“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
Our various sister sites, listed in the Blogroll in the sidebar
Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
osteoid
adjective
bony
bone-like
resembling bone
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of bone
Used in a sentence
Osteoid osteoma is a benign osteoblastic tumor that was first described in 1930 by Bergstrand.
Shown in a picture (osteoid histopathology)
Used in a company name in a video
MUSIC!
A really nice version of a song that I enjoyed back in the day.
THE STUFF
This is a painful confrontation of an Irish PalPal with facts about Islam. I would say “enjoy”, except it’s literally painful to watch.
And then there is this comment on the page…..
I’m a Christian born in a Muslim country. My family migrated to the west when I was 9 years old, we did not want leave but we knew ultimately that one day we would be either killed or kicked out so we decided to leave before that happened. A few years later, the Islamic terrorists started bombing churches. They kidnapped my mums cousin who is a priest. Tortured him for days, pulled his teeth out and eventually by GODs grace he was let go. I met a man whose son was killed in a church that was attacked by Islamic terrorists. This man lives with so much pain every day. He remembers his son every single day. His wife and daughter were almost killed too but his son heroically covered them with his body when the terrorists tried to kill them. Thank GOD they were miraculously spared. My mums brother who’s an engineer was kidnapped twice by terrorists and asked for a large sum of money for his life. Mum was living a nightmare. She couldn’t sleep or eat. I was young and didn’t understand what had happened. Later on I was told. You know the horror and terror we live under everyday just because we are Christian trying to survive in a Muslim country. This young lady doesn’t understand anything. Islam is a problem. It’s a death cult. Please read the quran, the life of Muhammad and the hadiths. They are shocking to say the least. I pray and hope that people like her wake up. Because before you know it, you will find yourself living under Sharia law. Thank you for bringing this to people’s attention. I pray they listen.
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
What is it that feeds our battle, yet starves our victory?
Do We Still Need the Kang (Mis)Quote?
I’m still using the quote about winning the battles but losing the war. It seems like this doesn’t make sense right now given that we seem to be going from triumph to triumph.
On the contrary. This is the exception that proves the rule. The quote isn’t just a lament, it’s to point out why we can never seem to win.
You see, the RINOs cannot interfere and that is why, just for once, we are actually winning. And that is just one more piece of evidence (for the willfully blind) as to what I have been saying with that quote.
It stays.
Speaker Johnson Pinging you on January 6 Tapes
Just a friendly reminder Speaker Johnson. You’re doing some good things–or at least trying in the case of the budget–but this is the most important thing out there still hanging. One initial block released with the promise of more…and?
We have American patriots being held without bail and without trial, and the tapes almost certainly contain exculpatory evidence. (And if they don’t, and we’re all just yelling in an echo chamber over here, we need to know that too. And there’s only one way to know.)
Either we have a weaponized, corrupt government or we have a lot of internet charlatans. Let’s expose whatever it is. (I’m betting it’s the corrupt weaponized government, but if I am wrong, I’d like to see proof.)
Justice Must Be Done.
The 2020 election must be acknowledged as fraudulent, and steps must be taken to prosecute the fraudsters and restore integrity to the system.
Yes this is still true in spite of 2024. Fraud must be rooted out of our system and that hasn’t changed just because the fraud wasn’t enough to stop Trump winning a second term. Fraud WILL be ramped up as soon as we stop paying attention.
Otherwise, everything ends again in 2028. Or perhaps earlier if Trump is saddled with a Left/RINO congress in 2026, via fraud.
Small Government?
Many times conservatives (real and fake) speak of “small government” being the goal.
This sounds good, and mostly is good, but it misses the essential point. The important thing here isn’t the size, but rather the purpose, of government. We could have a cheap, small tyranny. After all our government spends most of its revenue on payments to individuals and foreign aid, neither of which is part of the tyrannical apparatus trying to keep us locked down and censored. What parts of the government would be necessary for a tyranny? It’d be a lot smaller than what we have now. We could shrink the government and nevertheless find it more tyrannical than it is today.
