“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
Sorry for the delay folks. Too many irons in the fire today, but making progress on a lot of fronts. When Ying is finally bathed, life will be good.
So, today, the real President of the United States – no matter what the mainstream media says – is hosting a rally in Des Moines, Iowa, at the Iowa State Fairgrounds, a place most familiar to primary watchers.
There’s not much on Twitter as of this writing.
https://youtu.be/dqcMDacPt7A
https://youtu.be/BGEOePkw41o
A little history of Des Moines:
Prehistoric inhabitants of early Des Moines
Based on archaeological evidence, the junction of the Des Moines and Raccoon Rivers has attracted humans for at least 7,000 years. Several prehistoric occupation areas have been identified by archaeologists in downtown Des Moines. Discovered in December 2010, the “Palace” is an expansive, 7,000-year-old site found during excavations prior to construction of the new wastewater treatment plant in southeastern Des Moines. It contains well-preserved house deposits and numerous graves. More than 6,000 artifacts were found at this site. State of Iowa archaeologist John Doershuk was assisted by University of Iowa archaeologists at this dig.[16]
At least three Late Prehistoric villages, dating from about AD 1300 to 1700, stood in or near what developed later as downtown Des Moines. In addition, 15 to 18 prehistoric American Indian mounds were observed in this area by early settlers. All have been destroyed during development of the city.[17][18]
Origin of Fort Des Moines
Des Moines traces its origins to May 1843, when Captain James Allen supervised the construction of a fort on the site where the Des Moines and Raccoon Rivers merge. Allen wanted to use the name Fort Raccoon; however, the U.S. War Department preferred Fort Des Moines. The fort was built to control the Sauk and Meskwaki tribes, whom the government had moved to the area from their traditional lands in eastern Iowa. The fort was abandoned in 1846 after the Sauk and Meskwaki were removed from the state and shifted to the Indian Territory.[19]
The Sauk and Meskwaki did not fare well in Des Moines. The illegal whiskey trade, combined with the destruction of traditional lifeways, led to severe problems for their society. One newspaper reported:
“It is a fact that the location of Fort Des Moines among the Sac and Fox Indians (under its present commander) for the last two years, had corrupted them more and lowered them deeper in the scale of vice and degradation, than all their intercourse with the whites for the ten years previous”.[19]
After official removal, the Meskwaki continued to return to Des Moines until around 1857.[18]
Archaeological excavations have shown that many fort-related features survived under what is now Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway and First Street.[19][20] Soldiers stationed at Fort Des Moines opened the first coal mines in the area, mining coal from the riverbank for the fort’s blacksmith.[21]
Early, non-Native American, settlement
Excavation of the prehistoric component of the Bird’s Run Site in Des MoinesFlood of Des Moines, 1851
Settlers occupied the abandoned fort and nearby areas. On May 25, 1846, the state legislature designated Fort Des Moines as the seat of Polk County. Arozina Perkins, a school teacher who spent the winter of 1850–1851 in the town of Fort Des Moines, was not favorably impressed:
This is one of the strangest looking “cities” I ever saw… This town is at the juncture of the Des Moines and Raccoon Rivers. It is mostly a level prairie with a few swells or hills around it. We have a court house of “brick” and one church, a plain, framed building belonging to the Methodists. There are two taverns here, one of which has a most important little bell that rings together some fifty boarders. I cannot tell you how many dwellings there are, for I have not counted them; some are of logs, some of brick, some framed, and some are the remains of the old dragoon houses… The people support two papers and there are several dry goods shops. I have been into but four of them… Society is as varied as the buildings are. There are people from nearly every state, and Dutch, Swedes, etc.[22]
In May 1851, much of the town was destroyed during the Flood of 1851. “The Des Moines and Raccoon Rivers rose to an unprecedented height, inundating the entire country east of the Des Moines River. Crops were utterly destroyed, houses and fences swept away.”[23] The city started to rebuild from scratch.
Over the past four years, President Donald Trump’s administration delivered for Americans of all backgrounds like never before. Save America is about building on those accomplishments, supporting the brave conservatives who will define the future of the America First Movement, the future of our party, and the future of our beloved country. Save America is also about ensuring that we always keep America First, in our foreign and domestic policy. We take pride in our country, we teach the truth about our history, we celebrate our rich heritage and national traditions, and of course, we respect our great American Flag.
We are committed to defending innocent life and to upholding the Judeo-Christian values of our founding.
We believe in the promise of the Declaration of Independence, that we are all made EQUAL by our Creator, and that must all be TREATED equal under the law.
We know that our rights do not come from government, they come from God, and no earthly force can ever take those rights away. That includes the right to religious liberty and the right to Keep and Bear Arms.
We believe in rebuilding our previously depleted military and ending the endless wars our failed politicians of the past got us into for decades.
We embrace free thought, we welcome robust debate, and we are not afraid to stand up to the oppressive dictates of political correctness.
We know that the rule of law is the ultimate safeguard of our freedoms, and we affirm that the Constitution means exactly what it says AS WRITTEN.
We support fair trade, low taxes, and fewer job-killing regulations, and we know that America must always have the most powerful military on the face of the Earth.
We believe in Law and Order, and we believe that the men and women of law enforcement are HEROES who deserve our absolute support.
We believe in FREE SPEECH and Fair Elections. We must ensure fair, honest, transparent, and secure elections going forward – where every LEGAL VOTE counts.
The schedule for today:
Special Guest Speakers: Secretary Mike Naig, Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks, United States Representative from Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District Representative Ashley Hinson, United States Representative from Iowa’s 1st Congressional District The Honorable Matt Whitaker, Former Acting Attorney General of the United States Chairman Jeff Kaufmann, Chairman of the Republican Party of Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, United States Senator from Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, Governor of Iowa
Timeline of Events: 2:00PM – Doors open and Live Entertainment Begins 3:00PM – Livestream of Iowa Hawkeyes vs. Penn State 4:30PM – Program Begins with Pre-Program Remarks 7:00PM – 45th President Donald J. Trump Delivers Remarks
Please join me in prayer and fasting for our nation today. Our heavenly Father hears our cries.
There is a scene in Matthew (Chapter 17) where the disciples are unable to cast out a demon from a tormented boy. The father approaches Jesus and begs for help, telling Christ that his disciples had been tasked for the job but had failed.
Jesus reacts: “’O unbelieving and perverse generation!’” Jesus replied. “’How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy here to Me.’ Then Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of the boy, and he was healed from that moment.”
Jesus casts out demons
How ashamed the disciples must’ve been, because they came to him privately and asked him why they had not been able to heal the boy. Realize that some of them had just experienced the Transfiguration with Jesus.
He is blunt with them.
“Because you have so little faith,” He answered. “For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”
Now just ponder that. A mustard seed is quite small, a dot. How mighty must a God-fearing faith be that such a small amount can cast a mountain into the sea.
As a Catholic, I do not attempt to cast out demons by myself. But I will share a story that explains how the power of Christ is so preeminent that we can call upon Him and He will work in our lives to effect miracles.
Some years ago, our family was nearly riven in half by a situation that had been brewing for years. There were periodic attempts to tamp down the issues dividing family members, but it was never really handled.
As you can imagine, there was a darkness and oppression to family life. It grew worse until a physical separation occurred. It seemed hopeless. At that point, I became humble enough to begin listening to God.
I began praying and fasting. I had a schedule of prayer so packed that my life became a life of prayer. Almost every hour I turned to God. Sometimes it seemed like I was peeling an onion, a stinky rotten onion. Why couldn’t I just slice through it and find a solution to this heartbreaking problem of family division?
But as I studied Scripture, attended Church, and prayed, things eventually began to come into focus. I found that things I had thought were a problem, weren’t really a problem. There was something much deeper going on.
Leviathan
One day in my Scripture searches I came across the name of Leviathan. It’s biblical. It’s mentioned numerous times, always in conjunction as a beast of enormous power that no man can contend with, but which is easily vanquished by the LORD.
I mulled over the idea of Leviathan and then put it aside. It didn’t seem to have much to do with my situation. However, a day later I came across another reference to Leviathan from a totally different source. That got my attention.
LEVIATHAN ATTACKS NATIONS
I began to dig in and take a look at the concept as it applied to our family situation. It seems that in Christian circles, Leviathan is often considered demonic, even a demon. It is considered to be a quiet, under-the-surface source of division within families, churches, and nations.
It works silently, growing and becoming stronger as it works its evil.
It is also known that once you have the name of a demon, it can be cast out.
