Why Iran is lovelorn for a buyer; why the National Science Board is lovelorn for a chair; and why the Loveland Frogman was lovelorn for a tail. And more.
I just want to say thanks to whomever told me to block the bots a few weeks ago! I only blocked like three usernames and the comment count on this feed halved. (Weird…)
Most readers here don't pay. The cost is $50 US per month, so it is very steep compared to other Substacks. I think JC's business model is to give it away for free the majority of the time, but to charge a high price for the "elite readers" of the paid posts. It attracts the "I wanna be an elite" types, and even if you get 100 of them annually, it is a decent income from this.
Besides which, this Substack is the chosen hang-out of a herd of extremist religious types. Not because of the writing by JC, but because they wanted a free digital clubhouse to communicate with one another and to virtue-signal by posting Scripture. They could have chosen any Substack for this purpose, but the free ones are dwindling.
I notice that there are an average of 700-1000 comments here on an unpaid post, but 50-75 comments on a paid post. Which in a reflection of the religious extremist herd flooding the free-days, while the "elites" come in on the paid-days. It seems to suit Jeff, and he can boast that he has 1000 comments per day, while bringing in the revenue he wants from the small "elite" group.
So grateful for the blocking feature. Goodbye, A.!
ps- I’m one of the paid subscribers, even on my retired social security budget.
A. I want to put my money where my mouth is (support worthy Jesus-promoting ideals), and
B. My twin and I split the cost and gave it to each other as our birthday present, which we will be repeating this August. It is an expensive but HIGHLY appreciated gift!
(Whoops - just realized I am unintentionally proving the “hang-out of a herd of extremist religious” classification, while simultaneously disproving the “reflection of the religious extremist herd flooding the free days” theory!)
Maybe Jeff could block A. I kept him busy a few days ago but not wasting my time on a Student of Psycho nonsense today. Unless Jeff blocks him, he’ll be forever commenting negatively and personally, taking up our space, time and trying his best to divide this group of very wonderful people.
Thanks for reminding me to block you too, Marlene. Life is too short to have deal with nonsense. I am sorry you are averse to reality. But that is not my responsibility.
You seem very naive, besides. Do you really not understand that writing/publishing is a business? From Substack to MSM to the general publishing industry. They all produce writing for pay, on business models.
I am going to jump in here. I consider myself a spiritual person and not a religious one. I have never gone to Bible study. I have found my own way and it is meaningful to me. I do not understand what you find so offensive. I too am wary of any extremism for I do not feel you can unite a diverse world thinking my way is the only way. An open loving heart is the way to God. My two close girlfriends are Christian and they attend church. I do not find that to challenge me in the slightest. They are two of the kindest women I know. They embrace me also even though my beliefs can differ than theirs. What I think bonds us is the fact we want a connection with God in our lives. If reading scripture challenges you, scroll past to other commentary. It is called the power of the finger! Jeff Childers is a Christian. Of course he would attract like minds. But I have found the people on here to be kind, gracious and loving. I have found your tone to be less than that and I wonder why. Is it so impossible to embrace others of a different belief system than yours?
You miss the point entirely. Though you paint yourself as being very good. Perhaps that was your point here -- virtue-signaling. Showing off.
You sound like an adult Pollyanna. Which causes a lot of trouble for other honest persons, while you display your own supposed morality.
I think that many of us here could refute your idea that all of these religious extremists here are loving and kind, You obviously see only whatever confirms what you want to see.
Jim Jones of Jonestown was a religious extremist. And a Psychopath. So have many other religious extremist leaders and cult leaders of the past and present been. You need to grow up and understand reality.
You do not understand my points, Elizabeth, So you are jumping to conclusions which do not apply,
I already said that I am Christian. And that I hardly recognize the extremist herd on here as fellow Christians. In fact, they are more like cult followers. And several of them are very nasty to anyone outside their herd.
Seeing as I am Christian and you say you are not, I think I have a better idea of this.
Besides which, I have written and explained this here in numerous posts over the past month. The onus is not on me to repeat all of that. It costs ME the time and effort.
I have a background in Evolutionary and Depth Psychology. I recognize and have expertise in the issues of extremism, and why it is a major problem. Both in the far-leftwing WOKE-folk and in the far-rightwing religious extremists.
I might suggest that you do the background reading and studying before you think you have all the answers, That should take 8 or 10 years of effort (and expense). Then come back and debate it.
I for one, am not "averse to reality." Probably, much like Marlene. I'm averse to the abuse. From what I've read, your comments contain quite a bit of it.
Many Lil Trumpsters (aka MAGA) are deep into the cult of personality. They will not consider any research, logic, analysis, conclusions and commentary that opposes their love, trust and faith in Trump. Like an elementary schoolyard, all dissent is to be bullied, ridiculed, ostracized, ignored ... anything but considered.
04/28/26: Jeff is expensive and worth every penny he charges.
“They are filling up derelict oil tankers. They are filling up spare barrels. They are probably filling up Tupperware containers, empty swimming pools, and those little plastic cups you get at the dentist. Any day now, the Supreme Leader is going to wake up, go to the kitchen to get some milk for his Cap’n Crunch, and find that his refrigerator is completely full of light sweet crude.”
“… and those little plastic cups you get at the dentist.”
KABOOM! Laughter!
Scared the hell out of my wife. And the cat, too, if we had a cat.
Don, a minor correction for you, and others: Jeff is not expensive. His blog is a vailable for free and is published 6 days a week, come rain or shine I might add. He originally asked if some of his readers would support his work to expose the Covid Plandemic deception and push back against government overreach to limit our rights and he would publish a "bonus edition" on Sunday for those who did.
"According to data compiled by maritime intelligence firms including Vortexa, at least 34 Iran-linked tankers and gas carriers have successfully transited the strait since the blockade came into effect. Of these, 19 vessels exited the Persian Gulf carrying cargo, while others entered the region."
For anyone reading this and wanting to know how to block certain commentors.
Click on the commentors name, that will take you to their profile. From there click on the 3 dots to the right of their name and you can block or mute them. Block is my preference.
Thank you! There are a few here that blocking will make my stay here a LOT more pleasant......like turning off the clanging cymbal or taking the ice pick out of my ear.
I've always hated this theory. How can you know you dont want to read it until you read it???
Kinda like saying, if you dont want to think about a pink elephant, than you should have just *not* read me talking about a pink elephant. See how dumb that is?
Thx. I added my comment after reading about twelve that were related to blocking each other. I was looking for intelligent reflections on Jeff’s article, not a ‘tit for tat’ ´did not did too’ from the back seat of the station wagon. How pink elephants came into play I’ve no idea…
Ah, I wrote several posts here this week about the tactic of calling someone else a bot, when you want to smear them. Because thay do not agree with you. It is getting a bit old, and boring now.
I see that you are talented in using smear tactics, just like the baddies Jeff writes about.
Regardless of what he is and I don't think he's a bot. Unless they have an AI bot that writes that good and they don't. They all have "tells" and I don't see any.
As far as the rest of the name calling goes I can only say "Doesn't matter. Is he correct or wrong?". If the latter then please expound on why.
I am not dismissive of Christianity here; I am a balanced Christian myself. What I am dismissive of is extremism, and the religious variety which is not Christianity at all. They only think it is.
Posting Scripture to one another in their free digital clubhouse and wagging judgmental fingers at everyone else is not Christianity. It is more like cult control by domineering figures over persons who are vulnerable, and will follow these demands.
You find the same kind of group extremism in the WOKE-folk of the far-leftwing.
You don’t even know me and you have made a huge assumption about me without any information . I asked a question I would genuinely like to know the answer to.
You may have misjudged Lori? Apparently you blocked her before this reply to you “You are mistaken me for someone else. We have not previously had a conversation. And, I rarely comment.”
When I said "Found one!" I was referring to the commenter who responded to your questions with a snotty answer. After I posted that, I wondered if it would be taken the wrong way, and indeed, it was. Sorry about that. But I did find one.
A very valid question. My def, and it's mine alone, is that when someone is willing to rationalize and justify violence on others. All religions have done that. Some more than others but all do it.
Most people will acquiesce with their silence while it is going on. They are not extremists but they are cowards. That's 90% of the species. They can't question authority as shown in the Milgram authority experiment.
Stanford prison experiment showed 90% of people turn into power trippers when given authority over others.
I think I have been over this with you before. And at the end of all my information, you make a contemptuous remark but fail to absorb what I am saying.
Actually, you have just proven that you are both comtemptible, and that you attack others for their opinions when those opinions do not match yours, That is very anti-American. Are you writing from North Korea?
You sound as if you must be either in the WOKE-folk camp, or the far-rightwing religious extremist camp. Because this is their kind of ugly comeback. Both extremes use it.
A, you're a late commer to Coffee and Covid so you don't understand the genesis of the $50 voluntary donation, The donation was to help fund Jeff's yoeman work on exposing the details of the Covid 19 false flag manipulation event, and the Sunday addition, as a "thank you" to the volunteer financial supporters. Jeff created a platform to train attorneys, and others, to pursue the truth of the plandemic and push back on the violation of our rights. He needed some funds to get started and some of us were willing to pitch in knowing we would likeky benefit and there were few who were willing to do what Jeff did. The $50 is not really a subscription fee.
Paid membership is $500/year. I think that's about $42/month? Something like that. You're funny with your "virtue-signaling" and "extreme religious types". Jeff boasting?😂
I personally was a full-out democrat until about 2023, when I started actually thinking for myself. Reasons for paying the fee, for myself: getting to read Jeff's stuff on a Sunday (a tied ribbon of optimism for my week!) -- and to support the readers who, for the most part (respondee excluded) I have come to know as a loving, prayerful, and very human group; family, if you will. And to support what I believe. I'm actually sorry your take is so cynical. Perhaps you might eventually be able to step back, breathe, and see a broader picture. As always, it's up to you, my friend.
I will point out that much of what is called the 'extremist religious types' in the Collective West is what was the norm in Protestant Reformation groups back in the 15th to 18th centuries. The theological foundation which gave birth the American habit of practice of unalienable Rights such as of what the Declaration for Independence document speaks is solely from the Reformation The unalienable Rights are now totally eclipsed, replaced by mutable shape-shifting civil rights. American exceptionalism is in point of fact the Rights of Liberty God-given and separate from and inviolate by the reach of the civil sword.
This is very much no widely known or recognized. It is lapsed knowledge. And the entire American system of law has been inverted from what it once was.
Blocked A again. I thought he left after last week after my calling him a “student” and unblocked yesterday and didn’t see him so I thought , great. Now I see “it” jumped across the road again and yep! There “it” is.
Omg....you are so funny!!!! I just peed myself i laughed so hard.
Nope, u r so 100% wrong. But m, you know it. We all know you have a goal and what that goal is.
We are nowhere close to extememist. Yep we know we are on target because of you....whatever you are... troll, pd opposition or probably just fing crazy.
Im not religious. So, you got one wrong. I am a commonsense, middle of tbe road,
NORMAL person. I found my tribe here.
I dont pay. Jeff openly says that he prices it so that only those who can afford can if they want. He encourages people to not pay if it they cant afford to easily.
I could tell a major difference in Sundays comments. It is what it is and you saying it aint doesnt make a hill of beans to any of us.
I will block you but im gonna make sure i wait long enough to have my comment out there. Maybe you will block me first... if so, thank ya!
“Religious Extremists”? If it’s extreme to place no other gods before the Creator, I own it.
Free Press had one of their journalists interview university students, after the recent assassination attempt. Asking them if they thought killing someone for holding diverse political views was okay. 90% were sympathetic, understanding or fully agreed it was a valid action one may need to take.
And removing God directly relates to much of what ails this land. It’s not a religion, but a relationship I have with Jesus. I pray He blesses you.
Try not lump groups together. This is what is happening with antisemitism right now. And BLM bringing back the race card, to continue division. The enemy of man knows well how to divide & conquer. Peace ☮️
I noticed that JC is “#2 in Health Politics with thousands of paid subscribers”. That’s a VERY nice income! At the $500 per subscriber annual rate, 2000 paid subscribers is 1M per year! JC may be one of the highest earners on Substack. Nothing altruistic about it at that level.
I enjoy reading here- I appreciate the optimistic takes by don’t hang out in the comments much. As a recovering fundamentalist Christian, the Bible verses always being at the top of the comments is triggering.
click on their name and then when it comes up click the 3 dots then block. I am blocking one on this thread who may not be a Bot but is VERY annoying! 🤣
For anyone reading this and wanting to know how to block certain commentors.
Click on the commentors name, that will take you to their profile. From there click on the 3 dots to the right of their name and you can block or mute them. Block is my preference.
It’s true - I call them bots but it’s just as likely some of them are paid agitators. And they must post sooo many comments if it lowered my comment feed total by so much to block just a few!
I’m pretty cold about it now. Wielding the Vorpal Sword as mentioned at the top of the post. I had to look it up and found a reason to use it. Metaphorically of course. 🤷🏼♀️🤔
I blocked a few, was pretty sure I didn’t block the zero “guy”, haven’t run across comments from that account for awhile. Maybe I blocked and forgot.
Anyway, I just blocked the latest commenter who doesn’t seem to know when to scroll on past content deemed offensive to them/it. I scrolled past that one many many times after reading several replies over weeks, until today…when I saw the repeated ad hominem attacks….decision made and done.
I disagree with and see commentary here not to my taste and yet, overall it’s more uplifting and informative and intelligent than any other commenting I have ever seen.
I Have learned a great deal in this comment world; and appreciate the challenges to my views.
