Yo, Brian Stelter!

When I was a kid, I got nicknamed “Bald Eagle” because I actually was getting notably thin “up there.” Of course today “Bald Eagle” might be a cool nickname, but in junior high school, it definitely was not a cool thing.

Fast forward to today, and now here I am over twenty years older than you are, and even in spite of that poor start, I have better hair than you do.

And I am not a piss-guzzling, shit-gobbling communist “journalist” (what a sick joke) either.

On both accounts you must absolutely hate looking into the mirror.

And Oh By The Way probably more people read my posts than watch you bloviate on air. And yes, I know your ratings dropped again. One would think there’s be a limit to that…you can’t drop below zero, can you?

RINOs an Endangered Species?
If Only!

According to Wikipoo, et. al., the Northern White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) is a critically endangered species. Apparently two females live on a wildlife preserve in Sudan, and no males are known to be alive. So basically, this species is dead as soon as the females die of old age. Presently they are watched over by armed guards 24/7.

Biologists have been trying to cross them with the other subspecies, Southern White Rhinoceroses (Rhinoceri?) without success; and some genetic analyses suggest that perhaps they aren’t two subspecies at all, but two distinct species, which would make the whole project a lot more difficult.

I should hope if the American RINO (Parasitus rectum pseudoconservativum) is ever this endangered, there will be heroic efforts not to save the species, but rather to push the remainder off a cliff. Onto punji sticks. With feces smeared on them. Failing that a good bath in red fuming nitric acid will do.

But I’m not done ranting about RINOs.

The RINOs (if they are capable of any introspection whatsoever) probably wonder why they constantly have to deal with “populist” eruptions like the Trump-led MAGA movement. That would be because the so-called populists stand for absolutely nothing except for going along to get along. That allows the Left to drive the culture and politics.

Given the results of Tuesday’s elections, the Left will now push harder, and the RINOs will now turn even squishier than they were before.

I well remember 1989-1990 in my state when the RINO establishment started preaching the message that a conservative simply couldn’t win in Colorado. Never mind the fact that Reagan had won the state TWICE (in 1984 bringing in a veto-proof state house and senate with him) and GHWB had won after (falsely!) assuring everyone that a vote for him was a vote for Reagan’s third term.

This is how the RINOs function. They push, push, push the line that only a “moderate” can get elected. Stomp them when they pull that shit. Tell everyone in ear shot that that’s exactly what the Left wants you to think, and oh-by-the-way-Mister-RINO if you’re in this party selling the same message as the Left…well, whythefuckexactly are you in this party, you lying piece of rancid weasel shit?

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. (This doesn’t necessarily include deposing Joe and Hoe and putting Trump where he belongs, but it would certainly be a lot easier to fix our broken electoral system with the right people in charge.)

Nothing else matters at this point. Talking about trying again in 2022 or 2024 is pointless 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 in the system is not part of the plan, you have no plan.

This will necessarily be piecemeal, state by state, which is why I am encouraged by those states working to change their laws to alleviate the fraud both via computer and via bogus voters. If enough states do that we might end up with a working majority in Congress and that would be something Trump never really had.

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.)

More Raucous Mozart

Mozart’s 25th Symphony (as heard in “Amadeus”), ever so slightly suited for the current mood.

Canuckistan Goes After The Canadian Truckers

It became plain on Friday that Trudescu, Glorious Leader of Communist Canuckistan, isn’t playing around. He’s run out of things he can do to get the trucks to leave downtown Ottawa. (Weeeeeellllllll with the exception of, you know, actually talking to them and stopping the mandates.)

So they’re being arrested and towed. The tow truck companies that are helping out have had their names taped over on their trucks, lest people find some way to express their dissatisfaction with them.

Where to from here?

I don’t see anything that Canadians concerned about the direction their government is going, other than going on general strike. If nothing moves “up there” for a couple of weeks, we’ll see what happens. Perhaps the government will convince the general population that the truckers are to blame and are being unreasonable (they’re certainly trying to do so now, with the help of Canuckistanis Broadcasting Communism [CBC]). But a general strike seems to be the only play left. But it requires more than just some fraction (0.1? 0.9?) of truckers to make it work.

So it’s now call…or fold. Let’s see what happens.

[Note: If someone takes umbrage at my use of the terms “Canuckistan” and “Canuckistani,” please notice I only used it for the tyrant Trudescu and his fellating treasonous media maggots. The truckers and their allies are Canadians.]

UPDATE: I just heard about the mounted police sent in to trample the protesters.

There is no longer any satisfactory ending to this that involves Trudescu not being removed, duly tried, and convicted of some capital crime. And that is true for a number of his minions, as well.

Spot Prices

Last week:

Gold $1860.00
Silver $23.67
Platinum $1033.00
Palladium $2405.00
Rhodium $18,900.00

This week, 3 PM MT on Friday, markets closed for the weekend

Gold $1,896.50
Silver $23.98
Platinum $1,077.00
Palladium $2,432.00
Rhodium $19,550.00

I said last week that the tech trader types were saying $1860 was a “barrier” for gold and that, IF it were to cross that line, it was liable to keep going.

It did cross the line, but it didn’t seem like a gigantic breakout. Until I realized that it actually got up to at least 1900.20 before open today.

James Webb Space Telescope Update

James Webb Space Telescope appears to be working on aligning the 18 images, one from each mirror, in a nice tidy arrangement, prior to overlaying them all on top of each other in perfect focus (the mirrors themselves can be “warped” a bit by an actuator that that pulls on the center of each segment, in case they aren’t at precisely right curvature).

However, I don’t know that that’s actually what they’re doing right now. It’s shown as step 2 of 7 mirror alignment steps, and they claim to be done with step one: https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html?units=metric .

Meanwhile, there’s a sensor on board that helps the telescope point at whatever it wants to see, and it seems to be functioning right now according to this blog entry (which I first saw on Thursday): https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/02/17/webbs-fine-guidance-sensor-is-guiding .

So, things seem to be proceeding nicely but right now I don’t actually know what they’re doing.

Temperatures on the “cold side” of the sun shield are now roughly 380 degrees below zero, F.

UPDATE, Friday Afternoon.

NASA just made a liar out of me. New post on the blog. (Everything for the rest of this section is pulled from the blog post. It won’t let me mark the pictures as quotes.)

The Webb team continues to make progress in aligning the observatory’s mirrors. Engineers have completed the first stage in this process, called “Segment Image Identification.” The resulting image shows that the team has moved each of Webb’s 18 primary mirror segments to bring 18 unfocused copies of a single star into a planned hexagonal formation.

With the image array complete, the team has now begun the second phase of alignment: “Segment Alignment.” During this stage, the team will correct large positioning errors of the mirror segments and update the alignment of the secondary mirror, making each individual dot of starlight more focused. When this “global alignment” is complete, the team will begin the third phase, called “Image Stacking,” which will bring the 18 spots of light on top of each other.

“We steer the segment dots into this array so that they have the same relative locations as the physical mirrors,” said Matthew Lallo, systems scientist and Telescopes Branch manager at the Space Telescope Science Institute. “During global alignment and Image Stacking, this familiar arrangement gives the wavefront team an intuitive and natural way of visualizing changes in the segment spots in the context of the entire primary mirror. We can now actually watch the primary mirror slowly form into its precise, intended shape!”

Obligatory PSAs and Reminders

China is Lower than Whale Shit

To conclude: My standard Public Service Announcement. We don’t want to forget this!!!

Remember Hong Kong!!!

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 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 !!!