Could the activity of Leviathan have been a factor in the division within my family? At that point I had to admit that our individual actions had contributed greatly to our problem. But our family had been praying to a greater or lesser degree to heal the rift.
We had been humbled. We had always considered our family as indestructible. Now, all our friends and extended family and acquaintances knew of our failures. I had been asking everybody I knew who was prayerful, for help.
I clung to a mustard seed-sized faith. I clung to Christ’s promise.
And help came. Friends and family came through in ways that eased the pain.
One morning, I took a drive and landed in a bucolic spot to pray. As I prayed, the word Leviathan came strongly to me. It was almost insistent. I knew that I had no power to effect an exorcism. Alone in that car, the only One who had authority was Christ Jesus.
I prayed a very simple, humble prayer. I asked the Lord Jesus Christ to cast out the spirit of division, Leviathan, from my family. Instantaneously, I felt a sense of release, as if a great weight had been lifted from me. I thanked God for the sudden deep peace that enveloped me.
As I drove back to town to stop at the store, I ran into the very family member who I had been estranged from. We talked. Within three days a full reconciliation of our family occurred.
Naturally, almost without effort. It has been permanent.
Is this type of healing possible with our nation? Of course it is. Leviathan, perhaps, has been at work through human tools like the CCP and communists embedded in our country. We’ve allowed CRT and other pernicious ideologies free rein within our institutions.
But God is merciful and quick to forgive, both us as individuals and us together as a nation.
Let today be a day of prayer and fasting, if you feel so inclined. Please include any Scriptures, prayers, stories and comments that you think will help heal and restore our families, our cities and states, and our beloved republic.
“If God be for us, who can be against us?”
Romans 8:31
Wild Mustard
A mustard seed faith is invincible. From Pope Benedict XVI comes this quote about the mustard seed:
“The time has come to say farewell to the idea of traditionally Catholic cultures. We are facing a new and different kind of epoch in the Church’s history, where Christianity will again be characterised more by the mustard seed, where the Church will exist in small, insignificant groups that nonetheless live an intensive struggle against evil and bring the good into the world–that let God in.”
Pope Benedict XVI
We may be small and insignificant in the scheme of things, but at the Qtree and Marica’s Place we “live an intensive struggle against evil,” and that means we are also bringing “good into the world.”
God bless and keep the Qtreepers. I think something amazing will happen for all of us today.
(A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD.)
1 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee. 2 Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily. 3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. 4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. 6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. 7 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top. 8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me. 9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping, 10 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down. 11 My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass. 12 But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations. 13Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come. 14 For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof. 15 So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory. 16 When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory. 17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer. 18 This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD. 19 For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth; 20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death; 21 To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem; 22 When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD. 23 He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days. 24 I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations. 25 Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. 26 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: 27 But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end. 28 The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.
“I CANNOT emphasize enough, how desperate they are to contain a mass awakening. When people realize our entire history, our reality, our medicines, our media, and more has been managed and policed by an elitist empire that wages war on us and God then there will be no going back.”
Joel Brown
Welcome to Wolf’s Pub! It’s Friday, but lately it hasn’t seemed like the weekend, you know? It’s like the weekend has its own set of busyness, like catching up on chores, shopping, helping family and friends, and so on. There’s never a moment, anymore, to just kick back and relax.
Tequila Sunrise
But relax we must. And when Joel mentioned a mass awakening, it came to me that we need a sunny morning cocktail this day. In honor of all those who are just now awakening to the truth of our situation, I toast you with the Tequila Sunrise. But first, to the business at hand.
A RUINED MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT…ALMOST
It seems that in the time of Covid, we have to be our own physicians. We simply cannot trust what the medical establishment has become. They do not take their oath seriously.
Well, here are some brave and moral doctors who do take their oath seriously. And we should be ever so grateful that they have withstood the pressure of demonic oppression to stand up for us and provide healing alternatives to the deadly CDC protocols that permeate most hospitals and doctors’ offices today.
We will be able to rescue our institutions, I think. Some will need major surgery, but there really are good guys in the world working to help humans rather than hurt them.
“Let the hunters get hunted.”
Dr. Zev Zelenko
“To hold on to the position of denying compassionate care to patients, and to create fear, suffering, hospitalization, and death is immoral. It’s unethical and in civil court, it’s illegal. And all of you will be hunted. Every single one of you listening right now will be hunted and justice will be served. These are considered crimes against humanity.”
Dr. Peter McCullough
“So the phrase that’s used is “scientism versus science.” And the observation is that science, historically, has tended towards priesthood, with high priests that are empowered to determine truth.”
Dr. Robert Malone
“Well, the Chinese have been sinking their teeth into us for a long, long time because we are the seat of liberty.”
Dr. Peter Breggin
“Basically, everything your government has told you about this virus, everything you need to do to stay safe, is a lie.”
Dr. Michael Yeadon
“Since January 1, in the laboratory, I’m seeing a 20 times increase of endometrial cancers over what I see on an annual basis.”
Dr. Ryan Cole
“In my opinion, I think you have to look at your worldview—if you think we’re fighting a virus, you’re going to act like a victim. If you think we’re fighting a war, you’re going to act like a warrior.”
Dr. Lee Merritt
“Mountains of data have emerged from many centers and countries around the world showing the miraculous effectiveness of Ivermectin. It basically obliterates transmission of this virus.”
And here is a chilling video report from a Greek Orthodox priest who recounts what happened when a priest-monk took the death jab. It has to do with the fetal cells. Don’t miss it.
It seems entirely possible that there are aborted fetal cells present in the vaccines, according to this National Pulse article.
So to another iconic cocktail, the Tequila Sunrise. Memorialized by the Eagles, the 1970s version of the cocktail is widely held in derision today as too sweet and somewhat tacky. Piffle.
According to the Saucey blog, the Tequila Sunrise is the perfect morning cocktail:
“We don’t often think of tequila as a popular morning drink, either. But that’s why the Tequila Sunrise was invented.
As the name suggests, this drink is best enjoyed when you first wake up. The drink literally looks like the sun rising. The bottom half of the drink has a beautiful orange-red hue, while the upper half of the drink transitions to a bright yellow.”
Watch here as the 1930s version goes up against the 1970s version. Both come up short and the bartender and his girl improve upon both:
Our bartenders are standing by to concoct whatever version suits you!
HOUSE RULES
One of my best friends in this world can drink any liquor and keep control, except for tequila. It does something to her. I remember once…well, I better not trumpet it out there. But we had a wild early afternoon some years ago. A designated driver had to take her home and have her husband put her to bed in the middle of the day. I’ve never let her live it down. 😊
Anyway, we are civil and discreet here at the Qtree. Wolf has kindly explained the rules, which keeps things on an even keel. Knock down, drag outs belong at the Utree, which also doubles as a place to reconvene when things crumble here.
Now back to business.
THE ENSLAVEMENT SYSTEM IS CRUMBLING EVEN AS THEY IMPLEMENT IT
Naturally, the elites are full steam ahead with their plans to make us weak via hunger and lack, as well as turning us into transhuman zombies. However, they have lost the ability to control the narrative and hide behind their media lies.
They really are a ridiculous lot, even with their money and power.
The Blow Hoe’s step-daughter and friend
They are most certainly not the grownups. They fancy themselves, I suppose, as visionaries, but their visions are devoid of humanity and dignity. The real grownups will be taking their candy away soon, and discipline will commence.
Natural News is following the supply chain collapse here.
Zero Hedge thinks we’ll be in the supply chain crisis until 2023. Ugh.
Christian, the Ice Age Farmer, is preaching food security. He has a good understanding of how and why there are big problems for global food production and availability. Here’s a 25-minute video that gives a good 30,000-foot view of the situation and he’s positive for a reason. Once people have empty bellies they will be more willing to listen to the truth:
https://youtu.be/br2zz_v8wWg
TRUMP WRECKING BALL!
From Ellen Caroline on Telegram
Our real President has been on a roll. We are hearing from him daily and things are beginning to shake out. The audits are getting huge pushback, but NO ONE IS GIVING UP. We push till we win and get all 50 states audited.
Steve Bannon doesn’t play Pelosi’s game. He’s not showing up to be interrogated.
Parents Against Critical Race Theory are not intimidated by the feckless Merrick Garland and his gubmint goons. Nor should they be. The move to intimidate and suppress Mom Power is the dumbest thing they’ve done yet. I mean, it’s insect-level stupid.