The ones I have blocked have been relentless in negativity, ad hominem attacks, moral superiority, and assertions with zero (!) receipts. Oh and unsupported generalizations.
Yes, it's so helpful. "A." believes evangelicals are coercive, extremist, controlling, and judgmental. He knows this because he watched the movie "Marjoe" many years ago (it was released in 1972). If you respond to him (could be a her, to be fair) in some way he deems un-Christianlike, he insults. A person totally without self-awareness. Better blocked!
Yes, anyone who argues in bad faith and/or is deliberately insulting and has indulged in name calling, I have no more patience for or interest in interacting with them.
The formality with which A. expresses itself makes me think A.I. Either that or it is a psychopath like Hannibal Lecter. That’s who I think about when reading its posts.
I played with it a bit. I believe it gleaned information from my previous comments to rope me in and keep me engaged for awhile; in agreement with some ideas then boom! I blocked it.
The World Order sets up countless groups to promote any type of idea, and then sets up other groups to fanatically oppose them, but the masters have no dedication to anything except slavery." The World Order Eustace Mullins 1992
Now the time to attack imaginary "leftists" for recent events.
Click on their name/avatar, which takes you to their page. Then look for the three dots on the right side of the page, click on that and choose "block"! It really does improve the comments section.
how does one "block the bots" here (and presumably elsewhere)? In this case, saying "I missed the memo" is not just figuratively true but literally true. TIA.
Click on their avatar. Look for the three dots - usually upper right - and click. Choose “block” from the menu. You’ll still see the blocked user until you “refresh” the comments (or leave and come back).
Click on their name/avatar, which takes you to their page. Then look for the three dots on the right side of the page, click on that and choose "block"!
Click on their name/avatar, which takes you to their page. Then look for the three dots on the right side of the page, click on that and choose "block"!
I think a user named “A.” is who they are referring to, but that may have been a different thread. There are several that appear to be bots or paid trolls, and they interact with each other, and ALWAYS reply to every reply which really multiplies the number of comments. If you block them, you also won’t see all the replies.
Click on their avatar/profile pic. Look for the three dots - usually upper right - and click. Choose “block” from the menu. You’ll still see the blocked user until you “refresh” the comments (or leave and come back).
Click on their name/avatar, which takes you to their page. Then look for the three dots on the right side of the page, click on that and choose "block"!
It’s hard to believe that just over 15 months ago we were living under a president that had fully opened the gates to our country. This had devastating effects to our families, our children and our neighbors. He allowed in much more than 20 to 30 million unvetted illegal aliens. He ushered in drugs, addiction, child trafficking, a war on religion, a devalued currency, inflation, debt, poverty. I believe he ushered in this culture of political violence and assassination. He sent hundreds of billions of dollars to fight foreign wars, billions to our enemies. Our tax dollars were funding evil acts completely contrary to Christian belief.
In one day just 15 months ago, a new watchman entered the White House. After 4 years of a physical and spiritual invasion the gates were finally shut.
The watchman on the wall is an ancient story that goes back to the Old Testament. God consistently uses imperfect individuals demonstrating His power is perfected in weakness not strength. God works through willing hearts, using everyday people to achieve extraordinary purposeful outcomes, to accomplish His Divine purposes.
The Watchman On The Wall
The watchman stands on a wall. Behind him is a city with its citizens and people the warchman loves. Before him is the vastness of the outside world, a world of enemies and threats, both small and large. With a weapon in his hand, he stays awake late into the night, keeping his eyes on the horizon and the shadows, ready to give the clarion call of any approaching evil.
It is a simple image, yet it is full of meaning and complexity. For men and women of today, we see the importance of a warrior standing guard. This image from a thousand years ago once again engenders the same emotional urgency and sobriety today as it did back then.
And there are still threats. There are still enemies. And the Bible uses the image of the watchman on the wall to call us to join God in protecting those we are responsible for, today as it was then it’s our children and our families.
Ironically today like thousands of years ago we witnessed hordes of invaders at our borders, and watched as our watchmen opened the gates, they allowed an invasion of our home. The threats today are more real and more dangerous than ever. In to many cases the watchman has turned against us. I sit in amazement again and again at how history repeats itself. We still certainly need true warriors on the wall.
1. Vigilance and alertness. Just as a watchman on the wall is vigilant and alert to potential threats, we are called to remain spiritually vigilant and watchful.
The world is filled with various influences, temptations, and challenges that can divert our focus from God.
Being a watchman reminds us to stay awake and attentive, guarding our hearts and minds against anything that could compromise our faith.
2. Responsibility for others. A watchman has a responsibility to warn and protect others. Likewise, Christians have a responsibility to care for and nurture fellow believers.
This includes encouraging one another, offering support, and sharing the truth of God's Word. Being a watchman teaches us to look out for the spiritual well-being of our brothers and sisters in Christ.
3. Proclamation of truth. Watchmen announce impending danger, and Christians are called to proclaim the truth of the gospel, including the imminent return of Jesus.
In addition, we can prophetically warn of coming attacks of our spiritual enemy and the dangers of ideas that come against the knowledge of God, just as a watchman’s trumpet warns the city.
4. Discernment and discipleship. A watchman must discern between genuine threats and false alarms. Similarly, Christians need discernment to distinguish between sound doctrine and deceptive teachings.
The story of the watchmen on the wall is as relevant today as it ever was. Never forget where we were just 16 months ago. Happy Tuesday!! J.Goodrich
And our wonderful Watchman just shut down another massive grift of our taxpayer dollars through the corrupt NSF pipeline to phony NGOs, fake "scientists" and scientific ballot fillers/stuffers. Thank you Watchman Trump and may God continue to bless and protect you.
To say what dept of indoctr... errr educa...was doing was "higher education" is a false narrative. It was only left communist indoctrination from K thru MA.
The plan was to shut down the dept of education. Trump called for its elimination with an executive action in March 2025. So part of that plan was to move sections to other depts.
I'm with you Clem. That decision was a no brainer. (Kinda like getting rid of the no-brainers?) Not against teachers, let teachers teach. It's the bureaucracy, administrators and overhead that are killing us. And our kids' brains.
It doesn't happen over night, McMahon is still undoing that corrupt bullshit agency against the will of the crackpot low life in corrupt criminal congress.
Im not aware of any fair elections. Unless there is some place in the USA using paper ballots, handcounted at small precincts and reported by trusted couriers under police escort ? If there are machines and mail in ballots there is not a fair election.
It didn't start with Biden and, if the Dems are ever in the White House again, it will return. These people are globalists who do not want borders....nor do they want white, even though they, themselves, are white....what kind of mind wants to destroy their own culture and "tribe"....
Dancing: I am not trying to be contrary but whoever follows DJT as POTUS will return to the tried-and-true grift and corruption we know—robbing the tax-payers to pay the criminals, while skimming and laundering as the funds pass by. Only a person with seemingly boundless wealth, an IDGAFlip attitude about re-election, and the protection of Almighty God can stand against TPTB. As I have said, God broke the mold after he created DJT.🙏🏻
I am not certain what you are saying (for or against DJT) or what you are responding to...mankind is mankind and has not changed since the day that man stood up on two legs…the battle between good and evil is as old as the world with humans is…If you are supportive of DJT, then he is what was sent and needed at this time but will not be the only one…he gives courage to those who feel that they are alone and in a corner by themselves, including many European leaders who are held hostage by the EU and the truly evil VDL….
A great commentator historian to listen to, especially how Islam invades and captures a culture - listen to William Federer. The West is in GREAT peril!
You have TDS …. being so deranged by your blind cult-like fealty to tRump that you cannot see the obvious truth punching you in the face: that he is objectively one of the most despicable humans in America. A convicted felon, an adjudicated sexual predator, historic levels of corruption, probably a pedophile, certainly the most illiterate and intellectually limited person in the history of our government. That you still support this mound of mad flesh is true Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Jeff! I can’t believe you missed the opportunity to talk about Ilhan Omar’s ‘world war eleven’ speech! Maybe tomorrow because I know your take would be one for the books.
Why is she still in our country instead of being returned to her beloved s'hole somalia. How can it take years to determine if she committed immigration fraud by marrying her brother and stealing millions of taxpayer dollars by rampant fraud in s'hole michigan?
I agree! If I did something remotely illegal I’d be shackled and in prison so fast. I want her GONE. Set an example. I’m ready for some examples to be made
Seriously. She’s like one of those street interviews you see where they ask someone to name a country that starts with B and the chick says ‘Barney!’ With full confidence.
I guess it’s good that she knows that two of the letter “I” make the number 11, and didn’t say “World War ‘eye eye’” Thank goodness for the Learing Center!
My experience was a scorpion in the leg of my jeans. We had a little emergency at 2am and I jumped out of bed and threw on my jeans. I counted seven welts that tracked the thing as it fell down towards the floor. It was more effective then even the strongest cup of coffee.
oh, and one time while galloping on my horse I "captured" a bumblebee between my thigh and the saddle...my jeans protected me a bit, but the stinger still got through
And mine was chasing this enormous roach in military housing at Schofiled Barracks, HI, only to witness that bastard turn on me, charge, run up my leg between my pants and leg!!! Ive never gotten out of my pants faster! But it did pay with its life for that terrifying, defiant act. Anyone who has been to HI can attest ti the size of the roaches... and Im not just talking about the two legged democrat roaches that run that place... into the volcanic ground.
Yep! Been there, seen plenty! 😳😂. In Florida, we called them Palmetto bugs, and they are as big as those in Hawai’i! And those suckers can fly! 😱
There was one on the kitchen counter while we were in east Maui (rainforest basically), my adult son did a small freak out as the monster startled him. I cut a deal with him (my son, not the giant cocktail): I KILL the sucker before it thundered away, but son has to clean up the cream-filled center disgusting remains!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. The whole debacle was pretty doggoned 🤢. 😂
I believe ‘Palmetto bugs’ is the fancy name that transplanted Yankees gave to roaches. As a Florida native, I was an adult before I heard that high class terminology. We ‘crackers’ just always dealt with roaches.
GAH! Palmetto Bugs! 😱 I've dealt with so many of them that, according to my family, I even have a specific scream when I encounter one. They call it my "roach scream" and they know to grab a shoe and get to work. 😁
It was horrifying, wife screaming, children crying as i literally chased it around our two story house, finally cornered it in the bathroom, only to have it turn and attack... and when it was all said and done immensely funny!!😂😂
These kinds of stories always make me grateful to live in a place where it gets cold enough that we don’t have to deal with those creepy crawlies 😆 Winter doesn’t seem so bad, all things considered 😁
Yikes! I have been bitten twice by a copperhead snake (7yrs apart) (painful!!!) - I pray I never experience a black widow, brown recluse, or scorpion sting .... Ugh - stinging insects and venomous creatures. I have no love for them - even if they do serve a purpose in God's (fallen) nature.
In 2007 (pinkie finger bite) I spent night in hospital - mainly because I had reaction to the anti-venom! ($10K per shot!) - it was painful but pretty quick healing.
In 2014 (I was bitten on foot! Much worse bite!)
Went to ER for morphine which doesn't take pain away - just helps you ride it out. And leaves you with morphine sickness (at least me - hate the stuff - but the pain is soooo bad! Think a 500 hornets or so as it liquifies your tissue!)
I didn't stay overnight - too expensive!
I also didn't take anti-venom shots which then cost $50K per shot!!!)
Alas - I developed cellulitis from the bite - and it took 10 months for me to get a shoe on decently - and SO PAINFUL!
I was not from a state that had venomous snakes - but I learned after those two bites - and I pray and ask God to protect me!
I see them all the time now - but God has been faithful - no more bites!
I had a brown recluse bite some years back, and didn't have insurance. I asked a friend in the medical industry what a hospital does with a spider bite, and he said I'd be given painkiller and the area would be excised. Well, this bite was on my inner thigh, about 6 inches above my knee, and had volcanoed (rose up about an inch, then collapsed inward)...I'd have lost a large portion of my muscle there!
I researched "old-time remedies for spider bite", and the overall answer was "COMPRESSES". I put clay mixed with vinegar on it, and then a did a salt compress. The most disgusting black stuff came out of the wound, and it healed with just a tiny dimple for a scar!
I'm sure there's times and bite/sting types that call for immediate hospitalization, but this worked for me!
Love that idea! Where did you get the clay? Please state how you did the salt compound. I didn't have insurance either. First hospital stay overnight cost me almost $20K in 2007. Second ER visit less than $2K! I would go home - nothing they can do for you there you can't do at home for yourself!
Rolled over on a scorpion in bed, after hubs insisted there was nothing under the covers but us (gotta love Florida). I swear I levitated two feet straight up. I caught a honeybee in my armpit while driving a Volkswagen bus with my elbow on the open window (no a/c. In Florida.). Trying to downshift, steer, and get the bee out of my armpit while doing 45 was a challenge.
And you lived to regale us in spite of these assassination attempts. I drive with the windows up, never leave them open when I park and dont park under trees.
Clearly you have never lived in Florida, where we can tell when the seasons change by the percentage of cars in the Publix parking lot that have traded the close-in parking spaces for the shady perimeters. Otherwise you burn your hands on the steering wheel. Gotta love Florida.
Eau contraire. I lived in Florida for about 18 months, in Port Charlotte from Jan 1975 to June 1976. As with the rest of the planet, its vastly different now. It was bloody hot in the summer but its pretty hot and humid where I grew up too. Its a very large state. Beautiful, fun.
Yeah I'm pretty old now and retired. My husband will retire in a couple years and we plan to get the hell outta dodge. Don't want to go too far as we were blessed with our first grandchild last November. We also enjoy the company of our now grown children. Always have. My family are my hands down fav peeps. Celebrated our 31st wedding anniversary this year and plan to be together till death do us part. I fortunate to have found such a great partner. Too bad for him maybe....
