Joe Biden didn’t win. This is our Real President:
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Please pray for our real President, the one who actually won the election:
For your listening enjoyment, I offer this composition from Eternal Eclipse, titled ‘Oathkeeper’:
And this from Whitesand, titled ‘Exiled’:
Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
I will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wheatie’s Word of the Day:
defugalty
Pronounced: duh-FEW-gawl-tee.
Defugalty is a noun and is an obscure word for some people, but I was raised with it. When my parents used it, they meant…a disagreement, an ongoing argument.
Dictionaries, however, say that defugalty means…a great difficulty; a quandry; an inconsistency, especially with regards to communication.
Used in a sentence:
The Democrats in Congress got into a defugalty over how much they would raise our taxes.
The ST:TOS episode is “Arena”.
In Spanish — and presumably in Latin — “arena” simply means “sand”. If you’re mixing concrete, you use “cemento Portland” (Portland cement), “arena” (sand), and “gravilla” (gravel). That it has come to mean “a fixed place for combat” is an interesting twist.
The location where it was filmed is not a Hollywood set. It is a place called Vasquez Rocks — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasquez_Rocks . Most of the photogenic stuff is filmed on various sides of one large tilted rock. There’s a nice pic at wikipoo.
Interestingly enough, there isn’t much sand there.
Should you desire to visit, it is well advised to have a hat and sun protection. If you stick to the main rock, trekking in water is probably unnecessary because you’re never more than a couple of blocks from your car.
It’s also best to watch where you’re putting body parts, as they do have rattlesnakes. Then, again, there is a special technical term for rattlesnakes that sit on top of exposed rocks…..they’re called “bird food”.
I think the wikipoo photo may be from the parking lot. You can walk all the way around it quite comfortably, and they’ll let you climb it as far as you’d like (and fall off), so long as you don’t use pitons or something. As you can see, vegetation is sparse. There is a lesser rock on the opposite side of the parking lot, IIRC, and when you go behind the main rock, there is a lesser rock over there. But almost everything worth seeing and doing is this one rock.
In ancient Roman times, their colosseums had a thick sand playing field.
This is probably where that meaning came from.
I read an interesting thing about ancient Roman cement:
They added volcanic ash to their cement…which is thought to be why their cement has withstood the ravages of time so well.
As my youngest brother put it about the Romans, “Those Romans…they really had their $#!+ together.” He was about 19 when he said that.
Your brother was not wrong.
Researchers discover secret recipe of Roman concrete that allowed it to endure for over 2,000 years
Rome built many of its buildings and monuments with concrete made of lime, volcanic sand, and volcanic rock. The ancient Romans’ buildings and structures, some of the most spectacular in the world, have withstood chemical and physical onslaught for 2,000 years and are still standing….
It’s been known for a while that the volcanic sand used in Roman concrete and mortar made their buildings last for so long. Now a new study by a group of engineers and engineering researchers has discovered the precise recipe that made the Roman concrete endure much longer than concrete used today.…
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/researchers-discover-secret-recipe-roman-concrete-020141
Exactly.
The Romans knew everything. We wouldn’t have ice cream, wine, bridges and aqueducts if it weren’t for them. I live just minutes away from an ancient Roman road and there is a museum of Roman ruins not so far away. Fascinating.
As for pasta, I saw a BBC documentary several years ago which said that the ancient Romans were given a large ration of flour per household to last them for several months. In order to preserve it, they made pasta, which they could dry and store.
Thanks, Coothie, I had no idea.
And yeah, apparently Star Trek used that location several times.
So have a lot of other shows, movies and even music videos.
Didn’t they also use Bakersfield?
I dunno, sorry.
Maybe Coothie knows.
The Star Trek original series didn’t have a very big budget.
It’s pretty cool what they managed to do on a shoestring.
Yes and most of these areas were not so developed until the past 25 years. It used to be a nice flyover in southern CA. Now its about as bad as flying over Mexico city. Not kidding.
If that’s the case, they probably used Bakersfield.
Yes, lots of areas you wouldnt have thought.
Doubtful — Vasquez Rocks is a day trip from studios in Burbank. Get in an RV to have makeup done, arrive at location by 9:00 am ready to go.
I’m pretty sure the Big Bang Theory filmed in the place at Bakersfield.
https://youtu.be/ObgR7khJCJg
Big Bang Theory had a bigger budget per episode that ST:TOS had for each season.
Thanks for sharing that fun little video!
‘That it has come to mean “a fixed place for combat” is an interesting twist.’ Not really.
Arena has meant a battleground — yes, deriving from the Latin word for ‘sand’ — since the Roman Empire:
https://archive.archaeology.org/gladiators/arena.html
FTA:
‘The term arena, signifying the place of combat, is derived from arena or harena, the sand sprinkled on the fighting field to soak up blood and facilitate cleaning. Spectacula, from which our word “spectacle” comes, can signify the seats as well as the events viewed in an arena. Although the amphitheater was developed as the special space for gladiatorial events, it was not the first or only site for them. Fora (public squares) and circuses (venues for chariot-racing) were used first. A theater and stadium could also served, in the absence of an amphitheater or circus, as a site for arena games, especially in Greece and the east.’
The airport gif reminded me of okgo going full Busby Berkeley —
I had never seen or heard of those MODOBAGs before.
😜
So I searched them out…
They sell for $1,495.00 and weigh 20 lbs.
http://shop.modobag.com/modobag/
“The bag can travel up to 6 miles on a single charge, at 8 miles an hour. It is lightweight, and can easily convert from motor to pull-behind use. It comes with dual USB charging ports for your electronics and optional GPRS-GSM tracking.”
