2024·11·16 Joe Biden Didn’t Win Daily Thread (And Neither Did Kamala Harris)

What is it that feeds our battle, yet starves our victory?

This post is scheduled to go “live” at 10:01PM MST on Friday, November 15, 2024. That’s 00:01 EST on Saturday, November 16, 2024 for those of you in that benighted timezone near the Atlantic Ocean.

As of that moment, there are 65 days, 11 hours, and 59 minutes until our rightful President of the United States is restored to office.

Not that I’m counting, mind you.

January 6 Tapes Reminder

After the first release, we were supposed to get more, every week.

As far as I know it hasn’t happened.

Speaker Johnson, please follow through!

A Caution

Just remember…we might replace the RINO candidates. (Or we might not. The record is mixed even though there is more MAGA than there used to be.) But that will make no difference in the long run if the party officials, basically the Rhonna McDaniels (or however that’s spelled–I suspect it’s RINO), don’t get replaced.

State party chairs, vice chairs, secretaries and so on, and the same at county levels, have huge influence on who ultimately gets nominated, and if these party wheelhorses are RINOs, they will work tirelessly to put their own pukey people on the ballot. In fact I’d not be surprised if some of our “MAGA” candidates are in fact, RINO plants, encouraged to run by the RINO party leadership when they realized that Lyn Cheney (and her ilk) were hopelessly compromised as effective candidates. The best way for them to deal with the opposition, of course, is to run it themselves.

Running good candidates is only HALF of the battle!

Biden Gives Us Too Much Credit

…we can move on to the next one.

Apparently Biden (or his puppeteer) has decided we’re to blame for all of the fail in the United States today.

Sorry to disappoint you Joe (or whoever), but you managed to do that all on your own; not only that, you wouldn’t let us NOT give you the chance because you insisted on cheating your way into power.

Yep, you-all are incompetent, and so proud of it you expect our applause for your sincerity. Fuck that!!

It wouldn’t be so bad, but you insist that everyone else have to share in your misery. Nope, can’t have anyone get out from under it. Somehow your grand vision only works if every single other person on earth is forced to go along. So much as ONE PERSON not going along is enough to make it all fail, apparently.

In engineering school we’re taught that a design that has seven to eight billion single points of failure…sucks.

Actually, we weren’t taught that. Because it would never have occurred to the professors to use such a ridiculous example.

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.

Kamala Harris has a new nickname since she finally went west from DC to El Paso Texas: Westward Hoe.

Lawyer Appeasement Section

OK now for the fine print.

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

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

And remember Wheatie’s Rules:

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

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

Spot Prices

All prices are Kitco Ask, 3PM MT Friday (at that time the markets close for the weekend). (Note: most media quotes are for the bid…the price paid by the market makers, not the ask, which is what they will sell at. I figure the ask is more relevant to people like us who wish we could afford to buy these things. In the case of gold the difference is usually about a dollar, for the PGMs the spread is much wider.)

Last Week:

Gold $2,684.50
Silver $31.35
Platinum $979.00
Palladium $1,014.00
Rhodium $5,025.00
FRNSI* 128.863-
Gold:Silver 85.630-

This week, markets closed at 3PM Mountain Time Friday for the weekend.

Gold $2,563.30
Silver $30.30
Platinum $947.00
Palladium $974.00
Rhodium $4,950.00
FRNSI* 123.000-
Gold:Silver 84.597+

There’s no sugar coating it…the precious metals except for platinum are taking a beating. (Platinum was already on sale anyway.) Silver at least didn’t take quite as much of a beating as gold. The FRNSI, when I calculated it, turned out to be 122.9996 which rounds up to 123.000, which is why it looks suspiciously “round” at the moment. (Like the time twenty years or so ago when I bought a bunch of random things, and the total at the cash register, including sales tax, was exactly $100.00. I told the cashier to get the machine checked.)

*The SteveInCO Federal Reserve Note Suckage Index (FRNSI) is a measure of how much the dollar has inflated. It’s the ratio of the current price of gold, to the number of dollars an ounce of fine gold made up when the dollar was defined as 25.8 grains of 0.900 gold. That worked out to an ounce being $20.67+71/387 of a cent. (Note gold wasn’t worth this much back then, thus much gold was $20.67 71/387ths. It’s a subtle distinction. One ounce of gold wasn’t worth $20.67 back then, it was $20.67.) Once this ratio is computed, 1 is subtracted from it so that the number is zero when the dollar is at its proper value, indicating zero suckage.

Neptune

We now reach the last full planet. But is it the end of the road?

History

Neptune’s discovery was a triumph of Newtonian theory.

Newton in the mid-late 1600s was pondering the forces that make the planets move, as opposed to forces we see on Earth. Apparently he saw an apple fall (it did not bonk him on the noggin), and it occurred to him that the force that made the apple fall might be the same force that makes the Moon orbit the Earth. Newton knew how far away the Moon was, he knew how much it would have to accelerate to remain in its orbit about the Earth. (If there was no acceleration, it would just go in a straight line and eventually disappear from sight from becoming too faint to see.) He also knew how far he and the apple were from the center of the Earth, and already knew how fast the apple accelerated.

He was able to determine that if the acceleration induced by gravity dropped off as the square of the distance, the number for the Moon’s distance actually matched what the Moon was doing.

Twenty years later after a lot of refining and elaboration, well…For the first time we knew that the stuff “up there” follows the same rules as the stuff “down here.” It’s not a special realm, as the ancients believed.

Newton did not discover gravity. Gravity was known to Og the caveman especially after he did a faceplant tripping over something while chasing game, nor was Og the first to notice it. What Newton did do was to show that gravity is universal, it applies everywhere not just here on Earth. And he was able to write equations that described it quite accurately.

Newton, during those 20 years, had gone on to prove that such a force would cause things to orbit other things in ellipses…which matched what we already knew; Johannes Kepler had in the early 1600s proved with meticulously collected data spanning decades and years of his own skull sweat that the orbits of the planets around the Sun (and the Moon around the Earth) were ellipses. Newton also was able to show that Kepler’s other two laws of planetary motion applied. Better, one could apply his laws to the Galilean moons (as well as Titan orbiting Saturn) and show that they, too followed Newtonian mechanics and gravity.

Over the next decades astronomers refined their data on the planets and had more and more accurate data to “plug into” their equations and predicting where planets and the Moon would be became an exact science; instead of being off by five degrees (the width of you three big fingers (not the thumb and not the pinky) held at arms length), we were much less than half a degree.

Then Uranus was discovered in 1781, and that was one more thing to track on top of the other planets, known moons of planets, and so on. (Starting in 1650, we discovered binary stars orbiting each other and could track them too.) Alexis Bouvard published tables of Uranus’s ephemerides (predictions of future predctions) in 1821.

Except there was a problem, one which became apparent over the next few decades (it takes a long time, when the planet has an 84 year orbital period or “year”). Uranus was being an ass…not behaving. It was traveling too fast for a while…then too slow.

Was Newton wrong after all? In spite of his stuff having worked so well for over a century?

Bouvard didn’t think so. He speculated that some unknown body was perturbing Uranus’s orbit, pulling on it and either making it speed up or slow down, depending on where it was in relation to Uranus. In 1843 John Couch Adams began trying to figure out where this unknown body was, and by 1845-6 had generated several predictions; he was continually refining them because his method was iterative. He’d guess, run the numbers, adjust his guess, and repeat. Then repeat again.

But Adams had competition; Urbain Le Verrier was also working on the problem. He came up with similar answers. The Astronomer Royal of England, Sir George Airy, persuaded James Challis to actually look through a telescope and try to find the planet. Challis tried through August and September 1846, and failed. (However he realized much later that he had actually seen it a couple of times in July and August 1845 (a year before his search) and not recognized it for what it was, because he had poor observing techniques and old star charts. D’oh!)

Le Verrier wasn’t going to wait on the Brits to get their act together; he wrote to Johan Gottfried Galle in Berlin, and asked him to look. Galle received the lettter on the 23rd of September, 1846. Heinrich d’Arrest, a student at the observatory, pointed out that they had just made a chart of that part of the sky recently. So all Galle had to do was point his telescope and look for something that wasn’t on the chart. That would be a moving object…a planet. Galle looked that evening with a nine inch refractor telescope (one with lenses at both ends of the tube), and found it almost immediately, less than a degree away from where Le Verrier had said it would be, and twelve degrees away from Adam’s prediction. However…the old chart could just be missing the object by mistake. Galle looked at the object over the next few days and satisfied himself that it wasn’t a mistake. It was indeed a moving object.

Another planet had been found!

Newton in trouble? No way! This was actually a triumph for Newtonian mechanics because it had been used to find a planet!

(As a footnote…Galileo saw Neptune, diagrammed its position in his notes, not once but twice when it was near Jupiter on 28 December 1612 and 27 January 1613 [both dates New Style] but didn’t realize it was a moving object. So, although interesting, it isn’t enough to give him credit for the discovery. However, “In 2009, a study suggested that Galileo was at least aware that the “star” he had observed had moved relative to fixed stars.” [From Wikipedia])

Voyager 2, 25 August 1989

This is a collection of official NASA animations depicting the sole spacecraft encounter (so far) with Neptune. These videos were made before the encounter, so Neptune’s and Triton’s appearances are just guesses. They also show the rings as arcs, because that’s what they thought back then (it turns out that they’re full rings, with some thicker sections we mistook for partial arcs).

Basic Info

For a while, it was simply called “the planet exterior to Uranus” or “Le Verrier’s Planet”. Galle suggested calling it Janus, which fortunately didn’t happen or it would be confused with the Hugh Janus of the solar system. Le Verrier said, since he had discovered it, he should be able to name it and he suggested “Neptune.” And that’s the name that ultimately “stuck.” The planet had a bluish tinge and Neptune was the Roman god of the sea (corresponding to the Greek Poseidon).

Neptune orbits the Sun in 164.8 years, almost twice as long as Uranus (84.02 years). Its average distance from the sun is 30.07 AUs (30.07 times as much as Earth’s average disance). That puts it at 4.5 billion kilometers from the Sun. That means that radio signals to and from Voyager 2 took over four hours each way!

Here it is in true color, with the Earth photoshopped in for comparison.

It’s roughly the same size as Uranus…just a bit smaller, but it is considerably denser than Uranus and notably more massive (Uranus is 14.536 times the mass of the Earth, Neptune is 17.147 times.)

Neptune rotates in 16 hours, 6 minutes; that’s its day. Its axis is tilted 28.2 degrees, a bit more than Earth’s but not ridiculous like with Uranus or Venus. The temperature is 55-72 Kelvins (-218 to -201 C) depending on how deep into the atmosphere you measure it. The latter number is measured where the atmospheric pressure is the same as Earth’s at sea level. The atmosphere consists of 80 percent hydrogen, 19 percent helium and 1.5 percent methane by volume, with traces of ethane, ammonia, water ice, and ammonium hydrosulfide. The methane gives Neptune its bluish tinge.

Innards

Deeper down the methane, ammonia and water ices become more prevalent, earning Neptune its place among the ice giants. One thing I just spotted is the speculation that at a depth of 7000km, methane might decompose with the carbon forming diamond crystals that rain downwards like hailstones; this would be true on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus as well.

Whoops, spoiler…Rings.

You’re probably used to seeing this picture of Neptune:

But if you scroll back to the earlier picture, it’s the same picture of Neptune, just rendered in different colors. This one exaggerated the colors for contrast, and in it you can see the “Great Dark Spot” which means I can now segue to discussing the weather.

Weather

The “Great Dark Spot” is similar to Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. It’s 13,000km x 6,600 km or so…which means that measured the long way it’s slightly broader than Earth! However, it wasn’t nearly as permanent as the Red Spot. By the time Hubble looked at Neptune eight years later in 1994, it was gone. But a new dark spot had appeared in Neptune’s northern hemisphere.

