Esoteric Meandering Shouting Into the Void

You don’t need to have a complete understanding of exactly how hieroglyphs function amid the rules of grammar in order to find them fascinating, though. Many symbols represent items that in turn provide glimpses into life in ancient Egypt and its advanced state as a civilization. The following hieroglyphs do just that — and we’ll use the names and reference points from Gardiner’s list to help illuminate them.

Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics have long captured the imaginations of scholars and casual observers alike, and efforts to translate them date back to the ninth century CE. Yet hieroglyphics remained mostly indecipherable until the discovery of the Rosetta Stone in 1799. Early progress was made by English polymath Thomas Young in the 1810s, and French linguist Jean-François Champollion completed a breakthrough translation that he presented in Paris on September 27, 1822. 

The accuracy of Champollion’s translation was a watershed moment that enabled a greater understanding of hieroglyphs, leading to deeper and wider-ranging study. In 1927, English Egyptologist Alan Gardiner published the reference work Egyptian Grammar, which included an appendix compiling the major hieroglyphs and their meanings, known as Gardiner’s Sign List, a reference standard still used today.

You don’t need to have a complete understanding of exactly how hieroglyphs function amid the rules of grammar in order to find them fascinating, though. Many symbols represent items that in turn provide glimpses into life in ancient Egypt and its advanced state as a civilization. The following hieroglyphs do just that — and we’ll use the names and reference points from Gardiner’s list to help illuminate them.

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

Let us address the layoffs that are taking place. This is all about saving money, federal money, so that it can be redirected into the pockets of people that have so much now they don't know what to do with it. The effort may save on salaries but it will not save on unemployment, and if they were government workers the federal govenment gets billed for the unemployment. The next thing that will happen is that these folks may have to default on home loans. This will create problems in the banking industry and as usual the bankers will come back to the fed and ask for a bail out. All of these actions ultimately cost money in one form or another and all of it will come home to roost on the Trump administration. How utterly stupid do you have to be to think this is a good idea, like tariffs it has consequences that get worse not better. Cancelling programs that feed people, here or elsewhere is not only stupid it is in humane. We are talking about the party that does not want a woman to have an abortion, but once the child is born they are on their own. All this nonsense to make Musk wealthier or Trump wealthier, and there is no reason for it. If Trump wants more money all he has to do is take it away from Musk. The courts are getting challenged by Trump as to what are they going to do to enforce any ruling that they have made as he is determined to disobey the order. On top of that the DOJ is aligned with Trump so there is no recouse in that direction to get the marshalls to do the job they are required to do. Other nations have recourse when they feel that the policies or the leaders of the party in power have gone too far and that is to have an emergency election. Is the plan to eliminate the judges and all cases brought will be heard by himself? Not much else is going to get done other than exstract vengence on all that are enemies of the great one. It is just amazing that all the members of Congress and all the justices on the Supreme Court have not tumbled to the obvious fact that if they just sit on it they to will become redundant and no longer needed. When it reaches that point for them rather than just telling them they are fired they may face the fate of Salins generals or those that oppose his nibs in North Korea, firing squad. If any members of this administration should read this, consider your options carefully. At present if you feel threatened you can ask for police protection, maybe not in DC but send the family home and the local police will take over. Once you reach the point of uselessness that is rapidly approaching there will be no place to run to. Don't believe it, read the history of the rise of dictators in any nation. Congress is just about at a point of hang together and do something to save the nation and your respective asses or hang separately as your usefullness comes to an end. Check 2025 it may be outlined in there somewhere, only the hardcore ass kissers are going to survive. Anyone deemed and enemy or someone that has the potential to unseat him or do him harm is going to be a target, and that probably includes some of the rich as well because at some point he is going to start taking it from them as well, he does want to be the riches does he not?

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

This is getting to the point of insanity… The wealthiest man in the world is rooting out waste in the US Government, crazy that all the waste and fraud are in agencies that are only there to help that have the least. Departments that historically are riddled with waste are not even being looked at.

We now have an FBI director that published a book about going after those who slighted the current occupant of the oval offices… by name. The Attorney General is specifically looking into those who investigated Jan 6 and erasing video footage of the violence from that day.

Donny is telling Governors that if they do abide by his executive orders that federal funding will be cut from their state because he is the law.

Only a month has passed, when will more people realize that this isn’t making us great… only a month and we are already despised on the world stage… MAGA is a bad joke, a bad joke that keeps being told .

You can have cells from more than one person in your body.

In Greek mythology, a chimera is a part-lion, part-goat, part-snake, all-weird monstrosity, but in scientific circles, the name takes on a different meaning. In biology, a chimera is anyone whose body contains genetically distinct cells. This doesn’t mean that another small organism is living within you, but rather that cells wholly different from your cells coexist within you. In fact, a kind of chimerism is fairly common. New mothers carry some of the cells of their offspring, which can remain within their body for up to 40 years. This exchange of cells is also a two-way street, as children often contain some of their mother’s cells, which cross the placenta and into the child’s bloodstream during pregnancy. However, not many cells reside in a mother and her offspring, so scientists refer to this phenomenon as “microchimerism.” 

A more dramatic form of human chimerism is when two embryos that would usually form nonidentical twins instead fuse in the womb, and the resulting single embryo contains cells of both. While this can have some outward effects (like different-colored patches of skin on one person), most of the time this condition is only discovered through genetic testing. In one bizarre case in 2003, a 52-year-old mother needed a kidney transplant, and when her children were tested for compatibility, the results showed that two of her three children were not hers genetically. This is because she was a chimera, having fused with her twin embryo before birth, and the doctors didn’t think to search for a second genetic marker in other parts of her body. That makes this confused mother only 1 out of 100 or so confirmed chimera cases worldwide, but many, many more are likely out there.