That’s a hard pass from this traveler. I like to travel light.
Yeah, they weight 20 lbs….empty.
🤪
Kind of pricey too.
These adults in business clothes look stupid too….
How ever 8 miles per hour to get from one terminal to another during a changeover is very enticing. Normal walk is 2.5 to 3 miles per hour. I used to jog 5 miles in an hour.
‘… very enticing’: especially at DFW or Miami, where the connecting flight is normally at the opposite end of the airport.
That’s a lot of lithium in cargo – just sayin’! 😉
Imagine what TSA and the baggage handlers would do to it! …
Plus – the batteries may be flammable/explosive and not allowed on board the plane without special permit.
Yep.
Guessing they are OK for carry on. NO checked baggage of this type.
That started out as a child’s piece of luggage in the UK.
It was on Dragon’s Den (UK) several years ago and was called a Trunki. The Dragons said it would never take off, but I’ve seen quite a few of them in airports. The child had to sit on it and propel it with his/her feet.
Trunki seems to have gone out of business (you can do a search on Trunki for photos), but every child I’ve seen on them looked happy.
What a cool video! So much better than washed-up singers trying to be young and sexy. That took actual creativity.
Okgo’s videos are varied, inventive, and borderline insane. While it’s the band in charge [Damian had a Japanese collaborator who shared director duties on that last], their collaborations with various directors have been phenomenal. I, personally, think the ones with Trish Sie are among their best. Here’s one with her:
And another:
(You have to keep watching White Knuckles until you see the goat.)
(One thing that Trish does is document her work — there are “making of” and “outtakes” of the two videos here…..which are often hilarious, and informative.)
Looks kinda thin for the night crew right now. Hope all’s well w/ all Q-Treepers!
God Bless us, Every One! Have a great day & a glorious week, no matter what the Enemy might throw your way. God is good all the time & He’ll help us get through… ❤
I was at my mom’s house most of the day. Since it’s Mother’s Day, I would bet there are others who traveled or saw family today.
Yes. We were blessed to have all our kids & current & future kids-in-law stopping by to visit “today”, unfortunately not all at the same time.
However I pulled 2 all-nighters working on taxes & my husband arrived home after a grueling 22 mile hiking camping backpacking weekend preceded & followed by 4 hour drives. We were both exhausted but it was still lovely to see the kids! We remain blessed!!!
Yes that was my day Mom’s and on the road 3 hours 😫
I’d already noted that I would likely be scarce.
My original plan was to sack it early, so as to lend the Fiancee maximal support when she was most exhausted. Instead, I seem to be holding vigil.
Hope her procedure & recovery goes/went well for Both of you!
Got back at 4:40 in the afternoon.
That makes for a long & exhausting day–hang in there!!!
I’m worn out from Mother’s Day ! Food coma 😂
Thank you Wheatie for the nice post
My daughter & fiancé picked up some crazy sugar infused over-the-top desserts to share w/ hubby & I at the end of the day. We had Lots of laughs between my messes (I Hate getting food messy, but it was unavoidable as things started melting & falling on me) “son’s” brain freeze & sugar high that resembled drunkenness. What a wild way to end a bit of a crazy day.
Hope you weren’t responsible for making or cleaning up any of that food & had a lovely Mother’s Day!
Your day sounds like a lot of fun .
Mine was an early dinner out with family so nobody had to cook or clean.
My teen grandson has found the sweet spot to start immediate conversation mayhem ! It starts with “hey Gram are you going to get vaccinated” which in turn causes my 9 yr old grandson to take on a bad imitation southern drawl and say ” why should I take that.? If everybody is vaccinated they shouldn’t have any beef with me not getting the shot”
Then my daughter gets all flustered while the oldest grandson 22 sits back and laughs. It usually has to be shut down if Trump’s name is invoked since daughter thinks she a Lib but Biden’s time so far has NOT made her happy. She can’t stand Fauxi, thinks the CV thing is stupid and overblown.
Might red pill her yet 😘
She’s ripe for the red pill. 😁
LOL…not quite yet ! The liberal mind meld is strong. She parrots the usual inane logic. I honestly can’t tell if she actually believes what she says or if it’s the standard talking points BUT..like most of them it only takes a few minutes and the defensive posture raises. At least she doesn’t bark like those antifa maroons however..the convo is over, finished!
Fine with me. Biden’s admin has been disastrous and there’s no denying..for everyone except illegals. She sees and feels it in the wallet everyday. One day she’ll get there
The old definition:
A Conservative is a Liberal who got mugged.
Esp in the wallet (from me)
Are they doing that because they’re redpilled and really understand the issues, or is it just random mockery? Are they vaxxed?
I mean, the 9yo’s point is totally valid — in a population of 50 people, why should you take the last shot? Is it so some stupid injection maniac can “collect the whole set”? Where he gets the bad southern drawl is bad upbringing…..he should be able to muster fine southern speech suitable for talking to ladies elegantly, and should be ridiculed fiercely when he apes what northerners think southerners sound like.
They (the kids) all are Trump fans and the vax is one of the few “political” subjects that my daughter and I do agree on. She still is prone to obeying if it is mandated and I think the kids pick up on my stance and love to stir the pot and always like teasing me about anything.. It’s okay. They get a bit of right slapped on their mom’s Left
Good, you don’t have to work on their convictions. You should still work on the youngster’s speech, however — he’ll insult the ladies and offend the men if he’s ever there, when he should make the ladies feel at home and the men find him trustworthy.