“We may, indeed, conform to the world in certain matters, in certain things and customs that do not interfere with duty; but in the matters that concern our duties towards God, His holy Church, our soul, our salvation, our eternity, he conforms to the world and its spirit condemned by Jesus Christ, who allows himself to be enslaved by its laws and maxims, which are in direct opposition to the Gospel, shows himself, not a freeman, but a mean cowardly slave.”
In case you missed the Glow Worm’s ties to all things Left, go here for some juicy tidbits.
FAKE JOE BIDEN!
“Truman Show Presidency.”
Jack Posobiec
Biden and his fake sets are just precious. Let’s Go Brandon! I have noticed that my liberal relatives either express hatred for both Trump and Biden now, or they don’t mention politics at all. At all. Gotta laugh. Imagine being ideologically stuck with a dementia patient who likes to touch kids or his sidekick the Blow Hoe.
For God & Country Patriot Double Down 2021 is set to premier in Las Vegas, Oct. 22-25. Looks like so much fun. Code Monkey Z will be there as well as Jim Watkins, George Papadopolous, and Sheriff David Clarke…and many more! Tickets available.
This Sanctuary Sunday Open Thread, with full respect to those who worship God on the Sabbath, is a place to reaffirm our worship of our Creator, our Father, our King Eternal.
It’s also a place to read, post, and discuss news that is worth knowing and sharing. Please post links to any news stories that you use as sources or quote from.
In the QTree, we’re a friendly and civil lot. We encourage free speech and the open exchange and civil discussion of different ideas. Topics aren’t constrained, and sound logic is highly encouraged, all built on a solid foundation of truth and established facts.
We have a policy of mutual respect, shown by civility. Civility encourages discussions, promotes objectivity and rational thought in discourse, and camaraderie in the participants – characteristics we strive toward in our Q Tree community.
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In The Q Tree, we’re compatriots, sitting around the campfire, roasting hot dogs, making s’mores, and discussing, agreeing, and disagreeing about whatever interests us. This board will remain a home for those who seek respectful conversations.
Trust in the Lord (b’takh el yehovah); literally, trust in Jehovah. Entire reliance upon Jehovah, implied in the words, “with all thine heart,” is here appropriately placed at the head of a series of admonitions which especially have God and man’s relations with him in view, inasmuch as such confidence or trust, with its corresponding idea of the renunciation of reliance on self, is, as Zockler truly remarks, a “fundamental principle of all religion.” It is the first lesson to be learnt by all, and no less necessary for the Jew than for the Christian. Without this reliance on or confidence in God, it is impossible to carry out any of the precepts of religion. Batakh is, properly, “to cling to,” and so passes to the meaning of “to confide in,” “to set one’s hope and confidence upon.” The preposition el with Jehovah indicates the direction which the confidence is to take (cf. Psalms 37:3, Psalms 37:5).
Proverbs 3:5
Lean (tishshaen); Vulgate, innitaris; followed by el, like b’takh, with which it is very similar in meaning. Shaan, not used in kal, in hiph. signifies “to lean upon, rest upon,” just as man rests upon a spear for support. Its metaphorical use, to repose confidence in, is derived from the practice of kings who were accustomed to appear in public leaning on their friends and ministers; cf. 2 Kings 5:18; 2 Kings 7:2, 2 Kings 7:17 (Gesenius). The admonition does not mean that we are not to use our own understanding (binab), i.e. form plans with discretion, and employ legitimate means in the pursuit of our ends; but that, when we use it, we are to depend upon God and his directing and overruling providence (Wardlaw); cf. Jeremiah 9:23, Jeremiah 9:24. “Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom,” etc. The teacher points out not only where we are to rely, but also where we are not to rely.
Proverbs 3:6
In all thy ways. This expression covers the whole area of life’s action—all its acts and undertakings, its spiritual and secular sides, no less than its public and private, It guards against our acknowledging God in great crises and solemn acts of worship only (Plumptre). Acknowledge (daehu); Vulgate, cogita; LXX; γνέριζε. The Hebrew verb yada signifies “to know, recognize.” To acknowledge God is, therefore, to recognize, in all our dealings and undertakings, God’s overruling providence, which “shapes our ends, rough hew them as we will.” It is not a mere theoretical acknowledgment, but one that engages the whole energies of the soul (Delitzsch), and sees in God power, wisdom, providence, goodness, and justice. This meaning is conveyed by the Vulgate cogitare, which is “to consider” in all parts, “to reflect upon.” David’s advice to his son Solomon is, “Know thou (ola) the God of thy father.” We may well acknowledge Jehovah; for he “knoweth the way of the righteous” (Psalms 1:6). Acknowledging God also implies that we first ascertain whether what we are about to take in hand is in accordance with his precepts, and then look for his direction and illumination (Wardlaw).
And he shall direct thy paths (v’hu y’yashsher or’khotheyka); i.e. he himself shall make them straight, or level, removing all obstacles out of the way; or they shall, under God’s direction, prosper and come to a successful issue; they shall be virtuous, inasmuch as deviation into vice will be guarded against, and happy, because they are prosperous. The pronoun v’hu is emphatic, “he himself;” Vulgate, et ipse. Yashar, piel. is “to make a way straight,” as in Proverbs 9:15; Proverbs 15:21; Proverbs 11:5. Cf. the LXX. ὀρθοτομεῖν, “to cut straight” (see on Proverbs 11:5). God here binds himself by a covenant (Lapide). This power is properly attributed to God, for “it is not in man to direct his steps” (Jeremiah 10:23).
In reading Proverbs 3:5-6, I’m reminded of what is written in Hebrews 11:6: “And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.”
I believe that Christians are certainly fallible (the understatement of the year), and though we come short of trusting God with all our heart, though we periodically fail and trust our own abilities and reasoning, though we don’t acknowledge God in everything we think, say or do, I believe God will know we’re working toward those goals and He will direct or make smooth our paths in ways that He knows are for our own good.
And why is that? It’s because “We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose. (Romans 8:28)
On this day and every day –
God is in Control . . . and His Grace is Sufficient, so . . . Keep Looking Up
Hopefully, every Sunday, we can find something here that will build us up a little . . . give us a smile . . . and add some joy or peace, very much needed in all our lives.
“This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn nor weep.” . . . “Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
Another week, another deluge of BS from the White House and from the Controlled Opposition.
The Audit is over, now the spin doctoring begins. Other efforts are afoot in other states. Good. The more the merrier.
The collapse of the Covidschina continues.
No doubt much will be said about those today. (And I have missed a lot this past week.)
To my mind the audits are the last hope for a within-the-system fix to what happened last November. “Within the system” meaning the audits find fraud, the various states decertify the results, and some dang judge rules that Biden must step down and Trump must be installed.
That last step is crucial. The way our system works, “fraud” isn’t a fact until some “competent authority” (i.e., meaning “one that has jurisdiction,” not “one that won’t end up with an ice cream cone on its forehead”) rules it is so. That must happen before the system will accept that the election is vitiated by fraud. No finding of fraud means, as far as they are concerned no fraud, no fraud means nothing vitiated. We sit and fume, because the system has failed.
I’ll leave it to you to decide how likely you think it is that a judge will rule against the Left given the riots that would likely endanger his/her family.
As for the military stepping forward and doing the job instead? Well, that’s technically “outside of the system” and besides…this military, that’s being made woke as we speak?
What do we do in the likely event that fraud is found, but no judge will find it to be “fact” as far as the Federal Government is concerned? I keep hoping someone will come up with a suggestion, and so far “general strike” (H/T Scott) is the only one I’ve seen.
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. (This doesn’t necessarily include deposing Joe and Hoe and putting Trump where he belongs, but it would certainly be a lot easier to fix our broken electoral system with the right people in charge.)
Nothing else matters at this point. Talking about trying again in 2022 or 2024 is pointless 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 in the system is not part of the plan, you have no plan.
This will necessarily be piecemeal, state by state, which is why I am encouraged by those states working to change their laws to alleviate the fraud both via computer and via bogus voters. If enough states do that we might end up with a working majority in Congress and that would be something Trump never really had.
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.
Minor shifts in almost everything. Gold and silver up a bit, the PGMs down a bit. I, as always, intend to hold.
Part XX – The Little Neutral One
Let us start off by recapping our list of “as of 1894” mysteries and conservation laws, and bring things up to date including the neutron.
Conservation of mass
Conservation of momentum
Conservation of energy
Conservation of electric charge
Conservation of angular momentum
(ADD:) Conservation of mass-energy
The following mysteries were unanswered at the end of 1894. I’ve crossed out the ones that have been answered up to this installment.
