2021·12·25 Joe Biden Didn’t Win Daily Thread

SPECIAL SECTION: Message For Our “Friends” In The Middle Kingdom

You knuckle-dragging barbarians are still trying to muck with this site, so I’ll just repeat what I said last time.

Up your shit-kicking barbarian asses. Yes, barbarian! It took a bunch of sailors in Western Asia to invent a real alphabet instead of badly drawn cartoons to write with. So much for your “civilization.”

Yeah, the WORLD noticed you had to borrow the Latin alphabet to make Pinyin. Like with every other idea you had to steal from us “Foreign Devils” since you rammed your heads up your asses five centuries ago, you sure managed to bastardize it badly in the process.

Have you stopped eating bats yet? Are you shit-kickers still sleeping with farm animals?

Or maybe even just had the slightest inkling of treating lives as something you don’t just casually dispose of?

中国是个混蛋 !!!
Zhōngguò shì gè hùndàn !!!
China is asshoe !!!

And here’s my response to barbarian “asshoes” like you:

OK, with that rant out of my system…

Loop it if you like; I will wait.

Richly deserved.

Justice Must Be Done

The prior election must be acknowledged as fraudulent, and steps must be taken to prosecute the fraudsters and restore integrity to the system.

Nothing else matters at this point. Talking about trying again in 2022 or 2024 is hopeless otherwise. Which is not to say one must never talk about this, but rather that one must account for this in ones planning; if fixing the fraud is not part of the plan, you have no plan.

The Audit

The Audit is definitely heating up. Let’s see if the Opposition manages to squelch it and its consequences. I’ll be honest; I expect it to be ignored by anyone capable of ordering Biden/Harris to step down.

Nevertheless, anything that can be done to make Biden look less legitimate is a worthy thing!

Lawyer Appeasement Section

OK now for the fine print.

This is the WQTH Daily Thread. You know the drill. There’s no Poltical correctness, but civility is a requirement. There are Important Guidelines,  here, with an addendum on 20191110.

We have a new board – called The U Tree – where people can take each other to the woodshed without fear of censorship or moderation.

And remember Wheatie’s Rules:

1. No food fights
2. No running with scissors.
3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
4. Zeroth rule of gun safety: Don’t let the government get your guns.
5. Rule one of gun safety: The gun is always loaded.
5a. If you actually want the gun to be loaded, like because you’re checking out a bump in the night, then it’s empty.
6. Rule two of gun safety: Never point the gun at anything you’re not willing to destroy.
7. Rule three: Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire.
8. Rule the fourth: Be sure of your target and what is behind it.

(Hmm a few extras seem to have crept in.)

Spot (i.e., paper) Prices

Last week:

Gold $1799.70
Silver $22.45
Platinum $947.00
Palladium $1868.00
Rhodium $14,900.00

This week, 3PM Mountain Time, markets have closed for the weekend. Actually it appears they were closed all day Friday for Christmas Eve.

Gold $1810.20
Silver $22.96
Platinum $981.00
Palladium $2036.00
Rhodium $14,975.00

Slow creep upwards.

James Webb Space Telescope Update

Launch is set for TODAY, Christmas Day at 0720 EST.

Which means that as I write this, I don’t know how it went, but perhaps you reading this, do. Of course, there’s always the chance of a last minute delay, that pushes launch time out of the 32 minute window that the spacecraft must launch during.

After launch (assuming a successful one) about a month of nailbiting begins as over three hundred things have to all happen without fail for this bit of high tech origami to unfold properly, because there is no way to fix a spacecraft that is literally a million miles away. The following video shows the sequence.

The next video, which I should have put in last week’s daily (but I did post it in the comments once I found it) also conveys how tense things are going to be at NASA. This mission has sucked all of the oxygen out of the room for nearly 20 years, and to have it fail…well, let’s just hope it doesn’t.

I have no idea if NASA will have a page to visit that will count down all of the events that must happen. But I do have this one for a launch countdown, in case you are either here before 7AM OR the launch slips again:

Launch Countdown Webb/NASA

The Reason There Even Is A Season

Of course I know what day this. That Advent calendar where Hans Gruber is falling to his death is finally complete (but does that calendar have a “thud” sound effect?).

Of course I am committing the cardinal sin of forgetting “the reason for the season.”

Actually I haven’t. I could write something about that, loaded with chapter and verse. But I am sure you wouldn’t like it. So I will leave it to others to do so.

So I thought I’d do something a bit more typical of what you’ve come to expect from my Saturday dailies and talk about why we even have seasons in the first place. (And yes, I am literal-mindedly talking “season” as in “winter” not “season” as in “season’s greetings.”)

I expect most of you know most of what’s in here, so this should be light reading. Actually, you’ll get a twofer, as I’m going to talk about time of day as well (and more of this will be obscure).

[Note: this is written from the point of view of someone in the northern hemisphere. Our friends in Oz will have to adjust what I wrote as they read it.]

The “first order” view of time, surely figured out long before we learned how to bang the rocks together to make fire, of course, is that this big glowing thing (the sun) would come up over the horizon, making everything light, travel across the sky, and drop again on the other side, and after it did so it would become dark. Maybe (or maybe not) there’d be another very noticeable object in the sky (the moon), and maybe not. There would (if the sky wasn’t completely clouded over) also be a lot of stars out. And then, the sky would grow bright in the east, that super bright glowing thing would show up…And the cycle would repeat itself ad infinitum, which is actually the important point.

The bright period and dark period were of very roughly equal length most places.

But thousands of years ago, if not much longer, we noticed some more subtle patterns. This understanding surely predates the invention of writing; we know this because we’ve found plenty of remains of tools to measure these more subtle patterns, left behind by cultures that didn’t write. (E.g., one of many: Stonehenge.)

The sun doesn’t rise and set in exactly the same spot every day. It rises in a general easterly location, but sometimes its a bit north of east, and sometimes it’s a bit south of east; it’s a slow progression from the most northerly sunrise, further and further south each day, until we reach the most southerly sunrise, then the process reverses itself, the sun rising further north each day.

This correlated with the stars that were visible at night. For instance, when the sun is close to rising as far south as sunrise gets, right after sunset the constellation of Orion is visible in the east; it travels across the sky overnight and sets before sunrise. But when the sun is most of the way to its most northerly sunrise (and sunset), Orion is already setting just after sunset; a few dozen days later on, you can’t see Orion at all.

[The above is true for southern hemisphere people as well.]

All of this also correlates with the seasons, at least for places like Europe. When the sun is rising further south, the weather tends to be colder, though the coldest time might be a bit after the sun has started rising further and further north. Nevertheless, it was pretty obvious: The further south the sunrise and sunset, the colder it gets, and it gets cold enough that food is impossible to grow and difficult to find.

Fortunately we did know that the sun wouldn’t just keep drifting further south, that there was a limit to how far south it would get, and we’d celebrate when it got furthest south, because there was the promise that the weather would get better. And so we have all those tools to be able to mark the day the sun would start to return; Stonehenge being probably the most famous of them. We now call that day the “Winter Solstice” and on our present calendar it falls on or about December 21.

[Folks in the southern hemisphere will want to swap things around; for them it gets colder when the sun is furthest north.]

There were a couple of other aspects of this, too. When the sun was further north, the day was very noticeably longer, and also when the sun was further north, it was higher at noon, nearly overhead in fact (in Southern Europe at least), but much closer to the horizon when it rose further south.

This is actually a consequence of the fact that the path of the sun across the sky forms the same angle regardless of where it rises.

And now, I need a diagram.

As I alluded to before, the furthest south the sun gets is called the winter solstice. But also, the furthest north it gets is the summer solstice (roughly June 21). The in-between cases where it rises precisely to the east and sets precisely to the west, which happen twice as often as either one of the solstices, are called equinoxes (roughly March and September 21).

Where did that word “equinoxes” come from?

So glad you asked!

As you can see from that diagram, the three arcs have different lengths, and that manifests itself as differences in the length of the day. Furthermore, in the far north and south, the differences are greater. Certainly people in Europe and other places that far away from the equator did notice that daytimes are shorter, and night times longer, in winter, whereas for summer it’s the other way around.

It was, in medieval times, customary to divide the daytime into twelfths and to divide nighttime into twelfths as well–this is the origin of our modern hour–but of course these daytime and nighttime hours were rarely the same length. (The advantage of this was that the sun always rose and set at six o’clock, by definition.)

Only at the two equinoxes were day and night–and the day and night hours–the same length; equinox comes from Latin for “equal night.” And we have two of them, there’s a vernal or “spring” equinox, where the sunrise position is in the process of moving north, and the sun rises directly to the east, and the autumnal or “fall” equinox where the sunrise is headed south for the winter.

Going back to that diagram, there’s a line across the sky that starts at the horizon due south, climbs straight up until it’s precisely overhead, than continues on to the horizon due north; this is the meridian. It turns out that this line crosses the arc the sun is taking across the sky, at the arc’s highest point. The two parts of the arc, before and after this point, are of equal length. When the sun is at that point, it’s “noon.” And our abbreviations AM and PM come from “ante meridian” and “post meridian.”

And there is one more concept to be introduced here, and that is the length of time between two winter solstices, or spring equinoxes, or summer solstices, or fall equinoxes, and that is a year. To be more precise, it’s a tropical year. (And yes, there are other similar concepts known today, that mean slightly different things. By the time I explain those, the name tropical year might make a bit more sense.)

Our calendar is set up to cycle in one such period. Since it’s the sun’s variations it’s based on, our calendar termed a solar calendar. Some cultures (most notably Islamic ones) operate off the moon instead of the sun, and others work off a mixture of both. A pure lunar calendar will follow the phases of the moon, and may have a number of these moon-cycles bundled together into a year…but it won’t be the same length as the solar year, because the length of a moon cycle doesn’t divide evenly into a solar year. This is why the Islamic year is only 354 or 355 days long…they flat out didn’t care about the seasons (known as “hot” and “even hotter”) in Arabia.

The Jewish/Hebrew calendar is a combination lunar-solar calendar; its months follow the moon cycles, but will try to track with the seasons, too, by adding entire extra months in some years to make up the difference.

This is similar to the way the ancient (pre Julius Caesar) Roman calendar worked, too: months followed the moon strictly, but the priesthood would determine when extra months needed to be added to keep things roughly in sync with the seasons. A year without an extra month was 355 days long; a year with the extra month was 378 days long. This was eventually abused by priests who’d add extra months if the consul in power that year was someone they liked. Eventually it turned into a big mess that Julius Caesar would have to take drastic action to fix. More on that later, perhaps.

Between all of this about the sun’s curious behavior and the way the stars behave over the course of the year, people eventually came up with a mental model of what’s going on behind the scenes. Aspects of this model are still in use in astronomy.

It’s known as the celestial sphere and comes in two slightly different forms.

The idea is that the sphere is centered either on Earth or on the observer, and it’s arbitrarily far away. The position of every object in the sky is projected onto that sphere.

In particular the stars, which (almost) don’t move, are regarded as fixed in place upon the celestial sphere.

The Celestial Sphere.

Earth is at the center, and there is a north celestial pole and a south celestial pole, directly over the earth’s north and south poles. There is also a celestial equator, above the earth’s equator.

The earth, of course, rotates counter-clockwise as seen from over the north pole, but in this model we pretend the earth is stationary and the celestial sphere is rotating clockwise as seen from “above” the north celestial pole.