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

I hate to keep harping on this but I am just done with the bumper sticker BS. We went through CRT (critical race theory) no one knew what it was but to the small minded it screamed BLACK… but if you made the morons say the words they had no idea what it meant. Now Felon47s cry is DEI and that is all the red hat militia cry, make them say the words Diversity, Equality, Inclusion, then ask them as professed Christian’s how those are bad things. Make them openly admit they are racist, then make them acknowledge that they believe that rich people are better than they are.

It is sad that we have to blatantly point out idiocy and hypocrisy. Republicans have always had the arrogance to spout what they believe is right … we need to put our chins up and throw the facts in their faces, and keep doing it till they get the point.

With the current Pontiff currently in the hospital with pneumonia thought I would refresh memories on who started the FAITH …

Peter the Apostle

Another major New Testament figure, Peter is renowned as the most prominent of Jesus’ disciples. A fisherman initially known by the name of Simon, Peter earned his new name along with a promise he would receive the keys to the kingdom of heaven from Jesus.

According to the Bible, Peter is the only discipleto walk on water, and was with Jesus for such critical moments as the Transfiguration (when Jesus appeared on a mountaintop in his divine form) and the raising of Jairus’ daughter (when Jesus performed a miracle to bring a young girl back to life). And while Peter attempted to prevent his leader’s arrest, he also fulfilled the prediction that he would deny Jesus three times that night, before atoning by thrice telling the resurrected lord that he loved him. 

According to the Bible, Peter later performed his own miracles such as the healing of the lame man at the Beautiful Gate, until he too was crucified (upside down) for spreading the gospel of Christianity. Traditionally considered the first pope, Peter is also highly regarded in the church for his close relationship with Jesus, as well as his devotion in spite of his imperfect character.

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

For those that think that Donny and his South African stooge are putting the People of the United States first look at the programs and agencies they are going after.

FEMA helping after disasters (full of waste and abuse)

Social Security system we pay into (sending billions to dead people)

Department of Education (WOKE)

Centers for Disease Control… well why do we need that.

FAA now planes are crashing

Consumer Financial Protection Agency because they are stopping banks from gouging Americans.

They are on a crusade to end Diversity Equity and Inclusion… make them say the words not just DEI

Have you heard that they are cutting the billions we give to BIG OIL… no you haven’t because they aren’t.

Musk has gotten more money for Space X and a contract to supple armored Cybertrucks to the DOD… no conflict there,

Donald believes he alone is AMERICA fuck everyone else.

Icy glaciers probably don’t spring to mind when you think about the tropics. But whether it’s Indonesia, Colombia, Kenya, or elsewhere, glaciers do exist in these warm climates. Of course, these huge chunks of ice aren’t sipping mai tais beachside, but are instead perched high up in mountain ranges. These frigid formations are the result of snow that’s been compressed into massive, slow-moving bodies of iceover the course of centuries. 

But although these glaciers have taken ages to form, their disappearing act will be much more swift. In all, 50% of mountain glaciers (both tropical and nontropical) will disappear by the end of this century due to climate change. Glaciers can serve as vital water reserves during drought, so their disappearance can have dire consequences in hot regions. In Indonesia, the Eternity Glacierscurrently rest in the Jayawijaya mountains, but continuous dry seasons mean they’ll likely disappear forever in 2026. The Conejeras glacier in the Colombian Andeswill perform the same vanishing act on a similar timeline. Mount Kenya and Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa also sport glaciers on their peaks, though both mountains are steadily losing ice mass due to changes in ocean patterns caused by our warming world. Sadly, this is just the latest glacial batch facing evaporation. In 2009, the Chacaltaya glacier in Bolivia disappeared completely, and the country has lost around half of its glaciers in the past 50 years. Glaciers will continue to exist in the colder reaches of the world for centuries, but the age of tropical glaciers is quickly coming to an end. 

Icy glaciers probably don’t spring to mind when you think about the tropics. But whether it’s Indonesia, Colombia, Kenya, or elsewhere, glaciers do exist in these warm climates. Of course, these huge chunks of ice aren’t sipping mai tais beachside, but are instead perched high up in mountain ranges. These frigid formations are the result of snow that’s been compressed into massive, slow-moving bodies of iceover the course of centuries. 

But although these glaciers have taken ages to form, their disappearing act will be much more swift. In all, 50% of mountain glaciers (both tropical and nontropical) will disappear by the end of this century due to climate change. Glaciers can serve as vital water reserves during drought, so their disappearance can have dire consequences in hot regions. In Indonesia, the Eternity Glacierscurrently rest in the Jayawijaya mountains, but continuous dry seasons mean they’ll likely disappear forever in 2026. The Conejeras glacier in the Colombian Andeswill perform the same vanishing act on a similar timeline. Mount Kenya and Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa also sport glaciers on their peaks, though both mountains are steadily losing ice mass due to changes in ocean patterns caused by our warming world. Sadly, this is just the latest glacial batch facing evaporation. In 2009, the Chacaltaya glacier in Bolivia disappeared completely, and the country has lost around half of its glaciers in the past 50 years. Glaciers will continue to exist in the colder reaches of the world for centuries, but the age of tropical glaciers is quickly coming to an end.