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(i’m near the end of 7 out of 8 days in the salt mines….so an open is all i can muster right now.)
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Thanks, CW, for throwing a thread up.
I’ll have one or two as time allows moving forward.
Having health issues with both us, and sorry I have’t been there to help:(
morning y’all
lots of stuff, lets get right to it
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/11/28/secretary-of-state-rex-tillerson-indicates-upcoming-u-s-naval-blockade-of-north-korea/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/11/28/super-maga-winning-stocks-soar-consumer-confidence-stuns-and-massive-holiday-spending-results/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/11/28/breaking-federal-judge-rules-trump-has-authority-to-appoint-cfpb-director-mulvaney/
Good guys with guns…
https://www.weaselzippers.us/365595-armed-auto-shop-employees-credited-with-taking-down-accused-rockledge-fl-gunman/
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BREAK: NBC Matt Lauer fired, inappropriate workplace behavior .. story to come
rain of lead wrote:
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the funny thing is, all these turds defended billy jeff during the lewinski thing and all of the ‘bimbo eruptions’, now they are taking the fall.
@ coldwarrior:
they are just clearing the decks…
rain of lead wrote:
so much for loyalty, huh?
sukerz!
@ rain of lead:
It’s all because of Saint Barack the wise.
///
Conference Board: Consumer Confidence Highest Since December 2000
WINNING!
rain of lead wrote:
He can open a massage parlor with Charlie Rose.
rain of lead wrote:
Samantha Guthrie’s sniffles and tears notwithstanding, Matt has been known to be an SOB for years, at least since that Tamara host thing (I think it was Tamara, I don’t watch the show).
Following up on the Lucian Wintrich of Gateway Pundit arrest at UCONN last nite, the ‘girl’ who stole his speech from the podium is actually a prof at the university and he’s been charged with ‘breach of the peace’.
I think he’s got a lawsuit in there somehow.
*snort*
Chinese investors sue McAuliffe, Rodham over green-car investments
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/28/greentech-automotive-lawsuit-terry-mcauliffe-262771
Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe and former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s brother Anthony Rodham are facing a $17 million fraud lawsuit from Chinese investors in Greentech Automotive, an electric car company that appears to be struggling to survive.
A group of 32 Chinese citizens filed the suit last week in Fairfax County, Virginia court, claiming that they were swindled out of about $560,000 apiece as a result of misrepresentations made by McAuliffe and Rodham—two of the most prominent and politically connected proponents of the venture aimed at manufacturing electric cars in the U.S.
The suit is yet another headache for McAuliffe as he mulls a potential presidential bid in 2020, buoyed in part by Democrats’ strong showing in the state in the election earlier this month. McAuliffe confirmed last year that his business dealings with foreign nationals were under investigation by the FBI and federal prosecutors.
I did not know McAwful was under FBI investigation. I’m removing him from my list of 2020 Dem contenders.
bigly winning!
https://nrf.com/media/press-releases/consumers-and-retailers-win-big-over-thanksgiving-holiday
Matt Lauer allegedly sexually assaulted a female NBC staffer during the Rio Olympics, sources told Page Six.
https://pagesix.com/2017/11/29/matt-lauer-allegedly-sexually-assaulted-female-staffer-during-olympics/
i wonder if Q4 gdp will top 4%.
@ coldwarrior:
8:30 this morning the revised numbers for Q3 GDP came out
A report released by the Commerce Department on Wednesday showed stronger than previously estimated U.S. economic growth in the third quarter.
The report said real gross domestic product surged up by an upwardly revised 3.3 percent in the third quarter compared to the originally reported 3.0 percent jump. Economists had expected the increase in GDP to be upwardly revised to 3.2 percent.
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/us-q3-gdp-growth-upwardly-revised-more-than-expected-20171129-00536
gold and silver are getting hammered
ok, this is pretty cynical, but I’ll put it out there. Right now, the tax code allows for deductions for money paid out to settle harassment claims.
The new tax code being proposed does not.
Could it be that orgs are getting rid of their in-house molesters while they are still deductable? It could be a very busy 32 days………….
hol lee crap. I can’t believe Trump just tweeted this
So now tha Matt Lauer is gone when will the Fake News practitioners at NBC be terminating the contract of Phil Griffin? And will they terminate low ratings Joe Scarborough based on the “unsolved mystery” that took place in Florida years ago? Investigate!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/935870484146683904
Good morning. WIND radio in Chicago had an interesting discussion on Gutierrez announcing that he will
not run for reelection.He said that he wants to spend more time with his family (they always say that):
He also said that he wants to rebuild Puerto Rico. Ok here is the deal, Gutierrez is “associated” with a
construction company that stands to get billions of dollars of federal money to rebuild. And there will be looie,
follow the cash.
RIX wrote:
watch Trump kill that puppy. He’s forgotten more about construction companies the Gutierrez ever knew.
@ eaglesoars:
GDP revisions were revised down, quietly for ghetto fabulous and revised upward for Trump.
Dat shiznit be racissssssssssss!
eaglesoars wrote:
It might not go the way that looie thinks that it will. I take your point, it:s federal money and Trump is large and
in charge.
eaglesoars wrote:
apparently he deleted the tweet. that was a slander lawsuit even I could win.
