Tag: The Q Tree

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 KMAG: 20260309 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:

ylem

noun

  • in alchemy, substance from which the elements developed
  • form of matter hypothesized by proponents of the Big Bang theory to have existed before the formation of the chemical elements
  • in the Big Bang theory, the hot and dense plasma of which the cosmos consisted at the time of recombination in an early stage of its expansion and cooling, when the first atoms formed and photons decoupled, the source of the cosmic background radiation
  • (cosmology) the original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements

Used in a sentence or two

Ylem is a term that originates from the ancient Greek word “hulē,” which translates to “matter” or “stuff.” In the context of cosmology, ylem refers to the primordial substance or state of matter that existed before the formation of the atomic elements we recognize today.

Shown artistically in a picture

https://ellachennn.artstation.com/projects/eJrkDP

Shown in a video (kinda, sorta, nah, but YOU WILL SEE)

MUSIC!

Electronica, lured to the surface by the word “ylem”!

THE STUFF

So what WAS the “ylem” of cosmology? THAT depends on the TIME you’re asking about! Here is all of it in under 20 minutes.

Dark matter. Apparently, if it exists, useful stuff.

Just sayin’!

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W

Dear MAGA: 20260305 ✾ 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

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!

OK, that does it. Enjoy your weekend!

W

Dear KMAG: 20260302 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:

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!

Shown in a picture

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.

Reality. Useful stuff.

Just sayin’!

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W

Dear MAGA: 20260225 ✾ Thank God ± Theistic Evolution ∈ Wednesday Open Topic

NOTE: Gail Combs is having very terrible back pains tonight, and WordPiss is acting up, so we have switched Wednesday and Thursday nights. Please pray for Gail’s recovery and healing!

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

Here we go again! More Thursday THRILLS!

(1) Before Amelia The Goth, there was Amelia Earhart. So what happened to her? Here’s one theory with a lot of evidence, but still…..

(2) America has an ace in the “critical minerals” game. What is it? WATCH.

(3) Fire ants. NASTY. Using flies to kill them? Also NASTY, bit seemingly necessary. DETAILS.

https://youtu.be/tOm8OHlFxs4

(4) Sometimes the moon looks bigger due to an optical illusion. But how does the illusion work? THAT is more complicated than you may think!

(5) This was just some crap that YouTube threw at me, but it’s actually a lot of fun. Thank goodness I’m way past this dating stuff!

(6) What the heck – how about one more? An article about Elon Musk’s baby mamas and kids.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-neuralink-exec-twins-via-ivf-no-romance-report-2022-8/

Have a great weekend, and see you in March!

W

Dear KMAG: 20260223 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:

roseate

adjective that looks like a verb

  • resembling a rose
  • rose-colored
  • rosy
  • full of roses
  • cheerful or bright
  • overly optimistic

Pronunciation

/rō′zē-ĭt, -āt″/

Used in a poem

The Roseation

Through glasses that are roseate
Which firmly on this nosy sit
I read the daily news a bit
And hope the good part’s true

My mood may thus turn roseate
Since good news often does elate
My soul, in turn, to elevate
Dispelling all that’s blue

I wish the verb “to roseate”
Were not just mine to contemplate
For if it weren’t, I’d promulgate
Such usage far and wide

Defined as making roseate
Though any other name would fit
I’d roseate with whim and wit
‘Til no more roses died

I’d roseate from dusk ’til dawn
I’d gladden thrice the Soros spawn
Until his evil tricks were gone
And then I’d rosen more

These glasses filled with hopium
Would roseate the Newest Scum
And shine like Aluminium
The prince we knew as Gore

Be still, brave heart, in Rosie thrall
Her marbles gone, she took them all
To island green, though red in fall
And thus, we celebrate

Imperfect, yes, these glasses blessed
But hope remains in this old chest
That futures all, we have not guessed
And thus, we roseate

Shown in a picture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_rose_(crystal)

Shown in a video

MUSIC!

Like DUUUUDE! To Roseate ≠ To Rosieate

THE STUFF

Learn about roseated gold here!

Rosium! Useful stuff. Particularly when women are involved.

Just sayin’!

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W

Dear MAGA: 20260219 ✾ 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 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!

Have a great weekend!

W

AND as always…..

Dear KMAG: 20260216 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:

yeomanette

noun

  • old term for a female yeoman in the American naval reserve
  • a yeowoman
  • popular name for Yeoman (F), an enlisted rate for women in the U.S. Naval Reserve during World War I

Used in a sentence

A yeomanette is not necessarily what Michelle Obama would be, if she were the girlfriend of Kanye West, but it could be.

Shown in a picture

Shown in a video

MUSIC!

Yeoman + operetta is close enough for this post!

See: https://www.eno.org/operas/the-yeomen-of-the-guard/

THE STUFF

Speaking of Star Trek, maybe some “first steps” might be useful. So how does Chernobyl fungus help future colonists on Mars?

Mold. Useful stuff?

Just sayin’!

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W

Dear MAGA: 20260212 ✾ 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

Howdy, boys and girls! It’s trinket time!

(1) Another fun math problem with a neat solution that makes sense once you see the answer.

(2-5) And now, a CHESS CHEATING SCANDAL SPECIAL! This one requires no knowledge of chess – just tabloid interest in a cheating scandal.

(2) The beginning in the middle…..

(3) More explanation…..

(4) Things get…… LEGAL?

(5) THE CHAMPIRE STRIKES BACK!

SO – what do I think? I’m still suspicious of the board game that started it all. I think Carlsen’s suspicions that it was being cheated, somehow, were potentially valid.

Notice that in the final battle, the game is not on the board – it’s being observed online. IMO, the CROWD observation prevented any and all cheating. I suspect that’s why Carlsen agreed to it.

(6) Iguana hunting in Florida. Followed by iguana tacos. “Tastes like chicken.” Yes, they’re invasive and quite destructive. No bag limits. Public and private venues, crawling with them. Airguns with .22 pellets are the way to get them. “Chicken of the tree.”

More information:

https://www.fieldandstream.com/stories/hunting/florida-iguana-hunting-guide

That’s enough varmint clean-up.

Have a great weekend!

W

Dear KMAG: 20260209 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:

xyston

noun

  • short pike used by Greek heavy cavalry
  • long thrusting lance, used in ancient Greece
  • long thrusting spear in ancient Greece, measuring about 3.5 to 4.25 m long, probably held by the cavalryman with both hands, consisting of a wooden shaft and a spear-point at both ends

Used in a sentence

The shaft of the xyston was usually made from sturdy wood, such as cornel or ash, which provided the necessary strength and flexibility.

Shown in a picture

Shown in a video

Historical importance

https://historygreek.org/warfare/xyston

MUSIC!

Cornell – bringing the wood and the ax!

THE STUFF

Cornel, also known as the Cornelian cherry, has a wood that is used for spears. That wood is heavier than water and does not float. The tree is actually a dogwood with an edible faux cherry fruit. This video shows both the tree and preserving the fruit.

Cornel. Not to be confused with Cornell.

Just sayin’!

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

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