The second version you will see of the celestial sphere is with respect to an observer on Earth’s surface. There are still celestial poles and a celestial equator, but in a diagram like this, usually drawn assuming someone in the northern hemisphere, you’ll see the north celestial pole above the horizon, the south celestial pole below the horizon (if it’s shown at all), and half of the celestial equator at an oblique angle to the ground. And the celestial equator will intersect the plane of the ground precisely east and west of the observer. In fact you can consider each star in the sky as having a “latitude” above or below the celestial equator, just as places on Earth do with respect to the earth’s equator. Astronomers actually do this, but they call it “declination” rather than latitude.

In fact this diagram is a gif, and you can see three points on the celestial sphere moving in circles as the celestial sphere rotates. A point sufficiently far north on the celestial sphere never sets…a real life example of this for people in the US is the Big Dipper, which doesn’t set (it might do so in the far south of the US; I don’t know). Similarly, there are stars that never rise in the US, our friends in Oz get to see them, though. (Alpha Centauri, the nearest visible-to-the-unaided-eye star other than our own sun, is permanently below the horizon where I live, as are Canopus and Fomalhaut, two other very bright stars.) But most stars in the sky rise and set, following arcs very similar to the arc the sun follows in its daily journey across the sky.

It turns out that, for all intents and purposes unless you have a true atomic clock (not just a receiver) the stars move across the sky at an absolutely constant rate. You can set your watch by them…and indeed for quite a long time, we did set our clocks by them.

Pick a bright star, and start your stopwatch when it crosses the meridian. Wait a day for it to cross again, and how much time elapses?

By modern units, do you suppose it’s 24 hours? After all the earth spins once every twenty four hours, right? Well…almost.

In fact, it’s 23 hours, 56 minutes, 4.0905 seconds (approximately). Or equivalently, with respect to the stars, the earth rotates once every 23 hours, 56 minutes, 4.0905 seconds. This is the sidereal day, the amount of time it takes the earth to rotate once, with respect to the stars.

Astronomers actually have special clocks in their observatories that measure sidereal time. When a certain point in the sky crosses the meridian, that’s zero hours (0h), then every 24th of a sidereal day another hour has passed…but these hours are slightly shorter than what your watch measures, of course. But you can tell what stars will be “up” at any given time by knowing the sidereal time. In fact they will occasionally set their sidereal clocks by watching the stars. It’s fairly simple to convert sidereal time to “normal” time and that’s why observatories were once the places that would define what time it was.

Huh. Why the difference? Hold that thought!

How about measuring the sun’s time between crossings of the meridian? OK, that’s both better and worse. No, it’s not 24 hours. In fact, it’s not even a constant amount of time! Sometimes it is longer than 24 hours, sometimes less. But it does average 24 hours over the course of a year.

And that is how the length of the day was originally defined.

So how can the sun take 24 hours–on average but not on any particular day–to go around the earth (in celestial sphere terms), but the stars do it almost four minutes faster?

Remember earlier when I talked about how Orion would be just rising as the sun sets in autumn, but during the winter, it would be higher and higher in the sky at sunset, until around about May when it’s about to set just as the sun sets?

That means the sun is moving closer and closer to Orion over the course of the winter. Which means the sun is not nailed to the celestial sphere like the (other) stars are. In fact, it moves in a full circle around the celestial sphere, and it takes a year to do so.

Unfortunately for reasons that I might not get to this week, it doesn’t take a tropical year to do so, it takes a slightly different amount of time, a sidereal year. And you may have noticed a pattern: “Sidereal” means with respect to the stars. The sidereal year is about 20 minutes longer than a tropical year.

So what about this circle on the celestial the sun travels on over the course of the year? It’s called the zodiac, and it’s tilted with respect to the celestial equator, intersecting it at two points. The tilt is about 23 1/2 degrees. When the sun is at one of those intersections, it is of course right on the celestial equator and will rise (or set) directly to the east (or west). When you hear some newscast saying that spring will start at such-and-such a time on March 21st, that’s actually the exact instant the sun crosses the celestial equator.

The zodiac on the celestial sphere.

That crossing point, called the First point of Aries, is where astronmers start measuring celestial “longitude” analogous to longitude on Earth…except they call it “right ascension” and it is measured in hours, not degrees, with 24 hours making up the full circle. In fact, sidereal 0h is when the march equinox location crosses the meridian.

Since the sun takes a full year to travel around the zodiac, on any given day it moves about 1/365th of the zodiac or just under one degree. And at different times of the year, it’s well north or well south of the celestial equator, accounting for those differing-located (and differing length) arcs across the sky that our prehistoric ancestors first noted.

The difference between the sidereal and the (average) solar day of 24 hours is accounted for this way: Noting that the sun crosses the meridian at a particular time, if you wait exactly one sidereal day, the same stars will cross the meridian again [never mind that you can’t see them in broad daylight!]. But the sun will have traveled about a degree to the east in the meantime, and the celestial sphere must rotate (east to west) about one more degree to bring the sun across the meridian again. (A degree is 1/360th of the circle, and with a day being 1440 minutes, it takes about 4 minutes for the celestial sphere to rotate one degree. Actually, it takes exactly four sidereal minutes to do so, but they’re slightly shorter than your wall-clock minutes.)

Part of the reason the time between meridian crossings of the sun varies from 24 hours, is because of the tilt of the ecliptic. Where it crosses the equator, it does so at a slant, so part of the distance traveled is in the north-south direction and the sun therefore moves a bit less in the east-west direction. Which means the celestial sphere has to rotate slightly less to bring the sun across the meridian the next day, making noon-to-noon a bit shorter than average. At the two solstices the sun’s motion along the zodiac is purely along the east-west direction and the right ascension lines are closer together, so the celestial sphere must rotate more to bring the sun across the meridian line, so noon-to-noon duration is a bit longer.

There is a second factor affecting this, which I’m going to ignore for now, I’ll get to it later.

OK, so what are the practical effects of all of this?

First off, ironically the only instrument that actually tracks the sun’s movement is a very primitive one, a sundial. But even here, there’s a subtlety or two you must keep in mind. A sundial always seems to have a triangular or sloped thing to cast the shadow (the “gnomon” from Monday’s daily). Why is that? The sloped side of the triangle is actually parallel to the earth’s axis (or the celestial sphere’s axis), so that there won’t be any weird perspective shifts over the course of the day. You may have noticed me pointing out how steep that one sundial in Canada was in the comments last Monday. That’s why: gnomons will be steeper the further north you go (or further south in the southern hemisphere), and a vertical (plumb) pole in the ground will work perfectly at the north or south pole.

Incidentally, did you ever wonder why we happened to choose the direction we call “clockwise” to be the direction clocks turn? Why not the other direction (which, of course, we’d then call “clockwise” instead of this direction)?

It’s because that’s the direction the sun’s shadow travels on a sun dial. We were making the clocks “backward compatible” in a way by doing that–a shadow to the left of another shadow indicates an earlier time, and hour hands further left also indicated an earlier time.

If modern, watch-making civilization had developed in Australia instead of Europe, chances are good that clocks would run the other direction and maps would have south at the top. If we ever run into aliens who put south at the top of their maps, chances are good their watches will run “backwards.” You wouldn’t think the two arbitrary decisions are related…but they are both more than likely functions of which hemisphere civilization started modern map making and timekeeping.

OK, so we have a sundial which will actually measure the position of the sun in the sky. But we can’t use them for modern timekeeping, even leaving out the fact that they don’t work at night. Because we’d have to deal with the inconsistent length of the sundial day, from one day to the next…remember that bit about the sun crossing the meridian?

We can come up with something called “Mean Solar Time” which is the average time the sun will cross the meridian. And in fact we did precisely that, for centuries. We even had tables and graphics showing how far off of mean solar time the sun’s crossing of the meridian would be any given day of the year, and it’s even called “the equation of time.” People in a certain town would set their watches by mean solar time, and those watches would be off from their sundials by a predictable amount, according to the graph below.

Now you’ll note I said “in a certain town.”

Yes, it matters where you are. The sun appears to travel across the sky east to west. Therefore it stands to reason that someone further east than you are will see the sun cross the meridian earlier than you do. And when he does the whole averaging to get mean solar time thing that you did, he’s going to end up setting his watch a bit faster than you are. In fact, only if two people are directly north-south of each other, under the same meridian line, would their clocks be synchronized.

Until the advent of the railroad, in fact, every single city had its own, distinct local mean solar time.

This didn’t matter much in stagecoach days; a stagecoach could maybe make a few dozen miles in a day, and people’s watches were inaccurate enough they needed to be reset every few days anyway; while traveling they’d just have to set them in every new town…not much more often than they already had to.

But railroads could cover hundreds of miles in a day, and there you could see easily see significant differences between towns’ mean solar times in one day of travel.

And railroads liked to run on a schedule. That schedule was a royal pain to set up when the time of day was shifting depending on your position on the track. A trip east to west would be shorter (by wall clock times at every stop on the route) than a trip west to east at the same speed. Time measured on the train would be identical, of course, it’s just that the train’s clock would seem faster at the west end of the trip than at the east end.

So what did the railroads do? They invented time zones. This began in Great Britain in 1840, where the Great Western Railway simply synchronized all of their clocks with the Greenwich observatory’s mean solar time, which became “Greenwich Mean Time.” In essence all of Great Britain ended up in one time zone, with most public clocks showing GMT regardless of the local mean solar time, though this didn’t become a legal thing until 1880. In fact, many clocks from this time actually have two minute hands; one could be set to GMT and the other could be set to local time.

Britain was a relatively small country. The US is much larger. What happened here?

Well, we could have set every clock at every railway station to Washington DC time, or (more likely back then) New York City time. But the US is wide and clocks on the west coast would have been reading noon when the sundials were saying 9AM. A few minutes like the UK had was tolerable (we’d never have noticed without watches in the first place), but two or three hours would be a problem.

Railroads at first simply used the time at their headquarters, transmitted by telegraph so other stations could synchronize. That led to the spectacle of some stations that served two railroads having to show two clocks, one for each railroad, so that people could know at what time trains were supposed to arrive and depart.

In 1863 Charles F. Dowd proposed a set of standard times for all railroads to follow but no real action was taken until he consulted railroad officials in 1869. In 1870 he proposed Washington DC as the center of one time zone. In 1873, finally time zones began to be used, but the boundaries between them would tend to be in major railway stations–depending on whether the train went east or west through the station, it’d have to set its clocks forwards or backwards at the station. Finally, something very akin to what we have now was adopted by Congress in 1918.

The four time zones we use in the Lower 48 are based on the mean solar time at 75, 90, 105, and 120 degrees west longitude.

If you live right on those longitudes, and your watch is set correctly, it reads mean solar time, and the equation of time in the chart above is correct.

If you don’t live on those longitudes, then you’re east or west of the longitude your watch is set for, and you have to add or subtract a constant to your watch to know mean solar time for your location. And of course if the never-to-be-sufficiently-damned Daylight Saving Time is in effect, you’re still off by an hour.

Interestingly enough, there’s a reverse to this: If you have an accurate clock and do not reset it, you can determine your longitude by observing the sun to determine the local solar time, looking at your watch, taking the difference, and correcting for the equation of time. For instance if you set your clock to GMT, go sailing off, and at some point notice that the sun says it’s 9:50 am when your watch reads noon, and the equation of time says your watch is fast by ten minutes on that day, you know that at that instant a sundial in London would say it’s 11:50 AM, but where you are the sundial would say 9:50 am–you are two hours behind London, and with each hour being 15 degrees on the globe (360/24 = 15), that means you’re at 30 degrees W longitude.