RIX wrote:
looie was covering it as going to P.R. to build ‘the resistance’. Yeah, with graft money. It reminds me of that Palestinian guy who was in Arafat’s gov’t always calling for killing Jews. He owned the cement company Israel used to build all the walls/barriers.
eaglesoars wrote:
How is this slander? You do understand that in order for something to be slander, it must be false, right? Lori Klausutis, who was found dead in Joe Scarborough congressional office died under mysterious conditions that have never been explained.
eaglesoars wrote:
The seed has been planted.
eaglesoars wrote:
NO! Not Tamara. Ann Curry. Who just tweeted:
Ann CurryVerified account @AnnCurry
#metoo
4:13 PM – 19 Oct 2017
https://twitter.com/AnnCurry/status/921152367990595584
doriangrey wrote:
http://www.kcconfidential.com/2012/02/03/hearne-the-little-known-fall-from-grace-of-msnbcs-morning-joe/
doriangrey wrote:
because the police investigation found no evidence to bring against anyone.
I don’t know what the coroner’s report said other than to rule it an accident. All I’ve ever heard is that she apparently fell, hit her head and died.
That’s rare, but not unheard of. See Natasha Richardson.
@ coldwarrior:
Hmm….interesting timing. I think it was right about that time that George Bush was declared the “winner” by the Supreme Court after Clinton effed up the first three quarters of the 2000 economy.
@ eaglesoars:
Oh yes, he does. If nothing else, a civil suit against that professor for “conversion”.
eaglesoars wrote:
Maybe you should look into the case a little bit more, https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.ca/2012/09/autopsy-in-joe-scarborough-country.html?m=1
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3565973/posts
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
And rumors abound that Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida at the time, covered up the entire sordid affair because of that very contentious “dangling chad” situation.
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
what is ‘conversion’?@ doriangrey:
oh,thanks! I will, but later, I’ve done all my online work for the morning, meat space awaits.
eaglesoars wrote:
Translation: You cannot steal someone’s speaking notes off the podium they were just speaking at.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Garrison Keillor says he’s been fired by Minnesota Public Radio over allegations of inappropriate behavior.
Of the list so far, this one surprises me the least.
There’s also a guy at NPR, David Sweeney, an editor, that was fired last nite.
I am gobsmacked at how all this artillery aimed at Trump has ended up becoming friendly fire.
@ RIX:
FEMA is HIS agency. Oopsie doodle, Goo-Teee-Airhead. Maybe you should have kept your mouth shut before insulting the Prez. I can see Trump now…”I think the contracts to Rebuild Puerto Rico are important, and they should go to companies in the local economy, so I’m directing FEMA to grant contracts to Puerto Rican based construction companies.”
@ eaglesoars:
“Conversion” is the tort version of the crime of theft. If someone steals from you, your civil cause of action against them for the crime is “conversion” – i.e., they “converted” YOUR property to their use.
….and it appears DG beat me to the response above. I really should read the whole thread sometimes before answering.
That being said, I actually DID sue a little sh*tbag who broke into my home and stole my son’s PlayStation about 15 years ago. He was caught after he jumped the fence into my neighbor’s yard, which was home to a 120-lb. Rottweiler who didn’t take kindly to strangers dropping in. He was a minor, 17, so he snotted that I couldn’t sue him (which is true). I got his birthdate and served the little creep in jail on his 18th birthday. Collected $300 in actual damages and $2000 in punitives. He snotted to me “try and collect it” – I diverted his STATE and FEDERAL tax returns for three years (California Franchise Tax Board will request diversion on your behalf from the Feds to satisfy an unpaid judgment over 1 year old).
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
ok. so does the fact that the woman who did this is a professor employed by the university open the university to legal jeopardy?
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
aHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
that’s priceless. I’ll bet he would have preferred the rottie
@ eaglesoars:
I’d certainly name them as a defendant. If nothing else, they’d put pressure on the DA to knock it off. I find the bringing of charges absolutely ridiculous. I seriously doubt they would have brought similar charges if it had been a LIBERAL speaker and a conservative professor. That’s like saying “Hey if someone takes your iPhone you have no right to do what you can to stop them.”
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
meh. The cops got there in the middle of it, they didn’t see the whole thing and all they had was evidence that he had put his hands on her. They hadn’t seen good video. They worked with what they had.
This is just a very weird day. After all the CNN posturing about not going to the WH Christmas party, April Ryan, who piled on the Sarah Sanders pie-gate thing, is whining she didn’t get an invite.
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April Ryan, the White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks and a CNN contributor, told the Post she was not invited for the first time in 20 years covering the White House. “I don’t think I was overlooked,” she said. “I think they don’t like me. For whatever reason, they have disdain for me.”
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‘disdain for me’. whodda thunk?
https://www.politico.com/media/tipsheets/morning-media
@ eaglesoars:
Eaglesoars have you heard anything from Macker?
I’m guessing his surgery would be somewhat similar to what I had a few years ago
…if they did his op this AM I’d imagine he’d be coming out of anesthesia fog about now.
dog people
This is Lexi, she’s an 8 week-old German Shepherd, I bought Lexi as a surprise for my wife but it turns out she is allergic to dogs so we are now looking to find her a new home. She is 67 years old, an attractive and caring woman who drives, is a great cook and keeps a clean…..
https://twitter.com/cwoolley06/status/935907186969944064
@ The Deplorably Irredeemable Osprey:
no, I haven’t but I told him to give his mom my cell phone #
@ eaglesoars:
I knew this is what they’d do.. Snot superior that they wouldn’t attend the WH Christmas Party and then whine like bitches when they didn’t get one. Hey, why should the WH waste an invitation on them.
I think Trump did that with the Golden State Warriors. They were all “well, WE aren’t going to the White House, so THERE!” and Trump’s response was basically “I don’t recall INVITING you.”
It’s surprising to you I’m sure, but a lot of my son’s friends who are GSW fans are pissed at them for slamming the President and aren’t watching them this year. Which is just as well as I hear they aren’t doing so well.
