2025-11-15, Simply Saturday.

Administrivia.

Wheatie’s Watching.  

3.  If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.  <<<  T H I S.

2.  No running with scissors. 

1.  No food fights.  (Launching dinner rolls encouraged.)

AI stuff posted, requires a link. Please use spoiler, for longer posts.

Wolf Speak.  No obnoxious behavior towards fellow QTreeper(s). Freedom of Speech is honored here QTree.  But Do Know, every poster, IS personally responsible for what they post. 

KK

Fresh Stuff.  May be worth a read, listen, or scroll on by.  

  • In no particular order… 
  • Well, the makings of limited structure below.    

APMEX https://www.apmex.com   Bitcoin https://www.bitcoin.com/

Prices pulled last evening.  Gold $4,097.98.  Silver $50.79.   Bitcoin $95,099.

Bitcoin…WTF?

American Stories.  (A series)

The White House Salute to America 250 Task Force has partnered with Hillsdale College to provide a history series that tells the remarkable story of American Independence.

It will highlight the stories of the crucial characters and events that resulted in a small rag-tag army defeating the mightiest empire in the world and establishing the greatest republic ever to exist.

This is the story of America. This is our shared heritage and our proud destiny that will continue to lead us to unimaginable achievements in the centuries to come.

MeThinks, these videos are a worthy our time.  Mine, anyway. 

  • Refresher, new information for some, or many…

7:30.

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Articles.


Breaking Money Matters…

Trump cuts tariffs on goods like coffee, bananas and beef in bid to slash consumer prices

  • President Donald Trump exempted agricultural imports like beef, coffee, cocoa and bananas from his higher tariff rates.
  • The move comes as he faces political blowback for higher prices on grocery staples.
  • The action also extends to tomatoes, avocados and tea, among other items.

More…

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/14/trump-cuts-tariffs-goods-prices.html

I truly feel bad for Pam Bondi and her DOJ.  Activist judges harass them, nearly daily.

D.C. Appeals Court STRIKES DOWN Trump DOT’s Safety Rules — Allows Immigrants to Obtain Commercial Licenses Again Despite Fatal Florida Truck Crash

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit blocked the Trump-Vance administration’s emergency safety rule, a rule designed to keep America’s highways safe from unvetted foreign drivers.

The court sided not with public safety, not with the families of crash victims, but with activist groups, blue-city governments, and unions who argued that asylum seekers, refugees, and DACA recipients should continue holding commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) despite major questions about identity verification, training standards, and foreign driving histories.

More… 

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The ignorance never stops.

Pope Leo Embraces Transgenderism — Invites Prominent Trans Activists to Vatican Luncheon

Pope Leo XIV appears to be embracing the cause of transgenderism.

According to left-wing Catholic blogger and activist Christopher Hale, Leo will meet with Italian transgender activist Alessia Nobile and several other campaigners for a luncheon on Sunday.

Pope Leo XIV will meet and dine in a group setting with Alessia Nobile, a transgender Catholic activist from Bari, during a special lunch at the Vatican this Sunday, November 16.

More…

Slow Guy never saw this coming.

No idea how this stacks up against State laws.  Though I understand, many state laws are Not in sync with Feds.

Congressional hemp restrictions threaten $28 billion industry, sending companies scrambling

  • The congressional funding bill included a THC cap that effectively bans most hemp products, a move industry leaders say threatens the $28 billion market.
  • More than 300,000 jobs are at risk, with economic impacts expected in states with large hemp sectors, including Kentucky, Texas and Utah, industry experts said.
  • Executives warn the ban could fuel a surge in black-market sales if federal regulations aren’t adopted within a year, as demand for hemp-derived THC remains strong.

More…

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/13/congress-thc-hemp-ban.html

In search of my surprised face…  Dumbass.  MTG that is.

BREAKING: In Stunning Development, President Trump Withdraws His Support and Endorsement of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

President Trump on Friday evening announced he is withdrawing his support for GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

“I am withdrawing my support and Endorsement of “Congresswoman” Marjorie Taylor Greene, of the Great State of Georgia,” Trump said on Truth Social.

Trump said he is tired of Marjorie Taylor Greene complaining despite him creating record achievements for the country.

“Over the past few weeks, despite my creating Record Achievements for our Country including, a Total and Complete Victory on the Shutdown, Closed Borders, Low Taxes, No Men in Women’s Sports or Transgender for Everyone, ending DEI, stopping Biden’s Record Setting Inflation, Biggest Regulation Cuts in History, stopping EIGHT WARS, rebuilding our Military, being RESPECTED by every Country in the World (as opposed to being the laughingstock that we were just 12 months ago!), having Trillions of Dollars (Record Setting!) INVESTED in the U.S.A., and having created the “HOTTEST” Country anywhere in the World from being a DEAD Country just 12 months ago (and so much more!), all I see “Wacky” Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!” Trump said.

More…

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F A F O

Virginia Democrat Ibraheem Samirah Who Infamously DISRUPTED President Trump Sentenced in Explosive COVID Fraud Scheme

In a delicious twist of irony, Ibraheem Sabri Samirah, the Palestinian-American Democrat who infamously disrupted President Trump’s 2019 speech in Jamestown with a “Deport Hate” sign, has been nailed for wire fraud in a blatant PPP loan scam.

Samirah, 34, a dentist by trade, cooked up fake payroll records for his clinic, Nova Healthy Smiles PLLC, claiming four employees and $33,333 in monthly wages back in early 2020.

More…

X’s

Transparency.

On September 26, 2025, President Trump directed government records related to Amelia Earhart and her final trip to be declassified and released. These records are available online at http://archives.gov/ameliaearhart. More records will be added on a rolling basis as they are digitized.

Still don’t know much about Crook’s. 

My take is, there IS an ongoing investigation, that will redefine Breaking News AND take down lots of folks.  Likely Big Names.

Not hopia.  Just my opinion.

Crooks Case Overview: Over 480 FBI employees were involved in the Thomas Crooks investigation. Employees conducted over 1,000 interviews, addressed over 2,000 public tips, analyzed data extracted from 13 seized digital devices, reviewed nearly 500,000 digital files, collected, processed, and synchronized hundreds of hours of video footage, analyzed financial activity from 10 different accounts, and examined data associated with 25 social media or online forum accounts. The FBI’s investigation into Thomas Crooks identified and examined over 20 online accounts, data extracted from over a dozen electronic devices, examination of numerous financial accounts, and over 1,000 interviews and 2000 public tips. The investigation, conducted by over 480 FBI employees, revealed Crooks had limited online and in person interactions, planned and conducted the attack alone, and did not leak or share his intent to engage in the attack with anyone.

Money Matters

@DowdEdwardimplored you to message this 10 months ago….

More Money Matters.

Fed trying to figure out if we need a rate cut in December.

Imagine that…

Angry about affordability? Why are prices so high? Blame Joe Biden. 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐁𝐘 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐓 Trump 1.0 –> NO INFLATION Biden –> RUNAWAY INFLATION TRUMP 2.0 –> INFLATION COMES DOWN

Slashing regulations impacting housing.

.@SecretaryTurnerencourages localities to slash burdensome regulations: “Right now, it costs about 40% in cost of regulations just to build a multi-family development—about 20-25% to build a single-family development. We have to attack the regulatory environment going forward.”

Speaking of housing costs.

“’I’m never satisfied,’ @POTUS said, noting that driving down housing and consumer costs is central to helping people reach the American dream. He dismissed Democrats’ newfound focus on ‘affordability,’ after years of brushing off inflation under former President Joe Biden, as laughable, describing it as a hollow ‘catch phrase’ instead of serious policy.”

TarGay dropping some food prices.

@Target is dropping prices ahead of the holidays… announcing reduced costs on 3,000 food, beverage, and essential items starting this month. Target is also bringing back its Thanksgiving meal at its lowest price EVER.”

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Grewsome screws up lives across KaliforniStan AND many other states.

Gov Newscum is working overtime to cement his status as the worst governor in America.

Under his failed leadership, the great state of California is suffering with some of the highest gas and electricity prices in the country.

In fact, California drivers pay $1.60 more than the national average for a gallon of gasoline.

Gavin, it’s time to abandon your failed Green New Scam experiment and embrace President Trump’s successful energy dominance agenda

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Only a moron would threaten to sue DOJ, Trump…  Well, its FartSwell.  DumbAss.

Swalwell Threatens Trump Officials After Federal Housing Director Pulte Criminally Refers Him to DOJ For Mortgage Fraud (VIDEO)

Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell threatened investigators after NBC News reported that he had been criminally referred to the Justice Department.

Federal Housing regulator Bill Pulte referred Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution over mortgage fraud.

According to NBC News, Pulte is alleging that Swalwell, a Democrat Congressman representing a district in California, took out millions of dollars worth of mortgage loans based on his declaring his primary residence as Washington, DC.

More…

Mike Rowe.  Delivering G R E A T News.

Housing news out of, Great Falls, Montana.

I just visited a shop class in Great Falls, Montana where high school students are building houses for people who need a place to call home.

Let that sink in for a moment.

High schoolers in Great Falls Montana, under the guidance of an excellent shop instructor and lots of community support, are building actual houses. Not birdhouses or doll houses – real homes, built to code from the ground up for real people, and move-in ready.

Yesterday, I toured the latest home these kids are in the process of building. It’s the 48th such home built since 1998, through this remarkable program. While I was there, I ran into @GregForMontana. Like me, the Governor was blown away by what these kids were doing and took the time to talk to each one of them, thanking them for their hard work and congratulating them for what they’d accomplished. I was then invited to join the Governor on stage at Great Falls High, where I answered a few questions about mikeroweWORKS, talked about the many opportunities in the skilled trades, and discussed the ways we might be able to encourage more projects like this one, in Montana and beyond.

It’s encouraging to see public/private partnerships done right. And really, it’s not that complicated; it just takes a few stubborn people in various organizations who won’t take no for an answer. In this case, too many to name, but a quick shout out to Pete Pace, the shop teacher at the center of High School Homes, the administrators in the school district, the principal at Great Falls High, Sherrie Arey and her devoted crew at @neighborworks, the incredibly generous executives at @WellsFargowho offered another round of financial support, and a Governor with the good sense to push through the normal bureaucratic nonsense that kills programs like this. Bravo to all!

Mike

PS. This is the third time in two months I’ve seen a program like this in action. The first was in Western North Carolina, (Rebuilding the Hollars), the second was in New Orleans, (@uCCNOLA.) The projects all have one thing in common – a shop class with an exceptional instructor. Like I said, it takes support from every direction, but a high school shop class is always where it starts.

For years, I’ve argued that removing shop class from high schools was a mistake that would deny a whole generation of students’ critical exposure to a long list of essential careers and rob them of an opportunity to prepare for the all-important apprenticeships on which most skilled careers are built. Today, standing in the shop class at Great Falls, watching dozens of engaged students cutting, hammering, measuring, and fabricating, it occurred to me that I was wrong. Taking shop class out of high school was not merely a mistake – it was the single dumbest decision in the history of modern education. We didn’t just rob a whole generation of students, we robbed ourselves, in a colossal, self-inflicted wound that’s led directly to a host of unintended consequences – including the current shortages in every essential skilled trade.

Correcting it, should be at or near the top of every Governor’s agenda in every single state. Because tomorrow’s skilled workforce is currently in the 8th grade, and if we don’t meet these kids where they are – right now – with programs like this, we’re in for a world of hurt.

