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Word of The Week:
adze
noun or verb
A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood.
An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
A digging tool used like both an ax and a hoe.
To use an adze in the above manners.
Longer description
An adze or adz is an ancient and versatile cutting tool similar to an axe but with the cutting edge perpendicular to the handle rather than parallel. Adzes have been used since the Stone Age. They are used for smoothing or carving wood in hand woodworking, and as a hoe for agriculture and horticulture.
Used in a sentence
When a HOE, rake, pick or ax isn’t quite right for a job, consider the trusty adze.
Used in another tool (a mattock with the adze side down)
Music
It’s good to have some music back!
Let’s start off with some classic modern country from Mr. Nicole Kidman…..
From there, just add more Hollywood Country – yes, very country establishment, but still quite listenable.
Let’s try some ancient Fleetwood Mac!
Can’t have a Monday Wolf post without at least one “fiddle chick” – here’s a new one!
Here’s a nice relaxing song – haven’t heard from these gals in a while.
OK, lets finish with BACKWARDS BLUEGRASS. Extra RARE!
And now THE STUFF!
And yes…..
So – Titan instead of Mars? Call me skeptical.
How about some weird American accents?
Want to understand that whole DNA in the vaccines thing?
Einstein slept nearly 10 hours a day. He valued the significance of quality sleep for maintaining his well-being. His sleep routine, though, was out of the ordinary. He regularly indulged in brief daytime naps, occasionally more than once a day. These quick naps, lasting just a… pic.twitter.com/ALt4h5Yk5Y
Einstein slept nearly 10 hours a day. He valued the significance of quality sleep for maintaining his well-being. His sleep routine, though, was out of the ordinary.
He regularly indulged in brief daytime naps, occasionally more than once a day. These quick naps, lasting just a few minutes, were thought by Einstein to revitalize his mental energy and creative thinking.
He felt that these short periods of rest gave him a renewed viewpoint to solve intricate scientific challenges.
Most people don’t spend a lot of time thinking about poetry, right? They have a life to live and they’re not really that concerned with Allen Ginsberg’s poems or anybody’s poems until their father dies. They go to a funeral, you lose a child, somebody breaks your heart. They don’t love you anymore. And all of a sudden you’re desperate for making sense out of this life. And has anybody ever felt this bad before? How did they come out of this cloud? Or the inverse; something great. You meet somebody and your heart explodes. You love them so much you can’t even see straight. You know, you’re dizzy. Did anybody feel like this? What is happening to me? And that’s when art’s not a luxury. It’s actually sustenance. We need it.
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Word of The Week:
sissy porn
noun
a kind of pornography allegedly capable of creating MTF (male to female) trannies from beta males
allegedly why the Wachowski brothers behind the Matrix trilogy became tranny sisters
The Full Story
Please skip parts of this section, or the entirety, if you don’t have the stomach for graphic descriptions of sex and pornography, or even allusions to the same. I will attempt to warn people about the most important part to skip.
Background: I have never seen a good explanation of why the Wachowski brothers, who created the Matrix trilogy, became tranny sisters – first one and then the other. Sure – we can say “demonic possession” – but how did that happen in practice?
PORNOGRAPHY – to me, that seems like a very probable answer.
IMO pornography is a gateway of demonic possession. Ted Bundy, before he died, admitted that violent pornography was how he got warped into ultimately becoming a serial killer.
Here is the tweet that started me toward discovering another dangerous type of pornography.
Just as an aside, this Dr. Jebra Faushay is a parody account that never gets banned for showing wacky LGBTQ+ stuff, because the author plays it very “straight”, no pun intended.
As I was looking through the replies to that tweet, this reply – and a reply to that one – jumped out at me.
Sissy hypno is a sub-genre of porn where images of attractive women are utilized to turn on the target audience (mainly beta submissive males) and then quickly after this a frame or two is shown of an erect, ejaculating penis with words on screen encouraging female sexual acts. These phrases serve to temporarily alter the viewer’s sexual tastes and to make them think that they are actually female in a male body. This practice is known as rewiring. However, it is fully reversible once the viewer ceases self-gratification and watching this form of pornography.
Sissy hypno is very powerful in that for some, it can actually alter their perception of women. Therefore, instead of becoming sexually aroused by the sight of attractive women having sex, and wanting to have sex with them, the subject will identify with the women and feel they are them.
You can dig deeper into this, although I advise against it. There is a lot of “intersection” between the BDSM world, where some men desire to be “feminized” by dominatrix women, and the FTM trans women thing.
If you read more in the above X thread, you will find more information about where the Wachowskis have admitted the pornographic roots of their transition.
In any case, it’s now clear to me why the left is fighting to get sexually explicit “grooming books” into school libraries. PORN helps to create TRANS. It can do it for adults – it can do it for kids.
This is one more danger of pornography, that young men need to be warned about. Even CHILDREN need to be warned about the “porn in schools” which is being used to undermine them.
Sometimes one just wishes that we could TURN BACK THE CLOCK.