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
Alinsky’s got nothing on Trump.
– He was almost taken out of the race by that Access Hollywood tape and now look at the carnage.
– tweets about the NFL and every sport franchise is, if not on life support, holding its breath.
– makes one snark remark about Pocahontas and immediately emasculates the CFPB while seriously wounding Warren for her 2020 run
If I were Mueller, I’d get a food taster.
Sr. Producer of Jake Tapper’s show, State of the Union, Teddy Davis, has been fired for – you know the rest
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/935988171363442688
This is not getting the attention it deserves
ANTIFA has been sabotaging trains in Washington, thinking they’re interrupting fracking supplies
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An anonymous Antifa member claimed credit for shorting the train track using jumper cables in a submission to the website Puget Sound Anarchists. Their statement read:
Dear Olympia commune,
Standing in solidarity with your port blockade preventing the transport of fracking supplies we temporarily shutdown train lines throughout the larger oakland area by shorting the track circuits with jumper cables. Stay strong.
In every single town,
Until every officer is down,Love and solidarity,The Bay
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http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/11/every-officer-antifa-anarchists-sabotage-train-olympia-commune-raided-police/
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/MB108
One of the twins just got loud.
BWAHAHAHA!
@ eaglesoars:
Tampering with track is federal offense.
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
When they say “Oakland” – do they mean “Oakland, California” or do they mean someplace also called Oakland up near Olympia.
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
I dunno. They signed it ‘the Bay’, so…..I read it as San Fran
@ eaglesoars:
It was their use of the words “larger Oakland area.” Anyone who lives here would call it the Bay Area. Or the Greater Bay Area. Oakland is a city with finite boundaries. NO ONE says “larger Oakland area”. Which tells me they are full of shit. DHS, Customs, etc. is all over the Port of Oakland.
Not to mention you NEVER f**k with the ILHW Union. Those guys will beat the crap out of you and dump your effing body in the Oakland Estuary.
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
well, the raid was in Olympia where they did remove people from tracks. Are you saying Antifia in the Bay Area did nothing and just bragged that they did?
looking at maps but I really can’t tell. Is it feasible for us to do a naval blockade of No. Korea?
@ eaglesoars:
Haven’t heard a thing about the Oakland Ports. I know during “Occupy” the dipsh*t mayor of Oakland at the time basically told the police to stand down and let those animals take over the streets. She was kicked out of office. I’m sure that the new mayor is liberal as well, but considering the hit the Port took during Occupy (they bypassed and went to Long Beach instead) and the protests of the ILHW over it, they aren’t being allowed anywhere near the Port.
$10 says these idiots are so stupid they mistook the BART tracks for those of the Santa Fe and instead pissed off a boatload of commuters.
It was the language they used that makes me suspicious that they are actually from here.
Oh, before I forget! This morning I’m on BART and we pick up one these RESISTANCE clowns in Berkeley (where else?) with his “IMPEACH TRUMP!” and “RESIST FACISM!” stickers and buttons. He opened up his iPad and was snarling and snotting under his breath so I thought he was reading the NYT or Slate, or, you know.
He was playing “Candy Crush.”
I almost hurt myself trying not to laugh.
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
We’ve already won.
HA! Theresa May scolded Trump for his tweets about the British Muslim videos.
He just told her to fuck off.
Theresa @theresamay, don’t focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom. We are doing just fine!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/936032830844555264
@ eaglesoars:
They don’t get it – there’a REAL SHERIFF in town now.
eaglesoars wrote:
I got a voicemail from him when I was at work so I called him once I was on my way home. He’s doing ok, his mom and someone from his fraternity were there with him but he was still somewhat groggy. I’m going to call him same time tomorrow he should be better able to talk then.
@ eaglesoars:
uh oh. apparently it’s the WRONG Theresa May
@ The Deplorably Irredeemable Osprey:
ok, I’ll try him tomorrow afternoon,thanks. Do you know if he has anything besides his phone w/him, ie. laptop?
@ eaglesoars: I don’t know. His phone is a blackberry so I think he should be able to get email if that is what you are thinking.
Snake-oil salesman Eon Musk has just taken the Socialist – Green n’dip-shits’ who run South Australia for $50 million … just as the conservatives said that he would. Now the green-lipped Comrades are falling all over themselves to make excuses for Eon as he grins and saunters to the bank to lock away his ill gotten gains.
MORONS!
With would be totalitarian mates like Eon who needs enemies.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/11/28/elon-musk-cons-south-australia-out-of-50-million/
South Australians need Eon like they need a Taipan in the dunny out the back, lit by lightning flashes
🙂
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of ‘crow-eating’ socialist pricks!
🙂
PS the State flag of South Australia features a couple of crows!
eaglesoars wrote:
Was just going to post this: https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2017/11/29/lake-gropey-gone-days-garrison-keillor-canned-for-sexual-misconduct/
Looking at the picture, this surprises me not at all. Having been gifted with one of his books, after only a few pages, it was readily apparent that this is a very angry, nasty piece of work. He pretty much hates anything associated with good — which explains his Lake Woebegone monologues. They were intended to be as nasty toward people of faith as they sounded
@ Aussie Infidel:
b..b..b..but…Musk is a GENIUS!!
just ask Dorian. He is. At conning people.
Forget where I read it, but somebody did some research on the battery needed for those long-haul trucks he claimed could recharge in X number of hours.
It doesn’t exist.