Neil: my S-I-L got a brown recluse spider bite on the inside of her thigh the same way you got your scorpion stings. Lesson learned: I hang up my jeans. 😳😳
Eeegads!! I can appreciate the elegance of SPIDERS but I very much prefer to do it from a healthy distance. Same thing with bears, mtn lions, venomous creepy crawlies and def stinging insects. I watched a special very short documentary a good long time ago and it's focus was black widow spider bites. My neighbor was bitten by a recluse and she wound up in the hospital.
HARD PASS, NO THANKS ANY SPIDER BITE. Black widows, like recluse spiders like to find dark, warm places to set up camp. Like your shoes, clothes basements and garages. Ugh, just thinking about it give me the willie's.
My scorpion stings lasted, in decreasing levels, for about 48 hours. I’ve been stung by wasps more times than I can count, and that pain goes away pretty quickly for me.
Okay, get your rotten tomatoes ready. While I fully support getting rid of a bunch of woke bureaucrats who love the power and money bestowed upon them by the US Federal Government in all its largesse, I probably would have voted for the studies on the extinction of pollinators in Hawaii. Like it or not, pollinators are important. I hope we Conservatives can agree that despite the climate change craziness, there are good reasons to preserve the beauty and wonder that God has wrought. Okay, launch those tomatoes......3........2.............1
Yeah, I remember decades ago fun being made of studying zebra mussels in the great lakes. Turned out zebra mussels were a huge problem. Followed by quagga mussels with similar major, negative impact. I still like firing the 25 board members. Smart and honest replacements would know the importance of pollinators and zebra mussels, but pass on the real grift, which is massive.
And mussels still are a problem. And we know why pollinators are suffering. Still we build, still we use pesticides, still we plant turf instead of wildflowers. Why does the NSF need another layer of board members? It doesn't. Bee watcher watchers.
Well said. Real science, the kind that is performed to enhance the quality of human life or in stewardship of our magnificent planet. I read about a rather large grant given to either a college or maybe just reasearch group where they were studying "trans"mice! Like how did they ascertain that the creature was trans? Ridiculous beyond words. Climate science is another boondoggle of a subject. Ah well, disease prevention and cures, disabling injuries and just plain wear and tear is real science. Putting ppl up in space is science. Fauci is NOT science. That old saying; and ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, is wisdom. ( I have good advice i give it to others. I rarely use it so I give it away.)
Agree. Well before COVID it was clear what's called "science" has been anything but, for decades. Agenda and greed driven BS is what it's been. Still, there are some success stories, like keeping the Asian carp out of Lake Michigan. I'm sure a superficial mention of that program would strike the uninformed as a boondoggle when it's actually vitally important. Re your last sentence, the most impressive guy I ever knew said "a lot of guys know what to do and how to do it. That doesn't matter unless they do it". Or similar wording. Remembering that helps sometimes.
Yes pollinators are crucial. Let us just get if funded through honest and transparent channels and bypassing the libtard scientists that also told us covid jabs were good for everyone.
The problem with these kinds of federal studies though, is that they a priori ignore some obvious influences – – like electromagnetic radiation. Don’t want to offend some sponsor on the congressional funding committee…
Amen! As someone with an EMF sensitivity (not as bad as some others I know) it’s quite frustrating. The blinders the government and science puts on to protect special interests has made me loose all trust in them.
Thanks for the link. It makes sense to me. I have wondered to what extent and how all the microwaves and power line discharges really affects ppl. I've been told it has no effect but then we get lied to daily so I have no confidence in "official" reports.
Yeah, and greater reasons to fire the NSF in its entirety for pushing the bullshitism of the created crisis of climate change and other green retard fake science and bilking the taxpayers for billions upon billions to steal elections and redistribute wealth.
You act as if any good science will automatically disappear without the corrupt NSF. I submit it will be far more likely that real science will get funded. So yeah, you get a rotten tomato.
That's actually not what I meant at all. I'm happy to have let the bureaucrats go. But there are plenty of good and important studies that need to be done. We should have a better way of vetting potential studies so they are not perverted by the left wing academics so prevalent in the bureaucracy.
Yep, the lefty liars are out trying to plant a false narrative... now we get the created crisis of loss of pollinators well I'm here to tell you I have a shitload of pollinators living in my backyard!
I stop my lawn care service here in Florida around November and I don’t pick it up again till June. My lawn guy calls it the ‘bees and butterflies’ pause.
Next door has an immaculate lawn, but so far they haven’t complained. They get back at me by putting all their yard debris at my curb for pickup and I consider that fair.
The thing is the studies that are worthy can still be done and funded by a different committee/department not wasting tax payer dollars. Like some NSAID projects being moved to the State Department, they aren’t killing what’s worthy of being funded by our tax dollars, (which frankly shouldn’t be much as private corps and charities can be doing it if they are that interested), but they will be funding those worthy issues differently and monitored by more trustworthy hands.
Juju, Read Sayer Ji's substack. He is showing all the proof, Fauci's emails on how he lied and asked people to delete the emails. We have until May 11 to indict Fauci and we can, even with the pardon.
Jan: not a tomato but a comment that ‘studying’ is just the first step. Actual action rarely follows. If the funds could be tied to quantifiable results then I could agree.
I kind of agree with you Jan. But after watching my " college degreed brother" work on issues like this. The incompetence and bureaucracy of studying and doing nothing really productive. Has soured me on that kind of bureaucracy everywhere.
I get better information on YouTube videos on how to regenerate the environment with biodiversity and good land management. Which brings all the pollinators back and nature does the heavy lifting.
My yard is a very good example. Plenty of biodiversity. No bare land birds butterflies pollinators frogs toads tarantulas. And other night time critters I haven't seen yet. Oh and I can't forget the worms. Nature's, excavators and fertilizers. 🌻
True, Jan, but it only figures that a handful of worthy studies would seep out of a committee that comes up with worthless studies the rest of the time. I'll bet there are a couple of sane and reasonable scientists who lost their jobs out of the 25.
No tomatoes Jan, but have the pineapple growers (DelMonte comes to mind) pay up for the research. Or, I know, stop using pesticides. There, solved it for ya. Send a check to me now. Or, refund my State and Federal taxes for 2025. That oughta cover it.
I remember years ago reading that Monsanto had taken over and ruined Hawaii with their GMO stuff...Round-up will kill pollinators....maybe that would be a good start....my neighbor back in the woods used to talk about no pollinators and he used Round-up. I do not and have pollinators. He has remarried and I think that Round-up is not his chosen means to kill unwanted plants.
FO, firing the NSF hasn't a damn thing to do with love of creation so quit peddling that bullshit narrative. It has to do with ending a corrupt agency who abused and misused billions of our dollars. Maybe we will finally get a legitimate real science agency????
I agree with your points. I was thinking that a board of advisors who were volunteers, not paid, except maybe commuter gas stipen, might draw a different class of “experts” who saw themselves selves as real public servants and only had “authority” to provide suggestions for improved policies to actual elected officials accountable to their constituents. There has been way too much leaching from taxpayers for unnecessary and unfounded $cience. As a Cali valley native, I want to protect our bees and pollinators. But there has to be better, more accountable, common-sense results based advisory sources without lining the pockets of left-leaning bureaucratic leaches.
Yes, that would be a better way, I think. We have far too many people being (well) paid by the taxpayers to work for these kinds of committees, or boards, or whatever, without really having any accountability.
OMGosh! Jeff! 🤣😂 What would we do without you?! I am laughing so hard my face has broken…i weep for the poor folks who don’t subscribe to coffee & covid. They are missing the BEST part of anyone’s day….from ‘screaming at your spouse to haul the kiddie pool into the kitchen’ to ‘California’s would be a learning center with actual students in it’ you have me chortling & smiling ear to ear. God bless and protect you & yours forever & ever! ❤️ You are a treasure to each one of us! I’m off to chortle my day away!😂
I’m amazed by Trumps prescient decision to close the strait. American oil value and leverage increases with every day. May the Iranian leadership drown in oil.
I own some inherited gas leases. They’ve paid out a pittance over the last 5 years. This month I received a (relatively) huge check, 5 times the normal amount! (I can afford to buy a Starbucks coffee now…nah, never mind!) Regardless, American Oil and Gas is starting to zoom!
I really wish our "art-of-the-deal" Commander in Chief would negotiate a better deal for fuel prices for us commoners. Maybe threaten to stop their subsidies if they dont play ball and give us all a break. We pay them to thrive maybe they could reciprocate during times like these. I know market finances are above my educational pay grade but my wallet is still struggling.
The leverage potential is stunning, and the EU set itself up to get fulcromed. If the EU comes begging Trump for oil, what might he ask for in exchange? Greenland? Repatriation of the 3rd world they imported? Greta to take a three-hour cruise on the reflecting pool? At the very least, he’ll thank them for saving the planet with their windmills and solar panels.
Yah, this is kinda what the left gets. Blocking reasonable fiscal restraint initiatives in the courts using biased judges has been fairly effective.
Which forced the administration into something that might well be unchallengeable - just firing everyone then dragging its feet on hiring replacements.
Fuck 'em. "Experts" are the bane of society nowadays.
An expert is someone who gets paid...and the response from the expert is whatever the payer wants it to be.....sort of like the word "professional"....someone who gets paid...
They are professionals. And like all professionals, some are expert and some are not so much...but it IS the oldest profession in the world, there will always be a market, and it is, like funeral homes and bars, recession proof.
I attended a New England boarding school recently awarded the dubious distinction as the #1 private school in America (by 'experts').
Glancing with increasingly 'gimletted' eyes at the alumni notes, I was shocked - and not - at the utter and complete absense of ANY details which had real meaning for life. Mostly global initiative shit, and who's taken a cruise recently.
Big bad storms yesterday all over my region, I had some early in the morning, my internet was out, missed yesterday's C&C. Then worse ones later in the day, and another internet outage. But no damaging winds, just torrential rain and scary lightning. The sun came out after the last one!
Imma suggest rain dances. We've had periodic drought type issues to your north. The farmers up here were left high and dry the past couple seasons. If the corn's not knee high by July its a bust. So far this year is going a bit better. We had a real winter this past season for the first time in years which helps much.
Stay safe, but sounds like you’re dealing with what your neighbors to the north had the end of March and much of April. Torrential rain in the form of t-storms, one after the other. Many parts of the lake areas near the Straits of Mackinac are still dealing with water levels threatening old dams and locks.
Same in Mid-Mo. I have lived here nearly 40 years. We get one annually (maybe more) but have had 3 in several days. None of the predicted high winds, thankfully.
I am a retired petroleum engineer and do not believe that the claims that Iran cannot shut-in their wells because they will fail. It is likely a false or misinformed narrative that the White House is spreading. Oil and gas wells are difficult to reactivate if they have pumping units or downhole electric submersible pumps on them and the producing formation is comprised of in consolidated sandstone, which is like beach sand. When wells in those type of oil/gas fields are shut-in, the sand can enter the well bore and cause the down-hole pump to plug up or stick. However, most of Iran’s fields are not this type. The vast majority of large Middle East oil fields are comprised of carbonates (I.e., limestone or dolomite), which is consolidated like permeable cement. Also, Iran likely has a high percentage of naturally flowing wells (needs confirmation) with no pumps, except in their older fields. Finally, repressurization at the well always occurs when wells are shutin because the wellbore was the low pressure withdrawal point. After the well is closed, the pressure across the entire field tries to equalize. Thus, pressure at the well location and its nearby drainage area goes up. When shut-in wells are reactivated, they typicallly return to production at higher rates if there are no downhole problems such as corroded, collapsed or stuck equipment. The White House narrative needs to be questioned.
Yeah, but unfortunately a whole lot of important info is ommitted from Jeff's (government's) takes. Like the fact that China and Russia have a lot of interest in Iran being stable, and we don't know how things may go if this continues on and Iran needs help. They likely will not just allow Iran to be destroyed by the West.
If you listen to the ladies at Promethean Action, it is the City of London corporation which is really losing in this....Russia is not hurting as the price of oil goes up...China is hurting because they own all the gas going into China....
I have been surprised that China has not sent naval tanker escorts with their tankers going to Iran for oil.
Russia too could send Naval escorts to support the LEGAL transit of all peaceful shipping (oil tankers), justified by the grossly illegal actions of a belligerent country's military/Navy.
IMHO, the US has clearly been acting in violation of long accepted international maritime law. The US has not declared war on Iran, so seizing, attacking, boarding or blockading peaceful flagged ships in territorial waters like the strait of Hormuz without a Security Council authorization is grossly illegal.
I like Billy Bob. I like Sam Elliot. But the show has become a soap opera. Maybe it always was and I just didn't notice. Still watch. From the West through and through. Sure it's disputable whether West Texas is the West. That's Jeff's wheelhouse. I'll encourage y'all to read Empire of the Summer Moon. Let's see how "Western" we feel.
A lot of shows (the good ones imo) are well-disguised soap operas, but is that a bad thing? In order to have a decent show, you have to like the characters, or even love to despise them. Dallas (which is the Landman comparison) was definitely a soap opera as well.
Blows my mind that over half the country rolled up their sleeves and threw their arms out to take directly into their bloodstream a untested, unsafe, and ineffective gene therapy injection.
Also a retired petroleum engineer and I can give a hearty "amen" to Ranbo's comment. We shut in wells all the time. Its how we work on them (change pump, add productive intervals, clean out sand, etc). The narrative that a shut in creates permanent loss is just wrong in most cases.
