From The Altadis USA Website:
The Banker by H. Upmann |
|
|
In 1844, German bankers Carl and Herman Upmann traveled to Cuba where they created an exceptionally unique cigar. They securely locked it away in their vaults to be gifted to their most important clients. Now, 170 years later, that award-winning blend has been recreated in The Banker by H. Upmann. Enjoy the rich, full-flavored and spicy profile with a robust body and aroma. An attractive dark-brown, oily wrapper is just the beginning of the beautiful premium cigar. A mellow aroma highlights the rich and robust nutty taste profile that is complemented with well-balanced notes of spice, coffee and leather. Celebrate the Richest Moments of Life with The Banker by H. Upmann. |
Altadis is an old Big Dog when it comes to the Cigar business. They are the biggest and carry some of the most renowned brands out there including Montecristo, Romeo y Julieta, H. Upmann, and Trinidad. The first three are also Cuban brands, with Cuba opening up, the trademark wars will begin soon. You can read all about some of that here. The history of these brands, and a few more for later are tightly bound to the history of Cuba, Central America, and The United States. More on that as more reviews are written.
Altadis is really stepping up their game as of late across several brands. The Banker has become one of my favorite cigars, I manged to hit on several boxes and some 5 packs at auction and got them at a pretty good price. I would pay full price for this guy though. This one is for slow smoking, I’ll take a good hour to get through it. The first part is lovely peppery and spicy and then mellows out into an earthy, old school, honest cigar with some oak, leather, and nicely aged tobacco. This cigar is always smooth. The wrapper is Ecuador Habano, the filler is Dominican and the binder is Nicaraguan Jalapa. All are from seeds that were liberated from Cuba during and after the revolution.
It’s a very good smoke. I wish I could afford to go on Cigar Safari or one of the other Esteli cigar tours someday.
https://www.thecut.com/2017/10/the-men-taking-classes-to-unlearn-toxic-masculinity.html
cut their balls off
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
tryin to talk the wife into a trip to nicaragua… 😆
Sisyphus
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
cant ask for much more out of an old school cigar. one of my faves.
“liberated during and after the revolution”
gotta love it
completely off topic but something I was wondering about while I was listening to Rush go on about Swinestain. I’ve lost count of the women who claim he assaulted them.
I haven’t heard ONE say, “yep, that’s how I got the role”
And I have a question about Elon Musk’s electric cars. Do they use cobalt? If so, it could be he’s building products from child slave labor. And by child I mean four years old.
I could run with this one……..
Child miners aged four living a hell on Earth so YOU can drive an electric car: Awful human cost in squalid Congo cobalt mine that Michael Gove didn’t consider in his ‘clean’ energy crusade
Almost every big motor manufacturer striving to produce millions of electric vehicles buys its cobalt from the impoverished central African state. It is the world’s biggest producer, with 60 per cent of the planet’s reserves.
The cobalt is mined by unregulated labour and transported to Asia where battery manufacturers use it to make their products lighter, longer-lasting and rechargeable.
The planned switch to clean energy vehicles has led to an extraordinary surge in demand. While a smartphone battery uses no more than 10 grams of refined cobalt, an electric car needs 15kg (33lb).
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4764208/Child-miners-aged-four-living-hell-Earth.html#ixzz4wKGCK0jO
you shitbags dont have high stress jobs.
http://nypost.com/2017/10/22/i-smoke-weed-to-survive-my-high-stress-job/
@ eaglesoars:
oh, i cant wait to drop that bomb on a certain moron that i work with.
coldwarrior wrote:
I’ll let you in on a secret. All these ‘feminist’ men? It’s bullshit, I remember all the guys who were supposedly big on women’s lib back in the day. It’s a pose to get laid. It was a lie then, it’s a lie now. Usually adopted by guys who had little luck getting laid otherwise and for good reason..
Most men do not hate women. Altho lately I wouldn’t blame them if they’re a bit skittish, given what’s out there. But the truth is that most men are good guys who like women and don’t require subservience, they’d just like a woman who likes them that they can trust and have some fun with. It ain’t complicated.
This whole thing is a hoax.
@ coldwarrior:
little missy nursypants mad a critical error of addressing my politics, my politics which i keep very silent at work. she assumed that i was a trump supporter and started her moronic tirade with …’you’re a smart guy, how can you support trump…’
well, i dressed her down with economics and other topics for almost 20 minutes to the point where the other RN’s got involved and started on her as well. this was fun to watch as she is an irritating self-righteous wimp from an upper-middle family. she didnt even have to pay for school!
she went to the boss and complained, boss told her…well, you started it. deal with it.
nursypants is looking for a new job, i got news for her, that level one trauma center that she wants to go to will eat her wimp-suburban-princess ass alive. this will be fun to watch.
@ eaglesoars:
cut their balls off and make them eat ’em
coldwarrior wrote:
They’re going to get bit in the ass anyway. The left is putting together a huge campaign to eliminate all vaping. They don’t like that they don’t have 100% control over it and want it wiped out. The first ads are already out “Vaping is 100x more likely to cause cancer”.
coldwarrior wrote:
yeah, it seems to me there was a bit of concern about the factories in China that assembled Apple products.
