Wednesday Mind Bender 13 NOV 24 ~
We are seeing cracks in the fortress of legacy media. People are getting literally sick
from the toxic brainwashing featured by the MSM outlets. Having alternative sources
for what is happening in the world is an effective counterbalance to the homogenized
propaganda portrayed. The cult of disinformation is losing its grip. /r
In 1841 James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study
of the subject he eventually calls hypnosis.
In 1894 Lawrence Hargrave, Australian aeronautical pioneer and inventor of the box kite, linked four huge box kites together and flew - but remained attached to the ground by piano wire.
Sounds like fun.
In 1935 Egas Moniz performs the first modern brain surgery on the frontal lobes to treat mental disorders, at Santa Marta Hospital in Lisbon, Portugal. That is one approach I suppose.
And in 1969 Vice President Spiro Agnew accuses network TV news departments of bias and distortion. A year later he calls TV executives "impudent snobs". Got that right.
An open thread. What is on your radar?
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Hey now
A good chilly morning here. In the 20's with the north wind cranking.
Guess it is time to fire up the boiler. Layed-in a good supply of wood
already, oil tanks are filled. Propane is good in the shop.
So the rest is just getting adjusted to the cold. Till the snow flies.
Wake up everybody
War crimes and the coming war with China
The War Criminals I Have Known
Trump camp wants Congress to be in adjournment so that its cabinet appointments not be subject to Senate "advise and consent." Anyway this is what is being reported. Perhaps someone here already commented on this. I've been out of the loop for a few days due to repair people seriously damaging my home again over the weekend.
Trump demands Senate Republicans allow recess appointments as they elect new leader
語必忠信 行必正直
Really?
Saying the quiet part out loud, for sure. "Allowed", indeed.
There will be war. It will not end well for us.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Good morning Cap'n QMS, Fun version of the Prine song.
Good "wake up" song too, thanks.
So, as a coastal brat I was exposed to a lot of kites and kite flying starting at an early age. We even had an official annual "kite day", and I'm old enough that a lot of adults and references still referred to the kites everybody was flying on the beaches and open spaces as "toy kites" They had a long history of use in research, communication, and, of course, war.
Amond the military uses was the use of man-lifting kites to carry observeres aloft to report on enemy dispositions and direct attacks and artillery fire. There may have been some of that in the US Civil War, the record is unclear. The Brits were definitely using them as early as the Boer War. They used a type of box kite that they called the "Hargrave Kite". They weere also used in the Franco Prussian war and in 1909, the French had a competition to find the best man-lifter and settled on one that became colloquially known as f "French War Kite". The toy kite versions of that design were really cool and I always wanted to build one, but never did so. It was a triangular box kite embedded in a polygonal wing.
My childhood and teens were when they first started taking the rogallo kite seriously as both a lifting and gliding vehicle for serious aeronautic uses and also as a recovery/parachute type unit, so they had become "serious" again.
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 --
Yeah, kites are fun
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the last ones I put up were known as "stunt kites"
a 6 foot wing span with two control lines
about a 70 foot tether
getting it set was the challenge
easier on the beach so as to stick the end splines
into the sand and run to grab the handles
give it a tug and lift-off! swooping and spinning
until the arms and shoulders wore out
noisy as hell but a lot of fun
in about 30 kts it would drag me leeward
had to dig-in with the heels and lean back
cheers
We got
~20" of snow last week, and as a result there are a bunch of kitesurfers out in the park I pass on the way to work, screaming around on snowboards. In the summer, they are always out there with these big-tired offroad skateboards, so they are pretty well practiced.
It's cool to watch them when the wind is out of the north. But it is cooler by far when the wind is coming from the south, and unexpected gusts carry the unwary right out into the traffic on the major artery that borders the park on the north side...
Evolution in action, I suppose.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Speaking of Rogallo ... 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 --
know not what is a Rogallo
.
will explore after
gotta go get the dirt out
Those somewhat triangular flex-wing kites or wings are
Rogallo kites, named after a developer & proponent thereof.
https://blog.kittyhawk.com/kitty-hawk-kites/soaring-to-new-heights-the-l...
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 --
Hi, I'm confused
Trumps Pentagon guy says women endanger troops in combat because they just aren't up to it. Highly offensive to women. But women in sports say they can't compete with transgenders because they're too manly.
My take is in ww2 the Red Army had women in combat, and there was the French, Greek and who knows how many countries that had women in, and died for, the resistance. I wish I had a Bullshit meter. And a resistance.
The average soldier and even, arguably, top notch
soldier, neither needs nor has the physique of a pro or semi-pro athlete. A sniper has no need to bench press 250 pounds or such. Most soldiers are also armed. It is absurdly difficult to generalize about male versus female physiques. A person who sets out to be an athlete who was born male and remained male for much of his youth, who then undergoes steps to become female will almost always have an edge over female competitors of comparable weight class and such who have been female since birth in a wide variety of sports because of differences in physiology that result from their workouts. Their respective abilities to be tank drivers or gunners, riflemen, radar operators, and pretty much any other military occupation, however should be pretty much equal, given that they are the same weight class, height, and all that.
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 sure exactly how many resistors are in line
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.
within the circuit of the BS meter
it may have something to do with
external noise? or some such
electron particles in a larger array?
best guess
Resistor
resister, transistor, transister. I need to learn how to spell. Or cast one.
I am led to believe the military is transiting
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.
(or is that transmigrating, transitioning or transferring?) their policies now.
Encouraging trans-sisters to join their organization.
It's either DEI or die, can never keep them straight.
Well, this is
interesting. Trump has appointed Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/former-democratic-rep-tulsi-gabbard-trum...
The truly interesting thing will be to find out what items Ms. Gabbard will not be allowed to see. Inquiring minds want to know!
And I just saw that he has also appointed Matt Gaetz as Attorney General. The confirmation process for that will require popcorn, unless they simply fast-track it while everyone's still out of town. Why should Trump be the only one currently under investigation?
And now, we know who will serve as the tool for Trump's inevitable revenge lawfare: another one with a serious bone to pick. Interesting times, indeed.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Like the idea of Tulsi directing intelligence
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there seems to be not enough / too much in that department.
Maybe she can figure it out? Would be good if so.
My thought as well.
I do like her quote from that article: "If there's a way I can help achieve the goal of preventing World War III and nuclear war? Of course,". That is at least somewhat encouraging.
Perhaps the bulk of the efforts on the part of the intelligence community will be focused on digging out every possibly-actionable bit of dirt that can be found on the dems, and they'll leave us alone for 4 years. A guy can dream...
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Good afternoon, QMS, et al!
Little late to the party today. Mind-bending legal questions are a distraction.
I will read up a bit about the scope of duties and influence will have as head of National Intelligence. I believe she is intelligent enough to exert power where she can.
Can't think of any other appointees I like. Maybe the border czar.
It bends my mind to the breaking point to speculate about what is next.
I would tell them all to go fly a kite.
Thanks, friend!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
someone of decent uncorrupted intelligence
should be successful in that role
slipping into darkness
thanks to y'all for tolerating the scrambled rants
will leave you with a song ..
buh bye