“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!
Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.
Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!
Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.
The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.
And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.
And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.
OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.
If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!
W
Happy Holidays!
Yeah, I would normally prefer to say “Merry Christmas”, but this time, I really mean “Happy Holidays!”
It turns out that “Theistic Evolution Thursday” matches a lovely array of holidays this year.
Mole Day (October 23)
Thanksgiving (November 27)
Christmas (December 25)
New Year’s Day (January 1)
Hopefully, I’ll have special editions on those days.
Word From SteveInCO
A couple of weeks ago, Steve dropped me a PMTW that further explained his departure from this site. For a variety of reasons, I didn’t bother to mention it, the most important being that it wasn’t obviously being designated to be shared, and I wanted to respect Steve’s privacy and wishes.
Now, it may have been that Steve actually wanted me to share it, but I could not tell, because some unknown part of his message got cut off at the end – an apparent victim of some software limit on how much text can be copied and pasted into a guest comment. So I can’t even be sure about what things he said that might be missing. Steve’s intent was to drop off the message and not read anything on the site – he even said that he had not read any of our comments, as part of his determination to be “final” about his departure.
The most important thing to note is the following. Nothing Steve said, involved any change in what he had said before, or in his decision. He added some slight explanations of his earlier points, which was helpful to me as an admin and moderator. One thing I should say is this. Steve explained that upon later reading what he had sent, he realized that he had removed a few incendiary comments, but had accidentally left some references to them. THAT is why his statement about how we might react negatively to his departure seemed curious. There were some burning bridges which he had removed from the goodbye note, but he left text referring to them, essentially.
Whether Steve ever comes back is unknown, but for the moment, I think it’s unlikely. In any case, I wish him well, and much success in his endeavors.
Good News About Japan
It looks like Japan is going to get a female version of Shinzo Abe as Prime Minister. Her name is Sanae Takaichi (pronounced Sah-nah-eh Ta-ka-ee-chee). The more I read about her, the better she sounds. I suggest reading the Wikipedia article on her. Enjoy the hand-wringing and pearl-clutching by all the right people!
As our family’s very excellent beach adventure nears that we call our Fall Frolic, I felt it was time to give an updated Ground Report from this neck of the woods since it is in a tourism mecca for the eastern US. Literally millions of “leafers” will be on the prowl into this region to enjoy the beautiful colors and pleasant conditions of hillbilly country in Autumn.
They will be faced with frequent traffic issues in the form of bottlenecks on the main interstates and highways. I expect some “off the beaten path” travels and adventures, which will be of economic benefit to some smaller communities in the area. I will address a few of the primary road issues later in this report.
But first…
Bud
Thank you very much for your prayers and concerns for Bud. I am very happy to report his surgery went as well as we all hoped. Bud’s dad called me after he made it back to his room. Doc #2 did exactly what he said needed to be done and would do. He did a resection of 10″ of the diseased/dead part of his colon, closed, and sent him to recovery. The procedure took less than an hour. He was out of recovery three hours later with a normal meal, well, as much as hospital food can be normal, waiting for him in his room. He was told he could eat whatever food he wanted that did not cause him discomfort. He will be in the hospital for a couple more days and released if it all goes as expected. He will have a no heavy lifting restriction for three months.
The surgery was identical to my father’s from sixty years ago. The result is similar as well. We are all encouraged by the results and God’s provision. He dodged a bullet with idgit Doc #1. The lesson being always to pray first and then get a second opinion if you have any doubts whatsoever with anything medical.
Chemtrails Again In The News
Below there is a link with MTG coming off the top rope on chemtrails. Like or dislike her, the awareness she is bringing to the issue is a very good thing. I am still amazed at the people who will accept and agree that the jabs turned out to be a bad thing for humanity since they have been obviously injuring and killing people worldwide. But mention this subject and they go into denial and think it is BS or another annoying conspiracy theory even with the government itself admitting that it has been done for over 80 years.
It’s just another tool in the belt of the globalist criminals with depop and creating chaos for business opportunities. Your injury or death means nothing short of a celebration to them.
