The Chinese Should Think Before Wiping Us Out As Sometimes They Need Us To Solve Their Problems For Them
Okay you knuckledragging ChiComs trying to take us down…here’s a history lesson for you.
For millennia, you had to suffer from this:
Yep. Steppe Nomads. They laid waste to your country, burned, raped and pillaged (but not in that order–they’re smarter than you are) for century after century.
You know who figured out how to take them on and win? The Russians.
Not you, the Russians. And it took them less than two centuries. And Oh By The Way they were among the most backward cultures in Europe at the time.
You couldn’t invent an alphabet, you couldn’t take care of barbarians on horseback, and you think you can take this board down?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! We’re laughing at you, you knuckledragging dehumanized communists…worshipers of a mass-murderer who killed sixty million people!
I mean, you still think Communism is a good idea even after having lived through it!
By my reckoning that makes you orders of magnitude more stupid than AOC, and that takes serious effort.
His Fraudulency
Joe Biteme, properly styled His Fraudulency, continues to infest the White House, and hopium is still being dispensed even as our military appears to have joined the political establishment in knuckling under to the fraud.
One can hope that all is not as it seems.
I’d love to feast on that crow.
“No Chemicals”
A detailed analysis of the contents of His Fraudulency’s skull was performed.
Absolutely no chemicals found!
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.
Political Science In Summation
It’s really just a matter of people who can’t be happy unless they control others…versus those who want to be left alone. The oldest conflict within mankind. Government is necessary, but government attracts the assholes (a highly technical term for the control freaks).
James Webb Space Telescope Update
Nothing much reported this week. Mirror alignment continues, and the blog posted an article on how JWST will use spectroscopy to study distant galaxies: https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/03/10/webb-will-use-spectroscopy-to-study-composition-of-distant-galaxies/
Of course, those distant galaxies are also younger galaxies because we are seeing them by light that left them billions of years ago. One of the goals of JWST is to be able to see far enough away/far enough back in time, to see galaxies actually forming for the first time.
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.)
(Paper) Spot Prices
Last week:
Gold $1,973.90
Silver $25.83
Platinum $1132.00
Palladium $3,080.00
Rhodium $21,000.00
This week, 3PM Mountain Time, markets have closed for the weekend.
Gold $1,992.1
Silver $26.05
Platinum $1,091.00
Palladium $2,894.00
Rhodium $19,400.00
After last week’s hundred dollar gain, gold and silver continued their climb this week, hitting $2000 on Monday…all with a backdrop of rumors that Russia is about to go onto a gold standard.
Back on February 5, gold was at $1809.40, silver at $22.60, platinum $1033, palladium $2378, and rhodium, $17,800. How things have changed! If you bought and held way back when…this is what you’ve been holding for.
Gold then spiked all the way up to $2050, but then was shoved back down to roughly 2000 on Thursday, before closing at 1992.1 Friday. Other precious metals had similar behavior.
Obligatory PSAs and Reminders
China is Lower than Whale Shit
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 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 !!!
No Gail auto-publishing magic on this one! I had to get in and do it myself again – but in any case, we’re here, and that’s what counts!
G. O. A. T. S. P. I. T. — I’m tellin’ ya….
Here’s the classic.
Take this goat with you when you go to the polls to vote .. nobody will crowd you .. spit 💦💦💦
Takes all the worry out of being close (as the old commercial said), or all the worry about (anti-)social-distancing 😀
Now, where DID Bill Grogan go? (Remember John Thompson’s Piano Books? or McGuffey readers? 🙂
What happens when you spit back at the goat??
I’m still just boggled by the price of platinum. I feel like I should be stacking it, but I need to concentrate on my “GTFO-CA” plan.
Yes!
“GTFO-CA” first!
It will pay off sooner, more than likely, than Pt will.
Family is always important —
Kalbo posted a GP story last night about myocarditis cases soaring in the first 2 months of 2022. There are already half as many as were reported in 2021. The below graph is just stunning. The most cases are in 17 and 18 year olds. What they are doing to our children is EVIL.
WOW.
And those kids will be on heart meds for the rest of their lives.
More money for Big Pharma.. don’t kill ’em, just keep ’em sick forever and sell them the “cure”…
Hope there’s an extra hot spot in Hell for the Big Pharma and clot-shot folks…..
Dante’s Ninth Circle — Reserved for TRAITORS
Thank you so much for bringing this.
Yours truly got another AMA EdHub email update yesterday —
“Assessment of Clinical Effectiveness of BNT162b2 COVID-19 Vaccine in US Adolescents” (I can’t copy/paste the URL here since I’m not a subscriber to AMA EdHub)
From the JN Learning summary, March 3, 2022:
“Findings This case control study of 542 adolescents (ages 12 – 18 years) was conducted when the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 was predominant and within 4 months of the vaccine rollout for adolescents. Overall, the estimated effectiveness of the BNT152b2 vaccine was 91%, with 93% protection against symptomatic infections and 85% protection against asymptomatic infection.
Meaning These findings suggest that the BNT162b2 vaccine was effective in adolescents within 4 months of immunization, including infections caused by the Delta variant.”
From reading the Abstract of the paper: The study was performed through the Yale New Haven Health System records during the period June 1, 2021 – August 15, 2021, when the Delta variant caused 92% of COVID-19 infections in Connecticut. One finds that ONLY 10 of the study group, who tested positive for the virus (median age = 14 years) were “fully vaccinated”, and 124 of the control group tested negative for the virus. The PCR “test range” period was 17 – 129 days from “vaccination.”
What this means. of course, are the following:
First, the AMA completely disregarded the mounting evidence of adverse events, including myocarditis / pericarditis, reported to VAERS related to persons ages 12 and up after getting the “vaccines.” The AMA also would know that ALL numbers reported by VAERS are undercounted by a factor of at least 20.
Second, the AMA completely disregards the fact that people ages 6 months – 18 years are at EXTREMELY LOW RISK of an infection from COVID-19 in any form, let alone dying from an infection.
Third, the AMA is obviously pushing “get ALL children ages 6 months – 18 years vaccinated, no matter what.” The “figures” in this paper will be used by doctors to “convince” parents, school boards, etc., that the “vaccines” are “safe and effective.” The ultimate goal, of course, is to RE-IMPOSE the “vaccine mandate” for ALL schools K – 12th grade.
American Medical Association is likely taken over by the Chinese communists, just like the American Chemical Society.
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik —
Etwas mehr Nachtmusik 😁
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when wives are taller than husbands…
LUV in the time of war…
Chinese Interest In Ukrainian Mail Order Brides {not Bribes} Doubled Since War
link…
https://nypost.com/2022/03/11/chinese-interest-in-ukrainian-mail-order-brides-spikes/
3//11
ppl are weird
Years of One Child Policy, they aborted all the girls, leaving too many men, not enough women. OOPS! POOR PLANNING by STOOPID CCP ASSHOES. 😂
I always figured the guys were cannon fodder. I guess not.
That is what I figured too.
Yes, but they didn’t snap that they’d need Baby Mommas to keep the fodder supply chain going.
They also didn’t note that it’s easier to motivate the cannon fodder if he believes he can come home to a nice girl afterward.
Yep. Because, as they used to say, fodder knows best…
(Ducks, and covers…)….
Hello Muddah,
Hello Fodder,
Here I am at
Camp Hong Kada
Life is very
Entertaining
And they say we’ll have some fun
When bombs stop raining…..
(Apologies to Allan Sherman, etc. 🙂 )….
(“Camp Grenada”, to the tune of La Giaconda)
From my era….
I thought wax cylinders were, well, cylinders 😆
(JUST KIDDING!)…..
Hmmm.
This young woman states that she likes this song because she’s all for “letting your freak flag fly.”
I think she’s missing the absolute darkness of this song.
Morrison’s lyrics are, to me, a warning to the “normal” about how they are “viewed” through the eyes of those “weirdos” they encounter in the world. And it is not a pretty picture. His statement “women seem wicked, when you’re unwanted” is quite prophetic of today’s “incel” culture.
But maybe this interpretation is just my own.
Here’s Ray Manzarek (great musician, almost professorial in this vid) talking about the creation of “Riders On The Storm”. He talks about the song, and about Morrison’s lyrics and meaning and thought processes behind them – very revealing.
(Been a while since I’ve played a Fender Rhodes very much… now I wanna get one again 🙂 …. sigh… raindrop motif).. Gotta love the torture he gave to the bassist 😀
The raindrops on the keys are my favorite part of the song. So evocative, so perfect.
What a blast, to watch Ray play that song, describing how it came to be, to see him do it, reliving the experience, playing those notes that have been seared into the mind over a lifetime of enjoyment.
A song that feels like I was born already knowing it, and then getting to see the genesis of it 👍😁
Then again, maybe I could find one at Ray’s Music Exchange 🙂 (OK, different Ray, but still)… [Having said that, weren’t Morrison’s folks involved with certain TLAs, erm, “companies”???]
“But maybe this interpretation is just my own.”
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That’s one of the great things about music, the lyrics (at least 60s and 70s lyrics, but probably most lyrics generally) are often written in such a way that invites interpretation, so each individual can make the song his or her own.
This was Amber and Jay’s first time hearing the song. I have noticed from watching these videos that first-timers seem to miss a lot of what is said in the lyrics, which is understandable, because some people focus on the music more than the lyrics, until the music becomes familiar, and then try to figure out what the lyrics are saying.
At least that seems to be how I do it. Music is mostly about feeling for me, and the voice of the singer is another musical instrument, the most unique and complex instrument, but very much part of the musical whole.
For example, listen to Janis Joplin singing ‘Summertime’ or ‘Cry Baby’ or ‘Piece of My Heart’ (or lots of others), and the feeling conveyed by her voice is just incredible.
Whatever it is she’s actually saying is secondary at best. As long as the words she’s singing are in English (a foreign language might jar me out of the moment 😁 ), what she’s saying is almost irrelevant, until I’m more familiar with the music.
It’s the sound of the voice, and how the voice interacts with the musical instruments, that either “gets me” (in which case I almost immediately like the song) or doesn’t move me at all, in which case the song does nothing for me, and I usually recognize which it is in the first 15 seconds of a song that is new to me. Long before I have any idea what the song is about.