Tunes

Steppenwolf – Born To Be Wild (Live at Farm Aid 1986)

The Charlie Daniels Band – The South’s Gonna Do It Again (Official Video)

Queen – We Will Rock You

Night crew, your nickel.

KK

Health Friday 11.14.2025 Open Thread: What’s Going on at Pfizer-BioNTech?: Part Two

The header image of vintage Pfizer vaccine vials for today’s offering is courtesy of Dreamstime and Google Images.

Health Friday is a series devoted to Big Pharma, vaccines, general health, and associated topics. As today’s offering speaks to the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines”, Yours Truly dedicates it to all persons, of whatever age or location, who have passed away from the negative effects of these “vaccines” that they had in the body. May they rest in eternal Peace.

There are Important Notifications from our host, Wolf Moon; the Rules of our late, good Wheatie; and, certain caveats from Yours Truly, of which readers should be aware. They are linked here. Note: Yours Truly has checked today’s offering for AI-generated content. To the best of her knowledge and belief, there is none, except perhaps for AI-generated images within items that are linked in the post. If readers wish to post AI-generated content to today’s discussion thread, they must cite their source. Thank you.

Please refer to Part One of this two-part set, found here: https://www.theqtree.com/2025/11/07/health-friday-11-7-2025-open-thread-whats-going-on-at-pfizer-biontech-part-one/, regarding recent activities of PfizerUSA (also known as Pfizer), the United States-based co-partner of Pfizer-BioNTech. Today’s presentation will discuss some of the activities of the other co-partner, Germany-based BioNTech. Of necessity, some of today’s presentation will include items related to Pfizer (PfizerUSA.)

The current “pipeline” for the BioNTech product line is found here: https://www.biontech.com/int/en/home/pipeline-and-products/pipeline.html. The full PDF of the “pipeline” is found here: https://www.biontech.com/content/dam/biontech-corporate/global/pdf/home/pipeline-and-products/pipeline/assets/BioNTech-Clinical-Pipeline-EN-Q3.pdf, “Status: November 3, 2025.” A screenshot of the Infectious Diseases section of this pipeline is below:

Note the Collaborator / Partner listings on the far right of the image. There are two entities involving Bill Gates: the Gates Foundation; and, CEPI. There are two mentions of Pfizer (also known as PfizerUSA.) There is one mention of the University of Pennsylvania. Note also the BioNTech rights listings: the company fully owns the mRNA (modRNA) “vaccines” under development for Tuberculosis, for Malaria, and for Monkeypox (Mpox.) More on the Fosun Pharma collaboration / partnership will be presented further below in today’s post.

It appears that the modRNA-based “combo vaccine” for COVID-19 + influenza, also known as either BNT162b2 + BNT161, or as tozinameran + famtozinameran, is actually being developed and tested by BioNTech, with PfizerUSA (Pfizer) as a kind of “stand-by” or “silent” co-partner. Please see the screenshots below, from registered clinical trials information, per https://clinicaltrials.gov/:

**** NONE of these clinical trials have a true Control Group (study subjects injected with a plain saline solution “placebo vaccine.”)

BioNTech is ALSO working on a “new” version of of the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine”, BNT162b2. However, the only BioNTech listing is this: https://clinicaltrials.biontech.com/trials/C4591076, which “translates” to the NCT07069309 clinical trial referenced above. “C459” is the prefix for Pfizer-BioNTech clinical trials for their modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” — for example, the huge C4591001 original clinical trial for BNT162b1 / BNT162b2 / BNT162b3, from which BNT162b2 was the “vaccine candidate” chosen by the company in the late summer/early fall of 2020 to proceed through the Emergency Use Authorization applications in the United States and in the EU / Scandinavia.

The question Yours Truly has regarding the “new COVID-19 “vaccine candidate” being used in NCT07069309: Is this “new COVID-19 vaccine candidate” ALSO being used in the clinical trial NCT06821061, also listed above? The modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine” called Investigational COVID-19 Vaccine per the Researcher View of NCT06821061?

Gentle reader, does one see how this aspect of the modRNA “vaccine” game works? BioNTech (the co-partner of PfizerUSA/Pfizer) comes up with a “new vaccine candidate” for COVID-19 — a “new vaccine candidate” which, in reality, is for the current circulating virus variant, LP.8.1. — and appears to use it it as an Investigational COVID-19 Vaccine in one clinical trial (NCT068210161): while, at the same, time, also using this same injectable in another clinical trial (NCT07069309)? How many study subjects in either clinical trial were told of this?

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And now, a dive into the “collaborators”, and what may be termed “the other partners”, the “investments partners”, and other entities that are involved with Pfizer-BioNTech, either with PfizerUSA(Pfizer), or with BioNTech. Yours Truly begins with the “active partners” list of PfizerUSA (Pfizer): https://www.pfizer.com/partners/venture-investments/our-portfolio. Below is a screenshot from this article regarding one of these “venture investments partners” — Saama:

What the above article does not mention is the fact that PfizerUSA (Pfizer), along with a group of other healthcare entities, acquired a majority stake in Saama back in October, 2021: https://carlyle.com/media-room/news-release-archive/carlyle-and-leading-healthcare-focused-venture-funds-announce-investment-saama, 20 October 2021. A screenshot from this article is below:

On the other hand, PfizerUSA (Pfizer), wanting to enter more fully into the weight-loss drug marketplace, began acquisition talks with a company called Metsera in August 2025. Metsera is developing a GLP-1 based weight-loss drug, MET-097i, a GLP-1 drug. GLP-1 drugs (Glucagon-like Peptide 1) drugs are designed to lower blood sugar in people taking them, thus (theoretically) leading to weight loss. However, another company, Novo Nordisk, also wanted to acquire Metsera, and, at one point, was working on an “agreement in principle” with the company. This led to a “battle of offers” for Metsera between Pfizer and Novo Nordisk, leading to a lawsuit filed by Pfizer on 1 November 2025 against Metsera and against Novo Nordisk’s offers to Metsera (https://sbj.net/stories/pfizer-sues-metsera-novo-nordisk,101765, Springfield Business Journal, 3 November 2025.) It also appears that Pfizer possibly contacted the United States Federal Trade Commission about the situation — with the result that Novo Nordisk backed away due to a letter sent to the company by the FEC; and, Pfizer, then having the “green light”, could move forward with the acquisition deal for Metsera (https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/pfizer-beats-out-novo-10b-agreement-buy-metsera, Eric Sagonowsky, 8 November 2025.)

Gentle reader, does one see how this aspect of the game is played? It appears that PfizerUSA (Pfizer) gets the United States Federal Trade Commission involved in blocking a deal that a rival company (Novo Nordisk) is working on, in order for Pfizer to acquire the target company?

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Meanwhile, what of the “collaborators” and “partners” with BioNTech, other than their co-partner, PfizerUSA (Pfizer)? Following is a “snapshot” of this situation:

BioNTech and CEPI (Gates Foundation) are “partnered” in expanding mRNA “vaccine” research, development, and manufacturing, in Kigali, Rwanda: https://cepi.net/biontech-and-cepi-expand-partnership-strengthen-africas-mrna-vaccine-ecosystem, 28 May 2024. A screenshot of the summary from this article is below:

This article emanated from Mainz, Germany, and Oslo, Norway.

**** Note also the use of a new term: “mRNA vaccine ecosystem.” Gentle reader, does one see how this aspect of the game is played? First, create the “problem” (the COVID-19 virus); Second, create the “solution” (modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines”); Third, convince / coerce / frighten / gaslight, billions of people into taking this unproven gene-therapy technology; Fourth, create an “mRNA vaccine ecosystem” in which endless types of mRNA-based / modRNA-based “vaccines” are created and administered to the convinced / coerced / frightened / gaslighted, billions of people as part of the “mRNA vaccine ecosystem”, with the underlying “passive-aggressive threat” of “people must take these “vaccines”, otherwise they would likely get very sick and/or die”.

Yours Truly now turns to the “partnership” between BioNTech and the Communist China-based pharmaceutical company, Fosun Pharma.

Fosun Pharma, also known as Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (Group) Co., Ltd., was founded in 1994. The company has since “spun off” into other related entities, such as Fosun International, and https://fosunpharmausa.com/. Lest there is any doubt that the Chinese Communist Party holds a significant stake in Fosun Pharma, please see this: https://en.fosun.com/Upload/File/202104021739947_5055.pdf, “Corporate Social Responsibility Report – Fosun”, for the year 2012. A graphic from Page 11 of this report is below:

The Wikipedia entry on Fosun Pharma is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fosun_Pharma.

However, it also appears that Guo Guangchang, founder and chairman of Fosun International, has run afoul of the Chinese government at least twice. He “disappeared” in 2015 and in 2017, only to “resurface” after what appears to have been detention and interrogation (for the 2015 “disappearance”, at least) by Chinese authorities: https://variety.com/2015/biz/asia/missing-chinese-executive-released-1201660214/, Patrick Frater, 13 December 2015.

Fosun Pharma and BioNTech went into partnership regarding the development and distribution of BNT162b2 in Communist China. Please the screenshot from the Wikipedia entry regarding this, below:

Please refer also to the BioNTech “pipeline” graphics further above in today’s offering. Fosun Pharma is listed in the Infectious Diseases section as Collaborator / Partner with BioNTech regarding the development and distribution of the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine” BNT162b2 (now known as COMIRNATY.)

The Fierce Pharma story regarding the Fosun Pharma – BioNTech “partnership” and BNT162b2 is here: https://www.fiercepharma.com/manufacturing/biontech-fosun-pharma-eye-1b-doses-covid-19-vaccine-capacity-new-china-jv, Angus Liu, 10 May 2021. A screenshot from this article is below:

In addition, Fosun Pharma is also “partnering” with PfizerUSA (Pfizer) in the manufacture of a generic form of Paxlovid (owned by Pfizer) for international use: https://medicinepatientpool.org/story-post/fosun-pharmas-global-impact-expanding-access-to-covid-19-treatments-and-beyond-through-voluntary-licensing-with-mpp, 22 November 2024. This sublicense agreement with Medicine Patient Pool (MPP) was signed in March 2022. MPP is, in turn, a division of Unitaid (https://unitaid.org/.) More information regarding MPP is here: https://medicinepatientpool.org/who-we-are/about-us.

Gentle reader, does one see how this aspect of the game is played? The Big Pharma company “creates partnerships” or “sublicensing agreements” with other companies around the world to push the drugs and / or “vaccines” that the Big Pharma company creates and manufactures. Smaller pharmaceutical companies; alternative treatment entities and their products; other avenues of treatment opportunities — are left out / choked off / minimized.

The 2024 salary of Dr. Ugur Sahin, MD, CEO of BioNTech: $287 million dollars.

The 2024 salary of Dr. Albert Bourla, DVM, CEO of PfizerUSA (Pfizer): $24.6 million dollars.

Per: https://www.fiercepharma.com/special-reports/big-pharmas-10-highest-paid-ceos-2024, 16 June 2025.

Meanwhile, the Medical Tsunami of documented modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine”-induced or aggravated illnesses, injuries, or disabilities, among those who took / take these “vaccines”, rolls on. Meanwhile, the Medical Tsunami of documented modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine”-induced or related deaths among those who took these “vaccines” rolls on.

All persons — COVID-19 “vaccinated” or not — need to be following some type of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein detox / mitigation protocol. All persons — COVID-19 “vaccinated” or not — need to keep their immune system in the best shape possible.

All modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” MUST be removed from the market and from use. Now.

THERE. MUST. BE. ACCOUNTABILITY.

THERE. MUST. BE. JUSTICE.