With the comments of two retired Oil engineers fresh, i asked Duck AI to discuss the iran oil wells shut down effects. Got a both/and answer. Essentially time down is the issue. If they shut down for a few days to few weeks most wells of all types can be revived, and sometimes produce more for a time. However the longer down, things happen both in the wells, drill/pump equipment and transport that may have far reaching effects. The mature wells and strata of Iran had several unique effects and risks. So, while pres Trump's actual words may not be correct in detail, his meaning is pretty clear. He can shut them down for as long as he wants, or destroy them. We must look for what he means not just what he says.
I am going to presume for arguments sake that the WH is being advised on this by people who should know: the US oil companies....what is put out may be a simplified version which can be understood by the layman....
Read the comments on any other site and you will see the total failure of most people to even see the big picture of what is going on. Everything has to be simplified because the nuances of actions get lost. People are just not interested in the big picture....we are still in the "It's all about me." mentality.
Um, false narrative. That is the pedestal on which Dems stand. Their very existence needs to be questioned. Keep priorities in check like massive fraud and their violent rhetoric.
I love all the TAW retards trying to rebut a well articulated comment. Your expirenance in petroleum tears apart the 8200 hasbara lies. Thanks for a reality dose in the propaganda shit storm..Cannot for the life of me understand why retards cheer on their demise..Why do retards cheer on runaway inflation from this disaster? Just to clap TAW...Clown show freaks....All of them!
While I appreciate your clear expertise, it was still funny. It reminded me of a time my younger brother and his friends accidently set a small fire in wooded area at the end of our street. He and his friends came frantically running in the house to get water.. most of them grabbed 8oz. paper cups and then ran back to the fire site. Most of the water they retrieved was spilled trying to run with it. I still chuckle thinking about it. We called the fire dept and they had it out in minutes but those boys vanished into thin air for hours. They were all grounded for the rest of the summer.
I'm glad to hear that. I shudder to think of the downstream effects of the sudden and permanent impoverishment of a country with 90 million people - the great majority being muslims - with new reasons to hate the west.
I have to push back a little on one comment on here. If that foundation was doing a legitimate study of the extinction of pollinators, that actually is a big deal. We have a huge problem with honeybees in this country dying off. Basically no pollinators= no food. Big trouble for everything that eats.
Studies like this don't have to flow through this board. It will be "legitimately" studied elsewhere, somehow, some way. One good and worthy study out of a slew of worthless ones may be a big deal, but not enough to keep this thing alive. And if I understand it, he fired the board of the NSF. He did not disband the NSF itself.
But it’s most likely that the bees are being killed by chem trails and glyphosate, but you know what the Science Board is never going to allow a study to show? That.
They weren’t funding science or we’d already have that information. They are funding bribery, graft, and corruption.
Kathy, the important word is "study". They're likely doing nothing about the actual issue, just talking about it. Perhaps the Administration can put another group in charge that will actually do studies in order to force those who are hurting the pollinators (like mono-croppers) to make needed changes.
"He fired all 25 members of the National Science Foundation’s board, " Wow, this is very concerning. Who is going to conduct the annual, decades long study on the benefits / risks of drinking coffee every day?
Bipartisan cracks me up. Reminds me of how a Republican led legislature in Michigan allowed a ruthless governor and her equally rotten AG and SoS, lock down the residents for a year during 2020, and threw up their hands and said, “nothing we can do”. Then they all retired in 2022 and we got our first Democrat led Legislature in 40 years.
Kinda makes ya wonder why we R voters keep voting for people who constantly capitulate to their political "betters" (NOT!) and who just can't seem to stand up on their hind legs and kick D butt! (Maybe they are all froggy cryptids wearing suits and red ties.....)
Yes! I live in Loveland and have never heard about this mystical creature. I’ve kayaked the Little Miami many times. Much stranger things are in the Ohio river.
Ditto. Wasting legislation time like they did during covid lockdowns. While many had their loved ones held hostage in nursing homes and not getting the home healthcare they needed, our legislators were busy discussing a new license plate to be issued
Good morning C&C!! Pray for our President!
Good morning all! Pray without ceasing … 🙏🏻💗
Every day and every night.
Pray! Pray now and loud!
Good morning Karmy.
Good morning Shayne! I hope you have a blessed day!
Pray he does the will of God 🙏
That's part of my daily prayer for his protection. Only if he is doing God's Will.
Never forget World war eleven.
Lol
Why?
I just want to say thanks to whomever told me to block the bots a few weeks ago! I only blocked like three usernames and the comment count on this feed halved. (Weird…)
So much easier to read now!
I blocked em too, after i played a little. I did notice how pleasant Sunday's comment section was....guess the trolls dont pay.
And normal Sunday readings show who is real
Most readers here don't pay. The cost is $50 US per month, so it is very steep compared to other Substacks. I think JC's business model is to give it away for free the majority of the time, but to charge a high price for the "elite readers" of the paid posts. It attracts the "I wanna be an elite" types, and even if you get 100 of them annually, it is a decent income from this.
Besides which, this Substack is the chosen hang-out of a herd of extremist religious types. Not because of the writing by JC, but because they wanted a free digital clubhouse to communicate with one another and to virtue-signal by posting Scripture. They could have chosen any Substack for this purpose, but the free ones are dwindling.
I notice that there are an average of 700-1000 comments here on an unpaid post, but 50-75 comments on a paid post. Which in a reflection of the religious extremist herd flooding the free-days, while the "elites" come in on the paid-days. It seems to suit Jeff, and he can boast that he has 1000 comments per day, while bringing in the revenue he wants from the small "elite" group.
So grateful for the blocking feature. Goodbye, A.!
ps- I’m one of the paid subscribers, even on my retired social security budget.
A. I want to put my money where my mouth is (support worthy Jesus-promoting ideals), and
B. My twin and I split the cost and gave it to each other as our birthday present, which we will be repeating this August. It is an expensive but HIGHLY appreciated gift!
(Whoops - just realized I am unintentionally proving the “hang-out of a herd of extremist religious” classification, while simultaneously disproving the “reflection of the religious extremist herd flooding the free days” theory!)
Buh bye!!
Maybe Jeff could block A. I kept him busy a few days ago but not wasting my time on a Student of Psycho nonsense today. Unless Jeff blocks him, he’ll be forever commenting negatively and personally, taking up our space, time and trying his best to divide this group of very wonderful people.
Thanks for reminding me to block you too, Marlene. Life is too short to have deal with nonsense. I am sorry you are averse to reality. But that is not my responsibility.
You seem very naive, besides. Do you really not understand that writing/publishing is a business? From Substack to MSM to the general publishing industry. They all produce writing for pay, on business models.
Bye-bye!
I am going to jump in here. I consider myself a spiritual person and not a religious one. I have never gone to Bible study. I have found my own way and it is meaningful to me. I do not understand what you find so offensive. I too am wary of any extremism for I do not feel you can unite a diverse world thinking my way is the only way. An open loving heart is the way to God. My two close girlfriends are Christian and they attend church. I do not find that to challenge me in the slightest. They are two of the kindest women I know. They embrace me also even though my beliefs can differ than theirs. What I think bonds us is the fact we want a connection with God in our lives. If reading scripture challenges you, scroll past to other commentary. It is called the power of the finger! Jeff Childers is a Christian. Of course he would attract like minds. But I have found the people on here to be kind, gracious and loving. I have found your tone to be less than that and I wonder why. Is it so impossible to embrace others of a different belief system than yours?
“A” is a bot….block it
I blocked the bully. Hope it worked.
You miss the point entirely. Though you paint yourself as being very good. Perhaps that was your point here -- virtue-signaling. Showing off.
You sound like an adult Pollyanna. Which causes a lot of trouble for other honest persons, while you display your own supposed morality.
I think that many of us here could refute your idea that all of these religious extremists here are loving and kind, You obviously see only whatever confirms what you want to see.
Jim Jones of Jonestown was a religious extremist. And a Psychopath. So have many other religious extremist leaders and cult leaders of the past and present been. You need to grow up and understand reality.
You do not understand my points, Elizabeth, So you are jumping to conclusions which do not apply,
I already said that I am Christian. And that I hardly recognize the extremist herd on here as fellow Christians. In fact, they are more like cult followers. And several of them are very nasty to anyone outside their herd.
Seeing as I am Christian and you say you are not, I think I have a better idea of this.
Besides which, I have written and explained this here in numerous posts over the past month. The onus is not on me to repeat all of that. It costs ME the time and effort.
I have a background in Evolutionary and Depth Psychology. I recognize and have expertise in the issues of extremism, and why it is a major problem. Both in the far-leftwing WOKE-folk and in the far-rightwing religious extremists.
I might suggest that you do the background reading and studying before you think you have all the answers, That should take 8 or 10 years of effort (and expense). Then come back and debate it.
I for one, am not "averse to reality." Probably, much like Marlene. I'm averse to the abuse. From what I've read, your comments contain quite a bit of it.
Many Lil Trumpsters (aka MAGA) are deep into the cult of personality. They will not consider any research, logic, analysis, conclusions and commentary that opposes their love, trust and faith in Trump. Like an elementary schoolyard, all dissent is to be bullied, ridiculed, ostracized, ignored ... anything but considered.
04/28/26: Jeff is expensive and worth every penny he charges.
“They are filling up derelict oil tankers. They are filling up spare barrels. They are probably filling up Tupperware containers, empty swimming pools, and those little plastic cups you get at the dentist. Any day now, the Supreme Leader is going to wake up, go to the kitchen to get some milk for his Cap’n Crunch, and find that his refrigerator is completely full of light sweet crude.”
“… and those little plastic cups you get at the dentist.”
KABOOM! Laughter!
Scared the hell out of my wife. And the cat, too, if we had a cat.
Don, a minor correction for you, and others: Jeff is not expensive. His blog is a vailable for free and is published 6 days a week, come rain or shine I might add. He originally asked if some of his readers would support his work to expose the Covid Plandemic deception and push back against government overreach to limit our rights and he would publish a "bonus edition" on Sunday for those who did.
Same as the Substack "bad catitude" which I also love.
Read that to hubby, who also got a good chuckle out of it.
But what if ships from Iran have been coming and going and the blockade is pretty much useless?
https://www.thedefensenews.com/news-details/Iranian-Tankers-Bypass-US-Blockade-Using-Coastal-Routes-Reach-Indian-Ports/
"According to data compiled by maritime intelligence firms including Vortexa, at least 34 Iran-linked tankers and gas carriers have successfully transited the strait since the blockade came into effect. Of these, 19 vessels exited the Persian Gulf carrying cargo, while others entered the region."
A. You really need to go find other substacks to troll. Go ahead and block me. To not see your asinine comments would be great
Hey Tiny, just block him. You’ll never regret it.
I feel the same way, Troll.
Not to need to see your ridiculous comments would be great.
Now run along.
Religion is not extremism
Tiny Basket, I can't tell who your comnent was direct at.
Aha, now I see!
How does one block "A" who seems to be a Bot, or at least a jealous, possibly brainless, herd-following negative Nelly extremist...
Here is my comment from a week or so ago.
For anyone reading this and wanting to know how to block certain commentors.
Click on the commentors name, that will take you to their profile. From there click on the 3 dots to the right of their name and you can block or mute them. Block is my preference.
What is the difference between block and mute? Would either one mean you never see that trolls comments anymore?
Thank you! There are a few here that blocking will make my stay here a LOT more pleasant......like turning off the clanging cymbal or taking the ice pick out of my ear.
Thank you!
scroll past whatever you don't want to read.
I've always hated this theory. How can you know you dont want to read it until you read it???
Kinda like saying, if you dont want to think about a pink elephant, than you should have just *not* read me talking about a pink elephant. See how dumb that is?
Thx. I added my comment after reading about twelve that were related to blocking each other. I was looking for intelligent reflections on Jeff’s article, not a ‘tit for tat’ ´did not did too’ from the back seat of the station wagon. How pink elephants came into play I’ve no idea…
How very "Christian" of you!
It's called discernment.....an actual gift from the Lord!
Ah, I wrote several posts here this week about the tactic of calling someone else a bot, when you want to smear them. Because thay do not agree with you. It is getting a bit old, and boring now.
I see that you are talented in using smear tactics, just like the baddies Jeff writes about.
Regardless of what he is and I don't think he's a bot. Unless they have an AI bot that writes that good and they don't. They all have "tells" and I don't see any.
As far as the rest of the name calling goes I can only say "Doesn't matter. Is he correct or wrong?". If the latter then please expound on why.
Thanks
EJane....it is called TRUTH. Which seems to bother you a great deal.
Learn to handle it. Though knowing your type, I suspect you will not.
To A - religion is not extremism.
How do you define religious extremism? Like what makes them extreme?
Found one!
Wow. Just asking a question I genuinely would like to know. Yet, I get a pile on…
Because a lot of non-extremist readers here have long been fed-up with the religious extremist group that has infiltrated and tried to take over here.
I have given them an opportunity to speak up, at last.
As I said, I have been over all of this with you already. And I have posted in general about this many times.
I guess you fail to read whatever does not suit you.
Yes, indeed. Lori and her sort can be a pain the rear end. But they cannot see it. They pride themselves on supposed virtue.
I am not dismissive of Christianity here; I am a balanced Christian myself. What I am dismissive of is extremism, and the religious variety which is not Christianity at all. They only think it is.
Posting Scripture to one another in their free digital clubhouse and wagging judgmental fingers at everyone else is not Christianity. It is more like cult control by domineering figures over persons who are vulnerable, and will follow these demands.
