Category: Daily Thread

Dear KAG: 20230221 Open Thread

Cover image: Edward Willis Redfield (American, 1869-1965), First Spring Thaw, On the Delaware. Oil on canvas, 38 1/4 x 50 in.

Wow. What a Monday. The big news, as was mentioned in Monday’s Comments, first:

James O’Keefe Resigns from Project Veritas – UPDATE, Forced Out: “I have been stripped of my authority as CEO and been removed from the board of directors.”

Not the first time I’ve heard of this sort of thing happening. The reality is his board was infiltrated. It seems that this is a modus operandi of the opposition.

The people are standing with James O’Keefe and dropping subscriptions and follows across social media.

As of this writing, PV has lost at least 100,000 followers on Twitter alone.

https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1627842304374439936

The other big piece of news not in Ohio today:

Now, let’s see what he does with it.

Ready?

Constant Government Lies Spark Resistance Movements

The moral gap between left and right is widening

HERE WE GO: VANITY FAIR CLAIMS RON DESANTIS IS MORE ‘DANGEROUS’ THAN TRUMP, COMPARES HIM TO…GENGHIS KHAN?

Landmark Study Vindicates Everyone Who Touted Natural Immunity to COVID-19

Exploring Hermeticism

Risky Business: Government-Funded Group Targets Conservative Sites as “Riskiest Online News Outlets”

End of the Electoral College is in sight if Democrats keep getting their way

Word games and wishful thinking. The end run attempt will fail in the end. Popular vote is a courtesy to the people. Not a requirement.

The Perils of Historical Ignorance

Some Are Wondering Why Sex Has Disappeared From Movies

Where Do You Score on the Deep State/Aliens/World War III/Vaccine Insanity Test?

Not exactly satire, but close.

Strengthening Our Faith Is the Most Important Thing We Can Do to Prepare for What’s to Come

Concerning the State, There Are No Accidents, No Coincidences, and No Natural ‘Emergencies’ or Threats: All Is Planned

The Widening Scandal

Congress takes first shot at federal censorship: a moratorium on DOJ payments to social media

From Badlands Media:

Our Take: “One thing should be clearly understood, which is often not well understood in the modern age: For most of human history shadow men controlled the masses by keeping a stranglehold on any and all information, the sharing of information, and the interpretation of information, whether these shadow men were royalty, the priest class, bureaucracy or what have you.

But approximately 400 years ago, a shift toward a free-range system began; at least this was the appearance. Today, it seems like we have incredible freedoms, which we do, in a way, but we’re also just as controlled, if not more than we were in the past.

The truth is, the agenda to control society by controlling information and as a result, human behavior never truly died, it evolved. The use of opposition groups (which appear independent) but were in fact cabal-set up and sponsored became the norm. Big tech is the latest version of that subversive information control system.

The government, which was thoroughly taken over many decades ago, uses taxpayer money (our money) to pay other citizens to suppress free speech and thinking. This is wrong on many levels. But within the legal framework established by the constitution, it is unconstitutional.

The fact that the government was paying big tech social media companies to suppress free speech is an open and bold violation of our rights and the laws of USA. As odd as this may sound, this is beneficial. Why? Because, we’ve blinded ourselves to the truth of our freedom-suppressed society, so much so, we have lost our capacity to identify the loss of our freedoms. But the boldness of cabal-controlled big tech and gov is making an already bad situation easier to see and recognize for WE THE PEOPLE.

As such, the sleeping giant that is the American freedom-fighting populace can all the better rise from their slumber to begin the process of uprooting corruption, not only online, but everywhere it might have planted roots.” — Justin Deschamps

The Great Reset the Space

Gallup: Fifty Percent of Americans Believe Media Lies to Promote Agenda

Excellent. That’s progress.

Nationalism Is the Antidote to One-World Government

SCOTUS will reconsider the Brunson case

“Educatin’ With Satan”: Corporate Media’s Attempt to Normalize After School Satan Clubs Is Dangerous

CHRIS HEDGES: RAGE AGAINST THE WAR MACHINE SPEECH

Tweet hopper:

We found out it was actually the railroad company that did that.

Laundry….

Meanwhile, in Canada:

https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1627317824841568256
https://twitter.com/Resist_05/status/1627250603129991171
https://twitter.com/gregjgordon/status/1627410152008863744

It’s out in the open now.

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1627128129096454146

Meme & Fun hopper:

The party of tolerance.

SOUND UP!

https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1626916526090596355
https://twitter.com/DarwinAwards_/status/1626724002369802242
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1626709753664774144
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1627009558680829953
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1627046807703326720

Something to remember, always.

Per the boss’s instruction:

I’d throw in a few Rockefellers and Rothschilds also.

Of course, this does not mean committing felonies, but standing up to the forces that want to tear this nation – and humanity apart. The very people XVII told us will be destroyed by the time this movie comes to an end are currently roaming the halls of power…supposedly. It’s a sickening sight.

Guidelines for posting and discussion on this site were outlined by our host, WolfM00n. Please, review them from time to time.

The discourse on this site is to be CIVIL – no name calling, baiting, or threatening others here is allowed. Those who are so inclined may visit Wolf’s other sanctuary, the U-Tree, to slog it out. There is also a “rescue” thread there for members of the Tree to rendezvous if the main site goes kablooey. A third site has been added for site outages of longer duration.

This site is a celebration of the natural rights endowed to humans by our Creator as well as those enshrined in the Bill of Rights adopted in the founding documents of the United States of America. Within the limits of law, how we exercise these rights is part of the freedom of our discussion.

Fellow tree dweller, the late Wheatie, gave us some good reminders on the basics of civility in political discourse:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

And Auntie DePat’s requests:

If you see something has not been posted, do us all a favor, and post it. Please, do not complain that it has not been done yet.

The scroll wheel on your mouse can be your friend. As mature adults, please use it here in the same manner you would in avoiding online porn.

Thank you so much for any and all attention to such details. It is GREATLY appreciated by more than one party here.

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SIRACH 2:1-11

1My son, if you come forward to serve the Lord, prepare yourself for temptation. 2Set your heart right and be steadfast, and do not be hasty in time of calamity. 3Cleave to him and do not depart, that you may be honored at the end of your life. 4Accept whatever is brought upon you, and in changes that humble you be patient. 5For gold is tested in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of humiliation. 6Trust in him, and he will help you; make your ways straight, and hope in him. 7You who fear the Lord, wait for his mercy; and turn not aside, lest you fall. 8You who fear the Lord, trust in him, and your reward will not fail; 9you who fear the Lord, hope for good things, for everlasting joy and mercy. 10Consider the ancient generations and see: who ever trusted in the Lord and was put to shame? Or who ever persevered in the fear of the Lord and was forsaken? Or who ever called upon him and was overlooked? 11For the Lord is compassionate and merciful; he forgives sins and saves in time of affliction.

PSALMS 37:3-4, 18-19, 27-28, 39-40

3Trust in the LORD, and do good; so you will dwell in the land, and enjoy security. 4Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. 18The LORD knows the days of the blameless, and their heritage will abide for ever; 19they are not put to shame in evil times, in the days of famine they have abundance. 27Depart from evil, and do good; so shall you abide for ever. 28For the LORD loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. The righteous shall be preserved for ever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off. 39The salvation of the righteous is from the LORD; he is their refuge in the time of trouble. 40The LORD helps them and delivers them; he delivers them from the wicked, and saves them, because they take refuge in him.

MARK 9:30-37

30They went on from there and passed through Galilee. And he would not have any one know it; 31for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of man will be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, after three days he will rise.” 32But they did not understand the saying, and they were afraid to ask him. 33And they came to Caper’na-um; and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?” 34But they were silent; for on the way they had discussed with one another who was the greatest. 35And he sat down and called the twelve; and he said to them, “If any one would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.” 36And he took a child, and put him in the midst of them; and taking him in his arms, he said to them, 37“Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.”

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Anonymous ID: hHkrVD7x No.148156632 
Nov 5 2017 20:06:36 (EST)

Anonymous ID: pqW40Wgk No.148156518 
Nov 5 2017 20:05:48 (EST)

>>148154137

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray. And do thou, Prince of the Heavenly Hosts, by the power of God, cast down to Hell Satan and all his evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

>>148156518
Amen brother.
Q

As always, prayers for the fight against that which seeks to enslave us are welcome. Via con Dios.

Satire

Dear KMAG: 20230220 Joe Biden Didn’t Win ❀ Open Topic

Joe Biden didn’t win. This is our Real President:

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).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!!!

Possibly with some minor philosophical discussions…..

Possibly with some good times…..

And possibly with some screaming!