Without that accurate clock, determining longitude is nearly impossible, and in fact the British government sponsored a substantial prize (10 to 20 thousand pounds) for the first person who could invent a clock that would keep accurate time even on the swaying and heaving deck of a ship (which left out any clock based on a pendulum). The amount of the prize depended on the accuracy of the method. The prize was finally collected in 1773.

Columbus and Vasco da Gamma (to say nothing of Magellan) would likely have given up significant body parts for one of those chronometers.

[There are other methods to determine longitude; they all amount to determining an absolute time. One was to observe Jupiter’s moons’ positions, but that depended on Jupiter being visible, and that was essentially seasonal (and subject to cloudy weather). And, one needed to correct for where the earth was relative to Jupiter; it could be further away than average in which case the actual time was later than indicated by Jupiter’s moons because the light took longer to reach you.]

OK, so now it’s time to get back to seasons.

I’ve been talking about the celestial sphere, which is a handy visualization device and is the basis of astronomical (sky-chart) coordinates, but now we need to get back to reality.

The sky doesn’t rotate, the earth does. And the sun doesn’t travel around the earth on the zodiac, the earth travels around the sun in the plane of the zodiac.

The earth spins about its axis, and the axis of the spin is almost stationary. We can, for now, pretend that it is stationary (but–spoiler–the fact that it is not accounts for the twenty or so minute difference between sidereal and tropical years).

The plane of the earth’s orbit about the sun is the zodiac; and as I said before the angle between the zodiac and the celestial equator–i.e., between the zodiac and Earth‘s equator–is about 23.5 degrees. That also means the earth’s axis, rather than being perpendicular to the zodiac, is tilted 23.5 degrees off perpendicular.

At the time of the summer solstice around June 21st, according to the “celestial sphere” visualization, the sun is at the furthest north point on the zodiac. Stepping back and looking at the whole earth/sun system from space, it’s apparent that Earth’s north pole is tipped towards the sun.

There are parts of the far northerly, arctic regions where the sun won’t set at all! [Conversely since the south pole is tipped away from the sun, it won’t see daylight…and large antarctic regions also won’t see the sun around that time.]

A bit further south than the north pole, there are large areas where the sun will ride high in the sky and the daytime will last well over 12 hours. Those areas are getting a lot of sunlight, almost head-on, and that’s why summers are warm. In fact, at 23.5 north latitude, the sun will cross directly overhead, shining absolutely straight down at local noon. Eratosthenes, in Ptolemaic Egypt, records that the sun would shine clear down to the bottom of wells in Syene, to the south of Alexandria (and he used this fact, plus the sun angle in Alexandria that same day, to estimate the size of the earth; he didn’t do too badly).

Waiting three months until the September equinox, the situation looks like this:

Neither hemisphere is favored and the Sun is directly over the equator…and will rise directly to the east that day.

And you can see what will happen; the winter solstice will have the south pole tilted toward the sun, and the north pole tilted away; sunshine will hit the ground at a more oblique angle in the northern hemisphere, and heat the ground less.

Spring will be the mirror image of fall, with neither hemisphere being favored.

Putting it all together, you see the standard diagram, that looks like this:

Note that at all times, the earth’s axis of rotation points in the same direction; the seasons are caused by the differing relation between the direction of the sun (as seen from earth) and that axis.

And that is the reason we even have seasons. The tilt of the earth’s axis is that reason.

Now there’s one more factor I alluded to when I talked about the equation of time. The earth’s orbit about the sun isn’t a circle, it’s very slightly elliptical. Which means at one time of the year, it’s actually closer to the sun than at any other time; six months later, it’s furthest away.

I have to mention this, because many people think the reason it’s hotter in summer is that Earth is closer to the sun then.

Actually, it’s not. It’s actually closest to the sun in January! Yes, it does get a tiny bit more sunlight then, but the effect of the angle of the sun hitting the ground is much, much greater, which is why the northern hemisphere experiences summer when the north pole is tipped a bit towards the sun–even though Earth is further away from the sun at that time.

But this does have an effect on the equation of time. I mentioned that, as seen on the celestial sphere, the sun moves a bit eastward each day, meaning that in order to bring the sun back to “noon” the celestial sphere had to rotate about another four minues / one degree’s worth.

Stepping back, we see what’s actually happening. At noon on one day, you can draw a line from the sun through the earth. Now wait one sidereal day. The earth is oriented exactly the same as it was before–it has rotated once. But over the course of that day, the earth has moved almost one degree along its orbit. In order for the same spot that was facing the sun before, to be facing the sun again, the earth has to rotate one more degree. That accounts for the difference between the sidereal and solar day.

But as I said, the earth is in an elliptical orbit. Even at a constant speed, at the furthest out end of the orbit, the earth will cover slightly less angle of its orbit than it will closer. But in fact the earth moves faster nearer the sun, so this effect is magnified.

So it takes slightly less than four extra minutes to put the sun back on the meridian in July (when earth is furthest away from the sun), and more than four extra minutes to do it in January. That accounts for more off the changes in mean solar time that show up in the equation of time; a couple of those humps and valleys on the graph are due to this effect.

Are you starting to get the idea that simple measuring of time is actually a rather complicated subject?

It gets worse. Let’s go back to the calendar.

The length of the tropical year is 365.24217 mean solar days. Or to put that in long form, the length of time it takes to go from spring equinox to spring equinox is 365.24217 times as long as the average interval between sun crossings of the meridian.

Now, if we’re going to set up a calendar (which will want to be in whole days) and expect it to remain in the same relationship with the seasons, that means some years will have to be 365 days long, and some will have to be 366 days long.

I mentioned the drastic reform Julius Caesar made to the Roman calendar. First he had to restore the traditional alignment of the months to the seasons, which had gotten bollixed up by the priests’ arbitrary insertion of extra months. Then he had to change the lengths of the months so there’d be twelve months, no more, no less in a year. Then he had to do something about that fractional 0.24217 days.

The year 46 BCE was known as the year of confusion. Caesar added multiple extra months that year to get the calendar lined back up with January starting as it should, early in winter. Then the next year he introduced the twelve months we know today, at their current lengths. Those totaled 365 days. He decreed that every fourth year, an extra day be added to February. That would make the average calendar year 365.25 days, which is quite close to 365.24217 days.

There were glitches–for a time people were mistakenly holding leap year every three years, and Caesar Augustus had to straighten that out and re-sync. But after 1 CE, every year divisible by 4 was a leap year, 4, 8, 12, etc.

The “Julian Calendar” held sway for over fifteen centuries.

But after fifteen centuries, the difference between 365.25 and 365.24217 had added up. Consider a century of 36,525 days on the Julian calendar, versus 36524.217 days in an actual tropical century. There’s almost 0.8 days difference. Call it .75 (which is what a certain guy named Gregory did), it becomes apparent that in 1600 years, there’d be a twelve day error.

And indeed, because the year was longer than it “should” have been, spring was now starting on March 12th instead of the 21st, in the 1500s.

Pope Gregory changed the leap year rule from “every fourth year” to one where three of those leap years out of every four centuries would be skipped. And he decreed dropping days to get the calendar back to where it was supposed to be. This is the Gregorian calendar, and it’s the one we use today. Under the Gregorian calendar, every year divisible by 4 is a leap year–except for century years (ending in 00). Those are not leap years even though they are divisible by 4. However, if a century year is divisible by 400 it is still a leap year anyway. The upshot is that 1700, 1800 and 1900 were not leap years, but 2000 was, and 2100 will not be.

This made the average length of a calendar year 365.2425 days, which is a lot closer to 365.24217, and we won’t have to figure out what to do about the difference for at least another thousand years. It looks like we need to ditch three or four more leap days every ten thousand years, or perhaps ditch 33 leap days every hundred thousand years. (On the other hand, Gregory could have come a lot closer if he’d gone with a rule where instead of very 400 years, every 500 years the century leap year is not dropped. Perhaps he didn’t have quite the right number of days in a real tropical year; I imagine it’s tricky to measure accurately.)

Gregory made his change in 1564; but by then the Reformation had happened and Protestant Europe wasn’t going to muck with their calendar because some guy in Rome said to do it. It took until the 1700s to bring them on board (it happened in England and her colonies in September of 1752; in order to get things back in sync 11 days were dropped. The day after September 2, 1752 was September 14, 1752, and occasionally we will refer to dates around then as “O.S.” for “Old Style” and “N.S.” for (wait for it…) “New Style.”

Eastern Orthodoxy didn’t catch up until much, much later (in fact some congregations still haven’t switched). Russia still used the Julian calendar in day-to-day business until the Communists forced the change in 1918. (If you think having to deal with time zones is bad, imagine writing to someone who is thirteen days behind you.)

There’s one last issue. It doesn’t affect our daily lives much…unless we’re astronomers.

Remember how I said the earth’s axis is almost stationary?

In fact, it wobbles, like a top. The angle remains about 23.5 degrees, but it moves around in a big circle, like this:

On the left, a top, wobbling as it spins. On the right, Earth doing the same thing.

Only it takes 25,700 years to do it.

In about 12,850 years, it will have gone 180 degrees around that circle. And the north pole of earth will not point towards Polaris any more. It will be pointing very roughly in the direction of Vega. (Vega is the star in the summer triangle that sets first…it’s probably setting about sunset right now.)

I’ve found it difficult to locate a video that shows this, that isn’t chock full of mystical/astrological woo or other irrelevancies. Many years ago I found a video that would have been perfect…except that the perspective rotated, which made it impossible for someone who didn’t already understand it, to understand the video.

But this one isn’t bad. It’s shown from the perspective of the celestial sphere. The flat grid shown is the plane of the earth’s orbit, i.e., the Zodiac.

What that will mean is that at the spot in the earth’s orbit that is now the summer solstice will then be the location of the winter solstice (and vice versa); the vernal and autumnal equinoxes will also trade places, as seen below, where A shows the current situation, and B shows the situation 12,850 years from now. Note that the orientation of Earth’s orbit does not change, just the locations of the equinoxes and solstices.

In both diagrams, Sagittarius is to the left; at the present time, when the earth is at perihelion, just after winter solstice, the Sun is in Sagittarius. (Not Capricorn, which is the “astrological sign” associated with that date; I’ll explain that below.) The earth’s northern axis is tipped almost perfectly away from the sun. 12,850 years from now, at perihelion, the Sun will still be in Sagittarius, but the date (which is aligned with the seasons) will be July 4th. (Happy Independence Day, if there is still a United States in 14,871 CE.) The earth’s northern axis will be tipped almost perfectly toward the sun at this point, because the axis has precessed since 2021.

The location of the “first point of Aries” (upon which astronomical coordinates depends) will have shifted to the other side of the celestial sphere.

So the first point of Aries moves in the celestial sphere. And since the tropical year depends on the first point of Aries, while the sidereal year is fixed with respect to the stars…that’s why the two lengths are different. The first point of Aries is moving in the direction that makes the tropical year shorter than the sidereal year–the earth hits the first point of Aries in slightly less than one orbit around the sun.

I said before the difference was about 20 minutes. Actually we can come closer than that. Over the course of one full precession of the equinoxes, 25,700 years, the total “slip” has to be a full year. So dividing 25,700/365.25 we get 70.36 years to slip one day; 1/70.36 days is about 1228 seconds. So the difference should be about 20 and a half minutes. This is a back-of-the-envelope calculation, of course, but it turns out the real difference between the sidereal year and the tropical year is 20 minutes, 24.5 seconds, so we were only off by 3.5 seconds. Not bad for the back of the envelope!

