“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!
Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.
Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!
Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.
The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.
And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.
And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.
OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.
If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!
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Another collection of TEMU TRINKETS. Don’t worship any of them – for all worldly things are IDOLS! But ordered here with increasing Godliness, enjoy these seven!
(1) Speaking of idols, this demonstration is straight outta CHURCH LADY 101. This song is oozing with downfall. Great beat and guitar, though! I loved this song back in the day. Get your “wise as serpents” on as you read the lyrics.
(2) Let’s move on to a quick and nostalgic review of SuSE musical parodies. A mixed bag of originals, spiritually, dissected by examination as cover versions with techie lyrics.
(3) Gonna go all “Steve” on y’all with an astronomy video. Turns out that neutron stars have a lot of interesting structure that’s requiring a lot of work to understand.
The AI narration is somewhat annoying, becoming more repetitive after the half-way point, but it’s still very educational, whether you stick it out or not.
(4) Let us transition [COUGH] away slowly from the idolatrous and the divinely created but nonetheless fully material toward [but not yet to] the divine, with this rendering of a still somewhat worldly song [watch the end of the video and check out this link].
(5) A nice, brief (2 minute) discussion of one of my favorite hymns. No music, just theology.
(6) And now the music – with the vocal part only as written lyrics – to aid in studying them. Consider these words in light of what is currently being launched against Trump and MAGA. Trump, who has done so much to return this nation to its Godly roots. Fortify thyself against the demons who attack!
(7) Now enjoy the music with vocals – a version I had not heard before. I found it worth going to YouTube to read the channel’s take on the song and its history.
You will recall my prior message, which Deplorable Patriot has faithfully echoed for your benefit, during this time that I have maintained a certain radio silence.
Wolf Moon July 6, 2021 17:07 Thanking everybody for your patience. Whether happenstance, coincidence, or enemy action, I’m dealing with some technical issues. In addition to those, and the obvious spiritual attacks, I am dealing with the obvious site stuff in what are best maintained as unobvious ways.
I suspect we struck a nerve.
A combined technical / spiritual / strategic response by all of us will prevent this attack from succeeding. Hold the line – bite the bullet – gird the loins – bite the lip – pray for guidance, discernment, and strength – whatever YOU believe keeps the ship aright for the moment. Everything else is lower priority.
Deplorable Patriot suggests the following. I am not about to argue.
In that spirit, the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel from Tuesday’s threads, and the Breastplate of St. Patrick, not to mention the Litany of Humility are favorites recommended by exorcists in spiritual warfare.
I am now going to explain a bit more about what is going on. That will be the THIRD message. But I will post the above immediately and UPDATE during the next few hours, so that those who are locked out will understand and follow the procedure starting with COMMENTING ON THE U TREE.
The Third Message:
Now, I’m going to explain SOME of what is going on.
I start off by explaining the somewhat unusual security requirements of this site.
Our PURPOSE – stated fairly clearly from the beginning – is to provide a way for the GRASSROOTS – YOU – to post your thinking – CLEARLY – thanks to FREE SPEECH – where it can be seen by all. We don’t REALLY have secrets here – other than what is needed to preserve our freedom of speech. Thus, I don’t spend a lot of time doing that crap.
Obviously, we become a THORN in people’s sides, but I hope that this THORN is attached to one immortal CROWN, from which we HUMBLY DEFEND TRUTH.
See? It’s all a matter of perspective.
Anyway, during the recent friction (I’ll be kind) between various posters, I was made aware of certain (I’ll be kind again) “mischaracterizations” of posts and comments on this site.
In the course of this – and I do thank all who opined both openly and privately – it became clear that these mischaracterizations are not only an unacceptable danger to this site and our free speech – but they are related – in ways which may be innocent, but are not necessarily so – to other extremely consequential mischaracterizations.
NOW – here is where it gets REALLY interesting.
At that time I was paying attention to a growing security problem in the WordPress world, which has affected many sites – the “spam registration problem”.
We love our LURKERS – including those good and honest people who make sure our GRASSROOTS VIEWS are promptly and accurately reported to other good and honest people. Some of these lurkers are likely even a bit automated – frankly, we don’t really care. We’re the news now, so to speak, and people automate that stuff. It’s a fact.
Now there may be BAD LURKERS, too, but that just comes with the territory. Right? Shouldn’t be that much of a problem. If they don’t actually interfere with us, why should I care?
Whether people are carbon-based or silicon-based lurkers, we don’t really mind them registering on the site, either, so that they can be “subscribers”. That’s fine with me.
The problem for me was mostly that the volume of lurkers got bigger and bigger and bigger. That was bad, but livable.
However, more recently, things got STRANGE.
I started seeing a real uptick in RUSSIAN subscribers. Yeah, those annoying Russians. Just like DOJ, it’s pretty hard to say WHOSE SIDE they’re really on. Right? It’s like Star Trek or Babylon 5. Klingons, Romulans, Cardassians and Bejorans – or however you spell these names. They’re all just TROUBLE.
The thing is, the NUMBERS – sheesh – they were OUT OF CONTROL. I mean, it was bad. Actually, it was worse. It was EMBARRASSING. An EMBARRASSINGLY large number of weird Russian accounts following us.
But then I got to thinking about TIMING. Why right now?
And how do I KNOW if they’re really Russians? They could be anybody. False attribution is what everybody does. And even “real” attribution can have false intent.
