OT WE 14 AUG 24 ~ makes you wonder
Submitted by QMS on Wed, 08/14/2024 - 5:23am
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Is there a line between actuality and speculation?
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there is a fine line between free speech and national security
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Is it info lawfare behind the recent attacks on our first amendment rights? (I can't say).
It seems the disinfo machine has been cranked up to 11. Official outlets quoting
'experts' and 'anonymous sources' are becoming more outlandish as our self-
inflicted disasters accumulate. Just getting to the kernels of objective reality in
all the burgeoning chaff requires more effort than most are willing to expend.
Living in a sound-bite universe has a dumbing down effect. Lack of nuance in
homogenized media portrays a slanted view of the world. Just sayin'.
Just for kicks
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Hey, good morning
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Tidbits --
- When you start out lost, it is hard to get loster
- In the game of 'let's pretend' replace ignorance with false belief
- Empire exists on a stool of 3 legs: subjugation, desperation and ignorance
Looking for that lighthouse on the horizon ..
Sakonnet Point Lighthouse
Station established: 1884
Present lighthouse built: 1884
Discontinued: 1955
Relighted: 1997
Original optic: Fourth-order Fresnel lens
Present optic: 300mm
Characteristic: Flashing white every six seconds with red sector (red from 195° to 350°)
Height of tower: 66 feet
Height of focal plane: 70 feet
Cheers!
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One more for the road
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Castle Hill Lighthouse
Newport, RI
Station established: 1890
Automated: 1957
Construction material: Granite
Height of tower: 34 feet
Original optic: Fifth order Fresnel lens
Present optic: VLB-44 (LED)
Characteristic: Red light, 3 seconds on, 3 seconds off
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Good morning...
To my mind free speech is essential to national security. Without an ability to hear all views no one can make informed decisions. However in our end of empire situation, preserving the narrative has become confused with national security. Propaganda is preferred above discussion. And so we go...
Thanks for the OT!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
I spent a lot of time in the sun
...fishing, swimming, boating (on my small but versatile 16' 50hp). I spent days at the jetty near the Mayport carrier basin, near the St. Augustine inlet, and Ponce inlet. The latter two places have beautiful lighthouses. You can go inside and climb up for a nominal fee. Too bad I don't have any pics.
I've only been sailing a few times, but it was wonderful. Once on active duty two of us actually sailed a boat in Guantanamo Bay.
Since years ago, after repeated skin cancer episodes, I pretty much stay out of the sun. My daughter told me recently that the times we spent outdoors in natural settings were among her best memories of childhood. Her saying that was worth more to me than any material thing.
Yes, literally. QMS, Thanks for the OT!
語必忠信 行必正直
Great song
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I think the sun is more intense now than in youthful days, 60 odd years ago.
Try to avoid the sun as much as possible now. Had my share already.
Also like Buffet's Pirate Looks at 40.
Arrg matey.
Stay cool
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soryang,
I ran across some articles a month or so ago about skin cancers and sun exposure.
Sun causes basal cell carcinoma, a very benign skin blemish in all but the most rare and extreme circumstances. Sun does not cause any of the serious ones, such as squamous cell carcinoma and so forth.
Some articles pointed out that most sun screens contain cancer causing ingredients.
Other articles pointed out the harms of Vitamin D deficiency.
There is a definite link between dermatology and the sun screen manufacturers.
If you avoid sun, take vitamin D.
I am not a doctor, but sometimes play one online! Lol! Statistics show only 40% of the populations trust doctors now.
Of all things, this sun avoidance discussion popped up when Jimmy Dore did a video about his experience with a basal cell cancer.
Enjoy your day, friend!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I've done some research on this
Since my life depends on it. Exposure to sun is a causation factor for melanoma. You're absolutely right about vitamin D. I try to get some sunlight every day, when it's possible. Coordinate, moderate to low UV with that but the weather doesn't cooperate sometimes.
Thanks for the Vitamin D reminder. The doctor always says that, "did you take your vitamin d? doesn't look like it."
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語必忠信 行必正直
Take care of yourself, friend!
We are to the point where doing our own research is the first health protocol we should act upon.
I contracted a strange virus in China. The drs. here were convinced I had RA. I did my own research, asked them to test me for the specific virus, and I tested positive, and negative for RA. There is no treatment for Parvo B-19. You either out last it, or it can kill you. The dr. was furious with me, as I would not be a patient anymore.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Another opinion on skin cancer
This article by A Midwestern Doctor claims sun exposure causes basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas, but sun does not cause melanoma. He also says basal cell cancer does not metastasize, so the Mohs surgery to remove it is not necessary. My cousin’s wife was traumatized by the disfiguring Mohs surgery on her nose, for basal cell. A few years later I had squamous cell carcinoma and was given the option of Mohs surgery or a topical cream. After several weeks and a few applications, the cream worked.
https://open.substack.com/pub/amidwesterndoctor/p/dermatologys-horrendou...