Dedication

Image: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d5/e5/ad/d5e5ad861f1fc08b93a6d511ed5ff19f.jpg

WHEATIE – OUR WARRIOR ANGEL

by Duchess01


Please forgive us, Wheatie, we did not know
That you had left us with armor in tow
We had no idea with what you dealt
We did not know the pain you felt
And now we can only imagine
With you what really did happen
Cause rarely did you complain 
And/or share your personal pain
Of one thing we are most certain
You are flying high behind the curtain
Watching over us above the crowds
Our Warrior Angel above the clouds
Thank You, Wheatie, for caring for us
While you were here among the fuss
We miss you dear you have no idea
Since time began in the pangaea
With you there was no time
In your wisdom you would chime
To clarify and magnify
The what where how and why
We did not question when you left
We were not slightly bereft
But over time we wondered why
You did not at least stop by
Now we know where you have gone
With the break of this new dawn
We could be angry but are not
Tho with an arrow we’ve been shot
Rest peacefully Warrior Angel dear
Send us a sign that you are near
A butterfly a flower a kiss of rain
From your love do not refrain
God sends Angels to watch over us
And now we have an Angel Plus
A Warrior Angel of Magnificence
From today and forward hence

LINK: https://www.theqtree.com/2019/05/23/the-poetry-tree/comment-page-2/#comment-917655

The Rules

TL;DR –

Wheatie’s Rules:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

Boilerplate, more or less, but worth reading again and again, if only for the minor changes, and to stay out of moderation.

MINOR CHANGE NUMBER 1

Never talk about committing violence in a reply to Wolf or in response to anything Wolf has said, or you may get put into moderation so that your comments can be screened. This is ONLY because DHS is now playing door-knock Gestapo with people who have spoken at school board meetings, made public comments, etc. DHS regime jackboots are knocking on doors of school board mama bears and stupidly insinuating potential violence from things people say or don’t say on social media. A guy in Ohio pointed his FINGER at the school board, and they went after him, armed with pictures of the pointing, and screen captures of online comments. Yeah.

SO – give the Nazis ZERO ammo. Keep any mention of violence, even joking, away from Wolf, so that he doesn’t have to “explain” humor to humorless jackboots who pretend not to know things.

As for discussion of “violent humor” among yourselves (e.g., “#TeamHeadsOnPikes”), just use whatever discretion you think is appropriate for yourselves. I will only put you in moderation if your comments create problems for ME or THIS SITE, but not if they only impact you.

YOU are responsible for your own comments, if they come knocking. YOUR choice. Just remember this…..

OTHER THAN THAT…….

The bottom line is Free Speech. Theories and ideas you don’t agree with must be WELCOME here, and you must be part of that welcoming. But you do NOT need to be part of any agreement.

Bottom line – respect other people’s FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS.

Our only additional requirement is that you do so NICELY. Or at least try to make some effort in that direction.

SO….. [ENGAGE BOILERPLATE…..]

We must endeavor to persevere to love our frenemies – even here.

Those who cannot deal with this easy requirement will be forced to jump the hoops of moderation, so that specific comments impugning other posters and violating the minimal rules can be sorted out and tossed in the trash.

In Wheatie’s words, “We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”

That includes the life skill of just ignoring certain other posters.

We do have a site – The U Tree – where civility is not a requirement. Interestingly, people don’t really go there much. Nevertheless, if you find yourself in an “argument” that can’t really stay civil, please feel free to “take it to the U Tree”. The U Tree is also a good place to report any technical difficulties, if you’re unable to report them here. Please post your comment there on one of Wolf’s posts, or in reply to one of Wolf’s comments, to make sure he sees it (though it may take a few hours).

We also have a backup site, called The Q Tree as well, which is really The Q Tree 579486807. You might call it “Second Tree”. The URL for that site is https://theqtree579486807.wordpress.com/. If this site (theqtree.com) ever goes down, please reassemble at the Second Tree.

If the Second Tree goes down, please go to The U Tree, or to our Gab Group, which is located at https://gab.com/groups/4178.

We also have some “old rules” and important guidelines, outlined here, in a very early post, on our first New Year’s Day, in 2019. The main point is not to make violent threats against people, which then have to be taken seriously by law enforcement, and which can be used as a PRETEXT by enemies of this site.

In the words of Wheatie, “Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”

A Moment of Prayer

Our policy on extreme religious freedom on this site is discussed HERE. Please feel free to pray and praise God anytime and anywhere.

Thus, please pray for our real President, the one who actually won the election.

You may also pray for our nation, our world, and even our enemies.

Musical Interlude

In honor of dear Wheatie, we now present some music to soothe, inspire, invigorate, or relax.

Bringing back some more old tunes from two years ago!

Original Wheatie Post:

https://www.theqtree.com/2021/02/22/dear-kmag-20210222-joe-biden-didnt-win/

This is a great one right here – beautiful electronica.

And one of my favorites…..

AHRRRRR, MATEY!

OK – one more LINUX MUSICAL MEME VIDEO for the road!

Call To Battle

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 Day Year Week:

binary

adjective

  • Characterized by or consisting of two parts or components; twofold.
  • Of or relating to a system of numeration having 2 as its base.
  • Of or relating to a system of encoding data using only 0’s and 1’s.

Perl 5 Definition:

Having to do with numbers represented in base 2. That means there’s basically two numbers: 0 and 1. Also used to describe a file of “nontext”, presumably because such a file makes full use of all the binary bits in its bytes. With the advent of Unicode, this distinction, already suspect, loses even more of its meaning. https://perldoc.perl.org/perlglossary#binary

Woke Definition:

[Gender] Binary – This is the idea that people are born either male or female, with no other ways to identify – a viewpoint that excludes non-binary and transgender people. How can you dismantle this? Add your preferred pronouns to your email signature. That way, you’re helping to normalise gender discussions while signalling that you aren’t making assumptions about how other people identify. Which could potentially be seen as a sort of clicktivism, but we won’t go into that here.

Source: https://www.menshealth.com/uk/mental-strength/a38051454/do-you-speak-woke-a-glossary-of-the-terms-you-need-to-know/

Used in a Whole Bunch of Sentences:

Unfortunately the drive industry looks likely to continue marketing the decimal rather than the binary definition.
Is it enough to measure binary oscillations of semiquinone to characterize damping of period four oscillations of oxygen evolution?
Computing individual hexadecimal digits using that formula relies on a venerable technique known as the binary algorithm for exponentiation.
Twenty years earlier Gordan had proved the finite basis theorem for binary forms using a highly computational approach.
Dividing by two and then taking the remainder gives us a number’s last digit in binary notation.
Both the original design and the modern version of one-time pads are based on the binary alphabet.
Also, relativistic advance of periastron has been studied and confirmed in certain binary stars with elliptical orbits.
When performing binary addition, just like for addition in base ten, we need to reserve two spaces for our result.
Because the loss of territories was not a completely binary variable, we did not test for significant differences between groups.
We also discuss the implications of the methods in locating genes underlying complex binary traits by use of samples from natural populations.
The first equation that was estimated for each ethnic group included early substance use to estimate its binary effect on school completion.
More specifically, we ask the question whether the open conformation found in the binary complex is also accessible to the apo-enzyme.
This technique allows to image domains in binary or ternary mixtures of lipids in monolayers and bilayers.
The single-layer perceptron can be used with multi-value input and output in addition to binary data.
Identity and equality are two fundamental binary relations which relate expressions of a given type.
During balanced growth, cells undergoing binary fission must double the number of every kind of RNA and protein molecule every cell cycle.
The method elicits multiple binary choices for paired items in a choice set.
A particular concentration is on a binary structure present in many myths, focusing on the complementary elements.
The set includes the composed sequence obtained from the preliminary binary signal.
The first step in the process is a binary scanning of the hypsographic separation of the original map.

Explained in a Video:

SOURCE: https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/sentences-with-the-word/binary.html

Used in an Online Calculator:

https://www.calculator.net/binary-calculator.html

Used in an Sticker:

Used in a Meme:

ENJOY THE SHOW

Have another great week!

W

HEY, CHINA JOE! GET OUT!!!

2023·02·18 Joe Biden Didn’t Win Daily Thread

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!

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

I normally save this for near the end, but…basically…up your shit-kicking barbarian asses. Yes, barbarian! It took a bunch of sailors in Western Asia to invent a real alphabet instead of badly drawn cartoons to write with. So much for your “civilization.”

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

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

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

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

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

OK, with that rant out of my system…

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).

Last Week:

Gold $1,866.50
Silver $22.08
Platinum $956.00
Palladium $1,614.00
Rhodium $12,950.00

So here it is, Friday, 3PM MT after markets closed and we see:

Gold $1,843.20
Silver $21.81
Platinum $930.00
Palladium $1,583.00
Rhodium $11,900.00

Everything trending down. I don’t think I’ve seen palladium or rhodium this low in a long, long time. And those are likely to be good economic indicators as their uses are industrial.

Hyperbolic Orbits

We now turn to the remaining two-body case, the hyperbolic orbit. This is the sort of orbit an object is in whenever it is moving at above escape velocity.

You get a hyperbola whenever you slice through both “halves” of a cone. It doesn’t have to be vertically as shown in this diagram, the plane just has to be “vertical” enough in the diagram to not miss one of the two “halves” of the cone.