THERE. MUST. BE. TRUTH.

Peace, Good Energy, Respect: PAVACA

(Intellectual Property Notice: With the exception of linked articles and/or scientific papers that are available online, the ideas and conclusions in today’s offering are by PAVACA. Proper credit must be given to PAVACA for any other blog writer, podcaster, or social media outlet, in using the ideas or conclusions in today’s offering.)

Dear MAGA: 20251113 ✾ Thank God ± Theistic Evolution ∈ Thursday Open Topic


This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!

Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.


Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!

Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.

The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.

And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.

And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.

OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.

  • No food fights.
  • No running with scissors.
  • If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.


If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!

W


More Temu trinkets from video world. Skip over as many as you must!


(1) Explosives. Instantly reducing people to…… crumbs? Not vapor? Or is this “AND logic”?


(2) Have you ever wanted to go back to high school biology class? You won’t after this video! It’s CRINGE vs. CRINGE! Skip if you don’t want to enjoy the CRINGE!


(3) Try a different chess brain from my usual guy. This one does a deep dive into a SCANDAL of the chess world during this fascinating analysis of psychological war between top chess players.

The TL;DR – the world’s best player TOYS with the guy who made bogus accusations of computer-backed cheating at the top of chess world, by making a bunch of TROLL moves that a computer would NEVER recommend, and still beating him bloody!


(4) How about a TREEHOUSE DUDE who’s not Sundance? Check out “Mystery Treehouse” on the topic of the band Boston / the nerd Tom Scholz.


(5) Wanna talk back to those douchebags and cat-ladies who say that the Southwest UNITED STATES was stolen from MEH-HE-CO? Here you go – some fascinating history.


OK – that’s enough! Have a great weekend!

W


BUT WAIT – THERE’S MOAR!

I saw this at the last minute! Must report immediately! A damned AI country song hit NUMBER ONE!!!

[No – don’t skip over it – click the video and WAIT FOR IT!]

KMAG DAILY THREAD 20251112 + Education & Boomers

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Site rules stolen from our good friend PAVACA

There are Important Notifications from our host, Wolf Moon; the Rules of our late, good Wheatie; and, certain caveats from Yours Truly, of which readers should be aware. They are linked here. Note: Yours Truly has checked today’s post for any AI-generated content. To the best of her knowledge and belief, there is none. If readers wish to post any AI-generated content in the discussion thread for today’s post, they must cite their source.

Thank you


Do not forget to LABEL AI articles video and such.

BOOMERS


I have seen the targeting of Boomers in the last few years. Sort of reminds me of MAO.

 Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution

In August 1966, the 73-year-old Mao made a speech at the Plenum of the Communist Central Committee. He called for the youth of the country to take back the revolution from the rightists. These young “Red Guards would do the dirty work in Mao’s Cultural Revolution, destroying the “Four Olds”—old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas. [And the Elderly, who had been venerated in traditional Chinese Culture.] Even a tea-room owner like President Hu Jintao’s father could be targeted as a “capitalist.”

While the nation’s students were busily destroying ancient artwork and texts, burning temples and beating intellectuals to death, Mao managed to purge both Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping from the party’s leadership. Liu died under horrific circumstances in prison; Deng was exiled to work in a rural tractor factory, and his son was thrown from a fourth-story window and paralyzed by Red Guards.

In 1969, Mao declared the Cultural Revolution complete, although it continued through his death in 1976. Later phases were directed by Jiang Qing (Madame Mao) and her cronies, known as the Gang of Four.”

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On a side note via Yuri Bezmenov  https://substack.com/@yuribezmenov

Matt da Silva Bullet da Silva Bullet

You can’t underestimate the power of schools over children. It’s a fact of linguistics that children don’t talk like their parents but their classmates. And anyone who’s ever studied languages understands that culture and language are two expressions of the same thing.

That’s why the Marxists are so hellbent on changing the meaning of words. From calling men women to confusing illegals with citizens by glossing over the fact with the carefully chosen “people.” (The government is abducting people!) The Left is really good at tactical linguistics.

As a Boomer, I consider us the transition generation. A bit of background as usual.

In 1933 there was Executive Order 6102: FDR’s Gold Confiscation Program and it was codified into law in 1934 with the Gold Reserve Act.


The Myths and Reality of Gold Confiscation – LewRockwell

(Short & sweet explanation)

… in January 1934 when FDR re-defined the dollar as only 13.71 grains. It was a 41% devaluation of the dollar, which meant that it thereafter took $35 to exchange for one ounce of gold…

So clearly, notwithstanding the enduring myth, FDR really did not need the weight of gold collected from the confiscation to re-establish confidence in the dollar. Simply devaluing the dollar by a slightly greater amount would have achieved the same objective. So why did FDR confiscate gold?

In our book, The Collapse of the Dollar, John Rubino and I provided an answer, but it wasn’t an explanation that we developed. Rather, the answer came from Alan Greenspan’s 1966 essay entitled “Gold and Economic Freedom”.

The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit…The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists’ tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.”

So it seems clear to me that FDR confiscated American’s gold for the same reason Lenin confiscated it in Russia and Hitler confiscated it in Germany, namely, to get it out of the hands of the people

CONGRESSMAN MCFADDEN

Almost immediately and ever since this commentary, he was characterized and smeared as anti-Semite. Today, there are online accounts given that demonstrate that the critics of McFadden didn’t even examine his important speeches let alone debate them and in fact use license to make things up (straw men fallacy)…

It is hard today to find anything positive said about this prescient and wise man. The critics of McFadden rarely focus on the core issues, which time has demonstrated are completely valid…

But thanks to the wonders of technology, you can conduct a word search examination of the 1932 speech. Although McFadden singled out certain Jewish-run banks like Kuhn and Loeb, a CTRL+F hunt reveals the words “Jew” or “Jewish” was never used during this entire classic speech, nor his 1931 speeches.

He did use the term “international bankers” six times in ’32; but with 89 years of additional hindsight, one would have to be in total cartoon world to deny the existence of powerful international bankers. — The Assassination of Louis McFadden

McFadden was a banker by trade. According to Wiki He is known for his antisemitic conspiracy theories, which eventually saw him lose his seat in the House of Representatives.” Gotta paint him as Antisemitic within the first 3 sentences. However the three assassination attempts, the third being successful, do not deserve mention by Wiki. Only the smears by the press. Remember J.P. Morgan and friends bought control of the news in 1915 and the Anti-Defamation League was started in 1913 “To stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all. Especially people like the Warburgs and Soros.

Why was McFadden smeared as an Antisemite BEFORE Hitler’s atrocities and then assassinated? You have to go to the Wayback Machine to find this explosive speech that helped get him killed.

Congressman McFadden Remarks in Congress, 1934

“The statement that it is necessary for the people to give their gold- the only real money- to the banks in order to protect the currency, is a statement of calculated dishonesty!

“By his unlawful usurpation of power on the night of March 5, 1933, and by his proclamation, which in my opinion was in violation of the Constitution of the United States, Roosevelt divorced the currency of the United States from gold, and the United States currency is no longer protected by gold. It is therefore sheer dishonesty to say that the people’s gold is needed to protect the currency.

“Roosevelt ordered the people to give their gold to private interests- that is, to banks, and he took control of the banks so that all the gold and gold values in them, or given into them, might be handed over to the predatory International Bankers who own and control the Fed.

“Roosevelt cast his lot with the usurers. “He agreed to save the corrupt and dishonest  at the expense of the people of the United States.

“He took advantage of the people’s confusion and weariness and spread the dragnet over the United States to capture everything of value that was left in it. He made a great haul for the International Bankers.

“The Prime Minister of England came here for money! He came here to collect cash!

“He came here with Fed Currency and other claims against the Fed which England had bought up in all parts of the world. And he has presented them for redemption in gold.

“Mr. Chairman, I am in favor of compelling the Fed to pay their own debts. I see no reason why the general public should be forced to pay the gambling debts of the International Bankers….


And shortly thereafter in 1941, having moved US gold into the hands of the Bankers and enabled currency devaluation (inflation) the USA entered World War II.

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT DEBT

By the end of World War I, the Government’s debt was around $25 billion. After the war in the 1920s, US government debt shrank to around $17 billion. So the bankers crashed the economy in 1933.

…The Fed is tasked to provide liquidity to America’s financial system. But from 1930 to 1933, it shockingly engaged in deflationary monetary policy that reduced the nation’s cash supply by nearly one-third, according to Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman).

As privately-owned central bank of United States, the Fed can change the quantity of dollars in circulation — which leads to (and magnifies the) economic boom and bust cycles of U.S. economy… LINK


Under FDR US Debt went from $22 billion in 1933 to $258 million in 1945 at the end of WWII. LINK

Taking part in this war was very expensive for the U.S. Not only did the U.S. pay for its own military, it also lent money to Britain and other countries fighting the German military. [Which was not paid back] The estimated cost for the U.S. was $323 billion. To help pay for the war, the U.S. took on more debt, borrowing about $211 billion. Much of the debt was in the form of U.S. Savings Bonds, which were also called War Bonds at the time. The sale of the bonds was very successful. About 18 percent of the total U.S. debt for the war was funded by War Bonds. At the end of World War II, the Government’s debt had grown to more than $258 billion


From 1949 to 1979 the debt increased from $253 to $845 billion and from there to $11.9 TRILLION by 2009 DESPITE all the taxes we Boomers paid. As of November 10, 2025, the U.S. national debt stands at $38 trillion, according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s daily report. WIKI

☕️ FOLLOWING SCIENCE ☙ Tuesday, November 11, 2025 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

….So why are conservatives like MTG and O’Reilly whinging about Democrat talking points? The answer is because Biden and the Autopen printed so much money that it tripled the amount of circulating currency.

Something like that is going to smart. There’s no avoiding it.

Inflation is inconvenient; nobody likes having to carry cash around in buckets. But it is painful only because of a three-word economic law: “Wages are sticky.” It means that, in a time of hyperinflation, people’s salaries increase much slower than consumer goods prices. Wages get stuck. Prices are the hare, and wages are the tortoise. There are many reasons why wages are so sticky. Some reasons are obvious, some are less intuitive, and some are drenched in syrup.

But it matters little why. It just is.

Whenever wages finally do increase, groceries and electricity and insurance don’t get cheaper. They just get more affordable.

The most difficult news is that prices will never return to pre-Biden levels. There’s too much cash sloshing around

As we are now finding out, it was not Boomers who were getting rich, we were their cash cows, the cannon fodder for their endless war and now the Cabal’s fall guy, taking the blame for their crimes. At least that is what they are hoping. As Scott likes to point out, it is (working) white males who are on the bottom of the totem pole.

FDR’s set-up of the American People was followed by Nixon and The End of the Gold Standard in 1971.  Once the dollar was completely un-tethered from gold, the Rockefellers instigated the OPEC oil embargo in 1973. See OPEC and Rockefeller (An old truck driver told me there was so much oil during that period, the workers at the refineries were complaining they were running out of storage room.) Over night the price at the pump doubled causing a massive increase in the price of everything else… except the value of your savings account and pay check.


It was bad enough that FDR stole our gold, he also saddled us with the New Deal and the bastardization of the Commerce Clause. SEE: The Commerce Clause: Route to Omnipotent Government. Financially it has been a disaster for Americans.

Federal Regulations Have Made You 75 Percent Poorer

U.S. GDP is just $16 trillion instead of $54 trillion

The growth of federal regulations over the past six decades has cut U.S. economic growth by an average of 2 percentage points per year, according to a new study in the Journal of Economic Growth. As a result, the average American household receives about $277,000 less annually than it would have gotten in the absence of six decades of accumulated regulations—a median household income of $330,000 instead of the $53,000 we get now.