Music
OK – we’re hopping into the WAYBACK MACHINE for today’s music!
First – we go back in time to a combination of the 70s and the 60s.
Now – time to get more OBSCURE, going back in time from Animal House, and forward in time from Otis Day and The Knights – to the psychedelic era.
(Apologies to Steve – this song always reminds me of the Californication of Colorado and the rest of the West.)
Next, we go BACK to another “mixed up time” – the Taylor Swift “1989 World Tour” – in 2015.
But now it’s time to venture into Time itself…..
This time, with movie scenes….
And then beyond time!
And now THE STUFF!
And yes…..
Let’s start with the basics.
Understanding that attempting to change the sex boundary of our species is a violation, is not as complicated as people are currently making it.@11thBlog
His conclusion – remove the damn vaccines. Well, the governments of the world may not be listening, but the people of the world ARE listening.
Yeah, this next item sure sounds like more WEF anti-carbon anti-porn, but still…..
There’s a cave in Costa Rica, where small creatures that seek its refuge, do not come back out. The cave itself is an emitter of nearly pure carbon dioxide which falls to the floor.
Watch the carbon dioxide rapidly extinguish this fire
Oh, wait! Not another hate crime hoax! Not more Pallywood!
Last month, Muslim group CAIR and various influencers made a story go viral about a Muslim man in Ohio who said he was seriously injured by a car driven by a person who screamed "Kill all Palestinians" and "Long live Israel." Northridge Police investigated & determined it was a… pic.twitter.com/HJGdntw1Yl
Last month, Muslim group CAIR and various influencers made a story go viral about a Muslim man in Ohio who said he was seriously injured by a car driven by a person who screamed “Kill all Palestinians” and “Long live Israel.” Northridge Police investigated & determined it was a hate crime hoax. They say they found surveillance footage showing he actually was injured in a fight with his brother. Hesham Ayyad (the alleged hoaxer) & Khalil Ayyad have been charged with domestic violence and assault. Hesham is additionally charged with falsification, making false alarms & obstructing official business. Muslim Americans have long been involved in numerous high-profile hate crime allegations that turned out to be hoaxes, especially since Trump was elected. #HateHoaxhttps://twitter.com/CAIRNational/status/1716568332223045874
Hooray! I got retweeted by Jennifer Bilek!
Big numbers! WOOHOO!!!
Very much agreed that the term "gender dysphoria" serves to shift focus away from the fact that the condition is nearly absent, apart from environments that encourage shifts in gender identity.
"Acquired gender identity disorder" hints that these folks are being created.
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Last night I was reading a novel I bought at a thrift store years ago, with cash. I realized this action could not be tracked. It was completely private and outside the tech matrix. It was exhilarating. I may have to make a concerted effort to leave my house without my phone on…
I mean, if it's not a social contagion, how do we explain this sudden, dramatic surge in numbers? Isn't it at least possible that something occurred in our culture in the second decade of the 21st century that triggered a contagion of gender dysphoria in teenagers?/2 pic.twitter.com/EPeh0ymo2K
It’s sick and sad that women are voting IN pedophilia, legalized child prostitution, and other horrors for their own daughters and granddaughters, but that’s what Satan does. DECEPTION.
🚨 Hey Ohio families beware of the new lies and deceit by @OURR2023 as they try to eviscerate parental consent and allow for painful life altering abortions of our children. Issue One is too radical for our families. Protect your children. Vote NO on Issue One. pic.twitter.com/3sbJEXEhj6
DFLA Chapter Development Coordinator had the opportunity to lead the Ohio @March_for_Life earlier this month, rallying both Democrats and Republicans and those in-between and beyond to vote NO on Issue One! pic.twitter.com/Mv7YT1MgA8
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Word of The Week:
woonerf
noun
a road in a residential district which uses various measures to calm traffic.
a living street, as originally implemented in the Netherlands and in Flanders (Belgium).
Used in a sentence
Wolf thinks that the word woonerf looks appropriately Dutch. He finds the concept fascinating, because there is little difference between woonerfs and “tiny, bad, and poorly maintained public streets mixed with small private drives, alleys, and overly long driveways, all mixed into a residential mess where you’re not actually sure where the road ends and something else begins.” Not that he’s ever seen such a place!
Why would we mass treat a virus with a drug which forces the virus to mutate, when mutation is how the virus creates new variants that reinfect the vaccinated? Before I explain the title contradiction, let me start with an admission. Most of my life, I have been very friendly with the pharmaceutical industry. I …
Speaking of such things – let’s look at future body count, shall we….
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Word of The Week:
gwnofaoadfjsadf
noun
random typing on the keyboard by Wolf
Mole Day in some imaginary language
Used in a sentence
Wolf thinks that gwnofaoadfjsadf looks a bit like Welsh, even though it’s just jibberish.
A Bit of Music
This is a great but weird one.
The story is that Gretchen Wilson was a session artist for rock and country back before she got famous in country. Discussed here.
Apparently she’s always been quite a fan of Heart.