No, what we want is a limited government, limited not in size, but rather in scope. Limited, that is, in what it’s allowed to do. Under current circumstances, such a government would also be much smaller, but that’s a side effect. If we were in a World War II sort of war, an existential fight against nasty dictatorships on the brink of world conquest, that would be very expensive and would require a gargantuan government, but that would be what the government should be doing. That would be a large, but still limited government, since it’d be working to protect our rights.
World War II would have been the wrong time to squawk about “small government,” but it wasn’t (and never is) a bad time to demand limited government. Today would be a better time to ask for a small government–at least the job it should be doing is small today–but it misses the essential point; we want government to not do certain things. Many of those things we don’t want it doing are expensive but many of them are quite eminently doable by a smaller government than the one we have today. Small, but still exceeding proper limits.
So be careful what you ask for. You might get it and find you asked for the wrong thing.
Political Science In Summation
It’s really just a matter of people who can’t be happy unless they control others…versus those who want to be left alone. The oldest conflict within mankind. Government is necessary, but government attracts the assholes (a highly technical term for the control freaks).
His Truth?
Again we saw an instance of “It might be true for Billy, but it’s not true for Bob” logic this week.
I hear this often, and it’s usually harmless. As when it’s describing differing circumstances, not different facts. “Housing is unaffordable” can be true for one person, but not for another who makes ten times as much.
But sometimes the speaker means it literally. Something like 2+2=4 is asserted to be true for Billy but not for Bob. (And when it’s literal, it’s usually Bob saying it.) And in that sense, it’s nonsense, dangerous nonsense. There is ONE reality, and it exists independent of our desires and our perceptions. It would go on existing if we weren’t here. We exist in it. It does not exist in our heads. It’s not a personal construct, and it isn’t a social construct. If there were no society, reality would continue to be what it is, it wouldn’t vanish…which it would have to do, if it were a social construct.
Now what can change from person to person is the perception of reality. We see that all the time. And people will, of course, act on those perceptions. They will vote for Trump (or try to) if their perception is close to mine, and vote against Trump (and certainly succeed at doing so) if their perception is distant from mine (and therefore, if I do say so, wrong). I have heard people say “perception is reality” and usually, that’s what they’re trying to say–your perception of reality is, as far as you know, an accurate representation of reality, or you’d change it.
But I really wish they’d say it differently. And sometimes, to get back to Billy and Bob, the person who says they have different truths is really saying they have different perceptions of reality–different worldviews. I can’t argue with the latter. But I sure wish they’d say it better. That way I’d know that someone who blabbers about two different truths is delusional and not worth my time, at least not until he passes kindergarten-level metaphysics on his umpteenth attempt.
Lawyer Appeasement Section
OK now for the fine print.
This is the Q Tree Daily Thread. You know the drill. There’s no Political 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.
Gold has been trending down ever since the cease fire, and on Friday it dropped $53.70. Other PMs followed suit, platinum dropped over five and a half percent on Friday. Silver dropped but it is in general holding its ground better than gold, as you can see from the gold:silver price ratio.
*The SteveInCO Federal Reserve Note Suckage Index (FRNSI) is a measure of how much the dollar has inflated. It’s the ratio of the current price of gold, to the number of dollars an ounce of fine gold made up when the dollar was defined as 25.8 grains of 0.900 gold. That worked out to an ounce being $20.67+71/387 of a cent. (Note gold wasn’t worth this much back then, thus much gold was $20.67 71/387ths. It’s a subtle distinction. One ounce of gold wasn’t worth $20.67 back then, it was $20.67.) Once this ratio is computed, 1 is subtracted from it so that the number is zero when the dollar is at its proper value, indicating zero suckage.
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
Our various sister sites, listed in the Blogroll in the sidebar
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.
Well, it looks like we did. GOOD!!!
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
yird
noun, verb
earth, sod, soil, topsoil, loam, etc.
ground
to bury
to inter
Used in a sentence
The yird in the yard ain’t no place to yird your momma, but it will work for the old squirrel killed by pesticides.
Used in the title of a homemade horror movie
Used in a poem
MUSIC!
The Yirdbards! Whoops, I mean the Yardbirds!
THE STUFF
TL;DR- Bug sprays are the new vax, and you are the bugs they want to control.
It’s time to start talking about pesticides and depopulation. I will explain why in a few minutes.
Begin with this old video.