In another sense, “it’s the singer not the song, that makes the music move along” (from Join Together, by The Who). The music pretty much has to maintain the beat. It can have slow segments and faster segments (Zeppelin did this all the time), but within each section, the beat has to be steady to maintain cohesion of the song.
But the singer can go just about anywhere, and do anything, weaving the lyrics in and out of, and around the instrumentation, from a whisper to a scream and everything in between. So the vocalist is the main instrument, the one capable of creating the most feeling in the hearer, and the actual instruments (drums, guitars, keyboards, bass, etc.) create the canvas on which the singer(s) paint, if that makes sense.
So unless it’s just a singer and acoustic guitar, there’s usually a whole lot of stuff happening. Whether I like the way it all comes together is usually known very early in the song. I pick up the lyrics in the same way that I pick up the guitar solos, but I don’t usually focus on what the lyrics are trying to say (unless it’s very straight forward and obvious) until I’m so familiar with every other aspect of the song that thinking about the lyrics is the only thing left to do.
And if I get to that point I must really like the song, so I’m completely positively biased in my interpretation of whatever the lyrics are trying to say 😁
An example might help, and the one that occurs to me is Blinded by the Light, which I think was written by Bruce Springsteen, but the version everybody knows is by Manfred Mann’s Earth Band.
To this day I have no idea what that song is about, but I can sing every word, starting and stopping on the exact beat as the singer does, like it’s part of my DNA. I’m not sure anybody knows what that song is about, so it may be an extreme example, but that’s sort of how all songs are to me, until I get around to focusing on what the lyrics might be trying to say — unless the lyrics are obvious and don’t require any interpretation.
So I guess what I’m trying to say is interpretation of the lyrics is the last thing that happens for me. If I don’t like the music, then I never get far enough to really think about the lyrics, because they don’t matter, if the music doesn’t ‘move’ me.
It’s not easy to describe music, and how it affects you 😂
And then when you get to interpretation, everyone creates their own, so long as the lyrics were written in a way that allows the listener to do so.
………………
Blue…
Songs are like tattoos
You know I’ve been to sea before
Crown and anchor me
Or let me sail away
Hey Blue,
There is a song for you
Ink on a pin
Underneath the skin
An empty space to fill in…
……………….
So, for People are Strange…
I haven’t done this since I was a kid, when I wrote out an interpretation of The Wall (Pink Floyd).
“People are strange when you’re a stranger
Faces look ugly when you’re alone”
The first line is just observing the root of the word ‘stranger’ in an interesting way. The second line almost sounds paranoid, but it makes sense too, in the sense that when you’re alone (in public) and you don’t know anyone, no one is smiling at you or engaging you, like people who know you would. The faces of strangers are more or less vacant without the recognition of the other person, causing the face to animate or express non-verbal communication.
A vacant expression could be described as ugly, certainly in contradiction to a friendly face.
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“Women seem wicked when you’re unwanted
Streets are uneven when you’re down”
Everyone seems ‘mean’ or uncaring when you’re unwanted, but ‘wicked’ is much more evocative than ‘mean’. Women write about men, and men write about women, so that explains the subject choice, and the alliteration works, hence, ‘Women seem wicked’ 😁
Streets being uneven when you’re down seems to evoke a sense of hard or rough going, uneven ground makes for a much more difficult walk, as opposed to smooth and easy when you’re happy.
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“When you’re strange
Faces come out of the rain
When you’re strange
No one remembers your name
When you’re strange
When you’re strange
When you’re strange”
Does he mean being ‘weird’ strange, or is he referring to alienation, the sense of isolation we can experience even in a crowd — when you don’t know anyone, when you’re a stranger to everyone around you?
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And it just repeats after that, that’s the whole song.
As profound or meaningless as the hearer wants it to be 😉
But what makes it work is the Doors ‘sound’, which on this song always reminds me of a saloon in an old West ghost town, the piano especially… like something you might see a skeleton playing in a haunted house 😁
If that’s all it was, the band and the lyrics, anybody could sing it, and it would have been good, but not great.
What makes it great is the voice, Jim’s unique voice, the human instrument. You can see the effect it has on Amber especially, already at the end of the first line of the song (1:39). Again at 1:53, she even makes a noise as she rolls her eyes and smiles, and again at 2:05, right before Jay pauses the song and she says I love it!
That’s what I’m talking about 😁
She has no idea what the song is about, it’s only been playing for 28 seconds, and they’ve already paused it, because they both already know this song has ‘it’, whatever the indefinable ‘it’ is.
That’s what I mean, it’s exactly like that, with most great songs… you know, without having any idea what the lyrics are about or where they’ll take you, you know just because of how the music (including the voice!) moves you.
Jay is experiencing the exact same thing, it’s just easier to see it with Amber, because she is more expressive.
It’s a blast to watch other people ‘get’ exactly what I ‘get’ about songs that I know and like. It’s like being able to share a great feeling with someone, and music has the ability to do that, almost instantly.
I’ve done it hundreds of times, maybe thousands. Starting around junior high school, my friends would come over to listen to music. I took my stereo (Kenwood KR-720 receiver, early Sony CD player, I think it was a CDP-302 Mk 2, and floor standing 3-way Sansui speakers) to college, our dorm room was the hang out for most of the people in our hallway 👍😁
And it wasn’t unlike these videos, because most of the people my age listened to 80s music (because it was the late 80s), so they didn’t know a lot of the classics from the 60s and 70s. They had probably heard most of them, but it wasn’t their generation, it was just ‘old music’, it wasn’t what most kids my age focused on.
But when they did, when I played it for them, when I put them in an optimum position (as best I could) to experience it, I don’t remember anyone who didn’t love it
So even 20+ years after the songs that I listened to were new, it didn’t matter, because great songs are timeless. When people heard them for the first time, or paid attention to them for the first time, it had a visible effect on them. It makes people smile. You can’t listen to great music and not feel anything. It will move you… nobody can sit still through a song like Who Are You (posted here the other night) and not feel anything… unless you’re dead… 😂
So I got very good at picking songs to play for people, like a DJ, songs that would evoke a strong positive ‘wow!’ reaction, because that’s the fun part of listening to music, that’s what I like, so that’s what I wanted other people to experience too.
Have them sit in the stereo chair, in the ‘sweet spot’ where the speakers are aimed to get the best stereo effect.
Turn the lights down low, turn the volume up high, and let it rip… and enjoy watching them experience what you’ve experienced, watch them be blown away, just like you were, the first time you heard it 😁
First, this may blow your mind and make you hate me, but I can not STAND Janis Joplin’s voice! Same with a lot of the 60’s folk singers. Ruins the song for me. I either love a voice or hate it. Love Stevie Nicks, hate Bob Dylan. Love Bob Seger, can’t stand Joan Baez. Mick Jagger, yeah! Reba McEntire, NO!
Also along that line I guess, I love Mozart, but hate the operas.
Second, I guess I am just very “verbal.” The lyrics of a song matter very much to me. It’s funny how different people are.
The FIRST thing I hear when I hear new music is the WORDS. Seriously.
I am very “literary.” My favorite part of college were my advanced English classes, where we spent months exploring the meaning of a single poem. Really. I had one class where the first HALF of the quarter was spent on “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” and the second half was The Book of Revelation. We broke down every line of each, and what did we think it meant.
People are different. It’s cool that is true. For me, “People are Strange” is the lamentation of a complete outsider, who sees the world looking back at him as hostile, dark, and unsafe. Almost the POV of a paranoid schizophrenic. For others, maybe it is not so dark.
Vive la difference!
As often as not I can’t even make out the damn words until the umpteenth time I’ve heard the song.
That’s not just a “post-after-my-inner-ear-exploded” thing; that was always an issue for me.
Yeah, that ruins the song for me.
My son is always telling me to listen to this song or that because of the lyrics. And then I try to listen, and I can’t understand what the hell they are saying. So I look up the lyrics, and tell him I liked it!
I have the “exploded” inner ear thing, too. My eardrums have both ruptured more than once. I now have permanent tubes through both. It has been a God-send.
Weird Al Yankovic actually wrote a song about garbled words and lyrics of songs, “Smells Like Nirvana”, a parody of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit”.
To make things even funnier, BOTH were nominated for the Grammy Awards in the same season, thereby competing against each other (though I would thing Weird Al’s is more a comedy catagory type).
The lyrics (of Al’s version) say it all (so to speak):
What is this song all about?
Can’t figure any lyrics out
How do the words to it go?
I wish you’d tell me, I don’t know
Don’t know, don’t know, don’t know, oh no
Don’t know, don’t know, don’t know…
Now I’m mumblin’ and I’m screamin’
And I don’t know what I’m singin’
Crank the volume, ears are bleedin’
I still don’t know what I’m singin’
We’re so loud and incoherent
Boy, this oughta bug your parents
Yeah
It’s unintel-ligible
I just can’t get it through my skull
It’s hard to bargle nawdle zouss(?)
With all these marbles in my mouth
Don’t know, don’t know, don’t know, oh no
Don’t know, don’t know, don’t know…
Well, we don’t sound like Madonna
Here we are now, we’re Nirvana
Sing distinctly? We don’t wanna
Buy our album, we’re Nirvana
A garage band from Seattle
Well, it sure beats raising cattle
Yeah
And I forgot the next verse
Oh well, I guess it pays to rehearse
The lyric sheet’s so hard to find
What are the words? Oh, nevermind
Don’t know, don’t know, don’t know, oh no
Don’t know, don’t know, don’t know…
Well, I’m yellin’ and we’re playin’
But I don’t know what I’m sayin’
What’s the message I’m conveyin’?
Can you tell me what I’m sayin’?
So have you got some idea?
Didn’t think so — Well, I’ll see ya
Sayonara, sayonara
Ayonawa, odinawa
Odinaya, yodinaya
Yaddayadda, yaaahyaaah
Ayaaaaaah!
And here’s the video; some of the characters (e.g. the janitor) were in Nirvana’s video…
Lol!
Some music I like even if I can’t understand the words. But usually, I have to go look up the lyrics to be sure I’m not jamming to something horrible!
And all of these years I thought it was some odd form of hearing loss (otherwise I hear perfectly in spite of mild tinnitus). It drives my husband crazy. Now I can tell him I have a “condition”.
Well, I never could do well in loud bars either. Never.