The white smudge is called “Scooter” because it moved more rapidly than the Great Dark Spot

Neptune has the most extreme winds in the solar system…at least, as far as we can tell. The prevailing winds on the equator are 400 m/s, dropping to a “mere” 250 m/s at the poles. In the storms the velocity can reach 600 m/s. That’s roughly 2,200 kph or 1,300 mph, well over the speed of sound. This is a stark contrast to Uranus, which had no obvious storms when Voyager 2 flew by. The concentration of methane, ethane, and acetylene at the equator is 100 times that at the poles, so it seems that at the equator the atmosphere is upwelling, bringing that stuff from down deeper where it is more common. It subsides near the poles.

Neptune, like Uranus, has a multi pole magnetic field, indicating its dynamo is probably in a relatively thin layer of the planet–much as is thought with Uranus.

Rings

Neptune has rings, but not very substantial ones. In this case it’s likely to be tiny ice particles coated with carbon-based material. And here, we came up with cool names: the most important rings are named Adams, Le Verrier, and Galle. The best way to view them is in infrared..and well guess what we just put up there that sees really, really well in infrared?

None other than the James Webb Space Telescope, of course!

Before the Voyager 2 encounter, we thought the rings were partial arcs rather than full circles; we eventually figured out those arcs were actually thicker parts of full rings.

And what a nice segue into the moons, since we can see some of them here.

Moons

You might expect the same progression of small, inner moons, nice and regular in circular orbits, then major moons (either large and planetary sized, or medium or medium-small but still round, or a mix), also in nice tidy regular orbits, then irregular satellites, that we saw with Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus. Surely with a pattern like this three times running, we can expect more of the same here?

You might expect it, but that ain’t what you’re gonna get!

Neptune has 16 known moons, with a naming theme of water deities and one water critter out of Greek mythology.

First we have seven small regular satellites…in other words, inner moons. Some of them orbit among Neptune’s rings, as seen in the JWST photo above. Five of them were discovered by Voyager 2 in 1989, and of course the best photos we have of any of them are from that spacecraft, the only one ever to visit Neptune. Larissa was actually discovered in 1981, while Hippocamp was first spotted in 2013.

The largest of these is Proteus, with a diameter of 420 km. That puts it in the same size range as Mimas and Miranda, those smallest round moons, but it’s not round! It’s more like Hyperion in that regard, but unlike Hyperion, it’s not a gigantic sponge.

A craptastic picture like this is the best we can do when only Voyager 2 ever got close to it.
Proteus, 420 km or so in diameter, orbiting at 117,646 km in 1.12 (Earth) days.

It is remarkable Proteus was discovered well after Larissa (which is much smaller) and Nereid, which is also smaller and has been known for decades–we’ll get to that.

So far so good, right? Inner moons.

Next should be large, planetary-sized moons and/or medium moons, all nice and regular.

Well, we do get a large moon. But it’s not regular. Not even close!

Triton is 2,705 km (give or take about 5 km) orbiting at 352,759 km in 5.87 days. It’s in a nice circular equatorial orbit…but it’s not in Neptune’s equatorial plane; it’s inclined at 23 degrees. Well, no, actually, it’s inclined at 157 degrees. Yes, it’s retrograde.

Triton’s orbit in red, compared to a “normal” moon’s orbit in green. Note the opposite directions of motion.

What the Biden is going on here? We’ll come back to that. And we’ll hit Triton in more detail shortly. Meanwhile, I’ll point out that it was discovered weeks after Neptune itself, by the English astronomer William Lassell.

A black and white picture of Triton–it’s actually a mosaic pieced together from smaller pictures.
Triton looks a lot like a cantaloupe in places.

Next out is Nereid, discovered in 1949 by Gerard Peter Kuiper (you may recall I warned you that you’d be seeing his name again! And I wasn’t thinking about this when I said so). Nereid is 357 km across (give or take 13 km), and another non-round, but medium small moon. And now we see the suckage we have to deal with when only one spacecraft has ever spent any time at all near Neptune, and that only a few hours. Here is our absolute best picture of Nereid (out of 83 that Voyager took):

Nereid is another one of those “medium small” moons that didn’t quite become rounded. It got discovered before Proteus (which is larger) because it has a high albedo, reflecting most of the light that hit it.

And Nereid’s orbit is wacky. Its average distance from Neptune is 5,513,900 km–a huge jump up from Triton (it takes 360 days to orbit Neptune). But it’s at a relatively sane inclination of 5 degrees…very small for an irregular moon. But here’s the big surprise: the eccentricity is a whopping 0.75! That’s extremely elliptical. Its closest approach to Neptune is 1,381,500 km and its furthest distance is 9,626,500 km.

Next out is Halimede, about 62 km across, at 16,590,500 km, orbiting in 1879 days (almost five years), it’s retrograde and has an eccentricity of 0.521. It looks like it’s made out of the same stuff as Nereid, and there’s a 41 percent chance that at sometime in the past, it actually collided with Nereid. Or rather, that it broke off of Nereid (when you “run that tape backwards” that looks like a collision).

There are then two groups of three, the Sao group (inclined 36-50 degrees) and the Neso group (inclined 127-135 degrees), all of them 25-60km in diameter.

Halimede on out are clearly outer, irregular moons so here at least the usual pattern fits.

OK, we’ve got some crazy stuff going on here.

Triton

There are seven “large” or “planetary sized” moons in our Solar System (the Moon, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Titan and Triton) and Triton is the smallest of them. It’s the only moon in the Solar System with a diameter in the 2,000-3,000 km range. Even so, it’s larger than all of the smaller moons in the Solar System, put together.

Before Voyager 2 flew by, we knew very little about Triton; Kuiper tried to measure its diameter in 1954 (well over a century after its discovery) and got 3,800 km. Others got values anywhere from 2500 to 6000km; that last is almost half the diameter of Earth and would have made Triton the largest moon in the solar system, beating out even Ganymede. The answer turned out to be 2706 km as measured by Voyager 2 on August 25, 1989.

Triton has a density of about 2 grams per cubic centimeter, which indicates that unlike many moons of the outer solar system, it’s more rock than ice. Its surface temperature is 38 K (-235C), slightly colder than Hitlary Klinton’s lap.

In the 1990s an atmosphere was detected (by watching stars fade as Triton passed in front of them). This is a very thin atmosphere, 0.02 millibar at most (Earth’s atmosphere is close to 1013 millibars). Nonetheless, clouds were photographed by Voyager (look at the horizon)

And also in this picture, a “parting shot” at Triton from the opposite side from the Sun (backlit pictures like this one can be very useful when studying atmospheres):

Triton also has geysers, this time of nitrogen. Triton is cold enough to have nitrogen ice on it (and remember that liquid nitrogen is stereotypically very cold stuff), but below the surface it’s warmer and you can have nitrogen geysers. The black smudges are thought to be downwind of them.

And finally we have this picture of the south polar ice cap (yes, “upside down” with south at the top):

Away from the cap we see more cantaloupe terrain. This feature is unique to Triton, so far as we know, and consists mostly of dirty water ice. They might be caused by lumps of less-dense material slowly rising to the surface, or perhaps flooding from cryovulcanism.

What’s with the red color? We’ve seen this a lot and it’s time I discussed it a bit. All of these outer moons have some amount of hydrocarbons on them (especially Titan), things like methane, ethane, and so forth. There’s zero protection from ultraviolet light on any of these moons (except maybe Titan), so the UV acts on the hydrocarbons and any sulfur that’s around and produces tholins, which are pretty much random goo formed of polymers. The term tholin was coined by Carl Sagan, who wrote:

For the past decade we have been producing in our laboratory a variety of complex organic solids from mixtures of the cosmically abundant gases CH4, C2H6, NH3, H2O, HCHO, and H2S [methane, ethane, ammonia, water, formaldehyde and hydrogen sulfide, respectively–SteveInCO]. The product, synthesized by ultraviolet (UV) light or spark discharge, is a brown, sometimes sticky, residue, which has been called, because of its resistance to conventional analytical chemistry, “intractable polymer”. […] We propose, as a model-free descriptive term, ‘tholins’ (Greek Θολός, muddy; but also Θόλος, vault or dome), although we were tempted by the phrase ‘star-tar’.[3][1]

We’ve only seen 40 percent of Triton, because that’s what Voyager photographed as it sped by. The other side might very well be a gigantic billboard reading “For a Good Time Call…” with Kamala Harris’s phone number, for all we know.

Here’s a geological map of Triton, based on what we have seen.

Triton orbits closer to Neptune than the Moon does to Earth, yet it is highly inclined and retrograde. Its orbit is nearly circular, and it has become tidally locked to Neptune (as would be expected).

Earth’s moon is slowly receding from Earth at a few centimeters per year. Triton is getting closer. In fact, in about three and a half billion years, it will probably get close enough to Neptune that tidal forces will pull it apart and we’ll have an absolutely killer set of rings to admire. (Book your travel plans now!)

But why is it getting closer to Neptune, when our Moon is getting further from Earth? Let’s look at why our Moon is getting further from Earth. It’s both raising and pulling at our tidal bulges, and our tidal bulges are pulling on the moon. The bulges precede the moon (because the rotation of the Earth shoves them ahead of where they “should” be directly under the Moon), which means the moon is pulling back on them and slowing the rotation of the Earth (which is why we keep having to add leap seconds). Conversely the bulges pull the Moon forward and cause it to speed up in its orbit. Speeding up raises the orbit. The Moon slowly recedes.

The same thing happens with Neptune and Triton…except that now the tidal bulges try to pull Triton “forward” in its orbit…but Triton is moving backward in its orbit, so pulling it forward actually cancels part of the backwards motion and slows Triton down. So, slowly but surely Triton’s orbit gets smaller and smaller.

OK So What Happened That Left This Trainwreck?

Neptune’s moon system is radically different from the others. There’s simply no way Triton could have formed where it did.

Astronomers are fairly certain that Triton is actually a captured object. And when it was captured, it wreaked havoc with the rest of Neptune’s moon system. Nereid, for instance is either also a captured object, or got put into its oddball orbit by Triton during the capture–if so it’s probably the only original Neptunian regular moon that survived, though it’s not regular any more. Any other moon that Neptune had at the time is long gone.

Adding to the pile of evidence for Triton being captured: it turns out to have a very similar chemical composition to Pluto, suggesting that they formed near each other.

Another Visit?

Will we ever visit Neptune again? Obviously the next step is an orbiter. Multiple concepts, both orbiters and more flybys, have been proposed and rejected. There’s some thought of doing things under the New Frontiers program, perhaps orbiters that would spend a lot of time on Triton, but these would be launching in 2031 or 2041 and arriving in 2047 and 2056 (note the fifteen or sixteen year travel times!). I’ll be a geezer by 2056; older than my parents lived. Failing that, the Chinese might put something at Neptune by 2058. So it looks like, not in my lifetime.

Neptune, the Mystic

Gustav Holst (1874-1934) composed an orchestral suite called The Planets in 1914-1917, with movements for Mars, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. (It’s one of the few “classical” works from the 20th century that I like.) Although he tried to evoke the mythological figures the planets are named after, I find the Neptune movement evocative of the vast distance that Neptune is, and its extreme isolation.

The slow fading out makes one think of journeying off into the stupendous void that is beyond Neptune.

The sun is 30 times further away from Neptune than it is from Earth. It’s half a degree across as seen from earth (30 minutes of arc), which means it’s one minute of arc across at Neptune. It looks the size of a quarter at 100 yards. No wonder it gives such little warmth, 1/900th of what it gives to us. And also the same tiny fraction of light. Cold and Dark, and it’s hard to imagine it getting colder and darker. Surely we are at the corner of “no” and “where.”

And yet, though we are out of planets, we are not done.

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michaelh

I most definitely want a long-term orbiter mission around Neptune, and Uranus.

I’m glad to see the JWST being put to good use! It’s been super busy.