You find the same kind of group extremism in the WOKE-folk of the far-leftwing.
You don’t even know me and you have made a huge assumption about me without any information . I asked a question I would genuinely like to know the answer to.
You may have misjudged Lori? Apparently you blocked her before this reply to you “You are mistaken me for someone else. We have not previously had a conversation. And, I rarely comment.”
When I said "Found one!" I was referring to the commenter who responded to your questions with a snotty answer. After I posted that, I wondered if it would be taken the wrong way, and indeed, it was. Sorry about that. But I did find one.
A very valid question. My def, and it's mine alone, is that when someone is willing to rationalize and justify violence on others. All religions have done that. Some more than others but all do it.
Most people will acquiesce with their silence while it is going on. They are not extremists but they are cowards. That's 90% of the species. They can't question authority as shown in the Milgram authority experiment.
Stanford prison experiment showed 90% of people turn into power trippers when given authority over others.
I think I have been over this with you before. And at the end of all my information, you make a contemptuous remark but fail to absorb what I am saying.
So there is no point in my having to repeat that.
A must stand for ASS.
You have proven that you are, indeed, contemptible.
Bye
Actually, you have just proven that you are both comtemptible, and that you attack others for their opinions when those opinions do not match yours, That is very anti-American. Are you writing from North Korea?
You sound as if you must be either in the WOKE-folk camp, or the far-rightwing religious extremist camp. Because this is their kind of ugly comeback. Both extremes use it.
Shame on you!
You forgot to delete this comment too…
A, you're a late commer to Coffee and Covid so you don't understand the genesis of the $50 voluntary donation, The donation was to help fund Jeff's yoeman work on exposing the details of the Covid 19 false flag manipulation event, and the Sunday addition, as a "thank you" to the volunteer financial supporters. Jeff created a platform to train attorneys, and others, to pursue the truth of the plandemic and push back on the violation of our rights. He needed some funds to get started and some of us were willing to pitch in knowing we would likeky benefit and there were few who were willing to do what Jeff did. The $50 is not really a subscription fee.
Paid membership is $500/year. I think that's about $42/month? Something like that. You're funny with your "virtue-signaling" and "extreme religious types". Jeff boasting?😂
I personally was a full-out democrat until about 2023, when I started actually thinking for myself. Reasons for paying the fee, for myself: getting to read Jeff's stuff on a Sunday (a tied ribbon of optimism for my week!) -- and to support the readers who, for the most part (respondee excluded) I have come to know as a loving, prayerful, and very human group; family, if you will. And to support what I believe. I'm actually sorry your take is so cynical. Perhaps you might eventually be able to step back, breathe, and see a broader picture. As always, it's up to you, my friend.
I have since read through this commenter's points. Yes, a block is necessary. Do Not Engage!
A. Is obviously a bot. Blocked.
So it's lots of stats about "elites"
versus the "religious extremist herd," (although the 'extremist' aspect is a head scratcher.)
Who cares?
You apparently felt the need to disparage the latter group.
I honestly don't fit in to either group so I'm not sure what that makes me?
And honestly, I guess whatever [valid] points you were trying to make-elude me.
As to whatever Jeff's motives for how he manages his substack, I (as a non paying subscriber) will be able to continue to read his material and
see comments, and occasionally post my own. He allows me to do that and I am grateful for it.
Free free to judge me about that in any way you like.
I will point out that much of what is called the 'extremist religious types' in the Collective West is what was the norm in Protestant Reformation groups back in the 15th to 18th centuries. The theological foundation which gave birth the American habit of practice of unalienable Rights such as of what the Declaration for Independence document speaks is solely from the Reformation The unalienable Rights are now totally eclipsed, replaced by mutable shape-shifting civil rights. American exceptionalism is in point of fact the Rights of Liberty God-given and separate from and inviolate by the reach of the civil sword.
This is very much no widely known or recognized. It is lapsed knowledge. And the entire American system of law has been inverted from what it once was.
Blocked A again. I thought he left after last week after my calling him a “student” and unblocked yesterday and didn’t see him so I thought , great. Now I see “it” jumped across the road again and yep! There “it” is.
Omg....you are so funny!!!! I just peed myself i laughed so hard.
Nope, u r so 100% wrong. But m, you know it. We all know you have a goal and what that goal is.
We are nowhere close to extememist. Yep we know we are on target because of you....whatever you are... troll, pd opposition or probably just fing crazy.
Im not religious. So, you got one wrong. I am a commonsense, middle of tbe road,
NORMAL person. I found my tribe here.
I dont pay. Jeff openly says that he prices it so that only those who can afford can if they want. He encourages people to not pay if it they cant afford to easily.
I could tell a major difference in Sundays comments. It is what it is and you saying it aint doesnt make a hill of beans to any of us.
I will block you but im gonna make sure i wait long enough to have my comment out there. Maybe you will block me first... if so, thank ya!
“Religious Extremists”? If it’s extreme to place no other gods before the Creator, I own it.
Free Press had one of their journalists interview university students, after the recent assassination attempt. Asking them if they thought killing someone for holding diverse political views was okay. 90% were sympathetic, understanding or fully agreed it was a valid action one may need to take.
And removing God directly relates to much of what ails this land. It’s not a religion, but a relationship I have with Jesus. I pray He blesses you.
Try not lump groups together. This is what is happening with antisemitism right now. And BLM bringing back the race card, to continue division. The enemy of man knows well how to divide & conquer. Peace ☮️
I noticed that JC is “#2 in Health Politics with thousands of paid subscribers”. That’s a VERY nice income! At the $500 per subscriber annual rate, 2000 paid subscribers is 1M per year! JC may be one of the highest earners on Substack. Nothing altruistic about it at that level.
I enjoy reading here- I appreciate the optimistic takes by don’t hang out in the comments much. As a recovering fundamentalist Christian, the Bible verses always being at the top of the comments is triggering.
Can you tell me how to block them too? Thanks
click on their name and then when it comes up click the 3 dots then block. I am blocking one on this thread who may not be a Bot but is VERY annoying! 🤣
Thanks...I went through and did that. I looked for anyone who is constantly annoying. :)
haha! Yes! now for peace! 🥰
Omg. That A. Is so annoying. She is a newbie on Jeff’s and so self righteous. She is my first block.
Loves to hear herself blabber.
Just did it myself.
Lol. either a she or a he.
check out our fb group if you want. c&c junkies
Lisa, I just asked to join
AGREED!
Thank you for the lesson! So nice to be able to do that.
Thank you!
Doesn’t doing that only block Notes and their profile but not comments? Or did Substack change it?
I’m not seeing any comments of the ones I blocked here.
ok thx, that’s good. hopefully they fixed this, I tried it before and kept seeing them.
How do you block them?
For anyone reading this and wanting to know how to block certain commentors.
Click on the commentors name, that will take you to their profile. From there click on the 3 dots to the right of their name and you can block or mute them. Block is my preference.
So grateful for that info.
Yes a group of us have been doing the same. Except I’m not sure they are BOTS. I think they are moles to stir up strife. Either way! 👍🏻👏🏻
It’s true - I call them bots but it’s just as likely some of them are paid agitators. And they must post sooo many comments if it lowered my comment feed total by so much to block just a few!
paid agitators = worse than bots.
Do they pay well?
Maybe we should go over to BlueSky and be “BOTS” ourselves?! Do you think anyone would pay us? 🤣🤔😉
I'm not sure any amount of money is worth spending that much time on bsky.... :)
It definitely would put a bad taste in my mouth… 🤢😂
Now you are going full "Calvin & Hobbes" mischief mode!!! I like it :)
Had to look those comics up… great fun 😂
Apparently well enough to get them to post frequently!
Ask all the fired USAID creeps who can't find work. They might have ended up there at long last:
https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/unemployed-usaid-linkedin-flexing?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=617396&post_id=195350872&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=10j5hz&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
You”ll see the paid agitators showing up at multiple conservative sites.
I agree with you Lisa, but whatever they are, I’m better off without them.
I’m pretty cold about it now. Wielding the Vorpal Sword as mentioned at the top of the post. I had to look it up and found a reason to use it. Metaphorically of course. 🤷🏼♀️🤔
Ooh I like it, blocking is using our Vorpal Sword! 😁 I love Jeff’s literary and cultural references as much as I love his creative similes!! 😍
yessss!
Yes. There will be more as mid-terms get closer.
I blocked a few, was pretty sure I didn’t block the zero “guy”, haven’t run across comments from that account for awhile. Maybe I blocked and forgot.
Anyway, I just blocked the latest commenter who doesn’t seem to know when to scroll on past content deemed offensive to them/it. I scrolled past that one many many times after reading several replies over weeks, until today…when I saw the repeated ad hominem attacks….decision made and done.
I disagree with and see commentary here not to my taste and yet, overall it’s more uplifting and informative and intelligent than any other commenting I have ever seen.
I Have learned a great deal in this comment world; and appreciate the challenges to my views.
The ones I have blocked have been relentless in negativity, ad hominem attacks, moral superiority, and assertions with zero (!) receipts. Oh and unsupported generalizations.
Yes, pretty much the same for me, I don’t block people because I disagree with them, but because of the reasons you cited.
Sometimes it has to be done.
Yes, it's so helpful. "A." believes evangelicals are coercive, extremist, controlling, and judgmental. He knows this because he watched the movie "Marjoe" many years ago (it was released in 1972). If you respond to him (could be a her, to be fair) in some way he deems un-Christianlike, he insults. A person totally without self-awareness. Better blocked!
Yes, anyone who argues in bad faith and/or is deliberately insulting and has indulged in name calling, I have no more patience for or interest in interacting with them.
The formality with which A. expresses itself makes me think A.I. Either that or it is a psychopath like Hannibal Lecter. That’s who I think about when reading its posts.
I played with it a bit. I believe it gleaned information from my previous comments to rope me in and keep me engaged for awhile; in agreement with some ideas then boom! I blocked it.
Same. Blocked now.
Ditto… I know how to block now! Thank you, everyone!
A. Was my first block. Detestable they are
My first block too! Felt good!
I saw that movie too. Ugh
🙋♀️
The World Order sets up countless groups to promote any type of idea, and then sets up other groups to fanatically oppose them, but the masters have no dedication to anything except slavery." The World Order Eustace Mullins 1992
Now the time to attack imaginary "leftists" for recent events.
I’ve been doing that too. Life is too short to deal with the nonsense.
Isn’t it just the BEST?!?
Please tell me how to block the bots. It would be appreciated!
Click on their name/avatar, which takes you to their page. Then look for the three dots on the right side of the page, click on that and choose "block"! It really does improve the comments section.
Just FYI, I couldn’t do it on my phone. But I went on my computer one day and took care of business. 😂
Read my comment above if you havent been able.
how does one "block the bots" here (and presumably elsewhere)? In this case, saying "I missed the memo" is not just figuratively true but literally true. TIA.
Click on their avatar. Look for the three dots - usually upper right - and click. Choose “block” from the menu. You’ll still see the blocked user until you “refresh” the comments (or leave and come back).
Click on their name/avatar, which takes you to their page. Then look for the three dots on the right side of the page, click on that and choose "block"!
How can you block these bots? I'd love to clean up my feed as well.
Tap their avatar. On their profile page find the three dots (usually upper right) and from there you can block. Enjoy the community afterwards! 😊
I employed Jeff’s Vorpal Sword on some just now. Swoop!
As the Holy Spirit leads. It’s like Proverbs 26:4 “Do not answer a fool according to his foolishness, Or you will also be like him.”
But sometimes it’s like this:
Proverbs 26:5 “Answer a fool as his foolishness deserves, So that he will not be wise in his own eyes.”
All of us deploying the Vorpal Sword here! 😁
😂
Done! Glad to be rid of that one!
Ahhh… 😌
I agree! So much more interesting and uplifting!
How does one do that?
Click on their name/avatar, which takes you to their page. Then look for the three dots on the right side of the page, click on that and choose "block"!
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/lovelorn-frogmen-tuesday-april-28/comment/250627087
Same!!!
Who did you block? I would love to see the comment section halved!
Everyone who irritates me. 😆 I deserve to be in a good humor.
Comment of the day!!! 😂
I think a user named “A.” is who they are referring to, but that may have been a different thread. There are several that appear to be bots or paid trolls, and they interact with each other, and ALWAYS reply to every reply which really multiplies the number of comments. If you block them, you also won’t see all the replies.
How does one block? I don’t see an option to do that and I am a paid subscription.
Click on their avatar/profile pic. Look for the three dots - usually upper right - and click. Choose “block” from the menu. You’ll still see the blocked user until you “refresh” the comments (or leave and come back).
I just blocked A.
Click on their name/avatar, which takes you to their page. Then look for the three dots on the right side of the page, click on that and choose "block"!
It’s hard to believe that just over 15 months ago we were living under a president that had fully opened the gates to our country. This had devastating effects to our families, our children and our neighbors. He allowed in much more than 20 to 30 million unvetted illegal aliens. He ushered in drugs, addiction, child trafficking, a war on religion, a devalued currency, inflation, debt, poverty. I believe he ushered in this culture of political violence and assassination. He sent hundreds of billions of dollars to fight foreign wars, billions to our enemies. Our tax dollars were funding evil acts completely contrary to Christian belief.
In one day just 15 months ago, a new watchman entered the White House. After 4 years of a physical and spiritual invasion the gates were finally shut.
The watchman on the wall is an ancient story that goes back to the Old Testament. God consistently uses imperfect individuals demonstrating His power is perfected in weakness not strength. God works through willing hearts, using everyday people to achieve extraordinary purposeful outcomes, to accomplish His Divine purposes.