Who knows if I failed to meet my wife that way, rather than some other way.
“As often as not I can’t even make out the damn words until the umpteenth time I’ve heard the song.
That’s not just a “post-after-my-inner-ear-exploded” thing; that was always an issue for me.”
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Me too, I have always had that same experience, with rock music, mostly.
It seems like you ought to be able to figure it out, because how many words can possibly rhyme with whatever came before, and sound at least somewhat similar to that garbled mess coming out of the singer’s mouth?!?
But no… some songs you could listen to a hundred times, and never figure it out. Then you read the lyrics, and a lot of times it still doesn’t sound like the singer is saying what the lyric sheet claims he’s saying… 😂 🤣 😂
I think that’s why they used to include lyric sheets with record LPs… I don’t think anybody could tell what they were saying… 👍 😁
Aghhh. Janis Joplin. The vocal equivalent of stripping the gears in your manual transmission… And then there’s “The Association” and “The Mamas and the Papas”… they both sang out of tune, which ruined a lot of their songs for me (out of tune with each other, do diddling the turntable didn’t help anything, just moved the discord). Probably not a problem for most folks, but I have perfect pitch so I could just about retch (seriously; it’s not all it’s cracked up to be, except when taking dictatiion in music theory class, where it saved my cookies because I CANNOT compose to save my life…).
Many songs from that era have great words. I really like “Leader of the Band”, by Dan Fogelberg, a tribute to his father (great story behind that), and, from another direction, “Cats in the Cradle” by Harry Chapin (I like Mandy Patinkin’s cover of that)(plus he’s a Lionel Trains fan 🙂 ). A lot of songs from the Country and Bluegrass genres, e.g. “You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive” are really poignant. On the other hand, “There’s A Tear In My Beer” isn’t 😀
Mick Jagger????? I always considered the Stones to be the bad boys as compared to the Beatles… then RED Commie Yoko Oh, No started pulling them down, along with Ravi Shankar twiddling George Harrison… Then Paul went all veggie, At least Ringo did “Thomas The Tank Engine”, so there’s that 😀 🚂
Finally, there’s all of the lyrics of Barry Manilow for which Rachmaninov wrote the music 😆 (Third Symphony in e minor, Second Piano Concerto in c minor… violas have “full moon and empty arms” [as usual 😀 ] )…
I really love the songs you mention in your second paragraph, actually. Except for “There’s a Tear in My Beer!” And Mandy Patinkin has a wonderful voice in my opinion. “You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive” is reminiscent of my childhood, although it was “coal country” I grew up in, just the Appalachians.
And yeah, I do like Jagger’s voice. I was sort of naming people with the “rougher” sound who are still understandable when they sing. Unlike Joplin or Dylan, who just sound grating to me.
Here’s Mandy Patinkin doing “Cat’s in the Cradle” with “Japanese Sandman” as a warmup. Really moving, and convicting, especially for fathers… and RIP Harry Chapin…
(The comments on the vid on YouTube are great)…
[I really liked him as Che Guevara in “Evita”, too]….
I just went and listened to this earlier today! It is so great.
“First, this may blow your mind and make you hate me, but I can not STAND Janis Joplin’s voice!”
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Her voice is the type that people either like or they don’t, they either ‘get it’, or they don’t.
On a purely emotional level, she holds nothing back. Like Bob Seger says in Turn the Page:
Out there in the spotlight you’re a million miles away
Every ounce of energy you try to give away,
As the sweat pours out your body
Like the music that you play…
Janis gives every ounce of energy she has.
Every pain, every sorrow, every hurt, the anguish, is wrapped up in her voice when she lets it fly. In order to hear it, you have to establish some kind of connection to it. Some pain in your own life experience, something you may not even know how to express.
I don’t mean any specific pain (although that can work too, if the lyrics lend themselves to a personal experience), I mean the cumulative weight of pain experienced over a lifetime.
Janis taps directly into it, gives it a voice, and sets it free. She’s not the only singer who can do it of course, but her ability to get to “that place”, almost at the flip of a switch, is stronger than most.
If you are able to, or open to, relating to the pain that she is expressing so completely with her voice, then when she hits those notes that make some people cringe, it becomes a catharsis instead. A powerful one… 😁
Cuppa describes it below as “the vocal equivalent of stripping the gears in your manual transmission“, but there’s a lot more going on. It not ‘pretty’ singing, it’s not ‘sweet’ singing, it’s not ‘polished’. Nothing is sugarcoated. It’s not meant to be those things.
She is stripping away all of that, the artifice, leaving what is raw and human. That is what people are connecting with.
Most professional singers would be scared to death to walk out as far on that limb as Janis does, but Janis did it all the time, that’s where she lived. She didn’t walk the vocalist’s razor’s edge. She danced on it 😁
I wish I could explain it better, because if I could, you would understand, and if you understood it would resonate, and if it resonated with you, you would have a connection to the music that transcends whatever the thing is that is currently blocking you from it.
She was just a little thing too, and that voice, that power, like a volcano… how can someone so small make a sound so big?
Amber and Jay do a fine job here (below), reacting to hearing Janis’ Cry Baby for the first time. This is the first time they ever heard Janis at all.
They both ‘get it’ immediately, but watch how it impacts each of them differently. Amber pretty much floats away on cloud 9, she is such a free spirit that she just goes with it, totally lost in the moment. Pure euphoria.
But look at Jay, look at the pain on his face. Look at his eyes. That’s a guy, and whatever Janis is doing to him with that voice, it’s reaching deep. You could be in therapy for 20 years and never get anywhere near that… 😂🤣😂
That’s the power of music, and what music can do 😁
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If we’re doing it right, music should be a like a magic carpet ride 😁
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I like to dream, yeah
Right between my sound machine
On a cloud of sound I drift in the night
Any place it goes is right
Goes far, flies near
To the stars away from here
Well, you don’t know what we can find
Why don’t you come with me little girl
On a magic carpet ride?
Well, you don’t know what we can see
Why don’t you tell your dreams to me?
Fantasy will set you free…
Close your eyes, girl
Look inside, girl
Let the sound take you away…
[from Magic Carpet Ride, 1968, Steppenwolf]
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“Same with a lot of the 60’s folk singers. Ruins the song for me. I either love a voice or hate it. Love Stevie Nicks, hate Bob Dylan. Love Bob Seger, can’t stand Joan Baez. Mick Jagger, yeah! Reba McEntire, NO!”
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I know exactly what you mean 👍
It’s hard to articulate it, because trying to describe music and how it affects you requires words that don’t exist for the most part. It’s hard to communicate something which you don’t have language for.
I didn’t like Bob Dylan’s voice particularly, when I first heard it. I didn’t hate it, it just didn’t sound like I expected a ‘musical’ voice to sound. But that wasn’t Bob’s problem, it was mine 😁
I already knew some great Dylan songs because my parents played so much Peter, Paul & Mary, who made some of Dylan’s earliest songs hits.
The more I listened to Dylan’s music, his versions, the more I appreciated the uniqueness of his voice. Some of his songs I do like as much or better when covered by others, but for most of his songs, the definitive version is his.
You just have to get comfortable with his voice. Once you do, the appreciation for what he is doing with that voice explodes. I love Dylan’s singing voice now, it’s like hearing the voice of an old friend, I can’t even imagine most of his songs sounding any other way 😁
Stevie Nicks’ voice is easy to love, smoky and raspy and crystalline all at the same time. Bob Seger’s voice is easy to like too.
I always had trouble with Joan Baez’s voice. I recognize that it’s beautiful, that she’s hitting pure notes in a way that most people never do. I can’t put my finger on exactly what makes it difficult for me. It’s almost like it’s too much, too rich, like chocolate that’s too sweet. She has a beautiful voice, but I can only take it in small doses, if that makes sense. I always liked her song Diamonds and Rust, about her relationship with Bob Dylan.
My first Rolling Stones record was the double LP greatest hits titled Hot Rocks. My favorite albums are the three from 1968 to 1971, Beggars Banquet, Let it Bleed and Sticky Fingers. If you include Exile on Main Street (1972), that’s a pretty amazing 5-year period. The only artists that come to mind who equaled that kind of consistency over a 5+ year span are the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and… Bob Dylan. 😁
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“Second, I guess I am just very “verbal.” The lyrics of a song matter very much to me. It’s funny how different people are.”
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That’s exactly the kind of thing I would be trying to discover, if someone new was coming over to listen to music. I just need to figure out the keys to unlock whatever it is about music that you like most.
Once I know, and know what music you like, then I also know lots of other music that you may not have heard, but has enough similar qualities, that if I played it for you, there is a very high chance you would really like it.
And that’s fun, to be able to do that for people, to help them discover something new that becomes their own 😁
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And when my mind is free
You know a melody can move me
And when I’m feelin’ blue
The guitar’s comin’ through to soothe me
Thanks for the joy that you’ve given me
I want you to know I believe in your song
And rhythm and rhyme and harmony
You’ve helped me along
Makin’ me strong
Oh, give me the beat boys and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll, and drift away…
[from Drift Away, 1973, Dobie Grey]
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If I played an original U.S. Columbia first issue, near mint Dylan LP of Times They are a Changin’, you might be amazed how good it (and he) actually sounds, like Bob Dylan is literally sitting in the room with you, playing a private show for you and your friends.
Or Stevie Nicks.
Or Bob Seger.
Or whoever you might like to hear.
A good stereo system is a time machine, and a joy machine, an experience machine… and the better the source and playback system are, the closer you can get to real, to how it sounded in the recording studio or live on stage, all those years ago.
In my experience, most younger people today have no idea how close you can really get, if you try 😁
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“The FIRST thing I hear when I hear new music is the WORDS. Seriously.
I am very “literary.” My favorite part of college were my advanced English classes, where we spent months exploring the meaning of a single poem.”
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Then you should love, Love, LOVE Bob Dylan!
The things he does with words, the way he writes lyrics, is second to nobody.
If there are writing courses about musicians, I would expect there to be more of them about Bob Dylan than any other. I can’t think of anyone more prolific, more influential, over a longer period of time, than Bob Dylan.
46 albums, from 1962 to his most recent album in 2020, which is apparently a very popular album (I didn’t even know about it).
