“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!
W
Enjoy the first set of Thursday trinkets for March!
(1) Fake Feynman AI does a nice job here of being our Silicon Steve – explaining why [probably] Venus rotates BACKWARDS relative to the other planets of the solar system.
Watch for the typographical errors by the writing AI, which get sucked up into face-palm narration by the vocalization AI. It’s just stupid and cringe. Nevertheless, the science is good.
(2) An interesting chess rematch narrated by DrMike – check it out.
(3) Transitional hominin species Homo habilis gets a new set of skeletal remains, confirming the earlier ones, and our favorite junior anthropologist (Erika, a.k.a. Gutsick Gibbon) summarizes both the background science and the new paper on the new find. The real science can be a bit boring, but that’s often definitive for real science.
(4) Reaction video to (IMO) one of the best live rock performances from back in the mid-70s – by that band called Rush.
Yes, it’s annoying that she keeps interrupting the good parts, so here it is without interruption.
And if you’d prefer a shorter version with video, we have that, too!
(5) OK, how about more Rush, but with a SuSE twist? You may have heard this parody before, but it’s worth a listen to appreciate how well it’s re-done here.
(6) This is ….. different. An AI, heavy metal version of “The Old Rugged Cross”.
(7) You know, I think I’ll stick to the calming versions of these hymns!
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
Our various sister sites, listed in the Blogroll in the sidebar
Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
mungo
noun
shoddy cloth made from shredding old or waste woven material
material of short fiber and inferior quality obtained by deviling woolen rags or the remnants of woolen goods, specifically those of felted, milled, or hard-spun woolen cloth, as distinguished from shoddy, or the deviled product of loose-textured woolen goods or worsted — a distinction often disregarded
low-quality wool
a slang term, sometimes derogatory, for a person who is rough, uncivilized, uneducated, unpleasant, perceived as inferior, etc.
one spelling of a Filipino dish made with mung beans (alternatively munggo)
additional proper names, including parks (2 kinds), people, and places
Used in a sentence
Retrosaria Mungo is a lovely worsted weight yarn made in Portugal. Mungo is made with 50% cotton which making it ideal for warmer weather knits. Mungo is entirely spun from pre-consumer waste generated by Portuguese spinning mills making it an amazing and sustainable yarn!
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Shown in a video
MUSIC!
Mungo Jerry!
THE STUFF
This is a gift for Gail. It is about a Scottish explorer of Africa, by the odd name of Dr. Mungo Park. It is a brilliant bit of insight into the early days of the British Empire.
Up to my neck in “AI slop” videos about Dr. Park, I found this human-created GEM by pure accident. But it has a very different take.
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 assortment of digital trinkets for your fascination and amazement!
(1) I know I’ve showed you this one before, but I always enjoy it. Love the intro, too. Replay!
(2) Language. Humans do it. Crows do it. Well, other primates do it, too. Another anthropology trinket.
(3) Assault machine guns are getting updated. Check out the latest improvements!
(4) Three very fast chess games, with a lot of analysis of every move. CHESS LEARING CENTER! And y’all are LEARING from the very best!
(5) MOAR Christian praise from my favorite digital hymnsmiths!
That’s all for now – as I am CLEARING the tags of LEARING. So to speak. LOL!
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
Our various sister sites, listed in the Blogroll in the sidebar
Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
kamagraphy
noun
making copies of original paintings using treated canvas
a specialized method of painting reproduction in which the original is destroyed, but large numbers of reproductions are created
an Indian dance troupe based on the Kama Sutra
Used in a sentence
The practice of kamagraphy is not the same as kamalagraphy, which I refuse to define.
Shown in a picture
Max Ernst (1891-1976)- Le Vaisseau Fantôme / The Ghost Ship, Kamagraph Canvas Plate / camouflage plate, 63 x 48 cm
Shown in a video
MUSIC!
Is Frampton’s-camelography close enough?
THE STUFF
This is a really great chess game, with an excellent explanation of all the blunders by both sides. THE GOAT – Magnus Carlsen – goes down a queen, but fights back to a win.
Sounds like a certain President, if you ask me!
Just sayin’!
And now it’s time for Wolf Moon’s Snow Moon Review of the new film MELANIA.
In order to get this out quickly, but fairly completely, I’m basically doing it as lists of bullet points. Yeah, that’s not very artistic, but I don’t want these points to drown in a bunch of evasive prose. I want people to know what I observed, what I think, and what to watch for.