Wait till this gets noticed.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
when its legal i’m gonna do a gravity bong on my back deck.
eaglesoars wrote:
Over on oneangrygamer.net they have pretty good running coverage on all these scumbags that are turning out to be rapists and pedophiles. Over 15 so far this month. Mostly in the video games journalism community, but more and more being revealed in Hollywood. The more someone screams that all males are misogynist wannabe rapists, the more likely they are an actual rapist. The leftists are just flat out depraved sickos.
eaglesoars wrote:
Nearly every “green energy” scam has either crap like this or is higher polluting than standard energy. I still remember when it was revealed that there were massive amounts of mercury involved in Solar. Instead of accepting it the left instead tried to discredit the people who revealed it.
coldwarrior wrote:
having recently spent some time observing cardiac ICU, I am ASTOUNDED at the depth of knowledge and the intensity brought to it. I watched them do rounds while the head honcho grilled everybody on what was going on with hubby, and picked them apart on ‘What’s your thought process about X?”.
30 minutes with one patient and I think they examined his toenails while they were at it. They all had laptops slaved to portable wheelie things. That plus all the equipment in the room, it looked like NASA
@ eaglesoars:
CV-ICU is a hell of an assignment. they weed out the fakers real quick.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/mueller-opens-criminal-investigation-into-clinton-fundraiser-tony-podesta-in-russia-probe/
So many shoes have dropped in these related sagas that if Amelda Marcos
had been supplying the footwear she would have run out a while back.
Enough already!
Let’s see them in court!!
eaglesoars wrote:
The number of guys back in the day who took on a tie dyed hip leftist demenour actually … just wanted to get laid…. and were hunting where the ‘game’ were congregating.
🙂
I have experience in this. Alas the hot would be ‘silver spoon in mouth’ revolutionary socialist, ‘on ‘daddy’s dime’ didn’t believe me and I had to return to the conservative herd exposed as a faux revolutionary!
🙂
HEH!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Did you catch my story about Hubby’s visit to Tony Podesta’s house for a fundraiser? I’ll tell it again.
Hubby first came to D.C. as part of the Vermont delegation and has known Pat Leahy [note to Aussie: LONG TIME Senator from Vermont] since forever.
John Posesta, Hillary’s sidekick, was given his first job on the Hill by Leahy and those two go way back.
John’s brother, Tony, is a lobbyist and at the time was married to a ball-busting bitch named Heather who started her own ‘consulting’ firm using Tony’s name and money. As part of her entre to D.C. society, she became an art patron. One of her favored artists was a woman by the name of Marina Abramović. Her art is described in polite society as ‘erotic’ but is in fact pornographic and sadistic. Her ‘live installations’ have involved smearing feces on walls. Marina Abramović is the connection to the infamous ‘pizzagate’ conspiracy but that’s another story.
Well, Leahy needed to have a fundraiser and his old friend John asked Tony and Heather to host it. They could pull in big donors with their society connections. Hubby was invited because he’s on Leahy’s ‘always invite’ list. So Hubby went. And was absolutely SHOCKED. Heather seemed quite pleased with all of it, giving tours, etc. But the look on Leahy’s face when he realized what he was seeing was even worse. He only stayed 10 minutes, didn’t stay long enough to be introduced to and say thank you to everyone, a real no-no.
Now, Tony does seem to have some interest in art himself, but I don’t think his tastes run to the pornographic, just painfully “modern”.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2017/10/23/ex-npr-ceo-spends-time-red-state-bitter-clingers-discovers-cartoonish?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=marketing&utm_campaign=npr-ceo
Very good article.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Mueller can’t be trusted.
http://archive.is/82gR6
Some of the links on the page are tenous but there are some toward the middle and bottom that show he isn’t trustworthy. He’s a leftist.
@ eaglesoars:
Podesta and by the look of it his immediate family are degenerates and evil bastards who shouldn’t inhabit earth anymore. How the hell (pardon the pun) did Leahy EVER get to know Podesta? Surely Leahy must have twigged that he wad dealing with some very bad people. OK so Leahy was a politician, and politicians do deal with really bad people but seriously? Obviously Leahy should have assessed Podesta as ‘seriously bent’ and his family even more so. Sounds as if Leahy has a problem judging character or lack thereof.
When it comes to politicians you have to know that by definition they must be deeply compromised individuals by the very calling that they follow. Other than professional associations why would any half decent person ever get cosy with mere politicians? John Podesta is an evil man and I’d advise your hubby to stay well clear of him. Sleaze rubs off easily and it’s very hard to get off once it gets under one’s fingernails.
🙂
ok, military people, correct me if I misremember. Trump’s phone call to this widow that Rep Wilson was conveniently in the car to listen to.
IIRC, the POTUS doesn’t call a family just out of the blue. Lost a friend in Nam, went to school with his little brother. They were called ahead of time – by the WH or Pentagon or somebody – to ask if they would accept a call and if so, to set up a pre-arranged time. After all, a POTUS’s schedule is tight, he doesn’t have time to waste with a 5 yr old picking up the phone and then hanging it up, or being insulted by a family wracked by grief.