Elvis pioneered the ‘Greatest Hits’ concept if I remember correctly, but Bob Dylan was the first to issue box sets of outtakes, rehearsals, finished songs that never made it onto an album for various reasons, etc.
It began in 1985 with a box set called “Biograph“, and turned into the “Bootleg Series” beginning in 1991, with Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3, Rare and Unreleased 1961-1991.
In 2021, Bootleg Series Volume 16: Springtime in New York (1980-1985) was released.
Each of the Bootleg Series sets is at least 2 CDs, and many of them are more (at least a couple of them are a lot more). Imagine the volume of previously unreleased material, and there’s still more to come.
If lyrics are one of your favorite parts of music, you owe it to yourself to give Bob another chance, a real shot, because if you can make peace with his voice, it won’t be long until you actually warm up to it, and begin to appreciate it.
And when that happens, oh man, is there a backlog of musical and lyrical treasure for you to discover! 👍😲😁
And Leonard Cohen too, another great songwriter, who may not have been particularly gifted with a beautiful voice by traditional standards, but whose voice will absolutely win you over, if you just let it.
At first, it may seem that artists like Dylan or Cohen succeeded in spite of their voice. Their voice may not sound ‘musical’ in the way most people expect a professional singing voice should sound.
But you can’t put people like Dylan or Cohen (or Janis) in that box. It’s like trying to look through the wrong end of a telescope.
The roughness or unvarnished qualities of their voices (Johnny Cash developed a similar quality in his later years) brings an honesty to the musical table, a sense of real humanity, and potentially (hopefully) a connection with the artist, that a smoother and more polished vocalist may never achieve.
That’s not to take anything away from more polished and professional sounding singers in the slightest. If you’ve got it, by all means, use that gift.
What I’m trying to say is that the rawness of the vocals of those who were not blessed with the most commercially accessible voices have a charm all their own. And it is often these types of voices which, if we let them, can make an almost direct connection with your inner self.
Because they’re not slick, because they’re not polished, because they’re not processed, but because they are real, and honest, and genuine, and natural, and human, ‘warts and all‘ 👍🙂
I love both kinds of vocalists. I wouldn’t want to be without either one, there’s way too much greatness of each kind to let any of it get away from me 😁
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“Really. I had one class where the first HALF of the quarter was spent on “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” and the second half was The Book of Revelation. We broke down every line of each, and what did we think it meant.”
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That sounds like an interesting class. I never heard of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
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“People are different. It’s cool that is true.”
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Very much so 👍
If there is something I like, and have reason to think others may like it too, I try to present it the best way I can, give it the best chance I can, that they might discover something new, and if they like it, make it their own. Music can be a gift like that, in a way that not so many other things are 👍
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“For me, “People are Strange” is the lamentation of a complete outsider, who sees the world looking back at him as hostile, dark, and unsafe. Almost the POV of a paranoid schizophrenic. For others, maybe it is not so dark.
Vive la difference!”
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For me, it’s almost like a toss-off, the kind of ethereal song that carries you away with the sound, and the lyrics are just a rhyming structure to showcase Morrison’s voice.
From that perspective, it’s a happy song, light on its feet, and that ‘ghost town’ piano gets me every time.
It starts with playing ‘air piano’, then my leg start bouncing, I get this big grin on my face, my eyes close, and before I know it, I’m singing along with Jim, like we wrote it together 😂
And his voice on this song is in my range, about how my natural singing voice sounds, so it’s one that I can sing along to pretty well 😁
I love Johnny Cash.
And I enjoy “reading” Bob Dylan lyrics. But I don’t enjoy hearing him sing. And it’s not the rawness of his voice, it’s that I can’t understand him half the time. It just turns me off that I can’t make out a lot of what he is saying. I have a bit of hearing loss, and I miss a lot of his words. I know people who aren’t great singers who don’t do that to me. But he does.
My son presented me with a suggestion for a song yesterday, and asked me to at least “read it.” But I couldn’t find the lyrics online, so I tried to listen. I couldn’t understand a lot of the words, same issue as with Dylan. I have to “think” too hard to get what they are saying, which pulls me right out of the song. I lasted one verse, and gave up.
You should read “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” It is amazing. I won’t interpret it, or tell you what I think it is about. That should be a personal experience.
I get what you are saying about “People Are Strange.” It is almost like circus music. That contributes to my feeling about the song, weirdly. It’s like being inside a schizophrenic’s manic head. Sort of organ-grinder discordant.
I like to sing. I can carry a tune, and I love music. But I have to be able to understand the words.
“I love Johnny Cash.”
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I have always been familiar with his older classics, but I didn’t have any of his albums in my collection. I never really listened to Johnny Cash until his album American Recordings came out in 1994.
One day I was reading through Stereophile’s annual ‘Records to Die For‘ lists, and found a review for American Recordings.
It took a few minutes, but I found it, it’s still on the web, all these years later 😁
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JOHNNY CASH: American Recordings
American 45520-1/-2 (LP/CD). Rick Rubin, prod.; Jim Scott, eng. AAA/AAD? TT: 41:54
I heard a knock at the door. I opened it, and in front of me stood a tall, heavily weathered man with a black Martin strapped across his back. He said he needed a place to rest, and had been attracted to my apartment by a Hank Williams song wafting through my open bedroom window. I invited him in, and watched and listened as the man in black tuned his guitar and began to sing.
The rhythmic thuck-thuck of the stylus in the lead-out grooves of the first side of American Recordings rudely awakened me. The recording’s honesty had lulled me into that rare state of listening where the line between illusion and reality no longer exists. This album is an intimate recital of American popular music performed by one of its greatest, most persistent, and loyal advocates. (XVII-7)
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After a write-up like that, I had to hear it. Here is the Wiki write-up, and the track listing:
Side One
1. Delia’s Gone (Johnny Cash, Karl Silbersdorf, Dick Toops)
2. Let the Train Blow the Whistle (Johnny Cash)
3. The Beast in Me (Nick Lowe)
4. Drive On (Johnny Cash)
5. Why Me Lord (Kris Kristofferson)
6. Thirteen (Glenn Danzig)
7. Oh, Bury Me Not” (Intro: “A Cowboy’s Prayer”) John Lomax, Alan Lomax, Roy Rogers, Tim Spencer
Side Two
8. Bird on the Wire (Leonard Cohen)
9. Tennessee Stud (Jimmy Driftwood)
10. Down There by the Train (Tom Waits)
11. Redemption (Johnny Cash)
12. Like a Soldier (Johnny Cash)
13. The Man Who Couldn’t Cry (Loudon Wainwright III)
I bought it, played it, and it was just like the reviewer said, an instant classic 😁
Since then I have collected all of them, on CD and LP:
American Recordings II: Unchained
American Recordings III: Solitary Man
American Recordings IV: The Man Comes Around
American Recordings V: A Hundred Highways
American Recordings VI: Ain’t No Grave
They’re all good, but Johnny really knocked it out of the park on the first one, easily my favorite 👍
At the time, I don’t think I knew a single song on it, except maybe Bird on a Wire (written by Leonard Cohen, but covered by many).
It’s one of those rare albums where you can play it straight through, and every song is either good or great, and most of them are great.
I remember expecting to hit the ‘skip’ button on the CD remote, as I sat in my stereo chair with the lights off.
After about the 4th song I new this was something special.
I never did hit that ‘skip’ button.
That almost never happens… 😁
Johnny Cash was an American original. His voice is unique, haunting, and real. I grew up listening to him, on vinyl. My parents were big fans.
“I get what you are saying about “People Are Strange.” It is almost like circus music. That contributes to my feeling about the song, weirdly. It’s like being inside a schizophrenic’s manic head. Sort of organ-grinder discordant.”
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That was the same term Amber and Jay used, ‘circus music’. I wonder if they were influenced by seeing the cover for the album, Strange Days (1967):
This is the album cover opened up so you can see the whole scene:
Interesting.
“You should read “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” It is amazing. I won’t interpret it, or tell you what I think it is about. That should be a personal experience.”
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I found it here and read it.
Early it reminded me, I’m not accustomed to reading poetry. It took a time to catch the rhythm or the rhyme, or maybe meter is the thing I mean to say.
I should have to read it several times again, and think upon the thoughts therein, to grasp the meaning and begin to have an understanding of his way.
Okay, I gotta stop 😂
I liked it, it was interesting and new (to me). Seems he created something of an uproar in the poetic circles of his day, and it was interesting to read on Wiki and remember (from school) how poetry was a big deal before the time of television and the development of popular and rock music.
If T.S. Eliot could sing, maybe he might sound like Janis… 😁
Leonard Cohen started out as a poet, which is easy to tell from many of his songs. I think he decided it would be easier to earn a living, in the late 1960s, if he set his poems to music 👍
Making a living on poetry is akin to making a living as an artist. Which is why I didn’t continue down that road.
My college advisor told me to get a teaching certificate if I wanted to get an art degree. It was the only way not to starve, she said. I said “blech, teaching?” and went another way!
T.S. Elliot was controversial, and not necessarily liked by everyone, the way every great artist should be. Like Bob Dylan. 🙂 😉
That was fun 🙂
I think so too.
Me too 👍 😁
for anyone interested..
#1 Oliver Stone’s recently banned movie…
Ukraine On Fire
link…
https://www.brighteon.com/4f6bf139-d029-49e6-9f2b-0e8f451bfa39
#2 a continuation…
Oliver Stone’s Revealing Ukraine …
link…
https://rumble.com/vwy6pm-revealing-ukraine.html
Thank you, The revealing Ukraine vid is very eye opening .
Grateful they are both on Rumble, beyond reach of the TRUTH CENSORS.
you’re welcome.
Kids’ Music Class —
Very good!
That was fantastic. Young girl singer is going to be a star.
Tool is absolutely some of my favorite “modern” music. It “changes” something in me in the same way Mozart does. Hard to explain the feeling.
This is their best song to date, and it’s not even close. Not. Even. Close.
Simply epic.
But I’ve posted this before.
I also enjoy how this song highlights the musical genius of each member of the band, esp. Danny Carey’s.
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Angels on the sideline
Puzzled and amused
Why did Father give these humans free will?
Now they’re all confused
Don’t these talking monkeys know that
Eden has enough to go around?
Plenty in this holy garden, silly monkeys
Where there’s one you’re bound to divide it
Right in two
Angels on the sideline,
Baffled and confused
Father blessed them all with reason,
And this is what they choose??
