Tag: insects

Dear MAGA: 20260312 ✾ 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

Thursday trinkets are here! Take your pick! This one is “buggy”!

(1) Ladybugs. All kinds – both the old American ones, and the imported Chinese invasive ones that try to bite to hold on but just pinch. And the LARVAE. Ewwww – larvae. AI has opinions about them. Sorry that this one has to be watched on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/dLyRBFneBjk

(2) Spiders. They survive the winter. How?

(3) Mantises vs. Spiders. Be surprised! And yes, this one also has to be watched on YouTube, too.

https://youtu.be/hHAa85Ker7A

(4) Ants are sometimes way more venomous than you thought. No AI here – check it out!

(5) Kissing bugs. You don’t want to kiss them!

More information in the following links.

Don’t mix them up with harmless lookalikes!

Look Closely: Kissing Bug Look-Alikes

Here are even more look-alikes.

11 Bugs That Look Like Kissing Bugs (But Aren’t): Identifying

If you want to keep kissing bugs out of your house, keep the mice out of your house!

https://bygl.osu.edu/node/2561

The Eastern bug is everywhere. But don’t think that the states to the west are safe. They all have the Western version!!!

https://www.insectidentification.org/insect-description.php?identification=Eastern-Blood-Sucking-Conenose-Bug

And, happily, Wikipedia has some awesome information.

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

Let’s finish off with the most common and closest look-alike, IMO – the Western Conifer Seed Bug (WCSB). This is America’s version of the Chinese ladybug, an invasive American species hitching a ride to the rest of the world! BUT IT’S CUTE! And it only stinks [LIKE BANANAS!] or pokes you if you manhandle it!

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

Their primary defense is to emit an unpleasant-smelling alarm pheromone;[2] however, if handled roughly they will stab with their proboscis, though they are hardly able to cause injury to humans as it is adapted only to suck plant sap and not, as in the assassin bugs, to inject venom.

PS – a great (and FREE) scientific article about controlling the invasive WCSB.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jen.12974

OK, that’s all for now. Have a great weekend! Don’t let the bedbugs bite!

W

Dear MAGA: 20250814 ✾ 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 random interesting things.

(1) Among what are clearly synthetic bands (such as J-pop, K-pop, and USA-pop), this “Siberian Psy-Op” is perhaps even more enigmatic than “Babymetal”!

At least these Siberian chicks aren’t AI – right?

(2) Anastasia, the [probably AI] Chip Chick, talks about Japan’s big integrated circuit plans with IBM.

(3) Flat Earth Disproven (Once Again) By Internet Nerds You May Know!

You may have already seen this, but in case you didn’t, check it out.

(4) BIG BUGS!

Not too gross, some beautiful. Check them out! (Yeah, the cover is total phony gross-out clickbait – don’t worry!)

(5) Fox Outnumbered talks about Sydney Sweeney!

What do you think of Kennedy’s glasses? NOT A FAN, HERE!!!

Have a great weekend!

W

Dear KMAG: 20250224 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:

yoni

noun

  • symbol representing female genitals
  • a stylized representation of a vulva worshiped as a symbol of a goddess, in particular the Hindu goddess Shakti.
  • the symbol under which Shakti, or the personification of the female power in nature, is worshiped
  • The female sexual organs, or a symbol of them, especially as an object of veneration within certain types of Hinduism, Buddhism, and other cultures
  • concept applicable to female vaginal treatments, exercises, massages, and other focuses

As I have said, I don’t back down on ANY word that comes next in my list of “needful words” that don’t get enough usage. HOWEVER…..

Used in a sentence

I’m not going to show all the things I’ve read regarding yoni. I encourage interested readers to explore on their own. And as for pictures…..

Used in a picture

No. Just no. And the good pictures include symbolic representation of the male counterpart, too. Yikes. Interesting, but…..

MUSIC!

LOL! OK – I am simply not going to promote “yoni” music – this is classified as “women’s health” in my world, and even the less “anatomically technical” music videos are likely to be a bit too pagan and new-age for this site.

On the other hand, being only a bit new-age and globalist (“world music”), Greek instrumental and electronic artist Yanni is somebody my father enjoyed during his sunset years, and Yanni’s music brings back good memories of my mother and father enjoying their retirement, so here you go. Twenty of Yanni’s greatest hits.

https://youtu.be/MKaDLtMkn5I

THE STUFF

Flying insects the size of a hawk or an eagle?

OK – this video is actually some interesting science wrapped in click-bait advertising and bad AI narration. The critters aren’t all THAT bad – although they seem pretty nasty by today’s standards.

Bottom line – kinda happy all these bugs got smaller.

Just sayin’!

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W

PS – Hint about Tuesday’s post – it’s spherical!