I want him to try this stuff with Putin. The over/under would be on which gulag he ended up in.
eaglesoars wrote:
😆
AZfederalist wrote:
For YEARS I made his Sunday nite broadcasts part of my life. Years. Then I heard he was going to be on Larry King, so I tuned in.
Inside of 30 seconds – if not sooner – I was in a stupified horror. Even – or especially – his eyes – told me I was looking at one mental case of a human being.
And I never listened to him again. This was back in the 80s.
The Deplorably Irredeemable Osprey wrote:
ah, thanks.
@ Aussie Infidel:
hey, can you speak to my
#eaglesoars wrote:
Just in case you thought digital currency is ready to be the new ‘thing’:
Coinbase ordered to report 14,355 users to the IRS
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Today, Coinbase suffered a major defeat at the hands of the Internal Revenue Service, nearly a year after the case was initially filed. A California federal court has ordered Coinbase to turn over identifying records for all users who have bought, sold, sent, or received more than $20,000 through their accounts in a single year. Coinbase estimates that 14,355 users meet the government’s requirements. The full order is embedded below.
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https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2017/11/29/16717416/us-coinbase-irs-records
Note that it’s not single transactions of $20k or more, it’s cumulative over a 1 yr period, e.g., $2k a month. That’s a lot different than the auto hold a $10k transaction in ‘ordinary’ currency is subject to.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2017/11/29/disgusting-did-rep-james-clyburn-really-compare-john-conyers-accusers-to-this-woman/
@ Twitchy
Rep Clyburn compares the accusers of Conyers with child murderer Susan Smith. The reason? They white.
No racism there, right?
@ RIX:
he’s denying the report. says the Smith remarks was not in a conversation about Conyers
bedtime. nite.
eaglesoars wrote:
What complete and utter BULLSHIT. Elon did not con anyone, and he delivered exactly what he promised. You are allowed your own opinion, not your own facts. The truth, the real truth, is that the imbecilic politicians in Australia were desperate to virtue signal by purchasing somE huge GREEN Electrical thingie they did not understand or need, so, like any good businessman, Elon sold them EXACTLY WHAT THEY INSISTED THEY NEEDED.
doriangrey wrote:
I’ll grant you that, he is just taking advantage of the suckers.
… now extrapolate that to his electric car empire
this just landed in my inbox from my sister and I just had to post it. Garrison Keillor on Trump about 5-6 weeks ago, right after Manafort was indicted.
Donald Trump is done
People who voted for him are humiliated. So his ratings have tanked. The same people who admire him tend to drive Dodge Darts and wear sweatshirts from schools they didn’t attend. Nobody stays in his hotels except foreign CEOs and their tootsies. He is weak. Weak on #s, weak on 1st Amendment, worst president in history. Failed @ real estate and now @ politics. His record = BAD. First president in my lifetime who DOES NOT KNOW the words to “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The lips are not even moving.
He quit holding rallies in stadiums because nobody wants to go hear a loser brag about his manliness for an hour, you can hear that in any barroom. Only places he can draw a crowd are rural areas where billboards are riddled with bullet holes, shot by men angry because they can’t read. He is so over. Totally irrelevant, exhausted, flamed out. The sleepytime eyes and la-di-da hair and the tweet-tweet-tweet say it all. Real men don’t tweet. Ask anybody. We bark, we protest, we thunder, condemn, denounce, we give ’em hell, sometimes we post. Wimps tweet. And now the perps are going to start walking and talking. And the fat lady is waiting in the wings.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-manafort-donald-trump-tweets-20171030-story.html
We need a new word. ‘Irony’ doesn’t cover it.
doriangrey wrote:
It’s true that it’s very difficult to con people who don’t want to be conned. Doesn’t change the scam.
eaglesoars wrote:
What scam? The “Scam” where you build an honest product exactly to your customer’s specifications and then sell it to them at a price that are willing to pay? That is not a “Scam”, that is called business, apparently you have been spending way to much time in Mordor on the Potomac.
eaglesoars wrote:
You think Mueller is dieting?
His last two food tasters died of unspecific causes, although the foaming of the mouth might be a bit of a give away! Mueller’ having serious trouble employing another stand-in taster and hence his shrinking waistline!
HEH
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Of course it is.
Although the three flat-top carrier task force has now been reduced to two as one leaves the 7th Fleet AO for the Persian Gulf and the two remaining flat top Battle Groups are bobbing about off Guam right about now. So the Big-Stick has been partially put away for now. Having the capability to enforce a naval blockade is a whole different ball of wax from ACTUALLY ENFORCING a blockade especially when the ships stopped belong to nuclear powers like China and Russia.
Then we have the land borders and especially the Southern border with China across which trains run. Blockading land borders means destroying the rail infrastructure whilst not killing any wandering Chinese in the process. A more exquisite and sophisticated response would be to convince the Chinese that they have more to lose than to gain and allow them to turn off the NORKO tap. There will always be some ‘leakage’ but it’s possible to shut down the NORKS, especially when the harvest is such a disaster this year. Still ‘rocket man’ doesn’t give a shit if millions die as long as his army and techs have full bellies.
@ eaglesoars:
Expect a LOT of banking pressure to come onto china. Not really all overt and over the top But what you will see is about 10% of what is going on behind the scenes.
morning y’all
without comment.
http://ktar.com/story/1852241/doctors-find-second-tumor-sen-john-mccain-brain/
@ Aussie Infidel:
Well, ok. A blockade is doable, but ugly. And if we haven’t been able to convince China so far, I don’t think there’s much hope there. I saw in one of the Brit papers this morning that the Chinese media is trumpeting ‘Trump has failed’.
doriangrey wrote:
To be clear, Musk has said if he’d failed it would have cost him $50 mil. There’s no indication of how the loss would have been recognized. Is it the amount of money it would have cost him to build the place w/o compensation from So. Australia? Or is it the contract price he would not have been paid for losing the ‘bet’? Don’t know. But in either case, we know he was paid AT LEAST $50 mil.