More formally, it’s going to look like this:

Note that this curve has two parts. An orbit will only be one of these two lines–the other is physically meaningless–and the focus for that line (F1 if it’s the right line, F2 if it’s the left) will be where the primary is. You can sketch a hyperbola by crossing two lines (the asymptotes) as in the diagram, then drawing a curve that never quite reaches the asymptotes (it gets closer and closer without ever reaching it, which is where the term “asymptotic” appears, as in “Trump’s administration asymptotically approached being able to actually arrest one of the people in the Deep State”) on either the left or right side of the X. Actually a not-uncommon trick is to draw a rectangle, make the crossed lines the diagonals of the rectangle, then sketch the hyperbola, with the vertex touching the middle of the sides of the rectangle. That point where it touches (and is closest to the focus) is the vertex and of course corresponds to periapsis. Apoapsis is at the ends of the line…which is infinitely far away. Mathematically speaking one end of the line is infinitely far in the past, the other infinitely far in the future, but of course in reality the object has to have come into being more recently than that, and closer than infinity, too.

Another way to draw a hyperbola is to graph the function 1/x. At 0, it’s undefined (or infinite, if you want to stretch a point), the line drops down from infinity until it reaches x=1, y=1, then zooms off to the right…but never reaches y=0. Though it can get so close you’d never be able to tell it wasn’t straight there. The asymptotes are the X and Y axes, and of course the thing is tilted at a 45 degree angle counterclockwise to the one in the diagram above.

And yet another way is to plot all of the points, whose distance from F1 minus their distance from F2 is some constant…and that constant is the distance between the vertices, or 2a. (And a here functions in many ways identically to the a in an elliptical orbit.) This is weirdly analogous to an ellipse, where the sum of the distances from any point on the ellipse to both foci is 2a.

The net effect of a “flyby” on a hyperbola is the object’s direction of travel is bent at some angle (the angle between the two asymptotes). To try to make this visualizable, imagine you are that object, just zipping along through space. If not interfered with, you’ll go in a straight line, at a constant speed (no friction to slow you down). But as it happens some large object (a star, say) is almost in your path. As you get closer and closer, it is pulling you towards it, so you speed up, and you pull off your path a bit; as you get closer and closer, you move faster and are pulled more and more off that straight line you were moving along. Then you fly past it. At that moment you’ve been bent pretty far off your former straight line path, and you are moving really, really fast. But now the process runs in reverse; the object pulling at you almost from behind slows you down and bends your path even more…but once you’re far away, you’re back to traveling a straight line, and nearly constant speed. But it’s a new straight line; the star bent your path.

You can determine whether or not you are in a hyperbolic orbit by measuring your speed and distance from the primary; just plug that distance into the escape velocity formula from last week; if your speed with respect to the primary is higher than that, you’re in a hyperbolic orbit, and you will escape from that primary. And furthermore, this is the only time you’ll encounter it. (To know the exact trajectory an object will follow, of course we will need its direction at that time, best determined with multiple measurements.)

This was famously demonstrated by ‘Oumuamua, an object that zipped through our solar system in a hyperbolic orbit back in 2017. It came from some other star, or maybe from the interstellar void. It was the first time we detected anything like that. It was discovered by the Pan-STARRS telescope on Maui (which spends a lot of time searching for comets and asteroids). ‘Oumuamua is the Hawai’ian word for “scout,” which was a perfect choice.

Here is a video AND a static diagram.

And here is another view…zoomed out quite a bit, Neptune’s orbit at about 30 AU is visible, whereas before Mars at 1.52 AU is the outer orbit in the diagram above. Mars is red in both diagrams. In the diagram below ‘Oumuamua is about to leave the upper left side of the picture. Also note the vertical lines which help give you a sense of ‘depth’ looking at the picture. The lines end at the plane of the planets’ orbits.

Here, from Wikipedia, are the orbital elements plus a few other things. The “epoch” for this is the 23rd of November 2017. (Other objects will pull on ‘Oumuamua and alter its orbit…I’ll have more to say about that sort of thing in future posts.)

Perihelion0.255916±0.000007 AU
Semi-major axis−1.2723±0.0001 AU[b]
Eccentricity1.20113±0.00002
Average orbital speed26.33±0.01 km/s (interstellar)[10]
5.55 AU/year
Mean anomaly51.158°
Mean motion0° 41m 12.12s / day
Inclination122.74°
Longitude of ascending node24.597°
Argument of perihelion241.811°
Earth MOID0.0958 AU · 37.3 LD
Jupiter MOID1.454 AU

An AU is the average distance between the Earth and the sun, so basically this thing got four times closer to the sun than Earth does; this was inside the orbit of Mercury. Note the inclination, the longitude of the ascening node, the argument of perihelion, all explained in past posts. And the eccentricity is greater than 1, just like for any hyperbola. The kicker, though, is the average orbital speed…26.33 kilometers per second. But that was its speed “way out there” (‘Oumuamua will spend 99.99999999999% of its existence out there) not its speed as it flew by the sun! Its maximum speed was 87.71 kilometers every second. To put that in perspective, earth’s orbital speed is about 29.7 kilometers per second. When it was the same distance from the sun as Earth is, it was moving at 49.67 km/sec–comfortably above the escape velocity here which is about 40 km/sec.

This encounter bent ‘Oumuamua’s straight line trajectory by 66 degrees.

Even at its interstellar speed of 26.33 kilometers per second, it covers 5.5 AU in a year, which means it covers the distance from the Sun to Jupiter (5.2 au) in less than a year.

The MOID numbers are how close the line of the orbit of ‘Oumuamua comes to the line of orbit of Earth and Jupiter. This is not how close the asteroid came to either planet though, because when ‘Oumuamua was closest to those orbits, those planets were nowhere near that point in their orbits. (MOID is used to assess the possible future risk of a collision. When both objects are in elliptical orbits and keep coming back to the same place time after time, they could, sometime perhaps millions of years from now, be at the points nearest each other’s orbits at the same time.)

‘Oumuamua turns out to be quite a puzzler. They’re not sure what it is made of; it didn’t outgas much like a comet would, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t made largely of ices; nitrogen ice is a candidate. And we simply don’t know whether it formed near some other star and got ejected from that star’s planetary system, or whether it might have coalesced deep in the interstellar void far from any star. (Wikipedia has more info than I have time this evening to read, much less relate.)

And that touches on a topic. I’ve described these orbits as if they will persist forever. They would, actually, if only there were just two bodies–primary and satellite–involved (there would be a minuscule amount of energy slowly radiated away by gravity waves, an effect not accounted for in Kepler’s and Newton’s work, but that is immeasurable over billions of years for planets and the like).

So how do things get ‘ejected’ from planetary systems? How do comets get kicked into the central part of the solar system where they get to play pinball with planets? How do comets’ orbits get altered so they are short period comets that come back again and again every few years or decades?

One answer, that applies mainly to comets is that as they heat up and outgas, the jet of gas acts like a rocket and nudges the comet into a slightly different orbit.

But that’s not the full explanation, nor even one that applies in all but a minority of cases (though it did affect ‘Oumuamua).

Satellites in orbit around Earth will be affected by the equatorial bulge; this effect can sometimes make 500 miles’ difference after one day of orbiting. The bulge affects, and is very definitely acted on by, the moon. But those effects are small for large orbits, like those of the planets around the sun.

No the real explanation is that there are more than two bodies in the universe, and sometimes that can make a big difference. And, just to make life interesting, those calculations are very time-intensive to do. (As the joke goes, “This is why God made computers.”)

We’ll take that up next time.

Obligatory PSAs and Reminders

China is Lower than Whale Shit

Remember Hong Kong!!!

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

China is in the White House

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

Joe Biden is Asshoe

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

But of course the much more important thing to realize:

Joe Biden Didn’t Win

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

DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20230217

King Cake Martini

What you need to make a King Cake Martini (and cinnamon vodka)

Cinnamon-Infused Vodka (Makes 8 servings)

  • 4 oz. vodka
  • 2 cinnamon sticks

King Cake Martini (Makes 1)

  • 1 ½ oz. hazelnut liqueur
  • 1 oz. white crème de cocoa
  • ½ oz. cinnamon vodka
  • ¼ oz. coffee liqueur
  • 2 ½ oz. club soda
  • Green, purple and yellow decorative sugars, for the rim of the glasses

Instructions

Make the Cinnamon-Infused Vodka

  1. In a mason jar, measure out the vodka.
  2. Add the cinnamon sticks, breaking in half if too large for the mason jar.
  3. Infuse for 5-7 days, then remove the cinnamon sticks and strain using a fine mesh strainer.
  4. Transfer to a clean mason jar, and store until time to make the drinks.

Make the King Cake Martini

  1. Add the colored sugar rim to the martini glasses: Dip the martini glasses in a shallow dish holding water. Sprinkle the three colored sugars onto a plate, careful to keep them separate. Dip the glasses’ rims into the sugar, and remove. Set aside.
  2. In a cocktail shaker, combine the hazelnut liqueur, white crème de cocoa, cinnamon-infused vodka and coffee liqueur and add ice.
  3. Shake vigorously until combined.
  4. Pour the drink into the prepared martini glass.
  5. Top with club soda, and enjoy immediately.

Wow that was a challenge to copy and paste.

Alright, let’s see…what have I got….