Anya
I didn't remember squamous
cell being sun-related. My bad. I did a quick search, Mayo clinic says there is no known cause for melanoma, but it "seems" there is a connection to sun exposure. "Seems" really seems to be a piss poor medical judgment.
My late husband died from squamous cell carcinoma in 1998. It developed from a wound on the skin at the tip of his tail bone, no exposure to sun at all. The wound would not heal, thus cancer developed.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
One more thing
Probably a bit late to add, but there is another factor which I’m convinced contributed to my squamous cell carcinoma in 2019. I was undergoing considerably more stress than usual. I believe it weakened my immune system. That same year I developed a strange eye infection (eyes closed, white goop) as well as a staph infection.
Anya
stress is definitely a killer
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one of the reasons I went on strike
mental health is more important than moola
cheers!
en addendum ~ pretty sure skin cancer is not contagious
but stress definitely is
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Good morning Q
Our humble little lighthouse here in San Diego.
The Point Loma lighthouse
Established: 1855
Discontinued: 1891
Third-order Fresnel lens
I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.
Think it's great local communities
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kept up the lighthouses after the gubmint dumped them in the 50's.
This isn't a lighthouse, but a structure known locally as Klingon as it has
held on after many storms. An interesting history. Can overnight for a fee.
Clingstone: The House on The Rock
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2016/04/clingstone-house-on-rock.html
thanks for showing us the light
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Hola, QMS. If you had a batch of crossed neurons such
that the color palette you saw was backwards you would be unlikely to ever find out. Yoou would be taught that the sky was a range of blues and would consistently apply that name to the hues you saw and nobody would be the wiser. We of a certain age have been raised in a world of lies. Actually, arguably everybody has, with perhaps a few exceptions, forever.
The physical sciences are fairly close to demonstrable reality, to the best of our ability. The social sciences run the gamut from questionable to absolute horseshit. History is simply a heaping pile of falsehoods, so deep that peeling back layers simply begets other, earlier falsehoods. This has largely been true throughout history. (how can we tell, I know). Shakespeare's history plays were propaganda. The records of ancient egypt, greece, rome, etc were always an admixture of myth and propaganda, as were all versions of "The Book".
We must be very careful, if we are risk averse, for both TPTB and society as a whole seem to have become exceptionally hyper vigilant to detect, punish and prevent not merely the disclosure of certain facts and events, but also anything that might tend to hurt the fee-fees of a vast number of differing sensitivities, as many as there are individuals, belief systems, cults and groups. Nonetheless, it behooves each of us to seek out "reality" and constantly refine our cognitive maps to better accord to same. Ditto our guide stars. All we can do is try to do so consciously, constantly, and consistantly. Heh, good luck.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Very good points
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Hope you are doing well. Speaking of science ..
thanks for tuning in
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Now that I've got that out of my system, there is no
line between free speech and national security. Any security that rests on a foundation of sekrets and lies is a false security. Any government which cannot be open and transparent and permit absolute free speech is one that fears its citizenry, and, correctly so.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
"In America
truth is considered foreign influence,
World peace is a threat to national security."
Author unknown
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Well said
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should make that my byline
thanks anonymous
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Say "Bye bye" to Kishida
-- Sputnik - decent summary of his reign:
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240814/pm-kishida-who-militarized-japan-at-us...
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Good article, thanks
I was wondering if this is an ongoing international trend now-
This thread with mindless quotes from Koizumi is pretty funny.
語必忠信 行必正直
Hola Soryang, funny.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Not exactly lighthouse
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But close
H/T Dylan & Hendrix
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QMS,
My days of foreign travel are over. I would be afraid to open my mouth or send a text in many countries nowadays.
Your lighthouse pictures make me want to visit some coasts.
Thanks for the OT and the lively comments it pulled in!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
thanks for tuning in
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yeah, had a little more time to tend the site today as I am on strike
mind over matters
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Hump Day
Hi all, hey Capt.!
Great lights man! I wish I would have photo'd all the lights I have seen. Surely have a pic of the Pt. Loma light SP posted, walked around it a couple dozen times at least. Pt. Loma is a red hot fall migration birding place I used to bird regularly. One day when I get time to organize and scan my photos I imagine a dozen or more good ones are amongst them, always a fan of fresnels.
Where there is no free speech, there is no democracy.
Thanks for the OT QMS!
happy trails all!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Which Pt Loma Lighthouse? n/t
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
the one in the photo?
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are there two like that?
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I had hopped around the thread and missed the pic. oops
There are 2, but not 2 like that, the old one. The "new one" is quite different, fort of.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
kinda figured that
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way back in the 1800's there were very few built the same.
Many had similar cylindrical foundations to support the lens,
although methods and materials varied widely, depending on
local materials and craftsmen.
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no speech, no democracy
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very true, simple but precise.
After I figure out who's on first and what's on second, I also hope to sort out my pictures.
Yesterday, removed 2400 pix from the chip in the camera to an unused MacBook. Next is
to include a similar number from thumb drives etc. Eggs in one basket, so to speak.
Bien suerte.
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