everything visible that happens in the universe. Except for the minor detail that these formulae don’t explain the existence of atoms other than hydrogen, and because they don’t explain that, they can’t explain why the stars shine.
In any case, I think those four equations should have shown up somewhere on that $5 bill.
So what happened? The hope was the elaborate artwork would deter counterfeiting. It actually had the opposite effect. People couldn’t drink in all that detail, so when counterfeiters didn’t supply it, few noticed. And bank tellers complained that the bills were so busy it would take an extra split second to identify the denomination, so they were hard to count.
One site claims Mrs. Grundy complained about all the scantily clad figures and that’s why the series was killed off after only a couple of years.
A $10 was in the works, but never actually issued. Apparently this is a picture of a specimen deliberately printed in the wrong color. I know nothing about it, other than its name is “Agriculture and Forestry” (along the bottom center of the design).
Standard Disclaimer: These are not my notes. In this particular case, though, I will admit to owning examples of all three of the notes that were issued.
Obligatory PSAs and Reminders
Just two more things, my standard Public Service Announcements. We don’t want to forget them!!!
How Not To Find Yourself In Contention For The Darwin Award (Nothing to do with bearded dragons)
It has been pointed out that all of the rioting is nominally on account of criminals who resisted arrest in one form or another, and someone suggested schools ought to teach people not to resist arrest.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=uj0mtxXEGE8%3F
Granted an “ass kicking” isn’t the same as being shot, but both can result from the same stupid act. You may ultimately beat the rap, but you aren’t going to avoid the ride.
China is Lower than Whale Shit
Important Reminder
To conclude: My standard Public Service Announcement. We don’t want to forget this!!!
Remember Hong Kong!!!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=L3tnH4FGbd0%3F
I hope this guy isn’t rotting in the laogai somewhere!
中国是个混蛋 !!! Zhōngguò shì gè hùndàn !!! China is asshoe !!!
Happy Hour begins now at the Wolf’s Head Pub. Friday’s featured drink is YOUR favorite ale on tap. Do tell. First round on the house.
A bit of history about pubs. Public houses, as they were first called, began in the latter part of the 17th century. They were also known as alehouses, taverns, and inns, and were called “public” in order to to differentiate them from private houses.
Many establishments were built in the American colonies. A few still survive. In upstate New York there’s one called the Benjamin Patterson Inn. Now a museum and learning center, it is the original building from 1796.
And then there’s City Tavern in Philly, which was built in 1772. While it was lost to fire it was eventually recreated as an accurate replica, and is still in business today.
City Tavern was frequented by such luminaries as George Washington, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers.
Music has always been a vital part of any pub. Let the High Kings entertain on this fine day.
Keep it civil and we won’t have to call the bouncer. If you want a bar fight, take it out to The U Tree.
For a visual lesson, watch this clip from The Quiet Man. Our hero, John Wayne, knows when to duke it out and when to keep his cool in a pub.
https://youtu.be/mFvbOdnzTKk
Let’s get on to the ale now. Didya know there’s a difference between ale and beer (aka as lager), though it has been blurred over the centuries. The difference is the way it’s brewed. Ale in its earliest form was thought to be a weak mead. As Europe became more populated and honey became less available, grains like oats and barley were added, along with hops.
I love a good stout. If I’m going to drink beer I want it to taste like beer.
What a day yesterday! Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, along with Jenna Ellis were our champions. The fallout from their press conference caused a huge disruption in the diabolical fake news media.
I bet you didn’t know FOX News’ Tucker Carlson is the attached to the Swanson frozen food empire. 🤔 He also used to wear a bow tie. You know the saying…never trust a man who wears a bow tie. An interesting article on him here (https://www.cjr.org/the_profile/tucker-carlson.php) wherein we find he applied to the CIA but was rejected.
Here’s a great thread on Tucker’s kerfuffle with our heroine, Sidney.
I like @TuckerCarlson a lot, and he has one of the best shows on television. But he sounds like a spoiled brat here. I wonder if he recalls his tepid and skeptical attitude toward Lt. General Michael Flynn in the past four years? Because I do. Sidney Powell, came to D.C. and… https://t.co/1eSO3eC5Fk
Let us hoist one in honor of our great patriots Sidney, Rudy, Jenna, Joe, and our awesome President Donald John Trump! What an honor it would be to sit and talk awhile with these best of Americans.