Monkey killing monkey killing monkey over
Pieces of the ground
Silly monkeys
Give them thumbs, they forge a blade
And where there’s one they’re bound to divide it
Right in two
Right in two
Monkey killing, monkey killing monkey over
Pieces of the ground
Silly monkeys
Give them thumbs, they make a club
To beat their brother down
How they’ve survived so misguided is a mystery
Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability
To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here
Gotta divide it all right in two
Gotta divide it all right in two
Gotta divide it all right in two
Gotta divide it all right in two
Fight till they die over sun, over sky
They fight till they die over sea, over air
They fight till they die over blood, over love
They fight till they die over words, polarizing
Angels on the sideline again
Benched along with patience and reason
Angels on the sideline again
Wondering where this tug of war will end
Gotta divide it all right in two
Gotta divide it all right in two
Gotta divide it all right in two
Right in two
Right in two
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Love the lyrics. Beautiful, and sad.
Really, the entire song is jaw dropping.
Literally jaw dropping.
Assuming, of course, one has the ability to hear it…which is to say, appreciate it. Not all do. And that’s ok. This kind of music is not everyone’s cup of tea.
Well, my son and I love it. Which is nice. It’s a bond.
My 2nd favorite Tool song.
And this….right here….is why Danny Carey is, without a doubt, the very best alt. rock drummer in the world today.
Not only because of his genius….but also because of his authentic innocence and humility.
Try to ignore the people talking over this. They really don’t know WHO Danny Carey is…
…and he could care less.
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The ostinato (recurring background melody(ies) of this sounds like that of “Heaven On Their Minds” from “Jesus Christ, Superstar”… crazy… from 51 years ago…
Yep, that young girl and the rest of them have talent. It’s fascinating how much there is out on YouTube and the interwebs… not everything the Tube serves up is trash, yet the trash spoils everything…
Also fascinating to see the “reaction videos” of young’uns hearing old classics for the first time (hmmm… I used to think old classics were from the 1700s and 1800s, but now that term refers to the 40s, 50s, and 60s, even 70s… wonder if that makes me an old classic [don’t answer that 🙂 ] )…..
I always start wondering when I hear about an incident like this.
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A plane carrying former President Donald Trump was forced to make an emergency landing in New Orleans last weekend after suffering engine failure over the Gulf of Mexico.
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/nation/donald-trump-plane-engine-failure-20220309.html
…over the Gulf of Mexico.
Shades of JFK Jr?
Yea, a reach of sorts. But, aas soon as I read “…Gulf of Mexico.”, that IS what popped in my mind.
More coffee needed.
Probably nothing. Most likely explanation is the pilots elected to turn back our of abundance of caution (which is the choice JFK Jr. did NOT make).
For example, one of the engines could have been working just fine but was simply showing some unusual temps or pressures, so the pilots elected to divert back to New Orleans instead of continue on…a decision which I applaud.
Non-pilots…esp. the media…will hear this and think “engine failure” when in fact it actually wasn’t a true failure.
In fact, when I myself heard “engine failure” the first time this came up the other day I made some comment about it but didn’t stop to really think about it….I only GLOMMED onto the “engine failure” part. Notice, no one is asking…
…”was it really an engine failure, and what was meant by “engine failure”?
Of course, this doesn’t mean the engine did not fail, I’m simply stating that “engine failure” could mean just about anything SHORT of an actual fail as well…
…so the PROBABILITY is 99% that this is a nothing burger.
I certainly hope so.
Let me also say….just because the pilots declared an emergency doesn’t mean an actual emergency existed.
Take my hypothetical example above. The engine is showing some unusual indications, but is still producing normal power.
Now, this COULD mean the engine is SOON to fail (depending on the readings), and the pilots don’t know when that might happen.
So…again….out of an abundance of caution……they declare an emergency….in order to give themselves #1 priority back to the airport and landing. Especially considering who they have onboard.
So…..the media hears “diverted back”….”declared an emergency”….”engine failure”…..and concludes a worst case scenario.
Meanwhile, reality could be…and likely is….far less worse than the worst case scenario.
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If I was flying PDJT himself, I can tell you that the moment something unusual presented itself…esp. with a critical system like an engine…. I would IMMEDIATELY be thinking to get the plane on the ground. Regardless of whether it was a true emergency or not. Given who we are talking about that would not even be a question.
Yep, that’s the way I was taught too, for what little that’s worth.
There are old pilots. There are bold pilots.
But there are no old, bold pilots.
Agree. No real details of “engine failure”.
But, in the back of my mind, Uniparty, Deep State would celebrate Trump’s demise.
Orchestrate it? Would like to think not. But given what they’ve INTENTIONALLY done to Trump for ~six years, it’s all on the table.
The conservative “bench” WITH INSPIRING leaders IS LACKING. Nearly a void.
Just for sheets and giggles…
…this was POTUS’ route of flight from KMSY to KPBI and I marked the approx. location of where the crew decided to turn back with a red X…
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There was a lot more water to cross before reaching Florida.
Helps put things into perspective, I hope.
Take no chances!
They could, conceivably have diverted to Mobile (assuming there’s a suitable airport there–I’d be surprised if there weren’t) since the distance appears to be similar, but the return path put them over land a lot quicker.
if the topic of cyber war…a cyber pandemic… interests you ( and it should)…
I recommend this rational analysis…
Analysis : Large Scale Cyber Attack Is Now Imminent
link…
https://www.technocracy.news/analysis-large-scale-cyberattack-is-now-imminent/
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the globalists are playing BOTH SIDES of the Ukraine conflict.
author gives sound reasoning.
More NPR propaganda… deep state deep misinfo…
Exactly. Sometimes it is as easy as looking at the source of the information.
Verse of the Day for Saturday, March 12, 2022
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“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:”
Ecclesiastes 3:1 (KJV)
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
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.
Follow the Data with Dr Frank
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Make all of the above attractive. Yes, it is hard work, but for people to gravitate toward it, it needs to be attractive. It needs to draw. We’re discovering that in the Church with a big fight over tradition vs. watering down to be relevant, and, truthfully tradition is winning out despite the best efforts of the bishops to screw things up.
Good stuff – thanks for posting. On the reaching the under 30 question…
Rebellion is a natural instinct in the under 30 crowd. We know because we were under 30 at one time. So, the issue is countering a natural instinct in a world with many more traps and snares than when we were young.
Our oldest use to throw into our faces, “It’s the nineties…stop.” Then she left home as fast as she could after graduation. She did what the rest of the crowd did, until she crashed and burned numerous ties. We closed our bank to her restarts after the first few. Each time she would regroup only to fall into it again, returning to the dog’s vomit. Never has learned what is important like many people today who trust the Satanic leaders of the world and do what they want them to do. We had to learn to accept that she is headed toward destruction and all we can do is keep our door open and pray for her to find the will to change. Our role is to try to live a life that honors the Lord. Hopefully, the prodigal returns one day.
The youngest saw it all play out and how much it hurt her sibling, us and herself. She never ventured far and avoided a lot of heartache because she trusted us to have her back even when her classmates were calling her a nun. Now those same folks are all over 30 with families and lives their own. They now greatly respect her as she built an admirable life with a good husband and kids. Solid as the Rock her life was built upon. She was not perfect as none of us are. However, each time she stumbled a bit she learned something, would figure it out and make it right. If she needed help to do that, she trusted us enough to ask. The fundamentals are built in to who she is.
My recommendation to reach the under 30 crowd is to just live the truth and be real. Be involved in young people’s lives as much as they will allow. Be young at heart even when you are old in years. Stop lecturing them, love on them and laugh more. You will get more traction by being real about your own faults and missteps in life. Once they trust you and are willing to consider what you have to say, you can then do some good work.
Good advice TB.
Well said. Looking at the book of Proverbs, it seems to be an age-old problem.
With regard to 30 (which, btw, was [maybe still is?] the age at which young Jewish men reach majority), Rod McKuen (a great poet who often appeared on the Mike Douglas show) wrote a song (and poem) called “Looking Back At Thirty”.
I had a collection of all McKuen’s songs I used to read/play through (piano) in high school, and a classmate asked me to play some of them (for her…sigh). One of them was “Looking Back At Thirty”.
I was 15.
Thirty was an eternity away… and we were taught not to trust anyone over thirty 🙂
Now I’m well over twice that…. and looking back at thirty…. that’s what living’s for…
(https://genius.com/Rod-mckuen-looking-back-at-thirty-lyrics)
Amazing how time changes one’s perspective…
G’morning, Steve. Thanks for leading us off on Saturdays.
Thanks, Wolf. I need this place and fellow treepers to stay sane with how our world is so messed up.
Ground weather report in East TN. Uh, what a difference a day makes. Near 70 and sunshine yesterday. 26 degrees, 2″ of blowing snow on the ground and gusts up to 35 mph this AM. Let’s call it blustery. Only to return to 60 degrees Monday and headed up from there for next week. Oh well, looks like I will be inside doing honey do’s all day.
When does the real POTUS return to office? This SNL version criminal is getting on my nerves bigly. Add in Steve’s Westward Hoe embarrassing the country on the world stage every time she appears. Their and the rest of the uni-party’s hatred for real Americans could not be more obvious. Approving and promoting jabs for kids that cause heart conditions, lifelong medical issues and death is beyond Satanic.
I’m not enjoying this show at all except for the truth that is being revealed.
Wish I had received a 21% increase for being criminally incompetent in my job. Must have retired too early to cash in on the opportunity.
Try to make a great day, folks. Which will need to include prayers for our country.
The rally thread is up.
https://www.theqtree.com/2022/03/12/rally-thread-save-america-florence-sc-march-12-2022/
I will probably not be around for the rally itself, and there is only one video link in the post at the moment. If the boss could augment that sometime today, that would be lovely.
💖 💖 💖 😎 😎 😎 🤩 🤩 🤩 🤸♀️ 🤸♀️ 🤸♀️ 🥳 🥳 🥳 🥰 😍 🥰 🤗 😘 🤗
Many thanks. Blessings to your day and weekend!
Thank you.
When we lived in Maryland, one school I attended, by the time the kids got to school they had already been out on the skipjacks.