Did he build according to contract spec? Don’t know that either as we don’t know if the contract was written using actual numbers or just ‘we need battery storage to avoid the situation we experienced the last time’. In either case, what was wanted, correctly specified or not, was batteries that would prevent the blackouts they had.
But as the chart shows, what Musk provided won’t do that. Are the idiot customers to blame? In part, yes. But let’s change things around a bit. You have just had serious property damage inflicted by a hurricane and you’ve hired a contractor to provide hurricane shutters that can withstand a storm of the magnitude you just experienced. You find a contractor who promises he can deliver what you want – whether you’ve expressed ‘want’ in technical or prose terms – and promises that if he doesn’t have them installed by a date certain, you get them for free. He gets them installed well before deadline, and everybody’s happy. Then the next year, you get another hurricane of the same magnitude you had last year and the shutters disintegrate. They weren’t strong enough. Who is at fault? Well, maybe you got the specs wrong somehow, but the deal is that contractor is the professional and HE KNEW what he was providing would not give you the protection you asked for. YOU may not have understood but HE’S A GENIUS and he did. The chart provided in the lead article shows very clearly exactly what those batteries can do and it is not what So. Australia needs. Don’t tell me boy genius didn’t know it.
That’s the scam.
@ rain of lead:
morning.
Got short email from Macker this morning. “I’m ALIVE!” HA!
gotta go,later
@ coldwarrior:
oh jeez. I don’t wish that on anybody.
eaglesoars wrote:
without comment…from me.
eaglesoars wrote:
Rush was pointing out that Trump has an amazing ability to “brand” people. “Little Marco” “Lyin’ Ted” “Crooked Hillary” “Pocohontas” and “Fake News” come to mind – and it completely STICKS to them like glue and go right into the national lexicon.
In the Happy News Department:
Football Savant Offspring and wife (well fiancee but they’re getting married after the first of the year) have informed me I’m going to be a grandmother in July.
I will be soliciting advice on cute monikers as I refuse to be called “Granny”.
@ eaglesoars:
good news from mack, I guess
a gloomy rainy morning here
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
G’Ma
its hip.
and congrats!
rain of lead wrote:
its the final day of 8 out of 9 days in a row…off for championship weekend.
gonna be some great football
@ coldwarrior:
It sure is! So the “Final Four” for the NCAA championship will be decided AFTER the conference championships? I haven’t looked yet – how far did ‘Bama fall after the loss on Saturday?
I was cracking up to read the Saturday column after the fact that you were rooting for Auburn – same as ME! Flyboy was all “what are you doing? I thought you were a ‘Roll Tide!’ girl.”
I said that yes I am, but for the IRON BOWL – Auburn all the way.
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
all will be clear on tuesday after the championship games.
…salt mines….
@ coldwarrior:
I hear that!
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
we called one of my grandmothers ‘Mimi’ CONGRATULATIONS!!
I heard the news that Tillerson is leaving in January along with speculation that he would be replaced by Nicki Haley. But there’s this NYT report – he’s be OUSTED, replaced by Pompeo and Pompeo’s replacement at CIA – Tom Cotton!
And Pelosi has just thrown Conyers over the side – said he should resign
@ eaglesoars:
Thank you.
Looks like a FIFTH person has surfaced with allegations against Franken and Conyers has entered a hospital for “stress” and will not be seeking re-election. Boo hoo.
Speculation is that they are cleaning house in a move to be able to pile on Trump for the so-called allegations against him. I seem to recall all of his so-called “accusers” being brought forth by that paragon of perjury, Gloria Allwet. And all in advance of the election. Funny how we’re no longer hearing from them now that he’s President, especially the rape lawsuit asshat and the so-called “First-Class Assault” victim. I seem to recall that the accusations by all these women were pretty much picked apart after they made them.
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
And NO. SIX takes the stage – elected official in New England says Franken tried to open-mouth kiss and grope her after conducting an interview.
This guy is gross. You can’t save him Democrats. Maybe next time you’ll have a better candidate to manufacture ballots for.
Scarborough: Trump allies told me he has dementia
no, they didn’t.
http://thehill.com/homenews/media/362513-scarborough-trump-allies-told-me-he-has-dementia
BREAKING: Texas Republican Rep. Joe Barton says he will not seek re-election after nude photo of him was posted on social media
https://twitter.com/AP/status/936282507384901632
actually it’s a few hours old.
so if Cotton goes to the CIA, that opens up a seat in Arkansas, right? Ok, that’s Sen. Mike Huckabee. But I don’t know anything about Barton’s disrict, so no guesses there
oh, yeah, almost forgot, Israel and Gaza have been lobbing mortars at each other for a few hours. don’t know who’s bitching about what this time.
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
mam maw
Nikki Haley to China: Cut off oil to North Korea, or we’ll take the situation into our own hands
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/29/nikki-haley-to-china-cut-off-oil-to-north-korea-or-else.html
like WHAT?
oh fuck no!!
https://www.weaselzippers.us/365817-colin-kaepernick-set-to-return-to-nfl-field-on-titans-players-cleats/
@ rain of lead:
Thank you, Richard Matthews, for giving me my column for Sunday. I’m trying to think of something bad enough to call you.
eaglesoars wrote:
He’d better have some names to go along with this.