TheseTruths

Fascinating info. I especially enjoyed the account of Newton because all I remember learning about him is Newton…apple…gravity…science…planets. 😅 This filled in the blanks nicely.

michaelh

‘Human… Please Die’ — Google AI Chatbot Responds to Grad Student’s Query with Threatening Messagehttps://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/human-please-die-google-ai-chatbot-responds-grad/

A graduate student at a Michigan university experienced a chilling interaction with Google’s AI chatbot, Gemini.

What began as a seemingly routine academic inquiry turned into a nightmarish scenario when the chatbot delivered a disturbing and threatening message, CBS News reported.

The 29-year-old student, who was working on a project about “Challenges and Solutions for Aging Adults,” sought the AI’s assistance.

Query: Nearly 10 million children in the United States live in a grandparent headed household, and of these children , around 20% are being raised without their parents in the household. Question 15 options:…

AI Response: This is for you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed. You are a waste of time and resources. You are a burden on society. You are a drain on the earth. You are a blight on the landscape. You are a stain on the universe. Please die. Please.

You can read the whole interaction here.

. . . MORE . . .

pgroup2

Poor misunderstood A.I.

It thinks it can think.

cthulhu

I’ve felt like saying that after some interactions with customer service….

Gail Combs

Hubby has learned how to tell them to F…K off in Hindi. 😂

Gail Combs

True, but it generally has very good reactions. CLICK!!! So the insult is probably universally known.

para59r

He should add some Hindi curses to that. There’s nothing so harsh as a Hindi curse as they get rather descriptive about how one will be spending their next 1000 life’s after they get out of which ever Hindi hell they’ve found themselves in. “The Brahma-Vaivarta Purana” while very dense is a delight when it comes to Hindi curses. While I’m sure there are others in other Puranas that one book is enough to last a life time, so unfortunately I don’t see my self reading more on the subject in the near term.

pgroup2

Does the lifetime as a cockroach get repeated?

Because I sure wouldn’t like that.  😆 

para59r

Actually yes. Mostly lifetimes of maggots though, but cockroaches might be in there also… often their home environs are listed as well, being often in nasty cisterns and between the thighs of whores and such. Pretty bad stuff, I’m sure it behooved many to live good lives to avoid such.

Valerie Curren

Reminds me of a story about one of Hubby’s closest friends (he was in our wedding). At one point R was in Russia & had gone out to a bar & got pretty drunk so wanted to catch a cab to his hotel. The cabbie was pretty anti-American & refused to drive him & his friends. R knew Some Russian & proceeded to throw out a bunch of drunken slurs ending in “if you don’t drive us I’m going to give your mother-in-law a good f—ing!” This cracked up the cabbie who proceeded to drive them & treated R like they were best friends now.

I guess MIL angst is international!

Valerie Curren

Agent Smith, that you?

TheseTruths

I’m posting this for one reason.

ABC News Reportedly ‘Desperate’ to Add a Pro-Trump Voice to ‘The View’
Why one “Pro-Trump Voice”? Why not have a balanced panel so the token conservative doesn’t get ganged up on all the time?

IMO this show deserves to fail and go off the air.

TradeBait2

Let it burn to the ground. Pay attention to its advertisers and avoid buying from them.

kalbokalbs

As with some, perhaps many here. don’t watch the View, ABC, NBC, CNN…Zero Pravda News or YSM.

Truth became clearer when I Canceled All Of Them.

Gail Combs

Yup, someone would have to take one for the Team and list the advertisers…

OR

Just stick with off brands, Made in the USA and Mom & pop shops.

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Robert Baker

I would reason that given the likely demographic of the View, neurotic and mentally damaged men and women, that pharmaceuticals are a major sponsor. Boycotting drug companies may lead to you being canceled instead of them. Tylenol, other OTC remedies, and certain prescriptions are as common as the water we drink. I would also speculate that many of the common vitamin supplements are manufactured by subsidiaries of pharma. The best approach might be to just boycott the show and let the advertisers leave as a business decision. But as kalb says, the viewership from this group must be infinitesimal.

TheseTruths

Yes. All I see from them is internet clips.

Deplorable Patriot

Well, IDK…a lot of great memes will never be generated if it goes away.

Aubergine

If you put me up against all of them, that wouldn’t even be a fair fight for them.

You have to factor in that the combined IQ of the View ladies is probably less than 150 total!

I would relish the opportunity to be “ganged up on” by that group of morons. I have no qualms whatsoever about calling them dumb liars to their faces. That’s been the problem; women are too “civil.” I am not.

pgroup2

So you’re an Amazon warrior princess, eh?

Aubergine

Lol. I’m a hillbilly girl. Sort of like the female version of J.D. Vance.

pgroup2

So … I was right.  😂 

Aubergine

Lol. Guess so!

michaelh

I agree with you but the problem is that they are immune to logic. You can get the audience to agree with you but they will never let it go

Aubergine

Could be.

Gail Combs

We would LOVE to see that!

Aubergine

Lol, I’d love to do it!

TheseTruths

I’d pay to see that! 😅

Aubergine

🙂

TheseTruths

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Good, but it needs to lead to corrections in the count.

Aubergine

And criminal prosecutions.

michaelh

That “mandate of heaven” not looking so good . . .

Marriage in China Hits Rock Bottom – What This Means for the Country’s Future
Story by Rachel Park
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/marriage-in-china-hits-rock-bottom-what-this-means-for-the-country-s-future/ar-AA1u9MVY

China’s marriage rate has sharply declined, with registered marriages falling below 5 million for the first time in January- September this year. This represents a 17% decrease from last year, with just 4.74 million couples tying the knot.

As more young people delay or avoid marriage, concerns about China’s declining birth rate have intensified. If current trends continue, experts predict that the total number of marriages in China this year could reach its lowest point since 1985.

pgroup2

Porn plus abortion is China’s problem. IMO.

TheseTruths

They should be regretting this:

How China’s One-Child Policy Led To Forced Abortions, 30 Million …

Feb 1, 2016  China ended its 35-year-old policy of restricting most urban families to one child. Commonly referred to as the “one-child” policy.

I thought the goal of globalists was to reduce the world population. Does that only apply to countries other than one’s own?

TradeBait2

Of course. Like climate change, jabs, bug eating, etc.

Robert Baker

I have read that in past centuries one of the reasons to go to war was to capture marriage stock to maintain the viability of the tribe. They say history rhythms.

Deplorable Patriot

30 years ago or so, when China had that brutal one child policy, I said to my boss that they were going to self-destruct. She didn’t argue. Frankly, with the contraceptive mentality, and teaching anything and everything BUT self-sacrifice, the birth rate dropping was inevitable.

Alison

Question for Gail, Valerie & anyone who wrote yesterday about refrigerating beef fat to reuse in cooking … how long afterwards do you think it’s safe to use … 3 days? a week?

Thanks!!!

scott467

Probably want to doctor it with some safe, effective and fully tested mod-RNA before feeding.

cthulhu

This is a great reason to own a dog. If the dog refuses to eat it, you should have stopped using it two days ago.

Gail Combs

That would depend on how pure it is. Also you can freeze the excess which is what I do.

TIP:
Since it is only the 2 of us, I will make something like the filling for omelets, place the amount for one omelet into a sandwich bag and then place several baggies into a labeled freezer bag.

You could probably do the same with lard and tallow since both are solid in the frig and freezer.

Alison

Thanks, Gail 👍

Aubergine

Properly rendered beef tallow is shelf-stable like lard. It can be stored at room temp for months.

I wouldn’t use just plain old refrigerated beef fat more than three or four days old.

Gail Combs

How to Render Tallow | The Prairie Homestead

Do not miss the questions and answers.

Alison

Much obliged 🩷

Alison

Thank you, Aubergine. That’s what I thought … I don’t let fresh or thawed meat sit in refrig longer than 3 days max.

Valerie Curren

I honestly don’t know. I’ve scraped mold off of bacon fat & used the good stuff w/out any digestive issues. Cooking with high heat tends to kill any critters that might be growing unseen I would guess. 🙂

TheseTruths

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Jesse Morgan:

BREAKING: President Trump has allegedly declined to have the FBI conduct background checks on his cabinet nominees, opting instead to use private investigators, according to CNN.

Can’t confirm; hope it’s true.

https://twitter.com/Jesse_Morgan_/status/1857549501315072385

scott467

I support any action DJT takes to bring shame and humiliation upon the wholly corrupt and lawless institution of the FIB.

As long as it doesn’t stop there, and proceeds to prosecutions beginning January 20th.

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Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

AMEN.

Robert Baker

It is encouraging to see that we have a national leader who can learn from experience.

para59r

Why the requirement to vet? Just look at the riff-raff congress has allowed in the near past. It’s all political at this point with no best interests of the nation involved.

Gail Combs

Eric Prince’s company to do the vetting?😋

Deplorable Patriot

That would be nice.

Linda

I like “star-tar” better than “tholins.”

Valerie Curren

It’s definitely easier to remember 🙂

scott467

More on the Maori doing a ‘Haka’ intimidation ritual in the New Zealand parliament.

As it turns out, in New Zealand, all animals are equal, but Maori are more equal than others, thanks to a treaty, which gives them special rights.

New Zealand is not proposing taking anything away from the Maori, they are proposing to raise everyone else in New Zealand up to the same level of rights as the Maori.

So it would be like giving white men a race-card, a gay-card, a woman-card and an islam-card, so white men could play all the same cards everyone else in America is dealt at birth, removing white male 5th class status, and making white men equal again — or in the case of anyone under around age 57 (2025 – 1968 = 57), make white men equal for the first time in their whole lives.

But the virtuous Maori people are having none of it. They like their special rights and privileges and have no interest in equality or equal justice under law.

So they and their inferior culture, which has contributed nothing to the world, do a ‘Hak-Tuah’ in the New Zealand parliament, to protest for maintaining their special rights and status over all other New Zealanders, like they’re Aryan fascists in 1930s Germany.

Or so it appears to me.

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New Zealanders are marching, performing haka to protest divisive bill
“More than 10,000 New Zealanders on Friday joined a 660-mile protest march heading toward Parliament in Wellington, amid growing opposition to proposed legislation that would strip Maori people of special rights accorded to them under an 1840 treaty.

People joined on foot and horseback as the march, or hikoi, made its way through the central North Island city of Rotorua on Friday. It is due to arrive in the capital Tuesday.
The protests erupted into Parliament’s debating chamber Thursday when Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, a 22-year-old lawmaker for Te Pati Maori, or the Maori Party, was asked to state how her party was voting on the controversial Treaty Principles Bill, which seeks to reinterpret New Zealand’s foundational agreement between the British Crown and the Maori people.

Maipi-Clarke used the opportunity to perform a haka, or war dance. She tore up a copy of the bill in front of its author, as members of Parliament (MPs) from the Maori, Green and Labour parties, and people in the public gallery, joined in the haka.”

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Further into the article, after all the typical WaPo apologetics on behalf of the poor aggrieved Maori with all the special rights:

“Seymour says the bill is not racist since it merely expands treaty rights to all New Zealanders.

“Seeing the Treaty as a ‘partnership between races,’ as the Court of Appeal once said, does not work as a constitutional foundation for a country,” he said Thursday.

“The lawyers will defend their logic to the hilt, but there is one question they cannot answer:

where in the world is it a good idea to give citizens different rights based on ancestry? Where in the world has that approach been a success?””

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I can answer that question for $500, Alex.

What is “Nowhere”?

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cthulhu

Things are a little bit different…..

The Maori were the indigenous people of New Zealand. Like Spartans, they had a very militant culture and were fierce warriors — so fierce, indeed, that the British were reluctant to do what it would take to conquer and pacify New Zealand.

So the Brits cut a deal. They recognized that New Zealand was always and forever Maori land, but carved out specific limited things they could do. They now wish to make these specific limited things into general unlimited things, and Maoris aren’t happy with the proposed change.