Although quality impressions done with a good heart ARE hilarious! An old friend was a master. He made us literally drool with laughter at truly obscure caricatures.
I had a friend who was an Army brat. (Lawyer and caver now.) He would duplicate the accent of who ever he talked to. It was completely subconscious and not meant to insult. Given he looked like an angry black bear, few people would point out the habit.
Double parrot gene!
They don’t get all southern for general ridicule or for mocking…they’re joking with me. I imitate their half valley skater boy tone…
Well anyhoo….
That works too, if it’s family.
Incidentally, I used to work at a place involved with semiconductor manufacturing, and one of the sales guys (who I liked) spoke Japanese with a wildly over-the-top SoCal surfer accent. At the time, I was watching a bunch of Japanese-language TV (even though I do not speak the language), and it was just so obvious.
So, in an informal setting, I mentioned that he might tighten that up to help close deals……
And his response was, “what? I speak pure Chiba City, man, it’s totally, like, tight and hip.” [Spoiler: note how that reads in English.]
This very loosely reminds me of some bizarre fashion makeover show my daughter & I watched years ago. The person whose friends or relatives had begged for their televised transformation was Fixated on Japanese anime to the point of dressing like a cartoon character & parroting the random Japanese phrases from the shows or video games she was into, even though she didn’t actually speak Japanese but just mimicked the sound. For some unexpected reason she was having trouble getting asked out by anyone!
Thankfully, Japanese sounds are pretty straightforward for westerners. By contrast, Chinese will drive you absolutely nuts.
The way I had it explained to me is that there are five tones, which can be higher or lower depending on your vocal cords.
If you say the word, “ma-weh”, going from 2 to 5, it can mean something completely different from “ma-weh”, going from 4 to 3. It’s almost like the language is partially sung.
Further, since so many words sound very close to the same, sentences tend to be things like “the dog (like a pet) ran (like motion) around the house (like a dwelling).” [Which explains the often-mocked tendency of a translator to take a 10-second line in an English speech and translate it into 45 seconds of Chinese.]
The Fiancee hosted some exchange students from Taipei, and I went by to help amuse them. And they’d try for vocabulary and wave a pencil and say, “wy-che-na”….and I’d try to echo “wy-che-na” exactly as they had….and they’d devolve into giggles and whisper to the fiancee that I’d said “monkeyf*cker”. It’s funny the first couple of times, but it gets old fast when you literally cannot detect the difference.
I should note that it was not the students’ fault — they were great kids and very eager, and we did our best with each other. If you want to get gut-punched about culture, we asked a couple of “9th graders” to tell us about Chinese emperors and got three pages, two columns, of every emperor for the last four thousand years. There have been 45 US Presidents (and a Pretender) — can you name them all in order?
I had to learn the list of Presidents in 7th grade. Everyone in the class had to recite them individually.
Sounds similar to Vietnamese. Hubby dated a Vietnamese girl for a number of years & he said they had a bunch of different ways of pronouncing “ma” that had like 5 different meanings. These tonal differences were very difficult for Westerners to discern apparently.
Hubby had a buddy vacation in Russia years back & he knew a smattering of Russian. He was out drinking at a bar & had called for a cab but the cabbie wasn’t going to drive them anywhere because they were Americans. So the buddy proceeded to emphatically cuss the guy out trying to change his mind & inadvertently said something like you better take us “or I’m going to give your mother-in-law a good F-ing!” Well this cracked the cabbie up so much that he willingly drove them around town afterwards! 😉
LOL
Further, since so many words sound very close to the same, sentences tend to be things like “the dog (like a pet) ran (like motion) around the house (like a dwelling).” [Which explains the often-mocked tendency of a translator to take a 10-second line in an English speech and translate it into 45 seconds of Chinese.]
Now THAT is interesting.
There is another very weird element to the Chinese language.
There is no spoken Chinese, but there is a written one.
China’s writing system was standardized for the latest time around 210 BC. It is comprised of signs representing (generally) syllable-length phonic elements. College-level Chinese speakers should know about 4,000.
A two-sign written Chinese word will generally have two syllables in Cantonese, Hokken, Shanghaiese, or Mandarin….or even Southwest Mandarin…..but they won’t necessarily be the same syllables.
For those of us of a certain age, we well remember when the capital of China was known as Peking. Now it’s known as Beijing, because that fits the preferred pronunciation of the group currently in power.
Mao Zedong (Mandarin, Hanyu-Pinyin) [remember when it was Mao Tse-tung (Mandarin, Wade-Giles)?] was born in a peasant household in Hunan, which probably spoke Southwestern Mandarin.
It’s sort of like if Spanish and Italian had decided to use ‘+’ for “y” and “e” respectively, and just pronounce it differently.
I studied Japanese.
I tried Mandarin, but didn’t get much. Tonal languages are extremely tough for an adult to pick up.
They’re repeating what they’ve heard me say every time it’s brought up. I have a southern drawl. They’re California kids so fine tuning it isn’t in the cards….gotta be there.
Them kids needs “y’all envy”! 😉
You don’t have to be in Italy to recognize if something is a good or mediocre Italian painting.
Have him watch foghorn leghorn cartoons. Funny and not insulting…lol.
Funny I was just think of foghorn leghorn yesterday.
Was never big on cartoons. But, always enjoyed Foghorn Leghorn and Road Runner.