Anecdotal observations for our region have been that weather patterns are returning to the 1980’s and early 1990’s patterns in the eastern part of the state, which means normal to you flatlanders. Call it a regular old climate cycle. Precipitation has been historically normal without many extremes of deluges or severe droughts that had become common for the past 30 years. Temps have dropped as a trend overall. Local insect population has declined from its unprecedented annoyance level of the past several decades and is now more typical of this mountainous area. Wildlife remains abundant. One other pleasantry has been that we enjoyed cool nights in the 50’s for nearly two weeks in mid-late August before warming up moderately into September. That has not happened since the late 1980’s. We have returned to “mild” and pleasant conditions for which this area was formerly noted, along with the brilliant blue, non-chem trailed skies
All of that says the fall colors could be spectacular in the region unless the remaining government criminal embeds pull off more wildfires.
It also means the potential for some major snowfall events, which have not been seen around here for a long time. The old farmers’ weather predictions related to fogs in August bringing snow in winter will be scary this year if proven true. It was very foggy in the mornings for over half of the month of August, as in so dense you could not see more than 20 feet in front of you type foggy at times. Will see how it goes. I am thankful for my tri-fuel generator just in case. In the 1980’s and early 1990’s we had some dandy winter storms that paralyzed the area.
Effects of Helene
Less than two weeks ago there were local news reports about Helene’s on-going effects that blew many of us away. Of course the national fake news would never report it so I am doing so here. There was a feature story from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) that controls the waterways and lakes in our region. Their leadership and engineers discussed openly on local newscasts that if they had not opened the dams more and lowered the water levels of the lakes a few weeks before Helene hit, there would have been two or three dam failures in east TN as the volume from the storm increased water levels in those affected lakes by 21 feet. Their assessment was that both Knoxville, Chattanooga and everything within the vicinity would have been been flooded.More than 2 million people would have likely had their lives signficantly impacted. The DOD, DOE and Oak Ridge National Lab reservation would also have been affected as it sits along the Clinch River basin that is in this discussed TVA controlled flood zone. Same with the University of Tennessee main campus that is located on the Tennessee River in downtown Knoxville.
Once again by the providence of God, a regional calamity was avoided by the wise acts of unseen engineers, who had no idea an event was coming of Helene’s magnitude in just a few weeks. They believed that precipitation in the weeks prior to Helene was above normal and raising lake levels more than they deemed appropriate and safe, so they took action sooner than normal. They saved lives and untold misery.
All I can say is that it was a good thing residents around here did not know or there would have an untold amount of panic and chaos.
Nah, nothing to see here. Cloud seeding and geoengineering are BS. Receiving 1.5-2.5 feet of precipitation in 48 hours on top of a mountain range from a hurricane that made landfall hundreds of miles away that was initially going in the opposite direction, a path that all previous hurricanes have taken, would not cause that. Would it?
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As things stand now in east TN, these TVA operated lakes and waterways are in recovery. We were very fortunate the dams did not fail during the event. As it was, massive flooding of area rivers and tributaries contributed to towns flooding, death, property damage, and extended despair. Lake clean up efforts will pick back up this fall since water levels were lowered by TVA as they are supposed to do every year. They made sure they informed the public it had been done this time. As Mother Nature cleans herself, recreational activities in the lakes will also increase. As an example, due to the nastiness of the water quality the many professional bass fishing tournaments typically held in the region post Helene were cancelled or relocated. I am pleased to report that they have resumed for the fall/winter schedule beginning in late September. That is a very good sign water quality conditions and natural habitats are improving.
Area Roads/Bridges
Now on to the road situation. Most of us never really think about all of the bridges we cross each day. In the affected area in TN alone there were 47 bridges destroyed. Yup. Due to the great efforts of our state’s DOT and related contractors, 29 have been rebuilt a year later. This includes the bridges wiped out along I-26 in the most affected Unicoi County area, a massive rebuild. Most of the contractors worked straight through the coldest parts of winter to get things done. They are unsung heroes.
Which leads to the most important damaged section of interstate road in the region; eleven miles of I-40 through the gorge at the state lines of NC and TN. Earlier in the spring the contractor was able to get two lane traffic going along this stretch. Large tractor trailer rigs had to reroute such that only smaller rigs are permitted on the road as it was on I-26 for a year.
The good news is that traffic through the area generally moves, albeit more slowly, such that delays are usually only around 30 minutes or so unless you are on it during peak periods. The other good news is that they are rebuilding in the manner they would if it was a dam. They are going 30′ down into the bedrock along the river and building a dam like structure for the entire eleven miles. Rock slides will no longer cause extended shut downs for clean up and repairs and the adjacent river will no longer wash out the road bed. The various governmental entities got together and agreed to build the best it can be and the funding is appropriated. This is encouraging because it is a major national interstate that cross country truckers and tourists are dependent upon.