Let’s have some of the original!
OK – we have to finish with some science bluegrass for Mole Day. This is surprisingly good.
And now, back to business!
Election 2023 – The Final Stretch
Ohio Issue 1 is definitive. This is the ultimate groomer amendment, backed by the commies, begging to be added to the state’s constitution.
I will be doing what I can, which is never enough, to help defeat this monstrosity.
The choice is stark.
If this passes, parents will lose control of their kids FROM BIRTH – if the babies even make it that far.
I won’t be here on The Q Tree most of the time, during this home stretch, but I invite ALL OF YOU to bring the ammunition here. Bring the news about EVIL Issue One! Help me alert the nation to what they are doing in Ohio, which is worse than what they did in Michigan. Help the people of Ohio stop the insanity of “reproductive freedom” of CHILDREN FROM BIRTH.
After today, I will copy this post as a placeholder until the election is over. I will comment occasionally, but I will have to fight every day to STOP ISSUE ONE.
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What the heck! This chick will NOT get out of my Twitter X feed!
In the Bay Area today talking about vaccines for COVID, flu and RSV! Now is the best time to get #vaccinated to protect you and your family. pic.twitter.com/O3ZRIOutcA
"Jesus said to her, 'I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?'" (John 11:25-26)
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Word of The Week:
instigate
verb
To initiate or bring about, often by inciting.
To urge on; goad.
To goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite; — used chiefly with reference to evil actions.
Used in a picture (h/t Barb)
Used in a picture (as the associated noun)
Music time!
Beginning with some classical (your mileage may vary on the “sadness”)….
But check out these social media-driven “fiddle girls” – very interesting phenomenon!
To make it more commercial, just add some MTV….
So let’s finish with a string quartet of sorts!
AHHH – what the heck – I need some boy music. A song that cthulhu played Friday that takes me back. Mmmmmm, mmmmmm.
System Report
The system is back up, as of the writing of this post.
What a fight.
On the subject of “war is hell”, let the following video (set to Wheatie’s favorite music) be a reminder of why peace matters. (You have to go to the link – it’s pretty graphic.)
Wasn’t Gail saying something about Prussia? I seem to recall…..
As for the present….
Has the UFO propaganda got you scared? AS IF!
No, it has you bored and dismissive. Interesting psychology – isn’t it? So why did we get all of THIS stuff first?
Enjoy the epic music set to alien invasions – or something like that.
The plugin “nonce” problem got fixed, as well as some security issues.
The fact is, we’re dependent on “plugins” that are often weak links in WordPress security AND functionality. The team fixing our commenting system seems to be small and subject to competing duties.
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Word of The Week:
trinitite
noun
Trinitite, also known as atomsite or Alamogordo glass, is the glassy residue left on the desert floor after the plutonium-based Trinity nuclear bomb test on July 16, 1945, near Alamogordo, New Mexico. The glass is primarily composed of arkosic sand composed of quartz grains and feldspar that was melted by the atomic blast.
You’ll see why I chose trinitite later in this post.
OK – here is the epic orchestral Wheatie music I was looking for….
Maybe some “Celtic mystique” music?
How about “Viking folk music”? No guarantees of authenticity here.
But let’s finish with some orchestral-backed vocals…..
OK – that was inspiring!
Carl was back on Sunday! Praise God!!!
I know it has been a while since I said “Trust The Plan”, but every once in a while I realize that it’s there.
Some very interesting posts (and replies) on X. Let me give you a guided tour.
This is an oldie but goodie on an old QAnon account that does indeed put time frames in perspective.
Now That We Have Confirmation From Dr. Jan Halper-Hayes That There Is In Fact A Military Intelligence Plan In Place Playing Out, This Timeline Puts Things Into Perspective. pic.twitter.com/dNOPGzlz5j
I found the reply here terribly interesting. It’s worth looking at Brian’s full tweet.
You have an enduring spirit—and always keep in mind, in prayer we are saved, even though we cannot see what it is (that’s called faith). With reason, we can see and test it because we can see and touch it…faith and hope are things that you cannot see, you need to trust that one…
This is also going to be big – Lara Logan’s new production on January Sixth.
Trennis Evans pled guilty to one misdemeanor charge of entering a restricted building & he is forced to serve out his sentence in jail where he is held in solitary confinement for a few days at a time. The cell where he is housed is where they put prisoners to punish them. All… https://t.co/OhCoMlGpXn
Now – check this out – a long train of tweets to some fascinating references.
First – UGH – the photo on the right.
Munchausen by proxy (MBP), also known as factitious disorder imposed on another (FDIA), is a mental health disorder in which a caregiver, often a parent or guardian, intentionally fabricates or exaggerates physical or psychological symptoms in someone under their care. This could… pic.twitter.com/QbahOR55cn
That post notes the prior self-cutting by the young woman, visible in the photo. A pro-trans poster excuses the cutting as a result of gender dysphoria thereby requiring the surgery, while I might see the surgery as the ultimate form of “cutting”.