Why was the long axis of Mercury’s orbit precessing more than expected, by 43 arcseconds every century? Was it, indeed, a planet even closer to the sun? If so, it’d have been nice to actually see it.
Why was Michelson unable to measure any difference in speed of light despite the fact we, being on planet Earth that is orbiting the sun, had to be moving through the medium in which it propagates?
What makes the sun (and other stars) shine (beyond the obvious “they shine because they’re hot” answer). What keeps the sun hot, what energy is it harnessing?
How did the solar system form? Any answer to this must account for how the planets, only a tiny fraction of the mass of the solar system, ended up with the vast majority of the angular momentum in the system.
What is the electrical “fluid” that moves around when there is an electric current, and that somehow seems imbalanced when we perceive that an object has a charge? Were there both negative and positive fluids, or just one fluid that had a natural neutral level; below it was negative (deficit), above it was positive (excess)?
Why are there so many different kinds of atoms? How did electrical charges relate to chemistry? How is it that 94 thousand coulombs of charge are needed to bust apart certain molecules (though it often had to be delivered at different voltages depending on the molecule)?
Why were the atomic weights almost always a multiple of hydrogen’s? Why was it never quite a perfect multiple? Why was it sometimes nowhere near to being a multiple?
Why does the photoelectric effect work the way it does, where it depends on the frequency of the light hitting the object, not the intensity?
Why does black body radiation have a “hump” in its frequency graph?
As of 1930, we had a notion of the rough answer to #3, thanks to Arthur Eddington. I hinted at it last time. But details still needed to be worked out.
Number 4 was still a mystery back then, as far as I know.
Recaps and Refreshers
There are some preliminaries to get out of the way here, some of them are refreshers on what came before. Back in part 17, when I told the story of the discovery of the neutron, I brought in the concept of “spin” in regards to electrons and protons. But it’s not spinning like a top, it’s something else, still measured as angular momentum. But apparently one “rotation” doesn’t bring the particle back to where it was before, it’s somehow upside down, and another rotation is needed to get it back to where it was. (Yes, that does not make sense to us here in our macroscopic world.) It takes 720 degrees of rotation, not 360, to put the particle back the way it was. (And yes, that doesn’t make sense.)
As I said, it does get measured in units of angular momentum, and Planck’s constant, h, has the same dimensions as angular momentum. Angular momentum can be thought of in terms of whole revolutions of whatever is spinning, or in rotations through an angle of one radian (which is preferred), so Planck’s constant is often divided by 2π to give a “reduced Planck’s constant” called ℏ (pronounced “h-bar”).
It turns out that electrons and protons have a spin of 1/2ℏ. Physicists will often drop the ℏ and just say that electrons and protons have “spin 1/2”. Two electrons, side by side, might be oriented the same way, or in opposite ways, in which case one of the electrons is assigned +1/2 spin and the other one is “upside down” and has spin -1/2. Similarly for protons. And neutrons. All have +/- 1/2 spins.
Like angular momentum, spin is expected to be conserved, because it is a funky form of angular momentum.
If you have many protons (and neutrons) in a nucleus, the nucleus itself has a total spin, which is just the sum of all those half spins. The combined number of protons and neutrons is the atomic mass number, so for an atom of nitrogen-14, there are seven protons (because it’s nitrogen, and nitrogen by definition has seven protons) and seven neutrons, total 14. So the spins of seven protons and seven neutrons have to be added up. When actually measured, the total spin is 1.
It turns out there’s a rule here: If the mass number is even, the total spin is an integer. If it’s odd, the total spin has a 1/2 (or -1/2) in it. This makes sense, if you think about it. You can go through the protons and neutrons in a nucleus and group them, arbitrarily into pairs. Each pair will consist of two +1/2 spins (total 1), a +1/2 and a -1/2 spin (total 0), or two -1/2 spins (total -1). And it doesn’t matter which protons and neutrons you arbitrarily choose to pair together. The result is that all of the pairs put together will make up a whole number spin since you’re adding 1s, 0s, and -1s. So if the nucleus has an even mass number, its spin is the sum of a bunch of pairs of nucleons and will be an integer. If it has an odd mass number, there will be one proton (or neutron) left over after you make up your pairs, again no matter which pairings you use, you have one left over. It will have spin -1/2 or +1/2, so you’ll end up adding or subtracting 1/2 from the integer spin you get from the pairs. In general, a spin with a 1/2 in it is called a half-integer spin, because when you double it, you get an integer.
Before the discovery of the neutron in 1932, there was an idea that a nucleus consisted of protons–as many as the mass number–and some electrons to cancel the charges on some protons. So the nitrogen-14 nucleus would have 14 protons and 7 electrons, leaving a total charge of 7, and that total charge made it a nitrogen nucleus. On one level (considering electrical charge) this makes sense, but it turns out to make no sense at all when considering spin. That (hypothetical) nucleus would have 21 particles in it, all with half spins (remember that electrons too have a half spin), so it should have a total spin with a 1/2 in it, a half integer spin. Yet the nitrogen-14 nucleus, as I mentioned earlier, had a measured spin of 1. That was a powerful argument used as support for the existence of a hypothetical “neutron” and indeed the discovery of the neutron made the math work out; now there were an even number of particles in the nucleus so it could have an integer total spin. However, as we shall see below, this solved one problem but left another problem in place.
When the anti-electron or positron was discovered, it turned out to have the opposite spin of an electron. Even when oriented the same way as an electron, its spin was -1/2 compared to the electron’s 1/2. And this is true of anti-protons and anti-neutrons as well; in fact the difference in spin is the only obvious difference between a neutron and an anti-neutron (but it’s enough!).
In 1925, Wolfgang Pauli enunciated the “Pauli exclusion principle.” At first he applied it only to electrons, but in 1940 it was generalized to all particles with half-integer spins. In short, it states that no two such particles can occupy the same quantum state. An example of this is the lowest energy level of an atom, the “1s” orbital. An electron in that orbital is in a certain quantum state. But spin is part of the quantum state, so you can put a second electron in that orbital, so long as it’s oriented the other way and has spin -1/2. But after that, no more. You have to put a third and fourth electron in the “2s” orbital, then six subsequent electrons into the three “2p” oribtals (two each), and so on. (This is why the periodic table “rows” (or periods) all have even numbers of elements in them; if you subdivide them into blocks corresponding to the s, p, and d orbitals, those blocks also each have even numbers of elements in them.)
This is fundamentally the reason why two material objects can’t be in the same place at the same time. They’re made up of electrons, protons, and neutrons with half spins.
This principle does not apply to particles with integer spins, like photons (spin 0). Photons can pile onto the same quantum state by the billions, and it’s no problem. That’s very “non-matter” behavior, and indeed photons aren’t considered to be “matter” as we know it. They can occupy the same place at the same time, and often do. Beams of light can cross through each other without a problem.
Eventually, the name “fermion” (for Enrico Fermi) was given to all half-integer spin particles as a class, and “boson” (For Satyendra Nath Bose) to particles with integer spin.
OK, that’s enough about spin (for now).
I’ve also already told the story of how physicists had discovered the “Strong Nuclear Force,” often just called the Strong force. It’s responsible for keeping nuclei together, and when it’s just not strong enough to do the job, you get alpha decay, where the nucleus ejects an alpha particle (after 1932, known to consist of two protons and two neutrons), total four mass units. When this happens to a uranium-238 atom, it becomes a thorium-234 atom; four mass units less. And the charge has decreased by two, from 92 (uranium) to 90 (thorium).
It was beginning to look, by the way, as if the total number of nucleons (be they protons or neutrons) was something that was conserved, a new conservation law. Eventually this would be called “conservation of baryon number” (other similar particles would be discovered after 1950, they ware all called baryons). Protons and neutrons each had a baryon number of 1. The only way to wipe them completely out was to hit them with antimatter, but the antimatter was regarded as having negative baryon numbers, an anti-proton or anti-neutron had baryon number of -1. So proton-anti-proton annihilation took a +1 and -1 and turned them into zero. Nice and tidy.
Beta Decay Spells Doom?
But there was another kind of radioactive decay, beta decay.
And it was causing headaches for physicists.
As a reminder, this is when a nucleus spits out an electron. The charge of the nucleus goes up by one, but its mass number stays the same. For example, that thorium-234 atom undergoes beta decay to become protactinium-234. Same mass number, but the charge has changed from 90 (thorium) to 91 (protactinium). That process repeats to get you to uranium-234.