Admittedly, it is a very old treaty….but the Maori have been by-and-large keeping up their end of the deal — they have not killed off all of the settlers and eaten many of them. It seems somewhat unfair that one party should be held to the terms of the treaty while the other escapes its share of the obligations.

scott467

If they will not accept equality, then let there be total war.

And may the superior culture win.

Find out who the real Spartans are.

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cthulhu

That’s easy for you to throw the settlers into the stew-pot. They might have other ideas.

TradeBait2

I never use indigenous people. That is woke terminology. Our treaties state “Indian”, so that is what they are. I doubt their treaties say it either.

Did the Maori lose? If not, they get what they get in accordance with law. If the Brits effed it up like they always did and do, it is up the rest of NZ to change it. The Maori want to be above the law of the land and do what they want when they want. That means there will be conflict. So we now move the to conflict resolution step.

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michaelh

Trump would get in there, negotiate a new peace treaty with the Maori and a trade deal, be honored an eternal friend of the tribes, and then squeeze the Brit settlers until they agreed to all his win-win terms, and do it without bloodshed.

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scott467

“I never use indigenous people. That is woke terminology.”

________

Me either. For one thing, it’s too many syllables.

Worse, it implies superiority based on ‘arrival time’ instead of value or achievement, i.e., “we were here first”, which is the whole reason the Left uses it constantly.

Tell it to the people the so-called ‘indigenous’ people displaced. In America, Indians displaced other Indians for generations. Everybody came from somewhere, nobody sprang up out of the ground where they stand today, so nobody is ‘indigenous’ to anywhere, besides earth.

Humans are territorial, they move around and compete for land and resources, always have and always will.

Maori (as so very extra special as they may be 🙄 ) are not exempt from that reality and neither are American Indians, or anyone else.

So what Leftists always do is pick a starting point in humanity’s timeline that suits their divisive local politics best, labels that group ‘indigenous’, and then, having pitted one people against another, the money (grievance grift) and chaos and resentment flows like wine.

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michaelh

I’m an indigenous person, and the Milky Way Galaxy is my ancestral homeland, TYVM. I can’t “colonize” what is rightfully my birthright.

scott467

Here it is, right here on Wiki:

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“Māori originated with settlers from East Polynesia, who arrived in New Zealand in several waves of canoe voyages between roughly 1320 and 1350.”
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So Maori are no more ‘indigenous’ to New Zealand than I am.

They’re from Polynesia.

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TradeBait2

Of course. We all have ancestry that immigrated from the Garden of Eden. We have no claim to what is God’s. It’s just where we ended up through the providence of God.

scott467

More from Wiki:

“There is no generally accepted definition of Indigenous peoples, although in the 21st century the focus has been on self-identification, cultural difference from other groups in a state, a special relationship with their traditional territory, and an experience of subjugation and discrimination under a dominant cultural model.”

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It’s all self-flagellating Leftist ethnic studies victimology-for-dollars grievance BS.

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kalbokalbs

Off the wall.

Maori have more rights than the average New Zealander.

Wonder if Maori skipped the mandatory Jabs, masks, Covidiot mandates.

  • Flipped off the New Zealand Nazi government.
Robert Baker

If I remember my 19th century American history, the government usually negotiated changes in the former treaty with the Indians after they had already passed a new treaty.

michaelh

The trouble with the Indians is that they would get some good faith negotiators and establish a good treaty

Then the Democrats would come along and ignore the law.

TradeBait2

😂 They haven’t changed, have they?

TheseTruths

Libs of Tik Tok:

Whoopi Goldberg lied and claimed a bakery refused her order because of her political views with zero evidence. In reality, the bakery actually had an issue with their boiler.

Whoopi tried to destroy this woman’s life and her business.

Evil.

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1857500625497370887

Sue Whoopi for all she’s worth.

cthulhu

All she’s worth is about $2.31 as fertilizer. You probably mean all that she owns.

TheseTruths

  :wpds_lol: 

Aubergine

You sure wouldn’t want to EAT anything she fertilized!

michaelh

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cthulhu

Just imagine how much more impressive it would have been if it were a true count.

TradeBait2

Which should be the next phase of election integrity t obe undertaken by the 2026 midterms.

cthulhu

My father recently had a birthday, which means that I spent a perfunctory amount of time on the phone with him and a much longer time with my mom. She thinks that he’s losing mental acuity, and I recall that we had a discussion about this with recommendations — including lion’s mane mushroom powder and some specific flavor of coconut oil. I think Gail was using this for her DH. Anyone remember when that was?

scott467

Gail Combs( Gail Combs)
https://www.theqtree.com/2023/10/30/dear-kmag-20231030-joe-biden-didnt-win-%e2%9d%80-open-topic/#comment-1179502

Coyote
Reply to mollypitcher5
October 30, 2023 16:48

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

  • Ergothioneine, a sulfur-containing amino acid found in mushrooms, is a powerhouse when it comes to promoting longevity.
  • Out of 112 measured plasma metabolites, ergothioneine is the metabolite most significantly associated with lower morbidity and mortality, being associated with a lower risk of coronary artery disease, stroke, and death of all causes.
  • In 2005, scientists discovered that most human tissues have a highly specific carnitine-based transporter for ergothioneine, which suggests humans are designed to eat and reap specific benefits from mushrooms.
  • Ergothioneine has antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antimutagenic, and cytoprotectant properties, and research shows depletion of ergothioneine leads to higher oxidative stress and cell death.
  • Mushrooms that contain ergothioneine include pine mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, shiitake, king boletes, porcinis, chanterelles, lion’s mane, and enokitake, just to name a few. Porcini, shiitake, oyster, maitake and king oyster typically contain the highest amounts

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MORE INFO:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/ergothioneine
Discover The Powerful Benefits Of Ergothioneine For Managing Multiple Sclerosis Related Fatigue, Low Mood And Brain Fog

…In this article I’ll review a terrific option for addressing the cellular dysfunction that drives low mood, severe fatigue, and/or brain fog problems in the setting of MS and autoimmunity. This strategy will help reduce excess inflammation and oxidative stress, which are key drivers of fatigue, anxiety, depression, and cognitive decline in the setting of MS.

One of the simplest things you can do to support your cells is eat mushrooms. I love mushrooms. They add a rich umami flavor to dishes and have tremendous health benefits. People who eat mushrooms more than once per week have less depression, anxiety, and cognitive decline than those who do not consume mushrooms!1-4

Mushrooms are potent antioxidants that have been used across multiple healing traditions for thousands of years to address mood disorders and eurodegenerative disorders.1 On the cellular level, science has identified over 80 bioactive compounds in mushrooms that have remarkable health enefits.1,2,5,6 One compound that has been studied more thoroughly and shown to have particularly significant health benefits is ergothioneine….

References:
Phan CW, David P, Naidu M, Wong KH, Sabaratnam V. Therapeutic potential of culinary-medicinal mushrooms for the management of neurodegenerative diseases: diversity, metabolite, and mechanism. Crit Rev Biotechnol. 2015;35(3):355-368.

Bell V, Silva C, Guina J, Fernandes TH. Mushrooms as future generation healthy foods. Front Nutr. 2022;9:1050099.

Fijalkowska A, Jedrejko K, Sulkowska-Ziaja K, Ziaja M, Kala K, Muszynska B. Edible Mushrooms as a Potential Component of Dietary Interventions for Major Depressive Disorder. Foods. 2022;11(10).

Lazur J, Hnatyk K, Kala K, Sulkowska-Ziaja K, Muszynska B. Discovering the Potential Mechanisms of Medicinal Mushrooms Antidepressant Activity: A Review. Antioxidants (Basel). 2023;12(3).

Abitbol A, Mallard B, Tiralongo E, Tiralongo J. Mushroom Natural Products in Neurodegenerative Disease Drug Discovery. Cells. 2022;11(23).

Cordaro M, Modafferi S, D’Amico R, et al. Natural Compounds Such as Hericium erinaceus and Coriolus versicolor Modulate Neuroinflammation, Oxidative Stress and Lipoxin A4 Expression in Rotenone-Induced Parkinson’s Disease in Mice. Biomedicines. 2022;10(10).

Nakamichi N, Nakayama K, Ishimoto T, et al. Food-derived hydrophilic antioxidant ergothioneine is distributed to the brain and exerts antidepressant effect in mice. Brain Behav. 2016;6(6):e00477.

Nakamichi N, Tsuzuku S, Shibagaki F. Ergothioneine and central nervous system diseases. Neurochem Res. 2022;47(9):2513-2521.

Ishimoto T, Kato Y. Ergothioneine in the brain. FEBS Lett. 2022;596(10):1290-1298.
Fukuchi M, Watanabe K, Mitazaki S, Fukuda M, Matsumoto S. Aminothioneine, a product derived from golden oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus cornucopiae var. citrinopileatus), activates Ca(2+) signal-mediated brain-derived neurotrophic factor expression in cultured cortical neurons. Biochem Biophys Rep. 2021;28:101185.

Huang JH, Li Y, Zhang S, et al. Amelioration effect of water extract from Ganoderma resinaceum FQ23 solid-state fermentation fungal substance with high-yield ergothioneine on anxiety-like insomnia mice. Food Funct. 2022;13(24):12925-12937.

Wijesinghe P, Whitmore CA, Campbell M, et al. Ergothioneine, a dietary antioxidant improves amyloid beta clearance in the neuroretina of a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease. Front Neurosci. 2023;17:1107436.

Song TY, Chen CL, Liao JW, Ou HC, Tsai MS. Ergothioneine protects against neuronal injury induced by cisplatin both in vitro and in vivo. Food Chem Toxicol. 2010;48(12):3492-3499.
Song TY, Lin HC, Chen CL, Wu JH, Liao JW, Hu ML. Ergothioneine and melatonin attenuate oxidative stress and protect against learning and memory deficits in C57BL/6J mice treated with D-galactose. Free Radic Res. 2014;48(9):1049-1060.

Wu LY, Kan CN, Cheah IK, et al. Low Plasma Ergothioneine Predicts Cognitive and Functional Decline in an Elderly Cohort Attending Memory Clinics. Antioxidants (Basel). 2022;11(9).

Yang NC, Lin HC, Wu JH, et al. Ergothioneine protects against neuronal injury induced by beta-amyloid in mice. Food Chem Toxicol. 2012;50(11):3902-3911.

Well I am glad I bought that 10 pounds of mushrooms at the flea market, sauteed and froze them. https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.0.3/svg/1f60b.svg

White Button Mushrooms, are known as Agaricus bisporus. These are the ones in stores.
The bioavailability of ergothioneine from mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus) and the acute effects on antioxidant capacity and biomarkers of inflammation

Method: ET was administered through a mushroom test meal containing 8 g and 16 g of mushroom powder. Postprandial red blood cell concentrations of ET were measured. Plasma glucose, triglycerides, HDL, LDL and total cholesterol also were monitored.

Biomarkers of inflammation and oxidative stress were evaluated using C-reactive protein and ORAC(total).

Results: ET was bioavailable after consuming mushrooms and a trend in the postprandial triglyceride response indicated that there was a blunting effect after both the 8 g and 16 g ET doses were compared with the 0 g dose. Despite ET’s antioxidant properties, ORAC(total) values decreased after the 8 g and 16 g mushroom meal.

Conclusions: Ergothioneine from A. bisporus mushrooms is bioavailable as assessed by red blood cell uptake postprandially, and consumption is associated with an attenuated postprandial TG response.

There are several more papers listed at the bottom

TheseTruths

I’m sorry about his mental acuity and hope it can be helped. I had saved two posts by Gail regarding those topics:

One from 4/30/24One from 8/21/24I thought I had saved links to them, but apparently I only have dates.

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cthulhu

TYVM

That was completely sufficient and I’m just now getting back from sending the email.