So, Trump’s phone call to this woman was also pre-scheduled and she set him up.
amiright?
@ eaglesoars:
100% correct!
Slime rises to the top overtime. It was a total set up !
eaglesoars wrote:
Absolutely. This was a complete leftist setup. I wouldn’t be surprised if the left got his list and called around until finding one who would cooperate.
… and the folly of it that ALL of those who know the protocol, buttoned their lips and stayed mute while a travesty was committed against Trump’s administration.
SPIT
The Swamp is both wide and very VERY deep.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
wouldn’t need a list. 4 soldiers killed in Niger are easy to track down. How much you want to bet it came right out of Wilson’s office.
Have to run to the pharmacy to pick up meds for hubby. aussie, check yer mail.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
yeah. like Dana Perino. GWB’s former press sec with her own show and has not said one word about it, except to burnish her little-goody-two-shoes personna with pablum.
eaglesoars wrote:
True, they’d just have to check the backgrounds. I guess from what I’ve read some of his family members made comments in the past that would have made them perfect.
@ eaglesoars:
It was either Rush or Levin that touched on the cobalt issue awhile ago – and I seem to recall it was mentioned that Musk uses Cobalt (it may have been a guest host for Rush). I listen to Rush’s podcast on the way home from work (mostly to drown out the Berkeley hippies on the BART train) so I’ll be interested to see what he says.
@ eaglesoars:
Joe Walsh got hammered on Twitter for taking issue with the grieving widow’s remarks – you know, “HOW DARE you criticize this woman she lost her husband.”
I may be cold-hearted bitch but I say grieving widow lost her moral authority (1) the moment she arranged for an Impeach Trump CongressLoon to listen in on it; (2) authorizing that same CongressLoon to go public and insult the President; and (3) got herself booked on all kinds of MSM shows further compounding errors 1 and 2 by parroting whatever talking points the CongressLoon told her to say.
Damn straight this was a set up.
And for the MSM to attack General Kelly for sticking up for the President (and Lawrence O’Donnell has crossed over into the Enchanted Kingdom with his BS take on it) is pathetic. I have heard that Democrats are privately banging their heads on their desk over the “Rock Star” and her insane follow up comments.
Etiquette..
“Good morning/afternoon/evening” { insert name of the person on the other end of the phone line}
“I am on speaker phone here. The other people in the room are” { List the names of all the other people that are either just listening in on the call or will be participating }
Maybe I have a distorted approach to courtesy and procedure because I am British.
eaglesoars wrote:
These self serving , covert ideological types should be required to staple their CVs and backgrounders to their foreheads when talking in the Media. There are so very many covert agendas in play that it’s a ‘wilderness of mirrors’ trying to assess these Media types and ‘which side of their mouths that are talking out of”.
🙂
So when the hell did the US Strategic Forces move to DEFCON 3?
I must have been asleep.
Anyone know why and when this has happened?
‘Little rocket boy’ going to launch an ICBM this time into the Mid Pacific?
Later guys.
Off to listen to Tucker do his thing.
Cheers,
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
i more or less followed the grateful dead for about 4 months. i can say this, the hippy chix were not attractive at all. revolting is more like it.
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
loves me some Jet
Possum wrote:
well, yinz guys are known for manners n’at.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
well, well, well…it just got interesting.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
i’m gonna read that a little later, maybe whilst cleaning one of my assault rifles or clinging to religion
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
Bitch, please. OWN IT.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Day before yesterday is when I first heard about it. Load ’em up, fly ’em straight.
ok, CW, med question. Hubby’s doc prescribed Ambien because he hasn’t slept for 2 nights. He’s been sleeping in the family room because it’s a short walk and no stairs to the bathroom. Should I stay down here with him to be sure he doesn’t do something dangerous in his ambien-induced sleep?
coldwarrior wrote:
I read it yesterday. Urbana isn’t anything like what Jerry Falwell and that movie, Footlose, led him to expect. The ‘smug stink’ is strong with this one.
eaglesoars wrote:
ambien can cause some sleep walking. it is the appropriate med here to get hubby back on rhythm. i sometimes use the night after coming off of a long stretch of night shifts (my 30 pill prescriptions lasts a year or so). i will stay up all day and then when bedtime rolls around, i am wide awake. at that point i will use ambien.
something that the doc might have overlooked is a judicious use of melatonin at bed time to remind the brain that it is in fact time to sleep. 2-3mg for a week or so should work quite nicely. i use 1 or 2 mg when going onto night shift and day sleeping.
so yes, i would monitor hubby for sleep walking.
eaglesoars wrote:
A! Tucker is going to interview him after the break if you want to tune in
coldwarrior wrote:
My kids are up to 20mg of melatonin and it has mostly stopped working.
@ coldwarrior:
I told his nurse we have meltonin in the house, but she said “we need to get him back on schedule first”
thank you
James Woods takes down hypocrite Bill Kristol in 9 words.
Bill KristolVerified account @BillKristol
Follow Follow @BillKristol
More
Seeing the former presidents at last night’s event was a reminder the office has been held by men of stature and dignity. It will be again.