The bad news is that it will take three years to complete. Yup – 2028. Oh well, at least the construction is well underway.
Total cost of project will be $1.36 billion for eleven miles of road rebuilding. Ouch.
Thankfully, FL has joined us in the chemtrails/geoengineering ban. That is a big deal. Hopefully, other Atlantic/Gulf bordering states will follow suit soon.
Regional Economy
The negative effects of Helene and its destruction of roads and bridges messed with tourism in the affected area. That would seem pretty obvious.
Not according to the local fake news media. They keep telling us that they are certain it is Trump’s tariffs causing it. Yes, despite TN’s 3.6 unemployment rate and a national CPI of 2%, the economy is slowing they say and people are having to stretch their budgets. Of course, people always have to stretch their budgets even in the best of times. That is just a tired old expression used by idgits in media.
The propaganda continues. The interesting thing to me is they continue to say leftist garbage in a deep red area while it is painfully obvious they have a dwindling number of advertisers to pay for those young, inexperienced (cheap) fakebook style news reporters.
In fact, the local Fox affiliate no longer has its own news staff. They contract the local NBC affiliate to use their news staff to provide it. That Fox affiliate is just hanging on by a thread.
In reality our tourism numbers through July revealed a 6% downturn year to date, although more recent visitation is surging unbelievably strong. The following photo was not taken in the middle of tourism season in July. This was from this past Saturday in October and an on-going thing for the past couple of weeks.
SIL was called in after his night shift later that day to assist with thousands of unruly young people who had taken over the roads throughout the county. So, authorities cancelled the second day of their event in response. Organizers have been told they are no longer welcome here. The recently hired new City Manager is much more safety oriented than the previous good ole boy who was afraid to step on anybody’s toes.
Some of the car shows and rod runs are getting out of hand, like this one did. It will no longer be tolerated throughout the area. Some residents could not leave or return to their neighborhoods due to the effects that day. They let their elected officials know they will take it into their own hands if it happens again. They put the heat on the mayors and the results were good.
Tourism will all end up strong on the year as it usually does. It has helped from a labor point of view with ICE cleaning things up. There are less illegals for employers to hire in restaurants, cleaning, lawn services and construction. You know, the ones the employers frequently pay cash under the table or otherwise pay for contractor services; who pay cash and provide housing free of charge under the table to their illegal employees. I know that probably shocks some readers. Not. Deporting them helps the rental housing market crunch for the citizens moving here for the many jobs that are available.
It is happening in the SC lowcountry as well. Per friends and news reports, ICE has been busy picking up illegal workers who had, yup, fake social security numbers and no visas. They were working in local businesses such as landscaping/nursery companies, construction, restaurants and such. Buh-bye, amigos. Their families are shown the door and head out with their departures. The businesses that hired them are then investigated and many are fined. They are monitored closely after that.
Expect voting turn out and results to change. Oh well…
Most know that many employers are a major reason we have many illegals in this country. The remaining illegals in our area have been left some time to self deport before being dealt with when ICE has more assets available. That appears to be soon as a large influx of ICE officers arrived two weeks ago. Employers have been placed on notice that they are aware of some who are still employed and residing in the area. I expect many to head out over the next 60 days. By exiting voluntarily they now know they can probably reenter legally with worker visas at some point. However, at that point the employers can no longer hire and pay them under the table, so there will be less of them.
The short lived tourism downturn was primarily due to much road construction during the peak tourism season even in areas that were not affected by Helene. This area is at the crossroads of two of the most traveled and far reaching interstates in America; I-75 north and south and I-40 east and west. I-81 also feeds into it from north and east. Both 40 and 75 have major road rebuilding and bridge replacement projects going on within an hour of the subject area that have made traveling a nightmare at times. Some of it had nothing to do with Helene, it was just age and condition related. The 75 rebuild/repaving project is nearing completion.
I also hate to tell Dolly she pushed the pricing envelope too far, but Dolly, you pushed the pricing envelope too far. That has not helped things. Many local folks can no longer afford the annual passes. That has not stopped the park from adding at least one major amusement ride to the park each year and this off season is no exception.