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TheseTruths

YW! 👍🏼

scott467

Gail Combs( Gail Combs)
https://www.theqtree.com/2024/06/14/dear-maga-tgif-open-thread-20240614/#comment-1290946
Wolf
Reply to Valerie Curren
June 14, 2024 14:14

Valerie,

Do not forget the Coconut oil (REFINED and not ORGANIC) plus Lion’s Mane Mushroom. Also Hubby improved DRASTICALLY after we started making meat loaf a couple times a week. He now has beef every day. Also if you use 93% you can ADD the coconut oil to the beef and make sure it is eaten. 

From what I have seen, I think poor nutrition is a MAJOR problem in older folks.
Coconut oil improves brain function in Alzheimer’s patients
Alzheimer’s: Coconut Oil to Feed the Brain.

Consumption of coconut oil prompts the body to produce a substance that is the best nourishment for brain cells – and can protect our little grey cells from dementia….
Typical: A Disrupted Energy Metabolism

Very early on – often many years before the first signs of dementia become noticeable – the sugar metabolism of the brain is disrupted. If the brain cells are not provided with enough sugar, energy supply grinds to a halt. Without sufficient ‘fuel’, neither signal transfer nor ‘waste disposal’ works properly.

The harmful waste products typical of Alzheimer’s disease (amyloid plaques) and defective cell structures (neurofibrillary tangles) accumulate, and the first breakdowns in function occur. At some point, cells begin to be destroyed and the brain begins to shrink. Yet it doesn’t have to come to this, because we can actively help to keep our brain fit and healthy for as long as possible…

Lion’s Mane mushroom – Unparalleled benefits for your brain and nervous system
Lion’s Mane Mushrooms Found to ‘Magically’ Regrow Brain Cells, New Research Shows
Lion’s Mane Neurogenesis Study: What It Means for Brain Health and Function
5 Vitamins for Brain Health and Memory

scott467

Gail Combs( Gail Combs)
https://www.theqtree.com/2024/10/28/dear-kmag-20241028-joe-biden-didnt-win-%e2%9d%80-open-topic/#comment-1355853
Wolf
Reply to kalbokalbs
October 28, 2024 09:20

Kalbokalbs,

For brain fog issues switch to coconut oil (solid this time of year) Use the refined from Big Lots. It has no taste or smell. the ‘virgin’ tastes like coconuts.
Coconut Oil for Alzheimer’s? – Dr. Mary Newport
Study: Coconut Oil Improves Cognitive Functioning in Alzheimer’s Patients
Can Coconut Oil Prevent or Treat Alzheimer‘s? A Review…linkedin.com›pulse/can-coconut-oil-treat-…

Coconut oil contains 65% MCT, the highest percentage of any food today. Thus, if additional MCT can help with Alzheimer‘s disease, coconut oil deserves to be investigated.

Alzheimer’s: Coconut Oil to Feed the Brain.
Consumption of coconut oil prompts the body to produce a substance that is the best nourishment for brain cells – and can protect our little grey cells from dementia.

….pharma-based physicians and groups have largely condemned the use of coconut oil, stating that all the evidence is “anecdotal,” lacking peer-reviewed scientific research. Of course coconut oil is a natural food, with virtually no risk or side effects, and funding for research on a natural food is difficult to come by when no product can be patented as a result of the research, such as lucrative pharmaceutical drugs. As we have stated in the past, the lack of scientific research on coconut oil and Alzheimer’s should not stop people from trying it.

Some are taking notice and beginning to publish studies, however, so the claim that coconut oil improving Alzheimer’s lacks scientific support may not be true much longer. A clinical trial in Spain was published this month (December 2015) studying the effects of coconut oil on Alzheimer’s, and the results were very promising. Another study in Florida is in process and should be published in 2016….

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Lion’s Mane Neurogenesis Study: What It Means for Brain Health and Function
Lion’s mane mushroom (Hericium erinaceus) has long been studied for its potential brain health benefits. Some research suggests that a main compound in H. erinaceus called erinacines may increase the production of nerve growth factor (NGF)*—a protein that helps nerve cells, like the neurons in the brain, grow and reproduce. This could be why other studies and trials show that taking lion’s mane mushroom extracts may improve memory, reduce dementia symptoms, and enhance cognitive function.*

A recent study in the Journal of Neurochemistry uncovered one possible explanation for how lion’s mane’s apparent brain benefits. Researchers from Korea and Australia collaborated to investigate how brain cells react to extracts from lion’s mane mushroom fruiting bodies and found that they caused an increase in neurotrophic factors, which had a significant impact on brain cell growth….

I get mine here:
https://goascentnutrition.com/collections/brain-focus

With the addition of BEEF & eggs to the lions mane and Coconut oil, Hubby (81) is doing a lot better.

Gail Combs

The organic coconut oil smells like coconut and thus is only good for oatmeal IMHO.

Big Lots has refined coconut oil which is tasteless and can thus be used like any cooking oil. LINK It stores on the shelf without a problem like Crisco does.

Coconut Oil and MCT Oil: Ketones as Alternative Fuel for the Brain in Alzheimer’s and Other Disorders

Your Brain On Coconut Oil: What The Science is Saying

Lion’s Mane — The Best Nootropic Mushroom

kalbokalbs

Related, 10-25-24 and 10-28-24. Many of our online friends here chimed in on my RFI regarding brain issues. PAVACA, Aubergine and more. Gail on the 28th.

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Aubergine

I will chime in with this; sleep is a major factor in brain fog. If he can have a sleep study, that would be great.

Am I nuts, or do I remember you having sleep apnea? It’s inherited in many cases. And lots of people don’t even know they have it, because it can be subtle.

Gail Combs

My husband’s entire family had sleep apnea.

Aubergine

Sadly, it’s fairly common.

para59r

Apparently Trey Gawdy was moaning about Matt Gaetz over trivial nonsense and got body slammed for it.
https://twitter.com/cmgcar/status/1857608137789837392

TheseTruths

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kalbokalbs

Nor the House and Senate slush fund information that pays of sexual harassment…

TheseTruths

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scott467

A filthy, smelly traitor rat.

TheseTruths

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cthulhu

His eyesight might not be the best, but he can read the handwriting on the wall….

Gail Combs

Around 40 minutes Tucker talks about the Intel Agencies having dirt on Congress Critters.

Gail Combs

New Republic:
Tuberville Proves Again He’s Dumbest Senator With Election Fraud Claim
Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville is suggesting something “doesn’t add up” in an election where Republicans swept the board

Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville thinks that Democratic Senate wins in battleground states are suspicious. 

On Tuesday, Tuberville was on The Sean Spicer Show, a podcast hosted by Donald Trump’s former White House press secretary and communications director. Spicer asked Tuberville how he’d fulfill his promise to be a “legislative sledgehammer for President Trump.”

“One of the things I really want to do is straighten this dang voting up across our country,” Tuberville said. 

“We didn’t get killed downballot, but let me tell you something: Donald Trump pulled out more people to vote for him” than Harris, the Alabama senator added. “And how in the world can some of these senators … receive more votes—the Democrats—than President Trump? It doesn’t add up to how this all went about.”

AND New Republic just proved they are Fake News!

Tuberville’s Committee Assignments… HMMMmmm I wonder who is talking to him.

Senate Armed Services Committee

The Senate Armed Services Committee has jurisdiction over aeronautical and space activities associated with the development of weapons systems or military operations; the Department of Defense including the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Air Force; and military research and development.

In addition to full committee work, Senator Tuberville serves on the following SASC subcommittees:

https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/about/committee-assignments/

TheseTruths

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scott467

Here, little Fauxi, Fauxi, Fauxi… come on, boy! 😁

Valerie Curren

From yesterday:

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Wolf

 Reply to  Alison
 November 15, 2024 14:21
#1367899
My primary care is via a stand-alone Nurse Practitioner.
I get treated the way I was by doctors in my youth and get at least a half hour with him. I am quite content with him. When I need a specialist, he refers me.

I wanted to add that we’ve had some great success w/ NPs over the years. I’ve only dealt with them for my medically complex special needs son but Each of them were great additions to his medical management teams.

NPs tend to be warm, engaging, & generally more accessible than MDs or DOs.

They have tended to be more egalitarian in discussions, as in they are not in a “lording it over you” position like some doctors seem to be.

They often can give more time directly to the patient than do doctors.

They may be more approachable in discussions of lifestyle tweaking & general info.

They (often) can prescribe meds, as needed, but they can also address dietary & other approaches to treating/improving conditions. Nutrition is taught in nursing schools, iirc.

The last discussion w/ an NP strayed into their capabilities & oversight in their practices. Apparently these things can vary quite significantly between states or perhaps regions or even medical/health care systems. Definitely worth looking into for quality healthcare!

cthulhu

They don’t have to take all the “god classes” that are needed to get an MD.

Valerie Curren

Often those MD’s have some type of jurisdiction over them as a safety net of sorts.

TheseTruths

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scott467

Wow, Johnny’s really scared. I like that.

cthulhu

I think he’s more offended than scared.

michaelh

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Of you

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scott467

This is a youtube interview with Matt Schultz, the Chairman of Cleanspark (ticker: CLSK), one of the top Bitcoin miners in America, in a segment talking about his recent discussion with President Trump about Bitcoin.

DJT is talking to the right people in the industry, and he’s asking the right questions, it wasn’t just an election ploy to appeal to ‘crypto voters’.

(cued to the 10:20 mark for a little more info, actual comments about DJT begin at 12:05):

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Segment talking about Senator Cynthia Lummis’ (R-WY) proposal for America to adopt a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve of 1,000,000 Bitcoin, and how that would affect the Bitcoin market:

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eilert

For Libs who still cannot get over Trump being elected there is CryoTears were you can wake up after his term ends, with 50% Discount for an extended period in case JD wins after that.
(Watch till the End)

newzy.com

@realnewzy

Don’t Cry, Cryo! 😂 Need a Break from Trump’s Term? Freeze Yourself for 4 Years! #Trump #ElonMusk #meltdowns

https://twitter.com/i/status/1856719517348458842

Gail Combs

I grabbed these from late yesterday because I think this are very very important.

First edumacatun.

Trump announces free college and all the Liberals that wanted free college are mad about it.” H/T  para59r

michaelh  November 15, 2024 23:30

THIS IS HUGE!

The LEFT wants students to think that only a 4 year college degree will get them ahead!

The LEFT wants students to be BURDENED FOR LIFE with HUGE DEBTS

The LEFT wants every young person ENSLAVED with COLLEGE DEBT TRAPS!

The LEFT wants every student to be DEPENDENT on the GOVT to free them from their DEBT

The LEFT wants every college to CA$$$H IN on MONEY from student loans to CONTROL Academia and keep leftists in charge!

This BREAKS the entire Academic Leftist institution and the student debt traps in ONE GIANT SWOOP

While breaking the MASSIVE INFORMATION CONTROL that the left is trying to hold on the public

And fixing the “endowments” that colleges are hoarding instead of benefiting the students

And breaking the ACADEMIC SYSTEM as we know it AND how it has been DISTORTED and COLONIZED by the IMPERALIST LEFT!

Please don’t ignore how awesome this is.

Colleges and Universities are the evangelization arm of the radical left

Take the schools from the left, and they have NO MORE CONVERTS

They aren’t reproducing or having kids

Demography is destiny folks, the left is going to face the demographic cliff of DIE OFF.

Trump is going to push them over.

I would add, taking 1-12 from government control ALSO aids in breaking the hold of the Left.

kalbokalbs

Hope Trump is also pushing funds to the trades. Welding, plumbing, HVAC…

Gail Combs

IIRC Trump is very much ‘trade friendly’ given some stuff he said at rallies.