Small Clues, Sealed Cases, Future Shock

We Need a New “Church Committee” to Curb Massive Intelligence Agency Criminality Ranging From Illegal Surveillance to Torture and Assassination

Meet Samuel Armes – Groomed by the CIA and FBI and Author of the Original “1776 Returns” FED-SURRECTION Document – That He Reportedly Told a Friend to Send to the Proud Boys to Set Them Up

What it’s like to use Microsoft’s AI-powered Bing

It’s a pain in the a–.

U.S. Bishops Silent After FBI Claims Conservative Catholics Are ‘White Supremacists’

They’re silent about a lot more than that. Cowards. Zero spine in most of them.

By Forcing Americans Into Electric Vehicles, Leftists Ensure Road Trips’ Demise

That did cross my mind. The DS people must be regular drivers on I-95. Most crowded highway I’ve been on…well, other than the Pennsylvania turnpike.

Trust in media is so low that half of Americans now believe that news organizations deliberately mislead them

I call this progress.

Why not a ‘He Gets Us’ campaign for traditional values?

‘Isn’t Fear News?’

No, it’s a base emotion used for control in the news by those who either don’t like us, or want to sell something.

No, Slaves Didn’t Build This Country

A lot of immigrants did, though.

Is the Asbury Revival Real? That’s Not the Most Important Question To Ask About It

I’ve been seeing stuff about this revival. Is it real? The better question is will it last.

MEDIA IGNORE SEYMOUR HERSH BOMBSHELL REPORT OF US DESTROYING NORD STREAM II

Of course they are ignoring it. It destroys their narrative.

MacIntyre: Progressing toward decay: How the modern leviathan state destroys living humans in the name of a theoretical ‘humanity’

NO ACCIDENTS: The oblivious masses have no idea they are being systematically EXTERMINATED by a series of planned disasters

While this is true, the waking up is in progress. Just listening to the residents of East Palestine, Ohio, talk reflects this.

SCOTUS Will Decide Whether to Take up a 2020 ‘Rigged Election’ Case on Friday

Writers at another website I follow think the Brunson case is DOA. We’ll see.

The Republican Big Club Are All In to Have Culture War and Anti-Woke Efforts Dominate 2024 GOP Primary

Maybe they do know something about the base. Do they care? That’s another question.

Is the Federal Reserve a British Institution?

Jekyll Island is in Georgia. That’s where the creature was spawned…by people with ties to the British banking empire.

Excess size caused train to break down in days before it derailed in Ohio, employees say

Actually, after reading the article, it sounds like excess weight. It was too heavy. As someone who lives in a metro area where every American train line has a presence, getting stuck at a train crossing with a two mile long one happens. A lot. But, a lot of times those long dudes have a lot of empty coal cars or empty automobile carriers, and extra engines in the middle. 9,300 hundred feet is not quite two miles. Sounds like it was heavy.

No Vaccine No Food? Grocery Industry Merging with Big Tech and Big Pharma

Yet another reason to pay cash.

Naomi Wolf: Autopsies Revealed Catastrophic Lesions On Many Organs Likely Caused By Covid Vaccine

Tweety Tweets:

Some of us who are close to rail lines AND major waterways in this nation are NOT happy. It could happen to any of us and not just hit the northeast, but a whole lot of farmland.

https://twitter.com/OneAddyAdds/status/1626105538042908674

As a matter of history, the New River runs through Charleston, West Virginia, which is in a valley where EVERY major chemical company has a plant. That valley is called “chemical valley” for a reason. My dad claims that dead fish were a regular feature of the river in the late 1940s and 50s. By 1997, the last time my family was there to bury my grandmother, the New River had recovered, but it took decades. This will pass, but it’s going to take time.

Now we know why ObamaCare installed that massive online chart system. It’s handy for ER doctors who are dealing with drug addicts, but can be used for nefarious purposes.

In the comments, someone explained that this is a short spur of sorts, not a main line. From observation, the main lines are quite well maintained. The tracks themselves are not an issue.

I’d settle for potholes being filled. The streets in the city are a mess. Tell me again why we poured asphalt over the bricks that are still functioning fine on the back streets, side streets, and allies.

Uh-oh.

Getting that idea.

Damn straight I agree with her.

Easier said than done. It’s a side effect of the shot, and may not be related to any drug. And…long COVID is real. Really real.

Apparently, it’s only one car that didn’t turn over. But, still….

https://twitter.com/Resist_05/status/1626031499958190080

The people are working on it.

Reminder from yesterday on SIDS happening over 90% of the time the week after a vaccine:

And the discussion on putting babies on their backs to sleep…a relative of a relative lost a baby who spit up and aspirated the spit in the middle of the night. I will NEVER put a baby on his or her back again.

https://twitter.com/MichaelDeLauzon/status/1626360961710817280

How much did the Big Club pay the people in the seats for their appearance?

https://twitter.com/Rothbard1776/status/1626327375578337282

Close enough.

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1626073196012179458

MEME STASH:

https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1626302273138614277
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1626269533995425792
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1625979904415133696

https://youtu.be/RZMUkhRyUPk

And now for the business portion of the post borrowed from Tuesday:

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The discourse on this site is to be CIVIL – no name calling, baiting, or threatening others here is allowed. Those who are so inclined may visit Wolf’s other sanctuary, the U-Tree, to slog it out. There is also a “rescue” thread there for members of the Tree to rendezvous if the main site goes kablooey. A third site has been added for site outages of longer duration.

This site is a celebration of the natural rights endowed to humans by our Creator as well as those enshrined in the Bill of Rights adopted in the founding documents of the United States of America. Within the limits of law, how we exercise these rights is part of the freedom of our discussion. In that spirit, though, threats of violence real or hypothetical are out of bounds.

Fellow tree dweller the late Wheatie gave us some good reminders on the basics of civility in political discourse:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

And Auntie DePat’s requests:

If you see something has not been posted, do us all a favor, and post it. Please, do not complain that it has not been done yet.

The scroll wheel on your mouse can be your friend. As mature adults, please use it here in the same manner you would in avoiding online porn.

_____________________________________________________

GENESIS 11:1-9

1Now the whole earth had one language and few words. 2And as men migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. 4Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.” 5And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men had built. 6And the LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. 7Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” 8So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. 9Therefore its name was called Ba’bel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

PSALMS 33:10-15

10The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nought; he frustrates the plans of the peoples. 11The counsel of the LORD stands for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations. 12Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage! 13The LORD looks down from heaven, he sees all the sons of men; 14from where he sits enthroned he looks forth on all the inhabitants of the earth, 15he who fashions the hearts of them all, and observes all their deeds.

MARK 8:34–9:1

8 34And he called to him the multitude with his disciples, and said to them, “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 35For whoever would save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it. 36For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? 37For what can a man give in return for his life? 38For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of man also be ashamed, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.” 9 1And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see that the kingdom of God has come with power.”

SATIRE!

Have a good weekend!

Dear KAG: 20230214 Open Thread

Cover image:

Ahh, the good old days when we used to give these to the whole class! And, yes, I have quite the collection of headbands.

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1625308032291729408

Okay, this is going to get long, and I took a break from news on Sunday. (I think that’s going to be a habit unless something happens.)

Hey Rep. Jordan: Want to Know How the FBI Co-opted Twitter?

Good riddance to congressional comity

The real coup d’état

Righteous Tyrants

Judicial Watch: Records Show U.S. and UK ‘Confidentiality Agreement’ Tied to Vaccine Adverse Events

‘Two FBIs’: Whistleblowers accuse DC HQ of trampling Constitution, field offices

Club for Growth Invites Ron DeSantis to Join Wall Street Controlled Republican Candidates Haley, Pompeo, Pence, Youngkin and Scott for 2024 Planning Session at Donor Retreat

What the Club for Growth crowd does NOT see is that the Trump supporters are far more educated now, and see through their efforts. The information conduits are more developed, and diverse enough that they can’t be taken out in one blow. That’s what Q and that whole psy-op did for us. It got the people to dig, and see for themselves. SD can deny the psy-op all he wants, but it was a piece that was missing in the information war.

Musk Advisor David Sacks States Elon Musk Had “No Idea” the Level of Government Control and Influence Over Twitter Platform Prior to Purchase

Not buying it. All social media, I am willing to believe, came from government programs. We know for sure Facebook did. Jack Dorsey is no genius. If he was, he would not have gone to Bishop DuBourg HS. That’s the Catholic HS of last resort in this town. And then he went to Rolla, not the flagship state university. I’m still in the camp of he was a figurehead probably recruited with drugs as an enticement. The editing history on his wiki page just is too professional and screams “government” the way it is structured.

Cracks in the Curtain

“Gold-Standard” RCT from Gates-Funded Company Proves Ivermectin Works Against COVID

Amsterdam bans public cannabis smoking in red-light district

This is actually pretty big. The Dutch were the first to liberalize on this issue, and they are the first to tighten after the effects started showing up in scale.

If Biden’s Federal Elections Takeover Is ‘Free And Fair,’ Why Are The Plans Completely Redacted?