As an aside, I think the mom may be relieved of some guilt here. She was likely ready to believe anything that the doctors and trans activists told her. Thus, it is to some extent likely to be a kind of “Stockholm syndrome X Munchausen by proxy syndrome”.
The original poster responds with an excellent old article questioning trans surgeries.
Jest to zwyczajnie nieprawda: nawet lewicowe publikacje były wielokrotnie zmuszone przyznać, że "tranzycja" nie pomaga:https://t.co/4GIbkxsUfj
New Data Show “Gender-Affirming” Surgery Doesn’t Really Improve Mental Health. So Why Are the Study’s Authors Saying It Does?
This is an absolutely fascinating example of “agenda science” and intentional misrepresentation of data. Check out the summary of the article:
Data from a new study show that the beneficial effect of surgery for transgender people is so small that a clinic may have to perform as many as 49 gender-affirming surgeries before they could expect to prevent one additional person from seeking subsequent mental health treatment. Yet that’s not what the authors say. That the authors corrupted otherwise-excellent data and analyses with a skewed interpretation signals an abandonment of scientific rigor and reason in favor of complicity with activist groups seeking to normalize infertility-inducing and permanently disfiguring surgeries.
This is EXACTLY what is wrong with science all over the place now. COVID science is just like this. Mask science, too. This dishonesty of interpretation is everywhere. AGENDA SCIENCE.
Here is the full text of the article, saved from censorship.
A new study appearing last month in the American Journal of Psychiatry concluded that “gender-affirming” surgery is associated with reduced demand for subsequent mental health treatment in a sample of persons diagnosed with “gender incongruence.” Predictably, such news received wide media interest and coverage. And yet even a cursory reading of the study itself tells a far less optimistic story than the media narratives—as well as the authors’ own inexplicable confidence—have offered. Indeed, the analyses would seem to suggest the benefit of a hormonal or surgical course does not outweigh the demonstrable physical and financial costs of such treatments. Future studies might suggest otherwise, but not this one.
The study’s shortcomings have nothing to do with the data, nor the methods employed by its authors (and public health researchers) Richard Bränström and John Pachankis. The data come from the Swedish Total Population Register, a massive, longitudinal survey effort that collected information from over 9.7 million Swedes, or about 95 percent of the country. No complaints there. The analyses are high-quality: the authors tracked respondents over time and assessed their use of mental health treatment (for a mood or anxiety disorder) in 2015, as well as other related measures (such as hospitalization after a suicide attempt), as a function of time since gender-affirming hormone and surgical treatment. Its measurement precision is excellent, and would satisfy most methodological purists. So far, all good news. But then come the scholarly interpretations of the study’s results, which are remarkably out of step with the far more modest conclusions they merit.
The study found no mental health benefits for hormonal interventions in this population. There is no effect of time since initiating hormone treatment on the likelihood of subsequently receiving mental health treatment.
First, a word about the hormones: the study found no mental health benefits for hormonal interventions in this population. There is no effect of time since initiating hormone treatment on the likelihood of subsequently receiving mental health treatment. Given the surge in interest, demand, and supply of hormonal therapies to self-identified transgender persons today, you would think that it is a solution that pays obvious benefits in reduced subsequent need—over time—for treatment of mood or anxiety disorder, or hospitalization after a suicide attempt. Yet there was no statistically significant effect. In fact, the confidence intervals actually reveal a nearly significant aggravating effect of hormonal treatment on subsequent mental health needs.
It is the surgical effect, however, that has grabbed all the attention. Bränström and Pachankis detected a statistically significant effect of time since last “gender-affirming” surgery on reduced mental health treatment. The adjusted (for controls) odds ratio for this was 0.92, meaning that, among respondents diagnosed with “gender incongruence” who then received gender-affirming surgical treatment, the odds of being treated for a mood or anxiety disorder (in 2015) were reduced by about 8 percent for each year since the last surgery. In other words, it would appear that the surgery—or more typically, the series of surgeries—benefited their mental health.
But the authors discuss a “linear decrease” in seeking subsequent mental health care that is simply not visible in the study’s graphs, where post-surgical mental health treatment hovers stably around 35 percent among those in their first nine years after surgery, and then drops to only 21 percent of those patients who are in their tenth (or higher) year since their last surgery. However, only 19 total respondents reported their last surgery as having been completed 10 or more years ago. By contrast, 574 (out of 1,018 total) reported their last surgery as having been conducted less than two years ago. (Surgical treatment is clearly surging.) This means that the apparently helpful overall effect of surgery is driven by this comparatively steep drop in mood/anxiety treatment among only 19 patients. By the math, that would seem to indicate that four out of these 19 Swedes (i.e., 21 percent) sought help in 2015 for mood/anxiety problems.