The Watchman On The Wall
The watchman stands on a wall. Behind him is a city with its citizens and people the warchman loves. Before him is the vastness of the outside world, a world of enemies and threats, both small and large. With a weapon in his hand, he stays awake late into the night, keeping his eyes on the horizon and the shadows, ready to give the clarion call of any approaching evil.
It is a simple image, yet it is full of meaning and complexity. For men and women of today, we see the importance of a warrior standing guard. This image from a thousand years ago once again engenders the same emotional urgency and sobriety today as it did back then.
And there are still threats. There are still enemies. And the Bible uses the image of the watchman on the wall to call us to join God in protecting those we are responsible for, today as it was then it’s our children and our families.
Ironically today like thousands of years ago we witnessed hordes of invaders at our borders, and watched as our watchmen opened the gates, they allowed an invasion of our home. The threats today are more real and more dangerous than ever. In to many cases the watchman has turned against us. I sit in amazement again and again at how history repeats itself. We still certainly need true warriors on the wall.
1. Vigilance and alertness. Just as a watchman on the wall is vigilant and alert to potential threats, we are called to remain spiritually vigilant and watchful.
The world is filled with various influences, temptations, and challenges that can divert our focus from God.
Being a watchman reminds us to stay awake and attentive, guarding our hearts and minds against anything that could compromise our faith.
2. Responsibility for others. A watchman has a responsibility to warn and protect others. Likewise, Christians have a responsibility to care for and nurture fellow believers.
This includes encouraging one another, offering support, and sharing the truth of God's Word. Being a watchman teaches us to look out for the spiritual well-being of our brothers and sisters in Christ.
3. Proclamation of truth. Watchmen announce impending danger, and Christians are called to proclaim the truth of the gospel, including the imminent return of Jesus.
In addition, we can prophetically warn of coming attacks of our spiritual enemy and the dangers of ideas that come against the knowledge of God, just as a watchman’s trumpet warns the city.
4. Discernment and discipleship. A watchman must discern between genuine threats and false alarms. Similarly, Christians need discernment to distinguish between sound doctrine and deceptive teachings.
The story of the watchmen on the wall is as relevant today as it ever was. Never forget where we were just 16 months ago. Happy Tuesday!! J.Goodrich
And our wonderful Watchman just shut down another massive grift of our taxpayer dollars through the corrupt NSF pipeline to phony NGOs, fake "scientists" and scientific ballot fillers/stuffers. Thank you Watchman Trump and may God continue to bless and protect you.
Boom! 25 Faucis just got pink slips. Good f'in riddens.
💥💥💯💥💥
How long will it take some leftist judge like HUGE PILE OF DIARRHEA Boasberg to put a block on it?
expecting that any minute
Seems late already, they are getting slow.
Dan, I immediately thought the same thing. Some activist judge will reverse it and probably pay them for pain and suffering
absolutely full of joy, hearing of their dismissal.
Amen, another blood sucking leftist agency set up specifically to steal and redistribute wealth and power
Let’s pray he does the same with higher education! Turn off the spigot, Mr. President!
To say what dept of indoctr... errr educa...was doing was "higher education" is a false narrative. It was only left communist indoctrination from K thru MA.
I thought the prime directive for Linda McMahon was to shut down the Dept of Education. It's still there.
Not true, many of its corrupt depts have been given to responsible adults in other agencies.
The plan was to shut down the dept of education. Trump called for its elimination with an executive action in March 2025. So part of that plan was to move sections to other depts.
I'm with you Clem. That decision was a no brainer. (Kinda like getting rid of the no-brainers?) Not against teachers, let teachers teach. It's the bureaucracy, administrators and overhead that are killing us. And our kids' brains.
It doesn't happen over night, McMahon is still undoing that corrupt bullshit agency against the will of the crackpot low life in corrupt criminal congress.
Someone once said: “Elections have consequences.”
Fair, and rigged ones. VA Supreme Court is hearing arguments on our rigged redistricting selection.
Im not aware of any fair elections. Unless there is some place in the USA using paper ballots, handcounted at small precincts and reported by trusted couriers under police escort ? If there are machines and mail in ballots there is not a fair election.
Using a paper punch. 😩
Salt Lake County in say 1972?
Neither am I . Juan O Savin said they stole them in 72 countries. That he knows of.
And I agree with him 💯!
Texas had good news on their redistricting effort.
What he didn't say was that, once you are out of office, you are out of office and should move elsewhere and stop trying to undo the election results.
And nobody believed it ... until now
We lived it under the disaster of the O’Biden administrations.
It didn't start with Biden and, if the Dems are ever in the White House again, it will return. These people are globalists who do not want borders....nor do they want white, even though they, themselves, are white....what kind of mind wants to destroy their own culture and "tribe"....
Dancing: I am not trying to be contrary but whoever follows DJT as POTUS will return to the tried-and-true grift and corruption we know—robbing the tax-payers to pay the criminals, while skimming and laundering as the funds pass by. Only a person with seemingly boundless wealth, an IDGAFlip attitude about re-election, and the protection of Almighty God can stand against TPTB. As I have said, God broke the mold after he created DJT.🙏🏻
I am not certain what you are saying (for or against DJT) or what you are responding to...mankind is mankind and has not changed since the day that man stood up on two legs…the battle between good and evil is as old as the world with humans is…If you are supportive of DJT, then he is what was sent and needed at this time but will not be the only one…he gives courage to those who feel that they are alone and in a corner by themselves, including many European leaders who are held hostage by the EU and the truly evil VDL….
Best thing I’ve read this morning. Thank you for posting this.
I’m grateful every day that God is so gracious as to raise up these clarion callers.
NASB 1977 ►►
God’s Omnipresence and Omniscience.
For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
O Lord, Thou hast searched me and known me.
Thou dost know when I sit down and when I rise up;
Thou dost understand my thought from afar.
Thou dost scrutinize my path and my lying down,
And art intimately acquainted with all my ways.
Even before there is a word on my tongue,
Behold, O LORD, Thou dost know it all.
Thou hast enclosed me behind and before,
And laid Thy hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is too high, I cannot attain to it.
Where can I go from Thy Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Thy presence?
If I ascend to heaven, Thou art there;
If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, Thou art there.
If I take the wings of the dawn,
If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,
Even there Thy hand will lead me,
And Thy right hand will lay hold of me.
If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me,
And the light around me will be night,”
Even the darkness is not dark to Thee,
And the night is as bright as the day.
Darkness and light are alike to Thee
For Thou didst form my inward parts;
Thou didst weave me in my mother’s womb.
I will give thanks to Thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Wonderful are Thy works,
And my soul knows it very well.
My frame was not hidden from Thee,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth.
Thine eyes have seen my unformed substance;
And in Thy book they were all written,
The days that were ordained for me,
When as yet there was not one of them.
How precious also are Thy thoughts to me, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand.
When I awake, I am still with Thee.
O that Thou wouldst slay the wicked, O God;
Depart from me, therefore, men of bloodshed.
For they speak against Thee wickedly,
And Thine enemies take Thy name in vain.
Do I not hate those who hate Thee, O LORD?
And do I not loathe those who rise up against Thee?
I hate them with the utmost hatred;
They have become my enemies.
Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me and know my anxious thoughts;
And see if there be any hurtful way in me,
And lead me in the everlasting way.
Amen!
Thank “You” NanaW!
Saving this, J. Goodrich! Love this!
Those 20 to 30 million unvetted illegal aliens are even more reason for increased interior ICE targeted actions.
A great commentator historian to listen to, especially how Islam invades and captures a culture - listen to William Federer. The West is in GREAT peril!
Thank you
Well said, thank you
James that was beautiful.
You have TDS …. being so deranged by your blind cult-like fealty to tRump that you cannot see the obvious truth punching you in the face: that he is objectively one of the most despicable humans in America. A convicted felon, an adjudicated sexual predator, historic levels of corruption, probably a pedophile, certainly the most illiterate and intellectually limited person in the history of our government. That you still support this mound of mad flesh is true Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Jeff! I can’t believe you missed the opportunity to talk about Ilhan Omar’s ‘world war eleven’ speech! Maybe tomorrow because I know your take would be one for the books.
Why is she still in our country instead of being returned to her beloved s'hole somalia. How can it take years to determine if she committed immigration fraud by marrying her brother and stealing millions of taxpayer dollars by rampant fraud in s'hole michigan?
I agree! If I did something remotely illegal I’d be shackled and in prison so fast. I want her GONE. Set an example. I’m ready for some examples to be made
I am so wanting to pull that durag off her head and see what lies beneath. I am afraid however of the reeking odor that will be there.
Two heads. Unfortunately, neither head has brains in it.
A bunch of coiled vipers. I do find it interesting how she wears them as fashion accessories.
She has very little hair under there.
How do you know Shayne?
There are early photos, evidently shortly before or after she arrived in the US. It’s a bit terrifying.
You'll have a good idea what lies beneath if you see Trump's latest post on Candace
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116376634773749603
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
I did not see that yet.
Be nice. She probably just has ‘bad hair.’
She's actually in s'hole Minnesota, but yes, same as Michigan.
Oh hell, thats right. I get those two s'holes mixed up all the time!
Minnesota
MN... you are thinking of an equally despicable insect: Tliab
Yes, i get those two s'holes mixed up all the time!
Eleven Han Omar has to go.
Um, Minnesota BTW. And most of MN is not a s'hole. Just parts of Hennepin county. Or so I've heard.
Then why do they have retard despicable lying Walz and retard racist Ellis, and slimey omar?
Still dealing with the Deep State shenanigans...
Immediate disqualification from holding public office, IMHO!
Seriously. She’s like one of those street interviews you see where they ask someone to name a country that starts with B and the chick says ‘Barney!’ With full confidence.
Maybe she and Kamala will run in the 2028 election! Boy, the memes would write themselves!
pray that doesn't happen and that it is unwinnable.
surely you have been watching Johnny. . . a bit too much!
Ha!
Just algo reels on IG when I’m bored.😬
https://www.facebook.com/JesseWattersFNC/videos/what-issues-in-america-do-spring-breakers-care-about-johnny-hit-the-beaches-to-f/1116833940108345/
HERE's Johnny!
Yep, that’s definitely the right crowd. 😂
😂🤣😂
That clip making the rounds was comedy gold! 🤣🤣🤣
If she can’t make sense of Roman Numerals, maybe she really DIDN’T know the difference between $30,000,000.00 and $89,000.
JK…..of course she did.
I intend to use WW eleven until she is GONE!😂
😂🤣😂
I guess it’s good that she knows that two of the letter “I” make the number 11, and didn’t say “World War ‘eye eye’” Thank goodness for the Learing Center!
Even if it was accidentally written with 1’s, as in WW11 who wouldn’t know that?
Um ... Ilhan???
😂
😂🤣😂
LOL. THATS PERFECT!!
😂😂
That was hilarious, but it’s a rerun. It happened in January of 2025 and just started recirculating this week.
I missed it too. Hope to see commentary
I missed that!
The effency of a man with a wasp in his underpants! 😳😆 You should be a stand-up comedian Jeff!
My experience was a scorpion in the leg of my jeans. We had a little emergency at 2am and I jumped out of bed and threw on my jeans. I counted seven welts that tracked the thing as it fell down towards the floor. It was more effective then even the strongest cup of coffee.
oh, and one time while galloping on my horse I "captured" a bumblebee between my thigh and the saddle...my jeans protected me a bit, but the stinger still got through
And mine was chasing this enormous roach in military housing at Schofiled Barracks, HI, only to witness that bastard turn on me, charge, run up my leg between my pants and leg!!! Ive never gotten out of my pants faster! But it did pay with its life for that terrifying, defiant act. Anyone who has been to HI can attest ti the size of the roaches... and Im not just talking about the two legged democrat roaches that run that place... into the volcanic ground.
Yep! Been there, seen plenty! 😳😂. In Florida, we called them Palmetto bugs, and they are as big as those in Hawai’i! And those suckers can fly! 😱
There was one on the kitchen counter while we were in east Maui (rainforest basically), my adult son did a small freak out as the monster startled him. I cut a deal with him (my son, not the giant cocktail): I KILL the sucker before it thundered away, but son has to clean up the cream-filled center disgusting remains!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. The whole debacle was pretty doggoned 🤢. 😂
Eeeeeeeeeewwwwww!!!!!
I hated those palmetto bugs……just YUGE roaches!!
I believe ‘Palmetto bugs’ is the fancy name that transplanted Yankees gave to roaches. As a Florida native, I was an adult before I heard that high class terminology. We ‘crackers’ just always dealt with roaches.
GAH! Palmetto Bugs! 😱 I've dealt with so many of them that, according to my family, I even have a specific scream when I encounter one. They call it my "roach scream" and they know to grab a shoe and get to work. 😁
Dang suckers could win in the Kentucky Derby! You have to strike a shoe length in front of them to connect.
Where's a vomit emoji when I need one??
😂😂and I thought they were BIG in Florida!!!!😂😂
YUGE!!
Oh Dan, you made me laugh out loud!! Great visuals with your story!
It was horrifying, wife screaming, children crying as i literally chased it around our two story house, finally cornered it in the bathroom, only to have it turn and attack... and when it was all said and done immensely funny!!😂😂
So attested. Hickam, 4 years, 3 in on-base housing.
Yes, then you know well!!
These kinds of stories always make me grateful to live in a place where it gets cold enough that we don’t have to deal with those creepy crawlies 😆 Winter doesn’t seem so bad, all things considered 😁
omg, I would have died.