FBI whistleblower: Memo on Latin Mass Catholics is ‘open door’ to declare all Christians ‘criminals’

Operation Choke Point 2.0 Is Underway, And Crypto Is In Its Crosshairs

Priest rebukes Pope Francis for calling to decriminalize sodomy: ‘Do you belong to Christ, or to Sodom?’

Trump Proven Right As The Washington Post Loses 500K Subscribers And $70 Million Since He Left Office

A Therapist’s Notes on the Decline of Marriage

Let’s Pay Attention To The Experts Who Challenged The COVID Narrative

Trickle-Down Corruption

The Real-Life Spy Who Inspired Ian Fleming’s James Bond — and Ran Assassination Teams in the U.S. During World War II

What funeral directors know that you don’t

Naomi Wolf Calls Pfizer’s mRNA Covid Jabs Part of the ‘War on Women’ – JD Rucker [VIDEO]

Victory in the Moments

Collapse, Oh Babylon

Spy Balloons and “Unidentified” Objects Shot Down, What In The Psy-Op Is Going On?

Greenwald on Nord Stream: “You Have to Spread Lies on Behalf of the CIA to Get Ahead in Journalism”

10 WAYS THE US IS OUT OF LINE WITH THE ENTIRE WORLD

Drooling Experts Find Elon’s rEaL aGeNdA!!!!!!

Tweet hopper:

Except that whatever that is has six points.

Jesse Watters actually talked about all of this on his show, so the blackout is not absolutely complete, but it’s definitely not headline news in most places.

That the powers that wannabe are actively trying to kill us or trick us into killing ourselves.

Nowhere good.

https://twitter.com/Brink_Thinker/status/1625169941224734726

Meme & Fun hopper:

https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1624807698888896513
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1624707383833288704

Something to remember, always.

Per the boss’s instruction:

I’d throw in a few Rockefellers and Rothschilds also.

YEA! Youtube videos are working again!

Of course, this does not mean committing felonies, but standing up to the forces that want to tear this nation – and humanity apart. The very people XVII told us will be destroyed by the time this movie comes to an end are currently roaming the halls of power…supposedly. It’s a sickening sight.

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The discourse on this site is to be CIVIL – no name calling, baiting, or threatening others here is allowed. Those who are so inclined may visit Wolf’s other sanctuary, the U-Tree, to slog it out. There is also a “rescue” thread there for members of the Tree to rendezvous if the main site goes kablooey. A third site has been added for site outages of longer duration.

This site is a celebration of the natural rights endowed to humans by our Creator as well as those enshrined in the Bill of Rights adopted in the founding documents of the United States of America. Within the limits of law, how we exercise these rights is part of the freedom of our discussion.

Fellow tree dweller, the late Wheatie, gave us some good reminders on the basics of civility in political discourse:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

And Auntie DePat’s requests:

If you see something has not been posted, do us all a favor, and post it. Please, do not complain that it has not been done yet.

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Pursuing God’s Will

ACTS 13:46-49

46And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, “It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles. 47For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, `I have set you to be a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.'” 48And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of God; and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed. 49And the word of the Lord spread throughout all the region.

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Anonymous ID: hHkrVD7x No.148156632 
Nov 5 2017 20:06:36 (EST)

Anonymous ID: pqW40Wgk No.148156518 
Nov 5 2017 20:05:48 (EST)

>>148154137

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray. And do thou, Prince of the Heavenly Hosts, by the power of God, cast down to Hell Satan and all his evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

>>148156518
Amen brother.
Q

As always, prayers for the fight against that which seeks to enslave us are welcome. Via con Dios.

Satire

Dear KMAG: 20230213 Joe Biden Didn’t Win ❀ Open Topic / Introduction to CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing Technology

Joe Biden didn’t win. This is our Real President:

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).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!!!

With Light Against The Darkness!

With Style!

And Obeying All Laws of Physics!

Dedication

Image: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d5/e5/ad/d5e5ad861f1fc08b93a6d511ed5ff19f.jpg

WHEATIE – OUR WARRIOR ANGEL

by Duchess01


Please forgive us, Wheatie, we did not know
That you had left us with armor in tow
We had no idea with what you dealt
We did not know the pain you felt
And now we can only imagine
With you what really did happen
Cause rarely did you complain 
And/or share your personal pain
Of one thing we are most certain
You are flying high behind the curtain
Watching over us above the crowds
Our Warrior Angel above the clouds
Thank You, Wheatie, for caring for us
While you were here among the fuss
We miss you dear you have no idea
Since time began in the pangaea
With you there was no time
In your wisdom you would chime
To clarify and magnify
The what where how and why
We did not question when you left
We were not slightly bereft
But over time we wondered why
You did not at least stop by
Now we know where you have gone
With the break of this new dawn
We could be angry but are not
Tho with an arrow we’ve been shot
Rest peacefully Warrior Angel dear
Send us a sign that you are near
A butterfly a flower a kiss of rain
From your love do not refrain
God sends Angels to watch over us
And now we have an Angel Plus
A Warrior Angel of Magnificence
From today and forward hence

LINK: https://www.theqtree.com/2019/05/23/the-poetry-tree/comment-page-2/#comment-917655

The Rules

TL;DR –

Wheatie’s Rules:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

Boilerplate, more or less, but worth reading again and again, if only for the minor changes, and to stay out of moderation.

MINOR CHANGE NUMBER 1

Never talk about committing violence in a reply to Wolf or in response to anything Wolf has said, or you may get put into moderation so that your comments can be screened. This is ONLY because DHS is now playing door-knock Gestapo with people who have spoken at school board meetings, made public comments, etc. DHS regime jackboots are knocking on doors of school board mama bears and stupidly insinuating potential violence from things people say or don’t say on social media. A guy in Ohio pointed his FINGER at the school board, and they went after him, armed with pictures of the pointing, and screen captures of online comments. Yeah.

SO – give the Nazis ZERO ammo. Keep any mention of violence, even joking, away from Wolf, so that he doesn’t have to “explain” humor to humorless jackboots who pretend not to know things.

As for discussion of “violent humor” among yourselves (e.g., “#TeamHeadsOnPikes”), just use whatever discretion you think is appropriate for yourselves. I will only put you in moderation if your comments create problems for ME or THIS SITE, but not if they only impact you.

YOU are responsible for your own comments, if they come knocking. YOUR choice. Just remember this…..

OTHER THAN THAT…….

The bottom line is Free Speech. Theories and ideas you don’t agree with must be WELCOME here, and you must be part of that welcoming. But you do NOT need to be part of any agreement.

Bottom line – respect other people’s FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS.

Our only additional requirement is that you do so NICELY. Or at least try to make some effort in that direction.

SO….. [ENGAGE BOILERPLATE…..]

We must endeavor to persevere to love our frenemies – even here.

Those who cannot deal with this easy requirement will be forced to jump the hoops of moderation, so that specific comments impugning other posters and violating the minimal rules can be sorted out and tossed in the trash.

In Wheatie’s words, “We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”

That includes the life skill of just ignoring certain other posters.

We do have a site – The U Tree – where civility is not a requirement. Interestingly, people don’t really go there much. Nevertheless, if you find yourself in an “argument” that can’t really stay civil, please feel free to “take it to the U Tree”. The U Tree is also a good place to report any technical difficulties, if you’re unable to report them here. Please post your comment there on one of Wolf’s posts, or in reply to one of Wolf’s comments, to make sure he sees it (though it may take a few hours).

We also have a backup site, called The Q Tree as well, which is really The Q Tree 579486807. You might call it “Second Tree”. The URL for that site is https://theqtree579486807.wordpress.com/. If this site (theqtree.com) ever goes down, please reassemble at the Second Tree.

If the Second Tree goes down, please go to The U Tree, or to our Gab Group, which is located at https://gab.com/groups/4178.

We also have some “old rules” and important guidelines, outlined here, in a very early post, on our first New Year’s Day, in 2019. The main point is not to make violent threats against people, which then have to be taken seriously by law enforcement, and which can be used as a PRETEXT by enemies of this site.

In the words of Wheatie, “Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”

A Moment of Prayer

Our policy on extreme religious freedom on this site is discussed HERE. Please feel free to pray and praise God anytime and anywhere.

Thus, please pray for our real President, the one who actually won the election.

You may also pray for our nation, our world, and even our enemies.

Musical Interlude

In honor of dear Wheatie, we now present some music to soothe, inspire, invigorate, or relax.

Offering another repeat, this time from Wheatie’s post on the Qth of February, 2020.

Original Context: https://www.theqtree.com/2020/02/17/dear-kmag-20200217-open-topic/

Call To Battle

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.

Apparently another “oldie but goodie”.

https://twitter.com/BushelsPerAcre/status/1624772899847680012

We can expose the TRUE “science deniers”!

Because the SCIENCE is NEVER “settled” – especially when they say that it is!