While the study reports the adjusted odds ratio of the overall effect of time since surgery (0.92), which I cannot replicate without having data access, you don’t need the data to calculate an unadjusted odds ratio from the information presented there. This can tell us the baseline effect of time since surgery on receiving mood and anxiety treatment, only without the controls (like age, income, etc.). Doing this reveals the fragility of the study’s key finding: if a mere three additional cases among these 19 had sought mental health treatment in 2015, there would appear to be no discernible overall effect of surgery on subsequent mental health. The study’s trumpeted conclusion may hinge on as few as three people in a data collection effort reaching 9.7 million Swedes, 2,679 of whom were diagnosed with gender incongruence and just over 1,000 of whom had gender-affirming surgery.
The study’s trumpeted conclusion may hinge on as few as three people in a data collection effort reaching 9.7 million Swedes, 2,679 of whom were diagnosed with gender incongruence and just over 1,000 of whom had gender-affirming surgery.
An increase of just three treated individuals (from 4 to 7 of 19) brings the overall effect to zero. On the other hand, a decrease of just three treated individuals (from 4 to 1 out of 19) yields an (unadjusted) odds ratio of 0.88, which would enable a claim of a 12-percent reduction in mental health assistance from getting the surgery. These large swings in estimates are due to very small adjustments in the data. As is often the case with small samples, tiny changes lead to large fluctuations in estimated effects. But, for this patient population, you are not going to find larger data collection projects than the Swedish data. This is as good as it gets when it comes to studying transgender medical experiences and outcomes.
Another helpful statistic I calculated is called the NNT, or “Number Needed to Treat.” It’s a measure of clinical impact. In this study, the NNT appears to be a staggering 49, meaning the beneficial effect of surgery is so small that a clinic may have to perform 49 gender-affirming surgeries before they could expect to prevent one additional person from seeking subsequent mental health assistance [ref] In this case, the NNT = -1 * [1/[(OR-1)UER] + OR/[(OR-1)(1-UER)]]. Using an adjusted odds ratio (OR) of 0.92 and an unexposed event rate (UER) = 0.453, I get NNT = 49 cases. The UER I employ here comes from the mood/anxiety treatment rate for “perioperative” individuals with gender incongruence, as reported in the study’s Figure 1. The term “perioperative,” however, is vague and not defined by the authors. (It could mean right before or right after surgery.) It is not, however, a control group (that is, of Swedes diagnosed with gender incongruence who have not pursued surgical treatment). However, even such a control group would have limitations, including selection bias (e.g., screening for co-occurring mental illness or a lower level of gender dysphoria). Indeed, a prospective randomized controlled trial is not possible with this population. Nevertheless, the number employed offers a reasonable baseline UER, given the available data. NNTs below 10 “usually denote a worthwhile difference when comparing one intervention with another,” notes Leslie Citrome in “Quantifying Clinical Relevance.”[/ref]. If no other treatment was available, or the treatment was not invasive and the hazards were insignificant, clinics might consider surgery a low-risk but low-payoff approach. But none of those applies here. Conducting 49 surgeries to secure one additional patient who benefits? Unheard of.
The authors are nevertheless quick to declare that “this study provides timely support for policies that ensure coverage of gender-affirming treatments.” I cannot see how such confidence is merited. Time since hormonal treatment yielded no discernible effect on subsequent use of mental health treatment, while the modest effect of surgery hinges on a handful of cases from an earlier era (10 or more years ago) when very few gender dysphoric patients pursued surgery at all. And it’s not a leap to wonder whether those who did so a decade ago are a different kind of group than those who do so today. Moreover, suicide—the threat that seems to prompt all the urgency in doing something radical to alleviate psychological distress in these patients—may well have claimed an unknown number of Swedes who had had gender-affirming surgery ten or more years ago. We just don’t know, because the study does not track completed suicides for this sample.
If this were a clinical trial seeking to establish the efficacy of a particularly invasive medical treatment in comparison with a non-invasive standard protocol, there is no way that these published results would favor the invasive treatment—in this case, “gender affirming” surgery—when the statistical difference in outcomes was so tiny and fragile. This is not, contrary to what Bränström told ABC News, an evidence-informed treatment. That the authors corrupted otherwise excellent data and analyses with a skewed interpretation signals an abandonment of scientific rigor and reason in favor of complicity with activist groups seeking to normalize infertility-inducing and permanently disfiguring surgeries.
Physicians should not be pushed to prescribe such profoundly consequential treatment by threat of call-out, malpractice suits, patient demand, or—in this case—the overreaching interpretations of quality data. Clinicians are being bullied into writing a radical prescription based on fear, not on sensible conclusions from empirical data.
But this reasonable position is getting more difficult to defend. Less than two months after another team of activist psychiatrists landed a weak study on “conversion” therapy in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, its lead author has commenced a movement aimed at a wholesale ban on such a notion. This is alarming, especially since the idea itself—“converting” from having become convinced you are born in the wrong body to concluding that you can live with the body you have—is nonsensical. There is no defined psychotherapeutic method for treating gender dysphoria that can be widely characterized and consistently identified as “conversion therapy” in order to be banned. Nor has there been a clinical trial evaluating specific psychotherapeutic methods of counseling gender dysphoria that could potentially demonstrate whether such methods are helpful or harmful.
