it’s Racisss.
anyway, any excuse to play some Steely Dan is fine by me! (odd, I don’t see CFJ’s name on any of their stuff…and I have all of their original pressing vinyl…oh wait! He was with Chicago…yeah, that’s right!)
AND…MOAR WINNING!!!!
U.S. shoppers had splurged more than $1.52 billion online by Thanksgiving evening, and more bargain hunters turned up at stores this year after two weak holiday seasons as retailers opened their doors early on the eve of Black Friday.
At the start of the holiday season consumer spending rose 16.8 percent year-over-year until 5 p.m. ET (2200 GMT) on Thursday, according to Adobe Analytics, which tracked 80 percent of online transactions at the top 100 U.S. retailers.
Surging online sales and a shift away from store shopping have thinned the crowds typically seen at stores on Thanksgiving evening and the day after, Black Friday, for the past two years.
But a strong labor market, rising home prices and stock markets at record highs have improved shopper appetite this year.
Crowds at stores in many locations around the country were reported to be strong, according to analysts and retail consultants monitoring shopper traffic across the U.S.
“The turnout is clearly better than the last couple of years,” said Craig Johnson, president of Customer Growth Partners. “The parking lots are full and the outlet malls are busy.”
Kids and I found the wife at the computer at 06:30 searching for shoes and clothing deals for the family. Madness.
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
i hope yinz had a great thanksgiving, doppleganger and crew.
and off to bed…night shifts x3…
morning y’all
this is probably the single most important quote I have ever seen on the internet
“It’s not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the ‘right’ to education, the ‘right’ to health care, the ‘right’ to food and housing. That’s not freedom, that’s dependency. Those aren’t rights, those are the rations of slavery — hay and a barn for human cattle.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville
Martin O’Malley is on Fox explaining how he’s going to rescue the Dem Party. Then he said “We’re coming out of the recession due to Obama’s policies”
keep talking sweetheart
@ eaglesoars:
morning eagle
coffee and a slice of the girls apple pie….YUM!
@ rain of lead:
good morning. The furnace has been out for 21 hrs were down to 60 degrees and my husband is about to have a stroke
eaglesoars wrote:
Good morning Eagle. I saw that and Pete Hegsetth let it slide, i guess because it is so absurd on its face,
what’s the point?
@ RIX:
Hegseth’s agenda was to try to nail him about a POTUS run. He did a pretty good job on that, after O’Malley dodged, nailed him with “After the 2018 mid-terms is what I hear” and then went to break before O’Malley could deny. Smooth.
oh this is too good
some dumbass hoodrat trying to get one over, gets burned
bwahahahahahaha
https://www.weaselzippers.us/365132-milwaukee-woman-tricked-into-buying-potatoes-she-thought-was-iphone/
eaglesoars wrote:
O’Malley is a nose bleed. Remember when he said ” All lives matter.”.The BLM types backed him off and
he ran back to “black lives matter”
rain of lead wrote:
some people are convinced there is a ‘secret’ to success that involves being clever enough to beat ‘the man’. They never figure out there is no secret, there is no ‘man’, it’s called getting up in the morning and going to work. She was just following the secret code to beat the man.
RIX wrote:
right after he left the Gov’s mansion, they discovered there was some furniture missing that belonged to the mansion. Mrs. O’Malley disputed that saying they’d had everything appraised, etc., before they left. Yes, they ordered the GAO to classify historic furniture as crap so they could pay flea market prices to steal the stuff.
Clinton playbook.
@ eaglesoars:
Grifters.
@ eaglesoars:
You’ve just described the entire population of the prison where I work
lobo91 wrote:
And it explains why every last one of them is innocent.
Good morning, hope everyone had a blessed Thanksgiving.
@ doriangrey:
You too, Dorian.
Thanks!
the original article is behind a paywall at WaPo but instapundit has the gist and it is a thing of beauty
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Conservatives have a new court-packing plan, and in the spirit of the holiday, it’s a turducken of a scheme: a regulatory rollback hidden inside a civil rights reversal stuffed into a Trumpification of the courts. If conservatives get their way, President Trump will add twice as many lifetime members to the federal judiciary in the next 12 months (650) as Barack Obama named in eight years (325). American law will never be the same. . . .
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pack the federal courts with a “minimum” of 260 — and possibly as many as 447 — newly created judicial positions. Under this plan, the 228-year-old federal judiciary would increase — in a single year — by 30 to 50 percent.
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/281590/
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did you catch that? an INCREASE. You know, all those ignorant deplorable Trump voters who are too vulgar to be borne…….
too bad the Dems nuked the filibuster and besides Trump is too stupid to know how to be POTUS because all he does is tweet
@ doriangrey:
hi, well, furnace went out, FIOS crashed for a couple hours, but other than that…at least the house didn’t catch fire or anything. Still got dinner on the table.
This had better not be true.
ISIS slave markets are operating in 5 cities in Turkey, including Ankara.
Gaziantep, Urfa and Ankara — said Yazidi human rights campaigner Ali el-Hansouri speaking to Sputnik’s Arabic website.
https://clarionproject.org/isis-opens-sex-slave-market-turkeys-capital/
eaglesoars wrote:
That was all to make sure you focused your thanks on the really important stuff!
Seriously, that sucks. Glad to see you’re in at least moderately good spirits!
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
the heat just came back on. Bad circuit board and fan. Just under $2k. Shoot me now.