The old notion of the nucleus as consisting of one proton per mass number, counterbalanced partially by electrons, seemed plausible because of this. One of those electrons could be kicked out, “uncovering” a proton and increasing the charge. But as I described above, this notion of electrons in the nucleus left an issue with spin. This was solved with the discovery that the nucleus in fact contained protons and neutrons, and no electrons, but there was still a problem with beta decay.
That thorium-234 nucleus has to have an integer spin (just like the nitrogen-14 nucleus) because 234 is an even number, and the discovery of the neutron explained why. (According to wikipedia the spin happens to be 0.) The resulting protactinium-234 nucleus similarly has to have an integer spin (also happening to be zero). But in moving from thorium-234 to protactinium-234, an electron was ejected; it has a spin of 1/2. Shouldn’t the resulting nucleus have a half spin as well?
It doesn’t. So it appears that beta decay violates conservation of angular momentum.
Another issue popped up when energy was measured. With alpha decay, the masses (considered as their energy equivalents) and kinetic energy of the particles before and after the event balanced, once you added everything up, including the recoil of the nucleus like a rifle firing a bullet.
With beta decay, some of the energy disappeared. The energy of the nucleus (including its recoil) plus the kinetic energy of the electron, did not add up to what was there before. There was always some missing energy, but the amount could vary from very tiny to most of it.
This of course looked very much like a violation of mass/energy conservation.
[I’ll pause here to note that physicists typically simply speak of “energy conservation”, not “mass/energy conservation” because they consider matter to just be another form of energy; so a change in mass of a nucleus due to binding energy and so forth, is just another change of energy to them. I’m going to follow that convention from here on out.]
Yet another issue was noted when the recoil of beta decay was considered. With alpha decay, the alpha particle and nucleus recoiled in exactly opposite directions, much like a cannon firing a cannonball is shoved back in the opposite direction. The two new momenta (a relatively light alpha particle traveling quickly, versus a relatively heavy nucleus traveling in the opposite direction slowly) cancel out, leaving the total momentum unchanged.
But with beta decay, the recoil was not in the opposite direction from the velocity of the beta particle that was ejected. If the two directions aren’t opposite one another they cannot cancel completely–there’ll be some slight motion to the side left over–so there’s some “new” momentum where there had been none before.
And this looks a lot like a violation of the conservation of momentum.
So beta decay broke not just one, but THREE conservation principles!
Oh, dear.
This was hard to stomach. Sure, these conservation principles are generalizations. We see them work all the time without fail, but there’s always a smidgen of a chance that we’ll discover that they don’t really hold true. After all, we had once had conservation of mass, and conservation of energy, but then realized they weren’t true after all. But in that case, they were still true afterwards when combined into the conservation of mass/energy (or conservation of energy could be kept if mass was simply regarded as another form of energy, but that still involved “scratching” conservation of mass).
But three such violations at once was hard to believe.
At least, baryon number was safe.
And the problem persisted in 1934, when a second form of beta decay was discovered as part of the discovery of antimatter. A phosphorus-30 nucleus (one which does not exist in nature) would decay by spitting out a positron not an electron. It would end up moving to the left on the periodic table (because a proton had turned into a neutron) and become a nucleus of silicon-30, which is stable. This new mode of decay is now known as beta-plus or beta-positive decay, and it suffered from the same issues with conservation of angular momentum, energy, and momentum.
There was another violation on top of all of these but one much less troublesome. It had been suggested that the total number of electrons was fixed. Before the neutron was discovered, back when the nucleus was thought to contain protons and electrons, beta decay was just considered ejecting a pre-existing electron from a nucleus, so it wasn’t unreasonable to think that there might be some law conserving electrons. So we never saw electrons being created from nothing. But with the new understanding, beta decay consisted of a neutron turning into a proton and ejecting a brand-spanking, made-from-nothing electron. And beta positive decay transformed a neutron to a proton, creating a positron from nothing. So conservation of electrons, never very well established to begin with, seemed to have been scotched.
Wolfgang Pauli (of the Pauli exclusion principle) pondered this problem and realized there might be a way to rescue all of these conservation numbers. He wrote a very famous letter in 1930 (two years before the discovery of the neutron), in which he suggested there might be a totally new particle, one that was very light (lighter than the electron) and had no charge. As such it would be very difficult to detect.
This could solve all of these problems and save all of the conservation laws.
The spin issue could be solved by positing that the particle had the opposite spin as the electron (or positron), so that the two ejected particles together added up to zero spin, so the nucleus didn’t have to have a spin change at all in order to comply with conservation of angular momentum.
If the new particle carried away some of the energy, it would cover the “missing energy” that seemed to suggest a violation of conservation of energy.
And if beta decay resulted in three entities, not just two, then any two of them could move in directions not opposite each other, with the third particle serving to cancel the sideways momentum.
Pauli named his proposed particle the neutron. (Remember this was two years before Chadwick detected “the” neutron, and the name wasn’t taken yet.) Enrico Fermi, the next year, renamed the hypothetical particle the neutrino, This is Italian for “little neutral one,” as opposed to the big neutral one, the expected but still undiscovered neutron we know today.
And in 1933 Fermi proposed a new force, the weak nuclear force (to contrast it from the strong nuclear force). This force would cause a neutron to turn into a proton, neutrino, and electron, or alternatively a proton to turn into a neutron, neutrino and positron. In other words, it would be the force that governs beta decay–both kinds of beta decay.
In fact if we assume that there are also anti-neutrinos, we can even create a new conservation law from the ashes of the conservation of electrons. If we classify electrons and neutrinos as “leptons,” then a hypothetical “conservation of lepton number” might work better.
“Regular” beta decay, then, would turn a neutron into a proton, electron, and an anti-neutrino. Baryon number is preserved (neutron +1, proton +1, electron and anti-neutrino both 0), and the new lepton number is too; no leptons before the decay balances with the situation after the decay where there is one electron (+1 lepton) and one anti-neutrino (-1 lepton). Beta plus decay spits out a positron; to balance this anti-lepton we need a neutrino lepton.
This is very tidy. Not only are the three old conservation laws saved, a new one is created. It must have been very tempting to just assume it’s true. But it’s not enough.
We need to find the particle.
The neutron, after all had been a suggestion that would solve a lot of problems, but few were willing to take its existence on faith. Fortunately it was found, fairly quickly.
But this particle was going to be a cast-iron bitch to find. Because it didn’t have an electric charge, so it wouldn’t interact with the electromagnetic force. And it, like the electron, wouldn’t be affected by the strong force. It could only “feel” the weak nuclear force. (Just forget about gravity, it’s so weak.)
The weak force has a very, very short range. In fact, now we know its range is less than a tenth the diameter of a proton. So the only way a neutrino could interact at all is when it is directly in contact with a nucleus.
Remember that a nucleus is about 1/10,000 the width of an atom, so even with solid matter like lead, only 1/10,000 x 1/10,000 x 1/10,000 or one trillionth of the space is actually nuclei. So a neutrino, travelling through a block of solid lead at pretty basically the speed of light, is only in contact with a nucleus one trillionth of the time. So, only a trillionth of the time could it interact with a proton or neutron. So for some reaction that has a half life of (say) 1/10,000th of a second, the neutrino would have to spend 100,000,000 seconds travelling through the lead before it had a fifty percent chance of interacting one of the lead nuclei. That works out to be about three years. In those three years about half of the neutrines will have traveled three light years, or basically 18 trillion miles, and come out the other side, intact.
It’s a common trope that neutrinos will pass through light years of solid lead (if you could arrange for that to be set up) without interacting, and this is basically why. They need to spend a fairly long time (1/10,000 of a second is an eternity inside a nucleus) near very small things and they’re buzzing along at the speed of light. More realistically, the vast majority of neutrinos would simply drill right through the earth without affecting it. In fact, sixty five billion neutrinos pass through every square centimeter of the arth every second, and no one notices. More to the point, that many neutrinos also pass through every square centimeter of you every second, and you don’t notice, because they pass through, and don’t get stopped by your body.
The first detection was actually of antineutrinos generated in a nuclear reactor by the huge number of beta decays occuring in the reactor core.
When a an antineutrino does condescend to react with a proton, the proton becomes a neutron and a positron is spat out; it’s basically anti-neutrino induced beta decay, except that this decay absorbs an antineutrino instead of creating a neutrino (the books balance either way). And this was how neutrinos were eventually detected…in 1956.