On top of that, under Reagan, our American corporations were stripped of their wealth via leveraged buyouts and then sold off to foreigners. As a country we went from corporations that were part of our community and viewed Americans as long term investments to transnational corporations who view Americans as replaceable cogs to be discarded as soon as they became ‘too expensive.’ During my Dad’s lifetime people worked for the same company all their life and retired with a pension. I watched the company I was planning to grow old with, a company with ZERO DEBT, get bought out in a hostile takeover, stripped and sold off piece meal. I even knew a guy in Boston, whose business was shipping the machinery from closed US factories in New England to Israel!

EDUCATION


Perhaps the nastiest thing the Cabal did was to destroy out education system. After all the target has always been the uppity middle class. As Dr Blumenfeld pointed out in Dumbing Down America

he[Dewey]analyzed the traditional curriculum that sustained the capitalist, individualistic system and found whathe believed was the sustaining linchpin — that is, the key element that held the entire system together: high literacy. To Dewey, the greatest obstacle to socialism was the private mind that seeks knowledge in order to exercise its own private judgment and intellectual authority.High literacy gave the individual the means to seek knowledge independently. It gave individuals the means to stand on their own two feet and think for themselves. This was detrimental to the “social spirit” needed to bring about a collectivist society….

I was a victim of the See & Say reading method as a child.

A Brief History of Reading Instruction

By Stephen Parker a retired teacher who is pro-phonics

For more than a century, reading instruction has been involved in a high-stakes battle between supporters of two opposing methods for teaching a child to read. While this battle is often characterized as “Phonics” versus “Whole Word,” I think it’s more accurate to describe the two methodologies as “Bottom-Up” versus “Top-Down.” … The two methods are not compatible. [BULL SCHIFF! I learned Phonics from Mom and used it when ‘sight reading’ did not work.]

In 1908, Edmond Huey publishes his book The Psychology and Pedagogy of Reading which quickly becomes the manifesto of a growing Whole Word (anti-phonics) movement….

In 1927, a nationally known educator, Dr. Arthur Gates, from Teachers College at Columbia University, joins the Whole Word movement….

By 1930, phonics – meaning explicit teaching of the code – has been abandoned in most of the nation’s classrooms….

1930 – 1965: Whole Word becomes the dominant top-down method for teaching reading in the United States…

1955: The Rudolf Flesch book, Why Johnny Can’t Read, becomes a runaway best seller in the US. It’s a passionate (and polemic) plea for the elimination of Whole Word memorization and guessing, and for a return to phonics….

1955: In a defensive response to the Flesch book, the education establishment and textbook publishers create the International Reading Association (later rebranded as the International Literacy Association). William S. Gray of the University of Chicago is named the first president. It was Gray who developed the popular Look/Say reading series, Dick and Jane, so heavily criticized by Flesch in Why Johnny Can’t Read. [Future IRA presidents will include such noteworthy names as Kenneth Goodman (1981), co-founder of Whole Language (see below), and Marie S. Clay (1992), founder of Reading Recovery.]…


What is interesting is even in Junior High, my friends and I saw the deterioration of education from one year class to the next and remarked upon it. We certainly noticed the Civil Rights Act and the bussing of little Drug Pushers into our school as the CIA expanded their customer base. (A friend’s 7 year old sister was hooked on cocaine in a school near where the Clintons now live.)


Robin Eubanks, an attorney who wrote the blog, Invisible Serf’s Collar gets into the details.

A background in Law is also excellent preparation for determining precisely what the terms commonly used actually mean. Especially in an industry that is consciously using language to hide the actual intended goals. My experience allowed me to recognize that education in the US and globally has been, for decades,  engaged in a massive Newspeak (as in George Orwell’s 1984) campaign that creates a public illusion on what is being promised and what is coming to the schools and classrooms that are this country’s future. I know what the words and terms really mean to an Ed insider and how it differs from the common public perception. I have documented what was really behind the reading wars and math wars. I have pulled together what the real intended Common Core implementation looks like. And it is wildly different from the PR sales job used to gain adoption in most of the states.

For me the English language is both a sword and a shield. I have documented what is really going on, written a book describing how and why education became a weapon, and now we are going to talk about what the real Common Core implementation looks like in various communities in the US in this busy Summer of 2012…

One of her articles:

Reorienting World Order Values Via the Intervention of Activist Education and Progressive Politics

Why yes that is a quote from a Future Worlds Project financed by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Endowment for Peace in the early 70s. At least we now know why education just keeps coming up as the vehicle of choice to initiate social change without that fundamental fact being particularly noticeable. Even if caught, we just get told to defer to the professionals so that the political coup can continue at a slower pace. Drastic Gradualism is actually the term used to get the West to a radically different social, economic, and political system. Hopefully by the year 2000 was the Plan. The 70s were to have been the years to use education to change the prevailing Consciousness before initiating the mobilization for change in the 80s. The precise language used was to:

“supplant the outmoded values/ belief system associated with the state system [they mean nation-state, not those pesky political units the US has 50 of] in a pre-ecological age. [in other words, before Paul Ehrlich started writing about impending disaster]. The emergence and diffusion of a new value/belief consensus [helpfully provided as a Conceptual Understanding so ALL students will know it] is a vital precondition for the kind of active politics that would accomplish the transformation of the structures of power and authority in subsequent period of time.”

Now how many of you have heard that Common Core cannot be incremental? It MUST be comprehensive. Reforms in teacher evals, curricula, assessment, instructional practices, etc. ALL at once. The kind of social engineering that even a weak student of history would know better than attempt. Even if everything about the Common Core was actually about academic content. Which it most decidedly is not.

Well our new World Order planners as they honestly appear to be proud of being [again from then Princeton prof Richard Falk’s book] said it was because (their italicsmechanical penetration of existing curricula was not enough…

And if you click on HOME you get https://web.archive.org/web/20230308083457/http://invisibleserfscollar.com Listing a lot more of her articles.

Some Comments by Robin at Jo Nova’s blog.

Robin July 7, 2015 at 12:34 am ·

http://joannenova.com.au/2015/07/high-pressure-propaganda-greens-using-children-to-write-activist-letters-in-school/#comment-1724611

I actually have copies of the curriculum UNESCO created back in 2002 to be pushed globally in K-12 created in fulfillment of their obligations as Task Manager under Agenda 21. So much for it being just a theory of conspiring. I also documented the Belmont Challenge and Earth System Alliance that this is a part of. http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/the-belmont-challenge-and-the-death-of-the-individual-via-education/

In my book Credentialed to Destroy: How and Why Education Became a Weapon I chronicle the UN entities and the OECD’s confessions of how their use of K-12 education plays into their broader goals. The Secreatry-General of the oECD was especially forthcoming. The thorough use of constructivism globally in K-12 and how it is actually about something other than how to teach subjects is also detailed.

I have also covered on my blog how Queensland has been used by the UN to pilot the transdisciplinary vision for K-12 in something that went by the name the New Basics Project.

There is a theory in K-12 that comes straight out of Marxism that is widely apparent in all the CAGW hype. It doesn’t matter if a theory is factually true. What matters is the effect implementing it as if it were true will have on people and the environment. Never forget the view that There’s Nothing as Practical as a Good Theory if fundamental transformation of people and institutions with governments in charge is the real agenda.

Rereke Whakaaro July 7, 2015 at 12:58 pm

http://joannenova.com.au/2015/07/high-pressure-propaganda-greens-using-children-to-write-activist-letters-in-school/#comment-1724711

The Hitler Youth, that you refer to, in pictures, started out as a Green Movement. Members of the Hitler Youth wore green shirts, and were sometimes referred to as Greenshirts.

One of their pamphlets reads:

In every german breast the German forest quivers with its caverns and ravines, crags and boulders, waters and winds, legends and fairy tales, with its songs and its melodies, and awakens a powerful yearning and a longing for home; in all German souls the German forest lives and weaves with its depth and breadth, its stillness and strength, its might and dignity, its riches and its beauty — it is the source of German inwardness, of the German soul, of German freedom. Therefore protect and care for the German forest for the sake of the elders and the youth, and join the new German “League for the Protection and Consecration of the German Forest”. [Reproduced in Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, Auf der Suche nach Arkadien, Munchen, 1990 p 147.]

The brightest and fittest of the Hitler Youth went on to form the nucleus of the Waffen Schutzstaffel (the SS), or in English, Protective Squadron. – Hitler’s private bodyguards.

But they didn’t just protect Hitler, in a personal sense, rather they protected the Furer (or leader), but more importantly, they were sworn and dedicated to protecting the Fatherland – Germany.

Substitute the concept of Gaia, as the Earth Mother, for the concept of Fatherland, as being just Germany, and you have the modern Green Shirts.

Robin says:

August 9, 2013 at 5:12 am

The models won’t go away because environmental catastrophe is at the center of global education reforms insisting we need new kinds of minds. It is all grounded in the Paul Ehrlich and Robert Ornstein book from that convenient and busy year of 1989 New World New Mind.

It’s also at the center of the political efforts that we shift to a so-called cooperative commonwealth model where the common good” as decided by government officials will be paramount. The Democracy Collaborative out of U Maryland has been quite busy on this note as has Gar Alperowitz on his book tour.

None of us may be among the 350 invited guests from all over the world being planned for in this September Meeting of the Minds annual conference http://cityminded.org/events/toronto/agenda but we are all being planned for at the meeting. Don’t miss the US EPA official attending as they work on a different kind of commerce for the 21st century.

They need the supposed AGW crisis. It’s the excuse for all the planning and sought revolutionary transformations.

Robin says:

June 22, 2013 at 4:08 pm

As somebody who reads all these reports coming out of the UN and Club of Rome and what Ehrlich says he intends to do etc, the books and reports read like satire and bad fiction. Which they are except intentions coupled to political power and taxpayer financing have actual real effects.

I suspect the early 90s writers were looking at things like the World Order Models Project and the 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment and then the hype around Limits to Growth and then the 87 Brundtland Report and realizing this is all an excuse for unquestioned power. AND being the paymaster for all that redistribution.

Understanding WOMP from the early 70s is very enlightening to appreciating the mentalities and lust for money and power that have always been hand in hand with these Save the World by changing human values schemes. http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/reorienting-world-order-values-via-the-intervention-of-activist-education-and-progressive-politics/ lays out WOMP.

[https://web.archive.org/web/20230324180457/http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/reorienting-world-order-values-via-the-intervention-of-activist-education-and-progressive-politics/]

The Club of Rome considered WOMP a peer in its intentions and credentials involved.

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AND straight from the WEATHER UNDERGROUND!


The Gory Details About Terrorist Teacher Kathy Boudin

…Radical Math was created by educator Jonathan Osler several years ago while teaching at El Puenta Academy in New Jersey. Osler taught Radical Math along-side Cathy Wilkerson, a former member of the Weather Underground Organization (with Bill Ayers) who once participated in a plot to detonate a nail bomb at a dance for military personnel at Fort Dix.

Radical Math provides hundreds of social justice math lessons obviously meant to indoctrinate. For example, lesson titles include “Sweatshop Accounting,” “Racism and Stop and Frisk,” “When Equal Isn’t Fair,” “The Square Root of a Fair Share” and “Home Buying While Brown or Black.”…


IPOT aka Sir Patrick Mack did a very good series on the Weather Underground.
Utube had scrubbed the videos… So you know they are worth watching.