Notice I said that the first point of Aries moves, and that astronomical coordinates depend on the first point of Aries. Doesn’t that bollix up astronomical coordinates? Yes it does…and it’s worse. The celestial poles move, which means the celestial equator moves. The only constant is the zodiac in fact, but the point on the zodiac that crosses the celestial equator shifts.

Astronomers have to put an “epoch” date next to their coordinates, because they go out of date every fifty years or so. But since they’re (mostly) stuck on the earth, and have to rotate their telescopes against the earth’s rotation so that the stars don’t drift across their field of view, they really do need to follow the celestial poles. Even though they move.

[As a matter of fact, the “first point of Aries” has, for a long time, actually been in Pisces, and it’s moving into Aquarius (the video shows this). Which is what that insipid early 70s song “Age of Aquarius” was referring to. And this means if your astrological “sign” is Aries…well it really should be Taurus. Or maybe Aquarius. One the one hand astrology looks clueless because of this, on the other hand it’s a lot of astrology weenies who prate about the “Age of Aquarius” in the first place. I’m going to go with “they’re clueless” though.]

One last question you might have is what causes Earth’s axis to precess in the first place. Well, because the earth is rotating, it bulges a bit at the equator; this bulge is of course not pointed at the sun. It’s also not pointed at the moon. So both bodies, especially the moon, tug at that bulge, which is a torque against the earth’s angular momentum. That goes through a cross product to cause an actual motion of the poles at right angles to the tug–it’s a funky “gyroscope thing.”

As I said, measuring time is a complicated business.

And I haven’t even gotten to the truly modern complications…where it turns out the earth’s rotation is slowing down! (This is why we have to add leap seconds every once in a while.) Since the GPS satellites don’t bother with leap seconds, GPS time, which many treat as a de facto standard, differs from “Coordinated Universal Time” (basically a spruced up GMT), which is really the standard, by an increasing amount.

And now, with your head throbbing from all of that, I wish you a Merry Christmas.

Hopefully Santa delivered some nice, dirty sulfur-laden coal to Joe Biden’s stocking.

Fuck Joe Biden

Biden, you don’t even get ONE scoop of ice cream today.

(Please post this somewhere permanent, as it will continue to be true.)

Obligatory PSAs and Reminders

China is Lower than Whale Shit

Remember Hong Kong!!!

Whoever ends up in the cell next to his, tell him I said “Hi.”

中国是个混蛋 !!!
Zhōngguò shì gè hùndàn !!!
China is asshoe !!!

China is in the White House

Since Wednesday, January 20 at Noon EST, the bought-and-paid for His Fraudulency Joseph Biden has been in the White House. It’s as good as having China in the Oval Office.

Joe Biden is Asshoe

China is in the White House, because Joe Biden is in the White House, and Joe Biden is identically equal to China. China is Asshoe. Therefore, Joe Biden is Asshoe.

But of course the much more important thing to realize:

Joe Biden Didn’t Win

乔*拜登没赢 !!!
Qiáo Bài dēng méi yíng !!!
Joe Biden didn’t win !!!

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CMinTN

Merry Christmas everyone!

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Yeah, baby! Site security fixed (cough, Cough, COUGH), and site now OPEN!

Best Christmas present yet!

Merry Christmas!

Because Christmas is all that AND (logic) a bag of chips! 😉

EllieLA

Yay!!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS! And Thank You for ALL you do!

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Merry Christmas! Thanks, and thank you for being here!

Cuppa Covfefe

Ahhh. So that’s why Brave said my clock was off, and certs not valid and all that…. I thought maybe “Big Bother” was up to his old tricks…

A very Merry, Happy, and BLESSED Christmas to you and yours, Wolf, and to everyone here at the QTREE!!!!

And a “Cuppa Wassail” for everyone, too! OK, a few bowls full, or, as they do over here Feuerzangenbowle (famous and funny movie with Heinz Rühman by that name, too) …

Hope everyone got (or will get) all the presents they want, and to those on the, erm, paying side of things, that the invoices are “in tune, and not too sharp” 🙂

Gail Combs

AMEN!!!

All I want for Christmas is my country and Constitution BACK!

smiley2

Merry Christmas to all.

just now able to finally access this site.

had been getting an unusual ERROR ALERT ! privacy/hacking something-or-other.

never saw such a thing before…?

would not allow me to access here, at all, even thru email.

happy to see things are back to normal now.

anybody else have that issue this morning ?

I’d like to know…I don’t think it’s my PC…could access everywhere else, no problem.

CMinTN

I had an issue last night on my pc where the site wouldn’t load because it said my clock was wrong…it wasn’t. Maybe something on the backend got scrambled. On the phone now…still have to get up…😁

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Thanks for the report! Yeah, there was site funny business scheduled last night, clearly. “Secret Santa” left something for somebody. That’s OK. For whoever…..
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Gail Combs

I also got the Clock is wrong crap.

Deplorable Patriot

Wolf explained on the other site last night. It was really late. It looks like it got fixed faster than he anticipated.

Wolf Moon

December 25, 2021 at 12:28 am

I sprung a trap. I was waiting for this one. The site was scheduled for a security certificate renewal on Christmas Eve. Suspicious Cat knew this was no accident – that it would be used to keep the site down on Christmas. So I did try one mild warning, but then backed off and just decided to see if I was right. Normally we go right through these renewals. NOPE. They used it to shut down the site.

singingsoul1

No one can stop Christmas neither take the Joy 🙂

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

AMEN!

Caturday Drama!!!

para59r

It was a Chi Com Inspired lock out. We all had to head to the life boats (“Lock Outs” from the top of the page. Good to open that and book mark it as you can’t find it if you don’t save the book mark  🤓 ) where we involved our selves with some confusions, by first going to most recent lock out page and scrolling down where we gathered till Wolf fashioned a new boat after which Steve discovered he still had his post open in edit at which time he recreated this post here, but did it there, so then we were scattered in the ether in three separate life boats, where by the end of the night, those who could, managed to gather into one. If you knew that you’d be all caught up on the reasons for the seasons and could of enjoyed the telescope launch thing this morning which many of us did not, because we over slept on account of swimming all around the ether. Someone said there might be a recap on OANN but I bet it’s been brought here….

Heck when I awoke in boat I found everyone gone and saw DP’s post and guessed that our ship had sailed back. Thus I’m able to depart this to you! 🙄 I think.

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para59r

I think that is typical this time of year. Once read something about “There wasn’t a creature stirring, not even a mouse”.  🤓 

smiley2

naughty & nice NORAD Santa tracking clip from last night with the bidens

watch…

 🎵  2 dolts-a-dolting  🎵 

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Presents abound!

smiley2

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 🐱  💖  🌲  🎄 

singingsoul1

Oh that is one of our cats when my husband runs his trains 🙂 I wonder if he made it cat proof ? Love it !

singingsoul1

Our three cats take turns 🙂 They are getting better though and older. One finds a spot and just sleeps on the train board.
I loved when the plugged the trees from the train display 🙂

Cuppa Covfefe

Or the cat 😀

Cuppa Covfefe

Yeah, but then it would probably take a “Quantum Leap” just to kick the train off the tracks… maybe up the voltage a bit 🙂 Frying Phantom Furball…

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

CATURDAY!!!

Dora
Dora

Why Benedict XVI calls himself, “Pope emeritus,” after Feb. 28, 2013
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Today is Christmas, and I wish to leave this article as a gift to each of you, as my personal gift, this holy day.

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https://www.fromrome.info/2021/12/25/why-benedict-xvi-calls-himself-pope-emeritus-after-feb-28-2013/

Barb Meier

Thank you, Dora! Merry Christmas everyone!!

Dora

DeSantis Christmas Message: ‘How Blessed’ Are We to ‘Celebrate the Birth of Christ Freely’
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) released a Christmas message ahead of the holiday, reminding Americans how blessed they are to live in a country that “protects our right to celebrate the birth of Christ freely.”
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/12/24/desantis-christmas-message-how-blessed-are-we-to-celebrate-the-birth-of-christ-freely/

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Amen!!!

GA/FL

Merry 🎄 Christmas!

Tidings of comfort and joy to Wolf Moon and all the QTreepers!

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Merry Christmas! Thanks for being here!

Gail Combs

𝕄𝔼ℝℝ𝕐 ℂℍℝ𝕀𝕊𝕋𝕄𝔸𝕊 𝕋𝕆 𝕎𝕆𝕃𝔽𝕀𝔼 & 𝕋ℍ𝔼 𝕎𝕆ℕ𝔻𝔼ℝ𝔽𝕌𝕃 𝕋ℝ𝔼𝔼ℙ𝔼ℝ𝕊!
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Gail Combs

(You tube seems to have taken down the Christmas Sheep herding video I was looking for, so I settled for the one above.)

kalbokalbs

Merry Christmas one and all.

James Webb Telescope Launch appears to have been flawless. Pretty cool.

In 1983 we lived in Orlando. Traveled to Cape Kennedy area. Watched Sally ride, onboard Challenger launch. Really, really cool!

pgroup2

Challenger blew up, IIRC. Not cool.

kalbokalbs

Yea, certainly NOT cool, Challenger blew up.

TMI. Late January 1986. Was onboard USS Enterprise, somewhere between CA and HI. The CO announced to the crew, Challenger blew up. ~Minute after launch. No further information. Everyone was STUNNED.

(No 24 hour news feed at the time.)

CMinTN

5th grade, watched it live at school. Will always stick with me.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

New paragraph added in my head on that one.

pgroup2

IIRC is my insurance.  😄 

Barb Meier

Thank you, duchess01! Bless you this Christmas for all you bring us throughout the year. -hugs-

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Merry Christmas, Duchess! Thank you for your daily words of encouragement and prayer. You are a blessing to every site you visit!

duchess01

BE MY VOICE

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BABY LIVES MATTER

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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,

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Gail Combs

wheatietoo,
At the other tree says:
 “I still have a problem with calling it “therapy”.
‘Therapy’ implies that it is therapeutic…or something beneficial.”

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Gail replys:

I would call it a Genetic Modification Shot that turns humans into GMOs

How does gene therapy work?

Gene therapy is designed to introduce genetic material into cells to compensate for abnormal genes or to make a beneficial protein…..

A gene that is inserted directly into a cell usually does not function. Instead, a carrier called a vector is genetically engineered to deliver the gene. Certain viruses are often used as vectors because they can deliver the new gene by infecting the cell. The viruses are modified so they can’t cause disease when used in people. Some types of virus, such as retroviruses, integrate their genetic material (including the new gene) into a chromosome in the human cell. Other viruses, such as adenoviruses, introduce their DNA into the nucleus of the cell, but the DNA is not integrated into a chromosome….

Researchers must overcome many technical challenges before gene therapy will be a practical approach to treating disease. For example, scientists must find better ways to deliver genes and target them to particular cells. They must also ensure that new genes are precisely controlled by the body.

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What is a GMO?

A GMO, or genetically modified organism, is a plant, animal, microorganism or other organism whose genetic makeup has been modified in a laboratory using genetic engineering or transgenic technology. This creates combinations of plant, animal, bacterial and virus genes that do not occur in nature or through traditional crossbreeding methods.