Clyde Cowan, Frederick Reines, Francis B. Harrison, Herald W. Kruse and Austin D. McGuire did this by parking their apparatus–which largely consisted of large tanks of water–near a nuclear reactor, which generates a lot of antineutrinos, then waited for the tiny fraction of them that would interact with their detector. The reaction, as noted turned a proton into a neutron and spits out a positron; the positron finds an electron and mutually annihilates it, generating two gamma rays. If the nucleus hit is one of the hydrogen atoms in a water molecule, it turns from a single proton to a single neutron, which will wander off until it hits a nucleus and is absorbed–in this case cadmium was used since it absorbs neutrons readily. When this happens the neutron also generates a gamma ray. By watching for both of these events, two gamma rays from the electron-positron annihilation followed shortly after by a different-strength gamma ray from the neutron absorption, the experimenters could see that the signal matched the profile of the reaction and conclude a neutrino had hit a proton.
Even though ten trillion neutrinos passed through every square centimeter of the detector every second, only about three neutrino events per hour were detected. And just to prove that it was neutrinos from the reactor, they shut the reactor off and continued monitoring the detectors, and noticed a drop in the number of events.
But the actual detection of neutrinos (well, actually, antineutrinos) is getting ahead of our story.
Next time we’ll tackle Mystery Number 3.
Obligatory PSAs and Reminders
China is Lower than Whale Shit
To conclude: My standard Public Service Announcement. We don’t want to forget this!!!
Remember Hong Kong!!!
If anyone ends up in the cell right next to him, tell him I said “hi.”
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 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 !!!
Welcome back to Wolf’s Pub. Friday at last! I’ve been hearing that we shouldn’t be buying stuff from China. Seems like it has become a conservative mantra lately.
That would be nice, but as a seasoned shopper, I have to tell ya, IT’S DAMNED HARD TRYING TO FIND STUFF NOT MADE IN CHINA.
Walmart is among the worst of the worst. They sold their corporate soul to China years ago, and every single Walmart is stuffed to the brim with CRAP FROM CHINA. Once in awhile Walmart pretends to care about American-made goods and American jobs by featuring some item that is actually Made in America.
They usually put it on the end cap or the middle of an aisle and that constitutes their virtue-signaling for the average sleepy shopper.
DISGUSTING. Walmart and the other multi-nationals left us for China long ago. They are content to let serfs and slaves produce the goods they provide to American consumers, because they don’t want to pay the worthy laborer for his hire.
They will tell you that Americans demand cheap goods and they are simply providing what consumers demand, but I don’t see it that way. If American companies paid good wages to produce their goods in America, then Americans could easily afford and purchase goods made here.
In fact, I would say a majority of Americans would happily pay more for goods that they knew were being produced in America, with quality materials and American know-how.
Is any American happy and content that upwards of 80% of our medicines are produced in China?
In fact, if you want to purchase something made in America, you have to seek long and hard. Amazon seems reluctant to tell us where many of the products they sell originate.
Well, I’m at this point: From Anywhere But China (FABC)
But we need help to get there. Pressure MUST be put on the companies that locate and do business with China. Something needs to be organized, like rolling boycotts of certain companies. Imagine if a large number of Americans stopped shopping at American Walmarts for two-week periods.
What if we stood outside the Walmart in our town and protested with signs once a month or so? We could educate the public about the slave labor in China and how Walmart couldn’t give a rip about the slaves that make the goods we buy, or the jobs they’ve taken away from us.
What if we all stopped shopping for weeks at a time at Amazon?
I have already stopped buying all my linens from other sources. I buy exclusively from Mike Lindell’s My Pillow. He’s also got an online presence with goods Made in America by Americans.
Christmas is coming. I think it’s time to purchase a boatload of My Pillow towels and linens for my liberal family. I know they will appreciate the quality of the items. 😊
AMERICANS CAN DO!
We’ve got to be more entrepreneurial. I know that we’ve all had good ideas for a business. We might know someone who only needs a little crowd-funding to get an American business up and running. Even now, even in this tyrannical takeover.
Let’s go the extra mile. Every little thing we can do will add to the effort. Victory is in our sights.
Americans can accomplish anything.
THE COVID RELIGION
It’s falling apart. The Covid Commandments change from one day to the next, and even the most devoted adherent is experiencing cognitive dissonance.
That damned mask is understood as a sign of unholy submission to the Covid Religion. The High Priest of Covidism (Fauci) has now deemed masks effective for school children. His Priestess (Walensky) has deemed it the First Commandment to take the Holy Jab.
Big Pharma will have to swallow the medicine of mass correction. Let us endeavor to help them purge themselves of the greed and diabolical evil that infects their body.
They don’t own our hearts, our minds, or our bodies.
HOUSE RULES
We don’t owe Big Pharma a thing. But around here we owe each other civility and perhaps even the benefit of the doubt. To review the rules go here. They keep us real.
The Utree is useful for cranky moods, and for reconvening when needed. And frankly, we need it for reconvening much more than the cranks.
TIME FOR REFRESHMENT
Today’s drink special is the Moscow Mule. Ah yes, that iconic cocktail that purported to begin with a copper mug from Moscow, a man trying to sell his ginger beer, and the owner of the Cock and Bull bar in Los Angeles.
As is common with alcoholic cocktails, its history is shrouded in mystery. Read here for three theories of the Mule’s genesis. I prefer the first, which actually includes a Moscow connection.
“The Moscow Mule origin has been questioned time and time again. One theory speaks of a woman named Sophie Berezinski, a Russian-born woman attempting to immigrate to the United States in 1941. You see, Sophie was moving continents with little to no possessions to her name other than 2,000 pure copper mugs.
Sophie’s father was apparently the owner and operator of the Moscow Copper Co. in Russia. Sophie had the bright idea of copper-made mugs, and designed the original version herself. Her father saw to it that Sophie’s design was stamped out in the factory, and 2,000 copies of her mug were made.
At this time, America was seen as the land of opportunity. Selling 2,000 copper mugs in Russia was not something that Sophie or her father were capable of doing. They decided that Sophie and her husband would travel to the USA with the 2,000 mugs, and would do whatever they could to see to it they were sold.
The land of opportunity proved less than fruitful, and, after a few months of sitting on the thousands of mugs, Sophie’s husband became ready to throw in the towel. He gave Sophie the ultimatum of either finding a buyer for the mugs, or throwing them out once and for all.
Not ready to abandon her goal, Sophie set out on foot and began walking door to door through Los Angeles. She approached every bar, lounge and restaurant she could find, in hopes she could convince an establishment owner to invest in some or all of the copper mugs.
It was on this day that Sophie wandered hopefully into the Cock ‘n’ Bull; a pub in Ocean Park, close to Santa Monica and Venice Beach…”
Here’s a lovely site that is actually dedicated to the Moscow Mule, a cocktail originally made with Smirnoff vodka, ginger beer, lime juice and a copper mug.
Here’s a fun video about the Moscow Mule, and the bartender is already a bit toasty:
I had a taste of a Moscow Mule last night. Sweet, tart, refreshing. No wonder it has stood the test of time. A toast to Sophie from Moscow and her copper mugs!
ODDS AND ENDS
The Audits are all important, even though Covid sucks all the air out of the room. Denninger lays it out very succinctly here. It’s very short. A must read. Where do we go from here? Keep up with Seth Keshel and The Professor’s Record for good updates and inspiration. These warriors will never give up and neither shall we.
If you want a good laugh, do watch this Jewish fairytale, An American Pickle. It’s streaming on HBO. Just a great comedy, with plenty of social commentary. Not a fan of Seth Rogan, but he does himself proud in this film. Lost count of how many times I laughed out loud. It’s about family and honoring family.
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“We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there’s nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all. Most of us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We don’t want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of ‘good time’ is seldom in sync with ours.” (Oswald Chambers)
Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord! (Psalm 27:14) Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. (Philippians 4:6)
We can pray to God that He will restore our nation to “one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all”, and we should. We can pray to God that the evil people that are ruining our nation will be stopped, exposed, and justly punished . . . and we should. But we must always, always remember that . . .
. . . we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
O LORD GOD, Thou art our Preserver, Governor, Saviour, and coming Judge. Quieten our souls to call upon Thy name; Detach us from the influence of the flesh and the senses; Impress us with the power of faith; Promote in us spirituality of mind that will render our services acceptable to Thee, and delightful and profitable to ourselves. Bring us into that state which attracts Thine eye, and prepare us to receive the proofs of Thy love. Show us our danger, that we may fly to Thee for refuge. Make us sensible of our sin’s disease, that we may value the good Physician. Placard to us the cross, that it may slay the enmity of our hearts.