This is not how normal medical research works.
Can’t end this discussion without some interesting discussion of trinitite.
Right, there was probably a meteor strike. No way something like that doesn’t get the “why did this happen” treatment from generations to follow. Here’s the Forbes article.https://t.co/6WVj4kxPzs
And for once, the JUKE BOX IS WORKING! Somebody fixed the damn thing.
Let’s see if we can make it start on the right song……
We may serve an eclectic variety of somewhat less-than-noxious potions here, possibly unfamiliar to some patrons, but nonetheless, we shall earnestly attempt to cater to the tastes of our customers.
While our beloved REAL bartender takes a needed break of unknown duration, we continue to ENDEAVOR TO PERSEVERE.
Christmas Spirit
Christmas spirit continues, including for those Orthodox brothers and sisters who just finished their Christmas Day a week ago, on January 7, 2022. Can we drag it out until the end of January?
LET’S TRY!!!
And now, the rules of the pub.
HOUSE RULES
God bless us, every one! Tiny Tim had such a beautiful soul. He hadn’t a mean bone in his body…unlike most of us. But in keeping with Christmas, we promise to honor Wolf’s rules and keep Scrooge at bay. The Utree is where the Ghost of Christmas Present will conduct you should you need to rattle some chains. Another option, should all hell break loose is here.
Now, back to business.
AMEN!
Current Art On The Wall
AND somebody flips a new old song on the jukebox…..
Well, we’ve got us a WEIRD SHIPMENT of STRANGE ART, so we’re just putting it up on the walls of the bar, and PRICING IT TO MOVE.
Let’s try another take on electromagnetic radiation with a bit less MAGENTA
Because beauty is in the eye of the beholder by Ilian A. Deering
Let’s look more closely.
As well as a video on the making of…….
Ah, yes. The liberal arts and sciences are now the conservative arts and sciences. Even when there’s a little bit of that “one eye” stuff sneaking in.
Or is it just ART?
Something to think about.
Clot Shot Self-Deception as Part of Mass Formation Psychosis
I don’t remember where the tab URL below came from – hat tip to whoever found it – but it is critical to note how EVERYBODY CONCERNED is OK with blaming this obvious clot-shot death on “COVID-19”.
“The 57-year-old was admitted to St. Thomas Midtown in Nashville a short time after he received his first dose of the Pfizer vaccine.
‘Sometime after his first vaccine and he somewhat brushed it off, usually when he gets sick he gets better the next day and then he was hospitalized on December 7th,’ Alexis said.
Following a 12-day stint in the hospital, Dimitri passed away on December 20 from complications.”
“He was a very docile, a person with minimal words, but every time he spoke, they were very impactful words.”
That’s how 19-year-old Alexis Ndina is remembering her father, who said he passed away from COVID-19 just days before Christmas.
Dr. Dimitri Ndina was a loving father, husband, grandfather and a pharmaceutical doctor at Tennessee Oncology.
The 57-year-old was admitted to St. Thomas Midtown in Nashville a short time after he received his first dose of the Pfizer vaccine.
“Sometime after his first vaccine and he somewhat brushed it off, usually when he gets sick he gets better the next day and then he was hospitalized on December 7th,” Alexis said.
Following a 12-day stint in the hospital, Dimitri passed away on December 20 from complications.
“They noted that he started to clot in his lower region so from his legs and started to work up,” Alexis explained.
His family is in disbelief, saying he was such a healthy man.
Alexis recalled the last words she said to her dad.
“I told him I loved him. He was a person who cared about how he looked so I kept telling him he was a very handsome man and all that,” Alexis said.
Following in her father’s footsteps, Alexis also wants to be a doctor just like him.
“He’s taught me everything I know, everything in my life that has been from him has impacted me, and I am just going to continue to make him proud,” Alexis said.
She also shared a message for the community she believes her dad would want everyone to hear.
“To continue his legacy I want everyone to stay proactive in being healthy because that’s what he would have wanted.”
WOLF again.
It is absolutely OBVIOUS to anybody who has followed the “clot shot”, that this man suffered stereotypical vaccine-induced clotting which is absolutely attributable of the vaccines, which knowingly, wrongly, inject a FACTORY for the spike protein into people’s bloodstreams.
And yet, as we might expect, the Fake News Media attributes it to COVID-19 – and NOT the vaccine.
It may be that some of the family, friends, and medical folks realize they are “sneaking out” some “clot-shot truth” past the media, under an accepted narrative banner of COVID-19.
Indeed, even the reporter may admit to self that “it’s not COVID – it’s the vaccine.” And yet – everybody plays the game, and pretends that it’s COVID.
To me, this is a classic symptom and effect of the MASS FORMATION PSYCHOSIS.
Another great example of this was the CNA who posted video in January 2021, at the beginning of the vaccine roll-out, about the phony “super-spreader” excuse that was used to cover up Pfizer vaccine deaths in nursing homes. He could not go along with it.