Oh…so that must be all that white male privilege and toxic masculinity I keep hearing about /sarc
😢
That’s what happened to my maternal grandfather when he was 12 years old, in 1904, just after his mother died.
Except that my maternal grandfather, along with his two older brothers, were literally thrown out of the family home to go and find work in the coal mines of Western Pennsylvania. They were never allowed back to the family home.
My grandfather got a high school diploma from a correspondence school, working on his classes after his shifts in the mine. Right after he got his diploma at age 18, he quit the mine and moved to Pittsburgh, where he eventually became a master pattern maker for steel mills.
Some real privilege playing out right there.
I had a crewleader at O-I (from West Virginia) whose father worked in the mines there. He’d climb onto one of those little train carts they had (the tunnel was too short to sit or stand up) and descend down into the mine, only to return eight or more hours later as black or blacker than the coal he’d mined. His whole family were miners, as was my uncle’s, with my uncle escaping into the world of football in England. They were so poor, they played “footie” with a ball they fashioned out of paper and cardboard scraps (this was about 100 years ago). He never forgot the mines, and, despite his accomplishments never forgot his roots, nor his good fortune.
There’s a great interview of Sir Richard Burton on the Dick Cavett show, where he talks about the mines in Wales, and his father and family, giving a brilliant and poignant description of it.
Kathy Mattea (from West Virginia) has an album called “Coal”. Despite her leftward leaning, it’s a great picture of the coal miners and their families. The song “Black Lung” is especially moving (OK, the whole album is)… There’s also a website: https://www.mattea.com/coala698e606
From the liner notes of “Coal” (by Homer Hickam)
Here’s a riveting description of live in the mines from Sir Richard Burton (via mining.com).
Gives a view of mining that we probably don’t expect…
Here’s the interview with Dick Cavett. (I have to say that Burton’s diction and elocution are amazing, as is his storytelling and indeed, his humour. The rest of the interview is quite interesting as well. The complete interview is at [replace underscores with periods]: https://www_youtube_com/watch?v=D49O5obqhiA )
Very interesting. Thoroughly Richard Burton telling the story.
Thanks for posting.
Seems fitting to listen in on Lorretta Lynn…
The comments on the interview with Dick Cavett are amazing, and informative.
After I saw this and the complete interview, I had a totally different picture of Sir Richard Burton. Especially to have come so far, and not forgotten his roots.
(One time [around the days of “Camelot”] that he was the only Welshman who couldn’t sing… it seems all the Welsh sing, and the miners as they go to work, and work. Don’t know what I did wrong, I had a Welsh Grandfather and an Irish Grandmother, but somehow it escaped my voice 🙂 )…
Here’s a song about Harlan Kentucky, sung by Patty Loveless (who pronounces Loo’ville like a native 🙂 ). The images are quite moving, and sometimes quite sad…
(There’s another YouTube here https://www_youtube_com/watch?v=1n57WBtvtC4 with the actual show.) She also does “Daniel Prayed” with Ricky Skaggs…great Bluegrass…
Not funny.
Don’t laugh. I’m sure they’ll find some way to blame it on Russia eventually.
^^^ Perhaps the biggest “tell” over the past ~six years. ^^^
EVERYTHING IS RUSSIA’s fault.
Normies are STOOPID.
Amen.
No, it’s not.
But something tells me it wasn’t intended to be. This time.
Yep. Sometimes the Bee exposes the damning truth, couched in the slightest wisp of a jest (to get it around the KENs and KARENs and JackDorkeys).
And this time they really hit hard… the idiocracy of Big Pharma (Big Farcema) and the sheeple is just about too much to bear anymore (cf chart of young kids and Myo/Pericarditis in VAERS)…
May GOD Forgive and Help us all. Two years is too long…
(I’m reminded of the Psalms of David, crying out for help…)….
Virus get loose again? This time from Ukraine?
The return of “SOBIG”… where’s McAfee when we need him??? (JMDKH!)…..
(Though IIRC that was a worm; I was just thinking about the name, and what skript-kiddies probably understood… seems they may end up skripting human virii the same way eventually)…
Constantly hearing of thieves stealing catalytic converters round these parts.
Void left by ban on key metal from Russia can’t be filledCurbs on palladium exports by Moscow could have devastating effects on global markets
South African producers will not be able to make up for a possible reduction in the supply of key commodities from Russia, primarily palladium and other platinum group metals. This was announced on Thursday by South African media firm SABC, citing the director of the largest mining company, Sibanye-Stillwater, Neil Froneman.
“Acceleration of projects to expand production is possible, but a significant increase in production will take months and even years,” Froneman said.
He noted that car manufacturers are now trying to replace palladium, which is used in catalytic converters, which convert as much as 90% of the harmful gases in automobile exhaust, with platinum.
READ MORE: Russia to ban foreign trade of certain commodities & raw materials
Russia and South Africa are the world’s largest palladium producers, with a combined market share of 80%, or 5.4 million troy ounces. Russian company Norilsk Nickel produces up to 38% of the world’s palladium as a byproduct of nickel mining.
Palladium prices have skyrocketed 80% this year to all-time highs, as financial sanctions on Russia, which produces 25-30% of global supply, disrupted shipments and worsened a supply shortage.
The Russian government announced on Wednesday it was banning the export of certain commodities and raw materials. The measure was aimed at ensuring Russia’s security amid Ukraine-related sanctions, Moscow explained.
Steve’s Palladium stash looks to be about ready to pay off 😀
(Maybe he can trade his “cat” for a tank of gas 😎
Car manufacturers trying to replace palladium with platinum?
IIRC that’s how palladium got to be so damn expensive in the first place…it became a replacement for platinum!
Found at Anon Conservative:
Russia makes a statement to the UN on US biolab activities in Ukraine which they say were looking at infecting wildlife and letting it carry bioweapons into enemy territory:
What could go wrong?
Well, well, well…Virginia Tech…I would love more of those details
One goes to http://www.startpage.com/ and does a search on NIH grants to Virginia
Polytechnic Institute.
Up pops this website:
NIH Awards by Location and Organization
The award year that shows first is 2006 — but one can change that year.
Scroll down the list of Virginia colleges/universities that got NIH money.
Click on VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INST AND ST UNIV
Up pops a NIH webpage listing “By Organization”
Go over to “Data” and click on that.
Up pops the list of grant awards to Virginia Polytechnic University, with grant titles and amounts of money given.
Start clicking on anything funded by NIH or NIAID.
Just “for fun”, yours truly changed the grant year from 2006 to 2015 and followed the above.
Up pops a slew of grants.
Scrolling down the list, one finds this one:
1R21AI119588-01
“Allosteric regulation of a viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase”
So it would appear that NIAID (Dr. Anthony Fauci) has been funding research at VMI since at least 2006. Some of this research involves RNA used in various methods of replication in the lab, including microRNA.
And get this — a memo from the top brass at VMI about “when and if information on US government-funded research is shared or revealed”:
https://osp.vt.edu/news/2020/research-funded-nih-disclosure-foreign-support.html
Brilliant catch. Might be worth archiving those nuggets you’ve found because TPTB (Faust-Xi, et. al.) might lock them down… sigh… As if Elsevier and the other GEB paysites weren’t bad enough… 😡
VMI is Virginia Military Institute.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) is Virginia Tech.
Hokie hi
Thank you for catching my typo!
https://www1.usgs.gov/coopunits/unitCooperator/Virginia
VPI specializes in remote sensing of bats in caves, for bat conservation, of course.
https://www1.usgs.gov/coopunits/project/41826205697/colemanl
And also bat sonar, for drone navagation. See link posted.
More on research at VT:
https://cmi.vt.edu/Projects/projects_SpeciesAtRisk/Bat_Research.html
One of the affiliated researchers was a fellow at Oak Ridge.
DING DING DING
Holding U.S. Treasurys? Beware: Uncle Sam Can’t Account For $21 Trillion (forbes.com)
Wasn’t there something about 9/11 and data on trillions going missing?
September 11: Where is the missing $2.3 trillion?
The office that was auditing the “loss” of the money was destroyed in the “attack.”
A trillion here, and a trillion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money…
(to paraphrase Sen. Dirksen)…
(except it’s not real, it’s fiat, and SEVERELY diluted, thinner by the second)…
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Interesting sentence.
Seems logical at first glance, right?
The “does not allow to control ‘the further development’ of the situation” is a dead giveaway.
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what if the true goal of such a thing was to force “transhumanism” and GMO anything upon the world as the solution to such a crisis…
…when $$$ and control are the real aims?
What if the goal was to “destabilize the epidemiological situation” (ie. create a ‘good’ crisis) because the intent was to “never let a ‘good’ crisis go to waste”…
…and whomever destabilized the situation did so in order to gain in profit, power, and control from doing so…because they have the gene-altering patents, etc. to “re-stabilize the situation”?
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THIS IS THE TRUE EVIL OF COVID19 AND ALL THAT STEMS FROM IT.
With that link given in the article I found that if one changes the .ru to .com the various instructions can be seen in English but the actual material remains in foreign.
One of pages has English written across the bottom of the page…
“This project has received funding from the German Biosecurity Programme”
As has Antifa (OK, not from that program, but from the German government, in any case. SPD, Die Linke, Greens all support and fund Antifa! )…
…”The project is being implemented with the involvement of not only Ukrainian, but also Georgian biological laboratories controlled by the Pentagon in cooperation with the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and the US Geological Survey.”…
Bat research at VT:
https://vtx.vt.edu/articles/2017/04/ictas-dynamicbatsonar.html
And this at Ft. Drum:
https://vtx.vt.edu/articles/2014/05/052914-cnre-batsoundstudy.html
https://derekdemars.com/2020/11/10/the-seven-seals-the-four-horsemen-of-the-apocalypse-rev-6/
“…evil is its own punishment…”
And in case we forget how we got here in regards to Ukraine there is this this article.
Calling Russia’s Attack ‘Unprovoked’ Lets U.S. Off the Hook
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https://scheerpost.com/2022/03/06/calling-russias-attack-unprovoked-lets-u-s-off-the-hook/?fbclid=IwAR06MyTtFYpiBpINu9nRj-2nhG7xPF-Ep_rACYEd0NNboHU0w9ZPaaLtv1A
Comments are good too. In fact they serve as an excellent summary.