Things around here should grow in a big way in 2026. Conditions have not deterred many new attractions and businesses from going under construction throughout the area. Expansion is rapid in both commercial and residential sectors regionally. Housing inventory has improved. It is still tighter than normal, but going the right direction without an uptick in prices. If anything the prices have drifted down a bit with the increased inventory.
The industrial, educational and governmental sectors remain stable. Industrial will jump forward when the licensed nuclear power plant for DOD and private businesses in the Oak Ridge area is completed down the road. This new plant will be located at the site of a former small coal fired TVA power plant that was taken off line and removed recently.
Churches
Talk about a resurgence. My goodness, so many churches are growing rapidly. Baptist, Global Methodist and non-denominational are leading the charge. The “progressive” churches are declining steadily, but not anywhere enough to offset the growth in the others. Catholic churches have remained stable.
Young people were returning to church around here even before Charlie’s death, which mirrors a nationwide trend. That is a very good thing. As the drug culture is beaten back, I expect more of the same. Trans is not much of a thing in our neck of the woods, nor are pedos and perverts accepted in any way. Only the white liberal women will support any of them around here, which means the other 90+% of our population will not tolerate any of it.
Charlie Kirk’s death had an impact here as it has nationwide. People are still talking about what happened. People who would have never believed the truth about our current situation as a nation, do now. TPUSA chapters are booming.
Schools
A funny thing happened when ICE made its appearance. Children of illegals began disappearing as well. All of sudden there were many vacant desks in all of the classrooms this fall as school started. When added to the rapid expansion of homeschooling and 20 K of state students receiving financial assistance to attend private schools via the state’s school choice program, well, the times they are a’changing. All that led to some significant teacher, tutor and assistant layoffs. Which led to the state teacher association (non-union – right to work state) to becoming quieter and more cooperative with state authorities and administrators. It also reduced facility expansion plans in many school districts, which takes more tax burden off local tax paying residents.
Imagine that. The next thing the officials will be telling us is that the state’s comprehensive test scores have significantly improved.
It’s science.
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Medical Care
Another funny thing happened when ICE made its appearance; medical offices and hospitals are providing easier access to citizens. Wait times in emergency rooms have declined. Access to physicians is met with, “What time works for you that day?” and “If you need to be seen today I can work you in at 3 PM.” type responses. Lobbies are empty to having small numbers with short wait times to be seen. It is as if 1990 has returned to our area.
Food/Fuel Pricing
Overall food prices are down significantly everywhere. There is no denying that truth any more. Fuel prices have started slowly trending down. In our area it takes tourism to decline into the off season to see substantial declines of fuel prices. But the trend is down.
Conclusion
I could rattle on, but that is enough to give a good indication for where we are. I hope some of you will do likewise and talk about your areas so the rest of us can learn more about what is going on in this great country of ours.
Please remember Wolf’s rules for our community. In general that means to be respectful to each other and to pull no shenanigans that your mom might find offensive or otherwise cause jail time. That said, free speech is honored here.
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!
Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.
Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!
Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.
The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.
And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.
And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.
OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.
If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!
(3) How does “Putin’s Brain” (Alexander Dugin) view what’s happening in the West? In many ways, like Bibi does, only he has a different name for the “Woke Reich”!
Alexander Dugin argues that the murder of Charlie Kirk and the Greater Israel project have fatefully split the Western political edifice, just recently held together by liberal globalism, into three opposing poles, leaving the “collective West” teetering on the brink of revolution.
(4) In your dreams, you talked to your school board like this dude talked to his!
(5) Best case I’ve seen yet for the “trans conspiracy” theory of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and how the plot was set up to minimize the fallout to the radical left, and direct blame away from the “trans community”.
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
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Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
olivaster
adjective
having an olive complexion
of the color of the olive
tawny
Used in a sentence
The olivaster hue of the walls gave the room a peaceful ambiance.
Shown in a picture
Shades of Olive Green
Shown in a video (maybe)
MUSIC!
A band called Olive?
THE STUFF
This is interesting both at the “Steve” level, and at the “Duchess” level. This guy talks about his most important moment of realization in quantum mechanical theory (which resulted in a “new interpretation of quantum mechanics”) and how it happened because of his not doing so well on a test. Another case of not seeing where “bad things” may lead.
Have faith!