Yikes! I have been bitten twice by a copperhead snake (7yrs apart) (painful!!!) - I pray I never experience a black widow, brown recluse, or scorpion sting .... Ugh - stinging insects and venomous creatures. I have no love for them - even if they do serve a purpose in God's (fallen) nature.
Copperheads are quite venomous. How long did it take you to recover? Did you go to the hospital for anti-venom?
In 2007 (pinkie finger bite) I spent night in hospital - mainly because I had reaction to the anti-venom! ($10K per shot!) - it was painful but pretty quick healing.
In 2014 (I was bitten on foot! Much worse bite!)
Went to ER for morphine which doesn't take pain away - just helps you ride it out. And leaves you with morphine sickness (at least me - hate the stuff - but the pain is soooo bad! Think a 500 hornets or so as it liquifies your tissue!)
I didn't stay overnight - too expensive!
I also didn't take anti-venom shots which then cost $50K per shot!!!)
Alas - I developed cellulitis from the bite - and it took 10 months for me to get a shoe on decently - and SO PAINFUL!
I was not from a state that had venomous snakes - but I learned after those two bites - and I pray and ask God to protect me!
I see them all the time now - but God has been faithful - no more bites!
I had a brown recluse bite some years back, and didn't have insurance. I asked a friend in the medical industry what a hospital does with a spider bite, and he said I'd be given painkiller and the area would be excised. Well, this bite was on my inner thigh, about 6 inches above my knee, and had volcanoed (rose up about an inch, then collapsed inward)...I'd have lost a large portion of my muscle there!
I researched "old-time remedies for spider bite", and the overall answer was "COMPRESSES". I put clay mixed with vinegar on it, and then a did a salt compress. The most disgusting black stuff came out of the wound, and it healed with just a tiny dimple for a scar!
I'm sure there's times and bite/sting types that call for immediate hospitalization, but this worked for me!
Love that idea! Where did you get the clay? Please state how you did the salt compound. I didn't have insurance either. First hospital stay overnight cost me almost $20K in 2007. Second ER visit less than $2K! I would go home - nothing they can do for you there you can't do at home for yourself!
Wow, that second bite sounds awful.
I am also not able to handle morphine. I very quickly get nauseous.
Rolled over on a scorpion in bed, after hubs insisted there was nothing under the covers but us (gotta love Florida). I swear I levitated two feet straight up. I caught a honeybee in my armpit while driving a Volkswagen bus with my elbow on the open window (no a/c. In Florida.). Trying to downshift, steer, and get the bee out of my armpit while doing 45 was a challenge.
Ok, that second event does sound kind of funny.
And you lived to regale us in spite of these assassination attempts. I drive with the windows up, never leave them open when I park and dont park under trees.
Clearly you have never lived in Florida, where we can tell when the seasons change by the percentage of cars in the Publix parking lot that have traded the close-in parking spaces for the shady perimeters. Otherwise you burn your hands on the steering wheel. Gotta love Florida.
Eau contraire. I lived in Florida for about 18 months, in Port Charlotte from Jan 1975 to June 1976. As with the rest of the planet, its vastly different now. It was bloody hot in the summer but its pretty hot and humid where I grew up too. Its a very large state. Beautiful, fun.
Yeah I'm pretty old now and retired. My husband will retire in a couple years and we plan to get the hell outta dodge. Don't want to go too far as we were blessed with our first grandchild last November. We also enjoy the company of our now grown children. Always have. My family are my hands down fav peeps. Celebrated our 31st wedding anniversary this year and plan to be together till death do us part. I fortunate to have found such a great partner. Too bad for him maybe....
Neil: my S-I-L got a brown recluse spider bite on the inside of her thigh the same way you got your scorpion stings. Lesson learned: I hang up my jeans. 😳😳
Yes! I leave NO clothing on the floor!
Eeegads!! I can appreciate the elegance of SPIDERS but I very much prefer to do it from a healthy distance. Same thing with bears, mtn lions, venomous creepy crawlies and def stinging insects. I watched a special very short documentary a good long time ago and it's focus was black widow spider bites. My neighbor was bitten by a recluse and she wound up in the hospital.
HARD PASS, NO THANKS ANY SPIDER BITE. Black widows, like recluse spiders like to find dark, warm places to set up camp. Like your shoes, clothes basements and garages. Ugh, just thinking about it give me the willie's.
A friend’s mom got a recluse bite on the bony part of her ankle—hospitized and skin grafts to repair the damage.😬
Yeah scorpions are mean little bastards but their bite seemed to go away faster than a yellow jacket. And with wasp I would swell up really bad.
My scorpion stings lasted, in decreasing levels, for about 48 hours. I’ve been stung by wasps more times than I can count, and that pain goes away pretty quickly for me.
Weird it’s just opposite for me.
Holy Crapp!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbtUC9oVThg
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Ouch!!!!
We have been there. Does this mean that you hang out clothes to dry?
I'm very sorry for your experience!
Pump it Good cracked me up!
That one made me hee haw!
Okay, get your rotten tomatoes ready. While I fully support getting rid of a bunch of woke bureaucrats who love the power and money bestowed upon them by the US Federal Government in all its largesse, I probably would have voted for the studies on the extinction of pollinators in Hawaii. Like it or not, pollinators are important. I hope we Conservatives can agree that despite the climate change craziness, there are good reasons to preserve the beauty and wonder that God has wrought. Okay, launch those tomatoes......3........2.............1
Yeah, I remember decades ago fun being made of studying zebra mussels in the great lakes. Turned out zebra mussels were a huge problem. Followed by quagga mussels with similar major, negative impact. I still like firing the 25 board members. Smart and honest replacements would know the importance of pollinators and zebra mussels, but pass on the real grift, which is massive.
And mussels still are a problem. And we know why pollinators are suffering. Still we build, still we use pesticides, still we plant turf instead of wildflowers. Why does the NSF need another layer of board members? It doesn't. Bee watcher watchers.
Well said. Real science, the kind that is performed to enhance the quality of human life or in stewardship of our magnificent planet. I read about a rather large grant given to either a college or maybe just reasearch group where they were studying "trans"mice! Like how did they ascertain that the creature was trans? Ridiculous beyond words. Climate science is another boondoggle of a subject. Ah well, disease prevention and cures, disabling injuries and just plain wear and tear is real science. Putting ppl up in space is science. Fauci is NOT science. That old saying; and ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, is wisdom. ( I have good advice i give it to others. I rarely use it so I give it away.)
Agree. Well before COVID it was clear what's called "science" has been anything but, for decades. Agenda and greed driven BS is what it's been. Still, there are some success stories, like keeping the Asian carp out of Lake Michigan. I'm sure a superficial mention of that program would strike the uninformed as a boondoggle when it's actually vitally important. Re your last sentence, the most impressive guy I ever knew said "a lot of guys know what to do and how to do it. That doesn't matter unless they do it". Or similar wording. Remembering that helps sometimes.
Yes pollinators are crucial. Let us just get if funded through honest and transparent channels and bypassing the libtard scientists that also told us covid jabs were good for everyone.
Precisely correct.
Dan, you may want to read this.
Read Sayer Ji's substack. He is showing all the proof, Fauci's emails on how he lied and asked people to delete the emails.
YOU ARE NEXT FAUCI. Then Baric, then Daszak.
https://sayerji.substack.com/p/the-ten-day-countdown-please-delete?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2878303&post_id=196135058&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=qos2e&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
The problem with these kinds of federal studies though, is that they a priori ignore some obvious influences – – like electromagnetic radiation. Don’t want to offend some sponsor on the congressional funding committee…
Amen! As someone with an EMF sensitivity (not as bad as some others I know) it’s quite frustrating. The blinders the government and science puts on to protect special interests has made me loose all trust in them.
Explore grounding or earthing technology. Clint Ober is the pioneer.
https://www.earthing.com/pages/about-clint-ober
I sleep on a grounding mat and use a grounding pillow. In my recliner, I have a grounding mat behind my head.
At 75, I have a fraction of arthritis type pain that others my age complain about.
Hopefully this is an area that will become more studied and developed and we will be able to have our devices and health as well.
Thanks for the link. It makes sense to me. I have wondered to what extent and how all the microwaves and power line discharges really affects ppl. I've been told it has no effect but then we get lied to daily so I have no confidence in "official" reports.
Yeah, and greater reasons to fire the NSF in its entirety for pushing the bullshitism of the created crisis of climate change and other green retard fake science and bilking the taxpayers for billions upon billions to steal elections and redistribute wealth.
You act as if any good science will automatically disappear without the corrupt NSF. I submit it will be far more likely that real science will get funded. So yeah, you get a rotten tomato.
That's actually not what I meant at all. I'm happy to have let the bureaucrats go. But there are plenty of good and important studies that need to be done. We should have a better way of vetting potential studies so they are not perverted by the left wing academics so prevalent in the bureaucracy.
Hear, hear. Just think of what could have been accomplished with the money wasted on junk science like 'climate change.'
Exactly this
Yep, the lefty liars are out trying to plant a false narrative... now we get the created crisis of loss of pollinators well I'm here to tell you I have a shitload of pollinators living in my backyard!
Yeah, this spring has shown me an abundance of bees outside our house in South Central Pennsylvania.
More than the pass several years.
They ALWAYS have the next bullshit crisis ready to roll out.
I stop my lawn care service here in Florida around November and I don’t pick it up again till June. My lawn guy calls it the ‘bees and butterflies’ pause.
Next door has an immaculate lawn, but so far they haven’t complained. They get back at me by putting all their yard debris at my curb for pickup and I consider that fair.
The thing is the studies that are worthy can still be done and funded by a different committee/department not wasting tax payer dollars. Like some NSAID projects being moved to the State Department, they aren’t killing what’s worthy of being funded by our tax dollars, (which frankly shouldn’t be much as private corps and charities can be doing it if they are that interested), but they will be funding those worthy issues differently and monitored by more trustworthy hands.
Juju, Read Sayer Ji's substack. He is showing all the proof, Fauci's emails on how he lied and asked people to delete the emails. We have until May 11 to indict Fauci and we can, even with the pardon.
YOU ARE NEXT FAUCI. Then Baric, then Daszak.
https://sayerji.substack.com/p/the-ten-day-countdown-please-delete?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2878303&post_id=196135058&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=qos2e&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Jan: not a tomato but a comment that ‘studying’ is just the first step. Actual action rarely follows. If the funds could be tied to quantifiable results then I could agree.
I was thinking the same thing.
I kind of agree with you Jan. But after watching my " college degreed brother" work on issues like this. The incompetence and bureaucracy of studying and doing nothing really productive. Has soured me on that kind of bureaucracy everywhere.
I get better information on YouTube videos on how to regenerate the environment with biodiversity and good land management. Which brings all the pollinators back and nature does the heavy lifting.
My yard is a very good example. Plenty of biodiversity. No bare land birds butterflies pollinators frogs toads tarantulas. And other night time critters I haven't seen yet. Oh and I can't forget the worms. Nature's, excavators and fertilizers. 🌻
True, Jan, but it only figures that a handful of worthy studies would seep out of a committee that comes up with worthless studies the rest of the time. I'll bet there are a couple of sane and reasonable scientists who lost their jobs out of the 25.
Geo engineering aka chemtrails, pesticides, herbicides, killing insects faster than anything else...
Probably true, but it would be helpful to have studies detailing which cause the greatest harm.
Yeah, and still do nothing to stop the harm? Cmon man!
Remember, these studies can still be done by universities with no federal funding but tuition fees
No tomatoes Jan, but have the pineapple growers (DelMonte comes to mind) pay up for the research. Or, I know, stop using pesticides. There, solved it for ya. Send a check to me now. Or, refund my State and Federal taxes for 2025. That oughta cover it.
I remember years ago reading that Monsanto had taken over and ruined Hawaii with their GMO stuff...Round-up will kill pollinators....maybe that would be a good start....my neighbor back in the woods used to talk about no pollinators and he used Round-up. I do not and have pollinators. He has remarried and I think that Round-up is not his chosen means to kill unwanted plants.
No need to self deprecate regarding your knowledge and love of creation. More of us need to say it loud and clear.
FO, firing the NSF hasn't a damn thing to do with love of creation so quit peddling that bullshit narrative. It has to do with ending a corrupt agency who abused and misused billions of our dollars. Maybe we will finally get a legitimate real science agency????
I agree with your points. I was thinking that a board of advisors who were volunteers, not paid, except maybe commuter gas stipen, might draw a different class of “experts” who saw themselves selves as real public servants and only had “authority” to provide suggestions for improved policies to actual elected officials accountable to their constituents. There has been way too much leaching from taxpayers for unnecessary and unfounded $cience. As a Cali valley native, I want to protect our bees and pollinators. But there has to be better, more accountable, common-sense results based advisory sources without lining the pockets of left-leaning bureaucratic leaches.
Yes, that would be a better way, I think. We have far too many people being (well) paid by the taxpayers to work for these kinds of committees, or boards, or whatever, without really having any accountability.
I too love pollinators! Will save the rotten tomatoes for fertilizer.
"Asserting political control over science is how you get nonsense..."
Yep. That's true. Nonsense like "gender is a spectrum."
...I know it's going to be an amazing day when I am the first to "LOVE" and comment on the amazing Jeff Childer's C&C!
OMGosh! Jeff! 🤣😂 What would we do without you?! I am laughing so hard my face has broken…i weep for the poor folks who don’t subscribe to coffee & covid. They are missing the BEST part of anyone’s day….from ‘screaming at your spouse to haul the kiddie pool into the kitchen’ to ‘California’s would be a learning center with actual students in it’ you have me chortling & smiling ear to ear. God bless and protect you & yours forever & ever! ❤️ You are a treasure to each one of us! I’m off to chortle my day away!😂
And song titles!