This one needs to say Joe instead of Jerry….
http://ghosthat.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Issue214-7-17-14.gif
We’re not there yet… II Thessalonians…
The US Needs To Unleash Its Full Energy Potential – JunkScience.com
Either says “CNN” or “Prop Department”…
It’s been a long time since I defused one (as in never, LOL), but they look pretty casual and have no protective gear…🤔
When I go to natural gas pumping stations they make you wear fire resistive clothing. If the place blew up, they would not find your dog tags. Same with this, suit or no suit.
Having observed public school teaching/testing materials for 25 years . . . this is not a joke.
Yep!
Something like this (oh, for the good old MAGA days!!! )….
So 40 GOP senators gave a letter to Biden urging him to send the MIGs. Ron Johnson is on that list and Kennedy from LA. But what the hell happened to Josh Hawley?
Uniparty, IS THE PROBLEM.
Despite the fact that doing so would have Slow Joe starting a full blown hot war with Russia. A pesky little detail that, for some unfathomable reason, both of those guys were seemingly not concerned.
Slow Joe is a lot of bad things but in this case, he did the right thing saying no.
40 R-Cons NOT concerned with WW III closer to reality.
In the past, I fully expected D-Rats to act like this.
Recent years, my disgust with “Republicans” is ON PAR with D-Rats.
They ALL SUCK.
Creepy didn’t do it because it’s the right thing to do, he did it because he’s scared of Putin.
The mid-term thrashing will just be an opportunity for these hideous people to stick their finger to the wind, play the game, and act like they’re all for doing the right thing. Men without chests, all of them. But the Hawley thing is particularly stunning. Wonder what they have on him, or who he sold out to.
The support for the Ukraine thing is all positive politically. Politicians going to politician.
Political or not, it IS stoopid, from an America First perspective.
I know. I think I found the problem.
😂🤣😅
Unpacked….
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
First image from Webb scope:
The color scheme?
Evil isn’t always dressed in black. It comes with rainbows and unicorns, too.
One is fiction.
The ESA said it was this 😀
(doggone Euros, always get it wrong)
Dr. John Campbell has been red-pilled – The Burning Platform
This is excellent.
Thanks Jim.
Steve,
I think you (and anyone reading your posts) would better served to mock the CCP in your OPs rather than the Chinese as a whole. There is a big difference between ignorance and knowing intent (ie. the chinese people vs. their govt).
FACT: the majority of chinese are NOT an enemy to Americans, just as a majority of Americans are NOT an enemy to Chinese people.
The real enemy is the CCP…the ruling regime of China, and those within it….not the people of China per se.
In truth, there are hundreds of millions of chinese who hate their own govt…the ruling regime.
Another fact…
China boasts the fastest growing growth rate of christianity in the world. And this is EXCELLENT news, not just for them, but for the entire world.
All of which is to say….
In your openers, I think it is right to mock the CCP….the ruling regime of China…
…but mocking all of the people of China and their history is not something I think you want to be doing.
If we need allies inside china, among them….and we do….mocking their collective history as a people is shooting ourselves right in the proverbial foot.
All of the same may be said of us Americans, too, if the shoe were on the other foot.
As it is, your posts are great, but this small change would make them shine like the diamonds I think you want them to be.
Fwiw and just my $.02
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Good point. Same thing with folks living in Germany, and the German people, as opposed to the GEBs (Globalist Evil Bastiges) running the country with neither our vote nor our assent… the current coalition is led by the Greens tail wagging the German (and European) dog. And the two “C” parties (CDU and CSU) aren’t even IN the leadership coalition, despite having almost tied the SPD for the most votes, at around 24%. The Greens, on the other hand, only got 14% of the vote, less than one third of the CDU/CSU plus the SPD, yet the GREENS ARE RUNNING THE SHOW!!! 😡 😡 😡 😡
Seems we proles the world over are getting robbed, plundered, and now, poisoned with BillyGhoul Gates’ clot shots…
If “they” need “we, the people” divided in order to retain power and control (and they do), then…
….WE need to stop playing THEIR games of division.
And this is true at all levels….local, state, national…
…and international.
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For example…
Biden says, “We need to be sending arms into Ukraine.”
He means America. But what he really means is “his administration”. He is CO-OPTING the “we” to pretend the nation supports his policy decision.
Well, the real “we” needs to stop letting govts and corporations away with this.
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And WE fall into that trap all too easily, as Steve does in the beginning of his opener.
And I am guilty of doing this very thing. I need to be FAR more careful. Perhaps we all do.
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Here they have demonstrations, called Späzierung (walkabouts), that are getting bigger by the week; but the gubmint couldn’t care less. What’s needed is for the people to engage in (at least what used to be) the French National Sport: A GENERAL STRIKE.
Shut everything down.
That’s the ONLY thing that can get the attention of the Horses’ A$$es in Berlin and Brussels… Would be fascinating to see the Reichstag go dark on a day other than Earth Day…
Almost seems as if compliance and timidity are being bred or fed into the sheeple of today, and the propaganda vomited out in the schools and YSM/MCM doesn’t help… and the dead/dying EKD (Evangelical Church of Germany) and the Catholic Church here are just as bad… politically-driven conformists… CINOs, as it were…
Almost seems as ifFixed.
Now I know where my Thermos went… one of those schiffty critters nicked it… (and here, all along I thought they were shiftless crooks)…..
I see what you did there…😁
I don’t think I’d want it back from the COVID guy…just sayin’.
If he’s got my old Thermos, which I last saw/washed about 20 years ago, it might well kill him off 😆
The cure for COVID! In your garage!
Wow….
Maybe I’d win an igNobel prize 🙂
Are you saying you work at Propaganda Inc.?
😉
Oh, goodness no!!!
It’s just that they both seem to have nicked my green Thermos, which I haven’t seen in 20 years or so (I REALLY need to clean out the garage 🙂 )…
And, as the weather warms up, the honey-do list grows ever longer… sooner or later it will have “garage” listed on it…
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Re-read that sentence very, very carefully.
After Poland brilliantly showcased the hypocrisy and idiocy of the Biden regime to the entire world…after the US military said such a handover would be a “high risk” step that could ratchet up tensions with Russia and risk direct military conflict…
…42 GOP senators sent this letter to the Biden WH.
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The eight GOP senators who did not sign the letter to Joe Biden to send MIGs to Ukraine were:
Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma;
Bill Hagerty of Tennessee;
Jerry Moran of Kansas;
Rand Paul of Kentucky;
Mike Rounds of South Dakota;
Mike Lee of Utah;
Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming; and
Roy Blunt of Missouri.
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Paging Ted Cruz…
Josh Hawley signed it.
So did John Kennedy.
I know. And that’s disconcerting indeed. That’s one reason why I am highlighting this.
What the…
RINO’s on this list and the supposedly non-RiNO’s sign it?
I suspect the list of RINOs becomes different when you consider domestic as opposed to foreign policy.
We’re suddenly dealing with a foreign mess here, rather than a domestic one as has been the case for several years.
So now the Rs that agreed with you on domestic policy, but all along disagreed on foreign policy but you just didn’t know it, become RINOs. And vice versa. Ones you knew were RINOs suddenly decide to be right just for once.
Saudi Arabia on Saturday executed 81 people convicted of crimes ranging from killings to belonging to militant groups, the largest known mass execution carried out in the kingdom in its modern history.
An announcement by Saudi state television described those executed as having“followed the footsteps of Satan”in carrying out their crimes…(Luciferians?)
Something tells we will see more of this soon.
https://http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/saudi-arabia-puts-81-to-death-in-its-largest-mass-execution/ar-AAUYTUT
MSN
With everyone interested in the topic talking about Ukraine and understanding that it is NOT a part of NATO…a key point of the entire discussion…
…ladies and gentlemen, I present…
….the democrat’s Vice President:
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From the comments:
”If she dug a hole the width of the bar 10 ft deep and put the bar in it, she’d still trip over it.”
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The real problem is she is not that stupid. But lofos supporting the WH idiocy are, and THAT is who she is speaking to.
There is no excuse for this. She has one job…
Multiple **** jobs got her to where she’s presently at……..
Aubergine’s Razor…
Apparently she was just warming up…
https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1502661982813532171?s=20&t=JYDoJRa-wyX9nxEQdGCorw
Oh wait!
We have a bonus meme retweeted from Rick, cause he can!
https://twitter.com/HomoConch/status/1502320190037663749?s=20&t=JYDoJRa-wyX9nxEQdGCorw
Unpacked….
(more)
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I no longer think this is “real”. I don’t believe she is this stupid. Truth is, she is EXCEPTIONALLY good at pretending to be stupid…
…or, as SD so accurately points out about liberals in general…
…she is exceptionally good at pretending not to know things, which folks like us very UNWISELY label as “stupidity”.
It’s not stupidity. It’s an act.
And a very evil act, at that.
We call this “stupid” at our own peril.
🤨
“Stupid” is easily dismissed. True evil would LOVE to be dismissed as mere stupidity. Stupid is a cover for true evil. “Insane” is another cover for evil. True evil would love to plea “insanity” or “stupidity” in a court of law in order to avoid responsibility and accountability.
Reread that.
Yup. She didn’t answer the question, and she did it very consciously.
https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/umm-are-we-the-baddies?s=r
Yes, I recall a few here view Johnstone as “progressive” … I don’t. I followed her articles on Dubya’s attacks on Iraq, and found her to be right on the money…
In this piece she speaks of the “hate” narrative against Russians… the people, the culture… not simply Putin or the RF gov’t…
… reminiscent of campaign against Jewry and Jews themselves … if you were alive then and afterwards, you may be recognizing it also… or not.
Oh, you mean like the very thing I was pointing out to Steve above? How “they” need to divide us to retain the power and control….and “we” fall for it all too easily with careless languaging?
Hmmmm. 🤔
Adverse Reactions to COVID Vaccines I Have Come Across
https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/adverse-reactions-to-covid-vaccines?s=r
This is an account from an anonymous doctor of post-vaccination illnesses and deaths he has observed and that people he knows have told him about. It is an exhaustive list. It tells me the medical establishment is, at the very least, not curious about the increasing incidences of certain conditions, and worse, is ignoring them for whatever reason. Whatever the case, the people are not being served; they are being served up.