The process that is being played out is going as planned by our President and his legal team. It is really easy to get frustrated that things are not happening quickly. There are days that I feel that frustration. However, I have to tell myself to be patient because our President and his legal team are not only going after his re-election, they are going to take down the entire cabal. The Democrats, MSM, Never Trumpers, RINOS, CIA, FBI, Military Usurpers, Foreign Countries, Big Tech, Deep State, Globalists, NWO, etc.
Every single cabal member referenced above where part of the fix. The problem for them is that they NEVER expected the MONSTER VOTE to show up on Election Day. The Monster Vote completely overwhelmed them. They had hoped to be able to change votes in red counties (approximately 3% in each county) so that they would have won without having to resort to stuffing ballots and changing hundreds of thousands of votes in the early morning while the majority of the country was sleeping.
Florida was their alarm bell! There are only a handful of counties that use the Dominion voting system. They are basically all in RED counties in Florida. When they saw the results from Miami-Dade, Palm Beach and Broward counties, they realized that they were SCREWED. This told them that they needed to quickly move onto plan B. The problem for them is that plan B as so obvious. It also has become the roadmap that our President and his legal team will utilize to bring them all down.
1) Time lines matter more then anything else when attempting to understand a situation.
The election's predictive outcome rests with Florida's vote
On election night the vote count stopped in the swing state's once Florida's vote was clear.
3) And in blue areas, Joe was performing as good as Hillary had in 2016. And based on a fair minded review of those facts. Joe was on Track to win Florida.
But then something happened. Palm beach County Miami Dade County Broward County
9) Like the fake Russia Russia Russia a perfect plan. One were by Basement Joe who is anti gun , Energy , America and Pro China. Could claim he had a mandate. That R's and D's put him in office !~!
And funny to the point of tears. Trump out preformed there feeble plans
Now here is what I hope is done. Go into Florida's red areas. AUDIT the votes to see if Trump areas were counting Trump votes and crediting them to Biden
Then we have a case to make nationwide based on facts @SidneyPowell1
The Secretary of State and Governor in Georgia decided to get in bed with the cabal. Their recount was a total sham. The problem for them is that the recount exposed some of the shenanigans that took place that will allow our President and his legal team to get a REAL recount to occur or for the Supreme Court to invalidate the states electors.
Attorney Lin Wood has been warning the POS in Georgia to come clean or else face the wrath that is coming their way. He is the main lawyer involved in Georgia.
Yesterday Lin Wood filed a motion within Georgia for an emergency injunction to halt the certification of the state election until resolution of numerous false ballots and ballot counting issues are reconciled. [Full Motion with Exhibits Here]
Lin Wood shares a lot within this interview. He has built an incredible reputation over the years defending Richard Jewell and more recently Nick Sandman. According to him, there are going to be explosive developments that will surface in the 2020 election challenge.
Our President’s campaign team are shining sunlight on the State of Nevada.
On Tuesday, our President’s campaign team in Nevada held a press conference. Within the presser attorney Adam Laxalt outlined some of the more consequential discoveries: “This lawsuit presents that 15,000 people voted in Nevada and another state, it also presents dead voters.”
On Tuesday, Sidney Powell appeared on NewsMax for an interview about the current state of the ballot counting and election investigations. She discussed the current status of several key state ballot challenges.
Sidney was also on Rush’s show on Tuesday to discuss currently known election fraud with Mark Steyn who was filling in for Rush.
We are seeing an incredible roller coaster ride taking place in Wayne County, Michigan. On Wednesday night, the two Republican members in Wayne County voted against certifying their election results due to statistical abnormalities in the ballots that were cast.
The Democrats unleashed their Monster of the two Republican members. Later that evening they decided to certify the results in order to protect themselves and their loved ones.
However, 24 hours later, they decided to fight back!
BREAKING: Wayne County MI election board Republicans rescind votes to certify, file affidavits that their families were threatened
Wrong! At first they voted against because there were far more VOTES than PEOPLE (Sad!). Then they were threatened, screamed at and viciously harassed, and were FORCED to change their vote, but then REFUSED, as American patriots, to sign the documents. 71% MESS. Don’t Harass! https://t.co/n5frpesHfD
[…] The two Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers cast an unprecedented vote Tuesday against certifying the county’s November election results for the county’s 43 jurisdictions, including Detroit, Michigan’s largest voting jurisdiction.