James WoodsVerified account @RealJamesWoods
Following Following @RealJamesWoods
More
James Woods Retweeted Bill Kristol
One used an intern as his personal humidor, Bill.
eaglesoars wrote:
melatonin IS schedule.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
brain gets used to it, that’s why i dont use it more than 1-3 times a week given my schedule
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/10/16/jaguars-hit-attendance-low-under-khans-ownership/
Shahid Khan and his players behavior are killing attendance at Jaguars games. He is the only Muslim owner
in the NFL and a major a##hole.
lobo91 wrote:
You mean the Hilary who was named after some obscure beekeeper from Nelson in the South Island of NZ, Ed Hillary, who then went on to climb the highest peak on the planet Hillary?
Perhaps the twice a loser, less famous female Hillary had some sort of infant foresight about the Famous Sir Edmond Hillary’s future conquest of Everest.
Yeah she was names AFTER Sir Edmond 3 years BEFORE he actually climbed Everest and ” knocked the bastard off”.
🙂
You mean THAT Hillary?
Lying bitch!
What you REALLY mean is the lying piece of human shit now called Hillary bloody Clinton!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
You’re right , and not only the Ass in the hat but the aunt and uncle heard the speaker phone call.
I am not going to disparage the widow, but come on.
@ RIX:
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAN! KHAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
RIX wrote:
i will, gladly
@ Deplorable Macker:
Inshallah!
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
He makes twitter worth it all by himself.
Just as an FYI – these ‘FARA’ reports everyone is talking about vis a vis Tony Podesta, et. al.
This is just a lobbying report form. We have to file ours (domestic lobbying ) every quarter with the Sec of the Senate and the Clerk of the House. Everybody has software to do it so the stuff goes straight to the databases. It’s not a big deal. I don’t know how often the FARAs have to be filed, but it’s a clerical thing. For us it’s a $10K fine if we miss the deadline. Which has happened due to software bugs but they work with you on that kind of stuff.
I think the media is making a big deal over a missed admin issue.
coldwarrior wrote:
I am trying not to.
RIX wrote:
I will. Wanna watch?
She just used her dead husband as a pawn to smear his and EVERY service members’ CIC. How do you think they feel about HER? I have some idea how surviving spouses are honored by the military.
She won’t be. She’s betrayed their service and their honor.
Holy shit.
Frederica Wilson introduced legislation to put us in Niger and it was passed in the House. Don’t know about the Senate
Washington, D.C. – In a long-awaited victory, the U.S. House of Representatives today by a voice vote passed H.R. 3833/S. 1632, legislation introduced by Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson (D-Florida) and Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) to help combat Boko Haram.
The measure directs the U.S. secretaries of State and Defense to jointly develop a five-year strategy to aid the Nigerian government; members of the Multinational Joint Task Force created to combat Boko Haram; and international partners who’ve offered their support to counter the regional threat posed by the insurgents. The strategy also would address the crushing humanitarian and education crises the terrorists have created.
https://wilson.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/house-passes-bipartisan-legislation-to-combat-boko-haram
coldwarrior wrote:
Yeah, I’ve had to give them a break from it once in a while. My oldest won’t stop taking it though but he hasn’t had to worry about going over the 20. With his autism I think it’s mostly a comfort of routine. 20 has been the sweet spot for a long time for him. The younger takes 10 because he has another nighttime med. He’s the one who should probably up his dose. The ex and her wife won’t give them a break from it.
Sleep and blue light.
I have a theory that I tried to discuss with someone over a year ago and got laughed at. At the time she convinced me that I was full of shit.
Still not so sure she was correct. I have experience with chickens. ( Stop laughing… not like you imagine )
In a modern, state of the art poultry facility they now use LED lighting. Also the colour of the lighting changes during the daily cicle. More red in the morning when you wake up the chickens (dawn) then gradually the light intensity increases and more blue is added. Towards the false evening in an environment with no windows the light level is reduced, first blue light then eventually just red to darkness and chickens go to sleep. Sunset.
I proposed using a first generation kindle type of screem\n for a few hours before bed time. They have an ePaper screen. Not lit up like a computer or a phone screen. Just black and white you have to shine a light on to see.
I am now inspired to do a test. No phone or computer screen two to three hours before bed. No blue light that says to my brain it is mid day just before I try to sleep.
I will just read a book on my first generation kindle. ePaper screen. No un natural light,
wait. Nigerian gov’t. That’s Nigeria, not Niger
eaglesoars wrote:
I can’t disagree with that.
@ Possum:
Amazon has come out with a kindle that doesn’t disturb the sleep cycle I believe.
eaglesoars wrote:
I’m a vet and I’m disgusted. She has the right to free speech and I have the right to be offended by it. This to me is basically a conspiracy to commit slander. (Or is it libel? But, he’s a public figure so I guess it’s okay.)
Possum wrote:
It’s been tested, it is a problem. My tablets, phone, and computer all have a night mode that turns the light an orangeish color. It seems to work really well. It changes about sunset and is so gradual I usually don’t even notice it. (When I was using the flux application I could notice though because it was instant instead of gradual.)