Old article:
Horizontal Gene Transfer from GMOs Does Happen

Genetic engineering creates vast arrays of transgenic DNA that could spread, not only through cross-pollination with the same or related species, but also through the direct uptake of the transgenic DNA by cells of unrelated species, a process called horizontal gene transfer. We have been alerting regulators to Horizontal Gene Transfer – The Hidden Hazards of Genetic Engineering [1] on many occasions since the late 1990s [2-4] (Genetic Engineering Dream or Nightmare, ISIS Publication) when the regulators and their scientific advisors had denied vehemently that horizontal gene transfer could happen, and assumed mistakenly that transgenic DNA, like all DNA, would be rapidly degraded once out of the cell.

In a review published in 1998 [5], we presented extensive evidence that DNA persists in all environments and can indeed be taken up by cells of many species throughout the living world….. Horizontal gene transfer and recombination is the main route for generating new pathogens and spreading antibiotic and drug resistance, and genetic engineering is nothing if not greatly facilitated horizontal gene transfer and recombination….

Aubergine

With you 100% on the GMO thing.

I even made myself a t-shirt that says “100% Non-GMO.

I figure smart people will get it, and dumb liberals will think “nice, a vegetarian!” or something equally stupid!

Gail Combs

This is the critical paragraph:

“…Researchers must overcome many technical challenges before gene therapy will be a practical approach to treating disease.

For example, scientists must find better ways to deliver genes and target them to particular cells. “ — Did they? A RESOUNDING NO!

“They must also ensure that new genes are precisely controlled by the body.” Did they? AGAIN A RESOUNDING NO!

So when these two criteria were not met did they stop? — A RESOUNDING NO! Instead they doubled down and are MANDATING AN OUT OF CONTROL GENETIC MODIFICATION EXPERIMENT.

kalbokalbs

Quite intentionally. Supports the Great Reset – NWO.

singingsoul1

The worlds 1% is not taking this gene therapy they will be the
Uebermenschen and we the Untermenschen.
Evil scientists and doctors and medical establishment to allow this barbaric
experiment to exist.

TradeBait2

There’s are good reasons I posted a long time ago that they are not vaccines. The more real science folks learn, the more they see the fake science. That’s what makes Wolf’s, Steve’s, yours, etc. posts relating to it all so valuable. Love the 100% non-GMO. Going to steal that one and use it if OK with y’all.

To those who don’t know (not y’all) – follow the money. Check out the “research” grants and capital investments. Know who gives them. Who is doing the research? Where are they located? When did it go down? Watch the regulations and lawmaking that follow. Watch the “donations” to the lawmakers. Check out who they are affiliated with and who attends who’s parties, events, fundraisers, resort vacations, etc.

Once the business or line of business is underway; check out who provides the capital, the investment, into the start-ups and expansion of product lines. Check who is on the Board or what entity/people are otherwise associated. Who are the other corporations involved and stand to benefit? What countries benefit the most? It’s not hard, it’s time consuming. Connect the dots to the alphabets, politicians, and other nations involved. If there is a broken link in the chain, dig deeper to find the right link. Expand your search parameters.

Ask the right questions. Answers lead to more questions. Never accept anything at face value unless 100% proven true. The more soldiers we have doing this the more likely there will be a good final outcome. The mission is to seek truth. Leave any preconceived notions out of it. Don’t seek to validate, seek to know the truth. See things for what they are, leave the emotions out as much as possible.

When you get a down period, investigate on a subject of interest and post what you find here and other safe havens. Remember to archive and not into a cloud – the evildoers like to clean up their messes when they think people are on to them. They get sloppy much of the time because they think you are sheeple and because they are filled with sinful pride.

While we are at it, everybody say hello to the bad side of DARPA (hi, guys and gals!) and their cohorts that include other supposed free enterprises that censor and do their dirty work. Yeah, tens of millions of us already know all about y’all. We know you are lawless criminals that have the cover of government officials. You think the Constitution and founding documents are useless, antiquated. FWIW, there are far more of us than you who know that is not true and you don’t have enough ammo. Even scamdemics will not take us down. We will win as sure as Jesus Christ will return to this planet and make things right for His people. Merry Christmas!

As as a final thought, light is a disinfectant as we know. Don’t stick your head in the sand when overcome with the stress from it all. That’s what they count on. Take a break, come back to it later. Another way to fight is to never do what evil people who hate you tell or order you to do. Never jump when they say to jump. The Word says to stand firm. So be it.

Merry Christmas, friends. Time to be a dad and papaw.

Aubergine

100% Non-GMO!

Spread it around!

Aubergine

Yeah, just kidding around. Although I have my own opinions about GMO food.

Most plants genetically modify themselves all the time. Gardeners have created GMOs for millennia, simply by selecting seeds for different characteristics, crossing varieties, etc.

The problem with modern GMO food is it is being modified for bad reasons, such as resistance to poisons like Round-Up. That’s terrible. Do you know about the practice of spraying Round-Up on a wheat crop just before harvest, to “force” it to produce more grain? Of course, some of that poison carries into our food, but, hey, the government says SOME amount of poison is A-OK!

Gail Combs

GMO food is a rather different issue from the alleged vax, though, isn’t it?”

……

Not really.

Humans since the hunter gatherer stage have been ‘helping’ nature along. Tribes traveled a circuit and women would plant the seeds from the best fruits and veggies and over time change the selected food plants. Herders did the same by choosing studs with the characteristics they liked best.

With GMO it is not breeding best to best or out breeding, or even irradiating seeds to force mutations in the hopes a useful mutation will crop up. Instead a foreign gene is literally inserted using a ‘vector’ that changes the organism.

The Clot shot does the same. RNA is inserted into the cell and the cell starts producing spike protein. On top of that, the Japanese FOIA shows the spikes head for the ovaries and testes AND “…an important new paper that shows that the spike protein goes into the nucleus and suppresses proteins that are essential for repairing double strand breaks in DNA…..”

At this point we have zero idea of what PERMANENT changes are made and if those changes are passed on to any children.

Gail Combs

OK I see what you are saying. I still do not like them GENETICALLY MODIFYING 𝗠𝗘!

Perhaps don’t make me a Genetically Modified Human — GMH

Aubergine

Yes. Exactly. Playing God as amateurs.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

THIS!!!!!

singingsoul1

Experiment is the right description !

TradeBait2

😂 Start the business – they will sell like hotcakes.

Our daughter proudly wears her Let’s Go Brandon t-shirt.

Aubergine

Lol! Might have to do that!

singingsoul1

Interesting article about gene transfer. They are playing with firer. Fauci and Gates need to be made responsible for the carnage they unleash.

singularzoe

Steve, love the opener and China is a show. Thank you for all the science. By the way, my pastor has a bunch of degrees, including in physics, and I tell him I like when he gets “sciency.” Regarding yesterday’s q-treee, brave told us there was an attack and of course wouldn’t let me on the site, so I tried to go to the alternate ones, but even through email way I usually do it, wordpress said I had to log in, and I’ve forgotten my password, and I have a terrible time logging in to anything anywhere, except Audible. So after about an hour I gave up. Merry Christmas to everyone on the tree, including missing in action and grandma if she sees it and Scott and ForGodAnd Country and D.Pat and Wolf and Mrs. Wolf and SheBythe Sea, who lurks.

kalbokalbs

Merry Christmas Zoe! 🙂

Gail Combs

Merry Christmas Zoe and may you have a lovely and PEACEFUL New Year.

singularzoe

Merry Christmas to you, too, Gail. Love to think about your lambs and goats.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Merry Christmas, Zoe!!!

Gail Combs

They are such sweeties. I spoil them rotten!

singularzoe

Gail, blessings to you, not sure my last reply posted to you.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

It did!

cthulhu

Merry Christmas, Zoe!

scott467

Merry Christmas Zoe! 🙂

Brave and Free

Merry Christmas Everyone!
Thanks Steve for a great lesson, I’ll read through it again after the wrapping paper and bows are a memory.

barkerjim

Merry Christmas to all of you!

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Merry Christmas! And thanks for all the “reporting presents” you brought during the year!!!

Aubergine

Thank YOU for the outlet! I would literally explode some days if I didn’t have somewhere to drop a thing.

Barb Meier

Aubergine, I know exactly what you mean though I don’t have too many things to drop. I remember the term “a friend of record” that meant a friend, with whom you could drop upsetting information and then you could have peace and move past it by knowing they know too. The knowledge won’t be lost in time “like tears in rain.” h/t Bladerunner. QTree is a primary place where our friends of record can be found.

Aubergine

Amen! Good analogy!

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

You are most welcome! I know that feeling!!!

Aubergine

🙂

Chris

I’ve really enjoyed my rather quick review todays post Steve ,Thank You and Merry Christmas !
Later today,I hope to spend more time with it and dive deeper.
The time you spent creating it is appreciated.

From what I’ve read, on one of his voyages to the New World, it was Amerigo Vespucci who recognized and noted, the constellations were in different locations than he had previously studied. I’m pretty confident your post explains why. It may already be in there.
Good Stuff !

kalbokalbs

NOTHING GOOD to come of this…
FTA

China to Create Rare Earth ‘Behemoth’ Company to ‘Stabilize Supply Chain’
The Chinese government on Wednesday approved a merger of rare earth mineral companies to form what the state propaganda newspaper Global Times described as a “behemoth” corporation, powerful enough to control the global supply chain for the vital minerals.

The new mega-corporation will be directly controlled by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC), an agency of the Communist government. The company will encompass about 70 percent of China’s rare-earths industry.

China, in turn, controls up to 85 percent of the world’s entire supply of rare earth minerals.

https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2021/12/23/china-create-rare-earths-behemoth-company-stabilize-supply-chain/

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Communism is all about monopoly. Just ask Obama, who approved them all.

Barb Meier

Breaking the CCP’s monopoly on rare earth minerals would be a nice thing.

Cuppa Covfefe

So would breaking the CCP…

Barb Meier

Thanks for this, Kalbo! I have been thinking about rare earth minerals lately and wondering how we go about finding more that is not controlled by China. When I read this sentence in the article above:

China, in turn, controls up to 85 percent of the world’s entire supply of rare earth minerals.”

I thought perhaps the word “entire” should be changed to “located” or “identified.”

So I started looking around and found there is a rare earth project in Alaska. 🙂

https://www.miningnewsnorth.com/page/alaska-is-rich-in-critical-rare-earths/5750.html

cthulhu

Slight correction….it shut down due to opposition by Chinese-funded “environmentalists”.

cthulhu

IIRC, the CA mine was actually shipping ores to China for separation, being that the bedwetting eco-freaks couldn’t stand the use of “toxic chemicals” in the process.

Cuppa Covfefe

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barkerjim

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Barb Meier

Grrrrr, I love this!!

Aubergine

Well, happy to see the site back up and Steve able to post! Thanks, Steve. I watched the telescope take off. It was cool.

Who knows what the day will bring around here!

Merry Christmas to all y’all. I hope it is a beautiful day, wherever you are.

Aubergine

Lol! Turnip gardening? You crack me up.

Aubergine

I have had too much Christmas food to be that smart today!

kalbokalbs

Another really odd thing.

All them “educated” dopes wearing masks.

The stoopid things the dummies voluntarily do to themselves. SMH.

scott467

Two times the stupid…

barkerjim

Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to men of good will.

slowcreekno

Ah … looks like the main site is back.

Merry Christmas

And thanks for a great astronomy post today. What with the launch of the Webb telescope it seems very appropriate.