I will start off with a list of non-spoilers. You can decide after THAT, if you want to read the spoilers. If you don’t want to read them, then you can just skip over the rest. I don’t have a spoiler tool for the text of this article, sadly.
Non-Spoilers
The Performance
At least in our area, the film is doing well.
This is the most packed movie I have been to, in a long time.
We had to settle for front row seats, because pretty much everything else was taken, several hours before the showing. Thankfully, we were not in a front corner. Reclining seats help.
Checking online for tickets may be a good idea.
There were no protests, hecklers, or interruptions.
There were classy laughs in appropriate places.
There were tears in appropriate places. Grab extra napkins if you don’t have tissues.
There were silent claps, raised hands, and thumbs up throughout the film.
There was significant applause which waited respectfully until the end.
My Opinions
I am glad I saw this movie in a theater.
I may get the DVD so that I can freeze-frame it to study details.
I know why Trump already saw it twice, and will likely watch it more times.
I believe this movie is historically important.
The movie will be cited by historians for many reasons, including things that it reveals.
The importance is not solely documentary – it is more than a documentary.
The movie is quite entertaining, but its significance exceeds its entertainment value.
Melania’s historical importance as a FLOTUS is evident and proven by the end of the movie, yet no effort is expended to make that point – it makes itself.
Anybody who is culturally or vocationally interested in fashion, beauty, entertainment, history, government, etc., needs to see this movie, even if they DESPISE Trump.
The movie is a tribute to every person who has ever worked in arts, beauty, entertainment, politics, culture, government service, the military, and many other featured vocations.
Cthulhu’s theory that Melania or Barron might be Q is not, IMO, proven by the film, but OTOH, this film absolutely destroys any assertions that Melania is not profoundly capable, very influential on Trump, and herself a focus of influence.
Trump’s great respect for Melania, and vice versa, is extremely evident.
Trump’s sense of humor, his love of “regular folks”, and his poise and savvy are on display.
Many things that happened during that period of time are explained by this movie.
I will be citing details from this movie, in a month or two, but I’d like to wait for people who want to see it, to have that opportunity first.
I recommend watching Melania – if not now, then once it appears on the small screen.
If you watch it in a theater, you will understand how Melania herself set the tone for the audience response.
OK – if you want to skip the spoilers, then take off now! Head down to the comments! Or watch the trailer, which contains a few of the spoiler items, without full context.
W
Spoilers
Yes, Melania not only WEARS “that dress” – it’s the star of the show! I have to admit that I like it, but maybe that’s just me. It really shows off her figure in a flattering way.
The stylized “R” on the front is actually pretty cool, IMO. RRRub it in, why don’t we?
Melania’s designer is a great guy, and it’s a lot of fun to watch her interact with him.
Trump is hilarious and interjects “wisely” but “wise guy” in some serious situations. He knows how to ease the tension, which is interesting.
Trump NEVER steals the show. His respect for his wife is incredible. It’s very clear that he’s proud of her, and of this movie.
IMO Melania was part of the reason they moved the Inauguration indoors. She was very concerned about security during the parade. This woman is extremely smart. Was God listening to her prayers when He sent the Inauguration plans into the deep freeze?
Speaking of prayers, the church scene in NYC is awesome.
Melania has a network of First Ladies around the world who she Face-Times with or meets in person. I want to study that part more closely.
The stats on foster kids going to college are abysmal. Yeah. WOW. She has a point.
Brigitte Macron sure looks like a woman – at least as much as Candace Owens does. Glass houses?
Trump values Melania’s input to the point of making one of the most important changes in his Inauguration speech, because she suggests it right there as he practices.
One of Trump’s executive orders is due to input from Melania. Very impressive, very appropriate. She’s a subject matter expert. Again, it’s tied to her network.
Melania seems unbothered by the fact that Trump doesn’t always listen to her advice.
Melania’s maturity is very evident, and just off the charts.
Melania’s favorite musicians include Michael Jackson – she knows the words to his songs!
The inside of Trump Force One is extremely cool and luxurious.
The sound track of the movie includes some big hits, which are used in a smart and cunning fashion.
Melania’s most admired First Ladies (given near the end) are an interesting selection – especially considering who is NOT there.
Melania’s parents are fascinating – especially her mother who is the “Rebecca” of the movie.
Melania’s mom taught her tailoring, and the tailors love her for her knowledge of their craft, plus for being a professional model.