Robert Malone just re-blogged a really excellent article on MAHA and pesticides, and it is very helpful background for what I want to talk about. Please check it out.
TL;DR- The first step in going full vax, is getting vax-level legal protection.
Will Congress give the pesticide industry a de facto liability shield?
Guest essay by Dr. Meryl Nass, exclusive to Malone.News
The “public” bottom line is that the pesticide industry has seen how the vaccine industry protected itself from consequences – and they want some of that “protected monopoly” action, too!
The “hidden” bottom line, driven by the depoppers hiding behind plausible deniability and their industrial puppets, is that depop by vaccine is SO busted, but “Depop Plan B” using pesticides on both humans and animals is quite doable, and is now getting the big green light.
If we are not careful, a NEW form of depopulation will be granted a “free pass” to begin culling where vaccines left off, when we refused to take them.
I will share what I am learning in that regard.
Pesticides Tag in as Vaccines are on the Ropes
Did you know that CHINA wants to spray your yard, your house, your deck, your basement, your garden plants – with a chemical that goes right into those plants INTENTIONALLY – and will depopulate the hives of the bees that visit those flowers? Oh, yeah – and the squirrels and birds in your yard? Maybe even the vultures that eat the carcasses? That will cause measurable changes to your cardiovascular system? And for which they will charge you something approaching a grand per year – and that they will make you sign an almost unbreakable contract, which you can’t break – EVEN FOR HEALTH REASONS – without losing most of your money?
You had better wise up fast, because China figured out that Americans aren’t going to take those vaccines, and they have a NEW PLAN.
And I’m here to tell you all about it.
I have an organic yard and house. Yeah, I have to use some herbicides and some pesticides, but I generally avoid them almost entirely. If I absolutely must, I use weak, natural insecticides like natural pyrethrins VERY occasionally. I use borax traps for ants. I use pheromone traps for Japanese beetles. I use SPIDERS for most insects, and HOUSE CENTIPEDES to keep the spiders under control. The rule is that my little natural friends have to stay hidden, and they learn fast, just like little AI robots. Scare them good, and you won’t see them again.
I use natural oil repellents for rabbits, squirrels, and deer in the gardens. This natural system works like crazy. Good dehumidification also helps in a big way, to keep bugs out of the house. I pass those tips along to all my friends, too, just like they were passed on to me. A natural and dry house is a surprisingly clean and bug-free house.
We have birds, squirrels, rabbits, deer, coyotes, skunks, racoons, groundhogs, bats, woodpeckers, hawks, owls, chipmunks, field mice, and every other critter you can imagine. We treat the animals well, and they entertain us all year long. The insects can’t come in the house, however, and our pampered little predators take care of the few that do.
However, not all of my friends and neighbors have stood up to the blatant, merciless, and sometimes literally illegal solicitations by the pestilence of “green” pesticide companies, trying to sell their services to the unwary.
I am going to warn you about them.
What follows is a combination of my experiences with those of my friends, my neighbors, and their friends and neighbors. Most of this is first-hand information given directly to me by the people involved. Some is second-hand. Some is my own experience. I’m going to wrap it all up in one ball – a single “friend” – to keep all these people anonymous, and bury my connections to them.
My “friend” has some serious warnings for you. Pay attention – and LIVE.
My friend actually thinks the home pesticide racket is built for depop. I knew this person was wise to depop with vaccines, but not pesticides, so when they told me the current pressure by green pesticide companies was all about depopulation, I was stunned. I wasn’t even fully there yet. But when you hear my friend’s story, it makes sense.
Yes – depopulation by nasty elites and progs is almost a mainstream belief now.
The high-pressure sales by these “green pesticide” companies has gone up by a full quantum level. We used to get the top two or three companies coming to our door, once every few years, but lately they’re all everywhere, all the time. The competition is FIERCE. I’ve seen them coming to most of my friends’ houses, too. The companies send both college kids and seasoned pros on these calls, and it seems like most of these salespeople will just ignore “NO SOLICITORS” signs.
My friend is an avid gardener and a DIY type, and had avoided using a pesticide company for years. However, because they were in the middle of a very wet summer with a lot of insects getting into the house, AND because the salesman made it sound like their people were just applying organic plant extracts to the exterior, and promised it would solve the problem, my friend made the mistake of trusting the sales pitch, and signed a 1-year contract to try it out. HUGE mistake.