Wow. We’ve got a few pot stirrers here…& I’m one of the best! Glad you got some special family time!
Thank you Valerie…was beginning to slap muhself up one side and down the other for sharing too much! Lesson learned
I thoroughly enjoyed what you shared–thank you for giving us a peek into your extended family life. <3 😉 <3
On our side ironically the future son-in-law wanted to come over since our family is known for craziness. His sugar high had him literally running around the house in circles & dropping to do push-ups w/ a complete lack of awareness of how bizarre he was acting. It actually was a huge crack-up & would only have been enhanced if some of the other kids had still been around to witness it, though he'd Never have been able to live it down if they had!
Haha…families can be so crazy and fun . Things get talked about and laughed about for generations.
We’ve got inlaws and outlaws and friends that are “family”.
It’s kind of like that scenario where family will be tiffing over something and a stranger put their 2cents in and the tiffing family suddenly goes nuts united against the stranger.
Yes such good & crazy times. We had a very good friend visit for a few weeks a number of years ago since he’d been driving his wife Crazy after being hospitalized mentally after some med mix-up sent him into a Bizarre Manic State. He’s an inveterate BS’er (he has the nickname “toe-tag” for one whopper he told in college that he woke up in a morgue w/ a toe-tag on & Everyone knew that never happened even though he swore it did).
We have “caveman culture” around here, telling tales around the metaphorical campfire (somewhat of a dying art in the younger generations but well preserved in hunting camp). Our friend has always had the need to “one-up” people on the magnitude of tales so it can get Very Entertaining. He was keeping all our kids enthralled w/ tales of their Frat-boy days & our kids were eating some of it up. Later hubby pulled the kids aside after his friend had gone back to Texas & explained how many of the highly “believable” tales were absolute fiction, even though how they were told made them seem like fish-that-got-away reminiscences. Maybe those psych meds served to highly exaggerate this guy’s “bishop of BS” traits out the wazoo or something!
Sounds like the Joe Biden syndrome. I’m beginning to think he’s a pathological bullshitter.
My father told a lot of hilarious tales . One was when the kids were acting up and my great grandmother would tie them to chairs out by the railroad tracks so when the dad was driving the train back into town he could stop and not spare the rod.
lol…can you imagine seeing that in this day and age?
Oh my goodness that is awesome & epic!!! I bet those kids rarely misbehaved after that–way worse than the Dunce Cap treatment that would probably get people locked up if tried nowadays!
My Great Grandfather was a Train Engineer & one of his nephews worked at the same railroad. Decades after GGF had died cousin Bob had stopped by to tell railroad tales. He ended up telling of one that GGF Never had told anyone out of sheer embarrassment.
Apparently gramps had a cushy Detroit to Toledo run that fell to him as being fairly senior in the business. One day the normally smooth roundtrip run was marred by the engine not working properly & the train getting stuck. They opened up the water reservoir (not sure of terms here) & pulled out numerous wheelbarrows full of boiled fish!
Apparently there were places where the train would stop & take on water from natural supplies of adjacent lakes or rivers. Anyway the water intake in question had had the protective grating that normally prevented anything but water being sucked up damaged or removed. So they filled that reservoir w/ fish & water.
Grandpa was so embarrassed by this misadventure that he never told Anyone else in the family. Bob only knew about it since he worked there. My dad was laughing so hard when he heard the colorful description of this faux pas that he had tears running down his face–good times! Apparently it was one of those rumors that people repeated behind GGF’s back because he was so dignified & well-respected, which made that incident that much more priceless…couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy!
AHHHhhhh but did anyone eat the boiled fish? That is what I want to know.
…
My friend just caught a whopper of a catfish out of the farm pond next door. that is what sent her to the hospital with back pain. Since she has the fish and the photos I believe her.
They probably would have been wildly overcooked — temps inside a locomotive boiler can be in excess of 350 degrees.
When boiling water under pressure, the boiling point is elevated well above 212 degrees. 350 degrees would result in a steam pressure of only about 75 pounds.
Not to mention the chemicals they put in the boiler to control scaling and other issues… the fish would’ve been inedible, in any case.
Pretty lucky the loco escaped pretty much unscathed… (C&O descendant here…)…..
I wanted to know that too & honestly have no answer. It sounds like it could have been a major meal to feed the masses though!
That must have been some fish to mess your friend’s back up!
It was a good three feet of fighting catfish. Bit the heck out of her too.
Oh my goodness!!! Hope she’ll be OK, but What a Fish Tale 🙂
The age range on your grandsons makes for interesting conversations for sure.
Just keep tossing the ironic hypocrisy and fact bombs around like hot potatoes Molly,
Sooner or later she’ll tire of pulling the shrapnel and applying bandages.. Sounds like the Grands have things well in hand.
I’d bet you were smiling with pride quietly inside.
Spending Mothers day with the family where somebody else cleans up the
whole Mess.
A Perfect Mothers day 😄
You’re very welcome, Molly.
🥰😌
Glad you like it.
And yeah, I’m worn out from Mother’s Day too.
🤪
We’ve been discussing what to do about being around people who are shedding spike protein from the vaccinations. Someone mentioned Suramin. I wasn’t sure what that was, but just discovered an article about Pine Needle Tea, which contains Suramin, by Mike Adams at Natural News. Here is one interesting paragraph:
“Dr. Judy Mikovits asserts that globalists are well aware that pine needle tea is the answer to covid depopulation weapons, and they are secretly using pine needle tea to protect themselves from the very plague they have unleashed upon the world, Mikovitz explains.”