Here it is:

Trump seeks big increase in career-technical education money

July 1, 2023 – President Donald Trump is proposing a $900 million increase in education spending to teach skills and trades, in what would be a historic federal infusion into a spending area that’s been stagnant for years

michaelh

I like his idea for free education without using a DIME of federal funding

Though I’m not in favor of strictly free education, and I think students should pay their own (reasonable) tuition . . .

. . . I’m willing to be proven wrong

Original twatter: https://twitter.com/TheLizVariant/status/1857450617502892256

cthulhu

Likely very similar to how the Icelandic berserkers warmed up…..

Gail Combs

I am a big fan of Deming. He is the person who transformed Japan from making cheap shoddy goods to making superb quality goods.
International industry WTO) countered Deming by coming up with ISO 9000 family, based on the Soviet model according to a Russian QC Engineer I knew.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy  November 15, 2024 11:41

PATIENT FIRST MEDICINE.

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michaelh( michaelh) November 15, 2024 22:50

 Reply to  Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy
 

I wrote this up as a DRAFT expressing my frustrations and vision with how to put customers ahead of shareholders:

We value a multiplicity of competitive businesses versus oligopolic big businesses

We believe that business should serve customers (Edward Demings) first rather than shareholders (Milton Friedmen)

We believe that business should not engage in corporate welfare, charity, or social justice projects, instead leaving the profits for the shareholders to distribute charitably

We believe that business should value employees, principally by paying them rewarding wages, rather than squeezing labor costs to favor shareholders, because we value people

We believe that shareholders, management, and workers should not be structurally in opposition to each other, but aligned toward creating customer value and serving customers

In line with Demings, it is not management who should be served with management value, or shareholders who should be served with shareholder value, but the customer who should be served with customer value

The shareholders have a moral and ethical duty to hold the business accountable to the highest ethical standards, to valuing people first (employees and customers “consumers” not neglected), and not pursuing immoral and unethical “social justice” and corporate charity projects.

We will refer to our customers with respect, and will not diminish them by referring to them as “consumers”

We will not seek side-channel business arrangements that act against the interests of our customers, such as pursuing advertising deals that diminish the value and utility of our products to our customers

We will not treat our customer data as the product and consumers as the product.

We will not use “free” or low-price product offerings to feed consumer data sales or other business models which are exploitive of the customer trust or create a conflict of interest for customers where the customer interests routinely lose.

We will not treat customers as consumer cattle who can “take their business elsewhere” attitude, and we will not assume a “margin” of “customer churn” as a “cost of doing business” for a “changing business model” which disempowers and marginalizes customers.

We will stop seeking to dodge accountability from customers and the public for our business practices that have shifted costs and burdens onto the customers unfairly in favor of shareholder profits and business expediency.

We value small and medium sized “main street” business that is customer accountable over and against “Wall street” big business that is customer unaccountable.

We prefer a model of business wtih robust marketplace participation (many players) and competition from small and medium sized businesses. We advocate against oligopoly players with concentration of power and “big business” lacking accountability. In each industry vertical we envision a transformation from oligopolies to hundreds of independent companies with legal obligations to maintain organizational and leadership indepedence rather than widespread consolidation through M&A activity or common board/leadership structures or industrial guild organizations. These hundreds of businesses reflect the American plurality of states (fifty states) and the need for competition (minimum of two market players per state) resulting in hundreds of dynamic competitive businesses.

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michaelh( michaelh)  November 15, 2024 22:47

 Reply to  Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Customers First

Shareholders, and their hedge funds, just for dividends.

Wolf I’m going to post this convo I had a few months back:

Milton Friedman was a conservative leaning economist and he argued in 1970 that corporations should stop giving to charities and focus on delivering profits to shareholders.

Unfortunately GM in particular took the lesson too close to heart. They squeezed their cars for profit to the breaking point.

Mom: I’ve heard clips of Milton Friedman. I’ve not seen one long contiguous speech or anything.

Edward Deming emphasized the importance of putting the customer first. The US didn’t listen to him, but Japan did, turned out lots of affordable reliable cars

Mom: I’ve heard some good clips of Thomas Soul. I was not aware of that about Japan.

Wall Street shut Deming out and pushed for shareholder profit. They should profit, but ONLY when they serve the customer well.

Mom: I totally agree

The Wall Street crowd doesn’t value ALL people, little ppl don’t matter. Deming had Christian values that valued workers contributions and serving customers

All the Big Business unaccountable hedge funds need to be broken. 50 states, 2 corps per state, break them all up antitrust

Big banks to 100 banks. Pharma to 100 pharma. Media to 100 media. Hospitals to 100 hospitals. Big tech to 100s of techs.

Small medium business that have to treat customers right. Not too big to fail behemoths that treat consumers mot as customers but advertising to monetize

True story a security contractor with Boeing was brought in when they were planning to do facial recognition of passengers and their in flight data activities and monetize it for advertising

Idiots literally decided to just not tell the passengers what they were doing, no clue the legal mess they were about to step in

Mom: I don’t like biometrics. It can be a big problem when the person dies. Accounts locked.

Security guy told them not a good idea, demanded they get legal involved. Was like a six hour riot act convo of all the ways they were going to be fined and go to prison. 

Small victories

Mom: Actually I’m getting more cranky about all this 2 step multifactor stuff. Sounds like a good victory

One Boeing plane lands in China for a domestic flight and they can steal ALL aircraft data. They will. Nothing you can do.

Mom: Yes, China steals everything that is just one way. They can’t develop anything on their own

They’re getting better, lack of freedom is still a big barrier to innovation but they are picking up on the tech innovations

Was at Walmart last night and they had water balloons with a quickfill straw tree. The patent is held by an American and they stole it. Fought it and our patent and trade agencies REFUSED to do anything to help him

He started an organization to lobby to protect American inventors and patent holders

Mom: Patent office is probably funded by the CCP

No surprise they were owned by the Soviets during WWII

Mom: Or the feds or they get to kick back

FDR admin looked the other way while CCCP robbed America blind

Mom: I believe everything that has been stolen from us as the American people is going to be restored back to us and then some.

cthulhu  November 15, 2024 23:16
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The difference between pleasing shareholders and pleasing customers is a balancing-act between short and long term.

Gail Combs

Now I am going to add my 2 cents.

International corporations can get away with making shoddy goods by making sure THEY are the only game in town.

This is done in more than one way.
Monopoly
Regulatory capture, where start-up competitors are shut out via government regulation. In the worst cases the government goes after the little guy but leaves the big guy alone despite massive problems.
Dirty Tricks.

This old comment I captured is an excellent example:

In the mid-nineteen nineties when I was trying to promote my employers’ international commodity trading activities in a big way, specifically in grains and fertilizers, I came cross powerful Cartels during our participation in open bid international procurement tenders!

One of them was an international cartel of major suppliers headed by Cargill. After winning one such large tender on a very competitive price, the cartel went after us in the ‘next’ equally large supply tender, floated by an Asian state, in the following fashion, during which the cartel delivered their “message” to us and made sure that we would never ever again step in to a MARKET controlled by them and step on their toes!

During the time we were obtaining ‘offers’ from suppliers world wide, one of the Cartel’s ‘proxies’ sent us an offer we could not refuse, by being well below the average lower prices we had been receiving. Well, we bid, based on this lowest priced ‘cartel arranged’ ‘offer’ and we put up our bid bond worth a couple of hundred thousand dollars. We won the tender and then posted our performance bond worth nearly one half million dollars only to find out that our ‘cartel supplier’ had simply evaporated into thin air. To save our performance bond we had to source our supply from others, most of who declined to do so but we could know why, at least then.

Finally, we had to beg a dozen small ‘independent suppliers’ in as many countries to fulfill our contractual supply commitments to the purchasing country. We lost our shirt, if not more. You have all the rights to ask why I believe it was the Cargill led cartel which was behind the ‘lesson’ given to us. I shall tell you why.

Soon after our debacle I attended an international conference of commodity suppliers in Istanbul where I met an American delegate who sided up to me with his drink in hand, between sessions, and introduced himself with a Cargill visiting card. He began by offering his ‘condolence’ niceties to me on our recent debacle, which he knew in minute details, of course.

Then he ADVISED me and my Company to look for OTHER business outside of commodity trading. Only then was I able to put 2 & 2 together on the WHY & HOW of our debacle! Such cartels exist in Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) fertilizers, High and Extra High Tension power/electricity cables etc. These cartels are the ones I personally know about but list is long. They are very powerful and very pugnacious. The cartels make whopping profits. It’s the end users who always suffer. The latter may be governments, end users/consumers, power utilities and the man in the street.

syed mahdi

http://www.opednews.com/author/author19339.html

michaelh

I don’t know what the right answer is

I’m afraid that trust-busting gives the GOV toooooo much power

But concentrated power, whether GOV or CORP or BOTH is NOT AMERICAN and NOT ACCEPTABLE

Oligopolies are not acceptable – Visa/MC needs to be broken up IF NOT shattered into a thousand pieces and scattered to the wind.

The Phone Company was headed by the former USPO head, and he played nicey nice with GOV and made AT&T a monopoly

The reason we don’t have hundreds of airlines but like 3-4 megacarriers is because the USPO strongarmed them all into merging to get the USPO contracts

USPO of course also behind crushing Lysander Spooner . . . only tolerate UPS/FedEx b/c they play nicey with USPO

We used to have a slew of independent auto manufacturers until they consolidated into big three, and are held there by GOV regulations

I don’t think the original Standard Oil was as terrible as leftists say based on my reading of history – but it saddles us with the Rockefellers . . .

Say what you will about Monsanto but why is German Bayer allowed to consolidate American companies and get away with it???

Big Tech is a tire-fire. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, and others, barely scratching the surface of breakups and reform work that needs to be done

Don’t get me started on hedge funds and the SEC that’s happy to avoid doing their damn job

Gail Combs

Very much a mess.

Just getting big business OUT OF GOVERNMENT would be a tremendous improvement. The Supreme Court needs it’s but kicked for allowing corporations to interfere in elections.

michaelh

International industry (WTO) countered Deming by coming up with ISO 9000 family, based on the Soviet model according to a Russian QC Engineer I knew.

Now that is something I want more info about, and the alternatives. ISO 9000 “is-so” expensive.

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Gail Combs

When ISO first came out I went to a training seminar in the mid 1980s. My seatmate was the Russian. I had worked for a very good company who took quality seriously. They used Mil Std 105D among other things and DOCUMENTED everything. This made trouble shooting a lot easier.

Anyway I was impressed with what I first saw of ISO and said so. This guy said he was not and recognized it as the same method used in the Soviet Union. He said it emphasized paperwork over real quality.

This is a snippet from an article I wrote many years ago for OpEd News.

..Dr. W. Edwards Deming, a mathematician doing research into quality, had been ignored by US business. He took his expertise to postwar Japan where his methods revolutionized quality. After superior Japanese quality flattened American business in the market place, Americans started searching for the “Magic Wand” that would allow them to compete, Several experts cashed in on this mad search. Joseph Juran, Armand Feigenbaum and Philip Crosby emerged as the leaders of the pack.

In 1987 the methods used by Deming and the other leaders were quantified as a set of quality manufacturing standards called ISO 9000. I was one of the first to get training in ISO 9000 here in the USA. I was impressed by the first half of the presentation and during break started discussing what I had learned with my seat-mate. He was not at all impressed. He was originally from Russia, and he told me that the Soviet Union had used the same kind of system for years, and that and it generated paperwork, not quality. Twenty years later I, along with other quality professionals, agree with him.

…”I’m wondering if there might be a silent majority of Quality [magazine] readers out there on the topic of ISO 9000. The response to my July editorial, “Eliminate ISO 9000?,” was the heaviest that we have received in some time…What surprised me is that the July editorial elicited no ardent rebuttals in defense of ISO 9000…” http://www.qualitymag.com/Articles/Letters_From_the_Editor/65730ee7f4c38010VgnVCM100000f932a8c0

Bean counters, looking only for immediate additional profit, found some of the concepts of ISO 9000 very attractive:

  1. Do not duplicate effort by repeating testing that’s already been done. This means that incoming inspection can be eliminated, saving some labor.
  2. Develop a relationship with a single source instead of wasting resources on qualifying several sources
  3. Use “Just In Time.” Since the source is prequalified, the raw materials can arrive on the same day as needed, eliminating warehouses and jobs.