And thanks for the link to where the progress can be seen:

https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html

barkerjim

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Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

‘Merica!

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

“Wait for it!” 😉

barkerjim

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singularzoe

Managed to make a new password and log back in. Greetings again to all.

RDS

Yay! The site is back up! Thank you, Wolf Moon! And thank you, SteveInCO, for another great science lesson. Love the images and graphics.

Merry Christmas to one and all!  🙂 

Deplorable Patriot

One of the accounts I follow posted an image of the seal of the Knights Templar this week. I wondered about that. Then this comes up. Seriously, the Crusades weren’t done right the first time other than the first one which was a pilgrimage to take back the Holy Sites, and we’re going to have to do it again.

From American Thinker:

The Truth About Christians in the Holy Land this Christmas

Sadly, this Christmas, many Christian leaders must enter into a period of theological soul-searching. 

Christian diplomats from once proudly Christian nations failed to oppose the United Nations General Assembly resolution that designated the central holy sites of Jerusalem to be exclusively Islamic property, thereby excising both Jewish and Christian history and the biblical heritage of the Temple Mount and the Western Wall

And, following this recent fraud that Israel will never accept, Christian pastors and bishops are now preaching blasphemy against Israelis and the Jewish State.

This Christmas, the Archbishop of Canterbury colluded with the Archbishop of Jerusalem in suggesting that the fate of Christians in the Holy Land is being challenged, not by those who have been threatening Christian existence in once Christian majority towns, but by Israel.

This is nothing short of a barefaced lie. It more than hints of disgraceful replacement theology, a medieval blasphemy against Jews that, sadly, continues by misguided church leaders to this day.

Emphasis mine.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Yup. The “deep church” is everywhere.

Gail Combs

Might just as well say bye-bye to those sites. The muslims will completely destroy them and then build mosques on the rubble. It is what they have done for thousands of years. THAT is what happened to all the ancient libraries — BURNED and DESTROYED.

Gail Combs

Stanford:The Library of Alexandria – destroyed by an angry mob with torches? Not very likely.

….Nowadays it doesn’t take much precocity to learn the story. Rachel Weisz tells it all to us in Alejandro Amenábar’s 2009 film Agora. The Neoplatonic scholar was the most learned woman in the ancient world since Diotima, chatty girlfriend of Socrates. The mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and presumed habituée of the Library of Alexandria, was lynched by an angry early Christian mob on March 8, 415 A.D. It was all her book larnin’ that did her in. The Library of Alexandria was destroyed by arson at about the same time.

But did it really happen that way? Many have taken on the story since the movie came out, but perhaps none better than blogger Tim O’Neill over at the blog Armarium Magnus. I write this post as a public service, to squish like a bug another myth about the big struggle between faith and science. (“I believe in philosophy,” intones Rachel Weisz-cum-Hypatia. But is philosophy a a faith to be believed, or a set of propositions to be tested in one’s life?)….

“The idea that the Great Library was still in existence in Hypatia’s time and that it was, like her, destroyed by a Christian mob has been popularised by Gibbon, who never let history get in the way of a good swipe at Christianity. But what Gibbon was talking about was the temple known as the Serapeum, which was not the Great Library at all. It seems the Serapeum had contained a library at some point and this was a ‘daughter library’ of the former Great Library. But the problem with Gibbon’s version is that no account of the destruction of the Serapeum by the Bishop Theophilus in AD 391 makes any mention of a library or any books, only the destruction of pagan idols and cult objects…”

“Even hostile, anti-Christian accounts of this event, like that of Eunapius of Sardis (who witnessed the demolition), do not mention any library or books being destroyed. And Ammianus Marcellinus, who seems to have visited Alexandria before 391, describes the Serapeum and mentions that it had once housed a library, indicating that by the time of its destruction it no longer did so. The fact is that, with no less than five independent accounts detailing this event, the destruction of the Serapeum is one of the best attested events in the whole of ancient history. Yet nothing in the evidence indicates the destruction of any library along with the temple complex.

The Islamic Destruction of Heritage and Culture

The Islamic destruction of Iraq’s and the world’s heritage by burning ancient manuscripts, stealing art and demolishing Assyrian architecture is ongoing. These acts are not criminal violence, but acts of jihad that were first demonstrated by Mohammed. Earlier they broke into museums and sold valuable treasures for the money and then burned manuscripts. Why? It’s Islamic. When we invaded Iraq and Saddam Hussein fell, the same thing happened. When the Muslim Brotherhood took over Egypt they soon broke into museums, stole treasures and destroyed artifacts. The Taliban brought in artillery guns to blow up the Bamiyan Buddhas, huge statues, that were thousands of years old. Pure Islam. When the Muslims invaded India they came upon the largest wooden temple in the world. The commanders said burn it. Pure Islam. Islam invaded the Buddhist area of India and burned the world’s largest library. Islamic destruction of heritage has been going on for 1400 years.

Allah hates the Kafir and all Kafir civilizations which are jahiliyyah (ignorance). This is not the last destruction we will see. As Islam enters every new territory, its purpose is not just take over the government, but to annihilate the civilization. Destroying the heritage of the culture helps to destroy the civilization. That is what is going on under Islamic state now

Cuppa Covfefe

The Moslems are like their father, Satan.

They cannot create; they can only destroy…

Litenmaus

Merry Christmas all and to Wolf and authors, thank you for ALL that you have done to bring information to the masses….

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Merry Christmas!!!

singingsoul1

We are back 🙂
Merry Christmas to my QTree family  🌲 

Deplorable Patriot

First Christmas morning in years I haven’t had to sing anywhere other than the year I took off Church music, mostly due to exhaustion. It’s a good thing, too. After a dinner of rich food at my sister’s last night, Dad’s gout is acting up, so we may have to change plans and eat here.

Aubergine

If he has gout, he should eat dried cherries, drink cherry juice, or take an extract. They help lower the level of uric acid in the body.

https://www.arthritis-health.com/blog/do-cherries-prevent-gout

And cherries are delicious!

singingsoul1

Unsweetened cherry juice. One can find it at Kroger it has a heart on it.

Aubergine

Cool. Good tip!

singingsoul1

It is also good against Arthritis .

Gail Combs

Thanks for that info. I LOVE cherries. I want to put bush cherries in my front yard.

I have bought several trees from these people and everything grew.

http://ediblelandscaping.com/

singingsoul1

Thank that looks like a nice place. I would like to plant small fruit trees and bushes but my husband goes negative on me. I see everything positive he does negative. His mother was like that but I not dare say that 🙂 That would hurt him. I guess that makes our balance between us.

Gail Combs

There are a lot of plants that can do double duty, Landscape and be eatable too.

This plant makes a very nice low border. A stray plant ended up in with my roses and the Japenese beetles left the two bushes near the sage completely alone.

Sage: An Evergreen and Perennial Herb

With its savory and sweet flavor, sage is one of the best plants to have in your home garden. While it is popular for its culinary applications, it also has an abundance of health benefits. Since the ancient times, people are using sage for the treatment of common health problems. In recent years, several studies prove that indeed, Sage is a wonderful herb.

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And speaking of roses…

Rose Hips

Rugosa roses are known to produce an abundance of rose hips, these wonderful roses can be grown for the multi-purpose of enjoying their beautiful blooms set against their wonderful foliage as well as using the hips they produce. The old-fashioned shrub roses also produce wonderful rose hips and offer the same enjoyment. If the rose hips are left on the bush and never harvested, the birds will find them and peck out the seeds, eating these fine fruits as a great source of nourishment in the winter months and beyond….

Wildlife aren’t the only ones benefiting from rose hips, as they are a great source of vitamin C for us too. In fact, it is said that three ripe rose hips have more vitamin C than one orange. Because of this, they are often used in recipes. Rose hips have a sweet, yet tangy, flavor and can be used dried, fresh or preserved for future use. Steeping them to make rose hip tea is a common way that rose hips are used, making not only a nicely flavored tea but also one with good vitamin C content. Some folks use rose hips to make jams, jellies, syrups and sauces. The sauces can be used for flavoring in other recipes or on their own. If using rose hips for food, be very careful to use rose hips from roses that have not been treated with any form of pesticides that are not specifically labeled as okay for food producing crops….

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singingsoul1

Love rose hips. Makes wonderful tea and high in vitamin C 🙂
I used to go in the woods as a kid and collected them for the family to make tea.

singingsoul1

I grow sage use it in pork. Yes it is good for health.

cthulhu

One common error is to grow various Salvia species (which are usually called “sage”) and think that they’re all just different flavors. Salvia officinalis is the edible kind.

Salvia divinorum has psychoactive properties when used as tea, included in smoke, or chewed (generally not intentionally swallowed).

Speaking of smoked, culinary sage and rosemary are well-known for getting woody and having few nice tender leaves to cook with. When you prune them back to avoid this, save all the woody bits and include them in your next backyard grilling or smoking session.

singingsoul1

Good idea thank you. I bought my sage in the herb section culinary. I do not know what it is called. The plant has round leaves. Nice and hardy. I need to prune mine back true it is getting woody and shrub like.

cthulhu

If the leaves are round and tasty, it may be the variety ‘berggarten’ (of Salvia oficinalis). That is a very good choice.

And, yes, when you prune to promote new growth, the old wood makes excellent an excellent addition to an outdoor grill or smoker.

singingsoul1

Good to know !
Yes the sage is tasty and I use it in many pork meat dishes. I like Herbs.
My herbs overwinter because I have like a green house cover over them in winter. I grow them in a large wooden stand from Gardener Supply. Works really well.

Aubergine

True!

Deplorable Patriot

Alright, the masks have one use, anyway.

ROBERT BAKER

Masks have always been popular with certain bank withdrawals.

Nor'easter

Merry Christmas to my fellow Treepers and OUR President !

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Merry Christmas to all. We will Make America Great Again!

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

AMEN!!! Merry Christmas!

TradeBait2

Came back to just post this. Kids are taking a break to eat.

https://redstate.com/beccalower/2021/12/24/crowd-funded-christian-series-the-chosen-just-received-the-best-christmas-present-n496625

Love this show, simply the best. Will be binge watching it again because I am sure I missed something important, it’s that deep and mind expanding. What if you were actually there, one of the many people whose path crossed with Jesus? See, hear, smell, taste, touch the reality of how it really was and still is for those who believe and love Him.

TradeBait2

Oh, one more I have taken for the team. Please don’t read Karl at Market-Ticker today. It’s not for the squeamish or faint of heart on Christmas. Truth, yes. Tactfully executed – well, we know Karl.

I will recap in summary form a little later when our kids head to the in-laws house for those who wish to remain uncontaminated on Christmas.

Deplorable Patriot

He’s right, though.

TradeBait2

100%

I knew you would appreciate the Latin, alleged CHRISTian churches and Vicar commentary. 😂

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Deplorable Patriot

I didn’t see that part.

TradeBait2

I did one, just finished and posted.

Aubergine

Now, you know I had to go read it, with that recommendation!

And he is spot on. And I don’t give one damn about tact, either. I want the truth, and it is definitely that.

Gail Combs

You really shouldn’t use Tactful and Karl in the same post. As blunt as a sledge hammer maybe but not Tactful.

Gingersmom2009

Merry Christmas all. And may God bless us, everyone.

Deplorable Patriot

My sister has been here ten minutes, and I’m already ready for it all to be over.