The Weathermen I – IPOT Presents – 6.21.19

The Weathermen II – Of Media, Money & Men – IPOT Presents – 11.11.19

@ 47 minutes it goes over some of the history of the Weather Underground

@ 1 hour 12 minutes it starts in on the connection of Bill Ayers and Linda Darling-Hammond to Common Core. Linda was the education advisor to Obama’s presidential campaign and was among candidates for US Secretary of Education under Obama.

@ 1 hour 16 minutes it leads into ANTIFA and the violence on campus to prevent Conservative speakers.

If nothing else listen to that section

The Weathermen III – ALL4FLOYD – IPOT Present

2025.11.11 Daily Thread – American Stories: Honor Our Veterans

As a reminder the national holiday we recognize today, November 11, was stablished by President Woodrow Wilson in 1919 as Armistice Day. It served as a celebration of the end of WW I. After WW II and the Korean War, Congress was pushed by citizens and groups to recognize the day for all veterans, not just those fallen in service to our country. In response Veterans Day was approved and President Dwight Eisenhower signed it into law in 1954.

With two fathers having served during WW II, the day will always be a special one for wifey and I. I have posted summarized versions of these stories previously, but many have not had the opportunity to read them. These will provide a bit more detail. I hope they will be a source of inspiration to you.

You’re In The Army Now

The Great Man from hillbilly land in Tennessee served as a heavy mortar crewman in the 36th “Texas” Infantry Division in the Army in the German theater and was captured in a fierce battle in and around Monte Cassino, Italy. That battle lasted nearly five months and had Allied forces from several nations involved. Complicating efforts was the desire by the Allies to preserve as much of the historically significant landmarks in the region as possible, which the German military was using to escape attack. In the end stage it was efforts of the Polish troops that brought it to a successful conclusion and opened the path of Allied troops toward Rome and final victory in Italy. Allied forces suffered approximately 55 thousand casualties along with 20 thousand Germans. At war’s end the Texas Division had suffered 19.5 thousand casualties. A summary description of this horrendous battle is below.

The Great Man survived over 13 months in German Stalags and farm labor camps before being freed by Russian troops on April 13, 1945. He once attempted to escape a labor camp by swimming across a river with strong currents with two other prisoners. They did not make it and one of them drowned in the rapids. They were forced to sleep in old barns and on the frozen ground in the dead of winter, praying that the Allied bombers would not have them in their sights. During the last two months of captivity in 1945 the German guards kept them on the march. At one point they were strafed by allied planes who thought they were enemy combatants. Six of his fellow brothers were killed and they had to dig their graves. The Russians freed them a month before the official end of the war as their guards fled from the area.

He suffered from malnutrition and frostbite from the ordeal as well as from PTSD throughout the remainder of his life. Once he arrived back in his hometown there was nobody there to greet him at the train station, they had no idea of when he was coming. His family believed he had been killed in action the entire time until notified by the military after his release in late April. Even then they did not believe he was alive as other townspeople had received similar communications in the past only to find their family members had died. He began walking the approximate 5 miles to the small family farm in his broken physical condition until he could not any longer. The last bit of road he crawled until his momma saw him and came running. He could not believe her eyes when she saw him along the road.

It would have meant more to be home if The Great Man did not remember the years of abuse he suffered from his alcoholic father before he left to serve. As it was, he had nowhere else to go and he knew his momma would help. By this point his father was a shell of himself anyway, as the drinking had led to health problems as he had his legs being amputated at the knees from diabetes caused by the alcoholism.

He weighed less than 120 lbs. and initially could not sleep in a bed in their home. For months he slept on blankets on the ground under the front porch. Over time he regained strength from being back working and living on their small farm with food to eat.

His two brothers also returned to the family home after serving in the Navy. This lifted his spirits and he began to heal. He started attending church with his momma and met a pretty teenager he adored. They fell in love and eloped to Georgia to get married a year later. Upon their return it was not long before she was pregnant at the age of 18. The pregnancy went well until the sixth month and she began hemorrhaging. The old country doctor came to the small run down home they rented and thought it was time to try to give birth as both mom and baby were in serious danger. A few hours later a tiny baby girl weighing about three pounds was delivered. She did not make a sound and they all believed she did not make it. The Great Man began massaging her tiny chest and prayed to the Lord the entire time while the doctor addressed the needs of his wife. A few moments later they were overjoyed when the tiny baby began to cry.

Daddy’s Girl was born. She was nurtured at home, there were no NICO units or incubators to help her along. They got by with what they had and could do along with the help of that country doctor, families and friends. Daddy’s Girl turned out to be a tough fighter, just like her dad. This guy will be forever grateful. As a result I was able to grow old with the love of my life, experience being a girl dad, and now be a papaw to three wonderful grandchildren. We are forever grateful that The Great Man never gave up.

Four more children were born to the couple over time. He worked jobs where he could find one along with the farm work and eventually found a job at the Post Office in town at age 36. He was so proud and the townspeople all enjoyed visiting with him when they came by. When their parents passed away, he and his brothers sold that scrub 30 acre farm so they could each have enough for down payments on small places of their own. They were so happy to have homes with running water, indoor toilets and electricity for the first time in their lives.

Life happened and The Great Man stayed in touch with all of his POW buddies at annual events through the decades that followed. There were 30 from his unit that were initially captured. When they began their reunions they tracked down 21 who were still alive or could be found. They visited each other’s homes or at met up at motels through the years. They all came and visited The Great Man’s family home one weekend 32 years afters the war and again, some 9 years later in 1986. By that point only a dozen participated, half of the original 30 were deceased. The original 21 in the group were from every corner of America. All of The Great Man’s and his Angel Wife’s children, spouses and grandchildren came to meet the men and their wives. The time was filled with good food, laughter and interesting stories.

However, when we heard the Kansas public school teacher turned superintendent take his turn our eyes grew moist. He described how he hid a tiny notepad and pencil stub under the sole in his shoe that a kind, local German woman snuck to him when they were taken into town to haul grain seed back to the farm labor camp. At night in the dark when the guards were not watching he recorded dates and important events of most days. It served as a journal that helped him chronicle those last few months of their captivity when they were exposed and in the most danger. He had provided each POW brother a copy of it, which we still have today.

Many of the men spoke of how they cherished the potato peelings the thoughtful German women would throw to them that helped keep them alive. They talked about how the Russian captives in the Stalags were treated much worse than they were.

As a separate thought, maybe that helps to explain some of the deep seated hatred that we see between Russians and the Ukrainian/Euro Nazis today. The Russians seem intent on the total destruction of the nation that grew out of that Nazi stronghold. Perhaps it was not the best idea for our uniparty to have given away $350 B of our national treasure to a disgusting Day One lost cause.

As the families visited and told their stories we all knew we were in the presence of greatness. These men and their devoted wives were the best America had to offer to save the world.

The time came when Daddy’s Girl needed to become both The Great Man’s and his Angel Wife’s primary care giver. There were countless doctor and hospital visits, loads of laundry, bills to be paid, food to be provided and errands to run. With a family of her own, she was getting worn down. However, it became clear that The Great Man was being prepared to go home at age 80. The nightmares about the war that gripped him all those years no longer bothered him as life left his body. No more being embarrassed after diving under the kitchen table when a plane passed over their home or grabbing his rifle if he was startled by an unusual noise at night. Daddy’s Girl laid in bed with him at the nursing home as he went to be with Jesus. Their unshakeable bond was on display until the end. His trials and health issues were released as he entered into the waiting arms of Jesus.

His legacy was seen in the faces and words of over 700 people who came to the funeral of a man who had never held a position higher than janitor in his home town. This was followed by a full honor guard burial. Angel Wife handed the American flag that was presented to her by the honor guardsman to Daddy’s Girl and said, “Here, you deserve this.”

His greatness was found in the stories that were told and the lives that were made better by the strong, selfless, caring manner of The Great Man who was always there for his nation and others as had been done for him when he needed them most.

Anchors Aweigh, my boys…

The coal miner’s son was a Little Guy who took after his 4′ 10″ diminutive in stature school teacher and Appalachian poet mother who oriented him to the importance of seeking a higher education despite living in poverty. Then Pearl Harbor happened. The Little Guy left his community college classes and headed straight for the enlistment office. Standing 5′ 6″ tall and weighing 129 lbs., he was upset to learn he was barely tall enough and did not weigh enough. For weeks he did everything he could to gain weight including carrying rocks in his pockets when he tried to enlist the next time. The enlistment office personnel looked the other way as he stepped on the scale to find he weighed the minimum 133 lbs. to join the Navy. So, The Little Guy joined America’s military the same year as The Great Man in 1942.

His small size turned out to be a benefit for the role he would be assigned later. After basic and flight training on radar and as a radioman along with plane electrician in the Naval Air Force in Jacksonville and assignment to sunny Pensacola, his crew was soon based in the Aleutians at Attu, Alaska. Attu was a cold and barren place that was nearly devoid of life forms after the Japanese took it in the early days of the war.

The very small, primarily native Aluet population of the island who did not escape had been savaged by killing the adult males and sending the women and children back to Japan as prisoners. Later, it became the site where the blood of thousands of Japanese and hundreds of American troops lost their lives. The 500 or so remaining Japanese troops who survived the final battle were so brainwashed about their plights they committed mass suicide as well as murder of each other rather than being captured. A summary of the struggle is below,

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/retaking-aleutians-1943

Once retaken, The Little Guy’s squadron was assigned and utilized as spotters who focused on reconnaissance in the Pacific. The initial plane they flew was a B-24. From 1944 until the end of the war it was a PB4Y-2 Privateer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_PB4Y-2_Privateer

With each battle of our military they would be based into those areas to spot enemy ship, submarine and troop movements in the region. This led to him eventually spending time with his crew mates in Okinawa, Korea, Taiwan (Formosa), Myanmar (Burma), and China as well as post surrender, in Japan briefly. He saw the aftermath of the atomic bombs and other destruction from the air.

Interestingly, although they never met, he was stationed in Okinawa during the same period as one of The Great Man’s brothers who was a crewman on a Naval ship assigned to that battle and later based there.

It was a stressful period wondering if the plane would go down from Japanese attacks and becoming shark bait. Dodging flak was a regular occurrence. His crew survived it all due to a good tail gunner, “Gunny” Hagedorn, along with the help of American fighter pilots who protected them as well as the Lord’s will. He only experienced frostbite in his feet and an occasional nightmare about the widespread destruction he witnessed from the experience. He counted himself fortunate. His experiences led to a deep appreciation for President Truman’s decision to end the war with that atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

After the war he returned to college life. At that point with the better nutrition and physical conditioning from Navy life at age 24 he found he had grown 3″ taller and was 20 lbs. heavier. After college and a short term job in an aluminum mill; there was a return to the mines and a mining school to become a surveyor. After that there was a move into industrial construction as a surveyor and engineer from his education at the University of Tennessee. That led to a final long career in his field with a steel manufacturer. Along the way it meant hitting the Hillbilly Highway as he searched for a better life than could be found in dead end coal mining camp towns. Before he left the region he married a young woman in one of the coal mining towns who wanted out as well. Their first child, Daddy’s Boy, arrived on the scene a few years later as he worked construction on a major DOD project a half dozen years after the war. As that project wound down he found work doing what he loved in that steel mill town in SW Ohio.