As a CHRISTIAN (listen to him), he could NOT be part of the mass formation psychosis which required him to state what he did not truly believe.
If you go to that article, there is a HUGE LIST of nursing homes that had massive deaths from “COVID-19” when they started vaccinating. YOU DECIDE. Maybe use Occam’s Razor while you’re at it.
29 elderly people died in Norway shortly after receiving Pfizer’s vaccination.
13 deaths among 40 residents following vaccination at one nursing home in Germany were dismissed as “tragic coincidence.”
10 deaths in a German palliative care patients within hours to four days of COVID-19 vaccination were deemed a “coincidence.”
22 of 72 residents of a nursing home in Basingstoke, England have died following vaccination.
24 seniors at a nursing home in Syracuse, NY were reported to have died from COVID-19 as of January 9, 2021 despite having been vaccinated beginning December 22, 2020.
10 cases of COVID-19 were reported on January 28 among seniors who had received both doses of Pfizer’s vaccine at one care home in Stockholm Sweden. The residents were vaccinated on December 27 and again on January 19.
The COVID-19 death toll in the small British enclave of Gibraltar numbered 16 before it launched its Pfizer vaccination campaign on January 10, 2021 and then shot up to 53 deaths 10 days later and to 70 seven days after that. According to a Reuters report, the Gibraltar Health Authority declared there was “no evidence at all of any causal link” between 6 of the deaths that were investigated and the Pfizer’s vaccine, despite the individuals having tested negative for Covid-19 before vaccination, but positive “in the days immediately after.”
4,500 COVID-19 cases in Israel occurred in patients after they had received one dose of Pfizer’s vaccine and 375 of those vaccinated patients required hospitalization, Israeli news media reported on January 12.
Seven adults living in a care home in Saskatoon tested positive for coronavirus a week after residents were vaccinated at the Sherbrooke Community Centre, the CBC reported. There were no positive cases at the time of vaccination.
Seven residents at a Montreal long-term care facility tested positive for Covid-19 within 28 days of being vaccinated with Pfizer’s vaccine, prompting the province of Quebec to delay the second Pfizer dose.
Abercorn Care Home in Scotland, which began COVID-19 vaccinations on December 14, 2020 was home to an outbreak of the virus by January 10 and the National Health Service for the region refused to comment on whether vaccinated residents were ill. A care home staff group founder told the Scottish Daily Record : “We have had members of our group whose parents have had the vaccine and then two weeks later have tested positive for coronavirus.”
All of the residents at a home in Inverness, Scotland were vaccinated against COVID-19 early in January, but 17 became infected with the virus after the first dose.
This is the OPPOSITE of what happened in the two Spanish nursing homes that saved everybody with antihistamines.
The MASS FORMATION PSYCHOSIS creates SELF-DECEPTION, both at the INDIVIDUAL and GROUP level.
Even more shocking, entire nations can begin to self-deceive.
People – SLAP yourselves. Something is very wrong here. DO NOT SELF-DECEIVE.
WHY people are taking these vaccines is beyond me.
Don’t do it. Just DON’T.
And with a TOAST to both Grandmaintexas (regular bartender) AND Aubergine (relentless foe of the clot shot)…..
And Now Our Feature Presentation
Trusting the Plan by Trusting the Resolution of Conflict as Part of Creation
As DePat, Sadie, and I have all pointed out recently, this site IS most definitely under spiritual attack.
However, I do NOT view that as “bad news”, because in my opinion, it means that (1) we actually may be attaining a state of notice BY annoyance OF the other side, and (2) we have to be at least somewhat OVER THE TARGET.
Now, as Duchess reminds us almost every day, we need SPIRITUAL ARMOR.
Well, I myself have taken to “upping” mine quite often, reading her post and seeing where I need an extra layer or two, and it’s paying off. Indeed, for some reason, after Delta, I have spiritual Kevlar to spare.
HOWEVER, not everybody here is so lucky. Thus, I DO REALIZE that I may be dragging many of us toward some battles that people just don’t want to fight any more. I mean, is anybody ELSE tired of COVID?
Yes, I’m tired of it, too – but there is a kind of temptation, because we are winning so BIG on the Branch Covidians now, I just can’t get up every day and not want to SCORE SOME MORE.
AND YET……
I can tell that people are TIRED and WORN OUT and I understand. People need R&R.
And you will GET R&R.
What I cannot promise you is that you will get ENOUGH of your R&R *HERE*.
So if people need to get away from here, I understand. It’s OK. In fact, it’s necessary.
But I promise you – when you come BACK here, there will be – just as Trump promised – WINNING.
Right now, if you can, SAVOR some of that winning, because you’ve fought long and hard for it.
I mean, where we were ON POINT if not the BLEEDING EDGE with much “conspiracy” stuff, the big names are now leaping over us to get to the front lines.
AND I LOVE IT!!!
A new song on the jukebox!
https://youtu.be/NNFK4i408dQ
SO – all that is the context of what I want to say.