My guess is that those so-called “Allies” live in the same apartment building as Harry Reid’s “Friend” that had the low-down on Romney’s taxes.
But this statement is irresponsible. The President needs to be able to conduct foreign policy with World Leaders and the Porch Kid from Deliverance is out there basically trying to tell the world that he’s insane.
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
That’s alright Scarborough’s punishment is Mika.
@ RIX:
I keep asking Joe why he isn’t sitting on a porch strumming a banjo near a swampy river
Not the biggest fan of therightscoop.com, but here’s hoping THIS headline is true:
http://therightscoop.com/report-trump-to-announce-moving-the-embassy-from-tel-aviv-to-jerusalem-next-week/
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
those reports started showing up in Israeli news media last nite. I didn’t post them because Sarah Sanders said they were ‘premature’. Two years from now, they’ll still be ‘premature’, so I’m not holding my breath, especially w/the State Dept seemingly in transition.
eaglesoars wrote:
Grain and oil is what is bringing the NORKS to their knees. A terrible harvest and what looks like the start of a cold winter means that without massive imports of grain and oil ‘rocketman’s ‘ regime implodes. Reports about even elite military on reduced rations means that the average NORK is facing starvation and cold. This makes Un is therefore VERY dangerous as he’s capable of the ‘Sampson’ protocol and attempting to destroy his enemies as his regime is destroyed. China’s hand is being pushed and this time the US has time on its side NOT China.
coldwarrior wrote:
I call bullshit, I do not believe they found McVains brain.
eaglesoars wrote:
My sister and two of my brother’s died from cancer that ended up in their brain’s. (one of my brother’s died because of brain cancer specifically, that is the only place he had it)
Brain cancer sucks and I also would not wish it on anyone, but I am inclined to be highly skeptical of McVain’s assertion to having it.
@ doriangrey:
McCain’s daughter moved her marriage to Thanksgiving from May 2018 and that ‘combat indicator’ appears both valid and temporally significant. So one would expect that McCain will ‘depart’ sometime over the next 3-6 months. Given the various Congressional ‘breaks’ coming up that leaves McCain with a very narrow window of opportunity to act to interfere with the Trump agenda.
@ lobo91:
This would be the same Newsweek that stated earlier that Ivanka Trump “plagiarized” her own speech.
No wonder they were sold for a $1.00. And even THEN it was overpriced
lobo91 wrote:
As opposed to Obama scolding SCOTUS during a State of the Union address and literally “threatening” the Supreme Court over the ACA decision. The case for impeachment doesn’t exist. This is simply Democrats and liberals desperate for an impeachment of a Republican President as payback for bringing impeachment against Clinton – you know, for PERJURY – which in fact did result in him losing his law license.
@ Aussie Infidel:
For someone with stage IV brain cancer, a 1 year prognosis is a very very long prognosis. Stage IV brain cancer means that you had cancer somewhere else and it metastasized to your brain, the usual prognosis is weeks, not months. This is why I am skeptical.
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
In this instance, not even that. Lichtman is the Bill Nye of political punditry but with a truly awful toupe. Some editor had space to fill, went thru his contacts list and handed the number over to an intern. “here, kid, see if you can give me 500 words”
Dana Perino is an idiot. Talking about Trump’s tweet to Theresa May she said ‘Britain First’ is an extremist group here. No, it’s the jihadis that are the extremists. Then she said he retweeted it and there was no need to. Obviously she is unaware that the first tweet was mis-addressed to he wrong Theresa May. Then she did the ‘fake but accurate’. No, Bubbles, the videos weren’t fake, the incidents were mis-attributed to immigrants
3 strikes.
doriangrey wrote:
Yup !
I’m skeptical as well. About 12 weeks ago Coldwarrior forecast a six months mean survival timeframe so McCain is already half way there and shouldn’t begin any serials that extend past February. That doesn’t allow for being debilitated for the terminal phase either so I’m guessing that he will not be back to Congress in the New Year.
There appears to be a bit of political jockeying going on in regards to various legislative programs, with the McCain people attempting to play their cards close to their chests. We all know McCain has just a busted flush !
@ eaglesoars:
my mistake. 4 strikes. She said May is pro-Brexit. No, she’s not, never was. She was just the only one who could get elected while kinda promising to honor Brexit.
@ eaglesoars:
Perino won her spurs down at the deep end of the swamp when folks actually believed what swamps said.
What can you expect?
You think WE have stupid legislators? Meet Ian Murray, MP
I asked the Home Secretary this morning if the US President or indeed Twitter have committed a crime for inciting racial religious hatred. The Home Sec says she will not comment on individual cases. I think he has committed a crime.
https://twitter.com/IanMurrayMP/status/936194068006232064
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
Right Scoop is a nut house. Lots of over the top viciousness by the fatally uninformed.
@ eaglesoars:
@ Aussie Infidel:
Dana Prino is in the bag for the Bush family.
@ RIX:
honest affection for them I understand. That’s natural, whatever I may have learned about them that changed my attitudes. I don’t begrudge her that.
But she’s stupid. And at least part of that is her impulse to be ‘nice’. Nice is usually beside the point and is too often confused with ‘good’.
@ RIX:
Agreed. Eric Ericsson used to sub for Rush till he went over the edge. I just hope they have the story right. It was a promise made to us after all.
@ eaglesoars:
He’s probably besties with Louise Mensche. She of the 1,000 sealed indictments and Supreme Court issuing arrest warrants.
Hot damn! I just found out I was blocked by Louise Mensche!
eaglesoars wrote:
I have seen her be pretty damn nasty to Erik Bolling and Stewart Varney. She attacked Bolling for supporting
Trump, and I don’t know what the thing wit Varney was all about.