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 Day Year Week:

CRISPR

noun

  • Clustered Regularly-Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats
  • A naturally occurring mechanism found in bacteria that involves the retention of fragments of foreign DNA, providing the bacteria with some immunity to viruses. The system is sometimes referred to as CRISPR/Cas9 to denote the entire gene-editing platform in which RNA homologous with the targeted gene is combined with Cas9 (CRISPR Associated Protein 9), which is a DNA-cutting enzyme (nuclease) to form the “toolkit” for the CRISPR/Cas9 method of genome editing.
  • Wolf’s explanation: ZoneAlarm / McAfee for bacterial genes against IRL viruses. The bacteria keep a special library of virus crap, then look for it in the genome and “quarantine” (slice) any infected DNA at the bad spot.

Cas9

noun

  • CRISPR Associated Protein 9
  • A specialized enzyme known as a nuclease that has the ability to cut DNA sequences. Cas9 makes up part of the “toolkit” for the CRISPR/Cas9 method of genome editing.

A high-level explanation of how CRISPR/Cas9 works (EASY):

A Very Geeky Technical Explanation of CRISPR/Cas9 in Indian English (HARD):

WEF-Invited Talk by a Discoverer of CRISPR/Cas9 Five Years Before She Got a Nobel Prize (EASY):

Guardian Happy Video One Year Before (Be Sure to Note Hitler Dream) (EASY):

Nobel Prize Lecture by Jennifer Doudna (Includes an Excellent Visual Explanation of CRISPR/Cas9 Technology) (MEDIUM):

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2020/doudna/lecture/

Nobel Prize Lecture by Emmanuelle Charpentier (HARD):

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2020/charpentier/facts/

What Happens if “Polar Catfish” (Real) Are Released Into The Wild? (Ignore Clickbait Exaggerations) (EASY):

KRISPY/KREME Safe and Effective Technology (EASIEST):

Happy Valentine’s Day!

ENJOY THE SHOW

Have another great week!

W

https://www.theqtree.com/2020/02/17/dear-kmag-20200217-open-topic/

DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20230210

Fireball Cocktail Recipe

Ingredients

  • 2 dashesTabasco Sauce
  • ¾ ounceLight Rum
  • ¾ ounceFireball (or cinnamon schnapps)

Directions

1. Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker filled with ice and shake well.

2. Stir well and strain into a shot glass.

3. Serve it up and get it down!

What a week. Here’s what I’ve got:

Badlands News Brief

Rather than copy and past the whole thing, I just figured I’d put the link up. Good stuff.

Pro Tip For Democrats — Never invite Matt Walsh to a hearing on sexual mutilation of children…

America’s Disarray Is A Stark Contrast To China’s Unity

If Reparations Are Owed … the Democratic Party Should Pay Them

The Squad’s Rejection of Objectivity

Educating For Today

So when is the FEC going to fine the WaPo, the NYT and all the other media outlets that bury stories or post false ones to influence elections?

Good question.

What to make of the Twitter hearings held yesterday

World Economic Forum secures a seat on the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government

The Grammys Wasn’t Enough for the Woke Mob

From Libs of TikTok

AOC lied about me on the House floor in an unhinged tirade

The press versus the president, part one

The Necessity of Virtue

Answering the Challenge of Back-Alley Abortions

IN REVOLUTIONARY TIMES, ARE ART AND MUSIC FALLING SHORT? WITH JAMES KENNEDY

Trump rips Club for Growth after he wasn’t invited to donor retreat

They’re trying to paint him as petty. Won’t work for those who know him.

Disinformation Inc: Meet the groups hauling in cash to secretly blacklist conservative news

But GDI, which did not reply to several requests for its exclusion list, discloses in reports which outlets it identifies as the “riskiest” and “worst” offenders for peddling disinformation. These 10, which all skew to the right, are the American Spectator, Newsmax, the Federalist, the American Conservative, One America News, the Blaze, the Daily Wire, RealClearPolitics, Reason, and the New York Post.

That list doesn’t make any sense. It’s a pretty hefty mix of viewpoints.

The UN’s War with the “Infodemic”: Misinformation is a Virus

This is an interesting talk on Hollywood with a producer in that town. The truth bombs about fame and fortune, and what the execs do to control talent is pretty interesting. Feel free to ignore the Catholic talk. There is a little there.

VIDEO: Former Trump aide Johnny McEntee reveals what Nikki Haley’s “2024 run” really means…

Prominent conservatives speak out in support of James O’Keefe after cancellation attempt

And from Sundance:

Inside Baseball Stuff About the House Oversight Committee and the Twitter Censorship Hearing

DeSantis Management and Branding Team Schedule Nationwide Book Tour in Advance of 2024 Announcement

Hostile Takeover of Project Veritas Seeking to Remove James O’Keefe – DeSantis Aligned Operatives Spearheading Effort for Removal

He killed it again.

https://youtu.be/0IQN8QWAS2I

Tweety Tweets:

Yes, it’s really all about exposure rather than prosecution, but scenes like this make it worth it.

Interesting.

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1623517037124255744

Well, and the occasional trip to the beach.

The must read thread that was featured in the comments on yesterday’s daily. If you missed it, here it begins.

https://twitter.com/OldRowSwig/status/1623528200486649856

And they thought no one would notice?

Wakey, wakey

Red pills everywhere.

Yes. Back to the barter system for some of us.

OOH, OOH, OOH, ME ME ME ME ME!

THIS is why I, if no one else, do not want him to be speaker.

WELCOME!

Remember, they sent whatever hit the Pentagon on 9-11 straight into the office where the audit staff and evidence were. They will stop at nothing.

I wonder if he asked to be patted down.

Interesting thread:

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1623857256335872007

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1623511886988804097

MEME STASH:

https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1623458000106295296

And now for the business portion of the post borrowed from Tuesday:

Guidelines for posting and discussion on this site were outlined by our host, WolfM00n. Please, review them from time to time.

The discourse on this site is to be CIVIL – no name calling, baiting, or threatening others here is allowed. Those who are so inclined may visit Wolf’s other sanctuary, the U-Tree, to slog it out. There is also a “rescue” thread there for members of the Tree to rendezvous if the main site goes kablooey. A third site has been added for site outages of longer duration.

This site is a celebration of the natural rights endowed to humans by our Creator as well as those enshrined in the Bill of Rights adopted in the founding documents of the United States of America. Within the limits of law, how we exercise these rights is part of the freedom of our discussion. In that spirit, though, threats of violence real or hypothetical are out of bounds.

Fellow tree dweller the late Wheatie gave us some good reminders on the basics of civility in political discourse:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

And Auntie DePat’s requests:

If you see something has not been posted, do us all a favor, and post it. Please, do not complain that it has not been done yet.

The scroll wheel on your mouse can be your friend. As mature adults, please use it here in the same manner you would in avoiding online porn.

_____________________________________________________

GENESIS 3:1-8

1Now the serpent was more subtle than any other wild creature that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God say, `You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?” 2And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden; 3but God said, `You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'” 4But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not die. 5For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband, and he ate. 7Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons. 8And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

SATIRE!

Have a good weekend!

Dear KAG: 20230207 Open Thread

Cover image: vintage Valentine

Scotch tape…. Scotch might work better to mend broken hearts, though.

President Trump vs. the Swamp

An Open Window on Activist Journalism

50 ways for experts to lose their expertise

Their Medium’s Message: Received and Rejected

ELON MUSK’S COZY TIES WITH THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, WITH ALAN MACLEOD

Horowitz: The sudden decline in birth rates post-vaccination — and the shocking silence

Don’t Ask Questions About Ukraine

‘Pushing the Envelope’ Toward What?

One of our most important Briefs so far.

How does a family dynasty keep control of a powerful public institution in an ideological environment that is largely hostile to dynasties?

The Sulzberger family uses three tools.

When I was working on my Jonestown series, it occurred to me that the internet might facilitate cults of unprecedented proportions, that rather than 1,000 people committing mass suicide, it could be millions. It’s increasingly clear that that’s exactly what the trans movement is.

Everything is Nazis

Why Did COVID Happen?

Stay Healthy by NEVER listening to the Government

Conversation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | How The Powerful Captured The Public During The Pandemic

CHILLING: World Economic Forum Showcases Technology That Would Allow The Government To Punish Your Thoughts And Big Business To Spy On Your Brains (VIDEO)

From Badlands:

Our Take: “What could possibly go wrong when a close-knit fraternity of sociopaths has the ability to observe your brain-wave patterns and punish you for your thoughts?

The same people who called Donald John Trump a dictator are probably ogling over this Orwellian nightmare. Though, I suppose we might be at an advantage; we can more accurately predict what the uber-rich ruling class at Davos is thinking without the use of cutting edge technology. I defy anyone to watch this video and give me even one positive application of this technology.