Monica Palmer, the Republican chair of the committee said: “I believe that we do not have complete and accurate information on those poll books,” referring to jurisdictions, including Detroit, that recorded unexplained discrepancies between the number of absentee ballots recorded as cast and the number of absentee ballots counted.
NEW: 3,000 precincts in Michigan are reporting votes cast up to 350% above those registered.
Look at this in Wisconsin! A day AFTER the election, Biden receives a dump of 143,379 votes at 3:42AM, when they learned he was losing badly. This is unbelievable! pic.twitter.com/nhiLMmyHBn
The rules are devastating for the cabal in Wisconsin!
The President’s campaign transferred $3 million to the State of Wisconsin today to begin the process of a recount of the ballots cast in Dane and Milwaukee counties. The campaign will contest ballots were not legally cast for three reasons:
Wisconsin state statute reads, “ If a certificate is missing the address of a witness, the ballot may not be counted.” (Wis. Stat. § 6.87(6d)). Only legally cast ballots should be counted in the final results.
period from October 20 to November 1, 2020. Here is the law: “the municipal clerk shall not issue an absentee ballot unless the clerk receives a written application therefor from a qualified elector” 6.86(1)(ar). Only legally cast ballots should be counted in the final results.
They are scared SHITLESS in Dane and Milwaukee county. The sunlight is about to expose it all! They also know that the State Supreme Court is in our favor 4-3.
BREAKING: WI Elections Commission, after seeing President Trump’s recount petition and objections, is trying to change the recount manual at an emergency meeting tonight at 6 pm to make objections harder to make. This must be stopped.
Sorry for the delay. Here’s a REALLY quick and dirty daily.
You ready, Pat?
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As usual, this is the daily thread, the place to put all information that needs to be out there – Q drops, Q drop decodes, riot information, rumors about MAGA rallies starting up again, news flashes, Chy-na flu updates, fashionable mask photos, satire, memes, and of course cute animal videos.
In the meantime, the short and sweet version of “THE RULES” is here borrowed from Tuesday:
The discourse on this site is to be CIVIL – no name calling, baiting, or threatening others here is allowed. Those who are so inclined may visit Wolf’s other sanctuary, the U-Tree, to slog it out.
This site is a celebration of the natural rights endowed to humans by our Creator as well as those enshrined in the Bill of Rights adopted in the founding documents of the United States of America. Within the limits of law, how we exercise these rights is part of the freedom of our discussion.
Fellow tree dweller Wheatie gave us some good reminders on the basics of civility in political discourse:
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Since it is almost the weekend, the reminders are in place to not swing from the chandeliers, wash your hands and face, and be nice to the liberals whether they deserve it or not. Making your bed, OTOH, is optional.
1And I saw in the right hand of him who was seated on the throne a scroll written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals; 2and I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?” 3And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it, 4and I wept much that no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to into into it. 5Then one of the elders said to me, “Weep not; lo, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.” 6And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders, I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth; 7and he went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who was seated on the throne. 8And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and with golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints; 9and they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy art thou to take the scroll and to open its seals, for thou wast slain and by thy blood didst ransom men for God from every tribe and tongue and people and nation, 10and hast made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on earth.”
When we look at Muh Russia’s endless accusations and hearings, the impeachment and now this huge voting fraud that the D’Rats have attempted, we might, not seeing any significant consequences, be tempted to think that these traitors have and maybe will escape scot-free.
As fulfilling as it may be to see justice meted out to them in good measure, that specific closure to these events is not guaranteed.
However, we are assured in Psalm 1 and in various other texts in God’s Word that the wicked will indeed face eternal consequences for what they have have earned.
We have trusted God with our eternal future by faith in His saving grace, and so we should put equal trust in all His promises. If you want to refer to “Promises made, promises kept”, God is the the perfect paragon of that action.
And so, as we see this latest ongoing chapter of treachery by the D’Rats play out to its ultimate conclusion, we may think that certain foul players in this tragedy have escaped punishment. Rest easy. God is the perfect dispenser of justice, and so shall it be done. Amen.
Psalm 1
1 Oh, the joys of those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or stand around with sinners, or join in with mockers. 2 But they delight in the law of the Lord, meditating on it day and night. 3 They are like trees planted along the riverbank, bearing fruit each season. Their leaves never wither, and they prosper in all they do.
4 But not the wicked! They are like worthless chaff, scattered by the wind. 5 They will be condemned at the time of judgment. Sinners will have no place among the godly. 6 For the Lord watches over the path of the godly, but the path of the wicked leads to destruction.