My ebook reader is the only device that doesn’t have this option for the backlight, so I can’t really use it before bed unless I turn the backlight off and use a room light. Unfortunately my bed light is a “Daylight” and mimics sunlight, so that probably won’t work.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yup.
G’night y’all.
Possum wrote:
the blue light has been proven to cause sleeplessness. there should be no screens for a couple of hours before bed. and NEVER screens in the bedroom.
my note 8 has a no blue option on it.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
i read that as flux capacitor.
eaglesoars wrote:
I hate Calo!!!! she sold my idea.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Calo sold me out…
Possum wrote:
so now she’s got more money than God?
coldwarrior wrote:
Calo told me I was full of shit while she made millions of dollars Selling my idea!!!
I don’t care, I still like her.
eaglesoars wrote:
All she owes me is a smile…..
I am that smitten.
Possum wrote:
you got robbed!
😆
coldwarrior wrote:
Oh good grief. Yeah. let’s undo how people were created. Jus when you think things can’t get more stupid.
No the bar is set really low for what constitutes “science” and “intelligence”
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
… and their supporting evidence is …. ? Given that vaping hasn’t really been around long enough to get any kind of actuarial data.
AZfederalist wrote:
I vape, and don’t smoke anymore.
Does anyone believe they don’t have a functional testing device to determine if a person is actually under the influence of THC or if they smoked it last November?
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
the problem wiht thc, unlike alcohol or opiates or cocaine is that the body does not see thc as poison, so it doesnt go all hell bent to get it out of the system like alcohol or opiates or blow or amphetamines.
the body will happily store thc in fat and get rid of it later. that said, we can directly test levels in the blood, the question is what constitutes ‘under the influence’.
AZfederalist wrote:
evidence????
from the left????
surely you jest!
@ coldwarrior:
That’s the problem. There’s no accepted legal standard at present.
There’s also no field test. I don’t think people want cops drawing blood on the side of the highway.
@ lobo91:
hell I don’t think COPS want cops drawing blood on the side of the highway
eaglesoars wrote:
… and she’s going to claim victim status over that, too. Just watch — she will be ostracized and it will be because everybody else is “racist”
eaglesoars wrote:
Nope
coldwarrior wrote:
Yeah, I know. What was I thinking?
@ lobo91:
@ eaglesoars:
DUI’s are brought into the ER for blood draws by the phlebotomist. the cops dont do it. i see it every night multiple times.
AZfederalist wrote:
you WERE THINKING…at that doesnt work with the left.
😆
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
“That’s when a smoke was a smoke.” John Mellonkoph
coldwarrior wrote:
Weird, mine does. settings – display and it’s under auto brightness.
lobo91 wrote:
field sobriety then blood draw at the hospital…its how the catch the other non-alcohol DUI’s
it is gonna be tricky getting the rules in place tho.
AZfederalist wrote:
Absolutely nothing. Considering how much of their smoking statistics in general are faked, it’s not surprising.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
i wasnt clear….i have a no-blue setting…its pretty cool.
coldwarrior wrote:
Got it, yep, it’s awesome.
welp. I don’t think Hillary can get away with murder any more, too many people watching. Newt was on Hannity saying this is the biggest political scandal in the country’s history
“It’s Out There” Wikileaks Shows Clintons Knew Uranium One Was Major Scandal in 2015
http://thegatewaypundit.com/2017/10/wikileaks-shows-clintons-knew-uranium-one-major-scandal-2015/
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Trying the setting on my iMac. Normal setting is a bit too warm, so set it a bit less.
OK blood tests after an accident.
I consent to my blood being drawn and tested even after an event where I am going to die or be a vegetable for the rest of my life in an indecent.
I have nothing to hide.
Maybe just before I lost control I had a fatal myocardial infarction the blood test will show that.
Blood tests can convict you or clear you.
Same as security cameras at your workplace. If you are innocent of a crime they are your friend. Fag Cake is an example.
Personally I encourage 24/7 camera surveillance of me.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
I have a pretty strict no-screen routine going into bedtime. It takes 2 hours for me to get tired after a 12hr shift, some of that had to be due to the blue in the screens at work.
AZfederalist wrote:
Yep, sometimes adjusting is needed. Once you get used to it, you might want to adjust it back, it works really well because your eyes start to interpret the warm color as normal after a while. I know I had to.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Sucking 1000 weasel dicks a day causes cancer, too, but they don’t tell you that.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
That makes sense. Turning it on when it’s already dark was probably the wrong time to start it.
@ Bunk X:
How many thimblefuls of water per hour will kill a person? I’m too lazy to google it.
@ Possum:
MI…troponin txt. Easy
We don’t have A/C in our house, rarely need it, but today all the candles melted and the plasticware fused.
AZfederalist wrote:
Very true. Mine is set to change at local sundown.
@ Bunk X:
We ate dinner off of plastic slabs using plastic shovels.
@ Bunk X:
We didn’t have to fire up the BBQ either. Just put the chicken on the grille and closed the lid – watched for smoke.
@ Bunk X:
Took about five minutes. The coleslaw was steamy.