(Valley of Vision)
George Washington – 1789
Almighty GOD; we make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt keep the United States in Thy holy protection, that thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government; and entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another and for their fellow citizens of the United States of America at large. And finally that Thou wilt most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of The Divine Author of our blessed religion, and without whose example in these things we can never hope to be a happy nation. Grant our supplication, we beseech thee, through Jesus Christ Our Lord. Amen
Abraham Lincoln – 1863
Almighty God, Who has given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will. Bless our land with honorable ministry, sound learning, and pure manners. Save us from violence, discord, and confusion, from pride and arrogance, and from every evil way. Defend our liberties, and fashion into one united people, the multitude brought hither out of many kindreds and tongues. Endow with Thy spirit of wisdom those whom in Thy name we entrust the authority of government, that there may be justice and peace at home, and that through obedience to Thy law, we may show forth Thy praise among the nations of the earth. In times of prosperity fill our hearts with thankfulness, and in the day of trouble, suffer not our trust in Thee to fail; all of which we ask through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Billy Graham – 1957
Our Father and our God, we pray that … we all might be conscious that Thine eye is upon us. If God can see the sparrow fall, if He has the hairs of our head numbered, we know that He watches us, that He loves us, that He cares for us, and we’re told in Thy Word that He cares for us so much that He sent His only begotten Son to the cross to die that we might find forgiveness of our sins. We pray … that Thy Holy Spirit will draw all men unto the Savior, for we ask it in His Name. Amen.
Billy Graham – 1983
… Our Father and our God, we pray that in this period of crisis in our world that the Holy Spirit will use it to remind us of our need of Thee and our relationship with Thee and we pray that tonight if our relationship is not right that we’ll make it right through Jesus Christ our Lord who came to die on the cross because He loved us. For we ask it in His Name. Amen.
Billy Graham – 1997
Lord … remind us today that You have shown us what is good in what You require of us; to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with our God. We ask that as a people, we may humble ourselves before You and seek Your will for our lives and for this great nation. Help us in our nation to work as never before to strengthen our families and to give our children hope and a moral foundation for the future. So may our desire be to serve You, and in so doing, serve one another. This we pray in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Franklin Graham – 2010
Lord, we are thankful for the abundant blessings You have bestowed on America. Our forefathers looked to You as protector, provider, and the promise of hope. But we have wandered far from that firm foundation. May we repent for turning our backs on Your faithfulness. We pray that this great nation will be restored by Your forgiveness. From bondage, You grant freedom. Through Your own sacrifice, You offer salvation. From the state of despair, You offer peace. From the bounties of heaven, You have blessed—not because of our goodness—but by Your grace. You have given us freedom to worship You in spirit and in truth as Your holy Word instructs. May our lives honor You in word and deed. May our nation acknowledge that all good things come from the Father above. Amen.
Thy Will Be Done
The winds shriek and howl and the waters churn, But we don’t listen. Will we ever learn? This wicked world seeks wealth, fame and power, But God owns this day, and this is His hour.
Our Father in Heaven, we turn to You, For only You know just what to do. You are our Father who always cares, And we come to You humbly, with our prayers.
We pray for the safety of those in harm’s way, Hold them in Your hands through all these days. We pray for the peace of those who now fear, Hold them in Your arms. Let them know You’re near.
We pray for Your blessings on those who give aid, Hold them on Your paths, never to stray. We pray for Your guidance to those who lead, Hold them to Your will and care for their needs.
We pray for ourselves, to find when we seek, That our walk with You be humble and meek. We pray for our country, that all turn to You For guidance and blessings in all that we do.
Although we pray for our safety today, We know that Your will is the only Way. We know that our sin hinders Your peace, But when Your Truth triumphs, then sin will cease.
And though we are destined for war and strife, We look to our future, for You are our Life. Safety and peace: it’s for those we plead, But when all’s said and done, it’s revival we need.
May we turn to You for our joy and peace, For in our blessed future, they will never cease. We’re not of this world, and so we pray For Your coming quickly. May this be the day.
Until that day when You come in the clouds, May we turn to You in throngs and crowds; But no matter what happens, the things to come, We pray above all that Thy will be done.
Thy Will Be Done
Lord, I pray to be led to and by you, My thoughts, my speech, in all that I do Make my whole life a reflection of Yours. Lord, straighten my paths and open my doors.
Let my whole will be under Your care, Guide all my life and guide me in prayer. Without Your grace I’d have nothing at all, Nothing but sin and my own shortfalls.
Guide me, I pray, to be closer to You; Fill me with blessings, not just a few. Give me the courage to follow Your way, And the strength to walk it, each day.
Be here beside me through good times and bad, Along life’s ways, though happy or sad. And when my journey is finally done, Let my last thoughts be “Thy will be done.”
https://twitter.com/SeekretAgent/status/1248681547827417093 [this tweet is from a suspended account] The credibility of our institutions [Constitutional Law that governs our Great Land [Our Republic]], and our ability to regain the trust and faith of the American people, all depends on our ability to restore [EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER THE LAW] by prosecuting those responsible [Blind-Justice]. Treasonous acts [sedition] against the Republic [the ‘People’] of the United States [START – LEAD-IN]. Infiltration [rogue] at the highest levels of our gov, media, corps, etc. Planned & coordinated [D/ F]. This is not about politics. Something far more sinister [evil] has been allowed to flourish through all parts of our society. It has been protected and safeguarded. It has been camouflaged to appear as trusted. It has been projected [normalized] by stars. [CLAS 1-99] One must only look to see. [Symbolism will be their downfall] This is not another [4] year election. “Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong.” You are not alone. We stand together. Q
2020 was not just another four year election. We know that. It was for all the marbles.
All stops were pulled out to be sure President Donald Trump “lost.” In real time, “news” programming audiences, and the people in the White House situation room watched the steal.
We are told the AUDIT, not a recount, but an AUDIT in Arizona is the first domino to fall. When the first wave of results were released on Friday, it SEEMED like a nothingburger, but was it?
I’m glad you’re postponing the physics lessons this week, Steve. I don’t think my mind could process it tonight. But I’ll look forward to the next installment.
Thinking back on what came out at the Arizona audit, I think there were quite a few booms, even if delivered in a low key way:
Dominion deleted the server logs the day before the audit.
The servers were connected to the internet (in spite of claims otherwise) and they found a lot of activity going on.
There was a breach during the election.
The machines weren’t certified. (That right there should throw the results out).
There were close to 50,000 very sketchy ballots which should be thrown out.
And I’m sure there were a few more, but those stand out in my mind.
And yet the fake news is still running with the story that the “recount” was the same.
Well….
Here is what the Democrats, RINOs, and the Fake News media are going with: "The total count of the legal and ILLEGAL ballots matches up!"
They will drag their fake candidate across the finish line, no matter how many fake and illegal ballots it takes! #decertifypic.twitter.com/z25AiaOP7L
And the reason that President Trump chose to put on a rally the DAY AFTER the audit results, as incomplete as they are, were delivered is….
While that answer is being formulated, here’s some information about Perry, Georgia:
History
Founded in 1823 as “Wattsville”, the town was located near the center of Houston County and served as its courthouse. The name was soon changed to honor Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, a hero of the War of 1812.[10] The Georgia General Assembly incorporated the town on December 9, 1824. The original city limit was a circle, one mile in diameter, except where bounded on the north by Big Indian Creek.
Antebellum industry in Perry included gristmills, sawmills, and cotton gins. The Houston Home Journal began publishing in 1870. Cotton was the most significant commodity crop in the 20th century.
Tourism has been important to the local economy since about 1920, when U.S. Highway 41 to Florida was paved. The New Perry Hotel, built in 1870 and rebuilt in 1925, became a landmark for many Florida tourists. The downtown area has emphasized its historic heritage and has several quaint shops and restaurants.
Since World War II, when Robins Air Force Base was established in nearby Warner Robins, the military has been a significant employer in the area. Warner Robins is several times larger than Perry. Other manufacturers in the city have included Frito-Lay, Perdue Farms (formally Heileman Brewing Co.), and Cemex, Inc. (formally Penn-Dixie Cement and Medusa Cement Company).