Read the whole article here:
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-05-09-is-pine-needle-tea-the-answer-to-covid-vaccine-shedding-suramin-shikimic-acid.html
I went and read the article, thanks. very interesting. I think I’ll get some star anise caps…the tea sounds hard to do .
We are so lucky that we have people who are working against this CV/vax crud and they share it with us.
When we went to Alaska, all the tourist shops had spruce tip ice cream, spruce tip jam, spruce tip this and spruce tip that…..I’ve just been looking for freeze-dried, blanched and vacuum sealed, or other shippable preparations.
I wasn’t exactly understanding the method the article talked about for making the pine needle tea.
Norway spruce and spruce beer – good to know!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picea_abies
This is where being allergic to pine is not a good thing.
I’m somewhat confused by this article. Suramin is not considered to be orally bio-available, and must be administered by injection. Shikimic acid can be used orally. I am aware of star anise containing the main ingredient of Tamiflu.
What I am not getting is whether this article is implying that the effect of shikimic acid is analogous to the effect of Suramin?
Anybody got any ideas on that?
I didn’t get that either, Aubergine. If Shikimic acid works, then people could just take Tamiflu.
We all need to know about pine needle tea. Eventually (if this crap keeps going) we will be like Cuba. All our citrus will be exported to China and Russia. We will be left with scurvy or pine needle tea!
Canelope melons are loaded with Vit C.
We can grow those!
I just made myself a cup of star anise tea. I started with the whole seeds and pods, ground them by hand with a mortar and pestle, and steeped it in boiling hot water for about 15 minutes. It was delicious! I hope it works as good as it tastes.
This article explains what was bothering me – that shikimic acid (SA) is NOT oseltamivir a.k.a. Tamiflu (OS), but rather a building block used to create OS (a molecular precursor, basically).
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18297698/
This gave rise to rumors that SA was antiviral. These people showed that, at least according to a few biochemical metrics, SA alone was not immunoactive, but SA plus quercetin (QT) was, even at low doses.
Good information, thanks!
It is starting to look to me like a “healthy” diet would already include quite a bit of quercetin naturally from food sources.
Yes!!!
Also, suramin is a SYNTHETIC DRUG. Not likely that it’s in pine needles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suramin
Excellent article on pine needle tea and components:
https://www.chopeglobal.com/pine-needle-tea/
Did not realize how much vitamin C it has. WOW.
I looked for something that might be mistaken for “suramin” – found nothing. I think that person who was originally cited was just WRONG.
Good catch! You’ve got the chemist’s proper skepticism!
Thanks, Wolf. Attention to detail solves many mysteries for me.
New Schlichter — https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2021/05/10/draft-n2589154
The subject is false equivalences and ditching bad Cheneys.
Thank you, Wheatie!
The airport mode of travel! Ahhahahahaha!!
JOE BIDEN DIDN’T WIN.
PRESIDENT TRUMP IS THE REAL POTUS!!!
You’re very welcome, Gmtx!
😊🥰
And yes…𝐉𝐨𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐧!
This is a lovely blog post by a genetic genealogist as she reflects on her mother, love, grief, & touching other people in service. A timely insight on Mother’s Day, especially meaningful for those who’ve lost their mothers or grandmothers. Blessings!
https://dna-explained.com/2021/05/09/mothers-day-is-hard-52-ancestors-331/
edit–I forgot to mention the Gorgeous Pictures of many of her flowering plants interspersed…
Lovely.
Glad you enjoyed it. Love & grief that bittersweet combo that keeps us all so complicated…
Indeed. We are rum creatures.
Fearfully & wonderfully made, I know that full well!
Very beautiful and meaningful post. Thank you, VC, for bringing it for us to share.
You’re welcome CT. Blessings 🙂
Here’s an old family photo I found at FamilySearch.org
My grandparents are on the far right, back row (our perspective) & grandpa’s sister is the bride. I love old photos & am so glad that some kind stranger uploaded this historical image there. Apparently this photo was taken in Detroit in 1929.
That’s a beautiful picture! I love it!
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Thanks for posting.
YW & thanks so much for for letting me know! <3
That really is a great old photo, Valerie.
What a find!
😀 👍
That painted backdrop is a nice touch…and is a prop that the professional photographer probably used a lot.
It gives depth to the photo.
I wonder if the wedding party had the photographer come to the wedding?
Or if they went to his office for the photo.
It’s interesting that the women & two girls are all holding flowers.
It really adds to the photo.
Cut flowers were sort of an expensive luxury back then, weren’t they?
I would imagine that grandpa’s father spent a fair penny on those.
I love those insights. I think this happened when Detroit was still “the Paris of America”, a status that will only now exist in the rearview mirror & distant memory.
Grandpa’s dad was a mid-Michigan farm boy who went to the Northern MI woods as a preadolescent to work in the lumber business. When the boss’s son came to camp to learn the business grandpa stood up for him against some of the bullying lumberjacks & found favor w/ the boss for this. Thus the boss asked him to manage his Detroit lumber yard which he did for the rest of his working life, well beyond retirement age!
I guess he was quite the character & used to host the extended family clan gatherings even in the decades after losing his wife. With five living kids all w/ spouses & at least 2 kids each that could be quite the gang, & according to Dad every person brought grandpa a gift & he had a gift for every person.