These two particularly struck me because I know someone who had a near-fatal abdominal aneurism. He coded several times, but thankfully has recovered. I don’t know his vaccination status but suspect he is vaxxed because he and his wife were very cautious about COVID. He is a slender, active, non-smoking, healthy 61-year-old, and this came out of the blue. I immediately suspected the vax, but people have to come to the realization on their own terms.
Problem with modern medicine. They look at the symptom, follow the manual that says, do this surgery, or issue this drug. Root cause analysis is not on the agenda. Curing people is not profitable. And for those that may care, asking pesky questions regarding vax reactions may impact job security.
Finally this has been exsposed to the ones paying attention, unfortunately there’s still many buying what their selling.
Many Dr.’s are not your friend, well maybe. But they see dollar signs every time you you make an appointment.
Exactly!
The US and Ukraine were the ONLY two countries to vote AGAINST the following UN Resolution … 12/16/2020
Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2020
https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/3894841
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Craft
One wonders if the two countries’ votes were for different reasons; i.e. the US didn’t want any ham-handed measures enacted that would end up doing the opposite of that for which they were intended, while Ukraine was just protecting its (and perhaps the “five guys” (Hunter, and the other Jrs) interests (not to mention “the big
sleepy creepyguy”…..Maybe, but I was thinking it was this.
These guys are all over the news as the great defenders of Ukraine. They also have made appearances in the US and Hong Kong. We’ve featured multiple stories of their various involvements here also. LIke it or not, the Bidenese have found themselves in bed with these guys.
Azov Battalion
azov.org.ua
The Azov Special Operations Detachment, also known as the Azov Detachment, Azov Regiment, Azov Battalion, or simply Azov, is a right-wing extremist, neo-Nazi, formerly paramilitary unit of the National Guard of Ukraine, based in Mariupol, in the Azov Sea coastal region.Wikipedia
Active:
5 May 2014 – present
Country:
Ukraine
Branch:
National Guard of Ukraine
Kelly was a Bush appointee as Ambassador to Canada before Trump appointed her to UN…what so many Americans STILL don’t understand is 95% of Washington DC is CORRUPT… Trump didn’t have a large pool to choice from. Same situation today with alll of Zero’s NeoCons back … and those same folks running Ukraine then, and now. I am inclined to believe the two voted NO for the SAME reason.
Thanks Steve for a short & sweet post, theoretically helping me in my never-ending catch up reading endeavors! Hope all is well with you & Darwin! Blessings 🙂
Expect changes soon. A couple of distractions just ended.
Whatever you offer to the Wolf Pack is absolutely worth it! I’m in the midst of many distractions so not keeping up so well around here in this season of change…
h/t Citizen Free Press, “new video from Team Trump”: 🔥
https://twitter.com/kooom911/status/1502140036883570688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1502140036883570688%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcitizenfreepress.com%2Fbreaking%2Fnew-video-from-team-trump%2F
Praise Report: Hubby has completed the first week of Truck Driving School & passed the school’s tests & the state’s to get his CDL permit!!!
We are super relieved since this was a very intensive front-loaded book-learning portion of the training. Everyone in his class passed (one person had to re-test first) & the school’s administration was so pleased they’re throwing his class a pizza party Monday.
He finally got some direct experience w/ truck-driving yesterday as they learn the many aspects of “pre-flight” checking & parking maneuvers before getting on the road. His friend, who started this school a few weeks ahead of Michael, only just got out on the open road this past week. He’s got at least 3 more weeks of training likely.
God is good (of course) & helping us navigate the ups & downs of this abrupt lifestyle change…
We’re praying that the Lord leads him to the “perfect” fit employment quickly after completing his training & getting his CDL-A license. He’s planning to get Haz-Mat & tanker truck certification & potentially pursue a lead for a local fuel company where he has a foot in the door via a former co-worker’s wife. We ran into them the other day in the store & she said she could basically guarantee him an interview & she claims to love this company that she’s worked for for many years…Interesting times abound!
👏🎉
Excellent, many people have to go through the school multiple times to get their permits.
Yikes–Maybe that’s why the school administration is throwing his class that pizza party! I’ll have to let him know that…Thx 🙂
This is great news!
Yes, we are Very Thankful!!!
This is called a “heavy check”.
In essence, the whole plane undergoes an intensive inspection from tip to tail, right on down to the airframe itself. Every rivet, nut, bolt, and upwards from there gets a look. Basically, they take the whole thing apart and put it back together, although in reality it is done in pieces and sections.
Anything damaged, warped, bent, showing wear, fatigue, stress, etc is recorded, catalogued, then repaired or replaced. At the end of a heavy check the owner is essentially getting a brand new airplane.
During a heavy check is also a great time to do equipment upgrades such as avionics, engines, new systems, new interiors or mods to same, etc.
Trump Force 1 is getting ready for some grueling flight schedules this summer and fall.
😎
FG&C, thanks for this post.
good to know,
….equipment upgrades….like altimeters that can’t be goofed by 5G cellphones….
Freedom of the press is not the issue.
Their bias and lies are the issues.
Censorship is an issue on social media, whether or not that is “the press.”
True, but big tech can’t censor the media, and the only reason big tech is getting away with it’s censorship is because the media is on big tech’s side.
Big tech can stop anything that travels through the net, can dink with the root servers (e.g. “timestamp” or “certificate” issues which aren’t), or can bork or copy storage, e.g. AWS (Amazon’s Cloud).
There’s a TON of things they can do, both openly, and behind our backs. And the various CDNs (content delivery networks) are only the tip of the iceberg… Sad but true. The more the “Internet of Things” expands (as in idIOT), the tighter its grip becomes.
I can’t figure out why people would want things automated to the point that they get emails telling them that their dryer is on fire, the washing machine has flooded the (same) room, and the oven lost its bet with the fridge over what dinner would have been….
And people just (seemingly) beg for more, like college students lapping up cheap beer (e.g. the Beer that Made Bud Wiser) (just bought a kiste of the real Budweiser, Budvar – if it doesn’t freeze in the car overnight it should be cold and bold tomorrow)…
Quick update: it didn’t freeze (5.0% alcohol helps), and it was QUITE cold when I brought it in this morning 🙂
bottle:
kiste (20 bottles, 10 litres total):
Sharyl Attkisson: List of Ukraine biolab documents reportedly removed by US Embassy
It is a list of archived files.
Here’s the first one:
Kharkiv Diagnostic Laboratory Kharkiv Oblast Laboratory Center Pomirky region, Kharkiv
Fact Sheet
“Follow the pen.”
Nice to see an Attkisson post. I fear we have not followed her closely enough.
The Blues are cruisin’, DP.
Justin Biebers’s 25yr old wife, mild stroke from a brain bleed. At least the commenters get that it’s from the JAB. SMDH
Hailey Bieber is hospitalized for a brain-related ‘medical emergency’ | Daily Mail Online
CLOT SHOT
is also the
STROKE POKE
is also the
SLAB JAB
More attempts to cause food shortages?
h/t Anonymous Conservative:
Nearly 2.8 million birds (mostly chickens and turkeys) have died in the first month of America’s raging new bird flu pandemic. Again, what are the chances that just as everything is going short, suddenly we have a bird flu outbreak wipe out chickens and turkeys. And note below, the story about the Russians finding out that one of the major areas of study of our biolabs is how to use bird and animal migrations to move pandemics across a battlespace.
People starving and scrounging for food don’t have the time and energy to protest.
And if they do protest, it greatly increases the chances for violence, which gives those in power the excuse to invoke things like emergency powers.
Never let a “good” crisis go to waste, esp. one you can manufacture yourself.
The evil we are watching unfold is easily on par with the 3rd Reich’s.
No caption needed…..
YUP. There you go. THAT is the reality.
Great Game India (a really good site for international news that won’t play on Soviet CNN) has the low-down on the bio labs in Ukraine, and it’s not pretty.
Jordan McClung
@JordanMcClung
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(In case you didn’t know… there you go…)
So 30 Bioweapons Labs Were Commissioned By Pentagon In Ukraine to destroy Russia.
Biological laboratiries in Lvov were conducting work with infectious agents of plague, anthrax, and brucellosis, while the labs in Kharkov and Poltava were working with infectious agents of diphtheria, salmonellosis, and dysentery.
https://greatgameindia.com/pentagon-commissioned-bioweapons-labs-ukraine/
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DAYUM!!
WHO’s gone first…..
And that’s no joke…
Why not. Taiwan, you are next.
https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1502789490707947532?s=20&t=s3Xm6UqFEtB6nHJyhKg5jg
Weakness. SO predictable.
The lid was called, BiteMe’s nappy time in the basement.
BiteMe may learn of this, after his morning ice cream cone.
Speaking of “Who’s Next”, here’s a gem by Tom Lehrer from 1967… history repeating itself…
From Gab.
THIS is a rare find for us commie-hunters.
Jussie Smollett’s GRANDMOTHER showed up for his sentencing and made a statement.
Classic RED DIAPER.
[video src="https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/101/307/226/original/e52c126ed01d47f7.mp4" /]
Yes. She seemed brazen to me, pointing at and addressing the judge like that, in a situation that called for humility. His siblings believe him 100% and I expect tirades about racism and social justice from them. I wonder how they would answer valid questions about his story, which is complete bull💩.
For that matter, I wonder how he answered them. The only thing I heard was that he supposedly didn’t recognize the brothers who attacked him.
This shows the core of what we are up against. Bolshevism has really done a lot of damage to Judaism, clearly a lot to Catholicism, and is working hard on the Protestants now.
Diaper-level Bolshevism teaches children the idea that activism is above all of the commandments, all of the virtues, and all of the warnings of vices.
It is a very intentional fire lit under humanity.
Alec Baldwin is blaming his victim, Halyna Hutchins, for her death. He is lower than earthworms.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/halyna-hutchins-bears-partial-responsibility-death-baldwin-claims-ghoulish-new-court-filing/
So according to Baldwin, he bore no responsibility at all. He was not responsible for checking the gun. He is not to be held accountable for failing to follow the most fundamental rules, that “every gun is loaded” and to not point a gun at anything you don’t intend to shoot — which every responsible gun owner knows.
There were witnesses. It will be interesting to see if they back up what Baldwin claims.
What a mess.
What, it was a case of “suicide by actor”? (Similar to “suicide by cop”.)
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