“Plant-based” doesn’t mean “plant extracts”. Nor does it mean organic. Nor does it mean natural. It means “there exist natural substances with the same mode of bug-killing action, but this newer, stronger, and more persistent synthetic poison is not one of them.”
It’s the difference between “pyrethrins” (moderately toxic natural substances in chrysanthemum flowers) and “pyrethroids” (synthetic molecules that kinda look like the natural ones, but are many times more potent and toxic).
Ditto for “neonicotinoids“, which function at the same insect (or mammal) receptors as nicotine, but have molecules which increasingly look almost nothing like nicotine.
Neonicotinoids, a.k.a. “neonics“, are contentious because (IMO) they are both over-accused in some ways, and under-accused in others. Let’s just say that they are not without controversy.
That is what is being called “plant-based”, “organic”, etc. Technically, it’s true, or almost true, but realistically, it’s so close to a lie, you need a spark-plug gapper to find the space. IMO, the term “plant-based” is a bridge between SCAMMERS and MARKS – nothing more. It is designed to get people who are very reluctant to spray synthetic poisons around their houses, to spray synthetic poisons around their houses.
Caveat emptor.
What it meant in practice for my friend, was a mixture of AGRICULTURAL INSECTICIDES sprayed all over the exterior of the house, sprayed on the ground all around the house and on the decks, sprayed all over the garden, and then delayed-release pellets of still more insecticides being scattered all over the lawn.
The very first casualty was one of my friend’s favorite squirrels – a big old thing – dead on the ground where the company had sprayed, two days later. They weren’t sure if it walked through the sprayed areas or munched on one of the timed-release pellets, but based on the maggot and ant activity, the squirrel likely died within hours of the first application.
It definitely took care of the insects (it took a few days) – they were GONE from the garden – including all the pollinators. There were definitely fewer insects coming into the house. The stuff works.
HOWEVER, my friend felt ILL within hours of spraying, and within 2-3 days knew that something was very wrong. They almost went to the doctor, and only held off from doing so, because they felt better after about a week to 10 days.
Now – here is the kicker. A few weeks later, my friend was told by their FitBit (health wrist watch) that there had been an improvement in exercising heart rate – that their pulse had gone down significantly. My friend found that surprising, and looked at a graph of the health data. Yes, it had gone down – from an unexpected increase earlier. What was very obvious was full recovery from a HUGE increase in heart rate starting the very day that the pesticides had been applied, topping out in 3-4 days, then going back to normal in a week to 10 days. After that, a flat line of normalcy.
My friend even remembered ignoring an earlier notification about heart rate – probably when it increased.
The truth was all in the data.
Good thing my friend only has mild cardiac issues. What if this would have happened to somebody with serious cardiac problems?
I repeat. My friend has medical evidence of health effects due to the applied pesticides. My guess is that they suffered from both of the chemicals sprayed on the house – one is a powerful pyrethroid, which can cause nerve problems like the symptoms they described – the other is a neonicotinoid, meaning it’s biologically like nicotine, and that is the one that IMO likely raised their heart rate.
My friend canceled the service a.s.a.p. and told the company why. One might think that a person would get their money back for a health-related exit, but no – the contract required almost complete payment of the full contract for discontinuing for ANY reason. My friend did NOT give a damn – they were OUT.
Lesson learned.
Now, that squirrel wasn’t the only casualty. A different company came to my friend’s house later, and mentioned (as a selling point) that they had secured contracts with two families just down the road. Well, what do you know – a few days later, there was a HUGE vulture pecking at what looked like a small dead mammal in the first mentioned neighbor’s yard. And if that’s not enough, there was ANOTHER dead mammal – some kind of squirrel or chipmunk – found later next door to the second property mentioned by the happy salesman.
I repeat – these are were mammals.
Between my neighbor’s symptoms preserved in data, and 3 dead mammals in or near 3 treated yards, I know that I for one sure don’t want to have anything to do with these “green” pesticides. My suspicions of them have been confirmed.
If you want to read more about the health effects of pesticides, this is a really good slideshow:
Go back to Malone’s hosted article by Dr. Nass. You will find that a certain big pesticide company merged with ChemChina. ChemChina is STATE-OWNED – meaning it’s the CCP.
