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Q ~ Trust Trump's Plan ~ 03/01/2025 Vol.505, Q Day 2682
qalerts.app ^ | 03/01/2025 | FReeQs, FReepers, LurQers and Vanity

Posted on 02/28/2025 9:00:00 PM PST by ransomnote

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21 posted on 02/28/2025 9:49:19 PM PST by foldspace
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A new month! Kinda snuck up on me.


22 posted on 02/28/2025 9:49:45 PM PST by Wingy (It's nice to be nice to the nice. (Stolen from Bagster who stole it from MASH))
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23 posted on 02/28/2025 9:49:58 PM PST by foldspace
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Thank you! A new thread for March Madness. Enough so you can share with FRens.


24 posted on 02/28/2025 9:50:19 PM PST by little jeremiah (https://qalerts.app/)
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25 posted on 02/28/2025 9:50:22 PM PST by foldspace
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26 posted on 02/28/2025 9:50:48 PM PST by foldspace
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Bonjour y'all! Laissez le bon Trump rouler!!!

Know your Nautical Terminology

capstan
A large winch with a vertical axis used to wind in anchors or to hoist other heavy objects, and sometimes to administer flogging over. A full-sized human-powered capstan is a waist-high cylindrical machine, operated by a number of hands who each insert a horizontal capstan bar in holes in the capstan and walk in a circle.

pawls
Small bars used to stop the barrel of a winch or capstan moving backward under an increased load or if the turning power was reduced. In early capstans, the pawls had to be manually moved in and out of the notches in which they worked. Later capstans had automatic pawls that dropped into notches as the barrel turned. In breaking out an anchor, a crew would "heave and pawl" if the bow was rising and falling with the waves, so giving a varying load on the cable.

The above deck portion of the capstan of USS Constitution with capstan bars in place. In heavy weather there may have been four men per bar needed to break the anchor free.

A drydock capstan showing the housing for a pawl.

SpyNavy

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

27 posted on 02/28/2025 9:51:15 PM PST by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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28 posted on 02/28/2025 9:51:21 PM PST by foldspace
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29 posted on 02/28/2025 9:52:21 PM PST by foldspace
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30 posted on 02/28/2025 9:52:40 PM PST by foldspace
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31 posted on 02/28/2025 9:52:55 PM PST by foldspace
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LOL


32 posted on 02/28/2025 9:52:57 PM PST by sweetiepiezer (WINNING is not getting old!!! ❤️USA❤️)
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Time marches on. Thanks for the new thread.


33 posted on 02/28/2025 9:53:04 PM PST by Marmolade
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34 posted on 02/28/2025 9:53:18 PM PST by foldspace
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***I have tried to figure out what these Q threads are about or for, but still haven’t a clue***

Sort of reminds one of the original single thread forum posting, eh?🗿 Old home week.🤷

35 posted on 02/28/2025 9:54:41 PM PST by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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~Salvatore Cezar Pais

36 posted on 02/28/2025 9:55:55 PM PST by foldspace
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IN


37 posted on 02/28/2025 9:56:03 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. Psalm 33:12)
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38 posted on 02/28/2025 9:56:55 PM PST by foldspace
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39 posted on 02/28/2025 9:57:55 PM PST by foldspace
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40 posted on 02/28/2025 10:02:10 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. Psalm 33:12)
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