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
Isn’t he over at Red State? Pretty much the same thing.
This is not a parody. This is the NYT on the fashion aesthetics of ANTIFA.
There is solid beauty advice as well: “A layer of glitter or highlighter dusted over your cheeks can serve double duty, showing off your glorious bone structure while simultaneously providing a helpful way to determine which side of your bandanna was in contact with your face and which side is saturated in tear gas particulate.” (Also, jean shorts are probably not ideal.)
What to Wear to Smash the State: Anti-fascist activists believe in dressing for the job they want. Right now, many think, that job is punching Nazis
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/29/style/black-bloc-fashion.html
Note the URL – this is actually in the Style section of the paper
ROTFLMAO.. Obviously not CW or his “Rent’s”….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB5JRS6JOck
I’m pretty sure… cw and the rents…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oVBvxA0mm0
Back when Motley Crew was still great…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WU6DpFFWTM
This is Truffle. Truffle is a Working Cocker Spaniel puppy. It’s his first snow.
Enjoy
https://twitter.com/elleryface/status/936204937905819649
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FToyVkqPW7Y
Kate Steinle case: not guilty on murder
not guilty on 1st or 2nd degree murder, nothing. guilty on weapons possession.
un fucking believable
and if I heard the defense correctly, they blamed/threatened Trump
eaglesoars wrote:
It’s San Francisco. Nothing is unbelievable there
eaglesoars wrote:
The defendant has prior felonies. It is a felony for him to process a firearm, so isn’t any death as a result of that felony
a felony murder, or do I remember that wrong?
Donald Trump’s ‘working visit’ to UK dropped as tensions with Theresa May grow over president’s far-Right retweets
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/30/donald-trumps-working-visit-uk-dropped-tensions-theresa-may/
yeah, zero fucks………
RIX wrote:
I don’t know Cali law. Barbarian would
eaglesoars wrote:
Yeah neither do I . In Illinois that is felony murder.
This verdict energized the push to build a wall and hurts DACA. Trump will build the wall.
eaglesoars wrote:
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/11/stunning-far-left-attorney-illegal-alien-gunned-kate-steinle-attacks-donald-trump-video/
RIX wrote:
Michelle Malkin just said nothing about his priors was allowed to be presented to the jury.
RIX wrote:
Trump is gonna be POTUS for life. And if they shut down the gov’t, Don Jr will inherit the place.
Some things never change. from 600 BCE. Ink on clay. found at the fortress of Arad. They thought it was blank. But someone with very good eyes thought maybe there was something there………
There is. From a soldier named Hananyahu. “If there is any wine, send”
https://twitter.com/NAChristakis/status/936216070188404738
What do you take me for, that you treat somebody like me with such contempt? I have sent as messengers gentlemen like ourselves to collect the bag with my money (deposited with you) but you have treated me with contempt by sending them back to me empty-handed several times, and that through enemy territory.
The world’s oldest known complaint letter. 1750 BCE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nasir
Big news out of Japan. NHK is reporting Emperor Akihito will abdicate on April 30, 2019. First abdication in 200 years!
https://twitter.com/willripleyCNN/status/936420006450962432
eaglesoars wrote:
So…… Democrats have existed pretty much forever eh?
eaglesoars wrote:
This is not good, my daughter is not suppose to sit on the throne until at least 2025.
Well, Aussie DID say we’d start to put the squeeze on China and we’d see only about 10% of what’s actually being done.
US formally opposes China market economy status at WTO
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/30/us-formally-opposes-china-market-economy-status-at-wto.html
The United States has formally told the World Trade Organization (WTO) that it opposes granting China market economy status, a position that if upheld would allow Washington to maintain high anti-dumping duties on Chinese goods.
The statement of opposition, made public on Thursday, was submitted as a third-party brief in support of the European Union in a dispute with China that could have major repercussions for the trade body’s future
RIX wrote:
No.”Felony murder” is a charge used against an accomplice in a felony that results in the death of someone (for example, the getaway driver in a bank robbery). Even if the death was unintentional, and the accomplice didn’t know it happened, he’s still considered just as guilty.
Kirsten Powers has apparently lost whatever was left of her mind
eaglesoars wrote:
Yeah I heard that.
eaglesoars wrote:
It’s gonna be yuge!
doriangrey wrote:
you’ll just have to do the Regent thing.
lobo91 wrote:
GotchA, thanks.
doriangrey wrote:
I have two daughters, one in the Imperial family of Japan, the other in the Imperial family of Thailand. Its a Rock Star thing, you guys wouldn’t understand.
@ lobo91:
Here is what Wki says.
The rule of felony murder is a legal doctrine in some common law jurisdictions that broadens the crime of murder: when an offender kills (regardless of intent to kill) in the commission of a dangerous or enumerated crime (called a felony in some jurisdictions), he/she is guilty of murder.
6.3 earthquake eastern Iran.
eaglesoars wrote:
Not if I want to keep my head attached to my shoulders… Lets just say that there are some people not exactly happy about the situation…
eaglesoars wrote:
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of savages. Must be Allah’s will.
doriangrey wrote:
That’s our sole purpose in life, dorian, you would be fulfilled otherwise.
😉
eaglesoars wrote:
would NOT
sheesh
@ RIX:
Right. But that’s not what happened in this case. He didn’t kill her in the process of stealing the gun or anything. The two events were separated in time and place
@ lobo91:
dan bongino said the gun – a Sig Sauer, I think – ‘does NOT just ‘go off’
eaglesoars wrote:
It was a Sig P239. It’s a striker-fired double action, like a Glock.