Normally I’d say it is unlikely that anyone would willingly sign up for this, but the way people lined up for experimental drugs to be injected directly into their veins in response to a virus with a 99% survival rate suggests otherwise. All it takes is a perceived threat and a pervasive marketing campaign.” — Ryan DeLarme

Banning Gas Stoves by Regulation

Objectivity Is Dead, and the Leftist Media Killed It

Kids, Marriage, and the American Way

Conspiracy Truths

Associated Press Bans ‘Crisis Pregnancy Centers,’ Directs Journalists to Use Negative Term Instead

Looking for feedback on this. 👇

Friday Hope: Natural Compounds for Proteostasis – Most, if Not All, are Effective in Treating COVID

8 Reasons to NEVER Trust Anything This Government Says

Remote Work Is Poised to Devastate America’s Cities

The Egg Crisis: We’ve Been Here Before

NYC Mayor Eric Adams Ends Vaccine Mandate For City Workers

‘Conspiracy Theorist’ Is A Slur Meant To Silence Us

Congratulations! You finally figured it out. Some of us have been living with that label for decades.

Intel Community Says They Discovered Prior Chinese Spy Balloon Operations, Only After President Trump Left Office

I’m with Sundance on this one. It does not pass the smell test.

Tweet hopper:

Buh-bye!

I made a conscious decision to not bring any of that crap here.

https://twitter.com/BushelsPerAcre/status/1622394384179134465
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1622757115763777537

Meme & Fun hopper:

https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1622668721109049351
https://twitter.com/tartostore/status/1619987613192179712

Something to remember, always.

Per the boss’s instruction:

I’d throw in a few Rockefellers and Rothschilds also.

YEA! Youtube videos are working again!

Of course, this does not mean committing felonies, but standing up to the forces that want to tear this nation – and humanity apart. The very people XVII told us will be destroyed by the time this movie comes to an end are currently roaming the halls of power…supposedly. It’s a sickening sight.

Guidelines for posting and discussion on this site were outlined by our host, WolfM00n. Please, review them from time to time.

The discourse on this site is to be CIVIL – no name calling, baiting, or threatening others here is allowed. Those who are so inclined may visit Wolf’s other sanctuary, the U-Tree, to slog it out. There is also a “rescue” thread there for members of the Tree to rendezvous if the main site goes kablooey. A third site has been added for site outages of longer duration.

This site is a celebration of the natural rights endowed to humans by our Creator as well as those enshrined in the Bill of Rights adopted in the founding documents of the United States of America. Within the limits of law, how we exercise these rights is part of the freedom of our discussion.

Fellow tree dweller, the late Wheatie, gave us some good reminders on the basics of civility in political discourse:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

And Auntie DePat’s requests:

If you see something has not been posted, do us all a favor, and post it. Please, do not complain that it has not been done yet.

The scroll wheel on your mouse can be your friend. As mature adults, please use it here in the same manner you would in avoiding online porn.

Thank you so much for any and all attention to such details. It is GREATLY appreciated by more than one party here.

__________________________________________________

GENESIS 1:20–2:4

1 20And God said, “Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the firmament of the heavens.” 21So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” 23And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. 24And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. 25And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the cattle according to their kinds, and everything that creeps upon the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 26Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” 27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28And God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.” 29And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. 30And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. 31And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, a sixth day. 2 1Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. 3So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all his work which he had done in creation. 4These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created. In the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

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Anonymous ID: hHkrVD7x No.148156632 
Nov 5 2017 20:06:36 (EST)

Anonymous ID: pqW40Wgk No.148156518 
Nov 5 2017 20:05:48 (EST)

>>148154137

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray. And do thou, Prince of the Heavenly Hosts, by the power of God, cast down to Hell Satan and all his evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

>>148156518
Amen brother.
Q

As always, prayers for the fight against that which seeks to enslave us are welcome. Via con Dios.

Satire

Dear KMAG: 20230206 Joe Biden Didn’t Win ❀ Open Topic

Joe Biden didn’t win. This is our Real President:

U.S. President Donald Trump prepares to board Marine One with first lady Melania Trump en route to his Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida following the release of the Mueller report at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 18, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Barria – RC1F20A769B0

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).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!!!

Swingingly!

Happily!

Laughingly!

Dedication

Image: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d5/e5/ad/d5e5ad861f1fc08b93a6d511ed5ff19f.jpg

WHEATIE – OUR WARRIOR ANGEL

by Duchess01


Please forgive us, Wheatie, we did not know
That you had left us with armor in tow
We had no idea with what you dealt
We did not know the pain you felt
And now we can only imagine
With you what really did happen
Cause rarely did you complain 
And/or share your personal pain
Of one thing we are most certain
You are flying high behind the curtain
Watching over us above the crowds
Our Warrior Angel above the clouds
Thank You, Wheatie, for caring for us
While you were here among the fuss
We miss you dear you have no idea
Since time began in the pangaea
With you there was no time
In your wisdom you would chime
To clarify and magnify
The what where how and why
We did not question when you left
We were not slightly bereft
But over time we wondered why
You did not at least stop by
Now we know where you have gone
With the break of this new dawn
We could be angry but are not
Tho with an arrow we’ve been shot
Rest peacefully Warrior Angel dear
Send us a sign that you are near
A butterfly a flower a kiss of rain
From your love do not refrain
God sends Angels to watch over us
And now we have an Angel Plus
A Warrior Angel of Magnificence
From today and forward hence

LINK: https://www.theqtree.com/2019/05/23/the-poetry-tree/comment-page-2/#comment-917655

The Rules

TL;DR –

Wheatie’s Rules:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

Boilerplate, more or less, but worth reading again and again, if only for the minor changes, and to stay out of moderation.

MINOR CHANGE NUMBER 1

Never talk about committing violence in a reply to Wolf or in response to anything Wolf has said, or you may get put into moderation so that your comments can be screened. This is ONLY because DHS is now playing door-knock Gestapo with people who have spoken at school board meetings, made public comments, etc. DHS regime jackboots are knocking on doors of school board mama bears and stupidly insinuating potential violence from things people say or don’t say on social media. A guy in Ohio pointed his FINGER at the school board, and they went after him, armed with pictures of the pointing, and screen captures of online comments. Yeah.

SO – give the Nazis ZERO ammo. Keep any mention of violence, even joking, away from Wolf, so that he doesn’t have to “explain” humor to humorless jackboots who pretend not to know things.

As for discussion of “violent humor” among yourselves (e.g., “#TeamHeadsOnPikes”), just use whatever discretion you think is appropriate for yourselves. I will only put you in moderation if your comments create problems for ME or THIS SITE, but not if they only impact you.

YOU are responsible for your own comments, if they come knocking. YOUR choice. Just remember this…..

OTHER THAN THAT…….

The bottom line is Free Speech. Theories and ideas you don’t agree with must be WELCOME here, and you must be part of that welcoming. But you do NOT need to be part of any agreement.

Bottom line – respect other people’s FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS.

Our only additional requirement is that you do so NICELY. Or at least try to make some effort in that direction.

SO….. [ENGAGE BOILERPLATE…..]

We must endeavor to persevere to love our frenemies – even here.

Those who cannot deal with this easy requirement will be forced to jump the hoops of moderation, so that specific comments impugning other posters and violating the minimal rules can be sorted out and tossed in the trash.

In Wheatie’s words, “We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”

That includes the life skill of just ignoring certain other posters.

We do have a site – The U Tree – where civility is not a requirement. Interestingly, people don’t really go there much. Nevertheless, if you find yourself in an “argument” that can’t really stay civil, please feel free to “take it to the U Tree”. The U Tree is also a good place to report any technical difficulties, if you’re unable to report them here. Please post your comment there on one of Wolf’s posts, or in reply to one of Wolf’s comments, to make sure he sees it (though it may take a few hours).

We also have a backup site, called The Q Tree as well, which is really The Q Tree 579486807. You might call it “Second Tree”. The URL for that site is https://theqtree579486807.wordpress.com/. If this site (theqtree.com) ever goes down, please reassemble at the Second Tree.

If the Second Tree goes down, please go to The U Tree, or to our Gab Group, which is located at https://gab.com/groups/4178.

We also have some “old rules” and important guidelines, outlined here, in a very early post, on our first New Year’s Day, in 2019. The main point is not to make violent threats against people, which then have to be taken seriously by law enforcement, and which can be used as a PRETEXT by enemies of this site.

In the words of Wheatie, “Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”

A Moment of Prayer

Our policy on extreme religious freedom on this site is discussed HERE. Please feel free to pray and praise God anytime and anywhere.

Thus, please pray for our real President, the one who actually won the election.

You may also pray for our nation, our world, and even our enemies.

Musical Interlude

In honor of dear Wheatie, we now present some music to soothe, inspire, invigorate, or relax.

Here are three “placeholder” videos, selected from old Wheatie posts.

1.

From Dear MAGA: 20190222 Open Topic

2.

From Dear MAGA: 20190223 Open Topic

3.

From Dear MAGA: 20190427 Open Topic

Ah, yes! I remember those days!

Call To Battle

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 Day Year Week:

placeholderama

noun

  • the second year of placeholder posts on The Q Tree
  • Wolf’s collection of dummy posts that he alters if he gets the chance
  • justice for more than one swamp rat in Washington

Used in a Sentence:

“OMG, they’re not only placing Eric Holder under arrest – they’re arresting all his cronies – it’s a veritable placeholderama!”

Used in a Picture of Women Prison Guards Watching Eric Holder in Solitary in DC Gitmo:

ENJOY THE SHOW

Have another great week!