Well, that company which is under CCP control, happens to be the one that produced the mixture of chemicals which likely sickened my friend and killed the squirrel. So if you wouldn’t trust China to “safely” put poisons in your yard and on your house, then strongly consider hiring some spiders to take care of the insects, and some house centipedes to take care of the spiders. Let the birds take care of the insects. Let the bees take care of the flowers. And let the hawks take care of the squirrels.
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
Our various sister sites, listed in the Blogroll in the sidebar
Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
delubrum
noun
font (receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism)
temple or shrine
temple or shrine having a font
church with a font
sanctuary
place of purification
Used in a proper name in a quoted sentence
Delubrum Reginae [Final Fantasy game] has a lot of really fun things going on with it in the boss fights, some of which I’m looking forward to seeing more of in the future!
Shown in a picture
[Nabataean delubrum of the Siq al-Barid (Little Petra) in Jordan]
Shown [game] in a video that shows you how much of an alternate reality games have become
MUSIC!
History lesson!
THE STUFF
Newton takes on neutrons – and gets surprisingly good numbers!
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
Our various sister sites, listed in the Blogroll in the sidebar
Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
plegometer
noun
instrument for measuring the strength of a blow
device for measuring the force of a blow or stroke
Used in a sentence (from 1897)
In 1839, a meeting of the Miners’ Society was held at Redruth, and a wish was expressed that the duty might be calculated on a stroke measured by a plegometer instead of the method of ascertaining the number of strokes by a counter.
Not shown in a somewhat related video
MUSIC!
Some cool Wheatie epic orchestral music during this hot summer!
THE STUFF
This bears watching again!
The importance of Truth is clear to Elon, and he’s spreading the word.
What is it that feeds our battle, yet starves our victory?
Do We Still Need the Kang (Mis)Quote?
I’m still using the quote about winning the battles but losing the war. It seems like this doesn’t make sense right now given that we seem to be going from triumph to triumph.
On the contrary. This is the exception that proves the rule. The quote isn’t just a lament, it’s to point out why we can never seem to win.
You see, the RINOs cannot interfere and that is why, just for once, we are actually winning. And that is just one more piece of evidence (for the willfully blind) as to what I have been saying with that quote.
It stays.
Speaker Johnson Pinging you on January 6 Tapes
Just a friendly reminder Speaker Johnson. You’re doing some good things–or at least trying in the case of the budget–but this is the most important thing out there still hanging. One initial block released with the promise of more…and?
We have American patriots being held without bail and without trial, and the tapes almost certainly contain exculpatory evidence. (And if they don’t, and we’re all just yelling in an echo chamber over here, we need to know that too. And there’s only one way to know.)
Either we have a weaponized, corrupt government or we have a lot of internet charlatans. Let’s expose whatever it is. (I’m betting it’s the corrupt weaponized government, but if I am wrong, I’d like to see proof.)
Justice Must Be Done.
The 2020 election must be acknowledged as fraudulent, and steps must be taken to prosecute the fraudsters and restore integrity to the system.
Yes this is still true in spite of 2024. Fraud must be rooted out of our system and that hasn’t changed just because the fraud wasn’t enough to stop Trump winning a second term. Fraud WILL be ramped up as soon as we stop paying attention.
Otherwise, everything ends again in 2028. Or perhaps earlier if Trump is saddled with a Left/RINO congress in 2026, via fraud.
Small Government?
Many times conservatives (real and fake) speak of “small government” being the goal.
This sounds good, and mostly is good, but it misses the essential point. The important thing here isn’t the size, but rather the purpose, of government. We could have a cheap, small tyranny. After all our government spends most of its revenue on payments to individuals and foreign aid, neither of which is part of the tyrannical apparatus trying to keep us locked down and censored. What parts of the government would be necessary for a tyranny? It’d be a lot smaller than what we have now. We could shrink the government and nevertheless find it more tyrannical than it is today.
No, what we want is a limited government, limited not in size, but rather in scope. Limited, that is, in what it’s allowed to do. Under current circumstances, such a government would also be much smaller, but that’s a side effect. If we were in a World War II sort of war, an existential fight against nasty dictatorships on the brink of world conquest, that would be very expensive and would require a gargantuan government, but that would be what the government should be doing. That would be a large, but still limited government, since it’d be working to protect our rights.