When his oldest daughter was widowed she & her kids moved in w/ him & he became the father figure for the grandsons (like Clarence Thomas’ “My Grandfather’s Son”) & imparted the wisdom & work ethic of an earlier time to the then latest generation. One of those grandson’s, cousin Harold, became the family historian & put together a family genealogy book (along w/ significant contributions by my aunt who now passes her family history tidbits to me!) that was extensively copied & shared w/ Each Family at a very extensive family gathering to honor one of the little girls in this picture, an anniversary event put on by her sons at the Amway Grand Hotel in Grand Rapids 2 decades ago. Getting that family history book sparked me being bitten by the genealogy bug a couple years later & helped me get through Josiah’s 2nd heart surgery & aftermath in 2000! <3 😉 <3
Harold included some of the "embarrassing" family stories in the end-papers of that genealogy book & took some heat from certain relatives for doing so. Being of a younger generation so not directly touched by the pain or shame of those earlier events I was Very Grateful that he chose to do so. One such story included the fact that his father had actually faked his own death to skip out on his wife & kids & run off w/ some floozy to Chicago. Apparently he'd killed a cat & spread the blood in a car which then went into the Detroit River. When it was discovered that he wasn't dead but just a scoundrel his "widow" was made to pay back the life insurance money she'd received. I wonder if that's why she & her sons moved in w/ great grandpa…
I love hearing the old stories, especially as told by the men–they just seem to be the better story-tellers overall! My dad spoke of his dad, who was very strong & played handball, who worked in the lumber yard for his father loading boxcars as a teenager. Apparently grandpa would carry 50 pound bags of cement mix (I think) one in each hand gripped at the folded over short edge of the bag & then w/ a powerful flick of the wrist & arm would fling the bags up to stack on top of each other on the train car (my dad would enthusiastically relate this since he'd mostly done office/executive work & couldn't ever physically outwork his own dad, or father-in-law, or even his grandpa for that matter!). Anyway one day my grandpa observed his own dad handling a bout of fisticuffs amongst the lumberyard workers. He stopped the fight by throwing one punch to the face of each brawler & knocking them both out in One Blow–& he was at least 50 years old then! Apparently my great-grandpa was quite the bad ass, but with a heart of gold! His lumbering journey is what brought dad's family out of the farmland into Detroit & a whole new style of living was born in a family line that's been in America since at least 1640!
Sorry for going on so long there but those old pictures can bring out imaginative flights of fancy & "objectively true" family tales. I was so excited to discover that photo at Family Search because I'd only previously seen the grainy photocopied version included in the family history book.
Oh, one last note, my great grandpa was a very generous man & when his grandson asked if he would sponsor a foreign student he knew from college, who was seeking American citizenship, he signed the papers without hesitation. That man, originally from Syria, was present at the Amway Grand event & spoke eloquently & w/ tears of what a great man my great-grandpa was & how he helped to completely change the life of a young man who then became almost like an adopted member of the family.
Great family stories !
Thanks Molly 🙂
The same way they treated the virus.
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Pure CHINA. Jack Posobiec emphasizes this ALL THE TIME. Their government is obsessed with control of perspective, just like our Chinacrats.
So we flash them one tiger and they flash back three leopards?
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/video-shows-tiger-front-yard-houston-neighborhood-77602567
“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.” — attributed to Confucius.
All of REAL SCIENCE is based on this!
Good for them!
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It’s effing COLD here for May 10. Anyone else?
We’ve had some chilly nights.
The Jetstream has been interesting lately:
That is weird.
Snow forecasted for Denver area tonight.
We need rain. Its cool at night and normal spring in the day.
It is going to get down to 40F tonight and a few days ago we had frost.
IIRC we had temps in the 90s and even up to 100F a decade ago. (Libra office decided to die just now.)
Nope – perfect weather for the Blooming of the Lilacs – God is Great in His Gifts!!!
Very cool here. I’m ready for summer.
Cool, just SO dry.
Rained most of the Winter and now we have a very dry Spring.
Yes, even for Montana, we are having a chilly spring.
Needs to warm up. I’m coming back in a few weeks.
Hubby’s camping experience involved a night that went down to 29! Just a few hours NW from Detroit…
Verse of the Day for Monday, May 10, 2021
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“For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;”
Hebrews 3:14 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
🦋 🦋 💗 💗 💗 🦋 🦋
https://twitter.com/omosees/status/1391614095623958530
Looks to me like Secret Service, some of them in civilian attire. Apparently one of them is female.
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.
H/T LEON
It’s Clean Up Your Room Day … how’d I do?
Ah, the secular liturgical calender. 😄
Spotless room!
We do not have CC in TN, only watered down permitless carry. Still a move in the correct direction though…
It is a good move in the right direction but not real permitless carry.
You follow &/or belong to the TFA? Jeff Hartline? John Harris?
If not, you might want to as I think you might like them and the TFA
That’s why I called it watered down. Dissapointing, but better than what we had.
Creepy, the Resident in Grief, is a squatter in the People’s House.
From a TN GOP party member, posted on 1/6:
(I just saw it now for whatever reason)
“I’m going to take a very long break from social media. It may be permanent (except for Instagram. The photos must be shown…https://www.instagram.com/millsdo/).
However, before I go, I wanted to give you one last opinion piece on what I see happening in our country.
In aviation, we’ve learned that many of our accidents and incidents stem from a term sociologists call “normalization of deviance.”
The definition of which is “the process in which deviance from correct or proper behavior becomes normalized.” In layman’s terms, it’s when people knowingly do something incorrectly or perform socially unacceptable things, and those actions become accepted behavior because there were no adverse consequences.