This guy is actually surprisingly clear, simple, and easy to understand.
If you find that interesting, there is a much longer video of the whole conversation, but it’s over two hours, so you were warned!
Notice the clickbait headline on the thumbnail. “Quantum theory crumbles?” REALLY? C’mon, Corn Pop! LOL!
This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!
Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.
Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!
Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.
The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.
And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.
And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.
OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.
If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!
W
(1) Everybody needs to watch a meth-head getting into a car chase every once in a while.
Meet Dinda Nuffins-Kristol and her righteous ride!
Yeah, this is painful. Skip it if you’re feeling sensitive today.
(2) Another case of Dindus and Democrats ganging up on a normie who then “commits” self-defense and gets punished for it by the WOKE MOB (yes, the dude was convicted and given 20 years).
(3) Interstellar Object 3I/Atlas is still coming and still surprising people! And now it’s GREEN!
Please ignore the spooky thumbnail – quality science is coming to the rescue!
With our focus still on New York, we can dig deeper into the system that delivers slaves to be used by the wealthy and globalists which dominate it. As devious and complex as their methods appear to be, they are really simple in concept.
Today the goal is to enslave people in vices of which they hold a natural attraction as well as poverty that leads to total dependence upon a master. The first intends to warp their minds into abnormal and immoral behavior that at first excites and fulfills them, but gradually entraps them. The second is a long utilized method to enslavement. For both they seek to bend the targets and develop an overall sense of hopelessness, that it is pointless to fight against these “natural’ inclinations that become addictions that slowly take control of the mind and soul as well as their physical dependence on the masters to live. This can lead to all sorts of evil thoughts and deeds. Again – think Tyler Robinson for one recent example.
As a personal experience example, I had never heard much about drag queens until I started doing business travel to NYC two decades ago. The business people, primarily investment bankers, we met with were regulars at local clubs where they performed. Some even had photos of some of the “queens” framed and hanging on the walls in their offices. For this hillbilly it was all a bit disconcerting and uncomfortable. They all thought it was good fun and asked me to join them for dinner and to tag along to a show. I passed. To me it was just another culture clash and reason to get out of there. But it taught me a lesson that I never forgot. The people that dress and act like that are perverts and the people who enjoy their shows are birds of a feather to even be interested. That meant they could never be fully trusted in any situation. There were other red flag things they did and said, but that was one that stood out.
Since America was founded under the providence of God, we seem to be in a quandary. The embracing of secularism, communism, socialism, criminality, perversions, humanism and the corresponding march to transhumanism, and so on stands in direct opposition to the Creator and His stated purposes. It is my opinion that it is not found more openly expressed anywhere than on the city streets of the nation’s largest urban center – New York City. It is one shining example of what not to become.
Psalm 49:5
Why should I fear in days of adversity, When the injustice of those who betray me surrounds me, (NASB)
Yes, they were then as we are today; unnerved by the evil of that day as many are in this day. The worry that resulted then as it does now led to fear, submission and even revolt against oppressors. Things can head downhill in a hurry. Fear changes the minds and hearts of mankind. Survival becomes the modus operandi and accommodation of rulers and taskmasters frequently results. Whatever it takes to get by is the response even when there is a constant drumbeat of dread beating in the subconscious.
Look closely a what happened with the Charlie Kirk assassination details and narratives in the days that followed. Already there are calls to reconcile differences by those who in the days before were calling for his rejection, fighting and violence. There is celebration by the demons on the side that approved and encouraged the deed. It openly demonstrates the insincerity of those posturing after demanding power, cheating elections for power, attempting to assassinate a political opponent (Trump) to retain power, looking the other way while millions of illegals pour across the borders to retain power, and so on.
We learn that their goal is to add slaves to support their goals and ambitions, which are relating to the overthrow the American way of life to take control for themselves.
Admit it, many of you (me included), were worried and concerned during most of the years leading up to the term of #45; the lies, deceptions and crimes endured throughout the term of #46; the anticipation of PDT’s return as #47 while being investigated, charged and enduring attempted incarcerations and assassinations. Even now with the federal judge law fare mutiny there is concern. To some it may have just been unsettling, for most it has been depressing and may have made us bitter.
During the past decade, how many Americans prepped for what seemed to be the end of days of our nation? Looking at gun and ammo sales alone answers that question.