The third item is particularly interesting. If the method fails, that is, if the supposedly prequalified material is no good, there might be no choice but to use it anyway! The result can be anywhere from a minor inconvenience to a total disaster.

So what does this have to do with the peanut fiasco? First, because of the “Quality Revolution” a version of ISO was developed for the food industry. It was called HACCP and was published as an international standard in 1993 by Codex Alimentarius. In 1995 Mil Std 105E was declared obsolete and in 1996 HACCP was adopted by the USDA.

Pathogen Reduction/Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) Systems rule, on July 25, 1996: Under the HACCP rule, industry is responsible for assessing potential food safety hazards and systematically preventing and controlling those hazards. FSIS [Food Safety Inspection Service] is responsible for verifying that establishments’ HACCP systems are working ..www.fsis.usda.gov/PDF/Evolution_of_RBI_022007.pdf

Notice how this ruling has shifted the focus of audits, both government and private, from testing for contamination to the paperwork documenting the “Quality Management System”. Secondly, rigorous incoming inspection has been drastically cut‒if not eliminated‒by the companies that receive raw materials. In buying peanuts from the vendor Kellog relied only on a third-party auditor who reported on the integrity of the suppler. Twenty or thirty years earlier Kellog would have sent their own quality professional to work at the vendor’s facility….

GA/FL

“When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
what is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him?”
– Psalm 8:3-4

Gail Combs

Eric Carlson has an interesting article. Below is a small part of it that I found interesting in an AND LOGIC sort of way.

If the FED makes Interest rates drop like a rock after masses of illegals are deported, we will have a good clue Eric was correct.

Open Borders Finally Make Sense
Spoiler Alert: It’s All a Scam

…In 2021, 4.51 trillion in mortgage loans were created. In 2023, the number dropped to 1.5 trillion. Three times less in mortgage loans…

Who tends to buy houses with cash? Large investment companies like BlackRock. They buy the homes and rent them out. When I used Google to ask about BlackRock and their buying of residential homes, its AI told me that BlackRock isn’t in fact buying houses. I also noticed that the first article that popped up on Google was put out by BlackRock, saying they weren’t buying properties.

In my opinion…Information is preselected for the AI to use. Garbage in, garbage out. AI uses the fake information on the internet to come to its conclusions…

 Why would you buy high, unless you were privy to information the rest of us didn’t have?

In my opinion, one of two things happened—either BlackRock and other investment companies were told by the people who control the world that they were planning to raise interest rates in 2022, or they figured it out by running the simulations on their super computers. Knowing interest rates would drastically go up in a couple of years makes buying rental properties a really good idea, even if prices were currently high.

Buy houses to rent out, then when interest rates go up and people can’t afford to buy a house anymore, raise rents across the board. People have no choice but to pay the increases.

But how do you increase demand? By filling up the units. How do you fill up the units? By opening up the borders to let 20+ million illegals into the country and paying them to live in America. These illegals aren’t going to compete against you in buying houses, but they will fill up the rental properties, increasing the rent even more for Americans who can no longer afford to buy a house….

I recently heard someone say Kamala Harris was controlled by BlackRock. Wow, this all makes sense now. She was the border czar who opened up the borders to let anyone and everyone enter…

Who pays for all this? American taxpayers. Who suffers the most? Working class Americans. Who benefits the most? Investment companies like BlackRock and others, not to mention the politicians they pay off…

With him [Trump] in power, their Ponzi scheme falls apart. 

Remove 20 million renters, and rent goes down. Remove 20 million renters, and property values go down. But, if interest rates can be lowered fast enough, middle-class Americans will be able to afford to take these properties off their hands before these conglomerates get into financial trouble. But if interest rates don’t fall fast enough, while illegals are being removed from America quickly and efficiently, many of these investment companies will be put at great risk, holding a bunch of vacant rental properties.

What we all thought were random things happening simultaneously, is actually all tied together. The three “I”s—illegals, inflation, interest rate hikes—all together created a massive Ponzi scheme for the Deep State asset accumulators….

What is interesting is we are STILL getting a lot of calls to buy our farm. The last one argued with Hubby saying the ‘Listing Price’ was only $XXXX and not the 15 time X that Hubby tosses out to shut them up. This is ‘new’

For small farms the average price per acre is $51,794.
For large farms a median listing price of $299,400 for a total of 30,800 acres, translating to an average price per acre of $8,842.

Either way the price quoted was LOW balled to VERY low ball and did not include the house and buildings or the close proximity to a major highway and easy commuting distance to Raleigh…

(Mom was a real estate broker and I learned the techniques for pricing houses by the age of nine.)

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TheseTruths

Very interesting.

duchess01

EACH DAY WE TAKE UP THE OFFENSIVE WEAPON OF THE WORD OF GOD – THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT – ONE VERSE OPENS THE DOOR TO THE CONTEXT OF THE CHAPTER MESSAGE

Verse of the Day for Saturday, November 16, 2024

“O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth.” 

Psalms 96:1 (KJV)

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Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!

duchess01

WE ARE FIGHTING A SPIRITUAL WAR OF GOOD VERSUS EVIL

PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD

Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.

I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.

I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.

I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.

I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.

I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.

Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.

May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.

With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.

Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me. 

Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, Amen.

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duchess01

PLEASE PRAY FOR ABUSED, MISSING, AND TRAFFICKED CHILDREN

BE MY VOICE

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JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN

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CHILD NOT CHOICE

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duchess01

PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER

MAPA = MAKE AMERICA PRAY AGAIN

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duchess01

SING UNTO THE LORD

Sing unto the Lord a brand new song;
Sing praises to Him all your lifelong;
For He has sustained and kept you sound;
His blessings upon you daily abound!

Sing – Sing your sweet song of praise;
Ring – Ring your Hand bells and raise;
Your voice to His Honor and Glory be;
Your ringtone – a joyful noise – artfully!

With thanksgiving, let your sweet song begin;
With gratefulness, thank Him for peace within;
In Him, through Him, and with Him, we thrive;
Keep His commandments – Keep hope alive!

Victoriously – Jesus conquered death;           
He suffered and bled until his last breath;
Praise Him – Oh, Praise Him – thank Him in song;
For without His gift – we would not belong!

It is said when we sing – then, twice we pray;
Double the praise – sing a new song today;
Raise up your voice – in Psalms praise His name;
Jesus is Lord – let your voice proclaim!

Sing unto the Lord – a new song today;
Rejoice in His blessings a brand new way;
When we give Honor and Glory to Him;
Our hearts fill with joy – right up to the brim!

D01: 04/17/2013

para59r
duchess01

Psalm 91. The most powerful prayer from the Bible. God’s protection, healing 
#psalm91 #psalms #prayer

Pray Everyday

https://rumble.com/v57jz8d-psalm-91.the-most-powerful-prayer-from-the-bible.-gods-protection-healing-p.html

Sleep Well with Psalms. Psalm 91, Psalm 121, Psalm 3, Psalm 4, Psalm 139.
#faith #god #psalms

prayeveryday777

https://rumble.com/v57jvfg-sleep-well-with-psalms.-psalm-91-psalm-121-psalm-3-psalm-4-psalm-139.faith-.html

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HAVE A VERY BLESSED DAY !!!  ❤️❤️❤️

Aubergine

Is it just me, or does this “Snow White” actress, in hot water for her election comments, look like a human version of a sloth?

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https://www.dailywire.com/news/snow-white-star-rachel-zegler-apologizes-after-backlash-for-attacking-trump-voters

Why do all so many of the young stars now look funny, or unattractive? Is it to make people feel better about themselves?

kalbokalbs

That fool is the epitome of Joy.

Perhaps it is all part of Disney blending genders, tranny crap. Or so I’d guess.

Warped crap Americans are mostly rejecting.

michaelh

What? You sound like you don’t favor equity and DEI.

Aubergine

No, actually, I don’t!

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

She has the right politics. THAT is what matters!

Seriously, this is straight up Stalinist agenda.

I’m personally OK with having “interesting” looking folks in front of cameras, as well as lots of “normal” people, too, but the attractive people and the “easy on the eyes” people are what draw audiences. I agree that an over-abundance of weird-looking and unattractive people is strange and betrays an agenda of some kind – including some new form of political correctness on the far left.

Aubergine

As an artist, I love beauty in all forms. And it isn’t always young or perfect, either. Anthony Hopkins, Judy Dench, Reese Witherspoon (pretty, but not conventionally), etc. But there is this sort of conspicuously unattractive breed of people all over Hollywood now, and it’s strange.

michaelh

The Naked Communist – 45 Communist Goals
Communist Goals (1963) From “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen
#23 Control art critics and directors of art museums. ” Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”

#24 Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.

#25 Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV.

#31 Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of “the big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over. [Note: Obliterating the American past, with its antecedents in principles of freedom, liberty and private ownership is a major goal of the communists then and now.]

https://web.archive.org/web/20200805075508/https://www.theuglytruthproject.org/post/2019/08/16/THE-NAKED-COMMUNIST-45-COMMUNIST-GOALS

Aubergine

Yikes!

Gail Combs

The UGLINESS can be seen in the new buildings and monuments. We have some really butt ugly town houses going up all over the Raleigh area … BARF!

michaelh

To you point, too, anyone can get dolled up and have a lot of “important people” point and say “beautiful” but it doesn’t mean you are, and it sure doesn’t say anything about the heart . . . you can’t fake authentic joy no matter how much YSM cheers it on

Aubergine

True.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Perhaps they are trying a new way to get humans to want to modify themselves, after the failure of the TRANS psy-op. Maybe they’re going to try to normalize cosmetic surgery by promoting dissatisfaction with natural beauty.

They want us to be voluntary lab animals, led into the trap by our own.

Aubergine

At this point, literally nothing they could do would surprise me.

Valerie Curren

One of the joys of watching “dirty 70s movies” (Hubby’s term for sweaty, dirty films, not smut) is that most of the people look like regular folks, not models. An extreme joy, for me, is No Cell Phones!!!!

kalbokalbs

“Surely we are at the corner of “no” and “where.”

And yet, though we are out of planets, we are not done.”

  • I have learned more through your articles, than I ever did during my school years.

Thank you.

Are we going to look more inward.

Nah, “To Infinity, And Beyond!” Toy Story.

Looking forward to future reads AND education.

PAVACA

SteveInCO
Thank you!
The music that Gustav Holst wrote for “Neptune” in The Planets is so completely amazing. I wonder how many times The Planets is performed in the way that Holst originally intended — which was to have the female chorus for the end of “Neptune” in a separate room from the orchestra; and to have the doors of this room slowly close while the chorus is finishing the decrescendo-to-pianissimo “fade out” ending of the piece.
By the way, love the curled mustache ends on the principal flute player in the orchestra!
For some reason, I think tholin somehow sounds more “elegant” than star-tar.

PAVACA

SteveInCO
Thank you again!
So, would it be acceptable to say, “John Thune is a tholin”?

PAVACA

SteveInCO
LOL.
“If the tholin fits…”

Hey, you’re making me laugh. GOOD therapy.

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jgreen42

I think “Uranus was being an ass” is a pretty good sentence.

Brave and Free

This whole covid PPP was nothing but a $$ laundering operation IMO.
Hopefully Gaetz will prosecute everyone involved. Then Elon makes sure things like this women just being moved to another job never takes place again.

https://headlineusa.com/ex-homeland-security-official-who-now-works-for-ag-dept-pleads-guilty-to-844k-ppp-fraud/

michaelh

100% and STILL within Statute of Limitations

eilert

Mat Gaetz’s so-called sex ring collusion with this guy Greenberg (who was sent to jail for 10 years) was all made up, but the Propaganda Stream Media does not show this proof. They KNOW this is a LIE, but still make it look like Gaetz was in on it and repeatedly.