I only know chickens.
Google “catch lights”
Blue light. means mid day. chickens hunker down and try to hide because that is the time predators come hunting them. They stay still. easy for humans to pick them up.
Chicken farming is complicated.
@ Bunk X:
I heard@ Tina is getting baked
@ Bunk X:
One. Jam the thimble into his throat, it should stop at the voicebox
@ Bunk X:
Hot in LA, like Houston but with no humidity a week ago.
Advantage, Astros Game 1 tomorrow.
@ Calo:
Calo wrote:
Baseball is a girl sport.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veMacwRU9ms
It was hot today. It was so hot
I saw a dog chasing a cat chasing a mouse, and they were all walking.
I saw two trees arguing over the dog.
I saw two fire hydrants arguing with the trees about the dog.
I saw the temperature go up so fast it took a break halfway up.
Cars on the freeway were underheating.
Thank you, thank you, I’ll be here all week.
coldwarrior wrote:
Effing phone.
Lol
Possum wrote:
no dummy, that would be soccer
Bunk X wrote:
Two drink minimum, try the veal, tip your waitress!
@ AZfederalist:
That was funny, especially following my comment.
eaglesoars wrote:
Baseball is played by girls. It is called Rounders. Study it. It is a nom contact sport. Bat person has to keep bat. Bat or ball first ti hit base is what counts. Not body
@ coldwarrior:
Tina is an adult. I don’t care what Tina does.
@ coldwarrior:
Why do you want to send her to Nicaragua?
@ Possum:
Very close to softball, ISTE.
@ Possum:
rounders doesnt have 100mph fastballs
Possum wrote:
ever see a professional womens softball game?
Bunk X wrote:
i’d like a field trip to go to esteli and smoke cigars at the tobacanarias…drink some booze…have some fun.
Calo wrote:
Yep very close.
And where do you think softball was based on?
Point is, batter keeps hold of bat in rounders. It is the fact that the bat not the person gets to the base. same as the ball. the ball has to get to the base not the person holding the ball.
None contact sport except by accident,.
@ Possum:
Almost like croquet then.
@ coldwarrior:
I’ll send the missus to Sacramento if you’ll let me come with you.
@ Bunk X:
Crap. She just read that. Deal’s off.
coldwarrior wrote:
and why is 100mph balls needed? throw a ball… the bat person either hits it or misses. same game.
Hubby downed the Ambien 13 mins ago. He’s out. I’m going to bed. nite.
@ Possum:
that’s some non-contact there.
@ Calo:
Or CalvinBall.
@ Possum:
Hurling is the game to watch.
Don’t ever play it, just watch.
Bunk X wrote:
😆
deal!
we’ll start here:
@ Bunk X:
Just watching a Hurling match is dangerous. You can lose teeth.
Bunk X wrote:
Hurling is nuts!
Bunk X wrote:
😆
Say it’s a business trip…
@ coldwarrior:
I was saying rounders the contact is the plag/base not another human
Hurling is Irish. They are not normal.
@ Bunk X:
Now, that looks like an exiting game to watch.
Helmets required since 2010
Possum wrote:
I misunderstood your accent.
Possum wrote:
I know, I was married to one!
Calo wrote:
It’s nuts live. I went to a couple games when I lived there. Amazing speed
Now….. Australian football is a real sport worth watching. Rugby and gang warfare.
Possum wrote:
Aussie rules is based on Irish football and rugby…Irish, hence the gang warfare
Okay, this is utter insanity. My brother had to bring me back a pack of Djarum Black clove filtered cigars. Why, because my f*******ing state made them illegal. “To protect the kids”. I really wish I could get the Djarum cigarillos around here though. Not a filter person myself, plus I’m not a fan of homogenized wrappers. The cigarillos are more of a traditional type. 6 to a pack, cello wrapped, even banded. (I used to smoke the spice islands from Djarum but it looks like they were discontinued sometime after my state went insane.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
NVM found them, they still exist, just can’t find them anywhere. (And not in this state, even though they would be legal, no one will carry them out of fear of our totalitarian masters.)
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
ridiculous
@ Calo:
@ Possum:
Hurlng World Championship was held within walking distance of my house in the 90s. The best players had bandages, scars and missing teeth.
Broken sticks, the ball and players would hurtle at high speed through the sidelines at odd moments. There were no bleachers.
@ Calo:
Football, soccer, rugby, baseball, golf, field hockey and blood all rolled into one.
Can’t get Bidi’s in MT anymore either.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
do they still let you raise dental floss?
😆
@ coldwarrior:
They do plastic scraper tests of the tongue on the street and if a positive pops up, it’s off the the ER and the phlebotomist vampire!