Melania does some modeling on camera.
Melania’s staffers are scary smart women. She hires two more of them, whose interviews are part of the filming process.
Vivek shows up all over the place, without speaking. It’s clear that Trump, Melania, or both, like him.
Elon, Bezos, Tim Cook, many others. It’s fun.
A lot of interesting people show up at the Inauguration functions.
I had forgotten that Kamala showed up in a designer MAO JACKET. Yeah. Worth seeing again, just to realize who she is.
Melania does a dance or two. Watch for them!
Trump ALWAYS says thanks to people after a photo shoot. What a MENSCH. Talk about good atomic habits!
I’m sure the Secret Service approved every frame. Watch for artistic blurring and motion of the camera at certain points where they wanted things a bit fuzzy.
Melania’s pride in Barron is repeatedly evident.
Limiting the amount of footage from the “indoor parade” (a rally, basically) that my wife and I attended was artistically smart, even though I would have loved to have seen more. I am happy that enough was included to honor all of us who waited in the cold and dark to be there!
Joe Biden looks happy in the footage. He also looks like he should be in a nursing home, but he looks happy. Trump interacts with him quite well. Watch for it.
Final thoughts – the poise, sophistication, and intelligence of a proud immigrant who loves America and her husband – fully on display. Like I said, this is a great and significant film. I’m glad I saw it.
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
Our various sister sites, listed in the Blogroll in the sidebar
Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
quartan
noun
a fever recurring every third day
a fever occurring every fourth day, counting inclusively, or every 72 hours
of or pertaining to the fourth; occurring every fourth day, reckoning inclusively -“a quartan ague, or fever”
recurring every four days; especially in designating a form of malaria with such symptoms
Used in a sentence
A quartan is not to be confused with the French mathematician Élie-Joseph Cartan.
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Shown in a video
MUSIC!
Scott reminded me of this song, which I loved back in the day. This video is a great tribute to one of the best “back-up bands” and “warm up acts” of its day, with what was realistically their only true big hit. Nonetheless, I remember when this song caught fire back then – good times! It got played on many a juke box – for years.
Here is the OFFICIAL story on how the band got its name!
And in case you want to hear it again, here is a reaction video by “The Wolf HunterZ”. No connection to yours truly – I swear!
THE STUFF
OK – more of that “hoe_math” dude who scorches feminists with simple pseudo-scientific blatancy about what they blatantly do. Here he is, explaining a “hoe-down” in which a bunch of allegedly “conservative” female influencers attacked each other, some with great truth and precision, showing why so many of them are really (a commenter coined this term) “deservatives”! Or grifters, as Aubergine so sharply spotted.
I was expecting Elon Musk’s latest drama mama, Ashley St. Clair, to be one of them – surprisingly, no.
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
Our various sister sites, listed in the Blogroll in the sidebar
Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
headsail
noun
sail set forward of the foremast of a ship
Used in a sentence
Learn about the different types of headsails we make, such as jibs, genoas, yankee cut, and staysails.
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Shown in a video
MUSIC!
Not sure which is more eye-popping – Crosby’s weight or Nash’s mullet! In any case, this song always reminds me of sailing, despite the grim lyrics.
THE STUFF
If you’ve ever wondered why neutrons are themselves unstable, there’s another complication before we get there. We can’t even figure out what’s happening to them, because we measure different answers for how long they last, depending on the experiment, and nobody can figure out why.
So are neutrons “adjacent” to dark matter? Or are they just slipping out to party somewhere else?
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
Our various sister sites, listed in the Blogroll in the sidebar
Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
farouche
adjective
Wild
Unpolished
Unsociable or shy and socially awkward
Disorderly or intimidating in appearance or behavior
Outrageous or extreme
Used in a sentence limerick
There was a young pol named LaRouche Who some folks thought was quite farouche Others thought he was clever In his POTUS endeavor But I thought the guy was a douche.
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MUSIC!
When I was a kid, I had a young Ozark-bred hippie neighbor kid who loved these guys. My neighbor was a good guy. Probably took too many drugs, but he was OK.
Speaking of this song, I’m wishing Daughn well, wherever she is now!
THE STUFF
This is one of the best testimonies of belief in Christ that I have ever seen.
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
How about some music?
Ever heard of this “Rh” stuff – where Rh is not Rhodium?
Apparently this version is slightly different. Enjoy!
How about some Aussie rock?
Let’s finish with some breathless chess reporting!
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).