W

DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20230203

Man O’ War

(Yes, I know it’s not quite horse racing season, but….)

INGREDIENTS 

For The Man O’ War Cocktail:

  • ice cubes for chilling the glass and for the shaker
  • 1 1/2 ounces good-quality bourbonor your favorite rye whiskey
  • 1 ounce Cointreau or other orange liqueur
  • 1/2 ounce sweet vermouth
  • 1/2 ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice

For Garnish:

  • Brandied cherry
  • Lemon peel
  • Chill The Glass: Fill a coupe glass with ice and water and set aside.
  • Make The Man O’ War Cocktail: Add the bourbon (or rye or whiskey), Cointreau, sweet vermouth, and lemon juice to a cocktail shaker. Fill halfway with ice.Close and shake until it is thoroughly chilled (almost too cold to touch), at least 20 seconds. Taste and add more lemon if you want it more tart or more Cointreau if you want it sweeter.
  • Serve The Man O’ War Cocktail: Dump the ice water from the coupe glass. Strain the cocktail into the glass. Spear a brandied cherries and a bit of lemon peel onto a few cocktail toothpicks and garnish the glass. Serve.

Highlight of Thursday (instrumental music from Bizet’s Carmen is a bonus):

Put some ice on it.

TheStormHasArrived17

Forwarded from Just Human ️️️

Folks, I’m going to put this as bluntly as I can:

THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY IS UNDER INVESTIGATION RIGHT NOW.

-That’s why Biden is speaking through his lawyer.
-That’s why there are these searches by his lawyers.
-That’s why there are searches by the FBI.
-That’s why there is a Special Counsel.

Who, btw, officially started work as a Special Counsel TODAY.

This isn’t just about misplaced documents that are marked classified. If it was, the FBI would not be taking documents which are not classified and which date all the way back to Biden’s days as a Senator.

Everything [they] accused Trump of, everything [they] put Trump through, is being reversed onto [them].

It’s beautiful and amazing.
The best show ever.
Enjoy it.

t.me/TheStormHasArrived17/12510

Winter is only Temporary, My Enduring Soul

Energy Department proposes efficiency rules for cooking devices after gas stove furor

Keep reading. This is not the end of this.

Pfizer Shares Plunge Along With Demand For Covid-19 Drugs

“Objectivity Has Got To Go”: News Leaders Call for the End of Objective Journalism

More Than 4 in 10 Republicans and a Third of Parents Now Oppose Schools Requiring Children to Get Vaccinated for Measles and Other Illness, Up Since the COVID-19 Pandemic Began

If we have effective anti-viral drugs, why do we need vaccines?

Cursive handwriting and other educational anachronisms

I don’t get it. This morning I responded to a poll in the online blog of the Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC, the conservative answer to AARP) regarding cursive handwriting. Specifically: “Cursive writing (“handwriting”) has been on the decline for over a decade, though 21 states still mandate it in their curriculums. Should it still be taught?”

I found myself in the distinct minority by voting “No.” An overwhelming majority of respondents think cursive is necessary to read historical documents and foster critical thinking by 50 to 1. I know many of you will agree with that view; you will insist that the curricula of our old school days were more effective in training young minds and that cursive is an essential aspect of that.

But I simply do not agree. And, in a significant way, I have made my living by writing. I have been the author or coauthor of some 270 peer-reviewed scientific publications and 10 books, along with a handful of patents. And since 1983, all were done on some form of computer or another device that is not a pen. Admittedly, my handwriting was the despair of my parents and teachers.

Sure, I have jotted notes by hand. I have a file cabinet of my notes from grad school, and my lab notebooks were all handwritten. In some cases, such as with a potential patentable invention, such notebook entries were punctuated by a witness who had to attest in (hand)writing: “read and understood.”

But the vast majority of my written output had to be electronic, or my publishers would have thrown it back in my face! That’s just the simple reality. This got me thinking about some of the other anachronisms of my schooling, distinct from my education.

As the child of an educator, there are multiple reasons to learn cursive. The first is brain development. Small motor control in the fingers is another, which as a craft artist I can attest is necessary. Another is notation retention when things are written down. Of course, I have what has been described as pretty handwriting, so I’m biased.

UnLocke-ing the American Founders

If Trump is such a terrible candidate, why does everyone fear him?

IMPORTANT READ:

The Petrodollar System: A Shift Away From a Dominant Currency (Plus Artificial Intelligence Will Soon Replace Us All)

Planned New FBI HQ Is Twice the Size of the Pentagon

The FBI as Intelligence Unit for the Administrative State

The Unacceptable Cost of Open-Border Mission Creep

The Never-Ending Covid Emergency

Steve Bannon Slams Nikki Haley Amid 2024 Rumors: ‘Ambitious as Lucifer’

And no small measure of pride.

Pfizer reports $100 billion haul, with vast majority of profits looted from US taxpayers

DoD Adds “Cognitive Security” to Governmental Disinformation Campaign

“Most-Read Propaganda Paper Ever”: The Dam of Lies Surrounding Covid Lab Leak Is Breaking

Everything that needs electricity is made with oil

McConnell Removes Senators Scott And Lee From Influential Committee

I have read over the years that Mitch McConnell has a mean streak. It’s like he’s Irish or something.

‘FENTANYL IS COLORBLIND’: BLACK CONGRESSMAN UNLOADS ON BIDEN ADMIN’S PATHETIC ATTEMPT TO BLAME ANY CRITICISM ON RACE

Hawley: Biden Administration Is Attempting to Wipe Out Blue-Collar Economy, Culture

The CORE, the ESSENCE, the CORNERSTONE of Globalism – The “Exfiltration of Wealth” – One Exceptional Example

The Master Builder (part 2 of Master and Commander earlier in the week)

Sorry Zerohedge: For Better or Worse, US Dollar Will Remain the King of Currencies

America’s National Exorcism: How It’s Going So Far

DID THE CIA SET UP NSA LEAKER REALITY WINNER?

President Trump Also Watching RGA for Background Moves in 2024

This pretty much says it:

(For those who do not know the original Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, look up Veruca Salt. BRAT.)

Tweety Tweets:

I am religious, and yes, it is demonic.

Good question.

We didn’t in the 70s and 80s, either.

It’s not like rock salt for the roads degrades over time.

The Bidens are white trash. Change my mind.

Come and take it, indeed. That goes double for the in ground gas grill.

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1621210261091753985

And this is what Sundance is trying to tell the world.

MEME STASH:

Okay, guys, if you want to skate in drag, this is how you do it.

https://youtu.be/uplqKPMBlCQ

I don’t remember that program when it happened, but laughed all the same.

https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1620861647865712640
https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1621049887025405955
https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1620934382830641152
https://twitter.com/MissFlyByNight/status/1620757424323067904
https://twitter.com/Enezator/status/1620876997852561408
https://twitter.com/S0NlA9/status/1621096344835469312
https://twitter.com/TheFigen_/status/1621132858302803970

And now for the business portion of the post borrowed from Tuesday:

Guidelines for posting and discussion on this site were outlined by our host, WolfM00n. Please, review them from time to time.

The discourse on this site is to be CIVIL – no name calling, baiting, or threatening others here is allowed. Those who are so inclined may visit Wolf’s other sanctuary, the U-Tree, to slog it out. There is also a “rescue” thread there for members of the Tree to rendezvous if the main site goes kablooey. A third site has been added for site outages of longer duration.

This site is a celebration of the natural rights endowed to humans by our Creator as well as those enshrined in the Bill of Rights adopted in the founding documents of the United States of America. Within the limits of law, how we exercise these rights is part of the freedom of our discussion. In that spirit, though, threats of violence real or hypothetical are out of bounds.

Fellow tree dweller the late Wheatie gave us some good reminders on the basics of civility in political discourse:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

And Auntie DePat’s requests:

If you see something has not been posted, do us all a favor, and post it. Please, do not complain that it has not been done yet.

The scroll wheel on your mouse can be your friend. As mature adults, please use it here in the same manner you would in avoiding online porn.

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HEBREWS 13:1-8

1Let brotherly love continue. 2Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 3Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you also are in the body. 4Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for God will judge the immoral and adulterous. 5Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have; for he has said, “I will never fail you nor forsake you.” 6Hence we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid; what can man do to me?” 7Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God; consider the outcome of their life, and imitate their faith. 8Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and for ever.

ROMANS 5:1-5

1Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2Through him we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of God. 3More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us.

PSALMS 117:1-2

1Praise the LORD, all nations! Extol him, all peoples! 2For great is his steadfast love toward us; and the faithfulness of the LORD endures for ever. Praise the LORD!

MARK 16:15-20

15And he said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation. 16He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. 17And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; 18they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.” 19So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God. 20And they went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that attended it. Amen.

SATIRE!

Punxsutawney Phil Emerges From Burrow To Let Everyone Know There Are Some Documents Marked ‘Classified’ Down There

‘Is It Working Now?’ Asks Elon Musk Flipping Random Switches In Twitter Basement

Politicians Forced To Cancel Prayer Breakfast After Lightning Keeps Striking Building

Have a good weekend!