It causes people who are normally kind and helpful to fellow Americans to retreat into preservation mode and hiving. Which is exactly what the evil doers of the past as well as the present desire. The product they seek is disunity into smaller groupings of people they can infect and control, or in the case of MAGA backers, isolate and attack.
Which results in… slavery.
Founders And Slaves
It has become apparent to me that most of us do not really understand that slavery has always been a thing with mankind. Groupings of people have always viewed other groupings of people as lessers throughout history. Whether that be related to skin color, national origin, religions, political beliefs – whatever. It is the figurative Star of David that identifies people as non-human who are to be used, abused and discarded when their usefulness is complete.
Some slave masters exhibit a heart of compassion as the revelation of what they have done opens their minds. We have seen this throughout this study of our Declaration of Independence signers. Some released their slaves to be free. Others retained some due to honest concerns about their wellbeing within a developing society that could be raw and brutal. Still others held on to them for for personal gain. A handful of slaves refused to be free, they liked how they were treated and living. These were generally associated with serving benevolent masters who regarded them more as members of a patriarchal led family.
However, we also know many were seeking to escape as soon as they had the opportunity and were willing to fight and die in the war to have that opportunity. Many joined the British forces as a result.
Which proves the point that all mankind yearns to be free. Even those who remained to serve their masters when given the opportunity to leave, did so willingly. It seems our founding fathers were also on a life journey of discovery of the meaning of what the Declaration of Independence states even as they composed it:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
That statement as the foundation of our new nation was the death knell for physical slavery of people in America going forward. We see similar words about the subject in the Holy Bible where we also learn that all mankind is created equal, which is probably why the founders included it as a principle for America. I sincerely doubt many founders were thinking much about the predicament of the slaves when they composed it. They should have, to not do so was blatantly hypocritical. I am sure that many felt conflicted by it from their own journal entries and correspondence. History has taught us that it took a lot of funerals of the slave holders and their family members over the next century to finally get the principle firmly rooted into our national psyche, but the God fearing freedom lovers got it done.
However, it did not stop those who profit most from having and using slaves from finding other methods of doing so while using their positions of power in government, business, religions, and so forth.
Nowhere has that ever been found to be more openly integrated into its way of life than in New York in my opinion. It started early on with the state leadership’s refusal to approve the Declaration of Independence. They abstained as the other 12 colonies agreed to be independent. So, they kicked the dirt and gave in to not be left out of the spoils that could result. Many of their leaders in those days were loyalists and Tories as our study continues to show, so they wanted to play both sides to keep things the way they were. However, the Average Joe of New York was very patriotic as the numbers who joined the military show. Which is still how it goes in New York today, some 250 years later. The leadership is corrupted and aligned with evil doers to retain power. They maintain control through the imported who came from oppressive circumstances and know nothing better than what they are provided.
There is a solution.
We the People need to change that by first removing all of the illegals in NY since many have been given the right to vote through fake ID’s, fraudulent voter registrations, and crooked judiciary and law enforcement. The #1 problem in NYC is housing availability and affordability per their own representations. Guess what gets largely solved with illegals exiting? Guess what the corrupt government officials will fight tooth and nail as a result? Yup, removing illegals who vote, work, and support criminal leaders; many of whom also receive rental income through properties they and their handlers own.
It is a system and it is as corrupt as Hell. I am personally looking forward to ICE and Homeland Security’s full scale assault on the illegals and citizen criminals who harbor them in NYC. That starts taking bites out of The Big Apple and their plantations.
But most of all it takes a realization of the individual parts played in its continuation. We need to develop an awareness that we are sinners and need to confess and repent. That is the long term solution. Sort of like the converted slave trader turned preacher (John Newton) from centuries ago who wrote the lyrics of this still relevant and treasured song.
Amazing grace! How sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found; Was blind, but now I see.
’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, And grace my fears relieved; How precious did that grace appear The hour I first believed!
Through many dangers, toils, and snares, I have already come; ’Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home.
The Lord has promised good to me, His Word my hope secures; He will my shield and portion be As long as life endures.
When we’ve been there ten thousand years, Bright shining as the sun, We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise Than when we’d first begun.
Time to move on to the next signer.