Linda

Merry Christmas, DPat! Hang tight. You’ll get through it.  😅 

pgroup2

Send her out to the store. Most of them are closed so she’ll be away for awhile.

Cuppa Covfefe

Maybe in a different state 🙂

singingsoul1

May Peace be with you 

bflyjesusgrl 🍊 😎NUCLEAR MAGA😎

Hang tough DP. For the life of me, I don’t know why people think it appropriate to throw grudge bombs at Christmas, I’ve already left one gathering in tears. Bad, bad, bad misbehaving family. There needs to be a followup conversation, but it will be AFTER Christmas, and NOT VIA TEXT MSG! dang millenials! 🙄😒😡

singingsoul1

I always wanted a sister and wish I had one. 🙁
Not reacting is the best way to deal with people who are not self aware that they hurt the people they are supposed to love most.
In families one sees the true character of people.

If we like it or not we are our parents and grandparents and so are our bothers and sisters. When I realized that fact I was shocked. I walked around for to many years not associating those truth.

Not to long ago I had a dream where I saw my death and saw how I integrated back into my family . I made complete peace with them and accept when I die they will be part of me and I of them.
I might be screwed up but am at peace 🙂

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Gail Combs

Singing, If you are screwed up the rest of us are too. 😜

BTW the little boys LOVED the ponies. the 18 month old cried when every he was taken off. Neighbors brought kids over to ride and just about everyone who drove by stopped to take a picture. I think my babies will have a lot of photos on facebook shortly. 😋

I think Hubby and I had more fun than a lot of people did sitting down with relatives!

singingsoul1

Thank you for sharing your wonderful day 🙂
Kids and animals are the best compination.

Gail Combs

We do not have Children so we borrowed some.
  :wpds_smile: 

singingsoul1

That is cheaper 🙂

Gail Combs

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pgroup2

There does NOT need to be a followup conversation. How long has the bad behavior been going on? Years? At the third instance, you should clearly know that this crap will repeat every time.

Insanity is repeating the same action while expecting different results.

Deplorable Patriot

One martini and she was human again. She does all the cooking now and plays the “I’m tired” card. She got ticked when I took out the recycling, and doesn’t get that singing at the level I do it is tiring. Plus, she doesn’t believe that I do better without tomato sauces, and gluten.

ROBERT BAKER

If you wear a mask they won’t see you grimace but you have to control your brow. I suspect the pro-maskers are starting to interpret brow movement.

Barb Meier

hahaha!! 😅

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Browtox can fix that!

Barb Meier

Just ask Nancy Pelosi. Her brows are about to crawl down to her backside.

Chris

Merry Christmas to all !

Linda

Merry Christmas, QTreepers! Hope you all have a joyous day.

I just had a VERY chilly walk with my dog and am about ready to drive down to my mom’s. Hopefully, the forecasted deluge of snow will hold off until I’m back safe and sound.

cthulhu
kalbokalbs

That’s about the time I disconnected. Video started going wonky. Understandable.

para59r

Maybe even a few alien races looking back at us, or so you might think from this.

NASA Enlists Priests To Assess How The World Would React To Alien Life
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/nasa-enlists-priests-assess-world-react-alien-life/

para59r

A harmonious unencumbered system of time management could work wonders in that realm, but such seems a pipe dream. Back to pounding out the answers, or as our Zoe recently said, “iron sharpens iron”.

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Barb Meier

The only time management I’ve seen is ‘experts’ telling doers how to work faster and ‘smarter.’ LOL I would much rather get tips from doers and the ‘experts’ could get back to buddy fluffing.

bflyjesusgrl 🍊 😎NUCLEAR MAGA😎

Am I in the right place?
My laptop died  😏  but I wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas! Luv U Guys!! ❤❤❤🤗🤗🤗😘😘😘😍😍😍
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bflyjesusgrl 🍊 😎NUCLEAR MAGA😎

Good thing I saved those images a few days ago.

Gail Combs

I even sneaked a couple pieces of bacon today. 😊

bflyjesusgrl 🍊 😎NUCLEAR MAGA😎

😋😋😋🥓🥓😋😋😋

TradeBait2

Karl’s post today summary – add as you deem fit if you dare to read.

1) Hairy Hissmas

2) Alleged Christian churches should recognize God allowed the virus to occur. Let your pastors and members know in specific terms and manners. Like by using poop.

Me – well, duh, He is sovereign. Ain’t nuthin’ happening’ He doesn’t OK. Remember what Satan asked to do with Job and Peter? Who did he ask?

3) Reworked version – The pawp is the Vicar of Christ – not. Actually Karl used “my ass”, but I digress.

4) He’s in the Die Hard is a Christmas movie camp. Death to all bad guys in the most visible and violent ways. Doesn’t like the destruction of Hans’ Rolex in the process, tho.

5) Even CNN admits now that cloth masks don’t work. It’s science that they would not work and he is waiting, not waiting on a sexual act apology that will never happen. Or something like that.

6) It’s all been a lie, so stop doing stupid mitigation type stuff that hurts your natural immune system.

7) Sitting around getting fatter for a year and a half did the opposite of helping you avoid COVID. So does blaming others for your own stupidity.

8) If the clot shots did not stop you from getting COVID, getting sick, and dying – why do you expect the boosters to stop it? If you get any benefit, it’s gone in a couple of months and you are worse off with your immunity as well. Since it has all been proven to be driven by fraud and coercion, why would you do it?

Me – Would have loved a changed DNA forever discussion here, but whatever.

9) Latin, read and spoken correctly, give better understanding to, “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to men of goodwill.” as compared to what we hear spoken from some pulpits and the Charlie Brown Christmas TV shows of “…peace on earth and good will toward men.” Our own DePat has posted about Latin’s importance. Yet, this pawp is making the move away from Latin with Mass to allegedly help the laity understand, when all it is doing is weakening the faith.

Me – all of which helps Satan. Reading The Word accurately and in context is important. A subtle change of wording in the various translations can radically change the meaning from the original texts. So can selling different interpretations – like those not taken in context, used by the speaker to validate a narrative. Like freedom of versus freedom from religion in our founding documents. People like to draw attention to themselves for various reasons – to make money, gain a following, power, whatever. Know when that may be happening.

10) You have no right to expect peace if you are not of good will. Death to Hans and those like him. Me – don’t anybody go with the ‘judge not lest you be judged’ nonsense here.

11) Quit hiding under your bed and urinating on yourself. Stand against the evil and the mentally incompetent criminal in the WH who does not even have the sense to realize he’s been trolled by a dad about Brandon.

12) See #1 above. He ain’t feeling Merry Christmas – hence Hairy Hissmas.

Whew.

Aubergine

So apparently, I read the wrong one! Lol.

Aubergine
Aubergine

No worries!

barkerjim
Aubergine

Found the right one and read it. I liked it.

Aubergine

I do, too. Stress I think.

Gail Combs

Outside doing a lot of work. A LOT LESS RESTAURANT/FAST FOOD EATING…

Gail Combs

When I put on the costume I made more than 25 years ago, I found it fit EXCEPT FOR MY CALF… It was way too tight! The gut was fine even loose.

Gail Combs

Actually I even had a calf in my kitchen for a few days…

Bottle calves are fun, especially when you hand the bottle to a rowdy young boy.

Aubergine

We as Americans are mostly overweight. It’s really hard to eat a decent diet these days. Good for you for working on it!

Aubergine

I saw that. Interesting that it has been misinterpreted.

singingsoul1

Men/women of good will are God’s favored 🙂
I find both appealing.

Aubergine

I like your interpretation best. 🙂

singingsoul1

So do I. I used to read the Bible as if it spoke to me it is interesting and becomes personal.

singingsoul1

One does not have to be a believer to be of goodwill. The rain falls on believer and non believer so does God’s favor.
Damnation? Do we not all carry the cross? Life is not easy but being grateful for little things we see the blessings just like the roses between thistles.
It does help to write every evening what was good in the day and what one is grateful for beginning in the morning.
I am grateful waking up breathing the air knowing God is with me and I am with Him. You are very gifted Steve God has blessed you even though you are a non believer. You are a good person God knows your heart.

singingsoul1

I only took the words of people who displayed love and ignored those who did not.
See if a church or denomination has no love than there is no Christ in the place or denomination. God is love and so is Christ.
I remember leading a small women group in guided meditation and after we finished a woman said “my childhood god was harsh and punishing”. She continued saying “she never knew the God of Love until today”.
God is Love and what is not is not of God.

pgroup2

I told y’all he is an arrogant drunk with whom you must either agree or say goodbye. He has absolutely no sense of civility or good public manners. He certainly never heard of the word empathy. He is the center of the universe, which gives him license to offend and insult and disrespect any peon he chooses.

I’ve been to lots of AA meetings with jerks like him. He gets no clicks from me.

cthulhu

IIRC, he has a relative who drank themselves to death and monitors his drinking closely.

cthulhu

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Cuppa Covfefe

Blue chunks could just as well be “Hippy Holidays”… especially on the left coast…

cthulhu

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Aubergine

Good one!

cthulhu

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singingsoul1

Something very strange happened late last evening. It had to be 11:30 to midnight that someone put a bottle of expensive wine, that I do not get in this town, in a beautiful Christmas bag on my back porch. No name attached nothing. I have racked my brain nothing comes to mind.

pgroup2

It is from someone that you treat as well as you treat us.

Merry Christmas, friend.

[I was tempted to post a sarcastic response about losing a bottle of wine but not today]

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singingsoul1

I am not sure but thank you 🙂
Merry Christmas to you too.

Sarcasm among friends is welcome 🙂

singingsoul1

H aha ha ha gave me a good laugh. The wine is good had a glass 🙂

singingsoul1

Yes Christmas changed pgroup2 🙂
You are a riot 🙂

bflyjesusgrl 🍊 😎NUCLEAR MAGA😎

I confess, it was me, I did it. 😁🤞😁

singingsoul1

Ha ha to funny and I believe you 🙂

bflyjesusgrl 🍊 😎NUCLEAR MAGA😎

🥰🥰🥰

mollypitcher5

Merry Christmas Everyone ! I hope it’s been peaceful.

Found a few things before the next feast!

mollypitcher5

The DemCommies can own this mass hysteria that they’ve manufactured.
People so afraid even with not symptoms

Cuppa Covfefe

If they have no symptoms, what the §$”%&()=? are they doing in the ER?????

mollypitcher5

singingsoul1

Good !

Gail Combs

WHY isn’t the Governor and State Medical person up on MASS MURDER CHARGES!!!

singingsoul1

They are paying the families off with tax payer money instead of suing them.

mollypitcher5

They should be. In the USA before the zombie apocalypse devoured the brains of most of our so called law makers and judiciary, they would at the very least been shunned,fired, outcast….but now…throw some money at it.
I hope the families actually see some of the $

mollypitcher5

Aubergine

Me, too!

mollypitcher5

These imbeciles will be the first to be put out of everyone’s misery under the Communist rule..they’re so stupid that they don’t know it

singingsoul1

In communist country they would not be tolerated neither would gays be tolerated. It is astounding how little they understand. The rude awakening will hit them like a ton of bricks.

mollypitcher5

History has been so diluted and distorted . They really really ought to do some study

singingsoul1

Yes it is sad. I feel sorry for them because they have no idea. Wonder if there are agitators in the group The one who spoke gobble English could be suspect.

mollypitcher5

Probably.
the more we recognize how some of these groups start and recruit it’s entirely possible that there are loads of pretend transgenders just like they did with Patriots.

singingsoul1

Yes the left is ruthless.