In the early 1960s Interstate 75 was constructed through the western side of the city. It has attracted more businesses that cater to travelers. The Georgia National Fairgrounds and Agricenter opened in 1990. The Go Fish Georgia Education Center opened October 8, 2010.[11]
Save America Rally setting up on Thursday in Perry, Georgia for today's Trumps arrival pic.twitter.com/LnR492fbfU
Over the past four years, President Donald Trump’s administration delivered for Americans of all backgrounds like never before. Save America is about building on those accomplishments, supporting the brave conservatives who will define the future of the America First Movement, the future of our party, and the future of our beloved country. Save America is also about ensuring that we always keep America First, in our foreign and domestic policy. We take pride in our country, we teach the truth about our history, we celebrate our rich heritage and national traditions, and of course, we respect our great American Flag.
We are committed to defending innocent life and to upholding the Judeo-Christian values of our founding.
We believe in the promise of the Declaration of Independence, that we are all made EQUAL by our Creator, and that must all be TREATED equal under the law.
We know that our rights do not come from government, they come from God, and no earthly force can ever take those rights away. That includes the right to religious liberty and the right to Keep and Bear Arms.
We believe in rebuilding our previously depleted military and ending the endless wars our failed politicians of the past got us into for decades.
We embrace free thought, we welcome robust debate, and we are not afraid to stand up to the oppressive dictates of political correctness.
We know that the rule of law is the ultimate safeguard of our freedoms, and we affirm that the Constitution means exactly what it says AS WRITTEN.
We support fair trade, low taxes, and fewer job-killing regulations, and we know that America must always have the most powerful military on the face of the Earth.
We believe in Law and Order, and we believe that the men and women of law enforcement are HEROES who deserve our absolute support.
We believe in FREE SPEECH and Fair Elections. We must ensure fair, honest, transparent, and secure elections going forward – where every LEGAL VOTE counts.
As usual for the Saturday evening rallies, I have a previous engagement, but might be back in time for the later start, so please keep the thread lively. I’ll put some links here for better viewing as the day goes on and they become available.
Joe Biteme, properly styled His Fraudulency, continues to infest the White House, we haven’t heard much from the person who should have been declared the victor, and hopium is still being dispensed even as our military appears to have joined the political establishment in knuckling under to the fraud.
One can hope that all is not as it seems.
I’d love to feast on that crow.
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.
The Audit
On that note, reading comments on the Friday thread, there seems to be mixed opinions on whether the audit was good news, bad news, and if good news, exactly what could be done with it.
I suspect a lot of discussion will be going on today, as we digest what we’ve seen and read.
But at least it finally is out.
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.
All prices are down from a few weeks ago, however this week some are up a bit and some are down a bit. Perhaps we’re bottoming out? Or just reversing for a bit before continuing the trend? Who knows? I was in a local coin shop and people were buying silver, taking advantage of the relatively low prices.
Physics?
I fought a futile battle to write something coherent.
About halfway through, I realized it needed rework, and probably should be split into two posts. So perhaps next week…
I didn’t even have time to write an anti-ChiComChimpanzee rant.
Obligatory PSAs and Reminders
China is Lower than Whale Shit
Remember Hong Kong!!!
Whoever ends up in the cell next to his, tell him I said “Hi.”
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 !!!
“So, I think the real question in this crisis is what is there on our view of man and our world, and on the way in which we look on life, that makes us experience a lack of sensemaking. In my opinion, I think we must conclude it is something in our materialistic, mechanistic view of man and the world that leads up to radical destruction of the real social structures and social bonds and the feeling that life makes sense. If you believe that human beings are biological machines, then this implies, by definition, that life is senseless.”
Professor Mattias Desmet
Welcome back to Wolf’s Pub!
The Arizona audit report drops today. Let the fireworks begin. It feels like we’ve been trudging through a mucky swamp trying to get somewhere and we can see the shore but can’t quite get there.
It’s about Good and Evil. It’s been enormously painful to see the depth of corruption in our nation’s institutions. Very, very painful.
IT’S A SPIRITUAL PROBLEM
One question that has dogged me since the whole Great Reset was kicked off with the CCP Virus, is how can so many people be so fooled for so long when the truth is being trumpeted across the width and depth of independent media?
Well, I ran across an interview that Reiner Fullmich conducted with Belgian psychologist and professor, Mattias Desmet: The Psychology of Covid-19 (Mass Formation and Totalitarian Thinking):
This is an utterly fascinating discussion regarding how large groups of people fall willingly into totalitarianism.
Light bulbs were going off in my head as I listened to this interview. Professor Desmet says four things must be present in order to facilitate the conditions for a people to go down the road of societal madness:
These four conditions existed prior to Covid. Larry Turner writes about Professor Desmet’s interview here. He explains:
“If these four factors are present in enough members of any given society, Desmet says the society in question is at risk for the ‘crystallizing’ action of “mass formation” where large numbers of discontented, anxious, confused, and isolated people simultaneously and suddenly seize upon some single apparent threat and give it their entire attention and energy. The basic reason for this attention and energy seizure, according to Desmet, is that putting focus on a single apparent threat provides immediate and palpable relief from a constellation of the longstanding chronic pressures of social isolation, lack of sensemaking, and free-floating anxiety and discontent. This mobilization of individual attention and energy against some single perceived threat unfortunately, according to Desmet’s explanation of the phenomena, segues easily into increasingly totalitarian government behavior.
Desmet believes that this is exactly what has happened and is happening to greater or lesser degrees all over the globe in response to the COVID19 virus pandemic. He posits that – judging from measures of high and increasing drug use, increased job burnout and economic dissatisfaction, and increasing social isolation – that prior to the arrival of COVID19 a significant number of humans were extremely uncomfortable with their lives. With the arrival of the virus, however, they were able to unload their longstanding unfocused anxiety and discontent onto the ‘COVID19 crisis’, thereby obtaining a welcome and immediate release from their chronic discomforts and tensions. Desmet refers to the immediate feeling of relief felt by those previously heavily burdened with isolation, lack of sensemaking, and free-floating anxiety and discontent as a “mental intoxication”.
Larry Turner
Turner writes more about this phenomenon and Dr. Desmet’s explanation of it here.
What about those who don’t get caught up in the lies and mass formation? Desmet says:
“Usually it is only about 30% [of a population that gets] grasped in a mass phenomenon or hypnosis. An additional 35-45% usually does not want to raise a dissonant voice in the public space because they are scared of the consequences. So, usually about 70% who shut up – 30% because they are convinced by the mainstream narrative and 40% because they don’t dare to speak out. And then there is an additional 20-25-30% who does not go along with the narrative and says it in certain situations.”
Professor Mattias Desmet
Those who are immune tend to be independent thinkers. Take a bow, guys.
Very worth your time to listen in. I definitely feel smarter after listening to the interview and reading about it. 😊
HOUSE RULES
Well, since we’re a pretty durned sense-making and cohesive group here at the Qtree, it only requires a reminder of the rules of this place. Go here to review.
If you don’t feel like fitting in for the moment here, the Utree is a welcome and present aid to run to blow off some steam. It’s also our place to reconvene during various attacks on this site, the server, and the hosting company. Prayers all around to keep us all up and running.
SACROSANCT BEER?
Since today’s opener features Professor Desmet, a Belgian, I thought it appropriate to offer a nice selection of Belgian beers today. Here’s a nice article that explains the seriousness with which the Belgians feel about their beer.
According to the author, Tom Green,
“In Belgium, beer is sacrosanct. Committed to tradition, Belgian brewers make some of the world’s greatest and most timeless beer. In the thousands of local pubs spread across the small country, beer is a unifying source of pride for the Belgian people.”
Tom Green
I watched the video embedded within the article that talks about the fact that there are over 1,500 different Belgian beers, which is amazing considering the small size of Belgium. These people are serious about beer. I mean, beer-making and beer-drinking is pretty much the national past-time.
When all this Great Reset has been beaten to death, I want to go bar-hopping in Belgium.
Meanwhile, I present the iconic (in America) version of Belgian beer: Blue Moon Belgian White
I’ve always found it very palatable. Read here how Blue Moon came to be. And for astronomy buffs, the next Blue Moon will appear in our skies on Friday, August 30, 2023.
BACK TO THE AUDIT
This picture of the Canary Islands, where that volcano has been erupting is some firework, eh? Intense video images here.
It has been said, repeatedly and truly, that if the 2020 election is not fixed, then 2022 and 2024 don’t matter. The audits in all 50 states will reveal that our votes have been stolen, are being stolen, and will be stolen if election reform is not enacted.