Over the past four years, the media and many elected officials looked the other way (or even encouraged it) when radicals on the left burned, looted, destroyed, and vandalized cities. Because of this, what happened today at the U.S. Capitol did not surprise me one bit.
I don’t like what they did, I don’t support it, and they shouldn’t have gone inside. But at the same time, I know that many Americans are frustrated and quickly reaching their tipping point. Our federal government is completely broken.
I don’t know who is responsible for the Capitol incident today, but I am sure we will find out soon enough. I do not believe it was all Trump supporters.
Sure, they were there and shouldn’t have been, but there have been many large gatherings of Trump supporters across the nation since the election. In those gatherings, there was no violence. There was no chaos. There were only flag-waving Americans singing the National Anthem and God Bless America. Though anything is possible, the narrative doesn’t fit.
Even on a day when Congress is not in session, the United States Capitol building is one of the world’s most secure facilities. Today, of all days, it should have been on extra high alert. Yet, it wasn’t. Why?
Last year, I had the honor of being a driver in the Vice President’s motorcade when he came to Memphis. During that two hour visit, military and police helicopters watched from above. In front of me, the SUV’s had rocket launchers, lasers on the roof to thwart shoulder fired missiles (I assume), machine guns, rifles, shotguns, and pistols. Maybe it was because Memphis is a dangerous place, but I suppose it’s because he is the Vice President.
But today, in the U.S. Capitol, when the next two people in line to be President were in the same room, the only real security was a few Capitol Hill Police with standard issued firearms. Yes, there were some rifles, but not the show of force there should have been given the massive amount of people outside. Several of the photos from outside showed they had paintball guns and not real guns. Again, why?
I’ll leave you with this; question everything, and use common sense.
But most of all, be a good human and pray for our nation.
“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” – 2 Chronicles 7:14
Until we meet again…blue skies and tailwinds.”
Me poking around to learn more about Lee
https://dailymemphian.com/article/15497/tom-leatherwood-lee-mills-house-district-99
and
https://www.facebook.com/LeeMillsfor99/
hope he runs again
He had good sense then – he spotted that it was a set-up. That SHOCK he has – I recognize it. It took a while to dawn on me.
Look at what happened today – they put one of the commie lawfare blog criminals in at the top of DOJ NSD.
What they are doing is basically saying that DOJ is no longer on our side. There are LITERALLY criminals in charge of DOJ. Merrick Garland, apparently some putz toadie of China and Obama in charge – it’s a TRAIN WRECK.
BABYLON and ASSYRIA rule us to AFFLICT us.
Now, (Hi, Dodge and Fib) they can sit there and call me out as some religious nut, but hey, fuckers – deal with metaphor, you pricks. Deal with a little vulgarity, just like your precious ANTIFA kids.
YOU are a pox. Sending “Lawfare” criminals into DOJ? REALLY?
Stoke the fire. Your call. You’re in charge. YOU will be responsible.
Trust me, this bunch will go full Soviet on us when they think they can get away with it. They KNOW they can NEVER allow a fair election again. They can never relinquish the White House. They can never relinquish Congress, except the fake normal of a China Boy riding a phony balanced Senate like what they have now, and Nan or the like in charge of the House.
It’s all a SCAM.
🙌 🙌 ( i think those are clapping hands)
Easier to arrest them if they are all in one place – I say
Thanks for posting that, MagaMom.
The truth will out.
Defining Deviancy Down (DDD) was an expression coined by the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan in 1993. Moynihan based his phrase on the theory of Emile Durkheim that there is a limit to the bad behavior that a society can tolerate before it has to start lowering its standards. In ’93, the senator applied his slogan to the “moral deregulation” that had eroded families, increased crime, and produced the mentally ill “homeless” population.
That same year columnist Charles Krauthammer expanded Moynihan’s point by proposing the reverse — that not only were we “normalizing what was once considered deviant,” but we were also “finding deviant what was once considered normal.”
(Think date rape, political correctness and politically incorrect speech.) In time, the inevitable lower standards and moral relativism brought us the movies, TV shows, fashions, sex norms and web pages we have today. Deviant and normal swapped places.
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[Dead link for the above: http://spectator.org/articles/37376/defending-deviancy-down ]
Link for Sen. Moynihan’s 1993 article:
https://nation.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2012/03/defining-deviancy-down-amereducator.pdf
AAAANNNNND, here it starts:
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/552379-we-need-covid-19-vaccine-requirements-now-not-just-recommendations
The Hill is running an Opinion article by Dr. Kavita K. Patel, who worked for Barack Obama and the leftwing Brookings Institution (funded by George Soros’ Open Society), about the “necessity” for government mandates that requires just about everybody residing in the United States to get the CCP Virus “vaccine”. The federal government would “work with” the individual states in ensuring “transparency” and “fair accurate reporting mechanisms” — leading to a federal standard for “immunization proof” (the “Vaccine Passport”).
Patel makes it clear that it’s the UN-“vaccinated” who are making all the trouble regarding the CCP Virus “vaccines”. She also makes it clear that it’s the UN-“vaccinated” who would be behind any new “superspreader” incident. Not to mention that “vaccine inequality” is the fault of the “vax resisters”.
They are a day late and a dollar short.
This will not happen in free states.
The side effects from the shots are endemic and have deterred many people.
If they try to force, it will show they have no teeth because there will be widespread noncompliance on local levels and state levels.
The globalists have no clothes.
Amen goes right there, GMT!!!
It may turn into a fight. Not that I’m complaining.