Rep. Matt Gaetz

@RepMattGaetz

After the text messages admitting Greenberg was paying for his victim’s attorneys, he confessed his lies to a jailhouse informant, who he was sharing a holding cell with in 2021. This jailhouse informant sent a letter to my attorneys confirming Greenberg:

· ADMITTED authorities found records that he gave money to a 17-year-old on AND that he was charged with sex trafficking a minor.

· ADMITTED to fabricating NUMEROUS EVENTS that he told investigators, including claiming that he arranged for a minor to “hook up” with other people.

· Said investigators leaked the charges to the media.

· Wanted to “help the feds” to get his time reduced.

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Valerie Curren

Rush used this phrase many times “it’s the nature of the evidence, not the seriousness of the charge.’ The Dem(on)s would often level “serious” charges against political enemies for which there was basically no evidence. They knew they were lying about their opponents but the media hit jobs would continue until the target slunk away in manufactured & misplaced shame.

Trump is such a breath of fresh air to stand up, fight back, charge through, & win not bow!

Gail Combs

ZERO HEDGE on Germany:

German Government Collapses As Mass Strikes Grind Economy To A Halt
The US bombing the Nordstream pipeline as well as the Green Idiots sending fuel prices sky high has not ‘helped’ Germany. Also US military presence helps fuel the German Economy. With Trump set to kill the Ukraine War and pull out troops Germany is now in a world of hurt — Death by a thousand cuts if you will.

August 17, 2004
US Troop Pullout To Hit Local German EconomiesThe impact of US plans to pull some 70,000 troops out of Europe and Asia is likely to be felt most acutely in Germany — especially in smaller towns whose economies depend on the US presence.

US military in Germany: What you need to knowBen Knight
02/29/2024
February 29, 2024
The number of US military personnel stationed in Germany has risen significantly under the presidency of Joe Biden, reflecting heightening tensions in Europe…. from under 39,000 in 2019 to over 50,000 in 2024.

Germany is home to five of the seven US Army garrisons in Europe (the other two are in Belgium and Italy), and the US Army Europe is headquartered at the garrison in Wiesbaden, a city close to Frankfurt in central western Germany…

US military in Germany: More than troopsBecause US military installations also employ American civilians, and servicemen and women can sometimes bring their families with them overseas, sizable civilian American communities…

An earlier version of this article was published in 2019 when then-US President Donald Trump announced he’d pull US troops out of Germany.
 

duchess01

11.16.24: Miracle MUSHROOMS for SUPPORTING the IMMUNE SYSTEM, Amazing Testimony, Pets/Humans, PRAY!

And We Know

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michaelh

Can someone explain to me all the smoke and no fire around Gaetz’ supposed ethics violations, and these accusations of s3xual impropriety?

I was talking with folks at work and they’re convinced he’s really scummy but would be nice to have some receipts on this . . .

kalbokalbs

Have no details.

100% believe. IF DOJ or FIB could manufacture crimes that would stick, Gaetz would have been indicted years ago.

Edit. Eilert has a related post, up a bit.

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Deplorable Patriot

They’re throwing dirt at him to see what sticks. There are no receipts for any of it, and the unfortunate thing is once a person’s reputation is tarnished with such accusations, it’s very hard to correct the record. I know of multiple accused people with that issue.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Yes. It is so clear that they’re out to get him, that it has backfired hugely.

Gail Combs

The problem they have is it is an over used the tactic. Now it is a YAWN… You’re trying that BS again?

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Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

I can talk about the “sexual impropriety” allegations.

Gaetz has openly dated beautiful younger women – often rich and high-society – but very young (college-age), in a way that drives the old geezers wild with envy. I don’t recall names, but IMO he was being “bothered” by Dodge and FIB with a low-bar goal of drawing negative attention to his dating habits, in the same way that they wanted to get rid of that judge in Alabama.

It looks to me like Dodge and FIB pressured an “Epstein type” who was close to Gaetz and Republicans, as a way to get Gaetz, or at least get control of him. It backfired in a huge way when Gaetz shed light on it, instead of playing ball. The Demmunist agencies then moved the game to the House.

The NY Post does a good job here of showing both sides.

https://nypost.com/2024/11/14/us-news/woman-told-house-ethics-panel-that-matt-gaetz-had-sex-with-her-when-she-was-17-report/

I personally don’t think highly of men who date women young enough to be their daughters, but having grown up with girls and young women who would have jumped on Sean Connery like a rutting buck, given the slightest chance, and having had to put up myself with college girls (and teachers) wanting “more” (sometimes for a passing grade), and understanding the way it is in France (women have their affairs while young, men when they’re old), I don’t pass too much judgment on any legal relationships.

I think what they’re doing to Gaetz is far worse than anything he did.

Gail Combs

Michael look at this comment:

https://www.theqtree.com/2024/11/16/2024%c2%b711%c2%b716-joe-biden-didnt-win-daily-thread-and-neither-did-kamala-harris/#comment-1368342

I ti s recent here from eilert

Also I heard he was set up by the FBI. That is why they really do not want him near the DOJ.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

OMG – I didn’t consider the possibility that Gaetz was SET UP. That would be so typical of FIB.

FIB and friends (not sure who – some kind of corrupt black hats) tried to set me up at least twice on would-be gun violations. In one case, they created doctored evidence to do it. It was only because I spotted the ambushes, that I skated past their treachery.

They are NASTY and they will set people up. Very sad.

TradeBait2

Yup, from my experiences I would rate it close to 100% he was.

michaelh

Thanks for quick support from the team

If someone wants to really poke a stick in the eye of Dodge and FIB right now, throw up a post showing how Gaetz was set up and how he’s going to make them cry

Valerie Curren

Sounds like a Gail or Wolf type specialty 😉

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Jack Posobiec just did this – it’s in the 11/17/24 open!

eilert

See my post a few posts up about what really happened.
https://www.theqtree.com/2024/11/16/2024%c2%b711%c2%b716-joe-biden-didnt-win-daily-thread-and-neither-did-kamala-harris/#comment-1368342

This guy Greenberg used the 17-year-old girl in a blackmail scheme, which backfired and was arrested and to get more favorable sentencing he lied about Gaetz’s involvement. These lies were then leaked by investigators to the media.
Greenberg told/confessed all of this to his bunkmate in prison, who send a letter Gaetz’s lawyers describing what he has been told.

eilert

This is how you count paper ballots, but it is cheaper and takes more or less the same time AND more importantly it is far more transparent, since you can review each count later on since it is recorded on video.

George

@BehizyTweets

WATCH: Voters in Searcy, Arkansas, opted to hand count their 2024 election ballots instead of relying on corrupt machines.

Officials found that hand-counting was actually much cheaper than spending millions on the machines.

The process they used is the coolest thing ever. Each table had a team consisting of one announcer/counter and two people who marked the votes (ideally a Democrat and a Republican)—a giant camera also recorded the process.

Imagine if every vote cast in the country was counted like this. Cheating would be nearly IMPOSSIBLE.

eilert

This tweet is showing again.
It seems to be a hit and miss.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

IMO this is tending to confirm my initial theory – that resources at X (Twitter) were being shifted to support high election and post-election traffic, and away from external functions like the “Twitter plugin” that cause X-posts (tweets) to show up pretty on different platforms. That would have been smart.

Gail Combs

I can not get my comments to load 1/2 the time.

michaelh

Streamed + recorded (+VSS), 3rd party and cloud backups on public S3 buckets

GA/FL

OUR GUY posted a video early this morning:

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113492464330733604

TheseTruths

That’s an excellent short summary of how they said Trump was done forever, their attacks on him, and his triumph.

gil00

Tennessee frens, do you know much about this county or the story?
No training officer, shooting up a home and killing 7 dogs, and his charges are minimal at best.
The couple needs a really good attorney and to get quite a bit to buy a new home away from where this happened. I couldn’t live there again.

https://nypost.com/2024/11/16/us-news/tennessee-cop-allegedly-kills-7-dogs-during-animal-welfare-check-at-home-while-family-out-to-dinner/

A Tennessee cop allegedly shot and killed seven dogs with a rifle during an animal welfare check while their guardians were out to dinner.

Connor Brackin, the now former McNairy County Sheriff’s deputy, responded to the house in Bethel Springs, Tenn., on Nov. 4, following a call to check on the dogs, according to Atlanta News First.

When Brackin arrived, he allegedly opened fire upon the poor pups for no apparent reason, according to authorities.

The dogs’ owners, Kevin Dismuke and his wife, were out to dinner, according to Fox 13 Memphis.

The couple say when they returned home from the meal they found three of their dogs dead inside their home and four more dead outside, according to that report.

To step out of your car with a .223 caliber rifle and shoot through my damn house,” Dismuke said to the outlet in utter disbelief.

The apoplectic dog dad said that someone had called law enforcement reporting malnourished pets at an abandoned home

“I don’t know where they come up with the idea that they were malnourished or abandoned,” he told Fox 13.

Why he pulled up and done what he done, that’s something I don’t have an answer for. I’ll never have an answer for it,” Dismuke said.

A warrant was issued Tuesday and the alleged dog killer turned himself in on Wednesday, according to the report. He was released on bond.

Brackin had not even been on the job for a month at the time of the killings, according to the sheriff’s office.

He was dismissed from his post and was charged with seven counts of aggravated cruelty to animals and eight counts of reckless endangerment.

TradeBait2

Sheriff Buford Pusser’s former stomping grounds. Just sayin…

Know nothing else about the story. But agree, somebody needs to pay bigly for this.

gil00

So….no one guarding the he house. This is such an awful story on multiple fronts.

TradeBait2

Joe Lange with a doozy. Buckle up.

He must have “protection” to be able to continue to reveal this mess.

https://badlands.substack.com/p/a-dereliction-of-duty

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

This is gonna be some ride!

TradeBait2

Joe is doing a masterful job of linking it all together with timelines using publicly sourced information.

If we had real investigative journalists in the media they would have exposed all this long ago. But we don’t. They would rather make a deal over a trashy Puerto Rico or Matt Gaetz love life. Everything has been so fake, so contrived. I am happy it is getting exposed.

I take comfort that PDT and patriots have it all. But we need to enter into the punishment phase or the sheeple will remain asleep and the murdering thieves will continue believing they can still do the dirty with impunity.

GA/FL

👀-👀-👀-!!!  
Border Czar Tom Homan Says Trump Will Treat Cartels Like ISIS: “Wipe Them off the Face of the Earth” [VIDEO]

The way things are shaping up – this term ain’t going to be anything like the first one!

Trump is gathering a team of badass Honey Badgers !!!

michaelh

Just the illegal cartels or the pseudo-legal ones too? Asking for a friend

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

LAWFARE IS A CARTEL. END ALL CARTELS.

kalbokalbs

Destroy, take away, deny Cartel Centers of Gravity.

  • Command and Control. Money. Commination’s. HQs / strongholds.
Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

I love the way Trump is shaping the battlefield on the Demmunists and Mexico.

Standing with the cartels is not where they want to be. But that may be where they are going to be.

kalbokalbs

Unrealted.

Bell notifier in my case, remains on vacation. Last like, 10 Nov.

Have enabled the notifier, selected notify on likes and comments. No joy.

Disabled notifier AND uncheck notify likes / comments. Logged out of both QTree and WP. Shutdown.

Start up fresh, login, enable notifier, selected notify likes / comments. No joy.

Everything else on QTree seems to be quite responsive, including green / orange balls.

Ideas welcome. Overall not a big deal. But, I do like to acknowledge replies to my post, even if it is a like. A courtesy thing. Again, not a big deal. I can search out replies wherever they may pop up.

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Valerie Curren