🙂
@ coldwarrior:
lol
Yeah, for a “wild west” free state we sure have a crapload of totalitarian leftists. And every damn one came from somewhere else. They took over Bozeman, Butte, Missoula, Kalispell, and Helena. Plus, since they are dems they think they own the Reservation vote. (And to a degree they do.) Luckily we manage to outdo them every couple years, but when the Goppers get in they don’t do crap to reverse the insanity. To be fair, it was the people who voted for the “Clean Air Act”. It was largely misrepresented by the people who pushed it, and was promoted as “for the children”. Roll your own cigar wrappers were banned for several years because the insane State Auditor couldn’t figure out whether to tax them as paper or tobacco, so he had them banned. Clove cigars were banned statewide because they were a “gateway” for kids into cigarettes. (Yeah, I’ve known so many kids that just love clove./) We weren’t even allowed cigar lounges (though someone found a loophole because we have one in my city now, but no one I know can afford the damn place. Over 1000 a year with locker rental. 750 without.)
I really hate the smoking rules and they are getting worse. Look at this crap storm.
https://redoubtnews.com/2017/10/montana-ban-vaping-outdoors/
They are banning vaping and chewing tobacco due to …..secondhand smoke.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
sounds like a good way to do it.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
so much for the wild wild west.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
holy smokes! our guy doesnt even charge for the locker space and its BYOB, big screen TV for some sports and great huge leather chairs.
coldwarrior wrote:
I guess that’s the benefit in being the only allowed cigar lounge in the entire state. You get to set your price and screw all you poor bastards.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
There are 5 or so within 10 miles of where I sit
coldwarrior wrote:
We have one, it’s also apparently pretty secret. As far as I knew they were still illegal in MT, but I had a whim and searched for the closest cigar lounge to where I live and there it was. It’s actually above a cigar shop I go to every couple months. They didn’t even have advertising in store.
morning y’all
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/23/exclusive-terry-richardson-banned-working-vogue-leading-mags/
@ rain of lead:
Seems this guy was some kinda revered legend…been around forever
the mud is splashing wider and wider
rain of lead wrote:
Terry Richardson is a known predator from way back. We subscribe to the NY Post and I remembered this article, June 2016. Somebody wrote a BOOK about it
There are few more-controversial figures in fashion than Terry Richardson — a photographer as associated with the words “high fashion” as he is with “predator” and “pervert.”
http://nypost.com/2016/06/25/inside-the-twisted-sexed-up-childhood-of-terry-richardson/
Arizona is in play
Jeff Flake will not run for re-election.
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/2017/10/24/republican-senator-jeff-flake-announces-not-running-senate-reelection-gop-primary-ward-trump/793952001/
smarmy bastard
eaglesoars wrote:
What a lying bastard. It’s far more libertarian leaning than it’s ever been. He just saw the writing on the wall and saw that his nevertrump crap destroyed his chances so he’s trying to make it his idea. Come on Arizona, it’s time to do it right. Bring up someone who will destroy the dem that they are running against.
http://ijr.com/2017/10/1004875-arizonas-jeff-flake-announces-retirement-damning-speech-mr-president-rise-today-say-enough/
@ eaglesoars:
Looks like he’s trying to stir crap up and burn it down as he goes out too. What a scumbag.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
he and mccain are up to something, I’ll bet. Flake may think he’s out of Bannon’s crosshairs, but if I were him, I’d shut my mouth.
eaglesoars wrote:
I think you’re right. Something is going on, both of those clowns are flapping their gums and trying to draw way too much attention to themselves. I’d just like to never hear from either again.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
heh. This was written BEFORE Flake’s announcement
He’s thoroughly loathed by every center-right person I know in Arizona, and I know a lot of them.
Stephen Kruiser, yesterday morning
https://pjmedia.com/blog/liveblogevent/mondays-hot-mic-29/entry-216089/
eaglesoars wrote:
That was awesome. Absolute proof that he changed, the party didn’t. At the speed of his corruption, I’m assuming he was either corrupt coming it, or he was bought and paid off quickly. The timing of that was perfect too, I wish everyone could read it.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
A senate term is 6 yrs, the House requires that you run a lot more often. He got his foot in the door thru the House by being what the voters wanted, went to the Senate where he thought he could be what HE wanted, especially under a Hillary POTUS. He faked it in the House, not the Senate.
If the Flake that was in the House were the real Flake, a Trump POTUS would be great for him.
Anyway, that’s what makes the most sense to me
eaglesoars wrote:
Makes sense to me too. Just another power hungry scumbag.
@ lobo91:
This is huge and I don’t doubt that it’s valid, but I don’t see the smoking gun in the article. This is the closest I’ve found.
-Some of the details about Fusion GPS’s work are included in a Oct. 24 letter sent by Perkins Coie to a lawyer representing Fusion GPS telling the research firm it was released from a client confidentiality obligation. The letter was prompted by a legal fight over a subpoena for Fusion GPS’s bank records. –
If this is proven and is reliable, then this will be twice Russia has bit Hillary in the ass this week.
lobo91 wrote:
we DO know something tho. We already know it was a deep pockets Yeb! donor.
It would no surprise me in the least if Flake’s people reached out to Trump’s people in the back channels to inquire if Trump was going to endorse him in the primary. When he learned he wasnt’t, and that indeed Trump would campaign for an opponent, he probably had visions of Trump’s 20K rallies.
https://www.sarahpalinnews.com/2017/10/24/breaking-gowdy-announces-new-comey-probe/
Sorry Gowdy, just not buying it anymore. Investigation after investigation with absolutely no results. The evidence is there and it’s clear to everyone with eyes. At this point without any convictions and results, all I can assume is that you are doing this to pad your career.