World War II would have been the wrong time to squawk about “small government,” but it wasn’t (and never is) a bad time to demand limited government. Today would be a better time to ask for a small government–at least the job it should be doing is small today–but it misses the essential point; we want government to not do certain things. Many of those things we don’t want it doing are expensive but many of them are quite eminently doable by a smaller government than the one we have today. Small, but still exceeding proper limits.
So be careful what you ask for. You might get it and find you asked for the wrong thing.
Political Science In Summation
It’s really just a matter of people who can’t be happy unless they control others…versus those who want to be left alone. The oldest conflict within mankind. Government is necessary, but government attracts the assholes (a highly technical term for the control freaks).
His Truth?
Again we saw an instance of “It might be true for Billy, but it’s not true for Bob” logic this week.
I hear this often, and it’s usually harmless. As when it’s describing differing circumstances, not different facts. “Housing is unaffordable” can be true for one person, but not for another who makes ten times as much.
But sometimes the speaker means it literally. Something like 2+2=4 is asserted to be true for Billy but not for Bob. (And when it’s literal, it’s usually Bob saying it.) And in that sense, it’s nonsense, dangerous nonsense. There is ONE reality, and it exists independent of our desires and our perceptions. It would go on existing if we weren’t here. We exist in it. It does not exist in our heads. It’s not a personal construct, and it isn’t a social construct. If there were no society, reality would continue to be what it is, it wouldn’t vanish…which it would have to do, if it were a social construct.
Now what can change from person to person is the perception of reality. We see that all the time. And people will, of course, act on those perceptions. They will vote for Trump (or try to) if their perception is close to mine, and vote against Trump (and certainly succeed at doing so) if their perception is distant from mine (and therefore, if I do say so, wrong). I have heard people say “perception is reality” and usually, that’s what they’re trying to say–your perception of reality is, as far as you know, an accurate representation of reality, or you’d change it.
But I really wish they’d say it differently. And sometimes, to get back to Billy and Bob, the person who says they have different truths is really saying they have different perceptions of reality–different worldviews. I can’t argue with the latter. But I sure wish they’d say it better. That way I’d know that someone who blabbers about two different truths is delusional and not worth my time, at least not until he passes kindergarten-level metaphysics on his umpteenth attempt.
Lawyer Appeasement Section
OK now for the fine print.
This is the Q Tree Daily Thread. You know the drill. There’s no Political 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.
Gold has been trending down ever since the cease fire, and on Friday it dropped $53.70. Other PMs followed suit, platinum dropped over five and a half percent on Friday. Silver dropped but it is in general holding its ground better than gold, as you can see from the gold:silver price ratio.
*The SteveInCO Federal Reserve Note Suckage Index (FRNSI) is a measure of how much the dollar has inflated. It’s the ratio of the current price of gold, to the number of dollars an ounce of fine gold made up when the dollar was defined as 25.8 grains of 0.900 gold. That worked out to an ounce being $20.67+71/387 of a cent. (Note gold wasn’t worth this much back then, thus much gold was $20.67 71/387ths. It’s a subtle distinction. One ounce of gold wasn’t worth $20.67 back then, it was $20.67.) Once this ratio is computed, 1 is subtracted from it so that the number is zero when the dollar is at its proper value, indicating zero suckage.
Place Holder Under Arrest
TBH I might not do anything significant before August.
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
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Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
procerity
noun
tallness
loftiness
height of stature
an archaic word meaning height or tallness, derived from Latin procerus, meaning high or tall
Used in a sentence
Procerity Inc. is a company that provides strategic and financial consulting services to senior levels of client organizations. Some of their clients include Royal Bank of Canada, Marsulex Inc., Ontario Provincial Police and private clients.
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MUSIC!
Always remember Sunday!
THE STUFF
Patience is a thing, if you want to work in the mines of Neutrinoville. Welcome to the job. Take a seat and relax. You’re gonna be here a while.
This video may be three years old, but in Neutrinoville, that’s like yesterday. Speaking of which, what’s up, down at the mine?