A few days ago, I had a very interesting dream, which was induced in part by going to bed thinking about all of the “big questions” we are facing now.
We are being “shown” so much – and yet – well – it SEEMS like nobody is DOING anything about it.
WELL – not much that we can SEE. Or maybe just not much that we can PROVE. Or maybe….. well…..
…..maybe things really ARE happening on our side, too.
However, it’s MURKY. And we have to see CLEARLY to see what’s coming.
We have different views of things, and we COULD just “not talk about those critical things”, but that will NOT enable us to see things.
We need the STEREO VISION and PERSPECTIVE which can only come from DIFFERENT VIEWPOINTS SIMULTANEOUSLY.
I didn’t fully realize the NECESSITY of this, until FG&C posed a question, albeit not in question form.
“Frankly, I am both amazed by Wolf’s toleration of it as well as greatly perplexed by that toleration.”
I mean – I am deeply ANNOYED by some of us (and that includes ME on occasion) chiding the military for their seeming acceptance of “Traitor Joe” wrecking this country.
And yet, I think it is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY to constantly consider the two alternatives, which I believe are BOTH swirling in the Pentagon / Pentagram.
A. They (meaning us) have to be shown the sick reality of the global plots of socialism.
B. They (meaning us) have to be acclimated to the reality of globally agreed socialism.
So which is it? After January 6, and how well that trap was laid out against PATRIOTS, I cannot dismiss the idea that the PENTAGON is involved in A, B, or (AND logic) BOTH.
And what if BOTH is in fact the answer?
That’s where things get REALLY mind-blowing.
BUT FIRST…..
Here is how I responded to FG&C.
This is one of those things where I’m trying to solve a problem and operating on my gut feeling of where the solution lies. It’s much bigger than this blog, frankly. Much bigger than all of us. Much bigger than MAGA, or America, or this world.
I had to sleep on it – to ponder it – and I got my answer, but it’s so big and so general and so difficult to describe in words that make sense to EITHER anybody OR everybody, that I KNOW I’m not quite ready to talk about it.
There are many components – many pieces – that matter – and we have bits of them assembled here, one might say.
It’s all starting to become clear to me BECAUSE those components are here and becoming visible. If we want to solve this stuff, we are FORCED to confront this stuff. It’s part of reclaiming some things that were LOST in order to fulfill both OLD purposes and NEW purposes.
PC has BLINDED US to proper solutions. We have to allow questions that we don’t want to see answers that we do want, which may even disprove and make irrelevant those questions we don’t want, but they do it in a productive way, with understanding that helps us move “forward” as part of creation.
All of which is to say, in a tiny thread through the object, that progressives burning books and toppling statues is ultimately contradictory, because they destroy the very knowledge that enables proper progress. And that goes back to – the necessary and non-erroneous creation of error itself as part of creation, which is good a priori.
For the moment, though, we will have to put up with questions we don’t want, bad answers to those questions until we have better ones, and uncomfortable alternatives, largely created as false dichotomies, which often obscure, but visualized and deciphered can lead to true answers.
SIGH. Yet I have FAITH, because I SEE where this is going, and God willing, I will see it more, and better, and clearer in days to come.
So what has happened since then?
What I’m seeing, more clearly now, is still hard to describe, but it does have components that we all understand. Many of them are things which have to be CONSERVED. Things that go back to….
our youths
the last century
the Civil War
the Founders
the Enlightenment
the Middle Ages
Christ
the Prophets
Moses
Abraham
the beginnings of civilization
early Man
Creation
Obvious then, why the enemy cannot STAND things in the past, and makes us try to destroy them.
The mistakes which are continuously being made by progressives and (COUGH) certain others, because those mistakes have to be made, are in fact things that become our DUTY to oppose – and thus to quench and temper into something better.
Technology and “progress” don’t SOLVE our problems – they just REPLACE our problems with NEW ONES.
BUT THAT IS PART OF THE DESIGN.
You see – at the same time – technology and progress DO fulfill necessary aspects of the CREATION that God both SEES as good and PROCLAIMS as good. They are, IMO, utilities upon which the building of God’s kingdom “on Earth as it is in Heaven” becomes POSSIBLE.
AND YET – the physical – the WORLD – remains ONLY THAT, and NOT part of the Kingdom per se.
“For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.”
If I can offer you one thing most of all, it is a certain TEMPERING of the SHIELD OF FAITH…..
…….which comes from TRUSTING GOD’S DESIGN……
…..but not just in Heaven, and not just on Earth, but right here, right now, in America, and in your state, and in your town, and in your home, reading these words.
One might say, we need to “Trust the Plan”, even when it seems to be helping our enemies – or even worse – when it IS – as far as we can see – actually helping our enemies.
In my opinion, the CONFLICT that we see, and that we are a part of, and that we must allow to come to us, here on this site, is part of the plan that we are supposed to trust.
And I’m OK with that. I hope that you will be, too. If conflict comes to us, from within or without, while we are doing our best to stand up for God, then we should not fear it – we should welcome it.
Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”