William Floyd
William Floyd was born in 1734 in Brookhaven, NY to Nicoll and Tabitha Floyd. William’s great grandfather immigrated to the area in the 1620 time frame. The family was of Welsh descent. He opened a law practice there in 1640. William’s grandfather bought a 4400 acre farm in Brookhaven in 1688. William’s parents built a home on the property in 1723, which is where William was born. His father passed when he was seventeen and left the farm to him. He was successful and ran a profitable farming operation as well as renting land to others. He had no formal education, just practical experience as well as learning from the highly educated and accomplished circle of friends they had in the area. In addition to farming, with the property fronting the Atlantic Ocean, William had business involvements with shipping through dock operations as well as in the fishing business.
He married Hannah Jones in 1760 and they had three children together. His activities in local and provincial politics increased due to his influence on Long Island and in Connecticut. As a result he was an easy selction to represent Suffolk County in the First Continental Congress. After the Battle of Lexington and Concord, he was elected to the Second Continental Congress and nominated to several committees. He faithfully served there throughout the period. He was nominated as Colonel in the Suffolk County regiment. He spent his time split between Congress and securing funding for the Continental Army, handling Indian affairs, handling the treatment of loyalists, and issuance of paper money.
After the Declaration was approved, NY delegates were cleared to sign, which William Floyd did. A very short time later battles were lost on Long Island under General Washington. The British took Long Island and with it, Floyd’s home. Hannah Floyd buried valuable family assets before fleeing with their children and other residents across the harbor to Middletown, CT. Floyd took leave from Congress and Gov. Trumbull authorized an armed party to cross over the sound and retrieve Floyd’s assets from his farm. He then served a short term in the NY Senate before returning to the Continental Congress.
The effects of war were not kind to Hannah and she passed away from illness, fatigue and exposure in 1781. William returned to his farm after the war in 1783 and found everything essentially destroyed. A year later he married Joanna Strong and they had two children. All five of William’s children survived to adulthood and had families. In 1794 William conveyed his farm to his son, Nicoll, and moved to a frontier area of NY in Westernville, purchased land and built a house there. He resided there until his death in 1821. He was a slave owner up to the point of his death. He is buried in the Presbyterian cemetery. Joanna passed away five years later and is buried there.
We give thanks for the efforts of William Floyd to the cause of independence. He was a dedicated American patriot.
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Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
pudu
noun
small Chilean deer
either of two species of very small deer (Pudu mephistophiles or P. puda) native to South America, having a stocky reddish-brown body and short, unbranched antlers in the male
A very small deer (Pudua humilis), native of the Chilian Andes, having simple, spike-like antlers only two or three inches long
Used in a sentence
The chevrotains (mouse-deer; Tragulidae) are smaller than the pudu, but they are not true deer.
Shown in a picture
Shown in a video
MUSIC!
A Chilean rock band named after the pudu? Say it ain’t so!
THE STUFF
My favorite “intuitive explainer” does tensors (basically by refrying one serving of Feynman’s Lectures on Physics), and makes them almost as easy to understand as the straight line. Or maybe two straight lines.
This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!
Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.
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Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.
The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.
And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.
And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.
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So – what is happening on YouTube? Four samples!
(1) Check this out and let us know what you think. Yeah, it’s clickbait, with a clickbait thumbnail image.
SO – is this AI-generated anti-human propaganda – or nasty truth – or both? You can read the comments on the video, too.
(2) Chicks With Tats – How to Deal With Them
(3) Chick with XY blueprints and XX construction – in other words, transed by nature, so to speak.
I had heard of this genetic anomaly – rare but real.
The TRANS-pusher left uses the existence of such people to justify their ideology, but the clear truth is that leftists are using medical sympathy to normalize sterilization of kids, and the medicalization of human sexuality.
I also have a theory about why “they” are pushing TRANS in Utah – and why the CIA basically set up camp there. I believe that they are trying to push the “right side” of the Overton Window on TRANS. The left is already stretched so far, as to have reached a breaking point. They need CONSERVATIVE buy-in on their “progress” agenda. The Mormons are a captive institution now, and can be used like a giant Charlie Manson or Jim Jones cult to lead the way on the CONTROLLED RIGHT. Much CIA research on converting conservatives goes on in Utah, IMO.
If this is correct, there should be other examples of this strategy, to say nothing of the “fake conservatives” on CNN.
(4) Big asteroid flyby today – with room to spare – so no need to be worried. Still, I’m glad they’re keeping an eye out for these things!
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
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