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
Also possible. The fact remains he’s a scumbag.
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
can you spell B-A-N-N-O-N?
I knew you could………..
Flake gone, Corker gone. Now MCCain and Ben Sasse can compete for the biggest a holes in the Senate.
@ RIX:
you left out McConnell
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
No! No ! No! You don’t understand the electoral marketplace. Trump should tell Flake’s people… ” of course I’ll support Flake in every way possible’ Then uncross their fingers behind their backs and when push comes to shove Trump should throw Flake under the nearest bus and totally support Flake’s opponent at the Primary stage.
THAT’s How It’s Done Folks!
Just cross your fingers Mr. President and lie to these arseholes and then stab ’em in the back at the last moment. Always remember that they will do it to you Mr. President just as soon as they get into office.
Get in first DJT
He who stabs first stabs best!
🙂
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
I thought that for a long while alas. More’s the pity as Gowdy could have been really exceptional but choose the low road to the snout in trough conclusion.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
CW called Gowdy’s self promoting BS ages ago. I made the mistake of doubting him. I guess I shouldn’t expect the best of people.
christ. listening to tucker. Paul Manafort was a Podesta guy. It hasn’ been said explicitly but it sounds like when he was Trump campaign mgr, he was a plant
@ eaglesoars:
The Swamp is both very broad and very very DEEP!
These plants keep turning up all over the place.
Perhaps I should offer to interrogate all Trump cabinet candidates prior to selection to discover what and who is really pulling their strings!
Give me a week tops and I could guarantee results!
🙂
🙂
http://ijr.com/the-declaration/2017/10/1005082-mlb-player-kneel-anthem-goes-restaurant-gets-served-piping-hot-plate-karma/
MLB player that took a knee received Karmic retribution. Claims it’s “racial profiling”. (Weird, because I would have thought he was white from his pictures.)
Aussie Infidel wrote:
What did you think of the link I put up yesterday? Do you think Mueller is tied up with Soros? There are a lot of financial links, but those might not mean he ever met the man. But, his links to the AG of NY who is buddy buddy with Alex Soros, seems pretty damning.
Here’s the link again.
http://archive.is/82gR6
@ Aussie Infidel:
interrogate hillary. i want to see her in an orange jumpsuit
https://www.weaselzippers.us/361528-jesse-jackson-blacks-going-from-picking-cotton-balls-to-picking-footballs-and-basketballs-without-freedom-isnt-progress/
@WZ
Media whore Jesse Jackson makes a raging ass out of himself.
Gee look what happened again.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/22653/remember-when-eastern-michigan-university-erupted-amanda-prestigiacomo
Following up with the hoax at Maryland. How many does that make now?
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
It’s always fun to be lectured to by someone with an IQ of 85
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
All of them
Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, everyone and good night (it’s 3:00 am here) but I think you’ll like thos one from the WSJ
The Power of the Presidential Tweet
Trump’s online missives make his supporters laugh and even his opponents think past the sale.
https://archive.fo/BL6UE#selection-2047.0-2051.93
Why am I on moderation?
Freeeeeeeeeee me!
eaglesoars wrote:
Yep, at this point I don’t remember a single one of these “hate crimes” that turned out true.
eaglesoars wrote:
Or as I call it, “Tuesday”
lobo91 wrote:
😆
@ eaglesoars:
I get lectured to on a daily basis by people with IQs of 85 (or below). They’re called inmates, and they all think they know more than me.
eaglesoars wrote:
He’s not running because Kelli Ward is polling like double digits ahead of him in the primaries. He turned out to not be what he portrayed himself to be and Arizona voters are PO’d about it.
The never-Trump stuff was just a parting shot.
AZfederalist wrote:
yep. see my #176. I don’t know anything about Ward, tho
http://ijr.com/the-declaration/2017/10/1005215-hollywood-actress-accuses-former-president-george-h-w-bush-sexual-assault-wheelchair/
lobo91 wrote:
and the appropriate note to strike is to point out why they are wearing the uniforms they’re wearing and you’re wearing the uniform you’re wearing.
the only thing they know more about than you is being a criminal. who got caught.
i’m off to read. nite
I just bought a 2015 Honda CR-V.
Why the hell does THAT take so long?
I didn’t finance anything and was still there for three hours.
eaglesoars wrote:
Lightweight black nylon overalls to minimise tactile stimulation and enhances the wall standing in Schtlenka positions whilst wearing black out goggles and under white noise. Just give me 48 ours with her and she’ll be singing like Maria Calais on steroids.
🙂
It’s funny how the truth eventually floats into view. It just can’t be denied indefinitely.
https://veritas-vincit-international.org/2017/10/20/was-pope-benedict-xvi-forced-to-resign/
The Vatican Church Swamp appears a little shallower today!
🙂
Guggi wrote:
yinz is free, n’at
we had some tech issues last week and had o scrub the place.
new thread from the ER….
@ coldwarrior:
ok, thanks cw