I am in the DemonRat stolen state of North Carolina and there is NO WAY I will take that Death Shot, WHY? Because the chances it will kill me in a nasty painful way are too close to 100%. I rather be shot in the head and be done with it.
RESIST. Stand up to the progzi scum! That Canadian pastor has inspired me.
CHINADA will not happen here. Not if we stand firm. It may get ugly to where the progzis have no idea what hit them, but that’s OK. Judgment comes for us all.
Visualizing What $50k In Lumber Can Build Today Versus Last Year – The Burning Platform
Chinada will now be sending it all to CHINA.
I bet some people would rather see it burn than go to China.
CO2. “Equitable distribution.” 😉
Wheatie: Need help – I cannot expand this – there is a short video, too – Thanks!!!
https://t.me/freedomforcebattalion/4366%20and%20video
That’s on Telegram and I don’t have an account there.
So I can’t view the video.
I noticed this embed code on it…let’s see if this works:
<script async src=”https://telegram.org/js/telegram-widget.js?14″ data-telegram-post=”freedomforcebattalion/4368″ data-width=”100%” data-single></script>
Thanks, Wheatie – me, either – there is text that accompanies the video – someone was taking video in DC to see what was happening there – wrote some text, too – but – I could not open it all – let me try something else, too…
Generally speaking, only embed codes with “iframe” outer delimiters work, and those with “script” will not, but I still keep trying every trick I can!
SATANIST, ILLUMINATI, AND DISPENSATIONS… JUST ADD CABAL!
may 10, 2021 the marshall report
https://themarshallreport.wordpress.com/2021/05/10/satanist-illuminati-and-dispensations-just-add-cabal/
The topic of rapture is touchy and most never go there because it is believed by 90% of the churches. In a previous post I guessed those believing it at 92%, but google says 90%. Today time is short, so I will cut to the quick. How many know who John Nelson Darby the teacher of Dispensations and Rapture is? He is the one funded by the Rothschilds Bank of London to teach people this wondrous interpretation all designed to confuse Christians to help in their end game Luciferian goals. For you see Darby was a Satanist and other things which you will now learn.
[Excerpt] Read more at the link above…
Brings to mind “The Burned Over District” of New York.
Saints, Sinners and Reformers: The Burned-Over District Re-Visited
I recently encountered a reference to “The Code of Handsome Lake” which arose in the same neighborhood around the same time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longhouse_Religion
Handsome Lake was a prophet of the Seneca People. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handsome_Lake
Born around 1735, nearly the peak of the power of the Iroquois, he witnessed their gradual dissolution over several decades. His personal situation echoed that decay, with alcoholism and sloth.
During a time of illness brought about by these bad acts, he had a series of visions in 1799, where three messengers brought him the message of Gaiwiio, the “Good Word”.
Among the lessons in the Gaiwiio (paraphrased) were, “sober up!”, “get smarter!” (learn English, don’t rely on your “friends'” translations being accurate), “turn back to your families!”, “turn back to your clans!”, “turn back to your people!”, and “turn back to your virtue!”.
Critics maintained that he grafted the Quaker faith onto traditional Iroquois practices. Y’know, with the three visitors, maybe he was grafting Dickens’ Christmas Carol in — but his Visions were founded on personal virtue, family virtue, and civic virtue….and laudable if just for that.
It’s a lot easier to get along with foreigners who carry a ceremonial knife every day to separate the Truth from Lies (Sikhs); one can find common cause more easily with those who practice loyalty and self-discipline (Longhouse Religion); than one can find anything good for people who believe that lying to others (taqqiya) is laudable if it advances the cause.
Hmmm…
LOTS of stuff came out of New York state.
I do not have the URL to back it up, but IIRC New York bankers had a lot to do with the start of the Civil War.
NYC is where Lenin lived before returning home to Russia to help lead the Bolshevik Revolution.
10 New York City places that have hidden Russian history
Oh, my – sounds familiar – but, I am at a loss to recall the whole sorted affair, Gail.
A double hell naw!
Mike Pompeo (@mikepompeo) Tweeted:
No.
GOODBYE PROG MASK NAZIS.
I saw a vid of Celine Dion the other day and I wasn’t super closely watching it but she said she’d be back on tour in 2023. The gist I was getting was that it was CV related and she’s such a good prog.
Lawfare blog going into National Security Division?
Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) Tweeted:
I’m very honored to be joining the extraordinary team at the Department of Justice in the National Security Division. Thank you for all the kind words. (And a huge thanks to the folks at WH PPO, agency WH liaisons and HRs who are working night and day to staff this government.)
https://twitter.com/Susan_Hennessey/status/1391718717093040128?s=20
A she-demon.
This is not good. 😕
Cant say anything in the bite me admin is good. Nothing. Its all the nazi and stalin players recycled for 2021. Ss, gestapo, pedos. Etc etc. I await the region disappearing of peopke to begin fir covid noncompliance.
Thrown in with extremely subversive sexual proclivities and rayciss “theory” its nothing but toxic sludge.
The effort to drain the swamp has been sealed and capped off. Believe if Piglosi says shes not worried about elections that means its already confirmed to go her way via the steal. She has been right on that so far.
God help us.
🙏 😔
It is entirely possible that this nation is being afflicted, as if by the Assyrians or Babylon. Sometimes we don’t get the help we want. Sometimes we get the help we need – and it may not look like anything we expect.
I have difficulty accepting this possibility, but I am starting to see the logic.
I hope he does in a healthy way…
Good GRIEF.