Gail Combs

Was that English???

It certainly meets Scott Armstrong’s definition of Bafflegab.

May 1980

Abstract

“If you can’t convince them, confuse them.” Simply put, this is the advice that J. Scott Armstrong, a marketing professor at the Wharton School, coolly gives his fellow academics these days. It is based on his studies confirming what he calls the Dr. Fox hypothesis: “An unintelligible communication from a legitimate source in the recipient’s area of expertise will increase the recipient’s rating of the author’s competence.”

mollypitcher5

hahahahah exactly what that was !

piper567

molly, this would seem to be a part of the fringes of society I have so far avoided.
It’s quite remarkable to me that such creatures are able to physically sustain themselves…I mean what do they do to earn their keep?
This seems to me to be a very tiny bubble.
Am I wrong? I certainly hope not.

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mollypitcher5

We keep saying…2020 must be fixed or …something. The years are ticking by. We know there’s fraud and I’m very grateful for those that diligently find and expose it but somehow it must be rectified and not replaced with another cheating scheme

gil00

They’ll just promise new and improved versions of “trust us” and too many will agree.

para59r

or walk away in disgust.

para59r
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para59r

As an aside, while still at high levels, there appears less athletes keeling over and collapsing, but that’s been replaced by more resigning from their sports mid career. I think it’s safe to say they are well aware of jab effects at this time.

Aubergine

People need to wake the hell up.

Aubergine

You are right, many won’t hear.

It is interesting to note; Covid preferentially attacked the obese and diabetic, and the clot-shot preferentially attacks the heart and vascular system, at least in the short term.

Aubergine

Ivermectin is the cure for more than Covid. Withholding it is a crime against humanity. Some day these bastards are going to be held to account.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

AMEN. May it be so. At the VERY least, government science needs to be absolutely PURGED of industry control and buy-off, like Fauci and Walensky.

Aubergine

Agreed! The PURGE!

gil00

Kiddo gets a little lego to complete a set each day of his advent calendar. I wonder if there are treats in the Die Hard one? Still very funny.

singingsoul1

How are you giloo ? I think of you often .

gil00

Im doing fairly well. 3rd attempt to see surgeon next week. I have the lingering cough still. Not as bad or frequent as it was. I had a lot of healing and sinus clearing dt the oxygen and the virus. Awful post nasal drip. Much better. I still get tired but manageable. If surgeon doesn’t cancel this appt and my pulmonary tests are ok, ill know my next step around the middle of next month.
Saw you got nice wine. Enjoy it!

singingsoul1

I am glad you are better and optimistic that is good. Hope you get enough rest?
Yes the wine is good had a glass with dinner 🙂

gil00

Last 2 nights bc of today I had to nap but I feel like im doing better overall.

singingsoul1

So happy for you. All will be well 🙂

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Legos are a great idea for advent!

gil00

They make them into calenders. His is a harry potter one but I’ve seen star was and traditional Christmas. They change them almost every year. I save and reuse every year.

gil00

Lol. Mr Gil would want it.

gil00

Dunno if its real!
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gil00

Hahaha…like those too!

Happy go lucky

Merry Christmas to all you fine people and friends, peace to you, and blessings and comfort when needed. And love, always.

TheseTruths

Merry Christmas to all!

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singingsoul1

Merry Christmas Happy go Lucky Peace and Joy to you 🙂

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Merry Christmas!!!  🎄  🙏 

Gingersmom2009

So is the lockdown of Xi’an due to hemorrhagic fever? Here we go.

Gail Combs

Multiple unclear transmission chains, hemorrhagic fever highlight necessity of Xi’an lockdown as Winter Olympics approaches

Global Times

Xi’an punishes 26 people in latest COVID-19 outbreak since reporting imported case from Pakistan

By GT staff reporters Published: Dec 23, 2021 09:39 PM Updated: Dec 24, 2021 09:38 AM

As the first day of lockdown in Xi’an, capital city of Northwest China’s Shaanxi Province known for Terracotta Warriors, started Thursday, China has seen three big cities with over 10 million population imposing citywide lockdowns since the pandemic, although the lockdown measures are not as harsh as in Wuhan in early 2020.

Chinese public health experts said in addition to its grim and complicated epidemic situation, several factors led to the necessary decision of lockdown of Xi’an, including the upcoming major holidays of New Year’s Day and Spring Festival, and the Beijing Winter Olympics, and as multiple community transmission chains were unidentified. The city also reported hemorrhagic fever cases which shared a similarity in early stage symptoms with COVID-19, as well as the imported case through an international flight.

Disciplinary authorities in Xi’an have punished 26 people and four local Party organizations and other institutions since December 4 when the city reported an imported case from Pakistan, according to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Friday.

Among them, 10 people were punished by Party discipline or dealt with by related organizations for failing to strictly follow protocols, and their chaotic management that resulted in the infection of staff working in a quarantine hotel for overseas travelers. Another four were given administrative punishment for failing to timely control and manage close contacts of confirmed cases.

Starting Thursday, the 13 million residents in Xi’an were required to stay indoors. Only one family member of each household is allowed to leave the house to purchase daily necessities every two days. Other than special needs such as sickness or participating in anti-epidemic work, people are not encouraged to go outside.

The Xi’an Xianyang International Airport cancelled all domestic flights on Thursday…. 

Cuppa Covfefe

“imported case from Pakistan”, “hemorrhagic fever”…

Sounds like Ebola, another plague that Drosten and the RKI børked, and IIRC Faux-Xi was involved with… or maybe Dengue…

And, as usual, the RED Chinese are throwing shade on someone else, Pakistan this time, as the source of the problem.

Maybe Pakistan wants some (or all) of the Afghan/Taliban resources?????

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Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

The ChiComs are desperate to hold onto the House in 2022.

singingsoul1

It will come to you always does 🙂

kalbokalbs

Cracking up here. This Karen prolly spent Christmas in jail.

https://youtu.be/Shr61xnXIqg

  :wpds_lol:   :wpds_grin:   :wpds_smile: 

singingsoul1

That woman was out of control. Why are people so focus on other people what they do ?
Unbelievable. She would punch an old man? She has lots of penned anger in her.

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Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Almost 5000 mph!

para59r

Another outrage. Heck he shot four people at school and he’s walking around free.
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https://thelibertydaily.com/that-didnt-take-long-texas-school-shooter-out-on-bail-gets-arrested-again/

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Charlie

Merry, Merry Christmas!
Enjoy family and friends over the holidays.

singingsoul1

Merry Christmas Charlie 🙂

Charlie

Family, maskless, wine and good food has filled the day with joy.
Hope your Christmas was blessed too.

singingsoul1

Yes it was 🙂

bflyjesusgrl 🍊 😎NUCLEAR MAGA😎

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bflyjesusgrl 🍊 😎NUCLEAR MAGA😎

My 21yr old nephew used duct tape to wrap his presents 🤣

cthulhu

I’d sometimes do a “tootsie-roll twist” on each “end”.

cthulhu

I haven’t done gifts for a while — but, when I did, my wrapping jobs caused concerns. Among other things, I generally felt that items were safer under a tree than in international shipping, so I’d unbox the item and put the shipping materials on the outside to disguise the shape of the item.

cthulhu

I always thought it sad that most presents looked like boxes before being unwrapped.

Cuppa Covfefe

If I wanted to really wind someone up, or if the present was small, but valuable, I’d give it the Matryoshka Doll treatment, with maybe four or five boxes, each one wrapped, with a bow, progressively smaller, with the target boxed present in the smallest box.

Always a lot of fun…

Cuppa Covfefe

Botched Boxes Battered…

cthulhu

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cthulhu

Actually, that would be a hoot — name the next aircraft carrier the “Elon R. Musk”….how do you do one of those petition-thingies?

para59r

True. We can’t even trust this guy to mothball a ship correctly nevertheless build one.

para59r

In the Biden Administration petitions are thingies of the past. No petition-thingies allowed. Trump had multiple pages of petitions. Biden has zip-nada-nothing.

GA/FL

Medical Doctor Henry Smith describes his experience with Omicron coronavirus – https://henrysmithscottage.com/viral-post-december-23-2021-my-omicron-infection/

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

May it be so! “Bon vaccine!”

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Spreading Omicron is a good thing, IMO. I can only hope people have fun doing it.

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Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

This is a FASCINATING question. I’m on the verge of a post about this, but I’ll cheat (ha!) and say for now that the answer is maybe, and that the hopes and doubts are too long and too important for a mere comment.

But we are NOW getting into the meat and potatoes of understanding, and IMO vaccine mandates are scientifically untenable at this point, even from THEIR perspective.

para59r

Would wonder if the term immunity, natural or from a vaccine is perhaps too rigid for what it might be. Perhaps it needs to be loosened up some. Example this much immunity for this much bug. Too much bug trumps the immunity you think you have but hey.. it helped some, just not the full panacea it once was when people knew how to make vaccines and when virus’s weren’t developed in labs. Anyway, just a thought, but I bet it’s right given all the reporting we are getting.

cthulhu

This echoes some thoughts that I was having. Since we don’t have a sterilizing vaccine for any coronavirus, everything becomes partial resistance to partial viral components. Are we headed toward “I have 63% immunity against protein X”?

cthulhu

Exactly. And then you run that against the nxn matrix of any new strain to determine your relevant immunity level….

Cuppa Covfefe

And that it’ll be a GoodYear…
(all-season steel-belted radial…)…

(Set phasors on pun…)….

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Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Thanks! This is a great blog post!!!

I left him a comment – not sure if it will publish. But I’m going to promote this, so THANK YOU.

GA/FL

It was well-written – glad you had time to read.

GA/FL

Did you notice and read this one?

Vaccine Failure – by Dr. Henry Smith

It’s the first one I read that caused me to add his link to my reading list.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Yes! I’m going to mention that, too!

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

That sounds interesting!

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

If you can make it understandable to the masses, I welcome you to post about it. I’ve found that some of the best general science explanations of tensors are by “some guy on the internet”, because they tend to avoid adding “just one more beautiful thing” to get the whole story out, and instead try to wrap up at something that makes sense to a larger audience.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

LOL!!!

cthulhu

It’s like when I discovered the math/physics offset. If the standard first year (quarters) track is that you take Math 3A, 3B, 3C and Physics 6A, 6B, 6C….you will have a wildly easier year if you take Math 3A in the first quarter; Math 3B and Physics 6A in the second; Math 3C and Physics 6B in the third, and Physics 6C in summer school. They spend so much time in early physics classes dancing around the math you don’t yet have that it’s actually difficult to just learn the damned physics. If you take the math one quarter earlier than the corresponding physics course, you can focus on the physics and just laugh at the workarounds.

mollypitcher5

When not getting enough attention, double down to force politicians and network propagandists to avert their eyes and ignore their crimes.
Black privilege is mighty powerful

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Communism is evil, and will ABUSE any tool at its disposal.

Rooting communism out of where it festers will be ugly but necessary.

They had to show us.

mollypitcher5
para59r

Kind of like telling her to go bounce that check elsewhere. Pretty sure that has consequences. Not sure if they’d be worried about such though.

Kinda of like saying go cash it with the pawn shop guy who will take 12% and send someone to bust your knee cap when it doesn’t float.

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Charlie

Advice anyone?
Own a small business, a client is asking if my employees are jabbed?
What should I respond? I don’t ask nor require the jab to work in the business.

Charlie

https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1191
Asking could open a civil case