The Little Guy was in his element. He shared a bond with many of the men at the mill as former brothers in arms serving their country. Generally there was great respect shared in that work place with all races and cultures of people employed there. They shared a common bond as the working class that loved their country and the work. You would find them gathered on weekends at the ballfields and high school stadium. Daddy’s Boy was coached up in team sports by many of his co-workers. These were the same fields that decades later produced home run hitting Kyle Schwarber – a current MLB All Star along with former NFL stars Todd Bell and Chris Carter.

Despite his important role in mill operations and maintenance he never made much money. Most weeks he worked 50-70 hours for the overtime pay to help the family make ends meet. That left very little family time except on weekends. However, before he left in the mornings he would cook breakfast for Daddy’s Boy and his sister. He did not want them to go to school hungry. The Little Guy never knew that he would be working with and living a half dozen blocks from the grandfather and family of a future Vice President. He would have been very proud of JD.

Life happened and The Little Guy grew old. Unlike The Great One, he never knew the stability and love from a good marriage. With the passing of his beloved parents he turned even more to his two children and families, sister, and friends for companionship. He knew Daddy’s Boy would always have his back just like he always had his through the years. As his body began to be wrecked by cancer and his relationship with his wife worsened; he left to live with Daddy’s Boy and family. Despite his body shutting down, in his own words the next five months became some of the best of his life emotionally and spiritually. He had always adored his only grandchild and family times brought him great joy. Wifey (Daddy’s Girl) was like a daughter to him for all of those years and he would always remind Daddy’s Boy, “You have a keeper, son.” He even returned to his faith, began attending church for the first time in over 40 years, and for possibly the only period in his life led prayers over meals.

As his time grew short, he asked for one thing from Daddy’s Boy, to be taken back to SW Ohio to say goodbye to his old friends and make arrangements at the funeral home. The trip that normally would have brought great sorrow turned into a joyful event as he visited with his buddies as his daughter joined us. Since his youth Daddy’s Boy had known The Little Guy’s best friend who was a co-worker. He had been a positive Christian influence. Spending time together was so rewarding for all four of us.

Despite their miserable relationship; he had provided a home, vehicle, no debt, enough money in the bank and retirement income to sustain his wife, the mother of Daddy’s Boy, for the rest of her years. The same person who hated and ridiculed him in life and in death; who drove him out of their home while he was dying of cancer, is who he made sure had all she needed to live life well. He often said he did not want her to be a burden on Daddy’s Boy and his sister when he was gone.

After a few days in hospice The Little Guy passed away quietly at the age of 83. His 91 year old former pastor, the same one who had led Daddy’s Boy to the Lord as a youngster, led The Little Guy’s funeral and burial services. The Little Guy’s final journey could all be summed up as finishing well. There were no tears, only a sense of gratitude and love as the honor guardsman presented the flag – to Daddy’s Boy.

Shared Traits

Both of these great men became well acquainted and friends through the years. They talked of their upbringing that was less than 75 miles apart, but living completely different lives. Both were very reluctant to talk about their war experiences. Both worked hard all of their lives to provide for their families. They never made a lot of money, yet, were not burdens on anybody else while providing enough for their wives to live well the rest of their lives. Both men had deep bonds of friendship with other men who lived through tough times. Interestingly, both men were strong supporters of the GOP all of their lives. The uniparty members would have made them angry today. Both men always had the backs of their families and friends. Both men focused on others instead of themselves. Both men exited the world quietly and mentally sharp despite their physical ailments.

Both wifey and I loved each other’s fathers deeply. We also both understood the role of the eldest child in many families, both dads taught it to us. I never fully realized just how valuable that commitment was until both fathers had gone to be with the Lord. Our collective younger family members were looking to us at that point. We also saw it in the eyes of Angel Wife as she laid The Great Man to rest and we helped her through her long battle with dementia after he passed. We saw his life’s partner go to meet him in paradise with all of the family at her bedside. Some bonds just can never be broken no matter who or what rises against them.

Did I mention Angel Wife passed away 11/11/11? Yes, she passed away on Veteran’s Day fourteen years ago today. Did I mention that her Veteran husband, The Great Man, passed away on the second anniversary of 9/11? He told me the day before he died that he knew the military would take out “that SOB bin Laden” at some point. Then there was The Little Guy passing away on St. Patrick’s Day. It was also appropriate due to the recommitment to his faith.

God has His ways and all we can do is marvel at them.

The following song was the story of different people in a different place, but the spirit of the words explains how wifey and I feel as we look back through the old photos and mementos of The Great Man and The Little Guy. They too were just trying to survive in their poverty stricken situations that led to going to war to protect our nation. Every time we hear it, in our minds we can see and hear the voices of our fathers.

Lesson

Each day we walk by the book case that holds those two tightly folded American flags from the burial services that are encased in frames to preserve them for the generations that follow us. We have also preserved the history of these two great men in memory books that incllude old photos, military documents, related news stories, etc. These included aerial and local photos The Little Guy took of all of his crew’s assignments while in the Japanese theater. They are in black and white, of course. It is never lost on us the sacrifices they and all patriots have made to keep America free. But to Daddy’s Girl and Daddy’s Boy, they were our dads who did that and so much more.

Our collective history as Americans matters in world history. In reality, We the People doing as the Lord has desired of us are all that has held the world together for a lot of years now. The future generations who follow need to know and learn from our experiences just as we have learned from others before us.

Please take time to honor those who have served you and your country well this Veterans Day. With those who have passed, keep their memories alive in your minds and hearts. Each generation of patriotic Americans has worked to keep this dream of We the People alive and flourishing. Look those who would do us harm dead in the eyes and do whatever it takes to stop them, just like our patriot fathers and mothers have done throughout our history.

Go to work. Never back down, never give up. Fight, Fight, Fight!

God bless our Veterans and God bless the U. S. A.

Please remember Wolf’s rules for our community. In general that means to be respectful to each other and to pull no shenanigans that your mom might find offensive or otherwise cause jail time. That said, free speech is honored here.

Be blessed and go make something good happen!

Dear KMAG: 20251110 Trump Won Three Times ❀ Open Topic


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).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!


We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

Wheatie’s Rules:

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

And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:

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

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

If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:

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:

potomania

noun

  • abnormal desire to drink alcohol
  • intense and persistent desire to drink excessive amounts of alcoholic beverages
  • intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
  • sometimes used as a synonym for hyponatremia (state of low blood sodium)

Used in a sentence

The behavioral condition potomania can lead to the medical condition potomania.

Shown in a gratuitous and even unnecessary picture

Is she real or AI?

Discussed in an AI video

Discussed in a human video, for comparison


MUSIC!

Try to guess which logical leaps (allegedly “reasoning”) YouTube’s AI used to pick this video when I tried to find a music video that went along with the word of the week. The choice is illustrative.


THE STUFF

(1) Do you love wood? I mean, do you REALLY love wood? Do you cherish OLD WOOD?

If so, then check this out!


(2) Will Duffy of “The Final Experiment” has decided he wants to actually learn about evolution (he’s a Young Earth Creationist). Erika (“Gutsick Gibbon”) is going to teach him.

If you want to learn the basics about what evolutionists think, just follow this series of videos!

This series may (or may not) change your mind – and that’s OK.

Just sayin’!

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W



Dear MAGA: 20251109 Open Topic

This Rejoice & Praise God 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.

Please show respect and consideration for our fellow QTreepers. Before hitting the “post” button, please proofread your post and make sure your opinion addresses the issue only, and does not confront or denigrate the poster. Keep to the topic – avoid “you” and “your”. Here in The Q Tree, personal attacks, name-calling, ridicule, insults, baiting, and other conduct for which a penalty flag would be thrown are VERBOTEN.

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.

Please also consider the Guidelines for posting and discussion printed here: 
https://www.theqtree.com/2019/01/01/dear-maga-open-topic-20190101/


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.”


Let’s Eat!

Leviticus chapter 11 lists the dietary restrictions God gave to the nation of Israel. The dietary laws included prohibitions against eating pork, shrimp, shellfish and many types of seafood, most insects, scavenger birds, and various other animals. The dietary rules were never intended to apply to anyone other than the Israelites. The purpose of the food laws was to make the Israelites distinct from all other nations. After this purpose had ended, Jesus declared all foods clean (Mark 7:19). Later, God gave the apostle Peter a vision that implied formerly unclean animals could be eaten: “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean” (Acts 10:15). When Jesus died on the cross, He fulfilled the Old Testament law (Romans 10:4; Galatians 3:24-26; Ephesians 2:15). This includes the laws regarding clean and unclean foods.

Romans 14:1-23 teaches us that not everyone is mature enough in the faith to accept the fact that all foods are clean. As a result, if we are with someone who would be offended by our eating “unclean” food, we should give up our right to do so as to not offend the other person. We have the right to eat whatever we want, but we do not have the right to offend other people, even if they are wrong. For the Christian in this age, though, we have freedom to eat whatever we wish as long as it does not cause someone else to stumble in his/her faith.

In the New Covenant of grace, the Bible is far more concerned with how much we eat than what foods Christians eat. Physical appetites are an analogy of our ability to control ourselves. If we are unable to control our eating habits, we are probably also unable to control other habits such as those of the mind (lust, covetousness, unrighteous hatred/anger) and unable to keep our mouths from gossip or strife. As Christians, we are not to let our appetites control us; rather, we are to control them (Deuteronomy 21:20; Proverbs 23:2; 2 Peter 1:5-7; 2 Timothy 3:1-9; 2 Corinthians 10:5).

The subject of nutrition, as we think of it today, is not directly mentioned in the Bible—that is, the Bible doesn’t talk about calories and the balance of fat, protein, and carbohydrates a person needs. Neither does it mention GMOs or the benefits of eating whole foods versus processed foods, because the production of food had not yet been industrialized. Furthermore, there was no scientific understanding of the elements in food and what they do to and for the human body. However, from biblical principles we can deduce that it is beneficial and even morally right to emphasize a healthful diet.

First of all, the Bible encourages us to care for our bodies, and good nutrition is naturally part of that. God cares about man’s physical comfort and well-being (Exodus 22:27). Paul argues that, since a believer’s body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, he should flee sexual immorality, which harms the body that was bought by Christ’s blood (1 Corinthians 6:18–20). This argument can be carried over to other issues, including drug and alcohol abuse and how we treat food. Food is fuel. It is not meant to be used purely for pleasure, or we could eat nothing but chocolate and cheese pizza and be healthy. Food is meant for nutrition and good health.

Our bodies can be considered machines that carry us from place to place as we carry out the work God has planned for us (Ephesians 2:10). An unhealthy body will make us slow, lethargic, and prone to illness and injury. Good nutrition is crucial for proper brain function and hormonal balance; eating the right food contributes highly to our ability to think clearly and to our general quality of life. Therefore, good nutrition can help support our service for the Lord.

God gives food to us, as He does to the creatures of the animal kingdom (Psalm 147:9; 104:27; 136:25). The earth has been created to produce foods that are full of vitamins and minerals and amino acids that the body needs to survive and be healthy. Food is a gift from God; it is His provision.

The Believer’s Freedom

1 Corinthians 10:23-33

“I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but not everything is constructive. No one should seek their own good, but the good of others.

Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience, for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.”

If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat whatever is put before you without raising questions of conscience. But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, both for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience. I am referring to the other person’s conscience, not yours. For why is my freedom being judged by another’s conscience? If I take part in the meal with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of something I thank God for?

So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.

Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks or the church of God— even as I try to please everyone in every way. For I am not seeking my own good but the good of many, so that they may be saved.

2025-11-08, Simply Saturday.

Administrivia.

Wheatie’s Watching.  