BUT – one thing was clear. It LOOKED LIKE Russians.
So whoever was doing it, Russian or not, WANTED it to look like a whole bunch of Russians were following this site.
You startin’ to see what I’m sayin’?
And this is all on July 4th. I was seriously getting the impression that DODGE and FIB had been hoping for more “actionable riling up of us Deplorables” on July 4, and they weren’t getting it. Where “action” could be anything – provocation, intimidation, influence, control, STFU – whatever.
Now there was some other information I got that was really quite useful here, which nature I don’t want to get into, but I was starting to see some connections – NO MATTER WHAT. Whether it was a PLOT, or people just tipping HANDS, or just people displaying signs of INFLUENCE – something stunk about ALL this stuff happening at the same time.
SO – on the TECHNICAL FRONT – I decided to deploy one of the many wonderful solutions which are now available for this problem of phony and bot registrations.
On the SPIRITUAL FRONT – I decided to ASK FOR HELP – from all of YOU – and you all really came through. I want to particularly thank Sadie, who saw that the spiritual attack was such a large component of this.
And on the SITE POLICY FRONT – I decided that misrepresentations of posts or comments are not tolerable, and must be dealt with by a policy OTHER than “letting things just work out” – my primary weapon. We simply can’t put up with it.
Beyond this, I went through a little exercise of “gathering bona fides” – which was enough for me to feel comfortable with where things are now. I will NOT let this site or the people here be BETRAYED. This is not to say that I don’t have a certain amount of sympathy for MAGA Mom. I do.
Like I always tell people, my mother lived through Hitler. These times are very similar. We all have to make difficult decisions, that may put us on opposite sides.
ANYWAY, I figured that the combination of ENDING THIS CRAP and DISCLOSURE (which is what I’m doing now) would fix things – at least temporarily – for our little site.
Now here is where it gets even more interesting. And one might say that this is useful information from the “grassroots” for our special HONEST lurkers.
I knew there was something wrong with the “NSA” spying on Tucker Carlson. NSA spying is traditionally SO deep and so quiet that nobody ever knows anything about it. That’s the way they operate. Big, deep, huge, silent, and NEVER give even a HINT of the magnitude, or the IDEA that it might be abused. …
That little CHINA-LOVIN’ BOLSHEVIK, Andrew Weissmann? Tryin’ to stick Tucker Carlson with more “Russia, Russia, Russia” insinuations? At the DOJ/FBI abuse of NSA data level? While pretending to be patriotic?
Hmmmmm. Wonder what Mark Steyn might have to say about that.
Why, this whole thing about “Russia” reminded me of something.
Such bullshit. Framing, set-up, evil bullshit.
So I was thinking “Yeah, gotta get this shit taken care of.” We needed to deal with this crap a.s.a.p.
They could be FRAMING us. Right? They being – you know – the DNC-DOJ-FBI-CCP-HRC-CIA-“USSR” complex.
So while I was dealing with the technical solution, I discovered something really interesting. I discovered that we had actually TRIGGERED some of these horrible “contractors” that the DNC farms out to carry out their treachery. Not only did we trigger them – we triggered them into digging deeply into the bowels of the site.
Somebody put Mountain Dew in the Wolf’s water bowl, and suddenly he thinks he’s wild and free. Indeed, while being WALKED BY HIS DOGHANDED OFF TO HIS WIFELEASHED TO HIS {{{“SMART”PHONE}}}X///RUNNING WITH SCISSORS IN HIS MIND///X But not yet having waved to the patriots who overfly his house routinely to see the giant TRUMP SIGN …
I will admit that I loaded this thing up with bait – not the least of which was an asteroid explosion as the featured image. You know – those “violent” QAnons. I then sweetened with “Mike Flynn is gonna whip yo ass”, which is guaranteed to set DOJ-FBI “contractor” hair on fire.
A critical part of this bait was our discovery that one of the “QAnon experts” used by this legion of fancy-shoe coastal elite globalist scum had revealed prior knowledge of the Buffalo Jump.
Add that all up together, and YEAH – better get that security stuff in pronto.
Now here is where it gets even MORE interesting.
When I slapped in this solution, suddenly a gazillion attacks ran into a brick wall. The origins of the attacks were VERY enlightening. And the people who were getting into the deepest “stuff” were coming out of some VERY interesting places.
Wow! Looks like the CCP may have been using the Italian defense contractor Leonardo SpA to steal US aerospace technology for years!
And, would you look at that – Leonardo SpA also happens to be in business with the same UBS Securities that infused $400 million into Staple Street Capital (owner of Dominion Voting Systems) just three weeks before the 2020 presidential election!
Makes you wonder – why is there an Italian affidavit alleging that Leonardo SpA’s Head of IT Arturo D’Elia admitted to taking part in a cyber hack of the 2020 election
Yeah. Hilariously, at the very moment I dropped the hammer on all the bullshit, we received and stopped five strikes into the Sacred Room of the Holy Grail, with one attack being from some nameless host in the middle of Chinese Flyover, and another one being out of Leonardo SpA in the middle of Italy.
Funny, that.
So, you see, all of this stuff is tying together, and it is VERY big-league.
I will just finish with this thought.
Fake Elections are a HUGE deal.
At this point, I think the people who have “depended on them”, to put it nicely, will do almost anything to protect the scammy black box from inspection.
The trouble is, for me, Fake Elections are a no-go. They’re completely unacceptable.