I don’t know anything about the layout of London but gunfire is heard at Oxford Circus, some people saying inside Selfridge’s also
BREAKING NEWS: Hundreds evacuated from Oxford Circus ‘as gunshots are fired’ and armed police surround tube station while shoppers are locked in stores
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5114827/Hundreds-evacuated-Oxford-Circus.html#ixzz4zN22fWxT
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@ eaglesoars:
Makes my little problems seem, well, little and inconsequential in comparison.
https://twitter.com/OscarWildeGrey/status/934136438420996096
@ doriangrey:
you do know Google has been doing that also. youtube channels are ‘disappeared’ overnight also. all conservative, yet child porn sites are being allowed
don’t think there isn’t censorship going on, there is and it’s pervasive.
http://www.oann.com/fusion-gps-paid-journalists-received-money-from-dnc-russia-to-attack-pres-trump/
eaglesoars wrote:
and that is a result of ‘dirty power’ coming from your electricity provider. you got a spike
coldwarrior wrote:
don’t think so. The FIOS outtage was area-wide, not just our house, and hit 6 hrs after the furnace went out. The furnace board and fan – I’m not sure what happened there, I didn’t get a chance to talk to the guy, Hubby said something about the fire we had a few years ago
coldwarrior wrote:
Obviously carbon pollution caused your circuit board to malfunction because the electrons were blocked by Gaia murdering Carbon that prevented the electricity from getting down the wires!
You just need to pay a handful of cash to the IPCC and they will make the problem go away.
🙂
HEH!
@ coldwarrior:
You going to watch the Wales vs All Blacks game from Cardiff in 20 hours time>
The two respective coaches Gatland (Wales) and Hansen ( ABs) have no love lost and they are one game all and one drawn so this will break the deadlock. Also the ABs are missing 6 key players including Kerian Reid the skipper so anything is possible. Should a massive game to a sold out crowd all singing’Faith of Our Fathers’ against a sea of red red jerseys.
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
@ Aussie Infidel:
my parents are very rural. they are at the near end of the line for the power lines. after getting their circuit board cooked twice for the AC unit dad had to put in a huge surge protector. the reports about the awful quality of the electric that this thing generates are horrible.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
i will watch it monday….its sleep and work until then
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq-phillydeals/gunmaker-remington-faces-default-as-americans-buy-fewer-firearms-20171117.html
ohferchrissake. this isnt rocket science, when the dems are in power everyone buys guns and ammo, when the gop is in charge the arket gets soft.
if the idiots who run remmington havent figured this out yet, then they are truly morons i do it now because prices are lower.
that said, see if you can guess when i go gun shopping and ammo shopping? when demand is high or low? i buy under GOP and have sold back under dems.
coldwarrior wrote:
ROTFLMMFAO…. Your dad was PRAYING for an excuse to put a triple redundant line surge GFCI redirect sub-panel down in the Bat Cave.
(For those of you who have never been to his parents house, his dad recreated a small nuclear power generating facility in his so called basement, for the guys here, oh yea, its a thing of absolute beauty)
The Fighting Felons of the U get dumped by Pitt, sweet! I know that it was an upset, but it did not look like a fluke.
@ doriangrey:
Lol. It is quite the set-up.
RIX wrote:
WHAT!!!!! I just got out of bed….
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
HAIL TO PITT!
coldwarrior wrote:
ROTFLOL Remember, I HAVE actually worked at a Nuclear Power Facility (Just because Jerry the Fucking Marxist Brown sabotaged San Onofre doesn’t mean it wasn’t a Nuclear Power Facility). I KNOW exactly what they look like. They look exactly like your dad’s basement (minus the, well, you know, reactor core itself, which, your dad could have had hidden away down there someplace I couldn’t see).
lobo91 wrote:
I’m not following. Fusion hit up the Dems BEFORE the hack? I have to go back to Brazile’s book.
If you’re watching Special Report, I believe that smug pajama boy with the Clark Kent glasses is Matthew Continetti. Bill Kristol’s son-n-law.
@ RIX:
OK I’ll bite. Who are the Fighting Felons?
Wow. Just ran across some interesting stats. The number of domains by country (which is not, I know, necessarily the number of ACTUAL websites but…)
When you consider than the U.S. has approx 300 million and the EU just over twice that, what does that tell you? Gov’t control, methinks.
https://propelsteps.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/know-total-number-of-websites-country-wise/
@ eaglesoars:
You did notice that that is from 2013, right? Also, I should point out, that the Internet was created and developed here in the United States. So it is no surprise that the US dominates domains. It is also why so many were sooo pissed when Obama gave away control of the internet. It is not only an American invention, but an American dominated financial venture.
doriangrey wrote:
yeah, but do you think the ratios would have changed significantly?
Obviously, we need another Special Counsel to investigate…
@ lobo91:
Oh, you haven’t heard the rest of it. April Ryan (black female WH reporter for somebody or other) tweeted that maybe Sarah should try one of the pies from the movie The Help.
Which apparently was made from human feces.
eaglesoars wrote:
Why that is impossible, Former Great Britain has strict gun laws; they are even outlawing knives, no way could something like that happen.
@ AZfederalist:
hours later it turned out to be a false alarm. Not sure what happened but if you want to study mob hysteria, this might be a good place to start.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yea, probably, there are 287 million Americans using the internet today and we basically use it like we own it, which until Obama gave it away, we did. Only China and India have more citizens who use the internet. And while India is not as repressive as China, it still has quiet a ways to go to catch up to America’s ecomonicization of the internet.
doriangrey wrote:
whatever happened to that whole deal? I heard Cruz had introduced legislation to keep it. IIRC, the set-up had a built-in expiration date (don’t remember what it was/is) and Obama planned to just let it expire.
Then what? What happened to the IANA even? Because I haven’t noticed any change or even any warnings about upcoming changes.
bedtime. nite.
https://youtu.be/qocrLgFYcdI
@ eaglesoars:
The Cayman Islands come in at No.10, and are kicking ass.