A bit too cheeky for me this morning.
Jeff can never be too cheeky:}
I’m amazed by Trumps prescient decision to close the strait. American oil value and leverage increases with every day. May the Iranian leadership drown in oil.
I own some inherited gas leases. They’ve paid out a pittance over the last 5 years. This month I received a (relatively) huge check, 5 times the normal amount! (I can afford to buy a Starbucks coffee now…nah, never mind!) Regardless, American Oil and Gas is starting to zoom!
🤣 enjoy your coffee
My homebrew is better, except when I choke on it while laughing at Jeff’s commentary! I’ve learned to sip, SWALLOW, read!
And diesel is $6 + a gallon.
I really wish our "art-of-the-deal" Commander in Chief would negotiate a better deal for fuel prices for us commoners. Maybe threaten to stop their subsidies if they dont play ball and give us all a break. We pay them to thrive maybe they could reciprocate during times like these. I know market finances are above my educational pay grade but my wallet is still struggling.
Amen. TAW because GAW.
❤️
Okay, I'm not hip to all the acronyms flying around so what does TAW/GAW mean?
C&C acronyms.
Trump Always Wins because God Always Wins.
Now you are hip!
Thanks.
Prescient is a good word, but the wrong choice here. These neoclowns didn't have a plan. They thought a new regime would be in power
The leverage potential is stunning, and the EU set itself up to get fulcromed. If the EU comes begging Trump for oil, what might he ask for in exchange? Greenland? Repatriation of the 3rd world they imported? Greta to take a three-hour cruise on the reflecting pool? At the very least, he’ll thank them for saving the planet with their windmills and solar panels.
LOL bro.
Yah, this is kinda what the left gets. Blocking reasonable fiscal restraint initiatives in the courts using biased judges has been fairly effective.
Which forced the administration into something that might well be unchallengeable - just firing everyone then dragging its feet on hiring replacements.
Fuck 'em. "Experts" are the bane of society nowadays.
I'm always skeptical when a trad-media headline has the phrase "experts say" in it.
An expert is someone who gets paid...and the response from the expert is whatever the payer wants it to be.....sort of like the word "professional"....someone who gets paid...
Prostitutes get paid ie they are experts and deserve respect.
They are professionals. And like all professionals, some are expert and some are not so much...but it IS the oldest profession in the world, there will always be a market, and it is, like funeral homes and bars, recession proof.
As well you should be.
I attended a New England boarding school recently awarded the dubious distinction as the #1 private school in America (by 'experts').
Glancing with increasingly 'gimletted' eyes at the alumni notes, I was shocked - and not - at the utter and complete absense of ANY details which had real meaning for life. Mostly global initiative shit, and who's taken a cruise recently.
Your last two sentences. 100% correct.
Bet a dollar to a donut that this firing will enjoined by some judge.
That would also not surprise me one bit 😕
Big bad storms yesterday all over my region, I had some early in the morning, my internet was out, missed yesterday's C&C. Then worse ones later in the day, and another internet outage. But no damaging winds, just torrential rain and scary lightning. The sun came out after the last one!
Send some of that rain down our way here in the FL panhandle. We haven't had any measurable rain at our location for four months.
Imma suggest rain dances. We've had periodic drought type issues to your north. The farmers up here were left high and dry the past couple seasons. If the corn's not knee high by July its a bust. So far this year is going a bit better. We had a real winter this past season for the first time in years which helps much.
Stay safe, but sounds like you’re dealing with what your neighbors to the north had the end of March and much of April. Torrential rain in the form of t-storms, one after the other. Many parts of the lake areas near the Straits of Mackinac are still dealing with water levels threatening old dams and locks.
Yikes! Stay safe.
Same in Mid-Mo. I have lived here nearly 40 years. We get one annually (maybe more) but have had 3 in several days. None of the predicted high winds, thankfully.
The ones near Columbia and Jeff City headed NE toward me across the river.
The worst storms passed south of us, but I was definitely on high alert all yesterday afternoon and evening 😕
The river is just above normal. The creeks are running.
I live in the bluffs just above the river.
Being from NM I have ask what rain is since we hardly ever see it. Supposed to rain here Friday and Saturday but the forecast are usually wrong.
Same where I live. Woke to the sound of chain saws… some rural parts are going on 14 hours of no power.
I am a retired petroleum engineer and do not believe that the claims that Iran cannot shut-in their wells because they will fail. It is likely a false or misinformed narrative that the White House is spreading. Oil and gas wells are difficult to reactivate if they have pumping units or downhole electric submersible pumps on them and the producing formation is comprised of in consolidated sandstone, which is like beach sand. When wells in those type of oil/gas fields are shut-in, the sand can enter the well bore and cause the down-hole pump to plug up or stick. However, most of Iran’s fields are not this type. The vast majority of large Middle East oil fields are comprised of carbonates (I.e., limestone or dolomite), which is consolidated like permeable cement. Also, Iran likely has a high percentage of naturally flowing wells (needs confirmation) with no pumps, except in their older fields. Finally, repressurization at the well always occurs when wells are shutin because the wellbore was the low pressure withdrawal point. After the well is closed, the pressure across the entire field tries to equalize. Thus, pressure at the well location and its nearby drainage area goes up. When shut-in wells are reactivated, they typicallly return to production at higher rates if there are no downhole problems such as corroded, collapsed or stuck equipment. The White House narrative needs to be questioned.
Well, one undeniable fact is that shut in wells don’t produce, and therefore, their income production is zilch.
Yeah, but unfortunately a whole lot of important info is ommitted from Jeff's (government's) takes. Like the fact that China and Russia have a lot of interest in Iran being stable, and we don't know how things may go if this continues on and Iran needs help. They likely will not just allow Iran to be destroyed by the West.
If you listen to the ladies at Promethean Action, it is the City of London corporation which is really losing in this....Russia is not hurting as the price of oil goes up...China is hurting because they own all the gas going into China....
I have been surprised that China has not sent naval tanker escorts with their tankers going to Iran for oil.
Russia too could send Naval escorts to support the LEGAL transit of all peaceful shipping (oil tankers), justified by the grossly illegal actions of a belligerent country's military/Navy.
IMHO, the US has clearly been acting in violation of long accepted international maritime law. The US has not declared war on Iran, so seizing, attacking, boarding or blockading peaceful flagged ships in territorial waters like the strait of Hormuz without a Security Council authorization is grossly illegal.
https://rsdi.ae/en/publications/the-international-law-of-the-sea-the-straits-of-hormuz-and-regional-security
https://factually.co/fact-checks/military/international-law-naval-blockades-ship-seizures-peacetime-us-precedents-9f4fb7
Way more interesting than another season of Landman. Thank you.
That funeral episode was one emotionally resonant episode though.
I like Billy Bob. I like Sam Elliot. But the show has become a soap opera. Maybe it always was and I just didn't notice. Still watch. From the West through and through. Sure it's disputable whether West Texas is the West. That's Jeff's wheelhouse. I'll encourage y'all to read Empire of the Summer Moon. Let's see how "Western" we feel.
A lot of shows (the good ones imo) are well-disguised soap operas, but is that a bad thing? In order to have a decent show, you have to like the characters, or even love to despise them. Dallas (which is the Landman comparison) was definitely a soap opera as well.
Todd: agree. I have had to skip shows with Taylor Sheridan at the helm. He ruined Yellowstone, imo. Will investigate the book suggestion. Thanks!
No problemo if you'uns is your preferred pronoun.
Thank you. Blows my mind that peole blindly believe their government in a time of war.
Blows my mind that over half the country rolled up their sleeves and threw their arms out to take directly into their bloodstream a untested, unsafe, and ineffective gene therapy injection.
Where was the massive outrage then?
How many listened to Trump and rolled up their sleeves?
How many Johnny-O? Tell me.
Also a retired petroleum engineer and I can give a hearty "amen" to Ranbo's comment. We shut in wells all the time. Its how we work on them (change pump, add productive intervals, clean out sand, etc). The narrative that a shut in creates permanent loss is just wrong in most cases.
With the comments of two retired Oil engineers fresh, i asked Duck AI to discuss the iran oil wells shut down effects. Got a both/and answer. Essentially time down is the issue. If they shut down for a few days to few weeks most wells of all types can be revived, and sometimes produce more for a time. However the longer down, things happen both in the wells, drill/pump equipment and transport that may have far reaching effects. The mature wells and strata of Iran had several unique effects and risks. So, while pres Trump's actual words may not be correct in detail, his meaning is pretty clear. He can shut them down for as long as he wants, or destroy them. We must look for what he means not just what he says.
No he can't. Are you going to have a perpetual naval force there?
I am going to presume for arguments sake that the WH is being advised on this by people who should know: the US oil companies....what is put out may be a simplified version which can be understood by the layman....
Read the comments on any other site and you will see the total failure of most people to even see the big picture of what is going on. Everything has to be simplified because the nuances of actions get lost. People are just not interested in the big picture....we are still in the "It's all about me." mentality.
Um, false narrative. That is the pedestal on which Dems stand. Their very existence needs to be questioned. Keep priorities in check like massive fraud and their violent rhetoric.
If this is all you have to add, good grief.
I love all the TAW retards trying to rebut a well articulated comment. Your expirenance in petroleum tears apart the 8200 hasbara lies. Thanks for a reality dose in the propaganda shit storm..Cannot for the life of me understand why retards cheer on their demise..Why do retards cheer on runaway inflation from this disaster? Just to clap TAW...Clown show freaks....All of them!
Blocked Aaron if he can't articulate his argument and disagreement without calling people names. Well, how much of a critical thinker is he?
It IS tiresome, isn't it?
Wielding the Vorpal sword right there with you 😁
Okay, I clicked on his name and did not get the 3 dots for blocking. I can block the people he’s restocked, but not him. What am I doing wrong?
I have blocked people before.
Hmmmm....I was able to get the 3 dots....which included BLOCK.
Found it! It was way up at the top on the right, instead of just to the right of the name.
He can’t spell either. Sounds drug addled.
Thanks!
While I appreciate your clear expertise, it was still funny. It reminded me of a time my younger brother and his friends accidently set a small fire in wooded area at the end of our street. He and his friends came frantically running in the house to get water.. most of them grabbed 8oz. paper cups and then ran back to the fire site. Most of the water they retrieved was spilled trying to run with it. I still chuckle thinking about it. We called the fire dept and they had it out in minutes but those boys vanished into thin air for hours. They were all grounded for the rest of the summer.
I'm glad to hear that. I shudder to think of the downstream effects of the sudden and permanent impoverishment of a country with 90 million people - the great majority being muslims - with new reasons to hate the west.
I have to push back a little on one comment on here. If that foundation was doing a legitimate study of the extinction of pollinators, that actually is a big deal. We have a huge problem with honeybees in this country dying off. Basically no pollinators= no food. Big trouble for everything that eats.
Yes and if I am not mistaken glyphosate has been implicated? Why the powers that be fail to understand the bigger picture is beyond me and infuriating
Follow the money...
Love of money is root of all evil
Glycosphate is one major possible culprit. EMFs are as well.
Yes I’d forgotten I read that as well. Poor bees. EMF bad. We’re next 😓
Studies like this don't have to flow through this board. It will be "legitimately" studied elsewhere, somehow, some way. One good and worthy study out of a slew of worthless ones may be a big deal, but not enough to keep this thing alive. And if I understand it, he fired the board of the NSF. He did not disband the NSF itself.
But it’s most likely that the bees are being killed by chem trails and glyphosate, but you know what the Science Board is never going to allow a study to show? That.
They weren’t funding science or we’d already have that information. They are funding bribery, graft, and corruption.
Kathy, the important word is "study". They're likely doing nothing about the actual issue, just talking about it. Perhaps the Administration can put another group in charge that will actually do studies in order to force those who are hurting the pollinators (like mono-croppers) to make needed changes.
"He fired all 25 members of the National Science Foundation’s board, " Wow, this is very concerning. Who is going to conduct the annual, decades long study on the benefits / risks of drinking coffee every day?
"Trump Cancels Science!!!" 😄
Good! ‘Cuz what’s been passing for “science” has been little more than 💩 for a long time.
I want him to cancel the "I am Science" guy
Not to mention drinking a glass of wine at night.
House Bill 821 makes me embarrassed to be an Ohioan.
Bipartisan cracks me up. Reminds me of how a Republican led legislature in Michigan allowed a ruthless governor and her equally rotten AG and SoS, lock down the residents for a year during 2020, and threw up their hands and said, “nothing we can do”. Then they all retired in 2022 and we got our first Democrat led Legislature in 40 years.
Kinda makes ya wonder why we R voters keep voting for people who constantly capitulate to their political "betters" (NOT!) and who just can't seem to stand up on their hind legs and kick D butt! (Maybe they are all froggy cryptids wearing suits and red ties.....)
At least your not an Illinoisan.
or a Minnesnowtan!
* You're. I can't believe I let that slip.
Autocorrect will “correct” these kinds of words for me right as I hit the “post” button and it always annoys me so much when I notice it afterwards 😡
Not the fame I was looking for.
Yes! I live in Loveland and have never heard about this mystical creature. I’ve kayaked the Little Miami many times. Much stranger things are in the Ohio river.
This is what we pay them to do?
Ditto. Wasting legislation time like they did during covid lockdowns. While many had their loved ones held hostage in nursing homes and not getting the home healthcare they needed, our legislators were busy discussing a new license plate to be issued
Don't blame you! I laughed out loud when I read that!!!!