3.  If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.  <<<  T H I S.

2.  No running with scissors. 

1.  No food fights.  (Launching dinner rolls encouraged.)

AI stuff posted, requires a link. Please use spoiler, for longer posts.

Wolf Speak.  No obnoxious behavior towards fellow QTreeper(s). Freedom of Speech is honored here QTree.  But Do Know, every poster, IS personally responsible for what they post. 

If nothing follows, KK below, Night Shift take it away.

KK

>>> Breaking…Preempting Previously Scheduled Saturday Post. <<<

Chiefio has a bone to pick with YT, AI…

https://chiefio.wordpress.com

A.I. News? A rising tide to avoid…

Building Rail to Bypass Sanctions & Venezuela buddies up with Russia

A little while ago, I’d posted that EwTube was becoming unusable for me as a “news” source, or even just for keeping tabs on what was the topic of the day. Here I’m going to present 2 examples of “the problem”. Sites where I “clicked” on the click bait like thumbnail, and DID get what I was interested in; BUT where the whole ambiance, content, and site looks to me like “A.I. For Effect”.

But who’s benefit? Who is driving the agenda?

A Little Obvious Pro China Agenda?

This first example is in some ways easiest to demonstrate. Named “4 Daily Mews”, I’ve run into it a couple of times. The latest was about the Polish block on Chinese rail to Europe crossing from Russia via Belarus. I’ve included that video below. When you look at the site on EwTube, you find that pretty much every video is about China and with a pro-China bias. Then notice that it puts out about a dozen videos a day. No single person, or even a small group of people, could do that without an A.I. “helper”.

So my strongest suspicion is that this is a Chinese Government Information Operation to promote “China Issues” to the American audience, and secondarily to the Anglosphere in general. So first check out this link to their videos and just look at all the Pro-China 12 a day thumbnails.

https://www.youtube.com/@ALLRIMS/videos

So that’s one of my basic checks on any channel. What is the thrust of it, or the bias if you will, and what is the volume.

Then looking at any one video, I look for “A.I. Artifacts”. This will get harder over time as the tech matures; but for now, there are a few simple to spot things. In this Train Video, for example, there is a lack of geographical awareness of details.

A border crossing with English signs and US type cars that looks a LOT like a US / Canada border crossing, when talking about Belarus / Poland borders?

The gauge of the tracks wobbles between “standard gauge” (the skinny 4′ and a bit) and Confederate / Russian gauge (5 foot). Then some trains are clearly European type, others not so much.

Some have catenary electric power (like near the end at 20:43) which is not used in continental cross country lines and only used in the USA for local trolleys and such). Not a lot of electric generation in the middle of rural Siberia…

Some have catenary electric power (like near the end at 20:43) which is not used in continental cross country lines and only used in the USA for local trolleys and such). Not a lot of electric generation in the middle of rural Siberia…

And then there is the repetitiveness. A.I. tends to repeat after a while. Usually about 1/2 way through the story. This one not as much as the next one; but still it starts to feel like “I’ve heard that already”. And you get a LOT of images somewhat disjoint from “the message”. A pan of what looks like a random European City skyline while talking about freight volume levels increasing? Random shots of rail yards, one at a port with cranes over a waterway (12:44) when talking about an overland route from China to Europe? All just “a little off” as context.

Then there’s the tendency to pronounce dates as numbers… 2008 isn’t “Twenty Twenty Eight” but “2 Thousand and Eight”… or 1969 becomes One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty Nine (as made up examples). Seen in most A.I. videos that have dates in them.

Also, eventually the ear becomes attuned to The Voices. There are a few that are used across many different A.I. videos from many makers. You start to think: “Who is that, I’ve heard him before”… Note that the next video has a different speaker, one with a sort-of Hispanic lilt… BTW, as a lip reader (due to deafness, profound at one point but now better) I especially notice when they show a “speaker” and the lips are not quite right for the speech…

Hispanic? Or not quite…

First off, this site has all of 3 videos up, and not much else. The “about” listing is sparse, saying it has been “up” since July 26, 2022, yet the only videos are from yesterday (2) and today (one hour ago). Highly suspicious. Like maybe something was banked or repurposed?

A search on “Nadikudi Nadine” only finds a railway station in India…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadikudi_railway_station

and the name in general doesn’t fit any pattern I recognize from several languages & cultures. Just seems a bit artificial somehow. It could be that his parents had a strange sense of humor (it happens), but… And then the channel handle “@TheGlobalShift-e1w” seems very artificial and is disconnected to the name “Nadikudi Nadine”. Most folks don’t do that…

https://www.youtube.com/@TheGlobalShift-e1w

Then the videos have the same “look”: Close up on one guy, same “clothes” and background. The hand gestures seem to repeat at odd times and be almost exactly the same in placement, duration, and seem artificial.

Again we have the Issue With Numbers, and occasional odd pauses and inflections. A not quite right “accent” to the ethnicity map of the voice. Lips not quite right for sync to the sounds.

Also, the use of a fake “chyron” in the thumbnail. Especially CNN or Fox. I’ve started to become sensitized to that as a fake indicator. Any chyron needs to match the channel name / owner.

FWIW, I tend to agree with the messages in both of these videos. I think they are much more in line with the reality of the world that I understand than is the crap in the TLA influenced MSM of The West. As propaganda goes, I’d rate their operation as better than ours in The West.

BUT…

I don’t want to be cannon fodder in the field of battle between two different Propaganda Batteries of fire. I want simple honesty and truthful reporting, NOT from an A.I. generated script made by an Agency Prompt.

That is becoming harder to find, wasting my time, and forcing me into this kind of analysis of ANY source I run into. I resent it. I’m getting tired of seeing a 1/2 hour of repetitive and barely relevant images randomly pasted over the top of a wandering PR Script, stuffed sometimes with EwTube commercials.

Which, BTW, has me wondering to what extent Google is using their own A.I. to generate some classes of channels to create their own “Click Bait” and gather in 100% of the ad revenue… Paranoia is sometimes your friend when it keeps you out of trouble, but sometimes dreams up threat scenarios that are not real… But, who knows in this case.

So that’s a little trip down my daily “Anything new today?” morning videos over coffee routine; that has turned into “how do I know this is real at all?” lately; and workload to vet some of it.


RANT ON.

FWIW. Likely Nothing. AI is really starting to irritate the hell out of Slow Guy.

RANT ENDS.

NOW. Returning to previously scheduled Saturday post.

Welcome to Saturday-Lite.  On the road most of the day.  Ideally no re-runs from Friday.

Fresh Stuff.  May be worth a read, listen, or scroll on by.  

  • In no particular order… 

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Another F U B A R  issue.

R-Cons ALLOWED this to happen.  Shitheads.  Unforgivable.

Not to mention, these activist judges ALL need to be impeached.  In parallel, if possible.  NOT one after the other. 

  • I don’t want to hear shit about the Senate won’t convict.
  • Same nonsense I heard over Maggot, Kakala, Garland, Wray, Idi Amin…

R-Cons Deliver Z E R O support to Trump

SNAP benefits: Trump admin tells states it will fully fund food stamps as appeal continues

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/snap-trump-appeals-food-stamps.html

(IIRC, this is being appealed.  Difficult for me to keep up. R-Cons really piss me off.)

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WATCH: @POTUSlists some major victories that could be achieved if Republicans terminate the filibuster:

— Voter ID

— No mail-in voting

— Ending no cash bail

— No welfare for illegals

“It doesn’t make any sense that a Republican would not want to do that.”

Orban always good to listen in on.

On the lighter side…  (Likely a snippet from above Orban WH video.) 

After @PressSecCOOKED the Fake News over their false claims about affordability, @PM_ViktorOrbanasked @POTUSif he could hire her. “Please don’t leave us Karoline.

(OK, that one is likely a re-run.  Worthy re-run.)

More positive news.

As we’ve said before, vessel strikes on narco-terrorists will continue until their the poisoning of the American people stops. Today, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization. The vessel was trafficking narcotics in the Caribbean and was struck in international waters. No U.S. forces were harmed in the strike, and three male narco-terrorists — who were aboard the vessel — were killed. To all narco-terrorists who threaten our homeland: if you want to stay alive, stop trafficking drugs. If you keep trafficking deadly drugs—we will kill you.

Positive news, albeit a baby step.  Globally, rare earths are looking good.

South Carolina: @SecScottBessenthold the first rare-earth magnet produced in the United States in 25 years. “We are on our way to solving the Chinese chokehold that they have… this is @POTUS‘ all-hands-on-deck for this national emergency.”

. @SECWAR “Today, I’d like to talk to you about an adversary that poses a threat to the United States of America. This adversary is one of the world’s last bastions of central planning. It governs by dictating five-year plans. From a single capital, it attempts to impose its demands across time zones, continents, oceans and beyond with brutal consistency… The adversary I’m talking about is much closer to home. It’s the Pentagon bureaucracy.”

No words…

BREAKING: DHS agent had to use his firearm under threats while detaining an illegal alien. A Latina tried to open the door and free the detainee but was forcibly thrown to the ground. FAFO illegal aliens! No sound because they did not want us to hear what they were saying.

Marco has a great sense of humor.

LMAO! Marco Rubio is the BEST Secretary of State! “Can you stop at the camera, please?” RUBIO: “I didn’t talk to you guys when I worked here, why would I talk to you NOW?” We love Marco

THIS.  IS.  WINNING.

NEW: The Trump State Department, led by Secretary Marco Rubio, has revoked the visas of 80,000 individuals since January.

Gillian Turner: “16,000 visas revoked for DUI. 12,000 revoked for assault, and 8,000 revoked for theft.”

“We also know about 8,000 student visas—for foreign students studying here in the United States— have been revoked.”

MORE!

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Good news. Arrests Will Be Great News!

BREAKING: Panic is ensuing after a grand jury subpoenas JOHN BRENNAN and dirty FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, following their conspiracy against President Trump They are in HUGE trouble! Up to 30 SUBPOENAS being issued in the coming days

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NYC is already a lost cause. 

I assume below is not AI, Frisco…  Sad, previous statement is necessary these days.

If you’re wondering how Mamdani got elected in New York, here’s the electorate.

Looking forward to this.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “We’re about to release dietary guidelines that are going to change the food culture in this country. They’re going to change the kinds of food the military gets. They’re going to change the kind of food our children get. We’re releasing those in December.” About time!

Hard to believe dudes in girls bathrooms is still an issue.

HOLY S…… HE SAID WHAT?

Select Tunes

Lynyrd Skynyrd – Freebird – 7/2/1977 – Oakland Coliseum Stadium (Official)

Foghat Foghat Slow Ride (music video)

Toby Keith – I love this bar

Night crew, your nickel.

KK

Health Friday 11.7.2025 Open Thread: What’s Going on at Pfizer-BioNTech?: Part One

The free image of vintage Pfizer vaccine vials for the header in today’s offering is courtesy of Dreamstime and Google Images.

Health Friday is a series devoted to Big Pharma, vaccines, general health, and associated topics. As today’s offering speaks to the COVID-19 “vaccines”, Yours Truly dedicates it to all persons, of whatever age or location, who have passed away from the negative effects of the COVID-19 “vaccines” that they had in their body. May they rest in eternal Peace.

There are Important Notifications from our host, Wolf Moon; the Rules of our late, good Wheatie; and, certain caveats from Yours Truly, of which readers should be aware. They are linked here. Note: Yours Truly has checked today’s offering for AI-generated content. To the best of her knowledge and belief, there is none, except perhaps for AI-generated images within linked URLS. If readers wish to post AI-generated content to the discussion thread for today’s offering, they must cite their source. Thank you.