But with a 10lb trigger pull. No way it goes off “accidentally”
lobo91 wrote:
But he was in possession of the stolen firearm — the possession by an illegal was already a felony, could that not be the accompanying felony? Not that it matters, the spineless, testicularly deficient idiots in SF wouldn’t do anything anyway.
@ AZfederalist:
No. It has to be in the commission of an active crime, not a status crime. Felon in possession is a status crime. It’s not something you “do.” It’s something you “are.”
bedtime. nite. good luck with the throne stuff, dorian.
The long march is over….now a nice Nicaraguan cigar n a neat tequila.
Ahhhhh….better.
I wonder who will get fired tomorrow
there will be new thread going up at noon Friday.
eaglesoars wrote:
My very first dog was a Cocker Spaniel named ‘Flaps’ (AKA Blackmore Cowboy)
I carried him home in my jacket pocket.
morning y’all.
@ eaglesoars:
Have anyone blamed Israel yet?
lobo91 wrote:
Wouldn’t discharge of the firearm by a felon meet the test of commission. ?
RIX wrote:
It seems the jury accepted the premise of accidental discharge.
3 times.
@ RIX:
hey, man…baltimore is gunnin’ for yinz in Chi’town!
Baltimore sees 319th killing of 2017, eclipsing last year’s homicide total
@ eaglesoars:
morning eagle
any more doggy names?
eaglesoars wrote:
raaaaacissss.
rain of lead wrote:
i had a beagle named ‘Bandon’, after the river and town in ireland.
@ coldwarrior:
when I was very young I had a german shepard named queenie, or gather
she had me
I’ve never forgotten that dog
off to walk
bbl
BREAKING: Michael Flynn Charged With False Statements To FBI
rain of lead wrote:
Aussie added ‘Tess’, which I like. But I really am going to have to meet her. Molly is the only dog named in ‘advance’ because Hubby really really wanted it. All my other dogs – they sort of tell me their names. Willow I knew on sight. They thought her name was Brittany but she never answered to it. I said “willow” and she was in my lap.
If you think of anything, let me know, tho. It’s always good to have a list.
coldwarrior wrote:
why do I think you have a beagle now? Pheobe?
lobo91 wrote:
one count? that’s all they’ve got?
eaglesoars wrote:
oh. they flipped him.
eaglesoars wrote:
phoebe the wonder dog is 100% pure mutt from the shelter…some red tick and a lot aussie cattle dog and other things thrown in.
i will say this, Phoebe the wonder dog is easily the smartest and without a doubt the best dog that i have ever owned.
eaglesoars wrote:
I’m getting over my disgust at this all. I’m not surprised, however, since the defense apparently went for jury nullification on Trump’s comments about illegals. In a town where those that voted for Trump could be counted on two hands and perhaps the removal of one sock.
The law is that if you USE a gun in the commission of a crime, 10 years are tacked on to your sentence. This scumbag claimed that he “found” the gun, dropped it, it went off and killed her. Jury bought it. The mean girl in me wants every damn one of them to die PAINFULLY.
This jury wanted to find a way to acquit him. The family can of course bring a civil suit against him for wrongful death, but money does not bring your loved one back. Fred Goldman never cared about the money in his civil suit – what he wanted to hear was a jury hold that monster Simpson responsible. His attempts to collect it are not based in enrichment, but to keep him from profiting from his wrongdoing.
If I were the family, I would explore the possibility of suing the City and County of San Francisco, whose illegal sanctuary city policy prevented this monster from being turned over to ICE for deportation after his release from prison. “But for” these policies, he would not have been in a position to kill Ms. Steinle.
This isn’t the first outrageous disregard for the law verdict a San Francisco Jury has come up with. In 1979, a jury found Dan White guilty of “Involuntary Manslaughter” of Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Milk – in spite of the fact that he entered City Hall via a basement window to avoid metal detectors, and reloaded the gun after he killed Moscone.
And I repeat – every one of you 12 – DIE painfully.
lobo91 wrote:
Legal jargon alert — part of what is known as the “vicarious conspiracy rule.”
lobo91 wrote:
how many millions of dollars spent thus far?
for this?
Judge Nap sez when Flynn pleads, we’ll see a written agreement between him and Mueller outlining exactly what Flynn will do for Mueller and what Mueller will not do to Flynn.
*admin note* there will be a new thread at noon.
@ coldwarrior:
And I am working on Sunday’s as we speak. I’m looking forward to participating in your thread tomorrow.
I’m going to stay off Twitter today. Shannon Watts using the verdict to promote gun control may result in my requiring heavy medication. Or commitment.
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
may i suggest a nice merlot until the urges go away?
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
that is what goes up at noon today…tonight is PAC10 championship.
@ coldwarrior:
whoo hoo bowl season HAS BEGUN
rain of lead wrote:
indeed!
and…date day!
see yinz later!
@ coldwarrior:
I know USC is SOUTH champion, and I know who ISN’T the NORTH champion (CAL).
@ coldwarrior:
A vendor brought me a nice bottle of Stag’s Leap 2014 Petite Sirrah a few days ago. There are wine glasses in the pantry……
eaglesoars wrote:
or his son. forgot about that part
So Flynn is going to testify that Trump directed him to contact the Russians? Is there something wrong with this?
ok, if this was done while Trump was a candidate – that’s a violation of the Logan Act.
It was during the transition. There is no there there.
@ rain of lead:
Our Pit was named Houlie after ‘Hot Lips’ Houlihan and my Westie was Heather.
https://twitter.com/OscarWildeGrey/status/936706212757770240