This Part One trail begins here, with two news reports regarding the September 2025 agreement reached between the United States government and Pfizer (PfizerUSA, the United States co-partner of Pfizer-BioNTech; BioNTech, the other co-partner, is headquartered in Mainz, Germany.). First, from Virginia Business (https://virginiabusiness.com/pfizer-agrees-to-lower-drug-costs-70b-us-investment/), “Pfizer agrees to lower drug costs, $70B US investment”, 30 September 2025. A screenshot from this article is below:

And, second, the announcement from PfizerUSA (https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-reaches-landmark-agreement-us-government-lower-drug, “Pfizer Reaches Landmark Agreement with U.S. Government to Lower Drug Costs for American Patients”, 30 September 2025. A screenshot from this article is below:

Note that the specific details of this agreement, which will affect millions of Americans, “remain confidential.”

The company called Pfizer-BioNTech is a formal co-partnership between Pfizer, also known as PfizerUSA (CEO, Dr. Albert Bourla, DVM); and, BIoNTech of Mainz, Germany (CEO, Dr. Ugur Sahin, MD.) Both PfizerUSA and BioNTech were involved / still are involved, in the development and manufacture of the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine” line, COMIRNATY (this “vaccine” was previously known as BNT162b2, or “Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine.“) Both PfizerUSA and BioNTech have agreements regarding their sharing royalty payments for COMIRNATY “vaccines” purchased and used throughout the world. PfizerUSA and BioNTech are also involved in the development and manufacture of other drugs and vaccines, either separately or in coordination with each other.

The most recent (as of 5 August 2025) PfizerUSA (and Pfizer-BioNTech) product “pipeline” website is here: https://www.pfizer.com/science/drug-product-pipeline. Click on “Downloadable PDF” to view the entire pipeline. Screenshots of two pipeline areas, Internal Medicine and Vaccines, follow. The first screenshot, Internal Medicine, with discussion by Yours Truly, is below:

**** WHY is Paxlovid, a combo drug of nirmatrelvir (an antiviral) + ritonavir (an HIV/AIDS treatment drug that targets the immune system) going to be used on CHILDREN who become infected with COVID-19?

**** Ibuzatrelvir (PF-07817883), now in Phase 3 clinical trials, is an oral / enhanced “nirmatrelvir on steroids” treatment for COVID-19 infection that was granted “Fast Track” approval by the FDA The intended use of this drug appears to be as a “replacement” for Paxlovid.. Please see: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacsau.4c00508, 30 July 2024. Pfizer has already patented this drug. Let’s take a look at the Overview of this Phase 3 clinical trial, as described here: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06679140:

Does “Fast Track” approval by the FDA mean that the “Study Completion (Estimated)” of 6 May 2027 will be “bypassed”, and only the data from the “Primary Completion (Estimated)” of 12 December 2026 will be used to push this drug onto the market faster? In addition, WHY is the study subject pool so small (2330 persons) for a drug that would potentially be used on hundreds of thousands of persons?

And, from the Researcher View of this clinical trial, part of the Secondary Outcomes descriptions:

Note that the “viral load” measurement will be performed via EITHER a nasal sample, OR via a nasopharyngeal sample. If a nasopharyngeal sample swab is used, this is the extremely long swab that reaches all the way to the VERY BACK of the nasal cavity and can touch the COVERING OF THE BRAIN. By the way, the correct administration of the nasopharyngeal swab is also to ROTATE the swab a couple of times after insertion.

In addition, in the information about NCT06679140, the “placebo tablet” that will be used is NOT described at all. Is the “placebo tablet” going to be Paxlovid? Is the “placebo tablet” going to be a completely drug-free “empty” tablet?

And now, the second screenshot from the “pipeline” PDF, Vaccines, is below. Yours Truly will discuss an interesting new “vaccine” from this list, under development by PfizerUSA (in conjunction with BioNTech) — PF-07926307, a combination modRNA-based COVID-19 plus influenza “vaccine“:

The available-to-the-public information regarding PF-07926307 is both confusing and concerning. Pfizer-BioNTech insists that this “combo vaccine” is only for “prophylactic” use against COVID-19 plus influenza: https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-details/pfizer-and-biontech-provide-update-mrna-based-combination, “Pfizer and BioNTech Provide Update on mRNA-based Combination Vaccine Program Against Influenza and COVID-19 in Individuals 18-64 Years of Age”, 16 August 2024. Only ONE of of the two outcomes measurements of the Phase 3 clinical trial for this “vaccine” were met (NCT06178991.) A screenshot from the company’s press release is below:

Note that this press release emanates from Germany, not the United States;, and that the “combination candidate” is not identified as PF-07926307.

**** In addition, it appears that PF-07926307 is actually a combination of TWO separate Pfizer-BioNTech modRNA “vaccines” formulations: BNT162b2 and BNT 161: https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-details/biontech-outlines-2024-strategic-priorities-42nd-annual-jp, “BioNTech Outlines 2024 Strategic Priorities at the 42nd Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference”, 9 January 2024. Please see the screenshot from this article, below:

**** Note the clinical trial mentioned in the above screenshot: NCT05596734. The modRNA “combo vaccine” used in this clinical trial is none other than BNT162b2 (tozinameran, now marketed as COMIRNATY, but which was the ORIGINAL Pfizer-BioBNTech modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine” against the ORIGINAL Wuhan Hu1 SARS-CoV-2 [COVID-19] virus), plus BNT161 (famtozinameran, the ORIGINAL modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine” against the OMICRON variant BA.4/BA.5) Please see: https://covid-vaccine.canada.ca/comirnaty-original-omicron-ba4ba5/product-details, which also states, “Cancelled by sponsor May 3rd, 2024.”

**** However, at the same time, it appears that this Pfizer-BioNTech modRNA COVID-19 “combo vaccine” of BNT162b2 plus BNT161 — also known as PF-07926307 — IS being used — in Singapore: https://labeling.pfizer.com/ShowLabeling.aspx?id=20959, “Date of last revision: July 2024.” Please see the screenshot from the package information for this product administered in Singapore, below:

And, screenshots from Page 65 (of 65), from the package information for the above injectable:

BNT161, one of the component modRNA “vaccines” in PF-07926307, is an influenza “vaccine”, meaning that it can be used against EITHER influenza OR COVID-19 (Omicron BA.4/BA.5.) The German partner of PfizerUSA — BioNTech — has been working on this injectable since at least 2022: https://biontechse.gcs-web.com/news-releases/press-release-details/biontech-announces-third-quarter-2022-financial-results-and, “BioNTech Announces Third Quarter 2022 Financial Results and Corporate Update”, 7 November 2022. A screenshot from this article is below:

Note that the press release is from BioNTech Sweden.

A screenshot from the Adisinsight Drug Profile for BNT161 is below. Note that this modRNA “vaccine” is a quadrivalent influenza injectable (https://adisinsight.springer.com/drugs/800052769):

**** On the other hand, here is the article on PF-07926307 (BNT162b2 + BNT161) by the tech / AI / data collection and analysis platform, Patsnap: https://synapse.patsnap.com/article/what-is-pf-07926307-used-for?, 28 June 2024. A screenshot of the entire article is below; Yours Truly includes the entire article because it has a wealth of information and clues as to the possible real “agenda” behind this injectable:

**** Note that, per the article above, the “primary indication” for the use of PF-07926307 is for the treatment of cancers caused by overactive kinases responses, such as are found in lymphomas; with what may be called a “secondary indication” for treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases. Lymphomas or chronic inflammatory diseases induced by, say, modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine” injections, such as BNT162b2 (COMIRNATY?) Is it remotely possible that PF-07926307 (BNT162b2 + BNT161) is being redesigned as a “backdoor oncology and/or chronic inflammatory diseases treatment” injectable? How does this square with what Pfizer-BioNTech claims that this “vaccine” is to be used for — against COVID-19 + influenza infection? What is the truth here?

**** In any case, WHY is Pfizer-BioNTech apparently using BNT162b2, the company’s original modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine”, as a foundational component in the development of a “New Molecular Entity” called PF-07926307, which is to used as a “prophylactic” against COVID-19 plus influenza? What happened regarding all those other modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” made by this company, to be used against the LATEST MUTATIONS of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, such as the “2025-2026 version” of COMIRNATY? Why is Pfizer-BioNTech going all the way back to the ORIGINAL Wuhan Hu1 SARS-CoV-2 virus contained in BNT162b2 (COMIRNATY) to formulate PF-07926307?

What is going on at Pfizer-BioNTech? Does the United States government know about PF-07926307 (BNT162b2 + BNT161)? Did the “Specific terms of the agreement remain confidential” regarding the deal between the United States government and PfizerUSA reached in September 2025 include provisions that our government “looks the other way” about the activities of PfizerUSA’s co-partner, BioNTech? Does the HHS / FDA / CDC / BARDA have the complete details of the “Specific terms of the agreement remain confidential” provisions? Are the “specific details” being shared with only the “top brass” of the FDA / CDC / BARDA — and that HHS Sec. Kennedy, Jr., is being kept in the dark?

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All current COVID-19 “vaccines” — ALL of them — MUST be pulled off the market and from use. Now.

All research and development of “new” COVID-19 “vaccines” that are in ANY form — injectable; oral; nasal; micro-needle — MUST be stopped. Now.

There MUST be complete analysis of the ingredients and mechanisms of the current COVID-19 “vaccines”, performed by impartial testing entities, and with complete results made public. Now.

THERE. MUST. BE. ACCOUNTABILITY.

THERE. MUST. BE. JUSTICE.

THERE. MUST. BE. TRUTH.

Peace, Good Energy, Respect: PAVACA

(Intellectual Property Notice: With the exception of links to published media reports and links to published scientific papers, the ideas and conclusions of today’s post are by PAVACA. Proper credit must be given to PAVACA if other blog writers, or persons on podcasts, social media, or print media, use the ideas and/or conclusions of today’s post. Thank you.)

Dear MAGA: 20251106 ✾ Thank God ± Theistic Evolution ∈ Thursday Open Topic


This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!

Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.


Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!

Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.

The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.

And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.

And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.

OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.

  • No food fights.
  • No running with scissors.
  • If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.


If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!

W


Another selection for your post-election Thursday!


(1) One of the best SCIENCE STORIES I have ever heard. How a merchant marine cook’s crucial observation during a submarine attack in WWII, and persistence in making it known to the military, changed the course of the naval battle against German wolf-packs in the North Atlantic.

The only problem? It appears to be another AI FAKE STORY.

YES – AI is now creating very compelling FAKE HISTORY. The ultimate in FAKE VALOR.

I’m calling it THE BLUMENTHAL EFFECT.


(2) Let’s follow that up with some light entertainment! Also fictional. I kid you not!


(3) Watch some top-level chess, where the cunning “offense by evasion” of Magnus Carlsen edges out the patience of the defending champion until the champ makes enough mistakes.


(4) If you can stand to listen to a woman with pale purple hair, a shaky “inhaling laughter” voice, and a quasi-Brit American accent, but with an excellent knowledge of science fiction, then here is everything that is lovable but wrong with Star Trek’s warp drive in reality universe.


(5) AI companions. Get totally caught up with the subject in 35 minutes of fascinating and surprisingly non-exploitative video (this, despite the clickbait cover image “thumbnail” you see below, complete with trendy pale purple blonde hair and WGTTs).


OK – that’s enough. You have faithfully endured the trials of YouTube ClickBait. Your reward is NO MAS. And Thank You for your attention to this matter!

W